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Show HN: I made an app for coffee shops to go to work and network with others
Hey there!

I realized I was compiling a list of coffee shops with highly curated reviews in my personal notes: chair comfort, Wi-Fi networks and passwords, internet speed, noise level, bathroom cleanliness, etc... It worked fine for me, but when I wanted to share my list to some friends I realized the underlying problem.

So I created Workffee for two reasons:

1. To allow me to save my reviews in a more convenient way and share them.
2. To connect with others who are interested in this information, and who knows, maybe share a coffee and a work session together eventually.

I hope you like my app, and if you find it useful, I invite you to upload your coffee shops and reviews and join to our Telegram group (https://t.me/workffee)

Would love to hear what you think about it!

NOTE: I could scrape Google Maps and load everything automatically, but that's not the idea. My goal is for the content to be organic and created by a large community of people who enjoy working in coffee shops.

Ata
> Okay, but let's imagine, the board wants to detonate a nuclear bomb. You think it's not a great idea, because it might cause a lot of deaths

Come on. That ridiculously unreasonable hypothetical obscures more than it reveals, and is pretty much a total derail.
“This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally. This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”

“UniSuper had backups in place with an additional service provider. These backups have minimised data loss, and significantly improved the ability of UniSuper and Google Cloud to complete the restoration.”

https://www.unisuper.com.au/about-us/media-centre/2024/a-joi...

Those quotes were pulled directly from UniSuper’s website. Google deleted an account, lost the data, and then took 13 days to recover the pension fund from data stored on another data provider. Maybe you should consider that your employment at Google is damaging your objectivity.
Slashdot is still around.
Yes, definitely. I had to double check your age (apologies! feels rude somehow) and yep, we're basically the same age. The web was different back then. Maybe not better; maybe that's nostalgia. But never before has more creators had as many tools and avenues to promote and monotonize their work as they do now.
Indeed, it was stunning. The Board outranked the CEO and had the right to replace him. What they didn't reckon on was that technically, if the entire company is willing to quit on behalf of the CEO, then they as a body outrank the board. And that was that, pretty much.
Big mistake on my part; I should clarify I fine-tuned both PaddleOCR and TrOCR on large amounts of data specific to my domain. I cannot speak on the best out of the box “ready to go” solutions (besides cloud ones, which were quite good with the right pre and post processing).
I hate to break it to you but epidemiology and fluid dynamics are primarily mathematical fields.

As the article states:

It’s not just scientists with a public profile in the crosshairs; those targeted include mathematical disease modellers, pharmacologists, physicists and fluid-dynamics researchers, who have never previously had any media attention.
>> His own sister has nothing positive to say about him.

I think this might be the understatement of the year!
I don't know much about salesforce, but if it is anything like every other "enterprise" grade software every installation is a special unique snowflake and you have to train the people on it anyway... Or more realistically you give them a 5 minute overview and let them flounder away a few weeks hating the infernal thing while they try and figure it out.
I always get the Sam Bankman-Fried vibes from him
I have hacked the iso into working all the way to windows 10, but it needs some type of MattKC tier maintainer to keep it alive much longer
Also because Altman’s deal with microsoft allowed them the IP to really take everything if this happened, rather than starting from scratch as a new company/division.
People want drugs, it’s a huge industry. Drugs aren’t going away buddy.
What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
In fairness, I didn't say the canon was complete. But that's a cavil; I'm not going to be able to give you an answer that satisfies, because I think those are not questions that can be answered in the way you're trying to. What they get at is the conflict between incompossible systems of ethics and thus of belief, and so essentially normative a question can have no meaningful answer in the same positive sense as a question in orbital mechanics - which is simple, in that it works the same whether any humans are involved or not. Nothing about belief is simple in that sense, which is why we have orbital mechanics pretty much down to a science, while belief remains in the domain of philosophers, whose entire reason for being is to fail in interesting ways at 'unscrewing the inscrutable' - which is what makes them always so annoying, and occasionally so worthwhile.

(No judgment; I share the love of disputation for its own sake, if in a more autodidactic style - which is why they have found me so annoying, interpersonally at least: I don't know their rules well enough to play by them, but do tend to say things they find they have to take seriously. Or at the very least, I've often annoyed one of them that way...)

I think I see now why the quotes, but there's nothing to be gained by swapping words around. None of those purports to be the answer to so hefty a question as "what is happiness?" Each, and I grant this part is heavily implicit, poses only an answer, which some have found satisfactory but no one is obliged to. They're not so much there to agree or disagree with, as to encourage you to think about why you do either and why you do either - they're not there to tell you how to be, but to help you understand who you are.

