skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because taxi's don't have a bloated 'backend' corporate office where thousands of engineers are making $300-500k a a year, and a bevy of extremely elaborate offices in the most expensive parts of the world, London, SF, NY etc. They have the dispatch company which runs on a shoestring budget and the cabbies who are either owner operators or work for a cab company, they also don't have the tech that powers Uber/Lyft which allows anyone to hail a ride from their smartphone. [tradeoffs]
Ride sharing as a whole isn't going away. It's better than calling a cab or whatever used to be. But I could see Uber and Lyft each ending up as $5-10 B software layers on top of driving, not $50-100 B ones.
>I can get a cab anywhere within minutes.

This isn't the case anymore. There is a shortage of drivers and no one wants to work for the prices offered by uber and lyft anymore. I had a friend try and visit me who lived like 5 miles away. 5 million people living in my city so its no slouch in terms of ridership and size of the uber and lyft networks. Three drivers cancelled rides on him before they picked him up, it took him like 45 minutes before a driver finally appeared. You pretty much have to reserve a ride in advance if you have something important, there is no telling how long it will take before drivers pick up your ride or finally show up.
Except that the format of the npm cache is version-specific. You would probably be better off using https://github.com/heikkipora/registry-sync instead.
why would he renew the lease for someone that isn't paying?
It seems like the common element here is that they’re using company resources to send out non-company surveys.

Can be easily solved by just hosting a surveymonkey or Google form and using that to collect info.

I went through union training and we had lots of material on how we can’t use company supplies for union tasks. And the example is we can’t use company paper to print brochures and stuff. So this seems the equivalent of using company Box/whatever to host the material.
Yes, it's tough (for the first world.) I've done walking meetings and during COVID some conference calls on the go, but if I ate a bunch of pasta for lunch and didn't take my insulin first, and have typing to do...
FB to me today is mostly a modern phonebook rather than real content platform.

TikTok's power lies in how much they encourage creators to develop new and fun contents. Every other social media I tried feels way too static and full of propaganda these days, built only for the famous and powerful. Instagram (not including reels) is nice but the picture format is restrictive and the interface feels less immersive. TikTok has a better interface imo since their videos occupy the entire screen.

I think the main challenge for TikTok would be to commercialize without degrading their content, but I doubt other companies could do it better at this point with the same medium. A TikTok challenger would probably need to have a substantial edge on technologies such as VR/AR to beat them.
I thought one of the main ideals of free software is the user being in charge.
If I'm not mistaken that's impossible as the size of the blimp increases (similar idea -- X^2 max power, X^3 mass, consequently acceleration and maneuverability are poor).

The point was more that heavy winds aren't an issue for a sufficiently large blimp, even without maneuverability, because the impact of the storm on a blimp is negligible.
What shows can I watch on TikTok?
Now the tires, next time will be the car batteries
Absolutely! A major structural problem.
> I find a lot of talk about it tends to boil down to "kids these days" dismissiveness

These platforms are the products of megacorps, using incredibly sophisticated technology. Just contrast even a single CPU, versus, say, kids using their language faculties and markers to be funny or naughty, or using a bunch of stuff they found outside to invent a game. And then think of how many CPU and other things are involved in the pipeline. Kids being kids is as far from it as it could be.

During the peak of the outrage about and the being in denial about Elsagate, there were plenty of people actually saying "these videos probably are this way because AI generated them based on the things toddlers like". People getting stabbed, raped, kids in trunks and crying over being separated from their family, endless body horror -- all brushed aside with "meh, they like that".

Pointing to good content that one could pay attention to instead is a bit like saying "ignore the spam email from the Nigerian prince, you obviously aren't in the target demographic for it [let the people who are fend for themselves]". That's what people did with content literally aimed at children who couldn't even speak, why wouldn't they do it for teenagers, and of course for adults. This doesn't affect me, so it doesn't get shown to me, so it's fine.

And while online mobs are certainly not a TikTok specialty, just to counter the general fluffy happy picture that so many comments here are painting based on things being fine for themselves:

https://www.fluentlyforward.com/home4/my-experience-being-ca...

> But let me tell you, reading a hate comment about yourself that’s relatively true (I mean hey, I do have thin lips) said by 1 person stings at a level 1 on the pain chart. But reading hate comments about yourself that aren’t true, and are said by tens of thousands of people is….well, it’s a physical feeling. That’s the only way I can describe it.

And then there is this: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

They weakly claim to no longer use these rules, without saying what rules they use instead. I would bet you that certain political topics are hard filtered though, and some things being censored while fluff being tailored to be addictive is a net negative effect in my books. It's not exclusive to TikTok, but that doesn't absolve it, just like TikTok doesn't absolve others.
If our starting belief is “the government will secretly force Apple to do things no matter what the law says,” then why do we care what Apple says or announces, at all?

