skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment makes the mistake of treating Europe like a country, which it is not.

> For example, inheritances, assets and properties are not taxed much in Europe (people scream double taxation if you propose that) but income is taxed substantially so you'll never be able to save enough to catch up to the upper classes who own assets.

In Ireland, apart from relatively small tax-free thresholds (€335,000 lifetime from parent to child, for example), gifts and inheritances are taxed at 33%.

In the UK, above its (similar) threshold, the rate is 40%.

The US Federal Estate tax rate is 40%, but with an enormous $11,580,000 estate threshold, which is orders of magnitude higher than Ireland or the UK.

Even though Ireland and the UK have some of the highest inheritance taxes in the world, the EU effective average is still ~14% - double the global average of ~7% and on par with the US, where added State taxes vary the average between 12% and 19%. Source: https://www.uhy.com/uk-imposes-highest-taxes-on-inheritance-...
Ask HN: Why it's impossible to mimic an IP address?
Always wondered about that, what's unique in the signal sent from my PC which relate to my IP?
The following style is much better:

v3 r = Add_v3(v, w);
v4 w = Scale_v3(r, 1.0);

You can definitely write a little 3D graphics backend this way.

C's lack of operator overloading can be annoying for some tasks, however I still like to use C for almost everything to this day, because of the lightness of going through old code and seeing instantly what happens - never have to run any type resolution in my head.

And importantly, _knowing_ that I don't have to do this. Because I might almost never have to do this in cleanly written C++ code, but how do I know?
You can easily get into that range as a principal software engineer in Germany. E.g, finance and car industry will pay that, depending on the niche even in a startup if you negotiate properly.

100k will also not put you in the 1% of the earners if you consider the cities where the high paying jobs are.
Just as Eisenhower warned of the growing influence of the military-industrial complex in 1960.
Taking a dip in the new business of relaxation drinks
For those (very young people?) that don't understand the headline, there were several hoaxes about Bush's intelligence when he was the president of the US. Depending on who you asked about his famous IQ test, the result ranged from 70 to 85.

Apparently this was such a big hoax that it has a Wikipedia page. I wonder how it spread globally considering social media wasn't a thing in the early 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_IQ_hoax
The problem with treating everything as a wave is that all these entities can only exist at certain energies. So the field is quantized.
Would you genuinely have preferred to have Trump in charge of the country's response to 9/11 and the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan at that time? I wouldn't. W was a weak president, but honestly Trump has given me a new appreciation for his finer points.
Let's hope they can learn from it because they really need to. At least for user's comfort!
Perhaps you are just not informed on the details of what actually happened?
based on your output and how many people can also create the same output.

that's what drives down the price. as long as other people are willing to create the same output for less money, you will be paid less
well, we're already there. For example according to the Ukranian laws the Crimea is a part of Ukraine and according to the Russian laws - part of Russia, and you really don't want to violate those very politically sensitive laws in either country, so:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/12/302337754...

"Google Maps Displays Crimean Border Differently In Russia, U.S."
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If he was one, Obama was one too and trump too. Targeted official killing was a big NOGO before 9/11. War on Terrorism too, which means nothing else then the US can kill peoples or groups in every country without having to declare war on that country or even to ask, and for the peoples of the US...you can always say your in a War and guarantee enough spending for your Military and Intel-Services.
They're not making the distinction because there isn't one.

Speech can have all sorts of consequences, from losing a friendship to being imprisoned or executed. "Consequences" are a spectrum, and you're simply drawing the line in a different place to other people.

> Free Speech is, in most societies considered to be a concept that applies to the government's ability to censor people's speech.

This is a bold claim without any evidence. Certainly it's not the understanding that I grew up with, but I had the good fortune to have a history teacher who liked JS Mill.

I see open debate as part of a healthy society. I value the ability to hear perspectives other than my own. That's what "freedom of speech" means to me, not the narrow, American legal definition.

> The hypocrisy on this topic by right wingers is pretty crazy when you think about it.

I fully agree, and I'm not interested in emulating their hypocrisy.
>No, it's not.

There is absolutely no way you could know that. However, it speaks volumes about your character that you would declare it so confidently.
I can strongly recommend "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War" by Michael Dobbs:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-mi...

For extra nightmare fuel "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" by Daniel Ellsberg:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25663779-the-doomsday...

