skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really sick of everyone pretending that these big, bad tech companies came along and screwed over workers, as if it's some novel revelation. Countless other industries have been doing far worse for far longer with far greater ramifications - and they still are today. Uber is merely continuing a great American tradition. If we don't like it, blame the politicians who refuse to regulate them and other industries that take advantage of workers. Or continue waving a fist at big companies as if they care.
Yes, although at least in Washington State you can only renew online every other time since they want you to come in and get a new picture taken every 12-16 years. Which isn't really unreasonable when you consider that's your main photo id.
Isn't that exactly the problem? The resulting UI isn't designed, it's aggregated across a disjointed set of granular tweaks.
Opening random cars is probably a crime, but do we have reason to believe they weren't testing on their own car?

They go out of their way not to make the details public to prevent car theft so I think any decent court should see that they're operating in good faith. A bad court may sentence them regardless, but I don't think responsible disclosure would've helped them in that situation either.
I’d seriously reconsider using Arnell after seeing this.
Not everyone though, e.g. Bitcoin maximalists. Even within the Ethereum community, there are many who are anti shitcoins, anti shit tokens, etc.
Interesting! These were on a bunch of busses in Copenhagen as well.

The ads were so low effort, I've never seen anything like it. They looked almost like they were made in MS Paint, and then they seemed to have used Google Translate to translate the phrase "Missed Bitcoin? Buy Floki". They used the wrong Danish word for "miss" meaning "I missed my mom" rather than the one meaning "I missed the bus". The ad still kind of worked, but it definitely would have made more sense if they'd used the intended word.
I'm not a lawyer, but isn't this going to be a pretty big obstruction of justice case?
In Germany at least it's less about safety and more about keeping competition at bay. Operating a taxi requires you to buy a "token" on the black market for around USD 50.000 and by law only token owners are allowed to pick up and drive around people. Rates are set by the municipality as well.

The market needs to break up and become more free.

Similarly, until a few years ago it was forbidden to operate busses between cities.

Uber has some negative aspects but opening up the market and allowing healthy competition is certainly a huge positive.
I would suggest to read "The C Programming Language". It is a short and well written book on C programming.
No, this is not what feudalism is.

Consumer finance is a real thing.

Before these financial innovations - people could not by homes, or ironically cars. They could not 'insure' themselves against fire etc..

Being able to 'buy a feature' on a monthly basis, instead of paying up front for it, actually may have some benefits.

That said, obviously if people just want to buy it they can/should do that.
Taxi drivers can also, and often do, reject trip requests ^_^. At least in Mexico, where I live, if you ask to go to an inconvenient zone to the driver, they may refuse to take you and you need to wait for another taxi.
This is a very badly written hit piece. The book isn't presented as science. It's a perspective on the development of human thought. The author of this article claims to have "fact-checked" statements in Sapiens that were not to be understood as scientific, factual claims.
The problem is neatly summed up in this quote:

>> Such reductionism advances a simplistic view of reality,

Ah, the old advancing a simplistic view of reality...otherwise known as "talking about something". Simplifying reality is what it means to talk about something.

I think the author has spent too long in academia and just doesn't know how to read a book.
the first requirement for this is that rules and regulations are followed.

Unfortunately when you have regulatory capture by special interests groups, this ensures that no progress ever happens because the organization with the most lobbying money is always guaranteed to win.
I'd be penalised if, in my freelancing, I failed to keep to verbals deals etc. even where a contract permits me to walk away whenever I wanted. The test is if they derive a certain % of their income/hours from a single employer, no? At least that's what I've seen when looking at UK visas (self-employment visas in general often require a diversity of work etc.)
People who carefully raise the point that they should perhaps understand their business risk are always struck down. As if they have a fundamental right to earn money doing their work.
Well, this must be why people have such tragically short lifespans in South Korea. (Sarcasm off, life expectancy in SK is 83.2 vs 78.8 in the US, and their average salt intake is over 2X the WHO-recommended levels).
I agree with you, but my comment was not regarding the DNS, but the legal entity having access to your data.

There's one thing to send your data to Google and accept for it to be processed by them and all their partners and another thing to send your data only to the company that owns the website that you are currently visiting and only allowing them to internally use this data, without it being sent or processed by any 3rd parties (as strictly specified and regulated by the privacy laws).
I don't understand this comment. The article is about attacks on worker's rights. Your comment is a personal anecdote about how taxis sucked in a trip you had. What is the relation between the two, and how is this not flagrant off-topic?
I think they’re trying to invent some new slang
Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intelligible code [video] (2015)
You're downvoted, but this issue is more common than it seems; and I agree, more serious than it seems.

