skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this is a bit presumptuous...

> "The authors concluded, "the next time you need a little-pick-me-up, you might consider interacting with the Starbucks barista...thereby mining this readily available source of happiness"."

Baristas, waiters, etc. are paid to provide services, not necessarily to be conversational partners. From their point of view, their choices are "be nice to this person who is chatting you up" or "upset the customer", so it's not really a stranger interaction, it's a client interaction. They're also likely pretty busy, so keep it short and sweet - i.e. "Thanks, this looks great, have a nice day".

Another issue is class stratification - far and away, this seems to be a delimiter in at least large American cities. Most people won't welcome a homeless person coming up to chat with them; people in business suits are more likely to talk to other people in business suits; etc. This kind of polarization is more of a divider than what corporate media likes to focus on, i.e. race and gender.

Finally, there's the inevitable issue of dealing with the occassional hustler or con artist... see this Atlantic article, 'Stranger Studies: Cities as Interaction Machines' (2010), which concludes with this one-liner:

> "Although I do not recommend it, by the end of the semester my students could likely launch successful careers as grifters."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/stran...
I'm American, so — you know. It does make logical sense to do so, but I've never known anybody who keeps a safety vest in their vehicle. Is this something like the metric system?
No patches, no online features, no digital-only games.

As a side note, they stopped manufacturing the PS4, the price is unlikely to go down much further at this point.
"- Rust is a bit too awkward to use in many cases where C++ is used (particularly with unsafe Rust), and inherits some of the hyper-modern complexities/insanities of C++."

Isn't unsafe usage very low in most Rust codebases, with maybe about ten of unsafe LoCs if any? Sounds weird someone would attack Rust based on unsafe.
Ask HN: What is the best effective possesion one can have now?
It can be of asset, liquid funds, objects, stocks, IPs, Knowledge.
Maybe. I’d like to see the research that says this effect is greater than the impact of consumers switching elsewhere in frustration. Especially in the current age of increasing availability of online grocery shopping.
The red flag is arrogance, not the author. It is worth separating the two.
1. allow people to pay for a blue check to be verified

> Nobody is going to pay for something that is no longer a status symbol because it can simply be bought

Tell that to all the luxury brands that make low-end products for everyone now. This is extremely naive. There is a price point where the blue checkmark will sell like wildfire, and then it's basically free money because there's no operational cost associated to it.

Let's say 5$/year for some kind of BS "verification" process that gives you a blue checkmark? Free money! Want to spend 20$/year for "extra-secure verification" to get a gold checkmark? FREE MONEY...
Really? Russia has assassinated or attempted assassination of British citizens and Russian ex-pats on British soil multiple times. They spread radioactive polonium all over the London transit system and put a British police officer in the hospital in critical care. They've shot down a civilian airliner full of Dutch and other citizens. They've funded far right parties abroad in an attempt to manipulate other country's elections. They've attacked US and other country's electronic infrastructure for years. They've been caught spying and manipulating local country's elections.

The global conflict already existed. It isn't just Ukraine's sovereignty that has been violated.

I fail to see how what NATO is doing now is an escalation. Unless you count "fighting back" as escalatory.

Lavrov and Putin use the language of 1960s anti-imperialism, while acting like a 1800s imperial power.
There seem to be many lunatics when it comes to this Ukraine affair. Putin’s not the only one.
"nobody"? I'd pay, so it's not nobody.

it is obviously worth testing and requiring a small payment is a good way of verifying they are a real person (not a bot).
> Less than 5 euros a year - though this year maybe more, could be as high as 10. So, negligible - not even worth the time to write this comment, probably.

