skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Unfortunately there are good and rational reasons to coalesce around standards. Hate k8s all you want, but you hire a new SWE, what are the chances that they know how to work with your bespoke infra vs they used k8s before.

Now - there are decisions to be made around what is really necessary and keeping things simple is often the right choice, but being able to hire people already familiar with thing is not something one can dismiss and say "Lemmings".

Similar things things apply in social aspects. You want to work remotely? Great, me too. But it doesn't change the fact that there is a lot of people who would like to work remotely, and less corporate envs that are comfortable with it (even if for dumb reasons). Which means you'll probably have to be paid less and so and so.

You want to change it? Make your own company, 100% remote and out-compete everyone. Easier said than done, unfortunately.
Very bad precedent. esp for gun companies (thankfully they are protected via a direct law (for now at least)).
Is that what happened? I wonder if the same thing happened to CollegeHumor: Like The Onion, very popular YouTube videos (as measured by views) a decade ago, then suddenly disappearing (again as measured by views).
199 feels like a really weird ultimate number of pods in service.
Nope, not even close to true in my experience. Almost all of the high performers I know have a huge social network they can tap into and you can't finger them as SWEs from a mile away.
That's Carnegie Mellon University, not Cornell.
This advice is subtly no longer correct in delivery apps, as they have creative ways of calculating tip. The correct advice is probably to double the tax.

So it used to be, you would order something for delivery, they would charge you the in-person price for each item, add them up, subtract discounts, and give you a number called the “subtotal.” To this they would add a delivery fee, taxes, and you would add your tip as 15% of subtotal.

In the dark pattern world that we find ourselves, the menu items on a typical delivery app are secretly priced 25% higher than in-person. (Go ahead, look up Applebees’ “2 for $28” menu item on a delivery app, tell me it doesn't cost $35.) This is so that they can advertise “Reduced delivery and service fees if you subscribe to our monthly service so that we can get MRR from forgetful people!!”. Then the tax and service fees are added to the cart total, but the discount is NOT subtracted, before they provide helpful tip buttons. Doordash doesn't even tell you the percentage, they just expect you to pick the smallest one and it's a 30 or 40% tip or whatever, Uber will tell you “oh you’re only giving this person a 10% tip you monster” even though it's a 15% tip calculated the “hard way.”

It all adds up, picking up a big nice breakfast in bed for me and the kid and my wife on my wife's birthday from Starbucks was like $30 via the Starbucks app, I punched it into Uber Eats and they wanted to charge me almost double for the identical order. So if that ~180% had a 15% tip in it, then it was actually ~57% marked up to begin with and you actually paid a 24% tip. (I don't know if that's typical of Uber Eats but it suggests that on Uber Eats you should only tip what-they-call-10%.)

But they will be unlikely to play these games with the tax man, so “double the tax” is probably slightly safer?
That took many years. And as far as I am aware that would be the exception in the history of modern reforestation.

The needs of industry and government (which is what you’re targeting if you want to replace construction materials) are optimizing for speed to grow (and hit arbitrary targets), and suitable properties for building, and generally that means they pick a very limited selection of trees that grow fast, sometimes as few as one type of tree.
It’s always put on the menu
I think that nuclear power must focus on safety and efficiency.

Fuel rods from reactors near me are discarded after only 2% of the potential power is released from them. I understand that the best designs can extract 40%, leaving less waste. New reactors should be held to a minimum of 20%.

The "daughter nuclei" in the 2% exhausted fuel rods require active cooling (circulating water) for well over a year before they exhaust and cool sufficiently for dry storage. We need "walk-away safe" designs where a complete loss of power doesn't result in catastrophic explosions.

We have kept this 50s technology way past its design life. It isn't replaced because of resistance to building any more nuclear at all, which is not helping.
Does sex, nudity, drugs/junkies, extreme violence make a game better? Anyway I think there are more fundamental problems with the game.
Thank you! This is reassuring. I had thought of upgrading my Steam Deck once a new one comes out, but didn't expect one to show up this quickly.
IANAL, but having a certain reputation is not enough. If you run a site where the mean time before penis is 30 seconds, you probably have to be upfront about that and promote it as a sex chat place, not "Talk to strangers! The Internet is full of cool people; Omegle lets you meet them. When you use Omegle, we pick someone else at random so you can have a one-on-one chat." (cut&pasted from Omegle).
As a Washingtonian I am embarrassed that my state loves to pretend its progressive but then I see shit like this, and two party consent laws that businesses can still treat like one-party.

Had the whole state pay for a stadium and a tunnel, in Seattle. So, pointless use of taxes and other wastes of my contributions.

