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Show HN: PolicyEngine, a FOSS web app that computes the impact of public policy
PolicyEngine simulates tax and benefit policies. Users can enter their household information in rich detail (hundreds of variables), and we estimate their taxes and benefits; they can also design a custom policy reform from hundreds of parameters and we estimate the impact on society (poverty, inequality, and the budget) and their own household. It's free, open source, and mobile friendly, and operates in the US and the UK.

We just launched a major update where we rewrote everything but the rules engine, and fully launched PolicyEngine US (previously beta).

US launch post: https://policyengine.org/us/blog/the-new-policyengine

US 15-second video: https://youtu.be/8lpXRppeq_U

US post on using PolicyEngine to model a Child Tax Credit reform: https://policyengine.org/us/blog/from-idea-to-impact-scoring...
E definitely can have a comedown. It's the primary reason I never did it again personally.

People's sensitivities to drugs can vary wildly and often dosing recommendations don't consider that.

Now back to counting out tiny little beads because my main medicine isn't made in small enough doses for me.
I exclusively use cast iron and stainless. I don't do much to maintain my cast iron except pour water in while it's hot, to clean, and spray a bit of oil on it when dry. So easy, and I'm not willing to waste any labor/movement in the kitchen (former cook and kitchen manager).
Classic. Had a copy in high school in the 1980’s. I always loved the warnings at the beginning of some of the instructions that went something like this: “do not create this — it can be very dangerous… maybe lethal —- here is how you do it.”
This is going to sound sad but I'm aiming to hopefully have a YouTube addiction. I had a severe reddit addiction for many years which wasted the best years of my life, that I recently replaced with a TikTok addiction (reddit banned me anyway). Now I'm trying to step up and wean myself onto longer form video content instead. That's how deep I've gotten myself into this... self-induced ADHD spiral. I can barely even play videogames for more than 20 minutes at a time anymore.
I love my Kuru Toga pencil. Same as you, I don’t use it much, but when I do it makes my writing way more precise. Sure, some argue you can teach yourself to rotate the pencil as you write, but why would I learn to do that for the once a month I use a pencil?
How many domains do you guys have blocked? I am at around four million domains blocked on my Pi-hole.
PDF: http://www.nobius.org/dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf

From here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468920
I have a really crappy immune system - colds usually last three weeks for me. That said, my delta infection was probably 95% as bad as my infection with the original strain. Both times I had a fever of over 102f for about two weeks.

Again, though, I’m unique. Go me.
If you have some cash to spend, the 911 was just released in a limited Dakar edition, incl. the OG Rothmans decals. Work of art.
> Driving is not a closed domain problem. There will always be fat tail circumstances where statistical methods will break down.

Some of it is. Walmart has already deployed some self-driving semis in Arkansas that go between a warehouse and a store. There are a significant number of routes like this, always taking the same path back and forth between two places in a relatively controlled environment.

> Why invest in hugely expensive automation in an open problem domain that you can not even perfectly model when you can just pay a driver $25 an hour to do it better?

Driving time is a big one. There are strict limits on how many hours drivers can be driving on a given day. That means you've got a huge, expensive machine sitting idle for most of the day. Self-driving can get you double the usage of an expensive asset.

> Why not automate warehouses?

This is happening already. https://www.wsj.com/story/amazon-takes-steps-toward-warehous...

> It is literally an easier technical problem to land a man on the moon than to design an autonomous road vehicle that can do better and be more cost effective than humans in all circumstance.

Nobody's saying it has to work in all circumstances. You can choose where to deploy self-driving vehicles. If you stick to the American Southwest, you still have an enormous opportunity, but you eliminate one of the big challenges for autonomous vehicles - snow and other difficult weather.
People doing this cloud seeding should be forced, alongside with their children, to live in these areas.
I love how this software would have been legend in the 90s/00s but now you are just a weird audiophile nerd for messing around with physical CDs.
List of questions serves as a checklist for sysadmins and ops staff
I’ve never found it to be overly painful. If you’re accessing values this way (on an index vs defined fields), you’re already treading into iffy territory, structure-wise, and its good to undermine your assumptions about what’s at the index. An extra check might seem very hand-holdy, but I’ve been doing JS long enough now to have seen a large number of errors originate in this class of index access.
I was sorry to read that recently Martin Davis passed. Along with JR, another giant.
I never saw the movie, but I saw the actual money train in action two three times in my 20’s. Probably about 3:30 AM - having spent all my money at a bar forced me to take the subway instead of a cab.

