skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sure someone would have said that. The problem is that Instacart and Door Dash are very low margin business and through tactics like this, they can probably stay afloat or make some (small) profit. I know it is difficult to empathize with their behavior and assume the worst but when you are competing with deep pockets such as Amazon and Uber Eats, it is important to ensure that your unit economics work out and that the next fund raising happens successfully. Otherwise, they will eventually die anyways.
Completely disingenuous representation. ALL of EU has Value Added Taxation, that takes money from every transaction to/from corps. For instance, buying ads on Google would automatically incur these taxes.

What EU really wants is double/triple taxation where:

1. They tax your transactions as VAT

2. Income post these taxes are counted as revenues, and costs (excluding VAT) are deducted to calculate profits.

3. Profits from #2 are further subject to corp. income taxes.

This article would be half genuine if they listed the VAT dollar amounts Google has raised for the EU
I wonder if their code is over 1M, or if they're doing what you see in a lot of marketing, which is count all the lines from included packages.
> The whole reason we have a corporate tax is because we feel rich people need to be taxed more

No, it's because without either having it or treating all corps as pass-through entities (which becomes problematic when you've got layers of ownership before tracing back to individual taxpayers) corporations become abusable as tax shelters.
> Who polices the VCs?

Great question. They benefit tremendously by minimizing their own risk and maximizing the leverage they have over founders they invest in.
I would guess that the ratio of the number of tips to the number of deliveries for UPS/FedEx/USPS is orders of magnitude lower than for Instacart/DoorDash/etc.
Why do so many of the bulbs run hot? Like so hot you can't hold them in your hand if they were on when you unscrewed them. Isn't this a lot of wasted energy?
In the UK it's determined that people commute not to get to work, but instead so they can live at a location that isn't near work.

I suspect that a change to this rule would cost the Exchequer a good £20b a year plus. As a home worker I wouldn't be impressed by that.
... so what happened to the 100k hour LED bulbs?

It never answers the question. It has an anecdote about the author's own lamps that ran an estimated 15-20k hours with an advertised lifespan of 30k and have degraded to the point where they will replace them. That's n=1 and nowhere near 100k hours, or even 50k as the author mentions early-adopters will remember seeing advertised.

The article contains a lot of info, but does not actually answer the original questions it poses in the title and the second paragraph.
Or you could support a competitor that treats their employees well, giving them more business so they can expand their business and hire the people that eventually leave Walmart...

This is why I avoid Walmart and Amazon, even if it hurts my bottom line.
"Private blockchains are completely uninteresting. (By this, I mean systems that use the blockchain data structure but don’t have the above three elements.) ... Consensus protocols have been studied in distributed systems for more than 60 years. Append-only data structures have been similarly well covered."

I don't entire agree with this. Yes, distributed systems and various consensus protocols have been studied for many years, but the cryptocurrency boom boosted public interest and applicational development in a way that would not have happened without it.

Private blockchain can have many benefits compared to centralized models. It's not necessarily better and it's more of a trade-off, but it does present solutions that's not otherwise possible. For example, in a distributed system, we can use IoT devices as lightweight nodes for quick validations. This can give security to off-site locations with limited computation power and/or connectivity.

In addition, there's now many consensus protocols that tries to solve or amend the three elements the author mentioned. For example, Stellar-Lumen's implementation of Federated Byzantine Agreement creates the concept of reputation on top of trust. The ledger network is public, and is essentially a directed graph of trusts. Anyone can join but other nodes pre-existing on the network may not necessarily trust your validations, so this at least amends the first element the author mentioned.

In conclusion, blockchain technologies are over quoted for their finance applications. To quote a YouTube video I watched, look at blockchain technologies as the operating system, and cryptocurrency as one particular app on the operating system, like your browser. It surely is over hyped but shouldn't be hated upon solely due to the public's mistaking interest.
About a million internet commenters would disagree with you. Double taxation has been a stock justification for the lower capital gains rate as long as I can remember.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think payroll expenses are not a part of profit, so no double taxation here.

The point is that any money that exits a corporation gets taxed again somewhere.

So if a company does really well one year and makes a profit, it gets taxed on that profit even if it keeps it in the bank. Then they use that remaining profit to pay payroll next year and then employees or owners get taxed again.
You can't say for certain since these things are quite opaque but I am fairly certain that taking calculus and other such classes in high school is not positively factored into admissions at elite universities. In general those would not even receive credit. E.g. at MIT you can get, at most, credit for calculus 1 if you get a 5 on the calculus BC exam - AB is no credit.

