skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After Uber exited the Danish market, the Danish tax authority received details (from the Dutch tax authorities) of whom Uber actually paid. It turned out 99% of the drivers did not put that income on their electronic tax forms.

Uber's statement was that the individual drivers are responsible for that sort of thing. Wink, wink.

What's worse 75% of them were receiving various types of government money for unemployed people (which are supposed to be decreased if are able to find a job).

Uber is planning to return to the Danish market -- the Danish spokesperson says they will return "with integrity".

AirBnb however has agreed to automated reporting of who receives rental income in Denmark. If you agree to automatic reporting as a landlord, you get a certain tax discount.
I had an account for a few weeks in 2007. Facebook is super weird.
My Android TV has undeletable facebook inside it :(
thats really a bad one
Have you seen the grasshopper[0], which had roughly the same purpose for the early Falcons? That hardly looked like a space vehicle, but did its job quite well. I do very much agree it all feels a bit rushed (working during weekends as well), and I really do wonder why they are in such a hurry.

Also, plenty of Falcons have exploded in one way or another, I'm not sure what is new (or unexpected) about that. Things will go wrong a few times and as Elon said in SpaceX's early days "failure is an options". It will have to go right often enough before it gets even close to human-rated. I guess for Mars that means going there and back again a few times (without humans).

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/474x/44/4f/3e/444f3e51839ba246a02bd3d29...
Chat heads are the first thing I disable on every new phone.

I mostly get frustrated by features breaking and then staying broken for months. I don't know how things like not being able to expand an image or play a video you've sent are slipping past testers.
Cash is freedom, credit is chains. Convenience is how they get you.
This article has zero substance and makes me wonder very hard how it passed review. Shame on you Andrew Pitts for spreading fear mongering, and double the shame for doing a poor job at it.

I was wondering who in their right mind would publish this article, and then looked at the About Us page, and the whole articles makes more sense now, see https://www.sspnet.org/about-us/organizational-members/
It is useful when you don't have root access, like being a user in high performance computer cluster.
No, I’m clock. As you can see, my sed skills aren’t as good as tails :)

Now that I’m 10 bytes behind I might have to give it another try. Though I haven’t golfed in years :/

EDIT: Well, I checked my old code and found a few places to optimize. Now down to 95 bytes :)
I keep reading that Uber uses VC and other cash to subsidise rides. But if 25%, 30%, or whatever is Uber's cut then I feel like the VC cash is less about subsidising rides and more about subsidising the Uber infrastructure.

It might be a nitpick, but if a $10 ride already feels cheap and the driver only gets $7, then to some extent the driver is part of the chain of people subsidising the ride.
The Sega Master System was purely Z80-based though. Anyway, a m68k backend is in development, there are fairly recent news about this. It's not clear if it will ever be included in the official LLVM release, though.
> The bundled crapware is the reason I switched from Samsung to OnePlus.

I'm not sure I trust them either, unless this apparent backdoor situation has since been resolved? I'd rather stick to Nokia or Motorola.

https://www.wired.com/story/oneplus-phones-have-an-unfortuna...
Building an Ingress Table with Flowhub (2014)
I’m an artist and I have the new iPad Pro. It’s the best piece of hardware I’ve ever owned, and the drawing experience the best I’ve had (better than a Wacom Cintiq).

But I do have to agree with the sentiment that it’s software is a major problem. I think a lot of creative pros make things using several files, and organise their work by projects. iOS’s app-based organisation philosophy is consistently painful. So annoying, in fact, that I would probably never try to do anything remotely complicated on this iPad, even though it’s the fasted computer I’ve ever owned.

On the hardware front, a 13” screen is no where near big enough for most creative work. I really think Apple needs to be way faster in scaling this thing up to 20+ inches.

The hardware will come, but I worry that the whole philosophy of iOS is simply wrong for complex work, and it would take a lot of vision and courage from Apple to fix that.
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I don't think recompilation is required. You can use proot (like chroot) to make a local dir look like "/nix" to subprocesses. I've seen it here (but not tested it): https://gist.github.com/mbbx6spp/4f467adb4e0133063fd87e264c6...
>Except in the real reality there are a lot of Taxi companies run buy real organized crime for the purpose of laundering money...

So? The fact that the business might by people using it as a front for money laundering is immaterial because it does not affect how they do business, how they treat customers or how they treat employees. Letting your money laundering workflow impact your business is how you get caught laundering money.
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Ah, sorry, you are absolutely right. When I said 'no real other option' I was missing the numerous other RPGs that are out there. I did not mean to denigrate them by omission. I meant more that we were forced away from computer games.
Thai cuisine (my favorite cuisine, even above Indian) can do without meat.
Their curries (green,red) and flat noodle dishes (pad ki mow, pad see ew) work well with protein substitutes. Though, a certain richness will be lacking.

