skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people intuitively understand that if someone is not easily replaceable, they have more leverage. If there is a line of replacements out the door, they have little leverage.

There often is not a line of replacements out the door, yet, despite this, wages are still too low. Entire industries have started to die because of this - like for instance certain north eastern crab fisheries relied on cheap migrant labor that dried up, couldn't find anyone to do it, even though technically "anyone" could do the job. Why haven't workers capitalized on this "leverage" you speak of to get higher wages? Are they just too dumb/lazy?
The minimum wage is a factor in relative wage offering, even if it doesn't decide everything. The employers' argument ends up being "well, we're paying double minimum wage, so those who don't like it are lazy, entitled people." The problem here lies in a living wage that's decided by living costs in any geographical area, not the absolute wage itself.

You are eggregiously conflating thw two.
Most people buy exciting stocks, not cheap stocks (cheap relative to intrinsic value).

Value stocks are by definition boring and unknown. Think iron ore mines, regional banks, house builders, carpet makers, and other yawn-fest-profit-machines.
Congratulations, you noticed that American popular culture is deeply misogynistic. And that many, many people have not been okay with that for decades.
The system is rigged against doing so.
I grew up in rural Australia, an unpopular opinion of mine, is that large dogs should never live in apartments, I think it is cruel. (whether they are "couch" potatoes or not)
Talking about things you don't understand is a natural human activity. The poor as well as the rich are able to do it. It's very peculiar that you're so obsessed with this completely normal aspect of human life and view it as a character flaw. Please, seek professional help for whatever issues in your life are causing you to build up this much anger and resentment.
Pharmaceutical companies run promotions and coupons all the time. For prescription medications the samples are just given to physicians who prescribe them.
I think they were agreeing.
School shootings in the USA have not been normalized at all. Our institutions and social degradation have caused these mass violence events. We've had an armed populace with very powerful guns for a long, long time. The elevated violence is not date coincident with more guns. Psychotropic drugs are though.
This is a really interesting question. I just tried playing with it for a bit, and I was able to approximate this for a fair number of emails (and with a large helping of kludgyness) by sorting the search results by subject which puts no subject emails at the top.

Of course within that pile is down to scanning.

I see why it's tricky since the search is indexed, but it does feel like there might be a way.
It does not have to be binary. sometimes you are the victim, others times you are not
Easy to read article, in part thanks to the choice of mid-tone blue background and pleasant serif typeface. Kind of refreshing when one is used to just white/dark themes.

One typo that could be fixed:

> a couple paragraphs are completely unreadable due to broken grammar, punctuation, and capitaliazation [sic]
Yes. All communication is miscommunication. "[Y]ou just fix it as best you can" includes you getting help to fix it. Getting help is one of your abilities.

So, for example, it's up to you to oppose discrimination via the legal system - it's your fault you're letting them get away with it. It's up to you to organize a union to counter exploitative practices - it's your fault you haven't done that yet.

It's up to somebody to do something - it's up to you. If you're neglected what you can do, it's your fault.

Munger isn't saying it's literally true, but that it is an effective way to face life (this "attitude... works" in the quote).
On the chance you might not be joking, "liberal use of" means essentially "abundant use of" in this context.
> which strongly implies you and only you fix it

Asking for help is a perfectly encouraged way of fixing a problem. That's just a modality. You're still taking ownership of the situation and making steps to remedy.

I'd go so far as saying that asking for help is often the quickest and fastest way of fixing an issue. People can't help unless they a) know you need help and b) know what kind of help. Just sitting there fuming in your victimhood won't inspire people to rush over and help.
This is probably why Alamo Drafthouse (that theater) now just automatically adds an 18% service fee.

The point of the article is to engender empathy for the worker's situation, not necessarily to diagnose or solve the problem. But you might as well go back to "Why do we have this stupid system in the US?" and the answer is Emancipation. https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...
> No STL, it causes to much bloat when binary size is critical

> A. Learn templates, especially c++20. Templates add ZERO bloat, they literally just generate the function again with proper types

"Avoid STL due to bloat but embrace templates" doesn't make sense to me.
Isn't that exactly what code bloat is? Too much code generation?
Pick your favorite race and check the stats for race-on-race shootings in the US. You'll surely find that it's more than the population-adjusted equivalent the ~30 gun killings we get per year in the UK. Race obviously isn't the key factor here. I do wonder why you would even bring it up.

