skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the biggest question I have. This, to me, doesn't function as a desk because of the incline. It has the potential to be a remarkably comfortable means to use a desktop (or perhaps laptop if you built in a way to mount it), but without a way for me to sit my coffee on it, or to put a notepad somewhere and not have to worry about it sliding off.

I know you can build in mounts for that stuff, but I think there's a lot of value in how dynamic desk surface is. Need 2 notepads so you can see things side by side? Cool, put it on the desk. Working on 2 laptops today, because you got a new one? Cool, put it on the desk.

I wonder if you could find a way to to make things stay put. Anything sticky would get all over your arms. Velcro seems usable if you put the soft side on the desk, but it's ugly. You could maybe use magnets that you embed into your stuff to increase the friction enough that they don't slide. Won't help with tea, but it should work for most other things. Modern monitors and computers without magnetic hard drive are okay with magnets, right? (I can't say for sure)
Thankfully most Git hosting websites do have this concept. You can revert a PR whole using github, etc
Reselling is basically recycling. Did the contract specify they had to be munched or stripped?
> Turns out that CGI is perfect for that : the only process always running are nginx and fcgiwrap, then all my apps are started only on demand, for the lifetime of the request.

This is a really nice idea. It almost makes me wish browsers could just make a local CGI request directly, without a webserver at all. A quick search turns up an extension for ye olde Firefox: https://github.com/RufusHamade/lcgi. I suppose with native messaging APIs it's probably possible with new extension APIs too, if a bit more convoluted.
I think what the parent comment was trying to imply was that some of us work for enterprise...and some of those enterprises push us to work in a manner that supports - not an ideal workflow, but rather - the procurement department's contracts with suppliers such as Microsoft...so we're forced to use specific platforms because of contracting not because it is the best tool for the job. I applaud you for seemingly working for an org that allows you the freedom to use your choice of tools! ;-)
I think you are reading too much into this, Honda is just not as big in Europe as they are in the US, investment in F1 is a major investment for any car company, even more manufacturing engines that won't translate to their future engineering advancements in consumer products so it's a matter of investment in technology vs brand awareness/exposure, which for Honda in Europe doesn't make sense.

To extrapolate that to a decline of Europe in terms of "European pessimism" is... Quite a leap.

Even more as there is no definition of what "decline" you are meaning here, if it's for green technology I can definitely tell there isn't a decline in Europe, if it's cultural that is a much bigger topic (and much fuzzier) to talk about.
This comment sounds like the inspiration for an Anchorman style comedic exploration of the dark underbelly of the vending machine world.
Google delays its 30-percent Play Store cut in India after pushback
Regarding "make invalid states unrepresentable", I'm curious what others think of FSM (Finite State Machines), eg use of XState (vs eg Redux) in the FE webapp state mgmt space.
National UK virus totals undercounted by 16,000 due to Excel spreadsheet error
For most companies, "big data" is when they can't fit the data in a single Excel sheet anymore.
What about your arms? Wouldn’t they get tired from always having your arms above your head/heart?
you should use mod_proxy_fcgi now
I use a backless chair, called “The swooper”, imo it’s the best of both worlds. Sitting and standing.

You can bounce aroundd on it which is fun too as the seat is mounted on a spring like a pogo stick.

Apparently this bouncing helps keep the joints lubricated.
Microsoft (MSFT) to Build Greek Data Centers
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I know. It means that the only commits left are the ones that originally where merge requests, and you loose the rest of the history.
>backup is too expensive, so investing into robustness and availability is the only option left.

No please don't say something like that if you love your data. Raid is for the availability of your data, a Backup is the secure storage/versioning of you data, two completely different things.
Yeah, but Iguanas don't post on HN.
But then you're not dealing with dates at all, just categories which happen to have names that look like dates, no?

Like you say, a "folder". But the photo file's metadata will either have a complete DateTime, or none at all, unless there is some sort of camera that is able to know what day of the year it is without knowing the year! Which due to things like leap years is impossible.
> This is not the issue at hand.

> Apple contracted a recycler to destroy the devices, and those devices made it out to the market, breaking contractual obligations.

There are definitely broken obligations, but who invented those obligations in the first place and why? Apple did it for profit and user control, against environment and ethics. This is the actual problem here.
This is why it's a feature that the original design of the US was a loose federation of independent states, with an intentionally very weak and restricted federal government. States are free to try different modes of governance and different levels of regulation, different levels of pro-employer or pro-employee legislation, etc. Ideally other states see what works and adopt the better models over time, and continue experimentation. For whatever reason though states seem very reluctant to take the stuff that is obviously working in another state and apply it at home, particularly when what is obviously working is the opposite of their system which isn't.
Nvidia announces $59 Jetson Nano 2GB model
Cloudflare doesn’t cache HTML pages by default only static files https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516. You need to specifically tell Cloudflare to cache HTML pages via page rules etc https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202775670

Cloudflare Workers don’t cache by default either for HTML pages only static files unless you write the Worker to cache HTML pages.

