skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I chose the wrong tax class by mistake.

My personal tax rate is even lower than that as we have 2 kids & my wife and I file together (both self employed so we add up our incomes and file with all tax bracket at double the threshold). I think we ended up paying just over 15% off the top of my head but don't quote me on that (I earn less than €92k but still enough to have a very comfortable life).

I knew you pay more as a single/childless person but I didn't realize just how much more - which makes it all the more surprising that Germans have such a low rate of both marriage and reproduction.
Avoiding Bit Rot in Your Build Pipeline
> The efficiency difference between native and "modern" web stuff is easily several orders of magnitude; you can write very useful applications that are only a few KB in size, a single binary, and that same binary will work across 25 years of OS versions.

Except for the 25 years support, you can get the same features if an electron runtime was introduced and you avoid using too many libraries from npm. In most electron apps, most bloat is caused by the bundled runtime instead of the app itself. See my breakdown from a year ago of an electron based color picker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19652749
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Extreme Mango lovers behaviour
I'm not aware of anyone running Uber, DoorDash, etc. where that's true. They require some sort of transport which prices the poor out of being able to provide that service in the poorest area I know of where such services are popular (Brazil).
Go achieves those low pause times by allocating 2x memory to the heap than it's actually using. There's no free lunch with GC.
CloudKitchens is more the kitchen infrastructure for restaurants who only have a presence on delivery apps. They are trying to facilitate a restaurant model that is optimized for the delivery apps'supply chains rather than starting their own
A bunch of delivery 'drivers' here in sunny Sydney just use a bicycle - and they're often just students or backpackers etc making a couple of bucks in the afternoon while getting fit. They're happy to make $10 an hour which would normally be illegal under Australian employment laws.

It's hard for a local pizza shop to compete with this kind of thing and the sheer scale of Uber Eats.
This is the specific one I was thinking of: https://blog.zecops.com/vulnerabilities/youve-got-0-click-ma...

At least the BSI in Germany seems to think it’s serious enough to warn people about it (sorry, no English language link for this): https://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Mail-Bugs-BSI-warnt-v...
Blogs aren't dead, but they've become a niche product the last 5 years. In 2006, pretty much every stay-at-home mom with an Internet connection would have a blog, but as social media gained more traction most of those with small reader numbers moved to those platforms instead, as they we're more efficient to reach small groups of acquaintances.

There are still a lot of blogs around, but they seem to be targeted at specific groups, with technically minded people and fashionistas being the two largest.
SK Telecom, Samsung Reveal First 5G Smartphone with Quantum Cryptography
The promotional fees are on top of the 30-40% for the order?
The original claim was lots-and-lots-of-people calculating on many pieces of paper. But it's just an example of this endless stream of sort of ridiculous bait-and-switch arguments. First someone, says "so it's mechanical, so a big, fast, accurate speak-and-spell could simulate it" and you say "well, OK, it would have to be huge, incredibly fast and accurate and so-forth" and then the person "well, I doubt consciousness is just a speak-and-spell.
> In a fair society closed software would be illegal

What?
Obviously after. Full autonomy is promised for 2017.
That seems like the idea behind the ActivityPub protocol that Mastodon and other similar social media platforms are based around.
> If a kid can cheat, pass, get a degree and go out and not fail in the real world

I've known many cheaters (they tend to brag about it). The ones that do good work don't need to cheat, and the cheaters don't stop cheating once they graduate.

Who'd you rather work for / hire / trust with your money:

1. a cheater

2. not a cheater

?
I think there are some applications or problems that are likely to be favourable to native desktop apps for a long time. For inspiration, simply look at what hasn't already become web based. Some things I thought of:

1. Heavy lifting - As others have mentioned, running some code in a browser is quite a few times slower than locally. As Moore's Law comes to a screaming halt we're going to be need to get better at creating efficient software rather than relying on the underlying hardware to get faster.

2. Capability - Some things are inherently difficult to do in the browser, such as custom networking, calling kernel functions, accessing various hardware, etc, etc. You can always have your native app launch a web-based front-end, but going back the other way is not possible by design.

3. Hardware Access - Sometimes you need to access a camera, USB device, GPIO, I2C, SPI, run architecture specific instructions on the CPU, access the GPU, etc, etc. Again, the browser typically won't let you access these by default.

4. Security - This comes in a few parts: (a) You're able to bypass "most" security and do what you want within reason. As long as the user ran your application you usually have the same privileges. (b) Now that you're dug-in you can enforce a level of security that may not easily be available otherwise. (c) Features such as app signing mean that the user can more easily guarantee the app came from you, rather than relying on their ability to read the exact URL in some email at 2am. If I run `apt-get install <X>` or equivalent in other OSes there is a chain of accountability.

