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Don't tip standing up. If you're ordering at a counter, that's not a tipped job. What are you even tipping for anyway? You haven't gotten your food yet, they're not bringing anything to you, it makes no sense.

If the conceit of tips is that they incentivize good service, then tipping before you receive the service is nonsensical.
Either it's from someone who happily continues to break rules and is effectively shadow banned because they continue to cause problems and break rules, or the comment doesn't contribute well enough to the topic. This could mean it's just being insulting, or off-topic.

In short: Nothing of value was lost. Especially since you can toggle it on.
We're moving to a world that most restaurants won't have servers taking your food and drinks order. This is already happening in Seattle, multiple spots are now counter style ordering, you order, get a number and someone just comes from the kitchen to deliver the food. Some of them also have a QR code associated with your number which you can scan to order follow up items. Tipping more than 10% for counter style ordering doesn't make sense to me, because I don't even know who is receiving the tip?

The American Economoy just cannot support servers given the rise in cost for doing business and changes in consumer behavior due to inflation. Servers will be soon available only in the "nice" restaurants.
It turns out, in general, that heterogeneous populations are hard to coordinate and govern than homogeneous populations.

The old internet was a homogeneous population. Putting the "real world" online creates dimensions of abuse potential and regulatory challenges that didn't exist when a BBS had a couple hundred users who all knew at least some of the AT Hayes codes.
> I’ve watched loads of Windows software become incompatible...

I've been a Windows sysadmin since the late 90s. This has not ever been my experience with productivity software. Games and hardware drivers can be problematic, for sure, but productivity software by-and-large can be made to work fine on newer versions of Windows.

> It sucks when software products you depend on go away...

It's not "going away"-- it's being taken away. That's the issue people are having with it.

Bits don't rot. Locally-installed software doesn't "wear out". (Yes, yes-- you need to employ different security paradigms and compensating controls with "out of date" software in light of vulnerabilities. That's still not the software "wearing out".)

It's deeply saddening anyone would just accept perpetually-licensed use rights for locally-installed software being revoked after-the-fact. This should be the the purview of consumer protection regulation, not resignation that the world just works that way.
> which he deems equivalent to what rocket engineers do when they "engineer" a rocket that flies into space, but instead of a rocket it's some website. Keep in mind that as amazing as rockets that carry humans into space are, it is not as amazing as some plain website because these "software engineers" likely get paid waay more then rocket engineers.

Not all software engineers write websites. I don't understand where in the lexicon this distinction has been lost. Also, there's a wide variety of website, some of which are just user interfaces for very complicated services.
Exactly. Tons of abandoned oil wells left for the taxpayers to clean up. But of course we can’t demand that all new wells post bonds for the cleanup costs in advance, that would make them unprofitable.
Can’t take a sick day either, need to save those for the kids.
Another good word might be 'paranoid'
Having worked with Swing recently, I worry that it will not work well on the near-distant future, because it feels frozen in time at about 2005.

There are a lot of assumptions baked in that aren't holding up today.

For example, high density and multi monitor aren't well supported. There's a bunch of stuff hard-coded in the JDK that no longer makes sense and you have to hack around.
The Macintosh would disable any interrupts that were not level 4 or higher when accessing the floppy disk to prevent data loss. This was basically everything other than the programmers switch. It did however have a check to see if the serial port received data while it was busy with the floppy disk so that could be serviced before a buffer overrun occurs.
Sounds like all the blue collar workers who get tips are now screwed by this system. Getting tipped against a maximum wage defeats the purpose of tipping them.

Say you tip your mailman $100 at Christmas or refrigerator deliverer type stuff.
> the Software Engineer … does the exact same thing as both the coder and the programmer he calls what he does "engineering" which he deems equivalent to what rocket engineers do when they "engineer" a rocket that flies into space,

While typing this comment, I hit a bug in my browser? phone? not sure which, but anyway, in the year of our lord 2024, showing an onscreen keyboard at the appropriate time is not yet a fully solved problem. Such is the rigor of our “engineering” discipline.

> The final, highest level is the software architect who's power is so high he doesn't even "code", "program" or "engineer" stuff anymore.

Why drive when you can be driven?[0]

> My goal in life is to become a master at drawing circles and boxes and lines.

A previous employer sent me to a multi-day whiteboard training class once. I’m not sure if they were really stupid, or if they just thought I was really stupid[1]. The people running the class were exactly how you would expect them to be.

