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Apparently they do, and it includes the power to lower pay:

> In April, Amazon announced it would reduce the amount it paid for drivers from $17.25 to $16.00 an hour, according to the letter.

When what Amazon pays doesn’t cover the statutory minimums, the contract delivery companies have to make up the difference.
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>Is there even a way a user can check who signed the apk

Yes, super easy to check all the signatures on every app in your android phone with this: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/info.guardianproject.checkey...
Seize the means of production...? That has an actual meaning and I don't think that's what you're describing. I assure you that hasn't happened in the US yet. The means of production have generally been controlled by the ruling elite since the founding of the nation.
Perhaps. The meager amount they are currently paying on loans (if any, given deferrment options) is much offset by public and tax subsidies for low earners.

OTOH, I agree. If they are earning income and repaying, then I don't see a reason to nullify any loans of theirs. ( or mine )
Climate change has been widely known and understood for decades.

It is convenient to blame the oil companies, but the fault lies in all of us who live in a democracy but did not prioritize regulating carbon emissions.

If you doubt that it is our fault, look at the recent Swiss referendum that failed:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/swiss-voters-decide-pest...

It was a referendum in a well educated, first world nation, in 2021 and they could not muster the willpower to solve the problem.

The problem is not the oil and gas companies, it is all of us.
> I’m guessing it’s one of the most welcoming and meritocratic industries!

And I’m guessing you’re not one of the affected minorities. Otherwise you might see that “the system works for this subset of people so it must be working for everyone” is a flawed and untrue argument, at least in tech.

People pushing for more equal treatment of certain minorities didn’t happen out of the blue. There’s a long history of certain subgroups getting passed up during interviews, underpaid, getting passed up for promotions, etc. As an example an ex-colleague had a really hard time landing his first job in the industry. No one would call him back. He wondered whether his Hispanic sounding name was hurting his chances, so he anglicized it and tried again. He said it was like night and day. He found a job soon after. Perhaps you haven’t witnessed something like this first or second hand.

I think many companies are butchering their diversity recruiting efforts. They try to “fix” the issue with superficial and inefficient policies. But the problem they’re attempting to address is very real.
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I don't care what someone that behaves that way thinks of me. I seldom repeat to places with bad service. Or if I do, I seldom see the same waiter. In reality, this has zero impact on me except further diminishes my opinion of the "profession" which goes back to my original comment about degrading service and increasing expectations ($) being at conflict
>Every time you move things around to "make it more aesthetically pleasing" or "refresh it", you're messing with people's muscle memory. People hate when their muscle memory is messed with.

While I agree with you, no one does this as much/often as Apple and somehow people still praise it.
A variation of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect?

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Isn't the entire point of this to suggest code you may use, not to just blindly accept is correct without thinking?
If Amazon's deal is bad and nobody else offers delivery work, companies will just leave the delivery business. Neither the equipment nor the skill set is highly specialized, so switching to something more profitable is comparatively easy.
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That form is mandated by the government, not the company. Anyone with a Spanish speaking heritage is considered to be hispanic.
And forcing them to upgrade their equipment unnecessarily in order to keep them in debt.
And what about their shareholders?

In the last part of the 20th century, Shell had multiple research programs into alternative energy. These were all axed under pressure from the shareholders.
Your post history is interesting...
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698059
He has a wikipedia page, with more information on him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov

As someone that grew up in a totalitarian communist government. What Yuri speaks is consistent with my lived experience of how the communists acted to maintain power, in a country they occupied.
Schizophrenia is characterised by a difficulty properly categorising and integrating experiences, so it actually seems like a fairly good analogy.
If you hire a contractor to perform work on your house, and during their contract they happen to burn down one neighbor's house and destroy the wall of a separate neighbor's house - you will not be liable for their actions.

If you think that Amazon should be liable for the actions of their contracted drivers, you would likewise be liable for burning down and destroying your neighbor's houses.
Or at least no incidents that got reported to the media.
It’s GPT though and the GPT models were trained on data from Wikipedia
... or people just looking to be the voice of reason against harmful conspiracy theories and blatant propaganda.
That depends https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/float-precision...
I don't trust that the government would be smart enough to do that.
First author is a science historian, and the physicist studies keto diets, I don't think they're used to particularly rigorous academic standards.
If you went to school before 2011 this likely isn't how it worked. Instead you actually got a loan from a private lender which was guaranteed by the federal government. The ACA changed this so that the federal government now actually originates and owns the loan.

