skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you see those numbers? ACA offers catastrophic plans to those under 30 and they're not nearly that expensive. I just did a quick check for someone with no subsidy in San Fransisco using the age of 25 and a catastrophic plan from Oscar showed up at $223.46/month. This includes zero subsidy. Using a $30k income and rerunning the numbers, a bronze plan form Kaiser with subsidy comes out at $47.83/month.

Look, I'm not happy about health care costs either, but ACA plans for young are really not that expensive. Further, plans prior to ACA offered terrible coverage. Yes, people got to say they had coverage, but the lifetime caps bankrupted people repeatedly. Eliminating the caps and mandating minimum essential coverage was absolutely essential to eliminating what really were scams of coverage. Further, even if you really want to get terrible coverage for less money, you can always use the loop hole and purchase coverage through a health care sharing ministry, which are even cheaper. Though, I strongly recommend against that because there's no guarantee that a bill will be covered.
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no, it didn't. you should add a feature where you have 2,3,4,5 tables represented as CSV and you can do joins on them
I'm never going to do this. I want to pay content creators but I don't want to do it so much I'm going to go through some random bespoke Patreon flow, figure out how much I value this guy, and set that up.

If I have to click a button O(n) times for n people I like, I'm just not going to do it.
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I had no idea .NET has Clamp() now. I’ve been writing something like the OP all this time ️
>Tough to call anything done as voluntary with a gun held up to the head.

Excuse me?
There are plenty of cabs that are wheelchair accessible. My wife works in surgery centers and they often call a cab for someone that needs a ride home and is in a wheelchair.

Edit: This was one of the main reasons against using Uber. Cabs were, I believe, legally required to provide this service, and Uber wasn't. That may have changed, but cabs were subject to that regulation, at least in Oregon, and Uber wasn't. Uber may have filled that gap, but I'm sure it was for financial benefit to them and not because it was the right thing to do.
It depends on where you are imprisoned. In Angola prison, in Louisiana, "inmates at Angola, once cleared by the prison doctor, can be forced to work under threat of punishment as severe as solitary confinement. Legally, this labor may be totally uncompensated; more typically inmates are paid meagerly—as little as two cents per hour—for their full-time work in the fields, manufacturing warehouses, or kitchens."

It's also the case that federal prisons are usually better than state prisons. In terms of living conditions, respect for basic human rights, and access to resources for recreation and rehabilitation, federal low- and minimimum-security prisons are probably the best places to be incarcerated in the US. (although that's about as faint as praise gets)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...
> I'd say that yes, Kush has largely been forgotten by the general population, even that part of which who likes to call itself 'educated'.

The Kingdom of Kush, and the people who came from there are well known to Jews. Moses wife Tziporah was a Midianite (as was Jethro) and he had a second wife from Kush.
A gallon of gasoline creates 20 pounds of carbon dioxide.

So my trip to the grocery store could be adding as much carbon dioxide to the air as the groceries I pick up!
This is a true and an important concern. Municipalities and counties in California really need to step up their game and provide a viable and cheap to use alternative.

Everybody deserves to be able to go where they want within their community when they want to. And we should provide these without relying on private companies with questionable labor practices.
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Yeah I am fairly sure it's a straight up lie!

Just because someone is an employee doesn't mean the employer can't give them flexible hours
Wait, it's .06 not .006 per hour, so 10K views of a 10 minute for $100.

Wow, serving video is expensive. I had no idea it was $.06 / hour. I presume Amazon and YouTube have their own CDN or something.
I really hate those kind of content. Would you listen to someone who built a wall which collapsed ? nope

But you will tell me, if I can prevent the mistakes other made I will go further than them. Well I'm not so sure, for any mistake that someone thought they made there will be another person who identify this mistake as something which made them succeed.

These kind of articles are just porn for people who are not putting enough hours in working toward their ideas. (And top x things that made us successful is as stupid)
'Ridesharing' (Which is a hilarious term for the simple fact that the ride is not being shared, the driver is not intending to go to your favorite bar. ) isn't a 21st century situation or solution.

It's not a profitable or a good force in an economy, it does not pay a reasonable wage for anyone to live on, it is not environmentally friendly unless done in large quantities of people,(which is called a bus).

Ridesharing exists to profit Uber/Lyft investors and management and is successful due to lower pricing than is sustainable. It is built on the back of loopholes in the law to use and abuse working class people and to lie about the true costs and profits.

The bill's exceptions exist to split apart reality from this subsidized artificial market (There are exemptions in most laws, purely due tot he idea that things are complex, by nature)

I see this as an attempt to make the Gig Economy pay all workers fairly in addition to healthcare costs and to put the onus on the company rather than their taxes. This would force Uber and Lyft to limit the number of drivers in an area by cost and profits, to deny those they cannot pay fairly. Uber currently may give you 100 rides a day or 1, you don't know which and you cant depend on it nor if you cant drive can get unemployment.

