skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibilities to receive cashless payments while the company's network is down:

- printed, static QR code: customer scans it with their payment app and enters the amount

- have an NFC enabled phone that receives payments (most android devices can)

- use the “knuckle busters”: the old school way of imprinting the card number on paper

- NFC enabled device like the one on buses in some cities, synced only at the end of the day

- receive money via one of the marketplace apps: UberEat, Doordash, Grab

- customer browses and pays the company’s online shop in the store instead (this us what Decathlon did once it had a similar outage)

- what else?

I’m quite curious why McDonald’s apparently decided to have no fallback at all. They surely have thought about it. Is the efficiency loss too high? Fraud risk? Training costs?
But, how the average person wants to use a computer is extremely, irreconcilably different from how the 5% (or 2% probably but whatever, doesn't matter) want to use their computers.

So... sniff sniff what's that smell? The market working is it then?

Both Vitamix blenders and recumbent bicycles have less market share than desktop Linux. Is that because recumbent bike makers just really have no idea how people want to ride bicycles, or...

yeah
Just watched the demo on running a Rails app on Nano, so fascinating! I wonder how much the performance gain is.
One of the folks behind this effort, Filippo (https://filippo.io/) is now, as he calls it, a full time professional open source maintainer https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer/

> That means I spend most of my time on maintenance, and I offer retainers to companies that benefit from my work and from access to my planning and my expertise.

He is trying a new way of life for highly-skilled OSS maintainers. Hopefully this works out well for him.
It used to be rude because people understood it to signal that.

With younger people earbuds seem more like a fashion statement (you also don't take off ear rings to talk to people) and the noise cancelling/transparency will actually do the opposite: filter out background noise so that you can be heard more clearly.

Similarly taking out a Nokia used to signal that you will not be paying attention for a while. Nowadays it might instead be you taking a nice photo, showing off something to others etc.

VR headsets are definitely not at this point yet, but I am not so sure they never will be.
I think there are still quality products out there, but they are rare and expensive and you have to spend forever researching to figure out which products are :/

still are as so many see to be purchased and then running the ground for short term profits
People regularly kill people with their cars and get less time. I don't really see how this is worse.
They build the safest cars ever https://www.whatcar.com/news/tesla-model-y-wins-what-car-saf...
Could you give a definition of "think" that NNs fail to live up to?
I live in a similarly protected flat in Scotland and in the last decade there has been quite some development with double glazing for historic buildings.
Quite a bit more expensive than normal double glazing though but at least you can get quite decent windows for historic buildings.
Damn we're on that 1992 homophobia in here today huh.
The pipeline of a title is:

1. A blogger writes a short clickbait title with no information about what the article is about. (The real Miss Julie)

2. The hacker news de-clickbait filter takes it from a generic, no context title to something grammatically incorrect and nonsensical. (The Miss Julie)

3. Someone changes the title but still doesn't give any context.

"Fish swim in the ocean" becomes "Fish the ocean" becomes "Scientist observe fish".
As a native Canadian English speaker who has interacted with many non-native English speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds in Canada, I can't see how that approach would work out well.

That sounds like a way to acquire an unusual dialect that might even be more confusing to both native and non-native English speakers, especially those outside of the major cities who aren't already used to talking with non-native speakers.

If somebody wants to become fluent in Canadian English, they'll need to directly interact with native Canadian English speakers (or certain native American English speakers) for a prolonged period of time.

Even then, I know many non-native English speakers in Canada who can get by well enough day-to-day, but even after many decades of daily practice, daily use, and daily exposure in Canada, they're still quite far off from fluency in many ways.
Reading glasses aren't.

You may not have realized it, but the glasses on tip of nose thing where people lean forward to look at you is because reading glasses make things blurry at conversation distance. Basically this: https://levinsoneyeclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/shu...

However, sometimes people don't bother and they really can't see you very clearly. But, you can still track the body language from where they eyes are looking so it's fine, that's the difference clear lenses make.
Thanks for pointing this out. I had never really thought much about it. I 100% agree with you! The docs are totally why Python is so comfortable for me.
Thank you! My family is travelling soon, so if they make it there, I'll update with their review of it :)
Why can we charge other professions with fraud but not researchers? I'm sure people in other professions might worry about being wrongfully prosecuted too, but that doesn't stop us. Even doctors get criminal charges when they deliberately do something wrong. You can be pretty sure that virtually every doctor has made honest mistakes, but they don't all prevent dishonest doctors from being brought to justice.
I think a convincing example is to show a heads-up display of what two people last talked about as to enrich the conversation.

I already do this but more manually. For example, I don't try to remember everyone's birthday. Instead, I put their birthday's in my calendar, get a notification when it's close, and use this information to enrich our relationship.

