skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try taking a taxi in NYC. IIRC the preselected tip options are 20%, 25% and 30%, and this is on top of a base fare of $100 to Newark when an Uber is literally half price.
That would be great! Who wants to keep those, apart from restaurant owners?
ikr - someone also posting about how crypto could be the answer too - peak HN!
While profit sharing may work as an incentive for shift managers or store managers, in the absence of tips most baristas will expect some other immediate bonus pay, preferably based on a measurable metric that doesn't depend on factors beyond the barista's control, such as cost of goods sold, supply chain constraints, rent hikes, recessions, etc.

If you occasionally ask the customer in-app "how was your service today?" with a simple thumbs up/down option, and you associate the order's rating with the barista behind the counter, you can get a good metric on their interaction with customers. You'd probably want to use the median and not the mean in order to remove any outliers.
I didn't say threaten.

And I didn't say "carry out a lawsuit". You can go to small claims court. Especially since you just lost that job; you can afford the few hours.

I also said "at least", because this is just the plan B if labor enforcement won't do their job and get the money for you. But I assume you don't trust labor enforcement if your plan is to let that 10% get stolen and do nothing.
It would be a lot easier to agree with you if the tobacco companies hadn't spent decades of time and millions of dollars trying to gaslight the world about the consequences of smoking, aiming advertising at children, and generally making comic-book villains of themselves. Unfortunately they fought so uncompromisingly to avoid having to cede even the slightest of their market that they made complete ostracization the only feasible path forward for public policymakers. Nearly half of adult America smoked in the 1960s; ten years ago that number was at 20%, and today that number is below 13% and dropping -- and unlike the drinking age, smoking wasn't used as a bludgeon by the federal government for forcing its will on the states. It's pure PR and a little urban taxation.
Not really. A billion other things also could have happened, they just didn't. Also, when was the last time you deposited cash?
That really put things into perspective... I wonder if instead of trying to hunt asteroids in the space, it'd make sense to just dig deeper.
If that is true, why Android 0-days are more expensive than iOS?
The small number of Japanese women I know in Australia universally say it's not a kind place to give birth in, or raise a young child. They prefer Australia for that "warts and all"

Japan as I understand it has strong conformity drives which runs counter to both immigration-assimilation in non Asian cultures and to young women seeking independence in their life.
I frequent taco trucks and places that prefer cash and almost no places that don't so I have ~$40 in my gym bag and neither of my 2 heavily used credit cards.

I will have maids coming over tomorrow for the first time in a millennia and I will pay them however they prefer and I'm assuming that's cash. Card is amazing, but cash has its place it bothers me to see it sidelined.
Honest question: if I lose the keys to my house, I can call a locksmith etc.

If I lose my hardware key I reckon I am screwed?
> Surely the data is encrypted using a 128 bit key or better

I think so, yeah.

> and the key is stored on some secure enclave which rate limits PIN entries, is it not?

That – I'm not so sure about. I didn't really think about it too much before you pointed it out, but it would make sense for the Android floks to have implemented it. I'll look into it a bit later!
MR4D has picked 4 of the 7 companies named in the comment they are replying to. This to me is specifically addressing a much shorter and less researched statement. It unnecessary to cast shade on a simple factual reply for not being an industry wide scope research paper?
Would you mind sharing the article? I'd like to read more about which specific data points. Thanks!
Wouldn't that only mess up the average, not the median. A median of $300.000 would indicate that half of Googles employees makes less, and the other half makes more.
UWP also offers such capabilities, but allas the Win32 revolt coupled with Microsoft's mismanagement, killed it.
In Czech Republic, where I live, the tipping and payment system in restaurants is very convenient. As for the tips, if you paying, say 241 CZK, you don't need to worry about percentage, just round up to 250 and all will be good. Also, if you don't tip and just pay 241, it is totally acceptable, nobody will ever say nothing or look at you wrong. Just "Thank you" as usual.
Regarding the payment it is also very convenient: you pay for yourself. E.g. your company at the table ordered very different food, drinks, some of them leaving sooner, some later. So when you finished, you just go to the cashdesk (or wait at the table) and say to the waiter what you had. That's it, you are not bothering with splitting the bills, counting tips or other annoying stuff. So far this is my favorite model of how it can be done.
> a great way for a duopoly of companies to skim 1-3% off the economy

I mean by all means use your card everywhere but I think we should make a concerted effort to keep our options open.
A decade or two ago, sure. I saw Google as a spiritual successor to Bell Labs, even.

Today that seems to have been highly neutered. It's a giant corp with an old money printing machine and not a lot of future direction, IMO.