Then apply this 1% saved logic to everything else, food, clothing, leisure, insurance, medical bills, sport

1% is a lot, cumulatively
Sailing to the land of the user (and debugging the ship)
More like a tabloid headline, I should've said
I particularly like autobiographies read by the author. A great sun-genre is comedian autobiographies since they’re already good storytellers. Three fine ones are: Martin Short’s “I must say”, Trevor Noah’s “Born a crime” and Guy Barnum’s “My Life as a Goddess”

Unrelated but well worth hearing is “On the road” by Jack Kerouac, read by Sean Penn.
As an investor in a QR code menu ordering company (StoreKit), I know firsthand that bar/restaurant owner sentiment is also mixed.

Some owners see clear value in increased labour efficiency and revenue generation (people order more when using their phones), while others don’t want their customers playing with phones because it cheapens the experience.

It’s really just a matter of product-market fit; some venues are naturally more receptive to QR codes than others. The jury is still out as to which venues they are.

It’s also a matter of technology catching up to the ordering experience. Who wouldn’t want to see an AR version of their dish and be able to interact with it? Imagine scrolling through every menu item as if it were right in front of you, clicking on it, zooming in, seeing the exact portions, having all dietary and ingredient information readily available and being able to tinker with your order at will, having interactive information about the source of ingredients.. The possibilities are truly endless and fully customizable by each venue.

Ordering is also a subtle signalling tool of social status, so taking that away will upset some people, like snobs at The Atlantic. Some people like showing off how much they know about an ingredient on the menu, displaying dominance over waiters/waitresses and even fellow guests, etc.

The only way to have mass adoption is to please everyone, which you can’t at the early stages. That’s why it‘s currently being used by venues that are getting a lot of value from it. (Labour efficiency)

Journalists are not hired for their imagination, particularly at The Atlantic (establishment conformists). Using tech to order from a menu will only get better over time because, at the end of the day, the paying customer will enjoy the experience. But we’re not there yet for most venues.
A normal icon / avatar today is often recommended to be 512x512 pixels = 262 144 pixels

Back in those days a screen was often 640x480 = 307 200 pixels

An iPhone 12 Mini has a 1080×2340 screen = 2 527 200 pixels = over 8 times the size of those old screens

Today's OS:es work with much much larger datasets overall, not just in graphics but elsewhere as well, and are optimized for that
Pretending to solve made up problems is better PR than honesty.

A more honest take would be "This will grow our and our b2b customers bottom lines, at the expense of the consumer experience. Most consumers won't have a choice if we get enough of the market."

Honesty doesn't sell when you're a parasite.
Many twitter staffers seem willing and motivated to sabatouge the new owner over purely political issues. A few have even suggested it on their own twitter accounts. Elon is polarizing and that leads to both more challenges and more opprotunities.
The site has been flooded with 4chan users saying the n-word, and there are no attempts to stop this. This is the new Twitter. This means it’s trashed. It’s like trying to save a piece of raw meat left out in the sun. Why put a single shred of effort into this?
I've used UK sockets with fuses. Even changed the fuse in some of them.
I believe SVG and canvas both have strengths, and weaknesses, and should be used where it makes the most sense for each technology. When it comes to charts, SVG has an obvious benefit in that it comes with responsiveness built-in, and is far easier to style (and animate) via CSS. More importantly, but rarely mentioned, SVG is far more accessibility-friendly than the canvas element[1].

That said, I was also surprised by the assertion "use the wrong technologies for illustration (canvas)". It takes a lot more work, but canvas based charts can be made to be responsive, interactive and accessible[2][3].

[1] - CSS-tricks article on SVG and accessibility - https://css-tricks.com/accessible-svgs/

[2] - I outlined how someone could build a charting library based on my JS canvas library in a couple of lessons starting here - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/learn/eighth-lesson/

[3] - The final result from the above lessons can be seen here - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/project/editor/AMVKPx - suggested improvements to the lessons, and the UX of the result, are always welcome.
Zeekill detained in absentia as suspect in psychotherapy centre data hacks
Russian dissidents don't use Telegram because they think it's in bed with the Kremlin.

