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I worked out at Muir Woods National Monument while recovering from a nervous breakdown during college.

I was a cashier.

I didn't like the place, but my coworkers were unbelievable.

The federal government had the no so brilliant idea of farming out the concessions, and gift shop to the highest bidder. (I don't know exactly how the hiring process goes.)

The federal government basically said, our workers couldn't run a simple business, so let's let a private entity run it, and we will take our cut?

The gift shop sold millions per year.

The business agreement was around 10% of the gift shop sales would go back to the government.

To me that seemed like a good deal. What the corporation Aramark) did was load the place up with hand made items (Burl bowls, etc) in order to get around paying the 10%.

They also paid minimum wage, treated everyone including the managers terribly. The manager was required to be their 6 days a week. He was given the illustrious "Manager" fixed wage. Meaning he/she made less than minimum wage.

The food deal was 14% I believe, which was fair.

So when government wants to pay a low wage, and no benefits, they like to farm out their dirty work.

Looking back--I'm not sure the rangers could run the concessions, or at least the group of rangers I saw out there? I have never seen so many federal employees doing absoulty nothing. I also witnessed maintance workers tossing perfectly good chainsaw, tools into the dumptster. Tye reason being if they were "broken", they could procure more money. And yes--after closing I took those "broken" tools out of the trash, even after being told not to.

The rangers used to get all hyped up if they found a grow site. They would take pictures and slap behinds. What was ironic, is the evidence shed was always broken into?

Oh yea, at the time I felt all federal rangers shouldn't be armed. There was zero crime. Now--because we gas a few mountian lions, I guess they should be packing?

To my co-workers, I miss you guys so much. I hated the job, but loved you people.

(The park used to be free. Now they charge $10. This us our land people. Why are Americans being charged to get into any park, especially a National Monument? It would be very easy to let Americans in for free. They all come through one entrance. You can hike into the park though.)
The statistical models in Postgres are stored as transactional rows in an ordinary table, which puts some pretty hard limits on what you can put into those models because Postgres doesn’t like large rows. There is no theoretical reason you’d want to design things this way, it is just pretty expedient because you don’t have to implement a separate statistics store and you can leverage all of the code for normal tables. IIRC, the fail safe code path puts a hard limit on the amount of statistical data that can be collected no matter how much data you should collect, so that it plays nicely with the Postgres storage model. This threshold is uncomfortably low for proper statistics collection purposes when your database becomes large.

The saving grace is that for some common data distributions, the degraded statistical models are still pretty close to representative of the data.

However, some data distributions badly expose the fact that the statistical models were improperly constructed to fit resource limits. In these cases, the statistical model is unpredictable and erratic, and will change every time the statistics collection is run even if the data does not change.

We are not talking about an extraordinary amount of statistics data. I would expect databases to have a special structure optimized for this purpose rather than using an OLTP row. The Postgres approach to statistics collection was reasonable a couple decades ago, but modern workloads expose it more frequently now.

FWIW, I still use Postgres a fair amount because it is very solid within its limits. It is the reason I am familiar with its sharp edges.
The food providers don’t pay for the checkpoints.
Not sure why this is downvoted since it's 100% correct. I always bring food through security, sometimes it gets flagged going through the xray machine but all that happens is TSA has to manually look through your bag. Normally as soon as they see it's food they just let you go, I think it's pretty common.
It's not surprising that LSAT scores are higher due to the additional time to prep and the ability to control the testing environment. And in reality, it doesn't matter that much. Schools will sort students just like they always have, and students will end up roughly where they otherwise would have. The whole application process is on a curve.

It's also worth noting that over the last decade, it's been increasingly easy to get into prestigious law schools. Students got wise to the fact that law school costs a ton and many students don't get high-paying jobs. As a result, applications went down and lower-scoring students got into better schools. In some ways, this most recent stat may be mostly a reversion to the prior mean.
I think this has more to do with cost and convenience more than being a better representation of what it's actually like driving on the extremely varied state of a track. You can see this with the practice laps being extremely important because of the way the tire compositions, weather and car set ups change the dynamic of the cars drastically. The simulators can't replicate this effectively.
It's tough to quantify. It's not just about the PB revenue itself. It's the fact that it's an entry point for a lot of institutional client activity that's necessary for a lot of other lines of business.

