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McDonald's operations teams: yes, they are probably fed up.

McDonald's investors: they also own the companies that make the expensive failure-prone ice cream machines. They are double dipping by writing themselves expensive repair contracts.
A good thing that soon AI will be able to scam us as good as humans so they won't need to traffick people anymore.
Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_S6JaLvDck. It's a teardown of the Xperia 1 II. It shows how easy the audio jack can be removed there. The phone is certified as IP65/IP68.

The phone itself is glued, but the jack does not seem to be. It likely works with pressure and might have a gasket seal - which is not surprising if you look at how watches do it.

But I think you are right - they said something like that when the FP4 came out. But that phone is a matter of principle anyway. If it is possible to get the phone with an audio jack in a good state, but the certification process is broken, then they should not certify it (and publicly attack the certifier). The Sony phone shows it can be done on a technical level, which is what matters.
I think you only need to filter when your scale is very limited due to the effort involved. A human can only make so many calls per day. AI makes these attempts much cheaper.
For ICBM test warheads they have a system that replaces the nuclear pit with a sensor package that measures the incoming shockfront, does signal processing and gets out a radio signal before the entire thing is crushed.
Sounds bad, the only problem is it’s a straw man imaginary scenario. Write everything twice isn’t a call to leave repeated code around at all, it’s a call to learn by doing rather than believe that dogmatic principles like DRY can get you there the first time. The idea behind WET is to use the right tool for the job, and acknowledging that you probably won’t know what the right tool is until after you’ve tried doing the job. DRY is the right tool for some jobs, but not all jobs.

There are downsides to duplicating code, and there are downsides to merging code. I’ve seen examples of such downsides in both directions in practice. The main downside of DRY I was trying to point out in other comments is that multiple dependencies on code adds additional complexity and risk regardless of the quality of the abstraction. A lot of people here are arguing the quality of the abstraction is what matters, but that’s only sometimes true. And in the cases where eschewing DRY is called for, it often has nothing to do with the quality of the abstraction.
What would you consider an acceptable alternative? If criminals were not stripped of freedom of movement, then what would deter potential future criminals from committing crime? Prison is meant to act as a deterrent so that people with no moral compass have some incentive not to commit crimes.
They already ship their own repackaged Ubuntu, called DGX OS. It's basically Ubuntu with extra software, drivers, and configuration. Switching the kernel around wouldn't be hard for them (they may already be rolling their own kernel).

That said, part of the reason nvidia is so popular is that it's easy to buy their cards, spin up a system, and let a researcher play with it. If people had to buy the dgx workstations for this it would limit them to only the high level cards. There are a lot of benefits to giving every researcher in a company their own hardware for experimenting and debugging before they send their models off to the big clusters for training.

https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-os-6-user-guide/index.html
Waterfall always fails, on every kind of project management.

It's a very recent invention, from the late 20th century, and mostly only "used" in theoretical works until a ridiculous small number of decades ago. It actually being used on practice is very likely the main reason why large projects cost so much nowadays.

It is really not "the only way of managing large number of skilled people".
Same boat. Feels like I bought my Pixel 5 yesterday and it feels like new, no way I'm going to trash it. It's unlikely I will buy (or recommend) another Pixel if they don't extend the security updates period.

Wonder why it is so short: is support that expensive for many models? or simply to force users into unneeded upgrades (F* that).
Because Diablo Canyon has received so much scrutiny it has had a lot of investment to fix problems. For instance they discovered the seismic risk was worse than they thought it was when they built it so they reinforced it to handle a bigger earthquake.

(Note Fukushima NPP was hit by an earthquake much bigger than it was designed for, this damaged the plant but wouldn't have caused a serious accident if it wasn't for the tsunami, resulting loss of primary and backup power, the isolation condenser not working at Unit 1, an untested plan to inject water into some of the other units not working, etc. Diablo Canyon is on a very high bluff and not vulnerable to ocean events.)

The substantive complaint about the seawater cooling system is that the heat is bad for sea life in the vicinity which is true but there are several other fossil fuel plants that are even more damaging.

On top of all that, all nuclear power plants in the U.S. have received major rounds of safety upgrades after incidents such as Three Mile Island, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Fukushima.
I find that given the current economy is already so ridiculously far off from sustainable that there's no realistic way we can keep pumping out more crap and at the same time be sustainable.
I mean when it comes to interactive maps you have to load their JS to display them. Unlike OSM you don't have (legit) access to the raw tiles. You would think that base maps would be a loss-leader for them but with it's current pricing that doesn't seem to be the case. Places API or Directions API are even more crazy in pricing that I never even consider using them. I'd love to give exact driving/walking distances but the cost to do so would be astronomical, instead I just use the haversine formula to give "as the crow flies" distances.

