skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting how cities are being allowed to violate the same by not holding their own taxi services into account[0] that they regulate thereby letting them skirt the law. This is likely because these companies tend to put good money into local political campaigns.

This law is impacting people outside of Uber and Lyft but those two are highlighted because it thwarted the lock down many municipalities had over cab companies and they did not want to give up the side benefits of that cash into their political coffers.

Then throw in that Uber and Lyft were truly effective alternatives to unionized mass transit lines operated in many cities and you can see the entirety of the political graft that was being upended. If you want more you just jump into that this is part of undoing decades of jobs bounded up in occupational licensing which only serves to protect vested interest who again are quick to maintain their political donations.

If they were out to protect workers they had many more ways to do it.

[0]https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-s-gi...
I loved podcast addict when I used an android phone. This is an utter and absolute shame.
Or it would be if they hadn’t successfully tied it to political identity so much.
California is so well managed the state never has issues with bare essentials like power, water, or housing.
> Without a developer account, an app that you build and self sign works for only 7 days.
Can you elaborate on this? I have seen apps working for more than 7 days once installed.
> Voters in the US also don’t want to pay for any of this.

There is more than enough money to go around, it's that there is a lot of it being wasted. The government and states failed to provide a good taxation and spending model. It's not the issue of the voters not willing to pay for it.
Sort of, the rub is the model can't work for both über and lyft. Their competing triggers a race to the bottom price war exacerbated by the lack of platform lock-in.

In other words, I as a rational consumer will use the service that is cheapest when all other factors are identical. Driver's as rational actors will do precisely the opposite - the one paying me the most - as neither platform found a way to differentiate themselves on driver benefits.

This system behaves according to market principles and as such, costs need to be constantly cut to fight off competing rideshare services.

Über needs lyft to die and vice versa. The real battle can be further abstracted to the investment firms supporting each company. Since the investors know that so long as their bet is funded and working towards one of the two endgames for rideshares (full self driving or death of competition) it doesn't matter how much money is lost per ride.
I did my MSc these in ML on classifying fake reviews, using the text for features. So I know something of the field and how non-text features (like the age of an account and the rating etc) can be used. The details of Yelp's algorithm are not well understood by researchers, but it certainly emphasizes account specific information because that is the core 'philosophy' of Yelp versus something like Amazon.

I'm not surprised Yelp wasn't interested in helping, you have a common complaint that they would naturally ignore in the interests of not helping actual fraudsters and people trying to get an edge up on the competition. And Yelp doesn't much care especially if you're not making them money re: all the businesses that have sued Yelp.

The first idea that comes to mind is to not be reliant on Yelp and tend to other sources of reviews like real-life Word Of Mouth marketing, e.g. ask your customers to help recommend your business to others they know. People will find that sort of review far more reliable than something on a website left by anonymous strangers. And what other communication mediums (like Facebook or Instagram) might your customer base use?

The other is if they are providing all 4 and 5 star reviews, then the algorithm will find it awfully suspicious all these reviews from first timers are so positive. That is a classic sign of someone trying to game the system. Tell them to leave 3.5 and slowly get the understanding of "Yelp" incrementally higher over time? Or get your customers to leave more reviews for more businesses and so their accounts are regarded are more reliable - only then do they review your business.

I realize these ideas are not instantaneous solutions and require asking your customers for help, but ... given what I know of review sites and the utter lack of any real effort on the part of Yelp/Amazon/TripAdvisor/etc to really deal with the problem of fake reviews and/or the problem of false positives like you're having, I really don't see any magical technical solution. You can't really influence Yelp very well, so what are the other parts of the equation that you can influence?
What's your point? This isn't a mortgage. Mortgages are much more standardized and don't involve as many parties. Everyone involved with a corporate loan is going to want to have a discussion if there are unscheduled prepayments made. Even more so given that this is a distressed situation.
Sure, but supporters don't mind as long as they get some rewards. This can be as simple as feelings of higher status than their opponents or some out group. Even if supporters themselves are objectively worse off, as long as someone else has it worse again, then they feel like winners.
Arguments sound good but I didn't seem to find any biometric authentication for KeePassXC. In KeePass I could use some plug-ins to connect Windows Hello with KeePass so I could unlock the DB with my fingerprint or via looking into the camera.

Maybe I simply didn't search good enough, is there any possibility to have such functionality in KeePassXC?
Your statement is utterly incorrect.

1) Electric v. ICE? No contest. Electric wins. Not at dispute.

2) "Manual Transmission" v. "Eco-Junk Software". Please see the following: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/does-sport-mode-really-do-anyth...

At a minimum, some "fly-by-wire" automatic ICE cars default to an "eco" mode which significantly impacts throttle (gas) responsiveness.

