skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that any person is immutably a "criminal" is as passe as the xenophobic belief that certain ethnic groups are innately violent, untrustworthy, or simpleminded. It's a failed ideology that justifies selective dehumanization.

And conversely, how much value in contracted services performed by potentially wrongly incarcerated people performing un- or under-compensated labor are you willing to accept? If they're paying for the privilege of their own imprisonment, it should at least include rehabilitation.
Assuming you need $x by some age due to being unable to earn more money (illness, old age, not wanting to work), then not earning income in your possible working years pushes up the amount of income needed in other working years to reach the same $x.

For example, if you get your bachelors in 3 years instead of 4 and spend $30k on tuition and earn $90k by working, then that would result in an extra $120k in compared to spending 4 years in college.

I class it as an expense, because everything has an opportunity cost, which is defined as your 2nd best option. It is not always useful, for example thinking about spending time with your kids rather earning $15 driving for uber or something. But it could be, if you need that $15 to feed your kids.
The average engineer at a startup is far more likely to
work on something for two years that ends up being pointless, and canceled, by economics, when the entire startup fails.
why do they need to own the place in the capital, if they only travel there to work? Can't they rent for the duration of the time they spend there?
And what if they already have a second and third job, have already started cutting back necessities.

What do they do then? Starve?
This is a very astute point and it's how I've always thought about Bitcoin and other crypto assets. I never understood why people have to debate whether it will take over currencies like the USD or EUR, which it will probably never do. Crypto assets can have utily for trading among enemies or situations where normal fiat currency cannot be used. Think about places with dysfunctional institutions, escaping inflation in places like Venezuela or fleeing war. And then there's the programability aspect which is a totally novel use case which I'm not going to go into.
If you’re making a high enough salary to be getting enough options that you can’t afford to exercise them, you’re making enough to borrow about $100k.

I had no trouble getting an uncollateralized loan at a reasonable rate for $75k; and I had $100k in student debt, a $500k mortgage and little else in the way of assets. And when I say “no trouble” I mean I applied for the loan, was approved 30 minutes later and had the money in my bank account within 2 hours. That loan is paid off now, but if your income is high enough banks will lend you money on that alone (I was making an equivalent salary to a principal developer at the time).
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No, I provided an example of uncivil debate namely screaming and flipping tables. As long as you can sit peaceably and discuss your views it doesn’t matter what they are.
Either it changes or Magisk Hide is doing a good job. I don't know about your specific bank, though.
Such an under-appreciated feature by macOS users and devs alike.
> The irony is that these real resources are being protected by their respective governments, thus the existence of the US military (and all other militaries) is an essential part of Bitcoin's current valuation.

Sadly this is true, but not for long. Bitcoin adoption is still very small but it will grow. Once it grows to cover the vast majority of merchants in the world, the next flip of a switch will be in people's minds: they will start valueing things in bitcoin (or bits, or satoshis), instead of USD, EUR, etc. (In pretty much the same way people switched from drachmas to euros recently...)

And once that happens, people will stop thinking of the fiat monetary value of one bitcoin (or bit, or satoshi), and then your statement will not be true anymore.
You have a lot of reading to do about property taxes in California.
only do one side project. not more.
A market is “free” to the extent the government does not intervene to regulate, promote, or discourage behavior.

Pigovian taxes and subsidies are a market-based approach to regulation, not a free market one (which would be an oxymoron.)
. People do this all the time.

. The police never check.

You'd be surprised how expensive an old pickup's registration can be in CA.

The main problem isn't the cheating by low-end tradesmen but that the average schlub's truck is considered a 'commercial' vehicle including registration cost by gross vehicle weight.
(at least that's how I understand all of this).

They never make it easy here to do anything, but people will put up with a lot of rules and taxes if it mostly happens to others.
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Similar but different -- in the 70's Daryl Hall recorded a pretty "alt" album, which RCA refused to release because they were afraid it would freak out Hall & Oates fans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Songs).
The way it should happen with a liquidity event is that you simultaneously exercise your options and sell them, pay off the taxes and bank what's left over.

Savings should only come into it if you're leaving before the liquidity event.
It is impressive how little time it took for the abuses to kick in.
Dude, get new friends. They sound horrible.

So many stories.

My skip level manager had me in a 1-on-1 once and said something along the lines: “you probably got the green card because Trump likes your demographic”. (I have an EB-1 extraordinary ability green card, and I assume they were talking about me being straight and white). What the fuck am I supposed to say there? Was absolutely speechless. Moments like that are basically shit tests: “are you one of us?” Pretty sure I failed that test. Oh well.

