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That's just untrue.

You can give 15k per person per year (may have gone up in the past year) without reporting it. Anything more than that you have to report it, and it counts against the untaxed portion of your estate. Aside from that 15k per person per year value, there's no tax difference between giving it away now, or willing it away when you die.

Estate and gift tax are intertwined. There's even a page on the IRS web called "Filing Estate and Gift Tax Returns".

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

It might be easier to work things out while you're alive to make the gifts, but it doesn't get you out of the taxes.
For those wondering how the image was constructed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsNd1W_lmE

Basically, the image has been constructed by calculations on massive measurement data-sets from multiple synchronized telescopes around the world.

So this isn't a "photo" in the normal sense. It's a reconstruction of many, many radio waves.
It's worth noting that earlier in the Google Next keynote, they had a slide on Privacy and that they will not access your data in GCP unless you request that they do so.
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I'm thinking of integrating this into Polar for people that use our cloud sync support.

I should be able to use the documents and their tags to build more derivative tag data so that when I'm given a new document I can compute a set of automated tags for the user.

This way when you save a document to your repository it's given some suggested tags.
No, I said I believe it to be inappropriate to use your position in a public software project to push your politics. I didn't ask for "restrictions on ideological content". Believing something to be inappropriate doesn't mean I think it should be forbidden or restricted.
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The Kubernetes bit seems (somewhat) agnostic but it looks like a big part of this is adding integration for GCP APIs.

Which is all fine. Just wish it was branded a bit more specifically.
This is one reason why I love driving a 4wd pickup. Many of the roads around here don't have proper shoulders, but I can confidently pull over in spots where someone in a small car would hesitate.
5 Whys doesn't find a "single root cause". I don't understand why you wrote a great example of how 5 Whys helps uncover issues to address -- drunk driving (which you could go deeper into -- why did the drinker need to drive? Why wasn't the drinker prevented from driving, or a driver prevented from drinking?), pedestrian visibility (and you could expand on that side -- why isn't the sidewalk more physically separated for the roadway?-- and then claimed that it's a failure.
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PICO8 is in many ways less constrained than real-world microcontrollers, and the nature of the constraints is quite different. It simply isn't a meaningful comparison.
I find it tremendously helpful with software -- but I also always include the user as a component of the system (e.g., in architecture diagrams), which apparently isn't very common.

So rather than something technical like "process crashed", most of my investigations begin with "user is frustrated because they did not accomplish their task". Then my why-tree will have branches for, say, "the label on this control was unclear", "there was no documentation for this feature", "it was not clear how to get to the correct documentation page", "user was afraid to click it -> because there was no Undo", "user didn't know this feature already exists", etc.

Usually, I have to go a few questions deep before I get to a geeky technical solution that can be solved by more programming. I'll typically come up with 4 to 6 actionable improvements, and half will be completely non-technical, and most of the rest will be less than one line of code (e.g., to rearrange or clarify).

Users don't like going to the effort of filing bug reports, so whenever someone does, it's a good indicator to me that 10 or 100 other people also failed at a similar task with my software, or will soon. Users are also resourceful, and will try 2 or 3 ways to solve something, so if they ultimately fail, it means the software failed at every path they tried. By attacking every problem at multiple levels, it's possible to improve results for a whole lot of people at once.
No, I think it's strictly about where aggregations and other computations occur. You hint at that when you mention CSV files. Borgmon keeps X hours of data in memory and looks up anything older from TSDB. I never understood how to aggregate data from the same service, after the fact, in a reliable fashion. Or if it was possible at all. I believe it was only working when looking at data in memory. That's why people had rules to aggregate data at multiple levels as it was being ingested, then persisting that into TSDB.

I don't remember the latter being much more sophisticated than a bunch of files in GFS with the timeseries and some metadata, either. Monarch, I think, is based on Bigtable. It has a richer API. It might even use BT coprocessors to perform computations closer to the where the raw data is stored, rather than in the Monarch frontends. (I haven't watched the public talk, so I'm just going from vague recollection.)
Hasn't it?

Would be an interesting poll, broken down by region, but speaking for myself if you say 'Amazon' to me without context, I'll immediately think of the company.

Similarly 'twitter' in older literature throws me off for a second. I'd bet it's plummetted in usage in recent years.

