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Gotta love HN entitlement.

It's not just the waitress. It's also the kitchen staff, which has to fulfill the orders. Low-cost special menus like brunch menus make their money on volume. At least half the food service equation relies on the kitchen to whip the orders out in time. Special requests slow the entire kitchen down. Not a problem if, say, there's not a huge rush. But a huge problem if the staff is slammed.

Maybe you should take after the former labor secretary and go try your hand at a service job.
In many places in the US it's de-facto illegal to live in a van, in some places it's explicitly illegal. Even if the van is parked on private property it'd still be illegal to be your primary residence due to zoning. There are exceptions for RVs and boats because they have sleeping, cooking and toilet facilities (which are required to be built a certain way).
That's a really interesting point. I'd like to know the answer.
That's an excellent article that I think highlights a big chunk of the explanation for the recent labor shortage.

While I'll admit I experienced a quick mental blip on the notion that someone might expect me to tip an amount that's a function of movie tickets plus food and drinks in a counter-service situation, I think it's a spot-on observation that workers on the low end of the wage spectrum have a sea of options and won't be putting up with what amounts to abuse, even if it's not an entirely intentional act on the part of management.

The article tracks very well with what I've heard from employers and employees that it's not just about wages. The author was clearly happy with the gig when things were going well.

But when it's Christmas (or maybe when there's something fun happening this weekend that sounds better than cleaning feces from a movie theater seat) during a labor shortage and everyone is overworked, the low wages combine with literally every other damn downside about what can be a truly thankless job to form a crystal-clear and perfectly legitimate plan to achieve the perfect holiday schedule. A worker can simply quit, enjoy their holiday, and later go find a job that's probably going to pay more and/or offer better working conditions.

It'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
Can someone explain to me, a non US person, what is bad with that?

I see a President standing United with an Indian and a black man. This seems like just the sort of thing that should be celebrated no?
The compiler should help the programmer optimize instead.

"Warning: dead store detected (file):line clobbered by (file):line. Use keyword volatile to always store or remove (file):line."

This way the optimization is promoted from the resulting binary to the source code, and bugs / typos / etc can be corrected.
Studies indicate [1] that natural immunity and vaccine immunity are pretty similar in effectiveness and longevity:

“The immunity provided by vaccine and prior infection are both high but not complete (i.e., not 100%).

Multiple studies have shown that antibody titers correlate with protection at a population level, but protective titers at the individual level remain unknown.

Whereas there is a wide range in antibody titers in response to infection with SARS-CoV-2, completion of a primary vaccine series, especially with mRNA vaccines, typically leads to a more consistent and higher-titer initial antibody response.”

So considering that 70%+ of the US had been vaccinated, and something like 30-50% (with significant vaccine overlap) had already been infected before Omicron... I don't think Omicron is going to change the immunization game. Coronaviruses, like the common cold, seem pretty resistant to our immune system, both in terms of breadth of variants and capacity to elude existing resistances just a few months after initial infection. Unless we make some great leap in immune technology (a 100% efficacy vaccine, for instance), it seems like covid is going to become endemic, because it's simply too hard to eradicate. And it'll just keep circulating in the population, mutating, forever.

Anyway, curious if you have thoughts on this -- I just don't think we'll immunize our way out of covid based on what I just said. My best hope is that variants like Omicron that don't cause as many deaths/major symptoms start to dominate -- but considering covid typically spreads before it kills victims, the only pressure toward mild symptoms comes from the general pressure to avoid wasting energy killing your victims when you could spread instead.

Human behavior in the USA has me convinced that by the summer everyone is just going to start pretending covid doesn't exist again, and then next winter we're going to have a massive spike of another variant again. And we'll have to hope that one is less lethal than Omicron, since we'll have a hard time getting anybody to mask at all by then.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
If you live in a vehicle/RV it can be hard to prove residence. I've used UPS Store boxes but most places have caught on to that and don't allow it anymore. I've been told you can use a homeless shelter as the residence and a box as a mailing address but haven't tried it myself.
Self hosting email should be considered self harm.
~Gmail: acquisition~ EDIT: nope, I remembered wrong; PB did it while at Google.

GSuite: a product of several acquisitions

Android: acquisition

YouTube: acquisition

Nest: acquisition

Sure, they may have improved them. But definitely not spawned from blooming flowers.
People just want shiny stories and plausible deniability. It's pretty much subconscious risk management. Then you have people who play the next-level game of exploring this risk management heuristic, hence -- pretty young people with pedigree scamming the old money.
When companies ask for signatures to be done in a certain way, it’s often not because those things are a requirement to be a valid contract under the law, but because they want more evidence to support them should the contract be brought into question in court.

