skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For covert operations contexts one could use a backscatter/passive modulation such as “Passive Wi-Fi” setups or corner cubes with vibrators attached
Love how everyone is caught stealing from openstreetmaps but nobody contributes anything back.
How about the $99/yr app store fee they already pay?
Because it is more than likely that Wirecard was not just running a front for illegal gambling and questionably legal (in terms of youth protection compliance) porn sites, but also a front for Russian GRU/FSB to distribute cash to agents and sources.

There is no other reasonable explanation as for why he is under the care of GRU.
Four Brothers Allegedly Fleeced $19M from Amazon
Who says it is? I'm questioning whether the taxi drivers actually have any more rights. The parent comment here said that the disruption that caused ridesharing to rapidly grow this mobility segment was because the drivers were independent contractors instead of being employees. My point is that taxi drivers were never employees, either, and that the success of the ridesharing companies had more to do with user experience and reliability than their business model.
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but how is this different from, for example, me selling stuff on amazon? i want to access the amazon customer pool, so i pay amazon a fee to do it?

what would be apple alternatives that would not imply giving away services for free? i still have an hard time understanding this part: i understand that 30% cut i a lot i am not defending the 30% tax.
I seem to remember different, but that may be because I haven't read all of his stuff (not a fan), only picked some.

Anyways, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Currents_of_Space there is this: https://www.9novelsread.com/read/the-currents-of-space/30353...

and more.

(just sayin')
Yes, we've removed lots of choices.

Like for example, it's illegal to sell yourself into slavery or indentured servitude. That's a choice you are not legally allowed to make.
the a16z cult is strong

or you’re all just afraid your boss is reading
The CDC has said we are underestimating infection rates by a factor of 10 based on antibody testing. We have undertested the population and therefore have only captured 10% of the cases.
Can I use this in conversations with my wife? So much talking. ;)

Joking aside - this is a great tool in corporate settings. In technology, one works with two types: Very verbose (tend to be introvert or detail oriented) or Too abbreviated. I cannot stand reading detailed accounts - and this could add to many professionals comprehending more.
It wouldn't be a C project if it didn't embody Greenspun's Tenth Rule.
There's a Kush civilization flourishing in my closet today.
When WWJ launched in Detroit in 1920 there were fewer than 100 radio sets in Detroit. The next year the number jumped to 10,000 and my grandfather was one of them. Even though he was only five my Dad remembered it well.

My late father in his 101 year life saw the launch of radio, TV, the Internet and cell phones. Kind of makes you wonder what will launch in the next 100 years? I'd imagine we can't even imagine
Either one is an arbitrary choice that influences the market.

Why should a supposedly free society be free to accept only how Uber or Lyft might have it?

It isn’t just bureaucrats but the public that votes them in. You’re cherry picking bits n pieces from the broader social narrative to highlight. Why should anyone care what any random poster on HN thinks is just as valid and vapid a question once you take 5 minutes to think it over.

HN is just as knee jerky and shallow as Twitter and Reddit. Don’t kid yourselves folks
I and many others have never been as reliant on Uber and Lyft as we have now. I’m fortunate enough to have finances to adapt to this, but a lot of people don’t.
https://archive.is/BCKoY
Absolutely infuriating.

Reading articles like this also reminds me of the utter idiocy of Marc Andressen's 'It's Time to Build' argument, where suggests both parties are to blame for the lack of building, and suggests it lies instead in a "failure of imagination" and some other equally specious arguments.
Also, doesn't Lyft require drivers to have an Lyft sign on their car?
How do foils affect the turning characteristics of boats?
In all of your listed examples people set their own standards, list their own products, and set their own prices. I’m no way is it comparable.
IBM can sell you a LinuxONE machine that's mainframe that runs Linux under the z/VM hypervisor. It's probably the biggest Linux server money can buy. And can be carved out into thousands of really nice average servers. You won't have to worry about network components or latency or unreliable servers or anything like that - you can treat it as a data center in a couple racks.

Another interesting feature is that they are designed to be monitored, because a traditional business model was to lease a mainframe and rent out capacity to smaller companies that'd pay for things like CPU seconds or bytes read/written.
What would such a contract look like? How would Uber or Lyft hold up their end of a N-ride contract if they don't end up having enough riders that day?
The first VR headset Microsoft plans to support for Flight Simulator is the HP Reverb G2.

Having owned a Quest where the hand tracking is getting better, and using controllers does not disrupt the experience IMO anyway, I hope they add Quest support too, soon. Hopefully manipulating the knobs and switches and also using the yoke (or joystick on Airbuses) with the controllers will feel natural as well.

