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Less waiters in the city presumably means rising wages for the waiters that are in the city. If wages can't rise enough to have adequate staff, restaurants close. If restaurants close, real estate values decline. If real estate values decline, waiters can afford to live in the city.

Unfortunately, subsidized housing and welfare enable businesses to pay less than a living wage. People that are in poverty are kept in poverty, and the businesses have a captive labor force.

It's almost like there's a specific cause and effect.
The new Atlanta soccer team, Atlanta United, actually plays in the new NFL stadium that the state spent $1.6 billion to build [1]. Average attendance was 53,000 for Atlanta United this year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Stadium
> All that stuff dates from the era of "if only we had an affordable memory device."

I kind of figure that many of the techniques developed in this era are likely still in use in the embedded space, out of sight of the rest of the programming world. Is that hunch correct?
That works great for small utility trailers, but not many tall cargo trailers or RV trailers can work that way. Some might be under the weight limits, barely, but when you factor in the wind resistance, and the shorter wheelbase of a sports car, it could be very dangerous.
As you say there's a few current accounts that will give you decent rates on smaller amounts but you'll have to set up the minimum pay-ins as standing orders (which works on almost all of them, I've had a fair few). You can also do the whole switching-for-bonuses thing which is much easier than it used to be and will give you an OK return but is more work than most people are willing to put in.

However, if you're looking for something slightly better than what you've got now there are currently a fair few 1.5%ish easy access accounts available that you could just dump your savings in and make a fair bit more than you're currently getting. You can get 2-3% if you're willing to lock some up for a year+.

ISAs are irrelevant for most people since the personal savings allowance came in - if you're earning less than £500/£1000 per year in interest (depending on income) then you won't pay tax anyway.

moneysavingexpert.com has excellent round ups of this sort of thing.
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My experience has been that even all in, renting a truck once a month is not really that much cheaper, since buying a truck vs a car is not really a huge cost difference. Practically, getting to a place to rent a truck still sucks, and the whole process is still fairly inconvenient. It's nice that you don't need a car, that works with your lifestyle. OTOH, I don't commute, but my only vehicles is a large pickup truck because it is much more convenient for the things I do.

One size does not fit all, especially with expensive and utilitarian items like cars and trucks.
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Exception, not the rule.

> So your theory that waterfall always works considerably better is demonstrably false.

Uhmm, no? You pointed to a single building and you want to use that one exception to prove a point? Constructed during a time with considerably less federal & local bureaucracy? Seriously?
I haven't been following the lead-up to this announcement, but it seems to have involved much less fanfare and public drama than Amazon's HQ2 decision did. Bezos insists on squeezing every last drop out of a negotiation (see also: Amazon de-listing hard copies of books while the ebook negotiations are ongoing), so is Apple less malevolent or do they just enjoy more inherent leverage than Amazon does?
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Not really. If they want to live in the city and can't afford it on their current pay, then maybe focus on getting a different job.
That seems logical to me.
Waterfall is still quite popular, just under different names. Most of the "agile" projects I come across are really mini-waterfall. And some supposedly agile processes, like SAFe, don't even really qualify as "mini". The main difference is that some Agile labels and rituals have adopted. But there are still large deliverables whose plans are completed in advance of production beginning. Delivery is heavily or entirely weighted toward the end, with no expectation of iteration or product improvement based on early release. The major difference with the waterfall of yore is that the chunk size is not 18-36 months, but more 2-4 months.

In contrast, modern Agile shops release early and often, with product choices for an initiative being informed by the real-world data generated by actual use. As an example, last I did a startup, our team of 6 was releasing a few times per day. The product manager would have an idea, find the minimum essence of it, and we would build and release that. User tests and live user data would quickly tell us whether the experiment pointed in the right direction; we'd then either double down on our bet and build a little more or we'd change direction. The average cycle time between having an idea and testing it was under a week for us. In mini-waterfall shops, that number is generally months.

The reason the 18-36-month version of waterfall died out was not modern communication tools. When my dad was a developer in the 70s and 80s, you had nothing like remote work. There was a special room that the computer was in, and everybody had directly connected terminals in an office they went to every day. Some places were pure waterfall. A few were doing what we'd now call Agile, releasing new software every few days and seeing how it helped.

