skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a chance to play with Postcard pre-launch and...it's kind of amazing. It's a "just enough" product if all you want is a landing page, a way to collect email addresses, and a way to send people communications (marketing updates, newsletters, etc.).

The "defaults" are smart: they'll build you a page based on public info (I think mine was from Twitter and Gravatar), and they focus on a single simple, clean layout. Best of all, it takes only a minute or two more to hook it up to an existing domain (no futzing with DNS) or buy one yourself.

It took me less than 5 minutes to get https://herzigma.com up and running!

Kudos to the team for being super focused and executing to well. This is now my go-to recommendation for professional websites/landing pages.
FTX is not DeFi. FTX exists because, back in the day, DeFi was too slow for proper gambling.
Perfect for grabbing attention
Fetch, little Octavius, Fetch!
I really want native apps to be as simple to work with for UIs but it's just not. Qt is great but still more cumbersome and I'm not aware of anything better that gets you close to the development speed and flexibility given by HTML and CSS.

Very honestly: please let me know if there is anything. I really would love to build more native apps without fighting the UI system
I'm talking about any adverse event, like with the swine flu vaccine from the 2000s, for example, where people came down with narcolepsy. Then there's the swine flu vaccine from the 70s that caused GBS. It's just clear to me that saying "it's always better compared to infection" is just a lie. For the overwhelming majority, sure, but for enough people it's life-altering if not life-ending.
> Their old logo was much better, since it harkens back to a literal coat of arms, which isn't something you see every day.

Maybe here not there, but A quick google search suggests a university with a coat of arms logo is very common.
Completely agree. It's already pretty easy to create a nice readable page with an off-the-shelf stylesheet & semantic markup.

Sites choose not to do that, for non-technical reasons.

For all it's faults, this is partially what AMP aimed to solve, by restricting what developers could do. However, developers/businesses didn't adopt AMP because it was a better user experience, they adopted it because it got them higher up in Google search.
It seems different in the US, where everyone is expected to tip as part of the overall price, like the article describes, and there is tipping Europe where the tip is not needed to boost the wage to an acceptable level but is simply to reward people who have gone above and beyond.

In many restaurants in the UK, a "tip" is automatically included for large parties to reward the extra work required but can be removed on request if they didn't think your service was good.
I live in California and it’s the same with the parties switched.
My main grocery store does pick up, which I use, and flat out says no to tips, instead just adding a 2 dollar charge for doing pick up. Thats the main reason I shop at that one.

If a coffee shop on my way home made it obvious they don't expect tips or even don't accept them, I'd gladly deal with the higher prices. Having someone else make the decision on what total price to me is not too expensive, but also not make me wonder if I'm being stingy, would entice me as a customer.
Perceived loss of individuality is frequently just an outcome of a design epoch change. Most logos that we thought were unique and had lots of individuality came from an era when that particular graphic design style was en vogue. Then later the logos were updated to better follow new trends (a vary fair desire for a business). Yes, Art Nouveau logos were pretty but the vast majority of logos in that era were designed in that style (so not some amazing level of individuality). Same with the sci-fi logos in the 80s (which I still think were ugly). Same with any other trend. Not really a question of individuality.

> Not everything needs to be redesigned, not everything needs a modern sans-serif font.

If the new typeface reads better then why not use it? If the new logo fits a wider variety of placements or prompts a better response from this generation then why not use it?
This leaves me wondering what percentage of a typical service industry worker's salary is usually spent on tipping, and whether it couldn't be the case that if they stopped giving and taking tips entirely they would be better off in aggregate. I guess it depends on what fraction of their income is spent on "tippable" expenses.

I know that in my own case there was a period in grad school where it was only slightly below 50%, implying that almost 10% of my wages were spent on tips... what exactly are the "best" tip percentages that service industry people leave like?
If you take an intramuscular injection without aspirating the needle to make sure it's not found a blood vessel in the deltoid, you risk cardiovascular damage pointlessly. The standard of practice is so absurd and flawed yet its going to take years longer before people like you become aware of how badly we've been mislead.
The blog post articulates how GitHub TOS does allow CoPilot.
For "a next-generation crawling and spidering framework", it's a little surprising to see no support for the WARC[1] format.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
Everyone said the reverse of this when the polling failed in 2016 - that Republicans were afraid to share their political affiliation for fear of being cancelled etc
I agree that automatically mining user data is much more scalable then building a relationship with aligned incentives, in which users would volunteer it to you.

