skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The median 2br rent in SF stood at $4,630 earlier this year. $4k is the all-in price for a $550k mortgage + property taxes + insurance if you buy a house. Of course, you can't buy a house at that price. If literally nobody you know pays $4k/mo for housing that says more about the population of your friends than it does about the economy of the Bay Area.
They are a public company. Not doing so could be a securities law violation.
> Our current offer represents a new progressive framework that includes:

> Establishing — for the first time ever — a guaranteed minimum earnings standard

> So as you can see, we are not arguing for the status quo.

Well, ok. The real question though is why.

Only companies with massive investments can afford to burn cash to keep the price to the final user as low as Uber's.

Such regulation would reduce the number of competitors appearing on the market.
I think the law will be bad for the people it affects, so this is good news for Uber drivers. Uber isn't operating at a profit, so they don't have extra margin to pass on in the form of extra driver pay or employee benefits. If Uber has to shrink their business in California or exit entirely, that won't be good for drivers either.

It reminds me of before my software engineering career, when I was working at The Gap. The job wasn't great, but a lot of people really needed more hours. Unfortunately, there was a rule that nobody could work more than 29 hours a week. Everyone hated it. Employees hated it the most because if they needed extra money they couldn't take an extra shift. The managers hated it too because it was just more rules for them to deal with.

Apparently, this rule existed because there was a law saying that past 30 hours a week, employees had to get some extra benefits. Gap corporate just changed the job to avoid that law. As a result, that job got worse, and nobody got more benefits. Just unintended consequences.
Uber will not change driver status under new law
Menthol cigarettes are not banned.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944158
There's a name for the phenomenon, Goodhart's Law [1]. Generally, once a metric is used for decision making, it no longer reflects the phenomenon that it is attempting to measure.

Making it much more complicated is the fact that methodologies vary from year to year, and are often created by averaging data from a number of different sources. I've become fairly convinced that almost all macroeconomic measures are so flawed that using them in almost any dimension (across time, between countries) is useless. It may be that everyone involved in creating the overall measures is acting in good faith, rather than some politically motivated conspiracy, but still in aggregate create data that does not reflect reality in a useful way.

The exceptions tend to be metrics that require skin in the game to shift -- the yield curve inversion or S&P500 index, for example, are fairly real, since shifting them would cost a ton of money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
A tax on fast internet, lol. I have no problem getting to the footer links on first scroll. I then get around five seconds to study the links before it disappears and I have to scroll for another five second view.
In fact, I'd argue that's the primary reason why Uber/Lyft got popular in the first place. At least for me that's the only reason I use Uber. If they are, as they claim, just a lead-gen platform, I'd rather call a taxi. At least taxis are legally bound to provide me a certain level of service. If Uber can't enforce something similar, why should I use Uber?
"The Guardian is the only remaining newspaper I trust to be unaffected by UK government agenda." - presumably that wouldn't be the case if Labour were in power?
> For the past 15 years I’ve been leading the evolution of startups and enterprises to achieve the highest level of security and compliance.

... serving up over unsecured http
Uber's defense fails The Duck Test. They are describing a job, people doing a job, people paying for a job, and people taking a cut of the profits. They just don't use those words.

I suspect if/when this gets to a higher court, the whole thing will come crashing down, because to allow Uber's weaselly redefinition of common terms, would be to allow other classes of employment to similarly become unprotected.
I believe HN will remain as it is, thanks to the behind-the-scenes work of the moderators.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html
Better than the miniscule gain in potential energy (height x mass x gravity) because you also save a lot of aerodynamic drag not punching through the lower atmosphere at high speed and some "hovering losses" (rise time x mass x gravity, I'm sure there is a better term for that). But still not worthwhile due to the difficulty of floating a full size rocket. If you had a very very high mountain or tower, moving that full size rocket to the peak could be worthwhile. Theoretically, a civilisation trapped in a gravity well too deep for a solution to the rocket equation could dig themselves out by reshaping their planet from a roughly spherical geoid into a disc or rod (or into a torus for the really adventurous)
The first paragraph suggests the order is for “targeted and personalised information”.

That would suggest that it's unlikely to be anonymised data collection; at best perhaps pseudonymous... and then you get into the questions about how easy it is relate these ids to real identities. Let's hope Facebook stays out of the equation with their fr and c_user cookie fields.

