skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have statistics showing that US green cards are mostly awarded to whites, despite going to mostly non-white-countries, please share them. It would certainly go against the general trend of US immigration, which is predominantly non-white, and has been since 1965.
I've used an Aeron for close to 10 years, and it's the most comfortable and flexible chair for me. That being said, sitting down for 10 hours in any chair is not healthy.

I added a standing desk to my arsenal, and the routine of moving up and down every 40 minutes or so. Taking brisk 10-15 minute walks at least every 1.5-2 hours is crucial as well.

Core strength and flexibility have become so important to my fitness routine that if I go several days without exercising or stretching properly, I get pretty severe lower back pain.
FWIW, I find these good for playing guitar, too. Downside in that case is you can't always tap your foot, but it lets you play with the instrument hanging from the strap which is good for when you play standing up.
Announcing NativeScript 6.0
Journal article (free full text): https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0555...
Memo on how to raise and retain the most control for seed stage companies
I agree with this, and believe the positive changes will continue the longer people go without tv. I've been without cable for 8 years and I'm so much happier.

When I visit my parents they always watch tv after dinner, and while sitting with them I've noticed how terrible tv shows are. It's strange, but it's like once the spell was broken I could see it for what it is: contrived and unoriginal narratives designed to keep people's attention and get them to sit through commercials.
It's not just censorship. It never was. Dragonfly also includes actively assisting the Chinese Communist Party in identifying and persecuting people who look for information about freedom or for information about crimes committed by the Party/government
This was assessed by the Pentagon back in 2014
> https://web.archive.org/web/20141013222428/https://www.acq.o...

And it's pretty straightforward: as water, arable land and other resources become scarcer, then groups facing severe shortages will fight over the leftover resources.
Things are impossible till they aren’t. It’s not like we solved Go the board game, but we did build some killer AI which has now surpassed all human players. And that was within a matter of years: first it was a fluid game of human intelligence impossible for a machine, then it was obvious machines could be better.. but look at this other thing humans are still better at.
Heat causes flash memory to fail faster.

I couldn't find a good source that quantifies the effect, but this mentions it: https://www.atpinc.com/blog/ssd-data-retention-temperature-t...
Marxism and Buddhism complement each other
I'd love to see some kind of reasonable data on the breakdown of how many Pis actually end up in education environments vs RetroPie/Kodi/PiHole/whatever else "service on an SD card image" turnkey solution type thing people use them for. At this point, my guess/gut feel is that education is an increasingly small part of the market for the Pi, yet appears to still be the main focus of the Pi Foundation.

I've always felt the educational focus was much more about the rose-tinted memories of parents who grew up in the homebrew computing generation in the UK. It feels much more a product for me in that regard than it does my kids. Ebon Upton et al are of this generation as well. British computer people of a certain age love to remember their ZX Spectrums etc.
Actually the research experts say climate change is a small factor with regards to increased conflict.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01830-2
I don't see anywhere claiming the U.S emprisoned a French citizen to put pressure on this issue.
Does anybody have a link to the full article? The introduction paragraphs sound like the issues is more about Islamic extremism than climate change. How does the article attempt to link these two concepts?
When banning Apple Music user handles, Apple never “bans” the actual name
You have to make it your own.
Not on a fire like this, no. That amount of water all at once would just finish destroying the structure. It also wouldn't be terribly effective, since it can only hit fire that exposed to the sky (which isn't the fire that actually matters... if the fire is visible from above, it has already burned though whatever it is you're trying to save).

Aerial operation would also require evacuating the area completely, which would end all other firefighting operations (so you'd actually be reducing the overall firefighting capacity on scene).
I think better and worse are subjective. But the thought reconditioning camps, the concentration camps for the Muslims, and the forced propaganda app are in my opinion pretty bad.
Ask HN: From where can I get UI review?
I'm redesigning our old website. Want some feedback about the new design as well as copy writing. Any idea where to look? Are there any good free options?
Don't mind me, just unintentionally submitting an amicus brief to a pedophile's plea deal. Totally accidental, could have happened to any linguist.
There are many reasons. But ultimately, it comes down to incentives.

People who spend hours a day working with a flawed tool have incentives to find another. I had that experience myself using BackboneJS day in and day out for over a year. In my own time, I started exploring better alternatives such as AmpersandJS (which was very similar but handled subviews gracefully). After discovering React, I saw a further improvement beyond my then local maxima.

People who lead products and hire engineers have incentives to choose something that will appeal to engineers who are looking for better ways to do things. It can both allow more hiring competitiveness at any given level of salary and filter out candidates who don't care about learning or finding cleaner solutions.

