skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also enjoyed it but I'm not sure I'd call it "data-driven" when the author puts "data" in scare-quotes:

> Disclaimer: the interviews are qualitative, even though the founders were asked similar questions, they weren’t asked to fill out a survey, so to gather the “data” I had to interpret their words and put them into boxes.

Points for being up-front about that, though.
I disagree with what you claim is a "leash". Have you ever driven for Uber? They have already made tweaks to give drivers more control over their fares and you always had control over when and where you work, along with which ride you accept.

More importantly these definitions are decades old and need updating for the modern era. The better solution would be to create a new classification between employee and freelance.
If you had commodity full self driving, how could a human compete at almost any price point? You can run the car all day and night. Lack of this legislation didn't stop factory automation. I can't help but think this is a bad take.
No one would work when you wanted them to work unless you make them. Would you work a busy Friday night dealing with drunk people and missing your friends when you could get the same money for doing nothing on a Tuesday morning?
And to Scot Young: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scot_Young#Death

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-1...
I haven’t used that one since Uber and Lyft were briefly shut down in Austin. Didn’t realize it was still a thing.

How does it compare?
> I'd even filter them out for manufacturing or fast food work.

Barking insanity. You've just suggested sending people with completely harmless beliefs to the gulag. Either that or starving them to death; feel free to clarify how you expect these people to live. What would you consider appropriate treatment for people with what you consider actively "harmful" beliefs? Pull their fingernails out until they agree?

Intolerant assholes who would cashier harmless nincompoop flat earthers are the ones who should be unhirable outside of shoveling holes in the ground and scrubbing pots and pans: nobody wants a tin pot fascist in a management chain -for liability reasons if nothing else. This level of intolerance for nonconforming beliefs would have suggested burning Giordano Bruno or Galileo at the stake for their heresies in a different era, for precisely the same "reasons."
This is an interesting idea. Is this an unintended consequence of binding health insurance to your employment?

According to the NYT: "During World War II, federal wage controls prevented employers from wooing workers with higher pay, so companies started offering health insurance as a way around the law. Of course, this form of nonmonetary compensation is still pay. When the war ended, the practice stuck."

I would much rather have a system where I was paid more and got to choose my health insurance provider. That way I could keep my insurance when I change jobs or if I wanted to freelance.

I run a company that helps software engineers find contract work, and the #1 question we get is "how much should I charge?". The #2 question is "what do I do for health insurance?"

It would seem like businesses brought this on themselves by offering benefits to get around compensation limits imposed by the government. Or you could say that this was caused by the government imposing limits on compensation. Super interesting to think that the root cause of our current problem could have been created 80 years ago.
Without scheduled shifts, drivers will purposefully all sign up for the same shift to induce supply overflow.
In this situation, drivers can game the flexibility of the system to collect a paycheck while sitting in their cars doing nothing.

Even if drivers don't game the system, there will always be natural imbalance between supply and demand. Surge bonuses can mitigate this imbalance, but scheduling shifts is the more economically efficient way to solve the imbalance problem (hence why they say schedule flexibility will no longer be a feature in a driver employment model).
Can you give an example where Russia is portrayed unfairly?
Classic case of /r/politics where if you say anything negative about Israel (the state and its government) then you are automatically flagged and banned as an antisemite
Lot of my friends who work in non tech jobs use driving for Uber or Lyft as a way to either get a little extra cash, or bridge themselves across gaps in employment.

This would devastate them. Absolutely heartless move on behalf of the California government. Don’t kick the little guys while they’re down to make some political point. It’s not the time.
I would think so, no more running multiple apps as a driver if you're employed.

Because the pool of drivers for a particular company would be massively reduced as well, driver down-time between rides on their platform may be expected to significantly decrease, which was a major reason for running multiple apps in the first place. Basically the remaining drivers will essentially partition themselves into two pools, driving exclusively for either Uber or Lyft. I'm not saying anything about whether that's good or bad, but it seems a likely outcome.
Well, NaN boxing/NuN boxing would also allow you to more densely encode algebraic data type variants in statically typed languages in the case where at least one variant is a IEEE-754 double, some of the variants are references/pointers, and none of the variants take more than 8 bytes.

Granted, it's not a common use case. Neither Rust nor OCaml use this space optimization, but they could. OCaml (at least used to, back in the early 2000s) made the maximum tuple/object size smaller in other to have some bits (8 bits, IIRC) to store the variant in the object header. I'm not actually sure how Rust decides how many bits to dedicate to encoding the variant, and I have very little knowledge of GHC internals.

