skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're basically one of the largest employers on Earth (est. ~4 million drivers).

I thought Uber's line was that the drivers were independent contractors. By their own logic Uber only employs the engineers and support staff that actually work at Uber not the 4 million drivers.

Edit:

> They operate across all regions. All of that adds complexity.

I thought the idea was that by operating in multiple regions Uber could leverage economies of scale and deliver ride-hailing services cheaper than traditional taxi companies. Is this hypothesis completely incorrect then?
Same goes for work. If you join a well oiled machine that just seems to be working great, you may never understand how it works, since you won't be exposed to various people diagnosing issues. Join a place that used to work and is now creaking, or a place that never worked, and there's more pain but also more learning.

Also when does a Factorio system ever work? There's permanently a pressure for it to do more, stuff stuck on the wrong belts, not enough of some input...
I can't predict ultra far into the future (who can these days... :|), but Mutagen has been under active development for about 6 years now[0]. At the moment I have enough funding to work on it full-time until at least the middle of next year, though I also do Mutagen-related contracting and consulting work to support the project. Mutagen's Docker Desktop extension is going to be a freemium product designed to support the project more directly, which will hopefully allow development to continue indefinitely.

[0]: https://github.com/mutagen-io/mutagen/graphs/contributors
The broken system and the shitty service it provided to customers.
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Which makes this "live counter" pointless - as it is purely counting as if the losses are continuing at the same rate as the last n quarters
The latest Frozen Planet series shows a queen bee surviving winter in Siberian forest by digging down into earth and awakening in the spring thaw so other insects can do something like this or use eggs to do it.
Theory vs. practice. When there's a DoJ case with a web that's all unified through Monero, then you have proof Monero has been busted.
Monero hasn't been busted.

From the paper - "Our techniques show that Monero is not necessarily a dead end for investigators."

And then offers zero evidence to demonstrate that investigators were able to use anything from the seizures.

This is not evidence - "They (mistakenly?) advised their hopeful subscribers to publish their email addresses (hexencoded, but publicly visible) in the Monero blockchain, leading to these transactions being identified" [31]

[31] - https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@wh1sks/ theshadowbrokers-may-have-received-up-to-1500-monerousd66-000-from-their-june-monthly-dump-service

Link is broken - where is the evidence that 1500 XMR was transacted?
he's a bit, he likes to say how different he is from people and that he needs people like him, aka comedians

he also likes to remind people he had the biggest show

but he's pretty soft for a potential egomaniac
Its only a bad investment if it has zero value at the end of those 10 years, or stops producing cash flow then. OTOH, if its producing enough cash flow to have a market value of many times more than the 6B initial investment, it might look like a bargain.

TSLA market cap is currently greater than 600B and it produced 6B in positive cashflow in 2021 alone.
Uber is mostly just the biggest example of how many people with disposable income will happily consume lots of services if they're priced well below what they cost to provide.
What does it have to do with Factorio?
Are you saying semi-skilled jobs are hard to come by? That the woman in the article that was a hairdresser couldn't possibly find another hairdressing job?

The other example from the article was nursing. Nursing is in huge demand. That woman most certainly had other options.

I worked in Europe. My contract said my company had to give me 3 months notice before quitting.

And I had to give 3 months notice before quitting. If I didn't, I had to pay the company the equivalent of 1 months salary for each month of notice I didn't give. So if I just up and quit, I'd have to pay 3 months salary.

Was I a "indentured servant" too?
Yeah, very similar model for sure. I say this having used GStreamer in anger though: the complexity of Glib and GObject makes OP’s API quite a bit nicer to use. There are tradeoffs though; while GStreamer is complex and error-prone, it does have two big pieces that OP’s approach doesn’t:

- metadata in the streams. GStreamer streams have rich data attached to them that allows both sides of the chain to automatically negotiate the specific format and properties of the data in the stream.

- introspection. Given an opaque/genetic GObject pointer to an element in the processing graph, you can query its configuration and sources/sinks without knowing what the object is up front. This ultimately can allow you to walk the entire graph if you want and inspect all of the elements.
The last attempt I'm aware of was over a decade ago now, at the time there was some interest in building the system (kernel+userland) with pcc (Portable C Compiler), ultimately LLVM/clang won out in the end.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20091228231142
Yeah, that one in particular was a pretty bad take. Who cares how many shitcoins people create? Just ignore them. That's like me claiming that the stock market has been undermined because people can start an unlimited number of companies.
or this one:

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/tv/3414502/woman-kille...
You can do exactly the same with Obsidian, just don't create any folders and voila!

Nits aside, I use both and sometimes folder structure came in quite handy (like having separate notes for course modules and having 15 topics). I wouldn't remember even the names of these topics to come by when I need to.

