skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system's own claims of fraud rates can't be taken seriously; claimed fraud rates were low before the big re-assessment but abuse was sufficiently widespread for it to become a major political issue anyway. All disability benefits systems are always riven with fraud, this isn't exactly a secret. The CIA is based in the US which is a particularly extreme example: there the numbers on long term disability closely tracks general economic performance, with big rises when there's a recession and subsequent fall when the economy recovers.

The UK certainly had many cases of outright "fraud" (whereby you should consider a claim fraudulent if the person is clearly exaggerating their inability to work). That's why at the start of the re-assessment there were over 7,000 people claiming they were unfit to work because they had sexually transmitted infections, and 10,000+ because they were too fat. Huge numbers of people voluntarily stopped receiving disability payments rather than be assessed at all!

Looking it up, the overall rate at which decisions in the UK were appealed against was ~40%. About 60% of appeals were denied. If you wanted to you could therefore consider that the fraud rate was 24% towards the end of the program. But in the earlier days the fraud rate was more like 75%! That's a high fraud rate by any definition, but even so is certainly an under-estimate. The people in question are unemployed, they've got time and there are no downsides to appealing. Meanwhile the appeals authority is, again, entirely un-incentivized to deny applications beyond the fact that if they never did they'd be replaced. We should expect a massive false negative rate on denials.

The original system ATOS used was check-box and computer driven for that reason: it's much easier to design an objective and fair system when you're not in front of someone who's crying and saying they're in pain. It would take a heart of stone to deny people "free" money which is what benefits creates at the point of individual assessment, so you can't rely on individual's subjective judgements. They will almost always side with the complainant, especially if they have to do it in person. There's tons of psychological and emotional downsides to being the "bad guy" and zero reward.
> the rest of the world uses 24hrs, however 12h _sometimes_ is used conversationally;

Here in Norway we use 24 hours when writing; but we use 12 hour system when speaking - if that makes any sense?

I.e. we would say: "Vi spiser middag klokka fem (5)" [We eat dinner at five o'clock]; but we'd write it with 17 typically. We never use the terms AM/PM but can occasionally specify daytime/nighttime if it's uncertain which of the two we are talking about. I.e. "Jeg kom hjem fra jobb klokka fem (5) om morgenen" [I came home from work at five in the morning].
As long as privacy is not a granted right that enables you to sue offenders, there's not much you can do. The EU has at least started to realize the issue but giving the speed of technology vs. the pace of administration, it might be a losing battle.
I must have missed something in the telling of this story, because it sounds like their just cheating.
Apart from rent and salaries, customer chat is our single biggest expense (at very low volume usage, it not being our core business at all). Chatwoot is making it very awkward for the industry and I am glad they do.
I hope Garmin don't think that way, or they're toast. Fortunately it looks like they have an advantage in enough areas they should be ok for now.
> In large companies, don't assume that there is a coherent and unified vision on hiring or growth

...or indeed a coherent and unified vision on anything at all
This take is so incredibly obnoxious, and it's particularly obnoxious because it is so prevalent in my generation (Millennials) that it actually started poisoning others that never had a problem with this (Gen X comes to mind).

Phone calls are actually great, especially in these days: it's the only way to ensure you can have a stable, consistent conversation with someone that's not standing in front of you (individual or business), in an age where it became socially acceptable to skim text messages without reading them properly, leading to obnoxious, error prone communication, or to just stop replying to people whenever you feel like it, even when in the middle of a somewhat synchronous messaging session, in particular when you're forced to make a decision or relay bad news to the other party (the horror!).

"No one should ever be able to interrupt me, absolutely ever" is a disturbingly entitled and modern take. Not too long ago, it was perfectly fine for people to turn up at your house unannounced, to pay you a visit, for no reason in particular other than to engage socially and you were expected to host them at your house (!). Surely we can deal with the very occasional call from someone that wants 5 minutes of your time, no? This opinion is so popular that I wonder if I'm the only one who doesn't have dozens of people competing for my attention on a daily basis.

