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Sholmesy commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
jpmonette · 3 months ago
phewphoria
Sholmesy · 3 months ago
Well, at least something good came out of this incident.

Perfect.

Sholmesy commented on How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry   construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
widdershins · 3 months ago
> With respect to the income tax, it is possible for higher earning (not by US standards) employees to receive a bonus and actually take home less money than before they received the bonus.

What are you referring to here? Higher rates of income tax are only taken on the money earned over the band. So If you earn £50,271, you pay 20% on £50,270 and 40% on £1.

Are you referring to some other kind of tax then?

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates

Sholmesy · 3 months ago
As well as the childcare benefit removal others have mentioned, you also begin losing your "tax free allowance".

The marginal tax rate for 100k -> 125k is 60% (due to losing the ~£12k tax free allowance)

  "Your personal allowance goes down by £1 for every £2 that your adjusted net income is above £100,000. This means your allowance is zero if your income is £125,140 or above."

Sholmesy commented on Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform   struct.ai/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/jdplex
mrjn · 2 years ago
Manish, founder here.

We intend to keep Struct running. Struct is built with a small of 3: Backend, Designer and Frontend. It's not that capital intensive.

We have a roadmap of features that we're excited to get to, combining both teams and community usecases:

- Enable audio / video calls, webinars. - Various spam control systems for community. - Improving the AI bot and recall, making it cheaper to run. - Index the docs shared on Struct, so AI can respond to questions from there as well (obv while maintaining access control) - the list goes on.

The thing is. What excites me about Struct is that, it combines a bunch of use cases for us.Struct is replacing two chat platforms (team and community), a task management system, a ChatGPT, my personal TODO list, a publicly indexable knowledge-base for us.

It's amazing what you can do when you can trust a system to not forget.

Sholmesy · 2 years ago
3 people is insanely lean for something that looks this polished.

Try and maintain that for as long as you can.

Sholmesy commented on Uber posts first quarterly net profit   wsj.com/articles/uber-q2-... · Posted by u/boeingUH60
albedoa · 3 years ago
How is it to society's benefit if someone doesn't buy a [MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MACHINE]? It could be if someone [IMAGES MAGNETIC RESONANCE] less, but if they replace a [MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MACHINE] with a [MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MACHINE] [OPERATED] by another person, it seems to be even worse.
Sholmesy · 3 years ago
Bit of a facetious response and not in the spirit on HN, but you absolutely nailed the choice of noun with MRI machine, lol. Perfect.
Sholmesy commented on Higher interest rates mean for the size and distribution of UK household wealth   resolutionfoundation.org/... · Posted by u/ksec
HWR_14 · 3 years ago
Are rents in the UK rising 10% YoY? In the US, rents on new leases aren't rising anywhere near that fast.
Sholmesy · 3 years ago
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/time...

ONS says RPI is 11% this month, peaked at 14% YoY end of last year.

Highest it's been since 1980

Sholmesy commented on ELO Everything   eloeverything.co/... · Posted by u/admp
Sholmesy · 3 years ago
Hitler is currently rank 1, so, that's an interesting application of Godwin's Law
Sholmesy commented on Reddit Strike Has Started   reddark.untone.uk/... · Posted by u/Freddie111
crazygringo · 3 years ago
> I think it is a fair to say that if you use and especially pay for third party tools, whether that be a client or something like RES, you are more than likely a power user.

I've seen this repeated elsewhere but I've seen zero actual evidence of it.

And the counterpoint is quite easy: that people use these apps/extensions for a better viewing experience. Because on the creation side, typing into a text box or pasting a link is just typing into a text box. The apps/extensions are great for consuming.

Quick Google searches reveal that Reddit has something between 0.5 and 1.5 billion monthly users, while the Apollo app has 1.5 million monthly users. That's nothing.

The bigger question seems to be around moderators who use power moderation tools. Will Reddit keep allowing moderation tools? If not, will they improve their own? If they lose moderators, are there other moderators willing to take their place, or will they start investing in more ML-based moderation, etc.?

Sholmesy · 3 years ago
> Quick Google searches reveal that Reddit has something between 0.5 and 1.5 billion monthly users

Not disagree-ing with your points, but do you have a source for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test to me.

1.5B people is ~ 20% of the world population, and probably closer to 50% of those with computers & internet capable of downloading reddit.com, an image heavy forum.

I'm in the demographic for Reddit (30s, male, western country), and I think maybe 10% of my friends, family & coworkers even know what Reddit is, let along are an MAU.

Sholmesy commented on I worked at Google for -10 days   andgein.ru/blog/all/20-i-... · Posted by u/vanburen
chippiewill · 3 years ago
In the UK you don't get the typical employment rights until after 2 years of employment. Most employment contracts have you on zero-notice until 6 month probation is completed.
Sholmesy · 3 years ago
This is misinformation. Maybe you've had this situation/contract, but that is very much not the norm.
Sholmesy commented on Apple delays its mixed reality headset by two months, to debut at WWDC this June   9to5mac.com/2023/02/15/ap... · Posted by u/astlouis44
manuelabeledo · 3 years ago
I'm probably not part of the target audience of this - I don't enjoy VR and I honestly feel like proper XR is still years beyond our reach.

But I will say that, as someone who travels quite a bit, I would love to just have some nice, high resolution glasses, that would emulate my monitor setup back home with minimal drawbacks. That alone would make me quite happy.

The Apple headset would be probably overkill for this, I know. Regardless, it surprises me that there are very few vendors aiming at delivering such a straightforward feature.

Sholmesy · 3 years ago
> I would love to just have some nice, high resolution glasses, that would emulate my monitor setup back home with minimal drawbacks.

Boy do I have the product for you!

https://www.nreal.ai/air/

Exists, in the real world, shipping from Amazon, many reviews on YouTube.

Sholmesy commented on ChatGPT Plus   openai.com/blog/chatgpt-p... · Posted by u/davidbarker
fifafu · 3 years ago
Nice, I'm the developer of BetterTouchTool and I'll definitely use this one myself :-)
Sholmesy · 3 years ago
Heaping on the praise, use this tool every day, for years, on every mac I've had. Best 15 quid spent

u/Sholmesy

KarmaCake day1142December 19, 2015View Original