skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what does welfare pay? Serious question as I'm not in the USA and have no idea.

If Welfare pays less, isn't Uber/Lyft a positive thing?

And that is just the direct monetary benefit of $27K vs welfare. There are many intangible benefits to work vs welfare beyond money.

Being unemployed has mental health and life satisfaction costs (summary: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/is...). This is research that has existed for > 30 years.

There is significant evidence that long term unemployment REALLY hurts someone's hiring chances when applying for a job (see https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/04/co... from 2013 with linked papers). As a stepping stone to a living wage, driving rideshare likely helps people looking for better paid work, especially given you can clock off for two hours to take an interview, then clock back on. Try that working any other job.

The rideshare side of the ledger has better mental health & life satisfaction, more money and better job prospects, vs the welfare side with more free time.

I'd prefer to frame the "living wage" question as of all the people who drive Uber/Lyft, not Uber/Lyft drivers which puts their job above their humanity and implies it is a permanent state of affairs, anyway of all the people who drive Uber/Lyft at some point in their lives, will they be better off with the option of driving Uber/Lyft, or better off in a world where Uber/Lyft is not an option?
Can I put a book in your hypothetical ebook store without giving you a cut?
Actually what happens is we get lower Uber/Lyft rates for consumers... consumers that may depend on it in low infrastructure areas such as other low income workers.

In a competitive market there is no such thing as “free profit” for companies. Most savings that apply to all market competition across the board transfer to lower prices in the general market.

Uber would only net the profit if for some reason it was the only company that didn’t have to offer those things out of pocket.
Indeed. This is great point. JS developers have made seminal contribution to our collective well being by their virtuous signals and thoughtful commentary on anything that matters.

With the advent of E-protests they are finally being able to highlight against injustices taking place anywhere in the world.
Even on web I keep using old.reddit.com, as the new layout is just a waste of screen real-estate and looks more like dig.

I loved reddit's original UI, similar to HN, you can quickly scan the headlines, not stare at empty space into the oblivion.

Bad UX all over reddit...
> Do i get that wrong?

Yes.

> We want access to all your platform and tools for free?

Well, they do pay the $99 annual fee + cost of a Mac required for submitting to the store :)

More seriously, you are wrong because Epic/Spotify/etc don't mind giving apple money when they use their payment infrastructure _but_ want to be able to also use their own infrastructure and sell things 30% cheaper.

And yes, for companies with multiple sale points (fortnite is also on PC and consoles ?), apple TOS forbids Epic selling things cheaper elsewhere which means in-game item prices are artificially increased by up to 30% on _all platforms_.
Space is an infinite heatsink if, and becomes an actually very good one once your radiators can reach 2000K+

Not a problem for a glowing plutonium plasma.

Here is a quote on one project from sixties:

> a spaceborne electric powerplant dubbed EU-610, with an electric output of circa 3.3x106 kWt, specific power 0.7x105 kWt/kg/sec (sic), relative mass 18.7 g/kWt, length 10000 mm.
> Unless the company has a lot of fat to trim, it has to come from customers in the form of higher prices, or from investors throwing more cash onto the bonfire.

Nope, there's lots more options than that. Cut executive pay. Tax high earners more and provide social services like healthcare and public transit, to reduce cost and demand on these services. And yes, prices would likely go up, because they're no longer being subsidized by gov't welfare.

> It's very possible that this market only exists at the size that it does at a price that doesn't support what people in the US think of as "a wage they can live off of"

Then the market is exploiting labor and is being subsidized by the welfare system (else the workers couldn't live, by definition). If we're going to subsidize unprofitable activities, we should do that as a society, not by funneling cash to Uber's owners.
K made me realize that if you use the numbers 0 and 1 for booleans, `min()` is `&&` and `max()` is `||`. love that!
They invent new scientific rules. With two caveats: first, the new rules are not independently tested by experiment (maybe they are vaguely justified by thought experiment; thought by them); second, their rules are just qualitative, nearly never quantitative, so that they basically everything can be true.

So, measuring angles is off limits. Then they admit you cannot see things that are far away and close to the horizon, but not by curvature. By perspective: perspective laws, they say, mandate that far away objects become very small, too small to be seen. Do you basically can see only a limited part of the sky, at a sufficiently high angle from the horizon on the flat earth. That is why you can't see the whole sky.
And if the ride is subsidized by VC, all the better!
I already use Postgres and have infrastructure set up to automate Postgres, optimise it, etc. Performance is generally better (at least IME) than MySQL. json, jsonb types, etc were a decision in choosing Postgres for the rest of my application stacks.

I think it's fine as long as I can get it running on MariaDB 10+ and PHP 7.5 without issues.

