<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: BeetleB</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BeetleB</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:53:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BeetleB" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BeetleB in "Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Several states do that.</p>
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<p>For reasons that may have nothing to do with the topic at hand.</p>
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<p>> The government shouldn't be in the business of telling people what they can do, or have done, to their own bodies.<p>But they absolutely should be in the business of licensing and controlling claims you make as a professional.<p>If you're someone who is performing this procedure and not making claims of medical benefits based on your license, I can see the arguments for allowing it. The flip side is you lose some of the legal protections you get as this is not a medically sanctioned procedure. Let the family sue you for the harm you may have caused and the department of justice arrest you for any lives that may be lost.</p>
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<p>Over 6% on desktop (which is where I do the bulk of my browsing...).<p>More than Safari.</p>
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<p>In the last few months, I've seen a huge upsurge of sites that simply won't work for me in Firefox.<p>Not sure if it's the FF + Linux combination. Should probably try with a fresh profile to confirm.<p>It sucks, but I'm in on FF all the way. If much of the web stops working for me, it just means I have more time on my hands!</p>
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<p>It's funny. Over 20 years ago, I got people to switch to Firefox because of the AdBlock extension.<p>In case people don't know, Firefox was the first major browser to even <i>have</i> extensions.</p>
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<p>As I alluded to elsewhere, I've yet to see a layoff where there's no one who doesn't consider how it was done "a dick move." Your preferred way of doing a layoff will be someone else's "dick move" judgement.</p>
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<p>> Shutting down is a subset of reasons for mass layoffs.<p>Not shutting down the company, but shutting down a division. The reasons are almost always the same.<p>> Disregarding that, it's not very different. What is the implication you're making? That it's good because it's common?<p>Having been at a company that had several rounds of layoffs over several years, I can assure you there's no way to do a layoff were people won't complain (and the complaints can be quite petty).<p>In the last round, it was the manager scheduling calls to let people know. He scheduled them over two days (not enough hours in the day to do everyone). We're all in a team meeting (without the manager), and random people are just piping up "Oh wow. I just got a meeting request." Each of them knew they were getting laid off just by the mere fact of getting a calendar invite. So they have to spend the rest of the day waiting to formally hear what they already know when their time comes.<p>I dunno. Not saying it's worse than what this CEO did, but I can't see it being better either.</p>
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<p>It sounds like you're equating "aggressive" with "sweet".<p>Coffee has a very strong taste (even without sugar). Stronger than anything on the list. I'd wager that the reason some people add a lot of sugar is to make up for that strong taste.<p>5 hour energy drinks have almost no sugar. Much milder taste than coffee.<p>> Meanwhile in Asia beans are considered sweet bc their food isn't overloaded with sugar.<p>Red bean paste?</p>
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<p>I don't know. Pre-pandemic, when doing mass layoffs, it wasn't unusual for a company to hold a giant update meeting and let everyone know they're shutting down the division and that everyone's been laid off.<p>How is this different?</p>
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<p>> “He hoodwinked me,” the just-ousted Better Home & Finance CEO said about Daniel Lewis, the man who replaced him last week. “He said he liked the company’s strategy. He praised us on X and used that to get on our board and win our confidences.”<p>I love SpaceX's strategy for getting us to AGI, the moon, and beyond!<p>> just as he brought the company to the precipice of success.<p>I love how success has a precipice.</p>
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<p>Coffee tastes more aggressive than all of those.</p>
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<p>> @-mention files instead of naming them. The file gets attached to your message directly, which saves a Read call, or a search if Claude has to go find it.<p>I've heard it argued that this is an antipattern. If the file is large, it will read the whole file. With Read or something similar, it can do a targeted search and read only the relevant portion.<p>Is this still not the case?<p>Also, since they mention /context: Can anyone explain why /context takes so long to run? It usually takes several seconds, and I've had cases of it taking over a minute.<p>And why don't they just show the basics in a status line somewhere? Just a plain: "120K/200K tokens" I <i>hate</i> having to type /context just to get this. And I shouldn't need to install an extension.</p>
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<p>I would expect you can.<p>lexilambda created Typed Racket on top of Racket. <a href="https://github.com/racket/typed-racket" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/racket/typed-racket</a></p>
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<p>You say management was not being cheap, and then list everything cheap management does.<p>I'm familiar with the dynamics of such places.<p>If they actually go through a proper lawsuit, my guess is the lawyers will cost more than whatever they'd have to pay for redundant backups by an order of magnitude. Which means they probably <i>won't</i> go to court.</p>
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<p>I can agree with that. Cable TV, Walkmans, and well, even just TVs in general are to blame.</p>
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<p>> Constant need for something in your ear is a very new phenomena and for some reason a lot of people have gotten in the habit of isolating themselves from the world around them and stopped being in presence of the reality. Sad.<p>Convenient narrative, but not at all a new phenomenon. I had friends like this in the 90's. And I'm not seeing more people like this than in those days.</p>
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<p>> In the real world, you get a job, and you're on probation for your "first semester" when the scrutiny is at its highest.<p>This describes exactly 0 jobs I've had. When you work in a big company, they're pretty gentle with you in the first year.<p>If not, I'd recommend changing companies unless you're getting that much more compensated where you are.</p>
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<p>> You have 100 places on the course next year. You have 10,000 applications with straight A's. You need to put ~9,000 in the bin.<p>This is the situation for less than 10% of universities in the US. Likely a lot less than 5%.<p>I wish I could find the source (a university president), but over 70% of public universities simply set a bar, and whoever meets the bar is admitted. There's no notion of "limited seats".<p>I just checked 3 decent state universities near me. Admission rates are 76, 77 and 87%.<p>One of them has a 75th percentile SAT score of 1230. 25th percentile is in the 900's. Another's range is from mid 1100's to 1400.<p>I've worked in multiple top tech companies. I know <i>plenty</i> of alumni from these 3 universities working there - with several doing quite well (and very technically competent). <i>Most</i> of them did not even go to grad school, so it's not as if an advanced degree from a good name place helped them.<p>This idea that you need to go to a top school to get good salaries and careers is something only people who live in a bubble believe. It's true for law school, and not that true for business school, and really not true for engineering.<p>If I had to summarize my experience: Motivated students going to very average schools for engineering do quite well. Average students who go to top engineering schools almost always change their career path at some point because they don't grow well in a technical career. Top schools don't provide a magical recipe.<p>(OK, as a footnote, having gone to both a low ranked and a top 10 school, the one thing I will admit is better in a top 10 school is that networking is easier - which I'm sure does help in one's career).</p>
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<p>> Got waitlisted as a dual legacy from my university and ultimately settled for a top 35 school.<p>Oh how tragic!<p>Went to a very average school - well below 35 - and a top grad school. Definitely benefited from <i>not</i> going to a top school for undergrad. Some details here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293077">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293077</a><p>(Been planning for years to write a much more detailed blog post about this. Maybe one day...)</p>
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