skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's "ok we'll tip" areas that people expect (sit-down restaurant, bar, delivery) but the proliferation of "tablet payments" that default to having a tip section is out of control. And the middle-ground of "do I tip for pickup?" which society hasn't really nailed down yet, too.

I don't forsee the US going entirely tip-free, but the number of places you tip could certainly decline (nobody tips at McDonalds, and few tip at Dominos for pickup, even though you can).

Maybe the IRS could do something to making receiving income via tips tax disadvantaged (and loudly, publicly) so that alternate methods would work. I do know a number of tip-employees who would hate that; they make quite good money on tips.
Really? The fact that it had a single line, explaining the relevant cookies, and a one-click reject made it perfectly adequate.
In the UK we have postcodes. These have the same function as a US zip code.

However, they can appear a bit random here and have a resolution of about three or four properties.
No it’s a word that the a party terminates an agreement because of workplace organization.

I think the problem here is that property owners both want government protection but they specifically hate it when it doesn’t help them.

If we don’t want the government interjecting itself into “contracts” then let’s have that. Courts and cops should not be enforcing contracts. People should not be going to prison for breaking contracts.

It’s unfair to have it both ways. The government is currently protecting employers against employees - and not really the other way around.

So maybe let’s balance government influence in contracts?

It’s perfectly fine for the government to force a company to keep a store open because they unionized. In the grand scheme of things these companies still have a huge advantage.
Ah yes that's probably it. I'm just remembering it vaguely.
Interchange is refunded but settlement fees aren’t. Settlement is 25Bps or lower.
Ever heard of the butterfly effect?
Yes, I've read about Heinrich Hora's approach to fusion. I'm not enough of an expert on this to say whether it's bogus or not. Guess the proof is in the pudding if they build a machine to demonstrate that these theoretical models actually work.
In archaeological terms, they could be discovering stuff like microscopic grain husks embedded into the clay of the containers. Though they could have found whole chicken skeletons or fossilized garlic or something else too... I searched for a moment but couldn't find more details from this dig about the food specifically.
Which works in *most* cases. I forget the details but I do recall running into a case where it was griping erroneously (it couldn't reach the use without having reached the initialization) so I gave it a harmless initial value--and it turned around and complained (correctly) that the assignment would never be used. I insist on removing all such warnings so I ended up restructuring the code so the compiler wouldn't get confused.

(Fundamentally, this was a case of a child operation that *might* be needed. It could have been rewritten polymorphically but that would have involved a fair amount of refactoring.)
you can construct it for yourself, you need to ask open ai api to make:

1. summaries of document
2. tags for document

then save it to db and you can search directly or even concat all summaries and ask open ai api again for search.

you can not send document directly to chatgpt, instead of that, extract text from it with apache tika. and of course, you need a bunch of requests.
A description I saw here a couple of days ago was ‘blarney generator’. I think that captures it perfectly
When you’re trying to run a quick script or just want a “playground” environment where you can test your code, it holds you back.

For example: I’m making a web app with Svelte in TypeScript and I’m trying to test a part of its code. To do that, I have to build the app first because TypeScript needs transpiling which in turn needs bundling etc…
>There are so many things that go into store closures that they could always find a plausible pretext.

Then why did Starbucks, no doubt availing themselves of very well-paid labor lawyers, lose this case to the NLRB? For these examples at least they were not able to provide plausible pretexts.
At quick stop restaurants, I always feel guilty hitting the $0 tip option and I feel like I might get worse service because of it. I wonder if they should implement something similar to Tim Horton's charity camp set up. They have tap devices at the register that is set to a $2 amount. Just tap your card and donation made. I'd rather they have that for tipping then it built into the POS.
> Why does it need to be gradually typed?

Because one of the things that's nice about using Nix as a consumer of Nix libraries is that for simple use cases, your code can be so simple that it truly resembles a plain configuration file.

By implementing a gradual type system, Nickel allows producers of Nickel libraries to enrich their code with helpful type annotations without making all of the code consuming those libraries verbose or cumbersome.

> being able to progressively drill down the types - and have the types checked by the language runtime! - would massively improve Nix's ease of use and discoverability.

That definitely seems to be the goal.

If you wanna get a feel for how Nickel looks today, you should try translating the exercises from the old Tour of Nix¹ on the new Nickel Playground²! The lead dev is very friendly and receives feedback warmly.

