skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the under appreciated aspects of chair buying, in my opinion of course, is what you weigh. Generally the materials and construction which expect to flex and conform do so within a set of limits that the chair designer had but may not have put into the spec. You can both be too light for a chair and too heavy. That is why actually sitting in the chair is something you might want to spend some time doing if you can.

I use a $200 mesh back chair that I got from Wayfair back in the day, it works well for me. I tried it at a chair retailer in SF and decided to get one. I've found the Herman Miller chairs too stiff at times, but given the adjustability I admit I have not sat down on a chair and spent the 30 - 45 minutes of "tuning" that such an exercise takes using the manual.

When I was at Google I took their "ergo eval" which at the time did an ergonomics check for chair, mouse, keyboard, and monitor height. They recommended a Steel Case chair which I used, and it was comfortable, but it wasn't specially more comfortable than my cheap chair as far as I can tell.
> I really wish there was a service that I could test out an office chair for two weeks and return if it doesn't not perform as expected.

It's called Amazon.
Out of interest, how do you find such auctions in the UK?
How do you find those auctions? Is there a website with a schedule of them?
Yes, I am. https://twitter.com/ivanceras/status/1147594007897202688
They did nuke all the old comments, though...
I just meant the 20% and 40% as an illustration how increased wealth can make others lose out if productivity doesn't increase proportionally, I wouldn't read too much into it.

Starting/growing a company is the obvious investment that increases productivity (pg isn't wrong). But selling your labor also increases it on a smaller scale, as long as you don't replace someone else. Actually literally anything that creates anything increases productivity. Even creating bitcoins in a sense does (but trading them doesn't)... until they crash.

But real estate and stocks only move ownership from one person to another. They don't create anything. Even issuing new stock only moves ownership.
it's not really a question of expertise, if you don't have it you can hire it. And as long as they keep giving out more subsidies, it can't really be a question of not having enough money either.
Plus you have only the most general idea of the output. Try to compare how depressed you are one day against another and you’ll end up with only the roughest estimations.
Airplanes and Aviation systems are safer now than they ever have been - look at the frequency of crashes 1959-1989, and look at them from 1989-2019 - you'll see a sea change in frequency.
Instagram turns obscure U.S. sights into social-media destinations
It's not just that.

Zero sum let's you shift blame for your own failures. You can say someone else took it from you (nefariously).

When the game is positive sum, the cause of failure must be internal. You just couldn't do it and there's nobody to blame but you. A lot of people can't handle this.

Entire philosophies and like outlooks are driven by this. The external locus of control.
I second this for home. Great value, but not quite as nice as the Aaeron or Leap I've used at work.
Availability of talent in those markets is what’s stopping then. One of several agglomeration effects that push economies towards cities, and explain why an even coverage of the landmass is not happening and not desirable.

After the most expensive US cities, we find the cost-benefit for new engineering sites points invariably to other countries.

The federal government gave us the interstate highway system and FHA subsidies that enabled sprawl, it owes it to us all to clean up the abomination of suburbia. The most important thing would be a similar scale investment in urban rail, but it should probably be contingent on upzoning around stations, yes.
I fell in love with Capisco by HÅG. It’s a tad expensive but it’s very well made. I have one at home and one at the office and they are both like new after five years of daily use.
Tool: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=linux

HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18866800
Express it as javascript and compute it directly in the browser but keep in mind the user might be using a smartphone so don't make it too intense!
I've also had decent luck on Craigslist. (ymmv, my Craigslist is close enough to SV where the availability is there)
Stools. Yes, Backless stools, particularly those made for desk usage. Paired with a standing mat and sit/stand setup (either via sit/stand desk or some adjustable desktopper like the ergodesktop Kangaroo) stools can be easily thrown under the desk and hidden away if your home office doubles for exercise or breakfast room use.

My bookmarked list of stools:

The Swopper - http://swopperusa.com/ - Expensive. Use this regularly and it's been nice.

ErgoErgo - http://ergoergo.com/ - Usually ~100 and found at places like The Container Store. Pair with a Muji cushion or any round cushion.

Topstar Sitness - https://www.topstar.de/en/swivel-chairs-seating-furniture/si... - don't own this one but looked neat. They also sell a simpler ball stool called the Sitness Alpine.

Turnstone Buoy - https://myturnstone.com/products/chairs-and-stools/buoy/ - don't own but looks decent too.
They don't play it up, but Findhorn was established by people communicating with and working under the guidance of natural intelligences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findhorn_Ecovillage

This might sound far-fetched but science is catching up.

Micheal Levin is showing that thought and communication happen "outside the nervous system": "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

And we are learning that living things are literally interconnected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network

My understanding is that many of the chemicals used in this "Wood Wide Web" also appear in humans as hormones and neurotransmitters.