For example, investment banking is a very lucrative business. Let's say you're trying to win a big-ticket IPO. To run a credible IPO you need to be able to fill an order book of deep-pocketed, credible public equity investors. That requires having a relationship with these institutions. The primary way those relationships are built is through a prime brokerage business.
few years ago I was in JFK on business trip and experienced that specific and had the same feeling, then shrugged, bought it and expensed it. Nobody cared then and I don't think they would now.
I can move anywhere, but most people can’t. This is absurd to force people to vaccinate with a premature product when a year ago we were just going to close things temporarily to “flatten the curve” and allow the virus to spread. A lot of gaslighting has been going on since then, and I feel really bad for its victims. Also, business owners again are faced with the onus, which just makes them take the brunt of the vitriol vs. shitty politicians
Phoenix airport is this way as well. Some of the restaurants that locals are proud of have locations in the airport. It's pretty cool!
I thought that series was exceptionally well-written. Since vaccinations are working to prevent mortality, expense, and suffering though, it didn’t need to be written.
It's due to the rent.
Small towns not connected to big cities are shrinking unceasingly, unless there is some special local thing to save them, like a special factory or a tourist attraction. In my part of the south almost every town had their downtown destroyed first by walmart, and then later by the ecosystem of small businesses all withered away and now the downtowns of places with a few thousand people have almost nothing but a grocery store and gas station. On top of the young people move out of all of these towns looking for work. It's got to be incredibly sad for older people to see their world just disappearing, which is think is part of the appeal of certain nationalist politicians.
Does anyone know of an article on how/why this happens?

The airport is the most interesting situation because it's the most unavoidable monopoly.

If you have really bad food, it might be bad enough that I decide it's not worth going to the stadium - this is theoretically bad for the stadium.

I doubt many people are going to not fly because the food in the airport sucks. They'll just pack snacks. The airport doesn't really care.
It's cost effective. There is separation of duty and the food is scanned just like luggage.
I've heard the opposite of this in that self driving cars underperform compared to human drivers across the board. The sample size of self driving cars doing everything a driver does is also miniscule. Do you have a source?
Thai’s more so like their American peers: decent food on long haul, but in flight food on ‘local’ Asian flights (even longer ones) is abysmal, even in business class.
Doing all the work (at least at first), including convincing people to part with their money for your idea is easy?

The latter especially is incredibly stressful unless you're one of those people who don't give a fuck about others, their struggles and their things (I envy that btw).
I think part of it is that it takes a lot longer to teach an engineer everything you know than it takes to make a piece of software great, and success may be impossible, and you probably won't get any credit. Who was Einstein's best teacher? Who was his best student? If nobody knows, is teaching a waste of time?
We didn’t, it’s just folks still I think wanting to complain about Google Reader getting cancelled due to low usage.

NewsBlur and other RSS aggregation sites are still around, have nice UIs and are still doing just fine.
Off topic but is the 400k offer SWE? Didn’t think Intel paid that much based in Blind posts.
For the analogy to work with energy and still be true to the physicist's argument, we would also have to imagine that all exchange of goods and services requires new platinum -- and that there's a hard physical limit on the platinum mining rate.

Perhaps a world where platinum jewelry is all that is bought and sold. Jewelers improve in skill and the jewelrt becomes ever more intricate and elaborate, such that its value grows ever higher than the raw platinum it's made from.

In such a world, there might be no limit on the jeweler's craft, but could the price of platinum really become arbitrarily small? As time goes on, first the world's greatest jeweler could afford the whole supply, but then even a second rate jeweler, and then eventually anybody could perhaps afford to buy all the raw platinum.
It does exactly what I think it does, which is either iterate over the properties if it's an object or the elements if it's an array. This is true for Vue and Javascript. I suggest you read the documentation I linked earlier.

Also Vue's directives are not JS. It's a separate DSL. I've repeated this enough so I'll end this discussion here.
> In theory, nothing. In practice, a dramatic reduction in quality.

There are talented and smart people in every country.

There are also tons of low quality, low experience, cheap devs in the US, just like the countries you seem to be maligning.

This really seems like simple racism to me.
The point is that it's much easier to intuite which way the air gets deflected (and thus change in momentum) than where the air speeds up or slows down. In fact, the easiest way to know where the air speeds up and slows down is indirectly based on where the pressure will be higher and where it will be lower, since the latter is easier to intuit than the former.
Spreading disease violates the NAP and legitimizes the need for state violence to prevent it.
To make sure I'm following: It used to be an absolute size and got changed to relative?
Consider adding contact information to your hackernews profile, so that the millionaires can reach out to you privately.
I wonder if this means General Mills will stop adding it to Cheerios.

