skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like paying tips at restaurants, but I agree - tips everywhere are maddening, especially the digital tipping at places where you are not served at your table by a wait staff or other places where tips are normal - like tipping a bell hop and people at hotels, bartenders, dealers at casinos. The normal classical tipping jobs.

For all the other places like coffee shops, I never pay, I take pleasure in not paying a tip on the digital pad, because don't try to jam me up. I so when there's a tip jar at those places, but now I make it a point never to tip on digital. And when it does happen, I start looking for an alternate location where they don't have that crap. I might not find one this month, or for six months, but I'll be low-level looking for alternatives.
Or plumber, or mailman, or pilot, or cop?
I think I went through a similar saga and unfortunately I had to give up as none was even close to my expectations. What I was after was only a charger with 8 or more ports.
Early reading correlates strongly to academic success, but the correlation is well below 1.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319246387_Early_Rea...

The boy is clearly smart, it has to be seen whether he will be the most prolific mathematician the world has ever known (like Gauss).
It protects against compromised devices being added to your account and then disabling your other devices.
My macbook & iPhone automatically does this. Isn’t it the default behaviour?

When I receive sms with the code, my mac suggest the code as autofill in the form.
Agreed, in fact LastPass should be heavily fined for this and be forced to go out of business if things don't provably change within a reasonable timeframe.
Unfortunately, restaurants and bars still have "smoking or non" in Serbia, and in practice it's just smoking everywhere. So if you're hit with nostalgia and wish to smell like ashtray after going out - come to Serbia!

There is one small negative of banishing smoking in the rest of the world is dissapearance of ashtrays from modern cars. You don't have to smoke but it's convenient to have some kind of small trashcan for other purposes. Yes, you can buy third party one for a cupholder, but it's typically cheap and not nearly the OEM quality.
> They are just waiting with huge pockets for the first one that is decent to buy.

If Apple was any clever, they would buy a ecosystem of AI tools like HugginFace.
I really relish the type of high-and-mighty attitude of folks who bring their children coughing onto an airplane and then have the gall to tell you you shouldn't smoke. That's quite precious. Let's just say we're all allowed to pollute each other's airspace. Hasn't the person with a child on their lap gone further in polluting our entire world with their offspring? That child is taking up twice the oxygen and twice the resources left on the planet. The idea that someone who has a child (or three) should lecture someone who doesn't about what particles they put out in the air is the height of hypocrisy. You don't automatically win the war for the common air because you spawned.
I am blind. Would I be able to use your iPad setup to order something in your shop, or is the "lets make everything fancy" setup maybe exclusionary?
PicoCluster
> it blows my mind how different "normal" can be across English-speaking cultures who share a hell of a lot of history and culture.

Is that really true, though? The US is such a mix of cultures at this point (and even the more dominant cultures have diverged so much), that I'm not sure it's accurate to say that Brits and Americans generally share all that much culture. History is there, yes, but it's been over 200 years, and history fades.
It's only quite recent that something like GOT has been possible.

And GOT is pretty tame, sexually, compared to what Heinlein stories got up to.

Incest is a little spicy, but those are the villans so it's a bit more accepted, and the rest of GOT is mostly just a flash of tit or dick now and then, right? More titilating than conceptually boundary pushing.

Heinlein had, off the top of my head: a main character forgiving and falling in love with her rapist, mother/son incest including protagonist, big ol' family incest (more complicated and varied than I can remember the details of) including "the good guys", a transexual protagonist (including many, many sexual descriptions), many varieties of open relationships, more forms of group marriage than I've ever heard anywhere else, and a sex cult (started by the protagonist).

Most of those you could probably leave out of whatever story without too much trouble, but they're not exactly small parts of their respective stories either.

Still, I'd think someone could make a really good movie/show out of at least: Friday, Double Star, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, probably a few others.
I find the service in Victoria to be top notch. And tons of gorgeous waitresses, not that I care because I’m a highly evolved man ;)
That is a healthy option imo, it's not a terrible lang or anything like that; it just gets way more praise and has seen too much growth that it has yet to earn.

My preference is C for personal projects; I like the freedom.

C# because I work with .NET a lot; some might say too much, i get weary of it sometimes. Python is kind of goofy, but it's useful and easy enough to use that I don't mind it's presence in my work.

I will never work with Java professionally ever again if I can help it; I don't like the JVM; working with Android was the final killing blow, i hate mobile dev. simply because they often have me work with ART and i just can't do it with any real enjoyment. Golang is odd, and I have yet to find any real use for it.

