skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dangerous now, HMRC have the power to retroactively declare schemes like that illegal and go after back-taxes and penalties. The space used to be rife with those sorts of schemes, I used to get phone calls - "We found your CV on a recruitment site, we understand you're a contractor. How would you like to keep 95% of your gross earnings?"

They seem to have died down a lot now.
It's not always obvious to users that the restaurants listed on these apps are not the real restaurants themselves.
Yeah that's a good idea. Climb onto your roof, onto a notoriously slippery surface, to "clean" said surface off the roof (how exactly are they to do that...?).

That way you can slip on the snow and fall onto not just the snow, but the compacted snow that's now become ice, and not just ice, but the incredibly hard concrete that is your driveway...

Yeah I don't see that ending poorly at all.
That's...exactly what I just said.

It doesn't matter what the miners believe, if the exchanges, applications, and users have moved to the PoS chain. Which is very likely to happen, given the community support for PoS, the scaling coming on that side at around the same time, and the fact that exchanges are already letting users earn returns by staking ETH, while the exchanges take a percentage of profits.
I don’t know this. I have chatted with plenty of Uber drivers who are part timers who don’t know this or think this way about them as well.
There are apps that do everything Uber does except they don't handle the payments - pax pays the driver directly, in cash or by card via QR code. So the company does not transfer any money to the driver. It would be nearly impossible to argue the driver is an employee in this case. Sure, it's harder to collect commissions with this arrangement, but it's possible.
>Maybe there is a market for racing and events where you're only allowed steel-framed, canti brakes, SiS index shift monstrosities?

The closest fit to what you're looking for is the singlespeed category :)
I can definitely see the value in porn; can't say the same thing about bitcoin.
I have evaluated these different options. And by far I prefer Clickhouse when were talking about less than a petabyte of data. It super simple to install and setup. And is a lot faster.
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> Except entertainment, human contact, travel, and anything else you can't produce on your own. Took me a while to realise a wage was selling my labour to buy stuff other people produce. The higher the wage the more leverage I get over other people's production.

These are extremely new concepts (besides human contact, but that you can always have), people use to live differently for 99% of human history. Saying there is no other way than the current way is plain wrong and borderline dangerous. Just talk to your grandparents and you'll feel like they lived on another planet.

Our current lifestyle of unchecked consumption, absorption entertainment 3+ hours a day, traveling to the other side of the country/world thanks to cheap airlines &c. are not the norm, they're an anomaly

> The higher the wage the more leverage I get over other people's production.

While not technically wrong, this is a choice you have to make for yourself. There is more to life than consuming other people's production, be careful not to get trapped in the rat race
In Poland many traditional restaurants did offer delivery through websites such as pyszne.pl and pizzaportal.pl since at least 2010. They hired their own drivers at the time, the switch to 3rd party delivery services happened here fairly recently but restaurant-owned cars are still common.
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It's the same old shit, hansor... no one considers a problem to be "their" problem, right up until it becomes their problem.
It depends how many you have. Microservices can make things like updating dependencies a massive pain (now you have to do it 10 times)
It is true that subsequent c++ evolution de-emphasised OOP, but you are completely right that the original selling point of C++ over C definitely was (Simula style) OOP.
Small anecdote regarding how addiction works:
I took ecstasy on this new year's eve together with my brothers and it felt amazing. It felt like my mind was free and I was way faster at phrasing my mind. Few hours later I went to the bank, got a few hundred euros and tried asking the dealer for a hundred tablets.

That's how crazy ecstasy was for me. I am 100% sure if I would try heroine once I would fall for it, especially because as a tech guy I have the means to sustain it to a deadly degree.
In practice, employers have a business need for having employees with regular work hours.
This is a response to the first sentence of my comment, which I strongly appreciate. But I don't understand how it fits with the rest of my questions?

I understand your friends think a social media website is enough. This doesn't mean they need to accept having a website created for them. It sucks that they have to opt out of local delivery services, but it also sucks I have to opt out of junk mail. I still don't understand where the evil is here? It's legal for people to create websites that look and feel similar to existing websites. If this is a problem let's fix it! if it's not, let's not focus on restaurants?
What's wrong is that Deliveroo is making a profit while exploiting workers, who work for them but don't have worker protections. Other delivery companies do have employees with standard benefits (Just Eat in Spain IIRC) and they provide the same service. It's possible, just less profitable.
By stability I mean the tyre not squirming off sideways under a high-g corner because the pressure is low. Nothing to do with being in or out of the saddle (though I'm assuming you'd be out at this point!)

