skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think PayPal will pay out instead of claiming that they aren’t responsible for USGOV actions? I love your optimism!
Yet there's no difference between any of these.
The difference is the extent of adaptation, especially in the business space.

You zelle a friend, sure, yet almost everyone I know use either Venmo or cash app (neither of which are interoperable). Everyone in India uses UPI with different flavors (Google Pay, Whatsapp Cash, Paytm, PhonePe, etc.)

Can you pay for Starbucks or a slice of pizza with Zelle? Probably not. Can you pay like 10 cents to someone selling tea in rural India with UPI? Probably yeah.
Most developers are basically powerless here, they use the standard libraries for time provided by their language, and those have to deal with what they get from the kernel. There's nothing they can do about timestamps in the filesystem.

For anyone designing new systems that store or transmit time, you should be aware of TAI64.
https://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html

Unless you are dealing with scheduling, or generating events with a particular cadence (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly) there is no reason to include UTC or time zones in your data model. They are view only concepts, with conversion to the local display format happening from TAI64 on the way out.
It didn’t help that search engines would “helpfully” ignore the sharp symbol (octothorp) and show results for just “c”
This is a general statement about many companies, though PayPal is an example of it:

The company was great to work with until it wasn't.

Most people, most of the time, will have no major issue (and few minor ones) and wonder what the hubbub is about; a minority of people, a minority of time, will have lots of minor issues and a few major ones, and some of them will be _devastated_ by the experience.

All of this is to say: You will find lots of folks who've loved PP and had zero issues, but when the company is that size, a 0.001% error rate screws over a lot of paying customers.
Yeah, it's certainly an unfortunate situation all around - mostly for the restaurant staff who are dependent on the tips - but probably doesn't change much from the consumer's point of view. FWIW I've not had significant problems with delivery. I think a lot of restaurants have gotten used to "the new normal", though to be fair the majority of meals I've had delivered have been mediocre, sometimes cold.
How Equifax Became a Private IRS
Who Predicted 2022?
its expensive but I always tips atleast $10 on my $20-40 doordash orders now so it gets atleast picked up
LEA only got more powerful in later models as the restraints on registers were removed and more addressing modes got added. Now it can do several additions and a multiplication in a single operation. Reusing that memory hardware/instruction format is a clever ISA decision.
If your purouse the 3d printing forums, you'l find many that want to swap their mainboards to one that supports micro steps, so the printing doesn't keep them awake at night.
A number of older file systems won't work past 2038, including ext3, reiser3 and xfs4[1]. You'll probably still be able to read them fine, just not write new files beyond that date, but it might be best to migrate any backups to a newer filesystem before then just in case, and certainly migrate any live systems that are still using them.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/886708/
Do you have the same productivity each week? Do you get paid less when you have a bad week?
Likely just old school chord progressions and pseudo-random note sequences. Maybe something more advanced but doesn’t sound like it to me.

I guess the “innovation” here is in the usage of better VST instruments (probably combinations that have been curated by a human).
You seem to fundamentally misunderstand the grouping I used. They are countries with population crises, divided by whether they're solving them with immigration or not. That's it. So why would Japan's crisis being worse than China's make the grouping misleading?

I cited the US and Netherlands as random examples of countries with population crises (absent immigration) as proof that China is facing a similar situation that drove those countries to choose immigration.
The savings are 1%, not 0.1%.
So when you get bad service in the US, you don't tip?

I've gotten bad service while traveling in the US - how can I not tip? Someone tell me, please, because when I'm paying it's usually before I even get the service and I'm already supposed to pre-pay a 20 percent tip or some such from a checkout prompt that doesn't always let me opt out.

Or when it does let me opt out, it's in plain view of the staff, of course; in a "go ahead and hit 0%, take a chance on whether we'll shit in your food" kind of way.
Same here, it's so bad.
So you're saying that it is not a language, package manager, cli and community, but it is a language, a package manager and a cli (and I guess we can assume that talking about the "Nix community" makes sense).

How was the parent wrong again?
McDonalds used to have ashtrays in the dining area!
I think instead tipping law should be that it is not be asked for until after the service is rendered. These days they will ask for tip BEFORE anything is served which makes me very upset. It traps you into paying and any incentive for good behavior is completely stolen.
I've just opened a coffee shop in Los Angeles last month, and we don't take tips. We only use self-ordering iPads (I've custom coded an iOS app w/ Stripe Terminal for it), and we don't accept cash either.

We've had a few customers baffled by the no-tipping policy, and still insisting that they leave a tip. Some even left cash on the counter or on the table. We had to chase a few of them down to return their money. Also, some customers seem to think that the screen froze at the very end because it didn't ask for a tip.

