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I don't like the proliferation of tipping everywhere.

But I know many sit-down restaurants have tried to institute a no-tip policy, but both employees and customers hate it. I would hate it. I like giving tips. I wouldn't go to a restaurant where tipping was not allowed.

Plus, the restaurant has to raise their prices up by 20% anyways, because they now have to pay their wait staff more. The customer pays anyways. So it's a stupid thing not to have tipping. You're not going to save any money at all as the customer. It's impossible to save money.

Furthermore, I know waitstaff that make a considerable amount of money from tips. Like, $300-$400 per shift and more. That's about $80,000 to $105,000 per year. So the food prices are going to have to go up substantially to cover what that person made with tips. The reason that many wait staff make so much is that they have "regulars" who tip them well because they develop a relationship and a repore that goes beyond just simple waiting on a random customer.

People say they want the price that's on the menu, but come on - you know there's going to be a tip, if the menu says it is $20, then it is $23, you can do this in your head or on your mobile phone. You know exactly what the price will be unless you failed 2nd grade math. Why on earth would anyone care if the price said $20 or $23 on the menu, if in either case you pay $23? It's ridiculous in the extreme. Unless someone is an extreme pedantic martinet.
> The problem is, I have a rather low intellect. My IQ is medium/low, so I am not capable of solving complex algorithms, and my brain processing power is nowhere near some of the other guys that I work with, so I can't build truly incredible feats of engineering like 3d rendering engines or voice recognition systems.

You need to forever stop worrying about your IQ. You will become happier, more capable, and more confident the moment you realize that your abilities, individuality, and worth cannot be reduced to a number calculated by a series of similarly formulaic logic puzzles. You don't have to be Einstein to make contributions to the world. When you are stuck thinking that way, there will always be someone smarter and more impressive and you will never be happy.
ChatGTP passes MBA business school exam, outperforms some Ivy League students [pdf]
There are other tipping cultures outside the USA, you know? Tipping is very common in the Balkans and other countries that were influenced by Ottoman culture, for example. While it is not expected, many coffee shops all around Europe also have tipping jars.

It's really not common in much of Europe at least for people to actually discourage tipping (though they may seek to refuse what they perceive as exorbitant tips).
I refuse to know my IQ because it would limit myself on the process of achieving something. Don't think about it. I live in Europe, I have no degree, which for many is a career killer, but I managed to work for 2 US companies and one trading company developing actual trading systems, and I am trying to make my own. Some people would consider me smart, but I don't think I am, I just like to go step by step solving problems. So just don't think about it.
You'll achieve what you want to with effort, don't limit yourself.
> I am concerned about the longevity of my archives

If you're concerned about archival longevity, and I for one certainly are, then maybe consider not to compress at all. Both compression and encryption add to obscurity and loss of redundancy in the backup. Using a widely understood file system and a very obvious arrangement of the data (for me that means: directories with dates, below a tree of files that mimics their original locations) will be a huge plus should the data have to be recovered at some point in the future.

Personally I am using a slightly adapted version of https://github.com/cytopia/linux-timemachine for this task. You do get de-duplication for the file transfer, but each file is written as it was on the target. You'll get a timestamped directory for each time a backup was run. Like MacOS' timemachine, the script uses hard links to de-duplicate identical files across different timestamped directories so the overall space requirement for that incremental backup you did an hour or a day later can be very small.

I can certify that this setup, while it does not occupy the least conceivable amount of storage area, is very amenable to be searched and trivial to use for recovery. much better in this regard than any kind of compressed archive format which are always a pain in terms of searchability and so on.
The texture cache tries to guarantee that every pixel is only read from DRAM once, and the texture sampler does bilinear sampling "for free". So a sequential copy and a "rotation copy" should take about the same time.
I am so glad smoking is prohibited in public places. I can't stand it all, and my wife is allergic to it. Next I would love to see more restrictions on driving loud noised cars and bikes, every time I see a Harley owner ride by with a loud noise or a truck owner drive by, I can't feel anything but contempt for such lowlife humans who have no regards for other people's and animals' sensitivities.
Yes, handling security keys (custody) is difficult. I think the custody layer is incomplete and we also need more MPC (multi-party computation) features. For example distributing keys along multiple devices and requiring a subset of them to rebuilt it. The problem with the security approaches presented by Apple, Google, et al is that you end up with a single or two dimension of failure: it is easy to forget the key at the end of the chain (e.g. when you travel).
We have 2 recurring customers that are vision impaired (there’s an apartment building for people with disabilities nearby). We help place their orders, as we would with any customer that needs help using the iPads for other reasons.

