skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big corporations are basically communist empires in this regard. I think the reason why capitalism won over communism is that capitalism has a large number of centrally-planned enterprises where natural selection can take place internally and the failure of any single enterprise does not hurt (and even benefits) the others. In communism, however, there's only one big plan that's "too big to fail".
One interesting thing is that this seems to be on the cusp of spawning an "In Silicon Valley ..." joke cycle.

* https://twitter.com/MarcLucke/status/1015211522111496193

* https://twitter.com/Vietpdx/status/1015253367285673984
Many gouvernements tax what the it/the population deems hurtful: cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, etc.. Social media fits that list better than TV and phone IMO.
Did you feel the invasion of Germany in 1944 was in the services of geopolitics?

It's not geopolitics to try and determine if fewer people would die with or without Saddam in power. Saddam's chemical attacks against civilians are well documented and not widely disputed. His internal security apparatus was open with their brutality in order to induce fear on the population.

I think that the 2nd Iraq War was a mistake, particularly how the government misled the people, but I find it absolutely baffling when people will not even honestly address the situation in good faith. You cannot simply argue that "many people civilians died as a result of the Iraq War therefore it's bad" without addressing the situation beforehand. Lots of people died during the Allied invasion of Germany, but I think most people would agree that it was the correct thing to do.
While the spread of Wahabism has been most acute in Saudi Arabia's neighbors, the growth in terrorism has definitely affected the whole world.

Granted though, not on the same scale that US wars do.
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups.  AMA
I’ll be here for the next 2 hours and then again at around 1 pm for another 2 hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!

Previous threads are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts. Email is in my profile and you are welcome to get in touch!
You just gave me a great idea on how to finally get my congress critter to listen to me!
Regarding your last point. You're thinking in the long-term (5-15 years). The fuel-security concern is right now and batteries aren't going to fix this in a couple of years.
"I am unprepared for people who don't understand jokes" -- Anton Troynikov

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me". Dumb fucks
- Mark Zuckerberg, 2004
That pretty much addresses my first question, but only that, from what I can tell.

> it would be wrong to compare my employer to a startup operating on angel fumes

Only if you pre-suppose your hand-wavey definition of good, which I noticed had very little in the way of qualities that affect actual working environment.

> we are trying our damndest to grow our Toronto office even more.

Including "welcoming" US workers? That's what I have yet to see any evidence of.
Sure, but the reason people is angry is not some advertisements. That's only a scapegoat.
It's not as straight forward as this. Many innocent people died (and would have continued to die) at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime. So, was removing a ruthless dictator a good thing to do? On the surface, probably yes, but Saddam's removal left a huge power vacuum in the region, allowing even more extreme and violent factions to set up shop. So, in the end, would it have been better to leave a known genocide practitioner in place to maintain regional stability?
Sidekiq moved from Celluloid to Concurrent Ruby as well.

https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/issues/2583
http://www.mikeperham.com/2015/10/14/optimizing-sidekiq/

Celluloid uses 1 thread per actor.
> - It's GNU. I'm a GNU hacker and to me Guix is a representative of a modern and innovative GNU.

Inventing yet another package manager is exactly the kind of innovation I've come to expect from the GNU.
So, the company notorious for "Your account has been banned by AI. No revenue for you. No appeal. No explanation." is going to tell the rest of the world how to improve customer service? This is too rich. The hubris is astounding. Does anyone else see this as totally tone-deaf?

$DIETY save us all.
The vast majority of people don't care, and many of those that claim to care, reveal they don't through their actions.
But "The Greatest Country on Earth" does not mean "no flaws" or even "no hypocrisy". It may even mean "the flaws are more openly acknowledged" - that can be part of greatness, in fact.

Now, if you want to argue that somewhere else is in fact better, that could be valid, but it's a different argument.
Sorry, maybe I was unclear. I don't want to have to support it in the open-source version ("I tried to run it on three DigitalOcean droplets and I didn't read the instructions and it's all sad" is just a time sink) and I do want feature incentives, in addition to support guarantees, to encourage corporate users to support the project.

I want to align the financial incentives to maintain this software; features are part of how that can be done. At commercial scales, companies do need support. But support is hard to quantify by itself and feature gates provide additional arguments for buying the software and helping to ensure that the project survives and is maintained.
That whole ordeal seems so quaint now, in retrospect. I wonder if this happened in today's day and age, CBS would have anticipated that the twitter gonzo journalism class would rapidly attempt to identify flaws in the doc and vet it harder?
Surely the abundant usage of crack has something to do with it too...
I guess what you're saying is that machine code is an "intermediate product" in the sense that the final product must include the compiler, and the machine code produced by a JIT compiler is useless by itself. And I agree with your overall point, JIT compilers and VMs shouldn't be in there. You might as well include all interpreters. If you look at a JIT compiler as a black box, it acts like an interpreter, and I'm pretty sure this is meant as a practical graph ("what can I do with this language") rather than one that describes the internals of compilers and interpreters.
By "NES" they actually mean "NES Classic Edition" which is just a fairly normal modern ARM board in a neat looking box.
I'm a huge fan of the series of Ultimate talks from C3 conferences.

