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They'll save more than that.

They'll be registering/insuring the vehicles in a state where it's cheap to do so.

Uber's geographic distribution results in the average uber driving paying significantly more baseline cost just to legally field the vehicle. Being able to choose your jurisdiction is probably a ~$1k per year savings over the current Uber driver average.

TBH one of the things I'm looking forward to about self driving cars is that states will be forced to actually compete with each other on registration/insurance/tax.

>Driving style might be optimized for MPG

If (NumSecondsLightHasBeenRed()) > 3 && NobodyInFrontOfMe){keepgoing()}

Not quite what you had in mind, was it? Remember, this is Uber, we're talking about.
Many of these experiences are definitely ranging from unfortunate to terrible for women trying to simply have a productive career in a made dominated workplace.

I just wanted to make a simple mathematical point, which the article kind of alludes to: the more X-dominated a field is, the more you would have run-ins with X, and thus more stories of inappropriate behavior by X.

I wonder what stories guys have of joining female-dominated fields. Are they called the token guy? Do women make sexual remarks about them? The degree to which the answer is "yes" will be greatly affected by the imbalance in the first place. The bigger it is, the more likely they are to bump up against something bad in everyday life.

Not saying we just have to accept this. Just saying we have to understand that no matter how much we all personally make an effort to act better, these stories will continue. So don't beat yourself up over it and continue to treat everyone as a fellow human being. And don't take it as a criticism of all men.

The same phenomenon happens if you turn on the news and see crimes and murders all the time. That doesn't mean the city is overrun by crime but rather that the stories merited special attention. It doesn't mean YOU necessarily have to constantly keep in mind not to rob or murder someone.
people should take ownership of the consequences of their actions, especially when those actions are part of their professional identity and are reasonably within their control. Google is by almost no account a "stressful" working environment in the sense that its employees are well paid even within the context of a wealthy developed nation, have the freedom to leave, have ample access to health care, sick days, and paid vacation, have a physically safe workplace with minimal to no risk of personal injury, have socially highly respected work that is building a foundation for whatever career future they want, etc. etc.

This isn't a field worker complaining about back-breaking labor conditions and wage theft, this a professional engineer at a top company who I certainly would not want on my team (I'm also a software engineer) if they're as checked out as they say, both for their sake and mine.

I've worked with plenty of checked-out paycheck/stock-vest campers, and their effect on team morale is palpable, and the damage they do during their remaining tenure is usually pretty severe.
Statistics is tricky.

Remember that the median driver drives very few rides.

The median ride is driven by someone who does it more or less for a living, and who makes a lot more money than this.

Also remember that this single fact was cherry picked from the report to make a good headline, not to give the best understanding of the situation as w hole.
So do you have the examples of civilizations stopping slavery way before the europeans ?
> Reddit's interaction design privileges low-effort, easily digestible, and sharable content at the expense of everything else

Along those lines, Reddit's format (and indeed, HN's format, because it's nearly identical) makes holding conversations very cumbersome. It's like the difference between a directory holding a bunch of files, and directory holding a single file & another directory, which holds the next file & another directory, etc, etc.
Google has an internal system which allows engineers to transfer to other teams. If what you described happened to me, I would secure a transfer and then report the situation to higher ups.
Part of the problem is that, assuming you didn't know much about how U2F works, it seems pretty natural for a site to request access to your YubiKey in order to use it to authenticate you.

While its obviously not a total solution, I do think that maybe the permissions prompt should be a bit more scary: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2016-03-02-...

I'd rephrase that to something more along the lines of "example.com wants full control of". Maybe with an option for device manufacturers to opt-in to support for WebUSB, allowing for protocol enhancements to improve security and a less scary permissions prompt.
Man, what happened to Nassim Taleb? I remember Black Swan (to a degree) and Fooled by Randomness being pretty illuminating reads but I couldn't finish Antifragile and his Twitter activity is...kind of unsettling, to say the least.
>> vague forms hurridly shoved in front of me as I was being prepped and legally he as allowed to

One of the many problems when the legal system has just become "formalities" that only get used by the powerful against everybody else. Last time we had a baby the hospital was so prepared they were able to bill us for the entire pregnancy when we arrived for our first prenatal check-up. But somehow they couldn't show my wife the forms that waived her right to sue the hospital, her agreement to pay whatever they billed her regardless of correctness of timeliness until she was dilated to an 8.
It's worth noting that insurance companies require a relatively substantial fee for Uber drivers yet most of the people driving don't report being drivers to insurance companies. I am not sure if this study accounts for this.
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It probably depends on the scale. If you try to form a new in-group identity over a short time in a smallish group against a background that reinforces the existing categories, then I can believe the effects will be temporary. However, if the group is larger, the background identities weakened and de-emphasized, and enough time given, I think it'd work.

