skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps you should read about fractional reserve banking. The same money can indeed be loaned out against ones will and reappear elsewhere in the economy in two different places at once.
Whataboutism is when instead of engaging with the content of the claim, you instead try to deflect by bringing up something else. "TikTok is collecting data? What about Google?"
That was such a cool comment that I actually went to http://www.neomantra.com/ and briefly considered applying for a job there and un-retiring
FYI: these kind of patriotic comments is why we are in such a divided world.

First, if we saw China as another state that was part of the US, 1 would sound like a ridiculous claim. 2 would still be an issue, but this is why we have international regulations, trade agreements, and so on.
Thank you for pointing that out. The US economy is still excepted to grow at 2.5% in 2022. So I am not understand the narrative here.
While everyone who is relying on cheap funding to grow their business will be suffering, companies that have solid unit economics should thrive.

[1]https://www.oecd.org/economy/united-states-economic-snapshot...
Yeah I think that is completely fair but the tweet states "If you’re a Twitter employee who’s considering resigning because you’re worried about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech… please do not come work here."
Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
I wanted to share a simple web app I created recently, which lets you estimate income taxes owed in the US: https://taxsim.app

All the calculations occur directly in the browser, and are powered by a Fortran program that has been converted to WASM using emscripten. This calculator was originally developed in the 1970s [1] by the non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER has been maintaining this F77 codebase for the last 50 years, and uses it primarily for academic research on tax policy. The Fortran source code itself is over 1MB of text, because it codifies both federal and all 50 states' tax laws for each of the last 62 years.

I first learned about NBER TAXSIM [2] a few months ago via an interesting paper they published "Automatic Tax Filing: Simulating a Pre-Populated Form 1040" [3]. The Fortran code itself is not open-source, but is available on request for research purposes. I reached out to NBER and proposed compiling it to WASM, so it could be run directly in a browser. With relatively little effort I was able to create a js/wasm version [4], thanks in huge part to previous open-source work [5].

This WASM build now powers https://taxsim.app, which is my attempt to create an interactive UI to allow for easier exploration of the US tax code. Specific tax scenarios can also be shared easily, by simply copying the browser URL. The code for this webapp is also open-source [6].

This was my first time experimenting with WASM, and I am already a huge fan. Not only was I able to take a 60 year old codebase and get it working on every modern browser and device, this work is also now benefiting the academic community. For example, the js/wasm can be run directly in V8, which means it can also now be run locally within R using libv8 [7]. Previously most researchers were uploading their tax scenarios to NBER's servers via ftp/ssh/http.

[1] https://taxsim.nber.org/feenberg-coutts.pdf

[2] https://taxsim.nber.org/

[3] https://www.nber.org/papers/w30008

[4] https://github.com/tmm1/taxsim.js

[5] https://chrz.de/2020/04/21/fortran-in-the-browser/

[6] https://github.com/tmm1/taxsim.app

[7] https://github.com/shanejorr/usincometaxes/pull/11
The NYT editorial line despises Substack and prays for it to fail. It's certainly important news for people who are interested in Substack that they're failing to make money, though.
> Human feedback would be most useful.

Yes, the games without a paid membership are fun but not really a learning tool. Paying users can get real human feedback whenever they like.
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“assviolin”
These are great - thanks for sharing.

One nugget is the amount of water boiled each day - 160 million gallons - an incredible number!
> Ok then my argument still holds true, and you're just upset that I called out pitbulls specifically.

You stereotyped pitbull owners specifically, not dog owners. Then you backed off as the logic fell apart. You're just spouting off assumptions (which you've admitted are assumptions) without anything to back it up.

> if it did, gun owners would just stop at buying one gun because they already have one.

Many gun owners do only have one gun for protection. Again, another stereotype assumption.

Some people aren't comfortable with guns, so they get a dog for protection.

Now that you've done "gun owners" and pitbull owners would you like to stereotype anyone else?

Or do you just want to stop at the one that is acceptable to?
For HN folk, it may not be so obvious from the blog post, but the author of this book is the Nim originator/technical lead/primary author to this day { since before 2008 publicly and I believe 2005..2006 privately }.
An all-American clone of an app like TikTok is not much better than TikTok itself imo, all things considered

There are deeper and farther-reaching issues here than competition between nation-states for information supremacy

Effects of regular use on cognition and attention span, data harvesting, pervasive advertising, etc

This affects humanity at large and the US particularly profoundly, as the US is friendlier to the most pernicious media business models than nearly anywhere else, and we are among the world's most addicted to new media

National sovereignty/security concerns are understandable and legitimate. This is a criticism many outside the US have been leveling at relentless American cultural export for decades
Thanks! Yup, noise gate / compressor / limiter / EQ are on our roadmap, hopefully we will be able to release them soon!
Yes perseverance and quality, signs of great character.

