skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a ridesharing platform can't classify drivers as contractors for legal reason, and if they can't classify drivers as employees for business reasons[1], can they classify drivers as owners? It's certainly legal for small businesses not to pay reasonable wages or benefits to their owners.

This ruling may give a substantial advantage to a ride-sharing service structured as a worker's co-operative. That'd be awesome, IMO.

1: this is a very big if
There is zero barrier to entry for a rideshare service. (Just ask the city of Austin.) Absent COVID, competitors would be coming out of the woodwork to supply this market with fairly-paid drivers. That means the cost of a ride will double, but that simply means we'll be paying taxicab rates for much better service than taxis provided in the past. We've known all along that Uber's prices were too low to be sustainable anyway.
Study: Machine learning can predict market behavior – Cornell Chronicle
All bullet points under "Why Rust?" actually suggest that it would be much better to gradually rewrite all critical parts of the project in ATS, thanks to it being a frontend to GCC. Firstly, it's a much more powerful frontend than the current Rust. Secondly, I'd expect it to be less disruptive than a complete compiler switch.
Dang, can you please link this person to the HN guidelines?
They have since before the suit was filed, that's why they are sponsoring a ballot initiative on the November ballot to exempt themselves from the ABC rule articulated in the Dynamex case and then codified in AB5.

The temporary shutdown (which will probably be reversed win or lose, but more profitably if they win) isn't so much a response to the injunction but a stunt related to the campaign for the ballot measure.

They almost certainly have fallback plans if they lose both the suit and the ballot measure, but they aren't as desirable and they'd rather operate with the rules aligned in their favor, and they are willing to accept significant short-term cost to maximize the prospects of that outcome.
This is great advice that has been ignored for the 16 combined years I've been fundraising as an entrepreneur and investing as a VC. No reason it'll change now though hopefully writing about it helps a bit.

One of the great myths in company-building is that increasing runway beyond 24-36 months increases chances of success.
I suspect this pleases the gov't transit authorities and unions, now they have less competition by decree. (Yes I realize Uber "could" stay, but practically speaking for a business, not really).
It just annoys me it's couched as "we are doing this for the worker!", and then those workers have no work.
> Airbnb tried to pull the same trick in New York City

I think this is a good comparison, with the caveat that there is a major difference in the political calculus: the people who get the most benefit from AirBnB in NYC are people visiting NYC (i.e. people who can't vote in NYC). AirBnB is generally not popular among the people who live here because people don't like transients in their buildings and perceive it (probably rightfully) as driving up rents.

Uber/Lyft on the other hand are used by locals (i.e. voters) as well as tourists. They are perceived as bringing prices down by breaking the supply constraints of the medalian system.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
What’s the status of the Rust project after recent Mozilla layoffs? How much does Rust depend on Mozilla?
The comment I replied to said they were playing a multiplayer-only version. I'm not sure you're responding to the right comment?
Firehose support added in awstaghelper version 0.12.0
Bulk tag aws resources
> I'm the odd-man out when it comes to keyboards though

I assume I'm in the extreme minority as my preferred keyboard is the floppy silicone style [1].

They wear out after a couple years, and usually whoever made the previous one has gone out of business by then, so getting replacements is a bit of pain.

The things I love about this style of keyboard though:

1. More or less silent to type on. No louder than just tapping your fingers on your desk.

2. The fact that they are completely flat on the desk seems to prevent any of the wrist strain that I get from a traditional keyboard.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06WWM5TC6
I've done it twice /shrug
There's a relevant quote from the book Anathem about that, but can't find it. Something about sequestering a bunch of monk-scientists with no particle accelerators or other tools, but they still figure out the nature of ultimate reality...
Fox News was just covering this story:

https://www.businessinsider.com/don-jr-ted-cruz-russia-misin...

Where they promoted doctored photos produced by the Russian state about BLM protestors burning bibles.
I welcome you to read the Android privacy policy. It's all explained in there for you.
>It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world.

You just said how to evade the pressure.
Yep, I literally went through all same reactions, until I realized that these decisions were all intentional on Airbnb's part and served to inflate the ratings and reviews on the site. That's when the trust was lost.
Well, that would be a nice benchmark ;)

I would be very curious to compare speed, size and compilation time of the two versions.
If that's the case I might as well stop using Firefox. I enjoyed it because of its performance and to a small degree to stave off Google. I'm also a big fan of developing new technology to innovate, like with Rust.

But Firefox makes my web development work harder. It opens Gmail slower. And with this news, I have no reason to support Firefox. I don't want to stand behind a company that's de-prioritizing the only product I use.
> lockdowns are terrible for human mental health

That’s exactly what this study is disproving.

