skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument makes no sense. You making $X/year has no bearing on how another company pays its employees. There are people in Bangladesh making shirts for $5/day so why would I pay you $1000/day to make websites? Well maybe because that's the going rate for the area and you can generally buy higher quality labor with more money...
Good bartenders of all kinds with a primo gig can make $400-600 a night for an 8-9 hour shift.

I worked in restaurants for a long time and think tipping to make up for paltry hourly pay is idiotic, but I can see why many people work late hours and weekends because they payoff is very high if you're in a good gig.
I'd wager they have 2.41 B monthly active accounts, but not users. My mom has something like 3 accounts. Where my wife is from, everyone seems to have at least 2 accounts, sometimes many more. And I'm sure millions, if not hundreds of millions, are the same. I wouldn't be surprised if their MAU surpassed the population of many locales, but they'd never admit as much.
It’s probably the closest thing we have to a North Star metric when evaluating a country. Everything that people desire is underpinned by GDP, and it isn’t particularly high anywhere on Earth.
> This is what happens when your currency tanks, numbers like "GDP in USD" get all out of whack.

Your currency tanking is worse than having the GDP going down.
Tesla's stock has massively under-performed over the past 5 years (will be up 8% over that period if the after hours price action holds). The opportunity cost of owning it has been huge while the rest of the market ripped up.
That's correct. Both you and the guy you're responding to are correct.
1. Two wrongs don't make a right.

2. Linked article is poorly written and unclear as to what actually happened and the context. If I'm reading it correctly it looks like everyone was using a real name associated with their online work anyway.

3. In any case mentioning someone's name and town in a Twitter fight is a world away from systematically organizing armed SWAT police calls to journalist's homes, physically threatening them or have them falsely arrested because they write about white supremacists and terrorism.
I think that distinct groups of Americans feel this way about both the Democratic Party supporters and the Republican Party supporters.
Why non-disruptive? Cars take up massive amounts of space. They can stand to be inconvenienced a tiny amount.
You post their home address. Their private phone number. And the same of their spouses. And their parents. And the address of the school their children visit. And the route they usually take to work. etc.

Then the bad person hacks their icloud and dropbox and releases their private pictures and videos, the naughtier the better.

And yes, all of that happened recently in Germany mostly to some prominent politicians, who also use their own names in public really often.
Daily Users have grown only 5m in 2 years, in the US/Canada.

About 51% of US/C check facebook or messenger every day, and 67% every month. So 16% of people check it but less than daily.
For those of you who love space and haven´t heard about this game yet, I´d recommend space engineers https://store.steampowered.com/app/244850/Space_Engineers/

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China GF is GF3. GF2 is in Buffalo, NY (old SolarCity facility, which also manufactures Supercharger station hardware).

I can't speak to how GF3 capex is being accounted for, but competition was fierce to provide financing to Tesla [1]. China pulled out all of the stops not just for permitting and financing, but also construction (GF3 is already having Model 3 production line equipment installed, after breaking ground in January [2]). In less than a year, it will go from vacant land to producing Model 3s.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gigafactory-3-funding-chines...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI6nJOic4BM (June 22 2019) Tesla Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai China Update
Do they also sign with their home addresses, telephones, etc? And those of their immediate family? What about journalists posting under a pseudonym?
I don't think universities should teach OS specific APIs in CS or SE curriculums. The student should learn those by himself if he wants to. The university should only explain the concepts.

If I use free software, I will probably prefer to interact with the X11 API or GTK. If I want to develop commercial software I probably want to learn Windows APIs, etc. Forcing everyone into a specific OS is not a good way to teach IMO.
For example: "A source familiar with the matter"
Please don't say things like this, the theory of the big bang says no such thing at all. What it says is how the universe expanded from a very high-density and high-temperature state.

There are entirely separate theories to explain how that matter, after it arose, interacts with itself to give rise to chemistry. Then there is the origin of life, which is another problem. And then we get to evolution, which is how the initial life modified itself to become the species we have today. And then we have a bunch of other theories that explain how the brain operates.

Any one of these theories could be wrong, but that wouldn't invalidate any of the other ones. Some of them we have much more data and certainty on then others. But the only people that talk as if they were the same thing are creationists, not scientists.
The problem is when a tip is expected in almost all circumstances. Pay them a proper wage for their ability and set prices accordingly.

