skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "furniture company" analogy is specious.

Uber doesn't claim to be a transportation company.

It claims to be a marketplace, putting transportation consumers in touch with providers. Except it "owns" the customer relationship and dictates many aspects of the provider activity and equipment.
There is Syncthing of course [0], which is quite easy to set up. Also if you need your storage to be always online, there's rclone [1].

Some privacy focused mail providers (like mailbox.org) have cloud capabilities too.

[0] https://syncthing.net/

[1] https://rclone.org/
>but pyramid schemes are illegal, and drivers who peddle scummy garbage to passengers are liable to get bad reviews, so there is no reason to expect that a lack of this would have to be because Uber prohibits it.

Multi-level marketing is still common, and often the payoff might be worth your rating getting tanked.

If nothing else, it seems like stories of this happening would be common. Even just "if you listen to my fifteen minute thing on timeshares, I'll pay for your ride."
Canada’s new immigration scheme for Hong Kong may lead to exodus of young
I was hoping to nerd snipe someone into giving me a better recommendation! Thank you :D
This was a bug exacerbated by a server-side misconfiguration.

GateKeeper notarization checks already "fail open" by allowing the launch if something goes wrong. Unfortunately a bug in certificate revocation checks caused excessive delays when the server fails to respond so unlike notarization checks this didn't "fail open" as intended.
Does DivestOS come with bootloader relocked? If it is the case what devices are supported?
I'm glad windows server lost to linux so we'll at least be able to run our own servers for the foreseeable future. But I see platform layers being the threat there (AWS, Azure, GCP).

> literal cancers that are eating the software industry

figurative cancers
In the age of deeply unprofitable (as in, they lose more money than they grossed in revenue) tech companies going public, DoorDash actually seems pretty okay.

In the 9 months ended 2020-09-30, DoorDash had a net loss of $149 million on $1,916 million in revenue (see page 93). Which implies if they can raise their revenue by ~7.78% while keeping costs steady, they can break even. Given their rate of revenue/cost increases (in the same timeframe as above compared to the 9 months ended 2019-09-30, revenue grew 326% while costs grew 192%), they could very plausibly do so within the next year.
I did not mean to describe the creation of the book – I only wanted to describe the current role of the book and an explanation for its enduring popularity in some circles. Come to think of it, this is possibly an undiscovered genre; Anathem might belong there, too, as might Sucker Bait and A Canticle for Leibowitz.
How does that help? Stay at home for as many events as you want, going to one 'super-spreading wedding' is still no bueno.
I should hope so, during a pandemic.
Sadly it looks the US has really moved rapidly to copy the China style internet monitoring and control. Astroturfing everywhere has really ramped up. So much noise...
> Why doesn’t the government actually just enforce rules?

Because there is no government to enforce the rules. Only a loose aggregation of individuals, each with their own personal interests. Those interests often include things like, "I don't want to do anything that might anger people and lose me the next election," or, "If I cite someone for this, I am going to have even more paperwork to do when I get back to the station."

This way of thinking about how civic institutions behave becomes particularly important in a country like the USA whose cultural values tend to place individual freedom above many other things, including civic duty.
> We need to introduce decay into software systems, or we end up with zombies that are too useful to let die.

We already have this. Just today I read on another post on here how someone had to stop using their 32-bit audio plugins because their OS stopped supporting 32-bit. That software wasn't "fit enough" to survive in the current environment, so it was selected against. It died. Its entire species (its copies) died out.

The really interesting discussion, I think, is "what is software"? Where does its boundary end? The 32-bit app died because the team that built it couldn't/didn't update it to 64-bit. It didn't die because it stopped working for the environment it was built for. It died because of money and people, not bits and transistors. Why was that? What happened to the team? What's the lesson? Should the plug-in have been made in the first place? Does it matter? If the "death" is due to people and money more than bits, where's the boundary the remarks "software". What should we let die (copies of bits, or teams?) and how does that look?

For me, all this leads into economics, wealth distribution, resource sharing, leadership. The "real" software?
> there is no association between the person voting and the ID, then the voter can retain that number

This seems somewhat contradictory. The voter retaining possession of the ID creates a link between the ballot and the voter, doesn't it?

Then again, it does open the door to plausible deniability, though correctly pulling that off could introduce new complications and/or avenues of attack.

> and check that number online to verify their vote was tallied as expected.

"as expected" is the key phrase here. If it includes seeing what candidate(s) the voter voted for (i.e., trying to verify that the ballot was read correctly), then that seems like it would break the secret ballot. If it means just checking that the ballot was included in the count without revealing precisely what candidate(s)/issue(s) the vote was for, then that might work.
This is both-sidesism, which is an intellectually lazy excuse to avoid taking action while appearing morally above the fray.