As I said, I can't give an answer that satisfies - at most, I can give an answer that knows it's only a statement of belief, and have. Few seem ever to manage so much, and from this lack I think springs all of politics, because also from this lack I think springs the vast majority of mass human violence and much interpersonally besides, and if a better tool than politics exists for placing distance between essential disagreement and violence, I can only assume it has not yet been discovered because otherwise we'd all be using it. (I hope we'd all be using it.)

In the end, given the questions you cite here and what I've read of your work on your site, I think that must be what you're trying to solve. It's an honorable occupation, and I'm glad you find it enjoyable! You're far from the first to attempt it, and I hope I may be forgiven for doubting your chances in this field as much as I'd doubt anyone else's - but as long as you go on finding it a pleasant pursuit, I'll go on being wrong to have said it wasn't worth your effort; as definitions of happiness go, that seems to me about as good as any.

(To the other point, you might consider being broader in your range of named citations, and of supported languages.)
That was my first interaction with you. I just wanted to point out how it was financially forced for many people. Being here, I suspect you, like I, had a choice. It's really bending reality to say everyone had that choice in any sort of equal capacity. Again, you should really look into this more. Your experience, clearly, does not match the reality of many others.
eh, they might hide behind that label. But they're all the same: People who used the term "science" to destroy peoples lives, and now cry because of (very minor) consequences
I’m no huge fan of the bond villains in general, but this thread isn’t about Musk or whoever being a dick.

And even if it were, Musk builds the best rockets ever and stuff like that and to a first approximation knows how they work.

Mark at a minimum is the Corp Dev CEO of a generation and I’d argue more. I’d argue he is the first person to create an accurate-ish mental model mapping IRL human mechanism design into a high-fidelity digital analogy.

Bezos was at DE Shaw and called the Internet as a vehicle for commerce on the early side, to put it mildly.

Ellison saw that what we now call RDBMS was going to Be Big and substantially implemented the early versions personally.

Now this isn’t a license for any of the icky shit any of these folks have done since, but all of them put some of the points their character class rolled into “actually build something”.

Altman put all his points into manipulate if not blackmail people around me until the machine coughs up the next stair on the ladder.

I’m generally in favor of “less bond villains”, but that’s not the topic of the thread and neatly bypasses another key point which is that all the other bond villains you mentioned (and I’ve met a few of them) have some redeeming quality as opposed to, Jesus, could a fucking Kennedy get away with a farce like this?

Stop changing the subject. I know all those essays by heart. I was synthesizing them with inside YC baseball the day they were published.
> Enrollment in charters, which are public schools operating under performance contracts freeing them of many state regulations, increased by nearly 27,000 students

> Broward County Public Schools claims to have more than 49,000 classroom seats sitting empty this year, a number that “closely matches” the 49,833 students attending charter schools in the area, officials noted in an enrollment overview

It sounds as if some public schools (charter schools) are becoming more popular while others (traditional public schools) face declining enrollment.
This is me. 36. I’m building the startup lab I always wanted to build now that I’ve been around the block a few times, and writing lots of open source.

Once self sustaining will branch into angel investing as well but trying to focus in one big thing at a time.

I just absolutely love startups and helping people bring their ideas to life.
"He's not going to listen to anything anyone at the SEC says!"

"...but he will pay their fines."

what a renegade!
It can be exchanged for other currencies.
Perhaps a more familiar wording might be, "it's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got".

> Basically they are fantasies that reality is less unfair/arbitrary and imaginings that happiness is attainable by everyone in every situation.

No. They are guidance on making the best of an arbitrary reality.
Fwiw, that's SwiGLU in #3 above. Swi = Swish = silu. GLU is gated linear unit; the gate construction you describe.
Unsourced legacy media does not qualify as proof.
Sam Altman just vowed to donate most of his wealth through giving pledge
hydrogen, methane, ammonia, molten salt, sand battery, ... so many tradeoffs
Apparently it's too hard to open a car door yourself anymore. I guess Tesla popularized pushing a button and then the car electrically pushes open the door a bit; but Lexus has it too now. Electric sliding doors in minivans are pretty old too, but this is for the front doors.
Congrats! I love supporting underdog causes that have real meaning and impact in the lives of creators and consumers. Reminds me of the Mini Museum story of creator Hans Fex: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansfex/mini-museum/pos...
Incredible. Is there site that collects different ascii art techniques?
“You won’t get there” is a pretty vast statement for all of the future. Two fairly reasonable predictions: 1) the compute needed to get GPT4 performance will decrease. 2) the compute on consumer GPUs will increase.

At some point they cross, and you will be able to run a GPT4-quality LLM on a consumer GPU. At some point after that, you’ll be able to run a GPT4-quality LLM on a 2024 consumer GPU if you can find one.

