skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need drivers to stay on the platform, and acquiring drivers is extremely expensive, paying them less won't help with driver retention (unless you're making them so rich they retire). If you engage in a race to the bottom on rates with your competition, you'll end up having to spend more on driver acquisition and retention.

If you take care of your drivers, they will want to drive for you more frequently, and your rides will have more drivers available. Sure, the price of rides will be a bit higher, maybe a lot higher, but it'll be sustainable.

And here's me speculating... there's only one case where lowering driver pay makes sense, and that's lowering your prices to drive someone else out of business. If Uber is facing so much competition from Lyft & others, they won't be around once people get sick of giving them money. And by pissing off their drivers, they're creating a spot in the market for a higher end competitor to come in. Once a socially responsible, fair trade competitor gets established, it'll be hard for Uber to raise their rates again, because they have a bottom of the barrel reputation.

Of course I'm not in charge of running a ride sharing company, and there are plenty of people who have good intentions at suck at business. Maybe I'm one of the people that naturally walks the path of good intentions that leads straight to hell. Who knows.
How did you learn? Is there a youtube tutorial? I tried to cut my hair once and things turned so bad ( uneven, botched, etc ) that I just ended up shaving my head.
I'm a big fan of JetBrains, but that really depends on what languages you're working with. For example, both Rust [0] and Clojure [1] require third-party plugins. However, I don't think it automatically installs plugin updates, so you could manually review new changes every few months.

[0] https://intellij-rust.github.io/

[1] https://cursive-ide.com/
DNSCurve does provide confidentiality, using x25519-xsalsa20poly1305.
Well, it is harder to go back to a bad manager after you have had a good one.

Or you might just not like any managers.
I can confirm this with my own anecdote. (Note, this is also true of most us taxis I have been in)
We could always let governments and tech giants decide what people are allowed to see and read - there's no way that responsibility will be abused.

There's no perfect answer to this problem, but censoring information just because it might reach a few unstable people is not the way to go.
> I would love a de-centralized web, but it is pretty hard to go back.

As the powers that be continue to centralize and exert control in a negative way, I have a feeling the pendulum will swing the other way once people get annoyed with it.

Kids are already using VPNs to circumvent controls.

Need to make a cyberpunk-esque decentralization kit for the next generation to adopt.
I am skeptical that self driving cars will be a real thing anytime soon. Too many edge cases to worry about.
Isn’t that what dosimeters are supposed to help detect?
You are definitely within your rights to criticize, nobody is denying that. It doesn't mean that you aren't wrong though.
I think Lisp’s “the source is the documentation” (with comments and doc strings) is a huge boon. I usually figure out how something works faster and more accurately than, say Ctrl+F’ing some Python Sphinx documentation.
They stopped being mothers and outsourced that to public education. That is why kids now are brainwashed and dumber than previous generations. A generation of impressionable people to fuel capitalistic growth.

Social cohesion is down and communities are dying. The social fabric is being torn apart.
My point was about documenting the home-grown domain specific language. Do you think it also wouldn't be useful and better to just read definitions? Doing mini-experiments might not be as simple as it could depend on other parts you have yet to look up, etc.
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075489
So would the tech workers cut 10% of their salary and gift it to those working for low pay in other roles?

I think it's overwhelmingly no. The option where the company shareholders take less profit is not even on the table - and that's what needs tackling, and the only way to tackle that is via a mix of govt welfare and unions. But the cultural narrative has shifted to the right so much that even mentioning the word union will cause a chilling effect on your career. No ones' gonna do it.
Most engineers don't make good managers until they get some good mentoring or training. They're not unmixable skills and it's not impossible for an engineer to become a good manager with time and dedication to that craft.

I completely agree most engineers suck at it though but I think that's because most companies promote engineers into management for lack of a better career path.
SQL Server has datetimeoffset, which computes in UTC but also stores the timezone.
Thunder X2 Arm servers came out first. But its good to see competition as always.
ssb - secure scuttlebutt
During my last flight out of JFK, I was told there is no TSA pre-check line, so I had to comply with the non pre-check rules.

Global entry only covers the line for the passport check. You still need to due the next line for luggage (hello LAX) with everyone else.
> Thank you! It’s widely accepted and known in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries that NSO is used by their dictators. Not sure why israel gov, the only democracy in that part of the world, is helping dictators by approving NSO to be sold to counties like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Mexico!

Dictatorial and royal Arab governments are much friendlier to Israel than any democratic government would be. They’re not willing to officially regularise relations because they know how much their populace hates Israel but they’re perfectly willing to work with Israel. Israel knows this. That’s why they’re willing to work with these governments; they’re the closest to friends and allies they’re ever going to get as neighbours.
Unless you have a mission scheduled that can take a few more kilos of payload as is the case here.
> It's perfectly possible to recursive resolve your misses to Google's DNS server if you want.

