skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taxing spending would also help with vast empires that cosist of inherited money

Or we just finally actually tax inherited wealth like other kinds of income instead of giving wealthy many many millions of handouts and tax subsidies.

> with no loopholes

We've both shared examples of lots of ways one can have loopholes on spending money. If the standard is to find a way of "no loopholes", well, spending money outside of the tax jurisdiction away from the knowledge of the tax jurisdiction is a loophole. One wealthier people will have a far easier time exploiting than the poor. Expecting the wealthy are going to report their sales taxes on goods purchased overseas is as hopeful as back in the day states hoping people would report their online purchases. We both agree there's countless ways to obscure your income, if they can obscure their income why is it now impossible for them to obscure their purchases?

> You brought the money into the country because you are in the business of exports? Great, here's a tax credit. You may deduct it from the tax you pay on your excursions abroad.

So those who make money on exports pay even lower tax rates than those working domestically, by design? And who in that "business of exports" actually gets that benefit? The shift worker in the factory making the widgets, the marketing director making the campaign for the widget overseas, the salesperson making the actual sale to the foreign distributor, or the owner of the corporation? Me thinks that benefit isn't going to the shift worker or the marketing person or the salesperson. Cool, even more handouts for the wealthy here. Great ideas. They'll get a tax break on their expensive foreign vacation while us plebs here pay full tax rates.

I'm not trying to make the argument that what we have today is good. There's so much wrong with it. But thinking that throwing it all away and just taxing spending is somehow itself a good and just way of doing it also doesn't make much sense to me. Having poorer people pay more effective tax rates than wealthier people doesn't strike me as fair.
You should try cancelling the New York Times, Bon Appetite, or Planet Fitness
I hope this means better ISA & extension consistency going forward and a push to make tools to adopt the extensions too. One of the bigger issues for x86-64 as an ISA is that nobody wants to compile to support features that not everyone will have, but picking what to use at run-time isn't easy either, so it makes everything slower than it needs to be.
Ask HN: What Specialized AI Tools Have You Paid for and Why?
Hello chat,
Curious to know what specialized AI tools you all have tried out (besides ChatGPT/Claude, or CoPilot/Cursor). Have you found any worth your wallet? And how are you feeling about your usage—growing, dropping, or staying the same? Would love to hear your experiences!
I know you’re applying the same model as for SSH keys (and functionally they are very similar) … but I also think 1 SSH key/device is impractical if you have many services to log into and many devices to log in from - which is just the reality nowadays.

Imagine having to use a specific password for each service/device combination.
Instead we don’t tie passwords to devices, but to users, to avoid this complexity.
Running hacker news
> Arm has been in supercomputers for a while.

Apparently I am super wrong here. ARM has made serious inroads here as well.

I think that ARM's willingness to allow their IP to be customized for their clients needs has really given them a lot of competitive advantages.
Typically 0.5 to 6 (max) in a single workday unless there's something urgent that needs fixing.

I also have meetings during the day, learning I want to do, etc., that takes up my 8 hrs/day.

I rarely max out all of my hours in a day purely programming unless there's crunch happening for a feature release, which is not a good sign. If I'm in crunch mode more bugs than usual are being created.

I program less time now when I first started. I am more efficient and I take more time to think of the proper solution before I even start.

If I were job searching, I'd probably be doing a lot more programming and learning to brush up before any interviews. I am not interview-ready. lol
Counterpoint to myself: Accelerometer-based inputs might demonstrate that I'm wrong.

In the Zelda games on the Switch, you aim the bow and arrow with motion controls. This may be the smoothest, most natural interface I can think of; changing back to joystick controls feels really bad.

The input is 2DOF manipulation, and the feedback is primarily seen on the screen. There is a small amount of "feel" feedback inherent to the physical motion of the controller.

Another example on the Switch is a "labyrinth" balance minigame in Kirby.

