skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh, ok that really depends on the location. Firefighters are often not Social Security eligible and the government moves it's 6.25% SS contribution into a pension account. Combine that with employee contribution + investment interest and the net cost is fairly reasonable.

Granted under funded pensions are often an issue, but that's a effectively loan the local governments have taken out. Their problem is debt not the upfront costs involved.

PS: I tend to put all taxes into the same pool as I care less about the specifics than how much I get to keep after Social Security, Medicare, Federal, State, and freaking Local all take their cut.
Then there are a fair number of cases where reasonable people disagree. Maid at hotel, others at hotels/parking attendants/etc., Uber/Lyft, the subject of this article, limo driver, bartender (in a bar or at an event), and so forth. You can tip in all those situations but I'd argue it's not the strong expectation that tipping at a sit-down restaurant is.
Have you tried trimming your resume so that only some of your most recent work experience is on it?

You could also try removing school graduation dates or any other hints of your age.

If after all that you're still not getting interviews, then the fault can't be with how old you are.
> If they want to go without, that's their choice

and then later

> I do hope, however, that the state and federal authorities will keep an eye on things

So they get to choose to go without paying taxes for local policing but we need to tax everyone to police them? Seems like we're only letting them choose if they want to pay into the keep everybody safe fund. They're going to get the service regardless of which way they vote.
In Chrome, open the dev tools, click the Device Toolbar button near the top left, and in said toolbar set it to Responsive and play with the viewport width (or set it to iPhone 5). It's this particular example page at fault for not realizing that "list-style-position: outside" means that it _will_ overflow which means that for said overflow to not fall outside the viewport, you need a container (which in the case is the body element) having some absolute (not relative to the viewport like this example's small percentage) padding/margin at least as large as the overflow. A properly executed version of the hanging technique would do exactly that.
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The project I’m talking about is the degree itself, not group projects in any particular class.
Agree on using the discrimination to a resumes advantage. I think in IT age and plenty of experience lends itself to either the security or management positions.
You can't run a government like this. Most people don't use most government services, yet the smaller number who do use them really benefit greatly from them. If we voted down all government services that <50% of people use then society ends up suffering greatly. Hell, most people don't even use firefighters; should we vote them down too?
That's a great saying, but I would hesitate to make it causal with the word "will". I know I've certainly felt miserable due to finances, but my grandmother who grew up during the depression and had nothing her entire life but her family, died at 90 with a smile on her face and no regrets. Meanwhile, I see a wealthy man like Anthony Bourdain end his life early.

So for me, as someone without money, I can look at these two cases and consider: do I find happiness now without money, or do I do what it takes to get money, and hope it makes me happy, but knowing that it's not guaranteed to.
I suggest you read "why we sleep" by Matthew Walker. According to him (phd in neuroscience from stanford) you are just short changing yourself -- you're opening yourself up to all sorts of heath conditions later on. Not telling you how to live your life, just saying this book fundamentally changed the way I think about sleep and it is worth your time (IMHO)
What government do you mean? My understanding is that schools are managed by local boards. You can't get farther from the "government" and closer to people than that.
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The million dollar toilet example doesn't sound like a broken out expense, but instead the exact opposite.
Yes, and there are also neutrino telescopes. I wait for the detection of an high energy neutrino event from beyond the CMBR. I think the opportunity, our understanding of physics and technology give us right now are immense. The fact that general relativity and quantum mechanics havent been reconciled by now only means that this is probably a very hard thing to do. But it doesn't mean that 'phyics is dead'.

[0]: https://icecube.wisc.edu/
I would consider https://www.nand2tetris.org/ for a similar from-metal-to-application understanding of computing. It is a ground-up course that covers the construction of a CPU using only a NAND circuit, and ends with implementing Tetris on top of this computer.
"Money can't buy happiness, but it lets you choose your own kind of poverty." - Mickey Rooney
One thing I've learned: talking to users and potential users is crucial, like everyone says, but it's also crucial to talk to the right users, and to iterate on how you find them.

In the beginning, most people are probably going to dismiss what you've built. That's normal--people have a bias against adding yet another tool to the pile (for good reason). So unless your product is an exact bullseye for solving their problem, and has no real drawbacks, they won't be seriously interested. That's actually fine. You can have an extremely low conversion rate in the beginning. As long as you can find someone who is enthusiastic about what you're doing (and ideally wants to pay you for it), they will show you the path forward.
All the servers I know seem to expect credit card tips to eventually appear on their paycheck.
A few thoughts...

