skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's partly because the IR35 rules that keep getting mentioned for those of us in the UK are such a scam.

They were originally supposed to stop people pretending to be a contractor while actually working like any other employee just to get favourable tax treatment. There were quite a few people abusing that loophole previously.

But the rules recently changed so that now big clients are responsible for determining whether a contractor is a disguised employee or not instead of the contractor themselves. This is supposed to be assessed for each specific engagement but in the real world big clients don't like risk so they usually insist that anyone conceivably caught by the IR35 rules must work through an "umbrella" company. The end client pays the umbrella and the umbrella employs (that is, actual legal and tax employment) the contractor. This guarantees that the end client isn't accidentally working with a disguised employee so they don't end up with a nasty unexpected tax bill later.

The problem with this is that the umbrella company will take a small cut and will also then deduct all of the costs for both an employee and a large employer from the rate they receive from the end client before paying out the rest to the contractor. So as the contractor your rate ends up covering not only the taxes you'd pay for an equivalent salaried employment position (which is what IR35 was supposed to cause) but also a big chunk extra for employer taxes and other statutory payments (which is explicitly not how IR35 gigs are supposed to work but it's almost completely universal in the industry and the government seems to be in no hurry to do anything about it) plus a small extra fee for the umbrella company's profits.

This is how you get the huge proportion of your headline rate turning into costs that ukoki described. You can't think of that rate as being comparable to other payments like an employee's salary or real business-to-business sales (including true outside IR35 contract or freelance work). Working via an umbrella is actually worse than all of them. But if you want gigs with big clients who have risk averse legal teams (but I repeat myself) it's the game you have to play now.
Make it legal to shoot car + bike thieves and the problem will solve itself. I don't think SF government has any interest in improving conditions, this all pleases the accelerationist set.
If you want AutoCAD offer a real lisp, AutoLISP, some users use it regularly without even knowing that's a real and powerful programming language. That's anyway do not make autocad, nor in general that kind of CAD something better then an archaic crap since the '60s. Parametric CAD are the modern and technically sound solution since the early '70s, even if in some sector they never get traction due to technicians ignorance and reactionarism.

That's a good proof of inability to evolve of sooooo many people...
I think it's reasonable to assume that this whole thing has been a marketing campaign to get people to finally have a reason to switch to IPv6.

All kidding aside, IPv6 isn't even required for their website or this traceroute trick. He just set up an in-addr.arpa reverse DNS zone to reverse resolve particular IP addresses to specific values. If you had a block of 20 IPv4 addresses, I don't see anything stopping you from doing the exact same thing.
I think I will opt out of the chip in my hand. I have a shortcut on my phone's homescreen to a QR code linking to my site with all my details including .vcf file.
One of my most common workflow is I copy the name of a "resource" and have to type out some diagnostic queries.

So I have espanso trigger on a shortcut and autofill queries with the clipboard being used as a placeholder.
That’s a cool idea. I don’t know much about ASTs or anything but I know you are right about LSP being able to find most everything I am searching for in the mostly statically typed languages I’ve worked with. Would be fun to try that out over a weekend or three.
Plaid isn't really all that sketchy - as this twitter post is complaining about.
IMO, leather is a bug, not a feature. The ONLY advantage it has over cloth is that it's easier to clean.

Leather is less comfortable, and in a chair, comfort is the top priority, followed by durability, which leather also loses to as it starts to crack and wrinkle over time.
Yeah, what's next? Comparing cryptofans to the Jews while the Nazis were in power?

People really need to chill out with regards to that ponzi scheme.
Indeed. The other side of this article is:

"Open Source Owners: Accept the PR, Reject the PR. No fuck off option."
Not sure how he did it, but my first guess would be just a bunch of virtual interfaces on a linux box with a->b->c->d->e->etc routing, and something like the tc command[1] to add enough latency to each one that traceroute sees them all.