If spam calls are an issue (and I understand they're absolutely horrid in the US, whereas in the UK, where the author is from, you may get one or two spam calls ever couple of months, from my experience), just don't answer unknown numbers unless you're waiting for a specific callback, as most people do.

The article then goes on about a couple of unrelated things that have nothing to do with telephones, such as companies having inadequate customer support channels or online banking functionalities. Taking his Barclays example, he could do what he wanted (adjust loan repayments) in branch, yet it is of course time consuming to do so. If Barclays was unable to service him by phone, would he also be denouncing "talking to people in real life" in general because that's the only method this particular bank offered him for servicing his account? No one is arguing changing your loan repayments shouldn't be an online banking functionality there.

And yes, if you're ill but can't be arsed to call your NHS GP, then you're clearly not sick and shouldn't be tying up already strained public resources. If you do have a proper disability, then I do believe your GP should arrange for an alternate means of communication with you. "I don't like phones" is not a disability, it's entitlement.
Yep. Lets optimize for the 20%, let the 80% adapt by moving their phone further away.
Body language certainly conveys some information, but only to a degree. "Experts" basically just created an expectation toward body language and use that as a reference. For complex emotions this is similar as a horoscope, it fits if you believe in it. This is also why there is "training" for body language.

Of course you can "read" the general emotion someone is in.
Being European, I prefer "Sunday in column 1" calendars.

Not for religious reasons or because I consider Sunday to actually be the first day of the week, but for practical reasons: It gives me a clearer understanding of the workweek. It moves Wednesday (in my language called "middle of the week") into the week's center. It deemphasizes the weekend for planning (and thus for planning work), making them better rest days.

YMMV.
I'm not familiar with Adguard, but uBO Minus is meant to be a shadow of regular uBO, because it tries not to request page permissions for every website by default. Presumably, an actual MV3 version will do that and use that to at least fall back to visual blocking if request blocking is not possible.
they do not have similar metabolic effects. Go look up studies on blood sugar levels of diet vs regular soda.
The title is a bit misleading, It's not fully open source.

There is an enterprise folder which you can't use without a subscription.

And its not clear which Features are OSS and which are source-available.

As for tips for the product, think about supporting the Matrix Protocol, which has many social media bridges, other than that it looks good.
I think teaching is a skill by itself. Effective teachers usually grasp the theory behind the learning process, while this is not necessarily true for expert practitioners. There is much more to this: knowing how to communicate effectively, how to keep learners engaged, adapting to your students etc. This means a person can effectively teach the basics without having deep technical expertise, it's simply not the most important skill in teaching beginners imo.

So assuming those are somewhat independent skills, you can find skilled practitioners and skilled teachers but in my experience it's hard to find someone with that skills intersection. I consider this kind of people quite exceptional.
Great, looking forward to following the progress of the project. I love static sites and Next.js, so I'm definitely interested in the framework. Please post again, I'll make sure to up vote! :)
HTTP libraries do "just exist" for every usable language because almost everything is based on HTTP. Its a piece of common platform that someone puts the effort once and then you have opened up almost everything relating to network protocols. Basing your protocol on HTTP now means you have an absolutely huge amount of stuff for free. Error handling, encryption, verification, streaming, the whole set of tooling around hosting HTTP protocols like nginx, load balancers, etc.

I'd challenge you to find a single production suitable language which _doesn't_ have a http library.
Might I ask what for?
Would a company like Apple use McMaster
I’m actually really interested in this. Clearly in Jesus’s time the Hebrew week went Sunday–Saturday. That definition remained at least for long enough to make into Ecclesiastical Latin and further into, e.g., Portuguese (segunda-feira, etc.). So why does ISO 8601 go Monday–Sunday? Was it codifying existing practice in Europe? When did that practice begin? Was America colonized before Europe switched to Monday–Sunday, or is America’s Sunday–Saturday a fundamentalist reversion to something more Biblically accurate?
So glad someone invented davmail: https://davmail.sourceforge.net/index.html
> The is/as pair seems like a tremendous improvement to the dismal C++ type inspection and casting status quo.

