skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

Not so much ideologically motivated, rather trying to evade the enforcement of local laws.
this is just step one in his plan to get out of jail, step two is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFjjXu2klw.
my favorite was the TPMS on my spare was alerting, unfortunately my car while it had TPMS did not state which wheel it was on.
...and now we see why such policies are bad, and it's even covered in the article: while people falling for phishing are bad, what's even worse is when they fall for it and don't report. Creating a culture where the security is the enemy is _not_ good.

I mean, sure, if it's 20 times, we're getting into outrageous territory and you have reasons to suspect employee is trolling you. But other than that, the reality is that your employees _will_ get phished eventually. Reduce the risk and work on reducing the harm caused when it happens, instead of antagonising your workforce.

Edit: also, if you could just "filter out" the test means that the tests were about as good as most corporate "compliance" training is. Just as the firings, it feels designed more to coddle the C-levels than actually achieve anything.
Luckily, Stripe is polite enough to allow users to fall back to default search with another tap of ctrl+f.
> You can say you want a thousand new nurses in the hospitals, but they are nowhere to be found

What is immigration
I heard from a Uber driver that she was told to avoid passengers that are below 4.7.

Only time she didn't follow the rule, the passenger changed a lot of details during the trip (I don't have money, can we stop a while at some bank while you wait in the car?, Could you take me some blocks ahead?, and some other weird things). And even with she complying with those requests, she got one star in the end.

So, yes, passengers are also rated and some drivers take actions based on that.
I've implemented search engines for small to relatively large organizations. Even at the companies where nobody knew anything about how search hardly any of these falsehoods were believed.

Also this doesn't work as a good Falsehoods Programmers believe thing subject because Falsehoods programmers believe are not about technologies but about non-technological things that are commonly needing to be handled in programs - hence Falsehoods programmers believe about:

Names,
Phone Numbers (sort of technical but it's not falsehoods about how phones work, but rather about how phone numbers are structured and what they 'mean'),
Credit Cards,
Addresses

Good possible future Falsehoods programmers believe about:

Sleep patterns,
Personal identifiers,
Genders

In fact I am currently dealing with a falsehoods programmers believe about versioning of laws and standards at work.
Maybe change "tracker" to "monitor" until they fix it? I usually search for both when it comes to fitness/diet and it might not be blacklisted.
TBH, someone at this age who has spent 25 years in a pipeline probably realizes that, unfortunately, no one in this market wants to hire older folks -- especially with no relevant experience.
>The cost of maintenance for tunnels is almost certainly higher than that for surface roads.

Pros would include avoiding the freeze thaw cycle that destroys roads in much of the country. Tunnels could also allow pollution mitigation to take place if internal combustion engines were used, which is simply impossible on open highways.

Cons include an obviously higher initial capital expenditure.

I suppose we need to get down to a cost per person moved metric over something like 30 years to more objectively compare.
Public transportation is a good answer, for this specific example, although little you personally can do about that today.
> The Boring Company's main plans aren't to create new and novel tunnels. The Boring Company's goal is to create _cheaper_ tunnels.

The Boring Company's main plans, as can be evidenced by their communications (such as their FAQ) and their commitments and attempted commitments to build actual projects, is to pitch a radically new, 21st century mode of mass transit that is really just a variation of personal rapid transit (which has historically failed at being effective mass transit solution). The meaningful commitment to building cheaper is actually... to build narrower tunnels, that are unusable for any other purposes, since there's not enough room to put in high-capacity subway trains in the same tunnel.

Oh, and for good measure, tunnels are not why subways are expensive. It's station caverns and ancillary infrastructure (such as procuring more rolling stock for the extension) that consumes most of the cost of a subway, so it's not clear that cheaper tunneling would actually meaningfully reduce the cost of building new subways.
I came to the same conclusion by the way, so OP is not alone with this ;)
No it is not. So the law-makers should pass a law that says: " when you do business in this country, we pay for your ticket and your time and you bring your a$$ over when we ring the bell, or else you a) better be in a hospital sick as hell so we justify the absence, or b) we shut your business down until you show your face".

These thugs should be held accountable. Giving BS excuses about "oh we dropped the ball on the last 10 elections" doesn't cut it. Maybe some citizens are to meek or irresponsible or ignorant; this doesn't mean that these thugs should get a pass.
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> Uber should not be making the choice based on some arbitrarily chosen numerical value

It’s tough to judge the measure without understanding the distribution. Uber has to compete for drivers. They aren’t incentivised to throw them away without good reason.

Most people I know default to 5 stars. Anything below means something went wrong.

