skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self service (unlimited) refill seems to be mostly a US-only thing btw. I've never seen one in anywhere else. If you want more drinks you have to pay more, which also presumably covers the cost of the extra paper cup.
The atmosphere doesn't care about arbitrary man-made geographical divisions, so comparing emission totals by country to determine if some group of people is emitting more or less than they fair share of whatever total world emission level we decide we have to stay under makes no sense.
I'm not sure how that change would result in self-service soda fountains making any less sense. Surely it would still be cheaper to let the dine-in customer fill their own cup regardless of whether humans take orders. Unless of course McDonald's got rid of dine-in altogether.
You create something, open source it, maintain it, and then entitled third parties come and scold you for steering it as you see it.

The guy posting this isn't even a spec on the contributors GitHub page.

"Don't second guess the creators of the project" should have been #1 in the CoC.
Yeah, GNU yes could be about that simple but it's a good deal more complex to obtain the best performance possible:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/6gxduc/how_is_gnu_yes...
Funny how self serve soda machines have really taken off in the last 5 years or so in most of the newer franchise operations.

I can't help but think they (McDs) are struggling to hire people to keep those stations orderly and frankly the last few times I went into a mcds those stations are all disgusting and disordered.

I would add that all the mcds I've been in recently are actively hostile to the dine in experience now. Cold, dirty, and the furniture is awkward.
> or perhaps you have some uncommon requirements for "generally usable"

Not GP, but my personal requirements for "generally usable" include the device being able to make calls and connect to Wi-Fi without freezing for two minutes. My first smart phone was a mid-range device bought around 2011, and enduring it for 2+ years successfully convinced me to never again buy any smartphone but the most recent flagship. I don't know how people can stand living with phones that are barely powerful enough to lift their own OS. This must be bad for one's mental health.
I used to work for McDonald's Corp., I was told by some one in operations that the rationale for self-service drink station was that customers actually used more ice than the actual soft drink and was as a result more profitable over time/scale.
I don't think I've ever seen a self-service soda fountain in a McDonalds in the UK, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter. That's a Burger King thing!
In AI Regulation Coverage, Media Let Lawmakers Off the Hook
Very cool concept and execution. Love the circular periscope viewport. I think the only thing I would've preferred is to have a smaller set of options for each, where they're all visible, instead of having to scroll through a long list, where I've forgotten some options by the time I get to the bottom. Or just put the whole list off to the side so I can see them all.
So it is intended as drop-in replacement and is tested against React.
Will there be support for angular apps as well?
Nickel is not a scarce resource. It was used in coins for a long time.

All mining is harmful, that's kind of a given. Drilling too.

The modern world does not come out of thin air.
Holy smokes do you ever have complicated taxes!
I seem to have replied twice to your comment and missed a different reply. The octal client for hacker news struggles with comments sometimes. Sorry about that.

To the rest of your comment, yeah I recognize we mostly agree thus I'm not even replying to you directly, I'm defending against all the other people in this thread who go "but dur addicts bad" and can't think past that when it comes to drug policy who may be reading by adding context to your comment from my pov. Sorry about that too.

It's not about being libertarian, it's more utilitarian for me. Prohibition is horrible for everyone but the ultra wealthy and dangerously criminal. I threw out every argument against prohibition kinda all together in my anger at the silliness from engineers on a forum I respect.

There's the math, it's cheaper to sell them taxed drugs and use that money to help addicts than unsuccessful policing, it's more moral than allowing cartels to operate, more humane, etc. There's no argument against it other than being moral police. Prohibition does not do anything other than filter money to waste on cartels and law enforcement.
> What is weird is that Harbin is super populated and not that far north (it’s a couple of degrees south of Seattle).

Latitude has quite a bit of influence on climate but insolation isn't the whole story. Winds generally blow east to west at those latitudes. Harbin's air flow is from the interior of Asia, vs the North Pacific for Seattle and Ketchikan.

Seattle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate

Harbin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_continental_climate#Hot/...
You're talking about the "coke freestyle" machines. Yes that story is true for those machines, but McDonalds doesn't use them.

(Burger king does)
From my perspective at least, I lump in US oil producers as part of OPEC and less as part of the US.

Due to the transportability of oil and the existence of a spot oil market, in times of high global/US oil demand, the US oil producers will sell out to the highest bidder and export our oil and basically take the profits at the expense of US energy users. [1]

Oil/LNG prices are a global market whereas solar+battery is a regional market unless grids are set up.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
> I also found that Zelle is basically just a front-end for the existing ACH Direct Deposit system. [...]
>
> tl;dr do not ever use Zelle.