Vietnamese cuisine also kind of works if you know how to make a good veg stock. My vegan fried basically lives out of a local Vietnamese place.

Chinese stir fries can be made any way you like. Again, you will need to be a good cook to get add sufficient richness and umami to a veg only stir fry, but with a good base of chinese spices, the sky is the limit.

You may see a trend here. Any cuisine that relies on spices to impart flavor to the dish, can be easily ported over to a veg only format.
Western dishes depend on leveraging the innate flavors in the ingredients, and veggies don't fare quite as well in that regard.

honorary mention: (cuisines that taste great veg, but do get a huuuge boost when meat is added)
* Middle eastern falafel-hummus-salad based cuisine (these are no normal salads. Huge variety in salads here)
* Mexican ( treat it like a Subway with better ingredients. Most veg Indians that I know of, live off of Subways anyways. We are hard wired to like Rajma Chawal...so mexican feels like home)
I'm getting fatigue of them not fixing the issues.
If they relaunch beam spring keyboards, I'll get one.
Could this be caused by people emigrating from California?
This is a great question. I can see changes reflected in the characters I want create as I go through different things in life, and I've only been playing for a few years.
If we are in the same place, either someone else will roll for him or he'll roll and we'll tell him what he got (and he has little choice but to trust us :)). If we aren't in the same place, he rolls virtually (did you know you can type '/roll 1d20' in Google Hangouts and it rolls?) and gets the result via a screen reader.

For a while he was DMing and he would use a screenreader to access his notes plus the rolls. We don't typically use maps or boards, but instead try to do it all with descriptions of places. It does mean that the rooms we enter all tend to be fairly simply shaped, and it's possible that each of us has pictured a slightly different room, but it all works out in the end.
check the top comment on this thread - apparently you can remove apps without being root (I didn't know this until I read it) via ADB:

pm uninstall -k --user 0 <name of package>
Ars is probably the best tech site on the web.
Open Source Mission Control Software for Web, Desktop and Mobile – By NASA
Live demo: https://openmct-demo.herokuapp.com/#/browse/demo:root/demo:3...
> tie things to technical merits than engage with the problem at a sociopolitical level.

This hits the nail on the head. The real advantage of monorepos is that they are reproducible. Many-small-repos aren't. A monorepo, ideally one like bazel[1] pushes will produce the same bitstream every time you put "make".

Projects terminated, going in a different direction, servers moved, down, forked, ... it all just doesn't matter. Your stuff works. Network or no network.

The problem is that these repos allow programmers to be very undisciplined in a way that sabotages projects. In a monorepo you are updating libraries. In every individual project. That's a big plus, when it comes to "my software works", but of course it is work. Your software doesn't suddently stop working, but that's because it doesn't change, which means it won't change unless you make it change. Which means, new database driver ? You're upgrading it. No apt-get, no sysadmin deploying a shared library or dll install doing it for you.

There is always a strong drive by higher up programmers and managers to fix "undisciplined" programming, and ... I've never seen this work. Or at least, I've never seen this do more than move the problem.

The thing I don't understand about some languages, like Golang, is the (ridiculous) insistence on hermetic binaries (not using anything on the system, not even libc), and yet their very strong insistence on non-hermetic source (even to the point of sabotaging the tools for people who wish to do it, and sabotaging to some extent the community to achieve this). Either do one, or the other. I feel like C/C++'s support of both approaches is a superior option. You want shared (nobody does, but hey that's my opinion) ? You can do that. You want everything hermetic ? Not a problem.

In my opinion sharing things between projects is a mistake.

[1] https://bazel.build/
Cory, if you're reading this, don't call it Meta-Uber. Call it:

Co-opt
This is not completely wihtout sustance. Gooogle "value of human life in dollars" and you'll come up with an answer in the single-digit millions.

Murdering a few people would probably mean Sci-hub would have to create value for a few tens of millions dollars per year.
Pretty sure you can use android without signing into your google account, but most people avoid doing so because its extremely convenient to sync your other devices with your phone. At the end of the day people voted with their wallets, and the wallets said convenience triumphs all, the only slight chance of spying protection is government regulation.
The trend is definitely not there. The trend is away from IRC towards Slack, away from open web to walled gardens (or trashpiles) of Facebook, away from Usenet towards unfederated forums like this one.
The English term is Kafkaesque
> Go, a language optimized for bus factors

Can you say more about that? (I'm not much of a programmer and am not that familiar with Go.)
I did so about 2 years, and haven't been back other than when programming sites livestream on Facebook (which I hate!)... it is possible, and once you're away, I think life is much better, aside from being viewed as a bit of a weirdo by friends who don't share the same view on FB, and think I'm a tinfoil-hat nutter.

Unfortunately I still have messenger* because that's the way all my friends and kids communicate, but if there was another platform they were all on I'd delete my FB account tomorrow.

