skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a regular McDonald's customer for breakfast, about 3-4 times per week. the ones I go to in NYC have kiosks. I refuse to use them. here's why:

* I order an off-menu item (scrambled eggs, they're delicious and you're welcome). it's literally impossible (afaik) to get it from the kiosk

* i want to see somebody and and have some kind of interaction. I'm a software engineer and I'm about to spend 8 hours staring at a computer screen with minimal human contact. I'm a huge introvert but still human and will go crazy alone just like everyone else.

* sometimes the cashiers are cool. I don't mean to be creepy but last week one definitely was flirting with me and asked where I'm from. it got so intense, that at the end she burst out in laughter and she was smiling at me the whole time till I got my order and left. Im a single guy in his 20s, don't skewer me for this. another time, this guy made a d&d joke (!!) and we both had a good laugh.

* I don't want to touch a filthy screen. there's 200+ ppl in these places at a given time... remember this is downtown Manhattan.they do an admirable job of keeping the place clean, but it's just one more unnecessary disease vector

* I used to be a cashier at a KFC in high school. it helped pay for my first, oh so shitty car. $7/hr, I was happy because minimum wage at the time was like $6.50. I made money, got tasty free employee meals, learned how to work with others, and met tons of cool people (and some shitty ones). it taught me a lot and we had fun.
You have this issue in France as well but it's mostly concentrated on landlines, not mobile phones (no idea why).
It's also the case in Russia, as I discovered on a recent trip. I wonder how McDonald's decides where to roll the kiosks out first? Countries with lower expectations of customer service?

edit: typo
As a background. I am nearly 40, 70 kg, 176m, pretty active person but not doing very regular sport. I had migraine starting at the age of 10 or 12.

The best ways, for me, not to trigger a migraine are:

- very good sleep. It means taking a 25 minutes nap during the day if I feel tired.

- very good hydration. I drink about 1.5L in the morning and just a single cup of coffee.

- low stress. The lower the better because stress reduces the quality of my sleep.

- if it starts, I try to stop the migraine as early as possible with directly 1g Aspirine. This is my way but here you need to ask your M.D. because of course I cannot tell you what you should take as medication!

I was only able to achieve this as I started working from home (for the nap if tired).

Sorry for the throwaway account. I am traveling, but if you have questions, just ask and I will answer here.

Edit: from the other comments we all follow more or less the same method.
yea man, I was not thinking of posting on HN yet. I'll get on it right after this meeting
Here in Switzerland, we have had those kiosks for a few years and they are great.

* Much better product discoverability.

* Better customization (like removing onion from the burger).

* Easier to see the prices and compare them.

* No more waiting in line, you just go to the kiosk and then pick a seat, they serve at the table.

* I live in the French part of Switzerland and French is my native language, and while I have a good german level, understanding every swiss german dialect is really hard, I'm glad I can use the machine. This also applies to tourists as the kiosk is also in english.
We had Classy (Client* Team) Mondays at a previous job of mine. The whole larger group would come in dressed up in suits and business appropriate dresses, then have some nibbles and drinks afterwards.

Pretty much a reverse of a casual Friday.

* Client in the client-server computing sense.
And yet, 5 days ago we were lamenting that teenagers no longer want these jobs and they are going unfilled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17557298

Sounds like the market is coming up with a solution. There are many ways for teens to learn the lessons you mentioned besides working in fast food.
The idea is as old as a car because with a horse and cart you could doze off and trust the horse on usual routes.

I wouldn't be surprised if at some point someone tried to train animals to do the driving and achieved modest success.
A professor of mine who worked on the project as a PhD student once told us about the project:
According to him they had to use the heavily armored version of the car, intended to protect presidents, and strip out all the amour, because only this car platform could carry the enormous weight of the computers at the time.
Not keeping tests separate from the tested code can lead to chaos in the long term. It provides an incentive to blur the lines in inappropriate ways, e.g. by adding helper code for tests to the code under test etc.
For one, in the first case the government revenue should grow rather than decrease.

For two, the taxes on one type of product may be justified by the societal costs of using that product. Compare for example cigarettes and chewing gum.
Indeed, focus is a great thing. Although weirdly enough, Android is still part of Google as well; you'd think that'd be a prime candidate to move alongside Google as its own venture.
I thought it might have been a reference to (LISP inventor) McCarthy's famous Dartmouth Conference in 1956, where they thought that 10 people over 2 months could make "significant advances" in making machines "use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

EDIT: Probably the Summer Vision Project, as Tome said in sibling comment.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6125
Sorry for posting it prematurely. I was excited to see this. I didn't think it would die under HN load.
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Thank you! It was importent for my profesional life.
If the world could opt out of bloat.. the ad industry would be gone.
Example.com is defined to not have ssl.
This is why I love my 15-year-old Honda S2000 dashboard.

http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/images/L-Honda-S2000-...

