skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, in fact, rather undermines the point. None of these people are traditional elites. David Mitchell's parents are middle-class hotel managers. John Oliver's parents are teachers. Richard Ayodade's parents are Nigerian and Norwegian immigrants. Ben Elton (in spite of the impression he strives to convey) does come from an upper middle-class background, as do Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry. But none of them are anything like aristocracy or the types that would be considered for Bullingdon membership.
This is an important issue. It's baffling to me how greenwashed everything electric is, despite almost universally having major problems in either manufacturing materials or waste products. But environmentalism is just a business these days, I don't know why I ever expected anything different.

The solution to the harm inflicted upon the environment by humanity isn't some new feat of technology or invention, it's downshifting. In every field, not just in individual's private lives.
Right. If I hide my card I can get vaccinated again and get that $100. Who knew you get prizes for being late?
"If asking people to take a specific step that has a good chance of protecting them from disease or even death"

Most people under the age of about 65 are being asked to take a vaccine for a disease that is extremely unlikely to hurt them, and the vaccine itself can have severe side effects, with deaths and injuries from these vaccines now greatly exceeding the deaths and injuries from every other vaccine programme in the last 10 years combined.

Over-simplifying this situation down to "people need to be protected [from themselves]" is exactly the sort of misinformation that Facebook believes it's fighting.

"This leaves the latter group stumped, because they can’t think of any non-selfish motives"

Non selfish motives? Their demands are incredibly selfish. They've convinced themselves, against all actual data and biological theory, that the unvaccinated people are dangerous to themselves, the vaccinated, and thus individual choice over people's own bodies must be removed by force. There is no basis for this belief but they apparently want to reach this conclusion via any means, fair or foul. Despite that they are the same people who are usually insistent that women be given choice over 'their own bodies' in abortion debates.
A coke is one dollar. So paying 10 cents to get back a missed dollar suddenly makes a whole lot of sense, doesn't it? I know it's not 1:1, but they have the data, and apparently it's still more profitable/preferable for them to have RFID.

Furthermore if McDonald's doesn't want to attract freeloaders, which bring with them all kinds of other risks and cultural issues that might repel actual paying customers, they have that right. They're not a social center.

And don't forget they HAVE THE DATA.

They know how much cups they sell and how much water and soda they dispense. They've done the math. Can we stop pretending we know more about their profit/cost and operations than they do?
It has emergency authorization rather than full approval, true, but it still went through multiple phases of trials.
I don't see a big problem there. Have a bot alerting the user, giving him e.g. three days to respond. Get the response, block the user anyway. Wait for the next law suite.
Do you know where can I find this info.
I think in some EU countries it's actually required for free tap water to be provided, but

- only for restaurants, idk. if McDonalds is classified as such

- only on request, they can require you to queue up again.
This leads to an interesting situation, where Intel owns x86 and licenses it to AMD, while AMD owns the amd64 extension and licenses it to Intel. Should one company revoke their license, so would the other (I assume, naively), and boom - no more amd64/x86_64 CPUs for you and me. Intel could probably create a new extension to x86, but that would take some time.

And IIRC, AMD's x86 license evaporates automatically, if the company is acquired by someone else, which means the only company that could buy it without disastrous consequences is Intel, who probably would run into some anti-trust issues if they did.
Your ML system will likely fail. Fuzz can help
I don't know why we need to speculate and pretend to know more about McDonald's than they do, given they have made those decisions based on data, not speculation.

Also soft drink/water sales are not "close to zero". I don't know what you mean.
That seems to be a severe issue with usa.gov which should be fixed there (and I assume it has been), not something others should work around.
Why does “Turn! Turn! Turn!” equal 241217.524881?
if you talk about preserving energy, reducing consumption and using social and cultural means to reduce the impact on the planet these days you're pretty much immediately labeled as some kind of anti-growth luddite, in particular by the 'green tech' crowd, looking at Ramez Naam among others.

VC's, 'entrepreneurs' and green energy journalism seems to have a vested interest to in a sense consume 'green innovation' rather than just treating it as technology.
But if they could solve the same problem for 1 cent, they would do that - independent of the data.

Eg. A unique QR code on the underside of the cup.
Sure.

In the case of Berlin inner city districts like Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer Berg et cetera have been rapidly changing in the last 10 to 20 years. This is in part because population is dying off/moving away, but also because developers are buying apartments and are actively removing the old inhabitants in order to be able to charge higher rents.

There are laws in Germany that regulate the increase in rental payments. However, with the current price levels in housing, only a new contract with a tenant can give an investor an income that justifies the price payed for a property. The 'historic' population that can not afford the new level of rent is pushed out to the outskirts of the city [1].

Other cities of this tier e.g. London have similar population and price effects.

