skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use credit cards for all of my spending. One gives me 4% back on fuel, another 3x points on travel and dining, etc. Paying with cash/debit is less economical because you forgo these rebates and incentives.

I also pay my cards in full each month so there are no interest charges, just a few with annual fees that are more than covered by the card benefits.
This is wild to see other perspectives. I'm a reasonably upstanding citizen and I have basically two categories of bills:

Bills that are auto-paid.

Bills that are late.

The auto-paid ones are completely on auto-pilot. If I have a particularly heavy spending month (maybe we took a trip somewhere), I might open my bank app to make sure there's enough cash in the account to cover the auto-payment. (Or I might not and either there will be, or auto-overdraft-protection will kick in and I'll end up paying a few bucks in interest.)
If I autopay the full amount before realizing there's a fraudulent $1,000 charge on my card, then I'm in for a surprise when an extra $1,000 is missing from my checkout account.

A pending fraudulent charge on my credit card isn't a problem. Cash missing from my bank account until the investigation is complete CAN be a problem.
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The magic trick is to have a singular queue, and/or a singular stakeholder representative.

When you have disparate independent stakeholders who each have their own value/urgency models, these things start to fall apart.

I've frequently worked in large orgs with far more internal stakeholders than devs, which meant that at any given time, only 50% of stakeholders were having any of their tasks actively worked on. You can play games to try and mask that, but end of the day it is reality.

So then the game they all play is making sure they are one of the stakeholders with active tasks at all times. Which then turns into competitive escalatory MAD. Which mostly turns into management by squeakiest wheel, because if you don't take care of badguyX, he is going to tell his bosses boss you are an idiot, so it's easier just to keep the queue of badguyX active then piss them off and then still have to do their work after all the fight. No manager wants to admit falling into this game, but they very very often do.

I'd also point out in these situations, the tie breaker / decision maker is far more senior of a person than someone who is going to go through some sort of quantitative process vs "using their judgement" (aka gut).

Not saying I have an answer, but am saying the post is solving a simpler version of the actual problem.
> Things like fph exist exactly because people are told day in and day out that diabetes is healthy.

I don't believe this deserves any serious consideration.
Well, I’m glad we can agree that the current situation is unacceptable—my grandfather, who was a janitor, would have been ashamed if that’s how his family had to live. OTOH, my other grandfather, who belonged to a union, fought hard so that his family didn’t have to live like that.

Americans used to make their own luck.
> Not one mention that inflation is caused by the government and central banks expanding the money supply.

> Prices are being driven the fuck up because of greed and income divide.

Maybe...it's both? Could it actually be that the government and central banks collude to prop up the housing and stock markets and print money (through debt creation) in order to make sure that the upper quintile keeps getting paid and the reset squabble about it?
Challenge: Private Access Tokens (2022)
Apple's Private Access Tokens, implemented in 2022, have often been compared with Google's Web Integrity Environment. How are they the same, and how are they different?
This is great to see. Some feedback: I entered the exact name of a doctor I knew would be in the database, formatted as "firstName lastName". The result was buried under 20 other less relevant matches. I had to search as "lastName, firstName", for it to come back as the first result.
Half of the QZ article is literally about Salas and Improv.
The obvious answer is that by being a member of society you have implicitly agreed to it's rules

That's such nonsense though, since as an individual you have virtually no impact on anything unless you were born into extreme wealth. No government that I'm aware of operates hypothecation (where you can specify what your taxes get used for), and voting for representatives based on policy commitments is crude, unreliable, and too slow to be adequately responsive. Nobody in the private sector has a job where they are only subject to performance review every 2/4/6 years.

In the US, few people truly support the roughly $1 trillion annual cost of 'defense' and nobody thinks it's efficiently allocated, but any proposals to significantly cut that sum are political suicide so it's never going to happen. Much of our current political angst stems from people's intuitive awareness that their taxes are a real fact of life whereas their influence on the political process is largely notional.
I worked at a company that had this (OLAP Cube + Pivot Tables) as one of my first internships and it was mind blowing. I bring this up in terms of amazing analytics tools in the data space somewhat often. Even highly developed BI tools like metabase can't handle dimensions as well as the pivot table.
Sure if you are talking about supporting publishers.

Artists get their money from people going to concerts.

From albums being sold, after everyone takes their slice, it is a buch of pennies, assuming they aren't being pirated in first place.
> when I was using the old YNAB which required manually entering all purchases and manually reconciling your account.

I still use YNAB4 after their online YNAB solution's monthly cost got too high. I didn't do it at the time, but now I just import bank statements. It's not too bad, not quite as slick as the new (relatively, anyway) online YNAB. I still prefer to have this level of insight on my finances and spending though.

