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It would be good to consider the reasons why certain people still feel it is a good idea to work/drive for a company such as Uber.

Is it a lack of alternatives? A "better than nothing" situation? Does anyone have insights?
This is more like a pharmaceutical company taking a financial hit to help in a sudden epidemic by giving out antidotes/vaccines for free, for the sake of public interest and the ecosystem.

Just because they had the vaccines ready in warehouses or could manufacture more easily doesn't mean that their customers "deserved" them for free before the epidemic hit.

If the customers actually desired security, they would've paid for XP/2003 patches or upgraded to a different supported OS. Those customers messed up on their own, and Microsoft is giving them an out here.
Thanks - Unfortunately that's just the way the component library (React Toolbox) behaves. I could probably force a 'display: none' or something but I'd rather spend my time adding more feature :)
Higher capacity, tend to be more durable (with some still in service after 50+ years of service), and yes more energy efficient.

E-class trams [1] that are being deployed (46 in service and more added each month) here in Melbourne can carry up to 210 passengers (64 seated, 146 standing).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-class_Melbourne_tram
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What platform (Rust just uses the host system's libm)?
How much is uber eats making per hour?
WannaCry security update for Windows XP/2003 was ready in February
I rode for UberEats for two weeks and made roughly £22 an hour.

To be fair, this was when they were just coming into London and offering crazy bonuses to steal market share from Deliveroo, but still, this isn't controversial - if someone pays you bad wages, don't work for them...
The in-office hell is worse.

Hell is other people.
I will admit I've just rapidly paged through that PDF, but it looks like I'm reading a Xen introductory paper.

Xen is open source.

I found some PV IO drivers at https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv which mention XP (search for 'XP' including (!) single quotes), and a quick Google does immediately give hits on running XP as a HVM guest.

I'm (genuinely) curious what you're describing/referring to here. What project disappeared?
For a fake HID device, you'd see cmd windows or whatever else it uses popping up. Other data hidden on it isn't a problem by itself. It can only passively sit there without some other attack vector.
The article could have been writen in 15 lines or less.
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Working fine on FreeBSD 10 for me, but it's not default yet as far as I know.

My thoughts on the matter are, this is all a pointless waste of time/effort, or otherwise said, an arms race of exploits/bugs that will go on and on and produce nothing of value, except justifying a military budget in various govs.

If they truly were doing their jobs and being of benefit, we wouldn't have the corruption we do, the paedo rings, the drug cartels etc.

To be secure, you have to beat the smartest people on the planet I would have thought, and unless you have a nation's resources, that's tricky. Tightening laws I'm not sure is the answer either, it feels like human nature expressed in Internet terms.
I don't know about now, but I cycled for UberEats when they first came to London last summer, and averaged £22 an hour due to the crazy incentives they were offering to steal marketshare from Deliveroo.
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I don't understand what is wrong with Uber Eats charging whatever price they want to charge. If $4.4 is too low just don't work for them. There are probably people for which this is a good price. If not, it's Uber Eats problem, not yours.
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I don't understand the libertarian argument for allowing low wages. Let's say company X is paying low wages, which allows it to sell goods for cheap. If company Y tries to enter the market and pay higher wages, they won't get any market share, because their goods will be more expensive. So wages will stay low forever. Am I missing something?
Nobody is forcing you. Don't like your job get another job. If the job is so shitty they won't have any workers and they would fail. As many other companies had because of this
> If it would run on Linux, you could at least use a newer Linux and it still should work

No, because if the same guys would be coding for GNU/Linux, it would mean a closed source binary compiled against a very old C library that most likely wouldn't even start in modern GNU/Linux.

Or try to access kernel features, drivers or pathname that no longer exist in modern distributions.

Using *BSD or GNU/Linux for laboratory hardware doesn't mean that the code is made available, or even if it is, it is cost effective to pay someone to port it.

Many of those XP systems have actually code available, at least in life sciences, just labs don't want to pay to port the code to new systems.
It's still a fight. giving an inch, or letting up allows your opponent back into the fight.

What you are alluding to is the idea that he could beat him with a hand behind his back so to speak. (Which might be true) but could be perceived as even more disrespectful imo.
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> paleolithic software

Windows 8 was shipping on brand new computers three years ago.

And while upgrading your OS is nice in theory, it often means abandoning perfectly-good hardware because driver support for multiple versions of Windows is terrible. In this age of barely-getting-faster CPUs, how long do you think a piece of hardware should be usable?
I order rather regularly from Foodora in Frankfurt/Germany. Their riders mostly do their best to look happy, but I can't help feeling guilty when I order when it rains/snows or there is even harsher weather (there was a particular nasty thunderstorm that made me crave Burritos...). I always give them an additional tip in these cases.

