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Even used a Wawa's automated ordering system?

They've covered pretty much everything you mention here with their automated ordering system. It's got a great UI to quickly customize your order, has very tempting upsells that also aren't terribly annoying, like a screen asking if you'd like sour cream for your quesadilla for $0.25 or a buttered roll with your cheddar broccoli soup. You can tap skip, but it certainly seems to make most people think first, unless they already know the system well and aren't interested.

It also provides recommendations in a couple ways, to cover people who don't already know what they want. Unobtrusive, but available to spur a purchase.

And the employees behind the counter will generally handle special requests outside the scope of the system when you ask. Although admittedly, while they are usually fairly approachable, there isn't a clear way to get one's attention.

They really seem to have nearly perfected the automated ordering system, and I'd never go to an ordinary deli with a Wawa available. It's just too convenient.

Of course, I may be biased in that I get intimidated by human interactions where I don't know the protocol or the options available to me. So, ordinary deli places tend to put me off. Still, Wawa is incredibly popular in this area, so I can't be the only one.
Don't you feel the Lain character was on the fast track to become an hikikomori if the in-story universe didn't follow through with the scifi/fantasy storyline ?
Whoops, I meant to say "up to the largest minority failing", if a majority is lost then the gig is up! Too late to edit!
Very clear and interesting concept:

https://app.drchrono.com/ehr-emr/medical-form-templates/5561...
I find it is much more common to be asked when you are in line at the drive-thru compared to walk-ins.
Not the OP, but likely many of them didn't get jobs at all because they didn't need to.
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A buddy did a job not unlike that. He worked for Schlumberger oil in AIDS infested Africa. He came back addicted to quinine and debt free.

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To the downvoters, I meant no disrespect but it was a fact.

It was AIDS infested Africa. Entire villages were wiped out by a disease. That didn't matter because there was oil to be extracted.

We heard less if at all about it here. But we got the oil.
The 2007 UI was a major step backward in term of productivity. Everyone I know who uses Office extensively still miss the 2003 UI.

Also there are lots of use cases that they never bothered fixing or improving, which show they don't really use it. Like non resizable windows in excel (eg function wizard). Linking a powerpoint deck to an excel model (no good solution now). No way to do placeholders within a textbox in powerpoint (like you can in word). VBA not having evolved in nearly 20 years. You don't see this sort of "I don't give a shit" attitude with Visual Studio.

I am sure someone in the finance or marketing department at Microsoft uses office and is as frustrated as every other power user. But the developers in the office team clearly do not use their own product. If there are still any dev in the office team. The only changes I see from version to version are purely cosmetic.
> Not the same games but Uncharted 4 multiplayer is 1080p 60fps and silky smooth.

Uncharted 4 is only 900p 60fps in multiplayer, and 1080p 30fps in single player (on a regular PS4)

But regardless, if your going to switch up the games, Fast RMX runs at 1080p 60fps on the Switch, even in multiplayer mode.

Yeah, the Switch does not hit the performance of a PS4. But the Switch has just 1/3rd the power draw of a Slim PS4. (Roughly 30 watts average for the Switch, compared to roughly 80 watts average for the Slim PS4). It's not bad hardware at all, when you consider the power budget it's required to operate under, in order to be portable.
Besides other benefits mentioned, a spinlock is a user-space construct; you don't incur the overhead switching to kernel mode at the loss of the benefits and guarantees those primitives provide. (I'm simplifying some.)
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https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm#2015

If anyone else wants data on this assertion (farming as one of the most dangerous jobs in the US). It certainly appears to be up there, in both gross and per capita numbers. Seems to largely (for agricultural workers) be associated with transportation (not equipment, so perhaps the way many workers travel around fields and all in the back of trucks and similar unsafe methods?).
BTW this Chrome Extension makes it track users in HN comments: https://github.com/brhs/hnuserlist (e.g. read all of mwseibel's comments)
This seems like a victory for labor. Improving working conditions for unskilled labor is a good thing.
Nothing helped me appreciate education and hard work like working as a produce clerk at a second rate grocery store, seeing day in, day out, the same customers buying the same horrible processed foods, and the same burnout co-workers showing up stoned out of their minds to deal with the shit jobs they work to afford their weed to help them deal with their shit jobs.

Taught me more about life than any class or book ever could.
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That sounds like a great way to drive people away. An ordering system more annoying than a pushy salesperson? I'm going across the street instead, unless literally every option around does the same thing. And if Wawa in my area is any indication, there will be better options.
Usually I-frames are a small minority of the frames. Most frames encode motion information. So the decoder takes picture data from previous frames and moves it according to the motion vectors. Then, if the result was deemed too inaccurate by the encoder, there will be a little more picture data for the current frame. Having accurate motion vectors is more important than having perfect color reproduction.
Have a friend whose family owns a tree nursery in Texas. They tried very hard to hire Americans. Most of the people they talk to just aren't up to the job. Most people they did hire quit the first day because the work was too hard.

