skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Second, we contribute to the literature on reward credit cards, which has largely focused on interchange fees as a source of funding for credit card rewards. Interchange fees get passed through to merchants, which potentially respond by increasing retail prices for all consumers. Thus, credit card rewards might to some extent be funded by cash and debit card users who pay higher prices without receiving any rewards to compensate.

> Finally, we study the geographic distribution of net rewards across ZIP codes and investigate whether the large aggregate transfer induced by credit card rewards is correlated with socio-demographic variables. We find that average net rewards are higher in ZIP codes with higher education levels, with a higher average income, and with a lower share of Black residents. Credit card rewards thus transfer income from less to more educated, from poorer to richer, and from high- to low-minority areas, thereby widening existing spatial disparities.

Reward cards are absolutely disgusting, and too few people understand that it's another wealth transfer scheme from poor to rich.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2023007pap...
I think earlier versions (GPT2? 3?) were a bit wonky in the sense that they'd make sentences which appeared grammatically correct but not actually make sense. But I didn't play around with them too much. Anyway, the article was nearly the same in 2020 so it's unlikely to be that.
They Rule, So What?
Libre office excel replacement doesn’t handle vba well and many programs break.

Idk how many macros they are utilizing with vba but would find out quickly switching to libre.

Then there is Microsoft project which has no libre office clone. Those are just two examples and I’m sure there are more nuanced ones.

I get it, Microsoft is slowly getting away from local copies but this is the same news every contract cycle of going to Linux or whatever bullshit they say they will do but IT knows it will turn into a tire fire.
It's probably the only poem I tried to memorize other than "Good Timber" by Malloch. I am ashamed to say I forgot both, other than 4 lines about "the woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep."

I don't really know Frost's other poems either.
Hatred of The People is an even longer and honored tradition in politics. Good point!
Why not share knowledge is someone is asking earnestly?
Yes because they are required to charge non reward customers the same amount and competitive markets forced prices down.

Suppose the reward is 2% so someone is paying 98% of the listed price. Now if everyone was a rewards customer the price just moves to 102.04$ from 100$, in effect nothing changes. However not everyone uses a rewards card, and the prices stay the same.

Net result with an even split would be that 98% discount applies to 101$ and Bob an unrelated customer is stuck paying the extra 1% to give the reward customer their 1% savings.

However, it’s not split 50/50 so rewards cards sometimes have more victims funding their rewards and other times few victims and it’s effectively just a marketing gimmick.
So, this is an awkward question to ask (coming from the Windows side of things).

I see all these self hosted projects, think "neat!", then want to spin them up and immediately get a little lost because I honestly haven't really touched Docker.

If I want to set up something from nothing (eg, I'm spinning up a VM for the first time on some ESXi metal to run something), what do I start with as a base OS these days to "just run Docker" without much else?

I know I'm kind of going slightly against the model of Docker here, but when you also don't have anything at all to base from...
Any word which model they used?
The clear eyed assessment of rust as the language choice was good too.
And I also expect that, very soon, we won't be able to tell them apart anymore (like those wine experts that fail to detect the good wines if blindfolded).
So much this. Requiring an app (be it on a phone or on the car) to use a charger instead of just accepting a credit/debit card is a huge problem.
My vote is for meh.com's "something went terribly wrong" song:

https://meh.com/404
It's already impossible in the USA to know what you're going to pay for something until you get to the checkout line. This just makes it worse.

Why not go even further? Itemize the marginal cost of maintaining your property's parking lot for those customers who visit your business by car? Charge customers a "store heating fee" in the winter? Customer support fee if they talk to anyone? Just as ridiculous. Processing credit cards is just one of many costs of doing business that you need to account for when you price your products.
You were the one who brought up that the rulings of the 5th were slapped down as some sort of argument about the quality of their rulings.
Why would they, imo signs point to a nation state or at minimum a very sophisticated APT so it seems incredibly unlikely they're going to make a mistake like that.
To be fair that's partially the case because the base models are worse at NSFW while decent at other stuff.

If you look at actual images generated then NSFW is common but hardly the majority of images.
The average modern pop songs boasts a worse voice that sounds more autotuned than this AI song here. The biggest problem to me is how the voice appears to be shaky.
a lot of our societies are soft control systems: taxes, even trends
The biggest downside would be the date rolling over during a record-keeping period. But this is already a problem and people handle it just fine. I mean, we say "tonight" for 02:30 on the following day, so meh.
It has nothing to do with this story or its credibility, but I was surprised that https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mynorthwest/ indicating this site is owned by the LDS Church.