Agree the price of even mid range bikes is pretty insane though.
I'm doing it as much as i can in userspace, but i do run in to some limitations: thes say if i want to implement a library and i want a debug/developer mode where i can check pointers given to the API by an application i didn't write. In that case i cant wrap that applications memory allocations to keep track of memory.
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With on-premises service a restaurant must hire waiting staff and manage the tables (tablecloth, dishes, cutlery, etc).

Preparing food for takeaway actually saves a lot and that's why restaurants that traditionally offer takeaway in addition to on-premises service often offer 10-15% discount for takeway as a matter of course.

Deliveroo is not "robbing" restaurants if they charge 20%...
This. One million times this.

I’ve been developing for more years than dime if you have lived, and the best thing I’ve heard in years was that Google interviews were requiring developers to understand the overhead of requests.

In addition, they should require understanding of design complexity of asynchronous queues, needing and suffering from management overhead of dead letter, scaling by sharding queues if it makes more sense vs decentralizing and having to have non-transactionality unless it’s absolutely needed.

But not just Google- everyone. Thanks, Mr. Fowler for bringing this into the open.
Yes, things like setString(1, “asd”) and conversely getInt(2) are so beautiful and will never introduce mistakes /s

ORMs are there for mapping objects and well, relations. Most ORMs provide additional features, but at the core they can, and for more complicated queries they should be used with native SQL queries. They are made for OLTP not for OLAP
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Thank you for the comment!

There are some good books like The Now Habit by Neil Fiore or The Procrastinator's Digest by Tim Pychil, and good articles like the one on waitbutwhy, but information on procrastination is mostly scattered about. There aren't many projects focusing solely on it.
taxi drivers can reject as many rides as they want, no?
But how does any of this make it untrue, that copyleft is an important aspect, without which the freedoms are not maintained?

You quoted 2 phrases, which are not wrong, but which do not argue against what I wrote before. Here are more quotes from the same pages:

"Second, when a program's source code carries a weak license, one without copyleft, its executables can carry additional nonfree conditions. Microsoft does this with Visual Studio, for example."

It should be quite clear, that, when I can copy a program and modify it and then release under a different license, I can circumvent user freedoms easily. Do you have any counter point to this? What exactly are you trying to tell me?
Well look, if all this is becoming The Expanse, I'd like to make my way to the Ring Gate to a new world sooner rather than later. I find the idea of exploring strange new worlds far more enticing than getting my 1400 credits, or even worse, my €$ Eurodollars.
Sure but the converses of these statements are advantages for monoliths.

Most languages provide a way to separate the declaration of an interface from its implementation. And a common language makes it much easier to ensure that changes that break that interface are caught at compile time.
And in France I was starting to see a few local delivery companies, they would own the mopeds and hire the drivers for a few restaurants and pizza joints at the town level. I guess all of these are dead now.
The entire comment was about majority of people not just a handful of 70 million UK has.
As my initial comment was, system is design in such way to keep you in constant state of work, not allowing you to be free...

In Ukraine with average salary of $400 is equally difficult to afford home as in UK with salary of $3000, only difference is that from more expensive it is possible to find a way to reduce expenses (giving up comfort) and then move savings to a cheep/er place.
Abstract: Understanding the mortality impact of COVID-19 requires not only counting the dead, but analyzing how premature the deaths are. We calculate years of life lost (YLL) across 81 countries due to COVID-19 attributable deaths, and also conduct an analysis based on estimated excess deaths. We find that over 20.5 million years of life have been lost to COVID-19 globally. As of January 6, 2021, YLL in heavily affected countries are 2–9 times the average seasonal influenza; three quarters of the YLL result from deaths in ages below 75 and almost a third from deaths below 55; and men have lost 45% more life years than women. The results confirm the large mortality impact of COVID-19 among the elderly. They also call for heightened awareness in devising policies that protect vulnerable demographics losing the largest number of life-years.
I agree with you, but removing technology arms races from mainstream sport is a lost cause. The controversy around Nike's carbon plate in running shoes, and Speedo's polyurethane mix fabric suits show that not even the simplest sport are safe from it.

However... there are still a few niches.

> Maybe there is a market for racing and events where you're only allowed steel-framed, canti brakes, SiS index shift monstrosities? Like one of those sub-$1k car rallies or something.