Sadly, not an actually progressive place aside from Mutual Combat laws.
The push to roll out new semi fabs is only to add redundancy for defense purposes. They absolutely will not be rolling out cutting edge consumer ICs and they'll be perpetually running under capacity without ever turning a profit.
It’s also in Wyoming, which means it will actually get built.
My understanding is that orders get picked by drivers somewhat based on tip amount.
Uh dude any car made in the last 15 years has this capability.
Same, not sure I understand lol

It looks _very cool_ but not sure what I'm actually looking at. Looks like a VR thing but the user isn't using a HMD...
Almost certainly you have not.
40 hour weeks a year is ~2000 hours.
Most of the people I know working as a waiter / bartender didn't really have better choices
And where exactly is free speech left? Every public platform I’ve used over the last 20 years that had freedom of speech was shut down. Currently if you want to discuss ideas or issues that are outside of the publicly approved consensus, the only choice left is private chats. Even there the options are continually shrinking.
My controversial opinion: Everybody should just start charging for tips.

For years now, whenever I've pointed out that tipping makes no sense, people hit back with how that's just the way it is or point out how servers would make way less with it.

Fine then, everybody should start charging a tip until it's normalized, until people start tipping at counter service, at self-checkouts and wherever else because the people working at those places also work hard and deserve to be rewarded.

Also fun is how messed up the tipping system is in Canada:

- American style tips (20% minimum)

- The percentage increased from 15% (and 10% even earlier) because of inflation even though it's a percentage value and increases with inflation anyway

- We (in Ontario) have minimum wage unlike in some states where they make like 2.30 and are expected to make the remaining in tips

- We have higher food prices because of things like dairy protectionism (lookup dairy cartel)

- We have high living costs in general because of things like our really expensive real estate, and canadian salaries are on average lower than US counterparts.

- We have free healthcare compared to America, so that's another expense that servers don't have to pay for (especially if they get their tips in cash and don't report it for tax purposes)
Premium was the worst purchase I ever made. I used to scroll shorts on my phone until my rage towards ads was strong enough to overpower my desire to continue. Now there's no release valve. I should go cancel it actually...
This is a wild argument. Going to a coffee shop is voluntary too. You good with it if someone slaps their junk down on your table?

There are standards of behaviour that apply to people regardless of context. Non-consensual sexual behaviour is one of those pretty standard basic ones.
does sublime have plugins? I love sublime but I would consider vim + plugins to be faster+more modern.
It’s an existing coal mine. In east Wyoming, well away from critical habitats. And rare-earth mining isn’t dirty, it’s the refining that pollutes.
Only one person died... but only because 150 thousand were evacuated!
Tumblr is the only social media site that truly hooks me for hours at a time anymore. So while I’d be sad to see it go and take all its lovely fan communities down… I would get a lot of my time back.
That "book" whoever wrote it, is utterly useless for practicing modern physics.
The author here.

Thanks for sharing! I usually just go with reddit and my linkedin (which barely has any network anyway haha).
Indeed,

The thing I'd want to add is that it's not technologically impossible to build a safe Lithium mine (or a safe nuclear power plant or a safe oil transportation infrastructure). It can be much more costly and so in these days of cost-cutting, unsafe operation is common. But one should still keep in mind safety isn't theoretically impossible.
Yea, UK solar is still offsetting natural gas so it’s viable.

One issue for significantly higher UK solar production is they use more electricity in the winter. January 2023 was 26 TWh where July 2022 was only 20 TWh which is the opposite of solar’s peaks. https://www.nationalgrideso.com/electricity-explained/electr... (Older reports on bottom)

They can import from France, but France also has higher demand in the winter: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1107089/electricity-cons...

It’s only when you’re far enough south to see significant summer AC demand that it flips.
It's about what you type, not how fast you type it. /typed at 113 wpm
In 2009 he played a demo of my iphone game at a WWDC party and gave me a business card because I asked. What a human.
You can type quickly and still think deeply about the solution or whatever. Typing fast won't help when you're stepping through the code one line at a time, and it won't help when you're just sitting there with your eyes closed at your desk waiting to find out what to do next. But it is still helpful when you're talking to people in Slack.
That feels like a good analogy -- we do have different standards for small carnivals than we do for large amusement parks, and accidents do happen at both, but you'd never be allowed to operate a small carnival with dangerous rides and absolutely no maintenance by claiming it was too expensive.
People actually die because of characters like that. It's interesting that right here in this thread there are people arguing that industrial workers can't be pressured because of OHSA but in fact the opposite is true: short of a shutdown OHSA doesn't really do much that scares employers, they might issue some minor fine (a few thousand bucks at most in almost all cases for injuries and sometimes even death) so they feel just fine about putting the screws on employees and in states where you can be fired for anything people will definitely cut corners if they believe their employment is in danger if they don't take risk.
Yeast with an over half synthetic genome is created in the lab
Don't over-idealize the market, N is not infinity. That is, "making society better" (for who?)
It's a game of brinkmanship. My employer said RTO isn't optional but mandatory. What are they gonna do? Fire me? OK. I'll keep WFH until they do then shrug.
> The big picture: Publishers that are heavily dependent on digital advertising have been forced to reimagine their business models to account for volatility in the ad market.

