skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as a middle class guy, I can pay $5 for a box of blueberries and just have them in the house. $10 pushes it to be a treat that I would buy ten times less often. $20 makes it a luxury I buy once a year at most

I planted a row of blueberry bushes 10 years ago. I now have essentially infinite blueberries when they are in season. I invite all friends, coworkers, and neighbors to come and take as much as they want each year. Most of them gift me things they grow or make in return at various times.

Blueberries are highly seasonal and perishable. It's not surprising at all that they cost a lot for fresh not frozen at the supermarket.

Fortunately blueberries are close to being a weed and require virtually no care to flourish.

As the price and demand increases more will be planted in backyards.
The math works out fine if you think about it. Here's an example.

The costs to make a burger at McDonald's include property taxes/rent, food costs, utilities, other things, and labor. Labor is only one part of it. If a burger costs $1, and labor is 50% (very generous estimate), and minimum wage doubles, the burger now costs $1.50. Now at the end of a 4 hour shift the employee now has, say minimum wage rose from $7 to $14, $56 instead of $28. If they were going to spend that all on burgers, they used to be able to buy 28/1=28 burgers, while now they can buy 56/1.5=37 burgers.

So even with extreme examples, the minimum wage worker comes out ahead here. People who made more before can buy a bit less now but it's not as drastic as it's made out to be.

Beyond this hypothetical, here's a study that says rising wages to $15 would only increase prices by 4%. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/raising-fast-food-hourly-w...
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>> It's easy to imagine something is better when you can't actually use it.

Yup. Carmack illustrated this very well in his interviews when he would not talk about unreleased games vs. Doom/Quake/whatever. He always said: "It's really easy to be the best graphics engine when it isn't available to the public."
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Flat growth numbers would water down their value, particularly in developed markets, as we saw last July. But more to your point, these number are so astoundingly high, and have been for years that you're really asking "why would they ever have overestimated these numbers?", which gets to the same point.
You're asking what one form of doxing has to do with another? Well... they're both forms of doxing. You seem to arbitrarily consider one form a problem, but not the other.
If by 'monthly active' it means someone that checks the facebook app at least once a month, then it's surely a plausible claim.
> you

We know there is thinking. There is no reason to believe that subject-object duality has any basis in reality, or that any individual, including our "self", has a sufficient delineation to consider it an independent entity.
Pursue behaviours which encourage happiness in others. Be stoical, and help other people, and you will find you achieve happiness as a side effect.
If he can point to a public source, it doesn't matter how long it took him to identify that source. If the city someone lives in is on their public LinkedIn profile, it's not secret. If you ask me how the weather is in Chicago, or even in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, you're not violating Twitter's rules.
No need to remove imho. Simply add a warning before and during about these people and a link to the Wikipedia article. It’s actually good to inform people of what their watching rather than ignore it. This is a great example of high production value in fake news.
> nonsense peddled by well-meaning people

You might want to double-check your perspective here - a lot of these assumptions are overstated or just incorrect, and the effect of raising wages is well studied, no need for guesswork.
Interesting. But it's due to statements like "you’re either above the API or below the API" that I unfortunately can't get through many ribbonfarm articles. I mean, it's clearly not true that "everyone works for an algorithm" (take architects as a trivial example). I keep having to force myself find a strong-man interpretation of all the half-baked ideas, which makes it exhausting to get through without becoming a bit annoyed.
I agree with you, partly. I consider myself pretty far left politically, but I recognize the disparity of mental capacity among workers and the relative societal value of different types of work. However, I think what OP is getting at is more the value of having a decent standard of living for everyone in the pursuit of even higher levels of general prosperity. The setting of an office park puts a deficit of such in stark relief. Perhaps, in this area specifically, we can see the value of a system like that which Europe has, where public mobility and urban renewal are top priorities. I, for one, think that it may be beneficial to our society in the long run to value labor over capital.
> Fresh paint on old tale.

There is a lot of true in what you say. But, part of the problem is the level of efficiency. Where you needed before a chain of managers doing the dirty job and creating inefficiencies. An algorithm does not sleep, does not care that you have kids or you are sick, does not have compassion or gets angry.

The root cause is the owner. Algorithms help, thou.
I'm guessing you're an engineer?

Life certainly isn't amazing for people in society at large. There are people on the other side of the code we're producing. Something us engineers love to forget about.
plain text passwords in HTTP request headers? Wouldn't that be usually in POST body which almost never gets logged?
Housing is cheap in 95% of the country.
I don’t think it is right. They harm their selves much more than its country. Dictator will easily buy their replacement from free world when needed. The problem is that intellectuals could be bought and sold because there are no contract commitments on how to use the knowledge. You are even free to use your knowledge against your teacher to make him to leave the country.
Fixed.