You've kind of just described Keirin [1], as a philosophy, if not the specifics. The Secret World of Japanese Keirin Racing is a good introduction if you're curious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirin

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lJLI-O-M0
Meanwhile, the higher the price of the new ETH and the more of it gets staked, the stronger its security.
I have a theory that automation can be reframed as an imbalance between natural resources and labor. Economy at large is either constrained by available supply of labor or supply of natural resources. The automation causes the labor constraint to disappear, and economy is then only constrained by supply of natural resources.

So we can see effects of this imbalance elsewhere in the world, in some poor countries, where there is too much available labor and not enough natural resources (or accumulated capital that can extract those).

In such countries, additional jobs are created, but they are of the type that requires very little additional resource input, typically service jobs. This creates huge inequality, where large amounts of people are either left out or are lucky enough to cater for the small minority.

Similar with automation, I suspect that while it is true that "jobs" can be created as much as needed (there is always a place for another person to be some kind of special servant to the rich capital owners), the inequality in society is going to rise (unless people themselves rise and revolt against such system).
A YouTube video is not the ne plus ultra of scientific presentations, you know.

I remember the first time that someone was telling that fusion would be producing a lot of power by the end of the decade, but I can't remember whether this was the 70s or the 80s.

Considering that humans have yet to produce one joule of net energy from fusion, and the longest anyone has ever run a fusion reactor was 20 seconds, I think you're wildly optimistic.

Indeed, I would say that if America today had working plans for a commercial fusion power plant handed to it by benevolent aliens, between a deliberately broken bureaucracy and the awesome power of the fossil fuel industry, I would be quite surprised if the first plant opened by January 1, 2030. (And I'd suspect that literally billions of kickbacks and graft would have to be paid for the gatekeepers to allow it in.)

(Other more rational, less kleptocratic countries might do better - I'm looking at you, Germany - and paradoxically, fully authoritarian states might also do better.)
The entire point of our software is to be intuitive enough so our clients can hire cheap labor. Its a first class feature. Why would we be punished for this?
If you design for testability and use proper dependency injection your "monolith" will already be "ready" for micro services.
The problem is that it's misleading for consumers. If you go to bobs-pizza-chicago.com it's reaosnable to assume you're ordering directly from Bob's pizzas, not some middleman who's gonna take a big cut to pass your order on to Bob's and deliver.
Yes, it's terrible. Even those of us who are "coping" aren't coping terribly well. But ironically the disconnection has made the costs of the disease invisible as well. The zoom funerals. I personally know a couple of people who are now effectively long-term disabled with respiratory issues - well enough to leave hospital, but their previous lifestyle can't come back.

The death toll dwarfs every single "disaster" in UK modern cultural history. Aberfan, Lockerbie, Dunblane, Piper Alpha, Grenfell, Bloody Sunday, Hillsborough, Herald of Free Enterprise, Marchioness, Titanic, Lusitania, Harold Shipman: COVID exceeds all of those put together. Invisibly. Any given one of those is dwarfed by the daily COVID death toll.

A rate that starts to rival wartime deaths. At the recent peak the death toll for 19 January was almost one HMS Hood per day.
In that world customers flow back to the many minicab companies and Uber competitors in London, which will need to take on more drivers.

It's not like Uber is the only app like this in London. I have at least four different ones on my app, and Uber is rarely the cheapest as it is.
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“I will slaughter you”
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Yep, although I guess the Try trait[0] and the corresponding ? operator count as a special error handling language construct.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Try.html
I think that it's okay to say this to yourself and look for a different type of work. Saying this to other people misses a couple of important points.

- If you can reskill, you're very fortunate. Not everyone is in the same position.

- It doesn't scale to large numbers. The demand in the market for people with skills that can't yet be automated isn't necessarily enough to absorb all the people who are losing their jobs to automation.
What's Boris has to do with this? It's the Supreme Court's decision, not Cabinet's. The same Supreme court who ruled that Boris Johnson broke the law by suspending the parliament.
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Lots of businesses aren't viable due to the costs of business being greater than the price people would be willing to pay. Pay isn't being detached from the value of the worker, what's being said is that if you're unable to produce enough value from the worker in order to pay them well enough to live then your business isn't viable.

Gig economy companies like Deliveroo are particularly hostile to their labour force. Without fixed wages for employees they're directly incentivised to flood the pool of workers with as many people as possible. The consequence of this is that delivery times are lower, but the compensation available to each employee is greatly reduced compared to traditional delivery models.
anyhow with ? is even shorter than unwrap. If it’s likely to have error at some point, I’d throw in a .context, it is so convenient.
Edit: typo.
<sarcasm>My employer told me a 23-step code submission process, across five tools, that takes four days to run all the tests is fast enough. Is that fast enough?</sarcasm>
I think you underestimate network effect.