1. A resume isn't a CV. It's more like a sales brochure to sell yourself. Have resumes tailored for different things that show how having you will help them.

2. Age discrimination is a problem. Even though it's illegal and not useful. But, companies would rather spend on lawyers to work around their illegal antics and are not focused on useful (see the open office craze). If they hack around being useful or legal it's ok to hack around their processes.

3. Try looking for something outside of the valley or the companies that want to be like that. There are tech jobs all over and remote gigs for some of them. Look for sane companies where they are at.
I don't know what the rest of the country looks like, but I have home Comcast in the US and have been self-hosting a server on port 80 with a similar more-or-less static IP as you've described for well-over a decade. Many of my friends have the same setup. It never even occurred to me that Comcast cared. All ports are open (maybe not 25, I haven't checked.)

I guess the terms of service allows them to shut someone down if they felt like it, but I wouldn't really worry about it. If you have a site that generates so much traffic they even took notice, I presume you'd want to be on a real hosted environment anyway.
I was a waiter for years. I personally never made under min, but I knew people who did. They got paid. I also got paid every cent of every cc tip. What are you basing this on?
Interesting to note:

> In addition, we will continue to support the company in the priced equity round in which the safe converts, and subsequent financing rounds (priced equity rounds or bridge financing rounds) by participating in those rounds to approximately maintain our 7% ownership.

This has been the case since 2015 approximately [1]. This means YC's stake in many of these companies is in the order of 10s or even 100s of millions, since they keep their 7% through subsequent funding rounds. That's huge.

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/pro-rata/
> It's a place where you do what you are told

In my career experience, that has more to do with understanding what really needs to be done, and what brings value to the company.

I'm sure I've made some junior engineers feel that way after they tried to pull me into a long argument about brace styles, or after they wanted to refactor years of working code to use their favorite framework.
A couple of questions:

Is tuition really free for non-residents? How do they avoid getting flooded with students?

How do you pay for living expenses? I don't believe they'll be able to work (at least, as a non-EU citizen) and living expenses aren't cheap.
What if you're not eating at fancy places?

Now, I'm not suggesting they provide any less of a service, but I've eaten at taco carts that expect the same level of tipping (15-20%). These are places that the server definitely _could_ also eat at. If they are making the same amount of money (and possibly more), why is it still the customers responsibility to tip? At that point it isn't for the employee to make up for low wages. It is also usually paid prior to receiving your food, so it isn't for improved service. In this case the business could increase the base price and reject tips. If they directed that money to employees it would make budgeting easier for them and make no difference to the customers.
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This is me being dense, but I don't see the connection to parent's question. Is it that the demon uses information (the speed of the particles?) to perform work (decrease entropy)? But also not really, bc that would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics? I understood parent's question to be what the heck does "information" mean in this context to begin with. My question too, because I'm pretty sure I've got the wrong answer myself.
I agree 100%. I mention trying to build rapport, but I really don’t want to work with a team that would exclude someone for “culture” the companies that hire for culture make it very difficult for the few outsiders that mistakenly get hired.
People like to trade up houses or refinance these days. It’s not at all unusual to reach retirement with a mortgage still in play.
If you'd like a quick introduction to Rand's complete philosophical system, check out Leonard Peikoff's video "Introduction to Objectivism". It will help clarify a lot of the difficult statements you pointed out.

Starts at around 3:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlJD0i_WwdQ

Edit: With regard to your comment about puppy videos, I'm curious what you thought about this paragraph from the article:

> It is useful to distinguish particular incidents of happiness from a
more pervasive condition. While happiness results from the achievement of
specific goals, when a person seeks happiness itself, he is after a more global
kind of satisfaction with his life—with his daily activities, as he is engaged in
them, as well as with what they all add up to, when he steps back to survey the
totality. This more encompassing happiness requires knowledge that his time
and energy are being spent in worthwhile ways and that he is efficacious in
acting for the things that he cares about.
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Perfect pitch is overrated. In college as a music student with excellent relative pitch, I routinely outscored peer students with perfect pitch when taking classical ear training courses. Perfect pitch is more of a parlor trick. It's occasionally useful when trying to tune a stringed instrument by yourself, and distracting if your ensemble starts to drift off key while remaining in tune with each other.

