skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> drivers who demand money when delivering food, beg for money, throw the food, decide to eat it - or otherwise ruin food deliveries because the tip was not high enough -there's been a lot

Woah. That's so crazy that I'm not sure what to say.

Clearly when the whole culture and wages are built on expecting and paying tips, the thing stops being a nice gesture for a good service (what I believe is the original concept of tipping) and becomes an unspecified but essential part of the actual price of things.

My first thought was that where I live, services such as taxis and delivery have traditionally been tipped too, but tipping has always been something you do in person: you would ignore whatever app and give the actual rider a couple bucks. Notice the "a couple bucks": tipping here is I'd say hardly ever a function of the price, even in restaurants. Maybe 1 or 2 € per person on a run of the mill place, if the food and service have been good.

Nowadays (during last decade) I feel maybe companies started to tell their employees to not ask for tips. It's been ages since a delivery guy stands in my door with a stare and an attitude clearly telling that they're waiting for a tip; they just leave your stuff, say thanks, and leave quickly without dragging the exchange a single second longer than needed.
It might be possible to create a new kind of transistor that turns on/off by changing the superconductivity of the conducting material.
Its getting a bit boring to hear the same one word dismissal for everything over the last year. When HN learns a new word you really have to be patient.
He forgot about the 3rd P, perovskites (cheaper & more efficient solar cells)
Despite the the "strictly no jesting on the super serious hacker news" rule, I think it was just a joke. I wouldn't let it get to you too much. I thought it was pretty funny.
As with many joint development groups, there’s ongoing membership inductions. Intel or AMD may join in the future. The initial set of companies isn’t representative of anything other than who founded it.
The more direct problem in my experience is that all kinds of network devices that could reasonably be powered that way don't support it. My Fritz!Box router and repeater don't support it, my Sophos firewall doesn't support it (tho the Sophos XGS can supply PoE it doesn't seem to be able to be powered that way either) and of course the Hue hub and Raspberry Pi can't be powered by PoE either.
I've integrated Adyen. It wasn't perfect but it wasn't as awful as Paypal.
I feel like you are doing the legal equivalent of reading the side effect warnings of an over the counter drug and freaking out.

Those rules that are freaking you out? Literally just the same expectations you would have around a gift, except made strange and unfamiliar by specificity.

You also seem to be reading the language around use as indicative of a plan to resell your software which is utterly bizarre.

I'm also not seeing anything that would indicate a cap on profits. You seem to have decided that if people can see the source that means you can't sell it? That does not make any sense. Let alone the ability to make improvements and sell that as a closed source offering.
The priest (or equivalent) generally serves this role in kind, and for some sects degree. Religions include the same kind of inoculation with respect to belief, exclusion, and suspicion of outside influences that cults have: it’s just expressed differently (sometimes).
That was incredibly unhelpful
Why kick the can. Index funds are operated by someone, right?
At least those people were landlords. I think I can live with that.
There is one. You need to zoom in.
software engineer technically i guess, but that’s not my current job. i just like standardisation. i’m trying to convince IT at my workplace to let me rewire and label all the switches/patch panels because it pains me how unorganised they are
As Hawking once explained, “Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang.” When cosmologists talk about the universe and its age, it seems to me, as a non-cosmologist, that they’re using terms of art related to their models.

Hawking’s explanation deduces that if the observable universe expanded from a singularity, we would be unable to meaningfully theorize what happened before then, since it would be beyond any form of observation to test the theory. Therefore, a scientific model rooted in observation can describe nothing earlier than the Big Bang.

However, not everything unseen is untrue. If a singularity were to form somewhere in Andromeda tomorrow — in all likelihood, one will — we will still have existed today.

Edit: The initial comment was meant as a lighthearted reply to the universe personification, but I ended up sensing a need to explain the reasoning.
Anyone used Block (previously Square) as an alternative to Stripe?
Do you realize that Flutter has an accessibility system that is often more advanced than most desktop UI frameworks? [0] I notice this often from non-Flutter devs, Flutter has some pretty good a11y.

[0] https://docs.flutter.dev/accessibility-and-localization/acce...
If its real, it's going to excite a metric fuckton of funding in hightc superconductors research.

It doesn't have to be LK99. It'll be one of the other variants that we discover.

