skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’d rather risk a slow shift with less tips than work a job with a slightly higher hourly rate and no tips

You can't argue both at once. You literally say above that you prefer tips because even if they increased prices you make more because of tips (i.e., making people feel guilty and throwing extra money at you).

But then you tell me if it was 20% higher I wouldn't care. Both of those can't be true.

I know you and I are being exploited when they want me to add 20% to the current prices. You literally just told me you make more money when I have to tip 20% than if prices were increased. Thus that means the TRUE price would not be a 20% increase. Therefore I'm being taken advantage of. And you are being taken advantage of because the employer is putting the variable risk on YOU. If there is less traffic in a place, that is on YOU. Why should that be your concern? If you work 8 hours, you work 8 hours. You don't control who comes in to the place. That's the employer's concern to choose a good location, advertise or whatever. But nope.. you are perfectly fine bearing that risk and perpetuating this stupid system.

And you are correct- if they showed true prices with no expectation of tips and I know everyone is being compensated fairly then I don't care about the price. I lived the UK for many years. What you see is what you pay, including tax. People are paid, there is time off, national medical coverage etc etc etc. There's not a thought about it. And I hate the mind games here.

Tipping is OPTIONAL. Live with it.
Oh, hey. I was just looking at this article the other day.

I think this article makes some good points, but it's a little too absolutist about this data. As far as I can tell, if you are an author or industry professional, you can get access to the following data:

* If you want data on your own books: sign up for Amazon Author Central and they'll give you the BookScan data on your books. This is free. https://press.aboutamazon.com/2010/12/weekly-nielsen-booksca...

* If you want data on comps (i.e., comparable books, or books you are competing against): sign up for Publishers Marketplace and pay for the monthly package ($25/month on top of the PM subscription). This gives you the ability to track 5 ISBNs (and I assume, you can pick new ISBNs every month). https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/bookscan/about.cgi#dat...

* If you want public library data checkout data: as linked in the article, go to the Seattle Public Library. Free. https://data.seattle.gov/Community/Checkouts-by-Title/tmmm-y...

The situation only really gets ugly if you want access to broad market data (i.e., across all ISBNs for a given time window, and covering a majority of retail outlets). The best I'm able to find is this comment by Kristen McLean from NPD: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-...

But this data is (a) limited, and (b) I think it has some pretty serious issues [1]. I sent an email to Kristen to try to address this, but so far no response. (If anyone has any connections that might help, please contact me!)

And if you want to get access to the data yourself, you're talking about something to the tune of $2,500 USD. And the terms are pretty restrictive. https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/bookscan/about.cgi#pri... https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/bookscan/terms.shtml

I am actively working on improving this situation, and I've got some ideas for what we could do while still abiding by NPD's terms. If that's something that interests you, please contact me (see my profile).

[1]: My issue with Kristen's analysis is that it follows (in her words) a "conveyor belt" pattern. That is, the time window is fixed. Within that time window, some books have been on the market 364 days. Some may have been on the market 1 day. So it's not surprising that some books have very few sales: they may simply have not been on the market long enough. And you can't just say, "well, multiply the data by 2x to account for the average case" because I'm pretty sure that doesn't work. But without real data I can't fix this.
Agreed, if anything I think the limitations actually help me get stuff done. No need to think how best to resolve something, just do it the obvious way and move along.
yes its been my opinion for years that they are all crooks, the whole thing was made possible basically by quantitative easing. but I still find a lot of ridiculous foolishness posted here so I keep getting lured back.
Related:

Feeding Cattle Seaweed Reduces Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions 82 Percent

https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/feeding-cattle-seaweed-reduces...
"[...]

The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest.

"We have discovered happiness"—say the last men, and blink thereby.

They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loveth one's neighbour and rubbeth against him; for one needeth warmth.

Turning ill and being distrustful, they consider sinful: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbleth over stones or men!

A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.

One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one.

One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome.

No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse.

"Formerly all the world was insane,"—say the subtlest of them, and blink thereby.

[...]"

(Not sure that blowing up the biosphere, literally so when considering geological timescales, is a better alternative...)
So your basing this on a sample of one? I'm sure it happens with every retailer. The question is what's the post issue experience like.

I had a similar experience with an order from BestBuy for an PS3. The entire box was empty except for some bags of rice to weight it down properly.
We (Americans) are a pretty wild bunch. :D
Or maybe you’ll be blown up by the us military :)
> The only reason big banks doesn't do this openly is because they actually have regulators breathing down their neck so they have to either hide it well or find ways around.

I thought that's what the whole PFOF debate in the US was about? That e.g. Citadel is allegedly using SL and order book information to hunt stops on thin volumes.

