skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not turned on by default but they are sort of a default choice for vision tasks. it may also be that they were useful on an earlier iteration of the model, and only became harmful later.

nobody’s quite sure why anything works, though. hence comparisons to alchemy — we have lots of cool empirical results, and a highly elaborated set of theories and ideas trying to explain what works and what doesn’t, but in fact these theories often fail to make correct predictions. So the only way to make progress is constant blind experimentation.
So, to be clear, I don't actually accept your premise to begin with. I was a waiter for years and never saw this sort of thing. I did see poor waiters get crappy shifts, but... well of course they did. Lacking any actual evidence I don't see where this can go.

>If you accept the notion that you get tipped less because you are a poor job performer, what is the point of laws that force employers to make up your wages to minimum wage?

The point would be to... establish a _minimum_ wage, regardless of performance. What about that is confusing?
> Of course it is reasonable to blame the voters. There was a ballot measure that would have saved the library and they chose to vote against it. It was entirely in their control.

This is the folly of modern day politics among the citizenry. That the only option is take more money or fail, so it's obvious that the ones given two bad choices are at fault. Was there a ballot measure to reroute funds from somewhere else? Why not? We should not pretend budget-making is entirely in the voters' control when the only options they are given is to throw more money at a problem or lose a library.
The market is there, of course! It just appears to be narrower that what's required to sustain a company like this, at least at the price point they chose.

I can imagine such a phone as a no-compromises ultra-premium product for the select few who want utter privacy and safety, and would pay at e.g. the iPhone's price point for a comparable level of assurance.

I can imagine such a phone at a low-end, cheaper segment for the privacy-conscious but not very well-off who could tolerate a number of compromises in features.

At a mass-market segment it, unfortunately, did not seem to work too well, though.
I'm old enough to remember not needing to tip at starbucks or Panera, but not old enough to remember minimum wage keeping up with inflation.

The place where I first noticed the "tip your cashier" thing happening was the Panera at my university. Why in the hell would I tip someone who's job is literally to take my order, and maybe hand me a pastry? These people aren't making minimum wage either, I had some friends there and the job paid significantly more.
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The anecdote of me not making the mistake was 1 sentence out of 9. The rest of the post is about how people are unable to make what should be a fairly simple financial decision by the time they're 18, which is a statement well supported by the article and literally every statistic about student loan debt. And there's an anecdote about a graduate-level expert in finance not being able to do the same. My point is that the larger problem is that people are getting to age 18 without understanding the practical implications of compound interest, which should be secondary school level math at most. That's where I think we fix the problem. Clearer?
You ell what we want and what we can have are often very different things. This has been true literally since the dawn of time, so I'm not sure what your point is.
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There are several methods of detecting exoplanets[1], the method you're referring to is the easiest and is called "transiting". Since it's the easiest, most exoplanets have been discovered with this technique. As you've guessed, it is highly unlikely for the stars and planets to align this way, and the general hypothesis as to why we've discovered so many is that there's a lot of planets out there[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanet...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/feb/HQ_13-057_Kepler_T...
I'm not saying it's get's harder to learn a new language vs a first language. It is easier to learn C++ after C. It isn't that it's hard to do. It's that it can be exhausting to do it for the 4th or 5th time, then only get to apply those skills for 2-3 years until you have to.

Yes I am a veteran who has experienced this.

Design patterns are what I've taken from my experience and applied across languages. But some good patterns in one language can be an Anit-Pattern in another. Not to mention the jump from something like OO to Functional Programming which is not as easy as C -> C++ -> Java -> C#.

> An experienced developer typically has no problem picking up new languages/frameworks/tools/etc. There isn't much value in familiarising oneself with arbitrary and invented things, of which there are many in our industry, and they are ephemeral.

That lesson takes a long time to learn, if you are lucky enough to learn it at all.
The glass jar was clearly optional, from an etiquette perspective; nobody will judge you for walking away without dropping anything in it (except perhaps loose change). iPads are different in two ways.

First, they make the experience more closely resemble tipping at a restaurant. Since etiquette fundamentally relies on on implications and expectations, that’s a lot more significant than it would be in other contexts. It creates a real suggestion that you should consider 15-20% mandatory, just as in restaurants.

Second, they force you to make an explicit choice: if you don’t want to tip, you have to actively press a “No Tip” button. This makes it feel more like an active disservice to the worker, rather than just doing the normal thing – to you, and to anyone watching you. Consider if, hypothetically, the worker themselves asked you if you wanted to tip: it’d be very hard to say no to their face! Having a screen prompt you (while the worker may or may not look away) is much less extreme, but it’s still a shift in that direction, compared to an inert tip jar.

