skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57021128

not quite as the poster claims. G4S didn't "shift" employees, they hired new people to meet their new demand for covid related work. for these new people, they used employment agencies that were "Recruitment and Employment Confederation accredited and members of the government's Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework."

it appears the accreditation of these new employment companies by the government was lacking.
It's in the same spirit that decaf is "unleaded".
If the median student believes the net value is zero, then most students think the net value is non-negative.
Trace the IRC networks formation, fracturing, and reformations... Compare to the early Protestant sects, or say American Labor organizations around 1900... There are so many similarities
Anybody here remember lander?
I don't think it's a simple as MSE makes out

* debt incurs interest at rates way above what someone could get a personal loan for

* it still affects people's ability to borrow when it comes to house buying etc

* if your parents are rich enough to pay your fees then you don't pay the tax

* if you earn enough to pay of the debt quickly they you'll pay less than someone with a middling income who earns enough to pay a lot but not clear the debt

Just make a proper graduate tax instead is my view
Scottish students still have to pay sometimes very high accommodation fees, and this is usually done through a loan.

Example: I studied in Edinburgh from 2008–2012, but was from Wales. I had to pay around £1800 per year tuition fees, but accommodation at its cheapest worked out at £300 per month, without taking into account costs like light and heat.

I have a student loan of about £30k, of which about £9k was tuition fees.

Free tuition would have saved me between a quarter and a third of the cost of going to university.

Now fees are greater than £9k per year, which many believe is absurd. Based on my example, assuming no inflation on living costs, I would have borrowings of £84k without even taking into account interest – all of which I would almost certainly never repay.
> A (slim) majority of people wanting a stupid thing doesn't make it any less stupid.

A sentence attributed to Italian singer-songwriter-intellectual Roberto "Freak" Antoni, or to author Marcello Marchesi, describes this concept in a great way:

"LET'S EAT SHIT! BILLIONS OF FLIES CANNOT BE WRONG!"
> It’s because we have only two major political parties and one of them has increasingly right wing authoritarian and nihilistic tendencies.

You mean the Democrats?
Yeah, that bit about writing online being "authentic" didn't age well. Hell, if my buddy's '05-era content farm was any indication, Graham was wrong when he wrote that.
Not to mention Sasha Baron Cohen passing out from wine and waking up in character as Ali G - at least anecdotally
Dictators tend to be a lot more willing to sacrifice masses of their people to preserve their rule than the subjects are to take that particular path, even if surrendering to the Nazis did sometimes lead to an equally-bad outcome as fighting. But Stalin had just recently purged all potential rivals and opposition so there was no one to stop him internally.
>Policing has to be one of the hardest jobs in our modern society

I'm guessing "our modern society" refers to the United States and not modern society as a whole.

As far as I can tell, in my country, only two police officers have died on the job between the years 2000 and 2016. There also seems to be a wide disparity in people who get killed by a police officer. It seems more like it's just inherently more dangerous to be American, whether or not you're a police officer or not.
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But they don't want that either. They want to keep everything they have and have other people handle all of that stuff they don't want to.
> despite most of them being professional and doing their jobs the best they can

If you stand in solidarity with those who flagrantly abuse their power, you're not doing your best.
Of course A16Z is enthusiastic about the creation of a financial system not subject to democratic oversight.
It's just what we call a drink that isn't a diet version
Has it, really, though? What percentage of worldwide crypto traffic represents paying for goods and services (or doing some kind of meaningful product interaction for non-financial applications) and how much of it is just trading?
Signal has already tried similar approaches (domain fronting), and had to stop because the cloud providers do not want any of it.
it would not have attracted any attention. it's hard to say if a boring statement like "allocate funds correctly" that inspires no critical thinking at all is more or less productive than an inflammatory one like "defund the police!" that probably gets a lot of people thinking about the issue, while at the same time causing a lot of reactionary movements to said slogan that work against it's general goals, at least in the short term.
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It's probably quite demotivating/depressing for the employees who worked hard directly or indirectly for Mackenzie Bezos to see her rather give her money to some strangers or random charities than raise their salaries to something decent or above. I find it very strange.
Don't think that could not change in a heartbeat, given how powerful the healthcare lobby is in Congress.
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Police work is far less dangerous than common perception. Similar danger as an average construction worker.
They are talking about total comp which is usually base salary + bonus + stock (RSUs). As the person above mentioned, 50% or more of that $500-600K is most likely made up of stacked stock grants. Even if you sell your RSUs right away, a grant typically vests over 4 years. In the current market, that makes older grants much more valuable based on stock appreciation.
Here are some facts from the City of Vallejo, a city of 120,000 people located 30 miles north-east of San Francisco:

- Recently featured in ABC's 20/20 show for a "Gone Girl" case were the Vallejo Police Department accused a couple of faking a kidnapping. The woman was sexually assaulted during her kidnapping, and the VPD staged a news conference claiming the whole thing was made up. The city paid the couple millions for the VPD's mistakes. https://abc7news.com/gone-girl-kidnapping-vallejo-police-apo...

