skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me you're indexing too heavily on the "merit" in meritocracy. When most people, myself included, talk about meritocracy they are simply referring to systems where people are ranked based on capability or performance in some task.

A marathon is a pure meritocracy, short of any dirty shenanigans. You go from point A to point B, the faster the better.

Are marathons fair? Even if we exclude differences like sex and physical disabilities some are going to have a better aptitude for running. Some are going to lead lives that give them a lot more free time to spend on training. Some may be professionals that spend most of their working hours training. That said, if someone genuinely suggests that handicaps be given in the Olympics or other high profile events to counteract these favors people are going to laugh at such a notion.

Things like college admissions isn't exactly the same as a marathon. But many, probably most, agree with the general principle that students that work harder do better and students that do better get stronger chances of being admitted. Allocation of opportunities based on capability and performance has its flaws - and I did suggest that they should be corrected - but it is one of the most accepted way of overcoming clan-based thinking and is accepted by many cultures and societies.
What part is inaccurate?
Part of the reason rideshare works is because it puts the capex and credit risk on the driver, not the ridesharing company. Taxis are nice and all but that model didn't grow out of the most densely populated markets for a reason.

This model would be better suited for car rental companies, not manufacturers, to utilized unused assets (which I think some have already piloted).
> That said, I heartily commend Quiggin for actually making our bet. He towers above all of the apologists for European labor market regulation who refuse to put their money where their mouths are.

I know nothing of the people or personalities involved...but this does not give me a good impression of the author. First, he never refers to anyone with a contrary opinion in any way other than "apologist". Second, he never addresses any other value than the unemployment rate as a number (for example, I can easily imagine an "apologist" being uninterested in his bet if they think he might be right about the numbers, but they value the regulation for other reasons). In never addressing their views, he dismisses them as unworthy.

I'm poorly versed in economics so I don't really have an opinion on the actual matter under debate...but I can easily see him writing a smug and self-congratulatory article on this topic that nonetheless gave me a better opinion of him.
The Fermi paradox isn't that there are no aliens, it's that there aren't billions of them, and if there are billions of them not a single one is as expansionist as humanity.
Unfortunately, CFIT raises the questions of "but why" and "why like this", while hardware failure alone cannot explain the disappearance.

Look, the government-accepted cause is already pretty much a conspiracy theory. Pilot (and copilot, and possibly other crew) decide to make themselves disappear, and almost succeed. Except we haven't found a plane where that theory says we should have.
or Costco? $130B in revenue and I dont hear clamor for Costco to be split from Kirkland.

By this logic Apple shouldnt be allowed to have Apps in its App store, right? Or are they banned from selling first and third party phone cases in store?

CVS shouldnt be allowed its own generic drugs.

At what point does this become "companies arent allowed to make/sell their own products if they also resell other companies products."

And lets be serious: you want to take away Google's ability to choose the ranking of results? Thats their entire company's purpose. People go to google because they like the order the results come in. If google starts delivering bad results, that opens opportunity for other companies.
> it requires you to assume the existence of spacefaring civilizations

That's one of the variables in the Fermi equation. Set it to zero, and the paradox vanishes.
You're both arguing like its an either-or proposition, and arguing over which one is the absolute best ensures that nothing will get done.
Having looked at getting Accurint and Clear back in 2013, I can tell you the process is not trivial but not comforting either.

On the non-trivial side: I was doing a startup where we sublet from a law firm. We had an on-site audit by someone who came in and we were cautioned that we had to have an independently locking door on our office. We also had to give a reasonably thorough explanation of what we wanted to do with the data and certify, as well as convince the auditor, that we would be using it for GLBA (anti-fraud in financial transactions) purposes.

We actually failed one of the audits the first time because some paperwork wasn't in place (I think we had changed the Delaware company name and not re-filed something, like our local jurisdiction foreign corporate registration, in the new name).

On the not comforting side: the sales reps for these products have full access and will let you do lookups and surf through on whatever. 100% unmasked details on any numbers you want. DMV, aircraft, SSN, judgments, etc., all linked and at the ready.

Also, GLBA is a giant Sherman-tank sized loophole that means that essentially anybody can fully legally use these databases as long as there's some cognizable financial transaction that you're protecting from fraud (even proactively / research wise).

See https://risk.nexis.com/AMLSolutions/help/GLBA_Permissible_Us...

