skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not in any one businesses self interest to be philanthropic by paying their workers more or slashing their prices to drive up the available consumption of the working class.

It would be the governments responsibility to right the ship, but considering whose lobbyists that have the pen of legislature and ear of congress good luck with that. Too many seats are non-competitive, the propaganda and distraction machines too effective, and the people too ignorant to collectivize.

Eventually the consequences of the constant shaving of productivity away from the workers into the Wall Street black magic money hole will destabilize the country. Not in a French Revolution kind of way, just the slow rotting death that leads to the bottom falling out a la the Soviet Union's collapse. Eventually the thread is drawn taught enough that bread stops showing up in the stores and nobody knows where it went because all the bread companies stopped manufacturing because the marginal returns from the poor by feeding them didn't justify the capital expenditure over playing books and offshoring profits.

Its not even some hypothetical far future happening. The water is already undrinkably contaminated with lead and nobody has the capital to fix it. Shops supplying the lifeblood food of towns just stop getting deliveries. The houses are just left abandoned, the roads rotting, the people just leave with no idea where they are going. Its not uniform, but no collapse ever is, but nobody accounts for it or really even seems to care.
Voice programming takes a fair amount of effort to get started with, however once you have your microphone dialed and are getting good recognition you can take 'baby steps' and start augmenting your workflow to include voice.

i.e. with Talon the alphabet is custom, so once you learn that you can do a lot with just `cmd+tab` `cmd+A`, `cmd+C`, etc... and it is customizable using python scripting so you can simplify many common tasks.

I believe there is a VSCode plugin for Talon, I personally use Atom.

Certain things are tedious with voice coding, like typing common abbreviated words like `args`; with Talon you have a few options, spell it out: `arch red gust sun` or use the `shrink` command `shrink arguments` or if you use it a lot you can come up with your own customized word for it; also words that sound the same but are spelled differently: `two`, `to`, `too` or even `2`
Mini review of tog: the new OpenBSD git browser
Obligatory "Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses"

* https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5791489 (2013)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907301 (2015)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mjt.me.uk
In my experience Uber is also 50/50 with regard to customer service, so again I'm not sure what the persuasive argument is.
Would appreciate it if mod didn't change the title on this, because as of presently, nobody has any idea what "tog" is.
What does that mean for Fedora?
I love to watch the shrinkage of ice cream. Over the past 10 years, the standard packaging of ice cream has gone from 1/2 gallon (1.9 L) to where they are currently at 1.4 L, with prices staying relatively the same.
But... They're losing money. They can't do that indefinitely.
>But this low number of 2% surprised me because when I was at Yale, everybody kept talking about how broke they were.

>“Want to go out for brunch?” “I can’t—I’m so broke.” This was a common line.

Seems like a huge stretch to assume this is a lie. The 2% figure is for the bottom quintile. The same source says the median family income for Yale students is 192k. That's perfectly consistent with a student who's taking on a heavy debt load to not have much disposable income. The family could have several kids, perhaps be paying partial tuition for 2 kids and have basically no money to give their kid aside from the minimum for food and board.
I had a Canadian car in the US. My rule was simple. I knew the first few multiples of 16 up to 80. And I knew half of 16 is 8. So to convert 35 miles an hour it's just 48+8. And it's very convenient to know that 50 mi is 80km. Beyond that it's just adding 8s or 16s.

For going the other way is just find the nearest multiple of 5 in miles and do a quick approximation. So 70 km. I know that 40 mi is 64 km. Thus 45 mi is 72km. So I'll guess a little lower than 44mi
Predictably Random
So are you going to start this business now or wait until Uber folds?
According to the article, Uber ATG (the self-driving division) isn't affected.

> The freeze does not apply to Uber's autonomous vehicle and freight-shipping divisions.
Oh, so the idea is that buying back stock is effectively just transferring money to investors?

I guess that explains why I was confused by the parent comment.