You're describing adversarial UI changes to small populations of then unsupported customers. This can have outsized impacts on vulnerable populations, eg., esp. the elderly.
This exactly. I am constantly exploring and consuming new music, many of which I wouldn't buy the CD of, but I will listen to for a while before moving onto something new. Nothing really beats being able to go through an artists entire discography over a few days. I've started buying the CD's of the stuff I really love again, but the price would be astronomical compared to my streaming service if I did that for everyone I listened to.
is your argument that impulse purchases at dollar general that hemmorage money out of the local economy are good because they are poor?
As someone who despises internal combustion engines I would love to get a battery-electric vehicle, but the delta between what I owe on the car (zero, fortunately)--and what I'd need to spend--would pay for gasoline for decades. I imagine other people feel similarly. Tax incentives help, but are a virtual drop in the gas tank. Still, should I need to replace my car, the only viable option for me is a BEV.
It's not really an either/or option. You can use testing to validate the changes stemming from market research.

Having seen lots of site redesigns go horribly wrong due to 100% earnest people trying their best and utilizing the research that was afforded to the process, I always recommending incrementally testing into changes on high-value / high-risk applications, even when the "improvements" were backed by solid research. You never know until you release.
> Are you sure "work" didn't configure Bitlocker to be disabled ?

Absolutely. I took the PC out of the box myself ("I am work") and I know we don't have our supplier do anything to the PCs before they send them to us, because we remaster them first thing.

My PC didn't go through that process because it's not one of the models everyone else uses and I don't use Windows.

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edit: there's talk on a page referenced by your link about "Device Encryption" (as opposed to Drive encryption) which is activated when the PC is joined to a domain. This did actually happen, but out of the box the drive was not encrypted. The reason I know is because I went to enable regular Bitlocker but then stopped because I didn't have a separate drive on hand to save the recovery key.
She's not popular. She's consistently in the bottom positions in Tory member polls.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/08/tory-member...

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/12/poll-of-tory-party-members-re...

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/0...
That's the plan (at least according to the World Economic Forum)

"Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better"

https://twitter.com/wef/status/813869325635424256
> weaponising drivers against city governments to do Uber's bidding to lobby

This dismisses drivers' expressed preferences and actions in favor of a chosen narrative. Drivers protested the measures purporting to help them. They polled against them in California. They voted against them.

Claiming they were all brainwashed by corporate requires extraordinary evidence. (It is akin to dismissing a unionization vote by claiming the union brainwashed the workers.)
It's typically via blood test, I'm not aware of any easier methods
The function is as per spec.

But not the Bill of Materials, upon which the price is ultimately decided.

What I mean to say is that a customer who chooses a spec that does not include heated seats, is supplied and charged for hardware that is not required in the spec.
Sanctions don't stop a forex investor from trading the rubles they own for euros and buying whatever they want
> If you were enslaved and sent to another country would you not wish to return?

Are you forgetting that he has nothing to return to? Do you not understand what the term ‘war torn’ means? Hypothetically if someone were enslaved from a point, what are the chances it won’t happen again if they return to the same point? If they found safety net where they are currently why would they return to unsafe place?
When GWT came out it was a rather unique way to write widget-based applications that run in the browser. There wasn't anything like Angular, React, Vue or Svelte. So competition is much fiercer than when it came out.
So then where does Turbo C++ 3.0 fit in? My copy is (C) 1992, but it was still being sold in 1999, alongside what I'm pretty sure I remember as Turbo C++ 4.5 that targeted versions of Windows that were not out in 1991...

Boy, remembering that really digs up some nostalgia...

edit: I see the "Borland C++" wikipedia page present it as the successor, but the "Turbo C++" wikipedia page describes it as the hobbyist counterpart. The release dates and version numbers line up really well, so that makes sense. I was a hobbyist at the time.
It's not their property - they have only been granted exclusive control over it FOR A LIMTITED TIME in order to incentivize them to create more so that in the end there is more for everyone to enjoy. If they are using that control over the "IP" to take the content away then why the rest of us honour our end of the deal.
That’s a good theory, especially as section 3.1 of that ICAO document explicitly permits the use of ß.

Bringing the thread back to the topic of this comment section: the ICAO document also calls the digits 0123456789 “Arabic” even though their shapes are closer to the original Hindi (Devanagari) forms than to actual Arabic digits — another “Hindi/Turkey” situation
Only “wrong” in light of current usage, but not historically.

By this measure, the English name of “W” would be wrong because it’s not actually a “double-U” but a “double-V”. But at the time of the letter’s formation, U and V were not yet separate letters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
I actually go to the dealership (VW) for routine maintenance and I have a local, specialized Euro/VW mechanic for more expensive repairs. Dealership service centers are the training grounds for specialized mechanics. So it's better for me to get the alignment done using an apprentice who does them daily rather than a pricey specialist who does them 4x/year and has 4 engine outs in the bay.
Why should the "«common people»" be relevant? They have been indoctrinated in other ways - as emerged also through recent reports and as I reminded with «The products of the propaganda machine were quite reachable, and not really ambiguous».