So no, you can't just "pretend to be a cop" but if you actually go to the trouble of being some sort of fraud-prevention business, you can just go wild.
> So you literally have to scream at each other right in front of the hard drive for it to record discernible speech.

Right. Because certainly no one can figure out how to improve this.

How about using multiple hard disks simultaneously and use signal processing magic to clean it up, just like microphone arrays do?

Maybe you could even start to get some limited spatial information about the surroundings, based on sound arrival time difference between multiple disks? Similar to the way reflections of sound waves in the Earth crust and below can be used to compute Earth internal structure. Or how bats navigate.

I'm not saying these ideas work — most likely not. What I'm saying, that someone with this knowledge and some brilliant discovery might be able to take this technique way further.
I remember being asked the name of a street I lived near once. I still don't know the right answer, but I think it was some official or unofficial name of I-80 or the 101 that no one calls it any more (e.g. Lincoln Highway).

I would rather be asked my Zodiac sign, although that is definitely weird.

You shouldn't have to spend time doing research on different versions of road names to prove my identity. That's absurd. I can imagine some dystopian future where I'm strapped to a chair and my kidnapper is demanding I answer to obscure names of highways as my only reprieve from torture.
I didn't review the patch, but that is the expected result. That sequence will cause it to think that whatever previous 5 pattern it saw, your next is equally likely to be 1 or 0. So it will guess randomly, and half the time it is right.

However with $1 vs $1.05 returns, you'll steadily make money.
I don't think it's fair to say the break-up was a failure even if in the near term they still coordinated. In the long term, the oil companies competed with each other. Even if Rockefeller became wealthier, it only adds to the original point: breaking up monopolies unlock value for shareholders and increases efficiency. I highly doubt anyone in the main stream schools of economics would call the Standard Oil breakup a failure. That Rockefeller wasn't punished is immaterial to the breakup itself. The point here isn't to punish Bezos or anyone else. It's about efficiency and fairness. In that sense, that goal was accomplished. No single oil company today wields the power that SO once did.

Also, those guys meeting up together at Rockefeller's house to coordinate would likely be illegal today and probably was back then too.
Oh, okay, so we should be fine until the Vogons come.
We experience the world as a series of observations. Predicting those seems to be fundamentally impossible.

Of course that still leaves room for an omniscient being that never collapses the wave function and just deals in probabilities. But then your predicitions sound like "there's a 99.978% probability you will be hit by a car on tuesday at 10:04 am." with the remaining 0.022% accounting for quantum flactuations adding up to produce a different result. Whether you call that "all knowing" and whether that proves that nothing is random sounds like an interesting philosophical question.
It's insanely more comfortable to be unemployed where your healthcare isn't tied to your employment.

I choose free healthcare over employer supplied health insurance every day.
That already happens. My mom had cancer a few years back, and it is immediately obvious after a follow-up test whether something is serious or not based purely on how quickly you hear about it. Doctor calls the same day, then something is bad. Takes a few days to get back to you with results, then there's nothing to worry about.
> Given that people are currently signing leases and payment plans for cars that won't expire by then I'd say this is a bit of a stretch:)

Anyone who is signing up for payment plans that stretch 6 years is crazy and buying a vehicle beyond their means.
Not only is it multiple choice, but there are only five choices.
I was very curious and wanted to see if I could google-fu this story up. I think I've found it (and I don't blame you for being unable to remember the name):
"takotsubo cardiomyopathy by Gage Johnston"
https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/future-socie...
The flu killed somewhere between 50 and 100 million people in 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
It does look somewhat awkward but the upper torso angle isn't much different from a sports bike. It isn't the most comfortable, but doesn't need to be given the flight times.

The fact that the rider's pocket is directly above the intake could be an issue.. I guess everyone riding these should be rich enough to not carry loose change.
Actual site headline is "Nevertheless, She Coded."

This seems particularly poetic in that it's a reference to a chiding Elizabeth Warren received for breaking Senate rules. Warren, as we now know, spent the majority of her adult life posing as a Native American in order to advance her career.
Maybe it’s a sign of the times, productivity is so high that there doesn’t exist work for everybody. Either you create bullshit jobs, or you have unemployment.

This psychology thing is forgetting that being forced in a job that doesn’t pay enough to survive is a huge drain on the worker and their family.
There is no "proper" way to do this. The U.K. does what you're describing, and U.S. broadband speeds blow away U.K. broadband speeds: https://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-kingdom/#fixed (UK); https://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/2018/fixed/ (US).

