skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people misunderstand upfront fares. Its like buying an airplane ticket: the airline charges passengers the appropriate price to fill the plane, and it pays pilots a salary. Pilots who fly more profitable routes don't get paid bonuses because their passengers pay more. Same thing with UPS drivers, who get paid a fixed amount to drive packages around. The concept of "up front fares" seems to be widely practiced in logistics companies, and is probably a part of the transition as ride sharing companies become less like taxis and more like UPS/airlines.
An important aspect of thinking critically is the willingness to entertain opposing ideas as true. If you can reject an opposing position even while granting it the benefit of the doubt, then that says good things about the strength of your original position. But if you can't reject such an opposing position, then that helps to inform how you should respond to people with that position since now you know that, rather than being illogical, it's merely that their axioms are different.
(Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Spanner).

Cloud Spanner fully supports interactive read-write transactions.

I'm not sure what the source of the confusion here is. Maybe Daniel is using a new definition of "client-side interactive transactions" that I'm unfamiliar with. :)
How to show that we are not “cheating” but helping
Sometimes people misunderstand what our startup does and assume we are unethical. We feel that we are ethical and our Clients(professors, employers, and students) love us and thank us for our efforts every day. Yet some people(not our client groups, but perhaps future investors) jump to the conclusion that we are helping people "cheat". I think it may be in the way we word our services.

We are helping amazing, and often genius level students from around the world get into western universities and secure funding. We do this because so many times we have seen the erected barriers hold back many bring minds- "If you can cure cancer, but can't write an essay, you might never get your chance."

Our services include:

1.A super-massive university search
2.CV writing software
3.Reference letter writing software which helps non-native English speaking professors, and employers write clear, precise letters for students.
4. Software that explores the personality of non-native English speaking students, and uses the data to prepare rough essays and personal statements that show western universities the quality and potential of our student-clients.

Service 3 sometimes brings on the stoning, but service 4 almost always does. Will we always face this problem or is there something we can do to prevent this misconception?

A case study:
We had a client, Sam. Sam was, without question, a genius. As an undergrad, he was accepted as a research assistant by a top professor where he developed an impressive array of self-driving algorithms. He then applied for graduate school in the USA and failed. He had no idea how to write an essay and he was so modest that he ignored all of his stellar work. On top of this, his highly-awarded professor had a weak hold on English and had been unable to write a clear reference letter. We took charge, we helped Sam, and he was offered several full scholarships from top American Universities.
If everybody accepts exchange goods for cattle, expecting to exchange those cattle back into something they want later, then cattle is money.

If people exchange goods for cattle just because they want some meat, than it's not money.
So, if I post a GB worth of diary entries, who ends up caching it by default? Just my followers? People I follow? Pubs I connect to?
> OpenAI defies their reputation for closedness

Does not compute.
Above and Below Content
This is a very 2015-era comment. We've seen a lot of evidence over the last year-and-a-half that it's just not true that Uber's only expenditures are on expansion.

I think that this is the reality:

1. There are lots of reasons why customers may not take an Uber. They could take a Lyft, they could take their own car, they could take public transportation, they could take a taxi, and they could in many cases just not go out or substitute a closer destination.

2. Uber achieves high ride volumes in the face of #1 by heavily subsidizing both drivers and passengers, even in the case of relatively mature markets. This drives their profit margins down to extremely thin levels, or in fact negative.

3. Their proposed technological solutions to their margin problem have either not been broadly popular (Uber Pool) or have major roadblocks to even existing (self-driving cars).

4. Their proposed business model solution to their margin problem (being a logistics company) have the problem that nobody wants to be their customer.

5. All of the above are true even in the developed world, where a ride might average $15 and Uber's cut before subsidies might average $3. All of their expansion opportunities now (and in the last few couple of years) are in areas where a ride might average $5 and Uber's cut before subsidies might average $1 (or worse), making it harder and harder to recover the relatively fixed costs of expansion.

6. There is obviously a profitable business in being a taxi company. It's just not a $70B business, and indeed I'm not sure it's a $7B business.
Joel was a Microsoft guy, so I'm pretty sure he was looking for Visual Studio and MSDN licenses, as well as the latest Windows instead of 95/95 (or 3.1!).
This is simply not possible with what Glimmer tries to achieve. (Did you even read the article?)
Uber drivers don't get to accept or reject rides based on destination or cost. All they know is the pickup location of the passenger.

You really have to go through a lot of contortions to defend Uber on this one. Remember when Best Buy created an entire shadow web site just to keep people from looking up prices in the store? Maybe not illegal, but not a great business practice.
it will be hard to find an uber if drivers get tired of being ripped off
So what, they should have just ceded control of the pacific to the Japanese after Pearl Harbour?

They should have ignored Germany declaring war on them?

