skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't what they were doing exactly the same mechanics as how typical tipped employee salary work, just at a different threshold?

Eg, in Mass, it looks like tipped employee minimum wage is 4.35, and tipped wage plus tip must be $12/hour. If the employee doesn't get any tip, the employer has to foot the difference.

So for all practical purpose, all the tips you give up to $12/hour are simply saving the employer money but don't change anything for the employee unless they do dodgy shit like not declaring cash tips.

Yeah, the whole system is bullshit which is why we should abolish tips altogether in favor of proper minimum wages (or higher for professions that usually get a lot from tips like bartenders)
Mithril is a true work of art. Rendering, routing, and XHR are all provided in a bundle under 10kb. All pure JavaScript with no compilation needed. Closure-style components that make React Hooks look wholly unnecessary. And the list goes on.

So many correct decisions made, slowly and carefully, by a fantastic community that values discovering the right way to do things above all else.
Well, a reason to care about effects systems is to have a way to specify what a program is doing in a way that lets you calculate and manipulate properties of it (from proofs to optimisations), which generally means static typing and purity.

The curry-howard equivalence is only as useful as the strength of the type system. We ideally want proof irrelevance, that is, any program satisfying the types is sufficient, but while some things remain outside the type system this is only true up to a point (think: time and space costs). Putting effects into types helps this along.
What if it doesn’t?

There, see how easy that was?
You're right, this is an interesting way to implement dependency injection.

A big problem this approach solves is that it avoids code that relies on injected code from needing to predict in advance all the things that injected code might need to do. This problem is much less pronounced in a dynamically typed language (since you haven't had to predict the type signature of the injected code).

In javascript the most significant time this is a problem is when the injected code might need to be asynchronous. In standard javascript, if that's the case, the surrounding code needs to know about it.

In Haskell, you have the same problem doing something as simple as debug logging.

My concern is just that adding effects reduces how much you know about what a particular function does just by looking at it, and this is true in both typed and untyped languages.
We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or used our Messenger application (and is also a registered Facebook user), in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement. MAUs are a measure of the size of our global active user community on Facebook.

They do mention that they think 11% of their accounts are duplicates. But even then I think the numbers smell off.
It's unethical, but only to the customer, not the deliveryperson. Except to whatever extent market wages are unethical.
A warrant is a check and balance designed by one arm of the government to give another arm of the government oversight into the actions of a third arm of the government. If you don't trust the government, your trust in the entire system should logically fall apart.
I posted it here, yesterday,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20509984
And if you're looking for something slightly less a sim and more of a game, but still spiritually in the genre of "serious play" (especially with enough realism mods), I raise you... Kerbal Space Program.

https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/
As I understand it, neither do DD delivery people.
Well, not if the courts say they can't.

Splitting monopolies always come with extra strings attached, and this is a obvious one you can expect to be there.
The last part of the opening sentence has it (emphasis mine):

Facebook Inc (FB.O) beat analysts’ estimates for revenue on Wednesday, even as the world’s largest social network agreed to pay a $5 billion fine over data privacy and announced a U.S. antitrust investigation.
They don't want to catch intelligent bad actors. They want to intimidate their powerless enemies.
We do. We know enough to state with absolute certainty that it's an emergent property. Nothing in your head is conscious. Nothing. Not even the whole of the human mind. It's in the "software", it's something you learned (and therefore did not have even when you were born, not even until quite a bit after that).

It's equally clear that most of what we associate with consciousness, such as thinking, awareness of the body and the moment and time and decision making and ... doesn't exist either. Because time and time again studies prove that when a decision is made (this is well studied in traffic for instance) there are no conscious reasons. Reasons only happen afterwards.

Is it therefore such a stretch to say that consciousness simply doesn't exist until long after the fact, and it is only once we ask one of these bags of mostly water to explain themselves (or ... well when we ask them something) that any trace of consciousness, at least the way humans understand it, is actually forthcoming ?

Consciousness is a trick. A learned trick. Human minds are not conscious and it is most definitely not a certainty that they, even when born fully formed and healthy that they will become conscious (read the reports on children raised by animals. They are old, sometimes 20 years old and they most definitely aren't conscious, not even on the level that a primate is conscious. The 12 year old boy they found in the wild in France never learned to speak only to articulate 2 words).

This is weird, because this is not most humans experience. Everyone around them always had consciousness. But let's compare. Everybody who has kids realizes that memory, firstly, isn't actually memory. We are very much not storing events when they happen in our brain. We learn a trick, because our parents keep referring to our past and "what we've done". We learn to calculate back from our current state of mind to what happened before.

