skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the average tip percentage may be 20%, the weighted average is >20% because the distribution is not uniform. The people that spend the most money also tend to tip the highest percentage. It is not unusual for financially comfortable regulars to consistently tip 25+%. For people that are cost sensitive and may tip say 15%, a fixed 20% surcharge is effectively a price increase.

This social dynamic of tipping 25+% is an expression of patronage for their favorite restaurants, no different than donating to the local museum. It isn't about the cost of the food per se. That said, this is probably more pronounced in regions that have a strong restaurant-centric culture like the Pacific Northwest.
The Undercover Anarchists’ Secret Construction Collective
The title's misinformation: effect-size ISN'T more important than statistical significance.

The article itself makes some better points, e.g.

> I worry that because of statistical ambiguity, there’s not much that can be deduced at all.

, which would seem like a reasonable interpretation of the study that the article discusses.

However, the title alone seems to assert a general claim about statistical interpretation that'd seem potentially harmful to the community. Specifically, it'd seem pretty bad for someone to see the title and internalize a notion of effect-size being more important than statistical significance.
Yeah, I feel that. Some weeks ago, I was playing Battle Brothers and I lost a game because I failed three 80% checks in a row. It was incredible bad luck, but the decision to "all in" in these three checks was mine. Maybe I could've found a strategy that wouldn't ruin me in case a check fails, regardless of how high its probability is.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Monetized a Microsoft Teams App
Looking to bring an app to the Teams App store directly(a feature/app) that is currently lacking and is being requested by several hundred screaming users on their community forums. The monetization opportunity is there, but I am unaware of any prior successful app monetization on the Microsoft Teams platform. On the contrary, there are a few bootstrapped startups that were founded on Slack Appstore(looking at you standuply!). And some that make decent money for the dev:
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346050)
Looking for some precedence on Teams App Store here.
You bring up a good point, but the reasons for that are not directly related to productivity. 2 big ones:

1. money supply. Average wage and population have both increased. How can that be possible if the total amount of money in the economy is fixed? Well it's not. Increases in money supply are slightly more than productivity growth rate in order to prevent deflation, and they err on the side inflation. There's literally more money in the economy than ever before.

2. monopolies. Healthcare & education & housing are not competitive markets. You can't invent more land. Healthcare is a basketcase. And schools are in effect a luxury good where exclusivity is the main product.

You combine #1 and #2 and you get what you expect.

The solution to this is not to increase minimum wage with productivity. That doesn't make sense.

IMO minimum wage should be pegged at some standard of living in a 50th percentile cost of living suburb.
cue stream of upvoted HN comments shooting down any whiff of inflation
> I can't help but see this as a way of capitalizing on the insecurity that's being generated by the social media platforms.

I understand your concern, but i can't help but feel the exact opposite when viewing it. Also, have you met teens? They felt insecure long before smartphones.

Cameras help us capture and store the world around us and high-end cameras are amazing. Bringing lots of that tech to phones means we all can capture it better.

Maybe you don't, but many people photograph every moment of their life. And every family reunion and wedding and social gathering is full of people taking pictures to remember what grandma looks like today, and how happy she is with grandchild. Capturing that in vivid detail and with great images is crucial to re-living those moments, and really improves the experience of viewing photos for lots of peoples.
I use a Garmin head unit for cycling and its interactions with my phone and also other services (e.g. Strava) are simply appalling for 2021. Garmin’s own services are also pretty bad to use.

I struggle to understand how a group of smart people could put out that product with such gaping flaws and think, ‘yes, we did a good job there’.
I didn't even know he was sick
Fun fact, CalyxOs managed to lock the bootloader on my Pixel 2... Found out after trying to get stock android back on it. Now I am all set with CalyxOs, so I don't care. I do get an error message that my device is loading a different OS. Not sure how I can get rid of that...
Why is it acceptable at all for you to work on a platform where the vendor has the power to remove anything at will?
Even if this were true, it provides little in the way of an explanation. Why do 10s of thousands of companies across hundreds of industries pay their regular employees a small fraction of their worth? What is stopping someone else from coming along and paying them a larger fraction of their worth?
> Bootcamps have failed one after another.

Crowded space and the businesses were service oriented (not infinitely scaling like software) so very different success & risk profiles.

For the students... Most were lied to about the outcome statistics, but many people were able to leverage it into new career.

> I can't say I've seen anyone out of a bootcamp that was a great hire.

Most people aren't going to brand themselves as boot camp grads if they don't have to.
What do the gray columns represent?
It was all Ralph Abernathy's fault!

(Listening to his 2017 Netflix special right now in memoriam).
The reason I was googling this was my nose been itching for a week. I have not had influenza for 40 years, because at first sign of sinus irritation I start flushing. But this influenza seems oddly persistent.

