skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently only a minority of people aged between 9 and 99 drive a car. Although almost every baby boomer drives it is not so for other generations. With driverless cars that you can just hop in 'taxi style' or own outright then there are going to be a lot more people taking a lot more journeys.

However, the self driving car solves many other problems. For instance, in some of our cities most of the traffic is people driving around looking for some place to park. That is it, that is what they are doing rather than going somewhere important.

At some stage the existing dumb cars we have parked on our streets now will get sent off to the recycling facility, if, at the same time, more people are getting glorified driverless cabs and not buying their own cars, then there really can be a sizeable bit of highway real estate to recover. Hopefully because the self driving cars go in convoy this extra road space can be for people, e.g. on bicycles, and not for yet more automobile infrastructure.

Then there is the school run, no need for the journey there and back, plus the ride sharing can get smarter to know who needs to be where and when, i.e. self aware of all the meetings in town.
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That's not exactly what "free" means in an economic context, but probably doesn't alter your point.

Something is "free" if, at a price of zero, there is enough supply to meet demand.
> (1) not leaning on your arms

I can already guess an answer to this, but would you mind expanding on it anyway? I tend to do this on my bicycle a lot.
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> iirc, they even pre-filled in the line for potential value with Apple's current share price (so, 5000 shares * 700 Apple-level share price = 3.5M)

Wow. $700 * 300,000,000 shares outstanding (according to the screenshot someone else posted) = $210,000,000,000. That was... optimistic.
> I ended up thinking that we do need physical stimuli. A lot. And that our brain likes to reflect from physical to ideal, if we skip a step, we deprive/depress the system. It will work but less so than having a right blend of physical then ideal brain stimulation.

This. It's especially evident when you're trying to learn: a physical book gives you more sensations to associate with. Taping on a small kindle screen gives you a much less varied experience.
Frankly maybe they should just be allowed to charge differential prices based on race. If race correlates with different insurance outcomes for some reason then covering up the symptoms doesn't change anything, the same link might just end up being discovered by an ML system via other signals. I've seen ML repeatedly discover inconvenient truths in other (non individual related) contexts and suppressing the feature it was using to make the connection just caused it to find worse equivalents based on combinations of other features.

My sympathy is somewhat limited because in recent times it feels like there's plenty of explicit racism in the world against whites, like the BBC constantly posting internships and job ads that specifically forbid white people from applying. If western societies have somehow concluded that it's OK to engage in that sort of thing, then why shouldn't race be a factor in insurance contributions? At least that has some sort of coherent argument for why it's a good thing (more accurate premiums for everyone).
This. I've literally never held a job that wasn't okay flex time, and I've worked at 4 radically different types of companies as a software engineer over the last 7 years.

I'll be honest, I was surprised to read this sorry if environment still existed for programmers
It's all relative. 100K where I live affords you a nice house, in a decent area of town with good school systems. $170K household income (one developer salary and one person doing basically anything) allows you to easily afford a home in one of the top 25 most affluent counties in the U.S. with plenty of wiggle room in your budget. Our lifestyle wouldn't be the same in the Bay Area.

Also, from what I understand, Sweden has a lot of benefits that we have to pay for in the US (healthcare, post secondary education, paid parental leave, etc.)
:( I loved this authors previous blog posts but man this one has a lot of inaccuracies

- People don't trust apps more than they do banks. Traditional bank accounts are expensive (for bank & users) and its this has been the primary limiter of financial inclusion. Mobile wallets reduce branch costs. Mobile wallets like Grab, where the "bank" has a few hundred thousand employee / customers and millions of potential users to sell to have a great head start.

- People use grab-pay / go-pay instead of cash because you get a big discount on services when you do. They need to this, because cash-in to mobile wallets is such a pain. And no, they don't have much trust in apps. Subsidies can be reduced of course as they cement habit and provide more utility from the app (hence the rush for merchants & new use cases).

- Credit card fraud doesn't stop people from applying for credit cards. Central bank regulations on ownership criteria do. As does financial prudence (& religious reasons here).

- The NO TIPPING signs at Jakarta Airport are to let you know its a free service. Because tipping parking attendants is commonplace. Its not related to bribary.

- "Thieves are everywhere". Not gonna comment on that one. But I will on the "the evil taxi drivers in cahoots with the police" one. If this was commonplace there would obviously not be much demand for the legions of taxi's that operated before online apps came around. Once, I was ripped off by a guy offering a hotel in a train station in Rome. It doesn't mean hotels in Rome are inherently untrustworthy.

