skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One would assume the reproduction rate of the bacteria is sufficient to make this sustainable.
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16825800, but this looks like the more substantive article.
Aversion to risk.
A $billion+ gift each year from Uncle Sam to 'maintain' a launch capability and 'free' pads from Harris-Vandenberg and PAFB kept Boeing/Lockheed in the game without risking 'Investors' deposits.
For that $billion and cost+ launches, US gets an average of one Delta launch a year and a few 60year-old Atlas cost+ launches with filthy thyroid killing strap-ons.
Since actually RISKING 'Investors' deposits with un-tested hardware is 'fiducially irresponsible' for any 'Public Corporation', unless DOD or NASA covers ALL costs, the US space game stopped at Reagan. ATK-Orbital are cleaning out the back stockroom, P&W-Rocketdine just walked away.
That's interesting. I left the US many years ago but still have to file an income tax return as well as FBAR. But I don't live in PR.
We mostly merged this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16839388, which has the more substantive article.
> Without actually showing some statistics on the pension payments and how the overall budget breaks down, I can't help but feel manipulated.

The article links the lack of public services to high pensions. It´s painted as if there were no other options but to cut on pensions.

"In the meantime, mounting pension costs mean that a generation of schoolchildren is growing up in the area with no theater program, no orchestra, no wood shop and minimal sports, chorus and art."

Because pensions are the only reason. Maybe increased inequality, the lack of taxing of the top 1%, money wasted on lobbying, are also causes. But we are not offered any data.
Can you clarify how terms of changed, or direct me to further reading about that?

Otherwise I think point about the $80B not being liquid is a good one. It's not a dishonest figure, but it's clearly inaccurate and inappropriate for the purpose of estimating returns. The real answer is going to be far more nuanced than simply stating the aggregate value of all YC companies on paper.
Hopefully they end up more intimate and well informed when it comes to tech than us when they grow up :)
QuickBooks Self Employed is actually a really nice product that I use for my consulting and SaaS companies. I linked my business checking accounts and credit cards with it and can easily tag all transactions (income and schedule C). It also handles estimating quarterly taxes and allow me to make quarterly payments online via eftps.gov. Finally at the end of the year it exports everything right into TurboTax.
eh. mediocre only because he sets the stage early as TT being able to do this devilish stuff because they’ve studied user behavior for a decade or decades and know you. making TT out to be some devil that knows you personally.

honestly it’s standard predatory sales technique that many many companies use, including amazon. (like pretending that prime day prices are actually a bargain)
I wonder if techies can do anything to help? Better flow of information? Crypto?
I’ve heard a similar trick about asking for their name but then saying oh I meant your last name.
http://archive.is/mhGAd
>If the government just capped their incomes at 100K a month we could pay off all national debt in months.

The government would be quickly replaced with one who would undo this change. Nobody would support it. This is so ridiculous I think you're trolling.
There are many people who think their countries are "democracies" merely because they have multiple parties and hold elections. If a country's checks and balances are so weak that it can be sunk by one or two demagogues within a decade, it probably shouldn't be called a democracy regardless of its selection system.
No. I meant a non-amazon marketplace, not a curated guide that takes you back to Amazon for actual purchase
interesting. for once I'm one of those people in the comments claiming an exceptional condition. for most of my life I've been able to "place a face" almost every single time. as a kid it would manifest itself when I would recognize kids from the various schools I'd attended while moving around. lately it's been recognizing people around town that I've seen on dating apps (I live in a smaller town now but it happened when I was living in NYC too). too bad it's basically a worthless talent (other than the occasional person that's charmed that I remembered them from some conversion we'd had years ago). ironically I'm shit at remembering names.
I stopped looking at my keyboard. I was slow initially but ever so slowly became faster. I too would recommend typeracer[1] as a fun way to speed things up.

[1]: http://play.typeracer.com
civil servants and the like get to retire with almost their best pay ever

That system changed in 1984. Now the FERS annuity is (for most people) about half of their highest pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Employees_Retirement_S...

(It's still a decent deal, but it's not a defined benefit plan based on your highest pay)
how capitalism works.

Not really, but okay.
Brainwash at its best
Actually you are 100% wrong, Defense is funded with taxpayer dollars. The internet was invented and maintained with taxpayer dollars, the whole private sector is feeding off free goods created by the government. Why shouldn't the government negotiate? That only seems fair.
The simplest tax code isn't necessarily the fairest.
Re the ongoing debate here about government pay (and whether it's high or low):

I'm not super familiar with city and state government jobs, but I do know something about military and federal compensation. They frequently pay less in salary, but have better benefits. This makes it an apples to oranges comparison when trying to talk about what they pay in comparison to non government jobs.

