skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, I never tip on take-out. If I’m not sitting down and taking up a turn at a table, but still paying the price on the menu for the food, the tip is already there just in another form.
TPU vs. GPU for matrix multiplications
The merchant doesn't need "the system or fraud checks" to sell lattes. Furthermore they get hit with chargebacks, which are a feature offered by the CC, not the coffee shop. You're justying why business A shoulders business B's expense. That's like saying Visa should wipe down the espresso machine.
unethical behavior is my (bad) translation. The original Danish wording is restricted to hate speech.

They also specifically disallow distribution/downloading of child pornography and leaks like "fappening", which i translated to "illegal downloads/uploads".

The list of things that are disallowed is very specifically worded in Danish, as legalese usually is. Furthermore it is also customary in Denmark to allow all traffic. in or outbound.

All "metadata" is logged for 5 years, mandated by law, so every IP i connect to is there along with port, duration, protocol (if available).
I never tipped Uber drivers, but I stopped using Uber before they added the option to tip through the app. On Lyft, I've always tipped ~15% if the car was clean and the driving seemed safe, often more for <$10 rides. From what I've read, it's not easy to make a good living driving for Uber/Lyft, so adding a bit of a tip doesn't bother me too much.

Sometimes I take a regular cab home from the airport because the Port Authority has (seemingly) intentionally made using app-based services as inconvenient as possible. At least now everyone has Square for credit card payments, but the cab drivers often have the minimum automatic tip set to 25% (or even 30%!) so I have to take the time to manually enter something more reasonable. I'm sure they get a significant number of passengers who are in a hurry and can't be bothered to do so.
Url changed from https://boingboing.net/2018/10/16/tamper-evident-seals.html, which points to this.
Early sales isn't something you can outsource to someone else because it's as much product development as it is sales. Your sales process is essentially getting told no over and over, and then following up with "well what if it did this?".

That said, one hidden benefit of hiring someone to help with sales is that it forces you to spend time focusing on it (instead of just coding or whatever). It's sort of an expensive way to practice time management, but it can work if you need that push. Just don't expect the person to actually sell anything--figuring that out will still be mostly up to you.
Do you tip the workers at fast food chains?
I don't know a single service worker or single former service worker that doesn't tip 15 or 20% as a minimum. Everywhere. The pay disparity between tech workers and service workers is so severe, it really pains and confuses me to see so much hand wringing about it.

And if you're protesting the tipping process by not tipping workers who make less than minimum wage, please don't go around acting like you're noble or better than those who tip (as has happened multiple times in this thread) That attitude serves nothing but to soothe your conscience.
Works in Canada too.
Which authentication? My password manager authentication? My email authentication? My apple device authentication?
Another product ruined by "design".
Companies have very poor development processes and scheduling which is what makes coding, in any language or framework, difficult because half the time you don't even know what you should be writing. Even worse, asking others is often hit and miss because some co-workers, who should know, don't make an effort to define what's meant by certain requirements specific to a problem domain. This often leads to shipping incomplete products that you have to "fix" after deployment because you didn't have enough time to implement features, didn't know features were needed, or the features weren't well defined. In the meantime, project management thinks the project is done and is piling more projects on you while you play catch up.
I haven't figured out a good system to handle this and even if I could, it requires buy in at multiple levels and consistent application. If you've ever done group work in college, doing this is almost impossible.

In short, work is just like college group work. One person does 90% of the work while the others do about 10%.
Rust is new and seeing stuff implemented in it is value on its own. It also might be an indication of the maturity of the language and it might be an indication that the fact that the authors chose a niche language is because their goals with this project aligns with the programming language. I'd say that a VCS is a good fit for rust.

If this was written in javascript I wouldn't have been interested.
For me is hard to see what meaning of "value" is used in the article, for example this sentence:

> Spending money is a means of acquiring other goods and services that are one’s values or that will enhance one’s ability to realize one’s values.

Which one is it?

- "value" as principles or standards of behaviour; one's judgement of what is important in life. "they internalize their parents' rules and values"

- "value" as estimate the monetary worth of. "his estate was valued at £45,000"
I’d love a square phone; the iPhone Xs Max feels to me too tall but not wide enough.
Node.js Removes Version Dependencies for Native Modules
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I'm testing a business right now for fun family learning activities. The original offering is an arts-and-craft type product.

But if it works out, one of the products I want to test is something computing related. The general idea is a digital escape room. But this thread has been super inspiring and led me to a lot of great resources, so thanks for bringing it up [=
Life under the arches
On a bell curve there are as many people below the average as there are above it. Given the overall wage growth in software industry it's very easy to assume that has largely propped the average up over the last couple decades of statistics and that there are lots of people in other industries that have suffered wage loss more than wage growth.