One time quite recently I shared a Joe Rogan podcast on slack (Moxie from Signal was on there). I then went to sleep. Man, when I woke up the thread was popping with “I refuse to click on this link”, “Joe Rogan is a transphobe”. Someone posting stories about Joe Rogan being friends with Alex Jones and how problematic that is. Nothing to do with the actual podcast episode with Moxie. If anything, it was hilariously ironic because they were talking about how Signal provides privacy for people and how, if you don’t have privacy, people will scrutinise everything you’ve ever said and find ways to #cancel you. Just bizarre. I couldn’t even be bothered to respond.

Honestly most stories at work are just the accumulation of tiny comments here and there. Just the odd joke about conservatives or the implicit assumption you agree with them. One time some girl at work told me “I can tell you’re not as liberal as us”. I asked her why, because I definitely wasn’t but I also definitely didn’t bother arguing at work. She said she could just tell by my vibe. I mean it’s true. Fair play to her I guess.
It should be applied only when the evidence is physical and without doubts (eyewitnesses are insufficient).
Sounds interesting, but name is already used by another startup called Journey Apps (or Journey Mobile): https://journeyapps.com

Funnily enough the journey.io logo even resembles their logo with the orange symbol on the left.
Bingo. As a senior engineer, I get startup offers at the Staff-Principal levels, and even those grant no more than 0.1-0.5% equity at most, on top of ~$180-200k salary.

That simply isn't competitive with big established companies like FAANG that offer me $400k+, far better career growth prospects, and far lower risk.

For most startups, the equity will be worthless, and the whole company will either shut down or get acquired, which means you won't have a straightforward career path no matter how hard you work and how many impressive accomplishments you achieve. Meanwhile your friends over at FAANG will be earning twice as much and climbing the promotion ladder simply for doing a good job.

Finally, let's not forget the abhorrent tax treatment that screws you, especially as a senior engineer: while your options will likely end up worthless, you'll have to pay tax for them as if they're worth their weight in gold. That puts a whole new level of risk on the already bad and risky deal of working at startups.

It's beyond me how that tax treatment was allowed to continue given how bad it is for startups, and how much it advantages big established companies that are already deep in anti-trust territory, though I guess that could also be the answer to why it's still the rule.
Reasons I prefer R to python:

- Rmarkdown. I prefer a text document over a web notebook for exploratory research

- The standard library is for statistics and data: dataframe, lm, anova, etc. are builtin

- A huge range of probability distributions are built-in. I don't need to import extra libs to do simulations.

- Between functional programming techniques and vectorization, I can write very clean and concise code

- Tidyverse and data.table are lovely and coherent approaches to data management. Data.table is fast and memory efficient.

- Advanced models are trustworthy: For example, glmnet, mgcv, nlme, rms are authored by statistical heavyweights, and have accompanying books that are excellent. I don't have the same confidence in python's statsmodels.

- CRAN is easy to use, I can access it from my R session, and there are rarely problems (big thanks to Uwe Ligges)

- Libraries for design of experiments and surveys are available. R supports the entire design -> data management -> model cycle.

- base graphics/lattice/ggplot2 are excellent for plotting. If I need something advanced, I can use grid. If I need vector graphics, I can use tikzDevice for latex.

- Rstudio is a an excellent IDE, and Emacs Speaks Statistics is an excellent Emacs plugin

- It is very easy to get help without going to google. (?foo, ??bar, etc) Documentation is well organized, and the documents often contain citations and relevant links.

- Lots of advanced models can't be found outside of R. Today I fit a splines-on-a-sphere model using mgcv (https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/mgcv/html/sm...)

- Rapid iteration in modeling using Wilkinson notation formulas. Built-in formulas are the actual killer app of R, IMO.

- Things are generally fast, but if you need extra horsepower, plugging into c++ is easy using Rcpp.

- R feels like lisp. Experimentation is easy, and I don't feel forced into any particular paradigm while using R. I have a lot of ways to evaluate code (https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Evaluating-code)
For some people it's just that they like to try new stuff.

I did employment and self-employment with consulting.

Trying a product business is simply an interesting new step.
But they do waste "disposal"

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/trash-worth-mill...
...this makes no sense at all.
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This is why I just do crypto. Say what you want about crypto, but the risk reward ratio is easily exceeding lotteries and startup lotteries.

Edit: and I do it while working at one of the tech giants. Paycheck goes to crypto.
> Turns out Republicans are the ones who are less likely to live in a bubble of conservative beliefs

That's not surprising, given that liberal beliefs dominant our cultural landscape (eg: mainsteam media, Hollywood, social media, tech companies, colleges+universities, primary+seconday education, most corporations, etc, etc).

It's pretty much impossible to live in a total bubble of conservative beliefs unless you live in a compound in a rural area. On the other hand, it's quite easy to live in a bubble of liberal beliefs in a typical large American city.
Most children aren't data-driven.
I grew up poverty myself. While I do not entirely disagree with you, poverty is an experience available to all of us.

