skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this piece fascinating. To honor it I offer a tl; dr

1. Author recounts experiences of people lying about their class/wealth at Yale, often feigning less wealth.

2. Explains behavior 1 as style, safety, loss-of-perspective, and avoiding social responsibility

3. Retells several incidents where a vocal minority of students at Yale picked and won battles over verbiage (e.g. emails, Calhoun, "Master of college").

4. Interprets the battles in 3 as at best insignificant and at worst a distraction from real problems of class disparity in America. Contrasts these protests against Vietnam protests.

5. Proposes "American Elites" have no idea what they stand for anymore, are shirking their responsibility, and have no capability to be self-critical for fear of losing belonging in the in-group.

6. Rejects these Yale social movements: "This ideology is filled with inconsistencies and contradictions, because it is not really about ideological rigor. Among other things, it is an elaborate containment system for the theoretical and practical discontent generated by the failures of the system, an absolution from guilt, and a new form of class signaling."

7. Interprets the "inconsistent" Yale protests as an unproductive way for students to avoid guilt of their privilege and distance themselves from failing "legacy institutions."

8. Holds the Yale administration accountable for siding against a "vacuous" student cause instead of their own faculty. Demands more from "an institution older than the Republic"

9. Asks what it means if "Yale dies" and why this matters. Proposes it speaks to a more universal problem.

[All that said, I recommend reading the whole thing if you can find the time. This distillation has only a fraction of the value of the whole piece. Many tangential points are very interesting.]
Moviepass lol
Well this is about companies borrowing money, so in this case returns to investors. Those investors then pay taxes in whatever country they reside in, and use a fraction of what remains to look for new investments.

As the article points out, money is moving around but that’s it.
I’ve been conducting a thought experiment. Imagine an Uber competitor that keeps drivers as full time employees and charges customers a price that allows it to pay the drivers a fair wage while slicing a modest profit margin off the top. Let’s discuss if something like this can work.
Be Patient
Project IGI had local and global alarm systems. E.g. with two bases on the map, alerting the first base would spawn a massive number of soldiers (a regenerating pool of 4-~15 soldiers) and some other stuff, e.g. tanks, while increasing patrols in or around the second base or turn NPCs from an idle pose to a searching pose.
> You seem dead-set on pissing on Tesla for some reason.

No, I'm just objective and realistic.

> Which non-production car outperforms the Roadster's claimed 2.1 second 0-60?

The AMS Performance Alpha Omega Nissan R35 GT-R does 0 to 60 in 1.72 seconds: https://www.motor1.com/news/44845/ams-performance-alpha-omeg...

The Red Victor 2 does 0 to 60 in 0.9 seconds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Victor_2

Red Victor 3: http://cars.barcroft.tv/britains-fastest-street-legal-car-an...

The Grimsel from AMZ: https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/22/12004422/fastest-accelera...

Global Rallycross cars: https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/videos/a31137/how-g...

V8 era Formula 1 cars: https://jalopnik.com/this-chart-explains-why-formula-one-car...

> Beyond those that don't really qualify as cars (e.g. with jet engines, etc)

The Tesla Roadster is supposed to come with rocket thrusters:

https://electrek.co/2019/07/19/tesla-roadster-hover-test-spa...

So does the Roadster qualify as a car?
I was answering to the comment (paywalled by the article), and I believe a few companies do hold onto the cash when they see the opportunity, but probably not many would have the gut or the data.
Isn't that called a "car service"?
I'm not a lawyer. I did do a few years of law school, but I wrote that way long before that, so that's not why...
How many people understand your definition of quick vs fast? I bet not many. Tesla's marketing is misleading. They also did that with "auto-pilot" which makes people think the car is automatic.
If you are using first and rest, then you are treating whatever sequence you have as a linked list, so you've already lost the plot.
P++, a proposal for a new dialect of PHP
I hate these books. Basically it's just synonyms for well known concepts, like blue in language b is called gog and orange in language a is called koom. It extends to more complex concepts as well like this is how you do an if statement in python vs. c++. For JavaScript the good parts it's this type of book. Literally nothing new is learned save how to rename the some concept as the good part of JavaScript. Details that you can learn any time.

