skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Lithuania, the majority of mobile providers offer an end-to-end solution to their customers at €1 per month or less. This includes pay-as-you-go plans and is likely to reflect the actual cost of this tech used on a large scale, given the significant adoption rate (which I estimate to be more than 5% of the Lithuanian population).

To provide m-signature services, mobile carriers in Lithuania burn a client biometrics-linked key into the SIM cards they provide. This setup allows the use of phones with these special SIM cards for two-factor authentication, which can be considered three-factor with some caveats due to the inclusion of biometrics. The mobile signature technology has good UX where a user, while signing a document, usually enters their tax ID and phone number into a web form. They then react to a prompt on their phone by inputting one of two memorized PINs. It's easy, cheap, and secure.

I also don't believe this technology is subsidized by the government. Though it's challenging to find specific legal language around subsidies for m-signatures, the price of this tech seems to be asymptotically approaching real costs through free market competition. In the Western world, a similar demand for electronic signatures exists. Although the market is currently dominated by costly certificate providers, they seem to lack moat, and it brings hope that this technology may be more widely adopted in places like the UK and US, once prices naturally fall.

Lithuania is N=1 but it's an interesting case study for how mobile signatures can be made user-friendly (or at least "user-reasonable") and mass-adopted.
Absolutely! That's something I would like to implement as well.
WebRTC has been supported in browsers for at least 10 years.

To that end you can use a website like https://www.toffeeshare.com/ to send files directly to another person via your browser via a P2P connection, without an account.
Crikey, not this crap again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTZ151yLnk
In many cases the only options are equally shitty or shittier jobs with worse pay.
Body count has different connotations depending on context, but in the sense of "compromised information about a person" I have never come across this usage previously.
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Yes. That is the whole point. It makes it worse. I understand wanting it. I understand how we cannot do it.

But i can also promise you that the economics are definitely supporting this reading.
The problem isn’t needing to stop, it’s charge time and availability.

When I stop with an ICE car during a road trip it’s for 15 minutes max and I know I can do it basically whenever I want. With an EV, you have to carefully plan your road trip around fueling.
So all of those restaurants with a mandatory top on large tables are breaking the law.
Or you start giving earlier (depending how presents are taxed), and your nieces and nephews receive the support when they are young and strapped for cash. I think this would help stimulating the economy much more than if your heirs are in their 50s+, when they (on average) don't need any money and just keep hording it.
> Generally, the customer has the right to determine who receives the payment.

Doesn't literally every POS machine violate this? I've never seen the screen ask whom my tip should go to.
+ Schengen & EFTA, so includes additionally Switzerland, Iceland, Norway & co
ULID schemes aren't just about big endian sorting advantages, they often better enable time-based sorting mechanisms.
Drilling big holes, cutting the slab etc.

Also if it is a tension slab you absolutely cannot cut into it.
It always feels weird as an outsider observing American culture about how accepting and expecting tips is not seen as dishonorable or shameful over there. The power dynamics in tipping are the same as those of someone tossing change to a beggar. How do working people suffer this instead of just putting a static value to their labor?
I think Doctorow later was more explicit about the downsides of a Whuffie-like reputation systems, IIRC even in one of his fictional works?
The way the culture of tipping has changed in the last 25-ish years is really amazing. It used to be that you'd tip 15% of the pre-tax amount, excluding alcohol, for *good service.* Then, it became 20%. Then, you were supposed to tax on the total pre-tax bill. Then on the post-tax bill. Now, 20% is kind of a 'meh' tip and is viewed as some kind of entitlement by the waitstaff industry and everybody and their grandmother is asking for tips.
Your argument is that if I give my kid 100k they will be worse off for it? Does this scale? So if someone gives their kid a million will their kid be 10x worse than mine? How about a billion? Sorry friend, this argument does not really land.

