skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this argument with various people many times.

Until your, and your offspring's, survival as a living human revolves around working 16 hour days to barely hold it together... it's almost impossible to understand.

Poor isn't having 2 loving parents with stable jobs, growing up in a middle-class neighborhood and going to college on your parent's dime/credit.

Only a billionaire can begin to think of that situation as "poor". If that person fails then they just go home and live with their parents, that supported them through adolescence, without any major repercussions.

That situation isn't going to happen, except for extraordinary anomolies, for a person that possibly manages to finish high school with siblings in tow, no parents and already holding down 1+ jobs. This is an extreme example, but it presents the issue further.

"Poor" comes in many flavours: monetary, social, responsibilities, safety, time etc...

Once you're poor in any two areas it becomes life threatening to take risks.

No money? No family/friends? Then taking a risk isn't even possible.

No money? Responsibilities (relatives to care for)? Then you have no time.

Responsibilities? No safety net? Now you're not risking your own welfare, but the welfare of those that you care for.

No time? This is a single limiting factor alone. Yes, there are people with very little to no time, where their ability to spend their time is directly proportional to their survival.

There's even rich people that are poor in multiple areas, which disallows them from ethically taking risks. If you're sitting on a cool $100k beyond what _you_ need a year, but you're also supporting an extended immigrant family then it's irresponsible to go throwing money into a high-risk startup. It might not even be the right thing to do for your bloodline, instead opting to provide a stable life so your offspring can take risks.

I got to grow up very poor, and middle-class and now live upper-middle-class. I only made it here because of grandparents that sacrificed to allow my parents to eventually succeed (big time). Even with that safety net, they had almost zero time. I know my father had big dreams, but he had to spend 12 hours a day working/travel to make sure his kids had a chance. Mother had health issues, which complicated things even further.

As an adult I spent many years working with children in poverse circumstances, and _even as children_ they lacked resources to get an education. No time, no access to resources, often with family responsibilities, sometimes abuse, etc... Carry that on to adulthood and now you have to support yourself. Where's ability to dump a few grand into a shot in the dark?

Anyway, tldr; being poor is unfathomable until you're poor.
The article mentions that the update includes mitigations in Safari, with no performance cost. Other browsers will have to do their own thing, of course.
I think pop sci rags going wild over papers that claim radical breaks are a part of the problem, even if a small one.

There's simply no reason that people who are not technical enough to read scientific papers would be up to date on the latest cancer research. People have a right to knowledge? Then open up the journals.
You’re just painting your own bias over his words. How about interpreting what he said literally i.e. “even poor people can start businesses” instead of misinterpreting him as “against social nets”?
Headline is slightly misleading here. The 40% figure refers to "full mitigation" which has to be activated via a terminal command. The default is for the update to apply a partial mitigation that protects Safari users from exploitation via JavaScript without degrading performance.
I think that’s the airport pickup fee that gets added on top of the standard time/mileage fare.
I've had rides that cost me $15 and took 45 minutes, the math does not add up at all.
In fact, I commute with Lyft nearly every day and my average 40 minute ride costs somewhere around $20. Even with another ride directly like mine it's unlikely there's enough earnings within an hour to cover Lyft's fees and pay the driver $20...
The Times 03 Jan 2009 Auction
i've used netlify for a few years, its great.

I use it with github. wanted to use github pages but was tired with having to use submodules in order for it to recognize the docs folder.
How is it fraud?
> without DMA [...] 0days (RCE)
> https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.... p41

Are you citing "To protect the device from vulnerabilities in network processor firmware, network interfaces including Wi-Fi and baseband have limited access to application processor memory. When USB or SDIO is used to interface with the network processor, the network processor can’t initiate Direct Memory Access (DMA) transactions to the application processor. When PCIe is used, each network processor is on its own isolated PCIe bus. An IOMMU on each PCIe bus limits the network processor’s DMA access to pages of memory containing its network packets or control structures."? Correct?

The attention to hardware isolation and separation is appreciated, but I don't hold my breath for iBoot and SEPOS protecting an iPhone from powerful adversaries.
Can I coin the phrase full-stack entrepreneur?
This is hilarious. Props to the drivers. Capitalism at it's finest: assumption of information imbalance.

