skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those traits are desirable, but not essential for most of our users. I still maintain that rejecting ALL proprietary software is a fundamentalist position. The purpose of software is to do a job - to add value on your behalf or on behalf of a company. Although a FLOSS philosophy should factor into the equation when choosing software, it is unlikely that it should be the primary consideration (although there are cases where it could be). If you simply rule out proprietary software on principle, you are doing your company or yourself a disservice. You are failing to extract the best 'work done' from yourself or your colleagues because of an ideology. Hence the use of the word 'fundamentalist'.

I do understand that by being closed source, our software lacks the desirable properties you have mentioned. But we have not been able to find an open source model that makes financial sense for our company.
I remember vezzy-fnord on this subject.

* https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2016/01/01/0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10824382)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301375
No, only real estate, because we can't create new land.
actually, I prefer the opposite. I know exactly what I want at Panera and I don't want to spend time clicking through menus when I can just say my order.

I will use the kiosks if there is a line for the cashiers and at Starbucks, I like using their mobile app instead of waiting in line to give my order.
All these unemployed people are not going to crawl under a bridge and die. When people are hungry and see people with food, they kill them and take their food. We don’t really have any plan for this yet and it will seem like a distant scenario until we are in it.
The computer is aware of enough of the possible parameters such that the lost customization is vastly outweighted by the benefits.
It seems like it might be feasible for a proxy war (like the one in Syria) to escalate significantly, to the point where multiple major powers are contributing manpower and materiel directly to the front lines; In such a case, it may be possible for an extended war to take place, while still incentivizing deployment of autonomous weaponized platforms - which are already in development today [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_autonomous_weapon
The kiosk have been installed in McDonald restaurants in Denmark for over a year at this point. They haven't eliminated the cashiers, they,ve just reduced the number from four to one in most of the places I've visited. One cashier have been converted to just handing out orders.

For the most part it's actually a better experience, it's certainly faster. The touch screen kiosks could be more intuitive.
>He was describing a situation in the Linux community where a large number of users have an aversion to paid software.

So "having an aversion" means that you're a fundamentalism? That's a bit extreme, no?

>If you want linux desktop software to grow, there needs to be room for proprietary software.

Judging by how I feel more miserable and less in control every year with the dumbification of the Linux desktop I genuinely don't want that. People keep adding abstraction layers in order to lure the mythical "average joe" to Linux, except that he doesn't care anyway so I'm the one who ends up having to deal with that bloat that doesn't offer anything to me. I'd use FreeBSD instead of Linux if I could because I prefer the way it works but I can't because of... proprietary drivers that are not available on the BSDs.

If people like to eat crap that's their problem, I don't see why I should force my self to get a taste for it just so that we can eat at the same table.
Yes, it's an agreement, or like "sure yeah".
It's surprising how even the most educated western, either Europeans or Americans are unaware of this fact. So many times people would go, "he/she doesn't look very Indian".
Let us know what you like, you wish, you wonder.
I just cancelled my subscription.

Truth be told I've also been dissatisfied with the price of the Plus and Pro subscriptions, relative to what they provide, with their support and their direction, so was looking for motivation to move.

This is just icing on the cake.
The main reason for big media sites and forums not being https secured is the interest of the advertising community. There was a huge community discussion on sites like golem.de and Heise.de, which only recently switched to https. Login pages are protected almost all the time.
TLDR: They're liberals, in the classic, The Economist sense of the word.
Influencers get to eat free burgers
Care to expand? I wouldn't usually think of browser history as particularly sensitive.
It doesn't matter so much whether minimum wage is $5 or $50 - running a machine saves them money.

If they can make customer experience and efficiency gains off the back of it as well, it's an all round win for them.
Thanks! I imagine instead of via USB to hardware token, the query could theoretically go via my PC's Bluetooth to my phone?
The UK authorities have the power to ask people to explain where their money came from.

So, if a former Russian public official is revealed to be the owner of a £10m property in London, he is at risk of having it confiscated.
I think in Britain, the cashiers in McDonalds are noticeably better than most fast food places and I have more trouble with the kisosk. The Touchscreens are variable and for some reason, they don't detect when the receipt paper has run out so you are left hoping the order went through and not lost in the ether. I have waited a long time for food since the kiosks and have to go and ask if the order is on the system.

