skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am asserting that (a) Rust has made a good choice to be a 'manual memory management' language, and that (b) it has executed that well (or at least better than any other option).

Your phrase about 'painting itself into a corner' implies you disagree with point (a), and that was the case I was trying to make.
> Of the five sources of cost estimated per mile (Insurance, Maintenance, Repairs, Fuel and Depreciation), approximately 40% of costs are attributable to Insurance, Maintenance and Repairs, 40% to fuel expenses, and 20% to depreciation.

Does their methodology ascribe only the incremental aspect of each of these costs?

If I own a car already for my own personal use. I'm going to deal with all of these costs. You're already going to have insurance, maintenance and repairs, they'll just be more frequent. Fuel expenses is the only input that can be accurately estimated and attributed to ridesharing work performed. Even this contains a huge variable. Did they account for drivers using hybrid vehicles, which more and more ridesharing drivers opt for because it's significantly more profitable? Is the median TNC driver using a more fuel efficient vehicle than the one they accounted for in their calculations?

The fact that the study doesn't have an entire section that I found entirely devoted to potential problems with their methodology that we are pointing out here is reason enough to discount it as tainted after also considering its funders.
Two things:

1. The cost is absorbed by another entity, usually the parents. It is the parents' car, or your parents bought you a car. You need some quick cash, so you basically "eat out" of that car to generate that "cash".

2. You are trapped in a situation where you need quick cash. So you "eat out" of your vehicle to generate that cash. This also happens when you have a low "realization" consciousness. (ie: You are bad at math and economics and you think you are making money while you are losing money).

By driving Uber you are exposing yourself to greater risks: Accidents, Lawsuits and Lost opportunities have you been doing something else. But most people either have low realizations or are trapped. Usually both of them.

I have seen countless of people getting into this kind of business. One of them and probably the biggest is real-estate renting when the economics says NO! The argument is usually: well, it is sitting there anyway so any cash is a profit. It is not and it usually led to worse financial situations and then worse decisions.
Reminded me of a book written by a lady who worked at a crematorium - "Smoke gets in your eyes"

https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Gets-Your-Eyes-Crematory-ebook/...
The intercept is known for previously having some sensationalist in an anti-surveillance and anti-US way

As for the title here being edited by mods to further be more sensational, Ycombinator has interesting backers.
See previous discussion about ycombinator and other tech companies having funding from Russian oligarchs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084
> Try walking into a hospital and asking how much something costs. I can tell you that you won't/can't get an answer in over 60%, specifically because the software they use does not show prices only billing codes! So the person providing care can not find out how much it costs... how are you supposed to choose?

Exactly. This is exactly the problem. The current situation bears no resemblance to a market. Price can't seek value.
You should look into using firejail. You can do this exact same thing by basically:

firejail --jail /tmp/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox

You can even enable things like seccomp to further restrict the FF process.
Yes, it's the same here. Still, since Uber wasn't doubling my insurance (it actually didn't cost anything more), deducting half my insurance etc. for Uber is not really an accurate accounting of the expenses.

I bought the car because I like driving and I like having a car, and I would have bought it anyways.
Kubernetes is the product I’d mention, if I were making this comparison.
I have no problem with using dragnets to identify and disrupt activities that threaten national security.

I have a very big problem with the use of dragnets to get convictions in court by circumventing people's rights.

I don't see the need banning dragnets as a realistic option.

We need is a much stronger interpretation of fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.

FWIW a metadata dragnet/haystack can be used to search for parallel construction needles the same way it's used to search for terrorist or insider trading needles, all three are just varying types people working together to get something done in secret. I'm not sure how to make incentives align so that actually works out in practice but it's technically feasible.
bitbucket is down also.
Maybe that's how things are in your part of the country. I live in Florida, and what LeifCarrotson described is exactly how it works here. I guess its nice to hear that the US medical system is working better in Manhattan.
https://status.bitbucket.org/incidents/hbpb9tlzvq4r
There is definitely a game of cat and mouse with the insurance system, but bear in mind medicare is the exact same thing, only with more paperwork and less pay.
There is no victim. This isn't chattel slavery. OP can say no to shitty culture and find another job. Take some of that good money save up a 6 month emergency fund and GTFO. There is no reason you should be going into work everday with a curdled stomach.
I simply love the go toolchain. The defacto standards for code formatting, linting and vetting, and the speed of builds and tests save tons of time. Both clock time and overall developer productivity.