It's just about familiarity - I use some part of Amazon the company almost every day, but have no ties to _the_ Amazon, nor see it as frequently in news items.
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I think startup demographics are changing slightly. Fewer early 20 bachelors.
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I think you answered your own question. The "lack of discipline" is not an internal failing, but an externality imposed disproportionately on poor people/PoC. Therefore, a savings product that makes access difficult in most cases but not impossible (for true emergencies), and without onerous penalty should access be necessary, makes its usage more palatable, even with the lack of interest.
If anything, I have only seen an increase in work hours in my peer circle. Which startups are cutting hours?
My mom always told me about how she had to pay her own way as a young adult, due to her father financially disowning her for taking a scholarship to college (he didn't believe women should attend). That definitely colored my expectations towards asking for support, so I opted to work 20 hours a week or more during my college years to support myself. Even so, I did receive $500 assistance my freshman year towards buying furniture, as well as a used car for 4k (though I sold it after college for 80% of purchase price and gave proceeds back to my mom). I consider myself more independent than my peers because I never requested or took an allowance or payments after freshman year (and my tuition was paid via grants and student loans), but I still know that even my option to work part-time to pay for rent and food was dependent on having that car available, so I still recognize I wasn't as independent as I'd like to believe.

I do think most college-age or immediate post-college millenials could be more financially independent if they felt the need for it. I was definitely in the minority of students at my college who worked significant hours while also maintaining a full workload. So many people bought into the idea that school should be a full-time thing, or that their parents wanted to support them so they didn't have to experience crappy jobs - and they really didn't think financial independence was a valuable pursuit on it's own.

That attitude persisted after college for some of them. I have a friend living in a very expensive city, who got a masters in a STEM field, but won't apply for jobs that actually are attainable b/c this person believes they deserve better than a mediocre job living in a un-cool city in the midwest, and their parents don't mind footing the rent bill until that dream job pops up somewhere cooler. I was taught that sometimes you just need to take the crappy job as a step towards getting a good one (and it worked out for me), but the people who never had financial pressure to do that don't really see it the same way.
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We're talking about indigenous nations. What the hell are they going to do with AWS hosting?
That's a California problem, not inherent to startups themselves.
> As a European, I'm happy to pay taxes because

Because you will go to jail if you won't.

> taxes is a convenient and efficient way to get money out of my bank account and into the hands of people who need it more than me

If this is something other than a very elaborate satire, I would be very surprised.

> literally zero effort on my part

Calling at least a third of your earnings "literally zero effort" is a bit disingenuous.
I would be really curious if someone could shed some light on how a healthy company could simply decide to "extinguish" exercised shares. Like how exactly would they go about doing that, and do you have examples I can read up describing where and how this happened?

I would understand if that happened when the company is in trouble (e.g. valuation dropping below the last preferred valuation, so preferences kick in, or as a result of the company having to honor very high liquidation preferences), but otherwise?

The only couple very shady cases I know about where Facebook with the Brazilian cofounder (with a complicated legal process where they reincorporated the company into a new one or something like that) and Skype with the employees (who naively signed a clawback clause in their agreement stating that the company could repurchase shares in the future at the original grant value even if their price skyrocketed, or something similar).

In all the other cases I know about where employees got screwed, it was because the company saw its valuation plummet and the investors preferences kicked in, in one way or another, so "extinguishing" common shares in that case is "expected" and more similar to a public company declaring bankruptcy and seeing the shareholders being wiped out while the bond holders can generally recoup something, since they have "preferred" terms inherent in the nature of the bonds.
This seems like a direction Firefox would go in too. Web security is important, and preventing downloading of insecure executables is an easy win for security.
If you put a lot of mental energy into organizing your ideology to think of them as evil, sure.
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You are correct that there is no such single hash; there can't be without it being longer, because then the parts could be brute forced separately.

However, a second hash of 10% of the file would work fine. You can even truncate it if saving a few bytes is that important (since you will check the full file hash later), although I suspect even a page with a bunch of downloads would be fine with a couple of extra hashes per file. While most APIs don't expose this possibility, most hash algorithms can spit out the full hash of the file up to any intermediary points with very little additional work. Or there could be seperate hashes for different blocks of data like P2P protocols do and store them all in a separate file on the https site.

