skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do. You in the passenger seat have some control, you can make their lives pretty difficult on the trip, you can demand that they take the toll road since you’re paying for it anyway.

Appeal to Uber for a credit on those trips. I don’t know the process for Uber, but on Lyft I had someone bypass me entirely, drive just far enough away to give “me” a ride and collect partial credit, then “drop me off”.

Lyft credited me, changed my rating on the driver (I fat fingered the rating on my way to call another car, I only call Lyfts when I’m in a hurry, not when I have all the time in the world), and gave me a guarantee that I would never see that driver again. I hope they also took notes on the scam that driver was running, but I stopped caring once I got my money back.

If Uber gives a damn about customer retention, which they should, they predicated their entire business model on being the biggest, only game in town, you should expect a similar result.
Note: This story was just artificially moved from the top of page one to the bottom of page two.
All of the flash SSDs I am familiar with have no fixed relationship between a logical block and the actual NAND media backing it. In other words, the device automatically wear levels internally and the only control the user has over wear is the total number of writes they perform.

Given that, I don't understand the discussion of wear leveling in this FS. Maybe someone can explain further.
Genuine question: who restricts the sourcecode language in which a kernel driver is written?

I'm thinking machine opcodes in a .o file, to be linked wherever, are only of a concern if they're doing function call linkages (and maybe kernel space vs user space transition bookkeeping) improperly?
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That means my choice is, "use an encrypted standard that's banned in China", or "use an unencrypted standard that's insecure everywhere".

If China isn't going to approve an encrypted standard, then that sounds like a pretty strong argument that standards processes like RCS that have to play nicely with the Chinese government are the wrong way to build a messaging protocol.

The preferable way to do this is probably to support a strongly encrypted protocol, and then build a bridge or a fallback for Chinese messaging since they won't adopt the standard. But then why not just use SMS as the fallback?
devolution implies a return to a previous, lower level of sophistication. since the US was not previously split into two regional political structures, it's not an accurate descriptor, so it sounds more like an attack on the legitimacy of such an order. critiques of the legitimacy of the confederacy are typically moral in nature.
If you take a look at the original bow, I think we'd agree they probably could have managed: https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2017/28/63937289_148571...

There are a lot of things ancient people could have made but didn't. People have made gliders with only primitive materials, but no one was gliding around the ancient world (except, very very quickly to the ground). It was not purely a lack of materials.
> Most people who travel Amtrak, especially the long hauls, don't have as much money as people flying.

why is this the case? I've only price shopped on the east coast, but I usually find that it's actually cheaper by plane than by train. sad because I am usually trying to justify taking the train.
On the contrary, most of the crypto crowd wants people to decentralize on their platform.
> I don't know what motivates someone to be so psychopathically obsessed with invading other people's privacy, stealing their property, and even ruining their lives.

It's because the system is setup to reward them for a 0.1% success rate. These people don't see themselves as invading your privacy, they see themselves as climbing the DEA ladder.
sounds like everyone should dye themselves blue and make it non effective.
> While it is technically possible to do this (like most things) in Python, it is quite the effort and nowhere near ergonomic.

Indeed! Peter Norvig once made the same observation [1]:

> Python does have access to the abstract syntax tree of programs, but this is not for the faint of heart. On the plus side, the modules are easy to understand, and with five minutes and five lines of code I was able to get this:

>>> parse("2 + 2")
['eval_input', ['testlist', ['test', ['and_test', ['not_test', ['comparison',
['expr', ['xor_expr', ['and_expr', ['shift_expr', ['arith_expr', ['term',
['factor', ['power', ['atom', [2, '2']]]]], [14, '+'], ['term', ['factor',
['power', ['atom', [2, '2']]]]]]]]]]]]]]], [4, ''], [0, '']]

> This was rather a disapointment to me. The Lisp parse of the equivalent expression is (+ 2 2). It seems that only a real expert would want to manipulate Python parse trees, whereas Lisp parse trees are simple for anyone to use.

The essential property of a Lisp, to me, is that the syntax is the AST. For any language which does not have this property, providing DOM-like access to the AST is neat but simply not practical for the user.

[1]: https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html
Go on, the last none standard suspension?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorogation_in_the_United_King...

Suggests instead it was 1997 and preceded a GE, prior to that it was 1948, then once in the 1800s and once by King Charles.

Doesn't sounds so terribly common. Why are you trying to mislead people?
I’m surprised by how much of the “internet” seem to be affected by a single AZ going down.
The driver would have to be the one paying the toll, so any money collected for a toll road by Uber would have to go to the driver, otherwise it’s just an arbitrary fee Uber decided to collect, not really a charge for the toll.
> The plumber is free to set their own rates, an uber driver cannot.

Actually, they can. They can refuse any trip if it doesn't pay enough. The difference is that the existence of Uber and Lyft makes the market more efficient and transparent to the customer than the plumber market.

