skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re in the Bay, or really any other major tech hub in the US, you should also factor the increased cost of rent or mortgage payments into that calculation. I’m lucky to be remote, but if I moved close enough to SF or the Valley to spend only $200/month on ride shares to the office, my mortgage would at least triple. This would far offset any savings in gas/insurance/maintenance.

I’m happy that you’ve found a good situation for yourself and I don’t mean to disparage it. I just don’t think the comparison you’ve made is quite complete.
I think much like cybersecurity there is no "solution". Moderation is a posture, not a result. You have to just stay on top of it or everything will tend towards 4chan given the chance.
That's nothing new. Employees can already have flexible hours and part-time employment.

The issue is that they're still considered employees which means predetermined shifts and control rather than fluid supply meeting demand by the minute. This changes the service (which matters more than the price for customers) so that it no longer works at the current scale.
> Yes, voters in the US want to give people education, healthcare, and unemployment (or basic income-ish) benefits.

> Voters in the US also don’t want to pay for any of this.

A wealth tax is pretty popular. And we spend a whole lot in health insurance premiums.

Oh, and we could cut our defense (offense) spending in half and still be spending a good bit more than China.
They're already losing money as is...
You’re joking right
Public transit in SF works well in some areas, not so well in others -- even making a single connection can add 30 - 45 minutes to your commute If you're going to the financial district or north SOMA, transit is usually viable, if you're going anywhere else, it's likely not so viable.

And this is a city that's only 7 miles wide -- I used to be able to bike downtown in less than than I spent waiting on the bus on most days (since I didn't just have to wait for one bus, I had to wait for a bus that wasn't already full to take on passengers)
It's not. That issue is tangential at best. If it was the crux of the issue here, you'd see many more companies going belly-up rather than pay for health insurance.

For this change, companies like Uber and Lyft will have to completely reorganize their internal systems, ranging from their relationships with drivers to their tooling for organizing their drivers.

They say things like "passengers would experience reduced service, especially in suburban and rural areas" when what they really mean is "lyft would have to pay drivers to be available in that area even when demand is low, and Lyft doesn't want to pay drivers to idle in low demand spaces". There are various solutions to this, but they would all cost Lyft and Uber money, and heaven forbid they not be able to pass those expenses onto others, such as drivers that would hang around those areas _without_ any compensation.

The real heart of the matter here is that 10 years ago Uber disrupted the taxi industry. Now that they're the incumbents, changes like these put Uber and Lyft in a position to be disrupted by newer companies that more easily adapt to regulatory changes, or possibly the taxi companies they disrupted a decade ago. What we're seeing now is Lyft taking drastic measures to try and enrage the public against these policies.

This is a kid throwing a tantrum because they aren't getting cake after refusing to their chores.
I don't think you need any hardware support for that. And notarization already exists on intel macs, just that it doesn't prevent you from launching non-notarized binaries.
For those of you who don't think in who/whom, note this comment well.

There are many, many people who think this way.
Its clearly what they do. The best example, a default sub TwoXChromosomes is full of blatant hate speech against half the species and its touted as a progressive bastion when its a different variation of The Donald.
Do you have a philosophical justification for that argument?
It was discussed in this article and a bit in the comments yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116
You can also ride a cab.
This perfectly nails the point.

In the old times, I could just pass at the newsstand while walking to the bakery at the start of my morning, drop a few coins, pick a paper or magazine and its done ... nobody would know what parts of the paper I read, for how log I focus on particular paragraphs, which pictures grab my attention, etc. neither will the newspaper owner know who I am, keep a history of what I am reading or follow me around my other shopping to add information to my profile.

Anonymous micropayments would be a excellent approach here. AFAIK Bitcoin never intended to solve this particular problem, maybe GNU Taler may work here (better yet: it's a payment system using Euros, Dollars, etc. not a wildly-floating new currency/asset).
Thanks for actually providing details on what was banned. A lot of those are fairly reasonable topics. The 'Watch reddit die' sub recently posted screenshots of gay subreddits banning conservative gays explicitly because they were conservative.
> Since there's no objective definition of "hate content", this is akin to them patting themselves on the back for outright censorship based on their own arbitrary definitions.

