skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably, but I bet the 1/5 of drivers that support the getting classified as employees represent a disproportionate amount of driver hours spent on the app. If you are logged in 8.5h a day as your primary source of income, becoming an employee is probably beneficial. If you only log in for likely surge events a few hours a week, you largely won't get to do that anymore.
Well, the order of the arguments does matter. Sorting three values requires 2.67 comparisons where clamping a value between two other values requires exactly 2. There are plenty of contexts where cleverly avoiding a problem by doing 33% more work isn't viewed as desirable.
Lyft _chose_ to hurt the drivers instead of complying with the law.

This is a transparent ploy by Lyft and Uber to try and extort the state into changing the law by holding their drivers' livelihoods ransom.
Why don't these people accept the existing full-time driving jobs then? Is it because flexibility is paramount and they might already have other commitments?

Why convert many existing opportunities into fewer worse jobs? What's that solve exactly? Do you think there should be no independent contractors? Do you also object to freelancer writers or artists?
Why step up and provide a viable and cheap alternative when you can just step down and not kill the existing cheap alternative?
Not just wheelchair users. People with epilepsy and other chronic conditions unfortunately have to rely on these services for gaps in public transit.

I wish Uber and Lyft had focused on sustainability vs monopoly and not foisted so much of their costs off onto their drivers, but here we are.
How do we know the same thing can't happen there, with respect to employees accessing data, etc? My point is unless you manage it yourself, you don't know.
They didn't claim to send an anonymous check - they were responding to the idea that you need pre-clearance to overpay.
> am I alone

There isn't enough pushback, unfortunately.
Wont nation states be able to use basic triangulation to find out where people are and prosecute them heavily?

Also wont nation states be able to tell Starlink to not transmit in china if they dont want Tesla factory nationalized or other similar threats?
public transit agencies are obligated to provide this service, most municipalities contract it out. in recent years, it has been increasingly common for transit agencies to work directly with uber and lyft for paratransit services.
This would be a positive force as it would reduce overcrowding of the local market and ensure work and pay for drivers. The Uber and Lyft driver pool is too large for reasonable pay for demand by nature. Something really important in an economy, is security of work and pay. For those who are on the schedule they can depend on their job to be able to live. For those who would not be on the schedule (due to demand) That would obviously be a massive unemployment issue but that was always the cost of regulating Uber.

Uber/Lyft does not exist to help the economy or the people of the US, they exist to help themselves. Otherwise they would charge and pay a working wage.
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The best guess I can think of for potentially lower cost per unit is a space cannon but that sort of megaproject doesn't exactly qualify as "lightweight" and would probably call for ruggedization of payload to survive the launch.
The glaring error right at the very first entry seems bad. Black is not an analysis tool, it's a code formatter.
Considering that I AM a manufacturer, and also enjoy the company of restaurant servers and practice tipping well, that's a quite ignorant accusation.

The point is that if I'm hiring for manufacturing, or restaurant, I don't want someone in a shop with many hazards who makes a major practice in their life to 1) ignore actual facts, and 2) actively foment mistrust of any 'authority'.
Gravity is not really a force or objects "attracting" themselves but a consequence of the curvature of spacetime.

At least that's my pedestrian interpretation :)
Where are you located? In Houston before Uber or Lyft I'd routinely get taxi's that wouldn't show up or would show up 6 hrs late. I've had a problem several times with taxi's being rude to my wife. And I've had several female friends who despite riding an Uber 100x more than Taxi's in their life have several times felt unsafe in a Taxi and never felt unsafe in an Uber.
Note: I don't really know Elixir, all I know is that this works in repl.it
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Hi everybody!

Last week we launched on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133719) and got a lot of great feedback from the community :) (here’s our main repo: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups)

One thing that stood out was the request for React Native/Expo support, so we decided to hack together a working version of our chat component in RN so that people could start playing around with it!

Here’s the repo: https://github.com/papercups-io/chat-widget-native

And here’s a demo: https://snack.expo.io/@reichertjalex/papercups

(I’m kind of a React Native noob, so any feedback or contributors would be great :P)
Yep Epipens was where I went too
A while ago — and I have no citations for this — I read it was easier to just pay for private rides for every accessible person than to make NYC and SF's public transportation accessible. Yes, in perpetuity. Considerably cheaper, too.

Why then, go through the effort? Because they should be integrated into society like all others. I firmly believe public transportation has benefits beyond efficiency.

Something about a billionaire on the 6 train next to a restaurant worker and a wheelchair-bound piano tuner[1] strikes me as poetic and noble. Whatever the costs.

