skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’d be a very American thing to do to sue for the government enforcing labor rights through legislation and judicial action. Push that throttle forward further while racing to the bottom.

Perhaps put that time into advocating for a living wage and universal healthcare instead of embracing Stockholm Syndrome with gig platforms. They might not be around much longer, but your government will be.
comparing uber and etsy is dishonest at best.

The only freedom an uber contractor has is "when to work". All the pricing and trips are decided by uber, and they can't even reject properly. They are in fact an employees in everything but legal status.

In etsy, you choose your prices, what you sell, and even to whom you sell to, it's definitely a market place.
Sadly I've noticed Uber drivers have a system to avoid nasty area pickups (but they can't do that with drop-offs).

It seems like given enough time the ridesharing industry is adopting all the bad habits of the Taxi industry.
Just a note for future/anyone else: you are replying to a spammer who is asking for more places to spam, because the mountain of spam he's posted under multiple accounts for his spammed site "Screpy" is being flagged and killed at HN.
Thanks for your kind words.

I do not wear fitness trackers. That's a very strange issue. I see you outlined wearing it too tight or EM sensitivity, but there's a couple of other things: heat and sweat. Both of these things are known to play unkindly with nerve damage. For example, I get pins and needles when I sit in the sun. I get a burning nerve pain when I sweat from exercise.
The mechanism may exist, but can you describe how to actually pull this off, including how the money would get sent from Mofo to Moco?

If so, there's a lot of people who would like to do this, I believe.
Didn't read the article but I'm guessing the "why" is double standards applied by far lefty Wikipedians.
If someone who knew my name called me by another, I would take that to be a low-bar insult and hard feelings would ensue.

If someone did that same thing to someone I respect, more hard feelings.

Hard feelings trigger useless discussions. I’m just saying, maybe you should use his real name, not the name that J.O. told you you should use instead despite it not being his legal name. :)

Unless you want to be insulting to his supporters. But that’s what Twitter is for.
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I liked the O'Reilly days.

MDN is good, especially as a reference to refresh something I once knew but haven't used in a while, or to deepen my knowledge of some part of something I do know fairly well.

But when it comes to learning something new and big, I often get lost on MDN. After I finish reading one page, it can be unclear what page I should read next. After I've made a few such choices and seem to have reached the end, it is often not clear if I've really covered the topic or there might be more if I go back several steps and make a different choice.

In the O'Reilly days, to learn topic X I could just get "Learning X" to get the basics, then "Programming X" to get a deeper understanding, "X Cookbook" for a ton of examples, "Advanced X" to go even farther, and maybe they would also have some more specialized books covering the use of X in specific applications. There might also be more books between beginner and advanced for some topics. And maybe an "X Reference". (There was also for some topics "X: The Definitive Guide" which tended to be a massive book that kind of tried to cover from beginner to advanced in one volume).

There would be an O'Reilly book aimed for people at whatever my current level of X understanding was, and reading that book would take me up a level.

There's no reason a website can't do that too, but it doesn't happen automatically. The website needs to provide guidance to lead the reader through in a page by page sequence that will take them through some topic in a way that makes sense and is complete. It's way too easy for a site to end up with a lot of ways to wander off such a path and end missing things or getting things in a confusing order.
Despite thinking Mozilla has a bit of a branding problem, I think their strategy on paper is the right thing to do to make the Internet a better place.

A browser whos development costs are funded by privacy and security services. Partnering with the best of the best, throwing Firefox branding over the top of things, and creating a bundle/payment management for a bunch of services. HIBP, Mullvad. Even Pocket.

On the branding front they have a bit of a problem. It's just like Microsoft past troubles deciding if a product gets a Microsoft, Windows, or Office prefix. VPN is Mozilla, Pocket is Pocket, and Monitor Send and Lockwise are Firefox. They need to Creative Cloud or Office 365 this and make it simple for the consumer to dive right into the entire experience. They need more services in their bundle. The name Firefox needs to mean "we vetted the underlying provider and they meet our seal of approval." This dynamic can also function as consumer protection, in that, when they switch providers, for example from ProtonVPN to Mullvad, the user experience is a seamless transition.

Their target market should be "people who want a first class internet experience, but dont have the time or understanding to research the litany of tools they would need to employ to get it.
I also remember the extremely poor customer service provided by taxi cabs. Dirty cars, rude drivers who acted as if they were doing you a favor instead of engaging in a business transaction. The taxi cartels are no better than Uber and Lyft corporations for sure.
Oh cmon, in every country uber operated/operates in they are against the law.