So if they tested on default index.html page then it would of been a Cloudflare Cache miss/bypass which may explain their results.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/customerdocumentation/EM1...

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Another cool thing is Calibre recognizes the Kindle. :)
Advance example of programmable voice using Project Fonos
Vending machines last way longer than 5 years; 25 years at least, the only thing is they require maintenance and repairs every once in a while, and the payment system may need to be swapped out depending on developments (e.g. accepting cards, contactless, phones, google/apple wallet, alipay, bitcoin, etc).
Greg Egan's Quarantaine explores this idea.
it's a network protocol not a language
The parts that can be feudalised already are. The big companies make the machines and sell them. Big companies make the software. What is left is the physical efforts of finding a location, putting the machine in place, and then tending it regularly. There isn't much to be gained by adding a layer of management over the top of that, so big players can't really skim off the top by good management making things better.

Also big companies have too much to lose to fraud. The route operators are alone with big piles of cash. It is very easy for someone who knows what they are doing to "discover" a broken a machine (read they break it) and it was dispensing the J row without payment, then take the extra cash.

All in all it is best to leave route operations to little players.
Alien (Typeset in the Future, 2014)
Or when structure typing is available,

type example = { firstName : string; lastName : string};;
let name x = x.firstName;;
name {firstName = "Joe"; lastName = "User"};;

Or to make it more specific

let name { firstName : string} = firstName;;
Yep. Don't buy expensive textbooks on the Kindle Store. That's a losing proposition.
I dunno, I'm fairly sure Coke machines are all owned / franchised by Coca Cola; after all, you can't just use their brand on the outside of your machine. I think.
Just a note to say that "extraordinary evidence" doesn't exist. It's just evidence. It's a circular notion, since if such a thing as "extraordinary evidence" were to exist, then proving it existed would require itself.
Those unfortunate enough to have injuries have similar desks, I have a journalist friend with very bad RSI or whatever you call it these days: she can't work fast any more but it let's her rest and apparently it's the easiest on her wrists.
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That's amazing. It also took me a year to build a product... But still no revenue!

I built an on-demand remote browser product[0], and safe link opener[1], and I made it open source[2] but paid license and no one paid.

I know people are using it because of the binary, npm CLI downloads, and use of the demos, and I had some inbound interest but mainly people who seemed to want to not pay, or were just prospecting tools for future possible features.

I think an issue is that these products are mostly for enterprise and big orgs, who mostly want to buy from established brands or connected people. I tried posting on gum-road and using my linked in premium trial to message possible customers, as well as cold email, but I guess this "product" is not meant to be.

That's OK since I was only releasing it to fund me as a layer of a larger product I'm building.

[0]: https://browsergap.dosyago.com

[1]: https://isolation.site

[2]: https://github.com/cris691/OuterShell

I know this is supposed to be about generating revenue but some others posted without revenue so I thought it's OK to share :)
Ah nice...because of AES-NI! Being a longtime user/giver to World Community Grid.
Central banks are jelous of stable coins getting traction, and it seems that they want to create competition, which is a good thing. The problem seems that even they can't decide what they want and how they want to implement it.

Stable coins can be owned by any entity using a private key without KYC regulations (that don't fit the central banking system), but if KYC regulations are required (just like with opening a bank account), hundreds of millions of people (or even billions) are probably left behind again in the world.
It's also free and built-in. Also, it isn't quite true that this functionality is missing as it is provided by the full Office 365 offering (Office 365 has a fully featured wiki).

Teams wiki is simple, because it's tied to channels that are frequently transient. Regardless, I wouldn't bank on any long-term advantage from having these features. MS could drop a Teams update tomorrow and render your entire business case moot (either by adding those missing features, or changing the API in some detrimental, to you, way, or making their offering better than yours).

I hope you do well, but .. you're directly competing with a core functionality (provided for free) in Teams. And that's a tough spot to be in, short-term and long-term. If you want to make a business from it, I would explore ways to pivot.
I did hear one of those factoids saying more people are killed by vending machines than sharks...

https://freakonomics.com/2011/09/08/how-are-sharks-less-dang...
http://archive.is/Xyf6r
(3) in practice, they are never sandboxed
Which is why I find a complete waste of time the whole OOP vs FP vs ECS vs ADT discussions, instead of embracing all ideas as part of multi-paradigm toolbox that most mainstream languages actually are.
>Honda isn't leaving F1 to focus on green tech, it's leaving because they're burning money and not seeing any return.