- A police officer shot and killed a person riding his bicycle without a helmet, when the person did not stop. The city paid the person's family millions in settlement. https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/5-7-million-settlement-r...

- Officers practice of celebrating kills with ceremony and badge-tip bending was recently uncovered. https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge...

- Recently fired the Police Union president for destroying police evidence and threatening a journalist. The officer was hired by his father, who was the Police Chief a few years ago. He basically threatened a black journalist who was moving from California to the South of Lynching.
https://abc7news.com/vallejo-police-association-union-presid...

- I think one thing a lot of people don't know if how much their local police officer make. Here are the stats for the city of Vallejo, the person costing the city $600K/year in wage and benefit was recently fired. https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=vallejo...
You might be surprised to see the rate at which police are charged and convicted of a crime while on the job. Hint: The number is incredibly low.
The meaning of "diverting funding to other resources" has been a consensus in the community for a very long time. It's only recently that "defund" has been conflated with "abolish," which has always been a very very small niche of the police reform community.
Local news stations get their agenda for their parent companies. They are told what to cover, what not to cover, and how to cover things to fit the overarching narrative from executives/producers.
Potential for death is a very limited way to measure dangerous occupations/activities.
the point is that "to ease subsequent application development or data analysis" can be done just as well, or better, by a graph DB. You don't have to end up with the hassle of relational data as in an RDBMS.
Only absolutist sentiments make good slogans.
If we can talk semantics for just one second, it feels like its been ages since the word "blockchain" was coopted from being a technical term into a hype inducing buzzword.

So, it's nice to see someone gently set down the word and use another phrase. In this case "crypto network".
Giving them $1000 confirms the value, allowing them to list the dump at a higher price than the usual $10-50 spammers would pay (each) for the email addresses alone
Will you tell us what country that is?
I have almost never seen so many people so motivated to misrepresent a memo.
The problem is lots of police members don't do their best to help their local communities, and the ones that do stand behind that ones that definitely don't.
Nope, nothing wrong with US news [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
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Yep, always live in fear, always be ready to kill anything you are afraid of. Sounds like safe people to be around…
Yes? Are you not aware of how money-hungry these insurance companies are, and how you have to fight them tooth-and-nail to get some things covered?
Nurses have also been quitting in droves in the last year. Specifically, nurses that work at hospitals.
I wonder how these numbers correlate to overall resignation numbers in all jobs since those seem to be going up too. I feel it’s part of the larger pattern of covid burnout.
Why would the US fabricate fake UFO videos to send to Russian/ Chinese militaries a message that is, as you imply, perfectly clear? They're the only recipients of the message, they understand it well, and nobody else cares about it. So why don't they just say it plain and openly?

So your explanation implies multiple conspiracies mixed with sensor errors, lying or actually crazy pilots, and a general pretension of being clueless, to send a message of having some advanced technology you could easily publish about in a military tech journal?
I do it the other way around.

If the framework is correct in design and implementation then you can change something superficial and the odds are good that the change is superficial and it works.

If you are starting from the outside and working in it might seem easy to get started but you will fall behind in productivity compared to people who do the opposite.

I have frequently worked with testers and frequently those testers have chosen to automate their work and I am all for that; a dev doing the same might catch some errors that way but they may also encode conceptual mistakes.
As someone that studied computing and electronics I'm surprised you found electrical engineering useless.

I found the vast majority of my computer science courses a waste of time, stuff I could have learned by myself. But the electronics stuff was very useful as I had access to labs and equipment I wouldn't of otherwise had.

I don't think you should expect your university education to prepare you to hit the ground running when you get your first job. It teaches you the foundation so that you can then learn to do your job.

Of course I don't know what you were taught in university nor which field of electrical engineering you went into, maybe you truly got nothing out of it.
Never trust a human who chooses to cohabitate with an animal that sprays who knows what on the furniture, shreds upholstery, and shits in a box that said human must manually clean…
Yeah, people love to “find common ground” with others who are protesting to make their jobs go away. Come on.