> I don't know if better tooling could help, pointing out subscriptions and things like that

I don't use it, but Rocket Money advertises this as one of their main features.
There are some independent research organizations out there now that one could condider, like invisible college, astera, and arcadia.
Do people in America get this drug through their insurance? Because it's very expensive and as I understand it Walmart is the US equivalence of Aldi.
I thought your first para was sarcasm. Now I'm just not sure. It sits on the razor's edge, ready to fall either way in my mind.

NB. Elite running on Emacs https://www.salkosuo.net/2015/10/22/elite-for-emacs.html
North American credit cards can have very strong benefits (which merchants pay for in their fees) giving 1-5% back on purchases, and other deals/discounts/perks, so there is a lot more perceived value to using them and (intending) to pay it off in full.

But that also means it’s easy to just keep using the card, and many people don’t actually use the cards to their full extent to get the full perceived value either.
Use String instead of char or code points in Java
Isn't this very topic, the relicensing of ZeroMQ, a proof that there is a need and desire to relicense by an organization that believes in software freedom?
thanks for the answer, there are some here that seem to have problems with questions, about why, the update.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37822329

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37822423

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37822897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823190
In CH I can go to a different doctor if I don’t like one. They run their own businesses. It’s their incentive to take me. It’s amazing!!! Totally normal to everyone from here.

I just go on OneDoc and select one according to my preferences. Unbelievable!! I use CSS in Wallis and I can email and call them and get a reply very fast. I have the direct phone number of my guy at the insurance office. Maybe a perk of village living. To them I’m a client rather than an annoyance, unlike with Försäkringskassan in SE.
If I wasn’t satisfied, I could select another one. Not quite possible in a socialist health care system.
It's not a matter of understanding; people just disagree.
The reality is that nuclear weapons are not made to be used, they are made to prevent a full scale attack/invasion.

No-one is going to start WWIII and/or launch a nuclear attack against another nuclear power.

When North Korea builds nuclear weapons, for instance, it's not to attack it's not to end up like Iraq.

Those would claim otherwise are the ones who inspired Dr Strangelove.
Thank you for writing the fun article and experiments! :)
The only economic benefit I see with credits are the rewards/protections it provides for everyday purchases. Here in the states, we don't have a cap on interchange rates for merchants. This trickles down into benefits (For example on my Amex card)

- 1 year extra warranty on top of my purchases, with return protection if the merchant

- Points / 'Cash Back' (much higher multiplier) that can be used to purchase airline tickets or gift cards

This is essentially free money and protections if you use the credit card and fully pay it off, but obviously, most Americans carry balances over and the interest charges basically negate any rewards.
Now that is quite cool!
Phosphors are funny little things. In my Gateway VX720 (like Diamond Pro 710, not the other VX720), the blue and green phosphors light up the fastest and decay to near-zero the fastest (100-200 us), but have a long dim phosphor trail that persists for hundreds of milliseconds. Red starts up slower and decays slower (hundreds of us), but reaches zero brightness well before the next frame.

OLEDs without strobing, on the other hand, have a full frame of brightness persistence (and LCDs have slow color changes on top of that).
Income is easier to calculate, but wouldn't "total net worth" be more fair? An ultra rich person might show no income for a year and pay no taxes, because they lost a small fraction of their wealth, whereas an ultra poor person who has a lucky year and makes the median income once will be taxed even though keeping extra cash in their pocket would probably be the best possible use for the money.
I'm not sure if the concern is really blatant disinformation ( which as you point out is easier to smell test ) or if its really more of the thought that the Chinese have a cambridge analytica level style access to American social data.

Sure teenagers can parse bias in the media they are consuming, but is it that effective when the media company can tailor content based on the user's preferences + the preferred political manipulation?

Not saying you should ban it, just a thought.
I bought one of their kits, spent a decent amount assembling it, and then 5+ hours trying to diagnose it only connecting to their dashboard once every few hours, and sometimes not for days at at time. Even a replacement ESP didn't fix it. Disappointed that it's not really functional for my needs given the cost.
In the US you typically get a kickback ranging from about 1% to 5% for different kinds of purchases. Costco, for example, sends you a check every year based on your purchases, so it makes sense to use your Costco card to pay for everything versus a debit card.
The quote is blown way out of proportion here relative to the source:

> As one person within Meta told Power On, “We’re in the ‘afraid of Apple’ stage” — not unlike how the mobile-phone industry felt just before the iPhone’s release in 2007.
I think the loss is simply because Copilot is currently free for all students, educators (?), and notable OSS devs.
Isn’t this whole thing about Americans health insurance being tied to their jobs a side effect of some crazy WW2 regulation? Not sure how it works over there
Most credit cards pull the auto-payment either on the due date or the day before, which means that you have ~1 month to check your statements and file disputes/disable autopay in the event of anything unusual.
Is "Foreign Hostile Government" an official legal distinction? I thought the US was still on good terms with China as a trade partner.
I noticed that virtually all LEDs driver resistors are two vastly different values, in parallel. Such that if you snip off the correct one, you are left with a slightly lower output light, that consumes half the power and last many time longer.

