skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“If the appeal doesn’t work out for Uber, it will be banking on voters to determine its fate. Khosrowshahi said if that’s the case, the service would likely shut down in California until November, when voters in the state decide on Proposition 22, which would exempt drivers for app-based transportation and delivery companies from being considered employees.”

It’ll be REALLY interesting to watch this all unfold.
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> If they have the option of Firefox with paid dev features, or a free Chrome, I'm pretty confident I know which one they'll choose.

I don't think that's obvious at all. JetBrains is making plenty of money ($230M in 2018 according to Wikipedia), even though there are free IDEs (one of them sponsored by Microsoft no less). Theirs are just that much better.

You're right that hobby developers are cheap, but the professional market is quite different, and even more so when you sell to enterprises. $100/yr is nothing compared to developer salaries and for all web developers, designers etc, the Browser is the major tool.

> For Firefox to remain relevant it needs marketshare.

My impression is that developers are pretty much the remaining users of Firefox. And they're kicking them out.
I totally agree with your opinion of modern news.

Your opinion of HN and what deserves to be on here is what I take issue with. It felt initially like you argued that because Fox News was the subject of the link, it would start a shitstorm of garbage talk and therefore shouldn’t be on here. While it may start a shitstorm of garbage talk (it totally would, no doubt), I think this particular headline is interesting because it’s a move made by Wikipedia, one of the most widely used references on the internet.

I would argue that despite the shitstorm, we should still be allowed to talk about it on HN because it’s relevant to policy makers at various internet companies. We can see that Wikipedia did something they haven’t done before, and it might influence how others move forward. i.e. “If the good folks at Wikipedia doubt Fox News’ credibility as an information resource, maybe we should too? Let’s talk about that.“

It wouldn’t matter to me if it was Fox or CNN or MSNBC or what have you. What matters (to me) is that it’s Wikipedia, and I would love to know what people smarter than me think about this situation.

But how can I get their opinion if posts about this get flagged to oblivion?

Edit:

For example, if I could poll what information overlords at companies thought, here’s what I’d ask:

- At what point does a particular information resource deserve to have its reliability status revoked?

- What is a good summary of some of the internal discussions happening at Wikipedia regarding this problem and it’s surging importance?

- How do you, as a company, respond when the mob attacks with something along the lines of “Leftist/Rightist bad people at company XYZ told me my favorite news entertainment network wasn’t truthful, let’s cancel them!” (Personally, my answer to this one would be: nothing.)

- What do sociologists say about this, given historical context of misinformation and the cults that grow to protect it? How do we bridge existing knowledge about combating bad info with the instant-communication age we are in?

Honestly, I could go on forever. Might not be the kinds of discussions you personally want to see on HN, but as a long time lurker, these are exactly the kinds of discussions I’m looking for, and it’s disheartening to see that other people think they shouldn’t happen just because it ruffles feathers.
If you think of it, post it... so we can all Read It Later
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I think that's exactly what it is. It's a signal to the state saying "we're gonna lay off a bunch of people and blame you for it if you do this."

I'm confident Uber is capable of doing complex things quickly when it is in Uber's interests to do so.
Illuminati preventing us from hearing signals. Aliens Confirmed!!
I can sympathise. A lot of the time you don't even spot loneliness. Years later you realise it was eating away at your mental health.

I think cultures which move their children directly from the family household into a marriage may be on to something.
Snap is only good if you don't mind getting forced updates at any time, and no ability to pin versions without going to great lengths. You can't even control when the updates get installed. I avoid it like the plague.
> You can now incrementally scale up or down in the region of your choice, with CPU options ranging from 2 to 72 CPUs and storage ranging from 20GB to 10TB

What does that mean? The pricing calculator on https://www.timescale.com/cloud still has the same predefined storage configurations.

Also, you might want to remove this customer opinion from the post, standard Postgres won't break a sweat at 100M rows:

> We have over 100 million rows of data in development and production, and we needed a database that could handle this volume
Well, I'm sure they have. They fundamentally disagree with the outcome, and so they will just not operate in California. Nobody will because the business model won't allow you to pay people enough money without charging too much. I also fundamentally agree with Uber and others here. They created a platform for someone to make a few bucks. If I sell something on Etsy they don't have to all of a sudden pay for my healthcare costs. The fact that people have turned to driving for Uber (and others) highlights problems with our government, economy, and priorities, not the companies. I really wish people would stop giving government a pass and wanting corporations to come save them. Go vote, educate yourself, and do something with your democracy. If people have to resort to driving for Uber to live, then that's something we need to fix at a state-wide or country-wide level.