The hard problem is contracting work is not a known reality for most, they don't understand the costs. Dressing it up in pretty fonts and Ads makes it much like the alcohol or tobacco industries, you don't know the danger until you are very invested and nobody is there to save you.
There's actually jurisprudence that taxi drivers can be employees, not independent contractors, even when they are working for fares and lease the vehicle. See Linton v. DeSoto Cab.
Biological instinct has no effect on morality. All else equal, yes it's immoral to care more about your family's well being than strangers, but the downhill effects of that are disastrous due to unhappiness it instinctually causes. Because of that it is usually moral to care about those you are very close with because society would collapse if we didn't.
> I thought we are trying to stop hate for characteristics someone has no control over (sex, sexuality, race, gender, disability, nationality).

Some of use are, but we seem to be losing.

> Shouldn't someone be judged on their character and thoughts, not their biology or circumstances?

This is considered racist now. This was explained to me by a friend that if a person wants to be seen as a "$race man", than not seeing him that way would be offensive.
It's fascinating how the subsistence wage is simultaneously too low for workers and too high corporations.
With employees, you can't rely on variable supply and demand pricing to ensure the most drivers are there at peak times -- instead, you have to do it through scheduling instead.

And it's not so much anti-moonlighting as not being able to work for multiple companies at the same time (hour). Right now, a driver often is waiting for both Lyft and Uber riders. If they're an hourly employee, they obviously can't do that anymore.

So no, none of this is mandated, but it's the only way a business could operate.
I was pretty amazed by the Casimir Effect when I first learned of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
Because none of that is needed and you just fell for a Uber lie that equates your 9 to 5 with "this is what all employment must look like, by law"?
By providing a service that was more convenient, safer and affordable than the alternatives protected by regulatory rent-seeking.
Yeah, this is a pretty conventional list. Unfortunately unless one puts in an active effort, it's hard to break out of reading the canon, which is inevitably dominated by white men. For one, most of these books are in the standard nerd culture lexicon. Reading them allows entry into an in-crowd of sci-fi references. Plus these books are recommended constantly. The author likely chose their reading material from the top recommended sci-fi books.

There's also this odd phenomenon that I'd call "the diverse undiverse". Sure, a lot of these books are written by white men. But when you're reading them, they come from an incredible spectrum of styles, politics, world views, settings, etc. that they feel diverse. By going from Asimov to Gibson, it's quite easy to get the illusion that you're reading a wide variety of fiction. However you're still reading white men, just a particularly diverse set of white men.

If you were to ask a film buff whether they watch a diverse set of movies, they'd probably say yes. I'd also bet that the majority of the movies they cite were directed by white or maybe Asian men (Kurosawa, Ozu, Kobayashi maaaybe).

Not excusing the list, but it's not surprising that it's strictly conventional and therefore undiverse.
The amount of PL support from crypto is insane!
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From what I heard from industry people, overheating is an unsolved problem for VASIMR. It is 60-70% efficient, meaning that 60kW of thermal power has to go somewhere.

Waste heat management for 200MW system in space is firmly outside the realm of present-day technology.
From what I understand, the biggest economic lever the government has to boost the economy is the humble food stamp. However, the second-biggest lever is building infrastructure.

The reverse-lever for economic stimulus is tax cuts.
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Are they not able to set their own prices/minimums? I just had a notification pop up this week at the airport that the nearby drivers were charging more and I'd need to accept a surge price or wait longer. I'm not sure if this is just a clever rewording of the surge pricing policy or an actual change on the driver side. For what it's worth, it was after 16 hours of travel, so I wasn't paying super close attention.
I think the main hurdle is that we need to read this inside-out, which is something we face regularly trying to read nested function calls. I seriously believe pipe-like operators solve this problem cleanly.

In Elixir which does have the pipe `|>` this could be.

number = number |> max(lower_bound) |> min(upper_bound)

Which IMO is quite elegant.
What a great example of a capital strike
No and prop 22 would make it near impossible to create some
You don't have to. However if you support them they get enough money to make it worthwhile to do more. Some of the bigger ones make enough money that producing videos you like is their day job, if you don't pay them (ads count) then they will have to find a new job.

Only some. One of my favorite channels isn't sponsored at all, and is ad free.
Huh? Texas and California both have high quality of life, and also both have large amounts of oil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_oil_and_gas_industr...