The Rust community is pretty unsettling in their dedication, and they seem to actively lie if you question it's usefulness in a specific situation, so i'm weary of their advice.
NodeJS is useful, but truly awful to maintain after the fact. It's also quite nonsensical; I would still spend the extra time just using php or python (with flask), Node is also far too bloated and the bottlenecks seem to make my life only more difficult anytime I try to make something even remotely performant without just throwing load-balancers onto every node website I've ever worked on... not worth it.

NIM is by far my favorite; I don't know why, but I love it, it's the language i would build if I had the time. And... C++ has way too many options to do one thing that it confuses most solutions when I've ran into problems, it's just too much.

Something I've learned over the years is that the choice of tool, before you even start on a project, must be taken seriously; if you mess that up, you will be paying for it for potentially years to come.
My wife and I quit our jobs to sail the Caribbean
Contrarian opinion: Tipping could be good if you look at it the right way.

I always consider tips part of the entire price. If dinner is $30 and the customary tip is 20% then the dinner costs $36, not $30. Yes, it's annoying that the price you see is not the price you pay, but then in the US there's tax you're adding anyway.

This makes tipping good: If there's some sort of problem - someone's rude, they took their time, something's wrong with the food and they won't replace it - you can actually just legally pay less.

By the way -
10%, 15%, 20% are easy calculations to do: divide by 10 and multiply. Let's say your order is $35. For 25% halve twice.

10% = 35/10 = $3.5
15% = 35/10 * 1.5 = 3.51.5 = 3.5 + 1.75 = $5.25.
20% = 35/10 2 = $7
25% = 35/2/2 = 17.5/2 = $8.75

It's easy math once you get used to it.
Related South Park reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsPHa8RG1pI
ELK on top on Nomad, surely?
Probably half the people who frequent this website, if not more, are some form of web engineer or at the very least are web-adjacent. It’s a function of UX being a core paradigm of that work that leads to such frequent reflections about a submitted link’s “finer points.”

I understand the posts are extremely repetitive, but I’ve not seen a non-regressive attempt to account for this clear and evident desire to discuss this on HN’s part. As far as I know, HN has never tried to have a different comment section for this or other “””offtopic””” discussions, it’s only ever harangued people for talking about it.

I was a roofer in my twenties, three decades ago. When you ride around with roofers, you inevitably hear “oh, that one’s a piece of shit. Oh that one’s nice. Oh, they screwed the pooch with that flashing. Oh, that pattern looks great.” It’s part of the trade to reflect on other roofs, and it comes with the territory in most trades, ime, to talk to other tradespeople about best practices.

I’ve long thought splitting the comment section into Topic and Offtopic would result in better user experience, as well as tagging posts, being able to mute other users, and a million other features forums had twenty (!) years ago. I already know how desperately HN insists upon itself, but this is my frustration with the moderation surrounding these points. Users have no customization of the experience, they want to talk about the experience, HN says no, of course not.
Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices involving browsers
I do contribute to the wellbeing of the 95+% of the people who choose not to wear a mask and want to engage in human connection with the full range of emotional and facial expressiveness we were blessed with for that purpose, by not focusing on the irrational belief that wearing PPE 24/7 is even remotely possible or desirable, and accepting the statistical reality that in 2023, the vast majority of the population have been exposed to several strains of Covid. No amount of hiding from it prevents the acquisition of it. But plenty of warmth and light is lost in the world from the social constraints imposed by mask-wearing.
The GP poster was referring to the age of service workers in the UK, not the US. No idea if they're accurate for the UK, but I don't think US data can be used to refute what they're saying.
It's been that way for all kind of online services since 2011 [1].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fr/MEMO_1...
They still don't allow multiple MFAs on the root account for console access.
Why do you say it cannot be indexed by Google? All you have to do is search for "clinton boxers or briefs" and you will get plenty of articles and videos about this, including some videos of this event taken from a different angle, many of which have been online for over a decade.
I would love to see a POC of this in action.

I think that this would not fix the issue entirely, but it deserves some thought. It's a unique way of looking at the problems.

Of course this becomes less effective when the community itself gets large, so it won't scale as easily.
We essentially need the immigrants to prop up programs like pension for future.

Canada is too big, land area wise for the population it has to support major infrastructure.

So we need constant stream of new souls to collect taxes and help prop up the next group
And that explains why I've had issues trying to use that reg flag Thanks for the info!
Tracking Air Pollution in China
> Smokers do, actually, ask in most cases.

I take it you didn't live through the era of unrestricted tobacco smoking then. Smokers absolutely do not ask whether they can smoke unless they know they really shouldn't, but hope they'll be allowed to anyway.