Minimal interface with just 2 dials for vents and heating and 2 rockers for volume and fan speed, which are impossible to miss. Everything is tilted towards the driver so there's no reason to ever take your eyes off the road.

Everything else just gets out of the way.

I drive it daily without choosing between 8 suspension settings, 5 sport modes, the perfect climate control temperature, heated seats, driver position profiles, voice commands, cruise control, awkward bluetooth pairing or proprietary navigation systems, and I haven't missed any of those things during the last 3 years with the S2000.

Touchscreens are a lazy solution to handle (or hide) the insane arms race of features imposed upon the UI designers to compete with the market. More settings in the 2019 model? Just add another tab! The Tesla Model 3 is a prime example - a super minimal car in every respect, until you use the touchscreen.

There's zero consideration whether stripping features out would actually make a better car overall, so I can only see the trend continuing.
This makes me put my ZX Spectrum in the right perspective.
Uh really? No I'd love to replace my gas powered Minivan with a pure electric. There is no alternative other than the Model X.
This also saved my ass in Russia recently since I don't know any Russian and the staff didn't know any English. I do think it's nice to have the option to be served by a real person if you want to though, so hopefully McDonald's go with a combination of kiosks and cashiers.
I see these in Sweden. Self-serving checkouts are booming here too. Personally I hate them, it's the same masturbatory horror as with VR goggles. But the tech will improve and become more seamless I'm sure. And human interaction will become a luxury. The fancy stores still hold on to their cashiers, I've noticed. Gradually they will become the experts, connoisseurs, who will help and guide you with your more involved questions, or if you're just high out of your mind or whatever. "What burger works with my French Cabernet Sauvignon?"

So the article lifts an interesting point. The low-competence trainee entry will disappear, meanwhile perhaps a greater demand for expertise than ever before will arise. How will the training occur?
Does this falsify Darwins theory of common descent?
Jokes aside, a lot of developers would call a project "dead" when is working as intended and not receiving new commits.
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It sounds to me like it's a hyper-real dream in a way.
Face/people detection/tracking at scale like the Chinese are doing. Despite my moral/ethical compass revolting on this, it is one of the most impactful applications so far. It is not just face detection that it does, there are other more complicated things like gait/activity based classification. Route tracking, people interaction tracking, etc. while some of this is just hype, clearly a lot of money is flowing to solve these Chinese government problems.
I also wonder if having a small sensor, that you focus a lot of light upon could work just as well as a big sensor.
What worries me is that we are always surprised how our data can be used. You may agree on something you think you understand and indirectly agreed to something else.
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A lot of people do not respect HTTP standards. We've all seen or heard of APIs returning the infamous HTTP 200 { error: true, errorMessage: "..." }
Yes, you are correct. I think it would be extremely difficult to justify that this kind of processing was necessary for the provision of service.

It seems to me that an organisation the size of Dropbox would have a fairly watertight justification. However if the legal basis for processing is neither consent nor provision of service, then they must have done a pretty good job of obfuscating all PII (as the article says "...we and Dropbox employees could view no personally identifiable information.". If this is the case then this sharing of information may not even be in-scope of GDPR.

I'm not sure if the public interest exceptions would be a safe route to go down. The EU has made it clear that, like 'Legitimate Interest', the get-out-of-jail-free justification is going to be highly scrutinised.

EDIT: I have just seen that the article has been edited to say that the anonymisation and aggregation was carried out by Dropbox before being transferred to the third party, which kind of kills the discussion.
I use a (slight) variation of the "Johnny Decimal" System (https://johnnydecimal.com).
Essentially I have a folder called "library" with subfolders like this:

- [1] Personal
-- [11] Finances
--- [11.01] 2017
--- [11.02] 2018
-- [12] Travel
- [2] Work
- [3] Education
...

[94.xx] is my special inbox folder which I use when I am to lazy to immediately sort something.

The website says that you should under no circumstances create subfolders within a [xx.yy] folder. I do break that rule - e. g. [31.04] refers to a specific course at university. Within that folder I have subfolders for specific assignments etc. The alternative would be either a (for me too) large amount of [xx.yy] folders or a messy course folder.

The big advantage of the system is that everything is identifiable by a simple number, which makes searching in spotlight really easy. E. g. searching for "[12." brings up all the folders for my trips in the last years.

I have been quite happy with the system over the last year or so and would recommend it.
I didn't mention it, but here they kept two cashiers (at least at the restaurant near me).
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We use keys like the one pictured at our company. Handy for key stores of any kind and for U2F.