The Kremlin fears the Russian hardliners on Telegram who are becoming increasingly unhinged and genocide-mongering.
Does AutoIt count?

https://github.com/EsportToys/MouseTray
Done. Mobile client is the official WireGuard mobile client.
You’re right it’s not logical but you aren’t actually doing anything.
They weren't exactly in a strong negotiating position at the time, so perhaps this is a case of an unfair lack of contract.
I don’t think it’s helpful to categorize every opposing viewpoint as having fallen for propaganda.

There are valid, reasonable concerns on both sides.

Such as the US backed coup in 2012, the shelling on the Donbas for almost a decade, corruption in high levels of the Ukraine government, questions over Russia’s democratic integrity, etc…

None of those are propaganda, they were in the New York Times. Which is a fairly respected news source in the west.

Discounting everyone who disagrees with you as propagandists is intellectually lazy and keeps people from understanding the nuance of a very complex situation.

Nobody’s hands are pure here, now we are discussing whose hands are dirtiest.
I swear 8/10 people I've met who say this are suburbanites going into the city to work. They rush around for work all day in the city, then sit alone in a car to get back home, wondering why they haven't met anyone new today.

Having had lived in cities and towns of multiple sizes, a dense neighborhood where my daily "operations" naturally put me in contact with the same faces everyday increased my level of interaction 10x.
I can’t speak for all of C++20/23 but I was impressed by Concepts which finally make template compile errors legible
This only works if your events are in a single globally ordered stream or all your code is eventually consistent over every stream it consumes. Specifically, you cannot do the "query a service for the aggregate state" thing this article espouses for thin events, ever.
PureBasic or DarkBasic? Or just use VB6 and a paper bag over your head.
I suspect we are definitely ‘advising’ - that’s probably the official term.
But what is the point of the blue checkmark? How does having it benefit a luxury brand? Am I missing something here?
I remember the first time I went to Austin from the UK for a work trip. I wore my usual stupid pun t-shirts and the amount of comments/compliments I got walking down the street from strangers was insane to me (at least once a day).

The first few times I probably reacted poorly because it was so unexpected. I thought they were trying to get me to stop so that their friends could go and mug me or something. Took a while to get used too it and say something normal back.

I wouldn't take the negative/lukewarm responses personally, maybe they just don't know how to respond properly due to never experiencing it before.
See also: Scott Adams, who seems to be on a similar arc.

1990s Dilbert: Office workers express skepticism and frustration surrounding their boss's incompetence and how meaningful their work really is.

2020s Dilbert: A robot indignantly asks "did you just assume my gender?" after having a "wokeness chip" installed [1].

I expect that within another decade he'll go full Mallard Fillmore and just have Dilbert's head in the corner with the rest of the comic being a giant speech bubble filled with a barely-coherent rant against people who only exist in his imagination.

[1] https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-09-05
Curious - why would you pay for it?
In Spain it is normal for the terminal to come to the table and the payment gets split up however those at the table like.
But that's not the kind of plan that comes out of these planning sessions. What you're describing is more like the effort to put together organization / unit level OKRs. That is a good thing. But getting everyone together to guess ahead of time how they'll execute that solution in detail is a poor use of time in my opinion. I think the planning exercise is useful for cross organization alignment at a high level, but for individual contributors, I think it at best makes their eyes glaze over and at worst makes them frustrated and demoralized, and then once the planning is done everyone goes back to doing the actual work, which of course doesn't match the plan very closely.
I actually used one of these at an Apple Store a several years ago because their payment processing was down. I didn’t have a iPhone at the time, so the alternative was the least-elegant, non-Apple-ish solution ever.
How about we look at the stats on "total body count" (maybe broken down by military and civilian) for the US and Russian militaries over the last, say, 30 years?