Your argument also fails to account for inflation. More money spent instead of saved means more competition for the same amount of goods and then we get what we have now, increasing rates and cost of goods.
Rounding up cash transactions, sometimes significantly so (e.g. 80 CZK to 100 CZK) was always a thing in Czechia at least, though it was very activity-specific.

A restaurant or a pub, yes, a taxi, yes, a bellhop or another hotel employee, maybe (there, the tip might serve as a borderline bribe for being discreet, e.g. if a married man books a room with an unmarried lady for one night). Literature older than 100 years mentions tipping in similar contexts.

OTOH tipping would look very strange, say, at the post office. Just not done. Perhaps leaving some very small change on the tray, but that's it. Same with most retail shops.
Don't worry – those "complex" tasks will be done by machines also, just 3-5 years down the line.

It's all over, folks.
Everyone I knew who had a call center job was very happy to leave.

Automation hasn’t led to fewer jobs it just leads to changed jobs. Unfortunate for those affected but we shouldn’t be holding up degrading mechanistic jobs as examples of what we should hold on to.
I’ve seen that at some restaurants in the US too. There’s usually a CYA clause like “you can ask for this fee to be taken off,” but it’s deliberately a policy designed to make customers uncomfortable and accept the surcharge.

I normally tip 20% or so, but if there’s a mandatory surcharge, I just subtract it from the tip.
> - PRs were kept around for months, so "senior" developers could estimate the risk. This included fixes that were hotfixed in production so that it was guaranteed to break again at the next 12 hour deployment (thus giving the same developers even more reasons to be even more "cautious" with all future PRs)

Classic strategy :D, those aren't seniors: they're Gods.
At a certain point I’m just going to start setting it to 0% every time. And if I can’t I’ll stop going. I’m already paying $15 for two ice cream cones, I don’t need to pay another $3 for someone to spend 30 seconds scooping them. I can do that at home.
Good point for the address/title bar. But would you also want the toolbar buttons at the top?
Thanks for the post, this is very nice. While I am not switching browsers yet, this is looking very promising, and so far I love the direction you are taking with this.

Incidentally, discovered your reader app[0] thanks to this post, and it looks exactly like what I've been looking for for quite a while. And the fact that it is on macOS as well is a very welcome cherry on top.

0. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quiche-reader/id1387881185
The ebook link on the blog 404s.

Updated Project Gutenberg link (multiple formats):

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
I think your peception of 99% of use cases is entirely based on your niche, not reality.

There is far more development going on outside of games.
That's the next big feature on the todo list :)
A better comparison to Mars is Antarctica. Antarctica is far more hostile to life without technology than Arizona is, yet hundreds of people live on Antarctica. It costs a ton of money to support Antarctic research, yet we do it, and I believe it's relatively uncontroversial to spend that money.
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> In the theses, Luther condemned the church’s selling of “indulgences,” which was based on the the idea that people could buy forgiveness for their sins.

Well, no, it wasn't; that's not what indulgences do, money or no money.

Of course, Protestantism didn't merely abolish indulgences, it abolished the belief in Purgatory (temporal punishment for sins), which would completely obviate the need for indulgences in the first place. Well played!
Thank you! For all of the complications of that time in my life, I’m grateful for the piano lessons.

I definitely think it’s a worthwhile thing to spend time on, and part of what got me to dive back in was looking at the amount of time I was spending on things like Factorio and Rocket League. Honing my aerial goal shooting skills endlessly was starting to feel not very useful, and I realized it was mostly the challenge that I enjoyed, and that I could find that challenge elsewhere.

Playing instinctively started to happen once I had some good muscle memory established for basic scales/chords/progressions. I hated practicing these as a kid, but they really do unlock possibilities. From there, a few basic techniques can start an improvisation, and the chords/scales/progressions take over.

