skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social skills are complicated and many people have autism. It’s not an excuse, it’s an explanation for why some people are like this.

I feel like a lot of these situations can be avoided with some simple, hard rules: primarily a) no means no when it comes to anything flirting, and b) don’t become obsessed with any one person at least until you’re dating*.

There’s a lot of nuance in social communication, but I really don’t see a case when you should break any of these hard rules. So many instances of serious harassment come down to breaking one or all of them. Idk how but the world would be much better if we could somehow just convince people to never, ever break them, and even if they are already broken, to just stop.

* There’s also c) stop doing something “romantic” or “social” if you notice it makes others uncomfortable. But I suspect some people just can’t notice discomfort. The key words are “romantic” or “social” (and for a it is “flirting”) because sometimes you have to boss people around and say things which make them uncomfortable, like that they need to get out of the way or their job performance needs to improve, but you should never be making people awkward or uncomfortable if you are “just chatting”; and you will never get a girlfriend or boyfriend by scaring or pressuring them. Well, maybe you will if they’re not very smart, but that’s morally wrong, or if you’re high-profile or in Iraq, but you’re not and that’s also morally wrong. Like I said, nuance
As any hourly worker waiting forever is a nice break from having to actually deliver food. Bonus if the orders are cancelled. Fault never makes it to driver.
You should be better able to judge your management and their inclinations than HN folks who don't even know which company you are talking about.

"one of the only people" implies that you are not alone with the extensive knowledge. If they fired you could they still continue? Are the management even smart enough to know how much they don't know? or how vulnerable they are?

I have had many bad experiences with managers who could consider your demands for a raise as a form of ransom. Consider @jerryu's suggestion.
When I pay people to perform services for me, I don't operate under the illusion that we've become friends. I go to my favorite restaurant in Chicago and get brought a couple dishes on the house as soon as we're seated --- that's not because we're friends, it's because I've built a business relationship with the restaurant (and its servers). It's exactly the same dynamic as exists for airline customers who pay up for the airline lounge.

That relationship with the servers, by the way, also has a name: it's a principal-agent problem. Servers have competing incentives: to serve the interests of customers (better service) or the business (reduce ongoing costs). Tipping shifts the incentives around. You could attempt that shift with other mechanisms, like after-dinner surveys, but you know how well that'd work.

It costs time, effort, and money to provide better service, so I'm not from where you get the moral dimension of having to buy them. They have a cost; of course you have to buy them.
You're out of $400 of liquidity (until the issuer provisionally credits your account, which they are required for credit and debit alike) either way.

The only difference is lost interest payments for these ~5 business days (which the issuer might even have to reimburse as well; I'm not too sure about that though), as well as not being able to pay for cash-only expenses using the money in your bank account.

Also, nobody is saying that people can only have one single bank account, and a debit card linked to it with no spending limit attached to it.
It's very simple - there is a need for a dispatchable and transferrable form of energy. So far, this need has been fulfilled by fossil fuels, and if arguments against P2G solutions prevail, will probably continue for a long time.

But at least we will be physically efficient.
You can take it the other way and tip literally every profession.
> Plus many restaurants with placeholder tip icons that start at 25%+

This is the most egregious part of it. Who ever invented that a percentage should inflate? The price is already inflating so a percentage of it goes up. You don't get to inflate both.

Tipping was always 10% to 15% if particularly exceptional. Although even that should be made illegal, just include all costs of doing business in the price like nearly every shop does.
Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employee evaluation policy
I'm not a fan of tipping but I'm very much a fan of the incentive alignment between the person providing the service and the person paying for the service it produces.
I do wish they’d add better support for the mac with a key. I know it’s a little separate, but I’d really like to lock down my max with my yubikey(s).
I agree with everything you said - with the minor nitpick that even well established scientific laws can be challenged, lose consensus, and be replaced or amended (Newtonian understandings of Gravity, for instance).

That is pure science - accept something until better data comes along and changes the way we think about the topic.

We lose people there though, unfortunately. People like to "know" something absolute, and the media does a horrible job of communicating disagreements or opposing data.
> When I was a kid (some 20 years ago) 10% was common for a standard tip. Now most places have an 18%/20%/25% option on screens. Some even higher! The second image in the article even shows a 30% tip

Restaurant prices generally ran behind inflation; that's why tipping percentages increased.
I don't. For sit down restaurants, or many service oriented jobs it makes for a better customer experience. I agree for counter service it where they want tips BEFORE the service experience it makes no sense.

You ought to try sitting down in a restaurant in the EU. They do the bare minimum to serve you.

Tying a possible bonus to the way you act in customer service facing role has a lot of benefits.