Many people are already using the Quest or Rift S to play DCS online with generally positive reviews, so I'm very optimistic. The Hololens (which is marketed more towards AR) should be exciting to experience as well.
I think a more interesting angle is to look at incentives. With Apple deriving so much revenue from having a stranglehold on software running on iOS, are they incentivized to improve the mobile web (which would be an alternative to being forced to use an app for many use cases)? Are they actively stifling innovation in web standards for mobile because of their conflict of interest? As more and more of internet usage goes mobile, mobile web becomes the default web and Apple's market dominance in the space gives them the same power of its development as Microsoft had with IE pre-2001.

Another thing to consider is, if Apple has such a dominant position in this critical market, how are they using it to dominate other adjacent markets? For example, they're able to provide the exact same service as Spotify, Netflix, Dropbox but with a 30% pricing advantage. What other markets will they enter with this advantage? And should they be able to? And that's to speak nothing of their other non-financial advantages (ie. first-party integrations, native "advertising" of services, etc).

I look forward to a DOJ investigation, mostly because it's only in these probes where you get answers to the above questions, and understand the degree to which the company is considering these problems internally.
It seems to me that Kalanick was often “aware” of things but conveniently avoids scrutiny. How is this? Uber did so many questionable things under his leadership. And he managed to totally dodge the Levandowski saga.
Employer-provided healthcare is a byproduct of WWII-era price-fixing that gave employers no way to compete on wages (so they started competing on benefits, including healthcare).
A lot of harm is done when waiting around forever. People don't hear of potential life saving drugs. We don't know what to do in a pandemic. etc. Of course caveats should be explained and risk/reward examined.
In my case none or both, depending on the need.
The point is, you could allow lower security if people need it and it's not necessarily that catastrophic as the author suggests.
Violence is unacceptable. Period.

It is sad that there are cultures where that's different.
Looks cool. What's the use-case for this?
yeah it feels like a few product level changes could easily swing the argument back in their favor - but I guess the risk has always been the impact to the efficiency of the marketplace and overall customer experience.
This should be regarded as a breach of fiduciary duty, a kind of legalized embezzlement. Shouldn't shareholders or creditors have standing to claw those bonuses back in bankruptcy?
Because people weren’t born before capitalism?

“Per captia” violence? That is a hell of a qualifier you need.
Everytime I use Reddit on Chrome mobile, eventually the videos and gifs will stop playing. I have to restart Chrome to make it work again. Does anyone else run into this problem and know how to fix it?
https://twitter.com/ben_a_adams/status/1296463312780251136
My point was that the mode income, that is the income reported by the largest number of people was incredibly low. You claim that's because there are a bunch of people that don't really need/want to work, so they don't make much. That implies that that group represents the majority of the working population (in order to be the mode income). You're point might have been correct if we were talking about the mean income being very low, but in this case it's exactly the opposite.
Mulch heavily (with compost if you can, else with other mulch materials). Google for and apply mulching pros and cons and precautions. It can help a lot with lessening the need for water, plus it has 3 to 4 other benefits. Check Youtube mulching videos, ditto composting.
Again, I'm not following. Even if Uber drivers became employees I don't see why they'd even get health insurance.

(This seems to be more about minimum wage, workers comp, UI, etc. which they would get)
.NET 5 will be based on .NET Core. It's already in preview.
Here is the extreme case- an astroid is barreling towards the earth and we don't know if shooting a missile at it will save us. Do we do nothing because asteroid missile research has not yet been peer reviewed? Or do we take our best guess based on the science we do have?
I'm having a really hard time understanding the legalese around these charges.

In 2014 Uber was hacked and the FTC opened an investigation
In 2016 Uber was hacked again but Sullivan supposedly didn't disclose this to the FTC

* Why would he be compelled to disclose information to the FTC about an incident unrelated to the one being investigated?

* The charge of "Misprision of felony" is new to me: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4

Since when does anyone have an obligation to report felonies to law enforcement? If I overhear some kids planning to burglarize a house, I have a legal obligation to report that? Isn't freedom of speech involved here?
> Being a driver isn't predicated on mistakenly calculating your odds of winning big

Not exactly, but there are parallels. Most drivers don't take into account the costs of wear and tear on their cars, which can be significant, and Uber isn't transparent about how drivers should anticipate those costs. So part of your wages as a driver are essentially borrowing against the future value of your car. And it can take years before the wear and tear becomes apparent, so many current drivers may not have run up against that reality yet.
What will impress me is when a GPT or something can maintain a train of thought for more than a paragraph, or especially work towards a point. Right now it seems to be good at slinging words together that work grammatically, but invariably wanders all over the place like its being written by a fruit fly with Alzheimers.
What does the alternative look like? A contract for 10 rides? A contract for one week at a time? What if the driver wants to serve one ride, and then never again: what contract models allow that single ride to fulfill a "contract"?
Democratic politicians are terrible when it comes to business! They are going to kill great companies AND the economy for their self-serving political BS!
Posted it in an other thread [0] but

Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid schemed aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225648
Isn't that default mode of every government? As long as there exist powers that challenge country's position, the country will work against that.

