skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A giant corporation with entire departments dedicated to calculating pay, customer demand, fuel costs, maintenance, and depreciation, and figuring out the optimal way to screw people out of as much as possible, versus desperate people who happen to own a car: who wins?

I’m sure that a lot of people make good money driving for these companies, but I’d bet there are a lot of people who don’t understand what it really costs to drive a car and end up essentially acting as a conduit for money from their car’s value to Uber’s bank account. Uber knows this and does nothing. In any other context, we’d call it a scam. When a scammer is operating, do we have any obligation to stop them, or is “personal responsibility” it?
GH is now Microsoft. Not everyone's cup 'o tea, so GL has this going on for them as well.
Earlier versions of S/S worked a lot better with manual transmission cars. If you stop at a light and put the car in neutral, the first thing you have to do to go again is push down the clutch. You push it all the way down, then move your foot from the brake to the gas. You only expect the car to start moving when you start pushing down the gas and lifting the clutch. The S/S system can begin restarting the engine as soon as you touch the clutch.

In an automatic car, you stop with your foot on the brake, and as soon as you start lifting your foot, the car is supposed to start moving. You need a much more responsive and tuned S/S system to give a good experience when it has much less time to react.
They've been slowly hikin' rates in my geo for months now. Used to charge me $6 to work one way. Three months later it's now double that.
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$4B and $3B is for the whole years of 2017 and 2018. $1.3B is just for this quarter.
Automation? Make your own AI, aka "learn to code". At least in this one case, there's strong cultural pushback
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Interesting, I feel it's actually getting even easier to make responsible decisions, without the advice I got from the internet I'd probably be picking individual stocks and my mortgage structure would look a lot worse.

Carrying a calculator in your pocket even helps make those little decisions at the store easier.
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Krark-Clan Ironorks was not an expensive deck(comparatively) prior to its dominance of the modern format. If you're good enough at deck building building relatively cheap decks that bust the meta is do-able.
I take rideshare services multiple times per week with zero problems. Maybe it has something to do with the region/city? I've had the occasional issues, and in a few cases I've gotten out and called another car. But around 98% of the time it's completely frictionless.
Thing is, with sudo you can limit which commands you're able to run. i.e.: regular users can run `sudo` but just the `mount` binary, because they're expected to mount stuff that's not on the fstab (whatever).

That can look safe at first glance, but then you can exploit that binaries to get some other unexpected results:

Change your mount binary for a privileged shell:
sudo mount -o bind /bin/sh /bin/mount

Run a privileged shell from inside vim:
sudo vi -c ':!/bin/sh' /dev/null

And so on...
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Did they not see Google Maps change to a globe late last year? Revolutionary! Take that Flat Earthers!
Buffering a several second chunk allows the transmitter to include forward error correction (FEC).

This allows operators to trade off latency for stream integrity which is important when it's going to be transmitted over a lossy medium such as terrestrial broadcast.

This differs from the size problem because the amount of FEC (if any) is a parameter that can be configured between encoder and decoder. A size header would be a built in part of the protocol: hence my assertion that it would force a frame of latency.

i.e. FEC is an operational concern whereas the size header is a protocol design concern.
hahaha this post is funny in so many ways.
My personal peeve is various services that offer MFA, but very quietly still offer SMS-based 2FA as a backup that is nearly impossible to turn off. If you set up MFA, be absolutely sure that recovery is only done through one-time codes and the service doesn't automatically fall back on SMS.
If you are talking about the import hooks, I think those require the imported file to have valid python syntax. The import hooks work on the python AST (I think)
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Material wealth is not enough in itself - capital must have gained it through just means and emerge the victor of a fair competition. That’s the liberal conservative’s personal responsibility. I’m not sure about the Uber case, but try applying your argument to the case of tabacco - it still works.
IMO, it was a combination of (to be relatively generous):

1. General AI optimism fueled by the almost incredibly fast rate of advance of progress enabled by supervised learning in certain domains and by reinforcement learning in an even narrower set of domains.

2. Adding to the above, progress enabled by super-precise mapping within constrained areas.

3. Probably some California-centrism. What's this weather thing of which you speak?

4. Silicon Valley techno-optimism that problems just need one more version to solve

but

5. A great big game of topper in which, once various people started proclaiming that self-driving was just around the corner for whatever combination of over-optimism and because it was in their financial interest to do so, YOU had to fall in line or you'd be perceived as being hopelessly behind your competitors when you said self-driving was decades out.