Aside from that, it is obviously ridiculous to compare disease (which is rarely something one gets willingly, and cannot be stopped at will) with smoking (a wilful decision, and something that can be stopped at will).
This was funny
It’s frustrating as a Brit as it is actually illegal for me to pay the bribe (pay the money to ensure my food isn’t spat in).
I own a niche affiliate website that I've grown over the last year's. Today I am earning a good salary by checking in with my affiliates once a month or so.

There are no business hours, no schedule, no one being mad if I don't answer for a few days. What I call work is 90% just working on new things I think are interesting right now for me and 10% talking to customers and fixing things.

Before that took of I earned most my money trough a small (niche) online shop. Which is more work, but still very rewarding IMO.

Edit:// Quality of work is mainly not waking up early for me and having long weekends whenever I want.
You may enjoy the "McMansion Hell" blog, it explores all the little details that cause us to be repulsed by this type of house. They have a "McMansions 101" post which is a nice place to get started - https://mcmansionhell.com/post/148605513816/mcmansions-101-w...
There are a lot of cases long explanation is necessary. There are many greats comments that are way in depth and breath here than paid articles, and I never seen that in other chat based communities like discord, or slack( a lot worse).

There may be garbage but this is public forum anyways, still garbage here is a lot better than top gold post of reddit.
Because regulating microscopic airborne diseases is impossible and beyond dumb. Every country that tried to do so failed to do so, even with the most Draconian laws imaginable.
Well what did the world expect when an entire generation is forced to live in an ongoing economic crisis for most of their life.

Here is a thought: If people have their basic needs met, and I don't mean "barely survive", I mean "having the same fair chance at building wealth as prior generations", then maybe people in such a society may be willing to have more children.

If, on the other hand, it becomes ever harder to build wealth, becomes ever harder to cover the cost of living, education is demanded but also becomes ever more expensive to get, and any time not spent working becomes an economic malus on the individual, well ... I don't see how people will flock to the joys of parenthood then.
This reads like marketing bullshit. "4 times more efficient than photosynthesis" is gibberish when the sun costs nothing and your process requires electricity. Yeast, algae, and fungus? And maybe lettuce (which has roughly the nutritional content of a glass of ice water with a couple gnats in it)? That's it?
What other platforms is there like piratebay? Feels like piratebay has lost its soul nowadays.
> Maybe I’ll use a different password manager

I do that.

I use pass <https://www.passwordstore.org/> to store and get my BitWarden master PW. Pass is encrypted by a PGP key residing on my HW token/smart card and encrypted with a good but (for me) memorable PW.

In my case it's not really due to paranoia, but as I already had pass in use for critical and very important credentials before, and as I 1) was only evaluating BitWarden first and 2) did not want to remember two master passwords, so I went for this approach, and it works out quite well for how I use BitWarden (basically only on my workstation where I require my HW token anyway).
I was in a taxi many years ago in Beijing. Meter said something like 16, I gave 20 and left.

Driver chased me into the lobby to give me the change.
Well, if most French people say quatre-vingt-dix-sept for 97, why should the Academy invent a new word of its own to replace it?

On the other hand, if people on the street do typically say nonante-sept for that, then I agree that the Academy should recognize the change. As far as I know though, this is not the case at all, and septante/huitante/nonante sound strange to actual French people.

Either way, the GP was definitely being sarcastic.
They should stop using proprietary drivers, with open source drivers they could at least fix it themselves.
That's at worst a couple euros per person, very far from a 10%-20% upcharge.
Thank you for sharing your story.

Continuing the geek vibe, I believe the best starting point to make sense of inner workings of incentive systems and rewards is SDT - Self-Determination Theory. It's 70+ yr old theory of motivation in psychology that originated in studies of how external rewards (i.e. tips or bonuses) crowd out intrinsic motivation.

In other words, if we want employees to act friendly to customers - should we design a system of external motivation (rewards and punishements) or design a system that boost intrinsic motivation for this behaviour. For example, SDT has many studies on how different rewards giving patterns affect motivation. As far as I remember, the least detrimental is task-noncontingent rewards (giving "reward" for just "showing up", basically). The most detrimental to motivation is competitive-contingent (give reward to those who outperform others).
> 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?

1. Because nobody you'd want waiting a table wants to be a waiter for minimum wage.

2. And because restaurants don't want to pay waiters more than minimum wage on slow nights.

Your options if you don't like this situation are:

1. A ~20% price hike in the cost of your food.

2. Significantly worse service.

3. Significantly limited hours.

Pick two.
I worked with it extensively on a for my last position capturing electrical metering data and derivative computations in a fault tolerant distributed system. It’s really great for something with lots of small nodes with intermittent connectivity.
It was never going to work. You want to encourage family formation, you need to make it a viable life path, and without radical tax (as in, family can't lead to a drop in standard of living compared to DINKs) and education reform (not being economically established until your late 20s means you realistically only have 6 years to start a family rather than the historical 12) this won't happen.

