skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "Businesses are experimenting with going cashless, hoping to speed up transactions, combat theft and create a safer environment for their employees."

As the owner of a brick and mortar business (a bar), I can tell you that we do about 60% cash transactions. I just put in an ATM to try to up that number. I'm tired of paying close to 3% fees on cards.

We have had some cash theft from employees but to eliminate that would require 100% credit, which isn't an option for me. A big part of our clientele is service industry, and they're bringing in their cash tips and spending them.
I think at this point we can agree that a subway price hike leading to tanks in the street a mere week later is not the true issue. Something about privatized pension companies taking way more than what would be their fair share is the likely culprit.

https://protectpensions.org/2016/08/23/chile-failure-privati...
The repo does edit the original document. The original amendment text is included in a separate file, but is not the purpose of the commit.
> Would you give evil the benefit of the law?

When you disrespect the law, you risk devaluing a powerful tool against evil (and one of the few tools against evil that's actually discriminating, one of the few tools to actually make a good faith attempt to distinguish guilt from innocence.)
Proposal: ignore their broken system and try to do something else entirely at the edge of the frontier, where such things are (sometimes) allowed.

“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.” --Buckminster Fuller
There is a strong use case for that, for my personal spending and utilities it would be very inconvenient for me to convert cryptocurrency to cash without an intermediary bank account.

but business-wise many of my vendors have been able and willing to take cryptocurrency especially in the last 3 years.

I've executed many legal agreements paid in crypto. Its made it extremely practical for Americans to have offshore corporations again since the bank account part became difficult but is no longer needed for international commerce and asset holdings.
Because Edge Cases
The $100 bill would obviously be more popular nowadays. For a lot of people on here, since they were kids, the purchasing power of that $100 has fallen to about $50. You have to carry twice as much currency to carry the same amount of purchasing power around.
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I don't know if it was filmed. I was there but I didn't record it.
I use cash primarily because I enjoy promiscuous arithmetic with strangers
Lawrence Livermore National Labs publishes a great chart of US energy sources and consumption. In 2018 we used over 101 quadrillion British Thermal Units of energy. Renewables are a tiny fraction, mostly hydro and biomass.

https://www.llnl.gov/news/us-energy-use-rises-highest-level-...
We weren't "designed" to work in offices either. Or use computers. Yet we do it, because while these may bring troubles for going against our "design", they also come with advantages.

Our modern lifestyle is extremely different from the lifestyles that shaped our evolution over millennia. You can't just pick and choose to what aspects you apply the naturalistic argument.
There's another commenter below confirming this. The article mentions criminals switching to crypto, which misses out those with an increasing mistrust of financial institutions who prefer crypto.

I wonder if the criminal use case has not been reduced that much by crypto, as I imagine cold hard cash that's acceptable anywhere globally is preferable. Crypto may be good for some transactions, but cash will be king for a long time yet.
I feel like NYC could use the trains again for much of this

Its what the highline was for after all
Constrained immigration policies and kicking out the people who were able to pass through are different things.
Google calendar for scheduling daily tasks and future commitments. pomodoro-tracker dot com for actually doing the tasks on the day. Google Sheets for setting yearly, monthly goals, ideas, movies to watch later... I also use Sheets to track my workouts, meditation sessions, nb of times I've had coffee, etc.

I've found one Google Sheets document gives me the greatest visibility over the various aspects of my life and the most flexible as I can integrate complex formulas for stat generations, etc.
Basic 4K projectors are down to 1,000$, you can add a screen and surround sound for another 500$. Assuming you would watch any other video like Sports, Netflix, or YouTube it’s a significant upgrade for both.

As to space, you can put your collapsible screen in front of bookshelves, windows, doors etc So they take up less useful space than a large TV.
For collaboration we use a modified version of sharedb (https://github.com/share/sharedb). Its using the operational transformation algorithm (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation). We will be publishing an article about tech stack at out blog within few days :)
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station in Virginia stores 24GWh. It was built between 1977 and 1985 at a nominal cost of $1.6 billion.[0] If we conservatively take those as 1985 dollars, that's equivalent to $3.9 billion in 2019 dollars, or $162.5/kWh. That's comparable to today's price for lithium ion battery storage (~$176/kWh[1]), even before taking into account the massive real increase in cost of large infrastructure projects over the last 35 years.

That said, Dominion Energy recently selected a site for a planned second pumped storage facility, conceptually entering operation in 2030.[2] It's a long way off from construction, but they claim that the current budget is $2 billion.[3][4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

[1] https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-b...

[2] https://www.roanoke.com/news/local/dominion-narrows-to-tazew...

[3] https://www.dominionenergy.com/company/making-energy/renewab...

