skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This sounds very much like IT/Helpdesk support, of the kind a programmer or a lab manager typically wouldn't want (and might not be qualified) to deal with, either." - Not if they were hired with that qualification in mind.

"Is there something unique to your lab environment that you couldn't use some kind of shared/general IT helpdesk service, perhaps focused on scientific software users?" - It's more there are parts of HappiLab that I could see using (managing grant budgets, which was...an unpleasant part of my week last week), etc. but my pain points are slightly different from those of a wet lab, but still within the realm of "I'd prefer someone familiar with academia and research rather than a general purpose group."
What mechanism does the web site use to detect whether you're online or offline?
Why not? Learn what it is to be courageous and loving, and decide now that if the situation arises you will do it.
What sucks about Netflix app is I can't see IMDB ratings. I'm tired of them promoting 3-5.5/10 crap when I'll only watch decent content 7-8+.
Related (also on HN front page): http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/the-online-magazine-you-c... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782794
In fairness, the first sentence is 100% true: beliefs and competence are very different things, as any real competent person would know ;D
I like when they set the defaults even higher than 20%. I went to a Sports Clips and the lowest default was $5 on an $18 haircut, with I think $10 being the highest. They spend probably 20 minutes on a basic haircut. I don't think that a 50%+ tip is reasonable.
Their adherence to data will be their undoing. Empathy is far more important when making product decisions.
It's very easy to see how the want vs need question could be yet another ploy. For a small company I could be inclined to believe the owner asking the question, but could I ask them if they're living within their wants or needs? I think skepticism can be warranted...
Not stopping at a stop sign is called the “Idaho Stop”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop

It is legal elsewhere. Two studies argue that it seems to increase safety on the road.

Stopping when street cars stop is a must, however.
You seem to think they hat's absurd? Maybe I want to store a set of accountids. So I sort them (bit-extraction or comparison!),

You’re going to do “bit extraction” to sort? If you treat accountId as an opaque type, you are going to have a comparison operator as part of the type and the rest of your code is going to just use a < or > symbol.

take deltas (subtraction!), and encode the deltas sensibly. Maybe I have two lists of accountids and I want to check that none of the things in the first list show up in the second list. Some sort of hashing scheme (bit-fiddling!) is going to be my friend here.

Or in a modern language since you have already defined equality between the two types and overridden the GetHashCode() function....

var deltas = accountList1.Except(accountlist2)

Why are you doing that all through your code instead of encapsulating the concept of equality, less than and greater than in one place?

What SQL? What resultset? What object? I have an integer. Why do you assume it doesn't make sense?

You were referring to CRUD apps and having to serialize the Account object. Either you are using an ORM, you are getting results from a database as a record set - which is usually represented by a dictionary of key value pairs and mapping it to your Account class or you are sending back a raw record set.

More than likely, you are mapping from your domain model to your externally exposed view model anyway.
When I was last in the US I noticed that restaurants generally seemed to charge similar amounts to my expensive city (Sydney) but that was before the tip. So is it a lot more profitable to run a restaurant in the US because you essentially offload the labour cost from the meal to the tip but can keep the meal a similar price?

Also if its something that is generally always expected to be 20% then why not charge extra and pay your staff normally rather than having this extra layer to potentially mislead diners?
I cancelled and share with family. Their catalog is shit, their apps are anti-viewer, some of their content is okay but they're turning the customer experience into repugnant, corporate shit.
I don't recall it being taught in my intro psych class. If it was mentioned, it couldn't have been essential.
Probably a more useful commentary on the enduringly persuasive effect of emphasizing an association with Stanford.
In terms of people who accomplished great things but were never recognized for it in their lifetimes you can find a lot sadder stories than a man who won the Nobel Prize.
I dunno I am in the exact category you describe but don’t feel obligated to. It is messed up to even have the new tipping system where you have to shamefully press “no tip”. I just paid $10 to get a sandwich in a paper box from a food truck, and you want a 20% tip for handing it out the window?
I can't recall any of my intro psych lectures mentioning it. It definitely wasn't mentioned during every hour of class time.
Delayed Dynamical Systems: Networks, Chimeras and Reservoir Computing
The old days are long gone. Most companies are pretty lean, and the prospect of sending a key person to Minnesota just isn’t reasonsble. How are you going to convince some hotshot to move? Remember that spouses work these days!