From the way my dad tells it, the difference in the waterfall and non-waterfall shops was the extent to which executives preferred a sense of ultimate control over trusting expert staff. I agree that hasn't changed. What did change to force many companies to a shorter cycle was the change in expectations created by the rise of the internet. 18 months seemed a very long time on the web. (Although as late as 2004, I knew about one prominent brand name that did annual releases for their website.) So you'll see that consumer software now comes in smaller chunk sizes. That's sometimes true in the enterprise context and sometimes isn't. I know of 18-24-month projects at large, traditional organizations with controlling executives, captive user bases, and low-competition business environments.

So waterfall hasn't gone away entirely; it may have gotten a facelift and been forced to retreat to the margins, but it's still definitely there.
Good points.

I don't care much about the visual layout of Jupyter notebook, so in this sense, it is not much different than spreadsheets.

However, when I say Jupyter cells are nothing but messages to/from the kernel, it is profoundly different than spread sheets where cells can be message as you described. The same with distributed runtime states. Spreadsheets may also be distributed, but Jupyter notebook runtime is always distributed. You might have a half system like nbviewer that doesn't have a kernel running, but that is not a full Jupyter system.
(I am distinguishing Jupyter runtime from the JSON byte stream artifact that we call a notebook file)
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In Ireland, pickups are fairly uncommon (probably because of the weather), but 4x4s like Land Cruisers, Patrols, Defenders, Discoveries, etc are really common.

The only category we don't have is what Americans call light trucks.
Yes, in as much as forcing waiters (and presumably other hourly service workers) to commute long distances for work has costs... more traffic, more stress / worse health, family impacts (less time with kids).

If you're a strict libertarian, I suppose you could argue they should bootstrap themselves a little harder. But, I'd prefer we make life as easy as possible for as many people as possible.

After all, the only reason real estate prices in SF and the surrounding area is so out-of-control is overly strict zoning. Allow more multi-family dwellings, preferably close to places of work, and it's a net positive for society.
Well a big thing that happened for me this year is losing OSX as my primary environment. So everything is in flux and has been for about six months. I don't see Apple turning around for what I need and I've been 100% linux desktop over this time period. I'm a long time linux and BSD user, but haven't had it as my primary OS in nearly a decade.

My job has shifted towards ops and managing kubernetes clusters at scale. Since I'm refiguring everything I used to do this year, I figure I might as well try things I always meant to that have been around forever and seem to do it just fine without buying into commercial tools (that largely aren't available for my platform anyway).

Because of my work focus on virtualization, my primary machine is starting to be a mini cluster and I have a 5 node rack adjacent. Being portable between all these environments is becoming an asset very quickly.

Maybe it's silly, but I'm not moving around comfortably in almost anything like I was. World's my oyster I guess.
All the sibling threads make fine points about why donation matching is helpful, or why you like it, etc.

But to echo and add to parent: "matching" donation campaigns make my "regular" donations feel less valuable.

I've set up monthly donations to a number of organizations I want to support. I set the donations at a level that I feel I can afford. Those same (great, worthy) organizations often send out solicitations for special "double" or "triple" matching promotions. I try not to pay attention, because I've already set up a regular donation for the amount I can afford.

But it makes me feel like I'm doing it wrong. Should I cancel my regular donations and put the money aside waiting for a special promotion on donations? Should I choose recipient organizations based on how good their promos are? Maybe I think org A has 130% of the impact of org B per dollar, but org B has a 3X match while org A only has a 2X match this year, so I should choose org B??

I can't logically fathom that my regular donations really are worth less than "matched" ones, but all the hoopla makes me feel like they are.
Maybe she’s on mobile? Also, the author isn’t against seeing ads, period.
I get why this could be problematic under the wrong context.

But if I have video footage of someone approaching my door, not knocking and just looking aroud to then leave; and I'm given the option to track if that person shows up again in future video footage, you bet I would use that option.

This is not because I'm paranoic and I think right away that anyone showing up to my door will murder or rob me, but because said person already exhibited suspicious activity around my private property.

