skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I hate about company behavior is the lack of leadership compass in knowing what is right and wrong, and instead treating every resource (person) as an experiment to see what they'll accept or not. And if they don't hear enough complaints, must've been ok to do.

You can read it in their apologies and the positive spin: "We heard loud and clear the frustration when your compensation didn’t match the effort you put forth."

Heard you loud and clear? What is this, like the American Idol voting contest? Daytime Emmy awards, or public opinion poll, where we have to be asked what we like to be paid?

A proper apology would be: "We know what we were doing was wrong, and we were wrong to do it, and we will not do things like that in the future." Not, "it seems you didn't like what we did, so we'll do something different."

Makes you think they won't apologize for doing fundamentally wrong things until they get called out by public opinion. What types of issues should a company know are not ok / illegal, and what issues are subject to public approval or measuring reception? Shouldn't a CEO know these and apologize accordingly?

Or maybe that is the role of regulation and government to keep the amoral corporate compass calibrated.
I tried DoorDash out for the first time recently. Gave a generous tip because the driver had to wait a while as the food took way longer to prepare. Then I started reading about DoorDash and discovered what you mentioned about tips.

Immediately uninstalled, will never use them again. That is downright criminal what they're doing. Made sure to let all my friends know about that too.
I tried to dig out an answer, but the site was down and so was the Google cache!
I simply mean a large amount approaches infinity. In Satoshi's case he owns 5% of all bitcoin that will ever be and almost certainly much more in terms of what is in circulation. This amount of power is akin to that of a central bank for the purposes of this discussion.
Screw tipping culture. This expectation of a tip by default is a retarded(archaic, slow, ancient) cultural element.

If I HAVE to tip for an adequate service, then it should be included. If adequate service isn't delivered - then that should be reported to the management. If service that is above and beyond is delivered - then I will gladly pay for the extra service.(And I mean above and beyond, not just literally doing the job as stated)
AFAIU Reuters is one of the leaders in terms of news/wire agencies for generating things like that via machine learning and other algos.

It might be an automated choice, where the author or editor merely had to check a few boxes before publishing to get a remotely relevant clipart and caption, essentially. Saves a lot of time and money in an age where it's sort of a weird abstract form that needs to be fulfilled.

-> Hed

-> Byline - Date

-> (Dek)

-> Graphic
-> Caption

-> Body Copy

That is, it's not to say the system is elegant, yet....

https://innovation.thomsonreuters.com/en/labs.html

edit: LOL. Just a few more clicks brought me to this article. I laughed.

https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/art-artificial-in...
> If a currency isn't working for you; you should be able to choose a different one which does.

Imagine an employer saying "This week I'm paying you by dollars, but I don't like being forced to deal with dollars, so if I decide dollars aren't working for us we'll switch to Euros next month. And then maybe Pound the month after that."

I'm not sure how this is going to benefit cryptocurrency users.
I don't understand how he could have expected to get away with that. It's so deceitful to his employees as well as his customers. It makes me wonder what other shortcuts Instacart and Doordash will do in the future, now that they're caught.
I wholeheartedly agree and should have better articulated my comment to mention that deflecting to "we" is acceptable when the company does something well!
The fundamental problem with capitalism (not just in silicon valley) is that access to capital is what defines winners and losers. Of course I'm being simplistic and there will always be underdog stories, but the reason any company becomes as big as it is, is capital, plain and simple.

The immediate effect of gaining massive capital is tremendous. Outcompeting for both workers as well as getting to market sooner is an obvious benefit. The ability to lobby in government against potential roadblocks of whatever it is that you're doing is another. Just from the word itself, capitalism is rigged for those with capital.

Further down the line though, you are now beholden to this immediate level of investment, and as this article shows, this is where problems arise.
There's a myriad reasons why flicker and buzz occur, because there are a number of ways to achieve dimming. But all of this comes down to cost.

If dimming is important to you, there are a number of architectural grade bulbs that offer deep dimming to 5% or 1%.

Personally, for this application, I've had good luck with Cree bulbs of this type at home (on Leviton dimmers). And in the house of worship environment with Cree bulbs on Doug Fleenor dimmers (http://www.dfd.com/dmx8dim.html)
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> And what do you think React can do that jQuery cannot?

Again, you've missed the point.
I wasn't looking for it, but we did talk about how the internet would be a great place to spread the idea.

We don't go around preaching, rather bring it up when someone uses the "H-word." It's far more interesting IRL because it almost always sparks an inspiring conversation.
The Right Thing would be not stealing from your employees' (contractors'?) tips in the first place
Likewise, neither is the word “Catholic” actually a meaningful descriptor for how a group acts.

