skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an indian. I dont have any problems with filling out forms, or providing documents. As long as the process is well documented. But in india it doesnt work that way.

Even in the age of computers, some departments are printing forms using ink from the middle ages on paper from the egyptians. You require a prime lens attached to your eyes to decipher the 7point font on the form.
okay, let's make the price higher. Let's make it $150/mo. Now we're about 10 centimeters away from your face, and not too far off from what taxicab companies do.
The Mathematics of Mind-Time
How do you follow Tom Wolfe?
I'm currently interning at a startup called Empower. This is their exact business model, the company provides software, the driver can set their own rates and they get the full fare. The drivers pay a monthly subscription free.
i've had 2 APC Back-UPS fail (of 2), and in neither case was the battery dead. That entire line is significantly worse-than-nothing as a backup
As a Canadian, I learned about the American melting pot as "drop your culture and adopt ours" in contrast to the Canadian multiculturalism.

The melting pot makes non-white people idealize white people, which is hard to imagine as anything but a top down imposition of standards
ID cards are not free in Europe either and no you can't make them in each village. Every time this topic comes up here someone posts a vox article writing that you someone had to go to a bigger city to get documents because where he lives was 3000 strong population. Heck, there are places where you HAVE to vote by the law and yes it does take a small effort to get documents and keep them updated every 6-8 yrs.
> Passports are expensive and time consuming to get

So the government could automatically issue every voting age person a passport, and it becomes mandatory to vote.

Doesn't seem too painful to me.
I would say that's the reason why most people are not taking radical changes, but I doubt that's why the mainstream medias aren't talking about the nightmare scenario, which is what the comment was referring to (I think).
No, the idea is that Democrats are doing the opposite, which (if true) is just as bad.

Republicans shouldn't be locking out people who are eligible to vote, but at the same time Democrats shouldn't be enabling the submission of fraudulent ballots (ineligible, dead persons, etc), which common sense says is easier if you don't require ID verification at polls or if you allow mail-in ballots for all.

Both are anti-democratic.
Whoa! Thanks for the awesome answer and the map! This blew my mind:

> Good news is it's roughly equally difficult to get to Ceres as to get to Mars! It's further away, but it's smaller which means less decelerating when you get there.

As someone without any background in science I only ever hear about the journey to moon and mars so it’s super interesting to eyeball the marginal difficulty of getting to different planets on that map. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like a minor simplification of

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I'm biased by my experience with c, but I do like the explicit punctuation.
the auction is also a fraud meant to recoup funds from the festival fraud...
I love this quote:

> I worry a little bit about hiding the places where the networking happens, just like I worry about ORM hiding the SQL. Because you can’t ignore either networking or SQL.

The irony (or not irony, who even knows?), though, is that I always worried a little bit about EBS for similar reasons. It's gotten really, really good but it was a terrifying abstraction back in the day.
Your comments have given me very helpful insights and advices!

I will definitely update the website and product and post it again in the future. Hopefully much improved from the current state.
I just want to say I am very thankful for you to take your time to write these responses! <(＿ ＿)>
Colorado has vote my mail as the default option and it works fine. If you want to vote, you register, get a ballot in the mail and return it. You can verify that it's counted by following it online and we haven't really had any issues.

If you set up the system correctly it'll work just fine.
Tons of UAW members see themselves as teachers. That’s essentially what a humanities PhD or post-doc have to do to attend university.
How about you don't make it personal, and limit whatever criticism you have to technology. And why not include actual criticism, rather than just stating that you personally are not a fan. Thanks for the pointless comment otherwise.
I am a w2 employee and I choose my own hours.
Gotcha - 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?

So, for instance, you might hire initially a contractor to create the encrypted part of your product, but once you had hired someone to do that work full time you would be legally barred from hiring additional contractors to do that?
not at the same time, you can't, unless you're talking about a taco bell/kfc joint.
Then it's even better than in Europe, you usually pay a small tax to get documents. Then what is this fuzz about having a proper documents to vote about? Republicans being suspicious about the fraud has merit.
There is a related interesting observation that every breath you take contains on average one molecule that was breathed out by Julius Caesar in his dying breath:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/are-we-really-brea...
If all drivers are employees, the business does not seem sustainable

Uber lost $19,000,000,000 in 2019. It lost money last quarter. Uber is already unsustainable. Despite its labor practices, Uber has been unsustainable since its founding. And it’s not like Amazon’s early days where lack of profits was offset by acquisition of physical infrastructure. Uber loses money on via unit economics.
The majority of politicians and voters didn't do enough to heed scientific warnings & prepare for an upcoming pandemic.. Similarly, we are not doing enough to mitigate climate change. Unfortunately the consequences will likely be much worse if we don't learn the lesson quickly..
This is so non esoteric. I can't remember who said it but I'm reminded of the old saying: "if you can't explain something to a high school student then you don't understand it". You certainly understand it and I certainly appreciate you sharing your understanding in such an accessible way, thanks.
How much validation is actually done in practice? In the UK, I sign something about once at year _at most_ - I can't remember the last time I signed something without going back a few years, and I've no idea how I signed it.
Yes. But if you're not meeting user expectations they're not going to tell anyone, and so and so on. The satisfaction of current users has to factor in some where. Else no word of mouth, and expensive churn.
i like how the guy recovered with "Just the once, though, huh?"

