skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I've always thought there is a veritable bounty of great SciFi stories to put into film. The recent popularity of SciFi shows suggests to me that we will start to see more works transferred to the big (or small) screen, though as always this seems to be a very hit or miss process.

Personally, I'd love to see e.g. The Culture novels be made into a show, or series of films. There was talk of making a Consider Phlebas TV show some time back, though I don't think it went anywhere. Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" could also do well as a stand alone movie, though possibly with Heinlein you would need to tone down the polygamy themes.

As to why PKD became such a cinematic mainstay I can't quite tell. I would think part of it would be to do with the fact that many of his stories were less about the "lasers and spaceships" part of SciFi, and more about the moral and human aspect, meaning costs could be saved on big budget set pieces ala Star Wars.
Minimum wage is feudalism again though. You're outlawing the jobs of those who create less than minimum wage in value, thus relegating them to the black market and/or less employment. It separates the wage workers and benefits some of the poor at the expense of the even more poor.
I recently saw a "3% cost of living" charge at a restaurant (in California). This same restaurant provided suggested tips of 18, 20, and (I think) 25%.

At a certain level I think this is just dishonesty. They want to raise prices, but they know some people will stop coming, so they try to hide it in extra fees instead. I don't mind tipping per se, but the hidden fees and tip inflation make me think that if this keeps going, we may need to pass some price transparency laws.
It's the same problem math has always had for my whole life. The fundamentals are important to reach the high level stuff but no longer directly useful, and people aren't always sure whether they want to go into a field that needs it, until they are past the age where people used to learn the basics.

Algebra is not useful to an average person directly, and the path to actually getting a job that needs math is long enough that nobody in school is going to think through their future like that, we don't really have a culture of kids thinking a decade ahead. I sure didn't.

Plus, the main thing educators seem to talk about is this mysterious "New way of thinking" you get from math. But nobody just trusts their teachers on that, since it's not something that can be explained easily.

It probably doesn't help that they still like to pretend you're going to actually directly do long division IRL. Even if there's a reason to learn it, I don't see why we need to tell people they'll actually use it directly, when it seems pretty clear most people don't.

But that seems like a matter for educators to solve rather than tech or tech culture.

Is there a different optimal curriculum that takes into account the existence of calculators and the fact we learn math for different reasons now? Or is the best way to teach it unchanged?

Philosophically I suppose phone-dependent people are perpetually lost, but I think a practical definition would be "Unable to navigate to their destination with available equipment".

Someone who's phone dies isn't really experiencing what most know as lost unless they have no power bank or car charger, only then are they going to really be experiencing some panic.
I think that is great. FWIW I worked at Google and still have the original Dream phone in a box somewhere. And while I used iPads since the Android tablet experience never really congealed for me, used an Android phone until the iPhone 13 SE I currently own.

I am also a firm believer that everyone should "vote with their wallet" for the products they want, so no judgement, on my part, on folks who buy one product or the other.

In my experience I find that for every product I buy, the various choices all come with pluses and minuses. I go through that list and apply my own importance rating on each one and come up with my final choice.

My original comment was that Apple Maps are getting better, they were at one time a complete joke. I use maps on my phone all the time, it is probably the largest use of mine after "looking things up on the web" or "communicating" via text or voice. As a result of this improvement in maps, it made this particular choice (for me) a better choice on the iPhone than on an android phone.

I can tell that some people heard my comment above "if you don't own an iPhone you are stupid" or something like that. It certainly wasn't my intent. Never easy to know how something you say will be heard.

My other experience is that products that get "better" overall, supplant, then replace what existed before them. Whether it is TVs, cars, computers, or phones. I still have a Garmin Navigator in my car's glove box but I don't think I have used it in nearly a decade. And yet there was a time when devices of that form were 90+% of the market for "in vehicle navigation."
Pickups got so imposing, and deadly
Consumption of sugar increases rates of cancer and all-cause mortality. This study[1] found that only 5g/day increases in sugar consumption raised rates of cancer.

> Or having their jaw removed due to mouth cancer . Or hooked up to one of those oxygen machines due to irreversible lung damage.

There are plenty of people who lost extremities and/or their sight due to diabetes. They'll be hooked up to insulin pumps, or they'll need regular insulin injections or they'll die. Others can get cancer, as well. Some might need machines just to move around, or will need serious surgeries to keep themselves from eating to death.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026156142...
Dan Luu has a post (https://danluu.com/filesystem-errors/), which covers some of the same ground, and links to papers with more information on the failure modes of file systems in the face of errors from the underlying block device. Prabhakaran, et. al. (https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.p...), did a bunch of filesystem testing (in 2005!), and their paper includes discussion on how to generate "realistic" filesystem errors, as well as discussion of how the then state-of-the-art filesystems (ext3, Reiser (!), and JFS) perform in the face of these errors.