I would love to see some of the more complicated Google Maps APIs unseated by 3rd party providers (Places/Distance, I guess Solar/Pollen/etc too but I care less about those).
> I am just saddened employees inside don't comment/protest at the UI/UX/managers.

You're saddened by the wrong thing. Most employees have little to no power to change anything. Protest is a kind of insubordination that would likely do no good and lead to personal hardship and little else.

The only people with power in a company are the owners and their designated employee-agents (executive managers). Even in a heavily unionized company, employee power doesn't extend much beyond influencing pay and working conditions.
In theory, a font is purely set of vector graphics. In practice, just rasterizing vector graphics usually doesn't lead to good results on small font sizes combined with small pixel density, so vector graphics needs to be adjusted to better fit into pixel grid. There are multiple ways to do it, one of the ways is to write a script to adjust graphics so it better fits the pixel grid. For example TypeType fonts contain a virtual machine that is capable of just that [1]. By conceptual extension, then a font format might just as well contain a full blown virtual machine with potentially a program per glyph, WASM is a reasonable candidate for something like that.

- [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/truetype/hintin...
Tyranny of the majority is a thing.

Sometimes it's not even the majority. Politicians are elected for their main policies that usually involve a couple things, but there are thousands of laws and it doesn't follow that every one of them has majority support.

It's also a matter of inertia to "overthrow" the government in power. In democracies there's a peaceful way to do this, and in autocracies there isn't. The fact that autocratic governments aren't yet toppled does mean something, though obviously not much. But then, the fact that the government is democratically elected doesn't necessarily mean much either. (You sure Americans like Trump?)
Sadly, it's similar with Apple discussions. "X is not working as described on Ventura and was like that since update to Big Sur" "try restarting your Mac"
"Alternative" method for "credibly neutral decision" would imply that there exists one already.
"Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer"

In my 30 years of vacuous corporate principles that were clearly not followed or cared about by management or the employees, that has to be a new high bar.

Which is hilarious given that Amazon tries to "raise the bar" in every hire, although in practice of course that means they keep making the interview process more abusive and degrading in the usual one-upmanship cycle that is hazing.

Wow, you're right, it was instituted in July 2021. In that time three of my friends have fled Amazon and told me nothing but nightmares about it.

I applaud Amazon for fervently raising the bar on at least one aspect of their business: completely morally bankrupt "corporate principles". I anticipate continued success in this arena in the future.
Note that as with every insulin-pump system, it still has two major pain points:

- subcutaneous insulin doesn't act immediately, as it would if it was injected in the blood directly. it peaks in an hour and then wanes off at 3-4 hours.

- it cannot know external factors like how much carbohydrates you are eating, or if you are planning to work out, etc. Like conventional pumps you have to enter it manually.

Buying a sandwich and not having to think about carb grams and predosing at all sounds like a dream to me.
Now break up Alphabet before attestation really kicks in so we can still use Firefox and not just reskins of Chrome.
Yes (looking at it from mobile), I think it's because of the fact that the images sit below the tags and there are no separator lines.

My brain just doesn't get the connection between the title/text/tags block and the image at first glance, so it jumps to the conclusion that the image is an ad and not worth looking at.
Killing superbugs by popping them is back to basics, cavemen like tactics
There's a recent Chinese blockbuster about this called No More Bets, inspired by a true story. But in the movie the victim is saved; in real life he's still enslaved
I can tell you that it's because in the US, some people have vested interest in a dysfunctional government.
Labor historically in a lot of places, was built on peasant-serfs, indentured servitude with a duration, or in many cases slaves. I believe that many educated people in the West are not aware of the extent to which this is true throughout history.
You’re quite right, but I’m not sure it’s a practical solution. While those are populous states, as someone not living in either it is not super attractive to start subsidizing people who choose to live in increasingly disastrous zones.

Yes, flood insurance and some other examples, but my objection isn’t based on platonic ideals of equally bad policy for everyone, it’s based on pragmatic ideals of not extending bad policy more widely.

Let the market price insurance. At most I might support a mandatory tax on profits that is set aside to cover exceptional future losses, kind of FDIC-like.
Porting Rust to GNU Hurd
Why not Linux (depending on your line of work). Wider hardware choice, easier to upgrade, and no corporate oversight. Doesn't cover all use cases but it's a good option these days.
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>has almost no significance to the average person's life.

I very much disagree that prescribing a common charging port for phones has had no significance to the avg. person's life. I am old enough to remember my drawer full of chargers for various phone companies - some even created new plugs for newer generations of phones.