Plus, if you want to save money, you can send work to India, Phillipenes, etc and plug into a network of managers and business types.

Is it short sighted and probably a bad thing in the long run for American companies? Sure. Does that matter? Nope!
It would be un-American to pick the right path.
That's not really true, though! Some stores have policies against tipping, and it can be awkward if you try to tip someone who's not allowed to accept it.

Coat/bag check workers are a good example: most concert halls seem to encourage you to tip maybe $1 when you get your coat back, but a lot of museum coat check workers will refuse to accept a tip and may get flustered if you offer one.

I've never seen anyone try to tip in McDonald's or Old Navy, but I don't think you'd be doing anyone any favors if you tried. The cashier would probably be more worried about getting in trouble for handling the situation wrong than grateful.
I hate the tipping system ("tipping") in the US. It's so forced and only benefits the business owner. You should not have to rely on uncertain tips to make up a minimum wage that is just stupid. Both parties keep the system alive, someone has to break the cycle.
> so the lead scientist didn't die trying to save the seed bank, he was arrested

Nobody said otherwise. The article we're discussing tells the same story.

You appear to be attacking a strawman that you made up after skimming the article.
FWIW, tipped workers typically work for an hourly wage lower than the minimum wage, and are expected to earn the rest from tips. Most of the jobs you're talking about are not in the tipping wage category, and management just has to monitor carefully. Fast food has tons of computers to do exactly that, and even department stores have secret shoppers and cameras to observe staff. Grocery stores have crazy levels of cameras to monitor staff; I'd say about 70 percent of the cameras are pointed at the cashier (the remainder at you as you wander the store to calculate dwell time and deter theft). Trash collection I don't even know the company behind it let alone ever seen the driver. I assume they have GPS and cameras now that communities have moved to those machine arm trucks.

Tipping is a sort of economic hack; you the customer are responsible for evaluating service, and punishing inept or even just lazy service. You're the final buyer of the service, so in a way it's fair; just atypically lassiez-faire method versus the usual social hierarchy of companies paying managers to supervise service workers.

I figure if tipping dies, it will be because there's a separate economic hack undermining it. When you live somewhere where restaurants start and fail every month, the cost of a bad tipper reputation is pretty low. And if you adopt an upfront tip model to combat this, you're people's losing good faith as the fee-for-service model no longer applies -- which this article directly discusses.

All of which puts us in the awkward position of trying to figure out whether the lunch spot we visit is paying its staff a tipped wage without any actual service -- no bussing, no setting, and just a beeper to let you know you should grab your food.
I recently rediscovered Mithril.

I needed to build a fairly complex tree-table in our legacy ES5 app and I initially turned to Vue to build the first prototype. I'm a big fan of Vue, but for the first time with Vue I found myself really fighting against the framework. In particular Vue's templating system and lack of template fragments make it hard to create complex HTML table elements as they require a strict structure. Another issue is our ES5 app already has its own build system so we'd either be stuck with using Vue without Webpack (which in Vue is a really inferior experience) or attempting to use both build systems which is a bit cumbersome.