[4] https://www.nrdc.org/experts/walton-shepherd/dominions-green...
Who needs things like FDIC insurance anyways /s
>"Protected bike lanes"... aren't. Because they share intersections with motor vehicles, left-hooks and right-hooks still happen, which together constitute the majority of bicyclist-motorist collisions.

Part of installing protected bike lanes should be installing arrows and bike signals so there's a separate phase to make a turn.

See 2nd Ave in Seattle:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6074569,-122.3372911,3a,42.9...
This shocked me:

"to encourage wellbeing: 40 days paid vacation per year: True disconnection is fundamental to help people de-stress and recharge."

Is this common elsewhere in the world? In the US, it Seems like 10 or 15 days is the norm, and maybe 20 after 5 years.

What do the FAANG+ companies offer?

Does the 2 months of vacation also contribute to that disconnected feeling, I wonder?
(2018)

Neat to see hn grouping previous submissions across 3 different URLs ("past").

Canonical URLs FTW.
Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
I don't follow how an XML advocate can complain about other things loading parts of themselves from remote servers:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Pr...
Every time you swipe your credit card innumerable processes and algorithms begin to parse and reevaluate your personality profile. Every purchase you make changes their opinion and assessment of your shopping habits and needs.

Google may start showing ads for pet food if you bought something at PetSmart. Your bank may start sending you car loan ads if you spend at the repair shop. Everything has a side effect.

Cash is great because it is very simple. I gave you money for product, no one knows anything else. Sometimes it’s nice not to be data mined for buying a cup of coffee.
See https://git.io/JeEjB
If that’s the hair the candidate insists on splitting then I think the red flag is still there.
It's not really corporate welfare, because delivery companies are in competition and the cost savings get passed on to the consumer. It's a subsidy.
> Parking illegally in safety infrastructure KILLS PEOPLE.

Parking illegally in safe infrastructure has the potential to kill people. But increase in parking violations doesn’t say anything about parking illegally in safety infrastructure. I’ve had my fair share of parking tickets throughout my life but those were things like parking somewhere where I didn’t have a permit (or dumber, I had a permit but the permit was partially blocked from sight) or parked somewhere for too long, and those weren’t safety related.

So, yeah, “they should not be doing that”, but the article doesn’t say “they’re doing that”. Do you have evidence that delivery trucks actually block say fire hydrants on a regular basis?
Interesting how a story is told can influence perspective:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50197673

Equally, you can read one side from one perspective and ends up fueling it in that direction or read it from another perspective and be more focused upon the resolution and maybe fuel that tangent.

Just interesting how news is portrayed and how it can emotionally drive social media ,which can only fuel the angst over solving it. At least, that is one aspect I've become more mindful of over time.
i have been creating websites since the early 90s, and every single one of them was an application. html was always generated dynamically, and never static. any static html documents were embedded with a dynamically generated navigation.

the whole idea of a web of semantic hypertext was never a reality. that idea died with gopher. (anyone remember that?)

why? because gopher had a builtin navigation system that allowed you to manage directories and document structures that didn't belong to the documents themselves. semantic hypertext within gopher would have worked well. as would have applications. but without gopher we were forced to reinvent that navigation and squeeze it into our documents, overloading them with stuff that didn't belong inside.

think of a library with books. what the semantic hypertext promised was to make all those books into interactive texts where you can easily jump from one reference to another. but those books still need a library to live in.

what the web ended up doing was to remove the library completely, forcing me to reinvent the library within the book. suddenly the semantic document that i want to send you not only contains references relevant to its context, but it has to include the whole navigation for my library, because there is no way to do that externally. with that navigation included, you are no longer getting a semantic hypertext, but an application.

now, we get to write that application in javascript and actually run it on your device, instead faking it on the server. but on the flip side, on the server i can now finally go back to serving static documents. i can finally serve semantic hypertext documents as they were meant to be served because i can separate the application from the content, and i can treat the content as static as it was meant to be treated.

i am not reinventing navigation logic in javascript. browsers never had navigation logic in the first place. gopher had that. i always had to re-invent navigation logic for every site i built and was forced to embed that into html dynamically so that site visitors could find their way.
> Why didn't they give WebObjects away for free? Since it's just software, it has no marginal cost to NeXT, and any NeXT workstations it sold would be profit.

That's 2019 thinking. In 1990s almost no one would think that, especially in the world of commercial software.
Are you talking about UPS Access Points?

If so, that is definitely available in Manhattan as I’ve had packages routed to them willingly (I requested it) and unwillingly (driver was too busy to complete deliveries that day).

It started out with the access points being fairly ubiquitous and available at local bakeries, coffee shops, etc. But in recent years, it’s been scaled back to the local UPS Store locations.