"In addition it gets rid of any bias in wages (more attractive people more attractive people" Why are higher wages for a subjectively attractive person a bad thing... Are they not driving better business? Do you think it's somehow more altruistic to provide subjectively uglier individuals the same wage? Bias based on attractiveness is no worse than bias based on personality or any other trait. Your point is moot anyway, in a capitalistic society people can just choose to visit another business where the staff has the traits they desire.
Get a delivery job for the restaurant and none of this happens.
No. Workers should be paid a fair wage and all prices should be transparent. As well, different types of work deserve different types of pay. End of story.

Your "oh these poor, hopeless blue collar workers that desperately need our help" is just your own classism, looking down on them and making you feel better about yourself by thinking you're helping them survive, like small swimmer fish eating the leftover from the shark that you are.
Decentralization is simply the only response because we don't have any competition.

We don't need 4 billion little companies doing the same thing, but we need more than 1 or 2.

For example: We don't need everybody running a mail server (although at least the ability would be nice). But we need somebody to break up Google's and Microsoft's duopoly over this.
I really miss ashtrays at restaurant and other public places, like the bus.
When I'm sitting at a restaurant table and I want to get rid of my chewing gum (or any other small piece of trash), I can never find a place to put it.
Growing up ashtrays were everywhere and you could always count on one being close by.
I used to do the murder houses! So much fun, especially in Sims 1, where a lot of that stuff was based on the hacks people found on the internet. My favorite was to invite a ton of people over to party and see how many of them I could kill in the pool (after removing the ladder) or by forcing them to use a cheap oven.
Provide evidence based examples please.
I wonder how they count this? I use overcast app. It automatically downloads episodes of anything I’m subscribed to. But I migh not listen to it. Or I might listen to five minutes and delete. What level of truth do these podcast stats catch?
I really dislike tipping when I order my pizza deliveries. It doesn't offer me anything over giving the delivery driver a $5 bill.
> I think that taught newer generations of Showrunners to not make the same mistake

I'm worried the opposite lesson is being learned here. Most shows "build up" then not worry if it's actually going somewhere or even can have a good ending.

Nowadays the exit strategy is first and doremost a cancelation or the next writer's problem.
I don't follow. When you pay for a meal with the tip, you are paying the price for the services and goods.
Nice - like test-kitchen from Chef.
Our buildings are built to withstand earthquakes that could level other cities, because we have frequent earthquakes, and building codes were dramatically strengthened following the 1994 Northridge Quake.

A single Ritcher 5.8 quake in Virginia in 2011 caused $300 million in damage and disrupted utilities for days in 12 states. A series of earthquakes in 2019 (6.4, 5.4, and 7.1) in California caused so little damage that it's hard to find a tally. Power was knocked in some cities and restored within hours.

Yes, CA construction is more expensive. But it's also stronger and more resilient than the cheap crap in the county next to you.
> If you lose a key, do you need a backup master password like using auth apps?

Yes. If you only have one key enrolled and no other recovery mechanism, you're now locked out forever. That's why Apple are pushing you to have two keys as a minimum.
I think that rollercoaster is why you're not supposed to take days off. Maybe try a non-stimulant if you can wait a month for it to start working?
Laurelism. As in resting on one’s own.
Damn, I just noticed all my playlists are public too.

Thanks for the heads up. And screw Spotify!
This is kinda shocking. Presumably related to the layoffs. Sounds like they intend to support AB testing natively in GA4 but it doesn't have a release date.
Mmhh, no. I had a zipit z2, and it was close. Something with a better and slightly bigger keyboard, with the size of a Nintendo DS. Enough to SSH confortabilty and run stuff well under CWM.
You can. It's a system that makes more sense for some occupations and less for others, but plenty of occupations besides hospitality are routinely tipped. You tip your hotel housekeepers, don't you?
Don, thank you! And please pass our thanks on to Heather as well!
> I have started using it alongside Google and Wikipedia to try to break into new topics. It is useful in a new way, but its ability to make up info is a flaw that may prevent it from ever being a truly helpful tool.

Exactly! Getting an introduction to new subjects is also my favourite use case, while it's this use case, that suffers a lot from wrong information, since the users lacks domain knowledge to tell.

> I can certainly imagine a more refined and truthful version of this that can cite its sources and access real-time data taking over Search, but we seem to be a long way off from that dream still.

Right, truthfulness (as per the training data of course) and citation would fix the most significant shortcomings.
Considering how much crap I get in my Gmail inbox, doesn’t seem like it’s a hard task. Seriously, my Gmail account is borderline useless nowadays.
It does not mean better service. For example, no tipping in Japan, but sit down restaurants are perfectly pleasant.
people in this website have a hard time with factual data, everything that goes against their narrative is downvoted, it's funny, reality check incoming soon enough
I'm not talking about the history of tipping. I'm talking about why tipping exists right now in the US. It's a form of additional tax on consumers that the restaurants don't have to pay and exploits workers with the promise of tips. Restaurants going below minimum wage should be illegal and if they can't afford to do that, then I'm perfectly okay with them going bankrupt.
Didn't say fast, just aggressive. If you do jackrabbit starts out of a red light but stay under the limit, it's still an aggressive move and it's noticed.
I got so addicted to this for 3-4 months that I had to stop. It was so fun especially after I started to get the hang of the game and various nuance of local infrastructure.

