skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because it's company policy.

Even if it wasn't comment policy - when you're reviewing the resumes of Jr engineers who have literary zero work experience who do you interview/hire - the guy with the mail-order "degree" or the guy who has an accredited degree?
This may cut both ways with regards to innovation. For example, Europe as come way longer than the US when it comes to automation in various sectors (see f.x. the recent Economist article about inefficiencies in the US retail sector).

The main US advantage wrt to the last generation of tech giants (i.e. Google, Facebook and Amazon) is language. You will reach scale far faster in the US than in Europe because you do not have to translate your product to new languages and markets. Thus the US giants reached scale before similar European products could compete.
idk the article also mentions they've been working on it for 20 years I wouldn't be surprised if they just got to a point that was good enough and then didn't want to mess with things

real tragedy is that they didn't use cutting edge web7.0 tech for their front end smh
Now that venture capital is drying up and gas prices are exploding, I hope Uber implodes.
Uber used Greyball fake app to evade police across Europe
Well, the power relationship is a bit unbalanced... The employee is providing labour, the company is exploiting it, think it's not a 1:1 comparison to be made.
Even 1x the retail price is too much. Like many (perhaps most) people here, I got into Linux as a teenager by dual-booting on hardware I (or rather my parents) already owned. If I had to pay for extra hardware just to try Linux, I would probably still be using MS-DOS and Windows.
I really like Gitlab's explanation on the matter! https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/ordering_table_column...
you should be, if using it when being raided by the police.
> Kyoto University partnered with construction company, Kajima Corp,

So a university and a corp = Japan now. Wow.

So next time Facebook partners with some academics, we can say "The US proposes..." ?
> watch developers wrap their heads

<img src="/img/turkiye.gif" alt="Turkey" />
> artificially inflated

a huge chunk of that is excessive healthcare costs

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expendi...
It failed because they thought that driverless cars were just around the corner.

But when fully driverless cars eventually do hit the road then it will indeed be the end of the taxi driver (and of most drivers for that matter).
Should there maybe be a difference between a huge incorporated company operating for profits (no matter what the consequences are) VS a private individual just wanting to go on with their day?
I disagree. A large percentage of the DSLR market are hobbyists who want to feel professional, just like with musical instruments, sports equipment and so on. Amateurs outnumber professionals by 1000:1 or more.

A large percentage of those people have realised they can take really good photos with their phone now, good enough that they don't feel inadequate, and maybe they don't feel like carrying around heavy equipment either.

That market is gone and will never return.
Not justifying Uber, but politicias sort of encourage these practices :(
You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.
s/Workers/Uber/?

> Uber’s real impact has been to make life worse for virtually everyone it touches.

Are we just going to ignore the millions of satisfied riders and drivers?

TBH, I don't feel this article belongs on HN, it's pure politics and basically a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32045906
My personnal experience.
I come back from a trip in romania - bucharest.
At first I didn't take Uber but tried for the regular Taxi from the airport.
All of them requesting ~40USD.
At the end I go with one who put the meter and indeed arrived to 200 Lei (~40 USD). I payed in euro because I didn't have enough local currency, hopefully I had some and the driver accept.

Taking some information it's way too much, but would I have argue with how the meter was operating anyway?

Now, I need to comeback to the airport at 4am.

So instead, I reserve a airport transfer from the airline itself, pay in advance something like 30 USD this time.

And... no one show up at 4am. Mobile phone of the transfer is not answering... I never heard of them *

So I install Uber, hopefully it's working, enter my visa (from my country, no need for local currency at all), after 10 minutes, someone very nice take me and I just paid like 15 USD to get to the airport, at 5 in the morning, with the invoice by mail.

How do you compete with that? Taxi business need to reflect. And every country is the same strangely, it's as universal than taxes: you can't escape!

* Edit: In fact I know what happened, and there is nothing to do, because I looked at the invoice and on the third page of the voucher PDF there, it's said that I needed to call 24h before to confirm the transfer... They don't call, you have to call. Even after the first confirmation I already did for confirming the pickup address some days before, I wasn't feeling paranoid enough. So you can't say nothing because I didn't read the last page, but it's a dumb heavy process, do people changes their mind and decide to live forever in the country frequently?
Isn't obstruction of justice a criminal offence in US? Fines are not that scary, federal prison is.
Low profile tires do not last 50k much less 85k miles. Lots of BMW tires are front/rear and left/right which means you can’t rotate. People on the X7 forms said they had to start changing tires around 20-25k.

My coworker had a Leaf and said he went through rear tires 2x as fast.
Well the end of it mentions the “gravitational pull of Pepsi” .it has some life changing physics at least
> You need to trust into the UEFI implementation and the harddrive manufacturer, which you hopefully do.

