skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you would if it drove itself.
I purchased a few iFixit iphone batteries and was less than impressed with their performance. I think what iFixit is doing is awesome, and I am a huge fan of them. I used their iMac kit to put an SSD in my family iMac and it made the job simple. The iPhone 5s/and iPhone 6 plus batteries I bought from them are trash though, and they lasted a few months before degrading severely. I took those same phones to apple and the batteries were markedly better.
In the past month, I and friends/family have experienced the following with Uber:

- Accusations of racism

- Dangerous driving

- Detours/no idea where they're going

- Being held hostage (took 4 very strong demands to be let out)

- Given a lecture because the driver couldn't find the address and told if you don't like the service to get out.

The grass isn't always greener
They do not need the same amount of memory than different windows would need, since we use an intelligente caching system.
> But the drivers don’t get much of that fare, so I assumed the bulk of the money went to Uber/Lyft.

Ridestar claims that 61% goes to the driver; 39% to Lyft/Uber.[0]

Their S-1[1] shows lots of sales and marketing, lots of R&D (remember, they're working on self-driving cars, among other things), and lots of general/admin (I suspect they spend a lot on legal).

[0] https://www.ridester.com/uber-fees/

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...
"In some cases, no jobs is better than subsistence/dead-end/exploitative jobs"

Sure, but neither you or I get to decide that qualification. Only the person doing the job does. We don't really know what fits their lives or what options they have.

I don't like gig stuff/sharing economy (or the big 'unicorns' associated with it) either...but it is "another option" for many people that wouldn't have one, esp. lower skilled immigrants, minorities, retired and young people.
The guys that deliver food have been declared covert employees recently here in lower jurisdiction. Not sure about taxi apps, there must exist a loophole at least to start. The question is you are very dependent of some party.
To me your two sentiments seem opposed to each other. If Uber is struggling financially, they will be forced to squeeze their drivers harder, and the drivers will end up with an even worse deal than they have now. So rooting for Uber to lose money is kind of like rooting for a bunch of close-to-minimum-wage workers to make less money.

I guess it’s possible that Uber does so badly financially, they cease to exist. I just find it really hard to imagine that they would be forced to raise prices enough to make the old days of taxis you hailed by waving your hands on the street come back. So to me, Uber doing badly is just bad news for their drivers.
Er. You don't know the answer do your two questions when you get in a cab either...Lyft and Uber both do real-time verification (selfies, take a photo of your drivers license). [1]

Drivers also have pictures attached to their profile which help passengers at a quick glance understand this as well. I would compare this to how taxi drivers have their taxi license on display. Not perfect, but doesn't seem like the Uber/Lyft issue is anyway less safe than taxis.

[1] https://eng.uber.com/real-time-id-check/
Care to set the record straight? What's actually going on if not what they're presenting?

They're making an assumption about intent. Unless you can prove you're part of the Apple team responsible for this hardware behavior, you're just going to be doing the same.
Very insightful. I had the same question why it's always the VP of Engineering but rarely does one hear of a President of Eng/Product/Sales, etc.

Thank you for providing historical context in explaining these roles and how they worked at Google.

> the working relationship among the triumvirate, and Eric's humility in leadership

Respect!
i'm interested too.
We’re going to need both approaches: ground up and top down. People will need to learn to do with less. Better to start a mass movement towards popularizing minimized consumption so that people are used to the idea and embrace it when the policy changes (such as a carbon tax) begin to incentivize specific choices.

We can either do this now, in an organized and equitable way, or later in a chaotic and unfair way.
Top comment in this big thread argues the opposite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20616055
> The PEP provides for a shared-nothing concurrency model.

Isn't multiprocessing already a shared nothing model?
per-household broadcast fee in Ireland too its 160eur per year, but I believe the avoidance rates are quite high and lots of 'tv' is streamed now which doesn't (I don't think qualify).
Do they make traffic worse? I think you can only compare them to people owning and driving their own car, which has to be parked all day when not in use.
You don't have to work in the mine.

Metaphor still works.
In Brazil it's cheaper to use Uber than to own a good car.
You are missing the part where Uber let you get a cab through an app rather than hoping a taxi was driving by and waving your hands at them. It really is a far, far better product when you can get a cab wherever you want, instead of just in a few areas.
For all the bashing GitLab gets, personally, I want GitLab to survive and keep competing at some level with GitHub.

Should GitHub dominate the market and gobble up competition, we all know how it goes for its parent company.
Tell HN: Somu is live. Tiny, FIDO2, open source security key
Somu is live on Crowd Supply [1].

