skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reformatted to be more legible and some notes added.

VAT is the largest item here, but others are potentially worth quite a bit too.

Taxes:

No purchase/import taxes (1990-) - would be 25% VAT, plus 2,400 NOK (260 USD) scrap duty tax, greenhouse gas tax for a/c of around 730 NOK (80 USD)

No annual road tax (1996-) - would be approximately 2960 NOK (350 USD)

50% reduced company car tax (2000-2018), 40% (2018-) - company cars are provided as a benefit taxed at around 30% of list price otherwise, however there are reductions of 25% for all vehicles over three years or cars used for work driving of 40,000km per year

Exemption from 25% VAT on purchase (2001-)

Exemption from 25% VAT on leasing (2015)

Tolls and Fares:

No charges on toll roads or ferries (1997-2017) - typical ferry fare for a fjord is around 100 NOK (11 USD), tolls are around 20 NOK (2 USD), so this could be a significant benefit if living near a toll road or ferry crossing

Maximum 50% of the total amount on ferry fares for electric vehicles (2018-)

Maximum 50% of the total amount on toll roads (2019)

Parking:

Free municipal parking (1999-2017)

Parking fee for EVs was introduced locally with an upper limit of a maximum 50% of the full price (2018-)

Bus lanes:

Access to bus lanes (2005-)

New rules allow local authorities to limit the access to only include EVs that carry one or more passengers (2016)

Vans:

Fiscal compensation for the scrapping of fossil vans when converting to a zero-emission van (2018)

Allowing holders of driver licence class B to drive electric vans class C1 (light lorries) up to 4250 kg (2019)
Doorways in Japan tend to be biased against 6'2" people. Is that height discrimination?
Also, very cheap electricity, one of the cheapest in Europe.

Lots of empty mountains where it rains a lot and water can be stored in dams for power production.
Indeed. Half of all COVID deaths in the US by early May were in the Boston-DC metropolis. The per capita death rate for NYC, even after almost no COVID deaths over the last two months, is still 1 in 570, 4x the national rate of 1 in 2300 (along with NJ; CT, RI, MA and LA round out the list of <1 in 1000).

Also NYC hit a hospitalization rate of 1 in 700 at the peak. Legitimate forecasts had hospitalization rates potentially blowing out available capacity. The worst State hospitalization rate now is 1 in 4600, 6x better.

On the other hand, consider the threshold for “just a bad flu” to be twice the per capita death rate from the 17-18 flu season (CDC upper estimate of 1 in 5000, so 1 in 2500). Then half of the US states are still in the “just a bad flu” or better six months on. And even that skewing to the old. Nine states haven’t reached the 1 in 5000 level of the 17-18 flu after 6 months. So, for a lot of the US, their experience was, and continues to be, different than the East Coast and certain key cities like Detroit and St Louis. My numbers say 30% of the US population is in this category.
Norway has a decent charging infra, at least in the area where I'm at. It's been improving recently as well. Circle K (the petrol station chain formerly known as Statoil) has started installing chargers near where I live, so I would assume they are rolling this out nation wide. A lot of people have individual charging stations at their homes as well. I'm not sure of the state of charging stations in the smaller towns though.
There are many use cases for service workers you probably haven't heard of.

For example at my last job (at a YC startup) we built a service worker that used P2P to serve mp4 video over WebRTC.

It was the correct place to interop with the download - it was explicit and it would have been impossible without it.

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I think the common use case (of much control over caching) is also quite reasonable. I agree the API and usage is too hard.
A mirror doesn't mirror left-to-right, it mirrors front to back. The clue being that you're looking at a reflection of your face in a mirror, not a reflection of the back of your head. Of course since nothing but a mirror can do that in day-to-day life most people expect a mirror to do a 180 degree rotation instead, leading to this confusion.
Exploration-based algorithms can improve hiring quality and diversity
Well if the migration of a hundred million people is the “end of the world as you know it”, then it has happened probably a good 5 times in the last century alone. Look at how drastically China has changed since the 70s and that’s the migration of several hundred million alone.

