skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany did that too, multiple times and nobody used them. So they all died. The only really successful system was the EC-Card, which for decades was as popular as Credit Cards in other countries. But it will be dead in some months for reasons, probably because it's too old school?
I'm not in US, but here in my part of Europe it is common to leave a 10% tip when eating in the restaurant (though nobody will complain if you forget). Some restaurants will collect 10% service fee if table was sat by more than 5 persons.

I quite often order food through apps like wolt or glovo and always think twice when going through "tip" section. First- the app asks for a tip before I receive service (even though uber eats used to state that tip can be cancelled). But what makes me more curious is if courier knows about tip, or is the tip included in fee collected so higher the fee more couriers are interested to take the call..

I also have local pizza shop, whenever I order pizza there I tip delivery guy even though he does not, in any way, makes me to do so. I do it more eagerly if there is bad traffic outside or bad weather, basically being happy not having to drive/walk to collect the food..
I’m not buying this overall. Large groups typically order more alcoholic drinks while they are spending more time, which is hugely profitable for restaurants. Also, the more waiters argument doesn’t hold when there are more people/tables. I agree that bringing out more food at the same time is more effort, but this is not insurmountable.

It’s basically a grift to get more money from the suckling pigs of wedding parties, birthday parties, and corporate dinners. Basically, extract more money from the big spenders. Really hate this practice.
I use HN Digest and get an email with the top 20 (the number is configurable) stories from the previous day in my email each morning. I stay relatively up to date with less distraction.
The Google Could Console run only on Chrome last time I checked one year ago. It used to run on Firefox and Vivaldi, then it failed to load on Vivaldi and loaded to a blank page plus a menu on Firefox.
On the other hand, because of domain restrictions and other such nonsense Chinese websites will often use numbers that sound like words when spoken out loud rather than actual words for their domains.

Imagine being forced to only register 1337-code domains because some other country doesn't have Latin key caps on their keyboards.

Not understanding the local writing system or language does suck for foreigners, but most people in the world aren't foreigners in the country they live in.

Why should countries almost exclusively using the Arabic script be forced to switch between Latin and their normal way of writing because they want to edit the URL between writing comments? Why shouldn't people native in the 120+ languages using Devanagari be able to register domains?

Pragmatically speaking, the lack of proper language support in many non-Latin websites had led to a significant amount of them using images for labels rather than text, making Google/Bing/Baidu Translate worthless for navigating them. If you know what 你好.com is supposed to provide or sell to you, you can find it in a search engine and manually picture-check the domain if you want to be sure; the burden of being available to people outside your target demographic shouldn't fall on you just because a tiny slither of your user base doesn't understand your writing system, but you can opt into making it easier for them to find your website regardless.
Unfortunately Ivory will have a mandatory subscription so not something I'm personally interested in, but the level of interest in Mastodon is encouraging. Right now around 1/3 of the people I follow on Twitter moved over. I wish it was all of them, as now I'm stuck in two platforms.
The Long Island Railroad eliminated smoking cars something like twenty-five years ago because they cost so much more to clean.
GPT is all you need for the back end
Ha, I am stunned to see there are so many of these!

I’m sure they all work very well, in my own case I’ve been using Deckset for a number of years now and have always been impressed with the polish and usability:

https://www.deckset.com/
Obviously a sensationalised title, but it's a neat illustration of how you'd apply the language models of the future to real tasks.
Because it’s seen as pure overhead, so is expected to take perhaps a few minutes for a large change (that’s my experience at least). The fact that it isn’t is of course not lost on anyone - but everyone accepts the status quo as preferable. That is: people don’t want to spend a lot of time doing code review because they don’t like it. So they rather spend time working on a worse code base.
The context is not just "why the change was made". That point is usually clear from ticket in the first place. The context is "do other places in code use the same tactic" question. It is also the "I tried these four things and three of them failed because of X" or "I had to choose between these two solutions and picked this one".
I am #3 in a similarly sized country, I was #1 for a few weeks about a year ago. It should be noted that this is "only" streetcomplete. Many mappers don't use it at all - instead mapping in JOSM or iD and greatly outperforming StreetComplete folk.
According to HDYC [1], the author of TFA is currently ranked at 37 in New Zealand. I don't know if HDYC can show historic data.

All that said, this is not a competition. It's just fun to enhance the maps and see the enhancements in real life - better driving directions, more naturally shaped roads, sidewalks being replaced with stairs where needed, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings showing up where they should.

The gamification is only a cherry on top. Now I have to go out, score a few hundred edits and maybe grab #2.

[1] https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Terence%20Eden
> go all-in on that goal and forget why these paradigms matter

Certainly. Rampant iconoclasm and revisionism alone bring chaos.

