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Funny you should mention this. I regularly use the gas pumps at our local chain grocery store (Kroger) at two different locations; one with old pumps and one with new pumps. Originally the displays were very snappy and I could get in and out pretty quickly. About a year ago they updated the software on the "new" pumps and it got very, very slow (along with some questionable font choices). It was so bad that I went out of my way to visit the "old" pumps more frequently. Unfortunately, the old pumps were eventually "upgraded" and I now have to deal with crappy gas pump software everywhere.

So, I don't think it's based on the age of the pump. I'm guessing that there is a pretty standard architecture that they all adhere to. So yeah, I bet they run Java.

BTW: I've noticed this same thing with ATM software. I'm pretty sure they run Java as well.
It's always nice to know that someone here will get the reference even if I go to bed right after posting. It's important that this crowd here knows these things.
That's probably just the groups you circle in. Our group chats were all buzzing after Lane8's latest release. People had opinions, posted their favourite remix, talked about songs that evoked similar feelings.
In my bog standard PHP I would do $thing = Get_thing_with_id( $id ); if(!empty($thing)){process($thing);}
Yes. The main attorney specialised in patent law there is the son and nephew of the judges.

They made a business of it
Thanks for pointing this out. I knew that recovering pressure from the outgoing brine was an important efficiency measure but I assumed it was done using a hydraulic motor coupled directly to a pump arrangement.
in 2005, the last actual data I could find that lists 2 income households, the median income was $75,293, assuming that income kept pace with inflation that would be $98,562 today not 125K,

Such a family would not want to spend more than 49K total on their cars. so that is 1 car for 49K or 2 for 24K

and that IMO should be the extreme absolute limit
But you can anticipate the correct gear from the road, rather than having to wait for the transmission to respond to a call from the engine. Going into a curve, you can set a manual gearbox up before you get there so you have the torque to pull the car all the way around, rather than finding the car losing power halfway around.
I just get one bill, even though in my case it's two companies (because I shopped around)
Plus, the people are responsible for the actions of their government. So yeah, too bad if it hurts everyones feelings, but the UK is a pretty hard-core country when it comes to repression.
Sounds like pointless astronaut engineering. What problem do you think that would solve?
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> There's no F1 at the Olympics.

Well sure. But there IS skiing in the Olympics, and that is a sport that is defined by (pun) cutting-edge technology. The constant jockeying for slight improvements makes all skis that much better. Of course, we remember the "cheat suits" worn by some lugers a Winter Olympics' ago, which was a pretty controversial thing but all considered I was on the side of "well, they just showed up better equipped..."
It just comes from a focus on marginal effects (my replacement at evilcorp will probably do roughly as good a job, and probably not give a large fraction of his/her income to charity) and caring about actual outcomes for the people you're trying to help, rather than your own personal purity.

Like everything, the approach can be abused (I feel fine about taking this high-paying morally dubious job, because I'm earning to give... but oh wait, now I have a family to support, and the cost of living is surprisingly high here, and I've got to wear good suits and drive a decent car or my professional reputation might suffer...) but a lot of people are sincere about it, and it does make sense.
Am I correct in inferring that you're saying the system time on your machine has lost 2 seconds since you last synchronised it with time.gov?

Over what time period did the slippage occur?
This wouldn't be an issue if parents wouldn't use YouTube as a kid-pacifier.
What about you spend time with your kid, talk with it, play with it, say, until it has a two-digit age?
You dont have the time for this you say? Well, maybe you shouldn't have a kid then.
Interesting... I wonder what part of those pre-computed numbers is actually now safer because instead of relying on dynamic inputs from sensors(which we have seen, can break, iceover , installed the wrong way around etc)
I personally never use search tools; at least, not with files I've created myself. IMHO organising correctly your files using aptly named directories and sticking to that is much more effective than dumping stuff around the filesystem and then having to rely on search in order to untangle the mess. That's why I tend to disable desktop icons; in this way I always have to force myself into opening a file manager and actually decide where the files should be put into.
Show HN: Hobby attempt to reimplement Kodi in JavaScript
Main takeaway here is this:

> Information Systems are super-useful for hardening and regularising processes so that they follow standards, run more quickly, cheaply and smoothly and take expensive, error-prone humans out-of-the-loop. The downside is that IS’s are fragile in the face of change.

Author’s view is that this is because of the way they grow and evolve, but to me it seems like it’s part of the nature of software.

AI shows promise in getting computers to behave more flexibly and naturally, and show “graceful degradation”.

I wonder if these techniques should/will ever be applied effectively to get us out of the mess we’re in now.

My view is that they’ll probably just add to the complexity and make things worse
Australia is about 100x better at hiding its entanglements than Israel, which has had an overt show of force policy for decades.

