skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's telling that this person posted a job listing, interviewed dozens of candidates, realized they couldn't proceed because they hadn't interviewed any minority candidate, tried for months and were still unsuccessful at finding a single one, and the take away wasn't that they should fix their broken recruiting pipeline but that the corporate policy was what was wrong.
Best news for me is that based on https://uploadvr.com/quest-touch-pro-controllers-quest-2/ it looks like the controllers are Quest-2 compatible and will be sold separately.

I'd consider the Quest Pro too expensive but as someone who plays a lot of rhythm games where those controllers seem to be the weak point I'm strongly considering upgrading my Quest 2 controllers.
D is the king of practical metaprogramming for me. I think it stands out for compile-time metaprogramming beyond the competition.

Many ppl talk Lisp and Nim and such. They are even more powerful. But I honestly get lost with those and not with D. Idk why, maybe my familiarity with C++ helps.
> Why are Asians doing so well?

"Asians" are 60% of the world population and encompass a huge variety of cultures, as I'm sure many will point out. That said, it's viable to consider trends and averages, especially when scoped-down to Asian Americans specifically, despite the potential for generalization.

Two main reasons that are given:

Higher overall academic investment and achievement [1]. As per the study, Asians study about twice as much as white students and this shows in grades, SAT scores, and college admissions.

Second, a culture that places higher prestige on meritocratic and high-paying jobs. This is obviously a coarse-grained generalization of a very diverse set of cultures, but there's some truth to the stereotype that Asian kids have 3 career choices: doctor, engineer, lawyer. My impression is that this isn't disrespect for artistic and cultural jobs, but rather a realistic assessment of the chances of success in these fields. You want to get into art, fashion, photography, or journalism? It takes a lot of connections, luck, or both to land a good job in these fields. Doctor, lawyer, or engineer is a more reliable path to success.
Anyone with their head out their asses who has ever worked a real job knows that the "meritocracy" is bullshit. Plenty of under performers get jobs. Plenty of overachievers get run down for a variety of factors. The idea that the worthy somehow rise above adversity is confirmation bias at its very worst.

I don't even think you want a "meritocracy". I want a world where people are happy. If that means they're all doing jobs they suck at, then so be it.
Did you even read what you've quoted there?

Redhat didn't embrace a competing product, redhat has been a Linux distribution from the start.

They extended it by adding systemd, yes. I said as much before too.

They didn't extinguish Linux as their extension continues to be open source and ready to fork.

If you're going to argue from the perspective of sysvinit instead then neither embrace nor extend happened. Whatever redhats goal were, it wasn't EEE
Mini LCD so fingers crossed it might be better(?)

I feel what you're saying though. I loved the first Quest and was heavy into VR for a bit but after an hour of the Quest 2 it ended up in the drawer. It's useless for horror games or movies because black simply does not exist - it's generous to call it grey.
What is a DTS?
Ah yes the second one is exactly it.

> Could be a lot better now?

Effectively zero progress. Last year I heard some work being done on an alternative API but I haven’t see that since. I don’t expect anything to be done before 2025 if ever.
> On the other hand, nobody forces the feed on you if you choose your own community.

That's only true if you stay small. If the subreddit gains traction, it will be taken from you if you don't moderate in a way that suits the whims of the power mod / admin cabal. They may take it from you under a flimsy pretext even if you're doing a good job, simply because they want to add your subreddit to their dominion.
I wouldn’t credit Starbucks with that, I was addicted to espresso from coffee stands long before my hometown ever got a Starbucks.

Starbucks maybe gets credit for hooking a segment of population on double caf skinny unicorn frappes.

I hit Starbucks way too much now because food and convenience (w/app + drive thru).
>> little Raspberry Pi 4 server that I run from my home ISP, for no reason other than to have some fun

This.

I run mine on RPi 3B+ with a 4 running the database. I reverse proxy to my site via a cloud VPS instance for $4 a month. I switched to the cloud after years on NO-IP when 1) I noticed my IP never changed and 2) my home IP address was public via a look up of my domain name.

On another 3B+ I have a VPN so I can SSH in .

Some day I will get around doing a roll-your-own-ngrok [0] so I don't have to open any ports but have yet to do it. I have done it for a project I was working on and I needed to make the local dev server accessible to a 3rd party. Pretty slick and saves a bunch of time and hassle from having to put the code on the server. (As an aside: Does anyone else dislike the term "grok"? For whatever reason it annoys the hell out of me.)

I really have nothing important on there and go months or years without doing anything to it then get a burst of creativity or what not and update the site or just tinker with it.

[0] https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.htm...
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It seems to me that a large nationally sited organisation should be naturally representatively diverse and inclusive, and if it isn’t that organisation should take steps to identify why and address whatever issues lie behind that.

