skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure there is a universally agreed value even now. It comes down to "decay", half-life, etc. (and, potentially, how far out into space you look). Basically, depends on how you define "natural". You get numbers like 94, 98, etc.

https://depts.washington.edu/eooptic/linkfiles/The%20Element...

This many-page PDF, with actual references (to CRC etc. - lots of stuff that comes up for this question just has bare numbers, ugh), for example, points out that trace amounts of plutonium etc. occur in nature. This is from late 1997, I believe, but gives an idea of what factors lead to different numbers and which elements actually do show up naturally, even if not stable enough to exist "forever" independently.

Also, note that there are some low atomic number elements that are unstable enough and without enough "feedstock" to be found only in trace amounts (and were considered potentially not "naturally occurring" when discovered by scientists in the first place) - like "Technetium."

One last note: I just came across something in past couple weeks discussing Bismuth 209 - originally thought to be heaviest "stable" nucleus, turns out it decays in the exayears or something -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth-209

Nuclear physics is ... not so straightforward.
I get these even though I have never registered a trademark or company at my address
"Remote work increases productivity by nearly a trillion dollars for businesses by reducing costly office space overhead costs" Should have been the title.
Maybe I'm just too old but it feels like humanity will always find a way to collectively fuck everything up. The web is always going to be shit. Fortunately another contingent of humanity invented uBlock and reading mode.
That's the nicest thing someone has ever said to me <3 Thanks a lot!!
https://users.suse.com/~agruen/quilt.pdf
Now they aren't expensive (like 6-12 months ago), one RPi -the one with the database- is relying on the SSD (so no issue) and the other is using RAM logs so the data written to the SD card are minimal.
I'm running a Raspberry PI with an SD card and RAM logs since 6-7 years with the same SD without any failure.
You could become a volunteer EMT.
Agreed and someone is working on the port.

Really hope this lands in -current.

It was updated just last month (June).

https://github.com/kusumi/openbsd_hammer2
Jocko Willink recently talked about this very topic on his podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nU2qkRUk5o

In fact, it kinda reads like someone just took the podcast and wrote a blog post on it. Not a critique, just an observation.
How was 0USD/0% not an option? For a tip, it's entirely voluntary.
My grandfather would say "car wreck" when it was 10:10. (Tin-tin)
Most hashes are really good but the point was why replace the perfectly unique information in the cycle counter + time stamp combo with "most likely nearly unique" in the first place. After all, if the former isn't unique then neither are the hashes anyways.

Hashes are EXTREMELY compressible, albeit known algorithms are extraordinarily slow. E.g. I can compress any SHA256 output to a matter of kilobytes, maybe less, by using the SHA256 algorithm as the compressor algorithm and iterating through seeds until I get a match. With true entropy you can't guarantee that for all inputs, regardless of how long you take.

Different types of "information" ate at play here with the different types of entropy as well. If I have a 16 bit hash function and feed it a 64 bit value 48 bits of computational information is lost (at minimum). What happens with the physical information you used to represent the computation after you get the information result is separate from what happens with the computational information.
Grazie mille =)
Ah, right, i was thinking the column back 1st row (what i get for having insomnia and typing without thinking). I sit corrected
> I'm glad the top comment is pointing out the nonsense of this argument, but then I'm just left wondering how this made it to the top of HN in the first place.

The last two posts from the same author[1][2], in the past month, where of the same kind and got the same kind of reception (except that for the fediverse blog post, the top comments were either discussing about the topic of the title without addressing the (dumb) content of the article). So yeah, the mystery is why it keeps coming back.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549218
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36466133
High yield savings accounts at 5%, if real inflation is at 3% and you have 2 million saved, that’s 40k/year plus Social Security for another 40k/year. Combine that with a paid off house and Medicare and I would say they’d be doing fine.
Tips in the U.S. are insane. I feel like there's now a social expectation to tip for everything, even if it involves no actually tip-worthy service due to credit card machines. And the low end is now 18-20%. I recently went to Europe and tips were not expected, the food was no more expensive (maybe even less so) than the US, and the service was fine.
You said, "You'll be gaslit into chasing down dead ends, distracted from actual issues."

When the ideal situation is that your Code-writing bot is attempting to gaslight your Project-management bot, and they go around in tireless circles, 24/7 arguing with each other, while their human masters are sleeping or not paying attention :)
"Value" in this context meaning "prospective source of money".

"Value" in normal context means something like "source of things that people actually want". If people choose not to use something the moment they have that option, then perhaps they never wanted it in the first place.
> cheating the lottery

Isn't this a contradiction? Like only the lottery is allowed to cheat you?
The tipping culture lead to the unfortunate situation that laid off staff received only little unemployment benefits during covid, because their base salary has been low. So it is favorable for the worker to receive a higher base salary without tips (and rather higher prices).
Exactly. And stretching may lead to the further injuries if your muscles are weak and can't support the safe movement during the full range of motion. Especially if you already have hypermobility.