We know evolution can make intelligence because it made us. My own dabbling in evolving systems leads me to believe that we should expect intelligence to be ambient. Gregory Bateson basically identifies mind with evolution ("Steps to an Ecology of Mind", etc.) while Stephen Wolfram publishes his tome ("A New Kind of Science") about the ubiquity of computation in natural systems.
If an unprivileged userland program (like tmux) can bring down the whole machine, we have bigger problems than an unstable user program.
I did this (https://userstyles.org/styles/121616/the-old-new-thing-class...) after the first blog redesign, but so far haven't found any time to see if something similar would still work with the current blog, too.
Child mortality rates in the US 5.9 per 1000, In the UK 3.8. [1]

> Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall. [2]

United Kingdom suicide rate per 100,000 7.5, United States 13.8 [3]

United States Murder Rate per 100,000 5.35, United Kingdom 1.2 [4]

More to life than money I guess, also your $17,000 is accounting for income distribution, at first glance that looks good but while our income distribution is pretty bad, the US is positively Dickensian.

No jingoism intended here, we get a lot wrong and other countries straight up kick our arse (Spain's infant mortality rate is half ours at 2.0 for example amongst major European countries) but that just means we should be looking to improve.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/infant-mortality-rates.htm

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...

[3] https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/suicide-rates.htm#indicator...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
"People sometimes view gender hierarchies in the workplace as being zero-sum, which can cause them to be more opposed to gender-fair policies."

Can someone explain why this isnt zero sum? If the hierarchy moves from being women at the bottom, men at the top to a fair mix, the 'gains' that women make are balanced out by 'losses' for the men. There isn't extra power/prestige/influence introduced to the system by being gender fair.

To clarify, I'm pro equal opportunities, this isn't a sexist rant.
Active Directory Control Paths: Who Can Read the CEO's Emails Edition
Well it depends on the app :-) if the app is running something time-consuming in the hot path of every render, then yes it will be laggy. You can run the same risk even on a native app.
Apache Commons Text 1.7
When you make the decision to live in a rural area, you know that you're giving up a lot of the conveniences that you take for granted when living in a city. For most people who live in rural areas, slightly worse cell coverage is a perfectly acceptable tradeoff to not having to deal with the noise, crime, and crowding of cities.

Nobody deserves 5G.
"Many involve the United States. Trade wars with China and other countries, along with restrictions on migration, foreign direct investment, and technology transfers, could have profound implications for global supply chains, raising the threat of stagflation (slowing growth alongside rising inflation)."

Why is immigration into the United States so crucial? Why is the same not said, eg, of China, India, Israel, etc.?
One of my favorites is the economy. People constantly talk about there only being a finite number of resources or money. While this is true, there is not a finite amount of wealth. The whole point of an economy is to generate new wealth and goods. Inventions and innovations. It is easy to see when you take the historical perspective, that the vast majority of us are living much better off than those a hundred years ago and amazingly better than those of just a thousand years.
I really enjoy my Swopper (http://www.swopperusa.com/swopper-classic-1/). Especially because I tend to take a break if I’m not willing to sit in it any longer.
Helped me a lot with my back pain.
Only insofar as there are diminishing returns on increasing memory, in general. If you can map your entire application instructions in a low latency block of memory, you're going to see massive benefits over swapping in/out portions repeatedly (where RAM latencies come into play).
I understand what you are saying, but that's optimising for the 10% of time you aren't using the chair.

In the software world I would have to question the wiseness of that decision. But I wouldn't erase from the whiteboard without a discussion.

Listening to your body when it tells you to move is a very wise thing to do indeed, but it should never be relied upon to guide your behaviour. Because you will eventually just put up with it. And you neck, back, shoulders will suffer.
Show HN: Learning Graph Representations with Global Structural Information WWW15
See the court records, he claims he can't do it because he distributed the key parts or something.

Since it is hard to prove that someone cannot do something, yes, technically you are wrong.
Video conferencing works just fine with 50ms latency, and the other two are very niche
Probably the usual reasons; security-minded patchsets make the kernel more attack resistant, but do so by changing things in ways that trade off against performance or compatibility, and Linux is obsessive about compatibility and cares about performance. I'm not going to say that one approach is objectively better or worse; it's just tradeoffs, and upstream/vanilla Linux prefers a different set of tradeoffs than PAX/GRsecurity/etc.
Prop. 13 reform headed to California ballot could swamp counties
Er, no. The initial reaction was caused by unconscious stress or rage brought on by public speaking and the subsequent incidents were a learned Pavlovian response.