I'm not sure it's fair to blame them, I think it's just the nature of companies growing too large.
i appreciate the response, thank you! do you have suggestions on where to look for these growing companies? I currently search linkedin, YC (workatastartup), and angellist/wellfound).
> I would personally choose Rust over C++. I dislike the number of gotchas that C++ has and I think the language has gotten too big and complex to use safely.

This take sounds like fomo mixed with cargo cult programming.

When you write something in C++, nothing forces you to use all features of C++. There is no bingo card you have to fill to get your project to compile. You just pick the things you feel serves your purposes, and stick with them.

I don't really understand this irrational take. It's like claiming they don't want to speak in English because the dictionary is too large and some words are too tricky to spell to use in a conversation.
Mostly likely here: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
Ruby is at ruby-lang.org but I've never heard anyone call it Rubylang. You can't always get the domain name (or Google Group) you want.
Definitely still vulnerable to a targeted attack, but you have fewer attackers than a service provider does by orders of magnitude.
Exactly, they're not random samples, not normally distributed and the population is too low for a single team. It's all bs based on junk science. Lies, damned lies and "statistics".
A method for contributions which doesn't require a signup would be nice, even if it's just an email address to contact.
I used to work as a janitor for minimum wage. I never got a tip. How was that fair?

Did I not provide a service?

You sound like someone who used to work as an employee who received tips.
You can have more. But honestly if my house burned down and I lost my fire safe too, IDGAF about my Apple ID.

And if I did care that much, I’d put one off site.
That's a good option, because if there's a shop next door that takes cash I will definitely go there and tip in cash.
I can recommend libfaketime regarding this topic.

It can bei used to change the system time for a single application only.

https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime
Buy a plane ticket. Plenty of other countries have the same structural inequality issues, and don't have a tipping culture.
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I don't think there is one word for what you are referring to. But you could have said:

> For almost every major, scholarships were awarded to the top X% of students of that major.
Snus isn't actually legal in a lot of places. As in - it's legal to have, but you can't buy it anywhere(most of EU and UK I believe).
Income $1 and then give away that $1 is a net negative, so I assume it's more like: I give you, the company, $1 as a "gift", which I'm allowed to gift you some hundreds of dollars per year without an extra tax form. You take that "gift" and donate it, thereby netting you the 35 cents.

Interested to hear specifics if anyone knows!
That's interesting you consider tipping an American thing, I'm guessing you aren't very well traveled as you clearly haven't been to Canada or the Middle East.
In raw dollar terms, it's a lot of money. In this odd 'I call the shots' stance they took, they have nothing. Brin and Page could trace their middle finger, send it back as an official response, and the stock wouldn't move appreciably.
The point is, that isn't how coffee shops typically operate in the United States, which is what makes it interesting. Operating a coffee shop without tips has special and unique considerations in the United States - chiefly, how to retain talent and employees when conventional wisdom would say it is better paying to get a job at a traditional tip-based coffee shop, which again, are plentiful in the United States. I would say managing employees is the #1 issue when running a small business like this, so the concern is especially relevant (and unique) to the United States market.

It is kind of like how, if a company was trying to tackle health care in the United States, they might attempt to build a system which reconciles many different hospital systems across the country. In other countries, with Universal Single Payer healthcare, this might not be interesting, but in the context of the United States, a system like this could have huge implications.

The market itself is inseparable from what makes a venture like this interesting. It is interesting precisely because of where it is located.
If you combine intermittent caffeine use with an intentional time-bound task, yes, very powerful combo.

Using caffeine as part of a routine and the binging youtube for 6 hours, unbounded time is a nightmare, esp if your days are blurred and you do it weeks at a time. You are basically then just shotgunning your mind further.
The rest of the working world is unencumbered by incentives. They still show up.
Yes, it can. ChatGPT is already able to do it. It's good enough that you can then use ChatGPT to decode it which will fix small errors in the output assuming the input is normal words.
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>For reference, over the last 5 years, Microsoft stock has grown over 150%

Yeah, If you zoom out on Microsoft stock, it's always been going steadily up. It never went to the moon but it also never had any major long term dips.

Which is why I'm bullish on Microsoft. They seem to be taking very good strategic decisions. Their focus on linux and WSL, data centers, cloud and services, VSCode, swooping up heavy gaming IPs, now ChatGPT.

Same with Apple.

If only they could remove the suck from Windows 11 and Teams that would be great.

