skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Fabi, but the question must be asked: how does he know (with certainty!) that the player was cheating. Did the player confess? Was he blatantly looking on his phone in front of him?
> The end client should be the one to determine status and shoulder the responsibility if it turns out to be incorrect.

I'd say the opposite, the incentives / risk structure are otherwise completely misaligned. If the end client says you're outside IR35 and you should be in, they get whacked for income tax + 2x national insurance (employer and employee contributions). If they say you're inside and you should be outside they only have to pay the employer NI contributions.

That's a recipe for blanket "inside IR35" decisions, which is exactly what happened to the detriment of many genuinely independent contractors.
Agreed, I think the average “coffee snob” really just wants people to enjoy coffee that doesn’t have to be 50% cream and sugar. Coffee doesn’t have to be that acrid tasting black water made from over-roasted, stale, coffee grounds that our parents often drank.
TFA mentions the website creator actually congratulated their achievement, advised them and worked with them to fix the cheating problems. That's spectacular and not often seen.

I think most of these platforms are created in good faith. In the internet, we can watch millions of videos, chat with strangers all over the world, listen to basically every song ever made. What if we could educate everyone? That's a noble goal.

I think we could usr a mix of both styles education: boring exercises which are nevertheless important for learning, and these could be automated, leaving room for student driven learning where a teacher can guide and evaluate a student.
There’s a Wikipedia article of longest flights that I’m pretty familiar with, and I looked through that seeing if I could find a LCC in the list because I was curious
The volatility in quality labor and ingredient prices is wreaking havoc on the probability of receiving a satisfactory food/drink.

If I am going to receive my food/drink with a mistake or just not made well 50% of the time, I will just go without. And/or I am getting older and turning into my dad, but I feel like all the staff turnover and increases in ingredient pricing must have an effect on quality of product and service.
"Inside IR35" would mean you're controlled like an employee, and taxed so.

"Outside" could mean one of two things, the company you're contracting for doesn't qualify to determine your status (and the tax burden if investigated is on you, if you deem yourself "outside") or they have provided a statement outlining why the role is truly considered outside IR35 (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-employment-status-for-tax). For the latter, any incorrect determination is on them.
Right, it is significant that the only places shelling out for SMR are the US and Romania. Only the latter is actually planning to deploy them. (The US hands over tax money to people making them, but US utility operators don't want any.) Corruption suffices to account for both.

Renewables+storage is just too obviously a better place to invest, if you care about investing wisely.
The "concerned citizens" likely don't want Disney being adversely affected because it affects their business. Their reasoning has nothing to do with the debt or the responsibility for zoning, etc. The debt is how they are arguing that the government has the same interest as them (and in particular, that there is something illicit going on). By ignoring the potential benefits and pointing out the potential harms, they are trying to get what they want. There would be a huge difference if the city itself were suing, which would indicate that there is actually a problem with the economics of this.

If you've ever interacted with local municipal governments in the US, you would know that most municipal government employees would love to take responsibility for the zoning, police, fire, and tax collection at Disney. They would squeeze it for all they can - and they probably will. The concerned citizens (and Disney, who is likely funding their legal case) do not want this squeezing to take place.

Make no mistake, that town is only operating at a loss because Disney's accountants are writing its books. They are shifting income to the corporation and losses to the city, so they can take advantage of favorable financing terms available on muni bonds for those losses. If someone adversarial to Disney were to take over the town, the revenue/cost situation would be very different since the two would no longer be working together to shift profits and losses around. We are about to see how different it will be.
While I agree that textual links and qr codes aren't the best solutions for certain tasks, the workflow you describe appears a bit too complicated. What I do:

- scan a qrcode with a qrcode app (I use a version from f-droid)
- choose "share as text" in the app
- select the Owncloud app, which asks me what name the file should have

No browser step needed on the phone. In the desktop's browser I navigate to the Owncloud, open the file just saved and click on the link. No cut/copy/paste involved.

What I really do:

- scan the qr code (or the text with an OCR app like TextFairy)
- share the snippet with the Joplin app
- open the Joplin desktop version and there's the link or text

Or I actually use Blitzmail (share as text from some other app, which counts as the "cut" step of cut/copy/paste), then select the email arriving on the desktop and select the link (i.e. "copy" ) and "paste" it into the browser, where the last step is usually done by the desktop which offers a "open this link" menu for links in texts.

