skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “The companies are losing money. The businesses are being subsidized by [venture capital] money … And the drivers are essentially subsidizing it by working for very low wages.”

Last time I pointed that out I was downvoted for some unknown reason.

My neighbor was talking about buying a new car to drive for lyft/uber and I was like "the trick is to tear up somebody else's car." We'll see if he heeds my advice though I kind of doubt it since he has an MBA and I'm just the resident slacker who happens to know the business.
Probably it builds the GC into the WebAssembly output.
I would imagine the vast majority of bitcoin is not mined using clean energy, so yes, something far worse.
My first job was AutoCAD drafting in the early 90s with pen plotters. I can't say I missed them when we replaced them with A1 inkjets and A3 laser printers (for quick small drafts). Very slow and noisy when you needed to get work done, but I can see how they'd be a fun retro hobby now.
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TLDR: A bunch of purported IRA docs ended up on an online auction; Daily Beast went and talked to some of the Americans listed and confirmed the documented interactions with the Russians.

The docs indicated that the IRA was targeting Reddit and Tumblr, previously undisclosed.
Most of these are also misclassified as white and asian Americans. ⅔ [1] of Silicon Valley tech workers are immigrants that risk discrimination due to being misclassified into US demographic categories from the EEO-1 Instruction Booklet [2] that underpins all diversity and inclusion programs.

It is currently impossible for an immigrant to avoid being mis-classified because the EEO-1 booklet states that if a person decline to state their race and/or ethnicity the employer is allowed to classify them on their own.

The misclassified immigrants is by far Silicon Valley's largest source of diversity, and the misclassification also makes diversity statistics incorrect for Americans in tech.

[1] https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/index2018.pdf

[2] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2007instructions.c...
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Isn't Waymo already first to market?
My argument is not that diversity should be increased nor the opposite. It is that there is a double standard.
Google gets all the same data from a YT watch.
Do you live in NYC, Seattle, SF, or Boston?
$50,000 per year for 70 hour per week works out to $28,571.43 if it were a standard 40-hour work week. Oh, and no benefits and you get to pay for gas and wear-and-tear on your car. So I guess if you're okay spending almost every waking hour working for peanuts and no health insurance, then sure.
These style issues are trivial to enforce at commit time (pre-commit hook) and build time with a linter. It’s easy to enforce the order you desire upon your developers.
all the Hasidim are to be blamed for this as a group? (Some other guy will tell you that all the Jews are to be blamed as well) I think blaming a group as a whole had a name - bigotry.
The number is a bit deceiving. As the article states, that amount is after you account for insurance, gas, wear/tear on the vehicle, maintenance, etc... So really the $3.37 is their "profit" before taxes are taken out. I am actually surprised it is that high. A driver working full-time in a city or area with high demand will put depreciate the value of their vehicle and drive costs up at a much higher rate than the average person.
Image feature recognition is not quite solved but I feel it's very close. It's easier, obviously, if the problem domain is very specific.

In the past, like when I started on ML, the best tip was to make sure to do some edge detection with a few convolutions before feeding an image to a neural network. Now, we have convolutional neural networks that kinda do that for you automatically.

Sometime in between those two dates, someone figured out how to get the convolutions trained via backpropagation -- and they did that by deriving the gradient of an arbitrary convolution (or more likely, looking it up). And that let us put convolutions right in the neural net and have the convolutions automatically train themselves along with the rest of the network. And we observe that the convolutions do things that we would do, like remove unnecessary detail and highlight edges or exaggerate colors.

Anyways; I believe the current state-of-the-art for generic image feature recognition is an ensemble of convolutional neural networks. I believe Google leads the pack on the commercial side so maybe look into how they do it.
> Unless Uber itself is working on autonomous driving technology

https://www.uber.com/info/atg/
Tech elites are fasting and taking ice baths to push their bodies to work harder
Let's say Amazon is about to make $1B in profits. Instead, they go on a hiring spree, and quickly pay out $1B in salary. Ha ha, they say, we have a profit of $0, so we don't get taxed!

But that's good. The employees all made lots of money (and will be taxed on it, often at a higher rate than the corporation would have paid!)

