skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really cool. Developing flavors is really hit and miss. You can't just grab the top 10 chemicals you see on a mass spectrometer. There are very complicated interactions between things, and tiny little parts-per-trillion bumps on the graph will have a huge effect. Plus, you often can't use the exact molecules found in the thing -- they may not be stable enough to package, or react with heat, or acid.

Flavors really do come down to somebody whipping up a batch and sniffing. I doubt we'll ever get rid of that, but having some software to give a leg up on the process would be very helpful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access

In modern multicore CPUs I think each core has its own cache and there is shared cache between all cores, and then you have the NUMA DRAM.
I think he was arguing that the execs at Uber didn't really care about the toxic workplace stuff until Uber's founder said he didn't want to IPO, then they used it as a way to kick him out.

So basically the workplace is toxic, but that's not the real reason why he was kicked out (according to the comment you were replying to).
Does Hydroxychloroquine Work?
How can you live in this society without some proof of identity?
BeyondCorp is their term for secure communication between users and services, BeyondProd is for communication between services: https://cloud.google.com/security/beyondprod
Most driving is in limited circumstances, of course they're not going to offer self-driving rides when it's snowy or raining heavily.
Ballot harvesting. The party (or activists) can send people house to house collecting ballots. Two things can happen. The can get the person to sign a blank ballot which the harvester fills out, or the can simply thorw out ballots for the opposing political party.
Your address, or your name, will be enough to determine how you most likely voted.

The mailman sees even more. If you live in a condo and drive a Prius with a "Coexist" sticker, you probably voted one way. If you live in a single-family home with a big yard and you drive a pickup with a "Blue lives matter" license plate holder, you probably voted the other way.
C++17 has this! See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/if.
> Lags behind in server side frameworks adoption

What do you mean by this? Which server-side frameworks? Are you comparing Next and Nuxt?
Huh. Wouldn't this have caused inter-operability problems for programs that spawn other processes?
I'm excited to see the work on the Modern Event System land. I tried to dig into all the events code in React to understand how events in React Portals bubbled up because I wanted to prevent them from bubbling out of the portal in many cases (GH issue: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11387). In 16.x, the modern event system was in the tree but unused by default, and it was very confusing to try to trace event handling logic between the two event systems. Removing the legacy event system will make the event system much more accessible to new contributors.

Can someone on the React team speak to how event delegation works when there are portals present? Where is the event handler for a portal bound, and how does the new events system handle event bubbling across multiple versions of React in portal trees?
To further clarify, the germane risk (the topic of the post) was mentioned:

> Our business would be adversely affected if Drivers were classified as employees instead of independent contractors.
Bi-directional linking please
I don't know anything about being flagged either. If something was flagged here, it wasn't I that did it.
I don't really think in terms like "at what level in the org chart is it okay", but if pressed I guess I'd have to say that it's never ok to say that someone lied when you don't have evidence of that.

Keep in mind that the word "lie" is strong medicine. It implies not only that someone said something untrue but that they deliberately intended to deceive.
And how exactly do you plan to register fake voters? Are you going to go to the DMV with forged Social Security cards and birth certificates?
> master password is kept in a safe (in case I get hit in the head and forget it).

In that case I hope it's a biometric safe.
Her. https://www.wired.com/author/rachel-lance/
Ouch, sorry, of course I meant that waiving the fees isn't sufficient to make it ubiquitous immediately, I fixed the typo.
I think I'd be in the market for a new cult leader if they tried to pull that!
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There's a difference between believing in start up hype and looking at the evidence on the ground. It's an even larger leap in claiming it's decades away while the technology is in testing right now.
I would say that Roam Research inspired a mini-notetaking-boom! The reason is that it's based off a good idea, but it's very much a walled garden and the $15/mo price is very clearly aimed at attracting institutional licenses, rather than individuals.

The folks at Athens Research [1] are creating an open-source alternative, and I expect they will soon eat Roam's lunch.

[1]: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
This is textbook concern trolling. We shouldn't engage with it directly on it terms, only as a crystal clear example of how disingenuously lobbyists will use "technically correct" marginal criticisms. Not to defeat progress/clean-energy, but simply to slow it down by tying us all up in "debate".

It should also clearly be noted that this is on forbes.com, who has openly embraced being the go to place for lobbyists to publish this type of thing.
This seems to pretty conclusively result in Uber drivers being employees, then. Specifically, in B. It's going to be hard for Uber to argue that driving cars is outside of the usual course of Uber's business.
I don’t think the article is supposed to be a description of every small class of people in the Bay Area. I think it is merely to give an impression of the inner lives of some different people in roughly the same place. Certainly I didn’t read it as “here are representatives of the three sets which partition the population of the Bay Area” so much as “here is what the Bay Area means to three different stereotypes of people I’ve met”
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The author seems to be unhappy about parents being able to pass some of their success on to their children.