> we should consider if those pennies would be better in the pockets of workers

That's not how it works, those pennies would end up in the pockets of anonymous wealth funds and the family offices of the filthy rich while workers had to buy phone chargers with all their new phones.
It is in the county's annual report. NB: the way county tax revenues are divided in California is complex and the county's budget is not all-inclusive. Most of the revenue is collected by the county on behalf of cities, school districts, parks districts, fire, library and etc etc districts.
> The very justification for generous executive pay is that you couldn't get most people to do that role because it's so demanding

That's also my justification when I eat a second bowl of ice cream. Surely nobody else will want this ice cream. I guess I'll just have to eat it myself.
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-in...
When I play guitar or mandolin my mouth often moves in some sort of way as if keeping time. I recorded a video one time and noticed it. Now I'm a little self-conscious about it but it's a bit relieving to hear it's pretty common / innate.
This has been pointed out in an earlier HN post, so here we go again:

From the linked article: Scientists have used a first-of-its-kind technique to visualize two entangled light particles in real time — making them appear as a stunning quantum "yin-yang" symbol.

Yet, from the paper linked in the article: Coincidence image of interference between a reference SPDC state and a state obtained by a pump beam with the shape of a Ying and Yang symbol (shown in the inset).

I for one was too casual an observer to go beyond the article's (intended?) claim that, in effect "yeah, Capra was sorta right, and so were the Taoists" when in fact the scientists only wanted a memorable illustration for their paper, and clearly (maybe not clearly enough) disclosed that.
>> if we hadn't turned everything into a fucking web-app

> Could you elaborate?

I run a web browser with JS turned off and the web is mostly unusable for me, even things that should be plain documents like news reports try to choke down a dozen or so megabytes of obfuscated garbage that it insists must run on my CPU doing goodness knows what to render a document in common markdown.

So, despite being "free" you just run any old garbage you happen to come across on the internet and hope the "Fantastically optimised awesomely sandboxed" runtime that is definitely not too complicated to have issues (despite being one of the most complicated interpreters in history), definitely has no security bugs and will protect you.

I'm not pro apple here. I'm anti the enshittification of everything because some arsehat decided it was necessary for me to run whatever arbitrary shite they managed to vomit onto a web-server.

That Apple makes it hard for you? Fine. Enemy of my enemy.

Also: fuck Chromes monopoly.
Agreed. I've been a passenger in plenty of them; many of them don't seem any bigger on the inside than a hatchback, with very similar boot space. It's all pointless, superficial bodywork that makes the demand for them seem even more egregious to me.
"Russia loves America" is similiar level of simplification as "post-soviet countries love democracy". In reality, people here don't value democracy as much as they just want German cars, French clothes and American movies and politicians are adapting to the demand.
The difference is that the suit in that case was for billions of dollars.

The suit in this case would be for compliance with the GPL.
Northern Ireland is still de-facto part of the EU. So unless the UK rejoins the EU or recognises United Ireland - they are stuck in this limbo.
If Blindness Comes: Cooking Techniques (1994)
Yeah, if I did it I'd want the area to be fenced in because one of my neighbors is nosy. It's a 1/4 acre plot, so not exactly a huge amount of land.

I know that my neighbors down the street have chickens because I occasionally hear them, but their yard is completely fenced in. I only know them well enough for casual greetings when we see them in passing, and there's a language barrier preventing more in depth conversation.
If you think it’s in societies best interest to filter the internet for people like me, don’t worry about my access to firearms.

I’m not an idiot and I don’t need guns to dedicate all my time to ruining society and destroying infrastructure.
Every project needs some time where you decide what to build, and some time where you build it. The idea of agile and other methods wasn't to eliminate that because you can't. The idea was to reduce the chunk size for each batch (ie flesh out a part of the feature instead of the full product), reduce the detail needed in each chunk, and hence create faster cycle times and more room for feedbaxk, which increases learning, improves speed, introduces autonomy, and decreases risk.

"Waterfall" in the broader sense is inevitable. What we moved away from was "let's spend 6 months writing up a 300 page specifications doc for this new Operating System that will be handed off to 100 engs" to "a PM and designer can mockup this feature in a few days with some input from the person who will implement it, then the person who will implement it will build it with input from them along the way".
The conspiracy is a proven fact, no longer merely a theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXwD_HeC8Ms
It's like the whole anti-trust trial thing didn't happen...
I had a call yesterday night from a West Virginian friend, and surprisingly the US just extanded worker protection? Or something, at least that was the first time he was exited by US politics since I met him.
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Can you draw the line between how a lack of a niche specific feature makes it greenwashing? A feature, which btw, nearly every major manufacturer has abandoned.

