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There’s no real certification. Usually you’d watch the training materials, then shadow someone once, then do it live with someone who trained watching. It’s not hard you just need to have done it a few times.

There’s no admin reset or anything like that. There is a maintenance menu and an admin menu but even in the higher level “secret” menus changing this was never an option. I’ve seen people try and short the main board with a screwdriver to get it to “reset” the date.

It’s a very intelligent machine and when it’s cleaned you need to go through the cleaning “process” in the menu. Wash, rinse, sanitize etc. it monitors the process with various sensors and it being flushed so many times. Faking it isn’t an option, I’ve seen too many people try.
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This (1) thread from François Chollet describes 'Artificial Intelligence' very well in my opinion. From this point of view, it's obvious why you need to fallback to other data/metadata.

Further, to the linked tweets and the OP, I don't think that there's a direct line from where we are to where we want to be. As an analogy, no advancement in chemical rockets is going to get us to Alpha Centauri.

1 - https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1214392496375025664
European McDonalds use a different machine manufactured by an Italian company – Carpigiani. It's apparently better designed and more reliable.
Your claim is false.
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The internet was born as a military R&D program and remains one today. What is the "free" web? What is the "free" structure of the internet? I assume "free" is not used here to mean "fault-tolerant" or "capable of routing around failed nodes"
The key would be that 'you sometimes want it'.

The stuff that `zope.interface` gets you is honestly on the... heavy side of what I think makes sense for a lot of scenarios (especially in Python). Which would explain it's relatively low uptake despite having been around for like... 15-20 years??

I haven't used `typing.Protocol` yet (I am mostly still working in 3.7), but it seems to roughly capture the level of 'heaviness' that seems workable.

I do get your gist though. Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing type annotating stuff.
Do you know that Europe is a continent with many countries?
Not every program has such a well-defined life cycle that fits into Rust’s memory model. There was a great post on why the wayland library’s rust implementation was abandoned. There was basically no point of Rust’s memory model there over C.
Maybe it uses both? My Honda can tell me the speed limit, and I'm sure it's not using the internet to do it.
Well it won't have much of an effect unless they price the vaccine exorbitantly. So you can also view this as a binding promise to keep margins reasonable.
I started working on some Rust bindings for this but I'm currently stuck here[0] with some bindgen issue.

If anyone wants to help that would be appreciated heaps.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/2035
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Strong AI can be done, but you need to encode agency and intent into the thing and the only agency and intent we allow is self driving cars, not some evil AI which can do the kinds of intents us humans think of.
> Simulating the bands of Jupiter is tricky but I've done some experiments with 2D fluids.

Nice! I've always wanted to do some fluid dynamics on the surface of a sphere, but the math is too hard for me. I found a video on youtube where someone has done some interesting things a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzagndcx8go&t=1s but there's very little information about it. Then there was what was done for the film 2010: The year we make contact" http://2010odysseyarchive.blogspot.com/2014/12/

I've had to resort to simpler means myself, which means faking it. I use OpenSimplex noise on the surface of a sphere, and from this I can find the gradient of the noise field tangent to the surface of the sphere, rotate this vector 90 degrees about an axis passing through the center of the sphere -- which is equivalent to some kind of spherical curl of the noise field -- which gives me a non-divergent velocity field. Because incompressible fluid flows are also non-divergent, there's a strong but superficial resemblance -- it looks like fluid flow, even though it is just an arbitrary process. Into this field, I dump a bunch of colored particles and let them flow around, painting alpha blended, slowly fading trails behind them onto the surface of a cube to be used later as textures of a cubemapped sphere.

For the bands, I superimpose a simple velocity field of counter rotating bands on top of this curl-noise generated velocity field. Something like: horizontal_velocity += K x sin(5 x latitude)

Results looks like this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gaseous-giganticus&t=h_&iax=images...

The idea for using the curl of a noise field to mimic fluid dynamics is from a paper by Robert Bridson, et al.: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph2007-cu...

This program is open source, it's here: https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus
Zig seems to be doing a lot of things right (just like Rust did).

Sadly I think that their disregard for safety (the manual states that dangling pointers is the developers problem) kinda makes it a no-starter for many people. I personally consider possible information breach far worse than a crash or runtime stall.
Given infinite resources (time and energy), everything is worth learning.

Having said that, it depends on what you want to build.

In my opinion, Go is great for building command line applications, infrastructure applications (Kubernetes and related stuff), your own database, a DNS server, or anything you would otherwise use C/C++/Java? etc.