Not from the US and I didn't follow it too closely, maybe I got it wrong.
i'd just apply intelligent file naming strategy, based on timestamps and urls. keep in mind, that a folder should not contain more than 1000 files or other folders, otherwise it's slow to list.
Similarly, you can vote in congressional elections from Antarctica or low Earth orbit, but not if you’re a resident of Washington DC.
Only if the rich do it first.

I won't eat bugs, lab grown meat, algae, or any other experimental food until the rich do it first, and do it consistently, not just once as a demonstration.

My logic is simple. If the rich don't embrace an innovation, it tells me that the innovation is either not what it's cracked up to be, that it gives a poorer quality product than the traditional option, or that the rich think the innovation is for suckers or the poor. If that's the case, I'll stick with the traditional option.
Perhaps -- my guess -- its the recognition that they are fundamentally two different problems.

Hunger of the previous generations was mostly due to countries not having enough agriculture or imports to feed their population.

Today with modern farming and agriculture methods, hunger is mostly a distribution issue, rather than a we don't have enough food issue, so now food security is used as a more general term. My hunch is driven by -- may be getting the exact specifics wrong - that countries like America throw away enough food daily to satisfy much of the remaining world hunger.
> loaning your money to banks/corporations/governments/individuals is super risky

This is called a "low trust society". The flip side is of course that nobody will lend you money. Mortgages and consumer credit are scarce. Business credit is difficult. Large amounts of capital need to be tied up in buffers. The overhead of keeping an eye on everyone is considerable. You don't get "First World" levels of development with a low trust society.
There _is_ no legal way to manage that data if the service provider is subject to the CLOUD act.
it got raided by successive governments and the royalties we charge are tiny relative to other nations.

For example: Australian Gas consumers pay more to use natural gas in Australia, than people in Japan, using Australian LNG.
If they operate a service for you, yes.

For instance the baby sitter you hire now and then probably keeps track of the contacts of their potential clients, and you could request deletion of your data if you don’t intend to work with them for a few years.
What a song — chills me every time. I can’t think of another historical and/or tragedy song that grips me as much as this one.
I don’t think the guys in India Japan and China who write the C++ code in the games and apps I use for the pay the offshorers want to pay are going to
give a fuck.
If a hedge fund trades on an exchange in Singapore they will probably want a corporate structure there for trading and tax purposes. Larger trading operations aren’t just clicking sign up on random exchange websites and allowed to start trading billions of dollars. Legal agreements need to be inked, collateral deposited, etc.
Mars InSight: “why don’t I have a way to dust myself off (wiper, blower, etc.)?”
That sounds to me a lot like a cover story to try and convince people there was actually a value-add. I'm skeptical that the barriers were so high they discouraged anyone from seizing essentially free money, but he solved this with a Japanese friend's bank account.
While removing the cancer cells would be preferable, killing them all so they no longer replicate means the patient will not die from that cancer.
It doesnt apply to individuals if it is not a business.
See article 2, §2, litra c

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Data privacy IS an innovation.
It’s supposed to reduce cow farts.
See e.g. https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/09/24/seaweed-to-cow-fee...
And does this mean I can do this to the collection agent trying to get me to pay 4x for a parking ticket I got in Italy 5 years ago?
I looked up my university's /8 block, it's listed as North America, Hungary, BME.
I don't think the EU would do that (except maybe against some mega billionaire?). That would at least begin to sour their relationship with the US and potentially many other countries.
Seems like the bill’s aim is to have more oversight in crypto companies.
Or Mastodon admins needs to publish a bit more numbers about what kind of instances they run on what kind of hardware, so people know what to expect at what stages.
There are completely stand-alone systems like:

https://NN-512.com

The stand-alone code generator (a statically linked executable written in Go with no dependencies outside the Go standard library) generates stand-alone POSIX C code for the neural net, requiring only gcc to compile.

Also see Fabrice Bellard's LibNC:

https://bellard.org/libnc/

C API. Small library, no external dependencies, available for Linux and Windows.
While I am by no means a fan of GDPR and this behavior by, especially in Germany, tiny federal data protection agencies spouting toxic, perfectionist legal interpretations onto entrepreneurs for mostly making a name for themselves...

You do realize that there is a fair share of protectionism alive and well in the US as well, right?

Probably not the most productive way to argue to start a tit for tat comparison, let's just be honest withourselves that everyone kinda does it in areas where they lag behind (digital in EU, some engineering, cars in the US).
It's a war on casual privacy invasion by US companies that can't be bothered to pay attention to what's happening in a legal sense in key markets that are important to them (from a revenue point of view). There are plenty of US companies that get a lot of revenue from the EU market. Including some big names like Azure, Amazon, etc. And they aren't being banned but they are being forced to comply with locally applicable law. As they should.

