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If the large chain won't adjust, that seems something that would give smaller businesses an advantage, and seems like a positive to my ears.

As for tipping, people don't tend to tip based on quality of service (see Adam Ruins Everything) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vivC7c_1k], and instead tends to be based more on attractiveness and ethnicity. A normal wage is fairer.
It may be worthwhile to allow declarations of the form

VARIABLE x ∈ Nat

but I haven't considered all the implications of doing that. May be worth a discussion on the mailing list or at the conference in September.

As to "satisfying the type theory folks," I'm not sure what it means. Type theory studies the features of typed formalisms; it makes no claims as to when working in a typed formalism is preferable to working in untyped ones (although different people have different opinions). There are implementations of TLA in typed formalisms (in particular, Isabelle and Coq). Lamport explains why he designed TLA+ as an untyped language.
Too many applications abuse notifications and background processing anyway. If you need those features, you have to convince of far more value before I'll install a thing.
> Seattle raised its minimum wage by 37% in one year--neither modest nor gradual.

How did you come up with this number?

Even for large employers which don't provide health benefits (the group affected with the most aggressive wage increase), the minimum wage increased from $11 to $15 an hour over the course of three years.

Small employers with less than 500 employees can still use tips and health benefits to reach $15 / hour.
I also thought the article could have a good purpose in at least asking the other side to consider questioning its assumptions. Too much in economics is considered dogma; those who question it end up effectively committing apostasy.
I don't know which government you work under, but it's pretty simple math.

* There are maximum child to minder ratios. Where I live it's 3:1 for kids under 1.

* Minimum wage exists, though childminding really shouldn't be a minimum wage job. I want someone who knows CPR and first aid watching my kid. And who isn't looking for a better job all the time.

Say you're open 8 AM to 6 PM. Minimum wage is $10 per hour.

That's 10 hours * $10 = $100 per day. Or $33.33 per kid.

Figure 21 workdays per month. That's ~$700 per month per kid.

But of course, minders go on lunch breaks! And they take vacations! Tack on another 15% to cover for that and you're at $805.

Those child minders want health insurance! How dare they! Tack on a few hundred per month per employee, or another ~$100 or so per kid. You're at $905.

Oh, but the government demands taxes on what you pay the employee too! Well you're up to $1000+ per month, or the 12k you mention,

So do you want to increase the child to minder ratio, cut benefits, or cut opening hours?

Or, maybe you hire someone from a poor country as an au pair. They're abusing the hell out of their student visa and you're breaking employment law but it means you get cheap childcare.

Of course, there are places where childcare has a low price to the consumer. It's generally where the government is footing the bill.

Regarding your points 1,2,3, there is another option - we use improved technology to recognize that an improved lifestyle can be had for the same, or lower, cost. A basic, decent life can be pretty cheap these days. Except for housing, because the retirees voted to make it illegal to build new homes, and health care, which is too large a topic to cover here.
That's acknowledged in the second-to-last paragraph from the article:

> Now of course, we should consider the argument that Seattle’s economic growth has been so strong that it overwhelms any negative effects from the higher minimum wage. No one should ignore that possibility and we will be among the first to acknowledge that this could be the case. We may never know for sure, because in economics you don’t get a chance to run control experiments; you only have the facts at hand.
Have you looked through the SDL source, though? Sure, I can get a window open and paint lines very easily, I only have to write ~50-150 LOC. However, I've silently added thousands of lines (and at least one dll) to my project. The library only hides some of the complexity (which I love about it), but the complexity still exists.
He didn't say anything about it harming the user. People should be allowed to harm themselves if they want to and most methods of self-harm are legal including using alcohol and cutting oneself.
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The argument, very strongly made by minimum wage opponents, was that Seattle's restaurant industry would collapse entirely. Hacker News even ran several stories about the impending collapse.

That... didn't happen, and it's important to hold predictors accountable if we want to make better predictions in the future.
We give up our address, work, car details, children's records to a government that we, the people, indirectly control by means of democratic process.

Not every populace thinks of themselves and their government as we and them. To some it's just us.

Granted, sometimes the people we put in charge fuck up, either because there was no clear signal from the populace since few people cared or because opinions of politicians and the populace diverged since the last election.

And when I feel proportionally (relative to the amount of people sharing my views) represented, I have no reason to call the Government them.