That said, the dongles are an abomination of engineering. I know that USB-jacks have a defined top. That is to no interest to vendors as it seems...
I think the thing to remember is that modern DSLRs are going to continue to produce decent images across challenging lighting conditions. A DSLR buys you more usable shots to select from later.

You are correct, On a sunny day both types of device will produce similar looking 1000 pixel wide web-ready exterior landscape shots. Now take them into a dark cathedral with high stained-glass windows, try for a quick portrait of a priest walking by holding a candle, and the DSLR will still get the shot, and it will look great. Smartphones cannot do this...yet.
The whole-house fan was useful in swampy Waycross, GA, but we never had a house with such a fan in Athens.

Our house in Clearwater Florida, on the Gulf coast, desperately needed a whole-house exhaust fan; the compressor on the air conditioner would routinely trip a current-limiting circuit breaker, and the house would be 15 degrees F hotter than the outdoor temperatures.

Our whole-house swamp cooler in southern New Mexico worked really really well.
> I'm disappointed that countries set such a high barrier to entry for immigrants (TOEFL level 6.5-7) when local people probably can't even achieve the same.

Shrug, seems harsh but the local people have a somewhat arbitrary birthright to be there and these countries can afford to pick and choose who they admit.
While I agree it's super helpful, I travel full time and trying to / learning to communicate with humans is half the fun! :)
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European Authorities Issues a Warning Over the Future of Cryptocurrencies
European Authority released ECON document warning over the future of cryptocurrency market, saying central banks can obstruct it. What is behind the scene?

https://coinpedia.org/news/european-authorities-warn-crypto-future/
First, they only work on really specific problems. They aren’t just a magic tool for brute force.

Current public-key crypto (both RSA and elliptic curve) happens to be one of those problems. However, there are systems where we don’t know how to break them with quantum computers, and it probably isn’t possible. These aren’t in wide use but have been tested in production e.g. by Google. If it becomes a problem, people can switch.

Second, actual existing quantum computers are too small to do much of anything. We are just hitting the point where they could start to become interesting. There are still engineering and theoretical challenges in making them really work.

All these quantum programming languages let you simulate a quantum computer, but doing so demands exponentially more resources as you add qubits. The advantage of a real quantum computer is that this would not be the case.
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As the article and the comments say, it is a gesture rich in context. While there is some common meaning, that meaning can differ based on the situation, the people, the relationships. And if you spend enough time with your team, you'll get to know them and you will understand them, with this gesture or any other. Trying to write up a black and white interpretation of such things is no more effective than it would be if the article was reversed, trying to tell people in India what it means when Americans move their eyebrows.

Just get to know the people you work with -- it will all fall into place.
Why would you delete the name of the exercise that injured you?
Oh it does not. Take GST division. WA is now getting back about 38 cents in every dollar it collects leaving a massive state budget deficit. States like South Australia get back $1.20 or more.

Why? Because when the GST was introduced WA'S resource income was counted... During an unprecedented resources boom that has since collapsed. You know what doesn't get counted? Poker machine income, which is substantial in the three Eastern states.

Can it be changed? Technically, yes. Practically is incredibly difficult because no one wants to give up revenue and politicians are worried it'll be electoral suicide, which it may well be.

The fact that the government has proposed anything at all, however anemic, is kinda amazing.
Look into Golem and Brave/BAT, they are great examples of other use cases than crypto currencies.
Yep, it was.
It's probably both. They managed to push it through because it aligns with the higher-level company goals as well.
Aren't Linux NTFS drivers production quality nowadays?
And how is the second drive on the same machine helping?
Doesn't seem like a good deal.
We tried a few price points/models. This one is what seems to work for us. Every business is different and it's a matter of experimenting until you find what works.
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There is also composibility: ie make public components and compose them in public, use private as little as possible.
This simply cannot work in many cases. It is quite unrealistic to test complex logic that is hidden behind a narrow interface completely. You are hit with the full combinatorial complexity of what is behind that interface, even if might consist of independent parts internally. If you can test these parts independently, the number of required tests is a fraction of what a black box approach requires.

Another situation is checking numerical code for correctness and accuracy. There it is extremely advantageous to have testable small functions that map to individual mathematical expressions. But these are again implementation details that need to be hidden behind interfaces.
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So it looks as though the article has been edited to say the anonymisation and aggregation was carried out before being transferred to a third party, which craps on our discussion a bit.

However, to answer your question anyway - I don't believe you could justify the work as being in the public interest. I think it would be an extremely tenuous link and I think you'd be a fool to try and rely on something as flimsy as public interest if you're not a government body, or processing data on behalf of one.

