skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$200k for a single wage earner is definitely a lot (also for a lot of higher income people, aren't wage earners), but $200k for a household is like in the ~92th percentile. https://personalfinancedata.com/income-percentile-calculator...

There are a lot of definitions floating around for the middle class, but a family in the 92th percentile is probably more similar to a family at the 50th percentile than a family in the 97th+ percentile.
She thought it would be too 'computer-y' but it's really about the characters and everything that they go through.

Yeah, definitely. The characters and the character development really make the show.
I think there is one line that matters in term of income though, and it is the threshold of "I no longer worry about most things". On one side you have the folks where a bad health emergency, a boiler that breaks, a forgotten debt or an issue with their car could be the end of the world. Then there's people who are sitting on the couch, notice the floor is dusty, cringe and call their maid service to come back to clean the spot they missed.

there's some overlap, but generally speaking the two groups see the world VERY differently. Your priorities change a lot when your day to day is about survival vs when it's about making sure you don't lose what you have.
> You might disagree, but please don't put words into my mouth

i don't disagree, i'm trying to help you understand that what (allegedly) makes bitcoin popular for ransomware and illegal transactions is a set of properties that are also shared with cash.

either your argument is that those properties are evil and you're in favor of cashless society where big brother is always in control of all money flows - in which case that's the root of our disagreement and we can stop there.

or you value those properties but you're worried about all the illegal activities enabled by them, in which case bitcoin should be way down on the list of your concerns, top spot being held by the almighty USD.
And later in the war radar made even the semi submerged operation via snorkel pretty dangerous because the snorkels would show up on radar. If they were discovered while doing that they'd be at a pretty stark disadvantage because they wouldn't have a full set of batteries to submerge and avoid the submarine hunters.
Hell, for most users what matters is the browser, let's just go with Firefox/Linux.
I like the idea, I don't like the process, seems too much like interviewing for a position imo, but I appreciate what you're trying to accomplish.

My 2 cents, why a form and not simply request an introductory email? For the kind of people you seem to want to attract, independent developers, an application could be a turn off, I know it is for me anyway.
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As I heard it once it was an order by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
He didn't like them much and thought they were cowardly weapons and did not deserve names.
That and not using proven treatments for cancer.
Firefox mobile + uBlockOrigin or uMatrix
Appreciate your help. - Actually that's what I do. Hide manually.
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Owners.
Possibly, but remember, investing in a diversified portfolio doesn't have the same risk profile as starting an HVAC business.

This is essentially an example of survivorship bias. How many people starting HVAC businesses just go out of business within 5 years instead?

It's not much different than a FAANG engineer buying a bunch of Apple stock in 1998. They could have immense wealth or have gone bust if Apple had gone bankrupt as was the most likely outcome at the time.

But with a diversified portfolio we know the outcome, about a 5-10% gain per year over a long-ish period.
No. One of the biggest and most destructive myths in America is that upper class folks are actually middle class. A $200,000 income puts you in the top 10% in every metro area int he country, and in the top 5% most places. That's upper class, not middle class.

This myth is particularly pernicious in the area of taxes. The top 25% minus the top 1% earns half of all income. These people need to be taxed like upper income people, not middle class people. Confiscatory taxes on the "top 1%" (or people making $10,000,000 per year, or wherever the line keeps getting moved to) can't raise sufficient revenue to fund a modern welfare state.

In the U.K. and Germany, the 40%+ tax bracket (both countries have a top bracket of 42-45%) kicks in around $60-70,000 of individual income, or about double the median income. In Sweden and Denmark, the top tax brackets kick in around 1.5x the median income. The second highest tax bracket doesn't kick in until 6-7x the median income.

In Sweden, about 15% of people pay the highest marginal tax rate. If that was the case in the U.S., the top tax bracket would kick in above $120,000 household income. That makes total sense. These people are very well off and should be subsidizing the rest of the country.
He's probably wrong, but inadvertently so. Most people seem to confuse android version update with security update, which is compounded by the fact that security updates on android are very "discreet" all things considered, and you don't notice it much.
I haven't found it useful to think of those categories as strictly binary. You can be a capitalist and a worker, as far as I can tell. They're more like roles than essential qualities.
That reference does not support your claim that "ecosystems reproduce" at all. In fact, the paper says the exact opposite: organisms reproduce. Ecosystems do not.

