skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Makes sense. CA is wrong to outlaw voluntary working relationships between two parties.

2. Interesting idea, but then all companies could just do this and make the same claim that their employees/contractors/vendors are just customers too! Not gonna fly.
> The right solution is: Dont share documentation in 1-1, always write it on the wiki

You are restating the problem, the question is how
In The Netherlands you can use your drivers license as form of ID hence use it as form of ID when voting.

Wouldn't that be possible in the US? Most people would happy to spend the (like) $40 to get a drivers license?
Depends how paranoid you want to be, and to what degree of certainty (after all it's impossible to prove a negative).

But in general, backdoors for "the good guys" are just more surface area for "the bad guys", and developers of products which take security seriously lock themselves out too.
Reality is nowhere near this rosy. Sure, maybe you can get away with canned auth, but I took that as illustrative.

A more practical example: Start/stop/change subscription plans. Until 12 days ago, Stripe had no customer portal so you had to implement this yourself. You can do it with support email, and "easy to switch plans" is not on any prospective customer's checklist.

"Too many change plan emails" is a good problem to have - deprioritize the feature. And if you're lucky, by the time you really need it, your billing service will have implemented the feature for you.
That makes catching people impossible. We can't even determine the level of fraud, so faith in our voting system is eroded. Even if you believe that there is no fraud, you should be deeply concerned that many other people are losing faith in election integrity. Elections are considered fraudulent until proven otherwise.

We certainly could have decently secure elections without ID. Like this: You show up to vote in person, a good photo is taken, and you say who you are. That info is then made public. Political parties and other interested groups can sift through the photos, maybe with an AI, to find any crime.

It's almost perfect. The main trouble is that fraud detection happens after the voting, so a person who doesn't fear prison can do as desired.
> IIRC it's not true for a.out executables on Linux

I was surprised to discover a.out support is still there in the kernel [1]. There has been talk on LKML about whether to remove it [2] – apparently it has accumulated regression bugs (particularly in the area of core dumping) which nobody has noticed and fixed, which is the inevitable fate of code that hangs around for decades after everybody stops using it – but it still hasn't been removed yet.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/binfmt_aout...

[2] https://www.lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/5/389
The Carlifornia judge also agrees, just that the definition of a contractor is based on more than flexible hours. If Uber truly wants to have contractors, they'll have to cede more decision-making/autonomy to drivers; or alternatively have 2 classes of drivers and have them choose to be employees or honest-to-goodness contractors with full autonomy (or enough autonomy to cross the line between employee and contractor).
Or how stupid the people running the police departments think people are.
Voting is one of the few government services that is guaranteed to us by the Constitution. I can stomach complexities and ineffectiveness when it comes to something like acquiring a drivers license. I can't stomach anything that puts unnecessary obstacles between a US citizen and the ability to quickly and easily vote. If you want to require voter ID to vote, that is fine by me as long as you also take on the responsibility of ensuring every citizen has an ID.
Yet more worshipping on the fear of change. Simply speaking. If the code is suspicious, it should be treated as such.

I am not tied to some definition of perfection but rather the practical. Developer tools help write safer code. If that code is running dangerous equipment this is even more important.

The expectations and quality needs to be raised. ESPECIALLY in operating systems, device drivers and yes code that has been running "just fine" for years.
My quarantine routine was yoga mat + YouTube yoga session every morning before work. It’s been pretty great tbh.

(Btw, yoga with adriene is a very good YouTube yoga channel)
Wow, I learned something new and can now think about the world more closely to how it really is. Thank you.
https://mobile.twitter.com/COsweda/status/129295752551229440...
At first glance, I'm fine with that. I hope whoever took the opposing position responds to you though.
"Within the next 40 years, increases in global temperatures are projected to raise global mortality rates by the same amount—14 deaths per 100,000."

This is the first I've heard this kind of statistic. Does anybody have a reference for where this came from?
> then leave public investors holding the bag.

Their labor issues are hardly new. If you did not know about them when you invested in Uber, you didn't even read the news articles, yet alone the filings. You were supposed to price that in to your investment if you purchased.
Do you have any internships program?
> Google is actually pretty clear for consumer accounts, if you lock yourself out your content is lost and they suggest setting up a new account.

What if they lock you out? You make it sound like it's some transparent and easy to understand process based on publicly available rules, and it's just user violating some obvious documented rule, therefore locking himself out.

But maybe you just travel to africa for the first time, and they just decide that now you can't login, because "suspicious activity". Bye.