Trump literally uses cult-like techniques to control his followers, traffics in conspiracy theories, attacks as "fake" any news media which doesn't praise him effusively, and is actively undermining democracy itself by claiming that any votes against him are illegitimate. There is no vaguely liberal or left politician in US history who has done what Trump has.
That does not contradict my point.
I'm friends with several people that participated in CHAZ and your assessment of it is incorrect. It was doomed from the start but calling the people occupying it a violent mob is not correct. I personally believe it was a mistake because the people occupying it did not have or want a monopoly on the use of force in their area, meaning that it became a site of unrelated mob and gang violence because the police were not present. That's different from saying it was a violent mob who occupied it with the intent to harm others.
True, perhaps 10% might fail. But I think you're underestimating how many targets there are across the US. Both military bases as well as industrial targets. First strike targets would hit Montana and Kansas as both have Minutemen ICBM silos. Omaha would be wiped out since Offut AFB is next door. Louisiana has shipbuilding that would get nuked, as does Wisconsin. If you learn about SIOP, and accept that the Soviets had similar plans, you'll understand. The USSR didn't intend a nuclear war to "liberate" the USA. It planned to destroy the country, not just its military capabilities.
This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who uses both apple's hardware and hardware you get from everywhere else.

I've been using multiple macs for 6 years, 0 problems.

I've been using PCs bought from computer stores for 20 years, each one has had multiple hardware problems, each one.

I have no interest in taking hardware apart, blowing air through it, re-applying thermal paste, diagnosing which component is overheating, figuring out why it's so fucking loud, figuring out which part died that's causing my computer to no longer turn on and so on.

All that bullshit, on top of Windows and its awful operating system.

The day Apple finally gets their shit together and gets gamers on their platform, windows PCs are going to perish.
> Unfortunately, the message will be lost by those who are most in need of hearing it.
Normally we'd fly out of town for Thanksgiving/Christmas to our respective families, but my wife and I are staying put this year. My parents are coming to us for Thanksgiving, but we are making them get tested the weekend prior, quarantine at home for a few more days, then they are driving to us only stopping for gas (so, wipe down the pump with a Clorox wipe and then use hand sanitizer after touching it).

That process alleviates enough of the fear for us.

Edit: Why the downvote? This answers OP's question, and if I'm being downvoted due to concerns around spreading a virus then by all means, please feel free to start a discussion around why this option might be unsafe. Nobody in my family has traveled yet this holiday season and I'm not trying to be cavalier about this, so any additional input is welcome.
A couple of interesting things about the journey from the press release to the story: the press release says "associated with", but the summary says "impacts on", and the headline says "critical for preventing"! Also, they pick "screen time and sleep" from among five factors, the others were less tobacco smoking, more physical exercise and more (yes) alcohol.

I don't have a problem with causal claims from these kinds of methods in principle, if the regression is well done with good controls. But I'm not at all convinced that they can isolate self-reported sedentary screen time reliably from self-reported physical activity.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s129...
Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in 2021
I believe iTerm uses GitLab for issues and GitHub for source control. GitHub issues didn't have a core feature they needed issues, but it was already canonical for code.
Joke: Thanksgiving this year will be very special, because just like the first Thanksgiving, we'll be spreading disease.
Well, you said we could throw stones, so... this is a very unrealistic order. The parent comment is talking about a specific (long term) promotion that makes the decision very reasonable, but a realistic fee might be:

- $15+2 for say, pad thai + taxes
- $4 for delivery
- $3 for tip

I'm not saying that paying 40% extra for food is a reasonable decision for most people, but (a) I can afford to pay $7 to avoid traveling across town for a specific meal I want, and (b) these numbers get even better with a larger order. If you're the consumer that wants a single $2 bean burrito, the market answer is clearly that you should put a dozen in your freezer and microwave them yourself.

I also think the Doordash business model is not super valuable, but it clearly has some value. Restaurants make an increasing portion of their revenue from delivery (especially during COVID), and having to staff, manage, and route a delivery person themselves is not their core competency. Does signing up with Doordash marginally increase revenue? Yes.
Uber and friends spend over $200 million to pass this law. Yes, this is a purchase, or more like a theft. Yes, I would even go so far as to say every prop sponsored by a corporation is a purchase. Do you have the ability to spend $200m on a law to help your company? Would it be ok if you did?
Sure, M1 Apples are bleeding edge for at least six months, maybe a year or more.
Weather is unstable because you need to know many factors (temperature, humidity, cloud cover, etc) over every single piece of land and water (over many different terrains). And those are unstable minute by minute. To report the weather, you need a moving weather map.