* Yes, i know what that all means in terms of 'sticking it to the man'!
This is nonsense altogether.

I have only visited the island once but I am happy they are part of the EU.

One of the largest tax evasion / money laundry heavens is Denmark (And I say that as a Dane). Malta’s wrong doings is dwarfed by the recent revelations off what Danske Bank did through its Estonian subsidiary.
In Germany you have to use mytaxi

https://us.mytaxi.com/index.html
I had not thought about that...great points!

This is way simpler in that case!
Isn't it crazy that the majority of startup/product websites now have background curves and skew(); lines. I wonder how this is going to be either;

a) transformed into a new creative format

b) maintained for longevity

--

The mobile stuff looks nice but does make you wonder whether brands can keep up with extreme design as a concrete brand image. Then again, I'm fond of things minimal.
I am currently DMing The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, every Sunday at 8:30pm.
You an avoid them collecting your data by not visiting their site.
Content-Aware Partial Compression for Textual Big Data Analysis in Hadoop [pdf]
I been experiencing fatigue over all questions that start with "Am I the only one...", no, never, there are 7 billion people in the world so you're never the "only one".
Test flight in this case does not equal “going to mars”, they’re doing a short 5km hop.
If they had such a great coop going, I don't understand why they went back to Lyft/Uber?
Since we are talking about the xps 13 specifically, such general statements are not really relevant.

All recent xps 13 models have been available as "developer editions" with ubuntu and there is no reason to expect this new model won't be as well.
Or nuke your account. I deleted my Facebook account halfway last year. Haven't received a single e-mail since.
C-style "for" loops are nice, right

Well... I know macros are supposed to be bad, but.. I've been programming in C for a long time, but only recently tried 'sugaring' my loops with

#define _(x,y) for (x=0;x<(y);x++)

..which has worked soo well, I'm sticking with it. It makes programming in C much more pleasurable. (My programs mostly have a lot of nested loops over multidimensional arrays, mostly from 0, inc'ed by 1)

So now instead of e.g.

for (i=0;i<WID;i++)
for (j=0;j<HEI;j++) {

it's just

_(i,WID) _(j,HEI) {

which makes me smile every time.
>> But of recently it has started to feel more monotonous and boring.

You mean work has started to feel like.... work?

Any time you make your hobby into a job, it goes from being play to being work and will lose a certain aspect of fun.
A couple of thoughts on Minecraft, though note I am not familiar with Education Edition:

1. We played Minecraft with the specific intent of making visually appealing buildings. So at some point, when you can't see, that's not going to be fun no matter what you do...

2. Minecraft really doesn't have any accessibility whatsoever. You can scale the UI, but... high contrast mode? If you could even get that working with the base game, it's definitely not going to work with the mods we were playing with. As my friend went blind, it got harder and harder for him to deal with any zombies or anything that was moving, since it took him so long to slowly scan the screen and understand where he was. We considered trying to make mods to make things a little bit easier, but struggled with coming up with any mod that would actually improve things. :)

3. My quick glance at the API suggests that we'd end up with a situation where we were playing the game and he was... programming. That may work for some people, but I think for this group that borders too close on after-hours work...
I live in a primarily meat eating household, with a couple of veg days every month. (and my mom makes some Michelin star tier non-veg...strong bias applies)

Everyone in the house looks forward to the veg day, because we know it will be special.
The techniques needed to cook good vegetarian food are fundamentally different, in a way that meat can't take advantage of it.

You would never want to eat a parmesan beef or a chicken pastrami. It just won't work.
Similarly some dishes only work as veg dishes.

There are many indian veg dishes (daal-baati-churma, Undio, garlic-tomato sabji, misal, usal, chat) which simply do not have any non-veg equivalent. And all of these are main courses with the vegetable being the highlight.
But it's only a new marginal rate, so it still only applies to those extra 50k
> The problem is that it makes no sense to even formulate a nonlinear utility function for an ordinal scale, because there will be a linear function that represents the same preferences.

I'm afraid I don't understand your point. There won't always be a linear function representing the same preferences and anyway 'ordinal' utility functions that represent the same preference order mean the same thing, so they make as much sense.

> EU makes no sense with purely ordinal utilities either, but economists use it all the time. When they do so, they assume cardinal utilities

They use cardinal utility but they don't just assume it. The assumptions (implicit in a lot of cases, admittedly) behind Expected Utility are generally the Von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms (relating to ordinal preferences over probability distributions over outcomes) [0].

