skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every two weeks the machine must be torn down and cleaned. It’s slightly complex but all well documented. Once the 14 day marker has been passed the machine is inoperable. It must be cleaned for food safety reasons. If your “cleaner” is out or you just have poor operations you’ll end up placing service calls out of confusion.

This seems entirely reasonable to me. I've heard horror stories about bacteria & mold growth in commercial ice machines from infrequent cleanings.

But...how high is the barrier to entry to becoming a "certified" ice cream machine cleaner? How much training is required, how much does it cost, etc?

In other words:

> Once the 14 day marker has been passed the machine is inoperable.

Who has "admin rights" to reset this "most recently cleaned" timestamp?

Is there any reason why I, if I'm a McDonald's manager, couldn't take the training myself, and be the person who does the every-two-weeks maintenance?
Good Commits to Save the Day
We should expect better: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html

This is a disappointing outcome of our community (software engineers, hackers, builders) and our technology - the web as we've built it.

The promise of decentralized communications empowering people.

We should expect more, those in a position to do the right thing at Twitter should try to do so. I hope long term something like urbit wins out and actually empowers its users.

What's the point of being a free western country if the people that need the support most are the most ignored?
Correct, I do not think it is realistic to expect Twitter to behave differently. I do not believe it's Twitter's behavior that the original article is trying to highlight.
Honest question - would you say the gameplay of Pokemon Snap is as good as Mario 64 (which came out for the same system as Pokemon Snap) or Tetris?
I agree that the whole identity verification stuff is confusing in element. I think it would be less so if they just generate and present the backup security key at account creation, telling users to use this when they want to login on a different device and drop the whole ad-hoc 'scan a qr code' process.

Having said that, is the UI/UX apart from the above really terrible? When using as a simple messenger app, the experience for me is almost the same as WhatsApp (which almost completely replaced sms at least in the Netherlands). The biggest issue I have is that when you open the emoji selection screen when typing a message, you have to close this and reopen the keyboard to continue typing, which is a bit silly, but not a deal breaker.
No they banned him from posting while he was still in office.
Have you tried calling an uber from most suburbs? It's pretty similar to the taxi experience you describe these days. Plenty of drivers just reject your ride if it's too far out from a central business district where they can easily snag another fare. My parents can't get rides where they live, 20 minutes out from their downtown and 20 minutes from their international airport. I live in a city of 4 million people and just called an uber the other day after a night of drinking, and it took 30 minutes to show up after the first one dropped my ride, so it's not just suburbs that might get the shaft with this 'taxi-like' quality of service from uber et al. Not to mention prices have gone sky high for these services. Sometimes I wonder if I really save much anymore using them vs. a yellowcab (which has an app now, too).
I just read a thread on Twitter where the user complains about the English translation of an anime, and 6 tweets later is saying they don't care about the opinion of "blacks / LGBT" and literally defending Nazis. Can't say the argument for less moderation is appealing to me.
From 2011 though, 4 years later...
My background is in physics (the tyres are a hobby), so maybe I was due.

I immediately knew what the comment would be the moment I posted it but it's 6AM so I didn't bother being more precise.

There's probably an information-theoretic framework to calculate the value of the data but who cares (Answer: Me, but again 6AM).
I feel like I could sit down and rewrite this, in a couple of hours, to be about Computer Science, but the practical field and the educational as well.

I mean, I could feasibly include this sentence as a quote, depending on which aspect of CS I was talking about (academic CS and language design in particular):
‘It is that the subjects that appeal to theory-builders are, at the moment, much more fashionable than the ones that appeal to problem-solvers.’

It is an interesting article and I will look forward to any discussion about it, especially the correlation to CS and development.
You make factually incorrect claims about solar and wind and next lecture me on 'lack of arguments'?

Solarpower in one form or another has been used for many decades, optimizations and cost reduction are what has given us economical solar panels, the tech has been there for much, much longer than 20 years. That's just the time that you have been paying attention to it.