If they wish to reduce support costs, one other way is to make the service better and more predictable. Maybe add a checkbox to opt out out of this "you're too stupid to keep your credentials safe" banning system, or something like that.
I hope they retroactively collect unemployment tax from both companies. They’ve been playing this shell game for long enough.
This is an interesting flavor of ad hominem. While the post isn't a personal attack, it severely degrades the argument by calling it a 'meme'. Omitting the first sentence, and leaving the second, would be far more effective.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7512/15985103560_ed7985fc2a_o...
>This really comes off as a hastily prepared political dig against China

I think 'Clean net' is a horrific, short sighted, dystopian joke that will be the subject of ridicule and fascination as a historical subject.

I also think there's no surveillance operation in the world as vast and as troubling as China's, and there's nothing fundamentally inaccurate or misleading about pointing that out.
Public servants are paid well(if they get paid in time, some incompetent departments are failing their employees) along with amenities. So Bribery in india is mostly a cultural problem.
As opposed to assuming that you'll implement it correctly when Google or Facebook or github haven't?
We had this problem with O365 a few years ago. Someone had signed up using our company domain and it created a mountain of heart ache. If I recall correctly we had to make a second domain our primary and then setup aliases for everything.
So Apple is really against the free and easy web access via browser. They lost browser war to Chrome and this is their revenge imo. Nothing is wrong from Apple's perspective - they really do a lot of hard work on their hardware devices and they don't want to end Apple's success story like other hardware businesses
“I’m afraid your repeating _____‘S talking points.”is a logical fallacy that proves you’re brain has been corrupted. I bet you use this same fallacious argument in political discussion. Try refuting arguments directly rather and you will find the truth much faster by exiting the neurological loop you are stuck in.
Ha! Yes, although technically I'm just saying "frequently wrong", for example maybe half of them, and thus not worth reading.
“Open Source” feels like a slap on freedom's face with projects like Android
Not if the contract in question requires those issues being address.

The acceptance criteria is controlled by the purchaser. The purchaser can and should audit for this attempt to slide in out of spec code.
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I've gone from walking 80minutes/day and doing 16-8 'fasting' to eating comfort foods and barely leaving the house. Principally for me I was able to use getting to work as a motivator to exercise (and everything else fell in to place to some extent); now work is in the bedroom. It's a problem principally of depression/lack of motivation; but one that I was managing prior to lockdown.

Experiences are so varied across the board. It wouldn't surprise me if overall people, like me, were worse off in general health terms.
Please. You surely are aware of the recent failed negotiation requirements of the house majority leader.
I am not an expert, but I imagine this could work:

-Generate fictional registered voters at real addresses

-Elections office dutifully sends out ballots

-Rely on actual residents to toss those ballots. Or maybe they vote with them - if it's in the right district, they're likely to vote for the right person anyway

-Send in copies of their mail-in ballots come election time

This would work if you keep the numbers low. And the numbers of dead/moved voters would help camouflage it.
Sorry, we mixed up which hardware, in which questions. My question immediately above had to do with routers, etc. that the administration has also put attention onto.
on a fully virtualized system, echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger is going to be as close to a forced shutdown as you can get. that won't test hardware/firmware issues, but neither will a VM stop anyways.
The main part is that they found some type of material that is made of table salt and water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrohalite , real table salt and real water.
This is way too simplistic to segment the Bay Area into 3 social-economic classes. I've seen people from what the author describes but way more other types/classes of people.
Procreate should support the UIDocumentBrowserViewController

When you open a file within Procreate, it should give you an option within the app to choose Google Drive or whatever other storage provider you have install and load and save files to Google Drive from within the app.

It works for Office.
> Why is CCP-owned infrastructure uniquely susceptible to this? If we can't protect our transmissions with encryption, secure data storage techniques, what does it matter that the equipment is supplied by China? What unusual attack do they get access to by owning or manufacturing the equipment?

Their companies are by law forced to cooperate.
This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
We are not Europe and modern society has existed for but a brief moment in the long history of the world. I have no desire to give the government any more of an advantage over me. There's no reason to think that it will never be used in the future.
Is there a term for UPS supplies for this purpose?

I want one for work to keep the network and internet devices running, but it needs about 30 Watts continuously for say 24 hours, not hundreds of Watts for 30 minutes like a UPS for a server.

I presume a "trickle" power UPS would need to care about power efficiency?
I'm in the same boat there but I'm training more consistently than I ever have. I have a double stroller so I take the boys running, or I load them up and do sprints uphill if I don't feel like going for a long run. It's not unlike pushing a sled. I also set the littlest one up in his bouncer while the 2 year old plays with the tools in my garage and watches me lift weights or do pull-ups. Exercise can and should be a family activity. On the weekends my wife and I each throw a kid on our back and go for a ruck in the forest.

