skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you are sticking to tables of income and tax rates and claiming that income tax is 51% not 80 or 85%. At the same you decide to ignore my claim was the overall earning you do over you life will be taken away by the state. Surely you can understand the concept of overall tax burden.

Although I am simplifying here and not making payroll salary calculation you certainly understand the example like this one.

You earn 4000 EUR salary.A very good manager level salary in the Netherlands. Before you get your salary on your hands the state, takes you 51% so you receive 1960 EUR on hands. ( This example is not 100% correct as it is a progressive tax, but lets run with it for the sake of example)

From these 1960 EUR you will pay, for a monthly health insurance for a family of three 300 to 350 EUR ( typical) so you are left with 1610 EUR. If you have a modest sized car you are paying 133 EUR per month on average per road tax and overall 80 EUR per month on car insurance. For every kilometer that you drive you are paying a tax on your fuel that is 70 to 80% of your fuel cost as road tax. Remember road maintenance and all those state benefits were supposed to be paid from the 51% of you already provided to the state.

Assuming no kilometres driven,while your car sits idle,you are now down to 1397 EUR. Now despite the fact that you already paid to the state 51% they want nothing to do with your water, electricity, garbage collection. For that your local taxes will take you on average another 150 EUR per month, depending on were you live so you are now down to 1247 EUR. We are not done yet because, do you have a dog ? You have to pay tax on it:
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/...

Note from these 1247 EUR will be paying VAT at 21% to live.
Do you need an Internet connection and some studies for improvement ? Take another 100 EUR per month to out you at 1100 EUR.
If you save any money you will have to pay tax on that. Its called the "Taxation on income from savings and investments" In the Netherlands is based on the assumption that people will have a certain taxable return on their net capital. The actual level of return (for example interest, dividend, capital gains or losses) is NOT relevant. No concern if the bank is ( at it is the case at the moment) providing you with a negative interest rate.

If from the 500 to 600 EUR you will be left to live, you somewhow are able to accumulate any assets dont worry the state will take you remaining in inherithance tax. Here the rates for 2021:
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/erfbelasti...

Believe or no, there are are other taxes, but now I got tired of writing and I want reiterate my point. There is a Massive overall tax burden of the lifetime of a citizen and frankly the only reason people do not protest is, as I stated that you are either on the side of the receiving state benefits sad misery or middle class enjoying your stated super "high quality of life.". It is certainly much better than undeveloped countries but that is also another discussion and also moving the goal posts...Overall tax burden is my concern here.
Part of the agreement seems to be that the manufacturer goes out of their way to make a worse version for TJ's. Honestly they should be taken to task for flooding the market with fake competition, but that applies to the majority of brands in these days of megaconsolidation.
You can't break HN's rules like this, regardless of how you feel about another account. This is a well-established principle that has been explained ad nauseum in the past. If you want to see those past explanations, many are at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
that's why you can never trust microsoft. people seem to be starting to forget that.
Yes and Docker for Mac is terrible, I'm sitting with a quarter of my RAM in kernel_task with no idea what it's doing and my system stutters every few minutes while who knows what pages off of the SSD, I've had MacOS releases get stuck in a half-upgraded state which required a reinstall, I have monitor connectivity problems, and I've had MacOS get stuck at the login prompt.

And don't get me started on the issues with Linux desktops, which can hardly even get screensharing to work.

My and others' point is that there is no perfect OS. Windows is good, MacOS is good, Linux is "okay", and if you're determining good by the critera "is there zero issues" then you're going to be very sad for the rest of your life.
Our IT has given us deployment sticks for W10 Pro which format/install/deploy the OS using one script in about 5 minutes with zero nags/prompts anything else. It also sets up a default (non-cloud) user. I think its called an 'unattended' setup. So it definitely can be done. I think MS needs to provide a "Yes, I know what I'm doing, go away" Windows ISO.
The more experienced I become, the more such down to earth solutions seem OMG SO MUCH MORE reasonable than all the bells and whistles of "modern" engineering practices.
Possibly. For those who clung to Windows XP or 7, it was because the alternative was relatively unappealing (Vista, later 8 or 10, respectively).