Google on the other hand, seems like it's heading to become the next Yahoo! looking on how the quality of most of its products has declined or they have cancelled.
Are there Bronze League Heros among the developers?
cause it's easy. I get paid for what I know instead of repetitive, exhausting manual labor
To be fair that's a recent change in Ontario (2022).
Okay, so don't use 90% of SD cards.
600.000 was a bit too much for my 3 year old low-end android phone. 400k workes OK. when I sorted everything into folders I could bump it up to 600k probably due to time saved rendering.
We are just going forward for funding. Obviously this is a somewhat useless comment as we are in stealth right now, which means no one reading this will have the info to remotely guess if we will be a failure or a success, that is not my point though. I am commenting more to outline that we have the premise that we build during lean times, benefit from all the talent becoming available, and be scaled and ready to widely sell to the market during a hopeful pickup next year (this is the gamble). The idea is to be a camel more than a unicorn.
Inflating restaurant price + inflating tip + tax are on the trend to make US restaurants the most expensive restaurants on earth. A simple Caesar salad is now starting at 16$ and more likely 20$ in a lot of "not that fancy" places. When you add tax and 30% tip, it almost 28$. This is almost or even more expensive than in Switzerland where you waiter earn at least 26$ per hour, and tipping is not expected.
Tipping are just here to profit business owner and not the workers (that’s why it’s almost inexistant in socialist country), and don’t get me started on the business adding "don’t forget to pay your staff" on your check.
Most of the people loudly evangelizing tips, have themselves worked a job where they received tips.
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> If I lit a cigarette as I'd like to, their parents might attack me for shaving a few theoretical seconds off their lives.

Many things are not harmful if just done one, but you are not alone. I understand that if you are allowed to smoke many other people would also, and it would have a noticeable detriment in peoples live quality.
This won't happen and the paper does not speculate in any way about it.

But they are vague about the implications and I'm generally unsure about the practical relevance of quantum protocols like superdense coding ...
Can't we just bring the internet box down from Big Ben to basement when the sun comes?
Definitely, the stiffness of a large enterprise is always killing talent.
Curious, did you start smoking in your teens? I smoked hookah every day for about a year when I was 25 because I vastly preferred it to going out to bars and it seemed to be an acceptable social alternative. Then I quit. I never crave cigarettes, unless I walk by a group of smokers then I might bum one. I’ve probably smoked 5 cigarettes in the last few years.

When I vaped for a little while like five years ago to see if it’d help concentration I wouldn’t crave it exactly, more like if I had it I’d just pull it out absentmindedly and puff on it until it was empty.

Anyway my working theory is when you start has a lot to do with getting addicted.
Interesting, what distributed systems skills do you use in medical devices?
Well, how does that explain the result of 7.304 for the q-hypothesis?
haha you have to tip us for the privilege of fetching your six pack out of our fridge : )
It takes time to do those things. Time is money. It takes time to reconcile in a double entry accounting system the cash you received in business operations. Software does it automatically.
That depends on many factors of course, but I've seen it ballparked around 2-4%. You need safes, cash registers, insurance, etc.

But credit cards in the US are also like 3% and come with additional risks.
They may be normally distributed or may not be. Actually hard to tell even given the data.

But you can make a plausible argument against the performance metric being normally distributed among your employees because that would mean the way you hired your employees was completely random with respect to that performance metric.
That's the first time I ever heard of that. Maybe you just went to a bad place.
Yep, Kotlin solves almost all pain points with Java and presents a good show-case which Java language developers should have followed IMO.

Another examples of Java pain points solved in Kotlin which I could remember:

top-level functions (which are actually bundled in some "standard" class name. Pretty much syntax sugar but very nice.

Auto cast. Like you check variable with instanceof and after this check it's automatically casted to the target type. Java has some weird syntax for this but I don't see why this was necessary at all.

More default imports. Why should I qualify java.util. it's pretty much standard. I'm not asking for every java.x package to be auto-imported, but commonly used packages should be.

Class properties instead of getter/setter ceremony. Records are alternative approach but I don't find it useful yet.

Nullability. Of course that's a hard question and adding nullability to existing type system looks like gargantuan task. What could be done is introduce some java.xxx annotation, let module projects to be not-null by default (so you don't need to create package-info.java in every package just to make it not-null) and make all nullability issues to be warnings from javac. Basically it's already exists but not standard and implementation quality varies.

Reified generics. Basically it's a hidden Class<T> clazz argument passed automatically to the function. This is brilliant solution to type erasure problem and it should really have been adopted.

I'd vote for all those features to be implemented in Java similarly to their Kotlin implementations.
That is why they require two keys. What you’re describing is indeed true, if one key gets lost or breaks and you don’t have a backup, you’re effectively locked out. That’s a feature, not a bug.
Automatic defrag should only hit a handful of files each time it runs. You're not going to upset an SSD with that.