I have a GitHub CI service that verifies the standard go tools pass on every commit.

The bot itself is naturally written in Go and executed in a Lambda function.

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Maybe some other gophers will find it useful:

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Bitcoin faces regulatory crackdown, Bank of England warns
it's almost like i detailed this phenomenon two years ago.

https://cryoshon.co/2016/01/11/why-the-sharing-economy-is-aw...
The Absence of WebP, Some Lyrics for Mozilla
You probably make over 100k/yr if you're a software dev in some major city, but I'm sure you wouldn't want a $350 traffic ticket, right?
To be fair, neither VG, Dagbladet or TV2 have covered this, at all. These are all major news agencies.
The ultimate goal from my perspective should be to eliminate implied tribal biases, rather than band-aid them. There's a fair bit of negatives with trying to force the issue with quotas, in my opinion -- by hiring on grounds other than merit, it might even perpetuate the bias. Those hired might for instance be thought of as "second class hires" within the company from the get go. So despite the casual racism that unfortunately exists, I can see why the poster leaves his or her race off applications.

In other fields, hiring can probably be done by ways that try to heavily reduce bias, and get similar increases in diversity without, from what I can see, the negatives of quotas. Some orchestras for instance have used "blind auditions" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_audition) for quite some time, with a noticeable increase in diversity as a result. I see in the Wiki that some tech companies are experimenting with this approach. I'd strongly prefer this sort of system over what Google has (if the details described in the lawsuit end up being true).
That's kind-of-true, but I think doesn't fit in this case.

I mean, let's take a hypothetical world - only one person knows how to program. You could say "there's no such thing as a labor shortage - just a price mismatch, she should be receiving one billion dollars for every line of code". But you could also say "maybe we should teach a few more people programming. And clearly, lots of software wouldn't get written, because its cost would be too high.

This is the "same" situation, only a bit more spread out. Maybe those 10k jobs legitimately aren't worth paying more for - that doesn't mean that, if there were more programmers and therefore their salaries would be lower, that software wouldn't be valuable. It's still a good indication that there's lots more to do.
1) Using one methodology for costs and a different one for revenue is a huge red flag. If you are going to use a driver survey to revenue then you should use the same methodology for costs.

2) The researchers acknowledge that the population distribution is highly skewed (more than 80% of drivers are less than 40 hours per week) with a large group of low-mile drivers on one side and a small group of high-mile drivers on the other side.

When the distribution is extremely skewed like this the median does not provide a very meaningful picture of the population.

The person in the middle who makes $3/hr might still only be driving 10 hours per week.

Professional taxi drivers typically work 12 hours per day, 6 days a week or more. NYC actually just recently passed laws to set 12 hour days and 72 hour weeks as a maximum because people were working over that resulting in safety issues. (http://abc7ny.com/traffic/nyc-putting-limits-on-cab-driver-h...)

If over 80% of Uber drivers are working less than 40 hours per week then less than 20% are working anywhere close to professional taxi driver hours but that group is probably providing the majority of ride miles and getting an even bigger majority of revenue and profit because they optimize their revenue.

For instance, part time drivers will drive in their spare time, while professional drivers will drive at peak hours, which makes a huge difference in revenue.
It would be interesting to see it done with taxi drivers, but they don't typically own the cars they drive, do they? I would have imagined they were all at least making minimum wage after all is said and done.
Just piping in to say that I'm very curious as well! How do you go from word vectors to a description of the document?
Virtue Signalling
While what you said is true you can still try to improve your own pipeline by targeting places other people look for jobs, using language that minimizes bias (careful here, lots of pseudoscience going around), and ensuring your company culture is welcoming to others (eg not acting like a frat).

You may not be able to expand the opposite end of the pipeline but you can try to make the start of your pipeline as large as possible.
It's shocking that a short listicle on a site named "Nuggets of Thought" would have such a quality to it.
Gem in here is that I learned about Annoy. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/annoy
Posted on a duplicate:

Good old Yasha! If you've been paying attention to his works, you'll be underwhelmed by this particular post. He repeats his claims, many of which are easily verifiable and simultaneously without significance.
Yes, Tor updates fiscal sponsors with regards to project status.

Yes, Tor is USG funded. No, it's not a Honeypot. It's also not a panacea.

As a technical project based in Cambridge, MA, Tor doesn't exist in a political vacuum.

If Tor was more of a pain to the USG than a benefit, it likely would not have been able to grow to the extent it has, but this by no means is indicative of a comprehensive system failure or any significant subterfuge on the part of Tor developers. I do not believe Yasha or anyone else has evidence to the contrary.