What I want from a book is to learn new concepts. For example functions and data are the same thing. Or recursion and a loop + stack are isomorphic concepts. Or that unit tests only verify one test case of your program correct while a proof based systems like type checking can verify an entire domain of your program correct.
A recent interesting example of a way to fix this is CrossCode, an RPG/maybe Action RPG. The way they do it is you heal to full quickly out of combat, but if you remain in combat and get longer and longer kill streaks, it increases your odds of getting rare drops (and might improve exp/money gains as well, I haven't tested that portion). You have to weigh the risks of continuing to push on at red health vs going for more high end drops.
the woke-est girl i ever met was from the ivy league, the daughter of state department parents. she'd been 'traveling' for a year, and just returned to the bay area... to sleep on a filthy couch in the warehouse where i was living with a handful of other folks.

except for the dreadlocks, filth, and b.o., she was as white as the driven snow. she lectured me for 40 minutes. when i told her i was raised by a single mother, went hungry sometimes as a kid, and paid my way through college she helped me understand that i needed "sit down and shut up" to hear other people's oppression

at this time, i don't remember her burner-name. i do remember she was cute, and i had a bit of a crush on her until that day. the experience comes to mind every time somebody asks me "why in god's name?!" would i leave the bay area for texas
> the situation makes your point about "they have to conceal it to be treated as human" ring totally false

They can smell it sure, but their reaction is proportional to some product of distance between their socioeconomic positions and how much shame the other party signals. Pretending to be poor is demonstrating shame of one's higher position. In your case, this seems to have been enough to placate their less privileged peers.
Epstein was quite plausibly the chief procurer; he no doubt had a wife array of powerful clients, but there's not a lot of reason to think there was a higher-level mastermind behind Epstein in the procurement operation.
How come Lyft is doing much better - comparatively? At one point, they were considering a selloff.
Your savings go into a bank, which loans it out to people who spend it.
Having been to the "beta" and 1.0, there was some light guidance on discussing territories / GFW, but nothing terrible. I would not try discussing anything about the CCP though (and you might find it hard to find anyone who wants to!)

IMO it is a bit of a weird event because many things are imported. Villages almost all come from the USA (and speakers to some extent) and have their travel and lodging completely covered. It is probably a good way to foster local talent, hence why Baidu pays so much $$$ for it.
You know there are a large number of people who rely on these platforms to earn enough to take care of their families...
YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech?'
It's called 'ternary operator' because it's `?` and `:` and takes three operands.
Huh? Double Dash came out in 2003.
I currently have 1324 bookmarks, many of which are obsolete and/or dead. One might reasonably argue that I am drowning under them.
> How come Lyft is doing much better - comparatively? At one point, they were considering a selloff.

My guess: Lyft let Uber make all the mistakes, learned from them and only spent money on things that avoided the worst mistakes that Uber made.
I don't know what Uber thinks its end game is. Uber's "lets burn money to capture the market and own self driving" stratagem is economically absurd. In the limit of driverless cars, capital can be turned directly into labor so anyone with capital will deploy a fleet so long as it is profitable. Talk about a red ocean. The self-driving dream investors pin their hopes on is a siren. Ironically, Uber will only be able to maintain value in those futures where driverless cars don't work out.

Commodities do not have network effects. In general, if you are replacing labor with capital (in the form of automation) you will not get the network effects of a two-sided market - which is basically a market failure caused by our previous inability to convert capital into labor in a manner that scales. If you are replacing a two-sided market with automation you are going to need another moat.
The game isn't half as fair as it should be. I see great problem in that.

Even though some fraction of the disparity is earned, a lot clearly isn't.
> But his death also ends the criminal case against him, no one else was charged in the indictment.

If there were related parallel investigations, they could either still be before a grand jury, not yet have been submitted to a grand jury, or already had indictments issued but under seal. The fact that no one else was charged in the Epstein indictment does not mean there is no one else in a related matter against whom an investigation and/or (sealed) charges exist, which, if from no other source, the public coverage of all the investigations around Trump should have made everyone familiar with recently.
It's not just space, infrastructure costs/complexity increase exponentially with more visitors.
As a public company with shareholders? Never.

Once you go public, the shareholders by and large drive your you revenue decisions. Don’t hit your revenue goals? Stock tanks and you lose money.

If Uber remained a private company, it’s possible. However if the goal is growth a massive IPO and cash grab, then your idea is antithetical to their goals.

If they stayed private and did what you said and the goal was a modest profit and staying under the radar? Totally possible, but that has to be the goal at the outset and keeping employees will be hard if you have to keep up with cost of living adjustments, bonuses, etc to stay competitive with other industries competing for the same talent
My Guess would be

1. Lower Expenses, they seem to be just interested in being a Car Service, not developing Self Driving Tech

2. Better Service, almost everyone I know has stopped using Uber due to service issues, most people seem to like Lyft better

3. Less PR Controversies
> Let’s discuss if something like this can work

In New York, London and San Francisco? Sure. Anywhere else, there isn't enough density of destinations and density or wealth to make on-demand service competitive with hired cars.