Or do you mean they never should have participated in lend/lease and dealing with the allies?
In other words: people who like the current status quo are less likely to make themselves heard than those who want something changed. So the trends you tried to extrapolate from the HN discussion may be biased.
Hey there! Thanks for the suggestion.

We're engaging with dozens of major vendors of traditional/proprietary software about delivering their software onto Ubuntu via Snaps -- which is a new packaging format that solves many of the traditional problems associated with proprietary software working well on Linux.

I'm going to ask Evan Dandrea and Michael Hall from Canonical to engage with Adobe around CS and anything else in their suite that might make sense to Snap.

Cheers!
@dustinkirkland
That's the Broken Windows Fallacy writ large. The US economy grew tremendously throughout the 19th century without making things and then destroying them.
Leah, the woman that statement references, posted her own personal message and apology below, so I think it's fair to assume she was consulted.

Though the whole situation has been an unfortunate mess, it takes real bravery to publically admit fault and share those sorts of struggles.
Okay... in the FB case, though, my friend has to send me the IP/DNS address of their pub somehow, right? eg; Signal?

What about organizing groups, which might currently use Slack? For example, political dissidents who don't necessarily all know each other personally. They must use some other communication channel to communicate pubs?
Hmm all of it? Does it have grids for photos?
Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Collects from Your PC
Yes, force-with-lease is really useful. I set it up as an alias of git fpush, and have never used push --force since.
I also like the Dell XPS 13 model.

Offer a pre-installed Linux version of a machine at higher cost, but do your best to upstream patches and homogenize hardware with the Windows pre-installed version.

Seems to split the difference between "a Linux laptop is economically unfeasible" and "with a little care in component selection and upstreaming drivers / fixes, compatibility can be assured."
I wrote quite a few DOS programs in the late 80's/early 90's that used ini files appended to the .exe as the configuration. All you had to do was run `copy prog.exe + config.ini program.exe` to build a single file that could be passed around without worrying about either a lost or changeable config file. Your code just needed to read its own exe header to figure out where to offset into it to pull out the ini contents after opening the file in read-only mode. It worked very well for apps where you didn't want users to mess with the config.
From my little experience with the AI community, I think people in it love to obfuscate things. Any attempt to make a topic approachable, even if some of the details are lost, get smacked around. I face this every day in my Masters. If you don't already come with a knowledge of AI + Stats, you're on your own. The community, including the teachers, don't want to teach the mundane.
A good article with an opaque headline that gives no clue that it compares the ancient Roman economy to the early modern one.

I agree slavery was very important but, early modern Europe had slavery too. It begs the question to just say slavery was less important to the modern economy: why was that? One difference is that early modern Europe, for all its wars, had no dominant apex predator like the Roman Republic.

True, the Republic fostered advanced trade -- it was wise enough not to destroy provincial economies. But aristocrats still lived off the taxes and bribes payed in conquered lands.

This meant that if you had some wealth, the best investment for it was to bribe your way to a government post. This general pattern lead to the empire, and to its corruption.

It also explains the rentier culture that the article describes.
My personal nightmare with BofA started when they merged with Fleet. I had a credit card with Fleet and it had been set to auto-pay the balance every month. After the merger, the auto-pay got disabled without telling me and by the time I realized it two months later, around $20 of interest had accrued. After customer support calls to try to get it resolved, they refused to refund the interest. So I asked to cancel my account and asked for the full-payoff amount and the address to mail the check. Since I had paperless billing, I didn't have an official slip to send in with my payment, but I wrote my Fleet account number on the check and the check was cashed a couple of weeks later. I assumed the unpleasant situation was finished.

Little did I know, my nightmare was just beginning. Several years later, I was applying for an apartment and I failed the credit check. I got a hold of my credit report and saw that BofA claimed I had a large unpaid balance that was several years behind. After calling them many times to try to resolve it, we finally figured out that they had credited my payment to a non-existent account and that my account had a different BofA account number that was different from my Fleet account number. I thought that would clear everything up, but after they reconciled the two accounts, they still claimed I owed them over $4k in interest that had accrued on the unpaid account. No amount of common sense could make them realize that they cashed my full-payout amount check so my account should be fully paid off. It took getting a lawyer involved for them to finally zero out my account and, by that time, I'd missed out on the apartment. The lawyer also helped me dispute the credit mark on my account with the agencies because BofA refused to remove it. Hundreds of hours of my life calling their inept customer service and over $1k in legal fees all because of their screw-ups.

