skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean I think at least a plurality of people on this website agree that the War on Iraq was a mistake. A lot of people at the time were very clear that it was a mistake.
Using a Shelly 1 as a garage door opener with Home Assistant
I think the word 'tip' should be replaced with the word 'subsidize' on these payment prompt machines.

Quite absurd practice that I really wish we can move away from as a society.
For now.

Reddit's currently working on a UI/UX update for moderators on new.reddit (or newnew reddit as I like to call it since it's technically a second redesign) with an ETA of early 2024 [1]. According to them last year, 4% of users use old.reddit but carry out 60% of all moderating actions [2].

My guess is once that rolls out, they'll be ready to retire old.reddit.

The UI will live on though. There's mlmym [3] that allows you to use the interface on Lemmy. The instance of Lemmy I use has it on https://old.lemmy.world

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/15rxkbn/announcing...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_wo...

[3] https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
Yesterday I had lunch at a Shake Shack. Humans don't take orders there any more; you place your order at a self-serve touchscreen kiosk. As I finished placing my order, I was prompted to leave a tip; 10% was the default and you had to press a button to change it.

Who am I tipping, exactly? The kiosk? Myself? No one had even made eye contact with me up to this point. I have ordered fast food from a computer. When I have eaten it, I'm expected to bus my own table.

And yet, I felt bad for removing the tip before placing my order, and kind of slunk away from the kiosk hoping the kitchen in the back doesn't know whether or not I tipped, so they can't spit on my burger.
Body camera, but for civilians.
Is it really even a bedroom if you can't fit a queen sized mattress? That's an incredibly small room.
Can you expand a bit more about what you mean when you say you're a competitive typist? are these in person tournaments?
Gimme a rocket and a space suit! I volunteer! No salary!
Pro tip: pay cash whenever you can. You can avoid a kiosk that asks you whether you want to tip 30%, 25%, or 20% for the $8 coffee you just bought and just throw some loose change in the jar.
This is a pretty embittered post with not much to say. I'll leave it at that.
Love it! I feverishly consumed every computer mag I could get my hands on back then, and there is something about those images that still capture my imagination and wonder today. I guess thats a testament to the artist!
I would much rather pay more for items than be expected to tip. I consider tipping to be like all the other "hidden fees" we encounter. Just give me the total price for something.
Bonus question on O-1: what do you think are the easiest boxes to check for a talented professionals in AI? High salary and critical capacity for established organizations are a given, but what else?
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I experienced something similar at a previous job. It was funny. I was working in a satellite office for an org based in a different country, and once in a while (minimum once a year) we'd be sent to HQ for a few weeks. Wrapping up projects, team coordination, whatever. So of course we'd eat together.

The team got a new manager when I joined, and he was told that our treatment was equal despite satellite office status because we were on the same teams coordinating on the same projects, but in different timezones.

Anyway, even though I was technically a FTE at the company, I didn't have the necessary prerequisites to pay for cafeteria food at FTE discounts. I was forced to pay contractor prices. A full extra $5 per meal. My manager was initially confused, then upset. Then we tried to talk with the cafeteria contracting company. They told him it was out of their control. So, we began investigating...eventually uncovering some internal "separate but equal" undocumented employment scheme were compensation, benefits, whatnot, unraveled into a weird caste discrimination system. The people that were pulling their weight were paid pennies while senior team members who were awaiting retirement just raked in the big bucks with benefits on contracts no longer offered, or offered through some backdoor deals before the company really expanded.

In the end, the lunch situation was solved by just stating that I was a FTE because I had the same color badge. It turns out the cashiers didn't even
scan badges or anything, just asked you if you were internal and to show your badge.

But out of all the bullshit we uncovered, the food situation really broke his spirit the most.
The right amount is 0%.

Tipping is stupid, if you can’t afford to pay your staff, your trading insolvent.
Really helpful, thanks. When it comes to building something smaller than a shoebox it's a "don't know what I don't know" situation over here
A few quick searches suggests to me that Omegle had more users -- 73 million monthly versus maybe 5 million or so on HN -- but they were only worth $5 million dollars.

Hacker News is not and never has been a "business" in its own right. It's part of the business model of a VC fund -- Y Combinator -- and Forbes indicates they were worth $5 billion as of 2021.

Also, I don't think we know how many people moderate HN and never have.

I don't work here. I just hang here sometimes and have for years. I don't have reliable info.