A little bit every day adds up over time.
Worth noting that because the man pages are so good, GPT4 is a rather good OpenBSD sysadmin. If you get stuck on anything these days, you can ask it.
Your Freedom Is My Freedom: The Premise of Anarchism
Someone who was laid off from such a job and never got another one probably does, in fact, bemoan that loss.
> I'm also not really sure which situations an employment contract would really hurt you in tech besides maybe some IP stuff

In my first contract for a dev job:

- noncompete

- agreement to work for a minimum amount of time, while my employer could terminate me at will (I don't think this one was actually enforceable where I live, since I didn't get a signing bonus, but I didn't know that at the time)

- IP stuff

- agreement to arbitration for any disputes (and employer chooses the arbitrator of course)

I would probably dispute some of those now, but as at the time I was naive, fresh out of college. And even if I had pushed back, I didn't have much leverage. I had just moved, and had no money, I couldn't afford not to take the job.
> I mean, what if the torture was replaced with a more obvious torture?

Speaking as someone who worked in a call center for less than a month before quitting because I hated every second of it, having your fingernails pulled out seems a lot worse. I'd take the call center job.

Another thing that's worse is being broke, I'd take the call center job over that too, if those were my only choices. I'm not sure about a ubiquitous mindfuck, but I know we operate under the need for food and shelter.
As a muted protest to municipal, county or state mandates requiring employers to pay for employees' health insurance, some businesses -- restaurants especially -- have taken to exposing this cost to the customer in the form of an added fee.
I can't use that browser. The scrolling inertia is horrible. Samsung Internet Browser is so much more pleasant to scroll about in.
Gargantuan computer system with 27M AI 'cores'
This is exactly what I do. I have an amendment on my contract about intellectual property being owned by the company changed from "while under employment" to "using company equipment in employed hours". They sent me two copies they had signed, I modified both with the change, signed it and scanned the contract.

The returned copy was accepted by HR via email (not sure if they ever read it or not)

What will be interesting is if this ever gets to be tested as not ever sheet in the contract was signed.
Superchargers are almost always full where I'm from, even in shopping malls. I'm sure they'd be even more commonly used if more of them existed. People just know they can't rely on them yet in the same way they rely on finding a gas station
> People like the money they make more than the hassle of doing the job

You're framing this like a choice, when for most people doing such jobs it absolutely isn't.
It isn't, you're just failing as a parent to set boundaries.
There are a lot of places in America where you can leave a city and go to a rural place where at best you might have a 120V charge, possibly nothing. An 800-1000 mile range battery takes a lot of the charging anxiety away until the infrastructure for electric catches up to convenience and availability of gas.

The weight issue, however, should be talked about more. I don't think filling highways with 10,000lb minivans with the acceleration speed of a Corvette is an improvement on the whole.
What counts is the content of your submission. It needs to be interesting in itself. That is, whatever the opposite of a teaser is.
In Mexico and Singapore, Nissan introduced the Epower technology which is a hybrid in which the combustion part only serves as generator. All the driving machinery is electrical, and both the mpg and range are great.

In hindsight I think it's an obvious technooogy: the conplexity of the combustion generator is pretty low, doesn't need gearbox, pistols, cylinders and whatnot. And the fuel tank still gives good range NY recharging the battery.

Got a Kicks with this tech, and so far it has been pretty good for both city and the road (5 hr drives to the beach!)
I had waiter in Italy tell me "select zero on the card terminal, that goes to my boss, not me, if you want to tip leave some cash".

But yes, the craziness is coming here too. I have not seen it myself, but my friend complained about grocery store self-checkout asking for tip. Touchscreen order terminals in fast food takeout places also ask for tip, of course.
This is true for most of us under the c-suite. But for those in the CTO/CFO, etc. role it makes financial sense for them to chop labor costs even if projects take a little longer. It just means the few competent engineers have to work 2x as hard for the same salary. I hate it.
As someone who has been tooting the ev horn for a while, generally most arguments against EVs are couched in "I do x now and don't want to change" or they are I heard about x and am afraid of it.

