skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growing up I had a family friend who was a park ranger in a popular hunting area (not California fwiw). The laws protecting wildlife from poachers are really strong and rangers take them very seriously. As a result, catching a poacher can often be a messy scenario. If it doesn't turn violent, you can bet the poachers will try everything to get out of catching the case. I don't think it's unreasonable that poachers would try to protect themselves with this defense.

That said, I don't think that potential wiggle room poachers may try to exploit should be reason to keep salvaging illegal. The only time I have ever heard of a poacher making that excuse was in an askreddit thread (yeah I know take it with a grain of salt) about LEOs getting guns pulled on them. In that story the ranger could clearly tell the animal had been shot, not hit with a vehicle, and I would imagine in many other cases a ranger would be able to tell the difference too.
I use dnscrypt and log all my DNS queries, I'm pretty relieved to see that I've never looked up the domain used to exfiltrate the data! Gist of the unobfuscated code is here: https://gist.github.com/gwillem/4403a9caf6877d6276cf6fe834a0...
Children are still figuring things out, and are extremely sensitive to feedback from peers. I wouldn't assume this was a joke, and, even if it was (or a ploy for attention, or playing with being dramatic, or whatever), negative peer feedback could turn it serious.

Also, it's not like certain social media companies don't know this about children, and they've published research on exploiting that for their own manipulative purposes.
Xi has enormous amounts of soft power with which to influence the Standing Committee.
Right, it's a new business model, but it's odd to lump it in with Stadia etc.
In cupertino there was a similar drive and a similar movement to stop it.

The slogan for the people against it were saying "Don't turn cupertino into condotino!" There are a lot of condos in cupertino now.
Or — "after I spend all my money, I don't have any money left!"
If you have used debt to buy a deprecating asset (car or almost anything you can buy with credit card, like iphone) you are not saving. In a long run, your asset will cost 0, and you haven't saved a penny.
Hi!

My wife & I are raising 2 children in Berlin (a major world city) & earn a lot less than $500k while not struggling at all (in fact I save about 1/3 of my net pay even after deductions for both private and public retirement funds).

Sending your kids to private schools is hardly a must, especially if you live in at least a middle-class neighborhood (which I assume you do on a $500k income).
> private school tuition and child care fees

Are luxuries for the rich; if you can afford them, you're not having trouble getting by.
I'll share something I learned myself in another Hacker News comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door

"Their findings, that millionaires are disproportionately clustered in middle-class and blue collar neighborhoods and not in more affluent or white-collar communities, came as a surprise to the authors who anticipated the contrary."

It really opened my eyes to the fact that most people I think are rich are actually not rich, just extremely completely in debt.

"The authors make a distinction between the 'Balance Sheet Affluent' (those with actual wealth, or high-net-worth) and the 'Income Affluent' (those with a high income, but little actual wealth, or low net-worth)."
Based on their comment, the choice they made was to no longer live in SF. So yes, it was their choice, and they made it.
So after daycare a couple making $0.5M/yr would "only" have $423,000 left to work with. What does rent cost? A 6 bedroom house can be rented for $11,500 a month [1]. So after rent and daycare the family has $285,000 to work with. Still very very far from struggling.

1. https://www.apartments.com/1934-powell-st-san-francisco-ca/e...
You download a list of every street address in San Francisco, pick two at random, and write one line of code to get Google Maps to tell you how long it takes to drive between them. Where exactly is the complexity?
The other Chernobyl units continued to operate commercially until 1998.
Freelance marketplace startup Fiverr has filed to go public
It's possible.

The trick is to render the pictures using the latest position of the headset. Include depth maps to make the rendering more accurate. Use ML to in-paint the gaps.
Private school for two kids could be that much in NYC.
Its considered a savings because you're increasing equity in the house, which you can later resell. Its not a general statement about debt.
It’s crazy how accurate the “$100 gas $800 rent $400 food $2000 $impulse_expense please someone help me budget my family is dying” meme is.

At the risk of repeating what gets said every time this topic comes up, basic financial education should be taught in schools.
Why not decompose the carcass if you're doing this for ecological reasons? Encouraging consumption just makes it seem like a cruel not-solution for the poverty problems in this state.
Eating all organic, fresh-from-farm food, eating at luxury restaurants, attending internationally acclaimed shows in the best seating, and maybe even investing in a little bit of modern art? Oh, and purchasing all the best in skincare, makup, spas, saunas, cryotherapy, light therapy, etc? Personal trainers, coaches, cleaners, cooks? I could imagine a combination of all of those could be 8,500$ a month.

