skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so sadly true that you can realize it without even looking.

The kiosk system is human-less thinking, we're not machines operating with pure logistics in mind. We like to have responsibilities in a way. When I'm talking to a cashier, he/she feels a duty to do something from A to B. With decoupled ordering.. nobody knows who I am, nobody really cares (McDonalds doesn't pay nor train for welcoming and service mindset). I'm just a thing carrying a ticket.

I've seen things so absurd, people walking around not knowing who to talk to, where to go, what to assume; both customers or employees. It was a surrealist comical situation.

Also my average time to serve for 1 hamburger with no other customer around is 7min. (5-15). Talk about fast food :)

Another point, I don't mean to make people work more, but I even prefer busy waiting lines with hectic kitchen action. That's what McDonalds were, high throughput grill. It felt something.. now it's all dull and clinic.

Oh and lastly .. the kiosk are fugly. They break the room space, break the flow of people, are way too big for their purpose (100$ a stupid tiny 80s monochrome terminal, would do better :p)

ps: This decoupling idea was tried at a company I worked for. Exact same principle (which I also gave some credit at first), split everything in small chunks so people can go faster.. it all went worse because nobody took responsibility for anything since a single task was now a dozen tiny bits done by a dozen people not really knowing what their bit was for. They just passed the products from hand to hand, not being able to track who or what was wrong until the last guy received all the shit because he's the one to show the result to the managers :)
Not to mention the case where the mailserver is down or denies service, which will also happen at some point even if you have HA mailserver: be it with AWS emails, mailjet and whatnot. One day it'll fail everyone. Then, what's it going to be ? Return an HTTP 500 to the user rolling back the transaction ? Spooling emails removes that failure spot at all.
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Chipotle is about as fast as it gets
Instead of bird flu being a lucky near-miss wake-up call (it spawned Contagion which laid out the issue in an easy to digest movie format!), it became an excuse to hit the snooze button.
Is there a trusted hdd manufacturer left? I'd like to not spend several weeks on research when I again get the urge to rebuild the NAS.
This isn't one post, but it was on HN a while back:

http://computer-history.info/
HP does not recommend refilling ink cartridges.
Coca Cola does not recommend reusing plastic water bottles with tap water.
Turns out it was red, but was an £8000 african stone but ended up in an english company as a 200,000 stone and then transferred to a bankrupt english construction firm as an 11 million pound asset! Ended in tears. Unclear what eventually happened to the stone. https://www.google.com/search?q=Gem+of+Tanzania
Acceleration as of right instead of enrichment should be verging on free, requiring almost nothing in new expenditure. I’d be pretty happy with that alone to be honest. An early college programme like Bard College at Simon’s Rock in every metro area with over 100,000 people with provision for boarding for those outside commuting distance wouldn’t get you past 2% of education expenditure. That’s under 10% of what’s spent on special education. That would make me ecstatic.
Check out the SANS Institute

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/hipaa/what-pro...
Totally different transmission model parameters. Ebola especially is much much harder to transmit.
Did you mean “for(;;)”? I didn’t notice semicolons in an if-statement. In the for-loop, it means “forever loop.” There is no declaration , check, iterate parts in the loop. You may be more familiar with “for(i=0; i<10; i++)”
> The idea is that if your country/region doesn't have excess total deaths, then whatever pandemic restrictions and policy you've implemented is good enough

I disagree with this inference. Different countries have different demography, different weather, different cultural habits, different infrastructures, etc. On top of that, we still don't know how many people would only have benign symptoms when they are infected.

I would refrain anyone to compare pandemic restrictions with a correlation in total death of a country. There are simply too many unknowns, both politically and scientifically
You could wait until iOS 14. It's a rumoured SDK feature. https://www.macrumors.com/2020/03/09/ios-14-ocr-apple-pencil...

