skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in the UK, minimum wage workers do not have to do a self-assessment. Only certain circumstances require you to return a self-assessment, some of those circumstances include earning over 150k or having income beyond your usual PAYE income (e.g. dividends etc). A majority of workers don't need to deal with any tax returns or whatnot. At the end of the year they simply either get a rebate or asked to pay what if they've underpaid. Some of those who underpaid don't even need to worry as their tax code is adjusted to include what they owe in their next tax year allowing the payment to be spread over a year.
In conclusion, programming is a land of contrasts. Thank you.
Can we? Boris Johnson is the PM. About 25000 voters voted for him as an MP. I had zero choice in the matter. He was then picked as a leadership candidate by some other MPs, and ultimately made leader and thus Prime Minister by about 90000 members of his political party (who had the choice of him and one other person that they could make leader and thus Prime Minister).

About 115000 votes in total, from a UK voting population of about 47 million.

Sure, technically I suppose it is democracy, but it certainly doesn't feel like it.
In Breaking Bad, you go to Los Pollos Hermanos ...

In real life, you go to Toronto, or London, or any number of capital cities.
I feel like designing for the web is so hard compared to elements that work on the phone. This elements look very "phone sized".
This guy has been waiting 20 years to use that headline but, if he wants me to make room for him on my door, he'll have to do better than that.
I think most people that think they hate email just hate Outlook. Some MS product manager decided that it would force you to top post, and then endlessly growing but completely indecipherable quote vomit below the message became the norm.

Back in the day, email was great. A listserv targeted to a specific community of people that know their netiquette is the best way to collaborate.
The problem with Docker is that assumptions of NAT and proxies are built-in quite deeply into the v4 networking functionality and defaults. With v4 it just exposes NATed rfc1918 space subnets to containers with a hardcoded prefix that's by default the same for all Docker installations in the world.

The sensible way to use it in the ipv6 world would be to give Docker its own globally routable prefix(es) acquired via eg dhcpv6 prefix delegation. The current manual prefix configuration is not how things should work in v6.
And according to Alain de Botton we have replaced this artistocratic snobbery with snobbery of profession - "Meeting someone first question you likely to be asked - What do you do? - And you will become subject of interest, of be left alone by the peanuts"
Even assuming they were making the correct decisions in the beginning of the pandemic (which they were not), the decision recently to tell anyone vaccinated is fully safe is outrageous. There’s not a single expert who agreed that that was a good idea, and now thousands of people are dying because of it. The only reason to make that announcement was political and that’s exactly what I’m talking about. A scientific agency that puts politics before science.

This and the fda authorization of the biogen drug have sealed the deal for me on how corrupted the US has become. It’s been coasting thanks to the good decisions made decades past, and finally it’s just fumes and the time couldn’t be more perfect.
To be honest, my little conspiracy theory (almost certainly wrong, yours is calculated whereas mine is probably based on a little bit of past frustration) is that the main driving force behind the high price is Teenage Engineering.
I own a lot of their devices, and actually the more I think about it, the more I can see where they fit. TE devices are generally very expensive for what you get, and often not great build quality (the playdate seems better, but thats not a purely TE project), but the fact is, you can't get what they make anywhere else. I hate the double trigs on my OP-Z, but there is no alternative.
Way to phrase it for clicks.

Is a credit card then some kind of anti-homeless burger DRM?
A) manure is plant biomass, not animal

B) anyway, you don't eat manure

C) anyway, vegans are fine with figs so the whole thing is a strawman
The headline appears to just be to pull people in, as I'm guessing the original survey didn't differentiate between those that have spent a whole day working from bed, those who regular work from bed or those that have once, for an hour, done so.

However, the meat of the article is more interesting and it asks questions which, sadly, it doesn't even attempt to answer. At the remote company that I work for, as well as allowing for expensing of an office setup, they will also contribute a reasonable sum (enough for most, unless you live in San Francisco, for example) to work from a shared office space, resolving the "what if you don't have room" in one go.

Of course, this isn't 100% perfect as there will be those who don't want a shared office space but equally don't have the room in their own home - I'm not sure what the answer is here.
But why limit water
Approximate M2 growth since the start of 2020:

USA: 33%
Canada: 23%
UK: 17%
Euro Area: 15%
China: 15%
Japan: 13%

WhERe iS aLL thE MOney ComInG fRoM guYS?
Surely the cost of all this infra/maintenance is several times higher than some people taking a few extra refills, my understanding is that the sugar-syrup costs to McDonalds are insignificant. Perhaps not?
It really depends on where you are, I think in Europe the English taught at school and considered the regular one is British English, but if you take movies/series/music, the broader one is US English.
>When I first moved to Germany I asked some friends what sort of snakes I should watch out for in the forest; I got some funny looks and laughs from that.

