skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we both tip, and use the portable POS. First the check arrives (on paper) and you can check that. At that point you write in the tip amount. 10% is normal.

Then the waiter returns with the machine, enters the total (including tip) - you touch your card to the machine (and if the amount is high enough enter a pin.)

The waiter does not handle the card.

There is no awkwardness at all.

I recently joined a newly-arrived US friend at a restaurant, and he paid, but clearly didn't understand the edit-the-bill process, so we tipped in cash then gave quick education.

It's a system that works well, is effecient and secure. Overall you stay in control of your card and your card is only processed once.
I hugely dislike the POS terminal for exactly this reason: "The waiter brings the POS terminal and you pay at the table."

The experience I dislike goes like this: The server gives you the hand-held terminal and then stands watching you, tapping his/her foot impatiently, while you hurriedly verify the check, then calculate a tip amount under the server's scrutiny. I guess I'm a wimp. With the server's eyes on me, I feel the pressure to tip generously, no matter how poor the service or the overall experience.

By contrast, I find the traditional system, where the server would drop off the paper check for you to examine on your own time, to be private, un-rushed, and less prone to error.

After three decades of paying my restaurant checks without a POS terminal, I've never encountered any monkey business during the brief time the server is in possession of my credit card. Is "restaurant credit-card fraud" really a thing?
It isn't "much slower" when you actually account for the time spent waiting for the server to come around, getting their attention to ask for the check, waiting for them to come back with it, waiting for them to do their lap and come back to collect the card, waiting for them to go run it, and finally waiting for the card to come back.
My cofounder tells me I am guilty if I don't stick with him keep building, even if it is something else. He quit his job to join me, and I am wasting his years of life if I quit.

I am wondering if I am being a bad person.
don’t forget infinite growth in a finite world
It's this. If we got one of the molten salt reactor ideas functional it would be a total game changer for the economics of electrictity and the environment because they are not giant pipe bombs waiting to explode and their safety systems are extremely simple while being difficult to screw up (most spec a fan powered by the reactor blowing on a tube causing a solid plug. Reactor goes into failure mode and fan turns off, plug melts and everything flow into a second chamber designed to absorb all the neutrons and shut the reaction down. You end up with a mildly radioactive slab of rock that you can recycle in another running reactor. Also, since everything is liquid it makes continuous cycling and cleaning reaction products out much easier.
You could go back in time before other countries were discovered and make a lot the same arguments about heading out into the ocean on a boat.

Technology will never get to the stage it needs to in order to say live on Mars (or anywhere beyond earth) unless we actively venture out and try to do so.

I think that's the point. It actually doesn't matter if Elon fails in getting anyone to step foot on Mars - by believing it to be possible, he's creating a kind of self-fulfilled prophecy.

Without anyone trying there's 100% chance it'll never happen, and by the time you need it to happen it'll be too late.
Why do we call them "hot dogs" when they typically have a very low percentage of dog meat (often 0% I think)? Why do we call it a "gravy boat" when it's not literally a boat? Did you know there are male ladybugs?

Language is descriptive, and people do in fact call them smart quotes. That doesn't mean there has to be anything smart about them, and I'm not making the claim there is, I'm just using an agreed-upon term to convey what I'm talking about.
Anecdote: Just this week I ended up at a restaurant in San Jose that was QR code menu/ordering only. I don't know what format QR code they were using, but my iPhone would not read it at all. I've scanned many many codes with it in the past, but that particular one was just not having it. Luckily I was with a friend whose phone cooperated and I just paid them back. In cash.
This is a little aggressive. The boring company is unproven technology in a perpetually capex heavy delivery model. If I was a spacex shareholder I’d probably value it at $0 in 2018, and strongly prefer it to be not associated with spacex at all.
Besides being historically grown like that, I see two major differences to the rest of the world:

Credit cards have no PIN in the US (and debit cards can usually be used without one as well), which makes this approach possible in the first place, and the tipping culture that can make it desirable to get a quiet moment with the check to figure out amounts.

