skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all nonsense. Uber does not do any sort of up charging based on anything remotely uniquely identifiable. All of the dynamic pricing is based on publicly stated known information Uber has stated, ie surge based pricing. This and other anecdotal stories, such as battery life are all click bait.
In the article, the user looks at the price and thinks it seems higher than normal, which is different than comparing prices for identical rides at the same time.

EDIT: There is another account I missed in the article where identical rides are compared, so I take this back
Like in the article?

> He went a step farther and did something I didn’t: he checked Uber prices “with someone else’s phone” who did not have a balance in their Uber account – and Uber was pricing the route at the usual $20 for them.
This looks to be about enabling the "bricked" (as in not recoverable without external tools, in this case) iPhone to receive the recovery image over wireless connection as an alternative to receiving it over a wire. All of the same protections around needing to be a signed image, a device not on Apples stolen/banned list, and needing to be done from an iPhone already asking for recovery (i.e. it's not some state you push wireless TO the device, it's something it requests and other devices can accept helping with) stay in place regardless if the data is received over a wire or now wirelessly. At most the exploitability change here would be in removing the requirement to have another device connected via cable to execute some set of attacks that break the actual security steps.
After visiting the link I was surprised to find out this wasn’t about SharePoint.
That feels somehow like building your website for IE6 because some people still use them.
Lots of people missing the point- not abusing and keeping an tool maintained is easy when the market is enthusiastic about said tool.

Which is essentially what most of the cargo bicycle market is right now.

Pushing it to a wider audience and expanding your users pushes the needle in one direction only: those less enthused about care and maintenance.

It also means less skilled riders, less common sense, more abuse, etc.

And if you want to open a business doing this as a service- you have 2 groups of clients: Cyclists and non-Cyclists who own bicycles.

I don't really want to imagine having to deal with either of those as my primary clients. For entirely different reasons. Unless I was charging absurd amounts.
Honesty and transparency can be a brand asset to create long-term loyalty, which reduces customer churn, reduce marketing spend, etc. All it takes is founders/executive leaders who can see past top- and bottom-line.
It is funny how we (firefox users) take Mozilla's fails so personal. That something that became very common now tho. Mozilla is incapable of creating anything relevant in its current format, unfortunately. Soon, they won't have even a userbase to try these failed experiments.
As a physics (and SF) enthusiast, I've come to realize that we've discovered most of the physics that exists, and all of what we can use. This is disappointing for those who yearn for FTL or teleportation, but it's good news when you consider that it creates an impregnable defense against interstellar invasion. Within the limits of modern physics, there remains a great deal to understand and apply, especially in QM because to quote Feynman "there's plenty of room at the bottom". Biology and nanotechnology can still revolutionize human existence.

The key problem humans must grapple with an solve, if we are to make it long-term, is how to harness greater and greater power without destroying ourselves. Nuclear destruction has been a very real option for 80 years. Biological weapons could do the job, too. And of course, climate change looms. For many years I agreed with the thinkers that wish for a "backup plan" for humanity; however, I don't think Mars will do it simply because its environment is even harsher than a post-nuclear holocaust Earth. The important reality that THIS is our home, and we must protect her even if it's hard. Yearning for advanced physics to solve all our problems has the unfortunate side-effect of undermining motivation to solve the problems we have now with the tech we have now. It underlies an unfortunate "disposable planet" attitude that we'd be better off without.
I'm not a heavy user, but I noticed that if I start with Google Maps anonymously and hit the ride-share button which gives you a comparison of Uber, Lyft, etc. prices, that when you click through the price is consistently lower than if you start with an app. I'm not sure if it's circumstance, but it's worth giving a shot if you have the time.
If the average selling price of a stolen phone drops, the incentive to steal phones does so too.

> Your argument is the same that carrying less cash would make you less of a target for pickpockets. It won’t. They will steal a wallet with no cash as fast as a wallet stuffed with hundreds.

People don't tend to carry cash any more. And you know what has stopped happening as often as a result?
It's Android, and it was 200 bucks from Lenovo, including a pen.

Part of my reason for being cheap is that I've seen more than one tablet get destroyed, while playing music. One got blown over by the wind at an outdoor gig, the other somehow got knocked around in my instrument case and the screen cracked in half.
I don’t know but there is my use case, I would expect a product and design team to figure it out as best they see fit. Or throw it out.

Maybe auto-suggestions as you type into certain fields? You’re typing into the location field of a new event and received a hotel booking receipt email in the last 2 hours, perhaps the address of that hotel could be a smart auto-suggestion? Things like that.
The one legitimate point that page makes is that it's scummy that Nextcloud paywalls its documentation. See also https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.en.html
If you're impressed by Ableton, wait til you see Bitwig.
You just described most open source models.
London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
This is just a likely as the previous tweets they've made in the past promising Mars in two years.