I recall early iPhone games exploring this UI, but it doesn't seem to have developed into anything except games and levelling utility apps.
you're describing a startup with no business model.
>why is tens of millions of people in a state enforcing the will of the majority on the others fine but hundreds of millions of people in the country enforcing the will of the majority on others "not caring about the consent of the governed" and "the reason democracies fail"?-

Because we aren't a unitary democracy, we are a federal republic that was built upon the idea of a limited federal government designed to address pressing national issues, with "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The will of the people state should almost always be superior to the will of the federal government. There needs to be an exceedingly pressing and relevant reason that any law, let alone one made by unelected bureaucrats, should overrule any of a state's laws. There is no exceedingly pressing reason the federal government should be involving itself in the process of canceling an auto renewing contract.

>"why is it okay that people should have to vote on whether others can prey on them, exploit and abuse them"

A company making it slightly annoying to leave an agreement with them is not being preyed on, exploited, or abused. That kind of language to describe "sitting on the phone longer than I want to cancel my paper subscription" or similar is bordering on histrionic.
I recommend asking your neighborhood/city subreddit for gyms that aren't awful when cancelling

I just had the pleasure of a one email cancellation with my gym after moving
Families tend to get spread out and vacations tend to be very short. There is a strong encouragement to meet for recognized holidays, so these are by far the busiest times at airports.

Last year, the prediction was 4.7 million people in the US traveling by plane over the thanksgiving holiday, which demolishes the 1% comment immediately.
no oasis refresh?

no buttons? no purchase.

Been waiting a long time, I suppose it's time to move to alternatives, as it's a pain to carry around a usb-micro cable just for my kindle.
The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership
(for the record, i don't get mad at people over this and i don't think people should get mad at others for this.)
We have this in Canada, but it also means the richer you are, the bigger the subsidy you get.

Also means people over-invest in their homes and remain in homes that are larger than necessary for themselves instead of downsizing.

And renters get squat.
fwiw JD Vance has voiced support a few times for keeping Lina Khan who is pushing a lot of this agenda.
There are long periods of figuring out the domain model. Then figuring out the specification of a program. Then a lot of continuous writing until I find a flaw in my domain model. Revisit my previous assumptions, saw and sand away at some rough edges, repeat.

When the path is clear and I know what I need to do, and just need to do it, I can probably code 6 hrs straight. Otherwise it's a lot of stop and go. Refactoring is easy, I could probably spend 8hrs straight doing a refactor.
If you setup a "payment agreement" between yourself, the gym (or any similar service), and your credit card, you should be able to cancel that agreement and the subsequent services that agreement entailed through your credit card. The byzantine and manipulative things that gyms do are, in part, because we basically let them control the cancellation process.
So one could upload the original footage directly to YouTube to get the authenticity label and put it on private then proceed with the usual edits and provide the link to the private video as prove that it’s real.
What about Adobe?

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/...
Recently discovered that on long flights, ear plugs (that just block noise, no music!) and a kindle is way more enjoyable for me. Less headache. Can’t imagine having a vision pro on a 10h flight
It's your app, so obviously do whatever you want, but I agree with the sibling comment that an immediate mode GUI wastes valuable CPU cycles redrawing the frame repeatedly and will invariably hurt performance

Again, since iced is "just rust", you can write whatever widgets you need, although it comes with a long list of built-in widgets (and there are many more built by the community). You can compose views with a bunch of these widgets to get to the UI you want.

There's also nothing stopping you from creating a way for users to write widgets for your iced application. The sky is the limit.

