skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, that seems to be a bit of an asymmetrical argument. sure, less taxpayers means less tax revenue. but that's only because the work force has been partly replaced by automation, with all the implied savings.

you have think about where that lost tax revenue would have gone: infrastructure, military, health care, etc. now if it gets that bad that automation has taken over (yes, even doctors and surgeons...), surely that means these sectors are a lot more cost efficient, thus not as tax dependent as they used to be. if it's done progressively (and it's unlikely it will happen overnight) there is no reason why a good balance cannot be maintained.
Right. That's the issue with moving from tipping to flat wages. Yet the US is one of the only countries that does tipping, and plenty of other professions have this issue in the US, so how do they manage ?

I understand the problem, I want the next step of "how do we get to a less crappy system?"
Thank you! I found that very enlightening, regarding systemic thinking about the American economy, especially this paragraph:

> How did we get here? Our analysis shows there have been two major regimes since 1960. Before 1980 too much money was being injected into the Labor loop. Consumers had more demand than investors could supply, and inflation was on the rise. After 1980, we entered a new regime that favored investors. The change in regime was likely due to tax changes implemented during the Reagan presidency, cutting taxes on investments. We see that this change was a good idea, but it went too far and has remained in place for too long.

The big question then is how do we escape the capture of tax policy by investors who individually like being able to save but who collectively are extracting rent from consumers, at the cost of human development?
From the chart, it showed employment rising in the region overall, which probably erased any effect from only Seattle raising its minimum wage. I wouldn't describe the economic principal of Supply/Demand as "dogma", more like an established model. It states, all things being equal, rising costs will result in less demand. Here, the region overall is expanding jobs (Amazon, Microsoft, etc). So, this does not disprove Supply and Demand and the economic fact that artificially rising wages artificially lowers demand for jobs.
From Wiki: On 30 January 1698, Kidd raised French colours and took his greatest prize, the 400-ton Quedagh Merchant,[18][19] an Indian ship hired by Armenian merchants that was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks. The captain of Quedagh Merchant was an Englishman named Wright, who had purchased passes from the French East India Company promising him the protection of the French Crown. After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners,[citation needed] but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal, as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French, if it had French passes. In an attempt to maintain his tenuous control over his crew, Kidd relented and kept the prize. When this news reached England, it confirmed Kidd's reputation as a pirate, and various naval commanders were ordered to "pursue and seize the said Kidd and his accomplices" for the "notorious piracies" they had committed.[20]

Kidd kept the French sea passes of the Quedagh Merchant, as well as the vessel itself. While the passes were at best a dubious defence of his capture, British admiralty and vice-admiralty courts (especially in North America) heretofore had often winked at privateers' excesses into piracy, and Kidd may have been hoping that the passes would provide the legal fig leaf that would allow him to keep Quedagh Merchant and her cargo. Renaming the seized merchantman Adventure Prize, he set sail for Madagascar.
How many people in a CS or engineering program aren't treating the education as vocational? Or someone taking a poly-Sci or philosophy bachelor's with plans of law school? Those are all students who are taking what is, in effect, a vocational course. They need a particular set of skills for a particular job, and they DGAF about broadening themselves.

There were definitely students in my CS classes who were genuinely interested in the academic topics, but most of the people in my compilers class seemed to think it was just something to suffer through.
Here's one source: https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/issues/taxes-&-spending-p...

Here's another: https://risep.fiu.edu/research-publications/immigration/immi...

Here's another: http://www.udallcenter.arizona.edu/immigration/publications/...

These sources don't break down the type of visa used, but they do address education level and occupation. There is a rough economic consensus that immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, contribute more to the economy than they consume. They also tend to start businesses at a much higher rate than native citizens.
I made the jump from developer to team lead, and all the advice here is great. One thing that I wasn't prepared for and that I don't see other people mentioning (on a cursory glance at the replies) is that your reward function for job satisfaction changes, and the feedback loop length changes.

By that, I mean that for me personally I derived most of my job satisfaction from solving tricky problems, fixing bugs and implementing features. I would get that reward daily, or at least several times a week. When you transition to management, your job satisfaction has to come from watching your team members grow, your project mature as bugs are fixed and releases are made. I would get that reward maybe every month, if not every few months.