Practically, it also means that even larger restaurants usually only need very few POS terminals at a central location, rather than one per waiter, requiring wireless infrastructure in larger restaurants etc.

This is changing very fast, though – I‘m seeing both combined order and payment handheld devices (that support tap-to-pay, i.e. also Apple Pay) as well as the QR payment solution in more and more places.
I looked into nextdns and compared dns traffic on my adguard. My current usage would overshoot the free tier, and having another subscription but for dns doesn’t sound so fun
Which of course doesn't affect libressl.

I still can't comprehend how the industry didn't simply move to libressl early on.
They aren't smart or soft, they are typographically correct.

On PC I have AutoHotKey bindings for German and English quotes, single and double, and I'm usually using them.
Imagine trusting a car from this guy.
Ada, you mean?
You could work part-time to help support project.
But you need a new opportunity to pay your bills etc.
What about the TV interview? Is that somewhere to be found?
TeX (as a mostly batch formatter) didn't do this, but it did map ASCII quote characters to the typesetting ones. Including mapping a sequence of two single quote or backquote characters to the typeset double quotes.

(FrameMaker was great, BTW. It was what got me into developing fancy layout style sheets and templates, which I later also did with Interleaf, MS Word, LaTeX, and various Web stuff. Somewhere in there, I worked on DynaText and DynaWeb at EBT, so overlapped a bit with Frame as it got into SGML.)
It’s the default substitution done on iOS devices - the OS used on the most widely used smartphone in the US - this is a lot more common among HN users than copying and pasting out of MS Word??
"Just"? A general purpose computing device for your pocket is a kind of a huge achievement.
Musk failed so badly, his rocket company handily outshines all the government rocket programs in existence.
Companies sell to each other all the time, and this is just the beginning. Tesla is a leader in AI, and Twitter needs a lot of AI to help counter bots, etc, etc. Humans will be in the mix, but AI coming from Tesla is no doubt a huge part of the plan, too. So a look at what code's there now is just a start. Good business for Tesla, good business for Twitter. If one isn't being sacrificed for the sake of the other, there's no conflict of interest.
Why would $TSLA shareholders want to pay for a Twitter code-review?
> Between pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and Kathleen Booth, it's still weird to me that IT has ended up becoming a male dominated industry.

The issue is segmenting "IT" as some special industry separate from any other skilled trade that relies more on knowledge than tools than say... car stuff.

When you have to clarify if someone meant someone is a rapist or just someone who TK when the word "asshole" is used in policy circles, you begin to understand why some things went the way they did.

I ended up enrolling in a PhD to get out of my hometown because they actually did a good job of making things like STEM admissions more gender equal -- but they did it with don't ask, don't tell in effect, when you'd be told sarcastically "maybe you should go smoke some weed" by folks who didn't seem to grok -- you're a social worker who can send people off to prison, how dare you just casually tell people who the system has failed to just go take a risk whose costs won't fall on you.

(But I wasn't mature enough to articulate it that way, so I drank a lot and made a lot of rude posts on the internet)

Anyways, it is ABSOLUTELY weird, and tied in with the fact that post WWII many GI bill benefits were not evenly distributed... and so on and so forth.

I'm not going to rehash the American civil rights movement in the HN comments section at shortly after midnight on what will be, later... devil's night.

PS: As always, I'm a guy, so take what I say on these matters with a grain of salt.
I wouldn't be okay with that, but it wouldn't be completely unjustified either.

Google has put an incredible amount of effort into creating the delivery channel for websites/webapps. Not just as in "let's make a good browser", but "let's have feature parity with the OS, while still having the security and ease of use that the OS can't match". (There was a giant Chromium team googlesheet somewhere tracking which features are still missing, but I can't find it at the moment.)

For example: let's say you're selling stuff online. How does Chrome help you?

* HTTP/3 makes your site load faster. HTTP/3 stems from QUIC, which was a Google thing.