Geez, one spelling mistake ruined your day? I hope the rest of your week treats you better.
I think it's more likely that you don't know how tipping works in restaurants. While the restaurant can take tipping in account when setting their hourly wage, they cannot garnish, in real time, larger or smaller portions of each individual tip a waiter earns on each ticket.
I do. And yet, there’s no other way to approach it.

You either protect everybody or you make the compliant vulnerable.
Because stuff like this happens (warning: graphic content):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThUJTApA5I

In this case, they smelled smoke coming from the unit, which is why the fire department broke down the door, and the officers didn't go in expecting to get shot at.

It's easy to fault the police when they respond with guns drawn, but at the same time it's often impossible for them to know what they're about to walk into.
>with the other 40% mooching off them, through welfare, family members supporting eachother

i'd implore you to compare regular people welfare spending to corporate welfare spending if this is the view you hold
>The ~90k vehicles Tesla sold this quarter

And made less revenue than last quarter. Brilliant.

Is the 1 billion dollars lost this year after saying profits forever fake? The lawsuits from whistleblowers? Months long waits for parts? The miniscule growth after slashing prices greatly? The securities violations? Tesla Solar selling the least it ever has?

I could care less about some factory shell in China. They told you they'd build 10k a week in Fremont, didn't they? You have rose coloured glasses.
Birthrate US: 1.8, China: 1.62, Japan: 1.44, EU: 1.6

Just allow the situation to resolve itself?
Don't despair, it's slow as hell on Chrome too.
Your racism/xenophobia is showing.
That is correct. Just because you apply some name with negative message board valence to a set of conduct, that doesn't by itself make it reasonable to condemn every behavior in that set. This seems pretty obvious to me. What am I missing?
Sad to hear. Always liked him until I learned he improv’d a number of lines from the Blade Runner rain scene. Then he became a favorite. Brilliant actor.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue

Edited. Missed a critical bit.
In other words: companies and individual developers alike prioritize their business needs over providing value to the users. I could stomach this excuse if people were at least honest about it.

And still, it's not applicable everywhere. E.g. if you're targeting business customers, the ones that can afford to pay you are also the ones that would be in deep trouble with the regulators if they pirated your software.

But that's just part of the problem. Unfortunately, with business customers, another big reason against desktop applications is that they can trivially work around the increasingly arcane and arguably bullshit approval and security policies corporations tend to have around installing new software. Though that seems to be changing; I've recently heard of companies using deep packet inspection to apply similar policies to SaaS webapps.
> That’s a fallacy.

I agree. Not my comment. I was just quoting.
You don’t get to actually save on the expensive bits of rockets.

Within a small rounding error you need just as many and just as large rocket engines. Sure, you save a little fuel, but that’s the cheap bit. Structurally you need to handle dangling from the balloon, which means your cargo capacity is about the same size and possibly worse.

On top of that you need to both pay for the balloon and extra R&D for a complex system. If everything worked perfectly you might see a small savings per launch except the market is tiny so just breaking even on R&D is difficult. On top of that the more complex launches mean more can go wrong, meaning higher insurance costs.

Finally this is not the 80’s. Compare it to SpaceX’s reusable first stage that gives not just altitude but also velocity. Something like that is a huge advantage reducing the number of expensive bits needed to manufacture.

PS: As to dangling. When you fuel a rocket on the launch pad all the stages sit on top of each other. This means you can build a rocket that would break if sitting on it’s side, because all the forces are down before and after the engine fires.
Where by "habitually doxx", you mean "reports", which is what reporters do. When it's Fortune 500 executives or politicians, we seem to have no problem with this behavior; in fact, we get mad when it doesn't happen. But when it's someone in our "tribe" getting reported on, there's this whole new set of rules that supposedly applies. It seems like special pleading to me.
Doesn't necessarily work for the kernel, but GIR and typelibs provide machine-readable descriptions of C APIs: https://github.com/GNOME/gobject-introspection
Sure, the saying has broad appeal because the tautology of it is interesting. The actual debate, however, centers on whether laying down your weapons makes you vulnerable to those that hold onto theirs.. and that was the lens I was looking through.
C.f. also Douglas Rushkoff's book Program or be Programmed:

https://www.wired.com/2011/07/douglas-rushkoff/
Right, I feel that more people want me emotionally entangled in the issue to advance other policy/cultural goals rather than involve me at a practical level.
For me, the "what to do" in my sphere of influence is:

* Repair rather than replace

* Avoid buying/using plastic trash if possible

* Recycle where it makes sense

* Follow basic guidance on proper disposal

* Try to pick up a little bit of plastic trash that's not my own.
While plain VGA was certainly still a step up, it lacked hardware support for scrolling/sprites AFAIK. Also the PC speaker was abysmal for sound, the Amiga had it beat in that area as well. You needed a SoundBlaster card or similar to get decent sound, and had the set the Address, Port and IRQ in nearly even game to get one working.

