skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This math is remotely not accurate. 42% tax rate ? Tax rates are progressive. I made a whole lot more last year and my effective Federal + State was 28%. Remember, there are a ton of deductions available. $6k in rent ?? Who pays that ? I have a large house and my mortgage payment is close to 4.5k. And I am building massive equity on my home as well as paying down an expensive asset. Home insurance is $1k for the whole year, while health insurance is roughly $250/month for the whole family. If you play your cards right, you can save upto 200-300k in 3-4 years. Now here's the cherry on top. Add a partner who makes the same amount.
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It's kinda like VHS vs Betamax. The cheaper hardware requirements allowed Wolf3D to win...
Are you sure HN isn't mainstream? It's up to 19 million items.
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It’s garbage not for the ideas, but for all of the filler. There is no need for Newport to pad out a simple thesis and tips with anecdotes on modern day blacksmiths and tangents on how to memorize decks of cards. Maybe calling it garbage is harsh, but the book is definitely overrated and should be called out as such amidst all of the breathless hype for it on HN.
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> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya.

Bad business acquisitions and management decisions notwithstanding...

Developers, developers, developers.

Chair throwing.

Bad dancing.

Many other crazy antics.

Being an archetypal business man and probably the defining image of MSFT in the 2000s - you literally couldn’t make it less cool.

Lots for industry media to troll.
Most likely, although there isn't a practical issue unless they redistribute the raw data.
We use Azure and love it. We've had more problems over the past few years from downstream services being broken by AWS (S3 outage, etc.) than our primary apps being broken by Azure.
I want to see self-driving taxis in the future once the software is reliable.
The Federalist is a highly partisan blog. I don't think it's fair to compare the two, the equivalent would be bringing out pieces from the YoungTurks stating that people are misrepresenting their opinions.
If that was the case, there would be a MASSIVE lawsuit with lots of money to be made by the people let go and lawyers involved.
It only takes one to five high probability data points to link you to the original identity near flawlessly. Something rare. Clicking on a nonpublic person is one of those.
If you have a family it’s about right if not conservative.
I took some notes on the book, https://mdc.life/books/never-split-the-difference, check out the "Ackerman model" section.
The modern tech interview selects for luck and quick response under pressure as major decision factors that project the appearance of innate intelligence.

"The only winning move is not to play."
> Microsoft was going to own desktop, mobile, search? $300-$400 billion in revenue? $130+ billion in profit?

> No. That's absurd. Holding Ballmer to account for not conquering planet Earth is not a fair premise.

I didn't say Microsoft needed to "own" mobile and search. They just needed to be competitive, instead of trying and failing which is what they did.
Those numbers are really high. Keep in mind the person who wrote this article mentioned 2 years of experience so they are probably ~25 years old. They probably spend half that much on rent/living expenses, like 10% of that much on insurance and probably do not take $8k vacations. They should be able to save at least ~60k per year.
A "user pays" model accomplishes price signaling. A tax does not.
Thanks for the tips!

> Assuming this works out, then you ideally do fixed price, not hourly. Latter can become scammy

Can you elaborate? I'm assuming you mean if they work slower they earn more money? I prefer fixed price as well when working with clients; it has big advantages for both sides.

> For the fixed price, you will divide it into milestones so that the first set of costs isn't too much but also gives some kind of re-assurance to the dev that you're serious and can give money.

What do you do for payment if they don't reach the milestone or you're not happy with the quality?

> One Fintech developer claimed he was the main developer for wealthfront.com and betterment.com lol and had them as part of this portfolio. I soon found out it was an amazingly bold lie which I guess many folks do fall for.

How did you find this out?

> In my experience, they are ALWAYS late. I don't have a good way so far to control for that effectively.

I find the same with clients. You have to be very cautious agreeing to any deadline where you're dependent on other people and factors you cannot control, especially if you've never worked with someone before.
The Target app price switch: What you need to know[video]
Here's one thing I find funny though about this argument (Econ 101, yet correct, yet complicated):

The argument for free trade is an efficiency argument (comparative advantage, Ricardo, Hecksher-Ohlin yada yada) that it's unambiguously better, but it's predicated on redistribution: The reason that free trade is unambiguously better is that you can compensate all the "losers" of free trade so that they're as well off as before, and you still have extra income left (to distribute, in theory, as desired politically).

