skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would not they remap F1 to something else, say another F2 if they so like it? The functionality has been at both Linux and Windows for a very long time.
To be fair, many of these jobs are things like "Irasshai" callers and bank door openers and the guy who literally just stands on a podium at Nagoya station. (Is he still standing there?)
In that case it was working when you sat down so it's not like the driver was trying to pull a fast one on you. What did you expect him to do? Like you said, he couldn't just pull over.
Ok but that doesn't really reverse the decades-long trend.
London cabs can be hailed using apps and accept card payments, so Uber has no real advantage in those respects in London.
Performance is fine in most cases. While GDSCript is quite slow it's rare to be the bottleneck. You can always port perfrormance critical code to C++ (or to basically any language in 3.0). You can try to optimize game without other languages as well. I'v got two examples:

- My bro had written RTS prototype using built-in tilemap. When zoomed out, game was working pretty slow (12-20 fps) because drawing a lot of tiles at once was bottleneck. He was able to optimize his prototype using GDScript to work with stable 60 fps (he cached rendered tilemap as texture).
- I wrote simple "terminal emulator" control for Godot. It was quite slow - rendering 125x32 characters terminal was 120 ms per change. With few simple tricks I reduced it to
40 ms for full redraw and 1 ms for small change like drawing few characters.
Did you read the article? It suggests that rinsing with water only does not sufficiently remove germs, you should wash with soap.

What you consider wasteful is a personal view. You might consider buying a new mobile phone or computer to be "not wasteful". Others might consider these things entirely unnecessary.

That's fine, in general we get to make those decisions on a personal basis. It doesn't seem reasonable to say someone is "lavishly inconsiderate and wasteful" for buying a bottle of water but not for buying a mobile phone...
I agree. There's a wonderful statement that says that even if you don't take an interest in politics, politics will take an interest in you. It definitely is the responsibility of every citizen in a democratic nation to stay informed of what the government is doing.

I think, however, the point here is to avoid obsessing over politics. If you learn of something that deeply disturbs or affect you, arguing about it on Reddit will not help, you need to take action. Contact your representatives, get involved in a PAC or political party, etc. You need to take as much action as you can.
This decision has officially nothing to do with tax evasion/optimization. It is on grounds of consumer protection that Uber's licence is not being renewed.

Anyone who has taken a black cab should immediately understand the hypocrisy motivating this decision. The user experience is absolutely horrendous and there's no good tracking system to make black cab drivers accountable. In short, as everyone knows, it is just another artificial monopoly enshrined into law by regulators.

A good thing is that same regulators are losing lots of credibility. For decades they could pretend they were acting on basis of consumer protection. Now it is clear they aren't. People love Uber (not necessarily applies in the US anymore) because the experience is amazing at decent prices. Even in a city with a high density public transportation system like Paris, you are always happy to have that option in case it is past 1:00am or you're in a hurry.
Mr. Mihai Catan
Before repeating the myth of the Spanish inquisition, you should look to the English, German and French inquisitions. They was far worse!

And, there is many sects with very hard and strict interpretations of the biblie, so yes... there is many christian versions of sharia law. If, tell to any one that live on Switzerland when John Calvin grab the power. Tell it to Michael Servetus...
The only deficiency I find is accuracy when you are trying to workout at a specific pace on track.

On a longer run they are probably accurate to within 1% which makes practically no difference but you often find on a track that the inaccuracy multiplies on each lap so if you are doing say 1 mile repeats (4 laps) then by the end of the mile you can be 20 metres out.

It's not a biggie because visually you can see if your watch says 0.23, 0.46 etc as you go past the 402m mark you know that you need to up your pace because it's short but having a more precise distance and therefore pace would save a few brain cells when you're trying to concentrate on hitting your paces.
To be fair that does change the meaning of "didn't work" though.
You probably should stay away from comment threads about personal productivity then?
It's going to depend on the widget.

No matter how you cut it there's less overhead in those countries.

Depending on the nature of the good and the scale it's almost impossible to have the price of the good be competitive when it gets to the first world.

At high volume it's easy to amortize the cost cost of teaching a factory in overseas how to make for example a high quality forging that a first world supplier could produce properly the first time without asking questions.

If you're gonna need to make a different forging every year then you might want a supplier closer to home that you don't have to hand hold.

If you're making something with less safety/environmental overhead than the steel forging then that tips things less in favor of off-shoring.
But that's the thing, imo. There is a big difference between a contractor and an employee (whose contract is very different).

Does this really mean that the amount of profit the employer makes is an adjustment reflecting how little risk the employees take on because they didn't take a chance to start their own companies? With employees whose income they would then hypothetically make the same adjustments to?