I can't figure out how to do ACH transfers to friends with my credit union, and I've been told Zelle is the solution for that. I guess I should stick to Venmo?
The more important designation is whether a hack is "zero-click", meaning it requires no user interaction.If such is the case, it cannot truly be defended against, it is purely automatic or automatistic and if your phone is on and has the conditions necessary for it to take root, it will happen without fail.
Wow! Thankyou very much! That was beautiful. New and genuinely good ideas are truly rare and I feel you've possibly discovered something here. I can just imagine the possibilities if one could also somehow vary the dynamics as well just with touch. Alas force-touch screens are probably not coming soon to consumer cellphones soon but now I can visualize a good reason for them.
Edit- apparently this was from 8 years ago. The app does not appear to work on my modern iphone
2nd edit- it looks like I can vary loudness or softness depending on where I tap on my phone, at least on the website
3rd edit: Having way too much fun just playing the moonlight sonata at different tempi with different loud and soft passages. Tapping as fast as I can with 2 fingers is a new revelation of this piece!
It’s too bad they didn’t include issues too. Do you think that guy ever worked out his problem with copper quality control?
constexpr is often difficult to get right.

For example, we use a wide_integer type for 128 and 256-bit integers: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/base/ba...

It was developed by a C++ expert to fit into the C++ standard, so it has constexpr everywhere. But for this reason, we cannot use memcpy inside its methods and have to wait for a new standard with constexpr memcpy. Note: memcpy is to satisfy strict aliasing - we can use std::bit_cast instead, but there was some trouble.
This south park excerpt is... frighteningly realistic
https://youtu.be/Z5ZZ8bO9-Ig
Why a large portion of Americans have little faith in their government
What research (if any) has been done on people who were born between 1978–1985, xennials, and how all of the crisis they experienced from 1998 Columbine, ‘01 911 & Iraq war, ’08 financial crisis & opioid epidemic, ’16 Trump presidency & ‘19-’23 Covid 19 has shaped their political beliefs?
I think the general idea is credit cards take care of the card holders. They've certainly always have taken care of me. And merchants are supposed to take care of themselves by raising prices. The system is certainly not perfect but seems to mostly work.
Projects like this are the tip of the iceberg...

While ROCm users celebrate finding just the right configuration to get PyTorch not to crash, Nvidia shops are deploying solutions in production with stuff like this, FasterTransformer, Triton Inference Server, etc, etc.

People (fairly) complain about Nvidia price points but they put a lot of work in on the software side to get a lot of value out of their products.

At the point you’re deploying with a fully tuned and optimized stack built on dozens of Nvidia software components that get 10x the perf of AMD you’re thrilled you only paid 5x as much for the hardware.
US House panel plans Taiwan war game with Wall Street executives
Bogus Supplier of Jet-Engine Parts May Have Faked Employees Too
What do you mean by modules?
Wow. That's a really good way to frame it. Scarcity mindset as a trait.
These results are impressive, guys. I'm saving a pointer to dig deeper to glean the details. Tip in the hat for making it open.
um, who cares? most times people are needing to use "yes" as part of a "configure" script or similar. even if GNU yes was 10 times slower, it would NEVER be the bottleneck in any situation. so whats the point?
You might find this interesting: https://github.com/octimot/StoryToolkitAI

The search available here is pretty good as well.
There is no contract to provide weapons on the border nor has any official stated they are interested in doing so. It's just pointless hyperbole.
Hopefully someone cracks the software to run on cheaper gaming RTX cards.

How much is it to rent a VM in the cloud with an H100 or A100 GPU?
Their kiosks area pain and confusing to use, and I consider myself a savvy UI type person.
Well, there’s a place for software to help here. If the inspection findings were well documented in a transparent system, then there’s a place to discuss the severity level. Then there’s less room for a cover-up. If an individual inspector is not grading things correctly, then it will also be apparent and amply documented.
Which is of course why you can fill a cup in 1 second, but takes several seconds to fill with a drink. Also the ice comes out forcefully enough that you have to do the ice first if you don't want to make a mess.
VC as an asset class encompasses a lot of different risk/reward profiles

What you're describing is more typical of a seed fund that is counting on one deal to return the portfolio

In a growth deal like this, esp with such an old company by VC terms, funds tolerate lower upside in exchange for capped downside and predictable returns, given that the chances the chances of complete failure/bankruptcy are comparatively less
Right because I'm an old man (although if I was a young person in a poor country with endemic Polio this could still be my story today) I actually went to school one day and they fed me a sugar lump with a dot of green syrup on it. The syrup is Oral Polio Vaccine, you are eating the literal working Polio virus, but the makers have deliberately grown it somewhere very cold, so it's adapted to run much too slowly so as to not die. In your body it's too slow and when it tries to escape from the digestive system into your body a normal healthy human immune systems says - "Hey, you're not food, you're a virus. Die die die" and your body learns specifically to kill Polio as a result, successful immunisation before the virus can grow and spread.