I'm interested in a clarification on "Track unlimited websites on one dashboard." - does this software phone home or lock itself down? I usually scale out rather than up, including for personal projects, so "one dashboard" might be running across multiple machines.
As stated, the service and user experience would change. That means less riders. That means even less drivers. It doesn’t work the same.
Didn't AB5 just codify a court decision and in some sense actually exempt people from being employees?
Why is it necessarily better for someone to have a single job verses multiple gigs? Not everyone wants to be a shift worker or office drone. Its just an implementation detail of the economy not some sort of indicator of a problem.
You are describing a literal impossibility as your example, being physically present at the Burger King and McDonald’s at the same time.

It’s the very same thing as say a driver can’t give a passenger a ride for Uber at the same time they are giving a ride for a Lyft passenger.

> It's usually not feasible to work for both, because they both might end up scheduling you in the same time slot.

You are essentially trying to argue no one Can work 2 jobs because of potential scheduling conflicts. Plenty of people work 2-3 jobs, often times for competitors in the same industry.
I don't think either of those are particularly compelling reasons not to s/tech/agriculture|climate science/ to the original argument. There aren't multiple IDEs in most homes, but there are multiple food products. And the climate science bit doesn't really say much - there are bad actors but taking it seriously is no less credible than taking cyberspace seriously IMO.
> Only thing mainframe cannot support is Deep learning as that requires GPU, no GPU here.

You can have racks full of PCIe slots if you want. I don't think there's anything that prevents you from adding a dozen GPUs on every IO drawer if that's what you want. And, unlike PC-based servers, there's a ton of silicon dedicated to keeping all IO channels fed, so, you'd probably have very low CPU usage.
Well, she did leave accounting completely and did something else entirely - so I think it is fair to say that she was concerned!
If you want air combat, DCS is the top choice. Because they model very complex state-of-the-art jet fighters, it is also very complex.
This already exists and it is called XProtect. My question through these threads has been "why does notarization exist" and I am still trying to understand why it does, because every answer I have been given simplifies down to "here is a reason that it should exist…wait, that's just what code signing or Apple's built-in MRT does already".
It's definitely the case in my gym, which has been open for 3 months now. It's unavoidable that people get close to each other without a mask in a gym. No one is going to give a shit because the equipment is shared anyway.
> I can guarantee you that a game will need a scripting language. Better get that done already.

Is that really so certain?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Wmz15aXk0
You are not considering the effect of general relativity. See theoretical physicist Professor Matt Strassler's page where he gives the exact same example of how energy can be stored that I did: https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph....

All forms of energy, including potential energy in the form of a compressed/stretched spring, couple to the gravitational field. Again, read about the stress-energy tensor for how this works.

> In short, this is an absurd statement that tries to redefine a scientific definition for...I don't even know? Sensationalism?

What I've said is not even remotely controversial in the physics community. Don't take my word for it; ask anyone who has taken a basic graduate course in general physics and they will agree that a compressed spring or a spinning ball weighs an imperceptibly (i.e., immeasurably) small amount more than the uncompressed spring or stationary ball, should you have a hypothetical scale that was so precise as to be able to measure the difference.
The solution is to ensure the worker's employment status is within the legal definition as it's defined. Gig economy could usher in a new era of worker flexibility, but it could also usher in a new era of worker exploitation.

The gig economy keeps pushing risks and cost down the chain, while also showing signs that it may not be a sustainable model as a whole without venture capital to burn through or an end game of predatory monopolist behavior within the market region.
The Bible is a collection of books though. Taken one verse at a time, out of context, errors with interpretation are easy. Context is huge.

That’s really the root of it. If you read the entire Bible, you’ll see common themes that are reiterated over and over. You’ll see patterns of human behavior that haven’t changed in thousands of years.

Reading the entire Bible provides so much more context. There’s not nearly as much left up to discussion after that because you’ll have a much better understanding of e everything.

I mean, nobody talks about it but one of the biggest themes of the entire Old Testament is idolatry. We think about that today as worshiping gold statues but it’s just as easy to frame in terms of political parties, our own anger and biases, etc.

Another is the dangers of pride.
You get GPT-3 either way now, I believe. Dragon, the one locked to subscribers, is GPT-3 XL or something like that?

Relevant Developer Tweet: https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1284842455188164609
@tom
No, it's not being built. The train that is currently under construction will connect the airport terminals to a cab stand and car rental station less than a mile from the airport because LA taxi drivers threw a shit fit when they suggested building a train into downtown and Santa Monica.

By the way, we're paying $4 billion for that. $4 billion to carry passengers less than a mile from the airport so they can then take a cab...

LA cab drivers are all unionized now and they had their entire hand stuck in this process. It was corruption as an art form.

