skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they've replaced 80% of the front counter staff with self-order kiosks

> replaced 80% of the front counter staff

Have you any credible source for that or any source at all?

Snopes has more info on a similar statement: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-robot-cashiers/

> CLAIM

> McDonald's is planning to replace all the cashiers in their restaurants with robots by the end of 2020

>WHAT'S TRUE

>McDonald's announced plans to install self-order kiosks in eight or nine thousand stores in the next few years.

>WHAT'S FALSE

>McDonald's is not replacing cashiers with "robots," the chain is not eliminating all cashiers, self-serve kiosks are not a response to a proposed higher minimum wage.
The wikipedia page for Kapton [0] is interesting. "Kapton is a ... film ... that remains stable across a wide range of temperatures, from −269 to +400 °C"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton
...i think this will be the new mutually assured destruction[m.a.d.]...
we have nukes because the other guys have nukes, thus niether side actually uses them...

AI war drones are a step sideways into a new flavour of m.a.d.
Not only first discovered. The first temporary patch was Gerst's finger.
Absolutely. When talking about matters of science and physics, Alex Jones has a very poor track record to say the least. He's demonstrated a strong history of inaccuracy and blatantly ignoring facts to fabricate sensational stories. The opposite of what we should appreciate about some of Thunderf00t's contributions, in fact.

As much as I disagree with Thunderf00t's political opinions and how much I hate his style, he has a pretty damn good track record on dismantling hypetrains of physical impracticality.

More clearly, if Alex Jones had a good track record of accuracy or predictions on anything, then his contributions would be valid and shouldn't be discredited because of his opinion on unrelated things.
If you open up a laptop, it’s the orange film that's often used to hold wires in place, and insulate parts from the casing.
Why is the supposition that fewer lives is good controversial? What do we owe the unborn and non existent? Surely in any moral framework, if one could prove that additional organisms in an environment degrade the quality of life for all organisms, then it would be a moral decision (in principle) to reduce by attrition the number of new organisms? I am not arguing for population control as the mechanisms to achieve it are themselves morally dubious, but surely in principle we can agree that there is no moral imperative to grow a population, or alternatively that is not immoral to advocate for preventing population growth where it would reduce quality of life and lead to environmental degradation?
That's the highest tier, that's like a $20k ticket if i'm not mistaken.
That is pretty amazing! I wonder how would it look like if it was written in C. Anyone has some links to "Blobs" implementations in C?
tokei is actually the very first Rust program that I found 'in the wild' while searching for a tool. I had run many Rust programs prior to then, but they had always been in the context of experimenting with Rust.
Git has such a terrible command line that most things are easier in (good) GUIs than on the command line.

The only exceptions I can think of are interactive rebase which has a weirdly good command line interface and is really confusing in every GUI I've tried; and continuing/aborting rebase and cherry picks when there is a conflict. And that's only because most GUIs don't bother to actually implement that properly and mislead you into thinking that you should make a new commit.
I was in the room. Greg specifically said “off the record”.
https://mentalfloss.com/article/52151/it-duck-tape-or-duct-t...
Scripts tend to be shared, so portability matters. grep alternatives, while great for interactive use, are generally not worth being an extra dependency to install.
Ask HN: Is pjax or spfjs still worth using?
I like GitHub's SPA-like feel which doesn't take forever to load as well as being relatively responsive to normal web patterns. Is pjax still the best way to accomplish something similar?
Sure it can, as long as workers see that comp instead of shareholders.

The problem is America has become beholden to shareholders, and the narrative is you're unpatriotic or naive if you want to disrupt the status quo. The resources exist to appropriately compensate workers for their time.
Finland has roughly similar rules (without any oil production), though the rules differ depending on the industry.
Makes sense. I shall wait for the 4th or 5th generation of teleporters then.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme: 15“ Hex-Core, GTX 1050 Ti, 64GB RAM Under 4 Pounds
You should send the question to info@ycombinator.com .
Henry and Elizabeth lived at Greenwich
That doesn't make sense, though. Debian and Ubuntu each roll their own kernels. Canonical was one of the chosen few that had advance warning from Intel. Debian did not, so it wouldn't make sense for Greg K-H to be talking about Ubuntu at all when he referenced Debian.
>I've often wondered what would happen if bicycles were invented today. Surely cities would ban them immediately for being unsafe ("exposed chains and gears? what if a child put their finger in there?!") and they would completely fail to gain traction, right?

It just comes down to power. Bicycles are fundamentally different because they are human powered. A powerful adult cyclist can produce maybe 500 watts at a full sprint for a few minutes. Compare this to an electric scooter which gives even a small child nearly 1 kilowatt of power, making it quite easy to hurt themselves or others. It's just a different level of responsibility, like the difference between firearms and archery.
In those days you could mount \\ftp.microsoft.com as m: and browse it as a file share, unencrypted SMB over the public internet !
Seattle startup develops bulletproof vest for mass shooting protection
I've owned both, and the brand-new front loader I just got is definitely worse in several areas with regard to collecting water.

