skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hoovering and is a verb in the US from technically advanced hardware businesses
while ubering is a verb globally from a taxi software company.

So uber doesn’t have

Depreciating factories,
Competing manufacturers,
Supply chains
Software R&D

And has expertise in establishing brand prescence and marketshare.

Uber = better taxi and demand for taxis will increase in future with or without driverless cars.

How easy is it for car manufacturers or software companies to build and displace what Uber has in operation in the transition to driverless cars? I think it’s difficult.

Uber seems to have deep experience how this market will play out and they are actually spending the money on r&d to see how it will play out and should be able to position the Uber brand which everyone in the Western world associates with taxi to clip the ticket on an increasing number of taxi rides in the future.

Google and Apple are possibly the biggest threats but they have a whole lot of anti-trust, privacy and motivation issues to overcome. Possibly Tesla has a automotive technology edge but unlikely and Tesla is constrained by its capital intensive business model.

From a net cash flow perspective, clipping tickets on taxi rides seems a profitable growth business while R&D into driverless car tech is a bottomless well but if your the largest taxi ticketer in the world it’s probably good to be at the edge of this field of knowledge.

At $26.00 a share uber needs to clip $1.00 per ride on 2.4 billion trips to get 12* earnings.

It did 10 billion rides/deliveries in 2018 and has 12 billion cash on hand presently.

It is a software business and owns the copyright to it’s software stack so should have lower operating costs than it’s smaller competitors licensing bits and pieces of their stack plus economies of scale plus one focus on getting people and things from a to b as easily as possible.

I hope it goes lower. At 26.00 - 7.00 for the cash on hand you are paying 19.00 for a verb that sells 6 tickets per day at $1.00 profit per ticket equals a 30% return on the core business which is being invested into R&D to secure brand prescence and network effects in emerging delivery technology.

That R&D can stop today and Uber will continue to print and clip the ticket for 10 billion rides per year now and for the forseeable future.

So it’s just a question of whether the current manager is a genius at deploying capital into the driverless r&d space and can get dominant market share of air taxi’s and delivery because the core of Uber (10 billion tickets per year) is a fantastic business and that definitely didn’t happen by accident and with antitrust regulations the uber app should become more profitable and dominant.

I hope it goes lower.
don't live in San Francisco.
Because for the foreseeable future there will be resources that are important to people and are limited. If inequality gets so severe that some people are unable to get the resources that are important to them then they tend to get upset.

One of the most obvious examples in America right now is a house in a desirable part of the country. Buying a house has always been a major investment; however, housing prices are now so high relative to income that many people will never be able to purchase a house in one of America's modern cities.
Wordpad is a completely different thing, it’s a basic word processor. I’d be quite happy with a slightly better text editor, though as I pointed out Notepad has improved recently and isn’t far off a reasonable set of basic features.
Link to source: https://news.airbnb.com/in-the-business-of-trust/
I'm not sure what generation you're a part of but I appreciate ads when they actually tell me something I didn't know about that I do want to buy. For example I've been shopping for beds and dont mind ads for brands I hadn't heard of. Some of them I would have bought had they been in my budget but this to me isn't so much a problem with ada in general as it is about as targeting.
But that's something the AI can learn fairly easily, isn't it? The difficulty in this case wasn't that the AI had issues figuring out the handling of the SUV, it's that it had issues detecting a pedestrian and a dangerous situation. You can still run into these issues on a bicycle, with a much lesser chance of killing people.
I do work in software, and I do save my money. However, unless I'm suddenly given a massive raise it's going to take 5 or more years until I have what I consider "FU money" saved up. I wouldn't really consider saving up money over years and years as "just getting it"
> you want to apply the breaks before you come into contact with a person

Usually breaks are applied shortly after the moment of contact, but the brakes should certainly be applied earlier.

(I'm genuinely sorry, but I couldn't resist.)
Anomaly Detection on data streams, in one line of Bash
Failing 15% of the time is the best way to learn, say scientists
Much of the blame in the 737 MAX crashes is aimed at failed automation.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/15/18267365/boeing-737-max-8...
Isn't it also important to note that wealth acquisition activities and wealth creation activities are not the same thing?
I work for 3.5h/day and the free time is worth the loss of pay.
Moving more and more away from Amazon. If I especially like a product or company, I'll see if it costs about the same to buy direct and do that. I've found that lots of companies actually have better deals on their site or offer a coupon.
Umm... nothing and that's the point. It's free market capitalism. People should be free to do whatever they want with their time.

So long as the value they provide is greater than their cost, the deal is good for both parties

Ideally people would only work 30 hours but get paid for the full week.

Hourly billing is bullshit anyway. The natural cadence of work doesn't map to always being able to extract value from every single hour. Sometimes the value is in being more or less available for that week.

