skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The wages they pay to their drivers are less than the depreciation of the cars and the expense of keeping the drivers fed, housed, and healthy. They pay less than minimum wage in most markets, and, in most markets, that is not enough to pay the costs of a car plus a human.

That isn't at all the same thing as being unsustainable, because people typically have cars whether or not they drive for Uber. Depreciation comes from both miles and vehicle age, but in general more of it comes from vehicle age. It doesn't matter if the rates can cover the portion of the depreciation attributable to vehicle age because it's not an avoidable cost; you pay it either way.

Critics also like to do these calculations using "average" vehicles and so on, but people aren't stupid. If you're making a living from driving then you buy a car that gets above average mileage and below average maintenance costs. The fact that you can't make a living doing it in a pickup truck is pretty irrelevant when the people doing it are driving hybrid sedans.

The average numbers also get brought down by the people doing it on the side. Some people drive to work every morning and will take a couple of passengers who are going in the same direction. Those people have close to zero incremental costs; they don't have to recover anything. Meanwhile the people doing it full time aren't taking whatever rides they can get at whatever rates they can get along their existing commute, they're working in the places and times that give the best rates, so they need to make more than the part timer but they also do make more.

The whole thing is in balance. If people aren't making enough money to sustain themselves then sooner or later they figure that out and they quit, which makes the price go up because there is less competition. If the price is high enough to be attractive to people then more people start driving and it comes down some. You reach an equilibrium.
Clever yet risky. Narrative could be spun as "drivers who could barely support themselves now definitely can't support themselves on their diminished hours because Uber doesn't want to give provide them basic benefits and yet rides are more expensive than ever." If that narrative prevailed, _Uber's_ feet would end up right back in the fire and California would look like a saint.
The danger with such unqualified sentiments is that there are many things that can make someone uncomfortable. Let me be more plain: David Drummond is (was) the most famous black male executive in tech. I have heard black men voicing frustrations at people being uncomfortable at them for no good reason.

I am not saying that the OP or anyone here is being racist. We need to provide more context to these statements if we are going to say these in public. Otherwise, some groups of people will be at the receiving end of these kind of statements more often than the rest of us.
Ask yourself:

My company might have exposed millions of user to political propaganda/wrong think. It is being fixed though.

6 month worth of base salary.

Choose.
It just came out where precisely that comeys daughter erased the tapes?
That would have gone terribly. The Iranians aren't that stupid.

What I think likely happened is that the Iranian aviation authority was misled by their own government and actually believed it was an accident. At least at first.
Speculation is good, when done by people with proper knowledge and information.
Anyone can be correct in hindsight, just by pure 50% chance.

If we start punishing ANYONE with a speculation regarding ANY situation, we'll end up both punishing everyone, and be swamped with uninformed noise.

we do punish informed and knowledgeable people when they don't speak up, this is usually the basis for negligence law suits.
Apple is forcing users who upgrade to Catalina to use 2FA and if you do not have multiple devices this defaults to SMS.

There is no option to turn it off.
Atlanta had a similar story in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse
highly doubt it but would trust internal Facebook data on any bump in users if that was the hypothesis
As others mentioned, it was not an automatic attack; humans were in the loop. Even with humans in the loop. I think it is fair to say that sensitivity was set very high; the only difference is that it is much harder to control high sensitive humans are.

Regardless of that, keep in mind that this happened hours after Iran bombed military bases of the country that runs the worlds largest airforce, and days after said military bombed their general.

Under these circumstances, it is entirely reasonable, normal, and expected that Iran would set their sensitivities to very high. It is also expected that doing so greatly increases the risk of an accident, which is why countries only do it when they have extra reason to suspect an attack is likely. The downside of a false negative is not 0. It is that who-knows-what gets bombed, and who-knows-how-many people die, causing who-knows-how-much damage to the country and its ability to defend itself in the future.

This situation is also how wars start. We got lucky that the mistake seems to be such that the big players (eg. the US) are willing to let this go as an accident and let hostilities return to their normal simmer.
>The US no longer has a foreign policy explicitly built on the protection of American commercial interests abroad.

Ok, literally true I guess? Not "explicitly" maybe. But you continue

>If you believe that the foreign policy is built on that premise, but that the government is lying about it,

>If you haven't noticed, we no longer invade countries (e.g., Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela) when they threaten to nationalize industries that the US has a large stake in.

What the US does nowadays isn't less appalling. I suggest the recent book The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire, which goes around the world looking at the way US leaders/diplomats/agencies think and talk and act in relation to various countries and regions. Not how their press releases describe it, but quoting from their actual communications and instructions and advice and reports, in great detail. Mostly it's about the 2000s and 2010s, with some historical context. Warning: it will be very disheartening.