Also they don't easily bend to the dark side with success - unlike most other tech companies that first win the user's trust to betray them later by focusing on profits at all costs.
I've just tried this app on my Mojave MacBook and it's amazing. So pleased with it. My biggest requirement was an app as simple as an RSS reader must be open source and that it's got a macOS binary. This one fulfills both and it 's got a quite nice UI too. So far I've been using NewsFire, not knowing the alternatives.
> M1/M2 are not even the current top performing CPUs...

What are?
Build out renewables. Displace fossil fuel burning. Unblock capital for building out renewables. Stop subsidizing fossil fuel extraction. Tax fossil fuel extraction and burning, and use the money to subsidize build-out. Outlaw fossil fuel burning where taxes would not suffice.
Right, well, like I said the merits of this particular idea are outside the scope of what I was trying to get at.
Makes me wonder if 50 years from now we'll still be stuck with the hardware equivalent of the floppy disk icon, only because retooling the universe over from scratch is too expensive.
Politicians, diplomats and legislators, as that affects USA economy.
Does containerization have any impact on performance in your use cases?
It's an important feature that I can subscribe to the blogs I like without hearing anything at all about the ones I don't like. Get rid of the separation and you basically have Twitter or Reddit. People will complain about the stuff they don't like, and the next thing you know, Substack will need to hire an army of moderators.

Don't cross the streams. Not on Substack itself, anyway. The recommendations can happen via other websites like Hacker News and the occasional author link.
If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry.

Perhaps try some online learning resources:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s12-blockchain-and-money-fall...
Facebook’s ethical failures are not accidental (2021)
I like where you’re going with this but I’ll have to overrule. After careful analysis I decided wankpuffin is the clear winner.
Thanks for the tips about AUv3! We will definitely look into supporting both VST and Audio Unit.
A much bigger chunk is probably going to AWS. Doesn't Substack use Amazon SES?
I picked up a Z80 CP/M machine recently to scratch a similar itch (mine is more a asm & Turbo Pascal thing). It's a very funky Televideo TS-800, and I like it.
GDPR isn’t the only set of data privacy laws in the world.

On top of that, many companies are doing a fantastic job at procuring PII through these consent notices. Some of them are downright predatory and give hundreds of companies around the world a mandate to process, store, enrich and sell your private information, including but not limited to things you buy anywhere offline or online, your web history, your location history, your health records, all your social media posts, all your instant messages, everything you’ve ever typed on any of your phones or other mobile devices (except laptops — maybe), and of course any leaked information about you that may be gathered or bought online.

All with a single click, in effect permanently.
A lot of people want to support those writers in a Patreon-like model, which is the role that Substack plays for readers who want to help writers have an online presence where they are free to honestly write about different subjects.
Where can I find a good tribe / community for myself?
I love technology, I care about myself and others, mentally, physically and spiritually. Invested in growth on every life vertical, I do sports, I meditate, I read a lot, I made sure I have proper financial education, I try to properly take care of my kids knowing all subtle things that can influence them, etc. Basically I am pretty self aware and I care about improving my life and others' as much as I can. And I very actively do something about it, not just care.

But I find myself in the capital of an European country, with not that many that share same interests, most, of course share just a few, or understand the utility of just few of them, etc. Few have a real drive for living, even if they have money. Most of those who do just party hard, seek validation, etc. The other few that share ambition to grow or do interesting things, are burnt out or depressed.

I plan to take my family this summer and move somewhere where I can encounter on a daily basis people that share same values and what I consider a healthy approach on life. But I don't know how can I find a place - city, community, island - that meets my needs.

Any clue?
The photographer Will Pearson documented Control Room A several years ago with a 360 camera [0]. Click 'Launch Project' for panorama.

Control Room B is basically made of Cybermen [1].

[0] https://www.willpearson.co.uk/battersea-power-station-contro...

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/liamch/4222346877
Please remove stolen intellectual property
I’ve been working on a very similar thing which runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux: https://apse.io
72x revenue is ludicrous even for SaaS standards in a bloated economy (circa Q3~Q4 2021) and considering growth.
^ this, do we want to be like China?
Voting Paradoxes
Indeed, we simply can't do without non-renewables at the moment, nobody can.

Just wait until everybody really does have a ton of renewable energy, and you get headlines like "<area> ran on 100% renewables all week!", and thus it seems obvious we don't need the gas plants anymore. Except, that is, for when there's no wind or sun, then you absolutely need them.

But why would companies keep those plants going, when most of the time nobody buys energy off them? They'll just shut them down, since they'd just lose money keeping them online -- resulting in massive outages at times without wind/sun.