I think it's pretty clear that most people do not care about a headphone jack, but do care about water resistance ratings.
Tauri does exactly that — uses the bundled browser instead of packaging a new one.
VCS Keep Trying to Build a Utopia. Can It Happen in California?
From the article, Hellwig's write-up:

> Given that symbol_get was only ever intended for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORY_SYMBOL_GPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA circumvention of access controls lawsuits.

Which is such a lovely way of putting it. Of making a mock of Nvidia obviously flouting all intent & regard & doing whatever the heck they want.
> Microsoft really needs to take a real hard look at Windows and figure out what its place is in the world.

They did. But they looks in the wrong mirror from the wrong angle. They probably asked a few business people in microsoft what can the company do to increase revenue, and that's what they came up with.

> I would love to ditch Windows and go to Linux for gaming but as good as proton is.

The more people that play on Linux and leave negative reviews for products that don't work the more vendors will spend time on it. Id's say voting with our wallets is worth it.
US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright
It's not. The huge majority of users simply doesn't care.
I think you mistake gamers and normal consumers who do have a choice. Maybe they don't want to pay more for Mac, and that's the only leverage. If they don't play games, they lose nothing.
I'm just getting tired of these blog posts with meme's scattered throughout. It's so pre-2020. Oh haha, yet another Sean Bean 'one does not simply' meme <eyeroll>. Just give me the content and leave the snark and attempt at humor behind. Or maybe it's just me and I'm getting jaded in my old age.
> I'm sure all of the evolutionary biologists would love to have your level of confidence.

It's easy to say this, as neither you nor I have the requisite knowledge to prove/disprove your assertion. But I read threads like this one [1] or resources like this one [2] and realize that there are experts who are able to distinguish earlier and later variants.

Incidentally, I noticed that you edited your first response several times while I wrote this. The tone of what you wrote first was a bit less considered than the what I'm responding to now, but I hope it's ok to just leave it at this.

[1] https://nitter.net/ydeigin/status/1695588327540347329

[2] https://github.com/jbloom/PRJNA692319_public
Show HN: Combobulator – a locally run, management web-app for Amazon Redshift
1. I have for some time been working on a browser-based app which is a management console for Amazon Redshift.

2. It is not cloud based - you run it locally, no network access, no superuser, and no privs to read your actual tables; the design is intended to make it viable to use with the most sensitive of data.

3. While the Russo-Ukraine war continues, all income barring business costs goes to the Ukrainian military.

The home page for Combobulator is here;

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/combobulator/index.html

The live demonstration system is here;

https://34.200.189.75

Combobulator uses HTTPS, but where there is no IP name, a self-signed SSL certificate has to be used; you’ll need to click through the warnings from the browser.
Reportedly, LLVM, while initially successful, has severely slowed down its development lately, with many historical contributing companies having abandoned LLVM in order to focus on their own company-specific languages. So LLVM may no longer be the beacon of permissive licensing that it once seemed to be.
Being downvoted doesn't necessarily mean you're wrong, it can also mean that people just didn't like what you wrote. In the light of some positive news, keeping the same negative attitude towards an entity may invoke dislike. If later it becomes clear that you were right doesn't make that first reaction unjustified. Being downvoted is for me usually an urge to rethink how I'm saying things rather than what I'm saying, although, as always, YMMV.
What is the 'community' in this case? The entire globe, all Internet users?

On a local scale, 'community censure' may work well. But not so much on a global scale, where a few determined activists anywhere in the world have the power to get a person fired, take away various online accounts or services, or maybe even have their banking services removed, all over issues of 'speech', with no due process.
What is Google doing to Chrome?
Of course, in the US you can still enslave prisoners

"""
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...
Since when has personal risk ever stopped people from doing things, especially clearly mentally ill people.
>58:42 video

There's no way I'm sitting through all that, and the chapter headings aren't very helpful either. Can you link to a specific timestamp?
7 examples out of how many companies?
Sadly I don't expect things will get better for the trafficked victims, this only lowers their "value" in the eyes of criminals. They will probably find even worse uses for them.
All depends on how desperate you are to find out based on your own risk assessment.
This is the expected, most intuitive, and only sensible behavior, and yet Microsoft somehow, for some reason, decides it is okay not to use the default browser?

Wait a minute. Are they trying to cause me to have a complete meltdown? This is so irritating. The task bar can also no longer be placed vertically on the left or right. Imo. Microsoft should be forced to open source important parts of Windows so that these processes can be more democratized by users of the system.
Ask HN: What is your company's guilty pleasure purchases?
I heard selling a B2B product is easy, business people will buy anything.
So, I guess there must be a lot of guilty pleasure purchases too.
What does your company purchases monthly? SaaS, one time payment product, anything