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Political neutral doesn't exist. Regulation invades freedom of corporations. I support that, but I'm also left of the center. (For some definition of left and some definition of center)
Learning from the FIRE Movement
That's probably partly why. They understand up close and personal what they are being asked to do and the money they can make for doing.
Similar sentiment has been expressed by others.

In the (simpler and less studied) game of Shogi, AG made very startling moves, which increase the number of vulnerabilities (and opportunities). AG is able to better balance all these combinatoric paths.

Perhaps as humans, we have limited combinatoric capacity, and hence are biased to conservative moves to reduce our search space (so we get lower expectations since we have to bound our variance?).

Whether this is less-strategic or simply less-bound-by-human-limitation is up to discussion.

end-rant

EDIT: Would be interested to hear your views about larger DRL domains. Drop me a line if u r interested gaxasit@getnada.com temp email.
I have my DACA expiring next year in late 2019. Since it has been cancelled and can't be renewed, do I pretty much have no option but to leave the U.S. next year?
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If you disable telemetry, Mozilla won't know about you. If you want Mozilla to cater for you, don't disable telemetry?
No, no! Peter has been kind enough to lend his time (again and again) to the Hacker News community at our request. We appreciate you looking out for good behavior around here and I can tell you that this is extra-good.
Not really, we need to figure out how to stop making stuff and contract economically for our grand kids to have a chance
this is silly. it's interesting when it's someone notable being rejected for the exact thing they're now notable for but a ton of these are just like people who just graduated saying "I didn't get this one job but now I have a job". great memoir kiddo
This is going to be controversial perhaps, so I apologise in advance, but I'm
continuously struck by the tendency of the tech industry (some sectors of it
anyway) to overstate matters. Tesla's driver assistance system is an
"autopilot"; Waymo's rides with human (safety) drivers are "autonomous";
DeepMind's AlphaZero that plays chess, Go and shogi [1] is a "general-purpose
game playing agent"; Google translate that uses English as an intermediary
language has developed an "interlingua".

I really don't get how this works. To me all this sounds like completely
ridiculous. Yet, some of those claims appear in actual publications, in high
profile journals. Otherwise, people fall over each other to buy that hot AI
stuff. I mean, what the hell?

Perhaps we must persist in educating people about the abilities, and
limitations, of current technology?

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[1] And nothing else. Not even tick-tack-toe. It has a model of a board with
squares and of pieces making chess-like moves, so it can't deal with anything
else.
I don't believe they release the numbers but they have app search ads and news app ads. They shutdown iAd but it looks like they want to take another crack at it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-looks-to-expand-advertisi...

Microsoft owns LinkedIn and Bing which very large ad revenue services.

>I think bringing up Apple & Microsoft is a non sequitur in this context.

Bringing up Google alone was the non sequitur. You could argue its nearly impossible to leave the big three all together but switching between them isn't a significant burden.
You've received conflicting feedback because the answer isn't clear unfortunately. The concern is this: that if 6 years have elapsed since you were initially granted H-1B status and you are outside the U.S. for at least one year, USCIS will consider you subject to the lottery if you are sponsored again for H-1B classification. That being said, recently we had a couple of cases where these facts applied and USCIS still approved the new H-1B petitions without requiring the employers to go through the lottery.
Working in the tech industry, one can easily experience the massive advantage that in-person interaction has over remote. It's not even close.
> DRM is certainly a use case and was widely maligned as the idea behind early TEE / keystore concepts like Intel TPM

As I recall from my skimming on the issue back then, and as I see from what was written on the issue in Wikipedia[1], the criticism circulated mostly around basically the possibility of a manufacturer like Intel requiring booted software to be trusted by them (IOW, trusting Windows but not Linux and others because money, further grounding Microsoft as a monopoly of consumer OSes):

> The concerns include the abuse of remote validation of software (where the manufacturer‍—‌and not the user who owns the computer system‍—‌decides what software is allowed to run

That's actually part of the "trusted boot" feature you mention, and not what allows for DRM.

There were also concerns of:

> possible ways to follow actions taken by the user being recorded in a database, in a manner that is completely undetectable to the user.

But that seems like an issue with using closed source stuff in general, not specifically of TEEs.