There is no value judgement if country's position is deserved or justified here.
On the other hand, certain people like to say that quantum computing is not about simply computing every possible result of something in parallel universes, that you can't do that much better than with classical computing. If that's so, doesn't it imply in some vague way that any parallel dimension is something less than completely real?
“Even though I'm never expecting my game to read an empty string in from an s-expression, I didn't want that to be a limitation of the parser.”

This thing is never going to ship. Coming from someone who has written an IDE and wasted a bunch of time on the parser because it was the cool theoretical portion.

That’s fine, I assume learning rather than shipping is the goal here. A fine goal it is.

By the way, the problem is NOT that he wrote his own parser and other homemade tools. This is actually a great thing to do —third party tools usually end up being more trouble than they’re worth. The problem is that he’s ratholing on tiny details that don’t matter.
You _can_ write a game without any scripting language support whatsoever. You could also write the whole game in assembly if you so desired.

However, if every single time you want to change any piece of logic in your game, you have to do the edit/compile cycle, your development will be extremely slow. Especially if you compare with the ability to change code while the game is running.

Not having all the game logic in C or what have you makes the game easier to mod too.
i would be interested to see how the return distribution varies (if it does at all) over the medium/long term 5yrs+ - i bet it does varies - and that’s the whole point of the index - it’s not news that some stocks do better in the short terms than others. the real question is which ones are good in the long run... so i think this article is rather pointless in its essence
More than plausible. The fact that Uber does not generate profit means they are effectively subsidizing rides with VC and IPO funds.
Foiling sailboats are crashing because of sail: their propelling vector is too high above sea level, which causes side or bow capsizing in split seconds. Motor boats has totally different physics, they rather take off, because they have heavy stern with engines and lightweight bow. If you put battery in front of vessel - it will perform even better.
His stories "Equinoctal", "The Phantom of Kansas" [0] are big hits at scifi reading groups. And "The Persistence of Vision" is a well-known classic.

[0] https://varley.net/excerpt/the-phantom-of-kansas-full-text/
> Autodidact.

Thanks, I didn't notice the spelling error. Honestly the reason I dropped out of high school was undiagnosed dyslexia and dysgraphia. It makes me so excited when someone is willing to show me that I spelled something wrong and then call me a fool. You know. Because ability to spell is far more important than the fact that I've forgotten more about Linux than most system administrators will ever know, or that I can program in over 10 languages and am familiar with DDD, CRQS, SOLID among other design patterns. I've mentored over 50 developers, and made Principal Engineer before I turned 35 despite my lack of credentials. I worked my way up from Help Desk to PC Support to, Network Admin, to System Admin before becoming a Software Engineer. But, nah, I'm a fool because I've misspelled a word. Thank you kind stranger for pointing out my limits, it gives me an incredible sense of frisson to know people like you are out there to keep us all in check.
> or that the founders are too naive to realize that they are making deals with people they should stay away from

Given that there are reports that Marsalek tried to put up 15.000 mercenaries to take over Libyan border controls (possibly with a relation to the politics of his homeland Austria and it's anti immigration policy!), it may very well also be that Marsalek knew what he was getting into and went all in out of a search for fame, a real life Austrian 007.
You can hold people liable for making the best guess at the time with the information they have, but you can't expect them to keep giving you advice then. All the professionals were saying "given what we know now" with all their statements, and revising them as they went along. The problem isn't that they were wrong, it's that when correcting themselves, that was immediately used as evidence that they were incompetent, which means people are then forced to choose between the new messaging of the professionals and the counter-messaging of the politicians (and media, since they carry that signal).

You can read Fauci's statements on what he said and why here[1], but the main things to thing about are:

- What did we know about transmission at the time those statements were made?

- Where was the outbreak at those times? Localized to specific areas, or nation-wide?

- Was it responsible to report to the whole nation that they should be wearing masks given those facts? What if we know there's not enough masks, and that means masks go to areas that don't need them?

