skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big fan of White Castle food, but they have the worst organized kitchens of any fast food place I've ever gone to. When I go there, I expect to wait as long for my food as it would take to cook it at home. Employees are confused about the menu, about who's responsible for what, they communicate with each other awkwardly, and there are probably half again as many as they need. It seems like they've put no effort into process at all.

Any effort would result in service improvement.

White Castle's burgers are weird and small, standardized and square, and cooked from frozen. Not exactly a general case for a burger-robot; sliders seem like they could easily be made in a vending machine. My bet is that somebody connected with White Castle is an investor, and this is a publicity stunt.
One defining feature before the last couple of years is that they were always open 24 hours. They are also nice if you are craving strong coffee that smells like grilled onions.
Based on what? Might well be that humanity has an entry in the universe's database says we have nukes, go to war for irrational reasons, and kills each other for random reasons.

Why would any intelligent life contact us?
Is there a single thing called Google Cloud Load Balancer? My understanding is that there are about half a dozen different managed load balancing services that all have very different operating characteristics. They all have very generic names in the docs like "global external HTTP(S) load balancer."
I’ll address the elephant in the room; I think that at this time, the use case for this with the widest potential for adoption is VR porn. I would very much like to see how well this adapts to, uh, organic surfaces. I’m not joking, so please don’t downvote me. :)
Walgreens run pilot with Theranos and see where it all went. Running pilot is usually done on the best machine they have under constant supervision of the second in line to the tech who built in. Different than deployment off the production line hundreds of machines without even knowing a real-life breaking ratio. Also the cost of operation is somewhat at $3,500 or some $17 per hour for a full shift, so much more than average cook takes (excluding tips which this machine won't get). Not to mention cooks very rarely just cook... they do all kind of in kitchen tasks that this machine cannot.
You could absolutely get this working with GitHub Actions with a bit of creativity.

I've been playing around with my own image-diff tool for this kind of thing, but it's not yet in a decent state: https://github.com/simonw/image-diff - there are other, better options out there such as https://github.com/mapbox/pixelmatch

Needle is an older system that did this using Selenium - updating that to work with Playwright (or Playwight via shot-scraper) would be an interesting project: https://github.com/python-needle/needle
As someone who works in IT, I know first hand how much things break in Windows everyday. If Windows was as perfect as people on the internet claimed, I would be out of a very well paying job.

With Linux, anything that goes wrong is almost certainly of own design.
That voice actor was recently featured in a song. https://youtu.be/TA13bQExrh8
The trip itself is fun. It'll get scary if you don't let yourself go, but it was really manageable. You are heavily sedated obviously, so you can't drive or do much after. Mentally its exhausting, and akin to spending all night studying. You will probably have a headache for the rest of the day.
Android makes it easy to have many browsers with different configurations for specific uses.

I have Bromite configured with DoH that almost blinds my ISP as well as Tor Browser.

Privacy Browser disables JavaScript by default, with an easy toggle to enable it, which is invaluable for taming many sites with obtrusive scripting.

I use Firefox Focus with the bundled libgecko for general browsing.

If I tried this on a Microsoft platform, I would constantly be advised not to do this.

I wish there was a good WebKit browser for Android, just for diversity.
Liberals never embraced free thought and free speech. Now, they are actively censoring anything, anyone, or whatever they don't like. I don't need to be told what to think by a group of people unable to think at all.
nope, it's standard google practice when authenticating on a new device
You draw the voxels on the screen. You color pixels according to the positions of voxels, and shove them into the framebuffer.

IIRC Vangers could work without 3d acceleration (in the original release, at least), and possibly did not require it at all. Polygons are used for vehicles and items, and there are maybe fifty polygons per a vehicle. You'll notice also that the depth of the voxel terrain is quite limited, as is the main view dimensions.

