skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have ever tried to work as a ride share driver, you would quickly discover that without tips it wouldn't be nearly as viable a source of income.

That’s why having tipping be part of the app is so ass backwards. The pricing shown to the customer is what the customer agreed to pay. Some fraction of that goes to the driver and that amount should be enough to be a viable source of income. Banking on an expected X% bonus that’s not listed in the price presented to the customer for the system to be able to operate is disingenuous.

> Honestly, I don't mind not getting tipped by the old man or single mother going home with a few bags from the grocery store, I know they're broke. On the other hand, I appreciate it when the businesswoman headed to the airport gives me a bigger tip than I expected, I know she can afford it.

And if she doesn’t tip do you feel sleighted?

> Would I rather make a flat extra $7 an hour? Yeah, probably overall. But allowing tipping (in an environment where it's been a tradition for generations) costs the company nothing and results in more income for underpaid drivers. If it's that or simply make less money, well, it may not be the perfect shining ideal of How Things Should Be Done, but I'll take it.

Tipping for drivers has always been possible, in cash, outside of the world of the app. Having it total external prevents “expected tip” shenanigans for min wage calculations like goes on in the food service industry. That also has the advantage of being off the books for the drivers (let’s be honest, none of them are claiming taxes on a fiver given in cash by a passenger).
The openness is laudable, but I'd seen this phrase from them before around cloudbleed: "We didn’t find evidence of exploitation"

It just doesn't mean much. They had something like 2 weeks worth of logs. And further, they never explicitly stated that the logs had enough context to show if it was being exploited. That is, are there any fields in the log files that could distinguish normal uri accesses from malicious ones?

I'm curious if that's all deliberately careful wording because they know, that they "don't know".
Lets assume so, why specifically would these these rules be useful in controlling people?
Americans always were, and continue to be, Puritanical.

Since the late 60's we split into Puritans and Puritanically anti-Puritans. There's not much middle ground.
Nothing wrong with pointing out the Raspberry Pi’s tradeoffs. Of course someone could write an article about the tradeoffs of any single board computer. For most of them, the list would start with “More powerful but no community to support it.”

I own several Raspberry Pi’s. One of them is taking time lapse photos of a skyscraper going up two blocks away from my office. It had trouble uploading the photos every morning around 7am. It tended to catch back up at night. The problem went away once I replaced my 2amp power supply with a 2.5amp model. Day photos produce larger image files than night photos. My theory is the Raspberry pi had trouble processing and uploading the larger image files while running under voltage.
>you can learn what you need to know on the job

Maybe I've had bad luck, but I've encountered very few prospective employers who were OK with this. The ones I encountered expected to hire someone who would fit in like a jigsaw puzzle piece and they wouldn't settle for anything less. My confidence in my ability to pick up almost any tech quickly did not impress them, and they latched on to my lack of that particular bullet point and kept hammering on things like "oh, you don't know what a [platform-specific term for auto-scaling groups] is?..."
From a theological perspective (which may be different from the social norms that a given church teaches) I think the answer would be that it is bad if it is outside of marriage, not done in love (e.g. objectifying someone), or if it becomes more important to someone than God (which would be considered idolatry).
Its all about competition. You move fast and deliver rapidly, or get left behind. Time is actually money, for an engineer at least. So unless those tests are needed now, it always seems better to de-prioritize them.
I live in Britain actually.
You can have both. Same as there are high end restaurants and drivethroughs.
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...like every other mammal, and most carnivorous fish. Seems like a safe bet.
I'm not doing anything weird with my cookies, I'm just refusing most of them, and preventing webpages from accessing the rest (unless I'm on the page that made those cookies), as well as hiding some of the personally identifying information my browser sends out.

Really it should be the default, and in fact most webpages have no issue respecting those settings, google's recaptcha is about the only thing that actively refuses to cooperate.
Takashi Miike reminds me a lot (in various ways) of Luis Buñuel, David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch, Sam Peckinpah, and Quentin Tarantino. And (yes) Akira Kurosawa.