That said, the full-time requirement would also wipe out taxis in most cities. That turns a broken-down car for anyone but the wealthy into a potentially life-destroying experience. Weighed against the benefits around drinking and driving, et cetera, something between full-time employment and the current situation seems apt.
Any dot.com startup before the bust. Just obviously not at this scale.
Some more reflections from "Wolf Larsen" - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1jqpar/what_book_sin...
Perhaps, and there are plenty of those around. You're a fellow New Yorker, so you can readily conjure up the image: crummy Lincoln Town Car, leather seats that reek of stale tobacco, driver who talks on the phone while operating the vehicle, payment in cash (plus the tolls!), ordering process that involves speaking on the telephone... You know, the typical Brooklyn-based car service that dispatches cars via the radio from a storefront office.

Uber's greatest contribution to the industry is the discovery that customers want a nice and smooth experience. Order using a smart phone, ride in a nice car (or perhaps a luxury one, or a larger one, or one with a child seat - you have options), and don't worry about payment and how much you owe in tolls.

So, my pitch is that this convenience can probably be made to work as a business that doesn't abuse its employees and doesn't flood the roads with idle drivers. And also doesn't burn investor cash in order to conduct a price war. That's just bananas.
Do you even thinkpad bro?
> now the law says that the packaging must clearly point out if the quantity inside has changed.

We need this law in the US. I’m not one to push for new regulations, but I have seen this happen time and again with big companies (Nabisco, General Mills) that shrink their boxes and count on the customer not to notice.
The sentiment on UBER recently is that they are only surviving by subsidizing rides and are out of control / there's no future business there.

But that is not an accurate portrayal, here's what's going on when you look at their un-editorialized results (1):

- Headlines have portrayed UBER as losing $5b this quarter. This is the easy one to address as this article touches on - UBER paid out almost $4b in stock based compensation (one time, due to IPO) that inflated their loss number. The more accurate portrayal is that UBER burned ~$1.2b this quarter on operations.

- Of their remaining $1.2b operating loss almost 50% of that is from UBER eats subsidies. They paid $544m more to drivers to deliver food than they took in. Why? (a) It is their fastest growing (by %) division (2) It's arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a "last mile" delivery network at scale.

- Their core business - ridesharing - has improved their gross margin and unit economics quarter-over-quarter to the point that the discounting is almost non-material (less than $22m total worldwide this quarter, representing less than 1/2 a percent of total ride sharing revenue).

- They have >25,000 employees and >50% of those are international in new markets that require heavy HR spending. Their move to clip 400 marketing employees (25% of entire division) last month implies the CEO has confidence that there is a lot of fat in employee base.

- Add to that other losses in their "other bets" which is almost certainly their freight brokering network at -$50m, and the losses appear to be diminishing.

(1) https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
Horizon: Zero Dawn is fun and immersive. One of the best games I've ever played.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has the best acting I've ever seen in a game and I've felt very involved and immersed in the game and the character.
> Is that true in the US? I thought that the bar was pretty high for public figures.

“Actual malice” is a much higher bar than is generally in place for libel, but it is not an insurmountable bar.

> I mean, consider what people say in political campaigns.

Litigation over political campaign statements for defamation is fruitless for reasons aside from the legal standard to win a judgement; it takes to long to get a final verdict, but more importantly the litigation itself keeps whatever damaging claim you are trying to suppress at the center of the news, doing your opponents work for them.
The government will also intrinsically allocate money based on political considerations, which are not necessarily congruent with practical ones.
How can finance firms use telegram? aren't there strict compliance laws which require logging of messages - e.g. why Bloomberg chat is popular?

Or maybe that's the point... but seems short sighted
To quote myself:
> Sometimes 'multiple playstyles' is a design decision

That's Deus Ex. But it doesn't have to be Doom.

A game forcing you to change tacks doesn't mean the same thing as it giving you options.

And no, I don't necessarily think run-and-gun always gets boring, and you need to add stealth segments, or a car chase, or whatnot. You can keep it fresh without changing the premise, I don't think 'run-and-gun' is so narrow a definition that you need to change the pace entirely in order to keep it fresh. No-one ever levels this criticism at racing games, platformers, Tetris, etc.

I get a bit frustrated when I'm forced to play a stealth section in an action game. They usually feel slow, forced, obviously scripted, and a lazy way of cleansing the player's palate. For it to feel any good, it needs to be a core design principle (see, for example, Metal Gear Solid), not a tedious half-level (before some inevitable scripted scene allows and forces you to exit stealth mode).
Epstein comes off as an unhinged individual. With a mansion full of sex art, a normal reaction would be “we should have known in retrospect”, not a sweetheart plea deal.
The operative word in my blurb was "modest". Screw the shareholders; or rather, screw the public shareholders. I don't want their money because it comes with strings attached: demands that the business operate in an unethical and inefficient manner. Those types of shareholders are crazy can take their money to the casino for all I care.