The latter book literally gave me nightmares.
While I agree with you that it's purely political, it's a war nonetheless. The Capitol breach resulted in 5 deaths, while it took more than 13000 lives in Ukraine.
If it's not a war, then we can safely assume that even a villager in Ukraine has accessed to military grade equipment that even some countries can't get access to.
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OPSEC 101: blend in, don't look suspicious. By banning these communities from the regular media (Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, ...), they need to gather via "anything goes" path where 'freedom of speech' protects their hate speech, such as bulletproof hosting. Which is expensive, and of which all traffic to/from is suspicious by default. Its essentially akin to Bitcoin mixing, or avoiding Monero.
I run fossil-scm in docker-compose on local file system spin a server only for viewing and do the editing and CLI in VS Code.

It won’t be difficult to build a mobile friendly web UI on fossil server if you want a complete mobile experience.
What I meant is that making fun about how silly he was is elitist, meaning people like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert did nothing to help the liberal cause.

George Bush himself does indeed come from political royalty, which is why he did his best to present himself as the exact opposite, an average person.
Of course he tried, he will do anything. But he failed and he did not start a war that ended up killing millions directly and indirectly. Please don't assume I'm defending Trump here, in spirit he's the worse president, but in effect W. was worse.
> “How about rather than doing another meeting on this, I instead tell you now what each person will say.”

Maybe he used the full force of his very illegal program to spy on Americans to get their arguments ahead of time? :-)

I read (press secretary) McClellan's "What Happened", and two characterizations of GWB that stuck out, that match other impressions, is that first he's very "incurious". You can be smart and incurious, but it doesn't make it a good trait.

The other was the story about when GWB behind closed doors, with trusted people, said that he "honestly can't remember" if he did cocaine in his wilder years.

McClellan (who's not even done pot) found that absolutely unbelievable. Either you have or you haven't but you don't "forget" if you've done coke.

I agree. It takes a very dishonest person (to himself, or just others? We don't know) to claim something that absurd. The only way it makes sense is if he did so many different drugs that he can't remember which he did and he didn't. Still though… you'd remember doing coke, or not doing it. I don't think his wilder years had the synthetic drug legal classification arms race we have now, where you could actually not know if you got coke or coke-like.

Anyway, another argument is that he did actually manage to become president. That's not easy. The system may be corrupt, but the corruption cancels out a bit. You can't just coast because of who your (one-term) father is. You actually have to navigate politics to become the winner.

But yes. Smart people can make stupid decisions. Especially if they're incurious.

> This is a hard one, for liberals only. Do you assume that he is unintelligent because he made policy choices with which you disagree? If so, your logic may be backwards. “I disagree with choice X that President Bush made. No intelligent person could conclude X, therefore President Bush is unintelligent.” Might it be possible that an intelligent, thoughtful conservative with different values and priorities than your own might have reached a different conclusion than you? Do you really think your policy views derive only from your intellect?

This is a good question, for people on the left and right. Too often do people assume ignorance, then stupid, and then malice.
Why us it poor? (Genuinely asking).
Divarr
I remember signing up for Prime because of the free next day delivery offer. Additional benefits such as Prime Video and Prime Music came along later.

Now, in the UK, next day delivery is often next 2 days or you get half your order one day and the rest some time later.

For Prime Video I'm now paying for random movies and TV shows because the included options are often poor. Somehow, I'm now also paying something like £13 a month for music that I was getting for 'free' until I tried a 30 day upgrade that reverted to no music at all when I tried to cancel.

Despite this, sadly, for retail Amazon still beats the competition hands-down.
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I bought a cheap used ultra small form factor PC with an i5, 8GB of RAM, all for less than 200 USD. It even included a licensed copy of Windows 7 Pro, which I don't use.
Why should you focus on strategies to drive growth and not growth hacks
iOS now have an option to do this natively. But I find it bit convoluted. My go to app for stripping out metadata from photos is Exif Viewer.
First look at the Supernote A5X 10.3 e-note
May or may not be. I deal with a not small amount of customers that are on extremely slow connections where 30k less makes a big difference. You can do a lot in 30k. jQuery makes life a heck of a lot easier though.
After reading a lot of the feedback here, I spoke to my tech lead.

He admitted that he had been significantly harder on me than others because I was less experienced. He trusted it less and it was easier for him to just rewrite than bother with actually doing a proper code review. Not because my code was "shit".

I came with receipts. He admitted this was deeply unfair and unprofessional agreed to start doing proper code reviews.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
It is both, or probably even better neither. Elementary particles are not classical particles and they are not classical waves. They are things that behave similar to classical particles in some circumstances and similar to classical waves in others, but they are neither. But as humans have no experience with such things in the macroscopic world, as we lack intuition for them, we desperately want them to be either or the other in order to comprehend them. Ironically this desire is probably what makes them actually more incomprehensible.
> Not to mention that "removing the ContentFilterExclusionList" is a hacky fix suggestion.

