skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was interesting:

"Intel documented how the original software developer could mechanically translate an 8-bit program into a 16-bit program. Only the developer of the program with possession of the source code could make this translation. I designed DOS so the translated program would work the same as it had with CP/M – translation compatibility. The key to making this work was implementing the CP/M API."

https://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-dos-rip-off-of-...
> And this is how backwards compatibility comes to kill innovation.

With all of the novel and esoteric programming languages that exist, I wonder why hasn't there been a "I can't believe it's not c/c++" language that breaks these things, but isn't taken seriously enough to diverge completely from the ISO language standards. (for bonus points, with standardized gcc extensions, and something like embedded asm but for compiled languages (like iso standard c))
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people
1 kettlebell. 1 jump rope. Thank me later. ;-)
given how effective IRS is, can we vote with our tax return?
My Cyberpower 1500VA actually says not to plug laser printers into the Battery Load side. It's rated for 1500W, but you know it won't work when the manufacturer says it.
here is an amazing view of the explosion. https://youtu.be/hp-n-ghagok
Do you mean biannually (every 6 months) or biennially (every 24 months)?
And for that reason, it's the most regressive form of taxation.
I'm a big fan of pyenv [1] with the pyenv-virtualenv extension [2]. The combination makes handling virtual environments with different Python versions incredibly easy.

[1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

[2] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv
that is if you reject my vote, I don't need to pay tax for a year
You could, and then you'd get up to the 60s, and... then you couldn't anymore.

I notice that you say you could but you actually didn't...
TypeORM's velocity and/or lack of a 1.0 release is troubling. I've been trying to push nest recently to gain some consistency vs wild-west express apps, but TypeORM has been the rough spot. I can see the appeal of using something like the pg driver directly, but then there's all that data mapping.
Honestly, I've lost track of the actual argument in this app-taxi space. Is it primarily health insurance? What is the employee benefit that is the crux of the issue for the average driver?
depends on how you measure impact. If you're a teacher and you educate thousands of kids that arguably has more of an impact than being successful at selling a lot of gadgets, it's just not compensated as handsomely. To take it to the extreme, you can be a world famous celebrity for a decade or two but a few years after you retire nobody remembers who you are.

from the article

>"But something felt wrong. After a day of talking, I was often exhausted and unfulfilled. Two hours spent with one person who wants to “pick my brain” is two hours I could have spent making something that could be useful to the whole world, including that one person.
Then people in America started emailing to ask why I’d been so silent. No new articles? No new projects? Nothing?So there’s the trade-off. When I’m local-focused, I may be useful to my community, but I’m not being as useful to the rest of the world."

the real problem here is mistaking the gratification one gets from github stars with the real impact one can have over a lifetime, and it doesn't always feel gratifying. Help one person instead of writing a thousand blog posts, don't confuse being well known with being genuinely useful.
I see your point, but it seems like something would have filled the void. There was no shortage of talented people wanting to drive global tech.

In the case of Woz, I'm not sure someone would have filled the gap for the local good he did. It may have just not happened.
You mean the "Click here to reload Twitter" thing? That's spam protection, I hit this regularly after restarting Chrome (with ~600 tabs).
It shouldn't matter, just remember to shut off the alarm for power savings.
you could probably just print one on RedBubble. I don't think anyone will stop you.
10.6.8?
You can see the number of bids on each item. The $505 adjustable baseball cap isn't a price set by the police, it's what the 45th bid was.
Congrats. Just curious what is your max on concurrent users?
Android and Chromebooks are usually pretty closed in spite if having a Linux kernel.
Maybe.

I think it's also because the worst direct consequences (sea level rise induced flooding and loss of arable land, wet bulb temperatures that will kill you if you're exposed for more than an hour) will mainly hit other people in a belt from Northern Brazil through the Sahel, the Middle East and Asia to China up to Harbin.

Pretty much all of those people are invisible to westerners.

But taking action means making your lifestyle worse: Never flying. Avoiding using a car as much as possible. Making meat a special occasion food (once a year). Buying things that last two or four decades instead of fashion items.

"I'm all right, Jack" is the thinking.
I enjoyed this. I probably read it in 2017 but it carries new meaning given the new vectors of disparity. Of these caricatures of late 20-somethings, two are likely now out of work and dealing with a whole new set of problems. The third mostly complains about having to work from home and how food delivery is less reliable than it used to be.
The reality is that these "gig economy" jobs are neither "Employee" nor "Contractor".