But I am pretty sure you have no idea what you are talking about.
The website was probably created as a subtle way to promote their startup.
Right - brain fart - I was thinking of rare-metal pegmatites found at (say) Greenbushes W.Australia that gets mainly mined for Li for batteries, but additionally for Be, Cs, Ta.

Wrong class of 'rare'.

That said, Malaysia stands - Mt. Weld here in W.Australia refines there:

https://lynasrareearths.com/

The Lynas Mt Weld mine in Western Australia is acknowledged as one of the world’s premier rare earths deposits. Lynas also operates the world’s largest single rare earths processing plant in Malaysia where it produces high-quality separated rare earth materials for export to manufacturing markets in Asia, Europe and the United States.

I'd have to check but IIRC the industry release re: Tesla also outlined including rare earth processing - which makes sense, pooling all the toxic by product processing to a single location to avoid multiple hellscapes.
Stop calling them tips, start calling them commissions on sales, and automatically include that in the price of each item. This eliminates tipping entirely and if the customer doesn't like the quality of service, they can make their displeasure known by not returning.

Nobody working in high-end retail sales gets tips, but they do get commissions, which are included in the listed prices. This is really a much better, fairer, and less socially awkward approach to the issue. Note it's also much better than replacing tips with an hourly wage increase because the staff is rewarded if the business is busy, so they're incentivized to keep the clients coming back.
‘Father of cell phone’ reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago
I keep on seeing it on sale at GOG and I wonder how it compares to other open world games with exploration, such as skyrim and fallout 4?
He had a position at Fusion-io, a storage company
Increasing profit margins is a reliable way to increase stock prices, which is (at this stage of capitalism) the most powerful force directing the allocation of capital. It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop with far-reaching power throughout the economy.
I've started paying cash more at places that have tipping screens for what I consider to be a service that a tip is not required. For example the local donut shop has a tipping screen for them spending 1-2 minutes of time to get the donuts.
This might be a self-report, but...

I used to tip anywhere from high 20's to low 30's, but in the years since COVID, _everything_ asks for a tip even when no extra service is provided (i.e. take-out), so I default to 0%, or a modest 10 or 15% if it's dine-in at a local shop.

I support workers' rights and a living wage, but can't really justify upholding the current scheme of exploitation by store owners in the name of supporting labor. I would much rather laws and/or unions force the issue of laborers getting paid what their labor is worth than giving more money to business owners praying that they are not crushing their employees.
This is 99% accurate, and I love that the author can put it plainly.

Note that the effect goes both ways. Companies started offering ridiculous pay package to less-than-qualified people, ... because the others were doing it.

Trend following is a real nasty human aspect, social media platforms know that too well.

It's so much easier to follow what others are doing than buck the trend and have to justify yourself at every corner decision. Remember the old saying "no one ever got fired for picking Oracle". Well today you'll hear me say "no one ever got fired for picking Salesforce".

Today's industry is plagued by a swath of people coming from all industries into the IT industry, because theirs is shrinking, and because money keeps flowing in this one; pure and simple.

No one really knows what the heck we're doing anymore, and everyone is risk adverse, flows down like the river; because it's impossible to justify yourself in large businesses for bucking the trend.

You'll do better if you can somehow buck the trend at the pivotal points, and read between the lines, but I think we're too far gone past the line of reason these days that it would make a difference.
The real drivers here are the big employers. They are the ones ultimately paying most of the bills, and they insist that insurers ration care to control costs.

Are US costs reasonably described as well controlled?
It can sound controversial, but can we please stop with tipping altogether?

Leaving aside for a second the fact that now tipping is basically asked everywhere (even at automated machines) - as an European I consider it an extremely stupid trend. If you're "forced" to tip, then it's not a tip anymore.

The concept of tipping, at least in Switzerland, has always been to show gratitude for an *exceptional* service.
I totally understand the situation in the States, where the tip is basically the employee's wage - but this shouldn't be the case to begin with.

It shouldn't be considered rude to not tip the service was good / OK. Employees / waiters should be paid adequate wages regardless of their tips - in the end this is why the food in a restaurant is so expensive (compared to cooking at home).
Topless laws and nude beaches disagree. Nudity is not porn.
I can't either. I know one's name. They were all awful, awful people, and I find myself with no desire to look backwards.
A bit over a decade ago Woz was chief scientist for Fusion-io, a startup that made various flash storage solutions.
In the programming realm specifically, following a trend can be foolish and, at the same time, as a bigger community usually means better support, documentation and maintenance, clever. It is bad, but if it was better, it could be worse.

