skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have definitely met tons of individuals in SF/Oakland who fit these stereotypes. Also, the individuals I met who resemble the second stereotype are the most inconsistent in terms of ideals. They want to be rich, but they’d rather accrue “moral capital”. It’s quite the oxymoron.
Here's a PDF version: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.4...
Man. Ive got like 3 of those suckers all of them with fairly decent usage. Been needing to swap them out. Two of them are laying on their side stacked.

Probably is a fire hazard
Thanks for posting this - I wasn't previously aware of the delineation between a shock wave and a pressure wave that the author explained clearly.

I'm curious, is there something specific about "high explosives" vs "low explosives", beyond just the magnitude of energy released, that explains why some generate shock waves and others pressure waves?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24111114
> The impact of actual fraud on elections is nil

That's just false. In what universe does fraud not have an impact on anything it touches, much less voting?

I can point to many occasions when voter fraud had an impact on outcomes (but was caught so it did not in the end). But the problem with this is that voter fraud is only heard about when it fails. You obviously have no idea how much actually successful fraud has occurred. This is generally true for all crimes, except voter fraud is an actual victimless crime (at least in terms of the victim being able to know that a crime was perpetrated against them), so you can't even estimate scale by victim reports like you could with something like assault or robbery.
There's correct, under CA law Uber would need to restructure its entire business model if it wants to treat drivers as contractors. (The ABC test in the other reply was codified into CA law.)
Great question, we are end-to-end encrypted and that we do not store any data from our users video sessions. We're also exploring SSO. We also worked with MasterCard and Amazon and while initially there were questions around privacy, we got through it in the end. The bigger problem ironically is corporate VPNs that tend to block video/mic access from certain applications.
> A serpentine passage cuts through an ordinary little marsh, on a highway that connects Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo). No graceful landscape, this. We’re somewhere commonplace, undistinguished.

It's hard to say if the author is trying to bring a western audience along for a story, or has misunderstood the grace of an ordinary little marsh (if in fact this is a marsh, and not a farm).
It's been pointed out that there are identical items with very different bids.
Maybe someone with knowledge of game theory or mechanism design or whatever can tell me: What's the "right" way (or ways?) to auction off multiple identical items? Top k bids win?
The telco Central Office I worked in had weekly tests where we'd run the generator for an hour. Everyone's desk computer required a UPS as they were on utility. Comically after a few years you'd have to get a new UPS at your desk as theyd die from continual use.
woo lg. I had no idea that mac lab was donated by woz
That's interesting - could you share some of the more notable companies? Why do you suspect they failed?

Sounds like a fun project more than anything, I'll explore it.
Basically you're arguing that the race to the bottoms is good for everyone involved.

From a country that has hard fought-for USD16/hour minimum wage, paid 10 sick leave and 20 annual leave days per year, this doesn't appear true at all.
They do offer a version with OEM/business packaging and no mouse.
Being an independent contractor is about more than "choosing your own hours". you can be an employee and have flexible hours. You can be a contractor and have fixed hours. There are plenty of examples of both in the tech industry.
Those sales positions are generally not remote/distributed. They don't work for multiple companies concurrently because it's impossible.
That's why I went with the Belkin, it isn't a "normal" UPS. 120V comes in and is stepped down to 12V, but there's no up-conversion the other way; the output is 12V (up to 3A) to a barrel connector. I bought a Y so I could energize my two devices (after making sure combined they don't exceed 3A).
At least that money can get counted for properly... and venture capital as an asset class still generates double-digit IRRs, and LPs stop funding investors with poor returns.

The Pentagon has spent 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in building systems to just try to account for its waste, highly recommend this long read from Rolling Stone:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pent...
and
http://nebraskansforpeace.org/pentagon_accounting_fraud

The stuff about government people spending 15 year careers entering phony numbers is just insane:
https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-accounting-conceals...
Why does he think GCP regions aren't the same as AWS regions?
Ok, so we are saying

#1, If you pick to be in a contractor relationship you can do whatever with regards to having both apps on simultaneously.

#2 If you pick to be in an employee relationship, uber and lyft have a right to exclusivity during all phases of the ride. Of course a driver can choose to work for both, but lyft can terminate a driver if they find that a driver is online for uber, and vice versa.

Or #3, the state can decide that the "employees" are "not working" unless they are in the phases where they are going towards an accepted ride or have a passenger in the car.

