skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd guess that 100x database interactions per order may be more like it. Upon startup, there's a whole login, check app version, payment cards still valid, geo query sequence. Check user's point total, rewards, custom offers. Load menu based on chosen store availability and prices. Every menu item has multiple options (mcnugget sauce, burgers without tomato, type of soda). Add to cart. Remove from cart. Add something different to cart. Repeat. Ok, order ready? Check taxes in local jurisdiction. Adjust total based on offers/rewards. Delivery or pickup? Pickup in-store, curbside, drive-thru? Communicate order to store. Update order status based on customer arrival. Send code to customer. Update status upon pickup/delivery. Lots more in-between I skipped, and that's just user-facing, nothing about analytics, accounting, loyalty club, etc.

I'm not defending McDonald's or it's architecture -- as I stated elsewhere, the app is far from perfect, and an entirely different architecture could very easily work much better. But I do think you are severely downplaying the number of interactions or transactions required to run an app like theirs.
Excuses are excuses. That is you have to force them so they give the info their patients. Well, just continue pay fine until you comply would be an option. Not just it is a black box and I do not care how money change hand. And at what price.

It is a black box after all
It is a black box after all …

This hell loop need to escape especially their patients.
It's 2022. Why would I learn even more horrible CMake instead of just going full Meson? Looks like it's the same cognitive cost, but no gains by staying on CMake.
Sandboxing and a limited api. As much as we love to hate on JavaScript for forcing the will of the company on the user, there are a lot of things you intentionally cannot do with it. Even something as simple as playing a sound without user interaction.
It's discussed obliquely in the OP article.

> As much as mackerel, herring, and other forage fishes underpin fishing in the northwest Atlantic, they serve an equally important role in marine ecosystems. Forage fish are part of the base of the ocean’s energy pyramid, consuming tiny creatures like copepods and, in turn, being consumed by humpback whales, puffins, and a whole host of other species.

> Bait use has altered that food chain, with mackerel and herring turning lobsters, which would normally eat sea urchins and other bottom-dwellers, into fish eaters. Scientists have even hypothesized that because wily lobsters are so good at snagging a meal out of traps without being caught, the intensive use of bait can result in a larger lobster population than would exist otherwise. Yet until very recently, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) did not track the volume of bait being caught. Many lobster and crab fishers have licenses to catch their own mackerel and herring, and the magnitude of that catch was not quantified. Much of the commercial catch for these species, which is measured, also goes to bait.
Maybe in Australia it's not. In the US it is a myth.

If you get a quote through the Australian site provided, you will be questioned about the color of your vehicle, and this is how that data was collected. Car insurance quotes in the US do not ask you what color your car is.
The preference for drab colors need not be a choice made for austerity's sake.

It could be that after living in your head all day, bright colors are just unpleasant.

On a related note, I know 3 couples who party a lot. Large quantities of alchohol and cocaine.

All 3 redecorated their home in gray, black and chrome.

I think we're seeing a drug-induced change in how they appreciate colors.
Very interesting how the 747 seemed to fit both passenger and cargo roles for so long.
> web services are largely just a rigamarole of reciting the right incantation and duct taping bits together

Not only this, but there'll always be an a**ole to say that we're doing that wrong, and add a few more steps in between just to make the process "better".
Then don't introduce the term in to the conversation. You're shockingly dishonest in your rhetoric by doing so. To quote you before:

> One can argue that the original contract is tantamount to a slave contract, thereby null and void at the outset.
Objective to who, exactly? Care to name these people who supposedly worked for RT? Someone like Chris Hedges? The guy who worked for NYT and won a Pulitzer, but left because he got tired of the lies they were printing for the security state?
The C-130 Hercules platform says "Hello there!"
I don’t live in the bay anymore but know for a fact sports radio knbr 680 also has an fm station, think it’s 104.5

I’ve actually taken a bit to AM lately to listen to different sporting events when outside of fm range

Not vouching for it and I wouldn’t care if am was deprecated as a vehicle radio feature (my vehicles are ‘88 and ‘02) but it still serves a purpose for sure
Apple did its best to reduce the pain points. Sometimes by adding more like butterfly if they goes off course. But it is all about user or developer experience. Just not always on it. Intent is different from result.