For those who are on Windows 10 because they made a pragmatic choice to keep compatibility with their back catalog of Windows-only software and get the latest security but pay for it in the form of nags, schizophrenic control panels, and forced updates, Windows 11 has an opportunity to take over fast.

How? By removing one or more of the above pain points (and others I haven't listed). I'm not that hopeful that MS would reverse course on these user-hostile things, but I guess I am slightly hopeful for a scrap or two could potentially be thrown my way.

What if Windows 11 was just Windows a repackaged Windows 10 LTSC 2021? By most rumors, it's more different than WIndows 10 than that, but even if it was only a reboxed SKU that consumers would buy, it would sell like hotcakes.
(noob here) How does this work from a key security perspective? Can one person just walk off with the country's entire wallet? Does an HSM become the thing in the vault where the gold used to be?
Yeah not so sure about that… the internet at its core is a network of networks that are considered to be “inter-networked.” I think the internet is a perfectly suitable name.
No, they own the Pantone numbers. They don't own the colours themselves.
I, as a 33 BMI person with insomnia issues and workaholic nature, started intermittent fasting (eat between 9am to 5pm) 5 days ago and since then, I have been consistently sleeping at least 5 hours daily. By midnight, I am tired enough to not care about any pending task.
Roman aristocracy two thousands years ago was pretty much looking like people from northern Italy today no!?

If anything Augustus looks to be modern eastern european (from its famous statue).

What's not correct about "white" when depicting roman aristocracy? From all the statues we have they were certainly neither asians nor black nor from india nor descendants of, say, the aztecs.

Here's a reconstruction using AI of 30 roman emperors and I'd say 27 of them look totally white.

https://www.boredpanda.com/realistic-recreations-ancient-scu...

Heck, they even made Augustus with blond hairs and blue eyes (I have no idea if that's correct: all I can say his is marble statues looks like the modern easter european type to me).

Now I can understand they didn't sound british when speaking, but I don't see why you write "white, british actors". If anything, and there's nothing racist in there, "black british actors" would have been weird no!?

Or maybe you meant to say most of the aristocracy probably had the "mediterranean" type? (which I don't think is true and which, anyway, is classified under "white" I think?)

EDIT: TIL: Augustus' biographer, Suetonius, wrote that Augustus indeed had golden hair and clear eyes. This comes at a surprise to me.
No, they wouldn't. Target had nothing to do with it.
One thing I've always wondered is whether there's any interest in using in-store cameras for tracking the information people show on their phones, such as location, health, financial data, or even passwords.

Esp. since COVID I imagine a lot of people inputting their passwords in front of a camera at the register.
wish I could still be using windows 7, I hate windows 10. But my motherboard died and my new motherboard isn't compatible with windows 7. Only found out after the OS install failed for the 3rd time and searching for reasons why.
The elusive pursuit of getting it all done
Well, how little volatility is needed to be called stable? Over a few years, large swings can happen with major forex pairs. Take GBP/USD for example: High of 1.71602 in 2014. Low of 1.14926 in 2020. It currently trades around 1.4.

So, not the same kinds of returns and drawdowns as BTC/USD, but enough to make one's eyes water and stomach churn. Forex has always had a reputation for volatility.
You sure about that?
I see the bug is still open:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233

This is not about thumbnails in the file manager but about the file chooser (open/save dialog).

I believe the following post is still relevant:

https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...

At least KDE does this properly:

https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/04/comparison-of-file-choose...
An important and related fact, addressed in the article, is that Amazon currently escapes consumer product liability laws because they are neither seller nor manufacturer. But they also cannot tell you with any degree of precision who the seller or manufacturer is.

