MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lazide | 2025-04-27 06:55:47+00:00
SK has been ‘crazy’ this way for many decades. It’s also why it is so obsessed with plastic surgery.

Japan has been going in a similar direction, but has some notable differences (tentacle porn really is a thing, as is chibi).

Everyone is just becoming more aware of it, which hey - at least it isn’t just all about the USA anymore!
by klodolph | 2025-04-27 06:57:01+00:00
> This includes AWS's margin, which could be quite handsome.

It could not be.

Storage costs are more or less race to the bottom. Storage business model is that it’s cheap and commodified, but sticky. Your data is stuck in S3 because it’s a pain in the ass to migrate. The margins come from non-commodified parts of the cloud (higher-level SaaS products) and I suspect egress costs (I don’t have the details).

There’s three parts to my understanding here. One part is my understanding of the business model, which explains why storage is a race to the bottom, why it’s not subsidized (or not subsidized much), why from a strategic perspective, the margins are getting eliminated. The second part to my understanding is the technical aspect—the calculations for how much it costs to stick hard drives in a data center and run storage systems on top with the desired accessibility and reliability, and I have some fairly deep expertise in parts of this. The last part is my personal experience working for cloud providers.

I can elaborate on the first two parts but for obvious reasons some of my knowledge is proprietary and I can’t share it.

> Bandwidth costs for the top 3 hyperscalers have converged to around 9 cents per GB, but nobody seriously thinks that's anywhere close to to the actual cost of bandwidth, or that hetzner/ovh is going to go under because they're offering 1TB ($90) of bandwdith for their $5/month VPS.

Bandwidth is not commodified like storage. I know that storage cost is close to operational cost because I’ve done extensive calculations and comparisons—and some projects are cheap enough that you have to revisit your theories about how they work on a technical level.

I don’t know why bandwidth is expensive. I’m not an expert on bandwidth or CPU or 90% of the other stuff. I only happen to have expertise on storage.

There are services you can buy where egress is the major cost and egress is significantly cheaper than egress from AWS, GCP, or Azure. Either egress is a complicated product or the margins are high. Probably some combination. Storage is less complicated and the margins are lower.

> You've also failed to address my point about their gross margins. The reliability of their books have been questioned, but even the short report didn't accuse them of cooking that metric.

I guess I don’t understand what point you’re making, or how that point about gross margins makes sense. It doesn’t make sense to me so I’m not sure what I’m supposed to respond to.
by conductr | 2025-04-27 06:58:19+00:00
Servers are typically loving the current state because they frequently make way more than minimum wage(after tips). They all know they’d make the equivalent of back of house/fast food wages if the employer was paying it in full.

Despite this the general attitude is such that most people are cheap for anything less than ~20%, I’ve heard that even the servers running the take out stand expect these types of tips. The sense of entitlement is crazy, it’s such a low skill job and I’m so rarely actually impressed by the service or even attention I receive (there’s a general/generational degradation of all service that’s occurred in past say 15-20 years).
by halflife | 2025-04-27 06:58:24+00:00
Configuration. Inline styles are direct style Implementations in your html, tailwind is an abstraction that lets your configure and refactor easily. I can say from experience, being in charge of developing a large product that was bought and merged into a larger corporation, using tailwind from the start allowed us a refactor our app’s design within 1 day instead of it being several weeks worth of work.

And as a bonus it provides best practices in css scaffolding of a product design (typography, grid, colors)
by joexbayer | 2025-04-27 07:00:21+00:00
Oh, I really like UNIXes abstractions and use alot of them in my OS. What I meant was, because I use GCC for compiling, ld for linking, ar for archives etc, I noticed that I got really bound to the C way of UNIX. Or maybe POXIS would be more appropriate. It did “force” me into some design decisions which I did not like. Or even just the way I wrote C is so UNIX / Linux like. Wish I tried to branch out more, especially considering how different Windows C is.
by herewulf | 2025-04-27 07:01:03+00:00
As great as this looks, I think it should heavily emphasize moving on to using GCC (or maybe LLVM).

