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Most Americans (62%) have European ancestry.

You are listing the most frequent origins of immigrants to America as of 2024.

I’m not sure how this is relevant to the prior discussion.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/09/2020-census-d...
> "Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context"

"Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context... And we'll build a multi-trillion dollar investment bubble with whatever you say."

Cheers! TYFTL (thank you for the laugh)
Cell-based architecture has emerged as a response to many challenges associated with distributed systems. It employs the bulkhead pattern to isolate failures to a fraction of the affected infrastructure footprint and prevent widespread impact. Cells can also help organize large architectures into domain-bound deployment and delivery units, which provides essential sociotechnical benefits.
What are the relative contributions of the total internal reflection property of the fiber optic cable and the particular low-attenuation material it's made of?
.. except that there isn't really a thing such as Jewish DNA. Other than that, yes we're mostly all a mixture of people travelling and migrating and settling down and moving, and they came from all over over the centuries and millennia.
First off, here's some probability for you. I am likely the only one reading your nonsense at this point. There are often hundreds of comments on posts and people rarely read far into the comments after a post is more than a day old. So, from the jump, you've been talking to a crowd that simply doesn't exist.

Secondly I am not promoting fear of guns. You should get as many guns as your heart desires. You in particular need to go out and see the cool stuff that's on the market. I'm guessing you read a blog post about why a cop can't reliably "just shoot for a leg" or something. That is valid in a particular way, but does not in any way prove that guns are super hard to use. If they were, cops might actually just run away and they'd be issued something else besides a gun to defend themselves.

I never said that firearm encounters are overwhelmingly fatal. However, you continue to lecture people who know more than you in condescending tone, even to the point of presuming you know better than people who are literally trained to be in gunfights. It does make me angry to be talked down to by someone with such an ignorant mentality. Your attitude is not at all rare. There are tons of people out there who think that their idle ruminations and irrelevant credentials cancel out actual experience, and these people are a menace to society.

Have you seen a cop lately? They routinely wear body armor these days. Presumably because they are afraid of stray bullets. After all, they are more likely to get hit by lightning or a galloping horse than a criminal with a $300 handgun that can fire ~18 bullets. Why worry?

You are kinda funny in this reply, if insulting, but truly you suffer from delusions of competence and have added nothing of value to this conversation.

Takeaway: I suggest you reflect on the fact that people with direct experience might actually know better than you.
Zero to custom MacroPad in 37 easy steps [video]
I just finished a 4-part video series on designing and building a custom 4x4 keyboard - no prior knowledge needed other than basic soldering skills. It goes through the details of designing the PCB in KiCad, getting it fabricated (and even assembled if you like), designing the case parts in OnShape, getting them fabricated or 3D printed, and finally building and flashing the VIAL firmware to run it all. My goal is to make this an approachable project for the adventurous newbie. Enjoy!
Considering several versions of 8.0 had a crashing bug if you renamed a table, waiting is probably the right choice.
I've quit my job to get you off your phone
If you can't prove family connection with paperwork, you can emigrate to Israel by means of DNA test which proves to the government that you are Jewish.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034383/

Couldn't find a page on the government website, but I remember reading about it there in the not too distant past.
This might be apple silently poking at the FCC et al, daring them to actualy speak up and thereby better define the rules. It's like how the marvel movies have been using the word "shit" once per movie in an attempt to force the MPAA to better articulate its rules. They dare the MPAA to slap an R rating on the next IronMan as Apple dares the WiFi alliance to disallow the wifi logo on the next iphone.
It's an even bigger obstacle for data management, particularly classification and loss prevention. Comparatively, it's less of an obstacle for AI and most likely that will be a game changer for addressing those other issues.
Leaker claims Nvidia’s RTX 5090 won’t cost “significantly more” than Nvidia’s RTX 4090
This is the double standard I'm talking about. First, I honestly don't even believe your claim that Chrome was more stable than Firefox for a decade.

But, even so, you basically admit in the second paragraph that they're probably both fine, but you won't switch back to Mozilla "until they prove they're not going to let the browser stagnate for so long again." What the heck kind of test is that? And how long, exactly, will that take for you? If they "stagnated" for a decade, according to you, is it going to take another decade to prove they won't let it stagnate? Two decades, maybe? What does "stagnate" even mean? To me, it looks like Chrome is stagnating- what have they done lately that's innovative and actually good for users? Breaking a bunch of extensions and removing the ability to block ads? How many years does Chrome have to start behaving itself before you'll switch back to it after all of this? Ah, right- you won't switch away from it; you're probably only concerned about Firefox stagnating.

