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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:46PM (#50039357)
I can't afford to go to restaurants. I pay too much in my tips to my landlord.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:41PM (#50038994)
I'm not trying to "stick it to the man" or imply the server is bad at their job. I'm paying the agreed upon price. If servers need to be paid more to do their job they can demand more in wages, and the prices can raise to account for that.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:36PM (#50038967)
Try to have some self esteem. If you don't feel like you can stand up for yourself feel free to give them a 100% tip or whatever, maybe they'll cheer for you as you leave. Perhaps other people watching will join in.

Again, your compensation is between you and your employer. If I don't tip, perhaps your employer should be paying you more. Raise the prices to account for this.

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:22PM (#50038902)
In any sense optional? What about the literal sense? If you're not comfortable with _that_ arrangement, stop making it optional.

The only people stiffing service staff on their compensation is their employer shrugging their shoulders and not pricing the server's labour correctly. Your compensation agreement is between you and your employer, I'm here to pay for goods/services in exchange for the amount of money that we agreed on.

It's just not really my problem, and getting openly angry at me means you're the asshole, sorry.

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:15PM (#50038848)
You aren't in the right for being "openly angry" at a customer who doesn't voluntarily pay an optional tip. Either raise the prices and pay your servers more, or shut the fuck up about it (the angry people, I mean).
Re:An Alien Mind on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:03PM (#49589696)
For sure, and for that reason I mean to say that I wouldn't feel great as a manager/executive/etc either.
Re:An Alien Mind on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:46PM (#49589557)
Maybe I just lack imagination, but I don't really know how jobs are supposed to solidify around the role of giving prompts to agents and then looking at the results. I mean, engineers will be in the breadline because their role was simply to prompt the agents.. only to be superseded by managers or executives who no longer manage engineers but themselves prompt the agents? And, for this previously considered obsolete function which they do presumably by copy/pasting requirements from their email inbox, they will be paid by someone who doesn't know that they could just be talking to their own agents?

Sorry if I misunderstand the point, just trying to understand.

Re:Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:41AM (#49400266)
If it's samey regardless of language, isn't that in contradiction to your original theory? " .. the most important feature for agent performance is the popularity of the language .. "
POGOs are criminalized and often operated by illegal immigrant Chinese people, it's not really representative. At least that's my understanding having lived in Manila for a few years.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:07AM (#49219279)
That's across 64 concurrent streams; you could make more concurrent requests to DeepSeek API no?
Re:Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:54AM (#49109333)
After using a tiling WM, it feels like this is a window manager job. It even works for non-terminal applications.
Re:Making on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:55AM (#49021650)
> Call me aged out but im not so sure that your vibe coded app or that tik tok upload is gonna hit the same in 5080.

This is true of almost anything: past, present, or future. Most of everything is shit.

Re:l: A new runtime for k and q on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:13AM (#48830912)
Not sure how you're replying to me without looking at the link.
Re:l: A new runtime for k and q on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:42AM (#48828816)
Isn't that "more standard C" because it's written by Claude?
Re:UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:33AM (#48538829)
I mean, we view social networks as having network effects that keep people there. The same force that stops people from switching from Facebook and TikTok prevents people from abandoning social media altogether. Waiting for all the adults to be responsible and forward thinking seems a little far fetched.
Re:UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:22AM (#48538733)
I'm not in favor of these social media bans, but I would think the benefit here is that without the ban your child will be in the "real world" while everybody else's is on social media. This would make the "real world" socialization benefits more difficult.
Re:I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:38AM (#48324593)
Aren't they related in the sense that they're not tech/SaaS/software related? "I'm looking into being an elevator mechanic; I need the money because my wife is pregnant." and then "I'm writing poetry by hand." Like, their life is going in a non-tech direction?
Who do you imagine the winners and losers will be? To the extent AI is useful and disruptive, it's best utilized by people with capital. Which is to say, the winners are few and the losers are everybody else. In this case, the losers aren't just more vocal, they're louder and more visible because they're much more numerous.
Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:11PM (#48102950)
How am I being virulently anti-AI? I've been a Claude Code max subscriber for many months and find it very helpful. It feels a little unfair to conclude that any criticism is just unfounded fear and insecurity..
Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:09PM (#48097694)
I could also include the correct implementation for it to copy in the prompt, if you get what I'm trying to say. Some amount of laziness or vagueness in the prompt is an intended use case, it's surely the point of having the subagents do so much churning of tokens to research before writing the plan that I'm about to disregard. But sure, those are helpful tips.
Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:39AM (#48096468)
You're right. I think having it spawn lots of subagents, read everything, formulate a big and detailed plan, only for it to be subtly wrong while requiring me to carefully review the result and the intermediate plans that produced it is quite tiring. I suppose things slip through.
Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:15AM (#48096150)
Plan mode improves results, but it doesn't solve the underlying problems. Pretty often Claude Opus 4.7 on xhigh will formulate a reasonable enough plan, churn for a while, then come back with a summary that it didn't stick to the plan because it wasn't accurate.

Worse, the disclaimer is buried under a bunch of "did X, did Y on line Z of file a/b/c", as if it's just a minor inconvenience. To the extent the plan was inaccurate, you're left in an undefined state where you might as well undo what it just did..

I wouldn't use any provider: z.ai, Claude, OpenAI, ... if I was concerned about the government obtaining my prompts. If you're doing something where this is a legitimate concern (as opposed to my open source stuff), you should get a local LLM or put a lot of effort into anonymizing yourself and your prompts.
Yeah, when I say "current day Claude" I'm referring to Opus 4.5, which is what I always use on the max plan.
I got their z.ai plan to test alongside my Claude subscription; it feels about on par with something between sonnet 4.0 and sonnet 4.5. It's definitely a few steps below current day Claude, but it's very capable.
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:10PM (#46321116)
I've had the $20/month plan for a few months alongside a max subscription to Claude; the cheap codex plan goes a really long way. I use it a few times a day for debugging, finding bugs, and reviewing my work. I've ran out of usage a couple of times, but only when I lean on it way more than I should.

I only ever use it on the high reasoning mode, for what it's worth. I'm sure it's even less of a problem if you turn it down.

Re:Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:25PM (#46298240)
Dafny and similar languages use SMT; their semantics need to be such that you're giving enough information for your proof to verify in sufficient time, otherwise you'll be waiting for a very long time or your proof is basically undecidable.

I'm not sure about benchmarks comparing languages, but Dafny goes through a lot of tweaking to make the process faster.

Re:Do the thinking models think? on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:20AM (#46104835)
Is that interesting? Computers accomplish all sorts of tasks which require thinking from humans.. without thinking. Chess engines have been much better than me at chess for a long time, but I can't say there's much thinking involved.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Sunday November 23, 2025 @10:09AM (#46024111)
I admit that when reading the description of your relationship (I don't mean to be disrespectful, for what it's worth) I can't help but wonder how it can possibly be consistent with "a relationship between two people can be basically whatever they want it to be." It really reads like the relationship is whatever _she_ wants it to be.

If you had come into the relationship with the understanding that you'd both date/have sex with other people then great; it doesn't matter what other people think. However, when you say that it was hard for you to accept her being with other men, and that you're lucky that "she has never fallen in love and wanted to run away with one of em", damn. My first instinct is that you should take your own advice: find or design a relationship where you don't have to accept this.

I realize that some of my knee jerk reaction might just be instinct/cultural values, I mean no disrespect.

Re:62 chapter open-source Zig book on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:12PM (#45949740)
If you believed that you wouldn't explicitly say there was no AI generated content at all, you'd let it speak for itself.

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