There's been bad experiences/odd situations though. Once a rider spilled half of my chili con carne on the stairs up to my apartment, without telling me so and bolted after he gave me the soggy paperbag with the rest of my food. I got a 10€ Discount Code out of that, but that hardly covered the cleaning of the walls.

Then now two times it has happened that Foodora called me roughly an hour after ordering if the Food had arrived yet, because they've "lost" their rider/couldn't contact them anymore. I really hope they just stole the food and didn't have an accident in traffic, but I'll never find out.
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That's fine. Some of us are already maxed out on our low budget of human interaction and craze cold, mechanical, impersonal efficiency. Dealing with error-prone, chatty human beings is not fun for some of us, when they simply serve as an obstacle to what we need.
Really unupgraded Win 8, or Win 8.1? Win 8.1 got the update in march like everything else still in support: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-01...
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Yes. Labour supply is not limitless. So in theory you could treat labour just as any other market good. Therefore, if there's an oversupply of labour, it will be cheap. If the supply is short, it will be expensive. There's many important caveats, and I don't claim to represent the Libertarian view fully, but that's the most important thing you are missing.
Yes, there is a choice. You can just not buy from them. If there is no such manufacturer, than if people understand that it's of value to have hardware/software which they can maintain themselves, such market will be created. You could also build the hardware yourselves. But right now, if you ignore it and just buy the hardware anyway, you are kind of ignoring this. I mean, this will never solve the problem, it will always continue to be this way. But it's wrong to say that you have no choice. You accept how it is, and that is your choice, and by accepting it, you are supporting it to stay that way.
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It doesn't need to be 'cloud' - running a centralised VDE infrastructure would achieve the same without Captain Cloud to the rescue.
Sorry if I offended anyone, I'll just try to not enter into the comment area of any history-related posts from now on.
That's refreshing to hear that whoever had the authority in that situation also had a brain.

I wonder how tricky it would have been to set up a MAC- and plug-location-based VLAN to isolate those devices onto, with a very very carefully locked down machine sitting between the devices and the rest of the network. Deep packet inspecting firewall, copious logging, antivirus turned up to 11, the works.

I ask because I'm curious how well a theoretical setup like the above would have worked out for the described scenario - I'm sure there are similar environments where it may be impossible to get having no network approved by management.
In theory, labor forces higher wages, they are not given by the business. What you're missing is that the power dynamic isn't one way with the company determining everything. Labor has to agree to accept low wages or the whole arrangement falls apart and either the company pays more or stops doing business.
You're taking it to a weird extreme of magic. There are reasons to run things locally and there are reasons for centralisation. Medical centres (at least on my area) often run on thin clients, because that's a better solution than having local technical staff in each village and town. This makes things like security controls easier to manage. It also makes things like backups a part of the contract rather than part of infrastructure you need to buy. On the other hand when the internet goes down, your results may not be available.

Look at tradeoffs. There are no magic solutions. Pretending that cloud services don't solve any problems is as bad as pretending they solve all.
If you join a union you'll get kicked out is how that will work I imagine.
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So does being able to enforce it. No one is going to sue the US DoD and come out winning.
If you consider UBI as simply replacing jobs, that works.

However, the reason UBI works is because it allows people to spend their life doing things that are valuable but wouldn't make a living wage.
The are two arguments I see: the first is that if the minimum wage is higher, the cost of living increases, leading to the same problem as before. Of course this assumes the two are perfectly correlated, which is a flawed assumption.

The second is that if local humans are too expensive, people will use local robots or outsourced humans instead. While technically true, this is inevitable. Lowering wages might slow down the incoming problem, but it will always eventually exist regardless of local wages.
It's not black and white. What looks to you like the free choice of people choosing to work for $4.4 may look to others like a forced situation. What I think you're missing is that your assumption that everyone can freely choose and has alternatives is clearly mistaken.
Right, but the GP described an USB stick that they own. If you know that it's just an USB stick none of that applies.

Autorun hasn't been a thing in ages.
> (This tends to revolve around pricing models)

Care to elaborate? Do you mean that newer software comes with mandatory maintenance costs that users are unable to unwilling to bear? In that case, paying for security patches and maintenance should be palatable to customers in this context, shouldn't it? Or did you mean something else?
Seattle keeps trying to turn itself into a bikeable city, but the hills make it a trial for anyone not training for the Tour de France.

