skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how would they measure bounce rate when analytics won't work when the user is disconnected? :)

Anyway since we're on HN you should know that Chrome has a "offline" button in its network tab in its developer tool, used for testing offline features, so you can take a single tab offline, instead of disconnecting everything.
You usually do tip on the full amount right?
I think that the history of tipping is more complex than that. My understanding is that at high end restaurants back in the day waitstaff paid the house for tables, and their entire income was from tips.

That being said, I’d much rather society move towards the idea that every job pay at least a living wage
As a long time resident and a daily pedestrian in downtown Toronto, I have seen far far more cyclists ignoring traffic regulations than car drivers. They feel they own the road and rules don't apply to them - ignoring stop signs, bus/streetcar stops and the safety of pedestrians, expecting everyone including pedestrians to yield to them. But when they are inconvenienced by a car they yell.

When a streetcar stops, you must stop, like all the other vehicles to let the passengers to get on/off, and not try to bully your way through.

If there is a stop sign or it's a red light, you must stop, period. Don't pretend you are just a pedestrian trying to "jaywalk" across.

If cyclists want to use the road, they need to obey the same rules like everyone else. They are not above pedestrians and cars as they think entitled to.
> The better way to do something like your example is to make 'set-up-request' etc. methods of a class, along with their callees. Then instead of dynamically binding some variables, you instantiate your class with the desired values, and call the desired methods on the instance. You get pretty much the same elegance of expression, and no dynamic binding weirdness is required.

That doesn't work, because functions called by functions called by functions called by set-up-request &c. won't see the values one wants them to see. The whole point of dynamic variables is that they transcend the stack.

Can this lead to really strange bugs? I don't really think so, but maybe. The whole point is that each function can customise the environment seen by the functions it calls. That's actually very clean.
They were close. "Hit me up" would be close enough to "call me" to work the way the way it was intended, but "hit me" definitely does not.
Where did you hear that? Doesn't sound believable to me at all.
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People doesn't realize that what they are doing in Excel is no other than the programming. If the task requires programming, it should better be handled by a programming language which support version controlling and debugging.
Also, he writes 'Python's object model is the same as Lisp's' which makes me think either he doesn't understand object models (really, really unlikely) or that he & I understand the phrase 'object model' to indicate very different things (more likely).

I think 'object model' refers to e.g. how classes, instances & methods work together; Lisp & Python have radically different object models.

Maybe he uses it to mean something like 'type model'?
Yes, the author seems to have confused implementation errors for design errors in a majority of these. I detest worshipping the crypto calf as much as anyone, but there is a big difference between the two.
Some of those without an engineering undergrad degree were my classmates.
Usually in restaurants where all the of the goods are individually prepare / served.

Many cafes sell also beans and other merchandise that are manufactured or made in batches, and can be $20 per item. So tipping on those items would be similar than you tipping in grocery stores or other stores that sell goods. Like you buy a $20k car, do you tip them 20%?

Personally, I always just change the default calculation and tip on the service items like $1 for coffee/drink.
yes, if the government could manage to pass a good law there :) but in the event that the government won't, tipping helps correct the situation.
I used to feel the same, but then I started to appreciate just how fortunate I am to not have to work in retail. This isn’t because I’m better. It’s just because I was born into the right situation.

I always tip now and use the experience as a reminder not to take my fortune for granted. It’s also a reminder that everything I have might be taken away at any time.
The parent's point is that you don't normally tip on merchandise you buy. If you buy a beer for $10 and a tshirt for $30 from a bartender, a typical tip would be $2 not $8.

That said, it's sort of an arbitrary custom. It's not very much work to fill a glass of beer, find a t-shirt in some cabinet, or hand someone a cup of coffee.
Don’t always assume the full tip goes to the employees. At a place I used to work, the employer took 50% of the gratuity charge for all banquets. If you want the employee to get it, tip in cash.
Yet it happens, while this anecdotal. I know of a married couple that broke HIPPA and actively admitted they will be doing so. One was a pharmacist one was a doctor and it involved a couple of patients and herpes. I barely knew then and I should not have heard the information. They definitely should not have shared it even as husband and wife.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1007548856375095296.html
No need to except Common Lisp here. I typically find it quite easy to understand other programmers' Common Lisp. It's not a difficult-to-understand language, and neither are macros, properly used (and they are indeed rarely improperly used).
I agree entirely. Ideally all this tipping nonsense would go away and people would have a decent wage without it.

