skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've met a few drivers in Seattle who offered their own rates via text pickup. I used this to get to the airport once. I wonder how many drivers in California were doing the same thing knowing this was on the way- get your local clients and build trust and start their own mini ride service- assuming you know how to use Venmo and the like.
It's not lazy, it's _greedy_. The state is only interesting in getting a share of the Uber/Lyft pie via payroll and unemployment taxes. They would also get automatic deduction of taxes from peoples' paychecks who would otherwise be under the reporting limit.
> Uncouple basic benefits from jobs

This is basically the one actual political policy issue that I feel strongly about.

A boy can dream...
High status people have ground floor offices and fix their own beverages.
In the old model, you had semantic markup (ideally) and css on top, that you could swap.

He says:
" in modern web apps we don’t only render content in simple single-element containers like boxes and circles, but in drawers, modals, floating panels and other complex, multi-element components. [...]
All web frameworks have a good abstraction for this, of course: components. [...]"

Now, I've always missed a way to apply style on top of complex components. You can still use CSS, but as he says there is a mismatch when you change the internal HTML structure. It would be great if you could use React components like

<Dialog>
<Button>
</Dialog>

and then specify separately in a theme component the styling - not just CSS, but also what elements to use to build it up. Of course, you can just use separate components for each theme - ModernButton, DarkButton, RetroButton. But there is a lot of room for errors and the interfaces can diverge. Better to have one opaque Button component that gets passed the Style from somewhere else.

I actually started working on something like this - a Electron based Desktop Widgets tool, where you could write components in React and switch themes. But since I'm a React novice I could not find an architecture that I was happy with (and the idea of using an Electron instance to decorate my desktop to monitor performance seemed a bit crazy :-)).
There's a nice webcomic called Drawing History that gives a gentle overview of many ancient civilisations, including the Kush https://m.tapas.io/series/Drawing-History/info
Some CRM tools are a little too simple. If you are ordering tickets by the most recent update time, you will get this. Overall age and 'has agent responded' are much more valuable.
This is also why I like phone calls. Now instead of being trapped in a badly ordered queue I have someone who is looking at my issue and only my issue. You can give anything critical priority in everything but name just by calling instead of emailing.
Hi! Thanks so much for the support. We love Beat Sabre as well—in fact, one of our early tests was to strap weights to our wrists and try to play the game with the added resistance. It was a fun experiment, and frankly pretty hard work!

Also agree that there's quite a few moving parts to this project. We're looking forward to sharing more details of how the game will provide an exciting and varied experience!
Isn't this confusing latency with throughput? Mainframes are designed for throughput, raw TXNs per second, and a lot of the architecture is designed around batching. Which is great for throughput, but the antithesis of latency.
Ignoring the fact that a private entity should be able to censor as they see fit on their own platform, Reddit is a business, it's not a charity. If a subset of users are hurting their business model, driving multiples of other users away from the site, or creating legal liability far in excess of the value the problematic subset generates, then Reddit absolutely should be patting themselves on the back for mitigating risk by removing those problematic users. It's a sound business decision.
That is why the California economy is collapsing. /s

Everybody likes to complain about California. When I was born here it was about 15m people. Now its 40m. If you are unhappy, please leave to a lower cost, lower tax state. People have been predicting California's decline my entire life and the real problem is it can't handle the growth. Also, California has been sucking up employing the young and of mid-west and south for a century. Now those states get mad when "Californians" move to places like Austin. Where do you think they came from originally?
A brief glance at the comment history and account history makes me think that this is likely a genuine comment. Multiple years old account, lots of karma, recent comments cover a wide range of topics.
How much are Uber and Lyft paying him now?
Here's the thing: I'm not sure we can, in the long run, have it both ways. Not naturally anyway. The current tendency seems to go towards generalised lock down. It started with game consoles. Then iOS. And now even on the desktop, we see scary warnings from Windows and bypassing signature verification in MacOS is actually difficult if you don't know the procedure already. And soon, maybe those warnings will turn into hard errors?

For me to chose an open device, that open device has to exist in the first place. Where is the open equivalent of the PS5? I don't see any. And even if it did: I bet many competitive game would exclusively found in the locked down version. Or, more insidiously, there would be two arena: the locked down one with fewer (or no?) cheaters, and the open one with (presumably) all the cheaters. There would be a strong incentive to get the locked down version for this reason alone, and one isn't going to waste money & resources on a redundant piece of electronics just so they can play without cheats and access the homebrew market.

Now that I think of it, there might be a way: how about optional signatures? You'd take the same hardware, and run it in two modes: the open mode, and the signed mode. The signed mode would be thoroughly locked down by the hardware vendor, and run only signed code. This could affect networking too: just sign the encryption keys with the secure chip, and pass that along with a certificate from Nintendo or whoever. That way one would know the communication was initiated in "signed mode", thus guaranteeing the integrity of the game's binary, just like we would in an actually locked down console.