I still do believe that giving money directly to social/governmental programs is more effective then giving it to the ultra-rich who may or may not have an incentive to spend it in a way that aligns with the country's interests, but that's a topic for another day.
I tried ordering a pizza from NYC and it showed up like three days later in Palo Alto and was pretty cold. They also charged me an arm and a leg.
Yeah, I agree that it doesn’t make sense in the suburbs. It really depends on where you live.

In the center of a large city, you can order something in a minute, pay a couple dollars extra, and have the food at your door in 10-15 minutes. Deliveries are done by bike or scooter and there are hundreds of places to choose from that’ll deliver within half an hour.

It’s great when you’re in the flow and don’t want to deal with the distractions that walking out the door inevitably entails.
Try Micromastery
Good discussion. Buybacks are also investments. The problem is that all the low interest printed money and tax breaks are circulating among the same people/families that own assets in the first place.

The trickle down isn't happening because every single printed dollar and every single tax break is making more money circulate among the rich/asset owners.

That's also the reason yields are low. That's also the reason Softbank can raise so much. That's also the reason nurses and teachers and firefighters and factory workers aren't making enough. Whatever trickles down to them is spent back as income for corporations. They don't have assets.
Because it's just too convenient.

He was murdered, far more logically.
This is somewhat eye opening to me, in the same way that Miller and Sunurjo's work was.

> In other words, selecting which part of the data to analyze based on information regarding where streaks are located within the data, restricts your choice, and changes the odds.[0]

I'm not particularly great at statistics, so I fall trap to a lot of these kinds of misconceptions. I appreciate articles like this getting shared, it's incredibly interesting.

[0]: https://jasoncollins.blog/2018/06/28/explaining-the-hoACt-ha...
While investment and savings aren't opposites, they also aren't guaranteed to be linked, at least if by investment you mean "increase in productive capacity" rather than an accounting identity in some macroeconomic models.

Increasing a bank's ability to lend doesn't mean they will necessarily do it; the reserve ratio is an upper bound.

Also, even when they do make a loan, it also doesn't mean it will necessarily go towards building or improving productive assets. Sometimes loans go towards buying existing assets (such as houses) in a way that might just result in asset inflation. (As in, for example, stock buybacks.)

The idea of a "global savings glut" is somewhat controversial but not obviously nonsense. We can't learn anything by defining it away.
I mean, on HN the solution to badly considered comments is to grumpily reply to them, not to work to solve the societal problem of poor education in critical thinking. So I don't think we can really expect much more of others.
It's become clear (to me) over the years that HN, despite it's apparent simplicity, is well curated by astroturfers.
Anxiety complicates life for dementia patients and their caregivers
When I was living in Japan, the most confusing thing was that most roads, except large ones, didn't have names. People would either draw me a map to show me how to get somewhere or literally take me there.
The moderators leave a lot of notes (as comments) when they modify the flow of information, but do they in that case?
Well at this point I have terabytes of AIS data from the last few years, so if anybody is looking to dig into this, I'm glad to share.
Be careful, php’s ternary operator precedence is different from (most) other languages’ (consult binding direction).

The use of parenthesis is highly encouraged...
From the article:

"Facebook allows you to select the location, age range, gender and ‘interests’ of your audience.
Only people that fall into your target audience will see the sponsored ad.
Specifying ‘interests’ indirectly affects the distribution of age, gender and location."
Huh interesting any reference on your claim that the tongue can’t get RSI?
Only one ISP/cable TV company has local hockey on the Community Access channel no other ISP/Cable has it. Dad would never go to any other company since he likes local hockey. Mom isn't much for TV just the local news and a few British comedies but only TV not streaming or DVD.

Streaming video is not the same experience as TV. My parents would never sit down and binge watch or even watch a video on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. It's just not how they see TV. They wouldn't even have watched a VHS or DVD it's just not how they see TV. To them it's more like radio it's read only, you sit you watch, no control other than on or off.
It's fun to contrast with the opposite phenomenon, which I think also rings true. As said in Terry Pratchett's book "Making Money":

> People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
I'm not sure why they limit themselves to food deliveries with Uber Eats.

