skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the 45-49 age bracket this year. In BC (Canada), a 95th percentile income for that age is $126,000 (2021 Census). Before any deductions (specifically retirement investments that reduce taxable income) I'd be looking at a 26.85% tax rate, with a marginal rate of 38%. So pretty much the same rate here.

Not to say that Canada's overall economy is particularly any better than the UK's, and especially Trump's tariff threats will do a number on us.
I only tried a trackpad.
For starters, that USB splitter would be single use, assuming it didn't melt before your toast was done.
Possibly you could look at Newton's example. Yes, his best scientific contributions happen when he was young, and they are what he is known for. But in his late 40's he gave that away. Perhaps as you say it got too hard.

Instead he took up a job at the mint. The job had some technical bits to it like designing coins that were harder to counterfeit, but is was mostly a managing people and society job. The coin clippers were literally debasing the currency to near worthlessness. Had they continued they would have been the internal cancer that took down the empire, as the state could no longer afford to pay for the ships and men needed to create and maintain it. Newton almost single handedly turned that around. It's not an exaggeration to say he saved the empire.

You say the older Newton could not do what the younger Newton did, and that's probably true. But it's also true the younger Newton could not have done what the older one did. He needed the experience and understanding of how men and society work that only decades of live could give him. So yes some abilities dim as you age. But other abilities grow stronger.
What I tend to do is to only install/buy late in the yearly cycle, then stay on that for a year.
Especially given you lose 15m of work every time you get a few s clip wrong.
A new report, titled “Foundations,” captures the country’s economic malaise in detail.

That 'new' report was discussed here 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41600388
It isn't about whether a regulation works or not or is burdensome or not. It's about whether it benefits the folks making the decisions. Or the folks that are paying them.

Combine this with Trump announcing that the US is gonna buy cryptocurrency as part of the US Sovereign Wealth fund and you've got a stew going.
Yev from Backblaze here -> I'm sorry to hear that was the case and that you were affected by the fires in LA. It's true that Groups may not be required depending on what you were trying to do, but I'm saddened to hear that your experience with support was less than ideal. If you can send me your ticket number, I can have support management review the ticket.
Probably because memorizing vast numbers of facts is great for people aspiring to be the next Ken Jennings, but not especially great for supporting general applied knowledge and expertise
Intel postpones Ohio factory until 2030
You can also enable tapping (for left and right clicks). If you’re not pushing the trackpad maybe you’ll have less issues with the cursor moving while you do it?
I assumed they meant higher prices for non-green energy than green energy.
Yes. Frankly, I don't think anyone - let alone FAANG - would want to buy it, no matter how profitable it gets, because the business is inextricably tied to my persona.
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To be fair, I'd wager the contents of said brain were roughly 'aaargh! I don't want to die! Jupiter save me!', but in Latin.
Are Home Values About to Fall? It Depends on the Location
My apologies about Brazil, I was thinking of Venezuela. The USA took a side in the Russian war and yet still traded with Russia. They took a side against Iran and many other contemporary Adversaries yet still maintained trade or worse gave away aid even when they did not have formal diplomatic relationships. Europe is not "at war" with Russia, at least not yet and neither is the USA yet both maintained trade with Russia in the face of sanctions.
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The original owners left the site so many years ago, and same with the second, or third owners.

I'm not even clear who owns it now. It would surprise me if it's very profitable.
The links in the readme to the samples, all have expired messages from AWS.
I wouldn't qualify it as fair, both are pretty horrible.
The low signal test is really interesting. Going on a hike and not turning on airplane mode can be disastrous for battery life.

I would take stability over bandwidth (within reason) any time. I have no need for a 1Gbit down, as long as I have a decent Adblocker installed.

That said, I've noticed my iPhone 15 switching to satellite mode and sticking to it for longer, even though I'm back in a place with reception. I now have to manually cycle Airplane mode to get it to pick up the network.
> wearables, IoT, AR/VR, Auto, etc...

Why would Android be a poor fit for those?
Perhaps this should be an option but I far prefer that tapping on a notification not do something that potentially notifies the sender that I saw the notification, certainly not calling them. I want to initiate that action knowingly and intentionally.
Do not run any Cargo commands on untrusted projects
Personally, I prefer that. I don't want to talk to people, usually. I want to go to the contact, see what communication forms we have in common, and send them a message.