2007 HN was highly entertaining
I sort of wonder if someone is trolling them with a credit card that's going to be invalid before the auction ends. Who bids $500 for a single hat you can reproduce on any custom hat site?
The site really needs a loading indicator. I went to https://mydesktour.com/explore, saw it was blank, and thought it was because it was a brand new site with no UGC.
> charmed by the feral chickens that roamed the streets freely.[0]

Holy shit I never thought I’d see my hometown mentioned in this context. Yes, the chickens roam old town (maybe a square mile) freely but you don’t really see them elsewhere. They are really loud though.

[0] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-California-towns-wh...
> Your residency is also you voter registration (not sure why separating the two makes any sense)

Homelessness and generally transient residency statuses come to mind. Still workable w/ ID cards though
There are some 6,000+ relays active so even in the most minimal interpretation of "most" that's ~3,000 short of most. Or subtracting the 8 specified if one considers them trusted that's somewhere around ~3,000 (i.e. it doesn't help you make out anything you couldn't have made out before).
Also water has one of the highest heat capacities [0] of elements that are common so this makes a great solvent that is more resistant to freezing and boiling. For this fact and the ones above, I see it as very unlikely that complex life exists outside any region that doesn't have liquid h20 almost all the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity
I think there needs to be some form of authentication to at least publicly show IF someone voted or not. i.e. this way, we could log on to make sure a vote wasn't cast from our dead Uncle Albert or w/e...and maybe even voters could be given an encrypted private key upon voting to so they could verify their vote whenever.
Make it expensive.
1099 contracting is a cancer that's eating the entire sub-$50K job market. Most of my friends are 1099 contractors and every single one of them wishes they weren't.
Up to a certain point, corporate taxes do have a marginal benefit to society as a separate source of taxation. Generally speaking you want to spread your sources of tax revenue to minimize distortions and maximize revenue. This advice breaks down for small tax haven countries of course, and I think that larger countries should mitigate their most disruptive schemes. Citizens of large countries should not be deprived of a great avenue for taxation because of financial acrobatics devised by smaller countries. That all being said, I also think that income taxes should be increased at the higher end to support a greater safety net.
2. Just FYI, this is basically what the taxicab companies do. And a lot of companies that you interact with basically do this, except at a higher level of organization: namely franchises. A manager at a mcdonald's is not typically an employee of mcdonald's, and is responsible for paying a lot in fees (and has to fulfill a lot of XYZ requirements to maintain the franchise).
I think the risk/reward would make this not worth it. You can check to see if your ballot was received. If a bunch of ballots are determined to be lost from the same postal route one assumes the postal inspectors would be having a word with that mail carrier. Tampering with the mail is a pretty serious crime, ballot or not, so there's a strong disincentive to try it.

My town has a bunch of dropboxes which are picked up by election volunteers if you still don't trust the mail. An election volunteer could "lose" a box of ballots but that seems like it would be pretty easily detectable as well.

Since mail tampering is a federal crime maybe Trump could pledge to pardon every mail carrier who throws away ballots from likely Biden voters. Seems pretty unlikely, but I don't know how to counter that.
Then it's not collectible or particularly interesting. That's just a hat.
> for that, synchronous APIs quite likely aren’t what you want, event-driven and message-based asynchronous infrastructure would come into play. Which of course what I spent a lot of time working on recently. I wonder how that fits into the K8s/service-fabric landscape?

Unfortunately, unlike Envoy and networking, the story for Kubernetes event-driven architecture is not yet as stable. Generally it’s roll-your-own for reliability. Eventually Knative Eventing will serve that purpose, but it hasn’t hit 1.0[1] or anything more stable than that... the CRDs recently made it to beta, though and an initial go at error handling was added relatively recently (mid-to-late last year)[2]

1. https://github.com/knative/eventing/releases

2. https://github.com/knative/eventing/tree/master/docs/deliver...
Designing clothing is an art. The marketing of that is commonly known as fashion. They are not synonymous.
I recently moved from Missouri and even though they know my new address in a different state they send me voting literature. It’s really weird.
The Ambiguous Agassiz
It isn't just the commutes - I've had a number of good commutes that I enjoy, particularly bicycle commutes.

