skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber has made the taxi market worse off than govt controlled taxi services, when it comes to pricing, safety and affordability.

These shady practices prove that the interventions such as surge pricing is just a money making scheme for them. If you disagree, then explain to me as to why does surge pricing increases their commission ? And does it not give them incentive to always surge. I can agree with a peak hour surcharge to increase supply but surge and these kind of things show that they are just money fleecing business
Other than esoteric high performance use cases, I'm not really sure why you would really need a plethora of filesystems. And the list of them that can be actually trusted is very short.
It's insane how much of this contractor vs employee debate would just be solved with universal healthcare. I don't understand why the US is obsessed with passing on any cost to their citizens or employers in ways that lower productivity and clearly hurt the economy, instead of just biting the bullet and budgeting out policies to improve the economy, increase quality of life, and make the country in general stronger.
Yikes, if you haven't been doing this as you go you've severely messed it up.
One way Google, a software company in the broad sense of the term, could have avoided a blog post with such a title is to never hire a “Head of International Relations” in the first place.

Which leads to my attempt at answering the question, of how one could stay true to ones values - know the things you’ll never do. Then don’t. Ever.
I think (based on seeing how many of these types of messages are coming up in discovery in recent cases) that many people these days don't think of "text messages" (email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, FB, you name it) qualify as "in writing". Doubtful most people would dare write a printed memo and sign their name to it with the same content that they would write in a text or email.
Or uMatrix (which I prefer in terms of UI but should be equal feature-wise)
I don't know where you got the idea he couldn't get an interview.

>During that same period, I had failed an onsite interview at Descartes Labs, and a few technical screens.

>Somewhere around that time, I was invited for the onsite interview with NVidia, which I also did not pass. One of the issues that I had was my limited knowledge of how 2D object detectors work.

>The next company on my list was Tesla. The recruiter contacted me because of my Kaggle achievements, which did not happen often. I passed take-home tests, tech screenings, and an onsite interview. The next steps were the background check and approval of my application by Elon Musk. I did not pass. [He'd violated a pretty bullshit sounding NDA]

>The company that was organizing the competition was called Planet Labs. They had an open DL Engineer position, I asked about it and was invited to an onsite interview. I failed again. The feedback — not in-depth DL knowledge.

He got a number of interviews, which he didn't pass. Is it really so surprising that Google Brain and Deepmind are going to be pickier than most?
I'm always a bit taken aback by the heat that Google gets for even thinking about breaking into the Chinese market. Microsoft is in China and has active US military contracts. Apple is in China. Yet it's Google that gets the bad rap for trying to get into China and then ultimately turning down billions of dollars in revenue and data.
Well, yes. Julia here is consistent with something in Ruby. In my experience it's one of the three major complaints about Ruby is how inconsistent it can be within itself.

The other two major ones are the number of core ways to the the same thing and the slowness of the interpreter. The first is a matter of taste. The second is a technical issue with the interpreter mostly independent of the language and/or a question of fitness for specific projects.
Windows Terminal update includes a retro-style CRT mode
So true. I saw this vulnerability was posted a day ago, and immediately flagged.
Where does it say GPA of 3.9? All I've found is 2:1 for UK universities and anywhere between 3-3.5 for US. Also they say it won't say it's online.
Exactly like YAML does.

With Tanka you would usually use the functions provided by `k.libsonnet` to generate your manifests.

For CRD's, there are no helpers available, so you either just write the plain manifest as a Jsonnet object (JSON syntax), as YAML and `import` it (gives you an object as well) or even better write some helper functions yourself, publish them as a library on GitHub and make future users happy :D
Neat! It didn't a few years ago.

This is most of the inner loop of a barycentric coordinate rasterizer, so I was pretty concerned about micro-optimizations when I was checking.
1) DNR "rules" are covered (in my family's case) in a document called "Health Care Directives". It has a number of options and the options are selected by initialing. YMMV depending, I think, on state laws.

2) The firm I used had a meeting where the family members sat down and discussed everything with a lawyer. We were able to ask detailed questions and get answers. It was helpful and very worth the expense, because we used that knowledge later on to transfer property "the right way" so that it would stay in the family rather than being used entirely for medical-assistance spend-down.
Stay private. I don't think publicly traded companies can be values-driven, but if you maintain control over the ownership of the company, you can. Here I'm thinking of something like Wegman's grocery stores.

If Wegman's went public and had to meet the demands of Wall Street investors, I think they would lose what makes them special.

