skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a 100" projector screen earlier. If you mostly settle down to watch movies & more "theatrical" shows later at night, I highly recommend a projector. Also great for FPS gaming, the huge screen activates your peripheral vision in a very different way.

If you're looking to catch 20 minutes of a show every now and then, while doing other things, with lights on, or you're trying to fill a void with daytime television, look elsewhere.
> Nobody’s discussing an amendment here

Yes they are, the comment above me has this:

> I don't know how more unambiguous the framers could get than "shall not be infringed".

That's the second amendment, is it not?
Fair enough, thanks for the data!
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Those datasets appear to be US-only, which wouldn't apply to Melbourne?
I think you should check your math again.

155,200mph = 69,380 m/s

At 1g acceleration (10m/s/s) that is 6,938 seconds.
6,938 seconds is like 2 hours.

A ship that can sustain 1g acceleration continuously for periods measured in hours, that would indeed be an interplanetary drive. Sustain that for days/weeks/months and it will take us to other stars.
In my words, because I agree: We are all entangled and entrenched in our self-interests and group interests, and cannot undermine the profit motive or the need to win. Scientists are just players in a vast field of this entrenchment who do not always get the last word, nor win, nor able to always stick strictly to the science to begin with.
That is grossly misleading because one of those things is very much not like the others.

Ships measure fuel in tons per hour. It only takes a few hundred transport ships to put out as much pollution as every car on the planet and there are hundreds of thousands of them with their collective output dwarfing cars and trucks combined by several orders of magnitude.

If we really wanted to cut transportation pollution fast, we'd internationally mandate turbosails on all transport ships as current models cut fuel consumption by 25% or more.

Stepping aside from ships, big rigs are the overwhelmingly biggest NOx contributors (even beating out industrial and power plants).

Stepping back though, transportation in ALL its forms still only contributes around 1/4 of the US greenhouse emissions.
I think there needs to be rules about orbital distance. Low earth orbit satellites like Starlink aren't risky because their orbit decays rapidly without constant boosts. Its the perfect failsafe.

The only reason to use higher orbits is to save money on satellites and complex communication systems. Orbits that allow space junk to hang around for centuries should be banned.
Yes, you can locate even passive antennas by broadcasting a wide-band signal and looking at the reflected spectrum. It's way easier if you know the frequency that the antenna is tuned to.
Back when I had to work be on call there was a minimum number of hours, so if I got a call at 2am from a client and I fixed the problem in 15 minutes I would still bill both them and the company for 2 hours. Not sure if there's a law mandating this or it was just the company policy.
Hole Flow Theory is weird.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/semiconductors/chp...
Well... for me it seems a bit silly. Abstract interpretation as part of formal methods requires mathematical rigor (albeit some of it quite simple and intuitive) but interpretation I’d argue is up to the interpretator.
I know someone dealing with this shenanigans right now, they sent two bills, which he paid, and then figured it was all sorted.

Many months later, he finds out that they later sent two more bills to the address where he lived in middle school, never called him about it, and then referred them to debt collection because of course he hadn't paid them. He found out about this when the debts showed up on his credit monitoring.

Now they're denying that he gave them his current address, despite the fact that he has multiple other bills with earlier dates where the hospital has printed the correct address on them.

tldr: America's medical billing is an absurd shitshow
A couple of years ago, the Quebec government introduced additional restrictions on ridesharing companies. Uber got up on their soapbox and said they were pulling out of Quebec. The government called their bluff and basically said "Okay, bye" and Uber backpedaled. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens here.
> Ok - so we can't afford to pay people for their work any more

We can afford to pay people, but the problem here is that it's not just me paying you a bit of money to cover your gas, insurance, mechanics, and time; it's also me paying for tens of thousands of employees and cloud datacenters and all the rest to connect me to you. That's a lot of overhead, and it's duplicated by virtue of multiple companies being in the mix doing the same thing.

Also, it was never really supposed to be a career - it was supposed to be something you could do on your way to work to help subsidize your own commute. Making a career out of a side job is certainly one's own choice, and I don't want to get in the way of that, but... are people getting benefits and guaranteed hours for busking, or being a living statue? Are people guaranteed a certain minimum pay for their lemonade stand?
> MFS2020 can simulate an aircraft that was partially damaged after colliding with an obstacle, but a catastrophic crash will just fade to black... Lame.

It’s a simulator, not a video game. What would be more realistic than this?
Assuming that what Lyft is saying about "4 out of 5 drivers don't support" is accurate, that would seem to imply that this is also about giving flexibility to all the people who are only driving 5 hours a week to pick up some spare pocket change. Which is the model for how this would mostly work that is invoked by the word "rideshare."