That and of course philosophers have a millennium or 3 of history of ... philosophers getting consciousness wrong. Consciousness has been accepted in history to be being religious, to being able to rhyme, to composing music, to being able to talk and explain ourselves, to being able to love, to convince a professor (via chat) that you are conscious, to solve problems (all kinds), to walk around, to play chess, to ... all of these are now of course considered wrong. Why ? Mostly because things that definitely aren't conscious, from little dumb tricks, even mechanical contraptions in some cases, to rule based engines, to deep learning and now reinforcement learning algorithms can do this.

So can we please just conclude that whatever this article claims is ... wrong ? Just wrong. Nothing of value, other than perhaps interest a few people for stories with enough alcohol present. The current consensus seems to be that more details will be forthcoming the first time a reinforcement learning algorithm gets far enough to explain it's actions. So you want to know more ? Start there.
I agree that service is generally better in North America (vs the UK, at least), but I'm not convinced that the tipping culture has much of an impact. Tipping is so customary in the US that I find most people just tip the same amount - give or take 5% - even if the service was terrible.
Eh, this still doesn't go beyond the fundamental "I think therefore I am." I can prove to myself that I have consciousness, but for everyone else, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Link’s Awakening disassembly progress report – week 5
Is Mercury the same as SVB? (which is a real bank) Because if so, I could opt for Clerky but for example the SVB gives me a debit card to be able to consume directly from the account and the possibility of making bank transfers to my country.
Objectivity cannot be achieved without a control group.

So when we attempt to objectively study consciousness with consciousness, we have reached a point of recursion.

>objective: Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real.
You act like big ‘vetted’ companies have never restated earnings for prior quarters years after the fact

It looks fishy
Palmer Luckey Revolutionized VR. Now He’s Selling A.I. To the Marines
You conflate unlawful with bad. Everyone is unlawful.
We are very much in the infancy of the understanding of the Brain. New tools like optogenetics, CRIPSR-CAS9, and Clarity should assist greatly in understanding the brain and the body in general. Still, we are starting to know that we don't know a lot about the brain.

EDIT: Some links to the new tools mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb07TLkJ3Ww (optogenetics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbrwPL3wXE (crispr-cas9)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3bSx4TBs6M (clarity)
I honestly like the new Twitter UI. It's more usable for me than the previous design.
I think the problem is looked at in a confusing way. On one hand, we use a scientific/empiric analysis of the success of science to explain consciousness on the other we are ready to admit science may not be able to explain it but we don't apply the same rigorous mechanism to test the non-scientific explanation of it. I also think we are not seeing the forest from the trees and are too hooked up to some kind of "magic explanation" of consciousness that is defined by having people explain their experience.

I'm a strong proponent of the "what acts like a duck is a duck" principle. If in the future we manage to create machines which will be, for a very large statistical value, indistinguishable from a human in terms of behavior (that is, make the Turing test seem like a childish joke), is it fair then to say that those are just machines made to emulate our behavior and don't really reflect "real" consciousness? Why is it fair to define consciousness just as something that humans and personal human experience can decide?

Yes, machines may never have human consciousness, but if for all intends and purposes they behave as having one, then they have one, in my opinion.

Also, saying that humans are more than biochemical machines is the same like saying that my home gaming PC is more than wires and electrons. Yes, the experience enabled by the software running on those wires and electrons goes beyond just the physical support for it but that doesn't mean, that at the end of the day it isn't just wires and electrons.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a riskless option.
EGA had credible support for indexed color. It had 4 bit indexes into 6 bit RRGGBB color. Honestly, it was pretty good.

CGA was craptastic though. It would have been so much better if it would have just supported 2 bit indexed color into its 4 bit palette. Literally night and day better. I legitimately don't understand why they didn't go that route, the circuit would be trivial.
They've rethought their existing editor product, 'Coda'. They're telling you it's not just what they have now with some tweaks and features.
Still down 40% from 52 week highs.
> It's like complaining about lighting a match in the middle of a wildfire.

It's like complaining about lighting a match in a dry area while there is a fire somewhere in California.

FTFY

The analogy is bad because the match in the middle of the forest fire won't affect the fire. You're already engulfed in flames. What we're taking about is two different sectors. They are disjoint (unlike your analogy). But you can be in Oregon while it is dry and see that someone started a fire in California with a match and say to your friend "hey be careful with that match. That's how the fire started in California. We don't want that to happen here."

> That makes no sense me.

1) just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it's incorrect.

2) law works highly off of precedence. So one ruling affects new ones that come in. They keep try to be consistent.

