skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just about to buy a house outside of London. I'm also about to send my 2 kids to private school as all the decent local state schools are full with waiting lists (thankfully a lot cheaper than the figures mentioned here). I had a look at one of the options for commuting into London. This is the quickest option from where I am (via HS1). I'm already up to the following monthly expenses:

Mortgage: £3200

School Fees: £1375

Travel: £450 (next cheapest is £300)

Insurance: ~£300 (Critical Illness, Life insurance)

Bills: £1500 (guestimate)

These are a mix of expenses I'll have to pay personally, and some that I can pay as business expenses.

So I'm up to £7k monthly outgoings already, without even trying. In reality I'll need to add another £3k ish for loan repayments and other bits. As a contractor I'm able to be quite tax efficient, but as a single salary earner, http://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php tells me I'd need to be earning > £200k to cover this.

I could economize. I could get a cheaper car for example and I could have bought a cheaper house - the one I'm buying certainly isn't a palace though.

But, yeah - London is expensive!
"The safest thing you can do on a bicycle is be predictable"

Generally the case for most (all?) participants in traffic!
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Upvoted for Edinburgh. It's lovely here, affordable by comparison with the south-east, and has a reasonable tech centre. Still trying to find the startup clique, though; is there an "HN Edinburgh"?
Scholarships still in evidence at all?
The degree of entitlement evidenced by this article is seriously distasteful.

If private school from age 3 is part of a "minimum" lifestyle, exactly how does the author describe the lifestyle of all the kids who go to state schools?

Zone 1 indeed.
Minimum salary to live that particular lifestyle.

20k/year on holidays might be realistic for a family of 4-5 depending on where they went. If they're teenage children, you're getting family suites or two hotel rooms and could easily pay $400+/night.

3-4 trips totalling say 25 days. Airfares add up for 4-5 people. $3k+ on airfares, $10k+ on accommodation. Four people eating out 1-2 times/day. Car hire (SUV rather than a hatchback to fit all luggage), entertainment, etc.

I earn peanuts compared to those examples but just had a trip to the States with wife, toddler and infant. Probably cost $20-30k in one 8 week trip and that was without the fourth airfare and generally cramming four of us into budget hotels where possible.
I think that's overstating it. My first job in London I was on £28k and I was ok but wouldn't want to go lower. Take-home pay was about £1800/month, I spent £850/month rent (Zone 3, noisy loft conversion in an old building), maybe £450/month general shopping (food and clothes and the like), £200 going out and the rest on occasional stuff like a computer or holidays.

You can live much cheaper - I've seen 11k claimed by someone who shared a tiny basement and cooked all their own meals off the cheapest supermarket food - but you're making significant lifestyle compromises.
That's a horribly misleading little segment there... the time scales were completely incompatible. A CT scan is an instantaneous event, a stay on the ISS lasts 6 months, and the smoker's lungs statistic is over an entire lifetime.
Yup, there's a full game in there. You can (if you're good enough =p) play all the way through to the end. We have only two known winners on record since the game's launch. It's hard.

What's missing is the mid/late-game optional branches that will add interactive story elements, multiple endings, and lots more robots and components (the latter objects are all complete, but you can't access them yet until the new maps are added).

And yeah you'd be the target audience; anyone who plays DCSS and DF would fall into that category :D.

There are absolutely the types of strategic differences you mention here, and wide spectrum of approaches. The good thing is it's not entirely based on luck--you can hunt down specific robots and take what you need; at the same time, if caught in the wrong place you could end up getting beat up and forced to switch strategies on the fly. This is a big part of the appeal I think. Comebacks from a partial defeat are commonplace, but not always in the way you intended.
I don't believe so, not in my exp.

This will probably lead to a TON of consolidation in the EU, and over the next 5 years you will end up with 4 to 5 big players.
Replacing the £500k job with ten £50k jobs would make at least nine people better off, yes. The ten people could then manage at least four hundred hours a week of work. It's strange how indivisible the really high paid jobs are.
Good luck when you decide to cancel it though, Three is a pain in the ass to leave with their hour-long questionnaire and legalese. I really liked their service but it was so annoying to leave I don't think I'll ever use them again. I'm a giffgaff-ian, by the way.
Given that London house prices are a function of supply and demand, if everyone on £500k did that then I personally would be a lot better off.
This patent is pretty far reaching as it effectively just encapsulates most of the machine learning field. So does not seem enforceable (but you never know - it could take one judge to not understand).