Women have pregnancy to themselves.

That does blunt your point some.

I also believe people can come to understand well enough to matter when they seek that understanding.

The raw nature of it may remain elusive, the part of your point I consider strong, but what it means is a different, shareable thing.

And I have shared it to great effect. Many have.

In my view, one of the most important things struggling people can do is share their stories. That does add up. Others can feel something of it and can reason better about it.

A national dialog of this kind is missing and too many of us need what a dialog like that can mean.
A "tire thumper" is often a wooden bat.

https://www.amazon.com/RoadPro-RPTT-1-Thumper-19-Inches-Asso...
I heard that being an early startup employee is also a great way to fast-track to a leadership/management position, as compared to working at a big corporation. Is there any truth to that?
Just one example. The Mormon mission program is quite possibly the best sales training program in the world. If you can go door to door in a country that isn't your own, in a second language, selling religion then enterprise SaaS is really a breeze. (Note I am not Mormon)
I think Matthew Syed wrote the definitive article on the subject.
Or this woman: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
This does not sound great to me. I can't think of a single task that women can't do while menstruating. If a woman gets severe cramps sometimes, why should that be treated differently than someone who gets severe migraines sometimes or severe allergies sometimes? Just give people more sick leave so they can decide how to use it when they need it.
> In good faith, why not go there?

Well that depends on your personal limit of how many concentration camps a country can have before you decide not to visit it. My Personal limit is 1, yours might be 400, in which case i would visit quickly cause china is getting there https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/china-has-buil...
I generally agree, having worked for a number of startups most of the concerns seem valid; however, there is a unique arrangement that has benefited me:

As a Canadian, I can generally make a higher wage working for an American startup than working for anything local. Usually I can expect 1.5x to 2x over the mean local rate for my skills and experience; and since I don't _need_ health benefits and I enjoy guaranteed parental leave and such, it works out quite well.

I'm happy, and the startup is happy because _I'm still paid less than an equivalent American_.
You're being downvoted, but as the author of the post you responded to, I don't really disagree. I've been an early employee and have learned I don't have the temperament or skills to be a founder.

My primary argument is just that if founders and VCs don't loosen their purse strings, though, they will find employees are wising up about wealth distribution in a startup and will see they have better options elsewhere, as this article suggests.
Fast food gives me the runs too and I don’t have that association. McDonalds, Taco Bell, Chic Fil A. I can eat at Super Duper just fine, though.

Doctors aren’t infallible.
Slack used to do the best with a combination of funny and informative
I don't want to rehabilitate someone who violently murders people. If they took life cruelly, then losing the effective use of their own life is just.
It is impossible to write C applications without invoking UB and your theory that UB behavior had no semantics is nonsensical. It may have no semantics that compilers currently feel they need to keep stable, but code that compiles and runs has semantics.
I think you are asking something like, "does Apple voluntarily share my information?" Read some of the articles in [0]. At this point, I think it is pretty safe to assume that most large countries and some large companies can access your iCloud data with limited effort.

[0] https://www.electrospaces.net/
It's clear we have very different ideas about what "advancing society" is. I tend to think that people like MLK are the ones that advance society. The man helping old ladies cross the street is advancing society. Successful businesses advance the economy.

A billionaire who employs 60k people hasn't done anything altruistic. It's a business, not a charity. The skills and time of those 60k people made the billionaire a billionaire. Why would I laud either side in a fair exchange?

I might praise the skill and foresight of the billionaire. I might praise the skill and hard work of the workers. But neither is "advancing society". They're pursuing their own interests.
> The empirical evidence there suggests that moving away from hard money has been terrible for the average American, and the shrinking middle class is exactly what's predicted by proponents of sound money.

The shrinking middle class, especially in the US, has mostly occurred post-1980s (see Reagan and Thatcher). This can be stopped and probably reversed with redistributive tax policy. See Piketty:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

> That clearly isn't the case or else no country would have experienced hyperinflation after the fall of Rome.

How may countries have actually experienced this?

> Re-arranging the Hanke-Krus list highlights something however: barring three outliers (France, 1795-1796, North Korea 2012, and Venezuela 2016-) there have actually been only five hyperinflation “events”, each associated with particular large, long-term global processes (involving war, decolonization, regime change, foreign denominated debt/currency pegs). The spatial and temporal clustering of these events is perhaps best expressed visually (Chile and Zimbabwe are temporal outliers within their cluster)

* https://clintballinger.wordpress.com/2019/05/24/the-autocorr...