I don't think that's how recursive name servers work. It's been a while since I've had to reason about this but, for example if 'www.google.com' in not cache, it contacts a root domain server, then a 'com' domain server, then a 'google.com' domain server, which finally answers the query, which then gets cached by the recursive name server.

Eventually the recursive name server on your family or organization's local LAN will have a decent cache hit ratio, and the round trip times to your local recursive server could be potentially an order of magnitude (2ms vs. 20ms) faster than talking to Google or CloudFlare.

It's possible that your ISP can still know which DNS lookups you're doing by snooping the traffic between your recursive DNS server and other DNS servers on the net, but I'm guessing that they're not doing this because it's not as easy as just ingesting their own DNS logs.
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Unless there's low volume that day so they don't open the pre-check line. Or the airport is too "small" to have a pre-check line. When it works, it's great, but it seems to be luck of the draw whether they'll actually honor pre-check status.
Emailing a photo of the front of an envelope, as Informed Delivery does, is very different from opening mail addressed to another person. I beleive I’m remembering correctly that when I looked into Outbox in 2014, they required a Power of Attorney!

When I signed up for Informed Delivery, I had to show id at a USPS office. Seems like fairly strong authentication when compared to any other web or mail service.
Usually, but in this context it's clear that it isn't.
One interesting tweak you could consider, don't know if it's possible: it would be great if everyone could see logs of access as well. If everyone is giving up privacy symmetrically, it might be an interesting dynamic if everyone can also see who accessed their information (or, if it's anonymous, simply know that someone accessed it).
Works only for US citizens and Permanent Residents.
Sounds like a good reason to wear dosimeters
Sorry but we actually cheated on that part. Redid the page so that the function that is now in Go is a separate little service that is called via ajax directly by the users' browsers.

So there's no actual Python-Go interaction in our code.

This was quicker, cleaner and has made the page more responsive for users.
No, sorry, I don’t agree at all. I consider Gavin de Becker to be exceptionally credible, and think any idea that “all op-eds are the same” is beyond disingenuous.
The real trick is then tying it into the jolly roger and having it do all the hard work.
Computational class is orthogonal to capability management
Wow new technology? What now-lost mysterious technology was it that allowed us to get along fine without taking our laptops out of our bags 20 years ago?
Shoes cross the line to requiring the removal of clothing in my head. It's not exactly the same, of course, but they are much closer to clothing than luggage.
The fact that dozens of companies have been built around millions of lines of Common Lisp code at all levels of abstraction solving some of the most complicated problems is a testament to the scalability of Lisp.

What has changed is that most software shops aren’t solving technical problems anymore. Most places are engaged in the business of plumbing—connect this database (whose problems are solved) to this dashboard (whose problems are solved)—but many of us don’t want to admit it. It’s not glamorous and Silicon Valley prefers to keep its death grip on titles like “Senior Solutions Architect.” Plumbing doesn’t necessarily need expressive power of a programming language, but I contend that problem-solving greatly benefits from it.
My point is that "much more regulated" retail banks don't behave any better than the other players in the financial system. That's not a morality tale it's a fact. If the financial crisis didn't convince you certainly Wells Fargo should have.
What do the archived pages have to do with this study? The study starts with a snapshot of benchmark game sources. That's a perfectly sensible way to get a bunch of implementations to bootstrap the study. But some of those implementations might be unsuitable for the study, just as (at least) one was, in their case. They don't seem to have noticed that. What's a good, benign explanation that they didn't?
what phone should we continue to use? A burner?
In the last 8 days:

CMH->MCO ‘remove your belts please’

MCO->SEA ‘keep your belts on’

SEA->CMH ‘i’d recommend you take your belt off’
I have an extreme aversion on principle to paying mafia protection money, and will only do so if my life or livelihood actually depends on it. I certainly won't do so just to make my life a bit more convenient.
My understanding is that the first unaligned load uses more register ports[0], but a second (third, etc) contiguous load doesn't. IANA[intel microarchitechure expert] though.

0: Or more memory bandwidth anyway.
Speaking of Xeon, you could probably put together a much cheaper workstation with an older Xeon over the eMag. I just don’t see myself picking this up, at its current price point.
> I got scolded for taking it out of my bag, and scolded for leaving it in my bag, by agents at the same airport on two trips a few weeks apart.

You are describing the the usual daily cluster-fuck of life in the military, and in fact, government service in general. I don't know why it is that way, but it is. I have not experienced it in my now 20 years of life in the private sector, but back when I was in the military it's just like that, all the time.
I refuse to pay TSA for "solving" a problem that they created.

