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If you make more than 1x your wage in tips, then you are mostly paid in tips - regardless of whether your state has a tipped minimum wage law.

Would you hear it from inside the plane? Even if it’s not as loud as the main engine, if it’s audible at all a lot of people would notice a change in pitch/tone. At least, I notice when the sounds the plane is making change even though I don’t know anything about the reason.

I think two different accounting methods are being conflated here which leads to the huge $3B vs $18B difference. Congress periodically authorizes spending for military aid to Israel and other countries. Later, the executive branch actually disburses that aid. In recent years, the US has on average given Israel $3B. This year, congress authorized an additional $18B to be disbursed through 2026 - which is what recent news stories about US giving Israel $18B are referring to, as far as I know. You would end up double-counting every dollar, if you did the math that way on an ongoing basis.

But if you know of a clean source of data on the actual amount of aid provided each year, that would be useful. I’d guess the number this year would be a lot more than $3B given the physical reality of tons of expensive offensive and defense missiles fired.

I wonder if people downvoted this because they took it as some kind of political point about COVID-19. Maybe it was, but I agree with it as a serious proposal. Even if the government is not confident in its ability to get people to accept vaccinations, it should commit to pay for the doses either way, to incentivize the development of the vaccine. In general, a contest or prize is a smart way to fund a public good. Among left and right economists, this is one thing most would agree on.

It might be sacrilege but I find Apple Maps is better now.

Just to give an experience report as someone maintaining a 50k line rust codebase at work. I didn’t write this code and have only read parts of it. I am not a rust expert. I faced a really puzzling bug - basically errors coming out of an API that had nothing to do with the call site. After struggling to debug, I search for “unsafe” and looked at the 6 unsafe blocks in the project (totaling a few dozen lines of code), and found one of those had a bug. It turns out the unsafe operation was corrupting the system the code was interacting with and causing errors that pop up during later calls. This bug would have been much more difficult to track down if I couldn’t narrow down the tricky code with “unsafe”.

Well, the phone’s software works great. They just haven’t released those new AI features - which are supposed to come out on some older devices as well. And it’s hardly the first time Apple delayed a release.

IMO, the only thing weird here is the way the iPhone 16 demo day kept talking about these unreleased features front and center instead of the actual capabilities of the new phone. Probably that’s because the phone is so incremental and there was not much to talk about.

Apple doesn’t have a reputation for letting engineers slack. I have to guess they are working like dogs to meet some standard before they are willing to release.

When my AC broke on the weekend, I got a capacitor from Amazon that arrived next day.

I’ve ridden Waymo in SF and it has gone great. The cost was cheaper than the cheapest Lyft/Uber, but in a much nicer vehicle. I felt 100% safe the whole time, which is better than I can say about humans who get paid more if they drive faster. My only complaint is cases like where it “wasted” a few minutes because it didn’t want to do an illegal U-turn during the pickup (any human driver would have done it).

The word “reliable” without any units attached isn’t well-defined, so I can’t say whether Waymo meets that bar, but it’s a good customer experience.

I see a lot of the recommendations expressing anxiety about what will happen when they discontinue - which calls into question the validity of the official treatment plan they are under and isn’t normally something you’d bring up in an ad.

How does the critical reading help you tell ad copy apart from an honest and enthusiastic recommendation? Not a rhetorical question.

The idea that Tesla would win the robotaxi race by not needing LiDAR died sometime between when LiDAR cost $100k and when it cost $1k. Now it’s just Elon being intransigent.

You can cut it more finely but I think you still run into the same issue. The best candidates to run an agency that regulates a particular industry are going to highly overlap with the best candidates to be leaders in that industry, because they have knowledge and experience over how that industry works.

Sort of like how many top law students choose between clerking at federal court and joining big law, or do one after the other. And people who become judges often did both. If you ban people who worked in private practice from being a clerk or judge, you would have a lower quality judiciary.

Ultimately, I think you end up with the B team trying to regulate the A team.