skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rewards aside, credit card also offers things like extended warranty, travel insurance, chargeback protection. These things makes them invaluable to customers. I use my credit cards for everything because it’s strictly better than debit and it works everywhere.

Accepting credit cards is a net benefit for merchants, even accounting for fees due to increases in volume. This is just greed. They want access to the network without actually paying for the privilege.

It’s not entirely one-sided, customers do pay for the rewards: My 3 credit cards are costing me 1500$ per year in membership fees.
Donald Trump never attended an MBA program.
Eugh, god, no. It isnt ostracism if you are being asked to go outside because you want to light something on fire.

That being said you arent alone in this desire. The work around appears to be clubs with a membership fee and volunteer bartenders (at least where I live). If its something that pops up for you frequently then it might be worthwhile to pursue.
Here's a tip: report this to the department of public health!
Flakes and 'nix command' are actually 2 separate, experimental features. I think the new nix command has some dependence on flakes, but I'm not sure what. I use flakes though, so you should be good as well. I think it would only potentially be an issue for non-flakes?

I really, really, really wish they would rip the band-aid off and just have everything assume flakes with an easy opt-out. Let all the newcomers reap the benefits of a massively simplified model.
Interesting there's only one recipe with (wheat) flour, whereas today's desserts almost always include flour, plus copious amounts of sugars (but processed sugar didn't exist until the 10th century, so that part is understandable).
ChatGPT is a highly advanced machine learning model, but it is not a true general intelligence. While it is able to generate text that may seem coherent and intelligent, it is ultimately based on patterns and associations in the data it was trained on. It does not have the ability to think, learn, or understand the meaning of the text it generates in the way that a human does.

It is true that ChatGPT and its variants can generate text that appears to be more than just "word salad", but this is a result of its training on large amounts of text data and the use of advanced techniques such as deep learning and transformer architectures. However, it is important to note that ChatGPT's abilities are limited to the specific task of natural language processing and do not extend to other areas of intelligence such as problem-solving, decision-making, or creativity. It can generate creative solutions but it does not have the ability to come up with something novel, it is more likely that it is recombining the information it has seen before to come up with a creative looking answer.

Therefore, while ChatGPT may be able to generate text that seems intelligent, it is not a true general intelligence and should not be mistaken for one.
> no, I tip in establishments where the workers are service workers who explicitly asking for tips, as well as for specific transactions where tipping is customary hence expected.

Hopefully you see the inconsistency here? You mentioned that minimum wage has not increased in a long time so people making are underpaid (true). And that tipping is somehow the solution. But unless you tip everyone you ever interact with that might be making minimum wage, that's a highly inconsistent position.

Instead we can simply raise minimum wage to a living wage and outlaw tipping. Fair to everyone.
also a lot of interesting electronics content in russian
>implying the value of MBA is the grade transcript.
That is missing the point of letting people make their own choices.
Yeah I believe the plan for interop has been public for years now
You can use the PIV functionality of a yubikey to act as a smartcard, and you can log in and sudo authenticate with the yubikey and a PIN.

https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016649059-Us...
The bell curve thing is so idiotic. It has very perverse effect such as intentionally hiring low performers to let them go during the next cycle and make sure you can keep your team.
Thanks for your deep rely, I appreciate it.

A lot of those things make sense to me and I can see why people would prefer to use a framework like that.

I guess for me, I already know what a web service needs like adding CORS, setting up csrf protection, cookies, logging, etc. so its trivial to add that to a project whether its Go or Node or whatever. Conceptually I know what is required. As for project structure clean architecture has helped me basically not have that be an issue.

I guess its a matter of trading high performance and robust scaling for developer convenience. Like I said to another comment, I probably won't ever use rails but I understand now why people use it. It is probably good for teams that have "fresh" employees like folks out of college or something to quickly be up to speed without having to hand hold too much.

Thank you for taking the time to explain your points.
Always my approach

If something isn't right, go change it.

If you can't, break free until you can.

Else it's a bigger problem than you might realise
These all seem like situations where you'd just risk making things go EVEN WORSE by getting directly involved in a confrontation that might result in a police response to a violent situation...
>because updating old houses to the new code frequently requires rebuilding substantial portions of the house to comply with new requirements

OK but if I build a new house to the old code then I also will need substantial work to rebuild it to bring it into compliance. So I could use the same logic I shouldn't have to. Safe enough for them, safe enough for me.