The state will almost certainly not go with #3. Between #1 and #2, I can tell you which option 90% of drivers will take. It's not #2. So we will be back to square one.
I've been led to believe that 'high' explosives are explosives that explode/combust faster than the speed of sound. Others (like black powder) burn slower.
A German Company Cashes in on Emoji Manipulation (2019)
8mb.video is a service that compresses video, images and audio to just under Discord's 8MB upload limit.
Sure, but Uber varies rates so they want to drive when Uber needs them.
> looks like humans are well into destroying their own kind and the environment faster than most other creatures.

To be fair - we really only focus on war against our own kind so much since we've basically won against every other one. Sure, there are still problems in small, but in general no other species is a threat to a large part of us in general.

Also, destroying the environment really is a side effect of industrialization, so I don't think that's a fair comparison either. No other species needs any kind of stable power grid, but that's surely not because we're less advanced.

> At the same time human beings seem ill equipped to judge or characterize 'alien' lives: we often want to 'make contact' or have a communication or social channel with aliens. As if a show of our mental power and social structure is the most important aspect..

Honest question: What is?

> Just looking at how octopuses are being measured by humans, it feels rather silly the kind of approaches humans use to evaluate other species let alone aliens.

In some way, yes. But it's hard to do it any other way; most possible partners are seriously limited in their communication abilities and (at least probably) in their intelligence.
In the case of banking you have to realize that US bank accounts here are often completely free, but they will charge you a penalty for anything and everything that is a result of action or inaction on your part (its always your fault). Everything is designed to maximize the chance of your making a mistake so they can charge you a fee.
Like LabVIEW the spreadsheet paradigm took off in limited domain and became progressively more maligned as it got used for everything else.
I just see a blank white page.
It is not an argument against vote-by-mail elections, it is an argument against mail elections on a short notice, where we don't have the time to implement those things effectively.
They've pulled this stunt at LAX before. I got off the plane and suddenly all the Uber rides were over $100. Googled around and apparently this was a game they were playing to drive up rates.

I took a flyaway to Union Station and then got an Uber from there for $15.
The DNC has criticised Trump for not being tough enough on China. I don't think anything is going to change soon.
I'd still _loooove_ to have "prop punning", ie, shorthand passing of props based on local variable names equivalent to ES6 object literal shorthand:

<MyList items selectedItem onItemClicked />

Doesn't seem too likely to happen at this point, though.
RTL-SDR Tutorial: Analyzing GSM with Airprobe/GR-GSM and Wireshark
You've hit on one of my big pet peeves -- I am going to add redundancy and erasure codes at the application layer because the disk could catch on fire or be sucked up by a tornado, so why do I need a bunch of unaudited software adding extra redundancy and erasure codes behind my back?

I get it for desktop users... they want to open some benchmark they downloaded and get a higher number than their friends (RAID-0-esque sharding data across individual flash chips), and they also don't have access to software that can add error correction codes (because the Windows installer can't recognize an SSD with 4 flash chips as 4 drives in a RAID array)... so the disk has to do it itself. But why is it a thing in datacenters? Just so you can install Linux+ext2+MySQL and call it a day? That seems crazy to me when better storage software exists.
You can do it the other way around. If the signature seems fishy, you set it aside unopened, and only do further validation before opening it if the election is close enough for it to matter.

For example, in an election with 100 votes cast. If 10 signatures are suspicious, you only do extended validation and open them if the election was won by a margin smaller than 10.
I really like the idea of your website, the execution isn’t working... don’t u love the web!

Hopefully u are collecting emails, so I can come back.

Regardless of execution, it’s a good idea so keep fighting!
The Hertz investors clearly didn't :)
Ceres is a good place for a lander and rover then. Might be some action there. Face it, Luna and Mars are boring, low-value real estate.
I've always been amazed at Woz's annus mirabilis from 1976 to 1977. At the age of 26, he designed a commercial micro computer from scratch, which had sound, color output, an OS, Integer BASIC, all the peripherals, programming guide, and more.

Think about this. At the beginning of 1976, Woz got hold of a 6502 chip for the first time. By March, he had the Apple I running. By April, he and Jobs (and briefly, Wayne) started Apple. In July, they started selling Apple I kits, and by August, Woz had completed a prototype of the Apple II. By April of 1977 (only one year later!!) they were at the West Coast Computer Faire with the full-fledged Apple II computer as we know it today. It continued in production in one form or another until 1993.

This was a tour-de-force of focus, efficiency, innovation, hard work, and plain brilliance that is almost unbelievable today. Think about what you've accomplished in the past year, and compare. Woz deserves all the credit he gets.
> Jobs had a much bigger impact on the world.

He created the App Store fiefdom which taxes developers more than their government. It also compelled them to price their work at less than the cost of a cup of coffee.

He turned the general purpose computers in most Americans' lives into locked down, tightly controlled "experiences". (The iPhone, which lacks the ability to install whatever you want.)