By contrast climate is "simple" in that it can have fewer variables. The most basic climate model is literally zero-dimensional: it treats the earth as a homogeneous gas mixture and that's it. It can be reported in a single variable, the temperature.

The zero-dimensional model won't tell you all of the things that happen: some places get more rain, some less, some even get cooler. There are more complicated models that do that, and to make specific policy recommendations you need those. But there is a crucial discussion that comes from that single number: yes, the world is getting warmer, because of humans turning carbon in the ground into CO2 in the atmosphere, and it's bad enough that action needs to be taken.

The model is still unstable, but much more tightly constrained, to within a fraction of a degree C per year. That's because the atmosphere is so large, and the sheer mass of it means it has to change slowly, but predictably. Over very long scales (tens of thousands of years) additional factors create more instability, but they're not pressing problems the way highly predictable century-scale changes are.
Case count != actual risk of death or permanent injury. You have to be in a high risk group.

I wish we'd evaluate actual risk rather than perceived.
I was hoping to see my immediate family (total gathering size = 7 people) for one or both of the holidays, but the infection rate skyrocketing in the past few weeks has pretty much nixed those plans.

The big extended family gathering (~40-50 people) at Christmas has already been cancelled.
I broadly agree with you. That being said, I don't think it's fair at this point to equate what's going on on the left to what's going on on the right. They are leagues apart.

That's not to say that the same thing couldn't happen on the left or that the people on the left in some way are superior. Quite the opposite. I think the people on the left are just as susceptible to the type of effects happening on the right.

I often wonder what would have happened if Trump had run as a democrat in 2016 instead talking about being pro-choice and how we need to get medicare for all etc. If he had run against someone like Ted Cruz, I would not be surprised if a lot of the left (myself included) had voted for Trump and excused all his talk as "locker room talk" or "speaking his mind" just like the right ultimately did. It may be nothing more than an accident that the right was the side that "fell victim" to his antics.

This brings me to a serious worry of mine. A lot of people are talking about how Trump is too incompetent to successfully install himself as a dictator, but that the next person may be much more competent. These "warnings" are directed toward the right. However, there's nothing that prevents the next dictator wanna-be from being on the left, and the left needs to be equally vigilant.
Would transmission have been the same if the wedding happened in a 100% outdoor setting?

(the article explicitly mentions this was at least in part in an indoor setting)

We have enough evidence to teach people that the very least they can do is paying attention to air flow. Somehow we aren't.
and other incentives too - enforcement is going to be hard on the scale of "everyone on the planet", but I wonder why people who got the cough went back to work. Would it have hurt their employment prospects to take the time off? Did they have responsibilities that were not able to be covered by coworkers? Understanding why people don't follow the rules by themselves is important - tweaking the incentives in the system could help to lower the R rate, where I think having the police monitor the social lives of everyone on the planet is not a viable solution.
It's really quite strange that issues aren't able to be just cloned/PR-ed like the rest of a git project. But I guess it protects git hosts to keep that [ironic] difficulty in propagation in.
The article indicates the spread reached a long-term care facility, and that almost all the deaths were there.
When the left complained that Trump became president while several million more people wanted his opponent to win, characterizing that as 'stealing the election' does not seem particularly unfair.

And given the oddly pervasive connections between Trump's family and Russia, I can't really fault people for thinking there might very well be a connection. An awful lot of smoke, there is.
In most countries around the world, Sanders' policies are mainstream.
Buddy I know went with Dell + Ubuntu. I watched him struggle with driver issues that give me hesitation to the idea of _not_ buying an all in one packaged system.
That is a sentiment that I partially agree with. I frequently argue that iOS (for example) represents more than a decade of investment, so we can’t expect an alternative to pop up overnight.

However using a Linux desktop simply is not a step in any particular direction. It is especially meaningless for non-developers to do if one of the other platforms just works for them.

Steps in the right direction involve developing software to solve the problems that the corporate operating systems have in fact solved.
Seconding many here, I used these 10+ years ago in my Calc, Diff Eq, and Linear Algebra classes. Far superior to many of the texts I had to work with. So glad people are still getting value out of it. I remember checking a couple years ago expecting it to be taken down for some reason and happy to be wrong.
Divorcing health insurance from employment entirely would help a great deal.
I tried to list a few examples that came to my mind in a sibling comment. But the issue is that it's not just about specific examples but about the overall drift in perspective, production of fear and slooow but steady changes. From my understanding that's exactly one of the points the OP article touched uppon:
If you ask for specific examples of bad changes I can name a few and you can justfy each of them in one way or another. But the sum of it all points to a really bad outcome from which we all be looking back in a few years and will wonder how we got there.