I bet that they A/B tested this on users and this is not just a random change.
There are also some interesting pictures out there where people have tried to rebadge their Tesla, so that its manufacturer isn't too obvious from certain angles.
Brexit is a symptom, not the cause. The people who were most screwed by Britain's prior mistakes voted for it in a vain attempt at fixing the problem by throwing misguided nostalgia at it.
Level 3, the biggest Internet backbone transit provide, was spun off from the Peter Kiewit construction firm, and had as its original asset a coal mine in Wyoming.
Flashbacks to my ex's dad drilling the "missing" holes in his Ikea computer desk (pieces in the wrong place) makes me wonder if consumers are ready for DIY electronics. Love the concept and industrial look of it though.
> That would be super lucky if possible - almost all reals are not computable. How would we initialize or specify this Turing machine? Going to use non-constructive methods?

The standard model doesn't use arbitrary reals. All the parameters are rational numbers with finite precision.

Obviously, your Turing machine can only hard code a finite amount of information about the parameters, eg whatever finite prefix of their decimal expansion is known.

Btw, the speed of light is one of those parameters that's 'known' with absolute precision thanks to some clever definitions. We can do similar tricks with many of the other parameters, too.
It is, neoliberalism has been about taking away all the state owned assets and putting everything the country needs into private hands. This is what has stalled the economy and its what is fuelling enormous inequality. Calling for ever more of it falls really flat now after 40 years of the same strategy making things worse for the average person.
It wasn't uncommon for people to just jam wires into the outlet in a pinch, to the extent that public service announcements warned against it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH0Kxjx0sEM

Britain had two common standards for electrical outlets (BS 1363 and the older BS 546) plus a few less-common proprietary types. BS 1363 became the preferred standard for new installations in 1947, but the other types remained fairly common for decades. Appliances were not required to be supplied with a fitted plug until 1994, by which time BS 1363 had become dominant (if not quite ubiquitous).
Generally, company details including the owner personal details, become publicly available.

Eg. compare it to https://e-justice.europa.eu/searchBris.do

With CA following EU's example more than once, not surprised they'd have the same requirement, which effectively renders it a federal rule as long as you want to do business in CA.
Just ask the LLM to walk you through each line of code, create an explain the dependency graphs and in a relatively short period of time they’ll know exactly how their code works. Using Claude Code is quite useful for this - I use it on GitHub repositories I’m curious about.
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Is this a real bug? I recently got a MacOS device for the first time, and I have been frustrated that I couldn't get my custom service to work. Just like you, the script writes to files when I run it myself, but does nothing as a service.

I've been debugging it on and off for a couple of months because I assumed I messed something up.
Is this including the use of tax advantaged accounts like HSAs/401Ks/IRAs/etc?

In the US, it should be possible to get a 95th percentile household income ($300k, married filing joint) effective federal income tax rate down to 10% to 15%. Including total health insurance costs (employer + employee) plus some amount of deductible/out of pocket maximum for a family of 4 would bump it up to 20% to 25%. And then on top of that would be state + local tax liabilities like property and sales tax.

All in, I bet total proportion spent on taxes is less than 40%, even in California, at 95th percentile income, and 30% in a state without income tax.

Edit: I’m probably understating my numbers by 5% due to forgetting about social security and Medicare taxes.
Nintendo was playing cards.
I, too, would bet that your Cuisinart is likely to outlast you and me. That's what I have, and it's been in daily use for close to a decade now. Other than the silkscreened buttons losing their labels (easy fix: cut out some clear labels made with the P-Touch) it's as good as when it was new. We like it so much that we still kept it when we got a drawer-based air fryer 2 years ago which is my favorite kitchen purchase of all time.
I mean, as opposed to companies that get people addicted to a game and have them pay for the privilege? I would say so.
Do you think that universities only exist to educate students or something? You do realize that many universities do research, right?
In my experience lots of folks simply won't work with capability systems no matter how good the implementation is or whatever level of security and configuration granularity is provided.

For many people it's just extra friction in search of a use case.
> now, green energy is the cheapest

great to notice, but the overview falls short.. price signals are supposed to trigger conservation yet somehow, that is not discussed. Also note that energy markets have lifecycles.. it takes investment and infrastructure to make and deliver energy. Fossil fuels have done that in the past.
It will be a lot of work for the compiler to unspill modifications on any non-trivial data structure and reduce register pressure, especially since it's Java's first foray into structs :)

(I suppose if the list of things you can do with structs is very short, this will be nowhere near as useful but will also reduce the amount of compiler changes)
> a specific proper name in japanese (think like alice blue in english)

I hadn't heard of that one [0], the example that comes to mind is "Canary Yellow", but I suppose that's not so bound up to a specific cultural history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue
Worth the purchase price seems wild to me, but I guess things are all relative, have never owned an iPhone either, partly due to price and partly due to inferiority of software. That said, despite flagship folding phones seeming insanely expensive for what they are, they do seem like good and potentially better physical products than the standard static rectangle.
What led the police to believe the servers weren't going to Malaysia?
Apparently both products need high quality steel (for piano wires and engines), and that's how the company diversified (I can't remember which one started first).

