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by hkpack | 2025-09-11 12:57:25+00:00
Or it just matches your own cultural preference.

I personally _hate_ American service with passion.

I prefer to be left alone most of the time in restaurants or not being talked to like the best friend I haven’t seen from the high school.

I also have an expectation that the waiter is not in a desperate position to rely on a tip for their living and is fairly compensated by their base salary.
by pantalaimon | 2025-09-11 12:57:31+00:00
One lovely experience I had when trying to remove a failing disk from my array was that the `btrfs device remove` failed with an I/O error - because the device was failing.

I then had to manually delete the file with the I/O error (for which I had to resovle the inode number it barfed into dmesg) and try again - until the next I/O error.

(I'm still not sure if the disk was really failing. I did a full wipe afterwards and a full read to /dev/null and experienced no errors - might have just been the meta-data that was messed up)
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-11 12:57:56+00:00
>That's anectdotal. There is literally zero alignment or correlation between tipping and good service.

The correlation is simple. The better the perceived service from the customer, the bigger the tip is.

>You want to have a stress free experience the waiters tries to upsell you at every corner.

In the vast majority of restaurants the server has little interest in upselling you. The exception is, perhaps, at a place with an expensive wine list (and regardless of tipping, businesses will be looking to upsell that wine list).

>Good service comes from good training and experience not the assumed money left over in your wallet.

Speaking as someone with industry experience, this is honestly just funny to read.

Training? For a server? Lol!

These are by and large scrappy people (and I say this lovingly). Lots of cursing, dubious substances, people working hella long hours in other jobs, people who are just planning on working for a few weeks and then leaving, etc. Yet when a big table comes in, they button up and act perfectly, despite cursing about the customers in the back, and the incentive is not "up selling" (servers care about seat count and nothing else - that's how the hierarchy of the seating pecking order is structured) it's about tip money.

Good service doesn't come from experience either. The newest servers will basically give the best service (they're nice to everyone), while often the most experienced servers are the most jaded and cranky. It's a rough job to be part of long term and it breaks you down a bit.

Also, regulars who tip well are truly appreciated by the service staff, and the staff really does go out of their way to make sure they get good service. This is because of the steady, predictable income stream. I don't know what to tell you other than, yes, the tip money absolutely does play a large part in the customer experience, and there is a correlation.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-11 12:58:10+00:00
Like Monero, fiat currency has no intrinsic value but derives its value from popular decree and public trust in its stability. The difference is that fiat is legal tender, and people are obligated to accept it under civil and criminal legislation. No one is obliged to accept Monero in payment, or for the settlement of debts public or private.

To date, Cryptocurrency has only ever constituted legal tender in two countries - El Salvador and the Central African Republic - and El Salvador revoked their BTC legal tender law.
by estearum | 2025-09-11 12:58:32+00:00
Yeah this argument is so silly: "the top 1% pay 60% of income tax" oh okay, so as they get closer and closer to escape velocity from the rest of us, that number will climb to 1% paying 70%, then 80%, then 90%, so your argument to tax them gets weaker while the functional need to tax them gets stronger.

Brilliant!
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-11 12:59:05+00:00
> I wish more people on both ends of the political spectrum felt that way.

Agreed. Sadly the leader of one side openly and repeatedly calls for violence against anyone who disrupts his speeches [0]. The former leader of the other side condemns political violence and even calls his opponent after an attack out of concern for his welfare. [1]

[0] https://time.com/4203094/donald-trump-hecklers/

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/14/bide...
by alephnerd | 2025-09-11 12:59:22+00:00
> then that government would have political power to force changes at the EU level

The ECB - like most central banks - is given completely autonomy from decisionmakers in the EU and EC. France's politician weight in the EU has little bearing on what the ECB or the IMF decides if France defaults.

In 2006-07, Italy and Spain were similarly sized economies to France, but when they defaulted due to the Eurozone crisis, their entire autonomy on budgetary decisions was stripped despite also being large and (then) politically powerful nations within the EU.

France needs to rightsize it's social benefits to be comparable to it's EU peers like Germany or Netherlands ASAP or they will be forced to with no say during a default.
by poszlem | 2025-09-11 12:59:24+00:00
> In August 4th, I went into the MarinHealth Emergency Room, due to increased stomach pain on top of symptoms which became more acute in June. I've had a reduced appetite, with consequent weight loss, for about the last year. I had been fighting to keep weight on for some time, then in July, Rebecca and I went back to our usual haunt at the Hotel Wailea in Maui, which we love. Towards the end of the trip, I had a sudden and dramatic loss of appetite, more than the usual.