In the 1990s I read most of Chomsky's earlier political books, with each book focusing on a particular country/region, and following up his sources - books, papers, media, the UN voting record etc. That was incredibly depressing and sickening. The US crushing any show of real democracy and independence in country after country. Often training torturers and arming death squads in the service of dictators they installed and armed etc. (When they weren't actually invading and/or bombing) And covering it up with self-righteous propaganda about being pro-democracy.. It's hard to believe at first, so different from the glossy CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC picture of the world.

>the burden of proof is on you to show that lying is in effect.

Just read The Wikileaks Files and you should be amply satisfied on that score. (But sounds like your whole world-view will be shattered, sorry for that.) Yes, "built on the protection of American commercial interests abroad", yes, "the government is lying about it", it's plain as day.
>>> This idea that a power differential invalidates a relationship is nonsense.

Why? Seems pretty sound to me.

Pretty demeaning to a mature woman, smart enough to be hired by Google. Maybe we should have a male guardian sign off on such things? just to be sure?
I thought Woot.com was an early player in that space.
> If you destroy the world after being nuked, that is strictly worse than not destroying the world after being nuked, so nobody would do it.

Possibly.

But it is also strictly dominating (in the time before nuclear exchange) to make everyone else believe with absolute certainty that you're willing to destroy the world after being nuked.

Therein lays one of the quandaries of nuclear weapons policy.
Well, if average human reaction time is a significant portion of the time it take for a car to get to 60 mph, then it would be hard to see why accidents wouldn't increase. Your foot slips and at least the car is totalled. It's not like high powered gas cars and motorcycles don't have this problem, with people who are not 80 and senile. People make jokes about Mustangs crashing at Cars & Coffee. People make videos of idiots in Lamborghinis crashing because they tried to do a burnout.
The right to freely associate + the right to speak + the right to printed speech = the right to collaborate on speech

i.e., there is free speech for groups as well as individuals

Saying there's right to free speech for groups unless someone gets paid is a little silly and hard to enforce. Hence our current situation.

From another perspective, there is obviously "freedom of the press" but the Constitution does not say who is allowed to own a press and it doesn't say you have to personally own a press to make use of it. In fact, it would probably be problematic if you weren't allowed to hire a press if you had something you wanted to say.
I think more than offended to me he seemed surprised PR let it through
How does iDrive being VIN locked become, "I can't work on my engine"?

Also definitely want a source on the N52 requiring iDrive to start, because obviously not all the cars with the N52 even had iDrive...

It sounds like you're oversimplifying it.

iDrive probably fails in a specific way that causes a problem for the car's network, not BMW intentionally had the car stop working because your music couldn't play.

That would be exactly in line with what I said about complexity being the issue, not some concerted effort to get you into the dealership. It's confusing a bad design with malice.
I am now realizing when doing the math I misremembered and the US CDC unit of alcohol is 14g, so I am consuming 3 units/day whereas their guidelines are no more than 2 units/day.

The UK in contrast says a unit is 8g, and suggests no more than 2 units a day (so slightly more than half the US guideline).

Some countries call a unit 10g. If I recall correctly France suggests no more than 40g/day, so around 2/3rds of a bottle of wine (so 50% more than the US guideline).

So the suggested “healthy” limits for reasonable drinking vary considerably between countries and I am definitely exceeding the US guidelines, and even slightly exceeding the French guideline.
Is there mobile support? I tried to play with the 52 card deck on Firefox for Android and nothing was responding to my tapping.

I second the call for having more info on the site about what this is, it looks very interesting
> Iran actually did.

No, Iran was _forced_ to do so, they don't two shits otherwise.

Not so much preasure on Russia in case of MH17
I think MAD was an effective strategy when you had one and only one sure adversary. Only one other country that was willing and able to come at you with nukes.

Today’s world - say someone nuked Moscow - who would the russian nukes be set to fire on? USA, China, Germany? If it was a single nuke it most probably is from a terrorist / under cover organization from one of the smaller nations Russia has wronged in the past who had gotten their hands on a nuke somehow. And Russia’s calculus is relatively simple. Who has the USA wronged recently? Quite a lot of players outside of China, Russia, Europe would like to see USA’s demise. So who should the USA retaliate on?

I highly doubt that a MAD doctrine is still in effect. That’s why nuclear subs are such an attractive weapon - you can wait and see who your enemy is, and then glass the bastards days / months later.
AA = Alcoholics Anonymous. [1]

[1] https://www.aa.org
>>It's only when there's no chance at getting rich that people care about the little things like being treated fairly, not being sexually harassed, and so on.

