skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and I like the point in general.

But we know in which world we bring humans in.

Climate change, rassism, bulling etc.
My home country also regulates this scenario - one-man companies with ~single client - for businesses strongly. This is hidden employment. How would it be beneficial to anyone?

- the subcontractor doesn't get any social security. Has to provide everything for himself from the private sector. And pensions (however meager). Theoretically he's free to have multiple clients or vary prices but I guess for most this is a pipe dream and they are dependent. For some tax dodging he gives up the whole legal safety net of being employed. Based on your contract you are freely exchangeable.

- the contracting company has more freedoms with getting/tossing employees, although loses a safety net of subcontractor suddenly leaving or changing prices.

- the government loses oversight of actual corporate structures.

Instead of fixing the flaws in the social system, hidden employment just throws it in the bin because haha less taxes, more money and freedom.
Yeah I know discs still exist for now, I'm talking about when they suddenly don't anymore. Hopefully that's far far into the future.

And as for Spotify exploiting artists, I don't know how accurate this[1] is, but if it is then it seems pretty fair to me? Maybe slightly on the lower end of what I had expected, but not that far off.

If you have a million monthly listeners (and today you have access to over 574M monthly active users[2] via Spotify) then you're making $5,000/month in static income, meaning you have zero hours of work and still have enough to live on (depending on the size of the band I guess).

The notion that artists (or movie stars for that matter) should be making 10x that or more is a little ridiculous if you ask me.

1: https://purecalculators.com/spotify-money-calculator

2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/367739/spotify-global-ma...
Maybe you chose the proper books. I had a terrible experience with them.
It it really was a certificate from Microsoft, why would it not be bundled with Windows?
>I also remember watching some shows like the first two seasons but then only to find out the third season was licensed by another streaming service lol.

Fun!

https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-...
Firefox is not really less hostile now. You can't even install and maintain local add-ons anymore. You can either install them temporary, and they are removed when the app closes. Or you must upload and sign them to their store.
Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor
The point I was making is that the claimed "exploit" is completely outside the bounds of what a reasonable person would do.

It's like complaining that a garden hose can be used to fill a car with carbon dioxide so we should recommend against using hoses in gardens.
I didn't realise that completing a grid without putting any flag was a challenge people would take. That's very good to know, thank you. So yes, maybe I'll formalize it, that would make sense.

And I believe that the context menu appearing is only on MacOS? The closest I have is a mac book, and I can't reproduce the problem on it unfortunately. But it looks like I can reproduce it on linux/chrome, with the browser dev tools set to mobile, so hopefully that fix will also solve the problem on MacOS. I'll report back when that's deployed.

For the emoji, at the moment, you can see a scared face when you click on an uncovered tile, and take about 1sec to release the mouse. So when you're hesitating for instance. And I think I'm happy with how it is at the moment, I'll take care of all the other bugs mentioned here as a higher priority.
Meet Me in the Eternal City
So it's more sustainable to have two cars instead of one?

For an EV most of the emissions are created during production, so the less production the better. It's best to have one sufficiently flexible car, even if it's bigger, since that minimises production emissions.

Also the large car is not just used to take the kids on vacations, but typically all the time.
Up until now it has been growing. What you call "peak in the next decades" are just UN projections.

And that position can still be reassessed in the next 30 years.

I am still not convinced that a globally aging population is a big issue in the long term.
Show HN: ML-driven Kubernetes pod auto-scaler
What is the use case for UUIDv4/v7 when bigint is faster and uses less storage space?
Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution
By not hiring junior devs, they're missing out on a large chunk of those of us who spend their workday raging at technology on HN.
fair enough. And yes, someone else mentioned here that it's indeed a challenge some players take. So that makes sense, I'll leave it as is. But maybe something's up with the score, or I should only save them for intermediate and expert mode? I'll have a think.
I'm about to wrap up my 3rd year as a one-person company (https://www.exaresearch.com) specializing in spacecraft flight dynamics and space situtational awareness (SSA). I basically do custom orbit determination things. Super fun. I spent 30+ years in the business before going out on my own. It's going great, primarily because I have a large network in a niche field.
I went there today accidentally. My personal favorite one:

I have an automation that is triggered by a door open/close sensor that I have attached to the flushing arm in my toilet with a custom made 3d printed mount for the sensor, which triggers a script on the server which connects to the chromecast speaker in the bathroom and plays the final fantasy 7 battle victory theme whenever someone flushes the toilet. It is perhaps my favorite part of my home.
Vote for Qatar since they offer most visa-free access.
> Having kids is the hardest thing anyone can ever do

Ok I'll bite. It's not anywhere near the hardest thing anyone can ever do. It's very easy to get started, most people just do it day by day, it's integrated with life, and throwing in the towel is kinda frowned upon. I'm sorry your kid had colic, my first had the same although not for as long and my second would just scream in bed when she was a little older so I'd stay and read and doze while holding her hand. But it wasn't hard like if I decided to write a book or climb a mountain or something.
Yup. People wasted plenty of time before smart phones. “My kid is always watching videos on the iPad” just replaced “My kid is glued to the TV”.
Note that the neighbor’s dad does eventually get a name, as he assists as a birthday party and then grumbles about how they aren’t doing it correctly.
Whenever these things are talked about in percentages it is worth bringing it down to dollars to make sure the effort is worth it - the average “interest” on a return is probably about $100 (4K return/2 * 5% - tax).

$100 isn’t nothing but it’s not everything either.
I wonder if moths being 'soft' is also an adaptation.

Is there any study that moth 'soft' covering is also a sound absorber, to allude bats. I didn't see it mentioned here.
> People keep repeating that discs are dying but so many releases are coming out there is way more than I can buy.

That’s the issue I think. I listened to music from ~1000 albums last year. At $10 a pop that’s $10k which is just not possible. Spotify is really the only way that listening like that is enabled.
Thanks! I'm trying to do more essay writing there [1]. Most indie makers seem to have some content strategy where they share their story. I avoid social media and don't desire to become a Youtuber, so I'm focusing on writing as a content channel. I'm focusing essays on my creative process, inspiration, and specific experiences as an operator - the stuff I want to read. I'm avoiding prospective predictions about the future, being negative (an actual self-imposed rule), and talking about things that feel more like theory than practice.

The next piece I plan to publish tomorrow will be a recap of a talk I gave over the weekend, covering how most of our knowledge work practices come from factories, and ways software engineers are at the forefront of changing those industrial-era practices.

P.S. - if you're ever in NYC, come join for a dinner of Dimes Square Ventures [2], which is a little community I run for local indie makers (using Booklet!)

[1] https://contraption.co/essays

[2] https://dimessquareventures.com
The convention has been in Las Vegas for decades so I suspect they know ALL the options anyway.
User flags are flags users apply to a story.
Yeah I really wish there was a global history of my plays that I could look at.
you can generate them anywhere, and not guess others
Something being the highest value resource I have doesn’t mean that it’s actually valuable. There’s a highest value turd of all the turds in my septic tank but it doesn’t mean that turd is valuable.
Why would a "regular consumer" want to run another operating system in a VM?
In my experience it's a third option - that optimistic and pessimistic people have different experiences and evidence.

So when people say they are an optimist, they mean "in general the evidence that I have leads me to a more positive conclusion than most people"
I was self employed from 2009 to 2018. I was an embedded programmer / debugger and I had two major sources of income debugging engineering development boards for two boutique companies. I got the first gig from a friend who worked at one, the second by spamming the embedded world conference, and a handful more through linkedin. I couldn’t really travel because I needed a lab with test equipment. But I did double my previous salary north of 200k and I worked as much or as little as needed. It ended up being an average 40hr work week overall. The one thing I missed out on was equity. A decade without bonuses, RSUs, or options really set me back compared to my peers. Plus I hated having to stress about finding new contracts or if I was going to get cut loose. Finally I quit and went back to a big employer and I’m much happier to not have that financial stress and to have equity again.
Agreed, it is a bit complex.