> iOS 14 may include a new PencilKit feature that will allow you to handwrite text in any text input field using Apple Pencil, with the handwritten content then converted into standard text before it's sent

> It looks like third-party apps will also be able to access a PencilKit tool that will support some kind of new handwriting functionality, but the extent of it is unclear.
This comment needs more upvotes. It's endemic to the software industry and far beyond. From employees who need to meet some arbitrary (and possibly unwritten) metric, to executives who are compelled to leave their mark on anything they touch, the number of people-years we waste on unnecessary churn has got to be staggering.
Nick Sherlock has great guides: https://www.nicksherlock.com/2019/10/installing-macos-catali...

I'd recommend trying to use OpenCore instead of Clover though. It's more stable even in a VM, and you don't need all the kexts as what the kexts are emulating for a bare metal machine are, in fact, emulated already as a VM.

You can also check out /r/Hackintosh, they have some info on it.
Agreed. I'm rather stunned that the sentence "Virtually anyone can produce professional-looking artwork using illustration software and digital tools." would be written by a professional design critic. It seems like a shockingly naive assertion for a professional to actually commit to print.
Hi. I’m one of the CCOR board members, and I’ll try to answer any questions I can. No such thing as a dumb question.

Yes, the cooperative is of all .ORG registrants, and exists to protect our collective interests. There’s no way to have absolute unanimity among the better part of ten million individuals and organizations, but so far, we’ve heard from several tens of thousands of .ORG registrants, and only three (including ISOC and PIR) were in favor of having a non-competitive redelegation such as the proposed one from ISOC to Ethos.

So, CCOR has three objectives, one short term, one mid-term, one long-term:

In the short term, to stop this backdoor deal, which bypasses the established, multistakeholder, competitive process.

In the mid-term, to get ICANN to launch the multistakeholder-administered, transparent, open competition to select the next .ORG delegate.

In the long term, for the .ORG registrants ourselves to put forward the best possible proposal for operation of .ORG, in that competitive process. If the process is run fairly and we win, we control our own fate. If the process is run fairly and we lose, we still win, because it means that someone even better prepared to serve us than we are ourselves, will have won.

But this is a very mainstream proposal... it’s the established process for .ORG, and the outcome we’re looking for, self-governance, is exactly how .EDU works. Educause is the non-profit association of universities that runs .EDU by and for the educational community.
They are heavily based on divisions and recent seasons.

(For example, in the NFL, the teams in each division play each other twice, and then get the rest of their games by rotating through teams from the rest of the league)
What's more disturbing and I simply can't get my head around is that Americans feel that they can trust big corporations more than their own government.

I don't trust US corporations at all and I thought that there was some kind of corporate conspiracy to discredit the US government to allow corporations to gain more power...

Now I'm thinking that the situation in the US is even worse than that; not only are corporations trying to discredit the government, but the government is working hard to discredit itself as well.
Yeah, that was how I read it - the impact of getting this wrong is that you break the internet for your customers (and staff, if they're all or mostly WFH) at a time when they're potentially depending on it to eat (e.g. if you're in a vulnerable group and need to order food for delivery) or work.

We've known BGP's been vulnerable in this way for years, so it's a bit of a weird time to actively encourage people to publicly shame their ISPs for being "unsafe".
Yes that's actually what Looking Glass was mainly built for, you can game without using a program like Barrier or Synergy to pass inputs back and forth, and you can game on one window and have your work on the other, so context switching is a lot easier. Performance is basically 95%+ of native speed.
I’ve spent an honest 20 minutes looking for corona ICU survival statistics.
It might be public, but not easy to google.

In the UK it seems to be 50%.
Besides, serious projects in Go do use additional tools for creating task queues because they need to handle various stages of persistence, error handling, serialization, workflow, etc. Which are not stuff you want to write by hand yourself.

