skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this.

"The Market Fairy Will Not Solve the Problems of Uber and Lyft"

https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-market-fairy-will-not-solve-the...

> Here is the thing about Uber and Lyft (and much of the “sharing economy”).

> They don’t pay the cost of their capital.

> The wages they pay to their drivers are less than the depreciation of the cars and the expense of keeping the drivers fed, housed, and healthy. They pay less than minimum wage in most markets, and, in most markets, that is not enough to pay the costs of a car plus a human.

> These business models are ways of draining capital from the economy and putting them into the hands of a few investors and executives. They prey on desperate people who need money now, even if the money is insufficient to pay their total costs. Drivers are draining their own reserves to get cash now, but, hey, they gotta eat and pay the bills.
Where?

Germany today definitely seems better than Nazi Germany -- copy that for almost all of Europe.

Japan today is definitely better than Tojo.

Russia today is probably better than Soviet Russia. Maybe it's worse. It's still bad.

Copy that for China, but I can't imagine it's worse than Mao. South East Asia seems a lot better off without the Khmer Rogue running around.

Isis is fucking up the middle east and MBS is terrible, but at least women have some rights and their courts aren't an absolute complete joke anymore.

I don't know much about India -- but it definitely seems like it's improving vs the recent past.

I don't really know anything about South America or Africa or Australia -- but if you think there was more justice in the Aztec or Inca Empires than there is today, you're mistaken.

Sure, things are way worse in some pockets I guarantee -- see Syria.

The world as a whole is getting better and fairer. And if you think anywhere in the world wasn't killing people on a regular basis for political motives and getting away with it Scott Free, I think you should read about Kingdoms and Empires and Slavery and Feudalism -- you know, the things civilazation ran on until relatively recently. And if you think "Modern Day Slavery" is anywhere near as bad as "Real Slavery" -- again, you're completely mistaken.

Go back 300 years, and you could kill your wife almost anywhere for almost any reason. Nevermind "Royalty" being able to get away with anything.
So much for diversity and inclusivity. In colleges and universities we are all taught to site our sources but if you are Bloomberg you can just make up data points to push a political agenda. It would be nice if there was a data source to reference to understand how they arrived at their stats. But hey we're just supposed to believe in pretty graphs with no source as being truthful and representative or the facts. Not to mention treading at Hacker News so it must be true.

It's also important to remember that: "76% of all statics are made up including this one!"

Here's something else to ponder!! Where were all of the women over the last 10 years when we were building out all of this tech? We needed women software engineers!! I saw very low numbers in my 13+ years in the bay area. The only women in software engineering roles were here on VISA. Now that we have leadership roles and political narratives.... we all of the sudden have a huge turnout. But hey what do I know. 13 years in the bay area working at top tech companies. No credibility at all. Argue with me and tell me know I am clearly wrong!
Since we're doing opinion pieces:

I have seen first hand from family and relatives who are well in their 70s and 80s what good memory is like. Uncanny ability to recall dates, times and conversations at the drop of a hat that occurred anywhere from last week to decades ago.

Though I've never felt like I've had an above average memory, I've been told many times I do. One thing I have noticed is that as of the last few years, my memory over all has improved. I can better remember what things look like, sound like, smell like. The most vague and abstract of sounds can set off a reaction of memories that feels like reminiscing to some degree, and yet the trigger sound has very little, if anything in common with the actual memory. If I try hard enough, I can pull out a very long-term memory from seemingly nowhere.

I hope this stays, but hearing intelligent and active people developing Alzheimer's is something that always saddens.
Great claims require great evidence. Your claim makes me increasingly skeptical, but I require a lot more.

What is the best, least crackpot looking resource to dig into the _facts_?
No, it’s not. Some implementations do even perform better than current public key crypto schemes.
> "do you feel you still have relevant knowledge", or "we do things differently than in your day", or "do you think you can work in a fast paced environment",

This is illegal age discrimination, in my opinion. Consider suing them.
So, the first Apple TV, then.
>he has also stated he thinks that civilisation has only a 50% chance of surviving this century.

I can't understand this line of thinking.

Human civilization has been around for ~10,000 years, and in the past two centuries nearly every metric related to human well-being has improved (see The Rational Optimist or Enlightenment Now).

And this isn't coming at the expense of the natural world, which is better protected as the world gets more technologically advanced and wealthier (More From Less by Andrew McAfee and numerous other sources).