Also, trained relative pitch is better than untrained perfect pitch. For instance, if my instructor played four bars of a four-part bach chorale on the piano (sixteen quarter notes, perhaps a couple of eighth-note passing tones), I could fully notate it within three repetitions, sometimes on first listen - if I were initially told what key it was in. Someone with untrained perfect pitch would be able to tell if the instructor was lying about what key it was in, but they wouldn't be able to notate it. So in that scenario, the only thing it's useful for is recognizing what key it's in. If I hadn't been told, I could have just notated it in C and then transposed it to the right key later.

I would later learn that being able to notate a bach chorale by ear is nothing compared to the kind of ear skills you need as a jazz musician - but again, there, perfect pitch isn't important or super useful. We learn chord relations - it's all relative.
Thanks! We will check that out tonight!
Does anybody else split their sleep into two periods? I've done this out of necessity at several points in my life, first more than 20 years ago when I worked at a job that required me to get up at 3 in the morning and then more recently when I find I do my best work at night (last night, for instance, working at 1 am) but have to get up at 6:30 to help my kids get ready for school. I work from home and can set my own schedule, so I can go back to sleep for a few hours in the mid morning but I am not sure if this is optimal in terms of getting enough sleep or the "right" kind of sleep.
I like working at VMware. It has a good work/life balance, age distribution seems well distributed, and only a couple hackathons a year -- totally optional.
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Where? Smoking weed behind the dumpsters? Loitering in the mall? Watching someone scream at a video game on twitch.tv?

I'd much rather encourage them to spend time at a library instead. Kids love to read.
I've instinctively done this for the last little while (I'm approaching my 50s). I list the last handful of jobs and no dates on the university courses etc. I don't put a huge list of languages and technology I've used, just the most recent and relevant. Not having problems so far.
I’m not trying to discount the educational component, just trying to blunt the inevitable replies about how you can learn the same material on your own. The point I’m making is that there are other benefits outside of the education that you can’t do on your own.
Their pricing seems reasonable. Their website says 1000 calls/day for free.
>Happiness is the psychological condition that results from the achievement of one’s vales

Wrong.

>Spiritual values encompass such things as knowledge, beauty, a stimulating book, a
challenging chess match, rewarding work, mental health, self-esteem, character traits (e.g., honesty, optimism, initiative), a friend or a husband.

Wrong.

>Happiness is essentially the satisfaction that arises when a value has
been realized

Wrong.

>Thus we expect a person to be significantly happier when he has completed a college degree, won a coveted promotion, or married the love of his life.

Terribly wrong expectation.

One might go very far away in his conclusions, but if you start with wrong assumptions it only means you went further away from reality.
The going rate for training to commercial level in the UK is £120k. I wonder what accounts for the difference. Pilot wages are higher than the $25k you mention. Are those regional airlines subsidising the training?
Hacker News threads about tipping are always rough. US tipping is not complicated. You are being asked to share with a service worker's employer some of the burden of compensating them. The notion that you're rewarding exceptional service is a polite fiction. Depending on where you are, the tip is either expected or it isn't. Unfortunately for the mindset of a typical software developer, there won't be much clarity on this point; you'll have to rely on context clues to determine whether and how much of a tip is expected. You can reasonably withhold a tip from someone who is actively hostile or incompetent, but really all you're doing is making yourself feel better. If payment and the tip is expected up-front, you can either buy into the cost-sharing dynamic of tipping, or you can not.

Very few people in the US are going to admire a principled stance you take against tipping. The moral of the opening breakfast scene in Reservoir Dogs was not that Steve Buscemi was a smart and principled dude. Harvey Keitel was the one you were expected to admire in that scene.

A very easy, relatively pleasant way to get through life in the US if you're well-off enough that you routinely buy coffee in expensive coffee shops: just always tip. Anywhere there's a tip line. You never have to figure anything out, and sometimes people really appreciate it.
I don't want to touch your dirty iPad. Thanks, but no thanks.
Danaher / Danaher Labs - assuming you can avoid having a bad manager.

Our home room would regularly scold us gently for working late / weekends. The problem was, the home room wasn't really in charge.
Note that the Titan Security Key and the Titan M chip are two different things. In both cases the firmware is created and signed by Google in the USA, but the hardware used for the secure element in the Pixel 3 handsets and the Titan Security Key are different.

Also, the Bluetooth Titan Security Key has its own battery since it nees to be able to power the BT radio when it's not connected to anything else. So if you accidentally hit its button while you pull it out of your pocket, it can start transmitting.

