skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we need to do more than we already do? Despite the baying of certain political hounds there is no evidence that this is an actual problem.
I probably won't pay off the mortgage as the interest rate is 3% and I think I can probably get better return in the market.

Startup is a neat idea. Agree re: banks/bonds.

I like your approach - keep on doing what it means to be happy, and work in a good environment with people you like and who like you. Good for you!
Not if you want to buy cold medicine, get a library card, get some beers, buy some legal pot, air b&b, zip car, U-Haul , getting a job, etc. So, you will still need to carry it --unless you want to risk having to go back home in order to do any of the above.

You need to have it for those things. You don't need to "carry" it for those things. Nobody does all of those things all the time every day. Going to buy some beer? Bring your ID. Going to walk the dog? Feck off, cop. I'm a citizen minding my own business.
I doubt handing over would always work. England has a decent coirt system, but what about, say, a chinese spy? Maybe you could then elect to hand over an Englishman but detain a chinaman? It works in some cases, but not necessarily as a general framework.
In my brother’s company, they don’t pay anyone that much (yet), but what they’ve done to keep most of their juniors is to bump their compensation quite a bit when it’s clear that they have high potential and are realizing it. So raises end up being on the order of $10k+ a year in some cases. Combined with increased benefits (time off, etc) the longer you stay with the company, and they’ve found a formula that keeps their employees from jumping.

If you think about it from the perspective of the employee, you are working for an employer who is giving you sizable raises, continual career growth, long term benefits, and a team you enjoy working with. You can perhaps maximize your pay by going through the whole interview cycle and ending up with $10-20k bump, but is that worth it? There is no certainty that the next employer gives such large raises or invests in employees.

As for your case - $80k to $300k jump - that is exceptional. It is not going to be the norm. Not if continual investment happens. Based on your example (10 yrs experience), if they kept investing in that employee, they would have surpassed $100k long ago. If they hit the salary ceiling after 4-5 years, then conversations would shift. Maybe more days working from home, etc.

In my opinion, if you see such jumps happening regularly, then it is 100% on the employer for creating an environment that breeds large wage-skill gaps.
The logic is a bit dubious. The Chinese had a pretty crappy diet when they invaded Tibet. Whether the China invaded or not, the food quality would have risen, just like most of the rest of the planet.
The information for California is incorrect. At least in San Francisco:

- you can get a library card without any proof of address (with this type of card, you can only check out one physical item at a time: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/129952)

- Phone number and email address are each optional fields on the application form: https://sflib1.sfpl.org/selfreg
How do you tie a vote back to a single human (I’m unaware of what an unreal person is) without denying another’s right?
> which you already paid for

Unknowable without knowing who you actually are
While I tend to agree with you that it's a fairly large gap, I can see how others might not see it as a much smaller difference.
I’ll take actual aesthetics myself.
Great comment. I anticipate I'll agree that nothing really changes and it doesn't make you happier. The literature says after you make $70-$120k/year it doesn't get much better. Joe Rogan says once you can buy a nice dinner without checking your bank account you're rich, or something like that.
I dunno. 30 years ago there was hardly any ID theft. It was very rare. Today, it's widespread and a daily occurrence. Things change. We need to lock doors. It's not the world it used to be.
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You don't need an ID for many of those things, and you shouldn't.
Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009)
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6848166

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12720571
Perhaps the stump helps the remaining trees in the area by suppressing competitive species growth.
> The majority of the US electorate is underinformed and/or misinformed.

It starts long before that.

Most of the US is poorly educated and lacks critical thinking capability. That is the fault of a broken education system focused on the lowest common denominator instead of helping the top or even just supporting the middle.
Could not Apple place the touchbar between touchpad and keyboard and leave the function keys alone? That might please both camps and rid of controversy.
They're saying crap because they're not referring to a Xiaomi phone or vacuum cleaner. They're referring to the 'Xiaonni Vacuum 3800' that's $5 in parts, sold for $500, because people confuse it with the one you're talking about. It's like the issue with Hoverboards a couple years back. The race to the bottom caused battery safety issues, and everyone lost trust in all of them because of a few cheaper ones with crappy charging circuits.
This should maybe be left as an exercise for the reader, but here's the solution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-08-19

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-08-20

https://web.archive.org/web/20090820010834/http://news.ycomb...

What people may not remember is that, sometime between https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776473, we got the second HN Erlang avalanche. I doubt anyone remembers who triggered that one. I tried to find a screenshot of the frontpage at peak Erlang but the Wayback machine wasn't crawling HN so often back then. (It didn't get it the first time, either, but https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 is an approximation.)

Later follow-ups:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whytheluckystiff%20points%3E30...
Hey congrats and that's great! Appreciate your perspective and your perspective on how everyone wants to take your money. It's not the same thing, but there's an old essay from the 1920s or so - I can't find it - perhaps someone else can. It talks as advice to a young man about how everyone wants to separate you from your money.