It's like a secret cheat code for people in the know. It's almost a conspiracy.

Just cut off the highest value resistor with a pair of snips.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31751203

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669568

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950203
That's not always true. Some layoffs cut entire organizational units regardless of individual performance. Others cut a certain percentage across the board (sometimes with exceptions for strategic growth areas). The CEO might tell every manager to cut 10%, and obviously they're going to take that chance to eliminate their worst performers.
I was just about to reply that you can sort by date but it’s usually hidden in a menu somewhere, but just checked and it’s actually gone on both. WTF, I could have sworn this used to be available somewhere, just usually buried.
I'm in the UK and have my cc setup to auto pay the full balance each month too. However I use my credit card for everything except my direct debits like mortgage, utilities etc.

Literally everything else is on credit card. I just get much more protection. It I buy on debit card then I need to get my money back (doesn't arrive, faulty etc) it's so much more of a hassle.
Take in mind this is only for employees, independent workers that sell services earning more than $8M pesos (about $8700), or $11.3M for goods ($12300) will still have to pay the standard 35% rate.
Never knew Improv existed. There are tools that are similar to the vision of Improv. I use Anaplan at work everyday and it is exactly what a modern cloud based SaaS version of Improv would feel like. It is a multi billion dollar company and it worked because it did not go after the spreadsheet space but played along nicely with it.

The Improv article concludes "the key strategy mistake was to try to market Improv to the existing spreadsheet market. Instead, if the product were marketed to a segment where the more structured model was a ‘feature’ not a ‘bug’ would have given Lotus the time to learn and improve and refine the model to a point where it would have satisfied the larger market as well." and Anaplan seems to not have made this mistake. They have carved out a niche in the EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) market.
Hire a few freelancers for some small tasks here and there and say you’re a team of 5 with most of them located in India or Eastern Europe. Never say you’re a team of 1 even if you are. Some people here are too honest for their own good
Safety net in case it is forgotten. With children and life getting in the way, it is easy to forget some bills.
In a rush to leave work for beers??? Most definitely.
Thanks for sharing. Those photos of Samus give a very good impression of the difference. The CRT one is clearly better.
Should not be used in linux kernel code, that is.

The way I learned volatile was that it's used to tell the compiler not to optimize away a variable that appears to not change. If, for example, there's a variable that can be set via an interrupt, outside the local flow of execution. A compiler might cache the value on first read, volatile ensures the variable is read freshly from memory every time.

That does not ensure against unwanted concurrent access, so it's not it a synchronization mechanism.
Yes. It's documented for their Azure support here.

https://github.com/openai/openai-python#microsoft-azure-endp...
This seems less efficient/more dangerous than simply asking for mailed statements and then auto-paying the full balance. They'll deliver you a physical statement in the mail for you to look through/digest, and you aren't risking missing a month and paying interest.
The question is predicated on the argument that 'small is bad'. As stakeholders in the industry, and active participants in the community, it is our job to try and change any negative perception of small enterprises. We have to show examples of 'small is good', and be truthful.
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I agree and I do this via Power BI. If you import data into a Power BI report, create a data model with calculated measures (in DAX, not MDX), and publish it to the online service, then users can click on "Analyze in Excel" and it downloads an Excel workbook with a pivot table connected to that data model. I provide this to the PMs for the product I work on and they're able to answer a lot of their questions just by pivoting instead of having to write bespoke SQL.
Here's an example of pgrx being used: https://tembo.io/blog/postgres-extension-in-rust-pgmq
Everytime I have tried to use pivot tables I end up just firing PowerBI instead, it's a much better experience.
On the longer horizon it's probably more useful: Rotting minds, sowing discord, making users depressed, addicted and stupid, derailing culture and public discourse.