I couldn't handle such a long delay in the reward feedback loop - it made me miserable at work - so I transitioned back to development.

Just something to keep in mind as you contemplate the change.
> 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!"

No, they are largely listening to and applying the laws of their state which set standards for such diversion. The problem is legislatures aren't looking at evidence, either.

> From the outside, the 12-step program more closely resembles a cult than a valid psychiatric therapy.

AA is actually one of the examples given detailed consideration in one of the seminal works on cults, Marc Galanter’s Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion.
It would still break hard links though.
For businesses with 500 or more employees and who do not pay towards their employees' medical benefits, the change was 9.47 (2014) -> 11 (2015) -> 13 (2016).

For businesses with fewer than 500 employees and earn tips the change was 9.47 (2014) -> 10 (2015) -> 10.50 (2016) and is currently $12/hr.

It's important not to mischaracterize the increases as a monolithic uniform increase, because for many, many businesses the increases have been gradual and modest.
In the UK there are people who would seriously argue for just that, because the image of the monarchy is one of prestige, superiority and good public relation. In other words good PR that politicians dream of, having a (apparently) off hands approach to politics also helps.

I believe that shows the popularity and image contest of democratic politics.
The real answer to this question? (Surprise!) It depends.

I have worked on a side project for the last year or so that will have a website and a mobile application. It has social elements, so ultimately I decided to prioritize the mobile application, because that is where users have access to their contacts, and do most of their communication with their friends and family. There are, of course, other business ideas that would be better suited to a website (or electron app?): work-related tools, dashboards, etc.

A lot of people on here are talking about PWAs which are amazing, but iOS Safari is missing the Web Push API. Unfortunately, that makes the effort nearly futile because you have to build a separate mobile app anyway.

If you are an Apple engineer and can help get that shipped, I will buy you a nice dinner. If you're an Apple recruiter, hire me so I can help ship it! :)
The fact that it's impossible to eliminate bias completely isn't a reason to avoid doing to reduce and make explicit bias in information sources.

Perfect vs good
It's a consideration, but the article claims that reported restaurant employee-hours is increasing, so we can determine that off the book labor is not cannibalizing the restaurant industry's on the book labor.
The subject matter of faith may be irrational, but faith-based communities have benefits that ratheists miss out on.
Especially with the new(ish) DynamoDB features mentioned in this article (ex: adaptive scaling), the backup and restore capabilities including Point in Time Recovery, and on-demand pricing model, makes it a really effective database when going with the single table design.

Wrapping your head around this takes some pretty serious time along with trial and error. Work and rework your data model multiple times. Turning to spreadsheets actually tremendously helps with being able to define and move data around to play that game of Tetris mentioned in the article.

In addition, you'll probably want to avoid any of the common ORM type clients that exist for DynamoDB, they tend to have made decisions that make using a single table design an uphill battle. Write your own little wrapper for the native AWS DynamoDB client in your language of choice and you'll be much happier long term.
Incidental to the main topic of the article (which I hope I don't distract from), but:

> Browsers automatically translate text,

Just Chrome not "browsers", no?
YES! Please let this or something like this take off!

I've been saying for years that webs-of-trust are the solution for so many problems, including this one.
Empathy.
Protect your team, even from themselves. If someone new makes a mistake don't tar and feather them. Instead look at what processes you can fix and how to prevent it from happening to others. We all make mistakes, that's part of the journey.

Build a culture that isn't afraid to think outside the box, learn, try new things. You can't do that when people are scared they will break something and get penalized for it. Set some guidance and boundaries but let them create.

Spend time on work relationships, face time with those outside of your direct team. Business people, BAs, QAs, PMs, VPs, get to know them, laugh with them and learn what they are trying to do and figure out how to help them get to that destination.
I'm not sure I agree with the idea "The sending of the bills with the “Thank you for paying” note could not have been understood by any reasonable person to constitute a claim of any kind." Since the debt had not in fact been paid at the time the bill was sent, I would interpret this as a passive-aggressive but clear order to pay it: in other words, as a claim. I do not think I am alone in this, given that a jury seems to have come to the same conclusion unanimously.

