skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law has always included consideration for this loophole. Every employee must at least average state minimum wage for their 80-hour paychecks, including tips.

So the employee has to record their tips (often but not always, in the same computer system they record their hours) and make sure their employer correctly compensated them for the shortfall between actual earnings and minimum wage.

Minimum wage laws basically says “Every employee must make the minimum wage when tips and employer payments are combined. Also, employers must always pay at least $2.13/hr (federal) regardless of amount that is earned in tips.”

The “real” issue is that $2.13/hr combined with averaging earnings over a paycheck leads to very very mismatched incentives for a business deciding what hours they should be open. The business has very low marginal cost so they’ll stay open during hours when it’s not profitable to the laborers because not enough customers ever walk in to make them minimum wage during those extra off-peak hours.
Those are minor and often temporary dings compared to not paying back loans on time or at all. For example, if you don’t have a loan history, your score isn’t low enough that you can’t get an apartment or get a car loan. Then by doing those things you can build credit. The other things, open and closing accounts too quickly, or making lots of loan inquiries over a short period of time, lead to temporary dings that recover in a few months (they just throttle your credit). The rules are not explicit enough I agree, but it’s not like most of them couldn’t be covered in a high school financial literacy class.

Almost everyone significantly disenfranchised by bad credit are actually for things that would obviously lead to bad credit (to their fault or not; i.e. identity theft could be involved).
> An open source client gives a false sense of security as the APK you're downloading is compiled. In the end you still need to decompile the APK to know what it is really doing.

Okay, so we're ignoring verifiable builds exist?

> Open source client doesn't matter in mobile world, as you never compile the app yourself.

That's a really weird take. Nobody ever checks files for corruption or modification but hashes still exist. Just because most people do not check something does not mean it's non-existent or pointless.

> So the Telegram's admins can read all the messages in plain text on the backend.

They can't. The messages are encrypted on the servers and their keys are split between multiple jurisdictions. No engineer can decrypt messages.
I feel like the lesson they (unintentionally) taught the industry was “stack ranking exists and was used at big SV companies!”

So managers everywhere who only saw lots of headlines thought it must be cool just like Scrum and microservices and decided to adopt it.
That said the site UI could do this for us. It then becomes just a beef on the protocol.
Even in our most dystopian RAND-suggested bedtime story vision of a "communist hellhole", those proles who happened to possess a ruble when they got to the front of the breadline could buy a loaf. In the supercapitalist future, all transactions will require the approval of more than the two involved parties. Good luck buying anything if you ever express skepticism toward the great and powerful credit bureaus.
> Growth marketers wanted more autonomy to manage their data, but were not necessarily willing to put the extra effort into: (i) understanding the structure of a database (dozens of tables), (ii) practice lightweight data modeling.

> To summarize, we listened (too) “literally” to interviewees and assumed that “SQL literacy” prevented growth teams from accessing the data they needed. The truth is what prevents them is a mix between “data literacy” (data concepts, and how the data is collected and stored within each company) and “appetite to ramp up on data”.

As someone in the industry, this doesn't goes deep enough. In my experience, many teams, Growth Teams in particular, blamed their problems on the data, when it's really that they don't have a model. By model, I mean a simple representation of the problem space they're trying to solve. Models are useful because they abstract a bunch of details, that are unnecessary for success. The right model enables shared focus because all the disagreements are settled outside the model. But building a model takes a lot of thought, which can't really be automated. Nevermind the consensus to get people to buy into it. I'd even argue that the analytics managers who are hired themselves are mostly useful for translating existing models, defined by leadership, into data, and not coming up with one themselves.

Growth teams struggle quite a bit with modeling; I suspect because the problem space they have control over is largely saturated. A model fitted to that space tell them that, so instead they play the data blame-game. The OP subtly hints at the deception in their userbase.
And whites are locked up at a shockingly higher rate than asians are. Men are locked up at shockingly higher rates than women are. So do we blame Asian supremacy or female supremacy for that? Or is it possible not all demographic groups commit crimes at the same rate?
Never. No one ever took me up on the offer.

Sometimes you just have employees constantly asking for an out-of-cycle raise or promotion. And sometimes they are mediocre but have an inflated perception of their abilities or contributions.

Pay should reflect personal contributions and market conditions. If they think they are worth some percentage above a normal engineer’s salary based on their location, they need to do the research and convince me.

The best engineers I work with get a raise or promotion any opportunity that I can, even without asking.
Windows never used syscalls officially - the Windows API evolved from essentially having the operating system be inside few shared libraries that your program linked with. Even once the idea of syscall started showing up with protected mode and NT, the applications wouldn't directly invoke them, but through interfaces in the libraries.