If you couldn't do it, would there much motivation to succeed in the first place?

From another angle, does the movement to equalize children have any chances against those above the median (and those from below hoping to get ahead)?
Obviously there is waste in any production method.

Electric cars do not make smog near cities, ICE cars do.

If Electric vehicle manufacturing makes smog, you can install scrubbers to filter all of that... (you can’t do that with ICE, so Electric wins).
Here's a classic:

char *strcpy(char *d, char *s) {
char *r = d;
while (*d++ = *s++);
return r;
}

(If you don't need the return value, this becomes even nicer.)
I know in Georgia if you move from one County to another there could be duplicate voter registrations. If you die or move out of state your voter registration may not be terminated. Either could allow duplicate votes. Another vector for mailed ballots is simply stealing them. If I know the state mailed them all two days ago and I received mine today, chances are my neighbors also got theirs. I could just steal their ballot, mark down who I want, and drop them all at a random blue mailbox.
Both followed their own muse.

Perhaps Job's muse seems more cruel. But what else could he do?
I think they will usually refer to this as "oceans" or "liquid oceans". The term "water" as far as I know only refers to H2O.
Maybe 50,000 is when the battery starts to degrade badly? Agreed that something like 200,000+ isn’t unreasonable for a car made after 2000 or so, when they all started getting way more reliable and long-lived.
Actually Trump is just fighting for the interests of Americans. Interesting fan-fiction though!
> how do we know that this time is the time when models of immensely complex phenomenon [climate change] will be correct ?

Models of all degrees of complexity agree, from zero-dimensional energy balance equations, through 1D, 2D, and 3D with progressively more and more detail and biophysical processes added.

They all agree, within the amount of detail that each complexity level is capable of.

We also have the evidence of history, as we do for pandemics, but our current political leaders paid no attention to the history because "this time is different".
There is no bureaucratic governmental labor-intensive process that "just needs funding" to expand instantly. They also need time & multiple experience/training/improvement cycles.

This is especially true in foundational processes where, in some cases, the slow rate of change & large involvement of many competing groups is part of its institutional legitimacy.

Oregon's system was incrementally expanded for additional, and larger, elections over 15 years: https://multco.us/elections/brief-history-vote-mail-oregon
This may be a case of "to explain research to media, researcher dumbs down findings until they no longer reflect outcome of study"
To avoid software rot, delete all the code every year!
The parallel effort is the demonization of Section 230. Subjecting web companies to liability for users' speech is the surest way to squelch all that messy, hard to control speech.

Things will certainly be much cleaner when your public information comes from a short list of large companies with a lot to lose.
Mentioning it in a drive-by snarky comment is flamebait. We want thoughtful discussion here.
It is just a personal wiki! Focusing on Obsidian, I think the appeal though is that it automatically creates a wiki from your personal notes. Just type [[wikilinks]] and everything else is done for you.

Maintaining a proper wiki by oneself is too much overhead, but Obsidian is a nice extra on top of standard markdown notes.
I use Microsoft Authenticator App, which has an option to backup secrets to OneDrive. I now use it for all services which support 2FA setup via QR code, including Google accounts.

Previously it was Google Authenticator, which didn't seem to have a backup option.
Free choice to work and free choice to pair drivers with riders is as close to a free market as you can find. It works great. As soon as regulation enters the room the dynamic changes.
How would git have handled the same issue?

I imagine if Linus pushed
to the remote repo, it would have said “your repo isn’t up to date”.

But AFAIK, it doesn’t have the same sort of built in checksum checkers.

If an attacker signed the commit insecurely, would git complain? Can you set git to require PGP signatures?

Probably.
I’ve never heard this story, thanks for sharing!
There is no legal obstacle to Uber/Lyft continuing to allow drivers all of the flexibility they currently allow, even if they have to treat them as employees. That can even be legally protected in an enforceable way by the employment contract if desired, as can any other current Uber/Lyft driver flexibility you're referencing.

The only thing that is being lost here is the inability of Uber/Lyft to pay less than a minimum wage and otherwise deprive the drivers of the benefits that employees are entitled to.