It's a new kind of working relationship, and jurisdictions insisting on one of the old categories can't really have a modern gig economy.
Presumably they would have tested extensively for regressions. But I'm not sure what would break that wasn't already broken. It was an obscure undocumented case that was not intuitive.
As someone who wrote 16-bit x86 Asm for a long time, if you are writing Asm by hand, the "tiny" model is not as tiny as it may sound at first glance --- 65,536 bytes seems very far when you can write useful applications starting in the dozens of bytes and going up to a few KB. A "Hello World" is around 21 bytes, half of which is the message itself. The majority of the executables that came with MS-DOS 6.22 are under 64K as well, despite being written in C.

Then I look at the Win32 C equivalent with the default MSVC compiler options, and it's over 64KB already...
What it ends up being for normal usage is something like this:

add(1)(2)

Which is admittedly a little bit clunky, though from a quick read I don't think the library helps with this.

You might be interested in the "pipeline operator" proposal. In addition to pairing nicely with curried functions, it offers a certain amount of re-ordering.
I agree on the geolocation in the bay area being a huge factor. I grew up in the South Bay(wife grew up on the Pennisula) and where you lived made a huge difference. A person who owns a small construction business or was a mid manager in the south bay(San Jose, Santa Clara..) could be at the top of the spectrum so to speak in this article(their kids go to USC, Stanford etc,) and the same person on the pennisula would be solidly middle class(kids have to attend state school or mid-tier) due to funds). I knew friends parents who both had advanced science degrees and lived in the Pennisula(Mtn View, Palo Alto) and were forever renters due to cost of living and this was late 90's early 2000's.
Why not just raise taxes because either way, it's the consumer paying. Not Uber.

It would take much less effort
Like many, I used to store the otp seeds in offline secure "bugout" storage, but I came to see that this pushes totp even further away from "something you have" than it already is. So I just store the emergency recovery codes in the bugout storage now, and treat a token wipe as a rare enough event that I can tolerate it. At least you'll be notified if someone compromises your recovery codes.

You're right to be reluctant to keep them in a password manager for sure
>I've been able to compile and run C and C++ code from 20 years ago a truly amazing number of times. It's really surprising at how easy it is to work with well written code even if it's decades old.

Not if you have used any third party libraries. Dependency management is a nightmare in these languages.
>Which of course, should have people wonder if climate change model couldn't also be off by orders of magnitude ?

Does the world even see the accuracy of modelling that dictated public policies?

Actually, I am hopeful that the general sentiment of science-led public policy is more likely to be improving this year. Exactly because countries that didn't confine showed a VAST difference compared to some others that did.

Privileged countries with functioning governments were able to trust their experts, act early and decisively, resulting in not digging mass graves.

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

Does the world see this? I hope so.
I love this visual technique. I appreciate that the New York Times is slowly moving the needle on digital storytelling with their different incarnations of "scrollytelling." This is a technique I feel like I haven't seen yet.
Docker will save you a lot of headaches https://hub.docker.com/_/python
Do you have any links to articles/discussions about this proposed direction?

I'm pretty sure I agree... and would like to further develop my opinion about ~this stuff.

It's so dumb for an individual to go bankrupt from a random health issue and/or pay a ton of money each month for "insurance" that is basically useless; and also dumb for an employer to be responsible or in control of anything having to do with an individual's health care decisions.
The consequences of this ruling are probably not going to be known for a while. This is certainly bad for Uber & Lyft insofar as it will greatly increase their operating costs. The question is what effect the ruling will have on drivers.

Uber is not a profitable company with fat margins like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Netflix. I don't see any way for Uber to absorb the increased costs that come with full employment without reducing the number of drivers and increasing the cost of rides in California.

The change in employment classification means that drivers will no longer be able to choose when they work. Uber will choose when they work, and for how long. The barrier to becoming an Uber driver will increase. Currently, in most cities it's possible to sign up to drive entirely online and basically just requires a license and a completed background check. Going forward people who want to drive for Uber will have to interview like any other job, probably in-person with a resume, and jump through the many hoops which that process entails.

My guess is that for new drivers who can pass the interview and existing full-time drivers who don't get laid off this will bring a big improvement in quality of life and provide some much-needed financial security and benefits. The rest will be out of a job.

I think it's unfortunate that some kind of compromise couldn't be reached which would have provided some economic security for these workers while accounting for the real differences between gig work and regular employment.
A few years back me and the wife went on a cruise that disembarked in NOLA. We had a lovely time and at one point went to buy some new luggage cases: one of ours had fallen to bits and the other had suffered somewhat (my fault.) We took the tram out of town to a mall on the outskirts and hit a decent sized department store.

I was offered a tablet to sign on when I offered up my card. So I took back my card and signed it on the back and then loosely repeated that same signature on the tablet thing.