Not even your cherry-picked quote supports your claim. "Ecosystem diversity and productivity increases" is not even remotely the same thing as "ecosystems reproduce."
Even worse, FaceTime calls get routed to your desktop so as you're typing a message or an email, you can easily hit enter or spacebar to accept it accidentally.
weird how tax cuts always seem to be indexed to inflation while tax rates aren't
The right thing to do is whatever makes the most of your investment. Don't give it away - charge for it.
Right, but that site is not using Shopify (which was my point). To differentiate and get a competitive advantage - build a better bed bug website, better than the thousands probably already on Shopify, you may need to leave Shopify.
Run your end-to-end tests on production like a boss
does that work when you are away from home wifi? (not sure what all pi-hole does)
What are you looking for, that isn't provided by platforms with hot code-swap (e.g. Erlang) or FaaS systems (e.g. AWS Lambda, OpenFaaS) ?
> Not even the battery thing.

That was an attempt at graceful degradation that wasn’t communicated well.

The general belief was that having a phone that runs a bit more slowly, but consistently used it’s battery as the battery life naturally degrades is better than a phone suddenly dying with 40% battery remaining if the peak power draw exceeds what a several year old lithium ion battery can produce.

I much prefer the former personally, but I get where the misunderstanding and public outcry came from.

Beyond that, what made your phone unusable? The last 4 or 5 iOS versions have improved performance across the board, even for phones several years old.
> You make it sound as if the Chinese are more imaginative than Americans. That's not the case. They just have more people.

How to say this without an ad hominem?

> Why would you want to go work on laundromat or construction company APIs when you have a shot at getting into Apple or Google.

Why would one be even bothered by that? Apple or not, anybody more or less seasoned professional knows his price and capabilities. My experience in the West shows that MNCs and dotcoms are full of kids just wanting to be abused by their employer for: 1. nice record in the resume; 2. sense of "social status"; 3. getting that "artsy startup cred" approval mark.

If laundromat API pays 3/4 of Apple's wage for an equivalent duration of work, but is many, many times easier to get than a job at Apple, I think there is not question what gig to pick up.

That's a typical wishful thinking of a "creative class wannabe" who has tons of insecurity about his claim to entitlement coming with that "artsy high class person" label.

Chinese devs may be taking someones job in the West, but it has no dependence whatsoever on them being evaluated for their "creativity." This has much more to do about ones productivity, and track record of successfully shipped products.

On that record, the comparison is not in favour of their American counterparts: a typical twenty something "code drone" will very likely score more on that than a senior dev or tech manager in the West.

I am checking Linkedins of engineering SVPs in Google and Apple now, near all have just 3-4 shipped products. I know a 25 years old who now counts his 21st engineering project in his career.
EU states reject Wi-Fi plan for cars without driver
Adding an opposite view, Noam Wassermann in his book "The Founder's Dilemmas"[1] concluded after analysing loads of startups that weak links or acquaintances (friends of friends or persons in the same community) are better co-founders.

Doing business (especially a high-risk, high-stress startup) with friends can lead to the elephant in the room effect when in the long term the founders focus on preserving their relationship thus avoiding the friction.

Side note: the author is a teacher, not a serial entrepreneur where one of Aristotle's quote hold its water: “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

[1] https://www.entrepreneurship.org/learning-paths/founders-dil...
> Aggregators like NewsBlur, Feedly, and Feedbin pass on subscriber counts. I am literally looking at my own FeedPress dashboard in another window right now.

They do not pass them back in a standard way. If there is a new aggregator, the publisher has to integrate with them for analytics.

> As for AMP, I'm not sure I see how AMP takes less control away from publishers than RSS does.

I already told you in the very first comment you replied to.

RSS is strictly worse for publishers than AMP. Apple News is strictly worse for publishers than AMP. Apple News has some advantages (monetization, analytics) over RSS and some disadvantages (single company integration). Yet nobody on HN complains about Apple News or RSS because they don't understand the technology.
Any statistical analysis can have nonsense results if you choose a ridiculously biased sample.

The US census has various methods for establishing a sensible subdivision of space for deriving statistics like this, including metropolitan areas, micropolitan areas, and combined statistical areas [1]

The examples of Medina WA and penthouses in NYC don't fit any of those.

1. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/guid...
Wow, cool. I'm not going to try and get it but I appreciate the aesthetics
Not the gp, but I'd think: maybe, maybe not, simply because he did and they did not. Like, I have the skillset and connections required to build a reasonably successful company. I'd very likely be better off than I am right now if I did. I just don't feel like it. So at the end I'm nowhere close to where my friends who did are.
Thing about car crashes is...they are the #1 most common cause of death for young people from age 5-25.

If you look at the population-wide stats, things are dominated by diseases of aging because more old folks are dying overall.

Every death at age 25 has robbed us of more than double the number of years of life than a death at 50.

As for the rumination about productivity, desirability and cost - I really don’t understand your argument.

How do cars make life more affordable in communities that are well-equipped to live a car-free life? (Well-equipped meaning with density of services, walkability and transit.)