Others with more knowledge materials production please add more to this... but it's certainly encouraging there's no rare earth metals or anything radioactive as a component!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Ti...
Ask HN: Is it worth pushing back on a senior coworker suggesting more meetings?
I'd prefer a version where all the non-essentials are missing over a switch.
This does not apply to addicted ppl
In its current form, not as far as I know. Even the OpenAI tutorial on this matter scrapes first and uses only normal text.

https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/apps/web...
Computers Are Over-Rated
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in August 2023
If we can even get the charge times for EVs down to the minutes to take to refill ICE tanks. It will basically remove the range anxiety problem.
The chart is un-enlargable and also unreadable in its minimized form.
A lot of comments regarding the browser as the platform, but I remember it differently.

I remember it as a push for IIS. Netscape didn't make money with the browser; the business model was giving away the browser to sell the server.
Since we are suggesting changes: I often find myself deep in a thread and realize it is not interesting for me anymore. Moving "up" to the next "level 1" is difficult, I have to scroll and scroll and scroll, ah crap, I missed the right indentation.

Adding a way to get to the next root comment would be awesome.
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Those two ruin more lives because they're legal and way more widely available, so more people abuse them - not because they're worse. Larger sample size means larger number affected overall. And yet we have people here arguing that hard drugs should be legal and widely available too.

Let's be honest, food (sugar) and alcohol are in a totally different league from hard drugs. They're not even relevant to the discussion here. We can do an experiment. I'll take 2 shots of alcohol every day, my friend will drink 3 sodas a day (100+g of sugar), and you can shoot up heroin every day. Let's see how we're all doing in a year.
And yet, those rare times you need something you’re happy to know the feature is there.

There’s no point in removing stuff from CSS. The only thing that would do is break old websites.

If only 5% is truly powerful you can easily and happily use only that 5%
so how expensive would this material be to make? i’ve seen everyone say potential uses but i just wanna know if it’s economically feasible
The point of walled garden is that they are very tempting to stay inside off for users. Their power comes from most users not resisting that temptation.

Becoming the equivalent of a digital hermit and living in a hole in the ground outside these walls, which is what I would characterize this as, is not going to result on a lot of people stepping outside those walls. If you've ever watched Life of Brian, you'll have a good mental picture here.

It's a variation of brutalist web development (let's not call it design) that just doesn't really appeal to the masses. It never has. The history of the web is endless attempts to pimp it with Applets, Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight, etc. The latest incarnation of that is web assembly. This basically allows you to use anything native that works elsewhere (desktop, mobile, game consoles, AR/VR, etc.) in a browser as well.

Of course there's a severe risk of this to disappear into more walled gardens. But I don't think sitting in a dusty old hole in the middle of nowhere while shaking your fists at progress does much to change that.
Not any conductive material, obviously won’t work won’t work, nor magnetic steel / stainless steel alloys.
I have no idea about Stripe because it doesn't support Viet Nam. Paypal is very good payment gateway for my startup.
> I assume no frontend would want to render the HTML as is.

Well yeah, that'd be pretty ugly on most browsers without some kind of stylesheet, but...

> Hence they would need IDs on those DIVs to style and place them.

...this doesn't really follow from that. Like yeah, that's probably a good idea (even better would be some more specific tags than just divs), but the client has everything it needs to present the data to the user even without that.

The point, I think, is that styling is a separate concern; HATEOAS and REST have more to do with structuring information and interactions with it, and the examples therefore emphasize that instead of a possibly-accidental prescription of some specific styling for that information.
The poster I replied to indicated that the “making money” part could come later.

It is easy enough to have a volunteering agreement that catches this with clauses. Open sourcing the code won’t help with that scenario anyway.
I don't know, the word was backed up by an explanation that made sense to me.
To avoid the detection rules being circumvented by users, they won't give you any explanation, only a generalized reason. It's almost impossible for you to find out what the problem is.
To be fair, the claim that 90% of the people don't care about that is a bit exaggerated, but I think it points into the right direction.
I'm absolutely with you. I would love that the web becomes what it once was. A place where people care about people, instead of just money. And our best bet would be to show our lovely relatives and friends that there are websites out there where they don't have to click through huge cookie banners, being constantly forced to download apps or whatever, or having 50%+ of the screen occupied by ads. And not to forget that their privacy is being respected. Yes, we can do better.
Another downside of these alternatives is that they are not decentralized either. USDT and USDC are controlled by a single entity each. The top 0.01% of Bitcoin holders own 27% of all the Bitcoin [0], and even worse, the top 0.1% of Bitcoin miners control half of the miner capacity [1]. I am not sure about Ethereum, but as in any pure capitalistic system, the accumulation of wealth by a few is inevitable [2].

