skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not parent commenter, but the common argument is that for the class of service jobs where the employee's role is to interface with the customer and provide them a service, customers are in a better position to assess the employee's job performance than a manager. For that class of jobs, giving customers influence over the employee's "merit bonuses" is a more accurate system of rewarding performance and requires less managerial oversight to ensure good service.

There seems to be some logic to that to me. Whether that justifies a reduction in the minimum base wage for tipped roles, etc. I think of as a separate question, but I don't see tipping as a structurally problematic norm as long as the job interacts with many customers and a significant portion of the population actually tips.
Seems like the amount of affiliate links is the issue. I guess it's hard for search engines to tell the difference between spammy review sites made for affiliate links and the author's site.
But why drive? Just hire some low-income 19 year old Swedes to do it. They don’t have the capital to deploy. The same could be said of any software you right... your developers don’t have the capital to get that userbase.
This sounds way more fun than "playing" the maze...
Indeed .. things have come a long way since I tried to port IPFS to iOS ..

https://github.com/seclorum/ios-go-ipfs

It seems like there's a better way to go about this than my method. I was motivated to do this not because I don't like GCD (I still don't) but because I really like Go and IPFS and didn't think that iOS should be left out of the party.

But, looking at it again, I still don't think GCD is all that great. This seems to have been intentionally designed to be different from the way so many other systems handle the issue - or at least, different enough that its still relatively discomfiting to attempt to port something away from iOS and not just to it ...
Does anyone know of work on nth dimension mazes?

Back in the 90s I had a great maze generator/game that generated mazes with over/underpasses between points. I've also played around in some physical 3d mazes made of lumber. Not just walls, but several layers of paths above and below each other like a big rubix cube (great drunken fun). So what would a 4/5/6d maze look like?
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So before Instacart, you starved?
I don't see any link between what I said and capitalism. Thinking of the policical and societal impact of your day to day actions does not only largely go beyong economy, but also doesn't assume the nature of the economic system you are in.

The instacart topic is just an example. An example saying, "if your economic system is currently capitalistic, and based on money, then voting with your wallet makes sense".

> I understand that it's hard, but try to imagine

That's so condescending.

> a world where workers can demand a living wage and not have to rely on the generosity of "good people" for the right to live.

Life is not binary, you can work on both. But your solution delegate the action to a small 3rd party, so it's still an oligarchy.
Someone that doesn't know how to write Swift, tries to find faults at all costs.

Go, horrible as it is, doesn't lack cultists.
Don't understand this comment - seems to me Apple spends a _lot_. From their Q1 financial statement, cost of sales ("buying stuff and services") is $52.3B, and R&D and admin expenses are $8.7B. I think it's fair to say $61B is a "significant" amount they're spending during the quarter...
Quotes are because it's probably legal what they're doing.
I'm not sure if I trust MotherJones to be the arbiter of this, but I believe the accusation is that the published articles are not actually science, but are instead ideological stickbats. If you flip the political parties, you have the "grievance studies" fiasco that was on the HN front page the other day. People are complaining that the other political factions are slipping rousing speeches into the scientific water supply.
It really is a fascinating time to be alive and aware.

The power of computing is redefining civilization, humanity.
Are instacart 'employees' private contractors/1099? Wouldn't that mean instacart is even LESS legally able to take their tip money? As in actual employees who are tipped will have a minimum wage that must be met, which is why in some places tipped positioned wages can be as low as $3.
> grocery store shopping doesn't suck bad enough to pay someone else to do both the shopping and delivering

I actually like going to the grocery store, but I still have been using instacart a few times a month (up to today) for various reasons:

- One of my kids is homesick or having a nap and I can't go to the store

- My day is packed with work and I can't go to the store

- I have guests over the holidays that I would rather spend time with than go to the store

- I'm doing something important with my kids on the weekend and I'd rather do that than go to the store

- My kid tells me that they need something for school tomorrow and there's no gap of time left in the day when I can go to the store

All of that said, I'm stopping today because of this article. Their ethics are reprehensible. They specifically say in the app that 100% of my tip goes to the driver. That's true only if you look at it with very shaky logic -- they fail to mention that they deduct an equal amount from their base pay.
> the cost of a windows/office license is a good portion of (if not an entire) yearly salary

In poorer economies you can just adjust the price to be comparable to local yearly salaries. It's not that piracy means that end users get the licenses for free any way: there are many people who sell pirated versions of Windows and Office.

> removing the tools that help them to compete

You can be just as competitive with Libreoffice and GNU/Linux as you can be with MS Office and MS Windows. The cime of piracy steals a giant market of hundreds of millions if not billions of people from Libreoffice and GNU/Linux and turns these people into second-class citizens.
>>why did you separate the images from the main site

I anticipated using the images in more than one place at the time, so wanted an API-like interface.