[1] "Plattenbau" in Berlin - not so trendy. See: https://www.bz-berlin.de/media/plattenbau-sanierung-in-marza...
This has nothing to do with trust any more. I no longer have to trust a single thing said by any individual scientist, any individual medical doctor, any institution of science or any institution of medicine. Why? Because sufficient evidence is now available in hard numerical statistics.
Why buy a Switch when you can get a cheap retro handheld for half the price? Because not all gaming handhelds are meant for the same thing.
The Switch and similar devices are meant for "mainstream" gaming, the retro handhelds are meant for retro games, the playdate is meant for fantasy console games.
You are trying to solve problems which were created by Tailwind, and you end up with Bootstrap.
Law Society Loses the Plot over AI and Ethics
Indeed. That's equivalent to one cache miss. Spending engineering effort on memory locality and making your data structures compact probably pays off better for most apps. But maybe eBPF could help with that as well?
Hmm, that's a good point. If it literally is just tap water with Dasani branding, it's like an implicit admission that Dasani in general is nothing more than tap water.
In the US, free soda refills are common. So are free (small) waters.

McDonalds or a real restaurant, you probably get free refills if it comes from a "fountain" (on tap soda as opposed to a bottle or can).

As other people have said, it's pretty cheap for a business. And expected, so they look cheap if they don't.
Airbnb makes it easier for hosts to list Wi-Fi speeds for remote work getaways
> As of "much smarter than above average programmer", programmers in average are at IQ 115. If we take "above average" as +15 points (IQ's standard deviation) and "much smarter" as another +30 points, we end at 160 IQ points person. Four standard deviations make that person one in roughly 16 000, or sixteen thousands. I think you should know a lot of people, much more than 150 or so of average person, to know many of them.

Nice example that if you define the terms to suit your argument then you can make any argument. Also, the word 'smart' has much wider scope than just IQ. It is also possible that the people OP knows are not sampled randomly from general population (he might be in a chess club for example).
Is there a reason increasing supply wouldn't be an easier solution?
The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points
Pretty much standard in the US. Even at sit down restaurants, free refills of soda is normal.
Well, YAGNI does have both yin and yang in it...
I'm probably in the middle/upper-middle according to the authors opinions and have had very little benefit from it in tech. I'm sure I could have in some other field but tech is very pro-equality and modern in its nature.
It's also typically only required that you give that tap water to customers paying for some other item (at least that's how it work here in the UK).
Async/Await – The challenges besides syntax – Cancellation
>If it's just one class per property, you could just type out the CSS.

You can, but then it rarely happens that you want the CSS to be fixed in that way for all time: the brilliance of tailwind is that you get resposniveness just by adding a few more classes. You cannot do that with inline CSS.
Exactly this: if your house / environment is well adjusted to the circumstances it makes a much bigger impact on the overall experience then the average temperature.

Switzerland as in my example, is about as close to perfect as I have experienced. Yes we get snow in the winter, yes it get hotish (up to 38C.) in the summer, but the houses and streets and road services are all well capable of handling these fluctuations.

EDIT:

"In Bern, the summers are comfortable and wet, the winters are very cold, and it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from -4°C to 24°C (in freedoms: 26°F to 76°F) and is rarely below -10°C or above 30°C. (14°F or above 86°F)"

From: https://weatherspark.com/y/56086/Average-Weather-in-Bern-Swi...
Probably the most genuine thing about him, being Catholic in a non-recusant way deviates from the image he tries to give off (though I doubt many of the target audience care).
My pet issue with technical debt, is what happens when engineers are allowed to pay it down.

In the best case people embark on well-informed yet insane ”version 2.0” over-engineering binges. This can be nice, but is often a waste of time.

Quite often the ones who cried “muh technical debt” in every meeting simply did not understand the problem being solved by the debty code, and end up making something novel but equally problematic.

In the worst case, you have a combination of ignorance and best-practice-hysteria that gets applied to actually-fit-for-purpose code. Then the 200 lines of performant and correct code that takes two hours to fully understand, gets turned into 2000 lines of deeply nested class hierarchies mixed with immutable FP-wank that takes several days to get a grasp of and both fails to handle real-world data (“not in the specification!”) and tanks system performance (“premature optimizations!”).
Using the Metaverse to Simulate Crime Scenes
After a while I get natural body salts on the hairs of my armpits. And I can’t wash them away.
This is what I want from Thunderbird from the receiver end. The most you can do is set the interval at which to check for new messages. But I want to specify some times at which mail is retrieved.

Of course, having the organization agreement where you know your email won't be delivered till a specified time would be even better. But that's beyond my control.
I mean, he did go to Eton and then Oxford, he is married to Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, , his father was Lord Rees-Mogg, he is absurdly wealthy, etc. etc.

So, despite what random commenters on a tech forum (or their friends) might have to say, I think the simplest explanation is that he just is posh.