Actually the downvotes my original comment receives demonstrate the exact behavior the OP article describes.
There's nothing in that article suggesting a false flag. At most Hina Shamsi suggests that leftist actions are being judged more harshly.
It is disheartening that a person such as yourself (looked at your bio) would draw these false equivalences between radicalism on the right and left. Four years ago these concepts would not have even remotely been part of your vocabulary, but now you sort of lay down and accept it as "we're screwed two ways over?" This is exactly the kind of psychological creep eluded to in the article.
But the limiting or manipulating of your set of choices does limit your freedom. At least according to Leibniz.

> Ever watch an ad that manipulated you?

I think the question comes down to this, as opposed to what you wrote. The problem is not when you know you are being manipulated, but when you don't. It would be naive to think you're above this, considering that ads do work, considering that they've been a worthwhile tool for companies for hundreds of years and have been the basis for trillion dollar companies that exist today. It certainty warrants questioning if you have gained or loss freedom with this system in place. This clearly limits your choice or maybe more accurately heavily influences the weights on the decision set. I believe Leibniz would consider this a reduction of freedom (as do I).
Why phones are making us miserable: happiness isn't the same thing as pleasure
I think this is a pretty personal question regarding your finances and risk tolerance. There's always the risk that a contract is short lived, but that also exists within "secure" jobs. Obviously, there's a range of difference between the two.

That's often why contract work can pay better when it comes to hourly wages: there's more risk. If it were me, I'd try to have about 50% more in contract work wages lined up than for at least 6-months before leaving a "secure" job.
So... my body, _not_ my choice?
Isn't the long-term care facility link a little implausible? 4 days seems like a bit short for the child to be infected, incubate to the point of being contagious, pass it to the parent, then incubate again to the parent being symptomatic.

Regardless, the wedding and reception behavior was entirely irresponsible. But the link between it and the long-term care cases seems tenuous, at best.
"Two-thirds of the facility’s residents were at least 75 years old, and 88% of them had at least one preexisting medical condition that could have made them more vulnerable to the virus.

Six of the residents ultimately died of COVID-19. All of them were at least 60 years old and had at least one preexisting medical condition."

6/7 deaths were from elderly people with pre-existing conditions in a long-term care facility.
we just cancelled a trip to Chicago to see my BIL for Thanksgiving. My mom and aunt both have covid ( mild case ) so West Texas is a no go as well. My sister was exposed but her and her husband tested negative. However, I think it will just be me, wife, and kids for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Pretty disappointing, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday for seeing family.
yes, on a certain level you're right. it's a tough problem to fix. similar to the war refugee situation. if people feel it's very easy to flee a bad situation, then there's less of an incentive to keep your own house in order. but if people have nowhere to go, they'll invest and fight to keep their homes good places to live. see also, white flight.
The more that people "tip in the meantime" the more we are signaling support for the company's model. Customers are not in the role of ensuring employees are paid, and if we as society accept Doordash et al's attempts to push that role onto us, the more we are supporting the abusive employment in the first place.

The correct place for this implementation is in legislation or in free markets.

If we as society deem it necessary, legislation.

If we as society stopped being tricked into tipping as you are suggesting, and the effective wage was low to the point of triggering necessary business changes, the free markets will do their work.

Tipping is an entirely broken concept for the deliver model and arguing for customers to tip more or via cash is further incentivizing the model.
But if you had to spend all of your social credits in order to go to the wedding now you will be unable to go anywhere else to further spread it.
To expand on king_magic’s point, this isn’t a case of a small service having a sudden spike in traffic, it’s a core service used by all devices manufactured by one the worlds largest tech companies. If they don’t test for massive scale it would shocking.

It’s absolutely a QA issue.
Unfortunately this isn't practical. The drivers can see the tip before they accept the order. So if they see no tip, they will reject it. Eventually you'll probably find a driver that will bring you your food, but it will take a lot longer, and that driver is going to have to drive a lot farther to bring your order (depending on how many drivers rejected you ahead of them).
You're missing substantial historical perspective here. In both 2000 and 2004 - the last two Republican presidential victories that are old enough to talk about without inflaming modern political tensions - Congressional representatives on the left attempted to block the counting of electoral college votes from a crucial swing state. I don't mean to defend these kinds of challenges, I think they're dumb, but they're sadly quite common.