People who are willing to look into the situation on the ground tend to react positively
non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT)

genesis (generating of) thermo (heat), i.e. burning calories
My accountant trapped his ex wife into accounts receivables. I think she’s still in there today.
Any chance you could implement WebBLE capability?
Some people are not as sensitive as me or you. Diversity in action. (The real one.)

For a more extreme example: most of us wouldn't think about applying for the job of a hangman, but whenever there was a vacancy, the authorities were inundated with applications.
I have started generally going out to restaurants/service places less just to avoid this awkward interaction.

Another thing I have seen is the POS machines placing the highest tip amount next to the 'No Tip' option. So if I feel like tipping the least amount, and I intuitively select the button next to 'No Tip', it actually ends up being the most.
Haha that proves my reach has been extremely bad: I released the reader's v1 four years and half ago :) Thanks a lot though! I've got a few ideas on how to make the browser and reader work together smoothly.
When two satellites cross each others plane it is highly predictable and easy to maneouver an avoidance. OTOH on a freeway lane changes happen constantly are sometimes very unexpected.
Yes, people have a very warped idea on how far they are actually traveling and focus on range at all costs.
Probably best version

https://twitter.com/zhgun/status/1683071450171727876/photo/

Apparently there was an earlier version

https://twitter.com/pimentium/status/1664667290036568065
I made a tool that's specially designed for interactive visualisations of Django database schemas.

Check out django-schema-graph. I hope you like it!

https://github.com/meshy/django-schema-graph/
I hate the framing of this. It's so click bait and sensational. Remote work isn't wiping it out. Decreased demand for office space, with a ton of supply on market, and owners wanting to make antiquated leasing agreements are ignoring the market/reality. They are refusing to adapt to modern needs are seeing easily anticipatable economic outcomes as the consequence. It's not simply "remote did this" when the problem is greedy investors can't cope and refactor. Their target market's core consumer (employees of their renters) have unequivocally made it clear they do not want to go into offices or be bound to failing cities just to please a company that will lay them off or not take care of them (use any of the dozens of reasons employees don't want to rto or be forcibly relocated anywhere). I don't feel a shred of pity for impacted businesses or investors if these offices just as I wouldn't feel sorry for an investment group pouring millions into horse infrastructure in the early days of the automobile.
Hey Trump wasn't building that wall to keep the Norwegians out
I am hacking with others on a game that is part simulation, part narrative. It sets in the music industry.

Here is the link. I would love some feedback while we are
ironing it out.
https://quantico.alwaysdata.net/static/game_text/game/index_...

Ps: not mobile friendly yet and there are english errors to be corrected.
Until quite recently, Ukrainian citizens had to endure the same gruelling process to be allowed into the Schengen zone. To travel to the US, a visa is still needed today.

My point: Ukrainians are almost all non-brown, and it is a very destructive habit to inject the skin color into every issue.
A bunch of places in the US have added additional percentage fees in lieu of raising their marked prices (someone in another thread mentioned an “employee wellness fee”, for instance).
But did he really hacked it? Or just brutforced it?
My former employer's CEO (a small business) owned the floor of the building we were in and leased it back to the company.

I've known other smaller companies that owned their own building, but it would be interesting to see how prevalent it is. I suspect it's more common than we think.
Well, yeah I didn’t think it was particularly novel, and it reaffirmed my belief that iOS restricting non-WebKit browsers isn’t actually a big issue.

I was genuinely surprised to find no other mention of the engine restrictions in the comments though!
Here's a quick one https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/what-it-takes-...

Short version:

Commercial buildings are too deep and so you have to do fancy things to give internal apartments natural light and meet building regulations for windows.
Correct URL. Perhaps yo can post it again https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-im...
Do you know what happens to Americans when they don’t work? Maybe look that up before you condescend to workers making barely enough to survive.
Without directly answering my own question, I'll share my thinking about its potential design requirements.

