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Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed

bsky.app
51 points·by zepton·10 months ago·3 comments

Uber support doxxed us and now we have to move [video]

youtube.com
4 points·by zepton·last year·1 comments

Apple ripped a valuable hearing loss feature from the AirPods line

mattiebee.io
76 points·by zepton·2 years ago·17 comments

Jailbreaking language models with user roleplay

iter.ca
3 points·by zepton·2 years ago·0 comments

Cloudflare CEO sues over free-roaming fidos at his ski resort paradise

theregister.com
42 points·by zepton·2 years ago·11 comments

Payroll Providers, Power, Respect

bitsaboutmoney.com
5 points·by zepton·3 years ago·0 comments

Sourcegraph Cody Is Generally Available

sourcegraph.com
2 points·by zepton·3 years ago·0 comments

The Long Shadow of Checks

bitsaboutmoney.com
120 points·by zepton·3 years ago·109 comments

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16 points·by zepton·3 years ago·0 comments

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zepton
·last year·discuss
Schedule C to Form 1040 (self-employment income) asks for your "Principal business or profession, including product or service". It's pretty clear that the only correct answer for some people would be something like "drug dealer".
zepton
·last year·discuss
L-1 is dual intent.
zepton
·last year·discuss
Jeff Bezos completely owns the Washington Post - there aren't any external shareholders that could be harmed, or are owed a fiduciary duty.
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
Musicians want to accept credit card payments (you lose a lot of potential sales if you only take crypto), which requires a central party to handle payment processing.
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
The US doesn't have a centrally planned economy, so the government can't lower the prices of everything. UBI is much more feasible to implement than communism.
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
There is: "you may not... Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI"

(from https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/)
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
Overflowing addition is never UB in Rust - it is defined to wrap around in release builds (i.e. it would be a compiler bug if adding 1 to 255_u8 in a release build produced any value other than 0_u8).
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
The Stack Exchange API used to revoke API keys sent over HTTP (and return an error message), which is my favorite way to handle this.
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
The negligible alcohol production is just a side effect, the alcohol itself does not kill the bacteria.
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
It would be super expensive to use LFS to distribute this:

> Each pack costs $5 per month, and provides 50 GiB of bandwidth and 50 GiB for storage

So they would need to pay for 6 data packs (or $30) for every 300gb download.

(https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-git-...)
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
Ledger fixed that exact issue in 2019: https://sergeylappo.github.io/posts/ledger-hack/
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
No paywall: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tesla-sold-only-one-car-in-korea...
zepton
·2 years ago·discuss
Amazon was right to remove your review - product reviews are for reviews of the product. You never owned the product, so you can't review it.

You should have left a seller review (on the seller's Amazon page), not a product review.
zepton
·3 years ago·discuss
I don't think amounts that are on a payment plan would qualify as "bad debt" though - if someone is paying as agreed on a payment plan the debt isn't uncollectible.
zepton
·3 years ago·discuss
Maybe @SECGov wasn't compromised, but instead @GaryGensler was?
zepton
·3 years ago·discuss
There actually is a bias - you will never get comic 404 from the random button (see https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/404:_Not_Found )
zepton
·3 years ago·discuss
DoorDash is being misleading when they imply that NYC required a minimum wage of $29.93/hr for delivery workers. DoorDash could comply with the bylaw by paying its contractors $17.96/hr for the full time they work (including time waiting for orders). But DoorDash instead chose to use the "Alternate Method" which has a 67% higher minimum wage, but only for the time the contractor is actively delivering food (not standby time). (full text of bylaw: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYC...)

The implication that Dashers earn 2x more per hour than "other workers" earning minimum wage is false, since "other workers" are paid for 100% of the time they work, including when they are waiting for work.
zepton
·3 years ago·discuss
Keep in mind that in NYC tips are exempt from sales tax, but bids for services are not. So customers would pay 8.875% more if DoorDash stopped pretending the payments are tips.

(there is a sales tax exemption for mandatory gratuities, but that only applies where the ultimate recipient is an employee whereas DoorDash deliverypeople are independent contractors - https://www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/st/gratui...)
zepton
·3 years ago·discuss
Previous (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570
zepton
·3 years ago·discuss
Previous (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570