skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or Uber doesn't tell you the whole story of what you're actually going to make after gas, maintenance, repairs and insurance.

It's mainly this.

I did a deep dive on Doordash during the pandemic/lockdown while I was going back to school for Supply Chain and Logistics as I wanted to take a better look at how it worked. I even did a few dashes myself.

And the people I spoke to, including the owners of the resteraunts, weren't aware of the many hidden costs of these gig economy services. Which is why you have vigilantes like the guy who did that Pizza DD arbitrage and then went on to tell the the whole World about it and ended with; F' Doordash [1]. Then the taxes as an independent contractor at the end of the year are something they seldom take into account as they've never been an independent contractor before.

These systems are pretty damn predatory and I think the people (business and tech side) who work on them should have to do a mandatory couple of shifts on their own dime every month to get a perspective of what is occurring.

When I lived in Switzerland, one of the coolest things I heard about certain management roles was about how the SBB requires that management and above have to do the more 'menial' work to get a better grasp of what is occurring at the passenger level and help improve the system. My friend was a manager of one of the branches in Bern and she had to go around and collect tickets and clean the train once in a while.

She said it is humbling, but also very useful as it helps her tackle some issues she wasn't even made aware of. Gig economy work has the reputation it does, but the loftier position at these places are extremely isolated from what is actually taking place, which seems like it could be much more of a disconnect than outright malice that's occurring--or at least I'd like to believe that.

'$2 Buck Tony [Xu]' should go back and do it again himself and see how he deals with the app crashes and delayed in order processing.

1: https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...
But with cars. No, I'm not making this up.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1285819565407002624
We have those in the US too. They're just way more expensive than a suburban house.

Strongtowns has this blindness about how most Americans live. Look at this quote:

>you’d see higher-end restaurants, organic groceries, day care facilities, hardware stores, boutiques or bakeries or doctor's offices, depending on the mix of residents nearby.

Yeah obviously if you're well off it's awesome to live in walking distance to these things. But most people aren't. And the suburban home where you drive to a grocery store is a way cheaper life than living in Madison
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Yeah, I think Russell got this one wrong and Vonnegut got it right. Consuming-all, creating-none became normal because of mass media. Its availability drove down the social value of playing on an unremarkable, very-local sports team, or playing the piano unremarkably, or singing, or being pretty good at telling a story (but not as good as the radio), and so on.

Know what you see references to all the time in previous centuries? Reading aloud as entertainment among family and friends, sometimes even in public places, and even staging little dramas at home. Kids might do the latter still, a bit, but one gets the impression it was much more common then. People didn't stop doing that because they were working more, they stopped because radio was invented.

When there was no radio or gramophone, if you could play the piano tolerably well and sing a little you were, to your social circle, hot shit. Not so much afterward. You could play a pick-up game on the green off town square against a neighboring town and people would show up and watch with enthusiasm. When things were expected to be repaired and a blanket might cost quite a damn bit to buy, being able to sew pretty well or being fairly handy at woodworking was far more valuable than it is now. Mass production has driven the social (and economic) value of both way down.

Direct personal enjoyment wasn't the only thing one could hope to get from all those "leisure" activities.

Oh, your sketches and watercolors? Yeah they're nice I guess. Have you seen Deviantart? Instagram? I follow 200 artists better than you, from around the globe, and most of them aren't even good enough to make any money at it. And so on. Social value approaching zero.
You do realize this person's entire point is you shouldn't have to play these guessing games right?
I think you can stay absolutist (albeit, being a bit cold about the situation). The principle of free speech is that it's paid for in blood because it's the least worst choice.

Edit: I personally think the reasonable limit is calling for violence or organizing genocide. But those have never really been protected in common law.
From what I understand, the brain never loses its neuroplasticity, but early intervention is always better. You hear stories of people who got diagnosed as adults, got the right medication and therapy and their lives improved tremendously. Again I want to stress that it is a combination of medication and behavioral changes. For a child, it means a lot of repetitive suggestions, patience and accommodations at home and school.
For adults, I've heard Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and meditation working well.