The door gasket is pretty bad (not sloped well enough for water to completely drain away from it), but it's also got a pull-out tray for detergent which also collects quite a bit of water each time.

I did have a top-loader that got a bit musty smelling, though that was largely my own fault- living alone as a bachelor at the time (infrequent use) and habitually starting a load late at night only to fall asleep before I took it out.
What are you looking for? Scientific journals?

Thunderf00t takes things, let's say Scio, and shows how, despite marketing videos and press attention and funding, they're complete nonsense. Then he shows what the state of the art is, or what the basic physics say. Then he does follow-up videos when they fail. The Waterseer series is absolute gold.

What references do you need? A chemistry or physics book and what the failed projects actually say when and as they fail.
Such systems also most likely are not vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre.
Yes. Unfortunately it is still only OTP (vulnerable to fishing).

Let’s hope that one day Apple opens full access to the NFC chip.
In Venezuela, new cryptocurrency is nowhere to be found
13 Hot Chips from Summer 2018
How does this address the unique parts that LEGO created for this specific build? For example, they created interesting screw-adjustable beams to mount the curving outer skin.
Yes and the question I was answering was what I think the focus on industry changes rather than asking normal people to change did for those people.

The point is that the car industry moved on just fine.
Apple Goes Vertical and Why It Matters
What sort of open source and cloud solutions give you enterprise 2FA control for tools like GitHub that use SSH authentication?
It touches on that, too. It's also a hard metric to work with because we're getting better at _detecting_ cancers, including more benign and earlier stage ones. I believe the SSC post found that most of the improvement in cancer mortality was more an artifact of detection than actual improvements in care. i.e.: if you look _only_ at equivalent Stage 4 cancers, then the death rate from there hasn't changed much over time.
Have you done any comparison (even informal) of similar tools written in Rust and Go?
If you're the kind of person who likes unstructured travel instead of a checklist to get all those instagram pics, TripAdvisor really isn't the place you should be going. I recently used Yelp/TA in Jamaica and it put us at Rick's Cafe, one of the most highly rated and visited places in all of Jamaica. They had a gift shop and their $25 "jerk chicken" was literally baked chicken breast covered in barbecue sauce. Absolutely embarrassing and I felt shame for even giving them my money. I could have gone across the street to any jerk center and got something an order of magnitude better for 5 bucks.
The big US chains are always cheaper directly (Marriott/Hilton/IHG/Wyndham/Choice). Use roomkey.com and you can search them all at once. This is because the brands own room key so they don't pay commission so pass on some of the savings to you.

You can also contact a hotel directly and say you're thinking about reserving on so and so website (aka travel agent), and if you reserve directly, they might give you a discount for not having to pay commission.
You've been reassigned to the roof.
I can recommend pazi as a convenient tool for zapping around https://github.com/euank/pazi

The readme also lists several alternatives in the same space as pazi.
That's a good guess -- and may explain it for a number of people, but in my case it's extremely unlikely. I live in the UK, where RAM doesn't really sell vehicles here, so I've never seen any of their adverts before, and had never even heard of the brand until I saw a few on the road. When I have seen them in person, they've always been left hand drive (rather than the usual right hand drive), so pretty much always imported.

I do think love at first sight is a better explanation.
>racially discriminated against

But we haven't settled whether they're being racially discriminated against. If some legitimate feature to discriminate or filter against correlates with race, then it will look a lot like racial discrimination when it isn't. Harvard wanting to maximize their future prestige by carefully constructing the makeup of their student body is such an instance. Maximizing leadership potential of their student body will look like racial discrimination. It's similar to how the distribution of housing loans can look like racial discrimination if you didn't already know that income correlates with race.

> non-Asian leaders who are individually worse leaders take the spot of Asian leaders who are individually better leaders

No. I'm saying GPA and SAT scores only correlate with leadership potential up to a point. Once you've passed that threshold, other factors start contributing more, e.g. your background, interests, etc. It is not the case that the person with the higher GPA/SAT necessarily has more leadership potential.
Germany has similar employment laws, but i haven't read of oil around here.
if you are joking this is humorous...
but this is also serious reality that you have commented about, it is a feasible thing with sufficient sophisocation...
...the economic system is a vital leverage point...
Discerning the Out-Of-Order Advantage: Is It Speculation or Dynamism? (2013) [pdf]
Hardly, from what I understand. There's no initial financial outlay beyond phone, internet, and time - which they already have - and as far as I can tell there are no commitments or personality contracts. Will it last like this, though? I doubt it. I expect the near future will being middle-men driving down the already low prices and demanding increasingly more of the advertisers in terms of what they can and cannot post, who they are allowed to work with, etc.
I think, what he meant by saying, that "the majority of the world runs Debian or they run their own kernel", – is that almost everyone else, who is not running a product by Red Hat, SUSE, or Canonical, is running a system based on a Debian kernel. And, therefore, Debian should have been informed.
Why would you not want to be aware of bad service or cleanliness in a restaurant?
You ask a yes/no question where both options indicate acceptance of your premise. Is there a name for this rhetorical device?