Heck, we could go even a step further: have the hardware security module be swappable. That way we can separate the hardware vendor from the certificate authority. Of course, they'd be one and the same by default, but we could still switch for another if we need to. (You could have a tournament specific CA, or the hardware vendor could revoke it's own HSM and send a new one to people.)

DRM for the people. Never thought I'd say that.
Employee-coupled healthcare in the US came about as a way around wage stabilization controls during WWII and was subsequently enshrined in no small part because of large unions that negotiated it as a major benefit in their contracts.
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Many comments here address an important issue: the human mind has a hard time making sense of both an eternally existing universe, as well as something-from-nothing. But most of the issues stem from presupposing physicalism. It's understood even by staunch physicalists that choosing this metaphysics is ultimately arbitrary[1].

There's another way to approach all this. Start by asking: what's the one thing I know for certain? It's hard to say any more than it certainly seems like something is happening. Investigate this sheer fact of "seeming." See what the seeming is like before you apply any metaphysics on top of it. What happens when you do this extremely precisely?

Suppose that the correct metaphysics is that you are ultimately the primordial ground of being, that (paradoxically) weaves itself into apparent realities. What we think of as physical reality is just one instance. It transcends parameters like time and causality, but can give rise to them of its own will. Being the primordial ground of being, nothing logically prevents you from knowing this ultimate truth directly and unequivocally (unlike if you were really just a human).

As it so happens, the preceding paragraph describes how you would (re)arrive at this knowing. Or at least, that's what's suggested by various mystical traditions. As far as I can tell, there's definitely something to it.

[1] "There is no way to distinguish between the scenarios by collecting new data. What we’re left with is our choice of prior credences. We’re allowed to pick priors however we want. [...] We have every right to give high credence to views of the world that are productive and fruitful." —Sean Carroll, The Big Picture (p.91)
This sounds promising. I wonder if such can be implemented in small dwellings.
Yes people can freely work for Lyft/Uber, but they can't work free. As in, the designation "independent contractor" means they should have a lot more freedom in how they conduct their personal business than they do at the moment.

Lyft/Uber keep their drivers on a leash while saying they're independent contractors. And that is exploitation.
In a file of utility hacks

near get(), post(), and ajax()

// we alias at import

// to keep all the code short

min(max(number, min), max)
More often the tech works, you just find out that after 3 years in that you've probably built the wrong thing.
It's a website with 138,000 subreddits. That sounds like a pretty conventional distribution, where 5% of the site contributed 20% of the problem. That's about what you'd expect from the Pareto principle, which says that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
This [1] is a good article from Buzzfeed about all the UK hits that have happened. Not all were poisonings.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-1...
Your "employer" argument is specious.

A more apt example is mortgage. I just prepaid my mortgage recently (as a part of refi), but it is the exact same situation: instead of making interest payments, I chose to just pay everything that was owed at once.

Maybe Revlon was thinking of getting a much cheaper (low interest) loan than what it had obtained from Brigade?
I'm sure Jobs and Woz heard similar...
I heard it was because when Bruce Perens was Debian Project Leader, he was working for Pixar around the time of the Toy Story release, and chose the naming scheme. The descriptive name for unstable has always been unstable, not "still in development".
You're comparing this to poor laborers held hostage?

Drivers are not forced into anything. They apply and can quit anytime. Earnings and fares are completely transparent. Their schedule is determined by them. Where's the exploitation?

Have you ever driven for Uber? I find it odd that so many people claim to know better for others without any experience of the situation.
Thanks! This whole discussion has definitely made me focus on #1 and helped with my imposter syndrome.

I think #2 is probably too 3D chess for an org this small and flat. It really seems like this is just the culture and maybe it works for some people? I'm not a man so I'm kind of excluded by default as well.

#3 is definitely the big question - I don't think toiling away is going to earn respect, but it will get me a paycheque. It's funny that people on here seem to think getting assigned shitty tasks will make people think you're a rockstar instead of, you know, the person who does all the shitty tasks. In my experience that kind of reputation is self-perpetuating and, as you say in #2, not really recognized or promotable.
Race & religion are sometimes deeply entwined, see Jewish.

Imagine if Jewish ethnicity was a protected class but Jewish religion was not. How would that even work in practice?

"I was not discriminating against the Jews on account of being ethnic Jews but rather on account of their Jewish faith, your Honor!"
I had the same thought. Lyft and Uber are already employers in the view of the state. No further modification is necessary.

