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radpanda commented on Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie alexharri.com/blog/icelan... · Posted by u/alexharri

radpanda · 25 days ago

> There are, in fact, 88 approved Icelandic names with this exact pattern of declension, and they all end with “dur”, “tur” or “ður”.

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> But that quickly breaks down. There are other names ending with “ður” or “dur” that follow a different pattern of declension

My “everything should be completely orderly” comp-sci brain is always triggered by these almost trivial problems that end up being much more interesting.

Is the suffix pattern based on the pronunciation of the syllable(s) before the suffix? If one wanted to improve upon your work for unknown names, rather than consider the letters used, would you have to do some NLP on the name to get a representation of the pronunciation and look that up (in a trie or otherwise)?

radpanda commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

Aloisius · a month ago

I live in California and this isn't true here. All restaurant workers receive at least minimum wage before tips. In my city, that's $19/hour with health insurance.

Of course, you're still expected to leave a tip and suggested minimum is now 20%, plus even McDonalds is charging $15 for a 4 oz burger, so I rarely go out to eat at places that expect a tip anymore.

I'm not sure why they specifically should be tax exempt though. Cash tips often were, practically speaking, so a lot of tax evasion was happening, but it still seems odd to single them out.

radpanda · a month ago

> even McDonalds is charging $15 for a 4 oz burger

Jeez, where is this? According to the famous McCheapest map the most expensive Big Mac in America is about 8 bucks. Have prices really shot up that much recently?

https://pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest

radpanda commented on RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession JapaneseNostalgicCar.com/... · Posted by u/fidotron

radpanda · a month ago

> Famously, while creating the model kit for the 1976 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR, Tamiya-san sent his designers to Porsche’s Zuffenhausen factory several times to get the measurements and details just right. However, despite repeated trips there were still doubts about the kit’s accuracy. So Tamiya bought a Porsche 911 and completely disassembled it to get every detail correct.

I don’t know anything about Japanese tax law but if an American did this I’d assume they were just trying to get a sweet tax deduction on a new Porsche. “Oh sure, that was 100% a business expense”.

radpanda commented on Where are vacation homes located in the US? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/rufus_foreman

fragmede · a month ago

Yes but it's Hawaii. Common sense reasoning only lets you conclude that rich people have vacation homes in Hawaii, not some specific percentage relative to the rest of the states. I bet it if the math was done based on vacation land area, Hawaii would come up near the top, given Lanai. Probably places like Montana too.

radpanda · a month ago

> I bet it if the math was done based on vacation land area, Hawaii would come up near the top, given Lanai

I’d be shocked if the parcels that Larry Ellison owns on Lanai are classified in a way that would show up as a vacation home. Typically rich large landowners in Hawaii are “gentleman farmers” who (ab)use agricultural tax loopholes.

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/agriculture-property-tax-break-u...

radpanda commented on BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia jakartaglobe.id/business/... · Posted by u/breve

alephnerd · a month ago

People in the US haven't been buying small cheap hatchbacks for years. Look at how the Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit, Hyundai Accent Hatchback, and the Kia Rio faired in the US market.

Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Kia would have continued to manufacture and sell these in the US if there was demand, which there wasn't.

What I'm surprised by is the non-existence of an Indonesian owned and designed brand, but that's probably a result of the Asian Financial Crisis back in the day, but it's embarrassing given that historically poorer Vietnam has been able to incubate it's own domestic ecosystem for EVs and ICE cars. Indonesia has stagnated over the past decade based on developmental indicators and seems to be falling into the commodities trap instead of upskilling into processing.

radpanda · a month ago

As I understand it there was actually healthy demand for the Honda Fit and it sold profitably, but US-bound Fits were made in the same Mexico factory that made the more profitable Honda HR-V. The HR-V was successful enough that it displaced some Fit production and there were waiting lists at Honda dealers to get a Fit. Eventually the HR-V became popular enough that the Celaya factory switched to 100% HR-V production.

It wasn’t that Honda couldn’t sell Fits to Americans at a small profit, it’s that they found they could use their manufacturing capacity to sell more expensive, more profitable models to Americans instead.

radpanda commented on Wind Knitting Factory merelkarhof.nl/work/wind-... · Posted by u/bschne

MikeTheGreat · 2 months ago

Is anyone else disappointed that you can't buy the wind-knitting device itself, only scarves knitted from the device? :)

radpanda · 2 months ago

Every HNer knows your startup needs to maintain a moat /s

radpanda commented on Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sp... · Posted by u/rbanffy

tdrgabi · 2 months ago

I'm sorry if this has been answered many times in the past. I didn't find the answer anywhere else.

If everyone gets 1000$ extra, why wouldn't rent increase by close to 1000$. If you're not willing to pay it, someone will. I don't understand how giving all of us X amount of dollars would help. The number of goods are the same, they would become more expensive through inflation.

radpanda · 2 months ago

I’ve always seen UBI as part of a post-scarcity sci-fi future. Once the robots run the farms and deliver the food and build the buildings and so on, and there just isn’t enough work to go around for humans, of course the fruits of this productivity should be shared with the wider population (both morally and to prevent uprisings). Sure, in this sci-fi future you can live in your basic pod and eat basic food for free or you can work a little or a lot to try to upgrade your situation.

But I don’t think we’re there yet. We do have a lot of industries that rely on shit jobs that people would rather not do. If we, IMHO prematurely, try to institute a UBI now we’d be in for a world of pain along the way as the prices of basic services skyrocket without robots being ready to step in.

radpanda commented on Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game midword.com/... · Posted by u/minaguib

radpanda · 3 months ago

I think I prefer alphaguess.com’s simpler interface

radpanda commented on Seven Days at the Bin Store defector.com/seven-days-a... · Posted by u/zdw

munificent · 3 months ago

I suspect that a very large fraction of purchases at the bin store are impulse buys that provide a temporary serotonin hit.

Then the purchaser gets home and realizes that no, in fact they do not need a frog-themed toaster whose mouth is too small to fit a normal slice of bread, and they throw it out.

You could look at this as an abitrage opportunity where a business throwing out bulk waste has to pay for it, but if you distribute it to individual citizens whose trash bin still has a bit of room in it, you can throw it out for free.

radpanda · 3 months ago

> You could look at this as an abitrage opportunity where a business throwing out bulk waste has to pay for it, but if you distribute it to individual citizens whose trash bin still has a bit of room in it, you can throw it out for free.

Yeah, that’s what I figured was going on here. Reminds me of pizza delivery (in the US anyhow), which relies on pizza delivery guys not paying attention to the cost of vehicle wear-and-tear and proper insurance so your pizza is cheaper than if every pizza place owned properly maintained and insured vehicles.

radpanda commented on Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/wallflower

bsimpson · 4 months ago

I feel this way about remote work.

I've been working in tech since 2008. Nobody ever cared where anyone worked from. I've spent many summers digital nomadding.

Then, the pandemic happened and some reporters started writing articles about it, as if it was invented during the pandemic. HR departments got wind, and now many companies have formal policies about how many days you're supposed to badge in, or how long you're allowed to work remotely.

There's a journalistic trend churning out bullshit stories about "quiet quitting" et. al. and I hate it. Executives take them at face value and make reactionary policies based on some filler they read online.

radpanda · 4 months ago

> Nobody ever cared where anyone worked from

Was it really this way in general or just with some little startups who didn’t mind taking risks? As far as I remember employers always cared where remote workers were for tax and other reasons (sanctions, compliance with local regulations, etc).