While researching Vue template fragments I discovered Mithril has had support for fragments since its inception (React recently also added support for fragments). I had always discounted Mithril. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's the simple homepage, the seemingly brief documentation, hyperscript, or the lack of HN hype. Wow was I ever so wrong. The documentation is short because the API surface area is tiny and this is a GOOD thing. I never felt like I was writing framework code or trying to figure out the Mithril way of doing things. It pretty much gets out of your way. Hyperscript, which I thought I would hate, turned out to be one of my favorite parts of using Mithril especially when I paired it with Tailwind CSS. Since Hyperscript is pure JavaScript, doesn't require a build step, and is the standard way of writing Mithril components, integrating Mithril into our legacy JS app was absolutely dead simple.
I'm curious why it uses the keyboard instead of joysticks. Did the Apple II only have one joystick port? I don't know much about its hardware.
But many democrats, while believing in "helping X" still have the American "you can't give people money" ideal.

SF has many incredibly good systems for helping the homeless - medical care, varying amounts of temporary shelter (SROs are kind of required in SF, but it's terribly implemented, and doesn't actually give people a place to live, just sleep). But the help for the homeless does not involve giving money, but you need money to pay rent, so your only real option is to remain homeless.

Honestly though, I feel there's so much accumulated cruft it would take decades to deal with homelessness in America. For instance, if you turn around and give money to the homeless tomorrow the first problem you'll hit is there are now a few thousand additional people competing for the already limited housing in SF. The decades of mismanagement of mental health in CA mean that you have a huge population of mentally ill who are homeless and may not have cognitive resources to make use of (or even get) the money. You also have to deal with decades of drug [ab?]use in the long term homeless - simply having access to a home isn't going to resolve that.
It definitely makes a difference for me. Now that I use the app, I have a default tip percentage that I no longer think about. It was a lot harder to mentally justify tipping when I had to do the math in my head.

Completely irrational, but real.
> and if it's in cash it's tax free.

Obligatory nit: Being paid in cash is not exempt from regular income tax.
What’s the meaning of such name?
Just drove thru upstate NY for 3 hours. Can confirm. Dollar General in every small town.
This article summarizes Zimbardo's response to them (Reicher et al) as:

> How has Zimbardo responded this time? [By reasserting that](http://www.prisonexp.org/response) 'none of these criticisms present any substantial evidence that alters the SPE’s conclusion'. And at the same time that he berates his critics (without engaging with their arguments), he reworks his story to now say that, yes, Guards were told to be tough, but not how to be tough. For Zimbardo, then, this is all just fake news. Except that it plainly isn’t.

Here is Zimbardo's response from that link:

> From the time of being recruited with national ads to be actors in a "university-backed social science experiment to be shown on TV," every participant knew their actions and voices (from lapel mics they had to wear always) would be seen and heard on national TV by family and colleagues. Any similarity to the intense build-up of emotional confrontations between SPE guards versus prisoners, 24/7, was diluted by the daily itinerary of the British research team (Alex Haslam and Stephen Reicher). These researchers frequently intervened, made regular public broadcasts into the prison facility, administered daily psychological assessments, arranged contests for the best prisoners to compete to become guards, and as in many “reality-TV” shows, created daily "confessionals" for participants to talk directly to the camera about their feelings. Ironically, the results of this show could be interpreted as further evidence of the “power of the situation,” although in this case the “situation” was that of reality-TV.

> Among the participants in this BBC-TV prison show, several of whom had contacted me afterwards, was Philip Bimpson, the ringleader of a prisoner rebellion against the hapless guards. He said, in part:

> > The prisoners won because they had organized themselves quicker than the guards; their subversive actions and organizational skills outwitted the guards who were disorganized in their new surroundings. They did not understand that they had to organize themselves and form a set of rules that they all agreed on… I think the group is being exploited by the BBC for commercial gain. Me and my new friends in the group joined the experiment for the furtherance of science & not to be used as a form of cheap entertainment." (Personal email communication, 26 Feb. 2002; supplemented by my subsequent visit in Glasgow, Oct. 10, 2004)

> I therefore reject the use of this “replication” as a scientifically valid challenge to results from the SPE (for a more detailed response to this criticism, please see my article in the British Journal of Social Psychology, 2007, Vol. 127.).
What an absurdly dumb article.
Goodbye atheism, hello tax free status.
It's a thing you say when you don't know what you are doing or can't remember a thing.
just a guess, but "unofficial manpage"
Unfortunately, in some places we still do (kinda what the OP was saying).
Tips and previews
> I thought employers had to gross up employee pay if their hourly + tips didn't hit the non-tipped minimum wage?