Really, both are technically true. But you'd be a pretty bad PR representative if you phrased your announcement to emphasize the latter.
How long are you using it for every day?
I also own that chair, but i find it uncomfortable for longer periods of time and tend switch to a chair with a backrest after ~1h
The climate science behind this year's wildfires and powerful storms
Main story: https://www.wired.com/story/star-witness-your-smart-speaker/
Function is a mapping between two sets (of values). This mapping between values is mutable although the values are not.
They're spending other people's money.

But how they get the money and from who is a factor too.

This always happens when real property is taxed rather than commerce, and the amount of land available for development is limited or fixed.

To start with all land is taxed according to its initial assessment, after that revenues can not increase without raising rates and/or further developing parcels to increase their taxable value.

Both of which are unsustainable in the face of any inflation at all.

Each of which have their staunch supporters at odds with the other.

If only rate increases are considered, rate increases will have to outpace inflation or the taxing authority will go bankrupt.

The taxing authority can not be allowed to fail especially since the original purpose of this type tax is for the taxpayer to go bankrupt before the nobility does.

Eventually the _landowner_ will be assessed more tax than the land itself brings in, and will require _owners_ having outsized wealth from other sources, often only multigenerational prosperity will be sufficient.

At the other extreme where revenue growth comes only from further property development, pressure is greatest on undeveloped properties having the biggest upside potential.

New infrastructure is built at the expense of the old, spread more widely, and naturally not yet having future inflated maintenance costs incurred.

Little hand-waving is needed when a tax payer & collector are all prospering over the deal in the short term and there is some plausibility to behave as if future prosperity for all taxpayers will increase at the rate enjoyed by those involved with the development. Surely making costly things easier by then.

Inflation makes it impossible to know for sure anyway.

Mix and match these growing costs across citizenry which is not becoming more prosperous, and eventually there is no discretionary wealth except among the few who overcame the inflationary toll.

Taxing commerce instead of property allows revenue to grow at the rate of real prosperity unlimited. With the risk that revenue will drop when prosperity drops, or the authority will go bankrupt at the same time as the general citizenry in such a case.

Not a realistic risk since the authority will have enough credit to delay its own bankruptcy until after the majority of the citizens are ruined.

I guess the point of view about what kind of tax could ideally fund infrastructure indefinitely depends on whether you are a lowly taxable subject or a high-born guv'nor.
> This criticism and comparison is ridiculous

It's really not. We have more than enough history to corroborate.

> And 2008 has killed plenty of people, by rendering them homeless, hungy, and unable to afford healthcare.

Right, and these events are rare and noteworthy also — the only other time that had happened before that was during the 1930's. The same cannot be said for structural changes in government. In addition, if you think the scale and severity of economic deaths of despair caused by 2008 can be compared with the civil wars in the Middle East, the Balkan Kosovo War, the World Wars (and Holocaust), or what's going on in Central Africa...I really don't know what to say.
I have trouble believing this would still work; why should a barber shop get only a fraction of what people put into the machine? They see that thing all day and will know how much money goes through it, what's stopping them from kicking Buffet out and buying their own?

I think the modern equivalent around here is the odd slot machines and cigarette vending machines at pubs; I'm fairly sure they aren't owned by the pub itself, because of regulations and stuff.
I stand corrected, I have little experience Android. Good to know.
I must be a bit old-fashioned but I would love to see comparisons against running a simple VM with Nginx.

> Google Cloud’s regional and multi-regional buckets perform fairly alike. Interestingly, both are much faster than S3, which is a comparable service. Is Google doing some caching behind the scenes?

These are both incredibly complicated services and describing what they do as “caching” would be too much of a simplification.
This is a thin wrapper around a Wired article from two months ago [1]. The link should be updated to point to the original. Previously discussed on HN [2].

1: https://www.wired.com/story/star-witness-your-smart-speaker/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24258078
This website is filled with ads and unusable for me.
> Nobody ever says anything bad about laying down

Really? Then let me be the first:

IT'S "LYING DOWN", FFS!

You can be laying down the law, but on a bed you are usually "lying down".

This has been a public service announcement, et cetera, et cetera.
That's amazing. It also took me a year to build a product... But still no revenue!

I built an on-demand remote browser and safe link opener[1], and I made it open source[2] but paid license and no one paid.

