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Ask HN: Desk Recommendations?
I often see standing desk recommendations here, but never anything for regular old desks. I'm currently using a 5 year old $200 IKEA desk and it's wobbly, which makes my monitor wobble and shake, plus I don't like the laminate - lots of scratches now.

It also seems like almost all desks are 60x30", isn't there anything bigger?

Does anyone have a recommendation? Not looking for anything fancy, just:

- solid, non-wobbly

- large surface area

- solid wood would be nice

- if it looks cool, bonus points
Well now that you put it like that…

…I guess NFTs are awesome after all. Where’s my credit card at…
If I was told that I get 1300sq ft to live in, and then got in trouble or kicked out for using all of it, I'd be pretty pissed off.
2020's Prop 19 to reform property taxes just a bit had about $20 million behind it, and it didn't even land on the ballot.

SF would need to gut its entire permitting system. Today, it can't even make small and incremental improvements: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/Is-p...
One big selling point is having almost everything you need right there with you in the same runtime environment (the Erlang's BEAM VM).

Many underestimate this but it's a huge benefit for most projects that don't need a complex deployment pipeline.
RSS was almost killed because it's more difficult to monetize the contents for content publishers/creators, not due to performance problems. Obviously Google has something in mind.
I think it's hypocritical to call this fraud: this contract itself was exploited for a loophole; if you declare it valid as allowed by the protocol, then simply changing the protocol (which is what was done temporarily) is also valid and according to the working of the system. I think it was within the spirit of the system to work this way.
A common archetype.
You missed the point completely. The issue is that it requires tech skills instead of being accessible to everyone, so those techies can, as you say "nuke" people.
I just don't know how it works in detail on the bacnking side as i havenot worked with it.

My thought was that a crypto based system could replace perhaps a sea of different approaches and alignment efforts across banking systems and if a central bank/banks are just need to approve a block, instead of mining it, the basic idea of a transparent cryptosigned blockchain might be useful.

But yes i don't think they need something like this as the current system seems to be very trustworthy. I have never heard of a bank creating money out of thin air.
When Outlook becomes a PWA (currently in test, I think it's probably two-three years from stable), it'll be rendering mail with all the functionality of Blink. Which depending on your point of view, means a sigh of relief or time to buy more RAM.

https://www.windowscentral.com/project-monarch-outlook-web-u...
I type at a pretty decent pace (~80 wpm), but I spend a lot more time thinking about what I'm going to type and reviewing what I just typed than pressing buttons on the keyboard.

I'd imagine this is the case for most people not doing stenography or data entry.
> Sacramento doesn't get talked about in tech circles and sites like this and related articles, because it's not supposed to be the "next sexy tech town", but in reality is a lot of people have moved here since the pandemic, both tech and not.

Sacramento also has a train line that takes you to Santa Clara, which is better than driving - this has made it a better choice for a few of the folks to consider that over Dublin or Pleasanton in the most recent migration (Amtrak is close to a lot of hardware-lab specific jobs like Nvidia, Lockheed, Marvell, GlobalFoundries and Arista), though that connectivity might shift if BART finally loops around to SJC.

Also Sacramento has good schools, decent federal funding pull (over say Tracy) and an airport with a few direct flights from Seattle or NYC.

The only downside pretty much is the weather in comparison and that too not by much.
Maybe it's only for the EU, but on adsettings.google.com you cab tell it not to use personalised data for ads.
> tether likely never had a dollar in a bank account for each USDT, at any point, ever

Why does this really matter? As a user of USDT the only thing that matters is that the people in the market amicably agree to trade it at around 1 USD, which they seem to be doing.

Being "backed" by something is a concept of a bygone century that doesn't really apply to the Gen Z economy. What is USD backed by anyway?
Realisticly the problem here is;

The headline says they're generating unit tests automatically.

Which means I expect that I run a command, and it plops out unit test code. automatically. without my interaction.

The article is about recording repl interactions. that's not automatic.

and really, they look like implementation details? so bad examples? I don't know scheme, so shrug
‘Sustainable’ Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change
Does this include IE11.dll? (used by some internal MS tools as a renderer, eg: Office Add-ins)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/concepts...
Unless you use a "reader mode" capable RSS reader, that is.
Unfortunately that is irrelevant to preventing runs.
Apple’s head of software admits Macs have an unacceptable amount of malware
Thankfully SF has people like Mark Zuckerberg, and is appreciative of his donation of a large amount of money to the city's hospital in order to improve life in the city.

Right?
Update: I heard back from DigitalOcean, and they're going to extend my credits through the end of the year.

