skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of their employees are of course not devs, and some of the non-dev roles have greater salaries, while some are baristas.

I looked up their most recent 10k filing: https://s23.q4cdn.com/574569502/files/doc_financials/2023/q4...

From: https://investor.salesforce.com/financials/default.aspx

For the 3 months ending in January 31 2023 page 6 has $5.927 billion in operating expenses. Subtract out the $0.828 billion in restructuring costs for $5.099 billion in above the line expenses. For about 80,000 employees this means about $255,000 in expenses per employee.

I've never read a 10k before so I hope I'm doing it right.

Assuming all of those expenses go away with the employee (which will obviously not be the case), laying off 8,000 employees would save an average of about $2 billion per year.

This is the big takeaway from the 10k filing, and I wonder if it changed in the last two months: "Announces Share Repurchase Program increased to $20 billion".
It's usually both amusing and disappointing to visit some of the gig-worker communities (especially the doordash ones) where they complain about people not tipping enough to get their orders picked up and delivered. Those aren't tips anymore, they're bribes.
I was in Paris recently and all the restaurants that were "tourist-enabled" (e.g, had an English menu) didn't seem at all worried about the tablet credit card machine having a tip option.
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I saw the jujutsu kaisen movie at an AMC and the picture quality was terrible, 1/3 of the screen was tinted blue. Never had an issue at an Alamo Drafthouse though.
I have seen this process described elsewhere as 'reverse system design', and it is my preferred approach to evaluating senior candidates as well.
I've tried to do that several times, it always worked. I don't know why/how but it works.
In a perfect country. Currently even the govt services that are online are terrible, and not everyone has internet access. I don't know the history behind mail, but I suspect it's become kind of a personal right in the US. If/when all these problems that rely on mail get solved, mail trucks will be the last to go, not the first like someone a few comments up was hoping.
> For now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft.

Even more confusing since most spacefaring nations span across multiple time zones. Getting a lunar time zone that everyone can theoretically follow seems like a practical idea. It'll be interesting to see how this works on Mars, which would need to have its own planetary time zones (if there aren't already).
sure these framework may do just in time transpilation and compression, that doesn't mean you don't have a build step.

copying the code to the server becomes the build step.

except now you have no chance to lint the code before shipping it

"but I can lint it on my machine"

good, then you have a build system, and you may as well just get the optimized stuff on the server, since server startup time depends on your code size at some point or another, and you pay for that.
The DOL has investigated this numerous times, and while you're correct in what the law generally states, the majority of employers screw their "tipped" employees over time and again.

Having worked in both fast-food and fine-dining restaurants, tips are a huge bone of contention. Tax fraud is common, mgmt skimming is common, and now these POS systems charge a percentage of the tip for "expediting" the process.

Screw that.
I've generally moved from Gitlab to Gitea + Drone.

Gitlab has switched into the "squeeze money from customers phase". It is time to leave.
Yes, I can also Google translate. That wasn’t the question. The question was: “What does that mean? And why is it particularly nefarious/concerning?”

If I said “Neighborhood watch at /r/MyNeighborNameWatchDiscussion on reddit”, is that concerning too?
Just because you work somewhere doesn’t make you an expert at what they do. My Home Depot cashier is incapable of installing the carpet I bought from them. There are levels. Everyone wants to pretend they have FB or Google scale when they are building only to find out they have Ruby on Rails scale after year 4. They don’t need a Stanford grad. They need a feature developer or someone who can break apart the monolith so they can scale beyond a single server or group of servers.
Sounds like it got inserted into a draft. She did read the source material, just after that draft.
If the sharp rise since 2012 in female teenage depression in USA is caused by social media. Why isn't the same sharp rise seen in Europe, where female teenagers also use social media?
Program or be programmed. Write code to combat the adversity of programs which assault your everyday life. And 'AI' is just if...else statements, nothing more. Fight fire with fire.
I was in a restaurant and somebody asked me: how much do you want to tip? I just stood there in total silence trying to process the horror. You can come to the Netherlands and never learn the language but there are lines a man cannot cross.

Lesson 1 of globalization: only import the good parts.
What don't you understand? Workers want more bargaining power and the only leverage they have is the ability to stop the money hose for Howard Schultz. If they stop his profits for long enough, he will have to accede to their demands in order to make money again.
Interesting option thanks for mentioning it.
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> It's like you don't believe it's possible with the countless man years of resources these companies have to have software both interoperate and degrade gracefully when one client doesn't support all protocol features. I don't buy it, I believe we can.