I'm a big fan of Rust (and to some extent, C++), but there's a ton of CPU time being spent on JavaScript execution worldwide.
The theory was that some large percentage of population is either immune or at least significantly more resistant to covid. Do once the initial 20% get it the other 50-% are resistant so you get your 70% number that way
Great. But I have been programming since about Math.min(Math.max(n, 1900), 1985 - 1)
Why do people keep confusing this with employment? This is like a mortgage! It was a loan that Brigade gave to Revlon. It's not like Brigade was doing work for Revlon.
Logically, you're 100% correct. But I don't think most folks will reason it that way. Do you think a senior citizen will follow that reasoning? And then how will they contact the provider? What is the provider doesn't respond (for the case of simple refund request)?
1) If you're refinancing a loan, you do not pay off the old one until you have the new one. This is not only common sense, but typically before you get the new loan, you don't have funds to pay off the old one even if you wanted to.

2) Revlon did not make this payment. The payment was made in error by Citibank, and Revlon was not part of it.

The conjecture of "Revlon made a bad decision and is now trying to back-track", while technically _possible_ sounds like a conspiracy theory.
"But it would have been cool to have a summary video of one day/night cycle, travelling around the world, maybe at 10x-100x acceleration."?
I think it's reasonable for a government to crack down on businesses where the entire operational structure is designed to subvert that government's tax code and regulations.
UserVoice is basically just a platform that companies (like Oculus) can use to manage customer requests.

If Oculus didn't want UserVoice, they wouldn't have signed up for it.
They volunteer they aren't forced. It looks good and is legitimately bad ass.

I worked with a bunch prisoners as part of a probation before judgment deal ( not in ca though) and a lot of them are bored and will volunteer for all types of stuff
You can see how much harder it is to ban an app on Android compared to iOS since anyone can install an apk they download from a random website (or from a third-party App Store).

Whereas now, if the government tell Apple to remove an app from their App Store worldwide then it’s pretty much impossible for anyone to download it. In the past I don’t think the CCP minded - in fact, they were probably happy about it since it made it much easier to censor apps they didn’t like. Whereas now they’re freaking out since they risk having all their apps blocked from all Apple devices worldwide.
Hopefully the companies and government can come to a middle ground that solves both problems. There are quite a few people that drive for supplemental income and don't need all the stuff that the law is now requiring, and there are some people that do it full time and would benefit from the perks of a more traditional full time job.

The bummer is, as usual, the policy makers aren't seeing the nuance between the two and now drivers have to suffer the consequences and lost wages until the dust settles. Either the politicians are ignorant, or they're willfully ignoring the facts. Honestly neither would surprise me, it is CA after all :)
A while ago this[0] hosting solution of blackblaze b2 and cloudflare workers looked interesting. I believe it uses a aws s3 compatible api[1].

[0]: https://jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-...
[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/backblaze-b2-and-the-s3-compatib...
The accusation is in the other direction, that some people aren't being censored despite saying equally obnoxious things. I've seen quite a few popular and non-censored Reddit comments talking about "Rethuglicans", or explaining that huge swaths of the population are irredeemably evil.
Bullshit. Hardly 100 were active of the 7k.

And they say hate speech against majority (which spez implied as straight white men) is not 'hate speech'.
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Would Lyft/Uber stop operations in CA in the long term? Or is this just a ploy to get people to vote for their proposition? It seems silly to leave money on the table.
Behold California! master of the Pyrrhic victory. Now we have more unemployment claims for CA to process. I'm sure they'll get right on that.
Totally agreed! I, for one, wouldn't have gotten into iOS at all if it wasn't for jailbreak, and I was jailbreaking peoples iPhone and iTouches in way back in elementary school, so I guess I have to thank you for that! I think a way to bridge the gap is to sell both a locked down and an unlocked iPhone, and allow users to go to an Apple Store to unlock their phones. That way, casual users won't risk unlocking their phones without knowing what they're getting into.

LG does a similar thing with factory unlocked phones - you can contact their support, agree to a disclaimer, and get a bootloader unlock, if you are in Europe or the Middle East.
Why does it avoid the problem?

> Over billions of years a contracting scale factor brings everything a bit closer, but not all the way down to a point. The dramatic change comes from the Hubble radius, which rushes in and eventually becomes microscopic

All the matter of universe at a microscopic radius? That doesn't avoid the problem.
Just my humble opinion, but it seems Medicare for all would only exacerbate the actual problem of medical costs being too high due to government subsidization. I'll take my down votes and go now...
There's no moral obligation to do the maximum possible good. A moral system that describes people who selflessly do good as immoral is a bad system.
If it makes you feel any better; same thing happened to me. Ugly Frankenstein process to get our data out of a third party vendor who can only e-mail us reports failed half-way through its run, and I was about to spend hours digging through to see why until I saw this.
Loose project deadlines are driving my anxiety to the wall
I work in a DevOps consulting firm. I am a part of a team that is working with a client that is a startup riddled with financial problems because of lack of funding since past ~6 months. I have had some form of anxiety since I was a child and I have come to realize it even strongly since I have been working in this field for a past couple of years, mostly with startups. Every week, my manager has a meeting with the CTO of the startup and comes up with these deadlines without consulting me first. We then have discussion around the deadlines. Which goes something like this