Also, the game engine is open-sourced, though it's the updated re-release: https://github.com/KranX/Vangers
Ive only done this on Google accounts
The graph also seems to show that the highest maximum on record wasn’t that long ago. If anything, the graph shows that the amplitude is getting larger.
Depends on the place, there really isn't much regulation for it where I went. I made an appointment, signed all the papers and got started. It's very expensive ($400-$600 a week).

They have a head doctor and then an anesthesiologist that handles the actual infusion.
One man, one vote.
We have a huge trades shortage and COVID might force a lot of supply chains to come back at least in part to the US. The demand for new construction has never been higher either.

A large portion of society that doesn't want to work on hot, dusty, dirty worksites might become obsolete with nothing useful for them to do. But there are absolutely jobs that are accessible to no-skill workers with only 1-2 years investment in schooling.
Especially with a young family to raise too.

A big polytunnel in the garden might make sense as a time-consuming hobby with practical benefits (though I still think it would be more expensive than just getting groceries), but not a farm.
Also, there's no employee overhead added to that $3k / month number -- no HR, no payroll tax, etc.
ORB-SLAM2 is SLAM only (similar to ARKit w/o VIO) so only reconstructs feature points - no surfaces. This research is about surface reconstruction.
Presumably a hybrid of #1, #2, #3 is most effective - there are audiences that will respond best to each. I assume the targeting data is out there.

Personally, though, I find the handwritten aspect of the letter, and the from a human being part of the text messages, to be the awkward parts. I've never met the folks texting me, yet they know my name and want to convince me of things. Its advertising, it feels pushy. Being channeled through a real human (even if they truly align with the message) doesn't change that. I might agree with the message, but I still don't want it to barge into my day like that.
I’d pay extra for guaranteed no human touch.

But then if I was rich enough I’d be Howard Hughes.
While I appreciated the comparison (lol’d), turns out that California condors are on the rise and nearly 25x (estimate) as many now then at the lowest point.
They are quite different from the podcasts. Wider range of topics and not as historically focused. I hope they do both in the future.

Recommendations technical:

- Twitter Space 12/13/2021 -- The Pragmatism of Hubris

- Twitter Space 12/6/2021 -- Tales from the Bringup Lab

- Twitter Space 11/29/2021 -- The Sidecar Switch

Historical:

- Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph

- Twitter Space 7/5/2021 -- NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories

- Twitter Space 5/31/2021 -- Silicon Cowboys

- Twitter Space 8/16/2021 -- The Showstopper Show

All of them are worth watching.
My guess is, we'll do both...
> In fact, many customers will be able to adapt their portfolios and usage to decrease costs.

Sounds like a sneaky way to win some quick revenue because they know a huge number of customers are not going to be able to go back and re-engineer their storage use in time, so will end up out-of-pocket even while Google gets to pretend they are saving everyone money.

It seems particularly problematic to increase prices on anything to do with long term cold storage. That is where customers are placing the most trust in their vendor since much of this data is held for mandatory compliance reasons and retrieval costs are sufficient that it is completely infeasible to migrate out.

> Storage Transfer Service will be available free-of-cost for transfers within Cloud Storage, starting April 2 until the end of the year

Is this a loophole to get free retrieval of data from cold storage that we could exploit for other reasons?
Ohhh that's encouraging. I was supposed to go for a "booster" session ages ago but kept putting it off.
I took an exam once. Guy next to me seemed to be looking at my paper but I wasn't sure, so I stayed quiet. Later in the exam, I got stuck on a problem or made a mistake, and he tapped me on the shoulder and told me the answer. Remembering that just now made me smile. This wasn't a high stakes medical school type of thing though, just a normal classroom quiz.
Also teens who don't need money are concentrated around the areas where their parents stoke demand for service labor. There aren't enough teen workers to bank on.
If cannabis didn’t exist White Castle wouldn’t either.

