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> There are now a list of standard tests to determine if a supposed contractor is actually an employee.

Not in the UK there's not.

HMRC refuse to provide a definitive list or say how they determine if a contractor is "acting as a disguised employee" (BTW you're still not an "employee" even if you're working Inside the IR35 regulations).

Instead they provide a vague tool that gives you some suggestions but reserve the right to arbitrarily decided later who is and isn't an independent contractor. They can, and have, retrospectively change the rules even for accepted tax returns.

That puts a lot of risk on anyone doing contract work. When the government changed the rules to shift some of that risk the customer, many customers just decided to drop small external contractors all together rather than work to a vague set of suggestions that they can't definitively say if they're complying with.

For small contractors it's difficult to get insurance for IR35 risks because of this. You can get it but it's not cheap or easy compared to other liabilities.

The contract market in the UK has been slowly dying since the tabloids first decided that contractors where another group they could demonise and the Tories gleefully went along with it.
Can we separate out the phrase "Consultant, freelancer or independent contractor"? It encompasses both experts with deep knowledge in some lucrative niche, as well as wordpress devs on upwork making $5/day. Not to mention "normal" programmers who are indistinguishable from employees, but get paid hourly for some reason (often because they are in another country, but often because they are being taken advantage of).
My rationale is that prenups are an acknowledgment that sometimes, people discover things don’t work out. Agreeing what each person has from the beginning confirms the commitment of marriage is beyond the money/wealth that existed before.

I’ve never been married yet but this perspective seems rare. So many people’s lives get destroyed or seriously damaged after a bad divorce. Why not do something that would ease the pain for both parties?
much more profound for covid usually https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53810610
Great to see a workplace democracy is thriving. Now let's spread this concept to every business
Do you really believe that the USA would commit an act of war against Russia to… sell Europe natural gas?
Likewise, cool stuff from the EU or China that don't have it warehoused in the US makes it a drag waiting a long time for shipping and customs to get.
Minor gripe, but I want it now :)
I'm 43 now and became a freelancer at 38.

I always wanted to write sophisticated game books (think choose-your-own-adventure, but with real impact of your choices for a real story). I wrote a small one to learn about how I feel in the process.

And that would be my suggestion. Try the process for some time. Something between one month and half a year. See if you like it, if you get into it, if feel like you want to continue this. The question to answer is: does the daily process of creating games makes you happy and feels right?
Its the best that can be done when the underlying physical network layer itself is not decentralised.
As a risk averse person when I read this: "Penniless certainly beats bitter" all I can think of is; ending up penniless just makes you penniless AND bitter
Didn't you even skim the article? There's a short summary at the beginning:

> J&J is facing more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that the company's talc products, including its Baby Powder, were contaminated by asbestos and caused cancers including ovarian cancer and mesothelioma
I can realistically see that changing in the next few years with the arrival of WASM/WASI as it effectively provides a new set of compile targets for many of those apps to run in new contexts.

Photoshop is already moving to become a web based application as a result of it for example.
Here in the Netherlands I've seen this too. It's somewhat confusing to speak about freelancers as a single group because they stretch all the way from doordash drivers making minimum wage (and sometimes less) to well-paid someware developers making about twice what a employed senior dev would. One of those is economically precarious and needs (government) assistance, the other is doing just fine.
That does seem a bit pointless. If that's your first experience of calculus I can see it would be off putting. Here in the UK basic calculus is taught at school, it felt just like another aspect of maths to me.
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The stereotypical concept of the big singular midlife crisis has been debunked. Crises occur in every age span, and they are highly individual. I agree though that a crisis should never be wasted.
> that will that rebel against anti russian oppression

So you mean it's OK to oppress people just because they are Russian, or speak Russian? And the bad guys are those against oppression?
> On the other hand, his recommendation to always know string lengths and use memcpy didn't really become common practice over the last 20+ years either, so I'm not sure it was worth all the arguing.

It hasn't become common practice in C. But other languages (like JavaScript or Python) have become hugely popular, and don't use null-terminated strings.
Unfortunately many services think they are smarter than you, and disallow "+" in email fields
I guess data is compressed? Otherwise, this makes no sense (even if it might happen in practice).
What's up with people seeing an analogy and going "you can't equate those two things"? Analogies aren't equating things
I guess it depends on how people see their mortality. I know people who thought they'd die for sure before they hit 30.