If he's scripted it to do all the virtual nic creation and dns ptr entries, it would be interesting to see.

[1] https://bencane.com/2012/07/16/tc-adding-simulated-network-l...
C forces you to either reinvent the wheel or use third part libraries. While that’s fun and all, I wouldn’t say it makes you more productive. How is that any better than using C++ with its STL?
>It's said because meat consumption is a blip compared to all the things people do, most of those vegans and vegetarians included.

I mean, animal agriculture accounts for 14.5% of GHG emissions, roughly more than all global transport according to the IPCC.[1]

Few of us have the ability to unilaterally shut down a coal plant or an oil company, but a large number of us do have the ability to change our consumption habits to be less destructive.

>It's also difficult for anything lacto-ovo vegetarian to get all they need without relying on imports way away from their home country.

>You'd arguably do more staying flexitarian but getting your produce as local and seasonal as possible to cut out the emissions caused by transport.

Just to address the notion about food transport GHG emissions, you'd actually have a bigger impact on your emissions by eating vegan once a week than if all your food was entirely locally grown for the entire week.[2] Food miles are a very small fraction of the emissions of food production, especially that of animal products.

Finally, it doesn't have to be either or. People can ride their bicycles, eat local, take fewer flights, as well as reduce their meat consumption.

[1]https://www.fao.org/3/i3437e/i3437e.pdf

[2]https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
"normal room humidity" is extremely variable.
What is format and time shifting? I am wondering if you mean like code formatting and reordering history, but I’m not really sure. Thanks.
Oh is it? Never heard of that. I was on a pretty nice area of the city for about 3 months, never had a problem. Not a single one. I used to stay around the 85th street and mostly spend my time in Polo, Chico, Castellana, Usaquen, but I was also keen on Chapinero and Candelaria. I felt even safer than at home.
you have a "search" domain configured in resolver so it tries subdomains of that in addition to the bare domain, but that domain is not responding to your queries.
Robotics has the same problem today: Human labor is cheaper and more flexible.
In the future we might see this as having been as stupid and inhumane as we today see slavery in the Roman times.
The op was suggesting removing this infrastructure altogether so we could walk everywhere. I'm saying that is unrealistic because I like to go places I can't just walk to.

Whether I walk to the grocery store or not isn't super relevant.
Why have you traceroute ip instead of domain?
See also: traceroute -m 60 bad.horse
If banks no longer want to offer huge student loans because of the risk, universities will have to lower their tuition or their classrooms will sit empty. This seems like a problem that will solve itself in a few years.
“Rising Home Prices Are Mostly from Rising Rents”
Slaves. No need.

When it was banned in modern era, the industrial revolution happened.
I am super paranoid about passports since when I got my first one in 2020, USPS delivered it to the wrong house. They never got it back. So there is a passport of me out there in someone's hands.

I had it cancelled and got a new one issued, but who knows how often just my photo ID is being used :S. And the fact that they have all the info from my passport.
If we’re going to eliminate cows because they produce methane then why not eliminate all other biological sources of methane?
My 2 cents as a Zellenial:

1. I've spent an hour trying to find this survey but cannot. My hunch is it's an online survey with questionable reproducibility (especially after looking at similar research produced by Clever)

2. I'm not too surprised by my college aged peers overestimataing average starting salaries. With the increase in CS/ECE students and a relatively small but vocal minority talking about 200K TC out of college, the rest of us assume assume this is a common entry level salary, when in reality compensation is well below that (on a separate note - I HATE the TC designation. that 200k TC is more like 140k/year when you factor in vesting). Heck, the CS program I went to is one of the best programs in the world and even they vocalized that their AVERAGE starting salary was in the 80-90k range, yet most of my peers never realized this.
Or the author intended it for HR to read with the implicit critique "don't send me trash" (from their perspective of course, saying nothing about OP)
An important thing to be aware of is that spatial memory is not universal, and thee is quite a bit of variation among those who have the ability to use it successfully.