The intentions may be well meaning (let's optimise services for businesses and people prior to significant changes).
However, we've recently had the Windrush scandal and Home Office hostile environment policy: there are over a million people in the UK who may have questions about their residence rights changing and wouldn't like to be tracked whilst they try to find answers.
I'm actually sitting on a wooden chair at a wobbly table in a
space with no air conditioning, but that's beside the point. My original comment does have an air of privilege to it, and for that I apologize. It's my own frustration that we can't do better to people who's best option is something requiring the skill set of a job like rideshare driver. Stated in other (hopefully more fruitful) words, if you can work rideshare you can probably work at In N Out. They start at $13/hour and have none of the external costs of contract ridesharing. That could be more profitable to the worker, but I have not done the math.
I don't know. Digital services and connected devices are becoming essential to almost all areas of modern life.

Yes, you can decline to use many of the services of you have serious dedication and want to miss out on all technological progress of the last decades. But other services are almost unavoidable: You need a bank account and email address to take part in society; You need a car to travel, which today is most likely already a rolling computer with cloud uplink. In the future, just walking on the street might place you into some database via automatic facial recognition.

Currently, control about all those services is seen purely as a business topic and therefore the service providers are given complete freedom. I think that mismatches greatly with the impact those services have have on modern life, so I think there is a case to put them under democratic control.
theoretically yes. effectively anyway.

in practice, I don't think I've ever seen a sticky footer that didn't flake out somewhere. it's always broken weird screen sizes, or mobile, or one browser, or after a browser update. or it hides content because someone forgot to add padding. or it jumps around because they're using absolute position for some insane reason.
The Only Voice That Matters in the iBuyer Debate Is the Consumer's
That may be the least of their problems right now
The Collatz Conjecture is a very well known problem, partly because it is very easy to understand. It's also a very difficult problem.

Terry Tao (the author) is one of the top mathematicians in the world and this appears to be a significant step towards proving the full conjecture.
There's some nuance being lost here - they aren't saying they will violate the law, they are saying that their lawyers will advance an argument that the law (ABC test) does not apply to them.

I think the legislature and many on HN believe that courts will think it's absurd that Uber's drivers are doing work "outside the usual course" of Uber's business. I'm inclined to agree, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't know how well written the law was or whether California courts will include legislative intent in applying that language.
Yes, that's neat, but it's very different to and far more limited than the generality the title and the rest of the article claim.
the delightful ambiguity of English allows us to say such things as "Things that are simple should be simple" and in context of describing design of systems have it understood as Things that are simple to describe should be simple to do.

In this case the ambiguity has allowed them to say That which is free is not free, meaning that which is free to consume is not free to make.

I certainly remember people posting stuff on the internet for free out of their desire to share. I also remember lots of those people over the years shutting down their delightful sites because not having the time to keep doing things for free, nor the money to pay for the hosting or other things like that.
You're right, but what if revealing the discrepancies wouldn't be beneficial to the company? Many people knew about the subprime mortgages before the 2008 recession and no-one came forward, although some shorted it.
You are just repeating the Uber party line that somehow "employment" is antithetical to flexible work hours.

It's frightening to see people just lap that up because it happens to coincide with their day job. But nothing in labor law prevents a company like Uber from "disrupting work" and offering that flexibility to employees.
The companies that I am aware of award stock units based on their monetary value. If the stock is worth $100/unit, and your TC is to get $100k in stocks, you get $100k in stocks. If the stock falls to be worth $50/unit, you still get $100k in stocks.

Your compensation has nothing to do with stock price. Your decision to sell or hold onto the stock is an investment decision made by you, but isn't really relevant to the discussion of "this is how much money was given to me by my company".
Quibble: I don't really see worker-owned firms as a form of socialism, which I understand as the government ownership of the means of production. Worker-owned firms I associate more with distributism.

Worker-owned firms are a great idea, but if that's the only ownership model then you lose some ability to diversify your investments. Everyone's 401k goes poof.

Thinking through this, what are the alternatives? Simple cash reserves are out (because most societies can't seem to shake the tendency towards inflation). Bank savings accounts are a good idea, although impractical in our current society because interest rates are so low.
It can also become $100k/$150k. Such huge drops that you mention will be exceedingly rare (as will huge jumps that I mentioned), and are in any case capped by the vesting interval.

Really, anything but taking the value of stock as it is when discussing total compensation of well-established publicly traded companies is just noise.
No economic numbers are reliable due to reflexivity - "reliable numbers" become inputs for policy makers and market participants, which drive changes in the economy that affect the previously "reliable numbers".