Using the Blitzmail app serves as an easy record keeping device too, when I just send a whole text block containing a link, so I have the context at hand later, if needed.
That’s ok. My dad was a radio hobbyist and I was hooked on radio as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Something about spoken voice broadcast just appeals to me. My sister, who is also a nerd and exposed to the same stuff was really more into the visual arts and music side of things. To her, radio was boring unless it was music.

For terrestrial radio, the peak marked the decline… with demographics shrinking the audience and content zeroing on angry white guy or NPR. Commercial radio sponsorships are about prostrate pills and gold coins. To me, podcasts are liberating because they are cheap to produce, so you don’t have the fixed costs of broadcast and need for mass market. Plus… more people can speak intelligently than can write or produce good video content. It’s a moderate information medium where I can multitask and enjoy. It’s not a medium for everyone, to the chagrin of the VC and others investing in it.
Maybe it's nostalgia, but there's something calming about CRTs...
I hope someone can update the xscreensaver code with this one.
The one time I was mugged i got sucker punched from behind right behind the jaw. I went down like a load of bricks and it was a full 3 to 5 seconds before I even knew what was happening. By the time I had my wits back 4 guys had me pinned, beating me up, and going through my pockets. I could have had pistols in both hands and it wouldn’t have made any difference.

I think there’s a place for concealed carry but I doubt it helps much with the kinds of ambush attacks joggers see.

(I was skateboarding in Deep Ellum (neighborhood in Dallas TX) when I was mugged)
I'm not going to look up all the start dates but quite a few from NPR (e.g. Radio Lab), 99 Percent Invisible, Freakonomics, etc. I agree that Serial became an event for a more mainstream audience but lots of people listened to podcasts before that--especially once smartphones became common.
Some people use the word "agile" as a noun, supposedly taking inspiration from the "manifesto for agile software development". -- In this sense, 'kanban board' just means "todo list arranged in columns".

A description of kanban (as applied to software development) that I did like was what it wanted to emphasise:

1. Maximize flow. - If work flows, there's more assurance that work will get done.

2. Minimize work in progress. Either a worker is working on something, or they're idle. Either a task is being worked on, or it's not making progress.

3. Visualise work in progress. - If many tasks aren't seeing progress, then visualising the work in progress is a way to show the bottlenecks in a process, which might restrict flow. (e.g. do reviews take too long, or are blocked on some key person; some key stakeholder needed for some review or some deployment, etc.).

I think if no constraints are put on picking up work in progress, then a kanban board is just a todo list with columns.
Show HN: Morgan – PyPI Mirror for Restricted/Offline Environments
Mirroring PyPI packages for environments/networks that do not have access to the Internet is hard. It's actually hard even in environments that do have access to the Internet. Most solutions out there either:

1. Depend on pip to download and cache package distributions. This means those downloads will probably only work in a similar environment (same Python interpreter, same libc), because of the nature of binary package distributions and the fact that packages have optional dependencies for different environments.

2. Depend on other PyPI packages, meaning installing the mirror in a restricted environment in itself is too difficult.

3. Cannot resolve dependencies of dependencies, meaning mirroring PyPI partially is extremely difficult, and PyPI is huge.

Morgan works differently. It creates a mirror based on a configuration file that defines target environments (using Python's standard Environment Markers specification from PEP 345) and a list of package requirement strings (e.g. "requests>=2.24.0"). It downloads all files relevant to the target environments from PyPI (both source and binary distributions), and recursively resolves and downloads their dependencies, again based on the target environments. It then extracts a single-file server to the mirror directory that works with Python 3.7+, has no outside dependencies, and implements the standard Simple API. This directory can be copied to the restricted network, through whatever security policies are in place, and deployed easily with a simple `python server.py` command.

I should note that Morgan can find dependencies from various metadata sources inside package distributions, including standard METADATA/PKG-INFO/pyproject.toml files, and non-standard files such as setuptools' requires.txt.

There's more information in the Git repository. If this is interesting to you, I'll be happy to receive your feedback.

Thanks!
At least the initial rampup would be expensive - the cheapest copper is being mined already, so prices would necessarily need to rise to mine the more expensive copper too. How much it would rise long term once the new mines are running is geologically dependant.

