skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty hard to definitely prove individual occurence medical issues. For example, exposure to arsenic is known to increase risk of cancers. Even if you biopsy the tissue and find arsenic, you can't say for certain that is the cause - look at how some tobacco users live to 90 and never develop cancer, even if it's rare. It would probably be enough evidence in a court of law.

Large scale case studies can be good evidence depending on the nature of the particles being studied and how easy it is to control for other variables.
Turning down a ride request is not the same as not submitting a bid.
Probably after NSA, with "banned" devices from at least Juniper (who got caught for shipping NSA backdoor that was repurposed by IIRC China, but only because there was an NSA backdoor to utilize), and probably ban Ericsson due to well-known rogue state with penchant for messing with telecoms in order to do industrial espionage.

Said rogue state is, of course, United States of America.
Baudrillard made the observation that the Soviet Union as well as the US during the Cold War really should be seen as a larger reinforcing system of deterrence that is used to map out and control rather than a conflict, two sides of the same coin.

Rather than being afraid of a single hegemon, it's the internal opposition that stabilizes systems of control, and he also pointed out that this is even mirrored within the oppositional two party system of the United States, which while looking like it advances freedom and debate and so on really advances security, and it's much more efficient in doing so than monolithic autocratic governments which tend to collapse in on themselves.
Yeeesss, let's just add an extra 25 characters to our user's root directory. Oh and also add capitals and spaces to it, within a system that typically hates those.
What languages would you recommend for exploratory reasoning?
It's the consumers using the services that pay extra costs associated with these services. Socializing the costs through general taxes across the greater public that does not use gig economy services is not good.
I'm not sure China under any ideology would allow for peaceful coexistence with the USA.

It seems like a national pride thing that China cannot be subservient to the US, and the US can't survive a world where it's billionaires aren't in complete control.

There's maybe a synthesis where the Chinese billionaires take over America? That way it's still wealth in charge in the US, and the Chinese in control of china
Apple Neuturing the Floatplane App [video]
Are there conditions in the universe where the chemistry required for life can occur with other compounds, that don't exist on earth? For example, extreme temperature, pressure, gravity, electro-magnetic field intensity, etc.
With respect to zero-cost abstractions, its copy elision that matters. operator= is just another function in C++, for example. Only in a handful of specific circumstances is the compiler allowed to elide calls to operator=.
Great news for colonies! All the water and table salt they need! Just have to watch out for Pokeshells...
i hate living in california so much. it’s terrible being tied in a place due to family despite terrible governance
Would it be better if I called it a "misconception" perhaps? If it matters, I meant it in the "idea that spreads between people" sense, not the animal-gif-with-block-text sense.
So what changes (in your opinion) would allow Uber to reasonably classify drivers as contractors?
>drivers will no longer be able to choose when they work

Why? Uber is still free to let them choose if they choose so.

>Going forward people who want to drive for Uber will have to interview like any other job

Why? Uber would be free to hire without interview.

>this will bring a big improvement in quality of life

That's the point.

>The rest will be out of a job

It was deemed that this kind of a job is not worth having people in, often being below minimum wage and with no protection. In a bit of hyperbole, abolition took jobs from slaves as well.
insecure by design
As usual, these laws show the broken underlying system and then trying to patch it with more broken patches.
I have never needed a birth certificate to register to vote.

You could use a SSN from a person residing in another state.
Or, according to this form: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/Feder..., "If you do not have a current and valid driver license or non‑operating identification license or a social security number, please write “NONE” on the form. A unique identifying number will be assigned by the Secretary of State."
Yes. Plenty of experts. Actual virologists, epidemiologists and other scientists who've spent their lives researching infectious diseases like Covid. What actual experts have you actually read anything from?
GDB also uses it to figure out where the binary is slid in memory (it reads /proc/pid/auxv, though, not the stack). AT_HWCAP is particularly useful on ARM because as far as I understand the feature registers are normally not readable by userspace and this is probably the easiest way to grab it on Linux.
The bonus pay and special deals are actually what would make the contractor classification somewhat questionable, even without the California law. Uber is using incentives to try to control its drivers' hours.
Requiring any tax in order to allow someone to vote is expressly illegal in the US as it used to be abused as a form of voter suppression.