For myself 30s was only when the life started to happen.
For photoshop/illustrator, windows vm's work just fine. I will say though, I snagged affinity's photo/designer bundle last black friday and have been very, very impressed at how performant they are.

Shame they don't have native linux support really.
As a user posting from a Linux machine, I disagree. Though it seems the "don't use C" crowd often delegate the important decisions to somewheres else.

I guess the answer is "some people's C is good enough, but not yours"
What delivery men need isn't messing around with slow and complicated drone launches. They need the equivalent of a mailbox, i.e. package lockers in front of every apartment building and in front of every house. Then all they have to do is get off the delivery vehicle, retrieve the package, open the locker, insert the package, close the locker and then go back to the vehicle.

At that point you have reached human peak efficiency and then the only thing you can do is build a self driving delivery van with an integrated crane/robot arm to operate the locker.

Self driving is hard. Building a robot arm that inserts packages sideways into a locker doesn't appear as difficult. The post office can dictate the package formats and add visual markers to make it easier for the robot to grab the right side.
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You don't know if "anyone else" already noticed the pattern. That does not reflect in the historical prices you can see. It will reflect in future prices which you can't see. And waiting for those does not help either. You are always at square one. Because others are sitting somewhere, watching the data and thinking about it just like you.
Interesting to see the implementation is basically a two-pass process: strlen() to count the source string, followed by a memcpy().

My intuition would be to give some importance to not looping on the source string radically beyond the length of the destination buffer.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=string/strl...
My favourite explanation is a contest to guess how many jelly beans are in the jar.

How can you win?

- Get lucky

- Have a data advantage (maybe you can measure the dimensions of the jar accurately from afar

- Have a modelling advantage (maybe you have a 3D model of a jar in a computer simulation)
Sure, windows advertises 10 years for enterprise:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/t...

Though for newer releases they partially reduced it to 5 years.
Depends on the vertical. I would not be real comfortable booking lodging on some random portal, especially if we're talking more of an AirBnB thing vs hotels.
Going from 7% to 4% is shaving 43% off your mortgage rate—which of course would make a difference. But it’s not even the same order of magnitude as what we’re talking about here.
Netflix's streaming never made sense to me even when they were the only game in town. I think they benefited from a halo effect from their compelling DVD mailing service which actually had a ton of great content. But eventually people figure out that the streaming service only has a few thousand movies, which means the odds of the particular movie you want to watch being offered is very low.
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I think Randall Munroe (the author of XKCD) spends a lot of time researching his comics, so it's probably right about the order of magnitude.

In general, he likes to play with facts exactly like this one: transform some interesting science fact (speed at which tectonic plates move away from each other) into unrelated comparison just for fun. I am sure he has calculated the rough surface area between them using geological data (putting imaginary borders on top and botton), then redone it accounting for movement in say 60s, then looked at how much 12pt text fits on a page (maybe inspired by that "weight of bytes" post also appearing on HN?), and got the rate of expansion in 12pt words per second :)

Being a scientist, he also only kept one significant digit proclaiming it to be 100 wps (anything else would indicate much smaller error which would be lying).

If you like that kind of thing, XKCD is a lot of fun. It is a lot of fun :)

Basically, this is all to say that he has probably checked this himself: don't take it as gospel, but you can likely trust it as much as anyone else without checking it yourself (or having a bunch of people independently verify it).
It’s unfortunate that Massdrop became “mechanical keyboard brand Drop.” It was really a great site to find really cool things that people voted on that you couldn’t really get anywhere else at a decent price. It used to have 20+ categories from Ultralite to Cooking to Quilting, now it has 3: Audiophile, Battlestations, and Mechanical Keyboards. What happened?
When you lock out half of the developed world at the time of biggest hype around your app and eventually open it up only after, you can't expect more.
The parent article is a tweet of a graph, and it says nothing about trickle-down.

> other economic articles, statistics, etc

Ah well, you're wrong. "other economic articles, statistics, etc" clearly do not support this.

I mean, "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." but lets bring the citations:

> trickle-down economics has never been advocated by any economist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#Economi...
Forget Drones, even the land robots [the ones that look like small moving pillars] haven't been put to actual use - the companies that made them or built software for them ended up raising good cash and exiting by getting sold to other big companies in the logistics space, but no one knows for sure what their future is, lol.
I thought this was about Dark Souls.
This is a well-known conjecture called the Physical Church-Turing Thesis.

