skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm far from understanding the legal complexity, but one analogy I consider here is what it'd be like to ban a particular brand or country of origin of pens, or cellphones, or routers.

Those things are definitely used for speech, and banning them all would likely be an issue. But banning a brand of pens because you don't trust the chemicals in them as safe or routers because you're concerned about potential spy ware, seems reasonable.

In that sense, TikTok is just one of many alternatives and if the motivation isn't to regulate speech, it feels like it could fit with other bans that seem reasonable to me.

I'd assume the claim here would be that it presents national security risk, though of course I think that's probably not why the ban is really happening, and it makes sense for it to be challenged.
This is fascinating, although I still feel there's too much disagreement for me to have a clear picture of how this works in California.

I'll give a Dutch perspective (which perhaps applies to some degree to other parts of Europe):

Until 2016, clients had to proactively ask for a 'Verklaring Arbeidsrelatie (VAR)'. An 'explanation of the work relationship'. If I understand correctly, the contractor/freelancer had to prove that they had more clients than just that one, and it had to be reasonable. So no having five clients of which one accounted for 99% of all income.

If a client didn't ask for this 'VAR', it could cause problems down the road.

From 2016 on they changed this, but apparently the result has been a confusing mess, so in 2021 they'll try to clear up some of it.

Practically speaking, as a contractor, I've found that only the big clients (with legal teams, I imagine) would ask for a VAR, if at all.

Most of the time, whether working in Holland or Germany, I usually did the exact same work that their employees did. In some cases there seemed to be vague distinction where I worked on shorter projects and they did support and the like, but in practice that distinction was very blurry.

I suppose with some of these clients I could've caused trouble, but because I got paid well, often better than the full-timers (even with insurance and all that deducted), I didn't see any reason to.

My general impression is that NL is a bit more 'liberal' in these matters than many other parts of Europe, so I'd be curious to hear how this works in France/Germany/Italy, etc.
> Is the sound faster than the shockwave or same speed? I think same speed.

Shockwaves propagate faster than sound by definition.

The speed of sound depends on the medium, as a few replies have mentioned.
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What worked best for me was simply to put my phone on airplane mode, and only check it at specific intervals during the day.

Most people can wait for a response. It's quite absurd that we have collectively encouraged immediate response as 'normal', and rude if not done so.

It is pretty obvious that we become great at what we habitually practice every day. Therefor it's no coincidence that we will become great at being distracted because that's what we habitually practice.
>Lyft/Uber can upgrade them to employees but the arithmetic of bottom-up economics means Uber has to raise prices to cover full employment benefits. The raised fares conflict with what passengers are willing to pay

Then the business is not profitable enough to exist. Simple as that.
> Even if you simply have them written on a post-it note glued to your monitor people would have to physically break in your home to access them, which to me sounds like a very big additional layer of security for most people (as in: it won't happen unless you're a target for something big). Back them up to an off site (physical or digital) locations in case of a fire/flood/&c.

For me, the issue with this method is not so much on the security side but on that it is likely to fail when you need it the most. For instance, you are more likely to lose access to your 2FA device when traveling abroad than when staying home (e.g., smartphone breaks, gets stolen, etc).

> If that's how you see it then nothing is "safe". Memorising them ? Storing them in a physical bank safe ?

Having 2FA backups in the same password manager as your password would be pretty much the same as not having 2FA enabled, so why bother?

So far, it looks like a combination of two password managers from different providers seems like the most convenient option. Or Authy and not storing the backup codes.
> Perhaps not as rapid

The point of fire is rapid oxidation that provides enough heat to melt metals.
Thierry Breton the commissioner for internal market, reiterated its statement in French today in "Les échos", a good French economic newspaper:
In addition, we are finalizing a new cyber security strategy - a “European cyber shield”

The title itself is "the end of naivety"

https://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/la-fin-de-la-nai...