There's no objective definition of "tall", and yet it's still a useful adjective.
Pascal's Scams
SARS fizzled out, so we lost interest and funding was cut.
Medicare for all would create the largest insurance pool the US has seen. It makes absolutely no sense why that would raise the costs.
I really hope they are next in line. Hardware owned by users preventing the users to from whatever they want on it is stupid & dangerous.
Also poor mass transit.
Yes but its too many operations for such a simple problem. No need to overwork the system when two conditionals can solve the problem.
It is simpler if you use the notation [x]_a^b (i.e. with a subscript and a superscript b) to mean x, clipped to the range a to b, and skip writing +/- infinity if you don't intend clipping on one side.

Then you get a bunch of obvious identities like [x]^b = min(x, b) = [b]^x (x capped by b is the same as the smaller of x and b which is the same as b capped by x), [x]_a^b = [b]_a^x, and [x]_a^b = [[x]_a]^b. Putting these together you get [x]_a^b = [[x]_a]^b = min(max(x, a), b). But honestly it's just easier to stick to the notation most of the time.

A better write-up, for everyone who doesn't like reading new math notations inline:
https://imgur.com/gallery/593QEow (Imgur link with white background) https://quicklatex.com/cache3/71/ql_46c49ac709b3789482d0736d... (Original link - renders badly in Chrome due to PNG transparency)
If California had the weather of South Dakota no one would live there. California is the state version of being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...

"any executable must be signed with a valid signature before it’s allowed to run"
Well, OP was considering driving vs rideshare, so that's what I compared/contrasted. They never considered public transit, and continuing with their train of thought, neither did I. Seems like a reasonable perspective to take.

Public transit isn't an option for all people, particularly in low income communities, that have to get from home to work in rural and suburban areas. They aren't dense enough for public transit.
Next to the medieval town of Rottweil in southwestern Germany, there's the 246m tall thyssenkrupp tower.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Remote_views_o...

It was built a few years ago as test facility for elevators, but has also become wow a touristic attraction as it offers a publicly accessible platform.
Uber and Lyft are voluntarily suspending operations to make a political point; they are the ones kicking the little guy while they're down. The fact that these companies can spend 100 million to dismantle the outcome of the political process shows how little power the California government actually has.
The flexibility around time worked is contingent on flexibility around pay. Flexibility around pay is being banned.
Oh, of course Larry is a human. And a young one at that. Just look at how tight his face is. That's how you know how young a human person is... the tightness of their face skin. Just like the tight faces of other youthful humans.
The huge image, on a post as opposed to the home page, is already a huge indicator of narcissism.

The optimistic prediction that "geeks will inherit the Earth" is likely to be wrong:

https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

Stammbach worked with a colony of longtailed macaques. In the paper cited
above, the running header is "Responses to Specially Skilled Java
Monkeys." Stammbach took the lowest-ranking macaque out of the society and
taught him to operate a complex machine and obtain food. When the nerd
monkey was reintroduced to the society, the higher ranking macaques
stopped kicking him out of the way long enough for him to complete
operation of the machine and obtain food for the community. I.e., society
cooperated to create the conditions under which the nerd could toil for
them. However, the monkey who acquired these special skills and provided
for the society did not achieve any rise in his dominance status.

http://www.loper-os.org/pub/codemonkey.pdf
It seems buggy, typed numbers a = 18014398509481984, b = 1, and c = 1 and getting result "the sum of all inputs is 18014398509481984"
"lexicographically" is a better descriptor than "alphabetically", since it's sorting by UTF-8 code point value.
Do you want to kill your neighbors and rob the convenience store down the street?

If the government were to disappear right now and there were no more government-imposed consequences for doing so, would your answer to this question change?

Don't you think most people in society would answer the same way?
Or perhaps this is exactly what belief is.

Maybe in fact you are the consummate true believer.

To possess something to the point it is the total sum of your knowledge, would that be belief? Or would that merely be a lack. No belief is required when there is no alternative.

So let us then imagine how many people 'believe' in exactly this same way about human rights or freedom or democracy, and perhaps suddenly the state of the world at any given time becomes much clearer.
> I can't really find any word for "No amount of data is going to persuade them otherwise." than "idiot".