Here seems make some sense.
I'm thinking the next scientific instrument turned phone accessory is going to be raman spectroscopes. It could easily solve a lot of problems of things like adulterated food and drugs being so common. There's also research done that shows that many regular consumer phones on the market now have CCDs which are even sensitive enough as-is to read the laser reflection and sort out what the chemical is. There's an implementation here as an add on, but I want to see them embedded in the phones themselves! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOA-jwY4Dk
You said the same thing as him in slightly more vague corporate speak. I think either is fine.
Kick the non responders out of school. Now the sample is representative, or else.
Is it really scalable? Every time the local McDonald's have some cross-promotion going on with a certain boy band (for example this week's collectable cards), their app's backend always crash right at 11am when the promotion starts.
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Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove submissions and comments about ChatGPT from HN
I get it, ChatGPT is cool and you can do plenty with it. But I'm getting tired that every other post is about ChatGPT, and every other comment is about ChatGPT's take on a topic.

So I made this bookmarklet to remove comments and posts about ChatGPT (including this one) from HN. Drag and drop the text below to your browser bar, give it a name like "Remove ChatGPT", and get rolling. Whenever you load submissions or a specific comment thread, just click the bookmarklet and the page will be ChatGPT (And even ChatGTP) free.

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As a matter of fact, yes. Did you read the comment this was a response to?

But OK, I went back and reread it. I found one unsupported statement:

"But Atlantic mackerel and some populations of Atlantic herring have dropped to a fraction of their former levels. Many stocks are now in the critical zone—meaning that serious harm is likely occurring to the stock—and in some cases, have been that way for decades."

And yet, I cited some authoritative data from agencies that are in a position to know. Those agencies say the species are not endangered.

So I think it's your move.
Tangential: Google search date range only accepts MM/DD/YYYY even if you’re on a different version of Google with a different locale. Really lazy if you ask me. Must be confusing to a lot of people, too.
I run a virtual machine on the work laptop that has a wire guard vpn connection out.

The note taking took used is Joplin which syncs encrypted notes to the cloud (here free Dropbox account).

There are many ways to skin a cat, and this way is not bullet proof as I’m still typing on the keyboard and keystrokes of course can be monitored. Also screenshots.

The only fool proof solution is to use a seperate computer all together. Know your threat model and adjust accordingly. This is what I have done.
We actually know a fair bit about what happens if you discard the axiom of choice; mostly because Banach-Tarski made it so controversial.

As for calculus, it doesn't require the existence of infinities or infinitesimals. Set theory needs to care about infinities and the sizes thereof because they are creatures of the axioms they adopt. But in calculus "infinity" just means "it gets as big as you want" and "infintesimal" just means "it gets as small as you want". Everything's argued on top of limits that are done in the real number system where there aren't any infinities or infinitesimals.

The thing that calculus really cares about is continuity: i.e. the idea that if you nudge the input to a function a little bit, the output changes by a little bit. If you try to do calculus on functions that don't work this way, then calculus doesn't work, either.
So sell compatible size higher density batteries.

Actual disposable batteries (remember those?) have improved dramatically over the decades but you can still put a brand new AA battery loaded with the latest 2022 tech into a remote control from the 50s and expect it to work.
Spent a lot of time restoring candy imacs in p.o.s. applications with OS 9, was always fun getting the PostScript dependencies loaded for Laser-Writers; periphery like plate-makers and Design-Jets, and getting them to see network shares. OS 8, and 9 were both lean as fuck and full of utilities. Back when distros were stable and code was efficient.
Anyone sure it cannot self described so that it is impossible.

Guess there is no ops may be not. But being IT guy, knew a bit lisp and read a silly thick book frightened me forever. Or Russel and whitehead.
> a big question here is how wise it is for the US education system to be based so heavily on multiple choice questions

There was a great blog post I read a while back on redesigning multiple choice tests to allow the student to indicate the "confidence" of their response, with a more confident answer being rewarded/penalized more heavily than a response with low confidence. This allowed for a statistically better sample of how well the student learned the material.

