skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netherland also still doesn't have clear rules about that. A couple of years ago they tried several things, and people and companies rebelled against some of those, and now they're mostly ignoring the whole issue again, I think.

At least in my field, where contractors are paid far better than employees. There are also obvious, blatant cases where companies do use this as a loophole to reduce costs. And sometimes they do that with permission from the tax service, even! PostNL, the Dutch postal service fired all their mail deliverers and hired them back as contractors, but they still had to follow the schedules set by PostNL, wear their uniform, etc. Yet the tax service approved that.

I don't get it. I think that's a blatant case of the abuse they're supposed to fight. But at least they're leaving me alone for now. I think the unspoken rule is that if you're paid well, it's probably fine, and they're focusing on cases where people are underpaid and unable to save up for retirement. Because those are the cases where this is going to cause problems.
We gave up religion(s) and tradition(s) for consumerism, turns out buying shit is not the optimal long term fulfilment panacea. Add absolute lack of body and mind hygiene and you get to feel like a complete waste of life by the time you hit your 40s. By then you realise discipline/work could have put you in a really nice place, socially, physically, professionally, but now it's too late, the damage is done, you can only pick up the crumbs and have to work twice as hard to get anywhere close to what it could have been => mid life crisis.

Buying a porsche gt3 and a nice house with a swimming pool won't make up for wasting 20+ yours of your life behind a desk
It's a longtime trope of these "stack" sites: the best questions with the best answers are those that are marked as offtopic, closed, deleted, downvoted or otherwise rejected. It's a marker of good quality at this point.
This thread reminds me of the essay, "Some were meant for C"

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/research/papers/kell17some-...
You mean the PM's wife who, until it became politically embarrassing for her husband, was dodging millions in tax as a non-domiciled foreign national?

No idea but wasn't he the Chancellor of the Exchequer last time the IR35 rules were changed too?

Strange the coincidences in life. ;)
Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)
ROMs were non-binary before it was cool.
Yes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-star...
Stirring Up Some TypeScript Magic
tips and helper functions for enhancing code structure and readability.
From a comment there:

> Thematically this is similar to a (much longer) essay Dr. Thurston wrote several years ago, which I highly recommend:

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236
Sure is pretty unfulfilling to be not independently wealthy
my mother gets confused on her tablet. i seriously had to write a little guide on paper, including that triangle means back, circle means home.. square goes right over her head, so i said just ignore that one.
The mostly I was impressed of university’s course of “Abstract algebra” (books I’ve read was in Russian, but I believe you could take any recommended literature from MIT courses). Understanding such things as “homomorphism”, “groups”, “vector linear space” will give a fundamental base for all other math disciplines and you will start to view math in more different side than it’s studied in school.
Skiplagging Explained
This sounds very optimistic and probably reflects the VC view more than reality. If 15% of current AI startups are succeeding 3 years from now (granted not the same as "in business", but meaning roughly they survived to another funding round) investors will have done very well. I'd invest in a portfolio I thought had that kind of upside. Personally I think it will be way lower.

How many web3 startups will still exist next year?
Pass the salt, please. It’s good for you. (2015)
https://archive.is/iiFiI
How 'bout them apples?!
https://archive.ph/uwNes
These chips as in non-laptop non-vpro intel chips like the one used here.
I have anecdotal stories about aa friend corroborating this. He had been rebuked and experienced an unwelcoming response on Stack Overflow in response to his questions while trying to learn web development, and found ChatGPT a great teacher in comparison.
Partially related, low speed parking lot and shop window accidents are much less common in manual-dominant countries (although those are less frequent yearly).

The usual cause is hitting gas instead of brake, followed by disorientation (expected = braking, result = acceleration, usually strong acceleration). Humans, especially elderly, can't reorient quickly enough. With a manual, you're depressing the clutch as well, so the mismatch is much lesser.
Boy do I miss MantisBT...
Even in western Europe, being self-employed means you're opting out of a lot of the things that are so well-arranged for employees. No paid sick leave, no paid vacation days, no unemployment benefits, you have to save up for your own retirement and get your own disability insurance.

