skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Opening random cars is probably a crime, but do we have reason to believe they weren't testing on their own car?

Yes, we do, since one of their videos are labeled "field test" which I presume means "testing random vehicles found in the wild".

> We have successfully tested the latest models of Honda vehicles. And we strongly believe the vulnerability affects all Honda vehicles currently existing on the market. Please see the field test video down below.

https://rollingpwn.github.io/rolling-pwn/video/Demo-Video-Fi...

> so I think any decent court should see that they're operating in good faith [...] A bad court may sentence them regardless

I hope so too, for the sake of the authors. Overall, they did the only thing they could do in this situation, since Honda doesn't seem to be receptive to security disclosures at all.
Perhaps Germany thinks that economically hurting Russia is more important than finishing the pipeline?. There is not an option of vassal state of America or Russia. The choices are living under what is at least trying to be a democracy versus being a slave state to Russia.
Agreed, but it's a balance, and in many parts of the world, transportation user needs had been disregarded for so long that there was wide popular support for breaking with the status quo and rebalancing power in favor of the user. Everyone who was an adult city dweller pre-Uber has taxi horror stories at the ready, of not getting picked up, of being overcharged, of unsafe driving, of dirty cars, of feeling threatened or disrespected by the driver — and not feeling like they had any effective recourse. This is what caused the market to be ripe for disruption, the users' sense of powerlessness in the face of a bunch of local players set in their ways and gripped by local worker politics, in the way that most industries are thankfully not.

In the process, Uber clearly behaved illegally and unethically towards its workers and government regulators. That's been known for a while. Could it have been different? Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes governments don't listen until they're forced to.

Now about the working conditions of cab drivers, honestly in many places they were already being screwed over by local oligopolies (for a prime example of this, see for example the NYC medallion auction scams which defrauded individual drivers of hundreds of thousands of dollars). In the Uber story, drivers got shuttled from one shitty situation to another probably just about as shitty.

Hopefully the new set of players in that space now abide by the local rules, and also the regulators learn from their failures and get on top of the industry without forgetting about their users too much.
read the second link
tulip mania and ponzi schemes come up for a good reason
> Some members of <group X> did <bad thing Y>. Therefore all members of <group X> are bad.

You missed a second clause there... Some members of <group X> did <bad thing Y>. The remaining members of <group X> have failed to hold those members accountable (and in most cases work to actively cover up their misdeeds). Therefore all members of <group X> are bad.
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I used Vaadin a couple of years back converting a flash based app. Getting plug-ins to work was not fun, at all. Using JavaScript yourself/directly is much easier. Now I write Java and Typescript and have even more fun writing the right code for the problem while increasing my value/compensation.
Also, the sound of someone in the next cubicle eating something crispy with their mouth open.
This was expected considering they did it in the US long before.
Scala or Go: Who Wore It Better? (2021)
I've been using the free mailboxes Gandi gives you with a domain for years. It's been solid and both UI options (SoGo and Roundcube) are decent
TuV results from mandatory safety checks in Germany seem to indicate that Tesla has significant issues with its suspension and some of the lights. It competes with Dacia for last place of all cars tested.
> I can’t help but wonder if along with actually trying to improve their services, these surveys act to manage the narrative.

Absolutely, that's precisely what they are for.
But are you? He contradicted you on a number of points.
Fastmail is good. Their web calendar is also great, and can sync with google calendar if you want it to.

Bonus feature: Fastmail Notes can sync into iOS Notes app.
Exactly. I can't count the number of people whose professional output I greatly admire but who destroyed themselves in my eyes by being fuckwads on Twitter.
Funny, I pretty much consider Angular with TS the frontend version of Java with Spring.

I love working with both.
Do all those things you mentioned apply to Vaadin free plan or pro?
McBuddhism
my dev workstation is so simple i don’t even really need to back it up. All my projects are stored on git. Even assets are stored in the cloud somewhere. I can copy sensitive data like recovery keys onto USB sticks, and occasionally back up everything to a hard drive.

