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A pub I used to love is now order on the QR code menu, pay on the app it leads you to -- you see a server exactly once to drop off your food. I still tip 20% every time because that's how I roll, but it doesn't feel great, and mostly I just don't go there anymore.

I'm on the computer and mostly by myself all day, if I'm out I actually want to not be on my phone and be interacting with humans?

If I am out with a group, the last thing we want is to all by on our phones ordering (and being distracted by notifications etc)
Older generations get swept up in this need to document everything too. My mom, for example, recorded me sobbing and holding my dog as she was being put down last year.
Excel sheets as a service
I honestly have to ask if you read the article. The only reason this is happening is because of how their system works, not because of any laws. When they detect that someone with a similar, but different, set of identity information dies they reach out to see if that person is the same as the one paying out the pension to. The problem is that once they confirm it is not the person, they keep asking anyways.

This woman had to confirm three times in one month, and then still had her pension stop.
I think it's not common because primarily functional languages usually have dedicated syntax for partial application or currying, or just do it automatically. Languages not built around functional programming usually seem to consider this sort of thing suspiciously clever, so not having syntax for it is an intentional choice.

ReScript just recently removed auto currying (inherited from ocaml) and instead added a very similar syntax for partial application. It just uses ... instead of _ for the arguments.
Nice restaurants have (physically) big menus that are easy to scan and read. You can see sections, specials, and you can browse easily.

Smart phones are typically less than 7" across. Best case scenario is they learn from McDonald's (which uses like a 35" screen...) with big categories to click and then a few items per category. But it'll still be tiny.
Yeah bonus points if the digital menu is a regular-sized PDF, meaning anyone over 20 has to pan and zoom.
There are 2 kinds of people in the world, those that divide people in 2 clear categories, those that not, and those that understand that things may not be binary.
I find these kinds of articles very helpful in professional communication. It's not because they're scientifically accurate, but I often find myself pausing and thinking about what I've heard and how I will respond. As someone with ADHD, just that small moment allows me to take in information and compose my thoughts to communicate better.
And yet there are no such stories from the many Tesla drivers in places like Canada and Norway.

Just guessing, but could it just be that rapid EV growth resulted in a lot of relatively new EV drivers in Chicago? And some of these new drivers didn't know yet about battery behavior in the cold, and how to mitigate it with battery preconditioning?
I'm sorry, what is exactly triggering in my comment?
I'm personally a bit torn on this. One of my local restaurants has the QR menu and it is a whole system. The waiter doesn't even come to the table, you just put your order in on your phone and they deliver it when it is ready. All in all, it's much more efficient and it means you're never waiting for your waiter to reappear if you want to order another drink or something. You also pay the bill through your phone, which avoids the need to hand your credit card to the waiter. It probably saves at least 5-10 minutes per table, meaning possibly one more turnover during each dinner period.

You do lose a bit in the personal interaction. There's also no chance to ask the waiter questions about the menu or ask for recommendations.
You don’t understand, there is a parallel universe where people don’t pay for Spotify and totally spend 500 bucks per year on merch for each artist they listen to
should that service charge be lowered? or stay the same? You are getting less service.
Since this wasn't tested inside a USAF base I don't think it's the "most advanced in the world"
I prefer a real menu, but there are people that feel pressure when holding one, or interacting with the personnel, but I’m not convinced they do the right thing for themselves trying to keep it digital to avoid interaction in the real world with real people.

There are of course a few advantages to having a menu available immediately, including for ordering something afterwards, but I got into the habit of always asking for a menu to be left at the table. Not only for this reason.

In general I also enjoy interacting with the personnel when ordering, having a real menu definitely helps with that.
They’re certainly good at sushi conveyor belt bars, where most people don’t care which food they’re selecting beyond what it looks like but a small minority want to know what they’re actually biting into.
I can imagine if it hasn't happened yet, it will happen soon enough where QR code menus will be tailored to the person. Change the order of items and possibly even costs to try and drive the individual diner to choose the options that are better for the restaurant. Digital menus already offer many of these perks for the restaurant, and I suspect forcing around the margins can definitely make a difference at the expense of the customer.
Interesting question and I did some research on it. (AI results were awful and downright misinformation by the way)

Early copyright law didn't explicitly cover music and audio recordings, because the technology did not exist or was not widely available at the time. However, I suspect that they may have been covered by early copyright laws.

Copyright Act of 1790 in the United States primarily focused on protecting written works, such as books, maps, and charts, while Early recordings were created in the 1870s.

Herbert v. Shanley Co., 242 U.S. 591 (1917), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held hotels and restaurants that perform music must compensate composers, even if the venue is not separately charging patrons to hear the music.

From this, I infer that music during this time was copyrightable, so commercial production of it via wax cylinder would also be infringement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_v._Shanley_Co.
> I’m not alone in my dislike of QR codes.

