skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check Austria. Without any expenses a dev with a US salary will pay more than 40% in taxes and social benefits.
Let's say you have 250k EUR, 12% of it you can take without any taxes (given no expenses, which is ~25k EUR), but then on 225k you pay 112.5k to the government. That's it. Then you take into account VAT and you realize they are really sucking you dry but all of the giants in collusion with Austrian banks avoid taxes easily.

Of course, you can game the system with fictitious useful expenses (travelling but saying you went to a dev conference etc.) but it's hard to really accumulate much if you live a somewhat normal life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Austria
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English isn't my native tongue so perhaps i'm missing some subtlety, i thought ethnic groups are people who share a common descent?

Honestly asking, not trying to nitpick.
And the EU loves it!

Absolutely no support or protection for local companies, Linux, etc.

Where is our Baidu, Samsung, Yandex, or Sony, etc.?

The whole continent is practically a vassal state of the US, under German administration.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-04-01/charlie-bit-my-finger...

> Once the video reached 50 million views, the family began earning cash from YouTube ads and television spots, Mashable wrote.
The way it happened at my company was that there was a layoff so a few people from the department were laid off at the same time, and one guy who used to be CTO (there was a merger) left and formed a new company and shortly hired those people.

Then what started happening over the next couple of years is they'd reach out to other people in our department one or two at a time and offer them jobs, like one would put in notice this month, then a couple months later another, then a few months later a couple more, etc.

I think currently they have about 12-15 employees at that company that all used to work in my department. They have more former employees than this department does at this point.

They reached out to me as well, but at the time they were looking for someone with less experience (I would have had to take a pay cut and a lower job title), otherwise they might have gotten me also. According to a former coworker who works there it's definitely a lot more laid back of a job.

I should note they didn't get everyone who left here. I know a couple of the more ambitious people in the department met with them but decided against it, probably due to not offering enough, and left for another opportunity later.
> Even if you value your labor/time to cook to be worth of zero dollars

I understand what you're saying, but still cringed at that statement. Eating well and, by extension, cooking is hardly something I would value at $0/hour and I find it mildly insulting that someone would devalue the time I dedicate to preparing meals.

If you don't like cooking and would rather dedicate some of your income to having someone else do it for you, please frame it in that way. It recognizes it is your own decision and comes off as less judgmental of others.
Not if every university is like that. Punishment will only happen when there will be that one university that has adequate courses and stands out above the rest
I spent way to long learning this lesson (building packages from scratch).
You can expect whatever you want, but no middle class person pays as little as 25% in Europe, only the wealthy and the desperately poor get away that cheap.
To me that's one of the grossest things ever.
Can we please stop complaining about Python 2to3 already. Feel free to use and maintain Python 2 indefinitely or move to a different language. Most of the rest of us will move on since the conversions were not that hard and the improvements worth it and we were given 10+ years to do it.

Python is a fantastically productive language in many contexts. The maintainers would probably do some things different with the 2to3 conversion if they had to do it over again. But whatever mistakes were made weren't malicious and they were learning as they went just like the rest of us. I greatly appreciate their efforts to fix the things that were broken, regardless of the hassle involved in upgrading.
What we need is some sort of misting system where a vaccine could be made airborne and automatically respirated into the lungs of people passing by. Therefore people would automatically become vaccinated just by frequenting areas of social gathering.
> they’ve been increasing slower than inflation since about 1970

where? definitely not in china or india. not in france, the UK or germany either
If you just want to redirect money from shareholders reduce corporate tax rates to 0% and tax dividends and capital gains more. Since they aren’t doing that they are admitting they want to tax money that corporations would re-invest.
You will be shocked, apparently, that there are people here saying they don't want that!
I'm not from US. And it works the same for most countries, it just happens that those companies are based on the US and very visible, but if there is a EU corp that's heavily successful and all the development is done in EU why wouldn't the profit be booked in EU?

(Other countries mostly have sales, that's what sales/vat are for)

If instead of being a digital company it was a physical good company, would it be so controversial?
E.g. goods are designed/produced in Italy, shipped and sold abroad (as a start in totally independent shops). Who should book the profit? Usually that will be the manufacturer and the local foreign stores have a much smaller margin.

If now those shops are arm-length subsidiary, why should it be different?
And Twitter refuses to work without Javascript. For 280 characters of text...
Sorry, I agree with the GP. This was a popular book for learning ML with Weka (which is still around):
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Mana...

There is also the Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) term which is still around via: https://www.kdd.org/
I did that for a while, but then I was also in midst of a crumbling relationship so it was a way to give each other space.

The dinner is also often relatively early, so you still have quite a lot of time after the commute (granted, if your commute is 1+ hour then it's far from a dream routine).