Why would I take for granted that this person was simply lost or innocently looking around? If that's the case, then my camera would never see them again. But if they show up a second time, I want to know that.
People not on HN don't seem to care about these things.
The story's video has examples as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dsINb64Q0
I can get ~8% APY on VND in Vietnamese bank accounts with a time deposit of around 6-12 months. This sounds wonderful until you realize...

Inflation is around 4% [1], the account is only insured up to about $3500 (if you are lucky) and VND keeps deflating in value against USD. Never mind the US tax filings take another chunk.

There is always a catch.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/vietnam/inflation-cpi
This is incorrect according to the FDIC’s website:

> All single accounts owned by the same person at the same bank are added together and insured up to $250,000

Revocable trusts, joint accounts, and other types of accounts with multiple custodians are covered separately, but checking, savings, and so on are not.

https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/covered/categories.html
See parent. I was here intermittently in the late 90s and have an aunt with a midcentury house off SoCo bought in the early 90s. You may not have seen those communities as having intrinsic value but the people that live there did. And now most of them can't afford to live there anymore because "the market" has decided to make room for gentrification.

Those communities had economic problems, sure. But you're kidding yourself if you don't think the replacements for them have a different sort of economic problem. And just because they're whiter and richer now doesn't make them a better set of problems.
wow man! what are you blogging about?
I'm no org-mode expert but I can drag and drop images into my org files with the default spacemacs configuration. I believe this is powered by org-download.
> Cash is perfectly legal and so is any cash like instrument

See what happened to bearer bonds.

Stablecoins are inherently doomed. First, they’re trying to solve the impossible trinity. And second, their untraceabiliry and explicit hard currency link makes them non-compliant AML-wise.
No, that quote is about raising the minimum wage.
In NYC you can find 7th-floor "walk-up" apartments, although most buildings without elevators stop at 5 or 6 floors.
It has been interesting watching the continuing fallout from the VW diesel scandal. When they tested diesel cars for emissions on the road, almost all of them failed. (Amazingly the few that passed were VWs.. I think they bumped up the urea injection) There is a study showing the number of additional deaths due to these emissions. So trust in diesels has plummeted and some German cities have banned diesel cars.

A related story is that in New York City recently banned the use of number 4 and number 6 heating oil. I wish there were government incentives to switch from heating oil to gas in places which still use heating oil, like New England.

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-emissions-diesel-cars-europe-g...

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/925353/Germany-die...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/nyregion/new-york-city-ba...

Number 6 heating oil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zGprBV3OI

Anyway, I'm thinking that the truck and marine loopholes need to be fixed. I believe it's just a matter of time.
Just FYI, AFAIK, the standard 10 percent fractional reserve rate is no longer law after legislation post 08 crash bankers slipped through. So that old rule is very often not the case at a bank anymore.
Steel roofs are particularly well-suited to areas that receive heavy snowfall. The snow tends to slide right off, instead of dangerously accumulating on an asphalt roof.
Ask HN: Using C99 or C11? What is your impression?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)
Are tips required? I know they're automatically included for large groups (at least where I live). Which I find annoying as a customer.

But actually to your other point. If I'm interested in working as a waiter at some restaurant, but I'm uncomfortable with tips being an expected part of my wage, then why would I either pursue that job, or accept it under those guidelines? Couldn't I work somewhere else instead and get the same amount of money?
If you're so inclined, the Schwab Investor Checking accounts offer the same benefit.
But then it'd taste like water. The idea is also for it to taste like good tea.
We need a maximum rent law.
That's because your mac is configured to accept the hostname given to it via DHCP. You can change that setting if you don't like it.
> Cash is perfectly legal and so is any cash like instrument

With Bitcoin, you can squish around as to whether it’s a commodity or currency and argue as to the actual dollar amount transmitted. With a stable coin, you’re explicitly transmitting U.S. dollars in kind. That’s the AML difference
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This is not metrics, this is logs.

Logs contain a lot of detail that are not appropriate for metrics. Logs output tends to be expensive, it costs a lot of time and IO to emit, compress, send, store logs. Logs also tend to contain PII things. Usernames, IP addresses, trace IDs, etc. We don't want that kind of cardinality in metrics.

Metrics are another thing. They tend to be internal counters inside a single process. With multi-threaded languages like Go, Java, C++, we can track metric data in memory very efficiently.

