skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing how IR35 actually reshaped the ecosystem - not just in terms of tax compliance, but in terms of who's allowed to profit from delivering services.

It's not about preventing companies from treating people like employees. In fact, post-IR35, it enabled exactly that - but with fewer rights. Now, individuals can still be engaged for long-term, full-time work, as long as they go through an umbrella company and give up both autonomy and the ability to run a business. The result is employment in all but name, with none of the legal protections, and often less pay due to umbrella fees and unreimbursed business costs.

You're also wrong to suggest that independents weren't competing with the likes of Accenture or Deloitte. In practice, they absolutely were - especially in the public sector. Individual consultants and small firms were frequently:

- Delivering the same work at lower cost and higher quality

- Auditing or overseeing work delivered by big firms

- Winning smaller-scale, high-trust engagements directly with departments that didn't need an army of suits and a 200-page PowerPoint.

This did threaten the margin-heavy model of large consultancies, and they did lobby for IR35 and the subsequent reforms to de-risk their position. What IR35 achieved was to push out small, agile operators by making them legally and commercially "difficult" to work with - not because they were "tax dodging", but because they lacked the compliance resources and political access to fight back.

Meanwhile, large firms were exempt from these concerns. They can place workers with clients indefinitely without IR35 scrutiny, because the worker is not the owner of the delivery company. That's the loophole. The exact same working pattern is treated as fine if the profit flows to Deloitte, and suspicious if it flows to a one-person or small, workers owned limited company.

This isn't about "6-month gigs needing umbrellas" - it's about eliminating small, independent service providers from public sector procurement pipelines. It's about monopolising access to taxpayer money. And calling that "ensuring proper employment classification" is naive at best, and disingenuous at worst.

IR35 didn't restore fairness. It restructured the market to favour large corporations and removed one of the few viable routes working professionals had to operate independently and build something of their own.
But this also runs in the browser. Using HTML and Javascript. Except now it's done slightly differently in a way that's easier for browsers to optimize, if done well.

WebAssembly and Rust may be massive overkill for most web applications, but so is React or Vue or whatever Javascript framework is popular these days. When the inevitable rewrite happens, we might as well enjoy the benefits of the new, faster-than-the-old-evolved-moloch web UI.

If anything the move from the old system (React+WebAssembly) to the new one (Rust+minimal JS+WebAssembly) will make the web application itself smaller and easier to grasp.
Similar to the misconception that Earth's mantle is liquid. It isn't, but time is deep enough for solid rock to flow.
Any examples? This sounds interesting to me.
Just to make sure we're on the same page here, this is the app that lets me move a highlighted rectangle using a controller with 300ms latency to select the next episode of Reacher, right?
I don’t know how to understand your comment. The goal of Slay the Spire is to climb all the way to the heart while picking cards and beating it, preferably on A20 - all the other difficulty levels being basically a tutorial leading to the real game. There is no moment involving all the players of the world and the game is generally very slow so I’m a bit lost.
Could you give an example or two of “more than that”?
My experience with Flutter applications in the browser is absolutely terrible. Rather unfortunate, as the things Flutter promised would make it excellent for web applications like these.

The concept behind the way these platform renders is very similar, so the new Amazon UI may be terrible as well, but I wouldn't expect whoever made the GUI framework they use now to make the same mistakes Flutter made.

Edit: after looking into this some more, it looks like the approach Amazon took is quite different from most Rust UI libraries. They have written their own framework that basically re-implements React but entirely on the WebAssembly side. I don't think it works by throwing a <canvas> onto the screen and implementing a browser rendering engine in JS+WASM like Flutter does. They also seem to target native code where they do all the rendering themselves, but probably faster because they control all the layers and don't need to build a general-purpose UI engine for their video player with extra steps.
Million dollar "dinners' seem to help.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
> At this point, everyone is assuming AI will resolve to a "winner-take-most" game that is all about network effect, scale, barriers to entry and such

I don't understand why people believe this: by settling on "unstructured chat" as the API, it means the switching costs are essentially zero. The models may give different results, but as far a plugging a different one in to your app, it's frictionless. I can switch everything to DeepSeek this afternoon.
Eh, I don't really see that.

Crawling the web has a huge moat because a huge number of sites have blocked 'abusive' crawlers except Google and possibly Bing.

For example just try to crawl sites like Reddit and see how long before you're blocked and get a "please pay us for our data" message.
Because they can’t do it, and will be sued, to my understanding. I think you’re trying to make the admins look good.
Perhaps we're reading gp's comment differently. I don't think he's telling your friend she should be wearing this Vacheron Constantin (or any luxury watch) instead of her Apple watch. He's rather defending its achievement in engineering and craftsmanship despite everything it does being trivial for a smart watch. I read it as appreciation rather than a sales pitch.
> Project 2025 is something that nobody believes in.