You can also use children like a kettlebell. They love it and it's a great workout. The two year old also loves to help me with push-ups and planks by climbing on or under me.
Naive idea: Putting a big copper rod in whatever body of water the plant uses for cooling and connecting power to it should do it no?
Extremophiles and Extreme Environments
I once worked on a project that made me think that year 2038 will be interesting for the military.
You sir, are a true monster. I salute you.
> What do you think is the essential difference here?

The essential difference is that the role of uber is absent from your analogy.

> Do you think software contractors can somehow force clients to accept any rate they want

I'll just assume that's a sarcastic quip in rhetorical question form rather than what you actually think I believe. Obviously, a software contract is negotiated between two parties, unlike in the case of Uber where all possibility of negotiation is eschewed for a price explicitly set by uber. 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.
It's always been clear that Woz's integrity is off the charts.

Just a good human all around, wanting to build things for fun and help people because that's what people with power do.

A true icon who encompasses many of the things that make America great, and serves as a compass for us all to be a little better. Let's get wozzy.
200+ comments and 100 upvotes. Hmm, seems like some people don't want this information spread.
I suspect you should check your sources.

This was my first result searching for "us constitution voting"
https://www.votefortheconstitution.com/voting---what-does-th...
I think that again, we need to put our pitchforks down and think through this critically. Maybe someone from Google did decide that CNW is about to blow the lid on their scam and decide to shit all over its business model. But let’s step back for an instant and think over some other possibilities.

Google released some pretty major core updates in 2018 and 2019. A lot of these updates seemed to focus on what the SEO community has taken to refer to as EAT (expertise, authority and trust). Google’s own guidance on some of these indicate a similar theme - they’re interested in sources, quality of analysis and other trust metrics. Some major sites saw some really massive drops over these years.

When I checked out CNW earlier on today, I read a couple of articles. There were no sources at all. The net worth calculation seems to be the individual’s reported earnings less state and federal taxes. And the content looks like it was lifted from Wikipedia - in some cases, entire sentences were reprinted word for word.

To get that, my browser had to make 426 requests, download 9mb of mostly adware and display ads almost everywhere.

Maybe this is all a big Google ploy but I think it’s more likely that their algorithm has changed to favour high quality sites as opposed to sites that used to get search performance because of valuable keywords in their domain.

As for their Android app, I’ve never owned a phone that runs Android so I can’t find and download an Android version but I decided to go down the rabbit hole and install CNW in my iPhone. They’ve apparently been ad free for two years, which is nicer than their web experience. But the content is the same kind of stuff as their website - entire sentences seem lifted directly from Wikipedia, their news section is similar, it’s just slightly repackaged stories from other sources.

Thanks to today, I now know that Takeshi 6ix9ine made $5m for a livestream which pushed his net worth to a reported $8 million. I’ve never felt so old or out of touch in my life...:)
> But everybody already has an Id card because you need it to travel abroad.

You mean outside of the Schengen area, right? Are you sure that "everybody" does that?
Couple of things that might be helpful:

1. Ask them what the compensation is for the role earlier in the interview process. If you are feeling bold/pushy yourself you can start by asking them to explain their compensation model for finding a candidate and discuss whether or not they are working for candidates or the company. (This gets recruiters on edge making them less likely to look for firm numbers from you)

2. Start by asking about what they offer in non-salary compensation, and be as detailed as possible. There are big differences in equity, health care coverage, 401K match, etc... work your way up to salary.

3. Use your current compensation (TC) to stress that you want a reasonable percentage increase... TC should include estimates for how much your health insurance costs, bonus, perks at work, severance (conferences, food/ beverage, company functions, etc).

4. Use the stack overflow developer survey to figure out roughly what your comp should be. Focus on getting to the high end of the salary range. If you good they should have to "think about it"

Also going to throw this out there... dumb companies worry about how much someone will cost, smart companies worry about the value that someone will bring. So if you keep on running into this you should probably look at different companies.
For the right team and product I’m willing to give up $50k. I hate the incompetence associated with the software industry so much that I am happily working a temp job in management in a different industry on the other side of the world. The only thing stressful about this is knowing it’s temporary and when the party is over I have to go back to the corporate software job. I am considering doing absolutely anything else for half pay and letting the wife figure out how to make up the difference.
True, but when 100k uber drivers (contractors) in California are reclassified as employees, it seem fair to say a "dispute" is happening.

For the record, I am not saying the ruling is incorrect, but it does make me feel uneasy because:

1) I think that Uber does provide a public good (increased efficiency compared to a taxi)
2) If all drivers are employees, the business does not seem sustainable

I think that new laws are needed rather than using pre-sharing-economy labels like employee, but that the ruling by the judge may be correct given the current laws.
A larger figure (21%) was reported by NYPost[1] in a recent NYC election.