To be clear, I dislike Yasha as a self-aggrandizing spinlord shipping a conspiracy theory laden set of tenuous hypothesis, but I've gone out of my way to read the documents he's released to date
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Maybe the answer is like the waitering ("waiting"?) industry in the USA. They get paid shit and have to rely on tips to get by, so tipping is mandatory.

So if you want to have a clean conscience, maybe tip your driver something like 50% the difference between Uber and a taxi, and start a campaign so all ride-share users do this.
Yes: self-employment tax.
imagine how cheap it would be if uber enslaved them, opportunity city.
I’m pretty darn leftist, but splitting hairs over the US being a republic which routinely follows the will of the electorate using consistent rules, just not some people’s preferred system, vs Chinese communist party rule where the dictator just removed term limits from himself is pretty absurd.
Two engineers on the same team can even have vastly different experience. Google is big enough that it attracts a huge spectrum of engineers and one person's hellish workplace is another person's bliss.
Hey, a fellow New Mexican! Don't see too many of those on here. Would love to hear your stories.
Good luck defining and hiring purely on merit. Good luck separating merit from unconscious biases related to where you've seen merit previously. And typically most of what you've seen previously is people like you.

I've seen plenty of excellent computer engineers who started out as physics majors, or astronomers, or music majors...but they were universally white men (mostly because I've only ever been around white men in this business).

If a black woman came to me with a background in East Asian linguistics, would I naturally associate her with the success stories I've seen, or would I think she's unqualified and needs to get more experience elsewhere?

I suspect the latter.
You can't reason with ideologues. That's what makes them dangerous.

With an inability to entertain an opposing view there can be no course correction.
What's the problem with self-help books? Do their authors generally lack skin in the game?
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The supposed ability to tap the yubikey button even on phishing sites and not actually give up working credentials was like the selling point.
Good reason to shy away care for bad patients if it affects your stats.

Surgeons do this today to maintain a high success rate.
Trying to find a diverse pool is fine. You can recruit at historically black colleges, you can offer benefits like family leave or daycare that might appeal statistically more to women. You can try to show that your organization is not racist and will be welcoming to people of color.

It is fine to try and attract a diverse group of applicants, but after they apply, the basis of hiring should be who is qualified.
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How is it possible to "dilute employees" from a technical point of view? Most of the times, even early employees, VPs and founders have common stocks, so how can one legally dilute just some employees without screwing the other common holders? Genuinely curious.
A couple questions: did you have to travel to the hackathons?

How did you fing these groups?
I feel I must respond since I also moved from Dallas to SFO. Equivalent salary will be around 230ish for your 150.
You may still struggle to buy a house because of competition. Just a head's up.
Completely agree about missing the actual benefit to society of focusing on better education and opportunities for all. Amazing how quickly things can go off the rails when you start evaluating middle management off some metric like "number of diversity hires" which seems like a good idea but then backfires into something ridiculous like this. I hope this sets a fire under Google's management to keep better track of HR
Why must secrets be kept secret?
Your comment may be factually correct, but doesn't make clear how it applies to its parent. In combination with the dismissive tone, it's not a good contribution to the discussion. Piling on by being presumptive about the reason for downvotes doesn't help.
Also, block all tracking servers at the hosts level by adding rules in your /etc/hosts. I've been using https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts for a few years now and it's incredibly useful.
> That assumes too much

You've been assuming a crap load of stuff as well when it suits your argument. Like having a pre-prepared USB key to begin with.

> For example, that you have a network connection while booted from the live media. You may not have one; then you cannot run apt/yum and you need persistent media that you prepared somewhere else. (Happened to me).

Indeed. You might also not have a CD drive on the host (happened to me), or any blank CD-Rs, or a CD burner on your workstation. Or the internet connection might not work on your workstation either. But then most of those arguments can be made for creating a USB key as well so your point is moot. In fact my latest workstation (Macbook Pro) only has USB-C so I couldn't use my USB keys when I went to install Linux on that.

My point is, if you're looking for ways to nitpick, there are plenty for your examples as well. In fact there will be a thousand different exceptions for any solution you could dream up. Thus is the nature of working in IT.

> Just installing minimal distro on USB takes a better chunk of that time.

Arguably yes but that also takes longer and your original point was about getting stuff done as quickly as possible. So you're now contradicting yourself.

