skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, yes, this is why I tip every time. On the other hand, if I'm already paying basically twice as much as the food order in delivery fees and service fees, DoorDash should be able to afford to pay its employees a living wage without me dropping yet an extra $7 in tips.

I've done the math before and it's ridiculous that a tipped employee, due to a lower minimum wage, can literally be starving in poverty while employed, with no regulations preventing that. Our country needs to fix its regulations in this area, but until it does, employers should be offsetting the problem, not customers. Or, hell, if they really can't bring themselves to pay their employees fairly, they should at least offset the tip amount by lowering the service fees. The other day, I ordered two subs. Two sandwiches, nothing more, not even any sides or drinks. It was $40 with a $3 tip. Literally more than double the price of the food.

What I'm saying is, I tip because I understand there's a problem, but I don't overtip because I also understand it's the employers' responsibility (if the government won't handle it) to deal with the problem on behalf of their employees, not the customers'.
Right... it has been done forever, so that makes it correct.
I like this blog, but "ridiculous" and "shallows" are not words I would use to describe escapist fantasy fiction.

It simply has goals that are different from history documentaries. It thrives in fantasy stereotypes whose intersection with history is flimsy on purpose; these are stories about dragons and magic, after all. This is not Braveheart being hilariously erroneous while at the same time purporting to be about real history, only "slightly" exaggerated: Game of Thrones completely disregards the real world, and because this is on purpose, I think criticisms from "realism" are unwarranted -- unless being done just for fun, like this author seems to do [1].

Besides, it's a sliding scale: Game of Thrones, by real world standards, is probably more realistic in its unreality than, say, Lord of the Rings. Neither is wrong to be unrealistic, being more parables or entertainment than actual history.

Of all the criticisms to be made of A Game of Thrones as literature, I think "being shallow" is not one of them.

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[1] https://acoup.blog/2019/05/28/new-acquisitions-not-how-it-wa...

> "Finally, before we dive in, two final caveats. First, this is not a criticism of George R.R. Martin’s world-building. There is, after all, no reason why his fantasy world needs to be true to the European Middle Ages (we’ll talk about known/possible historical inspirations as they come up). I do not think Martin set out to design a sneaky medieval culture lecture in fantasy novel form, so he cannot be faulted for failing to do what he never attempted."
I used to start my projects on Heroku because the first few iterations of the prototype can run on the free dynos, then hobby tier for the first production, better database when needed, and so on — slowly growing as it should be.

Now I will either replace it by some DigitalOcean droplet or Fly.io or Railway.app or whatnot. Whichever makes most sense for the growth of the project.

I am pretty sure some of my clients will stay on Heroku just because it's easier and they already pay for most services (so no free tier already) but it means NO NEW clients are coming to Heroku from me.
I'm criticizing the content. The first 20 pages are... bad.

I should have used the word "seem" rather than "sound" - "sound" does make it seem like I'm criticizing tone.
Java dev pay is far far more variable than tile laying: $20-$130/hr
Same deal with Google, plus a bunch of ads for spammy tools.
Ask HN: How do you tell if someone in tech is full of bs?
I admit that I don't have a high EQ. I don't read the cues as fast as I should and that often leads to situations where I trust someone (a boss, a professor, a coworker, random person online) only to be disappointed that they are in fact full of bs.

Edit: redacted a website I was referring to as example.

I think there must be more ways to call bs on such people. Care to share yours?
Fair enough, good insight
The Embedded Systems conference used to be a C conference to some extend.
> I think we are running into a real issue where private industry with too much power can effectively make something that is legal illegal.

This is often because of legal grey areas, and companies would rather ban things than risk any legal or financial liability.

Or companies may ban things that are heavily regulated simply because the cost and difficulty of following the regulations. (This is a common issue for adult services, since there are requirements around human trafficking and child exploitation.)

A lot of crypto is associated with illegal activities (e.g. money laundering, ransomware), and uses a lot of energy.

Anyone who does business internationally may need to satisfy the lowest common denominator of regulations.

Governments or major customers also apply pressure.
This reminds me of the old joke about a consultant who retired at 65, but his billable hours made him 102.
I agree. Our online identities are ultimately based on our phone numbers, and email provider can only serve as identity provider since they require your phone number.
yup - their site is down
Really? What do you call walking distance? Most suburbs I've spent time in will have a grocery store in driving distance (~5 miles away) but that isnt really walking distance if you are trying to carry any significant amount of groceries or trying to make the trip in less than 2 hours.
Yes,it's down again
All of the posts in Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series are excellent and worth a read. Do be sure to read the comments as well, there's some gold in there.
Or simply skip eating it, just cut one chilli and put it into your soup/curry.
Underdelivery is par for literally every human institution on earth.