Hyperinflation is generally not caused by printing money, rather the printing of money is the effect of something else:

> In this paper I will argue why the common misconception that “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” cannot be used to explain most historical hyperinflations. I will argue that “money printing” is often the response to exogenous and unusual events and not the direct cause of the hyperinflation.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1799102

* https://www.pragcap.com/hyperinflation-its-more-than-just-a-...

China ran on paper for a century or two without issues, and only went back to hard money because the Imperial Court wanted more centralized control; this is covered in a chapter of Goldstein's Money.
That's rarely true. Property taxes are typically set by dividing the budget by the total value of all real estate to set the mill rate and then allocating it by the specific value of your property, so if the entire market increases the tax impact based on assessed value doesn't change much. You only see dramatic changes when certain areas in a taxed area increase or decrease significantly relative to others.
Yeah you didnt read the article, it does not concern itself with the gofast video but the flir video.
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do you dropship? how hard is it to find something like this?
On-duty cops shoot a thousand people a year. In the last several decades, three have been convicted of murder. How can we trust the system that produced such ridiculous numbers?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/police-officers-convicte...
I mean that sort of studying is useful for passing the qualifying exam but coming up with things to work on is a whole different ballgame
My mistake, thanks for pointing that out. I have an old 2013 MBP (on which I'm typing this) which only does 30Hz.
On 2019 MBP with DP I am getting 60Hz but the problem remains.
Not in California. Prop 13 keeps property taxes at the value when you purchased your home.

IMO this is a massive contributor to inflated property values, now leaking into other state economies.
Which part do you think is absurd?
That eye witness data can be considered or that the DNA evidence is irrelevant?

I don't support the death penalty but I see the judge's point. Most DNA evidence isn't very useful and rarely as damning or exculpatory as people think.
I think that a lot of serendipitous moments created by social media have actually helped me move towards my goals.

Not directly, but by giving me new perspectives and ideas that bounce off my current perspective and ideas to create new ways of thinking about things.

My perspective now is that too much focus is a bad thing because it comes at the expense of broadening your perspective.

Reddit I agree is low signal, but I think Twitter is high signal depending on who you're following.
Underpaid and overworked. That is what one gets out of startups. I unfortunately seem to be permanently stuck grinding for startups (10+ years). Don't do it to yourself. It isn't worth it.
Ah, OK. I got it mixed up with “tire iron”.
The solution is to move to an area with cheaper housing.

Moving to opportunity is the American way
Social enterprise/public tech startups more often than not are very warm places but then the financial/ESOP discussion become something else
If you’ve ever taken any risk with credit and failed or simply had a disruption in income anytime in the last 10 years prior you would have been denied.

Its nice everything worked out for you, that has nothing to do with your ability to perceive a simple solution available to you.
Metaprogramming is so much easier in an sexp type syntax than in any other language, I really do wish it was more common
> sometimes wonder why I worked so hard for other people's companies

I have the same feeling. I'm working at FAANG now but I worked very hard when I was just starting my career for a small manufacturing company to create a e-commerce website. I can't work as hard as those days, I have a back problem and I'm much older now.
I get that it's a tongue-in-cheek comment, but most coding positions i've ran into in the United States offer pretty comprehensive health and dental plans.

If someone years ago making 175k a year coding doesn't have healthcare insurance then it's likely of their own doing either through contract renegotiation or taking a pretty damn bad benefits package for the sake of a fairly high salary for such a position.
Do you disagree with my central thesis that businesses employ people almost entirely to increase revenue or cut costs? The presence of a few sinecures in some companies doesn't change this basic fact.
How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up “vaccine effectiveness”
> Savings should only come into it if you're leaving before the liquidity event.

Which is another way some startups screw people. If the company is not willing to budge on the "standard" 90-day exercise window, there shouldn't be any negotiation. Just walk away.
You've both just completely missed the real underlying thing going on in that situation.

To the Japanese person, the main question on their mind is is the thing the village council is telling them to do in the best interests of the community and their neighbors.

To question of if the village has the legal authority to make them do something, and implying that if they don't then the Japanese person has no more problems, misses the fact their their real struggle is deciding how to be a good neighbor and citizen. Obeying the village government isn't the virtue they're "signaling", caring about being a good neighbor or member of society is the virtue they actually have and maybe the cost of being one is really the issue, or lamenting over if it's necessary to do what was asked to be a good citizen.
Had the same issue on my 16" before I spilled coffee all over it and broke it.

A lot of the time kernal_task would take up like 400% CPU, which was because plugging the power cable into certain thunderbolt ports (on the left side) would overheat the computer.

Even then I was consistently getting low performance, my fans were on all the time, and my computer was burning hot trying to power a 4k monitor and a 1080p monitor.

After my 16" broke I got an M1 Mac Mini and obviously have not been having the same issues. Now my computer feels fast again. My old set up felt like I was using a Macbook Air or something.