skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK’s generational wealth discussed in the article and the generational wealth in France at the time of the revolution were propped up by special treatment in the law for nobles, aristocrats, and the “upper class.” I believe you and I agree that grants of special privilege by the state are unjust.

As for leveling the playing field, what evidence do you present that it is not already more or less level in jurisdictions that do not prop up class systems? Sure, you can cherry pick Paris Hiltons, but the plural of anecdote is not data. What is the distribution of wealth inherited by present millionaires? What studies can you point to that show conclusively that people who are good at building wealth are also good at transmitting these skills to their children, which would be remarkable?

Perhaps natural processes take care of the problem well enough already if overcontrolling micromanagers would only get out of the way.
Plus, ya know, Rockbox. Hands down the best mobile music listening experience there is.
This was not a claim, although I very much doubt the intellectual capacity of Himmler, Göring, or Keitel. It was a metaphor. The Nazis had as much regard for the rule of law as a drunk member of a street gang may have for the correct placement of the several forks and knives and a dinner table.
Didn't Elon Musk say that NASA had plan to buy rockets from the 70's or 80's from the Soviets to fly some missions in the 2000's?

That is, not the DESIGNs from the 70's or 80's, but the actual rockets themselves!

I don't know much about space flight but I found that to be fascinating.
> If the interface is so wrong that the implementers actually can't use it safely, that's not a microservices problem any more than it's a monolithic architecture problem.

Right. My point was that there are code bugs and architectural bugs, and from what I can see microservices only really help with the first of those.
Helping organize small music concerts and festivals and recording local indie bands. Mostly friends or friends of friends.

I've been doing it since I was a teen, before I started programming, and the first significant amount of money I made was after I invested all my savings in a small festival I organized with my friends.

As for recording, it's been a fun ride because equipment go so much better and accessible since I started 15 years ago. For recording, having portable stuff is nice, but affording to pick studios because of the room instead of the equipment was a real game changer.
I did consulting on the side until I burnt out.

Now I invest my spare time in being better at my full time job, and it’s paid off.
Molecular Support for Heterogonesis Resulting in Sesquizygotic Twinning
140k at a startup does roughly map to mid-level (L4) Google engineer in terms of YOE. No startup with only 10-100 employees is going to offer a Google comp. I'm not saying it's OK, but that's reality. If a startup offered 200k worth of options at their current valuation, they'd probably run out of stock in a few weeks. They have to bank on employees being OK hoping that the stock will appreciate considerably.

I know conventional wisdom says to not share your current salary, but in your case I would consider sharing your previous 196k base before they can give a low 140k number.

Edit:

> Is there some thought leader going around in the startup space that is pushing a "140k should be enough for anyone" story?

Probably not, but I suspect they're all pulling from the same "market analysis" surveys that probably all say that an L4 at a company of size 10-100 makes between X and Y. They probably all target the 50th or 60th percentile, and then make you the offer assuming you'll negotiate upward 10-15k.
I googled "topographical business maps" and it's not clear to me what that is. Would you explain more?
Quick shoutout to not reading.
Hansard 4 May 1931
Commons Sitting
ORDERS OF THE DAY

The Chancellor of the Exchequer
(Mr Philip Snowden)

1933 - 34 Financial Year
"... a tax at the rate of one penny for each pound of the land value of every unit of land in Great Britain..."

"By this measure we assert the right of a community to the ownership of land. If private individuals continue to possess a nominal claim to the land they must pay to the community for the enjoyment of it, and they cannot be permitted to enjoy that privilege to the detriment of the welfare of the community."
Tesla Granted Restraining Order on Short Seller for Investor Event
I had chronic insomnia for several years. But then I’ve stopped coding right before sleeping at least 1-3 hours in advance and now I can finally sleep. Who would’ve thought.
I would like to if time permits. There is a huge untapped market here. The difficulty is in locating the parts that are both unavailable and 3D printable. I keep it in the back of my head as I repair other items. So much expensive stuff ends up in a landfill over a tiny part.

I could see someday having a github project for replacement parts, each one iterating and getting better an better -- far beyond the original.
It crashes Firefox 66.0.3 (64-bit) on Windows 10.0.17763.437. https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/7d1ca3eb-2d06-4...
Yup. Now look at the rock walls of New England which snake up hillsides and mountains. A crazy amount of energy was needed.
The 'war tubas' we used to spot warplanes before radar (2018)
Except Borderlands 2 was mindless hogwash that completely missed the essence of the first game. I still routinely play through B1 every two-three years but B2 never gets any spin time.

Why? The simplicity and laser-sharp focus of the original beats the chaotic overdriven mayhem of the second.
Google Wardley maps. There is a free book on medium from its creator Simon Wardley.
Works great in Firefox 68.0a1 on Fedora 29 with the HTC Vive front-facing camera.
You're counting the wrong thing. They're not talking about the number of kart racers out there, they are talking about the number of people who play better kart racers.