Personally, it just feels awkward to me. I don’t mind tipping in restaurants because there’s a clear protocol. I just have to imagine the prices are 20% higher than what’s printed on the menu. But asking for a tip in situations where no tip was previously expected seems almost… passive-aggressive, I guess? If you want to bump prices by 20%, go ahead, I won’t mind, probably won’t even notice. But don’t do what amounts to an optional 20% price increase, creating unnecessary decision and emotional fatigue for me when I’m just trying to make a simple purchase. That is: If I choose not to tip, I’ll feel guilty. If I choose to tip, I’ll feel worried that I overpaid. Both feelings will fade quickly, because the amount is small enough that it’s not really a big deal; but they still damage what should be a simple pleasant experience.
The raw .web file is not intended to be read directly. Here's the typeset ("woven") version of it: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/mf/mf.pdf
There's a number of mods for Minecraft that put Lua into the mix. One I was using (ComputerCraft?) had all the common UNIX commands implemented as things like ls.lua, so typing "ls" actually just ran a Lua script with the corresponding name.

You really couldn't get a more hackable computer.

These instances can have 4-16MB of memory allocated to them which honestly is way more than is necessary. They can make remote HTTP calls. With the right server settings they can even adjust the in-game weather to match the real world.

The possibilities are literally endless. A few lines of code can produce immediate results, and you can iterate and expand on that to make elaborate systems.
Anonymous Microsoft and Amazon employees speak out on Medium
Please come work with us. We have people from 63 to 23 in engineering roles. Age, like sex, nationality, height, weight, shoe size, sexuality orientation, and favorite ice cream has no bearing on whether you can do good work.
Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life
The telcos only enforce the server rule if you are causing problems like doing something illegal, torrenting, or maxing out your bandwidth 24/7. I’ve had multiple servers running over the years and never had any issues with Comcast or AT&T.

Generally they don’t care if it’s for personal use. I’ve heard of them shutting people down for something they saw as business related. They didn’t really get shut down, it was more like a friendly “We see what you’re doing and a business plan would allow you to do it for $30 more a month”.
> If they didn't allow tipping, restaurants would charge more to make up the difference (margins in service work are almost always very low).

Neither good nor bad.

> In a tipping system, when things are going well, everyone tips; if things aren't going so well, not so much. There's some wiggle room between the list price and the actual price, which might offset price stickiness.

That's terrible! Instead of the burden being spread around, the restaurant still makes money and the employee doesn't!
what are you getting at? he's not The Messiah?
Why the distinction? Both smoking and being in possession are illegal in the US anyway.
Working on it... :-)

But not that I've seen. Some come closer than others.

The current suggestion is a Raspberry Pi type system that is manipulated into booting into a BASIC or some other development environment.

The closet thing right now is a micropython board.
> 3 STEM undergraduate degrees

I'm honestly just curious... how does that happen? Most people just stick with the one - did you do some career changing early on?
How a Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech That Tracks Almost Every American
Why don't we have xiaomi in the US. One plus has crept their price up. I think if we have a company that can go make a pocofone would do well here. If you can get 90% of flagship features for less than 1/2 of the price I think you could do well in the US.
If they are a tipped employee: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips
Facebook did not fix a wrong video for month because lack of PR strategy
Information as actual physical property (as opposed to a human construct) is basically the only way we found to solve Maxwell's demon seemingly reducing entropy.

Specifically, the entropy within the box gets converted into information inside the demon's "head", which eventually gets radiated away as entropy outside the box. This way, the box's entropy falls, but the entropy of universe as a whole is raised (or at least maintained).
Although, if they have to route stuff through EC2 instances anyway, I could just start jedieaston's homegrown EC2 email service, let customers pay me $100 a year to get them a domain name and spin up a email server in a EC2 instance and give them a login, then they don't have to have a box at their house which is liable to ISP and power outages. And you get the same amount of privacy that you get with this box (so about as much as you trust Amazon).
I'm a bit sad to see this, but it wasn't hard to predict.

Essential launched its PH1, which was design-wise ahead of the curve. But, they didn't really seem to listen to or predict the market.

First, there was no headphone jack. That's controversial, but you've probably lost what I'd guess at least 10% of your potential market by doing so(potentially as high as 40%).

Second, the camera at launch was not good. That's probably what is most important to most people. I've heard it's gotten better, but a bit late.

Last, and most importantly, it was absolutely overpriced. It brought nothing to the table to warrant its price, and probably should have been sub $500 at launch.

Each of these points can be nitpicked by saying "well Samsung/Apple/LG/Oneplus did it", but Essential is not that. They are an unknown startup company with no consumer trust. You cannot expect people to give up features and pay Samsung prices before they know who you are.