To further make the point, in Europe, people bicycle in street clothes. In Seattle, it's hard to find a biker who isn't wearing a Tour de France racing outfit.
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That's exactly what I'd argue. You can't show money tied up even in skyscraper investments since they generate rents. So where is all of this money that's just sitting there doing nothing?

So long as interest rates are > 0%, I think that's going to be a pretty rare situation.
I think most C libraries are binary backwards compatible. But even if not, you could just use the old C library for that application and it should work - I don't see why it should not.

Also the Linux kernel should always be backwards compatible.

You could also place any missing files.

Even if that is all too complicated, you could just use an old Linux distribution or Linux kernel and backports patches for yourself, although not sure if that is easier.

What I'm saying is, it's good to have the choice and option to do that.

Of course, like you say, if you have that option but just don't do it because it takes time / money to do it, then that is your choice.
It doesn't take voodoo to figure out if something is ascii or not.
Similarly I keep getting shunted to another URL via pushstate. But the ads load fine.
Yes. an Uber thing, not likely for SpaceX. I suspect this was a scheme by lawyers and not by any abuse by Spacex
A possible explanation for the lack of orders they describe would be that Uber Eats doesn't have significant market share.
In both those situations whilst it isn't the victims fault, it will invalidate their insurance and any loss is theirs to sort out. So when buying IT services you need to include in the contract the security of it too, a Ransomware attack such as this (and not just because one user infects one machine) would be the fault of the IT provider
> The title probably should include the word WannaCrypt since that's the motivation.

Your comment was directly above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14330193 when I saw this page. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/8fydOGG.png

I'm starting to seriously dislike HN's lack of moderation transparency. I don't know who changed the title - if it was the post author or a moderator - and when.
I guess I read it too fast and made a confusion with the numbers. I thought it was 300 bitcoins, which at ~$1800 each would total 540k USD. Too bad I got downvoted just because of this.
Most libertarians are fine with one party having all the power in negotiations, as long as the government isn't involved.
Yeah, you're missing the greater economy that surrounds your microcosm.

Skill is not in abundance. People pay for skill and people with skill can demand pay.

People without skill have little value to offer. Is it better to price their skill at its true value and have them work or to price it at an artificial value and have them not work?

On the consumer end, lowest price doesn't declare a winner. Look at Whole Foods or Ben and Jerry's. These are companies that hire essentially unskilled workers who speak English well and look and act like my peers and they get paid more than minimum wage.

However, if I walk into a Walmart I'm usually surprised that the people working there still have a job. They're typically weird or rude and/or speak poor English (this includes supposedly EFL people).
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So we need a minimum wage? Or "capitalism will self-regulate"?

Isn't this just yet another example that our system is a total failure that requires constant tweaking / intervention?

Imagine someone here writing a post about a program to perform a mathematical operation. It gives the wrong answer. It takes ages to run also. But if you attach gdb, set a breakpoint and increment the necessary variables you can get the right answer.

They'd be laughed out of town.
The free upgrade period is not over. Just GWX is over.

You don't have to pretend anything. Even if you've never used an assistive technology, you can go turn on magnifier.
as somebody who is entirely financially secure due to my family-ties and level of education, which, statistically speaking, is also due to my family, I could not agree more with this hand-waving, compassion-free, no skin-in-the-game observation from the top of the ivory tower.
> may look to others like a forced situation. What I think you're missing is that your assumption that everyone can freely choose and has alternatives is clearly mistaken.

Could you please elaborate? I don't exactly follow. Nobody is forcing them to work for Uber. If what you mean is they have bills to pay, etc, it's not like Uber can just magically decide to pay $9/hr, they will likely need to cut most of the jobs at that point anyway.
It's only a matter of time until we stumble on an alien spacecraft buried in the rock.
This doesn't change a thing to the point which is that they are basically doing human slavery at 4 bucks an hour.
If company Y is producing the same quality of goods as company X but trying to charge more money, they deserve to be out-competed by company X. Do you agree?

Equally, if employee Y is producing the same quality of work as employee X but trying to charge more money, does employee Y not deserve to be out-competed by employee X?

Employment is a two-sided market too.

Nobody would advocate for a minimum price for a packet of crisps just to save the poor crisp companies from earning too little per packet. It is obvious that if crisps were too expensive, people would stop buying them. The same applies for workers.

Minimum wage is just saying "if you can't produce at least $X of value per hour, you're not allowed to work at all". That's not fair.
Exactly this. MSBlast was so prevalent that ISP's would prevent infected computers from accessing the internet, by redirecting them to a page which described how they could remove the infection and patch themselves up.

