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Donor advised funds don't have a requirement on any cash outflows and charitable outcomes at any particular time, just that the funds eventually have to be allocated to charitable causes.

They can also pay management fees on their capital.

You can own the investment fund that is managing its capital. You can then bleed money out through those management fees while only paying capital gains on money when you take a specific amount out as carried interest, avoiding the majority of your capital gains liability on most transactions with most of your capital.

I forget where I originally heard this from, but they claimed to have this setup and claimed it was common, and I have since ran it by multiple CPAs and have not yet gotten back an argument for specifically how this would be illegal.
> And it would be hard to justify anything like Kubernetes for pushing an MVP out of the door; that's what Heroku and cheap Digital Ocean boxes are for.

Exactly. I was following along with the article until he mentioned that startups are doing this. Using k8s at a startup (especially a startup building an MVP) is just like using microservices. It is a disservice to the business by technologists.

Building the monolith on heroku will get you to market faster.

Yagni. (Until you do, and thrn by all means pay off that technical debt.)
They're giving a hypothetical example of when "The only reason to give to charity is to benefit that charity" would not be true. In this situation, the reason to donate is to buy yourself a private park and get a tax break off of it.
Cheers! First of all, you need strong self-esteem to keep going without getting discouraged by the many and many and many rejections of any kind you will face along the road. Second, from a technical point of view it really depends on what you are going to work on (games, consumer apps, business apps, etc.) and what you are exactly willing to offer: programming, deployment, quality assurance, etc. Third, networking is the key: start by meeting like-minded people locally and work in team to build a portfolio until you get your first gig. Fourth, you are on HN and therefore smart enough to know that Google is your best friend to grow a skillset on your own, so just start with searching “ios mobile developer how to start” from past year and have a look at the first page of results. Good luck!
Do you have any proof of that? Are there studies that show companies that work "crazy" vs. "not crazy" are more successful?

From my experience working harder didn't get me any further than not. Everything I've seen in life has shown me that who you know (and even more importantly who you parents introduce know, at least when you're younger) will get you a lot farther than how hard you work.
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I'd really like to see 3D stacked caches in the future using technology like this. Heat dissipation concerns mean that most logic is going to want to live on a single plane next to a heat sink but SRAM cells are pretty low power and situating them below the logic could make them both larger and lower latency at the same time.
>because they only exist to capture these tax deductions while preserving the donors' power...

That's just not the case. The reasons that a donor might choose a DAF are legion.

Again, I won't go into them all, but let's take an example that is more common than people realize. A donor who has passed on. Sometimes in life, a couple's children need encouragement to be kindly and generous. Let's put it that way. DAFs are part of a somewhat complicated legal framework that can have the effect of actually obliging heirs to share the family's resources.

And of course there are a million other reasons that one might be motivated to use a DAF.

Point being, DAFs are not solely used as a tax dodge. And the donors are not seeing the benefits from the tax dodge in any case, the vast majority of that benefit is going to the charities and the financial industry. (Heck, many of the donors have even passed on, so of course they don't care about any tax benefit. They made those arrangements for other reasons.)
Yes, Kefir changes the microbiome and I can prove it
What did you end up using for queueing conversion jobs?
Poor UX, poor safety controls.

At this stage in the game, these prototype vehicles should absolutely detect whether or not their operators are paying attention, since they’re part of the safety system of the vehicle.

Also, did they not learn from Uber’s fatal crash? A sole operator in these vehicles is a terrible idea. One person to monitor road conditions and one person to operate any computer equipment should be the standard until we hit level IV or V autonomy.
Odays often have a finite lifetime. Once you have bought an exploit you may as well use it. Cellebrite and Greycode produce reliable and surprisingly functional gear. Apple and other vendors obviously try to discover what exploit is being used, and exploit vendors try to hide the technique. I suspect this is why sometimes the device is never returned.

Generally I wouldn't characterise the customs people as goons. Like most LE jobs they see some nasty stuff. I'm talking paedophilia and violent pornography. They also deal with some really sketchy characters and if you trigger that detection you are definitely getting extra scrutiny.
This is the same division of Google that came up with an AI to determine if a comment is "toxic": https://jigsaw.google.com/projects/#perspective
Honestly it is a bit of a stretch to call that a bad outcome for anyone. It seems pretty obvious that in this example there will be a lot of benefit to society in a generation or two. The preservation benefits of the local wildlife alone sound like a win.