They basically have a quasi-unlimited fleet of transportation vehicles at their disposal. How about delivering anything for people and businesses?

The power of whomever cracks this would be in the software handling the logistics, but imagine that on top of passengers, you could also elect to transport some bags or (small) boxes for other stuff people may order, or for small businesses.

You could easily increase the usage of your fleet during non-peak hours especially.
Start what business? Have taxis gone out of business? Or did they adopt their own ridehailing apps and continue to exist? I still see cabs everywhere in NYC, Chicago, and SF.

If you can’t kill taxis with tens of billions of dollars of VC investment, how does the last bit of cash Uber has help?
> There has definitely been a game released during the last 12 months that you'd totally like if you only knew about it.

I've found this to be especially true. Playing through Witcher 3, Factorio - I'm rediscovering some incredible games that focus a lot of systems design for more emergent gameplay. The architecture of factorio vs the divergent gameplay of Witcher captivates for hours upon hours!
While I don't know the specifics about UBER, some companies have RSU that vest only upon liquidation event, eg an IPO, which would inflate the number for that quarter, since you're effectively paying out all stock compensation owed to employees all at once.
There’s also the trend toward “whipped” ice cream which has fewer calories and lower COGS because it is mixed with air.
I see three fundamental issues:

1. Many of their restaurants are simply not geared well for being in the delivery business. They don’t have good parking for drivers. Their menu is built around dining in, not 30 mins in a car. Their delivery packaging is subpar or overkill. They really have to train their restaurant partners to succeed or they won’t get repeat business. They have an inventory problem.

2. The value proposition of food delivery really only exists in the largest cities. Not everyone wants to eat out, but in smaller towns it’s easy to access and social. For somebody who spends 3 hours commuting each day, cooking and dining out lack appeal, but that isn’t a problem for the majority of Americans.

3. There simply isn’t much margin in the restaurant business. Most are happy to run on 1-3% margin. Food cost, scheduling labor around varying demand, and overhead with tremendous fixed and surprise costs. A spike in fuel prices can spell for a losing year, simply based on food cost and reduced demand.

I think a new model of kitchen is in order. An on-demand food service would be able to provide very fresh and hot food in short order, without soggy packaging. It could run by a network of sort of Forward Operating Bases that are positioned around predicted demand, and may move based on data. They may take walk up orders but are tooled around providing delicious food to delivery vehicles. I can imagine a lot of frictionless ways to get food into cars, scooters, or even autonomous delivery wagons, if you knew in advance that is the business you are in. They can take preorders and run their inventories based on that data to avoid food waste. There are no tables to bus, plates to break and wash, or floors to maintain. With good planning the kitchens can be cheap to build, own, and run. And the food can be the very best, made by people in the neighborhood for the neighborhood.

Until all that is common, ya I don’t think the thing works without subsidies. If we did then food delivery would have been much more common; it’s never been a technological problem.

Case in point of delivery optimized to the hilt: Dominos Pizza. It actually all comes down to the menu.
Shrinkflation: Like what happened to this article?
> why does the market tolerate this?

Because the market is insane.

Uber has yet to prove that their core business can actually make money. A large part of the appeal of Uber is that they're cheap, nobody has proved that customers are willing to pay enough for an Uber for them to turn a profit.

I'm legitimately surprised that they're _still_ not making profit on ride sharing. I just kind of assumed that the insanity had stopped. Running at a loss to gain marketshare is a fine and reasonable strategy if you think you actually have a plan to make money later, so far Uber's plan is to spend even more money expanding to other related markets hoping for profitability. I would never buy shares in Uber.
Saying that it happened before the Big Bang is super misleading. Most readers would assume that the inflationary period is part of the Big Bang.
Top comment is an UBER shill who uses 90% of his time to come here and defend shitty corporate practices.

Imagine being so delusionally attached to your investment that you come here to justify these unprofitable Silicon Valley pyramid schemes.

