skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't create a plot loop. The book explains that all of the H2O on Ceres was used to apply spin to Ceres to create artificial gravity. This is a symbol of Inner Planet's dominance over the Beleter's, because a _real_ Belter would never trade precious water for artificial gravity. This is mentioned fairly subtly in the first book, and is easy to miss while taking in the rest of the world.

In addition the spinning up of Ceres is often mentioned as one the of many engineering feats attributed to Tycho.

EDIT: For scientific context to my statement H2O can be turned into really good propellant. Two of Blue Origin's engines run on Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen for example.
Two things about Lead-Acid or AGM based UPS's (regardless of UPS topology or design):

1.) check your battery health annually and replace bi-annually. I don't care about the battery quality, an always-online UPS is very hard on lead-based batteries. they're float charged basically all the time, and deep discharged during outages. if you're in a power failure prone area (i.e. more than one per year), invest in a generator too in order to avoid stressing the batteries with full discharges.

2.) check the battery float voltage with an actual volt meter to make sure the UPS is calibrated correctly. APC UPS's in particular, prior to and post the Schneider Electric buyout, had a lot of really poor cost-savings decisions applied to their enginnering. this included using a carbon film resistor-based voltage divider to measure the battery voltage on much (or all) of their Back-UPS and Smart-UPS range. if you don't know anything about resistor technology, carbon film resistors (especially cheap ones!) change in value due to temperature, humidity, and age, usually drifting up in resistance. this is a bad thing when you need a stable voltage reading...

oh and on APC's cost cutting measures; there's the fun time they stopped using nickel plating on the bus bars in their Symmetra UPS line. they switched to tin plating instead. apparently none of them had heard of tin whiskers. :)
Typically, you're employed by the contracting agency (with benefits), they work out a deal with the business and take a cut off the top, though we informally refer to this as contracting.

If you were to set up an agreement with the software company yourself, then it'd be conventional contracting.
funhouse 1989 -- Happy Birthday Woz !
OK, we crossed wires, no problem. However, for the reasons I mentioned above, compromised routers are still a very bad thing. At the very least, it's a beachhead from which to launch further attacks inside a data center or business. At the worst, they can use SSL strip to strip encryption off of any website/end-user who hasn't locked down HTTPS only. Plus, there are still many protocols in common use that are not encrypted by default.

Edit: Would you agree to let me (or anyone) hook up a compromised router inside your home network?
When you're alive you can change and grow but when you're dead it's final. 90 with a lifetime of regrets is a closure blow out sale bargain.
I wholeheartedly disagree. I had a good fitness routine pre-COVID and the lack of a work-life balance and proper gym equipment has definitely made me less fit in the last ~5 months. I'd say this is generally true amongst my group of friends as well.

For instance, I had a friend who was avidly taking muay thai lessons for the last few years give it up for the time being since it's not feasible to recreate that experience in his own 1BR.

A lot of people are doing what they can with freeweights and online classes but it's just not the same.
People are deserving of respect, arguments less so. I see no reason to grant any particular deference to a sentence.
There is a very similar thing happening with UFC fighters. There are currently class action lawsuits ongoing for this topic.

I wonder how this decision will play out to other businesses
Your last paragraph reminded me of the datacenter that famously rode out Hurricane Katrina: https://www.wired.com/2005/11/hurricane-heroics/

The blog where they posted regular updates is still up; here's the first post related to the storm: https://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/27/

"Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm."
Show HN: An insight on how we built the Fair Remote brand and the idea behind it
- Some GNU extensions are already there, let me know what else you need.

- ?: and statement expressions (slightly extended) are available in C3 today.

- Type syntax is simplified in C3 more in line with other languages, e.g. java style array declarations.

- What does "full LLVM features" mean?

- What do you mean by "Non-Unicode"?

- You'll likely be able to include files (and more), but token macros are out I'm afraid. I've tried to cover all uses, but I know it's not quite complete :(

- All the stuff with offset, alignment etc will of course be available.

- Macros can act like compile time functions, but direct manipulation of the AST is not there to make the macros easier and safer to use. There is stil a lot of things one can do with using conditional compilation etc, but no manual construction of AST nodes. It's about trying to keep the language fairly uniform even though you add a very powerful macro system. I'm sorry.

- What do you mean by "reduced runtime requirements"? The ability to run it freestanding? If so, yes then this is a goal.

- No setjmp/longjmp, instead it has a system with implicit "Result" style returns. But it has a unique flavour. A brief overview can be found here: http://www.c3-lang.org/errorhandling/

- Sadly I had to give up on goto. To replace it: labelled blocks and labelled for/do/while/if, switch-jumps with "next", error handling using "failable" Result types and defer. The reason for removing goto was due to the amount of compiler complexity needed to support unstructured jumps. I didn't remove it willingly.
> Uber/Lyft/etc create jobs that otherwise didn't exist

Uber/Lyft business model has just been deemed illegal. let's see if it now can be both legal and sustainable.

