skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wanted to ask for those who worked as a cashier or waiter in those restaurants with the ipad style payment platforms if they actually receive the tips on those things. It always seemed like such a generic default option that was always left on in those apps that I wondered if the business even acknowledged them
> If you draw a sphere around a star collapsing into a black hole, you can treat it as a closed system. If the black hole evaporates, then all of the mass-energy of its progenitor original star needs to leave through these concentric surfaces.

That would be great if energy were a conserved quantity in General Relativity, which it isn't. Heck, we don't even know how to write down the total energy/momentum of a given spacetime volume.
I work at a Dominos and we of course accept and expect tips on delivery, because without tips the drivers would make <$5 an hour after paying for gas and their vehicle’s depreciation.

But at checkout for carryout orders the card terminal also now opens a tip menu. I would never tip on this screen because the employees are already paid a true hourly wage, albeit a low one, not a server rate that is below minimum wage.

Furthermore there is no way for the customer to know if the employee they are tipping is even one of the bottom paid line cooks or a manager or driver who are already making $20/hour at my restaurant—what most servers make after tips. I am a driver and sometimes accept payment for carryout orders and end up receiving credit card tips that should really go to the line cooks. When we aren’t busy I make an effort to reach over and click “no tip” for the customer, as checkout employees at other restaurants sometimes do for me, but sometimes it’s busy and I get tips anyway.

As others have said I think doing away with tips altogether would be best but it seems unlikely that will ever happen. A compromise would be to somehow ban “customer facing” tipping for things other than delivery—no tips at cash registers, only for “pay at the table” establishments.
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Why is anything related to Elon is so divisive. He is certainly a manifestation of the Trump phenomenon.
Please someone build a Adblock filter that blocks anything related to musk and trump. I’d pay for it
I’ve seen 27 movies with this plot, none end well :)
This needs a 2019 in the title...
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It's a short article:

A judge in Delaware on Monday rejected Tesla’s attempt to restore Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package after previously striking it down as a breach of the carmaker board’s fiduciary duty.
Lawyers for the shareholder who brought the original suit were also awarded $345mn, instead of the $5.6bn in Tesla shares that they had requested.
This is a developing story
Check your local laws about that - in some cities you can report those non-tip charges since as they are basically fraud.
Just for fun: any culture with silk could have made lighter-than-air hot-air balloons. And the way to prepare strong inorganic acid compounds was known then. Combined with metals like the tin in bronze it could produce hydrogen which could be trapped in oiled silk.
I knew about the TSS/370-based port but had forgotten its relevance

I can think of another: the University of Wollongong’s port of Unix V6 to the Interdata 7/32 started out running under Interdata’s OS/32, until the port advanced to the point that they could get rid of OS/32 and run it directly on bare metal. I suppose this differs from these other ports in that it was only ever intended as a temporary stopgap while the port could be completed, not as a final destination: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/...

The Princeton port that evolved into Amdahl UTS maybe also counts, since early versions could only run under VM, not bare metal. That meant they could use VM’s simplified paravirtual device API (hypercalls via DIAG instruction), that hid some of the complexity of mainframe IO-running on bare metal required dealing with those complexities directly
Microsoft stumbled into OpenAI and Google stumbled into Waymo. What's Facebook got?
A mandatory tip is an oxymoron. What do you mean exactly?
The solution is economic diversification.

"...sources suggest that 6 million Kenyans are employed directly or indirectly in the coffee industry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_production_in_Kenya

Also:

"Over half a million Kenyan smallholder farmers are farming coffee. But they only produce 2 to 3 kilograms of cherry per tree on average, while there is a potential of over 30 kilograms per tree. This low productivity, coupled with low prices and high costs for labour and fertilizer, make it extremely difficult for smallholder farmers to mitigate or adapt to climate change, invest in good practices, access markets and attract competitive prices. And in the end, the whole coffee value chain in Kenya is at risk."

