MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamadatix | 2025-09-11 00:51:39+00:00
The problem stems less from how it might have originated and more from what it results in.

Multiple times I've been travelling for dinner with coworkers and someone notes "oh, tip is already included here" (be it the group size, the way the place works normally, or whatever reason) and then half the table starts redoing the receipt because they were tricked into it. This example highlights it's not always about intent, work already has a set policy of how to tip (i.e. no generosity or etc involved), people are just getting plain tricked into doing something else instead. Regardless - it's successful in the growth of tips, so it spreads.

Similarly, "just click skip and move on" puts the friction in the wrong direction - especially if you're not alone. It's great that it can apply a lot of the time, but the problem is it has friction, sometimes strong, in certain scenarios - again, this friction is only weighted towards the growth of tips.

Lastly, the vast majority of people have some level of desire to be fair, even if they don't want to be generous. Any uncertainty which can be created in the tipping process ("am I supposed to tip here?", "is the tip in the service charge, if so how much goes to the person/how much were they expecting to get in total?", "is the recommended tip on the receipt more than I expected", and so on) tends to push people to tip more than their generosity alone would have inclined, and it's really quite unfair to say the solution is to just click skip and hope all will understand each time.

Unfortunately, there is pretty much nothing pushing in the opposite direction. Your options as an individual, or even sizable portion of society, are to shit on the wait staff's income about it in hopes they complain enough that management gives them a better salary (that'd take quite the movement). Everything about this side has the exact opposite incentive pressures as the above, and so whether particularly generous folks are a factor or not... there's really nothing that's going to get done about it for the typical person.

Maybe we can start some place in the middle of "being able to walk into a place and understand what the cost will be up front", such as including tax in the base prices of things, and it'll open more doors about tipping for the same consideration. Until then, we all are stuck with dealing with it.
by smeeger | 2025-09-11 00:51:49+00:00
many on the left point out charlies comments on gun crime, school shootings. this has nothing to do with any of that because it was a political assassination. this is not gun violence in the colloquial sense. you could ban guns fully and there would still be political assassinations using rifles because these people are either enabled by high level political forces or highly motivated in an idealistic, political manner and will do whatever is necessary to get a rifle unlike most common criminals.
by underlipton | 2025-09-11 00:51:56+00:00
We already did, on October 7th, 2023. Israel did not learn from our example, and they currently find themselves in a quagmire where they're spending billions to kill thousands of the people they're supposed to be saving from an authoritarian, terrorist-harboring regime, with almost no real benefit to their national security, and where they have most of the rest of the world bearing down on them diplomatically for their conduct and alleged war crimes. (This is the most charitable characterization I can muster.)

The response to 9/11 was one of the most foolhardy possible, and it's astounding that any other nature would attempt the same with it still in living memory.
by bertil | 2025-09-11 00:52:08+00:00
> a pandering move to the mostly financially-illiterate populace

I immediately assumed it was a clear overture to people who are very financially literate and who were expecting within minutes an email from their tax lawyer to explain how payment for their activity happen to quality for a very loose definition of tips. At least the part that wasn’t already tax-free thanks to international montages, blind trusts and creative reporting.
by raincole | 2025-09-11 00:52:35+00:00
> where the exact same input gives different results given different preceding context

Why and how is this a problem?

If 'preceding context' doesn't cause different results, it means you can simply discard the context. Why do I want that? It's not how I expect a tool to work (I expect vim responds differently to my input after I switch to the insert mode). It's absolutely not how I expect intelligence to work either. It sounds like the most extreme form of confirmation bias.
by Graphon1 | 2025-09-11 00:52:49+00:00
> even in Japan somebody could make some kind of battery ignited home-made shotgun and kill Shinzo Abe

ok let's try data instead of feels. Per Capita, what is the number of mass shootings per year in the USA, and in Japan. I did't know the answer but asked Gemini.

The most recent year for which there is data, apparently, is 2023, during which there were 604 mass shootings in the USA, and 1 in Japan. Given the respective population counts, the per-capita rate of mass shootings in the United States was about 225 times higher than in Japan.

Given that, are you confident that your observation that "one guy made a gun once in Japan" is a strong refutation of the idea that the US could reduce mass shootings by strengthening regulations?
by tmsh | 2025-09-11 00:53:22+00:00
Looking at recent events through a historical lens: the 1960s saw the assassinations of MLK, RFK, JFK, and Malcolm X during a wave of progressive change. Today’s assassination attempts and targeted violence seem to follow a similar pattern during periods of significant social and political shifts.

As RFK said after MLK’s death, we must choose between “violence and non-violence, between lawlessness and love.” His call for unity and rejecting hatred feels as urgent now as it was then.