Somu is the micro version of Solo [2]. We were inspired to make a secure Tomu [3], so we took its tiny form factor, we added the secure microcontroller and firmware of Solo, et voilà! Here we have Somu.

(clickable links in comment)
ES Proposal: GlobalThis
It's time to stop assuming startups are the solution to poor public policy. This is a thread topic in itself, but I cannot let the assertion stand ("any job is better than no job, what are you going to do about it?").
To be clear, in my original comment the language I should have used instead of cruising was probably "idle time searching for a fare". Waiting in a hotel line, airport queue etc. are all inefficient and would fall under my definition of cruising.
(links)

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu

[2] https://solokeys.com

[3] https://tomu.im
Boeing tested its troubled MCAS system with two 737 MAX 7 flights
I don't begrudge the TV licence too much. I used to, and then I moved to Ireland - where I pay a roughly equivalent amount for a roughly equivalent licence, which funds RTÉ (and tg4? unclear) with nowhere near the same results. And still ads.

It turns out the better half of Europe has TV licences in one form or another - but for some reason, we never hear about them. When the UK has to fund a state broadcaster, it's dystopian. When everyone else does it, it's business as usual.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence )
It's real. The TV rental companies had a range of approaches, one of which was the very expensive option of a coin operated TV. Another common way to pay was by book and visit the TV rental shop weekly to pay a little. If you had one of the coin ops, chances are your electric and gas were on coin operated meters too - with the landlord of your flat or bedsit setting their own markup on that meter...

https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/cointv/

Edit: To add some context:

Don't forget it was still common for people to be paid in cash, weekly. For those on lower incomes paying a monthly rental was often difficult and many of those cash employees had no need of a bank account. So weekly payments at the shop, collection agents and other options like coin op were far more common. You might get a visit every year or two to pay premiums on something like a life assurance policy, and a little hand written book was your only record of payment.
R&D is the only way that they survive in the long term. Uber's entire plan is just to keep hemorrhaging money until autonomous vehicles come online. They just did not expect that to be as hard of a problem as it has turned out to be.
> That daily Uber ride sounds like a deal.

... for someone living in a bubble completely disconnected from the planet Earth, where they think that a $400/mo parking spot is 'normal'.

Sure, there's a few million people like you out there. Not enough to make Uber break even, though.
Uber and Lyft can now feed receipts directly into corporate expense reporting systems which is a major time saver for frequent business travelers.
This is very context driven. I find that myth lists with regards to health topics are helpful. They usually have links to studies and generally aim to dispel common misperceptions. They usually spur me to read more into each myth, especially if it is something I am new to. They aren't always concretely correct, but they spur investigation.
However, as this article is clearly labeled "general computing" on the site, I agree that almost all articles in that category use myth lists as poorly executed opinion argument. It comes across as very juvenile. Myth: Rust is difficult to learn. Truth: Actually, Rust is quite easy to learn. Ugh...
EBsynth – 3D Style Transfer
I don't know about a lay-person, but any government agent (police, a tv-detector-van driver, whatever) cannot act on the results of a search that was done without a warrant (or probable cause and some exigency).

People's houses are especially sacred in US law and even flying a plane over and looking for excessive heat signatures to find Marijuana growers was deemed an illegal search (someone linked to that case in another comment)
It would count - the definition is deliberately broad ("by any means"):

> In this regulation, any reference to receiving a television programme service includes a reference to receiving by any means any programme included in that service, where that programme is received at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is received by members of the public by virtue of its being broadcast or distributed as part of that service.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/692/regulation/9/mad...
I work in tech in a high CoL area, and sure senior engineers and eng managers are making 200k+ total comp. SWEs with <5 years of experience are not starting out over 200k.
It should be noted that this particular site works without sending any data back to the server.

Aside from that, this is one area where web-based applications excel: You can inspect and limit what data an application is sending away about you via your browsers built-in dev tools and extensions like uMatrix (or your own request-filtering extensions).
Oof. This doesn't look good no matter how you shake it. I wonder how long the investors go on before saying "enough is enough."

I don't have a horse in this race, but if Uber/Lyft fail there are going to be substantial societal repercussions. Admit it or not, they have disrupted the transportation industry significantly.
How is Lyft doing compared to Uber? To me, Lyft always had a more sane approach to growth while everything about Uber's corporate just gave me the willies. If Uber went away, I think the world would be a better place. I would feel bad about the drivers, but most of them are driving for multiple people anyways already.
They were originally a US innovation that were imported and duplicated in the UK!