I do see a potential problem here of the interests of people who do this as their job being unnecessarily put into direct conflict with the interests of people who don't do this as their job.
I personally liked the Hyperion duo better, but found all 4 books to be incredible.

As for Ringworld, I didn't enjoy it, but would be willing to give Niven another try if given a strong and specific recommendation. Maybe something that has more of a plot. Wandering around a big empty construction in space where nothing happens didn't really do it for me.

The author of this list and I seem to have very similar tastes. Most of his favorites are mine as well. The only favorite of mine that comes to mind as being left off this list is Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It's also striking that he hasn't listed any of the Culture series by Iain Banks.
Also while turning your head you don’t really see, but your brain pieces things together and plays an image of what it thinks you should see.
> A bill that has to rely primarily on exemptions is no bill at all.

Exemptions are a leading indicator of ineptness or corruption.
Do you mean "solid state" or "steady-state?"
I'm a bit more hesitant to cheer on fraud.
You're missing the point. Sci-fi isn't about technology, it's about imagining life and existence from a non-earth non-human perspective. Also, Bayta Darell is a very central character with a significant role.
And remember that you have to bleed most of that speed off before entering orbit. Even with aerobraking most orbiters try to slow down to ~2km/s before hitting the atmosphere. Hitting the Martian atmosphere at 32miles per second wouldn't be an acceptable plan in KSP, let alone in real life.
Great, if this business is not feasible without workers rights, then it's not feasible business.
Yeah, they're just saying that these are the conditions they'd choose to impose and hoping people will believe they're mandated by the state. I see this kind of bait and switch a lot.
California's far left policies?

When did California eliminate private property? When did it hand over the means of production to the proletariat?

Last I checked, capitalism was alive and well in California, which is the dearly beloved home of the most successful capitalist entities and richest people on the planet.

If California's policies really were far left, all those companies would be owned and run by their workers, and no one would be richer than anyone else.

But that's not California, is it?
Sorry I meant no one is forcing them to work for Lyft/Uber. Everyone who decided to work for Lyft and Uber because it made their life better. Would they have made that same choice if they had a trust fund that met all their basic needs? Probably not.

> This is entirely anecdotal, on top of the fact that "raising children" or "having a medical condition" should not be an excuse to be denied economic stability and benefits.

Yes I'm using anecdotes from talking with Uber drivers, which isn't as good as a study. But it is better than what you are doing which is speculating. Have you had the experience that almost all of your Uber drivers were hoping for full time employment, with a boss, and working on a set schedule?

This bill will completely change what a job looks like for Uber and Lyft. People choose to work for Uber and Lyft for the flexibility that accommodates different life circumstances not for the pay. This bill will destroy that flexibility, it will improve the lives of a small % of Uber and Lyft's drivers who want to work full time and get benefits from Lyft and Uber. But this will worsen the lives of everyone who works there precisely because of the flexibility.
I wish all the energy spent on introducing business-have-to-provide-this and business-have-to-provide-that laws were invested in getting public healthcare and more affordable housing.
It's one that people often brush aside as "you made that choice when you got an iPhone" or "at least that prevents scamming apps and low-quality apps" but both of those don't seem right to me. For the first one, criticising a product while owning it isn't illegitimate. You can like a product for its strength but still see its incredible flaws. For the second one, this doesn't account for tens of great apps we miss out on because they just won't make it on AppStore's rules.
I live outside of the USA. I used to take our electric rail system all the time. Haven't touched it since January and won't go back till next year. Have fallen in love with driving and the personal convenience of it all over again.

Even when the pandemic is over, I might end up driving more often than before. It's so nice to know that I can just stay somewhere until I want to leave, to know that I can go wherever I want at whatever time, without having to worry about coordinating it with anyone else. Profoundly enabling, even as it is sickeningly individualist.
> Whether it's true or false doesn't enter in to the debate.

Yes it does matter in the debate.

Because when we are passing laws, we should care about both the pros and the cons of a particular policy.

You can feel free to say that the pros outweight the cons for these laws, but you still need to recognize that shutting down ride sharing is a con of these laws.

Those are the drawbacks of these laws, and it is OK for people to care about these drawbacks, and bring them up into the debate.
Isn't this like saying if X is an axiom and you can prove Y via X, you shouldn't trust Y is true because you can't prove X is true?

What systems for determining the truth exist that aren't built on top of some fundamental axioms?
I think Citibank should be returned all the money they paid minus the owed regular loan payment.