1: https://nixcloud.io/tour/?id=1

2: https://nickel-lang.org/playground
Although licensed under the GPLv2, the Linux kernel is emphatically not GNU software.
To be fair, sometimes people return stuff for arbitrary reasons like changing their mind.
It's getting out of control in the US. Tips are supposed to be for service workers, not for anyone who you interact with in any way while conducting a basic business transaction. People who are performing a direct personal service for you. In the US now, businesses expect you to tip on take-out orders, at drive through windows, at every form of eatery, there's even tips expected now at some retailers.

The roles that are appropriate to tip didn't change just because everyone felt like it was okay to ask for a tip. You tip barbers, doormen, bellhops, shoe shines, wait staff, delivery drivers, and bartenders. That's basically it. If a worker is not rendering you a direct personal service, they should not be tipped and their employer being passive-aggressive about it is hoping enough of their staff get tipped they can start paying the tipped minimum wage instead of paying a normal wage for their job role.

What a lot of people don't get is that opposing the expansion of tipping isn't a negative for the workers, it's a negative for the business owners. The business owners /want/ society to expect to tip workers, because they can pay them $2.15/hr instead of $17/hr in a major metro as long as they clear federal minimum wage after tips. Stop the madness, and stop tipping people who are not in direct service roles.

What's super fucked is that in SF I am seeing most businesses just add it on the check as a mandatory service charge and require you to argue with them. Like, why the fuck am I paying you a 15% service charge for me to walk to your restaurant and pick up my order off a shelf and walk back to where I'm staying after I ordered online. We both know that money isn't going to the kitchen staff, it's lining the business owner's pocket and is a fraudulent way for them to raise prices by forcing a fee on you that you have to argue about. If I'm ordering on the web and picking up, and not even speaking to anybody in the process, what "service" did I receive?
Once I recognized that art supplies can substitute for construction materials, this opened up a world for me. For example, though miscommunication I had many holes to fill in some period kitchen cabinet doors in my house. The normal sequence would be filler, primer, cabinet paint. Instead I played with stiff acrylic modeling compound. I got the paint store to give me a sample of what they squirt into the paint, and I played around with the pigment and different mediums until the color and gloss was an exact match. Now I could fill each hole in one pass, no painting, and no one could find the hole afterwards.
The unobvious reality is that majority the world population:

1. Don't think of themselves as self-interested arseholes.

2. They are in fact self-interested arseholes.

We have no methodology that allows us to put "good people" in power. And even if we had, power corrupts. So the best we can do is to build a system that works even when all actors are self-serving.
I've already reached tip burnout. I used to be a great supporter of tipped positions and would tip generously, but it's all gotten so out of control. I now just refuse to tip at all, except in restaurants where I've scaled back to 10%. And even that irritates me anymore.
No, English is not my first language. "You implied my approach is ill-informed, and you gave absurd alternatives for my use case. I’m still pissed off thinking about it." - that was not my intention at all. Because there isn't a right approach to learning a language. Your original comment asked for an alternative to Duolingo so I provided you with one.

I believe there's been more research done to the method I recommend than to Duolingo - that's why I thought it's worth mentioning it. But if it doesn't work for you, don't use it. If you want to study 5min a day - do it. My comment was recommending a specific approach that I (and the community I'm a part of) use and believe it works.

But if you look at 'content' kids experience first it's words and sentences used in specific situations. Only later having this knowledge they learn the alphabet, numbers, grammar. I know more English grammar than I do of my own native language - I'm pretty sure I know more English grammar rules than an average native English speaker (at least looking at my group of friends). It makes me better at taking a test or writing a very detailed and technical article (which currently I do none of) but won't help much in normal conversations.

Sure, learn the alphabet, learn the most common words but that can also be achieved with free online content. I wasn't saying you shouldn't be doing it. I was only answering your first comment where you said everyone complains on Duolingo but no one has an alternative. I provided you with one that I know others (like myself) use.

I have tried Duolingo in the past and the only dangerous thing is that it was a great experience. Did it teach me anything other than hello/bye/boy eats bread? Not really. I also can compare my experience of focusing on consuming content to Duolingo because one of my mates did Duolingo for a long time.
After about 6 months he looked at content I watch - in this case it was Dreaming Spanish. I was at a point of watching Intermediate videos (short ones because they required a lot of focus), he couldn't understand any of it. I'm not saying that's the case for all users, this is just me comparing 2 users of different systems.

"Moving beyond the alphabets, basic grammar, and basic vocab: sure, consume native content." - that's my worry with Duolingo. People get so used to the little level ups and 'X day streak' that they continue doing it feeling like they're progressing. Which they probably are but very slowly as it doesn't teach conversational language. The only part of Duolingo I felt like I enjoyed were the stories (the old version of them) or the conversations. But all the animations and videos around them made it so difficult to focus on learning that I gave up.
First of, you don't add the spoiler warning AFTER you spoiled it...