You've got in backwards. The ContentFilterExclusionList was itself a hack. It never should have existed.

Some people are handwaving about a mysterious vague problem that calls for a ContentFilterExclusionList, but Little Snitch has existed for many many years on the Mac and has been able to block everything, including Apple services. There was no problem with that until Apple decided to exempt itself from getting blocked.
There's good public data on George W. Bush's intelligence.

https://vdare.com/articles/this-just-in-kerry-s-iq-likely-lo...

> According to a 1999 article in The New Yorker, he had a 566 Verbal - 640 Math, for a 1206 total (which would be about 1280 today [in 2004]).

>> "I recently converted Bush's SAT score to an IQ using the high school norms available for his age cohort. Educational Testing Service happened to have done a study of representative high school students within a year or so of when he took the test. I derived an IQ of 125, which is the 95th percentile."

>> "I think you're safe in saying that Dubya's IQ, based on his SAT score, is in excess of 120, which puts him in the top 10 percent of the distribution, but I wouldn't try to be more precise than that."

> The standardization report by Miller and Valentine says that the "officer population" that provided the percentile scores was about one standard deviation better than the average 12th grade male on the Verbal subtest and about two standard deviations better on the Quantitative test. This suggests that the 50th percentile among the norm group of Air Force Academy applicants had an IQ of about 123, thus putting Bush in the 125-130 range—a little better than his SAT score would imply.

Are students at Stanford Business School really so far below the 95th percentile nationally?
> scenes of awkard silence

What exactly is wrong with the silence? He was talking in front of young children at the time. Maybe he didn't want to scare the kids? Maybe he didn't fully hear what the agent whispered into his ear?

The article touches on this:

> Ask yourself: if every public statement you made were recorded and all your verbal fumbles were tweeted, how smart would you sound?
> You are paid what you're paid not because the company is determining what is 'fair' given all of your circumstances, but rather the minimum they feel they can get away with.

And the maximum you feel you can get away with. It’s a market, after all.
More simply has any war ever increased US access to oil?
if you look at the Dems of the last 40 years, you might want to remember that n=2?
It’s crazy difficult to survive in a market where your competitor is Microsoft who gives their product which is almost your product away for free.

Microsoft is at the ‘good enough’ stage for most people with OneDrive already. Dropbox is going to have a really hard time competing.
I think the percentage that the GP is referencing is from W3Techs [0]. It's currently 39.7% in fact, and that's only looking at the top 10 million websites [1], so it's not just a simple installation count across all sites ever created.

[0] https://w3techs.com/

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies
It's curious how these matters can be subjective. It's Erlang the verbose one for me: the commas at the end of the lines.
Of course Elixir has all those do/end and commas in the with statement (I wish it was part of the language and not a macro). Maybe I was just too happy to do without the trailing ; when I moved to Ruby and Python from C and Java.
Switzerland is an outlier, but there many senior devs end up above 100k.
Well, you could work for yourself. Often times, it's more stressful, more risky with lower pay until you "make it". So since you can live stress free and afford basically anything you want on a salary as a software developer in Europe, not sure why you would want anything more than that.

Of course, plenty of people work for themselves, that's the beauty of the free marketplace.

But to assume increasing salaries _is the way to go_ feels like such a capitalist/american viewpoint that it's hard to understand why it's trying to be applicable to Europe too.
That's fairly low by E.U. standards. The marginal rate in Ireland would be 52%.
Electron beams interfere in ways that light beams don't, though. If they cross in vacuum, they deflect each other due to the electric charge carried by electrons. Light beams can only deflect each other in media with non-linear response to electromagnetic fields, i.e. the response to one beam modifies the response to the other beam.
The service I mentioned (Hetzner, but there are others) do all the administration for you. You get a login and password into a Nextcloud instance, that's it. No administration required.

See here: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
It appears to have the properties of both in this case.

That is to say it's a snowclone where the substitutions come from another quote.

I guess quotemanteaus are a special kind of unique snowclone.

You could take "with great power comes great responsibility" and form the snowclone "with great X comes great Y" and then take the quote "the medium is the message" and use those in your snowclone to make the quotemanteau "with a great medium comes a great message"

Hmm... I feel like I should try concoct more of these. They're fun.
My camera apps never include GPS coordinates to begin with (which is enough stripping for me, but then again I'm not part of Qanon and all that).
I think you have to approach it with a certain mindset. I didn’t read it as a source of reliable history, but I definitely got a lot of value out of it. He has a way of presenting ideas from perspectives I haven’t considered before. In fact disagreeing with him and trying to find evidence against his often too simple narratives is a fun exercise on its own, and I learned a lot just from those tangents.
> If marginal taxes are 50% (..) that's a net 25% pay rise

Only if you’re not paying any taxes currently :-)
I mean if someone is dumb enough to ask someone if he had done coke ever like it should matter, particularly to a politician, then he deserves that kind of answer.