I'm unaware of any research newer than Dan Luu's post on filesystem error handling.
I don't disagree that the companies are selling your contact information and most likely some fuzzy information ranges (age, gender, martial status, rent/own, income) that's all that's really needed to snail mail "pre approvals" hint you're not really approved for anything until you sign to allow them to actually pull your credit. Preapproved just means you meet the minimum threshold of potentially making them more money than the cost of a 50 cent envelope/paper/bulk mailing rate.
Thanks for the reply. Your blog is great. I’ve enjoyed your content over the years.
At least in the cafes I worked in as an undergrad we split tips between the waitstaff and kitchen, which of course also sort of shifts around the "rewarding good service" aspect, but I think then you feel like you're letting down your coworkers if you piss off customers enough for them to tip badly.
It is not opensource, therefore you cannot self-host it, therefore you depend on a thirdparty.
The issue is that we disagree. I don't think vehemence enters into it. The appeal to feudalism isn't persuasive; all sorts of things are traceable back to feudalism (something about feudalism being a pit stop most of our cultures took at some point), and not all of them are bad.

People shouldn't "tip for service". That's not how tips work. Tip mechanically: at a restaurant, divide by 10 and double (keep it simple include the drinks in the tab). If you're sitting there stewing about whether you achieved the requisite level of service, you're the feudalist.
This thread is surreal. You started with "Tipping is a system in which customers explicitly, optionally, and variably share some of the cost of labor.", and now we got to no, actually, there is no optionality or variability, why would you want there to be any?

So we're back to tipping being just a way to artificially display lower prices on the menu and enjoy the psychological deception?
The very little that I tried on perplexity led me to think the opposite. I thought you.com was a bit better, so maybe I need to experiment more.
The Reverse Load Test
True, the big tech companies have similar tech. The AI know-how is not a secret. The big advantage is that OpenAI can offer the tool to everyone without endangering legacy products since they have none. That's a big plus for the general public. That makes it revolutionary.
I would probably want a smoke staring into that thing all day too.
While we're at it, Engineers?

Part of the issue is a seemingly ingrained concept of "fairness" between when we do the same job we want the same reward (a grape not a cucumber stupid researcher!) ... And combine that with the propensity to overestimate our own contributions and underestimate the difficulty of what others do.. Suddenly even rationally fair "feels" unfair.
Can’t we all just agree that you’re both assholes?
Can anyone tell me why nobody supports the Google Titan hardware key? It seems that the only thing it works with is Google itself.

I was hopeful that the Titan would be supported with AppleID, but reading the page it doesn’t look like it.
Well . . . Stanislaw Lem had constant harping claims that Dick was a capitalist committee invention.

https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is...
No, those are pretty much gone. An ashtray in airplane lavatories, though, remains mandatory by law, right next to the "no smoking" sign.
iDarn sells data to the NSAGBCP, darnIT is well worth the subscription and has a community tier that only crashes a few times in 10min.
That’s really great advice and I think you’re very smart and intelligent for having such a brave opinion, but that does not help me as I already have a MacBook, and moreover it really doesn’t actually affect my comment.

> all your games (ALL)

This is measurably untrue; modern computers have trouble with the Windows XP era of games a lot of the time. Many games require tinkering and some will just crash after a minute.
interestingly we actually wouldnt need to raise prices 20%. Some customers do not tip. Some groups of people tip far less, so actually the increase likely is less than 20%.
Usually situations like this involve support added to the workload of a dev team.

... Without adding additional staff of course.

Sometimes the"scrum" is imposed to try to order and manage things as the support burden adds more and more disruption. In a vain search for a magic bullet.
Deep Impact doesn't quite deserve a place with the others. Its depiction of an asteroid impact and many other things is surprisingly realistic considering the source material.
Unicode domains are interesting.

I registered nick<ninja unicode character>.eth as an ENS domain (which is allowed by the ENS spec[1]). It's pretty hit and miss what services will work with it and what won't. https://xn--nick-ow14c.eth.xyz/ does work though.

I actually had to edit this comment because HN strips the <ninja unicode character> out.

[1] https://docs.ens.domains/frequently-asked-questions#what-abo...
Exactly. In fact you will have much more context to go on. The user will not only tell you what they're searching for but often also why or other pieces of context like what they want to use it for.

This sounds like a marketeers paradise
> Authenticators are fine, except if you lose a couple of smartphones too close together, or you need a team to access one account.

When you enable TOTP with a service, you can extract the TOTP secret and do all of the above with it -- backup to storage, copy to new devices, distribute to multiple people, etc.
> Sadly, if someone wants to find information there is enough online without needing to help them with social media.