My argument is that this is exactly the main reason for the mess on the web we are in now, and that the way forward is not doing more of the same thing that got us in this place, but doing the opposite, regardless of how hard and not scalable it is. Alas, we will at least try.
Chances of finding Covid-virus ancestor ‘almost nil’, say virologists
> Deadweight loss happens when a person who is willing to pay more is charged less than the amount they're willing to pay

That's not what a dead weight loss is. DWL happens when transactions don't happen for some reason (like price controls) and people who would have benefitted from the transaction at the market price can't do so

What the author describes is instead a situation where the consumer keeps the surplus, rather than the business. Regardless of how much a person tips, no wealth is being created or destroyed, it just affects moves from the consumer to the producer.
That book was entertaining, but so frustrating to read

These big corporate traders are being paid millions to be the best at what they do (managing stock portfolios) and then it turns out they're actually awful at it and a bunch of genius math kids are running circles around them in the dark. And somehow I'm supposed to feel bad for the lazy, clueless, suit-wearing, trash-talking traders?
> people are asking you to quantify "basically" and "essentially" with math to get a number out

You're hoping to see a specific number? What number are you even asking for? To me, your comment doesn't make even a tiny bit of sense because we're not talking about a specific quantity of a stock at a specific price for a specific time period, we're just talking about the general principles of basic option strategies.
And this is why I don't like Trader Joe's, even though every member of my family thinks I'm crazy. TJ's is a mini version of an Ikea escape room masquerading as a grocery store.
Even if the larger idea of luxury beliefs is true, the choice of "defund the police" as one is really bizarre to me. No one benefits more from the existence of the police than those who would harbor these luxury beliefs.
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This is great! I'm signing up right now!
Just to swim upstream. For http requests and bounded IO I've found asyncio to be straightforward and a game changer. In the context of call an endpoint with a data payload and have the endpoint process it with outbound http calls it is a 10x'er for very little complexity and no external libraries.
Right, what I meant to say is that anything under 1600p is low end because it was already widely available in 2013.
Always got to watch those acronyms. Reminds me of back in the day when Oregon State started advertising its website on billboards. www.orst.edu. [1] Nobody in their marketing department managed to see that before the rest of the world quickly started making fun of it. They quickly rebranded to www.oregonstate.edu.

[1] Yes, that's not -exactly- an acronym
Many religions include tithing as part of their teachings, and the Effective Altruist movement has adopted it. If the funds are directed well, it's an investment into the community and to charity. (And if a disaster befalls you, hopefully the church would come to your aid, so it's a kind of insurance...)
Markup is not the barrier to entry. Nobody in 2022 is building HTML-only websites. Even 20 years ago CMSes let hundreds of thousands of people write blogs online.

Let's say somebody takes the time to learn Markdown. Then what?

Are they going to then also learn how to select a web host, how to set up SSL, how to use CSS to make the website look the way they want?

They won't. That's why Wordpress, and later Facebook, won the online publishing wars.
They really like being anthropomorphized.
I don't. But the point is that with your camera on you have no way of knowing what any given person you're meeting with is looking at.

Someone could have you in full screen when you're not the one speaking and you have no way to know it. That'd be the equivalent of getting right up in your face and staring at you during an in person meeting while you're not speaking. You can't do that in real life but you can on video calls with nobody knowing, which seems dishonest to me.
Markdown came to be as input for generating HTML, so I don't see why the suggestion is so controversial to some?

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Also, as already mentioned, Gemini protocol does exist.
They're also allowed to add new services anytime they'd like.
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> don't want to have to consider the wellbeing and livelihood of underpaid employees

For me, I want employees to be paid fairly by their employer, which would calculate how much an item/service should cost, instead of shifting this obligation to me.

Examples: going to a new coffee shop. In MOST places (in Vancouver at least), they'll just call you to the counter to pick your order. But some will get it to you. But you only discover that after having paid. So how to tip?

Ordering food for delivery. Giving X% of the order doesn't do, because you might have a cheaper order from a restaurant that's further away, or an expensive one 2 blocks from your place. And you don't know yet if the delivery person is going to be walking and take 30 mins to arrive, or bike. Or if they have a bunch of other deliveries on the way and the food will arrive cold.

So... I would like very much to just be told: it costs X.
I was thinking that if I would have to code this, at least once this issue would cross my mind, the question of "what happens when there are multiple screens stacked" and how it should get handled properly. This is what meetings are there for, to discuss such issues.

It almost sounds intentional, but at the very least like a very sluggish approach to security.
> And one of the triggers started when around 2005 the FED started raising interest rates

The fed did not cause the crypto crash. It didn't force people to gamble on cryptocurrencies. It didn't force them to not sell, at the top of the naked ponzi schemes they participated in.
We're also not seeing sars-cov2 spiking to high levels now along with RSV/et. al. This further suggests restrictions being lifted doesn't adequately explain all of the apparent phenomena.
In case the author reads this, there is an error in the "How to Execute a Blocking I/O or CPU-bound Function in Asyncio?" [0]

It reads:

> The asyncio.to_thread() function creates a ThreadPoolExecutor behind the scenes to execute blocking calls.