Economics mostly shies away from inter-personal utility comparisons (they're hard to grapple with) and prefers the notion of "pareto improvements" (where at least someone is better off without anyone being worse of). Trade theory uses this device of redistribution to show that a free trade is a pareto improvement.

But then, in the real world, many advocates of free trade suddenly forget about this part of the argument, and when some sectors of society profit handsomely and many (often workers) end up on the street, they suddenly remember their free-market credentials and argue that no, one cannot redistribute, the free market is optimal and fair and pays everyone their marginal product and yada yada yada.

Funny, that amnesia in the middle.
They also hired a disproportionately large number into the roles they are cutting so it would make sense that they would be cut at higher rates.
Yeah, there's a few but I haven't had a chance to give them a spin yet. I was mostly using Ceph to explore live migrations in Proxmox, although they just released support for ZFS based migrations(you have to migrate the whole local disk though so they aren't nearly as snappy).

There's some pros to Ceph, mostly that you can add/remove drives at-will and the cluster will automatically rebalance. It's just very, very bandwidth hungry for cross-cluster communication.

It doesn't matter that much since it's for a homelab, I could migrate to some 10Gbe links between the cluster at some point and it'll get snappier. ZFS is just such a solid, battle tested piece of tech that it's hard to beat it unless you have a very different set of constraints.
Why carrying an adaptor is a bad thing:

That horrible feeling when you get to the end of your five hour drive to the client site, and realize the adaptor is on your desk.

Of course, you can fix this with checklists or a shadow board style toolkit, but I do certainly dream of having one piece of hardware that connects to everything I use.

As an industrial programmer and occasional field sysadmin, this notebook would be amazing for me.

Of course, it would probably also be so expensive that I would never buy one...!
Make sure you save as much as you can bud. Wish I had that opportunity so young in career - it will go a looong way for you later in life.
Update: Instacart is introducing a $3 minimum on all jobs, in the wake of the 80-cent debacle.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90300962/reeling-from-algorithm-...
Thanks for taking the time! That milestone idea is a really great one actually. It minimizes the risk of conflict or dissatisfaction a lot and I really like it.

They already have a website and want to completely switch over to something new with a brand new design and all. They already have existing clients and it's all on stripe already, so that's good. I just have to set it up on my end via their API.

I looked at Laravel but it's PHP. I know little of PHP. I mean, I could figure it out but there is a deadline for this project and I feel my time would be better spent working with what I already know (especially since I've built payments/subscriptions through stripe specifically using Flask and I didn't find it too complicated).

I am expecting that the extra time it would take me to learn an entire new framework would be more than the time it would take me to figure out how to do it in Flask.

Thanks for the maintenance fee tip. I also wasn't too sure how to structure that but it will be included in the quote for the first year.
I think Nix is the final boss of language-specific package managers and where we'll eventually converge.
The layoffs themselves— I think we'll have to wait and see.

What the layoffs may mean for the future of journalism (McClatchy being a solid source of good journalism) doesn't give me a good feeling.
How do I install a package from git directly? - and can that package depend on another package that lives in another git repository?

Afaik this is not supported by conan
Is there anyone here who has moved to South Florida recently? Did you take the potential ocean rise into consideration when relocating down there?
Why shouldn't Office365 be counted in cloud revenue? "Cloud Revenue" doesn't exclusive mean IaaS or PaaS.
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That's not how the regressive tax system works. Your effeective tax rate is around 38%

A nice 2 bed 2 bath is 4k, not 6k

I don't even know how you would spend 3k a month in living expenses.

All of those numbers are seem pretty off.
Because of the market share and ecosystem.

As you said, it works well and it's open source. But that's not enough, as they could then chose BSD. But Linux is what's used by most, not BSD.

Given Microsoft new strategy to just adopt what everyone else is using, they will eventually use the Linux kernel.
I wouldn't find the the Gates' Foundation so morally bankrupt, if they used the money to make some attempt at political change...like term limits, or corporate accountability or anything that wasn't a veiled statement of "I got rich monopolizing and strong arming, so I could choose who should benefit afterward".
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> (in the author’s opinion, anyway, not mine, I don’t get why you need any of this to admin a system).