After the fourth American cut the tip of their pinky off in the first couple of hours on the job and sued, they stopped trying.
> How do we get the unemployed Midwesterners into Napa Valley?

Just a thought:

Government loans with low interest, delayed and income-contingent repayment, and forgiveness after a set period of on-time payments for relocation expenses for unemployed adults with job offers outside of their own immediate area. Getting people to where the work is good for the public fisc, good for employers, and good for the people involved.
But I think he may be right, at least about being downvoted indiscriminately.
I feel targeted by an action like that for several weeks. It's irritating and
tiring, as usual comments that half a year ago wouldn't warrant a downvote
trigger one now.

Though in my case it doesn't seem to be a group, just one individual.
Getting tech workers to leave (or at least stemming the flow) is an explicit policy goal of the progressives controlling SF.

They might want the jobs if they were going to the local poor. Not jobs that outsiders move in for.
They are just describing power iteration which is a standard technique for finding the primary eigenvector.

It is commonly used for web scale recommendation problems which likely explains it's usage given the author's prior background. Also underlies pagerank.

AFAIK it is quite stable but converges slowly. From my experience within 50 iterations you will have converged to a stable result.
The staggering low wages on Californian farms is preventing proper incentivisation to automate these processes. It reminds me of how slaves in the antibellum south prevented the area from becoming industrialized.
Just curious, what's a practical application of geometry shaders?
Its harder because most people don't have to option to change to another ISP if they don't like the behavior of their current one.
This argument is a bit double-edged. Okay, so it's implicitly immoral to keep immigrants out. But it's moral to hire them for jobs that Americans won't do because they're so unpleasant?
Has anyone here even worked a minimum wage job??

A few dollars an hour above the baseline isn't enough to compensate for the long term health and career advancement penalties you'll be taking. These are terminal career positions; they don't get better. Hauling apples and hay isn't going to get you a spot at a tractor design firm.

Pay people enough to make a decent, comfortable life and you'll have workers. The CoL/wage arbitrage between foreign and american workers is what makes these jobs work.
Any insight into what does In n' Out does differently? They seem to continue to attract that demographic.
I lived in northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri for 12 years, until 2009. Not only is this where the Tyson corporation is based, but it's also where one of the highest densities of chicken farms are located.

We lived in a house in an extremely rural area. I made good money doing high tech work at the nearby WalMart Stores, Inc., home office.

Most of our neighbors, for miles in every direction, were pretty poor. Many of them lived in broken down trailers on properties handed down generation after generation. Unemployment was very high.

A kindly, law abiding man who went to our church ran one of the many chicken farms, and had for decades.

The only people he could find to work on his chicken farms were Latinos, many or most of them were probably illegal. They did provide proper documentation, so he wasn't breaking the law by employing them.

I asked him how he ran his farm before the Latinos started arriving 15 or so years earlier. He said that in that time, it wasn't hard to find young people who were happy to do the hard, unpleasant work associated with a chicken farm. He said he hadn't raised his wages past minimum wage since the very beginning.

In fact, he said, the Latinos worked a lot harder than the native locals had.

> Americans live in more than just CA, I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley.

While not adding much of anything to this conversation, and being needlessly snarky, I understand the fundamental sentiment here. I live in 'Sillycon Valley'. In many ways, it is quite silly here, and a lot of folks have a rather insular mindset, one that I personally try hard to keep clear of.
Here is an old, but good, article explaining how often words in different languages sound similar just by chance: http://www.zompist.com/chance.htm
Thank you, well said.
This is not true, it would be true if all wages were rising but we want to increase the wages of the most poorly paid compared to highly paid people.
Yeah no shit no one wants the job. The industry needs to adapt. You can't keep paying people more to solve the problem, it doesn't work. No one aspires to earn 30k a year anyway.

Ultimately the jobs need to be replaced by machines or the cost of labor needs to get passed on to the consumer. It might be the end of two buck chuck.
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I suspect that the fitness bar for farm work is pretty high. Typical immigrants are arguably in better shape than typical locals. If for no other reason than the fact that they had successfully immigrated.
Australia tried that. Total disaster.
Hayek as well.
"It wasn't as cool to work at fast food, and the area was becoming more affluent."

If you walk into a 7-11 in Scandinavia (yes, they have some there) - esp. in a small town - you'll sometimes see a drop-dead '10' Swedish model working behind the counter.