I agree, but there is a fundamental difference between dealing with/managing publicly available information and contributing to it by vlogging/blogging/posting otherwise non-public details about your life and family. Sure, anyone could use the internet to find me/info about me with the right details and resolve—but I refuse to help or add to the pile by documenting my life for their perusal. Maybe I'm just turning into a curmudgeon, but I have ZERO desire to participate in this trend.
I put my refillable water containers in my cupholders…
Where is this awful place? It sounds like it's in the US; can you say which state at least?
I highly recommend trying out https://whisper.ggerganov.com/talk/. It lets you talk to GPT-2 using your voice, all running locally in your browser. Holy cow.
Second this recommendation. I loved Contagion, and watching it during the early days of our own very real recent pandemic put a whole new spin to an already great film.
> grown-up country

Sanctimonious without good argument.
Mars should produce a full-on traditional pantomime using its characters, with all the requisite British vulgarity, punnery, and violence. Ye olde heritage has a history of dressing in dragge!
Twitter posts fail to send, but send
"Intel and AMD is still faster" but you look at the chart, the dominating metric is "Crypto" which should get a guffaw out of most.

It's completely missing the point if they are testing an Apple for it's orange-ness.
Chimborazo
> Minimum wage is feudalism again though.

This is absurd, I'm sorry. It is logically inconsistent and means that if wages, payments, or exchange of goods exist in any form as compensation for work, then the system is feudalism. This would not only go against the common usage (words mean what we collectively agree they mean), but render the word meaningless. Please don't do this, you're just adding noise to an argument and not providing a useful comment.
https://www.dt.gob.cl/portal/1628/w3-article-109452.html
Tipping is almost mandatory by law in Chile (southamerica), it’s really hard to just say no
You have the option of not tipping mechanically; you might, for instance, find it acceptable to subject working class people to your whims about the quality of your service. I do not. Regardless, generally speaking, you are socially expected to tip at least 15% any time you dine out at a full service restaurant in America.
> I can read a straightforward social cue about the arrangements the business operates under

What are some examples of such "straightforward social cues"?

I would genuinely like to know, because the only social cues at coffee shops I have seen pre-Square terminal have been super context-dependent. For example, you tip if it looks like the baristas are kind of overwhelmed – e.g. at a super busy time like the morning rush; or if you waltzed in with a large group and ordered seven lattes or something. Because the baristas are gracefully operating under pressure and getting the coffee to you on time, you tip them.

After Square terminals, it seems like tips are expected even if there is literally no one else in the shop because the app says so. Which is not really a social cue.
List of VC Job Boards
I found a LinkedIn post with this list of job boards for each of many VCs. For those affected by recent layoffs or anyone who could benefit from this info, I thought I would share.
I agree with 2OEH8eoCRo0 . When I say I do not want a welfare state, I mean for businessmen too.
Just watch the videos from Neetcode on YouTube.
The security key here isn’t used for every login. So if you were to lose both it’s not like your account is completely disabled and all data lost. I think you can even use still use your Recovery Code.

The Security Key here primarily replaces the 2FA authentication method for adding new devices to your account.

From Apple’s own documentation:

When you use Security Keys for Apple ID, you need a trusted device or a security key to:

- Sign in with your Apple ID on a new device or on the web

- Reset your Apple ID password or unlock your Apple ID

- Add additional security keys or remove a security key

I believe if you lose both you can still add another as long as you have access to a device that’s still logged in.

The biggest hole in Apple’s security model, and one which has been documented to have been exploited many times, is people using phishing tactics to get the 6-digit 2FA code to gain iCloud access, adding a new device, then downloading the unencrypted backup from the victims primary device from iCloud. Security Keys and E2EE now make this impossible.
So you tip because you're expected to tip and that justifies tipping?
Usually with projects like this the immediate goal is to make the games playable and portable.
1. Point of sale system that explicitly prompts for a tip.

2. Large jar labelled "TIPS", partially filled with money.

3. Check to sign with a tip line.

Happy to help!
It works fine for me on GitHub, Microsoft, AWS and many others.
Years ago when I was doing database things, I rigged up a beagleboard to a lamp timer that cut the power every 30 minutes.
did you fully log out/in or just lock/unlock?

iirc locking with BW doesn’t do what one might expect wrt encryption state.
Android's storage access framework makes me want a strong drink, but it does solve exactly that problem.
That's a pretty disengenous argument.

I think you understand that the point of taking this course of action is to prevent/reduce these kinds of abuses from happening.

The goal isn't to enshrine abuse of authority in governmental agencies, but to prevent nongovernmental agencies from abusing that authority.
'Batch' is the term commonly used for the set of students who start a program at the same time. For instance, the CS MS batch of 2023, who are expected to finish their MS in CS in 2023 (So they all should have stared in 2021 assuming a two-year program).
The solutions to the horrors of aging are psychological and social, not scientific

Is the solution to losing short range vision in your 40s philosophizing about how literature is best left to the young, or getting reading glasses?