Scapegoat. The gizmodo & kotaku family of sites have a history of despicable actions committed and struggle to create any value.
games like Minecraft are very much a medium of self expression. Not to say every game is, but it's a definite genre
Is this the type of thing that warrants research? I think that we're able to discern these types on our own pretty well
In the climate in which "oppose the current thing" is a valid platform in many voters' eyes - I don't know how can we achieve that.

This isn't endemic to USA either. Polish alt-right party Konfederacja was criticizing government's inaction during the onset of COVID just to turn 180 degrees when restrictions were instated.
Show HN: Raiseto – A better way to discover new ideas
Eh, that's better than nothing... but it's still pretty dishonest. Just hike the prices, don't make me calculate.
You sound delightful.
Stuff like autocomplete or GitHub's copilot suggestions are helpful for reducing the time it takes put the code you want on the screen, sure.
I would be very interested to see if the same effect holds in those athletes who maintain a low carbohydrate diet.

Maybe if the body is adapted to use fat as the primary energy source from the get-go, it would not go looking for energy in such a seemingly strange place.
I started using C in the late 80s and have used C++ on and off since then. I've not been able to understand how it ever made sense to have a language where the size of int (and other types) varies depending on the platform and implementation.

I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I thought "I need this variable to have a type that's the 3rd smallest available, but I don't care how many bits it actually is. On some platforms, it will overflow at 32768, and on other platforms it will overflow at 2.1 billion, and I'm fine with either behavior."

Every time I choose a type for a variable, I'm thinking "32 bits is an appropriate size for this variable, and this other variable needs 64 bits".

I understand that these days we use int32_t etc, but why did the unpredictably-sized types ever make sense to anyone?
Here is where I come in and recommend everyone check out Playnite: https://playnite.link/

When I care about supporting a developer or publisher and they offer their product on their own storefront DRM-free, I will often go there to buy. Or I buy from GoG which takes a smaller cut. Playnite lets me launch my Steam and non-Steam games in a seamless fashion. Steam still does a great job as a game installer/patch manager, and helps me discover new games. But I'm not locked into paying them a 30% fee, which is pretty brutal for some smaller publishers.
Projectors really love flat, non-moving surfaces. Will be interesting to see how they've coped with a wiggly hand wiggling around or in motion.
Interesting, mine is still 8k token length context window.

https://chat.openai.com/share/4f0c8ed5-fe6d-4488-8834-e8cc9d...
This is a big misconception - servers make way more with tips.

Here's a reddit thread [0] to give you some perspective. They're absolutely right, why would they take minimum wage when they can make 50-60/hr.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Serverlife/comments/14fl21y/servers...
>I probably don't understand clearly enough. Physics, chemistry, biology, even psychology have textbooks. Pick one, it doesn't matter much. It will teach you roughly the same basic things.

And generally speaking, the practitioners of these disciplines tend to assert that their findings are true, in fact. Whether they are actually true....well, interest in that tends to drop off quite rapidly.

Welcome to Planet Earth, 2023, please enjoy your stay.

>Philosophy on the other hand. Pick Searle or Derrida, pick Quine or the late Heidegger, and it is hard to conceive that they are even doing the same thing ("philosophy").

Investigating the mysterious extremes of a system is a lot harder than investigating the known to be (now, after many decades of very hard work and dedication) deterministic middle ground.

At the end of the day, everyone is doing their best, and Mother Nature will award us with the fruits of our collective activities...unfortunately, our (projected) rewards seem to be taking a steeply downward trajectory with this whole climate change thing. Shame there seems to be not much we can (actually) do about it, despite our over-abundance of surely fantastic ideas.
JAXA and ESA (among others) are part of the Artemis program's human spaceflight component.
In theory tips are shared with back-of-the-house staff (which probably also depresses their salaries). So if you usually tip 10%, tipping 5% sounds fair!

(thankfully I'm in Europe and don't have to deal with this bullshit)
Many games on Steam are DRM free. You have to download the game through Steam... but from Gog you have to download the games from Gog too. One uses their app as a gatekeeper and the other uses a website. KSP is an example just off the top of my head where you can download the game, delete steam and keep playing. Not all games implement Steam DRM.

But also yes. Steam has made the gaming on linux process so much easier. Using steam is the easiest way to game now and I definitely prefer all my games to be there.
In the blog, they say

> we’re launching the GPT Store, featuring creations by verified builders

Any idea who these “verified” builders are, how they are selected and how to submit a GPT that gets selected in the rollout?
Thanks, this works!