It seems reasonable to believe this could be extended much further if the barrier to recording and recalling the information was reduced.
From previous discussion, I think the fantastic claims in this article are highly suspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170067
This is an excellent article. The mention of the Croydon "SPD2" planning document was really interesting too - I hadn't heard about it. It's exactly what we need in cities if we want to truly increase density and reduce house prices.

There's an interesting summary here - https://www.platformspace.net/home/what-are-suburbs-for-pavi.... What's particularly interesting is how successful it was - Croydon seems to have had 4x the number of "homes in small (<10) developments" in the 4 years after it was brought in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d01a7efbf4ae5... That's an incredibly good result!

What's unfortunate is the backlash - it seems that there was a lot of outcry over "greedy developers", and the result was the election of a new mayor who cancelled it.

It seems obvious to me that the only real way to achieve the needed housing growth in the places people want to live is to allow suburban and urban densification. Most English cities are shockingly low density - it's crazy that relatively unloved 3 bedroom terraces sit in the shadow of 50 floor apartments.

The current status quo is that a lot of these terraced houses are converted into low quality flats. The density of people is often still there, but they live in terrible accommodation. Building houses in cities should not be a controversial thing to do. Even if it means knocking down a few which aren't suitable any more.
But they don't directly access memory. They access an address that may be translatable by the mmu to a physical location in ram. They may also write to an address that the kernel hasn't allocated a page for yet, but that the kernel has agreed to map into the process' memory. In this case the kernel handles the trap and maps a page of actual ram (etc) and then the process continues forward progress.
> Expansion of the universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe :

>> While objects cannot move faster than light, this limitation only applies with respect to local reference frames and does not limit the recession rates of cosmologically distant objects

Then the length traveled changes for two photons emitted when they cross the starting line at different velocities:

const d = distance = 1
# d_start = 0
# d_finish = d

c: Velocity # of a photon in a vacuum
v1: Velocity # of photon emission source 1
v2: Velocity # of photon emission source 2

v1 + c != v2 + c

distance / (v1 + c) ?= distance / (v2 + c)

((v1 + c)*t) - ((v2+c)*t) ?!= 0

Should (v + c) be prematurely reduced to just (c), with a confirmed universal expansion rate?
Where are they dropping open source?

Seems like they’re just adopting a common model of free open source offerings but with the carrot of enterprise management.
It is possible for more than one language to be good. Both languages succeeded with their approach.
The quickest way to kill a team
what about Julia? it has all the low level features you would want and it's structs are c compatible.
>reasoning requires deterministic symbolic manipulation for accuracy

No, that is automation. Automated reasoning is a thing, indeed. And I can kind of see a world where there is a system which uses LLM for creative thinking, augmented with automated reasoning systems (think datalog, egg, SMT-solver, probabilistic model checking etc).
I think you're confusing prediction with ratiocination.

I'm sure you've deducted hypothesis' based solely on the assertion that "contradiction and being are incompatible". Note, there wasn't prediction involved on that process.

I consider prediction as a subset of reason, but not the contrary. Therefore, I beg to differ on the whole assumption that "intelligence is prediction". It's more than that, prediction is but a subset of that.

This is perhaps the biggest reason for the high computational costs of LLM's, because they aren't taking the shortcuts necessary to achieve true intelligence, whatever that is.
A big part of my interest is because I want to tinker with electronics projects, and I’m curious about embedded work. I love that there’s an ecosystem of chips and boards that make this easy, but I realized I’d love to be able to crack open e.g. a broken Commodore 64 and know enough to troubleshoot and repair it. Or use smaller microcontrollers for use cases that don’t really require an entire OS.

Beyond this, I think a lot of human thinking is inherently limited by the higher level abstractions we impose on the world, and so while I’d never attempt to write an e-commerce app in assembly, I’ve grown to appreciate the value of understanding the whole system and the wider set of options and deeper intuitions available to me as a result.
What cut did publishers take before Steam? Precisely. Can you and will you provide the service that Steam provides instead? What will it cost you? What will it cost another store? How will gamers know that those stores, maybe your own server, will not just disappear when you lose (commercial) interest? When dropping the game because you have three others you'd rather sell lined up?

Even big fish like EA and Ubisoft can't run their shops anywhere near the reliability that Valve provides. Sure, 30% isn't holy for me and I'm happy for Epic try and beat Valve, but so far, which is now nearly two decades, it's been worth very cent of the thousands of currency I've thrown Valve's way. Especially Proton is something I don't see anyone else do, and it's saves me money too.
Patents and copyrights are quite different parts of the law. They aren't the same thing.
As a former traditional machine vision researcher, currently robotics-adjacent software engineer, I agree, but: they've been brandishing that shotgun for a pretty long time before it became standard issue, for varying reasons. To continue your analogy, I'm pretty sure the (pseudo-)reasoning ability of GPT4-level LLMs could solve a lot of hard robotic problems (perception ambiguity, external agent behavior prediction etc), but now it's a stationary missile silo, and we need this weapon on every APC to be a solution.
> Also VR isn’t what companies, Apple at least, care about. It’s a stepping stone to AR

I couldn't care less about AR. I want VR and only VR.