> Prior to the Affordable Care Act, a majority of student loans originated with a private lender but were guaranteed by the government, meaning taxpayers foot the bill if student borrowers default. In 2010, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated 55% of loans fell into this category. Between 2011 and 2016, the share of privately originated student loans fell by nearly 90%.
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Well, they did say to be exact, and you handed them approximations, so...
The kind of moralizing about making the right decisions stigmatizes people who couldn't make it through college for financial reasons and weren't able to find a job afterward and pay off their debt. It stigmatizes grad students who started off with good intentions but couldn't make it through the meat grinder. It stigmatizes first generation college students who had to return home after a year or two. All of these people now face student debts that can't be discharged by bankruptcy.

If we agree as a society to invest in war, but we can't invest in our people, then we will reap what we sow.
Because it's a crime to intently destroy other peoples property?
Legally yes. Amazon isn't entitled to money for products they don't deliver.
Yep, your 401k will be indirectly affected by this.

The real fun starts 20-ish years down the line when our elected officials decide to directly seize 401k assets in the name of "equity."
I re-watched Adam Curtis's All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace documentary again recently. It was a strong reminder that the global financier class has never, ever, ever allowed their investments to fail. The IMF or others have stepped in country after country, time after time, the whole world monetary order has been about putting countries deeply into debt to bail out very large investors when their investments when things start to go wrong. Financial stability has always meant saddling the people of a nation with the responsibility to keep the very wealthy in good positions.

The first example is of the Asian Financial Crisis, and the documentary goes on to show how the 2007 US Financial Crisis showed the same playbook in action, of incredibly poorly planned monetary investments going awry & all effort being given to shield the financiers who made these bad decisions from harm.

So, like... yeah. We have made investing in markets have no penalty, for some. Deciding to invest in the welfare & improvement of our nation seems only logical, like only a modicum of parity, given the radical ways the world has continued to spend money to protect the vast fortunes of the giant investor class.
They wouldn't even have to change the prices. Amazon (overall, not necessarily on every sale) is making super-normal profit, in an industry where they dominate among few sellers and there are plenty of barriers to new companies entering and chipping away at the margin.
I don’t think people should have to care. They are customers. They want to buy things and have them delivered for a good price.

Why is the consumer or shareholder being asked to solve a legislative problem?

Buying consumer goods shouldn’t be a political statement. It’s just ignoring the actual problem of insufficient legal protections for workers.

If Amazon can orchestrate a scheme in which they subcontract deliveries to absolve themselves of the responsibility for employee health and safety, that is a legal issue, not a “I gusss I shouldn’t order dental floss off Amazon” problem.
It seems like every e-tailer is getting worse about the quality of their shipped products. I keep getting, if not counterfeits, visibly open-box products sold as new from the websites of places like Wal-mart, Target and Best Buy too.

I now do everything I can to buy directly from the manufacturer or their recommended channels (or, in the situations where I feel qualified to evaluate what I'm getting, the used market).
It would be viewed as IP theft by most companies to upload private code to this for use by others
Was it recent? I've had no issues whitelisting my IP in the past, but all my requests in the last 6 months have been ignored.
Is anyone doing deep (neural networks) deep packet inspection?
This only seems true for the case of simply defined methods. Differences arising from being able to do late binding is better described on Dynamic Dispatch wiki page[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dispatch#Dynamic_dispa...
oh that is nice to know, thanks
> There's a difference between destroying someone's stuff because you hate your job and just not caring about someone's stuff because you want your job.