Just because you make a new app and don't follow the rules in the hope you get to big to fail doesn't mean it works.

Uber specifically displays the current problem with new startups, they don't make things more effective, or cheaper.

They borrow money, set low prices and don't follow the law and then lobby to change them.

Uber is a taxi service I don't know why anybody would think otherwise.

You compare uber to etsy, but uber sets a price and does not even list the name of the driver till you order to pay.

One is comparable to a bazar, the other is a taxiservice with a nice app.
I have never understood why people find UI challenging, aside from accessibility and security.

State management is ridiculously easy. So easy that you are going to 10x greater effort reading your favorite framework’s API.

To manage state store your state criteria in a central object. Save that to storage somewhere, such as localStorage. To restore state read the stored state object and apply each item to its respective area of the application.

Modules and components are ridiculously easy now too thanks to ECMAScript modules.
That's why they are failing.
This doesn't make sense. It sounds like you are equating Uber drivers to human traffickers and crack dealers.
> transforming what had previously been an area east of downtown Toronto characterized by desolate parking lots and the graffiti-strewn foundations of demolished buildings

Guess Toronto got its crap back.

> Affordable housing was a top concern among Toronto residents before the pandemic, and in the economic fallout it will only grow as a priority, she said, as an example.

It’s ironic. At least in technology, the way consumer prices declined in the last two decades has been through ads and data - by selling ad inventory inside apps and websites, and buying ads to reach targeted people more affordably.

Regardless of how you feel about data and surveillance and privacy or whatever, at least ad targeting has a long proven track record of actually delivering low real prices to consumers.

The only other thing I can think of that is as effective at reducing prices is software and media piracy. So maybe prices are a reductive lens. Then it should be obvious that affordability of housing is too a reductive lens. It can’t be both ways.
I think you should take a look at Flutter for mobile dev.

https://flutter.dev/ would be a good starting point if that sounds interesting to you.
It is a bit of an inside joke that people on HN have an infatuation with Rust
i am not sure if this is true but george lucas supposedly named episode VI return of the jedi instead of revenge of the jedi to save on ink costs. i am almost completely sure it is not true but i have not yet seen a debunking of this otherwise wacky idea that is plausible, given we are talking about george lucas here.
https://www.ocfl.net/Environment/Noise.aspx#.XzQPNDUpCiM

It doesn't seem to have time limits, but it does have actual numbers for the noise level.

I do woodworking in my garage and haven't had the cops called on me. I hear my neighbors doing it fairly frequently, too. We even have an HOA here, though it's pretty tame.
This is what Uber wants them to think so that they get scared and drop it.
While both sides deserve to tell their story, Airbnb should be able to do a basic sanity check based on provided evidence. In our case we provided lots of photos that were clearly were not fraudulent (can be compared to those in the listing) and there was no response from the host, who lied about having cleaners earlier that day. We were met with disgusting sinks, toilets, bathtub, carpet, everything after a 7-hour drive. That's not ok during normal times, but lack of basic sanitization should be a huge red mark during a pandemic. Instead the host continues to do business as usual. So, strong disagree on not deserving to review places like this.
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Every time rust is mentioned on HN people talk about how wonderful rust is. They are jokingly called the rust evangelism strike force.
Why would they bank on voters? Do they really think people are going to vote against driver protections in california?
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>We're not meant to live that way.

I mean, to abstract this a little bit...were we meant to spend 8+ hours a day, 5 days a week, making money for other people simply because they already had money?

Were we meant to live in densely populated cities in apartment buildings that house 10s to 100s of families on a city block?

Were we meant to spend most of our time with our young children and teach them about the world instead of handing them off for 8+ hours of childcare a day starting at age 5 or 6?

this begs the question: what way were we meant to live?
This is how Go's assembler works.
> We’re legally unequipped to deal well with gig workers.

Yes we are equipped to deal well with gig workers, it's just that Uber doesn't want to play by the rules and want to have it both ways. Let drivers set their own fare, for starter. "Gig workers" aren't a new category of workers just because you use some corporate newspeak to describe these workers.
If you get the compiler backend generated then that same description language could also provide optimization hints. If you look at the RISC-V spec a lot is left up to the implementation but certain optimizations leave e.g. instructions available for cache management and this would have to be exposed in the ISA description.

Save Intel's compiler, do any rely on implementation details? They rely on cache and fetch details, but only in broad, nebulous ways that seem very portable.