Since people pick it, I have still had order mistakes but hey, it usually means ordering quickly instead of waiting behind the person who wants to reconfigure the entire menu during their order.
All the unemployed high school students?
I can't read forbes anymore since it only displays a blank page to me. Personally I have been using kiosks at Mc Donald's for years. Compared to self checkout at grocery stores, they are usually a good experience. My only problem is that some of the promotions don't work with them.
2 likely triggers:

- excessive polyunsaturated fats in your diet

- poorly digested fibers in your intestines

Use butter/coconut oil instead of soybean/canola/sunflower oil if that's your case. Avoid PUFA at all cost.

Also, cut grain-enriched ('whole') bread and avoid grains in general, i.e., favor mashed potatoes over rice, avoid peanuts etc.

Find more here:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=migraine+ray+peat+forum
"This shows you just do not understand either free or open source software." - Please.
Read my comment above for clarity on my position. If you reject ALL proprietary software based on ideology, I think it's fair to say you have a fundamentalist position.

We looked into open source models and couldn't find one that made financial sense for us.
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Ready at Dawn studios moves to Rust
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592422
Australian Human Rights Commission seeks to embed human rights in tech
At the pro-level it sounds like they're comparable, but at least in my price range DSLRs seem to give better value for money. I'm currently using a Nikon D7100 and was looking into switching to mirrorless, primarily to save on weight as I mainly do travel photography. I couldn't see anything out there that rivaled it for a similar amount to what I paid for the D7100 4 years ago. I put the money into the awesome Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED instead. It did nothing but exacerbate my weight problems though! Hah
Perhaps I'm over sensitive but the idea of touching a screen that random other people have touched isn't exactly appetizing
You left out Traffic Acquisition Costs: money Google pays to other companies to make them guide traffic to Google sites (increasing ad impressions).
The problem isn't housing. The problem is the realestate market. There is no competition because the merchandises don't move. Prices goes up to infinite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Allais
> We can do better and simpler at the same time.

How?
We are developping software which will run on Windows servers and desktop. And our company has developed a toolchain to deal with building artefacts and dealing dependencies that run on Windows, so we're stuck with it. And I haven't experienced the issues described in the article regarding nagging and updates. For the nagging part, it was already configured away before I even started. And for updates, a restart once per week is enough to avoid any interuption during work.
Thanks for this extremely useful article! Added to bookmarks.
It seems down for me.
Yep, the great thing about tensorflow are the canned algorithms. You can focus on your data-sets and problem rather than deep theory.
All of those things are meaningless to a company on their own. This kind of decision comes down to one simple calculation: Is more profit likely to be generated from doing it, or from not doing it?

All the things you've mentioned are things which potentially increase profit, though the rollout is a big investment with a lot of risk, which decreases profit.

Also decreasing profit is having to pay your workers more, so in that sense, increases in minimum wage possible did contribute to this decision. The thing which people who point to that as a sign of minimum wage increases being bad miss is that these things are a moving target. Automated kiosks are getting cheaper every year, and at worst an increase in minimum wage brings it a few years closer.

That's not great for people working in jobs that were a few years away from being economically viable to automated, but they'll still benefit in their next job, and a huge chunk of the population still benefits (and thus the economy overall)
Please don't open new accounts just to reply to your own misinformed comments.
It's similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_humour
That doesn't work, you need to have a legal basis for all processing. It's hard to argue that operating the service requires this sort of research, so you need another basis.

There's some public interest exceptions, but from my knowledge it's not established that stuff like this would work under it.
Ask HN: How do you OCR your receipts and bills in 2018?
How do you get your personal financial documents from paper form into your spreadsheets or accounting programs? There always seems to be backlog of receipts and bills on my desk. I'm thinking that there has to be a better way than typing all these in. Please recommend what works for you?
It didn't use GPS or any sort of pre-fabbed maps. It drove purely by eye / machine vision using four cameras. No radar or lidar.
Simple and clear. Even if I don't do Python I learned some good ideas (like the // floor operator).
That's why HSTS preloading is what you want to achieve. We've recently added openstreetmap.org and it was a fun project to make sure that everything would properly reply over https.
My local McD's in the UK has also added table service alongside the kiosks. You place your order, and then pick up a table number sign and enter its number. Some time later someone comes over with your food.
How about the FCC get serious about the problem and force the telcos to stop it. Obviously, as you say, they have no interest in doing it themselves.
Would building the compiler on cloud instances help?

If the compiler is built in Rust, I guess it would efficiently use several dozens of cores and gigabytes of RAM
As an Alphabet shareholder I'm quite happy with revenue heavily focused on advertising, since that is where I see the biggest growth opportunity. In fact I would like Alphabet to spin off their Waymo self-driving car company so I can sell my share in it. If other shareholders want to diversify they can just sell their Alphabet shares and buy a range of other stocks.
Literally everything in a city has been touched by random other people
Yes, Apollo Lake is an Atom SoC. While I am doing simple web development, performance is about the same. Mostly lacking RAM versus older, Core platforms.