Why? Because there aren't any snakes in Germany ?
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Seems like you feel that establishing data access patterns that have the possibility of scaling up to 100x more users requires an additional 3 weeks of initial developer time

I'm not sure I agree that an engineer experienced in building scalable systems will need 3 extra weeks to pick a schema and data access pattern that's scalable.

You don't have to actually _use_ spanner or cockroach or vitess in your initial prototype if you don't want to, but it seems entirely reasonable to have an _idea_ of what the story would look like to migrate to a horizontally-scalable approach if product gains traction so it doesn't end up being a multi-year project later.
Absolutely, 100%.

And I find too that it doesn't even reduce down your working time too - an awful lot of thinking time in an office is when you get up from your desk and walk to the watercooler, bathroom, whatever. I do so much thinking and working out whilst doing these home chores.
It's just water
The time it took you to write this rant would have been enough to finish reading the article...
Have you ever met such a person?
He also won a massive majority in a general election.
A colleague told me about the setup in their home country some weeks ago, I _think_ that was the Dutch one, excuse my fuzzy memory... Once your €1500 tenant leaves, you have 3 or 6 months to find the next one. If not, the city will offer your place in parallel as social housing and you'll get €400 (flat rate for the whole municipality per size band) if that gets filled first. On a three year contract. Makes for a very good incentive to meet the market.
I voted you back up because generally I agree that using weak value judgements (e.g. X is old fashioned) without saying WHY a particular thing needs to be improved is not very useful.

In fairness, in the article he does say why all these communications tools are a problem in his opinion.
Isn't it a private business that has to pay for utilities?
Facebook have tried this. They have made am independent governing board that theoretically can tell Facebook what to do w.r.t. content censorship decisions.

No surprise, it appears to be staffed by people who were selected for their middle-of-the-road "you must censor a bit but not too much" type of views. It gave them a limp wristed rap on the knuckles when they banned Trump, said it was arbitrary and didn't follow the same rules enforced on everyone else, but that they still agreed with doing it.

I think what we're seeing here is what happens when you lack some sort of free speech libertarian fundamentalism. Facebook don't have to engage in "statecraft", whatever that is, no more than the designers of SMTP did. They could choose not to. They could say "we will shut down accounts when under court order to do so, end of story". Then governments who think a citizen is breaking a law about speech would have to go to court, win, and then the judge would say, here is an order requiring Facebook to shut down the account of this law breaker (which could automatically hide all content they created). All the evolved mechanisms, the checks and balances of the actual state would be in effect.

But Facebook is based in Silicon Valley and like most firms there, has systematically made deals with far-left devils in order to hire them and put them to work, often without really understanding if it's worth the cost. Does Google actually need 144,000 employees for example? It hardly seems more productive than when I started there and it had 10,000. Their "hire first ask questions later" approach inevitably leads to hiring lots of extremists and wingnuts, people who are there primarily to get closer to a nexus of power they can wield for their own political agendas. The constant dramas we see emanating from Mountain View, Palo Alto and San Francisco are the inevitable consequence.

Tech firms could fix this problem very quickly if they wanted to: just announce a renewed commitment to freedom of speech, platform principles and passive moderation. Any employee who doesn't like it can leave. Many would, but those companies are so over-staffed they'd barely notice, and the environment for those who remain would be drastically more pleasant.
When calculating Gini coefficient for crypto, do you include people that have 0.000001 BTC? Do you also include people that have exactly 0 BTC (and possible don't even own a wallet)?

But of course I believe in practice Gini is not calculated over people but over wallets.
That is quite the sweeping statement and I'd love to know what evidence you have for this?

I have a comfortable bed but never work from it for that exact reason - I'd be too relaxed and just want to sleep again.
I've been working from home 20 years now, and I have the opposite setup from you. I've got a much nicer setup then I ever had in offices - from 3 monitors to my favorite keyboards. As I get older and my eyes get worse, I really appreciate the space the monitors give me.

I do agree about going back to an office... Its not really something I anticipate doing.
I would like a citation on that.

The pitch length is 20m, and typical fast balls can be 120km/h=33m/s. For a "yorker" that might mean only 20.12/33=0.6s for the ball to reach the batsman, but for a typical bounced delivery, it's probably like 1 second.

However, the ball bounces usually 5 m from the batsman, and changes direction after the bounce, and that gives only 5/33=0.15s (or maybe 0.2-0.25s) to reach the batsman after the bounce.

Which means that the batsman is unable to change their swing after the bounce. That I find hard to believe. I think they do.
Yesterday I was playing with this:

https://www.my1login.com/resources/password-strength-test/

Along with this:

https://www.random.org/strings/

and I discovered that apparently, a 7 character password of random chars that includes a 0 (zero) is really hard to crack!