The paradox you describe is just a function of how rare these dense, people-friendly communities are in our landscape of endless exurban development crisscrossed by 6-lane expressways where you have to wait 5 minutes to cross the street while walking your dog. If we built more of these high-demand, people-centered communities, the price differential would not be so great.
It’s worth noting that nothing Amazon built internally was ever directly sold through AWS. Rather, Amazon built something similar internally then used its engineer expertise to build a completely new product for AWS. Selling your big ball of mud directly is a recipe for disaster.
> great from the point of view of usability

I disagree. I really, really hate when browsers interpret stuff typed into the URL bar as anything other than a URL. For me, that degrades usability.
the ship laid down on 12 JUNE 1942 at danzing and then went to service on 16 march 1944 & the boat's emblem was whte stork on a black shield with green break & legs.and it wasn't sunk by allied bombs it had accident near scotland & sum of them survived.
That was already happening.

Large scale agriculture was already set up to do long term preservation. People normally eat storable foods every month. Bread for example generally does not last long, but it’s made from grains that could have been harvested 2+ years ago. Modern preservation methods can push that to 10+ years at minor cost.

That said, canning and other food storage was common. It was simply not a major focus of victory gardens. Otherwise the focus would have been on potatoes and other easily preserved foods not vegetables.
What about stickers for various causes leading to profiling, targeting and harassment by security thugs?
In San Francisco, yes... In Topeka, Kansas you have a ranch and 50 acres.
It was officially called the German Empire or Greater German Empire, and the usual adjective was "German". So normally this would be a "German boat". In the same way, for example, the HMS Belfast would be a "British ship" even if it was built outside Britain or some of its crew came from the rest of the British Empire.
Forgive the tangent:

...

I once had a pair of bugle boy pants
and I wore them into a gas station
and this story has nothing to do with waffles
but the lady at the gas station said,
"By any chance are those bugle boy pants you're wearing?"
and I said "Why yes they are"

And that's the real story of this song

You gotta wear pants to get waffles
You gotta wear pants to get waffles
they said no shoes, no service
but if you don't wear pants
you'll get thrown out on your ass

(From my band's song "Waffles"... no good recordings of it exist though)
You don't need a tool. Creating a temporary onion service is trivial.
That's a contrived late-20th century distinction meant to make high-income professionals feel better about themselves. Historically in the U.S., doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc., were considered part of the upper class. But they (even bankers) receive labor income, not capital income.
Fair enough I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I think we are long past the days where actors would be under contract to only work with one studio.
How do you tax an industry if said industry is majoritarily composed of US companies without it being flagged as discriminatory ? If we look at it the other way it would mean US companies have a free pass.
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I'm not a huge fan of Shopify. Their default setup and theme requirements are abysmal.

But it's light-years ahead of WordPress+Woocom.

Neither of these are well set to run a proper ecommerce without heavy customizations though.
bro you got somethig wrong info actually it had an accident near scotland and that's why it got sunk
I'm a gold league noob getting beaten by the run-of-the-mill smurf with a new account. I couldn't tell if it is DeepMind or not ;)
>There was no single allied ship that could match it's performance or firepower or withstand combat against it for very long.

This is something of a myth. The Bismarck was roughly comparable to contemporary British battleships (e.g. the KGV class) in terms of protection and firepower. The Hood was a much older design, and the Bismarck got a lucky hit.
There are so many alternatives other than commuting by car and parking on the street...

1. Bus
2. Bike
3. Walk
4. Carpool
5. Move
6. Parking ramps

^ And combinations of these, such as park-and-rides, parking outside the core downtown area and bus/biking in, etc.

Not to mention, at least in my City (Madison, WI) there's thousands of off-street car parking spots in public ramps, and removing 5 spots for 5 corrals in high demand areas negatively affects nobody. Unless you happen to be the 0.00001% of downtown car traffic affected by this and needing to walking a block or two from the nearest ramp to park your private vehicle is such a big deal...

There's zero argument here.
It depends, there are doctors and lawyers and bankers who run their own practice or firm and are business owners and there are ones who work for others. "Making partner" is basically moving from the labor class to the ownership class.
Vitamin A is actually worse because it is fat soluble, not water soluble like Vitamin C. If you consume too much Vitamin A, you don't pee it out, it gets stored in your fat cells. And because it stays in your system it can build up to toxic levels and you get hypervitaminosis.

Fun fact, there's a drug to treat severe acne called Accutane (isotretinoin). It's really for the severe cases of acne, because there are a ton of side effects (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotretinoin#Adverse_effects ) and if you get pregnant while on it there will be severe birth defects. Anyway, this drug is a retinoid, which means it is essentially just large doses of vitamin A.
> 43 dark-web:motivation="religious"

That's interesting.

