skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have that exact law here in Ontario, Canada, and the products are just as disposable as everywhere else. Even worse, just like every other regulation ever, it is negotiated in such a way that it favours some manufacturers over others, and it was most welcomed by said manufacturers.

Pretty sure there are laws like this in lots of other places, and it in no way appears to encourage repair. In fact, you could make an argument that it discourages repair: since repairable machines are typically heavier, it is cheaper for the manufacturer to pay the deposit on a lighter machine which is not repairable. You can't really get the bureaucracy to determine how repairable your product is either. If you do, the rules will ultimately be just as arbitrary as weight, and not thorough enough to generate the intended effect. In addition to being useless, these regulations also increase the cost of goods, congratulations.
> Naturally, people who disagree will respond... the system is working as intended.

Interesting elision. Will you expand upon it?
This is the fundamental issue, yes. Some thoughts:

A large part of the discrepancy is not automation, but cheap labour in the East where many of our products are made. Regulation can help redress than inequality.

Repair is so expensive because it's made to be. It shouldn't take several hours of skilled labour to replace an easily broken component like a touchscreen - it should be snap-in. Regulation can address that by mandating reparability.

It's also worth thinking about why we consider replacement being cheaper than repair to be a problem at all - if you trust the market, what's so horrible about that? Real time saver right?

Answer: the price of new goods does not reflect their full environmental and social cost. The switch in your toaster breaks - you buy a new one for a fiver instead of repairing the switch. The old one goes in a landfill. A quantity of non-renewable resources like oil and metal are used up; a the increased demand for these things contributes to the deaths of miners, and people who live near the factories and refineries. Fuel is burned to deliver the new toaster to you, and the Earth's temperature goes up a teeny-tiny fraction. None of these things are included in the price. Regulation can help that too.
The NYPD, which can't even successful migrate off of WinXP is going to build an in house product tying together a bunch of IBM products??
> because if I learned anything, anything you say can and most likely probably will be used against you.

Even right now, writing on a niche message board using a fake name, I'm hesitant to voice my honest opinions about anything related to race or gender or other topic like that. it's like there's an army of internet people waiting for you to mess up and will punish you with controversy and/or honestly try and get you fired.
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Since you can't really eliminate backroom dealing, male only social clubs can have the practical effect of excluding women from equal participation/opportunity, at least as long as groups like "C level exec" are disproportionately male.
I am a US citizen and I feel unwelcome and uncomfortable when I interact with border guards. I know you all have it worse and I have rights that you do not, but I just want to let you know that it is a systemic problem not limited to immigrants. It's rooted, I think, in the power-trippy "respect my authority" culture that has permeated all American law enforcement.
> That's a self-limiting belief that can only be fixed by the person who believes it. Telling the person who believes it is not going to work. They'll always have doubt.

100% agree. The reality is that person's belief (and in general, the cultural expectation) won't change until that behavior is normalised. People stop being racist when they interact with people of other races and get used to it. The same is true of everything else. If more women are programmers, people stop thinking of it as a male-only thing.

It's a chicken and egg problem - the girl's computing groups are a man-made egg to kick-start that cycle. Those girls will grow up an integrate, and that creates a normality of it which will eventually make those groups redundant.

There are existing barriers to entry from cultural expectation and pressure from peers. If you create an artificially isolated environment so these minorities can pursue their interests without that pressure, it bypasses those barriers, and those people will, in future, tear them down just because they exist.
Can we have discussion like adults instead of children please?
What is the best path for my wife, who was brought here illegally when she was 8 and is here semi-legally because of DACA, to go about getting a green card and/or citizenship? I am personally a US citizen.
that's exactly right
paradoxically we want longer lifetime for some products but not for IE 6, Windows XP, JDK 1 , name your product's support hell...
"Meticulous" is a bit of an overstatement,. I've had a Prius for about five years now and I've changed the oil a few times and put in windshield washer fluid. And most of the accessories are electrified anymore, so the only belt is for the water pump.

I wonder how many EV drivers end up in the dealership only once a year.
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Hey Peter,

Thank you for taking the time to answer questions.

I am a Canadian looking to work full time in the US and was hoping to obtain a TN visa.

What would be the best possible way to achieve this.

Would it be better for me to first find a company interested in sponsoring me? I feel this would be ideal but may cause potential friction as it is more work on the employer.

