skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they launched as a PayPal alternative, but now they are copying all the negative features. Anyway, we've stopped using Square long ago given their obscene policies. One such policy is charging $70 per month for "team access"! That's absolutely crazy to put a basic feature under a greedy paywall! So, basically, they force people to share logins! Add the rate hikes, now this! Sorry, but there are alternatives such as SumUp, Stripe Terminal, Clover, QuickBooks, etc. In fact, if you want the lowest swipe rates, go with QuickBooks!
That depends on your values. I definitely know some people who have and would make a sacrifice like "Adopt 3 people and potentially change their life outcome for the positive, at my own personal expense"
> The guide also rejects the disabled in favor of people living with disabilities, for the same reason that enslaved person has generally replaced slave : to affirm, by the tenets of what’s called “people-first language,” that “everyone is first and foremost a person, not their disability or other identity.”

The reason people first language fails is because there's some subjects of this language that find the original wording insulting and there's some subjects of this language that find the new words insulting.

I have back issues. Major ones that pinch my sciatic nerve due to a fractured column that healed improperly. They've gotten to the point a few times in my life where I could not walk much less feel (at all) my leg for prolonged periods of time. If someone called me a "person experiencing a disability" it sounds like you're trying to remove the hurdle that the disability puts in my life. I already had to grapple with the idea that I am not bound to that disability. I have found ways to climb small mountains, to hike, pack, move/lift heavy things, sit, and work out all with abundances of caution and very proper form.

That's to say, codifying this language just does what the first correction set out to correct: it institutionalized language some people don't like. In a world with a big variety of perspectives and experiences, the best resolution to these problems isn't some authoritarian document telling people how to talk. It's gracefully correcting people on the way that you'd like to be spoken about and people respecting that. Nobody needs to walk on eggshells around how I'd like to be referred, they just need to meet me where I am when I make a choice.
1) If it is prohibitively difficult (with what that means entirely defined by Apple) for them to fully support all features of iMessage to non-Apple users, and the law requires that other devices have full parity (I don't know if it does; the article is pretty short and detail-light), then Apple may have to remove features from iMessage even on Apple devices.

2) Apple may choose not to try to implement new features that they otherwise would have, for several possible reasons: similar to #1, they don't think they can feasibly implement them cross-platform; due to the extra effort of supporting multiple platforms, they no longer have the dev resources to devote to it; they think it will no longer be as profitable; etc
> "Without tips, we would have to raise the prices of our service."

Which is an exceedingly stupid argument, because the effect is exactly the same as if they raised their prices.
I was mainly wondering why noone else claimed the tavern or demolished it to make room for a new building considering that the city was probably growing between 2700 BC and 2075 BC. Looking at the photo it seems the tavern was found in the top soil layer with nothing above it. But perhaps the photo looks like that because there have been several excavations since 1887. Or maybe the photo just shows some random building...
I mean, the cost of living in Canada is high despite the presence of a social safety net. Not saying that tipping is justified, but wage stagnation and employment precarity isn't a phenomenon unique to the US.
The NLRB takes much more action against unions than for them.
If it's a reasonable letter, I doubt the way it's addressed makes any difference.

Members of Parliament have a duty to listen and respond to their constituents, which in Sunak's case is the people of Richmond, North Yorkshire. I don't live there, but I have lived in a senior government minister's constituency in the past. I wrote one letter, and I did get a reply — I doubt my letter was directly read by the minister, but it was probably tallied up by an assistant "15 letters supporting this so far, 8 against".
We're in mild agreement, so somewhere there has been a misreading/miscommunication on either my part or yours :O
> Extremely niched use cases, e.g. rescue beacon or weather/radiation monitoring far out in nowhere.

That's if you're using it as the only channel (i.e. your data plane). It still works fine as a control plane or a signaling channel, e.g. so you know your remote sensor now has 100GiB of data ready to be collected.

That said, even as a data channel, you can pack a lot of information into a 192 byte packet; and 4800 bytes per day is plenty for some use cases - including one that's been rattling in my mind for years and the best solution I had come up with was a fixed-wing drone loitering over a site and exchanging data over a 2.4/5Ghz link
hmm interesting approach, really like it. Where do you work? and are you hiring now?
> As the city expanded without following a pattern of rectangular city blocks, the established street numbers stopped making sense.

Well… there are many places in the world where the cities don’t follow a grid system and they are perfectly able to be numbered, so it really isn’t much of an explanation.
It's a SPA written in Svelte... So no, it won't show anything in links2.
The primary ingredient in housepaint is rutile titanium dioxide particles, which have a very high refractive index. The particles are suspended in a carrier which, when drying, creates air voids. The air/TiO2 refractive index change, as light bounces around inside, is what gives white paint it's hiding/wall covering power.