George Soros wrote extensive literature on the topic. He called his fund (second best performing hedge fund in history) the Quantum Fund because, according to him, true nature of economic reality is unknowable to humans. As in it is genuinely impossible to know, regardless of the amount of efforts.

Example: mortgage credit decisions depend on people's earnings and collateral value. Problem? Both earnings (salaries) and the collateral value (home prices) depend on the amount of credit in the system.

The economy, being a subset of psychology/sociology, cannot be understood via normal science because the level of understanding is not independent from the actual rules at work. I.e. the more we understand the different-er we behave. Unlike atoms, which don't care what humans think and just go about their own business.
> Who would have published such an example?

Typically that would be either the academic researcher attempting to prove that their investigation technique works, or the prosecutor looking to use the results of such an investigation as evidence in a trial.

> When we deal with opsec, we have to consider what is possible...

Anything is possible. Even ideal encryption algorithms—other than one-time pads—have some non-zero probability of being broken within a reasonable timeframe by a brute-force search, but that doesn't make them useless. As long as it's not cost-effective to trace the transfer, that's enough. It doesn't need to be mathematically impossible.
I've been talking about legality, not what is in the wild (other people have made claims about what's happening in the wild, but some of those seem to be conflating direct release of PHI, reidentification of deidentified data, and other issues.)

> from entirely de-identified data

What do you mean by “entirely de-identified”? That sounds like you are referring to the HIPAA safe harbor option (which specifies an extensive array of things which must be completely purged), rather than the alternative HIPAA “expert certification of low risk” option. The problem is that the latter has the exact same legal effect as the former, though the only reason to ever use it is because the data isn't entirely de-identified.

The risk is with legally de-identified data, which is not restricted to entirely de-identified data.
“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours." --Ronald Reagan
Mandated wage guarantees and the costs of benefits would force Uber/Lyft to implement supply controls, which would result it a large fraction of drivers not being allowed to go online and drive.
They're getting off lightly. Uber demonstrates why we need a corporate death penalty. Serial lawbreaker Travis Kalanick should be in prison for the rest of his life, most of his criminal conspirators on the board should be there with him, and the company should be dissolved and forgotten.

Recall that among their hundreds of other crimes, there are actual conspiracies to conceal criminal activities from law enforcement. This is not "breaking things and moving quick", this is a multibilliondollar international conspiracy that has escaped justice for far too long.

Off with his head.
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How much text can you fit on 94cm^3 of paper?
I don't think we can be certain that displaced drivers won't find other opportunities. I imagine most of the appeal is the low friction to entering rideshare driving vs. traditional employment (fast food chains, etc). The talking point that people are somehow skilled enough for rideshare driving, yet not other low-skill work, seems to me like a talking point to have discouraged AB5 from happening. I question the factuality of the statement.
Is there a time period between being awarded stock and being able to sell it?
> That said, I'm happy that people get paid well to do something they love, but that can often be very depressing. Not always certainly,

The type of fresh-grads that chase FAANG for fame and money aren't necessary the type of developers that love their work and craft. These fresh-grads put career first and craft second. I'd say the majority, not all. There might be one or two pockets of small group of people who love to do these stuffs ... maybe...

> but damn if you've never looked out from behind your screen at the sun shining and thought a little less of the React component or whatever saas thing you work on.

There's plenty of sun in California ;). Plus, they're doing what they love no? I'd say these folks know what they're getting themselves into (e.g.: still chasing Facebook despite known as cutthroat employer).
I remember that when they discovered electrons they thought that it’s also totally useless.
I imagine independent contracting would be a way to avoid that.
Dynamex lost (Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court), which caused AB5 to be written. Uber did not yet lose (or even get sued) over this yet IIRC
Uber's former mission statement:

> "Transportation as reliable as running water, everywhere for everyone"

Sounds like transportation is their core business to me.
79? Dammit Jupiter stop hogging all the moons.
I have considered driving for Uber very casually, but a few things keep me from doing it. First, I cannot drive the car I would prefer to drive (a two-seat sports car). Second, I would have to file a bunch of extra paperwork at tax time. Third, Uber doesn't allow drivers any control over the areas they wish to serve (so I could ensure that I'm just making short trips, etc). And, I guess the final nail in the coffin is that I wouldn't have much control at all over my preferred service area (say I wanted to just do a quick trip that ends no more than 5 miles from my house).
>Part of me thinks Uber could get away with this if they just relaxed some of their current driver policies (e.g. more limited penalties for cancellations). The issue is whether doing so would drastically deteriorate the quality of the service for riders.