He created an expensive laptop that isn't user upgradable.

His company is now suing a mom and pop healthcare app for having a logo shaped like a pear, which seems par for the course.

He sold status and glamour, and he wasn't a very good person. You can praise him if you want, but I think he's the epitome of selfish and don't consider him a role model. If you have to behave like that to win, it isn't worth it.

Gates, for all of his flaws, is doing really good work to make this world a better place. I look up to him instead.
You'd think that, but my experience living in the Third World is that people will accept a lot. i.e. the market clearing price can definitely drop below what you think is the minimum wage for a decent living.

All of this is just to say that, empirically, I have seen the following to not be true in the sense that you mean it (required to live being short for "required to live a decent standard of living"), though it is true in the literal sense that I described it:

> In a truly free market with no government fingers on the scale no worker would ever work for less than is required to live or at least they wouldn't work for long at such a wage.
As a counterpoint, I also live in Washington.

About five years ago I decided to change my signature. The first ballot I mailed in after changing my signature was rejected for having a non-matching signature, and I had to prove my identity and update my signature on file with the King County elections in order for my ballot to be counted.
Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its 'nested' DNA was just found
The word "meme" isn't doing any argumentative work here. It's just a handle for the claim that's being contested, with some extra connotation that the claim is typical or customary rather than unique to this thread.
I don't see why we can't just have in person voting, but require masks. Given that we didn't see any significant spike in COVID after the protests, when people were packed together and shouting, it is pretty clear that the virus doesn't spread significantly when you are outside with a mask. I think the risks of 10% of the votes being thrown out are far greater than the risk of a slight increase in COVID spread.
>Mapping gene flow between ancient hominins through demography-aware inference of the ancestral recombination graph

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Nobody is going to come after you for a single item run for personal noncommercial use anyways - even litigious active trademarks
Anonymity Lecture by the Creator of Tor
One part of the "ABC test"[1] used to check the "contractorness" under law requires that "...the worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work..." - Uber controls every minute of drivers work time, so this will be a high hurdle to clear.

Part B is similarly challenging, because it requires that the contractor & the work they are doing not be in the same line of business as hiring entity

1. https://www.californiaemploymentlawreport.com/2019/03/unders...
Pressuring developers to use your license (when it is their work and their choice) is disgusting and people shouldn't be doing it at all.
Right, I was thinking more for free services (like basic gmail)
> If the rules vary by jurisdiction

They don't. The distinction between a contractor[1] and employee[2] has a broad rule at the federal level[3]. Contractors decide their rates and how they're paid, and they determine how, when and where their work is done.

People who work for Uber outside of a part of a single state can't set their rates or how they're paid, nor can they determine how or where their work is done because Uber only allows drivers to use certain vehicles.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

[3] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Judges have lots of experience at (and precedents for) figuring out when employees are on the clock in many contexts, including ones where employees have some degree of ability to select whether and when to accept a given work shift. Guidance does exist.

I don't know California law on this specifically, but any state would definitely include time when actively serving as a driver for a ride, many would include time driving to pick up an accepted passenger, some might include time when logged in as a driver.
I just assumed it was rich influencer fashion types who were keen to own a piece of infamy and had the disposal wealth to not over think it and just bid on homepage items.

“Hey is that hat from Fyre festival?” “Yeah it’s real, I got it online for $500”
Oh no, what are they going to do? Go find some random poor fool you stole the card from and kick their door in? I'm sure the credit card thieves are quaking in their boots.

US police at all levels are an impotent force against online crime. Once in a while they catch some guy and then they parade it around but the likelihood of that is microscopic.
I was thinking about for free services... having to provide free human support for free services is going to make it impossible to support any free service.
In Ohio its signature and ID number on your driver's license or last 4 of your social security number.

So ballots go to the wrong place, fine. The probability of random person there being interested and then finding any of this information is low.
I'm not going to sit here an explain what makes collectibles and art desirable. I think you understand this and are just being difficult.
I imagine they don't even need to. All they need to do is gain access to the American databases
> as it seems like a pain to get any information on what equipment is needed.

Do you have any info on this?

As a side note, a while back I found a company (https://rangenetworks.com/hardware) that developed and sold their own cell network equipment and tested it at burning man, at the time it seemed like they were the only alternative to big established players as well as the cheapest one.
Hmm, maybe I just don't know enough people, but I don't know any employee (with benefits and such) that can just stop working for their company for 12 months with no prior notice, and then pick it back up whenever. And infinite variations on that refrain.

