skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To add to this: if workers are underpaid relative to the cost of living in their area, they'll likely end up on some government assistance program.

But that was already the situation before Uber came to the market? For all we know, driving Uber might have moved some of the people less dependent on the government assistance programs.
Wow, that looks like even more work than I had imagined. I hope you enjoy writing that book as much as I enjoy reading it!

> 2018/03/29 - pancakes

:)
Its actually according to Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act

Also http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/05/the-right-to-waive-your...
This is also why I dropped SXM. I got tired of arguing with them on the phone every six months. Especially after the last time where they admitted they over-charged me for three months and gave me three months longer on the existing account balance.

I started shuffling my music library onto USB sticks for my car and haven't looked back.
If the driver agreed to a contract that has a clause that expressly said that they could, then yes. The court ruled that such clauses in contracts can be enforced. Without the contract saying so, Uber wouldn't have been able to do this at all.
Great show!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The interaction you are describing, of me being accosted by a suited wall street trader, has never happened to me. And I'd bet that it has never happened to basically every other people out there.

Now, getting assaulted by a homeless person on the other hand.... That's probably happened to at least 50% of people.

> asks you for change

No. I'm talking about assault and violence, actually.
He may have not been a complete jerk, or the same type of jerk.

Maybe he only wasn't nice to people but didn't hire his incompetent friends, etc. Maybe he was so good at other stuff that a negative jerk effect was not enough to offset the positive parts.

But my point was that according to the definition given in the article I don't think you can say "the jerk effect" was zero at TT, I think the author made a convincing argument.
Which countries are most resilient to a tier 1 Internet provider failure?
Purely anecdotal on my part, but I noticed my taste preferences changed a bit after I had mono. Again, totally my own experience, not bounded in fact at all, but it is interesting...
> Useless signaling.

Their contribution to Wikimedia sends a positive signal to potential customers that is very possibly less useless than the more typical form of corporate signalling: advertising.

Do you think that advertising is also useless signalling?
Thanks for the link. I guess I overestimated starting salaries nationwide by quite a bit! But in my defense, I really meant total comp, not just salary.

I know of 2 SF startups that pay $120k ish for entry level. At entry level, forget about equity, the amount you will get will be worthless. The base is your entire package.

Google will give you a total comp (salary, bonus, RSU) of about $150-$160k for entry level. No senior+ person I know there is making less than $250k total comp. Google designs salaries very well to keep everyone in the same level centered at the same total comp. If you take a high salary, your raises and RSU refreshers will be less, regardless of your performance. Personally I think that's very unfair but hey I don't work at Google so who am I to say.

I was making $125k base (maybe $150k total) as entry level at a mid-peninsula bigco back in 2000. I never dipped under $100k going to smallco and startups since then. As you can imagine, I make a fortune these days but I am very highly specialized.

If indeed startups are paying less than $100k here, I can't imagine how they hire anyone, certainly not anyone good.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the UK's mass surveillance and the media/public's wilful ignorance of the issue but Assange is suspected of sexual assault and broke bail. He's expected to face the law in the same way as anybody else.
As another example, an Apple engineer working on a competitive vendor’s product asked an Apple engineer working on Qualcomm’s product to request assistance from Qualcomm relating to a downlink decoding summary for carrier aggregation.

On February 28, 2017, Qualcomm requested an audit under the MSA. To date, despite Qualcomm’s repeated requests, Apple has refused to permit Qualcomm to audit Apple’s compliance with the provisions of the MSA. Qualcomm seeks specific performance of Apple’s obligations under the MSA to provide sufficient information to Qualcomm to confirm that Apple has at all times complied with its obligations related to Qualcomm’s software.

Those, if true, are not going to go well in a court. The section gets worse and worse the farther you read.
The Mac app is, which I didn't even know existed.
Sounds a lot like Chicago 10 years ago.

It takes a generation of entrepreneurs to start and have a success or two despite the conditions. Then unless they pull a lightbank they will reinvest in the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The Ultimate Road Trip Guide to the Maritimes
Do you have any resources about good estimation? I have good intuition how to approach it and generally I'm close to estimated values but I'd like improve still.
Does anybody know how Cloud ML on TPUs compares to BYO 2080?
Sure, let me be a little more specific:

- We ask candidates about times that they earned trust, behaved in a trust-worthy manner in the past.
- Employees in their reviews are judged in part based on how well they earn the trust of their peers, managers, etc.
- Promotions happen based on demonstrating the Leadership Principles, including earning trust.