People who create open source software have tremendous incentives to create something new and grow it. Even if it's not actually better than what it replaces, being the author of a popular framework carries tremendous career capital.
If it's your hardware, you're free to install your own software which does not honor those checks. But apparently you can't do that, so it's not entirely your hardware, as you can't run any code on it.
Yes. This was the key for curing me from burnout. Vacations didn't help. My "non tech hobby" was spending time with the kids.

This was fine but I went out of touch with what I loved about tech. Teaching helped a little, but lost the edge when my students didn't continue down the SE path.

So I built things. I built them ruthlessly. No plan. No career goals. Just free fall hacking.

Join random online games, then hack together solutions that help you beat them. Don't just limit yourself to MySQL, NoSQL, etc, try making databases in Google Sheets or plaintext. Maybe try optimizing things for no reason. If you feel curious about something do it without planning, unless you're in a planning mood.

Basically you should actually enjoy the hobby.
if you dont think elon musk is a fraudster with this robotaxi bullshit sir you might have drank the kool aid

repeatedly pretending that full self driving was anything more than a pipe dream is dangerous. everyone knows that except people that enable his scamming
Show HN: Ciao – HTTP checks and tests monitoring
Comparative literature? Meh.

I wish there were someplace where I could go and actually try high-end office chairs. Chair preference is going to vary from person to person (which makes written reviews and comparisons kind of useless), but office supply stores like Staples or Office Depot only stock the low end (which may work for some, but don't have the adjustability or durability of higher-end chairs). I'd like someplace I can go to actually try out and compare a few models of, say, Steelcase, Herman Miller, and Humanscale chairs before I commit to spending the $800+ on one.
It's a trade-off. You can choose to wait for something to come to the market and suffer the potential consequences, or you can go the DIY route and reap the benefits today. There are risks either way. My wife and I aren't willing to experiment with our son's life. If it were for myself, I'd absolutely give OpenAPS a shot. My son has a Dexcom & a Tandem x2 pump, and in Q4 they'll deliver a software update that will provide a basic closed-loop system. 'Basic' in the sense that it will only be able to reduce the likelihood of a high blood sugar. We're still waiting for the dual-hormone pumps that will be able to control blood sugar in both directions.

Prior to this pump + Dexcom, he had a Medtronic 530g + glucose monitor. It was not internet connected out of the box, it required a $100 gadget that would transmit his blood sugar to his cell phone and then to medtronic's awful website. Fortunately folks developed Nightscout to scrape Medtronic's website and provide a much better experience. With Dexcom being a much more modern option (the CGM transmitter has built-in bluetooth) - we don't really need Nightscout, but it's convenient for me to watch his sugar on my 2nd monitor when he's at school (he's only 7.)

The problem is not in my opinion regulatory processes or clinical testing. It's been simply a lack of urgency/competition. Beta Bionics has started to make Medtronic and other competitors step up their game in recent years.
https://www.betabionics.com/
And thirded by me! I got mine for the home office second hand from an online store so it wasn't much more expensive than a new, lesser brand one.

Very comfortable, very robust and it looks like it's going to last for ever.
> they signed a standard city lease outside Airbnb and she hasn't left or paid. He's had to file eviction. That obviously isn't AirBNB's fault, but it's now 2 for 2 bad experiences that started with AirBNB.

That seems like a point for AirBnB to me. This happened by going outside of AirBnB and doing a normal lease, which has those risks. If a guest is somehow avoiding paying, that is AirBnB's problem to deal with
Quite rightly, too! It's annoying for beginners, but you quickly see the utility in the if err != nil {} approach, or 'sad path' approach after a few years of using Go in production. You learn to love it! To be honest, there's very little I'd add to the Go language, if anything. It's very unique that most Go developers share that view of a language. With Javascript, for example, I can't wait for 'new stuff', I think that's sometimes symptomatic of a broader dissatisfaction.
Namely roaming around the meticulously mapped out streets of Mountain View and Sunnyvale at 25 miles an hour in daylight in good weather.

Meticulously mapped - the location of curbs and the like are known within an inch or so.
> So why bother making Haiku? All of that strawman's needs are served perfectly well, in fact even better, by a Chromebook.

That is not true in theory or in practice except for a very, very small number of people. Maybe if you use the "Linux on Chromebook", but then it's more than a "Chromebook" is typically understood to be...

> Maybe this is something you can only really get if you grew up with computers that booted into BASIC.

What "this" are you referring to here?

I think 99.999% of people that use computers are more than happy with the fact they no longer boot into BASIC, and would dislike them doing so again, and this includes 99.9% of programmers, I'd say.

> A well designed system can be understood in pieces, or layers, giving the user a path to more power and a better understanding of their tools as they seek it at their own pace.

There isn't a "wall". You can go as deep or as shallow as you like; and there are plenty of middle grounds, too, in Haiku. So we definitely adhere to this part of your philosophy.

> The attitude I'm against is the one that says if you don't want to do the "normal user" thing, then the next step is a C compiler.