From our Constitution (24th Amendment, Section 1)[1]:

>The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the...
3/4 of the practical issues you mention are either not issues or won't be issues on shipped hardware. JIT, page size, and assembly code will all behave the same as they do on x86.
It is arbitrary, and not fully accurate, but was trying to get the point across that there's relatively few cuts and overall styles to choose from in most major department stores. I claim no authority, I'm just a person on the internet making an observation.

I still hold that men's clothing is more like the menu at taco bell, whereas womens clothing covers both much more nuance and opportunity for expressiveness. Mens styles are broadly muted in contrast. More than happy to argue that point!
can confirm does not work in procreate.
I think Uber already chooses when they work and for how long. Uber will have to cap the hours at 8 hrs a day to save on overtime. But the "new employees" can work multiple jobs if they want.

Are there employment laws I'm not aware of that require "interviews"? Most fast food works can become employees by just walking in the door, I think.
Many journalist types are the first group playing in the second group. It's hard to make it otherwise.
Why should the public have to pay you if you bought a farm knowing a lot of it wasn't usable as a farm?
I assume you're being sarcastic, but a Fyre hat sounds very badass. If I had the disposable income, I'd love one
I loved this. Every time I try to work with Googles opensourced stuff it always feels so complicated to me.
Unfair how? That's the calculus.

The sharing economy, gig economy, concessionaire model, MLM ponzi, franchise system, value-added reseller channel are minor variations of a time proven wealth transfer scheme.

The mark provides the capital and labor, and carries most of the risk.

The landlord, platform, broker, aggregator extracts all of the profit, value, wealth.

Any time a serf prospers is accidental. And quickly remedied.

By any other name, right?

It's be nice if the critics would reject the frame. Instead of phrases like late stage capitalism, just speak plainly.

It's feudalism. Repackaged and rebranded. But still just plain old feudalism.
Off the top of my head I know you can reenable specific things such as JavaScript for individual web pages. Probably the same is possible with fonts.
That was a good read. Thanks for sharing!
Do you really think you can get your documents done in Europe in every rural area? No, you travel to a bigger city, often using a bus and whatnot. Part of life, being a citizen. Every single opposition to having an ID to vote sounds insane to Europeans (UK excluded but they call us mainland anyway), and I can promise you they would take Republicans side on the issue.
Agree, streetwear would be a better term. Its more of my upbringing where kids who didn't dress in one of the other ways tended to go to stores like pacsun, zumiez, vans etc which prominently featured skating as a lifestyle.
Might be a bit strange as you are saying this is a example of bad planning but my employer was discussing this today. We had a hard time finding options, what did you end up deploying or did you develop your own in house?
Fun fact: iTerm recently had to redesign some of their APIs because the process name APIs would be susceptible to a malicious program overwriting its argv (the normal API for this has the kernel read out of the process's address space).
In terms of legality I agree with the judge.

In practical terms, this is trivial for uber to dodge. All they need to do is transform from a company offering rides, to a company connecting riders to drivers. It sounds like a big difference but I susoect very little about the user experience would change.

For instance they could allow riders to offer different rates, but heavily favour (through ui and other soft incentives) the suggested rate.

In the end the drivers would be driving the same car at the same price with the same benefits.
Ask HN: Writing and Variables
Microsoft Word makes using variables in documentation a labyrinthine act: over a dozen steps to insert variables into documents, to say nothing about organizing them. For a sci-fi book I'm writing, I developed a text editor that allows me to insert variable names into a document with ease. This allows me to make the character sheet part of the writing process. Here's a demo video of the concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dFd6UhdV8

Why is applying the DRY principle to documentation not more prevalent?
We have some experiments not so much in changing textual representation but more in visual tools to make use of said high res monitors. Nothing concrete to share publicly yet.

I also wrote recently about how GPT-3 being so good with little training at code generation might make for interesting advancement in programming environments: https://blog.repl.it/codingai
> so a company can choose to use employees or contractors for a given type of work, but must be consistent within that type of work?

Pretty much, though even then it is determined by what the courts decide is the company's "normal course of business." Obviously there are big gray areas here. And, also obviously, there are many cases where both the worker and the employer would prefer to treat the relationship as a contractor relationship, and if they both agree there is nobody to file a lawsuit contesting it (unless, of course, there are lots of people in the exact same role who could challenge the classification, as is the case with Uber).

Also, note while there are federal rules that determine IRS classification, California has stricter laws when it comes to employee vs contractor.
You test them live: someone turns off the outside power switch and you watch them start and take over automatically. Everyone is watching the gauges and if there is a sign of trouble you reengage mains power, then fix the problem and retry. This test is done monthly.