One day soon I will go to Lidl and buy Covid testing kit...
I don't have it handy at the moment, but apparently housing is still more affordable than in 2008. The key factor is that mortgage rates now are roughly half of what they were during the bubble, so a given monthly payment will buy more house today.

Depending on the local jurisdiction and price, this could mean that houses are 20% more affordable today than in 2008, modulo down payments.
Do you also really, really like some comedians outside of North America? Can you recommend someone?
Could be a consequence of near 0 interest rates inflating assets. Thankfully the fed memo is that its transitory and nothing to worry about so the money press in still on
I'm aware of the book and two things can be true at the same time. The clampdown in HK came at a time when Americans were least likely to lead a coordinated effort to punish it.

China has been way less cautious over the past four or five years, and I do not think Trump being in office is a coincidence.
Recessions.
Also there's "levels" of hardware acceleration - using CUDA (or any other shader-level acceleration) will always be less efficient than a dedicated hardware block.

And there's multiple steps in decoding a video - some steps in some codecs may fit different acceleration schemes better, so it may not be worth the hardware cost for a full pipeline decode at some point, but then later transistors are cheaper, or new hw decode techniques discovered, so more steps can be done in dedicated hardware blocks. Also those hardware blocks may have hard limits - if it can only (say) cope with 1080p60 at a certain profile level for a codec, trying to do something more than that will likely just completely skip the HW block - it's hard to do any kind of "hybrid" decode if it's not a whole pipeline step.

"HW Video Decode Acceleration" isn't a simple boolean.
Wonder what this looks like per capita. Not much population growth between now and then but enough that it’d skew it. Population has grown by 10% over this period
What would be really cool and useful would be an open source bedside (ICU/OR) monitor. RPi would probably be a good base, I guess...
How do you watch webms on iOS/ipadOS?
I agree that minimum wages are too low but the argument that wages should track productivity is false from economical point of view, in my opinion.

The argument would be true if how people contribute to economy did not change.

But over time disparity in contribution to economy changed. Hundred years ago people had very similar jobs, mostly physical, manual, where each would contribute rather similarly.

Nowadays companies can produce virtual goods, sell "IP", and many other mechanisms to produce a lot with relatively little that just are not possible with traditional production lines.

Now, I think the correct reason to justify better minimum wage is basic human decency and also the role of the state as servants to entire population.

I think a person doing honest, important work for 8 hours a day 5 days a week should enjoy a compensation that should be enough for a basic living plus some little extra. Basic living means a decent place to live, medical care, ability to buy healthy, non-extravagant food, etc.

It doesn't matter if that job is cleaning streets or being cashier at Walmart. We need streets to be cleaned and we need to buy stuff.

These people doing basic jobs are unable to defend themselves and that's where the state should come in and make sure that people who do basic jobs are able to afford basic living.
Trevor Moore?
Something is F'ed with your system. I have 10 extensions installed, nearly 900 tabs (most of which aren't actually cached) and my Firefox stays open for weeks and it still never uses more than a few GB of RAM.
The consumers don't drive much. They just exist in the environment they were born into. The idea we vote with our money doesn't hold much water when the system is rigged with regulations set by the largest corporations to their own benefit. Keeping out competition. And that's just never going to stop either, so the economic system needs examined, not hoping for some sort of libertarian awakening.

To make this worthwhile to continue at all, this conversation first needs to clearly define capitalism. Capitalism is not the free market. Markets existed long before capitalism. Capitalism is exclusively paying people less than the value they produce, to create a profit for the employer.

To rectify that economic system's moral compass, you create incentives to moving towards worker-owned enterprise. Instead of the employer/owner running your gas station, the employees that actually work it have 1 share each. To own a share you have to actively work there. That model resolves most issues with capitalism. Worker's unions also resolve it, but in a less ideal way as the tension between employer-employee still exists. Which is just a slightly kinder model as master-slave, or lord-serf.

Not sure about the universe comparison. The universe is chaotic entropy as far as we know, but assigning human misery- that we actively create, to the universe is a bit much.
Keeping that in line would mean to socialize wins - it wont happen and doesn't make sense either. Sorry.
It absolutely does! If Wal-Mart can pay more money for something, they would be /willing/ to pay it. The same stocking of shelves, they are able to capture more value from.

Unskilled laborers are just not able to capture that value from Wal-Mart because there is an abundance of unskilled labor and the average person (the laborer) has to derive income from work. They can't just say, "Puh, this isn't worth it any more!"

In addition, there's been a ton of improvements in productivity for warehouse workers. They are absolutely doing more work in the same amount of time.

The same is true at most big businesses.

That being said - at $26 an hour, there would be A LOT more pressure to eliminate more jobs.
No - I’m arguing that culture and social structures influence behavior, and that you can’t generalize from what you have observed at school to other cultures and times.