(I do 4 for nuisances, like odour; 3 for discomfort, like jerky driving; 2 for minor safety issues, like being on the phone; and 1 for major safety issues, like threatening my fellow Pool passenger or nearly hitting a pedestrian lawfully using the crosswalk. Maybe once every few weeks I’ll rate a ride less than 5.)
There's no argument. You are just wrong.

And 15% isn't that high. 15% is what Amazon charges for selling physical books on Amazon.com. That doesn't include shipping, handling, or returns. That's literally just the "transaction processing" fee as you call it and the ability to exist on their store.
I agree it's a hard problem, but it's worth noting that the US has dramatically higher construction costs than any other peer.

The unit cost of construction in the US is routinely double, or even triple the cost of comparable projects in other Western countries.
"Service Oriented Monolith", I'm loving it ! ;)
Where are you from? If you mind sharing, could you tell us at least country, and urban/suburban/rural?
agreed, simple and effective. but also- most databases have more advanced full-text search functions, for example in about an extra hour of work you can easily set up simple boolean searches using mysql's MATCH against a full-text index over multiple columns.
No. At most these components are as reliable as random noise allows them to be. That part is just physics.
> Any teacher must be familiar with both the subject matter and basic pedagogy, regardless of whether they're teaching one student or many

I think you are imagining a homeschool from the 1980s. My kids learn many aspects of the subject matter from sources like Khan Academy and Outschooling. The idea that the teacher needs to know the subject matter deeply in order to manage the child's education is obsolete.
There's a series of posts on WaitButWhy[0] about Elon Musk and his various companies and strategies. The level of Musk worship there generally rubs me the wrong way, but I think the conclusions are valid: the author also interviewed Musk one-on-one in 2015 and took a deep-dive into his businesses, so I would trust the author's conclusions. Essentially, Musk expects/worries that an extinction event (whether as a result of climate change, an asteroid impact, or whatever) will wipe out humanity on Earth, and believes that the best hope for our continued survival is to colonize other planets.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html
The goal of Mars to me is silly. Mars is already worse off in terms of climate than Earth. Why not work to improve what we have? The only appeal I see is "uncharted territory" / wild west
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It used to be more friendly - you could have kept the last update before your time was up, not to roll back 1 year.
Actually Purdue University is trying to implement a system like that. The University President went on Freakonomics Radio and he discussed a bit about how his school is implementing that very program.
> The key cost savings that Musk envisions boils down to "build tunnels that are too small to put existing rolling stock in,"

Do you have a reference for that? My understanding was that over the long term the goal was to develop cost savings through better boring machines themselves, not through just by reducing the cross-sectional area of the tunnel.

I thought they were starting with smaller cross-sectional areas and working their way up as they developed machines, but by understanding of the end-goal of The Boring Company was to be able to build large tunnels at 1/10th the cost of current processes.
But more expensive than building the tunnel the right size to begin with, when you take into account the cost to build the too-small tunnel in the first place.
> Elon is perfectly willing to pivot to what works after exhausting all other options.

reminds me of the quote with an odd past:

> You can depend on Americans to do the right thing when they have exhausted every other possibility.
It isn't safe to download for the person asking that question.
Happily, it will likely be removed in the next macOS, at which point anything still dependent on it will break utterly until either updated to use SecureTransport or to bundle OpenSSL.

I predict a popular tool favored by the HN community will break, leading to a highly-upvoted front page post that instructs everyone on how to reinstall the shim wrapper using an unsigned tarball from an unsafe non-Apple source and zero patches to that tool from us to make it use the modern macOS-provided library instead.
Is showing your profile to other people a "business service"? Because IIRC Tinder does some ML to show you people they predict you'll like (based on what other people with preferences similar to you liked) - and that would probably result in showing certain profiles to others less often.
You could increase packet size, and do one lane with (60 cars) every minute (as opposed to one car every second).

The result is called a bus or a train.

Alternatively, use token ring. If you have a separate tack for cars to get up to speed, and really trust your hardware and your software, a car can simply slip into an empty 10m gap between cars, and slip out of it onto a side track to decelerate when it approaches its destination.
The less fortunate are the ones bullying other children, holding back the curriculum so that no child is left behind, putting someone else's child in harms way because of some undefined benefit to other's with worse parents isn't a fix. Fix the socio economic problems first so those kids have better parents. Don't put my kid in with them thinking its going to socialize other kids better rather than what normally happens is they get harassed and bullied by those who are hostile and the teachers have no power or are apathetic to confront.