The federal government underdelivers. Corporations by default underdeliver. Grad students underdeliver. Football teams underdeliver.

Every single institution on earth more ambitious than lawncare services makes lofty ambitious goals and then achieve maybe 20% of them. Musk is the same, but the difference is that his 20% are orders of magnitude more ambitious than anyone else, so 20% delivery is still world-changing.
Consulting businesses could be an exception.
I remember a story (possibly anecdotal) about an inventor who shows a roman emperor a working steam engine and he basically pays him off and sends him into retirement.

Another account repeated by Pliny the Elder [1] and Roman courtier Petronius [2] has the emperor Tiberius execute an inventor who created a flexible drinking glass and demonstrated it to him. After the inventor successfully tested the vessel and claimed he was the only one who could replicate it, Tiberius had him beheaded because he figured such a material would make gold and silver lose value.

It's hard to sustain innovation when indie hackers are paid up to shut up or basically get beheaded for building an MVP in their dorm room. Founders use to have it rough.

[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

[2] https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Flexible_glass
I think that's a good idea but then companies doing that wouldn't be able to sell their products as new, and we probably need a cultural shift before widespread adoption of refurbished and used products is doable.

Additionally, and not knowing much about the hardware side of things, if I put myself in the shoes of a manufacturer, it seems challenging to ship a product where the expected lifetime of some of its components is unknown. Support and warranties would be affected too.
Sorry about that, I'm a poor writer. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I expect they'd react the way they did in the past.
Talking about "what is art" gets foggy quickly! One more post from me.

The original point about isolation is simple. It can be good for the creative process. That's not a controversial idea. Writers often get away, painters hide out in their studios. It doesn't mean they don't routinely draw inspiration from their social worlds.

By tapping into your own humanity, you tap into the joy of others. Your tastes will likely be shared by others. So in satisfying your own taste, you will be satisfying others. This can all be done in complete social isolation!

> I consider their tastes

Okay cool, but generally artists don't know the taste of their audience, other than they like art. That's why artists get nervous showing their work, because you're baring soul. The tastes and joy in others isn't relevant for the creative process that aligns with raw "truth-telling" artistic pursuits. Pleasing others is a nice secondary consequence of whatever you created, but when pleasing others is a key driver of the creative process, you might be limiting your work.
https://archive.ph/IGgzb
moist and seat are two words I never want in the same sentence.
Yeah I hate this. I get that zoning exists for a reason but some regulation would lead to better mixed use areas so its not houses for 15 blocks then businesses for 5 blocks and repeat.
Supertokens – Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito
I did some freelance work for $30 which is matching my current salary, which is actually very high over here (Thailand, iOS developer). I never went all in on freelancing, so it's hard to push for high salaries. Most 'remote' I've found is just within-america-remotely or Europe, etc, as well.
The overhead on an employee is more like 20–30%, not 100%.

Separately, the value of a contractor is different than the value of an employee, so why should the prices be equivalent (even taking overhead into account). As a contractor, you're not only help the client with a project but you're also saving them the time, effort, and risk of bringing someone in full-time... Why not charge for that?
> There are hundreds of thousands of different variables. Probably millions. More probably trillions.

Obviously. The point of the book was to highlight the major factors.

> None of them aligned for the Romans. All of them aligned for coal mining industry in Britain.

> Trying to point out single factor is a exercise in stupidity.

Are you saying the coal mining industry is the cause? Because the industrial revolution leads to the explosion of the coal mining industry, not the other way around.

Why do you need so much coal? For steam engines.

Why do you need steam engines? Because people and animals aren't enough any more.
doesnt that help? he needs to play (defeat) opponents with high scores to have a chance to boost his own score
And how does it compare in 2022?
Thanky, will keep this in mind
German workers did all that, while they themselves are exploited by German capitalists. The same capitalists then extended their exploitation to other countries, where they could get away with even worse. I recommend you read Lenin's Imperialism.

I'm from a poor country, still exploited by Germany, Austria, France, Britain, Italy, Hungary, the US, etc. My country used to have collective control over resources and industry, but that was destroyed in 89 and we were forced to privatise, deregulate and be in debt again.
Here in the Czech Republic, ~50 USD is about the top end of consulting firms' hourly rates, at least from the contracts I see (public sector). 40 USD would be very respectable for personal hourly income.
Yeah but the US gov is VERY interested in Starlink now after seeing how effective it has been in Ukraine (and how quick to deploy). Pretty likely they're going to shift to the winning horse.
I agree with this sentiment. Although I didn't make it to even applying to grad programs because the professors at my uni were very much "what are you going to do for me" in Thomas Edison invention factory way, when even inquiring about undergrad research.

> I now havent touched really anything in CS research because this experience completely killed my love for the field, and advanced learning in general.