The truth is that you'll always make an excuse to not switch away from Chrome (and yeah, a browser that uses the Chromium guts is effectively the same thing when it comes to the monopoly on web standards).
Try the mouse scroll wheel, there's a 2D-map organization but it is a little hard to see.
Yeah though bear in mind most job requirements are really job desirables. No skilled jobs say "0 years experience, no track record required".

Asking for proof of contribution to the Rust repo is insane though.
It's the reason why it can only work at small scale: it's all or nothing. It wants to be your only communication channel. But, surprise, as soon as you live in a larger organisation, there will already be communication channels that serve part of the same purpose. Then most of the functionality become clutter.
Agreed. I like my Leopold FC660C too but the Topre switches can’t don’t even come close to today’s quiet/lubricated mechanical switches. My custom Python M60 board feels significantly better to type on and is far quieter than the Topre switch board. The Topre switches feel like cheap junk by comparison. I used it for years, but there has just been so much development in this area lately, the Topre switches are outclassed.

On QMK, I disagree. The QMK Bluetooth/USB support still kinda sucks in every recent board I’ve tried, and you can get most of the best QMK functionality on any keyboard using Karabiner anyway.
What you "more bandwidth more noise" people miss is the difference in randomness: the noise is random while the signal is not.

In case of gaussian noise, double the bandwidth means 1.41x more noise. For signal, double the bandwidth double the signal.
I really disliked old KDE (1-3?) but since Plasma I'm a completely happy user, although I still use i3/sway.
On Campus Safety, the Left Is Hopelessly Confused
Wow how cool, but $1,171 for the basic, non-soldered one? Guess it's not for the mass market...
Yes, we should probably assume that the SpaceX engineers have considered all of the risks HN readers are able to come up with in a few hours. And that they have evaluated alternatives like the added weight etc of having foldable legs on the booster.

The catchzilla solution is an example of their amazing ability to think out of the box. This solution, and things like the rapid evolution of the Raptor engine (see picture, story here: https://medium.com/@futurespaceworld/the-evolution-of-spacex...), dynamic engine configuration (33, 13, 3, zero, up again) and control is almost magically impressive. This is the stuff of Sci-Fi, brought to life.
Eh a lot of toilets from the period also don’t flush very well, and you have to take care not to clog them.
injection molding is intractable for small runs, but there are services for one-off UV printing and dye sub; you'll have to compromise on accuracy to the original, but could still make something nice
Another use case is when you need a systems language for a user-facing app (even if not directly connected to the internet) and would have reached for C++ previously.

Memory corruption bugs are no joke. If you've got staff that already knows C++, their ramp up time for Rust will be much shorter compared to typical devs working only in Python, JS, etc.
Yeah, I got that eventually.

I can get behind installing a focused app to give it a whirl and see how it flies, but I draw the line at worlds of confusion. I don't need that on my PC (looking at you NPM).
My point is about this:

> No competent dev will accept their skills atrophying due to overly rigid political/tech choices.

Competent dev to me is one that delivers value. I say that as a dev but I'm pretty sure stakeholders would agree.

It's perfectly reasonable to hone your skills outside of paying hours if you chose to expand to new technology outside of your employer's stack.
Yeah I also didn't know about it until two days back when I was discussing CS with a college friend when we checked it out we realised there is something new after CSGO as well. And of course "proudly Windows only".
Sure, Latex gives a nice output but you have to suffer through a lot for that.
Look at the new screenshot, it's so close you can't really tell the difference without superposition.

In any case, Typst seem so much nicer to use that I think it's OK to let go of some minor details...
Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting
So, under this new legislation I will have to file my taxes with BOTH this new entity AND the atrocious German sweet old lady tax inspector, right?

Irony aside but color me skeptical: there is no way Germany is going to let go of its precious bureaucracy.
I really like that you can self host an entire project management stack these days. For my co-op we use OpenProject for Issues / Kanban but it seems it has things like time tracking, wiki, and many other features we don't use because we prefer alternatives.

For wiki / notion we use Outline. For slack, Matrix. For CRM, Espo. For code repositories, forgejo, but we don't self host it, we use codeberg.

I think this stack would probably cost us a couple thousand of dollars a month if we paid for SaaS since we have around a hundred members. Instead we pay something like 30$/month for a couple hetzner servers through elestio.

When I work full time and I get to use all the bells and whistles SaaS products like linear, sometimes I think it's cool that the tool will do something like point out I'm about to create a duplicate ticket... But thousands of dollars a month cooler? Not sure, but not my money!
I flagged the comment above because I think it doesn't belong here on Hacker News based on our guidelines. They help us understand our shared norms here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

At the same time, when I see this kind of sarcasm, I also wonder: where is the sarcasm coming from? How can we make this discussion productive?

If you start with the resources I suggested, I think you will find useful material.
> Bu şehirdeki polis teşkilatı faaliyetlerini arttırdı.