Literal stoner food that’s open all night.
Beyond lighter skin being an adaptation to absorb more UV light for vitamin D production, there appear to be other skin adaptations that enable success for living in near polar latitudes. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/06/115741/human-evolution-cha...

You could argue that we have the technology to overcome these biologically hurdles, and we do, but we're talking about millions of poor refugees who would have nothing if forced to abandon their land. It's unlikely that western good will would fund them indefinitely.
The video that exists shows the Flippy only making french fries [1]. No burger cooking at all. And if you've seen how they do the burgers at WC [2], that's no small task for a robot yet.

The french fry station looks like an ideal place to start, anyway, since it's usually a task that doesn't get a dedicated worker unless the place is extremely busy. In the quieter times it's something nobody has time to work or monitor while doing other things. And then, suddenly, everyone is waiting on the fries to finish.

From a more critical POV, it's kind of a kluge but at least a human can take over. There have been products for a long time [3] that are more self-contained and can do smaller batches of fries but need a hell of a lot more maintenance and cleaning.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB4vFRcCN-4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYlFMylrWI&t=1m14s

[3] https://www.autofry.com/
> For all other storage classes, Class A operations pricing in multi-regions and dual-regions will increase to be double the Class A operations pricing in regions.

This is the real impactful change. This is for ALL STORAGE CLASSES, not just Coldline. As someone who manages billions of objects in GCP, I know very well that each of those object write is a Class A operation, so 2x in price.

Also keep in mind that anyone storing objects durably (DR, anyone?), e.g. your customer data, is using multi-region, so this is a notable cost impact.

Note that there is a curious inflection point where, the Class A/B operations on an object cost _more_ than the (bytes) storage cost, depending how long you retain the data. That's where this is very impactful.

Annual multi-regional Standard _storage_ cost for a 19MiB object

e.g. 0.026 $/(GiBmo) 12 mo/yr * 19 MiB/yr = 5.95E-06 $/yr/obj

Annual multi-regional Standard storage cost for an object that you 1x write (A), and 2x read (B).

e.g. 0.05/1e4 $/A req + 2 * 0.004/1e4 $/ B req = 5.80E-06 $/yr/object

Here we see that the old annual "storage" carrying cost for this 19MiB object was less than the "request" cost. Now double the cost of the operations and you should consider storing fewer, bigger objects.
You don't need to be rich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
Why do you care what your comment's score is? I (and the person who replied to you, and others) can still see the thread just fine.
OTOH the human can deal with a bunch of requests that probably will never be coded into the robot's interface. Automated systems often have a frustrating lack of flexibility.
> emails that go to myname@gmail.com instead of my.name@gmail.com

Google ignores all '.' before the '@'. It's another way you can effectively created gmail aliases.
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery
If we could automate their job and decide not to out of pity, they're still useless.
Writing a device driver for Unix V6
She has already been detained and the lawyers cannot even locate her.
Why haven't the stable versions 15.2 and 15.3 been tested?

Will 15.4 be tested?
I have seen a few similar approaches. Basically, have several views with corresponding depth map, then render all of them and blend. As with MPI, the problem is the Quest 2 doesn't have enough GPU power to do the blending (in my tests at least). So I will be pleasantly surprised if this method runs on Quest 2, and even more surprised if it shows up on Quest 2 + WebVR. There are also limits of video decode resolution, so more views means lower pixel density in the output; VR video professionals are extremely sensitive to this. So an approach like this works better for photos than video.

In contrast, we do one view with 2 layers, and we composite them with no blending. This rendering/encoding is optimized to work with the limits of Quest 2.
If we can enable it for our own purposes then that's big. Doesn't need to be on by default.

Agreed.

