skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spirit of the rules seems fairly clear even for software development. If you're being brought in to help with some specific project or to achieve some specific goal, you are doing that work autonomously and according to your own professional judgement, and you're otherwise operating as an independent business, you're not supposed to be caught by IR35. Obviously there will be some need for communication with other people who work for your client if the project or goal is part of the client's wider activities but that doesn't mean you're an employee.

Personally I'd get very nervous about the kind of contracting where you're expected to integrate with a client's Agile processes that have things like daily meetings and breaking tasks down to very small chunks where sometimes you get them and sometimes a permanent employee does and sometimes they move between you. That starts to look too much like a grey area even if everything else is set up like an independent business.

Maybe there should be some alternative status to support flexible temporary employees that reflects their closer involvement with a client/employer while they're working there but also makes allowances for the added risks and limited employee protections and the extra downtime they will probably have between gigs. It's obviously useful to have this kind of flexible labour force but it doesn't really make much sense to treat it the same as either running a truly independent business like a freelancer or being a full employee with the security and benefits that brings.

Edit: I'm thinking of a model where the rates and allowances work out the same as full-time permanent employment if you do end up working consistently but maybe the important figures get calculated over a whole tax year or can even be carried over across years to compensate for the unpredictability. Then you can probably let the market decide the rest of the pricing in terms of how much extra that flexibility is worth to clients and how much compensation is needed for the added risk to attract enough flexible workers.
Like tiktok by humans
Agree completely. I like the point on disagreement of value and OP should be prepared to move on.

I just want to add that OP should negotiate for the future and not get too hung up on trying to recover the past or think they are entitled to any equity appreciation they missed out on. Sticking too much to principle might just leave resentment lingering. While it is possible to negotiate to make up for the past I think there is more value in focusing on the future.

ie. Even if OP negotiated harder now, the equity is unlikely to be gifted to make up for the past. It may come in the form of vesting options but that will likely be structured to only gain value from the time of grant (now) onwards. That... or OP will get lower % equity than would have been received in the past. Knowing this, I think it is still better to correct it going forwards than worry about any missed appreciation.
So basically Google starting to look like Apple with Pichai looking like Sculley?
China accounts for 84% of all blockchain patent applications but there's a catch
EV’s are only a solution as far as renewable energy can keep up with electricity demands. And that doesn’t appear to be the case right now. Coupled with the mining of minerals, violent venting of batteries, and non-recyclable/non disposable nature of the batteries it’s not obvious that EV’s are more environmentally friendly.
Memegen lead to a much toxic culture at google.
I mean, that's not the CIA's choice, is it? Cannabis is, for now at least, still a federally prescribed substance. I don't blame them for not wanting employees that break the law.

I bet as soon as the law is changed they'd welcome you with open arms.
Future is SAE J2954 (aka Witricity): you have a wireless charging pad under each parking spot. No screwing with power plugs, just park and go. This isn't ideal for fast charging, but for the slower charging you'd get from being somewhere for 6-8 hours, it's perfectly fine. You still need to run power to every parking spot, but now it's embedded in the ground, and you don't have to worry about someone just coming around with cable cutters and stealing it.
All hosters in Europe that I know of increased prices this year due to increased electricity costs. If anything OVH is late to the party.
IRS gets permission to go after taxpayers who don't report crypto transactions
I went to the same school as the author. Never thought I’d run into someone I knew from Iowa on HN! Enjoyed the historical read.
A very small amount of people really care about "grid impact" enough to change their behavior. They do care about "I can make my electricity cheaper" or "My electricity bill went up".
Set aside work/career for now. What do you do in your personal life? Have you had any experience with celebrating small (even tiny) milestones or "achievements?

Recent example: I recently moved house. Many of my books and lower-urgency work resources are still in moving boxes. I think I need a new bookshelf, so that I can unbox some stuff. I take pleasure in the act of putting together the bookshelf. It is a 30-60min task, it is trivial in the grand scheme of things, but I feel accomplished about doing this proactive step to improve my working environment. Plus I like the new shelf I picked, I like the way it looks, the design itself gives me some small amount of pleasure.

Rinse and repeat. Maybe not every day, but every week, there will be some small/tiny/insignificant victory like this. Learning to appreciate them, will not necessarily bring you lifelong joy or self-actualization on its own, but it will do wonders for improving your relationship and emotional balance with respect to work. Sometimes a big project goes wrong, everything is on fire, my boss is asking me to do some crazy unreasonable thing (but at least, a good boss doesn't ask this unnecessarily, and only very rarely), whatever... but still there are always some minor victories to celebrate, or at least partial progress:

- hey I stopped the bleeding on that production outage -- at least other teams know where to look for deeper fix

- hey I sketched out an outline for that documentation that everyone keeps asking about -- even if the content isn't there, at least people know this is where new content should go

- hey I wrote down all my tasks for tomorrow -- so even though I didn't finish things today, I can still log off and forget about them, then pick them up again in the morning

EDIT: Or, to put it another way:

- don't think about the problem as, "how do I learn to accept tedium or chores, and not get bored/frustrated/angry about them?"