Unfortunately most companies that I have worked with (or might work with) seem to have adopted productivity-killing open plan offices, which are absolutely terrible.

Even when I spend 8 hours in a horrible open plan office, I end up doing most of my actual work at home. The office hours are simply to keep supervisors happy, to attend mandatory (often unnecessary) meetings, and to remain visible.
Node.js User Survey: Unhandled Promise Rejections
(not GP) with React, declarative JavaScript code can result in HTML. JS -> HTML

Server side frameworks (the usual favourites) have existing ways for code to result in HTML. Ruby/PHP/Java -> HTML

Vue on the other hand can sit within HTML. So you can sprinkle in client-side logic in the views while still generally going with the grain of your server side framework.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/6cece3f49eb87779...

See `if can?(current_user, :admin_issue, @project)` (Ruby) and `"v-if" => "issue.labels.length === 0"` (Vue)
Totally. I have added wifi power outlets to installations because process restart, OS restart, and hardware restart did not get a system back up and running. Yes it was a startup, and yes it was remotely installed hardware.
When I first experience a picture of a street turn into a 3d environment I thought it was wonderful and that we would gradually learn to travel further into the painting with each cm taking more effort than the cm before. Eventually we would be able to (be it virtually) walk our way from something closely matching reality (or the imagination of the artist) to a collectively generated fully imaginary environment without knowing where one ends and the other begins.
How to Teach and Hold Meetings in “Mixed Mode” in the Covid Era
I am fairly certain that this was written from the perspective of people who were born and raised in the Bay Area, which first generation tech immigrants by definition cannot be.

It’s also a whimsical satire piece, so I wouldn’t expect it to include every group. That said, note the the site has follow on stories for each group, so maybe they expanded the groups.
You should also consider about SSD's reliability without PLP capacitor. NAND flash is erased by block and it runs GC silently so possibly even non-touched data could be corrupted if power loss.

I wonder that most consumer SSDs are aimed to power loss safe (by implementing like CoW?) even without capacitor but I don't know the truth.
Makes sense.

And my understanding of the "condensation wave" is that it's formation and dissipation is highly dependent on local conditions like humidity, temperate, etc.

She claims that measuring the speed of that "condensation" wave proves it's not a shockwave, the actual shockwave can move faster than the "condensation wave" (because it's formation and dissipation is highly variable).
I feel like trolling the US Marshals with credit card fraud is a bad idea.
Buying alcohol requires an ID with age information, as that is an age check. Voting does not require age information, as you cannot register to vote unless you are the proper age. Just a reputable ID that can match a photograph to a person, for which the UT student IDs are deemed good enough for the security and safety within the UT system.

And of course, it's a state run university. If the state really cared about making voting accessible to people with valid IDs, they would update the UT IDs to meet whatever requirements they deemed necessary. They've had 6 years. Why haven't they done it? Students actively want the change.
Merely that they establish that they are a particular citizen. It isn't that hard to do. You need ID to go to most doctors, buy tobacco and alcohol, yada yada yada.
Tesla is involved in the development of a smartwatch, but why? – Electrek
not at the same time, you can't

Just as a ride hailing driver can't simultaneously have an Uber and a Lyft passenger in his car. What's your point?
one of their lies is the crash of Three Gorges Dam, the 'pro-democracy' media repetitively report this every year..millions dead..blah blah. But it never happened, the dam is solid in good shape. the 'pro-democracy' movement is a complete failure in China and will continue to fail if they continue to behave like losers
> it's no more necessary than civilization itself, the foundations for which were laid to build armies to wage war and reap the benefits.

Civilization emerged around settled agriculture, not to wage war. Arguably this was a movement away from violence, as compared to nomadic tribes constantly competing over hunting and foraging territories.

> Moralizing the past is senseless, whether you argue it was good or bad. It matters not that the colonial era is less old than others. All we can do with our newly calibrated compasses is decide what good means going forward.

How exactly do we “calibrate our compasses” without reference to our past? It’s entirely valid to judge what in our past immoral in hopes that we can steer our present away from their reoccurrence. It’s hardly senseless, but indicative of our capacity to reflect, change, and not senselessly repeat these horrors.
I don't think fake bids on an auction run by a federal police force is exactly the brightest idea.
Thomas Midgley Jr. had an even bigger impact on the world than Steve Jobs. That's not the only measure of success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

>Legacy

>Midgley's legacy has been scarred by the negative environmental impact of leaded gasoline and Freon. Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history", and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny". Use of leaded gasoline, which he invented, released large quantities of lead into the atmosphere all over the world. High atmospheric lead levels have been linked with serious long-term health problems from childhood, including neurological impairment, and with increased levels of violence and criminality in cities. Time magazine included both leaded gasoline and CFCs on its list of "The 50 Worst Inventions".