OK, but there are so many great uses for them!

Wifi passwords... just let people scan a photo to join the network. Duh!

Sharing your contact details... why are we messing with Bluetooth when both Apple and Android support QR codes?! Next time you're at a convention, just set your contact card (Vcard QR Code) as your phone home screen image... so much easier to share details vs. watching people try and bump between devices not knowing if it'll work. "Did you get it, I don't know if I'm bumping in the right place... did it send? Do you have airdrop on?" Ha. It's silly. No clue why Apple and Android don't just have a QR share option. =P

Sending SMS... I love the "vote for X with this code, vote for Y with this code" options. Just an easy way to network people, again, regardless of what device they are on.

QR codes are great! Maye not if you want to go to Italy and feel a paper menu, maybe not so much... but there's still plenty of great uses for QR codes.

https://www.qr-code-generator.com/
> Recently I started getting really old search results.

Good to see a confirmation of this. I'm getting old results as well and I can be pretty sure that at least one year ago the quality of the search was much much higher than it is today. Last year I also remember seeing intermittenlty for a brief period of time some sort of feedback popup from Google to rate the quality of the search.
Free link: https://www.wsj.com/science/netflix-ancient-apocalypse-cave-...
Linux version doesn't have aarch64 builds in case you try Flatpak and it doesn't work.
I refuse to go to any restaurant in Switzerland that has qr only menu and does not accept cash.

Not accepting cash is against the law[1] but sadly there is no penalty defined. The argument is always it costs to much to deal with cash. You know what also costs money? Cleaning the kitchen, I wonder what other laws these companies think are ok to ignore.

[1] https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2000/186/en#art_3
They have superchargers with fluid in them that work in much colder conditions. It seems that this is either this is Tesla choosing the wrong coolant mix for the climate (or, they got caught flat footed by the extreme weather that day), or they misconfigured the supercharger so it didn’t adequately heat the coolant so freezing conditions occurred. Either way, seems easily fixable for the future.
The Paintings of Hilma Af Klint
Another thing with digital menus is it will allow restaurants to do dynamic pricing. A bit harder with paper menus.
I've seen this argument come up frequently and I find this is just a weird hill to die on. I can see where the author is coming from as far as taking you out of the experience, but QR codes and NFC absolutely have a place in the restaurant ordering experience and I'm here for it.
GlusterFS support looks to be permanently ending later this year.

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhs

Note that the Red Hat Gluster Storage product has a defined support lifecycle through to 31-Dec-24, after which the Red Hat Gluster Storage product will have reached its EOL. Specifically, RHGS 3.5 represents the final supported RHGS series of releases.

For folks using GlusterFS currently, what's your plan after this year?
What less service are you getting? You’re ordering from the same person, you’re just choosing your food from a PDF/nightmare website vs a paper menu.
When a talented person tries to ban the tools that make an average person able to do the same stuff the talented person can do, this is intentionally disabling people to preserve a class privilege.

If there was a pill that gave people +40 points of IQ would we have born-smart people trying to ban it? Yes, some.

If we had a machine that put knowledge right into people's heads by nanobot magic would we have people trying to ban it? "This four week doctor training is an unacceptable threat to the medical industry" You bet it is pal, you bet it is.

This is not to say that *art is not vitally important* but it's not so important that we should ban talentless people getting access to the ability to make something that you will not be able to visually distinguish from art just to protect the monopoly of the talented-and-trained ones.

I can't draw. Now I can draw-with-machine-assistance. Maybe it's not the same as "drawing" for some numinous reason. I'm too talentless to care.

Somebody is going to take this away from me to protect the people who can draw?

No.
I get the impression that many extroverts see introversion as a flaw / limitation that should be corrected, rather than an equally valid personality type that they should accommodate.

Apologies if I'm painting with an unfair or inaccurately broad brush. I may be vastly overestimating the prevalence of that attitude.
I have no opinion on his work other than that it’s in an entire category of work in which I have no interest.

I am just saying what I am saying: that Watts quotes are now a signifier for me.
I feel ya! I thought the same, until I discovered the world of combining Qt C++ and QML. QML is extremely easy to learn (I studied all the basics in one day using this Udemy course[1] (not affiliated, just love his work). BTW, he has many free awesome YouTube videos for Qt C++. Creating an aesthetically pleasing app in any framework takes a lot of effort (it's mostly about being focused on what necessary and then creating a lot of white space around it, haha). It's so easy to create beautiful, fluid UI with QML. I've created a short video that demonstrate what I'm working on currently[2] - a Kanban view inside my block editor (kinda buggy now, still WIP). Hopefully, this does inspire you that it's possible.

