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> “Going forward,” DoorDash’s chief executive, Tony Xu, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night, “we’re changing our model — the new model will ensure that Dashers’ earnings will increase by the exact amount a customer tips on every order. We’ll have specific details in the coming days.”

> Under the policy, which the company adopted in 2017, DoorDash would offer a Dasher a guaranteed minimum amount to do a delivery. If a customer tipped, in most cases a tip paid through the app would go to subsidizing DoorDash’s contribution toward the guarantee, rather than increasing the Dasher’s pay.

> For example, if DoorDash guaranteed a worker $7 for a delivery and a customer did not tip, DoorDash would directly pay the worker $7. If the customer tipped $3 via the app, DoorDash would directly pay the worker only $4, then add on the $3 tip so that the worker would still get only $7.

And this is one more reason why I have and will not ever leave a digital tip.

Yes I know how tipping aggregates for wait staff (and I think that’s stupid...) but this is different. These are independent contractors paid to do a job. If they agree to do it for $X then that should come out of the pocket of the company hiring them. Any tip is over the top.

I hope they (DoorDash) get sued by their customers for deception, lose in court, and a precedent gets set to end this nonsense.
I agree with your sentiment. However, I believe you are missing the forest from the trees.

The desired result of the regulations is, first and foremost, accountability. This includes, but is not limited to, audit trails and provenance. But because the regulations have been written to specify exactly One True Way[tm] of reaching an adequate level of accountability, they end up causing nasty second-order effects.

As sibling comment by PeterStuer mentions, the unfortunate end result is inventive interpretation to avoid the worst of the disruptions. So from my point of view, the rules put in place to _enforce_ accountability have created perverse incentives to _reduce_ proper accountability.

That can not be a healthy situation either in short or long term.
Predictions can be a tool to test your understanding, I guess maybe like a fantasy investing site to see how well you would do if you were investing real money.

I've been playing a bunch of Metaculus[1] recently for this reason.

I do agree that there are too many folks (pundits and the like) who make predictions all the time with no consequences, and I wish there was a way to hold bad predictors to account. I've thought about making tools that automatically or with crowd sourcing track the predictions of public personas.

1: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/
You know that editorial pieces can be informative, right? This article is largely comprised of unsupported opinions, and definitely against the "deeply interesting" criterion this site strives for.
isnt that a bad example though, because the counter-terrorism policy was already prewritten before the event. it wasnt a hasty reaction.
Encryption back doors are not wise, no.

Barr's point is that it's better to have that argument now, in a level-headed moment and with opportunities for all the relevant stakeholders to provide input, than it would be to have it in the middle of some dire emergency.

If you oppose back doors, I would think you would agree with him on this -- government tends to be delegated sweeping powers in emergencies, so it would be much harder to stop gov-friendly proposals like "back door all the things" in that kind of moment than it would be to stop them now.
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HTML email in practice doesn't need much more than what w3m supports, in some places less - no need for w3m's frame, cookie, or FTP support. w3m is smaller than mutt.

Limiting HTML mail to an agreed subset could actually be a winnable fight compared to more impractical suggestions.
I heard many good things about bench.co.
Love this article. It makes statistics enjoyable and accessible. Most of Olah's old stuff is also really good, especially the one on manifolds and neural networks [1]

[1] https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/
Aren't those ideas the ones that are always the most successful businessess too?
Not even close to the same thing.
Their proprietary code analysis [0] is mostly better than the Rust Language Server for now, even if I still use VS Code personally.

[0] https://intellij-rust.github.io/
Hehe, I know quite a bit about her.
> So from Facebook's perspective, this is probably a big win.

It does feel like they confessed and repented a few spectacularly egregious sins and bought a $5 billion indulgence for the rest.
You bring up a good point that some kinds of projects simply take a great deal of time and resources to advance the industry. Millions of token indie games aren’t going to change AAA gaming any more than millions of screenplays will change Hollywood. However, innovation has a stronger chance somewhere in between with a struggling studio like Digital Extremes was 8 years ago when it comes to new business models and the dynamic between developers and players. I’m not convinced that actual gameplay innovation can happen in a AAA kind of situation though (Valve in 2005 vs Valve in 2015 are pretty different right?) no different than Hollywood coming up with original IP, but the gems are what make paying attention to any of this worthwhile to me. I over-load my investments in mid-cap stocks for this reason similarly.
Journalism isn't really an industry so much as a lifestyle for well-to-do people who don't need real jobs
What’s an open source app for github? Can’t we run gitlab on a local server?
A super-awesome related project I didn't get a chance to work into this post (because it's entirely deserving of its own): https://github.com/benlaurie/objecthash

To be clear: I think that's a niche use case and while I think ObjectHash does a great job of exploring it, I don't expect the median startup to need an ObjectHash implementation.

