skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that if your game legitimately requires a long and complicated rule book that perhaps a board is not the best medium for the game.

My partner loves board games, and one of my takes that drives her nuts is that IMO most board games are better as a computer game where the tedious mechanics are automated. I am certainly an extremist in this way, I believe almost every board or card game ever made is better to play on a computer, but I think we should all be able to agree that a LOT of board games would benefit from automation.

Monopoly is a great example, because basically everyone has at least some understanding of the game and basically no one has ever played it entirely correctly in purely analog form. I have literally never seen anyone do the auctions in real life, mortgaging is rare, and other "house rules" like the pot on "Free Parking" are common. All of these things tend to cause the game to drag on forever, ironically the thing most of those same players will complain the most about.

If you play any of the computer/console versions the auctions are automatic and easy for everyone to participate. Some support the house rules as options, but they have to be enabled and some versions specifically warn that they will break the game.

Computers exist to automate tedious tasks, if your game has tedious mechanics that require a lot of text to explain it'd probably be better as a computer game where those parts can be automated and the player just has to make their choices within that framework.

In industrial safety one of the mantras is that if it's easier to do it wrong than right people will definitely do it wrong, so you need to make the right path also the easy path, sometimes changing entire systems or processes to make it that way. I believe the same logic should be applied to gaming. If your game is complicated enough that effectively no one is going to play it correctly as a board game, either simplify it so that's not the case or don't make it a board game.

My partner would argue that the physical interaction with the pieces/cards/board/whatever is what matters and computers don't have that, but I believe if I'm judging a game as a game then the gameplay not making me hate it is the most important part.
These kinds of behaviour change the entire relationship between you and a business from transactional to adversarial. You're no longer engaging in a clear transaction, but in a negotiation that involves guilt tripping and fear of judgement. I just want a beer; why do I have to defend how much my interaction is worth on top of the retail price?
Went bowling yesterday. A tip prompt turned up when it was time to pay with no obvious way to avoid tipping. To do so you just had to hit enter instead of picking one of the preset choices but I couldn’t fathom why I’d ever tip the guy who hands me my one shoe back after knocking down some pins.
Do you have more than 1 data point here?
In Canada, there is no longer any special wage below the minimum for servers. They receive the same minimum as many other blue collar workers.
It's over, there is no longer any reasonable argument for tipping servers but not a whole host of other low wage earners.
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the comment I replied to, and the comment he was replying to. Both are talking about the entropy humans hasten being somehow different from the entropy that is occuring without humans.
we're working on a way to make these conditional flows less tedious :) some good devX improvements coming soon!
well they must take cash anyway, so cost of handling cash isn't that significant compared to fixed+variable cost of credit card.
95% of people who use Photoshop would probably be served just fine by Krita, or even GIMP if they learned the somewhat wonky UI, and would save a ton of money in the process. However, people usually want to use the "standard" because of some vague fear that the alternative isn't 100.00% compatible, or that it won't have some obscure feature that they don't even know about yet, etc. I think Excel is exactly like this today, and so is Word. There are many alternatives that are just as good (and much cheaper) for 99% of users, but people still want to stick with "the standard" instead of taking a small risk on something different.

Maybe in the coming Great Depression of 2025, people will think differently and start looking at cheaper alternatives.
I loved being able to rent a game for weekend from our grocery store’s vhs department. I’d spend the rest of the trip home eagerly reading the guide while my mom shopped and I’d be so hyped to play the game by the time we got home.

It’s a good thing the games were plug and play in the console back then, I wouldn’t have had the patience to install and download a 3GB patch before starting
> Customers actually do have a way to retaliate against establishments they feel are abusive: leave a bad review.

What do you do if you don't want that review tied to your account/identity, or prefer the fact that you've gone to that establishment to not be published to the whole world?
It's a meta-language that compiles down to SPIR-V (edit: or other high level shader languages), if you already have your own solution for targeting those then you can just continue as you were. You're not forced to use it.
> 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.