Many people depend on rideshare like Uber to get to work like a public utility. Maybe if California (and this is true of other areas) actually built and invested in bike able neighborhoods and public transport, then they wouldn't need Uber.

California will lose this one eventually. You don't know what you have until it's gone.
why is this downvoted? Without getting into a debate about what true objectivity is and whether or not it exists, In the US, the majority of laws are objective; and it's the application of those laws that is subjective.

This could be an issue of articles: Laws are objective; the law is subjective.
Just because someone says 'you will get RST when you do x' doesn't mean its true.

I'm touch typing now for over 18 years, quite fast, basically started with touch typing and i don't have issues.

There are plenty of alternative keyboards out there which will allow you to keep touch typing = fast and more ergonomic.

Alone the fact, that you need to look down to find your keys is weird to me. How do you correct your text while typing? Looking up and down all the time?
Consider that it might have always been politized, but the previous status quo might have been more convenient/pleasant to you (i.e. made it easier for you to ignore problems which affect others).
The drivers (and customers) are the hostages. Uber should've been spending the last few months preparing for the possibility of this ruling being enforced. (I suspect they have been, and "oh we'll have to shut down!" is a negotiating tactic.)
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>I don't believe there is a difference in the minds of people between the two matters!

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?

>but one fear is the same as another fear.

From what perspective? If it's a subjective perspective, we'd have to turn to psychological studies. If it's an objective perspective, there's no way of knowing that at all, since fear is inherently subjective.

>I think there is a relative and vital material difference, it just cannot be reduced to a quality of the fear in itself.

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.

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.
I think that was exactly the plan. Now they get to blame CA's government for their firing workers.
That’s interesting. Do you notice any meaningful loss of productivity during the 65WPM time compared to the 90WPM time?

I just did a word count on some emails I write and they’re usually about 100 words, but I know they took about 10 minutes to write. I have to think about it as I compose it, then edit for clarity. Obviously if I was too slow this time would go up but I’m wondering where the point of diminishing returns is.
Golden opportunity for the taxicab industry to get its act together and compete on a semi-level playing field.
I will eventually write a blog post about it. But in the mean time this tweet give the overall gist

https://twitter.com/mattegreer/status/1244012323976515584

I made it so I can create a game scene out of ASCII characters, and then I can also tweak the scene and/or entities within the scene with code if needed (but it almost never is). Then the Storybook renderer instantiates a canvas and the game engine, and populates it with the scene.

Making your own renderer is pretty much totally undocumented. I took the React renderer as a basis (https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/tree/next/app/react) and tweaked from there. I have spoken with Michael Shilman about this and there are plans to document it and make it easier to do, not sure where they are on that though.

It's so undocumented and uncharted I'm not even sure if "renderer" is the right name for these things.
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Typing of the dead is a lot of fun, especially going the extra mile of having the characters wear backpack dreamcasts and keyboards. There's a grindhouse-esque sequel Overkill as well.
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Not sure why this was downvoted? You don’t have an ownership interest in a username namespace on a private website.
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"So... Please explain it then."

Enter airport. Walk to departures agent of your airline and explain that you forgot your ID and there is no way that someone can bring it to you, or that you can retrieve it, in time to make the flight.

You get extra screening and a specially marked boarding pass and you get on the plane with everyone else.

My wife did this as recently as 12 months ago. SFO->MSP.

YMMV. IANAL.
Not J O B apostrophe S.

"Jobs' view."
Hi, thanks for the question.
This feature is still in the design stage. The idea is pretty simple. Currently, you can push a pre-calculated visualization and associate it with particular user input. However, in many cases it's not possible to recalculate all possible combinations of user input in advance. That's why we'd like to let user push not a visualization but a function that produces a visualization. This function will be triggered when the user changes input. Such a function can do a visualization on the fly and if needed take the data from an external source.
If Lyft isn't shutting down, I'm sure they'd love to have Uber's former drivers onboard.
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Yeah, giving another 3rd party user data ensures the users more privacy.

