skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Paying someone through a corporation (regardless of its pass through status) and then treating them as an employee is the attempted loophole"

But isn't that exactly how consultancies work though? The client enters into a contractual agreement with the consultancy, asking for specific consultants to help the client get certain tasks done. The consultants are "treated as employees" in the sense that they often have to physically work with the client, on the client's projects, during the client's schedules, having lunch in the client's canteen, working with the client's team, reporting to the client directly, using the client's tools and processes, creating IP for the client, etc.
Evolution worked pretty well last i used it (up until a year ago roughly).
NASA scraps Tuesday Moon launch due to storm
Like what Syncthing does?
> Going back after opening a new Safari tab

I like this feature, but what annoys me is that unlike the regular use of Back, you can’t Forward to undo the Back in that situation, even in the common case that the original tab is at the top of the history (i.e. has no current Forward target of its own).
If you are unit testing you should not have to worry about tweaking a function and it breaking everywhere else.
Wow, I'd never heard of StarBook, but it does indeed look like a wonderful machine.
The Tech Meetups Guide: How to Find, Join, or Start a Meetup
This is the part which resonated with myself:

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Instead one chooses a destination and walks toward it. Along the way the route is commodified. Restaurants suggested instead of found. Parks digitally delineated instead of outlined by the contours of our promenades.
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In the UK increasingly one needs a credit/debit card, or a phone capable of NFC payments, to actually pay for things. The big-brand shops have most their self-checkouts as card-only & many shops are increasingly refusing cash. (There really ought to be a law mandating that all physical stores must accept legal tender as a condition of trade - else what is the point in cash?)

The parks and pavements here are increasingly blighted by bright digital advertising. Railway tickets are becoming harder to get in a non-digital form, for one example of the increasing dependence on phones.

Point is, the need for a phone, and a debit/credit card to go to a cafe, to take a train, etc, does remove the spontaneity and an element of joy from the experience. Being forced to carry a google or apple tracking device, or even 'just' a VISA/Mastercard makes me feel tethered to the 'capitalist' system - as this article puts it; but whatever you call it, capitalism or technocracy, the author is right.
Maybe for a really small co-op, but beyond 100 to 200 folks, any co-op will have the exact same internal dynamics as city hall, just on a smaller scale.
Trivial nitpicking is not the same issue as hardware support.
I can forgive the URL bar swipe to change between tabs, because there is a visual cue that the other tabs are there - the URL bars of the adjacent tabs peek onto the screen.
Top-down pressure to launch a late, over-budget NASA rocket despite weather concerns you say? At least this time they're smart enough not to put a schoolteacher on board.
Ask HN: Low code React builder for front end
Do you know of any open source drag and drop builders? I would love to be able to create my own components and drag and drop to combine them. If you know of any that are React specific, that would be great, but any builder would be helpful.

One example that I know of is https://openchakra.app/ for React apps that are using Chakra UI.
Everything except bluetooth...
> People can’t buy insurance for getting locked out of their Google account

Maybe they should be able to? I’d purchase that kind of insurance!
I'm a native English speaker but I went to Spanish camp here in the USA in high school for four weeks so here's what I found anecdotally about that experience helpful - in a nutshell what happened is I started having dreams that were in Spanish, which helped me a lot as far as being able to access words/phrases quickly in the context of speech because I was starting to think in Spanish too. Academically, when I went back to school it didn't really make me a better Spanish student, but in the real world having to listen/speak it's a game changer.

As far as to the why/how I started dreaming in Spanish, I think it was how the camp was structured, the camp counselors from Spanish speaking countries made you speak Spanish if they caught you speaking English, which we did since everyone there was a native English speaker, but I just remember counselors rolling up and saying "En Español!" all the time if they caught you, so we'd have to speak it. If there was one strict rule of Spanish camp it was "En Español! No Ingles!" (paraphrasing here perhaps)

If you're not dreaming/thinking in English yet, I'd recommend trying to get there as a measuring stick because then you can literally improve in your sleep. It certainly used to be a commonplace occurrence when you were "immersed" in something, but a knee-jerk hypothesis might be that it is harder to be immersed in today's always-on + connected world. You can probably binge watch any TV show from your homeland, talk to anyone in your native tongue without insane long distance charges or waiting for the mail to be delivered, etc.; it would be understandable, but those things probably have a counter-effect to the goal I'm describing, and those things require some discipline, at least to teenagers at Spanish camp from my experience.
Offtopic:

The fact that the site uses a consent solution that fakes a loading screen when trying to configure (read disable) tracking/advertising is an instant bounce for me.
Food prices are soaring, and that's changed how we eat
I use AWS Workmail for this purpose. Every service has its own address and mailbox on my custom domain. No phone numbers or other nonsense required.
Still making my point for me, thanks!
Very interesting looking collection of research, thanks for sharing. With CXL, a lot of this still remain pertinent.
> A lot of comments so far are complaining about the software quality in cars now. But what did you expect? This is what happens when you hire the same kinds of people ...