Disappointment at first because you saw a train coming, and then realized it was a no-passenger work train. And then it stopped and a couple of guys with long guns got off and stood guard while a couple of others would go and get the money from the booth. Totally cool to see.

I believe there was an attempted robbery sone time in the 80’s or 90’s. The train just pulled out of the station, leaving frustrated criminals, who then shot up the heavily reinforced token booth to no effect.

(Not mentioned in the article is that they collect garbage from platform trash bins the same way.)
Not many tech answers here, but a £100 PC Engines ALIX board from ~2008 is still my home router (software upgraded now and then) in a compact 6x6x1” aluminium case, switchmode DC power supply, read-only root on industrial CF card.

Solid as a rock.
I really enjoyed reading your Forth related blog posts, that's why I shared this one on HN. Thanks for writing them!

I also liked these:

- https://blog.information-superhighway.net/data-is-code

- https://blog.information-superhighway.net/retrocomputing
It pushed small numbers of people out on ideological grounds, but overwhelming numbers stayed. Trump got more votes in 2020 than anybody in history, except for his opponent.

80 million Republicans may not be loyal to him, but they did vote for him, twice. A voting booth doesn't care how enthusiastic you are when you pull the lever, and neither does the candidate. A vote is a vote, and as far as they are concerned any vote is a complete endorsement. Had he won he would have governed as if every Republican was devoted to him.
I’ll admit alcohol is perhaps less phenomenologically diverse than psychedelics, but I don’t know of anyone in the history of the world who took a decent dose of MDMA then went home and beat the daylights out of his wife and children.

Frequent occurrence on alcohol (and a quite distinct one than the “a few beers with my friends” that alcohol can also confer)
My Osprey Daylite+ backpack cost $80 and has been used every day for five years now. It has a small tear and broken zipper pull, but neither affects functionality. If it ever has a problem, I can always send it back to Osprey for repair or replacement under the warranty. It’s too good, actually. I want to get a GR1 but the Daylite+ leaves almost nothing to be desired.
> Look at this image of Pitfall, and notice how the tree canopy, tree trunks, ground, pit, and underground cave all show left-right symmetry. These are all built from the playfield (plus additional tricks to be described later). The only sprites are Pitfall Harry, the vine he’s swinging from, the rolling log, and the scorpion.

I read in a similar article that the branches of the trees are too finely detailed to be drawn with the playfield layer. So, they are added on with sprites.
Are Philip morris getting into the ecstasy business? Seems unlikely.
You can run Rust code in a Jupyter notebook
I remember back in the day using https://xiph.org/paranoia/ for ripping. Tons of burned cds that eventually were tossed in favor of Spotify.
Incumbent government contractors.
iPhone keyboard started going downhill roughly around when the iPhone 5S came out I think, had one since the first edition and I remember it being so much more awesome around model 4.
Alright, I get it, you don't like CL. Coolio.

> show me a better editor than emacs first

I will. Just one correction: it's not going to be an editor. It's going to be many editors forming a cohesive whole.

Rune: Rune Is Not an Editor.

Other than that, what can I say? Yes, I have to prove my words, even though, in my opinion, the writings have enough to convince you that it can be done. And I will do my best to deliver.
They did: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23489808/elon-musk-twitte...
There's a note on the page from 2022-08-19, that a lot has been added to it. It also links to the github page[1] for the up-to-date changes.

I am a Lisp, April, APL/J/BQE, and Forth[2] aficionado. I did some file munging programs in Factor back in 2012 at my job to sort through theater attendance logs in Word to compile statistics.

