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This is a popular current talking point but Uber is 9 years old and most people reckon autonomous services are at least another year or two out.

Having human drivers for over a decade is not a "short term strategy" for most reasonable definitions of short term.
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Agreed with this as well as the GP comment.

Personally I think this also has the unfortunate side-effect of college's turning into de-facto gatekeepers to 'earned' status/success/wealth.
No, I would still think it was remarkable.

I'm not sure if I should read your comment as some sort of meta-threat...?
> Allende was a socialist, who believed in nationalization of means of production and central planning. We know very well where that leads in other countries.

Well, that's how Stalin's Soviet became an industrial power that could fend off Germany, and basically how South Korea rose economically under the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee (except that "nationalization of means of production" was changed to "give means of production to subservient businessmen who are rolling in the same bed as the government").

You can't predict a country's future by a few soundbites like "Is it central planning?": you immediately run into problems, like how do you even define central planning?
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I came to the same basic conclusion regarding back surgery (and surgery generally: avoid if at all possible) after reading this other New Yorker article years ago:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/08/a-knife-in-the...
I live in Portugal and Uber is sometimes more expensive then an ordinairy taxi. Talking to drivers they also seem very happy with their earnings. But minimum wages in Portugal are low.

Last year in Singapore I also noticed Uber was seriously more expensive then regular cabs. I understand there its public knowledge, you pay more for the more flexible service (taxi's in SIN are often limited in supply).

Just anecdotical. But it makes me wonder what regular taxi drivers make in those places.
That is entirely dependent on where you live and the quality of the Taxis. For example, in the London and Singapore, Taxis are awesome. In California, (particularly in the Bay area) - Taxis are horrible beyond belief. The cars are unsafe and uncomfortable, the drivers are terrible and lack knowledge. It's often the case that I will come out of a peninsula hotel (Say, San Mateo) and see a queue of taxis waiting to pick up passengers, and at the same time, a queue of people (myself included) waiting 5-10 minutes for an Uber to arrive. And that's just Uber X. Can you imagine executives used to Uber Black ever getting in a Taxi again?

I've taken thousands of taxi rides and over a thousand uber rides. No comparison between the two in certain regions.
> Since you pretty much have to have a car to just exist in society

Perhaps in America, but you can certainly "exist" in virtually any European city without a car. Anecdotally, I have managed to "exist" for the past four years without owning a car. I know how to drive one and possess a driving license, but have chosen not too.
There's a Lego store near me where I can buy pieces by the spadeful. I'm not sure what you're on about.
I think that was Lyft's model but Uber was "everybody's private driver" for their first product. They were black cars with professional drivers who did do it as a full time job.

Now, "everybody's private driver" was 2x the cost of a cab (at least) so I think it was a better deal for the drivers. But, to your point, the barriers to entry were owning a black car, being licensed, and Uber vetted their drivers very carefully.

Totally different from what they're doing now.

But, I've also never met an Uber driver -- who used to be a cabbie -- that didn't think Uber was a _better_ deal than driving a cab. If you're a cab driver, you also have to rent a cab with a medalion which was an astronomical cost compared to just buying and maintaining a car.

So, I think this study comes off as disingenuous for not comparing Uber and Lyft to the traditional job of driving a cab.
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What if one parent was never to be found and the other was always at work to ensure you had a roof over your head and as such you were frequently a feral kid?

Your genetic makeup is a product of the genetic histories of two people that (perhaps, but not necessarily) fell in love and had a baby. If they were genetically predisposed to large amounts of self discipline, then perhaps you will be too, perhaps not. I'd say this can count as lucky... or unlucky(?) beyond that, all you've got is your own toil, sweat, tears and guile.

"Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's"
Fact.
Welp, now I'm going for a run...
>Every patron of every piece of research is hoping to benefit from it.

A) Not always. Bill Gates funding malaria research doesn't benefit him.

B) If you benefit from the research being accurate and truthful that's very different to only benefitting if the research yields a particular answer.
> But would it be so crazy for these regulators to hire someone...to help provide a little bit of actionable technical advice?

Didn't you know? They do. Large corporations are always happy to help regulators write laws in such a way as to benefit them to fend of those pesky innovators. [1] Raising compliance costs as high as possible is highly desired by large companies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
We are still nowhere near fully autonomous cars.
> Are you suggesting that the furnace that heats your home is fueled by burning deceased people?

The furnace that heats his home is more likely fueled by natural gas, however the combustion chamber where that gas is being burned may also be used for cremations.