Life can be very paradoxal at times.
I have been hacking on a better calculation environment for train speed zones.
Alon Levy wrote some python code that calculates how long it takes a train to accelerate and decelerate between different speed zones.

I have been cleaning up the code and adding more to it. I'm bringing it into a jupyter notebook so transit advocates can better present their routings. So far I have a framework that allows easy expression of alternate options along a segment of track

I'm not far off from being able to click and drag track segments on top of a map with ipyleaflet. I also want to hook in an optimizer to recommend the best track routings by cost.

There's still a lot of work to do. Is anyone else interested in hacking on this stuff?

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/10/27/setting-speed-...

[2] https://github.com/paddymul/train-calculator/blob/main/Segme...
Alaska has a sizeable rare earth and uranium deposit that has been at some level of development since 2007 by UCORE.
MailUnveil
Codeblocks, but each block is a file or a function or an object.
I'll say what we're all thinking after skimming the article:

Men had some really rocking beards back then.
figured there was a way to do it in one pass ... but didn't have the brainwidth to do it :)
I’ll tip if someone really deserves a tipping, if they really put forth the effort, I’ll give them something extra, but I mean this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds.
Why would they take enormous risks on execution -- huge cost overruns and delays are par for the course with nuclear -- when solar + battery is so much cheaper and quicker?
I wish I could give you more than just a "thank you", I love learning stuff like this, and I appreciate you explaining it in detail.
Warren Buffett calls this “The Institutional Imperative”
believe it or not, here in Ottawa Canada I was just reading a post on Reddit where people complain about those who were talking or doing video calls on the streets,
I think this will be a matter of culture and the barrier will be smaller as soon as the devices are "smarter" and not making you repeat yourself many times or, not understanding what you are asking.
this is aside but I really don't think you need to use a footnote if your comment is two sentences and a link
I don't really agree with the premise of the article, but my sustained typing throughput sits around 140wpm, and for 10s bursts can hit 170+. This is WAY faster than I can talk.

But I don't think this typing speed provides me the advantages the article professes - as others have noted, I am much more gated by the time I spend thinking before typing than I am the typing process itself. Dropping to 80wpm is going to influence the amount of garbage I throw out arguing with people on the internet far more than it would doing anything actually productive.

To the point of having to pause thought while typing, I don't find this to be particularly true. I'll still be thinking of how exactly I want to word something as I'm typing it, and will make minor adjustments on the fly.
Is there a trick to getting these to work in Sublime Text? I normally use Source Code Pro, which also comes in a bunch of variations, and I can set font_face to "Source Code Pro Medium" or "Source Code Pro Semibold Italic" and I get the right result. But setting it to "Monataype Krypton Medium" doesn't work at all. "Monatype Krypton" does, but the Regular variants are too skinny.
Isn't it fairer to say that LLMs in the context of a lot of other systems can do these things?
It was fun to dream the first few days this was a thing.
Not in measuring WPM / typing speed but... You need one heck of a quick editor to be able have suggestions showing up and selecting the suggestion be quicker than just typing the darn thing. If you know what you need to type that is (which is another topic btw).

I've got my editor setup with a very quick way to pick up suggestions (which I optimized to minimize both the number of keypresses needed to pick a suggestion and the finger travel distance [it's configured to use the "stronger" fingers first, no pinkies, and it's configured so that the most likely suggestion is on keys in the hands home position]).

Even that way, it's still typically faster to type the whole thing.

And don't get me started on slow as molasses IDEs that exhibit noticeable delays when showing suggestions.

To put it simply: even if you count auto-complete as a word, it's highly unlikely you'll be anywhere near close to 80 wpm (which ain't even that quick).
The tip wouldn't have gone to the food staff prepping your burger so doubt they'd even know
I've worked with some Xooglers who were incapable of working on smaller repos without google's internal tools for this kind of thing. And I mean literally incapable of writing meaningful code or pushing to main.

Total anecdote and not worth much, but I've seen it enough times to make note of it.
HN treats it like the last bastion of intellectual free speech.
cue 'Fennel is not a lisp' etc.

This looks like Common Lisp, so the full kitchen sink, with all the, um, historical, 'car' 'cdr', caaadr' stuff etc.

Fennel is more a lisp-like (clojure-like) syntax for Lua, but IMHO it is an improvement over Lua syntax, simplifies some things, and is good for teaching.
Don't worry, you will stop feeling bad about it after it happens a few more times. You haven't done anything wrong.
Yeah! Whilst usually a side show to real events there's a bunch of virtual and in person events.

