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My impression is that the rationale is that they monopolize the market first, and exploit it latter.

Of course, that depends on a large barrier to entry, and I can't see how the barrier to entry on that market could be large. But well, VCs clearly disagree with me.
I don't see how they can't be profitable with direct hires. Nothing stops them from having a 75% part time workforce. Have those amazing rated drivers as FTE with benefits.
Unless they raise prices and accept lower volume. A contraction of profit seems inevitable, but I don't expect insolvency, at least not for the whole field.
> Did you miss the title of the article?

You really shouldn't ask that, since you seem to have missed it.

> They are trying to stop Tesla from advertising the fact.

No, they are trying to stop them from advertising the gas savings in the price, not to stop advertising the gas savings at all.

That is, they want Tesla to stop advertising something other than the actual price as the price.
How many households can choose between all of them?
Yes, he likes to listen to solutions rather than teams problems/worries. Good advice.
People might not be aware how much they can save on gas prices by switching to full electric. I don’t see any downside in advertising an estimate. It’s not like they are presenting that as the price with a footnote that says it includes gas savings.
I am comparing salaries paid in India denominated to USD. The cost of living in this case is affected by Indian inflation not US inflation.
> Is there anyway to keep oneself occupied with technical stuff in a managerial role?

It's been 1.5 years since I transitioned from a Solution Architect role and into a Technical Manager role, and I still struggle to keep myself out of my devops-team's kitchen. I'll still offer advice and direction based upon my past experience, but try to maintain those "teachable moments."

But for me, the only way I could fully scratch that technical itch is to pick up some hobby electronics projects at home.

Ironically, most recently I ended up building an Arduino traffic signal light for the office, interpreting data from our Sensu/Telegraf/New Relic APIs, just to show my team when our servers are struggling. Heh
They're not stopping Tesla from advertising gas savings, they're stopping them from pre-subtracting it in the advertised price of the car.
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Your idea of people competing for who has the biggest sob story is pretty much exactly the 1950’s TV show “Queen For A Day” (except that the studio audience did the voting).
One thing I have seen some managers do at my company is use their coding skills to help streamline their work, i.e. create scripts to help pull data so they can create charts or query for data to form some analytics to help inform decision making on the right path forward.

I have also seen some still be able to get into the nitty gritty too to help solve problems that are critical & beyond their reports' abilities at the time and to ease the pressure.
This makes sense to me: On any purchasing/configuring/ordering page, the local-currency number displayed should be the number that is actually being charged, and that number should have the highest weight (the largest size, the most-emphasized, etc.).
> Another guy, single, lived in a shared 2BR house with 8 other people for the same reason.

Its not so black and white, if that person is living in the US temporarily then his main motivation is to save a lot of money when in the US and then use that to buy a house back in India.

Some of them make enough money to live alone comfortably but why do that when your main objective is to save so you share with others who have the same mindset.
If he's earning more than average, and professional truck drivers are pretty well paid, then can't be purchase that social net himself?

He can buy health insurance, pension, group income protection, everything you mentioned.

I know poor people can't do that, and that's the issue, but why can't a well-paid truck driver do it?
Lyft can be profitable today if they wanted to. The only reason they aren't is because they are fueling growth by propping up the supply of drivers through driver signup bonuses.

Ride sharing is generally supply constrained (meaning there's plenty of demand but drivers are in limited supply). If they stopped paying driver bonuses to expand in new markets or maintain share of drivers in mature markets, then the number of drivers would likely start plateauing or declining (due to high turnover) -> prices would increase and/or rider wait times would increase -> rider demand would fall -> growth would stall.

In short, they're choosing growth over profitability because that's what investor want to see. As soon as they choose profitability (which they might have to after IPO), their growth will come to a halt and their share price will tank. Watch.
Agreed. Were the US to adopt a system similar to the NHS, I would hope that electives like IVF would continue to not be covered. Presumably it was chosen because the number is more shocking than the typical $500-2,000 request to cover a deductible or the less kindly viewed request to cover living expenses during a medical situation.
I don’t think it’s the only “shameful” thing unfortunately. The claim of cars being capable of FSD is pretty clearly nonsense, although I recognize that some true believers will take some more years to accept that. Still, I think most of us have figured out that full automation isn’t right around the corner, and unless we posit that Musk is an idiot (he isn’t) then he knows that too.