Elite universities tend to try to make admissions somewhat objective and so you get certain points for various things. And coming from a less privileged background gives you a pretty big boost. Pair that with a perfect SAT and you're already very near the finish line. Really strange he wouldn't get accepted. Extracurricular/sports are also important.

I came from a crap school, went to an top university (and did not have a 1600), felt slightly behind early on in calculus since most of everybody had already taken it in high school and I had not, but the playing field leveled out very rapidly. Never felt the least bit disadvantaged in any other course. I'm also certain that I would not have gotten in if I had my exact same background but came from a more prestigious/wealthy school. Of course I'd probably have done more in my high school years if I had that background, which is exactly why you get that boost coming from a poor background.
What are your big take aways?
Another classic in this genre, though more focused on world impact, is Charlie Stross's "Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire" (2013)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-wa...

I may not be quite as strident as either of these takes, but I agree that the proponents are significantly overselling on a variety of axes... (while also believing that distributed append-only systems with consensus mechanisms can sometimes have value)
Pardon my interruption, but I think a perfectly adequate response would be to counter by asking if ethics are taught in CS/CE programs (or what curricula have ethics prereqs)
OSI was a compromise between SNA and ARPA protocol stacks.
For sure, there is a lot of overlap between overtaining syndrome and job burnout.
Are they worse than CF bulbs? Those seemed like they should have been a nightmare for RF.
i've tried a bunch, and the ikea bulbs do the best in a variety of conditions:

- longevity
- when used with a dimmer
- when a large load is applied to the same circuit

Most other bulbs fail one of those, but I haven't had an ikea branded bulb do poor in any condition.
Far left would be advocating murdering billionaires, punching gay people who don’t include trans people in their sexuality, etc.
To play into other stereotypes, plenty of hidden gem hole-in-the-wall restaurants in ethnic enclaves or overlooked neighborhoods that millennial like to Yelp about are cash-only.
There are plenty of other delivery services. Grubhub, UberEats, and Caviar are a few off the top of my head.
#1 more die. More die means less current per die, which helps efficacy in a nonlinear way (google "LED droop")
#2 better passives. Aluminum polymer caps, for instance
#3 lower temps, in however you want to achieve that aim
#4 some TVSS element if there wasn't one already
> Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Surely that should be "Business goes under if you don't, executives go to jail for mass fraud if you do."
Article does not so much as mention Philips which are the gold standard here. The off brands he’s looking at are the problem. Cree is a fine brand for LED components but not for the entire bulb assembly in my experience.
> React knows which component is rendering at any point in time — so it knows which component useState() call corresponds to.

Personally, I think that may be the piece that makes it feel a bit magical. With `this.setState()`, usage of `this` makes me feel like I know how the component and the state are linked.

With hooks, however, there's no obvious link to the component in the code. I'm grabbing `useState` off of the shared react module, `useState` is not passed into the component, and I don't have to reference the component itself at any point while using hooks. The new sets of rules you have to follow to make things line up correctly play a part, as well.

Of course that may be how `this.setState()` does it anyways - you know better than I do, obviously. Maybe the usage of `this.setState()` made me feel confident in something I didn't actually understand under the hood. But at least for me, that's why `useState()` feels a bit magical at first glance compared to `this.setState()`. Not _too_ magical, and not enough to scare me away from using hooks, but still a bit.
Surely there must be some sort of test to measure applicants, though?
Cite please. Was that ever really a law anywhere other than Victoria, Australia?
>What blockchain does is shift some of the trust in people and institutions to trust in technology. You need to trust the cryptography, the protocols, the software, the computers and the network. And you need to trust them absolutely, because they’re often single points of failure.

So it is still people and institutions except abstracted into pieces that are more transparent than pre-existing options.

Also it is always hilarious to see the rehashed arguments over and over. First being that necessity of a blockchain is a requirement for successful implementation, and second the complete negation of systems where it actually is a necessity.
But if you still want a fast Browser , try Kiwi Browser. Perf optimized chromium with build in adblock and night mode (100% black Websites on my amoled screen)
This is a non-issue, I'm surprised it's on front page. If you can defraud companies just by making email aliases, what's stopping those hardened criminals from just registering new addresses?

Companies have had procedures for dealing with duplicate addresses/telephones/email addresses since forever, and if they don't, it's a fault of their business model.
Pointing your MX records to Mailinator is a one-time small effort, then it's just a matter to sending mail to whatever@yourdomain.com.
For these workers, it's really "neither have your cake nor eat it". They get screwed by Instacart and DoorDash stealing their tips, and then screwed further when they can't make as many deliveries because people boycott.

