skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, cool. Every state is different, so I'm always a bit curious as to how high premiums are set in different places. I just took a look at plans for those in NYC. For someone aged 35, it still looks like they're offering catastrophic plans. Fidelis has one at $178.75/month with no subsidy. For someone making $30k/year, the subsidy drops a bronze Fidelis plan to $16.59/month.

And, to be sure, coverage is still pretty bad. Just because someone has coverage doesn't mean they have the money to use coverage. Unless there's another subsidy, and there may be, that bronze Fidelis plan has a $8150 out of pocket max and it's unlikely someone making $30k/year is going to have that much money laying around. That said, at least the plan has a couple of free PCP visits.

Anyway, my intention here isn't to beat a dead horse. It's really important to me that people get health care coverage and costs are a barrier. I believe ACA plans to be far more affordable than people think them to be. I don't doubt that you saw a price in the realm you mentioned because they're out there, but often better pricing can be found and I end up doing these searches a lot.
banning prostitution is the best example of this dumb line of thinking. If they could do something better they already would be doing it. Replacing a "bad" option with "no" option does not help them.
I am trying to understand why is this business model from apple not acceptable, from my point of view the way apple makes money on the apple store is with the 30% fees on transations. In exchange they give out tools, libraries and services for free. Do i get that wrong?

with that in mind isnt the request of Epic something like: "We want access to all your platform and tools for free?"
This is a common sentiment but I don't think it's actually true. Users like software the works and is performant. Putting a quick prototype in front of users doesn't tell you anything beyond what the users think of the quick prototype. Did they have a bad impression because they ran into one of the many edge cases you didn't account for in the prototype? Or is it because the software is ill-conceived and not something they would like even if executed flawlessly. It's hard to tell. I think you run the risk of putting together a crappy prototype and then iterating your way into a local optimum that is still far inferior to what a properly engineered piece of software could be. Or it never gets that far because users hate the initial iteration because it doesn't work very well.
That's why the driver attrition rate is so high and Lyft/Uber have to constantly run driver recruitment efforts in mature service areas. After the driver ruins their original car in less than a year, they quickly realize the true operating costs.

Say what you will about the taxi business but at least taxi drivers knew that the gate fee on a leased vehicle was $100/day.
> The basic idea is, let's attach a nuclear reactor to an ion engine.

Why do you need to attach an ion thruster to a reactor, if you can turn the reactor itself into a thruster? https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/151286...
Totally agreed re: the necessity of doing what can be done [i]now[/i] within existing regulatory frameworks.

If & when we get round to allowing more exotic stuff to be used I like the look of this one.

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/718391main_Werka_2011_PhI_FFRE.pdf
> stocks have never been more detached from the underlying economy than now

Economic indicators (CPI, GDP, unemployment) are backwards looking, while stocks are generally forward looking.

The S&P 500 peaked around mid-February and then started tanking. Meanwhile, in early March:

> On March 2, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that people should ignore the virus and "go on with your lives + get out on the town despite coronavirus."[73][74] At a news conference on March 3, New York City Commissioner of Health Oxiris Barbot said "we are encouraging New Yorkers to go about their everyday lives."[75]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_New_York_...

Cuomo then declared a state of emergency on March 7—at least two weeks after stocks started 'acting'.

The stock market (as 'an entity') dislikes unexpected news: as new information ripples out, the Efficient Market Hypothesis purports that will effect prices. So if a company says a quarter or two will be good, and it turns out bad, their stock price will effected by that new information. But if everyone already knows that things will be bad, when the bad news is announced there won't be much of a reaction.

You can have bad news as long it's expected: the pandemic was unexpected and so everyone had to re-organize their strategies. That was February to March.

Now that the pandemic is more of a know quantity, and its effects of society are more well-known, people can focus on how companies will deal with it: it's generally bad for cruise lines and airlines (stocks down), it's generally good for companies that help with work/shelter-in-place stuff like Zoom/telcomm and cloud (stocks up). What was April onwards.

Yes, the economy does suck. But stocks are about forward looking expectations, not about the now or past.
The feeling of insignificance is merely one possible response of a range of arbitrary emotional responses. It has been made more prevalent by a cultural, existentialist meme. I choose wonder and amazement as my arbitrary emotional response. It is more satisfying. I hope that whatever superintelligence we create will speak to us about the answers it finds to these questions, and not choose to wipe us out instead.

There is no reason that a superintelligent AI cannot do the following: create superintelligent theories about the universe (using superintelligent intuition), create superintelligent tools to prove its superintelligent theories, leading to superintelligent empirical observation, ultimately producing the answer to the question of our existence far faster and far more eloquently than is predicted.
The product literally just launched -- give it a few weeks, it'll show up.
Open Data is a thing, I can imagine some PeerTube instances would publicly share their data (anonymously etc), in order to build open recommendation systems.