You can still have tips but it shifts from basically every time to instances of truly exceptional performance.
Yes, but that's unethical enough to condemn, isn't it? I mean, I was personally horrified that the "tip" that DoorDash had been soliciting with that attractively placed button was in fact really a tip to the parent company and not the dasher. I feel defrauded, and would really like that tip money back.

Whether tips or regular wages are better or not is an endless argument, and it doesn't seem like dashers are particularly exploited relative to other gig economy jobs.

But still... that fake "tip" button was designed to exploit my emotional desire to fairly compensate low wage workers to goose DoorDash's revenue numbers, and that sucks.
Talking about company weaknesses and difficulties the new employee might experience before signing might sound noble. It can be a sign of an open and transparent employer if it is not a cop-out for improving work-life balance and cultivating a toxic environment.

In the worst case, "The Talk" can be used to coerce the employee in doing overtime or extra-contractual tasks because "they have been warned". Even if this is never explicitly stated, this will stay on the employee's mind and is a form of soft coercion.

This might not be the case for the company of the OP, but it is certainly something to be mindful off when implementing in recruiting.
Can you convert it in inches and feet too?
>My comment isn't useful, but I really can't get a handle on anything "quantum" related.

That is probably because you have tried to read "applications" papers/articles (some of them of dubious scientific value, and more sci-fi/futurology) without properly understanding the fundamentals first. I strongly recommend "Quantum Mechanics", Cohen-Tannoudji et al. The first two chapters are the best introduction to quantum mechanics I've read: concise and to the point, starting from experiment and explaining the key ideas of quantum theory, and then the mathematical formulation.
If you daily use software that you use rarely, there may be a point.
Yep, this is just a bad excuse for not spending the effort to port it. I'm not saying they have to port it, but a simple "it isn't worth the money" would be better.
But then why is this in a Psychology posting and not a Philosophy one if it's just about ontology?
usage has shifted less from "posting baby pictures omg omg omg" to more facebook groups and business pages and stuff. Which is likely better for Facebook and exactly what they want (well, they'd probably rather have both, but if they can only have one..)
I know this is a joke, but QD specifically excludes the requirement of a living observer.
neat. I would say im optomistic on this actual self driving stuff. But coming from almost no machine learning knowledge, doesn't this make tesla way ahead of google/waymo and others? Because they can simply check when they failed and tweak.

I'm just curious if it does make them way ahead, and if so how much more ahead? Is this driving a car vs horse wagon levels?
I'm curious, what's the use case for having multiple Facebook accounts? Presumably you're talking about actual user accounts, and not Pages.
I'm going to interpret this as charitably as possible: Are you attempting to bring attention to the fact that doxxing is rarely prosecuted, even though it's illegal and there's boatloads of evidence that it is in fact a form of violence? This is the only way I can imagine this question being raised that doesn't assume you're trolling.
In other words, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
Or, it means that the feature is running and the neural nets exercising, but not outputting actual control. The results are captured, but not acted on.
Found the problem: Microsoft Word - Q2 2019 Earnings Ex 99 - Final.docx

Designers didn't have anything to do with this mess.
Minimum wage in Oregon is $11.25/hr with no special considerations for wait staff. Tips are always on top of the hourly wage and do not subsidize the wage paid by the restaurant.
The convenience has come a long way on most password managers though, I started with lastpass when it was released and it would loose a few generated passwords now and then and yubikey would fail. I've been using bitwarden for a few years and I'm more than satisfied now, it just works as expected.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monthly-active-user-mau...

"Facebook revised its definition of MAU: It would no longer include "third-party pings"—that is, people who are not active Facebook users, but who share content only via another site that's integrated within the Facebook login."
Disclaimer: I own no financial stake in Tesla, and while I love the goal of converting the world towards electric vehicles as whole I am not a fan of Tesla or Elon Musk.

There are people much more informed than myself that believe Shadow Mode isn't real, and that Tesla is outright lying about its existence.

https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1096322810694287361
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY-mlcgFCc4
Legal costs is definitely an issue sometimes
Yes, if you pick the most embarrassing time period for a given stock, it probably massively under-performed. Alternately, you can pick the most flattering time period.
I always hear this. It's blame shifting. Food service workers are the first to foist the burden, responsibility on to the customer for their inability or lack of willingness to protest / report their employers illegal behavior.

It's not my role as a customer to support workers at a paper mill with lax safety standards because the workers won't go to OSHA, why should it be my role to ensure you have a livable wage because you won't go to to L&I to report wage theft/other practices?
You could just tie it all back to physics.

Not much intelligent about gravity coalescing matter.