>No, houses are held up to the code that applied when they were built,

Again, that's the scam. I'll build my house to one code and then vote to make the code harsher for the next guy to up my property value. If it's impossible to build a new house as economically as mine, mine's now worth more than it would have been.
I don't hate the 10% "service charge" fees I see abroad. It's automatically added, can be removed if you really have an issue, and 10% is a fair charge for being waited on. Wish payment terminals could move towards this. No guilt 10% charge, bury the option to increase it for those who want, and remove it entirely if you're unsatisfied with service.
Too much of our lives are in a reactive state -- responding to events rather than being proactive. Thats a good survival mechanism -- but it causes anxiety by overanalyzing, rather than living in the moment. I think limits and boundaries are important -- but its too easy to let emotions carry us away. Rationality is only one facet of human behavior.
International domain names: where does https://meßagefactory.ca lead you?
I’m aware of it being used for epidurals, but honest question - how does this particular painkiller save someone’s life instead of another, less potent painkiller at a higher dosage?
If the facts don't fit your theory, change the facts! The US obsession with force-ranking everything is unhealthy, and I say that as someone who has often been fortunate enough to end up on the right hand tail.
I am a developer. I use state machines all the time.

I have even written code generators that auto generate hierarchical state machines. Because they are really useful for managing complex logic.
its far easier to formulate maths questions, than it is to formulate non-math essay questions.
> compromises features like verified boot and selinux namespacing

It only compromises those features because vendors refuse to build in the functionality to have full control over your purchased hardware out of the box. Make it protected behinds loads of warnings and even hidden behind a trick like what you have to do to enable developer mode, but leave it baked into the OS.
Sure, but like, if the point of this is to make porting DOOM super easy by requiring the programmer to only implement a few functions, I don't think it is a ridiculous notion that those few functions be well specified.

Obviously I can dig this out of the code if I wanted to. I've reverse engineered programs with nothing but a debugger and stubbornness[0], that's not the point.

Like, what if I'm not a C programmer and I'm just using a C binding?

[0] Most recently, that was a DOS updater for an old HP Elitebook with a battery that no longer functioned. The updater requires that the AC be plugged in, which it loudly complains about, but fails to mention that it also requires the battery to be charged. Fortunately this wasn't a 90s game or it probably would have been more complicated than finding the check and turning a conditional jump into an unconditional one.
I am one of three people who have this code running live. It is way more amazing than you think, it is not scripted at all. Its a full OS/GUI personal computer in 20 KLOC, no external libraries. The graphics for example are just 435 lines of code (versus millions for Cairo).
The creators of photoshop didn't build it intending that the output be used to create labels for counterfeit products. But that is what some people use it for.

The creators of stable diffusion didn't create it with the intent helping people infringe on copyrights either. But some people will use it for that purpose.
The way US immigration law allows abuse is by making it so complicated that coyotes and bad employers thrive.

If the legal immigration process was as simple as applying to the DMV (note, I am talking about the application, not about approvals), then coyotes wouldn't even have a business model.
I not a whatsapp dev o.o
I'd had bad service lately at a lot of places that require tips.
I think you are conflating America of the past with America of today.
What happens to immigrants or tourists? Is vaping included? I don't smoke but am curious about how this type of phase out system works.
Cash will tie up an additional employee behind the counter. One of the reasons we are able to not accept tips and pay fair wages instead, is because we don't need a person at the register.

And while you can use that person for other tasks when there is no one in line, they do need to glove up each time they may handle a food item.

Also, in LA cash is a safety issue if you plan on staying open late when traffic is low.

To facilitate anonymous payments, we will accept crypto soon.
Not a course, but I find leetcode.com[0] a decent way to putz about and learn new languages. You can only write 'hello world' so many times, and often you don't want to write a whole program just to 'get a taste' of a new language. The leetcode (and advent of code) stuff seems a nice compromise.

0: https://leetcode.com/explore/
It’s not easy to start and build a business. Not everyone has the ability or luck required.

I don’t see an issue with employees protesting or trying to sabotage a system they see as unjust.
I'm glad I got that choice of breathing my dads secondhand smoke growing up!

Um...
> It can touch your real credit score (if not resolved in your favor), which directly correlates with your ability to continue using credit cards.

The topic of this thread is real fraud (as opposed to someone claiming fraud on a charge they actually made). So, it will always be resolved in your favor, that's my point here. Regulations on credit cards mean it will always be resolved in your favor (assuming actual fraud). So, no, it won't impact your credit score.
No, I just want to know about what the evidence says about it.
Yeah it's funny we still talk about plugging into a cigarette lighter, even though they haven't come with actual cigarette lighters in them for quite some time (at least here in California).
I never said iMessage ate their lunch o_O I know one person in my life that uses iMessage because for some reason they don't want to use whatsapp.
Not an expert, but now you have a list of 20 names. You can search all 20 together or a subset and see what turns up.
> A Blizzard spokesperson told Bloomberg that the evaluation process is designed to [...] "ensure employees who don't meet performance expectations receive [...] differentiated compensation.