Interestingly the -ki suffix here was borrowed from Persian (another Indo-European language like English), and effectively highlights a unique instance - "the one which" - in a way that Turkish otherwise doesn't specifically do.
Its not as simple as a democratic choice, that was my point. Work isn't like that.
You could also just put a ballistic missile on a satellite, then you'd have a guidance system.
Tibetan script has been in Unicode since version 2 from 1996, with some characters added in later versions. Is there are particular human script you want added to Unicode?
In regard to watching the mind, one thing I’ve observed is a little strange, and I was hoping to get other’s experiences.

I like to watch the movement of my attention. Nothing abstract, just to observe where attention is aimed - it takes a mere 30 seconds of watching.

What I’ve noticed, is it moves around, seemingly without my input, and lacking any conscious intent (a concept the blog post makes a point to reclaim).

The light of attention shines throughout the physical scene, but it is sensorily multidimensional. It might move to the pain in my back, or the sound of the frogs, or the mug on my desk, a random memory, or more relevant to the article, the latest arising thought.

I am watching this movement of ‘my’ attention, and yet I seem to be playing no part in the neither the objects of attention, or the movement of attention itself.

This isn’t to say I cannot decide right now to move my hand in front of my face and observe it, but this arising of intention is itself mysterious too.
Show HN: Microagent, a fork of OpenAI Swarm that supports Groq and Anthropic
> you have to ask how you will grow and maintain things going forward.

The typical answer is "The jobs market will provide".

The issue with that method is that you end up competing with everyone and, usually, your company is not the top employer.

OTOH, some companies decide to use technology and invest in knowing the community, by hosting events or meetups, by frequently sending their devs to conferences on company time, etc. Usually, the people hired are above average, and are also able to train juniors if the market dries up. These companies typically are the safest in terms of ability to maintain their stack, but have to account for the fact that alienating their existing devs becomes a big risk.

The real harm comes for companies that choose niche tooling but believe the market will provide.
This change doesn't do anything to prevent in this case Tibetan from "accommodating recent changes".

It makes it possible to support the language as it was used historically and as I understand it is used presently. Even if it were to change presently, there are still historical documents which should be supported.

It sounds like you want to force change (and specifically change in the direction of what more common languages do), as opposed to "accomodate" it.

i would say that making software more flexible to handle more unusual things actually "accomodates innovation" in all languages the software supports. The more things you can support, instead of requiring everything to work the same, the more you are actually accommodating innovation.
Last week OpenAI pushed out an AI agent orchestration framework called Swarm. I liked how lightweight it is compared to other open source LLM frameworks that I find overly complex. Unfortunately, OpenAI positioned it as an experimental framework and on their GitHub page said they wouldn’t be accepting any PRs for enhancements. It doesn’t sound like they’re going to maintain it. That’s too bad because it is a nice approach for developers looking for a simple solution to orchestrating AI agents.

So I forked it and I spent some time making it work with Anthropic and Groq LLMs. The result is Microagent.
I have a big 49" wide screen monitor and sharing my screen in Google Meet was cumbersome because you can only share a window or the whole screen, but not a screen region.

So I wrote a small tool that uses the xrandr extension to mirror an area to a virtual monitor which then can be shared.

See my blog post for some more details: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2024-10/11-introducing_clips...
> https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

This is so incredibly accurate - I’m laughing and crying.
GitHub Actions: latest is now Ubuntu 24.10, including breaking changes
Yeah, until vacuum is gone, i'm not touching postgres. So many bad experiences with our use cases over the decades. I guess most people don't have our uses, but i'm thinking Uber does.
Almost all of the new media jobs are like this. You have a small chance to make it really big or work 3x as hard to barely make a living wage versus a boring office job.
hahaha what good joke
I also don’t think it’s ill named. The moors conquered and the Catholics took it back. It doesn’t defy logic.
For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_scrip...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script
Thankfully, military stuff that is field deployed typically already has insane shock and vibration requirements. We build military stuff at our facility and it all has to go through lots of shock, vibration, and temperature testing. The military really wants to be sure things don't fail on the battlefield (which could also be aptly called "the-shock-and-vibration-field")
MySQL 8 and beyond has been riddled with bugs and performance regressions. It was a huge rewrite from 5.7.

8 has nice features and I think they evaluated it as stable enough to upgrade their whole fleet to it. I'm pretty sure from 8 to 8.4 the upgrades will be much simpler.
Some Protestants hold that Catholicism is not a sect of Christianity due to a number of beliefs, such as the different requirements for salvation.

I don’t know how common this belief is in the US but I personally have encountered a number of people that believe this.
Ugh. These are rarely as good as real keyboard in my experience, and they take up space on your desk. I play competitively and I still have never found a use for these - real keyboards all the way IMO.
OK that must have been the screenshot software and zoom producing the blurriness.