I can't speak to whether every pocket at Amazon has implemented it the way it's supposed to, nor can I say that every employee at Amazon excels at this. I would hope though that someone who reads a statement like "Sounds like Amazon is finding out the hard way that you need to pay for trust, not just skill" understands that this is something that has been explicitly understood within Amazon for years.
"nobody out in the real world believes in pure waterfall anymore"

I'd allow that this might be true within large software organizations, this is definitely not the case where most software is written: in non-software organizations.
There are very many rights that you can actually not legally sign away. Well, you can make a contract that signs them away, but it won't be valid in court. For example, you can't sign yourself away to slavery as a result of not paying your debts
I'd argue that there are more than three possibilities. One addition, for example, is that the concept of free will is under-defined and an intelligible conversation can't be had about it. I encourage you to define free will without resorting to synonyms like volition, free choice, and the likes.
Google went to production with Pentium desktops on shelves.

IIRC their original hardware plan was based around commodity hardware and getting the most performance per dollar since they built the crawler to be distributed pretty early on.

Point being, consumer grade hardware has come a long way since then, and if you're doing something cutting edge like DL it's not outlandish to expect that rolling your own might be worthwhile and totally justified.
This article does a great job illustrating how it is easy to have IDEAS, but its hard to develop them to a point where they are bold enough to work yet feasible enough to where they're worth working on. Instagram never would have done stories if they were concerned about how a large group of users would think that they are:

> entirely stolen from snapchat

> a total sellout

but look what a bold idea and strong leadership brought to instagram!
You don't have to, the votes will gradually adjust comment visibility based on its perceived (de)merit. Besides, an unpopular comment doesn't mean it's incorrect, e.g. the content might be useful but the tone irritating.

It was informative to myself at least.
> very easy to forget that when the money rolls in massively

I agree with the problem but not the cause. I don't feel that this has anything to do with being complacent. If anything, this is the downside of being a publicly traded company that has the pressure to meet Wall Street's myopic expectations of growth every quarter.
We saw what happened when you try to do that on their mailing-lists.

Between things decided by data and management I'm not sure what a single developer can influence. I guess it sill more than by quitting, because you won't say anything in the exit interview in case you want to come back.
Consciousness is an abstraction layer, rather than a illusion.
More vanity in the world.

The phone is now an appendage or avatar to a person.
Zephyros: The macOS window manager for hackers
Yeah, unfortunately, that is a safe assumption these days.

I did a brief search, though, and the paper appears to have made some rounds in the NIH.
Climate change kills Antarctica's ancient moss beds
I don’t know if this contradicts your belief about mobile Safari, but it continues to bug me that browsing to CNN often (always?) stops whatever audio I already have running. I look forward to the day when all browsers prevent this kind of unwanted behaviour.
> Yes VCs aren’t stupid (well mostly) - they know you won’t be able to hire as many similarly talented/experienced people in Atlanta.

Considering all the "talent shortage" whining, it doesn't seem like they can find many in the Bay Area either.

> Want to hire some ex-faang empoyee? Fogetaboutit.

Most startups should fogetaboutit anyway. They don't need ex-FAANG employees, will waste precious runway hiring them for little marginal gain, and will be hard-pressed to give them all meaningful work to do (leading to spending even more money in short order to replace them).
> Dark matter is also required to make the predictions of primordial nucleosynthesis correct...

Could you expand on this a bit? I've seen that twice in the last week, but never heard it before. Can you give me a pointer to what you're talking about here?
I classify it as follows.

"The culture is toxic." : The problems are caused by one or more individuals, who may be insurmountably difficult to fire. Actually firing the offending people is likely to correct the course quickly.

"The culture is rotten." : The problems are caused by dysfunctional processes, which may be insurmountably difficult to amend. Firing people won't help, unless their replacements are an order of magnitude more competent, and empowered to enact changes.

I don't think rotten can be fixed unless toxic is fixed first. In this sense, toxicity is the more immediate problem, in that it prevents detection of deep structural issues and potential repairs from being approached in a timely and constructive way.
Telltale was VC funded.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/53723-08
I don't believe that is what money laundering means.
hi gregknicholson, i'll try! =^.^=

Scuttlebutt is a social network platform where each uxer has a personal diary where each page is a signed message that links to the previous page. to receive updates on someone's diary, you follow the person. on each page, content is free-form. the most common message type is 'post', but there's a chat app (similar to Cabal) that uses message type 'scat_message': https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/applications#scat.

Cabal is a chat app, built using the Dat protocol (https://datproject.org/). Dat has a similar architecture, except the diaries (sigchains) are centered on content rather than people. so to receive updates on a diary, you follow the _content_, which in Cabal is a chat group similar to a Slack group.
I thought Apple only went after big companies that copied their design?

I've never heard of Apple threatening individuals in the Open Source community -- am I missing something?
MonoGame 3.7 released
Arbitration is enforceable because the law says it is. If there was a law saying that French courts or coin tosses were enforceable dispute resolution mechanisms then you could use those instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
Once you enable the container platform in windows, and enable the bios setting for virtualization, it should just work, when I get back to my home computer I will look the details
Bad news for photography.
The video games industry is where we consistently hear some of the worst stories of workers being mistreated and lied to under dysfunctional management in toxic cultures. Constant crunch time for games that don't even succeed in the market.

