skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first thought these were bids for lots of items, like... cases of the item. Am I mistaken that these are actually bids on a single, quantity=1, item?

It's actually impressive if they're auctioning off failed-festival merch at Supreme prices.
> if a system existed where I could get a photo ID with no fees and no wait times, and I could do it on election day

Amusing how quickly the requirements grew.
1 in 10 ballots rejected (in the case highlighted by the article) is very statistically significant, if only at the local level.
Study of Face Masks Finds One Type That's Worse Than No Mask at All
> We should be building connections amongst the people, not walls.

Do you think that it's really up to us? We weren't the ones who set up the Great Firewall. We have been trying to "build walls" for the past 30 years and it has gotten us nowhere. I get that people like to say things that evoke "positivity" or to feel good about themselves but there needs to be some semblance of reality if we really want to progress.
Oh yeah, if we had that where we worked people would definitely be in danger. Most likely all of our systems would be down if we didn't have the UPS+Generator setup. It often takes 5-30 seconds for the generator to kick in and be running at full capacity. Normally 5 seconds, but sometimes there is a bit of a delay.
"I live in a place where blackouts are very infrequent (perhaps a couple per year)"

I live in a fairly rural place (Somerset, UK) In this particular part of the county, outages are approaching "per demi-decade". A recent boiler room explosion in a BT phone exchange caused my office to lose power for about 10 hours but my home, which is about a mile away, was fine. I kept the genny topped up at regular intervals. The many but small UPSs we use keep things running for the 10-20s that the genny needs to fire up and settle.

At home I have several small UPSs to keep things running for about 45-60 minutes. The esxi (Dell T320) in the attic gets shutdown after five mins so that everything else up there gets more time.

Anyway, its all about risk assessment, monitoring and understanding your gear. A Back-UPS is not the same as a Smart-UPS - output waveform and response to load etc. Also, your UPS should be self testing every two weeks. I have several APC Smart UPS 1500VA and others. The 1500 jobbies are something like 15 years old but on their third set of batteries at least. When apcupsd whines that they are getting on a bit we buy new batteries and swap them in on-line.

My golden rule of thumb is do not buy a battery from a firm that you do not recognise. Do not skimp and save pennies over something that can explode or simply be rubbish.
Interesting that you picked "mow my lawn" as an example.

In California, gardeners are considered employees. The only reason most people don't have to deal with employment taxes, payroll, insurance, etc., is because they typically hire gardening companies that actually employ the workers.

https://edd.ca.gov/Payroll_Taxes/Household_Employer.htm
I’m loving zapatos now.

Although not an ORM, it fits my needs.
The republican party holds the opposite view, that disenfranchising voters is essential to winning, and they are completely open about it.
Those men barefoot is a sobering image.
Signatures are a lousy form of validation for voting in my opinion:

I'm a Washington state resident and because I sign a lot of checks I have two forms of my signature: My 'fancy' signature that has every letter of my name and my check signing signature that is a scrawl of simple squiggles.

I used my fancy signature for voter registration and accidentally used my squiggle signature for my fist mail in ballot and did't get any kickback. I've used it for six years and King County elections still has never questioned it.
OK, there has been incremental progress in individual tools.

But that's like cutting down visual noise in text files, e.g. with python or haskell, and editors with autocomplete, and faster find tools and version control.

Building is in the early stages of automation, with large chunks pre-assembled in factories (with joinery, wiring, plumbing, etc. all installed), and then fixed together on site. The factories are becoming more automated as well.
Why not? Autistic people have a certain way of doing things, so it seems like a valid comparison to me
Because in many cases the states make it difficult to obtain a valid ID to vote. For example, shutting down DMVs or limiting their hours. I'm against voter ID laws until IDs are easily accessible to every voter.
They robbing people again with those prices.
Bug bounties are very different than auditing. In an audit, there is a contract in place with specific analysis objectives based on agreed-upon criteria. I find it unlikely anyone in the industry would have more experience than Intel about CPU manufacturing, although there might be security consulting firms that are advanced enough to merit a real corporate NDA. But given the breadth and depth of their IP, even that seems unlikely.

But I would still really be interested to know who Intel hires to audit their products, if this is true. I'd like to do that kind of work.
Going to be the big reason is that is makes it easier to reach into their deep pockets when one of the drivers does something bad. Where there is an overtly obvious benefit to one group it usually means someone else is using it as a cover, that is going to be the trial lawyers.

I am in the group that says if you want to be a contractor and the employer agrees so be it. I have a good number of friends doing uber after hours aimed at specific purchases and the flexibility is what sold them. Not the life for me but for some it is a good alternative.

