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Big fans of Workers here. It has made our developmental, operational, and deploymental nightmares go away.

...but we've consistently seen users complain about latency and we have observed Cloudflare does not run Workers in the nearest location to the user. This can been semi-confirmed via https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh Our endpoints are always routed to a destination which is not the nearest whilst other enterprise and business domains get served from a nearer location.

This can also be confirmed using Coudflare's own https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace endpoint (substitute www.cloudflare.com with any of your Workers endpoint to see how differently it is routed. I've been told it might be fickleness of anycast routing and it could be). Disappointing since it is hard to get customer service reps to look at your support tickets when you're on a "free account" (despite paying for Workers).

We have no use for Cloudflare's other products and so it doesn't make sense to purchase pro/business subscriptions.

That said, I'd still recommend using it since it so darn fast.

Edit: Apologies to everyone for an unrelated rant. It was impulsive. I'm unable to delete this comment.
Most of the good ergonomic keyboards are around the same price. Look at this one which it is good, but I personally didn't like: https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

You could try Microsoft's ergonomic keyboards, they are cheaper, but I personally didn't like them either: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...
At least some people actually like Trump. Is there anyone who even likes Mr Oracle?
> The cost of living in San Francisco is 200%-2000% higher than the cost of living in Jaipur.

Why on earth do you assume that this is unrelated to workers protections? These protections aren't a bad thing, but to ignore their negative impacts can be shortsighted...
There is a Rust linked list joke in here somewhere but I'm stuck in a loop so I can't find it.
No worries! I'm familiar with Trungpa's warnings about spiritual materialism. I know the context of Vajrayana is quite different from the "Batman Effect" discussed in the original article, but I wanted to spur discussion in general about the power of assuming the identity (transitory though it may be) of a chosen figure.

And for anyone who's interested in tantra, I'll spell out the warnings more explicitly: this kind of practice should only be attempted under the careful guidance of an expert - a teacher who is empowered by a qualified lineage. These kinds of visualizations are very powerful, and can be dangerous to one's mental health if done foolishly. Hacking with the boundaries of one's ego and merging with deities is not to be done lightly. Seek expert instruction.
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Well considering they completely butchered their GDPR compliance to leverage said data overseas w.r.t digital audiences (they just had to pull out) I'd guess they would like the idea of more activity data, but don't have much confidence they'll get much value from it.
Anti-tracking cookie defenses will mean that, for sites you don't visit with sufficient frequency, any remembered decision will be forgotten a week after your last visit.

I believe this is why cookie warnings have suddenly skyrocketed, and why Google Recaptcha treats us all as robots suddenly. It means that the form of 'intermittent' tracking you describe will only work for everyday Reddit visitors, not for those sufficiently occasional to see their cookies purged.
you put it so simply i almost missed it: they are an ad company
No actual device announced, just a licensing agreement for the Blackberry brand to a Foxconn subsidiary "to deliver a new 5G BlackBerry Android smartphone with physical keyboard, in the first half of 2021 in North America and Europe".

Bad title, the original is "OnwardMobility Announces Agreements with BlackBerry and Foxconn Subsidiary FIH Mobile to Bring BlackBerry 5G Smartphones to Market" which I might summarize as "Foxconn Subsidiary Licenses Blackberry Brand".
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How bad Jackson is depends highly on which problems are attempted and in which context. The content is fine and perfectly understandable. We used it during my third year of undergrad. Homework mostly consisted of the easy-to-medium problems, and self-study could focus on the medium-hard.

Between that and the highly-abstract statistical physics course (it started with an introduction to differential forms), I learned more in my third year of college than in any other.

That said, I now work in IT.
Perhaps in Aug 19, 2120.
Well, fr sealed classes it's quite good, but yeah, nothing like the scalas and haskells of this life
He says known method, not known good method.
What to do when you don't have any friends? Can you play with strangers?
Hi, Martin from Quell here. Thanks for the insight! In truth we hadn't considered the full connotations of "High Impact" so will adjust the positioning accordingly. Would definitely be a shame to put off people for this reason. One of the benefits of our wearable is that it acts to prevent the hyper-extension of the arms that can cause injury or soreness when throwing straight shots while shadow boxing, so definitely keen to make sure we explain this properly!
Mainly wanted to get different thoughts on how to create a trusted company brand
Not every character needs to be charismatic.
Just to note that Nerves is for devices that can run Linux. So it covers a different case compared to AtomVM.
> Among all the feasible buyers, Oracle feels like the worst possible one.