0 - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

1 - at least it wasn’t just me they sent, but also a few hundred of my coworkers.
I would enjoy a California be Japanese blind taste test. My mother in law has started buying Vietnamese-grown Japanese short grain - I think I can taste the difference but it could also be the cooking method

As a cash strapped student I would buy Korean short grain as it was cheaper
Probably zuck is just trying to seem neutral however it shakes out in November
I assume we'll eventually begin building languages and technologies around what chatbots can use. Like how we rebuilt American cities for cars. "How can Ford's cars work if there are no roads?" Build roads.
Increasingly so. There's a terrible, almost schizophrenic feeling that comes with having to wonder if the person you are talking to is real. It seems obviously the case on some platforms and scary to wonder about on platforms like this and Reddit.
Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps
> You're right, the majority of games take place in entirely fictional worlds that aren't meant to accurately represent any specific real life location or time period, which is why it makes no sense to apply real world politics to them, or to imply that they are all inherently political in some form.

You could just as easily say the exact opposite, they take place in fictional worlds so there is no reason they can't have diversity.

That sounds like it is just an argument to have fully white games.

But wait they are fictional, so maybe every character should be trans? Maybe gender doesn't exist. Because it's a fictional world. That is what you are saying. So if a game would do that it's not politics, it's a fictional world.

You're not justifying why a video game has to be a certain way, other than wanting to conform to your narrow view of the world. In reality you are justifying a game that, in your own words is an "entirely fictional world", can do whatever they want to do.

It is depressing that you feel like you are under attack by an increase in diversity. When all that is happening is the world is no longer catering to you (or me for that matter). But even with the efforts to make things more diverse, most media is still white dominated.

Honestly, I am done with this conversation. It is depressing that apparently enough people think like you to take what I am saying as an offense. To flag this entire article but also my post.

Diversity is going to happen, most people recognize the value of diversity. Your choice is going to be whether or not you will continue to be part of society or just be mad all the time.
But isn't that the role of governments? To decide what does require their reach?
It's actually a really dumb post. There's a lot of 'real' engineering in software engineering if you step back from the latest web x.0 trends and go back to traditional software engineering (OSes, embedded, compilers, data structures, networking, etc). The problem here is that we conflate the 'latest app' (which is usually differentiated in its business model, not its software) with software development. Somewhere down the line business creation has become synonymous with software development. Of course, business creation is excellent, but it's not engineering.
It’s not like the circumstances of the experiment are significant to the subjects. You’re a college student getting paid $20 to answer questions for an hour. Your response has no bearing on your pay. Who cares what you say?
That's true.

My point was if you're part of the population that has a good job and still can't afford a home where you live, because of how we've allowed this situation in the housing market to happen, and which is a large population of people, then I don't think your zip code matters very much.
I doubt anywhere remotely near 5% actually believe the Earth is flat. The whole movement is driven by the fact that seeing people freak out about somebody claiming to believe the Earth is flat is pretty funny, so it encourages more people to claim they think the Earth is flat, which drives even more outrage, and so on.

It's just classical trolling in a world where people no longer know how to deal with trolls, which is quite simple: don't feed them. Flat earthers by contrast are feasting like no troll ever before.
> Not all software engineers write websites.

Apparently it is also the case that not all HN commenters can spot a blatant joke.
No, they don't. You're trying a false equivalency between a bribe and gratuity. A bribe happens before the service is provided and the service is contingent upon the bribe. Gratuity is post factum, technically based on the quality of the service provided.
There should be some sort of cap on tips. My friends and I went our for dinner last weekend and we ended up spending around $600 for dinner, there were 5 of us. They automatically added 20% , $120 as a tip. We spent about 2 hours at that restaurant. I wouldn't say service was spectacular. The server infact made us over order, everyone had to take boxes back, they messed up 2 of our courses, but we had no recourse.

Definitely not visiting that spot ever again.
> Interest rates have been negative for nearly 2 decades

Nope.

Only since 2015 when the Japanese economy entered a recession and CPI rose to 4%.

> What significant government intervention has there been to keep inflation low

Negative inflation rates, impacting the ability to borrow further.

The expansive welfare system that allows 2% of the poorest Japanese to get direct benefits transfers (it's a great program, but very expensive, so other priorities are lower).

Price controls on utilities and some crops like Wheat.

> I don't know why they didn't just raise the minimum wage

Because Japan has a very extensive set of FTAs, and before 2015 a very high youth unemployment rate (8-12%).

If Japan raised the minimum wage, employers would leave for South Korea, Taiwan, China, ASEAN, and India.
Definitionally paranoia is irrational. Is it still irrational to worry about fake accounts on the internet pushing agendas?
Sometimes, the actual mods in charge of the site have heavily penalized certain accounts, either manually or via an algorithm (I don't know the details). The comments posted by these accounts appear to start off "dead", though they may be vouched for by high-karma users. This will make those comments appear normally.

