skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very slightly less obnoxious popup also shows up on Uber Eats orders placed by end consumers before you can place a food delivery order.
Doing some more exploration on this. Apparently until you click “yes” it would spam you. And if you did click “yes” then your riders would get a message when they take a ride that you support prop 22.

https://twitter.com/unicorn__voice/status/131753631910332825...
But it links to the Coinbase blog post in the "Inspirations" section on the front page?
I have no opinion Prop 22, but readers should be sure to read the subsequent tweets.

The message has been changed, but more importantly the popups weren't actually set to pop up every time the driver picked up a ride. Instead, they were set to pop up when they went offline.

As a subsequent tweet says, "However, drivers switch between Uber, Lyft and other apps. That means they go offline all the time. That is why drivers were constantly having to click yes or okay."
@cameldrv: “Then the foreign powers should declare war and they'll be subject to the Geneva convention”

Question: Which military power has threatened to bomb the International Criminal Court in the Hague, if its military are brought before the court. a) The Russian Federation or b) The United States of America.

* and the answer is ‘b’

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...
It seemed like Ritesh was being recorded without his consent, so I don't think it's fair to take this interview(?) as a confirmation of election interference. It seems like he's saying google's results intentionally favor one candidate over another, which if we assume that to be true doesn't speak of Google's interference, it simply points to Google's search optimizing clicks. It's not like it's terribly difficult to find content in Google that is for either candidate or against either candidate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife speeds things up a lot, although my uninformed guess is still not enough.
"Both sides" at its peak. His attempt to portray the left and right as at the same level of spreading lies and misinformation is laughable.
> You are under the impression that Commodore did not keep up with Apple

Thanks for the interesting summary; what was the last year that you think Commodore was a viable competitor to Apple?

I do wish Apple paid as much attention to gaming on macOS as they do on iOS.

It is cool though that C64 is still a viable game platform in 2020, with products (C64 Mini) that you can buy. ;-)

> TRS-80 had, as I mentioned, nothing other than the BASIC tutorial accompanying the computer

Apparently you could buy this for $9.95:
http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-micro-computer-technical-refere...
Can ordinary Covid patients get the Trump treatment? It’s OK to ask
Because the financial institutions are so bad in creating value for anybody else than themselves foreign state operators cannot do a better smear campaign. Google on "Deutsche Bank scandals" or visit:

https://m.dw.com/en/deutsche-banks-biggest-scandals/a-549795...
This. If it wasn't "good" to someone then why does the project exist in the first place?
And they include language in the bill that it can't be overturned except by a 7/8ths majority which would make it functionally immune to being overturned, ever.
Instead of actively negotiating with the state

It isn’t normal for a company to negotiate with the government to figure out how much it pays its employees! If you want rules like minimum wage or mandatory health insurance for all, by all means make those rules and apply them to everyone. But there are so many exceptions to AB5, it’s clear that it isn’t a rule designed to apply fairly to the whole economy, it’s only designed to hit a particular list of companies that one political faction doesn’t like.
That’s the question. If we’ve been doing it for 150 years and don’t have square kilometers of destroyed soil, what does that tell you?
See Quest for Tetris, a full processor implemented in Conway's Game of Life: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/142673
Not referring to Uber specifically, or a specific dollar figure, just the general tactic of "if you don't give in to our demands then we'll shut down and really screw all the people who rely on us!". Which is what Uber and Epic are doing.

They didn't go under when they had to start doing background checks in Austin. They don't go under when they have to pay benefits in Germany. This is a stunt to make another couple percent profit.

At the end of the day that's what this boils down to - they will make a little more money if they succeed, they will make a little less money if they don't, nobody is going under. They're using people's livelihoods as leverage so that they can make a couple percent more profit.
I keep hearing this but slack always works for me? never crashes, audio always works, I get notification when I should. Am I doing something wrong? I've never used discord, full disclosure.
I got a Prop 22 push from Uber despite not having used the app for over a year. Now it's deleted. Congrats, Uber.
What's the threat of Uber going away? What's the moat? Wouldn't another company simply fill the vacuum? That is, unless Uber's whole venture is unprofitable.
Those claims are false. Cats are very affectionate creatures. They are not dogs and you shouldn't expect them to behave like dogs. They are not all the same and not all of them are cuddly (especially if they are not taught to share affection via touch since a young age) but if someone says that cats only like people who feed them, then I have to disagree based on my experience raising more cats than _most_ people.