However, the main issue is that these days it is very easy to just use https, most likely easier than any other solution. Browsers encouraging people to care by showing warnings should be very helpful in increasing the number of sites using https.
Well, because the .com TLD is meant for commercial use. Amazon owns the commercial trademark in basically every market that has such laws.
In most places yes, the places where it's not allowed have signs prohibiting it.
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Personal attacks are not OK on this site. You've done this before; could you please review the guidelines and stop?

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> is there actually any reason to pay below-market?

"market" is a big chunk of change. "Google salary" is not market. It's closer to 50% of market. (GSUs and annual bonus are significant aspects of comp that are basically cash). "Netflix salary" is market, and for a series A company there are a lot of reasons not to pay senior engineers 300k+.
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Why does HN consistently upvote ill-iformed poor analyses to the front page?
I have used it to success, but you have to allow for multiple answers to be given at each level that create their own branches of a tree. Which is effectively what the author illustrates as completely different outcomes. The group should make an effort to give multiple reasons in each iteration and follow them each separately.

5 Whys's also needs to be preceded by a detailed representation of what happened and followed by multiple next actions that are tracked to completion.
Worth noting that I find the flow state far easier to enter at different times in the day. Between around 2:30 to 4:30, I find it very easy to immerse in a task, to the point where even if I _should_ switch to a higher priority task, I will most likely stay on the track I'm on.

Who knows if that is circadian rhythm, conditioning, a combination of both...
If they're going to remove fork, then python's multiprocessing is going to be dead. Maybe then the community will be forced to get rid of GIL?
Not everyone in GenX got help either, or was born into middle class. It sucks, but it's reality too, and not new.

If it helps you feel a little more optimistic, many grew up in the recession around the 1980s which was far worse than 2008.

Like PG writes, you can make your life about finding a way to work really hard for a few years so we don't have to one day.

It will almost certainly be more work than others but you will improve more than others from that effort you put in.

Everyone's equal in their potential to have work ethic, developing has to be applied each according to the formulas of the circumstances of our life.

Surrounding yourself with hard workers (regardless of background) is the key I look for.

If there's no work ethic and effort, talent or privilege doesn't really get as far.
We're specifically using Gmon (GMon/Viceroy for dashboards, GMon Monarch for alerting), which is all Python built on top of Monarch.
The person I'm responding to is comparing product shutdowns between AWS (a cloud services divsion of Amazon) to Google (a company that contains both a cloud services division and a vastly larger consumper products division). This is an apples to oranges comparison. That's how it's relevant.

Before you say, "Amazon never shuts anything down, even outside of cloud." A) They do [1]. B) They have a tiny range of products compared to Google, so of course the absolute frequency of shutdowns will also be lower.

And before you say, "Well, better to have nothing than to have something and have it shut down." A) Some people [2] would disagree. B) Just don't use products in the category (consumer services) that Google tends to shut things down in.

But, please, whatever you do, don't spam every single thread where Google launches a cloud product (a category where they have a decent track record) with your gripes about Google Reader or whatever. It's not helpful and it's not relevant.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9605840/amazon-shuts-dow...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson
Widely if you eat oily snacks (microwave popcorn, ...) and instant soups. If you mostly cook at home, you're pretty unlikely to be exposed to this.
I am also not a lawyer, but I spend a great deal of time reading about these things and how they're handled in the courts.

Ambiguity in law is handled in at least two different ways: in criminal matters, ambiguity is read in the most favorable light for the defendant; in regulatory matters, the interpretation adopted by the regulatory agency responsible for the law's implementation is considered binding so long as it is "permissible construction" of the statute. The latter is commonly known as the "Chevron doctrine"[0]

The long and short of it is that this bill, if enacted, will mean whatever the Executive Branch says it means. If it's particularly egregious, then their interpretation will be challenged in court and perhaps eventually trimmed down a bit.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....
People with guns literally come to your house and put you in jail if you don't pay taxes. Not taken by force?

Can one person come to your house and take your money? Can ten? At what point it becomes "not by force"?
Macro-level view: The Mozilla Foundation may think that DNS-over-HTTPS is about "safety", but they're unwittingly furthering the agenda of those who would profit from the Internet not being decentralized. A decentralized Internet filled with devices that end users can control, should they choose, is a good thing for society, I'd argue. DNS-over-HTTPS is another piece of technology that can be used to eliminate that. It is not necessary to hand over freedom in exchange for "safety" or "security".