What I'm guessing is that having people waiting being paid $0 is a core principal of Uber and Lyft. They hinge on over-supply. If they have to pay minimum wage to everyone who signs on, they need to be a lot more careful about who they allow to sign on, and when.

Saying it'll go to shift work though seems a bit extreme. Sounds like a tantrum to me.
Why doesn't it just use the Debian python package?
Unauthenticated as in a person's character, not as in shill. I should have chosen my words better.
> then I waited long enough to find out I would have to retake the test

I didn't have my driver's license for 10+ years, and thought the Californian DMV would surely make me take another driver's test because of that. Nope...after I did the written test, they said my license would come in the mail.
He left them a while ago. Couldn't make a living driving for both.
Maybe Revlon was planning on getting a lower interest rate loan. And that loan fell through at the last moment, and now they're claiming it was a mistake?
You just take it every 4 months. Why is it useless?
Could someone flag this please before it eats the whole thread?

E: thank you!
What is an example of censorship that should shape my opinion?

I've only ever seen bigots who think transgendered people are icky and can't stop being "ironic" about it getting "censored".
When a good thing comes around, you can always trust a leftist governments to ruin everyone's day at some point.
Looking back, Sid was an artist being smothered by mundane suburbia, while Andy was a milquetoast who couldn't look after his stuff.
I've used F# for many web projects - server side and transpiled to client-side.
For example, see: https://safe-stack.github.io/

Also: https://www.purescript.org/
They had months to prepare for this, but choose not to.
We don’t want to suspend operations.

So don't.

Either give the drivers what the California politicians are saying all Californians should have as a minimum benefit, and then go to court to argue why Lyft drivers should get something else, or let Lyft drivers set their own prices as they should be able to as independent contractors.
Lyft and Uber suspending California rides at midnight
But I wonder how much effort is being put into it though.
Take the Sars outbreak. They tried developing a vaccine, and failed. Everybody just assumed it was impossible to create a vaccine for a coronavirus, as we never had one anyway.

Now with Covid-19, we have multiple vaccines in the third, and final, stage of testing. And we also have a controversial vaccine that has been approved in Russia. All within a couple of months. Why that hasn't been achieved with Sars?
> and Der Spiegel has come clean about those instances which is the reason you can make that claim to begin with.

After ignoring complaints for years and threatening one of their journalists for having the gall to question their golden goose. They only came clean about because there was no denying the evidence said journalist gathered and if they let someone else publish it they couldn't put their spin on it. Their world class fact checking team at least turned out to be a group of glorified spell checkers.
Automation isn’t done for automation’s sake. Business people don’t think that way. It’s done to save money or make money. Also, business owners are not quick to break a system that makes money for a few extra pennies. Politicians like to flip the scales, and business owners react predictably.
How much of that hate content was expressing politically inconvenient facts?
I was extremely unimpressed by the previous posting from IA.

This, however is a different matter. Very informative, well reasoned, and with a very straightforward solution proposed.

There is a little bit of the unhelpful snark and demonization of Apple, but it’s inconsequential to the argument being made, and well under control.

I don’t think it’s reasonable for Apple to charge a fee as low as credit card processors charge.

Anyone who claims that is all they are doing is being intellectually dishonest.

I also don’t think Apple should subsidize the store costs and investments from other sources. That would be just as anti-competitive as any other thing they are accused of, especially given that they don’t really operate according to P&L per division.

However, the author has convinced me that the App Store profit margin should be low. Essentially what Jobs originally promised - not something they make money from. It has clearly stopped being that.

Of course for those concerned about Apple having a monopoly, the paradox is that if Apple lowers margins and more developers are successful on the platform, their position will become even stronger.
There’s always actual licensed taxis or public transit.
It’s only cheaper because riders were taking advantage of the unrealistically low labor costs (while regulation was catching up) and dumb VC money.

Riders only have themselves to blame if they made life choices around a service that was clearly unsustainable, Movie Pass style.
Yes. You can’t be on the clock at two employers at the same time
There always were a lot of propaganda involved since forever. Even now Russia is demonised in Western Media, mostly quite unfair.
> You write a relatively similar configuration with k8s and it is made to be true once, but also continuously.

This is true if and only if there is a controller written to achieve reconciliation. Defining a CRD doesn't do anything, it's just a reservation of a path and, maybe, a schema attached.

A controller can be written that listens but does nothing. It can be written to do something, but not listen. The API Server does not care. There is no magic logic engine or pathfinder or query planner. Someone has to write a controller.

All that bare Kubernetes gives you for CRDs is the equivalent of MongoDB.
> Next challenge: teach the optimizer to make that almost as fast as the min/max way ;-)

I did exactly this for my PhD!

https://chrisseaton.com/phd/
I don't think the comment is claiming the OP is a shill; just that OP's description is idealistic i.e. what OP _wants_ to think of the situation, and not authentic to the average driver's experiences.
I keep paying my health insurance premium at my home country just because the health insurance in the US is completely broken. I feel that if you get seriously sick in the US you're in an almost sure path to financial insolvency.