At the very least, this data is showing something that is well-known in behavioural circles: that once the threshold of a radical change is overcome, people begin to habituate to it and regress towards the mean.

> we put people in prison as punishment

Lockdown with family in one’s dwelling isn’t prison. Imprisonments is about much more than a loss of mobility.
There are some rides that are subsidized as loss leaders undoubtedly, but that's not the primary case.

The way I see it, it's already proven that riders will accept paying X dollars and drivers will work for X dollars, minus Y% for Uber's cut. Uber's Y% is likely higher than it needs to be, but at the end of the day, it's a SaaS app. Even municipalities have set up local competitors / clones.

These companies are certainly pouring a ton of money into expanding into new geographic areas, other business models, and more. But as long as riders will pay an amount even a little higher than what drivers will accept, it can be profitable.
"Whether that person would be good/bad/worse is pure speculation"

they'd probably have to have at least a negative $2m impact before it mattered right?

revenue on its own may not even be the best measure, if the revenue comes via methods that conflict with the larger ideology. I don't know if Mozilla has that conflict with itself or not.

Your point is accurate though, and I've held the same views for a while now. This sort of thinking would seem to dictate that the next Mozilla CEO will need to come in at around $2.5m - that's been defined as the floor now. Regardless of how well that person executes, they've got that base. And... you can't really judge them after 3 months. You'd need to give them a year to make a 'real' assessment... and you've just spent that money on someone, regardless of outcome.
They have an contract with MusicBrainz.
They are listed on https://metabrainz.org/supporters/tiers/4.

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No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US
Housing would be much better if we could get it to follow anything like the technology price value trend. Housing today is barely better in terms of quality or value from 50 years ago. To expect housing to improve as fast as handheld devices is unrealistic, but I think they should be improving at around the same rate as cars.
For teaching purposes, I didn't address social security numbers and other such tangents, as it isn't strictly necessary to help non-US folks understand how the US federation compares to the EU's for the purposes of RealID.

Social security numbers are a second federation ID (but not a photo ID) that anyone who pays you money is required to ask you for. You're only required to present the 9-digit ID number, not the actual ID card, oddly enough. Temporary worker visa holders are exempt for whatever reason.

Untangling the intricate web between proof of birth, proof of residency of state, proof of residency of federation, and proof of taxability in federation is beyond the scope of my time available here. Disclaimer, I am not your lawyer, please seek professional guidance when making decisions.
There are RTLs that aren't HDLs.

For instance one of GCCs intermediate representations really reminds me of Sail. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/RTL.html
I'm a bit surprised all these systems continue to be built on the JVM. For these sorts of tasks I'd expect something without a VM like Rust to be a better choice
A Tesla Solar Roof system is deployed for under $30k
I applaud the CEO for this decision. It forces at least a glimpse of understanding on the local voters that one cannot combine ideological utopia and a functional economy.
Which is, of course, something Uber's done several times before. It's hardly cynical.
+orc must be Satoshi :)
Drivers have been able to set their own prices in California for some time now https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
In physics, it's "is it gauge-invariant?"
That's surely what they're doing. Of course, they probably chose a bad time for this. If those customers are social distancing, probably fewer of them will be inconvenienced than before. I share one car with two people, so used uber a lot pre-pandemic, but haven't needed one at all since March.
The parent asked for clarity on which writings, and I am similarly curious.

I can’t imagine a Libertarian worldview that isn’t aware of the fact that actions that impinge of the rights and freedoms of others need to be limited, and enforcing those laws are one of the few genuine responsibilities of the government. To pretend otherwise is a total straw man.
Sure, it's a threat. Like "human shields" is a threat. Uber surely isn't slavery, but that doesn't make this threat not a parallel to the "food and shelter" slaveowner defense.
Not irresponsible

They shouldn't force to operate a business that loses money, which is not going to be sustainable anyway.
Cheating made me the above average typist I am today.

You see, around 1995 our class had transitioned to 286 computers and the instructor wasn't that familar with the software. The student next to me and I figured out that if you hit the [ESC] key just before ending each days mandatory typing test, you could take the test again - something we did when we knew we had made a mistake. We worked harder than anyone else to get perfect scores each day because we found a way to hack the system. We typed and practiced more, but we felt we cracked the code. She ended the class around 80 WPM, and I finished 2nd place at ~75WPM.

Other students would possible get a light tap of the ruler on their hand if they were looking at their hands (yes, in 1995!) and for serious repeat offenders not committed to learning touch typing a cardboard box showed up and was placed over the keyboard, so you couldn't see you hands.

