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Well they can in California and that’s what matters. Because this law is being contested in California.

I get the design. And of course uber wants to encourage lowering prices. However, the point remains: driver set prices, even if the design makes it less obvious. Eventually, if a driver has a number in mind, the driver flips a button to get that number.

As for negotiate individual trips, I don’t understand the point here. You set the prices for dollars per mile / per minute. The trip price is reflective of what the driver set already.
> I really hate those kind of content. Would you listen to someone who built a wall which collapsed ? nope

What if you knew that 90% of the walls built collapses. Would you listen?

If you just listen to the 10% that achieved it, it just a matter of putting more hours: Now you are in survivorship-bias land.

Yes, we all hate that success is a combination of talent + work + luck (aka random stuff we don't know and don't control).

> These kind of articles are just porn for people who are not putting enough hours

there is also success-porn.
Larger companies can do this with virtual machines in their own datacenters, which cuts down a lot on the cost. Especially for developer machines, which have relatively high requirements on memory.
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Ad nauseam

No one has will to prove that garbage smells and its toxic over and over and over again.

It has no effect thus no point.

Here, i'll copy and paste part of my post on flat earth:

> Its hard to believe sometimes bu a lot of people grow up never questioning or poking at the reality surrounding them.

> You don't need that to grow up and get by in life, but then you end up not being able to distinguish reality from snake oil.

> And all of those snake oil salesmen know exactly what buttons to push.

> "Secret knowledge", "hidden truth", offer them glimpse into world that secret cabal never wants them to see. Convince them how much smarter and cleverer they are for "figuring out" the reality that other are blind to.

> And then the 'blind fools' come to try to convince them that the earth is round...
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We tried. The drivers revolted when we changed fares because they didn’t want things to change. Remember humans are irrational beings.

Most were longtime drivers and knew historical fare. We just couldn’t get them to change their mindset.
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> Then you should offer them (imo) $750k in options vesting over 3 years. That's in now money, as in that should be whatever the investors in your last round paid for that same stock.

Except those investors got preferred stock whereas you are getting common stock which has less value. Thus, they are offering you the option to pay 750k for stock that is actually worth more like 600k losing you money. Now those options do have some value because of the expiration time and the fact that the price can rise but option pricing is complicated.

I highly recommend everyone considering startups to read up on the options greeks and go look at prices for deep out of the money (OTM) calls on public companies because that is effectively what startups are offering you and you can see what the public markets value options like that as.
Well, to shed insight on Azure.

1. Phone number is required to minimize fake/bot/fraudulent use accounts.

2. Credit card is required in case you want to immediately scale up, and also, used as anti fraud as depending on the card used, and address is used to judge you as a customer and whether or not you should be disabled immediately upon account creation.

Credit cards first six numbers are the BIN, or bank identification number, these are used to sort whom the issuing bank is, what type of credit card line, and whether or not it is a virtual or such.

These are compounded to give you an antifraud score. Address and connecting IP address help too.

So that's why it was denied, but for a company like Micrsoft, their billing practices are very much streamlined and not so hidden vs other companies nor do they introduce "tricky" language such as Adobe's yearly contract, payable monthly SAAS.
Ideally from day 1, the sooner you have the option for profitability, whether or not the company decides to take profit or reinvest, the better your chances of not wasting a ton of money. Even if the actual tech takes a year or two to develop, if you have a paying customer from day 1, the better your chances should be.
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If you set the parameters properly, modeling shows anything you want it to show.

The paper cited by the nature article does not explicitly consider masks or hand washing. It combines all measures recommended by the Mexican government, and makes a broad assumption about their overall effectiveness:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002555642...

All of the models for handwashing and masks that I am aware of have made blithely optimistic assumptions about their effectiveness. The WHO meta-study of masks, eye protection and social distancing found that masks overall had an odds ratio of 0.33 - and most of that evidence came from N95 respirators, used in hospitals, for personal protection:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

We have essentially no evidence that non-respirator masks, in the hands of the public, does anything at all:

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...

(Edit: as per usual, factual discussion of masks is censored on HN. This is not a political debate! I have provided links to legitimate scientific resources to support all of my arguments. Consider your bias before reflexively jabbing the downvote button.)
This is 4 years old story repeated again>
https://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/alpha....
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You and I both know that any event that is 1000 years away nobody will put any effort into protecting against today...