Maybe we should just take the article on the merits of its content, and not its source.
A lot of talk comes up about the facebook and twitter like buttons where most people agree that they're terrible. I for one can't imagine bothering with twitter unless there was a like button, or at least some way for people to show they agree with what the person twitted. Are they supposed to reply to with a thumbs up emoji? Or "I agree"? They really need some easy way for people to show their agreement. The older original forums are one place where people in a more closed area can talk without distinct likes, but for a more open network, there needs to be something easy for people to show support so the people creating the content know what people like.
I am referring to traditional agents, not ketamine. There is insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about Ketamine's usefulness as a rapidly acting agent for treatment of depression.

I lack training in psychopharmacology or neuroscience and thus my interpretation of the research is that of a layperson, but my understanding from talking with psychiatrists on the matter is that it is unlikely that ketamine will become a frontline treatment but its mechanism of action will be explored and lead to the development of new drugs that activate the same pathways in the brain but lack or have lessened anesthetic effect.
For tech companies, you might say it's the Reverse - CW's The Flash.
> it is the law at every trade show I've ever exhibited at

I've read that you can't move chairs, etc, either. I understand it's part of the contracts between venues and unions.
There are plenty of custom vans out there that have showers/toilets.
Officers used Gmail instead.

Props to Gmail :).
If you kick someone in the groin because someone said they'd pay you 20 dollars to do it. Then apologizing is the right thing to do. But don't expect the victim to forgive you just because you apologize, not even if you give the 20 dollars back to whoever paid you in the first place.
Though Sam and Frodo never actually got to eat the 'taters', the author did include some form of potatoes from that reference. He mentions it in the section about rabbit stew.

> Sam’s advice on potatoes - “boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew” - also inspired us to serve a triple side dish of new potatoes, cooked in the ways prescribed.
How on earth did this turn into an ad hominem about my technical pride? Because I’m ok with slowing down the pace of a conversation?
Reddit, Banned in China, Set to Land $150M from Tencent, a Censorship Powerhouse
What a disaster of lost productivity
Isn’t it the NYT and Guardian who’ve tried to discredit and make false claims about Greenwald and Wikileaks? That doesn’t sound like a truth seeker.
As for react native, I'm glad the docs at least mention they're planning it for 0.59.

"React Native will support Hooks in the 0.59 release."
https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-relea...
That's more systematic incompetence and happens all of the time.

The reason is easy -- capex for new equipment is easier to get and more nebulous. The new printer may have started life on a budget spreadsheet as a truck.

Opex is hard. It usually works like this: Some poor clerk had no fricking idea how many toner cartridges or replacement staplers were needed, so he wrote down a bullshit number. Some upstream beancounter patted himself on the back and zeroed out the supply budget to make his powerpoint look good, because he screwed up and didn't order enough bullets or whatever.

Now you're stuck, and whomever orders stuff orders a printer to get toner, which is ultimately cheaper than getting some sort of special clearance to spend opex money that wasn't budgeted.
One of the reasons why it makes sense to have different rules for investment income is investment income tax (at least if you're investing in a corporative stock) is a double tax - the corporation you invest in is taxed on its profit (so your income from it is less than it would be) and then your income from it is taxed again. It kinda makes sense that parts of the double tax would be less than the single one.

Of course, there's a political component of it too - taxes are always political, and are used to promote or suppress certain actions. I guess the government does want to promote long-term investment and thus defines lower tax rates for this activity.
I grew up in one of the richest counties in the U.S. and the teachers were just as underpaid and overworked, the added money the schools got was spent on useless tech like putting smartboards in every classroom.

I had a friend in college who grew up in an even richer neighborhood, and his school inflated GPAs to the point where most top-tier schools threw away their applications.

Not saying you're wrong, but lack of money isn't the only issue in the public education system in America.
> 2) if Warren buys something, other people will pile on and drive up the price, which helps drive his returns.

While this is technically true, in the long-run the price of a firm will reflect reality as it exists, not as its perceived. And since Warren doesn't buy, then instantly sell when the price goes up, but rather holds for a long time. I don't believe we can attribute his returns to this phenomena.

As a side note, the reason the price goes up is because he built a reputation of being able to pick undervalued stocks, therefore his purchase is a signal.
I have the opposite anecdote. I've never known anyone at any job I've ever gotten. FWIW, I get offers at about 80% of places that interview me. Admittedly, my understanding from some economics literature I've read is that your case is far more normal.
Can you propose something more effective, that you personally can do?

Or are you suggesting we ignore (alleged) dozen of people executed every hour for organ harvesting?
Any currency is only as valuable as the goods or services that they can be exchanged for. The value of money comes from its inherent scarcity as, in the case of fiat currency, only a government or federal agency can issue more of it. With Bitcoin, farms are generating more of the currency all the time. If I generate a ton of Bitcoin but never spend it or use it in exchange for goods and services, I'm simply devaluing the currency that's already out there by making it less rare and, by extension, less valuable.

