skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm far from an expert in Texas election law, but here is what I found in a quick Google search[1]. In order to get an Election Identification Certificate you need to go to a DMV office during business hours with a proof of citizenship and a proof of identity. It sounds like the existence of this ID is redundant if you need ID to acquire it. It almost seems designed solely to counter people when they complain voter ID laws are the equivalent of a poll tax.

[1] - https://www.dps.texas.gov/driverlicense/electionid.htm
>there’s just the internet.

It is, unfortunately, a new field of warfare.

I like to think I'm the most free speech loving, liberal progressive in any room I walk into. But I think the wild west of the internet that existed in the 90s and early 2000s that leant itself to idealistic visions of what the internet could be is not what we have today.

You can't build bridges that are then used against you for espionage, theft of intellectual property, disinformation, tracking and abducting political dissidents, and infiltrating critical national security infrastructure, and then point at that and say "this is free speech!" And if there's no room to acknowledge that in your understanding of how the modern internet works in reality, then I don't know that we're operating from a similar understanding of reality.
I would actually love to be wrong but nothing I can see convinces me that I am. I don't see the path to getting door-to-door in congested areas with pedestrians and cyclists that isn't even more dangerous for them than it is today.

I actually do think highway driving can be automated relatively easily but that still assumes a competent licensed driver behind the wheel.
The video was really good;

Looks like the party will be streamed Tuesday 5pm pacific.
If we're talking about the presidential election, you have four whole years to get an ID.

Also it seems like states are making it easier to get an ID [0]

[0] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/12/16767426/...
You're so close to getting the point
Uber/Lyft/etc create jobs that otherwise didn't exist, thus providing an additional option for potential workers. With the additional option, maybe that option is better than some people's alternative options. We can surmise that it probably is for a lot of them, as evidenced by their choice to be drivers for these companies. If they had a better option, they would presumably take that instead.

Your proposition that if one person makes more money then other people are worse off has an element of truth to it, since, sure, more demand for a given item (like housing) will tend to increase its price, all else equal. But I think that's the wrong way to think about the situation. Wealth creation is not zero sum.
This is only true at the start of your career. I’ve been consulting and contracting for decades; customers call me following word-of-mouth recommendation and ask me what my rate is.

Even when I was starting out, years ago, the palette of contract work offered was vast. I was never obliged to follow a cab-rank rule.
I suspect that isn't true, but it is an interesting question. There is a lot of water on the planet, some of it spends long periods locked up out of reach of drink ability.

I would guess that at most water has been drunk multiple times, but that there is some miniscule a fraction that moved between icecap, permafrost and deep water table and has avoided being consumed by an animal since it arrived on earth.

I would be interested to read a mathematical estimate of how many 9s of water on earth has been drunk at some point.
All this is true, but does not explain how to breed a flu virus with the appropriate disease causing attributes while keeping it virtually (>97%) identical.
I'm more interested in your response to the paragraph you conspicuously skipped:

> Anyway, version control is there now, and you can edit existing Git repos! Except it's actually GitHub, not Git, so I can't use it for any of my existing projects, including my programming language…
I don't think the CA Judge disputed that Uber could have a relationship with drivers that was legally structured as "independent contractor" but rather that the relationship Uber currently has with drivers does not meet the legal requirements to be classified as "independent contractor". If Uber wanted to change the requirements they place on drivers nobody is saying they couldn't be contractors under different circumstances.
This is so very unnecessary. Search has never been a great way to find things in a wiki. Much is found by discovery, navigating from the roots. To fix the wiki you start with the roots. And an informal B tree algorithm works pretty well for that.

If anyone happens to mention to me how it's after 4 and they don't want to start anything new, I suggest they clean up the wiki a bit.

Start from the landing pages and project pages. Every page should say what it's for right at the top (that way I know when I've gone to the wrong page). Any page that is too long or has too many outbound links needs to be simplified. Any content that is not about that subject, should go to one that is. If you spent 1/3 of a page about one topic talking about a different topic, that page has been hijacked, and it should be fixed.

Eventually all of the dead content is 5 links away from the root, the contemporary stuff and the things that are always true are a few clicks away from the landing pages. At this point it barely matters if old stuff is there.
Does the SDNY keep this money or does it go to restitution?
Sure, it would be beneficial if they had this flexibility, and nothing here prohibits this. Literally nothing prevents an employer allowing an employee from setting their own hours.

