skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's also quite gross about this is that we have large multinationals paying zero in taxes to the US government, but there are small businesses owned by overseas US citizens that are being subjected to both resident country & US tax due to the US being "unique" in its practice of taxing overseas citizens.

If you're small, you get hit by the tax. If you're big enough for creative structuring, you're fine.

It's just as disgusting when you get down to individual tax. Larger companies are for the most part taxed territorially (where they make the money) while individuals are fully (and often in ways that are incompatible with local market practice) liable for US taxes, even if they live outside the US.
That can be true for Literacy or Peace Nobel's but not for physics.

The amount of cynical consipratory thinking in HN horrifies me.
Actually, Windows phone was the first OS to enjoy the level of polish the iPhone had.
Companies in the US are people until it comes to taxes, then all of a sudden they're not. There is a lot to fix...
You are probably not getting paid your worth then, experience with these is gold and all the new upstart programmers can't even compete with you on the high-paying jobs that rely on this knowledge.
Be careful what you wish for, the car will look a self-cleaning public lavatory inside.
My understanding is that OxygenOS 11 took longer than expected but has been announced as far back as the 7. It was available for the 8/8T a month ago.

Still I am holding off on it as there are too many issues on various forums. I don't think there's anything I'm missing from Android 11 (yet.)
I saw it as part of a Tweet thread: https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376986007711711245
It's like they pulled one of their Cold War era writers out of retitrment just for this article...
Your assessment, while phrased provocatively, isn't all that controversial (except maybe in some pop-sci worship circles). Feynman shone in popularizing physics, and physicists.

Freeman Dyson, one of Feynman's closest friends (and a prodigious scientist in his own right; died last year) regularly described Feynman as a "fast calculator rather than a particularly deep thinker".

IIRC Dyson picked Fermi as the greatest physicist he'd ever met – much to the dismay of reporters, who of course expected Dyson to name his buddy Feynman :-)
It seems reasonable to hold Nobel Prizes in advancing science to a different level than Nobel Prizes in influencing people. Though both are valuable for society, the latter essentially must include elements of showmanship.
Musk didn't found Tesla, which your comment implied. He basically bought the "founder" title.
3 weeks for a prototype

3 months for an alpha

3 quarters for a production release.

You know how engineering estimates work... ;-)
Stop Teaching C (2015)
It is very difficult for us to imagine which would be the abilities of a "more intelligent" alien species.

On the other hand, it is very easy to imagine an alien species that would have the same intelligence as humans, except that its thinking speed would be several orders of magnitude higher, because it would not be limited by the slow velocities of ions in liquids, like in the animal nervous systems.

The interactions between us and such aliens could be like the interactions between a sea star and us, even if they would not have a higher IQ.
>So visit a different part of it.

With this mindset soon there wont be any left.

>As someone whose parents grew up without electricity in their home that's nonsense and tone deaf. (...) You have no idea how positively we brown 1st and 2nd gen immigrants view America

It's easy to view the current status positively if you start from a low bar.

But sure, the US has electricy AND running water. I'll give you that. Well, mostly ( https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/26/how-texas-tough-winter-expos... ).
The “Data Loop”
I just added all public trackers
10% is a drastic overestimate for Literature or Peace. I would be shocked if Peace is better than random.

Your optimism concerning the Nobels for sciences is adorable.
Yes, for sure the add-ons ecosystem will fill every possible niche. However if we look at X-Plane, we can see that having good quality default avionics can actually help add-ons makers, the two things are not mutually exclusive! Many 3rd party X-Plane add-ons improve on the default avionics rather than having to develop a unit from scratch (like it’s often the case with P3D add-ons). This means that developers can focus on other aspects (e.g. failures, systems, walk around, manuals) while reducing dev costs.
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> If you are a worker, it is not uncommon to pay over 40% of tax and if you work on your own small business you can pay even more and have very little left to reinvest.

First: "if you work on your own small business you can pay even more" ... huh? If you own a small business, you're getting the corporate tax rate, and chances are you're not paying much of taxes anyway because your net revenues probably are $0 or close to $0. What are you talking about here?

Anyway, it's weird to state it as corporation vs worker with respect to tax rate. Those are different kinds of things. Every worker in a corporation pays personal income tax. Shareholders also pay taxes on capital gains and dividends. A corporations also pay plethora of other taxes (like payroll taxes). So let's not pretend there is no tax benefit to having corporations do business in your nation. The vast majority of corporations also have a profit margin in the range of 5%-10% - so it's not like you see crazy profits all over the place.

And given the nature of a corporation and the role it plays, increasing taxes (to say, the level of personal income taxes) to fulfil the fantasies of anti-capitalists, will have disastrous effects on the wider economy of a nation because increasing cost of doing business will be passed down to consumers and workers and possibly lead to large-scale dissolution or abandonment of your region. The vaunted nordic countries opted for a model where personal income is taxed very high, but corporate income is taxed competitively (until the Trump tax cuts, Nordic corporate tax rates were universally lower than those of US).

