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I want to share a couple of stories of immigration. 1. Personal. In the aftermath of 9/11, a simple switch from F1 Student Visa to H1 work visa became a perfect Kafkaesque nightmar…

Here is a thought experiment, especially for people with pensions (unlikely on the HN comments board). PE's are being funded by pension funds. So, as a pensioner, maybe you get a s…

RFID is a possible solution. Tags are now about five cents, and likely to drop further in price with volume. Newer tag designs can be sewn in the seams of garments and shoes.

This: "Important caveat: I’m discussing only the implications of LLMs for software development. For art, music, and writing? I got nothing. I’m inclined to believe the skeptics in …

You move all the tools to debug and inspect slow queries, in a completely unsupported JSON environment, with prompts not to make up column names. And this is progress?

I used to live in Oakland, and am really sad to see continued failures of BART. They had started significant expansions right before the pandemic, allowing a long (but no traffic) …

I recently learned that my neighbor works for Partners in Health (pih.org). They have built an open-source EMR, which they use in far-flung regions like Haiti. I suggested that the…

I am surprised this is getting so little traction on HN. I posted a similar link.The page views just went past 1 million.

As a non-Christian, I highly recommend the writings of Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, and his metaphor of 'Two Halves of Lives'. The specific title of the book is 'Falling Upward'…

I work for a company, headquartered in the Mid West, that has been very public in their support of LGBTQ rights, among other things. Do you think corporations should take a public …

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

I was forwarded Sacha Baron Cohen's facebook critique ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/22/sacha-bar... ) by a friend, as an argument to outlaw facebook. I brought …

Not sure why you got downvoted. Upvoted

This strikes a personal chord. Shortly after 9/11, I had taken a short trip back to India. I was transitioning from a student to work visa, and got held up indefinitely by the US c…