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Mentor Collective partners with universities and learning institutions to increase graduation rates by running large scale mentorship programs (hundreds to thousands of personalized matches) to help traditionally underserved populations feel like they belong on campus.

Team context:
- Stack is Ruby/Rails, Javascript/ES6, Typescript, GraphQL + React; we're language agnostic on hiring
- Currently 4 Sr. SWEs + VP of Engineering looking to grow to 5-6 SWEs

TL;DR this is an exciting opportunity because:
- Business fundamentals are extremely strong (90% renewal rate, >115% contract revenue renewal rate, 60-80% growth in 2020, competitive series A, regularly >70 NPS)
- The majority of your work will be on new feature development and enabling the team to achieve lofty customer-focused outcomes
- Strong culture of autonomy and accountability
- Incredible opportunity to directly impact traditionally under-served populations, such as first-generation students or women in STEM
- The Engineering team has historically been 3-4 Senior Software Engineers + VP of Engineering, so there are many opportunities for mentorship and being involved in critical parts of the company that positively affect users

Apply here: https://angel.co/company/mentorcollective/jobs/542902-senior... or reach out to me directly at eng-careers@mentorcollective.org

Salary ranges, benefits, and more information on the job description above. US work authorization required. No agencies or third-parties at this time please.

It is important to us to build a diverse, honest, inclusive, kind and collaborative team. We value impact over hours worked, favor outcomes over outputs, and strive to create high-quality, high-impact code at a sustainable pace. We welcome applications from candidates with non-traditional or diverse backgrounds.

Learn more here: https://www.mentorcollective.org/join-the-team/
> crazy thing is my mortgage is cheaper than the rent I used to pay

How is that possible. Did you relocate or downsized? My impression of Auckland was it's 30-50% cheaper to rent. Maybe with new rates it's on par.

Last I checked house in North Shore rents for $700 while valued at some $1.3M - at current rates thats ~$1100 a week for mortgage.
You mean intellectual growth then?

Because for everything else someone somewhere will need very tangible resources e.g. raw materials to build that phone you are using do X or Y.
I bet a CPA could.
Also, wine. No amount of alcohol over any time period has been found to be beneficial, it was just feelgood crap wineries/breweries told us.
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Same thing happened with the Nvidia 30xx series cards. Some of the scalped cards were being listed upwards of $3000 for a 3080. Many had fake bids, I watched as eBay did nothing. People were even trying to mislead users by selling cardboard images of the Nvidia cards, but in a way it looked like you were buying a card (even if the description did say cardboard).
> Am I just lucky or is this "crashes and blue screens"-business just a persistent memory from the late 90s and early 2000s?

the choice of components determines if a windows machine bluescreenes all the time or accumulates uptime like a pro.

hard to make a informed choice thou because the market is moving very fast and so "luck" is a huge factor.
I've been considering getting my own domain for email for some time -- the benefits are obvious. But I have one concern. If I use the address `mail@my-real-name.com`, does this pose a privacy threat? If someone wants to try and track my activities online, they can take that address, which is clearly tied to me (especially if, say, I use that domain for a blog too), and then go to ashleymadison.com (does that still exist?) and try a password reset for that address; many sites poduce differing responses to password reset requests depending on whether or not you have an account there. If the response is "We've sent a password reset link to that address", rather than "There is no account with that address", then people now know I'm a philanderer.

I've even heard of people writing a bot to do this across hundreds of sites; it's very interesting to see which C-level executives have been using their work accounts to access sites they shouldn't have.

The obvious advantage of having a GMail or Outlook address is that only Google or Outlook have to know who you really are; the address could be anything you want and doesn't have to be related to your real name. In addition, you can do as I do and have multiple addresses -- not the "throwaways" which people often speak of, but simply different addresses for different online activities -- so that if an account ever got compromised, there would be no way to link it to any other account.

Email security and privacy is a hard problem to solve.
> (Growth does not have to mean resource intensity.)

That would be wonderful, alas the data we have suggest otherwise. But if you have ideas of how that decoupling between ressource extraction and growth could work I would glad to hear/read them (for real, I would like to be more positive on those matters).
4G is fast and cheap when people's bulk data is being offloaded onto wired networks due to data caps. If you put literally all consumer usage on 4G/5G you're going to have to raise the density dramatically, and then you're pulling fiber to every neighborhood anyway, might as well pull them straight into the homes when you're at it and then you're future-proof to 10 Gbit+
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> If there is a legal precedent that can be leveraged and abused to an authoritarian end, expect it to be so in the near term.