In fact, I'm having trouble understanding how this could be interpreted as anything else. If you want to hold protests saying that the USDA ought to be paying people's personal debts, there are lots of ways to do that. They do not include filing illegitimate claims through the claim system.
Do you believe that the researchers who study these sorts of things are, without exception, complete idiots who never thought of the possibility that there might be other factors changing at the same time as the minimum wage change?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

You might want to ask yourself "why was it important for me to try to find some reason why this information was wrong?"
Yeah, this is actually a good example of why it's important to add a bit to the raw Matrix Profile. The point is anomalous with respect to the pattern preceding it (the "sawtooth"), so in this case one needs to consider the whole Matrix Profile. It's a good callout in that the graph isn't a complete anomaly detection system; it more demonstrates how a single anomalous point can impact the Matrix Profile value.
If true, then this is the bigger story here. Meddling in other states via backdoor means.
A Machine Translation Reading List by Tsinghua Natural Language Processing Group
Aren't there survival games like "Long Dark" and "Unreal World" that do this already.
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http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02....
Knowing when to code and what types of work are acceptable to do is extremely important. My transition to management wasn't immediate, there was a 4 month period where I was taking on more responsibilities as a manager. Initially contributing to projects was easy, but as I took on more responsibilities it became more and more difficult. At a certain point during the transition there was a pull request that I got 80% of the way through and then just sat there incomplete because I was too busy. Ended up handing this work over to one of the developers, and treating it as a sign that I was no longer a developer.

I still do some work from time to time, but I make sure its work I'm doing for my own personal reasons and no other work depends on that being completed. I also keep my technical skills sharp by pairing with team members, directing them on technical decisions, and doing code reviews. You've got to be careful with code reviews because they can come off as micromanagement to some people. Sometimes developers will specifically request a code review from me, and I'll take those. Sometimes I'll chime in if a decision needs to be made. Otherwise I try to only code review if I see something glaring that needs to change.
>if they like your app they can add it to their device home screen without installing via the app store and without using up space on their device

As far as I'm concerned, until evidence to the contrary is provided, most people either don't do this or know how.

Relying on a pinned app for smart phones is a good way to kill your startup.

>you're going to be hard pressed to get people to install your app just to try it out

In fact, the statistics prove[1] that this is false. Most app installs are to try it out, and promptly delete it. Most users will delete your app shortly after installing it.

Informed opinions are nice to share, uninformed ones not so much.

[1]https://www.emarketer.com/content/most-apps-get-deleted-with...
How an upstart hacker collective is fighting back against misinformation in 2019
>Step 1: Define the access patterns you think you’ll need

What happens when they change?
You mean pressure cooker and closet.
All gestures I see when someone unlocks his phone next to me begin from the top left... that reduces the number of combinations! ... and the color will be "red", "green" or "blue".
Neither of which are pure PoS.
Actually just did this myself last month. My team is colocated between India and the US, but I'm remote in the US to all of them. That's been the biggest challenge for me. I'm more of a visual person when delegating and encouraging. Very difficult to do that over messaging or email. Video conferencing helps, but not the same as actually being there in person. Had I known this was going to be the case, I probably would have postponed the promotion. But I'm going to stick it out and get through this because that's what I do.
Human Terrain: Visualizing the World's Population in 3D
What is funny, is this is the opposite I heard on the podcast "The Pitch" when all of the investors were complaining that the developer built a web app first. I can't remember the product, but he justified it well, eventually they agreed, but wanted to see an app before investing.
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Hey bsenftner.
Could you provide a link or an example of what you mean? :-)
I googled "Deadline" but what I've found looks not correct.

I usually compare Gaia with tools like Jenkins and Spinnaker. For example, many people use Jenkins Pipeline (https://jenkins.io/solutions/pipeline/) which allows you to write CI/CD tasks in Groovy.
In my opinion, Gaia fulfills this job way better because it doesn't force you to use a specific language. It's also super fast and provides features like the automatic (re)build of your pipelines.
Copyright on On the digital files?
Computers didn't exist in that form in 1923.
1923 materials are now longer under US copyright post Jan 1st 2019. We havent had bulk new public domain materials since 1998 (1922 materials).

Anyone paywalling this is 'erecting a wall around the commons'. These files belong to a shared body of human knowledge and are unencumbered by copyright.
Oh right, I saw that. The reason I forgot about it is because I couldn't find a connection between that and the example code written in several languages.
This went off the rails for me at the end. If earning money is good for other, but spending money is bad, then the "best" thing I could do would be to earn money and hoard it under my mattress.