In other words, artist paint and house paint use the same base pigment. Almost all commercially available "white" housepaints are based on titanium dioxide pigment. The special thing about artist paint is the extraordinarily high concentration of pigment.
> For example, we are talking about how an agent's decision making algorithm is in actuality.

What is “agent”? If a deterministic universe without free will is considered, whatever “agent” means is likely nonsensical so if you are discussing whether or not the universe is deterministic then presuming existence of an agent (with agency) is a mistake. So no, in a discussion on whether the universe is deterministic we would not be talking about that, whatever that is, if apparently presumes existence of an agent.

> Are they really philosophically unsophisticated? Or were they raised in a world of such greater philosophical sophistication that self-replicating knowledge structures - like, say, memes, were something they had extreme and constant exposure to? What if they are engaging in some sort of coordinated omegalul gambit?

I didn’t mean just newer generations by “people today”. Discussing this with older people is as difficult and they tend to equally just make assumptions instead of reasoning. I like discussing topics like these the most with a gen Z philosophy professor a few years younger than me.
Just another thing that the media does to lower its own reputation.
As a conversation topic in our engineering team recently, we discussed what the shortest possible message you could send to pinpoint as specific a position on earth, unambiguously, in as few possible characters, in plain readable non-coded language.

Like "top of the great pyramid", for example, looks like it is a 200 sq ft area, in 25 characters of message.
Even if you do everything you can to prevent it, you still incur refunds. It is simply impossible to get everything right 100% of the time - not in the least because people keep buying the wrong items. Things like cancelled or modified orders happen all the time, and you can't really do anything to prevent those.
The article discusses this explicitly, if what you're calling dogmatism is the inverse of the "openness to ideas" or "openness to experience", one of the Big 5 traits:

> NFC has been found to be strongly associated with a number of independently developed constructs, specifically epistemic curiosity, typical intellectual engagement, and openness to ideas.

I haven't come across the term "dogmatism" in the psychological literature. But the way you're presenting it seems extremely judgmental ("defects", "laziness", "immaturity"). You might be more interested in the more objective formulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience
Scenario:

You have a customer. You do a GET request to see if the custom exists, they don't. You whip open your HTML form to do a POST to input their details. So far so good. You realise you made a mistake, a simple typo, now you need to do a PUT request to update the details.

Oh wait, you can't. Doesn't make sense that you would want to do this, apparantly.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671#c16

Sure, you can add hidden _method inputs and so on on the form, but such hacks and workarounds shouldn't be necessary.

In modern webdev, HTML is just the payload carrier for the real website, which is the JS app. So long as HTML is intentionally crippled its folly to suggest otherwise.
similar for me, 8km commute (~15 mins), at home I am alone and don't have concentration to work, in the office I am with people and environment makes me to easier to do my job
It's worth reminding any readers that what3words is a horrible coordinate system for human usage due to its unreliability. The key flaw is the choice of words that are easily confused by humans such as including both the singular and plural of the same word (e.g. likely.stage.sock and likely.stages.sock are on the opposite sides of a river) which are easily mixed up both when spoken/heard and when remembered/repeated, and also many words which sound similar e.g. 'innocence' and 'innocents', 'wants' and 'once', etc.

Of course, it's not an issue when copy-pasting, but then you might as well copy Lat/Lon or URLs, the spoken usage is the main benefit for this concept; so if your use case does need a system like what3words, it has to be something other than the 'original' what3words.
> allowed wealthier restaurant patrons to discriminate against minority workers

Curious for evidence of this. I’ve seen minorities treated quite horribly in non- and low-tipping Germany. And London’s restaurants feature a level of self-effacing service that makes even this Manhattanite blush.
Agree with your take, but in this case it was pretty easy to find the ruling on Google. Here's the case page [0] and the PDF [1]:

[0]: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/03-CA-285671

[1]: https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d45839c9e8e (file download warning)
There’s often inconsistency with how .deb files are treated by the desktop environment. I have some systems where clicking them just opens like an archive. They should just launch an installer, but the fact that the installer can be reassigned makes the behavior inconsistent. I just use dpkg -i but that’s not exactly something you can find out without dedicated research.
"if the customer selects Costa Rica, they get a 6 row freeform textarea and the submit button label becomes Person Shrugging, U+1F937"
I think you're right and I'd love for the html spec to expand to enable control the layout instead of css
The conclusion of my argument is that regulations disincentive competition and that’s why you end up with monopolies, so keep regulations at minimum.
Authors Guild model contract adds clause prohibiting Generative AI Training
I think we might be talking slightly past each other.

It's absolutely true that for many values of X, being "unaligned" or "uncertain" on X does some harm.