Sounds like a corollary to Stallman's Law! [0]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallmans-law.html
An older friend of mine told me the times were surreal. Doctors would casualy xray you for many minutes even when you got minor symptoms.

Then suddendly xray was considered harmful and you would only get on static image when you had serious problems.
Sales tax would be the only conventional tax in the scheme proposed. So it would need to be as high as needed to fit the public government spending. In some EU countries that would be above 50%, in the US may be roughly 40%. That may seem like a lot but averaged it would be the same than the average tax payer paid before, except more evenly distributed so likely median tax payer would be benefited.

UBI by itself is progressive, a simple flat UBI creates a progressive effective rate. You can tweak the numbers to obtain your desired target tax curve; increasing or decreasing UBI, having different VATs for different products. As John Von Neumann said, "with 3 parameters I can draw an elephant and with 4 I can make it wiggle its trunk". There is enough free parameters to make the taxation more or less progressive.

I'm not prescribing those details because I think there should be ample room for fine-tuning. What size government spending should have in an economy and how progressive should a tax system be are questions that different countries have answered differently and you find success and failure all across the spectrum. So I consider it a transversal issue.

My focus is on efficiency, resiliency to abuses/gameability and economic incentives.
I have a theory. I am just guessing, but having watched their robot in action, I can say it is a slow, clunky bot that can't likely be used when restocking shelves, as people get in the way. If you block its path, it stops and sounds an alarm. They were using it when customers were in the store and it had the same problem. Customers get in the way and it sounds an alarm, the recalibrates it's path. If I had to guess, they are probably holding out for something smaller, faster, more agile. There could be other factors. No idea how much that thing costs.
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"some years" is bearing quite a bit of load there.
Maybe, but there are several arguments against using it in this context:

- Collection can be reduced by deducting VAT on company purchases, meaning the company only pays the difference between the VAT charged to the customer and the VAT they've incurred on purchases.

- It's regressive. It primarily affects poorer consumers since it is effectively a tax on the end user rather than the company.

- Some countries aren't free to set their own rates. For example, in the EU the standard rate cannot be set below 15% without first changing EU law (and convincing a majority of Member States to agree to do that) so it's not very competitive.
this is excellent feedback, thanks!
I wonder, what do you do if you want multi-region failover in your home setup?

I’m fully in agreement that owning your own hardware is cheaper. But if you want extreme redundancy as a company now and be mostly certain it works, you move to AWS instead of trying to build a team that will set that all up for you.

Also, when doing tensorflow things on AWS I can just temporarily rent that monster server with 12? GPU’s to train my model in a few hours, instead of waiting for my home server to do the same thing in days (even though that’s cheaper).
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Show HN: Easy steps for building a food delivery app
We live in a fast-developing world. And it’s not a secret that modern technologies bring new habits into everyday life. One of these habits is food delivery via mobile applications like Uber Eats, Food Panda, Zomato, and others. With the mobile food delivery app, you’re not limited by the menu of a particular restaurant when ordering your breakfast, lunch, or dinner from any place to any location, and at a convenient time.
And it’s actually a very profitable business. Statista said in 2019 food delivery generated revenue worth $107.44 billion and will increase to $156.82 billion by 2023. The market volume of the customer delivery area was $53.8 billion in 2019 and will increase to $82.2 billion by 2023.
Step 1: choose the business model
Step 2: choose the revenue model
Step 3: analyze trends
Step 4: function definition
Step 5: choose a technological stack
Nowadays the most popular approach is the order-only model. In this case, you can start pretty quickly because you need to create only a software layer without a delivery process. The next popular variant is the order and delivery model because it’s convenient for restaurants and very popular among them.
With order-only model you’ll have somewhere of 7-20% per order. In case of order and delivery, you can earn more because the commission will include the payment for the order and payment for the delivery.
This is why I put together a business case for DGX's from Nvidia because the vertical integration saved us so much time.
> Zero-grow and shrinking economies can allocate resources well through markets.

Capitalism isn't "a/many market(s)." Capitalism is much more than that, and one of those constituent pieces is profit-seeking.
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Yeah, I am using the generally accepted and recognized meaning in conversations around the world. I am not interested in the current trend of twisting the definition of a word until it fits your preconceived notions.
So thread-per-core is not just about eliminating context switches. It's also about partitioning application-level data to reduce inter-core synchronization to let speculative, out-of-order cores run independently as much as possible. Don't get me wrong, user-level threads are great, and arguably much simpler programming model than async/await. But they're not _the solution_ either.
I don't believe that everyone who is working on a tunnel needs to be a "tunneling engineer". Like with construction, there's an engineer with a degree planning overseeing stuff, and then there are other guys actually doing the work.