I've moderated a number of forums in my time. And the hardest users to deal with are the ones that insist on breaking the rules 10% of the time, and who refuse to stop. Even if they contribute positively much of the rest of the time, they create far too much work.

(Also, I have zero interest in participating in unmoderated forums. Unmoderated forums are either overrun by spam, or by users who somehow manage to spend 50 hours a week flaming people. Look at any small-town online newspaper where the same 5 people bicker endlessly after every single news story. And if I don't like how a forum is moderated, I find another one.)
Comparing political rights, lefts and centers across cultures is futile, it's apples and oranges. For example, compare the immigration and integration policies of Biden [or the US] to that of Europe, and you'll find that he and most democrats are, for the most part, further "left."
Even if that is true in the general case (it isn't necessarily - there are many factors), it’s a matter of what’s acceptable, not a race to 1000fps. If you build a webview based app (using eg tauri) I can assure you that it can be extremely snappy, <1% cpu while active and low memory, provided you use sensible dev practices like not import half of npm. Contrary to popular HN belief, web browsers are ridiculously optimized both in terms of rendering and JITed JS execution. The reason web based applications are often perf hogs is not because, but despite the execution environment. Businesses simply don’t prioritize perf, independent of platform.

As an example, look at typical popular iOS apps: they’re often 100-500 Mb, even though they have absolutely no reason to be. LinkedIn is 400Mb, random airline app is 300Mb. Banking app? 350Mb.

Is it bad to bundle Chrome and NodeJS? Yes, undoubtedly (but that’s already changing). Is that the only way to deploy web-based apps to desktop? No. Is native UI gonna fix it? Temporarily at best, while the platform’s native ecosystem is simply too small to cause that level of bloat.
Accounting Isn't Cool Anymore
I'm sure this has nothing to do with it: "Asia’s Most Overworked Country Wants to Improve Work-Life Balance—By Raising Work Hours" and they are raising the cap on overtime! https://www.vice.com/en/article/south-korea-69-hour-work-wee...
The fact that someone does it badly does not mean that it is never done well.
I remember where I was when I read that article in Scientific American. What a time to be alive!
>No better example than asking a software engineer, developer VC there opinions on whether "gig" workers should be treated as full time employees with benefits, unionization etc.

And that's a "far right" position? So far as I can tell, even in europe, in most jurisdictions gig workers are treated as contractors rather than employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig_worker#Europe
You’re tipping the restuarant so your date looking over your shoulder doesnt get the ick, its a lot of energy to get what you want out of a relationship for it to be felled by a tipping protest

This culture is socially policed and has nothing to do with service, or whether tips are split, taxed, or whether that part of the country already abolished sub minimum wage
Couldnt it be similar to a property tax? That's evaluated on an annual basis. If you feel it's wrong you can appeal
Naively it seems like a ridiculous idea to put your boiler 1+mi away from your turbine.. am I wrong?

EDIT: There's also the fact that your steam is fighting a 1mi vertical column worth of pressure.. If your steam at the boiler is limited to 600°F that seems counterproductive to put it 1mi underground?
to a new monolith?
Recommend using twitter, amazing things happening over there.

Yeah agree with the rest, already on the drawing board working on some communication changes. If you're curious enough i promise the actual product delivers, give it a try!
I actually add more whey to it anyway. For some unfathomable reason I’d not considered just getting natural yogurt and adding twice as much whey.
Yeah, the cooking method (and the water it's cooked in) has a much larger effect than the origin of the rice.
If you ask me, tipping more than 0% for counter style ordering where there is no dedicated waiter involved makes no sense.

Even worse are the coffee shops - if you think getting a coffee is just a few bucks and is relatively cheap, note that you get robbed when you end up tipping. $1 or more tip on a $5 coffee. And there is nothing special you get, the baristas are just doing their basic job. Also the looks you get when you select the option "no tip" or the 0% tip, don't make it worth anything at all.

I stopped going to coffee shops a long time ago.
[dupe]

More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41369705
> We'll need a lot of automation and design work to push down US-made EV cost to be competitive.

What kind of automation and design work would "push down US-made EV costs" more than corresponding automation and design work in China?