/rant
Get them Mathematica.
> which is why he wrote so politely

This is kicking the can down the road on noticing the disagreement. Some people think he wrote in a perfectly reasonable, rational way. Other people think he wrote in a deliberately provocative way, to cause a stir. It's certainly possible to use polite-sounding language in deliberately provocative ways.

Just to go with the most extreme possible example, if I wrote an article about any conceivable version of "was the Holocaust really as bad as people say?", it wouldn't be enough to just word the whole thing politely. I'd have to be extremely considerate of my audience audience to write something like that, and of the real world context in which my audience was going to read the article, and what it would mean in light of their experiences. My motivations for choosing that topic would be under intense scrutiny, since everyone has heard heard similar-sounding things before from horrible people. If I'm not extraordinarily considerate about those things, I'm either an idiot, or I'm deliberately causing trouble. Anyone can see that, right?

Some people feel that way about Damore's arguments. They feel the content is inherently hurtful, such that starting an "even-keeled, rational-sounding debate" about it is inherently rude, at least without doing a lot of work to acknowledge the feelings context. And then obviously lots of other people feel differently. That's a big disagreement, and you don't have to be an insane person to be on either side of it.
I am talking about SF here which doesn't have a great public school system. Also, I was replying to a comment where someone is making a snarky remark about what one should or should not do with their money - and was attempting to provide context.

And this is hacker news. I am reasonably sure that we aren't representing working poor here but mostly well paid and skilled professionals.
No. Basic needs like food, clothing etc. were fully covered. Any kind of electronics (e.g. a color TV) were hard to acquire. You had to wait 10 years to be able to buy a new car. And housing was a big problem. Women in the GDR typically became pregnant at a very young age (18-21) because a family with a child had the right to get its own apartment.
Google has 3 Titans.

1) Titan for GCP servers: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/titan-in-depth-se... (custom hardware, custom software)

2) Security key: https://cloud.google.com/titan-security-key/ ("built with a hardware chip that includes firmware engineered by Google" - seemingly stock hardware, custom software)

3) Titan M mobile: (TFA, custom hardware/software like #1 but for mobile)
Seems like a similar price I saw on AT&T FTTP plans and Comcast’s cable internet plans for 100mbit.

Static IP might cost extra.

I pay AT&T $80 a month for symmetrical 1Gb FTTP with no data cap.
But Starbucks doesn't really solicit tip.
Your definition of "readable" is obviously a lot different than mine.

Consider DONKEY.BAS: https://github.com/coding-horror/donkey.bas/blob/master/donk...

Perl is more friendly and forgiving than that.
I see a short article about a few dinner parties this author attended wherein the owners were keeping the tip. Am I missing the real data here? Is the real story somewhere else? That's a far cry from "this happens _all_ the time."
I just strongly avoid using any business that deals with tipping. This way I don't worry about tipping calculus.

In the case that I do engage with such a business, I only tip when there is objectively individual work being done: Eating out at a table? Tip the waiter 15%. Waiter was extremely rude? Tip the waiter 0%. Picking up food at a counter after ordering online? Tip 0%. Bringing bags into a hotel? Refuse help so I don't have to tip.

I really wish tipped workers would just get paid an honest wage to begin with, meaning the true cost of labor would be baked into product prices!
I was trying not to put a limit on it so I just put the lower end. I think an average of 1-2 per year isn't abnormal at all.
Does The Internet Archive not have one? I thought they'd always have the best archive of anything worth archiving from the internet.

EDIT: Nevermind. I see now that you've posted a link to an archive from the Internet Archive in another comment.
I would first try using port 587 and only afterwards route through Amazon or something.
> The Pixel phones have staked out the expensive-but-good market for "pure" Android snobs.

Is anyone making phones for pure Android snobs that don't brainlessly copy all of Apple's attention-grab ideas? I really want an easily-rootable pure-Android device, but I need it to have a goddamn headphone jack. No ugly notch would be nice, too, and maybe a user-replaceable battery (yes, I realize the ship has sailed on that one).
I never feel good enough. Ever. Part of that is my personality - I'm very hard on myself. But especially on HN (for better or worse) it seems like everyday I see someone who is making more money or building a better business or someone who just is an amazing programmer and I still have so much to learn.

It can be a positive motivator for continuous improvement but at the same time it can be overwhelming to feel like there is always so much to learn and you'll never learn it all.
Unlike old journalism, which wasn't about that at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
If a phone is fully running Google software, how is it any more secure or private to buy it from an unknown third party manufacturer than Google itself?
This article is from January. There is no download available at the link mentioned in the article. This offer expired some time ago.
There are now, but this was not the case until relatively recently.
True, but it is dishonest at best and negligent at worst. The 'error' is in their favor, not the customers. It sends a bad signal that they are willing to 'cheat' you over less than a dollar. What else could they be 'cheating' the customer on?
It will be different because the US can bar Canadians for life from ever entering the country.