I was a military wife for a lot of years and I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to convey this. At one time, my army spouse was nominally making about half the income of someone else close to me, but take home pay for my spouse and this other person was nearly identical and I never spent a dime on doctor's visits or prescription medication. The primary difference in our quality of life was that my husband's income supported a family of four and this other individual was single and childless at the time.

So it gets really confusing because sometimes the take home pay for government jobs is less, but the total compensation package can be better. This means that two people arguing about it can both be right and unable to see the other point of view.
You need connections in China to do anything as a unfair advantages or you will never succeed.
Besides the fact that the CBO disagrees. Take an entry level job requiring a bachelors degree. That’ll be GS5 or 7. That’s $35-43k in Atlanta (a city right at the median cost of living index). That’s also right around the average starting salary for all majors (41,000). https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-10-05/hiring-start...
To me, that sense of security is not false (even 90% reliable is better than 0%). And to suggest that type systems are a contributory factor to developers writing functions/classes that are too large is completely unsubstantiated.
It looks like the more advanced the technology is the more expensive and difficult it is to repair. Sometimes better to just stick a couple product generations for things to settle down.
No, that's what the other two were. I'm saying that there's the possibility that you got hired at Apple because you were smart, and end up continuing work on iOS even when you leave, but without any sort of knowledge of the internals. For example, say they rewrote some portion of code that you were familiar with: in that case, you should be free to take a look since you no longer have any inside information on it.
If you use TurboTax every year it carries over a lot of information each time.
How to sign an Amazon web service request in .NET with SOAP and without WSE?
I'd guess by taking your salary and determining if it was around $66k or less.
> Critics say high schools aren’t doing enough to prepare young people for life after graduation, in-demand jobs and a pathway to the middle class.

Maybe there is no "pathway to the middle class". Because the middle class is disappearing.
> If there are a dozen investors willing to buy stock at $x it’s worth $x.

This is not a correct representation of liquidity, and thinking about it under this definition can be very dangerous. You need to consider:

1. How many shares are there outstanding?

2. What is the ask price of those shares on paper?

3. What is the bid price of those shares by investors willing to purchase them on the private market?

4. How many owners are allowed to sell their shares at the same time?

5. How many owners could realistically find a buyer at the paper ask price of the shares?

6. How many owners could sell their shares before the existing deviation (spread) between the paper ask price and available bid prices changed?

This is not to say your overall point is wrong, it's to say that it can't be defended this way; more importantly, we really shouldn't be simplifying our discussion and its definition of liquidity to the one you've presented here, which is too simplistic. There is a lot of nuance about price discovery between public and private valuation that's missing here. For (one) example, you can maintain an artificially inflated valuation of a private company if there are fewer owners willing/able to sell than there are buyers, despite a relatively larger set of potential owners either not allowed to, or not conveniently capable of, selling their shares. This scenario makes presents an asymmetry between the weighting and availability of positive vs negative price sentiment that is much more easily resolved in the public market.
John Titor was born in early 1998. Marlin Pohlman is in his 40s.
I have a mild version of this - usually I lean on a person's trappings, context, or they might hit a sort of LRU cache. In a crowded situation though all bets are off. Makes dating difficult - I've walked past girlfriends multiple times. Even if you try to disclaim this Prosopagnosia thing, there is a sort of innate offense you give when you don't recognize someone. The eyes give it away. Also if I look you up and down I'm not (necessarily) checking you out, I'm looking for distinctive characteristics.
>>Elixir depends on the decades of development behind the Erlang VM and in many ways is just syntactic sugar on top of Erlang/OTP

I think calling Elixir "just syntactic sugar" is a gross and unfair oversimplification. While friendly syntax is one of its welcoming qualities, Elixir is its own language. It doesn't "transpile" into Erlang. It compiles down to bytecode.
Thanks for your feedback, Mathematica has indeed millions of $ to provide more features and advertise them, and Jupyter have only a few full time devs that probably do not advertise enough its features:

1) Binder makes that a git push away https://mybinder.org/ Want to check the discovery of gravitational waves ? Go ahead ! https://github.com/minrk/ligo-binder You know the nice thing ? it does not require you to opt-in, as long as a repo is public you an run it. So you don't need have to deploy, or know it exists. we are _already_ doing that for you.

2) Jupyter is "Just" the frontend. StackOverflow have matpltlolib, numpy, sympy, .. tags. We don't the subdomain (yet), and I actually prefer to have tags to have better searching :-)

3) Sure it's called ipywidgets (https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), that's the tech. From ipywidgets import interact, and @interact as decorator on your function... that's it.

