skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are people who I feel are annoying and toxic, but I don’t get rid of them because I am afraid of the reactions of those who are left. They are talking shit about the company to others and spreading discontent and it’s easy to feel like firing the person will somehow prove them right to everyone else.

Is this a manager issue? Non-believers have never interfered with my work, and are much preferred to the more common species “the manipulator”, also known as social climbers. Interfering is their MO, and toxic positivity their hallmark.
I'm trying to compare this to the jQuery kinda syntax

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And I expect this to let me keep that chain going for when I need to run a static function against the chain

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Management doesn't like scaring their workers and wait for recessions to fire low performers all at once. Hiring someone else's scraps isn't the best strategy, and digging for the diamonds in the dirt is very expensive.
I left a quarter once for service that deserved it. The waitress threw it at me.

Culturally, the tip is part of the price. They just can’t call the police for a dine-and-dash because it legally isn’t. So I don’t think just not tipping is a realistic option. So it’s what you owe in all but law.

Which is not me defending tipping. I find the thing ridiculous and distasteful enough that I probably just won’t eat where tips are at that level of expectation more often than not. It’s not such a necessity that if I don’t have line-item veto that I won’t veto the whole thing.
Is this supposed to be a lot? I used to get 50% bonuses on my base (which was already high) when I worked on Wall St.
I don't see an emotion vs logic dichotomy being applicable here; we just don't process numbers like calculators because the world is messy and everything is a context-dependent guess with imperfect information.

If 99.9% of the time I go to a restaurant the number I see is eventually adjusted by sales tax+tip, my mental "value" heuristic is going to be comparing that number to how hungry I am, how soon I think I'm getting the burger, how good I think this place is, etc.

If half of restaurants abolished tips I'm sure I would develop the ability to incorporate that into my heuristic.

And sure like any heuristic it has its failure modes but in general, if you look at a whole population, those heuristics tend to be pretty astonishingly effective in aggregate.
I fucking hate the blinding LED lights with a passion. Also, they fuck up the ecosystem in a major way. If we never get rid of them, they are visual DDT.
An AI based General Practitioner could offer health care to large parts of the world population that are currently under served because the cost is too high for them. Thats huge even if its not 100% perfect.
I'm actually ok with that if it's clear and up front - as in, written on the menu, which in my experience it usually is. It's not like you have to guess the additional expected fee at the end.
You can get a nice, slim Chromebook with specs good enough for a high school student for a few hundred bucks. OTOH, a MacBook Air is $1000 and up.
nope, sorry they absolutely exist and 10x may easily be an understatement. now, the conditions must be right - you put a 10x embedded system software engineer into a java microservices job, in a couple weeks he might be a 2x. You make a 10x engineer go to 37 hours of meetings a week, you get a 0.05x engineer (along with everyone else on the team).

but no, either you've never seen or experienced one or else you don't recognize what you just saw. people who are oblivious to their own capabilities, or lack thereof, wouldn't recognize the difference.
This is just depressing.

How is the technical interview process valuable _for companies_ at this point when it seems to be evaluating how well you can prepare for their specific leetcode interview, and how well you practice the incantation of the system design problem (make sure you follow the template and the pattern!) - do they really think they're selecting the best candidates, and not the most practiced interviewers?
Key Takeaways: Jargon is formal slang. Jargon uses technical terms but its primary purpose is to show status. The more jargon someone uses, the lower their status and credibility.
Vogtle 3 and 4 are the first AP1000 reactors built in the US. That means most of the parts and components used in this plant are the first attempt at building and integrating such components. It's a lot cheaper to retain all this knowledge and churn out a run of, say, 2 dozen steam generators [1] instead of building them as a one-off every time. There's many such components where there's no market outside of nuclear power plants, and so there's no economy of scale to be had if we're only building 1 or 2 nuclear plants at a time.

> I would love it if nuclear were cost effective to build, but I would like to see any recent examples of that, anywhere in the world

South Korea has been consistently building nuclear power comparatively cheaply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea#:....

France did so as well during the Messmer plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Messme...

Of course it's probably not as cost competitive with fossil fuels. The whole point is to get off of fossil fuels. This is where wind and solar really struggle: they're great at reducing fossil fuel use by ~40% by shutting down gas plants when wind and sun are available. But it's ultimately still fossil fuels forming the backbone of the grid. Nuclear provides a path towards actually removing fossil fuel generation entirely, instead of just opportunistically supplementing it with intermittent renewables.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_generator_(nuclear_power....
Does anyone know if Twitter was losing money for letting these third party clients have access to the firehouse?