See my sibling link. First thought of by the US International Telemeter Corporation in the late 40s or very early 50s.
For any readers looking for the same warm fuzzy I have, you can paste this into wolframalpha and actually get a rate of helium production over time.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(.3++438000+TWh+%2F+year)+%2F+(17.59+MeV)+%2F+(avogadro%27s+number+1%2Fmol)++(4.002602+g%2Fmol)

(.3 * 438000 TWh / year) / (17.59 MeV) / (avogadro's number 1/mol) * (4.002602 g/mol)
This is from 2018, and like someone notes in the comments, this is similar to the model Tcl has used for quite some time.

Handling interpreters: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl43.html

And Tcl, threads, interpreters and message passing: https://www.activestate.com/blog/threads-done-right-tcl/
Please explain, what exactly are you doing that the standard look at the charge curve and compare with battery voltage and use known charge current and time won't solve? This is pretty much how all the battery capacity estimators work to my knowledge.

As long as the chemistry is known it should hold true, sure, you'll get some variation based on load but you should be able to account for that pretty with some testing or careful probing at minimal current draw.

Accubattery seems to give a pretty good approximation using just this information at least, would definitely be sufficient for detecting cells that were fraudulent by more than 10-20%. If you want higher accuracy, yeah I'm sure things could get extremely involved, but many of the fraudulent batteries are 25-50% of the expected capacity.
Looking at the 2016 data, there are 203 registered dogs named Brooklyn. Curiously, only 90 of them live in Brooklyn.

Brooklyns: https://gist.github.com/yurivish/326f64c439176f6d55f8d5528f1...

You can find the full dataset here: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/NYC-Dog-Licensing-Datas...
"Everything is based upon the prosecutor being Sherlock Holmes and always finding exactly what they need."

Are the italicized qualifiers intended to mean something other than that?
On the contrary, it's better to do something as in a startup, than to complain about public policy. When your system is broken, try to fix it, when that fails, workaround it.
The gig economy isn’t going anywhere, so eliminating an option isn’t helpful. Much rather see legislation that gives these workers more protections than a 1099 worker gets today.
UK Prime Minister vows to 'supercharge' UK science with fast-track visas
Outside certain places with very high car ownership uber is tons more expensive.
If you were to get a plan on a cheap mvno with a second phone number, would it work as seamlessly as if your main number were tied to your SIM?
Uber and Lyft have background checks across the board. They also had a higher insurance policy ($1M standard) than most cab companies ever did...
A lot. I live just outside the city limit. 2015 VW Golf Wagon. Payment is only $260/month because I bought it used, got a decent amount for my trade in, and put extra down. Insurance $100/month. Gas, tolls, taxes, misc parking $200/month. Parking at my apartment is included in lease but can easily be $200-400 depending on where in the city you are. I'm a freelancer. As such I don't pay for monthly parking in the city, which could be another $200-400.
Attention spans are definitely down. I know I read a lot more shorter format myself. And there's actually a lot of data on it.

I certainly don't feel compelled to write for SEO or eyeballs. But easy and quick doesn't need to mean bad and is often OK for day-to-day stuff.

Most things I publish are in the 800-1000 word range. These days I'll tend to go multi-part rather than the 3K-5K stuff I used to do fairly routinely.
Uber and the gig economy are just a small part of a much larger trend. American labor has been increasingly devalued since the late 70s. The only difference is, opposed to say offshoring manufacturing jobs, that it's very visible to yuppies in SF and NYC rather than being isolated to rust belt towns and the midwest.
I think the intended context for most of these is CTF contest levels in which you have to break out of a restricted shell. In that context, things like the ability to run external commands will be a big deal!

But I do think that the SUID marking is confusing, because it seems like most of these are saying that if a particular program is installed SUID, it would allow a privilege escalation, without indicating that the program is normally installed that way (and indeed, most of them are not normally installed that way).

Edit: probably all of the descriptions of the capabilities you can achieve with these commands should be edited to start with "if", because they all seem to be describing circumstances under which the particular tool can be used with a particular side effect, without a particular implication that it can or can't be used that way on a stock system.
I live on the other side of the mission, so YMMV. Though I would suggest that surge pricing is one of ridesharing's strengths, and public transit could learn from it.
I'm guessing there won't be much difference since jsmpeg already has a small chunk of C code that gets run through emscripten and both libraries are written by the same guy.

https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg/blob/master/build.sh
oh dont be sorry its not your fault and interjections are valid, just to get things on track with the thread, this is about circumventing an authorities ability to detect an offence, and some authorities will assume innoccuous behaviour is evidence probable cause or reasonable suspicion, basically where im sitting, any circumstance you create that causes an investigation to go off script, can be interference if you intended to do it regardless of what you are trying to accomplish.
Not all gig companies are the same.