> No one will be able to get very far on their own, not even with a
tribe of acolytes. Does that make sense?

Absolutely, old paradigms still matter, showing where we've been, how
we got here. To totally smash and forget them is to undermine our own
foundations. I don't think any successful new paradigm can avoid
subsuming the old ones.

> a huge delay on its utility.

Here's where I imagined the conversation going.

However much I dislike Peter Thiel's "control machinations" there's
one thing I strongly agree with him on, and it's in that famous
discussion with David Graeber; "Where Did the Future Go?" Somewhere,
perhaps around the turn of the century, we got really stuck;

More. Faster. Bigger. Repeat.

We stopped paying attention to the immense social utility
possibilities that were (and still are) latent in computer science. I
think we've been riding on Moore's law the way we rode fossil
fuels. LLM's are the latest round. But I don't think scale is the
answer to very much.

Maybe it's a bit grand to call it a "paradigm", but I'm claiming the
kind of radical thinking that could shake us out of it is a bit thin
on the ground these days.
On my list: nfx vc, andrew chen, lenny's newsletter, forentrepreneur (david skok saas metrics 2.0).
> And especially once AIs are drawing from the writing of other AIs, which themselves are quoting AI (dark, I know) it might become quite difficult to detect,

No, it will be easier to detect, because the new AIs will learn to mimic earlier generations of their AI - and their faults - rather than mimicking human writing. Because that will score higher on a loss function.

I'm going to assume Dead Internet theory - aka most text online is spambots. It's not strictly true, as humans are obstinately continuing to use the Internet and pouring content into them. But the Internet puts those humans on a level playing field with bots. And AI is basically perfect spambot material - it looks superficially different, meaning you can't remove it with simple patterns. So the training set, which is just scraped off the Internet, will be primarily composed of AI-generated material by less-sophisticated systems. Human-written content will be in the minority of the training set, meaning that no matter how good the optimizer statistics or model architecture is, the system will be spending most of its time remembering how to sound like a bad AI.
Since there’s a lot of wrong info in the responses… snus is the word for snuff in Sweden and traditionally had an extra sanitization step (boiling IIRC), which was different enough that it became it’s own term, because quality was better. Snus is almost universally used under the lip, but I think used to be used nasally too.

Snuff is just the English name, and can refer to nasal snuff, dip, pouches. Just means it’s ground up tobacco and isn’t anymore specific than that. Regionally it means whatever way of using it is most common.

Basically it’s confusing in the same way if you ask and American or European about football. Technically the word is not specific but it has very strong regional definitions
Which of these are AI free? Something written:

1. Before 1970

2. By someone who has consumed AI-generate content

3. With a ~2000-era spellchecker

4. By someone using ~2020-era neural speech-to-text software

5. With a ~2020-era spellchecker

6. By someone with an AI in the traditional editor role (reads it, gives detailed feedback)

7. By a human and an AI working together where the AI generates everything initially but the human fixes things and nothing goes out without human endorsement.

I'd probably draw the line at 7, but you could also argue for 6 or even 5.

The history of the term "handmade" and discussions about what to allow on Etsy come to mind: https://whileshenaps.com/2013/10/etsy-redefines-handmade-aut...
Don't fret, the world of legal cannabis is helping to keep the ashtray alive. As we millennial stoners turn into middle aged adults we're learning to do things like ash into ashtrays instead of old cups and have nice decor in our homes
On Bancroft's site, he has a couple of interesting articles about angry men who take issue with his book.

> The most common rant goes something like this: “The way Lundy describes abuse in Why Does He Do That?, any man can be labeled an abuser. He takes normal reactions to frustration and anger and throws them in with violence and threats, as if they’re all the same. If men say anything other than ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to women, he paints them as evil. Because of ideas like Lundy’s, women in droves are labeling their partners ‘abusers’ and dumping the relationship, instead of responsibly working out issues and honoring the vows they made. And because of this children are growing up in broken homes.” (Etc., etc.)

> This tirade is super revealing, primarily for one reason: the dozens of examples of male behavior that I give in Why Does He Do That? are all severe. They illustrate men being over-the-top complete assholes. There is nothing subtle about the stories I use. I’m not discussing little nuances that, say, someone might take the wrong way; that would be a different book altogether. Mine was about severe control, degradation, destroying the woman’s relationships, making her feel like everything is her fault, and on and on and on.

> So what does it mean when a man reads those stories and considers them to be normal behaviors, ones that I’m unfairly labeling abusive? It means he considers those behaviors normal. It means he believes a woman has the responsibility to stick around for more of that kind of treatment, that she owes it to him. And it means he thinks he has the right to behave that way.

> In other words, abusiveness is driven almost entirely by a man’s belief that controlling and punishing a woman is justifiable, and that his behavior is normal and can be excused.