"We would like to extend your referral credits referenced in the previous email through December 31, 2021. This specifically includes those credits which were set to expire on May 25th due to lack of use. Any new credits earned through the referral program will be subject to the 12 month expiration policy."

I don't know if they're going to do this automatically, so you might want to reply to their email.

This isn't perfect, but the rest of the year gives me more flexibility than one week. Hopefully I can use them up.
I really don't see any reason to move from Rails other than a new CTO trying to shake things up with a tech he's more familiar with.
If Shopify/Github/Gitlab/ can build it on Rails so can you. If the monolith is too big you can break it down with engines or to separate apps.
Now I like Rails but I would say the same about PHP/Node or most popular stacks. Rewrites to another language are almost always unnecessary.
I like reading about these historical trends.

For a number of reasons, subjective well being amongst women has precipitously declined across the last century: https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp09-11bk.pdf

Paradoxes, when analyzed with this measure, the social movements over the last century have mainly gone towards delta improvements for men.
No problems https://xmpp-servers.404.city/
Doesn't for me... but either way, they could do far more than that.

If I'm having connectivity issues to a person, I have no feedback as to what's wrong. If I'm having a connection issue talking to a person, I want to see my ping to their server, my ping to my router, my ping to my ISP, their ping to their router, their ISP, their server, how much packet loss... anything to help diagnose what's wrong.

Instead, when somebody turns into a slideshow with a robot voice, with no idea what's causing the problem.
Yeah, Chrome can be very devious at figuring it out. I've had success using `autocomplete="new-password"` at least.
My dad's favorite saying is what you think and what you thought are 2 different things
That's genuinely a better plan than just holding.

I don't like active trading a lot, but if I did, then this would be ideal.
From a default btc perspective, we are very aware of how many transactions are there.

Non of my ways of buying/using bitcoins is doing it indirectly.

And i do have to assume that this is nothing you can't estimate. After all either those systems are known and used, than you should be able to verify that this is a potential lightning transaction block which contains more or so.
Patent show US/China developing craft eerily similar to UFOs reported by Navy
I moved from SF to Oakland last year during the pandemic, and honestly, Oakland is just as great as SF for restaurants, bars, and nightlife... as long as you have a car or method of transportation.
Turn your biostartup into a smart digital company
> we'd change Roman Catholic Churches

just curious what do you mean by changing Roman Catholic churches? As far as i know there is only one roman catholic church, but with different dogma's depending on region.
This is totally simplistic. If you think western journalists are incentivised to criticize basic societal norms and systemic problems, I have a bridge to sell you. I'm also not sure where you're getting these 'hyper-critical' editorials from - where I come from, nearly 150 thousand people just died in a pandemic, and the media has barely said a critical word.

Obviously, in China, they are allowed to criticize even less, but westerners do not read chinese news.

What's more, nor does anybody else.

So the image of China doing very well is not for a lack of bad press. If you read publications about China over the last decade or so, it's a constant slew of doomsaying, and negativity, mostly about problems that turned out to be very surmountable or insubstantial.

The image of China becoming more and more hegemonic is simple: look at their economic growth. Look at the size of the nation. Look at their intellectual culture. China being a very powerful country is a return to a historical norm, and is a totally reasonable development given how big their population is, how skilled it is, and its values.

Meanwhile, the west is seen as falling apart because it is having a massive identity crisis which involved things like the leader of the free world bragging about how big his nukes were on Twitter.

I'm not frankly particularly enthusiastic about China as a world power - I'm not a fan of confucianism, for example, and CCP spokespeople talk like politicians from dystopian sci-fi, but I think it's profoundly wrong to think China is deceiving the world with its masterful press controls. Far from it - the direct censorship and press controls are very blunt mechanisms most states have given up on because they don't work and if you're good at media, you don't need them anyway.
Since when has a reality-tv career been considered high class.
Statistically it’s much more likely that you are.
Well that is kind of my point: It doesn't make sense to complain this would break password managers if they don't even use autofill in the first place.
The End of Paper (ReMarkable Tablet Review)
Why is it a shitty play? A shitty play would have been inventing a new proprietary protocol for this and tying it into Google tech somehow.

And "follow" is not a "social media buzz word". "Follow" and "Subscribe" have been used for fucking ever in the RSS world, long before Facebook was a thing.
It seems they recognize that the community level functions of tech are more salient than the individual level functions. In our society we tend to take the opposite approach. We evaluate technology only based on how it benefits an individual, while overlooking its effect on communities.