When I said "real ADHD" I was responding to the earlier comment, where the person was trying to say how ADHD is some kind of superpower, and there are a lot of folks I hear say they have ADHD when they clearly do not. It is a large spectrum, but even folks at the lower end of the spectrum find it really hard to function. To give you an example, my son would be at the lower end of the spectrum, but we saw him struggling as he started elementary school. We were less worried about academics, but we started noticing that he was losing confidence because his peers would get what the teacher said while he did not. And, all that was leading to a loss in confidence.We read a ton of books, tried behavioral changes and recommended suggestions before we tried medication. And it simply did not work. We tried 3-4 different medications before one worked with no effects. It was a painful and heartbreaking journey. And our psychiatrist told us we were right to intervene early, because once the kids get to 3rd grade, the academic pressure increases and they are already behind their peers. I recommend Russell Barkley's you tube videos, they are excellent, and really helped me understand what ADHD is.
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Would you mind pointing me to some specific cases of US technology companies stealing IP from European companies as the US was industrializing, or Japanese technology companies (including Nintendo) stealing IP? It is often more informative to speak about specific cases, rather than generalizing based on inexplicit information.

Businesses use IP laws to protect their own property rights. Whether you call the property owners "winners" is up to you, but that doesn't change the spirit or letter of IP laws.
Yes, if you have no ventilation.

If you're above ground you'd just pop an emergency hatch in the tube.

You can't do that underground.

I'd also point out that a hyperloop tunnel is a much worse place to be stuck in than a normal tunnel.

In a normal tunnel there is room to walk alongside the tracks.

In a hyperloop tunnel there is virtually no room between the car and tunnel - maybe an inch or two, tops.
It sounds like the survey was done post-pandemic and then asked respondents whether they could've done their jobs without the Internet pre-pandemic. This is a very different survey: it means that the ~20-30% of Americans who lost their jobs in the pandemic are not included in the survey. This is almost half of the labor force (which has been hovering around 60-65% of Americans since 2009).

I'd suspect that there is strong selection bias, in that truckers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers etc. were a lot more likely to lose their jobs in the pandemic and the ones that kept them are much more likely to work for "modern" companies that do require Internet. If you assume 37% of Americans are not in the labor force, 23% were unemployed and hence not in the survey, that implies 70% of the 40% remaining (~28%) require a home Internet connection, with about 3% being those whose employers recently switched to requiring Internet. That seems a lot more reasonable.
Icecat is better. Epiphany is pretty slow and huge, and it depends on a lot of libraries.
No, not sure how you even got there with Craigslist, and even if AB5 was relevant there's an exception for direct sales that would exempt craiglist and similar sites like ebay.

AB5 doesn't apply outside of the worker classification context, so your rambling about Doordash and food safety regulations is just bizarre. You're right that DoorDash is in the food delivery business and so its delivery drivers would be its employees under AB5 (and thats what the underlying case decided). Door Dash is not in the food preparation business, so restaurant workers wouldn't be treated as DoorDash's workers.

Contrary to your insistence otherwise, running a platform that connects buyers and sellers of something is not the same thing as actually providing that good or service yourself. People say that it takes mental gymnastics to arrive at this conclusion. I see the opposite: how do you manage to convince yourself that people writing code at Uber are in the same line of business as getting behind the wheel of a taxi? How do people convince themselves that a PM at DoorDash works at a restaurant?

I agree that running a platform that connects buyers and sellers in a marketplace is not the same as providing that good/service itself, which is why Amazon Marketplace and eBay don't run afoul of AB5. But UBER/LYFT DOES NOT RUN A MARKETPLACE. They would have to make significant changes to their apps to be considered "marketplaces" by any reasonable or historic definition of the term.

This is akin to saying Expedia is in the airline business.

This is not at all like saying Expedia is in the airline business. Expedia operates like a marketplace. It buys inventory from airlines and hotels and resells them to customers. The ultimate commercial relationship is still between the customer and the airline/hotel. That is not the case with Uber/Lyft as they are currently structured: both the rider and the driver have the commercial relationship with Uber and it only exists through Uber.

And for 3 & 4 this could easily be resolved by having driver set up their own LLCs. But I'm not convinced this is actually a requirement. Plenty of people are contractors and fill out 1099s without operating their own LLC or partnership or some other type of company.

AB5 provides a lot of exemptions, so it's not necessary in every context. Rideshare drivers aren't one of the exemptions.
> Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess variant.

I found it quite surprising that blindfold/mental variants of board games existed then, but thinking about it further there is no reason to be surprised about that I suppose. Many of the games discussed here seem more "modern" than I would have thought.

It is interesting that Chaturaji and Chaturanga are omitted, though I am inclined to believe that is because they didn't exist yet, rather than them being expressly permitted. That seems consistent with the timelines of each: [0] [1] So it would seem that all of the existing board games in India at the time were race games. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturaji

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_game
Lyft may also suspend services in CA due to AB5
Ok, so how is this cheaper than high-speed rail in a tunnel?

It seems to me that hyperloop is high speed rail with the addition of a vacuum, which gets you higher speed. The additional requirement of a giant vacuum tube should make the system cost more, not less.