This may be a misplaced example but I think Star Trek is a decent analogy. Money becomes worthless once replicators are invented in that universe because you can just make more of whatever you need. If China can just mine more Bitcoin than the average citizen of any other country, then China starts to determine what the value of that currency is. It's one of the main reasons why I don't think Bitcoin will ever replace fiat currency. It's already being exploited.
Thanks for the clarification!

What do Z3 and other SMT solvers do if you ask them about undecidable questions? Do they potentially run forever?
Ask HN: How much weekly time you spend managing imported open-source
How much time does your company spend every week managing imported OSS, upgrading their dependencies, tracking licenses, etc.
If I put my work into a private git repository or dropbox or similar solution before posting it online, and then FJ steals it I guess that might be worth more as proof than a watermark. If I am in fact an original creator of content that is.

Maybe it would be worthwhile creating a service that did this. Although I think it is probably more like a feature of another service.
@Dang -- Why we selectively add YC Badge to the stories on HN? Hacker News needs to be consistent adding YC startup badges in the brackets for both positive and negative stories. Let's be clear on that.
I insinuated that your statement wasn't overly concerned with the merits of democracy vs. corporate interests, pretty directly in fact, and asked you to let me know if that assessment was incorrect.

Turns out it was.

I was incorrect in that assessment, there is no terror here. I was merely mistaken and I am pretty openly owning that mistake, not shying away from it. Not sure how this idea that I'm somehow "terrified" of the debate is relevant when I openly invited you to correct me no the matter-which you did.

Thank you for the correction, I guess?
Free idea: browser extension that lights up when you visit a site with an arbitration clause and tells you how to opt out.
So it’s wrong for instacart to do that, but restaurants have carte blanche to screw over their employees.
Thankfully, the biggest threat to the individual is a sprinkling of privacy invasion and the odd blackmail. They're miles behind the US on that front.

They won't come and bomb your country to dust to benefit corporate goals like getting access to oil for profit, or massive defence contracts.
Yes and no. Consider HyperLedger.

While it does have a shared, immutable ledger and chaincode, what is really interesting is the coordination and integration of business entities and processes. This is something a database does not facilitate like a blockchain.
This is why I use a catch-all on my own domain with a blacklist for companies found sharing or leaking the email address I gave to them. Fastmail makes this really easy to set up and their web interface also lets you set the From address to anything on the domain.
Why don't users just tip with cash? If you're a regular user, it's not such a big deal to have some small bills around. Traditionally, I always tipped in cash, in case people wanted to keep their tips private.
Scottish bloke here and full time remote since 2003, and also now self employed. I could never go back to working in an office. I'm also fortunate to live in a nice Perthshire village where I've known people for years and years so I get a decent bit of non-work adult chat when I head out to grab some lunch bits and pieces, or just to stretch my legs and get some fresh air.

The village also has a couple of nice pubs so if I need some more human interaction in the evening I just pop out for a swift one and have a good old blether with whoever's in the bar.

My current "boss" (who's also a long time ex-colleague) takes a trip up from the the other side of Edinburgh once a month or so, I pay for lunch in return for him making the journey. We spend the day going over current and upcoming project work and it's a pretty relaxed affair.

So....can also confirm it's pretty nice, verging on idyllic.
I see lots of stuff upvoted thoughtlessly that might benefit from forcing the voter to explain.
The special privilege is that a business is a group of people all of which get taxed individually.

Money goes into the business, gets taxed, and then goes to employees and taxed again or to shareholders as profits and taxed again.

Why tax twice?
Facebooks decline began with the "Share" button. That's the one that enabled my friends to fill my feed with 3rd party bullshit. I used to go to there to see what was up with my friends, not get their take on reddit, politics and pet videos.
Even when carried forward?
I get that you don't like taxes, but policy disagreement is not evidence of incompetence.
If I was an artist I wouldn't want to risk my livelyhood on the assumption that nobody objected to what I did.

Piss Christs; naked statues; slaughtering a horse (in public) to protest the Vietnam war; putting ones shit in cans and sell those; etc are all things that artists have done that pisses people of.

Heck in the US you could be called an arse (or worse) if you salute the flag or if you don't.

They may still be able to legally ban them, political opinions (so long as they are not caused by a religious mandate) is not a protected class (though looking at how devided the US is, that maybe the end result), but given that a big target marked for your business is artists, why would you?
I had a coworker who had the same name as a coworker in Phoenix as (we are in Boston). He kept getting invites to meetings out there because the online email was also a scheduling tool (notes). He was getting annoyed dealing with them. I suggested flying to Phoenix to go to one of these meetings...
> 'Another one which is a win-win: High caliber girls which introduces you to their circles. Usually it's a set of another "good" girls that have boyfriends who are rather established.'

you're missing a lot of interpersonal value if that's your conclusion. on the converse, it wouldn't be surprising if those circles quietly distanced themselves from such self-centeredness.
Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run Facebook?
Cree's 1st generation LED bulbs are one of the worst purchases that I've made. I outfitted my entire house with them, but they started dropping like flies. The failure rate was around 50% and the cost of shipping back a bulb under warranty was the same as buying a new one.
There will always be better countries to pay taxes in. So that even if one country "fixes" its laws, another country becomes the alternative.
Yep, working remote is awesome. Just consider not everyone is a good remote worker, so you need to filter out a lot of people who want to work remote but don't have the skills (yet).
No-one is forcing you to. I hope you have implemented a similar mechanism to check your images.
>... we...