I also don't know any employee who gets paid money by the customer to do a job, of which a small portion is taken by the company. For every "employee" I know, it works in exactly the opposite way.
I think you must be thinking of some other word — maybe the fact that "ice" doesn't necessarily refer to water ice. If a science article says "water," they generally mean water unless the author's phrasing is extraordinarily sloppy.
Because the amount of money determines the amount freedom you have both in terms of time and location. How this is lost on people like yourself is maddening.
Seems like crux of this disagreement is that there is a large group of drivers that do it full time as their primary source of income, and they want protection from all the part time gig workers that flood the market and depress their earnings.

Changing to employee model will result in fewer drivers (better protected), but lose out on the gig workers or even those doing multiple jobs just to make ends meet.
The rest of the developed world can do that from their bank, no financial data-selling middleman required. Oh, and for a decade or two.
And in this analogy, I'm the guy who just wants to cut his beef and doesn't want a kitchen built from exotic materials.
It's probably something like "each winning bid pays the next highest bid price plus one".
While I don't disagree with your statement, it's important to remember that cybersecurity is a "weakest link" issue. If 90% of your infrastructure/tooling is provided by FANMAG companies, you are still pretty weak from the remaining 10% -- unless your company has higher security standards than FANMAG, which is not typical.
That wasn’t the point. The point is you won’t be able to work for Lyft because they won’t take someone on to work 2 hours a day because it costs too much. So you will work for one or the other and you will have zero flexibility in the matter.
Python's "for customer in customers" can't be clearer in my opinion.
>Which of those IDs is available for free? I just checked the state website and they charge for drivers licenses and state IDs

The Texas Election Identification Certificate ID is free.

>and all the federal IDs require money.

Wrong. Military and veteran IDs are federal IDs that are free of charge.

>They at least offer the alternate forms of ID, but those still eliminate people. A homeless person is probably not going to have any of those documents on hand, but they have every right to vote.

They wouldn't have been allowed to vote under the previous system either. This is a red herring.

> There is also the inherent problem of singling out people without ID for further scrutiny. This added "security" has notoriously been used as a method to suppress the vote over the course of US history.

There is no "further scrutiny". You either have the documentation that proves your eligibility to vote in your locality, or you don't. Studies showed that Voter ID laws have little to no effect on turn out.

> The simple act of requiring someone to state on a government form they can't "reasonably" obtain an ID is going to scare some people off from voting.

No doubt, but in Texas and in many other states, they are reasonably attainable, and have no fees. Somewhat of a straw man here. Again, studies showed that Voter ID laws have little to no effect on turn out.

> What is "reasonable"? Am I going to be charged with voter fraud if I simply didn't want to spend the money on an ID?

No, you just won't be allowed to vote. You won't be charged with any crime. Also, you don't spend money on fees, the above ID mentioned is free.

> Will I end up in jail for voting? There is a chilling effect here.

This is all conjecture. There is no chilling effect on requiring a free voter ID according to the studies.
The authors of The Expanse published an article last year acknowledging and paying tribute to the mission ("How a NASA robot messed up our science fiction"): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/02/dear-dawn...
Some goodies in there. For example, a clear direction into making more things work when editing on remote hosts out of the box. I hope lsp/eglot pick that up, so that I can now edit on a remote host via ssh just like I could on a local one and still have semantic completion, references etc. Or the ability to just run ripgrep on the remote host transparently.
> the biggest challenge in the JavaScript community was how fast everything moved

If you don't like things moving too fast, then React does seem to be the ideal ecosystem:

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/9033#iss...

TL;DR A vulnerability was discovered in a transitive dependency of "create-react-app" and announced back in March, but the one line patch to update the hard-coded reference to the vulnerable version is being held back for a future major version upgrade of the "create-react-app" package. 5 months on and the issue is marked as Closed but the new version hasn't been released.
It would be factually incorrect to say the Democrats have a history or desire to disenfranchise white voters. You can not become president without a chunk of the majority demographic’s support. Hopefully that helps shine light on whatever you are missing.
The judge does not understand what a "gig" is. Uber drivers can choose to drive one, twelve, or zero hours in any given day. They can suddenly stop working by simply not accepting any more ride requests. It's the ultimate remote, self-directed, self-managed job.

An employee can't make such decisions; they do as they are told or they are fired.

Uber drivers are private, self-owned businesses that rent out their time and equipment to a corporation on a completely arbitrary basis. The company counts on an oversupply of such drivers to meet demand and does not need to manage the supply other than to continually recruit more people.

I suspect this ruling will be overturned, if not in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, then in the Supreme Court.
That sounds a lot harder than having half of each team in two separate buildings. If one needs to shut down the secondary team just takes the full load...