S&P500 fund is not a bad idea, maybe a 3-fund portfolio for me.

Agree on invest early. I moved everything to cash 3 years ago, sadly.
Even if there isn't voter fraud, the mere fact that people are worried about it is undermining trust in our elections.

One side is deliberately leveraging it for that purpose, and it's the same side that has consistently blocked legislation to increase election security, set standards for voting machines, and more, so as far as I am concerned they're forfeited the right to have their arguments taken seriously after years of bad faith politicking.
p.s. - our lab is hiring folks without a bio background if they have a strong software engineering/deep learning skill set! Email me yunits@hawaii.edu for more info
I don't get why people do this. Why do you think paying taxes on all those sales is a good idea? Just create an asset allocation and re-balance 1-2x a year and stop trying to time the market because unless you have insider info, you're just being stupid.
they should just mail a library card to everyone who is entitled to it? or maybe just check your id when you try to borrow a book
Very familiar w/ Bogleheads and agree that it's a great resource. Will check out the book.

The advisor I'm looking at is 0.35%-0.7% depending on lots of things. Is that 'hefty?' The Bogleheads mentality is certainly that one can do it themselves. I'd like to believe that this particular RIA is plugged in to certain investment opportunities, but not sure it's worth the risk. If I did do that, I might allocate 10% of post-tax money to speculative things like private investments etc.
Anti consumer policies should be punished, especially if it matters to you.

I could never handle this kind of abuse.
Are you saying the article I’ve linked, published by immigration attorneys, is wrong? They’ve quite clearly stated the opposite of your claims, that there is legal recourse available.
What is the importance of such problem in real life?
The proponents of voter ID always want to put the requirement in place first but not the resources to make it happen. Until that changes, I am deaf to their 'concern'.
Keep going.

- Fix keyboard [check]

- Remove touchbar (or keep touchbar but also add back original function keys)

- Add MagSafe

- Add useful ports (USB-A, SD, HDMI)

- Add sufficient cooling

- Shrink touchpad to 2015 size

In other words, add TouchID to 2015 model, add some USB-C ports and upgrade internals.

It's pretty astonishing how a company like this can go backwards in so many ways.
agree. now that the pressure isn't there to get cash/retirement taken care of, it is a great idea to invest more time and energy into diet, exercise and health!
People can import clothes from just about anywhere, and there is plenty of clothing for everyone (maybe not distributed evenly but enough exists)

Space and time are the constraints that drive housing prices. Building denser housing is expensive and hard, much more difficult than sourcing and importing clothing in today's world.

Localized markets can require localized policies, because applying the same rules evenly to all markets wouldn't make sense, abstaining from creating local rules can make things worse, but creating them can also create new problems.

I think rent control can be healthy as a small buffer. I think fundamentally these are 'microscopic' policy bandaids to larger macrosopic problems. Unfortunately, it takes a very powerful organization with the right incentives to solve the macroscopic problems.
Other people also have a right to use. How do you prevent the tragedy of the commons without knowing who has what?
While that is true, it is a separate issue than what GP raised. In fact, the point you raises goes in the opposite direction - it makes rent control far worse and more damaging! Locking in pre-existing claims to land (renters being allowed to stay as long as they want at cheap prices) and restrictive zoning laws BOTH serve to constrict the housing supply. Because land is already a finite resource, any restriction on how many housing units per parcel of land can be built is an even more harmful policy.
I've read this before. And it's good, but it's more about what to do if you make >$100M. It strikes me as something somebody writes from hypothetical, not from experience.
Care to elaborate? Are you referring to taxpayers versus non-taxpayers, perhaps?
>Someone expressing his opinion is not equal to starting an argument, in any context.

Expressing an opinion as though it is fact, in such a way as to deprecate something or someone, is an attempt to start an argument, whether intentional or not. Anybody associated with the thing being deprecated risks loss of social status, and it is natural human instinct to want to avoid that. If I say "I'm right and you're wrong", that is an attempt to start an argument. In most contexts it would be entirely reasonable for you to reply disputing it, and nobody would claim your were "starting an argument" by doing so. The one who makes the deprecating claim is the one who starts the argument, not the one who replies.