Aluminium has different issues, in that it is very very very energy intensive to refine. It may require new coal/nuclear power generation buildout near the mine for smelting the bauxite to make it even feasible at a large scale, otherwise you run into a chicken/egg problem with your grid idea since the grid doesn't exist yet. This is because aluminium smelters can't be shut down at night, they have a single turn on/off in their lifetime otherwise they need a full disassembly and rebuild, more likely scrap. So it can't just be run intermittently on local solar. To some degree it can be ramped down, so maybe a smaller base generation assisted by solar during the day, but it still needs significant power at night somehow.
This is true in the US but not universally true. We are a commercial society where the money matters more than the prestiege or whatever other reward for making a great product. There are places I’ve been to in Italy or Japan where this is not the case, in fact I wouldn’t even know what good coffee was if not for those countries.
Disappointed. Thought this was going to be an article about how climate change is affecting coffee growing regions, changing the terroir of the beans (and yields).
Making moves perceived to be outside his skill class I assume.
Biggest (and somewhat hidden) win of cloud dev:

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Cloud hosting makes it necessary to have a (mostly) hermetic dev environment, which is a good thing
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Gaia X
Good coffee, really good coffee is easy. You get a heat gun, you get an old fashioned flour sifter. You order some interesting green beans from sweetmarias.com. You roast the beans over the heat gun while holding the flour sifter and cranking. I do 2/3 pound batches. There are lots of fast and easy ways to brew the coffee. My current favorite is an aeropress because it takes a few minutes, but moka pots are very good.

This is good coffee. Truly good. I can roast dark, light, Kenya, Java, Mexican. I can make my own blend.

Or I can go down the street or drive and get some coffee and pay a huge amount to someone who can't roast as well as I can. Doesn't know which coffee beans are best. Where I will never be able to try Yemeni Bani Haraz.

You could call me a snob, but I work for my coffee.
being a good Christian is all about truth.
Proving a positive result is much easier than a negative. A positive “this move right here is not reasonable without a chess computer suggestion ♟” vs “we didn’t find anything suspicious”.

And if you’re cheating, adding another layer of “try to find moves that aren’t suspicious” would be theoretically possible.
I'm an SCA (Speciality Coffee Association) certified barista and have, as part of my work travels, drank speciality coffee all around the world in many different coffee shops.

Most of it is terrible.

It's not that I have the best palate or anything like that; it's that most of the places have undertrained staff behind the counter and serve under- or overextracted coffee all day! Most of it is either acidic or bitter to the point where you're losing all the qualities of the coffee beans and upsets my stomach.

I've only found a handful of shops around the globe that genuinely care about the craft and will serve genuinely good coffee every time. (e.g. Prufrock in London, Tim Wendelboe in Oslo) The rest of the coffee shops are worse than useless, I'd rather go to a Starbucks or even McDonald's for my coffee than upset my stomach with that crap.
Tesla set to unveil humanoid robot Optimus
Awesome! So that did work. But when trying to do 1024 bytes it doesn't zero it out. Do you happen to know what the cutoff is? I think my coworker is gonna open it up in ida, so will update back if we figure it out.

EDIT: We seem to only get the zero behavior ?? < 100 < ZEROMEM <= 1008. So malloc 1009 isn't zeroing for us. And some value below 100 isn't freeing and just poisons
The point of the law is to stop people taking on contracts that should essentially be permanent employee roles. Its more tax efficient to be paid via your own Ltd company instead of as a PAYE employee, especially when you get into the highest tax bracket, and so the government loses tax revenue.

The IR35 law was supposed to stop them losing tax revenue, and to be honest i even agree with the overall law, they just executed it incorrectly. They put the responsiblity on the company offering the contract, when it should be on the person applying for the contract that has the responsibility to show they're a business and not a disguised employee.

The better way to do it in my opinion is to empower HMRC with more resources to question contractors and show that they are actual businesses and not tax dodging employees.
The work is good, but they need to submit it under a real name. The Linux kernel will lose trust if anonymous contributors with hidden interest start contributing code to it, regardless of its quality.
First of all, I am in no way blaming women if a man does something bad to them.

What’s interesting to me is that gender dynamics create a sort of predator/prey dynamic. Specifically I’m talking about how men are generally required to do all of the initiating. I think it trains men to push for what they want because that’s the only way romantic and sexual interactions happen.

Sometimes, it’s even expected that the man not ask for consent. I’m talking about men “going for” a kiss at the end of the first date. It’s generally expected that the man go for it without asking. It’s like sexual assault is baked into the dating ritual!

I can’t help but wonder if we’d be better off if we got rid of this dynamic. Like if we expected men and women to both initiate instead of women being taught to wait for men to pursue them.
Agreed

It's crazy how quickly society has shifted. We used to chide people who had their nose buried in a book as socially awkward. Now, everyone has their nose buried in a phone.

