skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are confused about tipflation because they don't want to acknowledge how messed up the tipping system in North America is.

With more places asking for tips I often see "I only tip if I am sitting down". Why? Because it's what people are used to. In time, this too will be normalized and people will one day tip at these places too like they do at restaurants.

And frankly, people should be tipping at other places if they tip at restaurants since all the same principles apply - your plumbers, doctors, etc. work hard too, so they deserve the compensation the same way waiters do. And before anybody says that waiters make less (which is not true in certain states and Canada where they make minimum wage), then just remove the exception for minimum wage instead of having tipping. And no you shouldn't continue to tip in the interm because the servers themselves have no incentive to switch since they make more under tipping - they don't care about making minimum wage so why would customers worry about it for them? The usual response to this is that we shouldn't push people down but pull people up, so let's do that, tip everybody and pull up those compensation numbers.
openSUSE also uses it as the default, as do Synology NAS appliances.
Oxygen Candle
No, it's not beta. You can check the status here https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html

Only raid5/6 has known issues.
Yeah this is definitely true for Marginalia. It does exactly what it needs to do to serve the page and very little else. There's also no superfluous scripts in the frontend, no session cookie, no user tracking. That stuff does add up.

Many applications do so many redundant calculations it's almost absurd. Professionally I've seen applications do enormous ORM lookups that fetch thousands of objects, stick them into a hash table by some key, and pick one value and compare against some parameter; and then do this operation in four different places in processing a single request. Gee I wonder why we have 800ms page loads...
In 2007, the iPhone multitasked with the built in apps - the only ones available - until the App Store in 2008. It was 2010 when Apple introduced multitasking for third party apps.

The feature phones definitely didn’t multitask J2ME apps.
Nakama does not have shared parallelism, look at http://fuse.rupy.se for better scalability.
Amazing that you built this at your age. And it honestly looks good. I do have concerns about the sustainability of the business model though, because I'm not sure how much sellers (who are mostly agents) would be willing to spend for this on a per-listing basis.

The only disappointment I had when using the website was seeing a spacious home listed in the heart of LA for $900k, only to find that it was a test listing.
They solved it in a way where they don't guarantee you that it is water proof for more than 2 years without service and appropriate maintenance and it stops being water proof as soon as you open it.
Aww shucks, thanks!
Wow, that sounds so early to adopt Python!
Why do you need to put "productivity benefits" in quotes?

I hope I am misinterpreting this. It's been shown scientifically time and time again with actual data that this is the case [1, World Economic Forum] - denying this or being sarcastic about it seems really disingenuous and ideology-driven to me.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/surprising-benefits-f...
Ah, not quite — sorry for my confusing reply! It’s just that you could “send mail as” your custom domain without “on behalf of” showing up for the recipient.
We have this problem at my work. Some components listen for events, but where did they come from? I have no idea, I didn't write the entire stack, and there isn't an easy way to trace it. Similarly, if I send an event (and this may be JS/DOM specific), who is going to catch it, and are they going to prevent it from bubbling up to other listeners (potentially breaking them)?
Thanks. Noteworthy:

Since we don’t actually know anything about nutrition, it’s impossible to know whether the new engineered food products are unhealthy.
Why wouldn’t they? By definition they passed every certification requirement to be Unix
What about First Republic Bank?
Gas and Propane Combustion from Stoves Emits Benzene and Increases Air Pollution
Not fast enough to keep their operational at bay though.
Who is asking for bad regulation?
> I don't see how this would work given modern supply chains. It can be extremely difficult to track down all of the owners of a particular IP and when you do, many of them may not even exist any longer making it near impossible to get any sort of permission to do something like this.

Exactly the reason to force manufacturers to change their supply chains.
The Kakhovka Dam Disaster in Data
My hope is that by engineering the service to have an extremely low burn rate (basically my living expenses plus change), I don't need to make that much money off it that it's viable to keep it close to the way it is.
How about industrie, craftsmanship and farming? Can they “grow” over a certain period of time while the required resources doesn’t?
Rust based, fuzzy find, full text search, tags, CLI only: https://github.com/sysid/bkmr
> Relying too much on A/B tests for decision-making

Need I say more? Or just keep tweaking your website until it becomes a mindless, grey, sludge.
docker pull nginx
It’s important to make sure your wishes are known regarding vengeance. Unlike Banquo from Macbeth, as you lay dying, you may not get a chance to shout:

“O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may’st revenge – O slave!”

- and importantly be sure to leave a list of who your enemies are, to give the detectives a starting point.
Source code probably involves libraries from other companies and covers patents owned by other people.