(EDIT: And I bet it's still feel inadequately uncultured compared to an even wealthier peer who owns several paintings, vintage wines, attends every big show in the best seating + hires a personal stylist!)
You can't downvote replies to your own comments on HN, so it's not me.
Samsung details 3nm gate-all-around technology
If its private school tuition then it should have been under the line item of "private school tuition," not "other expenses."
Everywhere there is evidence that we have overshot as a civilization.

In the garden there aren't as many insects anymore. They're in decline worldwide.

The weather isn't how it used to be when you were growing up. It's hotter, colder, harsher.

We are inundated with articles about the collapse of nature- how half the animals that existed in 1970 are now gone, the coral reefs are dead, and there is no end in sight. We are adding yet more people every day.

It's very easy to fall into despair that regardless of what you do today the collapse we are careening towards will erase all of it and more.
At least to me, it's about how things are ordered in time.

Paying down debt is setting money aside to pay for something you bought at some point in the past.

Saving is setting money aside to pay for something you might buy at some point in the future.
If your only way to argue with parent's comment is to extrapolate it to an extreme s/he did not articulate then maybe you should give it another read.
US tariff revenues are way up, but China isn’t paying for them
I thought they were referring to principal payments on a house mortgage.
This is the most encouraging thing I've heard recently. We might be doing better culturally, and more resilient, than it sometimes seems.
I took a look at the article they're sourcing, and that article actually has mentioned the counterpoints it expects to see about the various line items and has an argument about why they think it's reasonable that it's on there. I don't entirely agree with it, but I think the article is more nuanced than the bloomberg article suggests by just including the chart without any commentary from the article.

https://www.financialsamurai.com/scraping-by-on-500000-a-yea...
Don’t forget the weekly transfusion from your personal blood boy.
If there will be fewer people who go to work at Facebook who care about privacy, that seems like bad news?
Anyone living in a high COL city with multiple kids should look into importing an au pair.
$2k a month would really help the au pair and her family back home and save the family potentially hundreds of dollars a month
If I have a personal savings goal, and on a particular month I miss it, do I suffer the same consequences if I instead owed the bank?

Debt is tied to enforcement, often punitive enforcement.

There is an element of freedom buried in these that I am trying to suss out. I am reluctant to use evocative words to describe what lies beneath the obligations of debt, but I sense there is a qualitative difference under the surface.
My guess is the author considers it savings because you are contributing to net worth presumably by:

1) increasing home equity, which increases your net assets
2) increasing earning potential via education, which increases your ability to acquire future assets

Both come with assumptions of course (like the home value stability/appreciation or the education actually resulting in higher earnings).
Holy smokes, with those kinds of expenses, you might have to hang on to that BMW 5 series a few more years before replacing it. I don't know how people are supposed to get by these days.
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/2/18527196/high-speed-rail-cali...
I don't know about that family, but if I was making 500k my kids would probably be going to a private school.
House mortgage wasn't what I was referring to specifically. I meant more the paying down student loan debt.
So as I click the article about why the guy started using noscript, the first text I am greeted with is this:

"This website requires javascript to properly function. Consider activating javascript to get access to all site
functionality."

Which, granted, does not interfere in my hability to read the article using my non-javascript web browser. But it is quite ironic.
As a business, this is not a big problem for FB. FB will still find plenty of talent.

What they will find less abundant is "top talent," whatever that means. I doubt FB actually needs that much "top talent" to continue successfully, anyway. They're not performing brain surgery on a rocket.
An article by Dundas and Wade was briefly discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15260411

One detail is that shortly before his death, Foucault sent a letter asking if he could come to live with Wade and Stoneman. "I think he wanted to die like Huxley. I said yes, of course."
"Don't we already" is an excuse, not an argument.
US has no experience, it looses it once every electoral term
Most people's idea of "Rich" is that you have a very high burn rate. Sort of fits with the "Work hard / Play hard" ethos of success in America.

Financial freedom comes from minimizing your burn rate. Far less flashy, but you can stretch money amazingly far when you aren't trying to keep up with what you think people expect of you.
Facebook has began scaling back on hiring since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Alternative possible headline working just as well. People are still applying en masse to work at Facebook.

Among top schools, Facebook’s acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen from an average of 85% for the 2017-2018 school year to between 35% and 55% as of December.