Vision impaired people require the same help reading the menu at any other coffee shop, so it’s not any different. In fact it might make it easier on them because they don’t feel like they’re holding up the line. If one of us guides them through the menu on one iPad, other customers can still use the other iPads to order.

On a related note, I did notice that our visually impaired customers have a phone app that I believe scans and reads the text from the screen out to them. Perhaps we should have our own text to speech option in some future version.
Once at a Farnborough air show many years back there was a display from an aircraft maintenance company with small sections of the skin of old airliners. On those if there was a small imperfection of the metal skin or the seal to the window or a door you could actually see a brown smear of nicotine on the white painted skin. It allowed ground staff to spot problems at an early stage.
Snuff is probably culturally significant. Despite never knowing anyone who takes snuff you still read about snuff and snuff boxes. In fact I seem to recall that some people still call the webbing between your thumb and index finger the "snuff box" because that's where people would put the snuff before insufflating it.
But it has iPads! ;p
Japan has lax immigration laws but you can not sustain Japan just with immigration. It will cease to be Japan just as much as it will be by losing a huge portion of the population.
Being reverse colonized must really suck. Almost as bad as the people who were originally trampled by French boots.
We have the technology to use AI to create deepfakes, why isn't it being used to restore lost historic moments like this?[1]

[1]/s may or may not apply depending on your attitude about Clinton, MTV and/or AI.
Yes, I did own a dial-up modem. In addition to connecting to my ISP, I spent many years connecting to various local BBSes. The ISP wasn't the only reason I had the modem.

And, regardless, if my ISP stopped providing dial-up service, and I really still wanted dial-up service, I would have simply found another ISP to connect to. (After expecting my previous ISP to issue me a pro-rated refund for whatever subscription I was paying them.)

Also regardless, your analogy is bad, as the modem was a one-time cost. The issue at hand is that of recurring subscription fees Twitterific charges. If we were just talking about a one-time cost to buy the Twitterific app, I wouldn't be suggesting the refund that cost (except to customers who just bought the app right before the shutdown, perhaps; seems shitty to keep customer money when the product irreparably breaks a few days after purchase).
"Chesterton's fence": Reforms shouldn't be made until existing state understood
On this very thread we have the example of WineVDM, a product whose mere existence shows that these days it is Wine who has better backwards compatibility. Better than Windows itself.
That's a shame, since in this particular example (Buße / Busse) the spelling is a good pronounciation guide and that disappears when the difference is flattened out.
This is quite interesting to me, because I don't really have a good understanding of why my job is satisfying. I am the CEO of a small profitable SaaS startup.

I find almost all of my day-to-day tasks quite boring (answer sales emails, performance reviews, accounting, support, etc). But somehow, I still really love working.

I guess one of the factors is a feeling of ownership and agency. I can decide what I want to do and when. When something good happens to the company, it feels like that is also happening to me (this can also be hard sometimes when things don't go well).

Another important factor is that as "the boss", you can pick your own team. It seems like most work-frustration I hear from friends have to do with bad coworkers. I don't have bad coworkers. If I did, I could let them go, and I can try to avoid hiring those people.
I think allowing unicode in domain names is a mistake. It does make sense to allow more characters, because ascii is very limited, but there's a lot of characters in unicode, including some that look deceptively like different ascii characters, which could really mislead people. I wouldn't mind if browsers gave some warning for non-ascii domain names.
Microsoft to Invest $10B in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
And in Japans case very little immigration also has huge problems.

It's not black and white, we should stop treating every problem as such.
The Story behind ASINs – Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (2021)
I live in Sweden and there was a bombing outside my apartment last week due to gang conflicts.
If one day people aren't allowed to smoke, does the volume of air passing through the filter drop by 80%?

Do all the other particulates, e.g. viruses and bacteria, drop by 80%?

No? So what makes you think the filter needs to be changed 1/5th as often?
The winners will turn into microsofts and IBMs, the majority will die or get acquired at much lower valuations. The question is, does that happen in the next year or two or is this can somehow magically kicked another 5-7 years.

I vote that a big part of it collapses within the next few years.

The ones that survive will be some of the most hated companies in US history 15-25 years from now, pretty much automated advertising surveillance companies.
HN has stripped the URL fragment unfortunately. See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton'...
As a teacher, my job is very satisfying, because it helps people in a useful and direct manner, and I get to contribute to the education developers get before they go out in the field. I learn much more now than I did working as a software developer, and for me it's a better way to be involved with the craft as opposed to just applying it myself for, ultimately, company profit.
Also, its like saying the economy will shrink, which may be true, but not necessarily that the per capita economy will shrink. Obviously Japan -- for example -- can function as a nation with a fraction of its current population. Less labor is good for people who sell their labor, but bad for people who buy labor (capital).
I'm always surprised that people disclose so easily their whole security pipeline on HN, especially when their account has their real information.
Please keep to Reddit with comments like that. If you don't have anything to contribute other than the most basic things, just keep it to yourself.
yah square is good, clover not so smooth. Sometimes I wonder if the clover payment systems are even online at times or if they just batch a bunch of orders in infrequent intervals. Not sure really.
A Smörgåsbord of Problems
Hi, this is my article. I know it's a long read, but I presume you didn't read the whole article.