(Disclaimer: I'm the author.)
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it's true only in us
Is picking on one of the better games in the already limited fighting game genre really our target?
It seems like a good product, though I always get very uneasy by companies that have extreme company cultures. If you work there, you can’t wear shoes in the office (to give the feeling of being at home?) and apparently you need to change your LinkedIn headline to say you “Empower” X or Y. I feel like every blog post I’ve ever seen from this company is about their “mission-driven culture.”

Can we go back to a time where employees aren’t asked to be 100% emotionally attached to their work, in ways like this that are clearly made more extreme by the company itself?
”This isn’t unique to cars, every software project looks easy at the start, you can even get “90%” there where it looks and feels like a real solution. But then real life usage testing starts or the implementation process exposes a thousand small problems you didn’t except in the last 10%, or your own original design wasn’t flexible enough for some constraints requiring a significant rethinking of that 90%.”

Yep, and in silicon valley, anyone who seriously plans for the consequences of this is dismissed as insufficiently futurist.

It’s hard to thrive as a responsible engineer when there’s always another huckster around the corner, willing to promise that 5-year future today.
1 generates almost 90% of revenue, the rest of your list are essentially loss leaders.
"How about you get a mail client from this century?"

--Actual response I got when I complained to an IT admin at a former company that Exchange had started eating all plaintext versions of emails
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I've had a couple employers offer to transfer my personal number to my work-provided cell phone. I said no thanks, and carried two phones around instead. But it was a surprisingly popular option among my coworkers. They'd rather let their boss own their personal, everyday smartphone than carry around two phones.
Speaking of dichotomies, referring to people as "good guys" or "bad guys" is a peeve of mine. Obviously, society should do what it can to prevent people from committing crime or terrorism, even using lethal force when necessary. These "bad guys" don't imagine themselves as evil actors though. They may be wrong or misguided, but most of them are doing what they think is right. To put things in perspective, Martin Luther King was considered a criminal by segregationists and WW2 resistance fighters were considered terrorists by the Nazis. You're never going to win wars on crime or terror by sifting out bad people from good people.
I wish that there was some movement on that feature as well, but with time new possible implementations have become available on desktop environments that I would like see extended to mobile.

Application Streaming [1] is getting pretty solid, and I would love to see an integrated mobile solution for that.

It would be a good way to have the easy access to applications, but keep the code, manage the security, and keep the data on the server.

It wouldn't allow access to data when offline, but I think that's actually a benefit when it comes to security. It could also be used by corporations to quickly secure lost devices since there would be no cached data, as well as lock down access at certain places such as when crossing the US border or when employees are on vacation (in other countries, especially).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_streaming
He claims encryption is "warrant proof" which is not true. You can have a court order someone to open the lock. They want the ability to dig through people's stuff without them knowing. That's what it's really about.
> The game publishers who continue to pay to use Denuvo indicate otherwise. In a hit-or-miss industry like video games, publishers are not in the habit of being stupid with their money.

I could say that the game publishers who continue to release games without additional protections indicate exactly this, as publishers are not in the habit of being stupid with their money.
That doesn’t seem like a good argument, does it?

The only reason, at least the one I could think of, why some publishers still push aggressive DRMs into their products is that someone is selling them this solution and management believes that they protect themselves from “bad pirates”.

If someone wants to buy the game, he will buy it. If someone wants to pirate it, he will do just that.
The only 100% working way around it are multiplayer games.

The other almost as successful method seem to be just making good games, as Nintendo, From Software, CD Projekt etc show again and again.
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Of course France also has the highest proportion of clean energy production of any major country (nuclear, hydro and 'green' energy is the vast majority of its production). It has the most rail systems, is very friendly to pedestrians, etc... So yes, for a child to lecture their parliament on green energy is counter productive. Lecture the US, Canada, Russia, etc...
"Systematic, correctable mistake" is not the way to describe errors made by AI algorithms, and definitely not in the context of an engineered system containing many algorithms and sensors.

In general, AI algorithms are famously opaque and hard to debug.

It's too long to explain here, but here are some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainable_artificial_intelli...

https://www.wired.com/story/greedy-brittle-opaque-and-shallo...

https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/05/02/companies-grapple-with-...

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/04/23/ar...

https://towardsdatascience.com/need-for-explainability-in-ai...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2018/12/20/geoff...