Violence is never the answer. But understanding these tragic patterns might help us navigate our current moment with hopefully more empathy.
by morkalork | 2025-09-11 00:54:04+00:00
>Vice President JD Vance doesn’t ‘give a shit’ if you think lethal Venezuela boat strike was a war crime [1]

Such is the state of rhetoric in the USA today. To quote a favourite show of mine:

>Things will not calm down Daniel Jackson things will calm up

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
by Lucasoato | 2025-09-11 00:54:24+00:00
Actually, it has been proven that at least two of the major terrorist attacks that happened in Italy during the lead years were actually false-flags attacks organized by a deviated part of the secret services (that were politically aligned with the far right), funded and supported by the US, in order to isolate politically the Brigate Rosse movement and stop any advance of communism in Italy.
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-11 00:54:40+00:00
Simplifies tax collection process ≠ Simplifies tax code

A few lines of tax code means millions of people don't have to worry about unpredictable withholdings due to significant changes in tips from day to day, month to month, and year to year.

Also, what's sloppy about it? It's just a deduction for up to a maximum amount from tips, for a specified list of occupations, with the maximum decreasing as income increases above a specified level. That's pretty simple, as far as tax code goes. What do you think would be a less sloppy way of implementing it?
by mouse_ | 2025-09-11 00:54:44+00:00
It's a "Tyranny of the Marginal User" problem.

https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...

Microsoft execs believed nothing could drive Windows users away, because they're addicted, but changes -could- potentially bring in Mac users. So everything was designed by and for Mac users.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-11 00:54:46+00:00
It doesn't necessarily take much hackability away. You might find it makes it easier.

You can overlay changes to the read-only rootfs using the sysext mechanism. You can load and unload these extensions. This makes experiments or juggling debug stuff a lot easier than mucking about in /usr used to be.

A lot of KDE Linux is about making updates and even hackability safe in terms of making things trivial to roll back or remove. A goal is to always be able to unwedge without requiring a reinstall.

If you know you can overlay whatever over your /usr and always easily return to a known-good state, hackability arguably increases by lowering the risk.
by hotsauceror | 2025-09-11 00:54:53+00:00
This may be an important clue for something that happened recently in our environment. We configured a bunch of database service SPNs and immediately all Kerberos auth failed. Rolled it back and talked to our support provider. They said that the expected behavior was to default to AES but that for some reason our environment wasn’t honoring that. We ended up having to manually enable AES support on each service account, which is a minor pain in the ass, and since no one in the IAM team was involved in the original domain setup, no one could explain why this happened or whether there was a manual RC4/DES config lurking out there in the shadows.
by Rohansi | 2025-09-11 00:55:11+00:00
Whether you're programming with a GC or without one it all comes down to profiling and optimization (when required). Using a GC means you need to think about memory allocations and reduce them (when required) because they factor into how long the GC will need to run. C# is a great language for this because it provides a lot of options for removing GC memory allocations from your code entirely (struct types, Span<T>, etc).

Not all GCs are created equally either. Unity, for example, is based on an ancient version of Mono and so it uses the Boehm GC which is significantly slower than the one used by .NET. Godot probably has two GCs because it primarily runs GDScript (their custom language) and only supports using .NET in a separate engine build. They'll all have their own performance characteristics that the developer will need to adjust for.
by tubthumper8 | 2025-09-11 00:56:23+00:00
Not sure what you mean here by "most JavaScript parser rejects null" - did you mean "JSON parsers"? And why would they reject null, which is a valid JSON value?

It's more that when building an API that adheres to a specification, whether formal or informal, if the field is supposed to be a JSON array then it should be a JSON array. Not _sometimes_ a JSON array and _sometimes_ null, but always an array. That way clients consuming the JSON output can write code consuming that array without needing to be overly defensive
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-11 00:56:25+00:00
Tons of songs were cut. It's still typical to have "radio edits" of songs.

When the tech came out, that allowed the tempo to be increased, without changing the pitch, a lot of songs suddenly got faster.

In radio, every second counts, and there will be a lot of fighting for tenths of a second. Sort of like top-shelf track and field athletes.

The prose in that story is a bit ... intense.
by nine_k | 2025-09-11 00:56:33+00:00
Seems targeted at office workplaces. A locked-down system that cannot even be corrupted or tampered with. Consider a workplace of a receptionist at a medical office, or a library computer.

Linux is wonderfully flexible, which allows to create distros like that, among other things. Linux is also free as in freedom, which may be very important for trusting the code you run, or which a governmental official runs.

I bet that past the alpha stage they will offer a configuration tool to prepare the images to your liking, and ways to lock the system down even more. Would work nicely over PXE boot.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-11 00:56:49+00:00
The Museum of Science and Industry and the Field Museum are both well-funded, so they better be held to a high standard :)

They also both host overnights - bring your sleeping bag and pajamas and spend the evening with tons of activities, sleeping among the exhibits, and a morning breakfast. Have done both with my kids :)

https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/events/science...