I'm pretty sure that humans make pretty lousy fuel.
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Every video he's made is amazing.
I see it more as an investment in society, not in an individual. K-12 education is (in theory) a good example of this: free, high-quality (again, in theory) public education creates a populace with a certain set of skills and abilities. These skills and abilities aren't directly correlated with professional productivity, but they do contribute (IN THEORY) to better-functioning adults that are critical consumers of the world around them. A basic grasp of history, science, health, culture, math are all important aspects of a functioning democracy, as they enable citizens to assess the world and make more educated decisions about policy and societal changes.

College is an extension of this. I was a computer science major, so I definitely did see professional benefits from my education, but a major part of my education involved the non-major classes I took in history, anthropology, language, etc, as well as the concentrated interactions I had with peers from diverse backgrounds. Had I not attained a practical degree, the return on investment might not have been terribly high at a personal level (as the article describes), but at a societal level, having more people who have a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the world undoubtedly helps us achieve societal goals.
Did you read what I posted? You're making my case for me.
Did you even read the title of the article you are commenting on?

Neither CBT nor Prozac are effective treatments for actual depression. And CBT can be very counterproductive if the underlying depression hasn't been successfully treated. If this is the case, the depressed person is being set up for failure. Prozac, on the other hand, is snake oil.

People who respond to CBT alone aren't depressed. They are suffering situational stressors and a lack of cognitive behavioural skills. People helped by SSRIs are by and large simply regressing to the mean.

This isn't to say that CBT therapy doesn't have benefit to someone recovering from depression - but that it's not a cure, it's not a resolution, it's a hand helping you back up once you are well - but not until the depression is treated first.
> Anecdotally, I have managed to "exist" for the past four years without owning a car

I've managed to do so my whole life ;)

But when someone says that a car is necessary I think it's always implied that they are talking about the US. I don't think most educated people think that you need one as much in every other country.
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On the flip side, trying to learn the language of the country you’re in when everyone speaks fluent English kind of sucks exactly because everyone will just switch to English instead of let you practice. I suppose that’s the rub: to a local, when they notice you speaking (or, rather, trying to speak) a foreign language in a their country, are you struggling or trying to practice?
Hey Radim,

Shoot me an e-mail (link in HN profile), we just created this a few days ago, so it hasn't been up long, and happy to fix any disagreements in the benchmarks. You're absolutely right about Annoy Indexing, but to be fair, I don't think it was part of Gensim when I started using it :). Gensim's a great library and Magnitude's not meant to be an attack on it (in fact we use it for our own converter) and we provide zero-training which Gensim does handle.
It's simple: allowing sandboxed code to request limited access to a USB device is more secure than having users install native, unsandboxed code with access to everything on their PC.
> Functional options are controversial in the Go community. I don't like them personally. The idea of having a bunch of functions that exist only to mutate internal state on init is... an odd choice. Google code is riddled with this sort of style.

I come from a background in functional programming, and having used functional options in Go for a while now, I completely agree. I've never seen an implementation of them that felt natural or idiomatic to use. They're incredibly awkward, and I basically always prefer the alternative approaches to the functional options style.
No, you’re misunderstanding (some) of the criticism. I actually enjoyed Fooled by Randomness mostly because of the meandering style. I loathe his recent work, both on paper and onTwitter, because he’s turned into just another “The West is commiting suicide” islamophobe (plus the usual assortment of misogyny and fawning over dictators like Duterte).
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>I don't like the idea of letting a government body regulate how a communications company how to run their business.

This makes me wonder if phone companies have the right to disconnect customers based on political speech they don't like.

If, say, Verizon decided they didn't want to "facilitate extremism," and decided to cancel the plans of politically unpopular organizations or its members, is that allowed? What if they decide that they don't want to have any of that 'filth' on their network, and disconnect anyone communicating to/from Verizon numbers if they are politically undesirable?
What are you reading? Can you link one comment that presented it that way?

Specifically, ggp that you're referring to was expanding on reasons why education is good beyond it's connection to the job market.
Isn’t Spanish a globally important language as well?
Sorry about your downvotes. People will see you're right eventually, but by then it will be too late.

EDIT: Oh my that was a fast downvote, < 10 seconds. I wonder if a clever HN member has set a "thought police" style bot upon me. Sorry, I shall try harder to stick to the narrative.
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You can absolutely use Cloudwatch and Cloudtrail for this. This is actually our long term plan with https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/historical. We intend to effectively move all watching logic to Historical so it's all event driven vs. polling.