We certainly didn't skip notifying the police. The whole point of the article is that we did the opposite - gathered enough evidence so that the police could do their job.

The police were never going to do a stake out like we did.

Citizen's arrest is not such a unusual thing to do. We would not have messed with him if he produced a knife.

I note that when I published this article a week or two ago, much of the feedback (mostly from Americans I think) was that they would have skipped the police and just kicked the guy in! I would say we were quite sensible overall.
I think this is an excellent point.

I've had a similar thought: we've made societies where nothing gets done without paying for it, and where it's financially incredibly hard to be a parent without both parents working near 100%. Yet having kids is basically an essential service to society. With most things in our economy, we don't expect things to happen without paying for it. So why do we expect parents to do free labor, taking from whatever extremely limited free time they have left to raise kids? Is it really that surprising that people aren't having kids?

When women was expected to stay at home and manage the house and raise kids, you essentially had a lot of dedicated labor to raise kids. They weren't paid, but the wages and the costs in society was such that the father could support the family on his wage alone. We need to realize that if you want someone to raise 5+ kids (which is a necessity if some people have 0 kids), that's really a full time job until all the kids are of school age, and it should be paid as such. Obviously, we shouldn't return to what we had before. We should pay the parent directly instead of it going through the husband, and in todays society it can be either mom or dad that stays home.
As a non smoker, I’d much rather breathe on a plane today than potentially next to someone smoking.

How do you know if the reduction in filters / bleed air causes more people to get sick? Filters would naturally require less replacement since they don’t have to take away as many toxins. Couldn’t that allow filters to free up more viral particles?
I'll get downvoted to shit for this but the data for Japan's birth rate over time shows the decline setting in precisely when women were given freedom there. The cause/effect couldn't be more obvious, I feel like we're just avoiding the elephant in the room in these threads because it's politically unpalatable to state these truths nowadays. (The same is the case elsewhere, this isn't a strictly Japanese trend)
The nicotine high is a very pleasant headspace. I only smoked occasionally in college and grad school for a few years and off-and-on afterword socially for a few more years but I miss the scintillating conversations and the headspace nicotine put you in. More pronounced than caffeine but not so stimulating as a stronger stimulant. Some of my most interesting conversations happened over a cigarette.
What surprises me more than ChatGTP passing this exam, is the elementary level of the questions. Give me a stack of old exams and a few weeks, and I'm sure I'd get a B- too.
Sure, imv, "science" as a term is "positivist" project.

There is no such thing as a "scientific critique" of a "paradigm". There can be a philosophical critique of a paradigm.

The very phrase, "a social science critique of a paradigm" shows that "social science" isn't a science -- which is no bad thing.

My point is there can't be a social science. Since "society" is an object the scientific method fails on.
Courtesy peanuts are another thing from a bygone era, decades ago...
This is a known problem and registrars are handling it. For example, forbidding multiple mixed scripts in a domain. Of course, typosquatting and similar characters are an issue in English too. The registrar deals with it.

While I understand your position, it is very anglocentric. Other countries don't use the Roman alphabet at all and shouldn't be forced to use it, especially when a simple whitelist of Unicode characters would have solved the security issue.
I was in a KTV place in Shanghai several years ago and decided to tip the guy who was doing an excellent job at keeping our little room very well stocked with ice cold beer. I think I gave the guy like 100 RMB. A little later I had to explain to his manager what the money was for...
I don't even know what I'm really looking at here but all of these avatars suck!
was molested with popup, closed page immediately
Oops that’s indeed an error on our part. The medium has 2 shots, the large has 3 shots, so there should be a slight price difference. Will correct in the AM. Thanks!
Clients could dynamically determine a value based on performance. That way, the encyption gets more secure the better the hardware gets.
> It simply isn’t possible for any third party client to offer that kind of guarantee.

And that's exactly my point! Twitterific should have known that Twitter could pull the rug out from under them at any time, and had a plan to make their customers whole in that eventuality.

Look, I'm not saying a company in their position should have to refund a one-time purchase cost of the app itself (for companies that do that sort of thing). But if you are charging an ongoing subscription for continuing service, and then that service terminates before the end of the subscription period, I think a pro-rated refund is more than fair.