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BTW I'm also a cyclist. Human drivers can be annoying, but I find that they do act predictably. I've been cycling 5+ days a week in SF for 10+ years. I find that the drivers are worse when I bike in cities where bikes aren't as prevalent. Humans do learn. When you get into a conflict, there are emotions, and emotions are mechanisms for learning :)

It seems like you think that an AI is "just" a computer program, where the errors ARE indeed systematic and correctable. But AI is fundamentally different.
This is from (1993)
Over and over:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

The open source folks have worked around this before:

* https://wiki.debian.org/non-US
If you can't do every year, what about every 2 or every 3 years?
overengineering, sure, but also underengineering
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And that's why you don't talk to police; they could have just said no or refused to answer to make it harder for the investigators.
Ah I either missed or misunderstood the use of "modern" there. I can't speak to the relationship between diet and melanoma or Alzheimer's, but I understand your point.
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The only game I've bothered to put on my new phone since buying it 6 months ago is an open source Scrabble clone I found on F-droid called "Crossword". Every so often I'll look on the Play Store for a game, but I find nothing but pay-to-win advertising-flooded lookalikes and abandon the search.

I'm perfectly happy to pay a one-time price for a fun game that includes all content and is playable offline. Unfortunately they seem to be in rather short supply.
> The biggest safety issue associated with these cars is that everyone else...

...drives dangerously and therefore illegally?

That's an indictment of human drivers, not self-driving vehicles.

So start aggressively ticketing all of the reckless humans and maybe that behavior will stop.

If you have to swerve, then you're not following at a safe distance. If you swerve without having to, that's also recklessly dangerous. Both behaviors _should_ be penalized.
Lol this reminds me of what my dietitian cousin is known to say: everything in moderation... including moderation ; )
That's how you're supposed to do things, though. You want to write the policies before the event, when you can think things through slowly and carefully. There's nothing wrong with this part of what he has to say...only the other parts.
Most haven't actually. The modus operandi of the scooter companies seems to be:

1. Drop a load of scooters around town in the middle of the night

2. Wait for the city to take notice

3. Apply for permit after the fact

They're very much in the "Easier to ask forgiveness than permission" game right now.
Steganography, not stenography.
And 80% of people who are texting and distracted while driving.
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I solve problems without thinking imperatively all the time -.- it isn't inherent
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There was an interesting related talk on SIGMOD this year[1], at which Microsoft presented how they take db-level index suggestions from many MS SQL databases in Azure, apply most of them to the databases on hidden replicas, do A/B testing on them (replaying recorded workloads on replicas, etc), and push only the proven suggestions to production.

Seems like tools described in the article could allow doing something similar with PostgreSQL at scale.

[1]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/automat...
The index isn't the hard part, it is the ranking. The proposal also makes basically all forms of anti abuse impossible.
Thinking ahead to the next time I need it (I haven't tested this), I was looking into current respectful options for people who are on-call in some way.

Considerations included not interrupting personal time or reminding people of work unnecessarily, location privacy, certainly not doing MDM of personal devices, security simplicity, etc.

The most interesting option was the old-school one-way radio alpha/numeric pager. It turns out that the Boston hospitals still use these heavily, as do some EMTs, and they're considered much more reliable than cellular- and WiFi-connected smartphones.

I'm imagining people on-call have their pager on, and it's only used for emergencies. There would be a couple/few numeric codes for the few different appropriate possibilities of importance/urgency/nature/modality, and what you should do. The most usual code might mean get on email/chat ASAP. Another code might mean phone devops ASAP. Code "666" apocalypse might mean call a car service immediately, get on phone/email/chat while you wait, don't delay to groom or anything.

As a matter of culture, all of the codes are worth bothering someone in their personal time. For example, maybe there's no code for "hey, if you have a second, it would save me half an hour if...". (Of course, we have to not raise the importance/urgency bar too much, or people might end up staying on chat or something, because the pager's bar is higher than their own.)
Plaintext email was doomed from the moment it got named "email" rather than "etelegram". Regular mail can include graphics, different fonts, color, bold, etc., so it is natural to expect email to handle that too.

Early email systems could not, but because they ran on systems that could only display simple text, the natural assumption is that they were plain because of technological limitations.

Once GUI systems became the norm, removing that limitation, it was inevitable that email would follow.