I'm happy for you dude, you probably think of yourself as a genius progressive "investor" that sees what everyone else does not. Before you fall off your high horse just make sure to look at the mirror
If a restaurant is within 10 min of me, I just drive to it myself. If its 15+ min one way, I'll use DoorDash, but I don't get why the driver would drive 30 min for $5 including the use of their car and gas.
This reminds me of the frog in the pot/pan concept. Note: the frog did not get hurt so watch until the end without worrying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svpsLZDgFK4
One of the big tuna vendors would shrink rat like 1/16 of an ounce from tuna cans. Just raise the price, nobody is fooled.
Life never has a meaning. Whatever you do, will be washed away with death. As death is inevitable, you don't have to worry about it. Until it comes, try to enjoy things. Practical way to do this is - stop thinking. if-else won't work. get some physical activity or some creative work. chck book - wisdom in insecurity by alan watts. initial pages may not sound good, but after that it is gem. once you start enjoying each moment without worry (even worry of meaning) of future and past, death is also just another moment.

For boredom, stop using cellphone, facebook, HN and everything for few days. And invest in building, creating or watever work you like, with focus. If you don't like anything, just start with something, after few days you will see difference. key here is patience.

Above both statements seem contradictory. But that is how life works. Get away from instant pleasures. Devote to process without thinking about fruits. See nature. Gist is start doing something, stop worrying outcome and focus on finishing it but don't get obsessed with fruits. This is also meaningless but it will give some involvement in life and take a away from thoughts.

Remember always, life is all about journey not destination. Make your ride enjoyable. Either you enjoy or not, destination is fixed. Your ride is your responsibility, not others. If you keep thinking, you will miss beautiful scenery of life.

if you're spiritual person, look into indian advaita philosophy and stoicism.

http://theory.stanford.edu/~sbansal/geeta_saar/geeta_saar.ht...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8MeqJxs4iM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi#Self-enquiry
I used this as well. Same issue as bouldering. It tends to stress the joints too much.

For whatever reason, regular climbing is better. Probably because there is more 'levels' and thus less immediate stress. You can't really climb to the top of an indoor route until you can learn and get the strength to do it.

With fingerboards you try to see how much you can tolerate and tend to over do it. It also is more of a static movement. Grab and hold. Where top rope climbing is more dynamic... you're constantly moving up the wall in various poses.
Just curious, what are you replacing RedHat with?
Mod of r/economics here.

If you want informed people on economics on reddit, go to r/badeconomics which is the more tightly knit hangout for professional economists and grad students.

Otherwise, go to the economics cluster on twitter. r/economics is like r/news with an econ twist. It's too large to effectively moderate.
Does this say something broader about the supply/demand of engineering talent, or is it mostly just a reflection of Uber's troubles?
There there are alternatives:

(1) Recently I wanted a bag of sugar. At my closest grocery store, the bag was 4 pounds instead of 5. No problem: At my next stop at Sam's Club, I got two bags, 15 pounds each.

(2) Sometimes dish soap comes in small bottles. Okay, at Sam's get a gallon jug of their generic dish soap and with a funnel refill the small bottles. Same for glass cleaner, etc.

(3) Pizza can be $7 to $20. Okay. (i) In a 5 quart bowl, add 750 ml water and 1 T dry yeast. Let the yeast soften. Measure 1 kg of flour. Add 1 T salt to the water, stir, add 2/3rds of the flour, stir, add the rest of the flour, mix some, and dump on a floured board. By hand mix and knead for 8 minutes. Return to the bowl, cover, and let rise to fill the bowl. Dump on the board, form in a long loaf, cut into 8 equal pieces, place each each in a covered plastic bowl, refrigerate. Starting the next day for two weeks or so, for a pizza, take one of the dough pieces, in a microwave proof plate form in a circle 7-9" in diameter, and warm in microwave for 3 minutes. Add 3 T sauce, 1/4 C shredded Mozzarella, and maybe some pepperoni, sausage, etc., place in a clean steel pan, over medium heat, covered, for 13 minutes, move to a cutting board, slice, slide to a dinner plate, add 1 T of grated hard cheese, and eat. Get the flour, 25 pounds, at Sam's, and then the flour for one pizza is about 9 cents. With good toppings, the total cost is still about $1. So, anytime, in 20 minutes, 7 of effort and 13 waiting, get a pizza faster, better, and cheaper than frozen, carryout, or delivery.
I'm afraid that anyone qualified to read this article was not informed by it. And anyone informed by it was not qualified to read it.