Not being on by default likely means it's also buggy and incomplete.
Your only options are Webkit-based browsers or FF forks that are frequently behind and will probably croak sometime in the future.
I'm not sure what you mean. I'm by no means an aficionado, but I've had coffee via automatic drip brew, Keurig, French press, even boiled some water in a small pot and had it like tea a few times. But I've never had to deal with the temperature personally, and that seems rather niche anyway.
Yes, although exploring a cave can get a little creepy! No gore or anything though.
I picked 5 at random, but I guess it really depends on where you are. Assuming 5 was the real number, that's only $28k/month bandwidth spend given the average SWE salary in the UK (£38,561 going by google), including 33% for tax and non-salary costs. That's about 327 TB worth of undiscounted AWS bandwidth, or roughly a site averaging 993 Mbit/s.

A small video site might start at 3 Gbit/s, a medium sized one closer to 30. These estimates really are quite conservative depending on the context
code-server (vscode in gerneral with remote development extensions) does a lot of splitting of processes between the server and client. This makes normal code writing done on the client side. Intellisense still has the network delay, but is something that takes time anyway. The terminal doesnt get this benefit so they instead add local echo to make the delay a little easier to handle with [1]. I do not know if this works in code server.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_51#_local-echo
The number of fast food burger and chicken joints I don't eat at anymore is pretty close to all of them.

Subway was the first one I quit and that was back in the early `80s. McDs was around the turn on the century. Burger King & Jack in the Box, ect were somewhere in between those. I've had a few Arby's sandwiches since then, they're not great but were still edible last time I ate there, and that's been a couple years now.

Good food will make you feel good. Those fast food joints don't do that. You notice this more when you're working physically hard. They just don't provide any real fuel to get you through that, and that's why I quit eating at those places.
Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
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and how does that trip feels ? just new fresh ideas ? physical sensations ? a weightlifting sensations ? colorful emotions ?
The call the burgers sliders for a reason. They slide in, they slide out. Most people don't handle the grease very well. Some people swear by them, others curse them as never again until their next time out drinking all night. I don't personally care for them at all. My wife loves them.

But, I'll give White Castle credit. They know what they are and what their market is and they seem to do good business.
His criticism was mostly about the timed nature of it. The time restriction is a very artificial constraint and they end up filtering a lot of potentially great people.
But the battle is already for your mind. Propaganda is turning out to be a pretty big threat to democracy. Look at the whole Trump and QAnon thing in the US, where media happily keep feeding people utter nonsense because it makes people want to hurt their political opponents. It's by far the most blatant example, but not remotely the only one.

Democracy is fantastic when you've got an informed electorate interested in the truth and in good governance, but it can get really messy when hit with tribalism, celebrity worship, conspiracy thinking, and an overdose of propaganda.

That said, it's still better than the alternatives, because it's ultimately self-correcting.
Which spigot algorithm is the 3-line version using exactly? (I did some untangling of the code in limited time, but it's still pretty cryptic.)
More user friendly browser without sponsored search engine defaults. More Mozilla fluff projects don't have to cross my life path.
God knows what their method is, but the numbers on here for the CPU I actually own are consistent with 1) the benchmark results I see, and 2) the package power reported by the PMU, within a reasonable approximation.
Apple likes to trot out Facebook as a privacy boogeyman when it comes to defending their App Store business model, but when their business model necessitates that Facebook has invasive native apps, suddenly they're silent.

PWAs would increase security all around compared to native apps, but that might cut into App Store revenue.
They were saved only by an emergency captive-breeding program. I'm hoping liberalism doesn't require the same intervention!
Harold and Kumar is almost definitely the only reason white castle still exists. Never again will I have the displeasure of eating there.
War isn't supposed to be, and never has been, fair.
See, I’m not convinced that’s true. Having built hard tech products before, there are plenty of places for iteration.

The catch is that you iterate the plan and architecture, before you write any significant code. In this case, it’s even more important to listen carefully to the customer and pay attention to the underlying problem.

For example, it may not have made sense to build Docker because “everyone uses VMs” and Vagrant was already a thing. But when talking to customers, they would have described ample problems with the existing approach - if you carefully listened, you could surmise that something like basic Linux containers would help, and you could provide a basic prototype of that to start. When they complain it lacks features, that’s okay, if and only if they still want to use it - THAT is the sign of PMF.