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In mice, ~30% of neurons are silent [1]. Neuralink team is finding that most are silent, where they probe [2]:

> Also, most of them are silent. They don’t really do much. Or their activities are… You have to hit it with just the right set of stimulus.

> ... When you place these electrodes, again, within this hundred micron volume, you have 40 or so neurons. Why do you not see 40 neurons? Why do you see only a handful? What is happening there?

(Yes, I understand LLM aren't brains.)

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2022/silent-synapses-brain-1130

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kbk9BiPhm7o&t=7056
Speaking for myself, it is not a mental block, it is disgust with the social design of tip culture. Including tips, waiters are better paid than teachers, and many other more essential professions that require higher qualifications. The pressure is disproportionate to their financial situation. Let's normalize paying everybody what they are worth and do away with the tortuous guilt trips.

To be clear, I am promoting eliminating tips, and paying everybody in the lower 90% of wage earners more for their work. I have no interest in shortchanging waiters.
Hard agree on Harry August, also the book I usually recommend to anyone who wants a suggestion. If you liked it, I also seriously think you should try "Replay" by Ken Grimwood, similar, slightly, but an entirely unique and wonderful novel of its own. Also, a very poignant look at love in the context chaotically living your live again and again.
>The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from January 20th, 2025, when Donald Trump will officially become the 47th president of the United States.

Wow that's about as political as it gets.
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I added some AI assistance for generating SQL queries into my dashboarding tool. Now it's pretty dang easy for non-technical users to query db's and create dashboards - great for the whole team!
I've noticed a related phenomenon to this, one that (I assume) comes more from POS providers like Square than from businesses themselves: the default "flow" on these tablet-style POS systems doesn't distinguish between culturally tip-able transactions and ones that are not conventionally tip-able. As a result, people feel pressured to tip on things that weren't previously considered.

A concrete example: a bakery near me uses the same POS terminal for both cafe sales and bread sales, meaning I get asked to tip on loaves of bread. I've seen people get flummoxed and tip $1-2 on bread sales because of this.
There was a viral video[1] some time ago that showed the internal frame of the door detaching and getting stuck after being closed too hard. I can’t imagine a different outcome from a crash.

They tried the same earlier with a Toyota Hilux [2] and the difference is stark.

[1]: https://youtube.com/shorts/h1g-ixpbN3s

[2]: https://youtu.be/Yl1FNX08HFc?t=104
Yeah the news here is that Khronos is finally throwing their weight behind something modern as the "default" Vulkan shader language, as GLSL has been stagnant for years.
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The Knuth-Plass line-breaking algorithm is applied per paragraph; performance is typically not going to be an issue at all.

If you apply it to all paragraphs, yes, you will get pathological performance on some extreme cases—the algorithm is quadratic, if I recall correctly. But there’s nothing preventing you from trying to apply it in general, and giving up if the input is too long. So your five or ten line paragraphs get KP, and longer paragraphs get greedy.

There is absolutely nothing stopping browsers from applying Knuth-Plass. In fact, Firefox has had a bug about implementing it for 14 years <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181>, and there’s some useful discussion of things there. And CSS itself is finally actually going ahead with `text-wrap: pretty`, which encourages such things. Long ago, IE apparently even had it via `text-justify: newspaper` <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5189258>.
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That highly questionable and speculative accusation of “surveillance” is apparently based solely on the fact that employees are required to use Apple products for their work.
Not sure how much or if at all anything valuable was unlocked. Given this amount of paid talent and this amount people involved, surely the amount being unlocked should be proportional, was it?
>In particular I cannot see what's good in it for AMD. The fabs have no use/clear path forward. Their processors/gpu either match our outmatch the Intel offering.

I can, but it's not technical. Intel has a huge advantage in several markets, and has strong relationships with many OEMs like Dell. Intel, even though their market cap is now a fraction of AMD's, still has a huge lead in marketshare in OEM systems and servers. (Several other posts in this thread have real numbers.)