Might be different in a system where you need to get at least 50% of the votes to get any representation at all and where that same system has managed to maneuver itself into essentially only having two parties.
I’m trying to convince Antirez to use this technique in redis: https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1081197002573139968

> There was a problem with that… I don’t remember what exactly, but it was like, the structures you fill did not match how Redis stored the data or something. I need to try again soon or later because the speedup in Redis would be huge.
My only NoSQL experience was with document databases like Mongo and I’ve always thought that DynamoDB was too limiting. This talk single handedly changed my opinion of the usefulness of DynamoDB and how to architect a system around it properly when I first watched it.
There is one side of me that wishes more things were Mobile Apps. On the other hand, it's hard to argue that worse is better here and that any founder should focus on Web unless it's not possible to do it on the web (yet).

I'd much prefer a native app (or actually feels native; Well done RN is good enough for me), but the cost of creating and maintaining one is often too high when you don't know what will work.

As a web developer (react, etc.) I kind of wish I could have more time to work on native apps instead.
> * All changes to the main source code repository MUST be reviewed by at least one other engineer.

> Same as above. Just build and RTFO.

Deploying without review is not only a development nightmare (if you keep deploying without review, you'll eventually break something or introduce security vulnerabilities, unstable code etc.), but it can also get you in massive trouble with your compliance audits.

Peer review is very important in production code.
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In my humble opinion, you did the right thing. Whether or not providing access to the dump is legal or ethical, you would certainly receive substantial legal attention should you not comply.

It is on the leaker to find methods to share files that can not be easily traced to a public server or a named owner. This is no different than if someone running one of the many reverse tor proxies (public to hidden network) were told to block access to something. They risk losing their server, domain, accounts and much worse. When dealing with embarrassment of government officials, laws get a little muddy and some people will look the other way.
Yes, they changed the title. The original title was "Seattle min wage hike results are opposite of economic dogma's predictions", the same as this HN submission. I guess they realized it was misleading, as I pointed out.
To add a progressive web app to the home screen on iOS, doesn't the user have to use the share menu (and even then, it's buried a bit -- the user has to page the share options at least once to find it)? There's no way to display a prompt to add it, like with Chrome/Firefox on Android?

That's how it was the last time I checked, and it was enough for my employer to say no.
All things come with problems. Lots of small principalities may have better local goverance, but they tend to squabble.

The other thing is that a place like Singapore is exceptional. It’s a strategic chokepoont established by a colonial power.
I think the point stands, and the article explicitely says "start with". Apps can come later in lots of cases. A personal example - I was hired to build the MVP Android app for a new greeting card company. 1 year later: It's been done for 6 months, no one's using it, no one wants to use it, everyone's using the web app.
Good question! :-)
Gaia is basically a scheduler. It automatically starts your pipeline, executes the functions defined in the pipeline and is also responsible for terminating the pipeline process.
Disclaimer: I'm pro-legalization.

I think the only downside of legalizing it will be increasing the number of users, and therefor the number of possible bad trips/stupid actions while high.

Being that we let ~88K die in the US due to alcohol, I think we can handle that a couple dozen misadventures from shrooms as well.
On iOS you won’t get notifications or be able to run anything in the background.

Ok, but what are the downsides?
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Sorry, I don't understand. How would outlawing jobs help people?

We don't have minimum wage laws where I live, and it's one of the most affluent societies on the planet. So perhaps I am missing something.
> what's the matter with a shrinking population

There's no problem apart from the fact that the gov't doesn't tax robots and the tax burden falls on the shrinking population causing hardship, while the debt keeps rising. I've just read somewhere that this years' interest rates exceed US military expenditure.
Do you have a link to read more about that? Maybe something from FRED?
> An App Store developer license costs $99/year, whereas a Namecheap domain is less than $10/month.

I think you mean $10/year.
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Manhattan has plenty of train tunnel river crossings with no nearby automobile crossing. Go look at a map.
I thought the summary was pretty good. The objections you're presenting here are nitpicky, the NYT article is just one of the links provided and the thrust of the article that ideologically motivated opposition to minimum wage hikes was proven to be incorrect, and that is right.
> It’s unclear how, exactly, blockchain will fit with Facebook’s business model, but a number of potential uses are evident.

Fluckerburg will soon be able to deliver ads to your stream using a consenus-based feeding algorithm driven by your realtime eating habits.
> smoking bothers others too (unlike drinking)

As the spouse of an alcoholic I can't begin to tell you how wrong you are. My spouse's drinking has driven me close to suicide on many occasions, left me mentally drained and likely had a similar effect on our children.
The powers that be want to suppress wages. That's the only motivation for unfettered immigration.
It is also because there just isn't enough money in the business. For infants, most states have a 4:1 ratio of babies to teachers. Most people pay $40 a day for this kind of care. Most centers have to cover 12 hours for that cost because people drop off their kids before and after a 9 hour work day. Just doing the math 4 * $40 is $160 and paying teachers a paltry $10 / hour leaves staffing costs at $120. That is not enough left to offer benefits to teachers and food for the kids and toys and cleaning and ... Generally you also have to run under capacity because so many people get sick as germs are passed around and you want to be able to run at full capacity when someone is out. Now you end up with normal operations running at 75%-90% which leaves almost no extra money.
If you want an iOS app not to “abuse” background processing, there is a setting that will disable the ability on an app by app basis. Of course you have granular control over notifications and how they are presented on a per app basis.
Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. New programs are not competing against the actual success rates of 12-step variants, but their highly propagandized perceived success rates.