I don't have actual knowledge of nuclear power plants, that is classified beyond the public. However hospitals do the above, because if thing dont work on a bright sunny day how do you think they will work when a tornado has not only taken out power, but also filled the er with server trauma cases.
And the benefit of doing it my way is that it takes one session in congress and no further actions, whereas building, maintaining, and policing an entirely new regulatory framework would likely be on net costlier than raising income taxes by a few basis points on the top couple tax brackets.
Immediately after writing that I realised that Donald Trump's merch is essentially this.
> Voting is one of the few government services that is guaranteed to us by the Constitution.

Voting is not defined as a "government service" and voting itself is barely defined at all in the Constitution or any Amendment. The Amendments assert a right to vote but the means, methods, and even timing are left heavily up to the discretion of the Legislative branches (Congress or State).

Therefore, the vast majority of existing election law can be changed as easily as legislators pass any other law versus the complexity+effort+time of a Constitutional Amendment.
> If governments subsidized producers, and it turns out we end up with more masks then we need,

There's no way to end up with more masks than you need. Masks don't expire. If you're worried about the elastic expiring, require designs where the straps are easily replaceable or removable.

And masks are absolutely necessary for the future. Companies can't rely on society recognizing this, which is why they can't blindly commit to building the capacity for it. But that has nothing to do with how necessary masks are for the current situation and for the future. It's just another typical case of market failure, in the sense that a free market won't optimize for the same things you would if your priorities include things like environmental protection and health. This is something that needs to be regulated and subsidized by governments, who are supposed to be protecting us from future risks instead of pretending that there's nothing they ever could've done and nobody could've foreseen a global pandemic.

Also, if a government cares more about looking good than doing the right thing, then it's a bad government.
- pyenv

- pyenv-virtualenv

- poetry

This is for macOS, but it seems pretty straightforward. I
https://duncanleung.com/set-up-python-pyenv-virtualenv-poetr...
Maybe we should consider for a second that the law is broken (hint: it is).
That's been fascinating to watch from the inside of tech companies as well.

I've seen instances of US-born American Asians to not fall under the "People of Color" label when referred to by Latin-American or Black employees, thus being associated more with White Americans, and yet they themselves would self-label as "People of Color" in other conversations.

My impression is that, at least in coastal metropolitan cities, East and South Asians are informally part of the white "class". Economically those two groups are more accomplished than most white ethnicities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U... , which I imagine makes other minorities less than thrilled about being affiliated with them, as they don't get to share the same levels of success.
Intent is business/formalware is under same umbrella (you're wearing a suit of some type)
Most part-time employees do not get any benefits. So no big change there.
My fear isn’t fake bids so much as an enterprising con-artist who buys one legit item and then uses the receipt from the US Marshals as provenance to later sell “legitimate” Fyre hats or shirts for $85-100 several times over.
Nothing showing on iOS.
You can sort of get there with tank tops and running shorts. But you do tend to look like you just got back from or are going to a workout.
I am prepping for interviews. So much to learn and remember.
This is a very important release for LSP users, as Emacs now has a fast, C-based JSON parser that speeds up e.g. lsp-mode significantly.
True, but the easiest test is to pull the main power to the hospital and watch the system automatically take over. If anything fails you know what is wrong. This is scheduled so that those in surgery (or other worrisome situations) have extra help and can signal get back to mains power now.
So your argument is basically "Big Brother" makes in person voting more secure?

Oregon has had mail in ballot the default and it's been fine.

At least there is a damn paper trail with the vote by mail. All the swing states were using Diebold machines that were deemed INSECURE by california over a decade ago. And they don't have backup paper trails. We should IMHO be burning those with pitchforks and what not and going mail in voting over that.

We have more issues with people NOT VOTING than actually doing extra ballots.
This is an outstanding comment. You have made my day.
To satisfy the "C" of "ABC", I reckon this provides an opportunity for small companies to start up, with drivers as employees, to contract out driving work for both Uber and Lyft.
Slavery wasn't an evenly distributed affair.
Uhm, no I honestly think we will see the build out. There is quite a bit of meetings going on including with the Navajos to get this one done.
Most C books will not mention the things in this blog post.
Given that the price in question is put on consumers and Uber only takes a cut, this indeed sounds more like price-fixing than collective bargaining.
There seems to be at least 10 years history of people trying to create the "Ken Burns" effect in browser. This article seems to use it really well. It's a reminder how a much more interesting web experience is right in front of us, but we hardly ever see it because everything is just SEO optimized look alike designs.
https://amp.dev/documentation/examples/visual-effects/ken_bu...
https://www.kirupa.com/html5/ken_burns_effect_css.htm
As with most things the Trump admin does, this one too is sloppy.