His 2010 "13 Assassins" is a true classic of the samurai genre. Clearly "Seven Samurai" level.
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Sex clearly isn't a sin unto itself because it's needed for making children, so it's not that. If this was it why wouldn't pornography of married couples be a-ok?
The “hxxp” and “hxxps” URI Schemes
It's not superstitious, it's a measure of caring. The superstitious in this case care very strongly about not having black doors, and they vote with their wallets. The other folks do not give a damn either way, and so shops stop painting doors black.

Imagine a small subgroup decides they really, really love black doors. They will pay double price for a black door because they are so hard to find. Shop owner will satisfy that demand or lose that market to a competitor who's willing to step over that line.

Capitalism is an elegant system for resource allocation, really. I wish more people understood it.
It's not exactly like that. But I think I share your point of view
University of Toronto student here.

> I know UToronto is a premier Canadian university, but I always considered Waterloo the premier Canadian technical university

Waterloo probably beats us on the teaching practical stuff in undergrad, and definitely on the internship side of things. We definitely beat them on teaching theory (at least for the students who are interested), and research.

> Maybe the relative isolation of UToronto in CS circles allowed more of a tinkerer mindset that enabled those researchers to survive the AI winter.

I suspect isolation is the wrong culprit. I don't feel like we are especially isolated as a university for one. I think it's more the case that we just have a culture where it's normal for profs to be doing their own less than mainstream thing. Of course I may be misreading this, I'm a student here not a prof.
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You don't need to write your own and test it -- use something like GNU parallel (if your tests can be run individually as commands or shell scripts) or a test framework that supports parallelism.
Hate to break it to you, but witch hunts were a European thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Early_Modern_Europe

The Salem affair is notable as "that one time we did the thing"; also, we hung our witches, we didn't burn them.
Those are interesting but very JS centric (though some principles apply regardless)

Of the tests I've seen, one usual source of flakyness is ignored side-effects between tests (DB is not emptied, some source of persistence is not reset - could be a 'global' variable or a mock library not mocking things correctly), sometimes import conflicts (some module clashes with a builtin library, but if you do this in a certain order it works)

Other sources include people using the equivalent of "now()" but then you're on those small time periods where your assumptions break (for example, now() is the last day of the year and you're assuming tomorrow is still in the same year, things like that)
If I tip, which will always be discretionary, I will do it in cash.

I have never, and will never, used the space on the bill, or in app. I want my tip to go to the person who provided the excellent service alone, not to be shared with their employer or every other server in the restaurant. Providing a line item for tips probably reduces my chances of tipping at all.
It is probably fair to say that CI/CD have gutted QA though.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna/cloudservice is also worth looking at, but you've probably already seen it.
> You wouldn't buy insurance for the bag of rice you buy at a grocery store in case you drop it outdoors, the bag splits open and the rice is ruined. Why? Because you can easily afford buying another bag of rice.

> The same reasoning applies to a car. If you have sufficient savings, you can buy yourself a new car if and when you need to. Until then, just invest the savings and reap the investment rewards, exactly like the insurance company will be doing.

But it's not the same reasoning. I can afford to buy hundreds of bags of rice every month if I need to, without stretching my budget significantly. Rice for me is pocket change, so yes insurance would make no sense.

For the vast majority of people, a car is not pocket change. Sure high income people might be able to buy another and not go bankrupt, but there's a big difference between being able to afford something, and considering the expense pocket change.
Or eating halal: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/most-intolerant-wi...
Let me also state:
If you have a certification and are having troubles landing a job, do a personal project to highlight your capability. It doesn't have to be hard.. or expensive! It barely needs to even look good -- if you're a back end guy, getting into an interview room and taking about the great CICD or script setup you did matters more than if it's a white page with black text... And if you're certified, you should know there's plenty of free it under $1/month options for AWS service. I hired one guy without a cert because he showed me the game server he set up in AWS to play with friends
> (In many cases) We know what the mutation is. We know what a healthy gene is.

Do we?

Do we really ? The best argument I’ve seen until now pro gene editing is that we foundamentally lack understanding of what the genes really do relative to each other and the whole body, and the best way to see unintended consequences is to “jut do it”

In the last discussion about the rogue chinese researcher I didn’t see sources arguing it’s the right time to do that, is it your hunchbor do you see signs pointing at the contrary ?
More importantly, there are far more efficient systems like typing on a phone.
Mad world: It is ok for the US president to pay prostitutes, restrict sex-redistributing websites and it is ok for the first lady to sell body. What is not ok is to do web search for this kind of activities that they did. They just don’t want us to have the same rights.
This is one of the biggest issues outside of power supplies that I've had, I've got 10+ Pi's now, one of them in particular has chewed through SanDisk cards, sadly they'll not replace them under warranty unless you send them back.