Employers are required to do that.

However, as is most often the case at the low end of the job ladder, enforcing your employment rights against your employer is a very efficient way to find yourself unemployed and--in smaller communities where "people are gonna talk"--blackballed from ever holding a job again.
What else would you recommend checking out in Paris by way of museums?
Inspiring Podcast
During podcast one, our inaugural recording for the EPP, we're talking to super mom, Belinda Franson, about her years and experiences raising a son with autism, even while managing her own struggles with mental illness. A hero, for sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRR6kdf2zc&t=2s
These types of systems have pushed me toward carrying cash again. After feeling manipulated and/or guilty by the tip-requesting interface in situations where I would not normally tip or might throw spare change in a jar (vs the several dollars that's being solicited), I now pay in cash. It gives me the control over the transaction that I had previous to the interfaces' existence and I don't leave the situation with negative feelings.
I like this idea. Some of the comments on the Nautilus interview seem to focus on how stupid and deficient the technology behind this is or on how someone doesn’t want to be dictated by a site on how they should consume content. I’d usually agree on the latter point because of pervasive tracking and ads on most online sites, but don’t agree with it in this context.

I look at reading this magazine as a choice one makes to experience a readable list of articles while being disconnected. It’s somewhat rare to get such experiences online since most sites are geared toward short sensational pieces and a bunch of other listicles and articles to get you to stay and keep jumping around on the same site (or send you to another shady site through Taboola or the rightly named Outbrain or something else).

It’s about you, the reader, choosing to have that experience.

If you don’t want to be disconnected but want to read this magazine, there are plenty of ways to cheat. The creator of this magazine, Nick Bolin, is not going to fight tooth and nail to stop you from connecting (as clearly stated in an answer referring to looking things up while reading print material). This is not a never ending arms race like in the case of ad blockers vs. ad block killers.

What will finally matter is whether there is a good audience for the content and this model. Even if that happens to be a tiny niche, that’s ok. The creator, at least in my reading of the interview, is not after world domination or scaling to beat every other site out there that’s currently fighting for our attention.
“um” is an expression of confusion or a space filler in conversation like “uh”.

“Um, how do I use this tool again?”
So many comments here are talking about "defaulting" to tips or to 20% -- but I've never seen that on a Square or Square-type device.

It always requires a signature and you have to explicitly press "18%", "20%", "25%" (or similar) or "No tip" button.

I would be shocked if I ever saw a tip amount pre-selected for me (unless on a bill for a large party at restaurant, which has been standard for a long time now).
The game supports both keyboard and joystick input. It's really a keyboard game, though, it's not Karate Champ or Way of Exploding Fist or games in that vein.
Why HP Fell
In chrome network tab or /etc/hosts, block requests to ipv4.icanhazip.com and it'll think you're offline
you are a disgusting coalburner, get fucked :-DDDDDD
I was asking about the Lisp, way, which it said was harder to parallelize because everything was held in memory.
Most Enjoyable! I love seeing old tools brought back to life.
I think in many situations tip calculators focus on the wrong thing. They are answering the question "How much do I pay given the tip percent?"

Often the actual question I want answered is "What tip will I be giving if I pay various whole dollar amounts?"

For example, let's say I order a pizza for delivery, and the mandatory charges come to $20.60, and let's also say I consider 15% a reasonable tip.

A normal tip calculator will tell me that I should give the pizza guy $23.69.

Screw that, I'm not futzing around with trying to find $0.69 in coins, and I'm certainly not going to give him $24 or $25 and ask for $0.31 or $1.31 in change.

Nope. I'm going to pay an integral number of dollars and say "keep the change".