Personally, I’m rooting for Elon Musk to figure out how to make tunnels cheaply with the Boring Company, so we can take that tech and use it to build a bunch of subways. Traffic within urban areas and suburbs is a much bigger societal issue than intercity travel anyway. Subways are a proven solution, but somehow we lost the ability to dig tunnels economically so we stopped building them.
I’ll second the cascade platinum recommendation. I though my dishwasher was broken when we used another detergent brand. I took it apart to see if the filter was plugged and even put a GoPro camera and led light in it to make sure the washing arms were spinning. Turns out it was because we used a cheap detergent.
Yes, while Mozilla does pay well, you can usually get a little more at a larger tech company.
(Speaking from personal experience).

That said, is always a mix, and a balancing act. And a matter of finding something fun to work on :)
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What sort of features?
They are generally 1099 contractors, which have been reclassified as employees under AB5. In addition, they often have to rent their cars from the shop and pay the city for medallions to operate.
Sort of. https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/#remote...
Kitchen chalkboard + mobile phone camera. Bonus points if your wife sends you the picture of the shopping list with a cute emoji.

Adulting: it's not that hard, but it's not kid stuff either.
I think this is a good default, as long as one can opt to see the full URL.

A slightly better solution would be to still show the path at 50% grey or less. It might be hard to read, but it shows that something is there and that you’re not just on the homepage.
In a vacuum I suspect many developers would agree with this, but in practice clearly not as evidenced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120311
Maybe the baking soda emulates some of the mechanical action of manual washing.
We would be thrilled to get a chance to talk to some of the Moz alumns. At Audius, we're building a digital music streaming protocol on the pillars of openness & transparency. We're hiring for distributed systems & full-stack product engineering roles.
https://audius.org/careers
The benefit of underground tunnels for electric vehicles is that you don't have to build to handle exhaust, so you can build tunnels with a smaller circumference (cheaper). And I believe underground tunnels are a perfect use case for Autopilot.
"Flowchart" has historically, in Brook's time, meant "flow-of-control chart", and these usually degenerate into vast webs of minutia -- useless as abstractions.

But perhaps you meant "flow-of-data between structures" -- in which case we have agreement on engineering, but a muddle on semantics.
This sounds pretty surprising to me since I thought I kept hearing that insects were in decline globally. This made me curious.

One thing I often check is who the author(s) are and what their links to industry might be. For example if the paper claims that "Smoking is good for you in moderation" and then after googling the author I find they have ties to Marlboro I start to doubt the authenticity of the research.

In this case the authors are mostly organizations that from what I can tell do not have any affiliation with for example an insecticide company or even a company. The only non organization author I see listed is Michael S. Crossley. I googled him and did not find anything suspicious. He does not appear to have a background in entomology or ecology. I am not really sure if that is reason to be suspicious but just thought I would share.

Here is a link about one of the authors:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/people/michael-w-crossley...
This usually a good time to apply the When In Rome rule. Do not reformat needlessly, follow the code style of the code you're modifying. Done.

(If multiple people are arguing back and forth in code review -- when following the WIR rule -- tell them about the WIR rule and that should settle it. If not, you have bigger problems in your team.)
> Rob Pike probably has never written a program where performance really mattered

Rob Pike has written window system software which ran in what now would be called a "thin client" over a 9600 baud modem and rendered graphics using a 2MHz CPU. He probably knows a thing or two about performance tuning.
Some attacks are most effectively prevented by the threat of immediate, excessive violence. It was just a novelty that females would operate without a male intermediate. Which is why it made news.
Based on anecdotal evidence (interactions with people at MOSIS, Qualcomm engineers, etc.), $140k is quite a bit more than you'd get for 5 years experience, even for a high COL area like Southern California. It's an industry that's got the emotional appeal of gaming due to its cutting edge and impactful nature but the monopolistic economics of telecom due to the investments required, so you either work for the salaries they dictate or you go find another career. The same is largely true for electrical engineers and firmware developers in general.

On the other hand, anyone with enough experience in any of those fields can go off as a consultant and make absolute bank - mid to upper six figures relatively easily. The utility of experience grows superlinearly because the risks and capital involved in each project are so large. Someone with 20 years experience who has seen 5+ successful projects is easily worth 5 to 10x someone with only a few years.
For C#, have you seen .NET Interactive[0]?

