skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you work in Oakbrook? I was on a team that was trying to make a few smart restaurants. We got to about 50 before the project was canned but we were trying to put everything from fryer oil life to what the platens were cooking and HVAC all on a touch screen. It was a lot of fun.
> There is a need for documentation concerning the relevant MSR(s) and thus waiting on Intel engineers to find such documentation internally and see if/what can be publicly released. Hopefully Intel's large open-source team will be able to provide some fruits soon

Well, i915 is certainly a completely different story than nouveau. Otherwise I would not be so optimistic. From the anecdotal evidence of listening to less than a handful of Intel colleagues I happen to have my hopes are not that high. According to them Intel is a horrible organization where high walls and secrecy making is more common than helping another part of the organization.
Is not being able to work for Uber and being unemployed more fair? Or do you or California's government have any more fair deal to offer these people?
Apart from the "green bubble" cultural pressure, the fact is that I cannot get a fully unlocked device at all if I want anything relatively modern. Tell me what is the "free" alternative for a top notch galaxy Note20 ultra or iphone 12 pro max.
> People are commenting as if app-based ride share will no longer be available. It might cost more, but it wouldn't be much more.

Uber lost $8.5 billion dollars in 2019. Think about that. Uber is losing the better part of a billion dollars every month. They are hemmorrhaging money at their current prices. It will cost a lot more for this to be profitable when you consider how much more expensive this will make the drivers.
It shows real mastery in a given tool, and if it works for him, then great stuff.
> Once their old machines die, they'll be forced to become a renter.

Or they'll look into alternatives, for which there are many available avenues.
yup. They call it punching up. No one likes someone who punches down. lol
> As long as a grad student doesn’t insist on making faculty, they’re not necessarily constrained to a zero-sum field.

This assertion doesn't play out in the real world. A graduate student does not have exclusive access to these non-academic positions, nor is the skillset developed in the academic niche world applicable in non-academic environments.

In fact, the realization that graduates with an academic background underperform in non-academic settings is widely known, not to mention the negative impact that some soft-skill traits developed in academic environments have on their employability (for example, the false sense of entitlement).
I don't know about other major cities in California, but in San Francisco, taxi medallions were free until Gavin Newsom decided to "monetize" them in 2010. After that the city sold them for $250,000 each while providing low interest loans (via a local credit union) so drivers could pay for them. When Uber and Lyft arrived, their drivers didn't need medallions and there were no limits on how many drivers either company could have on the street. The medallion system collapsed and those who took out loans for them did indeed end up getting screwed.
I got them as iMessages.
All controllable from your Nook device as well.
That sounds really great. I'd like to do that this winter with Rust on Arduino or Rust on a soft-core RISC-V. I have hacked up some PID loops in the past, but nothing using _actual_ math.
The academic literature is overwhelming support of the argument that legislative term limits have zero value. They only lead to inexperienced, ineffective legislators.
California's problem is precisely that it is a one party state. Even a few decades ago, California was not the one party state it is today. Having multiple candidates with meaningful differences on the ballot automatically lowers the ability of special interests to rule the state because it is difficult to be supported by people on completely different sides of the aisle.

The proposition that made California the way it is is the one that meant that the primaries are non-partisan and the final race is between the two top contenders. This means that special interests in California need only present their cause through the lens of leftism and they will automatically find sympathetic candidates in the top two, no matter who those are. Contrast this with a partisan primary system. In that system, on the final ballot, it would be difficult for special interests to formulate an argument appealing to both candidates.

EDIT: for some reason, I am downvoted but there is little engagement or actual refutation of what I'm saying. If you're going to downvote, at least say something. Otherwise, it makes it seem like the one-party state's propaganda arm is awake and working.
And AB5 was just clarifying what the law after Dynamex v. Superior Court
But what about the driver who doesn't want to be classified as an employee? What right do they have?

Less trite - my nephew is in his mid-twenties and appreciates the flexibility that food delivery and ride sharing allows him. Is legislation that outlaws that an improvement?
Not to mention Setext, 1991.
I've been looking for my copy of the LA Times article on this and have yet to find it. So allow me to recount from my not necessarily trusty memory.