If uber and lyft do nothing, this behavior will autocorrect itself: expect a few drivers to rebel/revolt after the news of the behavior spreads. Keeping the secret will get harder and harder.
> The apparent simplicity of some code has absolutely no impact whatsoever on the amount you should charge for it.

Yes it should. If I know someone w/my same talents can come along and knock the same functionality out in a few hours it's going to make me push the price-barrier down so someone does't just come along and eat my lunch.

As an engineer my value is VERY tied to my time, and when I'm doing dev on my own business/products I am fully cognizant of this.

Anecdotal I know - but the word "undercut" is popular in pricing conversations for a reason... aaand I've been undercut by another engineer copying my product for a cheaper price before.
Seems like a small software tweak is all it would take to obliterate this tactic, like updating surge pricing every time a driver logged in.
We did go WAY overboard with the data-driven rhetoric. Data was supposed to replace theory going forward.

What a generational clusterfuck.
China recalls giant pandas from San Diego Zoo amid U.S. trade war
I'm not sure if the number is accurate but I do know how amazingly stubborn humans can be in finding a new job. I've had people refuse to quit a job that they groan about every day when I've offered them almost double the salary to work elsewhere with far better terms.

Humans are risk averse and those who live paycheck to paycheck are especially so. It defies logic until you consider that their fear of the unknown + small chance they end up with no job has a massive adjustment weight applied to it in their minds.
> China itself could, of course, also impose bans on American producers and products. A stand-still would possibly bring peace again.

I think we are missing something here. China is already banning western services. No mainland Chinese person is using Google directly. No Outlook, Gmail, Facebook, Skype, AppStore, Google Play, etc. I don't think they can ban USA services even more.

China can only ban exporting to USA, but it's like cutting off your own legs to make a point. In a certain sense, China is losing the game they started a long time ago.

While Europe... Well, we are a total disaster in the IT sector anyway. Nobody gives a damn about the EU.
I personally don't think this utility is worth the asking price for my use case but as a developer struggling to monetize my own projects, I respect that this developer is bold enough to ask for money at all.

What I don't like...actually what drives me totally crazy, is this:

> Buy once, upgrade for free forever!

This is not sustainable. In some ways it's even worse than free. I really wish people would stop proposing this pricing model for software. Software is never done, and a pay-once model is totally inappropriate.

Most insidiously, it gives consumers the wrong impression of software maintenance and makes it exponentially harder for other developers to implement more appropriate pricing models.
I like it. Sustained!
For whatever it's worth, there was a recent episode of Econtalk in the guest discusses his work with those below the poverty line and how some communities have been successful in entrepreneurship: http://www.econtalk.org/extra/discovering-positive-deviants/

I don't know of a quantitative study and obviously the source is biased, but the guest came himself from a "no safety net" situation and now works with others in a similar situation, so his take is interesting even if one disagrees.
The video in the article is pretty good at explaining all you need to know on how to do it.
You are an idiot. I dont want to work from home for any of those reasons, I want to work from home so I don't have to see YOUR stupid face, with YOUR stupid ideas (like this one).
What's being discussed is not driving as safely as you do. It's as safe as the average driver. Or, more accurately, a company claiming it's as safe as the average driver, which is why I said "probably".

Most people consider themselves above-average drivers: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/when-it-comes...

So it seems pretty reasonable that any car that just kills the same number of people as the population average (which includes drunk drivers, tired drivers, distracted drivers, etc) will be seen as worse as worse driver than the person purchasing the car.

And I think it's a given that regulators, and the general public, who are the ones who will be hit by the self-driving cars, will see an automated car that only kills 37k people/year as a non-starter.
>> Laugh at your mistakes, throw it away, start over, iterate and improve.

Nature plays the same game, I believe.

In addition to mastering the field of study that interests us, mastering our own minds may help us get better results.
Isn't it better to crash than to fail silently, possibly storing malformed data?
A libertarian case for social justice
Not all. The large majority, but not all. There are very likely one or two drivers in the area that don't participate, simply because they aren't in the parking lot at the moment they orchestrate the mass logout. Surge pricing is about supply and demand, so if expected demand is high (like at an airport) they need a lot more than one or two drivers.
The corallary would be that you can only use guns on ranges and private property, which is basically true for much of the world.
Eh, in my state in the US it is like $85 every 2 years for a LLC and essentially no paperwork if a simple pass-thru. Not everyone needs a Delaware C-Corp from day 1.
“My video went viral. Here’s why” [video]
The main link has some junk on the end that is causing a 404, the corrected link is:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13contagion-t.ht...