> As such, the asyncio.to_thread() function is only appropriate for IO-bound tasks.

It should say it's only appropriate for CPU-bound tasks.

[0]: https://superfastpython.com/python-asyncio/#How_to_Execute_a...
Rusted garbage will be recycled to make entire new stuff with rust!
Thirteen Years of Go
For tipped employees, most of whom are getting all their federal and state taxes back at refund time, giving them the money directly does nothing other than increase efficiency of the overall system because you cut a party out of it.
In latin the word virus does not have an attested plural[1] but if we model it from the other neuter nouns of the second declension it would be "vira".

[1]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#Declension_4

The plural of surplus is surpluses[2]. It would be *surplures/surplura in latin, so it is an English/French original. It doesn't make sense from an historical linguistic perspective to have a stem in dental "d" when in latin was in liquid "r": plus, pluris[3].

[2]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surplus#Noun
[3]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plus#Declension

Cactus is a masculine name from the second declension: its latin plural is "cactī"[4]. Again, it would be unexplainable how that stem in dental would appear in a second declension name (stem in "o").

[4]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cactus#Latin

Octopus is right, given that it's a third declension name with a dental stem.[5]

[5]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus#Latin
One could use Apache2 .htaccess to set up a directory header/footer which load a script (hidden from listing in .htaccess) which parses a .md file listing into a list of articles, and fetches a couple of the first ones as a front page. Then just use a URL fragment to track which article is open, and fetch & render that article’s markdown fully onto the page.

Disable JS and you have a list of markdown files. Enable JS and get a website.
That was basically my conclusion after looking into it for a while. There are countless ways of designing an options trading strategy to bet on exactly what outcome you feel is going to happen. But at the end of the day, I couldn't get past that it was all based off of just that: feelings. And that while I could be monkeying around with options trading and timing, I would be missing out gains realized by just being in the market.
we are not machines, if i'm paying more (or even less) than the person in front of me at the line:

1- I'll make a scene

2- I'll never come back

3- It is probably a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen
Bold of you to assume that I am an Atom fan. My understanding was the Atom happened then Electron was extracted as the core then VS Code was built on top of that to fill the gap. Given that VS Code only moved in to the browser very recently, it didn't make sense to me to claim it was built for the web.

Edit: faulty memory at it's finest. I was wrong
> There are many flavors of markdown. We'd need a standards body, compatibility suites, etc., and for all the browser vendors to adopt it.

Yes please. Perfect: to want something that can be done; to need something that can happen.
Concurrency is not Parallelism. You should watch this quintessential talk about the difference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg
was he going to pull quotes from the future?
Is gold still the inflation hedge? One the one hand yes, but if i.e SpaceX starship is a total success, asteroid mining could be the black swan for that. Though I may be totally wrong (and off by orders of magnitude) about that.
> But they don't actually invest in businesses.

Yes, they do.

> Yes, the asset happens to be an operating corporation.

Not just any operating corporation. A business. Not all corporations are businesses. Not all businesses are corporations. VC's invest in corporations (almost invariably Delaware C corps) which are also businesses.

VCs make equity investments in businesses, and not other asset classes. Saying that they "do not invest in businesses [because] they're not interested in portions of revenue or profit sharing" is like saying that someone who buys Amazon stock is not investing in a business because Amazon doesn't pay dividends.

It is true that buying Amazon stock is different than, say, buying the local laundromat or opening a lemonade stand. But those are all still businesses.

And it is true that VCs don't invest in any old business. If you try to get a VC to finance your purchase of the local laundromat or to start a lemonade stand on the corner they will probably laugh in your face. But if you try to get them to invest in corn futures they will laugh in your face even harder. (And if you tell a VC, "You don't invest in businesses" they will probably write you off as a pretentious idiot.)

VC's invest in businesses. They specifically invest in businesses with high growth potential, which generally means startups. And it's true that what they care about is the growth and not the business details. But they still nonetheless invest in businesses.

Saying "VC's don't invest in businesses" is like saying that Ferrari collectors don't buy cars. There is a grain of truth there: Ferrari collectors don't buy just any old car, they buy Ferraris. But Ferraris are still cars.
Hence the Crypto bubble. Nothing should be valued at 32 billion in less than 3 years when all it produces is speculative stuff. Nothing screams more "get rich quick" than these things.
Just reading your profile - wow, that all sounds amazingly interesting. Wish I had something to offer right now ;)
The articles appear, but they don't draw the audiences until the problem is apparent.