I think the main problem is that there is no competition since you are buying the car not for the software (at least most people don't).

Make car software an open marketplace, and you will see improvements in quality.
Anything that describes external sort algorithms perhaps?
Funny, bad drivers are one of the reasons I left windows. Even needing drivers for class compliant USB audio was a dealbreaker
I've received a spam call in an elevator. The call asked me to press 1, and I'm still bummed it didn't work.
cargo is not a binary distribution.
Implementation for “The Physics of Racing” Paper
This is an implementation of Brian's Beckman paper "The Physics of Racing" which only included the Pacejka tire model and the combined grip "Traction Circle".
It included chapters 21, 22, and 25.
Thank you for pointing out environmental factors, it completely crossed my mind while I was writing this
The issue is latency. If you don’t want to care if the read or write will take 10ns or 10000ns, then that can work, assuming a flat permission structure too. Latency is a fundamental restriction for any computer that is > zero size, and the larger the ‘computer’ (data center), the more noticeable it is.

(For that matter, what happens when different segments of memory have complex access controls? What about needing to retry to failures like network partitions that don’t happen in a normal memory space?)

If latency matters, which it usually does, then you need some kind of memory access hierarchy, copying things back and forth, etc. and then you’ll almost certainly need a library of some kind to manage all this, prefetch from a slow range of memory and populate some of your fast local memory, etc.

At that point, we’ve done a lot of work, and are still pretending there is no network or the like, even though it’s there. It isn’t free, anyway. We’d also need checksums, cross network/fabric/access error handling, etc.

And with 128 bits, we could also use something like IPv6 with the lower 64 bits being byte address hah.
I've been using Gadgetbridge, installed via F-Droid, to interface with my Xiaomi Mi Band 4 for years now and can only recommend it. For my device, it's 100% feature-complete, it's VERY polished design- and UX-wise, and it comes without any ties to any vendor's data-siphoning cloud services. You can even set it up so that it works in parallel with your vendor-provided app, by not deleting any data from the device it fetches, if you're yet uncertain you actually want to use it as a replacement for your current app.

Free software at its very best, really!
Get the withings under mattress sleep tracker. You have to wear nothing, it just works, and the quantified scientist on youtube verified it's very accurate.
Availability of better hardware in every home (from a young age) will improve all those things.
Perhaps I misunderstood. But let's say I do run uMatrix in deny more, I get the site HTML as the Tim Berners-Lee intended. Yet that already may contain some kind of advertising material, so to view only the actual content I'd need to have e.g. an XPath do it. So I would have a database of sites and XPath (or other ways) describing how to find the content, instead of describing how to get rid of non-content.

Can I tell uMatrix to only show a certain XPath from the page? If so, I agree it is a content selector, albeit pretty impractical :).
Back then if something was hot, it was new, cool, and coveted. Today thermal management is a huge problem so they tend not to equate products with heat.

Afaik, thermite is still available for marketing departments to adopt.
I hate cash. There are places in Belgium where you gotta pay to pee/ooo (no joke). I don’t carry cash nor ID. Only my Apple Watch & maybe my phone.

Now that I’m in the USA it’s so much easier. Contactless everywhere. No need to carry cash or coins.

Plus it makes sure that people pay their dues. I pay my taxes, but the local taco guy around the corner who only accepts cash surely doesn’t. With electronic payments there is transparency.
What do you mean by "amount of original content": English has lots of native speakers and is the official language of many countries, and I admit the amount of stuff we publish in French is smaller (albeit the quality or focus is very different and I cant find some angles of analysis in English that are trivial in French), I can't believe the quantity of Chinese output would be lower for instance: it's not the same quality and doesnt focus on the same subjects, but it's a lot of people talking and writing about lots of stuff, for a lot longer, no?
There are a lot of variables when it comes to the environment. Grass-fed cattle grazing in the Great Plains would be tremendously better for the environment than the mass soybean/canola/corn agriculture permanently destroying the entire Midwest.

The reason the Midwest is so fertile and has so much topsoil is because of thousands of years of ruminant grazing. We’re destroying millennia of ecological development and topsoil in decades. Not to mention what all the fertilizers and herbicides do.