Typing (good enough) has been a serious life skill, easily in top 10 skills I developed in high school - possibly top 5.
So basically, Lyft wins in CA? Ubers out and Lyft will comply and can finally raise the prices on rides however they want. Am I missing something?
There have been epic things, indeed. But also bad ones:

- many addons are still broken/unsupported after Quantum

- addons have been blocked from Firefox for questionab,e reasons

- Firefox often ships proprietary third party software & DRM

- telemtry enabled by default

- the total fiasco that is the totally incomplere Fenix that was released to the stable channel on Android

There have been epic things, but the list of bad things has been growing a lot.
I think the real benchmark is a large "C" project writen fully in Rust and to compare the issues on the long term, not sure it's safe to asume that Rust would fix all the security issues with all the unsafe code that would be?

What a 1.5M LoC Rust low level kind of project looks like?
This is definitely what I would do if I had lots of free time!
I feel like I noticed a real difference within three days.

I'm open to this being placebo effect.

In the morning especially, my anxiety always seemed to be at its highest. If I took the mg l-threonate before bed, those feelings in the morning just weren't there.
This looks fantastic! I just installed it to a test branch on my React/Redux project. Unfortunately after running 'npm run storybook' and clicking any of the 'Configure' options I get a 404 from Github.

Any of these links: https://i.imgur.com/GwrOwiS.png

Maybe it has to do with my install method? The 'npx sb init' on the get-started page did not work, I had to hunt down the npm package manually and do 'npx -p @storybook/cli sb init'. I'm assuming the sb init listed on the get-started page failed because I didn't have it installed yet? No mention of how to do that on the page though. I'm relatively inexperienced with npm. It does report that I'm running v6.0.4 instead of v6.0.0 though.

Again this looks like it'll be a great help for my work (I tend to struggle with UI work a bit) but by now I should know that when a project promises 'magic simple setup' it is never the case :P

I'll keep playing when I have more time later because I think it will be worth it.
Most people on HN (nee the world) don't think critically when they see a clickbait title / submission. I've worked for many companies that have been flogged by the users of public forums, without those users having the slightest idea what they are talking about. But being angry sure does feel right. (I am guilty of the same...)
Calling what we did in most of the US a "lockdown" seems like a misnomer. Wuhan did an actual lockdown where people sometimes had their apartment door welded shut and police were arresting people who went outside - that's a lockdown. In the US it was more of a shelter-in-place order. Now that we know more about how the virus spreads we can make those more targeted - forbidding people from going outside at all, for example, just doesn't make any sense with what we know about transmission. Mask-wearing also has helped. Outside seating (with proper distancing) at restaurants seems pretty safe - though come winter this will be less of an option.

As for the "lockdown" and mental health, I have to agree with the article's findings. Myself and a lot of folks I've talked to have liked certain aspects of it - more sleep, less frenetic activity for activity sake, a slower pace. It seemed like the world was getting a long-deserved rest.
To;dr - the article is doesn’t give many examples (see quotes below), but has the link to Wikipedia debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not....

> Anticipating there might be some pushback at the removal, the editor offered a simple explanation: “Fox News is not enough …”

> In an aggressive move that is anything but sitting back, a panel of Wikipedia administrators in July declared that Fox News would no longer be considered “generally reliable” in its reporting on politics and science, and in those areas “should be used with caution to verify contentious claims.” (Fox News articles on other topics were unaffected.) There simply were too many examples of misleading, inaccurate, and slanted reporting about science and politics for Wikipedia to pass on Fox News articles as part of a broader search for the truth.

> In Vilenski’s mind, the question didn’t require much heavy thinking: “We don’t have to assume that Fox is acting in good or bad faith—we simply need to assess if we can trust the information being provided. In this case, a lot of users suggested using our policies that it couldn’t be trusted enough to be ‘reliable’ for these two topics.”

> The administrators made clear that they weren’t implementing policy on their own, but summarizing what the community believed as reflected in a monthlong debate that involved roughly 100 editors
> The excellent devtools were a good., non-ideological reason for developers to use Firefox as part of their daily work, & thus test in it & care about it. Moz had long given up on any other developer relations activities.

Pale Moon, Waterfox, SeaMonkey and IceWeasel to Firefox: "Your First Time?"

Economically, Mozilla never had stood a chance against the major browser competition given that it was also being 'kept alive' by its main competitor for decades. The open-source alternatives also had no chance of competing and are eternally relying on donations.

The moment Google entered with their own browser and Microsoft, Opera, Qt and Electron crowd all jumped into the Chromium boat, Mozilla only had 'Firefox' as the only reason why they are still relevant and that's it. Not even Mozilla cares about the greatness Rust brings. It's just another open source tool which everyone is saying: "tank u, gimme dat 4 free". Here's another way to make money: Mozilla could also easily have been the Rust equivalent of "Erlang Solutions Ltd.".