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-weal...

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/10/26/bitcoin-mining-capacity-owner...

[2] "capital has the tendency for concentration and centralization in the hands of richest capitalists. Marx explains"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation#:~:text=c...
> Why

Maybe to celebrate the page 2nd-level linked in the submitted, "30 Free Circuit Simulators Lightly Reviewed" / "Best free analog circuit simulators", where the third and last substantive paragraph is all about "This will not suit everyone but look"

https://www.designworldonline.com/best-free-analog-circuit-s...
Not the strangest thing I've read today, but it's up there.
When i started to get into computers and later the internet my normie friends thought of that stuff as utterly pointless. Sure, they were sure that there was some use to computers in big businesses, replace the typewriters and make the life easyer for accountants, but everything else? Nah, nothing interesting for the wider populous, just nerd toys.

The internet? Why should anyone want to write an email if you could simply call somebody? Why would i want to get in contact with some random person on the other side of the globe? Why order something online? Is the "Quelle Katalog" (something akin to Sears) not much better?

Well... nearly all of the normie friends that did make such statements are now happily online, albeit nearly entirely on the corpo-web. My take on this: Let them. Let them sell their lifes to the corporations, but give them the opportunity to break free and learn of the "other web" if they show interest. Freedom is also the freedom to harm yourself.
For Europeans, Mollie works also very good! Very easy to integrate and the fees are reasonable.
Gov.uk recommends against them. This should be enough to discourage most people.
Yes, these are good ideas too.
Agents Orchestrate a “Bring Your Own LLM” Approach to Intelligent Assistance
What is 'correct' on Wikipedia usually comes down to who has the most resources or spare time to continually put their point of view back into the article. It's true that there are biases, but isn't this guy the one who tried to depose Jimmy Wales by falsely reporting him for using Wikipedia to host child porn?
> Other languages such as French, Russian, and Spanish also seems to assign genders to objects.

Those languages assign gender to words, I think, not objects. A car in German can be "der Wagen", "die Karre" or "das Auto".

There may be languages that assign genders to objects. Perhaps Dyirbal, which Lakoff refers to in "Women, fire and dangerous things"? I'm not familiar with any such language so I can't say.
First you pointed out your extensive experience as a basis for your argument and now when you realize you're completely out of your depths, you call us "locked in their ways" and call yourself "I am a hack programmer at best and I can admit that".

Fun fact: I'm actually not really seeing this "locked in your ways" as people get older, I see people asking about the cost-benefit of using a technology before using it a lot more. Just because I got curious, I took another look at the repo, there was a few libraries that I've never seen, but generally I'm up to date with what is going on (might have not used anything in production, but at least out of curiosity - I'm familiar). As I pointed out elsewhere, there are just literally 16 different languages used in this project and over 270k LoC.

I'm way past the stage of my life in which I feel a need to have a dick measurement contest online with random people about my experience, where I work and how many devices do we sell per year.

I think you might need emotional support in your life, take care.
Just wait about 15 years and we’ll see how ‘preposterous’ it can get when the 32-bit Unix timestamp rolls over. It’s going to be Y2K all over again.
They might mean attachments too, which I count as whole message history.

Messages seems to be somewhat random about keeping/removing attachments from your devices regardless of how much storage you have free or whether you have 'Optimise Storage' off.

*note this is specifically when using Messages with iCloud
Is it due to steam deck being on offer in July?
thanks, i will give it a read after I am done with the main novel
The Problem with Sharing Problems in Complex Systems
Yeah with their own QA from a variety of different personas/perspectives/concerns/contexts I reckon you'll get a very decent accuracy - or at least self-assessment of inaccuracy. All these can ever do is propagate the data they know so far to the context/prompt you desire, but I don't see obvious limits there. And GPT4 is already a superb conversation partner as smart as nearly any person - so it's really like piecing experts together. If we run into any fundamental limitations from piecing these all together, it's gonna be the same limit that any group of humans trying to make a coherent/consistent organization of knowledge encounters, I think.

