skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your experience is just normal for the tropics, and it has nothing to do with the specifics of your soil. Certainly I and lots of others have had similar experiences.

In natural tropical environments the nutrients aren't in the soil, they are almost all tied up in the living biomass, and as soon as some of that dies the nutrients it releases are absorbed by other living vegetation. And generally, if we want to do things in a way that's sustainable, we should look to nature and try to imitate it (and once we can manage that, try to improve on it).

What I've found is that the only way of doing tropical agriculture that's remotely sustainable is "slash and drop" agroforestry, which is where you interplant (a lot of) biomass for mulching together with your crop plants and keep cutting/pruning that to produce mulch, so that you can keep your crop plants heavily mulched all the time. This is fairly labor intensive, though, and worse, it requires highly knowledgeable labor to maintain.
Back in the day RAD tools created forms with fixed layout, fixed sizes. Everyone used similar computers with similar displays. There were some simple ways to create windows with dynamic size, but those were very primitive and most dialogs were fixed.

Creating fixed UI is extremely easy to understand. You just put a control, snap it to grid for consistent spacings and that's about it. Everyone can do it, very fast with very little time spent on UI.

Modern computers are highly variable in size. Small smartphones, large smartphones, tablets of all sizes, laptops, 5K mac displays.

Smartphones and tablets expect full-width applications. It's not appropriate to design your UI for 320 px fixed width. It'll be too terrible on larger phones. It's expected to have fully stretchable UI at least.

But that leads to very complex to understand creator UI. Xcode, Android Studio, Java Swing. They have powerful layouts, but their GUI to build those layouts are incredibly complex. You might spend lots of time for very simple thing. It's nowhere near good old Delphi, when I could put few buttons around and call it a day.

Of course I'm not arguing that layout managers are not needed. Another feature is internationalization and it was terrible with Delphi, when you had to translate a button but translated text could not fit into its fixed width. What I want to point out is that there's still unfulfilled need for layout manager, which is powerful, yet very easy to use.

May be we need some AI for that.
Lately everything has to be dark and quirkiness is used to explain how someone is directly rude.

Talking about darkness, I remember Burn Notice, a funny show where an ex-spy used his training to fix his neighbours' problems, much like A-Team.

It was a nice light entertainment, but for some reason, the last season (or last two seasons, can't remember) turned so dark that it was really scary. I started watching it to have some chuckles and finished with a sour taste.
Elsewhere in the comments it says the judge awarded 48k eur based on the owners own valuation at 60k eur. And the hotel next door is now for sale for 400k. So maybe that’s the actual value of that house after all.
What an awful, prohibition-warped system.
I think the real question is why we make a distinction by the use case of the hardware and not the hardware itself?

Under the hood consoles use the same chips and technologies as PCs and so do servers.
Blizzard is encouraging its own employees to attend Wednesday’s walkout with PTO
And yet I prefer slack threads to any other implementation

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Notice on Accelerating the Large-Scale Deployment and Application of IPv6
> The conversation tends to stay civilised. I can't remember a negative interaction here.

That's very much in the eye of the beholder. This isn't my first account (I abandoned my previous one a few years ago) and I chose the name for a good reason. The only good thing I can say is that my username does not seem to have had an effect on downvoting behavior.

There are plenty of communities on Reddit that are considerably smaller than HN and either have good moderation or are unknown enough to be able to do well without it. HN isn't special, or at least not any more special than the rest.
We designed the entire workflows from the perspective of the business owner/founder (someone with 0 accounting knowledge just like us) and that differentiates us from the competition.
After several months of use? One summer around that time I used to remember my w95 serial key by heart :) It was not only that windows would eventually get in some kind of bad state, it was also me: a young kid learning on his sole computing capable device (ie no spare laptop/smartphone) with no internet connection to search google/youtube/so/etc for solutions to problems

:)
I liked this article: https://logz.io/learn/opentelemetry-guide/

You also have the Observability podcasts
This also means that crypto miners are not affected, correct?
... but that would mean acknowledging the non-dichotomy between states and terrorist organizations. States carry out the most terror, but they (mostly) get a free pass. The US (and many other world states) would not want to undermine this situation and make their own actions legitimate targets of the question: "Is this a form of terror?".
Show HN: Birthday Board – A birthday card alternative for remote co-workers
I think regardless of whether what you say is correct or not - there is another benefit you are missing, the same one that Unity brought to game development - i.e. removing the developer as the bottleneck / gatekeeper for making changes - lost count of how many times our designer has created tickets to just update small styling things, or our PO wants wording or small flow changes. A tool that solves this at scale for teams will be worth it's weight in gold. #fulldisclosure am CTO of HarmonyCB - this is exactly what we are trying to achieve. Rightly or wrongly we still use a nocode moniker though, as it explains the area of work to non-tech people rather well.
Did you get a chance to compare MeiliSearch?
What I really like about this article is that it highlights the fine line between a library or framework that can be configured to do pretty much anything, and just a programming language.