>>Netlify change your image URL names each deploy

I have not run into this. My images don't change much either, so not redeploying very much, but have had no issues with URLS changing on me.
> if they were never going to pay anyway, why not give it away for free? keeping a digital product locked away out of spite is just... spiteful

How do you draw the line between "if you weren't going to pay anyways" and "well we don't have to pay, so we ain't gonna"?
Just saw another day on Twitter after a brand referring to their followers as beeflings. https://twitter.com/mulegirl/status/1088946637454471169?s=19
That wouldn't be a user base though. People have N apple devices each. Could be unique appleIDs to use the appstores.
"solve physics for good!"... that was a quick meta.
I really enjoy the synthesis of Eastern and Western, Ancient and Modern. Pulling up something from before I was born makes this post that much better.
And if you click on the article about evolution that is being claimed as "dismissive", it does not seem dismissive. It posed a challenge from the 80's that apparently was popular at the time. This seems like a hit piece that people are upvoting because of the title.
In your view, is there a difference between democracy and mob rule?

What most of us want when we say we want to live in a democracy is not a true (absolute) democracy, but a limited democracy. We want a democracy within limits. In particular, we don't want 51% to be able to vote to take away the rights (or the lives) of the 49%. In an absolute democracy, they could; in a limited one they cannot.

Populism is, essentially, turning the democracy into mob rule. If you don't have limits, then the mob rules. If you do have limits, populism tries to erode them so that the people can do what they want.

Note also how populism is often associated with authoritarianism. Someone who wants to be the authoritarian persuades the people that he will get them what they want/need, if they just remove those pesky limits to his power. He encourages them to tear down the limits to government power in the name of the people getting what they want - that is, in the name of democracy. But when the people want to reign in the authoritarian's power, they find it's not so easy, because they gave the new power to the authoritarian...
He could require scientific process to be followed by the journal. I didn't read the offending articles, but my guess would be that they didn't follow the process correctly.
Wording of the communication to my organization indicated that Level 3 is handling some subset of Azure-internal networking. I don't think it's a peering issue.
+1 for outlawing tipping. Add it as a fixed cost of the service or don't. No in between.
On top of that, they owe almost the same amount of money they have, and that's their target: cash neutral.
I consider GCD to be a bit of a smell - not because its difficult to write for, but rather because its difficult to port such code elsewhere. And really, this seems to be the only rationale for Apple having maintained it as a component of the architecture for iOS - to be relatively different, or just different enough, from other systems to dissuade porting the code elsewhere.
Tipping is the "trickle down"-myth's small scale cousin.

It doesn't only take away responsibility of paying, but adds emotional and mental load cost to the customer. It's hilarious that people accept that in exchange for an illusory level of control (you being the mini manager/boss of your service task) over quality of service.
Funny, Freud suggested something very similar in _Totem and Taboo_, and faced a lot of ridicule for it. Would be interesting if he were finally vindicated to some extent.
But asking consumers to vote for moral, intelligent legislative agents is somehow better? Optimizing for past opinions, moral fiber, understanding of the issues, etc. is easier?

Personal responsibility is required in a good society, irrespective of the system of government or the level of regulation that currently exists. Even if it's consumers/voters pushing their legislators to build regulations, you need a mass of regular old people who care in order to change a society.

Then the onus is on you to prove that regulation of an issue--say, drinking and driving--didn't just happen to coincide with a national education campaign coming from a well-funded 501(3)(c). Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes not so much.

In my opinion, the problem here isn't regulation vs. collective action people like grand-OP who are willing to continue using the service. Those same people will push back against legislation if they believe it will increase their prices, or eliminate the service altogether (Uber/Lyft in e.g. Austin?)

And in any case, consumer-driven action is MUCH faster than regulation. You can boycott them TODAY and cause an actual hit to their bottom line.
Well, you can't, that's my point. That's why it's so great for Microsoft: Nobody to pirate it any more, means more revenue.
and to think I was just about to sign up and use it with www.bjs.com. Now that won't be happening
This article is pretty hard to see in its default rendition. Light text on a light background? Not sure that's the best design choice...
Funny enough, GMAIL had regional outages yesterday too.
mozilla needs to ask before collecting data. What is difficult about that?
Can you give an example of more effective ways of bringing Instacart into compliance with your ideals?
Do you mean, write them a sternly worded email?
are they allowed to serve customers through onion routing?
Chez is a scheme, whereas Racket is basically a scheme but was renamed from PLT-Scheme because the authors/community felt it had strayed far enough from scheme that a renaming was a good idea.