It sounds like the world will end for you a couple of times in your lifetime regardless of climate change because your bar for the end of the world is so low.
You don’t need Haskell to do this however.
I don't think that binary interfaces should be overly complex. But I do think that we need a replacement for C at some point. And that replacement should not only be designed better, but also more powerful, yet still yield efficient code. Hence I conclude that we need some form of monomorphisation or specialisation ABI. Maybe I will some day write a blog about this...
I feel like the whole article misses the point.

Yes, the rendering delay caused by a non-streaming HTML parser exists, but unless you screw things up elsewhere, that's going to be less than 1ms of delay.

Yes, bloated frameworks are annoying, but not due to their computational overhead per se, but because they increase download size and because Javascript is slower then native code in general.

I find it very telling that this article doesn't mention network latency even once. Those 50ms to 100ms round-trip time between the user and the server, that's what is causing most of the visible delays.

Ship your users an app including a copy of the data ahead of time, and you have no visible delays. It's as easy as that :)

And before you criticise that this won't work for every use case, consider that IMAP is basically an offline-capable newsfeed. Also, I can buy a DVD with a directory of all US businesses.

The only reason why Facebook and Yelp work the way they do is because otherwise they would have to give up on some of the tracking. Because for some reason, people are more tolerant towards privacy invasive tracking if it's a "web app" instead of a native app.
> For example, I routinely see people in cross-cultural relationships try to learn each others' languages but fail miserably at learning when they get into disagreements and have that disagreement in English instead of the language either person is trying to learn.

This made me smile. My partner and I have different native language backgrounds. During the few serious disagreements we've had, she would curse in my native language. Following your line of thinking, that would prove her excellent language mastery. Even if I'm on the receiving end of the cursing :-)
Did search for the Basque name "Uxue" and it's not present...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxue
I don’t know, but Norway has profited immensely from oil and gas through their sovereign wealth fund, which is also used as a model for how other countries should establish social safety nets.

If Norway was truly sorry, they should liquidate all of their oil profits and use it to invest in research to make a carbon neutral future. As it stands they ruined the environment and now will profit off the backs of the rest of the world through the legacy of their fossil fuel extraction.
I don't think there a single instance of an application that Google did what you described. Why do you think it will start now? This doesn't make any sense.
Moving the environmental damage from "everywhere in the atmosphere", to mining sites and power plants is a good thing. Power plants can be replaced with carbon free energy sources, but synthetic fuels have such terrible efficiency that they only make sense for niche applications.
Meanwhile comparison NZ's(country where ~85% of power is renewable) EV incentives: - lowest yearly registration fee which will be changed into surcharge once over 2% of cars are EV (because they don't pay road taxes via fuel)...
That's not true.

EU has very strict policies about emissions.

The most immediate and obvious cost is not being able to drive those cars that do not respect the limits.

Also: in many EU countries fuel is heavily taxed

In Italy 75% of the price to the pump is taxes.

Definitely not free.
The New Evernote for Windows and Mac
PS2 was soft-locked to Sony supplied drives.

Nowadays that bay is very useful for booting games off any HDD. SATA is also supported by using a IDE->SATA board.
Is the existence of Metal a direct result of OPENGL failing to respond effectively to DirectX?
Seconded. Just bought a Mazda 6 and one of the reasons was a sensible, buttons-first infotainment system. There's a knob in the center console that I can use to control everything. Besides that, the seat warmer/cooler, the AC, all the basic stuff is controlled by buttons.

But the kicker is that the infotainment system has a touchscreen, but the touch functionality is _disabled_ if the car is moving, because they think it's a hazard to have a person operate it while driving.
You can't easily use custom root certificates on Android.
I played around with Hackett (a parenthesised Haskell) quite a lot, and I really enjoyed creating my own syntactic abstractions in a haskell-like language.