Like the reason "the year of the Linux Desktop" hasn't happened is not explained by pointing out that there are a lot of OSs and Linux is better than most. It hasn't happened because everyone is using Windows and MacOs. If STK isn't comparable to Mario Kart, then it isn't good. Everyone is playing Mario Kart; that's the standard to beat.
There is also Redo

https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Very different, never used it, but very interesting nonetheless.
> We sold drugs.

Drugs? As in prescription drugs?
Got any advice on getting a referral to someone like you? I’m a founder who could use some advice independent of the company’s counsel. I’ve tried my non-startup network but am only getting leads for the big firms. How do I find an attorney like you? (New account for privacy reasons)
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Start with something you want to build and work backwards.

How about a simple picture frame?
Eh. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/12/12/interviews-with-milgram...
That's why the Marxist critique of capital is wrong. Was use of capital to extract rent from others ethical or not? Maybe yes, maybe not, who knows. It is impossible to decide.

Georgist perspective doesn't blame the rich capitalist, but the rentier, no matter if rich or poor. Rentiers provably extract others people's and businesses' labor.
There is very little correlation between relative pay and relative performance. I know first-hand many people who have been underpaid and many who have been overpaid.

I mean, sure the correlation is nonzero, but it's low enough as to not be usefully predictive for hiring. The correlation is much higher between relative pay and relative privilege, which is not at all about who would be a good employee.

Also, most of my pay stubs throughout my recent career have actually been electronic-only pay statements, and my pay is usually electronically direct-deposited too.

Therefore, any employer-provided pay statement which I pass along would be in the original PDF form, printed from the original, or redacted in a visible and non-fraudulent way by me to remove any irrelevant sensitive info (e.g. before the accepted offer stage I might redact any full bank account number or SSN).

If I were a fraudster, the modified PDF I would share would look just as credible as the original. Far safer to just obtain permission and ask the former employer.
No website. Just referrals. Every founder I've worked with will always talk to other people about it and share my contact info. Works great because I cannot do it full time at the moment.

Email in profile if you have context-specific questions.
That was actually his plan in the early days of SpaceX. But the missiles were too expensive, so they started from scratch.

But a lot of commercial launchers are incremental improvements on old designs. The Delta family is based on the Thor ICBM.

Soyuz was first launched in 1966, and it's the only way to get humans to the ISS at the moment.
Is your specialization in corporate law?
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While they cannot pocket the tips, they can legally subtract the tips from the employee's hourly wage, even if that means going under the "minimum wage", which essentially amounts to the same thing as pocketing.

See https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm

N.b. The employer is unable to do this if they don't know about the tip, which is why, as I understand it, tipping in cash is preferred by folks working in the service industry.
I do electronics repair for cars. For many older and rare cars it's usually no longer possible (or desired) to replace broken electronic components such as the engine or transmission controller. So owners contact me to have the part repaired instead of replacing it.

The repairs are usually not that challenging for me, and it won't make me rich, but it's a great way for me to clear my head from challenges with my tech startup. It also gives me access to some very rare and expensive cars. Obviously you need to test drive the car if you just fixed the ECU ;-)
I wonder if it's related to Golden Kamuy (manga/anime about ainu) popularity
KDE Usability and Productivity: Week 67
Ask HN: What email client do you use?
I've been wondering what's the best application for email productivity. Browser v Desktop Clients v Mutt
im carefully trying to understand what you are saying but it just sounds like crazy nonsense. you might reflect on whether it actually is crazy nonsense, and if not, find a more clear way to express yourself.
Probably because the quality of the content mattered more than the platform it was posted it.
I’d rather trust individuals to make their own purchasing decisions, and let the market experiment and figure out what is best, than reorganize society on non-market principles and let a committee determine what people should and should not want.

Research may state that no one knows what will make themselves happy, but isn’t that one of life’s challenges? Finding happiness and purpose? I don’t need an academic paper to tell me happiness is difficult to attain.
I certainly agree that this wouldn’t tell us anything real about the Mueller report, although it might be a useful exercise to learn about the language models. What really rubs me the wrong way is academics or anyone else with power trying to tell me what is or isn’t “funny” or “interesting” or “fun.” Like, that’s for me to decide, not you!
For the past few years I've been buying, renovating, and selling small-ish houses. My dad was a contractor growing up so I picked up most of the necessary skills helping him out during middle and high school. I mostly work on weekends and holidays which makes it a bit slow going, but I've made a reasonable amount of money. Even if the money was worse I would still probably do it, I really enjoy both the physical aspects of the work and seeing a house go from a beat up old husk to a shiny new place! I have to contract out some of the work (electrical mostly) because I'm not a certified electrician, but otherwise it is a one man show.
That's entirely artificial. At the individual or company level, nobody knows or cares about their percentage of GDP.
Mind sharing where? As my side gig is the local indie band I’d love some advice on what we could do better.
A simple idea that makes sense. Good luck! I see a use case and would install if there was an android version. How does adding others work? Scan QR code? Search their pre-added contact info?