What I want a tip calculator to do is give me a table:

Pay Effective Tip
$21 1.9%
$22 6.8%
$23 11.7%
$24 16.5%
$25 21.4%

I can then look at that, and see that my best choices are $23, $24, or $25. $23 comes out far enough below 15% that I'll cross that off. $24 is a little over 15%, so is perfect, but if I don't have 4 $1 bills in my wallet, $25 would not be extravagant. Result: $24 or $25, depending on exactly what bills are in my wallet.

I made an Apple Dashboard widget to do just that, and it worked out quite well. If I had ever gotten around to learning mobile development, that was going to be my first app for learning.
The root of the problem is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> where you have to shamefully press “no tip”

You don't have to.

I think if you can really easily spare a few dollars for someone who earns much less than you but choose not to there should be a little shame involved. Your feelings about not doing that are on you, not the iPad.
Would love to hear the estimate from one of the many people who think Dropbox/Twitter/Facebook are simple weekend projects.

They could probably knock this one out in less time than it took me to write this comment.
> It's an amazing amount of societal damage that nobody will ever be able to quantify. We'll never know the books that weren't read, the inventions that weren't made, or the people that weren't helped because somebody was watching social media.

Individuals have a right to recreation; they don't need to spend every waking moment being useful to society. The alternative is dystopian.
Having just read Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment By Yanis Varoufakis I was interested how this was written up. Varoufakis obviously writes from a non-objective, polarised position, but I would expect he feels glad the Greek state has survived and come through, although would criticize the outcome regarding the Greeks who made the sacrifices, and the Greeks who "got away with it" from the banking, fintech and corporate sector.

I recommend following the three BBC links downstream of this headline story.
Don't wait until the new engineers are hired. By then it could be too late. Get involved in hiring and help your employer hire one or more good senior engineers who want to improve the quality of the code base and of the team.
And cars. Also trucks. The pedestrian crossing near me has a warning sign stuck up by someone telling you to look behind you for trucks running red lights while turning.
How do I do that on my desktop?

https://imgur.com/a/xG1YWwU
It’s actually worse - a healthcare provider is typically paid 10%-40% of the cash pay rate for a Medicaid or Medicare patient so 60%-90% below the listed rate!

I’m far from an expert as well, but my point is that a transparent everyone pays the same system is in direct conflict with the current system where certain patients pay multiples of the other patients for the exact same care/service etc.
Huh. I beat Karateka on the C64 with a joystick. I don't think it would have occurred to me to play it with a keyboard, though, even if I was told it was better. At the time I was always baffled when action games had a keyboard option at all, when surely everyone had a perfectly good and superior joystick.

(After a little googling, it seems like the Apple II joystick was analog and kinda shitty in the way that early analog joysticks always were for some reason, so that may explain it as well. The C64's Atari-type sticks were not nearly as sturdy as one would wish, but they performed very well while they lasted.)
For me, that's no big deal:

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

Even the horrible crap I wrote as an novice is probably less embarrassing to me that the stuff I wrote as a journeyman who shoulda known better.

Thankfully, the most embarrassing things are, like, spending 2 days configuring postfix and not realizing that I could just read the log files and it tells me specifically what isn't working. A valuable lesson, but embarrassment has its cost.
No Damages Awarded to Family Whose Home Was SWAT Raided at Gunpoint for Tea
Mechanical pencils haven't been mentioned. They follow a similar history. The Sharp electronics company was founded to make pencils in 1915. Their Ever-Sharp pencil was a big success.

When I did business with them a number of years ago they gave me (and probably every other visitor) a replica of the original pencil.
> she made groups of operations and in the text of her note specified when they should repeat.

Does anyone know what "should repeat" means? Was the machine capable of repeating or does this mean the human operator needed to do the repeating?
Maybe because it was successfully silenced the first time?

This is huge IMO and I haven't heard about it until now so I think it is good that is being pushed again.