Want to build a new data warehouse? That’s hard, I agree - but the important part isn’t that it’s hard but why it’s better which is going to come from customer development. If listening to customers isn’t driving your product roadmap, you are literally guessing at what they need, and unless you’re Steve Jobs and your next product is the iPhone, you’re in for a rough time.

(And even the iPhone had plenty of customer dev; they interviewed thousands of people about their cell phones and surmised the solution wasn’t simply to build a better keyboard for a Palm Pilot, but to build a brand new device entirely, because people loved their phones but they had limited use. The Newton, on the other hand, had no market because people weren’t ready for it and it was built in a lab with no customers to talk to.)
What's old is new again: https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/D9CHI_k00oHw5h_4XYIIEu2mveg=/...

Long story short: there's a lot more going on with service industry than "just make it more factory automated to reduce labor costs" and any attempt at "disrupting" the industry that ignores that is going to do little better than be a more expensive vending machine.
Oh, but you are not counting the cost of goods he steals per month unless he is incarcerated.
Anyone can bring a case for any reason. Let's see how this plays out.
They're delicious at 3AM when you may have had a few too many.
In rails I can drop into console and play with APIs in repl. What’s the .net equivalent?
Given what I think the operations are likely going to face -- how to swap out one bot for another when it breaks. How to fill in the line when there's a gap. How to service the bot.
Don't forget safety. The farther humans are from the hot grill and oils the better.

I'd call that $50/hour right there.
Thank you, that does help. I thankfully have some flexibility in my search… and I promise the other replies aren’t alt accounts!
I don't use it just for my users, I use it for my sites which are extremely image heavy and I don't want to load dozens of images that the user might never scroll to.
Thank you, my life is now just that little bit better. :)
I hate on-calls. I used to love programming, building systems, making cool things. But this is about 20% of my job as a SWE in a big tech company. Now I need to maintain several fragile systems, deal with angry users, deal with management which pushes me to add features rather than making our systems more reliable...

I'm staying primarily for the money but I'd rather do something else and keep programming as a hobby.
I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but I do halfway-seriously subscribe to this idea. A lot of things that seem to have anti-depressive effects, ranging from sleep deprivation to TMS and ECT, seem to basically give the brain a whack in the hopes of having it recover into a "better" state.
It's the Russian-language news service that was crippled. First, they were forced to only use officially licensed media sources, then they were forced to add lots of junk “newspapers” chain-posting the propaganda, and so on, and so on. So the headlines on top of the search page have been total crap for years.

The search results are mostly affected by the usual blacklists: DMCA notices for pirate sites, right-to-be-forgotten requests, government blocked pages (supposedly based on client location). Note that this list is not complete. For example, western services silently ban sites presumably “used to share child porn, based on informed opinion” of this or that group that might not even have a legal right to force anyone to do anything. How informed is that opinion? If you look at what Russian censorship agency does in the same regard, you can only call them utterly mad. You can be sure it's not the only case when someone has a backdoor that lets them hide stuff “for the public good”. Remember those stories about third world grunts cleaning Facebook from “NSFW content”, and making first world users feel comfy there? The results of their work are probably shared between corporations, too, and applied in some way.
.NET languages have REPLs too.
Yep. Some financial services transactions switched to allowing electronic/telephonic transactions during the pandemic. My broker basically switched back to certain transactions requiring in-person confirmation in some way or another. It's a nuisance but it also shuts down a lot of avenues of fraudulent activity.
I’d just redirect the second level to the first (could happen by accident when using a JS bookmark or similar), i.e. redirect https://www.smort.io/https:/smort.io/https:/whatever to https://www.smort.io/https:/whatever, but continue to allow https://www.smort.io/https:/smort.io (because why not, there can be valid use cases).