Make me a star Harvey...
Docker Layer Caching
My mother is an alcoholic, so I can offer some perspective, perhaps. It is a disease. I can tell for sure I have the same addictive tendencies, I have just had much better success aiming it at healthier outlets. It is fine for the alcohol to exist, plenty of people drink it socially, but it is a drug where very little good comes from it. It has limited medicinal use and significant long term impact like many recreational drugs. When you grow up seeing a parent either under it, it is very easy to be resentful at them and the alcohol. It isn’t crazy to just wish the stuff never existed. Maybe they would never have taken that first drink that set them on that path. At some point early in the process of alcoholism there is definitely an element of choice. If you catch it too late it becomes a full blown disease where the agency of the person with it is significantly reduced. They often need outside help to quit. Some common things in life truly are better just being avoided. So, I get the grandparent poster. It is armor to protect against the highly negative outcome of alcohol and alcoholism.
Head units have been Vin locked for like 2 decades now

https://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/141045-tech-ii-vin-re...

https://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/topic/58554-help-touch...

It's nothing BMW specific.

Even Honda has had something similar (a pin derived from your Vin)

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/100567/I+need+the+Specif...
A possible explanation might be that the guys who actually fired the missile have spent three days trying to avoid blame, and that it's taken that long for the truth t make it's way up the leadership ladder.

I suspect if I was an army grunt who'd fired of a shoulder launched missile only to realise just too late that it was a civilian airliner, I'd be AWOL and in hiding for _way_ longer than three days...
I'm not American but what are "United States government-funded phones" for? Why anyone wants to use it? The article doesn't give much context...
Am I just super jet lagged, or does Malwarebytes seem to avoid talking about what this “malware” actually does?

Is it just click fraud like the malware names suggest? That would hardly hurt the users.

Some might even think that click fraud fucking over online advertising platforms is a good thing...
See point on attribution.

How do we know the weapons originated from North Korea, and not Japan, or the UK, or some other unlikely source?

Because we saw the missile radar tracks? What if it was a shipping container or UUV bomb?

This is why huge sums of money have been spent on post-detonation nuclear fingerprinting with high accuracy.

Absent a high likelihood of correctly attributing the source, one must default to retaliating against everyone.

Only once one establishes a credible belief in an adversary that the true source will likely be discovered can one relax policy to retaliation only against the source (and probably its allies).
Yeah, well their bathing actually helped spread worm infections https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/roman-toilets-gave-no-cl...

And don't forget that the Roman idea of dental hygiene was based on urine. They also washed their clothes in urine.

Read the graffiti uncovered in Pompeii. Nearly half of it deals with people taking a crap in the street.

The only thing Romans were good at was war. The rest of culture they had to borrow from the Greeks whom they envied. The Roman nobility spoke Greek, not Latin.

Ancient Romans being a bunch of cruel slaving filthy rednecks is closer to truth.
>Generally it's not unhealthy to cry during emotionally turbulent episodes in your life; it's (crying) a method by which you're controlling your stress

This is modern pseudoscientific nonsense, born in part of institutional crises in academia.

>Those i've met that don't cry tend to have longer periods between emotional 'episodes', but tend to act out much more aggressively.

This is blatant projection of personal bias.

Some people, men in particular, deal with emotions stoically. It's a perfectly valid approach, eastern philosophy has been teaching meditation to a similar end for thousands of years, not to mention this particular gender norm existed until very recent time, while we built civilization.

I challenge you to cite a reproducible, unbiased study that rigorously demonstrates the necessity of crying for all, or at least a sizable majority of, people. The trouble is you're dealing with the softest of sciences, one which is particularly vulnerable to bias from institutional dogma.
In Turkey if you change your SIM card your bank is notified and you cannot login to your bank account. You have to re-validate yourself with a long phone call and re-create a new password.
All these addictions look very similar when you dig into the common points of each. I'd recommend Johann Hari's exploration into addiction / depression. He describes the root causes/commonalities in very accessible ways.

Helped me understand what is happening in myself and others. A lot of what we treat as normal begins to have an addictive element to it when taken even slightly too far. Social isolation isn't good for you and it causes ripple on effects. That's just one cause of addiction. Most of us have many factors simultaneously. This doesn't imply you're now an addict but the tendency is in place.
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
Have you read the studies or the ones that disagree?

It’s been a few years now but I have. Time and time again the conclusion seems to be that the studies that say drinking is beneficial are screwing something up, eg the result is based on including very sick people who don’t drink because of their poor health, and these people die younger (and thus skew the results toward making it look like drinking increases longevity).