Most of the response is the usual PR speak, but "differentiated compensation" seems like a new level of back-bending to avoid saying "less pay."
The smoking rate in Canada is far lower than the United States, despite having universal healthcare. I think it's more cultural than financially driven (though aggressive taxation of tobacco could be a factor if that's a thing in the US, too).
IIRC the difference when applying for insurance on the healthcare marketplace for 2023 was like $5/month (out of $700 total - so less than 1% more).
ChatGPT is unlikely to be the only player in the category for very long. Megacorps are all over this. MAANGs are spending $10 B's to be in this space long-term.

Algorithms of all kinds do, and will, have influence over individuals to motivate them to discover, believe, do, and learn particular memes while not others.

The problem then becomes an irreducible one of "teaching" an algorithms morality and ethics, critical thinking, and due-diligence. These maybe possible eventually, but are much more difficult than individual snippets of generative media. We're not at even a good point of capturing and giving algorithms specific constructive feedback from users on what's wrong with a particular sentence or image.
I.e., two.
"“Tipping is about making sure the people who are performing that service for you are getting paid what they’re owed,” said Schenker, who’s been working in the service industry for roughly 18 years."

Yes, this would be what some call "wages".

It's a terrible system. People are not valued by their employers. Employers distance themselves from employees.
> The full service restaurant workers will blackball the delivery driver if he doesn't tip them

Have things seriously gotten this bad, that restaurant workers are shaking down delivery drivers for extra cash? So much for solidarity with fellow workers.

Tips are for service, and selling food is not a service. At a restaurant, tips are for the waitstaff that brings your food and cleans up after you. Everything else is people hustling for extra cash. And yes we all like extra cash, but that doesn't make one entitled to it by putting a cup on the counter.

(Delivery drivers bringing food to your house, and drinks at a bar are two separate categories of service where tipping is legitimately expected. Although now that I think about it, maybe that second category was just the beginning of people getting suckered).
That is excellent. It distracts them from interrupting the people who do the real work with pointless meetings and other bureaucratic nonsense. The fewer managers a company has, the more effective and productive it is in my experience (30+ years).
Looking busy is the most successful trait of these billion dollar companies
The problem is payment terminals have it in the software and most places don't turn it off because "why not?"

I have a set of rules, I will not tip, regardless the social consequences, if a drink was not poured, food was not delivered to my door, my hair wasn't cut, a hostess didn't seat me and a waiter didn't come around and hand me a menu and ask me what I want, or someone didn't roller skate to my car. And then, the tip starts at 15%, it goes up for above and beyond service and goes down for sub par service. Everywhere else I proudly push no.
Married, no children

5:55am - Wake up and have a light breakfast

6:30am - Start the work day

11:30ish - Lunch

3:30pm - Finish work day; I cannot stress how great it is to start and end the work day early (I have to work during 3 "core hours" but my schedule is flexible beyond that). It is like I have my entire day left ahead of me to enjoy.

3:30pm - Take a walk; this is a somewhat new addition to the schedule and has become quite critical. It dawned on my how important my daily walk to-from work was to my health and how I had lost that, so I reinstated walking into the routine.

4:00pm - Finish up house chores (folding laundry, vacuuming, etc)

4:30pm - Play games for while to flush the day's work from my mind, then work on personal projects, before my wife gets home. If need be, I do external chores (grocery shopping, for example)

Exercise every other day in the evening.

Someone asked about meetings, and to tell the truth I tend to have shockingly few meetings. Big group meetings (all staff, all engineers, all team) are relatively rare. Beyond those, I have almost nothing. For example, this week I have one (1) 30-minute meeting. Next week I have three (3) meetings, totaling four (4) hours.
That iCloud for Windows bit is troubling, right now it’s just photo syncing but I’m not sure if it also affected iTunes, or the upcoming Apple TV+ and Music apps. (They all use the same iTunes auth library underneath)
Companies still use it. The company I retired from three years ago still uses it. If the manager is doing their job, their team’s performance, relative to the rest of the company, is not normally distributed. Stack ranking is a stupid idea, as many of Welch’s ideas are now considered.
> Taking into account that they are known to work closely with the FBI

This is basically true for any sizable company in the US. And this is also true with small companies. If the FBI wants to work with you, you don't really have a choice.

And if you're not in the US, you're working with whoever is the FBI in that country.
Archive link? Paywall'd here
Just their 1st born child
Finding useful links on Google is antithetical to as clicking.
Layoffs result in a 30% increase in staff turnover. As markets tend to be more challenging, it can take some months before people actually leave. This can have a knock on effect, especially if senior and respected staff leave.
I remember the smoking/non choice not being there in many places but for the other reason: there was no non-smiling section. That was often just in fancy places!