4) For convenience Library that use ipywidgets for 3D see https://ipyvolume.readthedocs.io/en/latest/animation.html (Hey it also support VR !) See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ3HQpSXn2U that will blow your mind.

We'll try to be better at advertising our features !
> after bad publicity stemming from his political donations about things like gay marriage

As much as I respect Eich, this part trivializes the reasons for his ouster. I wish the essay had just left it out instead of making it seem silly.
I also recently began learning SQL properly, and I also regret not having done so earlier.

The PG docs/tutorial is really great to get started.

After I worked through those, I feel it was essential to work my way through pgexercises.com. It's really easy to think you get it, but actually having to puzzle through stuff is obviously quite different.

When I reached some of the more complicated subquery stuff, I decided to get 'Learn SQL' by Alan Beaulieu (recommended by pgexercises), and I just worked my way from the start all over again. Book's excellent too.

I do find that I hit a 'barrier' when all the basic parts are introduced and it becomes all about translating a goal to 'thinking in SQL', especially when there seem to be multiple valid approaches. But the combination of reading a ton, then doing the exercises, then re-reading and trying to play around with the Learning SQL db (Sequel Pro is great for Mac, as is Postico (Postgres)) has been very effective so far.
They do, but much like a potato the outer skin contains the germination layer. Exposure to salt water and sunlight slowly destroys this, and salt water dehydrates the inner flesh. They do not survive to germinate.
According to the experts at Stanford at least 25% of people diagnosed with ADHD/ADD are actually misdiagnosed Narcoleptics. Anyone diagnosed with ADHD/ADD could easily rule this out with a simple sleep study. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sleep-newzzz/201305/...
Well, this actually: https://m.imgur.com/a/KZvzw
I guess the layman's followup question (if I may) is, why didn't something like Smallpox spread over to the Americas, if viruses are that prevalent? Why did they need a human host? Is there a specific evolutionary niche to not being infectious via the air?
http://zty.pe/
The spectrum of abstraction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE

This is an high level talk. it guides on how to choose between competing solutions to a problem when the commonly accepted answer is "it depends"
"So, when lawmakers required government retirees to pay Oregon’s 9 percent income tax, as everybody else did, they also increased pensions by 9.89 percent, giving retirees extra money to pay the tax with."

Government workers are certainly in a special privileged class.
Not the OP but I didn't pick up the senior title till I was 8 years in. I don't know you so you might be _that_ good but there's a lot more to being a senior dev than just being really good at crushing code. A lot of your job is unblocking other teammates and generally rising the productivity of your team as a whole. In other words you are a "10x developer" by virtue of what you do for others rather than just what you yourself can output on your own. There's also stuff that comes from hard earned experience such as _not_ picking x hot new framework (which will likely be abandoned by its maintainer 6 months from now) or deciding when to buy vs build (I've worked with developers who literally tried to rewrite Apples layout engine...). I am not saying you aren't ready but I've not personally encountered anyone 4 years into their career that was.

As for an example resume, I am one of the people tasked with reviewing senior developer resumes at my job and here is my advice: One. Page. Seriously. Keep it to one. You will stand out right away by virtue of that. Beyond that we really only care about your relevant skills and recent experience so put an array of your skills front and center and then follow it with a good amount of detail about your current/last position. The rest you can be pretty sparse on because it only gets a glance.

Best of luck to you.
#Softwarish - I'm biased a bit more towards interface development:

greg wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True - https://vimeo.com/9270320#t=3450s

steve wittens - making webgl dance - the title is deceptive, it's in some ways a visual crash course in linear algebra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8&t=84s

glenn vanderburg - software engineering doesn't work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCns726nBhQ

chris granger - in search of tomorrow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8

alan kay - tribute to ted nelson at intertwingled fest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw

bret victor - this is already mentioned but if I had to pick one it'd be 'the humane representation of thought' - https://vimeo.com/115154289

#Hardwarish:

saul griffith - soft, not solid: beyond traditional hardware engineering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMowPAJwqo

deb chachra - Architectural Biology and Biological Architectures - https://vimeo.com/232544872

#Getting more meta in technology and history:

James Burke - Connections
could the potatoes plausibly be encased in something else, like a mixture of clay, wood, and other detritus from a mudslide? Maybe even a really light, but tough layer of volcanic ash and mud, and then the whole thing is washed out to sea? You only need one lucky tater to make the journey after all. If the mixture of debris is right, it could float and stick together even in water for quite a long time. Ash wood to keep it buoyant, clay as a binder, with the clay baking in the sun. Then it all goes to sea, and protects the spud for enough of the journey that it’s still viable?
dcbsg
When I was a kid, I didn't care for reading very much - but I was into animals. Then one day with my parents at the local drugstore, I spotted a book with a kid turning into a jaguar on the cover [0] and begged my parents to get it. I was a bit lost, since it was in the middle of a series, but it was the first book I remember wanting to read, and it was also my introduction to science-fiction. From then on I always had a sci-fi or fantasy book nearby, and I still have my original copies of that entire series.