Why? Because 'it's normal' for people to do such jobs - as you say - 'when you were young' it was normal.

When those jobs are done by non-citizens, especially of a different ethnicity, then there is a 'stigma' associated with that work, and the social value drops quite a lot.

The notion that 'the area became more affluent' and kids wouldn't do those jobs is a total misrepresentation of reality.

A) If the social context didn't change, then kids would do those jobs.

B) 'They had to hire illegal migrants' is again another lie. As the area becomes more wealthy - guess what - wages are supposed to rise. Yes, that means the price of burgers should rise a little bit as well. But it's again, a total misrepresentation, borderline lie to imply that the 'only way to have service workers is to hire illegal workers'.
This is beyond false.

The anecdote you described provides the fundamental basis for the rise of inequality in America.

The notion that 'illegal workers' must be used to support economic activity is obviously unfeasible in the long-term, that somehow growth depends on a class of workers who'll work below the real prevailing wage - and who cannot organize, collect social security, healthcare etc.

No - it's completely upside down.

There are so many places in the world where 'regular kids' continue to work at McDonald's. Wages and benefits are higher, and there is no real social stigma. (Of course, working at McD's is never going to be considered a choice job, but you did it :) )

"I do think something is missing though when kids don't learn what it's like to hold a retail type job dealing with the public."

Yes - I fully agree. Been there.

But a bifurcated society creates stigma and deep 'social class signalling' in these jobs and it destroys the social compact.

Imagine this for a moment: that Obama or Trump gives all illegal migrants instant citizenship with full rights, healthcare, the right to organize labour, social security.

Then guess what happens by the 'illegals are necessary economic logic': McDonald's has to 'fire the new citizens' and 'hire actual, new illegals'!

It's a destructive, unsustainable Ponzi scheme.

Local wages should rise until the jobs are filled.

Some farming jobs just won't work out - those crops can be grown elsewhere.

Yes - we need to treat people with humanity and dignity and there'll always be some people who 'fall through the cracks' - but the systematic importation of illegal workers on a large scale is inhuman.
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Your post makes it sound like the only place for tech jobs is the Bay Area...which I find is not true as an east coast remote.

I mean, yeah if you move to rural South Dakota you won't find much, but there are plenty of growing tech centers like Raleigh, Boulder, Austin, etc. that have much lower cost of living, but still a lot of availability in local tech jobs.

Also to note, the 3-9 month job search should be much more sustainable in Nowheresville, whereas in SF you are going to be screwed if your job search is extended.
I find my comments, made over many years, to be civil and substantive. I find you dang to be a disruptive propaganda artist. Ban me if you wish as part of your viewpoint censorship efforts, I don't mind at all. I stand 100% behind all I said, and I denounce you dang as an enemy of democracy and truth. Only you can live with the hate in your heart, your dishonesty, your censorship, and your war against truth and reality. You make your bed of dishonesty, corruption, censorship and manipulation, and you lay in it. It is your choice to do so, and in so doing to harm humanity.
Status, status, status.

Another way to think of it might be: How much would I have to pay you for you to walk around with a small amount of shit on your forehead all day?

We have somehow gotten ourselves in the position where manual labor relegates one to be a social untouchable. This means that anyone with a shred of self-interest gets out ASAP, which means the political power of labor is disproportionately weak in comparison to its size.

It's like how Stranger Things HAD to be set in the 80's---because you can't have sympathetic characters in small towns in the modern era, because anyone with a head on their shoulders gets out as their first order of business.
I am a fairly unknown random person, and I get about 100 people a day to my personal blog, hosted on github pages. I don't promote it at all, it's mostly organic search results on whatever problem I've had to solve or solution I've discovered. I post once every few months.

Occasionally I get an email thanking me for a post, or correcting some error.
I host Ghost on a digital ocean VM. $5 a month isn't too bad hosting anything.
I've been using budgetvm's openvz VPS's for 2 yrs. Fairly happy, plenty of options for space if you need it.
Look at static blog generators (hugo, jekyll) + s3 + cloudfront. You don't pay unless you have traffic.
If they try to counter these incentives by letting more housing get built, that would be a positive outcome, no?
> If the market doesn't want to build it, we should think hard about whether we should build it

There are good reasons to expect market failure here. New players very rarely enter infrastructure markets with existing incumbents because having to compete with the incumbent in a natural monopoly market is not expected to be profitable.

And the "accidental duopoly" markets aren't going to do it. Both players try as hard as possible not to compete with each other because they both know that increasing speeds or lowering prices would only provoke the same response from the other and make them both less profitable.