However, I do concede that sharing food is an easy way to form a bond with an animal (including our very own species).
I'm not sure how you are going to stay anonymous buying anything with a bank card.

Using cash then localmoneros or bisq would be fine.
>Why can't both proprietary software and open source software co-exist?

Probably because it's impossible to have code that is both proprietary and open source at the same time. Unfortunately the code is either public or it isn't, because of copyright law there's not really an in-between.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying your company should use any particular product, but you do have options of where you can put that money that you can exercise when it's most appropriate. None of those consultants seem to be as big as Mathworks though, which probably matters.

>There are many other packages that cannot compete with anything open source - ANSYS Mechanical for example.

It only takes one entrepreneur to get the ball rolling by releasing a serious open source competitor. The whole industry can build on top of it after that.
"Spam Winter", sounds good to me.
>The other two have been released

caught transporting 3 tons of coke, released
“Based in fact” doesn’t tell you much. Plenty of historical movies are based on fact and contain entire fabrications.
The morality or ethics of progressive taxation are a separate matter. What I was addressing is whether wealth is destroyed by redistribution in the form of a progressive tax code (which was being characterized as wealth destruction).

Arguably, at taxation extremes, wealth creation does suffer: too high and you remove some of the incentive to earn more (if there were a 100% tax rate above a certain bracket, for example), too low and government can't afford to enforce property rights and your incentives are to invest in protecting what you have (or can grab).

But in the very broad middle, the data shows that progressive taxation does not reduce the incentive to create wealth, and in fact the creation of wealth by most measures ends up being higher overall.
A code of conduct template developed by someone who realllly wants to remain anonymous. This inspires trust.
Bad missions can't be fixed by internal activism, so allowing it just wears down everyone involved.
Ah yes, I missed that. Thanks.
> My biggest problem currently is that I'm dirt poor.

You wrote in 2009 that "Rewarding people for having serious problems tends to grow those problems". Based on what I read written by you, you are a pretty smart person, so, assuming that you aren't poor since a short time, what is your reward for being poor?
RFC 8011: Internet Printing Protocol (2017)
I'm sure there are very legal and very cool reasons as to why, but the result is a hardware lock in to Windows.
Not only democracy...they think the world is badly broken despite living in some of the best times of humankind. And I say this as a millennial
I was home schooled 1-6th grade, then went to Junior High. I was WAYYYYYY ahead. I think most home school kids are at least a grade ahead.
Why don't sites start supporting multiple federated identities? It shouldn't be too hard to keep the "sign in with X" links on the account settings page, right?
What else are we discussing other than the issues? Do you have an actual argument? First you said Miami isn't better than SF, then you compared Florida and California based on service workers vs software engineers while ignoring the cost of living actuarials, and now... you're arguing that California doesn't waste taxes?

Based on what? Taxes are the highest and constantly increasing, meanwhile every possible metric about livability, govt services and quality of life have dropped drastically. It's absolute fact that tax money is being wasted and the state is insolvent with a severe deficit. [1][2][3][4]

Do you have any actual evidence to the contrary? Is living here for a decade supposed to mean something? Because I've lived here 2.5 decades and millions of other residents agree with my assessment. Please discuss or show something that backs up your claims now.

1) https://www.businessinsider.com/california-worst-quality-of-... 2) https://observer.com/2019/05/california-homeless-crisis-san-... 3) https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/tax-hike-on-california-milli... 4) https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-fires-damage-cli...
Facebook account issues effectively brick certain Oculus Quest 2’s
Well, intersectionality doesn't go that far. First, not every difference counts as oppression. What does, that depends on... what the woke people agree on today (which may differ from what they agreed on yesterday or tomorrow). Race, gender, sexual orientation = yes. Being left-handed, or being poor = no. Being a demisexual, or otherkin = depends on whom you ask; probably yes in college, but no anywhere else. Disability = generally yes, but not autism, because reasons. It's complicated.