(sorry in French only, either Google or Bing are unable to translate this Web page, probably due to some nasty Javascript on the "Les échos" website)
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That's not correct. To enter the Chinese market you need to do it with a Chinese company.
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Slaves, mmm.... yes I remember the first day that jackbooted thugs from Uber forced me to drive for the company. Every day that I felt like driving instead of doing literally anything else, these Uber slavemasters would show up with their chains and their whips. The horror... I hope Uber goes out of business so I can finally go back to my old life...
True of course. I just found the contrast between "people don't think in those scales" and the comment section interesting - and generally think that a surprising amount of code survives for a decade or more.
However the apex predator negative side can be compensated.
Human are pretty weak, but still our species made it, certainly thanks to social behaviour
There was RSExecute, claimed to work with IE3+ and NN3+.

IE4 implemented XML Data Islands with Java Applets, anyone could do it.

MSXML XMLHTTP was ActiveX component, as was one of the crossorigin tools - Flash, anyone could do it.

I have to check JSONP support.
How can I send text messages (SMS) to a list without coding?
I'm wondering if there is a product like SendGrid or MailChimp that would let me upload a list of contacts and then send them an SMS marketing campaign?
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-lebanon-security-blast-doc...

It's not clear to me why, if they knew it was dangerous and had been asking for it to be removed for years, they decided to store fireworks in the same building.
>Must be some cognitive blind spot.

Hehe, yeah for the better or the worst ;)
True but not too much, he is trying to control the narrative on regulation
Why is this a problem? Because it allows you to commit voter fraud if you choose to?
So what you're saying is, I need 2 accounts, bid $15 with one and then up myself with the fraudulent account to $500 and get the item for 15?
One difference between TikTok and other companies is that they are backed by an entity which has plans for global dominance and are not exactly aligned with American interests.
It's owned by ByteDance, not the CPC.
I answered the user's question, what rule was broken? chinese propagandists (paid and non-paid) overunning online spaces is well documented. I even linked the Wiki article about the well-known '50 cent army'. You think anti-china posts being severley downvoted within minutes happens organically? Lmao, ok, if that's the rules around here ban away. Maybe think about what side of history you want to be on while your at it.
"Uber and Lyft say drivers prefer the flexibility of working as freelancers" laughs in german
Ah, I read your comment as meaning you had problems SSHing into the Pi, but not SSHing into the laptop. Got it.
Yes for a flyby or orbital mission. I was thinking of a landing mission which costs more delta-V. In practice, you can get that delta-V by aerobraking when going to Mars but not to Ceres, though on the other hand you need to build the spacecraft to withstand the Mars atmosphere. So maybe the answer is "it's complicated" but either way it's reasonably close, not the 5x further you might think from looking at the closest approaches of the orbits of Earth, Mars and Ceres.
I was curious and checked the numbers from the last Polish presidential election where the postal votes are not super common, but also a normal occurence. The results are also split by the type of specific mistakes (card not signed, envelopes not handled properly, etc), but I'll ignore it here. The counts are:

- 704,016 voting cards sent out (2% of registered voters)

- 614,662 cards received back (87%)

- 593,205 cards valid (84% of sent / 96% of returned)

I thought that 10% is a pretty high number (and obviously should be worked on), but for context, 4% seems to be a "normal under covid" number if the rules are pretty simple (2 envelope layers + signed slip).
> what does it mean for someone to be unemployed in the first place if there is just less work to go around?

As we've seen with the pandemic, unemployment can mean withdrawal of healthcare and eviction.

Really the question here is risk. Who takes the risk that employees can get sick? Who takes the risk that levels of work coming in can vary?

Should it be the individual employees, who generally have a couple month's income saved or less, or should it $50 billion market cap company? Which is better able to absorb risk? Or should the risk instead be handled by the state or federal government?
I second every single line of this comment.

Here's the update log of the project.

https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html
> I believe what this really comes down to is that society is not willing to pay the higher prices for drivers to be treated as employees. Same situation as not willing to paying higher prices at hair salons so hair stylists are full employees (instead of being contractors) with healthcare. It does seem like constantly blaming Uber for mis-categorizing employees conveniently shifts the blame from the society/customers. The extra money to pay the drivers comes from the passengers.