What I'm saying is that human social dynamics mean that there's usually a range of acceptable beliefs for issues X, Y & Z and it's wise to understand when it's acceptable to express uncertainty and when it's not.

Uncertainty is a stance, a position, which can easily be outside the range of socially acceptable beliefs.

For example, I have zero opinion on "body positivity". But I know that many groups will hold the opinion "it does no good if only we believe in body positivity, ALL of society needs to change". Expressing uncertainty or indifference in these situations will be construed as social defection by True Believers and punished.
I Gave into the New Twitter Algorithm and I Went Way Too Viral
> you have to pay for all sorts of stuff with hidden fees

You make it sound like an acceptable practice. What's your reasoning behind not questioning these "customs"?
Conspiracy theorists demote things like "parsimony" in favor of "holism" and "explanatory power". There's a reason the text says "reasonable" and not merely "comprehensible".
That collateral is usually the house or apartment that your are trying to buy. You can use something else, if you want, but usually it is the thing you buy.
Not sure everyone has a choice in this.

My default is deeper thought, occasionally to my detriment. I can only operate quickly if I have extensive experience doing that thing.

Learning new sports or new mental tasks is slow and requires a lot of discomfort, intentionally pushing my body and mind to just do something they don't feel ready for.

I sometimes do wish I could act more quickly but thus far the only method which works is to do the thing a lot.
if people don't want certain words associated with them, i'll do my best not to do that. I may not know, or i may fail, but i will attempt to do that which is asked of me. Because it's not a problem for me to try.
Show HN: Magny – a tool to help build command palettes easily
Hey HN community,

The idea of Magny [1] first came to my mind when I was managing the development process of a SaaS in-app search bar in a company I was working at.

It was a bit cumbersome as the command palette was headless. The moment we built it, the PM started to have issues. We didn't have analytics and debug logs to deal with out of the box, and there was no option to customize the UI without developer interaction as well. It took us more than 3 weeks to implement a barebones library (but it was working fine).

We tried to integrate help docs, and the dev team had predicted it would take another 2 months.

I was genuinely scared but at the same time the situation was telling me that this could be a great opportunity - a command palette as a service (CPaaS?)

That's when I started the Magny command palette platform. Initial feedback was great, so decided to move with a full implementation. We are also gathering a list of awesome command palette resources [2].

I would like to hear your opinions about the idea and the platform in general. As we have just launched this week, we can't wait to hear from what you think about the overall solution.

Note that the (forever) free version is more than enough to build and test it in your app quickly.

[1] https://magny.io
[2] https://www.commandpalette.org/
Given time, “woke” will evolve into its own dialect completely incomprehensible to common language.

Every persons unique experience becomes new terms to be added to the lexicon. A burden of irrelevant knowledge for the rest of society to navigate in order to communicate.
Tell HN: YouTube Vanced doesn't work anymore
Since today YouTube Vanced displayed a message that "The following content is not available in this app"

RIP YouTube Vanced, back to Firefox with Ublock Origin
For her whole life, my grandma would receive any mail sent to her full name and zip code. Since it was a small town and everyone at the post office knew her.

Not as impressive as Olga, of course, but close!
“lived experience” was generally first used to differentiate between a person saying “I have experience with x issue” who could be saying “I’ve studied it; I’ve worked with the population” but “lived experience” makes it specific to being an individual’s own life.
Sadly they sold to a hedge fund and quality has been going downhill, but yes, for years Alamo was the only thing that kept me going to theaters. It’s still much better than any competitor though
Yeah that paid hosting + dns services combination is complete overkill when going for static html.

I host a bunch of files and static html on my domain and I’ve moved it to github pages. The dns services bundled with the domain at gandi are enough to set it up on top of the free github pages, so my hosting is effectively free, and if I wanted I could still run a site generator.

Static html gets even easier by using something like simplecss, because that gives a basic design with zero effort on top of semantic html. https://simplecss.org/
Can the proliferation of LLMs in the hands of bad actors precipitate a society-wide epistemic crisis? Survey says "maybe".
We have a bit of a similar situation in Iran. People use landmarks and famous places (e.g. factories, bridges, ...) to give addresses. I remember 20-30 years ago we also had to draw a little sketch for the person to find the address. Now every house has a unique postal code, but you can still see things like: second alley next to the school, first dead end, 100 meters after the X junction even in the official postal addresses. You also see a couple of street and alley names appearing in one single address. It's like trying to help people navigate through a certain direction.

I was shocked how short the addresses are when I moved to Europe :)
It is not a crazy idea to conceptualize some conspiracy theorists as people who (1) have a high need for cognition (brain wheels are always turning), and (2) direct that at developing wrong/misguided/motivated frameworks for the world.
There are companies though with a progressive image that appeals to their progressive customers. Whether Corporate™ are progressive or not, they best beware when they offend their customer base.