A fall in acceptance rates may mean saturation in needed roles at Facebook.
That's probably utilities, cell phone, tv, after school/nanny/sports/etc for kids activities, Starbucks, food, etc. Not that it isn't a lot but I don't see any other line items for all the stuff and it can add up depending on how you live.
You train the AI based on outcomes, not based on humans' judgments of what they expect outcomes to be.
Database Architects: Why use learning when you can fit?
Great to see you still working on this. Bummed that the blog has dropped off at day 6. Looking forward to hearing more lessons from your journey.
The way the United States provides schooling free of charge from age 4 to age 18, and expects families to pay massive tuition bills before and after, does make parenting expensive at times— especially for young families starting out.

$500,000 in income is, of course, enough money to pay even expensive bills, being well into the top 1% of family incomes.
Sometimes that's intentional. As a hiring manager I find value in seeing what someone chooses to prioritize when given an impossible task. If you have 48 hours to complete a 2 week project, what portions do you choose to complete? Can you explain why you chose that?

I also don't think it's cool to do what I just said without letting the candidate know that's what is happening. Otherwise they might just get frustrated and decline to work on it.
> These people resort to less effective, morality based arguments to sway others (let's face it, most people care more about eating tasty food than saving the environment), indicating that their real concern isn't moving the needle on meat consumption, it's asserting their moral superiority in order to gain status among their peers

Again, why is that? There are countless other moral issues (some of which I mentioned in the gp post) that most of us cringe when thinking they were contentious debates in the past. What makes eating beef different?

The implication that people behave morally to gain status among their peers is, frankly, childish. As if the only reason people aren't setting children or fire, murdering one another, stealing cars, etc. is to "gain status". No—I encourage you to realize that some of us actually believe in doing what we think is the right thing. I assure you, veganism garners far more criticism and bizarre hatred than it does admiration.
It sounds like you missed the key point "some of that money is going to principal".

Let's say you bought a house for $100K and for this argument it can always sell for $100K. And you have a 30 year fixed mortgage on it (debt for 30 years). After paying on that debt for 10 years, the principal remaining on the loan is down by about 20%. Now if you sell the house for $100K, you get back in cash $20K.

See how that works? You "saved" $20K over 10 years by making mortgage payments.

It is a little trickier with student loans because really what it means as you pay down your student loans is that you "owe less". Conceptually, if you decided to zero out your accounts, pay all your debts, sell all your assets. Then the amount of money left over would be "more" if you had spent 10 years paying down your student debt than if you had not. That difference is calculable and adds to your "net worth" (your cash value after zeroing everything out).
One thing that's on my mind but haven't been able to spend time investigating is the fact that on my machine (Ubuntu 19.04), almost all distribution-installed executables are not ELF executables per se, but ELF shared objects. Running `file /bin/ls` shows that it's an ELF 64-bit LSB shared object. Running `readelf -h /bin/ls` also says that the type is DYN. Is the executable type basically deprecated now?
What kind of games were played? Whether or not latency is an issue is hugely dependent on the title. A game like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice where the bulk of the game play revolves around precision timing is going to be killed by any significant amount of latency. Unless it does something smart like trying to compensate for the latency on the client end (e.g. make a block succeed even if it was late, if it suspects that the player blocked at the right time from their perspective when viewing the delayed stream) I can't see how a game like that would be playable on Stadia.
All debt isn't the same. I see it as savings when the debt is backed by an asset like a a mortgage is, then paying it down gives you more equity in the asset. If you sell the home, this equity converts into cash. You could also get another low interest loan with the equity. It's just as much savings as a 401k which can go up or down but generally up in value over long periods of time. Paying off another type of debt like student loan debt doesn't have the same benefits.
We Make Complex Decisions
Unless you’re feeding a small army, it’s not possible for groceries alone to add up to anything like that. Eating out easily could ($200/day x 30 days = $6000!) but not from actual cooking.
Documenting a walk along the Pacific Crest Trail
Even in this case, your house value can take a sudden plunge. Savings are savings, they are not going anywhere. It's money that sits in your bank account and you always know how many years without work you can afford.
I don't need to prove anything, since I'm not claiming that Teslas are safer than all other cars in all other conditions like Tesla and Elon Musk are. They need to prove their claims, and resorting to spurious comparisons to "miles driven" under conditions in which Autopilot was "working but not actually controlling the car" don't count.
I love how this old TV commercial pretty much sums up the way some people live:

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

People who think it's OK to spend every dime that comes in. They've bought into the recent concept that they deserve everything they want and more... then when shit happens... it's a damn hard lesson.
> Walmart has 2,867,125,000 shares outstanding * $1.96 per quarter * 4 = $22,478,260,000 per year spent on dividends alone.

Their quarterly dividend is ~$0.53/share:

https://stock.walmart.com/investors/stock-information/divide...