No, unfortunately, it further complicates C++, because the original ways of expressing the same thing will not be removed. You'll just need to remember another level of sugar, but must not forget the lower levels -- e.g., if you want to extend your own type to work with this, you'll need to provide the right plugin definitions. I was especially appalled by the 'x.get()' and 'x.value()' equivalences -- this is just a layer of obfuscation.

That table Herb provides will be added to C++ -- but nothing will be removed.
>Canadian tech startups are hilarious. The domestic media likes to play up Hootsuite in Vancouver like it's a big deal.

Don't forget how, after Trump's election in 2016, Canadian media proclaimed at length how hordes of tech companies and employees would flee north of the border. Montreal as "AI superpower", anyone?
This is the big problem with healthcare in capitalism. If everything is about profit, then healthcare also becomes about profit, and hospitals will decide on treatment based on what's profitable to them, instead of what's better for the patient and for society.

There's always going to be some trade-off of course, because resources are never infinite. But preventative healthcare is a lot cheaper and better for quality of life than waiting until limbs need to be lopped off.
For me it's my parents.
some people made a dom based terminal ui with block based entries, every command is linked to its output

it was very ambitious but I don't know where it's at now
You can easily tweak the manifest.json to grant the extension permissions on all urls.

Give it a shot and see that it still falls behind and doesn't block much of the annoyances.
I didn't know about Realtime Trains (https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/). I'm definitely going to be using that!

It shows a lot of technical detail, but the exciting bit is that it has the platform a train is booked to use, shown in light text, before the platform is actually confirmed, when it turns bold. Departure boards and other apps that use the standard feed only show the platform once it has been confirmed. That's obviously sensible from the point of view of crowd management and avoiding mishap, but I would often like to have a provisional idea of what to expect.
No. If it's a small subset, it would be better to create a simple lang instead. Except the purpose is to stay close to javascript-like, is it for general purpose?

> user’s STS
program is compiled to machine code in the browser

Okay, that would be it.
Let me try to sum it up:

- Friends/good-willing people

- Stoicism
HN is the embodiment of the "old man yells at cloud" meme. The world moves on and they are angry that the next generation doesn't care about writing perl scripts for their custom gentoo install.

>Old movies are good because back in my day they just made them better. Now all they make is mass produced crap!
> I see: 2 layoffs (not your fault), 2 temporary contracts.

How would you figure out just by looking at a resumé that the 1 year job experience listed is a layoff?
> Garmin can do 50hrs of it.

Isn't that in UltraTrac mode though which is essentially useless (based on my experience using it with my Fenix 5, anyway)?
No, but the U.S. needs to catch up with plastic cash.
Laundering cash can be a good thing
...especially during a pandemic!
>Only $50k grants? You must have missed the AI startup wave here in Montreal.

Indeed, I certainly remember the days when Montreal was said to be the next "AI superpower".

How much of that was driven by the media predicting after Trump's election in 2016 that hordes of tech companies and employees would flee north of the border? (And how much of that reporting, in turn, was driven by smug Trudeau government bureaucrats who actually believed what they told sympathetic/gullible reporters?)
If you agree that allowing more people to have access to certain information is a net good, and that a adding financial barrier to access reduces the amount of people that can access it, then you agree that making information contingent on payment is strictly negative.

The problem is that under our current "make money or die" societal model, if you optimized for net good you'd end up starving on the streets.
Tobi: Sora as a Service
The paper cup forming machine is a fully automatic paper cup forming equipment, which can stably produce various specifications of paper cups.
On the price side, Cambridge has 3x the population of segovia, and the same distance. Similarly, London has 3x the population of Madrid. My quick Google says there's 6 million jobs in London and 3 million in Madrid. My napkin math says that the demand for the Cambridge route is likely to be 2x if not 3x the Madrid route.