5. Memory - Put simply the browser adds massive overhead to any application and typically has inefficient data structures. Compare something like Atom [1] to any equivalent native editor for example. (There is some existing efforts in comparing editors [2].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Editor

[2] https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
Though according to the article only doordash loses here, not fove guys. Doordash pays the difference netween menu and paid price.
It's funny that liberals complain about delivery services and VCs. Isn't this exactly what they want: a massive transfer of wealth from those who have a lot of it to those that don't? Because that's what Uber, DoorDash, etc all are.
> Did everyone really become THAT lazy that driving 10 minutes to get your meal is that much trouble?

Depends on density, and traffic.

Getting to a nearby restaurant to pick up dinner, even a close by one, would easily take 30 minutes+ round trip. If I want food from someplace more than a couple miles away, make that 45 minutes or more round trip for dinner.

Or I can order from an app and have food delivered.

The question then becomes, is saving almost an hour of time worth $20?
There are no regulations currently in the US that would prohibit full self driving. They simply do not exist.

Regulation is a lie told by Elon to excuse a lack of progress.
Reddit is raising plenty of money too.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/reddit-raises-300-million-at...
IMO this could simply be some sort of FTC/government formed firewall where a purchased company cannot share historical use data related to competitors unless the users of the service (the competitors, companies listed above) sign off on it. I'm fully aware that the implementation of that is legally complex to say the least, this is a bit more of a wish list than a practicality.
Beautifully said. I have two little ones, one came a few months ago with my current employer and I took a month of parental leave with no ill effects whatsoever. My manager and organization is incredibly respectful of my time and priorities, even more so now with the pandemic situation.
Because there's no money in that. If the space colonization works out, private companies can charge a lot of money for each passenger and that's what's really driving the "need" to leave the planet, so rich people can continue making money.
Reddit is still raising large investment sums from outside companies: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddit-val...

Conde Nast did own it at some point, then it was transferred out and Conde Nast's parent is the majority owner (or was? the news report above only lists them as one investor).
I think YC doesn't publish the numbers to prevent a bandwagon effect from happening. Or do you know more about the numbers?
seximal ftw
That's the rub, of course, it's going to vary by time and by industry and I doubt anyone but those who run the places can give you real numbers.

But in my experience, there's usually some slack. Maybe not enough to pick up all the demand, but there's some. Maybe they have three shifts but don't work weekends or such. Then they can have people pulling lots of overtime.

Raw materials are usually well-stocked in advance. There is a limit on how much demand can spike before there are issues, of course, but some industries may have weeks or months worth of raw materials stocked. This is going to be highly variable by industry, though. Something like raw glass is nothing like stocking chickens for processing.

For TP I'd guess that they can stock a lot of raw materials, though. It's not made from anything that's going to go bad on them, so they probably stock up a lot based on whatever is cheapest.
The hardware to achieve 'million-mile' battery is already shipping in currently selling vehicles, its just a matter of fine tuning the software at this point!!1
This is a farce.

The United States is done fighting Great Power wars. No one talks about it publicly at all because doing so would shatter America's self-image as the Lone Superpower. The military the United States has now is quite capable of wrecking any nation that is not another Great Power. I say wrecking and not defeating, because as should be obvious from the last three decades, the United States has zero interest in winning wars. It really doesn't even bother trying - too expensive, and too hard. Instead the United States has made it very clear that if you displease it too much, and aren't another Great Power, it will trash your nation, and then either walk away or hang around stomping on you every so often.

The unspoken assumption is that there never will be a "real" war with China or Russia or any other 'near peer'. Whether that ultimately turns out to have been a foolish approach remains to be seen. But, it does leave a lot of money floating around to be siphoned off by various parts of the military-security industry, because Americans think they're paying for a Cold War military, when what they're actually getting is a military good for knocking down weaker opponents and then kicking them, but that barely even tries to pretend it can do anything else. (Except via propaganda, which is really cheap compared to manpower and materiel.)
> Is it just the benefit of being able to browse in one app/website everything available for be delivered to you?

Yes I think that’s a big part of it.

That’s a big part of Uber as well - I can fly into a city not knowing anything about how they do taxi and get an Uber.
> Are you trying to say I'm some sort of clown who unintentionally make people laugh when I speak my beliefs?

Well, I'm a person, and you made me laugh, so, while I wouldn't actively employ that description, I wouldn't say that (apart from quite probably the “clown” part) it's wrong in any salient detail.

> Can you at least acknowledge that we may both be intelligent people who disagree?

Sure, but that's not mutually incompatible with the preceding option. Intelligent people can be wildly misguided on a topic, intelligence doesn't imply being informed, having spent the effort to think something through well (though it reduces the amount of effort required), or any of a number of other things that are needed to avoid that problem.