A desktop computer at work or in the living room somehow doesn't have the addictive qualities of a smartphone. Perhaps it's because all technology does is amplify networks, and the networks created by isolated people with devices are different from the bonds of family, work, proximity, etc.
OK, but who/what will the top holders of BTC exit to? In what scenario will the price go to zero?

"Bans" are not going to do it. It was designed toward censorship resistance. That moves it to an underground, at best.

The top holders are not going to dump it - they've committed book value assets; mining companies, exchanges - they aren't going to exit.

For their continued existence to make sense they want more things to be traded in crypto, so they invent stuff like "NFT" and "DeFi". Half of it is crap, but I have been around long enough to remember when Wall Street was bullish on "3D Television". Investors always want angles to make their current holdings more valuable, and as of this moment there are far too many crypto projects to be aware of them all. The re-investment rate is huge. Far different from when a penny pumper puts out the "good news" that they have put their logo on a race car and have t-shirts available.

So as I see it, it's either not a Ponzi or everything is.
None of this makes any sense at all. Composability of contracts leads to higher velocity of money? Where do you get this from? And why do we want higher velocity of money? The only people who care about velocity of money are macroeconomists. Velocity of money has literally zero impact on businesses and individuals.
Your cards are almost certainly worth a lot less. Maybe they are beta, but they probably aren’t nearly as good condition as you would like to think.
Low quality food absolutely can make you fat because it makes it harder to eat properly. Unhealthy food isn’t just “easier to overeat” but also messes with insulin to make you feel more hungry than you actually are.
By an army
It doesn’t matter at all, until it’s the only thing that matters.
Is Bitcoin Anarchy or Civilization
Thank you for posting this. By reading this I learned of Condorcet and I'm hoping to get some inspiration from his "Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind".
We're testing out a way to follow websites directly in Chrome
How about letting people disable this cropping crap altogether
> The real reason Nvidia is doing this is that when mining profitability inevitably drops, either because of a crypto price crash or Ethereum moving to Proof of Stake, the miners will flood the used market and ruin Nvidia's profits for a few quarters. Nvidia is trying to get miners to buy mining-only cards, because those can't be sold to gamers down the line. They'd rather mining cards become e-waste in a few years than get resold.

What they could have done is instead sell the video-capable cards in a way that discourages bulk buying (limits per customer, maybe a little bit bulkier and harder to correctly cool if several are in a rack) and then release a more bare-bone (no bulk, just a heatsink and optional fan) mining version that can be bulk-ordered and performs well in a rack mount.
Considering Youtube probably doesn't break even ( Alphabet don't list YouTube expenses separately, only revenues, which is suspicious), and the vast majority of content on YouTube is thoroughly unmarketable and unprofitable ( think vacation videos, school lessons, etc.), maybe, maybe not?
Reverse Engineering the Google News RSS
You could say that about any fiat.
It helps that IRC is extremely simple. Most servers you can connect to and chat using telnet if you're so inclined.
Peter Thiel made the same point in 2018 and decided to focus his investments in other regions.

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/peter...
Unless a person becomes omniscient after 25years of experience - you can easily miss horrible work.
It should, however not sure about installation documentation. As always, the gentoo and arch wiki should get you there, even on ubuntu
Maybe it will finally force people to upgrade away from IE11 in the Finance/Wealth industry.
It really isn't a pronoun, but goes into the implicit versus explicit thing. If your pronouns are "He/Him" you want to be called "Man", implicitly. If I don't say "Dude", explicitly, how are they to know?... Plus, I've met several people who chafe at being called "Dude", and I prefer it TBH. "Hey, dude" or "Dude's got good coding practices" are perfectly fine by me, but I'm also in my 40's and it shows =/
In response to this article, I've disabled it in place of using the standalone Adguard app. So far I haven't gotten either symptom.
Will it store things that were placed into a field with auto fill off?
question if you will entertain it - what was your original YC pitch like? i'd love to see the evolution of this idea :)
> I'm not sure about text selection, but there's probably a way to do that as well

Sure. It's usually some CSS rule that can be easily turned off. These things are still extremely annoying though. We should not have to fix people's sites.
This announcement is a much better hope: IE11 being replaced by edge, which will also have a modern rendering engine, which will be only one anyone needs to support.
Pro tip: the deposits in your bank account are not backed by actual money 1-to-1
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>The number of rules limit is a non-issue