There may be open research questions but it seems to me the biggest thing is paying someone to do it.
That's super false. They went from a backwards agricultural society with actual serfs to an industrialized world power in 3-4 decades despite a nazi invasion killing 20 million russians.

That sounds like decades of economic success to me.
@nexta_live with their 1 million subscribers made those reports public. Ask Telegram to ban them. I am just a pseudanonymous HN user with 0 subscribers.

P.S. Since then, I saw no new reports of Russian mercs involvement.
Fox is propaganda. Get over it.
Maybe I'm cynical but "temporarily shut down" sounds like a formula to:

- Inconvenience a certain class of urbanites who have grown accustomed to being driven around in the hopes that they

- Complain loudly to their representatives and other governmental officials in the hope that

- The state will reverse this judgement
In a common-law system the written (legislated) law is not actually the law, it's the court's interpretation of how it should be applied, taking into account similarities to other laws and the precedents set in applying them, that determines what it actually means. That makes it quite subjective and vulnerable to initial precedents in applying it.
Tragically, the state has also taken away my right to sell my kidneys for money, just trying to "protect" me. I'm an adult, if I want the money isn't it strictly better than I have the freedom to cash in on my human resources?
> It's impossible to study topics you've never heard of

If only there was some way for people to communicate these linked topics in some sort of portable written format!
Laws decide nothing. They are just a bunch of rules made up by those in power. Way too many of them are the direct result of lobbying by billion dollar industries. Copyright is an example. People vote for and elect representatives and they end up serving these elite groups instead. How is that fair?

If you believe any given law is unfair, it is your duty to disobey. This is called civil disobedience.
Right. When the 2010 Haiti earthquake hit, it wasn't a natural disaster that killed. It was an infrastructure disaster that killed. For a country that went from self-sufficiency in food to having its domestic agriculture wiped out from dumping from subsidized US agricultural products.

Then there are the more overt attacks like on Alstom, Toshiba etc.
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False dichotomy. Just because Bloomberg couldn't win the nomination does not mean that billionaires do not hold unjustified political power.
They're all just trying to make a living. And let me remind you that Uber drivers have been caught providing drugs, being prostitutes, and even going on serial murder sprees. All while behind the wheel.
“Nobody will” is a bet, mostly on history of the last 30 years of winning these bets. If/when someone does do it, being a business that drew a line in the sand is going to make it difficult to adapt. Playing regulatory games is hard.

People are voting & doing something with their democracy; that’s how this passed. And they’ll have another choice when they vote on the prop. You’re tired of people leaning a certain way, I’m tired of people coming up with really cheap shots just because they don’t like outcomes. Get a cup of coffee.
If this truly is an invalid business model (riders can't/refuse to pay driver's full salary + benefits), then a lot of people willing to work at these lower rates will be losing their jobs / extra income.
I think the key part of your post is:

> the business model won't allow you to pay people enough money

Doesn't sound viable, does it?
It seems I respect working code more than you do. I wouldn't say laws are broken.

Improving legacy code always means to understand business logic and if possible the motivation behind it. Then you have a replacement built and you can justify why it is better.
We can conclude that they'd improve in the short term, but most concerns I've read about UBI are about long-term effects.
Not to mention safety. My female friends all felt far safer with Uber than Taxis.
Obviously everyone is going to have a different opinion in this thread. I'll throw mine in there as well.

With a PHP background such as yours, I'd very strongly suggest Go over Rust. You'll pick up Go very easily (far faster than Rust, which has a high learning curve), Go jobs pay as well as Rust, it's in high demand, and it's going to remain in high demand for a long time. Most people can become productive in Go the first week they start learning it. Go lends itself to a webdev orientation far better than Rust; Rust is very weak in the webdev arena, you'll be endlessly frustrated by that fact.

My background is 25 or so years of webdev experience, with an early background in Java, Perl, ColdFusion and I've been using PHP since 2005 or thereabouts (I use it for CRUD work). Over time I added Python and then Go. I was able to be productive in Go immediately, and you'll find similar stories all over the Web. It's mostly a delight to learn.

I've also been handling nearly every aspect of the backend infrastructure for two decades now (servers, cache, security, database, etc), and Go is also very nice to deploy. It's dead simple and lightning fast for most things.

One side note, if you don't have much experience building APIs, I would put some focus there in tandem with Go. Being good at building and deploying APIs is a valuable skillset to have. I regularly use Go for such services and it performs like a champ.
Reply depth limit reached, answering here:

> Correct me if I'm misunderstanding you: do you think that if you were to take a representative sample of the population of a Western European country or the US, they'd be just as opposed to regulating fear caused by gay people having sex in private and fear caused by someone coming up to a Jewish person and saying that all Jews should be kicked in the face?