I don't want digital overlays of the world around me at all. That's completely useless and will be filled with ads and noise. I want to live and breathe in imaginative fantasy worlds and escape the real world completely.

I want to be a character in interactive movies. Have realistic D&D sessions with friends where the real world disappears completely. To create entire planets and universes and populate them with stories and adventures.

I don't want labels on cooking ingredients, advertisements for Taco Bell while I walk around, or email notifications popping up during conversations. AR might have industrial use cases, but the real world implications are annoying.
If things escalate out of control, is he volunteering for Paris to get nuked ahead of any other NATO city?

IMHO, it's uncomfortably likely that tactical nukes will get used if NATO starts fighting directly and Russia starts losing. Once that happens, I am not certain that things will stop there.

> In response to the comments, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, "France is already involved in the conflict in Ukraine and is not averse to increasing its involvement," according to Google-translated remarks reported by Russian state news agency Tass.

OMG, what is wrong with CNBC? Relying in Google Translate? They're a f*ing professional news org, NBC should have at least one Russian translator on staff or at least have a freelance one on contract.
I don't think you are accurately reflecting the article - the author is pointing out that Vision Pro is surprisingly weak in the area of "VR Gaming," which is the most successful experience category for headsets so far. He's not suggesting that's the only use - in fact he spends most of the article talking about other uses. He also goes into detail about his thoughts around displays and says that the Vision Pro will be a compelling alternative as a travel display in the near future - but that he does not see it replacing high quality physical displays.

My sense is that the Vision Pro is certainly, at least, the best "travel monitor" ever built - and it's at a price point and comfort point where that is very hard to use to justify a purchase. That said, future work can improve both substantially.
Can't they run a background check? It's common to check a tenant out when renting a property.
But if you are using if/else vs .getOrElse vs map to do something the ASTs would be different.

Also the whole which package manager to use in Python, or which Async lib to use, or which part of std-lib is to be avoided in certain cases or so on.

I think those things need specific guidance and agreement. AST would help with code layout though, but lots more to do in a language with many ways to accomplish something.
You are you, be happy about it, you also wouldn't want that life ;)
At the risk of being downvoted: I love Rust exactly for that. Or rather, for the combo of rustfmt and clippy. Both of which one could actually call "opinionated" not least on style.

I may not always agree but I go with clippy's suggestions anyway (which btw. just means passing --fix, most of the time, and they're done for me).

Because I care about other people reading my code.

One of the realizations the article touches on: if everyone uses the same idioms in a language, code becomes way easier to read for everyone.

This wasn't so obvious to me until recently. I was regularly still writing/touching a lot of C/C++ (25 years -- until ca. early 2021).

So everyone's lib/header/whatever uses their own style and when you also need to modify or at least audit/understand 3rd party code, you're kinda use to dealing with that. I.e. I would have said: what is all the fuzz about?

Or I guess I could also be saying: when you get kicked in the shin every day, it won't hurt so much any more after some time.

I never though of this as making such a difference until I started using Rust professionally: my shins hurt way less; mostly not at all as everyone is using rustfmt & clippy. In fact, many Rust repos now have these two coming out clean as a condition for a PR to even make it through automatic checks.
If you ever need to replace that MDF, try this:
https://epoxytops.com/phenolic-resin-countertops/

I'm using it for my next workbench top.
Interview with NoSQLBandit: The Marketplace for Compromised Account Creds
>You have to believe that humans have no free will in a certain way to have them be like an LLM, i.e, every action is externally driven and determined.

Free will doesn't have much meaning. If I dont base my action at time t, on their development based on inputs on times before t, what would I base it on?

It would be random?

Or would there be a small thinking presense inside me that gets information about my current situation and decides "impartially", able to decide in whatever direction, because it wasn't itself entirely determined by my experiences thus far?
No, such a request is not legal advice.
No they clearly wouldn't be right. Even if we accept as fact the idea that both
those things have had negative effects on society and on us, quite clearly huge numbers of people DO want TVs and smartphones, even if those things aren't leading to better, happier lives.
Harvard will come out on top of all this because they can easily pivot to being a clown college.
> In fact, the results were actually quite good for the people in the study who got the colonoscopies — a 31% reduction in colon cancer risk and a 50% reduction in risk of dying from it, experts said.