I also have no sympathy for them, and this seems like karmic retribution for how they treated funds, retail investors, and mortgage holders during the financial crisis of 2008.
I mean, if your business model is predicated on violations of the law, maybe you aren't a viable business as currently structured, and should restructure to be in compliance with the law?
It is moral to care more about those your life is linked with only to the extent that it allows you to remain productive.
Now imagine that some sci-fi novels have no women in it at all. Or men for that matter. The nerve of the authors!
Labor is most of the cost of the burger, whether it’s the labor to sell it, the labor to cook it, the labor to transport it, the labor to butcher/harvest it, the labor to tend to it prior to butcher/harvest, etc. And the expense of ALL of that labor will inevitably increase causing the price of goods to increase causing the price of labor to increase and so on...
Sunrise Movement
That's a separate problem, his kids should be taken away if he's endangering them.
Bradbury & Vonnegut if you are gonna stay in the same time period. Delaney, PKD and Gene Wolfe are my favorites of all time, they are 10-20 years later but I think they raise social and philosophical issues that resonate to this day.

I liked the foundation books its just always been a pet peeve that Foundation, Enders Game, and Hitchhikers Guide are always listed as greatest of all time. They are super enjoyable books but not like... what I would choose to represent the genre.
> 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.

1. Accessibility doesn't just benefit wheel-chair bound people. Accessibility benefits just about anyone who has temporary difficulty walking, is carrying heavy or bulky things, is out with children, is not fully sober, etc, etc, etc.

2. NYC may indeed be a special case, because of the poor design of existing subway stations, and the difficulty of rebuilding them in the middle of Manhattan. I don't think this sort of thing would generalize to other locales.
Host in my closet or basement with a one-way data flow. In only, not out.
But I think if Uber and Lyft are required to pay their employees an hourly rate they would then require them to respond to every page for their scheduled shift.
> who wouldn't prefer a private air-conditioned taxi over 100 ˚F subway platforms?

When it's prohibitively expensive to take private air-conditioned taxi.

If taxi is, as you said, both cheaper and provides a better experience, why not? Are we torturing people just for your poetic justice?
The truth is not enough. It needs promoting and needs to be fought for. But the best paid promoters and fighters can win regardless of how true anything is, allowing those with the power and money to select the truth that suits them. And rarely are scientists good fighters.
If this is really the case (and I have my doubts) then wouldn't the two companies just create a joint employment pool by subcontracting out their workers to a third party which handled all the benefits and such and passed the necessary costs on to Uber & Lyft?
So what you're saying is that surveys with statistically significant numbers or respondents are not as important as the anecdotal evidence that comes with talking to a handful of people.

I don't drive often- I use public transit and lyft. I have talked to drivers, and most of them are pissed that their wages are dropping every year but they can't do things like unionize as they aren't "real employees". My anecdotal evidence, which you value so highly, lines up with what I've been saying.

> Employee classification means preset shifts

This is factually wrong. California doesn't have any law requiring "shifts". It does have a law saying that companies which enforce shifts (such as saying someone needs to be in the office from nine to five) give a minimum of four hours pay if they send people home early, but that's a huge difference from what you're saying.

There are tons of examples of this too- "work from home data entry" is a big field in California, and while they often have deadlines they rarely schedule specific shifts.
Before Uber/Lyft existed, the taxi experience sucked. Uber/Lyft provided:

- A way to pre-pay

- A way to communicate current location and destination clearly to driver

- All from an intuitive app on your phone

I'm guessing you never went to NYC, tried in vain to find a taxi when you needed one, then got a taxi driver who barely spoke English, tried to communicate where to go, ended up paying way more than you intended?
Ah, I see - for clarity I'd rename them FASTEST_POLL_RATE -> SHORTEST_POLL_PERIOD or store them in Hz rather than seconds, so everything was 1/ in that little snippet. Thanks for clearing up my confusion :)
Mainframe stack is very simple COBOL-Db2, online will be CICS-COBOL-Db2, batch is JCL, COBOL with sorts dfsort or syncsort, SAS, much modern will be COBOL/JAVA with Db2 Queue replication. Scripting language mostly REXX.

Last 3 years, lots of things are happening, more offloads to zIIP than General CP. In terms of applications more and more Db2 Queue replication for the time monitoring. CDC target being Kafka, IDAA for analytics and after acquisition of RHEL, now I see admins, sysprogs installing Spark, Anaconda, Jupyter in mainframe.

Usually in mainframe for detecting frauds, it used to be rule based now some companies are planning for machine learning in mainframe and be close to source and detect frauds.

Only thing mainframe cannot support is Deep learning as that requires GPU, no GPU here.

Anyones companies already started ML and spark in mainframe and what's your experience till now.
All that is true, but remember that we're operating within the realm of legal terminology here.

What the word "employee" means within the context of California labor laws is probably quite different from what we understand it to mean in everyday conversation. What one can imagine might work in an abstract sense may not be even remotely possible within California's legal framework. What is known to already happen and work well in other states isn't necessarily possible in California, either. (At least not without getting the legislature involved.)
That seems like a reasonable thing to change in the law
Interesting to see the CEO salaries. I'm having a hard time thinking about what I would find reasonable, but the all too common 400k/year definitely not.
There are many different ways to be disabled. Some people get around in wheelchairs and will be fine wherever there are elevators. Other people (including all of us as we get older) need personal assistance door-to-door. There's a spectrum of inclusion, and I don't think "whatever the cost" acknowledges that.
Both of those examples aren't similar at at all.

