skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must say: I don't think I could, without shame, say that it's somebody else's fault when a piece of software on a computer I gave my own child consumes their attention.

If your kids spend too much time playing Fortnite, stop them from playing it so much.
Get a hunting licence. Then you fall under an exemption for legal noncitizens,it seems:
https://www.quora.com/Can-a-foreigner-buy-a-gun-in-the-Unite...
> will allow all sort of actual abuses of power occur, in the long run

The abuses already happen and they will get worse, so what abuses of regulation you have in mind that would be worse than completely unregulated use?

> However, the government is run by people and is not ideal.

It is still much much more so than corporations are (run by people, that is), and people can change their degree of influence. As you say at least the government theoretically represents the people (that's the whole justification for it), while that's not the case for corporations, even in theory.
Hey I'm glad you gave it a try! I think it was turned on for Windows 10 nightly users with Nvidia cards. Not sure if they added more users since then.

What do you think if you don't mind me asking?
How do the benefits to the host country get wiped out? The person is not allowed to legally work in the host country, and an appropriate visa specifically for this remote-work situation should become invalid once they were unemployed -- so they would just go, or get sent, back to their home country. The cost of the flight-home could be even part of the visa application fee!
They're not trying to kill your mom. That may be the effect, but it's not the intent. They're trying to have their kids not be autistic. (You can claim that the evidence doesn't support that as a possibility. But it's still what their intent is.)
Your train of logic is flawed in that the rate of change is crazy fast (https://xkcd.com/1732/). Also, since all the science is pointing to the fact the we are causing it, why shouldn't we think that we can fix it? I don't think it's outlandish at all to try to fix something caused by us.
In space flight some of the most advanced technology even to this day was developed in the 60's and 70's. Things like NERVA[1], the NK-33[2], and the Saturn V[3], were developed back then and are still more efficient or bigger then similar technology we have today. The 60's and 70's were the golden age of spaceflight.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
In this case it's almost the opposite I think. MS has good technology and that is why they would want regulation. If there's regulation then any potential competitor will now have a much harder time creating a competing product.
> And you think you'll have better privacy sending queries to whatever server DHCP hands out?

Yes. Because that's my network, my DHCP and something I have 100% control over.

There's literally nothing in the universe which better protects my privacy.
Threader is an app that converts a long series of tweets into one page. It's a vast improvement over reading on Twitter.

The link is a credit to the source.
How does this go, usually? They ask you to choose someone else then decline future appointments?

Have you seen anything similar for urgent-care clinics?
if I'm spending that much money on something I can die in, you better believe I'm reading reviews in all the major car publications (and btw, all the in depth reviews do a pretty good job explaining what you need to know about tesla autopilot), watching reviews on YouTube, seeing what owners have to say on the relevant forums, etc. If the car has some new safety feature that I don't understand, I'm definitely reading everything the manual has to say about it before I drive off the lot.

then again I'm one of those weird people who actually takes the recommended safety precautions when I do dangerous things. I also do crazy stuff like checking my tire pressure.
Ah yes, Flutter, Google made it so it must be good :)

I tried it out but it definitely didn't turn me into a fan.
There was also a muli-part interview with Don Melton and Nitin Ganatra in 2014: https://m.imore.com/debug-47-melton-ganatra-episode-i-demoin...

https://m.imore.com/debug-48-melton-ganatra-episode-ii-under...
A Super Simple JavaScript Project: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Don't mean to be that guy, but he who makes the argument gets to provide the facts.
You answered your own question (as I'm not aware of any visa application fees that include a one way ticket back to someone's home country as of today). Some types of visas require showing financial assets and the ability to support yourself, tourist visas (which digital nomads travel on) do not.
you can get package managers on Windows as well, such as chocolatey or https://scoop.sh/
Would like to have written this game. My kid is completely 'in' Fortnite. Going to full-day (bilingual) school next year just to make sure he has something better to do every afternoon than playing.
Thanks for posting this. I had never seen the http://www.satobs.org/ site before. Looks like I'm going down a rabbit hole for a few hours now :)
You hit the nail on the head with your description of Chocolatey.

I've found scoop to be a lot better (https://scoop.sh) for package management on Windows 10 than Chocolatey.
Hasn't getting a compatible machine set up been one of the most difficult parts? I've never tried BSD outside of a FreeBSD VM for tinkering (though I'd like to) – has general HW compatibility improved?
"Anything I build can and will be abused. I am not responsible for my designs, for my products, and for the data I collect and store. If my technology is used for evil, the corporation employing me is responsible and the government is at fault for not doing something about it."
No need to wait. It looks like the rebrand that ultimately sunk them was because of a company that does exactly what they were doing, and is named similarly. Roam Inc.

