skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do these classifications tell you? How are they useful? Are they the best ways to classify people? How are you choosing the different races?

The very same questions apply to human paleontology -- and the same answers. You have to solve basically the same problems if you want to unravel the dawn of humanity.

> The idea that "race isn't real" stems from the idea that there isn't a single genetic metric you can use to categorize people.

That sounds like a very flawed approach to me. Even imperfect concepts and approaches have their utility. Just because the universe isn't black-and-white on concepts doesn't mean that no patterns emerge.

> What word should we use to describe the US social and legal definitions of Black and White?

I thought you already had "Anglo-Saxons" and "African Americans" for these.
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I think, from Uber and Lyft's perspective, having to require drivers to sign up for shifts in advance (or preventing a driver from signing in to the app) is basically the death of the gig economy.

Instead of doing their laissez-faire approach where the supply of drivers is (more or less) self-regulating, rideshare companies will have to tackle some nasty optimization problems. If a rural area only has 2 or 3 passengers a night, should they let a driver sign on or is it cheaper to just deny the customers? If a sporting event is ending at 7pm, should you increase the driver threshold if you're just going to force all the drivers to sign off in 30 minutes? Or is it better to increase wait times by decreasing the supply of drivers? etc etc
Most of what I'm seeing listed as DD from the top traders is just news. Things like "TICKER up 16% after hours as XYZ happens!"
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They're replacing /all/ of the modules in every battery pack of every Chevy Bolt including the EUV variant, per their recall letters to dealers and customers.
Yes but there is still the fact that they all died together. The initial autopsy didn't provide clues (which they would be looking for heatstroke which has a particular signature)
So it would seem.
People don't like bad faith being injected into their speech, and its absolutely appropriate to treat such attempts as an act of aggression, because it is.
In our area, pharmacies will not fill prescriptions for Ivermectin as a prophylactic. With a doctor's prescription, the pharmacies (Walmart, etc) are refusing to fill the prescription. The prescribing doctors are upset and say it is not the pharmacies prerogative to deny a legal prescription. But they still do.
Titles aren't based on "years of experience". They're supposed to be based on actual experience. E.g.: There's a reason you don't have the title CEO, or Vice President of Accounting.

Also most HR take titles with a grain of salt. Your actual experience is expected to be rooted out through the interview process anyway.
> So if it had been worded differently, to make the relevant definitions part of the proposition, it would have been fine

Maybe, maybe not. I haven't read the full analysis in the ruling, but it seems from the excerpts I’ve seen that the attempt to sweep workers comp rules into the amendment restrictions without them being part of the main body was found to be an attempt to do an end run around the single-subject rule, which means it would have been struck down either way.

> Also it seems really weird to call that theoretical legislation "unrelated" when it would change how the proposition works.

It wouldn't change how the proposition works. It would change how the businesses affected by the proposition work, but lots of unrelated laws would do that.
> This won't be true no matter how many times you repeat it. "As a white person", I have been accused of racism. My response was to apologize and attempt to do better in future. I have largely been successful in those better attempts. When I have fallen short, I have apologized again.

Your experiences as a white person is not universal. The line you quoted is to accuse them -- your response seems to imply that you admit that when accused you were being racist?

The problem is that it is absolutely not okay to have to denounce yourself if you have done nothing wrong. Nowadays the accusations fly at a moment's notice, people jump to the most uncharitable of interpretations.

It would be better if the world followed some aspect of HN's guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Two separate references to two separate arrays equaling false? What's the problem?
People tend to take their masks off while eating, drinking and kissing. It's easy to tell when someone is smiling or frowning even if they're wearing a mask (unless their expressions are extremely subtle), and recognizing people when they're wearing a mask is no more difficult than with a mask off.

I suppose everyone's situation is different but I haven't noticed any change in the way people interact around me socially with or without a mask.
10 billions profit a year, seems like enough money for user support
For those exposing a lot of fingerprintable data it doesn't help much but that's not really a problem since there is already plenty of fingerprintable data.

For those trying to hide/fake fingerprintable data the mismatch between spoofed user agent and detected browser/OS combo creates a strong fingerprint in itself.

This is the general premise of fingerprinting: if you throw enough data points at it trying to escape fingerprinting itself creates a unique fingerprint.
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Wait till you get an umpteenth proposition on outpatient kidney dialysis clinics.
I have the same problems as you. For some reason I can't work in that type of format (similarly with Python).