Unless it's some cult requiring the sacrafice of humans, I guess maybe it's for a religous group in an oppressive country.
stored in ice houses

We've actually got an ice house near me that is still in use. It is obviously refrigerated these days, and they're no longer getting the ice out of the lake, but they do sell ice out of the place. I go get large quantities from them for my summer party every year.
It’s blasphemous to equate these artists.
> If they want to tear down your building to build a new one they'll buy you off or if you refuse that kick you out by force, historical value be damned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain_in_the_United_S...
It also literally is the word for sofa, in Swedish.
And we suck at it! :)
> A painted bike lane provides no sense of security, and is for the most part completely ignored by car drivers. You can use temporary solid barriers, concrete or those water fillable plastic ones, or bolted posts instead. Anything that atleast damages a car on impact really.

These cause problems because then the bike lane cannot be cleaned and also, these barriers cannot extend through intersections where the majority of collisions happen.
It does if you also run a VPN, although that has battery life implications.
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Or https://sshreach.me
Some products will always remain predominantly in the category of a commodity. And probably all products will have a commodity category. But I think overall the trend is toward beloved brands for more and more things which were once commodities, like mattresses or reading glasses. And when Brands are sought, retailers/aggregators are just more expensive middlemen.
There's a multiplier effect, but it's still all labor income (and taxed as such), not capital income. Approached from the other side--someone who cleans houses may hire some helpers (and get a share of the output of their labor). But few would consider an independent house cleaner to be upper class.

The distinction, historically, was not about capital versus labor. It was about white collar work that allowed a lifestyle where you could have most ordinary things without worrying about money.
some open source people

Hey now, stop with the name-calling :P I work on and use proprietary end to end solutions for ecommerce (but not Shopify).

Woocommerce wins for me because it lowers development costs and costs are lower overall. My perspective is definitely someone who has developed ecommerce sites, not solely as a non-technical user, and for me it's very advantageous to lower costs by using and modifying GPL'd plugins and themes.

I guess Shopify has 4000 employees and enough cash and enough direction to come out of box with a good UX and good defaults and that's good enough for nontechnical users.
I'm sure they use the "it's a third party, we have no control over it" defense. Whoever pays the site pays a middleman who pays a middleman who pays another middleman that loads bottom feeder ads, malware, auto playing video, and of course JS exploits.
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Even just eating less beef would make a big difference; it has a much higher carboon footprint than other forms of meat: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714
Not rooted, and this is the best option. Tried Blokada and it was just frustrating to use.
A basic table saw is $200 on Amazon, a miter saw is $200, drill press is $200, a planer is $500 but there's hand tools for that, etc. Low end but they'll work. Biggest expense would be dust filtration system if you don't want to vacuum constantly. There's probably more people with garage wood shops in the US than makers.

You keep assuming that you need industrial machines that can be used 24/7 to do these things when in reality you don't. You can use hand tools even but those take more time.

>I've actually helped run a woodshop for a school as part of volunteer work back before I had a kid.

I'd call that a professional space since it's used most of the time rather than occasionally.
Ottoman Empire's practice of fratricide as a way to choose the next sultan is a good example.

>the famous article from Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror's Law of Governance states that "Any of my sons ascend the throne, it's acceptable for him to kill his brothers for the common benefit of the people (nizam-i alem). The majority of the ulama (muslim scholars) have approved this; let action be taken accordingly."

https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2015/08/07/the-history-of...
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If you live in the bay area, first you'd need to save $200k for a downpayment on a house. That would probably take 3-5 years at that salary if you can be frugal. After purchasing a house, your mortgage is going to be something like $5k - $6k per month. You will still need to be very frugal and will not have anything left to save or invest. You will not be living "the high life" as someone from the mid-west would assume with that salary, but you would own a home that will probably appreciate.
Shhhhh, here's a video of a cat doing a funny thing...
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HN is not an audience of CS and Stats academics, or those familiar with the literature in those fields.
In the US? maybe.

But then race is a large factor, as well as money.

In the UK money rarely buys you class. You are born into your class, and unless you have elocution lessons, or go to a grammar school (or a sink school for the opposite direction) then you stay like that.
The super rich aren't getting fooled out of money. Many are investing in art just like they invest in stocks with the hopes that they'll be able to sell it at a profit or use it as equity. Others just love art and want to buy pieces they enjoy while others want to prove they've got the biggest dick in the room.

Art is worth what the market will pay and clearly the market will pay more and more every year. Is it a bubble waiting to burst? Maybe, but it will come back over time and those artworks will be worth even more.
What a gem, thx.
"And also we gotta make a living keeping the impression we add value alive and fresh."

- Dave, Post-Exist Technical Cofounder, Senior Engineer and Manager Being Honest About Their Opinion Of Kevin's Credibility On This Subject.
This is pretty great. I'd like to see this run in bulk on some prominent Instagram accounts and re-posted in new accounts named "[instagram-name]-unedited".