- instead the problem should be, "how do I find contentment in the small details of life, that I previously overlooked as simply being tedious or boring?"
Skimming the article it seems the crux of the matter is that with home charging people charge either a) when they come home b) with a timer, at 9pm, or c) with a timer, at 12am (with b and c driven by fixed changes in electricity prices). Electricity demand for everything else is highest at about 7pm, so both a and b charge at times where there isn't a lot of unused grid capacity. And to make things worse, at all three times you don't get a lot of solar power.

I wonder why the recommendation is to go to daytime charging, instead of timers staggered around 4am (when grid utilization is lowest). Sure, no solar, but potentially lots of unused wind, and lots of spare capacity on the power lines that already exist.
I set up a public chat room once. It was incredibly good. We banned one guy for posting erotica but otherwise it worked. The problem was the chat was really just a custom "wall" connected to my back end. It was hard to maintain and moderate, and wasn't live.

I tried to replicate that recently with Discord, but Discord doesn't feel anonymous enough.

I would actually love to have something like that again. Just a public chat widget suited for mobile, without needing to learn XMPP or integrating IRC or setting up my own server. Actually an old school chat room would do. I just don't want reacts and profile pics and all that junk.

I'd be quite willing to pay for it too. Not $5/month, but something.
My 1920x1080 LCD monitor has LESS pixels than my CRT monitor in the 90s :)
Yeah, I use Buildah for creating my images, so the environment variable or specifying commit --format docker would work. Before I did that I just re-pushed the image itself using the v2s2 format, so:

# podman inspect quay.io/my/image:latest | jq ".[].ManifestType"
"application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json"
# podman push --format v2s2 quay.io/my/image:latest registry.fly.io/my-app:latest
walks don't burn that many calories man. America has a calories-in problem not a calories-out one anyway.
Pentagon gives Raytheon $1-Billion for hypersonic cruise missile by 2027
Yes, considering that's more and more common as you go down the economic ladder.
But the original statement still stands. Which one do you think is easier: A. Finding a contract 500 per day, or B. finding a job 110k per annum? The latter is a challenge even in London (for a techie), let alone anywhere else, while 500 is achievable anywhere, in London / the City it would actually be comically low even.
On mobile this is unreadable: each column is converted to a row with no label.
eWASM opcodes each have a real cost. It's possible to compile {JS, TypeScript, C, Python} to WASM.

What are some ideas for UI Visual Affordances to solve for bad UX due to slow browser tabs and extensions?

- [ ] UBY: Browsers: Strobe the tab tab or extension button when it's beyond (configurable) resource usage thresholds

- [ ] UBY: Browsers: Vary the {color, size, fill} of the tab tabs according to their relative resource utilization

- [ ] ENH,SEC: Browsers: specify per-tab/per-domain resource quotas: CPU, RAM, Disk, [GPU, TPU, QPU] (Linux: cgroups,)
Electricity prices for consumers currently are heavily subsidized in France because otherwise there would be riots: spot market prices are regularly above 0.40€ and the current end user price would probably be around 0.80€.

OVH is a business, thus they have to pay the real prices.

In the end we will all pay via massive inflation for the competence of the European politicians.
Which is a little disappointing, since one of the things I loved most about the GameCube game was the instant load times. I also enjoyed taking the disc out of the slot after the game was loaded.
It’s not that you’re swayed. It’s that if the company is tightening the purse on something as insignificant as soda then alarm bells should ring.

Even if you’re cost cutting there should be a million places to make huge savings than the few $ of free drinks an employee goes through a month.
Highly recommend room air purifiers for your kids at least.

I like to tell new parents a trick that worked well for us: use a nice filter-based air purifier for white noise. It has deep bass, and it keeps the air near the child extremely clean. We have been doing this for our many kids for almost 10 years now since birth.

A fun experiment for kids: if you have a laser pointer, shine it close to the ground indoors and kick up dust near the floor. If you see any light in the air, that is all stuff you are breathing in (works really well on carpet)…

Air quality associated with:

Alzheimers: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-alzheimer...

Cancers, plural: https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/progress-against-ca...

Sperm Quality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443398/#sec995...

Female Fertility: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207560-exposure-to-air...

Autism: https://www.sciencealert.com/particulate-matter-in-air-pollu...