If the answer to the question: What would I write this in if Go didn't exist? is C/C++, etc... then Go is what you're looking for. If the answer is Python, Ruby, php, etc... then node is a better fit (compared to Go).

For building Web Applications, and web realted APIs, again in my opinion, what you need to focus on is in the ecosystem, not the language. You need to focus on the libraries, the frameworks, the tooling, the editors, the ORMs, the validation libraries, etc, etc.

In this regard, I think the node ecosystem is a lot more suitable. You might need to do scraping of other websites, generate PDFs, access a database, render a preview from an url to an image, etc. Node has an infinite amount of useful and popular libraries for all web stuff.

At my previous job everything in the backend was being rewritten in Go. The inseane amount of reinventing the wheel and wasting time on things already given for free in other ecosystem was astounding. To me an extreme example of this was the "We dOnT NeEd OrMs iN gO" and then see the team suffering weeks to do the right migration statements in SQL files executed by custom bash scripts and creating manual CRUD queries for trivial data which, with the Rails ORM, the Django ORM or Prisma.js would be literally 30m of work, migrations and deployment included.

But hey, Go is so fast! So go ahead with Go if you're already FAANG scale.
The article makes it sound like it's a secret code like a Konami code that the laptop will recognize, but it's not the case.
Sequence diagrams, state transition diagrams, and network diagrams provide the most value to the development teams I have been working with.
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Ahh I see! Thanks for the explanation.
Static analysis can benefit every sort of language, Rust included.
I think those presses are to make sure the electricity is completely drained out of the laptop.
> the number metadata would be encoded in the sign.

Oh yea that's not going to backfire at all is it? Lemme just work out how to frig it to state the max speed limit is zero and create an automated car pile-up.
Rufus Wainwright mentioning Susanne Bartsch, Walt Paper and Limelight evokes the 90s in NYC. People always comment how Haight Ashbury and the hippies in SF influenced Steve Jobs and the PC revolution. But I don't think anyone properly recalls how club kid culture begat Web 1.0 startups like Pseudo TV & Kozmo.com ;)

I still like the concept of a bohemian space for creative young people to flock to in Manhattan. Like Barbizon 63 in the 1950s and Westbeth in the 1970s. Doesn't really exist anymore except in maybe Bushwick?
Yeah... I find this entire conversation pretty unpleasant--to the point where I haven't really wanted to ever interact with it directly, despite having tons of opinions on async/await due to my usage of either that specific feature or more generic related constructs (coroutines, monads) in many languages now (just not Rust)--as it isn't even like "colored" is being used in some happy way: things are always apparently somehow bad because they are "colored" :/, and I pretty much never hear the word "colored" used to talk about anything other than people (and, occasionally, functions). I realize a bunch of people are going to jump on me and say "I don't mean that", and I am not claiming you are: it just causes this continual looming mental state, as the word itself is so horribly weighted now.
66-year-old straight male here.

I went to a boy's boarding school, a few females, male changing rooms, I'd say about 10% of the boys were gay or curious. We showered toigether; there were no cubicles. I wasn't ever ashamed to be seen naked.

No woman I've been with (not very many) has ever seemed ashamed to be seen naked; but interestingly, I think, they have seemed to prefer to dress and undress out of sight. I'm not like that at all; I'd walk down the street naked, were it not for the risk of exposing an unexpected erection. Most girls are shyer than me, for what I think are obvious reasons.

I think there's no place for body-shame; I think it's sexy as hell when a girl enjoys you gazing at her naked body. I'm no work of art, but I love being consumed visually, too.
> I did a lot of in-depth projects. Nowadays I enjoy expanding my breath of knowledge instead without digging to deep.

I'm going in completely opposite direction. Did a lot of expanding on breadth. Now trying to dig deeper into few things to get domain expertise sort of. AI/ML look interesting and blockchain is facinating.

I am also resorting to CS & IT books. They seem fun and motivating too.
In many cases investigators don't look very hard for evidence which makes their case fall apart.

Imagine a murder case where the accused claims he was at the cinema at the time. Often the police won't go to the cinema and get CCTV tapes to back up the claim - they'll just use blurry footage from the murder scene and claim "looks kinda like the same guy ish".

I suspect there are a lot of cases of innocent people in prison simply because evidence of them being innocent was deliberately overlooked or not collected.
The entire point of the article is that even when patents are expired (or temporarily waived in the case of the Moderna vaccine), the inventions in them still cannot be manufactured by others because the patent does not contain anywhere close to all of the required information.