Not unlike the companies who are in that game already (but for different reasons).
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Be upfront. Also, the fact that they will have the founder as their “customer success manager” instead of a hire that won’t really know what’s going on is a HUGE benefit.
You can decode VIN data pretty easily, but the APIs that match a Plate to a VIN charge a fee for each lookup
You’re arguing against a straw man. Nobody is claiming another person will improve chances of survival. It will improve chances of a sale
In the USA, it's very common for credit card companies to provide rewards or rebates based on your spending. Meanwhile, interest on purchases doesn't begin accruing until 30 days after the purchase.

This means using a credit card is free money. I spend $100 on my credit card, I get $1-3 back depending on what I'm buying, and if I pay in full on my next statement, I pay $0 in interest.
Nah. Give the impression of scale if you can and need to, but I would draw the line at outright lying. If it doesn’t totally backfire then it’s dishonest. I would rather lose the deal.
I think there is a misunderstanding of the license(s) here:

"But as soon as you want to customize and keep the changes, they want to charge you"

Neither GPL nor AGPL require you to submit anything back (or charges you) for changes made to your system for your own usage. Even if it is within a company. It is about preventing distributing derivates to the public under closed source licenses.

You can even have and keep changes (unpublished) for you entire organization without having to contribute back.
It is when you distribute it back to public that you have to license the changes under the same license.

There is no baiting here.
I think there’s a consensus around a gap Witt respect to documentation, forums, porcelain, etc. in Nix world.

But with all due respect, asserting that everything outside of home manager is “not worth using” is fertilizer.

The fact that smart companies (TailScale and Shopify come to mind, but there are zillions) are willing to cope with those (obnoxious) gaps is very, very strong evidence that there’s a lot worth using.

git was considered too hard, inadequately documented, maliciously baroque for years before GitHub happened.

Nix solves a harder (and more important) problem in a similar way.
I'm working on an OSS BI tool focused on a document form factor. Might be of interest to you. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence
Your points are well made and well articulated, but I nevertheless disagree. Of course access to the internet is not the same as deafness/blindness, but I never said it was. its similar in that is an accessibility issue.

There are obviously accommodations and functionalities that are unreasonable to implant when it comes to accommodating accessibility issues. But offline functionality is not one of them, not for time tracking.
Whatever page that links to committed a couple of light sins:

1) Dumped me on some login page. I want to learn about the service, not sign in to something unknown.

2) Hijacked the browser’s back button. Now I can’t escape, and am forced to kill the tab.

Please fix those things
Toilet phone extensions were a thing, the classiest ones were brown.
Can you expand on your position that this war is sapping strength from NATO? I won't comment on the EU because I am much less knowledgeable on their involvement. From what I can see of NATO actions, it doesn't seem like we are over-extending at all. We have given money and old weapons (two things of which we're in no short supply), but I don't see how that equates to sapping our strength. No NATO troops have been killed, no modern NATO weapons have been lost, and the amount of money we've spent is negligable comapred to the money going into the war machine every year already. In contrast, I see Russian men being killed, russian weapons being lost, and russian money being poured into this war; resulting in negligable gains in their positions each time.
Everything around the rules of destruction in derived classes from a base class with/without a virtual destructor.

How about capture of values in a lambda within a loop? How to prevent a template expansion from killing you build process? When are move semantics sufficient for the std container classes and when are they not? What's the order of construction of multiple objects at file scope? When should a copy constructor be written so that the default shallow copy is prevented?

All of those are footguns, because if you do them wrong the program has runtime bugs without any compiler warnings.

They are all absent from C.

I'm typing on a phone, so won't go into detailw, but if you want to make such an insane claim, bear in mind that Scott Meyers himself said that C++ is too complex for him

You are not disagreeing with me when you make that claim, you're disagreeing with one of the world's foremost experts on
C++.
Sales tax can have exclusions, just as income tax does.
Only take advice from people with whom you'd be willing to switch places.
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It was more focused on lip syncing, from their purchase of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly
> Facebook is accountable to the US govt in ways that TikTok

Why wouldn't it be? TikTok is now a US company with the data of US citizens stored in Austin TX.

https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about

https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-myths-vs-facts

This is actually insane, the level of paranoia surrounding ByteDance has forced TikTok to jump through a billion hoops that no other foreign company has to and weirder still they did. Like my HIPAA is less protected than this.

> Myth: Under its 2017 National Intelligence law, the Chinese government can compel ByteDance to share American TikTok user data.

> Fact: TikTok Inc., which offers the TikTok app in the United States, is incorporated in California and Delaware, and is subject to U.S. laws and regulations governing privacy and data security. Under Project Texas, all protected U.S. data will be stored exclusively in the U.S. and under the control of the U.S.-led security team. This eliminates the concern that some have shared that TikTok US user data could be subject to Chinese law.