skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Canada, almost everyone pays by debit or credit card instead of cash. What has happened in the last few years is that the tipping function has been enabled on debit/credit terminals at many more businesses than it used to be, including many fast food chains. On the machine it pops up with recommended tip percentages like 15%, 18%, 20%, which are all calculated on the final total post-tax (which isn’t how it should be done but results in higher tips). So you could argue that this is just the digital equivalent of a tip jar (since many people don’t carry cash), but by presenting it in this way (with recommended percentages) it creates the implication that tipping is normal, and you don’t want to be the jerk who doesn’t leave a tip. So that’s why there’s this outrage (at least in Canada) about “tip creep.” It may be similar in the U.S. for people who pay by card vs. cash.
Would a crown (U+1F451) count as a single character?

I wonder if writing down the unicode codepoint would work...
Well, Ebay set aside $69M so that's a starting point.
That's really interesting, a blind researcher doing hardware? that's really impressive. I actually was doing a hobby project where I wanted to create a height adjustable desk with Raspberry Pi, but I didn't finish because I couldn't find vertical actuators: I will most definitely contact to the Dr. Thank you!
You probably have to sometimes spin biological materials that have to be kept cool.
Should include the classic disclaimer:

>The stories and information posted here are artistic^wmechanically generated works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
North east US. We called the horizontal ladder monkey bars, and the bigger metal climbing apparatus jungle gyms.
> Hell, I can walk to kitchen window it get it myself with less hassle.

But would you be at that particular restaurant at that moment if that's how they do business? A lot of restaurants self-service from the counter, no waitresses at all, so obviously it can work and most people find it acceptable at least some of the time. Fast food restaurants are an obvious example, but lots of independent lunch-oriented restaurants with great food operate in the same way.

So why do waitresses still exist at all? I think it's because there's still consumer demand for that sort of dining experience. And if that's what you want, shouldn't you be willing to pay for it? Maybe you pay for it with tips or maybe through higher prices on the menu, but either way it is human labor that needs to be paid for by the paying customers one way or the other.
I don't know about "insanely contagious".

In my small company we are cca 25 people and we have very cramped quarters. However, it has been more than once that some colleagues have had covid but nobody else was infected, despite being in meetings with the sick guys.

You can get lucky, but not this lucky with something that's really contagious.
From the article:

The project of the guides is utopian, but they’re a symptom of deep pessimism. They belong to a fractured culture in which symbolic gestures are preferable to concrete actions, argument is no longer desirable, each viewpoint has its own impenetrable dialect, and only the most fluent insiders possess the power to say what is real.

Though I wonder if this diagnosis is actually too optimistic, in that it assumes people are 1) aware and care about the real problems and 2) willing to put in effort to enact meaningful change. Perhaps this is too cynical, but I think most people who adopt this sort of symbolic gesturing are pretty detached from the root issues of power and wealth inequality. "Virtue signaling" is a product of vanity, not pessimism/powerlessness.
This seem more like Wallstreet is reacting to a company projecting to increase revenues by 52% (from $19->$29) YoY.
old article (oct 2022) and I dont think the ETF ever launched.

EDIT: it launched today... Either way - TERRIBLE idea.
It's not clear to me if these expectations alluded to are new, or harsher, because of social media.
Do you have any examples? Net neutrality comes to mind, but that feels a quite extreme example due to complete regulatory capture of the FCC by big telecoms.
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So sustainable that the government is looking to take a 'low' interest loan, bet it, and if that doesn't pan out well they'll just tax us more:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sovereign-wealth-fund-biden-...
But only a small portion of the interchange fee goes to the credit card processor. Most of it goes to the bank.

How else do you think credit cards are able to do things like pay 2% rewards?

So the argument still holds. Banks hold more risk on larger transactions.
Is it surprising? They increased the price of their primary product by 30% - so it should follow that their revenue should also increase by some similar factor (modulo whatever percentage of revenue is from CI minutes or the other plans which didn't increase in price, like - notably - the enterprise plan which is still $99).

Based on their last Quarterly Earnings report [0], it looks like subscription revenue is on the order of 10:1 compared to other revenue.