Bipolar/Depression: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/air-p...
getting rid of strong kitchen smells and cleaning my air, i'm sold.
How complex systems fail:

Like most things. Slowly at first, then all at once.
"The maximum allowed document size is 100KB"

I suppose this is due to the FDB limitations, so this obviously isn't a blobstore nor will it ever be (?). For example, we need to store video and image files which are easily 100KB - 1GB in size. Tigris or FDB are great to store metadata in (and the metadata is just as important to us as anything) but the blob storage is a bit of a problem. Would be interesting to integrate something with, for example, MinIO or S3.
It's so funny to me hearing Sundar Pichai of all people advocating for scrappiness considering he is probably the most overpaid CEO in the world [1]. Now also consider that Google's profits have never been higher [2]. The amount of net income per employee is eye-watering.

This is end-stage capitalism and the relentless search for profit growth that ultimately squeezes the workers who make that profit possible.

Years ago when I still worked at Google Patrick Pichette (then CFO before Ruth Porat) got up on stage at an annual meeting and announced that their scrappiness efforts had saved $40 million and that's a lot of money. Someone produced a meme saying "yes, that's the difference between your pay rise and mine". He did in fact get a pay rise that year of $40 million.

The employees are right. Even when I was still there there were clearly cuts in the food, cuts in the MKs, cuts in swag, cuts in entertainment budgets and so on.

[1]: https://qz.com/1979291/alphabets-sundar-pichai-is-the-most-o...

[2]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/reve...
I hope we never have flying cars. Regulars cars are already crap technology that degraded our cities and countryside, spewing noise and exhaust everywhere. Flying cars is just doubling down on that. Crap technology to paper over the limitations of another crap technology.
This is precisely what the linked article says. From the section "Charging Incentives":

“And it’s not just California and Western states. All states may need to rethink electricity pricing structures as their EV charging needs increase and their grid changes,” added Powell, who recently took a postdoctoral research position at ETH Zurich.

The article also includes other interesting and more nuanced policy details than just "change pricing structure", such as:

Another issue with electricity pricing design is charging commercial and industrial customers big fees based on their peak electricity use. This can disincentivize employers from installing chargers, especially once half or more of their employees have EVs. [...]

So yes, there are weird red herrings in this thread from people who want a technology first and a solution second (or never) and/or who don't understand design of incentive structures. But this work doesn't appear suffer from those problems.
Many of the most nutritious foods are also the most sustainable
A strategy that I’ve seen turn around someone’s relationship woes is asking yourself “Would I hire this person?” Not thinking about skills, particularly, but more about their attitude and approach to things. I was sceptical of the idea but, looking back, it changed the rules of thumb the person was using to assess potential partners. In their case, it worked really well.
I was speaking about you personally. I've never known a company to take out a single person for a $20 lunch.

Fill the void for your friend when their own company is letting them down.
There is no one solution. Phrasing the prolem that way makes no sense. Cars, trucks, and independent wheeled vehicles will have a place for a long time to come. Electrifying cars and trucks is a huge improvement.

Summoning the political and social will to replace car-centric infrastructure is a different problem, one even so-called progressives are not interested in adopting, at least for themselves.
It may not be worded well but it does state why. Planets of this size are more likely to be geologically active, a sufficient size to retain an atmosphere thick enough for life, a strong enough magnetic field, etc.,. Just due to their size, they are better suited to support life then (at least as we know the conditions necessary). I mean between the other options - planets so small they're basically rocks in space and giant gas planets with a bunch of other issues - it seems this classification of planets indeed offer superior habitability.
I wonder if standardisation efforts around things like UCIe and CXL will solve the locked to Intel problem, potentially enabling a sustainable market for such devices in future?
I can't say I'm a huge fan of it, but quality of life from being able to do this is far nicer than suffering through lungfulls of smoke every time I'm outside.

Neil Stephenson's latest includes the concepts of "Earthsuits," with filtration and refrigeration and such, used to go outside when wet bulb is too high to survive unaided (and to be more comfortable in general in the heat). They seem a more and more useful concept...
Tesla calls this "Virtual Power Plant" and there's a talk by a couple of the software devs online somewhere.

Found it: https://youtu.be/ggdYts4muu0

Some other people have mentioned that you just need to vary the price, but the price is set by bids from providers. Code that can learn demand patterns and integrate weather forecasts will let Tesla bid lower and so earn more money in the market while also lowering energy costs for everyone.
Putting solar on the roof (adding a roof if necessary) should help a lot. You'd run into issues where it won't scale with garage height of course, but most garages aren't that tall anyway (at least in my area).
$ and purchasing power, the economy as a whole has been contracting. like if everything is bringing in fewer $ then everything is worth less.
>Ever tried to look up some news from 12 years ago?

I have a better one for you. Ever wondered why it's so hard? Why web protocols have nothing related to archiving? Why web browsers are a hellscape for aggregating information over time in a meaningful way? Why this continues to be true, despite countless Microsoft and Google engineers writing all these heartfelt posts about knowledge?