And it's actually pretty easy to write the C++ code. I don't really use custom sub-classing much. I use Qt's QtObject which allows me to create C++ object that work beautifully with QML. Bryan's course doesn't delve deeper as that, I had to do a lot of searching to figure it out. I hope to open source some of Plume's components to inspire others to do the same. Another point regarding aesthetics, it really takes effort, but Qt can be extended using community libraries. For example, if you want your app to look native on macOS and Windows with a sexy frameless border with a transparent window, then you could use the awesome qwindowkit[3]. Another example, I wanted to position the window buttons on macOS (the traffic light buttons) differently, but couldn't figure it out, and obviously this can't be done using Qt alone, so I looked at Electron's source code and saw how they do it there in Objective-C and incorporated it in my app (ChatGPT-4 wasn't very helpful at that). Now I really want to have these buttons' fill color transparent like Things 3 does, so I'm looking at how to achieve that haha. I already got some ideas. If you need any further help, let me know![4][5].

EDIT: A cool feature of combining Qt C++ with QML is that you get the performance of a compiled language like C++ with the reactivity, ease-of-use, fluid and easy animations (and more) of QML. You can see on Plume's website that it's 4x faster than the fastest comparable native app on macOS.

[1] https://www.udemy.com/course/qml-for-beginners/

[2] https://www.loom.com/share/b40009316f6b420b9ece15a1f99e987c

[3] https://github.com/stdware/qwindowkit

[4] https://twitter.com/mamistvalove

[5] ruby AT mamistvalove DOT gmail
Lovely to see the AltaVista design again.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
In my experience, the majority of documentaries have, at a minimum, a major slant or bias towards a particular message or outcome and will usually hide that bias and present themselves as objective truth. They should be consumed as entertainment and probably shouldn't shift your priors very much on the state of the world.

Some of them are probably exactly what they convey themselves as (relatively unbiased, informative, etc.), but if you are not already an expert in the topic, you can't tell the difference between those ones and the ones that are basically propaganda.
Ask HN: Do you use Obsidian for all your notes? Best way to master it?
As the title says. I have been playing with various note-taking apps and systems, including the famous "single txt file". I am tempted to give Obsidian a new try. If you use it, would you recommend it? Is there a GREAT advanced tutorial for power users that you would recommend? Thanks for any tips!
We need a GNUCar
Stream-downscaling, ad injection, etc. US isp shenanigans.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur...
That too. People over 55 are classified as "elderly" in the federal prison system. The crime rate of those over 35 is significantly lower than those under.
Every time I stand in some photoesque place, I think "there are probably already thousands of photos better staged than mine will ever be."

I end up only taking photos of things like a spectacularly nice knot on a rope, the fire escape plan (hotel layout), what I had for dinner, or other stuff that'll be difficult to find online. Though I rarely look back at those, a strong motivator is regret minimzation, since I'll probably only visit once.

I can only speculate what the world will be like in a hundred years, when all corners of Earth have been photographed, and on constant display. I'm sure the tourism industry has to be... shrunk... anyway, for multiple reasons: at least 1) unnecessary energy usage and (2) global invasive mixing of ecosystems way too fast for them to handle it gracefully. A sea of photographies will make that easier.
I am not going to go read every MS blog on this group to find the original attribution, but generally it is from reusing infrastructure associated with a government (often even more specifically, a branch of government). IP addresses, correlated email accounts, domains, who they have targeted in the past, code ties between the malware they use, etc. These indicators can be paired with government releases (CISA) or made independently for attribution.

Say some specific infrastructure is used to hack a law firm involved in prosecuting Russia for war crimes in Ukraine. Then that same infra is used to send disinfo targeting Ukrainian groups. Then the some distinct malware used in those attacks is also used to wipe machines in the Ukraine conflict. There are full time groups that track these indicators to tie one attack to another and distinguish groups. This group is likely the SVR.
That's currently false - no mention is on the 1st 2 pages. So another suggestion: keep the death news on the front page for as long as the black bar is up.

Otherwise the bar becomes a kind of unfriendly cryptic ingroup signal – "sheesh, don't you already know?".
My professional life literally revolves around asking people what they want, need, and then trying to illicit what they really need because only a few people actually articulate specifically what they want.

It's painful and I wish more people were less coggy parts in a corporate machine.
Damn. So sorry, mate! I was born not far from a Soviet base back before the curtain fall, but nothing like Donbas.

Fingers crossed and some contributions to the cause already done. In the meantime : Slava Ukraini!
Yes, it's quite nice.
Yeah, this is why I don’t want to use QR codes. Prices need to be set in writing and be the same for everyone, although I’m okay with things like discounts for seniors, students, active service members, etc.
Interesting that the person in OP was in Italy when they realized they hated QR menus. I'm in a South American city where the QR menus are pervasive, and I love it because it's so, so easy to immediately translate it to English. I get that you can take a photo of a physical menu and do the same thing with Lens, but the QR menu removes a few pieces of friction and has generally been a positive feature.
The R1 is a solution looking for a problem...
Honestly, if I'm going to a restaurant especially with other people, I prefer to leave my phone behind. I try to never bring a "smart" device.