Thus there was never really a proper need to have stable syscall interface, because at least officially no application was supposed to use them - they were private implementation details of various DLLs.
I'm thinking Lemmy is a good option for this. Compatible with Mastodon too.
People downvoting you have not had the unfortunate experience of working with PayPal on any kind of ongoing/substantial basis.
You can do 100% of the legal ass covering that you need to do, with performance evaluations, pips, and careful documentation.

I’m not convinced that stack ranking is a good solution to this problem. A good organization and HR team knows how to terminate someone who is not performing well without incurring legal liability.

It can be a somewhat drawn out process, but a stack ranking system doesn’t seem like it would make it a lot faster to me.

My gut is stack ranking came about because a business school graduate realized that performance is probably distributed among a bell curve (it probably is), and if you could continually prune the worst performing 3% of the org you could continually improve the quality of the remaining workers.
Certainly a compelling piece of evidence, here, to not allow the open internet or personal devices during tests designed to check how much someone has learned.

Also curious to see if anyone has any luck asking ChatGPT for how to fix specific problems at their current companies, vs asking an MBA.
There is, in the 'doomgeneric/' directory.
> The bill proposes to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and eliminate the federal income tax. So far, so good.

I can only hope this can be laughed out of the Overton Window.
Yeah. I watch closely the development of games made by Frost Giant Games and DreamHaven. That's where the people who made those good games went.
Economists generally agree that a consumption tax is much better for society than income tax, when they can separate their decision from politics. It's simpler and fairer, while also reducing the lobbing and corporate donations that plague our government

This is a good discussion on the complexities IRL and in transition https://www.brookings.edu/on-the-record/the-pros-and-cons-of...
> I'm reminded of the need to supply AI with certified, authoritative information.

Well this should make it a lot easier for the government to control what the "truth" is then.
Moreso than professional sports or actors?
I would not loan someone thousands of dollars on a "trust me bro", so I wouldn't expect banks to either. Corruption of the authority judging trustworthiness is bad, but there just needs to be an authority doing this.

The real problem is more likely that wages and living expenses are not in sync, which just fucks over the poor people. Using credit to avoid literally dying on the street is more a symptom of wages making no sense.

It's sad. I don't like it either. I don't trust these people either. Equifax fucked me and millions of others, and I got a check for $5.21. There is no justice and there never will be.
My assumption has always been that it's never actually supposed to have been about "improvement", just about trying to scare people into submitting more to management demands. If your manager in a stack-ranked company decides to tell the team to work overtime on the weekends to get the release out faster, no one wants to be the only one to say no when you're all quite literally competing with each other to not be in the bottom. It's not a coincidence that stack ranking turns unreasonable demands from management quite explicitly into a prisoner's dilemma problem.
I think Friendica has some of these features built-in.
how does handling crypto work, do you exchange it for USD daily in order to avoid fluctuations in the value of crypto?
Parts of Detroit are much nicer, particularly downtown and midtown. They're tearing out I-375 which will make a huge difference immediately northeast of downtown. Soon, the Gordie Howe International Bridge will be complete and I believe that will be a boon to Southwest Detroit. The city of Hamtramck, which is inside Detroit, has also grown a lot and is probably the most religious and ethnically diverse spot in the state. There are some huge festivals (Movement / Mo Pop / Jazz Fest).

Just wish they would get rid of all the parking lots...
Founder of Kodezi here,

Answering some of the questions that was raised.

Our goal with Kodezi is to become a centralized development platform for developers to use regardless of their experience or skill level. We realized early on the amount of autocomplete clones, and our goal from day 1 was to create an autocorrect/Grammarly-like approach to code debugging.

Original Post from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29635354

In the next couple of months, we plan to release automated code debugging, merging, and automated PRs for Git, along with cloud integrations for Enterprises we are working with and a CLI for Kodezi. As well as a LLM for code debugging at scale.

Kodezi does not store your code; the data from file names we gather for our inference models use encryption.

Kodezi supports and debugs bugs of all nature, functional, syntax, logic, and more. We will have an overview of all types of bugs/errors Kodezi has been trained on to give users a better idea of solving issues.

Kodezi uses large parameter language models trained on a collection of natural and programming languages from various open-source places, along with Open Source LLMs like Bloom and CodeGen. Kodezi has been training data from open-source repositories and StackOverflow data since 2019.

Code productivity and learning have been our goals since day 1; not an auto-completion tool that does not allow new programmers to learn.
On the contrary, the actual rules and methodologies for credit score calculations are not documented anywhere public.

Saying essentially "just don't do bad things to your reputation" is at most a very hand wavy "rule of thumb", but it's not a codified "rule" of the sort we should expect to see of such a consequential system.
7:30am - wake up, shower, eat something small (fruit, etc.)

