skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trade almost always undermines the despotic regimes. Corruption results in inefficiencies which can be exploited through trade by those wishing to compete with the regime, even for their own corrupt reasons. Fostering competition between corrupt entities. Sanctioning takes away these alternative sources of power and consolidates it entirely within the regime.

For example, Russia would have had a hard time policing their rambunctious oligarchs who would have used corruption to undermine the Putin regime to obtain more power for themselves - perhaps they could have supplied backing to Prigozhin with an offer that they could replace the Putin regime with something better. By sanctioning the oligarchs it forced all of the oligarchs to abandon any hope of competing with Putin and greatly strengthened Putins grip on power. Sanctioning polices the behavior of the Russian oligarchs much more effectively than Putins regime could have done, effectively outsourcing the cost of compliance to less corruptible 3rd parties.
Sometimes that part is called "astroturfing"
Looks cleaner and simpler. I like this pattern!
It needs to be coupled with effective and merciless moderation towards that behavior. When your single spam post costs you $10 and it was deleted and you were permabanned within a few minutes, the only thing it's effective at doing is draining your wallet. That's not so say you don't see that behavior on SA, but it's pretty unnoticable unless you go looking for it (and it keeps the lights on there).

twitter has created the problem for themselves of few moderators relative to users, allowing spam, and giving the benefit of the doubt to suspected bots
You mean I shouldn't have tipped the miminum wage South Asian who installed my beach umbrella? They're far from their family doing a job in a very foreign country, sleeping who knows where along with who knows how many colleagues and sending most of their income home.
It would work like everything else. That "expensive" grocery store that continues to stock the high quality products that you love would still get your business even though they raise prices. In the meantime, the mediocre one would not, and they would be forced to lower prices accordingly.

I just want to know what the price of something is and make my own decisions about whether or not it's worth it. The social and mental gymnastics over tipping is just exhausting.
I know both sides, being admin or mod and being a normal user. I never got banned, however banned users.

I realized that this very act can be devastating to one person while the rest (others involved, passive or active) simply moves on and in 99% of the time forgets about the issue.

Moral of the story: whenever there is some sort of asymmetry of people involved, one faces harsh consequences while the other or others don’t, do the same. Forget about it, this grudge is totally one sided.

Or build your own company out of spite. But never let a ban compromise your mental health.
It's answered in the post (in the thread) as well. But for comparison, when I worked for an AV vendor we pushed maybe 4 updates a day to a much bigger customer base (if the numbers reported by MS are true).
Any org using a tech product should have a team reviewing contracts. Many contracts have financial penalties for not meeting SLAs. That's not going to be in the standard terms of service, but rather in an enterprise contract. Any large company just accepting standard ToS for business critical software is not doing their due diligence.
TRS in this case is TRS-80, not Tip-Ring-Sleeve
Yes. When evaluating public opinion, we need to take into account that people who are comfortable with the hustle can make a lot from tips in certain jobs, and these people seem to be the vocal ones about keeping tipping.

There is a common accusation that it's business owners who like tipping because it allows them to keep wages lower. My impression from hearing owners themselves about it is that they also would generally prefer to eliminate tipping. I'd like to hear of any business owner who keeps a tipping system over the objection of the employees.
The most interesting thing is that that post sat for months without the answer "why" it was done, but chatgpt knew, from the comment added 2h ago.

The j was to prevent forgery, or altering the document. ii could be altered later to iii.. but if it was ij its obvious its been tampered with if it later appears as iji
What's the advantage of heavenban compared to shadowban?
In the UK, it's become fairly common to just have a (supposedly optional) 10% fee for table service. And I assume most people pay that and no more and no less.
I ended up on Zettlr after a long search for a note taking application that would allow not only easy note taking but retrieval and linking as part of the process of creating larger rigorous documents. I especially wanted something that wasn't about a gimmick, was operable without a cloud, was reliable, and was open source. I've found Zettlr wonderful for personal note taking, academic note taking, and putting that together in creating academic and professional use papers.