What I like is having the option, for example I had a late sports club that was close to work, so it was more interesting to grab a quick bite and stay there to go to the club and return home after.
Not social with the entire world yet. Give us time.
Exactly.

My parents lost members of their families to genocide. The people who planned it were not stupid. Ruthless yes, calculating and callous and cruel yes. But not stupid, and it's both amusing and highly frustrating to see people who've mostly never had to confront these things pretend that it's just the work of "man-children" (because gods forbid that we contend with the idea that the intellectualism and intelligence we place on pedestals might ever be morally bankrupt).
I can recommend "The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay" by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman for some concrete ideas on how to fix this problem.

Some ideas seemed a bit unlikely, but overall great refreshing read in my opinion.
F1 keeps things balanced in terms of hardware not drivers. It’s supposed to be a racing competition not an engineering one.
Adobe XD for designs/ wireframes... Jira is small in comparison
I'd rather have my money in the hands of Microsoft and Google vis-a-vis Federal and State Government (in the case of Europe it's Regional)

They not only return money to government via their mega cash warchest (which is made up of T-bills) but they also have more productive ways to employ those dollars compared to governments.

Also even if they were to pocket them, at least they are far away, whereas the corruption of governments causes your hated neighbor or the asshole mayor to pocket government cash .
Try saying anything against China on this platform and you risk getting flagged and downvoted. I've experienced that already.
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Congress is corrupt (via lobbyists). Congress would make this illegal if congress men/women didn't sell out American Citizens.

88% of the cost of the US Fed gov is paid for by taxes by workers (income taxes). Less than 12% comes from all corp/business taxes combined with capital gains (taxing the rich 1%). Business shifting tax burden to workers is a massive scale problem.

$3.5 Trillion = US Tax Revenues (2019) and 88% came from workers.

US Federal Tax Revenues (2019): $3.5 Trillion

SOURCE: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+tax+revenues+2019&oq=us+t...

US Capital Gains (2018): $170 Billion (4.8%)

SOURCE: https://taxfoundation.org/federal-capital-gains-tax-collecti...

US Corporate Taxes: 3.9% of US Tax Revenues

https://taxfoundation.org/us-tax-revenue-2021/#:~:text=Corpo...
There are other factors (why waste fuel/accident risk on commutes, easier to cook healthy lunches, et cetera), but those are the biggest ones for sure. It would be nice if we could have the hours debate out loud and for real.
Most economists support a 0% corporate tax rate and higher taxes on dividends and capital gains. This closes most loopholes and doesn’t tax money that corporations reinvest in growing the economy.
I highly assume that they must have reached out and reported these issues to, presumably, Intel as the biggest player here. Likely they're just not disclosing these numbers, and generally not many are talking about these and potentially other CPU issue in public due to NDAs. Either way, it's quite amazing to dig down so deep in the production stack that you must conclude that it's the CPU at fault here. I presume academic research might have a hard time on this given the scale needed to run into these issues, but hopefully we'll see more on this research in future.
I don't really see the point... Using special characters makes it harder to manipulate by hand, and you still don't solve conflicts (where content is able to corrupt the container structure). Ultimately, the only safe way is to use Pascal string-style length prefixes.

Escaping is too easy to ignore, until it comes back to bite you in the ass. Balanced delimiters break as soon as the content contains invalid data (or is delimited according to a different convention than the container).
Cut out the commute and sleeping at home with our latest perk, the sleep pod!

(/s)
"Integrate at the UI layer" is a can of worms.

In simple cases, it's clicking a button.

In real practice, it's triggering some esoteric sub-event the developer hooked, or returning coherent data tables from whatever not-table thing a developer cobbled together.

Example from current work (US government system, Oracle Forms / Java based): a scrollable "grid", actually composed of individual, carefully-lined up text boxes, containing 12 rows, which moves / updates the contents of each box as the user scrolls.
The enemy is not the office. It is the god awful open office.
I had a wonderful 6 years in The Netherlands. Great teachers, great opportunities.

Just walked into the 'teachers room' at lunch break and asked if I could use a microscope to inspect an UV-erasable EEPROM :

Sure, go ahead.

Wanted to write a program instead of doing the final physics experiment :

Uhhh, well, why not
That's still very consumer-hostile. How am I supposed to write a replacement firmware for my dishwasher if I have to brick it first? I have dishes to wash! I'm not gonna buy a second dishwasher for development purposes. Why can't I test it against the native firmware?

(And by the way - remotely exploitable dishwashers? What the heck is the world coming to?)
I might be naive, fairly new in UI. So my questions are as follows -

What does bloated website actually mean? What is characteristics of a bloated website?