The business should own the cars and pay for the fuel. Or they need to be at least compensating drivers by the mile at the current IRS rate. Especially considering Dominos charges a delivery fee. Where is that going to if not to the drivers?
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Great Kenyans are rare nowadays so it is definitely one of the worse blind picks one could make.
Apple Sued for 'All-Seeing Eye' Employee Device Monitoring Policy
I agree. AI is going to be (or already is) able to not only predict markets, but also uncover and plan strategies to MANIPULATE markets as well, thru both legal and illegal means.
Or maybe the mic IS being recorded. We don't know it for a fact until all phone software is open sourced.
"Which then continues to make me question at what point is a kitchen a factory? You've still never actually answered that question."

This is like asking when some grains of sand become a heap of sand. There's not some number of grains when it becomes a heap, but heaps of sand obviously do exist and 2 grains of sand is not a heap of sand.

Arguing about definitions is always boring.

If your food is getting produced at a Costco type bakery, yeah that's worse than abuela grinding the corn herself. You get enough abuelas together and it starts to look like the bakery from Costco.

Less "hands" in your food is directionally better.

Also, I know very well how sugar is made. My wife is Colombian and grew up on a sugar cane farm. They have a panela cabin which is industrial under some definition of the word. Eating panela is way worse than just chewing the stalk, or adding some cane juice to a dish at home. The labor to create panela in any useable quantity requires large and/or expensive tools. Even more so for white sugar. Even more so for Coca-Cola.

> And finally, candied bacon is really not an ultra-processed food? I truly don't understand what the definition of "ultra-processed" is if something which is cured in various salts, fried, and glazed with a refined sugar is considered a healthy, non-ultra-processed food. So long as I use the right sources of nitrates and refine the sugar myself. As long as it's not in a building technically considered a factory by cynicalpeace, its A-OK!

This is just ad-hominem and doesn't take anything I said at face value. Disingenuous and against HN guidelines. I didn't say candied bacon isn't ultra-processed. I said if you actually made it from scratch on your own, it'd be better than store bought.
3% is the cost of doing business.

you wanna charge customers for electricity too? what’s that - like 1% more? uniform / apron cleaning - 0.12%? anything else? :)
Doubtful. If they were on the bill that you were presented before handing over your card, you're assumed to have read and accepted the charges before payment.

The only exception would be if it was misrepresented as a tip, or tax (Telcos used to do that one, phrasing their fees as taxes, to the point that "you are not allowed to call a charge a tax unless that charge in its entirety is going to a governmental entity").
Is that based on any sort of actual data or are you just going off the scientifically supported totally unbiased data collection method known as ~:/vibes/:~ ?

I imagine the future looked pretty bleak during world war I, and then again during II, and maybe something else during the civil rights movement, or there was also the cold war. Cynics and optimists have existed since there was something to have feelings about. what's different about today to say that the cynics outweigh the optimists, in a way they never could in the past before?
I live in a place where owners aren't legally required to pay their employees tips and I too consider it fraud if the jar or machine describes the voluntary surcharge as a tip because a reasonable person would consider a tip to be something that is paid out to staff.

It's really tiring to know that there's no legal recourse for what is obvious and normalized fraud when law enforcement receives budget increases year after year.

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Not a downvoter, but it’s probably because it doesn’t really matter. If you want high speed connections for multiple devices, use a separate switch. Devices that are purely routers often have only a few ports, and you can use VLANs to multiplex subnets.

External ISP connections rarely exceed 1Gb in many parts of the world (for home connections especially), so there’s not much point in a faster link speed.

And the chip itself only supports 1x 2.5Gb and 1x 1Gb, so the choice was made for them. Maybe they could have limited both ports to 1Gb to avoid a perception that one port is hobbled.
It's not whether the behavior is logical or justified. It's that fast food is no longer worth the price you're expected to pay for it. Regardless of whether it's credit card fees or labor costs or energy costs causing prices to go up, the economics of fast food no longer make sense for the customer.

But also I don't understand why a cash customer paying the same price as a credit card customer should be considered paying more. The customer only cares how much they have to pay, they don't care about or feel entitled to a constant profit margin.

Would a customer paying cash ever switch to credit card just because they've learned the business profits more from the cash sale? No, of course not.
There was no substantial change in zoning, parking requirements, etc or oil subsidies between the when local stores were competing quite well with the big consolidated stores and the time when the local stores started disappearing and the big consolidated stores become dominant, so those cannot be the explanation.
I love the scene where the marines go in for the first time. They start out well-disciplined, well-trained badass marines, but things start to go wrong one by one. First, they have to put away their rifles (too close to the fusion reactor), then they see movement on the motion-detector but can't see anything ("Maybe they don't show up in infrared"). Once Apone gets killed, the entire unit falls apart. They come out shell-shocked and demoralized.