Are these third party clients paying for the API or sharing revenue with twitter?
I think that is likely too many nines (depending on how you are counting and weighting “use cases”).
I called it, it was, indeed, bad behavior from miners. Didn't expect it to be poor storage conditions to be the trigger, though. Probably a combination of that and the extreme stress of overclocking.
Another social change is increase in oral sex. Most people don't use protection while doing oral sex which is also the cause of widespread STDs. Eating ass is a good way to get a bunch of disease causing microbes into your body. I don't know why it's normalized these days, it wasn't the case in the past.
It's just too obvious. The metrics you're optimizing for don't matter to any of the stakeholders.
All American style unions are a bad idea and generally don't work. You guys need European style unions. Industry wide and with actual teeth.
I quit my PhD in English at age 30, when my first wife left me.

Did a lot of low-rent freelance media work, video and audio ad production, and started doing websites. That's just gotten better over the last 12 years.

Stuff takes time. 5 years is a lot longer than you'd think if you're 35.

Also, while I don't think I could get a gig at a bigco, that's okay- there are a lot of boring, okay paying jobs out there in small companies. For me the entry was doing shit websites at an agecny for $12/hr to build a resume, and then 5 years of freelancing at ever increasing rates. That's a shitty hustle and I'd probably just go get my journeyman electrical if I had to do it over again.

But it can be done.

One of the best things to happen to me is to start playing music with 60 and 70 year olds in my mid 30s. The reality it showed me is that 35 is quite young and 5 years is a long time.
This is currently a big problem with renewable energy in the UK and other places. One reason you see negative wholesale costs for electricity in some places is you have a lot of generating capacity but no power lines to get it to demand.

It turns out the lead time to build long power lines is long and it is a politically difficult proposition because you have to get permits for a whole line from Point A to Point B.

One of the ways where the sticker price of renewables is higher than what is quoted is the cost of transporting it and one advantage of nuclear is it could be sited closer to demand in some cases.
Doesn't a compulsory service charge solve this problem? The prices of the items on the menu, remain the same, the but the cheque adds X% to the final charge. AFAIK here in Ecuador restaurants are required to add a 12% service charge.
Mask Wearing Champions Japan and South Korea Look to End the Habit
Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after convicted of fraud
yes they do and yes they should
I delivered pizza back in the day, over 10 years ago now.. I still remember the few people that went above and beyond and gave me a really good tip.. today I don't work for tips, but those feelings have influenced how I tip today and I hope that the pizza people whom I tip well will remember my acts of kindness and some day when they are more fortunate as I am now, will pay it forward to the next pizza guy, and the stream of goodwill will continue for the rest of time, or until pizzas are no longer delivered
People think Doctors are perfect, the fact is they make mistakes just like an AI would. Its just about getting to acceptable levels which seems within reach over the coming decade.
> But hey, if the Subversion system just works and doesn’t bother anyone, there’s no reason to make any changes, right? The reality is that there’s an ongoing maintenance cost to any software, and that goes extra for public-facing services on the internet.

This is a poor excuse. I understand that MSFT/Github feels compelled to provide a convincing reason to users, but this is not it. 99.9% of problems are caused by developers making changes or pushing new code. I've been writing software for close to two decades now--if you don't touch it, it's not going to break on its own.
So are pivot tables in excel. If you show me a tool that can handle csvs (and excel is crap at huge csvs, timelineexlporer is great) and nice graph UI, I am all for it. The number one priority is not missing stuff so there is no way around having to collect all the right data, eliminate known noise and sift through the data to piece together a timeline.
I agree with most of what you say, but renewables can’t be counted on, so they can never be blamed. This is tautologically true and yet a meaningless point.

If a hospital loses power to lifesaving equipment, 100% of the time it is due to a failure of backup generators.
Most people seem to forget LA has a ton of oil wells (see quote below for the numbers). They are typically pretty well disguised so people don't notice it a lot. Last year LA finally decided to stop allowing new wells and start phasing out existing ones but over the next 20 years.

From the article I linked:
In a 12-0 vote, the council on Friday approved an ordinance it began drafting earlier this year that will immediately ban new extraction and shut down existing operations within 20 years."