It's astonishing how many developers can't grasp that concept and insist on being super strict about hourly work
Comparing GINI among most OECD countries is usually how GINI is evaluated anyways, and largely makes sense in that context with the exception of maybe some Latin American countries.
> would it still be "these corps are too big"?

Of course, because you'd still have a single entity in control of hundreds of billions of dollars in resources. The CEO still has the same amount of money to lobby the government to relax environmental rules or suppress wages or competition or fix prices or whatever problematic thing Abstract Evil Corp does when they're too powerful. They still have the same huge pile of cash to undercut competitors with until there are none left. The size of the company is problematic independent of where the profits go.

It's also somewhat of an implausible hypothetical, because paying significantly above market wages is uncompetitive. If Amazon pays market wages then nobody can undercut them on price because they have better logistics. If they paid significantly above market wages then someone else could pay market wages and undercut them. The only way out of that is to get market wages up and consumer prices down to the level you're talking about -- which is what happens when there are more employers competing for labor and customers.
Buy one of these: https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_r...
A fair point.

So I see two takeaway questions: would we be fine/better off without mass media funded by advertising(it's obvious what my answer to this would be since I don't generally listen to it or watch it, though I acknowledge it going away won't likely happen).

And the second, would content we like to consume/ be worthy of consumption be produced anyway, and my contention is that it would still, just like it did in the past and continues in the current (some free, some paid for), as can be seen in the history of books, early internet, street art, leisure, bloggers, hobbyists, cinema, documentaries, etc.

There might be a third point of mine, which is that we're actually suffering from a glut of content and competition for eyeballs: so to me, worrying about that content disappearing is a bit like worrying about dying of thirst while drowning in a freshwater lake.
If using Microsoft be very wary of the cost of understanding the licencing - especially for the "free" options.

Many years ago we used BizSpark, and we wasted far too many days and dollars trying to understand and use the licencing (and using the abysmal web interface that was mandatory). We couldn't end up jumping through the right hoops to use products in production, even though were target audience for the products when we started our business. The licences had very broad exceptions that gave Microsoft the right to pull the plug at any time.

I'm sure things are different now, but I'm also sure they are the same.
Sure, but you would be giving them your DNA, which can be mapped back to you through other peoples DNA that are in any way related to you. What I am saying is, that once someone else has your DNA, all aspects of anonymity are gone.

To reduce exposing "who" you are, then you would have to ensure that nobody currently related to you, or future offspring, ever get their DNA stored, are never arrested, are never in a medical facility that stores DNA samples, and so on. You would also want to verify that nobody related to you has ever been arrested or provided their DNA willingly or otherwise.

DNA can also be used in conjunction with computer modeling to draw a picture of approximately what you look like. That image can be compared to state ID card data. This was done for a brief period in Japan, using chewing gum stuck to bus stop benches, to show off their software. Here [1] is one example from 2013.

In summary, to remain anonymous, you would need a kit that you operate at home, that does 100% of the diagnosis and reporting in your home, with no DNA and no data leaving your home whatsoever.

[1] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-or-cool...
The ugly, gory, bloody secret life of National Hockey League dentists
> But, you like accessing content for free, correct?

Meh. The best online content's fully paid, donationware (Wikipedia), or simply free. 100% of the ad-supported stuff could go away tomorrow and my quality of life would suffer not at all. Hell, might go up. Meanwhile spyvertising-paid "free" services & software are sucking the air out of the room for paid and open-source alternatives (and protocols—god is that ecosystem bad for protocols) alike, for a variety of things I might like to buy or use or contribute to.

I don't get the "but think of what the Web would look like without ad money!" doom & gloom. It'd be fine. Go ahead, outlaw them. I do not care even a little.
Especially so considering that there have been multiple hull-loss accidents with fatalities (LH2904, TAM3054), where air/ground detection has been a contributing factor. Throughout the years, the aircraft has been unable to tell whether it's on the ground or in the air.

With the Lufthansa flight the problem was not the aircraft design but rather that the pilot remained on only one main gear for too long. The Airbus design requires weight on both wheels (this had nothing to do with computers being out of sync) in order to prevent things like the Lauda Air (Boeing 767-300ER) crash where the thrust reversers deployed in flight causing the plane to drop out of the sky, killing everyone.

Same deal with the TAM flight. For whatever reason the pilots didn't properly position the thrust lever on one engine. That had nothing to do with computers being out of sync and had absolutely nothing to do with ground detection.