I like to start with just the raw numbers, and then the narratives used to justify the actions can be layered on top afterwards... I think this can be helpful to better see how the process works.
I’m glad I’ve started using online pickup. The only annoying thing is sometimes they give me a marketing goodie bag with various food stuff samples (usually high calorie almost candy snacks like some new granola bar) in it. I used to open it but now I throw it in the garbage without looking. I didn’t consent to them trying to get me to eat more stuff I don’t need.
Fun anecdote. I'm in a middle of writing an ML app for android that uses ncnn on top of Vulkan. In that app I need to decide how big chunks of work the model will handle at a time. When ncnn on Vulkan is asked for memory available, on a desktop platform it dutifully let's you know how much vram your GPU has. On android the answer always seems to be 3.5GB. 3.5GB of VRAM on a smartphone? No way. Perhaps it is a quirk of all the hw I tested on so far or a bug. In fact the hardware GPU shares system memory, but I highly doubt I could actually use 3.5GB.
please for the love of god let us have just one fun thing for fun and not for profit

just one thing in this rat race of a life that's not about money!!!!!!!
They went as far as calling my personal cell with a marketing/sales pitch. Their sales practices are obnoxious and the reason I will actively try and keep them out of any company I work with.
You need to include iostream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output_(C%2B%2B)#Input/o...
“… we have more than 25 applications running on free Heroku”

No wonder Heroku is getting rid of the free tier with freeloaders like these guys.
1. recurring habits:
I studied a lot of the largest habit tracking apps and got the gut feeling that it was a good paradigm to view recurring habits as a kind of menu for f u t u r e days. You could remove Wed from a habit's schedule today, but that won't remove the habit from every other Wed before, since the history is important.

2. habits that follow other habits:
yeah this is an interesting case I didn't think of. if I wasn't trying to be super minimalist this is a feature I would consider

3. pick lists:
I developed a kind of drag an drop "algo", so for each day a user can drag and drop habits on that day. Over time, the master list becomes more and more accurate for the time of day they expect (since chronology for tasks/habits is typically viewed from up to down)

appreciate the discussion!
> should have more authority to assert itself

The problem isn't that the EP doesn't have enough power, it's that EU politics doesn't have enough visibility, which means that MEPs are almost always politically subordinate to their national peers which means the EP as a whole has less clout and which leads to them having less influence with the EC than the member states
I agree in principle, but I also to need action commands when crossing boundaries in and out of the event system (e.g. to the user, or to an external provider.) Of course I still phrase them in the past tense:

PurchaseRequested { userId = ... }

PaymentRequestSentToStripe { userId = ... }

It really helps with debugging, especially if the user gets into some failed state (and the events tell you that they accidentally requested twice)
For what it's worth, adding a bounds check could be reasonably added to the compiled binary directly. Even if it can't be rebuilt from source.
These are all valid points but none speak to GP's comment that the scale aspect is no longer as difficult to solve.
i wonder what sort of stuff these guys would even propose

"i will pay you 17 million dollars to add web 3.0 to serenity os"
>Yeah, a kettle is gonna pull like 2200 W when it's switched on

...in areas that use 220/240V. In north america appliances are limited to around 1500W, because the mains voltage is 120V.
I … don’t know? Originally, it just felt like some janky subset of LLVM-IR: close enough to almost work with the standard tooling, right out of the box, but not quite. It’s been nearly 10 years since I’ve looked at it, though, so what do I know? I don’t even know if they kept the design I was shown.
Show HN: Viewstamped Replication for Rust
So that they can show code they are proud of, not just average code or code written under pressure or when they had to do quick fixes.
The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns
> Rust is a bit too awkward to use in many cases where C++ is used (particularly with unsafe Rust), and inherits some of the hyper-modern complexities/insanities of C++.

Unsafe Rust is harder to write than C++, or at very least, writing correct unsafe Rust is mandatory whereas it seems like C++ programmers are very sloppy and the same attitude will not deliver in unsafe Rust.

But the vast majority of software you're writing should be safe Rust, which is a much easier - the purpose of unsafe is to establish safe abstractions for your system and for a lot of use cases appropriate safe abstractions are already provided.