Except, you know, the people who came up with it. And then got put into power.
You don’t think there are people on HN preferring to win over complying with the law?
I'm pretty sure it can last indefinitely as long as you keep growing and don't sabotage yourself with massive tarrifs
Tariffs Will Hammer Solo Stove. Its Amish-Made Rival Is Ready.
> I think a large portion of HN commenters are unaware of the consumer demand for these features.

I am skeptical. I mean, my day job is listening to end users and facilitating their needs. I haven't yet fielded a need that could be filled by Copilot or Gemini or the dozen AI elements that rearranged their app and forced them to form new muscle memory.

Mostly, these things land as the bazillionth bit of clutter to be worked around. Because they were not asked for, their presence is counterproductive.
Just about every old platform seems to have a bunch of people building hardware stuff like this and writing new software. For 1980s stuff it's just all a lot simpler than it was back then, and what was cutting edge at the time is hobbyist tier today.

For software, you have modern computer power to bring to bear on the problem. Assembly/compilation/precomputation/prototyping is far quicker, and the debugging possibilities with an emulator are way ahead of anything you'd ever have had at the time. For hardware items there are freely available design tools, many cost-effective options for small production run manufacture, and for stuff like the Amiga (where nothing happens at more than about 16 MHz) logic analyzers are cheap.

And the Internet makes discussing things a lot easier too!
> Yes, however there is little urban planning for whole metro

Paris biggest infrastructure project for the past 20 years is called "Grand Paris" and revolve entirely around the whole metro. Actually there is literally no urban planning not involving the whole metro. And yes, lowering the speed limit involved multiple consultations with the prefect and the region because it impacts the whole metro.

Considering Paris without its metropole doesn’t make sense. Paris intra-muros is ridiculously small, one eightieth of London, 80% of San Francisco.
Excel and Word from Office 97.
Well jayd did the same thing as that small company (which I joined in 2011 when it was small and left in 2019 when it was not so small), run ejabberd to solve a problem. In our case, Erlang subsumed pretty much the rest of our service over time. When I started, chat was Erlang, but status messages, registration, and contacts were PHP with MySQL, media was PHP (with no database), but those all got sucked into Erlang with mnesia because it was better for us.

But I guess it doesn't always work that way. FB chat was built on ejabberd and then migrated away.
gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/solo-stove-breeo-fire-pi...
Microsoft rolls out AI screenshot tool dubbed 'privacy nightmare'
> Elastic is good enough.

Probably the most praise I’ve ever seen about Elastic.

I do respect the amount of power and utility, and it’s definitely a workhorse, but it’s like a horse with one human leg, a bad eye, extra bones but also not enough bones, and a French accent but only knows Korean. Once you get used to the fact that you can’t do what you intend to, but you can do what elastic wants, it becomes a lot more manageable.
It doesn't matter how much you manipulate people if they cannot afford to get married buy a home and raise kids they will know.
Sabine is skeptical [0]. Is it really true that there a no theories that are proven or dicarded with this experiment, and that the Chinese have plans to do it much faster? Her video is pretty damning.

[0] https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2025/04/why-cerns-new-coll...
My Volvo XC60 T8 is not even a full EV but after 5 years of ownership the brakes on this 2200kg, 400bhp SUV are only 10% worn - it's all thanks to regenerative braking with the EV motor. It definitely makes a massive impact on how quickly the brakes wear out(as in - much much much less than in a normal car).
Yes, and the difference is incredible. It leads to a much less frustrating experience when navigating around the app overall.
The rich have always blamed others for the growing wealth gap.

Americans often point to outside forces instead of holding the government accountable.

Years of messaging have trained people to support tariffs, spending cuts, and even anti-immigrant policies—despite the need for labor.

The real issue isn't spending, it's taxation. And we've let China ignore WTO rules for too long. Trump should've targeted tariffs at China alone—but he is the president, not me.
So you think it’s sane to do nothing and wait till it’s happening when they are explicitly saying they are looking for ways to make it happen? Really?

At this when they say something absurdly unhinged and unthinkable and if you still don’t believe they will try it.. well.. maybe you’re in the market for a bridge?
Oh, my bad. I thought that the names and pictures of the deceased 66-year-old man and 16-year-old boy would be enough.

I guess we can brush this one under the carpet, right? Nothing to see here. Workplace fatalities are a serious issue, but not so serious to you that it is worth bridging that gap. Maybe I’m wrong. Feel free to correct me if that is the case.