I remember in 2017 being told by a Wall Street analyst, "It's been ages since anyone's traded in an environment with actually-rising interest rates, be careful." The rise in rates came later than we both though, but I've thought about their comment often over the last year or so.

The knowledge is there, but the appetite isn't always.
The same story as always, SBF thought he was smarter than everyone else but like everyone in 07-08' he misjudged his risk exposure and it turns out when the market stops going up the music stops.
I took a look at a random prospectus to see what was disclosed (For ITOT). It does have some risk that sort of sound like this:

> Authorized Participant Concentration Risk...To the extent that Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other Authorized Participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, Fund shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to Net asset value and possibly face trading halts or delisting.
>but most people tip fine.

We tip out of guilt. I literally freaking hate it, and I'm starting to tip less and less and prices go up.

Why should I tip you to pour me a drink? You are literally just doing your job. I don't call up my customers for a tip when I release an update to their program. I don't send them invoices with a TIP line and show how much 15, 18, 20% of the invoice is so they can add on to it.

Tipping culture is literally (1) employers paying their workers as little as possible and (2) preying on peoples emotions.

It's also a completely asymmetric transaction. How do I know if you are receiving below minimum wage or minimum wage/more? How do I know if you are getting healthcare, or other benefits? Yet I'm supposed to just assume you are being paid almost zero and give as much of my money to you as I can otherwise I will feel guilty.

I'm ranting in general obviously, not at you. But seriously people tip out of guilt and thinking people like you are not making very much money otherwise. It's the dumbest system ever.
Various holders of US debt. The federal reserve, foreign holders, mutual funds, banks, local governments.
> The difference vs the old mainframe is it's so much more accessible to anyone.

As someone who works on zSeries mainframes, I am not sure I agree. For developers, this is true, no doubt. But for organizations, in the cloud your data are locked away in ways they are not on the on-prem mainframe.

Vendor lock-in seems to be similar - you use some middleware, you're locked in.

With mainframe, there is more control over the infrastructure than in cloud. I see our management (I work for MF utilities vendor) constantly wrestle for control over our customer's environment that would be easily given in cloud (e.g. telemetry).

What's also interesting (but slowly changing to the worse), the mainframe infrastructure (z/OS for instance) is quite open to custom modification, IMHO more than cloud (but it depends on type, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS).
I've lived it as well. I have kids that live it. I have many friends that live it. Not sure why you need to resort to personal attacks, but, yes, it's obvious this discussion won't be fruitful.
When I lived in Redwood City, CA I learned to keep my mouth shut that I was a conservative. If it had gotten out then my job would’ve been under threat, and maybe my own personal safety.
What about Biden? What is the status on his state of mind or lack thereof?
Simpler is very subjective. Java is a good language for large enterprises is because its so standardized. Almost anyone at various levels can pretty much pick up and start contributing.

Python, has so much syntactical sugar that it can get really messy.
> Why cant we just give employees dignity and a fair wage?

Apropos of nothing, I’ll just mention that the Fed is currently trying to decrease employment [1] and eliminate people’s savings [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/08/27/fed-chair-...

[2] https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1587873284997218304
> The only legal way you can use copyrighted code is due to the license attached to it by the copyright holder.

This is wrong on so many levels.

1. Copyright grants a limited set of rights to the copyright holder. "Use" typically doesn't fall into that set. Everyone has the right to "use" copyrighted material for any purpose that isn't some kind of copy or distribution.

2. Even when we consider uses which are actually covered by copyright, a license is not the only way to legally copy the material. Fair use exists.

3. There is no such thing as "the license attached to it". Licenses do not "attach" to copyrighted works. A license is an individual agreement between the copyright holder and each and every person who wants to use the material (within the scope of copyright rights and outside of fair use). Those agreements can be different in every instance, if the licensor and licensee have so agreed.

The only thing a LICENSE file or other similar way of indicating a license on code does is make a (binding) offer to license the work under the specified terms to all comers. Once anyone actually has a license by any means, including a separately negotiated license, then the LICENSE file no longer has anything to do with them or their use of the material. In the case of github, they have separately negotiated (by making a binding offer of their own in their ToS) a license to use the material for the provision of their service; therefore the LICENSE file has nothing to do with them (unless they want to use the offered license instead of the one they negotiated, and they haven't negotiated away the right to use the license offered in the LICENSE file).
I'm talking about being spat in the NEXT time you go there.

If you're known to not tip, you're at risk of this behavior.

It's far worse with things like UberEATS. Your paying the driver to not eat your fries and sip your drink

One time, my drink from UberEATS had a line of lipstick on the rim of the straw. I guess I should have tipped more.