It creates greater harm putting good kids in with the bad then it does for the unfortunate but angry, hostile children. Same as it does putting a prisoner in for a non-violent crime with a bunch of felons, they're likely to come out a worse, more hardened criminal. You have this theory that it brings the other kids up, maybe slightly, but often it just brings everyone overall down. Collectivist mentality should be what's the greatest good.
Ask HN: Moving to Austin, anybody up for some coffee this weekend?
I am 35, planning to move to Austin, I run a small (below 20 people) saas. I am visiting Austin this weekend, I would love to connect with other entrepreneurs and start building my network. I could not find any interested meetups in the city, I am hoping I can find here somebody from tech industry who would like to meet for some coffee this weekend?
I would second the discouragement to override this behaviour. Although they have handled it well with a CTRL + F + F again bringing it back to native search behaviour.
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If people's needs can be fulfilled by commerce then the poor are doomed and always have been. But people who have voluntarily chosen poverty such as Francis of Assisi and Ignatius of Loyola have shown that that's simply not true, and that commerce, while a necessary part of life, is not the fulfillment of our needs, nor are politics.
Are you sure about that? Because I have never heard about a tunnel project which has been 'upgraded' this way ever.

And if I start to think about the practical problems, like breaking up part of the tunnel before widening it, it quickly seems like building a new one might be more efficient.
Dams are a good analogy, here. Dam failures can be catastrophic and far, FAR worse in life lost than even worst-case nuclear failures. The 1975 failure of the hydroelectric Banqiao Dam killed between 100,000 and 230,000 people and destroyed 11 million homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure

Nuclear power is worth the risk when faced with the threat of climate change. At very least, we must keep existing plants operating until we decommission all fossil fuel power plants.
Inside of type descriptions, literal values are always treated as literals. The problem only appears when you declare a variable _without_ an explicit type like `const foo = {k: 'x'}`, which the compiler then infers to be of type `foo: {k: string}` and not `foo: {k: 'x'}`.

Both of these are valid inferences, and it's impossible to know which one the user wants in the general case, which is why you have to explicitly say
`const foo = {k: 'x' as const}`.
Sell the laptop and use the proceeds to buy a good cryptocurrency.

Otherwise, it will be slow going with laptop mining performance levels. Consider Hive OS or something similar. As to which cryptos, look into something with a high ratio of "potential future gains" versus mining difficulty.
Thank you so much, lisper! I didn't have a chance to re-watch to post timestamps.

Much appreciated!
I see what you mean.

To avoid the sheets being too far apart, the torus would have to have a big radius. And then the non-torus stack of sheets would have to repeat many times i.e. it would have to be very long.

Maybe there's a better topology to make some kind of a loop of the twisted stacks...
All of my Chem and Bio lab classes had extra fees on them to pay for lab consumables. Obviously this does not cover the big expensive lab equipment. I'd imagine pure science classes cost much more to run then most liberal arts courses. So in theory, the science courses would cost more than any liberal arts courses.
Chromium / Blink is open source, we should be doing everything we can to get as many users using non-Google Chromium browsers. We really shouldn't be having to worry so much about Google's conflicts of interests. Brave and Blink-based Edge are looking to be better and better options.

Another is UnGoogled-Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Would love to see this latter option becoming something that appeals to a very large, mainstream market rather than just a few techies.
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TPMS reset is usually holding a button and typically in your driver's manual for the vehicle. Found this out myself when my tires got replaced and they couldn't reset my TPMS sensors.
I disagree. If you use create-react-app you get best practices out of the box.

React is also much less abstraction away from vanilla JS. Learning Angular is learning a new language with a whole bunch of restrictions. Learning React is like learning JS++.

(This is my personal experience based on three Angular projects and ten+ React projects.)
The annoying auto playing videos and bright red BREAKING NEWS alert spam are also UX fails
I've been there. This only seems to 'work'--until you try to raise throughput/reliability and lower errors/latency. What ends up happening is that the module boundaries that made sense in a monolith don't make sense as microservices when communications are allowed to fail. Typically the modules are the source-of-truth for some concern with consumers layered above it. This is the worst pattern with microservices where a synchronous request has to go through several layers to a bottom-level service. With microservices you want to serve requests from self-contained slices of information that are updated asynchronously. The boundaries are then not central models but rather one part of a workflow.
It doesn't even make any sense. Do they think America is similarly engaged in a trade war with our own ethnic Chinese citizens? One of our most strident anti-China hawks is named Gordon Chang. And we aren't in any struggle against Taiwan.

No, I don't have to be sensitive to such delusions.
Instead of being able to hit CTRL + F and immediately search and then have your browser highlight matches and decorate your scrollbar with where results are (so you can skim), they decided to override that behavior and introduce their own take on what search results should look like.