Australia, on the other hand, has so many layers and levels of secrecy around its state-run operations of this nature, that its impossible, truly, to really ever know.

Australia leads the way when it comes to repressing free speech and the public right of knowledge over what is being done in their name by the ADF, and has even taught Israel a few things or two about keeping its internal populations at heel when something nasty inevitably leaks out.

And then there is that whole secret court, secret prison, secret prisoner thing.
Hey, I'm making this and I was wondering what do you think about the idea and maybe I don't know, inspire me with some new features :-)

Right now, it can play radios (using ffplay), show weather and browse filesystem. The rest is still in the works but one neat thing I want to do is to play games from internet archive (download, extract, run dosbox)

Here's a link to a gif
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3526922/74057963-4...

Source: https://github.com/cztomsik/hackable-tv

If you wonder, it's using a lib (alternative to electron) I'm working on for year or so but it's still not production-ready so calm your expectations :-)

Thanks to that, I was able to use regular web libraries(react, react-dom, wouter, react-spring & @ norigin-media/react-spatial-navigation)

https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti/tree/master/src

If you want to run it yourself, you'll need rust installed and it will take a while to compile (despite the cryptic npm progress message, it's compiling - I have no idea how to fix it, it's probably a limitation with github style dependencies)

But if you're lucky, it should be just:

- git clone
- npm i
- npm run dev

you can also `npm run build && npm start` - that will consume much less memory (around 30M)

(I've posted this on reddit first but it got blocked 2 times because of some rules and have no idea what I've done wrong :-/)
Are the game encrypted or signed?
I rue the day I got rid of my H-11 computer :-/
How come it uses AM and PM rather than 24-hours?
Interesting that this is the same area that Samsung spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to 'bribe' the local community with feel good public relations, like building ice skating rinks and donating monitors to local public schools.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40021491
> You dont have the time for this you say? Well, maybe you shouldn't have a kid then.

Maybe. Or maybe there's been children playing without their parents for periods of time since forever, and it's unrealistic to believe that every second of play time should be supervised.
Your comment reminded me of the story of the MIT "Magic" button [0].

[0] http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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I was also surprised not to see this little fact mentioned. Also, if anyone it's the Nordic countries that are going to be positively affected by the climate change.
I was always very skeptical about the need for search indexing for local files - how often do you search for stuff to need indexing in the first place? I have a ton of files, certainly more than the average Windows user and i do search for things often enough (at least once a day). To search i use Total Commander (allows for both wildcard/regex searches, archive searches, content search with a bunch of options) which doesn't use indexing at all and search speed was never something i had as a problem (and in general i hate waiting for the computer to do stuff).

In what workflows is search needed so often and for so many files that it necessitates indexing? Even back when i first encountered it (in Vista - AFAIK it existed in XP and before but it wasn't enabled by default) i thought it was a waste of resources and unnecessary complexity.
I think who you're replying to is implying the escape hatch would have been cheaper if it wouldn't last long enough before burn through during improper re-entry
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Welcome to step number two... :/
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Fucking Indiana was probably the source of 90% of your pain. Time zones and DST were a country free for all there until the mid 2000s IIRC. State couldn’t decide if it wanted to be central time or eastern so everyone got to decide on their own.
Sometimes search just fails to work - I have not seen that before 10. The search bar in explorer windows appears disabled (can't use it), or worse, it doesn't list some files - some searches work fine, some don't. Have to close all windows and reopen. Jesus Christ.
I personally mix on vinyl for the feeling its provides. No screen to look at, you have to really be "in" the music, the touch is stellar.

Using CDJs or similar have clear advantages (weight when travelling, fewer chances to fuck up or hear imperfections, no skipping, etc) and I use them when performing for others, but I just don't like using them.
The zig project was also plagued with issues around VCRUNTIME140_1.dll. See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3391
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More SF fans around here know Peppa than Dune. Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Honor Harrington, Star Trek come before Dune.
Whenever I try to use linux on hardware, either audio doesn't work without stuttering, video doesn't work without tearing or some package manager dependency issue rears its ugly head. From my perspective, it seems inconceivable to run linux on (personal) hardware.

That being said, I am very unhappy with windows 10 at work, and would much rather have some older windows version. At some point windows probably will become shitty enough that linux might seem like a viable alternative.
Katie Hill (politician)
> I didn't know they were working on it.
> ...
> I did not see anything for the Pixel C

He was just talking about the wishlist I think, which is this one I guess: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Device_Wishlist

But I don't see it there either.
As always I wonder what sad fucks downvoted this. Just ban this account and put me out of my misery.
How Indonesia is reacting to the coronavirus outbreak
Presumably they could be under-reporting the number of infections and the number of deaths, to keep the mortality rate consistent.