You could theoretically, in some cases, run a business on nothing but verbal contracts, but you would be foolish to do so because you’d have difficulty proving anything if it were disputed.
While it may not be Nextjs in particular, push to deploy app solutions of various kinds are prominent among the offerings of public clouds.
Activision/Blizzard are not finding it difficult to find workers through.
How do you propose we do it?
> Researching immortality or unnatural longevity isn't worth the investment for a society because a society of immortals becomes either stagnant or unsustainable.

This is said with an awful lot of certainty for something that's never been accomplished before. Do people and systems get stuck in their ways? Absolutely. But they also change for better and for worse. There's no guarantee/proof that living forever ends in stagnation or an unsustainable culture.
I pretty strongly disagree with these quotes you have here. You don't need UB to do optimization, in fact because of UB in C many forms of optimization are impossible in C because of aliasing uncertainty. If things are defined to not alias then even though things are fully defined there is a lot more optimization that can be performed by not reloading variables from memory and instead using local cached-in-register copies of variables. This is why naive Rust can in some cases be faster than naive C (without using of restrict keyword) and this will only improve with time as compilers better support this.
Curiou, where did you end up migrating to? (I'm likely going to move to zoho...but am always interested to know other options.)
A "full node" step is 1/2 the area of the previous. Since area is dimension-squared, 28 x 28 == ~800 area, while 20 x 20 == ~400 area.

So 28 -> 20 is a "full node" decrease (ie: twice the transistors).

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We can see the full-node step from 14nm -> 10nm as well: 14 x 14 == ~200, 10x10 == 100. So its a full node step. The next full-node is 7 x 7 == ~50, which is half of 100. After 7 comes 5, because 25 is half of 50.

The next full node is sqrt(12.5) or 3.5, smack dab between 3 and 4, so not really easy to round.

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The steps in between are "half-node" decrements, where you didn't quite achieve a full 1/2 area reduction. An incremental technology that represents something in between the full node step progression.
Ask HN: What was the turning point in your meditation journey?
A book you read, a video you watched, or an experience you had? Please share.
So guilty whenever the bureaucrat wants you to be?

Is this an actual stance that you hold?
Okay, yes, you are technically right. What I mean is, making an assumption _other than_ that the code won't alter stack/heap/instruction memory that the implementation is using (e.g. aliasing, overflow, use of NULL)
Semantically, damning water in the Great Lakes Watershed (how Columbus get's its water) is not THAT different from letting that water flow into Lake Erie and then piping it back.

Point being, Ohio has very few long-term drought concerns.
Yes, it’s a common theme with any drug known to cause short-term euphoria: People will confuse the drug-induced euphoria for anti-depressant effect, but they’re very different.
Not the grandparent - but I to have not received an email - and mine terms link does not go there. It goes to this: https://admin.google.com/terms/apps/1/5/en/standard_terms.ht...
This solution to require the user to pick and allow screencastig is right and justified. Chromium is doing it already nicely. Bonus, you get the actual allowance and confirmation that it must work as developer.

We see similar approaches on mobile systems. Sadly they stuffed everything into a limited number of buckets {pictures, contacts, gps} and every app requests all of them.

UNIX brought us file-permissions and multi-user and right now Linux ships cgroups and process-permissions. So Chromium wants more than allowed `max.memory`? The kernel has bad news for the memory eating resource hog.
I'm not sure why either - super curious.

I was trying to add to the discussion with my experience.

I will add, the role of barista has changed at Starbucks in the last 20 years. When I had that job, pulling a good shot and foaming the milk properly was something that I took a lot of pride in - I approached it as a skill. As I was leaving the company was moving to essentially push-button espresso machines, removing any sense of craft from the barista.

It makes perfect business sense, as the company goal is the same quality of drink no matter time/place/barista, but to me just pushing buttons wasn't interesting or fun.

Honestly, I loved that job! People come in, and you give them the thing that makes them happier and helps them feel better. I had regulars with a nice rapport, and I worked 5a to noon most days and was able to hike or golf in the afternoons. I was living rent free as a house sitter, which made the finances work out.
> check back in the state

I wish, but I don't think each of many departments talk or share individual's personal data between them, unless its collections or something. Like, DMV would not have access to one's tax status or details, and tax one's might not know one's driving license details. I wish the willpower & technology increases to make it happen.
I second the recommendation for "Molecular Biology of the Cell" if you want to know how cells work, which is a pretty interesting and important subject. One thing I like about this book is that it's clear about what we don't know, and there is a lot. (It's interesting to read books from before a discovery (e.g. geology books before continental drift) and see if they acknowledge something is unknown or if they confidently give the wrong answer.)
Was just about to comment the same thing. Massive upgrade in grilled cheese quality.

If you can get it, Duke's Mayo is just absolutely bonkers. I also really like the Trader Joe's organic mayo.

Also, since I'm deeply invested in grilled cheeses, more recommendations:

I use a ratio of 1 part gruyere, 1 part sharp or extra-sharp cheddar. I also really like a little parmesan or pecorino, but it tastes less "classic grilled cheese," so might not be for everyone.