I do not object to argument per se. Arguments can be a valuable part of discussion. But if I say "I'm right and you're wrong" in a context where any attempt you make to defend yourself would be downvoted no matter whether it was correct or not, then that is the wrong context to make the claim. There is no value to an argument under such conditions.
great summary, thank you! That you ended up burning through it all is somewhat disheartening. Glad you had fun though!
This doesn't seem to mesh with studies I've seen that, for instance, indicate women and men score effectively the same on general intelligence tests despite male brains being on average 10%, or 130cc larger than female brains.
Poll tax in context of this topic refers to one of the barriers in the Jim Crow south used to prevent black people from voting.
Lyoluminescence – light from dissolving γ-irradiated solids in liquid solvents
How do you automate link checking?
As a professional photographer, there is no way I'd want to be processing images using a fingerprint marked screen.
While it is true that land is a finite resource which makes it a unique sort of asset, this is a separate issue than what GP raised. In fact, the point you raise goes in the opposite direction - it makes rent control far worse and more damaging!

Locking in pre-existing claims to land - through renters being allowed to stay in units as long as they wish at cheap prices, and enacting restrictive/NIMBY zoning laws - serves to constrict the housing supply. Because land is already a finite resource, any restriction on how many housing units per parcel of land end up being built is an even more harmful policy.
Betting on the come with all the winnings is dangerous. Sorry you lost things. Good to put some away for sure.

Glad you are working on something you enjoy and have the level of control you're looking for!
I used to carry a separate keyboard with my laptop for some classes I was talking....I would do that again rather than use the monstrosity you linked to.
Lyoluminescence intensity can be increased by performing the dissolution of the solid in a solution containing conventionally chemiluminescent compounds such as luminol. These are thus called lyoluminescence sensitizers.

Hey @AppliedScience[0], please make vijeos. ;))

0. https://www.youtube.com/AppliedScience

Also, it might be fun to play with Luminol and Bluestar (an improve chemiluminescent) plus blood vs. cleaners

- sodium hypochlorite (bleach)

- sodium percarbonate (OxyClean)

- hydrogen peroxide

- hydrochloric acid (Muriatic acid)

- dilute acetic acid (vinegar)

- Iron OUT https://summitbrands.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Iron-OUT...

- Baking soda + lemon juice
I don't see where a library card is valid for any of the three columns of the I-9:

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/acceptable-documents

If I missed something, can you point me to it?
In 2015, the spot price of electricity actually dipped negative for a little bit, thanks to wind.

This article gets into the context of that specific circumstance.
https://slate.com/business/2015/09/texas-electricity-goes-ne...
If you read the PDF attached to the link you provided, it repeatedly discusses registration identification requirements.
agreed re keeping it is harder than making it. Made a fair bit in the past and didn't keep it.

Agree re: insurance - raised umbrella to +$3M and car to $1M. Perhaps raise home though umbrella helps that?

Agree re: tax optimizing.

For 529 front loading, there's apparently a way to do a 5 year- averaging that allows you to put 6 year's worth of 529 in. In my state a certain amount is tax deductible, so I'll factor this in.

Accountants seem good at calculating - not so good at ideas. I'm expecting my RIA/Advisor will help here, but I'm on a track consistent with what you've said - thanks!
> To the computer hackers who read these things: biology is a complex system.

Reminds me of: "Can a biologist fix a radio?", http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v69/pdf/bcm_14...
This sort of thing, at least in theory, is why we have human judges who can consider circumstances and context.

A "framework", here, would probably include factors like "are we friendly with the country in question and can we get their law enforcement to monitor the defendant", the nature and severity of the crime, "does the defendant have the resources to 'disappear' in their home country", etc, etc. Besides the first question, it's pretty much already what's considered when deciding whether to grant bail.

(Note- I'm not sure the idea of releasing a defendant to another country is a good one, but it's not like the courts wouldn't be able to tell the difference between an agent of a foreign country working in an espionage capacity and Marcus Hutchins.)
Librarians have been defenders of privacy for a very long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoia_Horn
Ah I think I misread the form, I didn't use that as a proof but maybe I got confused with the School ID as a proof.
This is actually really common for smaller ones:

2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approac...

2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approac...

2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approac...

2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approac...

All the ones coloured red in the tables (the majority) weren't discovered until after their closest approach.
A corporation is not a fictitious person. You can't get a corporation a passport, or a welfare cheque, or enroll it in school. You can own and freely erase a corporation, you can't own or erase a person.

A corporation is a legal entity which can engage in some of the same contracts as people can, because its entire purpose is to serve as a legal framework for organizing economic activity. In primitive societies, economic activities must be organized around flesh and blood people, like nobility. Corporations are much more flexible and efficient in achieving these aims. This legal structure, like many others, has massively improved human welfare since its invention by allowing people to pool and deploy resources and power in flexible ways. It beats depending on a rich guy to finance and organize everything himself.

If having this legal status makes a corporation a person, a country would also have to be a fictitious person. So would the UN, and the EU, and the AU. So would every government agency and every province and state in every country. A whole world of fictitious people! Except they're not, any more than my dog is a child because she has a birth certificate and an immunization record, just like a child.

