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Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Re: Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Post by hinkley »

wildzzz wrote: post #114
munk-a wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In most areas taxi-companies use a zone-based system where cars will flag what zone they're in (rarely automatically using GPS and more often via button presses) this is an effort by the cab company to keep their vacant vehicles well distributed to keep a high response rate and increase customer turnover. It also happens to have the side benefit that an operator watching the flagged zones would be able to see this ki…

But there should still be some override that would allow for a bunch of taxis to converge at one spot. Say a sporting event just got out, there's going to be a lot of people looking to catch a ride home. If you don't want all of those customers finding another ride, the system should have no problem dispatching drivers from other zones to pickup. Having a bunch of fares popup at the same location shouldn't be a major…

It’s a distributed system right? How do you prevent saturation of a single service?

Backpressure.

Add artificial delays to the queuing time, increasing for each taxi.

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Post by gvb »

fblp wrote: post #104

Just wait til the day when someone does this with an autonomous car or delivery drone fleet!

Already happened: "A Swarm of Self-Driving Cruise Taxis Blocked San Francisco Traffic for Hours"

https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-swarm-of-self-driving-cruise...

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Post by eropple »

Angostura wrote: post #122
eropple wrote: post #67

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It's not. You don't want to burn softwoods; they're resinous and create a ton of smoke.

Properly dried they are pretty smoke-free

How dry are we talking? Because burning furniture-grade EWP offcuts (~6% moisture content) is smoky as hell. It isn't the wood, at least not entire - it's the sap pockets and other crap.

(I have a wood shop, these are things relevant to my interests!)

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Post by dhosek »

Scoundreller wrote: post #132
frogperson wrote: post #94

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It reminds me of a newspaper ad I saw 20 years ago which read "Free monkey and 10 pounds of monkey food. call 555-555-5555". Well the gentleman that answered did not have a monkey for sale, and was quite rude about it.

And Wouldn’t monkeys eat regular human food?

Monkey bite your face off.

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Post by aidenn0 »

fifilura wrote: post #98
zeven7 wrote: post #65

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Pine is really smokey and burns fast

Here in Sweden at least, christmas trees are not pines but spruce. These small ones with lots of branches - probably not worth the work effort unless you are desperate. And you'll get a lot of residue branches. You also want them to dry for a season before you burn them. Other than that, they burn just like any other log. Maybe a bit less energy per log. Maybe more smokey than some, but smoke should go out the chimne…

Mostly fir or spruce in the US as well, but those are often informally referred to as "pine"

Re: Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Post by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung »

yibg wrote: post #119
TEP_Kim_Il_Sung wrote: post #105

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So use a rocket stove? Burns too hot and efficient to leave residue.

Yeah, let me just dig the old rocket stove out of the basement and fire it up.

They are fairly easy and cheap to construct, plenty of guides for rocket stoves, and rocket mass heaters.

Want to heat an entire garage 24h with a hand full of twigs? An ordinary oven can't cope.

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Post by and-not-drew »

samus wrote: post #126
and-not-drew wrote: post #58

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That's got nothing to do with what we're talking about. The first comment didn't say they should have spent more time on security, it said they should have spent time creating a system to detect if too many taxis were in one spot. I think we can all agree that security is valuable and should be prioritized, but spending time worrying about how to stop who is already in your system from sending all the cabs to the wro…

Maybe they managed to also steal or encrypt data, and now the media attention in a sense helps the hackers claim extortion money? Since the showlights are now on that company?

True, but going back to the original argument, if hackers did manage to steal data, that makes the idea of spending time trying to prevent all the taxis from being sent to one place even stupider. In the world where YandexTaxi had extra time to spend on something, they should have spent it on securing their data better.

Re: Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Post by DonHopkins »

EwanG wrote: post #64
DonHopkins wrote: post #22

Elevator Pitch: jammr.com: It's like Uber for Traffic Jams!

I suspect you're kidding, but you know, having lived through a few very long traffic jams I could imagine some scenarios where I'd be willing to pay for: 1) Rickshaw or cargo bike with a narrow pull along trailer to let me use the bathroom 2) Similar setup with food and drink 3) Similar setup with a few gallons of gas if I've gotten a bit too close to empty 4) More expensive (XL?) version of the service where I am ge…

>1) Rickshaw or cargo bike with a narrow pull along trailer to let me use the bathroom

doodoober.com is available!

shyt.com is taken though.

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Post by fifilura »

aidenn0 wrote: post #156
fifilura wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in Sweden at least, christmas trees are not pines but spruce. These small ones with lots of branches - probably not worth the work effort unless you are desperate. And you'll get a lot of residue branches. You also want them to dry for a season before you burn them. Other than that, they burn just like any other log. Maybe a bit less energy per log. Maybe more smokey than some, but smoke should go out the chimne…

Mostly fir or spruce in the US as well, but those are often informally referred to as "pine"

Our land area consists of like 70% of either of those so I guess that makes it more important for us to tell the difference :)
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