[0] https://ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-release-details/git...
I’m done with Windows. I’m tired of my computer being hostile to me. On Monday, I tried to take a screenshot and was instead presented with an advertisement to store my screenshots on OneDrive. My screenshot button stopped working after that until I did a reboot. It’s not the only thing that has just randomly broken, either. I often can’t even type into the start menu’s search box until I reboot.

The settings menu is a complete fucking joke with only half the settings being available in the new UI and needing to summon the Windows 7 menu to change things. And that’s assuming it can be edited in a menu instead of being an undocumented field inside the giant binary blob they call the Registry. I used to be able to adjust volume per-program by clicking the volume icon, but now it’s behind three or four menus in the system settings.

I spend far more time debugging random broken bullshit on my Windows PC at home than my Linux machine at the office. It’s driving me mad.
My parents went to Hawaii a couple of years ago and mailed a coconut to my house. Turns out that it's a whole thing:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/you-can-mail-coconut-a...
> GNU project code is infamously cluttered and hard to grok (mostly since it's a pretty old codebase and GNU has always favored having too many chefs in the kitchen over fewer, but competent, chefs).

I was under the impression that it was a result of 1. supporting a terrifying spread of platforms - by the time the code handles the quirks of AIX, IRIX, Minix, Solaris, all the BSDs, and oh yeah also Linux, yes it has a rather lot of clutter, and 2. specifically implementing things in a different way than commercial UNIX™ so nobody could accuse them of copyright violation.
https://www.lob.com/blog/autocomplete-and-verify-address-wit...

Very few companies should roll their own if they're not in the logistics business themselves.
>atlassian.com.com

Is that an honest mistake or are you actually trying a phishing scam here?
are you bottlenecked by engineering
Its potentially possible for individuals/orgs too.

The post office standard mentions something to the effect "If a firm name is assigned a unique ZIP+4 then it must be used" (rather than just the zip code).

Which implies its possible for a "firm" to get their own zip+4 number and that by itself is probably sufficient for the automated mailing system to identify the recipient.

The ZIP+4 is intended to be a redundant checksum against the name+address (which doesn't strictly require a zip code for handwritten/non bulk mail), so presumably a bunch of "hacks" work in the post office system as well.

AKA, for a lot of rural/etc places just a name and a basic zip code probably works/etc.
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A questionable place at the best of times..
I'm surprised we don't have a unionization app. With the technology we have today we should be able to do zero trust organizing. There should be a way to square the app with the NRLB so that some protections can get established before a hostile employer acts.
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Blind Googler! really awesome, I would contact him, even though I don't like much using Twitter. Thanks.
In what other similar user-facing system would that be the case? There is an impedance mismatch just in the fact that a UI is much different from code itself. There is a mismatch between what your parents can learn to use (UI) vs. what computers can understand (code). Most other UI projects are compiled (native apps), and they don’t even need to care about sending that final executable over the wire very quickly, or even other web optimizations a bundler might do like code splitting.

These systems become complex because the web is a much different deploy target than, say, iOS.
Well, gitlab seems to be the "Avocado Toast" of Code/Pipeline hosting. So I guess users maybe fine or in fact happy here.
Personally I've read enough blog posts off that domain to not click that link. YMMV.
Philip Rosedale: We need Nostr to prevent the coming catastrophe of AI deepfakes
Bluetooth keyboard and leave your laptop on your desk.
This guy and the r/cryptocurrency sub pay my car insurance every month. just do the opposite and get rewarded.
It may describe a number of people you have worked with but it does not describe the average medical textbook which will usually describe the best knowledge we have of a condition. If chatgpt produces something that looks like it came from a medical textbook then it is hard to blame many people for believing it. More generally, people started to trust computers more than people as soon as calculators demonstrated their reliability.
The Russell 2000 Paradox
Consider why chatgpt is banned on Stackoverflow despite the median quality already being poor there (because its answers/questions are even worse than that; the more answers from chatgpt, the worse the site)
Plus, the one dude was married, and this was the perfect excuse to do some extramaritals, under the guise of “I’m on duty, honey“
That is definitely not what I am indicating. I'm pointing out the absurdity of speaking of probabilistic things in absolutes.