One that takes multiple seconds to get a response on a search and it's all contained in a tiny modal dialog box that has no skimmability and when you click one of the results it does a new page load to bring you to the results. Stripe is usually a superb developer experience. Truthfully I have no idea how it ended up in production as a default option.
The unfortunate reality is that careers in arts are notoriously unpredictable, and can easily have next to zero returns on education investment even for people who have good high school performance. At least for many creative types of carts, people can and do find stable employment in things like constructing stage sets, film editing, etc. But between 100 high school painters, actors, poets, and writers we realistically can't predict which ones will succeed. It's not that only wealthy kids can afford to dedicate themselves to art, it's that wealthy kids have better resources to endure the unpredictable nature of art industry.

> Government funded universities would solve this, because they would set the price, but we'd probably lose out on a lot of great programs. You could also solve this by outlawing charging tuition and switch college funding to being a percent of the graduate's future income. Of course, this would get the colleges to optimize for only majors that have high incomes after graduation, and we'd lose all of our philosophers and writers and artists (which I personally think would be a bad thing).

I disagree that this is a bad thing. We need to stop trying to convince ourselves that college is about turning out "well-rounded individuals". That mentality stems from the roughly 2 centuries when university's job was to socialize elite young men in upper class society. Contemporary university is about preparing individuals with skills that will be desirable in the job market. Charging tuition via income sharing will make colleges emphasize high income majors, which in turn benefits graduates who now have skills to work in high income jobs.
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> The name of those little points of light in the night sky isn't "stella"

Well, yeah, the generic name for them is exactly that (well, in Latin, but that's also where Sol as the particular name for ours comes from.)
It's silly to do it inhouse.

It creates distrust.

That is why you pay consultants. They send out the phishing test, and hopefully regular people bond with the security people in an effort to pass it.

I mean, after all, security and regular people in the company should want the same thing (company success... which implies not giving away things to phishing probes)
Musk seems to really dislike the idea of public transport. There's an appeal in moving a large number of people from one side of the city to the other really fast, but with their cars!?

The amount of trouble people in the US are willing to through to avoid the solution every other developed country enjoys is really mind-blowing to me. Dig a tunnel, put some rails in it, and add some sort of a vehicle on top of those rails. Splitting up a cart to individual vehicles seems wasteful, impractical, and guaranteed to move less people. A perfect example of a "gadgetbahn": completely useless 10-15 years down the road, but it wastes city's money that could have been used for actual, viable alternatives that are in use everywhere else. But hey, at least it's unique.
It's a matter of unpredictability. Imagine you had an investor. Now his investment is 44% down.
> Literally zero evidence for this. On average, kids that are homeschooled walk away with higher levels achievement and fewer psychological issues than their traditionally schooled peers. They integrate just fine into society.

There is plenty of evidence of the contrary though, that kids born in families with low income and educational achievement do much much better when they are in a socially diverse school as opposed to a ghetto. Sure maybe homeschooled kids are slightly better off, but that comes at a huge cost for all the kids who have a single parent who works three jobs that will never be able to afford to homeschool them.

> You don't have kids.

You don't know that.

> But I am still a parent if the social order breaks down and the government disappears.

Every day hundreds of thousands of parents "break down" and government takes over for them. Government breaking down is a much rarer event.

> "secular education"

If you don't like the distinction between secular and religious, you can take any other strong belief. What if my parents are flat earthers? What if they are holocaust deniers? What if they hold some very strong political opinion? Or even what if they are some staunch atheists? They will just create a bubble around their kids.
Listing Bitfinex who runs Tether doesn't seem all that trustworthy.
By definition the police are the enemy of certain citizens.
I am totally paranoid about my Uber Passenger rating - I've been stuck at 4.88 for the last year - so I don't know if they are updating it. I'll go out of my way to wait outside in the rain so my Uber Driver doesn't have to wait, always try and at least meet up with their level of chattiness, if not necessarily encourage it. Obv be super polite, cheerful, and never, ever make the mistake of asking an UberExpress driver to drop you off anywhere than the designated point.

Still - stuck at 4.88, wondering what I can do better...
This would be pretty nice to have in hot as fuck Vegas.
I think the idea is that they aren't mutually exclusive. I think in fact the projects are generally good examples of how you can do both.
Can we try mercury next?
If that's not a good reason enough to switch back to Firefox, then I don't know what will.
Haha what a LOSER.
Are you choosing watching TV for $70/month as an example of an "expensive thing"? Living in poverty doesn't mean that you get should judged so harshly for mild discretionary spending to make your life less of a hellhole.
It's not just that. The Boring Company wants to automate tunneling as much as possible (manual labour would be highly impractical in a spacesuit), speed it up and make it a continuous process. It also wants to power the boring machine by Tesla PowerPacks to remove the need for kilometers of cables. All of that seems suited not just for cheap tunneling but for Mars as well.
The main issue is it's on by default and it's a vastly inferior search UI to what everyone has been using to search / skim a page since browsers existed.