While it has been strange to see some customer's determination to leave a tip, I think overall it was well received by the great majority of people that just didn't say anything about it and made a mental note that the prices they see on the menu is what they'll actually end up paying.

We will probably need to highlight that we pay a higher wage for baristas & cooks to account for the lack of tips, and give customers an option to donate to a charity if they still wish to part with additional money.

I do believe that the incentive tips provide for employees to "act" friendly to customers can be transferred over into a review/feedback program, which is what we will be testing out. If customers rate their order and interaction with the barista to be satisfactory, a bonus payment will be made to the baristas on shift. Once we introduce this, I'll share the results.
Update, lol:
* DOJ to sue GOOG over Digital Ad Dominance
I generally won't tip If the POS screen start at 20% and makes me do a "custom" amount to leave less. Its slightly embarrassing hunting around to give a 0 tip but maybe they'll eventually get the hint.
Ask HN: Embeddable Value-Oriented Languages?
These days, applications need customisation. And instead of having software developers write custom features tied to specific tenants, it can be advantageous to provide ways to configure the software using data.

There are a bunch of examples of these. Excel is obviously the canonical one; almost the entire purpose of a spreadsheet is to host small fragments of an embedded value-oriented programming language which calculates the values of cells.

Other applications which lean on customisation as their entire purpose may provide entire programming languages. For example, Zapier lets you create zaps using Python or JavaScript code.

What I'd like to know is, do you know of any minimal, well-documented languages which are oriented towards producing expressions - like Excel's calculation language - which can be embedded in web application frontends or backends?

I think Lisp is still the canonical "code as data" version of this, and the question becomes just "which Lisp can I embed most conveniently?", or maybe "which Lisp has few enough features?"

Other examples in the genre are JSON Logic[1] (which is essentially a Lisp written in JSON, which sounds like a nightmare, but may be fine for machine generated logic), Lua, which is of course another full programming language, or any number of custom scripting languages used in various places.[2]

Even Dhall[3] or Nix[4] have some similarities in that they're value-oriented configuration languages, though they're quite esoteric. I don't imagine they're often used in embedded fashion.

[1]: https://jsonlogic.com/

[2]: https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages

[3]: https://dhall-lang.org/

[4]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-language.html
In retrospect UX rather than UI would have been better in my post as I agree with this mostly (and I'd love a chance to redesign either app, that'd be a joy).
Well the federal minimum wage hasn't been increased in ... 14 YEARS. So...maybe tip in the meantime?

not to mention current legal frameworks allow workers who are tipped to be paid less than minimum wage. as well as some workers are undocumented and are victims of an obsolete immigration system that has not been fixed for decades due to political gridlock.

so maybe just TIP, at the very least.
This may just be a side-effect of the insurgence of new POS systems and customer-facing systems.

Many of the newer POS systems were first developed with the hospitality industry in mind. In those cases, tipping is on by default. These POS systems have since expanded into retail and convenience stores, leaving tipping on by default. The shop owners have little incentive to turn it off, or may not even know how to turn it off.

Additionally most older POS systems were not operated by the customer and so did not display set percentages. They relied upon manual input based on a signed receipt. So percentage norms were mostly word-of-mouth. Nowadays, with customer-facing POS systems, it’s easier to just provide a percentage button. And the owner or manager or even the lowly register attendant, can adjust as needed. And of course, higher defaults are better for all of them (within reason).
I disagree with this. I'm reading your claim as "you should pay people so they become your friends." There's plenty of stores I've been regulars at that don't have a tipping system that I've become friendly with staff with. When I was a teenager and worked at movie theaters I became friendly with many regulars and tipping doesn't exist there. The warm fuzzies come from social interaction, face recognition, and being rememberable through your good/frequent business and friendliness. It feels wrong to suggest we should be buying them. That would just be confirming the bribery/feudal aspect of the system. I also don't think this helps those working non-tipped based jobs.

I don't want to abolish tipping, but instead I want to raise the minimum wage, make prices transparent (I am also a proponent of including tax in price listings), and making not tipping socially acceptable. If we have to supplement wages with tips then our economic system is broken (and akin to feudalism). If you want to provide an extra reward or explicitly bribe an employee for faster/better service (or to flex your wealth), I have no qualms.
i dont know the nuances of what is and isnt "street view" but google maps does incorporate user uploaded static 360 images, maybe some of the ones you mention are in that category
> don't want my food messed with

If someone has the mentality that they are free to spoil your food because they won't get a (good) tip, then they don't deserve to be paid at all, let alone be tipped well.

There's a lot of things the US has that are extremely strange, and the tipping culture is amongst them.
The main issue is so many scammers are signing messages with DKIM/SPF too.
yeah https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/razer-bug-let...
It doesn't seem like a terribly hard test. But that's as someone who has (quiet now) an MBA who did a 1:1 project for an operations management professor and graduated high in their class albeit a long time ago. So don't read a lot into my assessment.