> The proposed "Heroes" act already had a (now removed)

“Now removed” is a hint that even as a temporary emergency measure, the form in that proposal is not the form it would likely be in were it to pass.

> clausee to give people $2000 per month, on top of all the other benefits they are already receiving

While it has some superficial similarity to a UBI, the HEROES act proposal was a temporary recurring stimulus payment, an ongoing money pump to get the economy going not a UBI. It was consciously, by design not sustainable beyond a limited emergency period with unusual economic conditions, and it's design reflected that. Just like the massive short-term trickle-down subsidies pumped into corporations and the banking sector, but this was bottom-up.

> What do think happens if you're wrong and doing this would cause a feedback loop of more and more benefits, spending, and money printing?

People concerned about that ought to support implementing it with the relatively trivial-to-implement negative feedback controls which prevent that.
You'd think they'd have their hands full with the robotaxi network, building 1000 solar roofs per week, getting the cars to automatically call a tow truck, getting the cars to autonomously find a valid parking spot, powering the Gigafactory 100% with solar power, building a pickup truck that's a better sports car than a standard 911, outfitting all supercharges affected by blackouts in California with a Tesla powerpack, building more than two semis, building the roadster etc. etc.
I think the dream has a couple of faces. One is the one marketed by companies interested in consumerists. They want the aspirational aspect so that people reach every further to attain this kind of goal. The other is the vision people in whose parents didn’t have it all but their children aspire to be more and to be part of the first class of dreamers. Now, part of this other aspect is that for many it’s a kind of dream. We wish it, but we may not achieve it this generation either, but maybe next.

That said, if enough people achieve this dream, the dram is fulfilled and there are no more dreamers because they’re all fat cats now.
Its right after the roadster and semi are in full production. They are scheduled for ~4 years after their announcement if they don't get pushed back again.

I see no reason to believe this is less of a hype followed by vaporware.
> How's that going to go?

Ya keep on cheating, and explain why you're justified in cheating as college doesn't mean anything anyway.
Я так же сама приехал в Америку из восточной Европы и я согласен: ты вообще нечего не понимаешь про ситуацию для бедных здесь. Прекрати говорить такую фигню.
Definitely agree that they're winning (the Second Measure blog is fascinating), it just seems like they bought their way to the top at a very high cost.

DashPass is definitely keeping me a DoorDash user, it's benefits are significantly better than Uber Eats pass, but idk if that's sustainable for DoorDash.
This is the sad state of VC funding in this day and age.

I can’t help but wonder if movie theaters could have exploited a similar loophole with MoviePass before they went bankrupt. Something like this:

1. Movie theaters buy up MoviePass subscriptions

2. They use those subscriptions to pick different movies to see every day at their location

If they picked 30 movies a month that would be approximately $450 a month in revenue (at $15/ticket), $440 of which would have been pure profit.
>Not quite. Reddit is owned by Conde Nast,

not since 2011 [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
The app ToothFairy has an option to force any BlueTooth audio device into “output only” mode, as a per-device setting.

You can option-click the built-in Volume menu to get to the Input selector more rapidly.

If you’re on Windows, I believe you have to disable the Hands-Free device associated with each Bluetooth device? That’s as reliable as I’ve managed it to date, anyways.
If a manager told you that parental leave means lower rating, that's a clear signal the company doesn't value families.

With everything that is involved in growing a kid (teaching, empathy, learn to talk in the most simple and direct way), I would be surprised if you are not actually improving. All those interpersonal skills are growing, they might not match directly to your job (e.g. Coding), but will make you a lot more valuable.
I am father of a 2 years old and my mentoring skills increased dramatically since I got her.
Thank you for introducing me to the idea of the "Zettelkasten" - I'm "one of the 10,000" for that idea today.
my other pet peeve.... stop hi-jacking my scroll wheel and converting it to 'smooth scroll'. i dont want crappy animations, you have content, i have a method of scrolling, let me control how i do this.
But will the Cybertruck actually be produced by the end of 2021 or were the battery requirements too high for the spec and price point?
For me, it's sometimes laziness, but usually not. The long and short of it is that delivery only happens when it's hard to leave the house for whatever reason. If getting myself to the restaurant is an easy option, then dining in generally is, too. Takeout only happens when I've been tasked with picking up burritos on the way home from work.
Unfortunately in the US you get people screaming that those drivers are criminally underpaid and are being exploited by heartless capitalists. Because of course random Internet commenters are better able to judge the drivers' priorities and desires than the drivers themselves.
Wonderfully put. As a father of three myself, I couldn't agree more.
This guy is going to try and play overwatch remotely (shudder). I can't even play that game at 60 fps anymore, I hate to think what it's like playing with 60 fps plus significant input latency.
Majority of times I order from these centralized sites becauae of convenience. Id like to support my local restaurant by ordering via phoning the restaurant directly, but it is pain in the arse compared to the convenient web ordering process.
Thats what most said about 45 and yet here we are.
I think you misunderstand, by thinking in terms of nature vs intent you are already anti-human.