Further fueled by

6. The many young professional urbanites with no current interest in owning a car or even getting a driver's license who so desperately wanted to believe that their personal robotic chauffeur that they believed things that they never would have were they not otherwise so personally invested.
The radio stations are free from commercial adverts but they're bound by the same logistical problems as other radio stations, meaning a decent proportion of airtime is listening to the same adverts for other BBC radio shows over and over.
Ah I see what they mean now; thanks!
Rear view cameras are a major safety innovation for pickups and SUVs. There's simply no way to see if a child is standing in back of your rear bumper without one.
yet literally every one of us is born with this capability.
Codecs make N-way tradeoffs between implementation complexity, latency, throughput, quality, ...

AV1 is designed to give you the ability to throw more CPU cycles at the encode side to achieve higher quality/byte while maintaining reasonable decoding performance.
You don't have to use it that way, you can encode faster but give up quality/byte.
But without AV1 we would not even have that choice, the previous generations reach diminishing returns at some point.

And hardware decoders are not that great. They use less power and can achieve realtime encoding, but if you want the maximum quality/byte (at the expense of encoding time) then software encoders generally reign supreme due to years of iterative improvements that you don't see in hardware. This is important for streaming services which spend those cycles once and then streams to millions. The asymmetry makes it worth it.
There's a big difference between a workstation like an HP zBook and a MacBook Pro, but that's not what I mean. I'm talking about the trend of sacrificing utility to shave practically microns off an already very thin machine. Shaving another 1mm off the thinness of the MacBook Pro isn't going to matter a jot to anyone.
Sure, but that's the example of monopolies facing competition when they turn bad. Sometimes that takes a new platform shift, other times its just a better product, but either way if there's new value then the monopoly breaks down.

I think if anything, the problem today is companies that could be challengers just end up selling to the very incumbent they're competing against.
Aside from: clearing cookies, having to reopen news articles you've already half read in incognito, or adding an additional '.' (like "nytimes.com./blah"); what are some of the other ways people are getting around paywalls?
Muneeb from Blockstack here. The Stacks blockchain is needed to anchor user identities in a system that is not controlled by any single company.

The App Mining rewards are incentives for developers to improve their app quality. I'd recommend this research paper to dig deeper in to the game theory behind App Mining: https://blog.blockstack.org/app-mining-game-theory-algorithm...

The source of money is newly minted tokens, just like in Bitcoin the miners operating the nodes and processing transactions get the newly minted tokens.
> NZ is probably best place in the world.

Unless you, say, like to travel, or want to live in a place with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Wow! That's one way to get out of the Canadian market. Wonder what the number one cost was the get out of the market the normal way, legal fees?
A more practical use of USB C power supply would be replacing a NUC's power adapter.

I saw this posted on Twitter today: https://mobile.twitter.com/taresky/status/115938806298554777...

The keyword is "PD 诱骗头", which is a small converter to trick the power supply to output at full capacity. Not sure if it's safe, but it's tempting to replace the big power adapter that comes with NUC with a small GaN USB C PD adapter.

Edit: a link to this kind of "PD 诱骗头" http://www.chongdiantou.com/wp/archives/10456.html
Sure, those problems can still exist with Uber - but drivers who cause problems are systematically weeded out over time. I've had my fair share of issues, but it makes a big difference to me that once I give a driver a bad rating/report them to Uber they will never be matched with me again, and if they consistently deliver bad experiences they will eventually be removed altogether. A taxi driver can exhibit the same bad behaviour for decades and suffer no consequences. The human element always means bad actors will be present, but under rideshares they are removed over time (and customer input is taken seriously) and under taxis they thrive (customer reports of harassment are literally laughed at). The helplessness is infuriating.

I have a bad experience maybe 10% of the time I take a rideshare, with taxis it's more like 75%. That does mean bad experiences will continue to happen either way, but I still favour the former and will pay more for it. Plus ridesharing still has the benefit of pooling, knowing costs up front, paying through cards without harassment, having the company keep a detailed record of your pickup/dropoff and route so reports of issues can be substantiated, quickly rescheduling if a driver fails to show (plus a map to see when a driver is not on route), etc. I think it's a clear win - at worst they share some of the problems taxis have, but taxis share none of the benefits that rideshares have.
I never understood why people thought self driving cars would lift Uber out of their miseries. Even if they do make it more profitable (although it's not as trivial as you mention), they would also be in a much more competitive landscape compared to the duopoly situation they have now. The costs might go down, but it doesn't mean they would be able to maintain their market share.
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That wasn't my attitude at all, it was that it was mixed for the most part. You had to just scroll down a bit, which I do admit takes time and a while.