The premise, however, is wrong. The best workers in any field are not employees.
The author of that article, Scanlime, is scary talented. They have a lot of videos up on YouTube that are a treat to watch.
Which is why they avoid first class like the plague.

Who would want to have to put up with all those plebes?
I'm not arguing against value types as I definitely want those too but it's not that simple nowadays - a moving garbage collector (like all modern server jvm's have) can do things for locality that non-moving systems (gc'd or not) can't - https://shipilev.net/jvm-anatomy-park/11-moving-gc-locality/
You've triggered a thought related to something I've been thinking about for a while (and almost certain to be followed by one or more questions) that I would like to run by you.

But I don't want to compose it on a mobile device, nor at work, so it will be a day or so before I follow it up here.

Cheers!
That is a brilliant idea especially for couples with children on long hauls.

Not many people will pay for business on their own dime (business class generally not worth the multiplier -- it's a captive market for consultants and the wealthy), but some might consider buying an extra seat an extra seat if the price is right.
The vast majority of regular users would voluntarely install a dozen of NSA backdoors on their computers if it guarantees them full protection from script kiddies, phishing, malware and ransomware.
they have been imagined and created and used in venezuela...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45077057 [dupl]

...also, i wonder what a wardrone does to a fighter jet when its titanium chassis is sucked into the engine :-/
OCR Basics: "Reading and Sorting Mail Automatically" 1970 US Postal Service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdfYrpRHqJ0
Google, Facebook, Amazon May Be ‘Antitrust Situation’
and, in addition, anything you run from the App Store:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641
Welcome to Dallas: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/12/19/dal...
What you're describing sounds like the experience in any developing country. You haven't given any evidence that it's due to socialism. (Though comparing to my experiences in developing capitalist countries I would say Cuba has a very different economic 'feeling' to it, which I would argue is superior for the level of material development.)

> Other parts of latin america and caribbean might be poor but Cuba could have done so much better. You can tell they are a strong-willed industrious people who work hard.

Wait so if they had capitalism the Cuban economy would be better than other poor Latin American economies because they work harder? At least you're not making the classic disingenuous comparison between the economic development of imperialist superpowers and socialist nations that started off poor...
I interviewed as an iOS Developer. Took the initial screening quiz and did "exceptionally well" and was scheduled for an online interview with one of their interviewers. Online interview consisted of making some rather straightforward additions to a very basic core application and getting the features up and running and manually tested. After that it was another series of questions. During the interview the interviewer took several short breaks to record feedback in their system. A few days later I received the decision that they would not be moving forward with my application. Feedback was fairly generic and vague imo with no real suggestions on how to improve other than to practice small coding problems and other suggestions oddly didn't coincide with any of the actual code part I was asked to implement or the questions of the quiz. Nothing was mentioned about my strengths eventhough they claim what they look for is a candidates strengths. I guess I just don't have any? Overall I think the process was on par with other technical coding interviews I've had and the feedback was equally useless.
I don't understand the last part of your comment. But I wonder hard almost weekly about that flattening effect of the computer era.

People (and I at times) complained how institutions were imposing too much on whatever content (articles, music, movies). Without their curating effect, everything goes. Some say it's better because now you're sure you'll never miss a great thing that would have been killed by some radio or studio. But I'm less and less convinced of that.
It's the typical arrogance of Debian developers and users. Debian is becoming completely irrelevant but they still keep their heads buried in the sand.
Do you have the code posted online? I would like to take a look through it.
Learn a language by only using your voice
This is a bit different, but you could also look into Harvard Extension
CentOS gets patches as soon as Red Hat publishes the source RPMs upstream or pushes changes to git.centos.org.

What can be confusing about CentOS/RHEL is that many shops using them are on a release that came out years ago. But that's an issue because Red Hat supports 10 year lifecycles for their releases, and will go on supporting them indefinitely if you pay them enough. All the software bundled gets feature and security updates through it's lifecycle, just without changing any interfaces, ABIs, or version numbers. This is great for shops that aren't looking to operate on the bleeding edge and have expensive COTS or bespoke software stacks sitting on top.

Of course, you still have to patch, and organizations can't be forced to do that. Hopefully what you were encountering was just the former and not the latter at those organizations.
Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales
The nature of VC is to build portfolios. The success and failures of individual companies within that portfolio matter very little- what matters a lot more is whether the lessons learned and knowledge/IP generated can spill over to other portfolio companies to eventually produce winner(s) somewhere.

