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Re:Interactive marginal tax rate chart for UK on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:20PM (#41875831)
A somewhat similar chart for the US is at the link below. It also includes a GIF that shows effective tax rates back to 1862.

https://github.com/chrisvwx/taxFoo.jl

Re:Jim Simons has died on Friday May 10, 2024 @12:14PM (#40320672)
Archive link for original article: https://archive.ph/zIx9b

Simons also funded Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/about/

His Wikipedia page is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)

As a marketing term I like "Limitarianism"
Re:A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf] on Saturday May 04, 2024 @01:55PM (#40259207)
* The Idea Factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory) includes info on Kelly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion) as well as Shannon.

* A Mind at Play (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_at_Play) is a bio of Shannon. I think a much better bio could be written, but this is all we have.

* "Information Theory" by Cover and Thomas is a mathematical introduction to information theory. This is a technical book, and is very different than the books above.

If you haven't yet done so, read Shannon's paper as linked above

I couldn't finish Sinclair's book on aging [1]; even in a book that he co-authored he comes across as a scammer

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80%93...

MKBHD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1777045761705853295

"Just pointed my phone camera directly at the midday sun for 5 minute straight. It got a little warm, but... no damage. I'm gonna go ahead and say point your phones at the eclipse tomorrow, it'll be fine "

just because his phone was fine doesn't mean yours will be

Possibly-related:

* 8sleep blog about the study: https://www.eightsleep.com/blog/research-paper-reveals-the-e...

* "Sleep and subjective age: protect your sleep if you want to feel young" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.017...

Re:Degen communism: the only correct political ideology on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:34PM (#39898945)
I guess "Degen" in this context means [1] a person "engaged in high-risk, high-reward strategies without much regard for potential losses. These individuals were seen as reckless, often gambling with their investments in the hopes of striking it rich."

[1] https://woolypooly.com/en/blog/degen

An opposing view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nJ07_02NQ

I often buy organic food: I can afford it and like the goal of using zero or minimal pesticides and herbicides. For me, it's like Pascal's wager: it can't hurt

Re:Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here? on Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:53PM (#39877006)
Thanks for responding
mb needs a 2015 tag?
Re:Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here? on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:45PM (#39866906)
Where did you get that number?

Vitalik gave goals of 1.33 MB per second in blob space, and a compressed tx size of 25 bytes. This gives around 50,000 transactions per second, which seems like a worthy goal.

At first I thought the lack of a link was a sort of recursive comment on our online situation (We are always clicking, but never going anywhere).

But I guess the real situation is just that someone forgot the actual link, which could be the following:

https://faunalytics.org/not-alone-universal-dangers-social-i...

Re:Optimum Strategies for Creativity and Longevity on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:41PM (#39831987)
Table 1 in that article doesn't satisfy my internal bullshit detector, and it looks like others have debunked it as well; see the article below for an example.

https://www.intmath.com/blog/mathematics/retiring-early-mean...

Re: on Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:47PM (#39635582)
Begrudging?

From m-w.com the definition of begrudging is "said, done, or given reluctantly"

So you want PMs who will only work at Eight sleep reluctantly?

Re:A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation on Saturday March 02, 2024 @04:33PM (#39575963)
In what part of the world is it typical to say "45 year engineer"? I'm an engineer in the western US, and would say "an engineer with 45 years of experience". I interact with lotsa international english; this one is new
Re:Lattices vs. Cranks on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:08PM (#39505378)
If by "this kind of approach" you mean lattice tools, then I think the answer is yes. See the link below for an example in the Wikipedia page on the LLL. Also the second link may be helpful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenstra%E2%80%93Lenstra%E2%80%...

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/032.pdf

Re:Cyclomatic Complexity on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:17PM (#39317390)
Kolmogorov complexity [1] is a measure of the complexity of an object (say a text), while Cyclomatic complexity is a measure of the complexity of a program. Can we make any statements about the relationship between them?

Let's say we have a text A, and we find a program P which is of length L and which the Kolmogorov complexity K(A); i.e. L=K(A). Does it make sense to compare the cyclomatic complexity C(P) with K(A)? Or can we write some equation or inequality the compares C(P) with K(A)?

I guess a first task would be to normalize one or the other so as to get the same units...

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

Everyone can get an app on their phone or computer that supports TOTP, such as Google Authenticator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password

At present the title of the article [1] is "Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?" To which I would answer "No". That's a click-bait headline complaining about how American newspapers are moving towards click-bait journalism ;-) It even looks to me like the HN headline changed the article headline to be more click-baity.

Two examples of papers that appear to me to be thriving are the NY Times (commercial), and the Salt Lake Tribune (non-profit). Newspapers may have problems, but I don't think we can say they're going extinct.

[1] https://archive.ph/QNUJd

I initially read it as "QAnonYoutube.com"
It's called "the internet".

People from around the world can collaborate easily on incredibly projects such as Linux or OpenRISC. Or on closed-source projects as used by FAANG companies.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to break up Amazon? on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:10PM (#38935664)
If it's a "classic anti-trust issue", can you point to a similar company from the past that was successfully constrained by anti-trust regulation?
Today on HN: EV Batteries Could Retire to Solar Farms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870723
mb meat intake is positively correlated with having enough calories.

I.e. for people who are struggling to get enough to eat, of course they should eat meat. In contrast, I guess most readers of HN get enough calories and there will be no problem with eating veg

Re:$5M Is Nothing on Saturday December 09, 2023 @04:45PM (#38586376)
It looks to me like adastra22 gave a real-world illustration of the following quote from the article:

If the question is: How much money do you need to be happy? The answer is always going to be: More.

:-)

In the desert if you destroy vegetation it may take years to recover.

It's not the specific case here that I find a problem, rather the compounding effect of all of us destroying a bit of vegetation until the planet is paved in asphalt and trash

Re:Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:19PM (#38197960)
I'd like to see a RCT that compared two time-restricted eating groups: 7am to 3pm, and noon to 8pm. Which would have the larger benefit over a control group?

Also, it would be good to simultaneously (somehow) check if the results depend on one's genetic or cultural bias towards eating in the morning or evening.

I guess that the people who have honesty, authenticity, and empathy are more likely to do other things than start companies. Say found a non-profit or work as a social worker, or to be a scientist.
Re:Ask HN: Twitter is up for auction, what do you bid? on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:48PM (#36620880)
musk could go a long way towards rescuing his reputation if he'd convert Twitter into a public charity, especially if he puts in place a diverse board.

So... $0

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