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this is just a plot made by some people so that most people will not get actual coding experience and just learn to turn knobs on the current framework, thus making the difference between them and the frameworks builders even bigger.
Hey everyone I would love some feedback on Birthday Board.

We used to pass around a birthday card when we were in the office which was replaced with google slides and paypal after we went remote.

I thought this could be a nice alternative.
What baffles me is, if you leave a house FOR YEARS, why don't you hire a neighbour for upkeep? I mean every now and then a roof tile must come off in a storm that needs to be refitted, a house that you don't heat in winter starts to rot, etc. pp.

I can actually see that in a moderately short time span of 8 years a lot of decay can happen naturally after which 'hands-on' neighbours might have just not felt too bad to tear down the remains.
> comment blocks just turn into proportional font

that would be horrific! Don't you ever use comments to pin-point to specific parts of a source line?
CSS Logical Properties and Values
Tokyo Reports Record Covid-19 Infections; Olympics Continue
Lots of people took monetary obligations (mortgages mostly) thinking they'll make 6 figures for the next 20-30 years...what happens if that's no longer true?
The shape itself is not copyrighted (in the US), only the representation in code is. It's the same concept with pronunciations: the pronunciation itself is not copyrighted, a specific recording of someone saying a word is.
> it may be hard to ship to the end user

just upload it to some publicly accessible website? It doesn't look that hard.
How political beef threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet
I'm not sure what your point is. I qualified my claim very explicitly and what you said doesn't contradict any of it.

I'm not saying it's difficult to understand. I'm saying it's an unwieldy word and "a11y" is easier to remember and write correctly.
Nissan and Bandai Namco team up to create new car sounds
You're proposing that they do a lot of work for no benefit. What would they get out of it?

You're also still failing to account for the fact that reports rarely become public. I can refer you, again, to a random number just as easily as I can refer you to the calculated hash of my bespoke summary of an issue that was reported eight years ago.
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Monopolies in general are like this I've found. Go to a cafe in a large park and it usually has little variety, high prices and terrible service. Why improve if nobody else can replace you and you can't go out of business?
I don't understand what you mean. Fonts take time and effort to create, and some creators want to be able to benefit from the financial fruits of their work, with intellectual property and nonfree licenses.

Who created the way we pronounce words? We collectively did, over hundreds of years.
get a PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch and throw the iphone to trash
Obviously, it's not less work. Given the need to develop complex additional ligatures, it's likely more.

> I doubt that a programmer who wouldn't spend $100 for a font would spend $5

This is where we disagree then. I think there is a big psychological difference for most consumers, including devs, between spending $5 and $100. Even if you can afford both, the former falls into the range of impulse purchases, like getting a sandwich or a cup of coffee, where you spend without really thinking.

On the other hand, I think a $100 price is far more likely to trigger a more analytical and skeptical response. Do I really need it? Is it worth it? Should I research alternatives? Maybe, I should think about it and decide tomorrow... Etc. And the consequence will be a huge drop in sales.

Also, I also do think there are significant differences in the market for programming fonts vs. general desktop fonts. The market for a single font is likely a relatively small pool of designers / content creators who are spending their employers money, need it to complete a specific project, and who value achieving a unique look. The former is a larger market, who are spending their own money on a nice-to-have, and who don't particularly care about uniqueness.
I think nocode won't compete with code but more with internal workflow and non-public apps. Basically what we do in Google Sheets to track internal company stuff atm.
I wonder how long it will take until I see “must have 10+ years of X-low-code-solution experience” in job searches and cold calls/emails from recruiters

Personally, I think low code is a farce. It’s useful for prototyping but beyond that I wouldn’t use it in any production system.
No, I don't know anyone in that position.
MS did not arrive there on their own. They had a lawsuit with apple and if you look at graphics toolkits around that time most of them had those features.
The CD drive repeatedly spinning up and down, then heading the head repeatedly seek to the same place.
And yet.. Reddit seems slower than ever
Then I'm in those 0.0011%. That is, if any reasonably priced font actually managed to be better than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono / DejaVu Sans Mono in my view.
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relevant song for context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc
Farmers are in a position to spin right-to-repair as a matter of national security - a cyber attack could leave the nation without a food supply
I predict that they'll eventually get what they're asking for: The ability to service their equipment with whoever they want.