> “In order for a colonoscopy to be effective, you have to have it done,” said Dr. Robin Mendelsohn

Huh? So the study found that being randomly selected to be invited for a colonoscopy doesn't improve your risk of dying from colon cancer, but if you bother to get the colonoscopy, it reduces risk by 50%? Maybe they previously though it would decrease risk by more than 50%.
There are various US newspapers that don't show any content in the EU because they don't want to comply with EU privacy laws. These companies are free to comply with the laws and can then show their content. Same with Facebook in China.

Imagine a German bar franchise trying to open bars in the US. They cannot sell beer to 16 year olds even though that's how they operate in Germany and that's what they firmly believe in. They'll have to follow US laws and not sell to anyone younger than 21. Now the German bar franchise can say "That's against what we believe freedom to be" and not open shop there but the US is not specifically banning that company from operating in the US.
Unfortunately, I think it's more zero-sum than that.

Imagine you're a product manager at McDonald's. For the point-of-sale kiosks, you can build the server component for deployment in the cloud, or you can build it for on-prem and add the overhead of physical deployments across tens of thousands of retail locations, plus maintaining them, plus dealing with franchisees.

You do a cost-benefit analysis of potential downtime from internet outages, and based on internet reliability numbers in the markets you serve (plus an uptime estimate from your devops org), you conclude the occasional outage is worth the trade-off.
360 degree spinning guitar neck [video]
Nitpick: GrapheneOS is Android, just not stock/OEM Android.
Thanks a ton @ianand
I used to be a fan of him until he went crazy with the lucid dreaming BS. Cal Newport is my new guru now. Let's see how long he will last.

I find that once giving advice on any matter becomes one's job, the quality of advice goes down drastically over time.
> The eye tracking thing also kind of weirds me out from a privacy standpoint.

I vaguely remember there being some stuff from Apple about this when it launched - the apps don't have a lot of access to that raw tracking data

Had a quick google... the doc here has more details https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Apple_Vision_Pro_Privacy_...
I find these posts infuriating... and given how old this one is, it seems to be the template for all those to follow.

"How did I get to be a world class marathoner? I avoided anything that wasn't running, and then on race day, I went faster than everyone else. It's so simple, you can do it too -- just buy my course."

The advice is reasonable, well-intentioned, and completely unusable for me or anyone else I know.
>African Americans in Chicago

That's funny, Detroit lays claim to the same thing.
Interesting, thanks for the information - I think it would be worth including that info to make it clear you're not an "Engineer". At a company I worked at basically everyone had that in their title including "Sales engineers" and "Market engineering specialist" (none of them had an engineering degree)

FWIW, I have a Bachelor of Software Engineering, accredited by the Australian Institute of Engineers.
> which I do plan to contribute to

Let’s change that to

> which I also neglect contributing to

Not a dig against you personally, it’s just a sentiment that many adopt both personally and commercially (which is the more important of the two - given money is involved).

Publicly traded company I work at couldn’t do anything were it not for open source. Do we for pay a cent for open source? No.
Similar ethos, but we built the framework with SQL at its core instead of Python, which makes it ideal for working with databases or data warehouses.
Electronics ... I understand you in this case.
I love reading his EWDs, I had a professor who worked with him who mentioned he made his students work use pens while taking his tests.
To make it less likely for the students to make mistakes??
How long until AI can do the plumbing?
It's interesting you wouldn't study Software Engineering to call yourself a Software Engineer.
thats pretty cool but definitely has a ways to go (in the example on github page even shows a few discrepancies between original and pasted text - seems to be mostly punctuation though)

very nice though thanks for sharing!
FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved
It seems like this tool sends your screenshot to some sort of web service.

If that's really the case then obviously don't use it for personal data (invoices, love letters, legal proceedings, ...)
You spend fortune on security but there's a guy working at a telco who will sell your head $1k a pop to anyone.
McDonald's global system outage shut down some stores for hours
au contraire
You just wrote "inherent", and then you gave a reason that's not inherent to the process of deep-frying. If the use of poor quality oils, and their repeated use are problems, then let's write those into the fda rulebook (and international equivalents), but let's not just say that "deep-frying is bad for you", and condemn the whole enterprise of industrial food processing along with it.

There is a lot of "assuming the worst" going on in this thread and surrounding the topic of "processed foods" in general.

My concern is that turning our backs on industrial food processing is a luxury that many of us simply can't afford, either financially, or in terms of the practicalities of making our lives work.

There may be a lot of things that frequently happen in the processing of foods that lead to bad health outcomes, and the consumption of a diet rich in processed foods may strongly correlate with bad health outcomes, but saying "processed foods are bad for you" is doing a lousy job of identifying in a causative sense what exactly it is that's bad for you, and it's also a "luxury belief" in the sense that Rob Henderson has been talking about [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547954
area man who believed he was as cynical as humanly possible discovers a whole new level of cynicism he wasn't even aware existed