During an investigation of the impact of term limits on the California the times talked with former "long term" members of both the Assembly and the Senate. In that discussion the people who had served for longer terms felt that you needed the time to understand what made a law "good" versus what made a law "bad." Examples of good and bad were things like it would not be found to be unconstitutional, or its interpretation would be clear to judges who were ruling on it. Things like that. Bad laws are ones that are ambiguous to the point of being unenforceable or are overturned at the first challenge. There was also some discussion of "wisdom" in terms of knowing what things would benefit most from change vs changing things that are easier but less durable.

They found that the time clock on legislators terms made them more eager for "easy wins" rather than tacking complex problems. This was especially true of legislators who were hoping to jump into national politics. So while a legislator had the freedom to introduce a bill to solve a tough problem many times over a long career, each time taking into account the feedback from others over how it was crafted, term limited legislators felt they could not "waste time" on something that they would not be able to see through in the amount of time remaining to them.

And while legislators have always had staffs that would help in the development and drafting of legislation, in terms of likely being able to get the legislation over the finish line, laws that came from special interests with the promise of providing "good press" to support it are seen as a better bet.

By the same token, I am not a California Legislator, nor have I been one (although I have considered putting my name in the running to develop some experiential learning there). As a result I cannot know for certain how much I read about the process is biased in a way that someone who was part of the process would easily spot.

Whether or not what I've read about the process is accurate, it is still an area that I am interested in and I find the "dual" between the legislature and initiative writers interesting in its own right.
There is no time limit in law.

If its a physical good, it is expected that it degrades over time, so you can't take, say, your washing machine back after that period of time and demand your money back.

Further, the law doesn't dictate that updates are required, or anything like that, so if CS3 doesn't work on Windows 10, thats not Adobe's fault. However, if you can show that it no longer works on a system it used to work on, then the product is not fit for purpose.
This is great if you have a house with lots of space.

Personally as a single young adult I like living in the city with lots of amenities nearby. I would hate being forced to WFH, the same way some hated being forced to go into the office.
"Nice job you've got there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."

By your logic that's not a threat, just a statement of fact that it would be a shame if the thing you care about were to be damaged/destroyed somehow.
If they pull out, some other company willing to abide by the rules will probably appear to fill the gap, with the same service, but in terms where workers aren’t exploited.
The answer to this likely depends on different drivers. Maybe a single blanket policy is not the answer.
I should also add, that I don't know how all that bull "you aren't buying a product, you are buying a license" stuff plays into it. It might render what I've just said as wrong the case of software.
Via industry I "run" a professor at a top university to direct their research (like partnership I think), on the advice of the board. In exchange I fund many of their students and the professor themself gets a sweet consulting gig with my company at exorbitant rates (and equity) to supplement their income. Not only that, but they almost turned us down, it sounded like they had their pick of industry projects and wanted to only do things that were highly paid in compensation and equity for their work.

That is to say, professor salary can be only part of the story.
I believe part of this is because Dolby is suing Adobe, saying they mandate certain pricing requirements in the license agreements, and so Adobe has responded by pulling old versions of their software with support for Dolby file formats.

[0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6002319/Dolbyvsad...
Well, they’ve offered that kind of deal with OnStar for about 20 years so it must be a really slow slide down that slope.
A quick search puts them at 6.9 billion rides in 2019, so profitability should come with a $2/ride increase.

I think their current rates are a lot, so their current rates plus $2 are also a lot, but I think most riders would tolerate it.
> Most of them ended up with postdocs at equally or more prestigious institutions than the one we graduated from.

Postdocs are not a tenured position. They are just another step in the temp job/contract work level of the food chain.

To put it differently, no one retires from a postdoc.