I'd had that card for around two years. I never sign them these days because it doesn't really mean anything around here any more in the UK. Bear in mind I am old enough to remember signing cheques for "To cash".
It gets complicated. See [1]. Basically, if Uber wanted to prevent employees from also taking rides for Lyft it would have to provide several minimum guarantees that would significantly increase driver costs. Namely, total comp regardless of rides provided needs to meet or exceed minimum wage and worked overtime would need to be paid as such. In other words, to prevent a driver from accepting Lyft rides for 8 hours, Uber would either have to pay the driver for any time they are not driving fares around during those 8 hours or increase payment until the drivers get the equivalent of minimum wage.

If this were to happen in practice, you would most certainly see a drop in the number of drivers and an increase in per-mile costs to customers.

[1] https://sbshrs.adpinfo.com/blog/pay-rules-commissioned-tippe...
There is an implied identification that is effective. Some neighborhoods vote one way, and other neighborhoods vote the other way. Postal workers can purposely misplace/delay/destroy the votes for a whole neighborhood.
The more they run the name down, the more the price goes up.
Google updates causing huge changes in search rankings
> except uber/lyft will remove you from the platform if you decline too many rides, thereby only giving the illusion of choice.

Factually incorrect for Uber drivers in CA, the platform no longer penalizes drivers for declining trips and now allows them to pick and choose trips without any impact on driver rating. (I worked in Uber Eng up until the 5/18 layoffs)
Yeah I think your quick read is off:

add4(1)(3)(5)(10)
add4(1)(3,5)(10)
add4(1,3,5,10)
// 19
Some architectures you might like reading about:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine#CM_designs

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/index.html#arc...
Uber drivers don't have the option to set their rates. They cannot "ask for any price they want from Uber", they agree to accept the rates explicitly set by Uber: that's the contract; not every employment contract meets the legal definition of "contract employment"
My comment was intended to be descriptive, rather than prescriptive. IP theft isn't a new thing and American companies no doubt take it into account when manufacturing overseas.

Enforcing IP internationally is actually quite difficult anyways. Tariffs effectively restrict manufacturing overseas, as there's some breaking point in cost to produce.

I don't believe banning trade / manufacturing to China is a good idea, we depend on them for cheap consumer goods, and they depend on that revenue. We developed a dependency on Chinese manufacturing because it was cheap, and no with little to no manufacturing ability stateside, we're tied to their economy.

As someone who worked for the D.O.E for years, I can care less where consumer goods / technology is manufactured. The US government already has VERY strict rules about manufacturing for military / transportation equipment. "National Defense" isn't going to be decided by who owns TikTok or app-de-jour.
Well given that whites are a majority of the population, it makes sense that the president would need a sizable chunk of that populace. What am I missing here?
Just because someone said something doesn't make it wrong.
For the first item there are 45 bids, so obviously there are people that disagree this is "robbery".
> Murder as well

Murder is always wrong. Killing is not.

> Abortion is a matter of personal beliefs, one may be lucky to live in a place where this is left to the individual woman.

No it's murder plain and simple. Dehumanizing the unborn child is the same tatica slave holders make to justify enslaving people.

> Euthanasia or suicide generally speaking is strictly individual.

Euthanasia is not individual. You are asking someone else to murder you. You cannot consent to be murdered or cannibalized.

Suffering is not objectively evil. I suffer the when the dentist gives me a filling. This is morally right because I have a duty to care for my body. Drilling my teeth to simply excite is wrong. Similarly with Euthanasia it is never right be cause you are asking someone to murder you which is always wrong.
Possibly - whats your use case?
That's one of the reason Atari/Amiga fans were so happy with their 68000 CPUs. It was so much simpler to program on.
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as the article explains the difference between a pressure wave and shock wave is in their speed of propagation,

pressure waves travel below speed of sound, shock waves travel faster than the speed of sound.
Qantas Plans 12 Hour Non-Stop Day Trips to Antarctica with Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Haha love this!
I can wait tables part time at multiple restaurants.
Disney Streamers Hit 100M
In spite of soaring subscription numbers, shutdowns resulting from the coronavirus contributed to a $4.7 billion quarterly loss.
Russia Covid-19 Vaccine Release Pandora Box
> Drivers are not setting the price directly with the customers, they are getting paid by Uber/Lyft, but that doesn't make them employees.

Uber in CA launched a feature allowing drivers to set their own fares https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/ so there is inbuilt flexibility.
I'm using OpenAPI, Doxygen and Asciidoctor. We also have Phabrixator for internal wiki and project tools
This is an unprecedented change. We notice across the board reductions in how we ranked for all terms we're tracking. Lots of people seeing the same. Anecdotally, seems big companies are being prioritized while smaller businesses, blogs, affiliate sites are being penalized.
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> you don't need to show photo ID to vote, so the level of verification that occurs in person vs by mail is the same

Except that voting in-person requires traveling to public places where you're seen by others, and likely walk past at least 1 security camera along the way (not to mention pinging every cell-tower while traveling). That's pretty daunting compared to filling out a bunch of voting forms and dropping them in a mailbox.
We really should be updating our planes from S3 and running the entire fleet on Kubernetes with Kafka to handle all the Airline tickets and Redis to make it all go fast.
I think that's internet in general. HN has 30 slots which change upto 4-6 times a day. That's 120 slots and assuming only 5% of them are show HN: new programming language. It's vastly smaller than the number of software engineers that are produced every year.

