skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super common for Uber in places where drivers/cars are rare and hard to find, and probably recommended in poor countries where people could use the income.
> Consider the Apple Photos app. It's on your phone, it's on your desktop, it's on the cloud (iCloud storage). Say you have so many photos they don't fit on your phone. When you try to access a photo that is not on your phone it gets it from icloud (these are literally features that are currently offered by photos/iCloud). Now suppose your desktop has lots of storage, you usually look at your photos while connected to your local network, why cant you get the data from there?

Yes, what Dropbox, Crashplan, etc. offered a decade ago — it's a neat sounding idea but there are two reasons why this isn't a huge win in practice: people are mobile so the number of times where you need an uncached file and happen to be on the same network is relatively low and increasingly few people have an always-on device with a ton of local storage free (phones are really good at generating high volumes of data so this is a non-trivial problem).

Working on things like this is really interesting but it involves a lot of work to handle unreliable clients or networks and bitrot (hashes don't solve this if your client helpfully replicates the bad sector from your desktop over the pristine copy on your phone). That overhead makes it a lot harder to beat conventional services, especially in cases where the time investment is greater than the possible savings.
No? If value isn't defined as the price at which the product is selling (could easily be above cost), what is it in basic econ?

1. Worker(s) make a thing.

2. Worker(s) sell a thing.

3. All the above worker(s) (if there's more than one) receive a portion of the proceeds. If it reflects their actual contribution to that thing at its selling price, it's their marginal product of labor, putting aside things like reinvestment and power imbalances. This leaves nothing left over for profits, for owners / investors to take, who did not contribute the labor to production (otherwise, they'd also be workers and we'd call that part of their compensation, not profit).
> • When launching Chrome for the first time, you have to opt-in to Chrome notifications, but macOS pops up its own notification telling you to use Safari instead.

Link to a screenshot of this Safari notification when Chrome is run?

> Similarly, Apple News notifications are allowed by default, but you have to explicitly opt-in to notifications from other news websites.

Reference to an article about this?

> • System Preferences gets an obnoxious (1) badge next to it, because I haven't signed in to iCloud.

This is something other apps can't display...?
I do not think it would help workers.

What is more likely to play out is that assuming that when currently minimum pay for a hour is $10 and tax 0% then with negative tax X and no minimum the pay would become $10 / (1-X/100). The worker will get the same (hopefully) and the company will pay less.
I set up Conductor where I work while evaluating workflow engines, and overall wasn't too happy with it. The default datastore is this Netflix-specific thing (Dynomite) that's built on top of redis. It's not particularly easy to integrate operationally into non-Netflix infrastructure, and Conductor itself hard dependencies on several services.

The programming model for workflows/tasks felt a little cumbersome, and after digging into the Java SDK/Client, I wasn't impressed with the code quality.

We did have some contacts at Netflix to help us with it, but some aspects (like dyomite itself, and its sidecar, dynomite-manager) felt abandoned with unresponsive maintainers.

We've started using Temporal[0] (née Cadence) recently, and while it's not quite production-ready, it's been great to work with, and, just as critically, very easy to deal with operationally in our infrastructure. The Temporal folks are mostly former Uber developers who worked on Cadence, and since they're building a business around Temporal, they've been much more focused and responsive.

[0] https://temporal.io/
I came across this problem when I wrote a small program for a humanities professor to help him draw some diagrams. He didn't want a web app ("it'll disappear once you graduate!") so I wrote him a mac app and emailed it... it was such an adventure getting him to ignore the security warnings to run it...
You can run your own binaries locally because they do not have quarantine flags, not because they are locally signed.

You can also remove quarantine flags from anything you download and after that you don't have the right click option either.

For example:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/Absolutely-Not-Malware.dmg
Can't you just use a PC?
The minimum wage workers around here are of two types:

1. teenage children of the upper middle class or higher

2. poor adults with a history of bad decisions

It's kind of a weird mix. Where are the children of the poor? You'd think they might want money much more than the children of better-off families do.

Surgeons, business owners, passenger jet pilots, software developers, and corporate executives all send their teenagers off to work minimum wage jobs. The point seems to be to learn about answering to a boss and/or to learn why success in school is important.
Figma's Story: My Thiel Fellowship Application (2011)
Can you share an example of a place where you stayed at and the negative review was removed ? Would be great to see a before and after screenshot so that people are aware that this is happening
JVM is a different category of VM, it's memory model and bytecode don't fit languages such as C/C++/Rust at all ( AFAIK it doesn't even have unsigned integer operations).
The thing is, your friendly scammer could also publish checksums on their website.

It is clear to you that you're writing fine open source software, not malware. But how is the consumer supposed to tell?