As a consequence, though, the initial price of the equipment is going to go up. And then they'll be complaining that they can't even afford to get started.

I honestly think they should be able to get it repaired wherever they want. But it's not actually going to fix all their problems, it's just going to shift them around.
With the 2 office days fully understood by all parties as fully non-productive days, more like team building?
If anyone wants to visit a virtual dive bar, take a look at https://midnight.pub
I'm a huge believer in testing -both unit and "monkey."

A lot of my stuff has both. If it is heavily UI-centric, or involves device interfaces and/or communications, I tend to use test harnesses.

Unit testing is good. Combined with code coverage tools, it can be quite useful.

But having unit tests is not any kind of quality assurance. It means that the "low-hanging fruit" has been picked.

Test harnesses and "monkey testing" require a lot of discipline, but are often well worth it.

I write about the approach I take, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...
This isn't really saying anything. What does exist then?
There’s probably some lessons here about good headlines to draw you into a story via social media. Or if you go deeper the value of stories/fiction that were entirely invented in the first place, or documentaries about real things combined with the limitations of an hour and a half plus the biases and editing of the creator, or the podcast medium which lets you go even deeper into a topic, etc.

There’s plenty of angles here in a meta way beyond the sum of the real story itself.

But I do agree this is most likely going to be an unrewarding investment with a likely simple explanation like the hotel wanting views + very old basically vacant building in the way.
Congrats on the launch!

Having worked on the SMB billing and accounting space for 2 years in India - its a really really tough space to monetise profitably. The market size seems huge from the outside but its a tough nut to crack.

The space is also hyper-competitive now with khatabooks, dukaan etc spending 100s of crores with no revenue.

Its seems like what you are building is a mini-ERP for SMBs in India. If you are touching AP, AR - do you have tally integration? Pretty much every SMBs auditors will ask for it.

All the best!
The point of TFA is that if you weren't individualistic, you would maintain an unhealthy relationship with your dad out of a sense of obligation.

There are many cultures in which if your dad thinks you should be unhappy, then how dare you try to be (unilaterally) happy...
Also error management is gone. We are back at "General failure reading drive A: " error messages. But the more common error handling is to crash or to spit a cryptic error message.
There are a few flaws in your argument, please don't take this as an insult.
Client hashing does not limit the varity of hash inputs on the server side.
You should absolutely send salt to the client, even on (especially on) a plaintext connection.
There is no law against doing key stretching or using a longer hash on the client.

I'm not sure what your reasoning is for sending salt to the client should be useless.

Are you arguing somehow that the salt must be private (wrong) and is compromises security in the client ? Think about that for a second, if the client has their traffic sniffed and decrypted, then sending the plaintext password back to the server (your suggested solution) is just as broken.

Client side hashing+salting is a compliment to server-side hasing+salting, not a replacement.

Simplified:
The server stores salt and saltedHashFromPassword ( hash(salt+pass) )
On login request server generates salt' and sends salt and salt'.

client sends back hash(salt' + hash(salt+passw))
server compares hash from client to hash(salt' + saltedHashFromPassword)

Now, unless you've owned the client, you'll only ever learn their salt, which is not important, and their salt' which changes with each login request.. the resulting hash cannot be played back as the salt' is invalidated after a login attempt. Assuming a secure hashing algorithm, this even works over plaintext connections.

As to the 64 chars, true, if you're doing no keystreching (which can be plopped over the example above with no problem), however, I assume you're talking about situations where nobody stole the database (the security implications of clinet side hashing are not relevant in that case), but you mean to "just generate that number between 0 and 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff and send that directly to the server"..
Well, nope, because you cannot just do 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff requests as the valid hash changes with each attempt to login, I can't even the maths here, 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff rasied to the 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffth power attempts might still not get you in, the target is moving and there's no guarantee that you will ever hit it.
Have they ever addressed what would happened to the app you build if their company disappear one day? It doesn't seem safe to build your system on Bubble or any SaaS for that matter unless you know the company will never go away e.g. Salesforce.
GCC 11.2 Released
When I was working on a similar problem with respect to calculating numbers with a version of Brainfuck where each cell can contain any natural number, I remember feeling some kind of mental nausea about how big numbers can get.
Laying the Foundations for Successful Ecommerce
> People need to read news. It isn't optional for most people.

They don’t, and it is. For the vast majority, reading the news is at best a waste of time[1] and at worst harmful[2].