I learned C in the mid nineties using a copy of Visual C++ 1.0 that a friend had gotten from his father (and probably he got it from work). It was the only compiler I knew of and once I was ready to move beyond toy programs, I was seriously hampered by the fact that this compiler couldn't produce text mode executables (any call to printf opened its own new window that definitely wasn't cmd.exe) and it couldn't set the graphics mode for blitting pixels. It was heavily oriented around this new fangled MFC thing but I was a teenager so I wanted to program games not business apps or whatever. That meant I wanted text mode or graphics mode.

My high school CS class had Borland C++ and I could set mode 0x13 with that in DOS. But I had no way of obtaining this compiler as a kid. And it probably didn't work on Windows 95 anyway.

Anyways, it wasn't until the early 2000s that I finally learned about GCC, a free as in beer and freedom compiler and the simplicity of it would have been amazing for learning.. If only I had known.
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-27 07:01:23+00:00
Ask any server if they want to get rid of tips, even given an hourly wage that would be comparable, and the vast majority will say no. Those regulars who come in and slip you a $50 bill every now and then blows any kind of "fair wage" a restaraunt could pay you out of the water.

It's like working on comission. Americans are rich (comparatively, globally). For all of our gripes we still have the highest disposable income by a long shot. Many can and do enjoy tipping their waitsaff gratuitously in exchange for their service. It's the only way serving can possibly ever be anything more than low wage drudgery, given the margins of food service.

If you can't afford to tip, you cant afford to eat out, plain and simple. Go to the grocery store.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-27 07:01:46+00:00
While we used to have "rounding up" tipping here as well (closest 5 or 10, depending on where you lived), it's sadly becoming norm to ask for percentage based tipping in europe as well, especially in the more touristy places.

This is what I don't get about tipping percentage based. It makes no sense to me. The serving effort is exactly the same between a 10$ salad and a 100$ steak. Take plate, bring plate, place plate on table, smile and check back. That's it.

It gets even more obnoxious when dealing with drinks. A 20$ bottle of wine requires the same effort as a 200$ bottle of wine. (well, except that pretentious bs about breaking the glass, but that's ridiculous anyway)

Same goes for drinks at bars. 5$ shot of your cheapest whiskey takes the same effort as a 50-500$ of a top shelf / ridiculously rare whiskey. Tipping a percentage of that makes absolutely no sense at all, and people defending it with "you get better service" really should visit high end restaurants in London / Paris etc. and see what "great service" really means.
by lwo32k | 2025-04-27 07:02:11+00:00
Its like the times before Central Banks appeared.

People would go to the market see prices rising (inflation), see themselves getting pushed out of the market, and come up with all kinds of theories about what was happening - its the sea gods, its the rain gods, its the jews etc - we can't kill the gods so lets kill some jews. Nothing much has changed on that front with ignorant overconfident people.

However what was missed and non obvious to anyone in the market place, was one of the reasons prices can rise is too many coins get minted by the Kings or Govts to fund their debts and wars.

Once it became obvious, that when money printing happens at a rate faster than goods arriving in the market, prices will rise - we got Central Banks - who were given the task of controlling the money supply by monitoring price rise. Before that it was randomness and chaos, bank runs and bubbles.

The same thing is being missed on social media.

People assume when they don't get seen or visible its their fault or someone elses fault. What people are not seeing is Content is exploding but available pool of Attention does not grow at the same rate. Therefore when Supply (just like money supply) vastly outpaces Demand (attention pool) what happens?

These are Systemic Problems. Not caused or controllable by Individual Belief or Action. Only solvable at Systemic level. So we see never ending frustration, stress and anxiety about whats going on.
by shermantanktop | 2025-04-27 07:03:07+00:00
And European tourists are notorious for not tipping, because they have not taken the time to understand our bizarre customs which we don’t even like.