I think there would be significant policy disagreements, but I think those policy disagreements would overwhelmingly cash out in whether they considered the relevant fear valid or not, which comes down to the fear-reality relation I mentioned.

> I agree, but this is precisely the problem with the harm principle. You can overload 'harm' with (what I consider to be) a silly harm, such as causing fear of the 'gay agenda' because gay people have sex in private, and a more serious harm, causing fear of being punched in the face.

Right, but you can't do that in my extremist formulation because it specifically doesn't acknowledge fear as harm. I'm sure it can be abused, but you have to try at least a bit harder than that. :)

> My point is only this: the idea that only contact, physical harms are in the domain of society's lawmakers is highly suspect. If lawmakers are granted the power to regulate mental harms (and in some cases they already are in most countries including the U.S.), we can have a discussion (or at least a preference, if not all parties can come to a rational well-grounded principle) on which of those harms can be regulated - and in my view, in most Western societies, the people would be much more likely to say that the Jewish face punching situation is much more serious or deserving of regulation than the gay agenda situation.

My point is this: overwhelmingly, most fears the state should address can be justified by appeal to a harm that is not fear in itself. And the remainder tend to be the source of the most explosive controversies of the culture war - precisely because by making the reduction of fear a policy goal in itself, we have opened the door to appeasing hysteria, with all the perverse incentives this implies.
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Show HN: What I think Elon Musk means by ‚reasoning from first principles‘
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I wrote a (relatively lengthy) case study about Musk and his ‚physics-driven‘ approach to problem-solving (my own research and interpretations).

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this sounds like a "nobody got fired for buying IBM."

there are plenty of capable people, but vetting those without experience is risky, and the wrong choice could be a death sentence. so everyone (except Kraft Heinz) chooses the safe low risk choice. what that risk calculation leaves out is the risk of buying an expensive ceo, having the company stagnate, and being irrelevant in a couple years.
Sounds like Wikipedia has rediscovered the concept of reputation.
And they were indeed wrong. To repeat their mistake one must have learnt nothing from our history.
It is interesting, but in truth, the same today could be said of MSNBC, CNN, or BBC. Pretending they do not have an agenda or bias is hurting the conversation.

Now, going beyond reflexive valuation of how Fox is or isn't a reliable source the question, one has to remember that Wiki is edited by volunteer editors. There is a hierarchy in place, but those changes reflect individual biases rather than institutional biases.

After that is understood, we can start talking about Fox and theirs 'reliability' status.
This is really cool. As someone who doesn't know a lick of Rust I was surprised at how fast I was able to get it installed with the demo running.
In aggregate maybe. But surely there are specific laws which a majority think are unfair.

It’s only the laws which are unfair AND which affect a majority of voters, where you could maybe claim democracy has weighed in on the fairness.

History is littered with laws which are only unfair to minorities, which I think proves my point.
I watched the talk and found it interesting. Thanks for the link!

One thing that I was surprised to see was the "ego depletion / willpower is like a muscle" discussion at the end. Did you encounter that a lot in your reading?

I recently saw this article: https://hbr.org/2016/11/have-we-been-thinking-about-willpowe...

In summary, they failed to reproduce a classic experiment for ego depletion, and propose some other theories. Some of the theories proposed imply that holding the _belief_ that willpower is a finite resource is self-fulfilling.

Looking on HN for "ego depletion", a number of articles have been posted regarding the reproducibility of that particular theory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068444
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239674
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16117314

Overall, this leaves me very skeptical about any advice about what procrastination is and how to fix it.
All news is propaganda. That's its function. Billionaires own media outlets so they can brainwash the people dumb enough to still believe the media. Whether they are right or left informs your opinion about if that's good or not. Fox bad, MSNBC and Vice, good.
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New, centrally planned cities have only ever been a disaster that quite quickly make apparent the shortcomings of the design professions. Brasilia is a good example of the sort of planned city that would be built. Widespread availability of cars positioned them as the symbols of modernity and so the city was designed around the car, resulting in an entirely unwalkable city that segregates the classes. See also Chandigarh. Barcelona is the main counter example that springs to mind for me.

Every time this is brought up I fail to understand how people think that this time would be any different. Cities are agglomerations of patterns at every scale and the emergent beauty that arises is absolutely impossible to design in any sort of masterplan way. Organic cities are resilient in ways that we can't every really understand, and that's the important element in making a place that is livable for the longer term.