The worst part about paper ballots (mail-in, ink, or hanging chads) is that the intent must be re-interpreted by someone other than the voter at a time after it's too late for the voter to fix any issues.

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/08/05/84000-mail-in-ballots-disquali...
Posted many times but not much commenting - I thought there had been a larger thread?

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17212210

2017 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14650795

2015 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10092652

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133479

The revised version "Robert Noyce and His Congregation" was also discussed, also not very much:

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8135553
However, Jobs had a much bigger impact on the world. local vs global. https://sive.rs/local
I'm sure someone has thought of this, but why don't we have ridehailing apps where the contract literally is between the driver and the passenger(s)? The app can merely suggest a rate but the driver can set whatever price they want. The app takes a very small finder's fee.
I'd love to know the special mix that make a person more detached from material possessions than another. See I love open-source, I really do, and the idea of a world with a bunch of Oracle-like businesses competing for software makes me shivers. Yet in my day-to-day, I take the job that pays the most and I probably wouldn't take a 50% pay cut to maintain the kernel.

To be clear, I wish I was able to put my ideals above my personal wealth, but I have a hard time doing it. For those that might wonder, yes I do feel morally bankrupt at times.
given how "spiky" the graph is, your numbers are pretty much cherry-picking:

1945-1970 is ranging from 35% to 45% -- and it definitely won't average to 45%, which it only reaches once

2000-2017(?) is ranging from 30% to 42%

You've basically taken the high point of range 1 and compared it to the low point of range 2 -- and "a bit higher" doesn't really cut it when you're talking about what looks to be about 37% for the latest datapoint... about half the distance between your cherries.
There’s various rights of appeal, they are very slow. Also any government decision can be challenged by a judicial review in the U.K although it would be very expensive and would take years. In India, if no-one signs the paper, can you take it to court? I suppose that would take a long time too?
For #2, are you suggesting that the drivers would then get the full fare in exchange for the payment for the app? If so, yes, that would clearly be a great, extremely driver-friendly change that would defuse the employee vs contractor controversy... But, I suspect it would also result in layoffs and perhaps lawsuits from the shareholders.
Not speaking about Woz vs Jobs specifically of course. But, having a longer life is not necessarily better than having a shorter successful life. I would rather die at 60 with no regrets than live to be 90 with a lifetime of regrets.
You claim it, but where is the fraud? Didn’t the president have a commission looking into this? Are we still waiting for the results?
These clocks are machine learning models that predict a person's age based on the global methylation state of their genome. What is undisputed is that these clocks predict with good accuracy. What is hotly contested is what biological meaning, if any, specific methylated loci have.

These clocks are mainly being used for research, but one real-world application they are being used for is life insurance companies. If you are 60, but your methylome makes you appear 50, then you'll get a discount, as it is assumed that your health state will be closer to that of a 50-year-old.

So if you have a systematically distorted methylome, and you want to buy life insurance, the clock could be good news or bad news for you, depending on how your mutation affects the clock readout.

It used to be dogma that genomic hypomethylation occurs with age, or in other words, that methylation decreases as you age. It is now thought to be more complicated than that, but...if it is even partially true, that would imply that lower methylation levels would be associated with a higher age on the clock.

So probably you would not get a discount, sadly.
Oh man these are collector’s items. I’d love to have one of the hats. Not $500 want, but I’d probably have spent double the price of the hat on them. Maybe $50-60 or something.
Waiving the fees isn't sufficient to make the ID ubiquitous immediately, so it won't remove that argument, at least not right away.

It would be a step in the right direction, but the concept of a universal ID requires everyone (well, except outlaws in hiding) to have it - if it's mandatory, then it becomes legally reasonable to require it for receiving all kinds of services as you can answer "How do I do X if I don't have a valid ID?" with "Step 1: Get the ID renewed/replaced/made" and "How do I do X without ever getting an ID" with "Sorry, that won't be possible, not ever getting an ID is not a valid option", like it is currently the case in many other countries.

In essence, if instead of "just" making it easy to have ID even for poor and disenfranchised people you go out of your way to ensure that it's weird for them to not have ID, then ID requirements won't suppress voters.
Figma UX is quite bad as it doesn't work without an internet connection.
The pandemic disrupted my fitness regimen because it disrupted my daily routine in general. Ironically, I found that I had more free time to run, but ran less and was somewhat listless in general. (It didn't help that all of my races got canceled, too.) I've only recently returned to my pre-Covid weekly mileage.
Yeah, I'm confused about this. I live on the peninsula and I have no idea what kind of person I apparently am.