skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My advice to you is to get either a Keychron Q10 or Q11, then get a Ploopy trackball to place between/below the keyboard.

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q11-qmk-custom-me...

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q10-alice-layout-...

https://ploopy.co/mini-trackball/ <-- this one has buttons and a scroll wheel.

I have a Keychron Q10 and program it with the "via" software, which works great. I also have a Ploopy mouse, which requires QMK compilation to customize. That worked out great for me, because I love tinkering.

It's really difficult to encapsulate all that goes into a keyboard and mouse/trackball, like you said the communities create huge amounts of information, commentary, and designs. Which is why companies like Keychron are doing great work creating "layman" accessible keyboards.

QMK is literally compiling C code into firmware. You can leave off LED effects if you want, use complex macros, rules, and layers, or cut out everything that you don't use. I mentioned my mouse earlier: it has 2 layers, the second of which is accessed by holding down a button. That gives me access to almost twice as many buttons! I have a volume control on my mouse's second layer, plus "paste plain text on MacOS". Very cool stuff and incredibly useful!

Via is a QMK that is designed to be updated without the C toolchain present. It uses an Electron front end and is pretty straightforward to use. Obviously it's more restricted in what it can do, but I think it covers 99.9% of use cases.

I wish I could write more, but I have to go for surgery. If you ask questions here, I should be able to respond by late evening US eastern time May 1st.
As far as I understand it, the system is to not pay employees a living wage, and then guilt-trip customers into making up for that.

I consider this an abhorrent system, that should not be supported.
When I was growing up, someone told me that a printed map is out of date before the ink dries.
Zpng: Better lossless compression than PNG with a simpler algorithm
They're a very well-supported club where anti-monarchist songs, chants or signs are completely commonplace and don't ruffle too many feathers generally. Celtic may not like being called "British" and their feelings on the monarchy probably aren't the same as the majority of football supporters in the UK (I'd argue that they are representative of your average Scot) but that wasn't the point.

That said the point was that it's unimaginable that supporters at a US sporting event chanting about how they hate their head of state. I disagree with that - someone is forgetting about the origin of "Let's go Brandon"
Commuting is a basically fixed cost from "I'm driving to mcdonalds for my 4 hour shift" to "$500k/yr FAANG dev", so is it not worth pointing out that that's a much higher proportion of low wages? Nor am I charged for my top of the line macbook pro, despite it costing many times more than the work shoes in this low paid jobs.
If you write an article about jobs on New York I would also like you to include a realistic commute expensive.

Do you not want the article to mention tax and commute at all?
Basically we'd need laws enforcing a minimum wage for waitstaff, otherwise restaurants that allow tipping will always have an advantage over more expensive ones that don't. And no, you're not required to tip, but that only ends up hurting the waitstaff, not the restaurant.
Almost certainly not. Only a tiny number of similar jobs offer health care benefits. Waffle House is not a high profit place, I used to go there, they serve the blue collar crowd on a budget.
> This isn't a market. Almost nobody plays on cloud gaming platforms, like Stadia which recently closed down, or similar.

It's a market. Google bungling Stadia doesn't make it any less of a market, or we wouldn't be seeing Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon (to a much lesser extent) pouring money into it.

Regardless of your bubble, lots of people use cloud gaming services. There is no way to have concrete numbers, but the Stadia subreddit still has 110k subscribers months after the service shut down. That's not "almost nobody" on the dead service.
I think Intel branding is the least of their problems and it’s not the reason why people aren’t buying their CPUs.
If you use cash, the “government” does not know where you spend it. If you use a credit card, it’s a virtual certainty that they do already.
The onus is on the critic to provide a better alternative. But all I ever see anyone propose is the same tired marxism that has been proven time and time again to be even worse. Its a lazy argument.

Perhaps we need to go back to first principles. Both capitalism and socialism are materialist. This is probably the wrong framework to structure society. It made sense when we became industrial. But we are now post industrial and at least in the global north rapidly approaching the possibility of post scarcity.
Yeah, trust web 3.0...
Yep, same concept. Wish I had a link to the article handy, but there was actually a bank (TNB if I'm not mistaken) trying to do exactly this that got blocked by regulators.

They gave very little explanation for why the application took dramatically longer than normal before eventually being rejected. I believe the reason effectively boiled down to "we don't like your business model"
Bash Script to Turn on nordvpn killswitch automatically
Depending on your disease, you may not have a choice. Take a sick leave and make some pretty thorough plans, get yourself a therapist + possibly a psych, and reconsider what your career path is going to look like.