Trusting hardware encryption on consumer SSD's has been proven to be a pretty disastrous idea[0], with even Bitlocker disabling hardware encryption by default.

From what I understand, a lot of encryption implementations were really really bad, with massive security vulnerabilities and issues. I suppose if you're an enterprise you have the money to test if the SSD is actually encrypting the data on the NAND, but a consumer would be none the wiser.

[0]: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/you-cant-trust-bitlocker-to-en...
I am completely guessing here: it is shielded as are most of the computing components. It probably also has error correction of some sort built in.
They qualify their usage of business-speak:

> Our growth strategy is obviously not about making profit, but we are a small team at the centre of government and we need to make sure our people and our money are focused on services that have the biggest reach and the most impact.

It's not quite Fry and Laurie yet. "Oh, you have shares in the Royal Family?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4
Conversely, I been seeing more people then ever riding, building and modifying electric and motorized bicycles. You can modify a regular $200 mountain bike with a $200 motor kit from amazon and have a $400 motorcycle that you don’t need a motorcycle license for. If you really don’t want to burn fossil fuels, a $1000 bafang mid drive ebike kit can turn a regular bicycle into a hill crushing monster and can be installed with almost no specialized tools.

The housing crisis is definitely a tougher nut to crack, but I don’t believe the auto manufacturers have quite the same leverage over the American population long term, especially if gas prices and electric vehicle prices keep skyrocketing significantly faster then inflation.
Obviously, they are just avoiding being classist by covering all socio economic groups evenly. (I have heard similar reasoning before why focusing on high crime areas is bad.)

Sick and tired of privacy invasions for the sake of "safety"
The biggest problems is the high cost of building track. Remember that trains do not cover everything, so you have to pay for roads (though in the most transit friendly places the few trucks that are needed drive on the sidewalks next to pedestrians no problem). Automated rail is the cheapest to operate, but there are very high upfront costs that may never be paid for compared to running a bus. (when self driving cars arrive I look forward to self driving buses - they would solve something like 75% of what I'm looking to a train for)

standardization is a very useful thing in the world. Standards mean you can buy from many different suppliers - if one train manufacture is busy find a different. Standards also mean you can share track with different lines spreading construction costs out. (this even includes freight trains) Standards mean manufactures can invest in jigs that are not worth building for custom things that nobody else needs - or worth building but the cost of the jig is spread out across more parts. One special case of a jig is a long assembly line - note that a modern car is very complex and yet new they start at only $16,000. While trains will never be in high enough demand to get that cheap, there is a lot of opportunity to lower costs if only there were more orders of the same thing (like cars you can choose what color paint you want and a few other options)
JWST started in 1996. According to Wikipedia that's largely when LDPCs were 'rediscovered'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-density_parity-check_code#...
Yeah I don't know what they use either, but so far repacking that atlas has not been frequent enough that writing my own packer would save time.
Doesn't matter. Might be two coincidentally having the same color and model, so it's important to quickly run all of them before the follow-up.
I wonder how many devs quit over being asked to build that. I suspect the answer is very close to zero...
An Open-Source, Kubernetes-Native Messaging Platform
I cannot imagine the work behind to keep that 1 to 1 parity stable. I don't know why, but I feel like this parity is good for the people.
> If the ssd dies, then it's dead.

Presumably they could operate in a reduced mode where it does live transmission of the data when it's in contact with Earth?
people have extra storage and bandwidth that they don't need. Anything that the public decides not to rehost is not worth being published.
Unless the dust is completely electrically neutral you should be able to build powered repellents for it.
The thing is, Uber is also convenient for the class of people it exploits. I've got some poorer neighbors without cars that use it all the time. Previously it was hard to get taxis to show up to this part of the city at all.
The people should charge BMW more for renting space in their car for seat heaters.
> Yes, because it's company policy.

But why? Lol what does it achieve? What’s the point?

> when you're reviewing the resumes of Jr engineers who have literary zero work experience

Maybe look at what they can do not where they learned it? How do you evaluate self-taught and people with no degrees? Does no degree beat non-accredited or not?

And here’s another question - why do you trust the accreditors? What do they know that colleges don’t? How do you evaluate an accreditor?
And does anyone still trust the Uber app anymore?
Shocking stuff like this, weaponising drivers against city governments to do Uber's bidding to lobby:

> MacGann insists that Uber drivers were seen by some at the company as pawns who could be used to put pressure on governments. “And if that meant Uber drivers going on strike, Uber drivers doing a demo in the streets, Uber drivers blocking Barcelona, blocking Berlin, blocking Paris, then that was the way to go,” he said. “In a sense, it was considered beneficial to weaponise Uber drivers in this way.”

> The files show MacGann’s fingerprints on this strategy, too. In one email, he praised staffers in Amsterdam who leaked stories to the press about attacks on drivers to “keep the violence narrative” and pressure the Dutch government.