Meanwhile with the Boeing 737, a single (unreliable) radar altimeter (RA) is used as part of the ground detection and a single failed RA caused a Westjet 737 to start pulling back on the throttles.

http://avherald.com/h?article=41e84cb5

As far a the Turkish 737 crash:

http://avherald.com/h?article=41595ec3

During the accident flight, while executing the approach by means of the instrument landing system with the right autopilot engaged, the left radio altimeter system showed an incorrect height of -8 feet on the left primary flight display. This incorrect value of -8 feet resulted in activation of the ‘retard flare’ mode of the autothrottle, whereby the thrust of both engines was reduced to a minimal value (approach idle) in preparation for the last phase of the landing.

...

The problems with radio altimeter systems in the Boeing 737-800 fleet had been affecting several airlines, including Turkish Airlines, for many years and were known to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States of America.

...

Despite the fact that Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States of America had been aware for many years that the radio altimeter system was causing many problems and was affecting the operation of other systems, this situation was not designated as a safety risk. Reports of problems with the radio altimeter system that could not be resolved by Boeing justified an effort to analyse the radio altimeter system and other related systems. Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States of America could have recognised the fact that the problems caused by the radio altimeter system, especially the potential for activating the autothrottle retard flare mode, posed a safety risk.

That sounds a lot like the engineering that went into MCAS - using only one input for something safety critical.
> Americans don't have an intuitive sense of metric units

I don't really believe that. American public schools have been teaching the metric system to middle schoolers for a few decades now. Every American I talk to understands the metric system. In some cases, particularly units of volume, they understand the metric system better than the imperial units (liters are easy, but I can never keep quarts/pints/cups/floz/etc straight in my head.) Coca Cola sells sugar water to Americans in liter-oriented packaging (.5, 1, an 2 liter bottles are ubiquitous), and Americans certainly don't balk at that. They drink it up.
It depends on your vertical. Some online centric verticals are winner takes all and rely on a marketplace critical mass, while others have a local presence element and can support near identical competitors. You can’t have too many Uber or Lyft platforms per city (critical mass) but you definitely can have a lot of coffee shops.
Reminds me a bit of "Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent".
Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy. When not taking psychedelics and meditating one will attempt to re-create or grasp after the pleasant sensations and thoughts previously experienced, which severs one from looking into the present moment as it is.

This undistracted state of [the] ordinary mind is the meditation. One will understand it in due course. Gampopa (d. 1153)
Story is wrong. The linked report has it as
"Most of these crashes involved another vehicle striking the ATG test vehicle—33 such incidents; 25 of them were rear-end crashes and in 8 crashes ATG test vehicle was side swiped by another vehicle."

Edit: I emailed the register and they fixed it immediately. Nice!
Let's assume for sake of argument that "inequality" is in fact "inevitable."

Then what policy conclusions are we supposed to draw?
From the article:

> Marketers are often most successful at marketing their own marketing.

I've seen this play out at places I've worked. After raising a funding round, marketing sold the leadership on letting them burn the lion's share of it, even though launching new marketing campaigns was never on the list of reasons we initially went out to raise money.
Please keep your prejudices out of this. How did hunter-gatherers get ahead?
Apparently SWAT and police are stupid and incompetent beyond belief then, if they are willing to endanger lives over eight dollars and when the alternative is just walking away and taking that money from his bank account.

Maybe they still make those lemon-activated thinking-hats from the hitchhikers guide? Adding those to the issued gear might help.
Just noticed that the 5th Edition is still available on Kindle (at least on Amazon Australia) and is a lot cheaper than I expected it to be. The hardcover edition is still very expensive there though.
That already happens with any competent scheduler, no?
And not just once, to initially achieve exactly-equal distribution.

Due to the natural variety in persons' behavior, skills, and preferences, some will build or collect a different mix of things. Those things will then get valued as "wealth" or "income" of different magnitudes that violate the `gini=0` constraint.

So, you'd need constant additional violence to re-level the holdings against peoples' individual actions.
Another indictment of our bizarre, inequitable society masquerading as a feel-good story.
Let's say that Jeff Bezos gets twice as rich while I stay the same. Inequality increases, but I'm not unhappy. Now, let's say that Jeff Bezos loses half his money on the same day I lose half of mine. Inequality stays the same, but I'm unhappy. Therefore I conclude that inequality doesn't bother me, and its absence is no comfort. (I'm using money as a stand-in for goods and services, of course. If inflation doubled the number of dollars we had, I wouldn't be any happier.)
Check out our open-source tool called Label Studio, https://labelstud.io and we have a commercial offering that does exactly this, finetuning the models.
No, that's not a working exploit, as is said in the paper:

> Chrome intentionally degrades the accuracy of its high-resolution timer to dissuade timing attacks using performance.now() [62]. However, the Web Workers feature of HTML5 makes it simple to create a separate thread that repeatedly decrements a value in a shared memory location [24, 60]. This approach yields a high-resolution timer that provides sufficient resolution.