But it’s definitely still a thing available in Manhattan, and I’d wager all the boroughs.
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What does that quote have to do with anything? Try quoting an actually important document not a piece of art in New York City.

>the key difference back then was minimal welfare

And an expectation of assimilation. Regardless immigration in the absence of a welfare state is a completely different beast than immigration into a welfare state.

>Do you think current legal refugees would agree.

Current refugees benefit from unequal access to our labor market. If you eliminated that advantage by letting anyone in, not just risk takers, they almost certainly wouldn’t find it so attractive. How is a race to the bottom a good thing?

>outsourcing

Yes Americans get poorer, and the world gets tons more plastic in its oceans every minute. So we all get poorer too. In my estimation it’s far more important that 1st world countries make a stand for the health of the earth. Globalism is completely incompatible environmentalism best I can tell.
You just talked about TXID wraparound, materialized views and then talking about not many developers know SQL well. You're all over the place with your questions.

This is very simple, you wrap all your logic as functions/stored procedures, have the DB do the work. This will work for 99% of businesses out there. How many people really wraparound ID? How many people really need to shard DB? Those 1% will know how to tackle the problem.

For most people by moving all these into the DB, your code is much simpler. Something like this should be encouraged more, it's far easier to implement something like this than deal with ORM.
It is also important to note that the firearm, while not as powerful, could be just as deadly with the limited medical knowledge, speed of transportation. It would be a little hard to identify a good parallel.
Sounds like capacitors would help here, even regular ones, since they'd only need to hold excess solar energy for a few hours in order to smooth out that evening demand.
>None even had an option of making tweaks to the project with real-time 3D feedback. That is - change something and see how it looks in 3D on the second monitor, move the camera around, change time of the day, turn lights on and off, then try it differently, check again, try third, etc. Aim for dozens of "revisions" in a scope of one hour - that's not even remotely possible.

It's totally possible. 99.999% of clients aren't willing to pay for it, and architects aren't interested in having you do a dozen revisions no matter how much effort you think that is (an hour lol!).

I can tell you that simple walkthrough stuff is simple in sketchup (time of year/day built in), but most house builds don't require a detailed sketchup model with lighting real textures, rendering, etc.

You also have to remember that they are interviewing you as a client. If your expectation is 12 revisions in an hour as a reasonable, then there's very little they can do to make themselves competitive and I can understand why they wouldn't offer a likely unreasonable client an atypical contract.

You're going to them to get a proposal/quote. I can understand not being willing to offer you something you're clearly not willing to pay for. And from their perspective there's a lot of risk involved in taking you if they have someone else who isn't asking for atypical free extras knocking on their door.
What is so bad about it? Ethernet is better than wireless for security. One of those laptops seems to have a privacy screen. What do you expect, the Minority Report?
My Dumb Mobile Game Got 400k Downloads
Oh the irony. Reading this article requires me to give away my e-mail address...
They're probably not trying to interfere with their operations but rather to obtain any geopolitical intelligence they can from their files.
Tell us about your scaling problem. Do you really have a scaling problem?
Yes and no. Whatever prints the PDF has to be able to run the JS payload.

In the case of a physical printer, it's usually set up so there's [redacted] instead of blankness (that the JS replaces), so you get redacted images and paragraphs.

In the case of software printing to a static PDF which you can then print, the JS payload is generally set up to embed a series of rather obvious markers so that if the static copy is ever publicly revealed, they can go after you (DRM is easy when you only have a dozen customers in the entire world), but most PDF software that supports JS also supports JS disabling printing features so that little disincentive is unnecessary.
Which is why I used "supposed to." They do get dinged on CA income tax, though.
In the graph on the page, the solar output isn't even meeting the current demand. No need to store it.
That part of the article made no sense. Most crypto currency is entirely traceable. It's literally an immutable distributed ledger of every transaction ever made. Sure there are things like tumblers that try to redistribute coins, but who knows how well they actually work.
There are no apps that can do everything, there are different use cases that require at least 3 different tools to cover logs, system metrics, application metrics, alerts and performance instrumentation.

If you've never worked in that domain, you can trial the tool and figure out what they're about. Short version is to go for ELK + Datadog + NewRelic.
Maybe the right starting point is to build a fully open USB cellular modem, rather than a fully open phone. You serve the same values and get to focus on the hardest part of the problem.
I’ve been using this pattern recently. Very early stages but I like it so far.

I wrote some boilerplate tools for easily loading schemata and extensions. This is a must have for being able to write isolated tests.

I keep all data definitions in schemata, which can be managed by standard migration scripts. I keep function definitions in extensions, which do not create any data stores but expose functions with well defined interfaces for querying the underlying data. I rely on standard Postgres extension loading to manage migrations.