The author isn't a typical corporate sysadmin running between offices and the server room; he works with wide variety of hardware and in conditions including outdoors and on top of antenna masts.
I thought their numbers would be really bad because of that but it was actually pretty close. Effective tax rate in SF would be 38% and if you are maxing your 401k you are left with 175k net.
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So, logically, it follows that Canada also is too unsophisticated to test and trust US equipement? Canada should ban all US devices.

And, recent history tells us, the US does spy on its allies, its allies' governments and business.

I've always taken the US alarmist position on chinese equipment to at least partially means that they fear not being able to bug the rest of the world as easily once everyone network are not filled with US gears.
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Was something different said by generations which prevented great leaps in technology?

Was the way in which the great leaps in technology happened unaffected by what those generations said?

How do you know that every other wave of technology wouldn't have led to dystopis if noone had said anything about it?
I don't get it. What political groups rely heavily on not being identified? Most political groups have leaders whose identity is public knowledge.
Or "show up somehow in person". We have all of this physical infrastructure we could take advantage of for critical accounts: IDs, notaries, passports, post offices, etc.

There are accounts where that may not entirely make sense, but a lot of my accounts I would love the option to state "The only way to recover from a lost password is to send a notarized letter via snail mail explaining the problem."

No one but me should be able to touch my digital bank accounts without having to first show up at a bank location with my ID or a signed certificate of death.

"Immediate" password recovery is part of the problem. A lot of our accounts most people don't need to recover the password immediately, especially if the reason they have forgotten is that they haven't needed the service in months.

Also, phone calls and text messages aren't slow enough.
Of the cheeses you've listed that I have tried, they all have a very strong flavor that would overwhelm a burger - sometimes a mild gooey flavor is exactly what is called for.

Is there a cheese that you would consider to have a very mild chedderish flavor that has a more gooey sticky consistency like american cheese?

What exactly about American cheese do you find so unpalatable?

> Anything like Kraft singles is a joke

Ridiculous dismissive statements like this aren't very helpful are they? If you want to be closed off, that's your prerogative. I'm certainly not going to be persuaded by such a comment devoid of substance, and I doubt you're going to change anyone else's mind with such a diminutive statement.

It's just circlejerk snobbery - which is pretty much just bullshit.
The next sentence is: "At least not for mine."
That's likely how it will play out, DNA evidence is a lot shakier these days since it's better known that DNA can go places the owner has never been. The transition point where juries don't know that though will be a bit scary, no one wants to be falsely implicated (like [0]) because they touched a handle on a bus and later the actual criminal touched it too.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/
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Or to push for higher oil production outside the Middle East. The U.S. is now the world's largest oil producer in the world, and has room to expand a fair bit. If we can get Venezuela's production to recover (note: that's not code for an invasion)... And if we can get oil fields all over, outside the ME, developed, then the ME's share of the oil market will dive.
Quite possibly, though I have a very uncharitable reason for my guess. Google likes to go for "don't worry we'll do it automatically!" but they're overconfident and often terrible at it. This seems to happen throughout the business and is a huge downside to me. I wonder if they added the feature without thinking it'd be worth letting people set it themselves because they're so good at doing it automatically. This also has the benefit of being a decision made at a lower level rather a larger "add more tracking" push.

I've had to turn off lots of automated Google things like ticket reminders (that tell me to catch the wrong train because they can't read the email right).
To my knowledge, in California, a genetic sample has to be recovered and stored of every baby born? The archive is run by the state government. So why do they not use this registry that they already have full control over, but the data from the DNA company?
Reeling from algorithm glitch, Instacart institutes $3 minimum fee for drivers
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Maybe that total would put someone in the 42% tax bracket (if you include city/state taxes, and even then I’m not sure), but that doesn’t mean someone would only keep 58% of their income, due to how a marginal tax system works, and that’s also not counting any itemized deductions and exemptions.

Any decent accountant should be able to save at least $10-20k more of that fast and loose tax total.

Also— if you’re paying $6k a month in rent, and you can afford the down payment, why not just buy a home at that point? If you want to relocate you can sell it and you’d get a decent mortgage interest deduction that would affect the bottom line.