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Looking for input and feedback on this. I'm understanding the lack of vocal public responses on HN to be rooted in the threat of career jeopardy and the risk of employer retaliation. Am I right? Or is there some other reason people care so little about addressing directly the ways that software and the software industry can become more geared toward shaping an ethical and sustainable world? Third option, I have a verbose document on a huge subject that is not fleshed out enough.
This article uses your net effective tax rate to calculate the taxes on the bargain element -- 32.25% on someone earning $150k in California. They should be using your _marginal_ tax rate for that calculation, which would be 24+9.3=33.3% on the first 170050-150000=$20,050 of the bargain element, 32+9.3=41.3% on the next 215950-170050=$45900, and 35+9.3% on the rest.

Or, much easier is to use a calculator like the one they link[3], and calculate your total taxes on your current earnings, calculate total taxes on the earnings if you were to exercise, and then subtract.

I calculate $81,599-$38,038 = $43,561 in additional taxes, rather than the $41,893 they said.

I agree with the author's take on ISOs:

> It’s a bit complicated – and dry – so if you have ISOs you should probably talk to your tax person

My opinion on ISOs is essentially that for some middle ground between "few enough ISOs that you don't trigger AMT" and "so many ISOs that the potential tax savings are more than big enough to pay for a financial professional", it's not worth it to try and exercise ISOs early.

AMT on ISOs will complicate your taxes for years to come: in some circumstances, you can recover some of the money you paid as AMT on the ISOs in future years -- essentially, ISO bargain element is a specific category of AMT-taxable income which gives you an AMT credit for future years, which you can recover with form 8801 [4]. For several years after my ISO exercise, I was able to eat away that credit by paying the AMT tax amount when it was _lower_ than my standard income tax.

1. https://taxfoundation.org/2022-tax-brackets/
2. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/california-state-tax
3. https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#H3aXczXUcM
4. https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8801
> zoom WAY in on subjects

> force shapes / objects to fall off edge / zoom in

This is a composition hack. The extreme alternative is to paint an entire thing sitting smack in the middle of the page all by itself. That's probably not going to look as interesting. Mind that the author prefaced these tips with some context: "For expressive observational painting more than rigid illustration"

> don't let yourself think about objects / people / things

Paint what you see, not what you think you see. In drawing this usually manifests as the fact that you'll be more accurate if you focus on say, drawing a precise contour where a nose ought to go than focusing on drawing a nose.
I like it but I felt slightly cheated that 'phaze' moved me to the next corner, not the next branch. I thought it would take me to the nearest T-junction. Did not enjoy the make shaving with every step, but it did make it exciting. Might be even more exciting with a clock ticking down instead of up, so you have to escape the maze within the time provided.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTBA5tQsDbE
Currently, it's typically a mixture of physics, material sciences, and/or EE.

FYI: DeAnza College in Cupertino, CA has or had a small-scale wafer fab. There are also MOSIS and CEITEC types of fab services for small runs in education.
> And if it means flying direct instead of changing planes in a busy overcrowded airport and having to lose time waiting and queuing (and "saving the planet") that's pretty appealing

That is the most important thing imo. A 6 or 7 hour flight to your destination is so much better that the same length to Frankfurt or wherever and then waiting and taking another 1-2 hour flight somewhere. Most of the pain with flying, except maybe of ultra long-haul, is what goes on before take off and after landing. If you only have to go though that once, it's a big deal.

Plus, I dont see any material difference in comfort between modern wide and narrow body, other than your less likely to be stuck in a middle seat on a narrow plane and they board faster.
Interesting to see space for multiple commercial backers of Cassandra

Anyone seeing Cassandra adoption for new use cases in the public cloud?
Next.js with Prisma ORM - Dream team, you get SSR, Typescript Typings ootb.

If you host on Vercel you need a Postgress somewhere (aws, neon, Heroku, fly.io…)

If you host on own vps: use nosql and litestream for backup to s3(backplate b2) . Nosql is blazing fast on ssd vps
Users might think to themselves, I give my credit card number to all kinds of sites; how is this any different?