Yes, ask an LLM to multiply a few numbers together and you will get around 100% failure rate.

The same goes for quotes, citations, website addresses, and most numerical facts.

The failures are predictable. That means the models can be augmented with external knowledge, Python or JS interpreters, etc.
I would propose a different hypothesis: that populations in urban areas might be more itinerant and much more likely to be removed from family structures.
XOR is a bad way to do it, but there are ones that work much better that are described in answers to that post, and it's what other languages use in similar situations (e.g. tuples in Python and C#):

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/71db5dbcd714b2e1297c4...
> seeing the term “American” used generally doesn’t bother me: it’s trivial and automatic to see when it’s simply synecdoche for “resident”, “taxpayer”

Nitpick: synecdoche would be if someone called you "America". You can imagine a teasing "Hey America, get out of the way" toward a tourist who encapsulated their views of Americans. "American" is just a regular adjective.
The only GNU I'm aware of in Alpine is that they use gcc as the main compiler, but the built system is AFAIK GNU-free.
Telegram recently implemented some new features, and I was too lazy to update the client. It showed "you need a recent version of Telegram to see this" message instead of new functional. I don't see how other messengers won't do exactly that for unsupported types of content.
This article goes way overboard.

While some of the things referenced are ridiculous, the author is really misinterpreting many of the guides here, to a point where it feels like willful misinterpretation. For instance.

> If we don’t know how to end racism, we can at least call it structural. The guides want to make the ugliness of our society disappear by linguistic fiat.

If anything, using the term “structural” helps associate much more context about racism, its causes, and its ugliness, not less.

Also, these guides aren’t targeting literature. They mostly meant for situations where you don’t want to evoke emotion in your writing.
Re-read what the person wrote; this time take from it that the writer is saying 'it isn't going to happen because law enforcement have their priorities misaligned.'
Earlier this year I was struggling with just trying to get an audio recording workflow together on linux mint. It was really eye opening and disappointing, considering that to get some tools to work optimally, you have to get into the weeds and see if you have the right kernel. Adjusting mic levels are painful, everything is painful. I thought we moved beyond having to dualboot windows and linux, but now that I’m here for the coding, other techie pursuits (bash scripting, homelabbing and the like), and gaming, I come to find out that if you still probably need to dual boot if you want to do content creation. Oh and the only seeming distro thats setup out of the box thats focused on content creation is ubuntu studio, and I don’t want to be run up against a wall because of the snap eco system.
Spam operations have so much money that buying a bunch of iPhones is not an issue, even if they didn't, they could buy older, used iPhones for pennies.
That's cuz the minimum wage ain't enough to live mon ami. Just enough to not die.
My point is even the best refrigerant powered by coal or even "rando outlet power on average" is less green than the worst Peltier cooler powered by a solar panel. So as per OPs original claim that if we ban every chemical more hazardous than distilled water we can have no refrigeration is not entirely true, we can in theory redesign the entire system around not using any refrigerants.

It would be an environmental disaster if not powered by solar, or maybe wind, of course, but it would technically work.
Ahh f..k - phone keyboard, thank you, fixed now.
That only sounds plausible if 100% of your revenue comes from GitLab Premium customers.
It's more than a meme, but documented by research. Some citations:

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn2222

> The key issue, then, is not that zoonotic diseases appear in humans, but that their emergence seems to be increasing in frequency (3). Major changes in land use, increasing urbanization, and global connectedness are well documented as driving disease emergence through increasing human–animal contacts and accelerating transmission rates, and climate change will similarly accelerate the rate of zoonotic events.

It's not a paper in itself but it says what I've been saying above way more eloquently. It also cites this paper:

https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06536

> Here we analyse a database of 335 EID ‘events’ (origins of EIDs) between 1940 and 2004, and demonstrate non-random global patterns. EID events have risen significantly over time after controlling for reporting bias, with their peak incidence (in the 1980s) concomitant with the HIV pandemic. EID events are dominated by zoonoses (60.3% of EIDs): the majority of these (71.8%) originate in wildlife (for example, severe acute respiratory virus, Ebola virus), and are increasing significantly over time.