Generally I'd argue that society/customers, and in particular employees/'contractors' don't have all that much leverage over big companies, especially ones that capture a market. That's why we have regulation.

Blaming the customers for not keeping track of everything and going for the cheapest option is like blaming climate change on the consumer. It's technically sort of true, but practically speaking it makes no sense.

Consumers will keep buying cigarettes, marketeers will keep marketing them via entertainment channels, and tobacco companies will keep rolling in the money and do everything they can to encourage all this. But taxes, anti-smoking campaigns and government-enforced restrictions on where you can smoke have made a /ton/ of difference over the years.

There seems to be a trend to have 'flex-workers' (contractors) where in practice they all quack like employee ducks, without many of the benefits and guarantees. It mostly feels like a loop-hole and /of course/ the average consumer will go for cheap and convenient when they can. doesn't mean it's a good thing for society (and in particular the workers).
The U.S. could help close the divide by rolling back some of the spying programs being undertaken by agencies like the NSA. This is what led to many cyber-sovereignty laws like data locality.
To clarify: you can't use Windows Forms directly with .NET Core on non-MS platforms - you nee to port them to Mono.

I tried to use Mono several times, starting from Ximian and Xamarin times, and I always encountered strange problems that were not present in the original applications. I hope they improved somewhat recently because the code produced back then was often unusable (e.g. huge leaks after a couple of hours of use.)
I never said that the article says that it’s fraud.

I said, taking full responsibility for it, that vote-by-mail is more prone to fraud.

Why should I leave my political views at the door? Is because they don’t align with yours?
That number is literally the most meaningful number there. Meltdown caused more scare than all of these 400 bugs described here, just because intel is not expected to have any sort of vulnerability and the people who really care about security chooses intel(not talking about self described privacy pundits on HN, but military and banks). There had been much more research on intel security than all other chips combined.
What's the deal here, accurate or heavily biased?
Is there a way to find out if/when this version will be available for Windows?
Do people really only know people who do what they do? Of course you expect a coder to know more coders than the normal population, and the same for doctors or any other profession.

But do you not have friends and relatives from all three of these categories? I don't even live in the Bay Area, but I have Bay Area friends and relatives in all three.
People still need transportation.
The best non harsh comparison among the two I can think of is "without Jobs there would be no iPhone; without Woz there would be no Apple".
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Snowden revealed a FISA warrant that granted access to data on all Verizon calls. At the point that courts are granting such broad (and blatantly unconstitutional) warrants, warrants don't matter any more.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-reco...
Encryption is seen as a tool and a weapon,not as speech. You have the right to choose who you communicate with. Handing over your information to a foreign government,even an enemy state at war is your right. What you don't have a right to do is to share confidential information or information that is not about yourself that will aid a foreign power. The key here is that the information id about you and no one else, this information belongs to you and you have a right to communicate with foreign entities (freedom of speech does not constrain you to speak only to citizens in america). Freedom of speech applies because you are on US soil, not because tiktok is or isn't. On that same note, you get to tell foreign governments about your experience in the US, if you are persecuted or in fear for your life and your government can't protect you (to seek asylum for example). So I'd say communication with foreign countries and governments about unpriviledged information and first hand accounts is a right. Unless of course you live in china or korea in which case you can't make your government look bad or share information about internal conditions (such as starving population).
> The fledgling network has just secured part of a £2.25m government grant to fill in England’s largest “not-spot” — an area with no mobile signal — and could offer a solution to other pockets in the country blighted by a lack of coverage.

Why didn't the major telcos take on the job?
Why does this have to be an exclusive or? I don't see how drivers would not be able to choose their own hours or the amount of work just because Uber has to treat them as employees? I live in Germany, I work when and as much as I want, and my employer still pays health insurance and I get sick leave and paid holidays, based on the average time I work.
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> The party has supremacy over legal system interpretation as part of the '3 Supremes' order of precedence, with workers also coming ahead of the law.

Very few people are aware about this. The party is supreme and institutions like PLA are answerable to the party, not to the people.
The grain store probably shielded a lot of other infrastructure and people too.