The big controversy some time back when Chrome wanted to implement a limit just like this with Manifest v3 says otherwise. This was both from users and adblock developers and it is exactly as bad as people said it would be. Saying it is a good idea because of privacy risks is completely off the rails. Sure you might run a tiny risk but without a proper adblocker like uBlock you do run a risk on every single webpage you open and unlike a good adblokcer you have no idea if you can trust a webpage until after they have already harvested everything they can about you. You cannot uninstall yourself from the thousands of databases you get added to to so it is in a totally other ballpark.
Gen Z economy. What are you talking about? USD has been fiat since the 70’s
> If you invest time learning Erlang everything around Elixir will make sense

But this seems like a big issue to me. It probably makes the learning curve high if u basically need to learn 2 languages.
It is said about all fiats, of which tether is one. And the confidence seems to be at the endpoint.
“Miss Shilling's Orifice” helped win the war (2020)
I don’t have a strong opinion about tether, but it matters who gets to create money in an economy. Ideally, the judges of the money spigot should point it towards productive and beneficial long term endeavors. I also happen to think that the existing financial system is failing to do that.

Addition: also the democratic principle should be kept in mind. Sovereign currencies are a resource of their respective people.
they may need a treaty to resolve issues between private companies as well and not only nations give we are seeing more private enterprise enter spa(ce)tial frontier.
I think it mostly matters because an article like this can be released if they lack actual cash backing that causes people to lose faith in the real value of USDT and then people don't amicably agree to trade it at around 1 USD because it can't actually be converted to that value.

This may seem pedantic but that's because economics is pedantic - things can appear to be running fine for a long time but if some basic assumptions are violated the whole thing can topple like a house of cards.
You can't think of a reason why it matters that a financial firm was lying about whether or not it had literal billions of dollars when they issue a coupon that allegedly can be redeemed for actual dollars?
>The goal of all students is to pass the test so that they can make it into Seoul University so that Samsung will hire them. The bottleneck is the test. Life afterwards is easy.

That sounds quite similar to the JEE tbh. Won't you say that a significant cause of the stress is the cultural expectation that all parents have that their should be able to get into Seoul University and eventually a job at Samsung?

In India there is a good reason for this mindset, because we do not have many good universities and base salaries are very low and of course there is not much of a social security net. I wonder what causes a similar mindset in a developed country like South Korea.

> Every Einstein whose passion is in Machine Learning and spends all of his time on that topic will fail this test.

Any person who does not have a basic understanding of his background and social situation is not an Einstein.

Regardless, that is a very strange example indeed. I really don't understand what kind of a person has the background and social circle that enables him to do top quality research in a highly specialized field of engineering (that also requires considerable funds to run any sort of experiments) at the age of 17 but also doesn't have the connections that will help him get into a decent university.
One thing you're not accounting for is that companies normally plan for growth--whether or not that ends up happening. I expect a lot of companies that were likely exploring real estate expansion pre-pandemic have stomped on the brakes and will wait and see. So they may or may not downsize but they probably won't expand like they normally would have.
You may be amused to know that I debug my content blockers by keeping around a debug build if WebKit with a handful of breakpoints at the right spots to trace them. The experience really does suck…
This doesn't seem like a productive topic for...anyone.
I've been use FeedBro for Firefox for the last couple years and it's great.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
> become worse and worse as damage accumulates. And that there's no word for such a property

I think the name for that property is "age". :)

Do you have an example of something that gets better in the presence of accumulated damage? Maybe giving something the "weathered" look on purpose? I can really only think of subjective examples.

Things that get worse with accumulated damage definitely abound in physics. One example that came immediately to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-carrier_injection
You're making giant leaps from what I said. I didn't say it's an absolute truth forever and always throughout the universe that you can't create new standards bodies. I said this was a bad place to do it.
If I own $100 worth of tether can I exchange them through the official tether organization/company for $100 cash?
Maybe because their promise from the start was to be 100% fully backed by cash reserves and to do regular audits. The audits never happened and then they just changed the language in the website without announcement.

If it didn't matter then why make the promise in the first place?
Pro tip: Modern finance is also a Ponzi scheme.
Not the gp but Drop Feeds (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/) is great Firefox RSS reader add-on.

It sits in the sidebar and automatically updates so you can immediately see when a feed updates, then the feed renders in the main panel. This is very useful for news, status pages, and things like live YouTube events.
I've been privy to the discussions at Mozilla about this topic. I can assure you, things are not the way they are out of either laziness or ignorance.
Barbell reviewing!
I found his review of The Count of Monte Cristo hilarious. I read it as a teen and it is in my opinion one of the greatest novels ever written. Apparently he only read it for idle distraction during the pandemic and was surprised by how good it was.