However, that would be the worst thing I could do for society, because I would be removing that resource (whether it has intrinsic value or not, it is still a resource) from society.

In order for me to earn money, someone else has to spend it. I don't see what labeling one of the sides of that transaction as good and and one as bad accomplishes.
> The dominant 20th century economic and social model is based on constant population and consumption growth.

This. It's probably worth reiterating just how fundamental this is: the necessity of growth is built in, fundamentally to the way that the dollar (and the euro, then yen, etc) itself works.

I'm not convinced that punting on decisions has to be as bad as a crash. Japan has failed to meet growth for a few decades, and the way they handled it, there is just social malaise, an alienated generation, and excellent melancholy anime.
Maybe, the ones who have typed "Grundig Radio" in the browser's search box?
Great, thanks for the context!
I keep returning to dev projects exactly for this.

To the OP, do not underestimate this.
I built a crypto wallet / portfolio tracker that is much more useful as a mobile app. I can imagine how expanding it to a website could make sense down the road, but the utility is in quick access to transfer funds and check your portfolio which would be a pain on mobile web.

I used Expo (platform for React Native) which made it arguably easier than deploying a website. I also get instant updates too without having to resubmit to the play/app store, and its cross platform.
The hardware upgrade will be free to existing Autopilot owners: https://electrek.co/2018/08/08/tesla-autopilot-hardware-upgr...
Cafe Wall illusion: the horizontal lines are straight
Amazon debuts Showroom, a visual shopping experience for home furnishings
People will go to great lengths to say "greed is good", but it still isn't.
Maximally efficient is minimally robust.
Yes, there are some places where price increases are clearly visible - franchise fast food is a big one.

Otherwise, cost of living in the region was already increasing. I've been in Seattle for the last six years and can't really recall many other dramatic price increases.
That's my feelings, although I've seen so many successful app-only startups that I feel I'm missing something that these startups grasp.

E.g. in the UK Monzo, an app-only bank, won't allow you to access your statements, do transfers, or pretty much do anything to manage your account on the web, and is one of the most popular challenger banks.
Depends on your applications use cases and what is needed to make it function. No matter what you're doing you should look for the quickest and cheapest option as long as it fulfills your needs. If I'm building pro grade video editing software I'm likely going to pick desktop technologies, if I'm building something that requires location or a camera I'm going to pick native apps. If the service is just reading data from a server and maybe writing a little with not too much interaction probably a mobile website or a PWA.

Not new advice, just pick the right tool for the job, not what's flashy.
I specifically did not ask if immigrants use more welfare than non-immigrants. I specifically asked if they use more welfare to raise their children. The responses in your link do not address that question. In fact one of them tries to specifically factor that out:

>But as researchers at the libertarian Cato Institute point out, the main reason for the difference is that immigrant households tend to be larger than American households, and are therefore more likely to have children, including American-born children who are eligible for some benefits.

>To get a more accurate picture of welfare use, researchers need to compare individuals, not households....

>Overall, poor immigrant households use less welfare than poor American households. Broken down by race, Latino and black immigrant households "massively underconsume" welfare compared to their American counterparts.

And then after that, to get even further away from what I asked, they break it down by race, comparing immigrants of a particular race only to natives of that race, instead of comparing the two groups as a whole.
Amazon Showroom
Atomic Habits - James Clear

Banish Your Inner Critic - Denise Jacobs
Do you happen to hire co-ops for these type of roles? I have recently had interest in consulting
Speaking of protocols, aside IPFS, what open protocols have come out in the last 5 years?
I agree. You have to be prone to optimize for others, rather than yourself. Also if you have the ability of good judgement, others will come to you for advice, somehow pushing you up.

I remember that in one of those "How to start and start up" videos, the presenter (CEO of an startup, do not remember which) was asked "How do find your generals in your team?".

His answer was something like "You look at the room and they are often surrounded by people at their place who came for advice".
> Their compliance costs are enormous.

You are totally free to use an unlicensed daycare provider. They will be entirely unencumbered by regulations from the state, and you will have to assess the provider's quality and safety on your own.
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