You could argue that wages do not follow a bell-curve distribution, but there isn't a distribution out there without people falling at or below the average. "Significant raises" in one's career seems to be the outlier statistic, not the norm.
Essential is a great reasonably priced phone ($350, not $699) with an excellent battery life, very quick updates and no bloatware.

It definitely beats OnePlus. The problem is that instead of re-iterating, Essential started chasing the new gimmick - connected home and it has no money or install base to compete with Google/Amazon/Apple.
Cool can this be in the next version of http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/?
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The Essential phone handily beats OnePlus at $500 or $450. It was priced at $750 I believe on launch and failed completely there.

Essential also seemingly spent a lot of time, money, and internal phone volume on their add on feature. A complete waste as anybody with an ounce of sense could have told you. Drop that work, add in an audio jack or a second USBC port, sell at $500 and they would have done reasonably well for a first product.
It seems all participants in the study were recruited from within Hong Kong. I wonder if being speakers of tonal languages has any effect. I'd be interested in seeing if the study could be reproduced with speakers of non-tonal languages.
Ask HN: Any love for a math website?
I started this site a year ago (https://regressionbuddy.com). I am not particularly good at math but I found a guy who is and have him check my work.

The idea is it's a site with math practice problems. It's more for if you already know the math and don't want to forget it. Each question has a corresponding entry in the appendix so you're never left hanging. New problems and appendix sections get added each post. A ballpark guess is it will take about a hundred posts, which works out to four years, to cover everything.

I initially learned math because I was interested in machine learning. I started the math website because I saw, that at least for me, there was a need for a math knowledge retention website that was not being met anywhere else. I realized that while I might never be able to make any contributions to machine learning directly I might be able to help more by helping people learn and retain the math.

But so far the response has been luke warm. There are a few good guys contributing but in general it feels like there is no interest. I've emailed and wrote letters to about 30 local high school and college math departments asking if anyone would be willing to help and I got no responses.

I don't want to give up on the site but I absolutely do not want to be the moron who dumps a ton of energy into something no one has any interest in.

I've lost my ability to evaluate my devotion to this project. Your thoughts about what I should do with it are welcome.

* To be clear I'm not looking for an excuse to abandon the project. I'm more worried about creating something no one has any use for and wasting time on this instead of something more profitable.
But going all the way to the end of that tradeoff is so expensive. It seems like a Helm VM would be 90% as secure and also 90% cheaper.
My dad gave me a laptop with games and basic tools on it when I was 2 years old, and i figured that out pretty quickly.

When I was 6, I was allowed to use the internet but there were limitations for time and keyloggers.

My parents gave up when they found out I was booting up with linux off a flash drive at 14.

I feel like I learned more about technology when there were obstacles to overcome, rather than instant gratification.

I would start my own kids off air-gapped and then gradually allow access, since for me it gave me a healthy respect for danger and taught me to find solutions.
Some objects have axes of symmetry, right? Think of a disk or a cylinder or a sphere. You can rotate these on some axes without a change in shape. This concept extends to higher dimensions. Not that I agree with the first poster's point necessarily.
Here is is again, the guide to tipping in the US. If you are not receiving an individually-tailored service, do not tip. Never tip based on an after-tax amount. If you receive any portion of your goods or services gratis, tip as though you were charged the full amount. When paying cash, round up to the nearest whole dollar. Never tip before the service has been rendered, and only tip if you are satisfied with it.

For restaurant table service, hair stylist, tattooing, or other personal care or beauty services, tip 15% of your before-tax bill total. Adjust 5% up or down in response to perceived service quality.

For a buffet restaurant or food delivery, tip 10% of your before-tax bill total. Do not adjust the amount; if the delivered order is incorrect or unforgivably tardy, do not tip.

For bartenders, tip at least 10% of your tab before you leave, minimum $1 per drink, even if you are paying by the drink. If service was not courteous and timely, do not tip. Just leave, and do not return. If you'll be getting too drunk to remember the tip at the end of the night, pay it as you go, with each drink. Don't tip in advance; that's for low-tippers who want to look like big shots. Baristas are not bartenders. If you want bar tips, get a liquor license and put booze in the coffee.

For restaurant counter service, drive-through, street stand, fair kiosk, or food truck, do not tip. This is the portion relevant to the article. You do not get a tip for a bog-standard service mandated by the employee manual. Operating the point-of-sale terminal and handing me the goods I just paid for is exactly that. No, I will not pay you 20% to hand me a muffin. If an employee suggests or implies that I should do so, I am less likely to return. If that tip suggestion is inappropriately embedded in the point-of-sale process, that's a management problem, and I definitely won't return.