Please, let's let this 'corporations are people' myth die.
OP here. It turns out it was explained back in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7357580

For some reason, I got my dates mixed up. At one point, _why did publish something post-2009, then went silent. I thought it was back in 2013, but it was earlier than that (between 2010-2012). Then in 2013 people discussed the new Wordpress site on the domain.

It was a problem with my memory, not with being too lazy to "site:news.ycombinator.com whytheluckystiff". Sorry for the mix-up.
Thanks I was wondering when it changed. I got all my library cards for years with no verification and used fake names on all of them.
I did that too 15 years ago. I still have some of the 25 and 30 year MacAllan left :-) Agree with buying quality - sometimes spending 2-3 times as much lasts 5-10 times longer.

Agree it's a lot of fun, but I've sowed those oats and out for keeping more of it. And I already have a lot of those things!
In VLC, you could use up/down arrow keys to control volume.
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Many, many situations of "lying to investigators" has been claimed to be an innocent mistake. No telling how many really were as it's 100% a judgement call of the investigators.

Until you've sat across from a pair of investigators, it's hard to guess how you'll respond to relatively simple questions.

I've run mock interview sessions for these and it's incredibly easy to trip someone up once you get them angry or get them agree to something you've purposely misstated.
I'm not the poster, but in my case, I don't plan to spend the Millions, I absolutely plan to work. You might have some folks working you worth >$20M if you work in Silicon Valley.
Show me a measurement that doesn't come with bias
I agree with you. I'm trying to decide how quickly to diversify, and also if I want to buy stock for LTCG (conclusion, I don't).

Agree - 'life' money change to 'car' money is disheartening.

Good perspective, thanks!
I'm not arguing against library cards. I'm showing how any rhetorical argument can be deployed with equal facility in the opposite direction.
In the earlier days of Facebook, say until 2012 or so, there were definitely huge uproars when there were major changes. I think that after a while people just had basic "learned helplessness" symptoms - there weren't really any possible alternatives to FB due to network effects, so they just got used to it.
How is this a scam? They made a defective product that is intentionally difficult to service. If Apple is the one being most affected by their own poor design decisions their finances surely don't show it.
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Wow that sounds super smart! Good for you!
> Is it really that much of an evil scheme ... seems more like it's just an entrenched industry

Same thing, really. Entrenched industries usually find themselves a nice feedback loop and dig in. The nature of capitalism allows them to ignore any negative externalities of their product. They ship out corn-sugar and dollars roll in. They don't deal with the realities of diabetes and heart disease caused by their products. Heart disease is the #1 killer in this country. Diabetes is #7. If we want any hope at combating this, we need less sugar in this country. But big sugar is indifferent to this, and that's where the evil comes in. In fact, they know this is happening, but the calculus is clear.
The process will vary by jurisdiction, but one approach is to identify if a voter has questionable eligibility when they arrive to the polling place, allow them to fill out a ballot, have them seal it in an envelope, and then label the envelope with the voter's information. You can then take the time to verify the votes validity before the envelope is reopened and the ballot is counted with the other votes. And just like with traditional ballots you can have the process observed by representatives of multiple candidates/political parties to ensure both transparency and that no vote is maliciously discarded.
As the parent said, just setting up a Delaware corporation isn't going to be much protection for most criminal enterprises. If they want to, the ATF will get you for tobacco or gun smuggling whether you have Articles of Corporation or not.

And in the US, to continue that example, there are multiple agencies and thousands of pages of regulations overseeing tax accounting and campaign finance. Sure, tons of shady shit still happens... but not because the criminals happened to file as an LLC instead of as sole proprietors.
How much of this did you follow when you made millions suddenly?
Where are you located and how many seasons has kept them going?

ETA: I had to look it up. I have never dealt with it. I usually rip out tomatoes at the first sight of any air borne disease..but they are generally so disease’y that I don’t grow tomatoes for market. Low margin..not enough profits. Most of the $ goes to labour anyways in a small farm.

What varieties do you plant?
I didn't mean to imply that you were being lazy! more that some things are best left to be dug up but I couldn't resist spelling it out.
Not just taxpayers vs non-taxpayers, but WHERE you pay taxes. My taxes don’t pay for public libraries in other states or even other areas of my own state.
I'd add to the "Understand" part: should include samples (screenshots, logs, output files, etc), where appropriate.

This helps with understanding for the review, and also if it's referenced again in the future (eg, someone is coming back to fix a bug that's later found to be introduced by the change). It takes only a minute or two extra to do this, while saving the reviewer a lot of time (checking out and running) and/or mental gymnastics (reasoning about what CSS/html changes will actually look like).

Obvious example of where this is useful is for a UI change (with before+after and/or annotated screenshots), but I've also found this useful for timing bugs (eg logs), and data-driven code (eg where output depends heavily on data).