That's because you find the data persuasive. They don't. That in and of itself does not make them idiots.
You’re right. They must have added it between the last time I used Airbnb. BUT I just checked it and the total price they display doesn’t include occupancy taxes and fees (so I saw an example listing go $420->$501). They still don’t let you filter by total price, only exposing nightly rate for that filter. It’s definitely better than it was but still not ideal. In fairness it’s been so long since I booked a non-expenses hotel I don’t even remember if it’s customary to exclude occupancy taxes+fees from the sticker price there
Yeah, pretty much all of the best state economies are extremely liberal (1). I think the anti-tax sentiment on HN is from people who make a lot of money and then realize they have to pay taxes. They attribute their success entirely to themselves and then whine about giving anything back to the environment that enabled them. California certainly has giant problems but don't let it distract you from the big picture.

(1) https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/economy
Citibank has agreed to be the paying agent for the borrower. Literally every other payment received from the borrower came from citibank. Those checks can and should be cashed.

Similarly, the company servicing your mortgage may not own it. Doesn't matter, if you pay to them they need to reduce the mortgage balance (even though you didn't owe them specifically the money) and then carry out their responsibilities with lender.
Golang Learning Notes
You can't be a "taxi" without buying a medallion. They used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars since they were scarce enough. Again, bad government policy creating unnecessary hurdles.
I don't believe in pure functional programming anymore
Your example does not match the Uber/Lyft situation. They are free to stop driving at any time and are not stranded in a foreign land without vital identification.
Oh weird. I'll have to check on that. I was at 0-5% GPU usage maximized on an RTX2060 but CPU was just cranked. I tried minimizing it hoping it was just some startup process that caused an initial CPU burst, but when it didn't calm down and was causing everything else to come to a halt that I shut it down for the time being.
You see, when anything go wrong in the world it's Russia's fault:) Especially if someone loses some elections - blame Russia 100% of the time.
Do you know of any examples of companies that failed due to tech issues? I tried coming up with one, but I actually couldn't think of any
Converting someone to an employee means a lot more than just paying them more. There is entirely new infrastructure that has to exist now.
This is a bizarre statement considering it's Apple who kowtows to Chinese government and censors Chinese appstore and Epic's CEO was openly criticising China and refusing to censor Fortnite players when Blizzard started doing it.
Employees were always able to have flexible hours, there's nothing new about that. The major change is that employee classification means predetermined shifts.

Uber/Lyft will control when and where and how long work is. That changes everything about the service (which is what matters more than the price) and makes it nonviable outside of a few major urban areas.
IIRC modern consoles are at cost - do you have any linkable claims otherwise ?
Thanks for taking it a step further. I didn't think about that perspective but I could see it playing out that way.
Gmail and Fastmail were not linked in any way. I have had my Gmail account set up in MacOS for years. I added my Fastmail account. My system became unstable and all my Internet accounts started prompting for logins.
The amount of people making applications that aren't being distributed via the Apple App store is vanishingly tiny.
Thanks to our wonderful English language and the use of title case, I thought this headline was about countering or circumventing (foiling) the Electric Boat company - a manufacturer of submarines. The boat is cool, but I was hoping to see some anti-submarine warfare stuff here.
we can see our nose all the time, but our brain filters it out.

if you close one eye and keep the other open you'll suddenly see one side of your nose.
Unsafe versions of Rust std's conversion traits
Did it flourish before Uber/Lyft existed? It's not like human history started in 2010...
Get political news off HN. It's a slippery slope.
I think it's possibly actually different motivations. Trump wants to be re-elected because he's an egomaniac. Putin wants to be re-elected because his _best_ case for political retirement is being prosecuted.
I can think of a couple of possibilities:
1. Better control of specific python version. There are debian builds for python 3.5, 3.6, etc. + other more specific minor versions.
2. Better isolation from the system python
> There isn’t a specific identity requirement for this signature: a simple ad-hoc signature issued locally is sufficient, which includes signatures which are now generated automatically by the linker. This new behavior doesn’t change the long-established policy that our users and developers can run arbitrary code on their Macs

Ok, not really true.
Once peertube starts using distributed storage and goes onto I2P or other anonymous networks, I think paid services can kiss their asses bye bye. Good on battlepenguin to join the movement.
The legislation doesn't outright ban those things, but the economics won't work out at scale if Uber has to classify the drivers as employees.

Do you want low-commitment employment (from both sides) or do you want employee benefits. You can't have both.
I am not sure it is so simple mistake as a typo by a single employee , brigade was paid the exact amount they were owed principal + interest . It wasn’t some one’s transaction they got, they were instead paid early by mistake .