There is certainly a legal right to manufacture things that are not currently under patent.
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I had access to both. We did not pay for any of it. In fact the Taylor facility in our local market offered free “training” days once a year specifically for McDonald’s employees.

McDonald’s is much more political than people think. The franchise I worked for was very well connected and well represented. It’s possible that this access was something they pushed for or is not well known.
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It is very common for engineers to hypothesize (often with limited evidence) that the problem is “the users” rather than the technology and its support infrastructure. I think this can be true, but two points:

1. The high-attrition low-skill workforce at fast food restaurants is a fact of the industry. (I am not endorsing it either.) So if a solution is failing widely when faced with the reality of its users, then the system is flawed not the users.

Of course, you might argue that it’s impossible to build a system that works with this type of users, which leads to:

2. The video argues that failure rates at competing fast food restaurants are vastly lower. While I can’t verify this myself, if we assume it’s true then it’s strong evidence that the problem here is unique to McDonalds and therefore doesn’t represent some systematic impossibility.

I don’t care much about ice cream machines, but in the broader technological sense I dislike “users are the problem” arguments. The whole point of tech is to make users’ lives easier. When other people are doing that and you’re not, there is a problem.
> Don't monads in themselves have the same problem of introducing "coloring" (where each monad is a different color) , so that functions which work for one monad won't work with easily compose with functions which work with another monad?

I'd say that monads surface a problem that was already there, and give you a vocabulary to talk about it and potentially work with it. Composing effectful functions is still surprising even if you don't keep track of those effects in your type system (for example, combining async functions with mutable variables, or either with an Amb-style backtracking/nondeterminism function, or any of those with error propagation).

But yeah, monads are an incomplete solution to the problem of effects, and when writing composable libraries you often want to abstract a bit further. In the case of Haskell-style languages we have MTL-style typeclasses, or Free coproducts, or various more experimental approaches.
I think the risk of a car missing a speed sign, or misinterpreting one, or reading something that looks like a speed limit sign but isn't, is a much bigger threat.
because most ML libraries are python-first...

as for other stuff (web-servers, what not), I don't think python can beat kotlin / typescript / etc
I wonder if it would be cheaper for all these companies to go and pay for a sticker/stamp of some kind put on all the signs in a city. Figure out a standard and put them everywhere.

This would give them time to get the AI vision detection algorithms figured out.
This post definitely contains some good general advice, to me the most important step is really simple:

Just use them. And keep on using them.

Resources like those suggested are good, but each will suit people differently - the one thing that all people who are expert at these tools have in common is that they've all used them a lot!
summary: McDonalds only allows their franchisees to use one specific machine for ice cream, from one supplier. Most of their other equipment they have more than one choice for suppliers but not for the ice cream machine. The supplier is Taylor, which supplies ice cream machines to many other restaurants which do not suffer from the same problem. The Taylor-made machine for McDonald's is deliberately designed to have a secret menu that only “authorized service personnel” are allowed to use and the main menu only throws obscure & unhelpful error messages and the Owner manual is not helpful at all. This forces franchisee owners to pay thousands of dollars a year these service people to come and “fix” the issue with the machine.
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True, but the density needed for a useful bus is a lot less than people think. With an investment in buses and useful routes most of the us could have useful buses with a good number of riders.
I don't think I've have ever met a software engineer in Portugal that is on the "Ordem de Engenheiros". It's far more common, because indeed they're legally bound, with civil engineers, material engineers and such.

That may also be true for some areas, but you can def. sign a contract for software development with just a generic business license.
> The problem with this idea is your premise that you shouldn't have to pay for school meals if you don't have children.

Nothing about what parent wrote indicates that they are unwilling to pay for school meals, just that they want to know how much it cost them. Much like most people would want to know how much they are paying for socialised cancer treatments or food banks, but generally wouldn't oppose to paying in the first place.
The submitted link appears to be a rehashing of https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/16/slackware_15_beta/ but with annoying ads and back-button hijacking.

Mods, can we get the link changed?
Is this automated ?
And, to be fair, give yourself a safe enough space to experiment.

Use Docker, libvirt, Digital Ocean, multipass, Virtualbox, or whatever you want, but find a place where you can use the stuff without worrying too much about the consequences :)
If payments had been built into the structure of the internet, they could have been done in an optional way. Per memory, that's how the original RFCs looked?

Which means you still would have had free content, as well as paid.