What would anti-union libertarians say about the labor conditions there? Workers should just avoid the game industry until more tolerable and better-paying workplaces arise? How is organizing workers not a valid solution to the problems there? Do they think that unions will somehow make the situation worse?
At most not at least
The Most Dangerous Place to Bicycle in America
(1) Finding the trash, targeting it with sensors.
(2) Irregular shape/rotation of trash.
(3) Trash with sharp edges.
Yeah I missed a zero in there - a big zero it seems, sorry!
Nothing to worry about - the voltages aren't high enough in a tube amplifier. X-rays only come into play when dealing with tens of thousands of volts.
Geobiology reveals how human kidney stones dissolve in vivo
I've only been a Python dev, and have ended up becoming entrenched in Tkinter. I want to be able to just use another GUI framework for when I finally switch to something else. So, I can see the use.
There is a lot more direct human intervention/judgement on Wikipedia, there are very clear standards for citation, evidence, and writing, and there are mechanisms for identifying and removing troll submissions while including explicit justification for why it was removed. Wikipedia was built from the ground up to oppose bad actors in ways that are constitutionally impossible for advertising-monetized platforms.
You didn't choose to believe, because you don't have free will, remember?
Introducing the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee
That is a pretty poor test to make such an accusation with any certainty. I'm not saying that it isn't the case but taking 2 photos with different phones in a dimly lit room and no other tests is really, really silly.

I'm not jumping on the Beautygate bandwagon until I see something a little more concrete. Also, if this is only for the front-facing camera, as it seems from the post, then this is even less of an issue. The whole point of the front-facing camera is to take selfies.
For many, The Imitation Game is an entertaining movie. But it is a very distorted view of Bletchley Park and the code-breaking efforts that took part there. When I saw the movie, I found it very irritating (because the distortions were obvious to me). But most of the audience seemed to love it. There are many good critical articles about the movie (for example, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/12/19/poor-imitation-alan...)

I am not surprised that people working on the Bombe did not know about the Enigma: this was a huge undertaking, with many sections. The Bletchley Park "Roll of Honour" lists all people known to have worked at Bletchley, or other locations on Signals Intelligence - there are well over 12,000 names on that roll.
Yikes. Sounds shitty for EU residents in the long term. Wouldn’t it be better to let the bank fail, ie learn from 2008 that bailing out encourages the bad behavior?
Sounds like it. Let's try it next week. All in favour...
I actually agree with most of what you say here. This is more about semantics than science. But I would put this differently:

> that's still true even if there's a gap between your conscious model of your motivations, and the soup of real motivations that drives you.

I would say it's true because there is a gap, not "even if".
Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet
Let’s Train GANs to Play Guitar
> You may, without a meeting of the minds, sign away your basic rights according to the courts.

This is wrong on so many levels. This is one of the reasons why euthanasia is not legal; you cannot legally write a contract to get yourself killed: the person who kills you will be a murderer regardless if the murder was consensual. Similarly, you cannot consent to slavery.
> If your brain knows you don't have free will and I don't have free will, it will not fault me for not having a thing I am supposed to not be having.

Punishment decreases the odds of repeated offence. It doesn't matter if it's because you have free will, or simply because you learnt not to do that because your internal neural network were taught not to do that or it hurts.

I'm pretty sure I can make a simulation with agents punishing each other. Doesn't mean they have a free will.

> You can't have the notion of blame if you don't have a concept of free will

I have a notion of free will. I just don't believe it's true. I can model beliefs of Muslims without believing in Allah.

> Same way you can't express certain colors, if you lack the words for it.

Bad example. I can express any color I can see with 3 real numbers. There's infinitely many of them and my vocabulary is finite.

> Fun fact, when people read about not having free will, they are more likely to lie/cheat on a test.

And when they drink they are more likely to do stuff they later regret. Environment influences the brain in many ways. Doesn't mean there is a free will.
Together with the related Black Mirror episode, which I wasn't able to finish because it made me too sick to my stomach - too realistic, too close, too terrifying :S

(Season 3, Episode 1, for example: https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/24/13379204/black-mirror-se...)
Google's new mantra: "Whatever it takes to make an extra buck."
It is hard, you either need to carefully plan your diet or you're risking ruining your health far more than usual. However, it's very easy to greatly reduce your meat intake - just looking around for vegan options lets you put a lot of variety into your daily diet and it turns out that it can be tasty even if you generally hate vegetables, like I do. Even though I sometimes still choose meat out of preference when eating out, I would never expect that I would be able to actively prefer vege and vegan options in so many cases until I tried :) Ended up in me always checking (and contributing to) OpenVegeMap when looking for someplace to eat in a new area.
> getting locked into AWS will mean that you are stuck with it forever

I wonder why that's almost never discussed, like that obvious downside is non-existant.
> On Glassdoor a SENIOR developer at Google in SF shows as only $170,000.