No beef against those that love it, my brain just can't handle it.
Uber only has so much cash on hand (about $6B as of Jun 20th, 2021; having lost $28B over the last 5.5 years [1]). Governments and legal proceedings can outlast unprofitable gig work companies with limited runway, no? Eventually someone with common sense is going to stop throwing money at these concerns with no chance of profitability.

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...
Many other Californian ballot measures also have no waiver.

Not saying prop 22 has no drawbacks, but there's no reason to make up fake reasons to criticize it.
Good point! I'll bring it up with the other devs.
TOML is atrocious. In trying to look ini-like its table and nested structures become completely inscrutable.

I only ever deal with it by writing what I need in YAML and running a converter.
> I think that you're saying that other people are defining Black as a race wrongly because they aren't defining Black in terms of ancestry/genetics.

Correct.

> I would suggest that maybe that means you shouldn't try to define Black

I don't use it as a definition, which I've clarified multiple times. Black can be a colloquialism for recognition of a characteristic. It's useful, so I will continue to use it. This has nothing to do with whether or not I think they are <arbitrary race>
Without miscitos, there wouldn't have been that war.
Wow. All that packaging and power delivery must be incredibly expensive. Yet they claim massive TCO advantage over Nvidia. Amazing what you can do when not paying for Nvidia's 60% margins ;)

If this is as good as they say, they should spin this off and sell these. Probably won't.
So doing exercises that are ineffectual is better than not exercising at all. Got it.
So this is a great step in the right direction since wasm is run in the JavaScript sandbox.
Apple already had her (and everyone else who iMessages) nudes: iCloud Backup is not e2e and is on by default and escrows either the iMessage plaintext or the iMessage sync keys to Apple, encrypted with Apple keys.

Apple can read all of the stuff you text or iMessage if you (and all the people you text with) haven't disabled iCloud Backup.

This goes for every iOS device in the world, not just Apple corporate ones.

They even have my nudes (despite my not using iMessage, SMS, or iCloud) because I send them sometimes on Signal to people who save them in their iOS camera roll and have iCloud still enabled by default. (iCloud Photos, like iCloud Backup, is also not e2e.)

(If your employer is pressuring you to do something you are not legally required to do and don't want to, it should immediately sound alarm bells and harder personal boundary defense.)
Some examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
> special category of “countries that encourage corruption"

Unfortunately, the US and China are at the tip-top of the list.

In the US it is done very, very cleverly: corruption is explicitly legal.

China keeps corruption illegal, then uses it as carrot and stick to keep party bosses in line: play ball, all is forgiven; balk, and the abuses become Crimes against the People.

Russia and Brazil would like to be up there too, but just haven't enough money. Nobody else has either. (I don't know how India works.)
> They don't want the non-performing Googlers (who possibly might outnumber the high-performing ones) working remote though.

Why not?
So, are uber and lyft drivers suddenly employees now, until an appellate court issues a preliminary injunction or something?
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It took me way too long[1] to figure out that "digital signage" means physical signs, not that display manufacturers are now jacking up their rates for models that won't backdoor your system and exfiltrate your private keys.

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1: As in I was halfway through writing a comment to ask how these were sufficiently different from regular monitors to justify that markup, before realizing that I'm an idiot.
A couple of Googlers could spread some cash around. An influx could distort things. I don’t think Austinites are happy about the price of housing right now.

These are natural experiments, let’s run some.
>Let me approach it from another angle. Pre-vaccine, it appears that Covid roughly doubled everyone's all-cause mortality.[1] Like it killed 30 year olds at a much lower rate than 90 year olds, but 30 year olds have a much lower baseline mortality to begin with. This isn't an exact relationship, but approximately about double mortality across the board. (Even interestingly enough men's excess Covid death rate is about in line with their general mortality vis-a-vis women.)

I don't get why almost everyone compares death and disease rates of something with basically unrestricted spread(flu) with something that has had heavy precautions taken around it, i.e lockdowns, isolation, social distancing masking (Covid).

Covid would have way higher stats if it was allowed to spread unrestricted.
>From the article: "it limits the power of a future Legislature to define app-based drivers as workers subject to workers’ compensation law." That makes the entire ballot measure unenforceable, Roesch said.