This QR code thing is just another mine in the field of trying to live in society today without a smartphone. Other notable mines being online banking, apps to access government issues documents.

A lot of this nowadays require an app. If i want to find out my health insurance status? it's an app, no website. Heck even checking my grades at uni requires i install some sketchy app! it used to be posted at the department entrance...
QR. code that takes you to a Google Drive PDF with a scan of the printed menu.
I'm using "implication" as a synonym of "effect". If a human learns to imitate your style, that human can make at most a handful of drawings in a single day. The only way for the rate of output to increase is for more humans to learn to imitate it. If an AI learns to imitate your style, the AI can be trivially copied to any number of computers and the maximum output rate is unbounded. Whether this is good or bad is subjective, but this difference in consequences is objective, and someone could be entirely justified in seeking to impede it.
It's not so much that physical menus are good/better, it's that needing to open a digital menu on your phone when you're already in the restaurant and (presumably) paying to be served is the literal opposite of service.

The really fancy restaurants even have the waiter verbally tell you their menu, or at least their special(s) of the day.
I’d imagine they’re also more frustrating because data while roaming is typically much slower.
Are there any other types of countries?
Note: you don't need to put something into law to silence someone.

If necessary anyone can be canceled. Everybody is "guilty" but select few are prosecuted.

Therefore the real power belongs to those who decides what issues can be ignored.
I worked for an F500 that was still using Lotus Notes as of late 2018. It was my first job so I didn't know how old that system was, but people used it to build all sorts of complex applications like ticketing systems, time tracking, product design docs etc.

I guess Notion would be today's modern equivalent, will turn into tomorrow's legacy system.

I sometimes wonder if people have done any research on these types of workflow abstractions and come up with fundamental data structures to work with them.
And don't forget tips! 25% minimum!
A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4
Open plugins do have a meaning for many developers even if the platform itself isn't open. The meaning is: developers can easily find reference code to develop their own plugins and can easily patch open plugins when they break.
Ok, we've put that in the title now, along with the project name. (Submitted title was "Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron")
> until some unforseeable rearrangement of the economy

I mean, telling the majority of the population that hey, you don't have secret knowledge, now you are mostly worthless is a completely foreseeable rearrangement of the economy, at least in the sense the rearrangement is coming. The question of how the new arrangement will look is unpredictable and likely spans anywhere from UBI to guillotines.
Has nothing to do with NACS; there’s a decent amount of superchargers in Canada or in Alaska, and I’ve never heard reports of issues of the chargers freezing over so they’re unusable.
If you could do piracy to my car, but my car would still be in my garage, I would be perfectly happy with it.
Haha.. imagine taking it back to 1978 and showing how it has more computing power than the entire planet and then telling them that you mostly just use it to find that thing you lost under the couch :D
Norway uses a different charging connector.

On the other hand, the event in Chicago was clearly a freak event and in no way reflects the normal operation of Tesla charging infrastructure in cold weather (elsewhere in North America, where it was also very cold, the vast majority of Teslas were fine).
> Natural joins also encourage standardized naming conventions, which has longer-term benefits.

This is a very positive spin on "you have to manage column names very rigorously for this strategy to be sustainable".
Nah, this happens for all new sites these days.
Not my domain, and I know I’m amongst experts. But at the risk of stating the obvious: It feels like the claim here (and elsewhere) is that we’re near the breaking point of the incentive model that’s propelled knowledge out of human minds and onto the web-as-we-know-it in coherent, discoverable, standardized, useful form.

I’ve always been a little old-fashioned, in that I prefer to trust specific bodies of writing and specific humans for knowledge about specific topics, even if that keeps me slow and behind the zeitgeist.

But in any case, now that webpages-for-traffic well seems on the verge of being too polluted to drink from.

What’s the next paradigm? Walled gardens of proven-provenance content for our AI summarizers to wade through? AI-vs-AI arms race? Or does the web become more about underlying facts and structured data, and meaning and insight become less commoditized and more person-to-person again?

I mean are any of these tensions really new, or is this just a Google problem?
There is a misunderstanding among consumers, be it individuals or corporations, that by purchasing a physical medium you simultaneously purchase a perpetual license. While in gross majority of consumer cases that was true, or at least implied, it certainly was not true in the commercial space where plenty of software was licensed for term. The SaaS model only made that more apparent/transparent.

While I personally loathe the general corporate subscriptionism, it does have its benefits and drawbacks which in most cases can be addressed by market forces. The ultimate pressure on video games publisher's subscriptionism may be to touch the grass.