Why get mad at Apple if we have already conceded that they are powerless before the government in general?
At least make it stop once it succeeds...
>There were some reports that Apple has been scanning iCloud Photos server-side already; apparently that hasn't been the case ever.

This article from Forbes notes otherwise, citing a warrant filed in Seattle for a case.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/02/11/how-a...

I get the sense the interview is saying that they haven't scanned photos - like looking at actual contents - but they've always checked hashes. It is super confusing though, and I'd like to see Apple clarify this further.
Work for gov particularly police or some kind of job where you have to deal w social stuff. City gov is the best for this as you get a lot of flexibility
It's also documented that Cambridge Analytica used data made available to it by Facebook to target millions with political propaganda. It wasn't just the US election, they had plenty of practice validating the strategy in elections in smaller countries.

Where's the evidence that TT has been successfully used for nefarious purposes on a similar scale?
I've made no prediction as to if it will happens (contrary to the parent comment). I think I got downvoted because people interpreted this as a support of theses changes (it's not).
Beware TikTok is also available for download as APK on Android TV, at the end now TV are smarts but the same outcome follows get stuck watching TV.
Like you, never use it. I do try to get a tan starting in the spring. A tan is the best sunscreen. Plus, blocking UV-B means blocking vitamin D3 production in the skin.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vitamin%20D-HealthProfessi...

I'm lucky in that my skin type is tannable, I know for some people that's not an option.

It is over-hyped and overused. I see people out for a half-hour run at 7 AM (UV index=0), wearing sunscreen.
RFC 9078: Reaction: Indicating Summary Reaction to a Message
SwiftCurrent vs. the Coordinator Pattern
A lot of it is in the weakness of the gig model. If prices rise, then demand falls. But the lower demand is, the less likely people are to try and drive, so the more expensive it becomes to do rides. A significant chunk of their "overhead" isn't engineers, but marketing to get new drivers into their system. It's not stable. Turnover is very high. Because they don't have a stable workforce, their problems compound more quickly than in other business models. Surge pricing is what happens when there's not enough drivers. If you raise the base price, and now have lower demand and fewer drivers, you'll likely need to surge on top of that increased base.

You can imagine a taxi company with 20 cabs on the road has a fairly predictable supply. A gig model is always playing the odds. When there's too few drivers, Uber both misses customers and has to charge the customers extra to pay the drivers more. When there's too many drivers, Uber can probably charge less and meet all demand, but the drivers have a worse experience. This is not so bad when the overall level of activity is high, but is not good when the overall level of activity is low.

That is, it's much worse to have 5 drivers and 10 riders than it is to have 55 drivers and 60 riders.

tl;dr if you're charging high prices, you have a small, upper class target market. The gig model is suited to a mass market model.
I've said it before and I'd say it again with or without a throwaway: being certified “Great Place to Work” doesn't mean we're a good work environment, merely that we allocated >1 FTE to winning the contest.
Oh. I feel dumb now. Of course that's the reason, or at least a very major part of the reason.
Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
You are correct; I was misinformed.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/05/report-apple-photos-casm-cont...

Apple has the keys; the data is encrypted at rest and in transit, but they can be compelled to use them.
I understand. I just don't like it.
been there done that. deleted tiktok from my phone and reinstalled multiple times too
Exotic four-quark particle spotted at Large Hadron Collider
You already have taxi companies with drivers. Yellowcab actually makes their own app.
It depends how the labor supply and demand curves are moving. The case for extra compensation is that you will stop working there if you do not get extra compensation.
So, there are some concept images, but no real plan of the territory yet, right? Or did I miss it?
> Think of what would happen if you tried to make your average Silicon Valley dev team design, implement, and test a surveillance system they didn't want to build and that was immoral.

It wouldn't be that. It would be defense contractors sitting at Lockheed or a few blocks from DARPA whose daily bread is making a Tech Sandwich whenever the Broad Agency Announcement for one shows up on sam.gov, or on the DARPA page, or the variety of procurement sites that the government doesn't expose to the internet. If they want it, they can get it -- no persuasion of liberal tech-bros needed.
That memo was not an Apple memo, it was written by the NCMEC.
I would migrate an office of dozens computers to this if only it used classic packages and dndn't depend on Flatpaks.

I already tried to migrate to Pop_OS! but it failed to install.

So I had to keep with Ubuntu.
What do you do when what you want/need is not representable in the ORM?

For example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65596920/use-django-subq...

Composite types & triggers, for some other examples, are only (at least they are!) available via third-party plugin/'installed app's too. You cannot defer a Django unique 'constraint', because it happens to implement it as a unique index instead.