Moreover, let's suppose you take that entire amount and give it to the employees. Then the company has zero ROI and the stock value drops to the level that it's profitable for corporate raiders to buy the company to liquidate its real estate holdings etc., and everyone loses their jobs.

Shareholders get paid because they invested money. You can't avoid paying them market rates unless you can operate without capital. Somebody has to pay for the land the store sits on and the trucks that deliver the goods. They have to get a return if you want to get an investment.

> I haven't even looked at executive salaries or the costs from lawsuits Walmart gets from it's shady tactics.

The numbers for top level executives will be even less valuable than for store managers, because they get paid hundreds of times more money but have ten thousand times more employees under them.

> If Walmart can't pay that then maybe they deserve to fail and Costco, which does pay well and comply with the law, can take their place.

Costco can't replace Walmart because Walmart customers can't afford membership fees and bulk purchases, or they would already buy at Costco. The thing that replaces Walmart is dollar stores. That is not an improvement for anybody.

> Compared to Microsoft or Apple, which can easily afford to pay the contract labor they use in place of union janitors, technicians, drivers, etc. Despite their margins they still use it and those people live in poverty because of it.

Those people live in poverty because the cost of necessities is high compared to the value of unskilled labor. If janitors at other companies make $8/hour, Microsoft isn't going to pay more just because they have more money.

To improve the lives of those people, what you need is either more demand for labor or more supply (i.e. lower prices) for necessities.

> Microsoft, Apple, Wall Street banks, even McDonalds is a better example.

None of these companies are good examples because they're all titans. The large majority of people work for small and medium businesses with low margins. Setting policy based on Apple and McDonalds is exactly how you get policies that only work for Apple and McDonalds. You destroy the small businesses that actually employ people and drive the demand for labor while you increase corporate profits and consumer prices from the lack of competition.

Forget about punishing Walmart and McDonalds. Figure out how to make it easier for the family owned corner store to better compete with them. Figure out how to reduce housing and education costs.
10 years ago a drone impacting an airport would have been almost sci fi.
Paying down debt against an appreciating asset absolutely "counts as savings". Every dollar applied against the mortgage principle is an extra dollar of net worth.
I mean, this very linked article lays out the finances of some people who are doing just that and it appears to be the result of some very expensive personal choices rather than a fact of life.
This seems a lot more feasible. In fact, that's what the Nvidia Shield essentially is (although the edge computation is done with the customer's desktop computer).
I do want to clarify one point, consumer market is not an easy market in general. My "even easier" comment is about getting initial product validation because you don't have a lot of gatekeepers like B2B can have before you talk to a decision maker.
California's housing crisis benefits existing homeowners, and this group has the greatest sway with legislators. It seems like a ponzi scheme, even if it's not intentional: people who can't afford to live here move away, and are replaced by wealthier people who can. Eventually we're going to run out of wealthy people and the whole thing will come crashing down.
Didn’t read the article, assuming it “was intentionally crafted to make an audience hate someone to maximize ad revenue.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/111061524887089152...
First, I totally agree that that argument is terribly worded. Nonetheless:

a. against that median $30k income, you're building equity, which is net worth. Someone on $30k might be paying rent (and they're not able to afford a mortgage), and thus, that money is just a flat expense.¹

b. w.r.t. student loans, someone making $500k/yr is going to be able to pay vastly more into that loan, and pay down the principal a lot quicker, which will translate to lower interest costs, vs. someone making $30k/yr. (Depending on whether this is parents or the student, if that rate could be refinanced or not, etc., I would also think a $500k/yr might also net you a lot lower interest rate due to the risk of your inability to pay being significantly less.)

¹and yes, houses have their own issues, such as maintenance, and some of that mortgage is going to interest.
Love the revelation that swimming down to touch the spent fuel rods would be fatal. Pro-nuclear folks don't like facts like that because they want to pretend that either there is no waste, the waste won't hurt you, or we've solved the problem of storing it safely. None of these is true.
At that income level your neighborhood is likely affluent enough that the public school would be very well funded as well.
>...While nuclear is certainly going to be around longer than coal, the impact is just as catastrophic,

Coal plants will kill more people this year than nuclear has done over the last 100 years - and that includes the Chernobyl accident and the atomic bombs dropped on Japan!

In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amounts generated are manageable and in a relatively short amount of time we can use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.
as a research engineer in data science/modeling, posts like this just look too good to be true. there's no free lunch. what is the catch with all this stuff? who is going to maintain all this when Chris Rackauckas gets plucked by MathWorks or Wolfram?

(this is a compliment! it's great stuff)
Isn't this the premise of books like "The Millionaire Next Door"?

Edit: Whelp -- not sure how I missed the link.