Why? AFAIK the courts usually strike down the parts that are illegal, not the entire thing.
Inspired by that situation, at least
Doug Bowser sounds like Kim Dotcom of Megaupload (except that Dotcom actually changed his name to match his business; he was born Kim Schmitz)
"there's no second hand market for my game purchases" is an integral part of that reasoning. Why don't we just fix that too.
> the west should formulate and recognise a special category of “countries that encourage corruption"

Would "The West" then impose sanctions on itself?

Sanctions, as imposed on various countries in the Middle East, are a form of warfare. They aren't imposed "for corruption", they are imposed for being an enemy. After all, all of the USA's friends are at least as corrupt as Iran.

Does "the export of political corruption" include covert operations to overthrow duly-elected governments in faraway places? Who arranged the overthrow of Mossadeq, I wonder?
There's also an aspect of learning the health system of each country. It's not solely about the science aspect.
(writing from Nevada City, between two major forest fires, btw)

The California timber industry is dead. It's dead because global lumber demand is shrinking, the world lumber industry is competitive, California cut down the big trees a while back and because the exurbanites don't like trucks driving by their mansions.

Lumber isn't a solution to fire because companies only want to cut the big tree that would survive the fires and aren't interested in the small, spindly trees and brush that are burning. Lumber isn't a solution to overall carbon capture because humans hold a fixed amount of wood at a time and cutting more trees in a given location isn't going change that amount. And fantasies that you can open the flood gates and restart logging are ridiculous and reprehensible imo.

Stopping CO2 production global is really the only solution but biochar is the only meaningful carbon capture form if we need to go there also (this would reverse coal mining, essentially - that would capture the substance). California and the North West US have too much forest (of spindly trees and brush), that and global warming is why things are burning. California mountains would be a good site for biochar but this isn't going to be a profitable venture, the government will have to pay. The present mess really can only be solved by state intervention and the OP gives further evidence that "market based solutions" are a despicable sham.
I already don't answer unsolicited calls. I am just explaining my rationale why that's the case.
That is... probably not correct? The forest stores x amount of carbon it has extracted while the forest exists, but forests are ephemeral over geological timescales, or in some cases even 100's of years. And while they suck up carbon while growing, they reach equilibrium relatively quickly, and then mostly just cycle it, not store much more.

It's great if you have a bunch of land that COULD have a forest, but currently doesn't for some reason (harvested?) - but there isn't a lot of that anymore. If it doesn't have it now because the last one burned, then it's just getting back to it's previous storage point, not really changing the overall equilibrium. You can't easily make more land be forestable, as it requires quite a lot of water, and most places with a lot of water already have forests.
I think the main argument is indeed spelled out in your last paragraph. Can it be Free Software if access to it is legally restricted based on nationality? I'm going to guess that it can't be, at least not according to FSF's definition of Free as in "libre". If it turns out it's just US-centric-free, that's a disappointing narrowing down of the concept.

> You can use all these software even in Iran though. You just have to get it from somewhere else.

I think using the distro or even getting access to the source code is not the issue. This dev likely already has a local copy. But how is he going to legally get newer copies of the source code or meaningfully collaborate with other contributors?

Let's say he says "screw this" and manages to somehow host a fork in an Iranian server. How are other contributors based in the US going to share their contributions without legal risks?
I'm not sure this is true anymore with recent cars. Mine has LED headlights and turning them on barely drooped the battery voltage.

If you have someone who can help, measuring the voltage while you try to start the car can help more directly diagnose this.
Meh. It’s ok. I’ve used it in many projects and languages while never caring about and being able to find an OSS parser in all languages.
> To do its job effectively, it doesn't need to devote screen real estate to racial justice

That is a matter of opinion that reasonable people disagree about.

Again, people are inseparable from their ideology. If you don't like hearing about ideology (like I don't like having to see crucifix necklaces), avoid people and you won't have that problem.
If you look at past graphs, the US could have been fully vaccinated by mid-June or perhaps July. The current problems faced by the hospital system in some areas of the US were probably avoidable, so what is true for Singapore’s policies is not the same in the US.

But it is likely quite hard to predict hospital utilization, since it changes many weeks after we needed to change behaviors to maybe avoid it.
Interesting. I’m guessing for radar applications it’s really the phase noise above a certain frequency that matters.
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I have an idea for a shell I've been very slowly building out where the user can embed other languages in {#! ... } blocks of an otherwise POSIX compliant shell. I haven't solved the hard problems yet and I regularly wonder why I'm bothering myself with this, but it still feels cool sometimes. Even if I can't really use it for every day things yet without tab-complete, proper redirection and a million other missing features.