For metrics, see https://openmetrics.io/
I think you forgot Digg, the first one that blew up and made karma voting popular. It was not the first one to use karma though, like google wasn't the 1st search engine. But before google a lot of folks didn't even know about search engines... Most concepts on the Web existed way before the Internet anyway.
With rent, there are no other options. With food, one can always cook at home when the extra cost no longer seems worth it.
Is this free to use?
It’s because we are all over at the python meetup where the real party is!
The correct answer would be: The system we built learnt that association from the public discourse, and we neglected / decided not to remove said association.

The reality is that while most of Google's search system is autonomous, a lot of work goes into making adjustments to avoid a negative perception of Google. Removing politically incorrect phrases from autocomplete is an obvious example.
What is their burn rate at 3%?
I don't think understand that correctly. There's no such thing as a SIPC-protected checking account that holds securities. A checking account holds cash.

There's SIPC protection for your cash and securities (stocks etc.) that Robinhood holds for you, up to 250,000$ each. For obvious reasons, the value of a security in dollars fluctuates and therefore such losses cannot be insured. What is being recovered is the securities themselves, not their dollar value at a time of your choosing.

> I don't know how that percentage of cash/securities breaks down at Robinhood, but it's not going to be 100% cash and 0% securities. There is a reason big banks don't offer checking accounts with 3% interest rates. When the return is higher, the risk must have gone up too, somehow.

It's not the cash/securities that Robinhood holds as part of their business, it's the one they hold for you. You may well choose to hold 100% cash or 100% securities.

Actual banks hold only a small fraction of cash deposits in reserve, many of their assets may just as well turn out to be made up of bad loans, bad junk bonds and bad stocks. That's how banks can fail even without a bank run.
> “There used to be an old Chinese saying when brewing oolong tea: 'The first brew is for your enemy, the second for the servant, the third for your wife, fourth for your mistress, the fifth for your business partner and the last you keep for yourself,” says Lovell.

From https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10840876/The-art-of...
I’m completely out of my field, but I never understood why it was so hard for us to imagine that other animals were capable of having rich inner lives or even being self-aware.

To me it seem obvious that other animals would also possess various degrees of cognitive ability, I mean, we do.
How would you pass values between two different Hooks? See my two examples in the post (useSpring and useFriendStatus).

Note they need to be always up-to-date and not just execute once.
Santander offered 3% up to £20k to all customers on their main checking account but had to cut that rate in the end.
"Taken as a whole, the technologies coming out today will enable surveillance regimes the likes of which even the UK and China never previously would have dared to dream up. "

thay's really important. Hitler, Stalin, the Stasi and many others would have been very pleased to have the systems we are building right now. Once a full country surveillance system gets in the hand of a ruthless dictator it will be very hard to get rid of that dictator.
Crazy. The current organization I work for has easily over 1000 people customer support agents working 24/7. Large home heating oil provider in the US.

Most calls are "where's the driver" and has honestly been partially automated but older clients still like to call.

Either way, it takes humans to make sure the 600k customers don't fall through the cracks.
How do you embed fonts?
Don't buy a door bell camera, discourage your neighbors from doing so. Tell them you think the whole thing is crass.
I'd say it's also not as functional. With a GUI you can click around and browse through other files, as well as stage/unstage with the same interface.

With the CLI, all you can do is cycle through "Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,e,?]?" prompts, and if you mess up, you have to exit completely and do `git reset --patch` and cycle through those prompts again (at least, I don't know another way to do that). Actually it's a bit worse because it has even more options:

Unstage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,s,e,?]? ?
y - unstage this hunk
n - do not unstage this hunk
q - quit; do not unstage this hunk or any of the remaining ones
a - unstage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
d - do not unstage this hunk or any of the later hunks in the file
g - select a hunk to go to
/ - search for a hunk matching the given regex
j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
e - manually edit the current hunk
? - print help

If you use this all the time and get used to the commands, and are also good at picturing the separate pieces you are trying to commit in your head, it's probably fully functional.

If you're like me, and come back to your code after an unrelated 1hr meeting (or lunch) and are trying to sort out the 3 or 4 separate changes you did earlier in the day to make nice logical commits... good luck.
Yes, I'd need to check for end iterator in vector. But my point still stands - C++ does have some weird ergonomics.