Judges and prosecutors aren't reading published, peer-reviewed science when deciding what to do with an addict that has committed a crime. They are listening to people who tell them "12-step programs just work, so send addicts to my 12-step program, instead of to prison!" And these people are claiming that, because the shipping and handling of convicted criminals is a big business, and they want to get at some of that money.

The programs from the article seem to be targeting non-criminal addicts that simply want to stop using without also having to prove it to their probation/parole officer. By that approach, even if they have a 100% relapse rate, they still might be more effective in terms of cost per month saved by abstinence or reduction in use. If someone has a $X/month drug habit, and pays $Y one time from their own pocket on a program that gets them to kick it completely for N months, before relapsing to $Z/month, they still got to spend part of the money they saved from not burning up their whole paycheck, on something other than drugs or drug treatment, and they might still be able to repeat the program before backsliding all the way. That's a different market from the guy caught stealing televisions to pay for meth, who has no money or earning potential left, but the state might still be willing to pay any price less than what it would cost for full imprisonment, to anyone that can manage to keep that one guy from causing more trouble.

While those people are burning up their brains and spare time on para-religious, pseudo-scientific procedures, they might also be holding down a regular job and not stealing stuff. That's a success, in that they are not actually wasting away in prison limbo or out actively tearing down society. That's the standard of success that the 12-step program has to meet. It isn't managing the addiction, but managing the addict. It's not part of the addiction market, but part of the criminal justice market.

That's a somewhat cynical and skeptical view of the system, from someone who hasn't been in it. From the outside, the 12-step program more closely resembles a cult than a valid psychiatric therapy. If your addiction hasn't cost you your job, your savings, and your friends, that 12-step program is probably not for you. And the rehab center designed around capturing some of the not-going-to-prison money is not for you. The online seminar that tries to teach you to recognize how much is enough, and to stop somewhere before getting there, might be.

It's very likely that it's just another package of woo-woo bullcrap that worked for one person, anecdotally, but it is still a valid tactic to try the cheaper options first, on a cost/perceived-utility basis.
The article says just a decent model would help — it claims there was a glaring flaw in the models that predicted disaster:

> Much of the hand-wringing was based upon a deeply flawed University of Washington study. As we noted in 2017, the study’s fatal flaw was that its analysis excluded large multistate businesses with more than one location. When thinking about the impact of raising minimum wages, one can’t simply omit most of the biggest minimum-wage employers in the region, such as McDonald’s and other fast-food chains, or Wal-Mart and other major retailers. These are the very employers that were the main target of the minimum-wage law; indeed, the law established an even higher minimum wage of $15.45 an hour for companies with 500 or more employees.
A handful of social media platforms have launched that I've wholly missed because they didn't bother to have a web version. As a Windows Mobile user, I couldn't install your app if I wanted to, and I spend a lot more time at my desk than staring at my phone.
That doesn't answer the question of whether or not it is causal. Usually states that increase their minimum wage do so because of political pressure and that happens when prices have been rising, so they may have been on the upswing to begin with.
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IMHO, the reasons mentioned are not very convincing. Your goal, when starting a product, is to find whether you serve a real user need or not. So, start with a website or a mobile app depending on what suits your users needs better. Where would a user naturally go (web or mobile) for that need? That's the platform you start with.
Would you say antidepressants are not dangerous to anyone even though they cause suicidal ideation in some people? One notable mushroom incident I remember is the tourist in Amsterdam that jumped off a building after using mushrooms.[1] That being said, the solution to the issue is definitely not what the company in the article is trying to do.

[1] http://www.simplyamsterdam.nl/French_tourist_in_Amsterdam_co...
Similar here: I was trying to troubleshoot a remote system where /usr wouldn't mount, so no termcap, not readline, no lib_anything_helpful_whatsoever.so, nothing. I figured if I were competent with vi then I could at least hack around a bit with ed, and I was right.
What are the margins on child care? How elastic is demand for childcare?