Uber/Lyft only existed up until now because they were violating employment laws.
>The best hope is (a) social pressure to attend class //

By class I assume you mean some sort of organised fitness events? Do people do that for social reasons - I'd have thought the primary reason was not wanting to wobble like a jelly when you walk up the road; then perhaps longevity??
Sure, but in this example the situation only happens because the dispatcher controls all the prices, if the drivers could set their own prices then they would have no reason to decline.
Hcqtrial.com: Disinformation about Covid-19 on steroids
I wonder if you could do this at a fairly macro scale with lots of reactant. I'm thinking along the lines of an electromagnetic enzyme. The goal wouldn't be to build things up from the atomic level or pick and place atoms but to speed up naturally occurring reactions the way enzymes do. As long as you could line the fields up properly or switch them fast enough you would be able to nudge the reactions along. You'd need some way to pump the product out to the next step but you might be able to select for it with a field as well.

Edit: after reading further into the paper I see that this is close to what they have in mind
Agree.

A software engineer is more like a chemist working for the pharmaceutical industry than a doctor treating patients. And chemists typically don't have an Hippocratic Oath. Pharmacists sometimes have their own version, but it is mostly about giving good advise to patients and respecting them as human beings.

But it doesn't stop the pharmaceutical industry from being heavily regulated, and while their business practices are often criticized, the drugs that come out of it are generally safe and effective. Many countries also have regulations making important drugs (ex: vaccines) accessible to everyone.
Regarding #2, that's just generally not how the law works. There may be some cases where legal technicalities are successfully argued, but in general the legal system doesn't put up with someone sticking their finger a millimeter from its face and saying "technically I'm not touching you."
Yes, interns apply and we do hire them (despite not listing any intern-specific roles).
Assuming for a moment the technology/scifi world of The Expanse, one thing that doesn't seem to be a scarce resource is electrical power, due to plentiful nuclear reactors. Wouldn't it be possible to flash brine into steam and separate the h2o from the salt, storing the salt in solid cubes or something?
> You'll then be paranoid but unable to take any action.

I disagree.

While you can't control the bugs in the hardware or drivers or whatever, you can definitely ensure that your application detects corrupted data and can at least warn that something is wrong rather than starting back up and silently serving from corrupted data.

It also ensures that a node suddenly disappearing without a graceful "I'm leaving" message, and potentially with open transactions or other operations can be handled by the clients and nodes that ARE still around.
Why don't we legislate a new category of taxation for gig economy companies like Uber? Make them pay more taxes and support a new social safety net (especially universal healthcare) without changing their business model.
This comment is just wrong on so many levels:

"I'm afraid you're repeating Uber's favorite talking point, which is that everyone should respect the worker's decision to be an employee or contractor."

I've never seen Uber argue that everyone should "respect the worker's decision to be an employee or contractor." I have seen them argue that drivers are contractors based on the flexibility in the job, but not that it should be "the worker's decision".

"Nobody disputes that Uber can have employees or contractors (or both), or that drivers should, in principle, be able to choose what status they hold."

Actually, pretty much all US employment law disputes that drivers should be able to choose what status they hold. Employee vs. contractor is not determined by what an employer says someone is, or what an employee says they are. Instead, it is determined by some key factors about the nature of the job, which (as you do point out) mainly centers around control of important aspects of the job.

But 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.
Correct me if I'm wrong but there doesn't appear to be much evidence of widespread voter fraud. Election fraud and voter suppression on the other hand....
The diesel generators can back up power to safety systems, so closer to MWs than GWs. Some run with left-handed and right-handed engines coupled face-to-face for redundancy; thus you might AFAIK shut down fuel injection to one to prove the other is supplying torque.
It's not but it does have a long history of being applied to vilify any immigrant group. In the early 20th century the US was forcing all crossers from Mexico to go through a delousing with Zyklon-B because they were 'dirty' and threatened to bring in vague disease. OP wasn't saying clean is exclusively a bigoted phrase against Chinese people, it's more broadly problematic and directed at any group considered undesirable.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bath-riots
Goes to the victims.
I wasn't a UT student so real, honest question: Is a UT ID an acceptable form of ID to buy alcohol?
Serious question: if you pick any given surveillance state from a liberal western democracy and pick it out of a hat, and set it side by side with China's surveillance state, are you telling me you would not be able to tell them apart?