So let's add:

4. Don't name yourself exactly like a competitor who does the same thing you do.
Disneyland Paris doesn't use biometrics?
Can't help but think of phlogiston:

Eventually, quantitative experiments revealed problems, including the fact that some metals gained mass when they burned, even though they were supposed to have lost phlogiston. Some[who?] phlogiston proponents explained this by concluding that phlogiston had negative weight;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

Eventually, the mass paradox was resolved by the realization that combustion is really something else altogether: the combination with a then-unknown element, oxygen:

Phlogiston remained the dominant theory until the 1770s when Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier showed that combustion requires a gas that has mass (specifically, oxygen) and could be measured by means of weighing closed vessels.
Very cool. This looks almost perfect for having a shared environment for teaching my nephews how to make browser games. Only issue is it appears the multiplayer sessions are not persistent? ie what I really need is a shared project where different participants can log in and hack on it as they have time, but also pair if someone runs into a problem and needs realtime help fixing it. I think cloud9 works this way. @amasad Any chance of repl.it supporting this case in the future (or maybe it alread y does and I'm missing it)? This is something I would gladly pay a subscription for.
Hi Peter,

I‘m a contractor to an US company who leads both teams and projects. My company wants me to move to US and they are trying to convince me to apply to an H1B. From my understanding this visa is a pretty unsafe if you‘re already in your 40‘s and want to settle yourself. I‘ve seen a category called EB1-3 which grants GC for both partners and children under 21. But the requirement says I should be an employee in an official leadership position (Manager or Director) Is this a hard requirement or can I still build up a case to immigrate via EB1-3?
What? I visit forms dedicated to one thing all the time, like g35 driver, Focus RS forms, or forms dedicated to spaceflight, or programming, or stock or option trading. Single topic sites are very much plentiful.
> I agree that this is just "Google doing Google", but also, browsers have such intense requirements on DNS that they may want to do things the OS resolver can't.

That sounds like a bullshit argument right there.

Name on example, and then help me understand why it should be fixed again and again in every browser instead of once in core DNS.
I'm not trying to be a troll, but really - how are you ok with this as a parent? Why are you allowing this?
If you like old style web pages, that are packed with tons of information, check out http://www.quadibloc.com/ which is some guy's "home page", overflowing with all kinds of topics that interest him.

I personally like the sections on keyboard scan codes and slide rules.

I wonder if anyone's published a good collection of pages like this?
I wasn't trying to prove opposition. I was simply providing examples of where there's a clear delineation between documentary and art, and how they can overlap and share aspects and details.

However I don't agree with your statement: "Langes work isn't definitely 'documentary', to the point that if you saw a picture in isolation, I'm not sure you could reliably say which it was /supposed/ to be."

Looking at her work, knowing that she's documenting real people and understanding that the "art" in her work doesn't inherently come from the subject, which is what defines her work. It's not supposed to be anything. She took a photo, using her best judgement in that split second, to create an everlasting image. That's the art. I am not going to a gallery to see her work so I can say, ah yes, this is what art is supposed to be. I'm going to see what she saw, and how she documented it, which due to her form and style, is the artwork.

Defining art and the words used to define it, open up an immense rabbit hole that I don't particularly find interesting or worth getting into.

The films you mention I think are terrible examples. District 9 barely falls into a documentary style. Think about a true documentary, something like La Soufrière (Herzog) which becomes a work of "art" due to the laborious efforts of our film maker to show us people who've accepted their incoming demise at the hands of a Volcano on the verge of eruption. The film is considered a piece of art due to nature of the documentary which explores confronting death through the eyes of real people and their real situations.

Also Blair Witch did in fact attempt to mislead people with it's initial marketing campaign and release. It was an incredible marketing campaign that made it one of the most successful Independent films ever.

Actually, photography does allow people to create fictitious stories and narratives, designed to look like documentary and other styles. Look at Cindy Sherman. She spent years, and hundreds of photographs creating fictional versions of herself, in tons of styles.

Edit: The core of what I'm ultimately trying to convey, is that art, can be anything. Any style or genre descriptor your throw at something, can still be a work of art. It's the craft, and thought, and construction of something that makes it a piece of art, whether it's a photograph, an carpentry project, or a line of code.
The vast majority of countries (EU or not) only issue biometric passports these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport#Countries_u...
No! The natural warmings happened over thousands of years. In comparison to the Paleocene–Eocene warming, we are dumping 50 times more CO2 into atmosphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...
Not every country people can enjoy a quality level to afford Apple computers, even with IT salaries.
Remote workers are not paying local income taxes, but at some level they are benefiting from the services provided by local income taxes. Immigration policies restrict foreign workers in part to protect local workers, and tenuously you are still competing with other remote workers in the same country. Immigration policy as a whole has multiple, often conflicting goals, and digital nomads are an afterthought.
I don't think you should be allowed to make a one-liner comment "This is really cool!" and then follow it up with a 15 line copy-pasted sales pitch for a potentially competing product.