Remember, Users are Humans. Unless you want to let your cat buy cat food using cryptocurrencies?

What I mean by anti-human, I am referring to the concept that to cryptocurrencies, people don't matter, their wishes, emotions, lives don't matter, the only thing that matters to cryptocurrencies is the algorithm and the principles.
For context, a Tesla X or S battery degrades by 5% 50K miles and roughly 10% at 160K miles.
When ordering with the app, a lot of pizza places now (since social distancing started) allow adding the tip (or lack of) when placing the order.
There is no actual game, the label and description is all there is.

Carts that would be an advertisement for an existing game or event are prohibited by the rules; I wouldn't be surprised if some had slipped through but none come to mind.
I saw that video a year ago... pretty epic.
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I mean, think about it – Amazon can't run it like their current delivery service. They can't mark it as delivered, but then not deliver it until the next day. They can't drive up to the curb, throw it over your fence and then drive off. They can't claim to have delivered it but just not bothered. They can't say they're giving you a pizza from Pizza Hut and then actually give you a pizza some guy made in his basement. In other words, they can't run it like their current business.
Coachsurfing explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOUobuGaY7U
> Chipotle has white labeled DoorDash ... it's "Powered by DoorDash."

Disclosing who’s powering it is the opposite of white labelling.
> Coming from more "designed" languages like C#, my experience of C++ was that it felt like an insane, emergent hodgepodge, but what impressed me was how far the language has come since the 90s. No more passing raw pointers around and forgetting to deallocate them, you can get surprisingly far these days with std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr, and they're finally even making their way into a lot of libraries.

I worked for a robotics company for a bit, writing C++14. I don't remember ever having to use raw pointers. That combined with the functionality in Eigen made doing work very easy --- until you hit a template error. In that case, you got 8 screens full of garbage.
If what you said it's true, that rating is worthless. How can be a top 20 if you get a lower rating just for taking parental leave?

That's awful. Whoever had a kid can tell you how hard is the first month. And if all goes well, the first month is hard. If you have even a little hiccup, the first month is SLEEPLESS.
I'm sure that as you say it works out for most people on a purely rational game-theory economic sense but I would definitely chose 100% coverage over an extra $5k/year.

The whole system (not just health care) seems so stressful and antagonistic in the US.

If I had an extra $5k/year I'd probably just spend it on meaningless consumption like a bigger TV or a better car, where as not having to give a second thought about costs for medical care or higher education for my kids gives me so much more peace of mind.

Also keep in mind that not everybody has their proverbial shit together. You have to be resilient and make a lot of right life choices or you can fall into a pretty deep hole. The "paternalistic" approach of welfare states like in central & northern Europe means that as long as you basically "follow the rules" (like not breaking the law & having/keeping just about any job/career, even working-class ones) you're going to have a decent life, at least materially.
This is awesome. I was thinking about something similar. There is currently nothing right now which tells you about the day-to-day workings of several professions. Watching this space.
I don't plan on having kids, but as someone early in my career, I can agree with the sentiment.

I haven't even experienced the unfairness mentioned in many comments, but I just don't see the need to focus on climbing a work ladder at the cost of things socially or personally. As long as I do my work and enjoy it, a promotion is nice (I'm not giving up or being complacent necessarily) but it's simply not a big motivating factor in my life. I would/will happily slow my career trajectory if it means getting more time with close friends, romantic considerations, etc.

I think I'm in this boat because my career and interests are pretty orthogonal, where I think the HN community self selects for people who define some or much of their personality from technological pursuits that can often tie back heavily to work. When your work is more than your work, I think this question almost rephrases itself to be self vs kid, which I can understand struggling with.
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For a period of time when Uber was in China, a huge amount of revenue was from fraudulent rides that weren't actually happening.

There were smart investors who saw through the facade and didn't invest and there were smarter ones who saw through it and invested despite that.
Most of them, I hope! It's a pretty standard OPML file.
As a user, I really miss native apps. The difference in UI responsiveness is huge. Not to mention battery and memory usage.

As a developer I understand why the native app road can become a more expensive solution, especially for startups.

But, I have to express that I am really tired of glitchy super heavy javascript apps, online, mobile and desktop. I would choose old clanky but lightweight UIs everyday.