I'm not saying we should support shitty companies. But these boycotts ostensibly happen because we have empathy for workers. We shouldn't lose track of that empathy when workers talk about how the boycotts affect them.
I would say yes. I'm pretty sure most people are writing all new projects exclusively in python3, except if you need them to run on old distros without any dependencies (lots of distributions shipped for years with python2 but not python3 installed by default). The ecosystem of 3 is very mature - I've been running my servers' production code for 5+ years in python3 and had no major issues with that choice. The only thing left is "legacy codebases".
I think the parent article provides a reasonably accurate description of why
> Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything?

This is a really silly assumption. As a UI/UX designer, I have brought up many times at previous companies when they were trying to do sketchy/dark-patterns/etc. to users. At the end of the day, a lot of times, you get classified as someone who is not being a "team player", or are just being "negative." It sucks, but I can bet you that people there probably did speak up about this, but it got now where and they didn't want to risk their career over it. If you were in their shoes, would you quit your job over this if you spoke up and they still didn't listen? It's easy to answer that from the outside, but not everyone has the ability to do that. It's much more complicated.
In some of the fixtures in my house, I've thought of installing small fans running at low speed (resistor in series with the fan slows it down) to stir the air and help cool the lamp.
Not sure if it's a required curriculum unit, but I audited some MBA courses and Leadership & Ethics was one of the available courses. It consisted largely of reviewing and discussions based on case studies and ethically complex scenarios.
Isn't this like saying you could light the world if you had a big enough switch and unlimited cable?
Since the article never answered the question, do you know what happened to the 100k hours LED bulbs? Were the initial estimates just over-optimistic? Was it all marketing hype?
There's no reason to be concerned about fastmail like there's any kind of uncertainty, your account is comprised and you were given warning it was going to happen.
The medium is the metaphor.
I think in this case the ethical issue is not disclosing the policy more directly. I suppose why would anyone tip $5 if the driver would only get $1.

My guess is that this isn't really an ethical issue with Instacart, which I view as a very well run company.

More likely, the model is a fairly cleverly designed tip jar that accepts tips and then brings up the average wage so that workers have a higher guaranteed minimum, in exchange for some tips not going directly toward their own pay.

This is a clever system, which likely derived from the optional "service fee" which Instacart used to incorporate, which was used to fund additional employee benefits.

The problem is that when you call it a "tip" then people expect it to work a specific way and so the underlying clever idea is lost and the company appears to have done something shady.

Look at the history of Instacart's explorations of a service fee and you'll see that what's going on. I think Instacart deserves credit for trying to find a better solution to this problem than what had existed before, though I think a smarter way to do it would be to let customers optionally contribute to the "bonus till" that is paid out companywide to customer-facing staff who have the best star ratings.
Retraction is a coverup. They should publish how they did it.
I've never used Instacart, but I've used GrubHub and DoorDash and the like a couple of times -- I can never remember which one I have an account for, or which one has the restaurant I want, so it's always a hodgepodge.

But one thing is clear as day. When I use DoorDash, the tip box says "100% of tip goes to Dasher".

Look, I know all of these places either charge me a service fee, or if I'm not being charged a service fee, they're marking up the food over list price AND getting a discount from the restaurant for the extra volume generated by the company. FINE.

But when you tell me 100% of my tip goes to the tippee and then you take money out of their pay because I tipped them, that is fraud. Money is a fungible good. It doesn't matter that "my" money went to the Dasher, and you took "your" money from them. In fact, that's not even true, because it's all in one CC transaction anyway. 100% of my tip did NOT go to the Dasher.
Some states try to redistribute a portion of the property taxes, but it typically gets seen as a piggy bank ripe for raiding to fund various pet projects of the state legislature.
You should call your local grocery store and see if they have a delivery program. Many if not most do, although it's typically poorly advertised or unadvertised. You can have them deliver prepared food from the store.
See eg auth0's passwordless login via email.