Not sure what Google's main motive behind patenting this is but it's fun to speculate - I am hoping it's just to protect the ML field against patent trolls trying to 'weaponize' patents in the field.
Many thanks! And feel free to wait until the price drops next year if you need to :). I've got enough funds to see it through to completion, though I'd like to use any surplus to hire a professional composer for the OST.
"Were you all raised in a communist regime?"

No, just in an ordinary family at around median income for the UK. We ate well. We had holidays (not so many foreign ones during the days of exchange controls).

I resisted the temptation to reply in a humourous way to the parent post out of respect for HN norms. I could have mentioned those Three Yorkshiremen and The North.
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The author is describing their friends, not themselves. It doesn't sound entitled to me to describe what they're witnessing and wonder about the figures. The discrepancy comes from that being described as a "minimum" (and thus linkbait headline) when really it should be qualified at all levels as minimum for that lifestyle.
I use it for news, but for video and maps with satellite view it's too pricey.
A more interesting interpretation would be that the observable universe could be near a parallel unobservable universe and that gravity of that universe is influencing current universe.
For comparison purposes, if one wants a benchmark for a top notch salary, then it is common practice to use the salary of the Prime Minister, who earns £142k.
I would assume so too, and thus the lack of articles regarding corruption in Russia. Publishing that there is corruption in Russia or that water is wet will not gain any readers.

If someone leaked that there is an absence of corruption then that would news worthy, but such false information doesn't seem to be the kind of articles Wikileaks would publish. Logically, if you can't publish about the existence of corruption because everyone knows about it and you can't publish about the absence of corruption because it would be false, then Russian coverage regarding corruption will be lackluster. Maybe they should just post a bunch of empty pages with the title "Russia corruption" to make statistics like the parent posted look better.
http://www.entitledto.co.uk/

On a salary of £20,000 a single person living in SE1 would be entitled to £58 a week housing benefit.
I understand that. That's the exact problem. To me, the F-35 issue represents a case of politicising the systems engineering process.

All of the defence contractors are really good at implementing systems from requirement specifications. In this case, the requirement specification has been added to and added to by political desires until it represents an object that simply can't pass muster. Lockheed has some incredible engineering talent, but even they cannot implement a system that has specifications simply unachievable by current technology.

Something has obviously gone horribly wrong with the requirements capture stage of the program. The program sponsors (the military) have clearly asked for an impossible task. That's been bundled up in a specification and passed to engineers, who despite their best efforts are simply unable to make all the components play nicely together. Now we have a broken system because the subsystems just can't fit together. The textbook example is the VTOL aspect - a sleek and aerodynamic fighter can't afford to have a whopping great rotating turbofan in its guts, yet the requirements are both there.

If this isn't taught in systems engineering classes in 10-20 years as a case study on what not to do, I'll eat my hat.
Does anyone else find it hilarious to see a bureaucrat heading up an enormous and bloated state intelligence apparatus trying to give a lecture about free markets?
There is a lot of DCPU-16 emulators on the wild. Also, there is a few successor games projects of 0x10c that uses DCPU-16 or his own cpu's
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it's only a matter of time before someone runs linux on it.
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For the Dutch air force, the only real requirement seems to be that it's American. The rest doesn't really matter.
There is a limit to the total computation that can be done in the universe or with a certain limited energy/volume of space. It's caused by the slowness of signals traveling at light speed. They say probably a black hole is the best computational engine there is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_computation
Which is another way of saying that reality is invented.

"Measuring" is applying our sensors onto the external reality and producing a map of what is observed in the form of thoughts, ideas, imagery - 'perception'.

But since the sensors are also part of reality, which does not exist before sensing it, it can be postulated that what is perceived is not a consequence of reality hitting the sensors, but the result of a new thought about reality being perceived, or simply - an invention.

That is, reality (including your body, brain and you) is the product of a thought process, but (here's the interesting part) the thinker is you and not you at the same time, or rather - the thinker is you and every other being.

That thinker is called God. Or Universe or whatever you want to call the thing or being that is the eternal recursive loop of self-invention / self-perception.

Of course very hard to put into language, but easily grokked under psychedelics.

It's interesting that science (and math) is slowly pointing towards this conclusion too, a thing that many great scientists arrived at intuitively.
It's perfectly reasonable to say that in the future, human pilots won't be dogfighting, that's the job of missiles and drones, the human's job is to exercise tactical control close enough to not need satellite links.

But in that case, if the F-35's real job is to serve as a sort of fast, stealthy Awacs, then surely it shouldn't incur all the compromises inherent in building a plane that looks like it was supposed to replace the F-16?
You might almost need to loss lead for years, paying people in some fashion to bring content. e.g., dress up listings similar to the way Airbnb sends out their photographer to shoot your place professionally, or Uber is subsidising drivers to establish a foothold.