It's still basically scheme though. I mean, if you're coming from a scheme background the only thing that might trip you up in racket is cons cells are immutable. If you only have racket experience and try out [another] scheme, you might experience some culture shock when you start encountering stuff like let-values being in srfi-11 instead of racket/base. In my opinion, racket is generally a more pleasant experience. Virtually all of my personal/recreational projects are in racket these days.
I don't have a lot of golang experience, but from what I can see here, golang doesn't really either: https://tour.golang.org/concurrency/1

Channels seem like a simple thread safe stream for the most part, which you can get with Rx.
Ask HN: What's the best way to file taxes for a startup
I am the founder of a startup of a Delaware C Corp. It's less than a year old and now I have to pay taxes on almost negligible income. How did you as a startup do it in the early days for cheap.
It's obvious browser password managers are broken in a way it never locks its database, so anyone with physical access can log in to all the site you have passwords for, which also means changing password is easy as logging into your gmail also requires no knowledge.

To this day I can't believe none of the browsers actually try to fix this by at least locking the password database after a certain period like any password managers do. Safari at least disallows you from looking at the list of sites you have passwords for by requiring you to enter your account password but never asks you anything at each site's login.

For this reason, I never use browser based password managers.
Intel can't revert the market back 10 years, but the problem with Mozilla isn't its struggles with the market. If it is true that Mozilla's problem is compromised leadership, then it would make perfect sense to go back to independent leadership.
It is a strange axiom but I have yet to see it otherwise: when the will of the people is Leftward, it is Democracy; when the will of the people is Rightward, it is Populism.

The person that responded to you employed a classic "anti-rightward" trope equating populism to vicarious elite control. I fail to see the difference between Populism and Democracy on the "people" side of the equation, rather the difference is in which elites are pulling the strings.
Your question was clearly a rhetorical question that contained the statement "the poor are never faulted for anything", which is basically the same as the next paragraph in your original comment. That's how everyone read it and that's what people are responding to. Your "I asked a question" is disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst, because it's basically saying "I was just asking questions! I didn't state anything and I hold no positions, which makes me invulnerable to criticism!".
One of the many things that I love about the Netherlands is the lack of tipping in the culture. People get paid a decent wage, and so tipping is only something done if the service is amazing.
I wonder how well using cash tips could solve the problem. I know there are restaurants where servers are required to turn in any cash tips. If a server "forgets to report" and always has far less tips than his/her co-workers, I imagine that he/she would simply be replaced for someone else that does earn tips to report. The employer could say the lack of tips is indicative of poor performance, too.
That looks really cool but rife for abuse.
I too am fascinated by artefacts. Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" is a favourite book of mine, for example (and I have a physical copy!).

But, here's the rub, once analysed, understood, etc., (which for a simple image we can do readily; we already knew about the producer, the printers, the paper and ink types, the manner of production, the information held on the page is not novel AFAICT), what real value beyond that of any rare trinket does it have.

We grow out of bringing home every stick or stone, as children wish to.

It seems like magical thinking to imagine the logical 'soul' of the artefact cannot be extracted.
Luna attempts this:

Dual syntax representation

"Luna is the world’s first programming language featuring two equivalent syntax representations, visual and textual. Changing one instantly affects the other. The visual representation reveals incredible amounts of invaluable information and allows capturing the big picture with ease, while the code is irreplaceable when developing low-level algorithms."

https://www.luna-lang.org/
I would be interested in seeing a gig economy service being run and equally shared by the employees, or worker-owned.
I'm just assembling the non-comprehensive list of office 365 outages or login problems in the last seven months (r/sysadmin):

6days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ajavl8/its_that_t...

1mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a4w7ap/office365_...

2mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ygjpv/psa_micros...

2mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a0vepo/office_365...

3mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9nbst7/office_365...

4mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9cuwhs/loginmicro...

5mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9bihjl/office_365...

7mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8r9y3w/365_outage...
Well, he didn't say happy users.
I would argue Shannon’s case is far from unique. For my money, Gauss was the greatest mathematical mind of all time but does the general public know of him.
on the one hand, id think the police have enough money and time to build a detection system like this. on the other, we have people building surveillance system for free in their spare time
meh, Have patience at the end of the day its an Affiliate website. Google has to sort through thousands of websites that appear similar and rank them.
Its only a delusion if you're naive enough to think he believes it. His output is much better understood as political, propaganda, and marketing exercises rather than good faith communication.
I was talking about "people at large", not HN users.
I mean, with climate change the thing to be afraid of is that the populace remains complacent and human beings fail to address and properly respond to an existential threat.
Google – Perspectives on Issues in AI Governance [pdf]
That's nothing. They had a profit of $100 billion last fiscal year.