If you don't need all that, then it's not a problem in Python either. You don't even need asyncio, you can just use a ThreadPool or a ProcessPool, dump stuff with pickle/shelve/sqlite3 and be on your way.
And sometimes it's not even non-scholars, just people from a different, and not even very-different field.
Ebola has an African name so I bet it would have panicked westerners into a stronger response if covid was called ebola.
Where was that banner image taken for the scion website? I'm curious to know.
Obligatory: And this is a branch of the same government that HN users want to “regulate tech”. Why would anyone want to give government more power?
Quantum Chemistry Done Wrong (With Python)
Broadcom bluetooth/wifi chips ran out of firmware hot patch ram slots long time ago. Company seems to be too cheap to respin the rom mask with all the fixes baked in. From what I remember even brand new iphone x ships with no room for BT firmware patching.

RECON 2019 - Reversing and Exploiting Broadcom Bluetooth (Jiska, Dennis Mantz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Mi8_9ABCc

35C3 - Dissecting Broadcom Bluetooth (jiska mantz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nI9ok7iQg
Show HN: VidGrid – A large-screen news channel viewer with simple audio control
Have your worker POST back to your web server when it’s done. Use websockets to notify the user.
There's about a 1% performance hit, and the VM will shave off a few percent as well, so you'll get 95% of native bare metal performance.
I thought this was a link to an Onion-like site. It turns out it's a leftist article that demand more government spending.

> On more rural tribal lands, access to food and supplies are lower and significantly more expensive, creating a scarcity

Dude, scarcity is the default, a starting point. Faced with scarcity and a desire to satisfy their needs, people act by producing services or products they need or that can be traded for what they need. They don't ask the government for "resources to be allocated" (whose resources?).

How it's supposed to work:

https://mises.org/library/ownership-scarcity-and-economic-de...
Can't say I particularly care frankly. I don't see myself buying another spinning plate of rust
Parent explicitly said "...to a non-critical patient..." You're describing the opposite (but I'd probably agree with you there).
Let's not forget the "almost '30s" (1927) Metropolis movie poster [0]. One of the most iconic illustrations and my personal favorite.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#/media/...
"morally flexible" - cute phrase :) I like it.
Anything from Oxide’s On the Metal podcast, especially the first five episodes.

https://oxide.computer/podcast/
Because normally a government does smart thing for its people. It hasn't done that in some time in the US.
> What benefits do you see from running windows?

I get to use the most tested version of all the cross platform software. Things that work for others, usually works for me. I can buy software off the shelf (games, TurboTax, whatever --- if they sell it at the store, it will run on Windows, unless I'm in the wrong store). Most desktop oriented open source is targetted towards Windows, unless it's specifically Mac focused.

When I was getting tired of my laptop running Linux was right around the release of Windows 7, which was a very nice release. I'm not sure I'll stick around with Windows 10, but at least for now, things mostly work, and I fight less with my computer than before.
> They mostly need Celery and Redis because in the Python world concurrency was an afterthought

You have an operating system that you can use. You don't really _need_ concurrency when you have a machine that can timeshare amongst processes. That's the world Python was designed for

> In most other languages you can get away with just running tasks in the background for a really long time before you need spin up a distributed task queue

This is partly true, but not a lot of people do this because you need to persist those tasks unless you want them dropped during a reboot. Same logic goes for entire machines disappearing. You _can_ get by without a distributed system, but you will need to tolerate loss in those scenarios. Those losses are non-trivial for most apps/companies, so it doesn't seem all that practical to me to consider a world without a distributed system (and yes, persisting things in postgres/mysql before they are being worked on is still using a distributed system)
We learn from Snowden leaks that Twitter was the only major platform that refused to participate voluntarily with PRISM surveillance. Twitter only complied with legitimate FISA requests they were not able to refuse.

Microsoft,Yahoo, Google, AOL, Skype and Apple all did more than legally required.
you would define values like

weight = unit("10 kg")
speed = unit("2.5 furlong per week")
No, this names all three.
Well, the features in Raku ARE what would be (and was) Perl 6. Perl 5 most likely won’t inherit these features as the benefit of Perl 5 IMHO is that it is stable and ubiquitous.

