skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Any real US alternatives to Starbucks for a place to work/study?
I wanted to try a new chain to do some work/study/chill at, but realized that Starbucks is about it in Atlanta as far as chains go.

But then I looked a bit deeper and realized that there did not seem to be any real alternatives to Starbucks - for the type of sit-down-for-hours place I was looking for.

So, 'real' in this case means a place with nice, comfortable furniture and an atmosphere that says, "Welcome - stay a while." -- i.e. a real third place.

When I check out Caribou Coffee, for instance, which may be the biggest somewhat-like-Starbucks coffee chain in the US, and it's eh -- I really don't even want to go in. In terms of potential work space welcome, I'd give Starbucks a 6 or 7 and Caribou a 2 or 3. Why? The cheaper, less-comfortable-seeming furniture, seemingly-smaller/tighter footprints, etc. -- the whole vibe is more fast food than I'd prefer.

A place like Panera Bread is interesting-ish, but doesn't quite feel right - like when the lunch rush comes, you feel in the way -- because you probably _are_ in the way -- they do things like set timers on the wifi, etc.

I do have some smaller cafes that I go to -- some might even qualify as small chains (e.g., Dancing Goats) -- but I was kind of surprised to find out that there are no very direct Starbucks competitors for a 'third place' in the US.

Maybe places like Caribou or Philz or whatever will just take 10 more years to try to grab some market share? Or maybe Starbucks has already reached an Amazon-level of super-dominance that can now never really be challenged.
I know the Wii is an overclocked GC but still.
There's definitely reasons: profit = revenue - costs.

If revenue is fixed, the only way to make more money is to reduce costs. Using cheaper parts with less/nonexistent quality control is one way to do that. Or even just straight up laziness. The "trust but verify" approach is more work than just trusting your suppliers to never make mistakes.
Norway has more billionaires per capita than the US, which is pretty surprising.

https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-ranked-by-billiona...
I'm a big fan of Buckaroo Banzai but it seems odd that you credit BB when the linked Wikipedia article is about the original source of "Yoyodyne"

> Yoyodyne was introduced as a fictional defense contractor in Thomas Pynchon's V. (1963) and featured prominently in his novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966).

Btw, Lot 49 is a wonderful book and chock full of little cultural memes like Yoyodyne.
PoW is those with the most wealth can determine what the truth is.
They don't give it away. They leverage their money to sway politics to their interests in ways that normal people have no hopes of.

Chip Wilson for example recently kickstarted a right wing political group in Canada with some seed funding of 350,000. Complete and utter pocket change to him, but well beyond what a regular person could hope to ever spend on their political interests.
the stock price is a trailing indicator of the company’s health. in the case of headcount, you hire based on growth rate, to sustain and even further that growth. it works until it doesn’t. then you fire.

it’s no skin off the company’s back, so it is the correct strategy. when CEOs (the world over) say they overhired AND that it was a mistake, it’s a pitiful political lie. also a mandatory strategy. you can’t say, “employees are cogs. we planned this shit. this was plan A.”. you wouldn’t be able to hire again when you find your stride.
Our knowledge of the brain and mental illness is shaky. Our health professionals consistently prescribed antidepressants which did more bad than good to people.

People with chronic fatigue syndrome have problem getting a diagnosis.

There is not enough meat to trust the experts, but you do you.
I always enjoyed that attempt at a definition that led to people pointing out it made women out of chairs and horses. Some of them do manage to be ideologically consistent and exclude vast swathes of cis women from womanhood just to get at trans women, but most just fall back on "but science!" even as actual scientists point out science doesn't support anti-trans ideology.
I apologize for my defensiveness - I thought that the second sentence was a snarky remark directed towards me.

How did you manage to get the 6 years old to finally sleep alone? Did it happen by itself or did you have to do something about it?
That makes you <checks notes> a "statist", apparently.
If your phone breaks or you lost it, if there is no connectivity, if apple decides to cancel your digital existence, then what?