The studies that correct for this and other issues generally either conclude zero alcohol is best, or in one case I recall a study that concluded 5g (in other words a third of a shot, a third of a beer, or third of a glass of wine) had a minimal positive impact and by the time you got to 10g it was neutral and anything beyond 10g started reducing lifespan.

Sorry I don’t have any references. I looked into this in detail a while back and didn’t save any of what I found.
That’s a commonly repeated bit of fake news. Bush did say that, but it unrelated to Iran Air 655. Here’s the actual context:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4763550/user-clip-george-h-w-...
I agree with 2), but the Epstein case was closely related to the HN bubble, so it's only natural that people get worked up about it.

> Honestly at this point I would just let law enforcement do their thing

I don't think this will happen. Look at the phenomenal outcome of this underage prostitution case, which (from what we know) sounds pretty boring in comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux#Deaths_of_potenti...

Something about sex trafficking seems to bring out the hitmen really quick.
The change to variable priced rides is because the 'cut' of the fare that Uber takes has been standardized to 25% while driver pay remains based on time and mileage.

Giving drivers information about upcoming rides is a separate change.
>> But it's protected with a GPL-3.0 license. You can't just clone it, build, and sell it.

You absolutely can. You can absolutely rename it, re-brand it and sell it for whatever you like. Your interpretation is exactly at odds with the expressed wish of the GNU Project. (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html)

The GPL is about software freedom, not price.

[As an aside I've heard arguments that it's "unethical" to sell a GPL program. Which is absurd since it gives the buyer more choices, not fewer. If I choose to compile a GPL program into a binary, and provide it to the market in a useful form (with source code of course), the market can then absolutely choose to pay me to do that. Red Hat is a multi billion dollar company built on completely this premise. To declare that "unethical" is like saying that selling food is unethical because everyone could just grow their own (ignoring the value added by picking, distribution etc.) The conclusion being that value is added at many points in the supply chain, not just the first one, and people are certainly free to pay for that value.]

>> I think the base idea is that it's unfair for one person to spend years on a product and someone else to sell it. It's unfair for the people who have donated to the team that has built it.

The team (or individual) that creates the product absolutely determines the license for that product. By _choosing_ the GPL license they are _explicitly_ allowing people to rebrand it and sell it. So, no, it's not unfair to do what _they_ have explicitly allowed you to do. By suggesting it is "unfair" you are asserting that either you are not aware of the actual provisions of the GPL, or the authors were too lazy to select a license that matched their actual intentions.

If you want to prevent people from selling the work, then don't use GPL, instead use a license that prevents people from selling your work.

>> The sense of unfairness prevents people from contributing.

The license will absolutely determine how interested people are in contributing to your project. Of course, as you have shown, that doesn't stop contributors from being very unhappy when they think a license "means" something, and it turns out it doesn't. That is on the contributor though, not the project author.

In summary, if you are going to care about what happens to your work after contributing, then please make sure you understand the actual license that project is using and don't just assume terms that are not in effect.
An unspoken consequence of this is the telsa battery module secondary market. I'm mildly interested in the off-grid community and used Tesla batteries are first to nothing.

For $800 you can get a Tesla battery module, 30v and about 5kwh. Nothing else even comes close for the money.

If you're willing to do the work yourself, you can take your entire home off grid at the cost of 2 used Tesla batteries and about 2k in solar panels + the charger. About 6k for total energy independence.

The RV/vanlife community is going nuts about these batteries. The energy/weight ratio is more than 3x higher than the closest competitor. You can replace about 500lbs of deep cycle lead acid with 100lb of used Tesla packs (2) for half the money and they have close to 10x the charge/discharge cycles. The math makes them more than 30x better than anything else when you consider cost vs lifetime. It's completely insane

The tricke-down effects of Tesla's unbelievably good battery technology are being felt far beyond the world of EV's

Exciting times!
The only evidence to classify this as “Chinese malware” (unless I missed something) is this:

> The more discernible variant of this malware uses Chinese characters for variable names. Therefore, we can assume the origin of this malware is China.

But the screenshot showing “Chinese characters for variable names” clearly displays gibberish; some of those “characters” aren’t even valid characters. Anyone who can read some Chinese can confirm this. Therefore, it’s more likely an obfuscation technique designed to trick people who don’t bother to verify anything and quickly jump to conclusions.

Edit: Or just an obfuscating technique that replaces variable names with random code points. Otherwise non-gibberish would be used, presumably.
I agree that the way to combat that is a way to track and interact with the structure of the argument. I like that you have that project, I've had other ideas along those lines on how to represent arguments and get people to engage with them. Hope your project is going well.