The Kanban answer I found especially interesting. The equivocation on the one answer is exactly the one I would have equivocated on. (Well, yes, that's the idea but it has to be done correctly.)

I'd also observe that operations management/engineering is a lot closer to other types of engineering than things like organizational behavior are so writing this off as just an MBA thing is pretty complacent.
It's easier than ever to go off on an adventure if you want to. Any turn you like, you can take, you don't have to worry about getting lost. Anywhere you think looks like a nice detour, you can add it in and see immediately how much time it's going to add.

Most people don't bother, but I don't think that's the technology's fault. The technology absolutely supports it.
unambiguously still better than anywhere else, not as great as it was from 2010-2017, but no city in the world will ever come close to that again for a while. definitely fewer finance/mba types left here (thankfully)

its pretty sector dependent. if you're just building a generic SaaS or consumer product, you'll probably be fine in a lot of other cities. if you're in AI, SF is essentially the epicenter for that

There is still an insanely high concentration of tech workers so there's a very high chance your neighbors, friends, etc are in tech. in the south bay it feels like everyone works at FAANG/Cisco/Intel/Adobe etc, you get the point.

basically you no longer have to be here to build cool stuff outside of like AI, but your highest chances of success in either the startup world or the corporate ladder are still here. if you can't make it in tech/find your groove here, it'll be on you. the vast majority of innovation, now that crypto/miami are forgone memes, will still take place here in the near future

considering state politics and high housing prices, who knows if that'll last? maybe it makes a huge comeback like nyc (it was in a much worse state in the 70s/80s). maybe it goes the way of detroit. the answer is probably somewhere in the middle
It causes a minimal amount of harm. What proportion of the tip requests you get are from your first time buying from the establishment? It’s very low. After that, you know there’s a tip request and choose to return.
What would an equivalent minimal accelerated 2D or 3D library be? For Java I know there's libGdx, LWJGL, and jMonkeyEngine.
Not really. Doesn't seem like much for Apple to add on top.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple starts selling the keys through it's own retail channels.
> The followup argument is often "well they are still being under paid." While I can buy this argument, I do not think the solution is tipping

The alternative is getting a restaurant to entirely change its identity.

Their POS system will always have a spot for tip on a receipt.

Their prices are based on the fact that they expect customers to tip the servers at least 15-25%.

It's a monumental change. It's not just "pay the servers at least $15/hr and turn off tipping". Nobody I've ever met who waits tables is happy with $120/night out the door pretax ($15/hr * 8)

For a restaurant to pay a server what they make now ($150-$300/night tips), their labor cost would be through the roof and they would have to raise the price of the food.

The customer wouldn't like that.

Lose lose lose.
>If not, can't you walk into a grocery store and buy a $500 prepaid visa card?

I have never seen a grocery store sell something like that here, but maybe that is because I just never paid attention to that.

Not that I am saying it is super hard to get a credit/debit card, but it sure is one hell of a barrier to throwing money at open source contributers here and there.
Military probing whether cancers linked to nuclear silo work
Thanks - that’s right!
ive never heard of servers or bartenders doing that. they are pretty good here about being fair to people.
To specifically counter Tp's claims, I think we should note that these services also have plenty of friendly relationships between employees and customers.
> The US has tipping because for some reason, the law allows restaurants to pay below minimum wage

Tipping predates minimum wage laws. (indeed the first laws to ban tipping in the US also predate minimum wage laws, but it clearly didn't stick)
I've tried Docker Desktop, Rancher, Colima, all with various settings (including the disk ones), and it's always very, very slow for me (M1 Macbook Pro 16). This is when developing with both a .NET 7 stack and a Node stack.

I tried creating a VM and pointing my DOCKER_HOST to that, but it's still slow. The main problem is that I'm trying to work with AMD64 on an ARM64 (due to my constraints).

I'm going to set up an old non-M1 box in my office and use that as my Docker host. I am also tempted to use a cheap remote instance for when I'm OOO.
Here’s a more in-depth explanation: https://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/10-things-to-know-about...

But the main takeaway in terms of power adapters and immediate benefit to buyers is smaller bricks delivering more power at a time. The big chungus 60W bricks are now little chungus bricks.
How many people on HN have worked tip based jobs? Clearly not many based on the comments.
Honestly, I might have confused Sims 2 and Sims 3 in my mind. One of them wouldn’t play well on my laptop at the time, and I thought it was Sims 2, but looking back, I think it was Sims 3. I will admit that some of the magic just wasn’t in the sequels for me, tho I did like that Sims could finally fuck in Sims 2 (it was Sims 2, right?) and I’ve definitely spent a lot of time with Sims 4 over the last six years.
You're saying this as though we don't already have lots of regulations on tools to ensure that people use them appropriately.