* CSS improvements mean that you can make it prettier. Google works on pushing new features into CSS.

* Advanced video/image codecs mean that you can show higher-quality pictures to your customers (assuming constant bandwidth). Google works on codecs.

* The very concept of evergreen browsers (I think Google has also put a lot of effort into making into happen?) means that you can save your money developing the website.

* At the checkout, Chrome autofills the card and/or lets the customer use Google Pay. The card is synced between the customer's devices, using Google's servers. This is good for you. Easier payments = better conversion rate for you.

* If the customer creates an account (which will help you sell them more things later), they might be logging in via Google. Or they might be using a password, which Google also autosyncs. Both options are good for you. It's you who derives extra money from the customer being able to easily log into their account and buy shoes etc.

* Finally, if the web was insecure, people would be more hesitant to use it to buy stuff. Google works on making the web more secure (Google Project Zero and just in general a ton of security work being put into Chromium).

This is not counting stuff that is Google and not Chrome per se.

I'm not going to say that you have to pay Google for simultaneously working on 10–20 different areas of infrastructure that enables you to sell things and services to people. And heck, they also benefit from it (because ads). But if tomorrow Google said "everybody who makes money on the internet have to give us a cut", I would feel like they actually have a good case for it, having contributed to very large chunks of the infrastructure that enables me to do business on the internet.
I love being able to fix a bug with a one line change.
You're forgetting 6-apart.

And Friendster.
Anyone capable of doing software engineering for TSLA isn’t being exploited. They can take home an upper class income working for their choice of the cream of the crop of tech companies. It’s like an outside observer complaining that MIT exploits students because it’s expensive and the students have to do hard work. Well, of course. That’s what you agree to when you go there.
Well it's not like meta is having a great time right now either.
Yes, it can be considered central to identity, and no, obviously not fraud. If you’re genuinely interested, I found this video to be clarifying:

https://youtu.be/6Avcp-e4bOs
And, from a US perspective, that sounds absurdly overly dramatic and worrisome. The server is there to serve you, and the amount of money on the line is so comically small as to be hardly of concern. Sending them off with your card in hand is a semi-logical extension of sending them off with cash and expecting them to return with change.
> An example like this suggests to me only that the problem is commercial or organisational rather than technical.

That's exactly right. Most businesses (including freelancers, the original question) fail based on their "commercial and organisational" success. If you want to come into a project and be the bug fixer for hire - you'd better have technical, commercial, and organizational success in mind. Fixing real bugs means fixing business problems, and no one is going to make inroads on technical terms alone.
When I was very little someone told me "To succeed you have to try, not every attempt leads to success so keep trying."
Tesla uses lots of GPUs for training autopilot, I would be surprised if they wouldn’t have people writing optimized shaders for some of the tasks.
It’s not like the oil we drill domestically only gets used by us. It would go on the global market and depress prices by a few percent, maybe. We’d still be getting tons of Saudi oil, just for slightly cheaper.
> This guy, one of the most successful people in all of human history, is apparently an idiot and no one should take him seriously

You say “successful” but I assume you mean wealthy.

There are other forms of success that Musk falls woefully short of, such as “not being an asshole”…
A great attempt to dodge vesting schedules and escape doling out severance. Even if they convince many engineers to quit willingly, one presumes that the next step is rounds of layoffs with cause.

California is at-will, but notoriously anal regarding mass-layoffs. My serious question is, regardless of with or without cause, surely some employment attorneys are licking their lips at the stack of prospective cases they're about to have, right?

If I was a Twitter engineer, I'd be trying to figure out how to maximize my severance package right about now.
I'd like Apple to have more money than just covering the R&D, because I believe they can do unrelated cool things with it (VR, Mac improvements, Apple Car, whatever).
Keeping your work emails private is a good way to reduce the chances of a scam, you can do this by limiting what sites you use your work email to for.