I don’t say this to discourage. Quite the opposite: I say this to say if someone doesn’t understand the benefits of your ideas don’t take it as a general “this will not work” but instead go share them with someone else
Great example of human centered design. Don't design to change behavior, adapt to changing behaviors...
'Toki Pona' has been slowly making strides as a good world language. Not as a replacement for English of course but as a modern Esperanto.
> PS, is your monoid work online, is it this https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11659 ? I'm interested in monoids on GPUs.

Yes, that's the draft on arXiv, and I have a blog post in the pipeline[1] explaining it to a more general audience.

And thanks for the other advice, I'll consider it!

[1] https://github.com/raphlinus/raphlinus.github.io/issues/66
This is really cool. Thanks for sharing.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to do something like this but in reverse? Calling a go function from rust?
So is that mail.jobs@ or mail+jobs@... or jobs@

A total flop on the last line
My first salaried job was 34k not that long ago. I make loads more but still. Grads deserve better pay than that especially in M/HCOL cities. Hell everyone does.
It’s incredible how slow their website is. I understand (but am against) their motivation to push everyone to the app on mobile devices, but on desktop where am I going to go? My powerful computers both struggle to render the site.
It's not unusual for my 2-year old Elantra on my 48-mile commute to San Jose down 680 to reach 50 MPG. 47 for going back. I do drive earlier/later in the day to avoid the rush hour.
There was a CRDT based thing from the folks at ink and switch (if I remember correctly) some HN searching should bring it up I expect
traceroute(1) uses the IP Time-To-Live (TTL) field, not network latency. So just a bunch of virtual interfaces on a suitable *nix should be enough.
Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech alleging patent infringement over Covid vaccine
I feel your pain. Just mothballed the X220 for a Surface Pro X and a Nuphy 60% low profile mechanical keyboard. I guess I'll make a custom wrist rest to match the X220 geometry. It's mainly for staying in touch while traveling.
Prefer: Does programming make you think everyone ELSE makes lots of mistakes also?
Have you ever tried writing significant amounts of unsafe rust? It isn't like C++ at all, you get the worst of both worlds.
> 0-terminated C strings are slow. There's the constant need to scan the string to determine its length.

Just record it once
We're launching the PostgresML Gym today, a free/hosted version of Postgres with our machine learning extension built in. It enables you to train supervised ML algorithms (regression, classification) on real time data in your database, and make predictions without any additional infrastructure.

We'd really appreciate it if you could kick the tires let us know how we can make ML more approachable.
In LA, our local NBC affiliate broadcasts mostly local news or informational shows during the day. It's cheap content. I bet they will just add another hour of news at 10. It's a shame that free tv is declining. It will be a shame if streaming kills it completely.
"The brand also says that drum brakes offer superior performance and reactivity after long periods of disuse"

Sounds like marketing to excuse putting drums on the rear of a $50K vehicle. As soon as I back out of the driveway in our Leaf, because there's no regenerative braking in reverse at 5mph, it knocks the light layer of rust off the discs and we're good to go. I mean, we've been driving this car for eleven years, and not once from a cold start have we gone to hit the brakes outside the regen envelope (say, when we've charged to %100, and nowhere to put that regen energy) and said, "OMG! OMG! Poor brake performance!"

What VW really said in that link was, "doesn't need rear discs: regen braking".
I would call it a labor caste system.

You're the one speaking like we're living in another time. A time where people were freer and there was more economic opportunity. 40% of Americans don't even have $1000 in savings. It's a wildly dysfunctional and oppressive system and you're engaging in gaslighting because you benefit from it.
I will cancel my sub and shift to KeePass before installing an Electron Version of 1Password

Not only is Electron heavy, but also inherits all the security vulnerabilities of Chromium.

This is compounded further by the fact that Electron uses its own bundled version of Chromium and so needs to be separately updated, before the app is compiled by the devs.