Obviously, he plays into his image (He doesn't exactly hide this fact). But that doesn't mean his image is false.
A related thing is the strain that seems to exist in British culture to seem and act deliberately crass and lower-class. I can compare it to an Eastern European country with extensive tradition of upper-class culture, but pretty much levelled by fortunate and very unfortunate historical happenings. I can very rarely see that here as an individual thing. People generally want to at least know how to speak the clean standard language and be polite.

For some time I've found it baffling that some people in Britain want to be consciously not like so, as to me it feels more disrespectful even to yourself than the others. (Okay, I'm making it more dramatic for the argument. I don't really care that much.) But then I had the theory that mine is the republican, egalitarian sensibility where cultural aspiration doesn't make you "posh" or feel like sucking up to your conquerors. Actually I've heard from people here that went to school with some of the remnants of old aristocracy and these seem to act pretty haughty and awful. The good thing is, we no longer have to really care. If I lived under British royalty, in a consciously class society where Norman aristocracy still holds 1/3 of land, it would be different.

My advice would be to maybe retry the Commonwealth, preferably with a land reform.
I'm the author. Wow, this is suggesting a lot more drama than actually happened. I just decided that the joke (which after all was not exactly the height of sophisticated comedy) had had its day. I'm sure I could have dug my heels in and made a big thing of it, maybe freewheeling open source developer versus humourless corporate internet, and I imagine I'd have had people lining up as defenders and detractors and whatever, but the thing is ... if I'd done that, it wouldn't have been funny any more anyway, so why bother?

For me, the point of an Easter egg in software is to make people who discover it smile without getting in their way: make a few people's days a little brighter. The nature of this one was that it wasn't all that likely that people would notice it - you had to run man without non-option arguments at the right time and you also had to know enough about ABBA for the output to remind you of the lyrics. For six years I heard barely a peep about it, and I'd pretty much forgotten about it myself, then suddenly it turns up on Stack Exchange and is all over the internet. Somebody on HN suggested that maybe this was the fewest bits needed to encode a widely-distributed earworm. The Register later had a comment thread on it full of ABBA puns. I'd only ruin it if I decided to be an arse about it; for a formerly-obscure silly bit of code, it isn't going to get any better than this anyway.

Four years later, it still occasionally crops up and I get an ABBA earworm for the next day. I'm not sad about that!
We all know what we mean by homeless. It's not a literal definition.
In case you didn't know, the phrase for that style of design is "hostile architecture".
Canned responses from a bot and answers without weighing the arguments given will loose them the following lawsuits. And Germany is a looser-pays country, so given a lost lawsuit after each deleted post or blocked account, they'll be out of a lot of money. And Germany's equivalent of ambulance chasers ("Abmahnanwaelte") are certainly cooling the champagne already.
All object-oriented programs have a data model which is "semi-structured" (ie., non-tabular).

Almost no software application data models are tabular.
> undermines the point

I think it slides right past the point without noticing it, for the reason you state. None of these people are running the UK.
> What free refill at a fast food have to do with homelessness?

The tweet implies that lack of RFID chips attracts homeless people who get free drinks.

So in a way the tweet actually justifies the RFID chip. Which kind of services wants to attract a mass of high-risk, low hygiene (during a pandemic) people who want some change while you're trying to order and have a meal before you go back to work?
Very cool! Would be great to have tile as checkbox component.
https://youtu.be/h_7gV44rA-Q?t=19
This always gives me a chuckle.

It’s dehydrated water.

Just add water.

More seriously, if you put a label on a thing people will enjoy it more because of the brand.
I just take my hat off to Toady. DF is a masterpiece.
Maybe they just want to save them from diabetes
I think most people do this to some degree - we are all affected by negative factors in our childhood which shapes the way we act in later life. So I wouldn't say he's a "schtick", it was a coping mechanism that has worked in his favour - I don't think that's a negative thing, it's not like his ultra-poshness is badly affecting anyone else.

I went to private school in the UK - there are loads of people like him.
Gumroad - where I self-publish my book (https://gum.co/deploymentfromscratch) - does the watermark automatically for PDFs.

That said, probably don't worry about it. I also release additional things (like code), and it's just there for anybody that bought it. I am fine with that.

It would take you a significant effort to prevent bad actors and you would likely make it worse for the your customers in the end. It's just something to accept.
Meanwhile two fossil-fuel power stations in Australia have had much more serious fires recently, which are very unlikely to attract the international medias attention ...
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/victorian-government-...
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/qld-cs-energy-release...
Looking at it now, I see I forgot a "k". It was 350k in 1988, not 350. [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/polio/progress/index.htm
iOS is the OS of the device, and while it does include frameworks, it does not include apps like Apple Maps or Safari.
No, you’re confusing the Conservative party leadership election with the later general election which he won comfortably.
In the UK if you serve alcohol you must provide water (tap usually) as part of the licensing requirements.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39881236
It's good and I wouldn't complain if this was an outcome however better yet would be a system that allows people to buy their own homes. One of the major pitfalls and imo systemic national security risks in Europe are the high income tax rates. This coupled with foreign investment in the property market means that regular Europeans are effectively priced out of the market with no way back in. Long term this is a crazy risk to run for the sake of maintaining inefficient bureaucracies that don't remotely cater to the pressing needs of citizens.
The site is built and managed by Neoen[1]. Tesla are only the battery hardware provider. Neoen operates power and storage plants in 13 countries[2].