Another solution is to create a secondary, anonymous email that you can use to sign up to any suspicious sites with, or as an alternate account for gaming and social media, this will lower the chances of your work email being compromised.
No need for the waiter to walk away with my card if they have a mobile POS, as I mentioned above. Tapping my card and selecting a tipping option takes less time than even opening my camera app.

Ironically, many of the QR payment places I‘ve been to actually have these as well.

I get that jumping from a central POS to a device per waiter is an investment – but why switch to QR codes if all your staff is already equipped with a strictly superior solution?
Is the horrid UX of the Android operating system not the worst part about QR menus? You absent-mindedly hit the physical back button once instead of using the restaurant's ultra slow back button for navigation and you end up back at your home screen starting from scratch needing to ask the waiter for the QR code to be brought to your table again. Then another 30 seconds trying to get it to scan because it's scratched or on reflective glossy paper. Same experience in more than ten countries

This part of the experience is by itself so aggravating I haven't had time to think any deeper about other potential downsides honestly
How? Why wouldn't you pool your resources? What interest is in conflict?
Shift+F3
It needs millions of dollars to launch the product though.
A quick google shows QR came out in 2002, had apps on all phone platforms in 2010, and was native to iOS in 2017. So at a minimum you are 5 years behind, although you could use an app fairly easily.

The average phone life before replacement is 2.5 years in North America [1] so you are somewhere between 2x and 4x outside the median: an outlier but not outrageously so.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/619788/average-smartphon...
I don’t see this as incontrovertible. perhaps 2° per minute is too quick
If anyone is mildly curious but doesn't want the actual EXE, here's the VirusTotal analysis:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/acea176b67cb7c77dfd0780f...
Same. I worked for a company owned by a group of friends that owned a few more businesses. We'd do work for all these companies and just log the hours in our human resource system - accountants figured out inter-company payments. Some employees were employed at multiple of these companies at the same time as well.
Of course I first read the documentation to understand a code base, but then just usually jump in to the part that I’m interested in. If it’s not spaghetti code base, it’s not that hard to do that.
I use an iPhone and find them extremely annoying as well.
I work on everything randomly and don’t maintain any log.
Reformatting mixed with real changes, woooof
I regularly see people with 600k though. That’s already beyond crazy.
AI's true goal may no longer be intelligence
I don't doubt this site is mostly libertarian types but it still strikes me how such people can say some of the shit they do with a straight face.
It's especially apparent how nuts some of them are when they are felating Elon Musk specifically.
Humbleness foremost. You know you can short or buy a cds on the debt? Might be a nice thing to invest in at such a high level of confidence.
There is a very common size misconception mostly caused because of map projections used: Brazil is larger than continental US.
Hadn't you clicked already when you read that sentence?
I'm not sure what is evangelical here using FreeBSD in your reply, can you highlight?

If its tweaking, then im trying to remember any kind of tweaking of the system beyond sysctls that I'd practically need ..cannot much.

Jails probably OK, but as you mentioned it's nothing unique like it was till 2006..

I don't see your selling point.
Stepping back from whether this ends in a lawsuit etc.

But why would smart people looking to earn a living work for Musk after this? He'll fire you for cause just because he doesn't like you or didn't let him win. That's not the foundation of a stable career.

Because this had nothing to do with whether they did a good job, because they clearly did their fiduciary duty to their shareholders and are clearly great at what they do due to what they have achieved. If you work for Tesla, SpaceX and not definitely Twitter, why are your comp packages trusted to be worth anything until they are cashed?
The text messages that were published as part of the suit to close the acquisition showed Musk discussing "return to office" as a way to naturally trim some of the workforce by having the dissatisfied remote workers quit on their own.

My take on the paper printing is that it is a similar strategy to get people to quit by themselves, because they think it's stupid.
> I have an irrational dislike of SPIR-V

Out of curiosity, why?
The max size of an ART is 125
I think their point is exactly that, they're human. The whole Twitter acquisition seems impulsive, petty, and obviously was poorly thought out.
In my country they bring in the receipt first, and let you take a look at it. Perhaps negotiate with your peers who pays what amount and so one.