If AMD bought out Intel, it would now get all of that, and be able to push all these OEM and server customers into AMD's solutions instead.
Do you have any confirmed evidence of that? There have been rumors for years about Yelp but I’ve never seen stronger evidence than forum posts.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.04879
> proper cooking is not really objective though, and the moment you have anything involving brining, marinading etc. the salt level is kind of out of your hands.

Some things just need salt otherwise the result is very different from what is expected (things like pasta and bread, for example, similarly salt is important for some vegetables). Same thing for brined food, it is unreasonable to expect that to be unsalted. We just don’t have to be dogmatic about it.

> the two strategies to adjust this i've seen, are either

For European food, the easiest is just to put a salt pot on the table (and pepper, while we’re at it). It’s important to be able to adjust sauce and salt independently.
When this started showing up near me the places that did it trained their staff to tell you up front that it was on there. They'd make a comment that you can add extra if you wish, but no obligation to do so. Over time I've found more and more they just don't mention it at all. More than once I got home and realized I tipped on top of the total + service charge: "Why was that about $100 more than I thought it'd be?", well ...

Far more common here are ~3% "kitchen appreciation fees" that get paid directly to the kitchen staff. I'm AOK with these but some people really complain about them.
Still delivers a message to the establishment owner who may not realize that people hate it.
You have a fencepost error; the notes in Western music in equal temperament are C, C♯/D♭, D, D♯/E♭, E, F, F♯/G♭, G, G♯/A♭, A, A♯/B♭, B, then c an octave higher is the thirteenth.
I usually agree with this sentiment, but for some reason I think this language might just need time to become more known. I like it more than "HLSL" or "SpirV" for instance... Idk maybe I'm just biased
Thanks for mentioning this. I really enjoyed the video and learned a thing or two. Would recommend!
Slang is a language largely derived from HLSL. It's a solid leap in capability with more powerful features like generics. Largely as a language it brings shader languages out of the stone ages of plain procedural C and adds tools to help make writing composable shader code less awful.

Slang the compiler is also very cool because it can directly target multiple different languages. Slang can compile to (among other things) HLSL, GLSL, SPIR-V, MSL and WGSL directly. The next closest game in town is DXC which compiles HLSL to DXIL or SPIR-V, with most game engines using a soup of SPIRV-Cross and other translators to convert the SPIR-V to other languages like MSL.

It's shaping up to be a solid choice for a single-source shader pipeline. Especially if you care about being portable to MSL as the current 'state of the art' for turning HLSL into MSL is a fragile chain of several tools.
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I do not know anyone that has taken Depakote for the purpose of perfect pitch. The individuals that I have known have taken it for severe psychotic/mood disorders. From what I remember, it's not a fun time for the side-effects can be absolutely brutal.
Hey, I’m building agents on top of temporal as well. One of the main limitations is child workflows can not spawn other child workflows. Are you doing an activity for every prompt execution and passing those through other activities? Or something more framework-y?
> Then I need to decide if I want to tip something like 5% to 7% extra, which would be a good 25% tip in total

Jesus. Please don’t. Tipping 25% is absurd. Don’t normalize this.
it's like choose one of three options: 20%, 30% or more.
>The other reason being it involves a degree of social pressure and shame, if one doesn’t tip enough.

It's standard to tip 15% for decent service in a restaurant(sans win). You are of course free to tip more for good service or less for crappy service, but unless your experience is truly exceptional (in either a good or bad way) you can never go wrong with 15%. This is standard any US restaurant where you sit down and are served by a waiter or waitress. You are never "forced to tip", but you will be universally looked down upon in any sit-down establishment that you fail to tip in, so you might be best off not returning.
Seems like a huge waste of tin and silk.
Tips are mandatory in France? This is news to me. I’ll sometimes round up to the nearest 5, but nothing like the US.
Yawn- heroku used to be my go-to but hasn't been for years.
If you charge 3% just to credit card users, they are now subsidizing the cash customers. I am guessing you are assuming the cost of cash handling to be zero.
I like zefquaavius' "holistic summary" of the rules for Daybreak [1]. They've published a bunch of others games rules in this form too [2]. They're not sufficient to learn to play the game but are absolutely perfect for remembering the details of how the game works after you've learned once.