But, … another part of me is uneasy with the idea that there is such as thing as a racialised or gendered (for example) engineer - engineers are individuals, and shouldn’t be under an implied expectation of being recognisably distinct from each other - so I don’t really know how to avoid the ‘entrenched discrimination via sensitivity to fixed identities’ problem.
I think the cable is just a fibre-optic USB-C (thunderbolt?) cable. This is probably necessary to get the 5m range. I know for Thunderbolt 3 cables > 2m you had to go fibre optic and they were surprisingly expensive ($100+). It would surprise me if you couldn't plug in another USB-C cable with the correct protocol support here.
I actually don't think Tiger parenting is more special than, say, just investing in your kids more broadly. You don't have to be an authoritarian and still get excellent results by caring about the success of your children in society and also having the resources and means in which to perform that investment.

More likely is that filters for immigration are very high, which means the average immigrant is more educated, wealthier, dedicated, etc. than the average born-citizen.
As you pointed out, it can be annoying. But it is not the end of the world either... take it easy :D
I love the feeling of typing on one. But there are so many different types that you can choose from. I like the clicky type. Others like linear switches.

Personally, the main reason I use a mechanical keyboard isn't the switches. It just opens up so many options to choose from. I use the Moonlander [0]. It's an ortholinear split keyboard.

Split keyboard makes my posture so much better. It also makes using my mouse that much more convenient due to the travel distance. Meanwhile ortholinear layout makes it easy to learn touch typing.

These days I don't feel productive if I'm using any other keyboard.

[0] https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
You can connect using wifi or using any usb cable. The one they sell is an active optical cable. Look up how much they cost elsewhere.
This article is super strange. It just seems wrong on so many levels.
First off, I’m a coffee nerd who owns a coffee company and I don’t have an espresso machine in my house. I use a chemex and am perfectly happy with it. I don’t even want an espresso machine.
Second, I haven’t seen this mad Covid push to home espresso they speak about. I haven’t seen it in the market at all (and we sell exclusively to homes).
Third, it seems unlikely that large espresso machines are forcing us to redesign kitchens and finally why go on about your big expensive setup only to put some medium roasted cheap ass beans in it. Spend your money on better coffee it’s the easiest and cheapest way to make your coffee better.

I hate these annoying articles about coffee which imply you need to be a rich snob to enjoy it.
Our (decades old) house web server has a home page with useful links, and in particular to a simple wiki on the same box. Without any pushing (that never works) the rest of the house has slowly learnt to use it, so the calendar, the wish lists, the pet histories, holiday ideas, all sorts of stuff are on it. The server also hosts simple apps like JS clocks, calculators and of course the [0] pewpew attack map (maybe a little less funny these days, but hey).

Edit: ref CGI, there's a few apps on there that do that as well (e.g. fish tank temperature monitor). Nice thing about a small private network is being able to do CGI scripts in bash/whatever without having to worry too much).

[0] https://github.com/hrbrmstr/pewpew
There’s a webpack plugin for that. You can use it to drop all the locales.
Very recently I was only allowed to hire a black person. The assumptions here are probably correct.

Search linkedin for “diversity recruiter”. It’s a role. Companies post specific reqs that state you must belong to a marginalized group in job posts often enough that it’s a bit stomach churning.

I’ve personally had to deal with HR for having too many white men on my teams. For software developers in America.
Percolators and French presses make excellent coffee too. Both are barely bigger than a cup and cost maybe $10. To me, it looks like people get those espresso machines so they can roleplay working in a coffee shop. I guess people get their kicks in all sorts of different ways.
The Atlantic article that this one links to admits that negative side-effects of UV-C have been known since at least the 40's:

>> But though Wells and other early pioneers of this technology could shine their 254 nm lamps aloft to clean the air floating in the upper portion of rooms, or use the light inside vents or ducts, they couldn’t actually shine them downward, directly onto the occupants of rooms, without ill effect. That’s because, although 254 nm inactivates pathogens, it also causes skin and eye damage at certain doses.

This is a very contradictory tone with the article, which essentially claims UV-C is totally safe for humans. EDIT: The author of the article explicitly acknowledges this.
shrug We got a Mr. Coffee Barista which makes espresso/cappuccino/latte when it was on sale about 5 years ago for just over $100. 11" wide and 9" deep. Gets put away between special occasions. Don't need to dedicate 2-3 feet of counter space and buy one of the $400+ machines.

But to each their own, of course!

(The rest of the time, it's grinder + scale + pour-over + electric kettle, and the grinder/kettle do have permanent places on the counter!)
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This. Saying "no" to people based on their physical appearance is a discrimination.
Ironic or appropriate. I’m not sure I see irony in this so much as solid delivery on expectations.
As a Brazilian it's a bit expensive for us, but for someone that has the income in dollar seems more attractive.