And it means everything you buy is associated with you and recorded forever to be sold to endless advertisers (and worse) and the transaction may be blocked by third parties.

If you pay cash it works without a depending on anything external (no internet, no electricity), it is not traced, it can't be blocked by third parties.

Cash is the optimal payment mechanism for nearly everything. It only is inconvenient for very large payments, but for anything day-to-day, opt for cash.
> They can try but they largely will not succeed

Whether they succeed or not, it this takes off it creates a big incentive towards adding your own crap dependency to successful projects, that is to say, more garbage PRs (some better disguised than others). It’s like the Hacktoberfest disaster. The only difference is this has a tangible upside, the question is whether is outweighs the downside (quite likely in the taking off scenario), whereas Hacktoberfest is strictly negative value-add in my experience.
somehow git clone still works, and I can still visit my repos though?
Great resource if you want to travel on any of those lines: https://www.seat61.com/ has detailed information about train travel pretty much anywhere in the world.
I find that hard to believe, a friend of mine in Ireland touched a taxi at no more than 5mph, leaving no obvious damage on the taxi itself, but with the taxi driver rolling on the road and getting an ambulance to hospital. There's big time insurance fraud going on there apparently.
Archive link:

https://archive.ph/Sxz9C
There are two pieces here which need to be picked apart:

1) Does Long Covid exist differentially relative to others who went through the pandemic?

2) Has the medical establishment been sweeping aside a whole host of genuine complaints of unspecified origin that are now landing under "Long Covid"?

What is becoming increasingly clear is that viruses suck worse than anybody thought, and we need to start paying attention to that.
Planck Length, Minimal Length?
Wow 12 years in the game, did you make F U money?
Good point, I'd forgotten about them.

I did say generally requires going into the bank in person though. ;)
I think I appreciate the sentiment here of the founders/owners/whatevers, but 'gives company away' makes it sound like someone gave 100% of some company away, and that is def not what happened here.
Who is boasting?
That could be true, but it has nothing to do with what was being discussed.
Old payment card RFID contactless was really insecure; it basically spat out the data on the magnetic stripe. New contactless is directly tied to the EMV chips and requires the whole cryptographic round trip and such. You can put a protective sleeve around your cards if you want, but it doesn't really add much in real security anymore.
I am going to guess you don't have children. I may be wrong, but I would be shocked that a parent would hold these beliefs. When you have an infant it is plain to see how infants use behaviors from the past that get them the results they want. That is what infants do. They are exploring the causal graph.
Not to say they never cry because they are scared, or hungry or a myriad of other things. The manner and duration of crying are things a parent can pick up on and your goal is to give the child what they need, not just what they want.
It is an arms race!
I have a vague idea of ETH merge, but not sure what this ultrasound money site is about. From Q&A:

> Ultra sound money is an Ethereum meme focusing on the likely decrease of the ETH supply.

> If capped-supply gold is sound, decreasing-supply ether is ultra sound.

I have no idea what this last sentence means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
My university professor's personal website [1,2]. I even scraped his website so i can read the content more easily [3]

[1] https://rinaldimunir-wordpress-com.translate.goog/daftar-isi...

[2] https://informatika.stei.itb.ac.id/~rinaldi.munir/

[3] https://altilunium.github.io/makalahIF/
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Frank Luntz was the republican PR pollster that advised the Bush administration to replace "global warming" with "climate change" in all White house documents and speeches.

The idea was to make it sound less severe, to please the Oil&Gas lobby. For the most part it worked as you now have environmentalist on the other side of the fence using it too.