The issue with that is the cards fail read-only and I won't send back cards with private data on.

I asked them if I can destroy the card first and they said no, because they have to test it in order to honour the warranty.

I moved the critical box (my home automation) to a NUC, the other Pi's are still doing fine.
Your example might be seen as an advertiser trying to capture a nascent market (which it actually seems to be).
For example a CTO could say unilaterally "no, we won't help build the great search firewall for China".
Are the datasets publicly or easily available as well?

Also would be great to include papers with SOTA results on “tabular” Multivariate datasets, the kind that arise in numerous applications, e.g.
EHR/MHR, advertising, finance, etc. In other words, something like the UCI ML Repository datasets (which are mostly “small” but still would be great to know the SOTA models for those), and much larger versions of such datasets — I often see papers applying ML to tabular healthcare datasets but the datasets are often not available.
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True. But if you actively fight it, then your openness becomes the first casualty.
Using WhatsApp for your business comms? It's either that or reinstall Lotus Note
I would say that fighting the mindset that leads to superstitious notions would be the most logical. It isn’t necessary to be superstitious if one is educated about biases and logic
That's preposterous, they should just throw an UnluckyIndexAccessException depending on the host's locale.
I have a Pi running as a WireGuard VPN into my home, to ensure it lasts, given my other SD issues, I made some tweaks to the system, tmpfs for logs and mounted read-only on boot.

It's going strong and for updates I just issue a quick remount and I can change what I need.
> It’s not my fault she’s gone, that all 12 of them are gone. Normal. People move all the time. Nothing I could have done.

Except allow building more homes. Vote for politicians who'd have allowed building more homes. My guess is, the author has voted against her own interests.

Which one is more important, keeping the "charm" of houses and neighborhoods where you cannot afford to live anyway, or keeping those 12 your closest childhood friends, even if that means allowing to build apartment buildings for them to live in? You choose.
In Italian we use "sexy" in a way that roughly means "erotic" or "sexually exciting".
Having worked in several Java/.NET shops not everyone on our IT would agree with that, specially how easy it is to manage cluster deployments with AD.
> Create a competing superstition that says black doors are good, or make laws requiring doors to be painted black.

Or, you know, that the color of the door doesn't matter? I fail to see how that'll be a superstition.
Some uninformed churches may have taught that (there are a lot of pretty wacko churches in the US.)

If you actually read the Bible though sex and marriage is supposed to be a sort of alagory for the church’s union with Christ and it’s supposed to be pleasant.
People don't make sites like Nerve anymore. No one can.

This is nonsense. Anyone can make such a site if they put their mind to it. You just have to find your way around the internet to get to the good stuff.
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All over the air networks don't have profanity (ABC, NBC, CBS, CW--you know, the big ones) because of FCC rules. Cable is not covered by FCC laws and their shows can freely swear (though I was surprised by the most recent seasons of Happy and Mr. Robot not bleeping their F-words on cable as it used to be verboten just a couple years ago).
Everything is a semi-rational reaction to something else.

Companies used to own and run their own machines on-premises. But doing it properly (HVAC, power, raised floors, standardized racks, management, redundancy, preparedness...) is expensive and not actually most company's core competency. So they moved to colocated datacenters, where a competent company would take care of the infrastructure for a fee which would hopefully reflect a discount based on savings from scale.

But managing generations of servers at colo datacenters takes manpower for hardware replacement, upgrades, cabling, and generally doing things right; the customer companies mostly don't have that as a business feature but see it as a cost. So managed infrastructure services came up, where the datacenter company leases you the hardware (standardized so they can have spares) and racks it for you and puts in network switches and remote services and gets it to the point where all you have to do is log in to a console server and install your OS and start deployment.

But sysadmins who can keep track of security updates and package dependencies and keep an OS properly organized are relatively expensive, and what used to be

"well it works on my laptop"

becomes

"well it works in my container"

and the container itself gets shipped out. It's cheaper not to do security work, you know.