Because that's the point at issue in the thread you are replying to. And I'm personally kind of amazed that it's possible to lose sight of something I find to be an incredibly obvious distinction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

"In the book, published in 2001, Black outlined the way in which IBM's technology helped facilitate Nazi genocide through generation and tabulation of punch cards based upon national census data."

I always find it strange how people consider the possibility of certain events far-fetched to the point of irrationality that have already happened.
Yea but what about 2-3 years down the line? You've basically set the baseline at which the recruiter will start from. Your next jump will be just maybe +5k instead of +20k since they know how much you made.
I said voting privilege here but I should have said "right to vote"
As I mentioned to another commenter, I took a deep down into the CNW rabbit hole and even downloaded their app. I read a few articles and compared them to the individuals’ Wikipedia pages. The content appears to be a mild rewrite of their Wikipedia pages and in many cases, entire sentences are copied verbatim.

As for net worth, near as I can tell, for minor celebrities, they take their reported earnings, subtract relevant taxes and call that their net worth. For major celebrities, they seem to rely on Forbes and/or Business Insider as their sources.
Thank you - the point I was trying to convey was that it was not simply venturing into uncharted lands in the name of a monarch, the way many Westerners seem to picture it (perhaps with the colonisation of the Americas in mind, which is more of what I would just call a conquest). These were known lands, with known sovereignty, and known established relationships, trade agreements and shared history - the imperialist subjugation was out of greed and a desire for profit maximisation, not out of unfamiliarity.

And as to the point you made about betraying humanity: it's funny how people generally understand that the First and Third Reichs were out of line, understand the ethical reasons for the Allies opposing their takeover of Europe, but make excuses upon excuses upon excuses for European nations executing the very same imperialist agenda in Africa at the very same time.
I've become increasingly disillusioned with the JS ecosystem over the past couple of years, but React still delivers. I can still chuck it in a script tag and start writing components if needed (without JSX). I haven't really used hooks yet and don't plan to, but as long as "legacy" class based components are supported, I will use them.

Thanks for maintaining backward compatibility, which is not very common in the JS world. And congrats on the release!
"A recursive recipe is one where ingredients in the recipe can be replaced by another recipe. The more ingredients you replace, the more that the recipe is made truly from scratch"

This is awesome. You tell it how much time and money you have and you can decide how "from scratch" you want to be. Think yogurt --> milk --> cow.
And it's important to remember that changes in the effective rate aren't only due to changes in tax code. During a recession, when equities are doing poorly, you'll see a decrease in capital gains (which are taxed at a lower rate).
Yeah, but any enterprise that warrants this gear likely also has a bunch of risk averse bureaucracy saying "Unplug that, you lose your job."
Isn't the white cloud a de-pressurization front? The actual pressure wave is ahead of it and his speed estimate is probably low.
Name, sex, parents, place and date of birth. That's all the government needs to know about you to prove you're a citizen.

Anything beyond that is just market research.
Actually, they use AMP. I read the 6ix9ine article on AMP and it was a much nicer mobile experience.
The comment was generic religious/political flamebait and unsubstantive. I'm not criticizing you or your good intentions, just explaining how it externally appears from an HN moderation point of view.

Any place the phrase "calling out" appears, it's likely that the desired spirit of this site (i.e. intellectual curiosity) has been left behind. That phrase is the flagship of internet indignation, which is not compatible with curious conversation.

There may be a bit of a misunderstanding though. The intended style of discussion here is not about ignoring what's bad or focusing only on what's good. It's not a question of what you're focusing on, but how you're focusing on it, and what state a comment shifts the conversation into (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). There are certain predictable things about internet forum dynamics; one is that calling-out-style comments that don't add much information tend to take threads into simplistic, overheated states. One essential quality of what we're looking for on HN is unpredictability (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn’t exercise pre-Covid and now I do exercise
Numerous other ideas exist for alien life, but most of them have their shortcomings. It all boils down to chemical reactions and physics.

Imagine a universe of only helium. No valence electrons would be readily available, so chances are you are not going to see helium molecules. Lithium, sure, as a metal. Continue examining various smaller (and more plentiful elements). Fluorine? Well, only one slot available, so you can make molecules with two atoms, but no chains. If you have two slots open, you can make a chain, but little else. Although try making a chain of oxygen -- even the three-link ozone is not particularly stable. Carbon can have four different bonds going at once, which is pretty crazy, and so you want something with three or four slots available.

But then you say, well, silicon could have four. And it could ... but for the fact that it is so huge by comparison to carbon (that whole other "electron shell") that it rarely has analogues to organic (carbon-based) compounds. Also, it doesn't like to do much until you get it fairly hot. So you climb back up a row and it looks like carbon, nitrogen, boron ... those are going to do your heavy lifting when you need multiple bonds, with hydrogen, oxygen, and the halogens or alkali metals somewhere on the outside. Hence carbon chauvinism. Carbon is something like the fourth most common element in the universe after all.