It's not obvious that the employer is justified in protecting themselves from their own risks with money skimmed (relative to market value) from consenting employees. These workers allow it because they still prefer it to being unemployed or a contractor themselves. But in theory they are doing worse being a part of the company than if they did the exact same actions (magically disembodied from the company monad) would be compensated, if they took the risk for themselves. The employer's risk is if they don't find enough people who are willing to risk not taking enough risks!

If having more employees means having more sources of income, big employers would not have as pressing a demand to hedge against catastrophic events; so they would recalculate the risk adjustment fee built into wages. Rarely do you see large employers give their employees better wages to reflect the company getting past earlier stages of high risk.

Basically in the long-term the value to being a capitalist is getting others to pay you for working for you. The ability to suppress wages pays for this profit - and that ability comes from contracts being costly to arrange themselves. If we could reduce the cost of contractual work and more people did it, most if not everybody would be better off, except for the people profiting from mutually-satisfactory contracts being difficult to do often.

Taleb gives this a good treatment:

"If the company man is, sort of, gone, he has been replaced by the companies person, thanks to both an expansion of the gender and a generalization of the function. For the person is no longer owned by a company but by something worse: the idea that he needs to be employable

...

A free market is a place where forces act to determine specialization and information travels via price point; but within a firm these market forces are lifted because they cost more to run than the benefits they bring. So the firm will be at the optimal ratio of employees and outside contractors, where having a certain number of employees, even when directly inefficient, is better than having to spend much resources negotiating contracts.

...

an employee is a risk management strategy"

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/employee.pdf
Oh, you meant partitioning in general. It is useful when you have huge tables with many rows, and works by splitting a table into multiple smaller tables which acts like it was one big table to the outside. Some advantages:

- You can partition by for example month and cheaply delete or archive old data by instead of deleting all rows just dropping the entire partition which is much cheaper.

- You can have different indexes on different partitions. This is commonly used when some indexes are only used by queries which operate on recent data.

- You can put different partitions and their indexes in different table spaces. E.g. you can put your older and less frequently accessed data on cheaper and slower disks.

- Random inserts into B-tree indexes are expensive and when you for example have time series data on the format (device_id, timestamp, v1, v2, ...) it can be useful to partition on the device id so all rows are inserted in strictly increasing timestamp order in each partition. This way you can get more write performance out of your hardware.

- Most databases have a maximum table size (PostgreSQL's maximum is 32 TB) and you can get around that by splitting your huge table into multiple smaller partitions which all fit in the maximum table size.

- The partitioning condition can be used as a very coarse index to entirely skip looking at some of the partitions (even at plan time for some queries). This does not always give you much over if you just had had one big table with one index over all of it, but in some cases this can be a big win.

- For PostgreSQL specifically it looks like you can have some of your partitions be foreign tables. Meaning some of your data can be on an entirely different server, not necessarily PostgreSQL or even a relational database system at all. I am not sure how useful this will be in practice.

Partitioning has a maintenance overhead and adds a bit of extra work to query execution and planning so it is not always worth it.
I read about @std/esm and I wasn't totally sold on it. But now that I read the browser side of the story, I think it makes way more sense to make use of @std/esm in all packages on npm.

The old way of doing things was write for node, and transpile/polyfill the browser with browserify/webpack/etc. But the amount of bytes you ship to the browser really matters. So now the new way of doing things is to write for the browser and transpile/polyfill node which is what @std/esm is doing.

This is explained a little better in the r2 readme:

https://github.com/mikeal/r2
“Universal basic water”, so that would lead to similar discussion (on a smaller scale) as “universal basic income”.

For example, if I have twice the land area as my neighbor, and hence get twice the rain, and the neighborhood’s well is on my land, why would they get the same amount of water for free as I do?
I'm pretty sure you can configure fail2ban to automatically ban based on user-agent or url path. I would suggest banning any of the WordPress or phpadmin url links
Matt has asked me to edit my post, but that does not seem possible now. This is a correction:

I made a honest mistake: I thought Matt was head of sales but looking at LinkedIn, Matt's actual title was 'Enterprise Account Executive' and 'solely responsible for managing all [Fintech] sales'.

I believe their largest sales channel is Enterprise Financial Services and so I was concerned about Mongo's IPO since some people left - especially right beforehand.

I respect Matt and believe his comments, but I did NOT lie.
However, if you use a credit card like amex, you always have the option of resolving it with them should tfl fail.
Well, from a long term scale, it was inefficient because workers were not incentivized to work. I would imagine stagnant wages have the same affect long term. They also spent way to much on their military. Perhaps the West is due for a collapse too.