Anyway, it's not like Uber/Lyft were giving drivers the choice whether to be contractors or employees so that the drivers could pick the status they prefer - nor does the law ever truly allow that except when the genuine nature of the services relationship is adjusted based on the answer to legitimately conform to the desired status. They're forcing everyone to pick the status that's generally more expensive and precarious for the worker.
> If a driver wants to offer their services for more or less than uber decides, they cannot, and are forced to lower or raise their price in order to gain access to the market.

The drivers can ask for any price they want from Uber. Uber can either accept it or not. That’s a negotiation. What more do you think it needs to be a negotiation? That’s just like a normal contract. I may want my fence painted but I’m not paying over £500. If I won’t go below that is it no longer contracting?
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2. Contractors can also be customers.
I feel like I am repeating myself now. The point is not that these tools can't be used for evil. The point is that banning these tools does not prevent evil.

Would the Holocaust have happened without IBM's participation?

Would the Holocaust have happened if punch cards were banned?

Would the Holocaust have happened if the Nazis didn't have census data?

The answer to those questions is an obvious yes. These logistical obstacles would have been nothing but a mild inconvenience for the Nazi death machine.
Sure, but as a first generation tech immigrant, it made me feel transparent and ignored, since living in the south bay it feels like we are the majority or at least the single largest group.

EDIT: Also, the title is The Three Bay Areas, not "A Tale of Three Bay Areas" or alike.
Another fun fact I discovered the hard way is that many APC UPSes refuse to go back into bypass when they are supplied by a small generator with a dirty waveform.

We had quite a few APC units in the 1990s and 2000s, and I had the impression the older ones were easier on batteries. We were on a three year replacement cycle until Y2K, and after that we found it necessary to check the batteries every six months or so in the newer units.
The thing is that the option to be a contractor can always exist, along with having an option to be a full time employee. Generally, I agree that a company shouldn't be an entity that its core workforce is a bunch of "temps"
This was fascinating to read, thanks for sharing! I hadn’t thought about how much harder it would be to create life out of other elements due to chemistry. Had previously believed the chances were small that other life would be similar to us, given so many options. You’ve convinced me that it seems more likely that other life would be carbon/water based as well due to those limitations.
There's nothing in the law that prevents employers from giving their permission to remain available for competitive work at the same time. Indeed, isn't that quite close to the dynamic of a union hiring hall situation, where union members are simultaneously available for jobs from any of the employers with contracts with that union?

Of course, one wouldn't be actively working for two employers at the same instant, but neither would one be simultaneously driving an Uber ride and a Lyft ride.
So literally defeating the purpose of e2e encryption where the conversations are between me and the other person. Not parsed prior for advertising. In any case people should avoid WhatsApp as it’s clearly less secure now that Facebook owns it.
Ceres actually has a similar classification history to Pluto, at one time being called a "planet" and then demoted to "asteroid". Later it became a "dwarf planet" when Pluto was reclassified.
Not who you were replying to, but:

* Most of my notes relate to a single blog post / article / paper that I read.

* In my notes, I jot down any new concepts I learned, and summarize them in a way I know I will be able to understand later.

* I'm very forgetful, so it helps to have this type of "condensed" representation so I can go back and review in six months when I inevitably forget what I learned.

* It's even better if my note-taking software can help me find old notes that I may have forgotten about. This is where tags and bidirectional links come in handy.

* My notes contain a lot of math, which is why I can't just use a plain text editor. The side-by-side style some editors use (like the VS Code Markdown Preview) is also suboptimal, because it wastes screen space -- normally I want half my screen to be notes, the other half to be a pdf). So far, Typora is the only software I've used that gets math editing right. But I'm slowly working to fix that! [1,2]

[1] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math
[2] https://benrbray.com/static/prosemirror-math/index.html (only tested in chrome)
Yes and?

If I owned slaves and called them unpaid indefinite interns the law would rightly disagree. You can call the relationship whatever you like, but the law is there to keep the playing field level for everyone. That it's taken Uber so long to play by the same rules as everyone else is a travesty and should take a billion dollar law suit or two for damages to sort out.
Anytime Woz comes up, I can't help but think of this sentence that he wrote, way back on Google+, sometime in 2013, after the release of the Jobs film:

"And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time."
What if Uber adds an option where a driver can set a minimum rate per mile or per estimated minute, does that shift the balance back to making them contractors again?
Yes, founder here. Bi-directional linking will be coming soon! While we don't support bi-directional linking yet, we do have the ability for bytes to live in multiple locations. Here's a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afP_gsvR30
Orthogonal Approaches of Balaji Srinivasan
Was just thinking that we're probably due for a major release sometime now that Concurrent Mode seems to be starting to mature a little (disclaimer: it's still experimental, don't use it in production yet, etc.)