1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1blJZCDK2A8DC6f6akcCcQ9_M...

2. https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/190653/holistic-summaries...
-0 is a notation for 1 / -infinity, so it is distinct. For addition it is not.
84 hours/week is for amateurs. Call back when you hit 100 per week consistently.
Very valuable information. Tell us more about how safe Silicon Valley is these days? Amounts of unemployed, homeless and crime rates.
The fact that drugs that work for obesity are broadly effective against addiction suggests to be that obesity is often essentially a food addiction- e.g. possibly using food as a way to escape negative feelings or a response to emotional trauma.

Could the obesity epidemic have been all along downstream of a mental health epidemic that hasn’t been appreciated or acknowledged yet?

This would jive with my personal experience logging my weight with a digital scale for years. I tend to gain weight during or after stressful and traumatic events, and lose it when I am feeling mentally well.
I normally pay cash for food anyways as I don't want my eating habits data-mined for some future insurance penalty, etc.
> tips are tax-advantaged (there's no sales tax on the tip)

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the bigger tax that's avoided here is corporate taxes, I think. The tip goes directly to the employee, and it's thus not taxed as corporate income, is my understanding.

EDIT: Ah, I missed that corporate taxes were on net earnings rather than gross, so this wouldn't make any difference. Thank you!
If they'll spit in your food for not leaving a tip, they'll probably spit in your food for other reasons as well. Best to simply avoid those places.
On the other hand, it's nice to see them support the dotnet (I'm assuming through a well supported engine like mono).
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> It's standard to tip 15% for decent service in a restaurant

This is not true, and hasn't been for some time [1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-reported-tip-rat...
It's out of control. More tipping, more surprise charges, higher prices for the food itself, smaller portion sizes, worse or same service. Taking into account these factors, inflation is much higher than the CPI.
I think that should be between the shareholders and Musk.
Holy shit AD is a game changer.
Interesting experiment problem is bias in sample size
> More than once I got home and realized I tipped on top of the total + service charge: "Why was that about $100 more than I thought it'd be?"

Assuming the service charge was even 15%, for it to be $100 more than you thought it would be, your bill would be $600+ (simplifying for taxes)...

I don't go out for $600 dinners that often, though I have.

And that being said, I do think tipping does bring out some less sensical practices - why should the server get five times more for serving me a single bottle of wine if the wine was $100, versus $20? It was still a single bottle of wine.
Square is the most egregious offender of this in my neck of the woods. Outrageous tip options (usually starting at 20%) and a large screen that make your selection obvious leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I've witnessed multiple businesses switch to Square and the suggested tips skyrocket. I don't know if it's a default or just a coincidence.
Geeze, $100 more? So like your $400 dinner was $500 instead?
The Visa terms of service forbid charging extra for payments using a Visa. Other credit cards have similar terms I think.
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Musical notes are rarely (never?) a single frequency waveform - there are layers of ordered harmonics. Some peoples versions of perfect pitch often seem to have some reliance upon the particular harmonic structures that they've trained their ear to, e.g. a particular instrument.

And it makes sense that those extra layers of info and interplay would be useful to the brain as it makes its analysis. As opposed to the brain entirely brute-force-counting a notes primary frequency in some manner.

Interestingly, other aspects of music and listening can develop great levels of aptitude too - not just absolute pitch. Relative pitch is a common one, closely related to harmony. Rhythmic analysis is another - a suitably skilled listener or musician can audibly derive the exact rhythmic structure of extremely fast and/or complex pieces that would boggle the mind of a casual listener.
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This is some cool progress, but from what I gather it's not actually generating a "world". What I'd be really interested in is the capability of fully generating the geometrical world description in something like USD (Universal Scene Description).
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I think this will be solved once Credit Card Competition Act is approved.

Cash isn't a solution.