>Midgley died three decades before the ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas effects of CFCs in the atmosphere became widely known. In 1987, the Montreal Protocol phased out the use of CFCs like Freon.
Uber is in a legal grey area.

They are independent contractors in the sense that they can choose how much and when to work.

They are employees in that they cannot negotiate rates.

I don't think it's so clear cut.
I like that logic. It works great for the 2nd amendment. You'll agree that an ID requirement for firearms is unacceptable, yes?

Constitutional protections for voting are far more limited.
We actually haven't tested that limit yet. We have seen atleast 200 people on at the same time across multiple rooms. The system didn't break or lag with that number but lets see. Does that help?
It is very easy in the US, especially in either very urban or very rural communities. If you don't drive on public roads and are already established in life with a job or bank account, you probably don't actually need an ID for much in your day to day life. Even activities that we normally think of as requiring an ID like traveling on a plane are possible without an ID if you are willing to jump through some hoops.
"sea level rise induced flooding and loss of arable land"

Didn't the Netherlands solve this problem 800 years ago using medieval technology? Their lowest city is 7m below sea level.
Huh? The whole point is that the California judiciary is literally saying that legally Uber cannot classify drivers as contractors.

So no, they cannot have independent contractors, unless you mean for the operations side of their business, which nobody is talking about so I hope not.
It's refreshing to see a major release of a frontend library that doesn't completely redo the API (React Router and Angular, take note). I remember there was a time when a bunch of features were being considered to be bolted on to JSX which was going to be called JSX 2.0[0]. I'm glad that never happened. Maybe the next version of React can even remove features, like hooks.

0. https://github.com/facebook/jsx/issues/65
I wonder if a merch for other fraud schemes existed how much would it cost and who would buy it? Imagine Bernie Madoff's t-shorts.
Yes. In order to avail onesself of the benefits of citizenship one must establish that they are in fact a citizen.
If I were Uber and Lyft I'd dropped the issue in California and instead of paying drivers directly, pay intermediary companies with full time drivers on their payroll.
All motorcycle mechanics have a sign "speed costs money, how fast do you want to go". It isn't a joke, most of them can get as much power out of a 500cc motor as industrial engines get out of 19 liters. The catch is that you have to rebuild the engine every 10 hours of operation, while the industrial engine will run non-stop for many years.
OK, that was my own ignorance of the fact that "pressure wave" is standard nomenclature.

But her comment that ammonium nitrate is a "low explosive" doesn't line up with what I've read.
Please don’t obsess about this, especially online. You play into the stereotype of the Bay Area as some latter-day 19th Century Boston, which was described in that era as "applying first principles to trifles". Forget it, kid, it’s Chinatown. Or not.
The images didn’t load until I disabled my PiHole. Seems it’s relying on GTM to load images. Just FYI
Yeah, why don't people in exploitative cults and abusive relationships just leave? And why don't homeless people just buy a house? And why don't people without bread just eat cake?
It's sad that the Node team has been debating this "unhandled rejection" issue for so many years, but I'm really excited to hear that this issue will finally be resolved once and for all this year.

If you've ever seen this warning, you probably want to fill out the survey, one way or another:

> [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

For my part, I'm filling out the survey to say that I definitely DO want the node process to stop when I throw an unhandled exception in an async function.
I checked, and all of the reservations I frequent (pre-pandemic) have applied for this. But I doubt we'll see any build-out.

You can give the tribes all the spectrum you want, but unless it's satellite-delivered, there isn't the infrastructure to support it. Electricity can be very scarce on the rez.

Heck, right now the Navajos are bickering about how to spend $600 million in CARES act money. Most people want to use it to get running water. A smaller portion want it to be used to run electric lines to their homes.

As usual, the people in charge of the money are trying to figure out how much to put into their own pockets again.
This election is going to be an absolute circus
Election officials could assign "strict" signature validators to certain targeted districts, so approx 10% of ballots get thrown out, and "loose" validators elsewhere, so only 2% of votes get tossed.
We need more love and compassion in the world today than ever before. Focus on the common threads and be good humans like Woz.
> Make it hard to accidentally call and hide it in the docs somewhere with items related to testing.

This would be more effective if so many other AWS features weren't hidden in non-obvious places in the docs.
Yes I would like to know this too. I know a guy that drives more than full-time for Uber (50+ hours pw).

I have a friend that drives approximately 8 hours pw for Uber.

How are drivers not choosing their own hours, exactly? That seems to be exactly what they are doing.

And when I say "Uber", I actually mean Uber/Lyft. And obviously in some parts of the US there are other apps and drivers use those too.