So run the same scenario again, but this time say "stock options" instead of salary.
What product do they have on the market?
We’ll see. There are a lot of institutions in place. That’s not all torn apart in a day.
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I did the math on working for SkipTheDishes last year (Uber doesn't operate in my city). I really wanted it to be a good idea, but once I calculated gas, insurance and wear and tear on the car, it was an incredibly poor deal. That's with a paid off, cheap, car, too. Not for me.
This AI startup wants to solve the hard problem of robots picking things up
You saw a driverless car (with a safety driver) drive past you five and ten years ago?
Hey man, this is a bit off-topic for this thread, but I have to mention that I got one of the Elevation Lab Anchor under-desk mounts when they were on sell for like 10 bucks a week or so ago. It's great, it works better than I was expecting (my main concern was the longevity of the adhesive, but I did some research into the 3M VHB and it's legit!)

Now for the part that's not off topic: to remind myself how long ago I bought it, I just clicked on the product link from my order confirmation e-mail from Amazon. I landed at a listing for the product, but "Sold by suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd" (not making the name up). That's not right I know for a fact that when I placed the order it was listed properly as "Sold by Elevation Lab". I just clicked around some more and eventually I got to the listing that is "sold by Elevation Lab" but both of those pages have the gray 'you bought this item on...' box at the top. That seems.... off that doesn't pass the sniff test.
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My main reason to go through these listings is to get inspiration, what cool things people are building. Thanks all!
Move over Betteridge!
I mean, what crap. There were people inside the company, including me, who could easily see what was going on since the early days of GamerGate. We were repeatedly asking executives at all hands meetings and other places why more progress wasn’t being made on dealing with abuse. We were volunteering ourselves to help - the various “working groups” and abuse “task forces” that Jack spun up were comically under-resourced, but it’s not because he couldn’t see what was happening. We saw, and the executive team failed to hear and to act.
Then those "perfectly reasonable" applications are free to eschew languages like Java. People do it all the time to great success. People also use Java to great success. But that's neither here nor there. My point is that it's unfair to call Java programs bloated when the extra space is necessary to support the runtime environment that makes Java Java. I'm not arguing the merits of such a thing (indeed, swap Java with literally any other language), I just want it to be clear that C and Java programs run differently, and both languages/runtimes, such as they are, were developed at different times and to serve different purposes, and therefore it's not correct to bemoan that Java programs are larger. That's like complaining that JavaScript doesn't give you direct memory access or that assembly doesn't have classes.
According to this Motherboard article [1] from Jan 27, 2018, only the Tempe, AZ gateway handles non-military traffic, with the US DOD and Russia operating the two other (military) gateways. I can't remember if the other gateways were shutdown during Iridium's bankruptcy.

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d34bmk/iridium-ne...
For every one who makes it there's probably (wild guess) ten that lose money after working a few shifts and never turn on the app again -- most people are like "I can sit my ass on the couch and not make money plus not waste my gas making billionaires even richer."

Like all things there's a learning curve before you can consistently turn a decent profit too.
Henry Ford raised wages, but the long bloody war that unions fought had a much larger influence.
> Any real, reliable blockchain solution is not going to be the decentralized authority model that Bitcoin has, it’s going to be a tiered trust authority in the same way that SSL roots work today.

it's going to be very difficult to code for:

"we, as a network, accept this authority... to a degree"

I still think it can be done.
You sure? I personally know people doing it as their primary income in a top 5 us city in pop. It's a grind.
I had two separate preliminary phone interviews today (different companies) that both left me fuming, and I've experienced similar many times in the past. My resume says, to summarize drastically, 1999-2015: C++; 2015-present: C#. These interviews were for C++ positions. Both interviewers specifically used the term 'red flag' referring to the C# part. Either they believed one section of the resume and disbelieved the other, or they believe I only know C# now and the C++ went completely out of my head and isn't coming back. Both interviewers spent the whole interview tsk tsking and communicating the lament "Yeah we really need a C++ person, and I'm just not seeing that you have that."

The conduct of interviewers when hiring cold is stunningly asinine for everybody, so I have the utmost sympathy for women who have to deal with gender bias on top of that. Talent shortage my ass. Interviewers make up their mind based on something - some kind of projection that isn't you - and then make clowns of themselves while trying to rationalize whatever the prejudice was. Take this gem, from the lead engineer: "Well we get a lot of applicants who know C#, but they don't understand low-level." And? How is that my problem? Now how many idiotic interviewers out there are secretly thinking, "Yeah actually all the hardcore low-level coders I know are men, so..."