I find I would rarely reach for macros in Haskell, but that I sometimes would like to. Lisp macros do overlap with what you can achieve with Haskell things like typeclasses, laziness, monads and template Haskell, but the overlap is far from 100%.

The author of Hackett has a video about it: https://youtu.be/5QQdI3P7MdY
"it would have been impossible without it"

C++ desktop app

It'll even have 2x the throughput at the same CPU level. Plus users can choose when they want to run your app, as opposed to you accidentally draining their battery because they left an old tab open.

Boom, possible and better :p
The plastic foils for overhead projectors are transparent. Just imagining it messes with my mind. It is a great science experiment to try!
I find it actually demeaning, but people often couldn't care less.

There are laws in France from revolution times [0] that basically set your name in stone because anyone using whatever name they liked without need for any paper trail basically cause administrative and bureaucratic hell.

But nowadays even the administration works around that to comply with the tradition with things like "nom d'usage" (you can see it as "lastname nickname"), which is basically allowing you to use another name for non-legal purposes, but people still think it's legal and shove it in every form as regular "nom".

I repeatedly heard from people working in HR that a significant amount of the questions they get the first few months of employees are just (married) women complaining about their last name "being wrong" on their payslips simply because they think that's no longer their legal name though it is.

[0] Loi du 6 fructidor an II (August 23rd 1794), liberal translation of article 1: no citizen will carry any other name than that of the birth certificate.
I mean if you don’t care about African mines and Chinese rivers that factories dump their effluent into, sure. But there is absolutely an environmental cost, just less to the wealthy nations that pay to move the damage elsewhere.
Actually, Boom is planning to be carbon neutral by having their planes burn only fuel made from extracted CO2.
I think it should be obvious that unions are not the only factor contributing to salaries.

For instance: Average salary for tech in Germany is roughly twice as high as in Spain, even though they are working in the same market zone and have comparable workers protection. Though there are some differences in fiscal policy like for instance Vat tax (Spain 21% for service industry, Germany 19%).

I believe the main reason why the USA have such a high salary in comparison is because of a few factors:
Most importantly a huge zone speaking one single language that by now is spoken throughout the world, leading to a much bigger initial market, thus making it easier to create start ups and selling your goods. So you can easily invest in R&D.

Additionally, silicon valley is home to huge monopolies/duopolies like Google, Apple, Intel etc. And while these might hurt competition and the market as a whole, they also increase the demand for labour in the US.

Another contributing factor, though I don't have any numbers to back it up is that higher education is a privilege in the US whereas in Germany it is a commodity.
This is absurd. Yes rural lacks a government run composting program because it would have a negative benefit but plenty of people do there own composting and use it for gardens or such.
We did a lot of good things, but I wouldn't say those are the samples we want to use as examples for other countries.
Effective+Home+Remedies+To+Get+Rid+Of+Chest+Pain+-+Health+Lines
Text is readily manipulated using a variety of tools.
Their motivation is silly:

> The world is better off when families can spend more time together

Yeah, almost no families in the world have the money to fly anywhere business class, in their life, ever. More importantly, it's ridiculous to rely on flight as part of the daily routine of a family - for multiple reasons, not the least of which being the environmental one.

> businesses have more opportunities to succeed in our global economy

This is the actual motivation, I would think.

> and world leaders can foster greater understanding in person.

Well, this point itself is debatable, especially considering certain current world leaders, but basically it's the same as the previous pont.

So the motivation is: "Let rich/powerful organizations ferry important people around faster to further their interests." Not so romantic, but it's a legitimate reason to work on a high-end product or service, I guess.
"Many of these cultural differences are crucial to getting high-paid positions. Like nagging on your kids to study. Like making sure their role models are scientists and inventors, and not gang leaders. Like stressing out delayed gratification and showing how planning and persistence pays off in long term."

Haven't you heard these are racist values? Seriously, many of these values are frowned upon, and deemed "white", even though it's what has worked for so long across the world.