I could also mention that London, which is comparably racially diverse to many major US cities, has far less gun violence than any of them.
There's also the Cray-on-an-FPGA: http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
if you don’t need a web ui:

https://github.com/nathants/git-remote-aws
If by "the process you describe" you mean widespread violence and upheaval, then that is pretty much backwards. The Yanomamo are merely one among countless examples of societies that are "stuck in the stone age" due to recurring violence, with tribesfolk fighting to gain control over resources and women. Human development has occurred historically via gradual change, working to subtly shift existing social arrangements over time rather than fighting them outright.
OurWorldInData.com is probably what unbiased "reporting" looks like, and obviously even they have to choose what to research and present.
That's a generic fallacy.
The concrete example (with photo) that he gave of a bad tip was this:

> On Christmas Day a family bought over $100 worth of tickets and food two days after Christmas.

I don't know how this family received their food, but it almost certainly wasn't at the bar from the bartender. Maybe it was delivered to them inside the theater as another commenter suggests, but it's just as possible that they got the food at the counter.

Further, the photo doesn't give any indication of how much money was spent on tickets vs food, which would be entirely expected to impact the tip calculation. If they bought $95 in tickets and one kid got some popcorn, a $2 tip is downright generous!
Value investing is a strategy. Index funds are a vehicle. The two can and do coexist, even more so than any other such pair because their risk profile (conservative) and time horizon (long term) are so well aligned.
But where did those people go away to? My memory is that we moved from web rings and blog rolls to social media sites which increasingly made certain that you’d never lack for new content. Even if you’re not doomscrolling, this feels like humanity’s equivalent to moths chasing the brightest light around.
Discord is as if IRC and MSN/Y!M/AIM had an orgy and gave birth to an illegitimate child.

Discord got it right but wrong.

Channels are correct. Image / File sharing is correct

Closed gardens and gimmicks with paid subscriptions is where it falls.
On the contrary: most tipped employees I know make substantially more than the untipped ones. The why is simple: price discrimination extracts excess value. If everyone's paying the same price, you lose some potential profit from people who would have been willing to pay more, and you lose some potential profit from people who aren't willing to pay the set price, but would have been willing to pay some still-profitable lesser price. By charging people based on their willingness to pay, you extract much closer to the maximum value.

Tipping is a price discrimination scheme that directly benefits the workers. That's a lot of value that can be captured, and any other system that a restaurant could use to extract that value would end up benefiting the owners far more.
I read his description of the LEDs being powered by brute force looping...even though he uses a buffer IC, the CPU still does the monotonous and continuous looping to keep the LEDs intermittently supplied with current.

I wish he had used a few MAX7219 LED driver ICs - they just need 4 IO pins, can be chained together, and don't need any maintenance CPU cycles unless a change in config is desired.

They also ensure perfect brightness control, and are current controlled LED drivers instead of using 330 Ohm resistors that waste power...all power goes to illuminating the LEDs and none is wasted as heat in resistors.

Maybe I should write him and offer my help in switching for the next spin of the PCBs.
Also XTerm (UXTerm too) has a flag to lock the keyboard and mouse input to that XTerm and nothing can read or snoop that.
You get 2k minutes free a month which is enough for my side projects. Not used GH for a while, maybe they've upped their game ...
I love the idea of cargo cult-ing myself into major depression by doing reverse cognitive behavioral therapy in order to be more like a nonagenarian billionaire.

“Mimic severe mental illness by refusing the nature of reality” is a piece of advice that only a genius could conjure up
Not unless the average user is particualrly technically savvy and the developers happen to be known to browse HN.

...which I think is actually the case for Fastmail.
There is not a state in the US that has lax gun control laws. It ranges from nanny state to fascist jackboots.
You can exercise judgment in choosing a topic: fair enough.

Within that topic, you can present all the facts that you know, or just the ones that support a certain narrative.
Can you please explain your source for this work of fiction?

Regardless, the 2nd Amendment will not be repealed in our lifetimes and that's a fact.
Huh. I thought the camel/needle's eye thing was about a small narrow gate into Jerusalem. You can get a camel through it, but it needs to get down on its knees and crawl. Apparently, camels don't like to do that.

But I've never seen the gate, and don't have strong views on biblical accuracy.
If doctors are terrible at their jobs so are programmers. And we should be terrified just as well at their AI creations then.
> Meanwhile the Technivorm Moccamaster

+1 for that machine. It's not confused about what it is: it's a simple, well made machine. It'll probably outlast me.

> has a simple on/off switch that you could probably toggle with a relay, a motor, some gears, and a chopstick. It also makes just about the best coffee you're going to get with an automatic drip/filter machine.

It's even simpler than that! I did a quick writeup [0] on how you can use a $10 'smart' outlet to drive the process. To save people a click: and the smart outlet has power monitoring functions and the coffee maker has it's own "no-water-left" protection it's pretty easy to detect if the thing is brewing or not. If you want to take it further, you can also pulse power to get a preliminary bloom phase before you do the main brew.