My main objection was more to do with the sentiment of well paid tech workers I have met who complain about this technology because they feel pressured to tip a low paid workers more. A position I have little sympathy for.
Poison Apple Fanpersons: forego the niceties of your iPhone, and support manufacturers who aren't in lockstep with the evil forces who want to use IP law to control all content and technology forever.
Another response would be to have a better sorted and navigable catalog. It boggles my mind that as a French viewer, all the French content is just stuffed together in "European".
The article explicitly addresses SF So this article is about a state which enforces a minimum wage above the US norm for workers in tip-heavy industries. US minimum wage is like $2.15 and federally mandated tip+wage rate is $7.25 and the Californian state wage is $10. This is functionally equivalent to federal minimum plus 30%.

I realize the transition moment here is confronting, and with family who work and depend on this class of labour I am completely aware of the immediate pay consequence, but even with this,

I think Californians should grab an opportunity to walk off tip culture, and walk into 'fair pay for work' culture.

The minimum wage is not fair? Lets support all workers for a fair minimum wage. End tip culture.
Would it be possible to use shaped blocks of rock instead of concrete? Would that make it cheaper?
Just like George Carlin said: "The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showin' up at those jobs."
Do simple hello-world HTML pages render ok? I found that rendering was slow-ish but totally acceptable for reasonably heavy HTML pages, so long as we weren't flooding page re-renders (eg by using React without any optimisation of render calls)
Would have loved to have had a bird or a lime scooter when I got off the F and had to walk to Alphabet City in the 90 degree 100% humidity summer heat the other day. That hot 20 minute walk would have been a pleasant 10 minute scooter ride with a breeze.
I suspect, that when he meant they are the same, he wants to convince the reader about his thoughts and sentiments about it. Norvig is a highly regarded CL author and programmer. Cognitive dissonance is such a powerful phenomenon.
"Remedy" is a loaded term. The supplier seeks to gain information in order to gain an advantage in the transaction.
In this scenario, especially in SF as a tech worker, you should feel guilty if you can afford to spare a dollar for someone on minimum wage for a tip but are reaching for the zero button. Having the iPad highlight your stingyness is not a problem with the technology.
I really don't like how this is moving from just food-service workers to pretty much everything.

The #1 reason I liked Uber/Lyft was you didn't have to tip. Then the margins didn't make sense and now they ask for it. I shouldn't have to subsidize those rides with tips because you're not paying the driver enough. Just charge me the price you need to charge me.
hmailserver is what you want. Sadly, it's Windows only, but you can easily spin up a windows vm under VirtualBox.
If you are actually generating manpages, by using pandoc to generate roff layouts... Why the extra view command? Why not register them with mandb?
Nothing quite like holding the barrel of 'not being able to afford to live' to someones head to get them to give you great service. I'm reminded from a number of times when I travel to the US and talk with people from the service industry and finding out they are, anecdotally, mostly in financial crisis.
It feels like a dark pattern for sure. I tip for service and service only. I regularly hit the no tip button on the new interfaces. I wish I didn’t have to worry about tipping... I miss Uber when it abstracted that away. But alas it only works when they compensate drivers properly.

Tipping in general sucks. I feel like most of the time it’s manipulating customers into squeezing a little extra on the top. Just raise your prices.
My interview was in June 2015. Maybe you had left by then. It did seem disorganized.

I did really enjoy that coding challenge, though. Good job with it. It is the one thing I did like about the whole experience, and I still share it with people when they ask about what a good coding challenge might be. Tree traversal isn't particularly useful in web dev world, but it's a pretty intuitive task, so I think it's gives good insight into whether a programmer can reason logically about a task.

I'd rather see real-world challenges, though. Sometimes that's hard, though, depending on the company.
Oh. That would be a tough spot to be in. I assumed that's not an issue here though.
I'm one data point on that trend line. I was already planning on continuing driving my 2000 Toyota Avalon until either the transmission/engine goes (and I'm dutifully maintaining both) or I have money for a legitimate upgrade. Reading about shenanigans like this, I'm pretty sure I won't upgrade even when I have the money. My phone + tape cassette adapter + usb charger does everything I need my infotainment to do, and the aesthetic downside of having headphone and usb cables strung along my dash is a small price to pay to avoid the headaches mentioned in this thread.

I do want a plug-in hybrid some day, but I'll likely need a house first. :P
Weightlifting.
Posture.
Stretch/Rotate your neck.
Show HN: Removing log module usages in webpack, with dependency tracking
No, you would tip on the food service amount only. Similary you would not tip at a convenience store or grocery store. At least, this is my US centric viewpoint - other locations might have different customs
Even now Wikipedia's audio pages don't link to the MP3s directly. You have to click through to Wikimedia Commons and find the transcodes at the bottom.
I am confused as to why it's standard to tip some low-paid workers but not others:

* Fast-food workers do just as much work as coffee shop employees, why not tip them?

* Workers at clothing stores take the time to fold your clothes nicely and box/bag them for you - why not tip them?