That's in millions.
no. There's no reason why you couldn't do both. There's plenty of apps where you both pay for entry and pay a cut out of each transaction.
Part of the whole argument is not only whether drivers are technically employees or contractor but also whether Uber/Lyft are stretching those category so much that neither is a good fit for the situation.

As far as I understand one of the problems is that the drivers' market is so saturated that both Uber and Lyft can act as if they where monopolies (or maybe monopsonies). They can technically move to a competitor but that applies no pressure on the market.

Again, what makes this situation tricky is that it is essentially creating a new kind of employement-like relationship that current laws and regulation do not really account for.
> I can imagine Uber offering jobs v.s. contractor positions with differing levels of support, remuneration, and expectations.

Legally, in California, they can't do that. As outlined in the article, the 'ABC test' is the legal test for determining whether someone is an employee or a contractor. The 'B' part of that test is "The worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business." If you are an employer, you could not have one group of drivers that you classify as employees and the other you classify as contractors, not if they're basically doing the same work.

Note this is common in a lot of different businesses, and there have been many lawsuits where contractors who DID want to be classified as employees argued that they were basically doing the same work as employees. There was a fairly famous case involving Microsoft 2 decades ago: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589538/it-personnel-m...
You're right in so far as there's no direct supporting evidence. However, let's put a few things together:

1: May 6th, Trump appointee Louis DeJoy confirmed as Postmaster General and CEO.

2: June 30, Trump suggests that mail-in voting is fraudulent and suggests delaying the election because of it https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12888181603895582...

3: July 15, DeJoy starts cutting costs and overtime during one of the most trying times the USPS has ever seen, resulting in delays: https://apnews.com/59c25efd4d325c4895f8ba85517f9bfd

4: August 7, DeJoy fires or reassigns 23 top executives, dramatically changing the existing power structure and centralizing decision making at the top. https://www.fastcompany.com/90538378/whats-happening-with-th...

No, those executives don't deliver mail. They did make all the decisions about how mail is delivered, who does it, and when. By centralizing the power structure DeJoy has put himself in the position of being able to make arbitrary decisions about postal delivery with very little immediate oversight.

The USPS is playing an unusually large role in this election and Trump (and, let's not forget, state-level actors that continue to take active measures in US elections) has indicated that he's open to messing with mail delivery to win.
>For example, how often have you seen a malloc check for `ENOMEM`?

I've never concerned myself with that, but it's apparently a lot more complicated than just doing that check.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20143277

https://scvalex.net/posts/6/

Some of the thread is hilarious, for instance:

"malloc is not allowed to return a non-null pointer to a memory block that cannot be written to. Linux does it anyway, and in doing so blatantly violates the standard.

...

That is my point, it doesn't fail. Either the kernel finds out a way to map the memory and it succeeds, or it kill the program and the instruction never runs. Code that doesn't run can't violate the standard."
Well, Ring Fit Adventure has been sold out everywhere for months (except for opportunistic resellers who are selling it at a huge markup over MSRP.) It's pretty good if you can snag a copy at the regular price.

As long as the lockdown continues, I expect people will continue home-based exercise, and are more likely to prepare their own food as well.
I'm confused if they are single items.

There are several tokens listed, all appear identical, but one has a current bid of $187 [1] and another $78 [2].

[1]https://txauction.com/lots/24143
[2]https://txauction.com/lots/24175
I think many executives see cost savings in the SaaS model. Cutting headcount and systems that need to be maintained in-house are a big plus.

Even if it's not the right approach, the points above do make it unavoidable in some organizations, mostly bigger non-tech companies. You can also see this with role combinations, increased developer responsibilities, and reduction in formal training. At least this is what I've seen in my company.
On this note, it would be nice for mobile OS's to have their own OTP generator, to prevent the need for a single app just to store the password manager OTP. Google has Authenticator, but I don't know if there's a built-in to iOS, which could have keyboard-based convenience pasting too.
What autonomy would Uber need to provide?
So when lyft is liable for meeting a minimum wage, how is time calculated? Based on logged-in time? Based on in-ride time? What if I'm in ride and I leave the other app on, and get a ride on the tail end of the ride I'm in (I've seen a driver do this).
From your article, it looks like you can apply online for voter ID in India, and mail in identity documents. It is also free to obtain. That's voter ID done right.