skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a nitpick, but I think you are using the marginal tax numbers instead of the actual tax rate, and not applying all the complicated deductions available to US people.

Texas:

$95k pre-tax falls into the marginal 28% bracket, but after subtracting 401k + IRA deferral ($18k + $5.5k), $95k falls to AGI of $71.5k. Then after subtracting standard deduction ($6.35k for single 30y, no children), personal exemption ($4.05k), taxable income falls to $61.1k. For this, the tax calculation is:

0-9325: 10%x9325 = 932.5

9325-37950: 15%x28624 = 4293.6

37950-61100: 25%x23150 = 5787.5

Total tax: 11013.6

Post-tax income: 84k

Income Tax rate: 11.6% since no income tax in Texas.

Social security+Medicare: 7.65%

Post-tax and post-SS: $76.7k

Berlin:

Pre-tax: $60k USD x 1 Euro/$1.19 USD = 50240 Euro

I entered this number into a German tax estimator [1], which gave me the following output for the tax bracket calculations:

Total tax: 9.908,56 Euro

Post-tax income: 40331 Euro

Income Tax rate: 19.7%

Obligatory Pension: 9.35%

UI+Health Insurance+Disability: 8.4%+1.5%+1.425% = 11.325%

Post-tax and everything: $35.8k USD

The difference becomes $40.9k. If you amortize the 4y engineering bachelor degree over 4 years, I think the difference in income is quite significant.

[1] http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm
These kinds of heavy-handed interventions seem to almost always lead to processes of waste and corruption -- ie so who gets to live in Shanghai?
That will be decided by bureaucrats and lawyers which opens up cronyism. By contrast, previously the market provided an efficient, free-to-use, and arguably fair system that allocated the opportunity to whoever was willing to pay for it.

People will say "but they need to tackle pollution, and congestion," and I'm in the Pigouvian camp that it is more fair and economically efficient to tax externalities themselves (the disease) rather than making heavy-handed and arbitrary rules.

Anyways, in China this is not the worst thing their government is doing.
It’s called cross subsidization.
No evidence has been given to sustain this claim other than the usual collection of videos and photos with artifacts that can be easily explained as natural phenomena, weather balloon, foreign experimental aircraft or -more embarrassing- a bug or dirt in the camera lens.

The person making the claim has a personal interest in promoting this idea since his department budget and now his civil career after retiring depends on it.

A particular red herring on this is the tiny budget this department had. Contact with an advanced alien civilization would have incredible consequences for our society and the country leading it would secure a privileged position in the international community. Yet this department operated under a budget of 22 million dollars, basically peanuts in the military, a quarter of the price of a single F-35A.
When people criticize 'Silicon-Valley-Types' for only being able to think of technical solutions to social problems, it's exactly this kind of thing they have in mind.

Just read this thread - the way medical care is paid for in the US is batshit-insane, injured people not wanting to call an ambulance incase they lose their house - and reads like a history book about european medieval history. The solution is not more apps, it's a proper healthcare system like almost every other developed country.
Why does it take so long to set up? It seems like a pegboard (that possibly breaks down into several parts) and a bunch of pegged wall segments would allow one person to set up a 16x16 board in a few minutes.
This is the result of conflicts between bitcoin actors, mainly miners and core devs. We'll probably see more of those, btw, as those conflicts are far from resolved.

The core problem is scalability. Miners are very incentivized to fix it, because they get fees on transactions (so, the more transactions the better). Core dev, on their part, want to keep the closest possible to original design (any change can have dramatic consequences).

In 2016, scalability issues started to become really serious, and miners asked to increase block size (that is, to allow to add more transactions in a single block, so that transactions wait for less time before being validated). In return, core dev proposed segwit as a solution for scalability problems (I still don't exactly get what segwit does). Miners still wanted to go with block increase, so it was a stall (and scalability problems got worse). A few forks tried to take matters on their hand to fix that problem (although, more like competitive softwares, since they did not use the same blockchain history, they started new blockchains at block 0).