For those looking to see some pros in action I highly recommend GeoWizard (has a bit of a comedy bent and tends to be regarded as an original pro who relies way less on meta), and Rainbolt, probably one of the single best players when it comes to memory.
> "Content Warning: If reading about people and exercise of any kind just generally makes you feel like crap no matter the tone or purpose, listen to yourself and opt out!"

Forgive me if this is off topic, but I haven't heard of this phenomenon before. Is there a name for this?
One approach on iOS is to store unique identifier in the “Keychain” (or iCloud itself) which is data kept in the cloud tied to a user’s Apple ID account. Of course this is only an impediment to a determined stalker (who could create a new Apple ID). But a determined stalker could also use a fake name and get a new phone number.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25276393/how-to-ban-an-i... for more details.
As a European living in Canada, the tipping culture took some time to get used to. It's such a stupid/bad system.
Dimon says remote work doesn’t work for bosses,young workers,or spontaneity
I've rarely seen new hires get paid better than tenured people, but every company does it a different way.

> Why would you fire the one with experience? I've seen so many of these coming form MS and Google's layoffs.

Good question. If performance is equal, and management is keeping the more expensive person, that may be a very serious management issue or even worse, discrimination.
That's explicitly part of the idea.
> Full waiter experience (seated, handed menu, food brought to table, plate cleared) gets 20%.

I don't understand this. Why do you Americans tip for this? Isn't being seated, handed a menu, food brought to the table, and plates being cleared part of a waiter's job?

Why does the customer have to 'reward' waiters for doing 'a good job'?

Why do restaurants not just drop a flat 10% service/cover charge (it's 10% where I am) and be done with it?
Not only does he bury the ledge in his self-referential philosophical drivel but he closes the layoff announcement with:

>"Finally, I hope you will join me tomorrow for Unplugged."

He seems like a caricature. Tone-deaf seems to be his default. As a reminder:

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/spotify-boss-blames-mus...
We're seeing the death of the essay test.
> 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.

Is that every night or just weekends? Because everyone I've known that has cleared that kind of money has only done so on weekends (Friday/Saturday), and works at higher end or very popular restaurants. I agree that an extra $15-$30/hr would be an insane increase, but if that is spread out over the other 5 days a week then this is much closer to a $3-$6/hr increase. Large, but not obtuse considering a server is probably serving many meals an hour on average. I wouldn't expect food prices to go up very much to cover such a change. As a customer I'd be far happier with that version too. To be clear, I'm against abolishing tips, I just don't think it should be the social expectation for an average establishment.
I was spoiled for years with rooted phones, and ended up making a lot of assumptions because of it, one being that I could always access apps' SQLite databases and cached files if I needed to.

I ended up with a new phone, decided not to root it, and found myself in a situation where I needed to get some cached data out of an app I could no longer access normally. That's easy on a rooted phone, but it's next to impossible on a locked down phone.

Lost a bunch of pictures and whatnot as a result.
> Are we to pretend all waiters do an equally good job?

Are we to pretend all supermarket checkout clerks do an equally good job? No, but we don't tip them. They get paid a wage which is bundled into the price of every item I buy at the store. Same as every other cost of business like their insurance, electric bill, etc.
Batteries sufficient for short term leveling would run out too quickly. If you build enough batteries for prolonged outages most of them would be unused during the leveling of short term fluctuations.
paper map and compass navigation opens the world up. very cool skill to have. if one is capable in the outdoors, land navigation opens up so many cool areas to explore. easy enough to do safely and leave no trace.
Who is you? Is there someone out there requiring Starbucks workers that make minimum wage (or higher in many cases) to stay at that job and ask for tips? Are you considering providing good customer service begging for a wage? I'm confused here.
But you have no guarantee that your food won't be vandalized anyways when you tip before service. The bribe has no teeth. You're going to demand a refund if you notice the food has been damaged regardless if you tipped before or after.
Show HN: Create AI-Generated Pokemon Cards (Using Python, Midjourney, GPT)
Hey HN!

I wanted to share this Python CLI that uses AI to generate a collection of Pokemon cards (with different elements, abilities and evolutions).

It constructs a prompt for Midjourney (art generation AI) and GPT-3 (NLP AI) to create the image, names and back-story, and then puts them all together with a card template.