The fascinating historical bit is when you follow the cross-border issue... it would have required efficient, scalable (small to large amounts) international monetary transfers between individuals.

And that would have been as, or more, transformational than the internet.

CoL arbitrage. Individual international mobility. Remittance fee slashing. In the late 1980s. The mind boggles.
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Yep. Does it contradict to what I wrote though?
Looks more like something FB/WhatsApp/IG nexus has paid for.
Put down a deposit for service up in Alaska near Kenai. They're estimating early 2022 at the moment. Might be stuck on one of the GEO sat providers until then.
> This is partly why p2p fizzled.

That's news to me. The less legitimate ways of acquiring media seem to be thriving in this day and age, and most are p2p.
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> no basis in reality.

It's just a hypothetical that I put out there for rhetorical purposes. It doesn't have to be realistic. You can substitute India for another country (say, Saudi Arabia, like another poster did) if you think that realism is important. The argument will remain the same.
Yah, Hollywood. Married couples sleeping in separate single beds. Kisses without tongues. Bras made of cast-iron.
Cool. Thank you. Lack of coverage of this subject in educational materials has been pain ever since I was studied C at school. All the books said that: strings are zero-terminated char arrays. But this kind of strings is almost useless in today globalized world. Sorry I didn't notice you cover this topic in a separate chapter. This makes your guide really great. Let me suggest you mention that chapter in the strings chapter unless you have a reason to omit such a reference. Thank you for a great job!
I guess the prospect of literally a hundred billion dollars each made them reconsider.
A critical view of this pledge, separately posted on HN:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/moderna-patents-covid-19-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941571

TL;DR: Patents these days are effectively worthless at reproducing the invention, they only function as a legal way to stop competitors.
I've worked with a client that blocks cmd, but not Powershell or VBA. God, I hate security-by-explicit-requirement.
does robots.txt apply retroactively though? That would be bad..
That article seems to just assume that Moderna are acting in bad faith there, without a lot of evidence. Certainly if they wanted to be obstructive they still could be, but the article-writer doesn't prove it either way.

I'd be interested to know if that's been tested. For example, have any other companies or countries proposed making the Moderna vaccine at all? And what happened? Co-operation? Grudging support? Full-on obstruction?
It's not a leaked model, it was a 3D model grabbed from some mobile game...
I guess growing up is when you give in to profit above all.
You over-estimate your typical 5yo by a large amount.
This seems to be an issue with only McD. According to the video other vendors like Wendy's don't have this problem.

Remember that McD the company has nothing to loose from failing ice cream machines. That loss is taken by the franchise owners
Agree. All these management tools for knowledge and time feel like bikeshedding to me.
Sucks to not learn about zsh until the very end though ;)
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That's still a thing though, on smartphones. They're the closest thing you'll get to instant-on games. Flicking between apps is a lot faster too.
> When your elected government snoops on you, they famously prefer the metadata https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-... of who you emailed, phoned or chatted to the content of the messages themselves. It seems to be much more tractable to flag people of interest to the security services based on who their friends are and what websites they visit than to do clever AI on the messages they send. Once they're flagged, a human can always read their email anyway.

But isn't that at least partly due to legal issues, like the pen-register precedents in the US?
what's the point of putting it on the signs

when you can create virtual sign map that every city/road maintenance HAS to update?
This is the typical contrast between communist ideals in which everything is "free" - and therefore needs to be paid in some other shape (power, advertising, taxes, someone else paying the bills) - and the real capitalist world made of people who needs incentives to act (whether that's social rewards, economic rewards or hope of some rewards).

Sure, we can go on for a while on air, unpaid work and ideals (look at OSS software), but eventually a market emerges.
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Haskell-like monads are absolutely relevant. They're a common solution to this problem in Rust-like languages, and while there may be some Rust-specific concerns to be addressed it's not at all clear that any of them are real blockers.
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Is this really different from the police taking a physical file folder and adding or removing pieces of paper?

Isn't the point that the people operating the software and collecting the evidence are the ones that are supposed to safeguard it against tampering?

Is there any type of evidence that could stand up if we no longer trust the people handling it?
It saw Vindo Kapri name in Medianama article. That is the who posted a old picture as what is hapenning now.

were made by very prominent individuals - does not mean its true. That too coming from elected members, heh even journalist are tweeting incorrect information. Without checking the tweets we cannot come to any conclusion.
Seems like it it very common in the Mountain West region. Especially at the start, it seemed like far more Moderna than Pfizer. Now it seems about equal.