I've looked into KaiOS, but I read that its future looks murky at best. In principle though, I like this idea.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/15wn0co/is_kaios_dea...
A studio logo and some piracy warning and ads for other movies and opening animations and...
> It is a bit worrying that both freedom and security are thought 'fanatical' by some.

I'm afraid any discourse that's similar to religion in how it's done is 'fanatical' for me. No matter if it's about $DEITY, blockchain, "AI" or freedom.

Edit: oh, forgot Oppenheimer and Barbie. Haven't seen them and never will. I can't stand cults in my entertainment either.
https://archive.is/q9Xtv
That video has my heartrate up to something very unhealthy. That is absolutely incredible.
But how we lived like kings during those few years of the venture-capital, antitrust, low-interest rate phenomena.
I found the following 3 measures quite helpful to make my smartphone less intrusive in my daily life:

1: I don't bring my smartphone into my bedroom. My bedroom is a personal and intimate space, no need for the outside world to barge in via smartphone.

2: I disable or silence every notification I get. The only time my phone draws my attention is if I am getting a phone call, my wife texts me, or if I get a Pagerduty.

3: I uninstalled or disabled all social media apps.

Number 2 had the biggest impact on my family and work life. When I spend time with my kids, my phone only rarely interrupts me.
Fwiw, my 2022 IP67-rated Samsung phone failed after a few mild water splashes recently. It's supposed to be resistant to 1m submersion for 30 minutes, but failed with much less water exposure.

I was stuck without essential functions until I could get it repaired or replaced. Luckily I was able to get it opened, cleaned and dried and a new screen fitted by a local repair shop within 2 days.

Without my phone, I can't pay things on my credit card sometimes (some payments require phone app 2FA), and I can't login to several of my bank accounts (they use authentication by mobile app even for web-based banking on my laptop).
I find quite problematic when capitalism is driven by fiat money. Because then there is no limit, until something terrible wrong happens. Or... Someone brings a better financial system.
It's great that it exists, but I'm priced out.
I think it's a reflection on intelligence overall, not just artificial intelligence.
Very few people in first world countries though, will be able to balance or surpass negative environmental effects of all the usual things included in raising a child, even with activist lives. Neither will their children.
I agree with your posts(s), but conda is different to pyenv, poetry and similar tools (rye, hatch etc.) in that unlike the others which only manage Python, it (tries) to manage your whole environment. Can the others manage R packages (because your using r2py or reticulate)? What about installing pandoc? Or latex?

I suspect we're going to continue in having churn in what people seem to be calling project/environment managers simply because there's a bunch of possible workflows (given the various possible deployment scenarios), and there's enough library support that starting your own is a weekend project (and then all the corner cases are discovered and you make a choice that works for some but not others and the cycle begins anew). conda seems to have dominated its niche (I haven't seen activepython nor enthought in years), but I suspect that part of the ecosystem is more naturally stable.
> Being self employed, but only for a single customer, is false self-employment

This is exactly what happens in Poland and everyone involved feels very smart for cheating the system. That's also why software from Poland is such a tacky crap despite so many "talents". The software professionals have no leverage to push back, they only can walk away. The irresistibile benefit is that one can write off buying a car into operating costs, so the dream of PREMIUM GERMAN CAR prevails over doing anything creative.
How Oregon Became a Linchpin for the Country's Drug Policies
You pay tax on those overpayments.

But they only pay that if they don’t return it that year (for normal W-2 employees).
Yandex is keeping their Russian business.

This is Yandex's European arm divesting itself from the Search+Mail business they have in Russia.