> No one can unilaterally fire the plumber from 50% of the plumbing market.

The fact that the driving market is consolidated doesn't change the underlying economic dynamic. A lawyer can be "fired" from 100% of the lawyering market by the ABA. But if I hire a lawyer that still doesn't make her an employee.

> You probably didn’t order up your plumber through PlumbersRUs.

Not yet. But even before Lyft and Uber, many (perhaps most) taxi drivers were independent contractors, not employees.
Uber and Lyft are gaming labor laws in order to get a cheap flexible workforce. To the extent that their business depends on doing so, then, yes, they don't have a right to exist.

I wish drivers could organize and set up ride-hailing collectives, so that we would just cut out Uber and Lyft as the middle-men; prices might be higher because of wages, but it won't all feel like an anti-social scam - and drivers will be able to participate in managing their own lives and put in their professional input (together with consumer groups / regulators) into standard of conduct, service and safety.
Is it still the default region? The last two new AWS accounts I provisioned defaulted to us-east-2.
Miranda warnings don't seem to help much in practice. Pretty much everyone who is given one waives their rights and speaks anyway.
For many sites hours of downtime every few months is not critical. If the cost of downtime is less than the cost of reducing them, don't bother.
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The contract-based party numbering, first and third remain in common vocabulary, does not distinguish the browser or user as zeroth party. Putting tags on a page that cause tracking ads to run from unrelated businesses and their servers is the only useful “third party ad” definition here. Browser-based ads that use anonymity tech are a different category.

If you insist on a reductionistic definition that rules out anything other than a static ad on the same site as the publisher, you will get stuck trying to improve the Web and how it is funded. I understand objecting to all ads other than static images that click through into same origin forms, or whatever, but that won’t pay the bills for most publishers.
CVE list for android would be a good place to start ;)
Web 2.0 didn't invwnt anything. Plenty of pre-web services expect you to pay them, and also sell you. Cable TV, for instance.
Yes, and you think Google will keep paying regardless of how they develop? If there's not review system in place then Google must be extremely poor at negotiating contracts and conducting business relationships. Similarly Mozilla probably would be reckless to not even know that a change would cause their primary source of income (100s of millions $USD) to stop.
If these labor laws prevent that, then these people allegedly being forced into poverty and homelessness by uber/lyft would just get traditional minimum wage jobs instead which are plentiful at the moment. CA is at its lowest unemployment rate right now. Yet people are still taking these jobs over more traditional ones. So apparently the problem exists in both cases and a more general solution is in order than trying to get rid of contracting-like jobs which other comments point out uber/lyft certainly are (work for competitors simultaneously, no set hours, etc).
Because nobody in the Excel team uses Excel and it shows.
Curious. Lambda not effected. EC2 being physically tied to a box does introduce extra risk I hadn't thought of.
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Yes https://www.gettyimages.hk/detail/新聞照片/protester-holds-a-mol...

However they seem to restrain from throwing it to the police directly. There is only one report of anyone injured by any one of these, by CCTV.
From their Multi-Cloud section on their homepage:

> Deploy across multiple cloud providers including AWS EC2, Kubernetes

Kubernetes... where?
> 1. An Uber or Lyft driver can show up to work "whenever they want" because the company doesn't need them at more specific hours. If they had a shortage of drivers at certain hours, they would certainly require drivers be available at least to some extent at those hours.

I doubt they would need to require anything as surge pricing would increase the incentives to drive until some equilibrium was reached, presumably.
At first I was on your side. The more I think about it I'm not sure.

Not setting your own rates pushes them towards employees.

The freedom to work for any platform at anytime pushes them to contractors.

But I think we are missing the bigger point. Regardless of their status they deserve protection. All contractors should have additional protection.
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So you're arguing that only individuals can be a contractor? That wouldn't make much sense, not only because such relationships are rare in schools. Most common are contractors that have been outsourced something like food service. The law would make no sense if it included practically no one. It would mean a company that provides, say, temp staffing within the school, and those temp staffers saw abuse, they too wouldn't be required to report. I have a hard time believing a court would rule the definition to be so narrow. Both the common language understanding of the term and legal literalism would point against that. There's no transitive property here. We're not talking about contractors hired by contractors hired by contractors. We're talking about a contractor and its employees. There is no way for it to exercise this reporting requirement save through it's individual employees.
Not at all. Those who have cars and can afford the fine consider parking fines to be a cost of doing business. Get a ticket, pay it on the web.