If people trust you, why bother with the checksums? (Over HTTPS, the downloaded content cannot be tampered with. If someone tampered with the content on your website, or performs a MITM, they can also replace the checksums.)
Since you are an expert, can you explain the zero day that would be needed to get Stuxnet onto the SCADA/first computer?

Obviously the final product might not have used this iPod. It was a huge operation on many levels with failed projects. This iPod also obviously might not have been for recording, since that's a level one misdirect, oh it's secret spy recording device, person who's watched to much James Bond.

But how did they do the 'usb' zero day since you know it isn't a iPod?
I’m not all that educated on negative tax rate - what’s to prevent companies from just setting wages to obscenely low, knowing the government will just pick up the bill and pay out the difference?
Did you read the article? It stated that the "underground" gyms had people close together without wearing masks. (This can be understood to be due to prohibition, of course.)

Is that the case with the fitness centers in your state?
I'm in the middle of a PhD myself, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

I actually agree with the author, certain fields are just very complex to develop a solid understand without proper mentoring and support you would get as a grad student.

That said, maybe the real issue is not the fact we need two PhDs each, but the question I want to raise, do PhDs need to take 4/5/6 years? (I'm not even considering the cases where people, like myself, do a 2 year master program before the PhD...). Honestly, in my humble opinion, it is not necessary.

Maybe universities could develop "industry focused dual PhD programs" to target specifically crazy folks like us :)

This might be something worth to fight for.
Young kids are not great at playing by themselves. Pretty much the only way to get a preschooler who can't read yet out of your hair for an extended period of time is to give them an iPad or TV.
This view was already expressed, except with some elaboration, hours before your comment. Why add to the noise with a post like this? Saying "no" is what the downvote button is for.
I don't know if encryption was the right policy response here (it seems to be a very good idea regardless due to theft/hacking possibilities), but I'm OK with this sort of policy sometimes.

Full disk encryption is a fair response because it won't be feasible to enumerate every type of situation that results in sensitive data being put on the laptop (such as temporary files or source code). If someone was going to just add tax numbers to a list it leaves a lot out; if they say "sensitive data" it leaves a lot open to interpretation; if they list everything they can think of it'll be impossible to properly comply while still getting work done.

So perhaps it was a heavy handed approach handed down mindlessly, but it could also have been someone looking at the bigger picture. Knowing the intent as others said would help.
Do you not know how to do even the most cursory internet search?

> Population 746,419,440

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

> Population 328,239,523

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
Fair of you to pick up on the oddity of that statement. I didn't put that out there very well.

Agreed, a person with good rates doesn't want this. But that doesn't make a person with bad rates desire it either? Does this really improve their situation any?

Maybe there's a very small percentage of drivers that will try to prove they aren't a bad driver. This (young/male/minority) driver has been boxed into a high risk demographic and wants the chance to prove they deserve an individual rate different than their cohort.

However, what will really happen is that rates will just stay the same for them (they are still afterall in the same demographic), but additional revenue will be extracted from those that might be more aggressive or take more liberties when they drive.

I don't believe you're saving money for anyone with this scheme. All you're doing is adding additional tax to those drivers that might drive more risky. Why should the insurance companies profit any more? They need their stock prices to keep rising, at all costs, particularly at the expense of the clients needing the most insurance product. This is just another scheme to keep profits rolling up, no company wants to charge less to anyone.

The demographic boxes that we are put into for premium rates can be said to be unfair. I don't argue that point. My point is that there's nothing here that actually saves anyone money.

But overall, the more concerning part of this is the loss of privacy and freedom associated with the collection of personal driving habits. Did you drive through a part of town that is notoriously high in crime? Did you make a stop at a liquor store? Did you drive to a political rally for the opposing party?

All of these are deeply concerning questions from a freedom, privacy, liberty point of view. Big brother shouldn't have this much tracking power, and neither should big business.
> the people who do are the people who sit at their weird guy-table in a normal bar full of girls, afraid to walk up and say hello

If a guy's out having a nice time with his boyfriends, there's no reason to belittle him for that. ;)
I wonder if there's a value in simplicity of policy. Just like with coding. Sometimes you decide not to add more features or make something more efficient because it would make the code harder to maintain. If you have one blanket policy at your company, it cuts down on conversations. Case in point: you said that auditors don't understand the benefit of better hashing functions. If the policy allowed for "equivalent or better" maybe it would cause the confusion in different departments with different auditors many times over. If this is the case, though, I agree that this should be listed as the rationale, because I can imagine it's demotivating when people are required to do a worse thing for no apparent reason.
Yeah it's as simple and clear a Fuck You as can be.
Citation needed. Most research I've seen says that it's the socialization and free play aspects that are important, not the academic content.
This looks like the official press release:

https://www.oxitec.com/en/news/oxitec-announces-landmark-app...