The bottom line is, should we have expected anyone to act differently given those conditions and that knowledge at that time? You can note someone made a wrong decision in the past, but if they made the correct decision given the information they have, you can't rationally hold them accountable for the outcome (and if we're not speaking rationally, then we're not actually discussing anything, just airing grievances).

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising...
I think their fee is much lower.

Also, there are competing "stores" on PC, including the buy-cd-from-physical-store-and-pay-no-fees option. On iPhone it's apples way or the highway.

So while epic are hypocrites, they can be bypassed easily.
I work in a worlwide (german) industry / automotive company. The group leader can decide what Notebook, PC or Workstation his team gets. We can choose between a normal office HP Notebook/PC or a pretty good version of a HP Z-Book or a fast Workstation. Also I think most external tech guys who came to our company, they usually have real good hardware. At least in my company now, the managment has just normal office notebooks or convertibles.
I see the democrats downvoting this. Unfortunately, this is the world we live in!
Mulching also buffers the precipitation, acting like a sponge. See my sibling comment.
To be fair, S-expressions are not a made up format and in fact predate most other formats you mention.
I had no issues (at least procedurally) with the arguments past GP's first sentence, hence why I prefaced it with "unrelated". I was strictly attacking the first sentence. It is entirely possible to have targeted criticism of something...
from what I've just read about the AB5 the one thing that doesn't make sense to me is the clause that defines an independent contractor when "the service is performed outside the usual course of business of the employer".

This seems that it can also force software devs to become employed if they just want to do a short-term contract for a software company and potentially affect other businesses as well.

In our country, we instead require independent contractors to use their own resources/equipment to perform the job while allowing companies to hire them even if it's their main course of business.
Thanks. Any suggestions?
Very curious about this trend I've seen on HN where instead of going to the primary source, commenters will take 2x the time to hypothesize about what the primary source could contain.

In this particular case it was so easy that it really makes me wonder.

I can think of a couple of reasons:

* Uncertainty with where in the primary source the content is

* Concern that you're being Gish Galloped with citations

* Lack of skill at skimming

Anyway, the source is particularly weird with the way it links to things and stuff but it wasn't that hard to find. I went through it and then decided to screen record the interaction afterwards. It's my second time going through but not that different from the first.

Using headlines, pull quotes, and pictures as the things I'm aiming for, I got there in 30 s. I think your comment would have taken longer for me to have written than 30 s.

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A mortgage is a scam because the richer person (the bank) can scam the poorer person (you) simply because they have the money to scam you.

And you will take it because where else are you going to get the money?
I think it's less about people having opinions and more about people being so self-righteous about something they don't understand as well as they think they do.
If that's what you believe then you can always put your money where your mouth is and go short on Tesla.
Why not let the drivers decide whether they want to be contractors or employees as well?

> Uber/Lyft do not force anyone to hop online.

Yeah, let the drivers eat cake, hmm?
> I think a lot of people at HN just hate IBM for no real reason

I disagree. From a marketing perspective, they are a company that is known to over promise and under deliver. Their marketing is vague pie in the sky without much to show for in the market. Watch this IBM ad and tell me what is it that this company actually does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsEwmumEsKU

They are a company that fails to innovate, and fails to be relevant, yet they put a ridiculous amount of effort to try to convince people otherwise.

From a business strategy perspective, IBM has spun off or sold off most of their great product lines and business units. Some of which were failing under IBM leadership, and became profitable once divested. Every company they acquire, they seem to dissolve after a few years.

From an internal culture perspective, they are known for laying off their talented experienced employees who have been with the company for over 20 years in favor of younger, cheaper employees. In some departments, they have resorted to simply not promoting people and let people to leave on their own accord.

That being said, most of my experience in working with IBM has been while they were under CEO Ginni Rometty who led from 2012 to 2020. This was one of the biggest bull runs in history, yet the stock went from about $205 per share down to about $120 per share. They have a new CEO now, so things might change.
Hi, yes, this is largely how audit firms work. If they find a problem, they will not be hired next year.

That said - don’t despair! The purpose is NOT to catch purposefully-fraudulent CFOs. That’s the SEC’s job. It’s much more of a forcing mechanism for otherwise-honest CFOs: they know they have to justify what they’re doing somehow, and the auditor knows that if something will inevitably blow up anyway, they can’t sign off. So it just arrests the slippery slope when honest mistakes are made.
Fortnite isn't a platform, it's only a game and has merchandising for that game. Based on your argument any movie franchise has no right to own rights to merchandise involving the movie.