But I agree also that the magic in Logseq happens more often than in Obsi (rediscovery). I think what contributes to it is the atomic nature of blocks as opposed to pages and daily scroll of all topics encountered recently.
I believe the main concern here, from dealing with clients that have mandated no PII in logs, is both authorisation as well as control. If it’s in your service logs, then it could be in your Splunk logs, it could be in a storage repository and it could be in your requests that you send to the service provider to troubleshoot some issue.

Unless there is a valid use case for logging PII (and I can’t think of any which can’t be engineered around) then I think it’s best to avoid it in principle.

I think of it as the same as logging passwords, keys or tokens.
Bitcoin is traceable due to its very implementation. Unless you know how to use it properly, it's very easy to deanonymize yourself on accident. And once that happens, all the transactions thereafter are easy to follow.

Monero, on the other hand, is designed to intentionally be hard to trace history of transactions on.
> Bitcoin is already expensive enough to transact in

Yesterday the average transaction cost was 0.7 USD. That’s pretty cheap as far as money transfers go, definitely beats most banks.
oh thanks, turns out i'm a wokist, maybe even a wokaholic. I'm addicted to wokahol.
Not bashing your answer but I just want to say a junior-ish developer who has read some of those books and is now overconfident in their skills is one of the worst and most toxic combinations I have ever had to deal with.

Knowing very little yet too arrogant to learn and always ready to smack you with the appeal to authority of the last book they just read on 47 principles of good code.

So word of advice to OP, don't become the beginner expert who has crammed a few books and now wants to fight everybody for the best programmer championship belt.

Stay humble and learn from the master craftsmen who have been going at it for decades. No amount of Uncle Famous books and blog posts is going to substitute for that experience.
>Also multi-sourcing is pretty common in the smartphone world (Apple does this a lot)

Yes, but Apple put a lot of effort into making sure their components are as similar as possible, from Speed / performance down to reliability and Power usage.

The benchmark here doesn't seems to show that.

And that is speaking as someone who is Anti-Apple.
Best viewed on desktop and hover over the cards to see the realistic effects. Some excellent holo effects (with CSS code)!
By the transitive property of riddance
Just curious I heard that radar guided AA guns are suitable to shoot these things down. Is it true or myth?
If I understand OP correctly then Uber is in fact making money, they just have some depreciating assets on their books.

It's like if your net wealth went down this year because your 401k declined. That doesn't mean that you're broke or even poorly managing your finances.

You can have a positive cash flow (budgeting and living within your means) while still having your overall net worth decrease.
It's probably both, I haven't checked the current requirements yet. I was originally planning to use a raspberry pi zero. the GPIO pins put out 5 or 9v, but the relays that handle 240v run on...I think it was 12v.
And the worst part is that business world has watched Uber (and WeWork, et. al.), and have tried to emulate the model with every new company created since.
He got banned from social media for posting “I am going defcon 3 on the JEWS” or something like that, not for exchanging Ideas in an Open Society. Unless you include this type of “ideas” in your definition.

I am not advocating censorship, but want to point out that your hopes might be misplaced. The illuminating ideas this kind of a free speech platform usually attracts rarely go far beyond bigotry.
That's been the narrative for many years, though. The idea that "...they're unprofitable by choice in pursuit of growth..." is indistinguishable from a bad business model. Most locales already have Uber alternatives that are sustainable and have a better service quality, the only reason Uber has marketshare in these locales is because Uber is cheaper... due to the loss-making behaviours. If Uber removed their incentives, they'd immediately lose marketshare to the local competitors that are already sustainable. Uber is incentives, Uber is investor-subsidised transport.
What's the advantage of using hx-boost? Just slightly smoother transitions?
Sometimes you want the exact opposite, though. Consider an endpoint that makes 100 behind-the-scenes requests (say, to S3). You absolutely want to retry at the lowest level, not the highest level. You could fail on the 99th request. If you kick it up, the caller will retry and you'll do those 99 requests again, instead of just retrying the one that failed. With enough requests, there's a point where you're unlikely ever to succeed without one of the calls failing if you restart from the beginning every time. I don't think you can "one size fits all" this, and that's one of the reasons retries are hard.

I use S3 as an example because it has a comparatively high random failure rate. You MUST implement timeouts and retries if you're using S3 as a backend.
I am going to make a robot that burns your house down. You might think this is unethical, but what you expect me to do? Implement an oracle to the US court system?

You might think it's unreasonable to build such a house-burning robot, but you have to realize that I actually designed it as a lawn-mowing robot. The robot will simply not value your life or property because its utility function is descended from my own, so may burn your house down in the regular course of its duties (if it decides to use a powerful laser to trim the grass to the exact nanometer). Sorry neighbor.