I'm afraid this equity, as best-intention as it might be, will make the problem worse by creating a dependency that will further define the culture as needing this form of victimhood status.

Imagine the year 2143, people will have digital assistants, flying cars and also diversity and inclusion training will tell you how oppressed some people still are. It's easier to blame history than to admit you are stupid and need to make better decisions in life.
You just need to look in a thesaurus or dictionary to find a description of the word along the lines of "the belief that some races are innately superior to others because of hereditary characteristics" (Collins), "the belief that certain races of people are by birth and nature superior to others" (Merriam-Webster) or "Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another." (first sentence on Wikipedia). Core to this, it includes a human judgment. Describing all kinds of discrimination on color to racism is similar to calling involuntary mistakes, or even unanticipated effects of other actions, that breaks things "sabotage".
> Ship your users an app including a copy of the data ahead of time

I did exactly that with a hobby project (https://www.acceleratul.ro/). The funny thing is that I had to add a short (~50ms) artificial delay with a spinner before showing search results, because people completely missed the fact that the page had refreshed
The earliest Newton reference of which I am aware is Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (1991), where iirc both the bananas and the lenses are (visually!) optical.

https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/functional-progr...

In particular, the metaphor isn't used in Algorithmics: Towards Programming as a Mathematical Activity (1986).

https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/2686
Free? Maybe in the US, but over here, 40-60% of the cost of fuel is taxes (Dutch source: https://www.unitedconsumers.com/tanken/informatie/opbouw-bra...).

Bonus taxes ("accijns", also raised on alcohol and tobacco) makes up 12.2 billion of the country's income (https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/prinsjesdag/inkomst... at least a billion is spent on CO2 and nitrogen reduction, and reducing the dependency on natural gas in favor of electricity (that can be produced in a renewable fashion).
not true, each gallon of gas has about 75¢ of state/federal taxes. this revenue is lost on evs
Given how poorly Sweden has fared compared to its neighbors you really need to stop trying to use it as an example of good policy.
I think the tone of your communications has to hit a middle ground because I also have a sort of visceral reaction to emails that are too formal:

Dear sir,
According to your previous request please refer to the following link to access your download.

Our team thanks you for your kind attention.

Yours warmly, blah blah blah

Somewhere in the (subjective) middle is an email that reads like you know i am a non-litigious human but not your best buddy.
I always knew. Let me elaborate:

In Spain we have a Non-Profit that focuses on getting the people to recycle called Ecoembes. It is founded by the package companies and it is like a lobby of the recycling business present all over the country. It is also worth noting that every disposable package is taxed to the company producing it unless recycled back.

You do not have to be very smart to see that you are giving the packaging back to those companies as cheap labour and that it would cause a significant impact on their profits if not recycled.

(edit: typo)
The food on your plate is finite, but if you're served more faster (no slower) than you eat it, then you won't empty the plate even given infinite time.
Phrasal verbs, huh. I never thought about it but I suppose English does have a gazillion of those nano-idioms. Turn up, turn down, turn on, turn off, turn to, turn in, turn out. I think I subconsciously avoid them as well when talking to someone with a limited grasp of the language•.

Regarding math, I'm a English non-native and learning to 'think math' in English was something that I, at some point, simply decided to start putting an effort into, as if it was more of a separate skill. I'm not sure if it's the best indicator, but I definitely did stick with my native language for math for a while, although only for simple counting and arithmetic.

I've experienced the language switch brainhalt myself, it's pretty funny. For a moment it feels like someone spoke alien to me.

[•] modulating language to make it go down through google translate smoother is something that I've noticed myself and some others do on the English-Japanese barrier, from both sides.