In 2017, everybody finally reached an agreement: blocks size will be increased and segwit will be deployed, so both solutions would be implemented. But core devs asked for it to be done in two steps: first segwit, then segwit2x (segwit with double block size). Miners agreed and started to run their mining software with segwit, effectively making it used by the network (Bitcoin cash was born at that time, from miners who wanted block increased, but not segwit). But when came the time to implement the second part of the deal (segwit2x), core devs decided it was not needed anymore (and bitcoin gold was created as a reaction).

I would take two things away, here:

1. each time a decision need to be made, it generates a fork from people not agreeing to the final decision

2. the trust between miners and core devs is probably broken, there probably will be more and more forks, and more stalling on main chain

This wikipedia article explains more thoroughly the scalability issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
Free ambulances are always going to come with the problem of abuse, followed by a reluctance to send an ambulance.

Resulting in news stories of how some people call of help and don't get any. But these stories are rare, it's seem better than letting poor people die.

This said, we probably should add a tiny ambulance fee ($50), and apply a fine for inappropriate use.
The value of habits/muscle memory should never be underestimated.

And why i feel that KDE did the unix world a disservice when they went from emulating Windows to try to be their own thing in KDE4. As long as KDE behaved closely to Windows out of the box, one could more easily get people to give desktop unix a try over the longer term. This because the initial experience would not be as jarring.

Similarly observe the backlash Microsoft got for Windows 8.

Sadly the FOSS world seems overrun with designers and busybodies that want to pad their resume these days.
Are you talking about the suburb areas in US or Europe?
For those who like to keep track of these sorts of things, https://coinmarketcap.com/ is a great resource.
The main problem with, and reason why I don't leave my phone at home, is fear of missing an emergency call.
You install Telegram, you contact the bot https://t.me/scihubbot, you send him a DOI and it will answer with the PDF (if it has it).

Sometimes it says (in Russian) there is an error fetching the paper: I understand that in such a case it does not have the paper, but the paper is available on GenLib, so you can go there. But it is not frequent.
You need a real time space-time equivalent of a map to tell you how much of anti gravitons to emit in what direction to keep still.

It could also be:

1. Device starts.
2. Map data not yet available.
3. Oops. Erratic movements.
4. Map data now available, device stable.

Kinda sequence of steps.
Control over building is extremely common in "the west". It may not be explicitly about population, but limiting population is a common result. Try building a slum in London and see how long it lasts.
As thinking animals we naturally seek or create that for ourselves. Nothing surprising about it. When we behave as though 'more hectic and complicated' is our purpose, we're effectively lying to ourselves and making erroneous claims about our capacities.
UWP is another failed API that no ones uses.

Next to Silverlight, Managed DirectX, XNA, DirectX 12, MFC, WinForms, dotNetCore1, WPF, COM, ActiveX, MSHTML, ATL, WTL, WIC, GDI, GDI+, Direct2D, Direct3D, DirectSound, and so much more, it's not even funny.

And their Store is a broken piece, that no one likes to use.

Basically everyone still uses WinAPI 64bit applications and was most happy with WinXP and now Win7. Guess what Microsoft develops completely against their core user base and ships out waste after wasted efford no one cares about at all.

Someone should scrap all their 2012 to 2017 shit and fork of from Windows 7 and Office 2010. It worked out great back with Windows Vista/7, when it was clear that "dotNet UI based Windows Longhorn" failed spectacular Ballmer scrapped everything dotNet based and started from scratch based on Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista and especially Windows 7 turned out great, as did Office 2007 and especially Office 2010. The longer they wait, the uglier and more impossible it will get - they are digging their own rabbit hole right now.
>enough to solve this problem

The goal isn't to solve the problem, as in predict with 100% accuracy. The goal is to improve by a few percentage points.