Why would all of this reverse so rapidly in the next 80 years?
No offense, but one of the weird things about HN in general is that commenters can't find apparently relatively easily google-able facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/15/gender.uk
Apparently Reif's job was on the line too. I was surprised he survived
What's the price via SCPD? Usual $5200?
From the article, he lied and as a consequence of the lie extended a sexual relationship with a person. Then when his actions (among other things) had created a new human, he behaved in a way most people recognize as badly. This narrative clearly depicts a despicable person. If you are happy with a lot of powerful institutions being controlled by and for despicable people, then by all means, there's no issue. However, it's a common trend for despicable people to run institutions into the ground rather than create a happy institution that ends up realizing the "transform humanity for the better" vision that so many profess.
>Maybe we need an acceptable way for people who can't mentally handle work to be able to exist in society.

I initially felt on-the-fence about this but upon further thought I absolutely disagree with the idea.

Society works and thrives when we've a common goal (all working to make things slightly better for everyone one bit at a time) and honest reciprocal agreements as one.

I am happy to partake in a society where the majority are trying their best for themselves and others, to support them when they fall down and want to get back up, or to step out of the workforce to procreate or retrain, to provide healthcare for all, access to housing, education etc.

I don't mind paying a little more if everyone who's willing to try their best to lean in to society and contribute gets the support and opportunity to do so, even if there's a disproportionate difference in outcome i.e. if all you're capable of doing is flipping burgers, parking cars, collecting trash, etc. then that's fine, just do your best at it.

I absolutely will not support those who just want to opt-out, unless safeguards were put in place to ensure their malignant genes stopped with them at the end of their days. I would also absolutely not support extending the right to vote to such people.

You get out what you put in. It's ok to try and fail, or fall ill, or struggle with a mental illness. It's good for a society to be there to help you pick yourself back up, to become well, and try again. It's the intent that counts. If you (the rhetorical you) merely want to sit on the sidelines because "life's too tough" then I'm sorry but you won't be doing it on my dime, or trying to sway the direction of my society with voter rights.
Casper's business model apparently doesn't make money
Having been involved in the other side of these types of transactions usually the large company is actually interested in making the purchase because buying a successful product is easier than building your own even if you're something as big as Amazon. however often during Discovery you find out major problems with the company that you want to acquire that make it become pointless to actually do it. usually by the time something like this happens and a large company is looking to make an acquisition there already a good portion of the route down figuring out what they would have done in the first place. the Delta on building a flashlight over Amazon's general retail presence isn't that huge so in a lot of cases they would be looking to acquire interesting pieces of tack or the customer base as a way to bootstrap their version. If during due diligence that showed to not be feasible then the deal wouldn't go through. They're also very likely to be talking to several companies in a similar area.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I'm just explaining what happens on the other side.

I've also seen some areas where we used a technical due diligence team so that there was no IP crossover and it turns out that the company that we wanted to acquire was either way too difficult to onboard due to the way that they built their systems or they just wanted way more money then we were willing to pay because our use of their systems was different than their grand vision and they were pricing on their grand vision. also in one of those cases we were playing the two companies off of each other for price and then decided not to build a product at all.

And sometimes like the atom bomb all it takes is a due-diligence person saying there isn't much here for everyone else to realize that it's actually quite easy to build but it was very expensive and difficult to prove that you could build it in the first place. See Groupon for example of the explosion of daily deal websites after Groupon proved that they could "make money" off of it.
That's not how business works.
Little-Known Pilgrim Made First Sketch of Venice, Beating Renaissance Masters
This crate was actually announced a few days ago. https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx
I'm really surprise Marvin visited him in jail. It's not out of character of him (he was really a kind human) but I'm surprised he had that close a relationship.

I like Nicholas a lot but some of his remarks do surprise me.
I would love to see a diff between this version and the prior version (Version 4, Sep. 30, 2017) which I've consulted extensively.

I wish this book was in a public git, TBH.
Maneuvered implies intent. How do you know that was his intention from the start?
Lulu.com - book self publishing. Discussions between Amazon & Lulu led to the reproduction of every use case over the following 24 months. I worked at Lulu.
The files holding the ASTs are append-only. So you get:

PR #1: appended stuff

PR #2: appended stuff

So there is no merge conflict in the git sense.
fortunately the mistake was made, or even more people would have died in the concentration camps.
> but the court system is still stuck in the 1950s

Somehow, I don't think that there are many conservative judges in family courts. Family court judges heavily lean female and liberal.
LOL. They're BOTH narcissists and narcissism is genetic so the baby she popped out will be a narcissist as well.
That sounds like a good opportunity to build new companies.
> if you sell a doomsday scenario and nothing happens, people will start to dismiss your claims

You are massively missing the point: what is happening in Australia the past few weeks / months, the 4-50°C temperature, the gigantic fires, ... Are not warning signs or a possible doomsday scenario people are trying to sell.