The tax deduction seems pretty reasonable for giving up control of a large chunk of land. On the one hand, maybe our hypothetical wealthy person get special access. On the other hand, they have given up the right to change their mind and have the land logged and then strip-mined.

The giving-up-of-an-economic-resource aspect is significant enough that a reasonable government could compensate the individual for it, the long term benefits seem to be present and our wealthy friend has committed himself to a course of action.
That doesn't really relate to donating. It's more of a lucky "coincidence". Trump owned the building and he rented it to people to host some party, that's where his profit came from.
Thanks for the shout out. Happy to extend that AMA here in case I missed anything.
But can you prove it wrong? I think you 'll find a lot of such comically simplistic "conjoined triangles of success" in the arts.

More seriously, if you re interested to understand the people who take him seriously, pointing out those caricatures is the wrong way to go about it. He creates a narrative that has emotional appeal and is backed up by science. He does get his facts straight in his arguments - he's not using pseudoscience. The psychology literature leaves just enough cracks for his theories to fall through undamaged. Thats why those who oppose to him have to use aesthetic arguments like this.
Just a few things:

1) This tool is made by an Alphabet owned company (Jigsaw), not Google, another Alphabet owned company. The companies will have different missions, even if profits flow the same direction.

2) Venezuela doesn't have a huge market where Google is blocked by a nation-wide firewall.

3) China has a nation-wide firewall blocking any Google service, thereby forcing Google to negotiate how their service works if they want to make money there.

Note: Oversimplifying the situation for the sake of pitchforking a company you might not like does no one any good. Venezuela and China are very different companies, in very different environments. Google as a company (and Alphabet, probably more so) is almost certainly anti-censorship, philosophically; they just don't operate in a vacuum.
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They've managed to disable the Intel ME in their laptops.

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...
Yeah definitely doesn't square with my experience. My first 3 years as a software engineer was filled with late nights at the office, horrendous office politics and an extreme amount of stress. Got so bad I started to get random heart palpitations.

Not that everyday was like this of course, but these conditions were happening more often than not.

Sure, some of it was due to impostor syndrome and competitiveness between team members but most of it was just the environment
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>>> a man quits his job and becomes a successful author through talent and motivation. Then, throughout the rest of the article, he adds nuance and exposes some of the overlooked details - that man was supported financially by his wife, had free time throughout the day to work, developed his talent excruciatingly slowly and took almost twenty years to catch his first break.

A friend of mine was an "overnight success" as an electronic music producer. I hung out with him at a festival in europe and all these other djs were telling him what a genius he was, and how it's amazing that his "first song" was such a huge success.

They didn't know that A) he'd been working producing music for 15 years, since he was in high school. B) He quit his job as a software developer to work on music full time and was supported by his girlfriend who is a doctor and C) had already released 5 or 6 songs over the course of five years in a different genre and under a different alias and fizzled out D) only got his big break because he handed his song to a famous DJ at a gig through a friend.

I think he's an absolutely brilliant producer, but it's not because he had any inherent musical ability at all. He just worked his ass off for over a decade and eventually got really good at it, and more importantly got to know the right people who could do something with his music when it was good enough.
Well I'm not talking about obsession in the sense of a mental disorder -- but in the sense of that one thing X that a particular person happens to be in love with at the moment (could be piano, could be tennis, could be computer programming or could be something socially disapproved of like pokemon or skateboarding or whatever). The obsession creates a depth of knowledge. Even when you try to make such people do other stuff, they'll still be daydreaming about X. So better to work with it.
He also had thirteen virtues (http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page38.htm) which he cycled through week by week, concentrating particularly on one of them each week. I always figured this was a bit tongue-in-cheek, though, because his definition of "humility" is "imitate Jesus and Socrates".
> An open app runtime

I disagree with the assertion that web pages are losing because of security or utility, and that any open app runtime is going to be better than the browsers already on every phone.