I wont be doing that though for my own passwords but it was interesting none-the-less.
I already clearly stated why I don't want to. Maybe you should have read my comment fully. ;)
they are being used to enforce something you might think is appropriate, but something huge parts of the world including many Australians don’t think there is a moral basis for which is in part why they have to use the military. So you and i just have different moral compasses it seems. Enforcing your will by boots on the neck is a sign you are doing something wrong.
afaik threads in erlang are processes so where do you store and how do you share the players positions between cores?
Does a credit card stop you from getting water or food from there?

Maybe you meant bank card: In places where you have a right to a bank account (necessary for payroll and government stuff), you'd get a bank card. In places like the US, most places accept cash.

So no. No it isn't.

I'm not sure this was designed to deter homeless folks, by the way, though I do think they could provide water from somewhere that isn't from the toilet room.
This was the biggest whine fest I’ve read all week. And I work in tech.
I Can't find any hit for 12ghz P4. I thought the record is around ~8GHz (And you can push modern processors in that ballpark).

I doubt that even a 8GHz P4 would be able to beat a lower clocked more modern design even on single threaded integer workloads. The P4 had a lot of glass jaws (the non-constant shifter, load replays on misses, very narrow decoder when running out of trace cache).
Combining two approaches to advance quantum computing
It’s Dasani, aka Peckham Spring (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3809539.stm).
The real tragedy of class is not that people try to switch classes, its that people dont want to. Working class people regard the privately educated elites as "poncy wankers" and dont want anything to do with them- they actually exclude themselves by "staying in their lane". That is what needs to be fixed in the UK.
About 25000 people voted for Boris Johnson in that election.
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I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I invented that: Aus court finds AIs can be inventors
Seriously, giving folks water isn't going to make a noticable dent in the water bill, considering how much water is going to be used simply washing the restaurant during the day. The drink stations already have water there, and the ice machine often enough cools the beverages (so no extra cost).
And RFID chip is less than 10 cents. The rest is amortized rather quickly.

When you calculate McDonald's losses, don't assume the base cost of water, or soda, but the opportunity loss of missed sales, which are significantly larger.
Please enlighthem us how React is even able to work when we take away DOM and JavaScript OOP capabilities out of it.

I am quite curious how the browser is going to display anything.

You think that you know much more than me, enjoy a peaceful life thinking that way, if it makes you happy.
UK to introduce new Highway Code
People are tested before admission and then tested after admission. The figures are to do with the latter. People who turn up at hospital because they're dying of COVID don't get counted in the latter. Regardless, your alternative explanation is no more factually based than the obvious, simple explanation.

Regardless, I can see you already have your conclusion and will stick to it. So be it.
The Byline Times is indeed very much an activist publication for a particular faction of the British left, and not the most accurate one generally; if I remember rightly they were one of the main publications pushing the unfounded and bogus claim that Leave backers had bet billions on a no-deal Brexit destroying the British economy, for example. Kind of surprised to see them on the HN front page; they're the kind of more flamebait than light politics that the site tries to avoid.
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Ah. Filtered water, now with branding.
This is true, but those people, who were sneerlingly referred to as "nabobs", were despised by the traditional aristocracy. Plus, the Raj is not considered benign in the UK educational system and Hindus are by far the most successful immigrant group in the country.
The cost of losing the soda/water is probably insignificant. The real loss is the money not paid by people for the refills which is orders of magnitude higher. I don't have any figures on it but I would guess this is more than enough to justify the infrastructure and maintenance.
Cost saving is not the purpose.

The purpose of this and other things like armrests on benches is to drive away the homeless and the poor so the rich don't have to see them.
That affected two accounts Facebook suspended in 2018. Facebook still can delete comments and suspend accounts, as long as users get a chance to explain themselves and are informed about deletion and suspension. Back in 2018 that was not the case, so Facebook was ordered to reinstate the accounts and comments. Both accounts were suspended for 30 and 3 days respectively.

The headline is kind of exaggerating here.
This is not a good article.
I think it is to fall into a trap to argue whether figs are "100% vegan" or not. The real problem is the quasi-religious approach that some unfortunately vociferous people follow with regards to many personal decisions, in such a way that the end goal of pursuing a moral principle is co-opted by a simplistic totalitarian interpretation of the rules, with the need to follow them perfectly as a sign of purity.

There is no such thing as a "vegan food", be it figs, honey, or lettuce. What does exist are vegan values, and their end goal is to reduce suffering of sentient beings and to have no part in promoting it by exploiting them or consuming products which do. Arguing whether there is any wasp biomass in figs should be irrelevant to veganism. What should matter is whether wasps are suffering and being exploited because we eat figs. I believe not, but what do I know, I am not a vegan.
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Ah so ReasonML doesn't transpile to JavaScript, an OOP language?