It is more like you dad who guaranteed your loan paid it off fully instead of paying only the monthly amount and now saying it was a mistake.

Administrator in this context is more a guarantor than facilitator .

Sure courts may say that your dad does get the money back, but it is not straightforward as you say, if you were that lender getting the money back from a likely defaulter , you surely won’t give it back unless the court says so.
Uber and Lyft aren't profitable, never have been and may never be. The idea is that if only you build a strong enough brand and network, somehow there will be money in it.

In the meantime, they'll operate at a loss. If they leave the California market, they'll simple lose money slower.
I was under the impression they're doing it because it'll be illegal for drivers to operate as contractors come tomorrow.
Well, on #2 I agreed with the court's analysis -- at least in how Lyft/Uber are operating now. These companies would not exist if not for being in the transportation business. It is a real stretch to divorce them from the aspect of cars driving -- that is their very business.

On #3, so companies would just ask the people driving whether "this is your customary line of work" and if you don't answer right, you're not allowed to drive? Or would there be some independent way this would be verified? Or is it up to the company to test how much risk they're willing to look the other way on?
> If you don't like the terms, don't buy them.

Do that. I do so as well. But as a rule for society it seldomly works. Too few people are willing or knowledgeable enough to withstand the lure of their individual short term benefit as opposed to the collective cost of their action. I mean, this very feature we are talking about is itself a protection of users against their short term desire: "Let me run this application, I want to see the dancing bunnies" [1] And people fail to do so, even though the downsides are personally and sometimes very immediate. They could research who distributes the file, calculate the trade-off between the remaining uncertainty and the expected reward and come to a rational decision. Or they could just click! Just accept those terms and conditions. Just enter their credit card number on the apple developer product page to get to what they want. And that's what most people do most of the time.

It's for this coordination and collective bargaining problem that we need to regulate the shit out of anything that reaches a certain size.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dancing-bunnies-problem/
To be fair it was a complicated time for doctors, suicide after being burned at work for a extremely stressing pandemy time was not ruled out. Newspapers will choose the most outrageous possibility, but nobody seems to be analyzing the possibility that (some of) those were a real suicide.
It's all the same really: If your bank screwed up and 10x paid your mortgage, would you be happy to just stump up that cash or would you expect the error to be reversed? Is it reasonable for you to have 10 mortgage payments just sat around or would that payment cause you massive problems as you would have no money at all for food or fuel or taxes for quite a while?
I'm either guilty of having this mindset myself and unaware of it, or I'm unable to empathise with this mindset. But this link is approximately what I was looking for. Thank you.

I would like to find an introspective writer who is also an authoritarian.
The Nazi faction, led by Hitler actually 'won' the election because their party got the most votes, but not enough to have an absolute majority so they were going to have to make some kind of coalition.

A similar thing could easily happen today.
I live in California and I think the state government does things that make it better and worse at the same time. Look many many laws that we take for granted origin from California. For example, SF was the first city to start granting marriage licenses to LGBT couples. Now most states follow that rule. CA was first to implement mileage requirements. Now many states follow that rule. CA was first to subsidize clean air vehicles. Now it is common across the nation. CA was ahead with medical marijuana and recognizing the role of marijuana as recreational. So it seems like government is making it worse, CA legislature is always pushing the limits and seems worse because it is the first one to do so. I bet that there will be some middle ground in the gig economy due to this law, which will become the model for the rest of the country.

That said, this particular bill is pretty bad
IIRC they already support Windows, Linux and Mac.

Would not be that much of a stretch to support also Android.
> Compilers can generate two versions of code

From what? Automatic vectorization is very limited, it’s only good for pure vertical algorithms.

> and dynamically choose depending on CPU capabilities

Only Intel compiler does that, the rest of them don’t.

Sometimes I ship multiple versions of binaries. Other times I do runtime dispatch myself, it’s only couple lines of code, __cpuid() then cache some function pointers, or abstract class pointers. It’s even possible to compile these implementations from the same C++ source, using templates, macros, and/or something else.
They are more closely related than you think. Flat-earth is actually a natural conclusion from the assumption of Biblical inerrancy (e.g. 1Sm2:8, Mat4:8, Isa11:12).
you dont get vacation days.
you re not paid for national holidays off days.
you dont get sick days.

you may say it’s what contract is. but without me being able to see where to drive, whom to drive and set price as I wish, without affecting my rating - it’s just talk.