For pricing, and I understand you may be bootstrapped and seeking to be cash-positive, 100 contacts limit seems really low, especially given a selling point on your website that this can be for quickly adding new contacts/business cards/high number of low familiarity/frequency contacts. Perhaps make fees for power user features, like groups, or very high contact lists, or corporate use cases?

For vanity url usernames, I'm not sure if this works or just fragments namespaces more. I have my own firstlast name .com, Twitter and handful of other social media vanity url accounts. But names are not unique being first mover is. My vote on the jury for this feature is out.
I've felt this for a while, been actively monitoring my sleep for over a year and try to hit at average 7.5hr of sleep nightly. (This is what I found works best for me).

I've found it helps with my mood, and my stress and also productivity. I've also found that it is possible to have the same effect of not enough sleep, by getting too much sleep.
Although At-Will employment gives the option for an employee to quit and seek out new employment whenever they want, At-Will explicitly favors employers.

Most people would simply prefer a raise at a job they love---
This reminds me of a couple of old sci-fi series I read a long time ago. Michael Moorcock's The Dancers at the End of time series about the last of humanity that's become apathetic, decadent and godlike as all the stars die around them and they come up with a plan to travel back in time and start civilization earlier so humanity get get on its feet quicker, but discover time is cyclical.

And another series, I wish I could read again but cannot remember the author or titles, but it was about a world where civilization ended because we'd genetically engineered ourselves and animals and everything into fairy tale creatures who overran everything. The whole time it seems like it's set in the future but it ends up the main characters become Adam and Eve and it implies all our current mythology came from the society that genetically engineered themselves out of existence.
I recommend reading book - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.

Well researched (based on testimonials) and well written.

Some men get used to the job, some enjoyed it, some kept refusing.

> Twelve out of 500 soldiers opted out when allowed to leave freely.[34] Those of them who felt unable to continue shooting at point-blank range of prisoners begging for mercy, were asked to wait at the marketplace where the trucks were loaded.[35] The action was finished in seventeen hours. The bodies of the dead carpeting the forest floor at the Winiarczykowa Góra hill (about 2 km from the village, pictured)[36] were left unburied. Watches, jewelry and money were taken.[3]

Unfortunately some of those men who refused were hanged after the war for made up war crimes. History has bitter sense of humor.

> For a battalion of less than 500 men, the ultimate body count was at least 83,000 Jews.[50]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...

[2] http://hampshirehigh.com/exchange2012/docs/BROWNING-Ordinary...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_Police_Battalion_101
As they should - it won't be able to keep up with the increasing automation for long. Didn't read the article due to the obnoxious adblock notice.
Thanks. The lite version is nice but we'll go with the canonical version (updated from http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_db08b33213d74c0d498afe6dc04c...).
Any interest in helping a fellow HN-er? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712205
Ask HN: What is the desktop manager you use for mac?
I am looking for something similar to i3. Not exactly window managing features but desktop ones mainly. The desktop functionality in MacOs Mojave is half baked. There are features that conflict with other features such as fixing the apps to some desktop number but when you use cmd+tab the order will change.
The economy that you describe, is the simplified econ 101 version. The market fixes everything, and the invisible hand steers everything to optimality.

The human being you describe in your last paragraph is from the same economics textbook: A perfectly rational human being making rational decisions 24/7.

Both are simplified models that help doing some undergrad economics...but are absolutely insufficient to explain the world correctly and prevent the solutions of a myriad of problems.
All plastic parts for appliances: dish drawer wheels, fridge shelves - are all designed to not last, run for $$$ on vendor site if possible to find at all. If you print it - they would come.
Attempting to make money making side projects and instead just expensing servers and subcontractors and getting the tax refund from everything my employer withheld by April
>> It’s not on someone else to tell me what I should and should not want.

Let me give you the news: companies have like..., forever, being in the business of telling others what they should want or not. This is called advertising. This is essentially what every company in the so called new economy, large or small, does to make money. In a modern capitalist economy, nobody cares about the needs of others. The goal is to advertise what you want others to do and, if the advertisement and product presentation is good enough, make loads of money. In the end, the need usually is born from the collective pressure of using the same products.
I used to watch that, along with Shazam/Captain Marvel, and The Mighty Isis. Also the Kroft Super Show. The Kroft puppet shows were pretty subversive. HR Puff'n Stuff basically had Puff the Magic Dragon as a main character, basically a walking marijuana reference. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl were a superhero duo with their own storyline on the Kroft Super Show, IIRC. Basically Batman and Robin in a flying car, where the men were support characters and the action duo was female.