And I'm singling out iced because I'm a fan, but this should be true for pretty much all robust GUI toolkits out there.
https://bayme.sh is IIRC actively experimenting with moving from LongFast to MediumSlow specifically to try to address this.
If you can sign up for the gym online, then you need to be able to cancel online. That's how this rule is meant to work for all kinds of merchants. Gyms would still be free to pull their usual car-salesman shenanigans on cancellation if they're willing to only take new subscriptions on location and not online, too.
Isn't ARM's main and most visible advantage that its implementations are usually energy-efficient?
1. Yes

2. This could do the trick for you https://askubuntu.com/a/251738/1163389 make it point to the desktop file that ftwa created in this folder: ~/.local/share/applications
Wal mode allows for concurrent readers and one writer. I’ve been use a similar architecture for a Flask app using SQLite and Redis. So far I haven’t had any issues sending thousands of events. The write process is a few milliseconds and from the docs iirc writes will get queued if there’s a lock. If it works for your case the simplicity of it is awesome. Unfortunately you don’t get things like RBAC so you need to use views and make sure your routes don’t allow access. Pushing security that I would probably prefer in the db to the app isn’t ideal imo.
Nice. I asked a few days ago about alternatives to NotebookLM with an API and didn't get good answers.

I have started creating some audio podcasts of popular hacker news threads here:

https://github.com/etewiah/gipety-for-hacker-news

Will probably do a "Show HN" about it tomorrow or friday. If I get the chance I will try to do a couple using podcastfy (I agree with the other comment though - the name could be better..)

Great work - thanks for sharing.
> I know it's cool to "hate" on OO, but "just read the fucking file" doesn't work if you want to run your unit tests without reading a fucking file.

Then don't do that, if in the real world it'll read a fucking file, then test with reading a fucking file. Tests aren't there to just be passed, they're to catch problems and if they're not testing the same workflows that the code will see IRL then the test is flawed. The first test should be reading a fucking file and that fucking file could be full of all sorts of garbage.

Same goes for non-fucking files.
Very cool! One comment, one question. 1) panning the node graph of the leaves demo seemed slow / laggy on my macbook pro in chrome, which gave an initial low-quality feeling - moving nodes was nice and responsive.

2) Given that this is written in Rust (compiled), is it on the roadmap to 'export' the parameterized designs into some callable library code? e.g: a game engine that calls "leaves = generate_texture("changing_leaves.graphite", percentage=0.2)"? It would be cool to keep that configurability even once you leave the editor - basically, splitting the node-graph renderer out as its own library that you can call programmatically.
> I want my servers to be 30% cheaper.

Sure, I mean I agree that ARM can outcompete x86 there but mainly Amazon can just cut out Intel/AMD and make their chips themselves which can significantly reduce costs. Not because Neoverse is somehow inherently better or faster than its x86 equivalents. Of course from the perspective of most users that's effectively the same thing, why overpay for 1 fast core when you can just get 2 slightly slower ones.

> Qualcomm is exploring acquiring Intel.

That's far fetched and hard to believe. IIRC there were talks about Qualcomm maybe buying some secondary subsidiaries/departments form Intel and somehow it got extrapolated to Qualcomm acquiring Intel (unless there is any credible information to back that up?)
You have less control over formatting and ad placement in the README file, as rendered markdown offers only limited options. With a dedicated documentation website, it’s much easier.

It’s also a question of sovereignty. If your documentation is in the README, then GitHub owns the audience. If they, for some reason, close your project, you’re finished. With your own documentation page, the risk is much lower.
I think this somewhat makes sense. Just going on the discussion, I was missing that this is using "aging" as shorthand for "the degenerate effects of aging." I'm assuming the growth effects of aging would be more "maturing" or some such.

I still think calling this "defeating aging" is an odd framing. But it makes sense in the standard context here.
No update to the Oasis; I guess when I refresh I'll get a Boox or other Android-based device with page turn buttons and run the kindle app on it.

I have a first generation Kindle Oasis, which is a great device, in no small part because of its asymmetric design and page turn buttons. The newer Oasis (still last refreshed in 2022) have better lighting (temperature adjustable) and inverse text mode, which are both nice but have not been enough to get me to upgrade. It lacks the battery cover of the original oasis, which while kind of a pain was nice because it gave a very natural way to hold the device.