It’s incredible that someone could have such symptoms for a year and not a single doctor ordered an abdominal ultrasound. Given the outcome, this might have been a blessing, he was able to live his last year without knowing about the disease, which realistically isn’t curable. But at the same time, it could just as easily have been another abdominal tumor where a year’s delay would have made a huge difference.

May he rest in peace and bless his family.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-09-11 12:59:39+00:00
> Is that just an early-career thing, or is there some way I can get better at giving up the idea of perfection?

No, you just have to really, really get it into your head that perfection most often results in missed deadlines and never truly finishing anything.

One of my hot takes is that anybody that considers themselves a perfectionist but can also list off things they've completed doesn't actually understand what true perfectionism means. They're just bragging about their attention to detail.
by przems | 2025-09-11 13:00:19+00:00
I am glad to see this news and I hope more countries join in. Their efforts to sneak in pro-genocidal messaging through song lyrics, the buying of YouTube ads in most European countries to get as many votes as possible, and the ongoing attempts by EBU to silence all voices that are critical of their efforts to exterminate the people whose land they're occupying; it all makes me disgusted to see countries like Germany coming out with the opposite announcement of boycotting ESC if Israel won't be able to participate. Of course, EBU will not disqualify Israel from Eurovision, and the reason is obvious for anyone who has checked the list of their sponsors.
by mxuribe | 2025-09-11 13:02:00+00:00
> While I love CLI and terminals this is like going backward, heh...

Maybe so...and, yes, somewhat it is utilizing lightweight options...however, more and more, i am using either bare GUIs or legit TUIs for less distraction...a sort of minimalism. I'd like to think that i could be super productive only using TUIs, because it might make me feel like some cool elite hacker...but i know that's not the case always. However, more and more I'm recently gravitating towards TUIs, or at least more minimal GUIs, for the semi-forced focus. I'm learning about myself more and more, and more buttons is not great.

Small example: my favorite GUI text editor is Kate (from KDE). i know it has bells and whistles, but since i keep things to a minimum, it sort of stays out of my way, and helps me write more - both prose and code, etc. What i have noticed over the decades of my usage of software is that for some areas - like writing - if i use more comprehensive tools - say, like VSCode - then i will keep playing with so many settings, and stuff gets in my way; i inadvertantly let myself get too distracted from getting stuff done. On the TUI side, i can use VIM, nano, micro, etc.and I'm quite productive as well. At least, that's what works for me. So, what you might call backwards, might be more like coming full circle for the productivity aspect, at least in ways that make sense for some people, not all of course. :-)
by sillyfluke | 2025-09-11 13:02:00+00:00
>they're definitely selling your data way more than flagships where customer UX is a priority.

I'd to see some evidence for this claim. It seems to be a ridiculous offhand claim to make in this era of late stage capitalism. Flagship phones owners are wealthier, their data is more valuable for customer acquisition. Why in god's name would those penny pinchers leave that kind of money on the table? It makes no sense. It's not like flagship phone owners can track whether their data is being sold any better than low end phone owners.

They might make it harder to turn data collection off in low end phones, but that says nothing of their desire to be able to sell the data of flagship phone owners.
by motorest | 2025-09-11 13:02:04+00:00
> So, there are still behavioral issues here I take it?

From the past discussion, it's mainly grave behavioral issues but they also end up being technical. Such as trying to push new untested features into RCs and breaking builds, and resorting to flame wars to push these problematic patches forward instead of actually working them out with maintainers.

But yeah, the final straw was a very abusive email sent to a maintainer in the mailing list.
by shoo | 2025-09-11 13:02:09+00:00
the two nested bloomberg articles say

> This year the world’s four largest tech firms will spend $344 billion on AI

> Altogether, the four companies are expected to spend more than $344 billion for the year, with much of it going to the data centers necessarily to run AI models.

so both articles frame that $344B as estimates of capex within 1 year.
by esafak | 2025-09-11 13:02:19+00:00
> The primary counterargument can be framed in terms of Rich Sutton's famous essay, "The Bitter Lesson," which argues that the entire history of AI has taught us that attempts to build in human-like cognitive structures (like embodiment) are always eventually outperformed by general methods that just leverage massive-scale computation.

That's not what it says, but that hand-made heuristics are defeated by general methods. There is no reason why the same methods should not perform even better when informed by data through interacting with the world.
Show HN: Newlang.app – Practice EN, ES, PT, FR, IT, DE
by sergiofasilva | 2025-09-11 13:02:24+00:00
Hi HN,

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It started as a personal project, but since it worked for me, I decided to share it. Right now it supports English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.

A few notes: • It’s completely free. • I don’t collect user data. • The only thing required is a valid email to create an account.

I’d really appreciate feedback from this community — especially on usability, language content, and how it could be improved for learners.