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8029-the_ultimate_game_boy_talk

The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9064-the_ultimate_apollo_guidanc...

The Ultimate Atari 2600 Talk https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4711-en-the_atari_2600_video_com...

More here:(Commodore 64, Amiga 500, etc.) https://media.ccc.de/search/?q=ultimate
You have a very optimistic model of people.
He does other stuff other than express opinions too. If I remember correctly he is leading privatized space exploration, bringing about the electric car revolution, and tunnel boring.

So idk, maybe someone who is focusing on quickly building tunnels might be helpful.

> Elon Musk is sending a team of engineers to Thailand to see if they can help authorities racing to save a dozen boys and their coach who are stranded in a cave there.
> Job growth is a good thing only if it benefits the people who live in a place before said growth occurs

Why so? Even if high-paid populations are being shifted around, it's better for the region as a whole to have more highly-paid people. They'll spend more and pay more in taxes (sales, property, income). The pre-existing population presumably owns property, whose value has increased now because it's close to high-paying jobs so they too benefit. This is exactly what has happened in the Bay Area btw.
I've never heard of typelevel programming. Can someone explain what it is?
React-Amplitude – A Library for Instrumenting Amplitude in React Web Apps
That's why my time system https://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/ rotates the clock depending on your GPS location.
The idea is that the numeric time is the same anywhere in the world but your clock is displayed with solar midday directly up and solar midnight directly down.

It explicitly intends that each solar day is split into 10 which is then subdivided into 100 and then again. This makes an ergonomic system for human usage although the fact that its time periods vary according to the day mean its not appropriate for science and engineering where consistency and accuracy are more important.

Doing away with time zones means arranging international meetings and travel is easier. Putting a full day on one click face lets you draw on the sun rise and set times and also lets you draw a days worth of appointments on the face. Since it's base ten addition and subtraction are trivial.
...you're not wrong.
In the internet it's become very hard to have cohesive communities, so sarcasm has to be labeled

Sarcasm can be culturally dependent. As a child and high schooler, I thought that my parents didn't understand sarcasm. I remember when I realized that my immigrant parents just had a different form of it than I did in grade school and high school.
They’re all interrelated. Irrigating your lawn isn’t necessarily wrong, either, until there’s a drought. And we could probably have all maintained our moderate water consumption through the drought if it weren’t for a few truly excessive users. The same applies to land and the housing shortage. If a few areas didn’t insist on being rural, maybe we could all have the suburban dream. But they did, so now even suburbia is egregiously wasteful.
Grubby playing Warcraft 3!
Let your brain rest
I usually read long articles I have saved in Pocket.
Netflix now lets you download many (most?) of their films, I always get some documentaries and fictional shows of my destination. For France I watched a documentary on the national soccer team and a comedy special by Jacky Bloom.
Elon Musk Needs to Stop Tweeting Things He Can’t Prove
Postgres as a document database
It's being used to limit government criticism.

> President Yoweri Museveni pushed for the changes to combat what he calls "gossip,"
Tildes is still kind of finding its feet as a community, and there's a certain degree of navel-gazing as everyone tries to figure out exactly what kind of content and behavior is/isn't desirable.

That said, the stated goals and driving philosophy seem sound, and the design of the site functionality seems to be on track to fix some of the core problems with reddit and similar sites.

The concepts of nested groups with "bubble-up", content tagging, and multi-dimensional vote/tags on comments (when comment tags are eventually re-enabled) are all really appealing.
Citation needed for where I actually endorsed these views or asserted their validity.

Re-read my post: you're yelling at a strawman. Conjecture: seeing the sequence of words "most wealth in America is earned through hard work and sacrifice" immediately blinded you to the context they were written in (namely: my observation that this is a belief of a large part of America and their actions are a logical induction from those beliefs) and you flipped the bit and went right into attack mode.

Reflect on that, and realize that this kind of blinded reaction lies at the core of why lots of things are being said but no actual communication is occurring between people around these subjects.
Probability is just measure theory where total measure norms to 1.0 ;-).
I suppose you didn't read the article, but if you did, his idea really has nothing to do with building a tunnel.
I love this comment. It was precisely my attitude eighteen years ago.

I was supremely confident that Moore's Law and work by AGI researchers would usher in the Singularity well within my lifetime, and that my offspring would either be incorporeal AIs or corporeal AIs in robotic shells. I would be uploaded into a giant virtual connectome powered by a Dyson sphere and live a thousand subjective lifetimes in a real year. My life insurance policy named Alcor as the sole beneficiary and I wore a bracelet with pre-vitrification instructions on it.