However it seems very irresponsible to keep 85% of the country's grain in a single spot. It's scary how so many single points of failure exist.
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The right here is for americans to talk to a foreign national the right belongs to americans not tiktok.
I like hand drawn diagrams and use them a lot, especially since work gave me an ipad, but whenever I see them in ‘high-production-value’, well researched and edited blog posts like this, I am reminded that it still seems to be a hard problem to quickly produce good quality vector diagrams (with foss software).

Has the state of the art moved on recently, or is it still a case of fighting TikZ?
That is what I’m saying: it is exactly analogous to the government of Sarawak declaring that only what is made within its borders can be called something... if it is made outside its borders, it is only within its borders that that thing can be rejected as being not worthy of the name.

It’s the accords and the relationship between entities of various kinds (some of them sovereign, some of them not) which gives or denies this stipulation any power whatsoever.

To wit: the Sarawak government is entirely free to impound cake blessed with the hallowed name if it is made in the state of Selangor and shipped to within Sarawak, but decrying Selangor-produced cake sold in Kelantan is entirely outside the scope of its power because all of that occurs beyond its borders, and is therefore ineffective unless there is a national government and/or trade agreements that overarch all the territories. It’s exactly the same for national, EU, and international trade agreements.
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In this regard, I think there are some similarities between Woz and Paul Allan, the co-founder of Microsoft. Although Bill Gates have certainly changed over the years.
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Too many speculative versions of really weird aliens throw out constraints that are likely to be universal in an attempt to emphasise strangeness. Things like basic constraints such as the conservation of energy and matter, evolutionary pressure, information theory, game theory.

Take Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still, who apparently has no understanding whatsoever of the reasons why humans do the things they do. What sort of superintelligence doesn't even get the simplest principles of competitive behaviour and dysfunctions that can arise from competition for resources? But no, we are incomprehensible to him and it all has to be explained by the humans, even though his own civilization went through _exactly_ the same problems.

It's fine for fiction, but taking that way of thinking and applying it to speculations in the real world as though it's valid science is an error.
Not related to "native UI" vs browser, but still an important distinction:

Unlike Electron, Webview does not embed a browser, but uses the platform-native browser engine. That's Cocoa/WebKit on Mac OS and Edge on Windows. Since Linux doesn't have a one, gtk-webkit is used there.

This allows for very small binaries, but necessitates dealing with the platform incompatibilities.
It came from GPT-3.

Just kidding.
That story is a perfect encapsulation of the faux-compassion mindset that seeks to stamp out all forms of entrepreneurship, including driving for Uber/Lyft instead of being an employee.
I would agree that someone who drives for Uber about 40 hours a week is effectively an employee, however it leaves out a lot of drivers who only want to offer certain rides at certain time.
For example, if every weekend I drive to my vacation home, which is in an area not practically reachable by public transport, and offer a ride, does that make me an employee? That's nonsense.
> Authoritarian states do have laws to justify what they do

From my original comment, which you replied to:

> There are laws in China, but ultimately a corporation is subject to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party.

Either you didn't read that part, chose to omit it, or you are being deliberately rude, questioning "what I'm on about".

The difference between those authoritarian regimes and a democracy under the Rule of Law like the US is the degree in which the law can be arbitrarily superseded by an authority, such as a Party or Ruler, breaking the separation of powers.

Comparing the legal systems and guarantees of China, North Korea or Saudi Arabia, with those of the US is disingenuous at best.

You did not address the fundamental point which is that an Executive Order can be challenged in a Court of Law - it will be, in fact.

Do you think a decision by the CCP, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-Un or Mohammad Bin Salman would be afforded the same level of guarantees?
SQL was designed by COBOL / NATURAL people and was intended to be used by "normal people".
That was part of a larger movement at the time to make programming more accessible.
Unfortunately
(a) that experiment mostly failed
(b) the resulting syntax does not compose well at all
(c) the syntax does not represent the underlying semantics and mathematical operations well at all.

The combined effect is a rather tortured language, as it has been extended over the years.

However, replacing it is equally problematic because of the huge installed base.