The internet has kind of conditioned all of us to be OK with passing around complex payment instruments without paying too much attention. If you're a hardcore believer in cryptocurrency as a political project, you almost certainly understand the difference and see the "code is law" dark forest as a feature, not a bug. But if you started buying crypto and NFTs because Matt Damon and Larry David told you to, then you're in for a world of hurt.
It is illegal for any business to offer services or communicate in Russian unless the customer explicitly asks. It is illegal to have Russian language newspapers or schools, all of which existed before the crackdown.

Turkey has done the same thing to Kurdish speakers and most of the West has rightfully condemned their attempts to crack down on the language.
I am still waiting for a seL4 based router, firewall, DNS server, file server, etc. Even better if we could get it into critical infrastructure (water treatment, electricity, etc). Something that is exposed to the insanity of the internet, but may not necessarily have high performance requirements. We have super computers in our pockets, we can take some performance hit if it eliminates large security concerns.
Sure inflation was low for buying food or milk or whatever, but was much higher than 2% in some massive areas of the economy, like stocks and housing. Keeping rates so low created huge pressure to invest in high risk speculative assets. Crypto is basically the poster child for how absurd things have been in recent years.
Odd that lobbying is legal, while bribery is not. Are they not both the same thing?
TIL that the energy content of 33k gallons of gas is equivalent to a 1 kiloton bomb. I am probably on a list now for trying to figure out the explosive power of a Javelin missile, which I did not find.
Why would anybody postdoc in cs or anything software related if they weren’t interested in being a professor? It’s a field where people can literally come from nowhere and make a big impact. It’s not like chemistry or physics where labs are involved or have steep learning curves to be able to function.

Is this just being unwilling to engage? Why would people remain in a training role in todays environment?
MAANG+M. They want control.
what does fluoride do to watercolors?
Cape Town, South Africa.
CBDC has never been about blockchain or cryptocurrency. That's what the first "C" means, and why the "D" isn't a C". It's Venmo or Zelle but run by the government bank.
Workers can’t afford to live close, and they haven’t moved elsewhere. Why? Perhaps moving costs money while they never have an opportunity to save for it.
"767-300ER consumes 1,600 gallons of fuel for each hour in flight" according to one link, to give you some back-of-envelope math.

Looks like in the US, Jet A costs roughly $4/gal (I'm sure airlines pay less, due to volume and such) but that means the plane is burning $6500/hr in fuel.

Very rough guesses on labor: figure the two pilots are making $100k/year, that's $100-200/hour just for them. Cabin crew I'd guess are 50k/year, google says 7 of them, so that's $350-700/hour there (figures are doubled because I seem to recall the true cost of an employee is usually twice their salary?)

So very very roughly, fuel costs are 10x labor costs
A carrier costs $10 billion. Without considering the crew and stuff in it. You can fire 50 $100 mil missiles simultaneously at it would still make a lot of sense, especially considering the morale aspect.
I was not initially aware of O(n) order-preserving shift_remove[...](). Although likely not a problem in practice, removing a large number of items one by one (eg. when a user is deleting a selection containing many file associations) can result in quadratic behavior. I found that you can avoid that by calling retain() (at the cost of being a higher-order function) to keep/remove every item in the list in a single pass (linear time is fast enough for INI files). So in retrospect IndexMap would be a workable choice, if used carefully.
It's one thing to have complex payment instruments where innocent mistakes are reversible. Having them in a world where everything is permanent is another situation entirely.
ScyllaDB and its related parts like Seastar always struck me as real performance-oriented programming, though it was based on leveraging language tech (C++14 early on) that was painful. I wonder if a nicer approach is possible nowadays.
Layoffs make sense, but not simultaneously giving executives bonuses.
Not to be pedantic, but its not a modified Node.js runtime, it is a wholly custom runtime based on V8 directly. They're working on some Node.js API compatibility, but its not at all Node.js[0]

To quote directly:

Cloudflare Workers, however, run directly on V8. There are a few reasons for this. One reason is speed of execution for functions that have not been used recently. Cold starts are an issue in serverless computing, but running functions on V8 means that the functions can be 'spun up' and executed, typically, within 5 milliseconds or less. (Node.js has more overhead and usually takes a few milliseconds longer.) Another reason is that V8 sandboxes JavaScript functions automatically, which increases security.