Raku has some pretty amazing things going for it though. It is unique compared to any programming language with its grammars and such.
Thanks.
I also noticed a rise in what I'd call forgotten plans.
For me it's been woodworking and music, but I've also been recently drawn to use nannou.cc as a means to do some creative coding and get an intro to Rust.
> My family heeded my warnings, and stayed safe through the most critical phase when the disease was rampant but not obvious.

The vast majority of people "stayed safe" through the most critical phase, regardless of behavior. even a million infections in USA is statistically almost no one.

It's an exponential process and the world is big, and still now, deep into the disaster, most people haven't developed symptoms.
There were pre-crisis efforts to address this. NJ for example awarded a contract to Electronic Data Systems (now HP) which fell by the wayside [1]. Given the complexities of total rewrites compared to patchwork, I'd bet there will still be demand in the future.

[1] https://www.nj.com/politics/2014/11/nj_ends_118_million_cont...
Watt FM Amplifier
I think the part that worries me the most for privacy and how far-reaching it could be is this

https://coronavirus.medium.com/apple-and-google-join-forces-...

I know Apple is marketing themselves as pro-pricacy, but I doubt they can anonymize the data in a way that preserves privacy while still achieving the goal of tracing contacts.

It just seems like a convoluted way of making a gigantic knowledge graph of interactions between individuals under the pretense of public health.
It has been done many times, sometimes successfully. Other times it ends up costing hundreds of millions over budget before the effort is abandoned and there is nothing to show for it.
For the time being, since I still have lots of room on my phone, I:

- Copy them to the laptop.

- On the laptop, make downscaled copies in another directory.

- On the phone, I move them to another location still on the phone. This makes the copy operation above faster, since I use "cp -n" (no-clobber) out of laziness; "Copy all the things! Unless!" This gets slow if there are thousands of pics.

The phone and the laptop sort of back each other up.

I'll be smarter about this as my phone starts to fill up. That's the nice thing about making your own tools, you can change them according to your own specific, weird use cases.
Yeah, I'm inventing Thailand just now, especially around Ko Lanta.
Wikipedia has some: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#Again...
Hey guys! I'm one of the founders of Impressions, the first mobile deepfake app on a phone. Try it out and give us your thoughts. Right now it's out for IOS but Android is on route. Here's our website https://impressions.app
Founder of Amazon Alexa Technology Discusses AI, ML, and Voice Recognition Tech
I guess you already have seen this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing

Here some other interesting books and articles:

https://www.amazon.com/Eniac-Triumphs-Tragedies-Worlds-Compu...

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

https://computerhistory.org/timelines/
The discriminative networks aren't very good at discriminating. I remember hearing people in the field saying they deliberately used under-powered discriminators because they got better generators that way. Was a year or two ago though so who knows if that's still true.
I am using a LibreOffice more than Word and Excel these days, besides being far too slow, the UI on these apps keep changing for the worse. I give my feedback, but now there is a search field in the title bar.
The MS people claim this is for discoverability. Then let’s put the whole damned app in the title bar. This idea that apps need to be made for stupid and lazy people is why there was Office and Works. This is a catastrophe. I need professional tools, not Farmville word processor edition.
Done griping, and I wholly agree!
Hah, I see that I'll be in for a surprise myself once I upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04.
Hi HN!

When I was at university (early 2010s) I worked a lot on student media, and got really into what the future of news would look like. Around the same time Microsoft backed a company called LiveStation which has since closed down, but had a nice feature that allowed you to open multiple streams from different news channels at the same time.

When I went into professional media, and the offices of The Times, the BBC, The Guardian and the like, this format is common on large screens in the central newsgathering areas: you need to see several feeds at once. But there wasn't a system that I know of that you can have on your workstation, especially one that allows you to switch your audio feed as simply as a click.