Important to emphasize, I’m not saying “GPT-4”. Llama-3 was trained on 24k GPU clusters. “Able to do the exact same processing at 1/24k the compute” is different from “Able to get equivalent performance at 1/24k compute”. Even then, given a long enough time scale, the former is possible.
That's a very good point, I agree. You're always going to run a service at least once.
You couldn't pay me to buy that shit. There are other electric options that make more sense.
If US dollars can be backed by a military, crypto is backed by mining networks.

The mining network is a lot more productive than the US military which has vastly negative economic output. At least ASICs doesn't wander around wrecking countries in a semi-random fashion. The mining network even operates at a profit, which is much better than the US government by a huge margin. Someone thinks they are worth the money.
It's not one guy though, it's 10,000 bored but motivated code monkeys fueled only by their desire to not watch ads.

My love goes out to each and every one of them. Bless their souls.
Hands-On Guile Scheme for Beginners – June 2024
Part of the reason that the US Government has been trying for the last few years to squash it is because it's threatening the US Dollar's hegemony in, cough, international trade.

If you're buying illegal black market shit, you're darn well gonna do it using the Red, White, and Blue's Green!

This is also proof of cryptocurrency's use-case as a method of value transfer (ie. currency). Crime and porn are the traditional testing grounds for new disruptive technologies. I remember this thing called the Internet...
I'm going to give OP the benefit of the doubt and assume they have sat down and figured out what "starting the app" really means, but they didn't want that definition to be the focus of the article.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/pumped-storage-hydropower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/10/controversial-energy-...

> A controversial energy project in south central Washington is one step closer to breaking ground. A federal commission released its final environmental review for the Goldendale Energy Storage Project — to the consternation of several tribes and environmental groups.

> The project is part of a potential solution to one of the biggest problems for renewable energy development: the variability of wind and solar. As the Northwest transitions off fossil fuels, power will need to be stored for when the sun doesn’t shine, and the wind doesn’t blow.
WHAT

I can’t wait to visit!
Ask HN: What's your favorite Underrated Anime that no one talks about?
Mine would be -
- pop team epic
- beelzebub
- terror in resonance
Woodworking/Carpentry. As much as I like writing code and working in Product, it'd be nice to work on something tangible. It's so much easier to give someone a physical product that (for the most part) is 'done' when it's handed over, and there's also the knowledge base that remains mostly intact and isn't continuously iterated like it does in programming.
nah the issue was that they pay employees in PPU which is tied to Sam Altman's ability to raise capital, not to the board. the board effectively did not control the pay of its employees, whereas Sam did
Supposedly well funded Texan suburban public schools are very successful.

Edit: and this is Florida, not Texas. Florida is much less successful than Texas in terms of public education.
SQL is easy to understand from the perspective of syntax, but quickly becomes challenging to understand depending on the data model how to actually get what you want out of a query. I have spent many years working in SQL across different server products (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and others), and I still sometimes find myself struggling to build the most efficient query for task. Most of the time, it's not SQL that's the problem, it's a broken data model that preceded me (often created by an ORM) that I am forced to work with.

All that said, while it may be painful sometimes, learning it can at least let you poke your ORM more towards the right direction, or give you an opportunity to identify the hot spots where it's worth investing the effort to write a more efficient query directly, much like where sometimes it makes sense to write some subset of an application in assembly for performance, while most of the time you're better off just letting the compiler optimize for you.

For the problem you're talking about above, you're trying to avoid a Cartesian explosion, which is probably best handled through query splitting as you mentioned, but it depends on the database engine how best to approach that. For all its warts, Microsoft SQL Server is pretty good about things like the ability to use query splitting within the context of a single transaction to make it serializable and ensure data consistency (although that can come with its own challenges for performance).

The example you provided is nearly exactly the case where I would expect an ORM to produce a bad query, where-as a direct query build would be significantly more performant because you can incorporate a clear understanding of the data model and use limits and ordering to minimize the size of the result set you need to deal with.
The original idea of course is that it frees up valuable court time and court resources. A defendant with little chance of success in court is incentivised to avoid a vexatious trial and go straight to sentencing.

How rational are the economics? How much did the trial cost the taxpayer compared to how much is it going to cost to provide food, accommodation, recreation facilities, and round-the-clock security to someone for 25 years?

Bureau of Prisons suggests the incarceration will cost $1m ($40k * 25y): https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-03/bop_se_fy_2024_pb_narrati...