How does it run on the browser?
I wonder if these people who apparently get pissed off about """wasp biomass""" only consume vegetables grown on 100% dead-insect-free biomass... What an idiotic thing to get worked up about.
It's not just rich people, unless by "rich" you mean "people with savings".

I looked at the investments my bank made with my savings, and IIRC a chunk of it was invested in real estate companies. So I, a middle-class person who cannot afford a house, am giving money to my bank who is giving it to real estate companies to buy more apartments. And given how much apartment prices have risen, it seems like my bank made the right call for its customers.
I'm reliably informed by a contemporary at Westminster Grammar that he "wasn't that posh" until later.

I always find it irritating that politicians of all stripes who have gone out of their way to cultivate a particularly niche image are lazily described by the commenteriat as more "authentic" than those are quite happy to dress and speak like regular politicians and demonstrate their authenticity (or lack thereof) with the actual positions they hold
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Is that NFC tag really cheaper than just using an inkjet printed QR code? Using the same tech that's probably already on the production line to print batch numbers?

Then the drinks machine can keep track of which QR codes have had how much of which drink (either online or offline or a hybrid model depending on business needs).
But it's not only about paying for utilities. If you had a restaurant, would you want homeless people come in? We need to build public water fountains instead of expecting private enterprises to do charity.
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No one made that argument. Even implicitly. Google wouldn't have an exception process

Oh come on. They're saying you aren't allowed to come into the office if you're unvaccinated, unless you literally cannot take it. They aren't saying "we must reach at least X% where X is a herd immunity threshold" and it wouldn't make sense if they were because herd immunity isn't a building-level concept.

Fauci in December: "We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent."[2]

The man who literally admitted to the NYT that he made up herd immunity numbers based on opinion polls? Who even in this quote says he doesn't know and then makes up another figure anyway? Why are you citing these numbers? They are saying clearly that the whole concept is a fictional one to begin with (meaning: there is no justification for mandating anything at all).
The rich don't go to McDonald's.

The homeless are simply problematic, to the rich and the poor alike. They drive away everybody which is lost sales.
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Religion plays very little role in English politics.

I doubt many people in North East Somerset considered this mans faith before voting for him.
The purpose of a nature preserve, unsurprisingly, is to preserve nature as it exists within this space. Any human interference with nature inside the preserve runs the risk of tipping the scales of the natural lifecycle's balance.

If someone were to bring their dog into the preserve and hunt and kill some rabbits, it would probably be quite obvious that they would be disturbing the natural balance that the nature preserve is supposed to protect. Leaving your excrements is prohibited for the same reason, although on a subtler level. Your excrement can contain germs not native to the area which could start an epidemic if stuff goes really bad.

Just today, there was news that the National Forest Service estimates half of all deer to already have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Now thankfully, Covid-19 does not seem to be a dangerous disease in deer. Just imagine if it weren't that benign and a significant amount of deer had been wiped out by it nationwide (or even worldwide). That's the kind of low-probability-but-high-danger scenario that packing it out is supposed to prevent.
Is it? That's how taxes work in pretty much every other country aside from the US. They send you a proposed tax and ask you to check if it looks correct.

It's just that in the US, companies like Intuit lobby to keep the tax code as complicated as possible so they can sell tax filing software.

Americans have grown up with complicated tax codes, so that's all they know. They don't realize it can be better.
It's not really about saving money.

It's about keeping homeless and very poor people out of it.

It's the same kind of thing as park benches being designed to be unusable for sleeping on, empty unused rain areas below bridges being walled of or filled with spikes or vegetation in parks being removed and replaced with grass and similar to make it less pleasant to stay there over night.

I fear if they could they would use a combination of image recognition to ban people which look homeless from entering their shop at all.

Just to be clear this things are/would be normally mandated from the top, so the people operating the specific restaurants might not have any say in it.
I use the NoScript addon on Firefox and auto filter out all IPs that end up on Steven Black's Host list - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

That takes care of a significant chunk of the ever increasing pollution.

The adtech world is totally reponsible for the state of affairs. They need to pay a big price or its not going to slow down anytime soon.
Easier put: You can't both have and not have a unique identifier for everyone.
10 cents is a lot when the cup probably costs 3 cents, the syrup 3 cents and the water 0.1 cents...

You're more than doubling the materials cost to sell a coke.
Innovation and increase in economic productivity are worthless when obtained via explotation of worker rights.

Modern feudalism desiguised as innovation and increase in economic productivity of a select nobility.