skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the 1950s, when the marginal rate was >90%:

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/

> per the Piketty, Saez, and Zucman data ... The average tax rate on the 0.1 percent highest-income Americans was 50.6 percent in the 1950s, compared to 39.8 percent today.

From 1979 onward:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/...

Highest effective tax rate, before Reagan's reforms, was 37% of the income of the top 1%
I've seen some of that in Boulder at least. The VCs here will "strongly recommend" that you rent their office space.
That's correct. That's why we don't use arbitrary distinctions for proper regional comparisons and why groups like the OMB spend so much time developing standardized areas for comparison.

Your comment is more revealing than even you may realize. There are an infinite number of political borders to be drawn around any "city," but changing those borders doesn't actually change anything about the reality on the ground.

That's why it's important to make like-like comparisons.
I couldn't find anything on the expected half-life of udQM in the paper, just how stable are we talking here? The theoretical "island of stability" is only relatively stable (minutes to days) and useless for practical applications.
The lonely hours are valuable, and after you have kids, rare.

But, speaking as one who is closer to the end of the process than the beginning, my biggest regret is that so often I didn't take the time or make the effort to give them love and attention when I could have.
I've lived here since 2014, and have been successively priced out of every single apartment I've had at the end of a lease. I had a ~10 minute commute from West Oakland at first, then when the landlord doubled my rent it became a ~30 minute commute from El Cerrito. When the rent went up 30% there, I was forced all the way out to Pleasant Hill after spending months looking in Berkeley/Albany for something affordable.

I now pay the same rent for a 1 bedroom in Pleasant Hill that my 3 bedroom in West Oakland rented for in 2014. And after 6 months of a hellish 1 hour+ commute I'm realizing it is completely untenable from a mental health perspective. This is for a single person who makes six figures. I can't even imagine what has happened to working class families in that time period.
Life's too short to work for someone that you do not respect and does not respect you. You have limited ability to change your manager's behavior, but a lot to change that manager.
(cough! cough! "scrum")

(cough! cough! "agile")

(cough! cough! "daily stand-ups")
“Research suggests that the SAT, widely used in college admissions, is primarily a measure of g. A correlation of .82 has been found between g scores computed from an IQ test battery and SAT scores. In a study of 165,000 students at 41 U.S. colleges, SAT scores were found to be correlated at .47 with first-year college grade-point average after correcting for range restriction in SAT scores (the correlation rises to .55 when course difficulty is held constant, i.e., if all students attended the same set of classes). [1][2]”

[1] Sackett et al. 2008

[2] Frey & Detterman 2003
This is overly dismissive of the concerns of poor and working class renters. A big problem in this debate is that privileged, largely white people who want more affordable market rate housing claim to be speaking on behalf of poorer people and claim that the same set of policies and approaches will work for everyone. They dismiss them as “misled” instead of listening carefully to their expressed needs for much more subsidized housing construction and controls on gentrification of their communities. Those are things that local governments can affect, so generally disempowering them is a concern to these communities.
Yeah. Of course. And that's what I was referring to. There is no reason for a separate cmd key to exist. Some stuff is switched to cmd (copy, paste, select all) and other stuff stays with ctrl (ctrl+c, ctrl+d). See now I can't even remember how to close a tab in chrome. Is that cmd+w or ctrl+w? All of this is really arbitrary.
Redshift?
Seems like it's even a bug in how GPG is used (verbose mode, etc) instead of GPG itself.

I'm surprised those software actually use GPG by parsing its output instead of as a library.
That’s technically correct but it’s like saying we shouldn’t have an obesity crisis because anyone who eats less than they burn will reliably lose weight. We have too much evidence about human nature to treat something which happens so commonly as an edge case.
Apple Maps is Down
Taking care of employees has nothing to do with what I said. Tobacco companies also take care of their people.

Panda Express and Five Guys are also well-liked by the customers who get sick consuming their products.
A Look at the Compromised Gitea Release
For those interested, there seems to be some discussion of Cihuacalli in Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture: https://books.google.com/books?id=NdB-XuZ4VPEC&lpg=PA139&ots...
Or, you know, just like the whole point of being a VC is diversifying so much that you catch the one 100x return, they've also diversified their capital also into more stable returns as well so they're not so feast or famine.
You're talking about margin and fast food is definitely a low margin business (barring soda).

If salaries increase, the business will literally have to raise the price of goods sold or go out of business. That's different than raising the price to achieve a higher margin (and opening your self up to competition from people who can operate with a lower margin).
What's really wrong with Wikileaks (2010)
>Why should a high school student working for McDonald's be able to afford a 2 bedroom apartment in the Bay Area? That's not some sort of right.