That's just the few that come to mind.
How the Daily Wire Uses Facebook’s Targeted Advertising to Build Its Brand
Is Tempe/Phoenix any good for getting around without a car? All I know about is the sprawl and hostile road design.
On the long run, they helped put laws in place that eroded even more labor power, they setback public transit, they increased traffic in a lot of places, because why ride with friends when you can take an Uber? They added a small convenience to a bunch of peoples lives, but they certainly didn't make society better.
Because these sorts of developments are typically trying to fill the trailer park or retirement community niches without incurring the negative baggage that comes with either.
The price raise would just be part of the evidence that the earlier low prices were anticompetitive dumping to monopolize and maintain a monopoly on the market, the remedy for illegally protecting the monopoly would probably not be prohibition on raising rates, though. Breakup or other remedies would be possible.
You're still not getting my point.

That "small number of pockets" is probably still mostly German. It could have been Chinese or Romanian or Botswanan and no German would have seen an eurocent. Plus, again, taxes, local development in adjacent industries, local talent staying local, a million other benefits.

Their gain is not necessarily your loss, especially since their product is a high tech product that doesn't seem to be based on technology stolen from anyone else, they created it.

It's still a victory for Germany and Germans, even if it wasn't achieved by the Grand-German-Workers-Collective-Where-All-1-Million-Employees-Are-Also-Shareholders (German probably has 1 big compound word for this :-D ).
Sure, the realization might taken a decade but the change took two decades at least. So it seems a little late.
I don't see what's the complex externality here- they can't raise prices significantly because they're legally prevented from doing so. 'The people with the guns & the legal monopoly on force forbid it' is pretty simple.

To my understanding the only people making non-poverty wages in the taxi business are owners who purchased 'medallions' decades ago- aka another governmental licensing restriction. I believe they frequently lease out the cars to drivers who make minimum wage or less. I'm not sure an individual taxi is necessarily profitable on a per-car basis
I think the claim is that it victimizes them by suppressing demand for public transit and other services (bike lanes, etc) that might form to fill in the needs.

(i don't necessarily agree, but i understand the argument)
You are addicted (most probably). Not exactly "a huge fan" (most probably). It shouldn't sound like blaming or something. It's just that TikTok has proven having a more addictive algo than FB.
RFC 9075: Report from the IAB Covid-19 Network Impacts Workshop 2020
I'm fluent in SQL, and even with ActiveRecord it's not always possible to escape having to write it directly, but I still don't like it.

Writing raw SQL comes with all kinds of risks you can abstract away through nice ORM APIs, and with a good ORM API I find that it's much easier to clearly communicate intent in the code.

YMMV.
> It’s why The Martian is one of my favorite movies (and book, of course)

It's funny because even though the book was so loved because it was so rational, and human's actually acted how humans would act in that situation, Hollywood STILL couldn't resist making tweaking the end slightly to make it over the top and impractical. Thus we ended up with Mark Watney flying around like Iron man in space with a hole is his space suit.

Still a great movie though. But a better book.
RFC 9076: DNS Privacy Considerations
It fixes the problem with the Constitution. The rest is "merely" a matter of the normal government functions of deciding who to take money from and what to spend it on, which will get sorted out in the normal political way.
Documentary showing the Kuwait tire facility. Close up view of the yard including the boss wearing a business suit and tie in the middle of the desert.
https://youtu.be/y0ah6QZpI3M?t=44
> but I don't know what I'd do

How about "nothing."
> I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media.

I'd compare it more to something like coffee, somehow every time I leave TikTok I'm happier than I was before. This did not happen with Facebook, Instagram, etc.
good information!
> Almost all decent filter setups will hit the same particulate equilibrium asymptote with the only real difference being the duration it takes to get there

I'm not doubting this, but do you have any evidence? According to the specs, by definition a MERV 14 should leave at most 25% of all particles size 0.3 microns or larger in one pass, while a HEPA filter can leave at most 0.03%. It's plausible but not totally obvious to me to me that this means that a MERV 14 will leave at most a fraction 0.25^k after k passes (though it's plausible). If so, that would suggest you need around 6 passes through a MERV filter to get equivalent filtration to 1 pass through a HEPA filter. (Airflow might be 6 times as high.)
> I'm baffled by the glowing endorsements of TikTok on Hacker News of all places.

Could it be addicts trying to justify their addiction to the world (and themselves)? It sounds like TikTok is even more successful at being addictive than previous social media drugs, maybe it's strong enough to hook people who weren't hooked by its predecessors.
I'd just like to clarify - a charge cycle is when 100% of charge has been depleted and recharged, be that in ten cycles of 10%, four cycles of 25%, one cycle of 100%, or anywhere in-between. So charging every night won't kill your battery in three years unless you're fully depleting the battery every single day.