For me: It fits the Zettlekasten method as far as I want to take that. However the tools in doing to don't impose that. Tools I like in particular:

Configurable left pane with files and folders similar to a code editor like VSCodium or SublimeText.

Quasi WYSIWYG markdown. It helps, especially for things like quotes.

Inline tags, inline references via linked bibtex (for me, from Jabref), timestamps.

Another pane on the right I configured summarising links, references. These panes can be hidden for full screen editing too.

Exports in a wide range of formats.

Zettlr facilitates the creation of knowledge better than any other note taking application I've tried. On top of that, it's open source.

Apologies in advance if this sounds like an ad. I have no affiliation with the project other than as a user.
> tipping before you receive what you pay for is extortion

100% agree. I tip at places where I am not receiving anything beyond counter service because I can't shake the fear that refusing to tip could negatively affect the meal I'm buying.

Even Burgerville (locally well known fast food chain) asks for tips now. I go there less often as a result. I don't like the way it makes me feel.
Their standalone client, DataGrip, is excellent, and free for educational institutions.
They're obligated to report the tips as income, so, legally speaking, it goes to taxes either way.
Ask HN: Apple Vision Pro as a Display
We can use the Apple Vision Pro as an external display for your Mac. If I understand the comments from people who have tried it, it seems that it is okay to use it occasionally, but it cannot substitute the Studio Display or the Pro Display XDR. Do you think that future improvements could make the Vision Pro a good alternative to conventional displays? What would you prioritize?
> develop, build, approval, and documentation process

Under the immense pressures, I'm sure one or two of the usual steps were missed or reduced (perhaps this is what you were insinuating?)
As far as preventing forgery/tampering with the number, it's funny because this applies to merely the smallest part.

The "j" instead of "i" prevents you from adding another 1 or 2 to the number, at most.

Meanwhile, you could still change "ii" to "vii" or "xii" or "lxii" or whatever on the left side.

And still often append "i" on the right side when it doesn't end in "j" -- "x" can still become "xj", "xij", "xvij", etc.

It's just funny that you'd bother at all with "j" when it achieves so little. I see that it was also a practice to draw a line over the number -- why not just draw a whole box around it?
Much bigger per capita?
I find the tipping-before-service stuff down right creepy. Each time I hit zero I feel I'm taking a gamble they're going to spit in my cappuccino. I don't think this needs legislation - just avoid businesses that use these dark patterns

next up, don't forget to tip your surgeon and your lawyer
The malware doesn't need to infect 100 million machines.

It just needs to infect 200k devices to get to the pot: hundred million dollars of ransomware.
Do I need to bring up the obvious counterfactual in China? I also disagree with your analysis on Russia, Putin's grip on power has not meaningfully changed due to sanctions. What has changed is Russia's ability to fund its war.
They also have it as a standalone database IDE, called datagrip. It’s really good if you’re not already using the plugin.
I am still bitter for getting banned from my EU country subreddit, for saying hamas dresses as civilians.

This is a sign that if Reddit dies, it will probably be because of the mods.

This is becoming so bad, that admins added rules that prohibits subreddits to have discussion about the moderation of another subreddit.
Went to my cousins wedding in Houston about 25 years ago. Mid-June, 106 air temperature, humidity in the high 90s. I was having a smoke outside the airport exit to the parking garage. More than one person staggered as they left the building and a couple of them fainted. Grotesque does not being to describe it. And we were in suit and tie…
As anyone who has ever worked for tips or traveled abroad knows, tipping is observably a cultural phenomenon.

Me, personally, I think complaining about it is tacky and shows poor character.

I even tip (albeit less) for takeout. Why? Well for one the kitchen staff did just as much work as they would have had a waitress brought my order. And second and far more importantly, because that’s how I’d like to be treated and I generally aim to follow the golden rule in my dealings.