That would be the base, not total comp. Sr dev at Google is easily $250k.
> That's assuming there's an infinite supply of jobs.

Not only did I not assume that, the exact opposite is true.

Uber _just_ created all of their jobs; they didn't used to exist. Everyone started working there because they wanted to. It's valuable to them to spend their time driving. It's not like Uber forced closed other companies at a 1:1 ratio and force hired their workers for less.

These are all voluntary transactions.
I'm confused. The story is a "Service Unavailable" page. What is going on?
Throwing money at Wikimedia foundation doesn't solve a problem either.

Typically the reason why wealthy individuals and organizations opt to do "matching" is because there isn't a $number that will satisfy people or even help the situation.

So then you could tie your contribution directly to public interest.

The world is open to better ideas, so try to contribute those.
Creating a to Do App with VuetifyJS and Back EndLab
Large-scale investigation of reasons why potentially important genes are ignored
Probably what you were looking for https://podflix.app/category/Web ?
What would you use for an app that needs to look really good and be fast?
Qt Designer
A full frame sensor catches more photons, generally resulting in cleaner images. The most light sensitive cameras are all full frame (and larger).
Yes, it's called "Qt for Python" now
Probably, even if not in asset value. He can make more money for himself if he wants.
The GH5/GH5S are interesting from a video point of view. I'm talking about as a photo-first camera; I assume the S1/S1R are going to inherit most of the GH5's photo-friendly stuff.

My current glass is literally all tailored for video stuff--a bunch of those MFT 14-140 lenses, which I love for video but are nothing special for photography--so that isn't really a big concern for me right now. Also, I do like a good autofocus that I can then tweak; I haven't used a speed booster, but Metabones's own website suggests that it's not great.
Why not use python? It’s fast enough for most uses, and with PyQT it looks good enough on top of that it solves most cases rather fast. Sure I can make a solution that runs faster with a smaller memory footprint in Cpp, but my client doesn’t gain any value from me deciding to delay delivery to hit functional requirements they didn’t ask for and don’t need.
It's called Qt designer:

https://youtu.be/Dmo8eZG5I2w
The difference between signing away your basic rights and signing away your ability to enforce those rights is basically non-existent.
Dairy production absolutely requires raising animals for slaughter. There is no beef industry without the dairy industry. Like mammals, cows produce milk as food source for their offspring - the dairy industry ensures that cows are always producing offspring. Those offspring don't get milk - it's sold to us. Those male offspring become veal and are slaughtered early. Those female offspring become more dairy cows. Those dairy cows that can no longer produce milk are slaughtered for meat and myriad other uses.

That's a huge reason why veganism is growing far faster than vegetarianism. People are realizing the systemic connection between the industries and understanding that all animal products must be eschewed.
Shazam is one of those apps that has truly changed my life. I still remember as a teenager times where I heard a song on the radio or a mix show and missed the name of it. I have purchased entire albums thinking they had a song I liked and have been WRONG. Now I can let my phone figure it out over a noisy background like a bar or restaurant and it still knows what song I am tagging. This app is one that truly feels like magic. Even almost a facade later.
It's getting better.

Also, "YouTube wannabe Dailymotion" was founded just one month after than YouTube. The fact that YouTube won the monopoly instead of Dailymotion is an illustration of the problem, but presenting them as a copycat because they're not as successful is unfair to them.
Gig Economy Drivers Are Making Half What They Did in 2013
> Uber isn't "forcing" anybody to do anything.

In theory, people enter into contracts under their own free will. In reality, Uber has tremendous relative power in that relationship, like every relationship between a large corporation and an individual worker. Contract law, if I understand correctly, takes into account the relative power of the parties. As a simple example, Uber has a legal department to create and review the contract; most drivers don't have attorneys to even review it; many/most will not grasp the legal implications and they almost certainly can't negotiate it.

I'm not saying that invalidates all contracts and that the employee has no free choice, but it's false to say that Uber does not have much greater leverage.
As others say, there's no such regulation.

In fact it's better to sell outside the EU as those customers don't have to pay VAT so you have better margins or can sell it cheaper.
Aging alters the epigenetic asymmetry of HSC division
What does that have to do with my opinion about not being concerned about my Facebook use..?
Why we should hire open source contributors?
I’d extend that to ask, why not just make all three “flavors” visible to all stake holders? Are there combinations of the data you want to fuse together ?
> Controlling one’s own destiny, though, takes more than product or popularity. It takes money, which is to say it takes building a company, working business model and all.

How true this is for life in general.
Amazon invests in sustainble, prefab home-builder