My dream for Tesla is thst Musk is gone, soon, because while he appears able to start great things, he’s a pretty lousy leader (and person) beyond that. I look at SpaceX and see something great that for the most part, does its thing because Musk isn’t around. I look at Tesla and I see him screwing around on Twitter, lying, and generally being a drain on the company. Tesla has too much good going on to make stupid promises about FSD or bullshit about their pricing.
Most of the affected people aren’t employees. Who cares about the company more than their workers?
Too Big to Fail

While not a story of fraud, it is a story of how close the country / world came to the brink, how people were guessing, and how companies in the financial industry got us there.
Could you not argue that it is a mental health issue?
They can't even get rid of the fucking penny and I'm supposed to believe the federal government has the wherewithal to do something as sensible as abolish DST?
Then I guess you should be more specific about what kind of advertising you approve.
I wish Amazon had a better way for teams or projects to fail gracefully. Part of the companies strategy/competitive advantage is the ability to quickly spin up new projects/teams in a decentralized way. However, that also means lots will fail -- which is fine. But then for the individual managers on those teams, they often become stressed, toxic, and bully their subordinates.
We need to get rid of health insurance companies. They are the reason all of our costs are massively inflated.

The same thing is happening in education: universities know that a large percentage of students are getting financial aid, so the true costs are buried in a layer of bureaucracy.

Fees and administrative fees continue to go up and the universities will always get their money.

The students are then on the hook to pay the loan back. If the Universities actually had to worry about students defaulting, they would be forced to reduce costs or they would go under.
I too immediately thought of The Running Man.
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The show Undercover Boss is kind of like that. Every episode some CEO realizes that all of their employees are underpaid, picks one with an especially sad story, and gives them some money to pay for their kid's surgery or college tuition.
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Any alternative to employees is even more inhumane and enables explicit exploitation, as uber and lyft do (aka the gig economy). What would you suggest as a meaning for this third type of workin class?
> Go does not scale well

Are there any articles to back this up? I'm aware that the scheduler and networking integration are certainly opinionated. Nevertheless it seems to work very well for most applications that I have seen so far.
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Yes, I can tell you and I have synergy. B2B consistency is not just useful, it is impactful.

Despite the win-win dialog we're having, maybe we should take it offline.
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To be fair, we're in the middle of a big mess right now (we discovered a bug in a definition used by many rules, which means that many things don't work; we're working on a retroactive fix). That sort of mess happens every year or so.

(But then, Agora still is really complicated.)
Note: I am not suggesting population decline as a solution. I'm not even disputing population increase a policy. I am lightly suggesting that unsustainable policies are generally unwise, but mostly just trying to frame this problem in terms of basic economic history. In this context, it seems that the vision of egalitarian leisure utopia fueled by industrial over-efficiency is unprecedented, although something more like that is observed in short duration with basic resource over-abundance.
> government officials are seldom generous

If government officials are using the same healthcare system as everybody else, they have incentive to make it good.
How much help did he earn? How much does he deserve? The money a driver gets paid is the help. There is a market for non-fulltime jobs that would not exist at all if it was forced to be full time. Forcing Lyft to hire employees instead of contractors won't mean there will be more workers with a safety-net; it means there won't be any Lyft. That would be bad for both drivers and the people being driven.
It’s not like they are presenting that as the price with a footnote that says it includes gas savings.

That is very close to what they are doing. If it had the real price and it said "You would save x amount with this option" I doubt anyone would care.
They can't even fix external display issues with their laptop. I would say bugs in their issue tracker that aren't even that high profile are hopeless.
Why not? Clinical trials in the US tend to be free from the patient's point of view.
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I'd ask him "can you give me advice on how to do that?" There is probably some piece of context in his head that he's referring to (and he didn't realize that the piece of context doesn't exist in your head).
Hey Wes!
Upvoted your prev comment before I realized it was you. Hope all's well; doing great here. A couple years ago when I worked for you, on your recommendation, I listened to unabridged audiobooks of both "Winning" and "The Hard Thing About Hard Things". Got more out of the latter than the former, but both were worthwhile.
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How about we have universal health care like every other industrialized nation?
The solution to that is to simply exclude lead and mercury from anything that goes into the trash. In particular, electronics and batteries could be disposed of separately.
“How much does he deserve”. Welcome to America.

Honestly. This market is not a problem in European country where you get free health care. Why would uber/lyft make an exception for the US? If they can get away with it of course they will.
Yeah, I used to report those to Blackberry, but when they owned the entire mobile field, noone gave a shit that you can't you get 'your code' on their platform.
So how does it work for you?

My biggest fear is that the cost of enforcement will greatly outweigh possible benefits.