People are subject to various sampling biases, recentism, and other such biases and give can give them a non-representative sample of any forum. I will admit that HN has become more political since 2013 or 2014 when I joined, but still, compared to any other subreddit or forum it is still mostly better.
Sure, and it might arrive in 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, or never. It's an awful experience.
Yes, but as a result, memory-intensive applications (usually games) crash all the time, especially on older devices, which the App Store won't let you filter out.

What are you going to anyway, just start deallocating the memory your application needs to actually work, so that you can display an "I'm sorry, we're out of memory" message? Might as well crash then.

The amount of memory available also varies wildly from user to user and you can't put a memory requirement on an application.

So what do people do? Disregard the issue. Even the best games on the App Store have tons of one star reviews by people with older devices.

The flip side is that application that are prone to crash are pressured to optimize for relatively quick and painless restart.
That absolutely did not work. I recall having to calling cab companies at night and the operator would estimate 30-40 minutes for a 20 minute ride. Spoilers: they would never show up
The judicial system in many places has said that Uber have crossed the line. It's been a big part of their business model.
What The Font does an amazing job sometimes, but it's not infallible. I'd say it misses more often than it hits.

Web crawling seems like a great idea, but probably not worth it just to get a list of customers. And it will never tell you who's using it in their app, or for signage.
Agreed. What's actually interesting (and more of a fun experiment) is exploiting and doing something useful with an embedded device running Busybox without persistent storage and a stripped down kernel.
I strongly believe Uber is going to shut down their self driving car unit at some point. May be in a year or two. There is no reason to keep that running when the end is not in sight for SDCs. That is not going to happen at the level Uber wants any time soon. If not today, very soon, Uber is going to accept it and dump their unit.
Of course we get to decide. As citizens we get to vote and have our say in what we think is right.
It’s not incorrect. Netflix and Amazon are not live TV. (Perhaps you missed the “etc” after BBC?)
Personal responsibility is still a thing in our society. And the fact that it's a society means we need to look out and care for each other.

It would be nice if we could cultivate a similar expectation of corporate responsibility towards workers and customers.

Uber's tactic of attracting drivers with decent pay rates that they knew were unsustainable then slowly chipping away at that over time is sleazy.
I would have believed you, since I feel often the same names are highly upvoted. Though this can have natural causes. Like them writing better comments. Or just popularity based on name recognition. Such feedback loops naturally existing without being explicitly implemented by HN sounds highly plausible.
Years ago when one Bitcoin was worth less than $20, individuals would run doubling games on shared Google spreadsheets.

The operator would publish a Bitcoin address and the spreadsheet. Participants would send whatever amount of Bitcoin they wanted to this address. The operator would add deposits to the spreadsheet in the order received.

Starting from the top of the list, as soon as the total deposited was enough to double the first deposit, the operator would send double the amount to that participant.

Then when total deposits grew enough to double the second deposit, it was paid out. This continued until there weren't enough new deposits to double the next in line.

Could be illegal, but it's definitely not a scam because everyone could see from the beginning that the pyramid must eventually collapse. Many of these games were actually called "Ponzi" in the name of the spreadsheet.

Some of these games ran a surprisingly long time, months in some cases.

And in the games I played, the anonymous operator never pulled an exit scam. They profited naturally when deposits eventually dried up and the remainder was their reward.
It feels like the list of programs with this property was autogenerated by a script from a database field, because they all have the same explanatory text.

So probably the point is that there are some commands for which this is counterintuitive (really, quite a few are out there), but I imagine that once they decided to represent the "can read files if run as root" property in the database, they felt they needed to add this flag even to those commands for which this is the entire point of the command (like head, tail, cat, or pagers or editors).
I dare say, if you live and work in a major city, close enough to the centre that you don't have a parking space, you ought to have great access to public transport. Unless you're in the US, I suppose.
This post just makes Gitlab seem salty and childish. Not a good look.
Does Hy add its own "symbol" datatype, or use something in the standard library?
In 3 cities where I have lived, calling cabs only works stochastically. Nothing to be relied upon. Uber/Lyft were a huge upgrade over that.
Adding "outline.com/" before the url sometimes works.
I think this is what worries me about the "mainstream" debate that might be incorrectly framing the whole problem altogether.

Here, the rise of the gig economy came from automation. Not in the caricature sense that there are robot automatons that serve your plates in a restaurant, but in a sense that scalable automated processes replaced human dispatchers that answers your phone calls at the taxi companies and radios drivers to pick you up, and automated processes that replaced taxi drivers wandering around aimlessly on the street trying to pick people up.