What do you expect me to do? NOT build this robot? How dare you stand in the way of progress!
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I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs. At least 4 by my count. Finding one wasn't that hard, because, well, they are minimum wage.

I most certainly judge the job by the offer - if I didn't like the manager, location, work conditions, I kept looking.
I'm a member of Parler and expected to see useful interesting content, but it seems to be a lot of Facebook & Twitter refugees who got suspended for various reasons (mostly political flame bait and misinformation) and now they vent their conspiracy theories on there with little resistance from the platform. What does Kanye expect to get from this purchase?
Indeed - hence my caveat
Sure but the DoD with probably ~1.5M* Tier 5 employees doesn't have this requirement of having to stay for your job or pay back the cost of a security clearance (~5.5k). That's a collective 5 billion fronted by employers.

I have no problems with a business making a job offer contingent on the candidate doing something (i.e. acquiring a rating or finishing a college degree). Presumably the salary you offer would reflect the skills that they have as well (Plus this is way better than student loans since you actually have a legitimate job lined up). But if you want a current employee to have a set of skills or certificates that they don't already, it's on you to do that.

* Google has ~170k employees [1] with ~2.5k job openings [2] (~70x multiplier). clearancejobs.com has 20.5k job openings so with 70x multiplier is roughly 1.5M.

[1]: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20220726_alphabet_10Q.pd...
[2]: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/
[3]: https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs?clearance=4
Meh. Amazon ran for 20 years before posting a profit.
That link didn’t work for me. But I would like to read it. Can you please confirm?
Yeah, she had essentially loaned the money from HHM. It was pretty much like this. They would pay for her law school, she agreed to work for them for X years, if she quit or would be fired before that, she'd owe an amount prorated to time worked.

At some point, there's some back and forth with her trying to pay it off and Hamlin refusing and choosing to forgive it instead. And in the end, Great Value Humperdink pays it off for her as a sort of signing bonus.
The topic of code generation that's near-identical or overwhelmingly-similar to existing code has come up a number of times. While the problem is obvious, it's a bit opaque and poorly communicated.

How has your team defined, specified and clearly articulated these issues with generation?

How do you test your generation to distinguish between fixing a problem vs reducing obvious true positives (i.e. unintentionally making the problem less visible without eliminating it)?

Without some communication on those fronts (which maybe I've just not seen yet), I'm not surprised that you get pushback against your product from people feel like you're taking a cover-our-ass-and-YOLO approach.
And some wallets do this automatically. But if you send a transaction and the change flows directly from your previous wallet to your next wallet, you're not accomplishing much.
Regardless of what you think of the action itself, the side-effects should be beneficial: increased use of Glassdoor/Blind/other employer-review sites; more networking in the workforce and sharing reputation (both good and bad) about employers; stronger support for (hopefully better unions); more careful reading of employment contracts.
Berkshire Hathaway has been incredibly profitable over its lifetime though. Uber has been incredibly unprofitable throughout its existence
Do those other employers not already have employees that may move to your current/old employeer?

It's zero-sum.
Maybe open-source licenses might need to be revised to disallow this sort of thing, e.g. by saying that any thing trained on GNU data must also carry that license.
You mean apart from the Factorio screenshots and the Factorio gameplay specifics?

The thread's start is here, btw: https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1581643197427523584
I think it's illegal in NYC to not accept cash and I fully support that. There are a lot of unbanked people here that have enough on their plates without further discrimination.

And also cash is king and coins and bills are very neat.
Another design for rooftop wind. https://www.acceleratewind.com/
If we expect jobs to fulfill non-business purposes such as "providing jobs to lower crime", and businesses receive tax breaks as a result, then businesses are double-dipping here.
I would encourage you to experiment a little. You can remove entire sentences while keeping the meaning, like this (the first joke on that page):

Original: According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Could be: According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

I just removed 20% of the words and the meaning is intact. The rhythm and emphasis for spoken delivery maybe not, but one of the things that bored me about Seinfeld eventually was the way he spoon fed everything to you, like he didn't quite trust you to be smart enough to get it the first time around.

Compare that to Steven Wright's work - there really isn't a word out of place there. You either get it or you miss it, he just keeps moving
For me and the vast majority of people that is a complete non-starter. And the primary value of a currenyc is that it gives you liquidity to participate in the economy. Until crypto can claim the same thing it only barely qualifies as a currency in my mind.
> removing driver/rider incentives and admit that the total addressable market is much smaller than they thought. I think this is what will happen when interest rates go up and free money stops.

Ah, for the halcyon days of 2014 when we could blame high taxi fares on the low-tech bureaucrats running medallion rackets.

Uber and taxi fares are pretty much neck and neck these days. How much more could they cut driver compensation?
Oh cool, a random tweet from the middle of a twitter rant.