I agree with the argument that climate change is maybe not accurate as some regions might cool as well. I would prefer "climate emergency" if I was in charge of the PR.
Thank you for this. How much of an impact is this having 1+ years on? I'm sure it's still substantial but wanted to ask if you had any current data.
What about a manual parachute pull as a backup? Not sure if the pilot was conscious in this case but I assume so.
Agreed. Smalltalk is Smalltalk and corporate OOP(Java/C#) is what it is. Neither is superior or more pure.
omg yes, worst thing ever. also, when the thumbnail does not appear in the youtube video.
It's also quite possible that the covid infection itself didn't cause those symptoms, but the experience of getting sick, having to quarantine, telling people you have a disease everyone is afraid of, etc. causes mental stress that leads to persistent depression and anxiety.
> Now passed, the California law requires social media companies to post their policies and then submit enforcement reports publicly, every quarter, to California's attorney general.

I wouldnt say that this is a mandate to prove moderation works. It's an insistence on data on what is happening, which right now is not available. Fines seem to begin if there is not information on why moderation occured?

I personally dont think companies have this responsibility to the public for running tbeir platforms. This law feels like it's in conflict with & stomps upon federal section 230 rights to moderate yourself. Each state piping in- yeah but you've got to do so & so to have that right to moderate yourself- it doesnt feel like infinitely sprawling state level mandates is survivable or sensible.

I also dont see it reported here what qualifies a company to have to meet this mandate or not. Is there some minimum income, or number of active monthly users? Does everyone mow have flaming hoops of fire they have to jump through to deal with problematic user content? This just makes nee freer speech & new or better moderated sites harder to make. We'll be stuck with the current sites even more, be even more regulatorily locked into to the crusty same old sites.
My phone lives in my backpack, if I don't have my backpack on me (which is most of the time) I'm not going to have a phone.
Transport for London works similarly for contactless payment card acceptance on the tube, buses, etc. Cards are authorised in offline mode, with transactions processed overnight at the end of each day.

But they also maintain an internal blacklist of declined cards, so the most you'll get away with is one day's travel around London. Per card.
iOS / Windows etc are not open source and are delivered by centralized entities (Apple, Microsoft). Android is open source but is also delivered by a single company (Google). Maybe my phrasing didn't reflect it but I meant one of the biggest upgrades for an open source project done by a distributed group of developers.
PS. I'll compare versions if you publish your full Rust code.

If you'd like to compare yourself, change `depth` in main.c to 1000, `w` and `h` in `renderScene` to your image size, and change `xcenter`, `ycenter`, and `size` to values that correspond to yours (size is simply the width of the picture in mandelbrot values, instead of pixels). Ah, but it still calculates only 2 pixels at a time, I'll need to look into that tomorrow.
I have been skeptical for a long time that the transition to proof of stake would actually happen. It just seemed like the project was delayed and delayed, and there are so many fundamental development problems with this sort of decentralized migration. Nothing quite like this has ever worked before.

But here we are and there is no obvious problem in sight. I'll keep my fingers crossed, and if it goes off without a hitch, I'll have to admit I was too pessimistic and revise my opinion of the Ethereum ecosystem upwards.
Your average software update does not put 200B at risk.
For important voting (federal, provincial) paper ballots with a pencil “X” counted by hand witnessed by the parties.

For less important voting (city, district) with a greater number of positions and candidates, bubble form and machine count.
text isn't readable without software. why should we expect binary data formats to be?
If you want to see a regularly updated map of Indian Railways you can find it here [1]. This map has a lot of contributions from users and has details about new lines, lines under upgradation, electrification status.

This website can also show a route particular train takes in India fairly accurately. For example here is route map of Vivek express, covering longest distance, 4,218.6 kilometres (2,621.3 mi) in single journey [2].

[1] https://indiarailinfo.com/atlas

[2] https://indiarailinfo.com/train/map/route-dibrugarh-kanniyak...
[2]
> The first is that some white people who were affected will believe it was because of their race.

It literally was because of their race.

> But the most harmful is for minorities who were laid off

srs?
The first three words are "about 70,000 liters".

He later say he weights about 70 kg.

So the simple formula is 1,000L/kg body mass.