I wager you'll come around, out of genuine interest, and when you want to work on interesting things, you'll run into novel problems, a lot. But this is sad to me because every few years I'll come up with something novel, and discover someone already did a ph.d thesis on it. I feel like I'd be much further along if I had access to people who really cared about teaching and pushing the boundaries.
In Croatian and Serbian it means what I wrote.

Also, you didn't even bother to read or comprehend what we're arguing about. The commenter labels author unreliable narrator because his google search provided shaky evidence about the meaning of the word, yet he ignores the entire article after the introduction. It's nitpicking and there's no evidence that the person who wrote the negative comment even read the rest of the article.

You're strengthening his strawman argument by providing, yet again, false evidence.

There's more than 1 Slavic language, and given that word "slave" comes from "slavic", you'd think that there's some relation to our elders being aware of forced work and its impact.
We’re talking about ERP systems now? Just the server to run those things on costs more than your monthly rate :)
Exactly - and there isn’t one for C. That’s the whole point of the thread.
Honestly this only touches a small fraction of how absurd the whole publishing system with conferences is.

I mean just thing about some obvious issues: Large parts of computer science limit how much science they can publish (and thus effectively share with others) by the number of conferences people want to organize. There's also a very obvious discrimination issue, as most "high tier" conferences are either in the US or (to a lesser extent) in the EU. And it's pretty crazy that people do transatlantic flights to go to a conference in order to publish a paper, even if they don't really want to go to the conference.
Even completely eliminating methane will not reduce warming, it will only reduce (slightly) the rate of acceleration of the rate of warming. There are really 2 viable strategies here: Do nothing, or so something effective. The world refuses either.

EDIT:

Since people have asked, this is my logic...

The amount of warming depends on the amount of gas (CO2, CH4 or other) in the atmosphere. Stopping all emissions today would not change the huge amounts all ready up there. They will remain there and active for decades-centuries. So we are locked in for a certain amount of warming (2 degrees so far last I checked), it just has not happened yet.

The rate of emissions just controls how much more warming and how much sooner the existing warming will occur.

This is one of the core problems with Human responses to the problem: people think they can wait until it gets 'bad enough' then stop their emissions and things will improve. But they will actually keep getting worse because of the lag between emissions and effects.

As for CO2 vs Methane, Methane is responsible for about 20% of all man made warming (1). So eliminating it completely would still leave 80% of (future) warming... This is because we emit a lot, lot more CO2 than Methane.

The division is really a false one IMHO, because a lot of methane comes from coal mining and oil/gas extraction. So unless you stop using fossil fuels (the number 1 CO2 source) you cannot stop methane emissions...

What all this really comes down to is that people really really want a magic bullet that will make climate change disappear. But just because you really want one doesn't mean it exists...

1: https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane

Second Edit:

Temperature is like distance

Gas levels is like speed

Gas emission rates is like acceleration.

Edit 2:

Reducing emissions does not make you go backwards. You are still hurting forwards, you are even still accelerating. You're just not accelerating as rapidly...
[Delete maybe] I'd also like a poll on how much taxes the contractors pay
I have never pursued this type of publication, but why on earth does an "acceptance rate" even exist for these (journal or conference) publications?

Why not publish them all? Endorse those that are selected, add commentary to those with which there is disagreement, but is a batch inclusion of them all so technically difficult?
You can always use "unsafe" code in Rust. At that point you're basically writing a block of code in C++ with the guarantee that it'll interface correctly with all your other "safe" code.
Rome had plagues. Plural.

https://www.vita-romae.com/pandemics-in-ancient-rome.html
Interestingly, one of the authors (Felix Winkelmann) created Chicken Scheme and their Oberon compiler appears to be written in it.
Yep. Unfortunately, government regulations here in the US explicitly make the minimum wage for a "tipped job" much lower than the minimum wage for any other job, and the amount is not high enough for the tips to necessarily offset that difference. An employee can be getting paid the legal minimum wage, making the amount in tips every month that the law requires for that lower wage, and still end up unable to afford rent. The obligation really should be with the employer, but since capitalism breeds greedy assholes and the government regulations aren't well-designed, they mistreat their employees on the assumption they can just pass off their responsibilities to customers.