I could imagine something that bloated for you, might not be bloated for me? Are there any metrics that quantifies this?
Wow. The “I’m not homophobic I just don’t like trans people or gay people” argument.

In case you don’t know, what that article says is complete nonsense. Please find better sources.
Note that Tara Cornelisse has a PhD inn Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She also worked as an assistant professor at Canisius College in Buffalo. Just the fact that she works at a nature conservation non-profit does not disqualify her as an expert.
You can pay tax at a high rate and still be well off, there is no contradiction. In fact the highest tax rates tend to be in the most comfortable countries, in Northern Europe.

Nobody is saying "I would rather move to Sudan and lower my tax rate".
And seen in another thread: Microsoft is lobbying the US govt to spend 250 million to make more software engineers by introducing computer courses in schools so that there are more SE on the market in the future so that they can hire for cheaper.

Meanwhile, individuals are paying 20–50% income tax.

What a wonderful world.
Aaaand it's gone. The front page of HN is a bit rough on smaller web servers.

I read 'The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants' a bunch of times, even implemented some of the algorithms in Java (although I mostly just used recursion rather than L-systems). Must get back into that.
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Microsoft did not even make that much revenue in the 2020 fiscal year. Total global revenues were $143B and total global net income (aka profit) was $44. It was the a very good year for Microsoft. But £220B (apx $310B) in profits is laughable.

The reporters might have been looking at the "total assets" line of MSFT's financials, which was $301B at the end of FY2020. But you don't pay tax on total assets. Just speculation on my part.

These reporters can't even check basic facts.
It's extremely easy to speculate about this stuff academically. Economists tend to delight in theory-adjacent discussions. These have very little bearing on the real world.

TRW, in this case, is a cascading infinity of corporate law, tax law, accounting practices, jurisdictions, lobbyists, parliaments and special interests. None of these exist in economist's models, unless they're modeling public choice theory or somesuch.

Capital gains is just as gameable as corporate income, in practice... and more politically explosive.

IMO, if there is an actual interest in taxing wealth, just tax wealth. Assume 5%-8% return on wealth, and tax total wealth on this basis.
It sounds sinister in a headline, but from a general theory perspective, why shouldn't we just dump corporate tax altogether and simply raise personal capital gains taxes to match income taxes?

Corporate tax is ultimately a double-tax. All of those profits will eventually be paid to investors (dividends, buybacks, acquisition) or employees (bonuses, profit sharing, stock options), where it will be taxed.

If both types of income were taxed the same...it wouldn't matter who got the money, or how.

Companies creating bizarre international corporate structures and governments spending time competing to untangle them is a giant waste of human bandwidth.

We should just dump this charade altogether and focus on more important things.
Tax based on value extracted from a country. For example, in the UK I would tax corporations based upon UK Sales - UK Costs. For this I would require Amazon to set up a UK subsidiary.

Once they have set up a UK subsidiary then they will need to pay a corporation tax based on their total UK sales - UK costs. Sales are sales to the UK; any sales made to other countries, then no tax needed as those countries might (and probably should) have their own tax schemes. Costs would be employee costs, payments made to other UK companies such as an advertising agency or truck leasing and any other taxes they have to pay like rates or VAT.
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Do you have any better alternatives to a democracy?
I'm doing the same thing, except it's Rust and Go that I'm pushing (and more often than not, succeeding in getting through).

Python is a liability at this point, not only because of performance but primarily due to it being badly designed. This bad design is at the core of every major Python debacle.
> If Huawei is copying they will always lag behind.

I think the cause-effect here is reversed. They are copying because they're behind, in this particular area. No doubt they're vigorously defending their own IP in 5G.

Companies, countries, individual race car drivers all slipstream when they're behind. It's a matter pragmatism and economics, not of morality and principles. Recall that Steve Jobs considered Android itself "a stolen product".
You are projecting an existing, well understood stack on a fundamentally different platform. What works on Earth would be silly to assume it should be the same on the ISS and vice-versa.

> Then nothing happens for a decade or so...

I guess you took the comfortable position to choose starting point of the internet as 1998, but what about 1980's or 70's? It was rather slow progress, just as you described.

> I also disagree that cryptocurrencies are "hard to understand"

I was referring to financial apps in general. For most people to think about interests and investments is a challenge even with fiat currencies.

I agree though that a major crypto/blockchain revolution hasn't happened yet and probably it will never replace the current internet, but it will co-exists and be much more significant than today once a group hits a sweet spot with UX, utility and adoption.
They are actually working on porting the Android Runtime (ART) to Fuchsia. [1]

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/fuchsia/
I am wondering if some company official (or perhaps Communist party official) told the team in charge of HarmonyOS you must come up with a completely new OS that is 100% Android compatible, and that is the reason behind this odd strategy
That punishes working people just for working!