The density of dry air is 1.29 g/L. Of helium is 0.1786 g/L. Helium can therefore lift about 1.1 g per liter.

Which is 1,000L/1.1 kg mass.

The 10% difference is likely mostly due to the hardware used to connect the helium to the person (balloon, harness, wings, etc.).
> I'm sure that isn't always true, that if something performs at the extreme it necessarily means it performs in the usual.

That’s why we test over the operating range for the different parameters, not just at the limits.

> It's one thing for the purposes of science, to know, but my understanding is that engineering and material specifications for an actual thing needs to be more practical, especially for something that already costs $3.5B.

You need to be pessimistic about operating conditions if you don’t want it to fail unexpectedly. That is absolutely critical in engineering. Now, you set the boundary differently depending on the field and the importance of the widget you engineer (tolerances are quite different for a phone than for an aircraft), but the concept itself is part of engineering.

There are cases where practicality is less important than reliability. Things like space probes and a lot of things related to national security. That is one of the reason why they cost billions in the first place.
This NSFW! Do not open this while at work my first search was yeah let me check this totally family friendly search term and badabing badabong CTRL + W!
Several reasons come to mind:

- Operating systems, browsers, etc are not distributed systems. Their deployment procedure has no availability or liveness requirement. And they can be done asynchronously, at the discretion of the user. If you think about it, deployment for this type of software boils down to uploading build artifacts into a public folder.

- Most other massively deployed software is developed by a single organization that completely owns the pipe. Ethereum has multiple client teams that need to coordinate and rigorously test their specs.

- Any failure has potential to severely damage the reputation of Ethereum, and in turn a multi-billion dollar market.
This jerk needs to be locked up forever. This is what happens when you let wackos run rampant.
> What's the proposed solution?

There actually is an equitable solution there: help all of the poor equally. To the extent any identifiable group has been historically disadvantaged, this solution will balance things out by disproportionately helping those groups.

I really don't know why it's not more popular as a way to make society more fair, or why group-based interventions are seen as necessary despite the existence of a simple and stable way of leveling the playing field and keeping it closer to level over time, instead of constantly debating how much we have to tip it in which direction(s) and for how long.

Of course, there's still the problem that things will probably never be perfectly fair no matter what we do and that grievance can always be used as a reason for people to push for rules that favor their groups over others.
Wasn't it specifically garbage collection that he contributed?
He did resolve the issues with the police:

>The police had access to all the information Google had on Mark and decided it did not constitute child abuse or exploitation.

>Mark asked if Mr. Hillard could tell Google that he was innocent so he could get his account back.

>“You have to talk to Google,” Mr. Hillard said, according to Mark. “There’s nothing I can do.”

>Mark appealed his case to Google again, providing the police report, but to no avail.
"upgrade" is a misnomer. It's a "fork"
There will be 2 competing versions of Ethereum after this. Actually there will be 3 because there's already ethereum classic from the last time Ethereum hard forked.
i thought microsoft was slurping discord data too anyways
It's a meme. It literally says that in your quote...

Capped supply assets are good because that combats inflation, so decreasing supply must be even better (=ultra), right? That's the meme.
It should be rebranded as crypto speculative investment given how infrequently it's actually used as currency.
I truly don’t understand how we can get write-ups like this that completely ignore networking.
Amazing this came out 22 years ago. It must be thinkers like these that created schools like Cristo Rey in Chicago where kids get bused around the city working real jobs, alternating every so often. But back to this being 22 years old... the internet wasn't really even a thing back then. If TV was a threat, then the internet is a bomb. Unfortunately, I don't see things getting any better, even in "good" schools. I'm at least happy that I've read this so I can adjust my parenting to promote more individualism.
Not manslaughter, felony murder.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
I believe the kid is unable
to manipulate until they are at least year old and the crying usually means something.
Ask HN: Does YouTube recommand content based on your social media use?
I've noticed that after I'm talking about a specific topic on a site like Reddit, I get recommendations for videos about it on Youtube, even though I only really use it for music, comedy and tutorials.