Not sure what you're trying to say here.
An excellent article by Zubair Ahmed, great insights!
I wish it could be cordial but that time is over. The very nice people of Texas are supporting a traitor inviting Russian interference, destroying a constitutionally provisioned mail service, and actively overseeing one of the largest wealth transfers from poor to rich in the history of the US. 58K Americans died in Vietnam. More than twice that have died unnecessarily due to Covid-19 due to purely political reasons. Situations of this gravity force us to dispose of the niceties.
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I finally gave in and just installed the damn Reddit app. And now it sends me constant push notifications. I thought I found an obscure way to turn them off but now they're back sp I think I'll just do without Reddit.
I believe you have that inverted: if your employer gives you a schedule (among other things), that makes you an employee.
> There is no chance on earth prepayment of a loan was made without any sort of communication beforehand

Surely this is a contract detail? I had a variable mortgage, if I wanted to make an over-payment I just paid the money into the account, no communication needed.
I gave it a summary of the story up to that point, as well as the passage verbatim, then something like:

“This is a conversation between the author and the superintelligent AI in the story. The AI is [description based on context]:“
I'm sure GPT-3 is impressive and probably a paradigm change, but all this hype has an air of urban legend that somehow irks me. We all know of somebody's friend who had access and blew its mind, and that is "too dangerous" to be released to the world. There's an API, but not public, and the only way to get access is to join a waitlist (and wait).

If it were a marketing ploy it would be indeed terrific. It reminds me of the movie "The Blair Witch Project". And I can't wait to try it by myself.
The state doesn't need to allow a business to continue just because they invented a business model that requires exploitative labor practices. Whether Lyft can exist is not an aspect that enters into labor law.
This is a continuation of the 19th century American bias towards Greek classicism as the hallmark of democracy. Conflict with the Ottomans generated a lot of sympathy toward Greece and that was reflected in fads of fashion, architecture, place names, and education.
Ask HN: What is the best account registration funnel/flow you've used, and why?
We're reviewing options, and I'd love to hear what services/what SSO options/what flow seems to be the easiest/best for those who have implemented many for their own companies.

We've talked a lot about what fields to use at a minimum, what SSO providers make the most sense to offer, and how to keep things kosher from a security perspective; however, I feel like we've barely scraped the surface.

... so what is the best account registration funnel/flow you've used, and why?
How Do Interruptions Affect Productivity?
"Field studies suggest that higher frequency of task switching is associated with lower perceived productivity [34, 38]. Several explanations have been proposed for this relationship, including the depletion of cognitive resources used in attending to interruptions, the redundancy of work when reorienting back to the task [34], and that a polychronic workstyle may be contrary to what most people prefer [5]."
I work with a group that does research using data collected with wearables, including Fitbit, so this is very interesting to me. The HRV value dropping at the same time that the pulse rate increases is an interesting signal that seems easy to pick out.

It is a little surprising that they show both Respiration and HRV which are not available over the Fitbit API. I wonder how much other data they collect that isn't made publicly available.
I have no idea about the details of these charities but to say donating to a charity is immoral seems dumb. Misguided or poorly informed may be a better term, but "imorally donating".

I think Black Lives Matter is a scam (there was a Reddit AMA with a BLM director where people asked where the money goes, she avoided answering the question, plus their aims go far beyond "helping black people") but I don't think people are "immoral" for donating to it, just hopelessly misguided and ill informed.
I hear this a lot, that Lyft/Uber could allow the same flexibility if they wanted to.

It's not that the law dictates this shift, it's that the economics do. Requiring full employment means you can hire less drivers.

If you have less drivers, you need more control over when they drive in order to make sure when customers are looking for a ride, they can find one, hence shifts.
On Earth a commercial solar panel produces around 150W per square meter peak. I don't think you can improve this by more than an order of magnitude. Solar power drops off with the square of the distance to the sun. 200MW is a lot of solar panels.
Is there enough market size for this so that a commercial company can come in and swoop the customers?
> Why Tini?

> Using Tini has several benefits:

> - It protects you from software that accidentally creates zombie processes, which can (over time!) starve your entire system for PIDs (and make it unusable).

> - It ensures that the default signal handlers work for the software you run in your Docker image. For example, with Tini, SIGTERM properly terminates your process even if you didn't explicitly install a signal handler for it.

> - It does so completely transparently! Docker images that work without Tini will work with Tini without any changes.

[...]

> NOTE: If you are using Docker 1.13 or greater, Tini is included in Docker itself. This includes all versions of Docker CE. To enable Tini, just pass the `--init` flag to docker run.

https://github.com/krallin/tini#why-tini
> Unfortunately many gig workers don't have the privilege. I'm assuming here but you probably had another job and benefits. There are many workers who don't, and are turning to Uber or Lyft just to put food on the table and are being forced into working without paid vacation, sick leave, or benefits simply because they have no other options.