I feel like it wasn't really until the late 486/P75/P90 era and the PCI bus, when SVGA with 2D acceleration became the norm and PnP was possible for the SB16 cards that the PC really became more competitive or pulled ahead of machines like the Amiga. And all that fancy graphics and sound hardware was expensive too.
If a brain performs the same sensory and decision-making functions, it is also going to claim that it feels emotions and experiences colors in particular ways. For all practical purpose, such a brain is conscious.
As the wikipedia article stats, the idea was proposed first by Christians rather than skeptics, arguing that it's a weak form of faith, so you're definitely right on that point.

> Whether the God of the Gaps points you towards atheism or theism depends on your concept of the unknown

I really like this assessment. Looking at the sibling comments here, most seem to think all questions will be answered eventually, but I suppose that's impossible to know, since we don't even know what all the questions are yet.
Totally get it. A key part of the discussion is (and should be): "here are the warts. And here's what we're doing about it." If the second sentence doesn't happen, then a candidate should take note.
Slack just fixed this. Try updating: https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-30...

Slack originally designed the app for one workspace. As users grew the expectations for multiple workspaces, they retrofitted by spawning a new thread for each workspace. eThey consciously traded off tech debt for growth. Now they've grown, they have invested resources to pay off the debt. And everything is one thread again.
But I'm guessing that in either job, you didn't have to take each individual tip to your manager so they could review it and decide how much to take for the house.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say buildings built the way they currently are is a joke and in 20 years time there will only be prefab. Architects are paid pretty badly compared to devs.

What I’m trying to say is I can see what it means if I squint at it a bit.
Life wasn't exactly luxury for a farmer 200 years ago.
Maybe I'm just dumb, but I have a problem taking anything meaningful from that article. There's an ontological problem in defining consciousness in terms of observations - this is circular because we don't have a meaningful starting point so we should throw it all away and... then what?
Obligatory Blade Runner final scene: https://www.youtube.com/embed/NoAzpa1x7jU (tears in rain)
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Without genetic testing you could not objectively know for sure if that was a lion or some other species.

Just because a lot of people agree on something based on shallow observations does not make it objective science. Thats moreso the realm of subjective "soft sciences" like sociology.
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
That's just a difference in model, and "gig economy" vs traditional. I'm not saying they work identically - they can't. But it obviously didn't start out that way with restaurants, and I doubt it will with DoorDash for long. Once they have an idea of average tips in markets, expect them to set a flat per delivery rate that is much lower, and let tips be tips.
To your entire argument I say GOOD. Can't make profitable bluebarries? Tough shit. Free market right?

Work conditions become crap? GOOD. Can't run a business without slaves in shanties tough shit. Free market right?

Product quality goes to shit because you can't afford decent employees in reasonable working conditions? GOOD. The free market in action!

Are you afraid of a free market?
> It's easy to fault the police when they respond with guns drawn, but at the same time it's often impossible for them to know what they're about to walk into.

I'm not saying being a police officer is an easy job, but isn't that what they signed up for? "To protect and serve" (despite being legally challenged and rejected when actually taken to court where an officer refused to engage with shooters) seems to be their mantra, and they talk about putting their lives on the line for the public safety.

I fear the problem is the police are more interested in protecting themselves than protecting the public, at least in the United States.
This is a great analysis and basically where I was going in my head with this, but you are missing one critical fact, how much of the world has internet access. I think if we just assume that number is 75% which seems to be way too high just looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage. Then we can see a better picture of how their numbers are something that any accounting firm should have a hard time certifying.

I would certainly believe 50% of the total population for MAU or numbers hovering near it for the US/C and probably most of Europe for monthly active users. That matches my anecdotal observations, however they claim 75% of the total pop for US/C and 48.9% of the total pop for Europe MAU. To think that somehow they claim the rest of the world has over 50% of its population using facebook once a month, when even Europe doesn't seem to meet this threshold just seems.....

I have just noticed that they try to lump duplicate and false accounts together and give a number of 11%, but then later they state that false accounts are actually 5% bringing the total fake accounts to at least 16%, which I still think is low, but it is getting to a point to where it may not be as clear cut fraud. I would bet their total account numbers would also be helpful in showing how many are duplicates or fake, but not sure they disclose that anywhere, probably due to their shadow accounts as well.
There is no equivalent on the left that inflamed the left like Trump does to the right. Period.