P.S. Hey sweet, clever.io paused the timer while I was busy typing all this out. Neat!
Why casual innovation does not work
Although there is a more and more general awareness of the imperative need for innovation, most organisations do not count yet with the understanding of what innovation really means. This often leads to tackle innovation in the wrong ways. One of the common approaches is casual innovation.
Typo in the title: it's Yann not Yaan
Will No-Code Development Platforms Kill Coding?
Product manager wanted in Hamburg fashion cloud
Regarding point #1, is there anything inherent to the single page application that makes something more interactive? I think this article touched on an alternative to the one factor of routing being necessary to eliminate transitions, but otherwise you still have the same interactive capabilities within a page.
That doesn't make it carbon-neutral. That's like saying that if I have a baby and kill someone, I'm neutral in my effect on the population. It doesn't work that way...

(Also, you don't make fuel from CO2.)
Some explanations of this problem are far too complicated. This is how I explain it.

1/3 of the time, you guess correctly on your initial guess. If you switch, you'd be wrong.

2/3 of the time, you guess incorrectly on your initial guess. If you switch, you're right.

So when switching, the expecting outcome 1/3 of the time is 0, but the expected outcome 2/3 of the time 1. (1/3)0 + (2/3)1 = 2/3
Absolutely. To expand on this a bit, the great circle route between something like Hong Kong and Seattle is a leisurely flight up the Canadian coast, along Alaska, down it’s Archipelago, by Russia, Japan, and Korea. At no point do you come anywhere near Hawaii.

https://www.greatcirclemapper.net/en/great-circle-mapper.htm...

Anchorage is a very busy airport for cargo routes for this reason.

Traveling to Hawaii is a more dangerous than to something like Japan from mainland US due to the distance from land being much greater.

Never look at Mercator projections when thinking about flights, they will mislead greatly.
The world already sees unblockable ads. They're called "Ads by Google" on the first page of Google search results depending on the search query.

DNS-over-HTTPS can actually be useful. I can do bulk DNS lookups from DOH servers using HTTP/1.1 pipelining, retrieving thousands of names at a time over a single TCP connection. I can look up every name for every HN item in one go, store this data in zone file served by a localhost DNS server and generally never have to use remote DNS when browsing HN. This makes for fast browsing with a text-only browser.

The issue I am surprised more people are not raising is the decision of Google to encourage Golang developers to use a "built-in" DNS resolver in their applications rather than relying the system resolver and submitting to traditional user controls like resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf and HOSTS. Regardless of the motivation behind this choice, IMO it tips the scales toward developers instead of (non-Windows) users in terms of ease of control over DNS lookups, not to mention the privacy issue (shared by DOH) of enabling a third party DNS provider to segregate lookups by device.
Well, if the dragon exists it must have the characteristics of a dragon. Let's say it must be an animal with four legs and a tail. Currently it's unknown whether all animals are q-conscious[1]. Let's say it is discovered that all animals are q-conscious. Therefore the invisible dragon is q-conscious.

Currently we don't really understand qualia, but one mainstream theory is that qualia are a different kind of thing to anything else we know about (i.e. are non-physical).

Let's say this theory is true, and, further, that a method for detecting this different kind of thing is detected. That the dragon is invisible, floats, is heatless, is incorporeal, doesn't matter.

The theory that there is a dragon in the garage is falsifiable by the observation that a scan for qualia results negative.

You could say "ah, but this dragon is the dragon of any-test-you-can-come-up-with-doesn't-work, therefore you can't come up with any test which would work". But that would be begging the question.

[1]That is, all animals have qualia.
I doubt Norway is "sorry". Also, they're barely on the 13h place... what does US do, at the policy level?

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-production-by-country/

[edit] For all those who scale with population: it doesn't really matter for production. Population matters for consumption, and emissions (if they were producing 5% of US CO2, it would really look bad for Norway; but they don't - per capita the emit half than what US does per capita[1]). I guess it could matter in "benefit per capita"... if that were a thing (outside Norway maybe). I.e. how much did you benefit from US oil production, vs. how much Exxon benefited? I mean, yeah US citizens benefited from cheap gas - but that's because of middle-east production, so in reality the production elsewhere in the world should count on the US as "pollution".

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/norway?country=~NOR#p...