However, I'm sure there are other shareholders who might appreciate a "modest" dividend instead of a meteoric rise and trading potential. Where are those people? Aren't they the true smart money?
Do you have a recommended reading list and order for ted chiang?
Can you describe what body weight exercises you found helpful? Why do you think those were different than what you were accomplishing with traditional gym weightlifting?
eBay scammers turned Nespresso buyers into cash mules
> - The easy one, that this article touches on, is that they paid out almost $4b in stock compensation that inflated the loss number to "$5 billion" that I see everywhere, the actual number is they burned ~$1.2b this quarter.

Why would you value their stock at 0 to get that 'actual' number?
> I don't know what Uber thinks its end game is

There is a massive, profitable courier business in most cities that Uber hasn't touched. And food delivery is already being explored.

Beyond that, Uber's electronic-dispatch technology has the ability to optimize garbage pick-up and drop-off; police, fire and medical resource routing; small-vehicle fleet management for sundry specialized logistics companies; and all manner of other logistical processes presently centrally dispatched like taxis were a decade ago.

Uber is burning too much cash. But real-time electronic dispatch of variously-placed resources to randomly-distributed tasks is nothing to sneeze at. It's a difficult problem due to its myriad of edge cases, and Uber seems to have reasonably solved it.
If you're interested in more on the yield curve inversion, there are three recent (March [1], August [2], and October [3] 2018) SF Fed Reserve Economic Letters about it:

[1] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

[2] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

[3] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
If a company is very good at making X, it may not be very good at making anything else. Hence, returning the money via stock buybacks to investors is likely a better strategy than doing a crummy job doing something outside their core competency.
>I think the author is making a big ASSumption here. Why is it that an IP that geolocates to Las Vegas isn't using a VPN?

Good point. I'm typing this while at DEFCON and my VPN provider (Private Internet Access) defaulted to the Las Vegas endpoint.
Is this internal engineering for software dev or does it include self-driving tech?
I'm not sure if someplace like Lancaster, PA (totally random example; it's a city I enjoy visiting) even needs a service like Uber. There is nothing in the value prop that demands that it be scaled up, down & out to fit everywhere in the world.
since when do you have to pay to read Medium posts? We have our clients use it for 'blog' content for ease and SEO, but wouldn't advise if the articles can't be read for free...
I'd also like to see a law passed that requires each product to mention on its packaging if its ingredients (even just their relative proportions) have changed. This would apply to things like foods/drinks and also cleaning products.

Of course companies would protest, claiming that their recipes are trade secrets, but we already require that products list their ingredients, and we protect trademarks for products, which seems unreasonable if companies can alter the contents of what is being protected, without telling customers.

To be clear, though, I'm not actually advocating that the labels report precise amounts of each ingredient, but they should be forced to say something like "40% more salt" or "70% more water", at least next to the ingredients, and "New recipe" on the front (as many products already do).
> Epstein comes off as an unhinged individual. With a mansion full of sex art, a normal reaction would be “we should have known in retrospect”, not a sweetheart plea deal.

That Epstein had politically powerful clients and friends is not in serious dispute (which were clients and which were merely friends unconnected to his child rape business is somewhat less clear), and explains the sweetheart plea deal without resort to some behind-Epstein mastermind.

It's not impossible, but there is nothing that is explained more easily by such a mastermind than by the Epstein being the master of his own sex trade operation which garnered him influence (simply heading that operation means he has powerful blackmail material on powerful people.)
Why not?

Is it somehow morally reprehensible? Because it would be ineffective? Do you want the govt to see your dick pics?

I'm curious about about your flat out rejection of this proposal.
> Why would you value their stock at 0 to get that 'actual' number?

It's a one-time non-cash expense. Allocating to a single quarter is an accounting convenience.

Stock comp represents an economic cost--shareholders are diluted by it. But allocating it now or then, here or there, is arbitrary. As such, when making longitudinal statements (e.g. is Uber's economic position improving or receding), stripping out such items is standard.
Teenage climate hunger striker: “People should be terrified”
The game was and has never been fair. The parent is merely arguing that you should blame the game, and not the players.
Well it surprises me because Trump already has the nomination and it's not even time for the general election yet, the D's are essentially running right now, Trump is preparing to run.

Edit: actually looking at his ads, they're asking for fundraising so that makes sense if he's getting positive ROI.
i’m curious how he could feel torque vectoring in a straight line....
Do you have a source for their blockchain being launched EOY?

I've been following their blockchain project since the whitepaper, and they've been quietly missing their launch goals by many quarters...

I think Telegram has a unique position to combat Facebook's Libra.
I should mention my issues have mainly been with wrist and neck pain.

This has completely gotten rid of the wrist pain. The split keyboard opened up my posture and helped a bit with the neck pain.

Since I got a new job that didn't have standing desks, the neck pain has started to come back a little bit. It's mostly because your neck gets weak when you sit for so many hours a day. Getting a standing desk converter can help keep your muscles from atrophying. It's also not great to stand all day. You want to alternate.
Is 401k really something that only small % of the populace has?