Finally, tax policy is an area replete with potential 'unintended consequences'. Most people (myself included and you as well - after reading your comment) don't really understand why everything is the way it is (and there are good reasons for many tax regulations), so I would be careful with advocating for restructuring the entire system - you're going to screw it up worse than you think it is now.
Huh, football of course. I only forgot it because I'm not a big fan, but as far as "common European thing / knowledge of each other countries aspects" comes, it has historically been huge!
there's an american "yiddish" (yinglish one might say, or "yeshivish" in certain contexts, but I'm arguing for a more generalized version) that is common amongst american jews. a mixture of english, hebrew, yiddish, aramaic that is such a part of who they are, that they have to make a conscious effort to code switch when talking to non jews and when Israelis speak english, it just sounds foreign to them. (i.e. while american jews know what the "bible" is, that is not going to be a common term used in internal communication (feels "christian") and would probably say torah or tanach depending on the context. But when an Israeli speaks english, they generally just translate into english (or perhaps speak more standard english) to the point that it sounds foreign to the american born jews' ear.
It sounds like both of you want Fair Tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
Cult!
ILMVFX's YouTube channel has some fantastic BTS footage of how this works, for anyone curious:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjnYk44Aj9E634TPucpIXnQ
It sort of depends on the bubble you live in. In the US, things might be very different, but in rest of the world, Samsung isn't the only known Android phone manufacturer.

Xiaomi is a well-known and rising (now the #3). Huawei was the a big player but losing ground. Oppo is well known: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile
I’d be more interested in studies on people who have been deaf from birth and received cochlear implants later in life.
>"This is crazy how economy is tilted in favor of these big corporations."

Corporations are allowed to bribe (sorry lobby) the government and many politicians end up on board of directors of the same corps after their marriage with the government is done away with. Do you really expect any different outcome in such conditions? In combination with this 2 major political parties ping pong I think the system is pretty much has reached an equilibrium point and nothing short of major turmoil is going to change anything.

On top of that Covid 19 pretty much played to the advantage of big corporations annihilating many small businesses. Some big ones (hotel chains, aviation) got hit as well but they'll come back after a while. Small businesses however may not.
That's a pretty wild statement, even if it was about Tesla instead of Musk.

Especially considering that a ton of these policies are about as old as the Tesla roadster. Must be a hell of a achievement to change policy retroactively.

The reason why we have an electronic car revolution now is because batteries have finally become cheap and dense enough. Maybe the largest manufacturer of EVs deserves some credit, but that's of course never been Tesla.
Well, I'd say romantic poets and enlightenment philosophers kind of were :-)
You have to read Steve Sailer to understand why this is, but you can't do that and admit it in polite company, even though everybody else has too.
> a ton of these policies are about as old as the Tesla roadster

Then why did newspapers only report them in the last 18 months?
This is the first thread in a long while that's given me a lot of FOMO anxiety. I've made a lot of one-off server-side rendered apps in Flask, and right now I'm doing some backend work ASP.NET Core for my job, but I have this overwhelming feeling there's so much I don't know and I'm not sure where to start. I only bring this up in case I'm not the only person sharing these feelings.
Is OptaPlanner best in class? (No snark) — It might be the best in Java but not sure more broadly.
It can also be used as a starting point to "rough in" your layout and then clean up and refine by hand..

If you were trying to build a virtual version of a real-world location, I would imagine the time savings in starting from real landmarks and buildings would be significant.
I created a joke package called gg-flip [0] which just flips the signs and even it gets downloads on npm sometimes :|

[0] - https://github.com/avinassh/gg-flip
And I'm going to guess your guesses are based upon your existing world view, which you are just reinforcing with no additional data.

That's how biases are formed.
Figma Tutorial: Create a Post Page for a Social Media App – Part 2/3
take Israel, there are people that consider themselves "datlash" (dati l'she'avar, formerly relgious). They are a distinct subgroup from chilon (secular) israelis, as their religious upbringing is very much a part of who they are. The question will be, what will happen to their children.
Yep - I'm using an S10 right now and have been for the last 2 years.

Some problems I have with it :

Bixby is garbage and I don't know why they haven't killed it yet - there is 0 chance they will ever develop anything usable let alone competitive.

It comes preloaded with bloatware I cannot uninstall, custom app store it uses to update it's own system apps, it's own apps are spamming me with notifications constantly.

Supposedly it has good integration with it's ecosystem devices, but unlike Apple - nothing actually works well, SmartThings craps out, Health keeps spamming me when I stopped using the watch, the watch doesn't have Google assistant or Maps out of the box.