[1] https://github.com/remko/waforth

[2] https://factorcode.org/
There’s an article that does a better job describing it written when the guy who ran the operation retired.

https://www.curbed.com/2021/04/al-putre-mta-money-room.html

Basically the money train was a dinosaur with operational issues. They moved to armored cars. My guess is that the transition reduced the number of station agents required and reduced shrink, but increased NYPD overtime. (MTA lost the transit police in the 90s)
Bell bollards- they aren’t just more handsome - they are also what’s used when normal bollards aren’t enough, they are able to stop heavier vehicles and far more resistant to damage.

They are especially good at stopping trucks cutting corners and enforcing width restrictions.
Google Cloud Introduces Shelf Inventory AI Tool for Retailers
Excited about this. I much prefer writing on physical paper, but would love for it to be easy to store digitally. Waiting on first reviews to pull the trigger on a purchase though.
AI model accurately measures heart rate with webcam
It would have been best have to have that table randomly generated for each photo at the source and perhaps that's possible with smartphones, but for photos taken with an ad-hoc camera (point and shoot, mirrorless, etc.) I'd guess it's not option unless maybe if you'd flash a modified firmware.
Discovering music in the pre-gap before track 1 was my childhood equivalent of discovering a magickal incantation. In a world before mass use of the Internet, those who knew many of these secrets were our High Priests and Priestesses. I love the ease with which modern music can spread around the world but I miss the opportunity for surprise and discovery.
It's always kind of wild to watch people write a check and then use the much more convenient and secure contactless.

(Usually the store electronically submits the check at the time of sale...)
the -s command lists metadata, but from my explorations with the bytecode using ruby std tools and grep I've found there is likely a lot more than is shown from this command.

How might I use the tool for editing geodata? Their forum seems to point to the use of other tools.
To cure your youtube addiction, just disable your adblocker. Works very well.
> Investigate your family history of cancer. If there are multiple people on one side of the family getting cancer (particularly breast + ovarian + pancreatic, or colon + gastric) then consider getting genetic testing/discuss with a doctor.

Can you elaborate on how you see this being actionable? Perhaps an increased cadence of screenings?
I hope the lesson is painful and this story gets more eyes on it. FAFO.
Interesting site! Any ideas on where can I get an invitation?
If you think Apple sucks look at signing binaries on Windows. If you don‘t use the Microsoft App Store it‘s much more expensive and annoying.

It basically requires you to be incorporated and hire a notary so you‘re probably spending $ 1000 or more for the first year. Renewal is cheaper but you will still be paying at least $ 100 a year.

Also if you know a good affordable way for a code signing certificate on Windows answer to this comment. I gave up the last time I tried.
Daisy chaining is not very bad apart from power consumption.
Thank you so much! Bubble looks very promising.

For the interviews, I really believe its something I should be involved in. The Eureka moment you have when interviewing customers is something that's hard to delegate
I'm in a rural area that also turns into snow and ice one third of the year. I am not opposed to riding a horse into town, in fact I would prefer it. If adding penalties for ICE vehicles then I would expect first there to be more places I can tie up my horse and I suspect the local town will have to implement dumping stations for all the horse poop. I guess there is also horse-gas emissions to consider. I can feed them things to reduce gas.

Another option would be an EV albeit sub-optimal. I've been looking at getting an EV side-by-side. [1] There are several street legal options. Many here use side-by-sides to go into town.

The EV cars have a long ways to go before I will consider one. Highly dystopian telemetry, standard features sold as subscriptions, battery tech is still ancient in my opinion, too many features and too many attempts to make the cars self driving and the tech just isn't ready. The EV side-by-sides are still a bit pricey and it would be entirely useless for going up into the mountains as the range / battery tech is still ancient. Producing this EV also emits a lot of emissions. To be carbon neutral might take a lifetime, especially when having to replace the batteries. It gets really cold here so I would need batteries that can handle it and Lithiom Ion requires heat pads so I will be using more solar/grid power. I do not get much solar power here. I am starting to see EV's as shiny luxury golf carts but that is just my take.