Every instance of that is a huge guesswork mess that I wouldn't wish upon average people to navigate though. RCS has tons of "maybe implement" features, and don't even get me started on the mess that's XMPP. If you ever tried to use OMEMO from two different clients at once, you know what I'm talking about.
The charts did not seem to get updated based on backfilling of how many people were infected. Or does that just not reflect on how I read the charts?

I still get people that are 100% convinced young people were somehow not getting it during the initial waves. Which frankly is non-sensical. Knowing that kids can get it, there is no explanation I have seen that could somehow magically have kept it out of every school that hadn't closed yet in the first year.

And testing is still... interesting. With many I know that test positive only doing so weeks after any symptoms, such that I was even told that 'loss of smell' is no longer a defining symptom? Schools have flat given up on either testing or requiring negative before the kids are allowed back. Ours at least encourage and support masking during the return period.

I don't think it is trust in the institutions, necessarily. Though, that certainly isn't helping. I think it is lack of certainty period. In large because we just don't have anyone with a 100% handle on the situation.
> How does this work, well, with absolutely anything else? If I want my front-end in React? Vue? etc.

It doesn't. Fresh uses Preact and that's it.
Which is why, in 2023, I wrote:

"So while OOP has delivered a lot it actually has failed to deliver on one of its core promises."

And of course Lord Kelvin, in 1985, didn't say "Flying machines have failed" he said "Flying machines are impossible". And you, in 2023:

> If it hasn’t been implemented after 4-5 decades then maybe the idea just isn’t workable.

Maybe. But also maybe not. First of all, it's not exactly like OO hasn't achieved anything in 4-5 decades. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Just look around you! Or maybe let's see what Fred Brooks of "No Silver Bullet" fame had to say:

"A burst of papers came and said “Oh yes, there is a silver bullet, and here it is, this is mine!” When ‘96 came and I was writing the new edition of The Mythical Man-Month and did a chapter on that, there was not yet a 10 fold improvement in productivity in software engineering. I would question whether there has been any single technique that has done so since. If so, I would guess it is object oriented programming, as a matter of fact."

https://www.infoq.com/articles/No-Silver-Bullet-Summary/

So for Fred Brooks, the one thing closest to an actual Silver Bullet according to his definition in software engineering was, drumroll, object oriented programming.

Pretty impressive for an "unworkable" idea.

Secondly, it has managed to achieve all of that while not even being fully developed yet! And I am not the only one saying that.

Alan’s famous quip “I made up the term ‘object-oriented’, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind” was followed immediately with the far less quoted “The important thing here is I have many of the same feelings about Smalltalk”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=633s

That was 1997, and arguably we haven't really made progress in that area since then, and even regressed. Sad.
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Still sounds like a system design interview to me, just a bit less structured.
What's so special about direct personal service? Why does the person cleaning the rest rooms or the person cooking you food deserve less than the person who's transporting plates?
Snark doesn’t do anything but virtue signal.
I interpreted it as the pain being caused by experiencing one's own perceptions and the importance is put on conceptualizing life (the experiencing) and dropping the self :)
That sounds like Bergson more than Buddhism.
> "You want to be a surgeon but don't have the experience?"

Well, what do surgeons have to do beforehand? Study. This is no different. Most of tech doesn't require fine coordination motor skills that need to be trained in practice, so this comparison is way off.

Also, like the excerpt you quoted says, "you won't be an expert" after reading the guide. A surgeon is an expert by any definition.
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So the family cabin has landline connectivity too then, or cellular coverage.
There's nothing wrong with tipping nothing. It isn't personal. It's just business. If they want more money, raise prices.
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In America:

Cars logging their location history and police getting that data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/04/01/these...

Geofenced dragnets: https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/05/geofence-warrants-and-t...
Wouldn't the world be a better place with interoperable messaging standards and needing only a single messaging app for global communication?

Yes.

Is this happening organically via market forces?

No. That's why.

If there were a common standard that was widely supported and cross-app compatible, these regulations wouldn't have happened. Email doesn't cut it for real time messaging. Governments will pursue no brainer policy like this if the private sector doesn't reach the conclusion on their own.
Mind controlling a computer, is definitely required to make a metaverse a complete experience. But surgically infusing something into brain, I don't think this is the correct way.
It's hard to get around at first but the locals will help you greatly in my experience.
My uncle used to live on an old ranch road in west Texas. It didn't really go anywhere just connected to larger roads together, probably 20 miles long and kind of wound through a couple of minor valleys. Eventually all the road frontage on that road slowly got sliced up in to parcels for mini-ranches of 30-90 acres, the county sort of numbering them as they went along. Eventually the numbering system on that road got so messed up, someone called for an ambulance and died because the ambulance couldn't find the house.