My point isn’t even that “defund the police” is stupid and meaningless (which I think it is) but you’re suggesting cats and dogs live together.
I played a game just a week ago, but sadly my Morganite faction was crushed by the Spartans.

The version GOG sells works on Linux on Lutris/Wine. I did find myself rescaling the screen because it expects the display to be 640x480.

IMHO, the hard science tech tree still holds up very well. Of course these futuristic technologies are speculative, but they're plausible enough that you don't have to work too hard to suspend disbelief. I'd love to see an updated version of SMAC with a more modern user interface and a better AI.
What riots? I thought they were peaceful protests?
The TV man said so.
Finland. Population of 5.5 million people, around 1.5 million registered firearms (2016).
This is inline with recent changes in Australia. Here, there is an in-person training/accreditation process (costs a few thousand dollars) required for large drones and flying near controlled aerodromes, etc. Otherwise, you undertake a very simple online test that is just about impossible to get wrong. I dislike many impositions but it's not taxing at all for anyone making money with their drone.

There'd be virtually no checks/enforcement though. I have flown thousands of times and never been chased up over anything. I know 10+ commercial drone operators and only one of them has ever been queried about his flying, and that was by marine parks authorities because they thought he'd flown in a conservation area (he knew the area very well and was a couple of metres outside it...).
You misspelled Fox:

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

Don't both sides a phenomenon that is far worse on the right.
Pizza guys are more likely to die on the job. Shout out to the real troops. ACAB.
Government funded? Maybe in 1996.
I don’t understand the analogy you are trying to make.
You can write a polite editorial in WaPo or Bloomberg with that title, but nobody will remember it five minutes later.
> Minneapolis, which had 912 uniformed officers in May 2019, is now down to 699.

23% of officers leaving in only a year and a half. What kind of impact will this have in 3-5 years as officers who are holding out for pensions also retire?
He's referring to the "no evidence that..." statement. Some things are difficult to prove by experiment.
Am I the only one who thinks that police officers should be paid more, not less? These should be highly specialized and trained jobs that are hard to get and easy to lose if you're bad at them / criminal -- seems like the reality right now is that they're easy to get and hard to lose.
`tput sgr0` reads terminfo to find out how to issue a command which resets all currently set colors, text properties, and so on, then resets them. A lot of people will do something like `echo -e '\E[32;46m'`, but that's arguably more opaque and definitely not portable across terminals.

tput is a neat command that I wish got used more! I also use `tput cnorm` to ensure the cursor is visible.
I'm on the left but I always saw the argument of

>how many local news outlets are owned by the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group.

...to itself be dishonest 'journalistic' spin, in this case perpetuated by John Oliver among others.
"How many" local news outlets is irrelevant when you consider a vast majority of Sinclair's outlets are for tiny rural channels, meanwhile large urban and coastal channels will undoubtedly skew more liberal but be fewer in #.

When else has the metric of "how many channels" ever been used to determine reach and engagement?

Not sure of the numbers, just wanted to point this out.
Fauci emails reveal that Kristian Anderson originally raised concerns that it was a lab leak based on analysis of the virus before he was brought to heel by Peter Daszak. His later water-carrying for his GoF comrades was, I hope, the low point of his career.
That sounds terrible, but "more education" won't, and never will, change attitudes or behavior. Psychopaths will always do what they want. Going Big Mother on a particular sport for the actions of a few independent persons doesn't address anything other than destroy that sport. Wishful thinking does nothing.
I think it makes a bit more sense as "significant social media platforms in the guise of messaging services" , since iMessage doesn't function as a social media platform.

edit: removed editorializing.
Completely objective reporting has always been more aspirational than anything else.
Wow, this thread has an insane amount of activity. I estimate more than 50% of the replies here are just shaping narrative in a direction.

Edit:
They are sliding this thread. How did something with this much engagement end up on page 2, when it clearly has some very reasonable content?
This has to be deliberate?
I have a large Indian family. Nobody is writing newspaper articles about it. The same thing happens with family gossip. You’re describing basic human social dynamics.
A bit more standard way of generating HTTP API clients, would be to use openapi spec [1] and then generate php client. It makes you app client independent of framework and also language itself.

[1] https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator
>> they were constantly thrown at tangled societal problems like mental health breakdowns or drug overdoses

Shouldn't the EMT be called for a drug overdose? You know, someone to treat the patient rather than someone whose primary job would be to arrest them for illegal activity.