Plus the biggest benefit was the kick in the pants traditional taxi services got so they now how to treat their "drivers" better. How they get off with how that business is run and Uber and Lyft get called out should tell you the priorities here.
Is there a good article on how DOS overlays worked?

Back when I learned (?) C, I never learned about the x86/DOS memory models. I just knew I was always hitting the 64k limit, and fortunately DJGPP existed at the time so I just switched from Quick C/Turbo C to that.
Yes. I don't think its repeated usage in this way diminishes my point, however. In all of these contexts it's been used to put down foreigners or immigrants.
Do you think they have handwriting experts validating every vote?
ok, but what's the ratio of the number of Intel cpus running on something worth hacking compared to the number of amd CPUs?
Nuclear propulsion. I think a development program could be started from a planetary protection standpoint then hardened for standard missions.
If the Clean Network lasts even so much as a few months as an infrastructure with a non-trivial amount of activity, it will be a fascinating time capsule. It will reflect a very strange kind of culture and bizarre set of national security assumptions and political constraints.

When we look back at the archive.org copies of Clean Net, it will be like visiting a bizarre short lived theme park.
> Gig workers want both flexibility and benefits — we support laws that could make that possible.

Whenever a company says "we support regulation" there's always an unstated suffix phrase: "that makes it easy for us to do what we want to do and hard for our competitors to do what we want to do."
we used to go trick or treating up in monte sereno where he lives, and for a couple years he gave away ipod nano's instead of candy lol
Remember Snow Leopard? I miss that.
I think you responded to the wrong person. I didn't take any position related to or even reference anything you describe here. Good luck finding your right thread though.
s/steak/stake
medium rare and well done puns are omitted
There are other market players than Uber, and Uber is in no way a taxi monopoly. You could say this about literally any marketplace and especially about any taxi company (nearly all taxi companies have independent drivers-contractors, usually driving their own but branded cars - at their own expense, and with exclusivity contracts; taxis all over the world work this way), but only the more modern marketplaces are forced to modify their relationships. I both as a customer and a occasional driver hate this, thankfully I am driving in Czechia where no such law would ever pass, the traditional taxi lobby is not as strong - but they're trying hard.
My work is having a “clear the office out before the move” auction - I can try for a few macMinis for about $200 total, or help fund a police department for Fyre swag, single item.

Tough choice.
You lack imagination. Only 66 years passed between the first manned flight on Earth and man stepping foot on the Moon.

And technology is accelerating at a much faster rate today.
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Look to history to see why Uber/Lyft/gig-economy is a backwards step for society. We've been here already.

Historically low wage rise. People lining up hoping to be picked for the next piece of work.

It ended up with the labor movement to fight for 40 hr weeks, protections for employees etc.

Uber hasn't done anything new in terms of labor use. Merely communication and organisation.

But society judged the labor use to be a poor outcome in the past so where do we think it will go now?
> The difficulty here is that elections in many places are organized so that it is very inconvenient for less desirable citizens to cast their vote.

The parts about running it efficiently, on Sundays, with voting places everywhere with no queues also solves that. But I know there's no will in the US to have reasonably run elections. As an outside spectator to your elections for many years it's baffling how badly run they are.

> Coercion is certainly a potential issue, but if it were a legitimate problem we'd probably have more evidence for that by now.

Election systems aren't designed for the median election. They're designed to still be reliable when things are iffy and your democracy is at risk. The fact that you only know of a few cases of that very thing happening 2 years ago in your last big election shouldn't be of much comfort. Particularly with your shaky system being under active attack by external powers.
I don't think they stated it does have merit on those points, but they certainly laid out a pretty solid argument that does.

Maybe address that instead of hand wringing the conversational communication style used on every forum ever?
You realize there are tons of jobs with employees that allow employees to chose their own hours.

There is nothing in this ruling that prevents Uber from allowing people to chose rides _exactly_ as they are doing it now.

The changes are:

1. Uber needs to pay into unemployment insurance.

2. Uber needs to pay into workers compensation.

3. Uber needs to pay into social security.

4. Uber needs to collect payroll taxes in advance.

5. Uber cannot discriminate based on protected classes such as race or gender.

6. Uber must comply with the WARN if large scale layoffs occur.

7. Uber has to provide for heath insurance depending in accordance with local and federal laws.

8. Uber needs to verify the legal working status of their drivers

9. And many other things all other businesses pay into and rules they have to follow.

We make businesses pay into this because the general public is ends up footing the bill anyway. Like right now where we’re providing Uber drivers with unemployment benefits even though Uber cheated their responsibility. And when a driver gets in an accident and we have to pick up the bill of unpaid hospital bills and disability payments.