Windpower has been in widespread use where I live for 5 years, and the Greeks has usable windmills much longer ago than that.

Which is nothing at all like your bullshit arguments.
Can anyone comment on the legality of these orders. Are they codified or arbitrary
No idea why you would get downvoted for stating the obvious
#1 stop doing scala and start with language that gives you joy, not mental suffering. Like ruby.

Im kidding (except ruby part).

#2 (this is serious) stop expecting from your job to make you happy. Its not your job’s job :)

You risking to end up in infinite loop of escapism, instead of focusing on uncovering your true potential.

“So good they cant ignore you” was an eye opening book for me on this matters.
Is it really, though -- isn't what happens inside capacitors basically the same thing as we call "static electricity" when it happens between other surfaces? Or, IOW, isn't pretty much anything potentially (Heh!) a capacitor, only pretty much all things except the ones purpose-built as such are really bad capacitors?
Why did people try so hard to censor this story?
I am not sure if this is still the case, but be aware that a specific CRF on x264 vs x265 might mean a different (perceived) quality. It was certainly the case a few years ago.
On the face of it, McDonald's corp should also be harmed by this. It makes their customers less successful through higher costs & lower sales, and it tarnishes their brand when a customer of their customers is unable to purchase an ice cream.

The two questions in my mind after watching:

1. What makes McDonald's corp okay with it?

2. What is the difference between the arrangement with McDonald's and the other franchises/chains? (Wendy's, In'n'Out, etc.)
A Modern Mac Using an Ancient Mac Display
Alleged records of 20M BigBasket users published online
True but for best latency and speeds a direct link back to ground would be best. I think the laser links would be more for remote areas and oceans where downlinks are impossible.
Depending on what you do, Go will suffice for 99,999% of use cases. Since I know Go, I would never start another project in Node. Also, I would never reach for Rust except for very specific cases when low level control over memory is needed. And that means probably never.

Since I value simplicity, productivity and ease of deployment, I would say that Go is the best server language out there.

Now, if you‘re learning for the job market, probably Node is king, even though Go is constantly gaining popularity.
> "I tried to match my lapsim program to telemetry from the 2020 Spanish GP, I arrived at CL = -5.421 and CD = 1.150"

This is very interesting. Does it mean that the author has access to 2020 Spanis GP telemetry from Williams?
Over 15,000 People Want the FTC to Fight for Our Right to Repair
getting 404 on the above link
Twitter is moderated, but is also full of political extremism. People leave Twitter all the time.

Moderation is solved problem. There are email spam filters, network of trusted people, proof of work...
Cross browser window state management
Work Home Network Devices
This looks severely out of date, even with the best data sources this data gets stale very quickly unfortunately.
I'm not familiar with Indian law, but would it be legal for them to be more transparent by replacing the offending tweets with "This message has been hidden in India by order of the Indian government"?

On the other hand, my understanding is that Twitter did self-report these actions to Harvard, so they should be given some credit.
You can extract the data by sniffing the app's traffic, but it's not easily done.

Live timing isn't that hard, live pseudo-telemetry like the app delivers is really hard.

Also you ain't getting it for free unless you're super lucky - not that kind of industry. Ergast has non-live data, however.
The expectation that a corporation operating in India will not obey Indian laws but American ones is appalling.

EU, Canada, China, Turkey or North Korea - if you want to do business there you have to respect their laws.

“For profit US corporation fighting foreign government atrocities” is a deeply flawed idea.

If Indians believe that they need wider free speech rights or other protections, they need to change their political figures and laws accordingly. It’s unreasonable to expect that a foreign corporation will do that for them, it even might be the case that they(the locals) don’t want it.

Imagine the other way around, Italian company selling Kinder Surprise Eggs in US, Swiss company doing banking by the Swiss laws in US, Malta company running gambling in the US by the Maltese laws. Would they be considered fighting the unreasonable food regulations, toppling the oppressive financial laws or pushing against tyrannical gambling laws of the US? I don’t think so.
October CMS as you know it is Dead
Yes. Single waves can be 10 meters or more, the resulting currents and direction changes can easily affect the ocean up to 100 meters down from the surface.