I'm sad to see that the Oasis line is not mentioned here. I have little to no interest in using my kindle as a writing device, and honestly would prefer that the touchscreen was as little used as possible -- an unresponsive or slow screen is the worst case for a touchscreen, since the feedback loop is terrible.

I don't know if they'll have an OS update to go along with this. I have found successive updates to be worse and worse -- my pages are all crammed with ads (not actual ads since I paid to have them removed, but "recommended books") and large page covers. I can barely fit five titles from my library on a screen; I would much prefer to have just the title/author/progress and fit twenty on a page.

The integration with the Amazon ecosystem is probably the best selling point, but until somebody shuts down Libby I've switched my habits to be almost entirely rent-based rather than buying books.
What was promised was a robotaxi, not “keep your eyes on the road or FSD will disengage.” As it is, if you let FSD drive and don’t ever intervene, you will have frequent crashes.
> I really wish they just required what Apple requires on the App Store. It requires 2 clicks, clicking cancel and then confirm. No upselling since it all happens within Apple's Settings.

It's complicated.

If all anti-piracy measures were enforced successfully, such as they are on Apple platforms; if there were insurmountable paywalls everywhere; but, subscriptions were cheaper, would you be better off? What about the average person? What is the right policy?
The amount of money in my bank account. No problem other than that can be solved by changing just one thing.
When Amazon decides to cut you off, you’ll know. Example: bought Albums on iTunes over a decade ago. Can’t re-download. Not even for a nominal bandwidth fee.
I read several types of books, multiple hours per day: reflowable fiction books, PDFs, books generated from my Markdown notes… I’ve got a Paperwhite, a Scribe and a Kobo Forma, but I’m still searching for the perfect e-reader.

The Paperwhite is too small for PDFs, but great for fiction and portability. The Scribe is excellent for PDFs, but it makes my books disappear sometimes, and it does not work well with sideloaded fonts. The Forma is a middle ground in terms of portability, but its battery died after a couple years and nowadays I only use it near a power outlet.
Instead of structuring this as a fund, why not a non-profit? Then you could solicit tax-deductible donations which get funneled to these FOSS projects as part of your mission. Seems like a possible way to scale this to something much larger than yourselves.
Adobe hardest hit.
You're right. The OP article contains a line, that they fire the sundial cannon manually as a "fallback":

> The 6-pound cannon is fired everyday at 1 PM, from May to September. On sunny days the sun automatically sets it to light, but on days when clouds obscure the sun, the sun gunner on duty fires the midday salute with a match.

I imagine that was what reminded the GP of the joke and I kinda used it as context - but yeah, on rereading, it's not part of the joke. I admit, I jumped to conclusions there.
Yes. The problem is the current law. Which needs to be changed. Make these predatory contracts illegal.
you're describing virtual credit cards with controls, like amount, vendor, time of month, etc. it's an awesome service that limits your widespread exposure to one company vs. everyone you've every bought anything from.
That's why the only gyms I've signed up for have been YMCAs, because I know I can cancel my membership there without hassle.
drinking fluoride in small quantities doesn't have a ton of evidence of benefit. Brushing your teeth with fluoride does.
“Dispatchable generation” may be a better fit for what you’re talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation

“Firm power” is more about the type of relationship between energy generation and consumers than the actual technology being used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firm_service
The PRIS database has country averaged data for energy availability factor, capacity factor etc.

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/ThreeYrsEnergyAva...
Power-over-Skin: Full-Body Wearables Powered by Intra-Body RF Energy
Have AVP since day one. I have traveled probably 5-6 times on planes since then. One for the first one I took it with me. Sure, it was a nice experience to watch a movie. But I would rather to watch the same movie or tv show with SO, than to watch it in a questionable better environment.
The main issue, it is heavy and bulky for traveling.
Show HN: An app for comprehensive psoriasis care
We are a team of three women - two developers and a dermatologist - who have built one of the first apps for psoriasis, called Aqt.