Overall the hardware is quite good, base OS is decent (I replace the launcher with Nova), but the apps and software ecosystem is garbage. Apple is miles ahead it's not even funny. I really don't want to get an iPhone because the iOS is so locked down and I want to go back to a Windows machine after the disappointments with MBP thermals for years and outdated design at this point. But Apple ecosystem just works 95% of the time.

I mention Tizen as an example of Samsung trying to pull off their own thing in software and sucking at it (like Bixby). All Samsung devices would be better if they used a competing OS stack. One UI is the shining example of something that works but frankly I don't see the value add over stock.
For contributions I noted in my comment. I wouldn’t say he didn’t deserve it (he was a good popular expositor).

You should not neglect the role of politics and presentation in academia.

As science became increasingly a valuable commodity, it attracted a lot of people with perverse incentives: politicians, administrators, research managers, status-hungry individuals etc. I see what’s happening and it’s not pretty.

Frankly, I think it’s not a healthy environment and this academic system would not last too long. Smart people will leave, as they realize this has become an industry not different from banking or any other, except the currency is fame and reputation, and stakes are so low. It’s no longer like 1930s, and people like Feynman helped set the stage for a new eta.

And it’s not surprising at all, once you learn that politics and showmanship actually pay off.
I had the Sony 6.3 inch phone with common glass cracking problem, and mine cracked. Sony denied it was an issue, but it was endemic on that model. In that case it was designed to fail which is the very opposite of durability.

I do find many Sony items to be durable, but clearly not all - do your research first. Also Sony Australia store are bandits but that's another story!
I mean, I haven't had to write one myself, but as a user of GLM, I've been very happy and personally couldn't care less if they're template meta-programming heavy to achieve it. As a user of the library, it doesn't bother me. I use plenty of template-heavy libraries anyway.

Maybe its hard to achieve absolute best performance, but I'm not arguing for that, I'm only arguing that operator overloading leads to better programmer ergonomics. I can benchmark and convert to optimised functions after I have it working nicely. Ergonomics first, optimisations after.
With his time machine? The Nissan Leaf and BYD E6 launched in 2010, the Renault Zoe and Tesla Model S in 2012. The electric car changeover is happening due to battery price dynamics; it's fairly simple. Until the mid to late noughties, lithium ions were simply too expensive (and early electric cars using other chemistries simply didn't have acceptable range).
> Human beings cannot do the equivalent. Spend the entirety of your 20s making very little money because you are investing in growth

That’s not really an equivalent, though.

These companies aren’t simply giving up opportunity cost. They’re spending real money on real R&D expenditures. In software, that R&D expenditure is largely wages for developers like us.

The tax code gives companies benefits for spending this R&D money because we want to encourage them to make the R&D investment even if it comes at a loss (to the company, the employees still gain wages) for several years. We need to think long and hard about changing incentive structures in ways that reduce incentives for companies to invest in R&D and spend money on paying people.
>I’m not sure what you mean by “more than” pop culture.

Basically that aside from there being "good art and bad art in all genres" there are is also more substantial and less substantial forms and artistic cultures.
He was right about society becoming so depraved that people would write tweet threads instead of a coherent paragraph.
Axios is a spam network.
OnePlus has a Nord line which is in line with A52 I think ?
Surely, The "technology" one would want to buy from a car company like this is the "operational processes" - the assembly lines, the supply contracts - everything apart from the technology in the car.

The hard part is (I think) not the car - I mean it's actually simpler than an ICE.

And the problem is that all these Tesla rivals have not actually sold a car - so it's not clear if their processes actually get you to the forecourt.

But yes I love that there are more rivals to Tesla, I love that we might swap to electric vehicles in a decade or three.

I often wonder what use a grey bearded old coder will be in that process heavy world.
Sounds like: Engineer -- must be afraid to make hands dirty.
> The article claims that in the early 01990s this quantity of batteries would have cost US$75k.

Oh come on, isn't that wildly overdoing it? We have almost eight thousand years to go before the fifth digit becomes necessary!
What kind of tax breaks and subsidies are available for home buying?
my polish born and american (but "lithuanian" rooted) grandmothers would speak to each other in yiddish, but wouldn't always understand each other.
* a neutron star
Yes this makes sense, I would say that MSFS is purely focused on the entertainment market, P3D (and many other specialised sims) on the professional market, while X-Plane caters to both segments.
Roser himself addresses that:

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1378992929465847809
So Amazon is loosing money is the US? Starbucks is loosing money in UK and Disneyland is loosing money in France? Please shifting profit is not normal there is no reason a company can do it and average people can't.
I've toyed with PostGIS to make a poster from OSM data by selecting streets that intersect with one of Tokyo's special wards[0]. Sadly I haven't found any excuses to play with it more since.