In this sense taxing the "supply" side is much easier.
It should be noted that ethylation of humans is also cool, because it frequently leads to combination with external DNA.
Even if all the bureaucracy of insurance went away, major operations would still likely be tens of thousands of dollars. How do you suggest people pay for that?
Ask HN: Can open source projects use adopters' logos without getting permission?
My project is under Apache License 2.0, and it's adopted by many users for their production environment for commercial usage. I want to let more people know about my projects and provide social proofs using a logo wall with all the adopters' logos.

My question is: can I just use their logos without asking for permission from their marketing/legal department? Or at least, if I used it without the permission, is there some kind of law to protect me if being sued?

Could really use some help here. I have been supporting this big user, but they asked me not to use their logo or tell people that they are using my project because they might not look good, and they are not paying me at all or plan to pay...
toastmasters - especially the improv "table topics" activities - has been indescribably valuable for me.

It helped me go from being too shy to give a presentation in front of one person to giving talks to hundreds of strangers at a time.

Pro-tip: you can attend the first one or two meetings of each toastmasters group for free so if you're a broke student like I was at the time, just rotate the groups since there are several in each city. Also universities often have great toastmasters clubs.
Rust has a great ECS library with a lot of literature behind it. It's called specs.
The OSI Layers originated out of Telcos/PTTs. They more resemble a model of a Global Communications network akin to Videotex[1] than to how things work over the Internet. This becomes apparent when one looks into the history of Videotex and the structural makeup of Telcos/PTTs. Take a look here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_Forum#OSI/Network_Managemen...

And here:

https://books.google.com/books?id=k9sFgIM-z6UC&lpg=PT152&ots...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex
> In universal care you dont get access to 'clinical trials and research and things like that...

[citation needed]
Thank you! I’ve never actually implemented push notifications. Will soon so I was wondering...
Care to explain your logic? Cat repair isn't so expensive even though everyone with a car has car insurance.
GoFundMe is comical, every day there is a new idiot asking for money for not buying (or invalidating) their travel insurance . Little Fred is sitting in hospital now with bills over $xx,xxx due to a motorbike accident whilst backpacking in XYZ, please give generously so Little Fred can keep his iPhoneX and his large family don't have to put their hands in their pocket.

e.g. https://www.gofundme.com/injured-by-scooter-accident
One thing I’ve been studying a lot on my free time is the deep history of the concept of socialism. Not a particular implementation but the idea that it would be a good idea for us to intentionally build a world where everyone has certain basic needs met by society at large. In particular there is a rich history of “libertarian socialism” which advocates for direct social support of one another without a state. Typically it is advocated that this be done via organizational structures that do not require any individual to reach in to their pocket when another is in need, but by arranging society such that things like medical care are simply abundant, and only ever putting effort in to unnecessary developments (luxuries) once the basic needs of all people have been met. Obviously doing this is nontrivial and could only be achieved through a long process of repeated democratic decision making.

The idea that we could care for one another without a state is both obvious and perplexing. People have always cared for themselves somewhere in the world even if some societies have been highly centralized.

All this said, I have been fostering a deep appreciation for socialism as a utopian ideal to be discussed rather than either a bogey man or as something that requires the expansion of state power to realize. Many well meaning leftists have empowered authoritarians in their effort to force their desired outcomes. At the same time, the state as it stands today could be used to materially improve the lives of many impoverished people.

I think the answer is to use the state as needed in the short term to help those in need, while recognizing the “technical debt” it creates by ultimately undermining freedom. Any work done with the state should be done cautiously and with the understanding that the state power will need in the long term to be eclipsed by power organized by the people. And we cannot simply advocate for state power - long term we must build these structures inside our society, not rely on state power to enforce our idea of a just society.

But we must fight for socialism. I’ve enjoyed these two videos by Murray Bookchin recently.

This critique of the left from 1986 is hugely applicable to today (he even mentions Bernie Sanders briefly):
https://youtu.be/kBP_BMOblzc

This video gets at the way our fantasies about technology can ignore our own desires as human beings, and presents an interesting contrast between then notion of futurism and utopianism:
https://youtu.be/wS3-PffLKqM
I was not intending to say that there can't be huge code bases with go, but java, C# with the tooling, eco system, less verbose and a much better static type system scale much better. There is still some areas where golang doing great, like CLIs and infrastructure tools. I definitely understand its simile design but I would very unlikely going to use golang where I can use Java.
I feel like people go more crazy as a result of having kids than as a result of not having them.
Leadership is basically just people-engineering and business-engineering. Engineers use tools to build products, and so do leaders.

The immediate assumption is that people are tools/resources to build the product. That's talking like an engineer.