I thought for sure the post was written by Scott Aaronson, but I haven't been able to find it despite extensively searching his blog, so maybe it was someone else.
Is that a camera in the middle of the left A pillar there (1:39)? It looks like it's maybe blinking IR.
The economic term which is relevant here is under employment.

A factory foreman/skilled labor -> burger flipping/unskilled labor.

Retraining into entirely new skill sets is hard - even if you don’t have debt/ bills/ dependents.
Mostly because the huge gains in speed that were desired were found in the native compilation fork.

That, and the R5/R6/R7 debacle has alienated many from scheme.
In my opinion some of the most nefarious effects of this ChatGPT craze will be on open source software. Quality will diminish a lot, everyone will want to have a shinny GitHub portfolio without actually putting the effort, so they will use regurgitated code from GPT without disclosing the source. People will clone and use this projects, and by virtue of their open source nature, that code will be in the next iteration of the training data set, so it will be a spiral...

And that is best case scenario, because my biggest fear is that this type of language model will scare good programmers from releasing novel/useful code to the open source community. Why would you want to provide the training data for free to OpenAI, and reap none of the benefits of your work? Currently people at least have to clone your code/examples, make an effort to understand it, and train so that they can market themselves as experts in <Spark, React, Kubernetes, etc> to advance their careers.
My BlackView with FLIR is good for checking electrical circuits and relays.
Also worth a mention is Arcimoto's "Mean Lean Machine" (though that's less of highway vehicle than their roadster is). I think they've deprioritized development on the MLM recently though, as they're trying to ramp up production of the FUV.

https://www.arcimoto.com/mlm
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My GPT-3 prompt:

> What does the word "lissivity" mean?

The response:

> Lissivity is a term used in soil science to describe the ability of a soil to transmit water.

AND:

> What does the word "nonsensorium" mean?

> Nonsensorium is a term used in neurology to describe a state of diminished or absent sensory awareness.
They're not saying the pay is the same. They're saying the intellectual aspect of the work is not terribly different.
I agree. I see a minor glimpse of hope with people using mastodon for communication, and basic clients running within Emacs; perhaps eventually one could also have a personal server running (or at least controlled) within Emacs. Once the extensions are in Lisp, new types of opportunities open up. Maybe one day blog posts could be using org mode natively and allow for local/interactive elisp or other babel-language execution. Maybe an extension of crdt within Emacs is all that’s needed for interactive shared documents by multiple users. The web could be interesting in new ways, just like the multiplayer online games of the eighties.
How do human-driven cars do in the pouring rain or snow?
Probably trying to reduce the number of sevens around the place
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Is this only receivable in Canada? Will I be able to receive their signals in Asia? I see they have another session next year
The comments on this video are wild.
Wow the first of these phones were made in 2013! This is the first I am hearing of this phone. These are obviously selling enough to keep churning out newer versions. The FLIR camera is also something I have never thought about, quite a good option to have some times.
how do you block websockets in a world with tls around the majority of http connections?

wouldn't you have to resort to proxies with certificate authorities forced on users in order to block websockets?
Says "FLIR Lepton 3.5 professional-grade sensor" which lists at 160x120 from

https://www.flir.com/news-center/camera-cores--components/fl...
> In reality, a single transatlantic flight will expose you to more radiation than spending a year at the reprocessing site.

More attempted misdirection. The problem is the emissions into the atmosphere and ocean which is cumulative and spread over a much larger region, not the radiation on site. Much like coal: One La Hague running at full capacity for a coupleof decades is a relatively minor problem. A thousand of them running for a century using much more polluting feed stock is the issue.

> Greenpeace had zero credibility on nuclear power. They think a million people died from Chernobyl. This is nothing more than propaganda.

If it's not a problem then why not pay for third parties to put whatever sensors they please and run whatever tests they wish on the outlets, vents, and surrounding land rather than removing them and running a media suppression campaign? Proving Greenpeace wrong would make their job far easier.

> You realize that naturally occurring uranium already contaminates many regions water supplies? But it's not the end of the world, it can be treated and filtered out: https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/120396/uranium-contaminat...