This ruling is a reclassification - the work that they have been doing in the manner they've been doing it is already employment. Or, in other words: the current relationship doesn't have to change a single bit, they just get additional benefits.
Treble was meant to be the key to making android roms easy to support but now the ROM scene is a fraction of what it was 5 years ago.
Your argument is right in principle, but it hides a proving-too-much fallacy.

By a similar reasoning one could claim that waiters/factory workers should also be independent contractors. If they don't like the pay in one business they can go work in another marketplace.

By this contrived example I mean to say that your analysis applies only to the superficial structure of the concept of employment. Ultimately social structures are not axiomatic field and should be treated accordingly.
Have you seen Trump's signature? I've never heard of any requirement that your signature be your name in cursive. Your signature is whatever you want it to be.
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Because they're already losing money, and they would lose money even faster if they have the same inefficiencies while also paying for new costs. They would eliminate flexibility to capitalize on reducing costs by having fewer employees with fixed costs that reliably cover the clock efficiently based on demand.

In other words, the same reason why restaurants don't allow a waiter to show up to work for 2 hours at 4AM.
Virtually all states have some type of vote by mail systems already. They just need the funding to expand them. Something that should have happened long long ago.
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> The government is an incredibly poor & wasteful allocator of capital. Full stop.

Which government? What is the threshold for “poor allocation”?

Seems like the free market misallocates a lot of capital to me. WeWork was allocated over a billion dollars of investment, and $47 billion in value, that could be easily argued would have be better used elsewhere.
Literally requiring some form of identification is not crazy.

That said, the Republican path of establishing voter ID laws is often part of a pattern of "let's make it hard for the poor and working class to get proper ID, and to vote".

Reducing early voting, not making ID cards free, etc. Voting should be a universal right in this country. The government should be putting in maximum effort to assist everyone who wants to vote, to be ready when the time comes, and enable early voting as much as possible.
> Sure, this could be true

To be fair, given that a judge has ruled on it, it now is true as a matter of law until repealed or otherwise changed by a higher court...
>There's still a huge amount of development being done in C.

I know, I do some of it! My point was more that 20 years ago in my experience you couldn't call yourself a coder if you didn't know some C. Nowadays I find that most novel coders know about it but can't really write it "fluently".

Many people still know, study and even use it, but it's not quite as ubiquitous as it once was.
Almost the last people I would trust to keep my information safe.

And I live here.
Still getting updates for my 7 year old ipad air 2. About to get ios 14 as well. Android has warped peoples perspectives on how long a device would get updated. On PC you can just keep installing updates until the device can't keep up anymore.
This is important: it is a published format.
If they have 10000 gallons of it, it doesn’t wear out. It just stays bottled up.
It seems like a very easy case to make. Regardless of whether the abstract corporate entity is losing money, Uber's founders, employees, and early investors have all done very well for themselves.
A while back, my mom was sending me links to Apple News articles. I had deleted[0] the app from my phone, and tapping the links wouldn’t let me read the stories in the browser because it knew I was on an iPhone. Instead, it tried to open in the app, and popped up a system dialog saying I had to reinstall Apple News. Truly aggravating.

[0]Preinstalled iOS apps you delete are actually just hidden and disabled until you “reinstall” from the App Store
This seems to be the goal of these politicians.
right? i mean, i'm a software developer contractor. should i be able to keep doing it so, or am i too dumb to realize that "my situation is actually bad"?

i get it, gig jobs are not perfect -- but for a lot of people, it's the only job they have. do california lawmakers think that no job is better than a shitty job?
That's an unfair caricature. The steelman version of that argument is that China has likely amassed a more robust global surveillance database (to the extent that that's even the right word to use) than the U.S.
Imagine how good things would be if the drivers were open source and in the kernel. We would still have bugs but at least it would be possible to fix them.
Isn't surface temperature a good proxy value of the amount of energy inside the system?
I'm not sure that it needs to be changed. Math has been represented in a similar fashion for a very very long time.
> What about the California judge?

Nothing about the ruling prevents Uber from having contractors. It prevents them from having employees (as determined by California law) that they label as contractors in order to skirt around legal requirements for employees.
Almost all land in India is agricultural land.

There's very little industrial land. And all of that is used.
And even if they did...most of the time their opinion would be "yeah, looks OK". You'd like that to just be stage 1 and call for further scrutiny if it turns out it would affect the result - but you can't, if you keep the evidence longer to revisit it during a recount, you lose the secrecy of the ballot.
It can cause friction though, if new programmers work on old code or new and seasoned programmers work on the same project.