No doubt ECO mode does something well, and no doubt that modern automatic transmissions shift well.

My original statement was: "Electric (very responsive) => Manual (...) => Automatic (perceived unresponsiveness of ICE engines)"

Almost nobody is a race car driver, but the fly-by-wire in some ICE cars definitely affects driving feel in a way that is different than both manual transmission ICE and electric cars.
Bank error in your favour. Collect $175mm.

And hold onto it for dear life while the bank attempts to reclaim it when they realise their error.
It's hard to say because Lyft wasn't forced to shut down, they're doing it preemptively, perhaps to push for a vote on their Prop.
Does the California court order apply to these part-time drivers? I thought it only affected drivers essentially working full-time.
You must contact the bank first to do that, or use an automated system of theirs, but you can’t just drop the money in their account.
It's interesting how much this looks more like religion than anything else. Complex ideology, easily misinterpreted texts, and submission and conformity over individual critical thinking.
What people are not talking about is how much congestion these services bring to city streets. For San Francisco traffic congestion increased by 60% between 2010-2016[1] and Lyft/Uber contributed to half of that. That is very bad as more traffic leads to more traffic accidents, more fatalities and pedestrians getting hit. In addition lets not forget the heavy toll on the environment with air pollution and its myriad effects on the area. All of this for workers making barely minimum wage[2]. Given the air quality in the bay area right now due to the fires this couldn't have come at a better time.

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18535627/uber-lyft-sf-traf...

[2] - https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-uber-driver-w...
Basic worker rights? Have you ever worked as an independent contractor? What rights are you specifically talking about?

People who have no idea or experience of others but want to remove their freedom and tell them what's best for them is far more insidious and dangerous.
"Be, be-fore we came to this country

We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys

There was empires in Africa called Kush

Timbuktu, where every race came to get books

To learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans

Asian Arabs and gave them gold, when

Gold was converted to money it all changed

Money then became empowerment for Europeans

The Persian military invaded

They heard about the gold, the teachings, and everything
sacred

Africa was almost robbed naked

Slavery was money, so they began making slave ships

Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went

He was so shocked at the mountains with black faces

Shot up they nose to impose what basically

Still goes on today, you see?"

- From I Can by Nas
https://genius.com/Nas-i-can-lyrics
I think it just depends on the number of subreddits. If 7,000 is 1% of subs, then it seems like a good investment. If it's 30%, then yeah, that's.. not great.
In Factor:

: clamp ( x min max -- y ) [ max ] dip min ; inline

https://docs.factorcode.org/content/word-clamp,math.order.ht...
If true, it's also selection bias. Current drivers like the current situation. Current non-drivers might join the workforce under new circumstances. Obviously its just speculation but you should take the statistics with a grain of salt.
Reddit hasn't been taken over by communist SJWs, they're just preparing for an IPO. If you're unhappy that participating in capitalism usually entails some kind of unaccountable censorship you should probably revise some of your pre-existing beliefs about capitalism.
Independent contractors pay both sides of the payroll tax, don't they? So there's no greed there.

Unemployment is a different case, but here, it would actually make the state liable for more money—it would be a pretty weird greed situation.
That's why I mentioned bonuses. You are getting paid more if no one wants to drive, but there is some kind of base payment you can expect to get.
> How does a hedge fund decide they want to keep money that’s not theirs and fight it in court?

Imagine an alternative scenario:

Interest rates are down. Revlon is looking to refinance the loan, and finds a lender (LENDER_B) who will let them refinance their loan from Brigade, but at a lower interest rate. Revlon then tells their bank, Citibank, to pay off Brigade's loan as they'll be getting a loan from LENDER_B instead. Citi goes ahead and sends the payoff amount to Brigade. Meanwhile, LENDER_B discovers something at the last moment and pulls out. Now Revlon claims they never meant to pay off Brigade.

Remember: people lie all the time.
So you just placed a check in an envelope and mailed it to the bank with no other documents? What did you write in the "memo" field on the check?

Edit: looking into WF's website below, you sent a check with your account number to an address specifically set up to receive mortgage payments—you are being disingenuous with your "comparison".

https://www.wellsfargo.com/mortgage/manage-account/payments
It's not always graceful to say that 1 is both less than 0 and greater than 2.
Unsure why this is getting downvoted. Anyone who actually follows the money in this debate knows that the unions are very heavily financially invested in this and donate tons of money to the politicians that support anything that increases their power and influence.

If unions were truly invested in the best interest of workers instead of the best interest of the union, they would value the desires of the 4/5 of drivers that want independent work as much as the 1/5 of drivers that want to be employees with benefits.
Why would they demonize a place that throws doctors out of windows, poisons political opponents, kills journalists, and has a horrible reputation for LGBT rights?