Requiring everyone to have a degree, even to do simple stuff, would be absurd. If you do in the US, then that is the reason for high costs.
The bridge is the value, it will increase productivity and quality of life (same can be said for other infra projects).

The money comes from everyone holding the currency. When you print money you devalue all the existing money, this is called inflation. So effectively "everyone" paid for the bridge that is holding your currency.
I guess you'd have to define poor. Many low-income families have things that cost $100 or more, like game consoles, tablets, phones...
Are there any meta-analyses that we know for sure followed those standards ?

What about my second link ?

Some doctors do want to use these treatments in those countries that "banned" HCQ :

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctor-group-demands-biden...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2020/11/02/hydroxych...
A lot of Motif propietary sw and custom tools were recompiled for Linux with nearly no changes in late 90s at a many times lower cost.
>You can just do what the government does with treasury bonds; issue new bonds to pay off your old bonds

The problem is that there is a limit to how much treasuries you can sell to the market. For a long time US government was able to exploit internal and foreign markets to run deficits, but the "free lunch" has ended. No one wants to buy those treasuries at the proposed rates and volumes anymore. So what did the US government do? If we remove the extra steps, it effectively coerced the Fed to print money and give it to the government. If it's a one time thing, economy may handle it, but there is a strong temptation for politicians to keep doing so, which can only end in disaster.
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> healthy economy needs both savers

Based on what? Savings are the rue of Keynesian economics. And they at best do nothing in monetarist frameworks.

> the marginal rate @ or below zero

Marginal nominal rates are between 0.09% (1 mo.) and 1.63% (30 y.) [1]. Real rates are negative [2], but to the tune of -1.22% (5 y.) to -0.26% (30 y.), which hardly discourages rainy-day saving. For anything more than that, surplus capital should be invested, not hoarded.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...

[2] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
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> allow you to view user sessions

If you value your user's privacy (as well you should if you ever want to do business in the EU) do not be tempted by this privacy-hostile path.
Uhm, I am not sure what you are talking about. Frictions that arise from taking money and giving them back by design don’t arise if you don’t take anything because you provide a tax credit.
> Reducing deployment complexity is still a huge opportunity...

I agree with that. There's probably even room for another CI system that's highly opinionated and focused on building images. Most of the existing ones kind of suck at building images.
That can be easily fixed by making loans taxable and payback creditable. Want a $100K loan? Get a $140K loan, pay $40K tax. Pay back the loan? Deduct from taxes.
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> I am skeptical that they would provide more certainty

Why on earth? They will literally produce two time stamps + known physical distance. What can be uncertain about that? Why is it any less auditable (or possible to tamper) then a GPS log?
Why do you say that housing costs are not part of CPI? They make up 25%+ of CPI, don't they? See https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

Are you saying that the Owner's Equivalent Rent calculation is not the same as housing costs? That sounds like a stretch.

Would someone help me understand what I'm missing here?
Yeah this part had me baffled:

“ In other words, while it’s possible for an individual bank to boost its reserves by selling assets to raise capital, it’s mechanically impossible for the entire banking industry to collectively raise its reserves industry-wide.”

Why not? I have confidence people would rally together to buy distressed bank assets at rock bottom prices.
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There are other incentives and programs for Doctors. In DR, Dominicans are getting visas to go treat COVID in USA and Spain.

Moreover, I think this is great for the job market and US immigration in general. Hopefully it motivates Americans to pursue these markets.

For those of us who would have considered H1-B previously, this is a great change. You now get to compete without the racket.
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So this is the real reason for high costs in construction in the US. Absurd "labor minimums" ? Haven't heard about anything like this here in Europe..
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> but I don't think that's a total pipe dream

You may well be right. Personally, though, I find this essential inseparability of the logic as specifying a model and its proof theory aesthetically unappealing (not that I find everything in formal FO set theories appealing). Of course, it may have other advantages.

> Would that really be enough to make you say that these are functions now while they previously weren't?

Yes, provided that `id` wouldn't be a function that could operate on that type. But any operator with a truly universal domain cannot be, itself, a quantifiable object without introducing a Russell paradox (perhaps constructiveness can save it, but assuming the system allows non-computable objects, too). As it is, `id` is universal, but it isn't a function. This isn't just a philosophical or even a purely syntactic difference. Lean doesn't allow you to refer to `id` as an object, just an application of it to a known universe.

> so not having a specific universe isn't an issue.