> if you want actually good coffee in the morning, you need to automate the weighing, grinding, and depositing of fresh coffee into a rinsed filter.

I will not contest that the best coffee is the coffee that's been ground and brewed right in front of me. I will posit that if you do the grind before bed and then brew in the AM, the quality isn't going to be that different and pre-caffinated / still-groggy you is going to value the "it's there, ready to be drank" aspect far more than you'll value the marginal increase in quality that'd come from doing all the prep _right then_.

> That's going to look like Factorio in your kitchen.

That's not a downside, if you ask me :D. If you ask others, though...

0: https://karlquinsland.com/improved-esphome-coffee-automation...
If you don't like Zinn, how about Popper by way of Deutsch in The Beginning of Everything:

We never know any data before interpreting it through theories. All observations are, as Popper put it, theory-laden, and hence fallible, as all our theories are. . . . The growth of knowledge consists of correcting misconceptions in our theiories.

Pi is a great example. Did circles exist before minds existed? Or are circles approximations of the observed world?
platformio sorts most of reasonably well
The author has a curious background. He left his role as a cabinet secretary after a report found that his department misspent 250 million dollars. The governor issued a press release that said he was leaving but didn't say why. And then afterwards he claimed it wasn't related to the financial scandal, it was because he was getting so many miscellaneous death threats?

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2021/...

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/former-new...

It sounds to me like he got fired due to scandal but they agreed to make it a "no comment" sort of thing instead. It looks like he is out of politics now, which explains why he is cryptically starting over his career as a bartender. Well, anyway, I hope he finds a better job.
genetics. they matter a ton . read the bios of really old people (100+ yrs old) and nothing really stands out beyond having a lot of family member who also lived a long time. I think a low-stress lifestyle helps a lot too.
The majority of my life spent on IRC argues "It works just fine, the way it is."

I use a znc bouncer these days because my home ISP is less than reliable some months (I consider "cybering" a channel to be quite rude and try to avoid it at all costs), but I've run that on free tier VM instances before with no trouble, and if you don't have one, it's no big deal for the most part.

I'm connected to about half a dozen servers, some major, some "a dozen user backwaters servers," and it's easily the bulk of my "not with people I know directly" communications, just as it's been for literally the past few decades of my life.
I've been mucking with this stuff again and the SDXL + LCM sampling & LoRA makes 1280x800 images in like 2 second, so about a ~5x speed increase for me (so this would be roughly 2x faster than LCM (??, napkin math)). I've found that the method isn't as good at complex prompts. They claim here this can outperform SDXL 1.0 WRT prompt alignment, but I'm curious what their test methodology is. I searched the paper and I couldn't immediately find how it was evaluated. I think these sorts of subjective measurements are fiendishly hard to quantify given the infinity of possible prompts. Still, exciting stuff always happening here, what a time to be alive.
IRCs other biggest weakness is that to host images is a PITA. As is sending files.

DCC works, if/when it wants.
What a giant of a man.

Thanks Charlie your wisdom and clear thinking. I hope I learnt something from your writings.

You will be missed.
Hm. I definitely don't want to pay as little as possible, for most things. I don't want cheap ingredients when I'm cooking. I don't want a BS car I bought for a song. I tip well, egregiously well, because those folks work hard for their living, I used to do that, and I appreciate what they're going thru.

But, as my old minister used to say, we can have all the morals we can afford. Not going to tell anybody else how to do it.
Linux vs Unix. Wikipedia vs Britannica. GCC vs Intel compiler. Good enough free hobby toy beats expansive professional tools given enough hobbysts.
Let's look at the context before the quote too: Mark 10:17-27 (NLT)

> As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came running up to him, knelt down, and asked, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

> "Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked. "Only God is truly good. But to answer your question, you know the commandments: 'You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone. Honor your father and mother.'"

> "Teacher," the man replied, "I've obeyed all these commandments since I was young."

> Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. "There is still one thing you haven't done," he told him. "Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

> At this the man's face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.

> Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!" This amazed them. But Jesus said again, "Dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom of God. In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"

> The disciples were astounded. "Then who in the world can be saved?" they asked.

> Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God."

Jesus's analogy about a camel going through the eye of a needle is commentary on the situation that he and his disciples just witnessed. The rich man thinks that he can earn his way into heaven through good deeds: he's asking "what must I do to inherit eternal life", and probably hoping for a pat on the back from Jesus for all the good things he's done. But instead Jesus identifies a much deeper issue in his life: his earthly wealth is more important to him than anything else, even his eternal destiny! The point of the camel analogy is that riches are a distraction that make it impossible to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength."