7:40am - start work

9:00am - coffee

10:00am - stand-up

10:30am - resume work

11:30am - gym

12:30pm - lunch

1:00pm - resume work

4:00pm-5:00pm - finish work, depending on day
It would be immediately replaced by a new federal agency, the Tariff Acquisition eXtractors.
> that's... a completely different company?

They're part of the same company, i.e. the Chinese government. The implication is that NetEase was pressured to drop the Blizzard deal in order to benefit Tencent.
Why do you have to neutralize them into ‘people close to her’? They are her brothers. Call it like it is. Every brother-sister relationship I’ve known is distinctly different than brother-brother or sister-sister relationships.
Macs just use standard LPDDR RAM that's nothing special, but also not replaceable
Some SD cards do, some don’t. When I use them as HDs in vintage computers I get those that do.
Thanks! I really appreciate the direct report.

My dad, who grew up in Milwaukee, was shocked to learn that the thing he knew as a "bubbler" was everywhere else called a "water fountain". Like you, he didn't know until college.
Low power factor can make other devices nearby unstable by introducing noise or uneven ac cycles. Its overblown, sure, but tends to be a reliable indicator of overall quality as most engineers will only optimize for it with higher quality designs. Lower quality designs can often be dirtier and shorter lasting due to feedback, inefficiency and parts omission.
That's a reasonable line of thought, but NZ already has a fairly robust black market for tobacco products: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/12/17/new-zealands-pl...

> a tenth of the tobacco consumed in 2019 in New Zealand was illicit.

which is broadly similar to the US market, if admittedly on the low end: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19016/understandin...

> the portion of the total U.S. tobacco market represented by illicit sales has grown in recent years and is now between 8.5 percent and 21 percent

I think a lot of people underestimate how difficult combating smuggling is, even with a tiny landmass and no land borders. Nobody's checking every container, much less package.
A reasonable take if you ignore how this system reinforces existing inequality + the ways this system is used outside its original scope.

Also you have to admit it’s kind of fucked up that there’s no total opt out mechanism.
>> I don't really understand how stack ranking is supposed to work.

It doesn't. Ever.

I'll give you two examples.

I currently work at a company that does stack ranking. The first year I started at the company, I started in the middle of the year. I was told because of that, I wasn't eligible for a bonus or salary increase. I later found out this was total BS.

Second year? I work my ass off. Stay late, develop new tools for the team which are then used on other teams. I got some visibility with those tools with several managers. I consistently take on extra work, present to project leaders, go to any and all conferences, make reports, and suggest new technologies my manager and other managers. I feel like I hit it out of the park. Nope. Two project managers didn't like me and rated me low. My manager ranked me in the lower tier. I got a pittance for a bonus and no salary increase.

Third year? I'm a bitter, frustrated developer. I decided, "Well fuck it, I gave you a great effort and got nothing in return. This year, the company gets fuck all." I barely worked. I did the absolute minimum. I was "quiet quitting" before it was cool. I'd log off early every day. I refused to take on more work. I missed or ignored meetings that weren't absolutely required. I worked on several side projects instead. I was getting paid a high six figure salary to do as little as possible. It was completely glorious. We get to the end of the year, I get the same low ranking. Same pittance of a bonus, and because it was my third year, I got a small raise in my salary.

That was the end result of stack ranking. It didn't matter what YOU did, it only mattered what your co-workers did and how they felt about you. You could have the best year of your life, be totally plugged in and kicking ass, but if someone didn't like you? It was all for not which I soon realized very quickly.

Its incredibly hard to try and be your best when you're constantly looking over your shoulder. Its impossible to be "all in" when you absolutely know your effort will be for nothing.

Even Microsoft famously gave up on it when they realized it cost their company a decade of progress because stank ranking encouraged managers to sabotage their co-workers projects in order to look good on their own year-end reviews.

https://slate.com/technology/2013/08/stack-ranking-steve-bal...

Its absolutely staggering to think there are companies still out there using this to measure employees performance. Its beyond toxic and will suck the life out of your team, your managers and your employees.
I've definitely seen engines with optional UI/QOL improvements included in ScummVM. Ultima VI, for instance, has a number of options that make it play a little closer to Ultima VII.
Crypto exchange Gemini lays off 10% of workforce in its latest round of cuts
Yeah. I can tell from playing OW2 that there are literally 0 "old Blizzard" employees left. Even ignoring the things that players really hate like monetization strategies, you can tell the culture is gone. New characters say their own name wrong for months after release ("Hey, it's Keiko!" did get fixed). New characters have identical silhouettes to existing characters (try identifying Nemesis Ramattra versus Sigma through a wall). It's just little things like that where they've given presentations and written blog posts on how it's so important to not mess things like that up, and then you watch them mess it up and charge you $10 a month to play a game you already bought.