Where I grew up, binge watching all of the Saturday Morning cartoons and shows in a row (not all episodes in a show, but all shows with an episode that day) was viewed as something kinda bad. People talked about it as if it was going to be a part of the destruction of the culture. I always felt guilty, and mom would kick us out of the house after lunch. Then we'd spend the whole day outside unless it was raining.

Now, watching a whole bunch of television in a multi-hour block is just kind of a normal thing, so long as you don't overdo it.

The parents of the day might not have been wrong about the destruction of the culture part, though.
i'm guessing he means very strong coffee
https://www.inverse.com/article/34976-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-t...
Found bacterium that eats greenhouse gases [Google Translate]
X68K is super-interesting. It's hard to summarize it without sounding like you're just making stuff up to troll retrogaming/retrocomputing enthusiasts. I mean, imagine running into a post like this on Reddit or whatever:

"Did you know that the company behind the Bomberman and Adventure Island series made an MS-DOS clone, but it was for a 68000-based computer that had proper arcade-tier graphics and sound hardware in it? Yes, they were working with NEC at basically the same time on PC Engine and PC-FX, but the computer was a completely unrelated Sharp design. In addition to having better arcade ports than any other system at the time, it had a thriving doujin scene. One of these doujin games was an enhanced clone of Sega's version of Tetris, which inspired the creation of Tetris: The Grand Master."
Finally! I'm so glad to hear this. Hopefully awareness will spread and the Ainu culture and language will be preserved as a result.
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Experienced machine learning professionals - How do you create scalable, deployable and reproducible data/ML pipelines at your work?
The economy definitely behaves in ways that has to do with percent of GDP. Capital allocation is the most obvious factor. Individuals feel the weight of finance on the economy regardless of whether they know it or care.
That’s brilliant!
I mean, you do have to worry about that. It's just that you're happy with what it covers, so you don't worry about it. Despite all the well known awful problems we have, most people in the US actual feel the same about our plans as you do about yours. I don't have to worry about what my insurance covers because it is a good plan, and if it becomes worse, I can look for a better one. This is true for most people in the US - mostly those of us fortunate enough to have good employer sponsored plans - it just isn't true for enough of us in a lot of peoples' opinion (which I share).

One thing I'm way more afraid of with a single payer system (but not necessarily all universal coverage systems) is that if the coverage became worse, I would have no recourse; it would be a monopoly, I wouldn't be able to look for a better competitor. Even worse, it would be a monopoly run by a political bureaucracy, so coverage decisions could become political. For example, coverage for birth control is a very political topic here. I'm certain that the first incarnation of a single payer system would cover that, because it would be set up by the politicians who favor it, but once the system is enshrined, whoever is in power would be able to change it however they think best. Coverage policy could easily become a political football.
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This sounds interesting. Did you build an app for this type of ethnography? And do you collect and make sense of qualitative information?
There is no denying that this is cool and there are definitely modern day applications. However there is also no evidence that ancient people did this. There are plenty of ancient structures constructed of massive stones without beveled edges. Ten years ago there were a couple of guys who figured out how to use giant kites to move large blocks of stone, said that was one way the Egyptians could have built the pyramids. Great, but only problem with that is there are no records of the Egyptians building giant kites, so again kinda cool and probably a great source of fail videos, but probably not what ancient people did.
wow, talk about utterly missing the point of the quote.
The opportunity cost is offset by the student wanting to work in academia more than the industry. I know several grad students who know full well they’d be paid more at Google, but enjoy doing research at a lower salary far more. Money isn’t the only value you get out of a job.
You sound like a person who isn't educated in determinism and so you think it's crazy nonsense. All external forces upon a person are destined to happen and where nobody has any real control over what they do or think. How's that or maybe just google hard determinism. I witness the same kind of backlash as the flat world thinkers did towards Pythagoras.
Back in college I started Alphalux, A men’s accessories mostly bracelets business. I was a full time college student and was working at a pharmaceutical company full time. I would custom order bracelets at Alibaba with my logo on it. Would pay wholesale price of $0.75 per bracelet and would sell it for $10-$30 dollars on Etsy and my website. It was fun while it lasted. I was making $3-4K a month until dropshipers ruined the market.
Can’t read due to medium free access limit policy.
Built a site where you can custom-tailor a writing pad to your handwriting/style... https://www.blankslatepaper.com/

So far it's been slow; like @memset, I've got the product done but struggle with driving traffic/sales.