But the actual workstation is IntelliJ, git, language tooling, neovim, fish shell, and firefox. The rest are constantly changing based on the project, e.g. language tooling and libraries, and most projects either install these automatically or make them clear to install.

i’ve set up my dev workstation so often it takes me like 30 minutes to go from fresh OS to working on a project. maybe one day ill make a shell script or something but the software i need changes so often it doesn’t really matter.
Previously on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785564
Family history of developing type 2 diabetes. I take the CGM results as a sign of my pancreas having to pump out insulin to counter the blood sugar. From what I understand, consistently exceeding certain level (110/120? forgot) for prolonged periods (an hour was the warning given by the device) eventually leads to insulin resistance.
If he were good at speculating he would be doing it full time.
And which 'adults' are going to do the dismantling?

I'll wait.

This kind of aggressive know-nothing 'naivety on the warpath' is all too common at the moment. It might get us all killed.
> Japan’s taxi companies just banded together and made an Uber like app to call taxies (including paying ahead, so you know exactly what it’s going to cost).

Yes, it's called a worker's cooperative, a it's exactly how huge chunks of the economy should be organised. Unfortunately (as pointed out elsewhere in the thread) it is often impossible for workers to raise capital to build an enterprise in this model, even if it would mean a more efficient organisation.
So because you have bad experience with taxis you feel entitled to exploit unprivileged workers instead?

I don't doubt that taxis can be problematic in many places. Typically they reflect the social conditions of where they operate. Inequality, poor education, corruption in general mean that taxis in such location are not a good experience.

And then highly paid people like many HN readers are just not willing to do the math: A taxi driver (or Uber driver) will not be able to drive all working day long. They have to wait for new passengers a significant part of their working time. So expect that when you use them you need to pay at least twice the rate for a normal employee. Deprecation and maintenace for a car is not cheap. And again the customer also needs to pay it for the time the vehicle is not moving, not just for the time they are travelling. The latter is even worse for Uber. Private cars don't have several drivers. Traditional taxis have (at least in this country), just to compensate for big part of fixed costs. Of course Uber externalizes those costs to their drivers.
The author seems to have reconsidered--I get a 404 trying to see the post.
i have an alternative suggestion (of course I do):

https://htmx.org

rather than trying to build web front ends in a language-specific builder syntax server side and dealing w/the impedance mismatch between your language of choice and the actual realities on the ground in HTML, you use a more powerful hypertext instead

this lets you accomplish more in HTML, but also moves a lot of logic back to the back-end, so you are able to spend more time in your preferred language and framework

its an alternative approach to spending more time in your preferred language, it is just a hop skip and a jump beyond the normal HTML everyone knows anyway, and it transfers to any back-end that can produce HTML/hypermedia (nearly all of them)

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The first, glaring reason is because Uber refuses to treat them as employees, and instead force them to work as contractors/freelancers, even though they clearly are employees by any reasonable measure.
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Arq backup + GSuite/Workspace as a target. Needs fewer resources than Backblaze, and is (was?) cheaper than it.
I had to exclude Dropbox etc. folders from Arq because of the warnings about these online-only placeholder files, and I would prefer it if we could silently ignore those.

Additionally, I recommend a solution that can restore entire volume images in case of boot drive failures. Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner on Mac and Macrium on Windows are nice choices in my experience. Acronis was also very reliable in the past, but since then, they have shifted to yearly nonsense upgrades with questionable value. It reminds me of the transition of Nero Burning ROM into the Nero Media-whatever-center-thingy, where the core functionality remained unchanged while more and more auxiliary features were added.
Millennials and Gen Z – WFH days numbered?
Another trick is to wait. First write the post or email, then leave it alone for a while. This makes it easier to change the point of view.

