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Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed

bsky.app
51 points·by zepton·10 mesi fa·3 comments

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

youtube.com
4 points·by zepton·anno scorso·1 comments

Apple ripped a valuable hearing loss feature from the AirPods line

mattiebee.io
76 points·by zepton·2 anni fa·17 comments

Jailbreaking language models with user roleplay

iter.ca
3 points·by zepton·2 anni fa·0 comments

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

theregister.com
42 points·by zepton·2 anni fa·11 comments

Payroll Providers, Power, Respect

bitsaboutmoney.com
5 points·by zepton·3 anni fa·0 comments

Sourcegraph Cody Is Generally Available

sourcegraph.com
2 points·by zepton·3 anni fa·0 comments

The Long Shadow of Checks

bitsaboutmoney.com
120 points·by zepton·3 anni fa·109 comments

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16 points·by zepton·3 anni fa·0 comments

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zepton
·anno scorso·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
·anno scorso·discuss
L-1 is dual intent.
zepton
·anno scorso·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·discuss
The negligible alcohol production is just a side effect, the alcohol itself does not kill the bacteria.
zepton
·2 anni fa·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 anni fa·discuss
Ledger fixed that exact issue in 2019: https://sergeylappo.github.io/posts/ledger-hack/
zepton
·2 anni fa·discuss
No paywall: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tesla-sold-only-one-car-in-korea...
zepton
·2 anni fa·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·discuss
Maybe @SECGov wasn't compromised, but instead @GaryGensler was?
zepton
·3 anni fa·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·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 anni fa·discuss
Previous (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570
zepton
·3 anni fa·discuss
Previous (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570