And probably I will buy it in the first opportunity. haha
I find the bad attitude of "Must be: 6 foot, 6 pack, 6 figures" very minimal on Grindr. I'm guessing because if that's what you actually want you can find it easily, and after being rejected enough you're more likely to adjust your bad attitude.

Most gays I know don't use grindr anymore however.
>I have an amount of respect for hunters, especially those that choose to hunt and eat invasive species or over populated species. I'm not super thrilled about the idea of killing an intelligent being, but I don't think our societal framework for understanding animal intelligence has caught up to reality. I actually suspect that, as a species, we'll get to sidestep and approach this issue from an easier perspective due to lab grown meat.

In the US, hunters also contribute hundreds of millions of dollars annually that is put towards the conversation and preservation of wildlife and their habitats. Thanks to the Pittman-Robertson Act which is a 11% tax on all firearms, ammo, and archery equipment sold in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittman%E2%80%93Robertson_Fede...
'asian' parents from which country? They are not all the same. It's a huge chunk of the planet.
I believe I'll be able to replace my monitors to do my desk job with a VR headset within 10 years. Rather than having 2 monitors of different sizes and resolutions on a desk, why not just have as many virtual monitors with exactly the size, position, and distance I want? In fact, why have monitors at all? Just position the windows in arbitrary space in front of me.

Desktop computing with a VR headset is somewhat possible right now, but I am not quite able to stomach the resolution limitations of the Quest 2. I'm looking forward to devices like SimulaVR [0], which intend to fully replace desktop computing with a self-contained VR headset (plus a mouse and keyboard).

In my mind, there are two and a half problems to solve to make it possible. One is pixel density. It has to at least be equivalent (or very close) to our own eyes. Two is comfort, both physical (ventilation, weight) and health-wise (eye strain). Two and a half is being able to navigate without a mouse and keyboard, and preferably no peripherals, but I think I'm able to wait for that.

[0] https://simulavr.com/
You don't have to pick one or the other. I quit both.
Pretty much! As engineers we all sweat sleepless nights mulling over five 9's and we conflate these valid business needs with our hobbies and personal art/projects.

It doesn't have to be this way! Put it on a pi and have fun, if not for your sanity at the very least do it for your second most valuable resource, your time. If all a person wants to do is have a website that plays a piezo buzzer when someone visits on your RPi, just write that damned code, they shouldn't feel the need to worry about all the nitty gritty when all that they wanted to do is have fun!
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It's clear as day that some culturally contingent notion of race isn't a good way of measuring merit.
One feedback I will provide:

"Deprecate your shitty XCode IDE, and partner with Jetbrains.
Give us a solid editor just like what Google did with Android Studio"
>I am also curious about why GP needs audio in Linux VMs

$dayjob requires an Ubuntu installation with certain security characteristics and certain software installed. And I'm not going to install Ubuntu or do any of those other things to my actual machines :)

I also have a Docker container (well, podman container) of Ubuntu, for running closed-source applications like Discord and Steam. For that one I do indeed just volume-mount the PA socket instead of ssh-forwarding it.
Seems like we should add ~222 UV light to many more home appliances. Home water tanks with lower temperatures, dishwashers with water-free sanitization cycles, refrigerators could include a self-cleaning option, etc. If it holds bacteria and shouldn't, use UV to sanitize.
I host all of marginalia.nu out of my living room. Very little hazzle. UPS is kinda important though.
this person seem to not understand how microsoft's business stays on track.

they seem to really think that individual contributions truly affect Microsoft's fullfilment of their self-appointed mission; but I highly doubt this. Microsoft is really huge. No single individual can really detract, nor add too much, to the company's overall mission.
Cloudflare has a similar (free) service as well. It's quite useful.
This makes one wonder what insiders at MSFT and Meta leadership know about Apple's plans for mixed reality. Feels like a 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' type move.
> wanting to make your own at home instead of spending $7+ a day on Starbucks isn't unreasonable

So spend $500-$1000 on an espresso machine instead when, as OP points out, there are perfectly fine, affordable options that will for most people be indistinguishable (and are certainly superior to Starbucks, just read anything written by the coffee afficionados)?
termux (android) can run python, node, docker and more, but you should have static IP or some tunneling like cloudflare/tailscale/zerotier
I saw a friend of mine (who’d done AA and had been sober for 10 years) be the life of the party all the time.

This allowed me to disconnect the idea that alcohol is needed to have fun in highly social contexts.

I then just quit cold turkey and that was 4 years ago.
Or how about "let me build and run an app on my device without XCode spending 20 minutes 'Preparing Apple Watch for development'"
> IME it is incredibly painful to miss a meal.

Like anything it takes practice! Day two is usually the worst but then hunger basically zeroes out and doesn't come back until ... well, ever. Apparently it returns once you run out of fat stores, but I never got that far. You get cravings once in a while, but not hunger.
> The idea is that the WITH variables are local to the LOOP construct. If one leaves the LOOP, the variables are gone. With an outside LET this would not be the case.