Of those who do like Common Lisp, many like it because the standard hasn't changed in nearly thirty years (while simultaneously offering features added to the C++ standard just very recently, e.g. a filesystem path abstraction).
"Zero new features" was a nice marketing line for Snow Leopard. It did not reflect reality. Snow Leopard introduced Dock Exposé, Exchange support in Apple Mail, and Grand Central Dispatch. just to name three.

We've had similar releases since then which added a few new features but were primarily focused on stability. The most recent one was High Sierra. These do tend to be the best releases of macOS IMO.
Well one alternative representation really took off, that one where code is is a dataflow graph, whose nodes are all one-liners on a massive grid. I wonder what led to its success, where so many other interesting ideas have failed?
Yubikey's are a good place to store OTP codes. They also come with the added benefit of U2F.
The latter. Although I believe Apple News can also (poorly) read RSS feeds.
This is subjective, but the ratio is probably heavily skewed toward Intel.

Mercury Research reports AMD's market share of the server processor market is a mere 4.5%.

If I were a hardware vulnerability researcher I would absolutely be focusing on Intel over AMD.
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It actually is sort of by design. There is no federal administration of elections, that falls to states and counties. It then follows from this that the voter rolls would be fragmented and difficult to consolidate when people move and/or die.
To be fair, the founder didn't want to do IPO and according to rumors that was the reason why he was kicked out. All the toxic workplace stuff was just a narrative tool to make it happen more easily.

Also, it's a public market. No one is "holding the bag". This may be true if Uber crashed before the IPO because private investors can't easily sell, but once on the public and liquid market, it is the public investor's own choice to invest or divest in these companies.
The MiG-25 also have something similar where the engine redline is marked around Mach 2.8, but there's no system stopping the pilot from keeping it maxed to somewhere above Mach 3 but damaging the engine in the process.

Funnily enough I believe the SR-71 has the opposite problem, where the engines would merrily go above Mach 3.5 with no issue but the airframe and everything attached to it would get torn apart by the intense heat if the pilot tried to go any faster
Doesn't understand the difference between free-lance software engineer and indentured gypsy cab driver.

...not going to make it.
It's awkward. I feel I'm considered a minority when it doesn't matter much (e.g., Asian cast members in a movie) but ignored when it does matter (e.g., in the conversation of racial equality, acknowledgement of different ideas and culture, political representation). My family's history is not in the books how difficult it was to even get here (many people died escaping on boats), and started here from nothing in a foreign land where people think your culture is weird. And it's awkward to speak up about those types of things because at least we aren't getting shot up on the streets (yet).

With US and China going into a cold war too, it gets more awkward, and that's even more difficult to speak up about since they're public enemy #1 here.
CIA-staged gas pipeline explosion is an urban myth. I guess the same can be said about a lot of other casually known spy stories cited in this very discussion
Aside from the massive maintenance effort: what is keeping the community from taking all the driver code from the tons of official and unofficial code dumps and bringing them to mainline?
Cool product. How is this different from https://speakeasy.co?
I think it's more like cursive: some people still use it, but fewer than before.
Yeah - and admittedly I don't know California law at all. So it could very well be the State of California looks at this differently than other states and possibly different than the IRS, which might be throwing me (and maybe others) off.

Thanks for the link, that's interesting.
> Uber has spent their entire existence dancing in legal gray areas. It's hard to have a ton of sympathy for them when their over-generous re-interpretations of the law bite them in the ass on occasion.

True. But it's also hard to have sympathy for taxi medallion companies.

> It's not even an argument.

? It is, though. It's an argument that adults should be able to agree to whatever they want to agree to (or not). It's an argument for freedom.
In Oregon, the votes are received by teams of people that are required to have representatives from each of the major parties. They check signatures, then open the outer envelope and take out the secrecy envelope which has the ballot inside and toss that in another box. The person checking the signature does not do anything else with the ballot itself. Then the pile of ballots in their secrecy envelopes is given to another team and they open the envelope and process the ballot.

Yes, the mailman could commit a federal crime and figure out how you voted for. So if you're worried about that, drop the envelope in the actual ballot box.
Australia you just show up and say your name, but we have compulsory voting so fraud is easier to identify.
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Ceres is by and large H2O (by volume).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)#Internal_...
Having been a driver for 1.5 years my questions for you are these:

1. If Uber and Lyft allow their drivers to choose, would it be reasonable for them to make "having the other app on at the same time" cause for dismissal? I know of no other employee that is allowed to simultaneously bill time on a competitor. Contractors, absolutely. Employees, no.