My impression is that current "anti-discrimination" attitudes actually reinforce the existing categories, even more strongly and explicitly than had been done before. There's a lot more labeling and "reasoning" through labels going on in places where it seems very counterproductive.
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While you are right in principle, I'm not sure if the downtime argument holds: Breaks of the driver are not paid currently. The car lifetime is probably not set by age, but total miles driven.

Self-driving cars might be more expensive, too, in maintenance (more things that can break) and initial cost. So I'm not sure how much they can gain.
> No, it's not a Honeypot

How do you know?
By that logic, pollution in the US is also the property of all the countries that the US sells to. That pollution in Flint Michigan is the rest of the world's fault because they buy US cars.
I just took it. 85% conservative it says.
But the fact is I am more like 85% liberal.

Also, it's a little bit warped because some of the questions would evoke a different emotion than disgust, but you are required to categorize it as a disgust level.
From the article: "In partnership with NRK" (Norwegian public broadcaster).
> Driving for Uber/Lyft/etc is not a full time job [...] They consistently report to me that they make between $40k and $55k/yr.

Is this 55k from part-time Ubering, or is this 55k in total, most of which comes from their "real" full-time job and a small fraction from Ubering, or is it 55k from full-time Ubering in direct contradiction of what you said, or what?
Senator Elizabeth Warren once said that financial contracts should have disclaimers such as other products have (this is safe for children older than 3 years, don't drink too much of this, etc). She was talking about mortgages.

Maybe we should have something along those lines for this type of company, especially since these companies have a good deal of knowledge that they are not sharing with their workers.
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> How do you know?

https://github.com/isislovecruft/library--/tree/master/espio...
You are focusing on the crimes and not on the effects. The documents you link would detail the same crime if 100 or 100 million people were influenced. No one cared about Russian influence before Trump got elected, and now it's a post hoc explanation of how he was able to pull off a victory due to the inability of one half of the population to believe something about the other half.
There's a time dependency in some of this. What "diversity" is, even from a purely left-wing perspective, has changed a lot within my lifetime. I was born in 1978, and when I was growing up, the left-wing diversity perspective focused on "race blindness", MLK's dream about his children being measured by the quality of their character and not the color of their skin, and that sort of thing. Now... well... I know a lot of you on HN are very, very leftist; how does that sound to you now? I'm serious about that question. I'd guess a lot of you, if you were careful and thought about it, would have a hard time answering that question, because it isn't a "right wing" perspective, but it certainly isn't a left-wing perspective any more, which now focuses intensely on looking at people by their identity groups, to a degree that (very, very much no sarcasm here) greatly exceeds anything like the KKK, who merely looked at your race, rather than race, gender, disability status, and all the rest of the intersectional categories. The idea that anyone can be race-blind is seriously heterodox stuff now; grounds to get one instantly accused of not just racism, but subconscious racism.

There's a lot of people still operating under the assumption that the older meanings of the terms are in use, because most people have better things to do than to stay up-to-date on this sort of stuff when they've got lives to lead and their own problems, not to mention the fact that there's some deliberate obfuscation that tends to go on.
At a higher-ranked law school, 80% of graduates will go into private practice, about evenly split by gender. What the prospects are at the other end has a big impact on the people coming in.

As to what law firms do—they do about the same thing any Big Corp. does, and it works out at the entry level (at least as to gender) because the pool of applicants is gender balanced. The more interesting question is how they got there. There was a strong push in the 1980s and 1990s to simply hire more women, to make up for the fact that the profession was 95% men due to past discrimination. The whole industry did this, from law schools to law firms to the judiciary.

And it ended up being largely self-perpetuating. While law still faces challenges retaining more senior women, there is a critical mass (probably a third of potential clients as well as judges are women) such that qualified left-brained women aren’t turned away from the field because they don’t want to put up with a 10:1 ratio.

Now you can debate about whether two wrongs make a right, but realize that’s a different point than what I was replying to. If you’re in a highly gender-skewed industry that hasn’t tackled the effects of past discrimination, you’re not getting the best of the best. You’re limiting half your potential talant pool to the subset of people who are willing to put up with the hassle of being a minority in their field.
> Asian men constantly get grouped as a single entity

As an immigrant who came to the US from a poor Eastern European country just a few years ago I feel the same about being labeled as "white". It blows my mind that for many people a guy of British descent who was born in the US and a woman from Russia who speaks very poor English are both just "white".
I once had the ‘privilege’ of talking to one of the admissions directors at my alma mater (an Ivy fwiw). An eminently qualified Asian candidate I had interviewed was rejected (while an inferior Jewish-Cuban candidate from the same school was accepted), I had quit the interview program out of disgust, and my complaints were escalated up to this director.