> Surely from what he's said it's obvious that poor people can be saved. And when Jesus says 'for God all things are possible', isn't he implying that some rich people might get into heaven? So why do people interpret the passage as Jesus saying this is impossible?

The central point of the Bible is that there are no "good people". Everyone is morally corrupt in one way or another, and cannot be saved through their own effort, only through Jesus's sacrifice on the cross. "God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it." (Ephesians 2:8-9, cf. Romans 3, Psalm 14, John 14). A lot (most?) of Jesus's teachings, including the passage in the OP, are addressed to people who think they are "good enough" and showing them to be self-righteous, hypocritical, and in need of salvation just as badly as everybody else.
That doesn't mean that the people working to _improve_ PHP are doing anything wrong. Sisyphean, perhaps.
Fun side note of an article and I especially enjoyed the link to Metronomy – but consulting Wiktionary which in case of complex etymologies is authoritative, shows us that Persian portogal comes from Ottoman Turkish portokal (which itself being an Imperial language of the Early Modern Age has a dozen descendants), which itself comes from Greek portokali (as the Greek were the fruit traders, greengrocers, and fishermen in the Ottoman realm; from these areas more terms entered Turkish and all the languages of the former Ottoman empire), which itself comes from Venetian portogallo (who were the traders with the Greek).

The real complexity is often more interesting and makes a bigger story.
RAV (Retrieval Augmented Vision) AI
To me, politically encamped means that you have decided upon a viewpoint without much thought. You sway one way because it's the position of your "camp" or tribe. And because of that you won't change your mind.

"pictures of dead kids wouldn't change their minds" does not necessarily fit the definition of political encampment. If they won't change their mind because it would go against their party's line then they are being political. If they won't change their mind because they believe their stance is correct (based on logic, facts, morality, etc) and/or the other alternatives are wrong (based on logic, facts, morality, etc) then that is not political.

I guess your saw encampment in the GP's comment? I didn't.
Is it like 30 pushups or something more interesting?
Correct - this rests on employers, but for those dependent on employers for a job with no say but "GTFO if you don't like it" will blame whomever is stiffling their wages - in this case, crappy tippers IN ADDITION TO the minimum wage.

However, given the spurious type of work this involves, employers have the advantage, so the employees have no recourse but to blame any one they can, including bad tippers.

The tipping culture in the US is disgusting by modern standards of society, but there is no mechanism to unionize wait staff, or kitchen staff, dishwashers etc. included.
In retrospect the natives of North America would have been better off attacking and killing white Europeans on first sight.
I think you'll find solidarity isn't an American value, from unions to this issue.
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. I have a personal license that I use for my side projects.
If the spec is cool, it's cool. If it's trash, it's trash.
One of the first Anglo colonizers who also fought in the war of independence, what an honour!

Jokes aside, it wouldn't hurt to have a more sensible penitentiary and reformation system.
My sense is that lay-people believe that these LLMs really are "thinking"

The way the comment rhetoric is on hacker news around LLMs, it seems some technical people believe that LLMs really are "thinking" too.
Mount and Run Llama2 on Your Laptop
I guess you haven’t read much on their history with blue chip stamps : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Chip_Stamps

Not directly comparable to crypto but an alternate method of investment.
I'm not saying upfront pricing would survive in a free-for-all laissez-faire economy, I'm saying that it ought to be required because it is better for consumers.

They pick based on the advertised price because hidden fees and culturally-mandated tips exploit weaknesses in our psychology, not because customers actually like to spend more than they'd planned on.
I assume this is Alamo Draft House.

You can definitely go to this movie theater and not buy any food and not tip anyone. The gimmick is that you can order from your seat and the food you want is brought to you during the movie. After the movie, you get a receipt to sign and add a tip to like at any restaurant. I find it completely normal to tip 20% in this situation. (Your ticket was bought prior to this receipt being made, so you aren't tipping on the ticket price.) As you read the menu, you add 20% to the listed prices, and just pay it. It's a weird convention that makes paying for things complicated (math to do, forms to fill out), but it's simply how paying for things at a restaurant is done in the US.

Basically, this place is no different than any other sit-down restaurant except they happen to arrange the tables in a theater and show a movie. You're expected to tip. When you don't, it's a big "fuck you" to the people making your food and drinks and carrying them to you. The author of this article is mad because many people over the course of his career told him "fuck you". I would be mad too.
Railway Logos (2018)
What CBT protocol did you do that had you systematically putting agency and responsibility outside of yourself?
no, if you swap the computers around the difference grows rather than staying the same
Back of the toilets.

Quite a number of leaks come from the braided pipe feeding water to your cistern, as they often only have a five-year lifetime