Forklifts are "agents of humans" but you still need a license to drive one.

It's pretty obvious to me at least that AI bros are using these tools recklessly and inappropriately, without regard for licensing or copyright, and therefore I am proposing that the tools need to be regulated.

Simple as that.
"We won't raise your wage, we'll just let you beg for it instead"
A business that can't stay open when consumers pay the price for their services or goods is absolutely relying on charity donations to stay open.
Two years ago I didn't know a thing about nix, NixOS or functional programming.
I wanted to manage multiple machines with a sort of config file. Shouldn't be that hard, right?
Removal of packages should be done automatically without explicitly removing the package. So brew and ansible failed already with those, to me at the time, pretty basic requirements.
Building deb meta packages was inconvenient and they broke every single time when I didn't update a machine for some weeks. Managing requires, replaces, conflicts was cumbersome and often put me into hard problems.
Then I learned about nix. First it seemed rather complex. Why does it need to do everything different? Strongly believing that it won't solve my problems and it isn't worth the rather steep learning curve. I tried two weeks to find alternatives but there where none and slowly nix seemed to be the only available solution to my problem which first didn't seem to be that complicated...

Here I am now. With LOTs of struggle and sweat. Never gave up debugging the most strange errors and very often fixing them in the end. Starting as a total beginner and very slowly becoming a very big fan, advocate and contributor to NixOS. Not regretting the journey.
Being happy to have remove all Debian frickel kisten from my life. :)

PS: If you run NixOS 22.05 or older: Some parts of the code for your machine is from me. How awesome is that? Couldn't have imagined that two years ago.
The 2% is a bit misleading because the fire severity depends on how well it's contained. ~50% of fires are "confined" to an object, mostly cooking fires inside pots. Garages are 5% of non-confined fires, which is similar to living rooms (6%) and attics (5%) [0]. The numbers also go slightly up when apartment buildings are excluded[1], taking garage fires to 6% of non-confined residential fires.

[0] https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v21i2.pdf

[1] https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v21i6.pdf
One Australian's anecdata follows.

I hate tipping. It's an unwanted cognitive intrusion with no upside for me whatsoever. It also reflects a broken (wage / reward) system, and obviously my preference is they fix that.

In Australia I may tip - iff the service is really good. And only at sit-down / eat-in restaurants. Cafes, cabs, ubers, couriers, hotels, etc - these are not tipping places. If I'm tipping at a restaurant, in addition to exceptional service / food, it'll be a) only if I feel there's zero guilt or implied obligation to tip, b) 5-10%, and c) cash (ie. not via the EFT / POS device).
Edit. I confused Sims 3 and Sims 2 in my brain. I had few complaints about Sims 2. Sims 3 was trash.
My first thought: no shit. Plastics are the the asbestos or lead of our time.

Not only are microplastics are huge burden on the environment but plastics and related chemicals are a health burden as well dropping sperm counts and causing mutations in babies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/books/review/shanna-swan-...
The argument is about harm reduction. You need to separate the ideal from stuff that improves the current situation.

The ideal all consumers should be pursuing for all forms of financial transaction is that all advertised prices are the out-the-door ceiling. Fees, taxes, surcharges, tips, etc may not be added, though discounts are ok. Tipping should not even be an option, though we've seen a lot of evidence that a visible percentage would much prefer to lord their power to tip over the heads of their servers, and get very upset when that's taken away. So this is a hard position to reach from where we are, even though it's clearly better than the current state.

But we don't live in that world. In the current world, many things are advertised at prices lower than are actually sustainable. And no, I'm not talking about loss-leaders. I mean the entire menu at a restaurant, for instance. If that is all their income, they can't afford to pay servers enough to be livable. So they underpay servers, and expect tips to sort of paper over the gap. And because that gap exists, I recognize tipping as sadly necessary, even though it is forbidden in my ideal world.

I don't like it, but of the options I have available when I choose to eat out, it's the least bad.
Very cool. I had no idea that microcode existed as far back as 1978. Gives you a sense of how complex it must be inside a modern Intel CPU.
> Apple isn't a serious contender because their devices aren't sponsored by tracking/ads?

Apple isn't a serious contender because they don't sell anything in the low-end segment. Ferrari make great cars but you can't expect everyone to drive a Ferrari.

> You can also get an iOS device (partly) included with a post-paid mobile plan, can't you?

That acts as a payment plan, but you're still paying the full cost (usually plus interest) one way or another.
Let's start a no-tip revolution. Everyone stop tipping. People that rely on tips will lose their minds and push for change.