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/our-events/dozin-with-the-dinos
by mxuribe | 2025-09-11 00:56:54+00:00
Well, i remember a time when MS Word was run within DOS, yes, DOS as in the old operating system....so while i never used WordPerfect, i would not be surprized if such a thing existed.

This DE looks quite a bit like DOS - or at least the UI seen via apps within DOS. I didn't care much for DOS back in the day...but now, i like it...of course it might be simple rose-colored nostalgia. :-)
by nis0s | 2025-09-11 00:57:42+00:00
> the toxic swamp of suppression of freedoms America often engage

Seems extremist to take that view, especially when all nations have just as bloody or dark histories.

But a lot of what shaped initial American thought were Enlightenment ideals, primarily the works of John Locke. So the foundation is solid enough, but is there more that can be done to produce effective implementations? Definitely.

It’s important to note that there are good ideas everywhere, and no one culture or nation has had hegemony or monopoly on producing the best works over time.

I personally also like the fact that the way the American revolutionaries thought shaped the progress of American science up to the 20th century. Here’s a recent lecture on this, but there’s no recording that I can find.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events/americas-scienti...

https://www.usahistorytimeline.com/pages/the-impact-of-the-r...
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-11 00:57:49+00:00
You're assigning decades of infrastructure costs to AVs, none of which was done with the intention of supporting them. They'd work fine on 1950s roads.

The global AV industry has taken roughly as much funding as California HSR has on its own, and less than what HSR will need to finish.

I've been doing public transit advocacy for my entire adult life. I've worked in the AV industry somewhat less than that. My advocacy has produced a couple of bike lanes and bus stops, contrasted against 3 AV launches.

I'd love to build more public transit, but experience tells me that the most effective thing I can do to support my community is AVs.
by jorvi | 2025-09-11 00:58:06+00:00
I don't want to manually have to scroll through all the release logs on every single upgrade, in case their might be a landmine in there this time. Nor does any rational person that values their time or their system stability.

It is a million times more sane to have a package manager throw a warning or an error when a breaking change is about to be applied, rather than just YOLO the breaking change and pray people read the release log.

It is one of the most stupid policies ever, and the main reason why I will steer everyone away from Arch forever. Once bitten, twice shy.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-11 00:58:45+00:00
> All (virtually all, it's not hyperbole) of the "misinformation" during covid turned out not to be that at all

> There was no science behind social distancing, or masks, or the (so called, it's not an actual one) vaccine

These assertions are provably wrong. Regarding "social distancing" specifically:

There was adequate empirical evidence for the effect of social distancing at the individual level, and for partial or full lockdown at the community level. However, at the level of social settings, the evidence was moderate for school closure, and was limited for workplace/business closures as single targeted interventions.[0]

As to the science behind "masks" and "vaccines", the former can be trivially shown to limit the distance of oral particulate expulsion and the latter has enough published medical research to make verifying vaccine efficacy a matter of accepting facts.

> Edit: I would like to remind people that downvotes do not, and never will, make me wrong

It is not the downvotes which make you wrong.

0 - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9002256/
by jrflowers | 2025-09-11 00:59:14+00:00
This is kind of what I meant about making things up about victims. Calling Charlie Kirk “respectful” is objectively ahistorical.

I understand the impulse to be polite about the deceased, but the guy (for just one example) -in the middle of the January wildfires in Los Angeles- took to his audience to say that the destruction that the fires caused was due to a lack of white firefighters. That is both deeply disrespectful and completely false. And entirely on-brand. https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk-white-men/
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-11 00:59:36+00:00
> I had ChatGPT build labs with sliders that I could adjust to decide how I want things to appear, instead of getting frustrated with the chatbot.

Your very own Steve Jobs Roll Your Own Calculator Construction Set[1].

(It is of course very common to do all sorts of game art using ad hoc parametric stuff like this, I just find the similarity amusing.)

[1] https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-11 00:59:38+00:00
I know how reality really is, and it's already hard enough to deal with. I don't need it made more visceral. When bad things happen, you don't have to stare into them with your eyes wide open, any more than you have to maximise your photon intake by staring into the sun.

Yes, I feel sick because I cannot process all of reality, and increasing the burden of what I have to process does not make that task any easier.
by tredeske | 2025-09-11 00:59:52+00:00
What does your statement say about your heart?

Charlie regularly received death threats. Implicitly or explicitly telling him to quit or else. He had the courage of his convictions and refused to change his beliefs or be deterred from acting on them.