What is relevant are the decision makers - although to the analyst all phenomena are differently relevant, but to reconstruct decision making - and said mention of «teachings [] in textbooks or doctrine» is obscure with regard to the point.

I wrote «It was public doctrine in textbooks, taught at university». I very clearly intended to mean that those doctrines were shown in the open, and that they should have "rung warning bells" together with many other puzzle pieces. Nothing secret, not "documents in safes". And there have been occasions to remind analysts of them.

When the "Ruler formerly known as Mr" (the intention of a change of title was news of the past few hours) took Presidents one by one and clearly spelt out conditions - as they witness -, when doctrine was formulated in clear words and infographics available at your best bookstore (but you can probably attend a lecture), it becomes farcical to act as if Las Vegas had no signs.

If she is wearing a T-shirt, read it: it may contain a message. Otherwise they will complain rightfully you do not listen.

The one chief question about the "book" is how extensive analysts valuated its penetration. Being there, it was there.
Well in the US if you have more than 200 employees, you do have provide 90 days notice / severance for mass layoffs under the WARN act so.....
Ironically, it's expired and renew in every point in time. Even Arahants couldn't stand still in provocative environments. "Mindfulness" is weird english word that doesn't translate well into what it actually is. I would describe the state of mind like "nothingness of soul". At the end of the day, as I understand, Buddhism is about observing things from distance (even mind detached from everything, eventually until there is no mind/soul at all), like "it is what it is". Anger, love, stress whatever comes and go. Urhggg oh my .. buddhist, the more I describe the more it becomes inaccurate.
I think of Spotify as an evolution of radio. You can even just pay with your attention by listening to ads instead of money.

You can still purchase all of that media if you want
All these stories make me glad I live in a city with a dedicated train to the airport for 4 euros. If it costs 60 bucks to get from the airport to downtown, I would blame the city planners more than anyone.

https://reittiopas.hsl.fi/reitti/Central%20Railway%20Station...
I think, ultimately, there's no easy way to do it.

How do you stop spammers and bad actors in general.

> the ability to claim a unique username

Which would require a centralisation, presumably. We have things like OpenID, but that hasn't really caught on.

What we want is internally inconsistent. We want both unique identifiers (this is the "real" "blippage" making this post), the possibility of multiple identities, and the possibility of anonymity.

We also want openness, but are likely to desire censorship for legitimate reasons, too.

Just how are we going to square the circle?

Li'l update: I see NFTs being mentioned, which sounds a bit band-wagony to me. In the Gemini protocol one creates TLS certificates. The Lagrange browser can generate a cert quite simply. So in at least some sense, isn't the identity issue "solved".

Another update: there's also the issue of discoverability. Centralised networks make discoverability easy. It's not insurmountable with decentralised ones (people are willing to host aggregators), but it is harder.
I would be surprised if the end result is that you get your heated seats cheaper.

Either the car manufacturer won't let you subscribe month by month (sorry, you need to subscribe to a year at least, the rules!) or they will jack up the price where they are ahead even with just seasonal usage.
I'm going to go with a contrarian take here and just say: It's OK and even mentally healthy to want always more.

As long as you are not giving up your health or your family in the process, I think career wise it's always a good idea to be looking for more. Either an even better job, or to create passive income to not have to work anymore. But many of us feel the "happiest" when we are working towards a specific goal for a brighter future.

Whether we reach or don't reach the goal doesn't matter as much as just feeling the struggle and the improvement. You are just currently in such a comfort zone that feel like this is the "end", but it isn't. You can aim for more and it is ok. And paradoxically you will feel better in your current situation, when you know it's temporary and when you are already working towards a different/better future.
Does anyone know if it's actually common for these vulns to be exploited by thieves?

I've heard of people using amplification attacks where they simply amplify the key fob from a distance (https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/car-thieves-are-hacking-key...), but using a replay exploit like this seems like it's a lot less common. Lately the big thing locally (south central Texas) has been catalytic converter thefts more than stealing anything inside the car though.
> The Vedas are considered revelation from the ultimate reality.

As far as I can tell from googling, they are just considered to be stories from Aryans that entered India. "The Vedas are considered the earliest literary record of Indo-Aryan civilization"
You might could get them on unauthorized access to a computer system, but I believe this would technically fall outside most places' law regarding breaking into a vehicle since they didn't actually open the vehicle.
I went to restore an old Crashplan backup of my desktop PC before I started traveling. The restore hung for at least a week without downloading anything. I'm guessing it was put on something Glacier like due to age, but there was no indication of how long it was going to take to get the files, and I was left wondering if they even still existed.