3) just because people/laws are "okay" with something now doesn't mean it can't or won't change. In fact, I'd argue that's why new laws get made.
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I mean... manufacturing a working modern firearm in their garage is probably much more achievable to the general population than rolling out any kind of encryption software. Anyone with some basic hands-on competency can make a gun.
You’ve committed a mental shortcut. It’s too hard, therefore God, or magic, or whatever.

I’m convinced the ability to form short and long-term memories is crucial to our consciousness. Take that away and a human being is little more than a fruit fly, mentally.
Darwin pointed this out as a possible explanation for the emergence of altruism and morality. He didn't like the idea of group selection, so he suggested that humans might have started to reason that if they helped others, others might be inclined to help them in the future. As I mentioned in my other comment this probably emerged as a side-effect of the increased memory/reasoning-buffer required for language processing.
Annoying Catalina Security Features
This is bold coming from someone who doxxes people publicly.

https://hacked.wtf/2019/04/26/dear-brian-krebs-no-more-doxxi...
Doesn't CrossOver do that as well?
I agree with you fully. The fact that certain states are still so far behind with paying a wage under $3/hr is archaic and needs to be shamed until it is brought up with federal/region standards.

That said, the biggest problem with most service type employees right now, and this sadly gets away from DD, but is the amount of hours they are being given to work. I know many people who only get 12-18 hours a week at their service job (and even worse, you can be sent home early or even called off if it's slow), and even in CA where minimum wage is $14.25, one cannot pay rent let alone earn a living or even hope to have or provide for a family.
> Unfortunately, no one has as yet devised a satisfactory machine for automatically sweeping and scrubbing floors, and it is likely that these labors will be generally performed by hand to the end of the chapter. But the toil has been lightened by improvements in the implements used for such purposes, and there will undoubtedly be further advances in that direction. The number of patented mop wringers, for instance, is very considerable, and rotary floor sweepers, like street sweepers, are already in use.

Sure enough, the modern vacuum cleaner would arrive less than 30 years later, invented by department store janitor James Murray Spangler in 1907, who sold the patent to William Henry Hoover.
Idk if it's just me, but it hurt my eyes to look at that site. The dark background and red/pink font were too much.

Apart from that, it looks awesome.
I'm not sure if the report includes Whatsapp, but that should be a huge portion of active users.
> Deplatforming is just bad. If you can't win your argument without getting rid of anyone who disagrees with you, what does that say?

You're wrong about this. If you think that the best ideas naturally win out you're either ignorant (think of how fast bad ideas can spread), or purposefully pushing this "both sides"/horseshoe theory/false equivalence to further impede those who are actually trying to stop fascism.

The "deplatformers" you're referencing here wield entirely different magnitudes of power:

Erdogan: literally an authoritarian dictator

Carlos Maza: journalist who brought attention to the fact that hateful speech has real violent effects on people (it's important that Crowder's videos were only demonetized, not removed, or his channel suspended, and that this action was taken by Youtube).

Antifa: organization with no leadership structure, composed of citizens who are dedicated to preventing fascism from spreading, using means that are historically proven to work.
You're not getting shafted. If you tip, you're paying the same amount as if there weren't tips and the prices were raised to account for it. There's nothing "shafted" about "paying the same amount".

The only differences are
- You can choose to pay less if things aren't good, or pay more if things are great.
- If you're someone that is heavily impacted by other people's opinions, then you may feel bad tipping less. But all that means is that you don't get one of the benefits.