That feels like an unusually long sentence but it was also an unusually long trial — 23 calendar days by my count, or one day per year of sentence, so maybe the trial costs versus prison cost match up if lesser crimes have shorter trials and shorter sentences.
Why do you think 403 is the wrong error code? Based on the spec it seems entirely appropriate to me:

> HTTP 403 provides a distinct error case from HTTP 401; while HTTP 401 is returned when the client has not authenticated, and implies that a successful response may be returned following valid authentication, HTTP 403 is returned when the client is not permitted access to the resource despite providing authentication such as insufficient permissions of the authenticated account.[a]

> Error 403: "The server understood the request, but is refusing to authorize it." (RFC 7231)
> I've seen the "coup" framing a lot I just don't see how that's justified. They're the board of directors! Hiring and firing the CEO is core to the job (as is maintaining mission alignment, in the nonprofit world).

It isn't justified, it's just misleading propaganda. Unfortunately through repetition and the enthusiasms of various fandoms, it's gotten lodged in the public mind.
For anybody to take your comment seriously, you'd first have to actually explain how you get to your assumptions. Because most serious people reject your assumption that there's a genocide going on in Palestine right now.
I only read the paper (and the code in the paper) but not the complete source code, so maybe this would become clearer if I had, but...

Does Rust fundamentally guarantee that if you make a struct, its fields will lay out in memory in the order that you defined them? Can it be used to interact with APIs (really ABIs) who expect a C struct (or pointer to one)?

I think my main frustration with stuff like Go and Swift in this case is that their structs are not binary-compatible with C structs in this way because they rearrange things to be better aligned/packed/whatever.
OK. Sure. But if you're disinclined to hold businesses to higher standards than the norms of business, is there some other argument that would be persuasive about Altman's obligation during the board ouster debacle?
You can often learn when people create online accounts. Sometimes to the second or millisecond. It commonly shows on people's profiles.

You can then try to log into every account, with passwords generated with the default settings.
Considering bitcoin call options for March 2025 are going for only about 12k, I think it's fair to say the consensus is that bitcoin exceding 100k in about a year is unlikely.
Sure, if you do it right, you can avoid the problem, but why not use a tool that prevents the problem from happening in the first place?
This is really cool! Would be nice if there was some link to the recipe that the shopping list is based on?
Fun trivia: downloading 45TB costs about $60, according to Cloudflare.
Because inevitability this is what happens.
Up voting joke post because they are jokes, destroys conversation.

Up voting cutting commentary against a post that happens to be humorous, I am personally fine with. Especially when the original comment isn't well argued or at least thoughtfully made. Parody and the like is protected speech for a reason.
It could also be apnea, the body can do weird things like quick strong muscle spasms to weak you up.
I read "what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting" as "What the board was thinking". It's been pretty ambiguous where the motivations of the board's sudden actions were coming from, and this Helen Toner saying more than she's said before.

It's not a trial of Sam, it's an autopsy of the board.
I second the "numpad" approach: for short numerical sequences (license plate numbers, addresses, etc.), I visualize a telephone dial-pad, and my fingers pressing the numbers. I feel the order my fingers make, visualize the blocks being pressed in sequence, and even the DTMF[0] frequencies, trying to incorporate multiple senses into the visualization.

For grocery shopping lists, I simply take the first two letters of each ingredient and try and make a nonsense (yet pronounceable) word out of it. The more strange / fantastic, the better, as it seems to be more memorable that way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTMF
I've been using savvy for a few weeks now. As part of my work I end up doing a lot of adhoc scripting on the command line and savvy ask has been pretty useful for that. I use it more like a GitHub copilot right now and just like copilot it feels like collaborating with another eng (keeps me in the flow and avoid getting distracted). I expect that my usage will transition towards the runbook features as our startup grows and the tech stack mature
> It would be like telling the government that no, in fact they are the ones who are wrong and no, I didn’t break the law it is in fact their laws which are broken.

You know a number of people are in that position though.

My first thought went to Samsung's chairman who will break the law and go to prison, but the country will have him back, bending over backwards to somewhat have it make sense.
And when one does so, remain ethical, should that discussion get ugly, holding to those ethics does a world of good when it comes down to others having to trust your intent was as just and true as you could manage.

That means a lot.
> On paper the board has the power and it’s their job to monitor and hire/fire the execs. But they’re dependent on the execs for info.

It's way worse for the OpenAI board position in this case, because the company is basically just an assemblage of researchers, engineers, and Microsoft Azure credits. They can replace the CEO if they want, but all the value of the company can walk away if they don't like it.
The price finds whatever level it needs to maintain a population that fits within the housing supply. Obviously population can’t grow that much against a fixed housing supply; once the vacants and spare bedrooms are filled up, people just get priced out. This is Malthusian NIMBY policy working exactly as intended.

Population geography also shifts from rural to urban and from declining to rising cities even as the total population size holds constant or shrinks. The fact that there is space for you on a farm or in a coal-mining town is cold comfort to someone with a STEM degree and a job offer at a corporate headquarters.