skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salary discussions are before taxes because your tax situation is highly personal in the US. I just ran some numbers

An unmarried person making $150,000 In San Francisco would pay $37,816 in taxes for a net income of $112,184.

If that same person was married with a non-working spouse the same person would pay only $29,836 in taxes for a net income of $120,164.

This person could also legally reduce their tax burden by contributing to retirement accounts. Let's take the married San Franciscan if they maxed out their 401k contributions they'd pay $25,546 in taxes for a net income of $124,454. If they moved to Texas then they'd pay $25,546 in taxes, or a net of $124,454

Those are just no frills situations with standard deduction, employees can have itemized deductions that reduce their tax burden more.

Calculations come from https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
Looks more like "everything in sort-of JSON" to me.
Mantis is 30/mo?

OP can you tell us more about pricing model? 30 seems quite low, especially given that it is audio.

That only buys like 10 hours of time in the Philippines, for example.

How does pricing scale and what is included?
Ask HN: Law/Legal SaaS Environment
Yo HN,

I'm working on a little side project that deals with the US federal legal system, specifically federal prosecution and defense.

Just curious if anybody else here works at or has any experience in what the SaaS field looks like, the appetite for Big Law (or boutiques) who deal in federal criminal/civil defense and adopting SaaS solutions, etc.
Except that in a lot of modern frameworks that separation has gone away - look at React components where the markup and styles usually live together.
Yeah, annotation like we do for PDFs or videos seems like a good idea. I certainly don't subscribe to a news source linked just for one article.

Though I don't really want to give clicks to the many many articles that are either a direct copy-paste or a trivial commentary about an actual source. Those are worse. At least the paywall is honest, giving ad revenue to a 3rd party presenting content they copy as their own is way worse.
Whether there are already societal structures in place isn't relevant. If there weren't they would just create them anyway.
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The public should not care why its government might not like to fund news criticizing it. Just governments tolerate and respond to criticism.
Users don't care about the underlying abstraction. The points raised before at least covered features that users cared about, even if they where presented without context, vsync worked fine on any NVIDIA desktop system I used, especially without compositor.
"edit/ welp stepped in it. Highly downvoted. sorry everyone, guess not allowed to discuss this one."

You are downvoted not because it's not allowed to discuss this but because it doesn't make sense. You can't explain the regular overcharging of hospitals with an unhealthy population. Neither can you explain why an MRI costs ten times as much as in other countries.
As long as you have many different news outlets owned by different investors this should be ok?
What a “converged battlefield” means to the future of warfare
I remember someone to nice wrote a perl script that generated a random, but possible coffee based on all ingredients and such. Loved it.
> Ilograph defines diagrams using YAML

But what does the YAML look like? If it's a specific YAML format that is only supported by this commercial tool then it's no more universal than github action's yaml is.
According to this study, only 10% of heavy drinkers are alcoholics. Obviously heavy drinkers are a small portion of total drinkers, so your 10% number is way off base. Even if it was correct, two wrongs don’t make a right.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...
Having them separate is not necessarily a good thing. Svelte for one collects all the HTML, JS and CSS that you need for a given component into a single file (that uses the original syntax for each language). You can still draw in code from external files, but otherwise your component is just 1 file to take care of. Components are largely isolated from each other so the `.foobar` class used in one component does not affect the `.foobar` used in another.
In what world is 18% ROI is not a high return?
Please remember Poe's law, and how constantly applicable it is here
> Men commit more crime than women, and if you dig into the reasons why, it's going to relate to things like lack of opportunity to compete and succeed through legitimate means.

Pretty sure that the main driver here comes down to testosterone and men’s overall higher levels of impulsivity.
I used to pay for news websites, but then they kept tracking me with cookies and 3rd party javascript anyway.

They can have one or the other... I am not doing both and told them so. They're still doing it, but at least I'm not supporting it.
Pricing. Where else can you get a i7-6700 with 64GB RAM, 2x512 GB NVMe SSDs for just 40 euro per month?

I have been using Hetzner for business purposes for 8 years or so. Never had a problem with them, and the bang for buck is high and above anyone else in the industry.

But please feel free to prove me wrong. :)
Is it worthy to be on hacker news if a majority can't access it?

Every time I see this topic being discussed, the general answer is that there has always existed a method to bypassing payment. Top comment (or close to the top) there will be an outline or other bypass being posted.

One could make an argument that HN should make a special link, next to the article, where the bypass link can be highlighted. The only risk is that by acknowledging this, HN could be sued for a practice that has so far been standard practice in the last several years.
On the other hand it probably allows them to offer these prices. For AWS, unpaid bills from fraudulent accounts will make up a significant line item, Hetzner can't afford that at their margins.
Effusione is wide spread in the world of fake Italian Coffees. I can not name the brand :)
I don’t really have a value judgement, just want some rational economic analysis.