So VM and container accepting services come up, where the datacenter company now runs a hypervisor and managed storage systems for you, in exchange for the salary of those sysadmins. The start-up costs can be much lower, to the point where it really doesn't make fiscal sense for any tiny company to do anything themselves except ship their containers/VMs out and puzzle over IP allocation schemes and load-balancing services.

It's a trap, but a delicious one.

So now your company is hooked on the ease and speed and cheapness of just spinning up another container or VM any time someone expresses a desire, or even automatically, when you get the bill at the end of the month and you managed to spend how much? That's ridiculous. Why are we getting billed for containers that we don't even need to run all the time?

Along comes "serverless", which is a logical successor of inetd. Yes, inetd, the very old "internet super-server" which would read a table of ports and programs, open all the ports, and when a connection came in would run your program and connect stdin/out to the socket, isn't that great?

Serverless is just a management system that spins up your very restricted single-function program on demand -- now it answers an HTTPS API instead of a raw socket -- and does the accounting work to make it profitable.

Complexity is simultaneously the enemy of correctness and the source of profit.
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I'm not sure there was a particular strike in question?!

You're right there are many varieties of libertarian. My understanding is that they are at least united in their small government ethos. With that in mind they would be against the levers of the state that could protect workers rights, and so be more likely to support systems that put those levers in the hands of individuals.

Also lets look at the US, they have fairly weak employment rights, you can be sacked without reason (as I understand it). Going on strike in that situation is functionally equivalent to handing in your notice and demanding that your employer reemploys you under a new contract. You are hoping that your value to your employer is still greater than the costs, if not he can just sack you and re employ someone else.

In that situation there isn't a breach of contract. I suppose you could argue semantically that that isn't a strike, but strikes (should) operate within the laws in force at the time, so I don't have a problem with the method of labour withdrawal changing to stay within these constraints.
> they'd have to listen in on your private conversations. Facebook and Twitter? I'm not sure.

So what does "private" mean? If I'm in a group restricted to only people in my RL ski club (which I am), are our posts there not private as far as FB is concerned? Is there a numeric cutoff? A lot of groups spreading fake news on Facebook are nominally private in the exact same way, even though they have thousands of members and do almost nothing to vet new ones. Even humor groups are often private, which I just don't get.

I agree that the "broadcast" nature of Facebook posts is probably significant, but I'm still not sure how to draw a useful line that would distinguish it from the thousands of forums that came before which weren't assigned this kind of moral responsibility. The Prison Planet forums on InfoWars still exist. Stormfront still exists. They do nothing but spew misinformation and hate. Any Facebook-specific accountability standard would be like endless Christmas for them.

> certainly they would have budgeted more than a measly $100,000

They most certainly did. Orders of magnitude. That's only the amount for the external-fact-checker program, which is a tiny (and IMO not all that effective) slice of what they're doing. It doesn't count the thousands of people working on the problem internally, or the billions of machine-hours spent dismantling these "inauthentic content" networks. There are successes on that front almost every day, but everybody would rather focus of the fifth editorial about the third re-post of whatever the last bad news was.
I don’t understand why other boards can’t get themselves fully on the Linux mainline, that would take away at least a part of the rPi advantage. There are still a lot of limitations there relative to an x86 computer, although I’m not clear how much those are limitations of the Linux Arm ecosystem, and how much those are to do with the lack of mainline support, the need for blob drivers etc. I wanted to test out a webcam on rPi, there’s as massive difference between just being able to install VLC from repositories as you can on x86, and what you have to do on rPi, to compile a special version to work with the rPi’s proprietary graphics/video stack.
I would hypothesize that it is due to the greater influence of feminism. I realise that not all feminists would agree, but many feminists have been against the objectification of women's bodies in pornography, sexualized advertising and media.
Articulate take on that here https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheis...
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> Capitalism is an elegant system for resource allocation, really. I wish more people understood it.

It heavily depends on who you are and the type of capitalism in question. The present implementation in many places seems less than elegant.

For example CEO pay has been skyrocketing compared to worker wages precisely because as companies have more and more resources, they don't have a reasonable means to distribute them fairly, so they just dump the majority of the proceeds on the top management as a lazy hack.