As another aside, normally there is significant hysteresis between prices and wages. Percentage based tipping has no hysteresis and is thus observably a more just compensation model for servers. Especially in a time where grocery prices are up 20% over the past four years.

Also, wage theft is a pervasive problem and tipping is resistant.
I love this story. This is basically the plot of The Sting (1973).
The problem is that, looking back at GNOME history, we get curious about what really happened.

But Sonny is not protesting or something, so we cannot say anything about it.
It doesn't have to be that technical. What I'm reading in there is that they had a logic flaw and their test cases nd testing processes aren't robust enough to catch major logic flaws. Not that surprising the way most orgs treat their testing.
I’ve loved the Buttplug project. I was hitting an issue with their Bluetooth library controlling a we-vibe, and someone offered to drive over from the other side of the bay to help debug it. Bluetooth sniffer, and all.
Living in country where price you pay is the one next to the item this just seems unnecessary exploitation that is allowed... Price shown should be inclusive of everything. I can accept charging extra for extra service like delivery, but basic service should be in the price.

You are free to print 10% of item price goes to workers, but price should still be one that customer ends up paying in the end.
Calculus isn't for me.
Sure it does. Especially in the Balkans.
The video shows this working on stairs and other places that tractors dragging sand wouldn’t be appropriate.
> China is often the target of anti communist propaganda so how do you square that hole? 1# economy when looking at GDP(PPP) so your “analysis” falls short.

And that primarily came to be when they cut back on the centrally planned economy and allowed more free markets. Whether they will allow that to continue is to be seen.

> Communist “regimes” often have to deal with outside interference from the “superior” capitalist system.

No, they generally don't, but they use that as propaganda. Eastern Germany built their "anti-fascist barricade" in Berlin officially to keep the evil Western infiltrators out, but their guns were turned to the east, and they murdered people for trying to escape from communism. The Soviet Union as a whole often attributed its failures to the meddling of the Imperialistic West, because admitting that you messed up is dangerous.

Communists always find a reason for their failure, and it's never them. That's really nothing new.
I remember, and on reflection, this was the beginning of the end for durability.

Before Walkman, nobody would carry an untethered device which would break if dropped from waist height. Watches were our most expensive everyday carry - secured with straps or on chains.

After Walkman, the market accepted fragility and therefore an endless conveyor belt of broken stuff going into landfill. Encasing mobile phones in glass is the zenith of this madness.
>Your account is unable to post or reply until Jan 1, 3000 1:00 am.

I guess I should set an alarm...

(This is a ban I got on the official World of Warcraft forums roughly 10 years ago. Funny that they don't hand out permabans ;)
> Developers deep in the trenches tend to have a bad feeling for business requirements

In my experience, this is because the developers are removed from interacting with the business. How are they supposed to make good decisions if they don't talk to their customers and understand what they are aiming for?

And I don't mean have the business folks show a roadmap once a year.
Since this is a Reddit-style comment, have to say that username checks out.
They don't appear to have engineering jobs in any location where that would be considered regular office hours...
The implementation proved out to be unfortunate for compatibility reasons, and in hindsight it might be obvious, but the Mac was conceived and implemented when absolutely everything about every platform was proprietary/NIHd: keyboard layouts, connectors, expansion slots, mass storage connectors, operating systems and also file systems. Much of what became PC standards weren't conceived as that, but rather proprietary connectors for a platform that just happened to be easily cloned. There was really no expectation of compatibility between different models of computer from the same manufacturer.

I think it does a great disservice to the Macintosh Resource Manager to focus on its implementation using a dual fork file system. What it allowed was a nice high-level interface to work with small pieces of data that hid away a lot of memory and disk management from the programmer - you just ask for a type and ID, and if it's in memory you get it right away, else it gets fetched, including asking the user to swap in the right floppy if they'd swapped it in. Afair it even purges things out of memory when they were no longer needed with no action on the programmers part - this is a big deal in 128k RAM.