[0]:
https://github.com/dotnet/interactive
No - the API :) Admittedly I've tinkered with building out a similar idea so it's always nice to see people being successful with RSS tech.
The optimists get more than one at bat.
Nobody should, but the reality is that we must. At least until we are rich enough to purchase a controlling share in google.
In my job I often have to figure out how to solve a problem involving talking to an API or manipulating data in some way and then sharing that information with others. Jupyter notebooks make that so easy, it’s the first tool that I go to. Being able to mix documentation and code, as well as visualizing output, aligns perfectly with the way I think.

I’m not entirely sure I have a use for this book feature, at least not yet, but this is a cool addition.
In terms of car companies Tesla has gotten far less help then other car US makers, and its not even remotely close.

In terms of space launch SpaceX has absolutely collapsed prices of government launch and has been consistently been the cheapest government contractor and the one who delivered consistantly. This is all well document in public data and by statements of NASA and the DoE.

Please inform yourself instead of parroting these old myths. Honestly that sounds like nonsense from 2014 or something.
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Can someone explain me how Hyperloop is supposed to work? There are so many things wrong with it.

- Hyperloop is a vactrain, a century old idea, and to this day, despite numerous attempts, nothing came close to a working prototype, let alone something production-ready.

- By contrast, high-speed trains carries millions of passengers every day in many parts of the world. They are safe, comfortable, and commercially viable. And for hyperloop-like distances (500-1000km), you can expect a 3h trip. It is not 40 minutes, but considering that high speed trains typically go downtown to downtown and usually don't require you to show up more than a few minutes in advance, it is often the fastest way to go in practice. Hyperloop doesn't bring much to the table compared to high speed trains.

- The individual pods are tiny compared to a train. And because of the high speeds involved, they certainly require a lot of spacing to stay safe, it means low capacities.

- There is a long list of technical challenges, most of them require engineering feats that have never been done on a large scale. It is an Apollo-scale experimental project presented as a commercial venture.

- Progress so far has been laughable, none of the hard problems have been solved. What about thermal expansion, the ability to maintain a vacuum while allowing people in and out, safety systems, the civil engineering required... The experimental pods are scaled down with no space for passengers. They can go fast, which is nice, but at 460 km/h they are still below conventional full scale high-speed train records.

Not really a technical challenge but it still ticks me off:

- Hyperloop is championed by Elon Musk, but he actually has very little involvement in it. He owns none of the hyperloop companies, it is all "open-source", "community", etc.. Basically, besides being a sponsor for "competitions", it is all talk.

I know that Elon Musk is far from stupid, he is a world-class businessman and a competent engineer. I can't believe he really sees Hyperloop as something viable.

So for me it just a daring publicity stunt (a borderline scam IMHO), something that Elon Musk is also known to be good at. After all, the story says that SpaceX started as a publicity stunt. He wanted to buy a Russian ICBM, repurposed to plant something on Mars. It didn't work, and the fact that he couldn't do it gave him the idea that he could be a market for a rocket company.

If you look at Hyperloop, it is essentially a battery powered electric car running inside a tunnel. And guess what, he makes battery powered electric cars, and now tunnels. I have a few doubts about Boring, but at least, it is concrete, and there is always a need for tunnels, even if it is just to dig sewer pipes.
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I actually think you are Chinese. Why lie to make your point?
Wow, this comment got downvoted into oblivion really quick. It doesn't read as insensitive or provocative to me. I was hoping that people on HN would have the mental ability to tolerate an opinion that they disagree with and engage it with counter-arguments. But apparently, we're canceling unwanted ideas instead.

If I remember correctly, a downvote is for spam, attacks, or other things unrelated to the discussion, not for disagreeing with someone.
>has he even heard of John Stewart Mill

I read On Liberty recently in the hopes of shining some light on the moderation debate. Unfortunately it came up short. I think Mill either ignored or did not anticipate just how dangerous a viral bad idea can be on a global scale.

The closest he comes in the essay does argue that inflammatory speech should be punished:

>No one pretends that actions should be as free as opinions. On the contrary, even opinions lose their immunity, when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act. An opinion that corn‐dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn‐dealer, or when handed about among the same mob in the form of a placard.

Is there some other writing from him that you're referring to that provides more relevant info?
by live photos you mean photos with a live 0.5 second video shot ?

Android has been having this for a pretty long while as well, at least on pixel. Off the top of my head, no idea if this applies to the whole ecosystem (might be pixel only, might be google camera only (so that would apply to any phone where you can install this app) or it might even be a pixel feature but tons of OEMs have already duplicated it (that's not exactly a recent feature so I would not be surprised)
Seismic activity is apparently not really an issue.

The damage from earthquakes tends to be a ripple of the ground in the first few meters and that’s it.