Unless you are advocating for age discrimination in pay, the fact that a "high school student" can be the one working at McDonalds is irrelevant. McDonalds employees an extremely wide age range of people. Does the 60 year old working the cash register (I've seen countless of these lately) who can't get a job anywhere else deserve to live on the street because you don't think they are important enough to rent?
> Personally I think re-establishing the importance of family values and monogamy will make our future a lot better off

Which is why the declaration of human rights recognises the family as the fundamental unit of society and requires the state and society to protect it. (Article 16.3). Sadly this article seems to have been forgotten.
It's not possible to use GPG as a library - the libraries that exist just shell out to the command and parse its output.
Anyone with any self-worth is not going to want to be partner #34 of anyone. They're not going to get any time with that person. Someone who's just a gold-digger might be fine with that, but that's it.

The whole idea of polyamory is that you can have deep, committed relationships with multiple people, but since your time is limited, you can only practically have 2, maybe 3 partners like this.
I started a SaaS business, which is now my full-time gig -- I would say don't leave a job until you have something producing a ramen-noodle level salary for you. When I was able to pay myself $2,000/month it was enough to live on for my situation at the time. I was working 80 hour weeks in my underwear, scrambling to answer support requests, fix bugs, and move the codebase forward. If I had to do that while also trying to find product-market fit and worrying about running out of money, I might have broken down.

No regrets with my decision now. Once my business slowed down (read: I automated much of it), I actually went back and spent two years at a startup + 1 year contracting to bring in some extra money and get new experiences. The extra cash was certainly nice, I used it to setup a nice start on retirement and buy a house. Ultimately, though, my hatred of corporate politics and building wealth for the capital class without equity of my own led me to re-focus on my SaaS app. I've been enjoying the freedom and challenges ever since.
This is great advice. Did you work on your first business part-time while working your last "real job"? I feel like I'm in a similar boat and I'm not sure what to do next. I'm 24 and I work for a great company with really smart people whom over the past two years I've learned from quite a bit, I've always wanted to start a business though, actually in college I did just that to earn money. I created an app development business targeting Windows Phone and was able to build a pretty sizable passive income stream which kept me satisfied throughout college. I'm now debating finding a new job but really what I'd love to do is go back to entrepreneurship, yet on the other side I know how valuable learning from people in the industry actually is.

Any advice?
Someone needs to name the process of nitpicking details over obviously true generalizations.
Costco has the highest employee satisfaction according to Glassdoor of any major US retailer. From what I've been able to find they have really good benefits and pay as well.

I personally have bought a bit of Costco stock just because I like supporting businesses that treat their employees well. Everyone I know who worked at or works at Costco can attest to that.
As an individual, improving your education and skills can help solve your employment issues.

However, it is not so simple as a society. Even if we had a magic wand that could suddenly make everyone in the world an expert on every subject, we would still need people to work at McDonald's flipping burgers.

We don't have enough highschool students to fill those jobs. There are going to be adults supporting themselves and their families that are going to be working those jobs.

Improving the skills of people doesn't suddenly change the makeup of what work needs to be done in a society. Sure, in the long run, we can use those advanced skills to improve automation and make obsolete more of those lower skilled jobs, but that isn't going to happen overnight.
One thing that people don't talk about much is how much people just suffered before divorce was normalized.

People who call their spouse "the old battleaxe" or "the ball and chain". Old married couples who are miserable, hate each other's guts, and fight all the time. People who spend as much time as humanly possible at work (both at the office and travelling for business) so they don't have to go home. People who sit there and take it as their spouse cheats on them again and again and again. People who silently suffer through abusive relationships and just have become highly skilled at covering up bruises. People who become abusive because they can't stand their spouses and are taught that it's more wrong to leave your spouse than it is to hit your spouse.

And you'll still see it to this day in religious communities where divorce is stigmatized. My ex-best friend once told me about his brother's marital problems. At the time, he was about 50 and got married very young. He couldn't stand his wife anymore, to the point where he became a violent suicidal alcoholic. At one point after one fight where he put his fist through a wall inches away from his wife's head, he walked into his shed. Several minutes later, his mother followed him in, and she found him with an empty handle of whiskey on the ground and a shotgun pointed under his chin. He had quickly emptied one object into his head, and he was about to do the same with the other object. She talked him out of suicide. And according to my ex-friend, that was a regular thing.

Why didn't he leave her? Because he—and the whole family—was very religious, and their church (a small ultraconservative sect of the Churches of Christ) didn't recognize divorce. Even if he legally got a divorce through the courts, his church would consider him an adulterer and disfellowship him if he ever got remarried. And his church was the center of his life, so he couldn't go against them. Because his church doesn't allow divorce, he abused his wife, nearly killed himself, and traumatized his mother (who was still on antidepressants after losing her husband in a farm accident 15 years ago).