Scenario A: When the deadlines are super tight for me, like I will most likely have to work the weekend type, he will message on our internal slack channel tagging the CEO of our company and asking us to work because of reasons like, hey guys this is really important for them, their business is dependent on us etc.,

Scenario B: When I think the deadlines come out of nowhere as in I know just as little about this as the manager. This is a new thing for everyone. He then comes up with this random deadline that sounds quite tight after discussion with the CTO and discusses this with us. He first tries to convince us as to how this isn't as difficult as it looks with factual information and then closes it with something like this "I think this is totally doable".

Scenario C: When there are no deadlines so to speak and everything is chill. He won't bother us.
This might not be the case here but I notice that CA often creates laws that are unrealistic and don't work. So while I don't have the data in this case it would not surprise me if true.
In the bay area, I think reliance on public transit and Uber/Lyft is common enough to be the case for "the average person" in that area.

Last I heard, public transit had greatly reduced service in San Francisco, but I'm not sure of the current status.
Nah r/politics is completely unhinged. I have rarely seen that level of vitriol anywhere else on reddit, even on Trump subs. This isn't just about ideas, this is about how people behave and talk. It's surreal.
This is a tired argument. Please name the abusive conditions that actually apply here.

AB5 affects more than just ridesharing too. Many writers, artists and other creative professionals are suffering as well. What abuse are they affected by?
[Continued...]

PROBLEM 1

Scenario A so far has almost always culminated into us delivering what they asked but they did not use it for like until weeks after that and when I brought this up with my manager, he told me he was just as surprised as us. He did not expect that. And sure enough, I think he's a good guy and most probably isn't lying but the problem isn't solved. We still have to deal with the same problem over and over again. It has gotten to the point that my manager and me both kind of know that this might be one of those fake deadlines but the problem is, he always follows his usual process of tagging the CEO and asking us to work extra with a "sorry". I think the apology is genuine but I am just fed up with it at this point. I have days filled with anxiety and I can't get just shut off my work from my thoughts at all unless I am doing something that really engages me but when that engaging thing (say talking to a friend over the phone) ends, it slowly creeps back in again. It has gotten to the point that I fear every day of the week because it might be one of those days when the fake tight deadline would drop and my manager would ask us to work extra and apologize to us in the daily internal meeting but still want us to do it.

PROBLEM 2

Scenario B has been a recurring problem for me because of anxiety. There have been times when Scenario B has gone close to Scenario A because of my own anxiety and overthinking.

I think Problem 1 worsens Problem 2 for me.

Here are the possible options I have thought of so far
1. Ask my manager to switch me to a different project and push for it. One thing I believe will miss in this is the work, which I think is quite interesting if not for issues mentioned above. Also, if I transfer projects there's a chance that another project might turn out similar or even worse if I don't get a choice. Pro for this would be, I might actually get into a project which would offer the same level of interesting problems without unreasonable deadlines for my anxious self.

2. Search for a different job. This is something I have been thinking of on and off for some time now but I like the company I am working at right now. Pros for switching the job might be higher pay and I will probably look for a remote working position which would help me continue working from home even after COVID ends.

3. Consult a Psychologist/Psychotherapist for my anxiety which I am planning to do anyway.

What can I do to solve Problem 1 at least? Any advice, suggestions or alternatives would be really helpful because at this point I am just tired of facing the same anxiety filled day after day to the point it is starting affect my mental health and my behavior towards the people around me.
This is going to have knock on effects on other small businesses.

For example, now that it is out of warranty I get my car serviced at an independent garage and use Lyft when I drop it off and pick it up.

Public transport would turn the 30 minutes that takes into into 2.5 hours.

The alternative is to use the dealership, who charge more and I don’t want to support, but provide a courtesy car so I don’t waste much of a day on the process.

There must be thousands of routine interactions like this where people bake the availability of ride share into their decision making.
This is a complete aside, but what are some examples of other acquisitions that have lived on as well as Youtube after they were bought? I mean, there is of course that time when Apple was taken over by Next. What are some other standout acquisition survivals?
DMV is offering appointments again in many locations.

I feel your pain though... living in SF made it a little too easy to just ignore the DL thing, and then I moved to Europe and lived in big cities with excellent public transportation.