Since categorization is what ML does well and credit histories are great annotated training sets, it seems like a perfect fit.
”So Uber/Lyft are perfectly viable and profitable businesses, at least in theory.”

AFAICT, Horan doesn’t dispute that there is business there; he disputes that it is worth their valuation. If, say, they can make a hundred million dollars of profit a year, long term, that is a viable and profitable business, but not one that’s worth tens of billions of dollars.

And vehicle ownership? I think it is extremely hard to predict what will happen. Many people currently see their car as an extension of their home. If (possibly a big if) self-driving cars aren’t a lot more expensive, they may not want to give that up. Where else would people keep their sweets to eat during their commute, spare jacket, running shoes, tennis rackets, golf clubs, kids toys (let alone kids seats)?

There also may be extra stuff people may want to keep in _their_ self-driving car, for example a computer gaming system, a yoga mat or fitness machine (once self driving cars are safe enough, compulsory seat belts laws can go away)
Oh do fuck off. Ignorant loser
Even with your BTC moved be wary of giving away your key as you could lose out on future forks and drops.
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As strange as airdrops sound, they’re basically proof-of-ownership “likes” that payout if that fork does well.
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Well, it doesn't seem like the last report was a duplicate.

The one they failed to recognize as XSS. If they paid for that one there would be no blog post and no name calling.
Linux doesn't include the entire windowing stack in the kernel so it cannot apply that kind of heuristic. There is a user space solution though - ulatencyd.
If you use a bit of your brain you'll understand.
The top tier Chinese cities are completely packed my people and is not easy to live in, yet, anything is much more expensive and the infrastructure are not suitable enough for future expansion.

China still have hundred millions people who will move from the farms to the cities in the following years. Those people can't move all in the top tier cities building a nation with 5/6 megacities with 50+ million people.

They're trying to make the second tier and third tier cities (10+ million - 5+ million) the place where these people will move and the only way is to block the expansion of the top tier cities
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I told you to fuck off. Ignorant hypocrite
By market cap. That is a meaningless number for a coin that magically rained on those who have bitcoins.
They're in a situation where they need to dramatically slow down debt accumulation, which will slow down economic growth a bit faster than otherwise anticipated. It's a whiplash action, going from the growth the last 20 years (in which people were aggressively encouraged to move into the cities) to needing to strictly control that growth and the correlated debt expansion.

Manufacturing stopped net expanding years ago, many of their largest state-corporate manufacturing enterprises are simultaneously loaded to the ceiling with debt and being heavily subsidized to maintain current levels of employment and output.

There is wide discussion about local governments being allowed to go bankrupt, because the debt burdens have gotten so extreme:

"China Central Bank Official Says Bankruptcy May Benefit the Country"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-25/pboc-offi...

China's goal, in theory, is to transition increasingly to a services economy, to provide the next leg of its growth, as manufacturing can't provide that. Service economies grow far slower than the type of manufacturing fill-in-the-slack / join the WTO boom they saw from ~1992-2015. They can no longer afford to keep accumulating debt as they have been since 2007. S&P is forecasting another ~75% increase in their total debt position in just the next five or so years, which would push them to... ~550%-600% debt to GDP ratio (possibly worse when counting all the shadow debt), or nearly twice that of the US. It's untenable to say the least.

Bottom line: China has to start applying the brakes, and that likely means dramatically slowing the migration into the cities. That migration is unsustainable if China has to slow its debt expansion (which it does).

It takes extraordinary perpetual economic expansion to provide enough jobs for all of those people and pay for the infrastructure demands. China's financial reserves haven't kept pace with either their debt or GDP growth, with about 3/4 of those reserves untouchable. Their ability to continue to finance the wild debts that have gone with the local government & infrastructure splurges, is heavily restricted now (if cities like Shanghai or Beijing want to add millions of more people, it'd require continuing to fund all of that while the overall context gets more shaky).
Not at practical capacities. We're talking about a pair of 1.6GW reactors, so the control rods can adjust total generation by 1.6GW in a matter of minutes. How many batteries would it take to supply 1.6GW for a reasonable amount of time (let's say 24 hours)? How much would that cost?
Because they have learned their lesson with Hong Kong when they cant really control property market and what problems it leads to.
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I think you can take that with a grain of salt considering how much of it is probably unclaimed at the moment.
> The UK and Iceland are considering an undersea HVDC interconnector more than 1000 km long.