[1] Headed to my place.
This was a "fun" bug to track down in a PHP codebase.
But isn't the better position here to create a bill that decouples health benefits from the employer and allow contractors to have better lives?
LA already mandates 1.5 parking spots per unit of housing or something along those lines.

And anyone that can afford a car probably has one, and anyone who can afford to move to the suburbs and live with the hellish commutes already has.

I don't think this changes anything about transit in LA.
somewhat related, I was so glad when I found out the reason behind a dim bulb that's just turned off appearing brighter when _you look away_.

The answer is in the density of rod cells (which are photon receptors of the eye that specialize in low-light) are concentrated on the outer edges of the retina. So if you look straight at a dim bulb - the photons hit the cone cells, which aren't sensitive enough, but if you look away, the photons hit the rod cells and you can see the bulb!
There is no "equilibrium" the universe is moving towards, it is just expanding, and the "intermediate masses" are getting more spread out the more the universe expands. The expansion doesn't inhibit the propagation of gravity, it just makes the attraction between masses weaker and weaker the further they are apart, until they are so far apart that the space between them expands faster than the speed of light, at which moment they will no longer be able to interact with another, neither by light nor by gravity, and the contracting effect of gravity becomes weaker and weaker the larger the universe becomes.

According to out current best cosmological model, Lambda-CDM (which, admittedly, is mostly a phenomenological model for things we only half understand, but still describes our current observations better than any competing model), gravity used to be the dominant force in the universe when it was smaller so that the masses were closer together until quite recently. But now it looks like the expansion, the "Lambda" term in "Lambda-CDM", the cosmological constant of general relativity, has become the dominant force in the universe, and the universe is slated to expand ever faster.

It could start to contract if Lambda were closer to zero, but it currently doesn't look like it might move there. But then we don't know why Lambda it there at all and what causes it not to be zero in the first place, as everyone expected it to be until about two decades ago (Einstein himself thought of the introduction of the term into his theory as a blunder, as it would obviously be zero in any sane universe.)
Guess we have to give up on trying to protect our freedoms. After all living alone is bad, right?

Time to forget all the issues regarding privacy too, after all in order to not be tracked by facebook we have to live in siberia.
Yes, by common law, you cannot work for two people at the same time. This is the key. While moonlighting is an employer restriction, working two separate jobs at the same time is a legal one.

When an employee, you are legally the agent of the employer. Anything you agree to or do while employed is a liability of the employer, not you personally. That is why an employee at a VC firm can commit to provide capital, but doesn't have to pay it directly. Or why a manager of a company can take on debt, that is then the responsibility of the company, not himself.

You cannot be an agent of two companies at the same time. If you have both uber and lyft app running in your car, waiting for a passenger, and you get into a crash, if you are an employee working, then one of the companies is responsible for covering any damages you inflict. Of course, since you're not even on any particular 'job' at the time, who is responsible?

Moreover, you cannot have two companies paying you by the hour for the same hour.

Moreover, the law presumes that employees owe loyalty to their employer while working. So for example, if I am employed by a car dealership, but when a customer comes in during my shift, I decide to sell him my personal used car, instead of the companies, the company can actually sue me for failing to fulfill my duty of loyalty to them. You can't have someone working for both Uber and Lyft in this model. Since Uber and Lyft are competitors, by definition, you cannot be loyal to both. If you have both apps running and pick the best customer based on price, then you have shortchanged one of the companies, and open yourself up to liability. Contractors have no presumed assumption of loyalty to anyone but themselves. That is what allows them to pick the most profitable ride.

https://www.abacademies.org/articles/the-duty-of-loyalty-in-...

Uber has asked for California to come up with legal structures that provide benefits to employees while allowing their business model. This seems eminently reasonable: there are clear differences between Uber and Lyft drivers and traditional employees. It is the duty of government to innovate policy-wise so that the private sector can innovate business-wise. Unfortunately, California's legislature has failed to innovate anything and has instead decided to force innovators to use an outdated model of employment.
Well, it's not "nothing". It requires having an HR org that is able to process some 50k extra headcount, among other things.

The companies already stated that hypothetically, they would hire drivers and raise prices if it came down to having to use an employee model in California, but the case they're making is that while that scenario won't be a fatal blow to them, it'll severely suck for riders and drivers.
You should explain classism to our female coworkers who get assaulted and regularly harassed on the BART and co.
Americans spent $1 TRILLION on personal transport (cars + car insurance, mainly) in 2017 [1]. Imagine if just half that went to building local subway networks / high-speed rail across the country / expanding bus options.