For taxi/driver/shuttle service, tip 10% of the fare. Adjust upward for very good service, but do not tip less than 10% unless you are tipping nothing for very poor service.

For baggage handling or porter services, tip 1% the cost of your ticket, delivered item cost, or daily room rate, per bag/parcel, minimum $1 each.

For hotel concierge, 10% your daily room rate, per service, on checkout. For hotel maid service, tip 1% your daily room rate, per day, minimum $1, attached to a note at the end of each week, or left in the room on checkout.

For independent service contractors/small businesses, such as house cleaners or personal trainers, do not tip, but give an appreciation bonus if you wish on your yearly customer anniversary, or slightly in advance of the year-end holidays.
Developers that build a new thing are disproportionately valued over developers who improve or maintain old things. The formers will be the wunderkinds of the organization and referred to as "rock stars" and "10x-ers" despite the quality of the work that they put out. The latter will have to fight for promotions and be denigrated as "1x-ers". They will have to hear that they are not as valuable because they are not innovators.

This leads to developers being biased towards building and working with new things, and is a lot of the reason that we see flavor-of-the-week style platforms and libraries that add very little value.
I'm pretty confident the tendency to think you have it all figured out is not scoped to nerd-dom.
> They have deceptively changed the tip rate from 20% to 21.6%.

It's simply a bug. I got a suggested tip amount on a bar bill, the other day and it was clearly derived from the total of all the food and beverage, before taxes. It was all there in writing, and the figures were easy for me to check in my head.
Isn't email still the skeleton key? Most popular email providers can be secure enough for many uses. We could imagine e.g. a bank that hands out OTP devices to its high-value customers who bring passports to the bank, but that's overkill for many situations.
We vote to fund firefighting because we all know we COULD make us of the service even if we haven't...this is still a self-interested vote

but in the case of firefighting, most cities could drastically reshape their emergency services to put much of what firefighters do in the hands of an emergency response office that is much cheaper to run. its no coincidence that firefighters make sure they are in the critical path of vehicle accident response etc...they realize that structure fires are vanishingly rare and they might otherwise see drastic cuts. there isn't any real reason why a fire truck should be responding to someone with mild whiplash in a rear-ended vehicle (and no, the reason isn't because the vehicle might spontaneously combust).
This is a weird just world view though, because tips are a lagging indicator of job performance more than anything. 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?
> You can't really let people have a say with regards to everything they pay for, because a lot of people have an "I got mine" attitude, so as long as no house has burned down in their neighborhood lately, they might be tempted to vote against funding the fire department as well.

While I despise your position, I admire your honesty about the fact that these policies are paternalistic and violate consent.

What makes you the person who gets to decide for them what they should or shouldn’t spend their money on?
Apparently it does make a difference or restaurants would have just raised their prices and incorporated the tips.
A classy phone not from a giant tech company or with questionable governmental ties? No forced bloatware? Fast, reliable updates?

There's really no market for that? The market is stupid and wrong.

This isn't a failure of technology. This is a failure of marketing and getting the message out.
at US universities, it's more like 1.5X the workload or less. There are typically large numbers of general or elective course requirements that can satisfy requirements for 2 or more degrees simultaneously.
That's not what the site guidelines say; "be civil" has been there, unqualified, from the beginning.
It's the "I did it this way, why couldn't others do it" mentality that's entirely unhelpful in these conversations.
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As I get older, I have less and less interest in most big tech vendor conferences and have taken pretty much all of them off my must-do list except for one (that's not too too big). They're crowded, the food is lousy, it's hard to meet up with people, I mostly don't care about the parties, etc.

I don't do any really small conferences but I do have several regulars in the 100-300 person range and they're definitely my favorites.
Is this a consumer product or business product?
I would be surprised if 5% of HN readers have checked a book out of the library in the last five years.

Sure, I might not have checked out a book in the last five years, but I use my local library probably once a month. Libraries are much more than places to borrow books.
Software upgrades within a week or so of Google releasing new Android, no bloatware, fast, excellent battery life.
The tool can select the local port on your behalf. One less thing to configure :)
Palm has been resurrected as a brand for tiny phones:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/palm-rises-from-the-...
If US taxes went towards keeping civil society running instead of paying for our military being a "world police", maybe people here would be happier.
Yeah, if anything, that book just ingrained in my brain the importantce of not screwing up sleep. So much so that I know have slight fear if I don`t sleep well or need to shorten the sleep for 1-2 days for some reason.
Moral values versus economic values.

I'm not sure what words the author could have used instead.