At an estimated cost of about 3 billion, for less than 1/3 the capacity of this power station.
You're setting up a fake strawman that the parent comment never suggested at all.

In no regard did the parent say that politicians in the West are not or are never corrupt, nor did they imply it. They said China's government is corrupt to the core.
It is Trump's job to put Americans and only Americans first. If you are a European, get in the back of the line.
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There are 8 billion humans. So we should be allowed to hunt a few hundred thousand a year without anyone having a problem with it.

The problem isn't primarily about the numbers of minke whales. It's that they are hunting what many people consider a sentient species, in an inhuman way. In most parts of the world, you aren't allowed to slaughter an animal (at least in theory) in a way that causes pain or distress. With whales there is no reasonable way of doing this due to their size.
Here in the UK ambulances are paid for by the NHS, to which Uber steadfastly evades contributing to. Now that their drivers have been legally classified as employees, there’s a shed load of back NI they owe us.
Describing the Guardian as slightly left leaning is like describing Hitler as being slightly to the right. Saying they don't support a particular party when Labour are the party to the left is facetious. Source: I read it every day.
Is the snark necessary? Does it add anything to this discussion?
It's an interesting article, but submitting it like this with a completely different title is unfortunate and doesn't do the author any favours.

I hope @dang can retitle it.
It went undetected so long because the regulators were not competent and constructed a test that was easy to game.

Science is best based on techniques such as properly formulated studies than source code analysis. Consider how many bugs fuzzing has uncovered that escaped source code analysis for many years by many experts.
Friendly reminder that China is the biggest bubble in 10,000 years of human history: https://www.crescat.net/crescat-capital-quarterly-investor-l...

Imagine a country with 1,000 different Enron’s or Countrywide’s that instead of being investigated by the government are getting cover/protection instead.

Upcoming movie about this: https://youtu.be/MRm3SYaG7k0
This looks like a case of correlation vs causation. The author tries to link polygamy as a factor to unstable states. I would say poverty is a far more common factor among the countries presented. A counter example would be Saudi Arabia which has polygamy but is stable due to its wealth.
That may have improved since then. I do not recall any tearing from my extensive usage of mpv. (Or I'm just lucky with my drivers.)
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Works also well on Windows (lxss), though the FPS is not too high.
I loved this piece. It took me back to a day when I was about eight or so and my friends were all playing 'bases' in this local wooded area with a ravine. Some of us would hide for what felt like ages in hopes of catching a clean route to 'free our prisoners' from the other team's base.

About twelve years ago or so I was living in this condo that had really noisy neighbors. One screaming baby on the left, and an enthusiastic Pantera fan on the right. The folks on the right, when not listening to Pantera, were constantly yelling right near the wall... or so it felt.

This was the first time I really discovered the joy of earplugs. A year or so later I got my first pair of industrial ear protection. They cut out about 20 - 30db (or something like that), and it was just enough to allow myself to be alone in an otherwise busy space.

Years later I still value regular periods of silence. These days I still have a pair of industrial ear protection, but I mostly use decent earplugs [1].

Another aspect of seeking silence is to completely (or almost completely) eliminate notifications.

For those of us with ADHD, meditation is fantastic, but it does take time. The love for silence didn't happen right away. It took me quite a while to be able to shut my mind up.