A month later the county formally renumbered the whole road and each mailbox has a bright new blue 6x12" "house number" reflective sign. This meant they had to go through the property records and redraw all the plats with the new labels.

I don't have any idea how a city or country can do any kind of property taxation without formal addresses. Or a census. Or transfer of Real Property. There must not exist any kind of title insurance because without property and tax records you can't keep track of who owns what. I'm curious if the author consulted the tax office because street names are critical to the relation of ownership of property to physical location. Occasionally property records will reference "iron spike at corner of property" but those aren't definitive and move/get lost. Streets rarely change location or get lost.
Who said anything about a complete lack of regulations?
Netherlands: each street has a unique postal code and number. So your unique address would be something like `2800AA 2`. Or `8440HK 14a`.
You could spin up a VM that has a browser in it and use that to create the account and destroy the VM afterwards. You could use selenium with headless chrome.

If you have a smart phone running any browser there, you could use that.

There are some auth checks to make sure that a single person isn't signing up multiple accounts to get the free credits and if that sort of thing is a deterrent to you using it you may find it difficult to use.
Come on now. That's like screaming "white lives matter too!" at a black lives matter protest.

No one is arguing that depression is great for older people or for men, just because they are taking a focused look on what might cause a sharp rise in the rate of depression of young females.
I am not being "facetious". For me it is simply another custom in US, you have to pay for all sorts of stuff with hidden fees.
https://losaltoshillsca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3027/fil...

See page 201 of the agenda packet. By the town's own accounting, they are imposing $133,624 in entitlement, permitting, and impact fees per typical housing start. And it's in their interest to under-report in this document.

My own experience suggests that these numbers are obviously low. I've already spent more than double what they claim for entitlement just for a remodel. And they didn't even include plan-check fees (another $8k so far, if memory serves).
I selfhost gitlab for years now. My preffered road.
I keep repeating to myself that developing brains learn physics one ouchy at a time.

Last month the lesson was momentum, this month it is gravity.
Maybe it could be used as a tool for people to better understand and better express their own arguments in debates?

“What I’m trying to say is…”
It's not hard to assign a number to a house, but you need to know a name for the street, and the person who can assign the name has to fill out the paperwork, but then the central government will ask what the @#$@# they are doing adding a street without doing X Y and Z, and so on.

What's interesting with Costa Rica is they apparently never formalize; in Mexico a similar thing would occur but at some point actual street names would get added.

Then again mail delivery in Mexico at the time was quite sporadic, hardly done at all (companies like the electric company would hand-deliver bills from their own couriers).
I'd rather they charge a price for their foods that allows them to pay the folks involved decently. If I'm not willing to pay that amount, no problem, I can just turn around and leave instead of sitting down.
In open societies outside of a few islands there was never any real possibility of containing the virus after it left Wuhan. And what does "take things seriously" even mean? The notion that regular people should restrict their lifestyles and submit to mandates indefinitely over a virus with a >99% survival rate was always stupid.
> Why would we be talking about this if we didn't care about the truth of it?

Because it is fun! Don't you miss having friendly back-and-forths on whether it was Mark Wahlberg vs. Matt Damon who starred in some movie from years ago? Mobile phones can ruin that, if you let them- so the trick is to have the discussion to exhaustion, place bets, and then look up IMDb on your phone.
The Romans had indoor toilets. They also existed in medieval times but only the very rich had them. most castles had a toilet or two. of course it was probably reserved for the lord and other high ranking individuals.
Right. Sure.
Study, train, shadow, and intern for 11-13 years.
I can always switch back to the old phone, if I can figure out how to ensure I can always answer calls and read notifications. I’d miss the upgraded camera but maybe it’s worth it.
I think No. 1, London might be close? IIRC it's Clarence House/What was or is King Charles' residence.
> Increased relocation assistance for people who need to move for a job

Won't happen without workers having bargaining power.

> Improved safety regulations, which is a common reason employees decide to unionize in the first place

Won't happen without workers having bargaining power.

> Increased public sector employment to provide more alternatives to those in exploitative private sector jobs

Won't happen without workers having political power.

Legally protected worker rights are how you get all of these solutions. Please explain how we get there without it.
How does this work for say looking up map directions in a maps app?
But also, you generally want to iterate faster than "write a new spec and wait 2 years for implementations to support half of it". The alternative to which is just implementing it and hoping the other party can somehow make sense of it. Emoji reactions being supported by only a few activitypub implementations is an example of it.