So I built VidGrid over the last couple of weekends to make this experience accessible to all my colleagues around the world working at home through these challenging circumstances.

It gives you easy access to news channels that offer a free open-access playlist file (or you can paste your own). Those that are protected (sensibly) by CORs or some other DRM technology it obviously can't load.

It's built in React with a heavy dependency on the fantastic multi-source React-Player, and it's my first 'significant' (in my terms) project, though I've spent a lot more time in the last few weeks coding than I did in the office.

I hope it can be of use to some of you, or if any of you have colleagues or friends in newsrooms you can pass it on.

Thanks :)
Show HN: Including Mapbox GL into your neo.mjs app (desktop only)
It is not only lay offs it is also retirements. And the pressure is mounting with baby boomers gone soon. I was once in a discussion taking over the maintenance of a system and the picture was grim. The crew running the system was so thin it was hard to imagine them having the time handing it over. Besides they barely understood all the details as the system had been build by people 30 years ago all gone a long time ago. A big bowl of spaghetti in a core part of their enterprise. We decided not to try to take this on - too much risk.
Does anyone know anything about the history of Java's Keytool/Ketstore?

I've always been curious as to why this pattern was adopted, because it seems to be unique to Java, and I don't know why.
Well here with 'Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)' it's awful in Firefox and still has the odd hitch every few seconds with Chromium. Youtube videos are likewise not smooth.
Folks should build alternative clients for Riot's games. Riot has demonstrated that they should not be trusted to write clients.
Maybe the 2038 problem?
Engineers Are Contributing to the Fight Against the Outbreak
I was using gevent in Python about 10 years ago, and from memory, it's roughly similar to goroutines. It's not exactly the same of course, but just like goroutines it's pretty easy to just spawn a few jobs off, wait for them to finish, and get the results.

It's not in the standard library, and there are probably other options too now (not a heavy Python user any more), but Python has had easy parallelism for at least a decade (probably longer).
There isn't a coach and team in the world, real or hypothetical, who could win a football game down by 10 goals with 5minutes on the clock. The mask stuff was deck chairs on the Titanic.
Usually its so obvious that when people gave a suggestion, they actually thought it too. In this case there is no agreement that disallow restaurant to do that.
> What's more disturbing and I simply can't get my head around is that Americans feel that they can trust big corporations more than their own government.

Government and corporations are merging to become the same thing. I just assume any data I give to a corporation or government is public since they share your data anyway.
It's a C idiom. Some people prefer `for(;;)` over `while(1)` to create infinite loops.
I got a Tandy 56k when I was about 7 years old. I tried following the programming instructions in the book with limited success, but I do wish I had an adult who could have helped me along with it. I wanted to make a game like Excitebike.

In college, depressed and unsuccessful in my chemistry major, Quake found me and I fell in love with pc gaming and thought, once again, that I might make games. In junior year, I decided to take Java but though I got an A in the midterm, I couldn’t even get a program to compile. The next semester I transferred to a public college and started a computer science major using C++ of all things where I did really well, made lifelong friends and found my love for programming.

Today, I’ve yet to make a real game, but the journey to trying has taught me much and I really do enjoy creating applications that make things easier for my coworkers so the dream of making video games is on the back burner.
Explaining your rationale doesn't change the fact that gamers (many unwittingly) are potentially giving the keys to their computer kingdom to Riot. This behavior on a console would be completely acceptable but unless you're running a dedicated PC for gaming, I wouldn't install this software.

As a thought experiment, I wonder what happens when the FISA court orders Riot to install a modified version on a suspected terrorist's computer. No need for privilege escalation when you can just ask the user to install it at ring-0.
I can't speak to the apps, but there's a foodcourt in my building with a kiosked McDonalds. Based on my observations, ordering with it is a slow, time consuming process. It's way faster to just say "I'll have a 5 with a coke". Most people in a hurry opt to stand in line with a cashier, which has a line that moves much faster.
The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support