It's awful. A good rule of thumb for waiters/waitresses is 15% minimum tip unless they're awful, 18% if they're good, 20% if they're amazing. The idea being that larger bills usually mean more food and/or more work for them. But for delivery drivers, in my opinion, it's the same amount of work whether I order $10 or $40 in food, especially if that amount is artificially inflated by app service fees, so I give all my app delivery drivers the same tip.
Tech Job Ads Up 52% Since First Half of 2022
The thing I would really like to read is: SpaceX IPO
36$/hour as a Senior DevOps Engineer
Re: c) who do you think writes these comments?
Haa, before I clicked I was thinking of saying something similar.
New single is hot.
Sure -- but this dynamic is extremely well understood -- it's not like it's only every fifteenth man who would feel emasculated by this -- it's more like every other man.
Multiply by 240. £264000. But then taxes cut off half, so £132000 net.
When I see this written, I like to take it quite literally. It means your privacy has a value, literally it is valuable to us. And thus we will monetise it. Why would we not, it has value, after all?
Probably thinking: "Gotta be on that sigma grindset, move fast break things"
Socialite who charmed NATO staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators
I have some experience with AWS ElasticBeanstalk that I used to migrate to my Heroku apps at some point.

With their Amazon Linux 2 they use the Procfile and it feels VERY close to Heroku with deployments (it has its own quirks though, like they have those managed upgrades that are sometimes breaking the app for some reason, etc.) but I am pretty happy with how easy it is compared to the previous AWS EB platform.

The problem is only the cost, i.e., when you have to pay for everything it is a bit more pricey (and settings are pain, those VPCs and security groups and whatnot, not fun)
Favicon is there, it just happens to be light grey. I guess someone only tested this one on a browser in dark mode.
I was thinking house/condo but I've lived in apartments for most of my adult life and would have purchased several of them if I had the cash at the time.

They were not noise, in fact in one I only ever heard my neighbors one time in three years of living there, they were typically pretty spacious, rent didnt fluctuate that greatly, I didnt need/have a car most of the time but there was lots of street parking, and I don't have a great sense of smell but oders were never an issue.

Nice apartments exist. You just pay about the same as you would for them as you would on a mortgage.
This is a shame but VPS are not too expensive these days. Not sure how you can do the "wake up" feature so you can have many sleep applications though.
> 3 visit/second

This reminds me of an excellent book on queueing theory for software engineers:

Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory In Action

by Mor Harchol-Balter
They are when you're conquering your neighbors. Massive Roman expansion led to a huge influx of slave labor. When Rome stop expanding the number of incoming slaves decreases and the value of slaves went up. Later on when Rome was hit by plagues they suffered from a lack of laborers to work the fields and staff the army.

(Basing this all on the history of Rome podcast)
The moral of the story seems to be that if you don't get lucky and find your property is not abandoned by the thief then knowing where your property is doesn't help much without the capacity to bring the requisite violence (or credible threat thereof) to take it back into your possession or the government (i.e. the police) being able (a resources issue) willing (a policy issue) to do so on your behalf. *shrug*
The lack of Novelty point feels off the mark, at least in some fields. At least in ML its extremely common for a paper to just report a new benchmark on some well known dataset with virtually no new real contributions other than more time spent hyperparemeter turning
Innovation never really came from MVPs like this to begin with, Bell Labs is what's considered the founding step to the modern world you'd be in delusion to think it was a bunch of young adults in their dorms, sure they're parents and friends may have given them the patents and ideas to do it but it was never them that did the hard work to begin with or really anything besides take credit.
has Adderall been shown to enhance performance or is this a preventative measure to protect player health?

what else do they check for? caffeine is probably helpful and not banned. LSD (microdosing)? Galantamine? If there are nootropics that can legitimately enhance high level chess play why aren't we using them on our top scientists and engineers?
I remember a story (possibly anecdotal) about an inventor who shows a roman emperor a working steam engine and he basically pays him off and sends him into retirement.

That's a short story by William Golding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envoy_Extraordinary_(novella)
The beginning of the end of nation states and the rise of city states is upon us.
> There wasn't any conception of the modern loan or corporate bonds in their world which are integral to the acceleration of industrialization and the growth of capitalism

Yes! Great theory. Financial innovation seems as big a driver of industrialization as the discovery of coal or oil.
All recent amazon acquisitions are big AWS Customers, its super easy for Amazon to find Cost of running business for a any Technology Company who run majority of stack or provide products using AWS and go behind them for acquisition or build them internally and release as a service.
> Green hydrogen is scalable at about $400/MWh presently and this is decreasing rapidly. This was a wakeup call that doing so is needed. Ammonia is not far behind. Realistic projections for the next 8 years are around $100/MWh.

The present price is obviously too high. I fully support any investment into this kind of tech, including from the government(s), though in my experience, even when tech is available, it takes time to roll it out.

Maybe by 2050 we will have the ability to provide stable, fully renewable energy at $50/MWh or below, without being limited in how much we can roll out due to some rare mineral or industrial capacity.

But we KNOW we have the tech to produce nuclear at such levels (or below) already.

In my opinion, we should do both, and if, 30-40 years from now, some nuclear plant companies go bankrupt, so be it.