Search for “roundup oat drying” if you don’t know what I’m talking about. They spray roundup on crops immediately before harvest to kill them and dry them out. It (slightly) increases crop yields, but contaminates the crop.
> In fact, I don’t know a single person who is uncomfortable being Jewish in public

That sounds like a reach. Many Jews don't want to wear a Kippa anymore fearing anti semitism. That's confirmed in surveys. So for the atheist ones that's not a problem but I'm sure being vocally Jewish isn't that much fun.
This logic is shete. There are already several classes of people who either can’t or shouldn’t take the vaccines: kids under twelve, immunocompromised, and people who have severe reactions to vaccines. It’s weird but I happen to have family members in several of those categories.

According to this shete logic, we should close all elementary schools, daycares, and nursing homes.
Yes, but only in proportion to the fourth power of the Earth's surface temperature, which we would want to limit. (The argument is predicated on not becoming multiplanetary).
I know why but it kills me that airports around the world don't just let "normal restaurants" come in and do their thing. Like mentioned in comments, even known stuff is basically run by a mega-franchisee so you don't even get the good stuff for the most part.

I get that some airports, there are logistics issues and whatnot. But the airport premiums for food that is just so messy is super frustrating.

I like how Narita at least has a bunch of restaurants before security that are not nearly as awful as what is behind the gates, but come on...
part of executive responsibility is training your staff on how to perform job duties in compliance with the law.

if they weren't strategically ordered to break the law, they were perhaps strategically not ordered to not break the law.

erroneously or maliciously, the law has still been broken, and the organization bears responsibility.
I'm apparently the weirdo, since -- in pre-Covid times, to be clear -- I liked explicitly scheduling longer layovers, ideally 90+ minutes, so I could look around and find a place for a sit-down meal. Almost any larger airport I've been through, and even some of the smaller ones, had at least a few restaurants which were spinoffs of local restaurants in that area, with their own unique menus, kitchens specific to the restaurant, and sometimes surprisingly good food. I actually looked forward to traveling sometimes.

In general, I've found that the fast food places in airport "food courts" are the worst food experiences you get in American airports: the prices tend to be seriously jacked up and the menu options are more limited. This isn't to say that the sit-down places are bargains, but they're usually not so much more expensive than quick service that it isn't worth the price (to me) for the better food and more relaxed atmosphere.

I have, for the record, never seen a $28.50 beer at an airport. I'm pretty sure I've seen $12+ beers. You can blame that on the concession operators, but you can also blame it on the airport authority that lets them do that; there are some counties that control how much, if at all, airport outposts of chains can raise prices compared to their non-airport locations in the same county.
Agreed. Bricks aren’t great for construction. Not structural, poor R-value, a ton of labor.

Just have concrete poured or stick frame and a fake brick facade. Will probably last longer as well.

Seems like the wrong problem to solve.
Thundering herd is about mitigating a problem with backpressure scenarios. If you have a backoff and a delayed queue of requests, letting them all proceed at once when the backpressure scenario resolves is likely to recreate it/create a new one. Staggering them so they proceed slightly off in time avoids that.
Both vaccinated and unvaccinated persons can be COVID infected and infectious.

Vaccination assists the immune system to better fight the infection. That is all.

So a no-fly list would need to pertain to those who are not verifiably COVID negative. This is especially critical in the case of the Delta strain which is far more infectious, even with vaccinated persons, than the earlier strains. But we also have to consider that tests have been shown to give both false positives and false negatives. So the risk cannot be totally eliminated.
(Not the parent, but) 200K miles/year is roughly a monthly New York to Shenzhen round trip.
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Don’t come telling me about shaggy subways. Tokyo’s rails are nearly as old and they’re fine. More than fine, I’d argue.
What's a plumber do with 5 trucks?? You can't drive more than one, right?!
Such as a gaming website that hosts arbitrary JS games written to fit within a particular size limit? Code sample web IDEs that are designed to teach people how to code quickly? An iframed rich text editor? An embedded reporting widget that wants to remind users to save their changes before they navigate away on the parent page? An enterprise application that's using the strangler pattern to wall off greyfield parts of their application and those parts were written in 2004?

These are not common-use-cases-for-average-websites-on-the-net, but for web _apps_ where third-party `iframe` is the quickest way to real isolation between divergent code, iframes are pretty common. And `alert`, `confirm`, and `prompt` are not common in such code either, but when they are used they're often used in code paths that expect blocking behavior and are therefore definitely not amenable to alterations.