It's a great scene.
Knowing how these services work that is not surprising- most only use a microarray that can only identify the approximate relative abundance of specific small fragments of DNA, it does not read the DNA sequence directly. They then probably have a very primitive analysis that assumes you have dog dna, and returns the same breed as whatever reference sample it is closest to. They almost certainly would have no reference data on a highly endangered African wolf.
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Manned silk hydrogen balloons as battlefield surveyors played a hugely important role in the american civil war. But yeah, it might be a bit much given the very remote sites of tin mining for most of the bronze age. Other metals like iron also work but are almost equally scarce at the time.
Why not? Ram is ram, storage is storage.
exactly. you’d get banned from visa and then you may as well close the shop
There is effectively no special below-minimum wage in the US either. The servers have to be paid at least minimum wage, with tips or not.
my point was that all of the activities that we humans engage in are the activities that create the pollution;

but they are also the activities that extend our life expectancies. You can't separate them.

Claiming that pollution is killing without point out the benefits of what is creating the pollution is lying. Industrialization created the world we all enjoy, the largest population of humans enjoying their lives at the same time as have ever lived. It is the essence of intellectual vacuuity to miss that.
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Not to mention, as someone who spent a few years in that industry, in many cases those cash customers are not getting reported to the IRS, or local authorities for sales tax.

So they could already be "saving" up to 10% or more on cash customers...
>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.

Or that both addiction and obesity are downstream of dysfunctional satiety sensors, leading to a "void" that the body-mind system attempts to "fill" in one way or another.
Most people do think about pricing - not to the penny, sure, but you have to be really rich not to have an idea about roughly where going out will fit in your budget. There are two reasons why tipping is popular: restaurant owners think it motivates employees to flatter/put up with customers and/or allows them to skim some extra income, and there’s a certain type of diner who loves the power imbalance (e.g. every guy who sexually harasses waitresses loves pushing to see how much they can get away with, or the demanding people who calibrate their behavior just below the level where someone’s going to decide that the chance of a tip isn’t worth it).

The first group likes to tell high-income service workers that their pay will go down without tipping, which is fairly effective at finding people to be the media front saying workers don’t want to get rid of tipping instead of the other 90% who are guaranteed to benefit.
It's not just a spir-v frontend, it also transpiles to other shader languages.
Peace and love is all well and good until your crops have failed for the third year in a row. Your food stores are empty. You killed and ate all of the livestock last season because there was nothing left to feed them. There's nothing wild to hunt. Your village has resorted to eating anything it can scavenge, even if it's inedible or even poisonous. People are gnawing on their fingers.

And it's like this for your village and your neighboring village and their neighboring village and so on.

Tell me about it when your neighboring villages' adult men are charging down the hill at you, filthy, starving, crazed and screaming at the top of their lungs, axes in hand.
What do you do for coffee shops? Or restaurants that ask for payment & tip first, then bring you your food, and don't do anything else?
Walmart has been making around 2% profits for a decade. Do you think that Walmart is less than 2% cheaper than small neighborhood grocery stores?
> energy were a conserved quantity in General Relativity, which it isn't

It is conserved, except at cosmological scales. Locally GR conserves energy the same as any other self-consistent physical theory.
No wages are deducted so they don't pay income taxes on them anyway.
FYI - The tipping option on Square POS is a default setting that automatically generates default tip ranges.

In a lot of cases, the vendor just enables tips and doesn't care to optimize.

Alternatively, you could always tip in cash or just not tip. I've never been in a situation where I've been forced to tip and I've eaten at restaurants at all ranges of quality.
They may be right in their dismissal but those reasons don't have much to do with it. Maybe the current round of machine learning will or already has hit a wall where this is as useful as it gets. Maybe that means something approaching the ability for technology to iterate itself faster than humans using technology can will require systems completely unrelated to machine learning in any way meaningful (or maybe we will never find such technology at all in our time). Maybe if machine learning turns into something which solves that level of problem it means bad news for humanity anyways (pick your reason how). All of those are direct reasons to doubt the current wave of technology as a universal savior.