They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.

The Soviet system is not working because the workers are not working.

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/sovietcollapse.htm
Uber isn't going away in London. Never mind the passengers, consider how many thousands of (mostly Labour-voting) people drive for Uber as a job. They might not love their employer, but that doesn't mean they'll be happy become unemployed en-masse. This is a political tactic to try to force Uber into improving its safety and regulatory practices. Whether it works will depend on whether Uber or City Hall blinks first.
for me it's ⌘+W vs ⌘+Q in Firefox: the first closes the current tab, the second the whole browser which takes some time to restart. Solved it now with an add-on
People keep voting for representatives that do this kind of thing. And it's a bipartisan problem, but Republicans seem a lot more shameless about it, especially the "we must prevent the giant monopolistic business from lawsuits by wronged customers or bystanders" language.

Fortunately Wikipedia points us at Loudermilk's legislative history. We can see such gems as HR3441, which opponents say "creates a new definition of “joint employer” that strips
workers of their legal recourse for wage theft or unfair labor practices when multiple
employers jointly control
labor conditions." http://democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-09...

Or we can look at his campaign contributions: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?two_year_transaction_peri...

"EXPERIAN NORTH AMERICA, INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (EXPERIAN PAC)"

A clickthrough (this is a nice website, btw) shows the total Experian payments: https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00379768/

Only $285,000, unless I've missed an "all figures are in thousands" somewhere. That's a pretty cheap way of buying yourself some legislation.
In a corporate environment I cant install anything on my computer.
Because popping the key is by far the simplest solution, especially if you won't miss it in any of your usual workflows.

AFAIK remapping it will need Autohotkey or similar, and banks & funds aren't the environment the more welcoming to arbitrary binaries, even if free software.
They've been shut down as well: https://blog.taxify.eu/2017/09/bringing-fairer-ride-hailing-...
> If the regulators bring about these changes, they are doing their job and I'm happy for them to scare the holy fuck out of Uber and their management team in the process to make that happen..

Not a Londoner, but this was similar to my take on it. This feels like a ceremonial ban designed to wake Uber up and force them to lift their corporate behavior standards. TFL would have known that a multi-year appeal process was almost guaranteed, so it's an easy way to put Uber on notice while also gauging public sentiment towards them during that process.
Many places (check in advance!) require the driver to be upfront if their card reader isn't working or you're not obligated to pay.

It's amazing how those finicky card readers miraculously start working when you say 'oh well, too bad I guess' and step out of the car!
Old versions of ALSA only supported one input, but that's been a solved problem for a decade.
Did individual businesses really pay their workers more because they thought it would prevent the country from becoming communist? Do you have evidence for that claim? I find it hard to believe, because even if it is true that this would prevent countries from becoming communist, it is a free-rider situation. It would be rational for any individual business to keep paying low salaries because any individual business policy is unlikely to be the difference between becoming communist and staying capitalist.

A more logical avenue of analysis seems to me to consider basic economic principles. Price is determined by supply and demand. Did we see increases in labour supply that were not offset by corresponding increases in demand? Yes:

1. Women's participation in the labour market didn't quite double the supply of labour, but it greatly increased it.

2. Companies offshoring their production to developing nations also greatly increased the supply of labour.
An official keymap editor exists for Windows, but it's not terribly well supported, and I can see how using it would be a hassle especially if you're not technically inclined: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
Main reasons why distributed teams fail (and how to fix them)
Thanks, its built based on personal experience and seems to resonate with companies who are undergoing scaling pains.
Article says its a banking environment, nobody outside of desktop support will have admin access to their PC/Laptop.
That includes developers/application support/server admins/DBAs etc.
If you want an application installed that's not on an approved list request will likely go to IT security for review(Don't hold your breath). portableapps.com made life somewhat bearable.

PS No Dropbox/Google Drive/Onedrive, No personal webmail and a heavily restricted proxy for all browsing.
Who Will Save These Dying Italian Towns?
Myrddin Programming Language 0.2 Released
You can just refuse to pay any other way except by card. There is not much a black cab driver can do in response to that, since they are now not even allowed to be on the road accepting customers if they don't have a working card machine.
I would guess that PCs in banks are quite locked down, maybe even making it impossible to remap keys.

But everyone can pop some keys from his/her keyboard.
Plus it's a much easier (and fun) office mod than messing around in the settings of all your applications ;)
Or even better solution: programmable keyboards. It's sad that just few keyboards have opensource firmware and allow to remap keys.