Somehow I also often find it easier to see possible improvements after I published something. I often edit when possible after posting. It is annoying, but it does have the some effect. Or if I write markdown, render it in some nice formatted view - that also helps to distance a bit.
In 2016, the country formerly known as The Czech Republic declared that its English name was now Czechia.

This is now its official ISO name, how it shows up in the Geonames database, and how it is commonly referred to in places like news media.
Hey, just curious: what do you do for staying fit these days?
Getting the train was the original plan, but all trains to the airport were cancelled due to a passenger incident.
What percentage of cancelations do you estimate are because the driver has accepted a higher fare from Uber's competition?
Seems like the smart thing to do would be to give the "too smart" people training to tackle more interesting and important problems - like white collar crime, tax loopholes, internal corruption, etc.

I'll give you three guesses why that's never even floated as an option...
Hubbles law says that astronomical objects that are further away also move away from us more quickly with the constant of proportionality being the Hubble constant
I wish instead of subscription they make car more modular (I mean certain features). So I can opt out things I don’t want and add later
misquoting someone is an interesting way to dog whistle
I think the main issue is in perceptions of what the service is.

Maybe some think this person should be some industry expert, computer whiz, hacking genius who will guarantee an impenetrable system.

In reality it is as you describe - checklists of questions and procedures by someone who knows the basic concepts with managers who don't know the technical details. Nothing will guarantee an impenetrable system, so corporate is happy just to check the box that a review was done. They just want to make sure they aren't leaving the front door open so the insurance they buy will pay out.

I'm an application security champion who works on our teams systems to ensure they meet the company security standards. I have worked closely with some external consultants on a few reviews of systems.
The children ARE forced to work there. They are literally modern day slaves.
> But how can you possibly expect a law that takes away copyright of something they developed? That's insane, it'll never happen.

That shouldn't really be any harder than retroactively extending copyright, which has happened multiple times. Or is it just the rights of big corporations that can never be restricted again? If a new law makes certain undesirable behaviors illegal for individuals should that only apply to people born after that law? No.

Yes, retroactive copyright corrections will be harder to accomplish so, like the sibling comment suggests, we should focus on laws for new content for now. But we should also never froget that copyrighted content is NOT the property of the creator but of everyone. The I in "IP" is not redundant.
This is the most reasonable statement on the topic I've seen.

The fact is that Uber/Lyft created a new market even when the product existed a long time. In NYC, you could always get a car service to come and pick you up, but you had to know them, have a pre-existing relationship, etc. If you do, even today, it's cheaper than Uber, but it's a hassle.

Also in NYC, taxis are terrible in comparison to Uber. They're usually dirty/unkept, the drivers are sometimes "off". Taxi owners weren't focused on the service- they were focused on the medallion, the right to have a taxi. That's where the real value was.

The taxis were/are essentially anonymous, so there's no incentive to do anything more than the bare minimum in terms of cleanliness, repair or customer service.

Uber, for all its extreme faults, flipped that on its head, with driver and rider visibility, and that changed everything.

Uber has many problems- handicap inaccessibility, driver treatment, a ton of evidence against them regarding deliberate manipulation and probable lying to regulators, but "bring back the old ways" clearly weren't working either.
> regardless of what they did to others

No. Very normal ethos is that if you see something occurring that looks "wrong", first you assess to be sure, then upon confirmation you intervene.

Normally the difficulty is in assessment. Sometimes it is not even difficult.
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> We have great hiring, so all full time colleagues are at category 1 but rarely 2.

Seems really unlikely, or you are super small company/team, or that you just don't know them that well
> I’m assuming the “24 hours” thing is a math thing where staying inside additional time will be more harmful than getting outside and finding out what to do next.

I don't think that's case at all. If you're dealing with fallout, the radiation decreases with time. Waiting 24 hours is better than not waiting at all, but I've seen charts and I'm under the impression that's only enough time for the radiation to decrease by ~50%, which could still be very lethal.
Strange... No "keyboard wars" on the comments yet. That's something different compared to other forums where Greeks and Turks start fighting and swearing at each other about names, history, borders and so on.