That being said, it is refreshing to see a barebones data site by geeks for geeks! I'll following up to find out what they have behind the client subscription.
Couldn't visualize how a goat would chew up a whole shirt so found some footage. Apparently they just swallow the whole thing, no idea how they don't choke on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACgKoxUuCk
> That assumes that you can trust the networks you connect to.

Which an overwhelming part of the world does. Forced DoH is making problems for the clear majority when trying to solve a minor problem for a tiny majority.

Clearly that's not going about things the right way.

Anyhow: If you don't trust a network... Why are you connecting to it?
Um, it's only hubris if it's wrong (and evidence suggests we _can_, so this argument is irrelevant). And what's hubris for a single person is not hubris for a global civilization. And it's clearly _not_ an act of hubris to think we can have _some_ outsized effects on the world around us (say, nuclear bombs affecting weather global weather patterns in measurable ways). And it's only hubris to think that because we can do this that we _should_.

These claims of humanity's hubris are wishful self-denial but they have no grounding in any kind of logic besides an emotional need to retreat from responsibility.
I'm not convinced they're getting less common. If anything, it feels like new online communities keep popping up for various hobbies. It's just really easy to miss the communities unless you have a reason to join them.

Pinball is a personal hobby of mine, and there's no shortage of active forums -- Pinside, Tilt Forums, even rec.games.pinball still sees daily posts. /r/pinball exists, of course, but you'd be hard pressed to find many folks who treat it as a daily destination.

You'll find a lot of similar spaces in other hobbies.
Well, we didn't call it the anthropocene because it just rolls off the tongue...
Here's a more recent source[1] (unfortunately poorly sourced, but it does have a timestamp for each item). It shows 200 million installs (11/11), but 74.2 million iOS installs (11/7), 11.5 million downloads on the switch (10/30).

Android usage is complex, because it's still only available officially to Samsung Galaxy devices, but the amount of players looks like it might be similar to iOS (there are usage numbers from the link, but for different times).

So, just from the total installs number and the somewhat recent iOS and Nintendo Switch numbers, we can put the maximum number of PC installs at around 114 million, before we account for Xbox (released mid 2017), PS4 (released mid-2017) and Android (Samsung Galaxy only but I think it may well be in the tens of millions anyway, especially since there are tutorials on how to get it on other devices).

I think that will leave us well within the territory where Steam and Fortnite have a largely overlapping PC user base.

> Steamcharts consistently surprises me at how few people play the popular games I like, so I'm beginning to think Steam isn't as big.

I think most people just don't game on PC as much anymore. Most PC games are available for consoles now too, and it's much cheaper to buy a new console every few years than to keep a gaming PC updated. My brother bought a keyboard and mouse for his PS4, and played Overwatch with that. Probably just as good an experience as the PC version for much cheaper total platform cost over time.

1: https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/fortnite-facts-and-s...
Great point. As a kid growing up in India, reading about recurring starvation / famine there, and in Africa, etc., I also read about some European countries dumping mountains of butter and other edibles into the sea, due to surpluses, and maybe to keep the price up.

I mean, I understand it is about economics, supply and demand, profits, etc., but still,

shudder
Haha, or potential for great margins, right. It's not one big project that costs $100 bil, right. There's very little incrementality to HSR, etc.
I can see myself switching from FCPX/Motion to Premiere/After Effects quite easily (Premiere is really great nowadays), but I just cannot find a good replacement for Logic Pro.

It has it quirks and bugs, its performance is terrible on my 2013 MBP, but I just cannot find any other DAW that lets makes me feel as productive as Logic. Not just productive, it brought fun back to music production for me. Using FL Studio felt like a chore, even when I was quite experienced with it.
I've been using macOS for the most part of the last decade. I also use Windows, but only for gaming.

For me the BIG problem with macOS is actually the hardware. When Apple gets it right it's awesome, but this hasn't been the case for the last 5 or so years (with some exceptions).

The fact that there is no competition for macOS hardware ends up in very surreal situations such as overpriced broken products or design decisions that make absolutely no sense.

If I had to buy a new laptop now I'm not sure I'd buy an Apple product.
> Are we gods to command the sea and tides?

Yes. We are, actually. It doesn't even need to take a coordinated international political effort. The only thing stopping those with the imagination is the ethical question over whether doing it is right and proper. And maybe a few million dollars for materials and processing.

We probably can't extinct all life on the planet, but we can certainly kill off all the interesting species. Your fatalism does not absolve you of your share of the blame if it happens.

Terraforming is a nascent science, with broad potential, and we actually have the opportunity to test it out on its namesake.
This is a nonsensical straw man. People have died from lung cancer before me, does that mean I should continue a pack a day smoking habit?