I am always recommending The Mindbody Prescription on here and have no idea why you lot refuse to read it. There is no excuse, this topic is too important. And it would stop silly comments like yours dead in the water. Everything the article mentions make perfect sense from the perspective of unconscious emotion, and moreover, this perspective gives you great understanding of psychology and curative and even predictive capabilities.
There is also a pretty substantial amount of money wrapped up in this case. Billions of dollars. I would say that's somewhat newsworthy for a lawsuit involving individual people.
Are you simply closing the airport? Is a replacement planned? Or does that traffic simply get redirected to the San Francisco airport?

The article closes with 'think big', but I think is incomplete in scope.
That would have pretty amazing applications (well everywhere) but in VR definitely, my Rift S is an amazing piece of kit but aberration is still noticeable on the outside edge (when aiming down a gun sight in Pavlov for example).
Transdep: Find single points of failure in DNS dependency graphs
I too live in the Netherlands and always do this. Guess it's not as common as I thought then.
It's been corrected in the repo, but as I write this the web page has not been updated.
Or you find someone who already works there who's having an affair and blackmail them into working for you. It's no different to how spies have operated for centuries.
> This raises the perennial question ...

Not really, no. There's no scientific funding riding on your reading this article in a photography magazine.

Specificity is almost always recommended in any creative writing from song lyrics to infotainment like this. It enhances humor and mental imagery, which enhance general enjoyment. That's all that's happening here. Hanlon's razor is your friend.
Hazelnut spread is one of those things that is much more commonly referred to as the brand name. No one says "Reynolds wrap" they say "aluminum foil".

No one says "hazelnut spread", they say Nutella.

No one says "resealable sandwich bags", they say ziploc bags.
> I would absolutely not fly in a fully autonomous spacecraft. No fucking way.

So I guess you'd never get into a self driving car- the problem of driving a car on a trafficked road seems enormously more complex than that of piloting an aircraft.
His home was actually raided by Australian police right after news[1] broke that he may be Satoshi Nakamoto.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-f...
What’s your background? In the photography field this is known as spherical aberration indeed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration
Basically, using whatever measurement system you choose their is the best possible outcome after cost benefit analysis.

Aka if religion Alpha offers the best possible tangible outcomes using whatever metrics you are bashing this choice on and it also offers the best possible unknowable outcomes then their is little reason to pick anything else. By tangible rewards/costs I mean things that could be theoretically verified like joy, physical fitness, social acceptance, positive legacy etc. and by intangible rewards/costs I mean what the gods / spirits / whatever think of you, what happens in the afterlife etc.

Essentially it’s only if you rank religions by tangible rewards and intangible rewards separately and end up with a different first place that the intangible rewards become an issue.
How can I perform such task directly in a browser? I think that would be optimally convenient, but I'm unaware of what technology I can use to do so.
Be careful. The people who called out Enron, Theranos, the NSA before Snowden or the rationale for the Iraq invasion often paid a big price.
Commons Daemon 1.2.0 Released
it depends a lot on the type of game and what you care about for that type of game.

if you're playing a AAA singleplayer game, the GPU will almost certainly be the bottleneck. any i5/i7 tier CPU from the last eight years will be powerful enough not to starve the GPU most of the time. when I play this sort of game, I mostly just care about the average framerate. I don't care too much if every 10-15 minutes a complex scene causes a brief stutter. if this is the only kind of game I played, I would just get a cheap midrange processor (unless I had requirements due to unrelated workloads).

on the other hand, when I play a fast-paced multiplayer game (especially fps), I care a lot more about worst case framerates than average. in a game like counterstrike, framerate drops tend to happen when there are smokes, flashes, and/or multiple players onscreen simultaneously. in other words, they happen in the most important moments of the game! while I'm happy to average around 45-60 fps in the witcher, I want the minimum in csgo to be no less than 120. if you have a goal like this, even an old source engine game becomes pretty demanding.

there are also games like factorio where the simulation itself is difficult or impossible to split into multiple threads. singlethreaded performance and memory bandwidth set an upper bound to how big your base can be while still having a playable game.
Big change in California’s Proposition 13 could be headed to ballot (2018)
You can still have a hierarchy and the sum of the individuals within that hierarchy does not need to add to zero. It can definitely be positive.

There's many joking examples about governments/lawyers/insert hated group making tasks more difficult or harder. This would be a negative value person and potentially a negative sum hierarchy.

Conversely we can see groups of people working together and forming coalitions that have better payoffs than what the individual members could achieve on their own (like a union coming together and fighting for workers rights. Which can also lead to a more productive business that profits more, thus meaning the boss also profits).