And than in 10 minutes waiter arrive with hand held POS.
I think in times past, the achievements of woman in STEM were downplayed and disproportionately overshadowed by men of their same era. You have to assume that most reporters and journalists covering tech would have been male as well.
no Western economist
My comment was more about spending Tesla money on Musk's personal projects. I also think it pretty insulting to have to justify your job to some random engineer from Tesla.
Indxd
Mind linking to evidence regarding the ‘second mode’ you referred to? I have not heard of anything like that, and I am a reporter who covers transportation safety.
> If I was a Twitter engineer, I'd be trying to figure out how to maximize my severance package right about now.

Absolutely. This is how I would spend every minute of my workdays until the eventual layoff. It’s a degrading experience for sure, but it could pay off big.
Indeed. My iPhone 6s (lovely big screen) has worked perfectly since 2015. I'm disappointed that IOS 16 won't be available for it, but I really can't complain after continuous, impeccable compatibility for almost eight years.

And, as the parent noted, my 6s is still getting security updates; current is 15.7.1. I'd swear Apple is sneaking in some UI polishing too.
Oh we're supposed to make ridiculous incomes? Lets go tell my public sector employer.
I get your point, but puns are the least of our collective concerns when it comes to signal to noise ratio. Such subthreads are fairly rare considering people trying to jam in (say) partisan politics.
Why would a TSLA shareholder make a fuss? It is likely that Tesla will bill Twitter for the use of staff resources. Other than that, being on good terms with the owner of Twitter is a possible advertising opportunity/tie-in in the future.
It does happen, but thanks to the chip rollout, the value of a skimmed magnetic stripe read is falling drastically.

No idea if there is non-negligible fraud in the form of staff copying down the card number and security code for online payments fraud, though.
It distresses me to see how little Andreas is making from his YT channel; distressed enough so that I am adding him on Patreon.
The clitoris is pretty much homologous to the penis, not just the glans, the visible part, but the clitoral body behind it that is continuous with the crura, and also the paired bulbs. The distal (closer to outside) parts of the vagina and urethra are the midline core of this pyramidal-shaped structure that's behind the labia minora and majora.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris#/media/File:Clitoris_...
Smart quotes really refers the feature some software has where it automatically detects what type of quote should be used (opening or closing) and puts that in so you can just use the same quote key at the beginning and end and it'll substitute in the right "smart quote".
This is oft-recited but never backed up with evidence.

The linked article, for example, is unsourced and undoubtedly biased (as an addiction treatment center).
You should be able to install a single CA (installed on devices) and then use the key for that to sign individual domain (wildcard) certs?
On Linux I use Fcitx and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U to open the Unicode character picker, while on Windows I have my fork of a character picker discovered a while ago (https://github.com/flobosg/character-picker) bound to the same shortcut.
Beat middle class restaurants tend to use tableside POS systems. Applebees, Chili’s, Rock Lobster, Outback, etc etc. I understand them and love them for what they are, but it always feels jank to have to deal with a computer when I’m out for dinner. I’d pay more to not have to do that, which is the experience higher end restaurants provide.

I don’t have a computer screen in my car for the same reason. Software engineers tend to produce shit tier user experiences. (Speaking as one)
Obviously Musk should go on Twitter and lie that he's taking Tesla private again to juice the stock. Maybe he'll get two slaps on the wrist this time.
I like the Binary Eye app. It's open source and comes with a Quick Settings toggle.

I wish it was built into the AOSP camera app, but it's not.
You're Thinking Wrong–and What You Can Do About Them
I've certainly never tried to stop it from updating. It's on version 8.4.600.440402475.27. When I point mine at a QR code absolutely nothing at all happens
PostgREST (https://postgrest.org/) for PostgreSQL should be mentioned as well.