I think the majority of apps could be made as web pages, but I also think that many are not because having an app installed is an opportunity to grab more data, have more permissions and bait and switch your users at any time using updates.
No, that's not what it seems like. This news was broken by Amir Efrati who writes for The Information. He tends to sensationalize his stories, which I don't like, but his facts check out. He has sources inside Waymo and has been reporting stuff like this for a while. He's more than happy to bash Uber as well when he gets the chance.
I think Jigsaw has a good record of making tools which work for the oppressed sections or in areas of cybersecurity/censorship etc. Good work must be appreciated. I don't think any other Big Co. has a division dedicated to solving such specific problems.
Yeah, the China bit is really saddening/irritating. They're gonna crush their own legacy.
Before using Brave, you should consider if you value their business model as ethical (I don't). What they do is filter-out ads and replace them with ads of their customers.
In my experience, adding more VMs when capacity is needed is trivial to automate on a platform like AWS. With real physical machines it takes advanced planning and actual physical work to deploy more machines. Even with a managed hosting provider there is work to do to automate the provisioning.
Maybe it will, but have a country-specific feature to report its users to the authorities. After all, gotta comply with those "local laws and regulations."
Also maybe you are not young. Maybe this isn't the first sort of work you've done. If not you, then maybe someone else reading and wondering the same thing.

Try to be consistent and avoid plateauing for long stretches. Consistency will take you far. Maybe you make some sacrifices of other hobbies and uses of time to get some early traction with your skills, but be intentional about doing this and don't put the other things that nourish you on hold forever.

Embrace the beginner's mind that comes easy to you now, remember it so you can cultivate it again more easily when things inevitably feel a little dull or tedious down the road.
Fantastic question. I'm not even doing that yet. How embarrassing!

Right now I'm just spawning sub processes like crazy and hope they don't overwhelm my machine. In the future, I plan to use a queue and also to monetize on API queries.

I haven't looked into queues in Javascript yet. If you have recommendations, that be appreciated :)

This is really just an MVP to see how the internet crowd reacts to it. I'm glad it does in a positive way :)
In my case it's because my boss is smart and because I have a tendency of operating on a 'better to seek forgiveness than ask permission' model.

I have a huge amount of latitude in how I spend my time so if boss sees me in the loading dock scanning deliveries he assumes that I'm doing it for a good reason.

One of many reasons you'd need a crowbar and a tub of grease to get me to leave, I've had offers with 20% better compensation or more including some developer management roles but never even considered them, I'm well paid for a developer relative to the local market, I work a 37.5hr week, week in/week out and my work is both appreciated and has a measurable impact, it's close to programmer heaven (except for the mess I inherited but that's slowly getting sorted).

There is more to life than money including actually having time for a life.
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That is the dream.

But remember that the IRS doesnt care much about the 90%. They DO care about the 0.1%.

Doing something like that is a high risk way of getting audited.
protect your hands. it's really bad if you lose some dexterity.
Landowners in general would be a good place to start, people who are smart enough to contribute to society and have a vested interest in the country succeeding.
I've been thinking about switching from Gmail myself. I think they have a feature where you can forward all of your email from your Gmail account to your new email address, so you can use that during the transition. Then think of any online accounts that you really need to keep (there aren't many), and change your sign-in email for those.

Perhaps I'll do that this weekend; better now than never.
But see, it's not a multi-year effort. It's at most a couple of hours spread over a couple of years with 99.9% of the effort put in today and the next couple of days.
> On point 2, I think it's very possible to write clever, readable code.

Of course its possible. People can shift gears in manual transmission without clutch by revv matching, but its not for everyday use.
doh!

There's a lot more 'understand humans' to add to these systems before they're really ready.
for the vast majority of folks, resume fodder.
Google is one of these US tech companies claiming they have moral values in their code of conduct, using such words as "evil".
The issue is not cost. The issue is conceptual overhead and sheer complexity.
At the few places I’ve worked where long hours were the norm, these “long hours” people were not working all 12+ hours they were in the office. You’d walk by their desk and this rockstar was picking his nose, or browsing Facebook, or playing a video game (on his workstation!).

Im convinced most of the long hours culture is an elaborate signaling exercise and “facetime show”.
That's one big problem in companies. If you are below a certain level any kind of improvement you make may actually threaten your job and the company will not move you somewhere else.
Shows that Schmidt and Cohen are continuing their decade plus track record of developing tech to control or insight populations to effect the change in government.

COHEN and Schmidt used tools in the Arab spring to manipulate the protestors to believe the majority of their their social network connections were protesting.
Wikileaks has a trove of Cohen email to shine light on what he’s up to.
To answer your question instead of just downvoting you:

It's an interesting topic. There has been a lot of generative art lately on the front page.

HN has been slow on new submissions from my semi-casual monitoring of the /newest queue over the last 48ish hours.