Must take some cognitive dissonance to think my cold analysis is more disrespectful of women and relationships than prostitution itself.
Unless you are married and file taxes separately. Another reason why salaries are referred to in pre-tax terms.
A little personal anecdote on how the supply chain has "professionalized" here in the Netherlands. My friend, a boring dad, found an envelope filled with coke on his doormat. Soon after, his neighbor ringed the door and apologized for the incorrect delivery.

Apparently you no longer have to go to some shady area at night, you just place your order on WhatsApp and you get it by mail. Indeed, Amazon level convenience.

When I was younger, our idea of fun was to get drunk, which is pretty costly once you build up a tolerance for alcohol. These days, youngsters pop a cheap party pill (XTC) for 5 euro and that's about all they consume for the night.

Late night cab drivers used to complain how these drunk kids would puke in the car, now they shit in the car instead. Even in the very nice peaceful town where I live, street corners show piles of "laughing gas" capsules on the floor, which is the new thing.

All of this said, the truly hard drugs like heroine, crack, meth do not seem commonly used here in the general population.

Back on point, I've never understood the appeal of being a drugs kingpin. It never ends well. You can never check out and retire. You have enemies everywhere. You're always on the run. It doesn't matter whether you control a revenue of 1 billion or 10 billion in any practical sense. It must be a power trip I don't understand.
It should be marked as pay per view. In the case of news there are usually dozen of sources so it's not hard to search for a free one. The submitter should do it IMHO.
It also seems like you can pay an extra $5K in estimated tax in December, use the refund of it to buy a series I bond and then convert that to an electronic bond.
1. Leap year every 4 years (+1/4)

2. But not if it's divisible by 100 (-1/100)

3. Unless it's divisible by 400 (+1/400)
They're not hygienic, but the usage of auto-gemsyms on quasi-quote and the fact that symbols are automatically expanded to their namespaced forms solves most of the problems that unhygienic macros have: http://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/macros.html#macro-h...
Gross = before expenses/taxes.
Net = after (which, specifically, depends on the context).

Always negotiate your compensation in gross. Always negotiate hourly in hours, salary in years or months (most places prefer the former, but depending on your country it might be customary to discuss in the latter). A multiplication/division by 12 is usually sufficient.

Hourly pay means you work time, you get paid for exactly that time (give or take 15 minutes sometimes, usually it's rounded, often up to the next hour). Payments usually made every two weeks or every month.

Salaries are paid at a fixed frequency, usually monthly - sometimes, in very very rare cases, semiannually or even annually. Don't bother asking for a different pay schedule as it's generally company-wide and very difficult to change, and it also shouldn't affect you if you manage your own money correctly - the amount of money you make on average over time remains the same.

The reason for gross is, as you mention, taxes. Your specific situation affects how much you contribute to your community/country (via taxes), and the percentage/amount usually changes over time as your living situation changes (you get married, have children, get a raise, etc).

Your employer can't possibly know all of this in most cases (namely in the US, but also elsewhere) and also it's not their burden to manage your taxes (again, usually - namely in the US).

Your job is "I do services, you pay me for those services". The company needs to know how much they're paying for your services. How that income breaks down for you is your own deal.

Imagine a case where you're in a high tax bracket because you have a lot of successful side gigs. Your employer, paying net, would thus have to pay you more in order to keep the rate competitive for you, simply because you make more elsewhere. The employer loses out pretty heavily in this case. Just doesn't make much sense to do it that way.
>I did some work with a university that sent a lot of grad students to Europe. It was always fun watching the fantasy that Europe has everything figured out crash and burn.

Health care is an example of this. Having Canada and the UK, the foreign countries Americans are most familiar with, both have single-payer systems (and the UK also having a monolithic delivery system, and Canada more or less outlawing private health insurance) with zero cost on delivery for most care gives Americans a distorted view of healthcare in other developed countries. There's really no meaningful definition of "universal health care" that excludes the US post-Obamacare while including (say) Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. All three countries are like the US in a) mandating having some form of coverage, and b) having said coverage come from a variety of public and private sources.

Or copays and deductibles. In France, the normal reimbursement for care is 70%, much like that of a US high-deductible plan. Paying for ambulance rides in Switzerland is the norm, not the exception. But a comment on Reddit by an American complaining about how he had to pay for being taken to a hospital in an ambulance and how this wouldn't happen anywhere else will get 10,000 upvotes even though such a statement wouldn't necessarily be true outside Canada and the UK. To put another way, the Canada/UK model of single-payer and 100% free on delivery (much less the UK model of monolithic everything else) is, in their own ways, aberrations, with much of the developed world using mixed public/private models with meaningful cost on delivery that would not be unfamiliar to an American.
Except wealthy people still own the vast majority, so news will generally favor the wealthy.
I suppose places used to do this for Google. Not sure if they still do, but I remember if you searched for an article on Google there was a period in time where it would bypass the paywall you'd have hit going directly to the article.
So like BBC or Pravda? I don't trust publicly funded organisations with important things like news not to be corrupted and start serving only certain political agenda.
Spaniard here.