In my days in academic research, postdocs were humorously described as paid positions to send out CVs and file job applications. The faculty also gave postdocs their own office so that they wouldn't bother undergrads with their crying.
This has always been an interesting discussion morally. On one side, our free market should be able to allow any drivers to not work for any ride sharing company if they choose not to. On the other hand, the question I haven't been able to answer is if they truly have viable options or if the workers understand they are making under minimum wage. It's hard to balance between the freedom of choice and regulations to protect the people. At one point we (as in the US) decided child labor is unacceptable at the expense of household income dropping for the benefit of the future. Likewise, how much regulation are we willing to impose on the private market for the benefit of the workers and are there national growth consequences. I'm not sure how this will play out but it will be interesting to see.
It would be nice to have a citation or two from said academic literature.
Have you actually talked to taxi drivers about this? Pre-plague, I've talked with hundreds about their views on their work, and at least dozens about Uber. Were cab companies beloved? Mostly not. Did drivers see themselves as being "totally screwed"? Definitely not. And they almost universally despise Uber.

The daily vehicle rental approach in their eyes has advantages. Number one is zero capex. Number two is predictable, controllable opex. Number three is a hard cap on the number of drivers on the road, meaning they have a good idea of the supply/demand balance. Number four is competition; if they didn't like one cab company, they could switch to a variety of others. And number five is regulation: if they were having issues with a cab company, they could take it up with the taxi commission.

Contrast this with Uber/Lyft, which is a dupoly with almost no regulation, few constraints, and which has shifted core capex and opex onto drivers, as well as most of the risk. With power and incentive to push driver pay well below sustainability. And of course a history of labor exploitation and the willingness to spent approximately infinite money to lock that exploitation into law.
Economists != western economists! Western Economists did not care about the Indian telecom markets in the 90s and hardly carry any weight in Indian politics even now. India has enough economists unfortunately who can make a hash of things without help from Western economists ;)
These zero sum arguments are pointless and needlessly inflammatory.
Prop 22 is literally Uber and Lyft using tax-money to pay for driver's social security and medicare. [0]

Those companies are unprofitable by design and try to shift the losses to taxpayers.

The campaign for prop 22 has been an amazing pool of misinformation. Voting YES on prop22, means that you allow Uber and Lyft to get away with their greed. You will end up paying more through your taxes.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/AB5-gig-law-enf...
They were "free", but they've always been supplied lower than demand (that is, the number of permits grew slower than the population's need for taxis did), an arrangement that worked well for cab drivers since it allowed less competition, and a profitable secondary market for the medallions. Lyft/Uber/etc gutted that demand.

Not saying 'good' or 'bad', just, you can't blame the city for the price of the medallion; it already had a high one due to the demand outstripping the supply. Makes sense that the government would seek to profit when it supplies them, given that.
What did you switch to from Lightroom?
This is ignoring how much more expensive it will be if the drivers are employees. I don't know how much that is, but I'd imagine in addition to those $2 it would likely add another 30% or so to the total cost (someone more knowledgeable please chime in with a better estimate). Of course that's assuming you're operating at Uber's scale (there are still overhead costs), but since prices go up you aren't, so now the prices need to go up even more!

I don't know where the equilibrium point is, I just know it's higher than what Uber is charging. My extremely hand-wavy guess is rides would need to cost around 50% more.
It should be exhibited alongside the Spruce Goose, Buran, and Stratolaunch, other huge craft which flew once or twice but were never used for anything useful.
> awash in resources
That’s not the alternative scenario.

The alternative scenario is that either Uber/Lyft or another company abides by the rules, and deliver the same service with hired employees. The demand is there. Yes, it will become a bit more expensive for the consumer, but that price difference, is what it costs to give decent benefits and rights to workers.
Noooo....the photographer owns the copyright to his original photograph.
What makes you think Uber and Lyft won't find ways for flexible employment? It's one of their big draws. I'd expect more faith in market-driven innovation here on HN.

I've been an independent contractor for large parts of my professional life; I think it can be a great setup when it's truly independent. But for decades companies have been ramping up fake contracting, where it's just employment but worse.
I think a lot of Europeans don't appreciate just how abysmal the public transport options are in practically every American city.
https://www.vernitaxlaw.com/money-laundering-is-tax-evasion/

I stand corrected.
AB5 has been a total disaster.

The number of special cased carve-outs is ridiculous - it's not a normal law.

Obviously AB5 was hacked together by some special interests (unions maybe - what is history?). It's totally unworkable. The carveouts that keep coming are the sign of this - how many are there now, anyone have the list?