Does that require forbidding full recursion, or can you still introduce non-computable objects?
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> the same regulation

As in, you compared the regulated prices?
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Ah Dutch Elm Disease! We had a fine old elm in the front yard, a swing on a chain from a large branch with a pit under it from generations of kids scuffing in the dust. Beautiful.

Then Dutch Elm Disease came through Iowa. Our tree lost a lot of new growth, the next year grew a million suckers from the trunk looking like a furry tree, then was dead. The stump when we cut it down could hold all the kids sitting around it (big farm family).

Years later I went to California to school, then bought a house on 12th St in San Jose. Beautiful mature trees lining the street! 60 ft high, a green corridor!

Then they started dropping branches, destroying awning and car hoods. The next year the affected ones grew a million suckers on the truck like huge furry sculptures.

Unknown to me, they were 'Siberian Elm'. The Dutch Elm disease had reached the west coast! It had taken nearly 20 years to travel halfway across the US.

The city removed them all, and it became a sun-blasted street with no relief from the heat. Gone the tunnel of green. Gone all the Elm in the Western US.
No, I don't think Linux killed the Unix workstations. The workstation market mostly shifted to x86 + Windows NT.

What Linux + x86 did kill was the entry- and mid-range Unix server market. Redhat grew very rich largely by offering a cheaper platform (x86 + RHEL) to run Oracle RDBMS. And when the web started taking off, Linux + x86 was the default platform (still is). Similarly, the technical computing market (clusters, supercomputers, etc.) more or less completely migrated to x86 + Linux.

IBM sort of survived this carnage by retreating into the high end, and by having a lot of other business (consulting, mainframes, software, etc.) that they could leverage.

Sometimes I wonder if Sun could have survived if they had gone for the x86 commodity hardware route. They already had built the first generation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun386i ) but instead decided to go all-in on SPARC and bespoke hardware.
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That's exactly how the Soviets pulled off the geopolitical coup of broadcasting images from the dark side of the moon back to earth. They pulled it off first, because they were clever about it.

What you are proposing will absolutely work. Imagine a self-routing datagram trying to get closer to its destination at each step. In fact, that's exactly how the Internet is designed. Self-healing, self-routing, best-effort. Chop messages up into little pieces, and send them off to their destination, and hope for the best that they'll be reassembled correctly at the destination.
A very junior dev once called me over for help with some JavaScript.

Going through his code, all his numbers were in the form of 1,234,567 with coma place separators. The code worked somewhat purely by accident. It took a surprising amount of convincing on my part to have them understand that wasn’t a thing they could do in JavaScript.
That actually worked for me. I couldn't get it to work last year. It was still a PITA to download the bucket it makes, but at least it's one big bulk operation.
Double taxation is a talking point, not a philosophical problem. It's like rebranding the inheritance tax as the death tax to make it sound unfair or absurd ("they tax dying in this country!!!").

Double taxation happens constantly in all sorts of contexts, for instance, most of us pay income tax, and then pay sales tax using those already-taxed dollars, and then the seller pays income tax on the money received less sales tax.

The reason we tax in so many ways is mostly some combination of "hysterical raisins" and politics (it can be politically easier at different times to raise revenues in different ways, and restructuring the tax code will create winners and losers so maintaining the patchwork status quo is easier), but it's not necessarily a bad thing to tax with a variety of methods. There is a certain amount of administrative overhead in having a corporate and personal income tax, a payroll tax, a sales tax, a property tax, etc etc etc, but doing so also makes it harder for someone to dodge taxes entirely -- restructuring to avoid personal income taxes can put you in line for corporate income taxes and vice versa, for instance. Holding lots of land subjects you to property taxes instead of corporate taxes on the companies you own stock in. Meanwhile all of these separate taxes create paper trails that can be used in the mutual enforcement of all taxes. If you run a business and your sales tax receipts, corporate taxes, and personal income taxes don't roughly line up, it signals that an audit may be called for. The tax system becomes a checksum for itself.

Now, this may all just be status quo rationalization, but my point is, "double taxation" is just a shibboleth and not itself a reason to radically reform the tax code.
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Have you read the book? That's quite the oversimplification.

She says the deficit doesn't matter because a government that prints its own money can wipe out the debt with a few clicks of the button (if they so choose). The debt number doesn't really matter. It can be paid off by a large injection of printed cash. But that has other implications. Ultimately, it's inflation that we really care about, not the deficit. And there are better tools for controlling inflation that hurt fewer people than the current monetary policies in place.
Dude its just a comment on HN. Not a textbook.

Pick your own tree, your own scrub density. It depends on the tree of course. But much the same syndrome.
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