How are you meant to afford a house and stuff with taxes like that?

We need wealth tax - go after the shareholders and landowners, who don't directly create value and dodge a lot of tax.
Stephen Erikson's Rejoice! A knife through the heart might be more up your alley, in that case.
900% of 0 = 0.
It seems plausible for all the evidence for very early infections elsewhere to be just mistaken. But if it is right it does contradict the hypothesis.
Can you make an ugly jpg for 0 cent and sell it to your shell company for 10 m? save the first million.

Previously you can send money to mining company for machines, farm bitcoins and then sell machines back to mining company. I am not sure how easy it is now.
The army says it has enough tanks, but the US government still approves several hundred per year. They go straight to the scrap bin to be used as parts.

It's not just about welfare though.

If they shut the plants down and something happens, what do they do? The assembly lines will have been shut down or retrofitted for something else and the experienced workers may well have gone to work elsewhere.

They already have to keep the plant available for readiness and the workers need experience building actual tanks, so they keep pumping them out.
That sounds wonderful. Why would you need a commute to do it? Couldn’t you just take a bike ride for the pleasure and let me skip the hour long sardine can frequently delayed train ride often in the snow, sleet, or rain in the process at the end of the day?
I'm always surprised at how terrible Linkedin's design and engineering has been over the years. The latest redesign is definitely very welcome
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I think it's a perfectly healthy and normal attitude to have, but the thing is that it's only your perspective as the employee, and to avoid being short sighted and irresponsible, you have to also to some extent consider the perspective of the company as well.

I mean, in the extension if nobody cares a single f about being competitive, then maybe your whole company doesn't care about being competitive either, and oopsies some other company cared a bit more and now you don't have any jobs anymore...
Isn't it a subsidiary of a US company (in the end)?

That was the main change of the TCJA, it stopped companies from doing the deferred taxation trick.
I am wondering if as an individual I can do these same arrangement so I am not taxed to death in California
I don't know if it's really bloated but in terms of feeling terrible, it's Google Cloud's various dashboards. The underlying page loads in reasonably enough, but then everything on top is 'hydrated' on the go and it psychologically feels dragged out, like how pages used to load in the 90s but faster.
Could you sue if you get fired within a year and have to give back the signing bonus?
This is a great example of technologists underestimating the law. Juries, judges, and legislators are not complete dumbasses.
The parent's point seems to be that Python is too opinionated. But aren't Rust and Go even more opinionated, particularly Go? What makes you think Go et al won't continue to make highly opinionated decisions like Python did through its development?
My wife and I pulled our kids out at age 10 and 13. The laws in Nevada are just like those in Texas: Write a letter, the kids are yours.

The first thing we did was nothing, for about 6 months. Getting the kids out of the routine and mindset that school had put them in was vital to being able to teach them. My 10y/o son had the idea that his teachers knew more than my wife and I did "because they're older". He could have only got that idea at school because that's the polar opposite of what we taught at home.

I worked full time, but my wife did not and she poured a lot of energy into teaching the kids. But we also did things that weren't schooling. We let the kids learn on their own the things they wanted to learn when they wanted to learn them. This was wonderful. My son picked up programming just for fun and didn't even tell me about it until after, when he had already lost interest and moved on. But that was okay, because I didn't expect him to be a programmer or anything else. I just wanted him to learn. Same for our daughter. They learned. They got GED's and that was that.

They're both extremely well rounded adults now and didn't go through the agonies of public schooling.
When you look at university as a long 4 year vacation it can be very economical.
Yes integration is a 1/f Fourier multiplier. But if you want to do (1/f)^alpha then it's not so straightforward in the time domain.
DNS can be thought of as an early form of NFT - something that is purely digital and has a unique owner.

Currently, NFT is about collecting and speculation, which is currently the exact same use case as many collectibles like baseball cards. I believe the space will evolve to allow NFT holders to have additional rights and utility, such as copyright and ability to earn royalties from licensing the art.

NFT is simply provable ownership of a digital asset. What that asset actually is and what it provides is an experimental and evolving space. I think HNers need to think less narrow about this.
There are a thousands ways to change taxes and there will be a thousand more to skirt paying them. Flat tax, eliminate tax loop holes, eliminate all deductions, only corp tax, only personal gains, only income, none will work because people are inherently greedy.
I'd argue that they only require memory
> wasn't that 3.0 and 3.1 'sucked' or where unstable, it was that basically no libraries worked.

Well, that counts to me as a version fault as well (especially since things like venv were green to say the least), but yes, a coordination would have been helpful.

Though it's a bit of a chicken/egg problem.
Is Ireland not a democracy? Can't they vote to change their own tax laws if they have a problem with them?