Now if the car is towed that becomes a problem because just pulling out a credit card does not fix it.
A small but important difference between this new function and SUMIF: SUMIF will sum all values in the array that match your search criteria, but this function will only return a single value.
Many voltage regulators have 'power good' pins that you can tie to the MCU's reset line, though.
Most of the connectivity issues we were seeing were with instances in one of the us-east-1 AZs but we were seeing issues in other AZs in us-east-1 as well. Not sure why AWS is acting like this issue in only affecting one AZ.
I like your thinking! :P
> it’s also going to be bad for drivers

how does this follow? Regular employees are entitled to minimum wage, overtime pay and reimbursements for work expenses. The latter in particular would finally put an end to Uber's business model of outsourcing maintenance and risk to drivers, costs which many drivers are very likely not fully aware of.

Being treated as a regular employee, possible unionizing and being entitled to full benefits is a huge boon for working people.
Nope, our EC2 and RDS instances are multi-AZ, still got affected. Might look into being multi-region though.
> The difference is that you are not "hiring" the tree trimmer 5 days a week, 52 weeks of the year.

Sure. But that's not what the text says.

And BTW, the amount of time that an Uber/Lyft driver works is entirely up to them. They can work one day, take a month off, and then come back and work another day. Any Uber/Lyft driver who works 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, is doing so because they choose to, not because they fear being fired if they don't.
If you work for contracts / jobs and not for a company that has hired you full time then yeah you are probably a contractor depending on where you are occupation does not magically determine employment status (contractor vs employee).
A lot are still on Outlook. You might be surprised at the degree to which Microsoft still dominates enterprise IT.
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Any YouTube competitor will immediately be filled with stolen content, porn, and original content that violates some copyright or other.

Unless that competitor adopts an extremely pro-content-owner stance (which would put them diametrically opposed to their content creators, and render this entire experiment moot), they are going to get sued out of existence.

Why do you think YouTube's copyright systems work the way they do? YouTube's incentives are aligned with content creators - or, they would be, if that pesky lawsuit thing wasn't a constant threat.
Yeap and he called it "wisdom"
My thought abstraction on this: Joins are what make database technologies... If you can call Excel a database technology... So powerful.
Probably self hosted.
> I would settle for a good suite at the Ritz.

How much would this cost a month, roughly? Would you get some kind of volume discount? For comparison, a $3k/mo mortgage would be about $100/night (30 days a month).

Most Ritz suites I see are about $579 - $2,500/night.
Compared to just YouTube’s annual income it’s not trivial
This outage is only affecting a single availability zone, so taking on the complexity of multiple cloud providers would not be necessary to be resilient against it. AWS best practices would already have covered you.
I feel I see Scala brought up in response to almost every Clojure post, but I can't tell why. They seem like polar opposites. Clojure has a simple syntax and dynamic typing and no classes, while Scala has a complex syntax and classes and static typing with inference. Why would someone looking for one be interested in the other?

Is it just because they both run on the JVM? For all my Clojure projects, I picked the language despite that, not because of it. It's merely an implementation detail.
> If you have a mortgage, then for a marginally expensive home ($3M in the bay), a 20-year mortgage all in at 3% is $21k.

Not only you are comparing a “small suite” with a probably much larger $3mn home but you’re comparing renting with buying over 20 years. You should count only the interests paid.
Agreed. More broadly, decentralization is less equipped to counteract bad actors. You really are on your own, but isn't that what you asked for when you wanted to abandon Facebook/Google/government.

A decentralized network cannot be trusted by nature. Anyone can join and lie. Successful decentralized networks need some cryptographically-secure checksum to verify its inputs: BitTorrent uses SHA-1; Bitcoin uses Merkle trees. The network participants are just dumb mirrors to provide redundancy and compute. This solves the problem of the integrity of the information, but there is no such analogue for verifying the behavior of humans using the network. For example, you can download a valid BitTorrent file that is also a trojan (virus databases are centralized), or you could send Bitcoin to a Nigerian prince (third-party escrow layers are centralized). There is no algorithm to make sure what you're doing is ethical.

Imagine running reCAPTCHA as a decentralized service that runs on random people's machines. Impossible.

There is no way to flip a switch and change everything from centralized to decentralized without making major sacrifices. No one wants to go back to the dial-up era. Much of the lauded results of the internet are actually a result of its centralization.
This is how things should work, but IMO it leads to unsolvable problems.

I don't think discoverability is the issue. You could easily (for hard values of easily) run a distributed and cached search system - maybe with some form of content-aware DNS-a-like metaURLs for specific information.

The underlying issues are tougher.

If you don't have perfectly robust security the system is useless, because it can be abused in almost endless ways.

If you do have perfectly robust security you have perfect cover for a criminal Dark Net.

So you need some form of identity escrow which is robust enough to allow anonymous free speech but permeable enough to allow law-enforcement to take action to prevent crimes like child porn and human trafficking.

And even then, you'll still get people gaming the system in corrupt ways - for example by setting up astroturfing businesses, paying for followers, distributing fake news, and so on.

