skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohioan here, this is correct, however i can't find an official gov source that explains the tip credit mentioned in the new 2019 wage poster [1]
[1](https://www.com.ohio.gov/documents/dico_2019Minimumwageposte...)
The difference is taxi companies are profitable (or at least break even) -- and by virtue of necessity. There's no nationwide taxi company. Each tends to be local to their municipality. As such they can't absorb big losses and aren't subsidized by VCs or public markets. Taxis charge more than the service costs to deliver, Lyft and Uber don't.

Lyft and Uber have higher cost basis than taxi companies because they don't leverage economies of scale of car ownership and insurance via shared fleet as taxis do. Then they also charge less to riders. There's also no guarantee people would continue to use Lyft or Uber if they raised their prices to above the cost to provide the service, particularly when that number is actually higher than a taxi.

To my knowledge, Uber has a -61% profit margin. You give them $10 and they spend $16 to provide you the service.
It is free if you've joined Amazon Prime. Prime is not free. Your pedantry sounds like someone saying the water fountains at Disneyland aren't free because you have to pay to get in.
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Internet time-wasting periodic table (created with CSS Grid)

https://codepen.io/oliviale/full/ZmvPPd
>I don't know what you think I could be conflating.

The motivations and effects of monetary policy? To sit there and say that a fiat system isn't subject to inflationary pressures, or even are less burdened by them, brought about changes in interest rates because of technological advancements is a hilariously misplaced idea and thing to bring up.

I feel like I want to call this economic bike shedding? The tiniest detail has no sway on anything when you're talking about policies actively affecting trillions of dollars of cash and credit. We're talking in a time scale of a year, not half a century.
> What I don't understand is how could Slack not see this as an issue?

Similar issues exist in email communications. I feel like these are really more just issues with the person's ability to communicate. Perhaps the technology can help, but I'm having trouble imagining how.

Unfortunately, I've tried to educate some of these types of users that I know (e.g., showing them that Slack's formatting options exist, are easy to use, stop quotes from randomly getting turned into smart quotes), but IME communications skills are one of the last things people are willing to accept feedback on. I find it often just gets acknowledged "oh, that's great, thanks!" and then promptly ignored (no change in behavior).
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SaaS companies are basically zero marginal cost businesses. Uber currently operates with a -61% margin. Their marginal costs substantially exceed their marginal revenues.
>because a lot of high profile startups are moving away from it

Lucky for everyone there is a world beyond "high profile startups" whatever that means. You may even argue "high profile startups" is an irrelevant percentage in the job market.
My only problem with Flutter is that Dart is a hard sell from an organizational perspective. We'd have to justify teaching our engineers a language they'll only ever need for the purpose of using one mobile app framework.
Thanks for trying it and for the feedback.
It uses the equatorial bulge to process the orbit.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5312/why-would-sun...
Non-facebook users are in a less fortunate position though, because while the automated testing might keep their dependencies working, yours will break. So people tend to stick to certain release and avoid upgrading at all costs, trying to find a permutation of library and RN versions where everything is mostly working and rest can hacked around. All bug reports by react-native team have traditionally been treated with 'please upgrade to latest release' which makes things problematic, because while your specific issue might be solved, you'll have bunch of new ones caused by the new release and your dependencies not playing nice. Hopefully there will be some improvement with this in the future.
There's a couple. Some samples:

* If the hammer manufacturer decides not to sell you any, you'll still have hammers.

* If the hammer manufacturer gains enough power to fix prices, you won't be paying them exorbitant prices.

* If the hammer manufacturer or their country gets embargoed and you're unable to legally purchase their hammers, you'll still have hammers.

All the above grant you a strategic advantage since you'll still have the necessary tools to continue your business while your competitors won't (or will have to pay much higher prices for their supply of hammers).
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Quote from Mendeleev himself:

"I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper."

This is fascinating to me -- Our brains continue working during our sleep on problems we think about during our day!
Amazon tackling counterfeits by letting brands delete knockoffs
>Far more people learned to hack and code and be creative on platforms like the Apple 2 or C64 and Amiga (or Atari ST) than they did on the 1984 Mac, it was way too limited and on-rails (and expensive!)

Sure they did. The Mac was “the computer for the rest of us”. It wasn’t supposed to be hackable, like the Apple II, which was a hackers dream machine.

I only take issue with the “creative” part of your comment.
Well, aside from money though have you seen some of the issues created on git repos and their responses? The software is OSS and free, yet there are countless people who use it acting like they're high profile businesses deserving white-glove treatment and they'll totally take out their anger on a maintainer.
>Probably she could sue the parents?

She could also go postal. Both of those would quickly become matters of public record and end her teaching career.
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This! Ricardo's model assumes that every country stays at the same level of productivity. In reality sometimes it makes sense to protect industries a little so they can develop. That said, free trade works better 90% of the time (even outside the simplistic in-a-vacuum model).
The usual thing that would make you call a thing a declension, is that it actually mutates the root word somehow, instead of just agglomerating onto it.
> But artisanal hardware is an intellectual dead end.