On the other hand, I acknowledge that men are disproportionately affected by this issue and that it deserves serious attention from both left and right. I would wholeheartedly support their demand of better working conditions from their employers and representatives, and advise them to contact the media so that the general public can be informed of that and, who knows, maybe support unionization if their demands are not met. Do you think this is a reasonable stance, or do you see any problems with that?
I’ve used it on the backend to validate and clean up tens of thousands of documents from Elasticsearch queries, and the time spent in Zod was very much noticeable
I don't think you're allowed to make a hypothetical case for something and then decide it's a "woke" idea or not. That's like attacking your opposition for a fictional reason, which is a pretty common fallacy in these divisive subjects.
The point of PDF is document representation. It looks the same. This allows the government to assume an act of forgery when a non-governmental org attempts presenting documents looking like government documents. You can't do that with HTML. PDF with text source sounds perfect.
I completely agree with this evaluation, I dropped it as well fairly early on.
I would not expect automation. I would expect cherry picking because it’s just a publicity thing rather than an actual civic minded goal.
2 ignores all the damage caused in the meanwhile

1 is wrong because if he wanted to decouple us from China he'd lower tarrifs on other countries especially close allies
There's also zod mini now too https://v4.zod.dev/packages/mini
The Standard Range model 3 weighs 3,582 lbs, while the Long Range and Performance trims both weigh 4,065 lbs.

The BMW 3 Series has a curb weight ranging from 3,536 to 4,180 pounds
> However, there are other problems, like the software supply chain security.

It's not a problem with Rust specifically though. It's not unique to Rust.

> Also in Rust people tend to write very small libraries and that increases the number of dependencies. However, many still not follow SemVer et. al and packages tend to be unstable too.

Don't use random unpopular crates maintained by unknown people without reviewing the code.
We made s390x builds of all our tools (http://www.auxon.io) for an early customer that insisted on running their org on a leased machine from IBM.

It was actually a pretty good experience. It mostly just worked.
I thought that’s what half of America wanted just 6 months ago?
Brb just applying to YC with a kilo fork which offers $21 in free usage and solemnly swears not to innovate even harder
Seeing as we’re talking Paris, there are plenty of Twizys around. Not light light, but a third the weight of even a new Renault 5 EV. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy
Outside of Gmail and photos and signing in, I've completely stopped using Google as a result of their AI and advertising practices. My network blocks all Google advertising by default.

I already run a home server that backs up photos, Immich, but it isn't quite stable enough yet. When it is I'll ditch gphotos too.

I could just forward my Gmail and use my own domain, but that doesn't make much difference.

But Google and Microsoft are just annoying to deal with. All so my information can be their payday. Not worth it.
Actually pretty neat how quickly this joke became anachronistic
> But you can't go everywhere at anytime

This is a solved problem in countries with modern public transportation. In Japan for example you can go across the entire country without needing a single car, and indeed it's both cheaper and more available than doing so while driving. If you need to go somewhere really far out of the way that is not reachable by foot or bicycle, then you can rent a car.

All of this results in a system that is far cheaper for you and far more open for the average individual.
Here's the sub-heading from the article you linked to:

"The story: Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway. The truth? It’s a little more complex"
I didn’t know about the flashing. Lots of people use rail barrels that fill from a downspout to water their gardens. I wonder what kind of lead exposure that could create.
they cut a couple of billions out of 4% of the budget. the rest is just big random numbers that get revised down with every fact check.
Why would you want an article on someone that excludes context from their most impactful and most visible decade? It's true that an author today, who knows about his 2024 conviction for fraudulently overstating the value of his properties, would bring a much more skeptical eye to claims about what a success they were. Did he seem to be making better deals in 2010 because he was better at it then, or because nobody was looking as closely at whether they were really good?
I think the basis of the claim is that glass doesn't have the same kind of phase transition that a crystalline solid would. It just sort of gradually becomes more liquid-like as you heat it.
I think its crystal clear there is no actual plan.
RooFlow – Memory Bank System for Roo Code with Footgun Power
“Well, it’s still 145%, but Apple and Nvidia are exempted because their stock prices might take a hit.”

That's a massive misread. You are confusing the direction of influence between secondary public stock markets and federal executive orders.

The tariffs are supposed to strengthen self sufficiency, and discourage imports of stuff the US can do on their own.

Chip manufacturing, (which by the way is often only the manufacturing and not the design or IP of the chips), is an exception for whatever reason, may be labour costs, but it may also be that chips are a mineral heavy and diverse product, so it's one of the few products where autarky isn't feasible or very rewarding.

And there would be situations without exemptions where the US may have been incentivized to import the raw materials and rebuild megachip factories, of which there are only like a dozen in the world, creating a huge output inefficiency due to political reasons on two fronts.

Exceptions are reasonable.
I have a few Fiskars tools because the look cool and expensive, they are OK I guess but not as "sturdy" as some of my favorite tools.

Fiskars uses modern industrial design and modern materials, but not every cool new design works out.
The fact that you are saying they are trivial to solve means you probably need more visibility on your system. Reliable reconnect was the nightmare we saw regularly.