It is just a conjecture, but emperically it has held true to the limits of our knowledge of physics. It also still works even if the universe is probabilistic.
People drawn to fighting fires are stereotypically brave, but they are also stereotypically arsonists themselves. The worst people to call when you notice a fire is the fire brigade. They'll just spread more fire! Evidence: they're admitting to burning undergrowth to stop wildfires. "Fighting fire with fire", these people are nuts!

Plus - firefighters: stereotypically buff and desirable. You'll lose your house and your partner.

The right person to call is a poet. Not otherwise associated with fire, handles a lot of paper. They hate fire!
I thought about dedicating a bench in the name of my dad. He was cremated and I struggled with what to do with his ashes (and scattering them was an odd adventure on its own). A bench seems like a nice way to remember someone without taking up a plot of land somewhere.
>>> I guess I should point out these kind of insults are against the site guidelines.

>It's not an insult. It's a clear reference to the fact that your source does not support your claim, and it actually rejects it.

If you are unfamiliar with them, the Hacker News guidelines are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular, check the section on commenting - for example:

>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

>>> You are quoting the lowest value in each range, you need to consider the entire range:

>I'm actually not. If you read the source you cited, you'll notice that they provide a range of values for their estimates of what would be the levelized cost for energy from multiple sources.
The observed real world cases fall within the whole range. This means that they report real world examples of residential rooftop PV panels costing well below alternatives such as Nuclear.
If your thesis was that residential rooftop PV panels were the most expensive source of energy, your own reference refutes your baseless claim. You have to intentionally ignore all the cheapest real world examples of PV installations to proceed to argue they are the most expensive.

There would be no reason to estimate a range if we only consider the lowest possible LCOE.

As the Statista.com article states:

>>Rooftop solar photovoltaic installations on residential buildings have the highest unsubsidized levelized costs of energy generation in the United States. If not for federal and state subsidies, rooftop solar PV would come with a price tag between 147 and 221 U.S. dollars per megawatt hour.

At any rate, the LCOE comparison between residential rooftop solar and nuclear is irrelevant to the main issue. The main issue is that if we want to subsidize a renewable energy source, why should we subsidize rooftop solar when we could subsidize utility grade solar or wind? Look at those costs - literally the highest cost estimates for both utility grade solar and wind are lower than the lowest cost estimate for residential rooftop solar. Money is fungible and not unlimited - a dollar that goes to subsidize residential rooftop solar is a dollar that would go much, much further if it was used to subsidize utility grade solar or wind. These residential rooftop solar subsidies are also unusual in that much of the subsidy is often paid by less well-off households to subsidize their wealthier neighbors.
I worked in a company where the codebase of a team took hours to compile so it was compiled every nights.

Interestingly, it may have been beneficial to focus because you had to work the entire day without compiling the code. I suppose that in this situation, fast tests is what you need.
> The US was hardly bombing Syria at all, it just bombed Libya.

I was mostly thinking of Syria and Daesh, and had forgotten about Libya. A non-insignificant chunk of refugees headed to Europe transit through Libya - which didn't use to be the case before Gaddafi was deposed.
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You can only say this right now where there are an abundance of ideas and less skill to implement them. But even implementation requires creative thinking and the ability to generate ideas. Now we want to take away the need for the first part. This is NOT like going from handwriting to printing or radio to TV.

Something new is going on.

I use ChatGPT for work in a limited way. If you haven’t tried it, I suggest that you do. This potentially paradigm shifting technology.
Multi-AV was bad practice in the late 90's, why are we back here again?

I don't know if the situation has changed but most of them used to tell us to not run multiple ones together.
Depends on the glass and failure modes. On a car at highway collision speed? Sure, it's gonna crumble into lumps. In a house window? It'd damn better stay in one piece. Except... when it doesn't.
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Many programmers prefer hourly pay over proper employment. As contractor, I can put hardware, my rent, and leisure travel into expenses. Real taxation is 15% versus 45%. I can have multiple clients...
On their about page:
>OpenStreetMap has a list of (nearly) every bench in the world – but they don’t record whether there is an inscription on it.