Hopefully we'll have integration sometime next quarter.
Just curious, what do you mean by "renting"? Renting your car? Apartment? Rental property?
The best thing you can say about Taleb is that he appeals to the kind of guys who put modal email signup boxes on their websites.
It usually goes the other way around: people who say that luck isn't important are precisely those that have been very lucky. They have no self-recognition of it. Rather, because they've achieved success with little effort, they have learned and believe that anyone making as little effort as they know they did should also be as successful, so by definition if you aren't successful, you must be lazy as hell.

"I'm a self-made man! I turned that $100 million I inherited from my Dad into a billion by picking the right investment firm!"
This is Sapir-Whorf thinking. My understanding as a non-linguist is that this has never been proven. I know there is a strong/weak form of the hypothesis, but can't remember what the distinction is.
This paper:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w23296

Talks about how much of the value to Uber drivers is in that the work is flexible and can be done on their own schedule. More than 2x the producer surplus vs less flexible arraignments. Put another way: if drivers HAD to work at the prevailing wages and didn't have the flexibility, they'd reduce the hours they supply by 2/3.

Looked at the MIT study for a bit and they don't appear to mention this. Obv flexibility is a major component of the economics of driving for Uber and Lyft and the benefits thereto. If they're ignoring this they're missing a big part of the picture.
“Uber Driver” isn’t a job (in the USA; some other countries disagree); you’re a contractor, and you’re free to find customers via other means (e.g. via Lyft, paying their margins, via word-of-mouth, via your own web site, etc.)

Yes, that may be hard or effectively impossible, but a bad dry wall contractor will not be able to hold his business afloat, either.
I don't see what any of this has to do with C++, especially modern C++.

The only "low-level" detail from lower level systems course I find that is still relevant on a daily basis is cache-alignment - which I doubt they would cover in a 101 course anyways. Almost everything else either 1. the compiler does better or 2. you'd have to know how to fight the compiler to achieve.

Anything that would let you achieve 200-1000% performance gains in Python vs C++ (besides, again cache alignment) is likely not something you would cover in a intro level course. (I know C++ is faster Python, but that has nothing to do with "accounting for the hardware at the very architecture level")
Agreed. If you have ever made up a spreadsheet to calculate car costs, it adds up very fast. Even a car purchased for $0 is expensive for insurance and taxes.
On the contrary, the largest factors of luck, such as being born a white male in a first-world country to wealthy parents, can all be achieved while you are playing Xbox and won't disappear even if you do spend your days on the couch.

"Combine that over a life time and persistence will lead to success, not just one random event."

Will lead to success? This statement of results simply isn't true. What leads to success in the USA, more so than many other countries, is being born lucky, not hard work. That's your best bet. Many many many people will work very hard for their entire lives - harder than you - and never earn more than a subsistence living, because they had the wrong kind of birth luck.
And the entities that received that fine money? Likely complicit in that some of the laundering themselves.

So, what was fixed?
I don't think the parent is arguing those things don't have value, but rather that the primary reason that people attend college is to get a degree.

Imagine a world where all employers put no stock in degrees, but instead took upon themselves the laborious task of evaluating every potential candidate's skill in any given area such as math, persuasive writing, and so on. Assume a particular candidate had taken it upon themselves to learn a college education's worth of math outside of a university, such as by spending a lot of time in a library. In this fictional world, the candidate above would be equally valued by employers as a college graduate with similar level of knowledge.

The fictional world above is very different than the world we live in. In today's world, the self-learner is unable to even apply to most jobs. The critique of credentialism is that a degree from Harvard (as in the piece of paper itself) is probably rewarded more highly in our market than having all the knowledge one could gain from studying there for 10 years.

If attending a four year college did not result in a degree or other credential, how popular would it be? How many people would invest the money and time to learn for knowledge's sake?
> A million factors determine your trajectory

This is inaccurate, or at the very least, incomplete. Mainly I take issue with the use of the word, "determine".

Randomness plays a huge role in the direction of a persons life, there is no denying this. However, a persons trajectory in life is only influenced by this. It's also very much influenced by choice. More importantly, there is ample evidence to suggest that choices can dramatically reduce the influence of randomness.