Not all child care has equally strict limits on the ratio (it depends where care is being provided), increasing wages may drive people to more loosely regulated child care, or just push it into the informal sector, or make more women stay home rather than work.
Perhaps you could acknowledge what I've actually written instead of sidestepping around it?
I've seen managers who become clueless as to what is happening in the industry and how things can be done better. They create a world where they are central figure and become highly resistant to change that would make them powerless. Managers who think their job is to "assign" task to ppl in JIRA. This creates a vicious cycle where motivated devs just leave the team and manager goes on to hire more 'yes men' until project dies and manager moves onto to a new company.

I've seen this happen so many times in my career. Ppl need to promote technically inclined ppl into managerial positions instead of focusing on solely 'ppl skills'.
From my own personal experience I’ve found that the more expensive a full conference pass is, the more the sessions are just sales presentations.

The best events I’ve been to, with the most interesting and talented speakers, were always cheaper.
> People should be allowed to harm themselves if they want to

As long as they pay for their own medical insurance.
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> If you aren't in a university area or someplace that would have people with flexible schedules and a need for short bursts of money, you would have hiring issues in general, because people earning minimum wage would just go to a less demanding job with more convenient hours.

In other words, without tips you'd have to pay people more. But didn't we already know that?
Let's just end this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpack_(disambiguation)
Thanks for the feedback. You are absolutely right, this needs some more work!

We have already defined a "Q&A" section in our github README file (https://github.com/gaia-pipeline/gaia#questions-and-answers-...). Does this briefly answer your question or is still too vague?
> mega-megaphone

So, a gigaphone?
Why would anyone use this? I mean, these cholos tried to put HTML and CSS in Jabbascriptkiddy.
I've read and re-read Becoming a Technical Leader - An Organic Problem Solving Approach by Jerry Weinberg - https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-Sol...
On the contrary, much of modern economic thought is not dogmatic. It only seems dogmatic because the most accessible pieces of the discipline are picked up and refracted through a political lens. It's hard to get access to what economists actually think if your source is e.g. Bloomberg, WSJ, NYT, reddit, HN, etc.
I think the 'rules' are pretty clear, you cannot hire illegal aliens, and also illegal aliens are not allowed to work. You must mean strict enforcement? Strict enforcement leads to strict deterrence. Absent enforcement, employer and employee have a much reduced set of disincentives.
Garbage Collection is not per default something bad, even in game development, its a method of memory management, just like reference counting, or manual memory management.

If you are allocating memory in your renderloop, your likely doing it wrong. Allocation outside of this critical path, well, chose your poison.

GC will consume more memory, but likely to be faster when it comes to allocating and deallocating large amount of small blocks.

Reference counting, if you do it properly (to avoid thread starvation), is costly. Cheap atomic reference counting, involves a calculated risk that you may have threads hanging.

Manual memory management, well, we all know the cost of that :)

That being said, many many games are today developed with Unit which uses C# as its primary programming language.
Here is what I've seen (and been guilty of):

Two pieces of code in different parts of the codebase are very similar. They have nothing to do with each other - even semantically. But the code is very similar. So someone thinks this is code duplication and creates a function/class/whatever that both pieces of code can use. Repeat all over the place.

Then one day, one of those two places needs custom behavior. I can either change that function/class and create complexity (have to now support two use cases). Or I can stop using that function/class in that place and go back to the old solution. Sometimes, this is quite a lot of work as aggressive "DRY" leads to a fair amount of coupling - there could be a few layers of DRY'd code there to untangle.

I put "DRY" in quotes because none of this really is DRY. DRY originally was about requirements - not code. No requirement should show up in multiple places in the code base. In this example, even though the code was almost identical in both places, there was little else common. They dealt with different requirements, for completely different reasons. They should never have been refactored to use a common function/class.

These days people keep talking about over-use of DRY, but they're really complaining about overabstraction of disparate code - not the DRY in the requirements sense.
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>What's the point of creating an "open" protocol, when AOL has already opened theirs? ICQ, of course is totally stupid, lagged, and insecure. I was glad to hear that AOL bought them out...maybe it will add some of the AOL stability to it.
finally, someone said it.
> No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it.

I definitely don't agree with this. You are harming your family and friends by harming yourself.

People can care about you.
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I think it is worth a discussion.

I simply meant that adding simple macros wouldn't make TLA+ typed, and so wouldn't make the people who think TLA+ should be typed any happier than they are today.
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. John is the WSJ reporter whose investigation of Theranos brought to light their behavior.

Every chapter you read there will be at least one "Holy shit. I can't believe someone did that" moment.

Bill Gates concurs https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Bad-Blood
For now. PWAs keep improving. Give it a year.

They're already basically fully-fledged apps on Android.
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