There is a public interest in making /someone/ liable for defective products, as it provides a incentive for sellers to do due diligence on what they sell.

The party most able to root out sellers of defective or counterfeit goods is probably Amazon, but they currently have no incentive to do so as the liability is offloaded to judgement-proof Marketplace sellers.

Amazon's business innovation here is figuring out how to run a multi billion dollar retail business without product liability, and that's negative for society.
hmm a lot of online services have smart to detect suspicious connections, even if you have q cookie. even something as simple as verifying the geo of the IP and client type couldve been useful here. im not sure if slack has this funcionality
that's why i always disabled auto security updates until I vet all of them
I have spent my entire career working to produce this kind of outcome.

Here's why hardware companies refuse to participate:

1. CEO says, "You're eroding our business's moat. Let's just rip off linux, shove our garbage driver out the door, and refuse to provide the source code."

2. CFO says, "You're trying to set yourself up as the expert on the standard, creating a career for yourself in the standards body. Sorry, we're not paying for you to fly to conferences. Denied."

(This one is particularly ironic because a company with enough clout to define the standard for the whole industry, and employ the experts on it, would quickly become the industry leader with a modicum of effort.)

3. CTO says, "We use outsourced labor to implement our drivers. Shareholders demand it. As a result we don't own the license to the driver source code. Denied."

I see crowdfunded hardware as the next step in this evolution. It's the innovator's dilemma all over again.
Gen Z harnessed the internet and destroyed the generation wars
Bankrupt, or Bankrott from German means rotten bench. You can work out the rest :)
> "But wages catch up" you say. No they don't.

They did until a series of fiscal policy (tax and spending) changes in the 1970s and 1980s (including the massive Reagan tax burden shift onto workers) put the kibosh on it. Since then, not so much, but that’s not a monetary policy issue, insofar as those two things have been artificially segmented.

> Inflation is a stealth wage cut, a matter of policy for cheating the labor class.

You are misunderstanding the Krugman quote. The value he is citing is that as there are demand shifts in the economy, inflation allows small short-term real wage cuts in segments of the economy seeing decreased demand and therefore profitability without reducing nominal wages (whumich tend to be sticky), reducing resort to job cuts as a response, providing a buffer between short-term fluctuations and unemployment.

Krugman is not saying that inflation enables long-term, general real wage cuts to be more easily implemented or that it would be good for it to do so.

> Finally, inflation forces the middle class to invest instead of save

The middle and upper class are, by definition the clases with substantial dependence on the returns from productive capital. Inflation doesn't force the moddle class to invest in capital, substantial investment in capital while still having a dependency on your labor is what defines being middle class. You can choose not to invest in capital, whether by stuffing money in a mattress or blowing it on hookers and blackjack, but if you do that you aren’t middle class.

> Thus it is a siphon that steals wealth from the poor and middle class and gives it to the wealthy.

No, the siphon that does that is the series of tax burden shifts adopted over the last several decades with the express design of rewarding/encouraging the wealthy (often euphemized as “job creators”).
Here's a relatively mild rant where the breaking change in question was in /proc/cpuinfo:

«Really. Shut up.

The whole "no regressions" thing is very much about the fact that we don't waste users time.»

https://linux.kernel.narkive.com/7hMPh8zX/patch-revert-9fc21...

Of course in an ideal world the extent of the intended promise would be clearly written down in some obvious place. But we don't live in an ideal world.
And even within the Control Panel (the older one), there's multiple visually distinct UIs:

1. First, there's "Windows 7 style" applets like "File History", "Power Options", and "Programs and Features". I'm not sure how to summarize these beyond that they have a resizable window and usually have some options in a sidebar on the left, but they all have a visually consistent look (which was a lot more obvious before Windows 10).

2. Next, some Windows 7 era applets use a different interface which displays in a (mock) file browser, like "Devices and Printers" or "Fonts".

3. Then there's some older applets which use a Windows XP-era interface in a small, fixed-size window with tabs at the top, like "Date and Time" or "Mouse".