Hell, if Twitter themselves charged a subscription fee for having a Twitter account, I would expect them to give pro-rated refunds to customers if they decided to wind down their business or pivot to something else. Twitterific should be no different here.
Those shots are beautiful! I hope you find some time this year, it is difficult when you hold a day job, but someone has to pay for all the trips and such!

I'll look for some used, affordable Kenko rings then, the only G lens I have is the 24-120, all others are either AF of Ai-S ones.
Sure. But how is that any different from regulating the burning of leaves?
Compilers do it all the time, for example GCC compiles "x*4 + y" to a single LEA instruction: https://godbolt.org/z/TvdW5sK4b
hn famous for this comment chain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Having just had a baby this is absolutely true. We’re in the UK and yes, healthcare is taken care of, but daycare is going to be around £1800+ a month. This is our first kid and I’m 35 and wife is 36. We had to wait this long as we needed to make sure we could absorb such an insane cost. Somehow we’re still meant to save for pensions etc. We’ll be ok, but we have a ridiculously high household income compared to the total population. I truly don’t know how others do it. Yet pensions go up 10% a year - and I’m not against universal pensions, but c’mon.
But ageing is natural and is part of life. It's not pretty, and oftentimes it's horrific, but it's both of those things. And there's a certain hubris in thinking that we wouldn't make the situation worse by trying to change it.
Where exactly? As Italian, I never saw this.
Most people indeed commented that we showed quite decent restraint.
I personally use Firefox Sync (it's built in the browser) and am very happy with it.
Bounded Flexible Arrays in C : modernize C arrays for greater memory safety
Wine can run 32 bit Windows applications on the latest versions of macOS just fine these days - easiest way to do this is via the (paid) Crossover, who actually wrote the insane code to make it work and contributed it back to Wine as usual, but forks of Wineskin work too. Both on Intel and M1.

Unfortunately 16 bit Windows applications no longer work. I don't believe that is being actively worked on.
> Humanity could do with a bit more wisdom.

like the wisdom to know when to give way to a new generation?
all of those countries must have been utopian wonderlands before the French came…
> leaders rarely seem to think hard enough about the possible outcomes.

This really annoys me about politics. They seems to reason as: We have problem A, so let's do solution B to solve this. And then the reasoning ends.

What should happen is to evaluate all the consequences of solution B. And sometimes those consequences work in such a way that they make problem A even bigger.

Reasoning about an interconnected system is crucial here. And as developers we are very well aware of systems and the impact changes can have. But it seems a lot of people are not able to reason about systems.
Back in the late 80s I had a job servicing the 2 way radios used by bus drivers. Then you could smoke of buses & it caused a lot of problems not just for the passengers but for the electronics getting into volume controls , channel selector switches and that sort of thing. You would open up a radio and inside the contents had turned a yellowy brown colour , often it was impossible to make out the original colours of the wires. The trick was to put the entire radio circuit into a bath of luke warm water with washing up liquid. After 10 mins or so the nicotine residue would float up and form a yellow scum layer on top of the water. Quite disgusting.
"the cultural norm of the country, as well as its "visual" identity has shifted from a european country to a (mostly) african one"

This is delusional, and yes, I did read the rest of your comment.
The ADA is mostly environmental issues. By that I mean if your business has proper ramps, braille on signage for ingress/egress/restrooms/hard copy menus.

It doesn’t mandate that a business must prioritize disabled customers or even that every person with a disability be able to use the service. Again, car companies are the canonical excepted business, but the ADA cannot force you to serve a customer that your business is not right for.

I’m not necessarily advocating for either side, I just don’t like the idea of an automated process being disrupted when there’s other places someone with a disability can go for the same service. Doing business is mutual.
As someone who has a key cross-signed with the author, I'd say yes that's likely. And also an important part of their job.
Did any big-corp tech stock perform better in that period? Seems like you bought after the tech bubble popped an sold right before the big bull run we had.

Apple rose a lot in that period but because they were nearly broke right before Jobs introduced the first iPod.

I guess in that period everyone though Microsoft will be running out of steam with their Windows & Office products and had no future.
Unless those 3 people (and those in recent decades who have now died) were hypocrites and broke the rules, then the only way the sect has survived this long is immigration (we'd call it "converts" in this context, since they're not a country). However, while it's kept them alive since the 1800s, 3 people is pathetically small.
> it's replacing an entry

That's the part that's not possible with an append-only ledger.
I'm sorry that you may have encountered smokers who didn't ask your permission. But I have never encountered a parent who asked my permission before their child coughed in my face. I'm comparing the thoughtless spreading of diseases with the, relatively, under the circumstances, thoughtful manner in which most smokers exhale their poison. And, relative to the immediate toxicity of the poisons in question, there's no doubt that the parents of children should be asking permission.