I don't know why they would do that, but they are accused of doing this kind of thing frequently.

If they sat on the news of the virus for an extended period they might have known the mortality rate they needed to align with long before the rest us.
Fair enough, and I agree it is my groups. But, it didn't seem to used to matter which groups you were in. Sure, more than just the medium changed. But the Vinyl ritual is maybe even more rewarding today than it was when it was the popular option.

PS - I Loved Brightest Lights. I am also looking forward to Porter Robinson's next album -- it's been a long time since the last album and I didn't love this first single initially, but it has really grown on me (the ducking is still a little much in some areas).
Could this be used for fingerprinting?
Wish I could give up my PS4 and switch to my monster of a gaming PC. Only really looking forward to The Last Of Us 2 and gotta keep it hanging around. Would be sweet if they supported an official emulator where your games work if you already bought the hardware
Panels are typically extremely hardy and are rated for decades (although I don't know about icy conditions). The rest of the electrical components are typically the weakest link.
The article mentions this:

> It looks like Tod “accidentally” filed in the wrong venue so after we’ve changed the venue ( and recovered our attorney fees from Tod for the required effort).

So perhaps the troll did miss the memo; perhaps they were hoping that most defendants would miss the memo.
Somebody should come out with 12 inch analog optical disks. Big, thick, solid things.
How much space would this thing take up for say, a remote oil rig?
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Ask HN: How does FPT compare to tried tested techniques?
FPT - First Principle Thinking

When you are thinking through FPT mode, does one have to deny the existence of other presumed techniques. From the perspective of Physics I understand that the basic principles of atom and molecules will remain the same. However from the perspective of Computer Science how does this work?

Let's say I want to build an operating system, do I need to go so deep to throw out all the current implementations of memory management, scheduler management and create a new one or do I accept the current implementation as final and then build from there?
I run my side project in Docker on Kubernetes, works well and wasn’t too annoying to set up. Compared to getting my Go deployments to run it was kind of a pain though.
I've done it for shits and giggles. Every once in a while I set it up when the team needs a laugh. If you use Linux, it isn't too hard to set up a virtual camera source that OBS Studio writes to.
My use case is for Cloudflare Workers specifically, they have a max-size of 1MB per script and even while doing tests locally in node - the actual worker behave differently, so the only way to really test units is by adding the tests directly to the script. So you see the dilemma with that..
It makes sense only if you’re already a convinced utilitarian. Not all of us are.
The child died of a seizure, not flu. Calling a given seizure "flu-related" is a stretch.

There isn't even any data on whether the flu strain the child had was even one addressed by this year's vaccine.

"Misinformation", indeed.
Alright, but at the same time, HN is letting through fundamentally political articles, such as the "How ‘big law’ makes big money" one, which isn't even tangentially related to tech.

When HN does so, and concurrently says that's not OK material because it baits flames, how are we supposed to know the limits of our public participation as commenters, with those conflicting messages?

If an article is technical, people will tend to respond technically; if the article is political (in this case, at its root: industrial relations), people will tend to respond politically.
> Uh huh. You come back in fifteen years and tell us how that's going for you, sport.

When I report all's well in fifteen you'll just claim it's good genetics.
> But I can do math.

> We're at 2^15 and doubling every 5 days. If that keeps up for a month we'll be at 1M infected and 16K dead.

Obligatory: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/extrapolating.png

This is also math. But it’s not the way things work.
Then the website ends up not scrolling or thinks that it has a modal that needs closing; ended up opting out of that after a couple months of annoyance.
IMHO, the scandal here is not that the data was sold or bought. That's bad, but that was going to happen as soon as it had been collected.
So the collection is the real scandal here, and it's a harder problem to solve too, because the responsibility is distributed on thousands of people and companies, and because to some degree the users are actually complicit (through wilful ignorance, or through knowingly accepting it for whatever reasons).

The good news is there would be technical fixes for this problem. "Simply" don't use any of the currently infringing apps. Which -- yes -- means fundamentally changing the way we build, distribute, and fund mobile and web apps. It's not easy in practice, but the technical aspect of it is not complicated.

It's gonna be harder to avoid carriers from triangulating a coarse location, but that's an "easy" think to regulate since there are not so many of them. Again, "easy" in big quotes, because of course politically that's gonna be difficult. The regulators want this information to be collected.
I've done it without too much trouble. I did have to compile and load a small kernel module, but it wasn't too hard. I have notes on how I did it if you're interested. Most of my time was spent in OBS tweaking the look.
Weird that the Gulf and the East Coast get all their little peninsulas and islands, but there's just a squiggle on the California coast where San Francisco should be.
I would have gone for Atherosclerosis instead of lung cancer personally.
Software bloat is a problem. But I am not sure this is really an example of that. I would guess that they used a relatively powerful microcontroller because it was cheaper and easier than implementation using custom or discrete components. And processors have become so ridiculously cheap that it is cheaper to implement features in software than hardware. As a programmer I think that is really exciting.