Or would it be better to apply with an immigration lawyer such as your self? If so how much does something like this cost and how long does it take?

Sorry for the long winded question and thanks for your help!
:-) Of course. As a buddy of mine used to say, "How will you know they need help? They'll ask for it"
Again, this is hard to answer in the abstract but for example, I see no issue with someone, who is an artist, getting an O-1 as an entrepreneur but as part of his or her job duties, doing artwork - but the artwork needs to be for the US company in your capacity as an employee of that company.
Everything I read about US immigration seems to indicate it's next to impossible and unless I'm some kind of mythical "10x developer", companies wouldn't bother with the visa process. Is that accurate?

I have friends actively avoiding applying to US companies because they think getting a visa is impossible. What should I tell them? Is there a type of visa that's more friendly to foreign engineers?
In the field of discrimination, women and minorities are statistically more experienced; so on the whole you'd expect them to hold more informed opinions than white men.

Maybe so, but I think it would be a mistake to understate the extent to which white men can experience discrimination. That is, there are far more parameters on which one can discriminate than just gender and ethnicity. For example, you could be a white man who is short. Or fat. Or short and fat. Or an atheist. Or who speaks with a Southern accent. Or a short, fat, atheist who speaks with a Southern accent.

The point is, everybody experiences at least some discrimination. As such, Caveman_Coder's position is understandable, even if his language could have been a little less inflammatory.
They could allow Ultrabooks in the cabin and ban laptops say heavier than 2.5 lbs. They could publish a list of the heavier models that needed to be checked in.
I didn't think my tonality was in any way aggressive. It certainly wasn't meant to be.

Yes I read that story on heavy.com back in May. And heavy.com is not part of the DHS, the TSA or any other US government agency.

Also the story on heavy.com is reporting about an unnamed source who reported it to another publication(the Washington Post.)

So in effect you have - someone saying that someone told someone else this. That's hardly counts as a credible intelligence. That's what I would third-hand news. It's like the children's game of "Telephone."
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That is utterly horrifying.
I can't see the code without edit access? I go to Tools -> Script Editor, click, and it does nothing. No error even. (Happens in both Firefox and Chrome.)
You made my day. Though an explanation would help understanding it. For the commonfolk like me.
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Honest question. Can a person who has trouble plugging in a car do a reasonable and safe job at driving?
I have a honda with 226,000 miles. Starts and runs like new.

I have replaced timing belt and water pump and motor mounts in addition to regular fluid changes. The timing belt and water pump work was proactive maintenance (the timing belt drives the water pump so they suggest replacing both at once since it's not really any extra work).

The motor mounts simply wore out. Not expensive to replace. Rubber mounts will wear out on a Tesla too, eventually.
What I really want to know is: How was it that Neo's passport expiration date was 9/11/2001 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neo-Passport.png
That's really a personal decision but there's high risk that you'll have a problem.
The thing that makes these kinds of discussions so difficult is that people often aren't clear (even in their own minds) about eventual goals vs. immediate actions. Absolutely, inclusion and color/gender/whatever blindness is where most of us would like to be eventually. Unfortunately, pretending we're already there doesn't get us there. It just preserves the status quo. As painful as it is, we have to accentuate and perhaps even exaggerate both the problem and present remedies. If you're not willing to take even the tiniest risk of over-correction, you're practically guaranteeing permanent under-correction.

I'm sure the OP is quite sincere. I find her attitude laudable in its way. Unfortunately, I also find it a bit non-generalizable and counter-productive. We don't yet live in a world good enough for that prescription to work.
Pretty much anyone with a Ph.D, core contributor to a major open source project, inventor of record on multiple patents, speaker at conferences, OR otherwise able to demonstrate that s/he is an expert in their field can get admitted on an O-1 visa, if they have good legal representation.
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Hi Peter, I just got an employer-sponsored green card, then got married. Is there a way to bring my wife to the US?
I have seen a lot of folks like you who come on F2 and manage to get a job. If your experience is relevant to your field you will find a job but you have to display a certain level of skills to get one. All the best
I don't think he was talking about thermodynamic efficiency. But filtering efficiency. Filtering one big power plant is easier than filtering many independently owned cars. Also the power plants filter is stationary and the cars filters must move.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347908
Benjamin Button moves from an iPad Pro running iOS 11 to a 13“ MacBook Pro
Arguably, Windows XP had an incredibly long lifetime (12 years!) in terms of actual support/updates. The problem is getting people to leave after that lifetime is over.