So tl;dr it's: "MonaspaceVARIANT-WEIGHT", no spaces.
Their comment wasn't "bad game" it was "not a game you keep coming back to".

More of a "disagree on the premise of the article" than "game didn't have enough content".
That yale.edu article needs additional context. It's verbatim repeating the PRC's talking points on the US-China trade dispute, the one over China's rare earth tariffs that was litigated before the WTO. The US position is that the export tariffs are a tactic to subsidize Chinese consumers of rare earths—their manufacturing sector—by giving them preferential prices for Chinese rare earths, the raw inputs. That's illegal under WTO rules. The PRC's position, what e360 is legitimizing (and amplifying), is that the West *morally deserves* to compensate China for the ecological costs of China's own mining industry, because we are its end consumers; and that these tariffs should be permitted under WTO rules as an environmental measure, not a protectionist one.

e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earths_trade_dispute

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-trade-idUSTRE6B...

https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...

It's jarring to suddenly be reading CPC foreign policy talking points in a random environmental article!
"Although TLS protected, the data in the tunnel runs to Microsoft in plain text". What? Not sure if this is a mistranslation but this makes absolutely no sense. TLS is encryption. Why would they further encrypt it "in the tunnel"?
I don't agree with this way of looking at things. It isn't a thankless job; they're getting paid. It's a different argument if they're not getting paid enough, but it seems backwards to pass on the responsibility of properly compensating them to the customer.

The customer should pay for the product. The employees should be paid by the employer. This whole tipping nonsense has been exacerbated by the move to POS systems nationwide. Tipping should be seen as a reward for doing something excellent or extraordinary.
People are innumerate/irrational and cannot understand the difference (or lack thereof) in pricing at restaurants that do not accept tips. See [1].

I've become convinced that the only way tipping is going away in America is if it is made illegal.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHKMovMWaQ&t=149s
Abusing LiveView's New Async Assigns Feature
to me the converse is what's amazing: that we can waste SO MANY PIXELS while displaying even less.

I don't care that UI elements take up 4x, 9x, or 16x more pixels, or whatever, I care that user interfaces seem to be designed by people who simply do not care (or do not understand) how to convey information visually.

UIs were pretty good before Human Factors and UX people came around and needed to start justifying themselves. Now, UIs suck while looking so much better.

if UX people studied usability and utility, we would be converging on a ruleset for the perfect user interface, but instead things keep changing by larger amounts more rapidly.

Go look at the Windows User Interface Guidelines document published for application developers developing applications for Windows 95. I would like to see something of this quality today, with all of the ability to convey information that this UI paradigm allowed. A contemporary UI design standard doesn't have to look like Windows 95 at all, but it needs to be as discoverable, as complete, and as useful as this design document describes.

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/M...

There is a later version of this by Microsoft for UWP applications, which even Microsoft failed to follow alarmingly often. links which should be buttons, buttons which should be links, etc. (buttons take action and links navigate, and let's keep it that way, please.)
It's not stupid for exceptional service. If someone made extra effort that impressed me, I'd gladly give them some extra money because that was worth something for me.

But, yes, the default/baseline expectation should be 0.00 on top of the sale price.
I'm sorry if it came across this way. It was definitely not intentional! My opinions perfectly match yours, in fact :)

I did try to point out that I don't really blame normal devs but the leadership instead. A fish rots from the head. My writing skills are just not that good (yet) :)

I also used "incompetence" very broadly which was probably a mistake from writing perspective. From bad management decisions all the way to brilliant engineers simply not being familiar with a particular technology/paradigm.
I was privileged to meet all of them and grow up with three of them. To be surrounded by that much love and character is a large level up on life. Your loss of that is tragic.
Do we tip cashiers? Nope

Should their salary be paid with the revenue the shop is making? Yes

Why should that be different in bars and restaurants?
> you get them in a room alone and they're not at all like that

You probably have a better quality circle of acquaintances/coworkers than me. I often iteract IRL with people who are very much just like that.
You're born with both sets of teeth, no hair teeth here, usually unerupted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_tooth_development
The only revenue target they have is 'more'. There's no stable end state where the goal has been achieved. Population declines are really going to end that model in spectacular fashion.
I think what happened is we found something rare with interesting properties, then we sort of cost-optimized with other materials until we found something cheaper with similar properties.

I think the germanium point contact transistor was sold, but eventually got us via practical methods to the silicon chips we have now. We have had more expensive exotic materials like gallium arsenide.

So I think his comment in the article will happen:

“Now that we know what structural and electronic properties are needed to achieve the new transport regime discovered in this work, there is good likelihood that we will find earth-abundant alternatives to this rhenium-based material that also show impressive transport properties,” Delor says.