It's sad to watch because the figureheads go off to start their own companies, and the games just aren't as good. Blizzard spent way more money on game design (mythology, iteration after iteration of characters before release) than any startup could ever afford to, and they really reaped the rewards. Then Activision buys them, decides they should focus on Candy Crush, the employees all sexually harass each other, and it's over! (To be fair, I think a lot of people left because they made more than enough money over their career. Who wouldn't leave when you have enough to retire.) It's sad because it will be a long time before we see a similar game studio appear again. If you like their games, pray and take up a hobby like fishing. It will be a while before we're having the same kind of fun that we used to have.
> Then go on a very very long walk while your Darwin machine is now compiling node.

Yes, if you fall off the happy-path of cached public hydra builds you can easily go from "a few seconds" to "lol maybe today?". Cross-compilation especially is likely to burn you bad in this regard.
where's the coffee shop?
I would guess that this new implementation is a prelude to a round of layoffs, and when he refused to participate in the (Possibly unknown to him, but if so probably an indication that he didn't have his ear to the ground enough) layoff planning it was easier to put him first on the chopping block.
And most Apple products are made by a Taiwanese company manufacturing in mainland China based on Apple's instructions with Apple branding slapped on them (of course).

The difference is just the 'Designed in California' part, which in the case of a security key should be negligible in terms of cost outlay.
Sure, and to take it further, I could’ve just copy and pasted it myself and not complained at all.

It all reduces, but it’s simpler to just have categories of content. And this is a category error of a blog post in tweet form.

There’s probably browser extensions for twitter threads already, could be a good starter project for someone to adapt one for fediverse sites.
Worth a read: Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
I want to believe this is somewhat accurate given the names dropped in this... tootstorm, but then the more I read it, the more alarm bells went off. The whole thing reads like a tired, old "critique" of a strawman of a group one doesn't like, with a mix of hocus pocus nonsense on top.

The last two toots make for a particularly clear example:

> Chapman calls this "fluidity", and that's what today's infosec community seems to be in: an acceptance of the coexistence of both "nebulosity" (boundaries are fuzzy, nothing is ever cut and dried, there are no universal truths) and "pattern" (form and structure still exist, things can still be "more or less" X or Y in a certain context).

I mean... this "fluidity" is literally what the bayesian stuff is for. Probabilistic reasoning isn't in opposition to "fuzzy boundaries", it's a formalization of it. From this description, "fluidity" isn't something new or superior, it's just informal baby steps in the direction of what later became Bayesian modeling.

> the infosec community may be ahead of society at large in understanding change, nuance, and complexity. The world is filled with conflicts over boundaries and meanings.

Not if it rejects reason and starts buying into mathematical equivalent of homeopathy.

> Some want to impose rigid norms, definitions, and structures on everyone in a flailing attempt to restore certainty and order.

It's definitely not those evil rationalists, given how rationalist movement is all about handling uncertainty (with maths!), and insistence on "rigid norms, definitions and structures" is the first thing it makes you unlearn.

EDIT:

Disclaimer is in order, I suppose - I'm triply biased here, because: 1) I have positive feelings towards the LessWrong flavor of rationality movement as it was in its heyday, and its intellectual contributions; 2) I have negative feelings towards the infosec industry in general, and 3) some years ago I actually worked on an infosec product and tried to add some provably correct probabilistic reasoning capacity to it, and found it to be an uphill battle against corporate and infosec cultures.
I used ChatGPT to help talk through this with me:

> If the average waiter works a dinner shift from 5pm-11pm, waits on 40 customers during this shift, each customer has a check average of $40 and tips on average 20%, the waiter would walk with $320 in tips.

> In this example, the total cost of labor for the waiter is $55/hr for 6 hours, which is $55*6 = $330. The total number of customers served during the shift is 40.

> In order to eliminate the need for customers to tip, the restaurant would need to increase the cost of their food by $330 tips / 40 customers = $8.25 per check.

> Therefore, they would need to increase the cost of their food by $8.25, so that the check average would be $40 + $8.25 = $48.25 per check.
Small Ottawa firm subcontracted ArriveCan app to multinationals
Thirding it. I have been near several abusive relationships in my life and it really opened my eyes to the power dynamics that were invisible from the outside.
I had dance moves. It helps with some women. It's a hell of a niche though.
Tipping in the US isn’t tipping. It’s a fee that’s not included in the price. You’re expected to “tip” a certain amount and employees can get quite upset if you don’t.