I could just walk. It's only a few miles into town but then I would have to make many trips and pulling a cart of groceries through ice and snow is much harder than one might imagine. Even pushing a shopping cart 50 feet when I have a few bags of oats and the store was too cheap to clear the ice from their parking lot is quite comical and quite a workout. Walking along the highway is super dangerous in the winter. There are no buses or trains anywhere near me and I doubt that there ever would be. People here are expected to have snow capable vehicles.

I've thought of e-bikes with super-fat snow tires. It turns out those don't work so great. I have a neighbor that tried it and they just went back to using their truck.

[1] - https://www.polaris.com/en-us/off-road/ranger/2022/ranger-ev...
"This vaccine is only 60% efficient."

How do you know? Because you were told by the same system that claimed Comirnaty was 95% effective?

For those of us who generalize from public health in the COVID years to public health in general, why is that generalization wrong, in your view?
I’ve worn out a few of those over the years.

Have one that is barely holding together which I cut off the sleeves after watching a movie based on the 80s in a fit of nostalgia, really need to get rid of that one. And another one I got for Christmas maybe eight years ago that is going strong but I don’t wear much because I splurged on a vinyl Levi’s truckers jacket that is my goto jacket when I’m not in sub-zero temps.
These are done by an artist that goes by Invader. They’re in a lot of cities.
Despite Chaos, Cities Are Sticking with Twitter
I unironically recommend following the World Bollard Association if you enjoy seeing these at work.
That's perhaps a bit pendatic. Maybe vested interest would be a more accurate term, but the idea is quite clear from context.
> To distribute the app as a zip file, the process is simpler: pick the upload option from Xcode after selecting “Developer ID” and it’ll produce a notarized version of your app, which you can then zip up and distribute directly.

While possible, I highly recommend going the extra mile of shipping a .dmg from the start if your app requires any extra permissions (file access, network, etc.)

macOS turns out to be very, very hesitant to provide file access to apps that were downloaded as zips and will do so SILENTLY.

I spent more than three weeks banging my head against this. Here's the full run-down with all the details: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/streamline-a-stream-of-conscious... if you're interested.
>Circa-1994 Yahoo had as many entries for “Art > Erotica” as “Art > Architecture,” suggesting that the WWW was going to be a horny place more than a spatial one (yup). “Society” and “Culture” broke down into “People,” “Religion,” and related categories. No one asked then why computer engineers were categorizing human knowledge, though they should have.

I have fond memories of K-mart.

It used to be the only place you could get cheap, solid colored clothing, logoless clothing like the solid black long sleeved shirt I paired with some dad jeans to dress up as Steve Jobs for Halloween after he died from treating cancer with fruit cleanses.

You haven’t truly lived until you’ve been driven across a college town handing out cans of Hamm’s from the back of a pickup truck, only to have the future librarians and computer scientists running the department house party get visibly disappointed you are not their coke dealer, who apparently is also dressed as Steve Jobs. The last days of big retail were truly decadent and depraved. (And you’ll get a third nostril if you keep locking yourself in the bathroom every time we run into each other outside “work” girlfriend.)

Anyways: Every winter I’d show up to get cheap hats and gloves that weren’t festooned with some logo and I wouldn’t be sad if left behind in a strange apartment.

What we’re left with are places like Wal-Mart, a company I haven’t set foot in since the Bush administration, that pairs a McDonalds with curse less rap CDs and posters of missing children with purposefully scheduling folks such they’ll qualify for food stamps then giving them the forms:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/walm...

The Internet has gone to hell, and not in a cool “there’s a bong by the Wii, don’t have sex in front of the DJ” way.

(Don’t do coke. And if you do, don’t do it where people go to poop.)
So long as the diffs get reviewed and checked in, this is a great form of testing called "regression testing". It doesn't replace unit testing, but it can be super valuable.
My circle is 69.7% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
The term "bomb throwing anarchist" has been around a lot longer than the cookbook.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
Do you have any other resources regarding monetising the app outside of the App Store? I don't care too much about piracy and I don't want to handle any user data myself, if possible.