Same Article:
"There are 26 oil and gas fields and more than 5,000 active and idle wells in LA. Wells are spread out all over the city, including Wilmington, Harbor Gateway, downtown, West LA, South LA and the northwest San Fernando Valley."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/los-angeles-bans-oil-and-gas....
> at LEAST at country-level.

Are you implying it should be even more granular? i.e. People with IP addresses in Hollywood neighborhoods should have to pay $10,000/year for Adobe software but people with IP addresses in Compton neighborhoods should only pay $10/year?
A fine approach. For me personally, I decided to delete my account so I wouldn't ever be tempted to log back in.
I think part of what is causing the "customers pay more" effect is that tipping manages to do the thing where it captures "whales"; and this is critical for business in America due to wealth inequality, and is similar to the numerous often-frustrating-but-maybe-justifies attempts at maximizing payments in other industries (such as games, music, etc.).

Like, I don't think it is the right lesson to say that the higher price points scare away people in the abstract, as if everyone who is eating is paying the meal plus 15% and they are just being dumb by not realizing they are paying "the same" in a world where tipping doesn't happen. (edit: And yup... I now see other comments leaning into "Americans are bad at math").

It isn't that uniform: a lot of people tip 10% while many are tipping 20%; there are people who aren't tipping at all and people who routinely tip 30%... and it doesn't stop there! There are also people who at least occasionally throw in some massive tip... I myself have, for various reasons that made sense at the time, thrown down a >100% tip on small checks.

Sure, some people like the awkward "control" over the wait staff, but that is also simplistic: there are people who make it a status symbol and proudly are known among their friends--the wait staff doesn't matter--as "big tippers"; and there are people who get into friendly competitions with their friends over who tips the most.

The result is that this turns into a kind of "pay what you can" at best and an awkward gamified mechanic to force people to stretch to pay more at its worst, resulting in people who have the money to pay subsidizing the people who don't, which maybe is actually a good thing? If nothing else, I see why it is profitable, even if customers ALL kind of dislike it.

(It also, though, causes people who "feel the weight of society" and feel a need to tip to ensure people get paid to subsidize the people who have the money but are selfish and don't give a shit. My guesses as to the balance of people who don't tip much because they can't and those who don't tip much because they won't affects my personal feelings on whether it is "fair" or not.)
An unfortunate coincidence is that "institutionalize" in U.S. English, when said of a person (rather than a practice or procedure), mainly means "commit to a mental hospital" (or a nursing home), so phrasing it this way sounds (at first read) like a question about how to be admitted to a mental hospital.

I might suggest "connect to the job market" or "connect to the normal economy" or "have a normal career" or "have a legible career" (slight social science jargon). Sorry those are more long-winded phrasings than your original version!
The annoying part are all the tipping-adjacent restaurants trying to get 'in' on tipping. Like burger joints and pizza carryout defaulting to 15% tips at checkout.

I could see it eventually going the way of internet advertising.. so noisy that a significant minority rejects the system altogether.
The economic structure doesn't need to change for these companies to act as if it had, nor for these people to take these jobs if neither thing happens. All three things can be true at the same time. As I said, it was a false dichotomy. That's key to understanding the situation.
Who built the API and who pays to maintain it? These are not public goods in the traditional sense. The incentives must align or else the benefit is only maintained through benign neglect.
Just use snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/global-warming-data-faked/
Thanks for the advice! I looked it up, and https://interviewing.io/ is indeed the place.

That sounds like exactly the kind of thing I need to gain some confidence.

I’m sorry for what you’ve been through as well. I can relate to much of it. The feelings of being trapped are a real thing.

I really appreciate the advice, hopefully you’re doing better. FWIW, what you’ve shared has already been a big help in my attitude.
Google market cap has more than doubled since he took over.
I don't know why Mastodon is hyped up so much. I do not have an account on it as I have some concerns. My understanding at the current time is that a server can be run by a single random individual, they can read your DMs as they are not encrypted, and they can kick you off the server if you write anything the server operator does not agree with.

At least with Twitter, it was a corporation with rules and procedures.
Sure, it's a risk vs reward thing and my comment was just focusing on the risk - a risk that I think is continually downplayed because we are bad at appreciating the costs of extremely unlikely but extremely bad events that have never occurred before.