Flexibility has nothing to do with it. Paying into the system everyone else has to and following the rules everyone else needs to follow is.
My point is that there is more academic research on Intel processors than AMD. For a hacker, an Intel vulrability would of course be more lucrative than a AMD one.
It's sad to see what an effective early response could have prevented. Especially bitter to know that that response didn't come because society first had to see the effects to accept the necessity.

Observing the situation in Europe during February, I had the fatalist view that "even if governments understand what's coming, they first need enough cases to avoid being perceived as overreacting."
(Haskell is 30 years old :)
React is actually pretty decent in terms of upgrading. Also, the idea of semver is more widespread in the JS community and there are things like Angular commits and tools like commitizen.

It has a tick-tock pattern so that you can upgrade and having time to fix the warnings.

The API changes are carefully crafted.

Sometimes there are even migration tools to help you upgrade.
My signature has small variations each time I sign. Enough so that it currently does not match what's on my driver's license. I foresee many ballots thrown out depending if they require exact matches to how you signed your voter registration. I hope there is an easy way for me to check if my mail-in ballot is thrown out.
Yup, thats right!
What provides the heat to keep it liquid?
Are you an android?
I biked to work before the covid, and have had to replace that form of exercise. I'm doing a "fake commute" each morning, which gets the blood flowing. Sometimes it's a long brisk walk instead of bike -- walking may be as good of exercise if not better.

On the flip side, being in a house full of food all day has had a measurable effect.
If a contractor always overcharge you it seems normal to stop business with him, how is this different?
> Why would increased operating costs mean they can't offer flexible hours to drivers?

Because in no universe does it ever make sense to pay healthcare and numerous other benefits to an "employee" who is working 2 hours a week. Thats why.

> Is there some magical cost per-driver

Yes. It is called fixed costs. Full time employees have a certain level of fixed costs. The obvious example being healthcare.
Well it is, but only archaic voting systems would require it and this becomes a nonissue if states shift to modern system like those used in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Utah.
Currying becomes useful in tandem with functional composition.
Your comment that I responded to was referring to smart phones (ie, multiple references to "apps" and "mobile") and now you're bringing up "routers"?

Did you mean to do this? Because if not, it's what's called a bailey-and-motte fallacy. You've stated a very controversial, hard-to-defend position (what difference does compromised hardware make to a user's security?), mentioned it in a context where it would make a huge difference (smartphones), and now you've brought up a very specific scenario and context that is more reasonable (although still not as much as you appear to think).

Again, your original question was "What unusual attack do they get access to by owning or manufacturing the equipment?". Your original post made no reference to routers or switches.

To answer that original question explicitly, having a many types of hardware exploits on end-user equipment is game over - full access to all your data and communications on that device.

Edit: And regarding compromised routers, from https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/01/17/new-years-resoluti..., here's a list of things that a hacked router could do to you, many of which would be of interest to nation-state attacker targeting a person or organization:

- redirect you to a web page that phishes for your credentials,

- dupe you into installing malware-laced versions of legit software,

- be hijacked to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks (MitM) on what you would believe are secure and encrypted connections,

- be corralled into a botnet in order to launch DDoS attacks against websites or even against aspects of the internet’s infrastructure,

- be co-opted as an on-ramp to attacks at other devices within your network,

- be used to spy on you via Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices,

- be compromised with malware such as VPNFilter, or, as another threat du jour, be misused for covert cryptocurrency mining.

Edit 2: And unless a website is only available via HTTPS, the end user is using an extension like HTTPS Everywhere, or the user carefully types in `https` as the URL protocol, then the end user is still vulnerable to SSL strip from a compromised router.
>Drivers then could, over their local "$city Uber drivers" FB/WhatsApp group, agree to not take any ride below $X, thus forcing Uber to raise their rates to $X (+ Uber's cut).

drivers already have those groups btw. they use to coordinate a LOT of stuff. i've seen a driver on a huge whatsapp group where they basically tried to set some areas to surge so they could earn more money.
Normally auction houses require pre-registration and demonstration of payment ability and signing a contract promising to pay. They verify ID by taking credit card details. If they're thinking of ducking out on large amounts they're taking a large risk; it's probably worth sending a $500 tab (plus storage charges and administration) to collections ... plus they have your credit card info.

Maybe though.
If I had a dispatch company that phoned/radioed possible drivers in some round robin order, if driver number 4 always tends to decline I would stop wasting my time and my rider's time in contacting him again, after a point
CA subsidized others before. Time's up
Is this actually H2O water? I read the article but I am still unclear.

I am often excited to hear that water was discovered on some planet or moon but its always a disappointment to learn that its liquid methane or some other liquid that is not actually H2O water.
As a community we have basically decided against handling of out of memory; that it's better to crash, and design the program so that such a crash will not cause corrupt state.