To help get more content to surface higher, hang out on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest as well. Sometimes a lot of good content never makes the front page just due to timing or more important / pressing submissions reaching the front.
Think about how certain individuals that are currently prominent politically have abused the ability to declare the value of their own assets, which are mostly real estate holdings and shell companies.

If you have your own yes-man assessor, you can inflate the value of your worst-earning asset, donate it to a charitable trust you control, take a tax deduction for the amount you declared to offset the cash flow from your better holdings, decline to distribute for years, as your management company manages the asset for operating costs and your financial management company reaps administrative fees, then eventually buy the asset back from the trust for pennies per dollar of its previously declared value, and repeat.

There are no doubt plenty of legal loopholes that enable this. The net result is perpetual tax avoidance, very little money actually getting spent for charitable purposes, and a founder that can declare he is the most charitable-giving person the world has never seen.

It is yet another example of rich people moving money between their various pockets in lieu of actually spending it. The maximum benefit from moving a dollar is realized when the person who moved it no longer has any control of it after the move. The best thing you can do with a dollar is spend it; it is literally that dollar's sole purpose for existing. Allowing someone else to temporarily use your dollar is just a cruel joke upon them, because most of what they do with it will then belong to you.
I wish I could still edit my comment. Instead I have to revise and extend.

I think there’s a disconnect between the phrase “what someone deserves” and “what someone is worth [to a company].” Yes, because you are human, you have intrinsic value and can even claim you deserve certain things. Whether there’s some cosmic guarantee that you will get what you deserve is beside my point.

But your value to a company as their employee can be given a measurable number. It probably has more to do with my age than with the job itself, but I actually enjoyed the minimum wage jobs that I took when I was younger. Even today, when I see a “help wanted” sign at the kind of place I would have worked as a teenager or young adult, I reminisce about those jobs. But I never apply, because my value to them has a hard limit: they aren’t going to pay me more than the market price to keep the store clean, count back change, and provide good customer service. I’m not significantly better at those jobs than the average teenager. My knowledge of C++, C#, web services, databases, UI design, etc. has no value to them, although it has value to many other companies. I would never expect them to pay me more than my value to them.

I’m happy that Amazon has changed its pay scales. But this change will involve laying off people who are profitable at, say, $8/hour or $10/hour but not $15/hour. That’s how the world works. Today, those employees can find other jobs at $8/hour or $10/hour. They may even get a raise. But if minimum wage is increased to $15/hour, they could find themselves priced out of the market.
I don't really believe that these other reasons are a major driver, but it also doesn't matter one way or the other, we can get rid of the tax benefits and let people keep the rest if they want.

I agree that the benefit is largely not accruing to the people claiming the tax deduction, but it is a subsidy coming out of the public purse that we should get rid of.

[EDIT]: Actually, I take that back, once you take into account the fact that the amount people donate is not significantly impacted by the tax situation, it seems clearer that the people getting the deduction are the ones getting the benefit/subsidy.
But that's just fraud.
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The monopoly exists because competition cannot begin because of minimum wage, so how is that an abuse of power? You couldn't argue that in court to regulate it.
This is technically incorrect. They definitely are giving the money away, to the DAF. You may not like that the money sits in a DAF instead of your preferred charity’s coffers, but it’s still given away, they can never get it back.

If you want to criticize DAFs (which I don’t, but I’d rather debate my opponents’ best arguments, not their worst), the tax credit significantly precedes the distribution to any 501c3s, and those 501c3s might theoretically be benefitting society.

I’m generally in favor of removing the charitable deduction entirely, but the time shifting really doesn’t bother me. Most 501c3 missions barely benefit the people I think actually need and deserve help, in large part they just provide jobs to rich westerners and then as almost an after thought benefit needy people, often with such onerous strings attached that their primary purpose looks like marketing and signaling, not improvements to the aggregate human condition.
Isn't it fine as long as the secondary processor hands back once the initialization is done? Before the training the memory is unused, and only the "clean" processor has access to it after training. I can't see the threat.
In a non-technical environment, it is very easy for a junior developer to end up the smartest person in the room as far as tech is concerned. Think meetings with SMEs, PMs, or Sales.
Sounds like a good idea. Most users have so far very little control over android dns and using TLS sounds like a good idea in any case. Makes you wonder why this is not more widespread given that there are a lot of nasty attacks that involve dns hacks.
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Don't underestimate the internal mediocrity at Google. It's just not so much technical mediocrity as organizational.