Your article just blanketly declares animals bad for the environment and plants good, which is absurd. Are we better off for having killed nearly all the buffalo? Clearly feeding cows M&Ms and canola/soy is bad. But so is mass agriculture in the first place. Responsible animal husbandry can be an actual ecological positive.
With over 6k flights cancelled from Beijing and hurried exit of the Chinese President from SCO Summit, the news is abuzz with reports of him possibly being under house arrest, with a coup underway.
A good method would be to ask some people. Skytrax ‘conducted more than 14 million customer surveys in more than 100 countries between September 2021 to August 2022 to find out the world’s current favorite airline.’
Boeing Starts Layoffs in Finance, Accounting, Will Outsource the Work to India
The only decent restaurant burger I had was in an American restaurant that grinds their own meat.
Foraging helped me discover a world of free fruits and veggies
Just to spice things up a bit, you may be interested in "Cache-oblivious" algorithms and data structures. The name is a bit counter-intuitive, they're data structures that care about memory hierarchies without encoding the specifics about the block sizes/cache lines.
One fine example of persistence in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges paying off is ASML development of EUV [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/asml-extreme-ultraviolet-lithogr...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/inside-asml-the-company-adva...

[3] https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories
Can confirm... we had a GE CNC machine made in 1970 running our 50 HP Lathe in the gear shop I worked at. It used mylar tape, as PUNCH tape, not magnetic. If you have something working in a small job shop, you risk the business if you "upgrade" it, and scrap a batch of $10,000 parts because the new system isn't programmed exactly right.

Someone will need to keep the old stuff alive. It might be 1980s-2000 vintage logic controllers in emulation by 2050, though.
It's not a question of talent, just timing and process. The timing is rigid and there's a hard, non-negotiable deadline when metal starts being stamped. The process around certifying makes you work at a tiny fraction of your normal speed, because most time is spent filling out auditing requirements.
It's rather hard to compare unless we know the spaces involved. My energy usage was significantly less when I was on the ground floor of a large apartment complex, using maybe 500kWh/mo at the highest. But I had less than half the space I do now, no private yard, no private garage. I couldn't install amateur radio antennas however I wish. I couldn't make changes to the unit however I wish. My family has grown and I now work from home significantly more than before.

I don't need to use as much energy as I do, I could go back to living in a much smaller space and not have all the private spaces and rights I have now. But I'd rather not raise a family in <900sqft when I can afford not to and I get a lot of enjoyment of the private spaces I have.

Sure, we could get everyone to use <500kWh/mo, even if we don't have to ask everyone to move to the narrow space that's close to room temperature year round. But that would mean massive changes in a lot of lifestyles, limiting a lot of people to far less space and property rights than they've been used to.
come on... with all that neither rust nor C.

It makes me want to send all that to hell and write assembly.
Orbot use in Iran ( I am Iranian) in Iran
I have orbot , but don’t understand the bridges or ehat to do to connect at all , i got a little from you all , but please a step by step instructions would be very helpful.
Bridges ? Nodes ? What to put where . Need help .

There are restrictions. So i cant download another vpn from appstore. I luckily and very sneaky downloaded orbot last minute.
Had not seen that, thank you!
I had an office mate whose dream was to retire to the tools desk at HD.

While brutal, there is something to working later from a health perspectice. When I was young, retirees played tennis and golf but I dont see as much of that in my cohort.
What he means there by saying "bottom-up", as far as I can tell, is that you "compress as you go", i.e. it is bottom-up compression, in a similar way to how you can also write bottom-up parsers.

It's not stating that you should start by creating lots of little artifacts before you have a great plan (bottom-up design) nor that you should start implementing the "non-functional requirements" (another confusing term) on a high level before you know the platform and other functional requirements, which is top-down design.

So that's perhaps a justification why I said earlier that these terms are misleading :-)

As to the other thing that I said, that bottom-up tends to create things you don't actually need, it's almost immediately following the definition of bottom-up. You can even find this on the Wikipedia page, which states that in practice, software-development typically uses a combination of bottom-up and top-down for that reason.

(In other words, always strive to know as much as possible about requirements both at the "top" as well as at the "bottom", as early as possible. Or the risk is that the design won't fit some part of the requirements and large parts need to be redone).

I still don't see the connection with what I originally wrote, in any case.
An LCOL area that successfully attracts people doing high wage work (remote or not) actually becomes a high cost of living area. That’s the point.

If you are a landlord in a city where median income is $50k/yr and you find out a whole lot of people earning $400k/yr are moving there, what do you do? Unless you’re a complete dummy or want to run a charity for $400k+ earners, you raise rent.
What's the recording app that shows the cursor movement? The built in recorded only shows taps and scrolls right?
Typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult
I so heavily agree. 'above this misery line for now' is the key. I came from a poor background like OP. I have friends that can't afford homes, constantly getting laid off, and not many members of my family have any retirement plans. And this is in 'the worlds richest country'

We can all pretend we will earn enough money for our families to survive, but the reality is those richer than us will try and find away to extract it somewhere down the line. Whether it's inflation, medical bills, or a financial crash that brings your life savings down to zero.