Anything else seems like a sure path to dystopia.

Are you opposed to researching cures for cancer or Alzheimer's? What about preventing heart disease and strokes? What about treatments to help older people preserve their mobility and short term memory? At what point does allowing people to retain their physical and mental health become a dystopia?
> I'm sure the recovery process is not as easy.

A lot of services offer one-time backup codes and connecting multiple 2FA devices. Making Yubikey a single point of failure is certainly a bad idea.
culture/demographic
I looked at the code, there is nothing, just vapor.

another project designed to attract attention and GH stars, with the minimum effort
OpenAI and Microsoft announce extended, multi-billion-dollar partnership
Changing the number of iterations should automatically log you out on all devices. At least it did for me.
> [...] it is a rational system.

I don't disagree on that, and I can see both how it developed and why some people prefer it.

But as a participant in interactions where tipping is expected, I very subjectively find it somewhat exhausting. I'd happily pay more, on average, and be rid of the (albeit small) decision each time.

> Austria was lovely, though, from one end to the other.

What gave me away? :) I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you did tip – contrary to what some guide books say about Germany and Austria, tips are very much expected, although at a different percentage than in the US. (Coffee house waitstaff in the latter being rude is to be expected regardless of your tip rate – supposedly it's part of the charm.)

Regarding my experience with non-tip cultures, these are mostly limited to a few countries in Asia (where waitstaff will at least anecdotally follow you onto the street, returning your tip/accidental overpayment).
What brought this change of heart? Chromium was going to get MathML support a decade ago (basically enable the relevant WebKit code) but then Google decided to drop it.
> but that mostly harms the people who have the least power in the situation

They have the ability to choose another job (250k new jobs are created each month!)
and they have the ability to negotiate/complain to their manager.

Just dont be surprised when the coffee shop starts to charge $10 for a drip. 50c of beans, 50c of hot water and $8 labor.
Personally, I don't assume they're implemented differently - I use neither because I don't trust closed source code, I don't trust big tech corporations like FB, and I definitely do not trust closed source code from big tech corporations like FB.

Mind you, I say this as someone who audits closed source code at a big tech corporation as a profession - someone who deliberately avoids using a single piece of closed source software developed by their employer on any personal devices despite it being ubiquitous and in widespread use.
For a while we had a Hebrew domain name (rendered in punycode) that redirected to our main company website with an English alphabet domain name. (We have offices in Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale.)

I looked at the logs after and noticed that the only hits to the Hebrew one were from me. I don't bother with it anymore. The fact that browsers inconsistently resolve them makes it an idea not worth considering for most countries/languages.
> several classic problems having to do with balls and bins

Can't tell if joke, or wrong audience, or authors out of their topical comfort zone. I think the typical way to refer to such problems would be "counting problems".
This is not the only thing wrong with Twitter tonight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34499228
Consumption taxes penalize the poor, who spend most of their money on goods, and benefit the wealthy, who spend most of their money on investment.

> Flat consumption taxes are regressive (shift the tax burden to the less well-off). The ratio of tax obligation to income tends to shrink as income increases because high-earners tend to consume proportionally less of their income. An individual unable to save will pay taxes on all his income, but an individual who saves or invests a portion of his income is taxed only on the remaining income.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax
> We will probably need to highlight that we pay a higher wage for baristas & cooks to account for the lack of tips, and give customers an option to donate to a charity if they still wish to part with additional money.

Yes, after the total confirmation (including tax if you can), where you'd normally be asked to tip, you should see if it's possible to display the no tip policy and higher wage explanation.

You could also tell customers that your business is donating to certain cause at this point. Just don't pass on the burden of deciding whether or not to donate to your customers. Another option is to dedicate certain profits from a specific product to a cause and note that on your menu.
Totally messed up system which is stacked against the worker, so name checks out.
I haven't, cool idea! I bet they do need to do something to minimize slosh dynamics.
Outside of state laws and HIPAA, what national laws in the United States limit information sharing from a private party?
Second-hand NES cartridges were notorious for that.
You've never heard of the Ronald McDonald House?
> The problem with rooting the phone is that it actually compromises features like verified boot and selinux namespacing

I'll grant that on most phones you can't use ex. magisk with verified boot (although on ex. the Pixels I think you could? just more work), but AFAIK there's no problem with having root and selinux enforcing at the same time? Obviously it gives you the ability to bypass those protections, but overruling the usual protections is kind of the point of giving an app root, and you shouldn't give that level of access to apps you don't trust completely (like running `sudo someprogram` on a desktop).