2. What if Uber, instead, charged $1.00/mo for the drivers to use the app, thereby making them customers instead of contractors?
I agree completely, hence why I want a big player that can throw their weight around to try something. You'd basically have to create a whole ecosystem around your fancy new tool.

It's a very tall order for some lone coder in their basement, but it's called Monday for Google.
Except it's an auction...

It seems people are just determined to keep throwing money into the Fyre.
... the first time is always free ;)
I definitely want a gov't healthcare solution here, but I don't think that it's the whole picture. Australia is worse off[1] and they have a better system

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/australians-are-fat-and-gett...
> You can either say in both case do nothing, or in both case do something.

If I lived in a world lacking in nuance, I would agree. I do not live in that world.
Repl.it is set of automation and UI tools that makes it easy for beginners learn to code and for developers to test or prototype projects.

Any feature that's implemented in the UI is implemented as abstraction over things you can do by opening the shell. Because we are a small team that prizes simplicity over completeness, and because GH is the most popular we just made that the default.

But you can open the shell (command/cntrl+k and type "shell") then use git to your hearts desire :)

We'll probably add native GitLab or whatever others want in the future. You can always leave feedback here and tell us what you want: https://repl.it/feedback
He was the creator of Debian. He passed away in 2015.
It's an auction, so the prices are set by how much people are willing to bid.
Aren’t investors supposed to research what they’re investing in?
If things go that way, the headhunter lost their cut of that 50K. Instead, a good headhunter should have some idea of what the company is willing to pay.

For me, I find things usually go the other way. I could spend a lot of time working through the process, only to find out that I'm too expensive for the company. I don't need the frustration of working through the process at several companies just to find out that none of them will pay me.
> All the toxic workplace stuff was just a narrative tool

That's a pretty bold claim. What of all the reports of a toxic workplace? I've heard first-hand accounts.
> people who are trained, on factory floors, who are there to reverse engineer processes.

I only read this once and don't know if it is true. Supposedly Technology Transfer was/is a distinct engineering specialty in China, up there perhaps with Civil, Electrical.

Coincidentally this was while working with a US manufacturer which somehow could never satisfy a Tech Transfer arrangement completely enough to get the final contracted payment. (Mixed reasons there.)

Frankly I wonder if China will [thus] preserve aspects of industrial civilization while the US works and/or collapses toward a relative dark age. (One case in point: nuclear power generation.)
Haven't clicked the link (yet), but I'm pretty sure it's Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In as The Telephone Operator: "Is this the party to whom I am speaking? (Snort, snort.)"
Quantum mechanics can verify that a bomb works without having to detonate it
Maybe I'm just not creative enough, but I'd like to know how I would go about committing fraud with my mail-in ballot. I only get one ballot, so I only get to vote once. I could try to steal someone else's and vote with it, but they might notice their lack of ballot and report it to the elections office. And if I voted and they voted, it would get flagged immediately and then the police would get involved. The penalties are pretty stiff considering how little value you'd think one little vote has. You need to figure out how to do it in quantity to offset that risk. Good luck.
Ask HN: How do you generate documentation?
It seems there's a new Open Source documentation generator project out there pretty regularly and I'm sure a litany of paid services to manage better docs. In the past we've used lots of different tools from jsdoc parsers to stoplight; however we're in the need for a new solution that can work well for a very small team.

Primarily looking for:

- API Docs
- SDK Docs
- Code structure docs (beyond tests and codecoverage)
Well, C hasn't been designed to be evolving and was also quite under-specified through most of its history; a hacker's delight, a tool to get things done, quick, but not a receipt for long-term maintainability. Given that, I'd think C did rather well.
How does the existence of Uber impede on your ability to get another job? Do you really think if the company shut the lights off today all of its drivers would be better off?
Did you actually read the article? At no point does it actually state that 1/10 ballots were proof of voter fraud:

"Most commonly, officials did not count ballots because the signature on the ballot did not match the one on file, the ballot arrived too late or the required certificate was not enclosed."
> There are other market players than Uber, and Uber is in no way a taxi monopoly

True, but not relevant to my point which is that uber explicitly sets the rates, not drivers, and not the market. I understand why they do this, but it's simply false to say that drivers having the option to sometimes pass up on rides is the equivalent of setting their own rate.
The testing would consist of running the diesel generators under load but not operating in abnormal conditions.