Toyota was a maker of cotton looming machines before cars, and Nokia was a pulp mill and rubber manufacturer...
Being a native English speaker I absolutely love reading and listening to speakers of English as a second language. Speaking is actually a subspecies of singing, and it's always cool to hear the same old lyrics remixed to a new melody and a new beat.

English has no 'correct' way to be written or spoken, nor does it need one, nor would it benefit from one, therefore, nor should it have one.

Speakers of English as a second language: you are what makes English a great language.
“the World's Most Famous Shipwreck”

Really?
Since they have diffs I imagine your mistake (or not) would be immediately obvious. I just think the penalty is too large.
> public transport ... would be the cheapest and most effective in Europe.

While that is generally the argument, I wouldn't expect it to hold when governments remove subsidies as is often the case with regulated transport systems. The argument is actually one of efficiency.

I had a great argument with someone one time on the classic subject of deregulating roads. The interlocutor made a point that I initially struggled with - that without subsidies there probably wouldn't be many roads. After a bit of reflection it became obvious that in a free market where land was worth a lot of money, the market wouldn't put roads on it. Because of government subsidies, roads were being overbuilt beyond what actually makes sense (denser cities where people can walk from place to place are actually pretty livable). So in the case of deregulating transport higher prices isn't the end of it. If you remove a subsidy, there will be less of a thing. The question is why is that bad? If subsidies were good without drawbacks, we'd subsidise everything.

And land is a famous special case; there should be a land tax to weed out people trying to make money from owning undeveloped land.
And Word comes bundled by default on windows?

> And the OS comes with a PDF reader since what, Windows 8?

Which one, the Edge browser? Don't you have to install Sumatra PDF or Acrobat?
1-2? I'm on 6 or 7, and I'm hoping to get another few decades in. I've spent as little as $10, and as much as $50. When the last one died, I gave serious consideration to the Dualit, but the slots aren't long enough for my usual bread. So I went with Wirecutter's $30 recommendation and fully expect it to die within the decade as well.

Admittedly, I eat toast for breakfast at least 340 days a year, but I do sort of wish someone would sell a toaster that lasts so I could quit putting crappy ones in the landfill.
Just curious, why did they decide to use Electron instead of native? After all those are Apple MacOS software.
I want to see more discussion from the perspective that the economy and government is not just a process, an institution, but a contest, an arena.
Outcomes which are presented as a failure, are not merely a failure, but like a punch in a boxing match that misses its mark, occurs in a wider context, and against deliberate opposition. A failed project might be a failure for most, but for opponents it may be a victory, or even just collateral damage in a wider fight.
I'm from mobile so I can't see much more but I can spot that the url contains the _gl parameter. That's the parameter (and cookie) used by Google Analytics to perform cross-domain tracking so I believe your assumption that GA is active is correct.

More info here if you want: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10071811
The woman who I thought was "best" that I was wildly in love with a few months later cheated on me. I've never really fully recovered from the ordeal.

That said, as I've entered my 30s things seem more strategic. I want love more than ever and after re-locating to the SF Bay Area women seem more sparse than ever.

Idk if modern women in america "stick around" anymore.
Things like the Royal Society have value due to their history but mostly due to their membership. Thus, if the members decide the society does not reflect their beliefs, or might be seen as a negative, they’ll leave. Their stature due to the literature, their student “family” and the value of their work is independent of any gong.
I mean postdoc isn't necessarily a good thing, arguably it's a bad thing. You do postdocs while you wait for something better to come up.
That is definitely true however irrelevant to my original point. Talking about now, today.
Having now retried it, I wasn't able to reproduce it until re-launching the wallpaper selection screen, then it was chaotic again. Bizarre.
I used to think it's cool the same company makes a pencil and an F-16 derivative ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_F-2 ), but alas, the pencilmaker is not the same company.

Mitsubishi also makes the world's most expensive toaster: https://youtu.be/Lq3iwWaoU7w
No, if you want to have a stable standard of living, you need higher energy prices for polluting energy sources, and lower energy prices for non-polluting energy sources.

Then, to make killing this political suicide, make sure to mail every man, woman, and dog a check every two weeks called 'CARBON DIVIDEND'.
I've toyed around with a similar idea. A pizza shop style manufacturing/fixit hub that would pick up and deliver locally manufactured items like that.