Our government sucks.
I think the problem is that driver’s want to remain independent, but their cost is borne by the society. Such as the recent CAREs act had unemployment for drivers. I am assuming they also get subsidized healthcare, and would be eligible for Medicare ? Their employers don't really contribute to these things. But perhaps the law should just have complied them to contribute via additional taxes instead of asking them to be classified
"These are heuristics, not hard-and-fast rules. They definitely shouldn’t replace objective evaluations of arguments you hear, regardless of who they might come from!"

Recognizing conflicts of interest is an important skill. It is very telling if a speaker/advocate does not reveal them at the outset.
The choice to not have important types of insurance hurts the chooser and it hurts everyone else.

There are many situations where it's best if the societal bargain restricts the options available.
Why aren't they doing that already?
It's fine for a personal project, but if you're thinking of writing a custom parser and grammar for configuration for a commercial project: Don't.

There's a lot of flexibility that comes from being able to programmatically generate configs in your scripting language of choice and then ingest them in C++ with little effort. For example, being able to serialize a Python dict as json/ini/yaml/sqlite/whatever and then ingest it in C++ with some library.

It turns your complicated C++ program into a function with a dictionary argument.

I've worked on a few large programs now that have used custom config formats and it sucks. It's a waste of time trying to output correct syntax while fighting through idiosyncratic syntax choices and poorly explained parsing errors in the custom code.

It doesn't create value, it's just a thing you have to do to get to the automation you're trying to accomplish. Avoid it by not making the mistake in the first place.
It's amazing just the sort of Harry Potter fanfic that's out there...

Prompt: You look for Hermione.

Response: You see her snogging a non-magical boy. His head is buried in her cleavage, which are being covered by her loose gown. You shake your head and walk away.

This is actually a better indication of how derivative GPT-3 is than some of my experiments with higher quality source material...
I agree, the driver's independence is only one way : when convenient to them.

Both Uber and Lift should lower their cut and stop these practices if they really want the drivers to remain independent
D had an unfortunate early history. For a long time being a one man project, surviving through Python2 to Python3 akin transition and slowly maturing during all these years. Many top D features were added along the way but were not available from the start. Also in the beginning D focus was to be a better C++ with GC which is not something that excited C++ crowd who smirked as soon as they heard about GC and never actually approached the language. It is only later that it became clear that it is a separate unique language. I think D just grew and matured naturally into something very solid.
D has a small but a very skilled team of seasoned C++ veterans and language designers. I dare to say, I am yet to see better forum answers than on forum.dlang.org both on the account of the language and programming in general.
>Here’s a question: If Uber or Instacart or Fiverr are really tech companies, what technology have they created? It’s not the GPS or smartphones they rely on to connect workers and consumers: GPS got started back in 1973 and the iPhone appeared in 2007 (and that, itself, was preceded by the internet-connected BlackBerry). App-based service-delivery companies aren’t developing silicon chips like Intel or AMD, creating consumer software like Adobe, or making networking switches like Cisco. They don’t get money from inventing new tech, but from venture capital and by taking a slice of every transaction made by their contingent labor force.

Yes, I understand that the paper's author is only using a narrow definition of "tech" to mean non-software non-programming products such as silicon or lasers. It may irritate the author but if a word has enough shared agreement by others, it won't matter if he disagrees with it -- because _others_ will still use it.

To copy & paste a previous comment, I'll attempt to explain why _others_ think of Uber as a "tech company".

Others' viewpoint: Yes, virtually every company uses technology but not every company is birthed by technology:

- the Uber founders (Travis K and Garrett C) were software programmers, not taxicab owners.

- the product they worked on was a smartphone app instead of buying a car with a taxi medallion and driving around for fares.

- the type of investors that funded them (e.g. Benchmark Capital) were VCs that specialize in the tech sector.

- the type of companies Uber has acquired[1] so far are tech focused (e.g. machine learning, geospatial, etc).

Yes, 100-year-old banks always have ongoing modernization with evolving technology (e.g. Citi and Chase have developed smartphone apps) but Uber's birth was programmers playing around with smartphones.

Another example of the perception difference is eBay vs Sotheby's/Christie's. eBay is typically called a "tech company" but Sotheby's/Christie's are called "auction houses". If eBay brings together buyers & sellers in a marketplace... and Sotheby's/Christie's also has an auctions marketplace... why is "tech company" more often attached to eBay rather than Sotheby's/Christie's? (Both Sotheyby's & Christie's have websites for users to place bids so they develop technology as well.) Probably because eBay was born on the internet by a software programmer named Pierre Omidyar.

I'm not saying you have to agree with all that but just trying to explain the "hidden taxonomy" that some of the others (including the news media) use to label certain companies as "tech company".