But yeah, agreed that we really need to figure out sustainable battery tech, because otherwise EVs are just punting the pollution problem down the road to our kids.
It is only able to translate small instructions into code. I think it will take a while to get to a situation where you can just give it a list of requirements and it spits a working program.

Hell it messed up when they gave it the instruction "make every fifth line bold" in their Word api part of the demo, where it made the first line of every paragraph (which is only 4 lines long in total) bold instead of every fifth line.
Indeed.

The uncertainty inherent in the universe we understand today and in all human endeavors is difficult to contend with in code.

In the main, contracts serve to reduce uncertainty and to attempt to manage uncertainty that can't or shouldn't be reduced. Of necessity, contract law has developed a myriad of principles and rules in service of this aim. However, these principles and rules are themselves predominantly characterized by uncertainty. See, for example, the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.[0]

Humility — and a corollary respect for our ancestors — is a defining characteristic of my own study of the law.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith_(law)
Linus Tech Tips Review Framework Laptop
It's not about us being able to interpret answer or justification, but the reasoner's ability to justify. If a superhuman AI can justify its answers in terms of first order logic, for example, it could be defined as understanding the answers with respect to FOL. Whether we as humans are able to check whether this specific bot in fact meets that definition is a separate empirical question.

If that quant algo you mentioned just says "it'll go up tomorrow" that's different than "it'll go up tomorrow" with an attached "it's positively correlated with Y, which is up today" which is different from a full causal DAG model of the world attached, which is again different from those same things expressible in english. But again, those are definitions, which are separate from our ability to check whether they're met.

Luckily, we're not in the realm of bots spitting out unfeasible to check proofs, except for a few niche areas like theorem proving (e.g. four color theorem). For language models like in the article, the best I'm aware of is finding relevant passages to an answer and classifying entailments.

> A machine can't justify something you physically don't have enough neurons to comprehend.

We can't always verify its justification, but it either can or can't justify an answer with respect to a given justification system.
He wasn't "raided", he was arrested. A company believed he committed an offence, police arrest you to investigate to ensure they can secure the digital evidence. That's how the UK legal system works.
Yes, profitable, but Uber's valuation would tank if they were just scraping by on this kind of revenue with no hopes of automated driving or other things in the future to increase margins.
No, there are two types of rule in Cookie AutoDelete (CAD) that you have to read through their documentation to understand their function: Greylist and Whitelist. You have assign these domains to Greylist (whose filter setting has to be pre-configured first, namely you decide what to be kept/removed in greylist rule).

I use in combination with Firefox containers feature Enable Automatic Cleaning of CAD, which deletes all cookies (as well domain related contents) except those in whitelist. That has saved me a lot of time in manual greylisting.
China stopped accepting most recycling waste in 2019 before COVID hit.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/750864036/u-s-recycling-indus...
Most times I read reddit it is either in context of diving or a video game. Neither make me want to hate the world.

In particular, the rim world subreddit is great. That kind of game makes for a lot of crazy situations, and much of it is captured there.

When games has game breaking bugs, reddit is often a common search results with people discussing it and providing solutions. In many way it serve the same purpose for gaming as stackoverflow does for programming.

Is this just because the way I am reading reddit, or the subject matter?
Well everything in this HN thread about TikTok is music to the ears of the investors who are almost certainly looking for a massive exit when ByteDance eventually IPOs.

As for TikTok itself, all I see is another social network that is no different to Facebook or YouTube that tracks every single action, video and comment you make and watch which that feeds to the 'algorithm' to make you more even more addicted as possible. On top of that, Bytedance gets to control what is seen or unseen on the platform depending on what their guidelines are which can benefit some users over others. I do not know what is so positive about that.

So given that TikTok has screwed up on their users in the past, the question is how long until they do it again?, but on the seriousness of a massive scandal; just like how other social networks have done already.
Reddit is still good, you're likely subscribing to popular subreddits. Don't subscribe to anything that appears in r/popular or r/all. Try subreddits that intentionally ban politics or have <100k subscribers, it's a totally different website, full of wholesome niche communities.

Part of what keeps Reddit free of such nastiness (in my experience at least) is the downvote button. Sure, it creates an echo chamber that ruins the popular subreddits, but on the smaller subreddits, it means that anything toxic, inflammatory or misleading is nuked into invisibility. After getting used to this, I find it really hard to participate in places like youtube, Discord or old-style forums where conversations can be derailed or turned toxic by only a few bad actors.
> This depends heavily on the restaurant.

And on the type of pizza. Cheese pizza is easy enough. :)

Regardless, as an international student with an accent, I’m very sure I’ll never order a pizza over the phone.
The main antitrust complaint against social media giants is that competitors are either acquired or bullied out of the market.

The only reason this hasn't happened with TikTok is it's based in China.
Not bread but... instant coffee, refined sugar.
Naaah, one big button.