In a rich country like mine (or statistically, yours) today, the vaccine given to school kids is an injection and doesn't have a working virus in it. As a result, when things go wrong (and very rarely they do go wrong) it can't cause Polio. But, there are two costs. One, literally this is an expensive product. Poor countries can't afford to dose their kids with the expensive harder to store and use injection. Two though, maybe even more important. It doesn't work so well. If you live in a country with no Polio, "not as well" is good enough. But in countries with endemic Polio, you want the best option and that's arguably OPV at least for now.
I hate const char*. This notation sucks. Is it

(const char)*

or

const (char*)?

i.e. is it a pointer to a char but the memory address it points to is const, or is it a variable pointer that points to a const char.
I wrote 'Burner phone number'; not burner phone. If the phone number has been previously in use, you can probably hijack the account.
This got mentioned extensively back in 2008. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034

The issues are still basically the same, the expose is basically the same, and Roblox has made almost no changes in response.

Issue 1) Buy / Sell difference

- Buy Roblox: 100 Roblox = $1.00 ($0.0100 / Roblox)

- Sell Roblox: 100 Roblox = $0.35 ($0.0035 / Roblox)

Issue 2) Large Roblox cut in-game

- Sell Item: Roblox / Player, ~70% / ~30%

- Ex: 10000 Roblox item, Roblox / Player, 7000 / 3000, $24.50 / $10.50

- Worse with Buy / Sell rate difference.

- The large cut also drives children toward black market sales and auctions to get a better percentage.

Issue 3) Large barrier for withdrawls (slightly better than last article)

- Google Youtube: $20, you can withdraw

- Roblox: 30,000 Roblox (Looks like $300 @ buy-rate, really $105 @ $0.0035 cash-out rate)

Issue 4) Cannot trade / sell / barter existing content (make more stuff)

- "No. Robux acquired from trading/selling virtual items that you did not create are not considered earned."

Issue 5) Advertise to be seen.

- You have to pay money to Roblox to get your game to appear in the Discover section to even have players who will pay money for "your" items. 50,000,000 games, only top few 100 are shown.

Issue 6) Roblox Talent Hub

- Creators can effectively hire child labor at wildly below market rates.

- Ex: 200 Robux, as payment to direct production design for a game. ($2.00 at buy rate, or $0.70 at sell rate)

Issue 7) They're pre-teen children

- These are not adults. In many cases they're not even pre-teens. Other than an allowance, almost none have any experience with: economics, ROI, relative worth, appraising, information asymmetry, monopolies of knowledge, adverse selection, double bind traps, tragedies of the commons, gambling mechanics, slow-drip rat feeders, or any of the vast number of similar predatory ideas. Guess they'll learn fast, or their parents bank accounts will.
Zelle does have their own app, and I have used it before.

The app is for folks using a domestic United States bank that isn't connected to Zelle. During registration, the Zelle app prompts you for your bank name, your mobile phone number, and email address. Those are all checked: If your bank isn't listed as a Zelle-supporting bank, and your phone number & email aren't already linked in the Zelle system, then you can use the app.

You also need to have a Visa- or MasterCard-based debit card. You did not need to provide your PIN. Zelle uses the same rails as VenMo's Instance Bank Transfer[0] payout option, so Zelle is subject to the same limitations.

IIRC, all logins required either mobile number or email, password, and SMS-based two-factor. I think your login lasted for maybe a day. I used the app in the days before app-based two-factor was a thing, so I don't know if they still use SMS-based two-factor today.

Sending and receiving money worked as advertised. In particular, money received would show up in my bank account fairly quickly (within a few hours, IIRC).

I was not charged any fees—for deposits or withdrawals—for using the Zelle app.

[0]: https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015844068-Instan...
The third bullet point on the first page says that the kind of fraud involved includes hacked accounts, which is the most classic type of unauthorized payment:

> Banks are not repaying customers who contest “unauthorized” Zelle payments –
potentially violating federal law and CFPB rules. Zelle claims to have a “zero liability
policy” for cases in which a bad actor gains access to a consumer’s Zelle account and
uses it to make unauthorized payments, and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA)
and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) “Regulation E” require that the
banks repay customers when funds are illegally taken out of their account without
authorization. But the data provided by the banks revealed that they reimbursed
consumers for only 47% of the dollar amount of cases in which customers reported
unauthorized payments on Zelle in 2021 and the first half of 2022.
Does this writing style work for you?
Germany's Scholz praises auto industry amid protests, announces EV expansion law
That throws since we cannot make it synchronous. It works by reading the internal state of the Promise and getting the value out of it if the Promise is fulfilled.
Given how long they take to implement, transit plans should not be the biggest factor in where you move.