I suppose I was taking a stab at understanding what their thinking was to see if anyone else could provide me with something which I had not considered.
We use domains more than anything. It's not the easiest thing to determine, but I'd be pretty confident in the 50/50 scenario. But I should have said that many of the people buying with their own credit card are actually purchasing for work.
I can think of two (relatively) simple tests:

A) you generate an export of the public API (entrypoints, arguments, types) in some stable format.

B) you run the (public-api) testsuite of the previous release against the current release.

- If A yields no changes wrt the previous release, then B should probably succeed as well (barring changed tests). Bump the patchlevel.

- If A has changes but B succeeds, it's a minor version bump.

- If A has changes and B reports failures, it's a major version bump.

Of course, this isn't fool-proof, so you still want some way of overriding the automated version bump. But I think it's reliable enough to at least force developers to think about the changes they're making. Of course, it does rely on having a testsuite, and explicitly marking parts of it as public-api validation.
> The core of the software is designed around the notion of a generic 'Call' abstraction, that allows it to be flexible about using different technology stacks

This quote is from the website linked from the GitHub repository. I skimmed the code to try to find the abstractions to switch out the technology stack, but could not find anything. Could you provide some pointers?
It's not a blanket ban; there's an exception if the engine is being used to operate a processing device. A refrigerator probably fits that case.
> David Hilbert famously argued that infinity cannot exist in physical reality.

This statement reduces the problem to the definitions of "existence" and "physical reality" which of course may have quite different interpretations. For example, the existence of particles (with finite mass and finite coordinates which can be "touched") and the existence of waves are rather different notions.
There is a good dissection of these popular arguments in favor of HTTPS on static websites that don't have any forms:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ka_e9-V...

In short: I have yet to see a really convincing argument in favor of HTTPS in these scenarios.
> hysterical raisins

Thanks for making me smile!
I have the Olympus M10 mark III for the same reasons you want a new camera. It's pretty good. The only thing I really miss is a persistent Bluetooth connection to my smartphone instead of the ugly WiFi solution this camera has.
Repository: https://github.com/sharpie7/circuitjs1
Not to mention that there is no conclusive evidence of the dual process theory yet, see for example this experimental study finding that logical "type 2" answers are actually typically faster and that intuitive "type 1" answers are typically also logical:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002771...
McDonald's would have automated those jobs away regardless of labor supply, and whatever alternatives there might be are going to be automated as well. Entry-level work is categorically being done away with, and yet the expectation of social and business skills being provided by entry-level work is not.
I never give my email. It's possible (and IMO better) to make a social website without that (4chan is an example).
Will the model start to live when the model is perfect?
Linux is not our USP. In fact, we mostly sell to Windows users. We've been around for 5 years. We released Hiri for Linux a year ago.

Our USP is increased productivity. Check out the Skills Center: https://www.hiri.com/skills/

Also, we're not really trying to compete with Outlook per se. We will never match it feature for feature - not necessary or desirable.
Shouldn't it get confused when you turn it on and off really fast again and again?
Yes, in the rest of the country where taxes are “low” states and municipalities either sacrifice services we take for granted or believe industry will self regulate. So there are no things Like garbage collection, paying teachers a good wage , reviewing the text books schools teach with to insure the are not packed with lies . Keeping emergency services operating 24/7 , insuring hospitals are staffed and open , running public institutions of higher learning for the benefit of the public (according to the actual concept of not for profit, not scamming the government) . Going after white collar crime and properly regulating various industries to prevent owners and operators from cutting corners and building unsafe , dangerous or otherwise unwanted structures, products and food . Yes running a state takes money , pretending that this stuff is only for the poor folk and doing none of it is cheap and easy .
You're sure to have troubles if put your website into that.

But congratulations to the author for the work and the Show HN.
This is perfectly possible. I used to work on something that did just this but at the time used a small battery and an SSD to quickly dump the volatile state before power loss. This meant we had to limit the amount of volatile data that could be stored in ram (due to the transfer rate and up time on the battery). We were eagerly awaiting 3DXP DIMMs so that we could remove that limit. It really will have a big impact on critical systems where any data loss is not acceptable.
Social media is the opium of the masses
My triggers would be bright light, prolonged loud noise, insufficient food, dehydration, and (I think) pistachios.

In terms of prophylaxis, my neurologist had me supplement with 130 mg of magnesium, which helped. What really knocked down the frequency, though, was when my psychiatrist started me on Lexapro, an SSRI, for anxiety.

When I get an attack anyway, 50mg sumatriptan. Doesn’t always totally eliminate it, but usually at least helps.