If something is going to get updates for twelve years, there's no problem with people continuing to use it.
They send a weekly emails with chunks of text they corrected so that means my data is being transferred somewhere. I would stay away from this service.
A warning to non-russian webmasters?
I've found the opposite to be true. Perhaps you have assimilated more effectively than I.
What percentage of and how many YC companies/startups are affected by the travel ban from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen?
How Much Does Crime Effect Rent Prices?
Better would be to force them to open source the drivers and specifications and repair guides for all devices, who knows if I can use my PS3 in 10 years, we will have to hope that open source community can make drivers for it.
> Of course that assumes the case is heard in California,

It assumes California law is applied, which is not the same thing as the case being heard in California, though the two are loosely correlated.
Nobody wants to hear others opinions.
If you were white in 60's America, you didn't have to check ahead of time if a given restaurant would serve you food. If you're white now, you still don't have to check.

If you're not white, things are different.

Can you think of some examples of when you were unexpectedly forbidden from participating in an event/group/etc? Did you have access to alternatives?
Japan's population is falling faster than ever before
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this AMA. I'm from India. Have used all 6 years of H1b, including the recapture time, and back on F1 visa status with pending CoS (second masters degree in US). I'm working on a few startup ideas, mostly based on Apps. I was hoping for IER, but that seems to be in a limbo.

What are the chances for a founder of a yet to be funded startup to get EB1A? or would you suggest O-1?
> Things don't magically get fixed culturally and socially - that takes an integration.

Not necessarily, I see 2 opinions on how to fix this :

- An "active integration" like you explain, where the differences are highlighted (what we mostly see in the US). The idea is that by forcing the change we'll get used to it.

- A post-racial/genre approach, where the differences are made as irrelevant as any physical trait, so the change comes naturally but it's a long process (what I've mostly seen in France)

IMHO the first approach may yield faster results, but only the second can solve cultural issues (in part by blurring and mixing the cultures, instead of crystallizing them)
Your right, unfortunately it's tough unless one is from a country with a specific visa (such as Australia, Canada, or Mexico) or is being transferred on an L-1 visa to a related entity in the US.
This is regrettably true. PhysX is an Nvidia technology and, as I understand it, is supported to run on Nvidia GPUs. The consequence is that developers who are faced with this option will quickly realize that it'll be easier to just run the same tech on a user's machine regardless of which GPU solution they have (Nvidia, AMD, Intel) and optimize their game the same way for all platforms.

Can I use an NVIDIA GPU as a PhysX processor and a non-NVIDIA GPU for regular display graphics?

No. There are multiple technical connections between PhysX processing and graphics that require tight collaboration between the two technologies. To deliver a good experience for users, NVIDIA PhysX technology has been fully verified and enabled using only NVIDIA GPUs for graphics.

http://www.nvidia.ca/object/physx_faq.html

EDIT: I'm talking about game development
Hi on the topic of visa mobility-

I am an e2 visa holder from a mid sized company. What are the options for moving on to my own startup? Is the green card process the quickest route? E2 doesn't allow me to work on a side business, but can I incorporate and not pay myself a salary ?
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I don't want to make this a Trump thing ... but I"m gonna. I didn't like that he tweeted the CNN clothesline but I just read their response which was doxing and extorting a bs apology from the creator. It shows that the problem is worse than you've pointed out. Even if you're relatively anonymous, you'll be guilty by association if someone uses your words and amplifies them in a way you never could.
Hi Peter, thanks for this AMA.

Just because the information isn't perfectly clear: how long can a green card be renewed for? I got mine a couple years ago, but I have to wonder how long it gives me to stay in the states beyond the 10 year term on the card. Is it really 'permanent' or does the renewal problem have any challenges?
I met a bunch of people who ride this train like no tomorrow.

They are devs but talk like their job is diversity managers...
Same goes for UE4 https://youtu.be/-lFKZRX1K_0?t=190
> For example, you guys have started arguing about "feminism" without the slightest reason to believe you mean the same thing by it.

Fair point. Thanks for the clarification. Amusingly, the discussion about feminism was only supposed to be an example of something that tends to get social media discussions heated no matter what direction you go with it (and as something to generally be avoided as a business risk).
Do both together.