That depends on your goal. If you are the President and find that users on TikTok keep making fun of you, which you find offensive and want it to stop, then perhaps this is a good choice.
+1 to bernstein-- his young people's concerts are a very approachable introduction to classical music
> getting a rocket to orbit isn't that big of a deal these days

Sure, you just have to run fast enough. If you meant that from a PR perspective, I agree. Sad, but true.
I've been wanting to replace my Android box with a Linux box for a while, and I think this signals my Android TV exit.
The main reason I have an Android TV box is because of its easy to use UI. I haven't found a suitable desktop environment or web browser configuration that supports a TV-scale UI on Linux. Does anyone have a Linux HTPC setup they're happy with? I really don't want to need a mouse and keyboard to watch Netflix, etc.
Because the mobile application is a much better, richer and faster experience for daily active users. For a casual user who is following a link from a google search, perhaps the web version is better. Reddit would like to convert users from the latter group to the former, because stickiness on their platform is what drives revenue. It's not a public service that owes you free information at ease, it's a business.
Does it have to be common for it to be a problem? Since they shouldn't be doing it in the first place, if even one person gets stalked using this data that's one too many.
> bring the total debt load down

You saw the part where I said people would just take out new debt, right? You can't force people to lower their debt load unless you also prevent them from taking out more debt.
What page was that rape on? I don't remember reading it.
Don't underestimate the network effect that one person may have by quitting. By sharing their story with others on how they quit, it may inspire others to quit, and so on.
How is it better? (I read the blog post [1], as a technical writer I'm curious to hear people's first impression about which changes are most impactful)

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-and-improved-workers-docs/
Just to be clear, those numbers aren't directly comparable. The market cap is the total value of the company, whereas the yearly budget is the cost for a single year.
I know it's passe to say "hey there's an xkcd for that", but this is one of my all-time favorites, and it's directly relevant, so... enjoy! :)

https://xkcd.com/810/
Holy crap. Feels like just yesterday they hit 1T.
>> That is even higher than US military budget. I really don't know which one is a bigger waste of money and effort

A budget and market cap are fundamentally two different things, and are incomparable.
Hey! Lorenzo from Quell here.
Thank you, really appreciate the feedback.
We're working really hard to add movements to the game - for us, it is absolutely key that it doesn't feel like a boxing simulator.
We're also working on many other aspects to make the game fun and enjoyable long-term: we're building a fully fledged story, a super wide variety of enemies, main characters, environments, movements and spells, and one of our stretch goals is to develop a roguelike mode, which would really push our users to their limit!

If you have more feedback / input, please do let us know! Thank you!
>Is there a music buff's roadmap, some sort of a chronologically-ordered list of the best and most influential albums that gives a coherent picture of how music evolved over the 20th century?

This is a huge undertaking as a LOT of music has been made during that time period, covering a huge amount of genres and cultural movements. I think you're going to get overwhelmed.

Is there a reason why youre more concerned with the history of the medium than current releases ? We are living in one of the best times in history to access new music. It can be as simple as finding a reviewer/website you like and following their recommendations.

With that said, there are a lot of amazing albums that have been released in the past, this goes without saying. But like other people have mentioned, the best approach is an organic one. Find compilations of famous albums or singles, listen to them, focus on what you like, read up about the genre and find other recommendations. I find youtube is especially good at taking you down rabbit holes.

If you dont know where to start, you can look at 4chans music boards "essential" albums [1] and see what appeals to you. Never thought I would recommend something from that site but it actually did expose me to a lot of new stuff 10 years ago. Other popular sites like Pitchfork and Sputnik music tend to write articles about influential albums or genres.

If you are interested in the "why" behind some of the history, David Byrne (formerly of the Talking Heads) wrote a phenomenal book on the subject called "How Music Works", that explains a lot of important shifts in the mediums history.

[1] https://4chanmusic.fandom.com/wiki/Essential_Charts
Love the idea, and I'd be very much interested in trying this out.

Having done a little bit of boxing, it's a pretty good full body workout. It's hard to say how the resistance bands would feel compared to a punching bag though. Also: how do they work for different punches like uppercuts?

How would you track blocking? How accurate is the position tracking? The tracking animation notably only measures one dimension (extension), not the direction in 3D. That seems quite hard just with the bands.

Another concern: I feel like for many users the punching motions would get boring really quickly.

Engaging game(s) would be key. Since it's all you do, the punching must be satisfying. Including making me "feel" the impact. That means: smooth animations with accurate position tracking, quality audio, ....

What I see in the video does not work so well for me. Having some variety would also be key. Eg have a basic boxing ring available for mindless punching, but also a more engaging RPG style game where you don't punch all the time - for longer sessions.