What is important is not your direct impact on environment by using a old computer.

But what really is, is :
- proving to the world around you that the same work can be done with a good old computer for 10x less money.
- proving yourself that life can be lived without buying new things every once a while (computers, cars, furniture ...)
- enabling basically everyone to have access to a decent computer, and to the internet
- it forces you to understand how such a central concept of our era just works and how you, as a human being, have the power to make it work as long as possible

I know it can be difficult to understand this on HN, but the vast majority of humanity doesn't have any control over the computer they use. The industry just telled them that computers are complex and "sort of magic" objects that just works or get irremediably slow.

So, the real impact on the environment you have by using "old" computers, is proving to yourself, and to the world - including your kids - , that caring about what you already own is an enjoyable way to live full of real gratifications that are not just the dopamine peak you've got when you unbox a new computer.

For your point on the kids, I agree with you. But kids are just the number one reason we try to keep this planet livable. What's the point of preserving this planet if the humanity is going to die in the next 100 years ? We are talking about keeping our home livable, not a collective suicide.
Yes, but they need to provide the code under the same GPL license, so in practice it would be available to everyone in the world as long as a single person who downloaded it wants to share it futher.
It is but there are not many alternatives. Government are investing into more power lines at the border in order to import energy from nearby countries fossil fueled energy plants. If we look at the region as a whole however, the fossil fueled energy capacity still need to match the whole grid and the owners of those plants will need to be paid.

Hydro power is a great alternative, but we are already at peak utilization. We actually need to tear down some in order to save red listed species and restore the environment for animals that need to have unobstructed rivers to reproduce. As the capacity has been increasing, hydro power has been mostly static in term of growth.

There is nuclear and the political situation of that. The government and the green party (who is part of the current government constellation) are promoting the "on call" as a favorable strategy over nuclear. Their main political argument is that everything is good as long we produce more green energy over the whole year than we consume coal energy during the winter. Historically the political right has been pro-fossil fuels, but given the current situation there has been some movement now where some parties is looking to move into opposition.

And last we got battery technology. So far the only installations that I know globally that operate by generating solar energy and putting them into battery is Tesla. I don't know how economical that system has been. There exist to my knowledge no wind park operating through Tesla batteries, and I do not know why that is.
I was living in the center of a major city on the east coast when the pandemic hit. I was renting a 400 sq ft apartment, but that was ok because I really only slept there — the coffee shop nearby was my living room, the park was my backyard, the restaurants my kitchen. That’s city life.

With all of that gone, the 400 sq ft apartment stopped being livable. That apartment wasn’t cheap, but I was able to afford to buy a house in another part of town. So I did — as did every other person in that downtown area that I knew.

Those areas are now severely depopulated to the point it’s not safe to walk around in after dark, despite being one of the nicest areas of town a year ago. Businesses are continuing to fail because their customers keep moving away. City centers will be absolutely dead for a decade or more. People are underestimating the long term impact to cities because office workers aren’t coming back en masse any time soon either — if ever. People are what makes a city great, and they’re not coming back for a long time.
https://voxeu.org/article/billion-prices-project

An alternative approach to tracking CPI through scraping e-commerce. They get effectively the same result.
You are not everyone. I know people that are thriving under lockdown. I myself am at least doing better than before. I don't understand how you can think your experience is UNIVERSAL. common, sure. but universal?
Not having access to the justice because of shortage of money should be illegal instead.
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It's still 8th in the composite benchmark. And the criticism you're leveling would affect the entire benchmark design, rather than a particular framework score, no?

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
To be fair, these days malloc doesn't fail; your program crashes when it tries to use the memory, and there's nothing you can do about it. (But I agree that this is a problem with Rust's alloc system.)
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It's not fraud though, is it?

They advertise that you'll get food from Restaurant X and that's indeed what you get. It's not fraud to resell product, you don't need permission from the original seller to do it (in fact I think that's a specifically protected right), and it's not fraud or any kind of trademark violation to describe a product as being from Restaurant X if that is a fact.
Hopefully this will spread to other companies. IR35 in the UK is a very good law when enforced (usually against small businesses rather than big ones unfoet) for cutting through bullshit contract statuses that are designed to dodge employment taxes/benefits.

I hope it's extended to bigger companies and elsewhere. I know for example in Ireland lots of big companies like Facebook, Google etc have staff on 11 month contracts through third party firms in order to dodge employment law and taxes...it's ridiculous when those roles are assigned to those companies and have been the same roles for yeara