And we definitely agree with that, for the first two or three standard deviations. But way out in the long tail? Yeah, you are going to need the compiler.
And moose runs out on the road, what's then? No matter how fast the data will be passed down the line, following closer than the braking distance will not be safe.
And there are black ice, puddles, etc.
Sorry to say, but even though as a woman I technically benefit from things like this, this is yet another form of sexism. I want to be hired and reached out by companies because they value my skills and experience, not because I lack a certain genital so their company can show off at some diversity reports.

If you want to bring your team to more balance in diversity, try letting more people with diverse backgrounds to do the interviews when hiring. This is one thing I don’t see nearly enough in companies, then they wonder why they don’t get any successful minority hires.
Xkcd #2177: Gastroenterology
He has stated what he believes his company can achieve given the information he has. He is not professing to be a subject matter expert on anything. You seem to be off on a ridiculous tangent here and this conversation is not really productive. Goodbye!
Well the pi3 does not support h265 acceleration natively, it should have been better to use it on h264 movies.
New research on Tunguska finds such events happen less often than we thought
Idk man. Just to make a useful app I need to understand servers, databases, backend frameworks (for security), and front end.

Maybe it's finding creative solutions, but today there is a lot to know.
Yes, your hand can mask an antenna module (made of several basic antennas, or patches, for beam forming) and make it useless. This is why 5G phone designs have several such antenna modules spread around so that at least one of them should be usable, most of the time. IIRC it's 3 modules for current gen 5G phones. Of course in some cases it will be your body shadowing the lone 5G cell around, and in this case the phone will fall back to 4G (or 5G in lower bands, so not mmWaves).

All those additional antenna modules explain why 5G phones are on the big side.
Bitcoin 'unstoppable,' Libra not that bad, say Congressmen
Do you really mean 'ostensibly' there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_a... doesn't list it as a cause. Maybe you mean it was an indirect underlying cause behind the more commonly stated causes? In which case that's not the ostensible cause - it's the opposite of ostensible!
If Google proceeded per the government's wishes for these reasons, that sets an interesting precedent.

Companies would be able to implement features they deem to be ethically questionable, so long as they or the public determined that "it's what the customer wanted, anyway".
Commandments for TypeScript Programmers
Light years is a measure of distance not time
The funny version I heard was basically that girls are like super humans compared to boys. They're good at Math but they're also good at non-Math too. The boys on the other hand are bad at Math compared to the girls. They're also bad at non-Math but they're not equally bad. They're really really bad at non-Math and merely bad at Math.

What to do? For the boys the choice is easy - go with what you're best at. For the girls on the other hand it's harder - what do you do if you're good at everything? The answer is to do whatever you enjoy the most. So all the boys go into STEM and the girls spread their talents all over the map.

It's probably not a true deception of reality but it's certainly a funny one.
Nobody said the snake oil salesman doesn't also offer aspirin and stuff that is actually valuable... in fact they'd be a shitty caricature of a snake-oil salesperson if they didn't.

I agree it's overly strong language and I admire Teslas for what they are (fancy toys, his words) and SpaceX more than I can adequately communicate... however, his claims about Hyperloop, the Boring Company, Neuralink, and yes, even those about the future of Tesla self-driving could all be considered hyperbolic claims that fall into the "fake it till you make it" category, just adjacent to the actual frauds.

People challenging these claims and holding hyped up individuals to account are not holding back progress, it's the blind faith people put into hyped individuals and their claims that is holding back progress. Elizabeth Holmes has done far more to hinder progress than the people who were naysaying her claims and calling her a snake-oil salesperson before it was commonly known to be true.
It's impossible to tell what the impact of climate change will be overall. Maybe more wars, but maybe less wars...

Maybe food will be less scarce... Maybe Congo will have more wars, but maybe by some random fashion, climate change will prevent some kind of world war iii.

Climate change is a disaster for the fauna and flora of the world. It will displace a lot of people. But anything more complex is impossible to say.
any article or press to support your claims?
During the first few days we were at a loss for what to do. It had been our routine to watch whatever is on TV after dinner, and suddenly we were both dumbstruck for ideas. So we went to sleep at 8:30 p.m.

Two things about this confuse me.

1) Running out of "stuff" to do. Maybe it's because it's been literal years since I've watched scheduled programming and don't understand the habits involved anymore, but I can't understand this idea of not knowing what to do with free time. We watch what's likely way too much TV on some days, but all the things they "discovered" they could do with all this time are still things we do regularly, without cutting off the TV entirely.

2) How do people just "go to bed" early because they get bored? I'm actually jealous of that idea. If I just decided to "go to bed" early, it would most likely involve me staring at either the ceiling, my phone, or a book for a few hours.
I think 'need' is a pretty strong word in this context. 'Could use' would be a better term, as the Pi 4 clearly works without a fan, just not at peak performance for more than a few minutes.