The website and radio stations are owned by Bonneville International, a publishing company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, a holding company owned by the Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cynically that's probably often the case but if you're offering <$10 food items at a mom & pop shop the credit card fees are non-trivial so there probably is a very legitimate incentive to take cash. There's also benefits to getting immediate cash that you can put in the bank for expenses at the end of the day vs waiting a day or two for credit card money.
Tops out at with Teams and AI. I believe office 365 + exchange is $20.
I agree, but actually it's just a really bad example that takes the reader to the wrong place because it has the participants acting so irrationally.

The underlying issue is still there, they've just distracted from it by putting this in and having the reader go "hang on a second". They should have used a situation that was more believable, but also concentrated more on requests where the target likely wouldn't even seek confirmation.
> Apple Pay is just as traceable if they want it to be.

[Citation Needed].

On the other hand, stores like that probably already do facial recognition on customers, so it really is just intransigence to not allow contactless payments.
True. But the govt. report on this idea seems confident of 50% RTE, or 55% if they used a more-complex turbine system.

For limited & short-term use, the plant with vastly-more-expensive storage masses might make sense.

But as soon as you were faced with NIMBYs or environmentalists (hexane's MSDS is far closer to hydrogen fluoride's MSDS than it is to sand's), or if you are working in a less-prosperous part of the world...sand is great stuff.
Those $60k flights are almost certainly list/last minute pricing.

It’s even mentioned in the article that the airlines love flight miles because they can play with the redemptions to sell unused capacity for what the customer sees as real money. It also encourages loyalty.
None of these lists ever seem to be as fleshed out, up to date, or well organized as https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted , though imo any more attention on the self hosted scene is awesome. We're now self hosting everything at my co-op, and it's a dream. Saves us money, provides learning opportunities, potentially is getting us work (managed hosting providers asking if we can be a devshop for their clients, for example), and lets us give back to the FOSS community as we uncover bugs.

We use:

* Matrix / Synapse for comms (slack alternative) (managed hosting through etke.cc)

* OpenProject for project management (linear alternative) (deployed on VPS so we can shim their premium token check)

* Kimai for time tracking and invoice generating (VPS)

* Crater for financial tracking (VPS)

* Outline for wiki (we tried bookstack and it was just too weird) (VPS)

* Vaultwarden for password management ("managed" hosting through elestio)

* EspoCRM for CRM and as a CMS for marketing sites for our members (VPS)

* Coolify as a PaaS (heroku / vercel alternative) (VPS) <- my favorite recent addition, lets any member just chuck projects up with whatever resources they need super easily, for "free" (we have a fatass VPS we got on sale from racknerd)

* Cal.com for meeting invites (vps)

* Baserow for basic cms (airtable alternative) (vps)

* docuseal for document signing (docusign alternative) (vps)

We usually deploy via docker containers and manage all our various VPS and containers with portainer.

I have a member that keeps pestering us to self-host emails as well but google already has us by the shorthairs with us on Migadu: clients often tell us our emails go to spam. Not much we can do about it we have like 50 email handles and no budget (yet) to give google the new price per email they're charging.
The easiest solution is to know your customer and not sell it to someone that will probably steal it.
>This creates in effect a massive money transfer from the poor

I'm always a little confused on exactly HOW this plays out. I could see someone with terrible credit being denied, but most cash back cards I use are hardly gated / limited to "rich folks only".

I feel like the reasons / the way it plays out are more complex than the results. And really if someone is poor, struggling to pay their card, that's a larger issue than the type of card they use.

I'm just not sure reward cards = "This creates in effect a massive money transfer from the poor" as simply as stated.
Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on
In the great web tradition of harvesting the vast body of other people's work in the large[1] and shoving it through huge amounts of computation to wring out a nickel's worth of value that will eventually manifest in some good-paying SWE jobs, a rich executive class, and a whole lot of shareholder value and inevitably mutate in another goddamn ad-serving platform.

[1] Ha, the poor millions of dumb minions who put their work on the web thinking it might be fun for others or garner themselves a small following, they didn't check the terms of the EULA!
I'm a bit surprised why being cautious and pointing out suspicious parts warrants downvotes. I'm happy to chat with anyone who thinks so to understand their perspective.
Even though I use systemd to manage my primary node app, I started to use pm2 for new projects. It was just easier, better monitoring, cluster option, many easy to configure restart options. I don't think the article makes a good enough case to not use pm2.
It does include debt and its price though. So you may have a mortgaged home but still hover around zero net worth for a little bit.
I find folder navigation in Finder so bad, that whenever I need to use it for something (rare), I prefer to "cd" through the terminal then do an "open ."
Not in France - I have an Amex Platinum and with it I get the above described absurd fees and bad exchange rates.