> When you are doing something non-standard - and installing ZFS on Linux is pretty nonstandard - you know in advance that the normal live media won't work.

Except the whole point of this tangent is me demonstrating where it does work.

> It's prudent to have something prepared, if/when SHTF event occurs.

Now you're arguing a different point to the point I was discussing. I'm not going to disagree with you there (since I've already discussed I run a PXE server for situations like these) but that wasn't the topic we were discussing.

I seriously just think you're now just arguing for the sake of winning an internet argument. I'm not going to argue with you that a CD is better than USB because it's pretty obvious that isn't the case. But that wasn't the point I was discussing. So for the benefit of my own sanity can we please get back onto topic: you can use live CDs to repair a degraded system running ZFS. Sure there will be occasions when you cannot; but that's the case when doing anything in IT (and thus why use sysadmins get to command such a good wage). But generally you can. And I literally have. Many times in fact. So enough with the dumb "death by a thousand paper cuts" and goal post moving arguments please.
As a former machinist and mechanical maintenance engineer by trade, I can attest crematoriums are a strange beast to work on. Bone fragments are left over because the crucible like structures in which bodies are immolated reach a relatively low temperature. Industrial processes routinely eclipse these by orders of magnitude and in doing so effectively vaporize and destroy anything left over. Alas, customers want proof and so certain inefficiencies are tolerated in order to deliberately generate an ash byproduct.

Most crematoriums include elaborate air filtration systems. These are far and away better scrubber systems than you would find at a chemical refinery but the media lifespan is very low, and the maintenance cost of these devices is nontrivial. The cost is worth it however...the stench of burning bodies is to be avoided in any way considering most crematoriums are adjacent to fairly residential areas. Most furnaces have a 'hard stop' at a certain number of operations to prevent any possibility of overwhelming the filters. There is also a specific mass limit to each cremation chamber, not unlike a normalizing furnace or heat treatment furnace.

Crematoriums hate two things as far as i can gather: medical implants and the obese. If enough furnace matter includes exotic plastics and metals, some fairly dangerous conditions can occur. certain plastics and magnesium parts for example can trigger a fire inside the furnace that can easily damage or destroy it. Crematorium furnaces are equipped with, in my opinion, a very limited amount of thermal refractory material compared to other industrial furnaces.

Finally the sad truth about obesity is that you'll pay triple for a cremation. Obesity increases the combustion byproduct and shortens the furnace filter and burner lifespan as it increases the time required to properly cremate the remains. large enough people require multiple furnaces.
Perhaps you could share the procedures so others would know to be skeptical if they are in the same situation?
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Governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education
Correct, but the points in my second comment below also apply if you are Chinese. If you do business in China, even if you're a local, you're on a leash.
Great question. It'll be interesting to look and see what law the charges are files under. . .

https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download

Charges
1.Conspiracy to defraud (being unregistered foreign agents acting in politics and stealing SSNs to bring money in), 2. Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud (laundering money to pay for ads and using stolen SSNs)
3. Identity theft (SSNs)

So the answer is yes it's illegal to be a state actor propagandizing if you aren't registered under the Foreign Agent Restriction Act (which I'll have to read and chuckle over) and based on a quick scan of the primary document the indictments are for the way they tried to work around it.
So you don't see the problem as lying with the people who dictate stupid policies because they don't know what they're talking about? You think the problem is with the people who try to push back, realize that there's no future in it, and learn how to shut up and keep their head down? Uh...
> most other jobs don't let you count transportation expenses against the hourly wage

Good job in pointing out this huge flaw in this study. Every minimum wage job I ever worked required me to have a vehicle to get to and from that job. That means that every minimum wage job out there where you need to pay for transportation to get to it is paying below minimum wage as the end the day. Those who live in cities have the benefit of public transportation but also have the time cost of being slower and reduces the number of waking hours they can earn money. What's the hours lost commuting averaged across and subtracted against the number of worked?
A Walmart shop could be an isolated environment where a bad person can prosper despite a generally contrary company culture, but it isn't an appropriate comparison for this case: important HR managers like this Alogna aren't many, even in a large company, and the higher level management who kept him and fired the recruiter is an even smaller part of Google. They must be assumed to be representative of the whole company.
Go to FaceBook, they still retained hacker spirit, at least for time being. You can meet a lot of previously frustrated Googlers there.
It almost looks like governments have two conflicting interests. Keep things secure and break the security.
Well worth the watch. His quote when the AI pauses the game is gold!