I agree that this model of iterative improvement won't yield the next big technological breakthrough. But the big consumer electronics manufacturers aren't really innovating either. They might make a product a little bit flatter or give it another camera, but I can't think of a real game changer in the last five years.

Once all the technology is there and just improves iteratively the described model seems to be better suited to find as many local optima in the possible product space as possible (and not just a few big ones).

I could see how a lack of patents would lead to more secrecy in R&D labs. If what you are doing is truly novel and complicated (like developing a smaller node type in processor manufacturing) keeping the research secret would keep you as safe from competitors as patents. And if you aren't (like inventing rounded corners on smartphones) then you shouldn't have gotten the patent in the first place imho.
It's hard to blame consumers if they are buying the average sized homes for their area that are still huge in operational and maintenance costs.

In most newer SFH developments, house size is usually dictated by exclusionary zoning (i.e minimum lot and house sizes) and developer business priorities, not by what is financially prudent for buyers. And as your SUV example illustrates, bigger sells better.

Choosing not to buy in to that usually requires relocating to an area that values efficiency over size, and those are often very expensive areas, since they are few and far between.
To that extent, I also found that Android is usually treated as a 2nd class citizen. Which is understandable, given the marketshare, but frustrating nonetheless. It often sounds like something is easily do-able (like Accessibility) ... IF you're on iOS. We recently developed an app for a client of ours for Android, replicating their native iOS app in React Native. That was not a good experience.
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If you read the article, you'd know that the commerce department was talking about disposable personal income, which is post tax. Pre-tax, personal income went up.

https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income
Sanskrit and Persian (or, as you prefer, Hindi and Farsi) are closely related, both belonging to the "Indo-Iranian" branch of the Indo-European language family, so a connection is plausible.

My go-to for etymological questions is https://www.etymonline.com . Looking up the entries for "Ahura Mazda", "Asmodeus", "deva", and "devil", we see that yes, ahura and asura are the same word (descending from an Indo-European root meaning "spirit", and cognate with the Norse Asa-gods), and daeva and deva are also the same word (descending from a root meaning "shine", and cognate with e.g. "divine").

"Devil" is not related to deva/daeva/divine, though -- it comes from a Greek word meaning "slander" or "attack". The "de" part is the Greek prefix dia-, "across", and the "vil" part is the Greek root -ball-, "throw". (This is clearer in the preserved adjective form, "diabolical".) So similarity to "deva" is a coincidence. Similarly, "angel" is a word of unknown origin, not related to ahura/asura. (In ancient Greek, anggelos is an ordinary word referring to ordinary messengers.)

Etymology is certainly an interest of mine, but I'm curious why you chose to ask me about it. It's not obvious to me where I suggested that I might know the answer to your question (which I didn't) or how to find out (which I did).
It's been years since this proposal and everyone keeps arguing over semantics yet I don't see any semantics being changed. So what's the holdup? I understand constraints and external factors/dependencies but this seems like such a trivial change that it boggles me we don't have this as a standard feature yet.
Relevant Scientific American article.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-bidet...

"Popular everywhere except North America, where Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper annually, switching to bathroom bidets could save some 15 million trees.... 'This also involves 473,587,500,000 gallons of water to produce the paper and 253,000 tons of chlorine for bleaching.” He adds that manufacturing requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually....'
Sending the Black and Tans to Ireland was another one of his ideas...
If you were making $8 plus tips before, and now you’re making $4 plus tips or $8 (whichever is higher), then you’re still being paid $4 less per hour in any hour when you make at least $4 in tips. Because your first $4 of tips is going to bring your wage up to $8 instead of being on top of the $8.

So it’s legal (if the employer actually holds to it) but it still screws over the employees and they still have every right to be pissed.
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Seems a bit late. Counterfeits have been rampant since 2015 at least.
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> I don't see "Automatic design of novel algorithms" in this list. Can AutoML produce something as novel as a GAN, CapsNet, WaveNet, Transformer, Neural ODE, etc? Is that even considered to be one of its goals. In my opinion, there's a clear separation between a group of people trying to improve AutoML so that it's more useful in doing all those tasks on the list, and a group of people trying to invent next gen ML algorithms or DL architectures.

I agree with you from the view of the current state of the art methods and the current state of the AutoML / fundamental ML research communities. Current methods are very limited, but I can not think of a reason why a sufficiently general searchspace of architectures/pipelines could not produce something like a GAN or a WaveNet.

I do not think that designing algorithms as novel as the ones you listed is currently a goal of AutoML, as that is not something we have an attack for. However, I do think that with increasing capabilities, the field of AutoML will seek to automate every step of the machine learning pipeline - including the design of algorithms. E.g., once/if there are attacks to apply NAS for yielding truly novel architectures, I think NAS researchers will be happy to do just that -- wouldn't you call that AutoML then?
You are correct when you say "Lisp has a slightly different style of writing than in Python"

Maybe I was trying too hard to use "if" as common ground in my contrived example. I generally use if for simple conditions and cond for multiple conditions (python would use elif, and has no case statement).