Uber was weaponising their workers (while fighting as hard as possible to not call them workers and pay for workers' benefits) against local governments, they were behaving like a tech-mafia, a mob with sprawling power across the globe.

What the actual fuck?
Isn't the new name pronounced like turkey-ay? I'm fairly sure I heard it said that way on some news segment about it.
Large government IT projects end up being done by companies expert in extracting as much cash from the government as possible. The end result is the product doesn't work properly and is massively over budget. Then the government is forced to hand over even more money to redesign bits to work better.

The government has been bitten by this many times, so now shys away from big IT systems. Instead every department has to build its own, usually with lots of Excel sheets and macros involved.
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I bet my house there will eventually be a car that charges you extra for driving to the hospital, or outright refuses, and that there will be people on this forum defending this 'feature' with "manufacturer doesn't want responsebility for transporting a bleeding person, you should call an ambulance"
Maybe, and I guess that's great for the commercial potential of a product.

But we, who are paid to make the most informed decisions, have to think harder.

Speaking personally, I use a REST/GraphQL client to test critical parts of an authenticated service. It is often necessary to test with elevated privileges. The consequences of credential leakage can be severe, and could have regulatory implications.

I cannot accept a closed-source tool that sends uninspectable data to a third-party server.
They have ASML and now probably work-from-home as a legal right.

Yeah, I am starting to be jealous of them.
Could also be more resonant modes in the structure that would need to be damped out.
The poor do not steal in India either. Do you know how many poor people there are in India? Do you know what miniscule percentage are scammers? You need to rethink how you see Indian culture.

Japan has a history with the untouchable. Again, access to jobs, access to economic opportunities, created the Yakuza.

Recommended to watch if you want to say that the system does not create criminals but it's a personal choice: https://youtu.be/SIsndKkasfI
This is a naïve take which I find über annoying. Maybe I'll tell my local café owner, Emily Brontë, about it.
You may also enjoy the soundtrack to video game Sea of Thieves, in which the hurdy gurdy is a playable instrument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqgA3nIGByg
> Europe has democracy

hardly. Most are unelected beaurocrats that make rules without having to answer to the people. There are pros and cons to it, but its not a democracy IMO.
How does one measure "better" when it comes to philosophy or spirituality?

The notion that priests and monks should be holier than the common folk strikes me as very Abrahamic. This forms a hierarchy in the mind.

I'm not a Buddhist, but if I were, I would interrogate (and probably reject) such hierarchies.
There's also the very real fact that most of those scammers can barely speak English, so they don't really have any other option. Even if they source a well written starting email, the facade will fall apart immediately once they have to write something by themselves.
AFAIK, the fears with TPM are mostly about remote attestation. That is, a remote system could certify that you are running Windows (and not something else like Linux) on the physical hardware (and not on a VM) before allowing access to some resource; and that "some resource" could in the future even include basic things like Internet access.
Did they use it?
> > Are they not permitted to do some research or reach out to supportive online communities?

> They are permitted as long as they use only compliant sites. Talking to random strangers about this is not a good idea.

"Stranger danger!"
And on the other hand, plenty of stories of the opposite happening. I'm not sure how much anecdotes add to a story like this. Especially when the story here is not about if Uber is offering a better service to customers than "normal" taxis, but when the story is about that Uber is exploiting their employees (which they refuse to even call "employees").

If one business offers better service than another, but, the first business exploits their employees, which service should be investigated? I'd agree the second business should be aiming at improving their service, of course, but we also need to clamp down on businesses who are exploiting people.
What’s “The Book”? Someone else mentioned `book` in backticks as well so I’m guessing there’s one canonical book that Rust people are referring to.
What the hell is this lol
Why does it have to be ON the moon though? An orbital station would rotate just the same, and if you are close enough to the moon you could still travel to the surface now and then for specific missions.
Maybe they're trying to cut down the number of labels that say:

"Fabrique en Dinde"
I realize comparisons to Tulip Mania [1] aren't necessarily apt, but listening to the home improvement contractor I hired explain his crypto strategy certainly did leave me with that "peak bubble" vibe [2].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market...
[2] https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...
Aren't there bigger issues...? Like no atmosphere protecting from radiation and things like space debris/projectiles?
I have been through this too so I think I know how you felt. To make it worse for me I was on a visa when it happened to me and was on a ticking time bomb of 60 days. I even had an anxiety attack but no health insurance because I forgot to sign up for Cobra amid all the craziness. I had to interview crazily and found a job in 5 weeks and then had to uproot my entire life and move to the other side of the country for the new job. It was followed by months of drinking and depression and barely surviving at the new job.