And the fact of the matter is that as the developer of a web application _I can still get this blocking behavior_. "All you need to do is have the parent and the child cooperate by sharing a TypedArray between the origins and use `Atomics.wait`" [1]. If by having the parent and the child cooperate I can get the blocking behavior, why not allow me to do it simply with a `sandbox` attribute, rather than having me publish a `@backcompat/alert` NPM module that both sides can pull in to polyfill a functioning `window.alert`?

[1]: https://twitter.com/KekitoF/status/1420220292429926400
Of course it matters. Just not to me, in this case.

My company picking up the tab for my insanely overpriced airport food, hotel bar drinks, and other semi-ridiculous daily purchases is one of the prices they pay to keep me around and living out of a suitcase (during more normal, non-COVID times).
That’s just one variable

If public defenders get better, the canonical theory is that the prosecution will be forced to make stronger cases with better evidence, improving the criminal justice system overall.

However, if the number of falsely accused people weren’t high in the first place, there shouldn’t be a significant drop in convictions if the prosecution cab keep up. If they can’t , then presumably crime rates would increase and there would be public pressure to increase funding for police and prosecution and less funding for public defenders, and then you’d end up where you started
I personally doubt chess will fade. As far as I can tell, the enjoyment of high-level chess is less to do with reaching objective perfection, rather it's more the "thrill" of seeing a _human_ who has poured their life into the pursuit of improving their game. It doesn't really matter that a computer can beat them, we care about them because people like seeing other people's talents.

And on a casual level, nothing changes if the best in the world is a human or computer, so the casual player isn't particularly affected.
I once had to buy a macbook in ATL because mine suffered a charge failure. I copied what data I needed over with the remaining battery life and continued my trip. I couldn't return it after without flying to ATL.
Every brokerage has those terms. Even Credit Suisse in this article had this right over Archegos's positions - they just were too scared to exercise it.
Multi brand strategies are specifically made to trick consumers into thinking a product is diverse. They are a really big problem in the US and harm fair competition because it makes markets look more saturated than they are.
I can relate to this a lot. I am quite blessed to be multi talented and able to do various things easily. It gets to the point that I have too many hobbies and interests. But I think none of those hobbies can make me singularly focused. I become jack of all trades.

I am a software engineer by trade, doing regular web app business line applications. Work in FAANG salary. On the side I play music on weekend (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, and singing). I do martial arts around 3 days a week. I have my outlet of creativity such as building PC for gaming and crypto mining rig, building aquarium/terrarium/vivarium scapes. I read philosophies, religion, economies, etc. I play PC games, I ride my motorcycle for leisures. I think I'm decently good at all those activities, signaled by people who came to me and ask me to build their stuffs or play in their band or compete in their tournament.

I keep jumping and trying to find more things to do. I don't have kids yet, maybe when I do things will going to change.

My hobbies aside, right now I find no motivation on starting a new software project for learning purposes. I feel that I am stagnant now in my software engineering skills.

I used to learn programming languages as a hobby. Those aren't interesting to me anymore. I don't know what to do next. I want to learn deeper like maybe learning how to create a game engine, or compiler, or even going hardware, or try learning electrical engineering or mechanical engineering for DIY hobby projects, but maybe I would get bored and eventually stopped doing those.

I don't know what else to do.

First world problems.
Who shall be tormented by the fire of ambition?
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A lot of insights on how Dropbox is making data centers 100% carbon neutral
A plumber with five trucks isn't so much a plumber anymore as a business owner employing five other plumbers.
"how is that air moving from the upper surface to the lower surface of the wing?"

What? Of course it isn't moving from above the wing to below - just that it's being compressed below the wing, and decompressed above it.

"Why can’t they separate from it and fly straight back?"

Because... they are parcels of gas, full of molecules flying in all directions at high speeds, bouncing off one another and things nearby, and if that parcel of air flies straight back it will find itself above a bit of space that contains nothing at all, and the molecules which are going in that direction will find they are able to do so unopposed (until they hit the wing) - so some of them will do so.

As a result, the mass of the gas will spread out into a larger volume, the number of molecules colliding with the surface of the wing per unit of time will drop (as they are more diffuse), and the pressure will drop.

This doesn't seem very mysterious.
United frequent flyer status doesn't start til 25k/year, and top tier is over 100k/year. I don't think it's a typo for 20k.

I hit 50k/year just going back and forth between SFO and YYZ once a month. I'm just a software engineer, with a lot of collaboration between our SF and Waterloo offices.
Why is your text all grey? Is this what we do to dissenting opinions on this site? It's the first time I've seen the effect (I'm new to the site).

Regardless, I agree with the sentiment professed above that this is an unconscionable action at the government level.