Weird, right? /s
I prefer the min/max-based definition for the same reason: Its easier to work out the edge cases around NaN and comparisons against NaN.
> Is there no company in the US that can build a high speed rail? And if so why not hire a Japanese or Chinese company that is obviously proficient at building these types of rail systems?

Texas is about to build their own bullet train: https://www.texascentral.com/. It'll be the same technology as the Japanese Shinkansen.

> In 2014, it was announced[71] that Texas Central Railway would build a ~300-mile (~480 km) long line using the N700 series rolling stock. The trains are proposed to operate at over 320 km/h (200 mph). source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#United_States

The difference between Texas and California is that the bullet train being built in Texas will be a private venture. It will be interesting to witness the difference in cost, quality and construction speed between the two states. It will be a test to see which state's economic and regulatory environment is more conducive for large-scale construction projects.
The reason that Uber and Lyft were eating the taxi business's lunch: Less cost and better service.
Labor unions in the US are comparatively powerless next to countries with actual, functional unions that are quite capable of striking, and have little lobby.

No, the heart of the issue is definitely the dismal state of health care in the US.
Hasn't helped that people still view getting a job "with benefits" as some kind of badge of honor. This leads to a not small amount of people feeling that if you don't have a job "with benefits" you don't deserve any.
'AHA' moment amid the Kafka streaming app chaos
> Do some of the safety measures you consider translate well in this model?

Yes, I think several mitigations could be deployed without requiring a change to the language, only by changing compilers and runtime libraries:

* Stack canaries on the unmanaged stack: For storing the reference canary value, you need some "safe" location that cannot be overwritten by regular memory writes. I believe in x86, thread local storage (TLS) / the fs segment register is used. In WebAssembly, one could use a non-mutable global scalar variable, which could only be overwritten by a matching global.set instruction (which cannot be inserted by an attacker). Then, before returning from a function (or really at any point you want to check the integrity of linear memory), you could compare the canary value against this global, as you would in native architectures.

* Allocator hardening, e.g., safe unlinking doesn't require any language support, the allocator just needs to do it (and live with the slightly increased code size cost).

Other mitigations would require language extensions. E.g., for finer grained control-flow integrity (taking source types into account, not just WebAssembly primitive types), one would require multiple table (part of the reference types proposal). Then, only functions with compatible types should be stored in the same indirect call table.

ASLR, unmapped pages, and constants in linear memory are harder, I believe. For ASLR, WebAssembly's 32-bit pointers will most likely provide too little entropy. Unmapped pages and "true constants" would require some host API to make portions of the memory non-writable/readable, but I don't know of any proposal to do so.

> wanting to keep implementation burden low for browsers

> WebAssembly almost a subset of asm.js

Yes, that is also my understanding as to why we are at the current situation. (But I did not take part in WebAssembly's design, so I cannot claim any authority.)
> The timing is pretty suspicious, coming a week after Congressional hearings where Tim Cook said they don't do the exact thing they just did with Epic.

It is not suspicious, it is plain.
Both are systems programming languages (OCaml describes itself as such).

The rewrite in Rust thing, for darklang at least, comes from the 50th time we've had to do something bad and ugly to fit into what is supported by OCaml.
May not be issue you need to solve right now.

Your's is not "a project that gives context to news through history" @$1.00 per month. If the market wants it, it should work at $1(+$0.30 +2.9%)per month also.

So just charge $1.49 per month and move on. Once you have a 1000 users, you can think about optimizing things.
To paraphrase Steve Martin from LA story: "the peace prize nominees might not be the truth of life, they are what we wish were true".
Terrible management. All he has to do is tell then let me speak to the team and get back to you
Cord-Cutting Accelerates. Many Traditional Cable Networks Won’t Survive
80k is a lot of money, but this must suck, especially if you feel like you were an integral part of the company's succcess - some German researchers found that compensation perception is more on "fairness" than the actual numbers, if you'd made 80k and the founders 200k, maybe you'd have been OK with it.
Same sentiment here as well. Its a tangent but I feel like we get the least benefit from the highest taxes. Possibly some of the worst roads in the country with outdated and dangerous interstate designs because cars are bad and public transit is good but there is no public transit. =/
Show HN: CloudBrowser API
Right, I guess my concern was a brute force attack on a DB file if it fell into the wrong hands. I looked at the main website again though, and apparently the official Windows app has some protection against this. It says however, KeypassX (and I assume therefore KeypassXC) does not have the same level of protection.

Another comment mentioned using a key-file, so maybe I will revisit that approach, since I used password only when I started.
Math Blogs
This is straight-up psuedoscience written to look like it's real science. The editors of the "journal" that accepted it should be embarassed.
This is why computers are slow.
True Time Travelers
I've encountered something similar here, where a driver with a minivan equipped with carseats picks up direct work (courtesy of “word-of-mouth” promotion through the highly powerful local working moms group on Facebook).