You have some kind of doublethink going on there.
I think the cameras and electronics are great. A good way to reduce crime as opposed to adding more police. It's worked well in London to the best of my knowledge and I think we could use more of that in general.

What I object to is Google being the one entrusted with this data, with no oversight, and cross-referencing it with all the other data they have on me.
The people that got paid unemployment benefits and have for months now? From funds that Uber never contributed a cent towards?

I'm sure they are fine, but we must now ensure this scenario can not ever repeat.
if ridesharing leaves cali politicians will be skewered
Indeed, the fact that Mercury is not tidally-locked with the Sun was discovered using the Arecibo radar telescope. If I remember correctly, they used the Doppler shift imparted to the radio wave --which expresses differently across the width of the rotating planet -- to learn this.

"The rotation of Mercury was not discovered until 1965. Until then the most widely accepted theory had Mercury tidal locked to the Sun. Soviet scientists bounced radar signals off the planet’s surface in 1962 verifying that the planet rotated, but it wasn’t until scientists using the Arecibo Observatory verified the planet’s sidereal rotational period of 58.647 day."

(From: https://www.universetoday.com/14008/rotation-of-mercury/)
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The corruption here is incredible - the taxi cab industry had insurance of like $20K per accident (talk to the women who got brain damage), would never pickup in bad areas AND paid their workers as.... independent contractors!!

You think your taxi driver is a W2 employee - please think again.

The number of carve outs in this new "principled" rule is incredible, and more industries keep asking for them (freelance writers, gig musicians etc). Laws should ideally be broadly and equally applied, not this here is the rule except for a, then b, then c,d,e depending on who can lobby in their exceptions.

Pathetic.
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> JetBrains is making plenty of money ($230M in 2018 according to Wikipedia),

JetBrains isn't up against a monopolist who's willing to offer the same features for free to any comers.

Also, worth noting, the now-cancelled Google deal was worth $375M to their bottom line. So even if they could hit JetBrains' numbers (which I highly doubt), it still wouldn't fill the hole left behind.

If anything, what this says to me is that Mozilla shedding staff makes sense. If JetBrains can be profitable producing a complex IDE with half the spend (Mozilla 2018 spend was $451M), it makes me wonder just how efficient Mozilla is with their staffing.
As an on-again-off again user (currently on-again but today here I am googling WebKit-based Linux browsers) who hasn't loved FF since 2.0, it looks like they're spending a shitload on UI fiddling and marketing/messaging of dubious or negative value. Sometimes the UI fiddling and marketing are combined, for when they really want to make me like the product less.
it is. Airbnb tried to pull the same trick in New York City. All Uber has to do is follow the law. Of course they can't since their business model is based on violating labour laws. If your business model relies on doing something illegal to make money then you are no better than the mafia, it's just organized crime.

As for people here who invoke "freedom of work". Most people doing these jobs don't have much choice at first place, in order to survive. But eventually Uber will backstab them, one way or another.
Same could be said about human traffickers and crack dealers. Won't somebody think of these "workers?"
Maybe they no longer just blindly copy Chrome but now also general Google behavior as well ? They also shut down recently started services at random.
I'm sure 99% of them are already on both
Just sent my first pull request. Here goes nothing !
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We’re legally unequipped to deal well with gig workers.

They’re arguably neither contractors nor employees, and shoe horning them into either category will inevitably lead to some absurdities.
The best part about new 21st century cities being built from scratch is kindergarten for tenure with primary services.

Resetting tenure for a new century solves 99% of the problems with trying to build on-top of inefficiency (schools, public utilities, local government, etc).

Toronto would have been better off with a sister city, developing a DFW-like economic area for the future instead of accelerating urban rot.
The curve is flattened. It’s better for the virus to burn through young people in the summer, unless you want to pretend we won’t hit herd immunity.
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But is the content made readily available in the original markup (wiki markup, markdown, whatever), or would you have to scrape everything from the website? Wiki content is normally stored in a database, and presumably that database isn't just open to the world to query directly
> They fundamentally disagree with the outcome, and so they will just not operate in California.