Two years there was an event in the UK dedicated to typing. Last year the US. Virtual tournaments happen frequently throughout the year. The most famous one is likely the yearly event hosted by Keymash[0].

Octahedron is also a famous player in the scene. He hosts a Discord server for proficient typists and regularly puts on events.

[0] https://keymash.io/
That's because the abject nerds are busy creating value for the company while the "cool people" plan their holiday during work time.
You think if you tipped that it would go to the kitchen workers anyway? If so, you have a lot more faith than I do.

If I walk up to the counter to order and walk up to pick up my order, the maximum tip is the coins I don’t wish to carry away.
I’ve seen more and more places just include an obligatory 20% service charge. Should that just be priced in? Yes. But I think it’s a baby step in the right direction.
Tipping has gotten absurd in the US. I am unironically waiting for the self-checkout machines at grocery stores to start demanding tips.

I still cave and end up tipping almost every time, since it's not the employees fault, but man - going to a frozen yogurt place, preparing everything myself, and having the checkout employee swing the tablet around for a tip always irks me.
?

This is a thread about steam charging a 30% cut and people asking about what costs they could possibly have?

If Steam didn’t take a cut then they would not be able to pay for bandwidth. And even a 100 mb indie game downloaded a million times is still a lot of bandwidth times that by tens of thousands of games and it’s more than just games, screenshots, saves, mods, forum posts, video trailers, patches, etc.

A one time sale of a 4 dollar game that could support 100 gb worth of mods with being able to delete, download, and reinstall dozens of times has ongoing costs.

Selling on your own website, yes, you should be able to cover sending your own exe 100gb or not with each sale.
Which way did the myth go? I am unclear on your statement.

In my experience, which admittedly does not include all members of our industry, most people are using `packed` in the same way that Gentoo users were using `-funroll-loops`. In fact, less than 2 hours ago I had to inform my worst colleague (all time career worst) that `aligned(N)` means AT LEAST N, not exactly N. Same colleague also goes along with widely-believed error that `assume_aligned` somehow makes it safe to do incorrectly-aligned accesses, when what it really does is causes the compiler to continue instead of aborting when it sees your code which is obviously wrong.
Exposing yourself in sexually suggestive or provocative ways is not covered by nudity laws
Their "history of tipping" doesn't make a ton of sense.

They say it starts with black americans willing to work as waiters for lower wages, since they could expect to be paid with tips. If they took those jobs expecting to be tipped, tipping was already a common practice.
This thing is great for old people who can't see the screen. It is like a life alert on steroids that can order pizza. It is also great for kids for obvious reasons.
That was before the elections. The most recent news about it that I read said that they're reconsidering the location, which is going to introduce more delay and costs (even though it's justified, considering how the current location was chosen).
On the other hand, I would have a very difficult time dictating what I want to write, because... well I almost feel like I speak too fast! My voice goes faster than my thoughts.
In order to have a realistic, but reasonably playable space game, you need one of 1. Distances compressed, 2. Time compressed, 3. Unrealistic speeds

KSP uses [1] (scaled down solar system) and [2] (user-controlled time passage), although [1] can be modded away by using a realistic solar system mod. Elite:Dangerous uses [3] (warp drives). I've never played NMS but it sounds like they use [1] and maybe [3]?
FWIW, this isn't the case at Google (or many other large technology companies). Google dictates the staffing agency markup (which is very limited) and audits for compliance.

This, among many other processes, has significant negative impacts on the quality of the agency that will work with Google on this sort of work - but it does help with cost control.

(Source: I ran one of these agencies, and Google was a past client.)
I mostly don’t tip. I don’t do this by stiffing waiters, I do it by not going to places where I’ll be expected to tip. Which means I make my own coffee in the morning and either make my own food or get premade salads or sandwiches from the grocery store. Works for me at least but I rather enjoy living modestly.
> The phone is decidedly less environmentally friendly if it leads to user ditching their existing headphone and buying ones with batteries instead. This is directly related.

EH, that's a stretch. Due to the way the industry is going, most users are going to have a pair of wireless headphones anyway. And if not, they can buy a cheap adapter that they wouldn't get rid of until they got rid of their headphones.

> To your other points, check the video by Louis Rossmann about the impact and feasibility of the headphone jack

My other points are not against the impact and feasibility of the headphone jack though. I don't have anything against it myself.

I just don't think it's reasonable to assume Fairphone is lying because Apple did, and really that seems to be the crux of your argument.
Setting US standards by the citizens of Florida and New Jersey is a bit outside the bell curve...