As for cars, the US has already forced many EU based car manufacturers to produce in the US. So, when it comes to protectionism, the US is way ahead of you.
This sounds like Napoleon Dynamite type of reasoning
I ported my vim configuration to Evil Mode seven years ago and haven’t looked back. Evil Mode is the best done vi emulation layer I’ve seen and I think it even improves on vim in at least one area (the behavior of `I` in visual line mode).
Here's another guy that was vouching for SBF to get in on the Twitter deal for $5b.

Michael Grimes [IBanker at Morgan Stanley]: Do you have 5 minutes to connect on possible meeting tomorrow I believe you will want to take?

Elon: Will call in about half an hour

Michael: Sam Bankman Fried is why I'm calling https://twitter.com/sbf_ftx/status/1514588820641128452 https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2021/3/20/22335209/s... https://ftx.us

Elon: ??

Elon: I'm backlogged with a mountain of critical work matters. ls this urgent?

Michael: Wants 1-Sb. Serious about partner w/you. Same security you own

Michael: Not urgent unless you want him to fly tomorrow. He has a window tomorrow then he's wed-Friday booked

Michael: Could do $5bn if everything vision lock. Would do the engineering for social media blockchain integration. Founded FTX crypto exchange. Believes in your mission. Major Democratic donor. So thought it was potentially worth an hour tomorrow a la the Orlando meeting and he said he could shake hands on 5 if you like him and I think you will. Can talk when you have more time not urgent but if tomorrow works it could get us $5bn equity in an hour

Elon: Blockchain twitter isn't possible, as the bandwidth and latency requirements cannot be supported by a peer to peer network, unless those "peers" are absolutely gigantic, thus defeating the purpose of a decentralized network.

Elon: ["disliked" "Could do $5bn ..."]

Elon: So long as I don't have to have a laborious blockchain debate

Elon: Strange that Orlando declined

Elon: Please let him know that I would like to talk and understand why he declined

Elon: Does Sam actually have $3B liquid?

Michael: I think Sam has it yes. He actually said up to 10 at one point but in writing he said up to 5. He's into you. And he specifically said the blockchain piece is only if you liked it and not gonna push it. Orlando referred Sams interest to us and will be texting you to speak to say why he (Orlando) declined. We agree orlando needs to call you and explain given everything he said to us and you. Will make that happen We can push Sam to next week but I do believe you will like him. Ultra Genius and doer builder like your formula. Built FTX from scratch after MIT physics. Second to Bloomberg in donations to Biden campaign.

https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#62
You first, Sarah Gibbens
They can do whatever the local laws allow. If the local laws forbid it, then they can't.
Again, voting is a right. If we’re going to add restrictions to that right we need to handle the edge cases. This isn’t a ton of people but it’s enough that we need to have an answer better than “they probably won’t vote for my guy”.
"Local history" in IntelliJ has saved me several times. The diff mode is very useful when working on a piece of code and suddenly your tests starts failing and you need to find out what changes you made in the last hour.
> Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, and Microsoft all add a lot of value to people's lives both through the products they sell as well as the tax revenue they provide for the greater benefit of all.

That's a very bold claim, and one that I think is generally untrue and possibly extremely so. That might be true for a wealthy software engineer, but I don't think it's true for most people. For example, anyone who doesn't own a Tesla has benefited exactly 0 from the company's existence. If you don't order from Amazon or aren't doing lots of Google searches... same. And in fact, some of these companies - like Amazon, Meta - take far more than they give back. Amazon has killed local stores nationwide, on demand delivery and packaging is awful for the environment, etc. Meta just consumes attention and spreads misinformation.

> They aren't the primary drivers of any of our society's largest problems.

Except in some cases they quite obviously are. Amazon is the case study for abusive workplaces. It's the poster child for foreign-produced, cheap knockoffs. Meta is credited for spreading misinformation that has resulted in the near-destruction of our democracy. Apple, Microsoft, and many others have been implicated for using slave labor in their supply chains. How many products sold on Amazon are products of such labor?

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I think it's important that we examine these issues critically. These are not benevolent super-corporations. Sometimes they do good, sometimes they do evil, and either way it's generally on a huge scale due to the scale of the companies.
This comment make me sad. Replacing human creativity with "ai" is like we've reached the peak so no need to put any effort into life anymore..
Yes. Zooming in seems to be ok, but zooming out misbehaves.
I think it's also a difference in opportunity. When you have money/capital/connections, you can be wrong, and wrong often, and take risks.

When you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can make an occasional mistake and be fine, but you're likely to be much more risk-averse.