So many app developers are not even aware of this and so will not bother updating the SDK.
I tried Rust very briefly, a couple times building some random projects. Each would download and build around 500 (!) dependencies. A few of them failed to build on my machine.

Another time I decided to try and get OpenGL running on Win32 with Rust in an evening. I failed to find a satisfying way (free of boilerplate and magic incantations) to do it. Probably interfacing with the system isn't that easy and/or you're supposed to use specific wrapper crates.
Don't remember the details anymore, but it's definitely true that existing infrastructure has a lot of inertia. What Zig is doing in that space is a smart move - it has a C compiler built in, and if I understand correctly it lets you interface with C system headers pretty seamlessly.
> According to Mastercard, “It should be your choice, it’s your money”.
> Delaying puberty isn't "transitioning".

I never said it was. As you probably know, for a minor, transitioning is a process with very real time requirements. For many minors, and > 98% of minors [1] that take puberty blockers, it is the first step, the start, in completing the process of transitioning.

> in order to deny medical care to trans children. Despicable.

See the data backing Sweden's decision. "Medical care" must result in a net positive, by definition. It seems that Natures statement, potentially, makes this more difficult to discover.

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20502877.2022.2...
Seven Million Years Ago, the Oldest Known Early Human Was Already Walking
At a bank in CA? Did they file any kind of legal motion or even need to before just yanking it?

If you don’t live in CA you’re not a resident and thus not obligated to file, one would assume, and if they lifted the money out of a bank account in another state… what are you even supposed to do?
This is me, but I watch a couple of episodes of Deadliest Catch, and then plopping down on the Aeron with a good cup of coffee whenever to write code takes on a different perspective. Good luck!
Honestly there is no accounting for taste. I dislike vinegar and salt chips with a passion, I think it is a vile chemically taste, however I know many people who not only eat them without complaining but appear to prefer the taste and actually spend money to buy the infernal things on purpose. The only lesson I can gain from this is that the world is a large place and there are many types of people in it.
This is fantastic, though of course starting to read it I realize I should read his Decline and Fall of Rome series (https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-f...) but then there's his "Who were the Roman's"(https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-queens-latin/) series to read before... fantastic, I love these rabbit holes.
Augustine and a clear exposition of original sin was in the late 4th-early 5th century, about four hundred years after the Roman Empire had already effectively integrated quite a bit of Europe and Asia into a diverse and sophisticated civilization that wouldn't be seen again for another millenia.

Around six hundred years after Augustine, Europe had William the Conquerer and the Holy Roman Empire, I guess? Five hundred years after that, Europe had the Renaissance based in a reclamation of the heritage of the ancient world.

I don't think original sin did a very good job of achieving the integration of anyone.
The standard being applied here is just that the work is correct. Polson's paper on RH is wrong.

It is bad practice to post incorrect results and not retract them when this is pointed out.
Was just about to post this. Unzipping DOCX and parsing XML is much easier than accurately processing PDF submissions.
disclaimer: do not attempt...

act as a predator, not as a prey

face the animal, keep eye contact, and push down on the nose
13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment
You got me until the first point

"It is an essentially logical language. The rules are absolute and reliable in all situations, except exceptions."

"except exceptions?!" whoa..! the brought back memories from learning German.

perkele!
Depends on the country. Soviet ones (Gulags) were created for economic purposes as much as for political. The economic idea behind the Gulags was to extract free slave labor out of population and basically free calories out of their bodies - the prisoners were barely fed, so their bodies had to burn their own tissues (starting with fat) to survive. Millions of prisoners/slaves doing hard manual labor for no pay and eating 800 kalories per day helped the country's rapid industrialization in the 20s and 30s.
Roman "steam power" worked nothing like a condensing engine and was nowhere near adequate to power a ship.