And yet, for me it works. I'm much happier this way somehow.
Linux supports hot attach ram or the VMM could support memory ballooning. VMs don’t necessarily need to all be backed by physical RAM.
(Context, I'm already within the ulez. I can see the boundary from my house.)

The diesel fraud over the last couple of decades is really unfortunate. It's messed over a lot of people and caused a bunch of needless environmental harm in the meantime.

But you don't need to get a new 20k electric car. You can get a cheap second hand petrol car of probably the same age. A quick Google shows your car is worth 10-15k, so you have some good equity for a better ulez car, of which there are plenty in that price range.

Selling a car is a faff and it sucks, but the ulez is designed to change behaviours, it wouldn't be effective of it didn't effect people.
Revolut upgraded my account as a "promotion," without my permission, then started charging me for the premium account. When I contacted them to get my account downgraded to the free tier they told me I would have to close my account and open a new one. That took several days of email back-and-forth.

Revolut wants the profits and prestige of a real bank but like so many tech "disruptors" they play fast and loose, have a slick web site and app and "cool" customized cards, but operate outside of banking regulations. The terrible customer support alone should scare people away, but you don't discover that until you need it.
It has in the sense that people allocate strings much more than using fixed-size, stack-allocated arrays.

Modern C uses things like glib's GString, which (in addition to keeping the NUL terminator) track the length and can resize the underlying memory. And people also use a lot more asprintf instead of strcpy and strcat.
As I see it, Stable Diffusion is a camera you can tune to take pictures from alternate realities. The images it creates are of real people and subjects, just in some parallel universes.
Synology's RAID is based on a combination of Btrfs and MD, it doesn't employ Btrfs' multi-device support at all.[0]

[0] https://kb.synology.com/en-nz/DSM/tutorial/What_was_the_RAID...
Aluminium moka pots aren't. Copper bottomed pots usually aren't. Woks don't really work without a flame. Bain-maries that work on induction tops are about 50:50.
SDL.zig: A shallow wrapper around SDL for Zig
They are VMs, but without the annoying "pet" UX.
This is amazing, it looks like the laptop an engineer would make if he was told don’t worry about aesthetics, just make the thing exactly as you’d like.

The circular trackpad is an acknowledgement that most engineers hate using trackpads, generally only will use a laptop docked, and would rather have a better typing experience than a giant trackpad that will only get in the way the few times they do use the laptop on the go.

“If you can’t do it in the keyboard it’s not worth doing”
These are just small, super inefficient buses.
This blog spam is all over the place. There isn't even a coherent critique that can be made.

Seeing as it's just a cover to sell courses, books, sign up for a newsletter, etc, I have a hard time this got organically to the front page.
You only have to care about it at boundaries though, for the most part. Like, when calling a C API. That's easy to handle. Even C++'s std::string can do that, as the c_str method always returns a null-terminated string. That inherently kills the need for things like strcat.
AI Writing Detectors Don't Work
Its sad that you had such a negative experience of church, due to people's failings. Its not like that everywhere. There are church communities that are welcoming to people that are divorced, gay, etc. Sounds like you've been among people who lack of proper understanding of "love others as yourself" and "judge not lest thy be judged" which are fundamental to true Christianity (and other religions too). I'd advocate, don't give up, don't dismiss religion based on people's failings, but instead, challenge people
This tendency didn't start at all with the Euro crisis. Remember Thatcher? She put this economic model firmly in place and everybody started to copy it, fiddle with it, without ever questioning its basis anymore. So it's not "a whole generation" but at least "two whole generations" - and it doesn't look like it's gonna stop the trend any time soon, public service keep getting defunded and big companies keep getting tax cuts.
A lot of us at this age were brought up to believe we could be anything, do anything, achieve anything. The subtext of “pick one or two things and you may achieve modest success” was perhaps not sufficiently emphasised.