Your premise is built on humans being some passive observer to planetary changes. We’re not. Look at any historical records regarding CO2 and temperature. The volumes we have emitted in the past couple hundred years is significant and measurable. The fact that this has happened for different causes in the past does not excuse humans doing the same. After all, it is we who will suffer.
Hi Peter,

I have completed 4 years on my H1b and I am in my 5th year and I got it extended for 3 more years. My GC was also processed and my priority date is around August 2017. I wanted to know, if I wanted to change the current company and move to a new company, would my H1 and/or GC in the future be in any danger? Like can I not leave the company for 8- 10 years if I want the GC process to be completed and considering the current political administrative environement?
From what I read the drunk driver is a different guy then the sleeping driver, you can google for more info.
It has been a long time since we were last in HackerNews, so I wanted to share some updates. :)

SEA, our security, encryption, and authorization library, is almost out of beta. It is being run in production on the P2P Reddit alternative, notabug.io which has pushed a terabyte of traffic in a day on the decentralized network.

We are aggressively anti pay-to-play blockchain. Using dApps built on GUN doesn't require buying any crypto coins or gas. We think this is a major feature and important to continue fighting for as an Open Source and free tool.

One of the most important differences that has arisen over the years is this:

GUN supports in-place mutable updates in a fully cryptographically secure decentralized network.

Is anybody aware of other tools that do this?

This is a reason why you should be actively watching GUN. In order for P2P systems to hit scale, having an index that is able to update keeps performance equivalent to existing centralized systems possible. This isn't possible with append-only/etc. decentralized tools.

Finally but not last. Internet Archive and D.Tube also run GUN in production for several months now.

Happy to answer any questions!
"The promise of the JVM failed not because of design, but because of buggy implementations. "

Well said. That happened everywhere from desktop to server to embedded. However, safety-critical side of embedded further supported your point by building real-time, safe implementations of JVM (or subset) designed for certification. There were also companies using Ada to get systematic protections against errors with one, Praxis, doing semi-automated proofs with their SPARK language. A JVM implemented in Ada, SPARK, and (where necessary) C/C++ might have been much safer.

http://www.aonix.com/pdf/pico-web.pdf

https://www.adacore.com/books/safe-and-secure-software

"JITs and GCs are tremendously complex beasts, with implementations least amenable to verification methods relative to most other software projects. "

There's actually verified JIT's and GC's they can draw on. I doubt they will, though. History shows they'll go with a non-verified design followed by penetrate and patch.

"Rust's borrow checker is worthless for ensuring memory ordering and life cycle invariants of machine objects."

I've long pushed Abstract, State Machines (or languages based on them) to do this kind of stuff better. The work on memory models can be ported to something like Asmeta. The algorithms can be checked against them by solvers. Then, equivalent software and/or hardware comes out the code generator with more analysis/tests in case it messed up. I got excited seeing Galois was using ASM's for hardware/software verification recently. They'd be great for checking security of interpreters against software and hardware level issues.

"The most safe alternative and likely sufficient for 80% of use cases would be a message passing interface, afterall."

I haven't updated myself yet on advances in typing for that stuff. Pony's method for type checking might help here since it uses a capability-secure, actor model. Wallaroo also uses it for a high-performance database. So, it's not a slouch either.

https://www.ponylang.io/
> This isn't about western or eastern perspective. This kind of philosophy justifies the actions of any dictator or autocratic fascist.

You read to much into my statement.

What I said is that:
- US and China will have their own strategies for their own ideologies.
- They might clash if one or both think the other will threaten their ideologies.

I said zero about which is legitimate or a standard to make judgement.

As for the complain to the OP. The statement is contextless. I was merely extend along the most likely line of thinking based on my experience.
The article is threading a needle, saying that games aren't bad, but parents who let kids play games too much are bad.

As someone who knows some Fortnite-playing kids, I'll say that even if it isn't creating murderers, it is teaching obnoxious behaviors like those taunt-dances and (offline) playing pretend-war in the faces of people who aren't interested.

An avid Fortine-playing 9 yr-old tends to be more annoying in person than a 2-D sidescroller player or even a Minecraft player.
But how do you know where your bar is if you think your rejection is merely a result of companies not knowing any better. Maybe you are not really good enough to work at google.
VS is so much more than just code completion and navigation, even for C++.
I don't know enough about the boards or how doctors interview, but doesn't this just move the puck in the interview process?

For a lot of the things we build in engineering that kind of qualification would be ludicrous, yet we've created another barrier for a variety of people where there doesn't have to be one.

"Must have Super Engineer Accreditation(tm)" - it'll be the new college degree. How much does it cost to get? How much time? The girl who doesn't need to work can study all she wants and pass without having to do nights and weekends for months / years etc.