[1]: https://www.itdp.org/2019/05/23/high-cost-transportation-uni...
It's also really easy to translate them into Haskell.
Using nuclear bombs for propulsion was estimated to make it to Mars and back in 4 weeks. First time I heard of this, I thought it was a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion

The project Orion study anticipated a one-way trip could reach Alpha Centauri in as short as 133 years
IEEE754 has defined min and max for quite some time. Nowadays almost all FPUs have min and max instructions built-in.
If only there could be an efficient method for connecting those who need to travel with those who can provide them with transportation.
Yep. It's missed some low-hanging fruit despite being very aggressive at removing other content

It's also deleted the important part of a sentence actually requesting feedback whilst retaining the largely content-free 'We're working hard to make life easier for developers and site owners' clause.

And if it was a human editing, I'd expect them to concatenate 'Thanks for joining' and
'I really appreciate you signing up' into 'Thanks for signing up' long before they started deleting links...

I think there's massive potential in the idea, but I'd hope at least the demo video could show something which is more tersely written and easier to read, rather than something which is merely shorter and less useful. That said, I might install it anyway since I can always reject edits I don't like.
> Constantly bringing up the great heroic ancestors and their achievement in WW2, and duty if modern Russians to not squander what they achieved.

I would also add the death cult mentality that they are trying to achieve with the Russians ("we can do this again anytime!").
Why is that? It's because neither the government nor corporations are required to provide a basic quality of life to Americans.
FWIW, I didn't downvote you for pointing this out. I think it's valuable to keep this in mind when selecting books to read. I downvoted you because you were super rude while you pointed it out.

I even think the rudeness could have been forgiven if the author of the list had called it "Authoritative List of Best Sci-Fi," but it was literally a list of books he remembered reading.
Who audits the audit system? If I'm an evil employee I'll make sure my requests don't show up there.
Well this is rich coming from Kaspersky.
A compressed spring weighs more than the same spring uncompressed. The moon and earth weigh less together than if you weighed them separately and added the values together. Most of the weight of solid objects is due to the high speeds and binding energies of the elementary particles within them rather than the rest mass of the constituent particles. The number of particles that exist is relative to how fast you are accelerating. Everything that has energy (which is everything we know of) affects the gravitational field; this means that even photons are "attracted" to each other.

A non-relativistic quantum state will return arbitrarily close to its initial state an infinite number of times. There is such a thing as interaction-free measurements: you can take photos of things without ever letting light hit a detector and you can tell whether a bomb is "active" without actually interacting with the detonator.

Energy is just a number that is calculated as a function of the state of a closed system — that this number is a constant results from the time transitional invariance of the laws of physics. Similarly, conservation of momentum is due to the spatial invariance of the laws of physics, and conservation of angular momentum is due to rotational invariance. Also, conservation of energy does not hold under general relativity.
"Moving from scarcity of capital to scarcity of attention" is where my bullshit filter lead me to stop reading.
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Don't know exactly why, but thinking about the vastness of the universe always cheers me up. Thanks for sharing :)
Sort of?

Is Amazon not "selling" retail products because they aren't really making a profit on it? In fact, they aren't always even recouping their full cost of selling products, those losses are offset by other revenue streams like aws.
It's a lot of solar panel. A quick search gives us a figure of 220 watts of power per square meter of space based solar panel. This would mean a 200MW solar collector would need to be almost a million square meters in size. For reference that would be a square the length of 155 NYC city blocks on each side.
> '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.

Great summary for this scary situation.

> 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.

There is a new word for this class of gig workers doing precarious labor that I've started using: the Precariat.

"In sociology and economics, the precariat (/prɪˈkɛəriət/) is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau obtained by merging precarious with proletariat.[1] Unlike the proletariat class of industrial workers in the 20th century who lacked their own means of production and hence sold their labour to live, members of the precariat are only partially involved in labour and must undertake extensive "unremunerated activities that are essential if they are to retain access to jobs and to decent earnings".

Classic examples of such unpaid activities include continually having to search for work (including preparing for and attending job interviews), as well as being expected to be perpetually responsive to calls for "gig" work (yet without being paid an actual wage for being "on call"). The hallmark of the precariat class is the condition of lack of job security, including intermittent employment or underemployment and the resultant precarious existence.[2] The emergence of this class has been ascribed to the entrenchment of neoliberal capitalism.[3][4]"

[..]

"The British economist Guy Standing has analysed the precariat as a new emerging social class in work done for the think tank Policy Network and the World Economic Forum.[6] In his 2014 book entitled A Precariat Charter he argued that all citizens have a right to socially inherited wealth.[8][9] The latest in the series is titled The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class[2][10] where he proposed basic income as a solution for addressing the problem.