I suspect they will if Lyft does, regardless of public statements intended to pressure the politicians.
Storybook is also a nice launching point for visual diffing. At my previous job we used a tool that ran all of our stories and did an image diff. It makes catching css regressions much easier. There are some challenges, for example when I had left we still hadn't fully found a solid way to diff the components in interactive states, but even without that it was very useful.
I am just waiting for the lawsuits for when they shut down from drivers but also politicians threatening to jail the executives for taking that course.

This just isn't about Uber and Lyft but they were targets because some very big money was getting hurt by their existence.
Do people take typing in high school anymore?

I'm old (50), and did, during my sophomore (10th grade) year. That year (85-86) was the last year my high school used actual typewriters for the class; the room had 35 IBM Selectrics, and the din of the motors was INSANE. When the teacher wanted to talk, she would literally wave a flag, and we'd turn them all off so we could hear her.

The next year, they switched to computers -- but, it being Mississippi, they were IBM PC jrs, primarily of note now for having a wireless keyboard. Unlike bluetooth keyboards of today (including the one I'm typing on), these did not work so well. But the room was quieter.

Anyway, we had no paper or covers or blank keycaps. I guess some folks could've been "cheating" or something, but in that class there was a real sense that doing so would be dumb. Unlike in, say, an required academic class, there was no undercurrent of "I don't really need to know this" -- pretty much everyone, from honor roll kids to C- students, was in there to learn to type. By then, it was already SUPER clear how important this would be for any white-collar job, and so...
that's libertarianism's fatal flaw: you can't escape force and power (that is to say, politics) in any kind of society, let alone in a political system.

most of libertarianism is trying to cope with this core flaw, not living that glorious individualist life.

liberty as one of many (sometimes contradictory) values (and the academic lines of inquiry therein) is fine. a whole ideology based on the supremacy of that one value is simply unworkable. we're social creatures, not just a collection of coincident individuals.
You have to pay extra to get a competent CEO to head a company that isn't expected to have big wins for a long time.
Yeah, I’m totally with the drivers on this. Far too often “disruption” actually is a very predatory undertaking, with far too little benefit to society. The organizations behind this are typically very low on FTE, and maximizing shareholder value and profits and “democratizing” the suppliers (ie a race to the bottom for the drivers).

You see it all over the place, and I for one hope that this trend is reversed in the next decade. It’s not good for society as a whole.
Why would it be dangerous for SpaceX to offend Russia?
Check out Chromatic if you want CI for Storybook.
Brexit and the yellow-vest riots are proof that what you're saying is incredibly poorly thought out and probably comes from a nationalistic bias.

The title "président des très riches" wasn't born out of nowhere, was it?
ADHD has a wide spectrum, people with real ADHD cannot function without medication ( speaking as a parent with a child who has it). Yes, without medication he would either be not focussed or hyper focussed. But, the biggest issue is lack of executive function, which is debilitating. And, no matter what, real life needs you to be able to follow instructions, and do things in order. If a 7 year old with a simple life cannot function, think what it can do to an adult? The medication helps, but it's a process, and you have to find the right one and the correct dosage. Added to that, you need a competent psychiatrist, we lucked out after a few tries. Basically what the medication is doing is strengthening the neural connections, so that executive function becomes a habit, to the point where you don't need it. If you do it right 50% of people with ADHD won't need it. And, you can be a genius but if you lack executive function, you can't do basic everyday things, let alone complex tasks.
Somehow the media has started painting ADHD as some kind of superpower, when it's a serious debilitating condition.
I thought that their longer-term plan had been not to need any employees or contractors as drivers in any jurisdiction, and that they were counting on their self-driving technology having matured before this inevitable face-off happened. Although if they had succeeded with introducing something workable, perhaps the state would have blocked it with regulation or legal injunctions in light of the political ramifications of it displacing cab drivers from the job market.
>Lockdowns are terrible for human mental health.

It's pretty good for my mental health. Being on crowded public is bad for my mental health.
The introductory philosophic essay lays it out very clearly:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html

> we should perform a cost-benefit analysis on behalf of society as a whole, taking account of individual freedom as well as production of material goods.

You cannot say in good faith that the essays fail to recognise or address the existence of trade-offs. Please take note.
The standard cut is 10-20% when the agency is only referring a person to the client and doing nothing.

Working at an outsourcing firm or sweat shop, these can take a 30-40% cut but they do other things besides just referring a person. Often they take care of a full project from start to finish or they provide a complete development team.