Case in point: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/780859270011113472
Hot Damn!

Is that what is happening!

I've been experiencing this with SublimeText and VSCode!

I've taken screenshots, and a video, but had not submitted any bug reports yet.

Whenever I make a new file, say 'foo.html.haml' the system will append .h to the file.

I'd guessed it was a system wide issue, and uninstalled the new XCode just on the off chance, but that made no difference.

Maybe Apple should have held back the Sequoia release like they often do!

Edit:

These sorts of ridiculous issues are not doing anything to stop me considering moving my dev environment to Linux full time :-/
Plagiarism Claims Are Brought Against University of Maryland's President
https://archive.ph/B6UXf
I very much could have if I cared, yes. I really right then end up using the code at the end of the day, so it doesn't matter
Uber was consistently charging me 20%-50% more than my friends. Same time, same origin, same destination, no discounts, regardless of who asked first or rider rating. Can't share screenshots without doxxing myself, though.

After being gaslit by Uber support for weeks, they finally admitted to charge riders different prices, and that there was nothing they could do to reset my price multiplier[1]. I suspect it was because I added a Work profile with corporate credit card for a trip years ago.

So I deleted my account, waited 30 days for the data to be expunged[2], and created a new account under a new email address and without my middle name. The prices are now normal!

This plus drivers constantly cancelling rides, makes me avoid Uber as much as I can.

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[1] Quoting Uber support: "The prices of the trips and promotions are unique to users, that is correct. [...] There is sadly nothing you can do personally to change the fare rate of the trips before any discount is applied."

[2] After requesting to delete your account, I received an email asking to explain the issue and if they could help me. Replying "no" automatically reactivated my account and reset the 30 day timer.
The price adjustments due to coupons, rewards programs, and food stamps are all publicly available (transparent). No hidden algorthms. If the coupon says 10% off, then that's what you get. It's not maybe 10% off or maybe something else depending on a secret recipe like if the temperature is between x and y and you have a name that rhymes with Pobert or whatever else some AI has figured out.
I sincerely hope there is an iOS version of Steam coming, especially after they wasted a year of everybody's time preventing Steam because of their fear you might buy a game on your computer, from your phone, without paying them.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/24/apple-rejects-valve-ste...
The post you're replying to couldn't have made it any easier to answer these questions yourself. No, it won't be as good as the state of the art with massive cloud infrastructure behind an http api.
In the article, the same thing is later tried with the user’s phone and the phone of a friend in sequence, at the same time.
Not an Uber card, just Amex.
It really depends. At my first job it was used with some success, but we were a PaaS, with few employees and a hard limit on costs (at least the two first years, then we were profitable enough to probably upgrade but it was integrated enough). It was just after they forked themselves too, so it wasn't as feature-complete as now.

Now, I would not use it unless you have to follow ISO norms/get governmental agreements for any company with enough money. If you're a three-person startup with one client barely paying two salaries, trying to find a bigger market though, go for it.
No, I don't think I'll be telling nice sounding lies about web development.
That's horrendous, but it fits with Google's method of releasing a product, immediately abandoning it, and shutting it down permanently a year later.
It is a failure of capitalism that we need to force certain people to behave ethically, taking the role as umpire for a broken system.
> Betterment of humanity? Blink twice if a LinkedIn PR person is holding you at gunpoint

I was referring to Generative AI in general, this use-case is quite boring.

> a corporate behemoth vacuuming people's personal information so they can sell them to the highest bidder

Do people not use LinkedIn to explicitly signal to the world that they're looking for a job? Why does it matter how that information is being delivered? If you don't want the world to know you're looking for a job simply don't update LinkedIn?

> corporate use of technology for mass surveillance is equally incompatible with the idea of a democratic society

The argument against government power/surveillance is that they have a monopoly on it and may use their power to hurt people. It is good to legally protect sensitive information like health data from advertisers, but in this case you can, again, simply not use LinkedIn. What difference does it make if the info is collected by a company looking for new hires, a third party analytics company working on behalf of them, or LinkedIn itself working on behalf of them? It's not private data.
The family was reportedly able to resolve the issue and will travel to the Dominican Republic as planned.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/09/22/family-told-to-chang...
You would be amazed how many normal people dont have a computer - they have an iPad and an iPhone (or android similars), and yeah - its like that now.
My understanding has been that the design of Mastodon is such that this is not universalizable—if everyone ran their own instance every instance would end up with too much traffic and drown. Is this understanding wrong?
> What was required to start a new usenet domain?

Assuming you mean a new newsgroup (discussion forum for a single topic e.g. comp.lang.lisp):

- If you wanted it in the Big 8 hierarchy, you had to campaign for it and get support and prove it would have traffic.