Cooking method:

- heat pan to medium

- put mayo on one side of two pieces of bread

- put the first piece of bread into the pan, mayo side down (it should sizzle lightly)

- heap your cheese on top of this piece, and press it down onto the bread a little

- after 2 minutes, take the other piece of bread and put it mayo side up onto the top of the cheese. flip the sandwich (so that the fresh mayo is now down).

- 2 more minutes and you're good to go. serve with tomato soup (naturally) and a little ranch if you're a degenerate like me.
The Star Developer and the Liquor License Ponzi Scheme That Suckered San Diego
Or don't bother at all. Binance made it to $90 billion in liquid-enough assets before this Reuters article over the course of 4 years.

This is without any revenue multiple applied or anything. The hit pieces are coming out because of admissions that Binance is considering an IPO and now people are surprised at how big it already is, while being effectively stateless. Binance has to fix the statelessness to provide confidence to stock investors. Other people are open to hampering their ability to find anywhere comfortable.
Profile of a woman who pretty much remembers every face she sees, including those she's only seen in photographs.
I really appreciate the straight forward explanations. It does a good job at putting things into scale/perspective. However, I'm not convinced that discrepancies this small are always "close enough". Consider the Patriot Missile Failure [1] (which has been discussed plenty here on HN [2]). The system's clock was off by about 0.000000095 decimal, but that was enough to result in catastrophic failure. I'm sure that this NASA post is intended for the layperson (which is good), but I'd hope that engineers have a bit more "involved" way of determining the appropriate number of decimals for any given applicaiton?

[1] https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

[2]https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Your mom’s a compiler.
As an engineering manager I found LinkedIn to be very inefficient in finding quality talents at scale. There isn’t enough signal to gauge which candidate is worth bringing in for interviews. There seem to be a large opportunity for new business here.
Our bodies at least have a chance of defending themselves against almost all viruses. Prions? No chance. It’s a death sentence with a slow and terrible decline.
There are other ways of doing this even without germline editing - you could for example train a linear transformer model that does DNA phenotype prediction, then just do regular IVF and choose the embryo with lowest predicted risk of (cancer, heart disease, etc)

The only roadblock to doing this right now is access to training data.
Do not try and initiate a flame war on a totally innocent thread. It is not appreciated and against the site guidelines. Move along.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Passive Air Sampler to Assess Personal Exposure to SARS-CoV-2
It is so much work, I wish someone would just self-host for me and charge me a fee for it.

Heck they could even subsidize my fee by selling me ads... oh, wait a second...
Surely Woody Allen’s use of this typeface in his title cards.
The mad scientist really looks the part
If you do not have a physical address (e.g., live on a boat / in an RV), our local DMV will tell you to use the street address of a local homeless shelter.

This probably won't get you past the requirement of utility bills in your name at that address to get a "Real ID" that allows domestic flights without a passport, though.

Same thing for getting a PO box, you need a physical address first. The post office will tell you the same thing, to use the address of a homeless shelter.

The folks writing these laws do not live in vans, and do not care, nor even think about the impact of their actions on folks with alternative living arrangements / folks poorer than they are.
> If people really want the optimizations afforded by things like assuming an int can't overflow to a negative number in a for loop, my personal position is that the code should be annotated such that the optimization is enabled.

That's not an entirely absurd idea, especially if you wanted to enable optimization piece-wise for legacy code. But in the end does it matter whether you specify the optimizations you want in the build system or in the code?

> At the very least, the compiler should warn that it is making assumptions about potentially UB when applying such optimizations.

The assumptions are usually "assume no UB." I don't know what kind of warnings you expect but this idea has been brought up before and it's not good because it would just make the compiler flood warnings on any code that does any arithmetic on variables (as opposed to compile time constants).
Doubtful, a restaurant with bad service will go kaput. Restaurant owners do care about this kind of thing. It's called the hospitality industry for a reason.
Indeed, and you can toast odd-shaped "breads" that won't go down a toaster slot.
Preview is a killer app and it gets me though all sorts of situations., document signing (and doctoring), and PDF manipulation first and foremost.

Combined with notes.app which has some very nice features (document scan, share, to-do lists, reliable sync, adding of files, search etc) it is Apple at its best.
If you want to really spoil yourself or your partner, place the hot water bottle in bed about an hour early -- and then, just before going to sleep, refill it with fresh hot water.

I find that between the bottle itself and the surrounding sheets and mattress, a lot of heat is absorbed in that first hour. Pre-heating everything should keep the hot water bottle warm until morning. I find this to be an unreasonably effective life hack.
>hey could have made an incompatible IPv5 which was exactly like IPv4, except with additional address bits.