Run, don't walk, imo. I swapped to backblaze.
They had stopped this before 2019.
I ask the same question. I use Vaadin extensively. What I really love about it is that I am able to code my frontend apps just like my backend microservices apps... e.g. with Spring Boot. You can really leverage the years of experience in Java backend on your frontend.

So far I have not ran into a problem I could not fix yet. Vaadin does have a learning curve. After using it for a while, I find myself wanting to use my own components, versus the many components Vaadin provides out of the box.

Vaadin has support for PWA for single site apps. For multiple site apps, I had to create my own solution that relied heavily on Servlet Filters to dynamically return the PWA files.

Vaadin has a really cool testing library. It makes it really easy for me to do TDD on my frontend code. TDD is a MUST. So I quickly create a breaking test using the Vaadin testing framework... which uses Selenium underneath the hood. Using Selenium is huge cause I can get answers to my questions about testing by searching for the Selenium answer that I can apply in my tests.

Vaadin also supports PUSH technology out of the box. Its super easy to use. I use it extensively to have my web pages op up quickly, then slowly get filled out as the APIs return. No need to mention how awesome PUSH technology is. Though you need to be good at multi-threaded coding.

FYI, I don't work for Vaadin. Plus I am also a REACT programmer. I love REACT and find it very elegant. I shed a tear first time I used REACT. I think REACT and Vaadin are similar for me (in the sense that I can get a lot of high quality work done quickly). For personal projects I will always use Vaadin. For paying clients, they typically request REACT.... lol.
Regarding (1) ...

There's also a somewhat therapeutic thought pattern that goes something like this:

Would I even want to live in a world where someone, or some thing, has pre-determined my purpose?

... I think it's relatively easy to say 'eek! No!'

So then, define your own purpose (2)!

Ok... I can do that. My purpose in life is to just get through it, not give up, and try when possible to improve the lives of others, especially children and young adults.

I guess the secret is in finding peace with that purpose. It's not grandiose, it's not going to leave a mark, but it's probably the most realistic based on my aspirations and drive. Of course I'd love to say that my purpose is eradicating some childhood illness, or starting a business empire, or discovering a new form of energy... but yea, those aren't realistic and are likely to make me feel worse if I try to adopt them as my purpose in life.

Anyways, just my thoughts as I digest your post. Thanks.
here is my opinion. taxis have been a shady business (esp in eastern europe) for way too long. something like uber was simply bound to come and shake things up. uber offered a customer friendly service and employed people that needed to earn some extra cash. but here is the problem: they were too good. they killed the taxi industry, whose workers didnt drive taxis for extra cash but to provide for their familys. so now you have taxi drivers without work. who do they turn to for employment? they turn to uber/bolt or whoever killed their previous employer. so now uber doesnt employ people who just need to earn extra cash but drivers who use this occupation as sole means to provide for their family. and you know what? uber sucks as that type of employer
The interesting thing is that the author of the paper you linked is currently reviewing the paper, or was at the time of writing:

>> New research by Luis Piloto and colleagues at Princeton University – which I’m reviewing for an article in Nature Human Behaviour – takes a step towards filling this gap.

I don't reckon I've seen this kind of article before: "here's some new research I'm reviewing and I think it's rad". That just sounds so... dodgy. You're supposed to maintain at least the facace of being impartial and having some sort of integrity when making reviews, even when reviewing a DeepMind paper for Nature.
The mobile app notifies me of a new comment, and I have to exit the app and reopen it to see the comment.
Except that the idea Uber is doing shitty things is strictly the narrative of those that want to see Uber fail. But it’s obvious drivers and customers find utility in working for Uber otherwise there are competitors they can hop to extremely easily. Or they can just stop driving for Uber instantly.

The idea that Uber is creating slaves that have no agency is the typical elitist arrogance, sitting in their ivory towers, picturing all these poor Uber drivers suffering when it’s simply not the case.
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It's almost never a snow day in early October, I only remember one February count day + snow day. They count on the next day:

> If instruction is cancelled on count day due to conditions not within the control of school authorities, with the approval of the
State Superintendent, the affected instructional programs must use the immediately following day on which the district
resumes session for count purposes

per the rules at:

https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mde/Year/2...

I do recall my cousins at a poor rural school in Barry county having a couple snow days on Count Wednesday, and then subsequently calling one on Thursday when it wasn't really required and another on Friday where it really wasn't required, so that counts were as high as possible on Monday. Their snow days were much more frequent due to bad roads and bad road maintenance, and their state funding was much more important compared to my wealthy district.