The physical infrastructure is what makes everything on top of it possible, and at the same time it is one of the most expensive pieces to build, upgrade, and maintain. There needs to be adequate returns on investment in the infrastructure, and that's hard to do in the unbundled model.

If you want high-quality infrastructure, you need to let the infrastructure builder capture a sufficient portion of the value created by that infrastructure. Consider trains. Trains create value for people using the train to get around, but also value for the real estate by the train station. If you only let the train company recover from the rider, you won't incentives that reflect the true value of investing in the train.

Look at Japan, where train service is exceptional. The train company gets to charge both sides. They charge fares to riders, but also are major land owners around train stations, and charge rent to the businesses who benefit from having train service near them. If you had your model in Japan, where train companies just own the tracks and get a modest fee for allowing people to use them, you would not see that kind of high-quality train service.
Analysis: The Biggest Deals of 2019 by Women-Led Ventures Land Outside the U.S.
How much of their cash compensation should come in the form of stock instead?
What's the angle exactly? A shadow force of HN mods, colluding with Uber, to prevent this story from getting upvotes?
orcas are awesome, to me, because they showcase cooperation, intelligence, and success unheard of in the animal kingdom. other than humans poisoning them, killing off and poisoning their food supplies, and hunting them, they have no predators or anything preventing their success. they are truly amazing.

i would even argue that they don't "fight" great whites. orcas are faster, larger, and significantly more intelligent than great white sharks. it seems it is an easy enough kill for the pods that know how to hunt them. in fact, great whites off the coast of south africa have been known to leave the area when orcas arrive. that's right: great whites are seemingly afraid of orcas.

it is sad to me humans don't understand them more and still capture and enslave them for entertainment. we also are wreaking havoc in their ecosystems and food sources. they showcase intelligence i am not aware of in any other animal besides humans.

for example, there is a technique they use such that they trick prey that they are leaving. normally, mammal hunting orcas stop vocalizing when hunting. so by leaving the area and vocalizing after an unsuccessful hunt, they relax their prey by signaling they've given up. however, they have communicated to each other to leave a single orca behind that stays silent to catch the prey once it relaxes. then the rest of the pod comes back to share.
Does another team have control of the actual title?
Interview with Founder of Minds.com
Unless I'm crazy, or HN is messing up, GP completely changed message so this makes no sense now. It used to say something about Apple hiring Al Gore to buy off democrats, and that Google, Amazon, and Facebook should be doing the same.
> Thankfully Uber and Lyft came back after the city ran them off.

Uber and Lyft voluntarily left after refusing to comply with new background check policies that the city passed, and the citizens confirmed. They spent $7M (a record on a local election in TX, btw) on a failed referendum campaign that the citizens of Austin voted on, and then they acted like children and left. In the meantime, new companies sprang up to fill the void.
Why the $25 billion restriction, I wonder? Is it just to make this more of a "bill of attainder" aimed at the specific companies in question, or there some principled reasoning behind it?
There might be but the point is that Lyft and Uber valuation is deflated if you assume they are not the dominant forces in a self-driving car industry.
Every now and then there's a scandal where doctors are caught saying mean shit about a patient, behind closed doors or during surgery. (As if surgical awareness wasn't horrible enough.) There's always a lot of talk about whether such heartless people can be trusted to do their best and not cut corners.

Something I heard years ago, and have never heard mentioned since, is that doctors are trained to do that, to talk shit about their patients in private, to give them emotional distance. If they let themselves care deeply about every suffering, dying person, they'd crack under the stress.
Here is the worlds smallest violin? Fraud is bad... Sure but I've got no tears for the billionaires getting scammed a few thousand dollars because they aren't vigilant. I think we have more interesting topics to discus on HN.
This will go exactly nowhere. I want Cheeto out as much as anyone else but if the democrats put up Warren in 2020 I'm not going to be happy.
Seems like it should be possible.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15291168/how-to-convert-...

You can do it the other way around.

https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-elftoaout/
The "your main concern" part, just to start.
If you can correctly predict economic developments for 10 years on a world scale, I think you'd be entitled to sound a little smug too. I've read a lot of economists much more smug that utterly failed to predict something right under their noses, and still are regarded as respected and asked for more prediction. I'd rather take one that can predict stuff, smug or not.
The Life-Threatening Consequences of Overhyping AI
Ask HN: No Link to Hacker News on Reply/Submit
This is a question to the YC/HN team as much to the HN community. When submitting a new post or replying to an existing thread, the navigation at the top completely disappears outside of a link to YC. I don't have the option to go to Hacker News directly or any of my profile options. This seems to be a disorienting experience and I am forced to use the Back button.