If, on the other hand, you believe the current round of machine learning will accelerate expansions to its own abilities until eventually it is augmented enough that it can iterate improvements in output faster than we can then a lot of those things you list don't seem unreasonable. After all, there is a canyon of a difference between "having an answer" and "having a solution". Saying "get rid of your AC, stop taking vacation, only go places you can walk or bike, don't eat the food you like" and so on is an answer to climate change..." and so on provides an answer but one only a select few will ever take as it's an unattractive answer. What, though, if clean energy were 5x cheaper to make, 5x cheaper to store, and we found that 5x faster than we were expecting to? Suddenly you have solutions you couldn't have normally hoped for on things like climate change, not just answers nobody has been interested in. Types of solutions that make profitable sense (e.g. why spend money burning all of this non-renewable fuel to get the same energy at so much more cost?) instead of just moral sense. Types of answers that allow people to do more instead of less and still not have the downsides.

Of course... you have to really believe that first bit is going to get us there. If you don't (e.g. I don't think the current models will really get us in that loop directly, though they'll continue to be extremely good tools to leverage for certain use cases) then sure, it seems like bupkis to talk about those things. Even if you do believe the first bit... you also have to believe it won't be the end of us for some reason or another too and it's a bit of a thin line to sit on between those two views.
What about the POWER9-based Talos II systems? Extraordinary niche, I know, but aren't they PC-ish?
Starting on that day, X will be run by the head of a department of the US federal government.

As they point out, it’s turned into a site full of misinformation and political rhetoric, and Musk decides what’s acceptable.

So, it’ll literally be a government-run propaganda site as of that date. Precedent says the press should not touch it.

State run propaganda sites that target domestic audiences are illegal in the US, so, by law, Musk should be forced to divest, or stop operating X in the US.

Of course, I’m not holding my breath. I don’t expect any member of the Trump administration to obey the law, and I’m sure plenty of people will defend them when they do break it.
Is there a relationship between revenue for the restaurant? Or total tips earned?

If low-privacy tipping decreases loyalty, is it overall positive from the business’ perspective?
I don't think that there is any need for "Technical nit:" and it looks a bit aggressive to me and without any substantiation.

Why not say your piece and be done at that point in time? You can respond to counter arguments as they arise in child comments.

Why not kick off with "Here at {wherever}, we find that ... crossing the streams is a really bad idea" or similar?
To be fair, by "more than once" I meant 2-3 times, not a regular occurrence. :)

The last time it happened was ~300 + 20% service charge + a tip that'd have been in the low-mid 20's. That works out to be a bit under $100. It started to bug me on the walk home, and I double checked the receipt. I don't like scrutinizing receipts but I've started to do it a bit more.

> 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.

The argument, which one can choose to agree with or not, is that the kind of place where one is buying a $100 bottle of wine has a higher degree of training, care, etc involved.
> At steady state, a classical black hole is fully described just mass, charge, and angular momentum.

That's just wrong, we know this not to be the case from QM information theory and from thermodynamic arguments! This is the main point Hawking was making. While we don't yet have a good microscopic theory of what's going on, macroscopically we know that the information (entropy) doesn't just vanish into three numbers.
Heroku is still probably the platform that offers the most well built-out "here's all your operational needs for the first N years of your business" system, without causing you to have to deal with a billion concepts.

I have found Heroku to be going downhill a lot, but after moving away from it I often feel a bit of regret from this decision. You get _so much_ operational niceness out of the box with Heroku.
I'm also from a culture where tipping doesn't happen. I've been living in the US for a number of years, and I rarely go to a restaurant here, because the experience is too awkward.

On the other hand, I find delivery services quite reasonable. They tell me the total price (including the expected tip) before I order. You rarely see that kind of honesty in an actual restaurant. And I don't have to see the person I tip, which makes the experience much less awkward.
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Funny you mention this. In my brief stint there, I saw a fresh college graduate get promoted to a lead for a Scanning Unit simply because the current lead was retiring (I was actually offered that position, but I was leaving and turned it down). They were trained in less than a month by shadowing the lead on-the-verge-of-retirement. The engineer who got promoted was at Intel less than a year, and had no prior internship experience (they were hired in 2021 when chips were in desperate need of talent. You might recall the chip shortage that affected cars etc.)