EDIT to reply: yes I agree that the "What “tech” communities understand from tech is high growth low capital businesses" ... is often included in the mental taxonomy of "tech" but there are exceptions. Youtube/Amazon are considered "tech companies" even though they are highly capital intensive. Datacenters with petabytes of harddrives to store videos and logistics warehouses consume a lot of capital.

[1] https://acquiredby.co/uber-acquisitions/
Is what I did. Had all symptoms right before shutdowns in Seattle, but they wouldn't test if you didn't transfer from China. Or make a stink. Months later, I was able to get a test. Came back negative. Now I have to wonder if I just waited too long. :(
It has gone up for the last little while, so the expectation is that it will continue to go up. From the article I linked:

> When applied, an investor can buy or sell based on the strength of the trends in an asset's price. If a trader wants to use a momentum-based strategy, he takes a long position in a stock or asset that has been trending up. If the stock is trending down, he takes a short position. Instead of the traditional philosophy of trading—buy low, sell high—momentum investing seeks to sell low and buy lower, or buy high and sell higher. Instead of identifying the continuation or reversal pattern, momentum investors focus on the trend created by the most recent price break.

Momentum is a recognized factor in investment returns in peer-reviewed research:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_investing
I would love to see the completely unedited version, mistakes and all if that’s at all possible! Thank you, great work!
By that logic, legislators could have chosen not to put forth AB5 and none of this discussion would be happening. Also, as I said elsewhere, one does not simply ramp up an HR org (plus whatever else) w/ capacity for an extra 50k headcount "just in case".
Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
Hi everyone! We are Dragos and Thiago from GitDuck (https://gitduck.com). We are building GitDuck, a Zoom for developers with direct integration to the IDE so software developers can talk and collaborate in real-time.

It all started by accident, Dragos and I were working on something else, a screen recording tool and we started to use it internally to record short videos of our code. At first it was just for quick code reviews and to debug, but soon we realized how helpful it was to have a video explanation of the code. Kind of rubber duck debugging with video. ;)

After talking to almost 300 developers and learning that other people were facing similar collaboration issues we decided to focus 100% on building this tool. We are the first users and we use GitDuck internally for quick assistance, pair programming, code reviews or just discussing ideas.

It has the features you would expect in a video call tool — like audio, video chat and screen sharing, but the UX and the integrations were built exclusively for developers. You can easily share your code and do pair programming. We are building integrations for all the IDEs. This enables you to collaborate without screen sharing (so it's faster and and consumes less bandwidth), directly from your IDE and independently of the IDE that other people are using.

Whenever you join a GitDuck meeting, your IDE extension wakes up and allows you to share your code with the other meeting participants (or join the already shared code from other meeting participant). When your peers join your code, they can see and edit your files in real-time, similar to the Google Docs experience. At any given point you can also go to your peers position so you can see in which file and line they are.

Check a 1 min demo
(https://gitduck.com/watch/5f1808919552aefe64ce0751)

GitDuck currently has integrations to VS Code and VSCodium. In the next few days we are going to release the integrations to all JetBrains IDEs. Vim, Sublime and others coming after that.

One important aspect to mention is security. We are the first users of the service so we focus a lot on building something that we would trust to use ourselves. All the files shared from your IDE are always shared via peer-to-peer and are end-to-end encrypted. No piece of code never touches our servers, so we never have access to your code.

All calls are encrypted and p2p (if 4 or less participants). If 5 or more people join we switch to a cloud infrastructure in order to maintain the quality, but the media are always encrypted and we never have access to your calls. You can read more about it here (https://gitduck.com/security) and we are always open for your suggestions to improve.

We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. What are your ideas about tools like this?

Thank you!
Uber drivers pay taxes on earnings as contractors too. This at least partially covers ACA subsidies (if not fully).

And we subsidize employer-provided healthcare also, hence its existence.
You can't really compare yearly salaries unless you pick something to standardize on. You will notice that I didn't pick on benefits at all. I would guess that the reality is most people depending on rideshare for a living are doing multiple jobs.
And a driver can’t driver a Uber passenger at the same time they drive a Lyft passenger.
> When we polled drivers about their preference between remaining an independent contractor or becoming an employee, an overwhelming number of drivers wanted to remain independent.

> "What type of employment relationship would you like to have with rideshare companies"

> (A) I don't know the difference: 3.3%

> (B) I'd like to be an employee: 20.8%

> (C) I'd like to be an independent contractor: 75.9%

https://therideshareguy.com/california-sues-uber-and-lyft-fo...
We expect eBay/Amazon/Etsy to enforce standards on their platforms, but no one would argue that their sellers are employees.

I'm not convinced that having price and ride quality standards invalidates the contractor relationship.
My first RHEL laptop was a T40 thinkpad with a 31-bit (not a typo) z-series emulator complete with dongle. I think they spent 20k on the crazy thing. Such a weird market to sell into.