[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/what...
I get not wanting to add yet-another-system to reduce operational complexity but it seems more economical to use a system like Flink to do a time windowed join and emit single records to be written to a persistence store. The Flink time window can be sufficiently large to encompass the disparity between ingest and event time without much RAM consumption by using a RocksDB state backend on the operator. Let me know if I miss something, every use case is different :)
The problem with democracy is the dunning-kruger effect more than the principle-agent problem. People think highly-complex problems are obvious and easy. They care more about big sweeping theory than they do about local technocracy.

The idea that anti-intellectualism even exists is testament to this.
Leetcode tests you on a lot of things, but many of them aren't occupationally relevent. The majority of these people are going to spend their time putting out fires or filling in a paint-by-numbers solution they found on StackOverflow.

You really want your power users to shine? Give them a real (or realistic) problem and let them tackle the problem any way they please. Let them reference the books on their shelf. Let them use Google for help. Truly productive people will flourish in this kind of environment.
Not being into crypto, is there anything that would stop bitcoin (or whatever) dropping to zero other than sheer bloody mindedness on the part of the owners?
Torque would be N⋅m or N m, not nm.
Upgrading HTML / CSS Card Components with Time
It also restricts the number of men likes, which means a more equal number of likes are given out between the sexes.

In addition, the limited number forces both sexes to be selective, rather than just the women.
Ah, you're right. I had misread this chart earlier. Sorry about that.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
You're 100% correct. Its mostly about finding a system that works for you. As a format fat person I have internalized the fact that my body's hunger signal is broken and that 'eat when you are hungry' leads to weight gain for me. Focusing on the CO part of CICO, especially non exercise expenditure of energy has helped me keep my weight in check.
On a journey to stop struggling with this. Less void and more "why is what I have to say worth reading?" and I've kind of decided it's not up to me to decide that so not to worry about it.

You do you.
Just based on my experience in academia, there are probably plenty of people with good hunches about where to go next. Unfortunately, the system (grants system especially) is actively discouraging them from trying anything too new that would undermine the status of the incumbent experts.

If you banned every single influential scientist who hasn't contributed a major discovery in the last 10 years from participating in academia, we'd have colonised the galaxy decades ago.
the big cost reduction is engines. a jet engine is the most expensive part of a plane, so halving the number of engines dramatically reduces the plane cost and maintenance cost.
US armor formations are based around a 12 hour resupply cycle. This is why an armored brigade is not just the tanks and such, it's also all the logistics equipment they need to sustain operations. That said, logistics is a strength of the US military, and something that is a severe challenge in Ukraine atm.
Why is the MetaMask UI so dumb that it can't say "This transacation is sending your NFT to address X. Address X has [reputation stats of some sort]. Is that what you want?"
The line of engagement barely moved in 3 months all the while Ukraine is hopelessly outgunned, Russians are doing quite well indeed /s. In reality UAF wasn't even a really modern army, just more modern than Russia, and all their "NATO" training in effect started in 2014.

Where do people get the impression that Russian army is strong and capable is beyond me, they just throw people into the meat grinder and sit on top of the infinite Soviet arsenal of old equipment.
“Wrong” or “right” is meaningless. The only alternative is war, and that’s what we have happening now.

Tell us something. Why does it matter to the US when China tries to expand its sphere of influence over HK or islands in the Pacific?

What would happen if a Chinese bloc propagated itself to the Western Hemisphere and established an alliance with Cuba or South America?