There is nothing pedantic or academic or anything I have said.

> US school structure and its problems explain all malevolent minor female behavior

This is simply a lie. I never said anything that implies this extreme view.

You are arguing that malevolent minor female behavior is universal and doesn’t need to be studied.

You might turn out to be right about the former, but without studying it, it’s just your baseless prejudice.
Wouldn't the gstreamer support that is mentioned by the path-description directly enable hardware acceleration in Firefox? Or do I misunderstand to what extend Firefox is using gstreamer at the moment?
Without doing any research, I suspect they're recessions. They line up perfectly with the 2008 and covid recessions.
Yes, and it is still vastly more efficient to bring that delta-v with you than to use an entire other vehicle to come up to you provided by a third-party to de-orbit for you. Which is the case I was comparing and contrasting with in response to the parent comment. Evidently this is the case knowing that de-orbiting capabilities are built-in to many low-earth orbit satellites, although it (and any de-orbiting method) is prohibitively expensive for higher orbits
Novel!

Just learned about Xen Cloud Platform - Next Generation (XCP-ng) last week via Level1Techs: https://youtu.be/XLQp_jI5vNs

I wonder what the future of the project will hold seeing how it is currently based on CentOS 7. A Nix-based solution or similar would be cool.
I think you are reading too much into the exact wording of the OP's comment. You can replace "the internet" with "social media" or even "Facebook" and it still makes sense. Internet platforms for communicating with others (the use case that is being described in the OP) is literally the definition of social media.
there is no way for it to be perfectly uniform. Let's just say that the immune system employs several layers of RNG (random shuffling of DNA, and also it shoots mutations at certain segments of DNA) to evolve its responses.

A more uniform response than the pathogen itself? Yes. But I think the actual goal of modern vaccination is not a uniform response, but a directed response. Don't waste your time looking at these parts of the virus, spend it on this (important) part.
Inflation isn't that higher than in the late 2000s, is this the right graph?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=GMNQ
It was flagged because users flagged it. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Both parties and every level of government determined that the best path forward was re-inflating the bubble. Is it any surprise that kind of joint effort worked?

It’s great news for incumbent owners and at the end of the day that’s a majority of voters almost everywhere.
In the 1930s many homes only had icebox "refrigerators" that worked by putting Ice in the top to cool whatever was below.

IMO productivity has been absorbed by getting more for your money in hidden inflation . Eg: today when you buy a phone (and internet access) you get a free encyclopedia (wikipedia), movie theater (youtube), camera, Video recorder, note pad and pen (app), alarm clock, calendar, ... get my drift?

Same with a "home" which is now far more advanced and sq ft per person.

That's where all the productivity gains have gone, the basics of today are more complex than the "complex" things of the past
Is there any benchmarks that includes deno delpoy?
I, and HN it seems, disagree. Israel’s anti-BDS tactics provided little interesting context while moving the discussion to an unrelated topic.
Paradoxically, I'd consider bringing the headphone jack back the most revolutionary change. It would give a clear message, "We heard our customers, we had been wrong, so now we are doing the right thing."

Never gonna happen, though.
It's a 1/12th of a pound more.
Prices are inflation adjusted
I don't agree that companies even try to pay based on productivity, but the first point is correct. Minimum wage workers have generally not gotten anymore productive.

The impact of, say, Microsoft Office has been enormous on the median white collar worker's productivity. Such gains have been much smaller on low skill manual labor tasks.

Most minimum wage jobs in america are attendants, cooks, aides, etc.

Not the classic factory worker failing to reap the profits of improved capital machinery.
> Yes I do. The Antibody Test costs $42 and the vaccine costs $16/dose in the US today.

You're ignoring economies of scale, ignoring basic economics (increase supply - price goes down), ignoring the fact that vaccines require 2 dozes - and potentially more, as well as ignoring the additional costs of administering vaccines multiple times. Also, I would like to see where you're getting those numbers from, since a quick google search directly contradicts your numbers:

> The U.S. government will pay Pfizer Inc nearly $2 billion for 100 million additional doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to bolster its supply as the country grapples with a nationwide spike in infections.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pf...

> Nobody was proposing that individuals pay for either one of these.

I literally just proposed it to your face 2 times in a row.

> The US Government should pay for it using taxes so that even the poorest citizen has access.

Oh, look at you, so concerned about the poorest citizen that you want to explicitly deny them the possibility to pay for their own tests and force them to get vaccinated against their will. What a champion of the poor.

> Letting people self-certify as a public health strategy has been problematic in the past and would be problematic here too.

Did I say anything about 'self-certify' ? Do you want to respond to my actual statement or just continue with these weak strawmen?

> It is unsafe (which is factually inaccurate).