The biggest transit things actually taking place locally are CA HSR(which is happening, and Caltrain is currently shovels-in-ground electrifying track which will improve speeds and frequencies in the next year or two) and the continued expansion of the ferry system, which was displaced by the Bay Bridge and BART and then rediscovered after 1989 as emergency transport following the Loma Prieta earthquake. WETA, the "Water Emergency Transportation Authority" has some exciting projects that they are able to deploy relatively quickly and cheaply.

The X-factor is the robotaxis. They are currently "just" taxi, and priced like one, but people are using them to get around the city successfully. Cutting down the price and scaling access, which Cruise is set on doing, will have dramatic effects on transport as a whole, and not necessarily in a bad way, because the profitability of a robotaxi system, unlike private auto sales and cab drivers, converges with transit's goals - energy use, vehicle size, availability, etc.

While SF city and county is now actively fighting against them, the potential is there for every city where they're being deployed.
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I'm not sure characterizing it as "weak" would be accurate. Well functioning government bureaucracy acts in kind of a mechanical fashion with very strictly used language. It's more accurate to say that it contains neither positive language toward SpaceX nor negative language toward SpaceX. It simply _is_.
Looks like this is fixed for Outlook.com

> Microsoft confirmed the vulnerabilities (with
severity “Important”, the highest severity assigned to
email spoofing bugs) and awarded us a bug bounty. They
have partially fixed the issues by rejecting spoofed email
messages purporting to be from domains that have a
DMARC policy of REJECT

However, I could still replicate this on an o365 domain, so this attack would still work if attacker has access to an o365 domain.
Some fast-food chains in the UK, like Burger King and Five Guys, have self-service soda machines (Coke Freestyle). They don't say "free refills" explicitly, but there is nothing to stop you...

Also, there's the cafes at IKEA, which have free refills in all countries, AFAIK?
Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows
There is no obsession with making companies a legal person. It's done because it works, it's convenient, and it allows us to create giant organizations.

The thing you have to think about is what does it mean when someone says a company is a legal person? It means a couple of things:

- It allows companies to create contracts between themselves and real people.
- It allows companies to own property (real estate, money, equipment, etc.)
- It allows companies and individuals to sue other companies and individuals.
- It protects companies from arbitrary or unjust government intervention.

Companies also have another very good feature. Investors can limit their liability. For example, if I own 10 shares of a company and the company goes bankrupt, I am not liable for the company's debts.

This good because it encourages people to invest, and it also protects people from being wiped out because of a bad investment.

Note, companies are not the only legal person. Governments are also legal people.

My question for you is how would you do things differently? What are the advantages of these changes?
Not to drag up dirt, but the drama was someone’s quite public suicide and I suspect Joel concluded the bad PR wasn’t worth the good will generated otherwise.
> superiority complex

what do you base this ad hominem on?

If you try to convince your company to deploy servers on a windows environment instead of linux, you better have a really extraodinary reason, that's just a fact. If Windows is any good it's because of the software ran on it (games and related drivers?), despite the OS
Does anyone know how to access any of the repos listed in this vault? I’m after a particular one that was deleted earlier this year; has zero forks and does not show up in the way back machine.
No they have never done that. You may be thinking of Tesla.
Essentially yes. Distribution, instead of funding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle

"The Freestyle's beverage dispensing technology was designed by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, in return for Coca-Cola distributing his Slingshot water purification system."
Tangential: I went through a McDonald's drive thru yesterday and there was a robotic machine filling up our drink orders.

I'm not sure how much human intervention it required. A human had to place the lids on the filled cups. I didn't see if it had a hopper to drop empty cups into the filling area, or if humans had to do that part.
I haven't experienced it at a McDonald's, but twice in the last 2 years I've attempted to walk into big chain fast food restaurants during normal business hours only to find the doors locked, even though I can see workers inside and the drive-through window is open. I suspected this is because they're understaffed and/or swamped with orders and can't be bothered to also open the dining area.

One such time was at a Taco Bell, and I was trying to go inside because I saw that the drive-through line was massive. There was a hastily-drawn note on the door that said "go to drive-through for online pickup orders," which I thought would be pretty frustrating if you had ordered ahead! (Not that I blame any of the workers, of course.)
This happened to a friend of mine. She had listed a mattress with bed for sale on FB marketplace. Someone reached out and bought it and said would arrange pick up. They sent a screenshot of them Zelleing her. After a few minutes they reached out and told her they changed their mind because they cant pick it up and if they can Zelle them back. She did thinking it just hadn't hit her account yet. $1800 down the drain.
I am Fastmail customer so I have access to their Sieve functionality but decided against it. For me the fundamental limitation is that Sieve looks at email only once, when email arrives. I wanted to do the things like: archive email after 3 days being in my inbox, or older than my most recent read email (which would mean I scanned the inbox and the summary was enough) etc. I ended up implementing a Python script that manages my inbox connecting to IMAP server on cron schedule. It also sends me telegram notifications from follow ups on starred threads.