No one is building a product from complete scratch.
Winners of 2023 Illusion of the Year contest
You may want to take a look on Talkyard:

> A structured discussions platform — brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit/HackerNews, and Disqus blog comments.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702311
I have to agree, every time I'm writing unit tests in Rust I'm struck by how extremely limited it is compared to testing frameworks in other languages, and how much effort is needed to get some fairly standard stuff like data tests to work. It's definitely something that needs attention.
The peculiar viewpoint you’re demonstrating in this comment is similar to Reddit’s. It’s not objectively wrong, but the calculus involved definitely looks weird from the outside.

How would you quantify the value of Hacker News to Y Combinator? You’re talking about it like it’s a cost centre, a charitable contribution to society; what proportion of Y Combinator’s revenue can be attributed to the brand and content marketing benefits which flow from the (almost) entirely unpaid contributions of HN users? The Firebase API now costs “quite a bit”; is that amount comparable to the income of a YC partner? How much should a third-party developer be compensated for the work of building a native client which brings HN to a wider audience or increases the engagement of its existing audience? How much should an HN user be compensated for their submissions and comments? Which people deserve to make money here and why? Who is “indirectly funding” whom?
>"written in Lisp"

And why does that matter? Whatever turns one on.
It’s anecdotal but I was pretty shocked by the fact that NBA players have significant and serious issues with their feet.
> Also unless you run brain scans and video feeds of someone and their screen 24/7 you don’t really know the hours they do even if they are in their office chair.

IME most people don't know how many hours they actually worked vs hours they were in their chair. Most folks also overestimate their productivity from "multi-tasking", despite the overwhelming research showing productivity losses.
Neither, it’s placeholder content used as part of a collection of web layout experiments, hence the weird URL. https://waivek.github.io/website/
Why is it their money? Your're starting at the wrong point in time friend.

You need mommy just as much.

E.g. Chad Ungabunga sees alphanumeric living on fertile soil with an attractive woman so he's going to bonk him over the head with a club and take his stuff because he's bigger and stronger.
You are dead wrong. The problem most definitely isn't solved.

We live in the age of the World Wide Web and information in ambiguous units is shared everywhere simultaneously all the time.

For example gallon are still used informally in other countries than the US.

People, particularly older people, still talk about "miles per gallon" in the UK. That's Imperial gallons not US gallons. They base their feel for that volume on that.

Same with US vs Imperial pints.

Now product information on UK Amazon isn't always rewritten specifically for the UK. Often they just reuse the blurb from US Amazon without correcting the spelling or grammar to save money.

I own an old Jetboil stove I bought well before Brexit. The inside is marked in "cups".

Any guesses if those are Imperial cups, US cups or Metric cups. I mean I bought it in the UK so they should be Metric cups but Jetboil is a US company so...who knows.

This might not be a problem for you personally but it's definitely still a problem.
Wow that was an amazing video, not so much nerd snipped, but nerd nuked.
This is one of those things where it's impossible to prove one approach better or worse than the other. But history has shown (starting with merchant ship insurance in the 1700s going up to Tetlock's superforecaster research more recently) that starting from general base rates gives, on average, more realistic odds than starting from specifics.

You see this all the time in sports betting, too. People overcorrect from the base rate when receiving news. People love a narrative that makes sense to them, but statistically it rarely holds up against statistical reasoning with a very small set of variables. (For more examples, see Meehl's research around clinical vs actuarial judgment.)

Yes, you're correct that a hypothesis is one of those narratives, but if you're operating at that level of scientific abstraction you can ignore my comment. Most people don't, and just roll with the story and forget about the probabilities.
I am not saying that the redistribution of risk is not useful —— it certainly is, and I agree with what you said. But let us suppose we would like to reverse climate change at a global scale in a short time without further damaging the environment, right now; I don’t see how it would be possible with our current technologies, even if every possible risk redistribution options are exhausted.
I love Meta. I thought they had turned to the dark side for the longest time. I've never been so wrong. When Meta released LLaMA it changed my life. I've never seen a company move more leverage to the edge at once. They must be taking notice of how much it's made folks like me adore them. So now we're getting commercial friendly models too? I didn't know Christmas could come twice in one year.
In 100 years we won't need it. In 100 years we'll be asking ourselves why we bothered with nuclear energy at all.

Look at the fundamentals. There's more than enough free energy all around us. In 100 years the world population will be declining, and we will already have mined and refined all the metal we'll ever need. The energy use per person is already falling and will continue to fall.