[1] https://www.power-technology.com/news/neoen-to-build-300mw-b...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoen
It’s irrelevant whether or not you fit the stereotype, it’s whether or not the business believes your presence harms their sales.
But wait - as soon as you start adding audio podcasts, that's a different use case, and the original UX that it looks like the Doppler author concentrated on and refined for people that buy music is compromised.

And then we add this, and then we add that...

And there's iTunes.
IKEA does this in Europe, at least in Germany.
It’s one and the same, if you claim the DMCA does not protect a host, you say they are exposed to basic copyright infringement claims. That’s why the suit went through appeals from yes, the DMCA protects Google, to no it doesn’t, to yes it does to settlement.
This feels truthy, but [citation needed]?
Engineering existed way before any kind of math or symbolic manipulation. It was a collection of heuristics.

Information theory came after people were already sending signals over the wire. Similarly, there were architectural feats before geometry or Newton’s laws were discovered.
> what academia thinks of technical debt is seriously irrelevant. Academics don't write code for a living. Their take on this matter isn't super important.

I initially agree strongly, but then I remember that labs maintain FORTRAN codebases for years. So I'm curious about their view of technical debt, but its definitely in a different context.
Sounds like something that should be challenged in court.
Oh absolutely, I did preorder one afterall, despite the price ;)
The fantasy console handheld is something thats been much talked about and this seems like by far the most fleshed out version of that. I have a feeling a lot of people in this thread are thinking that all games are for the exact same audience, and thats the reason for some of the confusion and to some extent outrage.
> It seems like a moan about the upper class from a by-gone era.

It’s not even that, because the author has confused middle and upper in British terms. This is a moan about the British middle class.
You think it's unlikely that water is packaged and shipped? What do you think bottled water is? Whether you think someone is cheating with tap water at the source is beside that point. Some do, some bigger brands don't as they have more to lose by cheating. But regardless, water gets packaged and shipped all the time.

Your regular variety grocery store Coca Cola is also 90%+ tap water, bottled and shipped. They're not mixing syrup at the store.
That's hard to say, and it doesn't really matter. Voting for the candidate and voting for the party are difficult to separate. His constituency (North East Somerset) is a new one created in 2010, and he's the only MP to have represented it.

But the previous consituency (Wansdyke) that covered a similar area was Labour from 1997 and until 2010 (the Blair/Brown years), when it was abolished and replaced by North East Somerset, at which point Rees-Mogg won it for the Tories. Prior to 1997 it was historically Tory.

So, we might conclude that it's a moderate Tory seat that doesn't mind going Labour provided its moderate Labour and not Corbynite-type Labour. It's certainly not populated by bunch of dyed-in-the-wool intransigent Tories, so there's every chance Rees-Mogg might have lost if the constituency didn't like him.

Interesting, Rees-Mogg is an arch-Brexiteer but his constituency only very narrowly voted in favour of Brexit (51%), so perhaps they like him and not just the party. Although the Labour and Lib Dem opponents split the Remain vote 50/50, which certainly helped him.
"These people" seem to be more a construct of some people collective imagination.
> The rich don't go to McDonald's.

You do know the last president was a very frequent McDonald's customer right? And he was more than rich.
It's not that life was living hell for everyone either. Plenty of people have lived comfortable lives throughout the ages -- it's just that there are far more of them nowadays.

There's also still a lot of people who have troublesome lives, not to mention people living un-comfortable lives in front of a screen.
Real nice, pity the "see component" popup that appears when clicking on anyhomepage component prevents from checking it out and there is no way to hide said popup

Real nice, looks professional and casual - well done!
We've gone full circle - CSS components to inline CSS-in-HTML back to CSS components.

But I actually think I will use this. A big problem with CSS is that you end up making overrides no matter how composable you make the classes. And some simple things (e.g. responsiveness) are unintuitive and / or annoying to do in CSS. Hence Tailwind's "CSS-in-HTML" mini classes. But that doesn't fill the core purpose of CSS, bigger general-purpose classes to avoid repetition. Combine the two (general classes + mini classes for slight case-by-case fixes) and you get the best CSS experience I've seen so far (at least I think, I haven't tried it yet).
I agree but I think that people are less receptive to that idea despite it being tautological.