I'm sure the React team must be eager to get all the juicy changes out of the experimental branch and into the hands of developers. So it's great to see though that they're still taking their time to do it properly. Looking forward to seeing what come nexts :)
Not to mention I would be completely unsurprised to find that there were various forms of non-citizen immigrants attending the University of Texas and thus possessing such an ID.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that a Texas Handgun License requires citizenship.
Figure the highest number you can get paid for the job.

Add 10-15%

You may add word "negotiable"

If recruiter insists on knowing your current slary - lie with ~above number. It's not their business knowing.

Also:

Recruiter is never your friend (even is he is presenting himself this way). Everything you tell him, may and will be used by him to increase possibility of him getting commissions. Your career and compensation level is his lowest priority.
Yes? Is this a trick question?
So I can make my own knock-off ball-caps to sell!
I'm not sure about that; the mass of the moon to more decimal places would surely require actual research potentially at great expense, but the resulting number shouldn't be copyrightable since the resulting number is a fact about nature.
And it's also changed so much. I grew up in Sunnyvale and the Silicon Valley of my youth (80s-dot com bust) are so different from now. I'm guessing there's a drastically different view of the place based on both your age and when you first moved to SV.
This was my take away as well, esp since the article uses "The" in the title, which connotates completeness of the coverage.

To a certain type of person living here (possibly exclusively spending time in SF proper?), first generation immigrants are invisible or "don't count".
This is a rambling discussion style that cannot be responded to. The GitHub shills win. May you enjoy your undeserved SV webshit salaries.
> Positioning elements coded in marked language into a page is actually a tricky thing.

This is almost impossible to do right. Even browsers can't produce a PDF that looks exactly the same as a web page.

If you want to programmatically produce a PDF from a web page, the best bet is to load up a full browser implementation just for that purpose as any other simpler solutions would certainly break the results pretty often.
This admin is making it worse (see: article). Perhaps a new admin can make it better.
> "it is important to understand that you never really get to 'choose' whether you're a contractor or an employee, it's determined solely as a function of the type or work you do and the nature of your relationship to the employer"

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. In my experience, on both sides of this, a good deal of thought is put into what kind of position to seek / offer. I think employers and workers think a lot about which legal arrangement would work better and there is a great deal of choice involved.

For instance, I can imagine Uber offering jobs v.s. contractor positions with differing levels of support, remuneration, and expectations. That they don't do so seems like a choice to me?
I just wish iOS Safari supported opening its regular document view for PDFs embedded on web pages in <object> tags. It treats them like an <img> and displays just the first page of the PDF with a transparent background letting the page show through. Of course there's no good way to shrink that UI into an arbitrarily-sized box on the page, but I'd prefer a button to open the regular fullscreen view over the current behavior.
Did they even hang bears? A new history of the Vikings
RISC-V is an open source ISA, which means anyone is free to implement it, interface with it, customise it etc.

But most RISC-V devices are not open source as far as I know, as least currently. And a mobile class SoC would still be a very complex device, therefore with vulnerabilities (and also therefore with much less motivation for a company to open source the whole design). You'd have a similar problem as now.

That said, if someone wants to work with me on a RISC-V mobile class SoC (or server/supercomputer class) do get in touch, I'd love to do it :-)
Uber CEO: "Gig workers deserve better!"

CA: "Uber drivers are employees, how bout dat?"

Uber CEO: NOT THAT MUCH BETTER....
No more than the people who pirate Windows, I would think.
Ask HN: Proper way to set up Python dev environment on Ubuntu?
Do you use venv, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, or pipenv?

Do you install pip from the Ubuntu repos or from "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" ?

Every time I try to set up a Python environment I end up installing pip in 4 different ways and I don't know which version to use and it's a whole mess.
> It's much better to save fuel and send more stuff than to get there a few months earlier.

Yes. For cargo and probes/rovers. Not for humans. The faster we can arrive, the less supplies are required and the risk of something going wrong while the nearest help is light minutes away is lessened.

> For your actual question...you can get faster routes with more fuel

Not fuel, but more Delta-V. Which may or may not imply on more fuel. Options are: more fuel (rocket equation bites here), less weight, more efficient thrusters, aka higher ISP (see the nuclear propulsion sibling comment).

What this gives you is the ability to use other trajectories besides pure Hohmann Transfers - which are efficient, but slow.

Ideally we would send supplies ahead of time with the most efficient transfers possible, then get humans there as fast as we possibly can. Otherwise this would take a while, around 400 days, one way. So over two years just to get there and back, plus wait time until the next launch window.