Surely the same argument - that none of it matters in the day of nuclear weapons and ballistics capabilities - that same argument would valid, right? But would Washington stand for this? Absolutely not.

Cuba is still being punished to this day. The Monroe doctrine is still very real.

Russia warned about this for decades. The West basically told Russia that they don’t matter, that they’re a has been, and NATO will do whatever it wants.

Well, here we have the consequences. Now Bidens administration is quietly admitting that the war is becoming an economic liability for the US, but I digress.
Tolkien would have been a good friend. Maybe he was Tom Bombadil. I mean, because that happens so often, the author is mirrored in a character. Tom is kind and generous, but with a serious hidden side. Deep and a bit scary.

Maybe Tolkien had a hidden side. I'd like to have known him. His craft, 1000x polished, we see that. But the man. To talk with him. That must be honey and cream.

Tolkien, Lewis and Lovecraft all were big fans of Dunsany. He was all about the deep, strange, and a bit scary. He talked about the elves, these true aliens, and their world. He dipped into the mythology of the isles. So rich.

You see that in British scifi too.
Tanks also rely on silicon chips. Many more than in an anti-tank weapon.
GPU Audio is doing it with VST 3. And it's probably possible with CLAP too?

Processing audio on a GPU is a lower level issue than a plugin standard which describes the interface between the DAW and the plugin (how audio, parameters, notes, modulation data, etc. are exchanged).
Many billions of dollars are today going into constructing factories worldwide to produce equipment for storage of numerous kinds. It takes time to build the factories, and then time to run them to build out the storage capacity.

There is, thus far, little use for storage, because there is not enough renewable generating capacity yet to charge up storage. (Charging it by burning fossil fuels would be stupid.) By the time we need much of it, it will be very, very cheap. In the meantime, building generating capacity and factories is the right use of capital.

Although people insisting there is a problem love to talk about expense of batteries, only a tiny fraction of utility-scale storage will ever be batteries. The cheapest storage is gravity, exemplified by pumped hydro, which represents today almost all utility storage. But there are many variations that all work.

The only uncertainty is which ones will be cheapest. Each is a different mix of build cost, maintenance cost, storage cost, charging cost, and discharging cost, with capex and opex for each. Different users will favor different places on those axes. Best for most uses are those that cost only capex, and store as much energy as you care to, cheaply.

Synthetic ammonia and hydrogen are attractive storage media, despite some higher costs, because they may be sold, and burned in gas turbines.

Liquifying nitrogen is extremely mature tech and, like the synthetic fuels, valuable in its own right. Power is extracted by boiling in ambient air to drive a turbine.

Compressing air underground, adiabatically, is another mature method. Compressing to a sea-floor bladder through a hose from a compressor onshore, likewise. Turbines, again.

Buoyancy, drawing a float down toward a pulley on the sea floor, using a winch onshore; and raising a very, very heavy weight up a disused mine shaft are other, very similar examples of gravity storage. Both have startup time of seconds, and are useful for stabilizing grids. Energy is released by running the winch out, driving a generator.

There are various battery chemistries, for cases where batteries are useful at all. All under consideration are much cheaper than lithium. Farthest along may be iron-air, molten-metal, and sodium-bromide, none of which are prone to fires.

Storage costs of all kinds are falling much faster than solar generating capacity. Utilities will build whatever is cheapest when they finally need any. As prices change, the mix will change. There is no value in picking just one, and plentiful value in using the right one for immediate circumstances.

Nobody needs very much storage, because you can always import and burn fuel. The cheapest fuel will be surplus ammonia and hydrogen, although burning aluminum powder for direct process heat has been used in production at local scales. Scrap aluminum is very cheap.
Not really. The tanks are outside the armor and just blow up if they get a direct hit. Shockingly enough the people who design gas tanks for tanks thought of the possibility the tank might get shot by something.
Has anyone here played the new Microsoft Flight Simulator Game they released in 2020? I was blown away by how accurate the environment and maps were (at least in Chicago and Bloomington, IL). By far the most realistic representation I've seen in a game before. Even outside of the iconic buildings of downtown, a lot of the smaller buildings in far out neighborhoods were more realistic than I was expecting.

