skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a lot of hype around a "red wave", not only in the senate but towards election day several governorships where the Democratic governor had a lead completely vanish.

I suspect much of this boils down to pollsters consistently undercounting republican support for several election cycles and over-correcting this time around.
The CC fees should be paid by the product or service transaction. Maybe it's legal but it's not cool that you are basically charging your employees for the right to get a tip from a credit card transaction you are already processing.
They can also make for a great entry/exit strategy:

Want to buy and hold a company but think it's a little too expensive right now? Sell a put, and make risk-free return while you wait.

Want to sell that tech stock you've been holding once it doubles? Forget your limit order, that's for the boomers over at vanguard. Sell a call today!
I think the problem is correct, but the solution of markdown is not.
That seems like a problem worth addressing.
The argument the article makes is indeed a bit blunt.

The idea here is that tipping enables better price discrimination, which in turn allows a higher "quantity" of coffee to be produced. With coffee shops that "quantity" will translate to things like 1) higher density or 2) more attractive placement of coffee shops, both of which increase coffee consumption by making it easier to pick one up, or 3) higher quality (think small batch) coffee being produced, which increases the quantity of labor being sold in a cup.

I still don't enjoy this tipping culture, but the argument being made makes sense when you fill in the details.
Did you read his comment? His point is that this hidden costs system is grotesque. In fact, it is such a predatory tactic that it's either implicitly or explicitly outlawed in most parts of the developed world. It is also a convenient way to exploit many laborers beholden to tips, since a substantial part of their compensation is non-deterministic.
I'm sure it is highly regarded... My own (admittedly limited) experience is it is a hell hole of abstraction, vast stack traces, obscure error messages and grindingly slow performance.

Apparently the things I want to do are either impossible or require so much indirection it's easier to rip it out and just write it yourself...

You may have detected I'm not a fan!
You are playing with semantics. Please look into Dobbs decision.

Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_H....
The story about SBF playing LoL whilst Sequoia partners are fawning over him couldn't look worse for them.

I also notice that they don't say what proportion of gains FTX was...given that it was $150 into a few billion, it is fair to assume that it was a substantial proportion (and...tbh...that reads as deceptive).

Ofc, they won't die, you have to pay the toll of fees for these guys because they have the whole VC network locked up (to some extent, Sequoia has fallen away a bit more recently). But these funds are just pure beta.
The truth is that it's praying on the stupid.

I'll pay a tip for service, not for someone that poured coffee in a cup and handed to me.

The concern about price sensitivity is real but that doesn't mean rasing prices and getting rid of tipping can't be managed and successful. If there is a demand for the product then you communicate this to the customer. Dropping tipping and failing to communicate how it changes prices is simply asking to fail.
There was not a federal abortion ban. Point to me a law that says abortions are federally illegal.

What was done is a current supreme court reversed a precedent that was created by a older supreme court. Roe v Wade. This precedent should never have been created in the first place, it was a violation of powers. If we want to force states into making it legal then that must be done at a legislative level.

Imagine if the current supreme court just said "nope abortions are illegal because constitution says murder is wrong somewhere and the founders didn't like abortion.". It has just as much merit. Therefore we must ensure they don't have the power. Regardless of whether we consider the result right or wrong.
I understand your point on saving money. Switching to cheaper substitutes is accounted for in chained CPI. e.g. If steak becomes too expensive and more people buy hamburger instead this substitution effect is accounted for in the basket of goods. It's very rare for food items to deflate. It's usually a slow monotonic upward march.
3D Printed Portable Wind Turbine
Go’s GC is a generation behind Java’s, and while value types can alleviate the need of a good GC to a degree, long-living server applications do predominantly have very varying object lifetimes, so a GC is non-negotiable — Java usually has better performance in these use cases (it is not an accident that huge servers with terabytes of RAM running core internet services most often use Java, like Alibaba, AWS, many Google servers). Also, you sure know that Java spends most of its time executing native machine code for the architecture at hand, so your first paragraph is meaningless. On top, java’s ecosystem is much bigger than Go’s, and it has much better observability tools to monitor even prod instances.
I imagine you'd hear more about the Opera. But then I am British.
It was a fresh boot, and instead of the usual lock icon, the fingerprint icon
was showing. It accepted my finger, which should not happen, since after a
reboot, you must enter the lock screen PIN or password at least once to decrypt
the device.

i was surprised to read this part too. assuming that the author's version of the events are accurate here, my best guess is that the device had not fully powered down, and was in either a low-power/hibernate or find-my-phone mode, where portions of the security subsystem were still powered, hence the device-unlock PIN was still cached. i don't otherwise see how else a fingerprint alone would allow for the device to be unlocked on cold boot.

of course this detail doesn't take away from the rest of the report - great find xdavidhu!
Maybe you should calm down. OP is asking some fair and interesting questions. There's no need to be this defensive.
It is truly incredible how Musk has this complete disregard for the American legal system (smoking weed on JRE while having a security clearance, sexual assault allegations on the company plane, taking Tesla private at $420, etc). It’s just baffling that the government continues to not act on any of these things. Seems like the only thing he’s been held accountable on was the Twitter deal but even that was on his own terms instead of the Delaware courts.
Unfortunately, it does not. Likes of FTX and Binance was created in the first place because on chain transaction is slow and expensive, and people don't like slow and expensive. Just because FTX blew up doesn't mean DeFi is at a better place than it was in the past.