But all-up, Windows 10 at 6 Watts. Including the display, storage, the whole system — or so the performance counters on the battery tell me.
There's a great advantage when in a foreign country too. I was abroad recently and dying of a hangover... I managed to make my way to the local McDonald's and instead of having the usual translation issues, I used the kiosk and waited for my number to come up.
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I think the point is to simulate what trades are necessary for the same counterparties to be creditor and debitor for these loans/debts so precisely this could happen.
Given that education expenditure is mostly local (rather than, say, paying for imported commodities) there is little reason to compare dollar amounts.

> This is really one of the fundamental problems with government. Everything is seen through the lens of money.

That is the problem with government? I'd say this is the problem with a culture that sees everything outside the most personal through an economic lens. Government is not the exception here.
How to Create and Nurture Business Sensitive AI ChatBots?
Already hugged to death by HN. Perhaps it's a good idea to replace it with a static website for now?
Good guides, just finished the text classification one. The approach is very much grow a good dataset and then find and tune a model the works well for your needs.
Were OpenBSD people wrong, making strlcat and strlcpy ? Honest question.
I'm not into crypto but I found that method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
Unless the database is also encrypted and provides the same homomorphism against reverse index queries.
The average age of a fast food worker is 29 and 40% are over 25. Fewer than 1/3 are under 20.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/more-th...
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As some from Yorkshire I like 'aye' it's an anachronistic affirmative yes, old people still use 'nay' as well.

Language is a wonderful thing.
>I'm not getting fast food because I want made-from-scratch freshness, I'm getting fast food because I am in a hurry and want something inherently portable.

Macdonalds wants to disassociate itself from the image of fast food and heat lamps for much the same reason that KFC no longer calls itself "Kentucky Fried Chicken."
All the comments so far seem to be just re-hashing personal anecdotes about using the kiosks, and not the key message that's in the article.

Replacing cashiers in stores with kiosks, and ultimately replacing the fries-making and burger-flipping jobs with automation, removes a massive slice[1] of job roles for young teens from the market. As the article writer asserts, this will prevent lots of first time workers from learning the basic work-skills that are needed as they progress to more senior roles elsewhere. Things like time-keeping, quality-control, ability to focus, and social skills... the list goes on.

With young people the world over now only able to interact with society via the medium of toxic social media, resulting in poor face-to-face social skills, the next time you bump into an intolerant sulky mono-syllabic belligerent teen, remember that it was these sort of technical 'innovations' that resulted in their abandonment, and directly contributed to them becoming the anti-social outcasts that mainstream media has always painted them as.

As elders, we need to support the up-coming generation, not cast them aside in pursuit of our own greatness.

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[1] pun totally intended.
Stress seems to be a trigger for me, so I actively try and keep my work related stress as low as possible - eg. not taking on work with tight deadlines. I also find that drastic changes in my caffeine consumption can also trigger a migraine.

I'm "lucky" in the sense that I start losing a significant part of my vision before a migraine attack, at which point I might smoke a small amount of low quality cannabis (I get extremely anxious when I realise I'm about to get a migraine and I've found this relaxes me and helps for the nausea) as well as taking an oral dose of Rizatriptan Benzoate. I've not had success with other triptans I've used, so I always make sure to have Rizatriptan Benzoate close by.

TLDR, by managing my stress levels along with keeping an eye on my caffeine intake, I've not had a migraine in months.
for me too
My trigger was MSG (monosodium glutamate) but don't take my word for it. strong naturally occurring umamy taste can trigger for me too.

you should keep a journal of everything you eat, especially if you can take note of the ingredients.

For me 1 or 2 days after consumption triggers it, but staying away MSG helps in my case.

MSG sensitivity isn't taken seriously because it only really affect a tiny subset of the population and the food industry has interest in it not alarming the 99%.

I'm taking B2 which strengthens the blood brain barrier too.
Sometimes it comes down to whether user-generated content with externally linked resources is allowed on the site. E.g. forums often allows embedding images by users and because users don't care about HTTP or HTTPS and only copy the image link from somewhere, you will end up with "mixed content" warnings and broken "locks" in the browser address bar all over the place.