Interesting to note that this name change has to do with the "big vision" the current Turkish government has about the country, although I've read that this change is because they didn't like to be associated with the bird/animal Turkey :-)
for OSX, network time machine.

for linux, ZFS, and a couple of scripts to do snapshotting and copying the backups to a target host.
And hardware will not allow that “unsupported” OS to access routable network.
Fastmail is the best I've used.

If EU jurisdiction is important to you, Runbox* and Mailfence are pretty ok - their service isn't as well-documented nor polished/reliable as Fastmail (e.g. I've hit some odd errors fetching large amounts of messages over IMAP - e.g. connecting a new client and blind first big sync of mail on an account with a large archive) but overall they're both extremely serviceable.

Re: mail interfaces, Runbox's is a little better than Mailfence, but both are a little dated. Again, Fastmail is better here; non-EU is their only fault imo.

* Runbox is technically not actually EU, per se, being Norwegian.
I'd be surprised if that's not true of the overwhelming number of people who post reviews on Google.

I've posted several reviews in my home town, Google knows it's my home town from their maps data, that's a strong trust signal that Google could find a way to use to provide improved reviews. Google can probably tell if reviewers logged on to the restaurants wi-fi, that's a strong trust signal too -- Google could expose a trust status and still hide that they're essentially tracking our every move.
I haven’t looked at the pg source, but wouldn’t an index on Column100 be laid out on disk as Column100|PrimaryKey rather than PrimaryKey|Column100?
I think GWT lost the plot when they moved to browser based debugging (the initial version supported IDE debugging of frontend code, which was awesome.)

Kotlin.js is getting pretty close to the ideal. Look into KVision, which is a framework on top of Kotlin.js, which is pretty ergonomic.
"You will own nothing and you will be happy"
A similar but opposite argument could be made that every application's scripting language will necessarily be a DSL focused on that application, so might as well design a new language.
The way I think of it is that statements involve keywords from the language (like 'let', 'export class', or 'if') while expressions do not.

With this definition, it's easy to see that, if the syntax starts with a language keyword, it's a statement.

BTW, language functions (like 'Array.join()') are expressions because they don't start with a keyword.
Yeah, this is key. Improving a product in the direction of customer intent vs against customer intent.
> People who don't have diabetes or pre-diabetes spike. But I hardly see a body of work that suggests that everyone is at risk of diabetes.

The problem is consistently exceeding a certain level of blood sugar for extended periods of time. I think this is how you develop insulin resistance.

> People from South America eat them every day and they aren't linked to diabetes as far as I know.

I am from Panama, where we eat a lot of plantains. That's why I decided to test because it's a staple and I would have never put it in the same category as other carbs (bc I thought they had enough fiber to counter).
How do you propose dispensing a limited number of drivers to a larger number of customers? There are really only two solutions: get more drivers or get fewer customers.

Surge pricing can incentivize more drivers to come online. I don’t see how you can reduce the customers in a short timeframe.
Honest question, what are you supposed to do instead?
As a former system-76 owner: it just sucks they are such low quality. All plastic, worse thermals then a 2018 mac book. Couldn't even decode a 720p youtube video without burning up. System 76 just rebrands some shitty chinese laptops and you notice.