> Unnecessary "hyper-modern" C++ features which are dead on arrival (ranges)

Ranges is C++ catching up to where the rest of the world had already gone with ideas like "iterators" meanwhile. It's about as "hyper-modern" as the string_view or modules, both of which C++ was also very slow to get to.
Physicians’ attitudes about caring for people with disabilities
> When winds start blowing the other way, that’s when one’s true character is tested.

But that depends on who you feel you are working for. If King Charming is replaced by Gorr the Butcher, you may need to decide whether you are truly loyal to the king or the people. Butchering the people that the previous king saved would not strike me as honorable, even if you sworn loyalty to "the crown".

I'm not saying Musk will be bad, I truly have no idea. But if he decided (say) that fake news are good for engagement, it would be indeed wise to question whether loyalty to Twitter Inc. is a good idea. Recognizing when things have changed for the worse is a sign of maturity and not a failure of character.
Bit harsh on the Atlantic - they clearly found a relevant topic where there is contrasting opinions and people want to discuss it, wasnt that their objective in the first place?

Reading this thread I see yet again why the super-app approach is probably the best one when adopted front to back in this context - selection,ordering,payment.
I just filed a CCPA request to have all my data deleted
I wonder if this acted as some inspiration for the 2-Bit character in Deathloop: the vocals in particular are similar.
You can disable it (I think) by opening `chrome://flags/` on Chrome, searching for "Side search" feature.
In the DD's I have been part of there was always some element of code review.
November 2020: 40k$
Today: 562k$
Okay, 14x, not 15x

But yeah, on average if you look to previous price, maybe it's more of x8 price increase. 18 month ago was the all time low of the data on tradingview, I give you that.

About the weight details, are you sure your figures are correct? First result on google gives me way higher numbers (minimum 80g/kwh, but likely more than 160g/kwh) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-lithium-li-ion-vehic...
Also, another comment in this thread gives 60g/kwh, and another 160g/kwh
> then they proceed to explain how not giving Russia everything it wants is taunting.

This is what happens, without exception, is it?

> This person has likely fallen for the propaganda they push.

Of course. Americans never fall for propaganda, only their geopolitical rivals do. All of them, all the time.
I posted a few of the photographs I took in Shibuya, Tokyo, seven years ago on my website:

https://www.gally.net/halloweeninshibuya/index.html
What do you mean? It has ALWAYS been like this.

It was even worse in the old Microsoft C++ days.
Most people mount their phones someplace in their line of sight. If anything, car play is less distracting than a phone.
The F-16 actually had a carrier demonstrator, the Vought 1600, for VFAX.

While the F16 beat the YF17 for LWF, it’s carrier version was defeated by the carrier version of the YF17 (which would become the F/A-18).

I would agree that the F16 is not a peer to the F15 or F14, the entire point of the 16 was to be a small and cheap workhorse. Not just because of the LWF program, but because that was its designers’ ethos inside General Dynamics.

The 15 is 50% heavier when empty, And the 14 more than double (though part of that is changes and reinforcements for carrier-based operations, the Vought 1600 was also quite a bit heavier than an F-16).
What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
$100 in paper cash is more liquid and easier to spend than $100 in stocks.

$10M in paper cash is far less liquid and harder to spend than $10M in public stocks.
“Basing designs on pictures from magazines and working with readily available materials like bamboo and plastic sheeting, early hang glider pilots built “Rogallo Wings” and flew them from low hills in California…”

I read a book as a kid that described the established glider enthusiasts that had been flying rigid wing gliders on the beach cliffs and such. How someone showed up one day with something that looked like it was made from bamboo and trash bags - and to their amazement, it flew.

For having apparently developed a kind of fundamentally new wing design, the Rogallo team were brilliant - landing a Gemini though always seemed like it would always be simpler (less prone to failure) with a boring old parachute.