Besides that I know quite a few doctors who believe in homeopathy and don't understand statistics.

One doctor suggested pineapple enzymes. Expensive no study which would proof it's effectiveness and the only study had enzyme values 10x higher than the pills.

We are genuine not a smart society.

And I'm looking forward to have a better doctor who at least learns and gets better.

And yes controversial topics corona: I'm not even talking here about people who disagree on research paper I had discussions with people who not even read there own sources or believed a 80year old heart doctor over virologist.

We are dumb.

My father said once than EVs are stupid because the copper will be used up by the engines while having electric motors inachines like wood splitter or a table saw were he never ever had to replace copper wiring ...

Chatgpt will change the world because it is the best ui I ever saw and it will only get better and better every single day.
Not the only one. At the same time, they announced a separate scanner for incoming inappropriate photos over iMessage as a parental control feature. Unlike the photo library scanner, this one actually got released. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
These are some of the worst graphics I've seen on Wikipedia, hah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elaboration_Likelihood_Mo...

Looking like a high school Powerpoint presentation.
Part of the "tip for pickup" is that many restaurants ran on "pooled tips" where the tips would support/subsidize not only the waitresses, but also the bus boy, cooks, etc.

When they went full-online during covid with only pickup, they wanted to keep those people, and so suggested that you tip even on pickup.

I'd much rather just see increased prices where tips are no longer "needed" but I don't know how we'll get there.
The FDA is returning to pre-COVID rules because the change from those rules was predicated on the COVID emergency.

(The original rules may have been based on the motivation you describe, but the return is just ending the emergency suspension of the original rules.)
Whats wrong with R600a (isobutane)?

It can provide heating/cooling suitable for nearly all usecases in homes, offices and retail (ie. -100C up to +150C).

It isn't awful for the environment if vented (no ozone depletion, greenhouse effect less bad than driving your car a few miles if you vent a fridge/freezer).

Yes, it is flammable... But in typical quantities in a fridge (perhaps 60 grams), it's hard to do too much damage.

It is also cheap, easy to lubricate, unpatented, made by many suppliers and efficient.

I really don't understand why anyone would want to use anything else....
I'll grant you that - but the proposed legislation isn't requiring Apple to allow iMessage users to receive unsolicited messages from external services.
The article very well matches my experiences working with marketing in an early-stage startup for 1,5 years.
Would be nice to get some regulation for this.

It's really getting ridiculous.
Agreed. Who the heck inserts a citation into a paper without actually reading the source material? Maybe ChatGPT is a great way to reveal the frauds.
I remember something from a long time ago, very pre-Internet. Just checked and I found it easily enough. I would consider it apocryphal, but anyway, an address of

Wood,

John,

Hants.

Was interpreted as

John Underwood,

Andover,

Hants.

And it was claimed, eventually directly delivered. Supposedly

Edit: that and a few more, including (if true) and incredible address of just

C B N B
I can't recall anyone ever bringing a newspaper to a dinner table. I know what you're talking about but that was when you were informally hanging out and popping in and out of the room. The TV served the same purpose at times.
That Publishing fee is nothing compared to the cost of the research itself. It's a rounding error and can be easily included in any research funding. Free Access is a clear Win. Any research that can not afford that Fee for a peer Review makes me doubt what other expenses have they eliminated during that research.
To be fair though, that's influencing the decision that they make, at least averaged over many people.
Wonderful! An education in graphic design. See also Children's Books tab. I remember reading this version of Puss in Boots to my kids.
Actually... most cheap type-c wire don't even wire the super speed data line for usb3.0/3.1.

You can assume there isn't so much cheap wires for usb3.1/3.2 there.

Because wiring everything would double the cost and width of wire (due to whole 11 pair of wires) and people buying type-c wire for charging don't even use it.
Oh, I didn't realise that this proposal had been adopted!

I read[0] that "It will take about 50,000 years for a mean solar day to lengthen by one second (at a rate of 2 ms per century)" and "The [accumulated] difference between UTC and UT would reach 0.5 hours after the year 2600 and 6.5 hours around 4600" which I expect will be sufficient to take us through to the time where we will no longer need co-ordinated time or an IERS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
I think the scenario is that in the case of normal purchases, your profits need to be higher to cover these fees on any returns.
The (preprint) paper links to its repository, where its code eventually will be. I suspect it will be pushed around August 2023, before USENIX Security'23, where it will be published.

https://github.com/sslab-gatech/autofz
Apple exec on App Store (2012)
Really appreciate the support you have shown us. Splitgraph was the very first platform to adopt our free IP database. That means a lot. Hoping that it would be super helpful Splitgraph users. Thank you :)
That's just the online world.