The Aqt app allows to improve in psoriasis symptoms by mitigating lifestyle-related triggers.

We have launched our first version to the AppStore last week :)

Download the app from the AppStore or watch the demo on Youtube: https://youtu.be/TfvXEHKxf_4.

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Replying to my own comment, but it looks like there's at least one device on the market that measures BP without the wearer knowing it's being done, the Aktiia Optical Blood Pressure Monitor.

Cost about $250-300. It's not available in the US right now officially, though it's cleared in several European countries. I don't know if it's legal to import. If it is, I may well do so.

Regrettably it has a cloud connection.
What about earbuds aiding in hearing? Lots of scenarios where earbuds can help with hearing and not impede it. I use AirPod Pros on flights for cancelling out the loud background noise of the plane but it makes talking to others much easier.
I'm in the same boat. Give me USB-C, page turn buttons, maybe even wireless charging and I'd upgrade almost reflexively. I've been eyeing various Android-based eReaders (like Boox Page) that have Kindle support through an app.
Presumably that would break the chain of custody metadata, or would leave provenance breadcrumbs leading back to the original unedited video?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15446725?hl=en

> Limitations

> “Captured with a camera” only appears if a creator opts to use C2PA technology during filming. If it’s missing, it doesn’t mean the content has modified audio or visuals.

> Note: This feature is separate from our existing altered and synthetic disclosures.

> The metadata that leads to a “Captured with a camera” disclosure is made by a 3rd party (for example, a camera manufacturer). This means there is some risk that someone could take a photo of another screen showing synthetic content. Because the other screen shows an image that has been modified, it wouldn’t be eligible for the “Captured with a camera” disclosure. This issue is called “air-gapping.” Camera manufacturers will continue to develop detection measures to prevent “air-gapping,” but the sophistication of those detection measures may vary in the near term.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gen-ai-content-tran...
every single time you buy something it's a minefield to avoid subscribing to prime.
What's half-baked about GVisor?

It's been in use as one of the security layers in various Google products for years, see for example:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
> Qualcomm did for the Snapdragon X and Apple did for the Mx series haven't made it to the Graviton yet

Why would they, though?

Neither Apple nor Qualcomm have any incentives to share their designs with ARM anymore than they do with Intel, AMD or each other. I wonder how AmpereOne will look assuming it actually ever comes out...
Experts Reveal the 'Secret Engine' Behind Science's Endless Growth
Height is factored in, albeit in a very simple way
Where did you get this notion from? The FTC was founded in 1914 and has broad authority over trade and consumer services of all kinds.
Eyewear Offers a Buckshot Method to Monitor Health
This makes sense, though I still find the framing odd. I don't mind that I look older now that I'm, you know, older. Defeating aging feels like it would be to find a way to be forever young. Extending life doesn't feel like it would need that.

Obviously, we need some way to not completely lose genetic data and such. If there is a "throwing in the towel" moment, as it were, find a way to prevent that. But living forever doesn't equal forever young, to me. Mayhap I'm just too old for that to have meaning anymore? :D
Each Glacier Has a Unique Organic Matter Composition
Or KDE Plasma… they’ve been making amazing things with look and feel in the last couple of releases. Either way, that much customisation and user control on an iPad… practically unheard of.
But by that measure, how do you know the platform doesn't have yet another remote control feature that you don't know about? Do you trust the platform or don't you?
Gaia space telescope discovers 55 'runaway' careening away
No problem weaponizing Thorium. The US even tested bombs with material from the thorium fuel chain.

Quite easily chemically separated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233
> Being in an extremely crowded environment with very little personal space

I don't disagree with you but I can tell you don't take the NYC subway or Paris metro or the London Underground with any regularity. If you think an airplane is "extremely crowded" then you have no words to describe actual mass transit.