In the early 00s I went through these psychoneurophysiology sessions to help learn to focus, in hopes of eliminating the negative aspects of ADHD. One part of the 'training' was to have sensors on my ears and one on my head. While I tried to focus, the machine would measure my brainwaves... anyway, once I hit 'the zone', the cute hot air balloon would float up and over the silo. Tapping into this 'zone' really helped me break away from the constant chatter of my surroundings and my brain.

Like some, I do love the romance that comes with a lo-fi world. Silence, space, and peace are special. In the same, I really appreciate some aspects of the technology we've been blessed with. it all comes down to finding your off switch so these things can become special again.

[1] the earplugs I'm using - https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00RM6Q9XW
What do you mean by leveraging photos and videos to treat phobias? Sounds interesting
Right. I remembered that Adobe bought Macromedia, but I thought the acqui-kill was earlier. I was getting the story of Macromedia mixed up with Aldus. And actually, Flash came from FutureWave Software, before Macromedia acquired that company.

But Adobe did not ignore Flash. They may have mismanaged it, but they did invest in it, and tried to push Flash into places it does not belong (AIR, and especially PDF). They also tried to turn ActionScript 3.0 into ECMAscript 4.

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html

Now that the Flash runtime is becoming banned, Adobe renamed the Flash Professional content creation program to Adobe Animate, and made it able to export to some flavor of HTML5. The content creation is where they make the money, after all.
Virtually all ... assets / goods / services ... have both some positive and potential negative value. There's a component of risk.

This gets complicated when the interactions themselves are complex and indirect. I'm looking at some general notion of complexity, in terms of scale, structure, and depth, but one general notion I'm working toward is that of intermediation -- the distance, think of it as a depth in nodes -- between the observer and observed. The shallower that depth, the simpler the interaction, the less intermediated the relationship.

Node complexity also matters. Jumping through dumb pipes is one thing, passing through complex relays another. The children's game of "telephone" exemplifies this -- contrast that to simply passing a note down the chain. The note (written on paper) is physically transported. The verbal message is passed from one person to the next.

(We're ... starting to see bits of this emerge as our comms networks become more complicated, and powerful in processing capabilities.)

Back to value/liability: any given opportunity or action has some positive potential and some negative one. We tend to pursue actions with a high probability of success, and where negative consequences are either rare, or, and this is problematic: vaguely defined or difficult to articulate. That is, there's a risk, but you don't know how big that risk is. And in cases it's huge: tetraethyl lead, asbestos, tobacco, CFCs, fossil hydrocarbons.

But it takes years or decades to establish the risk. And there's a strong motivation to denying it or suppressing the message.

Data falls into that class of goods (or bads).
There's also - not mentioned in the BBC piece - a class/political component to that.

The left end of the political spectrum was holding on to "proletarian internationalism", and agitated for workers of one nation refusing to shoot at workers of another.

The fears of the top brass came into being in Russia, where the Bolsheviks used the war as the main lever to gain power in November 1917, because the democratic parties didn't end the war in the February revolution.

(Unexpectedly, really, the prime target for revolutionary upheaval was industrialized Germany.)
This is huge.

Remember last time you heard China has a high saving rate?

How time has changed.
As a European it sounds like the article mixes up Aldi Sud and Nord.

Aldi Sud is a wonderful place compared to the (old) Aldi Nord.

I have no idea where/how they source their products, but in-store Aldi Sud feels quite high quality. With many dietary options and many common brands.

The only real difference to other stores being (almost) one brand per product. Which makes shopping so easy!
Taxes are good for discouraging directly harmful activities or internalising externalities. I'm not so sure they're the right mechanism for costing risk, though as an alternative to insurance, that's a possibility.
What has happened to ZeroNet? I always thought it was closest to a p2p upgrade to the Web without reinventing the wheel and with an end-user focus.
Here in Germany the copayment for an ambulance is 10 €, everything else is covered by the health-insurance.

So the choice is easy: If it's urgent call an ambulance, if it's not urgent and/or there are other ways too get to the hospital quickly and easily use those instead.