Unleash the chaos monkey's just in case, not to get too confident.
The addition of cppfront during Herb's the talk was legendary.
Isn't it currently about 2X P/S? That's not terrible in itself.
> It would be QUITE the stretch to say most drivers have "actual intelligence and reasoning."

The accidents caused by people with a lapse in judgement are much more memorable than the billions driving safely and preventively every day.
~$30B of the wealthiest people's money that's redistributed to the masses.

Bravo!
Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs
Yes, I edited it out from my comment because I knew someone would point that out and I didn't really want to go on a tangent about it. I meant it's untraceable by some very narrow definitions of tracing.

You'd know that hex address X sent money to Y, but you wouldn't necessarily know that X is John Doe that lives at 1234 Main St., nor you'd be able to tell that, knowing address X, John Doe also owns address Z.

With KYC laws you have a lot more metadata to be able to do correlations like that, but I'm specifically talking about the protocol and the technology itself.
First you need to get users, then you need to worry about order and proper governance. This wiki is not failing because of "chaos" and trolls. It is failing due to a lack of a general interest.
1,500-Year-Old Ceramic Maya Figurines: Archaeology at El Perú-Waka’
https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1016752/the-real-cost-o...

Maybe not right this moment but our actions have consequences in the future.

For those who only see the next quarter, they're stoked.

For those who understand infinite growth is impossible and would simply like a livable world, they're horrified.
Tether is basically a bank with none of the regulations, not actually a blockchain. All transactions done in USDT are public, but the backing money isn't. But trust me, it's all there, and it's totally not in speculative Chinese bonds.
You forgot: ignore laws, lie and steal.
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My post said "use of tor", not "traffic of tor." A VPN is clandestine too.
Jack Welch meets Silicon Valley.
The linked tweet is part of a larger thread which details an issue with how they set up transmitters in factorio which led to the destruction of the entire base. The thread then pivots to how it applies to other areas.
You'ren't gonna need it.
For open blockchains, sure. Cash was the OG anonymous money.

There's a reason that neither CipherTrace, Chainalysis, nor Integra FEC got the IRS bounty for successfully tracing Monero transactions with all privacy features enabled. The latter two got a $500k grant to try, with $125k available for successfully tracing, but neither claimed that final $125k.

This also isn't an either/or where one crypto will win out. Different cryptos will continue to focus on different use cases. Bitcoin is one step removed from FIAT and just as traceable, but it's the first step you need to go from BTC to other cryptocurrencies - XMR for privacy, ETH for dApps and smart contracts, XRP to see what a CBDC will look like, LUNA for involuntarily donating your money to some south Korean guy, etc.
Yes, this is a pretty fuzzy 'science' topic - i.e. measuring public opinion. Looking at something a bit more quantitative would make sense. For example, infectious disease epidemiology is kind of mid-way between hard and soft. Looking at Covid transmission and outcomes relative to vaccination and testing, for example, might fit the bill. There's a good deal of uncertainty in the data (lack of reporting, widespread differences in prevalence of testing, efficiency of vaccines relative to different Covid strains, etc.) but ultimately it revolves around a hard science measurement (was person X infected with virus Y).
Isn't this literally just self-sabotaging? :)
It's more informative for judging value to examine peak vs min price. 80% production off peak just says there's some demand willing to exceed marginal production cost, which can be quite low.
That's why I run xfce4, best of both worlds!
You can’t go to space on a Ford Pinto (harsh truths I learned courting VC)
First-gen products often have issues like this. My old X370 board (zen1 era) turns off and on again twice before actually booting; a similar zen3 system doesn't need that and boots faster in general.
Here is a list of packages that depend on commons-text [0]. Hadoop, Spark, and Apache Commons Configuration are some of the most popular projects to depend on commons-text. Not sure if they're using the vulnerable code paths, of course.

[0] https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/common...
Mining, auto, and energy stocks go vroom vroom. Put tax money in roads and stocks go up. Also when you have a multi trillion dollar military to steal oil for chevron it's a handy way of knowing when the stocks are going to change.

https://investinganswers.com/articles/10-most-popular-stocks...

Then there's good old fashioned malice. Look at who used to live or run businesses where highways are now.

Times are a changing a bit these days. Weirdly a bunch of companies on that list are the ones that would love having a 24/7 video and lidar feed of everyone anywhere near a public space.
Sure, but the other 50 states are also filled with American citizens who deserve things, many of whom are scrappy and resilient. OTOH, the money being spent is also ultimately that of the American citizens', so the government should strive to accomplish the most it can for any given mission and budget.

In this case, the calculus may simply be that the mission can be more comprehensively and efficiently achieved via investments elsewhere that will similarly benefit Americans near those areas as a reinvestment would have benefitted in Puerto Rico.