4. Finally, there are a few applets which have a completely unique interface, like "Indexing Options" or "Device Manager".

5. Oh, and I forgot to mention: some of the applets in the Control Panel open up a Settings applet when clicked, like "System" and "Taskbar". But even this isn't consistent; some applets in Settings, like "Mouse" have a "additional settings" link on the right which opens the Control Panel applet when clicked.

Confused yet? Don't worry, the next version of Windows will assuredly find a way to make it worse.
Yeah that's all fine and dandy until you need to take out a loan and on top of high interest you also need to account for deflation - good luck getting a house mortgage and falling wages. Deflation puta pressure on price of work as well - but people don't like pay cuts.
Slack has an audit trail for some accesses, at the least, so EA could have done the GEOIP on their side.
Hiring is hard enough without chopping off 50 or 80% of otherwise-qualified applicants because they have gone their whole life without reading things very carefully.
> Making them write-once doesn't increase the capacity

It could theoretically make them cheaper. But I guess that there wouldn't be enough demand, so you'd be better off having some kind of OS enforced limitation on it.
I use all three platforms on a daily basis and windows is 10x worse than the next contender.

As for Docker on the Mac I agree. I don’t use it. I use a Linux VM which is where I’m currently heading on windows at the moment, unpicking all the garbage.

The least troubled combination I can suggest is: use macOS on an M1 machine and keep it close to default as possible and do all your dev on a Ubuntu LTS box via SSH. And just avoid windows entirely.

Mac makes a good cloud terminal. Linux makes a good cloud server. Windows makes…err no idea.
You mean add fluorescence, not glow in the dark, right? It's not trivial to generate the necessary luciferin/luciferase, but adding GFP is a basic project.
There's 4 major things that happened in the 70s that affected wages, and everyone blames the one they'd like to based on their ideology.

1. Closing the gold window

2. Outsourcing of manufacturing begins in earnest (combined with weakening of unions, the Clean Air and Water Acts, etc)

3. Computers really start taking over (obviously accelerates in the 80s)

4. Women started having real careers on a large scale
At will employment still generally has a contract.
the USPS consistently has the highest favorability rating of any government agency, at 91%: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/04/usps...
That stupid weather widget and the Xbox overlay randomly popping up, completely disabling input without an obvious way to get out (some random win key combo), finally drove me to dump Windows as a daily driver. It even drove me to get some real work done on my passion project so I'd never have to use a Windows VM for CAD ever again.

I lived through Micro$oft but I was too inexperienced to understand the hate directed towards Microsoft. It's ironic that I only started to feel it now that they've changed their tune on the open source/dev stuff.

To add insult to injury, shortly after, I got an email with this subject line from google:

*> akiselev, take the next step on your Linux by confirming your Google Account settings
If I use Eclipse Labz Stasis, it's like an off-switch within half an hour. This is very useful if I forced a late-night workout on myself.

But I was taught something by a sleep therapist in my teen years. It appears to be equivalent to Progressive Relaxation. I know how to do it and it works but it takes time so I usually just pharma my way.
> To a degree you have to have something to put up to have a loan in the first place.

Dollar denominated debt doesn’t all originate with getting credit-check-qualified approval for a loan.
JavaScript: Cleaner ways to build dynamic arrays
IMHO tricking an employee to provide a login token is a con, not a hack.
I've done a technique like this and it has been helpful! A problem I've also run into is that my eyes become "locked" as if they're focusing on something so I need to allow my eyes to relax and move. This is especially helpful when there is hypnogogia, allowing the eyes to relax and follow it will help ease the body into sleep more easily.

As an alternative to body scanning, I've found placing attention on 2 separates points in the body, i.e., palm of hand and chest will quiet the thinking mind. This is particular helpful if there is a feeling I want to avoid since the thinking mind is trying to avoid feeling unpleasant feelings (the mind likes to control and regulate things). Yet by placing attention on those 2 points the the mind will alternate between those 2 sensations instead. It may be a bit of a balancing act to do and if that's the case body scan may be easier to do.
> However, there is a huge problem in school funding.