In the press release, this was even mentioned - that Yandex's Russian management (aka most of it's management) would be buying out their Russian operations.
The format has a special color for it, you can mix inverse pixels anywhere in a classic windows cursor IIRC
https://archive.ph/2024.02.05-113700/https://www.nytimes.com...
Getting laptops where the hardware actually works all the time.
Joining Ellipses with Matching Tangents
Chill dude we like the technology.
The IT sector in Poland (again) is a booming one, and most of the services are effectively exported, as we're talking outsourcing.

I guess it translates into the lack of political will to curb the practice, too, as the government would risk that self-employed programmers (and whatnot) may not fall in line, but mostly log out of the system instead, registering their companies abroad, for example. I guess the government isn't eager to start this cat-and-mouse game, preferring a smaller slice of a bigger pie.

There are even some extra incentives on the top of the flat income tax rate (which is an option for all one-man companies, regardless of the sector)...

Like the "IP Box" tax relief, which drives the income tax rate from the regular 19% all the way down to 5%, as long as you get your services classified as "research and development". It takes some patience and loads of legal paperwork, which you obviously have to pay for (the latter, that is), but it's well worth it in the end.
I also found https://github.com/vanviegen/postgresqlite which is a similar thing but a python interface
I'm an early anti smartphone person. I have an old RAZR v6 and love it.

For starters:
Don't bring your phone to the grociers, to walks, turn off all kinds of notifications, read mail once a day, or week. All kinds of apps that require your attention should be removed/muted.
Developers are regular consumers as well, not everyone wants to bring work to home just to make their laptops work as designed.
> which makes me more pleasant.

Did you get this opinion from others, or is this your own rationalization?
Mat I ask why? Why do users have that right?
How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork
Well part of the issue is the statement you just made about blue is a totally different one than the statement I made.
If enough people need port forwarding, VPNs will support port forwarding
I wouldnt trust this data that much.

I recently noticed many github accounts which only seem to contain solutions for exercises in a programming courses, iirc most from from india.

This seems to match this survey.

My 2 cts, probably this just shows countries where schools prefer to use github over their own infrastructure, or else students being creative in sharing their solutions outside of school.
Sounds like it would be a great talk for a polyglot event like the Carolina Code Conference…
Apple was almost bankrupt, they had to play nice for a split second.
Yes, You Should Prefer Written Communication
Agree with all.

> ...biggest bottleneck is curation

Yes and: I conluded ~1989 that curation was biggest value-add. A surplus of information ("infoglut" h/t BYTE Magazine) creates a scarcity of intepretation.

Source: Was a "thread blaster" on CompuServe. Ran hub for modest niche BBS network. aka "Sysadmin". Spent most of my time moderating, filtering, summarizing, intepretting, operations, etc. Basically proto-journalism.

Every day, I'm flabberghasted that social media forfeited that job/roll to recommenders. Algorithmic hate machines vs curation. Completely misses the point. Is proactively harming people and society. For the banality of mere profits.

> ...X community notes

A welcome innovation. Delighted it seems to be working. Very surprised it happened during Musk's reign.

Would appreciate any links, cites about communite notes, if you have them handy. TIA.
You can generate the UUID in your application and insert it, UUIDv7 can be used in any UUID column in Postgres. UUIDv7 natively in Postgres are coming in v17: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4388/.
Seriously. Anyone over the age of about 18 should spend a bit of time going through them, there are many useful things (zoom part of screen is a powerful help on macOS for example).
I fully agree reducing CO2 emissions should have a high priority. Which for fossil fuels would mean a quite substantial tax on the fuel volume, but for EV's it's trickier since electricity is used for many other things, and electricity production is already taxed for CO2 emissions (or cap and trade etc). There's no particular reason, from an emissions perspective at least, why electricity for EV's should be taxed higher than, say, for domestic use. If anything, an extra tax on electricity could be counter-productive if it causes more people to prefer ICE cars.