I'm not excusing his abusive behavior—it's reprehensible no matter what, and he's a terrible human being—I'm just pointing out that stigmatization of divorce only helps encourage and normalize abuse.
Developing this cadence takes deliberate effort. Same for remote working when you are a few hours ahead of the main team. Remember to pack it up when you are done for the day !
It has nothing to do with how "important" anyone thinks it is. It's just math and the reality of running a business.
They aren't. Here's another article.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/spinlaunch-2/
H1b doesn't have much choice other than fake politeness.
The market sets the value, obviously. Social welfare is great -- Medicaid, Unemployment, SNAP, WIC, etc, but shouldn't be paid directly by employers to recipients. Why should an unemployed person getting a low-value job suddenly shift all their welfare support burden from the state to their employer?
How does your full time job's contract deal with side businesses? I'm always wary of starting one because my company requires a lot of paperwork and approval and running it by legal, HR, Joe Shmoe, etc. to do something on the side
The next killer app: a media filter for toxic content.
Yes, diversifying to catch the 100x, but that's still investing in startups. Doing a corrupt rent pass-through with general partners' money will never generate a 100x.
Ask HN: Developers, how do you keep SSH and web URLs organized at work?
So I'm sure many of you have dozens of web application URLs across multiple development, QA, production environments and as many URLs for tools and SSH endpoints you use all the time.

My system for keeping all this organized is to sift through bash history and browser history and abortive attempts at keeping Excel spreadsheets or Evernote pages full of this stuff.

Does anyone have any pointers for tools they like to make this easier?

Thanks!
I don't agree that everyone wants a polyamorous and open relationship. Myself, I am in one, and it suits me.

However, how do you define a family? Polyamorous families exist, families with parents in open relationships exist, and they are just as much families as monogamous families.
No regrets but there are a couple of things that made the decision easy for me.

1. I started by switching to contracting, I had a good reputation in my niche and plenty of contacts. Mostly it was lots of fairly short contracts which allowed me to develop my own product in the inevitable quite periods between jobs. I did this for two years before I quite contracting.

2. I wasn't a very good employee, it wasn't until some time after I left the corporate world that I really understood that it didn't suit me.

3. I'm a saver, it would have been much harder to do if I lived from pay check to pay check.
Thank you a lot for the proper technical term. Do you happen to know if it is widely used in web-based streaming applications (I would be surprised, as I don't think I encountered it before), if ffmpeg supports it (in the case of H.264),and if AV1 includes such an extension?
Interesting, thanks. One thing, the penalty listed here says:

(b) Any organization that commits any offense described in subsection (a) shall be fined not more than the greater of $5,000,000 or 3 times the value of the stolen trade secret to the organization, including expenses for research and design and other costs of reproducing the trade secret that the organization has thereby avoided.

But the penalty discussed in the article is up to 10 years in prison $250,000 in fines.

Is there a different statue at play here?
The article did say that udQM could come in via cosmic rays, this would have to be quite stable over the thousands of years it would take such rays to get to us.
This is a good summary of what can be done with an iPad Pro.

https://paulstamatiou.com/made-on-an-ipad-pro/

It's pretty in line with your opinion; just a lot more detail.
Not everyone can be a highly skilled worker, and even people with valuable skills can and do end up jobless or working at minimum wage.

While I think a Universal Basic Income or stronger welfare is a better solution to the problems of homelessness and poverty, raising the minimum wage is a step in the right direction and one that is far more likely to be accepted by our lawmakers.
The attack can only succeed when victim's gpg is run with 'verbose' option turned on. Which is rather unusual situation.
It's hard to determine if this comment is racist or just ignorant. If it wasn't 2018 I would give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it was just ignorant.

"Asian students on other hand are busy getting successful"

What does that mean? How do I get successful? It's a thing I can just will into existence? When you so profoundly reduce success to something a person can just "get" you're painting a picture of a level playing field on which everyone plays. There's loads, and loads, and loads.....and loads more of studies, books, theory, film, music, poetry that all very clearly articulate systemic inequalities that make it difficult for a person to just simply "get successful". There are good conversations on HN about this very point. If you truly feel Hispanic and Black populations are painting themselves as victims in a way that doesn't reflect their reality I urge you to spend time talking to people from these groups. Get to know them, ask them their stories, learn about their families, have meals with them and understand them. Read about Hispanic and Black civil rights movements and struggles and see what of your beliefs come out on the other side.
If your business can't afford to pay employees a reasonable wage it is a failed business.
Have you used it? I saw it before but felt wary about having yet another layer above RN and React. I’ve been burned by taking on too many dependencies doing magical/black box things in the past...
As mentioned elsewhere, detecting earthquake victims maybe, a terrorist or hostage situation where the targets definitely aren't giving consent, military situations and covert surveillance for law enforcement and counter espionage all spring to mind as legitimate and useful applications.
Because of competition. Costs set a floor for prices, and competition pushes the price towards that floor (in a well functioning market). If you raise costs for all producers, it will raise that floor price.
So has the size of living spaces and the space allocation per person.