Whereas they can't bar a US Citizen from re-entering the country.
Exactly! So it seems like the perfect counterpoint to Square’s tip begging UI.

Starbucks did add tipping to app orders, but it’s a bit more subtle. It’s not right there on the checkout screen before you even receive your items, for example.
Yeah a coworker of mine looking for a tech job in a different industry had someone straight up tell them they were worried he was too old.... dude wasn't that old. When he mentioned it to the recruiter she didn't even seem to think it was an odd thing to say... so she repeated it.
Italy (Milan): 1Gbps/200Mbps FTTH. About 30€/month.
Sorry - I should have mentioned that I am in SF here. Preschools here are pretty expensive.
Some advice that has been helpful for me doing enterprise sales:

"Your job as a sales person is to find the 20 people in this town who have a $100k problem."

You may meet a lot of people who have a $100 or a $1,000 or a $10,000 problem along the way. Be honest that it's not the right time to work together and move on (for now).

It's tempting to want to work with these customers but in the early days, you want to find people with a really big problem. As you grow you'll be able to expand your reach.

This is hard advice to follow because leads are so hard to come by at first and because you want to help everyone if you're passionate about what you're building.

Keeping prices high helps with this because it will disqualify a lot of people that would probably waste your time anyway.
Does your email get blocked if it is sent to a business on O365?
I think I'm happy and I agree with this paper. I've been struggling with my relationship with money for months and I wish I had read this sooner.

After covering your basic needs, money gives you the freedom to pursue your greater needs, and in that sense it can buy happiness. Whether those needs are good relationships, health, or fulfilling work, money in a sense, can buy or help you buy that, at least the time to build relationships or work.

However, something I have been struggling with is the hedonic treadmill. I feel like expectations are consistently being raised. I worry that it will never end and I also worry about what will happen if it does end. Has anyone ever felt this way? I think that's the point of enjoying the journey... Does anyone have tips on how to enjoy the journey?
I went back and forth about posting this here, but at the end of the day I think developers have a special trust from society and our community deserves to talk about actions like this.

I know Forde personally. He isn't this horrible bundle of evil that some make him out to be, but he did majorly fuck up and he didn't just hurt his direct victims and himself. He degraded the trust that people in Toronto have for software developers. Trust people need to have if they're to trust our work product.

That said, I hope one day this is behind him and he remakes himself and positively contributes to the groups of people he hurt. I'm optimistic that he will. He's already helping with Facebook, after all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=peteforde
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I saw some links to JSFiddle, but here's one that's maybe a little better (software-wise): Khan Academy [0]. It uses JavaScript, and they've added ProcessingJS wrappers so you don't have to use raw canvas API. They also have instructional videos and other content. It's also gamified. [1]

[0] https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/new/pjs

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/computing
The student debt crisis is not equal for all types of degrees; one of the many contributing factors for this is that student loans have (by regulation?) the same conditions for all majors. Some of those majors generally lead to a substantial increase in income that would enable the student to repay the loan, and some do not; some education is an investment into that student's future earning capacity, and some education is just spending that money for an expensive self-improvement hobby.
I met many developers at StrangeLoop that looked to be in their 50s and 60s. And they live in the area. What makes St. Louis so special that older software engineers choose to live there?
I remember someone on reddit said there was a coffee shop in Iceland that tried to be American-themed, and it had a fake tip jar with fake bills and coins in it, just to look like it would in America.
I agree that if the convention for the tip is a fixed percentage of the value of the purchase, then a waiter is basically guaranteed a share of the owner's revenue (revenue, not even profits!)

At the same time, the vast majority of the jobs don't warrant tips- including all waitressing jobs outside the US- and this doesn't prevent workers from making a living wage out of them.

So yes, I think that if people stopped tipping, owners would be forced to pay waiters more, and raise their prices accordingly, as everybody already does elsewhere. On the other end, it's true that waiters might end up making less money, as the revenue-sharing model might be unreasonably generous in some cases.
Isn't this being done for GDPR compliance? I think they are just making it available for all instead of trying to regionalize it.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225233
Plants only have so much leaf area to devote to photosynthesis so if there's more light in certain frequencies, they're better off specializing than generalizing.

If the type of available light varied a lot, then generalizing would help more.
> this is how voting is supposed to work - you vote YOUR interests.

Of course it isn't. I'm a man, one could make the argument I have no reason to vote for maternity leave, legal and safe abortions, equal pay. But I'd vote for it each time because it provides a better society for people I have no relation with.

Your view of voting is just a reflection of your own selfishness, not a definition of the idea of political participation. Many people vote for something more than pragmatic concerns.