And in 1000 years, humans will have forgotten the XRay blast (do you remember the mysterious plague of 1020AD where lots of people died of cancer? No - didn't think so...), and therefore won't prepare.
They did make it into a movie, but not sure if it covers the parachuted legs incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_for_the_Sky
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I'm not sure what that means, but we are not using it.

In medicine some studies are preregistered, but one of the lessons of Covid-19 is that each week there is a new study that is clearly unregistered, without a control group or with a definition of control group that makes me cry (like "an unrelated bunch of guys in another city").

I think the people in particle physics have a clear process to "register" what they are going to measure and exactly how they are going to processes it. (The measurements are too expensive and too noisy, so it is very easy to cheat involuntarily if you don't have a clear predefined method.) Anyway, I don't expect them to have the paper prewritten with a placeholder for {hint, evidence, discovery}.

In most areas you just put in the blender whatever your hearth says and hope the best. Or run a custom 5K LOC Fortran 77 program (Fortran 90 is for hipsters).

If you get an interesting result for X+A, Y+A and Y+B, you probably try X+B before publishing because the referee may ask, or more B because B looks promising.

If you run a simulation for N=10, 20, 30 and get something interesting, you try to run it for N=40 and N=50 if the interesting part is when N is big, or for N=15 and N=25 if the program is too slow and the range is interesting enough.

And it is even more difficult in math. You can't preregister something like "... and in page 25 if we are desperate we will try integration by parts ...".
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Right so your point is that the driver is only an employee while on a trip. And while waiting for a trip, the driver is not an employee?

I am sure uber/lyft will be more than happy to pay minimum wage if the wage only counts when a trip begins. But the reason the companies are against the law is because the law requires minimum wage while the driver is not driving too. Which means that a driver could actually get 2 minimum wages at the same time while driving for both uber/lyft.

But of course that won’t happen. Uber/lyft will ban driving for competitor. Set up shifts such that every driver drives 37.5 hours a week. It is simply not worth the hassle of paying all these benefits for drivers who log in for an hour a day at random times.
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There is a movie about Bader: Reach for the Sky:

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

I can't remember if it includes the bit about parachuting in a replacement artificial leg... I can't imagine there was much desire to portray Hermann Göring in a positive way in the mid 1950s!
A little extreme yes, but they're not off base by much. The early warning signs of the dangers big silicon valley companies pose started popping up in the late 2000s. The folks mentioning it, like Facebook being a vector of high manipulation of presidential elections was considered fantasy even in the early 2010s. This comment falls in the same line. The early warning signs of Maoist China and Lenin's revolution weren't taken seriously until it was far too late as well.

This post, while extreme, should be taken into thoughtful consideration. Books like 1984 and A Brave New World weren't meant as time wasters, but as cautionary tales.
Watched enough 'PBS Space Time' to not be illiterate, but still a CompSci background so take my physics with a huge grain of salt. ;)

Is there some way we could tell a distinction between a local event and a long range event with a method (for example: an alignment of particles or minerals in rocks in a particular direction)?
Here's a direct link to the point in the youtube video, where the fight between human (Banger) and AI (Heron) starts:

https://youtu.be/NzdhIA2S35w?t=16786
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There are regular surveys that cover how many people are in unions and the overall perception of unions. The numbers back up the idea that unions are dying and people don't think highly of them.
I would just point out, widespread mask-usage is a thorn in the side of any surveillance state. If there were a way to verify it, I would be willing to bet that the anti-mask sentiment is the result of a successful astroturfing campaign by pro-surveillance state interests.
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I hope they come up with a solution soon.

I was in the grocery store line yesterday. A lady in her late 50s behind me said “how long is this going to take?”

I thought she was asking about the line, so I said “maybe 2 minutes”

She responded “No, I meant the virus”

I told her “I have no idea, I hope it goes away soon”

The social distancing is having a negative effect on people psychology in my opinion.

Something good that can come out of this is a better way to develop vaccines and testing technology.
I disagree, I think that the lockdowns are a net good. Mitigating the virus' spread while researching vaccines and treatments makes sense and will save lives.

You could make the case that lockdowns are not a net good but I think you will have a really hard time convincing anyone that the harm that comes is like the harm of experimenting on humans.
Each van is a separate business franchise. The franchise owner, owned the van and could hire drivers as employees under their franchise.