Personally, I would gladly donate my (anonymous etc) data for this noble goal.
US Attorney charges against Joseph Sullivan for alleged cover-up of Uber hack
Healthcare should be provided as a human right but this is not accomplishing that.
1. U rite. I lived in a part of florida for many years with basically 0 transportation and didn't have a reliable car. It sucks
2. You are right, but at what cost. We can't have people who are desperate for a normal life take on jobs that nobody wants with no benefits. These jobs are clearly important (see parent comment and many other comments), but yet we don't want to pay them fairly or give them benefits.

If we get universal healthcare, then yeah this problem goes away. But california can't bank on that existing because even Biden during a pandemic isn't committing to single payer healthcare if he's elected. What is California supposed to do? We need standards, its probably not fiscally feasible for California to provide healthcare or UBI for all, therefore this is the best option it has to prevent workers from being abused.
guile for embedding works really nicely.
The missing link is that you're raising a false dichotomy. Its a sliding scale of profit margin. Instead of bad or none, the choice is more low paying options or fewer higher paying options. Some will receive higher wages, while some opportunities will not be available.

Both sides believe the net benefit backs up their stated position and there's very little compelling data one way or another.
Completely anecdotal but I bring this question up every time I drive in an Uber and overwhelmingly the drivers tell me they want to stay independent. No one is forcing drivers into their jobs. I really struggle to understand why we need bureaucrats imposing their idea of what a market should look like on an fairly efficient market.

From my experience the drivers are perfectly aware of the costs that go into driving so I really don't buy the exploitation argument. Seems like a loss for everyone except bureaucrats. Also don't see how it's realistic to expect them to be able to adjust to this on a dime. Although large, California is still a minority of their revenue.
Didn't we already go through this line of reasoning during the industrial revolution? Didn't we already have our muckraking moments to show exactly why this line of reasoning is full of assumptions, totally devoid and dissociated from the actual reality of people's lives?
The advantage is higher security, zero cost and control over data.

1password is closed source and there is no way to verify that it actually encrypts the passwords.

I wouldn’t give someone my passwords to encrypt and store them for me. It’s a simple task and I can just encrypt and store my passwords. I don’t need a shinier UI.
I think it’s fairly clear I’m referring to the VC and founders who chose a business model that effectively arbitrages others’ belief in an obligation to contribute to the social safety net.
I think you're gas lighting us by ignoring the fact that these types of choices aren't fully unconstrained. People aren't assuming this risk because they prefer to, but rather they have limited choices available to them given their resources and background.
Cooling is hard in space. It is hard and expensive to get good power to weight ratios.
There was a time, not very long ago, when people "chose" to send their 12 year old children into dangerous factories for 12 hours a day. Government rightly restricted corporations from offering that option to desperate people.
The Eve team had been using some other language, then Jamie Brandon fell in love with RUST,and it led to a split in the company. Rust is such a low level language; its primitive types are things like integers from 8 to 128 bits. but doesn't have any drawing, event mgt, or layout tools in the language. I can't imagine trying to build a graphical interactive product in Rust. It's similar to Modula-2 in terms of level, with one added trick, the memory borrow checking. I think of Rust as a one trick pony, that helps handle multi-threading memory management. Something that a browser maker would think ideal. I could never use it. Far too clumsy for building graphical interactive software, which is my wheelhouse.
>Username: trumpersHateMe

Nice, novelty accounts on hn.

That's lovely. I accrue some great insights from this sites river, but I should probably start curating my own river again. The insightful:judgemental signal-noise ratio is trending in a direction I simply fine unstimulating of productive discourse.
I agree. SA is a hugely destructive influence across the Middle East in lot of ways. For whatever reason, the strategic interests of SA and the US align just enough to keep them out of trouble. But if SA were to emulate Putin's foreign policy and annex, say, Kuwait, I promise their luck would run out fast. Funny, I seems to remember something sort of similar happening not too long ago...
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This is just repeating TNC company propaganda. Nobody is saying this has to be a full-time job. Many, many people work part-time jobs and they are all employees of their workplace. Many of these people also have second part-time jobs, where they are also legally employees of the second company.
It probably is, but afaik you can't see videos from random creators on your peertube instance. You have to subscribe to them to get a feed of their videos.
The article links the appellate injunction here: https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.... .

I read the following section in it “Oral argument shall be scheduled for October 13, 2020”, but nothing about an October deadline.

Here is the relevant section in full.