In this new screenshot the rendering is perfect and one can't really tell any difference.

As for Latex I think it's a strong desire to belong to a special club that makes people use it and try to stick to the very specific look.
It does render math equation nicely, but the rest isn't anything special, especially compared to modern font/techniques.
Many positives to remote work, but an improvement in collaboration and team ethos is hardly one of them!
It Started with a Road – Global South Version
Or - check this out! - you could take more if you want more of the effect you're seeking, since that's still what you have to do anyway.
I can tell from a mile away that this is written by ChatGPT / Claude, at least partially.

"This distinction played a crucial role in our upgrade planning and execution strategy."

"Navigating Challenges in the MySQL Upgrade Journey"

"Finally, minimizing manual intervention during the upgrade process was crucial."
Sounds pretty much AT&T UNIX to me, after they were cleared to profit, or how Sun had the great idea about UNIX SDKs.
Can you elaborate why you think this?
The "subtitle" / honest headline sums it up so well, I'm not sure what all the text below it is for:

> Claim raises idea [...] but experts view it with caution
I never understood that need to categorize at such a detailed level.

Same is happening in the bicycle world. Now your road bike that you also take on dirt roads should be called a gravel bike, but then we need to make distinctions with gravel racing bikes, gravel bikepacking bikes, adventure bikes and they will soon make the distinction between rigid, hardtail and fully suspended gravel bikes regular or flat-bar gravel bike, the same way they split MTB to cross country, downcountry, trail, all-mountain, enduro, dh, freeride, fatbike and whatever I am missing. This is ridiculous. The irony is an aero road bike designed for pure speed on the road today can accept wider tires (up to 32mm wide) than what was considered fit enough for riding dirt roads 20 years ago (25-28mm), so they should be also called gravel bike in a way. Just call them bikes FFS.
I will say that a rust service, even when doing relatively simple stuff, can scale well in the cloud due to small memory footprint, fast startup time when auto-scaling in containers, and no need for a JIT to "warm up" before it has high throughout and consistent low latency. Building something with these qualities on a framework like Rocket is pretty straightforward, IME.
Too many big discoveries were made by people who were "too idiotic or hard headed" to realize that something is impossible. Clever and level headed people will look at an endeavour, calculate that the risk/reward is terrible and not even try. It takes a special kind of person to do this kind of stuff, and many die trying such that we don't even hear about them. The few who get lucky and succeed push humanity's reach to (literally) new frontiers and get remembered as great explorers.

So while I agree that a "lucky idiot" is often a good description for these efforts, I think it is very important that we do not diminish their importance. It took someone like Columbus to make this trip, and yes he had to get supremely lucky, it doesn't diminish from the fact that he took risks that paid off handsomely.
FFmpeg Explorer (2023)
How much money do you think it's worth for a CS degree?
perhaps Go could have been a good solution for simple, cross-compiled code.
You can apply color matrices to HTML elements by referencing an SVG feColorMatrix [1] from the filter [2] CSS property.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/feC...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter
Missed it so much in vim I started maintaining the neovim clone.
I like how this is visualised (at least aesthetically) and I appreciate the utility of genre in that it creates expectations, but at the same, it sort of reeks of this feigned complete knowledge of music and this obsession with categorising things that cannot be neatly categorised. The techno section has this 'these are the types I've read about on reddit'-ness to it and the metal section... I remember crunkcore but I really dont understand how it could be in such large text.
> so now you half agree with me saying bus are awful

They are awful because they are never on time. Your post is pure delusion. I feel insulted by you even implying I could half agree.

> why do you think even the SNCF when they moved their office to saint denis wanted to have a specific arrival gate for their employees-only before backtracking when someone smarter than the average told them it would send the wrong message?

You are unlucky. I was working as a contractor for SNCF at the time of the move so I 100% know that what you are saying is pure bullshit. There never was a plan for a separate gare. The part of Saint Denis where SNCF is is perfectly safe anyway. I find it hilarious that you think it's even possible to open a new gare for a specific use case on the RER D, one of the busiest line in one of the busiest metro network.
> The writing style is very easy to identify,

Really? At n=1 the rate seems to be 0
And, eventually, if it becomes cheap enough to put people in space for the task, you can plan to actually maintain things there rather than design for extreme reliability.
I was curious if tig(1) could do such a navigation. But I didn’t find anything.
I'm not clear on what the horizontal width of a category is supposed to represent. Electronic music sure seems to get an awful lot of it. Also the categories given under "world music" seem to ignore a lot of the world.
Notwithstanding your judgment of others’ ability to use curl - I wouldn’t compare API clients to curl at all.

Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more.
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