I know the game has gotten a lot of praise on the graphics. I guess they leaned heavily on bing maps to build out the game's environment. Would be crazy to see what could be created with something like google streetview data.
Nautical miles (unfortunately) 7408 km (kilometers).
This does not even factor in the NIMBY-ism of many progressive cities. People argue that housing is a human right and time and time again refuse to allow permitting changes that build more affordable, multi-family homes in their backyard.
I'm not big in the audio community but I thought LV2 was the open standard for plugins that people are pushing for? That being said if Cockos adopts it into Reaper I'm absolutely willing to try it.
But why isn't it fully automated, like Apple Pay or privacy.com?
I've experienced this: after a month of zero carb, I had a couple bananas and an apple and went into a crazy sugar rush that lasted hours. Then I crashed and felt like shit for two days. But my metabolic system is out of whack from years of abuse, so in general I find the lower the amount of carb I consume, the better I feel.
I meant ANSI, ITU, ISO standards committee involvement or publishing RFCs on your own time without their name attached to yours. I can understand not using their name without permission.
https://documentation.divio.com/ is a great framework for documentation

We don't always go to the docs for the same reasons, you'll want content for each goal the user has.

Easy navigation and discovery, typically I have an issue or problem that I'm trying to resolve.

Don't Make Me Think is a good book for understanding how users read the internet (and documentation in this case), lots of good tips / practices
One advantage of TouchID/FaceID for me is that I can use a long, strong passphrase on my phone - one much longer than I otherwise would if I had to use it to unlock every time. The passphrase is still required for highlky sensitive stuff like keychain access and turning off Find My
So you see a doubled cost for nuclear.

But you need to add that Renewable solution only last 20 years vs 60 for nuclear.
That can be seen like triple the cost you factored in already.

And also, your renewable energy source won’t work 100% of time and not at 100% of the capacity.
Which also implies that you need to build multiple time what you planned to really get that planned capacity.
I had a similar thing, but without going full Keto. I still have pasta, potatoes and wholemeal bread for instance, but I fast 16 hours so I still have some ketosis going.

I was trying to avoid sugar (i.e. Sucrose + Fructose, except for actual fruit), and replace oils and butter with olive oil. And for breakfast/lunch (because I still want to eat a normal dinner with my family) I eat the best possible versions of those. Porridge, Greek yoghurt, fruit and nuts.
Browser requirements may differ from Cloudflare's, though. In particular, browsers run arbitrary code from anywhere - just clicking a link downloads and runs code off of anywhere on the planet, theoretically - while Cloudflare runs code from their customers.

They do have a free tier, so yes, there are risks here. But one mechanism they do according to that post, IIUC, is to keep paying customers separate from the free tier. So if you are a paying customer, any attacker against you is at least someone that Cloudflare has the credit card information of. Still dangerous, but very different than the browser risk model.
Love the anecdote, wish it applied to me!! I constantly drift upwards, even when eating crazy healthy. My "caloric rheostat" is just dialed in a bit high, so I have to accept I need to eat less than I think is correct... so I have to watch my macros religiously.

But, that's what healthy living habits are: Finding what works for you!
You can listen to the audiobook in just under six hours, compared to the theatrical release of the trilogy which is nearly eight, or the extended release which is over eight and a half hours.
Traditionally, tempera paints use egg yolk as a binder. Don't eat your tempera either.
"Because most people who got the plague died, and many often had blackened tissue due to gangrene, bubonic plague was called the Black Death." [1]

[1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21590-bubonic...
Looking at Ableton 11's feature set it seems they're running out of ideas; CLAP support would definitely be the kinda thing that could compel people to upgrade to a future version.

It being MIT licensed also gives it a much better chance of getting integrated into all sorts of smaller DAWs and cheaper ones too that might not have wanted to deal with all the nonsense that comes with VST.