It's easy to make movements when the outcome could only benefit you.
I think you're making a philosophical error akin to denying the existence of bread on the basis of not believing in transubstantiation. The word "soul" has a lot of unprovable beliefs attached to it in every world religion, but the word on its own refers to that which experiences in all the uses I'm aware of.
Caddy, Gotify, Photoprism
These AB tests where they force you to engage in some new medium of content that they want you to become accustomed to is reminiscent of that scene in A Clockwork Orange where they force Alex to watch film of violent images.

https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/treatme...

Although this was actually intended to be a punishment.
I was introduced to this song by a music teacher in elementary school, and I remember being wow'd by the story and thinking the song sounded cool as hell. I've almost never listened to it since then, but it has remained ingrained in my head for almost 30 years. Every couple of weeks it pops into my head, clear as a bell.

Not sure why I'm sharing this, but yeah...
I think the more apt way would be:

The world is run by people how are by and large more motivated by power and self interest and that doesn't always correlate with very high levels of intelligence.
Sic rebus stantibus, neither transition is realistic without enormous and painful investments.

Basically every single piece of software that matters is a C library or is exposed through a C API, because that's what other languages hook into, including Rust.

Heck, right this second I'm working on a piece of software that needs to talk to Java and Python simultaneously, so C++ with extern C it is.

Using memory safe languages when you can is good advice, but it's kind of complicated to get to a point where everything is guaranteed safe.
Has anyone tried to do this?

Yes, and everyone who did got served a cease-and-desist. Not everyone
however asked for 500k from the aggrieved on top of stealing their IP.
That's some next-level ballsiness worthy of a true pioneer.
> You're learning the same material as the people who go to a state university. The advantage is the proximity to power, the people you rub elbows with who can help your career down the line.

I got my MS CS from Stanford and this is completely false. I did my BS CS at Georgetown, and even between the two there was a huge difference being at Stanford. The course material pushed me way harder, there were more resources (e.g. robots), a much wider selection of electives, and more consistently brilliant peers. I never felt behind at Georgetown; I certainly had those moments at Stanford, even though I did very well there in the end.
That's a good point. The principle of proving a simple possible version makes sense. Just pointing out that those "small" steps Tesla took are already a lot bigger than most software projects.
Why should impersonation be a problem? A true free-speech absolutist would think impersonation and parodying are okay.
The Effect of SSRIs in the Prevention of Post-Acute Sequelae of Covid-19
> Millions starved to death in collectivization, even more millions displaced from their homes and sent to gulags. Intelligentsia eradicated as a class. The biggest and potentially richest country in the world collapsed due to planned economy.

Communism didn’t work, for sure, but I’m not sure how this takes away from the things that the Soviets did accomplish, which op listed above.

I also find it interesting the standard we judge the Soviets by. Millions have starved under capitalism, but in comparison to what? the Western world where we’ve been constantly at war with some country in the world, treating brown people as less than humans, causing refugee crises in the millions and civil wars?

I know the typical response to this comment is something like, “Oh but that’s whataboutism”. Well the reality is that as an American, I we should have the self awareness to recognize that we’re like a skunk complaining about the stench from another skunk.

Back to the original topic - the anti Russia frenzy is in full swing. This much should be clear to anyone, based on the tone of this article.
This is an idiotic take if I ever saw one, and I genuinely wish you to never have to deal with being on the wrong side of the pitchfork held by angry mob of people all going after you.
I was addressing your point "US visitors to domain.com gets a different IP". How does that relate to GDPR?
Climate change is not just about electricity production.

There was a wide array of solutions available 40 years ago, including, but not limited to nuclear.

Notable mentions: carbon fees, preventing deforestation, not subsidizing fossil fuels, not actively encouraging methane release from oilfields, more efficient cars, trains, insulation, heat pumps and solar water heaters but really the list is very, very long.
You don't need sci-fi. Go to the ocean and look at some Dolphins or Orcas and you'll see it in real life.
Rising interest, rent house prices all increasing. There's no stability. With pay decreasing it's further out of reach
Yes, and that costs some payload. That tradeoff is right up against the limits of what's physically possible. How Space-X does landings is quite different than most VTOL landings, which are slow and careful. The boosters approach fast, and then blast at 2G just before landing. Fuel is spent almost entirely to get rid of kinetic energy, not to fight gravity while hovering. That rather drastic solution makes it possible.

I'm not a huge Musk fan, but he does seem to get the physics of rocketry.
I hate how Big Tech is so adamant about viewing and interacting through algorithms instead of allowing you to do basic sorting according to a certain order you choose.
Did you try using some of the cheap cloud storage, like AWS S3?