In my mind the equation is something like this:

(choices)/(randomness)=(chance of success)

Where (randomness) is a constant, and (choices) increases with good directed choices and decreases with bad or indiscriminate choices.
Curious, why? Is us-east-1 known to be problematic? What about us-east-2 (Ohio)?
Counting housing (a cost that's required regardless and often time more expensive since you need to live where the jobs are as opposed to where the college is) and opportunity cost (while not attempting to factor in the opportunity cost of not having a degree on the other end of the equation) is disingenuous to the extreme. Even a "model" student buying his books new each semester your total costs for a public school caps at 40k a year[0] (excluding housing etc). A large cost for sure, but that's before any scholarships and assuming a top tier school and an out of state student.

The skills, networking, and opportunity to safely explore career options I think were worth that cost. YMMV.

[0]https://www.finaid.gatech.edu/current-cost-overview
> They'd simply move on when a company failed.

And often the failing company would even pay for the outplacement consultants.
Are you saying college courses don't get watered to to where nearly everybody passes? College (upenn for me) was trivially easy to pass. They need that sweet, sweet tuition money flowing in.
> Well, it is on its way out, have you missed the news regarding vgo?

Dep will have a clean migration path to vgo, and the latter isn't really production-ready yet.

For now, I'd recommend using dep for daily use, until you have a compelling reason to switch to vgo, at which point the migration will probably be automatic.
Adding to this, much of what is useful about college is what you do with your time there. 80%+ of undergrads don't understand that they should be doing things with their time as an undergrad: working in a lab; running and managing an active club; volunteering for the campus radio station.

Thinking of higher education as something that is administered to students, I think, is a major reason it does so little for so many. Students have spent their k-12 years having education 'done' to them. I would argue that you only really get a successful experience at higher education if you treat it as something you are 'doing' to/for/on yourself. In that sense its very similar to any other kind of bootstrapped education, but very much so, the higher education environment is much easier to do so in.
All those "shareconomy" companies try to portrait themselves as organizing platforms for the average individual to earn a few bucks on the side.

But in reality most of the services are used by other highly professionalized companies that operate outside of any traditional legislation. AirBnB is being used by companies to full-time rent apartments in attractive metro areas while avoiding hotel taxes and Uber is being used by professional drivers that don't pay the usual taxi service fees and/or taxes. Because of that both AirBnB and Uber are cheaper than the traditional hotel/taxi service and take away revenue from the businesses that adhere to the law.
> If the pool of qualified applicants does not match the general population, then somewhere the qualification process failed.

That's an interesting conclusion, statistically and as a societal commentary. Assuming for a second we take your conclusion as given, and we look at the legal liability question that someone in alphabet legal or HR has to be thinking about when the make hiring policy decisions: which population should their workforce be representative of: the base population, or the population of qualified applicants?

Edit:
>I assume you are saying that Blacks and Hispanics will not meet the educational standards. Asians will and they are under represented.

I don't care I'm here for the legalities and statistics discussions, see my other comments here about judging people based on melanin or Genetics. It's silly where it isn't insulting to reduce a real person based on their inclusion/exclusion to poorly defined groups with little to no impact on actual ability to perform/qualify.
Is sortix kernel compliant with multiboot specification?

If not, is it possible to use syslinux or another bootloader instead of grub?
So are Ponzi schemes.
I think we’re decades from real lvl 5 automation, not just a few years. Either way though, this study suggests that Uber stands to save relatively little per ride on automation. It would just appear that their business model is inherently unsustainable.
That's the closest I found, but it still has plenty of wheels, doors, windows, half height pieces, round pieces, eyes, knobs, flat on top pieces, etc, etc, etc. The child I was buying for has some sets like that, but I wanted to buy just a large number of regular lego blocks for freeform play. I couldn't find anything on their website like that other than individually picking out single blocks.
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Like most things, you get what you optimize for.
>What even is the point of having programming classes if alls they do is teach what you can learn yourself with an online tutorial?

Well, you can learn everything covered by even the most exhaustive CS degree by yourself using open resources. Low level knowledge is not locked away in some ivory tower. You certainly don't have to join a modern priesthood to gain access to high quality learning material, no matter how much the priests tell you otherwise :)
I think that's actually a straw man argument. For example, since when did pandering to literal Nazis (i.e. Charlottesville) become a nuanced topic? If r/politics has become more left-leaning in recent times, couldn't it simply be because of things like that? Humans do have tendency to form camps and take sides but sometimes one side really is way off base. I think this is one of those times. The effective leader of the Republican party (the Republican POTUS) continues to demonstrate on a daily basis his lack of basic character and empathy. This is not a nuanced issue and it's trivial to find examples of this.

When one side regularly crosses major red lines, people shouldn't cry foul to both sides when the debate rapidly becomes polarized.
Was referring to real estate.