Full speed vaccination (more than 200K/week, up to 600K in late July) started late March, beginning of April, so we must wait 6 months from second dose to see if the vaccine protection holds up and how it affects population immunity.

My arm chair prediction is that we will have another wave in December/January.
I used to dwell on things like that also.
Everyone has done or said things throughout their life that are embarrassing, make you cringe or are stupid. Thats part of you growing as a person, and being able to acknowledge them shows that you have grown!

It sounds harsh but the best advice I've ever received is that "people don't care about you". The context in which it was said was that people engage with you when you're there but when you're not you can expect them to be caught up in their own life, problems, issues and listening to their own inner voice.
With no ill intent, could you please tell me why would anyone start a new program in C? I am seriously interested in that.

It of course has to remain with us due to the insane amount of code already written with it and some tooling (and eg for verification certain subsets of C), but it is not any closer to metal than other system programming languages, the “standard lib” is full of foot guns, it has a very weak type system, it has no way of enforcing basically anything. Also, due to the its lack of expressivity it relies on text-based macros (and those I hate with a passion, as there is hardly anything worse than text-replacing source code with no knowledge of syntactic elements).
Aws bandwidth costs would be the primary reason to potentially switch.

If you're stuff is low bandwidth there is probably little reason to move. You might compare the cost tiers of the size of system you use. Might also be reasonable to run personal stuff on spot pricing on AWS for cost savings.
Agreed. Twitter is the Facebook for the chattering classes. The reasons it escapes the kind of pitched battles waged by the media against Facebook is beyond me. Maybe it's because the toxicity bred by Twitter is organically driven by user activity (aside from trending topics) whereas with Facebook it's the opaque "algorithm". Or maybe it's because it's a convenient platform for logrolling hot takes. In the end it seems like distinction not worth making.
"Hey check out this new scripting language that I created in a calc plugin for the webpages-create-nocode-GUI application that's built on top of nazca! you can event write html and create beautiful webapps!"
Show HN: Learn new skills with mindmaps and spaced repetition
“This case proves crime doesn’t pay” Unless you’re HSBC, Bayer, Nancy Pelosi, etc, then you control and steer the definition of crime beyond its reasonable limit.
>>Beware hosting anything with them unless you keep backups with another provider.

That should be true of any provider / data.. 3 is 1, 2 is none, and 1 is crazy...

If you are not following 3-2-1 backup you are asking for trouble I dont care what provider or service you are using
Sigh. I mean, I thought I was way outside the realm of Poe's law with that one ... guess not.
In Switzerland you would only discuss pre-taxes (gross) salaries, (also) because there's an arcane tax system muddling things up.
Same for me.

It's not so explicit for me to say that it's just like it's actually happening. However, perhaps a few same neurons are firing as if it were for real.
so if i didn't misunderstood that page they've had one 40 foot container delivered with nineteen "server hardware" pieces, likely racks?
thats less than i would've expected, but it makes sense considering that they probably don't have any big customers lined up.

it will be interesting to see how fast they'll grow.
Something started in the 70s and I’ve never seen a good explanation of what it was. But you can see in the stats that obesity hit an inflection point in the mid-1970s, started going up and has never looked back. Now we’re at 80% overweight and 40% obese and still rising.

Pinning it on willpower or individual choices seems way off base. Something system-wide happened here and it’s crazy that we don’t know what it is.
Nor was Application Builder? It only ran on UNIX.
> hetzner locked my account because my manager put it in my name, and then much later, stopped paying it.

It's really not a company's fault for stopping to provide a service when it's not paid for.
Hi HN,

I created Traverse.link - a learning tool with mindmaps and spaced repetition flashcards.

I built it to solve my struggle of learning Chinese, to be able to communicate with my girlfriend's parents.

I'm aiming to build a learning tool that covers the whole learning process, using effective learning techniques like mindmapping, interlinked notes and spaced repetition.

It's a web app which I hope to monetize through paid subscriptions.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
When we thought to rent a dedicated server for our hackerspace we initially put "Bernd Liefert" (a german in-joke) as the responsible admin down and they basically told us "lol no we know our jokes, too". We had to tell them a real, existing person as contact or they wouldn't have rented us the box.