Is everything we do on other social medias used to recommend us Youtube videos?
Security advisories for Cargo (CVE-2022-36113, CVE-2022-36114)
This is really cool!
Here's an example of using emacs to do it.
Uses tabnine for real time completion, and Copilot/Codex for more advance completions.

https://semiosis.github.io/posts/nlsh-plus-tabnine-real-time...

It uses NLSH and Cterm.
https://semiosis.github.io/nlsh/
https://semiosis.github.io/cterm/
Did you test in that time? Could be that you caught the virus before the vaccination did its thing which takes at least a few days (they say two weeks but it's probably a gradient and different for different people).
The imperative if in programming is different from the logical if. But it isn't disconnected from logic.

In fact, it is closely related to the logical and: it is and with short-circuiting, enabling the left expression to control effects in the right.

In Lisp, the two-form if, namely (if x y), can be replaced by (and x y), because and has the right logic and result value, and also the short-circuiting semantics that y is not evaluated if x is false.

If we want the logical if, we can use the equivalent expression (or (not x) y), which has the same truth table:

x y | (if x y) | (or (not x) y)
------------+-----------+----------------
nil nil | nil | t
nil t | nil | t
t nil | nil | nil
t t | t | t

The if/and relationship of course shows up in other languages:

if (pointer != NULL) {
if (pointer->foo == 42)
do();
}

-->

if (pointer != NULL && pointer->foo)
do();
Just allways use a browser in incognito mode only. On mobile is Firefox Focus a great choice with the "clear everything" button always on top.
Disagree. This is a centralized project forcing a set of breaking consensus rule changes on users. Literally "upgrade your software or your money is gone"

Bitcoin has hard guarantees of user rights. Ethereum is a centralized project masquerading as decentralized.
imgur is down for me.
https://twitter.com/elietoubiana/status/1570262868825894914
There is another, opposite incentive at play which is to reduce the number of dependencies you have so that you receive more funding.
Types also complect, as Rich Hickey points out. Data is just data. When you constrain it with types you lose something. Witness the pain of making JSON fit the type system in a lot of statically typed languages.
"Sound" as in "stable" might be a bit that helps.
Lured in by a typo that perhaps I could pedantically correct for internet points, got an excellent cryptography writeup instead, this is a good read.

Have to wonder how many bugs lay in static and dynamic analysers themselves, might be some low hanging yet wide-ranging fruit there.

Been playing around with Miri lately, it's a joy to use.

https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
This site does a good job of laying out an awful lot of information. Looks like NextJS - can I ask what was used for the UI and charts?
That is not true. We don’t necessarily call it wind chill, but evaporative cooling certainly can decrease the temperature of non-living things below the temperature of the atmosphere.
Maybe there is more to it but isn’t that just a wordplay wherein sound means both what music creates and a word signifying something making sense? Or so you mean something related to the supply?
Suppliers were probably reselling trash from Amazon.
Cortisol hypersensitivity is not a medical term or diagnosis - I assumed you meant hypercortisolism? That has nothing to do with psychological problems.
This person committed a crime and freely gave their DNA. If you have ever taken a 23andMe or other test, the government has your DNA.
Ethereum PoW could be seen (if you squint hard enough) as some sort of activity that produces a good (through mining) and its respective marketplace.

Ehereum PoS is just a financial asset with a weird governing structure (like a currency future? idk). It's basically standard stock.
So the world is made of statists and tax evaders.
Unrelated but fun fact: There was a Pirate Joes in Vancouver BC that existed solely to resell TJ's goods, it was awesome
I tend to write a toy compiler or the ray tracer in one weekend kind of exercises.

Alternatively, if I bought a book about the language, I end up following the suggested exercises they usually provide at the end of each chapter.
Uh, that's just wrong. If you don't upgrade your software your money is not gone.