Use GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE for the simple CRUD on the resource.

Then, put your actions under POST /resource/{id}/actions/{action}, e.g. `/repositories/1/actions/archive`, `/users/1/actions/ban`, `/customers/1/actions/credit-score-with-bank-of-xyz`, etc
Adventured is right, about both feminism and censorship. I think the ERA would actually help men more than women. Right now it is much better to be a woman in america.

Feminism has more than accomplished its goals of equality. Women can do anything they want, yet they also get these benefits:
If accused of a crime less likely to be convicted
If they hit a man far less likely to be charged with harsh domestic violence laws
If convicted, men get 60% longer sentences
If another Vietnam happens, women will stay home while men are forced to get killed, get their arms and legs blown off in war.
If they have a child out of wedlock they get free money from the government
If there is a divorce, they get custody 80% of the time.

The reason men make more money is because on average, they have a higher iq than women (this is scientifically proven), because they have more natural drive than women, and because they have fewer emotional insecurities that prevent them from succeeding in the workplace.

Feminism has achieved equality of opportunity in every regard. Today it is no longer about equality of opportunity, but equality of results. If feminists are going to fight for equal pay, regardless of merit, they should also fight for mandatory longer prison times, and mandatory higher conviction rates just for being women in order to match men. Or if they think things should be decided on relative merit of the individual, then they should quit whining about being women. Everybody has strengths and weaknesses. Find your niche, instead of trying to win at someone else's and then cheating because you came in second and wanted first.

Edit:
As for the dogmatic downvoters, why don't you at least present some sort of rebuttal against these facts, instead of a media-ingrained fear downvote?
I should have been a bit more explicit - I meant life after weight loss. The problem was apparently that maintaining a healthy weight requires being perpetually hungry. I was wondering if being able to afford 3 solid meals and some snacks without gaining weight would help with that appetite issue.
That's available too and people do pay. For instance, https://www.vzug.com/ch/de/product/ch-Catalog/1101100004
Shouldn't the uppercase of a number be a string?

const makeUpperCase = t.pattern(
(input: string) => input.toUpperCase(),
(input: number) => '' + input
);

Otherwise you get odd behaviours like:

makeUpperCase('1') + makeUpperCase('1') = '11' (probably what you want)
makeUpperCase(1) + makeUpperCase(1) = 2 (probably not what you want)
Again, it's hard to say in the abstract but as a general rule, an interim O-1 makes more sense since this allows you to build up your company and then use the company's success for your EB1A application.
Not saying it was unfounded fear (I'm very pro space nuclear power), just pointing out what the actual contention is. People have an adverse reaction to anything with the word "nuclear" on it, even more so when it is put on top of a half million pounds of propellant and lit with a non-negligible failure rate.

The reality though is that failure of the rocket doesn't mean the reactor or fuel is vaporized and thrown to the wind. It's possible to construct the payload fairing to survive sudden, rapid disassembly and crash land intact off the Florida coast for recovery.
IMHO, it's both. He can't help himself, and it works, so he keeps doing it. There's a reason his staff let him twitter.
Rich poor divide. Transportation. Pollution. Environment. Ethnic separatism/unrest. Energy. Public Health. Rights of criminally accused. And a not quite as well refined legal system...for instance I was reading about how drivers who accidentally hit a pedestrian are actually incentivise to backup to make sure to kill the pedestrians. And the social acceptance and ability to talk freely about social issues in public forums.
I've had this crazy thought for awhile that the physical dimensions we see are the three dimensions of gravity, and that there are a similar number of dimensions for time.
Mechanical and electrical engineering industries were seriously affected, according to Swissmem:
https://www.swissmem.ch/en/news-medien/news/mem-industrie-di...

According to Credit Suisse, "nearly all sectors of industry are affected", especially the Mechanical Engineering industry, but also Metals and Food Industries, Hotels, Catering and Retailing:
https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/en/articles/articles/news-a...
Came here to ask the same question, I'm not clear on what functionality this offers beyond a simple k-v substitution.
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It's really permanent unless one commits certain crimes or lives abroad for an extended period of time without taking certain protective steps beforehand.
Last I checked, they weren't real business accounts, they were just secondary personal accounts that could be used by sole traders. Is this still the case?