BofA are a truly despicable company that doesn't give customer service reps the ability to make even obvious, common-sense adjustments which leads situations like mine. Whenever I have the chance, I try to warn people away from doing business with them. They literally took a happy customer (I loved Fleet) and, through incompetence unwillingness to act reasonably, turned him into an enemy for life. And all for $20.
This is a hearing for a preliminary injunction. It comes before the actual trial. So we're pretty close to "there", for the purposes of the injunction. The idea is you stop the (possibly) bad behaviour based on the evidence at hand, to prevent long term damage while the trial winds its way through the courts.
> I'm only annoyed that people have been stating that same old statistic which hasn't been true for at least a decade.

Do you have a source? Wikipedia seems to still support the "same old statistic" in a lot of ways and indicates by all accounts an LDS majority in Utah.
The GTX 1070 is a very powerful card and can purchased for ~$370.

The GTX 1060 is also a good card if you're looking to game at 1080p (which most people still are). It can be found for around $200.
It's not a binary choice. I can use Uber and still pressure them to be a less shitty corporation.
You're not wrong on the first point, but I imagine consistency with the front and back of the index was on the spec designers minds.

I do have to point out that your second point is not correct. Remember it's not grid areas, it's grid dividers. So the final grid line <strong>is</strong> in fact -1.

See my very hasty little Codepen: https://codepen.io/jodi/pen/ZeNRJZ
I think you are approaching the problem the wrong way. If we are in space we can prevent the strike entirely.
The author links to pseudoerasmus's blog post about Empire of Cotton as if it were a refutation of Empire of Cotton's thesis. But that blog post is a summary, not a critique--the author says this explicitly in its comments. The closest the author comes to a critique is an aside in this post: https://pseudoerasmus.com/2015/04/26/mccloskey-cotton-ir/
with similar points made earlier in:
https://pseudoerasmus.com/2014/11/10/slavery_and_industriali...

...which is far from open-shut, in my reading of it. It's a tangential point, I guess, but worth considering in evaluating the plausibility of the whole argument.
My European history teacher had the same theory. Although there was also some hubris involved as he didn't take any senators like he should have
I was thinking the same thing, and I don't know enough (or anything really) about this to comment to this, but my second thought was that this probably works like bittorrent, where you don't need all of a file to make sense of the individual pieces.

Let's say for instance that the file you're downloading is a long text file containing a novel, but all you care about is chapter 3. Then all you need are the pieces for chapter 3 – the rest can stick around in the ether somewhere.

This is harder to do with bags of bytes obviously – how do you know which bytes belong to chapter 3? – but if the pieces are self contained messages where you don't need either the previous or the next to make sense of it, then it should be trivial to link to them and the distribution could work like this. Whether it actually works like this or not I have no idea. Sounds like an interesting project anyway!
Thanks for pointing this out! We've moved the textual examples into html, added alt text for images, and will be reviewing feature posts for accessibility
For those who weren't around, Usenet was built on uucp in the early 80s. As messages were store and forward you had to wait a good while for your messages to propagate - many servers only connected daily! Oh, and better set cron to dial in often as messages didn't stay in the spool too long!

Usenet back then was spam free and you could usually end up talking to the creators of whatever you're discussing. I rather miss it.

Quite a few tech companies used private newsgroups for support, so you'd dial into those separately. As they were often techie to techie they worked rather well.

I first came across Usenet and uucp via the Amiga Developer programme. Amicron and uucp overnight all seemed a bit magic back in 87 compared to dialing into non-networked BBS's to browse, very, very slowly!
Something richer. Take a look at the web app Notion. it's pretty close, but it still has the problem of having to upload everything into their platform all the time.

A rich media pinboard is my idea. I love pinboard, but it needs to allow for visual search, that way you could store and later search for images with it as well. It would also need to absorb my iPhone photos.
So, to both parties, they are under-promising on an unknowable future event.

that is better than over-promising?

i don't see the issue here.
According to the complaint, this was part of the contract:

52. The Uber Defendants and Plaintiff and the other Class Members had a
contractual agreement regarding the collection, receipt, and payment to drivers of the
fares paid by Users for the driver’s transportation services.
53. The Uber Defendants agreed that they would collect and pay to the
Plaintiff the fare by the User, minus a contractual service fee and booking fee.
54. As a result of the misrepresentations and omissions alleged herein,
including the Uber Defendants' failure to remit payment to the Plaintiff and other Class
members of the full amount of the fare (after deducting the contractual service fee
percentage and booking fee), there has been a violation or breach of the agreement
between Plaintiff and the Uber Defendants. Accordingly, Plaintiff and the other Class
members have been underpaid for their services and did not receive the benefit of
their bargain.

If the contract with drivers did, in fact, say that Uber would pay out the fare that the user paid minus a standard service and booking fee, then it seems like this is pretty solid, though IANAL. I have no idea if that's what the actual agreement is, though.
If you look at the commit history, the BSDs are very much derived from AT&T Unix.
Having worked for corporate software projects and for free software projects, I can't say that free software projects are dominated by personnel issues any more than corporate software projects.