Weird since OpenStreetMap does have an inscription=* key, which could be combined with the historic=memorial and memorial=bench tags. So what the site does could very well be achieved with OpenStreetMap alone.
> I never wanted or needed my convenience language to try to be a C++ replacement

Strange as that is one of the reasons why Julia exists - fast Python.

> and the hodgepodge of syntax I see when I look at Julia samples is nauseating.

I honestly like the syntax. OTOH I dislike Pythons syntax somewhat.
Yes controlnet will be used in the next version. For this one we couldn't get it working in time.
Dude I'm just asking for studies backing up your position. You can't provide that, and I'm starting to think it's because it doesn't exist. I'm not gonna buy and read some non-peer-reviewed book by some random person. I'm sure this one person is the fringe "climate change isn't a big deal" climatologist, I know those exist, reading their book won't convince me that they're not on the fringe which is what this whole conversation is about.

I'm done here. Keep living in your fantasy bubble where climate change is no big deal, keep ignoring the 99.9% of climate scientists who say it's a big deal; after all you have a book from the 0.01% to back you up. I clearly won't convince you about anything, and you certainly wont convince me by pointing to non-peer-reviewed writings from individuals in that 0.01%. The fact that that's the best you've got is evidence enough.
The paper title is clickbait and therefore the HN comments are focused on various low-effort reactionary noise, but it seems like an interesting study.

I would not be surprised to find StackOverflow usage dropped significantly because of ChatGPT. It's simply a much more effective tool for getting help with typical programming problems. Not as good of a resource for expert-level or architectural advice, but that's okay with me. Basic "debugging via internet" is much easier to do with an interactive service with lots of knowledge.

It's often pretty helpful just pasting an entire error message with backtrace into ChatGPT and seeing what it thinks.
Sorry, I should have said, but yes it is QEMU which is the default.
If you want to measure the standard of living there a much better indicators than GDP per capita for that.

PPP is also a deeply flawed concept because comparing the quality of goods and services in the context of different consumption patterns. However if you really want to use you should look at median income (with social transfers etc.) rather than GDP.
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Ask HN: Why are 30% of New HN submissions marked [dead]?
Is there an increase of submissions being marked [dead]?
Currently 30% of New is marked as dead. https://imgur.com/a/aDzXfdx

I don't remember it ever being that high?
The stats comparison is of the US and the whole of Europe.

The difference between states is big but you go on to say that it's as big as the difference between two European countries. Your comparison only points out Europe is as least as diverse as the US and still has a significantly higher life expectancy.
> Still, if PPP GDP increases, with all else being equal (eg. stable population) it would imply the standard of living is increasing.

With some important caveats:

1. Balance of trade. The goods and services in the poorer nation are worth less, comparatively. Any trade with the richer nation will lead to a wider balance of trade deficit. This causes all kinds of structural economic and budget problems in the long term.

2. Foreign purchasing power. Customers have to substitute goods and services away from the richer nation to poorer nations. If one’s preferred television, for example, is produced in the richer nation, these will become more expensive, and will force consumers to purchase other options. This is especially acute in cases where a nation has a de facto monopoly on certain industries.

In reality, both nominal and PPP GDP figures are important to monitor for different reasons.
Do you think the writers wanted to work on an adaptation of a franchise they hated? Producers care more about targeting an existing market than taking any risks, even if the result is a mediocre show.
Do tell, I'm sure you're right, AFAIK, only forth seems to embed a parser in its compiler.
> Could you summarize the idea behind this?

The concept is momentum trading or trending following strategy. It was very popular in the 70s and 80s. Richard Dennis, the prince of pit, his famous turtle trading methodology is also one of them. And many market wizards, like Ed Seykota and others, during that period also employed this concept.

Trending following strategy will work, but for a while. There is a season for it.

My idea behind weeklycharts.org is not to "get rich fast". It is to know the market. And to know who is trending now?

For example, I know that "Coinbase" and "Tesla" are trending now. Or Semiconductor, software and auto market is trending now. And it up to you to do your next step. Check it up, use fundamental strategy, or Darvas' box theory, or Richard Dennis' turtle strategy or any counter-trend strategy.
> Weaveworks ignite/footloose are also good but don’t quite scratch my itch.

Are these still going? They seem a bit dead to me.