I'm coming at this from the POV of somebody with MS. One thing to do now is pick up some kind of side hustle or project work outside of your main employment - even if it's only ~ 5 hrs a week. This way if you ever need to leave a W2 situation suddenly due to your disease, you can keep doing the side hustle and therefore avoid a gap on your resume. One of the hardest parts of my diagnosis was that since I presented during my final semester of grad school I had no health insurance and therefore had to not work for a while in order to be eligible for Medicaid so I could get my medication regime worked out for my symptoms so I could work. Explaining that resume gap has been hell - anything you can do to avoid looking like you did nothing is gold.

If your physical health is likely to go downhill in the next few years, you need to redo all of your financial plans. Your incentives have drastically changed.
I used FIDO over telephone line. It didn't differ much from modern Internet other than scale.

If there're messages, there'll be Internet built on top of it. Unless there will be aggressive censors hunting for every sign of "unapproved" communication.
> Are you required to tip?

Not legally required, but in practice your decision to not tip is a decision that the staff should earn under minimum wage. It's just the current status quo. And in some cases you may end up in a confrontation with someone who assumed you knew you should've tipped. (Not tipping in a taxi may lead to uncomfortable situations)

> Why do restaurants not pay their staff enough to live?

Because they can.
"from what I've read it appears to me that is much worse than fracking in many operations around the world."

is that taking co2 into account?

also doesn't fracking cause earth quakes?
My wife bought lunch for our son and his friend yesterday. $32 for a 6" sandwich, chips, a cookie, and bottled water at Subway (x2). $32 for barely better quality than a fucking Lunchable. Oh, and the POS system automatically presented a 15% tip in the payment screen.

Casual dining in America is not going to survive the next five years IMO. I know we will be doing our part to no longer support the system (we already quit McD's because it is almost $40 for our family of three to eat a meal there.)
Choose the higher quality options from the big brands, such of Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, Gildan, etc., and not the 12 shirts for 12 USD packs.

The premium lines from these brands are the 1-3 for 20-35 USD, which have sweat wicking tech, cooling tech, brushed premium cotton, double stitching, etc.

Avoid the pop up ads for tees on social media, none of them can match the quality of the big brands without paying 2-3X the cost
IIRC, in 2008 shareholders got wiped out at least at some institutions.

It's 15 years later, and I don't recall the details, but I'm pretty sure that at least one of the big players went down in a way that the stockholders got zero.
20% is pretty baseline right? Those presets make sense to me.

And while it is indeed factored into minimum wage like this, don't you mean to say: "Not* tipping should be illegal"?

Like if you agree that this is all just an allocation strategy on the business side, and really it should be factored in from the beginning, it shouldn't be that much of an affront to just follow it through and give them a good tip. Not to deny this is an imperfect state of affairs, but if the complaint amounts to simply having an extra social responsibility to make sure the people who serve you get paid well, I don't see why we as individuals need to feel angry or cheated.
It's not just some quirky viewpoint in America, it's built into our labor laws. The $2.92/hour is the rate that Waffle House pays her provided she makes (and reports) enough tips to exceed or equal either the higher of the federal/state minimum or a higher agreed rate. At the moment I can't recall whether this calculation is per pay period or per shift though.

Requisite disclaimer: I'm do not support tipping as a primary means of paying for labor. I'd love to outlaw the practice, not the least of which because it's highly discriminatory.
Real estate (commercial and otherwise) is included in the stress tests,

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2023-Stress-Test...

I think financial regulators are a bit too soft-touched, but they aren't so incompetent that they would neglect real estate, of all things, in stress test scenarios in this post GFC world.
Where i live gambling is tightly controlled and requires government id due to money laundering laws. A sad side effect is a scheme were poor people sell their identity to organisations "gambling" on their behalf, trading an intangible future risk for hard present cash.

Even today most chatgpt answers aren't posted by chatgpt on the social networks, but echoed by humans. Considering how much access people are willing to grant any bullshit app, your whole concept of using a government PKI for social networks would just lead to more people getting their id stolen, while running a bot on their profile.

But you probably consider these prolls acceptable losses, as long as technology is implemented that allows the ministry of truth a tight control over party members who actually matter. Because the Orwell comparison is not a false dichotomy, as you claim, communication technology is a key battlefield in the tug of war between totalitarianism and liberalism. You keep repeating that you are not in favor of outlawing non-government-certified speech, but you fail to understand that, even if not outlawed, it would be marginalised. Take note how the totalitarians keep repeating their proposals to break all encryption and listen to all communication. Even if you may not want it, they do.

The path to hell is paved with good intentions and yours isn't even good.