> the Principle of Diminishing Marginal Utility makes no sense with purely ordinal utilities

True, but I think very few if any economists would be confused about this. Also economists and econ text books (particularly after 101) are more likely to talk about marginal rates of substitution [1] or convex preferences [2] than diminishing utility.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenster...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_rate_of_substitution

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_preferences
Yes, that's a similar approach to the use of user namespaces that I mentioned, which also doesn't require recompilation. I guess proot also works on systems with user namespaces disabled (which is sometimes done for security reasons).
UK mandatory web site age verification plan going ahead
Glad to announce a new release  LUKRUM 1.1.2 is ready
He shows an example of a successful co-op app that worked (as long as the government was keeping Uber and Lyft out of the city that annually experiences surges of traffic of tech savvy users) but never gives an example of one of his meta apps in action...

How much rent would one of those apps be allowed to seek? Or would they just be run out of benevolence?
What if ithe passenger doesn't want to pay at the end of the ride or wants to pay less than agreed?

Uber solves this by automating the payments. If you pay cash then there is no guarantee you'll get paid.
From the article "a 20-year-old man living in Hesse"
There are really not a lot of peregrine falcons around, less than 2000. While it might be possible for one person to take a few eggs, if it's allowed and not prosecuted they will all be taken pretty quickly.

There's a separate problem in the UK of commercial grouse moors killing birds of prey to protect their pheasants so they can be shot later by humans. Strange business.
Yes, it's true that by essentially hacking Uber and Lyft's systems, you could create an app that siphons away business from them.

But what would happen if such a technique were to become legal and ubiquitous?

Suddenly, no one wants to invest in a company that requires significant capital, because they know that as soon as the company becomes successful enough to become a target, there will be other companies that will swoop in and attempt to exploit its technology so they themselves don't need to invest significant capital.

The damage to the market would be severe.

That said, as a fan of distributism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism I am also a huge fan of cooperatives, and I think worker-owned co-ops can be successful in the ride-sharing space without needing to resort to such tactics.
This is nothing new. Google especially has been in this position since the start of Android.

I have quite a list of apps that I’ve disabled but can’t uninstall: Chrome, Drive, Galaxy Apps, Gmail, Google Play Movies & TV, Google Play Music, Google Text-to-speech engine, Hancom Office Viewer, Launcher3, Memo, Photo Screensavers, S Planner, Samsung Billing, Samsung Push Service, TalkBack, Weather, YouTube. I’m going to try LeonM’s technique to see if I can in fact uninstall them without rooting the device (which I have failed to accomplish; it seems to me that you’re basically stuck if you don’t use a flagship device, and my Samsung J1 (2016) isn’t flagship).

Then there are plenty of others that I’d like to disable but can’t; including but not at all limited to: Email, Email, Email composer, Email storage, Email sync, Internet, S Planner, Samsung account, Samsung Cloud Data Relay.
Automatic cleanup sounds like a major improvement. It's almost scary how much disk space is used by Brew if you don't/didn't run cleanup periodically.

Since I don't install 'mission critical' application through brew, I've always had the following command run daily though a cronjob:

brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup
I think there's been an under supply of quality in goods and services for some time. The problem is the economies that can support quality are generally located around geographical centers where the main economic drivers are parasitic. Places like New York, Silicon Valley and the D.C. can support these businesses; Fresno, not so much.
Perhaps some people are paying tuition to such intangible benefits, just you (and I) aren't. Many people in such situations likely repudiate the whole concept of "human capital" (and maybe with good reason).
>Where is it stated that the cost of the content is watching the ads?

Does it need to be stated? When I leave my bike outside where is it stated that it's mine and you are not allowed to take a ride? Where is it stated that you shouldn't have loud conversations in the theater?

You know full well that ads pay for the content but choose to play the ignorant. You're doing this simply because you can and there are no consequences and, as of now, those that do watch the ads are financing the service you consume.
Isn't this just the same as disabling them from the apps interface or does it physically remove it from the system partition?

There is however one I can't disable in my sony phone (what's new) and even if I've managed to completely silence it I'd like to try with this method. Maybe it can do it even if the UI doesn't want to :)
> Part of this process must include a serious reconsideration of how we’ve regarded abusive male scientists in the past—and how we have allowed such figures, in turn, to control the story and direction of science.

The second part of that sentence really highlights the true motives behind this movement. These social science types don't understand (or purposefully downplay) that while theirs is a game of subjective popularity based reasoning, physics is not. The scientist's behavior and his scientific findings are not linked in any way.

If I prove an asteroid is coming towards earth, you can't pretend it's not there because you don't like my personality.

This is all about power, and trying to change the framing from an objective one to a subjective one even in the hard sciences.
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It isn't, no. But that comment came as a reply to the sort of extraordinary statement that demands substantiation. Due to Wikipedia's cultural impact, "citation needed" has become a popular way to request exactly that.
>Uber also eliminates safety checks for drivers (and allows them to illegally discriminate against people with disabilities, people of color

He has it exactly backwards. Taxicabs would routinely racially profile passengers.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/04/nyregion/danny-glover-say...