So there are N categories, and 2^N groups. Within each group, people are considered the same. For example, all black straight able-bodied etc women, whether they are millionaires or homeless, are considered to have the same experience.
I would use Oracle as a counterexample - while it's very stable, and there is a feature for everything (only some of them are in various extra $$ addon products), however, I was really surprised at the horrible quality and dev-unfriendliness of all the tooling and ecosystem compared to the equivalent open source tools; and the brittleness of their integration with any non-Oracle products, which is a necessity in many larger companies.

While there is a lot of quite good proprietary software, and Oracle is good in many aspects, I would not really call Oracle best in class; in so many situations PostgreSQL would be preferable even if you ignore Oracle licencing (and you can't really ignore Oracle licencing).
Commercial software usually has a support team working frantically behind the scenes trying to keep the wheels on, while the engineers are under presser to add more bells and whistles rather than improve the core application. Support issue caused by bugs are just a cost of doing business. Obviously you need a certain amount of reliability to keep those costs from putting you out of business, but less than you might think.

Free software sinks or swims based on how it works when nobody is there to support it. So the reliable stuff rises to the top.
I have to preface this by saying I'm not defending Uber - I haven't followed the debate around this proposition.

But...lots of people in tech, and on this site, have long been pushing companies to hold and voice political opinions. To those of you who have - did you really, honestly think that these companies would not also become vocally active in their own political interests? Did you really think they'd only speak up when it was your own opinions that needed boosting?
Posted it in an other thread [0] but do we really want to go back to the medallion system? 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 scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants.

Don't tell me these shady day-to-day medallion rental businesses offered benefits to the drivers...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225648
In addition, heritability, what claims can be inferred from its measures, and the meaning of those claims in discussions like in this thread are also a tricky concept when investigated from a philosophical standpoint[0][1], and some measures (and of course proposed solutions) have been controversial among sociobiologists, evolutionary biologists, and philosophers alike.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heredity/#PhilIssuArisTwi...

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-versus
Mainly to prevent the big companies from knowing every website you’ve ever visited.
Not at all. Coercing employees to vote a certain way, or penalizing them for failing to do so, would be clearly unethical. But I don’t see how a company telling their employees to vote yes on 22 is any different from an activist group telling people to vote no.
Do note that some of those "jets" are meant for cleaning the toilet and not for hygiene. When buying one, make sure you are getting the right one. The difference is indeed in the intensity with which the jet of water is ejected from the device.
>Tweet: Thats infuriating, misleading and probably illegal

Anyone know what is potentially illegal about this?
I sincerely hope that he is like a younger version of Mitch Kapor, who used his money to launch the EFF.

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

I would be very disappointed if I found out that Acton had any hidden motivations behind his philanthropic support.
What do they mean “this ad is paid for by Uber Technologies”... it’s a push notification they sent in their own app. Who is paying who?
Interesting that CNN, a media organization known for its lack of reporting accuracy, would think it right to talk about spotting fake news.

In all seriousness I couldn't find any inaccuracies in this article and it's kind of unfair to judge some journalists for what others put out, I just am very wary of anything from CNN (though there isn't much unbiased news around anymore anyway - and I come from a left-wing perspective on this).
I am late to reply. What I mean to say is zlib is a small self contained dependency, suitable for static linking, and no major dependency of its own, just math. A lot of more modern libraries and languages tend to have their small dependencies pull in a massive hydra of dependencies.
Uber probably saw the backlash to Coinbase trying to remain politically neutral, and decided they had to do this to avoid being seen as unethical. Since there's no such thing as politically neutral.
> Bad companies can't be fixed by internal activism

Maybe I'm misunderstanding that you're saying, but wouldn't this imply that unionisation from within ought to necessarily always fail? It's a pretty textbook example of activism, and is generally pointed to as one of the great strengths of the American midcentury.
That’s a pretty misleading interpretation of what Apple said or even what Tim Sweeney said in the tweet...
Twitter is not a news source or aggregation network. It's a social network and specifically not a publisher with editorial control.

Exercising control over people's communications (especially when Twitter's CEO calls social media a human right) is a major problem and is not a position they should be in.
People treat me like I'm crazy when I say I like the audio quality/ latency on Teamspeak more but in my experience it's been day and night.
Perhaps the minor amount of snark here was uncalled for, but I don't think the downvoting was appropriate.