The analysis of the results of the Great British Class Survey of 2013, a collaboration between the BBC and researchers from several UK universities, contended there is a new model of class structure consisting of seven classes, ranging from the Elite at the top to the Precariat at the bottom.[11] The Precariat class was envisaged as "the most deprived British class of all with low levels of economic, cultural and social capital." This was contrasted with "the Technical Middle Class" in Great Britain in that instead of having disposable income but no interests, people of the new Precariat Class have all sorts of potential activities they like to engage in but cannot do any of them because they have no money, insecure lives, and are usually trapped in old industrial parts of the country.

The precariat class has been emerging in societies such as Japan, where it includes over 2 million so-called "freeters".[12]"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
There is never value in doing good outside of the lack of shame it gives you. That doesn't change once you realize eating meat and donating to ineffective domestic charities are immoral. I think labeling people as good or bad is a mistake. We make good or bad choices, but it's impossible to fit us into binary good/bad based off those choices since there's no objective level of good you have to do to be a good person. I don't think you being unhappy with the conclusion means it's wrong.
I can't fix what makes her mad. She just sometimes gets mad.
> I would much rather have a system where I was paid more and got to choose my health insurance provider. That way I could keep my insurance when I change jobs or if I wanted to freelance.

I would rather see employment and health insurance totally separated from each other.

But if people aren't open to that for whatever reason, one alternative would be a system where the employee freely picks any insurance plan, but the employer pays the premiums tax-free like they do now.

If you make it so the set of insurance choices is the same for all employers and for individuals paying their own way, then you could move around between employers or freelance.

Right now, big employers have bargaining power due to their size, so you'd lose that, but perhaps stronger competition (from everyone freely choosing) would make up for it.
If it takes that length of explanation then you've got an issue. Also I won't remember that to tell a friend. Teachify on the hand is a gift
McDonalds provides on-demand fast food and its employees are not independent contractors.

There are peculiarities to Lyft and Uber’s business model, being on demand is not one.
Is there a member/driver owned rideshare app?

If so, would there be an equity-based loophole that would allow it to continue operating in California under these rules?
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> but can the government step up on public transportation to fill the inevitable gaps?

I think it's more of a matter of "will" vs "can"
There's plenty of long term work available that isn't a waste. Modernizing plumbing and sewage systems, running fiber connections to all homes, building public transit systems, etc. All of these would take decades and provide for long careers.
That mitochondria have their own DNA and used to be separate organisms. Or when I heard that trees feed each other and fungi through their roots.
The reason rents and mortgages in transportation and commute friendly areas of the country are high is because those locations are desirable.

If one enjoys the lifestyle, spending less on transportation and shifting that spending to housing is a net win. That's how I did it, and for about eight of my eleven years in the Bay, I wouldn't have had it any other way.

I left the Bay in 2018 because I got a remote job and didn't feel like I was getting my money's worth from the city life. Pretty clearly, in 2020, much of what makes city living good is gone, but it will come back; whether that's a matter of years or decades is very much an open question.
Indeed - something I appreciate about the book is that it suggests that learning to draw is impossible to unlearn once you learn it, like riding a bike. It definitely tracks with the idea that there's more to learn after you get up and figure out the basics.
Why do you get to decide what a fair wage is, or what a positive force in the economy is?

Taxis are an obsolete service, Lyft and Uber are overwhelmingly favored by customers and businesses.
It's pretty common for archeology to be scanty when a civilization doesn't leave behind any writings to study. If you want to be remembered you gotta write stuff down, and do so in a way that survives the ages.

It also helps to be closer to the modern era. Complaints that the Greek and Roman empires are better known seem a bit silly when you consider that they were in their peak closer to the present day than they were to Kush.
> Prop 13 is why schools in non-rich neighborhoods are literally collapsing.

Let's say Prop 13 was repealed. Rich neighborhoods would still get more property tax revenue than poor neighborhoods, because the properties in rich neighborhoods are worth more.

If you want to solve the disparity in school funding you need to stop basing it on the values of the homes in the neighborhoods surrounding the schools.

Repealing Prop 13 will give schools in poor areas more money than they have now, but they will never get as much money as schools in rich areas as long as the property tax funding model persists.
People compare type checkers with guard rails. In this regard, programming in SML is more like taking the subway :)
I use btrfs send and receive. Works wonderfully! There's a tool called snap-sync for Arch Linux which makes it seamless.