More customers paying for pre-check incentivizes TSA to make the regular experience comparatively worse.
Hi David, I posted an issue on GitHub with a few questions, but I have one better asked here: what’s with your license? I think I understand it generally in that it looks like you want the right to harass people who integrate grassland with social media; but what is the Deep Paranoia text generation thing you refer to? And can you talk about how your group theory link relates to the project?
I'm not sure that's specific to engineering; I think most people in general might not make good managers
My experience is that reading source code is often an easier way to figure out how something works than reading documentation: especially in an environment with good jump to definition and a language that doesn’t impose very much boilerplate and meaningless syntax on your code.
We need to see the results :)
> 8 hours

I just refused to join a conference call on Saturday (opting instead to watch my son’s soccer game), and I know I’ll have to answer for it on Monday.
It's not too hard to find a secondary server; Hurricane Electric offers a free secondary service.
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I ran the benchmarks with SIMD disabled. Encoding goes from ~950Mbit/s down to ~350Mbit/s
If I had a dollar for every time I heard "listen to me, not the sign" from a TSA agent, I'd have enough money that the TSA would detain me for questioning about why I was traveling with that much money.
Mission to find never-contacted Amazon tribe to stop “catastrophic” jungle war
Now that you mention it, I've never seen an elephant on the 'secure' side of a TSA check point. It's working!
I think your feeling is pretty rational. It's pretty annoying for no benefit. I wish they also offered flights with lower security. I'm fine getting on a plane if everyone went through a metal detector and kept their shoes on.
Speaking from the perspective of a manager who had direct reports earning more than me.

1. Be good at what you do. This is a given. This also assumes that you do not require coaching to get better - you will just get better.

2. Be dependable. 100% dependable. Answer or return calls and emails promptly (within reason of course). Never, ever, miss your own deadlines. Make sure your manager is never blind-sighted.

3. Make it your primary focus to support your manager's success and his career. Be his eyes and ears, if need be.
Pretty sure there's nowhere on that route that allows that speed limit. Please don't endanger the safety of yourself and others to shave a few minutes off your commute.
It's always so strange to me that people seem to consistently have bad experiences with TSA. I've travelled more than the average person and have never had a bad experience with TSA. Maybe because I'm a young white male?

Once I even accidentally packed a small toolkit in my carry-on rather than my checked luggage and they let me keep it!
And we do because advocacy has three pillars

Character

Emotion

Rational
You either pay with time or money.
How hard is it to pour your possible explosive liquid into a bin with all the other possible explosives in the center of the largest, densest crowd in the airp... Oh wait I see your point.
Look up Tetris Holdings, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. The court found 100% in favor of Tetris Holdings, in particular noting the shape of the tetrominoes, the way the tetrominoes spun and fell, and the dimensions of the game board as protectable elements under U.S. copyright law. Since this ruling was handed down, Tetris has applied for and received U.S. trademarks on the tetromino pieces.

The upshot of this is that it is illegal to develop a clone of Tetris. It doesn't matter whether you call it Tetris or not, or whether you use "ripped" or copied assets or not -- the very fact that you have copied Tetris means you are infringing. It may be illegal to develop a video game that uses tetrominoes at all since the tetromino pieces are protected trademarks of The Tetris Company.
It depends on your use-case. You should also be aware of the Year 2038 problem [0].

What are you trying to achieve?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
It's a place for the governments of the world to talk and resolve any issue before it becomes a war.

That looks exactly like a social club. And yes, it's toothless by design. But it's not useless.
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Do you actually have numbers to support that assertion? I have a hard time believing it.
DNSCrypt and DNSCurve both provide confidentiality (and are very similar to each other). The thing that doesn't provide confidentiality is DNSSEC.
I used to feel the same way. I shouldn't have to, but if the choice is paying or getting felt up, I pay. Me not paying won't stop the feeling up anyway.
I see a lot of that these days, just a laundry list of code words, but they can't really explain anything...
I'd buy that for a dollar!
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Doses required for ketogenic bladder are in the order of >1g/day for prolonged periods (months to years). These doses are fairly incompatible with a regular productive life and are of little concern to the regular or occasional recreational user
> not harder in other ways that matter too.

those ways don't matter to the company doing the paying of wages. The only "way" that matters is the scarcity of people willing to perform said job. This is what our society has currently come to, and no individual can make that change without making a personal sacrifice.
Are we talking about “Google” Google or “Alphabet” Google?
> ...a zero-planning world now...

JIT is for more than just compilers these days!
> Interesting that this is the line of thought that you decided to follow and refute, despite the fact that I never claimed that Uber was at fault for those particular problems a person may face

Sorry, I wasn't trying to say that you did say Uber was at fault... I was just trying to clarify the train of thought and understand the conclusions that we can draw.

i.e. corporations are not at fault for people being poor and homeless and unable to get better jobs - that's clearly a government problem.