And yes, I'm a maxed out dem donor. If AB5 is the way workers rights are going to be advanced we are hosed. I can think of 5 much easier, fairer, high impact approaches.
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Something really tickles me about a single individual standing up to a corporation and strongly and clearly stating that the company is violating the law of their country and they won't hesitate to prosecute in a civil court for their rights. I believe that is what true justice against corporate overreach should be like. Ordinary people standing up for themselves.
No, the dumb legal protections against actually cracking it go away.

A typical crack is likely just a few bytes to change. Maybe in multiple places.
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RUM Conjecture for Caching
As I recall it, telegram was indeed banned, and was coming on and off line as it jumped servers among major cloud providers, resulting in major part of AWS and Azure IPs being banned as a collateral damage.

Then Telegram team came up with smart improvements to the protocol, like delivering individual IPv6 endpoint for each user via invisible push notifications.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17246150/telegram-russia-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-telegram-ipaddress...
Do people who like to play with the voltage and clock speed settings of their CPU/GPU/memory typically do so with one of these utilities? Or in the EFI/BIOS config pages?

I've never done this, but lately it sounds like there's sometimes quite a lot left on the table, even after part binning. Performance is so high now that I wouldn't bother doing this for an extra 5-10%, but for an extra hour of battery life, it's certainly tempting...
I can't tell what's satire any more
It's incredibly hard for me to consider this exploitation when people are freely entering into these agreements. I would not accept 70% less than minimum wage, and I'm sure these workers would all prefer to make more than 30% of minimum wage, but they have an entire labor market of other options and they have decided that this is their best option. The onus should be on you to explain why you think it's better that these jobs not be available to them at all.

If people deserve some minimum standard of living, why should only employed people deserve that minimum standard? I don't see why gig economy employers are the ones getting the blame here. Surely our legislature is to blame for allowing people to have such a low standard of living that they feel forced to accept such terrible jobs.
I think in the latest iteration of Media Encoder it can no longer accept MKV containers.... I'm wondering if it was also tied to some license issue.
The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
NeurIPS 2020 and Beyond: An Interview with Terrence Sejnowski and Michael Mozer
Except what all the employment hawks ignore is that 70% of ride-share drivers don’t want to be employees. Number one concern is pay. Number two is autonomy. Benefits aren’t even a consideration.

This whole thing is about lawyers and the taxi industry. It’s bullshit.

Uber is far from perfect, but let’s make sure we raise every point when arguing about it.
Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier
Not an alarm clock specifically, but we're building a sleep headband that monitors your sleep, and adjust your sleep state so you wake up refreshed.

We'll be letting you set wake-up time via the app. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to directly read the built in clock's alarm times (apparently).

If this is of interest to you, you can find out more at https://soundmind.co and sign-up to get on the waitlist.
Hamburger Menu -> Customize -> Density -> Compact
Important caveat: the number of alcohol-involved deaths & injuries hasn’t really changed, so it could just be a change in the way those crimes are policed.
I believe for the CS2 versions they released the mac serials were also different from the windows versions, and each product had its own serial.
Thank You for pointing this out. I was about to write a comment believing they reacted in Good Faith. Acting in line with their Time to Play Fair ( Against Apple App Store ) Campaign.

So it looks like actually has nothing to do with Good Faith. And people often tell me I am cynical, turns out I am still too naive.
Innovating identity and access management in financial services
> People on this site - technical people with the ability to make a difference - seem to be getting to the point where they care.

I agree, hopefully we can inform and influence our less aware friends and peers elsewhere.

One of my biggest concerns is that this unreasonable control of our hardware by the manufacturer is extending to vehicles - electric cars and motorcycles- even bicycles seem to want to track our movements and phone home.
Smart people don't take out loans to finance a lifestyle that's not compatible with their income.
I don't think that's an issue of freedom: drivers can drive for the company they like, just not as a wage slave.
There's app ecosystem. No one will be using your OS, no matter how great it is, if they can't run their favorite software on it.
I will steal that unicode+book of genesis joke!

A question about XML in rust: Does anybody know of any XML library in any language that can do tree-folds instead of stateful callbacks? I used SSAX in scheme and I now becomes sad every time I have to do any complex things using regular SAX parsers with stateful callbacks.