> And he proves it by his reactions to the stories in my books. I’m not calling him abusive because he disagrees with me; I’m doing so because of the values he reveals when he complains that my (very serious) examples are too mild to be considered abuse. [0]

0 - https://lundybancroft.com/mens-angry-messages-to-me/

1 - https://lundybancroft.com/mens-angry-messages-to-me-part-2/
>Is there any other anti-Chrome bastion than iOS’ Safari?

What an insane take, I don't believe you are serious, there's no way you're not a troll.

Safari is not an anti-Chrome bastion, Apple does not care and does not want Safari to be a better browser than Chrome. They just care about controling from where you install the apps on your phone.
This is not exactly what you are looking for but you should browse Papers with Code:

https://paperswithcode.com/
> How did they possibly win over investors?

Low interest rates have shifted massive amounts of capital to vc. We’re talking trillions possibly, including sovereign funds and ultrabillionaire family offices.

Are those wealth and investment managers nuts? Maybe, but I’ve concluded the most likely explanation is that they know exactly how to play the vc game: place a number of wild bets and hope that one in a hundred pays off. They sometimes seem to barely do due diligence, perhaps for efficiency and speed in allocation, and because the vc portion of their otherwise well-diversified portfolio is tiny. You and I get to partake in the schadenfreude if these stupid ventures collapse but they’re wiping their tears with the returns they make on other asset classes - stocks back then, fixed income now, etc.

If interest rates go back to the “old normal” for a sustained period of time then maybe this ends, but maybe the new normal is here to stay. We’ve been told there’d be a big cleanse of stupid or otherwise unprofitable ideas (can we really cram more SaaS solutions into every single niche under the sun?) but I’m seeing very little of the sort, other than layoffs and downsizings which are not thus far commensurate with the fireworks we were promised.
This guy gets it. Thank you for explaining better than I did.

If someone wants to reveal their location, why wouldn't they include latitude as well? Location is a separate piece of information.
If the idea is to give the reader an idea of where the sun was in the sky when the writer crafted the timestamp, isn't latitude also important?
I recently noticed this on Fiverr.com. I had used it in the past and wasn't ever hit up for a tip. Paid for some work to create some icons just the other day, and the payment flow hits you up for a tip at the end. With wording like "It's customary". And a minimum tip of $5, regardless of the order total, though you can opt out altogether.
I'm well aware of inflation, but it says a lot that penioners vote tory and literally no one else seems to anymore. As I said, I support universal pensions, but why not do anything serious to help people raising children? I'm seriously wondering what the point of staying in London is. I still love the city, but the country has a death wish - not born here, almost a citizen, have been able to vote since we arrived due to commonwealth. After more than a decade of effective austerity as well, it's hard to see how anything can actually get better without a political will and consensus to invest that just doesn't seem to exist. It really does feel like the place is falling apart when you interact with govt services these days.
Oh he worked there, uniform and all.
Preaching to the choir here, but I've been doing security for a long time and the only consistent way to make it work reliably is to make it invisible to the users it should apply to. It should add zero friction to what they would be doing anyway and ideally be the easier option. It's not always possible but having that as an end goal makes processes much more successful.
I find that a lot of people in the UK for example, completely misunderstand why communist countries have failed.

Yes you could say that's because of communism, but in practical terms these countries had way more problems than just being communist in the first place.
SEPA, Google/Apple Pay, Klarna, a Debit Card from Visa/Master Card, the multiple Paypal-Clones which died one after another...in Germany you have many options. Just depends on the Shop which are actually offered and are working.
You know that to certify something as kosher, a rabbi has to be paid to stand there all day next to the kishke stuffing machine or whatever. Makes the consumable a lot more expensive. On the other hand, I see job opportunities.

[edit]
Actually, just to expand on this a bit, this is effectively an argument for establishing a mark of authenticity that all literate civilizations have always striven to place on their intellectual output. There has never been a single rule uniting these efforts, but civilizations which placed more emphasis on safeguarding and defending the precision of the written word have tended to be rewarded with greater longevity. There's no reason that trend shouldn't accelerate when faced with the threat of inundation by meaningless language models. Just like gold coinage, we're looking at a period of debasement and inflation.

You could actually argue that language models themselves are an expression of anti-semitism, in the sense that they're an attempt to undermine the sacredness of the written word, to destroy or wash out the way that the meaning of words ennobles humanity, and to eradicate the special relationship that the law of language and the language of law create between God and Man. I only say it seems anti-semitic because that particular concept, as a high/sacred value, seems unique to Judaism (from my perspective, I can't think of another culture that considers it an inviolable precept) and so this attempted abolishment of the human hand in the written word seems particularly targeted at those who consider the word sacred; maybe this is yet to be threshed out. Maybe Bari Weiss will write about it once some nazis have ChatGPT come up with a totally bunk but plausible corruption of the Talmud. But love of the written word is something that should rightly be a general human value, because we'll live or die with it, Jews and everyone else, whether we want to or not. All civilizations fall when their coin is debased, and our coin today is information.