They did it on Chrome 62.0.3202, but SharedArrayBuffer was disabled in all major browsers right when spectre dropped. Chrome enabled it again in Chrome 67 if Full Site Isolation was enabled. Full site isolation is now enabled by default afaik.

So no, that is in no way a working exploit in any major browser I know of. There is no know spectre (or other variant) exploit that works in a default updated major browser (and there has never been as far as I know), but feel free to link any PoC's.
Interesting... I've bought probably two dozen books from them over the past couple of years (via their Amazon storefront) and I've never had a problem with them.
Brilliant. Mentioned in https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwe3m4/this-website-has-s...
Yep!

That's a top 50 on Madrid Marathon and a Top 500 (out of 45000 finishers) for the New York Marathon.

I'd say that's pretty nice! I mean, not Olympic (or maybe yes, depending on the country), but pretty solid.
...darn it. I think I have to leave it that way now. Can I blame my phone? Yeah, I'm gonna blame my phone.
Wow. For anyone else who missed this:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-botches...
I started on making my own web IDE: http://edit.rupy.se

"Will finish it before I die, maybe."TM
My cofounder and I switched to working 4 hours of "productive" work per day and it is pretty awesome. I use RescueTime to track what app is in front and when it ticks over to 4 hours I generally call it quits unless I am in the middle something I want to wrap up.

I really like this because it incentivizes productivity over hours in seat. IE, right now this comment is being added to my "non productive" time and I am making no progress on getting my workday done. (I have 15m left at the moment)

I am generally pretty focused, but sometimes that wanes and I find this keeps me on task. On the best of days I start around 7am and call it quits by noon, but occasionally that stretches into 2pm.

I do occasionally hop on a bit in the evening and we are all basically all on call but our stack is pretty stable so that doesn't come up often.

Has been absolutely awesome, I don't think I could ever go back. I am far happier, spend far more time outdoors and I honestly do not think my productivity has dropped much at all. I think it is far too easy to just use wall clock as a measure of working and fool ourselves that we are doing more than 4 hours of real work in an 8 hour day.

Throwaway because I'm not sure my clients are ready to hear this.
That would be extremely interesting, but at least in short term I'd rather see more bandwidth so we can see the top 10 stretch their legs :D
According to their website, they have donated $28,000,000 and 26,000,000 books. These seem to be separate activities, i. e. the money is straight-up cash given independently of the donation of books.

I'm not sure if that fits with your characterisation as "a very small percentage". They don't seem to publish profit numbers, making this somewhat unanswerable.

But having read the press release and website, I did no get the impression that this was necessarily a non-profit. There are dozens of "free shipping", "sale", "save", "bargain" claims, and barely any of do-goodery (the name, plus those donation numbers at the very bottom). "Non-profit" is mentioned nowhere on their site, and they characterise themselves as a "social venture", a term that means exactly what they are.
If I'm diving into buying something like a bed, I'm never looking at regular advertising. I'm trawling through forums and old message boards, looking at sites that do direct sales, reading reviews, looking at pictures, going to an actual store to touch and see a thing. Advertising is a skewed view of something I want to buy where they try to convince me it's 110% beyond my wildest dreams and expectations. It's not, never will be. I just want something that's about 80% there and to confidently know it's good enough.
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Thank you for the reference :).
Does the dollar amount of additional wealth given to the least-lazy person matter? Or is it only significant that they earn some marginal amount more than the second least-lazy person?
Semantics. It obviously takes time to build independence, but you can do it. It is in your power. Nobody really has to tolerate micromanagement unless they're just starting out
Relying on courts seems to suffer one problem: given the scale and amount of posts I doubt that any judical system is capable to process that amount of cases.

Secondly, as it was already pointed in this thread, there are other ways to manipulate - for example by omitting some facts or simply rephrasing them.

To give you an extreme but real life example, recently in Poland there was news about Robert Biedron, left wing politician who rescued a two year old boy and his father from a burning car, then according to other media he just allowed them to wait in his car before police arrived (and I can't honestly tell which version is true - this kind of supports your point), but there was also a headline that translates to "Car crashed and burning with a 2 year old child on board. Robert Biedron involved". While this obviously gives a completely inverse impression on the viewer, technically this is not a lie - all the information in that headline is true and 100% correct. Penalizing lying on the internet will not stop manipulation. Maybe just make it a little bit harder forcing the manipulator to be a bit more creative
Just start doing it, in your free time. You'll be burning the candle at both ends for a while as you build up clients, but you're young, you've got the energy and the time.
That first graph has no meaning without some granularity. Plot success of school against actual funding.
It could easily represent 9 schools with 1000 per student and one school with 9000000 per student and result in 90 percent failing schools.
Not all renewable energy is from the sun. Tidal and geothermal power are both fusion independent.
Is Sending Text Reminders Behavioral Economics?
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