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It’s perfectly normal to have two W-2 employers.

On the other hand, it’s odd that these “contractors” can’t set prices for their services and risk deactivation if they decline the price Uber offers.

Uber misclassifies en masse the drivers it employs and shifts vehicle depreciation costs onto these "small businesses". Our taxes pay for healthcare costs which should rightfully be borne by the drivers' employer. I would say that's a non-negligible social cost.

Some very recently published research (Dec 2025) claims evidence of fire starting among homo neanderthalensis. This would push back fire starting know-how (not only control) from 50k to 400k years ago. Cool stuff!

[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/groundbrea...

For anyone this deep on the thread, check out this video (great presenter!) explaining TV spectrum allocation, NTSC, PAL, and the origin of 29.97 fps.

https://youtu.be/3GJUM6pCpew

Nice work OP, and congrats on HN front-page. Keep publishing or it never happened!

Improved transcription accuracy from non-native English I bet.

No snark, but posting with genuine concern for any homebuyers who didn’t experience the pain of 2008, please read and grok this: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/underwater.asp

I’m in favor of cycling infrastructure in the US, but it’s important to remember that the latitude of the Netherlands (like most of the European cycling cities) is north of the entire continental US.

I’m in decent shape, but will sweat at a resting heart rate in a Southern US summer.

Yes, I was definitely expecting cuneiform and base 60 literals.

I thought the failure was interesting too, enough to try on GPT-4. It succeeds with the same prompt.

Thanks for the links Bryan!

May I suggest a small teaser trailer post to the old “On the Metal” feed? I’m still subscribed there, but wasn’t aware of the new channels.

Those were some incredible interviews! I’ve listened to a few of the episodes twice.

Perhaps mandate a trigger? In the event of bankruptcy, implanted medical device firmware and hardware designs enter the public domain.

Patients’ interests should take precedence over creditors and investors.

will eventually be shown to be superior to the current standard of care, in which case it would become the standard of care

How does this overturning occur? Do care providers agitate for change? Or is it typically a response to headstrong patients and families?

disintermediates the entire payment sector

Unfortunately, the recent proposal specifically reassures commercial banks that any US CBDC will be intermediated (right on page 2) [1]. Board of Governors can't risk jeopardizing their speaking fees.

Individual FedAccounts via USPS locations is the way to go for the underbanked [2]. But, disappointingly, this is not that.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-... [2] https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3192162

There was a rule in the Port of Los Angeles saying you could only stack shipping containers two containers high.

This is not correct.

Next though, CA DOT should do a one time waiver and extension of the 90-day BIT inspections on trailer chassis.

What about a credit repair service which offers a web crawler to generate plausible pro-social disinformation, with searches like "nearest gym", and "houses for sale in <exclusive ZIP code>"?

the inventor if [sic] mRNA vaccines

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karikó

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Weissman

Patent filing: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC...

Thank you. For me, this clears up a long held misconception.

Is this doc no longer valid? https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/languages/new

It's worth noting the distinction between the Fuchsia API Surface (consumed by End-developers) and the Fuchsia System Interface here: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/api/council#definit...

https://www.foreflight.com/

An early iOS success story, founded in 2007, and recently acquired by Boeing. They are the dominant software company in this niche, and are well positioned to add a “UAS tier” subscription in the future.