Yes, I think the shell is an amazingly empowering tool, and yes it's also in need of some love. It's hard pulling apart what pieces of the specs still make sense, and what parts don't. But I've tried to learn and love fish shell (for example) and I think it's just proof for me that a new shell language is just going to cause more integrations and translations I need to perform on the fly. I already convert from 12 hour to 24 hours in real time, I don't really need to be translating bash->fish every time I want to do a conditional.

Embedding languages inside each other is a topic of theoretical consideration now for me, and I'll admit I haven't found a compelling source for previous research on this yet, but I feel like I might need it one day.

Anyway, I'll just be happy if one day I can try and forget about all the weird flags shell options that can be set at any time and impact the evaluation strategies of future expressions directly.

But alas, the shell would never stay still.
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Customers don’t want gig work - customers want cheap labor.

I’d be surprised if Uber wins an appeal at any level. With Uber you have to follow their rules, follow their timing once a ride is scheduled, you can’t set your own prices, nor can you use any vehicle you’d like.

In summary, an Uber driver cannot complete their ride the way they want with no restrictions.

Seems like a slam dunk for classifying as an employee.

A true gig Uber would basically just be eBay, except it would have an algorithm to schedule the rides based on your location and arbitrary filtering requirements.
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I think if you look at it as "everything is a calculated risk," you'd find that the only way you'd rationally consider this any riskier that various other things they could have chosen for their weekend activity (such as a road trip) was through the 20-20 hindsight that is conveniently available to you.

Since we don't even know how what caused their deaths, it's quite premature to blame the parents for doing something risky.
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> So I've been told that the default of a proposition is that the legislature can't overturn it at all, and the clause allowing a supermajority actually increases the legislature's power.

This isn't about a supermajority clause. No such clause is being discussed.

What he took issue to is the part of the prop that said regardless of any future laws, app-drivers are never allowed not to be subject to any workman's comp laws. The judge ruled that this overbroad language unfairly limited future legislature's powers beyond the scope of the proposition and that such limitation didn't align with the listed reasoning for the proposition. Hence, that was a violation of the law and therefore the whole prop is out.
The whole thing is kinda moot as supply/demand dynamics raised the base earnings amidst the driver shortage https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-and-lyft-drivers-are-comin...
Would be cool if they published some data so that others could give it a try. I bet someone out there can build a model that is better than a coin flip.
And on top of that I've believe he's accidentally let slip that he's beaten Dark Souls. (He doesn't like to talk about it.)
It would still be simpler to go bulk rather than selling piecemeal. But yes, fixing it would be nice regardless.
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http://ai/ is a valid URL. I found it interesting and tried to submit it to HN, but HN refuses it.

Anyway, that was the intellectually interesting thing: apparently http://ai/ is quite unexpectedly a real website called "Offshore Information Services Ltd."

Originally discovered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253333
Some people care more about convenience than security. And for everyone else, it doesn't have to be passwordless. You can use a regular password and a FIDO authenticator.
People also don't like change, especially when it seems nonsensical. In your specific case I could see some friction against the term "Dean" as it has a connotation that might but apply here.
When I was in University they changed the logo. There was a huge uproar. Mainly it didn't make much sense. If course, now, decades later I love it.
But just because people don't want to change doesn't always mean racism is involved.
Wow, it's happening! For others completely out of the loop on that there was even an accepted proposal that is now being implemented:

https://go.dev/blog/generics-proposal
The UX for client certificates is horrific, especially if you choose the more secure approach of storing them on a smart card.
Forest fires are a thing anywhere forests exist, from Canada [https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/report] to Siberia and the Artic Circle [https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?749191/summer-wildfires-reco...]

It just doesn't get much press when it is in the middle of nowhere, generally, as compared to blanketing one of the most populous states in the US.

You can think of a forest like a giant spring. The more it grows, the more energy it stores/the more compressed it is, until eventually the right conditions happen and BLAM, it lets loose. This is true of all forests and frankly all collections of carbon. The ones underground just happen to be particularly well 'trapped'.

Even peat bogs catch on fire sometimes.
I think what doesn't work is their assumption that amount of time talking means it was a "good match." It's quite possible that it took some time for someone to figure out the other person was awful, or even that the entire conversation was negative, such as an argument. The algorithm doesn't know that because it is purely based on talk time, rather than taking into account such things as if the users gave each other good ratings.
So, it's equitable that SV developers make bank, and totally not because developers in bay area are in high demand?