Combine that with the fact that tourists everywhere are more difficult and time-consuming to deal with and it’s a recipe for resentment.

Just last week I saw a group of Spanish visitors to NYC create a confusing maelstrom of orders at a coffee shop and then override the tip to zero, all while shouting across the room to each other.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-04-27 07:03:51+00:00
Dedicated web page: https://www.indiebound.org/independent-bookstore-day

IIRC it started at about the same time as 'Indie Record Store Day'; both are on Saturdays in April.

I shop at brick-and-mortars for whatever I can, and very much regret those gone missing because of the Great Monopolist. I really valued being able to examine many products before purchase.
by ktpsns | 2025-04-27 07:04:00+00:00
As a scientist, I always find it interesting how audiophiles prefer "real" (non ideal) electronics over digital simulations. It is not only the transmission functions of tubes, which can perfectly be simulated at sufficient cutoff frequencies in the digital domain. It is also the haptical handling of cables, the fact that you can probably even touch a system at some point and it does something unexpected. In the end, digital modeling comes only so far as it does. Unfortunately, neither skeuomorphic design nor AR/VR came so far to include all the effects of physical systems. Which is definitely in reach, with multi physics real time simulations at incredible spatial and temporal resolution...
by djur | 2025-04-27 07:05:00+00:00
1) Sukarno had less to worry about than a schoolteacher (like in the article), perhaps. Teachers can get fired for even a hint of scandal. 2) Victorian men loved porn, prostitution, etc. The "prudishness" of the Victorian era was enforced on women. Deepfakes are just part of the same long tradition of women being deprived of sexual agency and autonomy.
by arendtio | 2025-04-27 07:05:10+00:00
I have this project planning prototype [1], where you can use audio to plan a project, like' Please create a project plan for an example project and make assumptions' or 'During the last two weeks of the year, nobody is available due to the holidays, please adjust the resource availability'.

To test this, you need an openai api key and add it in the settings (it will be stored in your browser's localstorage). After that, you can use the microphone icon in the ribbon menu (press it once to start the recording, press it again to stop the recording, and the processing begins).

You can also test most things via text input in this app, but for example, I have another app for kids that supports audio input only. There, the kid can say 'I want to learn about apple trees' and the system creates apple tree content ;-) However, it also has some content filters to allow only content suited for certain age levels. That is something you might want to include in automated tests.

[1]: https://critically.app
by xoa | 2025-04-27 07:05:43+00:00
>but the prices would also be commensurately higher.

No, the prices would be more transparent, not higher. You've made clear in other comments ITT that you believe tipping to be mandatory ("If you don't want to tip, don't dine at full-service restaurants in America"), which means you consider prices 15% or more higher then sticker price to already be the rule. Requiring that to be part of the advertised price instead of hidden is purely good for free market efficiency. Anything that isn't fully optional should be part of the advertised price. The employers and employees have superior information for correct decisions, and once a transaction (dining) has already been committed to a superior position of power as well.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-27 07:05:57+00:00
I've never been to South Korea but I'd be really surprised if that has much to do with it. The entire Western world has had massively declining birth rates while simultaneously becoming less misogynistic. If anything there's a negative correlation. In more equitable societies women don't want to just be mothers, and society changes so that it is now difficult for them.

For example it's very difficult to live off a single income now so women can't be stay-at-home mothers, and childcare is extremely expensive in most countries.
by throwup238 | 2025-04-27 07:06:34+00:00
> And don’t get me started on the inefficient payment ritual we have to endure: flag down the waiter for the check, wait for the check, wait for them to take your cc, wait for them to ring it up and bring it back, then do some math. Unnecessary.

Most of the sit down restaurants I frequent now use mobile pay terminals so at least that bit is less awkward. They leave the terminal at the table and leave, so you can pay at your leisure.
by aidenn0 | 2025-04-27 07:06:48+00:00
People used to use photo-editing software to do the same thing 20 years ago. A significant change in the prevalence of something (due to making it easier in this case: painting->photoshop->AI tools), can make a qualitative difference in the harm.