In the case of the USB-C and USB Security Keys, (a) they are powered off of the USB bus, and have no batteries, so they are inactive when they are not powered up, and (b) all U2F keys don't need to to look like a keyboard (e.g., be a USB HID device). So random strings showing up when you accidentally touch a U2F key is never a thing. The issue with Yubikeys is that the can be both a U2F security key as well as a traditional HOTP token. If you disable the HOTP feature in a Yubikey device (using the Yubikey personalization tool), the problem of random HOTP passwords showing up in tweets, etc., goes away.
> I accept it as a tax on eating out.

I'm highlighting this part because it's one of the main contributing factors to dining out less and less, for me, and that includes coffee shops. I always tip well when going out; ergo, I don't go out as often.

Going off of the "I'm not very unique" rule of thumb, businesses are losing some amount of money because of tipping culture.
"Should" being a huge keyword there. Labor wage growth in general has barely kept up with inflation, on average. The software industry bubbles have kept it largely immune to this and overall still seems to be seeing relatively strong wage growth in certain cities and sectors, but there's no guarantee that will continue.

Not to mention that with the time value of money, 20% of your first paycheck isn't just immediately a lot (which it is), it's also a potentially much larger chunk of long term savings and investments potential.

But the main argument here remains that a lot of the complaints are the overall slow delay in people with student loan debt engaging with other economic concerns (buying homes, starting families, etc), and all you've done is exactly illuminate why it is considered such a crisis, people are rationally waiting for that "year five" when student loan payments are less than 20% (or whatever high water mark) of their income, rather than starting bigger projects earlier than that.
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and to detect and throttle or cut off spam senders

Isn't throttling outbound email count/day from the start the only real solution?
I missed the part on the tech page that listed the A72, so yeah it's an iMX8.

Hopefully the HAB fix is the reason for the 8. Otherwise this seems like overkill for the work involved.
There's an experimental Racket language called Hackett which is attempting to give you the best of both worlds of Lisp's macros and Haskell's types.

https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett
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What about the minority of residents that didn't vote for that government. What about the children?
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Do they scale? If a large number of people actually all together tried something else, would it work?

Doesn't this line of reasoning assume that right now there is a big misallocation and some are way over capacity while others have lots of space capacity? I would assume that whatever the current situation, capacity distribution is about equal to how it is. So any big shifts would not be possible short and even medium term. And if the needed shift happens, would the result, the new equilibrium, really be different, or would we still have a similar situation, just with he pieces shuffled around?

The problem with solutions that individuals like to come up with is that they only work for individuals. I try to always imagine my idea(s) on a large scale, what if everybody really does it? Lots and lots of "good advice" does not actually scale. When you change only a few things the big picture remains constant, so many of those ideas work. But as soon as there are large scale changes there are feedback effects and the context changes too, what used to be a constant environment will have changed too.
I can't find the info anywhere. Where is the code of the Nest? Will I be able to run my own instance?
I feel less grumpy and less anxious, each time I sleep my full 8, but I'd be hesitant to equate that sensation with "happier". If I do that for an extended period of time, I feel bored, existential, "socially unproductive", and begin to get a creeping sense of being a rat in a ratrace.

If I sacrifice some of those 8 hours, I feel grumpy, moody, occasionally a bit depressed, but overall get to do more small day-to-day things of value that give me a genuine sense of fulfillment on top of that.
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"If someone is behaving badly in a company or even in a casual group, you don't just ignore them."

I think I agree, but it goes against the grain of what people previously thought you should do on the internet.

>harassment campaigns or spreading misinformation

I am genuinely curious about the flora of the NPC movement. I mean, this territory between meme and organized campaign is really interesting and it's sad it comes at the cost of society.
I assume that you've worked with 60 yo customers in the past.

What's your experience with placing them?
If it makes you feel better, you paid Visa not the waitress. You just subtracted that amount from what you left the waitress.
Sad to see. It seems there really isn't a market for these types of Android phones.
The other thing to remember is that collecting all of that data costs time/money, not only for storing it, but for protecting it. Apple, by virtue of not having that data, doesn't have to waste resources trying to protect it.
> My understanding is that schools are managed by local boards.

The local boards often do not have the power to:

(1) Raise revenue that would fund much independently of outside funding,

(2) Freely control how much of funding they do have is spent, because the outside funding sources or superior (e.g., state) law independent of funding sets narrow parameters for many of their decisions.
They can do that. But I’m not paying for them either. Pull federal funding for their police and libraries. No LSTA for Oregon.