Here we get higher productivity but it's also a powerful hegemonizing, monopolizing, wealth concentrating force where the controllers of these automated processes, which scales globally at low cost, can skim value-add (that used to be done by more people with jobs) from the transportation and other needs everywhere.

But the solution isn't to break them up and for society to become unproductive and un-automated again by forcing minimum wage, health insurance, guaranteed menial jobs etc. Whether we like it or not, taxi radio dispatchers is never coming back as a mainstream job that can be the bedrock of local communities again.

Instead, we need to start having discussions now about the fundamental way how we structure human society in a world where more and more of this planet's 'productivity' is concentrating more and more in the hands of those who produce the AI automations. This is nothing short of answering the question of why we're alive. Right now, our sense of purpose comes from trading our muscular and mental power during life on this planet for GDP. If that's the metric, our muscular and mental powers' productivity vs AI will lose (maybe in 5 years, maybe in 10 years), and by implication, we lose our purpose for living. We need to stop pretending there is an artificial scarcity of productivity and change the purpose of life.

This is a Sanders vs Yang timeline of solving the problems we need to solve in the next 5 years vs solving the problems we need to solve in the next 20 years.
> They can't pay rent in Beverly Hills

sure they can: eight or ten people can pool resources and rent a one bedroom apartment. happens all the time in other cities.
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We had shadow banning in the Topix forums in 2005.
It means it's less relevant for the future. People aren't worried about their current expenses, so much as what that means for the future.
A large number of Uber drivers in many countries including the US are not particularly young or old and are white and have skills or professional careers.

The reason they drive for Uber is not a lack of skill. It's because they ran out of money and needed a job. Often having skills doesn't translate into having a good job. Good jobs are a limited resource per area and field.
In a perfect world sure. But doing nothing while waiting for a perfect world is far worse than fixing the problem at the wrong level.
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> They spent $457m last year on autonomous and flying cars with $0 in revenue from those projects.

I sincerely hope they weren't expecting any revenue from those for the next decade or two. Anything else would be delusional.
Which content you’re watching isn’t actually relevant, it’s where you are getting the content from. I could be watching a programme via an on-demand service at the same time as it’s shown on live TV, and I still wouldn’t need a license.
I think the only way to make it viable is paired with Universal Basic Income, so the gig worker has a floor for their income.

Maybe UBI won't provide a livable income, but might enable "gig workers" to survive with a dignified standard of living.
Why use silicone instead of an epoxy case?
But the U.S. is still one country.
Because the central bank has negative interest? It's the reason commercial banks will refuse to store sufficiently large amounts of cash in a 0.00% checking account (even though they offer it for smaller amounts).
What user data do you store? Do you sell user data? How do you protect user data?

I trust your founding story, and I truly believe you are acting in good faith, with positive intentions. I think your rationale for a subscription model is wise & insightful.

However, recent history has taught me to be cynical. I have to think there's a market for more and higher-resolution emotional profiles to open up new targeted advertising delivery channels. Especially information that can be used to feed algorithms for building higher resolution models of my inner life.
So because it is the same attitude it is dismissed? What’s the point of this argument?
Looking forward to it, very interested. However, I'm going to be honest with you - it'd be a hard decision to rely on a service rather than an open-source software. Like, you guys can go bust any time and while the runner is indeed open-source, as I imagine, the management console for it won't be. And I understand that's what people are paying for, but, perhaps, consider licencing it, rather than running from your own server and charging for the service.
Don't lead half the nation by the nose on a simple majority. If anything learn this.
I don’t think it particularly favors either. Neither benefit from pro-life/pro-choice debates on HN.
660 Semi-convincing marketing articles written by AI in 45min
If anyone is facing mental health problems my advice would be to minimize screen time and avoid using the internet unless absolutely necessary. More often than not screen time contributes to the problem.
Am I the only one who has never had to fix/repair their phone before? Seriously people, learn to take better care of you phones.
All Sans Serif fonts will remind you of whichever sans you're most familiar with.

My wife thinks every Serif font is Times Roman!
Written with Grover model (transformer), from AllenAI (IMO, does way better with this type of content than anything I've seen from GPT-2)
Why would any company agree to help FB in this manner? It's not like FB is reaching out to small orgs, conservative etc. Why would anyone get their filtered news from FB?
wut? you caring about what i do with your data doesn’t mean i have to care about you or your private data.

a lot of people care about the environment. that doesn’t mean there aren’t gold mining companies. even better, right now in russia there are companies forming that will take advantage of the new transportation routes once the ice completely melts.

so i can assure you that you caring about stuff amounts to close to nil. the majority doesn’t care.