Solar will be vastly more cheap, efficient, and be part of a 100% circular economy. It'll cover most of the energy needs just by covering buildings or creating useful shades for parking, reservoars, irrigation channels and agrovoltaics.

Energy storage will essentially be solved. We have to. You can't run a car or a ferry directly on nuclear energy. We have to store and transform energy at a similar scale to what's needed to balance the grid to replace fossil fuels anyway. Think about how many days you could run your house on a modern BEV. 5-7 days in my case. And already, today, my car is helping balancing the grid by avoiding charging when prices are high. I'd be willing to do V2G too if it was supported.

In northern climates advanced geothermal will provide heat for district heating, and some extra electricity for the winter. Once you've built a well it provides all the benefits of nuclear with none of the downsides. It's just a matter of time before deep geothermal wells are cheap enough to drill. Could be decades, but not more than 100 years. With all the oil and gas engineers with nothing better to do in 20 years time.. I'm inclined to think we'll have some excellent solutions for advanced geothermal by 2050. We've already seen innovations from the oil/gas sector transferring over to geothermal in recent years.

There are some nuclear proponents that dream about everyone having megawatts of personal energy. Think of everything we could do if we had 10x the energy we have today! That's a terrible idea. If the entire world went all-in on nuclear and expanded its energy usage, the waste heat would be a problem and a barrier to getting the climate back to a cooler stable equilibrium.

Nuclear R&D is fantastic. We should continue to develop it. But mostly for future space use.

Helions fusion reactor might be a good idea if it works. It should have less problems with waste heat since it converts much of the energy directly to electricity rather than using heat exchange mechanisms.

If Helion succeeds fission is permanently dead, and we'll definitely want to bury the waste in 100k year storage so we don't burden our children with more debt and can stop thinking about the waste at all.
Various hibernation modes are great, but 300ma@5v sometimes feels too hungry for the amount of computation in there. I bet things would be better if it wasn’t 45nm ‘pitch’. They are great chips, but require more power than you might expect if you’re doing something network-heavy or, god forbid, using the camera. Unfortunately there’s no competitive alternatives for the hobbyist.
CICO itself is actually at best an approximation, since neither CI nor CO are measurable, especially in any kind of real-world setting. Eating less and working out more will lead to reduced weight loss, but how people may be able to achieve this, especially on the long term, is unclear.

The evidence for any kind of nutrition finding is slight. CICO has the advantage that it matches very basic thermodynamic principles, so it has to be true to some extent. But beyond this basic level, all you get in reality are some broad strokes. We know how much calories maximum can be extracted from a piece of food. We know how much energy minimum you need to consume to perform a particular excercise. But no one really knows how much calories one particular person will actually get from eating one particular piece of normal food, no one knows how much it will actually vary between people, no one knows what might affect that difference. No one also knows how much energy you'll actually use for doing a particular exercise given efficiency losses from your movements; and no one actually knows how much energy your body is passively consuming - nor everything that affects both of these.

Beyond the problem of actually measuring CICO, there is the additional problem of treating humans as fre will agents when it comes to food, when we know full well we are biological machines that have biological imperatives. We may be able to suppress our base instincts to achieve longer term goals, but this ability is obviously limited. Things like appetite are not within our control, and our ability to prioritize the longer term goal versus the short term need that our body is signaling is also obviously limited.

And not only are these limited, we know very well that they are affected by all sorts of internal processes. There are many psycho-active medications that are very very strongly proven to have an effect on appetite (lithium, SSRIs), as are certain diseases (thyroid issues for example).

But sure, keep blaming people for their diseases. It worked great for curing AIDS, so I'm sure it will work on obesity any day now.
I've tried mathb and it feels amazing and blazing fast. Perhaps the best way to go for typing in quick snippets and sharing with others.
The core idea is that you are syncing a data structure, for example a map, so you can get a lot done with that (yjs’s presence stuff can be helpful for other live features).

In the end I have just been stuffing the data structure directly into postgres “as-is”. I think there are some tricks you can use to shrink some historical data but I think it’s pretty straightforward if you get to a size where the data size matters
This was published on HN yrsterday, ans seems promising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348483

Uses Neural Radiance Fields
> The energy use per person is already falling and will continue to fall.

Source? I certainly wouldn't expect it to fall for the vast majority of the world's population.
> " the author is saying that beyond a certain scale, every org is actually building their own internal platform whether they elect to view it that way or not"

Ohh so devops is not bs? quelle surprise ;)

> The ... entire argument is that you need strong foundations and reusable building blocks,

Like the terraform code he himself admitted to copy and pasting.

> because most product engineers do not have or want that expertise.

henceforth again, devops is not bs. Therefore i conclude the intend of the post is nothing more than an advertisement piece.