The latter part of the article is pretty accurate - Grab & Gojek are have made huge improvements in employment and financial inclusion. They have opened up the door to insanely cool new services and Id struggle to think of tech companies who have made such a huge impact into daily life here (Including FB & the like). Its also extremely likely that one of them will become the Alipay/Wechat of SEA and re-arrange the banking & e-comm landscapes too over the next few years.
Constructive criticism: Perl 6 needs to be at least as fast and preferably faster than the competition to start seeing some serious use outside the echo chamber.

"Lets move to Perl 6 since it will cut our infrastructure costs in half. It will also cut our time to market in half due to the fantastic tooling." Thats the kind of things business decision makers need to hear.
"What's good about that?"

You get exercise. Most people slack off in bad weather, so there is a bonus (I'm also in Norway. I walk and ride the bus 95% of the time. You get used to it and dress appropriately.) Sure, most public transport doesn't provide door to door service - cabs do, though, and those generally have more options. And though there are limitations, you don't have to own a car nor pay for all the expenses with it.

Some of these are bad or incomplete public transport issues, which means they can be improved.
Maybe if someone creates a more "social" RSS experience!
A Feedly with Friends! (does this already exist?)

Basically a follow-based social graph on top of the excellent feedly experience. So there's a "Social" tab, a timeline of sorts, with things like:

"Your friend just read 'Some Cool Article Title' from 'That publication'"

"X commented on Y: ... "

"X1, X2, X3 subscribed to 'Some Publication Making The Rounds'"

Call it Socialfeeds or Feedbook or something. Bootstrap over twitter/fb social graphs.

Back in the day of google reader I remember there were some basic social features (hope these are not false memories...) and I actually really enjoyed them because of course I want to discuss all the cool shit I'm reading with my friends!
Did you read the full article? It's a long read but the logic is quite well explained. Whether you agree with the logic or not is another thing but it is definitely explained in the article and cannot be summarized by your quote.
I too find those comparisons confusing. Being a python programmer for 3 years now, I can see what actually made me keep learning it to the point I use it professionally, daily.

The language has enough mixes of advanced features that allowed me to curate what features I learned (and then used).

A classic example is the use of the logging module and decorators for login function calls. I did the whole thing I wanted to do without proper logging, but when I wanted to add logging to a few function calls, I simple research pointed me to using decorators and the logging module.

And so, more python goodness for myself. That led to other features such as the decorated classmethods and etc, but all in my own pace. That is something that I've only encountered with python.
Or to Europe, for that matter.

> incidental travel [is] actually the majority of trips that people take: going shopping, visiting friends, going to the doctor's, eating out, etc. [...] People own cars to serve this need, because nothing else will

I use public transit (or just plain walking) for all of these tasks. Admittedly, this only works because I live in a city rather than a village in the countryside: When I visit my brother who lives in a small village, I arrange that he picks me up with his car from the nearest train station.

But it's nothing like grandparent's very American perspective of "public transit is only good for commuting".
This is a common low power indication.
Remote, timezone-distributed teams deal with this all the time. We always ensure everyone has a bunch of work they can do, and we use email/chat to handle the asynchronous communication issue. What you described isn't a scheduling issue, it's a communication issue. Not on your part, either, BTW.
I don't know anything about this company.

But, just because the valuation went down, doesn't mean it's the management's fault. Maybe the old valuation was based on wishful thinking, and over time it sunk in [to everybody] that there are core problems with the product/biz.model/etc that they can't solve. This I've seen multiple times are startups. There's some fundamental problem which is masked by growth. Management keeps hiring people and hopes somebody eventually magically fixes the problem. After ~5 years the company accepts the problem. OR a new competitor emerged, etc.

Even a shitty management team is a management team that keeps the company running.
Still trying to understand. You're a citizen of the EU as is your family. Why leave your family behind?

Not having been to Europe so I don't know, but if you speak English does that help make mobility easier?
> Because the benefits people claim stem from automation actually stem from public transport.