Meaning the government will have to subsidize carbon-belching gas plants just to keep them open.
Faster link to PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20220506071023if_/https://schola...

> This paper presents the 12th part of a series of research papers aiming at studying the development of mechanical engineering in ancient Egypt. It presents the techniques and technology used by ancient Egyptians to cut hard stones and produce very complex artifacts. The ancient Egyptians used stone saws, drills and lathe turning and invented instrumentation to generate flat surfaces with accuracy better than 0.005 mm and measure dimensions from 1.3 mm to 10 km.

Photos of the Serapeum of Saqqara (Egypt, 14th century BC), with multiple sarcophagi each carved from a single block of granite weighing dozens of tons, https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/serapeum-of-saqqara & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapeum_of_Saqqara
> It comes down to the person running the website has to care.

Personally I think it is a little more nuanced, in particular I think the relationship between how much someone cares and how much effort is required to keep the website online is what matters.

If your website is super simple you don't need to care about it very much (though you do need to care at least a little bit). On the other hand, if everyone who works at google suddenly quit tomorrow because they didn't care the stack of cards would fall over very quickly because it's a lot of work maintaining millions of servers.
Which is about the equal to the EU. Council of the EU [1] has similar function as the senate in the US. The council is made up of the heads of governments, as elected, by the member countries. The council proposes the commission, which is then left for the EU parliament to confirm.

This very close, pretty much about equal to the election process of the US senate before the 17th amendment in 1912.[2] The difference being no popular vote for the president. As is the case for the "head of state" for pretty much all European countries. Exceptions are only France?

The major difference is that only the commission has the right to legislative initiative. To balance this the EU parliament can dissolve the commission based on a vote of no confidence.

So all in all, it's a truly democratic system with all the checks and balances. The major difference is the lack of cross European parties, thus your choice becomes collected together in the same basket as what your chosen party thinks is the right path. Completely through representative democracy, either from the head of government or European parliament.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission#Dismissal

[4]: Kurzgesagt - Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Uu5eyN6VU
The original machines like that were the Burroughs 5000 (1961), and the Burroughs 5500 (1964), which was quite successful. Memory was allocated by the OS in variable length chunks. Addresses were not plain numbers; they were more like Unix paths, as in /program/function/variable/arrayindex.

That model works, but is not compatible with C and UNIX.
Exactly, so BTC and BCH would be considered different commodities. But BCH can never win provably in the long-term, so therefore would not be able to qualify as a functioning commodity.
This is cool, but if you extensively use cloud-native components where the bare metal is abstracted from you (eg: noSQL databases, pubsub, storage buckets, cloud functions, etc) it's very rare you're paying a fixed sum, compared to if you're doing stuff the old school way with a virtual machine assigned 2GB of RAM and 2 CPUs where it's more obvious that you're paying a fixed sum.

I ran the tool on one of my projects' terraform files and it came out with a huuuuge list of infrastructure along with summaries like "Monthly cost depends on usage: $0.026 per GiB". But the grand estinated total cost of this entire project was: $0 per month...

That's the tricky bit, you can't really estimate the cost of this stuff without doing napkin maths on usage. I don't really see how you'd be able to improve this situation, either.

I'm glad someone is trying to bring better transparency to cloud costs. I think this would be a cool thing to add in a terraform CI pipeline. For example: you could allow your devs to be more agile when prototyping by allowing them to change terraform in dev without approval, assuming the MR doesn't add more than $XYZ in costs per month.
Nobody makes bombs with power reactors.

Plutonium production requires the reaction U238 + n => U239, decays to Np239 and then to Pu239.

However, there is also the reaction Pu239 + n => Pu240.

If you change your fuel out frequently you mostly get the first reaction, little of the second. If you leave the fuel in for too long you get a lot of the second.

Pu240 is a big headache for bomb makers. The problem is that you need to be able to *fully* assemble your bomb before it produces any substantial amount of heat that will interfere. It's not merely a matter of getting it past the critical point, you need to get it far past that point so the whole reaction goes before the heat blows it apart. There have been multiple criticality accidents in the atomic era--too much material in one place but assembled by ordinary forces. They're deadly to those nearby but they don't blow up much of anything.

Pu240 emits a lot of neutrons, it's prone to setting the mass off before full assembly is attained. If that happens you would have gotten a lot more boom for your buck simply piling up ordinary explosives.
We'll find out if China invades Taiwan and American youth overwhelmingly think America needs to stay out of it.
How to browse the web in the least shitty way possible
Yes, many more powerful chips include hardware RNGs now. ESP32 and STM32 and Atmel SAM have them at least. Some 16 bit ones like some MSP430s have them (and AES) too.