>> start

On August 10, 2020, the trial court issued a preliminary injunction enjoining Lyft, Inc. (Lyft) and Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) from classifying their drivers as independent contractors and from violating certain laws. Both Lyft and Uber have appealed the order, and the trial court stayed the injunction for ten days to allow them to seek relief in this court. Lyft (in case No. A160701) and Uber (in case No. A160706) have each petitioned this court for a writ of supersedeas. The People have filed an opposition to the petitions. The petitions for writ of supersedeas are hereby consolidated for purposes of decision. The petitions are granted and the preliminary injunction is stayed pending resolution of Lyft and Uber's appeals, subject to the condition that, by 5:00 p.m. on August 25, 2020, Lyft and Uber shall both file written consents to the expedited procedures specified herein. If Lyft and Uber do not both file such written consents, the stay shall expire at 5:00 p.m. on August 25, 2020.

The procedures are as follows:

1. Lyft's and Uber's appeals shall be consolidated. Lyft and Uber may file separate briefs or combined briefs as they prefer.

2. Lyft and Uber shall proceed with an appendix in lieu of a clerk?s transcript on appeal. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.124.) They shall cooperate to prepare and file a single combined appellants' appendix, rather than separate appendices, which they shall file no later than the date they file their opening briefs. The appendix shall include a full copy of the index at the beginning of each appendix volume, and the digital copy of the appendix shall include pdf bookmark tabs for each entry on the index.

3. Briefing shall proceed on the following schedule. The appellants' opening briefs shall be filed no later than September 4, 2020. The respondent's brief shall be filed no later than September 18, 2020. The reply briefs, if any, shall be filed no later than September 25, 2020. Absent unforeseen extraordinary circumstances, there shall be no extensions. Oral argument shall be scheduled for October 13, 2020.

4. On or before September 4, 2020, each defendant shall submit a sworn statement from its chief executive officer confirming that it has developed implementation plans under which, if this court affirms the preliminary injunction and Proposition 22 on the November 2020 ballot fails to pass, the company will be prepared to comply with the preliminary injunction within no more than 30 days after issuance of the remittitur in the appeal.

5. Should Lyft or Uber fail to comply with these procedures, the People may apply to this court to vacate this stay. Unless otherwise ordered, the stay will dissolve upon issuance of the remittitur in the appeal. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.272.)

<< end

Hopefully, the above should help others here figure out where the October deadline is coming from.
Have you used:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

and followed the guidance?
That's a non-existent binary. There are plenty of other options, including regulating rideshare companies to ensure drivers are paid a living wage.
Most traditional taxis are independent contractors as well. It's the ridematching versus dispatch system that is the advantage, not the employment model.

It's easy to see all the folks here who don't remember having to wait an hour for a taxi to show after calling, if it ever did. Pushing a button on your phone and getting a ride five minutes later is magic in comparison.
...and this is how we get unnecessarily bloated software with ungodly dependency chains and complex build systems.

Sometimes a purpose-built module that addresses the need and maintains simplicity is preferable over complexity in the interest of some future potential feature that nobody has asked for yet, and may never ask for.
This comment would be considered bigoted by some or at least when applied to some other nations.
But I agree with you. I came from there about when communism crashed and had high hopes, which have now been destroyed. Russians just don't have the same wishes that people in the west do. They just want a grand and powerful nation that is feared by others. They don't mind living rather poor as long as they have nukes and hypersonic missiles or some such. And that leads to a place that doesn't seem very nice, friendly, or attractive.
I'm using Lighthouse. Not just for Pagespeed. It has also some different analysis result.

Btw, don't forget to analyze other pages of your website.

https://web.dev/measure/
It's a good reason: they are causing citizens pain so that they will vote for an AB5 carveout for Lyft/Uber on election day.
Ask HN: Any Good Books on Internals?
I just finished 3 books about internals and I really enjoyed them:

- Ruby Under a Microscope

- Database internals

- Writing An Interpreter In Go

Are there any other good books on internals of any technology out there? I don't mind if it's a language or a tool. I just think it's pretty interesting to understand things at a deeper level.

Thanks.
W=mg

Weight is mass times gravity. It is the mass of the object. As affected by a single force - gravity. Gravity is a force.

A spinning ball has ANOTHER force acting on it, and therefore cannot be defined by "weight".

In short, this is an absurd statement that tries to redefine a scientific definition for...I don't even know? Sensationalism?
Another driving factor is intra-elite competition:

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/intra-elite-competition...
Don't forget that the phrase was coined by an emperor who started charging for access to public latrines…
Their client is Uber. They have complete control to work for them or not. No different than tech support hired on contract. They don't develop relationships with customers, they work for the company that contracted them.

Nobody is guaranteed a contract either. If you don't perform satisfactorily then the contract is terminated. No different than tech support that are rated poorly in communications.

Drivers control their rates [1], when they work, where they work, how long they work, and which rides they accept (with user, time and direction shown first). Only thing missing is destination upfront, however that can change anyway. No different than tech support dealing customer requests regardless of effort.