"DeFi fixes this" is like saying "moving back to horse drawn carriages will solve drunk driving fatalities!" Maybe, but no one wants to deal with horse shit.
The solution seems clear, stop tipping...
As a compromise, might I suggest:

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"individual states have the authority to regulate access to abortion"

Not the same thing.
Getting the flu is not a requirement for well-being. I've spent several years not getting it, then getting it once, then again not for several years.

It's a matter of preventing it (washing hands often, masking in crowded areas, ventilating rooms properly) and helping our body system to be rested/strong (getting enough sleep/rest, dressing warm, drinking enough). And of our own conditions. And luck.

Yes, immune system memory is at play, but even with the exact same virus, getting the flux in year 1 doesn't mean you'll not get it in year 2 if your body is unwell already.

Moreover, getting the flu (or any infection really) is not a small thing: it can break you down for days, weeks, months and even kill you. Best to avoid it when you can, and be happy when you avoided it.

The pseudo darwinist thing of "getting infected trains your immune system / makes you stronger" or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is bs on the other hand.
I think that is the point: Polling/Outlets had them getting a massive lead, keep in mind too that this was the worst performance for midterms for the party that does not hold the presidency in a very long time. Usually the party that has the presidency takes a larger share of the house in midterms. The fact that the polling was calling for a "Red Wave" and that the "Red Wave" severely underperformed is the thing that is being investigated now.
Then again, personal content is no longer shared via personal homepage but via Facebook/YouTube/TikTok/Medium/etc these days.
Maybe read the rest of the comment before coming out with the embarassingly predictable reactionary drivel that I already addressed in detail?

Solar panels are sand, silver, and aluminum with an ever shrinking steel mount that could be made from anything.

Many wind turbines use rare earths, but the fact that they live in the real world where there isn't an infinite money spigot that means the ones made almost exclusively of aluminum, steel, fiberglass, and concrete are starting to dominate.

The only resources that a mix of renewable generation requires more of than nuclear per unit of net power is silver. And the silver problem is being dealt with to the point that total consumption goes down in spite of prodiction increasing, and will be less than a PWR uses before one started now can even open.

Please at least come up with a novel lie so I can learn something new whilst pointing out how reality is the opposite of what you are saying.
If you use a wheel, you will lose more on average. You will be guaranteed to sell below market value and to buy above market value. Yes, with the wheel you may end up with a little bit of premiums if your stock goes to zero, but in most cases you end up worse with the wheel than owning a stock. That is because, when you own a stock you buy it at market and when you decide to sell, you sell it at market. With the wheel you end up buying and selling at prices worse than market. And if volatility is high -- significantly worse.
Reminds me of Nixon's "the rate of increase of inflation is going down" comment and the associated quip that it was "the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection."
Either is fine. Octopuses or octopodes. The latter is the technical answer, but the former is acceptable and probably even more common. Although it is based on a Greek word, English isn’t Greek.
I've noticed quite recently in the last 4-5 years that this isn't true anymore. More and more grocery stores I shop at expect you to bag your own groceries. Its been a wild shift in labor there to me.

When I was growing up I worked at a big box retail grocery and I don't remember ever having customers bag their own items unless it was self checkout (which was barely a thing and truly seemed relegated to simple checkouts).

Now the only place I don't have to actively bag my own things is Costco, which recently started heavily pushing their own self checkout (which, due to how items are sized there to be in bulk, makes things slow and awkward for the general public IMO).

This luxury is dying.
There is a newsletter (not mine) doing exactly this

https://askhndigest.com/
It won't because they already changed it.

It will forever be on archive.org though:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221110010120/https://www.sequo...
And if abortion is first on the list of women's reproductive rights to take away, what's next? Affordable access to reliable birth control is currently enjoyed by many voters in this country.
so then we are free to allow any convention to take hold.

so why not use the multiple different potential pluralities to differentiate between same species, different species, and unknown species? I think the following would be the most intuitive!