Add to this that the definition of “do well” has morphed from “be one of the better accomplished kids in your school” to be more like “be in the top 1% nationally” (or even globally) and there’s a serious impedance mismatch there.
Looks nice! What kind of (server based) calendar could be used with this? Can e.g. Ldap be used for a shared/corporate address book?
Simple, you neglect your family!
I had a flash of inspiration this morning and realized that a pitch deck at the intersection of adtech, crypto, and LLMs ("We use the OpenAI API to design user-targeted ads for NFTs") could probably raise $X million in roughly the time it took me to finish brushing my teeth. I could get three friends together, write that deck, and probably be retired before my current startup manages to reach PMF.

Tech in 2023 is just mind-numbingly depressing. Thinking about throwing it all in and becoming a beet farmer, instead.
Giant telecom company that once almost bought Apple is near bankrupt
Alien as in "other".
> ... by driving expensive or weird cars sadly increases bad outcomes

Just saying: of all the brands in the US the one that has the least average accident by brand ownership is... Porsche.

At this point, seen the sheer car hate all around, I don't drive a Porsche because I care about what other people think. I drive a Porsche because I don't give a fuck what they think (and I know they wrongly think it's a car creating lots of accidents, when it's actually the brand driven by the safest drivers out there).
But I don't want severance and other perks. I just want money so I can save up my own buffer and buy my own perks.

I think it's very good that the tax service is looking out for underpaid freelancers struggling on the edge of poverty (or often below it), but highly paid software engineers can take care of themselves. If my current client wants to end our contract tomorrow, I'm fine with that. That's why he's hiring me, and not an employee. And that's why he's paying me as much as he is.

I'm all for drawing a line somewhere based on hourly rate. Below $50/h (or wherever you want to draw that line), you may be entitled to employee benefits, above that line, you're on your own, because you can take care of yourself.
Article about homeless people in Australia. Does not mention 95% or any percentage, just "surprisingly common." Having a cell phone and prepaid minutes isn't the same thing as a smart phone with banking apps, and banks require an address to open an account.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32894429
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34992978
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35040256
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757296
Thank you I want to believe responsible development is happening. I just asked an LLM my first question and the interactive processing was great to watch.
It's the same thing. But it doesn't have to be as destructive or ultimately short-lived as that. It might an opportunity to radically change some things you have taken for granted your entire life.
I mean, duh?
In the UK cars are exempt from inspection if over 40 years old, which was true when we were in the EU. I think it varies by country.

Couldn't do stuff like this otherwise https://rove.me/to/england/london-to-brighton-veteran-car-ru...
Show HN: My Cover Letter Generator – Never Write a Cover Letter Again
Generate cover letters based on your resume and the job you're applying for.
Google to block news in Canada over law on paying publishers
That is actually a problem under research; there are a few papers on it and luckily they use the obvious name — TSP with drones or TSP-D.

I gave that problem a very shallow go for a Metaheuristics assignment, and while I didn't really mess with the domain specific heuristics for it, it did seem pretty fun indeed.
Agree Japanese subtitles are absolute garbage—I once made the stupid mistake of using Japanese subtitles watching a comedy on a date with someone that didn’t speak English.

However, the dubs are the complete opposite. They pack in a ton of the original subtext and nuance, character quirks, etc, even making new jokes when necessary to convey something similar when the original is impossible. And of course the voice actors are great.

Japanese subtitles being terrible isn’t necessarily a natural state. It seems to just be where things landed in that industry.
isn't a midlife crisis is just a label for burnout / depression at the end of the day? everybody who is depressed feels like life is stuck and going nowhere.
Where is the virus scanner? What about spamassassin support?
I got a great speedup using C++ with pybind11 for my Python backend, 30x if I remember correctly. It was for an app that detects wether words rhyme. I was about to release it but ditched it as soon as ChatGPT came out (it can find rhymes easily, and sometimes better).
I did mention.