But even a whole-disk rewrite cycle will have very limited effect on the vast majority of SSDs.
Only use hardware keys on services that let you use multiple (lookin at you AWS). I keep at least 2 backups.
Seems odd to say we're trained on sounds but not words, especially when many of the sounds we hear while we are developing are words being spoken.
How do you see when "the community" has decided? Won't "the community" be different after some time (due to growth, due to people leaving ...)

"We are open for everything" rarely works to form a community. Why should people in est time in that? Maybe they do and then things go another way than many individually want.

You need a foundation to which people attach or not otherwise there are enough other projects to be involved where I know they match my interests.
> That said, you shouldn’t be allowed to smoke and masks should be mandatory on planes still in my opinion.

That is a very reasonable approach. We are billions of humans living in close quarters. Let's make a little effort to offer high quality spaces to everybody. This happened with seat belts in cars, many people were offended by the idea but it is saving many lives each day.
Author apparently don't understand that one instance of the fediverse can be seen as a centralized local instance and can be isolated at will by the deactivation of federation or the use of a whitelist. There is no need for new code if that is the only reason for opendolphin to exist.
Far from it -- many professionals, particularly in sales and finance, have bonuses tied to individual performance metrics. That's just as bad.
yes you are right. people who argue in the same way, talking about the same things.
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Terraces in bars are now just smoking areas in countries that implemented an indoor smoking ban.

Some places try implement an X meters from entrances rule, but its a waste of time.
> Also, some customers seem to think that the screen froze at the very end because it didn't ask for a tip.

That sounds like the end of transaction screen can be improved

Adding a message like "All Done" then "We're a tip free restaurant" go a long way
I was agreeing with you that real world metrics would be useful.

I was making a couple clarifications. You seemed to imply that real-world metrics can be a substitute for big O, but that's not the case, they do different comparisons.

Also, I was pointing out that the 10ms vs 9ms example isn't a set of numbers that would indicate one algorithm is better than the other, just that one implementation is better than the other.
Kudos to you! But you're right, you're not. SQLite has extensive testing including out-of-memory, I/O error, crash and power loss, fuzzing etc. And 100% branch test coverage.

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

3.2. I/O Error Testing

I/O error testing seeks to verify that SQLite responds sanely to failed I/O operations. I/O errors might result from a full disk drive, malfunctioning disk hardware, network outages when using a network file system, system configuration or permission changes that occur in the middle of an SQL operation, or other hardware or operating system malfunctions. Whatever the cause, it is important that SQLite be able to respond correctly to these errors and I/O error testing seeks to verify that it does.

I/O error testing is similar in concept to OOM testing; I/O errors are simulated and checks are made to verify that SQLite responds correctly to the simulated errors. I/O errors are simulated in both the TCL and TH3 test harnesses by inserting a new Virtual File System object that is specially rigged to simulate an I/O error after a set number of I/O operations. As with OOM error testing, the I/O error simulators can be set to fail just once, or to fail continuously after the first failure. Tests are run in a loop, slowly increasing the point of failure until the test case runs to completion without error. The loop is run twice, once with the I/O error simulator set to simulate only a single failure and a second time with it set to fail all I/O operations after the first failure.

In I/O error tests, after the I/O error simulation failure mechanism is disabled, the database is examined using PRAGMA integrity_check to make sure that the I/O error has not introduced database corruption.
The $50 in fee is paid to the employee at AmEx (99%+ of it), then the last % is paid into dividends and such, which people will use to buy grocery etc. In that way, the loop closes and why the point doesn’t make sense.
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What if you used smart pointers all the way?
> In other words, the air on the plane was quite a bit cleaner when there were ashtrays next to the seats.

That doesn't follow from what you wrote.

Anyway, it is easy to look at actual research on cabin air quality and see your claim is false.

"Typical levels of SHS-RSP on aircraft violated current (PM(2.5)) federal air quality standards approximately threefold for flight attendants, and exceeded SHS irritation thresholds by 10 to 100 times. From cotinine dosimetry, SHS exposure of typical flight attendants in aircraft cabins is estimated to have been >6-fold that of the average US worker and approximately 14-fold that of the average person. Thus, ventilation systems massively failed to control SHS air pollution in aircraft cabins."
Depends on the state. I was surprised to see "no ban" for Virginia on the map, because I haven't seen indoor public smoking, anywhere, since moving here in 2011. Apparently it's allowed in places that have built "structurally separated and ventilated rooms" but nowhere I've been actually does that... I'm sure it's out there but certainly not "common".
Even legal immigrants struggle with this. It's hard to open a bank account during your first few months in a country, as you might not fulfill the basic requirements set by banks.

At least it's a serious issue in Germany, especially for Indians whose passport is not accepted by many authentication services.