For many use-cases, I would prefer some performance reduction over the noise generated by a fan.
Another note: just because you have a VPN running on your phone and have enabled Android's "always on VPN" and "block non-VPN traffic" options doesn't mean that devices connected to the phone hotspot will send their data over the VPN. You need to have it configured on the guest device as well.
Ikea markus works well for me.
I agree that there should be action taken to push things like this in a better direction but I think the obvious things to do can easily back fire and just make the situation worse. AFAIK in china there is a lot (not necessarily universal) of support for the government so it would be easy to cast something like this in a way that just bolsters that support (foreign countries trying to hurt china for their own gain) and makes things like this worse.

Foreign policy is hard and I don't pretend to know the best way to do it but I think given recent history we have to be more careful about how we try to influence developing nations so that we actually have the effect we want. This might include doing things that could seem unpalatable in the short term.
Serious question, do you think Self-Driving vehicles would be as heavily invested in if cellphones did not exist?
I’m currently doing a bit of Gameboy Advance programming for fun and I’m actually surprised by how simple most of it is at least for the basics. While some games on the platform do incredibly clever stuff (Super Monkey Ball Jr. being especially impressive), most of the popular titles use the standard tiled sprite rendering mode which is quite easy to understand and fast by default.
Oh yes, this. The Great Firewall is absolutely a trade barrier and I've long suspect that this rather than censorship is its main purpose. It's a way of implementing extremely strong trade barriers (protectionism) while still claiming to be in compliance with the letter of our trade agreements.
I definitely think these corporate IT jobs are challenging, just not in any way a Computer Science degree prepares you for (nor should it?).

I don't want to drag us down the rabbit hole that is the current state of software education, however.
As a Dutchman, I was actually under the impression that we used genetic modifications. Think I heard something about that in high school. Only later did I start to hear of "gmo free" food from the USA and assumed it was the same group as those who deny the moon landing. You're telling me we do zero GMO? I don't remember any sources of course (this is decade old information, perhaps even from a physical book), but it seems like you know better than me so I figured I'd ask instead of trying to prove that negative to myself.
Ask HN: Good alert hygiene resources?
I'm looking for some ways of thinking about the trade offs in dealing with alerts in shared channels. On an app with very large volume, you end up with many random 500 errors. Sending all of those to shared channels (slack) and people stop paying attention altogether. We end up missing that 1 that was actually actionable and an early sign of a critical bug.

As apps progress the specific errors to filter out shift and create a moving target, meaning the alerts have to be consistently updated and you don't really know it's stale until you miss an important signal.

Any success stories on keeping alerts actionable and useful as time passes? Is it just about prioritization/resourcing a chore and no way around it?

Thanks
aka if you defect the big boss shoots you in the head.
> COM Port debugging

If you can otherwise use Hyper-V, I’d strongly recommend using kdnet debugging[0]. It offers a noticeably much faster experience.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
So, self-driving is safer for those specific circumstances where self-driving is safer? Well, sure. Not much surprise there. That's not very persuasive about self-driving being (or ever being) safer than humans at real world driving in general conditions.

One could even argue that adding FSD to the mix for those ideal conditions will "condition", as it were, humans to suck even more at driving exactly when human input will be required.
Probably in 20 years. The rasperry pi will probably fail in 100 years. Checkmate fan.
If they get in a situation they cannot handle, the car can stop and pull over to the side of the road before asking the human to take over. And it can refuse to navigate to areas where it wouldn't be able to do that. (And if you're in an area where an emergency stop is unsafe, it's unsafe for human drivers too. Getting rear-ended for an emergency stop is that fault of the following car for that reason.)
Steelcase Leap. Similar to the HM Aeron, but has cushion instead of mesh, and offers a bit more adjustment. It comes down to a matter of personal preference, but many prefer the comfort of the cushion. Personally, I sometimes sit with a leg crossed under me, or sideways in the chair, just because I like moving around, and the Leap is comfortable in all positions. Before I purchased it, I was having horrible wrist and shoulder pain, but it vanished once I swapped to the Leap. I've owned mine for a few years and it still looks pristine.

I also bought it on Craigslist for $200 brand new, which was quite a steal.

The Leap and Aeron are among the best in class, and it's hard to go wrong with either. Go to an office store and try both for yourself.
What do you consider scrolljacking? I opened the breakfast article and saw some scrolljacking right away.

Is my understanding mistaken here?
My hunch about the reading skills gap is that little boys like physical movement marginally more than little girls, thus boys struggle to sit still and read.
You might be interested in svelte.dev it's a JavaScript mini-framework of sorts.

I'd consider it more of a library, but it's quite nice.
Because the metal spikes would puncture blood vessels in the brain. Part of the surgical robotics is focused on individually inserting spikes while avoiding blood vessels. Watch the presentation.