Youve also missed over the fact that the Cambridge train is more like 45 minutes than 60.
When you see 15-year-long battles to get covered for brain injury acquired in combat due to IEDs, yet there are no apparent wounds, that is a stunning perspective on wounded vets. check out latest news at https://thevocalvixen.com/
Resumes and cover letters: An extension school resource (2021) [pdf]
Whatever their reasoning, it means i have to have an email client and a browser to log in. Can't say I like that.
> The EU should intervene and make it easier.

They're about to. National train operators were mandated to find a solution to homogenize booking but it's getting nowhere.
What country is that? I’ve only really seen 12h time in America and it’s colonies.
Ignoring authentication, POP and IMAP truly are legacy protocols in the sense that they were designed in an era where bandwidth, not latency was the major constraint for accessing email. It made sense to send a notification that the size of your inbox changed, and let the client decide whether or not to fetch your emails. Since then, internet connections have gotten tens of thousands of times more bandwidth, but the speed of light hasn't improved correspondingly.
While it's hardly as dynamic as the U.S., Denmark seems to be doing just fine in the tech space. It's fair to say that a lot of tech talent is in larger organisations rather than startups. Denmark is a very sticky place to live (the quality of life is amazing, particularly for families), so people are reluctant to leave even if wages are not excellent. That said, wages are very good for Europe (there is only one or two countries where I could earn more).

All in all I see plenty of tech talent, it's just that, internationally, tech talent doesn't see Denmark as an obvious choice to which to relocate. Nine times out of 10, that's the U.S.
Small note on the part about the price range UI controls: the author criticizes Amazon for using min, max number inputs rather than a slider control.

2 arguments against a slider:

1. Potentially it is much harder to make an accessible slider control.
2. Sliders break down when you have a distribution skewed away from normal. For instance, if 90% of results are in the range $0-$50, but then a few results are over $1000, how do you calibrate the slider? A naïve approach would render it almost unusable if you want to limit to products between $20 - $30. Otherwise you need some sort of logarithmic scale. I've not seen examples of this being done well.
This is a surprisingly popular take, so I'm curious.

If texting didn't exist and everyone you talk with had to switch to talking over the phone, how many people would you have to answer per day? This is assuming everyone would turn a text conversation into a call, which obviously is the worst case and wouldn't happen.

Everyone with "text message anxiety" I know acts like they have 20 friends blasting on their phone every day, sucking up all of their precious Netflix time, yet I look at their Whatsapp and it's two unread messages from yesterday at best (DMs, of course – undirected group chat messages obviously don't count, groups can be muted and no one expects a reply on those unless they're tagged or it's a general question to arrange something, which is rare).
Digging a ROM out of a motherboard made you value the machine even more. I can distinctly remember bending the leg on one of the chips and carefully straightening it, otherwise that would have been £80 (?!?!?) down the drain which was a lot back in the early 90s.
Also check out https://github.com/khalidx/runbook (shameless plug). Executable markdown documents that you can run. Great for DevOps and sharing commands with the team.
What is the all-inclusive-with-tax cost to the customer of a PS5 in USD? I guess that would be a fairer comparison: actual cost to customer.
I use it daily since around 9 months, it is a great IDE. Even for non-GNOME applications, as you can write plugins that e.g. integrate linters/language servers with just a bit of effort compared to e.g. IntelliJ or Eclipse.
I Built a Rocket That Lands – Scout F Engineering Cut
6502 is so bare bones, that programming it even over things like x86 is instructive, it really forces you (or it does for me) to think hard about doing things, even mundanely "easy" things that people who only program C say are fast and low level.

But anyway, it's not "useful" for actual everyday work, it's more of a nice challenge that keeps your mind sharp.