Really, marine engineering is an art, and anything that isn't solidly anchored is going to be the oceans plaything sooner or later.
Pretty sure that the floating origin moves with the craft now every frame. The entire universe also orbits around the craft when it is below the inverse rotation altitude threshold, which means that PhysX is doing physics in the co-rotating reference frame. That means that the "First point of Ares" -- normally (1,0,0) -- rotates around the z-axis as the craft moves and you have to query Planitarium.right to determine what its current orientation is. That means that tick-to-tick coordinates change, which makes trajectory optimization hard because values in the future won't match at all. You have to remove that rotation to get something like actual inertial coordinates (after also removing the offset origin to the vessel as well).

They've also recently fixed issues with single precision calculation in KSP1 and used a double-precision QuaternionD.LookRotation in the maneuver nodes to keep interplanetary trajectories from hopping around a lot.

[ oh it also uses left handed coordinates, which is terrible which means (0,1,0) is the north pole and the left handed cross product gets used so dual vectors like angular momentum point south for east-going orbits -- except the Orbit class uses normal right handed vectors and when you forget to .xzy swizzle a vector for one reason or another you can wind up debugging an issue all day long ]
Imposter Scams in 2020 – Americans Lost $1.19B
SPARK Ada for the Misra C Developer
Yes. UML was stupid, over-complicated, unproven, horrible to work with, and if that wasn't bad enough, it was mostly people who didn't know how to code very well that advocated for it.

It's been dead for a while now. Just being brutally honest.
I have not, since I don't have a PS4. If I am ever able to get my hands on a Playstation 5 I will definitely make sure to. I think that would be a really interesting comparison.

I'm also tempted now to go and give Final Fantasy 3 (aka FF6) a play through. I've never actually played that game, even though it's widely considered to be a better game than FF2. It would be a good way determine how much of my fondness for those other games is nostalgia vs. them being great games in their own right.
I don’t need someone else to tell me what is right for me to see. I would never do that to anyone else either.

We’re talking text here btw, so CP/gore/revenge porn don’t count because those can’t be transmitted over text (links aside).
Reporting from the Passport Papers
I was talking with a Netflix product manager a few years ago and, IIUC, he said Netflix re-encodes their entire catalog monthly to take advantage of new encoder optimizations. Disk is cheap. They want to optimize network transfers to both save money and improve user experience.
HTML Driven Development
I am running my own home server, everyone in my family has an account they use there (the domain is our last name). Non-techy people use it and like it (past the initial setup, since setting up a custom domain requires a few more clicks than :matrix.org account). I am not waiting for the day, though, when they will need to set up a new device without access to the old one because of E2E setup. I would like Matrix to provide a setting to advise UIs to not use e2e encryption for the same domain -- that's useless if you trust the home server (my family do trust my home server).

> I personally haven't met any "real" people who are even aware of Matrix. When I broached it with a non-IT friend, they were actively uninterested in unifying messaging applications as they had "facebook friends" and "whatsapp friends" and interacted with them differently.

I tried to sell it too with the "unify your messaging apps", but this is a wrong selling point to new users. First they need to start using matrix as their messaging app, realize that it works well, including VoIP and video calls. Once trust is there, only then start thinking about using bridges. Because there will be rough edges (e.g. federated voice/video calls do not work).

Because of the way bridges integrate to third-parties, they are not bug-free. Reliability is just not great yet. Maybe except a hosted service, Beeper[1], which is run by people who know most about these bridges and can provide support.

To sum up, I am using Matrix for my family network, and some bridges personally; I am not yet planning to spread the use of bridges beyond myself. Besides the encryption setup, I like the UI a lot. I also use gomuks[2] from time to time, which is a terminal matrix application. I have not stumped into server-side problems.