Without large-scale changes to society the hyper-concentration of wealth will continue and millions will continue to live butchered lives.
Magical, limitless, empowering.

I've never been so excited for our future.

We won't have to spend 10,000 hours to get good at something. We'll no longer be required to specialize and be locked into our choices.

I can't wait for this to pan out. We're turning into beings of thought, where expressing ourselves will be as easy as speech.
My guess is the true reason is that HN has many people who are scared of threats to their identity.

Take for example all the comments about how AI won't be good enough. My best guess at what is going on is HN people feel threatened by AI (they realize doing standard programming is nothing special), so they are forced to downplay it.

It's like the famous quote: "it is hard to convince a man of something when his job depends on not understanding it", or whatever the quote actually is.

Another example is when people bash (even technical) crypto posts with very generic crypto bad claims. I roughly expect someone who doesn't know anything about, e.g zkSNARKs, to comment generic crypto-bad claims. They don't have enough knowledge to actually engage with the article so they post unrelated criticism.

The last thing is Dunning-Kruger. The Dropbox story is a solid example of Dunning-Kruger at work.
Hardware sold with Windows preinstalled, by vendors who won't support anything else than Windows. I simply avoid them.
I've had mixed results on laptops. I've never bothered to make the fingerprint reader work, that just isn't my thing. I've had decent luck with all the standard functions video, audio, storage, keyboard, mousepad, wifi on most models of Lenovo and Dell in the last decade. I've had mixed results on Asus laptops, especially the recent ones. The biggest challenge I've had is finding out ahead of time what wifi chipset is used and this has only affected me when using tools like aircrack-ng [1]. The chipset can vary even within the same make/model of laptop depending on when it was manufactured. The way I quickly test how a laptop will behave is to boot Kali Linux [2] into ram. Sometimes a sales person at a computer store would let me do this on a demo model even though they probably should not.

[1] - https://www.aircrack-ng.org/

[2] - https://www.kali.org/
Yeah, well, I don't really feel that Linux gettin' shit on every single time it's mentioned anywhere is entirely constructive, either. I been using Linux for many years, and over that time it's quite simply continued to improve in areas where Windows was always a huge pain for me (and most all of my family and friends with few exceptions). Most notably, that whole "Plug and Play" hardware thing. In this most recent decade or so of my Linux use, that got to be a total non-issue with hardware I've bought ranging from cheap random Chinese garbage to high-priced high-quality hardware devices. I plug them in, and they work. On rare occasion (like with printers or NVIDIA cards) I'll have to install drivers (direct from my package manager), but even then, it's light-years ahead of any experience I've ever had with drivers on Windows. Is Linux perfect? Hell no! No operating system is. Is it the best operating system for me? Absolutely. It Just Works™ in my personal experience, and that's all I care about. I'll keep using it, and I will keep defending it to those who keep spreading decades old no longer even remotely true FUD. Don't like Linux? Don't use it. Period. Don't gotta keep telling those of us who do like and use Linux (for the billionth time) how much better Windows is. It isn't better - just different, and in some ways decidedly worse than all of it's competitors. But if it's what you need or want to use, then use it FFS. Just don't come to evangelize Windows to people who used it for years and learned to prefer something else because it straight up worked better/more reliably for them than Windows did. It gets beyond old to keep hearing that bullshit after a while.
same. it's been rock solid on thinkpads because thinkpads are some of the strongest pc laptops and as such have been popular (and well supported by) oss developers.
Discussed 2 days ago (155 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937736
That might actually be interesting, because then there'd be actors who could give Google and the other BigTechs a lot more heat than any individual user can over unjustified account deletions (to avoid having to pay out the insurance premium).
I am assuming the above is sarcasm, but... for the record, for the HP Mic Mute LED, the "Windows" driver was:

1. Crashing regularly for most of the early Windows 10 era, leaving users with a frozen mute LED,

2. Was found to contain an actual keylogger. Yes, the driver as shipped by HP and signed by MS had malware.

Google "mictray64.exe" .
> I don’t think any of these are intuitive or easily discoverable.

Then again, perhaps they don’t need to be universally intuitive / discoverable; i.e.: the users who need these features may instinctively search for them and eventually discover them.

Anecdotally, I’ve been able to discover three out of four actions mentioned in the article (the fourth one was about the calculator app, which I don’t use that often).