It was more profitable for everybody with this way.
I can't handle the structure of a large company. There is more than pay influencing decisions. I like the nimble "family" atmosphere of a startup and the ability to make an impact. That sometimes propels people to greatness. I had zero credentials and was hired as app support to free up developer time at a startup. My freedom to impact the business infused me with passion and I ended up being a key person in the operations of the company and a major influencer of the technical direction. My salary went through the roof. Hire people who haven't been burnt down by big company culture and turn them loose. You can create top-notch people on the fly. The people they hired along side me who had credentials and tons of Corp experience were left standing.
To the detriment of the authors who should know better than publish there if they have something interesting
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Yes, only thing is... usually it does not work that way in reality, and when they breech enemy defense drones, they will continue with a quick genocide.
I’m fine with this as long as there is a workaround. The average user can’t be trusted to not run every sketchy thing sent to them via email or linked on the internet.

Putting even a minor speed bump that requires even a tiny amount of knowledge of how their expensive company equipment works cuts down on this foolishness by an order of magnitude.

As to apples developer fee, I’m fine with that too. Having lived on the SA forums for a good portion of my 20s, putting even a nominal dollar value on access to something cuts down on more than half of trolls and noise, as well as giving the admins a stick to punish nefarious users with. I’d posit upwards of 80%.

I buy Apple products for these specific reasons, as opposed to the trash security practices of most of the android/windows ecosystem.
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And that is why I use Lightroom classic with a hard drive local and an Amazon cloud drive backup. Still can't trust the cloud as your only backup
there are always things the warehouses can't build themselves.

For example, with intermix.io, it was the tracing we had built for other tools like Looker and dbt. The insight was that the result of a DAG involves many different calculations across different tables. The metadata only tells you that the steps happened, but doesn't tell you in what sequence they happened, where the "hiccup", latency, etc.

Redshift is clearly suffering from Snowflake. I wrote about that in my post-mortem. That post also has a few battle scars:

https://medium.com/@larskamp/why-we-sold-intermix-io-to-priv...

Ping me on LinkedIn if you care to hear more :-)
Ok I signed up and used your recommended client (DBeaver 7.1.5) but I don't see the schemas in your picture.

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Ultimately, once I've subscribed to a feed, I don't care whether it is RSS or Atom...just that my feed reeder works with it.
Doesn't Python 3 exactly do this? Not saying I would use non-ascii characters in variable names but presumably populations that don't use the Latin alphabet have different use cases?
Payments in fiat are very user-hostile though, and very few vendors can afford cryptocurrency.
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Awesome - just followed up on your ping!
What browser did they ship with?
We don't know with certainty how the universe will change in the future, however we do have a decent understanding of how the universe works at a large scale. We can use that understanding to make hypothesis that are backed by both data and theory. This is one such hypothesis.

This is part of the scientific method. In astrophysics data is collected and new experiments are done to improve theory, and it helps us better understand the history of the universe and the future of the universe. Our understanding will change over time.
Hey, looks like you had a very similar idea to me!
https://www.youneedfeeds.com/
Though you've gone for the 'simple one-pager' approach where I tried to sell people on it via a full site.
I was going to do a visual revamp sometime soon, hopefully include more readers etc but time has been an issue.
Bacteria forming macro scale structures in nearly every wet ecosystem studied. Perhaps we need new definitions for 'organism'.
I love mine, it is a great motivator for doing more reading in addition to helping keep my notes organized. Especially for reading academic papers, it is great to be able to easily annotate and then actually keep my annotations, which I haven't found any other good solution for.

I also decided to preorder a 2 because the thing that breaks immersion for me the most currently is having to switch to eraser mode. I may still keep my 1 as well though, because as another commenter mentioned the biggest slow down is trying to flip back through notes on the device (even using the zoomed out view it can be quite slow with larger documents). I have been working through a few math textbooks and am actually looking forward to being able to have problems open on one tablet and the book on the other.
We can never be too certain of anything, but I believe that the carcinogenic claims are based on a faulty study from the 60s that was later largely disproven in the late 70s, but the FDA never changed their guidance. I don't have the drive to find the studies in question right now (sorry :( ), but I think it came down to the mice they tested having particular metabolizers that humans do not. That, and they gave them very high concentrated doses, because for some reason they were all about that method. I certainly don't ingest things that way :)
If you haven't, there's not much point to filing a chargeback; that'll be grounds for the acquirer to reject it, and your issuer probably will tell you to ask for a refund first before they'll file.
There's no need to be this harsh. We should always celebrate people making things even if they don't benefit us directly, to me that's even the essence of hacking
You did an extremely good job at explaining what are the risks.