The success of the portfolio is what matters to the firm, and the returns are what matter to the LPs.

It is what it is, so entrepreneurs should use it for what it is. The hype over the past decade has been ridiculous.
It sounds like you're trying to bring a software mindset to an infrastructure problem

It's more that I'm pointing out that the tunneling industry is stuck in a "tunnels are big, expensive, end-all be-all projects" which creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, precluding the development of radically cheaper tunneling technologies.
And when you are someone like me who is precariously employed in an expensive area, you suck it up and get it done :)
You can find the chassis and other necessary metal parts (wheels) on this how we did it video https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/med...
> The traditional western concept is that an educated people will be able to discern who to trust and when ...

That won't solve the immediate problem of caused by fake articles circling around; and it will just bias towards hurting less educated people (who, btw, are exactly the target of those articles)

If there are laws against false information, of course this would need to go through proper law enforcement process, e.g. There must be proof that the articles are made up with intentional lies and the person should go through a trial.

The western societies never solve this problem and there's nothing to be proud about.
The article glossed over details while mentioning that related rules that have been removed would have allowed for recourse in this situation.

The point the article is trying to make is that this stems from a shift in policy that clearly favors Verizon.
I used to know a pdf about the arithmetic beauty of lego ratios. I cannot find it anymore ..
I read end-users as simply customers that intend to consume the electricity in CA as opposed to those who buy it to potentially resell it across state borders. This will probably be cleared up later.
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal in C#'s case.
Top 5 New JavaScript Open Source Projects This Month – August 2018
So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
Xenophobia and Apartment Hunting in Japan
> Sort of like Galileo did?

That you're comparing positions that advocate genocide to the thoughts of Galileo just shows your complete lack of genuine desire to understand.
Grep is:

* Deterministic

* Standard

* Written in c

* Equally performant (where it matters)

* Doesn't show colour or line numbers unless I tell it to

* Doesn't watch .gitignores unless I tell it to
If you think it's necessary to be yelled at in a menial physical job to learn "grit," then you're probably short a few desirable professional characteristics yourself.
Proper education no longer exists. It has been replaced by vocational training. And FANG dropping college education altogether suggests that even that will go away.

AI will obviate the need for human intellect altogether -- if machines and algorithms will do all the "thinking", why bother?

If you want to know how Trump got elected, why the US is in steep decline, ruled by corporate monopolies and oligarchs and on the verge of tyranny, look no further.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17879042

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575213
https://github.com/the8472/fastar
Legacy of Redlining: Residential segregation in 147 American cities
Speaking of bad apps... can people who insist on SPA's please respect default browser based navigation?
Thanks! Great writeup
I'm assuming that, unlike when Musk is behaving badly on Twitter, they're not just winging it. He's hired engineers who designed these things and figured out the costs (as well as can be expected) before making the proposal.

If not, I guess we'll see. This project isn't big enough to prove what you want, but it'll prove some basic competence if it works.
I'm surprised they said ack || ag over ripgrep. I'm a total convert. It's AMAZINGLY fast.
Well deserved? I thought it's dead with its clear deficiencies vs risc-v esp for 64bit. But maybe those small boards are happier with openrisc and the LGPL.
Maybe not faked, but they are curated. I had $400 USD stolen from a mechanic that worked at an establishment with an extremely high Trip Advisor rating. I didn't realize until days later and 1000's of miles away. I got on all the review sites and left reviews with my experience. Sure enough, within a week Trip Advisor had removed my post after initially approving it.
How much a tech company open sources their stuff depends much more on their industry sector. The web industry makes a lot Open Source. The embedded industry does not. Do General Motors, Boeing, or Tesla open source a lot?

My employer, Bosch, does open source a few things. For example: http://www.amalthea-project.org/
But what if you're a crappy social media maven and you HAVE conflated your fake friends and real friends?

What if you had no real friends at all...
Minecraft also has generally awful performance (although this is generally attributed to its being coded poorly, not java).
> Food photos only. No useless photos of people, random interiors, drinks, etc.

I agree that photos of people are ridiculous, but I want photos of the interior. The ambiance of a place is even more important than the quality of the food (to me), and it's one of the attributes hardest to portray in reviews (mostly because people who review are not professional reviewers). Good photos help here.
They are getting a much grittier experience. No-one ever came to me at my summer job and told me to kill myself, or that I was too ugly to rape.
We Are 3000 Years Behind: Let's Talk About Engineering Ethics
That's fair. My intuition is that a scooter would be ok, but I'm definitely not familiar with the kind of heat they get down there. I'm in Milwaukee WI, 95 and humid is our normal "hot summer day"