Now I have two human biological children, and Moore's Law has given us duckface selfies on Instagram celebrities and consumerist bliss via StitchFix. All the AGI researchers of that time have given up and gone into human bias control and polyamorous relationships in intentional communes with other futurists or disappeared into sketchy Chinese universities. Kurzweil will die ignominiously.

The exaflops of global processing power that the AGI researchers of 2001 wish they had is here, and is being harnessed to the valiant purpose of ensuring you can watch double anal videos in high definition in your Uber ride en route to the gastropub recommended by Yelp.

Mark my words today. Give it a decade or two. Humans don't want to ascend. They want to consume. Every technological advancement we make will go into facilitating this.

And being a parent is actually pretty cool.
It seems like a sadly reasonable assumption given past behavior and their own spying and loopholed cooperation.
what nationalities do you have the hardest time getting visas for? what is your success rate with getting H1B vs O1 visas? How long does the process take for an O1?
What do you do for a living, character?
> there are some inveterate literalists about...

Better inveterate literalists than invertebrate figurativists.
App to catalog, buy and sell Books, Comics, Video Games, and Movies we consume
Hmmm ... it's easy to avoid clashes by choosing somewhat unique addressing schemes in those ranges.

For example, the 10. private network allows 255 different addressing schemes if you use a 16 bit subnet mask (10.0/16, 10.1/16, 10.2/16 .. 10.254/16), and ~64,000 schemes with an 24 bit subnet mask (10.0.0/24, 10.0.1/24, 10.0.2/24 .. 10.254.254/24). Just don't choose the common ones: 10.0/16, 10.0.0/24, 192.168/16, 192.168.0/24, etc.
Ask HN: I can't type anymore without many mistakes
It may sound weird, but I used to be able to type/code very fast, little to no typo/mistakes.

The last few months I have been noticing that I need to type a lot slower. Maybe 50% to avoid mistakes and typos. It's not affecting the quality of my work but it something that I am noticing is happening. I keep locking myself out of online accounts or sending e-mails with typos I didn't even see. Extra compile time from something I didn't notice. Just inconveniences.

I had a new glasses prescription in January that was a marginal change from my previous one. This started happening months after. The only real change that I can think if is more meditation and generally slowing down in life.

Any thoughts as to if I should seek help or general advice?

Edit: I do have carpal tunnel issues and wear braces a few times a month when my wrists get hard and sore.
Has there ever been society without text based media?
Facebook, Google, and the Death of the Public Square
Finding swing voters is what a lot of these companies really want. I worked at a company about six or seven years ago that had a Conservative pollster as a client who badly wanted to identify the swing voter. They told us they didn’t care about anyone else because those people were going to vote with their team regardless. So they wanted to find the people they could sway.

And how did they want us to locate them? Through Facebook.
This is true. My phone connected to 4g when I turned it on but then upon my first search using google now it disconnected and then reconnected to an H+ network and completed the search. It was pretty cool how they made a completely separate network for it.
Or if you are visiting someone else, you're in a cafe, a hotel ...
Very tangential, but it's pretty annoying how so many articles on the internet unnecessarily make things bold.
How have the changes by the Trump administration made it more difficult, if at all, for tech companies to hire and get visas for foreigners?

What are the biggest takeaways founders should know?

Thank you.
This is very cool. Is there a way to adjust search results for total number of posts? By searching for `hjt 'a'`, I can get an idea of how many total posts there are by month and approximate adjustments in my head, but it would be nice to directly scale results.
It’s just common sense to compare like with like. The appropriate comparison to a shared apartment with a long public transit commute in SF is the same lifestyle in another city. Which may not provide as much investment income, but is so incredibly cheap you could achieve FIRE or be an artist or whatever.
Xunzi
If you own the Minecraft Windows 10 Edition, you can download their "Code Connection" server and start coding right away in JavaScript.

Links:

https://minecraft.makecode.com/setup

https://aka.ms/meeccwin10
I like Hello Internet
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwez9XDNV_wS0WNDZteXjgw

It's in the genre of "two dudes talking" podcasts, but technology and futurology are some of the topics they touch on often.
The term derives from someone who works in the sun. It's unambiguously elitist. I don't think you need to hedge here, it's quite clear.

I also enjoy the pejorative aimed at a sectarian group immediately followed by decrying "ignorant people".
Not necessarily. If literally everybody is open to the same level of scrutiny of their lives, how quick will they be to judge others, lest they in turn be judged?
10.6.8!!!
What they're doing is not making these stateless. I think labelling it stateless is a bit misleading and diminishes what they've done: worked out consistent mechanisms to decouple the state from the devices.