The author should talk to a knowledgeable physiotherapist, not a chiropractor...
I work from home and haven't noticed significant additional wear and tear on my toilet. The same with my sink, fridge, doors and floors. I did buy a chair. It was about 300 bucks and it's a better one than I've ever had in an office.
FedNow launch hints at payments wars to come
And the kids should floss their teeth daily too.

I mean, at one level, yes?

But if someone seemingly legit asks me to appear on a webinar--I'd be asking more questions about traveling to an event--I'm pretty much going to say yes. And if they send over some apparently routine paperwork including publicity rights and so forth, it's realistically only getting a quick skim.
SimCity did a lot of things right, especially the ability to upgrade your facilities rather than having to plop another whole one down like Cities: Skylines demands (apparently this is addressed in the upcoming sequel). And the 'specializations' in SimCity offered much more interesting industrial opportunities to pursue than anything in Cities: Skylines. Also the 'agent' system was used to simulate pressure over distance in the water and sewage systems, which made for interesting challenges in placing your pumps and treatment facilities. I still come back and play it every once in a while :)
There was a good odd lots episode interviewing a developer about what it took to convert an office building to residential in nyc.

Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/aVVwTSsvNZ0

You can also search for the podcast.
What would happen if we stopped fishing?
Apparently, Crows Love Luxurious Ant Baths. This Is What It Looks Like (2021)
Yup, a whole lot of our "housing crises" are caused by stupid/greedy cities zoning for more commercial usage than residential and continuing to grow the disparity. If you actually kept them at a fixed ratio you wouldn't generate housing problems. Your commercial space would fill up and then be full, additional jobs wouldn't be added to your city until residential units were and companies would just have to go somewhere else when there wasn't space.
Homosexual marriage is universally legal in the States, doesn't that indicate legal precedents have changed significantly in the intervening time?
There is a difference between "I am a foreigner, so I refuse to tip because I will never see them again" which is taking advantage of the implied service contract and morally wrong and "I refuse to tip in new categories to employees already compensated as thought they are not getting tipped."
I thought your comment meant this was somehow based on Rust the game. I was wondering if it had such a flexible modding system to enable things like this!
I’d rather have one competent software engineer than three incompetent ones. At any price.
> The main branches of industry produce tractors and trucks, earth movers for use in construction and mining, [metal-cutting machine tools], agricultural equipment, motorcycles, chemicals, fertilizer, textiles, and consumer goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Belarus
> But directly paying to be a speaker? Absolutely not normal.

The only time it's normal to pay to speak is when you are sponsoring an event.
I'll look into all of that. Again, thanks for sharing it all.
> I wonder whether a WM written in Java or Python would get the same hate.

Well, there is Qtile. A tiling WM written in Python.
The developer never writes a patch when using git. The developer creates a new repository state, links it to a parent state (or multiple parent states) and describes the difference between these states in the commit message. A patch form is just a handy way to visualize these changes.

You can dump commits into patches and then apply them onto different repositories, but in order to do that you still have to convert such patch into a new repository state first.

Many people "learn" git by learning which commands to use to do some things and in turn don't understand what's going on at all. It's like learning how to write a letter by reading Word's manual.
Oregon Tried a Bold Experiment in Drug Policy. Early Results Aren’t Encouraging
Thank you! I totally agree and am planning to revamp the screenshots for the next release. Initially I went with landscape screenshots in order to show multiple toolbar variations at a decent size, but the tradeoff is I couldn't show settings screens. A video would be great but I'm gonna have to grow some video editing skills first :)
For those who are curious, "fine-ance" / "fin-ance"
https://archive.is/rJELg
The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (2016)
N26 has a history of problems. I would recommend staying as far away as possible.
Is it time for some enterprising startup to invent a Dune-style stillsuit?

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit
Can you call it value when it's fundamentally rent-seeking? This wasn't value created, it was value extracted.
I'm not a boomer, and there is no way I would vote to tax what little I am able to leave my children at 90%. I got nothing from my parents and worked hard since i was 15 to scratch out an existence and provide more for my kids than I got. Not a chance I think that the government can do a better job for my kids with what I was able to save by throwing it into a pot than I could
Uh I’ve already saved more in dry cleaning than it would cost to replace my toilet 10 times.
(For what it’s worth, Safari on iOS does that)
This is what happens when urban planning goes wrong. In asian cities where most office buildings are zoned along with residential buildings and other types of buildings (shops, service providers etc) the office commercial property would just get converted to another type of commercial and possibly residential property and life moves on. An extreme example of this would be to have residential building type be almost identical to a commercial type which I have seen plenty of in south Asia. The problem in US is that when offices close down the entire city dies. The economic activity halves, it feels empty, creepy and unsafe. A lot of cities in the US exist to cater to the 9-5 office workers that relapse back to suburbs far from the city for anything other than work and some entertainment.
There's a way to get healthier without even going to a gym. It's called NEAT
Keep in mind, this is coming from the same firm who told AT&T in the 1980's that mobile phones would be a niche market with only 0.9 million subscribers.[a]

Truth is, no one knows with certainty whether office real-estate losses will be in the hundreds of billions or in the trillions of dollars.