But you keep talking around it.

You still can't bring yourself to say who these people were. Or what happened to their descendants.
My X201, T430 and T530 all work fine and are at least a decade old. I think they too will be my last Lenovos.
> virtualization adds very overhead

Missing word?

"Very little"? 5% is enough to turn this year's high-end machine into last year's model.

Nested virtualisation is also a thing now, and 5% per layer adds up fast.
> Creatives don't naturally want to create bland and uninteresting work

Hmm. I've seen a few "passion projects" that reach new heights of uninterestingness. Detach the creative from needing to bring in an audience and we get projects that "explore the liminal space of boredom" and such. Once directors get the "make whatever you want" power it's not always a happy outcome. Same thing with authors - they get famous with a tightly edited 300 pages and use that to release a 1200 page barely edited brick.

Sometimes the balance of the two really works - the money man is the only representation of the audience and can cut out that nonsensical 45 minute dream sequence. I guess what I want is not a money man as such, just an editor with a bit of power as an objective source of improvement.
I haven’t used Linux on an AMD laptop in like 10 years. Is that still a bug? That used to drive me crazy.
Maybe it depends on where you are? I found the prevalence of Dodge Rams in the Netherlands jarring. They're incredibly poorly suited to the towns and cities there.
Correct. You lose customers on purpose when you don't have basic features that the competition has had for years, and when, after years of delays, you release a new version of your app that still doesn't have this feature.

I don't know why you think this is some sort of gotcha. Other than you think having standards is too entitled.
It has package management that works.
Is this the reason modern apps like Mozilla are so slow? Basically OS memory movement is the bottle neck?
I have a surface book (the original) that I inherited from pilot program at work. I love the idea of it, but practically, it just doesn’t work, I rarely if ever used it as a tablet, and when I did it wasn’t a very good tablet because the OS still doesn’t support that input method very well. As a laptop a lot of compromises were made to support that form factor and if just wasn’t worth it.
> The "not" people can do wilder/riskier things

not going to help anyway. midlife crisis and other related mental problems can never be resolved by outward solutions. you can distract yourself for a while with exciting new hobbies (like getting a motorbike) but it will come back and even harder at that because then you will feel like it's even more hopeless as even this exciting change didn't really solve the underlying issue. but some people also just get used to being unhappy and that's about it for them.
And lulz. So important.
Works great in Dillo browser! SO FAST! :)

PS: https doesn't work on Dillo for this web site, but thanks for not enforcing a http->https redirect!
What will aicombinator do when ai flops? Go back to crypto?
Thanks for the hints, I did read the instructions at the URL I mentioned, but had assumed that GHC 9 would be backwards compatible with GHC 8.
I have no experience with Haskell.
Show HN: Rain hashes on the Web via WASM and emscripten
White-box automated testing in Kubernetes
Your objection is nonsense.

>Median individual income in the United States was $46,001. It is up from $44,225 in 2021.

The graph shows 2022 with a median income of $46,001. That means the 2022 data hasn't been "adjusted for CPI" because duh. When you adjust for CPI you choose a reference year which can't be anything but nominal and other years are brought to the same price level. This means that the $44,225 from 2021 have been adjusted upwards to $46,303. You can disregard the 2021 numbers, just as clipsy did (he only posted numbers for 2022), and just click your way to the 2021 post if you want the nominal numbers for 2021.
This, and the sibling replies are utter bollocks.

I might be the only person on earth that got something out of therapy, and I blame being and staying depressed my entire adult life because I listened to idiots like you. And trust me, I'm restraining myself here. We have a mental health crisis, a broken support system, male suicide at a all-time high, and your opinion is still mainstream. Shut up and listen.