That exists, it's called enhanced IP or something. I'm having trouble finding it now since it's been a few years, but I've had a customer using it. Of course nothing besides the endpoints understood it, so it had to be wrapped in UDP. Horrible.
Have not looked extensively into alternatives but AWS WorkMail looks interesting. Not significantly cheaper but looks like a more predictable option. With Google you never know what is around the corner, I feel.
I don't. I read them, act on them, then delete them. If I think I might need it later, I take a screenshot. How often do I miss deleting SMS messages? Maybe once or twice in 30 years. That SMS came from somewhere, so if it's really important, I can go to the source.

I use email the same basic way, pruning almost every message weekly on Sunday.

Sunday is also Stop Subscription Sunday, like Taco Tuesday, but for software and app rent-seekers.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121064005/https://www.nytim...
Open consultation: Proposal for legislation to improve the UK’s cyber resilience
> The closest is probably moving your drivers license registration, which many people wait years to do after moving.

Most states do require by law that you do this in a very short period of time after moving. (Although yes, it is not uncommon for people to violate this)
If you want to set up a PVS to handle email for you - what route would you recommend? Is it still sendmail.cf?
Azure already did that 6 months ago: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/06/microsoft-drops-azure-blo...
Google already has a mechanism to convert EDU accounts to standard gmail accounts. So most of the work is already done, it would just need to be tested, UI and docs written, etc.
They are hiring writers: https://fly.io/blog/fly-io-is-hiring-technical-writers/
I think there's a little irony there, considering that the same update that introduced GBM also created a pretty terrible issue where Nvidia would flood your DBUS channels with garbage until you system runs out of memory and crashes.

In other words, "fix" is a relative term.
> "30x faster" that didn't sit well with me.

Because it is pure bs PR statement. That's why. You are 100% correct to call them out.
Open-Sourcing our Firmware
What stops sellers from raising prices to the point that any meaningful gain in UBI is effectively zero?
There are laws about large sums of money.
You have to click delete to reset the last digit.

I think it should clear the whole guess after an invalid guess.
I’m sure that the real reason for Twitter to use t.co is analytics and more control over the platform.
Why isn’t 00002 your lower bound?
They’re also a great tool for that as transactional sms messages don’t really have permanence, so the urls disappearing in the future is a non issue.
The recommended session manager for pipewire is called WirePlumber. Not something I would think of it I were to look for it on my own. It didn't even exist a couple months back, and about 6months ago pipewire hardly worked on my laptop.

It's great that OBS works fine for you, but it's really odd that Wayland has been around for over a decade and some things people would consider basic functionality has only recently started working.

I for one hope there is something new coming where the core developers aren't so far detached from reality.
Hi,

Thanks for this.
I did have this earlier in the development but it didnt properly work. I'll go back to this and try again
Odd question since I am clearly missing something. Is standalone gmail affected by this?
Yup! Sugar could well be #1.
Re #1: in theory, could we require companies like Binance to disclose how they are structured, and to declare a priori the legal rationale for why this is allowed? The idea here is that they would be bound to that particular legal theory in the event of regulatory investigations.

Or does this run afoul of some constitutional issues?
Optimizations often deal with inlined code. The code in the inlined function might be fine in the general sense, but once taken in a particular context, there's dead or redundant code because the compiler can deduce values from context. It might even all fold into a constant.

Telling the developers to optimize these would be equivalent to telling them to start inlining their code (or creating variants of every function that might be inlined, to optimize it for the specific context where it will be inlined).
If this pattern just the norm in Ruby because I loathe these single purpose functions that are basically comments that I have to jump to another function to see. It makes tracing what actually happens in some piece of code impossible without a notes file to make it all on-screen.
$1M of your money? Yes

$250k from immediate family, if said fuzzy conditions don't confer any ownership or repayment? I'd say just barely yes (it's basically a gift to you at that point, which is then your money)

$250k from a third cousin in return for equity? No.

Being bootstrapped isn't an ungameable category, but it is a fairly unambiguous one IMO.
I thought this would be implemented by recreating a calculator logic gates using nothing but css selectors.

https://github.com/SLaks/Silon
No wonder they grow all that lettuce in Yuma.

Seems extremely stupid from a long term perspective, but what do I know. I'm just a software guy.
Hi, can you provide some search terms that will help me understand the relationship between ln and prime density?
> so relativity is busted at this point

Excuse me?
The problem is that you don’t know how long the outage will be when it starts. I once saw a large outage start, everyone jumped on to troubleshoot, thinking it would be an hour. 8 hours later it’s still an outage, and everyone is still on and burned out. Management should have told half the people who jumped on at the start to go away and be prepared for a phone call in 8 hours to provide relief.
The book was written for me, and I found that weird. I get being nostalgic for one's childhood, but writing a character who is nostalgic for my childhood?

I finished the first book, but all I could think on seeing this HN articles was "Oh, please, no." I will not be reading it.