So you're really asking whether a monopoly incumbent would do it, which doesn't have much to do with markets at all -- it turns on whether the cost is more than the increase in monopoly rent it would allow rather than whether the cost is more than the value. And the existing monopoly rent is already high because even slow internet is much more valuable than none.

> And if the government does build it, we should ditch the emotional appeals for FTTH and rely heavily on sensible, cost-effect point-to-point wireless.

FTTH is a one-time expense. The maintenance cost of underground fiber shouldn't be any higher than wireless, and then you don't need to worry about spectrum or wireless line of sight obstructions or interference or any of the other problems with wireless.
Sorry for being unclear. You said: "Nobody bats an eyelash when doctors refuse to help with executions". So I just wanted to flip it around; if the doctor willingly agrees to assist in an execution, what, if any, implications or judgments does that entail?
1) Coping mechanisms around death aside, there's no "comfort" in building a "successor" in the form of a bot that tiles the universe with paperclips, or with neural networks that minimally satisfy some notion of "interesting" while taking up as few atoms as possible to maximize the number of them, or many other utter failure modes (which far outnumber successful outcomes). We're not talking about "smart alien-like intelligence that just doesn't care about humans", we're talking about the equivalent of an industrial accident but on a species-wide scale.

2) It's reasonable to think about how our values might change in the presence of superintelligence; we certainly shouldn't assume that our present values should forever dictate how everything works. That's different than allowing a view that sentient beings who exist today might have no value.

> In fact it's the only way to do it because there is no way to know certainly that a superhuman-AGI will ensure the longevity of humanity.

There's no way to know certainly; there are ways to know that the outcome has higher expected value than not having it, given the vast set of problems it can solve and the massive negative values associated with those problems.
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But why move people out with large government funding? Why not move some work there?
Right now and in the past.

If the job was so high paid and cushy then why would there be 100% turnover? And 100%? You believe there's literally nobody who is a trucker for more than a year? You are not making any sense.

"Pay for truckers varies by distance and employer. Glassdoor estimates median pay for truckers drivers -- mostly long haul drivers -- is $54,000. The American Trucking Association says that truckers who work for a private fleet can earn up to $73,000 a year."

Up to, not minimum. For someone who's very experienced not some inexperienced bozo off the street who doesnt even have a CDL. Not even the frigging industry claims you're going to make $90k your first year.
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> My favorite book of all time, Blood Meridian

I'm reading Blood Meridian for the second time now - I think I like it even more now than the first time.
>Can't work with untreated illnesses and injuries, so healthcare costs go up.

Unless it's cheaper to train a new slave and euthanize the old slave.
I recently switched my old VPS-hosted Wordpress blog to a static site generated by Middleman[1] hosted on Github pages[2]. It's been a really nice way to maintain flexibility of design with a huge boost to performance and improved development/writing workflow. I use markdown so I can even write my articles in a markdown editor if I want to.

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Interpersonal skills are future job skills.

Technical skills are only useful if they command a salary lucrative enough to live on but not so lucrative that you find yourself on the automation chopping block.
It's pretty obvious, you aren't anywhere close to being an adult which you mistake yourself for.

Instead I'm going to end this conversation because you are being juvenile.

Have a nice Friday
Because I've tried Rails, as well as Python, node, C#, Java, PHP and Scala based stuff and I find it hard to say Rails is objectively the best.
I use Pelican (static generator) and host on Digital Ocean (calebmadrigal.com).
I was a reluctant Trump voter. I didn't so much vote for Trump as against Hillary.

I wouldn't have voted for Bernie either but I would have been more likely to follow my initial desire to case a protest vote for a third party candidate.
This is at least partly because employers have gotten too picky. They want unicorn candidates that will work for a pittance, and if they can't find them, then they expect the government to provide them through guest worker visas or other forms of corporate welfare:

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-good-people-c...

This is particularly bad in tech. When good jobs are seemingly always out of reach, it's understandable that some people eventually just give up:

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

It's also worth noting that young men are dropping out of the marriage market too, given how risky a proposition marriage has become for men. If you don't plan on having a wife or a traditional family, then your living expenses plummet. Why work yourself to the bone to pay for a big house, multiple cars, or the other costly trappings of married life that a modern family requires (or at least, a modern wife demands) if you don't plan on having one? In a way, it's actually quite brilliant, because feminism has traditionally worked to secure women's independence by just shifting their dependence from their fathers and husbands to the state in the form of public assistance, which women consume vastly more of, and which men vastly more subsidize through taxation. What happens when men work less and pay less in taxes, and the till no longer remains full?
He answered a similar question (mine) below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13895615
What we did to completely automate our sales process
The plan that I had for years increased in cost by roughly 50% in one year.