[edit2] also, I'm drunk, and I love y'all. I hope this stimulates debate, not hate.
A bit of a hack, but I used one of those plastic cereal containers. Hose feeds into the lid, dust and particles goes into the water—whatever is leftover exists through an additional vent I made on the opposite side of the lid. Somewhat similar to a "bong" I suppose.

To your point, the laser doesn't produce particles that are the same size a brill bit would (larger pieces sit pretty on the bed until they are lifted away) but I reckon it might still help!

Just spitballing, but would a setup that swaps the dryer-vent-fan for suction on par with a Shop Vac be able to move those larger chunks? (add water to the Shop Vac's belly before using it as extra filtering)
It was better. About ⅔ survived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster:

“The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.”

That’s still worse than modern airplanes, though. https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/06/15/how-to-survive-a-...:

“According to a study by the European Transport Safety Council, plane crashes technically have a 90% survivability rate”
I really like your pricing model (i.e. use forever + 1 year of support).
I haven't personally found this to be the case at all but pair programming doesn't necessarily mean always working with someone _at all times_. Since I'm a big pairing advocate and I think it's important to pair off every day, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with deciding with your pair that a particular problem needs some alone time.
>What about the grammar checker? Or the spot removal tool in photoshop or gimp? Or the AI voice that reads back to me my own article so that I can find prose issues?

We could get this whole discussion back to some semblance of sanity if we stopped calling any form of remotely complicated automation "AI". The term might as well be meaningless now.

Nothing about any of all these "AIs" is intelligent in the sense of the layman's understanding of artificial intelligence, let alone intelligence of biological and philosophical schools of thought.
It always was illegal, but hard for the IRS to prove so most got away with tax evasion. These days most people pay with a credit card which means there is an electronic record that the IRS can demand of the employer. With cash tips the waitress was collecting the cash themself and the manager didn't have a good way to get the correct number. If you report zero tips in the cash system someone will notice, but if you report everyone only gave you half what they really did there is no way to know.
I would only tip an auto mechanic if it were a mom and pop shop and I asked them to do something not the norm to my vehicle.
And Belgian have their own system too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancontact_Payconiq_Company

Which means that everyone uses PayPal since it's the solution that you know is going to be accepted everywhere instead of having to juggle between 10 different services.
I worked for a big MNC a few years back with big offices in Europe.

We’d meet for senior leader meetings and it was pretty stark. None of the US people smoked and 80% of the Europeans did (small sample).

When a European VP had her birthday we joked and asked her if her colleagues bought her a carton of smokes.
>The moment iOS is forced to give browser freedom, chrome has won.

...because Chrome is a much better browser? That's what you're trying to say?
I feel like we are nearing peak "uncurated" content, both for humans and machines. Humans are still grappling with our novel abundance problems.

As we move forward, suspect we will see an increase in curation services and AI models will do more with less. You can bootstrap a productive adult human on an almost infintismal slice of the training sets we are using for the current gen of AI, can't imagine future approaches are going to need such an unbounded input to get better results - but might be wrong!

If content is curated for its quality, whether or not it's AI generated (or assisted) doesn't matter.
My algorithm for generating ideas:

https://taylor.town/an-algorithm-for-generating-ideas
Good News Central North Americans !!

Australia has long been the major supplier of raw lithium concentrate [1] - sending it on to either China or Malaysia [2].

Soon we'll be shipping concentrate to Texas [3] [4] [5] so that the filthy dirty toxic work of heavy rare earths separation can take place as close to the greedy end consumers as possible.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221110-how-australia-be...

[2] https://lynasrareearths.com/

[3] https://www.mining-technology.com/news/lynas-heavy-rare-eart...

[4] https://thetexan.news/rare-earths-processing-plant-to-open-o...

[5] https://www.miningmagazine.com/supply-chain-management/news/...
Docker on my M1 seems fine? Haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Running a basic little 5-6 container django/celery/nextjs setup and no noticeable performance issues.
Gecko inspired sticky tape which is so strong (and yet non-sticky) that 4 of them lying on a curved surface can pull a car.

Veritasium video https://youtu.be/vS0TuIPoeBs?t=640
Hey that's how I work too!
Japan is an excellent counter-point for your argument. In practice, Japanese women have far less freedom than other countries -- if they don't quit their job when they have babies, they are fired.

So why does Japan have such a low birth rate if women have less freedom than other western countries?
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