But that had the side effect of releasing atomic energy in the form of stars. The rubble attracted by these stars, orbited till it coalesced itself into planets.

Those planets are bombarded by atomic energy by stars. Chemical reactions happened to break down this energy. Life, aka chemical reactions that are able to persist, started happening as a side effect.

The more robust and more intelligent reactions were able to persist through fluctuations in environment. ie. ice ages, meteors, etc.

We are nothing more than a persistent, stubborn reaction. A fungus on a hot rock. Maybe someday we can send some spores to another hot rock, and continue our fungal infestation. Provided that we don't consume all the resources here before that happens and fizzle out. In any case, I'm sure there is a fungus, perhaps a more evolved one, somewhere else in the universe that will.
In context, Gove was talking about expert political judgment applied to making short term predictions: experts predicting prompt, dire consequences from Brexit.

Such predictions have been the subject of academic study. One obtains gold-standard data on the accuracy of short term predictions merely by waiting. The classic book is Expert Political Judgment by Philip E. Tetlock https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11152.html

His findings sent shocks waves through the intelligence community. What is going to happen next? Answering that question is raison d'être of the intelligence community. They depend on expert political judgment and Tetlock had found that it was rubbish. This prompted the Good Judgment Project https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/newsroom/iarpa-in-the-news/2...
Why would you choose to believe in a stretch?

I like to think there are a few ways it could be, and try to be comfortable with not knowing which one it is e g
-emergent property
-solipsism
-panpsychism
> The question still stands. How would a creature experience life without consciousness?

It wouldn't. "experience of life" ~= consciousness.
As somebody who grew up in a central european province governed by popularist right wingers and then left, this was a question that always bugged me: If I am leaving, am I not making it worse there? But should I really go through unbearable suffering in an environment that is so corrupt, so completely devoid of rationality that the only few semi-okay people you know start acting like trauma victims, never just able to cope with the environment they live in.

I can't blame anybody who fled in such a climate, especially in a nation which has it's unprocessed genocides not to far in the past. The border between what we call civilization and pure, stupid, evil fascism is extremely thin and given the right conditions the transition can be so incredibly fast, when the public starts to realize, it will be too late.
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It's still the most popular car in it's class by a mile, how is that "jumping the shark"?
> All it takes is for some bright representative to think that "vulnerability disclosures" are more akin to "burglary tools" than to public service announcements

It doesn't even take that much - throwing around terms like "bad faith" and "legal liabilities" suffices to create a hostile legal regime through common law torts. I'm okay with socially condemning unilateral disclosure as a likely assholeish thing to do, as long as we acknowledge that being an asshole is perfectly legal.

I'm admittedly not up to speed on this particular soap opera, but it seems like the real blameful parties here are Gizmodo et al - scraping the bottom of the barrel for raw technical tidbits, and then escalating them into sensationalist "news" narrative rather than performing any sort of responsible interpretation.
Which company is in the lead is a very contentious topic it seems. This one specific feature doesn't seem to push it one way or the other. But IMO Tesla has the best approach and has a huge lead on the data collection pipeline. No other self driving company has even close to as many cars to test on / gather data from.
They say that duplicate or "false" accounts make up 10% of their total numbers. They also are effectively banned in China and Russia to my understanding. So they are claiming that more than 1/4 of the whole world (even the undeveloped parts) use their website once a month even accounting for these false users.
You literally cannot prove it either way, you can't prove it's not enciphered data, you can't prove it's not random garbage, that's the point. You can say that 'we could develop a safe backdoored system that will allow only lawful decryption in the event of emergency' in the same way you can say 'we can launch probes made of candy to distant planets that will build cities and plant potatoes for us'. It's a fantasy. The keys will leak, criminals etc will still blend into the crowd.
> unless people in the USA just don't understand fully how tipping works.

Every "outrage" in the US consists mostly of shit people don't understand. That doesn't mean they're wrong about the cause, but you can be "right" for the "wrong reason".

In this case, yes, DoorDash employees are getting screwed. At the -same time-, DoorDash is doing nothing weird or outside of the norm.