I am donating monthly to Tulir[3], the most prolific Matrix bridge developer (and, to my knowledge, co-founder of beeper). Because I started using Matrix thanks to his bridges.

Oh, and I love the Matrix sms bridge[4]. I set it up to see if it works, and I am not going back. It's great.

[1]: https://www.beeper.com/

[2]: https://github.com/tulir/gomuks

[3]: https://github.com/tulir

[4]: https://github.com/tijder/SmsMatrix
Studies have shown that uber doesn't necessarily take drivers off the road, but riders off bikes, trains, and busses, and pedestrians off of sidewalks. Considering a bus or a train as orders of magnitude higher throughput than a private car, throughput has probably gone down.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/uber-s-im...
Well, the idea of excluding pharmacy market from classical economic rules isn't that bad and impossible at all. We do already have excluded army, police and in many countries educational systems and entire healthcare systems. We all agreed to take common responsibility and bill for those in taxes, as we find it so crucial for our societes. It is enough to find same for pharma market and go further, find it not nation level crucial, but world level crucial. If just most of the countries would participate in it then there could be enormous funding.
I agree that I would like to see the colorForth suite in the public domain. At the same time, there are some additional things I want from a prospective language for doing low-overhead systems. I’ve been working on a semi-Forth inspired language and IDE to accompany it, but my hope is it will appeal to a modern audience with additional features, while still maintaining the ability to do extremely customizable systems as the programmer requires.
> half of the job would be to game the system, I wouldn't have joined.

Bureaucracy is inevitable once a certain number of people join a group.
A billion dollars over how many years? How much of that is already spent? When I was in SF two years ago I didn't see any cycling infra that could've cost a billion dollars. I think I only saw two cycle lanes. I certainly wouldn't feel safe to cycle there.
Trademark for ‘Signal’ is still pending in the US https://uspto.report/company/Signal-Technology-Foundation

Even with a granted trademark, it would be up to the company to enforce it. Simply stating “you can’t use our name” is much different from perusing open source projects in court or sending them cease and desist letters.
Because that's the language the laws are written in. If you don't speak Greek, you don't know what the law is, so you'll break it. That's a bad idea.

If you're living in the Byzantine Empire, that is.
Shouldn't the issue rather be the reverse? How you feel in single-sex changing rooms should be how we all get to feel also in co-ed rooms. There is no shame in Scandinavia to be together in a sauna with any age or gender - you don't flaunt what you got, but you also don't need to hide it unnecessarily. This was the norm in most places, certainly all around the USSR and famously you find that most (or maybe by now just 'many') beaches allow nudism while the west has some too it's clearly less.

Definitely a large part of this is that the prudish American ways have spread in Europe through (mainstream/Hollywood) films and series. Violence is normalised, while the body and sexuality are shamed and hidden and in that process made taboo and erotic. If you watch some non-UK European movies you really see this very visually, e.g. French movies are all about emotions, German movies are all about mystery and social issues, or e.g. Estonian movies are exploring character. All European films will have some nudity built in, but it's rarely 'sexual' and more just to show that the characters have intimacy/a private moment.
There's I think 5 different ways to handle rendering of orbits once the vessel goes through an SOI that KSP supports.
45' means 45 minutes, I guess?
Yeah, good to know, but I remember skipping a few pages back then. I'll just go do another round just to make sure I haven't missed anything.
...and I need that promotion to Senior Staff.
Yes, uncensored social media will tend to accumulate people who have been censored, that's the point.
Ugh yeah as an IT person that kind of mistake always bugs me. At my last job someone had labelled all the lockers with "0rder management". It bugged me so much every time I looked at it.

For me this is immediately obvious.