And then, there's the question of indirect, non-real-estate financial losses -- for example, by downtown shops, restaurants, and other establishments that cannot survive if offices remain half-empty for much longer. The indirect, non-real-estate losses may well dwarf the direct ones!

All predictions about losses caused by remote work are little more than educated guesses at this point.

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[a] Sources:

http://www.economist.com/node/246152

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/in-a-new-book-mckins...

http://www.dtic.upf.edu/%7Ealozano/innovation/
Yeah to be clear, I tip my bartenders and waiters even though I'd much rather they just get paid a normal, living wage. But when you're working at a counter just plugging my order into an iPad, and I have to go up and grab my food—I'm certainly not tipping then.
Thank You! <3 I love minimal UIs and customizability.

Is there any way I can keep updated if that ever happens?
Low demand for the professional windbag.
We've become more efficient as a society. We stopped wasting fuel, our time and wear and tear on cars. All that time and material can be spent on something productive.

Instead headlines tell about value of offices. Maybe that value was not real. It only existed because someone with power over employees could force them to waste resources. It's a market failure.
"Much of Western colonial policy for half a millennium was based on this very assumption"

I am not so sure, especially about the "half a millennium" part. It seems you are extrapolating from specifically Anglo-Saxon justifications of slavery, where blacks were considered unequal-because-stupid. That's not the norm over the entire globe and half a millennium, though.

There isn't significant evidence that, say, the Spanish conquistadors considered the vanquished Amerindians stupid (and it would be indeed hard to pronounce the people who built Tenochtitlan or Cuzco stupid). Same with the English in India. Heathens, yes, stupid, no.

Obsession with intelligence, stupidity, heredity thereof and, subsequently, eugenics, mostly dates from post-Darwin times. It approximately matches the last century of colonialism, but not 500 years.

Prior to the 19th century, few people cared about sophisticated explanations of conquest and dominance. There just weren't enough intellectuals around for theoretical explanations to matter. You lost a war, you became someone's subject or slave, that was it. In Europe, in Arabia, in China, everywhere. If there was any theory at all in play, it was mostly theological ("the unbelievers lost, because God willed it so, or we lost, because we sinned and God wanted to punish us").
Target audience. 3 cafes have popped up within walking distance of my house in the past 5 years and they all seem to be going strong. I doubt any of the owners give a flying fuck what Bloomberg has to say about office rents lol.
This is the weirdest conspiracy theory that HN has gotten obsessed with of late.
Do you have any data to show how prevalent this is? I suspect worker retirement plans have more exposure than leaders of companies, and it seems only the largest, most stable and slower growing companies own their own real estate.
I wonder who at McKinsey is studying both the tangible and intangible benefits of WFH.
The blocklists used by uBlock origin are freely available: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/tree/master/filters
The Lean/Deming approach is incredibly different, and I strongly suggest if you'd like to know more to read "Out of the Crisis".

Hilariously enough, lots of the things he says about production workers in factories is almost identical to stuff I see software people say about their jobs, so it's well worth a read.
Using it to debug emacs would've been such a great reverse hierarchy (I think that's the word I'm looking for)
I solved 30 Project Euler problems in 50 days – here's what I learned
I consider requests for tips to be worse than higher prices and am much less likely to return. Tips feel a bit like small scale extortion, especially with food.
Yeah, if I actually had an office I would probably be significantly more into the idea.

Instead I was paid in the top whatever small percentile of workers and had, at best, a few feet in a couple of directions in a big open room where I spent a third of my life.

Which is just... stupid capitalism. Degrading conditions until they are just above intolerable.
They're not, generally, but if the stars align correctly, nobody will win the jackpot until it's gotten so large that buying every possible combination will - if you're the only winner - pay you more than the base odds. But then you're betting that you will have the only winning ticket.

I'll usually buy a few tickets if it hits that point. Cheap fantasy.
Close to 60% of the market gain this year is the Big Tech 7 (this kind of top-heavy weighting tends to foreshadow bad economic events). The yield curve is still inverted at historic levels. There is something fundamentally very wrong in the US and global economy and it may not have manifested fully yet but it will. We're bullish for now but for how long.
I think you misspelled "shibboleet."
Why would you have to reproduce all the past mistakes? Did the knowledge get lost? Procedures can be dusted off.
The recent Powerball lottery prize was for $1 billion but there are fewer than 300,000,000 possible tickets. But like somebody else mentioned, there's always the possibility of multiple winners.