Funnily I've gotten notified a couple of times by Amex, as per ECB regulations, that the course they've used is significantly worse than the official one.
Contrary to popular belief among Americans, the Democratic party is very clearly right-wing by global standards. There is a "progressive" fringe (with little institutional power) that basically wants what would elsewhere be centrist liberal policies, and an even fringier "leftist" wing (with zero institutional power) that wants the party to essentially be a euro-style Labor party.
Afaik after a few years growing together it's bonded solid.
This confuses at least two things. Censorship is about intent and enforcing a world view. If I want a model to generate something for me and it doesn't because of censorship, that's one problem.

If I want a model to generate a fun pic of me at the beach and instead it makes a nude photo, that's completely different.
The nerds are for once more correct than this liberal opinion of bad-apples.

The system itself shapes what people can rise to the top. Of course it does. It sets the rules and is (as an emergent entity) more powerful than any individual in the system.

This is why people who know things about social systems talk about “systemic issues”.
The horror! Is there a real need here though as opposed to just something people do, and where does such CSS come from in the case of emails? You could be "responsive" by not doing certain things instead of actively doing something and for email content it feels fitting.
Did they actually distribute the image to anyone else other than the woman? The developers say they hadn't seen the image nor was the journalist able to find it.
I wonder why no bank offers a debit-network-processed card that is backed by a line of credit.

Probably because there’s no money in it.
Many schools are starting later for this reason. Just because the bus may take long doesn’t mean there aren’t other issues that should be solved to make buses a more viable option.
There's no equity, nor inclusion, sought for in a caste system. That term does not apply. Quotas are not the same.
Museum of Science and Industry closed Wednesday to move military artifacts
Lessons in Why Tutoring Programs Work
How does your programming language handle "minus zero" (-0.0)?
If the company could profitably charge more for their products, they already would be, regardless of what interchange fees (or other costs) were.
MasterCard and Visa's stock ticker symbols
Improvements to the fine-tuning API and expanding our custom models program
Even then, I can tap with the card, which tends to register faster than inserting too. No garbage proprietary software required to be installed on my phone, and I still get contactless.
Rewards is only part of it.

There's also everything required for the credit card company to operate, down to building leases, datacenters, hardware, employee pay. All of that is vastly funded by late payment fees and interest, which are almost exclusively funded by the poor.

At one time I wanted to start an "ice bucket challenge" to start a snowball of rich people donating 100% of their credit card rewards to the poor in some capacity. I'd happily join if I could get the snowball going, but unfortunately, if the snowball doesn't happen with a bunch of multi-millionaires I'll just end up indirectly giving my money (not poor, not rich) to the actually rich and I don't want that either.
Another article about migration to linux after 2019 https://computerhoy.com/noticias/software/barcelona-cambiara... and a Gemini sumup https://g.co/gemini/share/74fe50828fa1
Forced? Give me a break.

The public has nothing but contempt for these self-proclaimed journalists. They do nothing but mold facts to paint narratives completely detached from reality. In this case they're pretending to be oppressed by their main competitor, one that was reportedly days from permanent shutdown at least a dozen times in 2023.

The alternative is they're too stupid to understand how they got a free subscription.

Either way, these journalists are the enemy of the people.
It's unfortunately that I cannot legally say what should happen to them.
AMD Unveils Their Embedded+ Architecture, Ryzen Embedded with Versal Together
That's my point. The Brits aren't "coming for your job".
I see the logic, but in my opinion fumbles with this shortcut are catastrophic enough (sitting there waiting for N files to open in however many apps so they can all be closed) that the “logical” option shouldn’t necessarily be favored. That said, the alternative doesn’t necessarily have to be Command-O (though I like the mnemonics of that), some other modifier paired with return/enter could work too, but I really don’t think it should be a single key shortcut.
That's my understanding as well.

That said, there are laws in some jurisdictions against card-only payment policies. I suspect they're not widely enforced for smaller places.
Many of the Linux file managers aren't great either, and sometimes fail at things I'd consider basic.

Dolphin doesn't always measure a remote FS space correctly. You have 10TB free, but it sees 0 and a 10MB file copy throws ERRNOSPC.