To that end they are forced to behave progressively — so I don't think there's much of a distinction with regard to whether the company truly is or is not "progressive".
I own property in Costa Rica.

From what I understand, property records, taxes & ownership were a huge problem up until ~10 years ago when all the disparate property record systems were merged into a nationalized, computerized, property record system.

To pay my property taxes, I just log into my county's website and pay with a Visa card. It's very easy.

Our property record uses GPS coordinates and relative distances from those points to determine the boundaries of the property. It's common to have the surveyors with their fancy laser & GPS machines come out during due diligence in a real estate transaction.

It feels pretty similar to the rest of the world now, though it hasn't always been this way.
On a jet there should be an indicator of the trim position that is independent of the actuator mechanism.
> I find that people place way too much importance on the lack of physical trackpad buttons.

Mouse buttons are necessary for the use of the TrackPoint, because you need them to click and/or scroll while keeping your hands near typing position. Apple and current-generation Dell laptops do not have pointing sticks, so they do not benefit from mouse buttons the way a TrackPoint-equipped laptop does.
It's fair to call it untrustworthy, however. In other words, it's not safe to trust or believe anything it says without additional validation.

My policy is that teams should use ChatGPT but that everyone is individually responsible for their tasks. In other words, it's a tool, not a replacement, and if the tool does something wrong the responsibility still resides with the employee to the degree that they could have validated the results, but failed to do so. I think this strikes a good balance that preserves human jobs for as long as possible.
Because a good craftsman picked his tools and knows it’s his fault if they’re garbage.

This pattern of “thinking” pisses me right off. It’s an axiom about quality and avoiding deflection and it’s always used in a low-quality reply as a form of deflection.

I can’t recall the last time I heard someone use that phrase the way it’s meant to be used.
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Create fully immutable types for your domain using Swift
Fun fact: depending on your local postal unit, God/Santa letters can be slung around to local volunteers: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-does-USPS-do-with-letter...

""Dear God" letters are sent to Mail Recovery offices or local churches."
IIRC Korea or Japan is entirely like this - blocks have names, not streets, and the buildings on the block are numbered in order of when they were built.
While I still tip for services, I do think that most dine-in restaurants do not deserve tips anymore.

Cool, the staff brought me water, food, and a bill. Hell, I can walk to kitchen window it get it myself with less hassle.

Also, why is the waiter/waitress' payment based on what I order when the waiter/waitress would do the same amount of work regardless?

If I go to a restaurant and order a $20 hamburger and tip 20%, for example, the waiter/waitress would earn $4.00. But if I order the expensive $100 steak at the same restaurant, his or her payment would be $20.00. The waiter/waitress did not 5x more work and I guarantee the service I will be provided will not be 5x better either. In my experiences, most tips go to the waiters/waitresses and not the kitchen staff. I have less of a problem with percentage based tips if tips are pooled together amongst all staff.

I have a friend that owns a barbershop. He charges different prices for different haircuts. Something simple like a buzzcut is cheaper than a haircut for an individual with longer hair. It's simple -- a buzzcut requires less work and less time. A percentage based tip on such services makes perfect sense to me.
Deno has a hard time innovating and the reason adoption has been low in my opinion is that Node is good enough and has a lot of these features anyway (esm, easy ts support, https imports, web apis like fetch etc).

They are trying to innovate and coming up with differentiators and reasons to use the platform. If you had to ask me when I met Ryan 5 years ago in JSConf EU before he introduced deno - I would have assumed they'd have 30% market share by now (of server JS) but Node has been able to "catch up" to complaints quickly enough (I think) and Deno's selling points like edge computing and fast startup aren't super important for msot devs in most use cases in practice and there are other runtimes for different clouds (like cloudflare workers).

That said - it is still really good they are trying to innovate and while I find the marketing speak shitty and somewhat in bad faith - I still think it's really good they're innovating and I'm very much in favor of that and hope they find something important enough to solve to get big.
0N0E, maybe (Null Island)? Depending on if latitude and longitude count as coded or not.

Otherwise "Burj tip" could be quite good (centimetres).
I don't have social media on my phone. I just had to uninstall Youtube as I am addicted to watching it on my phone (don't watch nearly as much on the computer) and it is causing attention and relationship issues for me.

I get the next argument is something like "Youtube is just like those other ones", but I've also done this same cycle with plenty of other apps which were not social media related. The screen itself is addictive to look at in a way that older devices were not.
Information != Knowledge

We can have information pollution but knowledge pollution is incoherent.
> I wonder... what is the difference between an "experience" vs a "lived experience"?

It's a shibboleth that indicates adherence to a certain world view. The speaker is communicating that they are a Good Person and thus you should give their experiences greater weight.
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