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PS. Thanks for posting this. I got stuck and, frankly, demotivated after spending a few days porting my app (https://enso.sonnet.io) just to realise that I couldn't properly sign it for App Store distribution (took another 3 days of painful work with the AppStore Connect API). I know it sounds silly but learning that even someone like Guilherme would consider publishing paid apps without the App Store made me think that I might've lost track of the actual problem: putting the app in front of the users.
My understanding:

There's no algorithm to decide. But for any equation we can be lucky to find a solution or a proof that there's no solution.

But this doesn't prove that there is an equation for which we'll never know if it's solvable or not.
The Savage Reservation
It think it is:https://github.com/AdguardTeam/ContentBlocker/blob/master/CO...
Not at all under $200 but I purchase one piece of solid wood furniture every year. No MDF, no glass, no metal, no molded plastic furniture, no polyester fabrics. Expensive? Very much so. But I save and budget for these pieces. To me it's like collecting art—I love a well-designed and functional piece of furniture.

We're not quite there, but almost all of our furniture in the house is solid wood. One exception is the sofa,though it's also a "buy it for life" item from Knoll:

https://www.knoll.com/product/florence-knoll-sofa

Woodworkers:

https://www.thejoinery.com

https://www.thosmoser.com (highly recommended)

https://hedgehousefurniture.com

https://57stdesign.com

http://www.57thstreetbookcase.com (some veneer and plywood)

https://www.spekeklein.com/home

These two makers are in a league of their own, extremely expensive, incredibly beautiful hand-made pieces:

https://www.sammaloofwoodworker.com

https://nakashimawoodworkers.com ($10-15K for a coffee table, plus shipping)

And if you're in the market for some high-end leather goods that'll last a lifetime:

https://tsuchiya-kaban.com/ (highly recommended)

https://www.marlondoleather.com (highly recommended)

https://buffalojackson.com/

https://www.bexargoods.com/
Balavoine was a once in a generation talent. He was a great singer but more importantly an exceptional composer right next to Goldman.

He died at 36 and still he was able to write so many memorable songs.

Lady Marlene is not the most popular but I have fond memories of it.
No but if more harmful things get normalised, then users of their product can feel less guilty.

It's a variation on the "commoditize your complement" pattern.

(before someone says: "actually x is less harmful than y", I mean their perception by the general public)
High end loudspeakers for music/home theatre.

Turns out, speaker tech evolves pretty slowly. I bought a pretty high end set 15 years ago and it’s still miles ahead of most of what’s currently on the market. I don’t expect to change them for another 30 years.

The brand I bought is Monitor Audio. https://www.monitoraudio.com/
It's not about you.

It's about the society.

And I'm fine if people don't like this but I already said what this is: antisocial.
I have an image I made with SD and it added the Getty image watermark.
They probably would, if it was legal.
I wish I could say the same about Patagonia, but I’ve patched one elbow hole in my flannel and need to patch the other. I wear it almost every day, but I’ve only had it four years.
My list of things under $200 that last "forever" is getting pretty short.

Pyrex meal prep containers (1/2/4 cup). The silicone lids will eventually fail but you can replace them (or do without). Also, cast iron, knives and silverware seem to be fairly eternal.

Not sure I can recommend anything with motors, electronics or computers in 2023.
Good one, should stay pretty readable for non-trivial graphs. And I agree, as-found-on-traversal ordering is likely as good as any other.

I guess the Dream DAG would be some sort interactive zoom&click to expand thing, probably beyond my use case (and certainly beyond my console programming knowledge!)
Don’t give them any ideas
If you can get a 10% response rate on cold leads like that, you're not selling the company based on those leads to JPM for $175MM. You're selling your services at crafting email campaigns to everyone.
A great photo of the early M1 in that article showing the soft shoulder and no barrier in the central reservation.
> A person can recieve sponsorships without allowing that fact to influence the person's writing.

yeah right.
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