Try it here: https://newlang.app/
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-11 13:02:42+00:00
Czechia was a constituent kingdom in a sui generis hodgepodge monarchy consisting of many kingdoms. Not the same as province.

That said, we gained sovereignty and precisely because we still remember being treated as subordinates, we don't want to lose it again to another hodgepodge.

There won't be a federal EU, live with it. The optimal time for federalists has passed, and people are more distrustful of centralization than ever before. Not just because of naked power grab attempts like Chat Control, which would perfectly fit into China, but not to a continent where multiple constitutions forbid this sort of mass surveillance.

You may find it funny, but people actually fought and died for freedom of their nations, and their legacy won't be disposed of just because the Brussels bosses would find it practical in their quest for more power and money.
by jijijijij | 2025-09-11 13:02:44+00:00
You cannot mention genocide and not drown every other topic. It's naturally grim shit. Here it's drowning someone else's moment of joy. A fight won for democracy and freedom. TODAY, this person was proud of their country. It's already implied, this isn't every day.

The genocide happening is a terrible thing, but for most people here there is nothing actionable about it beyond voting and protesting. It's an important issue, but there is no reason for it to be the only issue on people's mind at all times. People dying in Palestine does not mean, people with no stakes or say in the matter need to be constantly consumed by its horror. There are many similar conflicts going right now, btw.

Climate change, social justice, digital freedom, queer liberation, ... it's all getting overshadowed by the Palestine issue. If you care about anything, someone wants you to care about Palestine in that moment. And quite frankly, a lot of these advocates are not even informed beyond their Instagram information warfare bubble.

This habit of injecting the topic into other political movements, effectively kills those other movements.
by lingolango | 2025-09-11 13:02:53+00:00
>since the bottleneck in large codebases is not a compute, e.g. headers preprocessing, but it's a memory bandwidth.

SSD bandwidth: 4-10GB/s RAM bandwidth: 5-10x that, say 40GB/s.

If compute was not a bottleneck, the entire linux kernel should compile in less than 1 second.
by creer | 2025-09-11 13:02:59+00:00
I find the main difference between the US and Europe to be cluelessness and very different views about what good service might look like. My conclusion is that good service comes from management valuing good service and training (or firing) their staff accordingly.

The most common difference: restaurant wait staff aggressively removing plates as soon as or before you are done with them. While in Europe that obviously would be rushed and seen as overly aggressive and a hint that it's time to get the hell out to make space for other dinners. Super rude in Europe, considered attentive service in the US.

Striking experience: At an allegedly "five star" resort in the US, some wait staff being very loud and chummy with the guests to the point of disturbing the guests, and other guests, and neglecting other tables! Inconceivable in Europe - reserved for top management or owners. And failures to pay attention left and right - by all the staff everywhere. Clearly blameable on management defining the wrong parameters as objectives to their staff.

Tipping in the US is entirely hit or miss: some staff will remember past tipping, but only some. Some staff make a visible effort at service (before tipping), but only some. Etc.

But to be fair, there was a time when service in Paris got so bad and rude that the waiters corporation ran ad campaigns asking them to cut it out and do better. French service still has a bad reputation (of rudeness and scams). And there, it's very much NOT that waiters don't know what to do and not do. They know.

I would see working out "out of bread" with the neighbors as normal when the restaurant is not super busy, and "above and beyond" at rush hours. But then in France, running out of bread before very late in rush hours would be a clear management failure.
by avdelazeri | 2025-09-11 13:03:32+00:00
When I took business 101 in college one of the first things they taught us is that long term, fixed metrics will always become gamified, that both the ones measuring and the ones being measured will replace the real results with the metrics and sacrifice the first for the second. I understand that this is common knowledge in the administrative world. Yet, every single performance metric always becomes ossified as the only target that matters, every time. Why?
by redwood | 2025-09-11 13:03:44+00:00
I think the transformation will primarily be in search personally. As in Google search type experiences.

What that means is the ad model of the internet will come apart.

And what that means is that the LLMs will need to charge for answer optimization to plug the ads hole.

And so where this is going is basically a whole cottage industry around that. Around controlling and shaping knowledge in other words.

Yes frightening politically more so than economically. At least from my view.

And if it dumbs us down and erodes critical thinking then maybe it will have negative effects economically and politically long term.
by GJim | 2025-09-11 13:03:57+00:00
> At best, the GDPR only introduces a minor indirection, the problem of hoodwinking the "data subject" into clicking the accept button

True. Some people are daft enough to opt-in and click the "accept cookies" and "give my personal and location data to strangers" buttons. These people don't care about privacy and are beyond help.

> At worst, it gives them false sense of privacy, where there isn't much.