Building full-fledged quality games in addition to the hardware seems like a very big task.

Have you thought about searching for interesting indie games (including the various VR boxing variations) and looking for partnerships?
They block on the subreddit's main page, but individual pages are not blocked. I sometimes request desktop site, click on the discussion I want, than go back requesting mobile site. Works well where there's always a long and daily discussion on the sub.

I will never download the app just because they do this.
> which probably have several people working full time on the issue

I think you grossly overestimate the intelligence, creativity, and willingness to optimize of most FT employees.
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The data is not sold to the public. You must be a private investigator, lawyer, debt collector or other limited party. The data is used mainly to find people and enforce their legal obligations. It's been going on for many years and is widely known. I'm surprised this is a story.
Parents of HN, what are your favorite learning apps?
I am a teacher and startup founder. I'm currently leading 4 digital learning pods for kids Prek, lower elementary, upper elementary, middle school and high school. Most of our pod time is focused on social-emotional learning and collaborative projects. We've found it's been really effective for students to supplement their class time with independent study using fun mastery-based learning apps. So far, we love math tango, animal typing lite, teach your monster to read, writing wizard, khan app kids. Would love some other recommendations for math, science, language arts, music, creative writing (and especially apps for older kids).

What are some other apps your kids love for independent learning?
This is not what is proposed, nor is what would happen. Speech protections are very strong in the US and direct censorship of an otherwise legal application is not likely to be a legal possibility.

What the executive does have the authority to do is regulate commerce. The proposal is that ByteDance would be embargoed from doing business in the US. This means, they can't pay for app store developer licenses, sell ads in the US, buy local CDN/cloud infrastructure etc.

You could have the app, but it's not likely that ByteDance would be able to operate it in the US.
The US military budget is an expenditure that occurs every year. Apple's market cap is the expected value of all of Apple's outstanding shares. These are really not comparable.
Ask the guy who buys a lot of hammers whether hammers work.

Ask the company who uses lots of nails whether hammers work.

I mean maybe the purchaser employee at the company has some conflict of interest around the question -- if they're specialized in evaluating and negotiating hammer purchases they'll not want the company to switch to screws.

But the company as a whole seems to have no vested interest in promoting hammers. They presumably want to sell the stuff they make with hammers and may lie to you about how awesome those products are. But lie about hammers? Why?
It seems all your examples are on consumer desktop computers. I would even say that iOS and mobile phones promote closed source software and are closed themselves, tightly controlled. And there are many arguments about this, too.

Again, I am not saying there aren’t pockets where closed source will hold out for a long time. I am saying why not have an open alternative also? Patentleft movement in pharma
It sounds like marketing for AWS.
As a use-case demonstration for Oracle Cloud?
IMO, net quality of life is the ultimate measure of success. Is the world a better place for humans as a result of some action? Our economic system does a poor job of rewarding the best behavior in that sense.
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I don't think many VAX-11/780s were shipped with 64MB RAM, the ones I used had 2 or 4.
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Did you know that companies that get on top 10 of most stock exchanges around the world don't actually stay there in like 10 years? They slip drastically, anywhere in the world.

Yeah, so companies aren't led by super humans. They make stupid decisions all the time.
Because a mobile user tracked with native ad frameworks brings in much more money than a mobile user tracked via the web browser.

Reddit deserves their Digg moment so much. I shall cherish the day it arrives.
As someone currently with a Key1 and have stubbornly held onto physical keyboards, I am hopeful this pans out. But other phone with physical keyboards have been promised and never come to fruition
What? its not worse than a ban, its so not worse that ByteDance could simply not sell its US operations and stop being present in the US, making it just like a ban. A ban would leave no option.

This is pretty much what China does, but for every service.
I recommend creating your own policy, for yourself and use it similarly in situations.

It leads to fun situations and enlightening conversations when its policy versus policy.

Who says which policy is more important?
Agreed it is like the wild west in regards to personal information these days in the US. Not so much innovation on the societal/political level preventing organizations and individuals from using data against you.
"meaningful sensory comparison" can not be made when you literally destroy your tea.

Which is exactly what you're going to do if you steep white or green tea in boiling water for 6mn. You might as well throw the tea into a half-full kitchen bin, wait 6 weeks and lick the bin-juice.
No, it's easy for library maintainers to offer a compat API in addition to however else they feel they need to differentiate and optimize the interfaces for array operations. People can contribute such APIs directly to libraries once instead of creating many conditionals in every library-utilizing project or requiring yet another dependency on an adapter / facade package that's not kept in sync with the libraries it abstracts.