- If you wanted it in alt.*, you just posted a control message (and then everyone ignored your group)

Or you could make your own hierarchy but it's up to each individual server which hierarchies they carry.
NightShares ETFs Close After Struggling to Gain Traction
Love the fact I didn't need to signup to get value out of this!

Note: I would suggest just removing dark mode for now. Works WAY better in light mode. I almost missed the light mode, and that would have been too bad.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/2eac5XZe...
I don't believe for a second that the reduced emissions are enough for these kids to actually notice. ULEZ is a tax on being poor, nothing more.
When is this shitty company going to be finally shut down. Its been caught so many times cheating or breaking state laws. Just shut it down already. The business model doesn't work, its cooked.
Why don't you think they get audited by "good" actors.
Emacs in its final form? Sadly, for those of us not versed in Elisp, such power remains a pipe dream.
> As a fresh college grad still, I needed the job and stability.

This is why we have student debt. It keeps employees compliant and subservient.

No I don't think there is a cabal of industry conspiring to achieve this. But, with thousands of little nudges from business this is where we ended up.

I know sales leaders who intentionally encourage their sales people to get into financial commitments (e.g. buy that bigger house, a new sports car). This is all so that the seller is desperate and will work crazy hours to ensure they get their commissions and can pay these financial burdens.
Who would be paying for this astroturfing? Shimano? Cannondale? Mike's Bikes? It's far more believable that bicycle enthusiasts that work at LBS are posting to bike forums at work when it's slow or by enthusiasts while waiting for a part to come in, than a coordinated effort by someone with money to burn is paying people to post on forums and no one's ever reported being approached to do it.
Yes, I suspect if you were doing real research vs. clickbait for Lending Tree you’d find some way to calibrate owner estimates to actual sale prices & adjust for that bias.
Nostr is not trying to be Twitter; Nostr the protocol is more generalized than that. It just so happens that a lot of people want a Twitter alternative right now, so that's a popular Nostr webapp to make.

There is also Nostr chess, Nostr podcasting, Nostr marketplaces, Nostr data vending machines, Nostr blogs, and more. See https://nostrapps.com/ for a sample of what people are making.
Appears to be struggling from the hug of death.
I don't have any evidence, but a hypothesis that 1% of Firefox users care enough to keep it afloat looks more realistic than if it turned out that 100% of users would need to shell out $30/mo.

Numbers of voluntarily paying users in open-source projects are usually pretty low, so 1% looks like the right ballpark, and is worth further research, as opposed to rejecting the approach outright as unrealistic.

I'm speaking about the existing user base, who do not need converting. Also, you speak of browsers as of indistinguishable commodity goods; they are not. The pressure that Google exerts to slowly strangle ad-blocking extensions in Chrome will likely make more people consider alternatives.
Is there an (academic / journalistic) area/body of research about the pricing/recommendation/other influential algorithms of various products?

I have conspiracy theories about Spotify autoplay (wouldn't it seem smart to prioritize songs with lower licensing cost?) and would like to see them checked. Surely I can't be the only person interested in the specific ways products used by hundreds of millions of people actually work?

There's a lot of superstition and anecdotal evidence in this area and it would be great to see a reliable source of actual research.
FWIW, I consider that definition to be both reasonable and (in the context of "distributed systems") authoritative.
People are assuming that some evil mustache-twirling PM/engineer decided to charge users more if they have credits in their account. The truth may be far more banal. They may be using a ML model to determine pricing. The ML model takes as input all known information about that user. One of those inputs, which simply came bundled together with everything else, is the user's credit balance. The ML model, after much historical analysis, figured out that it can charge users more if they have credits available. The relevant engineers treated the ML model as a black box, ran an A/B test, saw a 1.3% increase in revenue, and decided to roll it out.

If this isn't already happening, I expect this will be the future of our industry.
iOS restore doesn't trust anything; that's why you need an internet connection to do it. This proxies the internet connection.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-software-upd...
The Worm Guide: A Vermicomposting Guide for Teachers [pdf]
What were the negative comments about?
I use the session view for vocal recording. Recording multiple takes to new clips in session view, then copied into the arranger, it lets me comp several takes without messing up the final arrangement, and is great for project organisation.
That's not possible because the requirement is built into the ROM. They'd have to release the keys and then you could emulate it.
(the other part of the team that built this here)

Honestly makes me pretty happy you called out the theme. I've always enjoyed this style of design and was sad to see that it never picked up steam. I love how it seems to combine a digital Material design with a more physical and real feeling. I'm doing my part to bring it back.