Your freelance tutoring is not employer/employee work. You're a freelancer. You set your own hours and rates.

Lawyers do not work for multiple law firms, choosing which firm to work for as they see fit. Whereas drivers very often work for both Lyft and Uber (and Postmates or Grubhub, etc) at the same time.
"I don't get the downvotes: everyone needs to remember why do we get into these situations."

If you want to politicize it across party lines, then it's also worth considering that the primary reason drivers are seeking employment is to get healthcare. This type of situation wouldn't even come up in Australia or the UK, yet republicans have fought against universal healthcare for decades.

Just posting stats of governors in Cali is dramatically simplifying the issue.
As someone who has recently been asked a ton of questions, this list is gold. Especially the last one.

One I’d add is to give enough context to make your question answerable. “What programming language should I learn?”. Dude, I don’t know you. My answer is going to be a lot more about me than you and not very helpful.
Unreal Engine (and Unity) can target HTML5 / WebAssembly. I expect the main issue is the download size of the assets.
Why can’t pay taxes to an entity I prefer? Isn’t it a service? So, if some entity can give me healthcare, I will pay them

If everything is free market, why do we need government?

I know the answer, do you?
That's if it's illuminated by the sun. Blast it with a 500MW space-based laser and you'll up the tempo.
One of the closest, anyway. Yeah, most distant objects observed are over 10 billion years "in the past".
Democratic elected leaders get to decide a fair wage because they are democratically elected leaders.

In terms of motivation a democratically elected leader motivated by the interests of their constituents is a better Stewart of the minimum wage than an un-elected boardroom whose primary motivation is investor value not the quality of life of the citizenry.
There are rights in the United States: life, liberty, safe working environments.

But there is no right to a business model.

Lyft is a business model that found a loophole in a previously regulated business and was able to combine a technology upgrade with a way to pay substandard compensation. That legislators closed this loophole is not a surprise. The exact legislation will never be perfect, and will probably not be changed if it is "good enough".
I don't see it. I read it twice and tried searching for "unsustainable" and "dismantle". Could you point out where you said that exactly?
This shouldn't have been downvoted. it's 100% accurate and the grandparent post's pivoting from one topic to another is a classic bad debate tactic.
You cannot install Fortnite skins/characters/emotes/etc without paying Epic. Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite Store.

It sounds pretty ridiculous to type that... but it's the same basic argument. Apple is a minority player in the smartphone market. Every single person on this (HN) site has a competitive alternative if they don't like Apple policies. If it should be illegal for Apple to have a monopoly on their own product then it stands to reason that it should be illegal for Epic to have a monopoly on their own product.
I think tech problems are under-represented.

The thing about tech problems is that they don't show up as tech problems unless they are really bad. They usually show up in lack of product-market fit, lack of adoption, high turnover, and difficulty with sales and marketing.

For example if you chose Electron for your app and put no effort whatsoever into slimming down what you are running inside, users might decide they don't want to use your app because it uses too much CPU and RAM. If you use a slow database as your SaaS app/site's backend, your site will be slow and users might bounce during trial. If you pick an unwieldy, bug-prone, or weird (a.k.a. hard to hire) technology you might experience a slow development cycle and find it hard to build enough features or fix enough problems.

Most of the time people won't tell you these things. They'll just move on. Some of them are subconscious, like performance issues. The app just doesn't "feel" good, it's not a pleasure to use, etc.

If you are trying to sell shit on a stick, your problem may not be marketing... but you can always blame it on marketing! If your stack makes your development cycle slow, maybe you're not finding product-market fit because you're hiking through the woods with an elephant strapped to your back.

Good tech choices are fundament. They enable everything else to work well. You need everything else of course... good tech alone won't cut it. But the rest of your company's operations are going to flounder if they are not properly equipped or if the product sucks.
Pascal's Scam
It doesn't need to be mandated by the state. If the employer states that you cannot work for their competitor during your shift, then that is an enforceable term of employment (and FWIW, a very reasonable one that no one would bat an eyelid for in virtually any field of employment).

For example, if you were employed by Lyft as a driver, then presumably you would be neglecting your job duties if you refused to pick up a customer on the grounds that you happen to be driving a Uber customer at the time.
$3 sounds like an extremely short ride. Either that, or they were subsidizing a lot more back then. In Austin, over the past few years I've used use lyft occasionally to get to or from work and it was typically $6-$9 for a 1.6 mile trip that typically lasted 6-8 minutes.