I don't think they're generally in 8-bitters unless some of the newer "big-little" ones throw one in, but probably most IoT devices that need cryptographic security would use a 32-bitter these days anyway if nothing else for the networking.

There are also devices like the ATECC608 which have an internal HRNG, and also provide offloaded security cryptographic signing based on that, which both saves a very small device burning cycles on crypto and also prevents a private key ever residing in the CPU.
FAANGS took part in illegal surveillance programmes in the past and they are required to share data with the american government. It doesn't make any difference if they're state owned or not, their complicit.
I think you have a good point except for Taiwan.
Cool. Call an IP lawyer, sue Microsoft, and enjoy retirement on your new boat.

Or I guess you didn't really have any IP of value that was infringed on whatever license you claim to have made.
I'm actually in process of moving our team's CI/CD back to jenkins from github actions. I can see github actions working well for a startup to midsize company but my current project working with a big enterprise company with corporate networks and limitations has made it a nightmare.
“I'm back from five years in prison. AMA!” (Martin Shkreli)
But "save your changes before running a command that can clobber" is a pretty good strategy.
There’s no M in FAAnG.
Why not? There is some need for chemical fuel but you can synthesize it if need be.
I'm surprised by this discovery too, I would have thought we would have been able to observe something like this with the STEREO spacecraft [0] which are pair of identical spacecraft that are imaging the sun at different angles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEREO
IBM didn't really play with hardware object capabilities until the S/38, and even the it's a bit of a stretch to call them that.
One big difference. Substack is push, blogs are pull.

Managing the reliable sending of millions of subscriber emails is expensive.
As a US business, they are required by law to share any data they have with the us governement. They were also part of PRISM so they have 0 credibility about protecting EU citizens' data.
EU has much more concerns about China than about the US fyi.
High temps in the catalytic converter can sinter the precious metals, reducing the surface area of catalytically active surfaces, but I believe the effect is much more pronounced in CO and HC activation. The conversion of NOx is much more constant.
Please don't wear clip in shoes in traffic, they are great for races but they absolutely suck if you have to be able to put your foot down on a moments notice. I know several people with serious ankle injuries due to wearing those in traffic.
Microsoft's ribbon UI is such a cluttered mess of a design paradigm. Who knows, maybe once you've memorized it, it's efficient. But for the amount I use the Office apps, nothing is ever where I'd expect it to be. And the layout is just insane, there's differently shaped buttons and groupings of functionality, etc. It's like they just came up with a bunch of icons for the different functionality and haphazardly dumped them all over in random tabs.
Huh? The EU’s GDP and population are significantly greater than the US.
> I find the secrets more interesting than the tricks in most instances. I see it as a form of social hacking.

It depends. I've seen more than one person learning the French Drop fool their own eyes despite performing the trick themselves, feeling the object in their hand, and knowing exactly how it works.

Our brains are interesting, and the degree of surprise we can get from cognitive dissonance or mismatched perceptions is hilarious.

IMO, most of the secrets are boring. But the overall performance that makes it work is fun.
> By any yardstick, a price/sales ratio of 72 is ludicrous. It's the kind of thing that can only happen within the safety of a financial bubble.

If not 72, what revenue multiples are more appropriate as per the yardsticks you are familiar with?
> That might be true but unless you're the owner of the company or have a significant stake I don't see why you wouldn't do the same as an individual contributor?

And here you hit on one of the core tenets of a good manager. How to align things so that what's good for the individual is good for the company? It starts with the owner/shareholders and cascades down the hierarchy.

It's a bit of a "tragedy of the commons"-type problem. If everyone optimizes what's best for themselves then the company likely goes out of business, which isn't good for most of the employees.

A good incentive structure isn't going to make a terrible manager into a good one but it can have a big impact around the edges. Including things like "employee retention" in the evaluation of a manager helps to align things - now if the manager wants her bonus she has to treat the employees well and help find a balance between what's good for the company & what's good for the employee individually.
I discovered something similar in the early to mid 2010s: processes on different Linux systems communicated over TCP faster than processes on the same Linux system. That is, going over the network was faster than on the same machine. The reason was simple: there is a global lock per system for the localhost pseudo-device.

Processes communicating on different systems had actual parallelism, because they each had their own network device. Processes communicating on the same system were essentially serialized, because they were competing with each other for the same pseudo-device. At the time, Linux kernel developers basically said "Yeah, don't do that" when people brought up the performance problem.
Even if they are, that would be irrelevant, a "tu quoque fallacy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Chia adds support for NFTs to their blockchain
We probably could, but we definitely don't want it.

They have a different sense of time and are just too much energetic to be bearable.

Would be like having a children with the most severe case of ADHD jumping over you each five seconds non-stop after drinking ten coffes and doing cocaine. Just watching a stoat to play is exhausting.