The trend is to use microprocessors for increasingly trivial things. You use that power to implement a UI, or a light bulb, or charger. That is far less important than driving a spac ship. But isn't that true of most things we develop?

I agree that the trend towards browser based apps is not always efficient. But the browser does a surprising amount in the background to even out hardware differences. It helps you take advantage of the hardware (like a powerful GPU) without having to worry about specifics. That was never exactly easy in developing a conventional native app on a traditional OS.
If you stare at one of the second digits in the center, say the Mountain Time seconds digit, its interesting to note whether you're peripheral vision does or does not detect the other digits changing. For me, it seems number dependent: I see 1-2-3, and 7-8 but the other transitions appear static!
You provide the emulator with decrypted modules/libraries (dumped from a hacked PS4) that originally reside in the encrypted firmware .PUP.

I'm associated with PS4 emulation and the project, any other questions welcome.
The "warmer" sound I kind of disagree with. When music is played from vinyl in clubs, I would describe the sound as slightly metallic. Digital is neutral.

I think digital is best for fidelity (it's pretty much a scientific fact), and I see vinyl playing as an effect like an effect pedal and there is nothing wrong with that. If the mastering of the LP is better, I'll prefer it, too.
> The difficult part is actually indexing all file names

okay, ...

> and their string contents on the system

... why would you even do that? ls-lR.gz works. And that’s exactly what people wants 80% of time.
Did You check Cliqz already? Independent search index: https://beta.cliqz.com/

There is a lot of technical details about how it’s built on the tech blog: https://0x65.dev/

(Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz)
I think it's more likely your age group. When you were young listening to tapes on your parents' speakers, didn't it seem to you that kids and teens were much more into music than most adults?

I'm 20, I grew up listening to albums on YouTube, never owned a CD, tape, or record. But my experience is and was still exactly what you describe. My friends and I have countdowns on our phones ticking down the days to eagerly-awaited releases, we make plans to listen to it together at a 'premiere' hosted by whoever has the best speakers. If they live up to the excitement they get replayed to death, memorized backwards and forwards, and discussed endlessly. In middle/high school we'd write our own reviews to post online and sometimes get the artist replying to us on Twitter which made our month. The fact that we didn't have to buy a 4"-by-4" piece of plastic and put it into another piece of plastic before hitting play didn't prevent any of that and I can't imagine it making the music more exciting or engaging.
So the catch is that you have to be in control of the projector.
The question I'm still not sure is: of those who were infected, how many have been discharged from the hospital already? What was their mean recovery time?
I’d be curious to see some statistics about the number of system calls per second now versus ten years ago. I have a suspicion they’re much higher.

If the scale of the problem changes, so does the solution. We know this.
I had a small cryptocurrency take off with just a few thousand people clamoring and begging me for more. Going from a basement nerd to a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny unknown internet celeb got to my head and as soon as I started getting negative comments, "FUD" and the like and my picture was being shown around I had a nervous breakdown (amongst other stressors). I would say, do what Ferris has said and ignore all comments, negative and positive or try and take criticism abstractly.
Windows trust in abandoned code lets ransomware burrow deep into targeted machin
What are some practical applications of your software, how can it be useful for the typical HN crowd? If you want money, you need to sell.
How much money do you think they made from doing it though?

Or at least how much would they have made if no one had noticed and they didn’t have to do the $25 battery replacement program. I would guess A LOT more than this fine.
It's consequentialist reasoning, not necessarily utilitarian. And you don't have to be a thoroughgoing consequentialist to agree that in a world full of preventable misery, it's best to focus on actually preventing it, rather than on keeping your own hands as clean as possible. (And realistically we're talking about working for an oil company or a casino or something, not being a Nazi prison guard.)
The building blocks of life are far more complicated and are being run with enormous populations. 1m generations are less than 100 years for a lot of bacteria and the population they are working with is stupidly large.

I just tested one of my GA's and it's solving a logic problem with 3k pop, 30 children per gen, in 1-2k generations. If I make it 300 children per gen it solves in 150-300 generations. 1500 children is solving in 30-50 generatikons. Now imagine 5 x 10^30 pop with 10^30 children per generation, over millions of generations.
No, you just need to record and track wheights for each selected or pinned search term. This way you can update the index and all meaningful entries will still be displayed in the same order due to the influence of the wheights.

Order should change, but if I type "Ble" I would like Blender (the only entry I ever selected after typing "Ble" to come first and not some random file I never ever opened manually.