Tldr: Just because someone has a positive worth doesn't mean someone has a negative worth.
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The company I work at has Aerons, and so I've sat in a lot of them over the past twenty years or so. They're moderately comfortable, but ALL of them (yup, all) have broken in some nigh-impossible-to-repair way. Typically, the control that controls the angle of the seat breaks, and then it's at some crazy uncomfortable angle, and I have to find a new one.

I should point out that I'm not heavy at all, nor am I hard on chairs!

Looked this problem up on YouTube, and found that in some cases, it's an easy fix, but not mine.
Protip: please don't say "humans" when you can just say 'people', or even 'folks'! It makes you sound a lot more, well, human, and less like a poorly-programmed, clunky robot.

Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/style-guide-not-soundi...
I trust that GitHub key less than personal keys for exactly that reason.
You may need to grant microphone access in Settings-->Safari on iOS as well. Or your version of iOS may be older.
How often are South Koreans watching 1080p videos on their phones away from wifi? For me as an American, the answer is “almost never”. Buying a whole new phone to optimize an experience I might have once or twice a year seems excessive to me.
Because many important jobs are done by immigrants:

https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article227483414.html

Not having enough people to harvest the crops will impact the economy, for example.
"... there are few cloud options for ZFS."

There is exactly one. You can ZFS send/recv to and from an rsync.net account that is enabled to do that:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync...

https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

OR you can get a plain old rsync.net account and do a "dumb" sync to it and just configure ZFS snapshots on any schedule you like.

Ask about the "HN Discount".
I picked up an Ikea Markus, under $200 at the time, because of its strong showing on a Lifehacker poll [1] and it was the budget pick on Wirecutter [2], though it's since been superseded. I still like my Markus, but if we're shopping, I'd look at Wirecutter for ideas and advice.

[1] https://lifehacker.com/five-best-office-chairs-30776066

[2] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-office-chair/
I think it's important to distinguish between the concept of the init process vs specific implementations of the init process.

The article talks about the init process in general (the process that runs as PID 1 and picks orphaned processes).
There are different implementations of init (such as SysV-style, systemd, Upstart etc) but it doesn't make a difference for this article.
Is Sciter used in some desktop apps like Norton Antivirus or McAfee Antivirus? Thought I read that somewhere.
One rare instance where I can contribute some inside information. I met the director of all of Amtrak's development efforts a few week ago over a cookout. And he laid down how the whole system works. Basically, Amtrak was created as part of a government bailout effort to rescue the train companies, who were making money from freight but losing money on commercial routes.

The train companies went to the US government and said "bail us out or we all go out of business". So the senate created Amtrak as a private company, and purchased all of the money losing assets (all passenger routes) from the train companies. The US government owns all voting shares, and the train companies owns all non-voting shares. So Amtrak is a quasi public-private utility companies, where the cost is bore by public in tax money.

Here is the kicker, the special interest group that lobbied for the US government to create Amtrak was ... the US airlines. They bet that passenger trains would be obsolete in a few decades, so the tax payers would not be holding the bag for too long.

50 years later, we are still holding the bag. According to my sources, they will be break even across all routes in a couple of years. By the way, all passenger trains in Europe , China and Japan lose money too.
As an iOS user, I'm happy that apps are forced to use JavascriptCore for all scripting work, not just in browsers. I like to know that any code running on my device has been through app review, or is sandboxed in JavascriptCore. It makes it much harder for apps to sneak malicious behavior past reviewers.
I think the problem was being unable to solve a generalized version of the equation. Our old methods only made it economically viable to make "good enough" lenses and now this method makes it economically viable to make "perfect" lenses.
Yeah, I'm not saying it wasn't a problem for anyone, but that there should be a solid core of people playing drafts (free or otherwise) if the base game itself was legitimately great, since the pricing issue effectively goes away there. Maybe it would still keep you away, but it shouldn't have kept everyone away. The fact that only about a hundred people are playing means that the problems have to run deeper.
Totally. If you aren't familiar with them, try setting up a Kanban system. I have a big backlog of project ideas, but strong limits on how many I can have going at once. It's been great.
Tesla was able to sell electric cars for more than the marginal cost per unit in a large enough volume to be viable. Full stop. After that Tesla's profitability or not is just accounting shenanigans. How bad/good a deal was this for the investors. And is this company viable and make money. Are two separate things.

Investors can lose their shirt on a viable company. Just as they can make bank on a company that's a flash in the pan. Investors can often make money on companies that are actually failing and going to fail. There is probably an correlation between how hardball the company plays it's investors and the companies ultimate viability.
the effectiveness of CAAC ban was result of the respect, not the other way around.
The article presupposes that Craig is not Satoshi.

If Craig is Satoshi, then the article and these comments on it, read very differently.