Most people we interact with on this site are likely in a different timezone, for example.
Nor have I. But I'm afraid you're not getting it.

The point is that the technical means for control have already been demonstrated by iOS, not that anybody is forced to use iOS specifically. Governments could require that Google and other manufacturers implement similar controls. The walls of this sort of prison have already been designed and shown to work, all that remains is the political will to herd people in and lock the gates.
Society and culture are a shared mythology, without it you have a bunch of people doing their own thing but no real direction. Regions typically generated their own mythologies because of shared hardships. Religions typically co-oped those existing mythologies (though not always, genocide was used too) into their beliefs in order to more easily convert masses of fresh bodies.

Successful religions typically have a few meta-memes built in. "Have kids or get punished". "Teach those kids your religion or get punished". "Tell other people to join your religion" "If those other people don't want to join your religion turn them into fertilizer".

It's a very good way to spread a shared myth.
yes, definitely part of the mix (of what to cover building surfaces with) but a decision that probably happens higher in the flow chart. Mirrors vs paint in some sense closer substitutes.

Besides optimizing reflective performance versus monetary cost one would have to also take into account the full product lifecycle (dependence on fossil fuel, recyclability etc). I know what "a fresh lick of paint" means, no idea what "a fresh mirror coating" would look like :-)

But overall a fascinating topic which like the converse (insulation of buildings in cold climates) has a major footprint
I would also add Non DAW. Great example of modular design, extremely lightweight, non-destructive editing. The session files of Non Timeline are also comfortable and fun to parse or even modify with sed/awk etc scripts.

http://non.tuxfamily.org/

EDIT: Also, if you're a command line and text file weirdo like me:

Mixer4: http://www.acousticrefuge.com/mixer4.htm (From the homepage: "Mixer4 is an audio mixer and processor that can be controlled through simple text files.
Over a dozen accessory programs complete what can be a very solid recording studio." I can confirm that it is extremely fast and very interesting to use. Nice, responsive and friendly solo developer, too.)

And Ecasound: https://ecasound.seul.org/ecasound/
Sure, but fluke things exists. I had one young, fit, healthy, thin and nothing was found. I saw quite a lot (most for sure) of people on the young-stroke ward who were in the same boat.
Show HN: Mathesar – open-source collaborative UI for Postgres databases
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Mathesar is an open source tool that provides a spreadsheet-like interface to a PostgreSQL database.

I was originally inspired by wanting to build something like Dabble DB. I was in awe of their user experience for working with relational data. There’s plenty of “relational spreadsheet” software out there, but I haven’t been able to find anything with a comparable UX since Twitter shut Dabble DB down.

We're a non-profit project. The core team is based out of a US 501(c)(3).

Features:

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I’ve been there for a while. It’s getting out of hand, and has been since COVID.

During COVID I felt good about tipping because small businesses and restaurants were struggling, so it felt like I was doing something positive.

But then businesses got greedy, not only did they increase the prices (+50-100%) in some cases, but also increased the pre-programmed tipping percentages. Pre COVID used to be (12,15,20), now it is more like (18,22,25).

With the increase in prices I would actually tipping more $ even if they kept the percentages the same.

But it’s the greed of increasing percentages that is getting out of hand.

And also where tips are expected. Getting a drip coffee, a place where they just hand you the cup but you pour it yourself asked for a tip. What exactly did you do as a server in this case?

Getting an ice cream … you scooped it up and handed it to me. That’s your job, I am not sure what you did beyond your job description to get a tip.

I’m at the point where I just hit no tip out of spite for places that I don’t think deserve to have a tipping option to start with.

Restaurants, haircuts and bars are fair game, but I still think service has to be above par for more than 15% tip.
According to this article, it seems they want to sell it directly to chat applications.

"There's a company called Thorn that is lobbying for the scanning contract and would love to get a government mandate for its software to be installed into your chat clients," he said.

Apparently Apple didn't want to pay and developed their own in-house, only to scrap it after complaints from the public.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/clientside_scanning_c...
Plex works on iOS and video game consoles doesn't? You can install VLC or similar software on your iOS device and watch a downloaded mkv. People are often caught when selling or seeding a torrent file, which is easily avoidable by using a VPN or seedbox not by playing a rip of Dune.2020.4k.en.it.h264.mkv on their phone.

Piracy has been mitigated through better services at competitive prices offered by the likes of Steam, iTunes, Spotify or how Netflix used to be and not at all by law enforcement.
I'd think they'd just amend insurance policies to include the potential 3% revenue loss.