If your answer is "because it's hard to implement" than you understand nothing.
Exactly - and teachers specifically have always been exactly formative figures in your youth.

At least in my country, what the GP is saying is almost the precise opposite of how the pupil-teacher relationship is conceptualized. Indeed, people often bemoan teachers who just think they're providing a service, instead of taking their responsibility as mentors seriously.
They don't care until their whole neighbourhood goes dark at 6PM everyday
Do you know if this technique is available for all games or just Nintendo's own? It seems like it would be easy to cause issues if games were allowed to mess with the clocking willy-nilly, so I assumed that it was only done on Zelda because it's a first-party title (and one of the biggest on the console).
100K burned acres a year though isn't a lot though.

The past five years, California has averaged well over 1 million acres burned a year.

Even in the decade before that, 250K burned acres would be considered a light year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires#A...
3D printing drones work like bees to build and repair structures while flying
Well, yeah. Of course lots of companies are targeting us for ads based on data that we lightheartedly assumed was private. It's even possible that they could do this without violating their ever-changing privacy policies. For example, they could say that the programs that review your messages don't retain any personally identifiable information. It might even be true. (Although there's no auditing of this and little or no accountability.)

Online ads ... if you've ever paid for one you know they are desperately in need of targeting. We consumers provide our info directly to folks who sell ads, under terms and conditions that we don't understand. Of course they're making use of this free resource. They'd have to be idiots not to.

So ... with respect, the wave of denial in the comments here ... 10 years ago, that would have seemed "naive but understandable." Today it's just weird. Almost like some kind of absurdist comedy. It's totally disconnected from the world we actually live in.
Wearable sensors styled into t-shirts and face masks
If the employee doesn't get it, it doesn't go to another employee, it goes to the shareholders. Words like "entitlement" are just the wrong concepts for that situation. "Those greedy Googlers, putting themselves before the shareholder's returns" just doesn't have a ring to it.

In fact, because of supply and demand, if Google competes less for labor, the pay at non-tech companies will go down. This hurts people lower down the ladder.
Sadly citing that would do nothing for the budget. 10$/employee in ones org is many multiples of that outing
Is there any effective method for air purification that doesn't involve disposable supplies?
I got the impression that the OP used it to mean talking about the same thing over and over and just filling the time with empty content, so I used it in the same fashion.
Wouldn't you argue this is a good thing as all of these people can go on to take risks by starting new companies?
You cannot test everything to perfection. Shit will break in production. Question is: how to minimize shit breaking in production and hopefully eliminating critical bugs that can cause revenue/data loss.
This is how it smells to me.

I wouldn't take a position without equity as CTO or VP of Engineering or Director of Engineering or Manager or Tech Lead or SWE1.
Imo, every employee should be getting shares. We can have a discussion about whether the founder should have more shares (imo, no, every person should have an equal stake), but at the very least everyone should have some.

Having 0 shares is, imo, objectively wrong. You are making decisions that impact the future of the company, you should have some stake in how those decisions play out.
I agree the answer is "sometimes".

However, I want to point out everything Gladwell affirms should be subject to strong scrutiny, since he seems to follow the playbook of "never letting the truth get in the way of an interesting story". I've seen lots of his assertions challenged.
time-of-use is also cognitive load that can cause anxiety
>> you just use natural market forces and the problem fixes itself

We're talking about electric vehicles here. There has already been massive interference in the market forces through both push and pull mechanisms - push would be things like outlawing internal combustion engines going forward, pull would be huge subsidies for electric vehicles.

It's pretty late in the game to say, "Hey! let's just use natural market forces! Problem solved!"

Natural market forces would be a tax on carbon equal to the cost of removing it from the atmosphere when it is burned and then let people buy whatever kind of car they want and can afford. There is no popular support whatsoever on either left or right for those kind of natural market forces.
Based on my own research, I don't believe this information is correct. HDR10 video is encoded according to Rec 2100 [1], which states that the video is 10 bits and goes up to 10,000 nits. I know this to be true as I have written my own programs to encode HDR10 video. You are correct however that most HDR10 content is only encoded with a mastering luminance of 1000 nits [2]. According to this [3] forum post, all DV content (besides profile 9) is encoded using 10-bit HEVC stream. When people talk about 12-bit Dolby Vision, they are referring to Profile 7, which contains a full enhancement layer stored at a 1/4th the resolution, which contains the residual between the source and the Base Layer, allowing a player to decode the data to 12 bits. It appears [4], however, that most DV content only uses the minimal enhancement layer, which is only the dynamic metadata.

[1] - https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bt/R-REC-BT.2100-2-...

[2] - https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/hdr10-vs-dolby-vision

[3] - https://avdisco.com/t/demystifying-dolby-vision-profile-leve...

[4] - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=16546620&postcount=...