I think it should be "inhabitable" as in, people should be able to have experiences (plural) while using the software, not merely have an experience of the software. The Mona Lisa is not inhabitable, the Pantheon is. Digitally, this could mean something vastly different, such as a MMORPG vs. a site like an Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit. Both are "inhabitable". Google Search is not very inhabitable.

I think it should be practically "unbounded" as in, it shouldn't have a fixed limit on the number of users. It should only be limited by the computational resources that are allocated to it. IPv4 is bounded, IPv6 is not. For example, a chatroom shouldn't be arbitrarily limited to 1000 participants. However, it'd be acceptable if the operator can only afford enough machines to handle X number of connections, so long as if those resources were increased, the software's capacity would increase linearly (or better).

This one is counterintuitive to most software designers, but I think its implementation should be spectacularly visible to its users. By analogy, its columns and arches should be on display, as opposed to having its wooden frame covered in sheetrock and paint. I think there's plenty of room for artistic interpretation on this requirement though. For example, a webpage might use gradients to highlight its margins and paddings, or the portals in something like a MUD server could directly correspond to server port numbers.

To ensure that the monument couldn't be cheaply imitated, I think the "problem" it solves would need to be of a scope and scale that it's evident that no single person could learn/master the techniques used to craft the software in one lifetime, under normal circumstances. For example, it would be extraordinary for someone to master the techniques needed to build a massively distributed, networked system and also master the art of building high-performance game engines over the course of a single career. Maybe possible, but definitely extraordinary. So if the "problem" solved by the software required masters from many disciplines, the project would be very difficult to immitate.

Finally, another potentially counterculture requirement: the monument would need a spec sheet. It must have a point where it can be declared complete, where new features are rejected because doing so would change its nature. Maintenance would be acceptable. For example, upgrading it to run on newer architectures would be fine. It shouldn't necessarily need to be run in an emulator to be preserved. But it shouldn't be an ongoing, open-source project that gets features added and removed. It should be able to be experienced "as it was" to the furthest practical extent. By analogy, cathedrals have electric lighting nowadays, but we don't say "we could make this cathedral's towers twice as tall if we were to rebuild it with steel."
The lottery is an explicit zero-sum game. So long as he didn't actually break the rules, I don't think YC would care. That said, the post-lottery financial maneuvers seem like a red flag.
No, that doesn't block YouTube ads (for example) and with DNS over Https will stop working soon anyway.
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Universal health care. Universal health care. Universal health care.

Yes, tipping in the US is its own peculiar local minimum -- a cycle or trough that is difficult to escape from. A big component of the costs to both employees and employers alike is health insurance, something that if we nationalized, spreading the burden across the population as a whole, would be relieved from individuals and businesses. Especially small businesses.
Yes we do, search the term 'rust belt'. Agricultural jobs turned to automotive jobs that turned to no jobs and wide areas of depressed economic activity.
The makita problem (and somewhat the Bosch problem) is they refuse to bring the good stuff to the USA, so I’ve joined the Red Army.
it would be public contributions on your Github profile
People make more money working a shit job than they make when they're unemployed. People endure dehumanizing shit jobs because they have mouths to feed. Unemployment doesn't feed mouths.

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>Should these impossibly rote and dehumanizing kinds of jobs exist, or shouldn't they?

It'd be nice if they didn't, but things just have to get done sometimes, rote, dehumanizing, or otherwise.

I don't think bullshit jobs should exist, but people keep paying money to do them, and people who take these jobs do so because they have mouths to feed.

I think callcenter jobs are bullshit jobs. But how else can people feed mouths?

So many people, so few jobs, but so much to consoom, so we invent bullshit jobs for them, lest people stop consooming, god forbid.
It’s quite priveledged to describe call centre work as degrading and mechanistic. It’s a bit boring but it’s clean, office based work where you get to use your brain.

I would prefer to speak to a good call centre worker than email back and forth or filling in forms that go into black holes any day of the week.