I tried not giving money to apple, but it was money wasted tbh. Like seriously, $2k for a barely useable laptop.
I'm currently listening to brain.fm!
I'm not sure how well it actually influences your brain to concentrate, but I find it's at least a decent semi-conscious reminder to stay focused. And it does also help drown out other noises.
I work with a Turkish woman, and she gave us the rundown of pronunciation. Bref, it's pronounced "turkey-ay."
Does the paper consider the quality differences between the South Carolina and Washington Boeing factories?
Or just a strong desire that surely somehow this was the green's fault. It's not inconceivable as they have an anti nuclear slant, but this one isn't remotely on them. They do have to deal with the fallout however.
Maybe if you are very aware of the fact that your goal and metric aren't totally aligned, but that often gets lost. As a result A/B testing for longer website visits can make websites that make it more obvious that the information you want is there, but also make the path to actually get it longer. A/B testing for engagement might promote divisive behavior and fights. A/B testing for read rate or clicks might lead to trust loss.

I think a lot of lessons from AI safety apply surprisingly well to A/B testing, mainly around how hard it is to align your actual goals with the metrics you use for optimization, and how disastrous the consequences can be. It doesn't have to go wrong, but it's incredibly hard to ensure it goes right, especially if it's the only feedback you have.
I have experience where the company paid a UX agency to create a flow that was by all standards better customer experience and a better product, nicer too. They ran an AB test, turns out people were more likely to pay with the old version. AB testing is good that it challenges what UX people think is better experience or product with hard metrics.
.. first read through all these comments here, but I see no mention of MSFT commercially inserting Canonical OS products into desktop windows, with extra features added to Ubuntu to restrict and control the internals.. examples are partition type msft-private and msft-data; secretive systemd components; secretive vmx flag use; boot signing and signed applications; snapd container for libssh with auto-updates required to be on.. and more?
Our dependency on a car for all forms of transportation is what created this opportunity for a corrupt taxi business and Uber to disrupt that corrupt taxi business.
"this might not be a scam 100 years from now" sounds like the most stupid "i am very smart" point a person might make about crypto.

"well sure its a scam now, but in 100 years from now..."

"Nobody cares matt"

but then it turns out there's an army of crypto fools who repeat any stupid point he makes without reflecting on the value of those points.
These miners moved to Texas for the "cheap" energy --- which is achieved at the expense of reliability.

Their innovative, "free market" energy auction makes reliability financially untenable. Anyone who wastes money on things like maintenance or reserve capacity is quickly undercut and priced out of the market.

So like most things right wing --- it is illogical at best and at worst, a blatant lie. It's only "cheap" if you ignore the cost of rolling blackouts. And it will only get worse over time.
About squaring the circle; I remember the Slashdot karma moderation system with community based optional filtering and tresholds.

https://slashdot.org/faq/karma.shtml
https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml

The same goes for democracy and politics, how to prevent bad actors from gaming the system and acquire illegitimate power.

When moderating a 5000 person topic focused community I used a ruleset which was easy to understand. Along the way I tweaked the ruleset to defend against bad actors using the rules against me.
I'm using Kopia + {Wasabi, B2}
Kotlin Slack Conversations
This might be my favorite game of all time.

The "roguelike" label isn't wrong, but seems a bit tacked on from when every game had to be a "roguelike." Also, the art style isn't really my bag, but that's a matter of personal taste. I mention these two in case they put anyone else off.

Anyway, StS is amazing because it's the "tightest" game I've ever played. The tradeoffs for any one decision are well balanced, but if you aren't thinking of all the tradeoffs you have already made, you are probably going to crash and burn (but have fun time doing it).

It's great on the phone, but you miss out on some great mods, like Downfall. Well worth the cost of entry, in my opinion.
1) Sure, the Security Council provided the figleaf for the rape of Libya and its descent into a failed state. That doesn't excuse the activity, rather it undermines the legitimacy of the Security Council.

2) Please, don't embarrass yourself. Ukraine was explicitly on the path to NATO membership (as of 2008), and the place was crawling with NATO trainers and advisors.

NATO probably won't exist in a decade. The US is not that committed to European security, and nobody else is worth a spit.
Question: why do you use the word "legacy" ? It's incredibly patronizing.
Most of these Uber leaks have been well known for 5+ years.
Hopefully EU regulators do what the US didn't and prosecute some of these clowns.