GVFS for non-local systems in Nautilus or Thunar is sometimes quirky too, although I haven't had any issues in a while, so either I'm used to working around the quirks or they were resolved.
Banks Are Extending Office Loans. Are They Also Pretending?
It is multi-threaded (configurable, you can set it to a specific number configuration file, or use the magic value 0 where SableDb decides based on the number of cores divided by 2).

Each incoming connection is assigned to a worker thread, and two tokio tasks are created for the connection (one for reading and another for writing).

Using tokio allowed me to use the `async` code without using "callback hell" so the code looks clean and readable in a single glance without the need to follow callbacks
This goes back to 1998 at the very least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_ribbon_campaign

It was clear from the start that using HTML in email was a bad idea.
Typically replies are referenced to a comment.

But… The spur here you are cha going the topic to is a side effect of government employees not knowing that these models aren’t yet so lobotomized that it is still possible to create “problematic” imagery.
> Ideally, anything past C++20 should be made available as module as well.

> Not every library has to work in all compilers of the world.

These two statements directly contradict each other. It's great that you are in a space where you can use modules, but most other people are not, and expecting them to ship modularized versions of their libraries is inconsiderate given the limitations they face.
One scenario where this night not be far-fetched is when such mails are sent to the accounts payable department of large companies. The people are not going to call a line manager everytime a payment request comes through email, especially if the dollar amount is small and didn't require pre-approval.

I remember even Google had fallen prey to such a scam where they were paying somebody even though no work was done. Admittedly, that case involved fictitious invoices. However, the principle remains the same.
Big Tech + Countries: Those all sound like great reasons to centralize all access to AIs!
Have you thought about adding a simplification algorithm such as Ramer-Doublas-Peucker [0] or Visvalingam–Whyatt [1]? I've used https://mapshaper.org/ to do GeoJSON path simplification before and those seem to work very well. For applications which want to maintain path accuracy while reducing the number of waypoints that may be more effective than truncating the decimal places

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramer%E2%80%93Douglas%E2%80%93...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visvalingam%E2%80%93Whyatt_alg...
> The illusion of being stuck

Agree. Assigning pathologizing is mostly based on whether it affects your life in a negative way. If it doesn't (and it's not simply deferring or hiding the bad outcomes), the it's not the pathology. Harm to self and others is where hypomania gets distinguished
That's not true. If you read anything, it's very, very, clear that the absolute very most you can argue is "40% of Palestineans love Hamas and want it to fight Israel".

Meanwhile, you're out here, doing in public:

- why would anyone ever call this a genocide

- they should be starved as they are the enemy

- yes correct I mean all of the Palestineans are the enemy and should be starved

- just listen to them for proof

I, completely honestly, 100%, believe its more likely you're astroturfing to make Israel and Zionism look bad than an actual Zionist. But I'm a Zionist, so it's just cope on my end. Terrible stuff my friend.
If you’ve already had lunch today, here’s a fun read on the origin of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime
It's not ironic.
> So take all those "digital sovereignty" with a grain of salt

Actually, there's actual money flowing from Germany to open source companies as we speak to build digital sovereign solutions (like openDesk [1]), so it's more than "We want you to lower your fees".

Real concerns have more and more motivated this kind of things in recent years.

[1] https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/info/-/blob/main/REA...
Good point. I took a look, and it appears I hardcoded it, rather than going through our normal color management.

Sorry about that. I've filed https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114588 about this and I'll try to get it fixed before GCC 14 releases properly (i.e. for GCC 14.1)
Some group of coders pissed off because the were rushed into shipping and a middle manager or two that were trying to make an arbitrary deadline blaming it on incompetent devs.
Yeah, there’s a lot of software that uses autoconf without gnulib. It’s common to include a load of default platform tests in the configure script that are used by gnulib, but without gnulib the software never uses the results of the tests. All these futile tests are an appalling waste of time and energy.
The term micromanagement doesn't apply to government regulations. We already can't say publicly things with specific meanings (e.g. slander), can't possess tiny amounts of substances that are very specific (hallucinogenic), etc.

The law of the land is in the upper bound of how extensive it needs to be.
He wasn’t testifying, he was arguing. If wasn’t an evidentiary hearing.
Would a 1 percent cash or debit discount be an enormous burden? Some merchants already programmed their terminals to prod debit customers into entering their PIN rather than charging it as credit, so would offering a discount really be that much harder?
Where Graph Theory Meets the Road: The Algorithms Behind Route Planning
There will be demand and supply for both cases.
Is that ROM available elsewhere online? If so, most emulators simply say, "You need this ROM, you should dump it yourself iff you have the legal right to; the md5 is blahblahblah, definitely don't type that into google" and let the internet do the rest.