Anyone who thinks racism is only apparent when it is being spoken is plain wrong.
This is at least as justified as the Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality[1]. Uber has every right to tell their users that the state of california is trying to outlaw their business model, and to try to convince them to vote to save it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Action_to_Save_Net_Neut...
>Yeah, I suspected that you and lerptime were the same person.

to get around the post limit. Keep it on the DL.

>When you make such a statement, you sound like someone with fairly limited experience. In particular, from your example, I suspect that you've never worked in a multi-threaded embedded system. somethingToBeInSyncTo, done that way, means that any other thread holding a reference, holds a reference to the old value, while this thread has the new one. And updating running threads with new values on the fly is... problematic.

I find that you're the one who seems inexperienced. My example is thread safe ... makeNewState is a combinator. It makes no mutations. Like IO, and mutations, the problems with threading happen with mutation. Thus, locks and other procedural commands used to deal with threading live in the void IO function.

We're more referring to coupling functions with external data and mutations via objects. If you're talking about synchronizing two threads, this again needs to be handled with parent IO function outside the logic of your pipeline combinators. You can still segregate logic away from threading and IO.

My combinator in this case is useable for your example case of synchronizing two threads. If you organized your code in ways where my combinator will be unusable than you have failed to decouple your logic away from threading, IO and mutation.
I dislike Uber to the point where I do not use those services, but I have only some problem with what they are doing. In a very real sense, it is their platform to administer as they see fit. That includes sending notifications.

In that sense, why is a popup window so upsetting. Is the issue somehow related to voting ( as in, my company probably shouldn't send a mass email saying to vote for Trump/Biden ) that makes people so upset? That I could understand, but that does not appear to be a complaint here.

What am I missing here?
Conversely, I had no idea skills picked up when going to grad school in the humanities would prove so useful in getting promoted to and performing in the upper levels of the IC career track. (That said, I too was bored in high school English.)

It is distressing how much emphasis is placed on mastering toy Leetcode-style algorithm problems in software career-building (for obvious reasons - they're used in interviews) and how comparatively little we emphasize the skills like writing and public speaking that actually count for some of the most successful tech folks.
Im concerned this is a false dichotomy, there could be other apps?

That said i doubt they would match Uber and Lyft in quality, usually they are mediocre.
James Baldwin's writing certainly is "the product of a period and locale in which white supremacy was more or less unquestioned by a large proportion of the English-speaking population." Do you think it is otherwise? I am not dismissing the work, I am looking at its context.

White supremacy is more than klan rallies in Alabama. It was a major part of thinking and writing in the US and English-speaking world in general for a long time, a mindset and set of assumptions and lessons that changed how everyone did pretty much everything. It's hard to imagine any major piece media emerging from the 19th-20th centuries that does not bear the mark of white supremacy in one form or another.
I'm sure some of the parents are just refusing to read your email carefully, but I think people also overestimate how clear their writing is. I do read written policies very carefully, but I often misinterpret things because I read more literally than the author expected. if it's something important (eg, specifications at work), I will rewrite the ambiguous passage in my own words and ask the author / person in charge if it's a correct interpretation. this annoys people sometimes, but it makes it not my fault if I misunderstand :)
Pretty sure that is required language when spending money on political advertising.
> FWIW you can have different handles in each Discord Server, it's under right click on the server icon > Change Nickname. Seems to affect mentions also (something that didn't until recently IIRC), so your original usertag should be completely invisible.

Nope. The different handle on a server is there for other people's benefit, not for yours. Anyone who sends you a direct message will see your actual Discord handle.

I can't fathom why it's implemented this way, but it is.
It's also playing into the exhaustive narcissism that some Founder wrote down a Social Mission and the best way to help society is to just work towards it.

As if employees or the culture at the company or conversation about a changing world or taking in new information and adapting (etc. * 100) could have no positive impact.
I’m not even sure how you get there. Signal can’t move my messages from my iphone to a new laptop, it’s just all gone unless I was fortunate enough to have been manually making unencrypted copies of the database on the laptop, and I’m technically literate.

Saying the usability mode of: “you lose your history when you get a new device unless it happens to fall into a very narrow window” isn’t user friendly. And it has nothing to do with geeky nitpicking.
I think success of unschooling is highly dubious. https://www.parentingscience.com/homeschooling-outcomes.html