It's the same as someone having 15.6 salaries in their bank account (not counting for the loans).
If you have misconfigured cookies, having your server accept port 80 or not wont matter to a non-passive man-in-the-middle.
They will just accept port 80 traffic and read the cookies.
Across the board.

>DONGGUAN, China — China’s consumers and businesses are losing confidence. Car sales have plunged. The housing market is stumbling. Some factories are letting workers off for the big Lunar New Year holiday two months early.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/business/china-economy-xi...
Interest rates are low right now so you aren't feeling the pain, but when the rates go up, inflation will eat your savings account. Look into a HISA account or an Index fund portfolio (higher risk/return) using Lazy Portfolio Bogle Heads is a good place to start.
Unless you’re talking about last minute info like the horse breaking its leg walking to the racing stall, this sure sounds like people who swear they can read the roulette wheel better when they wait til it’s spinning to bet.
> This is not really true anymore, almost all terminals still in use (and certainly all that are widely used) are VT100 compatible.

VT100 is a tiny subset of what's defined in termcap.
That is a clear quality expressed in service. Why shouldnt you optimise for customer satisfaction?
Game retailer GameStop says it can’t sell itself, sees stock dive 27%
capitalists!! leeching as usual!! blame the poor, is the mantra in the US. & the Illusion of convincing the poor that they can join the rich capitalist. r > g
If you treat people like a replaceable cog in a machine, they'll meet your expectations.
If you don’t like systemd so much then write something better. I mean you’ll find literally anything to dislike about it, I don’t get it. You can still use cron or rsyslog if you like. Or don’t use systemd. This is stupid. I’m done. The default makes sense for 99.99999% of users, literally the only point I was trying to make.
I'm not even going to send an angry tweet. I'm going to keep ordering. If a driver takes the job, at the price Instacart wants to pay, it's on the driver, of course. And this works until it doesn't! Once people quit driving for IC, THIS is the market price signal which will cause the system to reconfigure. If IC can't get drivers, they must pay more!

I have zero illusions that enough people understand the free market to be patient and allow for this to happen. We need to teach more economics in grade school.
Great article.

As a side note: a movie based on these events is being produced.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/thai-cave-rescue-movie-un...
I'm a little confused. When I looked at the study they linked, they don't pose an alternative question, like, "Or ads that aren't tailored to your interests." If you only ask if they want to see ads, wouldn't they obviously say no?
I also worked on LabVIEW for a couple of years for our assembly line QA testing. In our case, all of our programs fit on a screen with only a few needing SubVIs.

As long as the programs are relatively simple or are amenable to subroutines, it is one of the easiest languages to learn, teach, and make simple changes. My only complaint for our use case was lack of good source control.
The cited survey was from 2012. The questions were mostly in this vein:

x 64% of Americans say their likelihood of voting for a candidate they support would
decrease (37% say decrease a lot, 27% say decrease somewhat) if they learn a
candidate’s campaign organization buys information about their online activities and their
neighbor’s online activities—and then sends them different political messages it thinks
will appeal to them. [This activity is common during the 2012 election.]

Nowhere in the survey did they ask "would you rather see targeted ads or random ads?"

The results are still somewhat surprising, as clearly voters are not backing up these numbers at the polls.
from google define:
"a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups."

There's difference between appeals to certain groups vs. what is in the best interests of certain groups. No doubt Patricia is saying that those with populist tendencies also have a tendency to weakening democratic institutions.
What does it mean to score very poorly on this?

My therapist uses a different questionnaire that has more negative questions like "Little interest or pleasure in doing things" or "Poor appetite or overeating". I tend to do alright on that one.

However, I score over 2 on only a few of the items on the list you posted, and a lot of them are solidly 1. There's a feeling of tension, anger, and frustration I just can't shake.

There's a big difference (to me anyway) in the wording between
"Feeling bad about yourself – or that you are a failure or have let yourself or family down" and "I’ve been feeling good about myself"

I wouldn't say that I feel like a failure (and I have nobody who cares enough to let down), but I sure haven't been feeling good either.

I don't know quite how to express this doctors and mental health professionals in a way they understand, though, and this scale really kind of illustrates it for me, so I'm wondering what that means?
Still financially supporting literal thieves.
What does $192K in Robinhood mean, do you have it in stock/shares, or just sitting there? Why Robinhood? They are kind of a risk to put your money in, with that amount you can probably call up one of the larger companies and get X free trades, free level 2 and so on for moving your funds over, also better fills on your orders. Also, they have better customer service and they aren't just figuring out what they do. Lots of horror stories on Robinhood.
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