These are political and economic problems, and I don't think they can be solved with technology.
Side note, The S in SMS stands for Short, not Standard.
Offtopic: What a strange layout this website has. No offense, Failed to make any sense to me.
> show up to work whenever they want

except this doesnt cover the flexibility to work 5 hours per week; most high tech companies require full time employment.
> That doesn’t really work for a company like google with a largely blameless culture.

That's only the case because the cost of mistakes are insignificant. Should the mistakes start costing them 5% of revenue you can bet a farm that the person would be fired.
Lol, or just architect your applications to be highly available and fault-tolerant to regional failures if that's your business requirement.
Where does it say it's a single AZ?
How is this different from before? All my symlinks reside at odd (but convenient for me) locations in my file system outside my Dropbox folder. They all point to locations inside my Dropbox folder. Everything works perfectly, unless I make the mistake of creating a symlink inside Dropbox that points out; those have always exhibited strange behavior so I stopped using them long ago.
Ever work in a startup ? This feels like a startup.
In a different society, these people might be highwaymen. The government lets them do the same kinds of thing with official sanction and support.
I find it tempting to try to come up with better labels for the concept, despite it being unlikely that the greater anthropology community will ever shift to using them.

Spiritual zeitgeist might fit, I think—it describes the motivation behind most art that’s not associated with a particular coherent artistic movement. It’s “what people were feeling—and wanting to commiserate about feeling—at the time.”
It’s not an issue with an entire region, it’s an issue with a single AZ in a region. If you did the bare minimum - set up your RDS with a replica in separate AZ’s, run your servers in an autoscaling group (even with just a min/max of 1) configured for separate AZ’s, used services that are multi-AZ by default - almost all of the managed servers - you could still be up.
Or just deploy to us-west-2 (or maybe us-east-2) in the first place and then enjoy not having to do anything every time there’s an outage in us-east-1, which is where pretty much all the AWS outages are.

And if there is an issue for some reason failing over to another AWS region is a lot easier than having to fail over to another cloud provider. Outside of a very small number of cases building for multi-cloud is a lot of unnecessary work.
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When my income increased significantly due to switching to contracting I considered a serviced apartment. It was much cheaper than I expected. I'll let my current lease run out but it's definitely a possibility and definitely not as expensive as you'd expect.
If you hire a lawyer they could be your employee. If you hire a firm they are not.

The difference is the firm can assign a junior to do all of the work and keep the senior for trial or face-to-face meetings. If you hired a person they can't really do that.

Can I change the driver? If my wife uses my account is that allowed? Can I subcontract to my team? If not I'm an employee.
It's particularly interesting to see videos where the suspect says something along the lines of, "I know my rights, I have the right to remain silent" and then proceeds to blab on and on at the officer. I suppose it's an object lesson in the difference between the right and the ability to do or not do something. Shades of Monty Python...
Its also too dark, they prefer Tel Aviv with its "stadium lit streets". Not my cup of tea either.
This would be a powerful promoter of autonomous vehicle technologies in ridehail companies. Interesting that if passed, Assembly Bill 5 would become law at about the time the Tesla Network might be implemented. Might actually have a very positive effect on Uber, Lyft et al, just not on their drivers.
I am well aware of that. Thus I mentioned I am still with those apps (involuntarily). So still with Facebook Inc, but not Facebook.com/App
Reclassification doesn’t create new money.

Things that would actually help drivers:

- Limit Uber's share of the fare to 10%. Or 5%. And the driver gets the rest

- Let drivers set strict limits on where they are willing to pick up/drop off, etc

- Let drivers set their price/terms

Give drivers more control, not less. Making them employees gives them less control
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I don’t know anything about laws and courts and shit but I heard that Cali now requires the ABC test for independent contractors and work freedom does not appear to be a sufficient condition for being a contractor under that test.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ninth-circuit-concludes...
Perhaps the difference is you told the group of workers “I want trees A and B trimmed in this way”, but you probably weren’t saying “Tom, I want you to trim tree A, Dick, I want you to trim tree B, and Harry, I want you on the ground passing tools up to Tom and Dick as needed.”

Your example sounds exactly like a statement of work in a contract. My example reaches past that into the company to manage their use of labor.

This doesn’t necessarily apply directly to Uber because they may argue that they are contracting a single ride, and the driver/contractor is fulfilling that small contract in any way they see fit.
> This criterion is ridiculously out of touch with reality. I just hired some people to trim my trees. I told them exactly which trees to trim, in some cases, which specific limbs to cut off. That doesn't make the tree-trimmers my employees.

But this legal notion has multiple criteria, all of which need satisfaction to arrive at a conclusion. Cherry picking a single criterion in this instance makes no sense unless you apply all to your metaphor.
I'm not seeing the redirect. If it is there (or planned), I wonder if it's a response to Chrome's ridiculous new "feature" that hides the "www" in URLs.