Its been 4 years but even today I wonder if its a uniquely American issue having never faced sudden layoffs while working in SE Asia and Europe. I cannot bear this sudden banishment from the herd and having so called friends suddenly stop talking and communicating. Its scarred me and if my wife and daughter were not from the US , I would leave to go work in a different country in a heartbeat.
I think the engineering that would go into a mission to do maintenance/repair would be quite valuable and help with many other missions. It’s far enough to be far, but not so far that other factors like communication is extremely delayed. Getting that far out of LEO has a huge set of new challenges, I assume, we should be able to learn about.
Buddhism is not some progressive movement to change the world.

Ethnic Buddhist traditions are usually among the most conservative forces in the society. They try to be conservative models. In Burma and Sri Lanka many of the politically most active monks favor ethnic cleansing and preach religious intolerance.
I made a short video about this recently because there are a lot of new contenders and the market is changing rapidly. My favorites currently are Ghost (for tiny blogs) and Webiny for the others. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVGRqjtx-o
For one, the inline assembly syntax wasn't exactly the same.

When I was a kid I had a DOS game programming book, the worst thing about it was that it came with the Microsoft C compiler.

EVERYONE used Borland back then. So most of the sample code and shit you would find on the AOL forums or BBS's wouldn't work.

Sure, if you knew assembly and your compiler it was probably trivial to get it working. Same goes for functions to call interrupts and things like that.
Yes, also countries without a strong internal industry I.e capable of producing valuable exports, or at least access to valuable natural resources to exploit, are in particularly bad weather right now.

Over reliance on tourism without deep reserve wealth is a bad recipe when a pandemic grinds said tourism to a halt.
Is this subscription safety vest what you are thinking of?

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/this-motorcycle-airbag-vest-de...
I have a 2013 Honda Civic Si (USA) and it does not have a keyless start system (you have to put the key into the ignition to start it). Also, like any manual car I've driven, you have to press the clutch in or it won't start. To unlock, a button on the keyfob must be pressed. As far as I can tell, this means my car is not affected but I'm not sure. If it's not, then the statement that it affects all Hondas after 2012 is incorrect.
Cynically it can be seen as part of the war on introversion.

Consultancies rebadged introverts as having a "fixed mindset" and extroverts as having a "growth mindset" and then labelled having a fixed mindset as a terrible thing.

But that criticism is demonstration of a "fixed mindset" and therefore should be discarded and should be ignored.

That's the cynical take. The less cynical take is that having an open mind helps businesses and services adapt to their needs.
> I stopped reading upon seeing at the very stop this “ Silicon Valley is the latest player in a history of Western appropriation of Buddhism”

I think you jumped the gun. The extended interview with the book author showed that her position is aligned, or even the same as yours (your comment is naturally too brief to tell whether I should have used only “aligned” or “same”).

And indeed it’s Buddhism we’re talking about: a belief system appropriated by other cultures to the point where its origin in India was forgotten for centuries.
Complete opposite experience for me in Spain. Uber wanted €35 euro. Local taxi's wanted €15
ISO is not in charge of the English language. I don't expect dictionaries to change any time soon just because ISO says so. Turkey has been the proper English translation for their country name since a very long time and it will be correct English for a long time. Of course, with English it is a bit unclear in any case who decides what is and isn't correct. Certainly not the Turkish government or ISO.

What's next? The Germans insisting on Deutschland as the official ISO name (it's still Germany)? The Chinese insisting on using chines characters? I'm not sure why ISO did this. It sounds political to me.

If you need place name translations, geonames is a decent data set: https://www.geonames.org/export/

You can look up the correct translations and transliterations by iso country and language code. It still calls Turkey by its English name, as it should.
I believe for OpenSUSE it uses MokManager to get the user to trust the OpenSUSE CA. But it's been a while since I tried it so I might be misremembering. (MokManager is broken on my mobo so I switched to systemd-boot + my own signing keys, which is better for security anyway.)
Seems like it’s not yet completely sorted… despite being impacted, i feel for the guys steering through this outage and bending backward! Good luck guys!
They can demand contracts that would allow them to. We have no way of knowing what exactly valve's distribution contracts allow them but so far games have (AFAK always) remained available for download if you purchased them before they were removed from the store. Key activations generally also still work - e.g. you can hunt down a physical copy of the original Prey and activate that on Steam and download it there (unless you get scammed and are sold a copy with a key that was already activated). And it is very much in Steam's interest to keep the pretense that what you are doing is buying something like a physical product that you can keep forever (*).

The difference for this game is probably that in addition to Steam the game requires Ubisoft-hosted DRM servers which Valve has no control over.

(*) For as long as you live, unless someone forces Steam to allow transferring subscriptions to other people.
I absolutely don't blame them either, I wish more people showed how absolutely insecure most modern systems are.

I'm was simply writing my comment out of worry for their safety, nothing else.