If you did car sales (as a bad example), you could handle the entire process for customers - sending out a photographer, building the listing and researching an appropriate list price. Wear the costs until you have the brand established and can start to make money. That would probably be attractive to people who don't have time or aren't confident enough to do it all themselves.
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Weirdly, that's not even the highest salary in the public sector. And you occasionally get MPs complaining that it's "not enough to live on" (which in comparison to the £500k couples it isn't). Malcolm Rifkind got himself in the news lately for hiring himself out and saying "I'm not paid a salary", while earning £67k for being an MP and ~£110k for being a nonexecutive director of Unilever a few days a week.

At least the job of PM comes with the use of two houses and a car.
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Well, for one you would have a line of communication to all drone operators through which you could work towards mandatory insurance, or establish some minimum training, etc. I don't think registration should be the bare minimum.
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Minimum salary required to be a part of Boris's and David's circles.
Absolutely! For a start 17 students each year are fully funded. Then there are 25 additional fully funded scholariship students are taken on at the beginning of the penultimate year (called 6th form year in the UK).

Added to these are are lots of partial scholarships available, though the ways in which these are funded and obtained are a little more roundabout. The Music department in particular often gave prospective students scholarships of up to 90% of fee totals.
Well, the EU decided that it was going to ban roaming charges!

The only reason customers would sign up to ARPs is to avoid expensive roaming charges. It's been apparent since before the ARP/LBO legislation came into effect that the EU was planning to eliminate roaming charges altogether within a few years. So, potential ARPs were faced with the prospect of operating for just a couple of years before their market effectively vanished.

It also didn't help that the mobile network operators dragged their heels on entering into agreements with the ARPs that did try to enter the market.
For any given number I'm sure you can come up with a lifestyle that costs that much. Costs expand to consume the money available. So I don't think anyone will ever reach financial independence "without changing your lifestyle."

There are always things you would have spent the money on. The trick is deciding which you care about, and whether you value them more than independence.
I would asssume that the £30k without paying income tax

Very comfortable life: £30k per year. Which still corresponds to £40k gross salary (roughly 1.5x statistical median wage), but with tax-efficient asset allocation you can relatively easily achieve £30k per year without paying any income taxes

comes from drawing down savings rather than earning income? At £40k annual income, your effective tax rate is 14.7%[0], so without complicated self-employed tax reporting (deducting most of your expenses), I don't see how you can reduce taxes on earned income. Sure, the ISAs (read: tax-free savings accounts) give you tax-free earnings, but they haven't been around long enough for you to make all of your income from them[1].

0 - https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowa...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Savings_Account#Ori...
As if we needed more proof that GCC is a fucking joke...
Drug dealers are doing OK.
loved the rainbow brackets on that, it must be so useful to see where they match up with colour.
America throws enough food in the garbage to be able to feed every hungry person on the planet. The reason that this problem exists is economics. The food is made to feed those with capital, and because it's profitable, it's still profitable even when a bunch of food has to be thrown away. The cost and logistics of moving this food which is highly perishable is greater than the benefit of moving it. So it's instead dumped.

If artificial intelligence was running the game, it might find better ways to allocate the food through various systems of economics and price to prevent this behavior. But the way our system is set up, this is the normal and optimal behavior of the system.
Devops contract rate seems to be around £450/day (at the low end). Assuming 21 days per month and 2 months off per year, you'd be looking at £94500 revenue. As a contractor you could expect to pay as little as 25% total tax, but if we assume 30% you're looking at taking home £5.5k per month. Which is a grand more than an £80k salary (with an extra month off).

If you're married and have your SO as a shareholder, thus splitting the tax load you can almost match a £200k salary on a day rate of ~£700 (I have seen a few devops type roles getting up towards that figure).

So, I agree that £250k salary is very top end, but there are certainly contracts in the finance industry that pay enough to get you close if you change the way you're paid.
Haha - I hadn't even considered this. So yeah - the cost of childcare is largely not going to overlap with the cost of private education (where that private education includes accomodation of course).
Alas, I suspect supply will be very carefully managed to ensure that voters in the UK do not have their main asset devalued over the next 10 to 15 years or so.

After that, enough younger people will be renting for the balance to flip and the price correction to occur.
I don't think it will be 20+ years in their initial, primary markets.
People scoff at these articles because they give the impression that the people involved are barely able to scrape by. The "we know how poor people feel because after our 2x mortgages 4x holidays 3x private school fees 3x car expenses and 2x weekly nights out, we don't have any money left either" syndrome ;) (A line of thinking that is surprisingly common. Keep an eye out for it!)