Of course it would. This:

(loop with a = ...)

is exactly equivalent to:

(let ((a ...)) (loop ...))

and so you can e.g. capture with-bindings in closures:

(funcall (loop with a = 123 return (lambda () a))) ==> 123

> Additionally the LOOP sees the WITH definition in standard Common Lisp. It does not see any outside LET bindings, unless the Common Lisp would provide a feature to ask the current environment. This allows the LOOP to for example see a type declaration and provide a default value for the common cases.

I think it is highly questionable whether providing implicit typed default values is actually a useful feature, but assuming for the sake of argument that it is, why not just make a general binding construct that does this? If it's useful, it should be useful (and usable) everywhere, not just inside a loop.

> you could argue that this is just a named BLOCK around the LOOP construct

Indeed you could. :-)

> the name inside the LOOP makes it clear that the this is the name of this LOOP construct.

Yes, but why is that useful? How is (loop named foo ...) any better than (block foo (loop ...)) ? And if it is better, then why not (progn named foo ...) ? (tagbody named foo ...) ?
But as a diet, this would be glucose spikes multiple times per day, for perhaps a lifetime. That may not qualify as "toxic" I guess, in that it doesn't kill you on the first day. But it is not benign.
My web site (taoofmac.com) used to be hosted at home behind a DSL line. I ran it on anything from an NSLU2 (look it up, it was one of the first easy-to procure, easily hackable ARM machines) to PHP+MySQL on Windows Server (don't ask), and after a while I had Snort and all sorts of stuff running alongside to secure it.

Whenever I was linked from Slashdot I would pretty much lose connectivity, so I started using Coral CDN, moved it to a colo, then to Linode, and on and on through some 6 or 7 providers as technology changed and I tried new things.

It's been 20 years now (just wrote about that last week), and I sort of miss those days, but on the other hand I really don't--keeping the server alive and secure (even in Linode) was a bit of a chore, so the writing was pretty much on the wall that it would eventually become just a set of static pages on an Azure storage account. Zero worry about keeping the site secure, no runtime issues, and plenty of opportunities to be creative (like this: https://taoofmac.com/static/graph)

And boy, do I have plenty of in-house web servers and Raspberry Pis to make up for it--but none are public, and I just have a couple of cores spinning on each major provider for toy projects.
I find working remotely results in less free time particularly as it relates to core work hours. However you might define that.

There was a time in my life where I worked 9 to 5 or even 9 to 4 and when the day was done, it was done. Then came "on-call" nights, then the pager that I had to carry so that I could be reached when needed. Then as a consultant hours expanded and work was billed and compensated for based on 40 hours of billed time no matter how many hours were worked at the client site or after hours at my hotel room. Whatever the client needed by whenever they needed it was what was expected.

I have now worked remotely for almost 20 years managing a remotely distributed team across 4 continents and I pine for the days of being "done" outside of 9 to 5.

Working from home, I am never "done". I am almost always reachable and close enough to a computer to be productive be in 1 in the morning, on a Sunday or now even on vacation.

Power to you if you can pull off a 2 hour a week performance but I find I work much more "from home" than I ever did "in the office".

YMMV as they say.
Thanks. Even in private mode, no extensions, it doesn't load for me. Not sure what's going on there (though lots of errors in the console.)
Not necessary. The piece is an excuse for some cutesy first world problem complaining, and dropping some expensive name brands to set the tone. It's not necessarily to sell a specific product, but more to establish the wsj as a magazine with a wealthy, in-the-know readership. Hey, you too, yes you dear reader, might be a sophisticated new yorker with a fancy coffee maker. Any brands out there that care to advertise their expensive lifestyle products here? And even if you're rolling your eyes at this complete drivel, well, you get to feel superior that you, yes, you! most smart and independent reader, are not falling for this stupid informercial. Everybody wins! The most important thing about this is the branding. It's completely disheartening really, that pretty much every content shat out now is ads. If not ads for a particular product, then it's basically an ad for a general disposition or worldview. Unescapable.
VR lenses mean that uniform display pixels result in non-uniform pixels per degree to the eye. Not sure if the effective resolution has changed but almost certain the display panel is uniform pixel density.
Whoever let the marketing department write the tech specs.... I can't even. It's a mockery of "Tech Specs" and has the audacity to to say at the top "It's all in the details" while providing next to zero details.
Yes, no denying that but at least you have the ability to reach the point.

Facebook on the other hand finishes before something can even start because the algorithm checks every single word that you post, unlike Reddit.
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Highly recommend Xcodes.app instead. https://github.com/RobotsAndPencils/XcodesApp
Are we still doing aeropress coffee? That might be the most minimalist choice, besides just switching to instant