What about more efficient use of roads because automated cars have a shorter reaction time and thus do not need as much safety distance between them?
Which is fitting, given that Thomas More's original Utopia (as in the novel of that name) was also very much ambiguous (e.g. a lot of the features of More's utopia were things very much at odds with his rather pious catholic personal views).
Moms in minivans isn't as much of a stereotype because kids just walk to school or take the bus/metro

Where in the UK are you? I lived several years in England as a teenager and went to a 'nice' school in the suburbs of Surrey and almost everybody drove their kids to school.
Ukrainians flee like crazy to Czechia, Poland, and Germany. The rates offered in Ukraine are literally a spat in the face, also the country offers almost no social security. It's a sad and dark place to create the software in - corporations love it.
this article seems like a good strategy that attracts employees to apply for a position at intercom
Vanguard is supposedly getting into blockchain technology to manage the indexes for their funds...[1]

I have seriously wondered whether I should consider avoiding them. Not just because blockchain=bad, but because I was thinking about how their commitment to minimizing costs could backfire someday, if not immediately.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vanguard-group-blockchain...
The same company that wanted to force people to give them access to their social media to help determine their premiums.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/admiral-t...

Thankfully, facebook put a stop to it. But if they hadn't I'm certain it would have become a common practice.
I didn't interpret their comment that way. It's common to have a handful of managers under you, but reference to their reports as your managees as well. That easily reaches 100-200 people.
Which project should he work on instead?
They did not claim to directly manage 300 people, and it's somewhat bizarre to assume they did.
There's an infinite amount of detail that's impossible to capture in a comment and which invariably changes over time and doesn't hold in the future.

For my team, the solution has been writing longer commit messages detailing not only what has changed, but also the why and other considerations, potential pitfalls and so forth.

So in this case, a good commit message might read like:

```
Created square root approximation function

This is needed for rendering new polygons in renderer Foo
in an efficient way as those don't need high degree of accuracy.

The algorithm used was Newton-Raphson approximation, accuracy was
chosen by initial testing:

[[Test code here showing why a thing was chosen]]

Potential pitfalls here include foo and bar. X and Y were also
considered, but left out due to unclear benefit over the simpler
algorithm.
```

With an editor with good `git blame` support (or using github to dig through the layers) this gives me a lot of confidence about reading code as I can go back in time and read what the author was thinking about originally. This way I can evaluate properly if conditions have changed, rather than worry about the next Chthulu comment that does not apply.
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Here in the UK, if you elect to get private health cover in addition to the NHS-provided general care, older people do pay more.
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If you can tell your friends, that customers also like to be tracked/found, temporarily (if needed) Phoning is not really helpful, i dont understand them, they dont understand me. SMS the driver also does not work, as i usually do not buy SMS budget. And the notes are ignored by drivers! Maybe even a little doodle to show them how to drive best to the location on the last mile, could be useful. :)
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Interesting definition.

It follows that nothing is universally free, it can only be free within spatial (and probably temporal) constraints. The usual candidates (water, air) are certainly not free everywhere.
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After guiding beginners through Python, one crucial advantage it has over other language for beginners is good documentation (and a lot of it), and a readily available REPL.
The beginner can quickly test different variables/data structures, observe that something's fishy, and then read the documentation to find out what the code is supposed to do. Contrast that to a beginner debugging a similar problem in, say C, which would be far more difficult.
In my opinion that cartoon is possibly unrealistic. I think many people might fail to recall a password correctly while drugged and being hit with a wrench. I suspect I would.
Where I live, the buses cause significant traffic problems. They stop in driving lanes to pick up and disgorge passengers. Their stops are out of sync with traffic signals. They are slow.

Self-driving cars available on demand might solve a lot of that. However, like most "utopias," I don't think we will ever achive the ideal efficiencies that self-driving car advocates imagine. The real world is too complicated.
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No mention of Brandon Sanderson and the Cosmere novels? Instead of a single fantasy world, you get a whole universe!

"All of the books share a single creation myth (though not all cultures are aware of it), a single cosmology, and are connected by an overarching story." [0]

Sure, one could argue that it's still not fully-formed, as it's still in the process of being written. But the same could easily be said for A Song of Ice and Fire.

The Stormlight Archive quickly won a place in my loved series category. I don't think I devoured any book from last year as quickly as when the latest entry in the series was released.

One of my favorite things about Brandon Sanderson is that he proactively engages readers (/u/mistborn on Reddit), and he gives regular status updates on his writing progress. I highly value transparency from authors.

I'd never heard of Earthsea, but the article managed to catch my interest. I'm adding it to my queue.

[0] http://stormlightarchive.wikia.com/wiki/Cosmere
I couldn't find much about this 16 entries stack depth issue. Does anyone have more information?
> Don’t worry about trying to get attention, let alone the most possible attention, for your own stuff.

This is just counter-intuitive...

As a founder, how can I not worry about getting attention? If a product doesn't get any attention, it will just... die.

And if I'm showcasing my own product, it doesn't mean it's not interesting and that nobody will find it interesting...