An earlier press release (https://www.oxitec.com/en/news/oxitec-transitioning-friendly...) describes their self-limiting technology:

> Oxitec’s 2nd generation insect technology uses two small genetic modifications to create self-limiting, non-biting insects that are male-selecting (only male progeny survive from mating with a wild-type female insect). Upon the mating between an engineered Oxitec male insect and a wild-type female target insect, the female progeny die, generating near-term suppression effects. The male progeny survive, half of which carry the self-limiting gene while the other half carry natural insecticide-susceptibility genes. In subsequent generations, the self-limiting gene is diluted via a Mendelian pattern – enabling population suppression for up to 10 subsequent generations before the introduced genes are eliminated from the environment.

So it sounds like they are engineered to leave behind no artificial genes over the long term. (However, there will still be wild mosquitoes descended from genetically engineered ones, but apparently with genes that came from natural sources.)
The more I hear about public schools the more I understand the outrage against public education.
Thanks for explaining. I am also surprised by this possibility given my limited physics knowledge.

Do clothes substantially reduce the effectiveness? Is true line of sight required - visible or near visible spectrum?

Secondly, can you expand a bit about the humidity/condensation aspect? I get the impression that condensation represents inefficiency, and that this somehow avoids having to cool air as a middle layer to cooling a person.
I've ran into this signing issue a few years ago when trying to distribute a binary for applications (tips, if you need to do so here: https://henvic.dev/posts/cs-security/), and while it's a hassle for developers I really appreciate that this is making using computer applications safer.

The next step is naturally adding boundaries about what applications can do just akin to containers, sandboxes, or permissions found on smartphones operating systems. I just hope some sort of standard emerges so we don't have each major vendor implementing their own incompatible system (okay, too late).
Too abusable... state actors, etc... could control network and remove stuff by spinning up probabilities to inject within quorum’s.

Not sure...
Temporal (Cadence) comes with Unit testing framework. The most interesting feature of it is ability to skip time automatically when workflow is blocked waiting for something. It allows testing long running workflows in milliseconds without any need to change timeouts.
That’s not an argument, that’s simple contradiction!
I never get to stop working, but thanks. Every day, all day, I get email and have to respond to a vast customer base. While I may not be coding away at my computer, I have to stop about 10 times a day to respond to customers, help them solve a problem, make an update, etc. It never ends, I never get vacation, I never get a weekend, I never get a holiday. I literally had a customer call me on Christmas last year because they got a new iPad and wanted me to help them put their domain email on it.

So, no. I do NOT just work a half-day, I prioritize, I multi-task, and it's very difficult to maintain this lifestyle.
Protection, respect sought for Ethiopia's working donkeys
At least a few models of Linksys/Cisco home routers I own had their firmware "encrypted" using GnuPG. They had the extension .gpg.img but could simply be decrypted with:

$ gpg --output decrypted.img --decrypt <model><ver>.gpg.img

binwalk can handle the rest.

It looks like they mainly did this for verification, as there is an RSA public key embedded on the device. It unfortunately does make it nearly impossible to flash any modified firmware such as OpenWRT, which is very frustrating. I say nearly as I haven't fully investigated the models that I own. Some routers have a emergency recovery flash method that may bypass the PGP check, I recall older D-Link models having a web flasher integrated into u-boot.
Look, I actually agree with what the actions the Australian Government have taken. I do think its important to play devils advocate, to properly evaluate the decisions that are being made.
yep. many people have been sick since March, but saving lives is the priority, so we know almost nothing about "long-haulers." plus the hospitalization rate is a lot higher than the death rate, and hospitalization often means ICU for a month plus.

a realistic calculation of risk should be looking at your risk of dying, your risk of serious illness, your risk of permanent illness and/or long-term effects, _and_ your risk of medical bankruptcy. one dude got a bill for a million dollars when he finally was able to leave the ICU.
I wonder how well people would respond to another lockdown. As you can see here in the US people are not taking it well. It also appears that Covid cases are spiking in Spain and Germany as well as France.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Or the initial antibodies drop in people that have had COVID over time (which they probably do). The antibody tests test for the kind of antibodies that are present immediately- over time a previously infected person will have less of those antibodies and more of the back up Tcell kind. You can read a review on this here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02400-7.
It seems infeasible that this is a long-term cash grab. The Mac App Store will be ten years old this October.

The most recent opportunity to attempt this would be with the architecture change this fall, which they have not taken.
I’m not sure how we’ve learned to accept “I am altering the deal” from tech companies just because they have the ability to change things remotely.