(UK, born in 78 so remembering no further back than the mid 80s for the most part)
Oh awesome, thanks! Not sure if this would be any faster then just typing the password, but thanks!
It's been a while. My last dedicated time was 2017 (the eclipse). When I lived in California, I went to Lee Vining for two weeks in October every year.

http://shagie.deviantart.com

https://shagie.smugmug.com

And then there was '09 after I was laid off and just drove around for a few months.

Outside of that... I really haven't had the time in the past several years to take a dedicated chunk off and just go. Maybe this year.

The Kenko rings work fine for AF lenses (G lenses have some difficulty). Two of my photos from long ago shot with 'em:

https://www.deviantart.com/shagie/art/Daisy-s-Closeup-511810...

https://www.deviantart.com/shagie/art/Macro-Rose-5117983
There are security vendors that provide services for keeping track of vulnerabilities in your third party dependencies and making sure they're patched. Eventually, device makers will use such services as standard practice, but I'd expect Google to be ahead of the ball here with its own implementation, given what they spend on security engineering. This is not a completely new type of issue but one that has bitten them many times before.
Are tourists able to purchase Tabacco?
> But does it need to be official?

When looking at the up-front time investment and long-term effects, it’s (counterintuitively) crucial that it be official.

If you’re lucky unofficial things eventually end up being official and work fine, but much more often unofficial things die on the vine. If you’re really unlucky the whole branch rots and the system you built on that branch ends up isolated on the ground.

Apologies for stretching the metaphor, it’s been a long day.
I don’t know if it’s amazing or depressing that this was written almost thirty years ago but could have been written last week.
It is in the thread below.
I think there are also two different "flavors" of stack ranking usually at play.

There is the one where the company wants to reward top performers. I think this one is most common, and I have never worked at a company that doesn't so some form of bonus budgeting that tries to capture a group of employees who are performing well and give them a bonus. The budget itself dictates how many employees can fit into that group, so ultimately what happens is a natural bell curve of the biggest rewards going to the perceived top performers, as agreed upon by managers usually at the organization level.

The other more insidious stack ranking involves a punitive element, whereby a group must necessarily be singled out for performance improvement reasons. This is the type of thing where managers, no matter what the team members actually accomplished, have to put someone on a performance improvement plan or start performance managing them to "get them up the bar" because someone naturally has to fall into the "bottom performer" bucket of stack ranking.

I think the former is common and pretty unavoidable unless a company has an unusually large bonus budget pool available. The latter approach is what causes problems with companies, because all of a sudden team mates become competitors and cultures can go downhill rapidly. Think Amazon, Microsoft under Ballmer, and GE under Walsh.

It's kind of interesting how many companies who are doing the former bonus budget pooling eventually get seduced into doing the latter and destroying their culture.
There are a lot of people who insist that prohibition never works. I wonder if this is successful it will change their minds.
Sure, but this is an isolated incident. I don't want to attribute to malice what could have been a total accident that day, maybe the kitchen was just busy. However, it was coincidental that it happened at a time when I didn't tip.

I'll keep that in mind for next time though if it ever happens again! Now I kind of want to do a social experiment.. go to a restaurant like 4-5 times and then don't tip once to see what happens. If its really true service is affected that way, then its a broader problem.
They aren't giving up on Amazon Pay. There's misunderstanding in this thread about what this announcement is.

Amazon Pay and other payments products from Amazon are customer-facing products that make it easier for customers to make payments. Stripe is the backend software that makes it easier for Amazon to process those payments. They coexist, they don't replace each other.
Wouldn't that just continue to expand a bad practice? If drivers got tips, Amazon would lower their wages, and we'd just have another domain where we have to make extra decisions.
blizzard was acquired by microsoft
The post is still there
Author speaking.

As many of you pointed out, memory is always finite in practice. The Chomsky hierarchy, however, only makes sense in the infinite memory case, since anything with finite memory will end up in the lowest category, i.e. finite state automatons (recognizing regular languages). So why does it matter ?

Because of generalisation, and deep within it, compression. I wrote this paper because I wanted to understand what it really means to generalize.
Yes you can reverse strings by creating a massive lookup table of all strings and their associated reverse. You can also do it by hard coding it for all lengths between say 1 and 500 (for length n, take the first token and swap it with the nth, then the second token and swap it with the (n-1)th etc). Both solutions would work in practice. But is it really what we mean by 'reversing a string'? Is it what we want an intelligent system to do?
The answer is clearly no. What we want is to do the same thing but using a simple, compressed algorithm (in the reverse string case, push on a stack, then pop from it: near and simple). That's what we mean in general by 'this network generalises well': it has found the most compressed algorithm reproducing the data we fed it.

That's really what the Chomsky hierarchy is about: it tells you how to get systems that generalise better. And that's basically what AI is all about.