Now this particular individual happened to be Asian himself. So am I. I expected empathy. Here’s what I got instead: this director asked me to imagine what a predominantly Asian campus would look and feel like. Is that a university experience I would have appreciated?

I found this absolutely flabbergasting. This director had blown past the tacit admission that a quotaless, merit-based system would result in a visibly higher ratio of Asian students into outright stereotyping and borderline racism.

Here’s the problem: people equate diversity with race and gender. They really do. They’re not after real diversity. They want the outward presentation of real diversity. Then no one can ask them difficult questions. No one is going to ask them to prove that they’ve achieved true diversity on the basis of character and intellectual bent.
Interesting, thanks; I haven't seen it, looks interesting and a worthy project. I tend to prefer simple low-tech solutions though, and given the first two commands to start it are to do with fixing pulseaudio bugs and desktop integration is (for me personally) somewhat of a put-off.
SpaceX latency claims are based on the speed of light. Low earth orbit has only slightly longer line-of-sight distances between locations than the earth's surface, and:

- The speed of light is ~50% higher in vacuum than in fiber[1]

- Fiber on the ground doesn't follow straight lines

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-precisely-the-speed-of-light-i...
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Uber has deals with car rental agencies in several places that doesn't "allow" you to "eat out" your vehicle equity (I've seen Enterprise in CA and, I think, one other place, and Otto in London). The viability of such deals suggests that the numbers work out even without spending your equity.
Are they though? In my lifetime the vast majority of my acute health issues went away on their own without any particular medical intervention. I mean well over 99.9%. I know what's "minor ache" feels like and I know what "this seems serious" feels like. I try to let my immune system take care illnesses when possible.

On the other hand I know someone who died from a complication of anesthesia during an (almost certainly) unnecessary surgery.

It's a multifaceted problem.

Patients (especially the kind that present to the doctors office for a cough) tend to want doctors to do something, they don't like hearing "rest up, you'll get better on your own." Doctors provide a service, patients want to feel like their time was worth it.

At the same time doctors don't want to put themselves in a position of missing something. Everyone remembers the time the doctor missed a serious disease but since we can't have alternative timeline where the treatment and/or tests weren't done then its very difficult to say, on an individual level, what was over treatment.

Sprinkle in a healthy dose of the placebo effect stir.

Judgement gets clouded by biases on all sides.

Not only all that, but sometimes the data just isn't there on what the best course of action is. The studies haven't been done so we just do what feels "right." And we've learned that what feels right might not lead to the best outcomes.
>Oddly before opening the article I had assumed it was about how moral "disgust" is positively correlated with left-leaning. But then the study was referring to digestive disgust which appears positively correlated with right-leaning.

Actually, even moral disgust is positively correlated with right leaning folks. The Righteous Mind (https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Relig...) is a great read that covers the research on the topic.
I was going to ask if they had banned RT, since it took four pages of mostly Guardian and BBC links to find an RT submission.

For "world news" they have virtually no links to media outside the US/Europe.

I guess they did something to stop what you describe anyway.
Thanks for finding this, this seems different than what the article alleges.

This actually seems more likely, since it lines up with what Google has said previously - that they do not alter the hiring bar for anyone, i.e. that interview/hiring committee is independent, but they do ask recruiters to focus on finding diverse candidates, and they have also said they coach diverse candidates about what to expect from interviews.

I think how this will play out depends on whether this applied to all recruiters in the company/all recruiters filling a set of specific roles, and/or if non-diverse candidates could still apply to Google and get into the funnel.
Disregarding your gross exaggeration, road infrastructure costs are funded by taxing roads, automobile purchase and fuel.
For what it's worth, I have 2 friends who had knee replacement surgery a couple of years ago to address chronic knee pain, and despite being wealthy and committed enough that they were able to participate in all the recommend physical therapy for recovery, they are both still in more pain than they were before, and 1 of them has actually been getting worse in recent months, and was just told by doctors that based on the images from before his surgery, the surgery they performed was unnecessary and didn't address the root cause of his original pain, and that new imagery showed a lot of damage most likely CAUSED by the surgery.

I don't know enough to say, "don't have knee (or foot) surgery", but my limited anecdotal experience really makes me want to see data on such surgeries and how many people feel they are better of because surgery than they would have been with a lifestyle change that avoided a lot of stress on the knee (or foot).
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Obvious reasons: locking young people in universities in their highest testosterone years reduces crime and drug addiction. Especially among people who don't get to have much returns from that education.
Not for me! Having a hard time with the console too.