If the reward is high enough the risk might be justified. Personally I doubt it (mostly because economically solar + wind + power storage seems like a better bet), but that's a whole other discussion.
Sorry for the Off Topic: What does TFA stand for? I always see it on HN. I know RTFA stands for Read The Fucking Article (yes, I'm originally from Reddit...), but I don't think that's the same F?

Also, GP?
that's not a real 10x. that's a 0.1x who heard about it and tried to emulate it.

it's not 10x in SLOC or whatever, it's total, long term, value. and yet it does exist.

it's like arguing that Michael Jordan doesn't exist because everyone you've ever played with was only about as good as you.
I used a somewhat similar technique after I got stuck in my PhD for more than a year: I sat down and wrote a chapter explaining why my research was doomed, because XY could not be properly measured and quantified etc. It turned out that once I had my concerns spelled out on paper instead of tossing them around in my head, proceeding to the actual measuring and quantifying was anything but impossible.
There are all sorts of biases in pricing.

One I remember from Richard Thaler years ago was that, if you were comparison shopping in physical stores (this was pre-Web), if you saw a TV in a store that was $1 more expensive than in another store you had shopped in, you'd probably just shrug and buy it. But if some $2 item were $1 more, you'd probably go back to the first store even if it cost you more than $1 to do so--because fairness/being ripped off. (And I think most people are cheap at some level in many contexts.)
How do we actually know that came from anywhere other than a known liars butthole?
I had no idea. This is fucking great. Hahaha. Best thing I've read all day.
Bidding is fine and will drop process and balance out long term, but seeing the tip before delivery creates the bad incentives described in other comments i.e. canceling an accepted order for another with a higher tip or not following instructions. I know I've been peeved after waiting 30 minutes only to find out my food isn't coming.
> Management was overwhelmed and just spending money on anything plausible sounding (even if not really plausible) because they could

This is the crux of it. At any company there are always more projects and ideas than there are people to work on them. Limits on hiring force the business to carefully choose what to work on. Not every pet project gets staffed/funded.
They're mostly turned off late at night. Street lights and outdoor building / landscaping lighting tends not to be.
>something the leadership has said they do not want to support ever

Since Mastodon is decentralized what the leadership wants doesn't always matter. There are several instances which have patched their code to add full search in.

This is one of the big advantages I see to the fediverse as a whole- different instances can experiment around with changes and even entirely different software stacks, and if someone doesn't like the way the mainline software is being run they can fork it (and there are several successful forks already).
Looking at the varied compositions of the anti-French forces in any given war* it does seem like the British were aided by easily being able to put together Coalitions of the Billing.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
before: rural US has crappy broadband whaaaa everything sucks!

now: starlink satellites are ruining astronomy for like sixty people whaaaa everything sucks!

this is why I no longer give any credit to online bellyaching

backyard astronomers: we don't care about you

if only starlink satellites could be arranged in the shape of Trump's face directly above laid-off Twitter engineers, life would be perfect
Also "Wingman" for Haskell does some type-driven code generation. (It might be part of the haskell language server now, I get it when I use the vscode plugin.)

When the solution is ambiguous, Idris (and I believe wingman) will supply suggestions that you can pick from.

In your `bar` case, `bar xs = 42` is also a solution. Idris suggests 0 1 2 3 ... I think, it's going off of the constructors for the return type. I expect this technology to improve over time (try to use arguments, etc.)

Idris and Agda will also do stuff short of "fill in the answer" like "case split an argument for me" or "insert the appropriate constructor or lambda and leave a hole inside". This is quite helpful in cases where it's not gonna find the answer, but can type out the next step or two for you. (Wingman might have this, I haven't used it much. I don't know Coq at all.)

On the Agda side, the first couple of sections of "Programming Language Foundations in Agda" will walk you through using that functionality. Idris has a couple of videos that others have pointed out. It's fun stuff.
I think the big problem is that any such thing you'd design an interface for might change in such a way that it doesn't make any sense to preserve this hypothetical interface over time. Rust's standard library promises to keep maintaining all the pieces long after they're obsolete, and the bigger it gets the harder that will be.

In 1983 if I design a Video interface I guess we need PAL vs NTSC to handle colour standards, and also we need Interlacing, that's a thing. Should we have a fixed list of resolutions? Nah, let's splash out, user defined, that's future proof.

Oops, here we are in 2023 and while nobody cares about Interlacing, and the arbitrary user defined resolutions allow me to express 4K display, there's nowhere to pick 120fps, or to specify 12-bit colour.