There was no need to call out the CCP in the document, it's obvious who this measure is primarily directed at. Also, characterizing it as an initiative of the "Trump Administration", instead of the United States Government or State Department, was unnecessarily political and also obvious.

Also as mentioned above, China already has a Clean Network initiative. I wonder if the Trump admin copied that name, or chose it accidentally.
> there's no surveillance operation in the world as vast and as troubling as China's

Replace "China" with "US".
To me those fall more into a "uniform". I admit I didn't really think of that in terms of "fashion", but its true that many wear a ton of carhardt and not much else. But it does tend to be hoodies and the like.
Overlays were not part of the DOS operating system. But there were at least three different methods:

1. the traditional one (used by the PDP-11), where overlays were loaded into fixed addresses. This was used by Microsoft tools.

2. Borland's "Zoom" overlays, I forgot how that worked.

3. Zortech's "virtual" system where overlays could be loaded into whatever memory was available
It's not badass.
Nice. Is it a plug-in replacement? E.g. does eglot already make use of this, too, or will it need to be updated?
> They are employees in that they cannot negotiate rates.

Hmm... How is an Uber driver different from a plumber here?

Let's say Google needs some pipes fixed at one of its offices and they tell me how much they'll pay, refusing to budge from that figure. That doesn't make me Google's employee. I can choose to do the work for that price, or I can go fix Apple's pipes instead. What am I missing?
Do you support end to end encryption? I understand that to get thru NATs you have to have relay servers. For companies, they may want privacy guarantees.
Ya, they're individual lots. People just aren't being very good at navigating the site I guess.
If your definition of habitable is "has liquid water" probably most of the habitable places in the universe are like Ceres, the moons of Saturn, even deep inside Pluto. Between the effects of pressure, geothermal energy, and gravitational tides you find liquid water in those places more than the inner solar system where water gets evaporated and blown away.

(The trouble is that those places don't have sunlight and probably fewer energy sources overall.)

It could be the answer to why we don't meet aliens: they couldn't care less about dry places like the Earth. You could travel the stars hopping comet to comet, but after spending 10,000 years like that you might be comfortable enough in your lifestyle that you wouldn't want to stop at a star. (All contingent on solving the energy problem, either you get lucky and find a lot of uranium or you invent D-D fusion.)
> thinking about the gig economy as a different type of worker opens to door to a "how might we" conversation where everyone has the opportunity to win.

We, the readers of Hacker News, are going to fix the gig economy! Everyone, download a copy of your local laws and send a pull request to your country's highest Court.

But seriously, I think having a discussion, working out a perfect system where we'll all be better off is more than a bit hopeful.
No his point is that under the California law waiting tables at two restaurants would (supposedly?) make him employees of both.

I certainly know it is true of journalist freelancers.
I wonder if a model, more like the SAG-AFTRA union would be possible. Register with the union and workers can operate on as many platforms as possible. Common reporting on hours could prevent worker overlapping across platforms against a minimum wage. Health insurance is available through union with companies paying portions in.

Workers can choose platforms that maximize the worker's wages while platforms would need to minimize costs for customers. The more efficient the platform gets, the better position they would be in vs competitors.
When both the Talathi and Circle Officer denied, all I thought was "why didn't you pay them". That's why I think relying on agents who handle the bureaucracy and know which palms to grease are worth their weight in gold in developing countries.

I think during our life time we'll see India massively improve in this area. They've already made so much progress over the past 20 years, it's a really exciting country to watch.

They need more coverage in Western media like this though. Similar with China. An effective form of change is shaming the department or process, and if it's covered in Western media - at least this is true of India, it often makes local news. (See Hassan Minaj's coverage on Modi.)
Every kid coming into SF wanted to be Jobs after that movie.

I wish more of them had wanted to be like Woz. I think the "impact" of the world would have been much better.
dont contractors get to write off their car? if they are employees they no longer get write offs correct?