Don't use your team to work on a project/product. Use the project to work on your team. They're not there to build the product. They're there to gain some personal fulfillment. Use the development of the product to grow them.

In my humble opinion, that's talking like a leader. Flip the engineering perspective over and communicate a new set of values with a layer of empathy.
Something like “A contractor who accepts tasks through electronic communications generated by an automated system, and where the automated system could reasonably collect sufficient data to know how much time is spent exclusively on that task by the contractor, shall be entitled to at least minimum wage and ... for the time spent on the task.”

We don’t want to remove the ability for a true contractor to work on spec, or for non-cash remuneration, when they can negotiate with a human counterparty. But if you’re being given orders by an inhuman system, you deserve at least some of the protections employees receive against inhumane employers.

Unfortunately, this wipes out e.g. U.S. based Mechanical Turkers, some of whom have health or other restrictions preventing them from getting minimum wage jobs. Haven’t figured out a solve for that yet. But hopefully the actual drafters of legislation would!

(Also, this really makes me want an IDE to crowdsource lawmaking, linting to make the legalese exact, with verified lawyers reviewing PRs. Give the crowd the same ability that lobbyists have to spoon-feed legislation to lawmakers.)
We all do! Something something single payer.

Edit: not sure why the downvotes, that’s the reality of things. If you want a more fully fleshed out thought, here you go:

We would all contribute to the payment of expensive operations via taxes in a single payer system. In the current system we have insurance payments. It’s effectively the same, paying a small fee regularly, to subsidize the costs for expensive procedures for yourself and (surprise) others. What do you think happens if you pay into insurance your whole life and never need an expensive operation? You’re subsidizing others. Otherwise the insurance companies would be out of business.

But with single payer, we cut out companies in the middle pulling a heafty profit for effectively the same system as we could get via taxes.

Better?
Some governments (and individual institutions) will have restrictions on only supporting standards because it allows for competing implementations. Some will require multiple implementations directly. Still others may have restrictions based on whether there was a successful audit of the runtime environment.
Yes none, at least from Lyft. Because its not Lyft problem to ensure health care, thats more of goverment job.
Health stuff, including IVF, should not be crowd funded. These are by definition universal problems that will be addressed most efficiently collectively.

The question of what reproduction society should support is entirely distinct from that of getting health care for your reproduction.
Not exactly this, but in Brazil there's actually a TV show called "In the red", where the requirement for being a contestant is that they must have debt that they can't pay off. The winner gets to pay off their debt, losers go home empty handed.
There are good ideological reasons to not like code signing. But people present technical arguments in favor of it, which then need to be addressed so that people don't erroneously find them convincing.

And the technical arguments in favor of code signing are weak. They started off claiming a major benefit -- globally disable malicious code. Except that AV can do that too. The argument in favor of having code signing on top of that then becomes weaker -- AV can stop identified malicious code but it can't stop other malicious code from the same malware author. Except that code signing can't do that either since the malware author can sign other versions with different keys. So then the argument becomes, well, at least it rate limits how many different versions there are. Except that is only meaningful to the extent that getting a new key is arduous and not a lot of people have them, otherwise the attacker can get arbitrarily many more by either just applying for more under false identities or by compromising a moderate number of machines to capture more keys from the large number of people who have them. Moreover, using domain validation would already capture the case where you want to get the incremental benefit achievable from a minimal imposition on the developer.

Meanwhile the process of obtaining a code signing key has to be sufficiently easy and non-exclusive that even individual developers can reasonably do it, so making it purposely more arduous than that is a directly conflicting requirement.

The explanation is long because the details are relevant, not because anything "obviously technically inaccurate" is there.
He probably can. However, there's a BIG difference in the cost and coverage he'll pay and get between what he has for options as a self-employed person doing gigs, and what he'd get on a group plan with a company, as an employee.

Here's some data.

I've been contracting for 4 years, and paying for my own insurance. Mediocre medical for a family of three:

Year 1 & 2: $970/mo.

Year 3: $1167/mo.

Year 4: $1410/mo.

$BIG_CLIENT just told me after 4 years, to fish or cut bait. I took a full-time position with them.

My cost for health insurance on the group plan? $560/mo. for the same family of three. The coverage? AMAZING by comparison.

Insurance options for self-employed people aren't the best, in my opinon. Costs are very high, coverage is crappy.
really interesting. i had no idea such a movement existed. they make it look simple and easy.
> So, if Lyft driver who was "gigging" for them for years gets sick and he is out of work, what kind of help would he get ? None, at least in US.

Honestly, the same is probably true for most full-time and part-time employees in the US.
In the US, the government has somehow convinced us that it is employers' job.