HTH
>> Really makes you long for the transparent, posted pricing of municipal taxis

...Absolutely not.

I live in Malta, where Uber does not exist, but similar services do + local regulated taxis.

It is extremely clear who gets a rating and who does not give a f### about reputation and repeat business.

The only ones who use the real taxis here are tourists. I don't know anybody local (expat or native), who would use the "real" taxi company.
The hourly rated is based on the time that the app is active. So that hourly rated would include wasted time waiting for customer, driving to pick them up, etc.
Advancing AI by teaching robots to learn
The comment by xenihn makes a lot of sense when read as sarcasm/irony. Personally, I believe that was the author's intention. That said, it's unfortunately infamously hard to distinguish sarcasm/irony from actually "meaning it" in online conversations.

That said, the post may as well be trolling and seeding doubt on purpose.
If Uber was a true platform with sellers able to ask for a price the wouldn't need this indirect means of influencing it.
The problem is that it gets read as a false dilemma.

Talking about rich people and saying "you don't have to be rich to..." is like walking into a room of black people and saying "You don't have to be white to...". Nobody there is going to think that you're talking about asians.

The statement doesn't really say anything except that 'being rich' is something that can come from some other non-rich state. It doesn't specify at what level you can be to reach that state. He could be implying that poverty is sufficient, or "middle-class" or that upper class CT is sufficient (and we don't even know if he thinks that means " rich").

It's just a complete non-statement that attempts to pander to an audience that has little choice but to misinterpret it or assume that he's stating the blindingly obvious.
Totally agree. I have great ideas of things to work on, but I'm essentially a single income household (my wife is in grad school, and her part time pay barely covers her education and school). I can't quit my job and work on a dream venture, who will pay for my wife's upcoming childbirth and related expenses? Who will ensure we can still make payments on our home and food?

Living with parents is definitely a safety net. If you have dependants, you can't afford to take risks.
>As soon as Google goes too far against the Chinese government

AFAIK, most Google stuffs are already blocked by the GFW, and Google Play is not preloaded on Android phones sold in mainland China. What can Google do to go farther...?
Maximising revenue while the isn't a competing product is a good idea though. Why would you reduce your price before there's any competition? That would just be giving money away.

Also, people often trust a product they pay for more than something that's free. A plugin that's free could be doing all manner of nefarious things under the hood. A paid product comes with a level of implicit trust (wrongly, in my opinion, but still).
Yes but I currently have discord, hangouts, slack, line, and messenger installed, and have used keybase, signal, and matrix on top of that. It's a bit extreme.
If you price your weekend at $20, it is. Many devs would say $20 is 20 minutes billed time.
Absolutely. You just need to go back in time to before July 2016, at least.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-full-stack-entrepreneur
> On the other side, many young people end up having to help their parents make rent. They don't have the position to take on any of their own risk.

Yup. Dreaming about startups was all fun until I realized that I'm essentially providing for 5 people beyond myself, at which point I got super insecure about keeping my well-paying job.
If their workforce suddenly switched from contractor to employee, I expect that valuation would evaporate.
Personal freedom and especially personal property are only shared cross-culturally, if at all, in the barest of forms. Many African cultures look very negatively on the idea that ones possessions can rightfully be denied to those in need of them unless it will cause you yourself substantial harm. To a lesser degree, many cultures place social cohesion above individual liberty in terms of importance. This actually seems one of the rarer rights historically and globally.

I don't see how due process could be universal - it can scarcely even exist outside of bureaucracy. In any simpler system of government the process is "the most powerful person decides". Heck, rule of law only came into being what, 4000 years ago?

I think they're odd choices though, because there are much stronger cases for things like right to life. But I still don't see how they can be anything but cultural. Where would they come from? What is the font of rights?
I don’t think it even necessarily needs to be a large majority. It just needs to be enough such that the remaining drivers aren’t sufficient to meet demand. Depending on circumstances, that could require anywhere from one driver to all of them.