U238 isn't americium or neptunium or plutonium, and natural contamination levels are far lower than what happens around those mines.
Well, those never had any problems, while all four window regulators on my 2002 BMW had to be replaced, at $900 each.
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Usage dictates that spring = Q2 when used in a business context centred around a US-based business. It has nothing to do with the seasons. It is quite common for words to have multiple meanings, using context to establish the exact definition in play.

The only thing that is actually obnoxious is silly pedantry.
I miss A380s, to me they were the golden age of international travel. No other plane is quite as smooth!
Techniques for getting ChatGPT to write and modify music
Your best bet is Lufthansa for that.
Right. That’s what I meant by imposing synaptic constraints getting you back to well trodden ground.
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Nah the first world can just rob third world elderly of their retirement by just importing in their most skilled/intelligent workers and spitting them back out when EvilCorp finishes chewing them up and cancels their work visa. No reason to have a child in the first world when the nominal comparative advantage in pricing is a little Bangladeshi child.
Those tests are run only in places we already knew people were.

Notably, none have been run on the million square miles of Sundaland and the continental shelf off China, now under water, where people lived for at least 70,000 years. We know they invented oceangoing navigation pretty early, because they got to Australia.

People did that another 100,000 years earlier and got to Crete.

The null hypothesis has to be that people in places with sufficient population have complex society, because that is baseline human behavior. You need good evidence of someplace they didn't, and an explanation why not.
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Can you explain why that name is unfortunate?
As a tall person, I miss the 747s if for nothing else the stairway area where you could stand and even walk around. They sure made sure to get rid of that nicety.
Hidden Brain had a pretty good podcast on this https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904660038/the-halo-effect-why... . Link includes a quick summary.
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I mean you wrote all this justification, but 30k per second is still practically nothing compared to the complexity described in the article?

Taking something like Postgres and sprinkling in some strategic use of Redis would handle their usecase with horizontal scaling pretty reliably...

What it wouldn't do is let you add Kafka to your resume.
>The reality is we the public are a bunch of babies and can get innocent individuals hurt by our bullshit. If you read the article, elderly people could get hurt or killed, is your curiosity really worth that price?

This kind of internalized paternalistic thinking (that the masses are these brutish savages that must be protected from themselves by some higher authority, who must always be trusted) is exactly what these systems rely on to stay in place. It is simple to go look at what has been declassified already, nothing that was done was for "the good of the people", it was all sketchy military and political actions to further entrench existing power.
No, scavengers.
Could it be that that there is a proprietary extension for HyperTalk, that chatGPT somehow learned about?
Sigh, this again. I expect better from HN than getting mad at things based on blind keyword matching.

> must have presented as “entirely willing”

Everyone insists on interpreting this as "Stallman thinks she was entirely willing", which is obviously not what he said in at least two ways:

First, he said it was possible, not that she "must have", and advocated for not drawing conclusions without full information.

Second, "presented herself as entirely willing" is different from "actually was entirely willing", considering we're talking about a woman who was being coerced into things. Nobody's seriously claiming the latter, but the former is a different statement, one that leaves open the possibility for Minsky to simply not have thought of the alternative at the time.

> has referred to child sexual abuse as “voluntary pedophilia”

That one was less defensible, but he did later change his mind: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#14_September...

I read it as an "I, personally, would not be bothered by this, and it hadn't occurred to me that anyone would be traumatized by it" thing, which would be consistent with his obviously-some-kind-of-neurodivergent mind.
Note that that's not a Raman spectrometer, just a conventional grating or prism-based instrument. 3 nm resolution isn't too bad, though. Could be good for evaluating aquarium/houseplant lighting and things like that.

A Raman spectrometer is still a fairly exotic piece of hardware, requiring a laser, a notch filter for the laser's wavelength, and a very good conventional spectrophotometer to look for low-level sidebands. There have been some homebrew Raman implementations -- e.g., Ben Krasnow's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRrOdKW06sk -- but nothing that would fit on the back of a smartphone.
I didn't say it was good to focus on it, just that obviously people are going to.

If someone wants to communicate a particular point, it's wise for them to eliminate the rabbit trails and distractions from what they say. It's especially distracting to the programmer-type if the side point is badly argued.

Human nature is, alas, fairly predictable in the large.