So can confirm, they also reject European orders.
Ive chosen not to use archive links. If a publisher uses paywalls, the message is clear.
For paywalled news articles, visit the same page via wayback machine, that solves 99% of the time.

For academic articles, scihub gets the example article in about 2 seconds flat...

I don't see the issue.
We are still talking about Download Manager in 2021. Something went wrong somewhere.
Please don't compare Hetzner to the abomination that is OVH. OVH is more or less ok for non-critical fun projects, but Hetzner is often cheaper and always more reliable.

Hetzner used to be only significantly better than OVH. Now they are in a different league.
Comments like yours are just not helpful or productive. There are definitely lazy people all over the world but I think what you said is more of a symptom than a cause. When entire communities are generationally stuck in a trap of eating highly processed foods for how easy/cheap they are it can be difficult to escape. But of course it's a lot easier to go the uneducated simpleton route and just say they are lazy.
No. I wasn't suggesting investing to pay off the mortgage (endowment mortgage), but investing as an alternative use of funds compared to paying off a debt held at low interest rates in a rapidly depreciating currency.

Imagine a more extreme example:

Interest rates 0.1%, Inflation 10%, 30 year term, leverage meaning your 50k becomes say 500k invested.

Now it makes sense to take on as much debt as you can get over say 30 years, and to put off paying it as long as possible, because even after a few years the payments will be quite minor compared to your inflating income, and at the end of the 30 years the debt you have left and the interest payments on it will be trivial compared to your income.
Simple way to self-host apps
XFCE works quite well, also I found this guide really helpful:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

So in case you consider XFCE, also GTK and other frameworks need to be configured. With closed-source Nvidia drivers the configuration options with Xrandr are limited though IIRC.
> The US is currently dismantling their Post Office

Where did you read this? The US postal system is not being dismantled, it’s meant to be self funded and it cannot meet its financial obligations.

> required to be funded by their Constitution.

It only empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads." That’s the entire Post Office clause.
" I do think absolutely free health care allows for abuse of the system"

Americans are always concerned about people abusing the system but if you look at other countries this is simply not the case except maybe a few isolated cases. What are you going to do if health care is cheap or free? Get surgery for the fun of it? Or have a tooth pulled every few weeks?

Right now the american system is abused big time by providers and insurers. that's what you should be concerned about. I don't see how patients would abuse a system.
yeah sorry I should've said explicitly that men are also more likely to be aggressive and competitive, so given the constraints of poverty, are more likely to go into crime to fulfil those needs.
Many Hollywood movies with a plot that clearly takes place 5 decades after WWII have evil German characters named Fritz and Hans. Racism? You can certainly still experience anti-German sentiments as a 20 year old abroad right now.

I don't mind these movies at all, but there do seem to be double standards.
right - it is the reconciliation and followup that is the issue for me
they aren't wrong, actually.
Waymo is bringing its autonomous vehicles to New York City for mapping
That might be one (fairly expensive) strategy to address it. But the rest of the world doesn’t avoid the US problem because they’re all seeing nutritionists all the time.
Me neither but it makes sense. As long as a customer is willing to pay more than electricity+bandwidth cost, why should they throw them out? In their server auction you often find old servers at price points that are really attractive. For a database server, a 10yr old CPU with an old SSD and 250GB memory can be faster than a brand new server with a fraction of the memory. And they offer the former one for ~50€ in their server auction (at least they did yesterday).

I'm really surprised though how many servers survive for that long. But they probably mix-and-match components whenever one part of a server fails.
From the example:

.html {
.head {
.title {
text: A simple Hello World example;
};
};
.body {
.div {
text: Hello world;
};
};
};

Seems pretty awful to me...
This software only provides a means to batch and automate things you'd have to manually download through "save link as". It's not chasing a moving target like youtube-dl.

It's quite useful where you have 50 PDFs on a school page and you'd like to download them all without manually clicking save link as on each one of them. I have fond memories of DTA from my bachelor studies.
Can helium be mixed with hydrogen to form a non-explosive mix? (2003)
This was seriously the only Download manager (for bulk downloads) that I used for a long time.
From my view, it goes both ways: geometric algebra/calculus is a more transparent version of the standard approach and the translation back to it is also a relatively small delta to pick up.

Either way of going about what is in essence the same material entails becoming familiar with multivectors, the wedge product, and multilinear algebra, whether you do it through geometric algebra or the standard approach.
Vue does the same thing with .vue files.
A Note About Recruiters
"Bad faith" is pretty self-explanatory, is it not? Of course it was sarcasm, the point being made is a bad faith assumption of the GP's point.
This is a rabbit hole. You probably didn't mean it this way, but:

> Any native American can help me understand the difference between making fun of Asians/Blacks/other groups and italo-americans?

You know what "native american" means in (American) English, don't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United...