Lastly, some other recent research: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29378-2
Civil law countries don't like textualism. The spirit/intent of the law can often trump a literal interpretation of the text, so all this grammatical arguing is moot.
Personally, I'm willing to pay for it just to keep everything in one system.

Gitlab's aim seems to be to replace the mashup of multiple 3rd party systems into a central place for the company. The associated costs of each one of those systems, user management, etc that go with them adds up.

Plus, you have to consider any per-user pricing as part of your cost per employee. If you're paying somebody a salary who's accessing a system where they interact with the rest of the company...$29 is not a big deal when lumped in with the salary, benefits, taxes, etc.

If you're a few college students working in your spare time with no income, sure it's a problem. But even then Gitlab gives away plenty on the free tier and you can each setup a runner on your own laptops to avoid paying for CI minutes.

IMO, this pricing is very reasonable considering the variable quality of different integrated systems out there.
How significant is the time warp? Ex. how many moon-years are equivalent to 100 earth years?
Once you start thinking with "kilo"bytes in the denominator, you're in the wrong ballpark. There are tons of applications for remote insitu sensors which don't send much data, or often. Game cameras, equipment trackers, sensors, numerous other applications would use this. For me this is the world of custom electronics, true bare metal systems (no OS but what you write for yourself) and tiny battery packs. A 5$/month data plan is amazing for what this includes.
FTC sees no issue with BetterHelp offering social workers as "therapists"?
I have several times given directions to an aerospace testing facility, with instructions to "Turn left at the miniature horse farm, but if you pass Frank's Deer Urine, you've gone too far and missed it."

https://www.flickr.com/photos/93733769@N03/11848099843
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The History of Air Conditioning
> Because there's absolutely no downside to telling Apple it can't artificially make its iMessage platform restricted to Apple devices.

I am looking forward to Google being able to finally get ahold of my iMessage and hoover it into their surveillance capitalism machine. What a huge benefit to me!
I couldn't find the IPA even in Wiktionary, but I found out where it comes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutheromania
> If I add a user who just needs access to issue board I have to pay $348 upfront with Gitlab!

This is the same on GH, as per our sales rep.
Usually that's because it's the closest job that will pay their current rent, but won't pay the rent of a place that's closer. Almost nobody "chooses" that.
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It doesn't have to be "paid" in any direct way. Cramer is an ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-hedge fund guy. He just needs to call up one of his old buddies and say "hey...Ima gonna tell the rubes to buy FooCorp tomorrow on the show". His buddies profit from knowing that early, and they do something 'nice' for old Jim down the road, like get him an 'exclusive interview' or something he can profit from. It's a racket.
The term is well understood and has its origins in the contrasting positions and approaches of "Progressive" and "Revolutionary" Marxists.

It has come to mean anyone who is generally left-liberal and favors achieving those policy goals through gradual reform rather than sudden reform, or direct action.
So, in your example of the Irish word, that's exactly how misinformation gets spread so easily. I doubt anyone is in danger from thinking a certain Irish word exists which doesn't actually exists. But the exact same scenario can be used when people drop a "Did you know <group I don't like> is doing <bad thing>? They're so awful." And then that gets carried to the next conversation each person has.

I think we do benefit a little bit from curiosity to know the truth behind the bullshit people say to us.

And there's a compromise, too. It's actually possible to finish a train of thought or conversation and then look up the facts, keeping everybody on the same page. It's even more fun that way.
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Yep. Turn one of those cans upside down and spray it, and you'll see how that works very quickly.
You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers.
Weirdly enough, people seem to view this only from one side: "ChatGPT is an expert at lying!".
Actually, it was explicitly instructed to sound confident, serious and expertly.
The important thing here is: to most people, it is enough to sound like that in order to make them believe.
This heuristic is trivial to hack, gets exploited not just by ChatBots and is downright dangerous on a societal level.

Acquiring and vetting information is a task of crucial importance situated in between journalism and science. Just trawling the internet and autocompleting the acquired driftwood is a weird approach to begin with. Doing so without transparency in private companies is simply folly.
This happens with everything, people are only aware of things they are focusing on, the surroundings are just "assumed" to be there.

It's kinda like the invisible gorilla experiment: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html
another one! https://nostr.com/

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