There were some bad things about the implementation: it's easy to corrupt the resources of a file, for instance, and there's a fairly small limit to the size and number of resources. But having a way to access structured data that's a core part of the platform can be a great thing. If anything, the Mac didn't take this far enough.
Yeah, utilities have a constant battle to keep safety measures effective.

Even when folks had recently been killed in the field due to basic safety equipment not being used, there would be people who would roll their eyes and bemoan the "red tape and bureaucracy".
How I made Inkmi Self Healing
You can also download the EAP ("beta") builds for free :)
Every place tends to do this differently, in practice it is never an even split (greatly favoring the servers). And at least in the state I worked was completely voluntary as the tips were yours.
Oh, I'd missed point #3 somehow. If individual consumers weren't even given the opportunity to test this, whether by policy or by bug, then ... yeesh. Even worse than I'd thought.

Exactly which team owns the testing is probably left up to each individual company to determine. But ultimately, if you have a team of admins supporting the production deployment of the machines that enable your business, then someone's responsible for ensuring the availability of those machines. Given how impactful this CrowdStrike incident was, maybe these kinds of third-party auto-update postures need to be reviewed and potentially brought back into the fold of admin-reviewed updates.
You can buy RCE malware for Linux too - including crowdstrike. If you want a third party to manage your systems then it doesn’t matter what third party you choose

Personally I’d go for diversity over any specific solution. That’s a rare thing in “enterprise” world. I suspect companies with strong shadow IT which provides business value for far better than those top down enterprise led ones.
You may not know this, but the word Gypsy is considered an insult by the people you reference to. It's like the N-word for black people. The preferred name is Romani.
Most enterprises do
Not tipping but I have occasionally done some supplementary work as part of my job or otherwise that was either piece-work or hourly and, while I wouldn't have wanted it as my main source of income, there was something nice about being able to bill (at an admittedly nice rate) whenever I was working on a project in any manner.
> I named the DMCA because that was likely to be most recognizable by our most esteemed readers but fine I will elaborate how this shit is everywhere.

Yes. But not all countries interpret the restrictions on fair-use as aggressively as DMCA/1201 does.
I see the same efforts to sanction China, especially with Chips as beneficial to China as continued trade would undermine their efforts to create an indigenous chip industry.

I guess you're referring to how trade has not lead to liberalism of the Chinese and I wasn't suggesting it would. There are plenty of elite in China who have benefited from trade outside of the regime and that's probably still one of the biggest threats to the regime within China. As soon a China loses the 'mandate from heaven' we could see the alternatives move in.
What's a good way to extract a static version? I currently use a plug-in that claims to create static pages, but the management is still on Wordpress. Is that good enough?

Would the static pages extracted support commenting?

Thanks.
Your reply is quite literally a reddit meme, one of the more cringy ones too. Whats your point?
Yeah I meant EU/NATO Europe of course. Once Russia gets into the EU or NATO bloc it gets huge obviously. Because of article 5.

As for Ukraine I didn't forget Ukraine was still very much aligned with Russia in the early 2000s (and an oligarchy like Russia that attacked the EU with similar tactics like ransomware). They only started repenting in the 2010s.

I feel like this is a more complicated issue because of that. They could have joined when the Baltics did but they didn't want to, they were very firmly in the Pro Russia camp. Then they could have had a lot more protection.
"dot the i's and cross the t's" (related to the 1919 referenced answer https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/a/3751 ).
So what happens if you don't tip?

Asking Americans here as we don't have a tipping culture in my country, at least not to this extent.

Also, is it just in restaurants and food related businesses or services in general? Are you expected to tip your hairdresser or mechanic or plumber?
One of the things that blew my mind when I took a few semesters of Dutch in college is that the language occasionally gets amended (or more precisely, the way it's taught in schools is amended, although after a generation or two of delay the effects are the same) to fix inconsistencies. I can't remember if clarifying 'ij' and 'y' was one of those, but I remember the professor telling us about how a while back people were upset when they updated the spelling of the word "pannenkoek" (which I think had previously been spelled "pannekoek"), which some people apparently still haven't gotten over after almost three decades[1].