But if everybody it in the company it is using it, maybe it is worth to have.

Must be well though of from the beginning, like proper ACL and notification of reception (so we know what messages some other people listen to) but overall it does not seems so bad.

In your example, the trading desk would either need an intern to communicate the trades or some software developed ad-hoc. Similarly for the second examples. The data need to be moved from the trade to the risk analysis someway. Either custom software or some human need to do it.

For the third pattern, I agree that should be backed into the EBS, but you need ACL anyway. Either you let all the people in the company see the trade or you have ACL implemented somewhere.

I definitely can see the problems, but I can also see the benefits...
If everyone was rational and had full information, yes. But it can take a while for outsiders to catch on, and people are not fully rational. For two high profile examples, look at GE and Boeing. They had a reckoning, but it took a long time.
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Is there a CPU limit or timeout for queries? I’d be a little concerned that an intentionally slow and inefficient query could pin the CPU at 100% and ruin the performance for other users
> And that is the way it works, in functional countries.

In Germany, neither health insurance nor unemployment insurance are paid through taxes. Both are deducted from your salary.

It is true, however, that the government subsidizes the public health insurance so that low-income households can afford an insurance.

Also, we have similar laws in Germany (and most European) countries like AB5 that prohibit misclassification of employees as independent contractors:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheinselbst%C3%A4ndigkeit
Seems like you know more about the legal code than I do.

Maybe am I wrong on the root causes. France's leadership in technology is still poor though: all the consumer hardware we use comes from Asia with software coming from the US (I'm sure you can find exceptions to that, and I'm genuinely curious about it), and that's a big problem. The only two french apps I use are the RATP's app and BlaBlaCar once every year.

You can't deny that we're too dependent on key technologies coming from abroad.
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I preordered the Remarkable 2 and I’m excited to get it. I’m a bit surprised by everyone here talking about how they use it for note taking, because my entire purpose for getting one is to read and annotate pdf files with it. Does it do a good job for this compared to an iPad (which I use currently with iAnnotate)? Someone mentioned that the processor is too slow to render pdf pages quickly enough. Is this true only for high resolution rasterized PDFs or also for native vectorized ones? Hopefully the new version has a faster chip.
How about things stay how they are, and drivers are treated as the contract they agreed to stipulates.

Mandated employment benefits are a completely unjustifiable imposition on private contracts.
But the NFLPA still hurts top performers. The joint negotiating in the NFL absolutely leads to the highest paid players being paid less than they would without a union. The revenue split, the franchise tag, the minimum salary, the rookie pay scale (arguable), and the veteran benefits all lead to less of the pie being available to the top tier players and less negotiating power. The salary escrow provision is a great example of an out-of-date rule that exists due to CBA negotiations and 100% hurts the top earners (while also providing zero actual benefits - it just existed because it has been there for decades and it's an effort to change anything when doing collective bargaining).

Not that I think any of this is bad since the NFL is brutal to its lowest earners, but it absolutely hurts the highest earners.
How can you already define those lockdowns as being a net good without any idea of their long term effects, both health wise and in a sociological aspect. The way I see it, lockdowns have divided populations to a greater extent than any other current issue.
This regularly happens at Siemens. IG Metall negotiates contracts and good engineers negotiate bonuses on top of the contract, or increases in pay grade.
I dont know anything about roblox, but atleast to me and my friends, muds were mostly about getting more exp/money/eq and killing bigger mobs or making exp faster. No-one ever roleplayed.
They were like clicker games, but with extra steps.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time playing MUDs beginning in high school all the way throughout and after college.

Perhaps all MUDs did this, but my MUD of choice (Revenge of the Jedi RotJ) tallied your total playing time in your player stats.

The way I got started was that a few friends from school were playing and talking about it. It sounded dumb at the time (no pictures + typing) and I decided I would start playing just to kill them in the game.

Little did I know that I would need to spend a lot of time to improve my level, acquire skills, and get better equipment. In addition I didn't know that PKs were mostly frowned upon.
Good article.

I’d like to add that similar queues are widely used in all multimedia, not just games.

This library https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo uses queues to coordinate 3 threads, one decoding video by pumping V4L2 kernel queues, another one decoding audio and playing it with ALSA, and the main thread rendering frames with GLES. Two of my queues are thin wrappers around mq_send / mq_receive Linux APIs.