It is the doomsday scenario actually happening in its early phase. It's too late to avoid it, it's happening, now the best we can do is slow it down and try to reverse course.

> I recall 20 years ago seeing articles claiming that "Snow will be a thing of the past" or "Arctic to be ice-free by 2020". Nothing happened.

Of course, if by nothing happened you mean it is actually happening faster than even predicted and the ice coverage is thinning so fast you can see it on year-on-year comparisons.
The problem is a matter of trust.

The information therein is potentially bad for their reputation, and not "signing on the dotted line" leaves scope for them to come out in the future and say "that's not actually what we said, must have been MitMd" (for example).

An institution of this calibre should be considered viable to pull off something this obtuse to your average person, and thus should not be given the benefit of the doubt. This is just one of many possible effects including SEO penelties amongst others.
Nobody in NPR's audience knows how big a kilometer or square km is.
I can endorse scummy and reprehensible.
Why building density matters as much as building efficiency
> The average worker is 5x more productive

Productivity isn't due to workers alone. Most productivity has been gained through technological advances.
Great point. This is what happens in a real estate. A letter of intent should have earnest money deposited into an escrow (because the offer is being made in "earnest") and each contingency should have an expiration date. Upon expiration of the due diligence contingency, for example, the earnest money deposit becomes non-refundable and credited towards the purchase price. If the buyer defaults after the due diligence contingency then the earnest money goes to the seller.

Does anyone have a link to a sample LOI for selling startups or M&A in general?
There are people who aren't cruel liars and who manage to make their companies truly great and beloved. "Don't do what is illegal" is not "don't be evil" and being evil will make it harder to organize the worlds information, and harder to get a long sustained effort from others to help with that task.
Farm employment has always been more informal, harder to track, and rife with illegal practices (child labor, illegal immigrants, minimum wage violations) that make reported data hard to trust/reason from.
NPR itself is one of the major sources of disinformation on this issue.

They could solve half the problem just by shutting up.
> They are mainly considered pests because they eat human food stores

Don't forget the plague and other diseases. "peste" literally means "plague" in French.
A buyer who doesn't have the money now, doesn't have the money. The only reason to humor such people is if you have the asset priced too high. In that case, those might be the only people interested...
Q: Did Epstein kill himself?

upvote no, downvote yes
The next line is really illustrative of whose interests an HR department serves.

>"'Oh my God, this is a sexual harassment claim waiting to happen!' That was my concern," she recalled
Do we really want companies firing employees for personal morality issues that have zero bearing on their ability to do their job?
> As a result, it's worth cautioning people that just because a fact of foreign policy efforts was true 100 years ago does not mean that it is true today.

Perhaps we might say something contrarian to this: if it was something true 100 years ago, the burden of proof is on the side of proving it is no longer so. And I think you will have a hard time at it.
Very sad. I am going to say something here against my better judgement.

I have a genetic condition that puts me at a higher risk for DVT. It’s a not uncommon mutation called Factor V Leiden. I saw it in my 23 and me report that I ordered when 23andMe just got started. We are talking over a decade ago. There were a lot more reports than what’s given out now.

I had to stop my doctors from prescribing meds and procedures because of the genetic report. I also took a definitive test that mentions the mutation in my permanent record so it is considered in the future prescriptions and I suspect this would be useful as I get older.

This is where genetic tests like 23andMe can be useful. It’s not definitive but it would help to determine how to steer your health future.

Having said that, privacy trumps. I do not approve of sharing personal information by companies like 23andMe and esp to drug companies and insurance companies.

Also. These reports are not infallible. They keep trying to connect me with fifth cousins with whom I have less in common than I do with fruit flies. They also seem to think that I have Finnish ancestors when I can trace back my ancestry to south India for the past few centuries. It can be an imperfect ‘science’.

Circling back, this young man probably could have benefitted from a genetic screening.
The Apple TV is more or less an iPad. It already supports bluetooth keyboards and other accessories, so you could really say that Apple already has an ARM desktop Mac, it just needs more user software.
Typically to prove murder, one must prove purposeful intent to harm. In this case, that would be proving that the engineers/managers wanted people to die.

Obviously jurisdiction matters. This is a matter of legal doctrine, not linguistics or ethics.
They'd get a lot more sympathy if the first association people have isn't stuff like gamergate and QAnon.
It was a very popular game!
Aye. My team in DevDiv (home of .NET) had a Brit (me), a Turkish lady, two Russians, two Canadians (one French), three Indians, my lead was Mexican, and only 1 American.
You're assuming there are "aggrieved parties". To the best of my knowledge nobody was "aggrieved" by Sergey at least. He probably had them sign something before the "massage" or else I'm sure we'd see some lawsuits.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not justifying sexual harassment in any way. But it's not "harassment" if it's wanted and consensual, and it's not _automatically_ unethical if the employee is not in his chain of command or even if they are, if they aren't forced into it, and there's no punishment for declining. If they make advances on their own and are merely not turned down (see e.g. Rosenberg, who IIRC wasn't in his chain of command), that's stretching the definition.
The point is revelation outside MIT. The report is pretty clear that Epstein's presence was discussed frequently internally -- and okayed.