Just curious what the reasoning might be for this design decision.
I agree with that definition.

Maybe lossy is the wrong word, but the transforms historically had gotchas. PPX and what not. Especially when converting between Reason syntax version upgrades and the more stable OCaml syntax (locked to OCaml 4.2 because of bucklescript).

That doesn't necessarily mean lossy, but just that knowing what refmt will error out on depending on the version of Reason the code was written to target vs. locked down ML.
OK so Waymo is going to buy and retrofit and provide 500k cars?
I find it odd that the article references the BLS, defines terms for discouraged worker and underemployment, but doesn't mention that the BLS also tracks that data and more, like labor force participation, omits the terms under which the BLS tracks the data (e.g. U-6 data), as well as omitting links to the data too. The last is maybe understandable, but the article leaves a general impression that the BLS misses that when the opposite is true.
As someone who moved to Portland from the Bay Area ~2 years ago the weather is significantly more variable. It gets colder, has a longer (and wetter) winter, and has fewer overall sunny days. I love Portland and I don't doubt that it is a smaller variation from the Bay compared to Austin, but I just didn't want people to get the impression that Portland has Bay Area weather.
That seems completely unreasonable. Lyft contracts with more than 700k drivers. How in the world could they give each driver a meaningful share of options while also maintaining a controlling interest in the company? Let's also be real here; the supply of drivers is endless. It's about as far from a skill position as one could imagine. Would you be ok with their pay being decreased as well?
there is no information on the website.

or does the website for the privacy focused app require javascript to display anything other than a download button?
Ah that explains it - a maintenance vs construction thing - notice how repair has become the expensive option compared to creating new? Manufacturing has a far more constrained process which allows for readily automatable braindead repetition because it gets results. If construction now isn't readily automatable surprisingly doesn't matter too much. Building new things can be reengineered to a "friendlier" option like say screws and nails instead of joins but maintenance needs to take what they have and their moving parts.

Building everything to a schematic is easier to automate but I believe that already isn't the bulk of labor demand.

Theoretically a smart system with diagnostics could be more readily automated but those would be more expensive and probably be new constructions and come with their own host of technical and logistical issues. Sure it would be nice to have clogs and leaks mapped and remedied but it would take a while to become universal even if they were rolled out tommorow and worked perfectly.
Repetition is the only thing that creates change.

No one on r/fitness or /fit/ is going to call you crazy for eating the same thing each day.
(3) is what I'm talking about though. There is not enough demand for smaller and lower power processors because at the edge where size and power matter the most there are not enough applications that can profitably use more power.

Data centers are easier to scale by just adding more nodes. Power matters a lot in data centers but otherwise miniaturization is less critical and single threaded performance is less critical.
Giving drivers equity in the highly speculative company strikes me as a strange requirement. It may be attractive to some, but irrelevant for others. If I worked for Lyft or Uber I would much prefer any earned money given to me in cash which would let me decide what I want to do with this money: invest in IPO or post-IPO shares, invest elsewhere or spend it on something different. My 2c.
More that those pagan practices were simply personifications to justify the behavior (religions built from the inside desires out), in contrast to religions that prescribe constraints from the outside in. All that's been done now is removing the external personification from the justification.
> What does this all mean? To me, this bet is just a small extra piece of evidence in favor of the orthodox and blindingly obvious theory that Europe has higher unemployment than the U.S. because it has stricter labor market regulation.

Insofar as I'm aware it mostly means that US unemployment is under-reported.

The labor force participation rate has yet to fully recover from its pre-2008 levels, and you're not counted as unemployed if you worked an hour the previous week.

European countries, by contrast, have mostly not changed their definitions of unemployment since, and have a relatively sane definition of what it means to be employed. This is not to say it's perfect -- far from it. But at least they're not counting 1h/week Uber drivers as employed.

See e.g.:

https://qz.com/877432/the-us-unemployment-rate-measure-is-de...
It’s not free, it’s universal.

You pay for, it but the insurer is less cynical.
Well, that's not necessarily true... self driving in particular usually uses planning, which is basically all about 'what if'. But it's true this is relevant to AI in general.