I can't think of an example of a large, closely held firm in tech.
There is an interesting book called Maverick by Ricardo Selemar I think is his name, who took over Brazil's largest steel company in the 80's. One of the points he makes in the book is that we have this obsession with growing business, if the company does $200 million in revenue this year, it has to do $250 million in revenue next year, etc.

That kind of thing, I think this is a big part of the problem is this mindset of competition and continuous growth for no other sake than growing. Part of this is a healthy desire to improve and for a while a company can make legitimate improvements for a while, years, decades, if you keep forcing people to improve a metric, revenue or share price in this case, there comes a point where there can be no more legitimate improvement, then people start to play to the numbers and as pressure increases start to turn towards means that are unethical and illegal. We can see this in every facet of life, cheating in sports because we are reaching the peak of human capabilities, banks and "financial engineers" that spend all of their time trying to invent instruments and methods for funneling money from one group of people to another, or a more concrete example software engineers that start producing shoddy code because they have to meet a deadline.

I don't blame the investor's for this and I don't think the problem is capitalism itself either, I think we'd have a different but no less destructive set of problems if we had the government running or intervening, e.g. New lifesaving drugs take 10 years a $1,000,000,000.00 to get to market because of FDA regulations that primarily benefit incumbents. I don't know a way to fix this or solve this without changing the way people decide and prioritize things, because at the end of the day what we like to call "systems" usually just end up being a reflection of an aggregate of human desires, and bad people will ruin any system, good people can make any system work.

To tie it all back, if I were to do it the only way I could see not becoming the villain is to content yourself with not being the absolute best and not comparing, or in other words, "Thou shalt not covet." either as a CEO deciding the fate of a company or as an individual in your life. If someone has a better option I'd love to hear it, but right now it seems that the incessant desire to have more and be bigger in every material thing is at the root of the problem.
People walk around it. A lot of the eruv are natural walls.
"If I don't do this shady thing, someone else will, and then I'll go out of business" zero-sum mentality.
with Uber at this point, why is anyone assuming they act in good faith?
My last company used Terraform to manage Kubernetes. The main issue is that the TF Kubernetes provider supports a limited subset of K8S object types, and of fields within those K8S objects. For example: TF didn't even support Deployment objects until sometime in mid/late 2019 (I may be wrong on timing, but it was long after they were the primary method for general scheduling of long-running containers).

We ended up using TF's Helm provider, sometimes with hacks like a helm chart which deploys an arbitrary YAML file (the so-called "raw" chart). At that point, Terraform is blind to what's actually happening inside K8S. You can still benefit from the ability of TF to pass data from your other infra automation into the Helm charts, of course, but it's really Helm actually managing the configuration of your K8S cluster. And that's the app we all love to hate.

The situation may have been improved, but my conclusion was that it would always be a somewhat incomplete interface.
Defining the Services-as-Software Business Model for AI
You could argue yes but on a grander scale. There are many laws that cover what you can do to your own body and the government claims the output of your labor as theirs. Trump just tried to buy Greenland and the inhabitants. You require papers to leave the country and permission to revoke your citizenship. Marriage (a religious institution) licenses were originally created to prevent different ethnicities from union and are still used to prevent same sex marriages.
What I found most concerning was the reference to Singapore being tough, while "the FAA were neither thorough nor demanding and failed to write up many issues".

Definitely reinforces the impression the FAA has gotten way too cozy with industry.
Flash was my first programming language from way back when I Was 12-13 in a game programming club when I got to high school. It was a fun, creative way to get introduced to programming. Which I have done non-stop ever since, and now do professionally.

It will always be a cherished toolset to me.
Mines quite accurate against the ones in my regular clinic - and with BP its more the change you want to track.
I'm really happy you've changed your mind on this! Thanks for being open-minded!
Oh gods.

VVVVVV's core mechanic is that you don't so much "jump" as you just flip gravity, and you only get to do so when your feet are firmly on the floor. This leads to some very interesting designs.

The stage "Veni Vidi Vici (Doing Things The Hard Way)" is possibly the evilest level I've ever completed in a video game. Just a tiny little block, trivial to jump over, but the lack of a jump button means you have to... do things the hard way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtiY5D6HCs
I'm a full time Laravel dev and love Laravel, but it's default auth is one of my least favorite parts. I personally feel like it's abstracted to an extreme, and to the point where you have to take it or leave it wholesale.

On most apps I find myself writing my own register / login / password reset logic, and just using Auth::login($user); to get the user logged in and give them a session.

From that point onwards though, Laravel does a fantastic job and Passport is a god send.
>> Also called social benefit corporations

Wikipedia says it's not the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_purpose_corporation

>> If the company doesn’t have their values and goals listed in the articles of incorporation, then they have no legal obligation to follow them.