I don't think the closeness of the two keys have much to do with this error though.
counterpoint: if you're big enough to have your own bona-fide cloud, then you might have more spare CPU capacity that can be flexibly allocated than available PCs with dedicated GPU
Payment type would also matter. If it’s a flat monthly fee then they’re incentivized to avoid service calls. I imagine franchises and Taylor itself would also vastly prefer such a scheme, as it would reduce cost variation.
Believe in the tutorial it teaches you that you can do that (or at least it did). I suspect the orbit of the Mun is not placed by accident.
Then you weren’t in the suburbs or you just drove yourself. Uber is only confusing to people who live in places with good public transit and/or good taxi services. For the 90% of the rest of US population it was a game changer.

Even in Vegas (a presumably ‘healthy’ cab market), you would get scammed by cab drivers from the strip hotels to the airport by them suggesting the interstate despite it not being faster because it would accumulate them more miles. Cabs had no reasonable negative feedback systems for shitty (but not illegal) behavior so it was a terrible experience.
My experience as a product engineer and lack of root is that I spend 50% of my time asking people to do things that I could have done myself in 5 minutes.

I’ll confess that I sometimes break something that takes a day to fix, but I’m not sure if that’s worth it.

Especially considering I regularly wait weeks until platform can get around to fixing my specific issue.
“We Are What We Choose” Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as Delivered to the Class of 2010
I think the original story was pretty unimportant. But the suppression of the story demonstrated that twitter was willing to manipulate the narrative against the truth, which is consistent with what the right had been saying.

I wouldn't go so far as to say they Streisand effected it into public consciousness. Politics is a bullshit fight. Nonstories get media attention all the time, pushed by status quo narrative manipulators that everyone is okay with. But they turned a nonstory into a story here by covering it up (perhaps with good intent). I think that is what the parent is talking about.
First time I came across this one was when it was linked from theuselessweb [1]. My favourite is still https://hooooooooo.com/ (needs sound)

[1] https://theuselessweb.com/
Western mainstream media loves it when Twitter censors conservatives, even the president of the USA.

But Western mainstream media doesn't like it when a third world govt tries to suppress fake narratives that could lead to unmanageable civic chaos.

Double standards I suppose.
well, like the end of a book
Lets take a second to remember C is only about 10 years younger as Cobol.
Not everyone needs to ride a bicycle all the time. But perhaps we can increase the number of people willing to do so by providing safe infrastructure.
As another comment mentions above, there are now budget caps, which affect every decision a team make. For instance, one of the Mercedes drivers had a really nasty crash recently and the cost to build him a new car is putting budget pressure on Merc.
India is turning gradually authoritarian following Russia and china, with west turning blind eye, USA had their own problems in trump and right wing, No longer it has wiggle room or leverage to prevent this trend.
Plus maybe denoise in front to keep the size lower.
I'm curious to compare automakers vs Apple.
Actually it can be a fun exercise flying purely in IVA with a slide rule and window- or periscope-based reticles, just like those on Apollo Lunar Module [1][2], or Russian space stations [3]. The Apollo descent and landing procedure included elaborate roll maneuvers to confirm everything visually with the landing point designator. You can measure the horizon curvature and use similar techniques to guess your altitude and attitude.

[1] https://apollo11space.com/apollo-11-windows/

[2] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/coas.htm

[3] (yes, ISS has an optical viewfinder called VShTV - it's installed in Zarya module. It was meant for emergencies and never been used to reorient the module manually, AFAIK)
Rust and TUI: Building a command-line interface in Rust
I think there is far bigger issue than censorship here.

Significant portion of Indians already think there is big conspiracy behind Covid19 and everyone (Media, Governments, Healthcare professions, Big businesses, Pharma) is it to "$Insert your conspiracy here".

Now they see tweets being deleted just for being critical on government handling of issue. Doesn't that add fuel to conspiracy theories?
It is not the governments duty to maintain an image, citizens or foreign parties are always free to criticise or praise any government. If the government feels something is factually wrong then it can present statements from its press agency but not suppress criticism. This is the difference between an authoritative regime & a democracy.

Whenever we are done with dealing with the pandemic who ever is responsible for giving these orders needs to be trialed.