I even think that repairing items at a loss could work out, because you'd get valuable customer data on what items they used enough to break, and what parts broke, giving you an insight to make your own product lines that didn't break in that way.
https://archive.ph/e56IV
Is it? I disagree. The university I went to has a mission to “conduct research, provide education, and engage with the community to improve the lives of people and the environment”. MIT’s is to “educate students and advance knowledge in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship”.

It’s not a problem. You just have a narrow view of what you think our higher ed institutions should be.
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There are plenty of us that would love to just sit and fix things all day, but then you get a poor performance review for not shipping new features and find yourself out of a job :)
I'll just comment on the tariff part. They're bad because they're hostile and they damage economic relationships. Maybe you don't care about economic relationships with China but should very much are about Canada and Mexico, the only countries that border the US! They can find other trade partners, and military alliances are now damaged for a long time. Even if the policies are reversed and a new administration takes over, the US is now an unreliable and unstable partner to have. Tariff's can be a useful trade tool, done for economic reasons and after trade negotiations over time. But consider all the demeaning and hostile remarks about Canada, Mexico, their leaders and their people by the current administration, that is the context where tariff's are being applied.

Make no mistake, the current administration is anything but. They are systemically destroying the nation, so that they can forever rule over the ashes that remain. In the mean time, some groups of people will enjoy the warmth of the nation burning down. I desperately wish I was speaking hyperbole, being emotional or exaggerating.

Oh, and what is bidenomics exactly? he hardly passed any controversial economic policies. Just lots of investment on america and creating jobs, infrastructure,etc.. nothing remotely partisan, except the climate focused stuff maybe.
Is it only neurons? Is it not also the forces acting on the brain matter, chemical/physical and pre-conditionally? I suspect any brain state is practically created from infinite complexity, unless there was some way to simulate the local light cone and age a model appropriately.
Nice presumption of guilt!

Do you also think it's the public's right to have a camera in your bathroom because you might be snorting lines of coke in there? :)

The beneficial ownership information goes well beyond shell companies doing weird accounting tricks. In particular, it makes it so that it's impossible to own a home without having your name connected to it in a vulnerable databases which criminals will almost certainly be able to access.
I am not pretending anything. I've showed some actual evidence to back to back up my view point.

Moreover, time after time the British public are surveyed about their views on immigration and ethnic background is not something that is important to a large portion of the people taking part.

Are there some people that do care? Sure there are, but they are very small minority typically.
I don't recall any lawsuits after Wyden exposed the push notification backdoor.
Do you not get charged different rates based on usage amounts? This is common across the world - where the first X KWH of usage per month cost a lot less than the next X.
Assuming what you said to be true - and I don’t believe it is - why?
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To some people, everything is still Thatcher's fault, 40 years later.
he's basically squidward
That's a system that benefits mega-corporations running everything. Housing/cost of living is so expensive it cripples most upward mobility as regular people can't take risks investing/starting a business/switching careers/etc or have savings because they can barely afford rent. The only ones building/buying houses are real estate investors who can afford to navigate the complex market rules, so you'll be stuck working for one and renting from another.
I think regarding the combination of usability and stability the Win XP/7 era was still unbeatable.
Because they're acting on instructions from the government of that country.
Or, in the pre-USB-PD days, you do this[0]. Only 30 USB ports required. I swear I remember this being a toaster instead of a hot plate, but I guess you would need around 300 USB ports for a toaster.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2022/12/01/throwback-usb-hotplate-used-...
You can turn off automatic updates if you want. You can even control security sensitive updates and App Store app updates separately.
Emulsifiers cause leaky gut. Leaky gut causes inflammation.

The article says that eating food with emulsifiers is better than eating bacon or candy. That doesn't sound like a good reason to consume emulsifiers, it sounds like a resignation that we have no power over the food available to us.

The use of emulsifiers by food manufacturers is leveraging an externality, they save/make more money in exchange for individuals spending more on healthcare and lost opportunity cost from feeling unwell.
Amen. This paper is worth more than all of the fraudulent, unreproducible papers we are inundated with, put together and squared.
It’s more horrible now. Syncing now opens a Finder window with an inconsistent look and feel, and sometimes fails to copy new songs in a synced playlist. The playlist view has the album art taking up half the screen, but there’s no way to shrink that section. And there’s no visual indication for whether shuffle is on - it has no grey box around it when enabled.

I kind of think they made it shitty on purpose to push everyone towards a subscription. Many of these issues apply to locally stored songs and playlists, which is how I use it.
Start with the personal butlers and beach chair attendants at all the big R1 universities. Those positions should go.