1. https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
I think OP's argument is the reason why it's "driving your own car" in those markets outside of denser cities is because operating a taxi fleet is not profitable at those densities, in part because of employee protections and other regulatory hurdles, and that removing those protections (and shifting additional costs to the state) is what allows uber/lyft to create an alternative to "driving your own car" in a place where taxis have not been able to profitably operate.
Yet, I have stock in companies whose stock massively increased after a new CEO. The stock never rose above a certain point for years, until the new CEO made it drastically rise. The workers seemingly did nothing different, yet the CEO made tweaks here and there and crafted communications in specific ways.

A good CEO is absolutely invaluable.
> There are more things in IT, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

That was a fine comment right up to the snark. I've been in IT for 35 years now, a portion of that on mainframes.

Yes, customers are often also to blame. But IBM is no longer equivalent to competent. They have plenty of incompetents on staff and do not hesitate to let those fend for themselves where customer data is on the line. A recent case involved fairly massive data loss for a customer, and I'm still surprised that never made the news.

IBM is still quality hardware, and very good documentation on that hardware but the professional services organization is a mixed bag.
Ummmmm, Uber and Lyft take a lot more than 1% from drivers. And Uber drivers are typically the polar opposite of bored teenagers. They are dedicated adults trying to make driving their profession.
Where do people go if Uber does not exist?
Still cheaper than renting.
Thinking about how to structure this:

- Drivers should get the extra funds for medical insurance. California has Medicare and Medicaid, it just needs funds.

- Uber and Lyft don't want to employ people because of fixed vs non-fixed hours, etc. Full time employees at 40 hours per week get medical insurance, so gig-work (like Uber/Lyft) should probably pay partial amounts for medical insurance based on hours worked (i.e. roughly calculated at driving time for Uber or Lyft).

- California (through Medicare/Medicaid) sets a "medical insurance target", e.g. $200 per week, and a HSA for all gig-workers. If a driver drives 4 hours a week (40 / 4 = 10%), Lyft has to contribute $20 (10% of $200) to the HSA for that driver.

- The driver can either withdraw the money from HSA as income, or use the money tax-free to pay Medicare to continue coverage. If the driver only drove 20 hours per week on average, i.e. the HSA didn't have enough funds, the driver would pay the difference out-of-pocket. Ideally, drivers would drive 40 hours per week between Lyft, Uber, etc, and get full medical coverage.
If Uber enforces "shift work", I am sure those shifts will be like city bus shifts, constantly filled by trips with minimal driver rests; than like yellow cab shifts, which are normally idle and dispatched sparsely.
J. J. Sutherland claims that Saab designs fighter jets using scrum. He claims not only have they been successful from a cost perspective, they also have an easier time staying up to date in the arms race. Pun intended.

He also sites case examples of restaurants and house remodellers using scrum successfully.
Here is a map of how California voted in the 2016 election (by precinct):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-201...

As you can see, outside of Los Angeles and inner San Diego, southern California is actually quite Republican. This will be apparent if you ever visit Orange County or Temecula.
Huh? As I understand it Uber/Lyft drivers are not eligible for unemployment benefits (recent laws/court rulings aside). So they don't depend on the safety nets in any way.

edit: Unemployment insurance is paid by companies for their workers who may use it in the future. It's not a shared social obligation from taxes. Nor is everyone eligible to use it merely by existing.
One of the reasons service configurations on OpenBSD (e.g. pf.conf, ipsec.conf, etc) are so convenient and expressive is because they don't shy away from defining and implementing custom configuration syntax using yacc.

At some point somebody needs to implement the configuration interface for the human. Punting things by preferring boilerplate, machinable formats and libraries doesn't actually solve the problem.
Let's take the drowning child. Suppose you save the child and walk by the pond again the next day. There's another child drowning. Do you save it? Suppose you walk by the pond everyday and everyday there's another child drowning. Is there a point where you would not save the child? I think the vast majority of people would eventually stop saving the kid. I think that's because shame is what motivates the decision.Eventually they no longer feel shame pushing them to save the children. If they knew there would be a new child drowning everyday on the very first day would they save the child? I think it's likely that many people would not. Saving the child is admitting you have some responsibility for what happens to it. If you know that you will eventually stop it feels a lot better to never admit you're responsible for the child. Shame is a powerful emotion but once people start meta-thinking about it it's easy for them to get around it with mental gymnastics.

EA is effectively a utility monster, so it's not surprising to me that people mental-gymnastics their way out of it. EA needs to focus more on tractability of these problems and less on the bottomless pit if they want mass buy in. Because in the end donating to AMF doesn't actually feel that great when you it makes you realize hundreds of thousands of children are dying from preventable disease every year. It feels a lot better to pretend the problem doesn't exist so you can ignore the shame and focus on less important issues instead.