Then you start talking about solvents -- all of this stuff has to slosh around in something after all, your chemistry experiments take place in liquids -- and the field is a bit wider but dang, water has some crazy properties that make it quite a catch when it comes to solvents.

You've got temperature ranges: down in the single digits of Kelvin you're not going to have much chemistry happening, and up in the thousands of Kelvins even iron boils and then again, no more structure.

Once you start looking for these various "sweet spots" it all comes down to finding a place where you can have liquids (your solvent), solids (for structure), and gases (even if they are dissolved in liquids). Combine that with the more common elements (especially those that are friendly to complex chemistry) and you have something not entirely un-Earthlike.

There's tons of Wikipedia articles on it, but ... the restrictions of chemistry are the bulk of the culprit, I'm afraid.
FWIW, people are underselling this probably because people will give up if you tell them the doomsday scenario.

Making it just terrible enough that people can compare, without talking about straight cataclysm helps ensuring that people at least read the entire article.
Using smartphones is an interesting idea. Can you recommend any reading material on this?
> And maybe if you keep signalling to a company that you want to do contract work for them but never submit any bids for what they put out as jobs, they'll start ignoring you as not serious.

Okay, but none of this is about people who wanted to do work for Uber but didn't. This issue is about people who did in fact do work for Uber. If you never submit any bids and never do any work, you're neither a contractor nor an employee.
Totally - we fully intend to try our hand at this space. Here is in article when were still considering the space https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/stand-up-meets-covid-...
Electrical codes in the US are very clear that they care much, much more about preventing fires than preventing loss of power. The one exception is the fire pump that provides water pressure to the sprinkler system, since if that's running there's already a fire.

The owner of the datacenter's aversion to downtime is not going to be a concern to the building inspector or the fire marshal.
I don't think a singular lower court decision is relevant in the context of large scale court cases like this.

The real decision will be made many months, or years, from now once everything had made its way through the appeal process.

The current one doesn't really mean much.
Most states (29 of 50) don't have same day voter registration but of the 21 who do, they require Voter ID and proof of residency. Is your assertion that they're also suppressing the vote?

Ref: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/same-d...
If your points are true, then all that really means is that there is a structural, economic incentive to not be structured as a platform and that the old model, of having cab companies with drivers who are employed by that company, is the most naturally efficient structure. That's fine, except for the part where they claim their employees are independent contractors, which would be tax fraud if they didn't try to structure in plausible deniability as best they could. That was the criticism I started with: they want to treat their workers as independent contractors when and to the extent that it benefits to do so, and they want to treat them like employees when it doesn't. "the relationship between driver and platform is structured to ensure a consistent driver and rider experience" - yes, that relationship has a specific name and that name is "employer." Uber and Lyft want to employ drivers to work for them, but want to avoid paying taxes on it. This is a dangerous game they're playing.
> let people find their ballot by some ID number if they want and call it a day.

And if your boss or landlord or spouse or cult leader hints that you should show them you voted the correct way, what do you do?
Well, I live in China, so technically we don't. You can say we were born under different legal systems. In China, law is often a tool to punish those the state doesn't like.

Trump hasn't banned TikTok yet, and the powers he is trying to use for that were given to him by Congress. It hasn't gone through courts yet, though, so you need to read more about it before making claims. This seems to be a pattern with you.

They claim it is not retroactive - but I highly doubt it. And you yourself said he was being punished for things that happened before it was in place.
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Though concerns over vote-by-mail fraud seem greatly overstated, truth is that where you are at a given moment says a lot about who you are.

Identity and location are closely linked.

And being somewhere specific carries a high opportunity cost: it precludes being elsewhere. In-person vs. remote mechanisms (mail, phone, electronic) reflect this.
Here’s a fun rabbit hole for you to go down. Find CNW’s article on 6ix9ine and compare it to his Wikipedia page. Then take his reported earnings and subtract relevant taxes.
I'm, to say the very least, not sure that the Sherman Anti-trust Act prevents collective bargaining.
> Why does the government need to have an opinion on the matter?

Because constituents voted for that government which gave them the power to vote employment laws that apply to Uber/Lyft. Or are you contesting the legitimacy of the democratic process, and California's constitution?

Uber/Lyft are free to move their business to another state.

> Drivers are voluntarily entering into the current work arrangement

Irrelevant, not all "arrangements" are legal. By that logic slavery should be legal as well, if the slave enters in a slave agreement willingly, to settle a debt for instance.