What is the difference, when you said you destroyed the packages in each case?
I've tried using SPARQL in the past and found it to be very difficult. There are some aspects here that seem like improvements:
- I really like that a query only operates on a single graph. Quads make what should be simple triple queries on a graph much harder than necessary in RDF/SPARQL.
- I like the path-oriented declarative design. It seems like a declarative version of the imperative graph traversal libraries.
- The inline creation of records based on state in a traversal is also intuitive.
- The simple type system is a welcome change from RDF's xsd monstrosity

It still seems to be missing some things. For example, they show a recursive query, but no way to return the actual path taken, only the start and end points (I also can't figure out how to do in SPARQL); I don't see a way to explore predicate relationships; is there a method for reification?
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I would do this with Reddit posts. I’d see the top comment under something I was familiar with and see it was full of holes or just incorrect but then I’d go to a post about something I didn’t know all that well and take the top comment at face value.
The source that this article cites is stundin.is. That article does not have any links or citations for what it's saying. It just refers to 'court documents'. It also cites other evidence obtained by stundin directly, but does not link to it or quote from it directly. How do we know if this claim is even true?
Nice work Nick!

This is the first time I've come across this https://magic.link/ service. Logging in via email like this is a fascinating idea.
Or Amazon can just buy them and make it work.
Why is that? I remember reading about the scheduler not being able to correctly "attach" to each core when using Docker but it seems that's not the case anymore. Is there any other disadvantage you perceive?
The article is entertaining bs. It's about as scientific as H.P.Lovecrafts "At the mountains of madness".
> Just send a validation email during the onboarding process. Don't create the account until they validate.

This is literally the same thing the person you're replying to suggested.
You mean the gross polluters like us who willingly buy and burn the oil companies products every day, right?
That does not seem like a response to what I just said?

I said that it is impossible for the user to check that the code copilot gives is OK, license-wise, and therefore, they can not be sure that it is legally OK to include in any project.
I love reading threads like this.

> right click on the Mac desktop and scan a document with your iPhone

Had no idea that was an option, until you mentioned it. Hiding right under my nose. Handy feature.
Yes, the risk management/instrument pricing part in the "Front Office" uses floats, because the calculations involve compound interest and discount rates.

And the downstream parts for trade confirmation ("Middle Office"), settlement and accounting ("Back Office") used fixed precision. Because they are fundamentally accounting, which involves adding things up and cross-checking totals.

These two parts have a very clear boundary, with strictly defined rounding rules when the floating point risk/trading values get turned into fixed point accounting values.
If they were so advanced why didnt they sail to europe and conquer them?
Yep, the AWS cost footprint of this system is eye-watering. The compute spend is 2x the RDS spend!

Can't say too much, but it's Financial Services related.
"Latinx" is especially great because it sends such a clear message: "We wish to use this ethnic group to make us look like we're concerned about the problems social justice, but we don't actually respect that 97% of the people we're describing don't use that term or want that term."
It's not a "Copilot for Emacs" though?
It's a layer on top of language models APIs made for Emacs.

So, if you use GPT-3, it will not be finetuned further on code like Copilot, only pretrained on data that did contain some code, and also the GPL portion only concerns that API-calling layer, not what the model was trained on, or what it can output (which is what the GPL related mess about Copilot is about).
> Personally I think we could probably trace it back to soviet infiltration of the university education system

What, not into our precious bodily fluids[1]?

This is a facile explanation. America’s politics and culture over the last 80 years have first and foremost been a reaction to the perceived threat of the Soviets. There’s no particular reason, especially as the United States remains remarkably conservative for a developed nation, to blame things on a country that’s been gone for over 30 years.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
But is that a case of them dictating pay or just changing the formula for how they pay delivery companies?

If I tell IBM that I am not paying $100 an hour for their crappy consultants and will only pay $20, I still don't employ their consultant.

> In April, Amazon announced it would reduce the amount it paid for drivers from $17.25 to $16.00 an hour, according to the letter. This meant Amazon delivery companies were paying even more for drivers' wages.

To me, it just seems to be a reimbursement rate, not what the driver actually makes.
"Neighbors"? Singapore is 2000km from the closest part of China! I'm not "playing" dumb; in this entire thread you have given us no reason to expect Singapore and China to have similar modernization performance. Less charitable people than myself might suspect that your personal reason is one you can't mention in polite company.
This is having impact. Noticed last night that all orders to Portland had a delivery date of one week out vs the normal two days.
This is not really helicopter money in that sense, you’re not giving out unallocated free money, you’re just doing cash flow relief.