[note: I'm not being sarcastic about calling the Facebook moms group “highly powerful”—they have significant civic clout in local politics/business/activism.]
Full table scans can get expensive. We’re adding support for incremental tests so for append-only tables you’ll only test the recent rows. This is especially useful if you use partitioned tables in bigquery.

Actually in the first version of the product we automatically tested every column in every table. The tests are more selective now, which is partially due to cost and partially because nobody wants to navigate through 10,000 tests.

Redshift will be supported this week! We have a list of new sources to get through and it’s right at the top. We’ve been emailing over the IP for whitelisting but we’ll add it to the connection page too.

As for pricing, we’re experimenting. Our costs do scale with number of tests (more scheduled tasks, more historical results stored). At the moment we retain the last month or so of test results, which is manageable for pretty large workloads.
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
They link to their full content policy in the first paragraph: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy
Because benefits (healthcare) are so costly that the rideshare business model becomes nonviable. To that, some might claim that no business model deserves to exist if it cannot provide all of these benefits. I think that’s misguided.

The very idea that health benefits are tied to employment is the real problem. In Canada they aren’t and thus it’s far more reasonable to work as a ride share driver here. If we could go even further and add pharmacare, dental, and even basic income to the services provided by the government, then we could get rid of minimum wage laws as well. When people are truly free to walk away from any job, then the market will decide the appropriate wage. Any job offering truly unacceptable wages at that point becomes a ripe target for automation.
Excellent explanations.

> C++ compiled to WebAssembly generally manages its own parallel "shadow stack" in linear memory

In the paper, we call the compiler-organized stack in linear memory the "unmanaged stack", to differentiate it from the "evaluation stack" (WebAssembly is a stack-based VM, so this contains arguments and results of instructions) and the "managed call stack" (contains call frames, return addresses, local variables. Managed by the VM, cannot be inspected explicitly by WebAssembly instructions).

> attacker can only jump to a function with a compatible type signature

This is true, but note that WebAssembly types are fairly low-level. That is, there are only four primitive types (i32/i64, f32/f64) and, e.g., a C function that takes a string (char *) and a size_t would be type-compatible with a function that takes a signed int and a struct pointer (all those four types map to the same Wasm type: i32).
That makes sense, thank you.

Is there no downside to multi-stage? Even aside from caching behavior I prefer multi-stage builds, as I'd much rather read & maintain a bunch of RUN lines which do one specific thing, rather than dozens joined with &&.
Graduate School: Keys to Success [video]
What is needed is a decentralized, p2p, version of the Uber / Lyft app based on crypto.

If anyone builds this, there will be no way central planners (I use these two word to remain polite) can stick their nose in the free exchange of money and services between drivers and driven.
I realize GP was unqualified too, but can you expand on this since it sounds like you've used both? I use (go)pass fairly happily and was recently recommended BitWarden and I'm curious about what separates them.
what do you use now then and how happy are you with that?

I for one am the reverse, tried recently using windows and it just got in the way, plus felt like I was being spied on like old times under communism...

Tried last year MacOS/macbook but I can't even move the titlebar to the right... Plus Apple restricting everything I can do... Plus Macbook couldn't install Linux on it, crappy keyboard, overheating, easiest return I ever did.

Otherwise Linux since forever.
always remember the xkcd comic "tar", which will never get old! :) https://xkcd.com/1168/
The irony in this comment is amazing. You're in a unique, privileged position to not even consider public transit for some trips an option.

Public transit for everyday commute to work, plus Uber/Lyft for trips outside of common commute hours or off the beaten path where public transit is less reliable, can definitely be cheaper than car ownership.
Yeah, they're operating again. I have little doubt that Uber and Lyft will continue to operate in california once they a) adjust their business model to pay people appropriately (they seem to be able to roll out new software quite quickly) and b) stop throwing a tantrum (which is what happened in austin).

California is one of USA's biggest markets. Even if they don't get their shit together, one of CA's many entrepreneurs will. Who wants free VC bucks?
Elon Musk Is Shook
That's what the construct means, that there are those things around it. It's semantics but the point is the author is implying there should be no debate because their anecdote should mean it's obvious we have to react the way the author agrees with. It's a cheap tactic to shut down opposing arguments - "This isn't a debate, this is a real issue and you can't argue with statistics blah blah fall in line with my viewpoint or you're a wrongthinker with an agenda .."
I don't think that's fair. It's hardly unprecedented for a website to explicitly ban unapproved opinions, so if that was what Reddit really wanted, why wouldn't they just do it?