Coincidentally, that appears to be how GPT4 was made - apparently it's actually about 8 personas with designated roles running GPT3.5 trained together ("Panel of experts"? there's an AI name for the technique). Makes you wonder how far that one trick scales.

(P.S. great link. Gah - another long read on the todo list)
That's indeed why I lump them together as the "SAG Trifecta".
Adyen didn't want to speak to us unless I could show ~£1M+ a year of transactions :(
JS does not 'just work'. This is why a lot of these custom components have bad touch interaction and no accessibility.
Take the datepicker; the native mobile version works great, why annoy users with a custom component?
A Tech Startup Disrupted a Beloved Seattle Food Tradition
Yes, that's right, I avoid hallucinations that way. In addition, I mark up existing texts so that the LLM knows what it is reading even if it is a piece of a larger text, so for e.g if you need to get Apple's Greater China sales for each quarter in 2020... https://imgur.com/a/oCCay3o

I am not making 4 calls with the entire text, I instead get pieces of each which would best match the question.
There are additional challenges, for instance, GPT4 struggles to know the difference between the words guidance and outlook, which mean the same thing but somehow they don't for GPT4.

When I say they become better readers, I meant it in a general sense as in better in the case above. You basically have someone who can read through tables really well, and that can change investment research fundamentally, which is a lot of reading tables and graphs :)
bootstrap, aka becoming sovereign aka self-made man.
> "We're definitely moving forward with strong measures to improve the situation, and while progress might not be immediately visible, we're fully engaged in this essential journey."
Great article.

I'd like to see more of stuff like this
Your Emacs configuration, embedded in your Nix configuration, is obviously tested by CI before being committed.

(mine certainly is, and I've also been using EXWM for 6-7 years or so, with few problems)
https://archive.is/FwQDM
Not sure if it made into the final text. But some drafts of the GDPR have provisions for rights for explaination
You said yourself: you’re not powerless. It’d be lots of work, but starting a cs degree is possible.

But it’s also not everything to be in SV. You can do lots by being a high quality remote worker from Canada.
Distros (especially those based on Debian and Arch/AUR) package all sorts of weird obscure stuff, the chances of not packaging Xorg are kinda low.

And if some do drop it and you don't want to switch to a distro that still has it, you can always compile and install it from source, it isn't that much of an issue. If said distro has XWayland (which is much less likely to be removed) it'll already have most of the libraries available.
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I second LemonSqueezy. They're a bit new, but are going in the right direction.

Stripe isn't available in my country anyway.

PayPal's dev experience was quite bad, but trying to do business with them was virtually impossible. I wasted a lot of time from both the dev and business angles.
ChatGPT had a Browser Plugin (via the Plus subscription) but last I checked it was removed, (possibly because it cannibalized Bing? Or just the reliability issues).
It seems to me that the second group is also entertained by discussing money, tech salaries in particular.
Ask HN: How often do you take breaks during the day?
Hello HN,

Often, stepping away from the desk is seen as a loss of valuable work time, time we could otherwise use to tackle the next item on our to-do list.

Recently, I read an article [1] that made me think about my own break habits. It indicated that taking breaks during our workday can boost performance and overall well-being.

This got me wondering why we often spend 8 straight hours at our desks every day, taking breaks only for lunch and bathroom visits.

So, I'm curious about HN's break habits.

How often do you take breaks during your workday, and for how long?

What do you do during these breaks to help maintain productivity throughout your work sessions?

Also, do you ever find it hard to use your breaks effectively? For example, instead of doing something refreshing, do you just end up doom-scrolling on your phone?

[1] https://hbr.org/2023/05/how-to-take-better-breaks-at-work-according-to-research?utm_campaign=60914066303de1000182574f&utm_content=647eb25a887baa000172a21e&utm_medium=smarpshare
My parents, which represent an average person nowadays, do know how to ride a horse to get somewhere. What they don't know is how to drive a automobile, even more- for them gasoline=danger. Cars can be a nieche solution for some nieche ppl, but I don't see how it can become mainstream now, as a business you anyway need a classic horse barn bc too few ppl know what is a automobile and how to use it