I think there is a good argument to make that cancelling that debt, and fixing the US college system, would likely result in more innovation: folks who come from (lower) middle class backgrounds could finally take more risk and try new jobs / start startups that they can’t today because of the money they need to put into debt service.
Pretty sure the user is making sock puppet accounts because I also see this link elsewhere on this thread... wish I had the power to report it.
>LGBTTQQIAAP

I had to look up if this acronym was some kind of joke.
I just spent an hour or so playing with the notebooks at the end of the article, and it's pretty much all nightmare fuel

https://imgur.com/a/kUDgbsH
If only 1% of someone's creative output is product placement, the other 99% is rubbish. They don't have creative freedom.

Product placement is a sneaky form of advertising that degrades the creative value of whatever it's in, because unlike an ad next to an editorial, the advertiser in a placement explicitly alters and by definition limits and demands what the creative content can or cannot include.

There's a word for rock stars who tout products - sellouts. Influencers are basically people whose idea of a great gig is to be popular enough to sell out.

Put another way, creatives get paid for their own ideas, whether by selling work product directly or by ads placed which go with that work. And one way we judge the quality of any art or medium is the degree to which the creators are free from the influence of their advertisers. Influencers, on the other hand, merely mimic creativity as a means to shill for an advertiser.

I'm an art director among other things, and I make ads for a living. In that industry, I'm a "creative"... as are designers I work with. But we're creating on behalf of a commercial enterprise, i.e. we don't have true creative freedom in that realm, or freedom of expression. And neither do influencers. In fact, they have even less than the marketing departments who sponsor them.

So there's a difference, and 'influencer' is disparaging, and the social disdain is well-earned.
I think we are missing some information. I know my wife will order items on a separate account, this means some days I get 4/5 packages delivered at the same time. I think a packages/day and stops/day metric would be more helpful
These statements seem contradictory to me:

> I'd rather have a happy safe driver than a miserable one at the end of his or her rope

> Amazon’s entire value to me is fast delivery

My understanding is that the pace/quantity of deliveries is what makes the drivers miserable so if you want the drivers to be happier and not stressed then relaxing the delivery standards would have the most impact.

Do we really need most of the stuff sold on Amazon delivered in 2 days or less (or even at all)?
I'm not really sure that type of tool could really be anything else.

How would a model become aware of all of the various edge cases that depend on which SQL database you use or differences in language versions over time?
Seems like a good way to test and play around with APIs before coding it all out
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I'm leaning more towards: "Sorry, no private out-of-state liberal arts college for you..." than "Sorry, no education for you."

The free-flowing student loan money has created the same kind of bubble that "stated income" and "0% down" loans created in housing in 2008.
On the one hand, on the issue of climate change they have behaved very very poorly overall. Spending huge sums of money that have not only misled people about climate change, but have intentionally harmed the public's perception of science generally.

On the other hand fossil fuels are what fuel all of the growth and production of our modern world. Sadly the power they accumulated was not used responsibly, but then it rarely is.
I absolutely do not and this unification trend has pushed me to finally spin up a separate BSD desktop and keep OS X around solely for iOS development.

I was so optimistic when the iPad launched with iOS. It made sense that a tablet running a very limited OS would make the perfect user-facing device that could potentially free up OSX to evolve in a more developer/power user direction, since you could now offload the general purpose users to iOS.

Instead the opposite has happened and macOS has evovled closer to iOS, thus causing me to lose all hope in the future of the macOS platform. C'est la vie.
I think student dept should be discharged in bankruptcy - but along with it you need to also discharge the education you got. I can't think of any way to do that (outside of science fiction).
> He was fired because many employees refused to work with him. How can you employ someone who can't communicate with his coworkers?

No, Google is huge, they could have put that guy in another team or whatever. He was fired because someone leaked his memo and the press managed to make it bad PR for google. He was fired for PR reasons nothing more, in an era that was all about "girls in tech" in a patronizing fashion.
Art exists in context, in its place within history. This junk lacks any context. It's creator lacks understanding, rendering only images without meaning. If people find them pleasant then that's good for them. I find many trees pleasant to look at. That doesn't make them art.
The modern (western) world has a hard time separating racism and slavery. And bigotry for that matter.
But it is not the same as if you typed it yourself.

If you happen to type code that is similar to copyright code, that is generally considered legally OK.

If you copypaste copyrighted code, that is not legally OK.

If you accept that same code from an autocomplete tool, that can easily be seen as equivalent to the latter case rather than the former.