These drivers who can't put food on the table without Uber(which I've personally never met) in Califoria seem in a far worse position now.

No one is forcing them to do anything. They not only get to decide if they want to work, but how much, and when.

And every time these laws are passed most Uber and Lyft drivers always seem far more worried they will lose their income source than they are excited they might get benefits.

And almost all of my Uber and Lyft drivers had another source of income, were retired, were raising children, or had a medical condition that kept them from holding down a full time job.
Are you truly defending Amazon, one of the leading stars of anti-competitive practices - in-fact the textbook definition ? I am utterly flabbergasted and also a bit scared that someone on HN thinks that what they do just fine and dandy.

Where to start ? Shall we talk about the way they changed their algorithm to put their products first after claiming with a straight face they were only a neutral market place ? This while exercising 40% (and rising) of all e-commerce in the US ?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-changed-search-algorithm...

The company that blocks sellers from using Fedex ? That flexes its control - illegally - on logistics ?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-blocks-sellers-from-usin...

This is just the tip of the ice-berg. We can go talk about the corruption behind Amazon's Choice program, their environment sustainability "joke", the Amazon "real worker ambassadors' who are "paid to praise" on social media and claim "great working conditions" while shooting down genuine grievances. Corporate Communism at its finest - praise the Party of Bezos - makes the CCP look like an amateur.

You can vote out Trump. You can't lift a finger against the march of Bezos and Amazon.

They are a horror company who are a clear and present danger to both US capitalism and democracy.

Several nations and states have now opened anti-trust investigations against Amazon. Lets pray something comes out of it or the world will be kneeling to Bezos before too long.

https://www.medianama.com/2020/08/223-amazon-antitrust-canad...
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/mt/ip_19_...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-03/amazon-s-...
>Tough to call anything done as voluntary with a gun held up to the head.

If you don't have total control and transparency of the contract you pick up then it isn't contracting
Not really. 38% of Lyft riders start or end their ride from low income areas (right out of the article). Uber and Lyft have made it possible for people that could not travel from where they live to where they need to go, in a timely manner possible.
There are multiple posts in the #1 spot on any given day.
True. That's why nobody wants to live there.
While that is worth pointing out, I would still be concerned in such circumstances. As I say, perhaps naively so — I have no familiarity with the norms of that industry.
As a developer of many years, TypeScript is awesome for me ;)

It helps all of us so much! Thank you TypeScript team :D
I don't disagree, the current politicians need to find a solution to provide people with meaningful opportunities to protect them from the fallout of these changes. I think the danger of allowing this exploitation to continue, if we examine the precedent of the previous decades, is too large though and we need to act before the erosion continues.
Yeah browsers do to some point and probably can do more to improve the situation.

One annoying thing about apple's aggressive approach although is it's difficult to have actual background processes running on your device. Stuff like arc app keeps on getting shut down, it's difficult to have a mail client or an image syncing service actually be running in the background as frequently as apple's first party ones and so on.

Also you can't run something like little snitch on your mobile device.

In the desktop case this is ok, since you have the escape hatch of electron apps in the web tech example, but in iOS you don't have anything.
This isn't even a hypothetical concern: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
Not sure the right word, but a lot of towns and cities have a heavily subsidized busing system for very local routes. Things like DATA Bus or Meals on Wheels.

Also my grandparents in a city always used a cab service that only serves wheelchair and has trained drivers to load and unload.
It would be better for society if the billions of dollars of capital invested in ride share platforms was invested in high productivity labor technologies instead of low labor productivity technologies.
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>then I read a tiny book called "One Straw Revolution" and I was sold on the simpler life.

Good book, I have read it. Check out Krishna McKenzie of Solitude Farm, Auroville, India. An Englishman who studied at a J. Krishnamurti school in England, read that One Straw book by Masanobu Fukuoka while still in school, was so influenced by it that he went to Auroville and started a farm there (with a few others), based on Fukuoka's natural farming and permaculture's principles - all this, 25 years ago, and he is still going strong there. He has many videos on his Youtube channel about his farm work, edible weeds of the area, their farm cafe where they sell/serve healthy organic food made from their farm products, food and medicinal values of the 140-odd species they grow there, making permaculture circle gardens, hedgerows, mulch trenches, growing with high biodiversity, etc.
How prion diseases work and spread. They're basically infectious lego. You may not thank me if you read about them...
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Shameless plug of my own post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24226783
Can confirm. I drove from Austin to Nuevo Laredo for dental work. Park up, walk across the bridge, get dental work for a fraction the of the US price and walk back. Most painful part of the process is going back though US border control.