A really dedicated person might crank out a painting or two per week, and a minuscule fraction of the population has the skills to do so at all. Around the turn of the millennium, a much larger (but still small) fraction of the population had access and skills to use digital photo editing tools, and it still took quite some time if you wanted to make something convincing.

I am fairly confident that if one were to spend an hour or two researching how, a significant fraction of the population could generate dozens of images in a single evening.
by oceanplexian | 2025-04-27 07:07:34+00:00
I agree but the reason it won’t be an apocalypse is the same reason economists get most things wrong, it’s not an efficient market.

Relatively speaking we live in a bubble, there are still broad swaths of the economy that operate with pen and paper. Another broad swath that migrated off 1980s era AS/400 in the last few years. Even if we had ASI available literally today (And we don’t) I’d give it 20-30 years until the guy that operates your corner market or the local auto repair shop has any use in the world for it.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-04-27 07:08:10+00:00
I'd guess it depends where you live in Germany.

Berlin Mitte: Agree, yes, atrocious service, many arrogant people, no credit cards because of tax fraud (Lived the startup life in Berlin for 20 years, "Monsieur Vuong" was IMHO the worst for service and arrogance - but then there is "Il Pane e le Rose", lovely people, went there for 20 years, or "Restorani Tbilisi", my favorite restaurant in Berlin, most excellent food and service).

Nice city somewhere else: No. Here in Stralsund we go to 5 restaurants regularly. All are nice, have excellent service, people are friendly, prices are fair (But I so miss Georgian food).
by lglldev | 2025-04-27 07:08:25+00:00
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by djur | 2025-04-27 07:08:43+00:00
How is the law targeting men? As far as I know, it's just as illegal for women to create and possess deepfake porn.

And, again: you do not need deepfake porn to have love and happiness, even an illusion of it. I personally think better of men than to think that a fake nudie pic of the neighbor's wife would be the keystone of their mental wellbeing. If anything is misandry, it's thinking of men as a bunch of sex-crazed gremlins.
by hectormalot | 2025-04-27 07:09:20+00:00
I think that is a result of the economics with tips.

Restaurant owners need to balance between overstaffing (and thus spending too much) and understaffing (and having service suffer). The optimal point is different if your opportunity cost is $2 vs $15 per hour.

Thus, in a US restaurant, on average, you’ll see more waiters than in most EU places, given the same amount of tables.
by tuatoru | 2025-04-27 07:11:28+00:00
I don't have the reference, but I read recently that incels are much less violent than average, and especially so towards women. Makes sense, because they stay in ther parents' basements.

The real effect will be economic rather than on crime. Married men earn about double what single men earn - they have incentives to do that.

Losing most of their tax base will be pretty traumatic for many governments.
by almosthere | 2025-04-27 07:11:52+00:00
With minisplits entering the scene a basic heat or cool electric signal isn't even important anymore. A minisplit is designed to adapt by knowing how off your temp is, and aiming for that... much more energy efficient. Instead of coming on every 20 minutes, it just stays on all the time and puts out less differential, but it maintains the temp.

And all of these mini splits (at least many) have their own remote control and usually an app as well.
by remarkEon | 2025-04-27 07:12:11+00:00
Yeah I got that part, maybe you're misreading. You seem to be interested in advertising that you've read all this stuff, which is great, a lot of people have. But you aren't really addressing the problem statement, so I'll state it clearly: no one gives a shit about a 2.6% hourly wage increase over 20 years. They don't care because immigration comes with a bunch of other externalities, that are very near term, that academics deliberately remove from their models. "Natives get a slice ... of 1.7-2.6% ... over the course of 20 years" is not a convincing argument, which is why most of the quantitative debate about immigration is largely academic. If the benefits were so obvious we wouldn't need a team of nerds to tell us that, well, actually your hourly wages do go up ... eventually. Insofar as you care about some sort of policy outcome here, you are going to have to figure out a different way to frame this.