But Purism afaik does have them listed.
Among other things, it is like you can do something like a 'google image search' with your own local movie files (eg, for a given movie, find movies that look similar)
If the aliens see us the way we see cattle it won't matter that they are altruistic.
You should cut your own lawn (or have kids/neighbours do it), or you don't deserve to have it.
(Obviously, the solution is for the owner to provide the charged batteries).
Ask HN: What is everyone doing about the new California Consumer Privacy Act?
Hi, everyone. I'm curious how serious people are taking the new California Consumer Privacy Act requirements that went into affect on Jan. 1st, 2020. To be honest I don't know much about it so I could be wrong, but from my reading it sounded like all web sites need either a toll free number or a web form that allows users to request all of their data and/or have it deleted. Even "modern", tech focused sites like Hacker News don't have this that I can see, so my question is am I miss interrupting the requirements, are companies not taking it seriously, or (most likely) something else I'm not knowledgable about? Thanks.

Edit: I actually did find Hacker News support! https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#calprivacy
Sorry for not seeing it earlier.

2nd edit: There is a phone number and an email address, but I'm the number is not toll free. It is unclear to me if this satifies the requirment or not. I'm assuming YC legal know more than me on this :) but my reading isn't lining up. Not trying to put HN out here, just trying to be as accurate as possible.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=1798.130.
> Your example neatly demonstrates that your definition of readability is based on familiarity. What does variable assignment have to do with the Contents of Address Register, anyway?

I explained myself right below my examples.

> In the absence of familiarity, minimizing the number of moving parts and factoring out repeated patterns still has intrinsic value for aiding understanding.

And now you're repeating what I said.
If anyone else is curious what else you can get, Microsoft publishes this Excel list: https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/4/15454442-CF17-...
You're effectively claiming that university teaches nothing, but good degrees teach independence, critical thinking (analysis, synthesis), research skills, writing, teamworking, presentation skills, and much more.

Added to that, your final grade indicates ability x effort. This is significantly more useful than a narrow measure of ability alone.
Why should the driver process the payment? There are middlemen processing payments for hundreds of years.
This absolutely hurts people who need to go to A->B in suburban areas where public transit is abysmal (due to everyone driving, not using Uber). e.g. a family member of mine frequently helps with picking my kid up at school (by using Uber as she can't drive).

Public transit is so slow (an hour vs. 10 minutes driving) that it isn't possible to use it schedule-wise - we'll just be taking the pricing hit. Others might be less able to absorb the pricing hit and will just suffer (it's either pay more or lose job).
Projects can be set up so that one entity (possibly a company which is a Linux Foundation Member) exerts dominant influence. This is one reason that many companies are comfortable bringing projects to the LF — and that's arguably better on balance for the Open Source ecosystem than them keeping those projects in-house and their governance murky.

Rust, though, is already at Mozilla, whose influence seems to be benign.

I'm curious, which Mozilla entity holds the trademark: is it the 501(c)(3) Mozilla Foundation, or is it their for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation?
I thought Roblox was a game... is it also a game making platform?
The definition of oligarchy (I looked it up) is "rule by the few". Not "the rich", but "the few". So: Are we ruled by the few? Not "do they have outsized influence", but "are we ruled" by the few?

I would say no.

If you think we are, then do you think that Warren's tax on the rich is just a smokescreen that those in control are putting forth to hide that they are in control? Or do you think that Warren will not be allowed to win? Or do you think that, if she wins, she will never actually do what she says she's going to do? Or do you think that the tax on the rich is really what the few want to do? (At that point, your hypothesis is unfalsifiable, because anything that happens is what the few wanted to happen.)
Costco has done a really good job of maintaining their values in the face of pressure from shareholders, so I'd argue it is definitely possible.
Same here. I remember implememting the game loop using one or two timeline frames.
Probably not much more than what was in the Equifax breach.

I think one of the bigger issues in generating profiles on ~325 million people would be merging tons of incomplete data and lots of old/outdated data.
Not to say that you couldn't use some machine learning to fill in the blanks, but I'm sure most if the big data/analytics companies are already doing that.
Ask HN: How surface-to-air missile can be fired unintentionally not deliberately
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/footage-of-mid-air-explosion-surfaces-as-canada-australia-say-iran-may-have-unintentionally-shot-plane-down

> Canadian leader Justin Trudeau says evidence indicates the strike "may have been unintentional."

> "We have had similar intelligence as our partners have," Mr Morrison told 2GB radio on Friday. "This is not a deliberate attack ... it's a terrible accident."
.in is technically-operated by Neustar.
It seems to me that the option to refuse drives is the bigger change.