Do you see what I mean? Technology doesn't change the relative costs, which matter, even if it changes the absolute costs, which don't.
Is it? Or a you just too lazy to do at least some research before posting a question there? I never had problems with my questions or answers being valued on Stack Overflow. But you have to put in some work. People who are complaining about their question or answer not being accepted are mostly just too lazy.
I don't know about Devin but check this tweet from Andrej Karpathy:

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1827143768459637073
Modular pocket-sized Raspberry Pi 5 PC
Rove is not a service, it does not have a runtime, is not a build tool, and not exclusive to running HTTP services. It deploys Docker images as provided without modification. Auto-issuing certificates would be the job of software built into your deployed images. For example, a Caddy process. At some point I should write how-to guides to illustrate common use-cases like running a HTTPS and deploying from CI though.
There's an "Ancient Hunters Overlook" in the badlands National Park, where the natives would hunt Buffalo by, well, running them off the overlook. Definitely beats trying your luck with a thrown spear.

https://www.nps.gov/places/ancient-hunters.htm
What a weird site, can't seem to scroll it? It wants to install some weird app?
The worldwide population COVID-19 infection fatality rate was estimated at about 0.27%, so substantially less than 1%. That number varied widely based on age.

http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.265892
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Looks amazing, I was having fun with cssdoodle, and now I have two cool sites to do some programming+arts.
I think of “software developer” as also including identification of software needs and matching product definition.

“Developers” create value, I.e. they “develop” raw things.

Not necessarily further up the skill mountain, but managing more of the economic to technical, back to economic, process stream.

So maybe it’s a more encompassing general term, rather than a skill or activity pole position?
Tipping cash is great whenever you have it, but it's not convenient. Not in the age of digital payments that can be completed with your mobile phone.
>> boxes and lines.

Reminds me of sitting in a draft paper review in my adviser's research group in graduate school when his final advice to the authors was "and you need to add a figure with boxes and arrows in it"
All Aboard the Bootstrap Transpiler Express
it's soliloquy
Thread suffers the exact same issue.

But service owner cannot aggressively cut down on spams and baits because it will mess with the engagement metrics.
Taxes are not an automatic good. There are things we want the government to do. It costs some amount of money to do those things. We should figure out what that amount of money is, tax enough for it, and the rest belong to the person who earns it.

Why do people assume we always have to give more and more money to the government? What have they done with the $6 trillion they spend every year so far? What evidence is there that giving them more will improve anything?

Taxes are not for you to punish people you don't like. They're to fund the government enough to perform its necessary functions. That's all.
IMO there should be a CoL adjusted minimum livable wage across the country, and it should be illegal to pay a >18 year old less than what it takes to live on. And that should be calculated from the barest minimum living standards[1]. At a certain point it becomes unconscionable for a wealthy society not to provide pure commodities at their lowest cost of delivery to it's poorest. As we do that, tips should be eliminated too.

There's very few of us with a hard enough heart who'd say no to someone who asked for a glass of tap water, or to use the toilet. As a society advances other basic necessities should move into the common domain too. (And the wonderful thing about capitalism is it has driven down the real costs of most of these things to historically absurdly low prices eg a thrift store pants for $7 in the face of $15 minimum wage is cheap compared to history when it was normative to have only 2 sets of clothes)

[1]: I'm thinking like shared bedroom, thrift store clothes, rice + beans + costco, annual checkup + bare minimum health insurance, annual dental cleaning / bare minimum insurance, a mint mobile $15 a month cellphone plan, and a library card for entertainment and education. You're not thriving, and you're not a catastrophic burden on the system either.
Typography is so difficult on the web due to lack of support for things CSS textbox-trim

https://github.com/jantimon/text-box-trim-examples

You can see that even on this website, if you click "Debug Mode" (top right) and notice that later in the page, the headings and body copy begin to drift out of vertical alignment (against the background grid).
> but it sounds like they are already paying them to under-produce

Not as much as if they were subsidizing the cost directly.

In this case the loss is on the consumer's end.
A large part of the United States' economic leadership is specifically concentrated in the tech startup sector.

Whether or not you think any of the companies funded by YCombinator[0] are actually worth their valuation, you have to realize that there will be fewer such startups if a tax on unrealized capital gains is passed, and that VC activity, along with the future startups chasing their money, absolutely will move to countries without such a tax.

Again, maybe you actually believe the startup scene in the US is worthless, in which case, go ahead and advocate for an unrealized gains tax Just be honest with yourself that it will entirely shut down sectors that others view as critical to the country's future dominance.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies
I literally thought of building this kind of thing recently, although I have some differing ideas on how to implement it. But the general idea of a single header C-like file that compiles to wasm and outputs primitive drawing commands is exactly what I was thinking.

What I really want is something like the old Flash/ActionScript display list. Just a 2d scene graph with the option to output draw commands, text or sprites. Things like containers (with things like border/backgrounds/etc.) and layouts can be built on top of that, so you could have two separate header files, one for the display list and another for a layout library.
Sounds good.

Now build a Facebook and get enough users to rally to your cause, and your opinion on suppression / amplification will have some weight to throw around.

People seem to forget that Facebook is where it is because users keep showing up, and users keep showing up because the censorship gives them something they want. It's a feedback loop.