You can't run NAT without tracking what device and port the return ports map to. So what they're doing is working out how to distribute that. And, naturally, mapping port numbers to devices is highly amenable to circular hashing.

They've also identified some algorithms that require only very transient state or whose "state" can be determined dynamically.

Load balancers, for instance, are inherently tolerant of errors, and they load balancing is well understood to perform better when you don't track load closely. If you send work randomly, it will pile up on some nodes, but if you ping two nodes at random to see who is less busy, that additional information is enough to balance the work.

I think the difference between these and NFS is that for NFS to do its job, it has to be fully implemented on the client to work. I would definitely anticipate people wanting to add additional features, but if those can be factored out as separate components, you limit the issue. And, further, if they can manage their state in a distributed fashion, the network components themselves would remain decoupled, and you still get the elasticity.
Couple of nits & questions:

1) I'm surprised CSS preprocessors made it as a must, and CSS in JS as only recommended. I figured that would be switched, isn't the current golden path CSS in JS?

2) Is webpack a must these days? Can we not just throw everything in typescript? Maybe that's only personal preferences!

3) No one ever needs to know jQuery anymore ;)

Glad to see lodash made it though
This is a misapplication of a morally bankrupt argument.

That money cannot be spent elsewhere to save lives by Boeing in an area that is regulated by the FAA at the FAA's instruction.

So, yes, $10 million could be spent on education to prevent people making the argument that $10 million could be better spent on letting people be killed, thereby saving countless lives. But that's not what the question is here, and to pretend that it is represents a deeply bogus rhetorical move.
Pathetic.

If I put a sign in front of my home demanding money every time someone passes by that is considered illegal. Even if it's my road that I built. If a government does it it is considered a toll. Even if they didn't build the road.

Should we pay for every hop on the internet? That is where this is going.

Keep it up... This will only further private network development. We will be quite selective on who we give access this time.
If your goal is to be helpful a little less pedantry would be in order.

Firefox / Ubuntu Bionic, probably related to font choice or font-rendering library.
If you enjoy history, check out Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on WWI, "Blueprint for Armageddon." About 20+ hours of content.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepr...
This is probably specific to your interests. I'm not a gamer. I've never heard Discord even mentioned in any of the subs I frequent.
If you are worried, that the other party may leave you at any second- and nobody here in the audience wants to intervene in this contract of drugs for steady income, then i shall declare you damned and damsel, you may now kiss the divorce lawyer.
Along those lines, is there a tipping point where things get bad enough that you start simply working in another country or countries to sidestep some of those issues? Are we anywhere near it? Doesn't seem like it right now - but what might be some of the triggers for it?
> Your "3" is a Bayesian view.

Except for the infinite number of universes nonsense :-)
Wait what? With your reasoning we could leave those Thai schoolchildren in that cave.

We are not arguing that money spent on wars are wasted and that same money should be better spent on lowering heart disease, we are talking purely about increasing profit.
Hi Peter, thank you so much. My company is currently sponsoring me for an EB3. I have two questions.

1) We just submitted the application to get the prevailing wage from the Labor Dept. From your experience, how much time is there left in the process given the current administration? I am of a nationality that does not have a backlog for EB3

2) When can I switch jobs without having to start all over again?

Thanks a lot for doing this, Peter.
This is awesome! :)
SAMSUNG Galaxy S10 MAY FINALLY GIVE US SAMSUNG’S IN-SCREEN FINGERPRINT SENSOR
I had similar problems with an extension that I am developing. They threatened to take it down because it didn't have a privacy policy attached, although their developer guidelines state that you only need a privacy policy if you collect personal or sensitive user data, which I am not. It took me several resubmissions (each time I was scared I would be banned from all google products), before they finally approved my extension. The clincher was that my extension was marked as unlisted the whole time; it wasn't even open to the public.
It's literally your entire comment...
For now, the future belongs to the integration of many smaller dies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3kGSbWFig4
Has Trump's crackdown on H1Bs made it harder for H1B holders to transfer jobs, or made H1B candidates less desirable? I've heard anecdotes of USCIS cracking down on companies with > 15% H1B workers.
> It's especially true of front-end developers, but it applies across the board.

In my experience front-end is an extremely weird field: "classical techies" consider it stupid, management is addicted to it and the field is very fast paced. Also I find it quite unthankful.

The companies could do a lot to make it more attractive to developers. Having worked for 3-4 years a lot of front-end stuff, one job was indeed only 3 months and cut-throat toxic, I don't want to do it ever again. Even though I'm really good at it.

And my opinion gets confirmed continuously, at our company for instance most pressure is on the front-enders. Why? Because that's the only thing management understands or at least they think they do. On the other hand once you touched front-end it's very tough to get more technical tasks.
3D printing gains industrial momentum
That doesn't sound any better. So if I have an asset that I'm not using, it's morally just to take it from me because I'm not using it?