Of course the post isnt directly saying "buy my product" by showing it in your face, but then again I have not said that either.

Its super easy though to click on the logo in the top left corner of the post to realize the site, on which this blog is on is directly advertising itself as "Defining Platform Engineering"

heneforth, yes i conclude shoesalesman trying to get you to adopt their platform through a linkedin advertised blog post =)
aesthetics are very nice, and the slash menu mechanism + syncing make it nice when working with people. If Google docs looked nice this convo would be different but Google docs doesn’t look nice!
Well then, good bye!
The green rooster one. I think it is a simple case of price gouging because sriracha has exploded in recent year as popularity.
What a misguided comment. Carmack has a few good points, but seems not to get that having a job you like is a luxury few can attain.

The goal is not to prevent sone from working and earning more, but making sure that all can earn enough to live while not overworking themselves.
Obama Leaves Trump a Mixed Legacy on Whistle-Blowers
>>> Of more than a thousand complaints filed by whistle-blowers between 2002 and 2008, the government ruled in their favor just seventeen times, a rate of 1.3 per cent. This approach had consequences: prior to the 2008 financial collapse, plenty of whistle-blowers at companies like Countrywide Financial tried to expose abusive lending practices and fraud. Few were protected from retaliation, enabling the misconduct that paved the way for the financial meltdown to go unchecked.

Ohhhhhh !!!! That's why we do it
Its not too bad, it is a pretty good way of excluding no karma bot accounts.
Another platform that censors you if your social credit score is unacceptable. Just what we needed...
I worked with a guy who played college football and had aspirations for the NFL, he was a wreck and always complaining about the lingering effects of injuries from his days playing. I guess this is somewhat expected with a contact sport, but I've also seen guys I knew who did a lot of high intensity training and after about 10 years or so seem to start aging more quickly compared to their non-athletic siblings.

I mean getting exercise is definitely good for you and in a choice between too much and too little I think you're better off overdoing it, but just constantly burning your metabolism at full steam seems to age you faster, couple that with the impact caloric deficit is supposed to have on aging and at least in my mind there's a pretty clear connection between the two.
Can you explain more? Copying with a mouse selection, of by piping into something? You shouldn't get ANSI escapes either way.
I mean, you obviously do trade money for time just like the wealthy. You have a dishwasher, or a washing machine and a dryer etc. You probably have a car, or some way to go around places that isn't walking etc.

The scale is the only thing that is different.
The only "easy path" is if there exists a working fuse implementation of the same filesystem. Then there is a good fallback path for the users who still need support.
And don't forget data!
No. The evidence largely points to CICO being harmful bullshit.

Reducing things to thermodynamics is not useful to people trying to lose weight. Any more than talking about the speed of light is useful to people trying to run faster.

Metabolism influences passive weight loss. Fiber influences caloric absorption. Muscle mass influences calorie burn. Gut microbiome impacts fat and caloric absorption by the body. Food quality and type influences all of the above.

Say it with me: CICO is harmful, reductive bullshit. If it helped you lose weight, great; it doesn’t help most people though and there is an obesity epidemic to handle.
Nothing stopping you from having both. I'd have one document like you said and another just for letters.
In the years Google rose, Microsoft was no longer evil.
It did not last tho.
The tenancy laws are a major driver of this. My understanding is that the tenancy laws are much more favourable towards renters in Germany relative to the US or the broader Anglosphere, and this changes what people need to feel secure.
Wow, her involvement went beyond that it seemed, and the campaign against that colleague repeatedly interviewed people and then lied about those interviews to fabricate incidents. Honestly thats sick.
I want replaceable batteries in that I want to replace them like 2-3 years after purchase. Which is already possible for a negligible price.

You really shouldn’t want to replace batteries on the fly in general — it makes stealing easier (modern phones can’t be powered off easily without authorization) so you may find it before it loses power, waterproofing suffers, etc.
Look at the changes in immigration laws. 15 years ago citizenship within 5 years was an option in a bunch of places. Now 10 years at 100% (not 95%) employment is the minimum, despite labor shortages. And, more worrying, now just about every country has laws about taking away citizenship from people, even people born in the country.

Sparingly used so far, but in a bunch of places these laws could be applied very widely without changes to the law (ie. it would not require a 2/3 majority or anything like that, just an executive that changes a few judges around). The next Trump (probably "Le Pen" - remember that name, you'll be hearing it a lot) will make that happen, and she's probably got 40-45% of the vote (right now it might even be 60%, but that's mostly because everyone hates Macron). We are one election away from that happening.