Consider over-commit. It means that the malloc call will succeed even if there isn't available memory. Instead the system just hopes you wont make use of the memory you asked for. And if you do make use of it, well then the OS might kill you. Just like that. No opportunity for error handling.
I've been wondering since 2016 how we can say anything about voter fraud. How do you even measure that?
democrats cheat at voting via election fraud. that's why they are against voter ID. republicans want voter ID because it would help prevent election fraud. simple as that.
There is no such thing as large-scale signature verification.

If a close match were demanded, people would complain of disenfranchisement. People don't sign the exact same way every time.

Realistically, the workers are tired and they don't care. If they do reject anybody, it's probably because the vote comes from an area that tends to vote in the undesired way. In other words, this human element is a problem. It would be especially easy to bias the election by rejecting based on name.

An imperfect signature of the desired ethnicity (more likely to be a "correct" vote) gets a pass. An imperfect signature of the undesired ethnicity is a fail. That's all it takes to quietly flip an election, with no evidence trail at all.
Do you apply the same standard to your bank account?

Someone with some sort of identity and address should be able to withdraw your bank account until proven guilty?
Haha. Sorry about the downvotes...
It's basically the same thing, and I say this as someone who gives money to Rick Owens.
Additionally, you can segregate a large array (that never has a pointer taken to any of its elements) into a separate 64k area pointed to by ES. Since the only way to refer to an element is with ary[i], you always know when to use the ES segment override. Desperate circumstances lead to desperate measures.
Getting a driver license the first time requires hours of sitting at the DMV. When I first moved to Texas, I had to do it twice in fact.

It sounds like your criticism is of government (or at least DMV) complexity/ineffectiveness in general, not the ID laws specifically.
Article is paywalled?
It works well enough because all of the real authentication happens after you register and before you ever get a ballot. So there isn't really much fraud risk from you actually sending in the ballot, the signature is just the cherry on top.
Just have one made. Nobody's going to protect the trademark.
It seems to me that in the larger perspective it could erode workers rights in other places

I’m guessing many would rather see Uber drivers all be forced to be employees even if 99% don’t want to, than a spreading erosion of workers rights.
In the US, I think it's Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It's referenced from the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing
I would completely support voter ID laws if everyone could walk into any post office and easily get a passport for free.

Ok I sort of am lying since vote by mail is pretty much the only system I support and voter ID laws make no sense for that.
Isn't this why apple doesn't trust the CPU with secure functions and has dedicated hardware for it? So a vuln in the cpu won't expose the encryption keys bypassing face id.
I'd argue that Marin isn't like these stereotypes at all.

Marin is its own separate entity. The North part of the county thinks the south part of the county is pretentious. The South part of the county thinks the north is full of unwashed scum.
I don't see why. Currently, drivers are being paid by the ride, not by the hour. If they aren't available for a ride, they don't get paid for the ride.

If Uber wants that kind of exclusivity, they're probably going to have to pay drivers for idle time.
Cute, but my response was received by its intended recipient. You can choose to respond to it, or continue dismissing it.
The argument which won was not that there is some legal reason Uber can’t have both independent contractors and employees, but rather that the relationship between Uber and it’s drivers is de facto employment and should therefore be subject to employment law.
You are right - there is some nuance between sarcasm and snarkyness. Dang alludes to it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187460
It was a Google researcher mostly.
If you want to run a handful of low current DC devices for an eternity and in a rock-solid manner, just get a DC-DC converter for each and a few batteries+charger. You can keep the devices permanently looped in on the battery while it is on trickle charge. Think of it as a car's electrical system in your network cabinet, replacing the alternator with grid power.

If we are just talking about cable modem + wifi router + NAS, you cant be looking at more than 30 watts. Buck/boost DC-DC converters are upwards of 98% efficient, so you don't have a bunch of losses with that extraneous inverter/rectifier stage. All of this stuff can be purchased and assembled with minimal fuss.
There's no reason why you can't be an employee but also be in control of your own hours. It's not much different from a part-time job that I had while going to school. I'd provide my manager a list of times that I was available to work for the week and he'd slot me into shifts.

Technology has decreased the lead time needed to let someone know that you're available to work to 0. There's absolutely no reason why that should mean that you can't be an employee.
There's an amusing class of videos online in which conservative trolls ask young American liberals why voter ID laws are racist. The replies are invariably some version of "minorities can't obtain them." The troll will then play back these responses to random black passerby--who invariably have ID and are dismayed to find what liberals think of them.

The disenfranchisement argument is one of the worst-sourced claims floating around the public sphere. And it's transparently bogus. Photo IDs are essentially mandatory for participation in civic life in the US. Everyone has them.
Whitespace or indentation is one, what else?
Magmatic activity in the mantle, obviously.