The solution is wrong. People are trying to get 1-2 companies to make tipping a little less bullshit, when its tipping itself, across the entire country, that is broken.
That's a spun "many", though. Sure, "many" are. "Many" are not. And at the low end of the wage spectrum the difference in personal welfare has a very steep curve. If, say, 20% of workers are doing well over minimum wage in tips, does that justify the (again, totally made up number) 10% who are making less?
"I know nothing about this subject and/or area, but nonetheless strongly believe people involved need to go to jail"
Your reaction is not irrational at all. This sort of abuse of public space to test technology that is nowhere close to being ready should make you angry. They are trying to progress more rapidly by externalizing the costs of experimentation onto the public. They've hit a plateau and don't have a clue how to get beyond it, but they've got billions of dollars of pressure on the backs of promises they made, so they can't admit their fundamental approach is unsuitable to reach what is actually a questionable end-goal in the first place--namely, self-driving taxis. Why is that the first problem they are trying to tackle? That's the hardest problem to solve. I think it all goes back to Uber struggling to defend its business model. To justify their nine- and ten- figure quarterly losses, they had to promise a world where the labor costs would go away (how driverless Ubers could ever pay back all the money they've lost, I have no idea--if they replace contract labor with their own capital and the maintenance involved... how is this a profitable company?). They convinced their investors it was possible. And then everyone else assumed it was possible and bought into that same fantasy. I hope we're finally waking up. But those billions have left a major hangover and no one is thinking clearly quite yet.
I see people glued to the Facebook app every day.
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Always a good read on the subject:

https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/the-most-and-least-expe...
>no different than Hollywood coming up with original IP, but the gems are what make paying attention to any of this worthwhile to me.

Hollywood used to come up with tons of original IP. One of the problems is that we just don't really have many "B movies" anymore. It's either AAA or not worth bothering with. They used to front a decent amount of cash towards experimental stuff in the hopes that one of the bets would take off. Nowadays you'll be lucky to pull that off unless you have an EXTREMELY bankable name, like Chris Nolan, who has enough of a following to get some money down.

So it is with gaming. Not much in the way of "B games" out of the major studios. They seem to put all their eggs in a few baskets and hope for the best.

FWIW though, after reading "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels" I'm starting to feel like where the real innovation needs to happen is in the toolkits around making the games. Seems like tons of work goes into just setting things up to where you can start doing work that's recognizably related to a final product.
Same here. My group of friends we all have an account but we very rarely post anything. I only connect maybe once a week max to see if I have some notifications.

Every once in a while I think about deleting my account but then I remember I have all those people I know only through Facebook.
No. I am confused by the conviction Twitter and message board people have that pseudonymous people are entitled to the protection of their true identities from strangers, who learn those identities from open sources.
The blurriness is a problem… With the pdf library I’m using (jsPDF) I cannot export the SVG directly so I convert it to an image and then embed the image in the pdf.
To solve the problem, I can increase the converted image’s resolution but then the pdf becomes huge (~20 MB, for example). There is a ‘quality’ parameter in the code, maybe I’ll expose it in the UI and you can find an optimum value.
I’ll try to find a way to export or ‘write’ the svg data directly in the pdf, I think it’s the best way to do it.
> Winnti is a highly complex structure that is difficult to penetrate. The term denotes both a sophisticated malware and an actual group of hackers.

Hacking groups are corporations and spread risk away from indictable individuals just as efficiently, with a separation of liability and actions and knowledge

This needs to be understood
> The big bang, the time that has passed since them, even the concept of time, are not in fact reality but rather the interpretation of reality made by our consciousness.

I think that is very reasonable/likely

>There is no argument that there is a fundamental reality that predates consciousness, but our problem is that everything that we view as 'reality' is just the subset of that true reality that is filtered through our consciousness.

See to me the article was saying a fundamental, consciousnessless reality isn't possible when it stated everything can't only be relational (the spreadsheet example) - there must be some initial value/setting, i.e. consciousness.
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The original spec said UTF-8/16/32, but unaware of any reference implementation that used anything other than UTF-8 ... though, who knows with hand rolled crap, and windows in the mix.
> We are making progress towards stopping at stop signs and traffic lights. This feature is currently operating in “shadow mode” in the fleet, which compares our software algorithm to real-world driver behavior across tens of millions of instances around the world.

It's cool that they can collect that data and no doubt will help refine the feature, but otherwise marketing speak. Says nothing about how accurate their algorithm is or how long it may take. There's nothing stopping them from rolling out an algo for anything and running it in "shadow mode".
If that's the definition of "dox" you're using, that doesn't appear to be what Krebs did. He posted names, and a public LinkedIn profile.
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Criticizing academic institutions isn't inherently anti-intellectual, any more than criticizing government institutions makes you an anarchist.
It's even higher for the cold fusion we're missing, and teleportation technology.