I really like this pattern, but there is a degree of unapproachability to it. It takes a lot of effort to make sure tests work well - but it’s not so bad. Since your DB functions do everything, the app code is just a shell around those functions (few lines of code to call each function), so by testing those functions you are exercising their Postgres counterparts.

With tools like postgraphile and Postgrest available, this is becoming a more appealing option. What we need is more tooling for managing deployment, installation, migration, verification of and communication with the stored procedures from within application code. Combined with Postgres PL libraries like plv8, it should be possible to write JavaScript code within your application toolchain that you can test locally, but deploy to run in Postgres context.
> The free market should determine whether customers will order packages or not.

Right. Use of the street should be auctioned rather than given away for free. My guess is delivery companies can and would outbid people that just want to store empty vehicles, which is what we are subsidizing now.
Usually you dont bypass engineering practices because customers are hounding you. The best way is to answer, demonstrate, and improve customer relations by showing them the facts. Answer a critic and you will better improve your relations. Customers can and do wait when the waiting is warranted.

Thus far, Purism has been omitting facts such as RAM performance, and sidestepping directed questions. These don't instill confidence in customers for an "open" company.

Moreover, hardware cannot be shipped this way. Schedules and the needs of the hardware dictate the control of the schedule. You literally cannot ship a PCB until regulatory requirements are satisfied and the boards are assembled.
Can you link a cite for those standards for grid-tied inverters? I've never heard of grid-commanded curtailment for home solar — generally those frequency signals are created by the inverter to tell the (AC-coupled) PV to turn off when a house is off-grid and the battery is full.
>Some of us free market types realize there is a difference between the corporatism of today’s world, and the capitalism of where we’d like to be

Yes, the difference is one exists and is bad (like "really existing socialism" existed and was bad), and the other is an unrealistic utopia like communism.

A utopian market without sucker consumers, without business people willing to exploit it and without powerful companies taking advantage of it, and somehow, with less government as well...
Hey HN, maker of the site here.

I'm a huge fantasy football fan and wanted a way to spice up one of the best parts of Fantasy Football: The Banter.

So with a little help from Adam Schefter and a no-code tool called Bubble, I built Tweet Bombs. It was incredible to see how quickly I could go from idea to finished product and I am an even bigger fan of Bubble after building this.

In terms of what's next for the site, two updates I want to make are:
1) the ability to edit the "Tweeter"
2) dark mode tweets (because I like dark mode a lot)

Lastly, if you're interested in learning more, I did a more in-depth write-up on why and how I built the app here: https://medium.com/@arjunmahadevan/how-to-make-fantasy-footb...
Pumped hydro needs a pretty specific geographic profile. It's pretty great where it works, but good luck finding good candidate spots.

Some people have been working on an approach pulling railcars full of rock up a slope, which should have more location options, but I don't know how the math and economics works out.
The only thing I have to go on is the fact that the semiconductor rumor mill absolutely called this one.

Years ago, when intel was publicly announcing that 10nm would ship in a few months, the rumor mill said that not only would it not ship in a few months, it would not ship at all for the foreseeable future, up to the point of missing the entire 10nm node. That's exactly what happened.

The scenario you described would be 100% consistent with those observations. I still look forward to the inside scoop because, in accordance with your suspicions, I suspect there's a juicy case study in there about self-deluded "beatings will continue until morale improves" style management felling an industry titan, or at least stumbling it badly.
Treat your neighbor like your brother? Nationalism and before that tribalism are as old as our species.
You can release reproducible signed builds that the user can verify. You can be open source without allowing users to upload new blobs.

You can still accept PRs and stuff.
I use Vim and sometimes VScodium. for some reason `ctrl-C` gets you out of insert mode. That's been my little hack.
Somehow this doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies. Either way, I do hope they eventually include the first animated banner ad - the first advancement to out-annoy the <BLINK> tag.

There should also be an article on banner blindness - the automatic self-censoring of banners that causes people to sometimes miss information that is actually of interest to them because their brain blocks that area of the screen as likely containing only extraneous / useless / annoying information, thus skipping it entirely and as quickly as possible.
The second didn't happen precisely because people wanted to avoid the sites completely breaking. So it didn't happen because people avoided XML, in practice.
Thanks for the effort, but this link does not work. The host is not responding.

Edit: sorry, my bad, cloudflare 1.1.1.1 resolves it as 127.0.0.5. Someone ought to check that out...

Edit2: apparently this is a deep rabbit hole: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
I’d be in favor of renewable copyrights if each renewal/extension was for 5 years and the cost of renewal doubled every time.