Honestly, just keep the 'we don't show drivers with a less than X star rating' in place, and allow the rider to give the driver a low rating for cancelling. Self correcting problem - drivers that routinely cancel will be pushed out, and the (potential) one bad rating shouldn't hurt routinely good drivers.
Go watch a Carlo Rovelli lecture on time and loop quantum gravity.

Time might not even exist in and of itself.
Converting out to fiat is completely doable. People in countries where their own currency is experiencing issues make it work. Of course, ideally, ACH reversals couldn't be done without your permission.
Sounds like for personal use, and if you can afford it, it's much easier to have your funds spread over a number of accounts (e.g. have a main account, a second account at a different bank with at least enough money for expenses until you can withdraw from a savings account, and a savings account at a third bank).

And a bit of cash in case the ATMs all go down.
The question is simply posed but unfortunately is rather difficult to answer because it depends what you mean by fake.

Accounts with a history are very valuable to companies in the business of "creating organic public support".

Also an author can be part of a community bit have a motivation to drive a discussion in a certain direction.

In either case it doesn't mean the post, the author, or the history are "fake" but it can mean there is some level of astroturfing going on.

Anyway I've been informed the guidelines prohibit such insinuations and I can understand why as they are an easy accusation but don't lend towards evidence based or productive discussions so I've removed my comment.
Ah yes that's true, it was (and still is AFAIK) a huge chunk of sales, admin staff, and now consultants.
You are right and it would be interesting to quantify how much it could improve AI if datasets were binoculars.
> This allows multithreaded garbage collection without stop-the-world pauses.

This was one of the things that really floored me when I learned about how BEAM was designed. It's incredible that how all the seemingly small changes come together in a way that works really well for the problem domains Erlang was used for.
"Live in s/big city/San Francisco/"

As this chart from the article, SF is an outlier, only bested by NYC: https://fm-static.cnbc.com/awsmedia/chart/2019/8/22/salary%2...
Is that black hole inside another black hole?
Which would put you in your 50s to 60s if all you did was go there and back.
> any one aware of NP=/=P

Wait, someone finally proved P ≠ NP?
Ridesharing companies, Labor, and the California legislature missed an opportunity to identify a third type of employee. The truth is always somewhere in the middle, and the most objective truth (to me) suggests that rideshare drivers honestly sit somewhere between employees and contractors.

The politics of what has occurred here is probably the pendulum swinging too far, but in the right direction: the classification of 'contractor' just isn't correct to describe these workers, and the legislature did its best to rectify that.
Why do you say this? It isn't the most cost effective maybe, but it is convenient and the bluetooth control stuff is kinda nice.
The unemployment rate is definitely not the whole picture and is kind of a BS metric.

I think you'll find the Labor Force Partcipation Rate gives a more accurate assessment of what you're looking for.

"Make-Believe America: Why the US Unemployment Rate Doesn’t Indicate Economic Recovery"

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/03/08/make-believe...
That web page only loads the first paragraph for me but there is a huge advantage to being able to read very fast with comprehension for certain material - the gauntlet of standardized tests American kids go through is much easier for both verbal and math skills tests (essentially most of them - because they have to use some words for most problems) and a lot of tests going through university level because one has time to go through an entire test once, answer all the questions, and go back and double and triple check your answers and evaluate multiple choice answers several times. At least when I took those tests a generation ago, the time allotment is overly generous if you can read fast. I read slow when reading for pleasure or learning something.
It was my first OpenResty app, and it worked better than I expected. My only qualm is that the OpenResty packages are not updated very frequently, which makes me worried about security support.
Don’t let the “quora.com” make you skip this one. It’s a detailed and informative discussion of the U1 and UWB as understood today. I was pleasantly surprised.
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Interesting question, but also interesting answer. Thanks for the detailed response!
I am thinking to get a not very expensive refraktor (120 mm) with Azimutal mounting, for deep space and terrestrial observations. Just interested in Astronomy, but have no idea what level of details can be seen with that kind. I am fascinated by Orion Nebula and Andromeda which I can see with simple 8x42 ED binoculars. Now thinking about telescope. Dobsonians look pretty heavy, I want something portable and inexpensive. Do you have any suggestion? Are refractors good for that?
If you put some money in an interest-bearing account you could at least buy a new home when you got back.
Various Techniques of Face Recognition
CNBC has a very upper class idea of what they think middle class life is like. Weekly date nights, $6000/ year on Netflix or similar, $7800 annual vacations? Most people canct afford any of those, let alone all 3 every year.