Which implies that a vehicle tax should then be primarily concerned with non energy use types of externalities. And maybe generally funding road construction, and so on. Probably a lot of that is more accurate if the tax is a function of distance driven than a fixed cost, true, assuming you can reliably get that information in a privacy compatible way.
They thought they were doing good: mental health apps under scrutiny
Why are most of the common processors' bit counts powers of 2?
I created a similar toolset using UltiSnips and vimtex, which I demonstrated here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/jtjol5/cinnamon_l...

The dotfiles powering the demo (particularly, the UltiSnips folder) are at my github: https://github.com/ykonstant1/dotfiles
Wouldn’t be hard to get a cursor engraved on a tombstone. “Returned to origin (1,1)”.
Make better choices.

You chose to buy the crappy microwave. You chose that TV. You chose that coffee shop.

As for the car? I'm happy that my taxes aren't being spent on scraping your bloodied remains off the street. But I guess you could buy a car without a seatbelt warning if you're so desperate.
Sidekiq is a work of art. I’m so glad Mike Perham was able to turn it into a nice business. Truly well deserved.
NYPD retires robot from Times Square subway after six months
But it is still not a day.

I have done this for 30-40 years. Yes I can guess better than a junior but still takes time.
I have two, one for work and one for personal
Elon Musk's Simple Killer Break Down on Climate Change
Show HN: Visit the front page of Hacker News on a random day
Hi HN. I was surprised that there wasn't a feature here that lets you go back in time to the front page of Hacker News on a random day...so I made one. http://randomhackernews.com is a simple HTML page that navigates you to the front page of HN on a random day between today and February 19, 2007 (the oldest date I could find with content).

I made this for myself, but figured others may find some interest in it.
https://archive.ph/tZAk3
I don't think you have any idea how much work, luck, work, talent and work it takes to get to a million monthly listens.

"Zero hours of work" - I know artists get underestimated, but this is next level.

Btw, taking the very top .1% of earners in a field, like movie or pop stars, and using their returns to imply that musicians and actors are fairly compensated, is a very silly thing to do. Tbh, as someone who knows a lot of talented and struggling artists (and teachers and janitors and nurses etc), it's revolting.

If you want to give out about overcompensated people why not look at CEO's, like Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO) and his $3.8 BILLION net worth. That's about as clear a signal that there's exploitation happening that you could ever ask for.
Maybe, but it's also encouraging people to move back to pirating.

And as I understood it, the streaming wars are more about not wanting one service to dominate the whole industry (or if there is, it's my streaming service) rather than a co-ordinate plan to extract more money from subscribers.
Please, join the anti-natalist movement. I need more space for the swimming pool in the backyard.
Shouldn't the HN title be *Deno in 2023 (2024)*,

so we know::

- it is not about a discussion of deno being new, relevant or modern in 2023, and

- avoid thinking that the article is from 2023?
I have no clue who this Reagan guy is. But sometimes you don't want to support people.

Music is usually considered art and you are a boring downer of you complain about artists political or personal controversies. That is another thing. And the artist always have the benefit of doubt of the protagonist in the song not being the artist himself.
"Jupyter, the open source notebook tool, added support for JavaScript and TypeScript using Deno. This means data science, visualization, and more can all be done using modern JavaScript and TypeScript and web standards APIs."

I love this! At the same time, who would want to do this, given Python's excellent support for numbers and mathematics? And what about Haskell?
Its kind of ironic that for folks like me that ran screaming away from Java/J2EE to Rails are now seeing questions that assert Ruby/Rails is the new "boring" when it used to be Java. I think this is speaking volumes about the maturity model of the stack and eco-system. For almost any web application you can't go wrong with Rails.

People will knock the performance almost out of habit but there are major internet scale applications out there running this stack. Its horizontally scalable like many other web stacks and I would put developer happiness and ease of use as more important than some theoretical spreadsheet benchmarks.

Many developers just get bored and want to play with something new and shiny. Our industry has spent countless hours reinventing the wheel. I'm not saying there should be one tech stack to rule them all, just that the time spent inventing new frameworks for Resume Driven Development is kinda ridiculous.