Every minute we spend blaming Uber/WalMart/McDonalds/etc for that is another minute we're distracted from the actual cause of the problem, and identifying a fix.
I tried to use OpenBSD for software development and deployments. It didn't work well because it seemed that packages didn't get as much use judging by inconsistent documentation and sometimes faulty defaults. I didn't care enough to contribute to fix the issues I ran into. Instead I went back to the Ubuntu LTS as before.

I briefly also looked at kFreeBSD with a Debian userland to address the issue but it seemed to be even less well traveled.
These may help significantly, but may also not move the needle at all
Interesting questions, why is he writing this, and why here? A few guesses:

1) Bezos had made claims in his original post that AMI and the Saudis were in league on the Bezos attack. That got walked back a little in this post when he admitted that (paraphrasing): it is unclear how much AMI knew, but it was still totally the Saudis. Maybe there won't be any evidence coming to back that up other than the AMI lawyers' strange request.

2) Bezos had given some of the credit for these claims to de Becker before, but now the weight of any truth or not is squarely on GdB.

3) Setting the record straight(?) that Michael Sanchez was not vile but rather a semi-victim of a larger plot might be helpful to Jeff the human in love.

Why The Beast? Well as you can now see every news wire picked it up within hours, so maybe they're just conveniently easy to use as the first publishing spot.
> C would be better than Javascript.

Yeah, I don't think so. No matter how bad Javascript is, C would be way worse. Every problem of C ported to the web so all those bad practices that are mostly harmless because they are usually in simple programs with no network access when local program all of a sudden being entirely exposed.
I was on a business trip in a suit years ago and had to take my belt off. By the time I got through, someone took my belt. TSA agents couldn't find it. Didn't have time to do much else besides suck it up. I was flying w/ a superior mentioned TSA lost it. Not sure if he believed me... but definitely cost a lot to buy a new belt at the next airport. Still had my laptop though.
I think you are equating the entire Bay Area to the Tenderloin.

I'm in the mid-peninsula. I've never lived somewhere safer and feel markedly safer after having lived in Chicago most of my life in nice neighborhoods.
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I was speaking more to the general case of projects with small bus factors for deploying. And slow is moistly irrelevant to the point, which is making something possible which largely wasn't before.
I see him as among a group of people who believe that financial success gives them both the credibility and authority to dictate the rules of society.

It is a deeply troubling mindset that goes beyond just being 'out of touch'.
I feel that storing unix epoch seconds in a >=4-byte fixed length numeric or arbitrary precision numeric column is a reasonable choice if:

1) the record naturally has the semantics of a timestamp that is chiefly used for comparisons between values (e.g. to sort, min, max, subtract to get an approximate interval) and whose conversions to human-meaningful calendrical datetime are not needed or only need to be approximate (given unix timestamps' lack of leap seconds),

AND 2) you've thought about overflow (of both unix time and your column), signed-ness, sentinel and special values, and NULL handling,

AND 3) you're not enthused by the ANSI SQL definitions of TIMESTAMP types or think you, your RDBMS, your database driver, your programming language, your datetime library, or the code's next maintainer might screw something up.

If only the first factor isn't true, use an RFC 3339 UTC timestamp in a string column instead. If only the second factor isn't true, use one of the SQL TIMESTAMP types instead, so you can pick up a better-defined suite of behaviors.
Whatever DNS you have, the Government like South Korean one will tap, monitor and censor it as it wants to.
In a similar vein, I’d rather see your test-cases, nicely formatted, than your documentation: you can execute a test case to check that it still is true; you cannot execute your documentation.
It’s not about enjoyment - it’s a worry this is the next opioid that wrecks lives and we all have to end up paying for
I'm not following your logic, are you suggesting you wouldn't ask for a raise?

There are a lot of moving pieces.
The abolishment of slavery didn't end slavery and it's conditions.
It changed the name and the rules. Many slaves became trapped in indentured servitude without enough pay to cover the cost of housing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude
Eventually this became illegal as well, another tactic was paying employees through company credits to buy goods at the company store. Eventually this too became illegal.
During all of this Jim Crow laws were made to prevent further integration, schooling, and the advancement to higher paying jobs.
The origin of the phrase grandfather clause came about as a way to prevent voting for representatives who could represent them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause

This hasn't ended either, we now deal with gerrymandering.

I don't believe the ability choose a log of last resort means that job can be free of criticism. Yes it provides a vital service: given that service is insufficient to meet basic needs, improvements are needed. That may mean better services to provide jobs or providing a minimum pay with which basic needs can be guaranteed.
>Not sure why israel gov, the only democracy in that part of the world, is helping dictators by approving NSO to be sold to counties like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Mexico!!!

Not surprising. For example the US has a “special relationship” with Saudi Arabia and sells a lot more than software (jets, arms, etc)