I also notice how you hope "fear" does sway public opinion to favor your concepts. Are you sure you are not playing for team evil?
Nah, like conceptually they are both writing serialized bytes and like indexing them so they can conceptually be found easily and like read back. This is probably why you didn't like explain why they are different.
Well which is it? Does paying them corrupt them or does not paying them corrupt them?
So you are worried about it?
The pixel format description on page 6 still makes my mouth water:

- bitmapped formats up to 16 bitplanes

- paletted chunky formats for 2/4/8 bits per pixel, and 16/24 bits per pixel without color palette

- block-compressed pixel formats with 12x and 6x compression ratio (looks quite similar to modern hardware-compressed texture formats used in 3D rendering - more details on page 123)
Yeah true.

If you live a few minutes walk from work I did not think of it as a commute. But you are right, technically it still is. My bad.
> The idea that the government would know specifically how much we spend, where we spend it, and could deny transactions sounds pretty distopian to me.

Non American here.

They already know and/or could trivially find out. There's no more barrier to them finding out now then there would be if there was some new, nominally independent government entity involved. That is to say a very thin wall preventing what you describe.

I sometimes get the feeling we oftentimes allow for market absurdities to supposedly prevent the government from doing something that it regularly already does today, just as long as there's a 'business' somewhere in the chain.

Americans seem willing to pay more to private business and thus actually part with more of their money than they otherwise would, as long as on paper they're not giving the money to 'the government' see i.e. healthcare.
If tipping is 90% of your income, isn't this a kind of tax avoidance scheme? Or are tips taxed just like normal?
I was pretty friendly with the servers at Waffle House - they all told me that their gross wages including tips were ~$25 an hour and they would often go home (of their own choice) if it was sufficiently slow.

The servers who worked first shift at Waffle usually made good money - good enough money to pay for a house or an apartment to rent in DFW, which by my estimation takes around 20 dollars an hour.

None of this is really a defense of the server wage - but seeing other customers and what they'd leave for tip, a 50% tip was not abnormal - in part because food at Waffle House is so cheap.
The CMA tends to be the strictest of the bunch (the same pretty much goes for all UK regulators e.g. compare the FCA to the likes of BaFin) their policy focuses on prevention not management and they tend to forecast further into the future than their European or American counterparts and most importantly they aren’t looking only at issues that can emerge within their respective market but any market that could have impact on the UK down the line.
It's an insignificant niche market compared to the rest of Activision and Microsoft's gaming division.

> 110k subscribers months after the service shut down. That's not "almost nobody" on the dead service

It is approximately close to zero. Especially considering that subscribers != active users (not even close).
Backing up a little, the primary role of banks in a fractional reserve system is to increase the amount of money in circulation by lending. The “opt-out” is “just hold your own money”. Signing up for a bank account while being in opposition to them lending your money is like getting a job and being upset that they expect you to work; it’s not just part of the deal, it’s the primary part of the deal.

I like the idea of banks giving consumers a prospectus, but I should point out that publicly traded banks do, every three months, in the form of a quarterly earnings statement. How many people use it as such, I’m not sure.
it's a weird cultural thing, i'm not sure when it started. No, you're not required to tip at all but it's frowned upon to not tip. How much to tip is another art form itself. Many people gauge how much to tip based on quality of service and others tip a flat rate. My tip algo is:

1. get the check

2. shift the decimal point to the left by one digit ( 10% )

3. double the amount from step 2 ( 20% )

4. round down to the nearest whole number ( makes it easier to add )

5. sum, write, sign and leave
Huge fractions of the US service industry are catastrophically understaffed right now, to the point where it's driving smaller businesses under. Somehow we seem to have developed a series of industries (from fast food to hotel cleaning to receptionist work) that entail a combination of low prices and labor intensiveness which is completely unsustainable when you pay people living wages. For years the labor market was weak and this worked out. Now it isn't, and many of these businesses don't make sense anymore. Presumably we could rebuild them with a more European model that's more automated and less dependent on replaceable super-cheap labor, but most likely we'll just rely on the Fed to engineer a recession.
It doesn't feel that endless any more though, does it? It's sort of like Amazon doing the math and realizing they're going to burn through all the "human capital" or whatever euphemism they might use for "humans" in the labor market in certain regions because of their labor practices.
> Windows Remote Desktop configured to use h.264 hardware encoding

And when h.264 hardware encoding is not available ?
15% was the baseline for a long time. It's inched its way up to 20%.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens at some point. Every revolution targets the problems of the day. Over time, people forget the problems of the past and start to focus on current day problems. Current day problems relate to the current day government system, and problems are blamed on the current system (right or wrong).