Related: I know an EMT and he says people they are there to help will sometimes attack them. That's a stressful job too.
…and entirely opt-in.
From what I have heard, it is due to Taxes/Costs etc. Most people who move from places like NY/NJ are saving tons on taxes especially things like property tax. Just to give you an example, a 500K home in NY/NJ can average b/w 15k-20K in taxes per year. Yep, you read that right.
To me that's a surprising premise and an even bigger surprise in the conclusion. What makes you think A16Z wants to create a financial system without democratic oversight?
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In civilized countries where guns aren't ubiquitous most police call outs won't be for something that can kill them. It's bizarre to me that it's just normal in America to expect someone to have a gun. Also, let's not pretend a lot of them aren't doing it for the power trip.
Seems like a Solution in search for a Problem. Instead of hardcoding the URL to the Request it can be set in the config like it was done with jsonplaceholder.api.token.

And creating a Request for every API-Endpoint instead of a single API-Client Class seems overkill.
Finally, officers said they were asked to handle too much; they were constantly thrown at tangled societal problems like mental health breakdowns or drug overdoses, they said, for which they were ill-equipped — then blamed when things went wrong.

Yes. Untrained people should not be sent to deal with these issues. Hopefully, this leads to municipalities actually training people to deal with these issues instead of continuing to try to shove cops into obviously non-cop shaped holes.
If someone has no idea what IPA is, how are they supposed to figure it out when there's a bunch of other things that have the same acronym?
Sure - we had it pre-internet with BBS's. There was even a standard for sharing message forums across them - FidoNET.

It may look crude from todays perspective, but there is zero reason the same concepts couldn't take root today. The big problem is friction. Just logging into to some "free" service that someone else runs for you is all most people want to think about.

I think there is a huge opportunity for a modern revival of concepts like BBS's and FidoNET, but with a modern spin on UI and communications. instead of the master nodelist like FidoNET had use a distributed directory along the lines of DNS. Heck why invent a new protocol - just adopt DNS with a few tweaks.
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> The rest of the time there's been solid electoral opposition to it.

Not really. After an initial wobble, the most hardcore brexiteer fringe swept to power with very large majorities. Yes, it's FPTP so you can say "not really", but in practice they did - the only strongly anti-brexit party, meanwhile, was soundly battered.

The English masses, for a period, really really wanted it. The only first hint of regret has been this month's byelection, a very small test.
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Cool! And when they do finally get hit with a healthy dose of antitrust regulation, they'll be forced to lower the fee (even more than this) for everyone in order to stay competitive.
The force that wishes to sow division within the US is also the force that wishes to create a Federalized 'Police' Force. "These cities whose mayors have coincidentally punished and gutted it's own police force need help, let's create Gestapo v2.0!"
https://fee.org/articles/by-the-numbers-how-dangerous-is-it-...

If that’s the case, objectively, many other jobs deserve more respect first.
I took a look in the EDSAC manual ("The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer", 1951) at
https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk/page/154/... - linking to the earliest popcount description, Gillies-Miller.

I didn't see anything.

Then again, that hardware doesn't seem to support xor. Nor does the manual mention "Boolean" or "Booleian" (the latter was used in the older literature, see https://scholar.google.se/scholar?hl=sv&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Boole... for examples ).

I looked for, but didn't find, a description of it in HAKMEM (1972).

Those two exhaust my knowledge of reference materials for that era.
If they were always accountable, this story wouldn’t have run.
We know different cops. The only cops I've met are mildly racist and intellectually lazy. Sure they were occassionally nice to have a beer with. But then they'd start talking and leave no doubt they aren't one of the good apples.

Imagine getting a JIRA ticket thinking, "fucking Java bug, again. Only way to fix this is to yank the power cord out."

Honestly, delivery people have to put up with way more shit and don't have weapons, the law, nor even a union that has their back. That's a tough job.
You have to watch a video and answer basic questions before they give you a permit for Fiery Furnace in Arches National Park too. I have done that a couple of times, as well as Australia's simple drone test, and they're both no-brainers.
Well that's the real trick now, isn't it? :p
To me, that sounds like exactly the right reason. Let the market decide.

If somebody else wants to spend their money to host such things, they're free to do it.
Is there a consensus committee that announces what 'the community' thinks? Because in my experience the community is quite divided on most topics and tends to come to a consensus using the literal meaning of words.

There is always a risk that people chanting "defund the police" mean they want to, simply and literally, defund the police. If they want something different they should be chanting that instead.
Police are in the top 5 in suicide rates. As are construction workers.
You only need to register with the FAA for drones that weigh over 250g.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/register_drone/
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