If a library chooses to implement a spec compatability API, they do that once (optimally, as compared with somebody's hackish adapter facade which has very little comprehension of each library's internals) and everyone else's code doesn't need to have conditionals.

Each of L libraries implements a compat API: O(L)

Each of U library utilizers implements conditionals for every N places arrays are utilized: O(U x N_)

Each of U library utilizers uses the common denominator compat API: O(U)

L < U < (L + U) < (U x N_)
Every time it comes up, I am reminded that I delted the Reddit app and why. It was a tremendous time suck, with basically zero return on my time invested. (As opposed to HN of course which is an everlasting fount of wisdom...)
I think a big part of the issue here is that the robotic boom hasn't happened yet. There just isn't that much demand for robotics skills, and the market is not efficient.

If robotics and machine learning can progress to the point where household robotics or general-purpose robots become a thing, there will suddenly be an explosion in demand. Salaries for robotics experts will go through the roof, and all of a sudden, everyone will want to study robotics in school. This could take another 10-20 years to happen though!
They're looking for "High Intensity" (the HI in HIIT)
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It has gotten really obnoxious, especially if you aren’t signed in. Apart from the multiple pop ups that require dismissal on each page load, there are also dialogs that can’t be dismissed or bypassed on content marked sensitive/NSFW that only let you see the post if you use the app. With the hostile design choices and ever more draconian censorship, I’m hoping one of these Reddit alternatives like Ruqqus gain enough traction to recreate the old days of Digg/Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...
The reasoning I've seen for iOS/Safari not supporting webm: there isn't hardware support on the iPhone, which would hurt battery life. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16319651

However, I think that would be poor judgement on Apple's part. I mean, sure, preventing someone from watching a webm might preserve battery life, but why stop there: imagine the savings if they were to strip iOS down to merely being able to make phone calls!

Let the user consume whatever media they want, and if that media drains battery, that's on the user for making that choice. I can see that Apple wouldn't want people to complain about iPhone battery life if webm took over the web, but then I wouldn't mind some minor nag at the beginning of playback to the effect of "hey, this video you're playing may drain your battery faster than you might otherwise expect, so take it up with whoever is serving this content to provide an alternative encoding for iOS".
Well, this is a very liberal in a very blue state
Oracle sells enterprise software, and it has a pretty bad reputation in some engineering circles due to their aging technology and bad business practices. They don’t have any significant business lines in social or consumer tech AFAIK.

In this sense, they seem like they would have no clue about the needs and wants of teenagers, therefore making an odd match for TikTok
I'm sure Larry is a pretty big fan of himself. Outside of that...
Can see where you're coming from - VR's key USP is often touted as'immersion'.

For us, it's about building something that is exciting enough to distract you from the workout you're doing - the gaming takes over from the awareness of your exercise in your mind. There are a number of ways to do this, some would include VR. For now we've opted against it as our users found VR fitness too sweaty and uncomfortable in its present form.

Where do you stand on VR? Do you have any of the headsets currently?
Doctors, Nurses, clinical trail coordinators, paying a lab to process specimens, the list goes on. I work in a medical lab that charges a low flat rate for literally holding onto the specimens for a couple hours, and a high flat rate for any amount of processing, i.e. centrifuging specimens, pipetting into little labelled vials, adding certain preservatives, etc. This processing isn't really automation friendly and regulations require a CAP accredited lab to do the processing so it can't really be outsourced to a lower bidder.

I get the impression these companies aren't too concerned with the actual costs involved.
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Hey! Lorenzo from Quell here.
It's super important to us that that never happens.
We've tested the Gauntlet with a lot of users, with different body types, and have never had any problems like chafing. We're keen on maintaing that through high quality design and materials.

Thank you for your input!
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I mean I read the article and Trump simply said they'd be a good buyer. There is nothing about "sweetheart deals" or any actual facilitation of the deal whatsoever.
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I'd expect amazon long before Tesla, given the shift _away_ from driving and _towards_ more online ordering.
Kuiper also needs to figure out how to actually launch to space.

I think Starlink can figure out their onboarding customer experience faster than that happens..
In the context of Reddit, it's only a no-ad website if you're running adblock.
Honestly I would focus on figuring out a way to get access to a large body of music where you can arbitrarily access almost everything. So a Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music. If you have any music you like those services will likely have suggestions and you can go down the rabbit hole.

Alternatively, search Google for "top [insert genre here] songs".

The most important thing IMO is to start listening to as many different things as you can and dive deeper from there. Then you can get all academic on your preferred genres like everybody mentions here.