But in the same vein, your example doesn't look like python, at all :)

The point of my comment is not to put down elisp, but instead to say that the translation of ideas in my head to working code seems to go smoother for me using python than lisp, both reading and writing.
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Completely disagree with the OP.

I have enough scar tissue to believe bad UI or even the one that's not pleasing or inspiring receives lot lower engagement from users than having a clean, snappy and beautiful UI.

The OP's claims can be easily disproved by contradiction. If UI improvements didn't make a difference, A/B testing on designs wouldn't have resulted in massive improvements.

Making design more accessible, and attractive often helps beat the asymptotes in user consumption of a lot of products.
One piece of advice I heard recently that in hindsight is extremely important -- look around the company and see if there are people who look like you in positions similar to the one you're expecting to get. If there aren't, you're probably not getting the position you think you're getting.
I think that's the key point here, even if the article doesn't quite highlight it.

Technology and social media haven't changed human behavior, but it allows both positive and negative behavior to be amplified multiple times over. And sometimes all it takes is one negative incident to crush an adolescent's self-esteem.

We shouldn't discount the positive that social media and technology bestow, just as we shouldn't discount the negative as well. I don't think the problem is just a little worse - I think, for some cases, it's A LOT worse. And that's the frightening thing. Both the positive and the negative are amplified.

I dealt with a lot of bullying in school. High school was a nightmare. But at least it's over now and I'm hopefully a stronger person for it. But if the kinds of things that the bullies said or did were recorded on social media and amplified...
You can make this argument when it comes to GPL software, since it forces you to open source your changes if you want to ship them. But does it hold for MIT licensed software (or if you are picky about attribution CC0)? Couldn't the existence of MIT or CC0 licensed open source projects disprove that

> that model only exists if you respect the rule of law and specifically conventional copyright

because these licenses are basically blank checks to do with the software whatever you want? They don't really depend on the existence of any IP laws.
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For the record I think Taxkeeper is super cool. Truffle is totally different; less of a recurring tool and more of a one-time tool.

Disclaimer: I work on Truffle.

Congrats Keepertax on launching!
> all phones are confiscated and you never get them back

That's an interesting concept! Here in Ontario, Canada... it's my understanding that teachers have limited ability to take phones away from students... but they don't really want to because it becomes a liability issue. Some of these phones are worth $1000 and if the teacher misplaces it or another student swipes it, the teacher can be on the hook.

If the policy is that the student doesn't get the phone back at all, that changes things significantly.
It is possible that declension suffixes once upon time were postpositions. At least I remember this was a theory behind Indo-European declension suffixes. If a postposition is used often enough after a noun, people quickly learn the pattern, and think of the pair as a single word. Although this must have happened before writing was invented, so probably people didn't think of what constitutes a word. Now every now and then it happens that a word dies in a language. A postposition could have died as a standalone word but was preserved as a declension suffix. And now we might only think of it as a suffix.
I know your post appears self promotional and is slightly out of context but I'm glad you posted it. I've been looking for an app like yours for years and the audio quality is pretty good. I realize that text to speech of this quality has only been around for a year or two.

The app UI feels native on Android and performs well.
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Yeah you can ask people working there what it's like. I see posts like this all the time and it's kind of funny reading about ones that are burning down
There's something super amusing about some of the stuff they describe in the article, along with the diagram of the public transportation options. What they don't mention is that everyone who lives in that building almost certainly would drive to work- Because, Los Angeles. Those units will be near a new subway line that will be completed in the next five years (but they'd still have to bank on their office being on that line).

I also don't tend to find a lot of new condo developments in this area that are for sale. They all seem to be rented by the builder. My presumption being that credit continues to be so cheap, they can afford the slow burn down from rents, since thye're not getting crushed by the interest payment. But, I'm not a landlord, so I don't know for sure.
Have you tried codestar? It's the closest thing to what you're describing that they offer as far as I know. It would definitely be great if they were specific to various application use cases instead of the more general purpose technology choices.
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>True for the US federal government, less true for US state governments,

Disagree fully, especially in one party states. In the federal government if you department is perpetually crap there's always a risk some senator will make cleaning you up their shtick. In state government unacceptable performance seems to be tolerated and allowed to continue indefinitely.
I spent so much time on Blind when I was jumping ship
The Russian word vodka is a diminutive form of voda (water) — in essence, vodka is “cute water”.
Bingo. Tooling in the US is ridiculously expensive. For other applications (tools for plastics, injection molding, thermoforming) there is often a 3-5x difference in price.

Actual processing is much less of a difference, especially at volume. So it makes sense to do tooling in China, production in the US.
I agree. The more proactive you are about reaching out or asking the right questions, the more you'll know. Thanks for the detailed suggestions.
I personally think Glassdoor is pretty outdated. Blind is more 'real time'
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