If we completely ignore what we’ve learned about monarchy historically, and just think about whether it could address some problems of today (e.g. lack of leadership accountability, manipulation of public opinion to steer voting, the divisiveness of every person having to think about politics, etc), I can see some appealing elements.
No longer a bunch of "clueless ludites"...
> You had to sub + pay for the game too. And some of them were exclusives too.

It's showing how much Google failed with Stadia, people still don't know how the service worked. You paid for the games to stream them, and optionally there was a subscription for better quality and free games. Also you could link Ubisoft+ to stream their games for "free", and there were free to play games.

And there were only time limited "exclusives", which were only indie games. Nothing to do with actual Xbox/PS only exclusives.
That sounds extremely low. During the Great Recession I worked at Chili’s bar and grill and made similar amounts on a 4-5 hour weeknight shift.

I know people who worked at Waffle House and made decent money for a 20 year old server. A lot of them switched to normal hour restaurants due to Waffle House hours. $75 a shift sounds very low, it must be a slow Waffle House.
This is the fundamental issue with the supposed "trustlessness" of crypto. Unless you are interacting directly with the protocol layer (which is like 0.0001% of users), you actually have to trust a lot of people and software.

And the whole system has been built on anonymity because it is "trustless," so it can never work in its present form. Sure, there is someone, or multiple people, at Wells Fargo who can move your money. But they will never be anonymous, and all of their actions are logged and tracked, and we have laws on the books requiring banks to be liable for such fraud and return the money to the customer. And failing that, if the whole bank goes down from the fraud, your money is FDIC insured, and the government will make you whole. Whereas in crypto, if someone gets your private key, you are instantly and irrevocably fucked. Crypto can never be anything more than a gambling tool unless it drops this "trustless" myth.
I wish the author had spent more time to unfold the public vs private debate here:

>if a country installed all the measures I mentioned

As opposed to the wastewater infrastructure in the first section that can be mandated and put in motion by a government, it's up to individuals and institutions to install the measures.

This makes implementation significantly more challenging, as it relies on the collective efforts and cooperation of numerous parties, each with their own priorities and resources. Government-led initiatives, on the other hand, can be more easily streamlined and enforced, ensuring a higher degree of compliance and effectiveness.
Maybe naive question, but I haven't seen anything about the taxation on tips.

From the little I understand of the US taxation, tips are in theory subject to taxes but in practice many (most?) low wage workers omit to declare them?
probably because video games today suck
You know those analogies that compare a normal person's charity to a rich person's charity? So a billionaire giving $1m is like me giving someone a 100% tip on a $10 meal.

$4T in debt for the US is bearable. Between a $23T GDP and being constitutionally obligated to pay those debts as they come due, it's not really an issue. There's probably a lot of fraud in government programs, but that money still gets spent in the economy that financed the loan.

The issue is deficits. Those can go up in times of crisis, but end up bolstering the nation's ability to pay, so it's not all bad. I have near complete contempt for what passes for political parties in the US but, historically speaking, the way to go if you care about reducing the debt is Democrats. They consistently wipe out the deficit and set us on a path to paying it down just in time for Republicans to take over and flip it back to red with tax cuts and set the stage for crisis with deregulation. Democrats might raise the debt, but it's usually to deal with a crisis.
Wow. What’s the end game there?

Seriously, what is their actual vision for the world? I’m amazed any even moderately experienced adult thinks this is progress.
Mobilizon is a tool that helps you find, create and organize events
Some restaurants have also tried eliminating tips. The details of how tipping pools are distributed varies a bit but, in general, the servers (especially the young good looking women who research has shown get higher tips) revolt and go work something else if you disallow tips.

I'm not particularly a fan of tipping culture in the US but I would note that "optional" (but not really) 10% service charges for table service is pretty common in the UK these days as well.
This song is almost as old as Bitcoin itself.

2013: https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-08-11-android

All that trust I have to put in the non-crypto financial system doesn't seem too bad when you realize that the trust picture isn't all that different in the crypto world.

Do you trust that the exchange won't steal your money?

Do you trust that the software developers haven't intentionally or accidentally left any holes in the software you use to manage your money, or the smart contracts you interact with?

Do you trust the vendor you're buying from to not steal your money? If you're thinking "escrow services", do you trust the escrow service to not steal your money?

Do you trust in all that, and more, sufficiently to operate in a system where there is no way to undo erroneous or malicious transactions? Except for like when ETH rolled back the chain after the DAO incident...you know, going contrary to the immutable ledger concept this whole mess is built on...what you might even say is the most essential trust in crypto.