Given standard password flows include email-based password reset, there's really no difference in security; either way, if someone owns your email, you're screwed. TFA does help mitigate this though.
I feel like most production React I've seen already has a mixture of components written as classes versus ones written as functions versus functions and classes written to be HOCs. Adding Hooks in most codebases won't make most of them feel anymore "mixed" than they already were.
I was (mistakenly) assuming that the people were convicted of other crimes (like murder or something), and then the organs were being used post-execution.
Why public Bitcoin over a bank's own blockchain solution?
Those early Home Depot Cree bulbs were definitely defective. We bought a ton of them and have since replaced nearly all under warranty... twice. The first round they replaced with identical ones, which also quickly failed. (Always the same; started with an intermittent flicker, which progressively got more severe and regular.) More recently we've gotten a new design back, which seem better. Fortunately, after the first ones, it's been as simple as replying to the email thread and telling them how many more replacements I need!
Do losses actually carry forward in full like you're describing? I was under the impression there was an annual limit in the amount you can deduct. For an individual, that limit is $3k.
The corollary of this argument is that the deaths contribute to some noble purpose and and are thus justified to some degree. That instinct to engage in retroactive bargaining is understandable but dangerous. What is the point of having ethical standards if there isn't a high cost for breaking them?
I'm on the PWA + WebAssembly train now as a solution for this. I really think we're finally getting close to a world where desktop-apps become truly pointless with Wasm + PWAs, and the WebGPU spec.
Yes, ethics are a required component of the ABET CS model curriculum.
Doesn't matter, if they have an Australian employee they're compromised.
I'd have more sympathy if there were also giving equity to the people they are stealing from.
I've stopped loving, hating, trusting or distrusting it: My client wants to auction thousands of cars with 7 competitors. He wants parts of it on blockchain. If that's the way he can create trust within this group of competitors, so be it. Is it marketing? Maybe. But we've built it and it actually works.
It's within RFC, but they all lead to one email inbox so you end up being able to manage multiple third-party accounts from a single email account. It's recommended to not reject these, but strip them: https://gist.github.com/judge2020/af8fb9cd2ac165462d44de4e58...

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
I also have a Jabra headset. I bought it from Amazon I chatted to amazon support about the issues I have with it and they told me to keep a headset and issued a full refund
I am not disagreeing nor challenging you; I'm happy you like it and I think you should keep using it since you enjoy it so much. My question is: Wouldn't the same be said by most programmers with a high degree of proficiency with a language? What sets Clojure apart from Haskell or Scala or Elixir or Erlang? Do you have a high degree of proficiency with something else?

Clojure is the language that I have always wanted to learn, but the benefits never seemed very apparent. I'm hoping your response will make them clear.
On the one hand, yes that's terrible. On the other hand, I can totally see several scenarios where this is a reasonable outcome of an unreasonable system:

1. Toner not in order system.

2. Previous orders of toner found to be incompatible with printer.

etc.
So maybe your business model is flawed? If you can't survive without robbing your employees then you shouldn't survive at all. This would easily be solvable by building growth organically, or having companies that hook into your service willingly to offer delivery at lower cost to them than hiring a full time employee. This would necessarily limit usefulness to larger population centers, but would make it more viable long term.
Insights from analyzing NYC Subway delay notices every 10 minutes for a month
Just googled a bit, and this seems to explain it: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/04/heres-why-your-airpods-or...

In short, it's the combination of no walls + lots of signal congestion. Times Square + Oculus both fit this mold.
Can't carry enough current to run more than some electronics though. PoE vacuum cleaners wouldn't work.
Why take such drastic measures? Just use their system against them.

What I always, always do, is put $0 as a tip in the system and then tip the delivery person, in cash or using some app/paypal/etc., when they bring my order.
Try focusing on the technology, its merits and its potential (or lack thereof, depending which side you lean). I find that works for me, although sifting through the rancor and the mindless shilling all so prevalent in the crypto communities is rather saddening.
They don’t allow it. The user is at fault for validating their email address.

Also Netflix gets partial responsibility for accepting email validation via a different browser session. Unfortunately it’s either that or have people constantly complain they can’t validate their emails from their phone yet browse on a different device.

Middle ground may be IP address check so if you’re on the same WiFi it’ll work. Of course IPv6 kills that.
Probably a controversial opinion, but I find the NYT Daily to be too left leaning. I find NPR's politics podcast a little more balanced.
When Corporations pay zero in tax there is no schools being built, no healthcare being paid, no roads being paved. Yet these companies reap the benefit of other tax payers through educated labor and paying subscribers. They do not pay for the fire department, the police department and hospitals.

One word to describe it is Leeching.

Just because you could do something does not mean you have the right to do so.

Here is the Golden rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
"One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself (positive or directive form)."
Do you feel bamboozled?
Stop at a bank every six months and pick up a few fives, it's really not that complicated.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do wonder what the legal threshold between "following ethics" and "fiduciary duty" is.
Visual Studio Code January 2019 (version 1.31)
Seriously? Your going to claim to not know of the existence of ATMs or cash back at most grocery stores/7-Elevens?

If this is actually your world, I hate to think of the places you'll be constrained to, especially in the US. Seattle is an oddity on the West Coast being card friendly, and from what I gather New York is a cash based economy like most of SoCal.
Casualty losses are tax deductible? That seems like it would be hard to verify if you got audited.