This is incidentally the reason moxie cited for not making Signal federated.
To add on to what others are saying, I have always hated the argument that some business owners counter with by saying something along the lines of, "Without tips, we would have to raise the prices of our service."

Especially recently, I have noticed that many (more like all) businesses have raised their prices anyway, and I do not believe it's solely due to inflation and supply side issues. Not one bit; absolute unfettered greed.

I think many business owners do not realize the reality of owning a business -- not all of them can and should survive. If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, then have fun with your Chapter 7 or 11 Bankruptcy.
I'm not sure why this is (currently) getting downvoted. This is legally correct, at the federal level [0] and at every state level that I'm aware of.

Also, wage theft is a huge issue in the US (and part of the problem is tipped employees not receiving the difference between what they actually made and the minimum wage) and is poorly enforced - https://wageadvocates.com/wage-theft-huge-problem-infographi...

0 - https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

Here's a law in PA: https://www.dli.pa.gov/Individuals/Labor-Management-Relation....
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How strange. I wonder if this is a SF thing? Or a recent development (10 years ago counts as "recent" to me)?

In my part of the country, anyway, that sort of behavior has always been considered extremely rude (or at least over my entire lifetime). I wouldn't even consider doing it, and the few times it happened to me, it was exceedingly irritating.
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I wonder if it would have worked at a hotel that does not share the name of a place.
> I think that makes people a lot more relaxed - probably "relaxed" is the best way to describe my work colleagues in CR.

It's one of many reasons Costa Ricans tend to appear very "relaxed". The national motto is "Pura Vida", which translates to Pure Life. It can be used to say hello, goodbye, yes, no, maybe, anything really :).

My wife and I use it whenever things don't happen as planned to us in CR. Like when the electrician says he'll be here 9 AM Monday, that translates to "sometime next week".
well, a bird is a machine, as are we. a modern glider is a machine (and Lilienthal had flown prior to the quote).

you need to specify what you think or don't think is a machine. as kelvin should have done.
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Is there an AI named "iceman" and another named "maverick"? Does the maverick one think he's dangerous?
Voting is a political hot topic in the US. Voting by mail is either 100% safe or totally broken depending on who you ask. Unlike many countries, there's nothing acting as a required voter ID here, and that's always on the platform in important races. You can register to vote with just a name and say you have no home address or SSN, of course it's illegal to lie about those things. I think people only agree that electronic voting is untrustworthy.

I guess my point is, it's very hard to change how voting works here.
Mostly, it's a nuance that has legal and tax implications, but the original reason is that a tip is an optional (not required) direct gift from the person receiving service to the person doing service. It's a thank-you gift.

This is heavily diluted when you expect tips for anything else, and it makes it very obvious it's just a hidden fee that may or may not even be going to the workers. Wage theft is the largest type of theft in the US, and a non-insignificant amount comes from tip pooling schemes where owners and managers take a dip.

I tip my barber because they took extra time and attention to ensure I had the perfect hair cut and beard shaping to look good in my workplace or on a date, or whatever. I am not generically tipping for having done a business transaction, the person who took my appointment over the phone is not the person who cut my hair. I am giving a thank you gift to the barber because they took time and attention for /me/ /personally/.

FWIW, I appreciated restaurants that had a menu option to buy a round of beers for the kitchen. I would do that every time it was presented to me, above and beyond a tip. To me, when I tip someone who rendered me a personal service (especially a service where I have a conversation with them), it's me saying "I'd buy you a beer and say thank you, but I can't do that right now and you have other customers, so here's some cash as a thank you.".

Diluting that meaning eliminates the reason I'm willing to tip in the first place.
It’s interesting that the media is just picking up on this now. The first major trial results that showed benefits of thrombectomy was the DAWN trial and if I recall the data was first published in 2016-2017. The hospital I work at adjusted stroke treatment practices years ago to reflect this.
To expand on this

Groundwater "age" is typically considered in terms of residence time, that is the period of time between entering the subsurface and exiting at some discharge location. These analyses are often based upon the hydrogeochemistry and the decay rate of known isotopes, hence the mass spectrometer.

Shallow, unconfined aquifers often contain "young" groundwater, on the order of decades or centuries. For example snow melts on a mountain, downhill into a flatter coarse grained area where it enters the groundwater system. The groundwater then moves downdip along the bedrock contour through and into the deeper alluvial basin, eventually naturally discharging into a river or is pumped out at a well.

It would be interesting to read their paper to understand how they (i.e. what isotope) can date back to 1.6 billion years.

https://books.gw-project.org/groundwater-in-our-water-cycle/...