Now that I'm finally doing it I'm kicking myself for not just getting it done years ago even if I might not have used it much.
Experimental evidence supportive of the quantum DNA model
An unlimited use trolley/bus pass is $150/month in my city. Suppose I spend $200/month on gas/insurance/maintenance. The marginal cost of having commutes that take half as much time, to me, is worth it. Otherwise, you could be spending 30 more hours a month commuting to save $50.
True but the problem is that it mandates presence-based earnings (by the hour) and not output-based. That is the reason it does not work with the model Uber & Lyft built.

Obviously, Lyft and Uber could've anticipated this and could've decided months ago to work on an alternative. Instead they let it come to a head and now they are trying to a dramatic PR push to get the law changed.
They need them because they all have their dependencies that they need to manage separate from this project. A client may need to plan training, transitions, budgets, deprecation of old systems, etc.
Very few (like just a hundred) were active. Rest were quarantined or too small. banned due to having the name 'Trap' or 'Fragile' in the sub name
inLimits(lowerBound, Val, upperBound)
Do you have a similar "love it or leave it" attitude when people complain about America? Not very Californian of you.
I swear people forget how Uber got popular in the first place.
I wouldn't be so sure, more likely people who make money of it are all BS masters.

Leader of the 'movement' selling books, youtube ads etc.

I had only once a pleasure to talk with flat earther, and apart from his flat theories, his view of how world works could be called... interesting, if not naive.

It reminded me of conversation with my primary school friends (back when we were 10), we tried to invent invisibility cloak by mixing 'chemicals' like sulpher, mercury and melted titanium (since those were the coolest substances we come up with) and coat a cloth with it. Kids stuff.

That was when we were around 10, this guy was close to 30 and was basically using same level of understanding of how to do things.

Its hard to believe sometimes bu a lot of people grow up never questioning or poking at the reality surrounding them.

You don't need that to grow up and get by in life, but then you end up not being able to distinguish reality from snake oil.

And all of those snake oil salesmen know exactly what buttons to push.

"Secret knowledge", "hidden truth", offer them glimpse into world that secret cabal never wants them to see. Convince them how much smarter and cleverer they are for "figuring out" the reality that other are blind to.

And then the 'blind fools' come to try to convince them that the earth is round...
Their business model is on-demand transportation. The business model doesn't work if the workforce is not also on-demand. I don't think that's spin, but maybe society decides that we don't like on-demand businesses.
It does sound like sarcasm, and I certainly hope it is.
Cars on freeways already regularly do sub-2 second spacing. If each vehicle had 7-16 people (as TBC plans), you’d get similar to Subway capacity.

Folks who dismiss getting subway-like throughputs haven’t actually done the math.
ah, you are holding it wrong. Gaming on Mac? Ts ts ts...
This is no joke, getting parking for an apartment (pretty much required unless you live in the sunset or have deeded parking) is like $250/mo+ and your car will probably be broken into depending on how often you park it on the street
Well... there is borrowing between civilizations. One might suspect that either Egypt developed pyramids, or Kush did, and the other borrowed the idea. The word "looting" doesn't fit, though, because if Kush borrowed the idea from Egypt, Egypt still had the idea - they didn't lose it. And Kush built their own pyramids; they didn't take Egyptian pyramids and move them south.

In the same way, we don't say that Rome looted Greek civilization, though they borrowed quite a bit.
There are taxi apps that are similar in functionality to Uber and Lyft.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curb-the-taxi-app/id299226386
I haven't checked the ACK code to see what they do, but this is what the resync period is for in controllers.

Here's a comment with some discussion: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75423/files
I think many teams are using a mini-waterfall approach in the guise of agile. If that is how your team approaches things, why not embrace it?
I agree with those policies so it counts as better run for me. As far as I can tell, Uber and Lyft do operate in Texas today so it looks like everything worked out?
Epic already fought Sony previously over the ability to have cross-platform interaction, and ultimately Epic won. They're not afraid to fight Sony and they used Fortnite in that battle to change PlayStation store rules too:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/26/17905770/fortnite-cross-pl...
At that point it's full blown Stockholm syndrome, they somehow managed to make people believe it's in their own interest to be denied basic worker rights. Make them believe they are "their own boss" and they'll accept everything, even if they're just a tiny cog in the giant money printing machine (money they'll never see the color of)
1. Things just tended to "work out". I'm not someone who sweats the small stuff when planning things. At the very least if I'm going somewhere "remote" (Tahoe, Santa Cruz), I wouldn't be by myself and I could ride with someone else.

2. You'd be surprised how far you can take an Uber. I had a friend take an Uber from SF to Sacremento.
A lot of these issues would go away if employers weren't responsible for providing healthcare group plans. But then again Europe also has similar drives to classify Uber/Lyft drivers as full time employees so they are entitled to other benefits and employment securities (but those don't exist in a very strong form in the USA anyways).
I wonder if this will mean a bunch of new car buyers in CA...which would ironically be good for the economy/recovery effort.