We all know that no-one would go for their non-competitive VPNs or premium bookmark service. The reality is, Mozilla has to stand on its own and pivot to something else other than Firefox to generate revenue if it wants to stay true to its mission statement which is essentially privacy. Not sure how they have the balls to support "privacy" (on their frontpage) [0][1] and then tell us that they have a contract with Google to fund them [2] as the default search engine choice at the same time.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/firefox

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/
Or maybe just stop cutting your lawn so often. With proper management it will get colonized by local species in a few years.
Mozilla employs a small number of people to work on Rust fulltime, and many of the Servo people contributed to Rust too, even if it wasn't their job. They also pay for the hosting bill for crates.io. They also own a trademark on Rust, Cargo, and the logos of both.

Two people from the Rust team have posted about their situation, one was laid off and one was not. Unsure about the others. Many of the Servo folks (and possibly all, it's not 100% clear yet but it doesn't look good) have been laid off.

The vast majority of contributors and team members are non-Mozilla, though the Mozilla folk are very important. Rust will survive. This situation is very painful, and it has the possibility of being more so, but (thanks to a lot of work from people (not speaking of myself here) who used to be at Mozilla!) Rust is bigger than Mozilla, and has been on a long road towards diversification. Some other companies have stepped up to pay a bunch of the bills that Mozilla used to pay, namely Amazon and Microsoft. Here's hoping that we get even more involvement in the future.
Jetbrains use Storybook and capture screenshots of the UI and automatically (visually) diff them.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2020/06/teamcity-ui-how-...
Your comment reminds me of this comment[0] on HN from a developer who was complaining he couldn't accept donations in Finland because of the laws of that country.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23615853
I imagine AWS wouldn’t abandon Rust after the investments they’ve made in using it to speed up their VMs/Lambda. And they are a sponsor.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-sponsorship-of-t...
> You think your taxi driver is a W2 employee - please think again.

Indeed, the "We should return to taxicabs" argument reminds me of a Mozilla employee's comment where they called out how much different people's expectations are of Chrome & Google, than of Firefox & Mozilla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24122017. Yes, many things are wrong with gig driving.. but driving a taxi meant either making very little (renting the cab & medallion) or incurring an incredible debt load to buy a medallion. Medallions/arbitrary exclusivity isn't going to solve the pay problem (let alone deliver the service that riders now expect), and the taxi industry still won't let medallions die.
Headline is not complete.

"After a rise in negative emotions at the start of the pandemic, wellbeing improved once lockdowns began – but not for everyone."

That's the understatement of the year. Suicides, drug abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, and food insecurity have risen sharply since the lockdown. Deaths of despair have already claimed more lives than COVID, even with the bogus death tallies.

Yet we're all supposed to be okay with this because of some Google Trends data? I want to be far, far away from anyone who thinks like this. Like, catch me on the other side of the planet far.
In austria we have something in between called "Neue selbständige".

They are basically a contractor but are not required to register as a company.

They are still forced to have a accident, health and pension insurance but not a unemplyoment insurance(like employees have).

Doesn't apply to uber though afaik.
For my own son at a certain point I stumbled upon the strategy of not providing him with real answers (most probably because I myself didn't know the answers) but instead sharing in his curiosity with him and saying things like "wow that's interesting, I've never thought about that. Maybe this happens because of X, or Y. Do you think it could be because of Z?"
Like Joan quoted above - at some point in their age providing answers takes the fun out of things for them. Or rather closes their curiosity and inclination to further think about the question. I feel now my job is to encourage them to not limit themselves and develop more independence in thinking about things themselves.
Genius is a YC company and HN is a YC-owned forum, so this is probably not the best venue for an unbiased discussion on fairness
No, rather C++ has many competing package managers, none of which have majority buy in from the C++ community.

To name a few:

https://github.com/cpp-pm/hunter

https://conan.io/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/vcpkg?view=vs-201...

https://buckaroo.pm/
Dosing is just easier.
Suggestion: Dig in to the very bottom of your computing stack and get a working knowledge of your CPU, bootloader, OS kernel, system libraries, etc.

Along the way, you will want to try:
- Using a debugger to step through simple programs at the machine level and see what happens to the registers, stack, etc
- Using tracing tools like strace (for Linux) to see what syscalls various programs issue (this is after you learn what syscalls are and how your OS handles them)
- Playing some old-school hacking wargames like vortex, utumno, etc. These are fun and really make you learn the low-level details of how your OS loads binaries, memory layout of processes, etc.

Most developers don't know this level of the stack, and when you are the one guy on the team who does, it's a bit like having superpowers.
Myst Demake for the Apple II