It's pretty smart if you ask me.
This is perfect. I love that it fits seamless in my audio/podcast flow. I was listening to articles via Pocket before, but it's not as good as your product.

I suspect this will cost money sooner or later (text2speech and audio storage) - what are the plans here?
As you yanks keep pointing out, a firearm is a great leveller.

Doesn’t matter who’s wielding the AR15, it will still be lethal.

Good job, however, that the representatives learnt their school shooter drills.
Honestly, hack is a big word for what it really was... no user data stolen and they closed the server. I still use it and would recommend it, just for the speeds and the easy interface.
Wait what suicide bombings (barring Nashville)
However you look at wealth inequality Sweden is actually the most unequal country in that list:

SE is 0.867
FR is 0.687
CA is 0.726
US is 0.852
ZA is 0.806
I was a young grad student more than a decade ago. When preparing for interviews, a common question we prepared for was : "What are your weaknesses"

I saw a lot of people confidently saying, "My only weakness is that I'm a workaholic". This was supposed to be a strength hidden as a weakness. Employers preferred new hires who were willing to devote themselves to work and had decided they were workaholic without having a single day of work experience.

"Workaholism is a trait" was drilled into us.
Sorry, I also meant candidates.
I guess I should have said "there's nothing stopping them except lack of will to do the required work." Which I guess makes sense since the motivation generally seems to be a desire for a return to some noble-savage-in-Eden life of plenty and ease.
You think the war machine will fire back up now that Trump is out?
Coming from a very small village (population around 3000), that was absolutely the case back then. The very few people that were dealing, sold everything they could sell.
LG Rollable phone gives you a tablet-sized screen that fits in your pocket
See how drones and 3d printers are evolving; who could fund the firmware development? who could fund the research? but now these cutting edge things are necessarily public and cannot both be a military advantage and cutting edge.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/02/david-nutt-d...
It would be helpful to include some numbers with the above comment :)
> Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware

My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is why in my eyes there is no excuse for how badly it runs - It wasn't a case of adding support for older consoles at some point in development, rather, the PS5 etc... didn't exist (even as a spec) when they first started development of Cyberpunk, and as far as I had heard, they actually added support for next-gen something like halfway through development. They had no idea really of when the next gen consoles were going to release when they started it.
Signing Your Git Commits
Well yes one has charge and the other doesn't, they aren't literally the same thing so are different QED. The point is the rules are the same.
But this assumes the enemy is not knowledgable/simple, which is no longer the case.
Let's not act surprised here, it was only natural it would come to this, and I expect other countries to follow suit.

If the (still current) president of the world's largest power can be silenced, then just how easily can Jack Dorsey silence a president of a country like let's say Moldavia... I'm not arguing if someone is a bad person or good person, just stating the obvious POV one might get looking at the status quo.

And for the classical comments here on HN about how it is "their platform" and they can choose what they want to, do not forget that the platform needs to play by the government's rule, not the other way...
Dear Antonioni... from a letter by Roland Barthes (1997) [video]
While I strongly disagree with social media censorship and I think a lot it is politically motivated, I do recognise that they probably should have the legal right to censor content.

Where I personally get far more uncomfortable is with the payment processors. When you have a companies like MasterCard banning donations from all republicans who take a certain political positions (objecting to the electoral vote in this case) then something needs to be done.

If Twitter censors you it is possible to move to another platform, or even create your own, but if Visa and Master card ban you, what exactly do you do?

To some extent I feel similar about core AWS services. I think people probably should have a some legal right to basic internet services. I understand it's possible to build your own internet infrastructure as Gab has proven, but it's very difficult for the average person to do what Gab did. As an individual I could move to another social media platform, but if my web hosts bans me I wouldn't have the resources to host my own website which seems wrong given how important the internet is to us as a utility today.

IMO social media censorship, while an important conversation to have, isn't the primary conservation. This would be far less of an issue if alternative platforms like Gab and Parler weren't constantly under attack by monopolies which provide core services like payment processing and core internet services. The fact a company like Gab has had resort to accepting cash in the post for PRO membership for simply trying to protect its users right to free speech online is a complete failure of regulation IMO.
OK. But will DoJ disallow the acquisition of finicity by Mastercard ? VISA and Mastercard follow each other. I'm waiting to hear the verdict on finicity acquisition by MC