I've been ranting for years about how there is no talent shortage. It's just that hiring is broken, asinine, and fear-driven. I think I'll pivot to: There is no shortage of talented women. Not to the extent that it is made out to be. TL;DR: parent is correct. It isn't that they aren't there; it's that whoever isn't hiring them.
Uber will exhaust their runway prior to reaching a level of autonomy sufficient to replace drivers. Quote me in 3 years.
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github_idea4good is unsigned. There’s an implicit cast at the assignment. The condition is still true and that path is always executed.
I didn't know MBA's were that squeezed that they need second jobs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498586
Yes, Boston, and when can I order my driverless car to pick me up?
> Last time I pointed that out I was downvoted for some unknown reason.

Hard to believe but the number of votes something gets != the quality or accuracy of the statement.
do you reject all ethnic identities or just the ethnic/national identity of Jews?
I don’t think it was a bad tool. I think people who criticized it were worried more about what it could become down the road than what it actually was.
Would you mind telling us where you drove? I talked to an uber driver in Orlando who said he made a few hundred on a good night..
That you for taking the time to explain. If true I can see why RtW laws are criticised. Can you link to a source about point 2?
The best way would be to lower the rent. Depression is mostly caused by rent seeking, which the entire "Western" or "modern" world is founded on. Quite literally high rates of depression are caused by poverty. Money can't buy you love, but it can get everything else that prevents or diminishes depression. Oh wait, money can actually buy you love, in fact only money actually really gives love a chance. And we do know don't we that depression is, as far as it is something fixable, lack of others loving you. We have a depression problem because money, resources, are horded.
Re "midwestern highways": haha, I don't see a "self-driving" car navigating the I-90 in Chicago anytime sooner than SF. ;) At least SFBA has super mild weather that makes the obstacle detection problem much easier. Here there are only two seasons: winter and road construction.

(But yeah, we are very far from cars navigating urban areas, or indeed anyplace where weather is inclement and so are people.)
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Honestly, it really hasn't been the same story forever.

In the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge, of 21 teams entered, 15 qualified to race on the course, and none finished the 240 km course. The best result was 12km. That was off road, with no requirement to obey traffic laws or other cars to hit.

Since 2009, Google/Waymo has 5 million driverless miles under their belt.

Is it 5 years away? I don't know, but this is not the same story forever. This is iterating and improving at a breakneck pace.
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I work with three to four Adobe programs open for my workflow, even the browser version has a noticeable effect on performance. I actually run it on a $60 Amazon tablet next to my monitor (only because our organization insists on slack)
I ran these numbers when I had access to the data. Varies by region but this number is still much too low. Even if 30c/mile in costs is correct the hourly is still way off
getting input data for counterfeiting is difficult. A good amount of bad actor behaviour is really easy to detect; customers will notice almost certainly notice if their package doesn't show up.

Counterfeits however, are difficult; somebody has to notice, and care that the thing is a counterfeit, and if this is the first time I'm buying one of these anchors, how am I to know how nice the seams are supposed to be? if it works, I'm happy.

To get around image section though, all you need is a real box of the thing. you can just buy a bunch of it and repackage, and sell the original separately.

(just for reference, the cloud guys are relying on us for a lot of their detection, not the other way around)
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Yep, that works too. And has little to do with chance.
Silly, but this always cracks me up.
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Australian by birth and British by descent (much of Australia’s citizenry) works well; visa free travel to many countries, a special work visa category in the US, and the ability to work in th UK and Europe, at least until any brexit.
Venture capital
I was very curious about this and I did some math and I think it is probably correct. I struggled to see how or why any driver would do this, and figured I must be missing something. I decided to find out for myself with my own car, which is fully electric. I thought if I wasn't paying for fuel that maybe there was some profit here. No, there isn't. When you take out maintenance, depreciation, time, fuel - I'm actually surprised that there is $3.37 left over. The only thing that it offers is cash now for an asset you are currently sitting on. But you are trading that, and your time for the cash now. It is incredibly sad that this is the current state of affairs - it would be wonderful to offer a supply side force to improve the conditions for the drivers.
I feel like we're reaching peak software "engineering" if this is becoming a reality... I guess props to these guys for inventing an interesting service in the free market.
Ah good to know; I had given up on XFS before then because the metadata speed made certain SVN operations painful
I've taken many Lyft and Uber trips in SF recently. It's amazing how many have new, high end cars.