This tends to amuse me, but it does seem to make some people angry. Few of them seem to be in this thread, though. Certainly not enough to count as "everyone here".
How do you define smart consumerism? Or do you just hate consumerism in general?
I too wrote a TIS-100 simulator in C ( https://github.com/hthh/tis100sim ) - it's interesting to compare styles.

(I get a bunch of errors on OS X unless I change "CC=gcc" to "CC=clang", btw)
Nice idea in politics, in practice it will take much longer to be fully implemented. The mobile grid system in Europe is so scattered and non integrated, that technically this is not simple to achieve within a year.

To be honest i cant back this up with arguments and/or data. But this is what i heard from telecom specialists in the field.
Could just be an ADT. photon :: (Wave | Particle)
And for this we gave net neutrality legislation away.
Intuition tells me this is like saying a droplet of water can both be a sphere and a single point because it'll pass through several holes on a net, but capillary action makes it collapse into a needle.
School fees for two of £1375 a month seems pretty reasonable compared to what I thought. What kind of standard of school do you get for that? What age? Day or boarding? Does that include things like uniforms, sports and trips?
Good to hear that. Helps to keep the charitable status I suppose.
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your Bourgeois link is not even in London....

For a family with Kid, youar completely missing it:
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WYSIWYG editors like Vivify (http://bytefluent.com/vivify/) are helpful too. The greatest challenge for me with making vim look nice is in harmonizing the vim color scheme with that of my guake terminal emulator. I wasted too much time trying to synchronize terminal colors with vim colors, eventually giving up.

Whoever solves that problem earns a raise
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If you're a single twenty-something you can flatshare and spend a third of that money.
This has been in the works for years, so telecoms have had plenty of time to get ready. They've also been offering much better roaming rates the past few years within Europe.
Sometimes? Sure. But just letting each branch do what they want isn't the right way either.
May have missed it somewhere on your homepage, but are you planning a Mac version?
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The fact the roaming in other countries is more expensive doesn't make it any cheaper
I always find it fascinating at just how much of our fundamental physics ends up being constraints on information movement. The laws of thermodynamics are about entropy, general relativity puts constraints on the movement of information (for example, Spooky Action as a Distance(tm) is faster than light, but you can't transmit information with it), the Uncertainty Principle puts limits on how much information you can have on a given system.

Information information everywhere you look in fundamental physics. It does make me wonder why.
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Some more info here which might shed some light: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9132352
Amazing, really tells more about keeping up with the Joneses and the societal pressure to conform to their expectations.

As you earn more money, your social circles change and there is a cost to moving into that circle. You have to live in the right area, dress in the right clothes and drive the right car. So the costs increase to levels that seem exorbitant to people on "average" salaries but really they are just as much slaves to the system as anyone else.

The trick is to earn good money and not spend it on frivolities, but marketeers and advertisers work hard to get people to spend their hard earned cash to great effect.
> is it preferable to have ageing weapons on a nimble plane, or the newest weapons on a clumsy plane?

Why not put the newest weapons on the nimble plane? I don't see why you wouldn't be able to put the newest weapons on an F-16. Requires more electronics on the plane? You can put new electronics in an F-16. Planes get updated all the time.
I read the book too. Pretty curious what the diplomats thought of it.
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I am the author of this library. I would love to add more examples. What would you like to see?
This sounds like donations in an app, which are actually not allowed on the iOS App Store (not that I agree with this rule).
Yup! I'm in the same boat as you - need to switch between light and dark theme due to the switch between outdoor/indoor. I run xterm in openbox, with specific placements (geometry setting) for a specific xterm window session. I ended up writing a script to place the xterm windows exactly where I want them so that I don't have to worry about restarting xterm windows and losing the spatial context. It's a hairy perl script that started life about 8 years ago I think. I have two openbox menu configured to start my xterm windows - one for black and one for white background. It also sets an environment variable there so that vim knows what colorscheme to use when it starts. So everytime I switch between indoor/outdoor I do a ":mksession!|quit", followed by alt+f4 to close the xterm window and then hit the openbox menu to reopen the just closed xterm window with the new background color, and resume my vim session with the color scheme adapted to the current background color. I bet using a modern IDE you can get this done with just one or two keystroke heh.
That's pretty much the average graduate starting salary in London, so plenty of graduates are earning less. I started on £24k in 2008, but I shared a flat within cycling distance of work, which significantly reduced my expenses — £407/month in rent, plus £60/month in bills.
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I think one could reliably break (more safely) on undefined behavior by inserting defensive run-time checks. Whether that's worth the performance hit is liable to be domain specific.