* Grocery store checkout clerks in the city carefully bag up your goods so you can carry them with just two hands - why not tip them?

* The guy collecting trash from the streets to keep them clean is helping everyone, why not tip him?

It does seem at some point the tipping system will grow so large it'll collapse in on itself. Sadly though, places that have tried to move that direction, in NYC at least, seem to have struggled [0][1].

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/why-res...
[1]: http://gothamist.com/2017/10/19/danny_meyer_no_tipping.php
Not like it makes much of a difference, but in the cases where I've seen it, the merchandise is just on display on the floor. So there is not even an aspect of retrieving it from the cabinet, it is just being rung up.
So far I've made way more from my house than from any company equity in SV. Earn cash, buy a house. Benefit from prop 13 and the mortgage interest deduction.
I got one in Australia 10 years ago, but it was for a US company (one of the big Telcos that has a presence here). It's the only time I've ever heard of them here (for IT) though. I definitely get the impression it's more a US thing from how often I hear about them here and on reddit.
Look, if you want to pay them more, pay them more. I'm all for it. I just don't want each retail transaction to be turned into a labor negotiation!

Tipping at restaurants is bad enough: why do I have to decide how much the waiter should make? If you make me think about it, 20% gross honestly seems way too much: the back of the house contributes a much larger portion of the value of the meal, so it feels like I'm stiffing _them_! But tipping waiters is ingrained enough that I just always give that 20%.

Any other transaction where apps try to add tipping, though? That's going to be $0 every single time, guilt free. If anything, I feel like I'm doing my part to keep companies from ruining another social interaction.
There is an error in the squares formula as well. The correct formula is:

(n*(n+1)*(2*n+1))/6.
Agreed, the thread highlights some decent implementation issues but largely misses the design problems, both ones that were present in the whitepaper but fixed and ones that are still with us today.
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I have used asciinema for this purpose.
Do you think it will be useful to link asciinema recordings with this?
That's still true in some tipped industries. Hairstylists and barbers pay to rent "a chair" in the salon, and strippers pay their clubs to dance for the night.

If you go to a bar with "shot girls" who stroll around selling shots, they've often bought the booze from the bar to resell to you.
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I don’t know what this means for browserless.io but I hope he still retains a strong niche and has a desirable product.
It seems strange to ask for a tip before the service has been rendered, if the tip is an incentive for good service.
I'm in CA so don't encounter this issue. Is it common in other states for workers in an establishment where you order at a counter and pick up your food from a counter to be paid a tipped minimum wage? I thought employers had to gross up employee pay if their hourly + tips didn't hit the non-tipped minimum wage?
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Presumably tricked into taking equity (at an inflated valuation) over a larger salary?
I don't think retail is a bad job. I would hate to be stuck at a computer all day writing code and dealing with non-technical managers and clients.

Someone who works a job where they receive consistent tips can make a lot of money, and if it's in cash it's tax free.

Plus the tips never go to the kitchen who do all the actual work.
Related:

> A 2009 study by the [NYC] Taxi and Limousine Commission found that gratuities rose after cabbies adopted a credit card system that prompted riders to tip; their tips jumped from an average of about 10 percent when all fares were paid in cash to about 22 percent on card transactions.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/03/star...
Note that the Kubernetes people tried to migrate to Dep, but weren't successful. As I recall, it was due to several blocking issues (e.g. see https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go/issues/7).
Do we have good reason to believe that those cases weren't also caused by leadership?
No expertise to comment about the tech/crypto design, but Satoshi definitely seemed to care about the users.

I once skimmed through Satoshi's code while I was in college and found this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.8.2rc3/src/base58...

I've neither seen any such decision in any other project, nor have I come across any strong advocacy for such things online. FAIW, Satoshi might be a kick-ass UX designer too.

In a different tangent, do any of you remember or still see/make such decisions (mostly to build a better UX)?
Sure. Big picture, I agree entirely. I automatically tip 20% too as it's just the cost of the transaction and even if the waiter is bad it could well be because of their manager understaffing the restaurant or a number of reasons beyond their control.

Do away with the tipping and pay people properly for thier labor. En lieu of that happening (and I don't see it happening soon) I'll still tip at these kiosks. I don't have much sympathy for people who complain about them but I get your point.
To throw travelers a bone, regulations should require the screens to show the average tip.

In fact, it should be required to be the default.
Exactly, tip is voluntary. I used to have those guilt issue but not anymore.
True. But isn't it a bit too easy to just tell people to stop using Excel (which they won't do anyway) instead of giving them something to help them solve their problems _within_ the Excel/spreadsheet world?
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Fat wallet companies can and do game the system. They patent every new minor feature, creating a rolling portfolio of patents that collectively never expire.