Uber is not a real business. Nothing about hiring a driver or maintaining or running a car is cheaper now than before Uber. Uber will never be profitable unless people are willing to pay the same amount as for regular taxis or for a private driver (i.e. expensive).

Airbnb on the other hand is a real and vastly profitable business. Yes there need to be tighter regulations because we don’t want Airbnb everywhere. That will have a non-trivial effect on its business. But even after regulation it remains a very profitable and highly appealing consumer and business product.

The other difference is that Uber just gets you from A to B. I will never remember the car nor the driver. Even if the driving experience is great, I won’t be telling my friends about it.

Airbnb on the other hand provides memorable lifetime experiences.

No comparison.
If you’re trying to be professional, the latter is never an option.
jsmpeg is by the same author!
drivers get a little more than just half of the fare, uber keeps more than 1/3
Facts still trump everything in all of those categories. You can certainly talk about how those facts can be explained by people's emotional state, historical context, etc., but that doesn't invalidate facts that might demonstrate something is pretty irrational when you look at actual data.

When someone says they are afraid of flying, you show them facts of how safe commercial flight is compared to driving. You don't just quietly sit by while they try to pass legislation making flying illegal.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
In defense of the article, what you are talking about is a different story more "finding the Internet and programming" that isn't really unique to Hacker News. It can surely be used that way, and people likely do, but you can also find those things by searching for "top programming books" (or hanging around twitter, quora, medium or other sites). They did sort of talk about that with the early motivations for Hacker News. And you could absolutely go to a music festival and write about the food trucks, the people and the atmosphere that if that is what unique about that festival. I think they did a good job in that regard. People don't obsessively read Hacker News to help newcomers, they do so because it is all in all a technical tabloid.
Yeah my point was people shouldn't look at it and think "self driving car research". Every engineer at Uber is paid out of that budget.
Deleting the prod db is just a rite of passage: https://github.blog/2010-11-15-today-s-outage/
Yes, an rxe is longer.
But: I've been using regexps was 20 years and I can't remember them (both reading and writing). My brain swaps it out, partly bc I know it's one SO away. But that's bad for code readability.
As soon as gitlab sprung up, I got unlimited free repos and shortly after CI.

I'm happy with this competition.
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?state=opened&...

As more of the feature development goes into EE, there is less of a need to back port the latest changes. There are tons of workflow processes I would love to more tightly integrate with GitLab, but not all of them would make sense outside of my organization. Some of them can be hacked together with bots, but some of them require extending the core functionality and would probably require a fork.

> forking GitLab instead of contributing upstream

I think this is the problematic mindset. Meaningful contributions to upstream will follow useful forks.

> they all fell behind with upstream and couldn’t keep up to date anymore.

Code churn doesn't just slow down forks, it slows down core development.
You can turn off Location History (and may other things) here: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols

It's not a secret and I believe you have to opt in at some point.

I believe you can turn off facial recognition in Photos' settings.

Disclaimer: I am a Google employee, my opinions are my own.
I feel like this misses something crucial to how most of these arrangements work: the worker is unable to put value on the gig. That is the real asymmetry. The gig worker's car wears down, requires gas, oil changes, and gets beat up by the road, but from his perspective he sees $25. Do you think Uber would even try to estimate that number?! (which they almost certainly could). Its essentially capitalization on a huge information asymmetry.
Thanks for your support Alex!
I'm in the process of replacing TeamCity with Azure Pipelines (not my choice). It's ok but I also doubt it's best in class, TeamCity is far better IMO (more flexible, more informations/actions on one screen, less clicks, better logs display, better tests results display, live tests results, etc). I wish they had an hosted offer, and yaml configuration.
I don't believe that Uber/Lyft/Someone can't operate a ride sharing service at a profit. Taxis have done it for decades and now that the technologies have been invented, I don't see any reason Uber/Lyft can't ever be profitable. They may not be profitable enough to justify the amount of investment they've received, but they'll likely still exist in some for or another.

The cat is out of the bag. Nobody is going back to taxis.
It’s the slightly condensed Roboto look but I’d say it looks a lot more like San Francisco with fewer things parallel to the baseline (not as bad as Arial vs Helvetica, but noticeable).
In many places around the world, commercial or taxi driver's licenses require additional medical and background checks compared to a regular license, plus taxis require additional insurance.

E.g., UK https://www.gov.uk/taxi-driver-licence/outside-london; Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerschein_zur_Fahrgast...
Gold Price Goes Up 6-Year Highs
>"data" (whatever THAT means)

Holy shit. Observable evidence.