For the recent billion dollar prize, a single person won.

The prizes get huge because when there's no winner, the prize rolls over to the next drawing.
On previous HN threads on this topic, there definitely has not been unanimous agreement that refusing to tip is “morally wrong” and that the “implied service contract” is binding. The opposing argument is that if wait staff are not satisfied with their remuneration, that is a matter between them and their employer (and some good old labor organizing is called for), and the customer shouldn’t be brought into it.

Cultures shift through an aggregate of individuals’ actions, and each person refusing to tip in hope of moving to the system found in certain other countries is “being the change they want to see in the world”.
I haven’t seen this before and I can’t verify with the link to the actual field manual because it’s a 404. Does anyone have a PDF of the actual manual handy? (Edit: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual/... Scroll to section (11a).)

The article seems to suggest that these things were lifted from the actual manual. Perhaps they cherry-picked these over things that are more relevant to commercial office work, but I would suspect instead that the statements which were excluded are less relevant.

If that’s the case, these are hardly things simply which the author dislikes. In the author’s own words: “If you are like me, many of these things sound surprisingly familiar.”

Perhaps the other methods as suggested by this comment’s parent are less effective (as an intentional means of sabotage) and so were excluded. It still seems worth it to be aware of these things and especially to look for them being perpetrated in bad faith.
“…Chancellor Angela Merkel once said, “I think of airtight windows. No other country can build as airtight and as beautiful windows.”“

That is still true. Quality of houses and apartments in Germany is incredibly high compared to the rest of the world.
Or: does the incompetency only become apparent in 6-12 months, enough time for the CTO to perform another sleight of hand and distract people (or quit and move on)
If it wasn't stated up front during ordering then it's not a tip, you are just getting scammed. I'd just not pay it and walk out. What are they going to do?

If you aren't willing to stand up for yourself then you don't get to complain.
It isn’t saving $800B in rent expense. That’s the property value which is around 14-20x the actual rental income.
Toyota has one BEV and it’s a joke. Look it up. We’ll wait.
We are importing in Europe tips trough those dash/uber apps. I thoroughly hate that, especially if the app ask a tip beforehand, and I wish those services fee would be legislated out of existence.
Interesting meta-observation - This thread is filled with people satisfied with this new web browser, and not a single mention of the engine.

IMHO this apps existence proves that you can build a new web browser with innovative features on top of the engine restrictions on iOS, and consumers are not harmed because this runs WebKit.
Then you aren’t ready to be a CTO at a public company! That long term thinking will get you nowhere!
I translated it to Greek and then searched.
Not a great source, but a source. https://www.lexilogia.gr/threads/t%CE%BF-%CF%88%CE%AC%CF%81%...
"The saying goes «το ψάρι, το κοτόπουλο και η γυναίκα θέλουν χέρι», i.e. "you should use your hand for fish, chicken and women". It is usually used as a joke, in a familiar environment, in order to urge someone, usually a man, who is reluctant to use their hands to eat fish or chicken, and stick to using their knife and fork, because they are embarrassed to eat with their hands.

An attempt at a definition: "you can't eat fish and chicken unless you grab them with your hand, and you should also use your hands on (your) woman". It is a play with the phrase "βάζω χέρι", which means to grope, to feel up. Not very politically correct, I know :)"
It's more about per unit cost of existence vs per unit revenue from existence. We're at the point where it's definitely possible to take rockets to other planets (and probably possible to get back eventually) and it's probably possible to live there with continued help from earth, it's just really expensive and it will never be cheaper than just living on earth, as long as earth's climate stays within a reasonable band around where it is now and Earth doesn't become so uniformly corrupt that there is a massive savings available just by changing the venue to a less stupidly run venue.

So, that being said it's pretty obvious the people that think we will be living on other planets are pretty delusional unless our birthrate explodes (unlikely) or our death rate drops from living way longer (unlikely but more likely than birth rate exploding) and so we actually need more living space. Revenue potential could drive colonization but you have to ask yourself if there is more revenue potential on mars or in something like an o'neill cylinder(s) mining things with miniscule gravity wells to overcome like asteroids and it seems pretty obvious that the latter will always win over the former.

The same reasoning applies to Phoenix. Biodoming would make cost of existence per unit of revenue from existence hugely negative but it turns out providing good air conditioning with backup power to upper middle class and higher to cool their homes and crappier air conditioning with no backup power to middle class and lower to take the edge off of the horrible 2-4 months of summer is still a net positive venture, despite sucking a lot for a part of the year, so we do that instead.