> Modern theorizations of sacrifice focus on animal victims, treating the sacrifice of vegetal substances, if they are considered at all, as an afterthought or simply setting vegetal offerings as a second, lesser ritual, ‘a substitution or a pale imitation’.

This is a silly claim.
And half the time, if there is a street name marker, it isn't actually the street name. It's the chome that the street is butting up against.
Books on Writing
That's the HN shadow banning.
And still, we need to have accurate pricing data (reflecting quality and content) if we want to make accurate macroeconomic decisions in a modern age where the historical understanding of inflation and full employment appears to be broken, among other concerns your bum and most bums could appreciate—like the immediate effects of technological change and automation pertaining to your job or UBI... that gives your bum a cozy chair to sit in.
> I don't think most old drivers did that. I didn't.

It may have been regional. In Los Angeles, where I was in high school in he early 1990s, literally every kid I knew with a car had a Thomas Guide.

When standalone GPS units appeared (e.g., TomTom, Garmin), I wondered why there wasn’t a Thomas Guide brand GPS, because Thomas Guide was the dominant brand for the thing that helped you get around LA. If Thomas Guide was only a regional success, that would explain why that never happened.
Apple, Samsung, Google, etc. may all have infringed at times, but their entire product and companies are not based off of infringement. Even in the products they infringe, the majority of it is their own.

These Chinese companies literally clone the entire product. Entire businesses are based off theft.
Clinton visited the island. New documents were unsealed yesterday:

> Bill Clinton: The former president visited Epstein’s private island while Giuffre was there, she claims in one of her depositions. Giuffre stated that Epstein held a dinner for Clinton on the island. (In a statement previously made to Forbes, Clinton denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/08/09/unseal...
If you put your email address out there, people will use it. Maybe github needs to do a better job of conveying what you’re making public when you push a commit, although as a service for programmers it may be reasonable to expect people to understand this already.
We are hoping have something similar in the next freebsd release, FWIW.
Mine would be, "Don't be pennywise and pound foolish".

Sometimes it's worth it to spend the extra money. The example that's burned into my brain is hiring movers.
More importantly it’s a question of who is better equipped to deploy capital - executives or investors?
Intuitively it feels like the stock market was supposed to operate with buybacks and dividends. I invest money in exchange for shares. That money is deployed. Profits made. And slowly returned back to the investor. The investor deploys it elsewhere and the cycle begins.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-24/would-...
Surprisingly, in my experience, most people pick up on it with no explanation. Ive only had to explain it to a handful of people and to each, once. My handwriting is awful and has only gotten worse due to nuerigical issues. I look at my writing from my college notebooks versus current, and comparatively, my college writing is legible and I'm now producing chicken scratch that only I can decipher.
It seems C-level execs across industries believe buying back stock with profit/debt to unlock performance bonuses is a win-win.

This kind of stupidity is why I'm bearish on Apple. Companies should never prioritize financial engineering over R&D imo.

The company & shareholders will eat the disastrous consequences of this asinine thinking when the market next adjusts 30-60% and everyone realizes they were wasting money buying back stock at all time highs.
> It'd be irrational to choose Cisco for any new network deployment these days

I'm interested what you would buy instead? In the UK SME space I see mostly HP, Watchguard, Unifi. Lease lines still often come with Cisco gear (supplied by the provider). Otherwise I only see Cisco at the bigger entities.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-o...