I mean, what if a furniture company just decided to break into your house, reupholster your couch and remove some of the pillows? (Or I suppose, install a recording device on the bottom?)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/how-to/diy-nfc-coasters/ This has some steps to use your phone to create the NFC Sticker.
I doubt other companies would want to create their own device drivers
I would not be surprised if they were able to do a pretty decent job.

Cars that go into parking garages are typically among the ones that later come out.

Cars that pass beneath underpasses are generally among the ones that emerge from the other side. Etc.

Clever software should easily be able follow all cars with very few errors.
This is known as the sterile insect technique(SIT) and has proven effective in quite a few cases[0]. Looking at the list of times this has been attempted it doesn't look like there have ever been any adverse effects[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique#Succe...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sterile_insect_techniq...
> latest awful hardware

The latest round fixed all of these problems.
Damaging the RNC and Republican establishment would have been helpful to Trump: his candidacy was (or at least was perceived as) an upstart insurgency against them. Assuming the RNC emails were actually packed with bigotry (I'm not so sure), the most anti-Trump read which would have emerged out of it might have been something like, "see, all these people like to pretend they're better than Trump but they say the same stuff behind closed doors!"

What there would not have been in the RNC emails was a bunch of discussion between party insiders and Trump surrogates/loyalists as to how to tilt the primary race in his favor. This is what made the DNC leaks damaging to Clinton's campaign.
Useful to start discussions, yes! Sometimes risky because they can spread common myths, and it can be very difficult to supplant them. It's so much harder to unlearn something than to learn the right thing the first time, of course.

Safe for Democracy does thorough and sourced deep-dives into the histories of a few American "interventions", disrupting or controlling or supposedly attempting to create democracy in other countries. It goes through the background of the countries, often 100+ years prior to the events in question, and sets the stage thoroughly so that you can get a sense of the cultural forces and context. It also emphasizes the humanity of those involved and what violences were done beyond rattling off death counts so that you can understand the long-term cultural impacts and often genocides involved that are easier to miss if you only hear numbers.
Valuation is a result of demand for Apple stock. There is no direct link between increase in earnings and increase of demand for stock. Increase of demand might be result of external factors, for example, people flocking to Apple safe harbor, without necessarily inherently increasing trust in Apple as business.

A relatively small increase in earnings might also cause outsize increase in valuation, if that increase was not expected or if it signals to the market the company is strong regardless of tumultuous market situation.
This was done via the "Gallup Panel" which is roughly 80,000 to 100,000 strong.

https://www.gallup.com/174158/gallup-panel-methodology.aspx
In Shayer's article (not the top-level BBC article) he makes the comment that they developed the iPod OS on Windows machines since the compiler and tools for building on ARM were not yet available on Mac. You make a good point about developing software for other platforms, though, and I'm sure there are also quite a few Mac and Linux boxes in software divisions at Microsoft for the same reason.
There's so much marketingspeak in that piece, it's nauseating. I use and maintain an ELK stack and I'm not even entirely sure what most of that nonsense means.
It will raise rates for those who are already risky drivers, but will not save money for typically safe drivers. And worse, this will push risky drivers to even more abandon auto-insurance entirely. The good drivers will be forced to carry more uninsured motorist coverage, simply because the for-profit insurance companies decided to drive their bottom customers out of the insurance market entirely.

"Somebody else has to pay your premium" is really just going to manifest itself as an increase in uninsured motorist premiums. Sadly.
Still, though, your incremental builds will be much faster if you avoid unity builds. Full rebuilds are rare (assuming your build system knows about header dependencies, which it should).

Unity builds also make it hard to do abstraction or information hiding well. There's a form of polymorphism in c I describe at [1] which requires separation of translation units.

1. https://comp.lang.c.narkive.com/aa5pZoND/polymorphic-oop-hac...
For privacy reasons, no.

But check the AirBNB reddit group for discussions by hosts on the topic, do some searches, there are instructions and hints for how to remove negative reviews. In summary: it's trivial.
I'm not sure how much it would matter, but it's probably worth pointing out that 17F is nearly shorts weather in the middle of the brutally cold winters a lot of places experience.
> If we don't figure out how to more equally distribute the rewards of capitalism

We actually have figured it out. It's called "taxes". Taxes are how you do it. There, mystery solved.

The problem is that the rich have reached a level of power —through Citizens United, Fox News, disenfranchisement, and just straight up getting richer—that they can prevent taxes that harm them but would benefit the majority of Americans.
Probably referring to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air
I'm disappointed that some people associate not working full time and raising/teaching your children as somehow oppressive. Having to commute and farting in an office chair all day seems more oppressive to me.