I'm not pushing too hard either, just really want to detail it further (again, my fault for not doing it originally).
> Particularly, I noticed code reviewers on my team are pretty pedantic, obsessed with correctness, and need to be explained why each change is okay.

That’s funny; I thought you were going the exact opposite direction with that. I wish my code reviewers were pedantic and obsessed with correctness!

The few time’s I’ve had the pleasure of working with them (usually open source) were the times I’ve learned the most about programming in the shortest time, by far. Especially about readability and quality of comments.
Disagree. A code-review is not purely checking for non-functional properties of the code, it's checking for overall code quality, and that includes bugs.

Occasionally a reviewer will spot a bug. Occasionally there will be a false positive that turns out not to be a bug.

You really want to deliberately discard this bug-finding opportunity? Why?

Even if it's a false positive, doesn't that indicate that something bears commenting?
The founder will swan straight into his or her next Series A without missing a beat. They have already proven themselves to be a willing pawn for VCs to exploit Workers after all. The petit bourgeoisie, if you will.
Yes! It's really good.
A lot of the discussion where really isn’t about C. It’s about the mechanics of how the CPU works, particularly the functionality it exposes to the kernel. I recommend reading the Intel Architecture Reference Manual, Volume III.
>Is turning up on time for your job a terrible metric?

The worst metric.

That is, unless the "turning up on time" is actually causing a serious and recognizable problem. Then it's the problem that's a problem.

>As the initial commenter said: trust goes both ways.

No it doesn't. If you put the onus on the developer and say "not only do you have to deliver high quality code you have to make me trust that you've delivered high quality code by adhering to these arbitrary metrics I've come up which bear no intrinsic relationship to how you do your job" you're admitting incompetence as a manager.

It's a manager's job to know whom to trust and a manager that trusts the useless developer who turns up at 9am sharp over the excellent developer who turns up at 9:05am requires termination.

>Actually, turning up on time may not make your manager trust you more, but turning up late will definitely make them trust you less.

It will definitely make a bad manager trust you less.

A good manager will either recognize that you're delivering or not.
He was originally hired as CFO and only recently became COO.
Or, alternatively, an x86 emulator on a more trustworthy architecture such as RISC-V, or an x86 implementation on an FPGA.
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In Poland eBay didn't make a single dent because Allegro is such a huge beast(and in my opinion is actually better than Ebay is many many ways), and that's in a country of 40+ million people. Even facebook struggled at the beginning because everyone had a profile on nk.pl so why bother with a new service. Even Amazon still doesn't have a presence, because again, Allegro is the best destination for online shopping.
>I don't feel bad for the engineers, since they were generally exposed to enough information that they should have been able to call bullshit.

I want to ask this without sounding like it's an indictment: do most honestly offer their empathy with similar conditions?

Interestingly, if someone wrote "I don't feel sorry for fast food workers, they had enough info to learn a skill and earn more," that usually strikes a nerve with a lot of people. But software devs getting nothing?
> direct jump

Another important thing here is that it's an unconditional direct jump. A conditional direct jump can still cause speculative execution (e.g. could be vulnerable to Spectre variant 1).
I received an email from Admiral yesterday, which seems related but not completely:

"""

You may have seen a story in the news which claims we use customers' names to price our insurance based on race. This is 100% not the case and we do not, and have never, used this information to provide a price to our customers. I'm sorry if this story has caused you any concerns.

To offer our prices we use a complex rating structure and rate on many different variables and data sources. The journalists have misunderstood our pricing structure and the insurance quotes in the story are not like for like.

This email is to offer you an explanation of the press story and to offer my apologies for any concern caused. There is no need for you to take any action.

"""

Not sure which story that's referring to; seems somewhat different to (and much worse than) this one.

On a slightly different note: that old "trick" of adding an experienced driver to one's insurance has always seemed a bit odd to me. And as a 36-year-old, I have to say I'd assumed I was already past the point of its applicability. But I had cause to add my mother to an Admiral policy this week, and was very surprised to discover that adding her would give me a refund.
There is a massive difference between procrastination and depression. To be flippant, the difference between having changed clothes by 4pm or being still in your pyjama, trying to get out of bed and having breakfast.
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I don't thing you'll find that many people willing to participate in this.

I personally went through 40 hours of sleep deprivation once(we were on a trip and our host "forgot" that we were booked - apparently he expected a bribe) and it was hell, especially since we were a group, because in these circumstances minor misunderstandings turn into major conflicts easily.
Amazing write up. Found this effect over the past few years in a ‘developed’ nation, when I moved out of India.