It’s a great illustration of how supply and demand work to determine prices.
Please do find me hundred of studies to support objects on earth falling upwards... newton's gravity is pretty well established within the context it applies to... so in no way can science be compared to religion.

There is well established science and science-in-development, which can turn out to be wrong when new evidence is discovered. But for religion there is NO such gradient - everything is based on faith, evidence does not even come into play...
> Many people can't even afford to move to a city these days,

Or get pushed further away, as the middle class can't even afford it and they too have to move outwards, and have to commute in.
Interesting... The guy is landing rockets on Earth. He said, it planned it did it.

So on one hand - do you listen to a bunch of wallstreet know it all short sellers pumping out negative news and counting parking lots and shipping containers.

Or do you listen to the Elon case - that it actually may be crazy to buy a car that that is not a Tesla...

One thing is certain, A car like a boat has been a money loosing investment until today, and consumers have been marketed to oblivion and convinced that, that is O.K.

IF THAT CHANGES, even slightly, well, then... Its GG (good game). because that changes everything, and even the die hard truck lovers will be tempted to make a few bucks on the side.
It's from Metal Gear Solid 2
tesla basks in a wake of deaths and late stage capitalist are still undecided whether if its strategy was "clever"

e: "we're hacker news, we don't deal in ethics"
Which would make sense if they were going after the US companies that did the same thing...

Hmm... they've decided not to follow any of those leads even though they did the same thing? Interesting...
I would love to see that but I doubt it would happen - there seem to be major cultural problems holding the EU back - which is something that isn't unique to them - every nation has their own frankly stupid cultural dysfunctions which if addressed could make things so much better for everyone at no real cost except selfish and irrelevant vested interests.

The EU nations are generally far too protectionist and unwilling to allow disruption or breaking of fiefdoms - just changing where ancient province lines for agriculture regions fills them with rage - let alone absurd. Then there are the issues with German publishers and Spanish newspapers.

Until that changes they will unfortunately fail to have more than a relatively minor presence - they really should have a larger tech industry for their size and educated population base.
I agree, and he could and should have anticipated the reactions. But I read his clarifications and it looks like he argued with good intent.
> Most people, even poor people, have parents who would help them out in case of need.

No, they don't. You're thinking of lower middle class.
Now that's just mean for no good reason.
Not parent.

But in my experience, but "privilege" usually relies on invoking stereotypes (males, females, white, etc) and then shutting down individuals by invoking that their discussion is just 'privilege'.

I saw a 'yelling over each other' thread on Facebook in which white feminists were being name-called by black feminists calling them names of various sorts for supporting only white rights. Any modicum of discussion was drowned out by chest-beating of lines of racism and sexism. I believe that thread is still going on.

"Mansplaining" is yet another term that does that on sex based grounds. The term "manspreading" is yet another term with a sexist root- as only men can sit down and spread their lags in relaxation.
Pork is the largest amount of meat consumed by the Chinese market.
There's probably a balance to be struck, because part of the ridesharing design's efficiency is that if demand drops they can drop their rates paid to drivers, and the drivers who don't want to drive at those prices will stop.

So if Lyft starts to say "we always want X drivers available as a base load, and we'll open up to contractors to fill in the demand spikes" it might make the contractor role too unreliable for anyone to bother doing it. At the very least, their costs would go up for both the employed drivers and the extra contractor drivers. Since their valuations comes mainly from a cheap labor pool, that presumably kills it.

But in the current situation, if all their drivers at the airport sign off and say "I'm not driving at these prices," you get surge pricing to make it worth driving, that increases costs too. That's what happens when you're buying labor from independent contractors - if they don't want to sell it to you at a particular time for any reason, they don't have to.

The real question here is "If Lyft recognizes when these organized sign-offs are happening, calls their bluff, and refuses to activate surge pricing, what happens?"

Do the drivers really refuse to drive at the regular pricing and go home? Or do they all give in to a more tamper-resistant algorithm and keep driving at regular rates?
Their hands may be a bit tied on addressing this issue, because if they start rejecting drivers based on when they choose to work, it's hard to call them contractors.
A tech board that insists calling a man, 'she'.

Riiiggghhht.

Fuck this shit. Fuck the mods. Fuck your shadow ban.

PUSSIES.