Edit: Switched my console URL from east to west and it loaded up fine.
> I often ask Uber drivers in SF how they like their jobs, what they make, etc.

When I query drivers, I often get the same sentiment that they are with Uber by choice. Unhappy uber drivers leave, either because the platform penalizes them by way of bad ratings, the economics don't work, or some other reason.

While the numbers from the study seem abysmal when distilled down to the per-hour profit, it hasn't dissuaded drivers from stick with the platform as a viable mean of income.

It sounds like the 1100 drivers surveyed displayed different characteristics. I'd be more interested in more granular data, such as the per-hour rate based on the number of miles driven, length of tenure, location, star rating.
Well it means you aren't discriminating for a start. If you look just at performance independent of melanin you'll probably be eliminating bias too.

I'm biased I find judging people based on there race silly. My "race/culture" is navy submariner, and I always enjoyed watching the few sailors who hadn't had their background racism washed out of them at boot-camp realize that getting the job done well was what mattered, some sailors came in with some bad biases but within a year those issues usually had been resolved by working in a meritocracy, if a very authoritarian and hierarchical one.
Because of the logistics of running a large number of ground stations, especially with the super narrow beams SpaceX is planning to use for their service. In order to achieve the latency numbers Musk talked about (beating terrestrial microwave transmission for front running purposes) you would have to deploy them like cell towers, and that's incredibly expensive.
The general theory is that, although you're focused on the code under test, if the underlying dependency is not behaving as expected, you want to know that. Mocks create an opportunity for your code's expectations about your dependencies' behavior to diverge from reality. So if at all possible, they should be avoided.

There are a few general ways to do this. The best way is to use the real underlying dependency. This should be the default.

If the dependency is too slow to use in the test (e.g. it has a long startup time, or is hosted remotely), the next best thing is to use a fake -- a local implementation of the dep that has the same behavior, but operates in memory on ephemeral data. The best libraries will provide these, and if they don't, you might be able to implement one and contribute it back. Even if you have to maintain it yourself, it often takes less code than describing mock behavior. The downside of fakes vs. the real implementation is that their behavior too can diverge. But this is not a net downside compared to mocks.

If you can't use a fake, the next best thing after that is a stub. See below.

Only if none of these options are viable should you use mocks.

(The position I'm describing is the one referred to as "classicist" in this post: https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html. I'm not by any means its originator.)
In Los Angeles, my sister was AirBnB'ing a very nice 2 bdrm condo in an architecturally famous French Castle moved from France to the Hollywood Hills. The condo itself is the former home of a young Frank Sinatra, and the Castle currently has Slash from G&R using a unit as a local get-away. You'd think a place such as this could get a decent rate, right? It goes for under $100 a night right now. The market is so saturated, there is no market.
Right, micromotives. But what's best for me, personally, may be different than what is best for a whole population.
> It almost looks like governments have two conflicting interests. Keep things secure and break the security.

That's because governments aren't a monolith, the projects and interests of the NSF or the OTF do not necessarily overlap with those of the NSA or CIA.
That would be unique to Maharashtra due to Peshwa rule. Everywhere else Brahmin were mostly poor. My family is from Bihar and Brahmin caste. My grand parents lost four out of five children due to poverty. Luckily my grand Father got a job as coal miner and the families situation improved.

Nirdhan Brahmin has been a popular motif in Indian mythology and epics. Brahmins became victim of same kind of propaganda as happenings with Asians right now in SV.
You're right... there shouldn't be any link. My wife and I are typically not really into treating things that don't cause issues. However, we'd been investigating any reason why we've lost seven pregnancies to stillbirth and miscarriage, and there's some studies indicating that lower insulin leads to better outcomes. That's why we had been trying to get it as low as possible. At this point, though, it's not clear whether or not that was even a factor.
Personally I wanted to discuss the article yesterday, but it was moved off the front-page too fast despite high interest. It is very common on HN for articles that does not agree with or points out problems in the prevailing viewpoint to be blown off the front page.

I think this is emblematic of how tyrannical some of the people subscribing to the prevailing Silicon Valley viewpoint are.
Do we really want billions of people who all talk the same, think the same, and have the same values? I don't see how that could possibly be a good thing. The world is already bleeding ridiculous amounts of accumulated knowledge and wisdom. It may be true that the average person today knows and understands more about the world than the average person in the past, but we all know the same things today.
The site is dead.

There is no cached version but using google translate still works

https://translate.google.nl/translate?hl=pt-BR&sl=en&tl=pt&u...