Ironically, rowing vessels was one of the tasks Romans preferred to use freemen where possible. And even the best galleys with the most motivated, coordinated and healthy rowers were vastly inferior in speed and endurance to steamships (or indeed sail powered tea-clippers). But you needed a lot of intermediate inventions to get from a lightweight device that rotated by blowing out hot air to a steamship that could cross oceans. Or from a trireme to a tea clipper that would travel faster relying on just the wind, for that matter
Read the redacted affidavit used to get the Mar-a-Lago search warrant
So is Champagne, the specific strains of grapes used have changed over the years. And even if it was the ingredients, surely any sparking wine made with those ingredients could be labeled champagne, and they're grown all over. Champagne made in California is as real as anything in France. It's protectionism because they know that champagne is the more recognizable term, and banking on people not knowing that they're alternatives, like dairy producers in the US trying to protect the term "milk" after years of "almond milk", "oat milk" existing in everyday speech. It's entirely manufactured hypothetical consumer confusion.

Specific brands can have all the trademark protection they want. Defining buffalo wings as wings made in Buffalo and only using chickens raised and slaughtered there is silly.
The problem is that this amounts to a fantasy they wish were a thing. You aren't legally allowed to ship products to consumers broken and keep their money.
I mean the forestry aspect is only part of it, the methane/CO2 ratio is still a big deal.

Import control is an interesting idea, I haven't heard that before.
My interpretation was mail: jobs@poinsignon.org
This is very old news. It has been known for decades that alcohol is a carcinogen.

Abolition in the US didn't work out so well last time. But now with our powerful administrative state perhaps the FDA can just ban it as a toxic substance.
Beatles 3000 – 1000 years in the future, the legacy of The Beatles remains
A classic youtube video that may be relevant in the new era of AI generated art.
It wasn't obvious at all when reading - your written English is excellent. Only after revisiting and re-reading more carefully I noticed you used the construction "So ...." slightly more than a native speaker would have.

Thanks for the great article.
I wish he had access to instrumentation that could verify that he actually made what he was trying to make. One of the comments makes a fairly convincing case that he ended up with a different compound that, while still violently explosive, was much less sensitive.

Given that he DGAF that his scale doesn't work, he probably isn't interested in building an NMR spectrometer in his shed.
Winston Churchill’s most iconic portrait stolen in Canada
I understand where your frustrations are coming from, but I think you need to put this in perspective. $10k isn't that much money. For example, we give an order of magnitude more in tax breaks to middle class homeowners. And let's not even get started about the deprecation shell game that real estate investors can exploit. As a renter who has been on the home ownership sidelines for about a decade at this point, I get super frustrated about these types of things. Why should my taxes subsidize home owners, while those very same NIMBY home owners make it harder to for me to eventually afford a house by restricting supply.

Housing is just one example. Our tax laws and spending programs are littered with benefits for the wealthy and powerful. And there are factions in our political system and media that want to distract you from that fact by directing your anger and frustrations at student debt relief and pandemic stimulus check recipients. These one time payments to people in need will in the long run be a rounding error on your lifetime tax burden.

If you really can't stand the "inequity" of this program, I recommend that you go out and take some debt financed extension classes. Then make sure you are making under $120k. And then sit on that debt until the next round of relief. Hopefully that will make you feel better.

In a perfect world, we would fix higher education. But that would take a political consensus that does not seem remotely possible in the near future. And in the meantime, we have a pro-democracy political party that is desperately trying to keep a coalition together in order to stave off an opposition party with authoritarian impulses. I think throwing the coalition a few bones is well worth the cost.
Thanks, I somehow missed that whole section!
Shanghai is acknowledged as huge fuckup even internally in China. It's just that each province has a lot of latitude in implementing things - till they fuckup so hard central government feels loss of face, like with Shanghai :V
Elon has a degree in physics. You think you can only work as an engineer if the word 'engineer' is the degree you have? Many engineers have degrees in physics among other foundational sciences - math, chemistry, etc... They make for especially good engineers.