Seems like a lot of other people in this thread found it interesting and enjoyed the read. Who's the "we" that you're speaking for here?
> That is a mighty big prediction to just throw around so easily. Do you have any material to back that claim?

It's part opinion and part based on progress. Call it a highly highly educated guess.

I divide the issues related to human-level AI into three categories: Hardware, Algorithm, Biology

1) Hardware: We have the hardware. As the other comments show, the biggest supercomputers are cranking out 1 ExaFlops or more. So I consider it a solved problem.

2) Algorithm: We don't have the algorithm yet but we have made massive gains in the past 5-10 years. 5 years ago, if you asked an ML expert how soon a machine will be able to beat Go champions, and Starcraft 2 champions, they would've said something very similar to what you said: that we don't even know how to tackle this problem, and we might do it in 20 to 40 years. Today both Go and Starcraft are solved problems. Research groups like DeepMind have nothing to do but to work directly towards moving closer and closer to achieving human-level AI.

3) Biology: Even if we are completely stuck at figuring out the algorithm, we have a fallback. We look at biology. Actually it's not even a serial thing. Neuroscientists are already looking at mammalian brains, and trying to reverse engineer it, regardless of what CS/ML/AI folks are doing. We have already mapped the full connectome of the human brain [1]. We know very well how biological neurons work, barring some qualifications regarding quantum behavior. We have already simulated, or in the process of simulating, CNS of a worm [2]. Once we full simulate the brain of a mouse, I don't think we'd be very far from scaling it up.

[1] http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/

[2] http://www.artificialbrains.com/openworm
The yellow/green cab experiment failed because it happened before the magic of smartphone ubiquity. The problem with yellow/green cabs was density -- the density outside Manhattan is thin and the area is enormous. The chances of a yellow/green taxi just passing by when you need one is close to zero.

Uber/Lyft solved this issue with beaconing. Uber/Lyft further reduce cost if you pool, which is great all around.
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I'm not going to upvote you. But I agree with everything you've said and would like to show appreciation as well as let others know that I share your view:

This!

+1
I’m clearly biased working in tech but from my anecdata the gmail “address hacks” are used by significantly more than 0.00000001% of the population. And not just because that’s 1 out 10 billion people.

Regardless that’s no excuse for shitty software and websites that don’t follow standards. Literally anything before the @ sign is fair game to be interpreted by the email server as it sees fit. That include emojis, case sensitive names, and most punctuation.

Assuming email addresses are unique because the text is unique is simply wrong.
Well probably they bought it to, but yeah if you go far enough back there is probably some shenanigans going on with the land much as when you pass money around in America sooner or later somebody gets cocaine on it.
When the Bitcoin network goes offline then every BTC in existence will be worth exactly $0.0000.

When Zimbabwe blew up their money the bills themselves still had marginal utility as wallpaper or as collectibles. Collectively these bills are probably worth millions because there were so many of them.

If you have any Reichmarks around they're actually worth a fair bit considering they're not legal tender. Bills on eBay go for $5 or more depending on their condition, coins for far more. This is almost a hundred years after the implosion of the currency.

Zimbabwe and the Reichmark are extremely rare events. There are hundreds of countries in the world and every decade one or two might suffer from out of control inflation.

Bitcoin may well be a scam. We can't prove it isn't because the creator(s) remain unknown and their intent is based entirely on speculation.

I assure you that Bitcoin physical memorabilia will be worth infinitely more than Bitcoin itself within twenty years. A single shirt or mouse pad will be worth more than the entire market cap of Bitcoin.
Also comes with the massive assumption that Satoshi still has control over the wallet, and hasn't, you know, lost the keys or anything:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-quadrig...
An under-rear-seat, gas-powered (got its fuel from the tank) heaters used to be an option on VW vans. Aftermarket offers Propex, but they ain't cheap. Plan on a couple of thousand if someone else does all the work. $700 for just the heater, IIRC.

What we used in our VW camper in winter was an indoor-safe propane heater: http://www.mrheater.com/little-buddy-heater.html
Installing a gas stove or dryer is trivial work. It's chickenshit to make a plumber do it.
Silicon Valley? The restaurant business started the model of screwing employees and paying them less. I don’t give why ever is okay with it