Why bother getting married when you'll functionally never see your wife, and why bother having kids when you'll basically never see them? The Japanese aren't unique in not seeing the point, as this pattern is a constant all over the world.
Best possible interpretation if your comment is you are baffled that they asked you to use fly.io to run Nomad instead of say something “lower level” like AWS EC2 or bare metal.

Had they asked the latter you would be more enthusiastic?
In the past, what has made me love a job have been the people I got to interact with on a daily bases.

In some areas I was the expert, but in so many others they had the expertise, and so I got to learn a lot from them. And not just in terms of technology and software.

We built up a comradery strong enough that to this day I still regularly meet with old team mates from previous positions to catch up and stay in touch.

Second to that were the problems that needed solving. Still important but not as much as the team.
If a company outsources wages, what exactly is it doing, besides providing a situation for two strangers to exchange services?
ChatGPT just passed the exam to get a medical license in the US.
The other species are the environment
Extremely well put.
Any time a business decides on a metric / decision criteria, they introduce a strong incentive for their employees and managers to act accordingly.
For some reason, leaders rarely seem to think hard enough about the possible outcomes.

My anecdote - at a former big tech company, we had a long hiring freeze, and they even decided that when someone leaves or gets fired, their headcount goes back up to senior leadership who decide where that headcount should be (so as a manager, if you fire someone - you might lose the position entirely).

So, naturally, even since then there have been zero people fired, even if they are low performers, since managers want to keep their headcount. But talented people obviously still get offers and leave, and when they leave, their headcount disappears.

So after a year or so of this great policy, the average level of talent across the company is steadily dropping, which also means it'll be much harder to recruit top talent even after this policy is over - because most talented people want to join a team where they can still learn and evolve, collaborate with other smart folks, etc.
I give my wife €1 million every Christmas.

She gives me the exact same gift.

We’re thinking we need to increase it because of inflation.
Thanks for the explanation! I didn’t know the history
Did I mention mastodon? This is not the only tool available. And well, if someone act as a gatekeeper the beauty of free software is that you can fork it. There are already a number of mastodon forks afaik.

> we really want to build something that is developed (not necessarily in terms of code) by the community

This doesn't mean anything really.
Check the location of Philip Morris headquarters. Too many local salaries and careers depend on you passively inhaling the smoke... and lookup revolving door between tobacco and pharma industries.
Mandatory digital ordering and refusing cash just radiates customer hostility to me. It's the opposite of hospitality.
Another aspect here is that there will be no change or evolution in society if no one dies from old age. Everything will be controlled by grumpy old men! They will look like they are 25, but the mindsets will be ossified.

Let's make it so everyone's body is 25 until they suddenly painlessly die around age 125 or so.
(and bribery: don't want my food messed with)

The correct term is racket. Bribery is when you get something above normal.
This is why regular Linux distros ship the upstream Linux stable releases. Android should too, but I guess they have too many non-merged patches/drivers.
My understanding is that entropy drives both the emergence and progression of evolution, and evolution drives the expansion of life, making a universe teeming with life inevitable, simply by consequence of the laws of physics and the physical properties of our universe.

There is good indication that evolution began long before the Earth, and the classical life on it, emerged:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/04/15/113741/moores-la...
According to the article, that is the plan
Wait, so if you were imaginative enough with how you use registers to calculate addresses you could abuse LEA as a DSP MAC (multiply/accumulate) instruction?
why scrum for such a team?

just use a kanban-board with a backlog ...

just my 0.02€
I have a photo of a menu from Munich earlier this year, not a particularly fancy restaurant - just a pizza place with a table on the street.

12.5% service charge at the bottom.
For anyone interested, I did a small compilation of some serverless relational DBs here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31538868

Main issue with neon for us right now is that it doesn't offer granular access because it disallows the creation/assignment of users and roles.
One somewhat divergent opinion I read once (wish I could find the article again) expressed the idea that in the modern world, governments are free-riding on parents.

The costs (time, money) of raising children are significantly privatised but the economic benefits once they reach adulthood tend to flow to government and society at large.

In the past, many parents expected to receive direct economic benefits from the labour of their children. Children were expected to e.g. contribute on the farm.

In countries without social safety nets, younger generations are expected to directly support older famility members.

Having kids used to be something with pretty direct economic benefits, it's now expected to be a somewhat more altruistic enterprise.
Which language is this targetting?
Haven’t seen any top down government interventions work at increasing TFR.

The only thing that seems to work is high religiosity.
Always rate negatively, and if possible supply that you are doing so because rudely getting asked to rate them at an inopportune moment sours your experience however great it may have been.