I wish there were enough willpower for something similar for English, but it's probably too late to reach any sort of compromise on whether to use a "u" in words like "color"/"colour".

[1]: https://dutchreview.com/news/dutch-government-argue-over-spe...
DeepL's LLM Outperforms Google Translate, ChatGPT-4, and Microsoft
> plenty of published papers and research

such as?
Not worthless but.... note that TDP is a thermal design spec.

It's not an electrical spec. The main difference is that a chip can overclock itself to 200W on 45W TDP, as long as the overclock period is short enough to not fill up the heatsink with heat.

And it can take minutes to fill up the heatsink in practice. Heat travels slower than electricity after all, even across copper and heat pipes.
Was replying in the spirit of OP.
In my case it was a pci-dss (payment card industry data security standard) audit.
Do you tip your accountant if you have one? Or doctor? Or every nurse when you visit hospital?

Do companies tip consultants extra beyond billed rate if they think they did nice enough job?
Probably depends, my prescriptions seem to be 90 days.
I recently was asked to sign a thing saying it's my fault if I die while getting my hair colored
Thank you! It took years of snall edits with help from a lot of knowledgeable people. The effort especially shows in Ausländerbehörde and Bürgeramt guides. The official website is pretty bad.
get() returns Option<T> which you need to match against, and if it's None then you may have no choice but to mark it unreachable!() which will panic in debug compiles.

Or you can use get_unchecked which is unsafe and avoids the bounds check. If you pass the bounds check up higher then you have no risk of panic.

My point is that forbidding code from panicking isn't that useful - you still need to audit the code to make sure it's correct.
Thank you, this looks amazing! I'll have a poke around and try to implement it my self.
I just tried each one of the calculus books (there isn't just one so your comment could have helped here by specifying which). They were all accessible.
That's a question for Microsoft OS architects
I'm not sure what you're referring to because when justification is enabled Typst uses almost the same line breaking algorithm as TeX. [1]

One problem we had was over-eager hyphenation. We've addressed that recently. [2]

[1]: https://github.com/typst/typst/blob/9b001e21121ab7b5645aa36f...

[2]: https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/4584
> I’ve heard stories about new guys who refused to wear safety glasses or hearing protection while working machinery.

This is just crazy. It's low effort to protect the most exposed body functions while using machinery. I always cringe when I see someone doing any kind of that type of work w/o eye protection. Even something simple like hammering nails can cause a chip to fly off and into your eye.
Seriously fun exploration.

> Layering. That is an important word.

Layering is also the key to the (silly but also sometimes good-looking) effects from my text shadow project from 14yrs ago: https://paulirish.github.io/mothereffingtextshadow/
That’s a nice way to put it :)
Nothing, 99.99% of the time. Especially for counter service.

I always hit no, and move on.

Bartenders at a busy bar might make make you wait longer, but even then, I doubt it happens most of the time.
> Question that rises from this sort of thing happening is that, if they are actually making what can be considered a lot of money

You can make over 6 figures at certain jobs/shifts. It's one of the few jobs where thats possible if you don't have a degree or are skilled in a trade. The entire industry is a hugely exploitive closer*ck without many easy answers. The margins in food and beverage are razor thin so having this messed up system where you don't have to pay your labor a living wage kind of perpetuates itself. There is benefit on both ends of the deal. At least for front of house employees. Back of house just gets screwed on every level.
China also self-identifies as a socialist state - like Laos and Vietnam. No need to hurt their feelings.
how having the value and name in an invoice as plain text affect branding? or do you mean there client branding is added to the invoice??

the end result when you open the file is still a regular pdf. it's just encoded with some areas unpacked