School funding is actually not as inegalitarian as you might have been led to believe - federal & state funding usually makes up for the differences in property tax funding, we're often spending more $/kid at these bad schools.

> There's a difference between outlawing enforcement of segregation by law and enforcing laws requiring people to go to schools they may not want their kids to go to. I think calling the second "finishing" the first is misleading.

The distinction you're making is between de jure segregation and de facto segregation, both of which are constitutional violations.
Channel factories will open/close many channels at once, so you'll only pay a fraction of the blockchain transaction cost. It has the advantages of Bitcoin's security and p2p network speed.

Security and trust are a lot more important for currency, nano doesn't have that. It has easily been spammed [1]. It barely has a market cap of ~1B$ and has never recovered to it's 2017 prices, so it's not even remotely close to being an ideal candidate for a country's currency.

1: https://www.coindesk.com/nanos-network-flooded-spam-nodes-ou...
There isn't really even a good definition for "character" in unicode.

There are code points, grapheme clusters, etc.
They're fundamentally different in the problems they solve. Dropbox is a cloud file storage and syncing service. NextCloud is an open source alternative to something like Dropbox in that it offers file sharing and syncing but also much more on top of that. It's really closer to something like the Google suite of personal cloud services with Google Drive, Photos, Contacts, and Calendar. Kopia is a backup solution for the files on your computer. You can use cloud file storage providers as the destination for these backups but it doesn't handle the storage of the backups itself. You have to provide that storage to it.
When I was learning to program, I tried to make a toy artificial life evolution simulation. Particle organisms on a 2D plane had 'dna' which was a list of heritable traits, like size, speed, number of offspring. Bigger organisms could eat smaller organisms, but they burn energy faster. 0 energy = death. When two organisms of opposite gender collided and had sufficient energy, they'd give some of their energy split among the offspring, with each offspring's 'dna' values set to one of the parent's +/- 5%.

As I was developing this, I hadn't figured out how I wanted to do food yet, so as an easy first step, I just had a constant amount of energy that was split amongst all organisms on the screen. Lots of little dots buzzing around, was kind of neat but nothing too special. I left it to run overnight.

When I came back I was very surprised: previously i was running at about 30FPS - now it was running at about 4 seconds per frame. The screen was filled with dense expanding circles of tiny slow organisms emanating from where organisms had mated and nothing else.

My simulation evolved to outsmart my simple food algorithm: when food is divided equally among all organisms, the best strategy is to use minimal energy and maximize offspring count. I had populated the world with a default offspring count of ~5 and they had evolved to the tens of thousands. The more offspring an organism had, the greater the amount of the energy pool would go to their offspring.

It was a very cool "Life, uh, finds a way" moment - that such a simple toy simulation of evolution was able to find an unanticipated optimal solution to the environment I created overnight was very humbling and gave me a lot of respect for the power of evolution.
From June 21, 2019
Let's see if they finally will be using the Lindows trademark they bought in 2002.

https://www.linux.org/threads/lindows.11236/
> cringe "we are working hang on it" messages

Ha! My favorite one is: "Leave everything to us".

You get it splattered across the screen before the desktop loads for the firs time. It always gets me thinking, is it not enough for you guys to track me around, force send diagnostics data, foist updates upon me, now you want me to leave everything you!?
Is there a name for this phenomenon?

It happened with a lot of other software (Firefox vs Chrome is just one example).

Version number envy?
> Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.

And even Apple is a pretty mediocre software company, compared to the others of their class.
Undergraduate underclassmen and high school students are where you find most real live STEM lords. STEM professionals may be ignorant of the humanities, but they are (for the vast majority) no longer condescendingly dismissive enough to be true STEM lords.