[1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
The constant muscle tone is largely to help bones stay in ball-and-socket joints. Presumably, such tone wouldn't be necessary with other kinds of joints.
The title of the article is a pop culture reference that may fly over most people's heads, so for context here's The Wurzels performing the song "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc

The song itself is a parody/adaption of the Melanie song "Brand New Key" ("I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivxuz3dB8k
That's barely different from ‘Pocket PC’ aka ‘Windows Mobile’ of the mid-2000s. Just more concrete-gray here.
I am already subscribed to IPO Brief. Interesting to see this additional service you are launching. The hotpicks are only the top five? So it is not possible to select / vote the remaining IPO's?
If it's any consolation, "Blender" is a actually negative word in German ("deceiver"; someone who blinds others).
Some people here are giving examples of using Bubble a few years ago, and found it too limited to be useful. Have any developers here used it recently?

When I first looked at Zapier about 2.5 years ago, as a developer I found it limiting and just not useful compared to writing custom webhooks that I sometimes glued together with cron jobs, etc. But since late last year, Zapier has matured so much I am able to use it for almost every integration I need. It has probably saved me ~100 hours of development time in the past year alone.

I wonder if Bubble might have passed a similar threshold of utility, so that it is useful even to people who DO have good coding skills.
I have recently started using https://github.com/WebReflection/sqlite-worker which works pretty well
> I'm just at a huge loss why we don't all focus on growing food and building interesting structures, ponds, waterfalls, arenas.

We are. One app at a time, building/growing becomes easier to do at scale, with less people, quicker, and more environmentally friendly.

You are directly contributing to the success of these activities, even if you are "just organising data".

(what a nihilistic way to say it. I wonder if nihilistic builders also say "i'm just stacking bricks 24/7 fml")
It all started with top-posting, and went downhill from there.
How Can I Find and Get Someone’s Phone Number by Name or Address?
Ask HN: Strategies for returning to an open office plan?
Like many tech companies, mine is requiring that we return to the office for the same 3 days each week. At home, I have a dedicated office with zero distractions. At the office, I’ve got a pair of noise canceling headphones which are decent at blocking sound. But I’m more worried about visual distractions: on every hour and half hour the “Big Meeting Change”, impromptu desk meetings, and office dogs. I’ve considered horse-style blinders (not really) or booking a small meeting room for the day. What else could work?

Edit: throwaway account to not antagonize the employer
Right? It's not "vanished" at all. There's a fucking photo of the ruins
Places like these are usually populated with people who have lived there their whole lives and plan to spend the rest of their lives there. The cost of the house, to them, isn't a monetary one, it's more a matter of community and sentimental ownership.
I babied mine extremely hard, and didn't re-install for some years. But then I needed to and I could no longer install my sound card drivers (at which point I was forced to migrate to XP)
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really this is an old issue and has been resolved. Besides that your personal details were still relatively safe.
Iteration (repetition) is a special case of recursion where the recursive action is always the final step in the process; it's a kind of recursion that dispenses with the need to track a stack of process activations. So it's quite possible to teach both in the same context.
Hi HN,

Just released into the wild a new tool I've quickly built during the weekend. Every week it shows the top IPOs based on the interest from the readers of my newsletter.

Right now I'm just counting based on how many people ask to be notified per each ticker, but later I'm thinking in adding some more signals (eg. clicks on links), give some weight to each, and build a score from it. But for now, this is just a simple MVP and serves as information for who's interested.

Hit me if you have any questions or feedback!
VW has a good aftermarket parts market for wear and tear items (clutch/brakes) for the Golf Mk2/Mk3 which is very popular with car modders.

B5 Passat - dealer only for brake pads/discs - when the car needed a clutch replacement the cost was one of the reasons why I traded it for a Corolla.

There should be viable non OEM parts market.
Perhaps you are conflating pressure and force?

Pressure is force per area, the area doesn't matter by definition. Similarly to how we measure rainfall in millimetres: volume / area = length.

Whereas if you were to place a bucket of water on your head, the area of the bucket would surely make a big difference to the force you feel, all else being equal.
Many of the naysayers are likely picturing the bulky headsets we have today and the other limitations. Good chance Zuck has seen reason to believe future generations of the tech are going to be profoundly better.
This would be my concern also, same as with other tools like repl.it, etc. But it could still be useful for a prototyping phase. (Potentially. I have not used it.)
Gymkit is a system for integrating fitness equipment with HealthKit.

Apple Fitness+ is a service that provides videos about exercises you can do without equipment, synced to and from HealthKit.

These are not one and the same.
I agree that convenience is key. For me that is not PayPal. I prefer to support some projects on Patreon.