Unfortunately, I can't go into much detail on the mobile battery stuff, but I can give you some hints. If you do some reading on how antenna on phones work combined with websockets heartbeat ping/pong and you should get the idea.
>The problem is the many cities in the West are objectively terrible compared to cities elsewhere in the world.

If anything that's more of an American problem rather than a Western one. There's plenty nice cities in Europe.
I've never had a Plex Pass and I currently use ErsatzTV through Plex daily. I also tried out Tunarr this afternoon and got it working. Though I'll be sticking with ErsatzTV.
> One might think that the only process due to such a person would be the opportunity to contest

Well a federal judge thought otherwise. The government ignored him and did what they wanted anyway. That’s your definition of due process?

> Am I the only one that notice

So your comment is actually sarcastic?
I would be interested to know what your definition of free and open source software is.

But for the record Bitcoin and it's cousins are the exact definition of free and open source software as it is both free and open source. Just because you don't like it doesn't change the facts.
Its just my personal non-tech network is switching to chatgpt on many accounts. Your network can be different of course.
If this is in reference to the French scientist that was denied entry, that was fake news:

"The French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device from Los Alamos National Laboratory— in violation of a non-disclosure agreement—something he admitted to taking without permission and attempted to conceal.

Any claim that his removal was based on political beliefs is blatantly false."

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/20/french-researcher-den...
The plan: What if we ran the richest, more powerful country on history as if it were a giant meme stock geared to benefit those in charge?
In learning and intelligence, forgetting is often just as importance as remembering. This idea of remembering everything is just another piece of spaghetti tossed at the wall.
this reminds me of the time I got on a train to Kingsley instead of King's Cross, because the train board only said "Kings" and I didn't think to check the boards/platform number in a rush.
Regulations are complicated and a double edge sword, they inevitably introduce inefficiency and barriers, so the payoff needs to be greater.
For example, regulations about mandating companies to delete your data - wonderful. A great win for California which is otherwise quite an overregulated states.
On the flip side, in the UK, you may need a license for that television, or a license for that knife. That's the political thing with regulations. If a politician says "regulations sucks" most would tend to agree as far as that TV license, or getting a permit for a particular fence.

Some regulations spit in the face of logic. It's as if the legislators said, "let's make being sick illegal! Checkmate, modern medicine, now everyone is healthy!" Such style of thinking is erosive of trust towards the political establishment and government.
I'm not going to lie about it. I feel safest of all in my car. I can lock my car doors. It's the only way to live. In cars.
The article asserts that the tablet is far older than Homer.

"It not only reinforces the geopolitical dynamics of the Late Bronze Age but also offers an unprecedented literary fragment, hinting at a local Luwian poetic tradition about the fall of Troy, predating Homer by centuries."

Edit: the date on the article is April 1, referenced above.

I upvoted you, as I do not agree to disregard polite conversation.
Sure, but I know what it means. Anecdotally, I've found for a lot of these borrowed phrases, unless the people I'm talking to are already familiar with family, I still have to explain what I'm talking about and how to apply it if I want to be understood.

And indeed, much irony.
But the fact that EV brakes don't wear at nearly the same rate as ICE brakes still stands.

My EV6 (pretty heavy car) manual explicitly says "you should probably do some hard breaking from moderate speed to prevent corrosion on the brake discs".

Because 90+% of the time when you press the brake pedal the friction brakes aren't being used at all, it's all regen.
The goals are petty profit, some extortion, some illegal trading. Destroying 80% of the value of the US isn't meaningful if he gets to own a lot more of the remainder. Everything is profit for the broke real estate conman of 2015.
Assuming you mean phone, I think every app I use is more than 10 years old. The app ecosystem has not been worth exploring in many years for me.

I bet most of the app installs these days are just kids tapping misleading ads they see in bad games.
Bluesky has a real problem with outrage addiction; it's myopic to pin the blame on Adobe.
I have seen country clubs only in movies. Do those places really exist and are they as stereotypical as one might expect?
The design of Coruscant was quite explicitly inspired by the look of Metropolis (1927). So it would be weirder if the vibes weren't similar
They're called reciprocal but the Chinese tariffs on US goods looks like they're gonna stay. That and dumping our bonds doesn't bode well for the rest of us.
The bottom.
Chats frequently turn into a tree for me. It offers N options and I explore one of them down the line until it doesn’t work. Trying to get it back to an earlier branch is usually impossible, so starting a new chat is often the only way to approach the other options.
Mm.

Now that I see it in real life I don't know how I feel about it. It doesn't feel safe when I see a Twizy, but when I see these cars in my mind I see them on Swedish bicycle roads.

The whole thing would probably require a total transformation of city travel.