The amount of money he donated is infinitesimal by MIT's standards. They must have been convinced there was tons more to come.
It just so happens that I just started the Georgia Tech course this week. What topics would you say are the most difficult? Any tips?
> Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch,

I live a fairly privileged life as a U.S. West Coast techie...and stopping at a private island for a few hours sounds crazy. Do non-billionaire people (active academics at that) really lead lives like this? `
You're correct, that's not how companies usually make their personnel decisions. But one would think more companies would factor in PR-risk as a real financial risk. But Google being Google economically-speaking, this still probably isn't a material event.
Sorry, We only do servers and high end workstations/desktops...

I personally couldn't find a ODM that was high quality... all seemed to be cheap/too plasticy and would break easily... Unless you are doing ~5k+ a month and can get better designs, the off the shelf prebuilt chassis were not great :(
I think the biggest missing feature right now for everyday use is browser support for the hardware video decoding. Mostly for videos on all social media and YouTube, or even Imgur serves up h264 video rather than gifs now.
Well, it certainly didn't happen by accident. Fathers should support their kids, period.
How many taxis have you actually taken in those cities? How much of it is hearsay? I take multiple taxi rides per week in Bogota since years. In almost all cases the drivers ask me which route I'd prefer for longer distances. The only ones I had ever some degree of annoyances (trying to get overcharged) with are taxis from and to the very touristy places.
Suing is expensive, and time consuming, and stressful. It's best to move on to someplace without their attitude problem.
> Many of the smartest people I've ever known were also the most athletic.

Many of the prettiest/handsomest people I've met were the dumbest. The more likely they are to seek popularity (think "taste-makers") as a source of income, the less likely they are to have any sort of intellectual curiosity.
No, men decided to pay less for jobs often chosen by women.
Both are possible. Or the kid could be in the same bedroom they had since 10.

Houses built before about 1980 has basements best described as a dungeon: you store the harvest down there over winter, and the furnace is there, but you don't go down for any other purpose.

About 1980 styles started changing. Most basements in newer houses are living space - one wall might have no windows (even then there is a fire escape window large enough for that purpose that lets in useful amounts of light), but the other wall is not less than half above ground, and often entirely at grade with a complete door outside. In these newer houses there is often a complete (but small) kitchen, used only for entertaining for those rare times where the entire extended family comes to visit. There will be bedrooms down there. It isn't uncommon to have the parents live there for a few years when they cannot live alone but are not bad enough for the nursing home.

Structurally, the purpose of basements is mostly to get the foundation below the frost line so frost doesn't move the house. That can be covered by one meter or less, which leave plenty of space for windows above ground if you want to use the space. Making the space useful is pretty cheap when you have it anyway.

Note that basements are NOT universal. If there is no frost to worry about they are expensive and not worth it. If the ground water is too high there are other ways to deal with frost.
Most high-reputation firms wouldn't hesitate to leave a poor founder swinging in the wind. What's she going to do, sue them? Any lawyer capable of handling that case, the M&A dudes already have on retainer.
how does it compare to state-of-the art? (https://github.com/erikbern/ann-benchmarks)
Is it really unremovable? What about flashing custom AOSP build?
> DMV officials say the vast majority of the revenue comes from insurance companies and businesses who buy information about their employees’ driving histories.

> However, the department has also allowed law firms, private investigators and out-of-state corporations to buy or access personal information about Vermont drivers, including where they live, the cars they drive, their driving records and their criminal histories.

None of that strikes me as improper, with the exception of maybe out-of-state corporations, and in that case, it would depend on what the corporation was and what they intended to use the data for. Whether the data remains in possession of the corp after its original intended use (and for how long) and whether it is kept only for the original stated use or made available to other portions of the corp for other purposes would play into whether I considered that in improper or not.

IOW, the case of selling data to corporations is gonna be a case-by-case "it depends".

As for insurance companies and private investigators, I think it is right and proper that such entities can look up things like address, criminal history, or vehicles owned. While it seems that every entity gathering up any and all possible data about people will claim that all of the data gathered serves a legitimate business need, in the case of entities like insurance companies or investigators, I think that claim is more likely to be true than not.