My employer pays probably a shit ton of money for my health insurance and what I get is the most subpar, confusing, broken and sometimes blatantly extortive service ever.

I live in Austin and sometimes I think if I really need a major procedure it would be just simpler to drive to Mexico and get it done there. In fact, that's what many people in South Texas do, so there's your benchmark for how broken is healthcare in the US.
In San Francisco, owning your own car and using it for regular driving is a luxury. Lyft/Uber is cheaper and more convenient, all costs considered.
Medicare for All is widely popular in the US. The insurance industry, hospitals, and employers who want leverage over workers buy off politicians to prevent it from happening.
I have had both and I prefer Android, but I am using an iPhone 11 right now. I would switch back to Android in heartbeat if there was a way for me to seamlessly message my children on their iPads similar to iOS. I use about 10 apps on my phone and they are all available on iOS and Android. Once my kids are old enough to be thoughtful users of a cell phone, I will switch back to Android.
KeePassXC supports TOTP. This is the main reason why I switched.
In California, most cities are very spread out so taking taxis anywhere are super expensive. You can't just hail one down on the street like other cities, you have to order one over the phone to come pick you up from where ever you are.
> There is no chance on earth prepayment of a loan was made without any sort of communication beforehand.

I just paid off my mortgage recently. The lender (Wells Fargo) had absolutely no clue I was doing that. I never told them, and I never took permissions from them. They just got a check for the outstanding amount. Mortgage closed.
Why sign though? I always write my sorts like this.

.sort((a, b) => a - b)
For my commute, the cost of ridesharing breaks even with the cost of buying a parking space in the city (Boston) if you go to work an average of 4 days per week or fewer. (at least pre-covid, I'm not sure if parking is cheaper these days). Once you factor in insurance and maintenance, for some cars you would get to 5 days.
Those things seem like reasonable things for a government to care about.
Cool story, like a mini american dream! Some drivers have differing views on the topic though :(
Which is fantastic if the error causes the server side not to be able to log errors
As a fellow non-expert, I use tables like [0] to help keep everything straight.

Yes, the Copenhagen interpretation says that the wavefunctions we manipulate are epistemic; they exist in our mind and on the blackboard but not necessarily IRL. The epistemic toy theory [1] makes this concept very concrete, although note that that theory has hidden local variables and thus doesn't correctly implement Bell/KS/Free Will.

Yes, MWI is quite ontic; it's probably the most ontic that a QM interpretation can be, since it insists that all possibilities exist. Just like modal realism, MWI is the most extreme of the phrasings in that direction.

Non-locality sadly isn't negotiable anymore. Bell's inequalities have been violated in laboratories well enough to my satisfaction [2], so theories that can't handle it need to be fully rejected. I'm not sure what's left; maybe the transactional interpretation?

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

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0401052

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments
Because they're a giant PITA to use compared to ridesharing.
That's an unusual definition of first hand...

Here's Merriam-Webster's:

> obtained by, coming from, or being direct personal observation or experience

These lessons are not from the OP's direct personal observation or experience.
I used to drive a taxi...
I’ve seen a few articles posted recently about people bucking at jira, thorough upfront planning, etc. and saying we’re all doing it wrong. The projects I haven’t been rigorous with designs and project execution are the projects that went wrong.

I always find myself curious about the author and how they arrived there. Are they junior? Have they worked on multiple teams and/or large projects before? Are their managers terrible?
I read the post before it had any responses and based on how it read to me then I'd say milofeynman's post is responding to the strongest plausible interpretation, as that's one of the HNest posts I've ever seen, which is really saying something as that's a field full of strong contenders.
Some people do it intentionally to "move on".
> I don't think “places to be hateful on the internet” are in short supply.

Neither are ways of committing suicide, and yet stopping people from accessing _obvious_ and _easy_ options does reduce the number of people doing it.
Can you provide some sources on this? Would like to read about it.
The state that scared uber and lyft off with background requirements, fingerprinting, and restricting bikelanes? I think maybe the grass is just greener.
There are generally two kinds of drivers on rideshare apps: full-time and "extra cash" drivers. Many of the latter are middle class, not lower class, and I've spoken with many who say similar things to OP.

I've also spoken with many full-time drivers in California, and none were in favor of AB5; they liked their independence, and preferred this work largely because they weren't employees. They did feel resentful of Lyft and especially Uber for reducing their earnings over time (ie "taking advantage of them"), but didn't seem to think AB5 would help wit that.