You don’t see antifa hooligans wearing Clinton garb. You did see MAGA hats at Charlottesville.

This isn’t a both sides issue.
Ah, the second sentence there wasn't related to the first, I can see on a reread how it might have come off that way, sorry about that.
I like the theory that states the Universe is just big enough for one occurrence of intelligent life to evolve. So, in a way, you can never prove the existence of God, because the math checks out.
Filtering those parameters should be a fundamental practice.
> I guess all that growth must come from countries that recently got into Facebook.

I have worked for companies with big, really big, user bases. As time passes companies get way better at getting more value from each user. They have more data. They have better software to offer promotions, advertisements, etc. You may be better off with half the users but getting more money from each one of them than with more users but giving low value. Depending on where the lines in the graph cross less users and more money is possible.
Why would they lie? These numbers hurt their stock price because they suggest that future growth is capped.
In most markets, sedans are in decreasing demand and the popularity of SUV/CUV vehicles is increasing. By that, the Y should be in larger demand than the 3.

Also, the Y addresses some of the tradeoffs made for efficiency on the Model 3: the missing hatch and the low second row. The Model Y will have a proper hatch, more cargo space, more vertical space in row 2 and optionally even a 3rd row of seats, increasing the attractivity for families with many children.

Putting that together, there is a lot of reason to assume the demand for the Model Y might eclipse the one for the Model 3.
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> IMO the best thing we can do to help the poor is fix the housing price insanity.

Not everyone has the right to live in the Bay Area or NYC. These are top cities. If you're not top financially, then go live somewhere else.
That's the amazing thing about evolution: the products of evolution don't have to be well engineered, they don't have to be perfect, they don't even really have to make sense. They only have to confer a marginal benefit to individuals with respect to their reproduction.

There are plenty of examples of bad design in evolution, human consciousness included (anxiety, depression etc). It's only necessary that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks for the feature to stick around.
"Digitalisation is the last transformation stage of a manual process which leads to the process dissolving and being replaced by one or more organisational capabilities."
> Do you agree that "delivery drivers" should get a fair salary?

What is "fair"?

One variety of "fair" is "getting a reasonable cut of the profit made from their actions", where "reasonable" is based on what the market will bear - i.e. if your labour is undercut by someone else, then it's a race to the bottom. This is what guilds and then trade unions originally evolved to deal with.

Another variety of "fair" that seems to be gaining mindshare is the idea that you deserve a "living wage" for literally any full-time job, which is a new idea unsubstantiated by economic reality. It belies the fact that there are jobs that do have some demand, but simply aren't worth enough to the people who'd pay for them that they can supply a "living wage". And what's living? Is mung beans, rice, and a shared room in a house "living" enough or does everyone need their full maximized-carbon-footprint atomized solo lifestyle in order to "live"?
I'd say it's pretty reasonable to condemn two ways of exposing people to possible harassment and violence.
When invoices arrive from the build of the project they would be put into a capital expense account. I would imagine that the costs include upfront and ongoing components, as that's what contractors need. The asset (plant) is valued as the total of the invoices received and depreciation applies, which gives an ongoing tax shield.
They are reporting their users now across Whatsapp, instagram, and FB. While almost everyone I know hardly logs into the FB property, we're still really active on WhatsApp.....and that counts towards their 2.5b monthly user metric.
I think the term we are looking for here is "alpha" [0], and you want a "good" stock to generate "alpha" in respect to the overall market.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp
Man, I would spend time masking sensitive data in a shop with no traffic, but someone like Robinhood or Facebook can get away with it. They don't sweat the small stuff, do they?
The exact same issue is happening in Barcelona with Glovo, Deliveroo, etc. Workers are not protected by labor rights, because they are employed as freelancers. They are working for these gig-companies effectively like delivery personnel since before this loophole existed. But they lose protections like unemployment, against being fired at will, payed vacations, minimum wage, wage rigging.

Recently a "Glover" was killed in a traffic accident. The company is not even bound to give them a life insurance, like regular companies that employ delivery personnel.
> i.e; premature optimization is root of all evil

I'm gonna repost a chart I made previously[0]:

Spectrum of performance:
LO |---*-------*--------*------------*-------| HI
^ ^ ^ ^
| | | |_root of all evil if premature
| | |_you should be here
| |_you can be here if you don't do stupid things
|_you are here

Point being, people tend to invoke this cliche way too early. It's true that mucking with working software is a potentially risky thing, and in corporate context may require approval, but it's also kind of the job you're hired to do as a software engineer, and it's especially important if that extra efficiency buys company value.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20389856
It is probably interconnected, but it would be a darn shame if all of our data on how suns are created gets "invalidated" by pop sci articles if we find data that changes our origins of the universe theory.