His haters martyred him. Like Justin Martyr, who refused to change his beliefs and worship pagan gods, and who kept to his course despite being told he would be executed if he didn't change.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-11 00:59:53+00:00
An 'interesting' (am not really into televised sports) thing, which I've stumbled over, is the fact that this superbowl set several records, one of them the large distance/difference in points, which stood for at least two decades afterwards IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVIII

That must have been very exiting at the times, and may have been an additional factor to the spreading by word of mouth for this advert, to people who otherwise wouldn't have known/heard or cared about it, that much.
by efreak | 2025-09-11 01:00:19+00:00
Relevant:

> Hate begets hate; violence begets violence[...]Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate[...]but to win[...]friendship and understanding.

> The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence[...]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_begets_violence#Words....
by bccdee | 2025-09-11 01:00:46+00:00
> Phones correlate to cog decline.

Do they? Let's check your source.

> To investigate this hypothesis, participants aged 20–34 perform a concentration and attention test in the presence and absence of a smartphone. The results of the conducted experiment imply that the mere presence of a smartphone results in lower cognitive performance, which supports the hypothesis of the smartphone presence using limited cognitive resources.

So, no. The presence of your smartphone on the desk in front of you is distracting, but that distraction goes away if you remove the smartphone. That's not "cognitive decline."

> Sorry, that's a narrative argument

No, that's me pointing out a competing plausible hypothesis. I'm not saying Covid is necessarily responsible for your anecdotal incidents; I'm saying that until you can prove Covid wasn't responsible, you have no standing to state conclusively that phones were.
by mionhe | 2025-09-11 01:01:29+00:00
"Wilder times" is an interesting description of the early days of the country. When I look around at the violence the last several years (mass rioting, looting, uptick in murder pretty much everywhere, etc. etc.), I feel like that description applies pretty well to our times as well.

That being the case, I would say their opinions and beliefs are pretty important to the current national climate.
by im_down_w_otp | 2025-09-11 01:02:22+00:00
I'm not making a statement about what should be done with guns.

I'm making a statement about a person experiencing the consequences of their stated position.

If he'd staked out a position on the necessity of compelling everyone to engage in autoerotic asphyxiation to achieve maximum satisfaction and then subsequently died from it in a suffocation incident himself, then it wouldn't really be much of a tragedy compared to a bunch of children being randomly strangled to death in their classrooms.

Insofar as I can tell it looks like Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved and in a way that aligned existentially with his zealously professed ideology.

Did he not?
by underlipton | 2025-09-11 01:02:28+00:00
I believe that was after 19 students, non-violent protestors, were gunned down by security forces.

It's a tough proposition. The goal is for the elite to have the awareness, humility, and political courage to not let things get so bad. But that point is well before Dauphines lose their heads. It's when peasant children are asking for bread and not getting any. Maybe before even that. Don't reach that tipping point and you won't careen towards the other atrocities.
by pm90 | 2025-09-11 01:02:55+00:00
This is dangerous false equivalency. Charlie Kirk was not advocating for the rights of the downtrodden. He was a right wing provocateur, and he’s on the record saying that “some gun deaths are ok” in service of the 2nd amendment, and in making light of the nearly deadly political attack on the Pelosi family.

Political violence, especially deadly violence is not ok. But comparing Charlie Kirk to MLK is also not ok.
by letqin | 2025-09-11 01:03:02+00:00
Reminds me of the Ann Arbor Hands-on Museum I went to a few times as a kid. Some of my fondest memories of any museum or other similar activity are there. There were countless things to do and when I was young there were no screens to be had. I would be curious to go check it out and see if they are still following the same sort of idea or if they have fallen victim to the popularization of the screen.
by cherrycherry98 | 2025-09-11 01:03:08+00:00
Capital gains receive favorable treatment under US tax code but are also a realized gain by definition. That is you actually have to sell the asset and are taxed based on any profit earned.

An increase in the estimates value of your real estate holdings does not trigger a capital gain. Your municipality, however, may use it as an excuse to increase their assessment of the value of your property, which is used to calculate the tax they charge.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-11 01:03:40+00:00
> Once we accept that simply "learning from previous copyrighted works to make new ones" is "infringement"

It's not, because LLMs are not making new copyrightable works.

To make a copyrightable work you must put some creative act into it. Just copying someone else's work does not enable you to claim copyright. But LLMs cannot put creative work into their works, because only humans are capable of copyrightable creation - so therefore it is infringing.
by theamk | 2025-09-11 01:04:43+00:00
I wonder if a combined handle is possible: when you pull, the signal is sent _and_ mechanical 3-second delay starts. If the power is present, small solenoid blocks mechanical mechanism and door opens regularly. If it's dead, in 3 seconds door os overriden.

Or even easier: pull normally for electric release, pull real hard for override.