Octopuses seems most intuitive and already assumes unknown species (ie used by children who dont even know what a species is)

Octopi sounds similar to a singular entity (no trailing s), so a group from a single species

Octopodes then could explicitly refer to multiple species together, as it changes the spelling a bit and also adds an s

Of course, conventions are not decided upon by a single persons thought process in a random internet forum - so I'm not sure why I wrote this out
Even religious institutions are not immune to corruption. They just have different expectations (charity) surrounding the same motives (growth).
You are right. Wrong choice of words. Thank you.
>> ...after 185,000 hours of product development, $1.2 million in investment...

Their R&D engineers earn $6.50 per hour?
To avoid the hostile pop-over on the linked page:
https://archive.ph/MhJGP
Demoralisation
Oddly, I first learned of this on TikTok, a full day before it was featured here.
> And what seems to happen is that affluent people often broadcast how they owe their success to luck. But then they tell their own children about the importance of hard work and individual effort.

I don't find any of this stuff is true. If I had a dime for every time some less unsuccessful person say that the affluent are just lucky to have been born into the right environment, or that such and such successful company or person just had a "lucky break", I would be rich.

The rich telling people that their owe their success to luck could just be practiced modesty, because if someone wealthy and successful goes around communicating the idea that it was all gained through individual hard work and effort, without any element of being in the right place at the right time, knowing the right people and other effects, then that would be perceived as arrogance.

You're just not supposed to attribute all your successes to yourself. That's why when stars accept an award, a lot of the acceptance speech is usually about thanking everyone who helped them get there.

Luxury Beliefs aren't status symbols because talk is cheap; anyone can parrot what he or she heard from an affluent person.
This is a very well articulated comment. Thank you for laying this out so clearly. I don't know any hedge fund types so it is helpful to hear from somebody who does.
> You literally don’t have to think about it. Just tip 20% every time you’re at a bar or restaurant.

It's interesting to me that two people can see the same statement from such different perspectives. To me, a statement like this shouts, "broken system!"

Imagine if the calculator program on your phone was always incorrect, but in the same way: it was always too low by 20%. And then someone told you, "you literally don't have to think about it. Just add 20% every time you use it. That's it." Would that sentence make sense to you?
Yes, I can't remember if it was actually Portsmouth or one of the other polytechnics.
> where being known as a bigot of some kind would cause people to not like to collaborate with you but even then you're relatively safe as long is you're only bigoted against one of the less protected/liked groups like trans people

Is this some kind of underhanded smear or did you write something other than what you were thinking?

Or did I read it wrong?

The way I read what you write that Republicans are always bigoted, the question is only about how many groups they are bigoted against.
>Scarcity is a major part of gold's value.

I'm not sure if you're conflating value and worth or missing my point.

If there was only 1 Oz of gold and Mr X was willing to pay $1bn for it. Gold would be worth $1bn. But there's more than one ounce and the market clearing price is much lower than that. Mr X may still value an ounce $1bn, but he doesn't have to pay that, he gets a relative bargain. If no-one valued gold at $1 an ounce today, you shouldn't be willing to pay $1 if there was only 1oz.

Supply just creams of the top people who value gold most highly. Scarcity just means you're creaming off a smaller higher valuing population.

So scarcity doesn't give something value per se.

Id agree in certain edge cases that scarcity does increase value. I'm not sure if gold is an example of not. There are other rarer elements that don't have the same cachet. But in general I don't think scarcity itself adds value.
For some people they are. My neighbor has been sick at least 6 times this year and I've not avoided contact with her. And I am fine.
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Markdown results in unintentional formatting more frequently than not in my experience, and it is this reason alone that I avoid it anywhere I have a choice to, including any software I implement.
That's an interesting defence of autotune, but I don't think it's relevant to my comment, which clearly talks about my own personal preference.

I don't want to listen to artists who use autotune. I _do_ want to listen to artists who don't. I know that there definitely is a set of artists who explicitly don't use it, who are more concerned with accurately expressing their creative intent and musical virtuosity than they are with gaining popularity and mass appeal. What I am saying is that I would like to be able to consciously choose to only listen to and support those musicians, and I will gladly pay a disproportionate amount for it. Anecdotally, I know for a fact that I am not the only one who feels this way.

Also btw -

> when artists actually release music that uses no autotuning, it tends to be less popular

Normally when you make a statement like this on HN I'd expect to see a citation or reference to where that statement came from.
This is technically correct, but don't forget that Senator Graham had attempted to introduce a federal abortion ban immediately after the Dobbs decision. The threat of a federal abortion ban being implemented by Republicans was no doubt on the minds of many women who voted against them in this election.
So, I've had a lot of the same issues with Streamlit in terms of going beyond the very raw PoC phase, which is why we often end up using Plotly's Dash[1] framework (React + Flask) at work for this kind of task.