For the fourth time - show me the data on long term effects. Which part of 'long-term effects' don't you understand?

> The vaccine may not add to natural immunity (which as I said, being cheaper and simpler than the alternative testing makes it still worthwhile).

Another strawman completely unrelated to anything I've said.

> - It is unsafe, and we live in a free society (which is factually inaccurate and irrelevant).

Do you see the words 'safe' or 'unsafe' anywhere in my 3rd point? No? Are you going to continue making these fallacious, insincere strawmen, or are you secure enough with your beliefs to actually defend them honestly?

> That's because your entire argument hinges on "the vaccine is unsafe" and little else.

I've never made a single assertion about the safety of the vaccines other than that we don't know the long term side effects.

It's pretty cringy how dishonest you are tbh.
https://archive.is/2Jden
I can understand the Fed not wanting to overreact. It has so much control over everything sometimes it's better not to swing.
It always strikes me as odd that I'm in the top 1% of income earners and even still the only hope I really have of ever owning a house is:

1. moving somewhere super rural

2. selling my business

3. sell my soul to Google or Facebook etc for 5-10 yrs

The situation is dire for me and basically hopeless for everyone else.

Put a huge tax on vacancies and cap the number of residential properties a business is allowed to purchase in a year.

EDIT: Apologies for the confusion everyone. I meant top 1% for my age bracket. Nowhere near rich old folk making 500k

Probably more like top 10% overall, thanks @geebee
There is no categorical presumption in Go that an error invalidates what would be boxed in a Result or Option.

I do think that what seems obviously true and categorical in the absence of concurrency is quite a bit more subtle when concurrent. It’s obvious when rewriting the kind of chains where ‘?’ makes perfect sense from sequential to concurrent invocation.

By no means do I think Go is perfect or can’t learn from Rust but I do think it’s important to consider the tradeoffs against Go’s colorless concurrency - it’s a very compelling affordance. Like garbage collection it’s easy to show the pros and cons in a codebase the size of a demonstration but at scale it’s a decision with pros and cons.
look at Greenwald-Khanna (and the followon work). It adapts the bucket size to minimize the total error (and the number of buckets is proportional to log-epsilon I think).

with all the competition and 'innovation', you would think the data dogs of this world would grow up beyond time series.
Yet try to search your twitter username on google.
> But I think that pattern matching, and even checked exceptions, are much less verbose than constantly checking the return value. That doesn't mean that they're better, just less verbose.

I don’t see how you can say that monadic results aren’t strictly better: they’re safer, less verbose, and give the option of abstracting around. Odds are they’re even more efficient.
Oh actually
For a hackathon a few years back I attempted to make the InnoDB engine in MySQL employ temporal queries. In theory, any change to a row would be timestamped, and `UPDATE` and `DELETE` remapped to `INSERT`.

The query plan for a regular query would be modified so that all referenced rows would be restricted to the matching row with the most recent timestamp. A temporal query would be restricted to the row with the most recent timestamp that was less than or equal to the provided time.
Follow the money. Lots of money to be made with each round of shots the population is encouraged to get
> the real question is : Am I less likely to be hospitalized when getting delta strain if I am vaccinated for alpha strain

That question has been asked and answered ad nauseum, it's a resounding yes, especially for the mRNA vaccines.
Nothing to see here folks! Move along. /s
The CCP inner congress is full of billionaires. They only cut down non-CCP billionaires.
The Animedoro Technique: A New Version of the Pomodoro Technique
Yeah. I bet Google assigned some folks the task "make a twitter crawler"
Not necessarily of "designers," but perhaps of "design."

In my opinion, "design" does two things at the same time that are presently fundamentally incompatible without being honest about it -- namely "usability" and "fashion."

It's absolutely possible to do both, but you can't pretend you're doing one when you're doing the other. Architecture comes to mind. They do this right, most often by putting usability "first." You can make your design as pretty as you want, but if the damn wheelchair ramp doesn't work as intended, the whole design is broken and if that means your pretty thing must die because of it, then kill it and start over.
that's not legalese, and that's not the judges ruling
In those cases the virus particles don't replicate enough to be detected.
> Really seems like it really kicks off with Reagan but I’m not versed enough to be sure if he’s the cause or just one of the symptoms

It was a concerted effort that started in the 1970s, and when Reagan got in things kicked off:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Geniuses:_The_Unmaking_of...

Given that Democrats controlled Congress during the 1980s, they were complicit, but most of the ideas originally came from right-wing think tanks funded by oligarchs like the Koch brothers:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brother...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Ko...
Another big thing is cleaning - maybe someone put paint thinner, bleach or some acid to their used bear bottle before returning it ?

It could be even an accident (eq. someone turning in old beer bottles found somewhere), but you have to still account for that when cleaning all the beer bottles before refill.