One of them Ergodox EZ ~$350 https://ergodox-ez.com/
The best government money can buy:

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/pacs?cid=N00...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000033552
You mean in London specifically, or in general? Because I agree with one but not with the other.
Performance vs Scalability
Jupyter Notebook Cheat Sheet
Thank you! I had been looking for a way to get reply notifications for very long.
Beautiful work! Do you know how 19th century photographer/scientists like Arthur M Worthington produced similar photographs?
your ability to pay is better determined by looking at pay slips, which a bank can (and probably will) demand from you. the fact that you paid X dollars monthly for Y years is not sufficient to determine the upper limit of your paying ability. so, i think a combination of nice pay slips + lack of defaults in the past is quite sufficient.
Oh definitely. I think Uber has, on the whole, improved the rider experience here in London. That doesn't excuse them from complying with regulations like ensuring drivers have valid DBS checks though.
"I was in a car the other day where the driver bemoaned the paperwork." ... again, I was in a black cab a while back, and the guy parked between the two lanes in the middle of the road, then ran off to pee in a nearby hotel. On his way out, he just said, "if somebody stops, just say it was an emergency" — same guy also didn't want to accept credit card as the ride was under 20 pounds, and "he stopped the meter a few minutes early to make up for his brief pee-stop."

Anecdotal (mine is also 100% true, I am not kidding).

I am with you, on the fact that Uber needs to get their shit together, 100%, absolutely right.

But the number 32 is a tricky one — it's rape allegations (while clearly 32 too many, and I am really, really not saying this is not bad) — 32 allegations, not drivers. John Worboys (black cab, prosecuted), targeted 14 women alone, with police estimating 102 cases total, David Perry (prosecuted, 2 cases), etc.

"The regulator is doing their job." — YES!
"Uber should be forced to respond by either amending, or ceasing operations" - YES!

"Those numbers include uber drivers, minicab drivers AND black cab drivers all lumped into one" - YES!

"The number one reason the Police and TfL are giving are that you are far more likely to be raped by an Uber driver than you are a driver for another firm or black cab driver" - NO.
On the other hand, my cab driver left with my girlfriend's phone and never returned it back. Uber completely ignored us.
I have an atreus keyboard, and I have changed the layout :-)

However, 350$ seems like a lot of money for a problem that should really be solvable at no cost in software...
Of course, most of us don't regularly eat in "good restaurants" - pretty much anything on the high street/your local shopping centre isn't, and anywhere you can get a meal for under £15 a head before drinks doesn't count as a "good restaurant", in my books.
Especially because the fees have been lowered specifically for taxis, so fees from the approved payment providers top out at like 3%.
It's less about distractions and more about never having the feeling of having done enough.

Being done with work by lunchtime is a way for me to be more social, but that's a matter of situation. I do "go out" sometimes; shifting my sleep time by a couple of hours isn't a big problem for me.
Can you quote with ">" instead? We can't read your comment fully.

EDIT: Here is the quote:

> TfL considers that Uber's approach and conduct demonstrate a lack of corporate responsibility in relation to a number of issues which have potential public safety and security implications. These include:

> Its approach to reporting serious criminal offences.

> Its approach to how medical certificates are obtained.

> Its approach to how Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are obtained.

> Its approach to explaining the use of Greyball in London - software that could be used to block regulatory bodies from gaining full access to the app and prevent officials from undertaking regulatory or law enforcement duties.
" they aren't jobs"

Just 'let them eat cake' then?

This is really quite insulting to the 20 000 - 40 000 people who are about to lose their source of income - most of them at the lower end of the economic scale - and the millions of users of Uber for whom Black cabs are just too expensive, because medallions or not - the system is de-facto a controlled economy.

I highly doubt that a fairly operationally competent entity such as Uber would simply fail to supply some information or adhere to some basic regs when the writing was clearly on the wall that they needed to do so or lose their license.

This from the BBC: "But a wave of bad publicity about its corporate culture, its lax attitude to checks on its drivers and its treatment of this freelance army seems to have spurred TfL into action." - i.e. a populist action.
They are users, users too often think in terms of optimizing what they do, not the tools they use, or learning to optimize things they think are underlying and fixed.
Pulse has excellent integration with jackd:

/usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-jack-sink.so

/usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-jack-source.so

/usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-jackdbus-detect.so

I can use pavucontrol with ease to redirect an application's audio output (e.g. chromium's) to the jack sink.

It's a painful process to accomplish the same thing without using pulseaudio, because you're going to have to mess with ALSA configuration files- and believe me, that's no fun at all.
The author here clearly has an axe to grind. Is this an established fact now, or an exaggeration of one study?