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/05/25/the-size-of-...

That article puts the average living space sq ft/person at 233 sq ft (959 sq ft/home) in 1938, 387 sq ft/person (avg 1,289 sq ft/home) in 1960, and at 1,046 sq ft (2,657 sq ft/home) today.

That is, since 1960, the average house size has risen 106%, while real rent has risen by 64% (https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rent-growth-since-...) since 1960. This would seem to suggest that today's real dollar buys more living space than real dollars past did, but that we're also demanding larger and larger housing.

This is small comfort to the low-income earner looking for housing, of course, but it's nonsensical to expect real housing prices to remain static while the living space allocated to each home grows.
Visualizing the Quadratic Formula
>Also, jobs should pay what they are worth to the business and nothing more. Why should a high school student working for McDonald's be able to afford a 2 bedroom apartment in the Bay Area? That's not some sort of right.

If this is your argument, you’re going to have to explain why business owners are entitled to the surplus value created by their workers’ labor.

This arrangement seems to be currently enforced with all kinds of threats of violence and deprevation(loss of healthcare, housing, etc), all of which are barbaric by the standards of any other developed country.
Not a chance. If someone wants to hire me, they do not own my work outside of business hours. It's the new serfdom.
What does it have to do with 1%? there are about 600 billionaires in US so they are like what 0.000001%?
It's worth noting that public-private-partnerships can lead to some perverse situations that are pretty antithetical to democratically-led governance.

Companies that build the infrastructure typically have expectations around revenues in the long run. Very frequently there are provisions built in that prevent governments from turning around and building other infrastructure that competes with the privately operated infrastructure.

Imagine a civil engineering firm builds a new highway funded by tolls. Now imagine 20 years from now, the city wants to build a transit link because the highway is at capacity and the government wants to shift travel to more ecological / efficient modes. What happens when the tollway operator hires some travel forecasters that show the new transit link cutting into their toll revenues? You end up in a strange circumstance where you're no longer just doing transportation planning balancing the desires of the citizens, the funding, and the technical challenges of transportation... you're now balancing all those things plus the business interests who are less interested in fixing transportation than they are interested in maintaining their maximum toll revenues.

P3 infrastructure projects have many good aspects, but they have some really gnarly downsides as well.
I asked about the deductions, not just the marginal rate.

My understanding is it matched what's more typical in Japanese C-levels these days. You don't have a crazy salary, but your car is a company car, the company has a deal with the good schools to cover tuition for your kids, you don't pay for breakfast, or lunch ever because you'd be at the office so the company handles it, etc.

Edit: Guys, there's several ways to being down the marginal rate, deductions are only one of them.
Who is replacing you?
If a rational business owner could raise prices and make more revenue, they would, regardless of what their costs are. Why would they wait for their costs (salaries) to increase?
Here are the finalists for Boeing’s $2M ‘personal flying device’ contest
yes, i don't disagree. this is all beside the point though -- the tariffs will have the opposite of the desired effect though: pushing more assembly to China and making it harder for innovators in the US.
Part of it's that these cities make it hard to build more housing, sometimes illegally. I give money to CARLA[1] which enforces the housing laws in California.

1. https://carlaef.org/donate/
I'm certainly not suggesting that jailing people is always (or even often) the right course of action, but that some non-violent crimes are arguable more serious and harmful than some violent crimes, and ought to be punished accordingly.
I asked about deductions, not just the marginal rate. That's not covered in the wikipedia articles.
Yes? Tons of successful polyamorous close friends?

I would basically say that every relationship I know of that started with both parties happy to be polyamorous had a happy story arc, whether it ended eventually or not (N=~8). Sometimes a non-primary partner would be unsatisfied and move on, and occasionally primary relationships evolve to something less than primary, but that’s “working as intended”, by my book.

Now, I will agree that trying to fix a broken monogamous relationship by opening it up is a recipe for disaster. Perhaps all the polyamorous relationships you’ve observed started out monogamous?

It’s also true that polyamory is gargantuan amount of work, it’s in many ways a bigger commitment than monogamy. You have way more dyads needing active and thoughtful communication, and so people whose motivation for polyamory is not wanting commitment are terrible at polyamory.

But once you get past those two hurdles (doing polyamory under duress, thinking polyamory is less work, when it’s more), it works great for people who are into it.
Margins of fast food industry businesses are somewhere between 6 and 9% in the median. So ... I call bullshit on "have to raise"