But regarding pricing, Uber is no longer "mandating" the drivers accept a price, instead Uber drives agree to the rates Uber sets. Maybe that has some bearing? I'm no expert.
Can you explain why it's a bad idea to start your own foundation unless well-funded? What exactly does the LF's FaaS provide?
Raymond Chen has lot of good stories about the lengths Microsoft would go to to ensure old programs still worked.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/tag/history
A warning and a fix within two days of releasing the affected version. I appreciate this team’s transparency and priorities.
Yes but its still a pain to pack it up and carry it around
> Undergraduate tuition fees are over £9k a year (it was zero when I went to university 20 years ago).

That's wrong.

In 2000 the fees that the UK student had to pay was £1000 a year (£1700 in today's currency), and the government paid about £3000 - a total of £4000, or £6800 in today's money.

Students had to pay this upfront to study. In 2006 these upfront fees were dropped.
A necessary property is 'aboutness'. Consciousness is always about something else, or perhaps about itself as in the case of self consciousness. No material object has any inherent reference to anything else. For example: the words in this comment are nothing but pixels on a screen. However, we interpret the words to refer to the content of the idea I'm trying to communicate to you.
Maybe it is the nostalgia talking but I kind of liked the dot matrix printer sound.
That tops Michael Scott's Diversity Day. Life is stranger than fiction...
You don't get any of the "seat of the pants" feeling of course, and the graphics, while super impressive, don't compare to real-life low and slow VFR flying (although hopefully MS Flight Sim 2020 changes that). It doesn't replace the real thing.

BUT I enjoy flying VFR in busy airspace with the PilotEdge network, and also IFR flying. For the communications and IFR flying, the mental tasks you do in the sim are identical to what you do for real. After an ILS approach to minimums in the sim, I feel like I got a workout. It definitely keeps my head in the game.

The controls become second nature very quickly.
The rest of them have been open about the fact they are ruthless profit making centers focused only on money and you shut up and stay in line or else you're toast. Google's model was "don't be evil" and for years went on the image that they are fighting for the public good and that they were an example of the ability to be principle centered, do good for the world, and get stinking rich at the same time. Now that the pressure starts to turn up on how to be profitable it turns out that everything they said they stood for, and more importantly the ideal that they represented, turned out to be a lie.

They were able to cash in on this image of moral superiority and principle first for years and it gave them a leg up, now that they have abandoned that fall more for it.
AS someone whith high blood-pressure and geek I used the Withings BPM Core in the last 4 months and found that salt actually increases my blood pressure, but for me nothing increases blood pressure more than alcohol. Eliminating alcohol was more efficient than eliminating salt. I 've heard about the sodium-potassium relationship but couldn't find a pattern
that's because google won over hearts and minds with "do no evil" so people feel betrayed because they invested themselves in the ideology of the company. it's mostly their fault for taking branding seriously.
> University is just an overpriced IQ test anyway.

Only from the point of view of employment market, and only when job skills and university material are widely disparate. (But universities do have a role beyond the employment market.)

> To fund this delusion we would then have to make university available to everybody,

Do you mean university admission or university degrees? In many European countries admission is unlimited. For example several German computer science programs are open to anyone for free, with no SAT-like test requirement to get admitted. Whether you'll pass your exams is a different question.

And arguably if it's all about IQ testing, it should be for free, so you filter for high IQ instead of for kids of wealthy parents.
i consider scihub to be the greatest democratization of information since the www. it will open up hitherto closed paths for people with nontraditional educational circumstances, and should generally accelerate the rate of progress.
Hundreds of nameservers scattered around the globe with anycast absolutely helps.

The main thing between a DNS request and a DNS response is network round trip time. Actually processing the request should be trivial (especially for .org, but even at .com), the zone file may be large compared to most, but it's all static records, with batched updates. I remember when internic would do updates at midnight, but you might not make it in the batch; mostly I see 5-20 minute delays on changes now.
Unfortunately there are too many sites that refuse to work without javascript, so any security benefits is negligible because it's very easy to be social engineered into enabling javascript.
Or Uber is offering the illusion of income and hoping they're desperate enough not to do the math on vehicle depreciation.
SHA-1 chosen prefix collisions and DNSSEC
Palliative cate the profession may be. Palliative care as practiced by hospices is more hit than miss but they do miss. You will find comments by nurses reassuring the right to die fans that end of life care covers their concerns. Hospices have hastened death before.
Are there any good companies on the stock market? Seems like inevitably they either go under or inch further towards evil over time.
If that's their concern, maybe they could free up space by not constantly recommending to me things that I've already watched and rated on their platform.