I don't remember that happening with any other type of infection.
How would such a settlement meets its energy needs? How do you bootstrap an industrial civilisation without fossil fuels? My guess would be that the time to amortise a solar cell is quite long because of the distance from the sun, and wind is also not very viable because of the thin atmosphere. So that really only leaves nuclear?
you are in the extreme minority in advocating NOT having a minimum wage. your approach also essentially nullifies any possibility of collective bargaining, as any desperate person may actually accept such a low offer thus driving the market price down.

I could just as easily propose contracts for sales of kidneys from living donors. You have 2 of them, after-all, and if you happen to be mentally incompetent enough to sell one of them for a few bucks, who the heck does the guvment think they are interfering, eh?
What do you mean "to be fair"? You're touching none of the facts. You just seem like a fanboy.
> Open source might be part of the answer to this, or some kind of legal 'right to migrate'.

It isn't. Everyone who tried to decide over which version of a distribution to run should know this. It's fine as long as you run the newest or don't need new things. But once you need something specific and especially once you start installing things outside the package manager things go down hill quickly.

I wish people wouldn't use this argument in favor of open source, because if you make institutions choose between open source and proprietary solutions based on "updates" it's appstores, cloud software and subscriptions that will win.
There's lots of people without jobs?
Nobody is forcing me. But when Uber undercuts competitors by a large margin using inhumane practices, the competitors tend to vanish over time. In the end, guess who is your only choice.
What's your point? If I put the non-punycode version in my ascii checker it immediately tells me it isn't ascii.

Having to check because registrars are dumb has nothing to do with the fact that doing the check is easy.
Botnets don't care about countries. It's not an attack against 70+ countries, it's an attack against everyone on the internet.
These ns/iter values seem crazy (a sin function that takes 1.5ms is just really bad). There is implicit loop when using Rust benchmark features, no need to put your own loops.
The patch was finalized already in February. I wonder why it took so long to release it?

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This article really resonates with me. I burned out badly around 2 years ago and have still not recovered. 2 years. Although it's probably exacerbated by pre-existing chronic depression in my case.

It's cost me so much. My friends, who I've all alienated. My general physical health, which is the worst it's ever been in my adult life. Strained family relationships. Gaining a reputation for being 'unreliable'.

If you notice that feeling of exhaustion/frustration creeping up on you, even though objectively what you're doing shouldn't be that strenuous, stop. Stop right there and take a long break. Don't tell yourself "I'll just close out this project and then take a break". Just stop. The extra couple of months of work you might be able to force out of yourself are not worth the years of hell that may follow.
And all that thanks to Microsoft. What a lovely company!
Except that in one case you're talking about companies and in the other about people. I have no problems with companies dying, but I have moral reservations about people dying. The free market has no such qualms, it will happily set wages at a level where people can't survive.
Sweden doesn't have a minimum wage. It has very strong unions instead.
At work, our automation people have one or two customers with industrial plants where the PCs connected to the PLCs still run XP, because they use some very specific piece of hardware whose vendor went out of business, so there are no device drivers for more recent versions of Windows.

(Hell, I've been at one plant where PC side of the automation still ran on NT 4.0! The customer is reluctant to replace that machine because the interface to the plant automation is a freaking ISA card, and it has become rather difficult to procure a motherboard with an ISA slot.)

It's easy to tell people to update, but in some cases it's just not that simple. (OTOH, the plants I know about are not connected to the Internet.)

And don't get me wrong, I totally agree that it would be better in so many different ways if these machines were upgraded. But some users basically have no choice.
due to the nature of Linux being a Monolithic Kernel and open source, there tends to be less issue with backward compatibility issues with Linux making it easier to update systems that today companies refuse to update windows on because it is not compatible with older hardware/software

Infact Linux often has the reverse problem in that hardware support for new technology often lags behind because hardware vendors focus on Windows first.

>Consider the fact that Windows has the best backward compatibility in the business,

That is a complete and utter myth. Windows has terrible backwards compatibility, and changes to the Windows Driver model, and other changes require drivers and software to be completely rewritten between generations of windows.

>while even drivers break across relatively minor Linux kernel versions and compatibility is likely to be a bigger problem with Linux.

Where do you get this? Drivers are included in the Linux Kernel, it is impossible for a driver to "break" across minor version of Linux, if a driver breaks the kernel fails and is not released.
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From the article:

"Copious and reliable electrical power will be required on Mars, provided most likely by a nuclear fission plant(s) or solar, but is beyond the scope of this discussion."
If that was the case, it would be easy to upgrade the kernel on old Android phones -- in fact lots of people put lots of work into supporting older phones with newer kernels, and it's often impossible due to closed source driver blobs (exactly the same problem as usually strikes Windows)