This is not to say that HTML email is good. It was inevitable that email would support rich text, inline attachments, and stuff like that that, but HTML did not have to be the way that was done.
It's interesting to see the new uproar about this change over on r/DoorDash. It's interesting to see a lot of the workers now worried this will actually end up being even less. It seems like they (workers/drivers) got what they wanted, but also didn't.
> Almost everything is legos now

I strongly believe that this was always the case. There was never a 'breakthrough' invention.
"...don't know who you are really working with..." this resonates with me, I recently left a company of finding out that the recently hired VP was the Presidents favorite bar tender, he was also trying to coax her into a relationship. The VP had also backdated her resume and was claiming to have been at the company about 4 years prior to her actual arrival.
The hasty reaction was the panic that led lawmakers to grab for the most sweeping policy option they could find. What looks like prudence and caution in normal times looks like half-measures and cowardice in the heat of an emergency. Those policy proposals would have continued gathering dust forever, had not 9/11 provided a political moment that transformed things that everyone had considered faults into something that looked like virtues.
The OP's point is that it might be better if HN allowed slightly more formatting than it does. Personally, while I wouldn't want full-bore HTML, I'd like to see a more substantial subset of Markdown[1] supported. Your own examples of tables, lists, and block quotes would look a lot better if they were, you know, actual tables, lists, and block quotes.

[1]: Markdown isn't perfect, but it's pretty well-known, and by design mimics a lot of conventions that came from plain text email to start with.
> With a focal length equivalent to 1000mm

Otherwise known as a meter.
Article dereferenced, with more details on the experiments: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-darwinism-an-idea-to-...
Even if the gov required backdoors. It's not going to stop the highly invested terrorists. If someone was to go through all the trouble of plotting another 911, I think they'd have more then enough money to create a secure messaging site of their own. All it takes is one little web site with a really strong encryption algorithm. It's pretty trivial to create your own messaging platform and not too hard to add a large enough encryption to it.
Lets put backdoors in politician's communications first that anyone can hack. If it goes well then we will support it.
Because a gun is a physical object, whereas a vulnerability is information.
Which is exactly what would happen. Low-effort E2E encryption (Signal, iMessage) primarily benefits lawful users; but bad actors are sufficiently motivated to invest the effort in getting around encryption restrictions by disguising communications as legitimate data.
I see some problems in India with the allocation of seats in the upper house of the parliament split unequally among the states, unlike the senate in the USA. That means states with more population have a bigger say, rather than having all states having an equal say.
This doesn't change anything. DoorDash will lower the base pay of the orders, meaning the total compensation for Dashers will remain the same.

DoorDash has a model for what it considers "fair compensation" for an order. Since the company can see exactly what the customers tip in advance, they'll just subtract the tip amount from their previously calculated "fair compensation" and show that base pay / tip breakdown to the Dashers. DoorDash isn't going to suddenly increase its Dashers' pay by 50%.

If you want to actually compensate the Dashers, tip $0 in the app (raising base pay) and hand them cash at the door. That seems to be the only way to get around this policy.
> For this reason, the “what it’s like” to be a conscious mind can’t be described in the purely relational, dispositional terms accessible to science. There’s just no way to get there from here.

Chalmers can keep saying this until he’s blue in the face, but it doesn’t make it true.
The Mac version came first and later they decided to port it to windows.
I'll keep tipping in cash, thank you.
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I was amazed a few months ago when Instacart managed the uproar over this same practice and DoorDash apparently calculated that Instacart would take the brunt of the outrage and they would be able to keep their heads down and let it blow over without making any changes. That was stupid and it was only a matter of time before the next reporter noticed it and it would blow up again.

The correct evil strategy seems to be what Instacart is doing now which is to make a complicated algorithm so opaque that nobody understands it so it's difficult for it to generate outrage.
> It takes a prohibitively long time to knock on 2^256 bricks

This assumes you have to knock on 2^256 bricks and not just wiggle the mortar free in one spot. WEP wifi encryption is an example of an implementation failure vs. theoretical time to brute force the encryption.
Display behaviors such as willful risk taking and demonstrating physical prowess that greatly increase your mating market value are far from meaningless or purposeless. That they also make you happy in themselves is wonderful, but even if they made you miserable and you just chose to do them anyhow they would still have meaning and purpose.
I decided to change the email address I have registered with facebook after reading this ruling and seeing the long list of advertisers who uploaded customer lists with my email address. However, facebook blocks me from updating my email address and instead displays messages like "Sorry, this feature isn't available right now"[0].

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there anything I can do besides creating a new account with the right email address?

0: https://i.imgur.com/4WEBAXD.png
Thanks! That's an interesting perspective. Golang is getting more traction, maybe I will take this road. However, I don't want to intimidate first learners with difficulties of the language. All languages are similar in some way.