I'm not familiar with zoning laws in the UK to comment, so, sure. Maybe a byzantine zoning bureaucracy is the problem there, that does ring distinctly "British" to me.

I haven't read the Mariel study, and honestly I don't really have any interest in it because the underlying story is that Cubans just replicated their own economic structures in a hyper-contained locality, with significant ethnic solidarity given a shared history of hardship. Again, there's qualitative aspects to this that economists - especially the econometricaly inclined - struggle with.
by joexbayer | 2025-04-27 07:12:19+00:00
I think the two best places to learn about it is the osdev forum and osdev wiki. There are so many useful resources to get you started there.

There are some tutorials out there too, but a lot of them have bugs and you basically recreate their OS.

Regarding studying opcodes, I never went that deep, closest I got was looking them up for my C compiler, so I know the most common basic ones.

https://forum.osdev.org/ https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page
by 9dev | 2025-04-27 07:13:09+00:00
Not having to name a myriad of things! Sure, things like BEM can help you at least avoid naming conflicts, but you still have to decide a few thousand times what something is called semantically correct, in a way that you and your French colleagues and the intern of next year are going to understand it.

When I got productive with Tailscale, I finally realised how many brain cycles I wasted on this. I’m, like, a programmer; of course I’ll obsess over picking the perfect name. Of course I will not be happy with the names my junior picked, and of course I will constantly be unhappy with some of them. This game of self-inflicted bike shedding is just a trap for people that like logic and order, and it’s… wholly irrelevant.

With tailwind, you just declare how something is supposed to look and feel like, at the place where it is, in the context of your configurable design system. No names, no bike shedding. Okay, that’s not a hundred percent true; you can name group selectors, because as opposed to plain inline styles, Tailwind can target children, siblings, pseudo elements—there are no restrictions.

It’s a truly elegant solution for authoring web pages.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-27 07:13:26+00:00
How is that relevant?

What Ghosn did was stealing from the company, so why you are bringing up someone else doing something entirely different.

>AMG Mercedes, M-Series BMWs, the white-label almost racecar Porsches, and I distinctly recall being told the company could "not afford" my request for a $1 to $2/hr raise.

This seems very underwhelming for expensive cars. The average SW dev in the US has no trouble affording an M-Series. These aren't high end luxury class.
by rwyinuse | 2025-04-27 07:15:01+00:00
South Korea's birth rate is extremely low even by rich Western world standards. Attitudes towards women are one root cause, materialistic culture another, but their horrible working life is probably even more significant factor. It's hard to have a family when you're busy wage slaving all your waking hours for Samsung or whatever megacorporation, just to afford a place to live.
by klodolph | 2025-04-27 07:15:11+00:00
Japan isn’t actually going in that direction… as far as I can tell, there’s just a ton of “Japan is so weird” articles that get shared in the west. Like, articles about vending machines that sell used panties to perverts, or men who get married to anime characters. You could just as easily write these articles about the US or any country in Europe, it’s just a bit of old-fashioned orientalism going around that we happen to write these articles about Japan. I assume SK is mostly boring and has boring problems like the rest of us, like rampant alcoholism and poor work culture. Likewise, the social problems with Japan are boring ones like (again) work culture, being punished for standing out, or having to navigate bureaucracy.

I don’t even know why chibi would be on your list since it’s just a style of drawing cartoons with big heads.
by sausagefeet | 2025-04-27 07:16:23+00:00
What's the compelling argument for Wasm (and Boxer) for a Wasm skeptic? It seems to be that a lot of development to create a new environment to develop for that is different than the interfaces we've been developing against for 40 years without an obvious improvement. And we have to re-develop our language implementations to target Wasm. It just seems like a lot of work for a very narrow improvement.