I've been messing around with Midjourney and GPT, and wanted to explore using it with some kind of structured goal. Prompts and generations are stateless, so it was interesting to try and make them consistent and useful — especially for something structured like a collection of Pokemon cards that had to respect a set of requirements.

I also recorded a video about the design process and challenges here: https://youtu.be/IrDRHzT26F4
When you log in to your account you have to provide your password and also use the key.

You can choose a key that has an additional factor built in, such as a fingerprint reader.

If you lose one of the keys you can authorize a new one.

If you lose both of the keys and all the Apple devices that you can log into directly, e.g. with fingerprint sensor on a Mac, then you're SOL.
ChatGPT is being used as a generic keyword here, it's actually GPT3
To strengthen this even more - I have an 8GB M1 Air that I use for development when I don’t want to carry my 64GB M1 Max machine somewhere. My usual dev stack is a few Docker containers, PHPStorm and RubyMine (at the same time, don’t ask…), and the usual bunch of tabs.

And… yeah, it’s a bit slower on the 8GB machine, but by no means unusable. It’s hard to tell how much is just perceived lag due to 60hz v. 120hz screen. It’s certainly not enough to make me want a 16GB model for my pseudo-disposable machine.

If I had to go a couple months on just the 8GB machine, I’d survive.
> The amount a CC charges the business is not fixed - and cards with rewards result in a higher fee for the business.

It should be noted that most businesses have limited visibility into that. The monthly bill from whatever company handles their card processing usually charges a fixed rate, or has multiple tiers of fixed rates, and all the merchant sees is that on their bill they are told the number and total amount of transactions for each tier.
I think tipping at its very best is an opportunity to give a stranger a small gift. I recognize your points -- sometimes it feels like an obligated payment and probably in nearly all cases the capital owning class could and/or should contribute more, but i think you're excluding some optional perspectives. Sometimes I just want to help someone have a nice day by giving them something they didn't expect, like a generous tip. The escalation of niceness and virtue signalling seems right now to be creating an expectation of that generosity, which undermines it, since it can feel non-optional, but sometimes it's still just a nice thing one human can do to recognize another human.
My wife’s devices would all burn as well. So now I have to ask a friend, which just feels weird. And hopefully they stick to Apple devices (my son switches back and forth).
I was just about to create a new account anyway and my stephangaphy evidently is uncorrelatable, so may as well signoff with a likely-in-vain AMA:

Ask a daily Fentanyl user/addict anything?

Irony.

The kids trying to play it safest are the ones who end of dying.

A friends 5mg Percocet or 7.5 Vicodin Pills feel nice. Not really the first time, but the second? You're a little happier. a somehow pure, happy blissful moment. pure satisfaction. the world is exactly as it should be - youre at a party in high school! and youre doing the cool stuff!. things change slow, sometimes fast. depends on the money involved, and where and how the pills originate. but once they originate, they are analogous to a social endemic.

Pills feel nice, but they do eventually creep up, financially and tolerantly and socially, until you really need that one girls brother to be at KMart by 5:50 or your stomach will hurt Tuesday. All friendships are simply transactional, ledgers of who gave who what when, and, but "she owed me!"? But those people are dead now, because they were smart, and better. The were just doing medication. They weren't doing actual, yanno, _drug_ _drugs, like heroin or meth. Only dumbasses did that.

The dumbasses like myself - we did the math - the $dollar per / dopamine! we werent the dumb ones. Why buy 4x Perc30s for $60e each to barely feel a nod when a $5bump of H will do that and more....But we were the rest able to ride the dovetails of the last bit of domestic heroin import. Because of that, our tolerance and slow unremarkable experience and slow taper into being Fent intake saved the ultimate mortal moment, and prevented our inevitable unexpected encounter with the substance being our last mistake - yet.

Do I get high anymore? Only because I went without, and got relief. Sometimes my eyes feel droopy, or the two top most contexts in my stack of a RAM were just swapped, leading me uncontrollably to say something I was thinking about a moment ago.

Did I ever get high? Surely this year of continuous, continual odding had to be enjoyable.

I didn't do that math too accurately recently - felt too good for too long. Better refrain slightly tomorrow. Lest a lapse - and we can't have that, can we?
Google does not need to go through the courts to obtain not only the driving plan but also where the maps user actually travels.

Google does not need to file a complaint that survives a motion to dismiss, reach the discovery phase of litigation and then subpoena AAA in order to obtain a driving plan for one specific driver. It continuously collects driving plans passively and indiscriminantly.

In litigation, testimony might be sealed. The data Google collects via Google Maps has no such protections available.

Let's be "realistic". Most people getting maps highlighted at AAA offices were not parties in lawsuits, the AAA employees that provided maps to them were not deposed by lawyers, and their driving plans were not used to prop up on online ad services racket. Yet every person that uses Google Maps is being surveilled for commercial purposes.

Flooding the web with more programmatic advertising.