Micro-level view: I'm a sysadmin for my Customers, my family, and some of my friends. Inevitably I will have to deal with these awful devices. So will countless other sysadmins. I'm dreading having to deal with devices that invade my users' privacy, thwart my attempts at detecting bad actors on the network, and that just generally act like the person who paid for them doesn't actually own them.
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It's annoying that pretty much every single Google project comes with an underlying attempt at vendor lock-in.
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the causes of failures that you explicitly enumerate which were under your control aren't always You Did A Bad Thing.

For example, "I trusted this dependency which broke" doesn't mean you Did Something Bad, it just means that the cause of the failure was the lack of a way to validate the dependency and fall back on a known-good version. A good example of this is build pipelines relying on the ability to download npm/nuget/debian packages from a remote server instead of vendoring them locally - this is an intrinsically unreliable choice to make. The remote server being unreachable is not your fault, but there are steps you can take to fix this problem in the future. Avoiding external blame in your 5Ys (without ignoring the external factors) encourages you to make local changes.

As always you have to apply reason here and not adhere to dogma, but it's a useful dogma.
That's usually referred to as Phantom Stock, and is a thing.
> named after the afore mentioned globally known tourism business.

No, it was named after the Amazon river, not anything to do with tourism around the Amazon river.
Or was it the Revd. John Michell? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michell
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There's lots of code that puts data in databases and gets data out of databases. That code is usually intimately involved with the database schema. I suspect that you could get a job doing that without having to go back to junior salaries... but not necessarily at your current company.

You also might not be able to do it in JavaScript. You might have to use Java or C#.

You might look around at your current situation. Identify the people who write code that interacts with your databases. Ask their manager/lead (and your own) if you can, part time, work with that team, or if you can transition to working on it full time.
Yes, but if everyone you knew wasn’t rich that wouldn’t be the case. For the average person that all sounds ridiculous.

If there is more systemic downward pressure then average people wonder how are all these people surviving if they’re claiming to be self-sufficient, and this article aims to reveal that lie.
I don't think you need a whole lot of elisp knowledge to get started. You'll probably pick up a fair bit from writing your own config file, which isn't too hard. Then you can learn as needed from there. I use emacs for org-mode and still barely know elisp although I'm an experienced lisp programmer.
Couldn't you add additional certificate authorities to your browser at will?

The CA system is decentralized by nature. If the existing authorities start trying to manipulate your internet by controlling who they verify, which hasn't really happened that I'm aware of, you can always add a new root certificate. Or consumer browsers can offer new CA roots out of box.
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We haven’t acknowledged that trying to ‘find causes’ at all is misleading!

Causes are something we create and construct afterwards. They aren’t a primitive that make up incidents. They don’t fundamentally exist to be found.

Causal explanations limit what we find and learn and the irony is that root cause analysis is built on an idea that incidents can be fully comprehended—they can’t!

Instead think about the conditions that allowed an incident to occur. Separate out everything you think looks like a cause and explore each of them.

Talk about the properties and attributes that were present. There are so many aspects to incidents that aren’t even causes at all, and they don’t follow a linear chain of this-led-to-that.

People are presented with RCA and 5 whys as really getting to the bottom of what matters, but the reality is this approach is a linear simplification. We need to kick it up a notch and practice more holistic investigations of incidents.

Stop getting at why people didn’t do what they thought they should have done, and start getting to the point of what actually happened and how those actions seemed reasonable at the time.

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-infinite-hows
Anecdotal only, but I notice my friends with more than 3 kids need a larger vehicle. Also, heavier vehicles are safer for the passengers. And some people need to carry cargo.

I'm sure not everyone has a 'good' reason, but a fair number of people do make a conscious choice.
>If a student with an ISA doesn't get a good job after graduation, the school gets nothing (or not much).

The school isn’t the one making these deals (at least from the example in the article), private investors are entering into these agreements with students.

If the student doesn’t get a job the private investors don’t get paid, whereas the school has already been paid.
And watch the value of the college degree follow the trend of a high school diploma!

If we offered free college, how long before we start dropping the standards to earn a degree (for the same reasons we did so with high school diplomas) and have students waste even more of their lives in extremely sub par education environments?