The current alternative is to simply use HTTP, which doesn't yield any warnings. When Chrome will mark all non-HTTPS sites as insecure this will change, hopefully.
More people work in fast food industry than just high school students. I think you know this though and you're just trying to have a bit of fun at their expense. Don't do that.
MSG is added to nearly every shop bought meat dish.
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Author here: The first priority of the project is to offer a solid generic audio-only calling experience to our users. This includes all functionality that people would expect from a softphone. At the same time, we want to build something that is generic and useful to any SIP-over-wss provider in the short term. The build mechanism and module-system should accomodate this. It is still under construction (https://github.com/vialer/vialer-js/tree/feature/restructure...), but most of the hardcoded dependencies are already dealt with.

Besides the current SIP Call implementation, we are preparing the codebase for additional signalling implementations as well. The centralized SIP Call implementation is great to use with all the functionalities a PBX offers (queues, on-hold, transfers, being available to any device), but browser-to-browser p2p also has its strong points. Privacy-aware chat, video and file transfer seem easier to implement and maintain with nothing more than JavaScript and another browser as a backend. The signalling part will be a bit of a design challenge. Ideally, this would be p2p and encrypted too, so people don't need to rely on one server/provider to find their contacts and setup connections with.
I have a feeling this quote will start getting more relevant again.

"[D]emand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread." - Emma Goldman, said to a crowd during the panic of 1893.
These are common in the UK to pretty much all McDonald's.

They've also moved to a style similar to Argos where you pay and then wait in a different place to collect instead of 1 cashier taking on 6 orders and having to crowd around their till. They do have 1 or 2 human cashiers if people choose however.

Overall it's much better. For a customer it's less crowded and for the staff there's less pressure to take on several orders at once.
Presumably the phone's image processing algorithms can make productive use of extra sensor data without ultimately needing to persist a larger file to the filesystem.
What's the difference functionally between a tax on your competition (all except you) and a subsidy for yourself?
If you don't have an ear for specific accents they start to sound very similar/the same.

There are hundreds of British (or Chinese, Japanese etc) accents. But unless you are familiar with them, and often the language they speak most (as you tend to change your accent for speaking a different language) they all sound unbelievably similar.
Same here. I use uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and https everywhere.

Edge opens the page just fine. My eyes are bleeding.
I've had one experience in Indonesia where I had a massive amount of noodles with a massive amount of MSG in it. Soon after consumption of said noodles, I had a migraine attack. I also had a ton of work stress at that point, so I'm not 100% that MSG was the actual trigger for me.
One-time pad requires a pre-shared key of the enomorous length to be effective in the World Wide Web. An impossible plan can be vacuously better and simpler at the same time, guaranteed.
Global trust in Internet media is changing
I do believe they DID use a radar system. A HN user that worked on the project did mention something about using such a sensor.
How do studies like this get published? 42 people, no independent test dataset, no pre-registration of a hypothesis. It is a parody of science and a poster child for why psychology has a replication problem.
On the plus-side at least people will be touching the screends before they've eaten the greasy food!
It craps out at around 500Mbit on Safari/MacOS. Same on Chrome.
The stand alone speedtest app goes up to >900 Mbit just fine. It randomly freezes during the test for seconds at a time, presumably the JS GC is triggered.

To be fair, I do have about 150 tabs open.
Serious question, is it your contention that no lawyer has ever lost a case defending an innocent person, in the entire history of the bar association, because that's just impossible?

Cuz the vast majority of these were not plea bargains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrongful_convictions_i...
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You'd think McD's would've made an app by now, working with ibeacons and/or location systems to detect where you're placing the order at, and seamless integration with Apple Pay / Google Wallet. At least that way you wouldn't have to touch the screen.

I do hope (assume?) they clean those things several times a day, hygiene rules and such.
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Fuji did this with “Super CCD” sensors in the early 2000s.

They used micro lenses, which had some overall sensitivity and angled aliasing challenges, but the results were impressive for the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_CCD
Yes, of course, decreasing costs always makes sense, but Forbes makes it appear that that’s the driving force,

One thing the last few decades has shown particularly well is that often it’s easier to make money through growth than through cost cutting. Of course, this isn’t universal, especially within tiny markets, commoditized offerings, or when growth has plateaued.
I can imagine the kiosks make it harde for McD's to upsell to e.g. a menu, now you mention it.
Why do you belive that the work under discussion was performend in the interest of the public?

It seems hardly necessary to share data with HBR so that Dropbox can offer file-sharing services...

Based on my reading here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da... this does not apply.
One of the local McDonalds here in Helsinki has a couple of these machines. I go there once every 6-8 weeks, but now I do visit I exclusively use the machines.

Ordering form the machine lets me choose English, and while most Finnish people understand English I feel bad when I have to use it.

(I'll be taking another round of language classes in a few months.)
Cost of fuel needs to go up considerably to make an impact for some people.