The main difference is things tend to happen out in the open for free software projects, and things happen behind closed doors within corporations. So it just seems like there is more drama, because issues are hashed out in public, things are not swept under the rug.
From the source:

"White/Caucasian physicians earn the most ($303,000), followed by those who are Asian ($283,000), Hispanic ($271,000), and black/African American ($262,000).

The gap can be partly explained by participation in primary care, which pays less. Of the four groups, black/African American doctors are most likely (30%) and white doctors least likely (20%) to be PCPs, the survey found."

They continue:

"A 2016 studyin BMJ[12] found an even wider gap than the new Medscape report in payment levels for black doctors. White male physicians in the United States earned as much as 35% more than black physicians, even after accounting for specialty, experience, number of hours worked, number of Medicaid patients, and whether the physician is a PCP, the study found."

I can't find the BJM report. The phrase "earned as much as 35% more" is odd. Is this some maximum out of all the professions considered? a single doctor who earned more? The maximum seems like an odd number to report without reporting the average. Is there some reason they want to exaggerate the difference? It irks me.

edit:
I suspect another large factor they did not consider is location of practice. We should only compare doctors that practice in the same location. Location plays a big influence on the wealth of your customers, and therefore how much you are paid.
The full archive of Libreboot blog posts can be found via https://web.archive.org/web/*/libreboot.org
Really? The first number is always the major release and the second number is always the line from what I can recall? It's pretty high up there in terms of naming consistency.
On the other hand, video cards meant for games generally can't take sustained load. By that I mean you can't run them at 90-100% load for days on end in e.g. a render farm, they invariably melt. You're paying for better build quality and for having enough money for a render farm.
Very few companies even scan your entire DNA. 23andMe analyzes for example maybe less than 1 or 2%.
You're welcome Dan! It was a lot of work, but so, so, so worth it. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Or rather, maybe in 6 months :-)
200ug is not high...?

Starting a fire alarm etc. just means the guy was using the reduced inhibition to go ballastic. Just stupid really. Don't go blame the stuff for that.

>400 is high.
up to 150/200 is low - can function normally.
between 200/400 is hard to function normally.
above 400 you really kinda can't, best just lie down and let the colors wash over.
Unintended consequences of increasing minimum salary requirements for H-1B visa
Ask HN: Is there a realtime mechanical turk service?
I'm looking to get Yes/No categorization on images in realtime via a mechanical turk-like service. For instance - "is there a cat in this photo?". Unfortunately most services I've seen take minutes/hours/days for a response w/ a person, or don't get the categorization right for my data w/ an algorithm.
Item 1 also applies to people trying to communicate in post-disaster scenarios (e.g. earthquakes).

I know some people who work in that area, and every time one of them finds out I work in software their first question is about mesh networking. If SSB is what it seems to be (user friendly, no-frills ad hoc mesh networking) then that would be huge for emergency and disaster planners! Is it mature enough to be used in this way?
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I prefer to have a locally-hosted solution.
I think the biggest thing that people want (or at least I do) is for Canonical to drop Mir, and focus on Wayland. Apparently Unity and Mir are so tightly coupled that it wasn't even worth mentioning Mir in Shuttleworth's post.
Pilots who fly better routes do get paid more.

Because seniority.

http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/seniority/

(better may not always equate to most profitable though, it might be other things like schedule)
ooh, that is pretty big.

cool.
I share your skepticism. Part of the problem with the War on Drugs is that forcing science underground basically puts us in a medieval situation, where we have to rely on word of mouth and personal experiences.

It doesn't sound like LSD to me either, but all I can say for sure is that I took a whole bunch of stuff which people told me was LSD, back in the day, and that it affected me differently.

edit: skepticism significantly increased, now that people are talking about LSD causing reduced inhibitions. seen and experienced extraordinary counterexamples. it's not alcohol, folks.
I honestly would not have been surprised to find out that Apple automatically created iCloud IDs for people if they didn't have one already.
Agreed, understood, thanks!
> That is a fact

We have differing definitions of facts, I guess.
According to the Uber website, drivers get paid based on time and distance.

https://www.uber.com/info/how-much-do-drivers-with-uber-make...

>Los Angeles - $0.15 per minute and $0.90 per mile

>San Francisco - $0.22 per minute and $1.15 per mile

>Chicago - $0.20 per minute and $0.90 per mile

>Boston - $0.20 per minute and $1.24 per mile
Are you writing the essays for them or helping them write their essays? Why not just partner with a service like Essay Edge that has has already dealt with these concerns?
If they're using a fraudulent route as the basis for the price, that's like your contractor billing you for more manhours than it actually took.
FSEngine Dev Timelapse 4 – Vulkan rewrite beginning
After+installing+Creators+Update