The tool definitely has some kinks in it that we have plans to iron out over time; we just wanted to get it in front of people to see if anybody would even like it. Right now it's just grabbing the first 256 tokens and categorizing on that, and it grabs the first 5000 comments (split over 5 calls) over the past month.
Not really, there's many many ways to skin the cat. I've more or less settled into Claude Sonnet 3.5 being my go-to for the moment.
In general it does as well or better than 4o, but where it really shines is in actually following my system prompts. I have standing instructions to essentially be minimalistic but Claude is much less 'forgetful' and arguably more on point with answers. Both need new conversations started regularly as token size gets too large. I do not find o1 preview any better at code for my purposes, although it is waaay better at math.
There's no reason much smaller, even local models can't answer many questions but then you'd be model switching a lot.
All of them are still tools that need practice and a developing intuition to get the best out of.
It bonkers isnt it!

Do none of Apple's developer team use any other editor at anytime other than XCode! How was this not picked up in beta testing!?

Here's another gripe:

The tiling feature maddens me!

You cant disable it completely or remap the key bindings.

Did anyone at Apple even test this using a full size Magic Keyboard?

Using the FN key to move windows is fine when the key is down next to the Control key. Which it isnt on the full size keyboard.

And I assume the developers at Apple use the big Magic Keyboard?

So did anyone of them even think for a minute about how useless it is to bind the window tiling feature to the FN key?

Plus, you can't fully disable Sequoia's tiling, so it interferes with my 3rd party tiling tool :-/
Thanks for pointing it out.
Just fixed.
Not just parasite also just straight fraud. All these services promise a fair transaction but as soon as something goes wrong claim no responsibility. Uber ABB Google none of them accept any responsibility when something goes wrong.
Can confirm that it does, at least on the pixel 9 pro fold, after enabling it in developer options.

However, I don't see the top window handle they show in the animation. I have to long press the app icon in the running apps view, then I get a free form option. At that point, I get the floating windows with controls. You can tap and drag the sides and corners of apps to resize windows, seems intuitive enough.
It's my goto VA synth too. I'll reach for it first, before Analog or other VSTs.
I think an alternative to Electron that makes it easier to write efficient desktop applications using web technologies would be welcome. Basically, figure out why so many Electron apps end up slow and laggy and make first-party code that does those tasks better (and in Rust, for nerd cred.)

Edit to add: although I guess this would be related to Firefox. Oh well!
Is it less evil if an unsupervised process does it?
What was the crucial functionality stripped in Core that's not completely MS-specific?
It’s just hard to read. Clearly he can make amazing games given constraints, but… It feels like there’s always an excuse for not doing as promised, and only trying to justify things in hindsight.

I guess all problems could be solved by just having him work on the game, and leaving PR to literally anyone else. Hell, the janitor would be a safer bet.
I partially agree, you agree to the terms of service. However one should also not forget that LinkedIn is quite dominant and a very big player. For many businesses it is simply not an option to not be on their platform, unless they can afford to lose potential customers and employees.

Rules change for monopolies and oligopolies, and for a good reason IMHO. LinkedIn belongs to Microsoft, so does GitHub. Don’t forget Windows, Azure, Office, Visual Studio and a long list of other products. They want to take your data from all possible sources and if you just point to the TOS alone this would be totally valid. But we have to look at the bigger picture and already do so in other areas, for example GDPR.
As an example, Google Cloud Run[1] is far superior to AWS Fargate and Azure App Services[2]

1 - https://ashishb.net/tech/how-to-deploy-side-projects-as-web-services-for-free/
2 - https://ashishb.net/programming/how-to-deploy-docker-images-on-microsoft-azure/

Even Google Cloud CLI is far more usable than AWS CLI.
The regulation doesn't require having a port I believe. Just that if there is a port, it's USBC.
We're actively taking suggestions from people to improve it. The webserver was probably just restarting with the new suggestions :)
The issue is that you responded to stuff around reasons for being a hacker with a requirement that isn't a requirement for hacking.

Hacking doesn't require something to be built for other people.
My Nostalgia Machine: Recreating 80s Broadcast TV with a Raspberry Pi [video]
Not even that, the newest pro has the best single thread CPU out there because it's the only device on M4 (or at least it had until AMD's Zen 5 not sure how it compares now)
That isn't that different than choosing to charge more for accounts with credits. Make "having credits" available to an ML model and then let the ML model "ethics wash" the decision.
Exit vim - Sentiment: neutral (Confidence: 98.32%)

Stockholm Syndrome?
I see. That seems like pretty good evidence then.

The point of the OP is that it is impossible to submit evidence that contradicts these anecdotes, because it is impossible to prove something never happens through experiments.
I've never heard of a "bricked" iPhone. I didn't think you could flash its firmware outside of official methods so how exactly would you brick it?
The Nature empire is just another click bait factory.