I know people are using it because of the binary, npm CLI downloads, and use of the demos, and I had some inbound interest but mainly people who seemed to want to not pay, or were just prospecting tools for future possible features.

I think an issue is that these products are mostly for enterprise and big orgs, who mostly want to buy from established brands or connected people. I tried posting on gum-road and using my linked in premium trial to message possible customers, as well as cold email, but I guess this "product" is not meant to be.

That's OK since I was only releasing it to fund me as a layer of a larger product I'm building.

[1]: https://isolation.site

[2]: https://github.com/cris691/OuterShell.git

I know this is supposed to be about generating revenue but some others posted without revenue so I thought it's OK to share :)
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Yup, right on. Mercedes Petronas has been destroying everyone.
So now they have salmon in vending machines... Tried to buy some fish once and the cashier just laughed at me and wanted to sell me fishing equipment.
This is an excellent point. Experimentation is always a good idea. I have just got cynical and conservative about what I choose for the basis of production systems.

Actually for full disclosure I should say that I am currently building a telecomms system in Elixir. I find the decades of battle testing in the BEAM reassuring.
faggot data collection of bullshit
As a enterprise hardware manager isn’t this what you’d want though?
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Kudos to who ever came up with the idea!
Excel always feels like a bit of a curse of the world for me, and one that makes me feel like I'm going mad. I work partly in partnership with the NHS within my university, and get to see it being applied, completely inappropriately, with no ability to comment.

For me, I always feel like I'm living in some sort of parallel universe. Imagine living in a world where _you_, and a select group of others, know that there are better methods to drive a screw into a wall than punching it with your fist. However, 99% of people in the world punch screws into walls by hand, because they know how to use the only tool they have to hand (i.e. their hand). Their friends and neighbours do too. Their colleagues show them neat little tricks about how to fold your hand better to get the screw in with less pain, or more efficiently. The "proper" option -- drilling a pilot hole, using a self-tapping screw, understanding the difference between nails, bolts and screws, etc, or the concept of wall-plugs, is "too technical", "too complex", or requires "a large amount of infrastructure to fix a simple problem" [buying a drill & screwdriver, etc]. Sometimes people buy new walls with screws pre-installed because the thought of driving in those screws seems like an overwhelming technical burden.

You, and a group of similarly-minded nerds, understand just how stupid this is at times. You personally then spend the rest of your life watching people occasionally have horrific hand injuries from punching screws into walls and refusing the offer of screwdrivers. Others profit from selling vertical hard surfaces with a whole array of convenient screws pre-installed; or get employed teaching others the _very_ basics of screw-driving, or sell products containing all sorts of klunky hacks to cope with the fact that screws manually installed are at odd angles and tend to fall over randomly. The supplier of a popular brand of screwdrivers happens to be the world's largest screw manufacturer, but never seems to promote screwdrivers to people who currently punch them in with their fists. Instead, they sell them a subscription to screws, with the option for a very expensive pre-screwed wall-delivery service, built to your specification (that they call Dynamics for some reason…).

You, and a subset of your nerdy and educated friends recognise just how batshit insane the widespread use of punching-as-a-method-to-install-screws is, and occasionally laugh about it, mostly to distract yourself from the grim reality of buildings badly held together by punched-in-screws. Every so often a skyscraper-sized building collapses, [1] and it's realised in retrospect that the manually-driven-in-screws were not the right tool for the job. Still, people carry on banging in screws with their fists, and you increasingly realise that you have to -- somehow -- accept that in order to sleep at night without going insane.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/excel-partly-to-blame-for-tr...
As a sole operator though the pay is better because you don't have overhead. If you pay a helper, some of the net income goes to you as the manager, and some to them (you can split that up however you choose). In some businesses management is hard and so the manager can skim off the top of their employees and yet their great management skills can pay the employees more than they would get along. This isn't one of those business where skilled management is required though, so a manager is just skimming off the top and a good employee will soon figure out they can start their own business and make more money without the manager.
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javascrap for retards
Tory Covid track and trace system used Excel columns to store data, crashed
tl;dr:
It's the same device as before in terms of processing, but with less RAM and fewer connectivity options (and therefore cheaper)
Simplify your automation scripts with a low-code task-runner
lmao, that's a good one. It's like those reality soaps on Discovery (e.g. the gold miners), always complaining that they didn't find nearly enough to make ends meet, but surprise surprise, next season they buy tons of new equipment. They're not in the gold mining industry, they're in the acting industry.

The motorcycle / car customizers aren't as much into that business as they are in the acting & marketing one. Worked great for OCC, the show turned them into an internationally recognized brand. Wouldn't be surprised if they earn more off of merchandise than motorcycles.