Personal values are things like integrity, charitability, etc.
2 books: 1. Spin selling by Neil Rackham 2. Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes

and of course ... taking action - making those calls and scheduling meetings.
Shout out to Django!
I worked at an HR tech startup that did recruiting services for a lot of seed/series A companies. Maximum ages for roles were discussed openly and nobody even considered the possibility doing so might be illegal.
I grew up on generational property in rural Oregon (near Josephine county. OP says that it's in central Oregon, which isn't even remotely true), and it's true that there's plenty of anti-tax sentiment, including from myself.

Grants pass town (Josephine county) is generally a bad place to be, with lots of bad drugs and crime. But the country nearby has really scenic lakes and mountains, and is a good place to live if you have property. It's about an hour drive to anything better (Jackson county), so it's somewhat isolated.

It looks like the county wanted to levy property tax from $0.58 per $1000 of value, to $2.57 per, which was their plan to fund the sheriff Dept., DA, and juvenile detention. The people fought back and won. [0]

A small town near where I grew up ceased it's police force, and is instead patrolled by county sheriffs stationed in nearby towns. The truth is there are many people out here who just want to live their private country lives, many of who have small income, and spend their year fishing and hunting for food.

It's hard to expect people who want to live small lives to pay for other people to have bigger lives, especially when the gap is large. Oregon isn't too bad of an example, but I was living in Illinois recently, and I saw the same situation there but much more drastically imposed. Chicago is obsessed with huge funding and high taxes, and the rest of the state is being dragged along unwillingly with an entirely different view. Unfortunately Chicago is about the only interesting thing in Illinois, so you can imagine which side gets votes.

[0] https://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/josephine_...
But you're paying for the books. If you want a community meeting hall with internet access, it can be run much more cheaply
I recently stayed in a hotel where I realized I didn't have any cash on me. I just hung the DND sign on the door and handled my own housekeeping.

Still felt bad when I checked out and still didn't have anything to leave.
Also, at least here in Norway, the service workers have to pay taxes on the tips. How does this work in other countries? It it just a way to dodge taxes for the owners?

Minimum wage laws also applies to the pre-tip salary so it's not really expected most places unless you get exceptional service. I've never seen "pre-calculated" tips either here or elsewhere in Europe.
I hope Google sells these chips with a breakout board. Even better if you could order them with custom root signing keys
Over in the U.S. it seems like people hate taxes because they don't want other people to get "their" money and in the meantime they're happy to watch the entire infrastructure of the country fall apart, as long as poor people are miserable, prisons are filled to the rafters and the military gets like half the government's budget (for freedom, support our troops, rah rah rah) it's all good.

It's infuriating. You like civilization? Pay some goddamn taxes. But alas.
Scala sucks ass.
Not familiar with any issues besides the camera.
Well, we already deduce exoplanets' masses, orbits, diameters, and so on from the sensor data that basically amounts to a tiny change in the light curve of the star. The astronomers are probably pretty well aware of the limitations of their models and potential confounders.
Classic NES Games music on piano by Zetacola (2014)
That is already supported:

curl -L https://github.com/davrodpin/mole/releases/download/v0.2.0/m... | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin

And there are plans to implement a script to improve this process: https://github.com/davrodpin/mole/issues/19
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Path dependence. The problem is that, if just one restaurant does it, a lot of people see the higher prices and don't realize a service charge and sales tax is included at that one particular restaurant. It's not unheard of to do but it's very uncommon and mostly doesn't work out well. (Plus both waiters and customers are mostly just used to the current system.)
It's a common HR tactic to identify people that might bring their employee retention time numbers down. Leaving off dates seems like a good idea, but may upset such people.
> I don't tip 20% when I grab a coffee at Dunkin.

Why not? Not a critique, just curious about your rationale when you note that "tips are expected to fill in the gap".
Ask HN: What color does your hat have?
Very interesting. I have three complete ][gs "Woz" editions sitting in storage somewhere, that I rescued from a school computer lab where they were being thrown out in ~2004. I also snagged the Macintosh that was used as the server for the network, and all the backup media that I could find. There's a copy of Oregon Trail in there somewhere, that I played in school :)

Maybe I should find them...
Me too; I guess it's nice not to be alone. I thought I was shifting into Baroque A=415 mode.

Alas even this mutant absolute pitch is still troublesome in one way: sometimes some folks I played and sang with said "OK, the music is written in X, but we want to do it in Y." I couldn't do it without learning it as written and then playing or singing it in Y without looking at the music.
I think that is the point - some of these people do live in the woods.

Also, they might have a volunteer fire department. Or perhaps none, and they are fine with that. I am too as long as they are comfortable with their choices when things go wrong.