You used to have social interactions when waiting anywhere. That doesn't really happen anymore. Seems like everyone would rather be distracted by something on their phone.

The ability to be bored has become a rare and valuable skill.
Looks like they are supporting AVIF.

Its in IOS 16 and in beta Ventura.

And almost no body supports JpegXL, is it much better than AVIF?

https://medium.com/codex/webp-avif-and-jpeg-xl-better-image-...
Indeed! It’s important to push kids outside their comfort zones so they experience a broader menu of life and learning.

I’m not sure I feel too strongly about either of these perspectives.

Perhaps if we optimize this, we will just end up near where schools are today: a balance of freedom of choice and a mandatory exposure to many domains.
This could never be done in Europe.
Gracepoint is a church targeting college students. He almost certainly signed up to this institution voluntarily: it's not something he was born into or will be shunned by his family for rejecting.

So it's fair to say he chose this church, and the accountability partner is something that comes along with that. Of course, there are other instances of coercive behaviour by religious groups where this is not true.
It is difficult, for HMRC - it doesn't scale.

I am actually in favour of the IR35 legislation as it removed entire swathes of "permietractors" from the market and allowed people like myself (and you judging off the working practices you described) to operate in a true business fashion.

It is no doubt to me that 95% of "contractors" previously working "outside IR35" at large FTSE companies were indeed employees in disguise. Tenure even matched permanent staff, quite frankly it was a joke.
True thanks for the time and care needed to script above. All points clear and logical.

The vast majority of engineers will always view sales as a necessary evil, and thus the percentage whom achieve even base level competency is staggeringly low.
In contrast, elite sales people are both driven and financially rewarded to master the nuances and myriad client incentives you outline above. Further, they are high IQ and will work tirelessly from outset to acquire deep knowledge of all required to serve the engineering team, close customers and contribute to P&L.

With rare exceptions a startup is ill-advised to not hire a sales lead from very early days. Involving this high achiever intimately with totality of inaugural customer acquisition is best practice, not doing so is akin to asking an offensive lineman to run a crossing route in the red zone.
> But since I can't really whip out my french press in an airport

You can whip out an aeropress in an airport, and can probably finnagle 200mL boiling water from one of the eateries or shops (I would assume that to be the bigger challenge as you can’t exactly start a fire at the gate, not to mention carrying a gas cartridge through security).
“I feel like I can move in the world and do normal things without fear. I wonder if that’s what a man feels, as he’s lacing up for a run?”

Yeah, pretty much. I'm never as aware of my own privilege as when I'm running alone, in strange places at odd hours with poor light. Even under ideal conditions, there's a definite pattern of male solo runners and women in pairs. This experience has probably opened my eyes more than any other wrt how women experience the world differently.
To put this into perspective, a game (or anything) running at 60 FPS only as a bit over 16 milliseconds to render each frame. These days higher frame rates are common enough, often putting you down into single-digit milliseconds per frame. Not think about how many things there are simulated and rendered in each frame for common games. Way more than 16.
ICBMs would still be possible -- but perhaps with more limited range.
Pretty much every browser that isn't Chrome or Edge, has put out a similar message to Vivaldi's team. If that's not enough for Google to get their **** together, and stop pretending like they're doing this for the good of the end-user, I dunno what is.
No, that's just what the media wants you to think by calling it the "don't say gay" bill. In truth, both of those are equally allowed.
They burn their coffee (make it bitter) because it then works better with sugar. Too much sugar and we don't like something, too much bitter notes and the same thing, but when you combine bitterness and sugar, our body really likes it for some reason. Hence Starbucks. (Have to add fat in there, too ;)
> That sounds like Houston.

I think it's a little different. Houston by your account struggles in the afternoons today -- similar to parts of Spain and Portugal, but it's only at peak wet bulb ~75..76 F going by ASHRAE[1] data. Wet bulb 88 F is much worse, and 95 F is really when the human body gives up.

Again, this is wet bulb, not air temperature.

But if anyone has peak wet bulb data for major US cities, please share! It'd be an awesome resource.

[1] American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, https://www.ashrae.org/
I find the concept of taking pride in consuming differently from others to be a bit bizarre. You're not a farmer growing the coffee, or an agronomist planning for it, or a jovial Italian man running a shop for it, or even an engineer building a cool or stylish device for it. You're just a person who makes a purchase.

Somehow, the modern world has fooled us into believing that this is a sufficient criteria to exist as an individual.