You get the "benefit" of lower prices... and you're expected to tip to balance the scales.
Done! https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/releases/tag...
This is the sort of idea that would appeal to xenophobes, racists, and others of their ilk. Not calling you one--not at all--but its the sort of idea that seems quite dangerous in the wrong hands.
Competition is a thing in Open Source too, look no further than the NPM library. It really boils down to "people need to eat".
Thanks for the response. I'm not a physicist but we can't speak of before the Big Bang usually. But you are right fields could have existed before neutrons and protons formed. As far as we know, consciousness requires protons, neutrons, and electrons, among other objects, and those were not present or in the right arrangements right at the Big Bang, so I think my argument still holds.
Kundera’s The Joke comes to mind.
Here's my simplistic answer to this in three words: incompetence, corruption, self-interest.
Having worked on a multiple construction projects and witnessed all 3 abovementioned aspects in various shapes and forms,I'd like to give a real life example. In the second largest city in Lithuania,a retailer got an approval to build a massive shopping center in the very center of the city.An agreement between the city council and the retailer was made and part of the project was to build a small bridge connecting the road outside the shopping center and a small island in the river alongside the road. The contract was won by a company that specialises in road and bridge building..So far so good. The works started. I used to go past the site on daily basis and often observed many people simply standing on the upcoming bridge and not doing much... Eventually a guy I used to know got a job with the company to work on that bridge project.Money was good..He quit after only a month.When I enquired what happened,he said that he is a man of work and can't stand idle. Even thought he tried his best,he couldn't stand the fact that he simply couldn't not work.On his first day,he went to the site manager and asked what he should be doing.He got told to collect a massive spanner and tighten 12 bolts on the metal construction.He returned to the manager in 45min or so and asked what's his next task.The site manager looked at him with anger and disappointment and said: look, it's your first day and you already making mistakes.I have given you a task for the whole day,not just for 45min..So now I now have to come up with something else for you to do.. Don't you ever do this to me again.You need to preserve your work,not rush with it.. Now scale it up to a massive underground project and you'll get the idea where the money is going to..
speed matters
http://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters
This is an aside, but can we define what a "startup" is? To me, if you have a repeatable business model and have scaled it to thousands of customers, you're no longer a startup.

Is the convention that if you take private investment, then you are a startup?
Amazon Is Bringing Prime Video to Oculus VR Headsets
I can also anecdotally confirm that I myself and most of my friends very rarely use Facebook anymore. I imagine that my browser or devices are still pinging FB on my behalf and counting me as an "active user" even though I haven't browsed the app or site in more than a year.
Last chain restaurant I ate at had a little 'tablet on your table' for drinks/apps/paying. The base option for tipping was set at 25% with a slider up and down.
>This is wishful thinking and clearly false

No it's not, but you'll likely never see it that way let alone admit you're wrong on the internet.

>If it were true, there wouldn't be any at-fault crashes.

Computers follow rules perfectly 100% of the time yet we still have software bugs.

>The only accurate claim you can make is "human traffic sometimes follows rules, and the rules that it sometimes follows change regularly from person to person and moment to moment".

You understand rules to be flexible and subject to some interpretation (like laws, not like a firewall config). Context is important. The rules that govern human interaction are complex.

>That's not a defensible state

This comment proves otherwise.

>Implicit in your mistaken description is a pretense that humans are psychic and that we can predict what other people will do, but we aren't and, despite believing otherwise, we can't

Humans don't need to be psychics to accurately predict what other drives will do. Humans are really good at pattern identification and picking up on subtle cues.

>That's why defensive driving is so important.

Being able to make accurate predictions of the future state of what is around you based on the current and past state of what is around you is far more helpful than defensiveness for any amount of defensiveness.

The behavior by AI vehicles fielded by Cruise and similar is a glaring example of that while defensiveness is great at avoiding liability it does not necessarily make the road around you safer (maybe even worse, as many comments anecdotally point out). This is the main gripe people have with AI and human driven vehicles that practice defensive driving to the point of absurdity. Defensive driving without human level ability to predict what other traffic will do is not sufficient for the kinds of situations that are regularly encountered in urban areas.

Most people will never get in a car crash in their entire lives (bumping into an object in a parking lot notwithstanding). I think that speaks for itself.
Wrt your downside, I haven't tried this myself but I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to write an extension to check for new emails every x minutes - if there's a button to refresh your mailbox you can just put an a call to the button's click event[0] inside a setTimeout, and if there's no button just refresh the page (you will probably need logic to make sure you aren't actively interacting with it). But most likely a quick 30 minute project if you've made an extension before (and only an hour or so if not).

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...
>non PC jokes

Why would you want to do this at work? No well-run place will allow this because it makes for a hostile work environment.

You have roughly 128 hr/week outside of work to do those things
I was participating in rec.games.roguelike.development until 2011 or so. Some of those communities lasted a lot longer than most would expect.
> I think tipping is ingrained in American culture

Tipping is ingrained in American culture because there's an insane disparity between rich and poor and it makes the rich feel better about themselves (and those who do it but wish they didn't then peer pressure their friends into doing it. See the current wave of articles about tipping hotel staff claiming that its the norm even though only a third of people do).

Its stupid and simply shouldn't be a thing. Especially since it means employees' salaries effectively end up at the mercy of customers, and customers are not regulated (eg: there is NOTHING stopping customers from being racist/sexist/bigoted/whatever like there is employers, so pay could theoretically vary drastically and there's fuck all they could do about it).
Anecdotally, I know a lot of people who stopped using facebook, but continued using messenger. They’d all still count as MAU.