One driver was a PYT and recent immigrant driving a luxury Mercedes C class. Wasn't hers. Sugar daddy's? Something else?

Doesn't make sense. I feel there's something else going on.

Many will have a story about being hired to transfer a bag or a box. Drugs? Money? Guns? Even then there couldn't be enough business to make a good profit.
An MBA does not guarantee a good job.
The large client/deal syndrome is common even with contractors besides small businesses and startups. If you change too much fundamentally when going all in on a large client, you might miss out on the growing small/medium clients that are not as bound to your business that you may mutually benefit more from and control it more, or the ideals/mission you are going for. Large clients and deals can change the personality of a company or contractor.

The large company or large client you choose has the ability to completely wreck everything so the smaller fish bends over backwards to do everything to keep the big deal. If you are lucky with timing and a good large client it can be massively good, and that is the attraction to that, but ultimately it can also fundamentally change your mission or ability to get and handle other large deal/clients.

This is similar to the service/contracting industry where you have a handful of large clients or go product development where you have many small customers, the latter always seems to have more lasting power because the loss of a handful of customers in a sea of them is less than the handful or one large client that controls your destiny. The product company that is selling as a service or subscription doesn't need to constantly make sure the large client is happy, just most of their customers. Both types pull you in directions and change you but products with many smaller customers have more stable market support, however the latter takes more time to build.
There's way more to software engineering than GitHub. Example: every company that hosts their own code repositories.

The TIOBE index, while not entirely accurate either, does reflect usage by a much more broad set of engineers.
LOL, I'm feel pretty much trained to see a top-voted "Thanks again to all the VCs for subsidizing my taxi rides!"-type comment every time I click to the HN discussion on stories about Lyft/Uber valuations and investments.
CoW stands for "Copy on Write" a system that updates blocks in-place is not is not CoW.
I find articles like this dubious when they state an outlandish claim, even if supported by a study, and make 0 effort to explain or justify the results. Instead appealing to the implied authority of said study, that the reader is apparently expected to unquestioningly believe.

That number is obviously going to be controversial. How was it calculated? What assumptions were made? In their own article every single other source they reference provided higher numbers. How much higher? What were the exact reasons for the discrepancy? They did state that other studies showed higher earnings because "there are numerous ways to report income and to calculate costs and time and miles spent on the job." Why did this study report lower income, more miles, or higher costs?

I wish the job of journalism was still to inform people, and not just to get people to click on things.
I haven't seen many. The few I have been in have been people just doing it for "fun" if they were bored or to keep themselves out of trouble. They never seemed to be the people coming in from Stockton or Reno and needed the money.
I don't think it's that simple. Most energy is produced without any regard for externalities. So it isn't necessarily about a better use for the energy, but the fact that it is being used at all.
You can find the brief here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/372751852/Wilberg-v-Google-R...

A screenshot from an email says (p28):
"Please continue with L3 candidates in process and only continue with L3 candidates that are from historically underrepresented groups"
Self driving cars... in Pheonix.

But looks like I was wrong. They do have a self driving car service running for a group of testers, but apparently it is currently free so I don't think it counts. On the other hand they've got permission to start charging and have said they plan to this year, so I'd still expect them to beat Tesla.

Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/waymo-now-a-full-ride-hai...
I'd like to know the average, high and low as well as the median.
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Can't say I have many professional connections either, not a big fan of "networking" in general. However, the people I do consider connections are those from college and those from former groups at previous jobs. Maybe someone from another group, but it's rare. My career jobs have lasted a few years (4-6) so that has provided time to develop these relationships. I suppose it would be much more difficult in the gig economy to establish these relationships. I try to offer value or different perspectives at my jobs that nobody else can. Work hard, deliver, and if I can't... let them know ahead of time and what help is needed. I try to let my work network for me rather than being active about it. Do you have any projects you've worked on? Might be a good source of networking connections, keep up with former coworkers, coffee, lunch, referrals, etc.
> Now, the nation’s hottest investment is buying money. And the investment rush is raising questions about whether one reason for the slow pace of economic growth in recent years is that the nation is busy distracting itself.
I can't stop laughing at this sentence. Oh the boogeyman!
I think he is having a hard time getting a job that doesn't pay peanuts, kind of suspect it has to do with his English skills (he's from the Ukraine or something) but it could just be the market is saturated with newly minted MBAs.
it's pretty cost effective for the counterfeiters to be mechanical Turks, or pay people to be mechanical Turks.