--

Advice for the people struggling: don't be afraid to fire your therapist. Going to therapy should feel like having someone to dump your crap and feel they've listened to you with no judgment whatsoever. You should feel you talked to a better, non-opinionated version of your $favorite-relative. If that's not the case, get another one.

AFAIU there's a lot of approaches to therapy. What worked for me was having a person that listen attentively for 99% of the time. In 3 years they have never told me what to do, nor prescribed their vision of the world.
Will data science be automated by ChatGPT?
VanMoof Officially Declared Bankrupt
As the top level comment was about knowing the length of a string: GTA Online's loading times were atrocious because of a null-terminated string.
Having 4 independent adults in a 4 bed house is quite common in the UK due to the cost of housing.

Having 3 or 4 adults in a 4 bed house is even more common once you include 20-something kids who live with their parents due to the cost of housing.

The cost of housing is nothing to do with the number of car parking spaces provided. If you assume the typical 2 adult 2 children household (the ones most likely to be in those 3/4 bed new build houses), where 55% have at least 2 cars -- at that includes London where car ownership is lower, having a single driveway is a major problem.
There should be even larger drones that are always in the air that are used as supply hubs for these smaller drones. Actually those should be whole warehouses where people work.
> the American cinematic canon, by most measures the greatest body of artistic accomplishment humanity has ever produced

…what?!

The, I don’t know, Renaissance would like a word with you….
Stability AI CEO says AI will kill half of India's programmers, but not France's
You follow the same people as on Instagram but don't get to see pictures. In other words, it's a poor version of Instagram.

The point of having a Twitter account is that you are following a completely different crowd.
The EU is working on legislation to take the full product life cycle cost in to account when importing products. It means taking in to account the cost of disposal or recycling in import duties. Which seems fair. I mean why do I have to pay for the disposal of someone's 90 Euro lawn mower?

Aside from environmental cost this is clearly also intended to reduce reliance on low-labour cost countries. Since these usually tend to have regimes which might not "philosophically fully align with ours".

Western countries went to China and started selling opium. China went to the west and started selling low quality cheap stuff. I think the later might even be more addictive then the former...
Thoughts on Observability-driven development? [video]
Anecdotal: but all of the psychology students i've met were far from being stable and had serious issues of their own. But its just my own experience and a stereotype i have now
> I have wondered if a pure market making app would work... let drivers and riders place bids... a driver can lower their bid to get hired faster and a rider can increase their bid to get picked up faster. The app would just take a fixed cut.

This is a good idea. But it's important to note that price is not the only relevant parameter here (as opposed to e.g. buying company shares, where two shares are exactly the same)

Other parameters:

1. Waiting time — how long is the driver and the passagner willing to wait?

2. Driver rating — the there a minimum rating a driver must have (and if passengers are rated, too, then vice versa)?

So there's the combination of, at least, these three parameters, which gets complicated. For example: as a passenger, would you rather ride with a 4.5 star rated driver with a 5 minute waiting time for $30; or a 4.0 star rated driver with a 2 minute waiting time for $26?
I can understand how costs run into the Billions when events require new stadiums, major infrastructure etc. But something like the commonwealth games should be well within the existing infrastructure for a large/capital city...
My blog is https://blog.burakcankus.com. There is not a lot written yet but I have small posts planned for it.
Lem v2.1.0 – Common Lisp IDE with high expansibility
New release of Lem, a hackablee ditor with high extensibility written in Common Lisp and with support for LSP.

Also, with a new webpage! https://lem-project.github.io/lem-page/
This was my first car, back in the 1990s!

The synchros in the transmission were worn down to almost nothing, shifting truly was a dark art, like closing one’s eyes and feeling their way through a drawer of silverware.

Otherwise in better condition but I guess I had twenty years less wear on it!

(my current car dream is to find another 914 and do an electric conversion… not a car where it behooves one to keep the original anything)
It seems the Time Machine was not designed for root filesystems.