[0]: https://christian.rinjes.me/posts/2020-11-25-tokyo-street-ar...
> Everyone they employ already pays tax.

But this is their tax they pay on the money _they_ earned.
Not sure why this is okay for corporations to appropriate this tax as theirs.

> Everyone that gets a dividend pays tax.

In my country dividend tax has a lower rate. You have this insanity where a person making money out of their hard work pays more tax than a person living off dividends and doing nothing.
The problem though is that what she was selling was complete fantasy. Tesla raised some eyebrows over whether they would be able to produce faster, better and cheaper, but the product Theranos had didn't even exist with higher costs or quality control issues; it simply was inexistant.

Theranos was fraud from beginning to end. They literally tested samples on Siemens machines and pretended that their own machines did the analysis.
It is so terrible that you could make thousands of high class meme gifs out of it.
Wasn't that the point of GILTI legislation in the Trump administration's final tax bill? I would think it's no longer as easy as it was to store IP earnings overseas as it was during the Double Irish days.
Yes, absolutely.

I have to mention Joplin here, which became my note-taking app after a lot of research. There are certainly more powerful apps, but Joplin is open source, runs on all devices, (Windows, Linux, Android and iOS in my case), syncs data via Nextcloud or Dropbox, and supports E2E-encryption. It also allows inserting images directly into the notes, which I found cumbersome with other markdown-based note apps.

The developer is also very active and adds useful features and bugfixes very regularly. Definitely worth the few bucks I donate every month.

https://joplinapp.org/
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question?

Basically, I use diffing because it's simple. I don't want to mess around with manually updating whatever content I want to update, and I don't want to be forced to generate a specially crafted piece of HTML so that it's updatable. This way I only have to have only one function that updates the current page in-place by diffing, and I can use it everywhere I need to.
For anyone like me who immediately scoffed and said "there's no way you can use X-Plane for actual FAA currency requirements," it turns out you can if you have appropriately certified hardware controls to go with it: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...
Coffee tables are also a privilege. If a coffee table inconveniences someone else, the coffee table owner needs to make accommodations, and not the other way around.

The difference is that a coffee table rarely affects the life of anyone other than its owner.
That doctor is spending real money on attending medical school, which pays professors. It is an equivalent.
Back in the early 90's I did 12 art history documentaries in a Ken Burns style very much like this article. The documentaries were still images with hot spots for navigation that triggered voice overs of with zooms on details, with an easily recognized voice doing the narration (I think we used Liev Schreiber).

These were pre-CD-ROM interactive discs called CD-I, a failed interactive hybrid between CDROMS and laserdiscs from Philips.
Which is exactly why the poster you just replied to was a strong supporter of trying cases in court. I do not get your argument.
Interactive Breadboards Instruction Demo – would appreciate feedback
Should you migrate from Heroku to AWS in 2021?
no, he looks like a freshly minted cold warrior. andrew roth should go and dig up scifi from bbc and compare "green-screen effects".
I'm still using my OnePlus One. Damn thing won't die.
I switched to Elixir/Phoenix + LiveView for my stack.

- Content all markdown

- Tailwindcss for styling

- Phoenix provides a extremely fast framework

- No database at the moment

- CI/CD with github actions

- Automated deployments with Gigalixir

I switched to gatsby and I notice that I was spending more time fighting the system than writing.

You can check it out here: https://allanmacgregor.com/posts and the code is available here: https://github.com/amacgregor/amgr_phx
It’s not pro or against. It’s an observation. Slavery and serfdom is not as efficient because the motivation to work is extrinsic and needs work to maintain.
> Your assessment, while phrased provocatively, isn't all that controversial (except maybe in some pop-sci worship circles)

HN is therefore likely a good place to remind people of such...
in hebrew a chicken is a tar-ne-gol. A turkey is a tar-ne-gol ho-du (almost literally an indian chicken).
Started a petition to open source LG phones:

https://www.change.org/p/lg-electronics-lg-to-open-source-th...

Sign it and share it if you want that too. Thanks!
> Then you have progressive tax that is preventing you from saving much - if you want to save for a deposit to buy a house, spend time on education and getting a better job, you'll get hit by much higher tax and it will take ages to save anything.

I'm having a hard time understanding the logic here. The government needs a certain amount of money to run [1]. If you make the tax rate flat then, in order to bring in the same amount of money, the lower incomes _must_ pay more taxes. While I'm open to an argument that this is false, I cannot come up with any way it could possibly be. As such, your argument seems to be

> When a person makes over X amount of money, a progressive tax makes it hard for them to save any of that money over X because the amount they make over X is taxed higher. As such, we should tax earnings below X higher, so there's less of a jump.

And that ^ argument makes no sense to me.

[1] This is arguable, but it's fair to say that the amount the government needs is orthogonal to whether taxes are progressive or not.