It may be true that individually, each patent is mostly bullshit -- slight re-wording of prior art. But do you feel like a lucky punk, as an individual or small outfit, going up against EvilCorp's $1200/hr cap'n of their debate team in HS lawyers, a dozen times over five years? (with non-technical judges & juries as the final arbiter of your fate)
I hope you are right that she's highly qualified. I've certainly enjoyed some of her tweets on city design type stuff.

I sometimes talk to professional planners. One recently said to me that affordable housing was a tough nut to crack. This part of where I get the idea that most people have no idea how to solve it.

As I have the time and energy, I'm trying to do my own research. I still hope to find viable answers.
Fucking Netflix
There's been pushback to this study for over a decade, this isn't some new thing.
You can tip whomever you want; that’s pretty much how it starts anyway.
I think that's a different case than the one Ellyagg was talking about. I can't find a link, but that fellow spent most of a year living in a hospital, under daily medical supervision, with a careful ration of vitamin and protein supplements and maybe small portions of gruel or other minimal food, I forget.

It sounds like the guy in your link was just straight-up starving himself at home, which seems like a much worse idea. It's an interesting story, though, so thanks for sharing it!
Damn tootin.
How would the NSA benefit?
In my view, understanding the flow of money in the health care system will be impossible until the system is wholly owned by the government. This may be the primary reason why health care in most civilized countries costs half of what it does here. Until then, everybody who's gouging us accuses everybody else of being the ones who are gouging us.
I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but a major problem is that the US healthcare system’s function (or lack thereof) is based on price discrimination e.g. the list price for a doctor visit might be $150, the doctor gets reimbursed $15 for a Medicaid patient, $60 for a Medicare patient, $90 for privately insured patient, and a $135 for a cash pay patient.

It’s a lot like college tuition - there is a sticker price - but very few student’s actually “pay” the sticker amount, or the same price for that matter

At the end of the day the core problem is that price transparency and price discrimination are at odds with each other...people don’t like being told they have to pay more for something because of “who they are”
My favourite thing about lisp is the lists and symbols, it is so nice for representing data because you don't have to declare data structures etc if that makes any sense.

No other language I know of that does that.
I'm glad you acknowledge they don't pay the drivers enough. I think most of them don't realize what the wear and tear on their vehicles costs, and just get giddy when they start seeing the money come in.
Yup. It doesn't take a fortune to produce crap or good stuff. The only thing money can do is add some polish.
That sounds awesome. One of the guys I knew in college was from Jamaica and literally never tipped anyone until senior year because he didn't know that you were supposed to.

Now all these other industries are trying to add tipping as a custom and and I have no idea who that actually goes to, what they make without it nor how much other people tip.
Netflix streaming was never intended as a one stop shop for movies. Who told you it was?
Electric scooters, bicycles, powered bicycles, and ewheels are all terrific ways of getting around NYC (and, I imagine, other dense urban areas). Enlightened regulation coupled with education (and a little common courtesy) would ameliorate most of the issues you mention. Cars are the enemy, as they consume far more resources (space, traffic control, etc.) than they pay for. Shifting riders out of cars into any other mode of transportation (including mass transit) should be the goal of any sensible urban plan.
nice anecdote thanks for sharing. You assert that it was not really ML. I think it is, It may not be true AI, however patten matching/recognition is the core part of ML. ML is just a stochastic and statistical approach to do pattern matching, the hype around ML has kind of distorted the expectation from the field.

You don't have to really control the input, it is not difficult to automate the sanitation by building a feedback loop of abuse reports to delete patterns from the corpus, if you cannot release before significant cleanup, you could either use something like Mechanical Turk/ Crowd-sourced paid users to test the system extensively, or be more through generate millions of possible questions and the answers for them and run content moderation tools on them, human assisted or otherwise, or build a filter layer into your chatbot itself. None of these approaches of course give you a guarantee something won't go wrong, they give you a reasonable probability it won't.
I realized recently that companies that have asked me upfront what my salary expectations are have never made me an offer of employment (regardless of whether and how I answered that question.) As a result I don't give them a number and I also expect that to be our last conversation.
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They already "suggest" series and movies prominently in their apps. Now, they're going to shove fucking ads down your throat like a damn TV blairing CNN at the laundromat.
Many many techies are libertarian, which very much aligns with the GOP (especially these days, even if in theory they shouldn't). E.g. the mantra of the welfare cheat, pulling themselves up by their shoestrings, self made, etc, etc...
Very good explanation of memory management
Maybe, but, even leaving aside the knowledge and comfort zones of the people doing the work, many of the people who do signficant Excel work are business-side staff who are prohibited access to programming tools by corporate IT policy, but allowed access to Excel.