Those of us who bother to understand and use privacy law have very good protection thankyouverymuch.
by aquova | 2025-09-11 13:04:06+00:00
An interesting article, but it seems like quite an oversight to not even mention dithering techniques, which in my opinion give much better results.

I've done some development work in Pico-8, and some time ago I wrote a plugin for the Aseprite pixel art editor to convert an arbitrary image into the Pico-8 palette using Floyd-Steinberg dithering[0]

I ran their example image through it, and personally I think the results it gives were the best of the bunch https://imgur.com/a/O6YN8S2

[0] https://github.com/aquova/aseprite-scripts/blob/master/pico-...
by dcuthbertson | 2025-09-11 13:04:25+00:00
I'm not comparing anything to 1950s America. I am disagreeing with your assertion "His position seemed fairly reasonable ...". Kirk insinuated in the video that women in America would be happier if they had a belief in the divine and a lot of kids (which may correlate with beliefs from the 1950s, but that's besides the point) when he compared what women in America have to what women in sub-Saharan Africa have. That doesn't seem reasonable to me. (edited to fix a typo)
by zikani_03 | 2025-09-11 13:04:55+00:00
I've found that using Git libraries directly is usually slow and less ergonomic. I've got another tool (written in Go) here: https://github.com/zikani03/git-monorepo which uses a Git library and is a bit slow.

But I'm willing to take up that challenge and test out gix, I've regained my interest in Rust so the timing is good :)
by api | 2025-09-11 13:05:08+00:00
It seems like you can't even do it.

You're not alone here. Most people, including most on the right, seem like they can't do it either. People can't look at someone else's position honestly without assuming the worst possible version of it.

Where I do think your points about algorithms hold is that the algorithms have trained people to think this way. In the echo chambers bashing straw men and vilifying people is how you get upvotes and shares and likes. Look at most of X for the right, or any lefty subreddit for the left. These places are a bunch of people beating straw men.

All the things I listed are things I've heard right-wing people say about people on the left or liberals. When I hear that kind of thing I remind people that I know lots of leftists and zero people who believe those things, that those are either straw men or lunatic fringe positions held by tiny numbers of people.

Similarly: very few Christians are Dominionists, very few Southerners think the Confederacy should have won or that slavery should come back, very few people anywhere think the US should be a whites only ethnostate. There are people who think these things but they are minorities. I'm sure if I went fishing I could find pro-pedophilia-normalization LGBTQ people or anti-human pro-extinction greens, but these are also very fringe views. As I said you can always find a kook.

Most people are not crazy, but crazy people are loud. The question people need to ask is: why would a non-crazy person vote for Trump? Or if you're on the right, why would a non-crazy person vote for Harris?
by southwindcg | 2025-09-11 13:05:10+00:00
I feel like this line was crossed decades ago. As a child I saw the summary execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém on television. The suicides of Christine Chubbuck and Budd Dwyer, among others, were shown on TV too. Media in general has brought this kind of imagery into our homes for a long time.

I don't know what the answer is, when the problem is humanity. Social media platforms can do their best to limit what kinds of videos get posted, preventing the upload of content based on similarity to block-listed items, and moderators removing reported content, but beyond that I don't know...
by alerter | 2025-09-11 13:05:12+00:00
Interesting take, and there is some truth to the "practical vs ideological" split, but I feel like it's a bit mixed up here.

The actual division I see is between programmers arguing for simpler, more direct solutions to problems (e.g see Casey's blog post on semantic compression, or the hype around HTMX) and those who want to architect the "perfect" scalable and extensible system. The latter is much more common in enterprise settings, usually performs worse, and is the source of a lot of incidental complexity.

The article mentions microservices and event driven systems as an example of "pure engineering", but I think it's the exact opposite. I always see the "pure" crowd advocating for single binaries, fewer dependencies, fewer network hops, and less future-proofing.
by bluGill | 2025-09-11 13:05:40+00:00
You could be right, though I didn't spot very many I couldn't identify, it could be just what I was looking for. The company is selling to tech people in the company as a tech conference, but that doesn't mean that is really the point. (though I would expect the majority of our customers are not technical people, and thus I don't see how there is value in bringing customers in)
by danbruc | 2025-09-11 13:06:02+00:00
The German policy of more or less unconditional support for Israel is plain stupid. This policy exists because of the horrors that Germans have inflicted upon Jews but it now supports similar [1] horrors inflicted by Israelis upon Palestinians. I can not wrap my head around that. If anything, Germany should try to stop Israel with all available means to protect them from themselves. Germany should do the same as Ireland and so should everyone else.

[1] Feel free to mentally replace similar with any other word that you think more accurately compares the two scenarios.