Because of that, and from what gradeschool friends have said, I've always been of the opinion that reading is too often introduced to kids the wrong way, through textbooks or very dry non-fiction, instead of through topics they'd actually find interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgotten_(Applegate_novel...
Jupyter isn't a foil for mathematica. It has completely different use cases.

The straight one to one fight is between sagemath, or their rebranded cocal site, and mathematica. In terms of ability to do things sagemath is the glue between all the amazing open source math and science software that has been written over the last 50 years.

https://cocalc.com/

But in terms of presentation by far the best is org-mode with sage, julia and everything else tied in. One text file that can be emailed around, put under version control, and can speak two dozen computer languages with babel, and has latex support for both pdf and html output.
Eh, Webpack is not so bad. The problem is using tools like Vue CLI which have overly convoluted configurations. If you make your own it will fit your needs and you can reuse it on every project.

Parcel is a lot simpler but it still isn't ready for prime time (with Vue at least).

As for static sites I agree. Simpler solutions like Jekyll, Gitbook, etc, make a lot more sense.
yes ofcourse I was merely suggesting that there are other reasons why ppl choose govt jobs and the quality of candidates might not drop if we removed pension.
Custom authentication asp.net core web api?
more submissions like this please!
I don't get this entitlement to retire at 55 or even 50. The retirement age should be 65.
A good example that social progress is not the inevitable outcome of economic progress.

It seems like things are getting worse for LGBT people world-wide. Why is this happening? Are we perceived as a threat, somehow?
"There's other reasons to outsource to Amazon than just cost though"

I think that falls under the `other reasons`
> it's free

Well for you maybe – and we strongly believe it should be – but it's built on top of thousand of volunteers hours, grants money (Thanks Sloan, Helmsley, Moore) and donation from companies (Anaconda, microsoft...) and individual, and partners. NumFOCUS (https://www.numfocus.org/) manage all of that it's a 501c3 tax deductible ! If Jupyter is of help to you (or your company, organisation) think about contributing back (Code, Dev Time, Design, UX, translation, Legal, ...)

Much Love from the Jupyter Team.
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>Isn't reading the kind of thing that should be taught by parents before the kid even goes to school?

No, most kids in the US start school at the age of 5. Consensus is building that forcing kids to learn to read before they are read is detrimental, and the vast majority of kids aren't ready to read before they are 5.
Why would a factory qualify as a reasonably justified need? Unless it produces weapons in wartime, it’s a private entity engaging in private business and the government’s role ought to be limited to making sure everyone plays by the rules. If the factory needs a bunch of land, it should have to buy that land just like you or I would. If it’s not practical for some reason, then the factory should be built elsewhere, or not be built at all.
To compensate for the lower pay, aren't government jobs much lower stress? And have good job security? Hard to get fired even if you do very little?
A complicated tax code isn't the problem. The tax code can be as complicated as can be, so long as it is computed automatically by the state from the data it already receives, which is the part that Intuit is blocking.
It's zero config as long as you follow its conventions.
Unless they shipped the metals off planet, that's not really an argument. If anything, an iron using civilization would have made iron more concentrated and easier to find.
Not now I wouldn't.

In the past I would.
He's right though, it was about how easily-corruptible/controllable communism is by a couple of bad actors.

If you think it was just about an authoritarian society, I suggest looking back at the beginning, before the pigs started changing the rules.
True value of a PhD
Why use this instead of something like Jekyll?
Defined benefits plans, ie pensions, should be outlawed, as long as they have any component that must be paid by taxpayers. For the most part, pensions are Ponzi schemes and require more and more employees to enter the system to pay for those on the pension. If you're talking about a private pension system that can collapse, then that's okay, but if it's a government pension that can keep taxing people because their benefits are too lucrative, those should definitely be outlawed, especially the ones for Congress.
Why isn’t is practical, exactly? Disney World managed to pull it off, and I’m sure there are a ton of other examples. Eminent domain for private projects is the exception, not the rule.
Aluminum sure, but iron rusts. In tens of millions of years you could have oxides of iron from a civilization, but no workable steel or iron. Aluminum might survive, gold and platinum would be fine, but not iron. It doesn’t matter though, we’d have gone through many cycles of subduction and renewal in such a long time, so we’d have new surface deposits. Coal and oil would even have started to form over such a long time scale.