Taking a step back, what would the benefits be compared to Dash?

[1]: https://dash.plotly.com/
Super well deserved. Incredible accomplishment of humankind.
I don’t understand how you can be so optimistic about energy security in Europe. They’re in the midst of an energy crisis right now…

The infrastructure they have now is literally insufficient.
To be fair, this is Jacobin and being critical of speculation and financial markets more broadly is kinda their whole thing. Their stance hasn’t changed, it’s just not very well liked around here. I was actually surprised to see this gaining traction at all on this site.

Maybe this is an opportunity for some HNers to start considering perspectives that don’t treat the WSJ and The Economist as sacred texts.
Agreed. It's sad that we are even talking about this and it's even a possibility.
As of 2008, options market makers are not allowed to naked short. [0] The only remaining exemptions to restrictions on naked short selling are for equity market makers. These market makers are still subject to delivery requirements (T+2). Plus, most/all aim to end each day flat

[0] section III of https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm
Autotune also in my opinion sets unrealistic goals for people getting into singing
My thoughts exactly. He managed to say precisely nothing in 27 (or whatever it was) tweets apart from the obvious...that he wasn't up to running the company.

WSJ is reporting that money was lent to Alameda based on a conversation that SBF had with an investor (saying that the gap was $10bn) but this isn't what he saying publicly...maybe this is obvious because, if this is true, then it is hard to see how he avoids jail.
Every rebranding ever has been lambasted by armchair design critics.
Read the 2:30 a.m. email Elon Musk sent to Twitter staff, ending remote working
A lot of lurker-only servers tend to get blocked, too. Some instances check every follow/follow request and block if anything looks off, including "lurker only".

> I also see Mastodon posts showing up in search results, so it looks to me like indexing is already happening

Mastodon has a configurable robots.txt. Some instances are fine with search indexing their public timelines.

The big thing is instances can want their public timelines indexed but not their "followers only" timelines.
And he composed that email while working remotely. What a hypocrite.
my guy comes from the "elite", both his parents are stanford professors, i'm sure a smart guy like him can raise money.
We're at about ~30% in the US right now and increasing we'll likely see >40% by the end of the decade.
This is patently absurd to say a disease that causes bad outcomes for 2 in a million should recieve a drug that causes bad outcomes for millions. Keep it up! Are you an insider too?

What do your fact checkers say about the leading cause of death in Canada?
This is a common misunderstanding. Tipped workers still make at least the full federal minimum wage no matter what, just their employer may not be paying more than $2.13 of it if tips are sufficient. It's still not exactly the same (and minimum wage being enough for anyone is a separate issue) but the fallback is the same minimum wage.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips
Curious, which country(s) is this?
What bugs me is with some of the POS systems is that if you make a mistake with the custom tip amount, you have to restart the transaction (i.e. hand it back over to the cashier). It's aggravating.
Let me correct their example to make it more on topic and relevant to the problem.

Would you hire a lawyer who cannot use a computer (so no email, digital records, etc) and communucates exclusively through fax machines?

Mind you, they can claim to be a good lawyer otherwise, since none of those things directly contradict their claim of good lawyer skills. But something tells me that if they don't use digital record-keeping and can't utilize PACER, I will have my doubts in their practical usefulness.
Have you seen it recently? Also, there is dev.java as well. And you are mostly supposed to download the JDK from the package manager of your choice where it is simply just `$PACK_MGR install openjdk`
I’m in the inverse position, a conservative who lives in one of the most progressive counties in the country, and I work in Tech. I’m basically politically agnostic as far as anyone is concerned.
The Twitter thread from SBF is even better where he admits he messed up. And still trying to throw jabs at Binance here and there like it’s their fault they’re here. Unbelievable.
>How would blockchain be used to fix this?

All of the things that are being reported on this situation would not have been possible on a DEX.

Decentralized exchanges (DEX) exist on-chain. They incorporate automatic market making (AMM), not a third-party market maker with an association to the exchange. The DEX does not have custody of user funds, and it would be impossible to hide a multi-billion dollar hole in an exchange's balance sheet.
Huh, even really good tuning has that quality. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcxIuAWX7Ws
Excellent point regarding the need to make finer distinctions on the topic.

Also worth mentioning that depending on one's reasons / world view, those distinctions may or may not be significant.
London has the Underground. Something that sounds generic actually is well known to the locals and is part of the culture, the identity, the attraction of a place. Same story here.
To be fair, you can include Markdown inside script tags (assign a custom type like "text/markdown") and render this (the script's innerHTML) by another script.
Open source software and hardware?
It also doesn't create a cash flow problem, which lower income people are more susceptible to. Even if you claim that most of these employees would get this money back in a tax refund, that doesn't help if they have bills to pay month-to-month.