And for my c64, ah I need time to solder stuff so it can connect to another machine, much less the internet ;) one of these days...
I'm becoming a broken record, but:

Just use Zoho Mail: https://www.zoho.com/mail/

Zoho has a history of being good: https://www.zoho.com/25/

Zoho's privacy policy: https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html

(Disclaimer: I work at Zoho).
> What I'm hearing you say is that the hardware has baked-in private keys. That is not biometrics, that's public-private key authentication.

Even if you could write your sensor's face data into someone else's phone, you still wouldn't be able to authenticate with it, because it doesn't have the same sensor. It's not just different keys, the fixed layout of the IR pattern is different.

> I'd rather hold a hand over a PIN pad than having to wear a mask to prevent my face from being scanned in public.

And not sure what the actual threat model here is, but I don't think strangers can scan your face in a way that's useful to Face ID. (Wearing a mask doesn't stop general identification technology, it doesn't even break Face ID anymore.)
They cooperate with EuroPol extensively tho
Maybe they could just release the prints ....
45 and that's basically me. In particular this:

"I have no idea about how effective pair programming is. My desire to discover it is zero."

:)
I don’t think you (nor parent) read the actual post.

1. The problem presented is not that parking apps exfiltrate data from your phone, it’s that anyone can throw your plate number into it and get notified of when you pass through specific areas.

2. Your solution would not address the problem. Problem is not one of data portability, but the fact that your license plate may be registered in a system without your consent or awareness. The convenience of the service is directly at odds with privacy/security, and the post is asserting that the gain in convenience achieved through the current implementation is not worth the perils of the unfettered tracking possible through it. It provides non-governmental solutions to ameliorate the issue.
Just off the top of my head:

- made hospitals disclose healthcare prices

- cleaned up asylum rules

- banned Chinese equipment from 5G networks

- enacted criminal justice reform

And the most important: he's the only recent president who didn't start a new war. That alone would be enough to write his name in golden letters.
Protonmail collaborate with EuroPol extensively, I wouldn't reccomend it for EU users
There’s more similarities than just that. Iran was founded by Indo-Europeans.
this speaks to the power dynamics between employers and employees. it’s predatory to not give raises that would match finding a new job. it’s also unfortunate finding a new job is the only way to get a raise due to the lack of productivity in ramping up for X months every job, and having to reform networks.

the simple solution to not encouraging job hopping is to.. wait for it.. pay people what they’re worth on the open market.

the saddest part about this to me is that people on an interview panel have some sort of subconscious bias/loyalty to the company and will say, “well they have several short stints,” and perpetuate the bullshit.
I'm primarily interested in remote only jobs. Happy to visit an office every 2 weeks without complaint. Weekly's tolerable but I'd pick almost any other remote job over it. More than once a week in office feels silly, just say you don't offer remote working. Company's gonna have to chip in if they want me to move house.

I am open to do full time in-office, would prefer not though because frequent commuting kinda gives me the waking up dread after a bit. Tends to be less productive for both me and the company.
At least in religion I think the idea that reasons follow belief rather than precede it is quite acknowledged. I think that's part of what in Christianity it meant when it says that faith is a gift of God. In my own conversion I felt it very intensely - my belief came over me in a sudden, external (or miraculous) way. I then spent 6 months learning everything there was to learn about my new found faith to placate my reason that I hadn't simply gone mad, but the temporal flow was clearly belief -> reason rather than the reverse.

In some ways it's like falling in love. Most of us don't evaluate potential partner on a bunch of metrics and then after they reach a sufficiently high ranking we declare ourselves in love. Rather we fall in love instinctively, then evaluate the person rationally (and sometimes reject them, like when the circumstances aren't right or we can see their flaws even through the rose tinted glasses, etc.)
In my country, New Zealand, Garmin pay only supports cards from one bank and about five random credit cards issued by stores and consumer credit firms. It is exceptionally disappointing.