Anyway, I can see how DRM can always be maligned from a GNUish we-should-never-trust-closed-source perspective. While very much appreciate the ideals that GNU/FSF promotes, I worry a bit about the current trend of how software vendors prefer to provide software as a web service when it doesn't really provide any technical benefit from the user's perspective. I know there are other reasons for doing so, but it seems to me that a big reason for that trend is that it's the most effective and available way to avoid piracy.

I wonder if widespread availability of TEEs (ones that wouldn't have the trusted boot issue mentioned) and a standard procedure like what I've mentioned in this SE question[2] could reverse that trend of further making the web an operating system, moving ownership/control of our data and processes from our own machines to various online entities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module#Critic...

[2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/199324/is-there...
Fortunately, some car companies are seeing the light of physical control. For example, Honda had mainly touch-only controls on the last generation Accord, but then added a bunch of physical buttons back for the 2018 model.
I'm also doubtful about color psychology, but color model theory (including color wheels) has some real substance. Most web sites from the late 1990s are today recognized as ugly because the color choices were awful (perhaps because they were trying to be compatible with graphics cards that only allowed 8 bits per pixel.) Web sites with colors that fit a recognized color model appeal to a lot more people.

Color model theory is similar to music theory, in the sense that both theories may just be a codification of familiar patterns. That doesn't mean they're not useful.
Odds aren't that bad that you work for the same one :D
It can be renewed. There's information about this on the USCIS web site.
Hi Peter! How suited do you think the TN visa is for joining early stage startups? I feel like being in that space can involve switching companies more often than usual because of the failure risk. Is it risky to apply for a TN visa each time? Say you change jobs at most once a year.
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Duct tape.
Is HN really to the point where we are upvoting posts dismissing real people feeling real feelings of inadequacy over some suggestion of “fragility”?

Everyone can feel bad. Just because someone could get a job somewhere else doesn’t mean rejection doesn’t sting. That’s like saying that a breakup shouldn’t hurt because you can just get another girlfriend.
Hi Peter. I have a uwaterloo math degree (pure math & stats double major). 3 years of exp as an eng.

I heard about recent increased scrutiny for Tn and H1b for software engineering + math degree (comp systems analyst job designation).

Will I have a higher chance of RFE / Denial if I go down this path?
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Legally, that's correct and if it's a strong H-1B petition, then it probably makes sense since the alternative is probably to lose the job offer because of the delayed processing. But confirm with the lawyers that they think that it's a strong H-1B petition.
They went to China, made tens of millions of dollars in profit, sold their businesses off at a fair margin, and now return to the USA to live what seems entirely likely to be the rest of their lives in all the comfort of whatever their millions of dollars can afford them.
An interesting point from that page:

>A full n-body dynamical system such as the Solar System does not contain these periodic orbits, but does contain quasi-periodic (i.e. bounded but not precisely repeating) orbits following Lissajous-curve trajectories. These quasi-periodic Lissajous orbits are what most of Lagrangian-point space missions have used until now. Although they are not perfectly stable, a modest effort of station keeping keeps a spacecraft in a desired Lissajous orbit for a long time.
You can peel my zero-based arrays from my cold, dead hands.
If you are talking about kickstarter and the like, no, there is a very real chance you will not be able to buy it if you don't fund it. There is also a very real chance that you won't get it even if you do fund it. And if it doesn't get funded in the first place, there is zero chance. Unless you were referring to some other sort of funding process.

FWIW I do not participate in kickstarter, but that is because I like having things I spend money on. I know plenty of people who do. So, I think it's in general a good service.
I know of a Twitter account[1]

1 - https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
It's fine if you can live with it. I can only compare it to typing on an absolute hard surface and my hands get worn out fast from that. I hate it, I wish I didn't so I could use the otherwise ok hardware :)
Because the problem is society seems to redraw it’s ethical boundaries every twenty years or so..
How to unlearn
I was a Brit doing PhD in USA and did exactly this (except I was on J1 for grad school), and then returned to USA for an industry position on H1B and subsequently green card and it was all fine (latter stages with help of Peter and his colleagues as it happens).
Does anyone else look at this title and see a jumble of letters?

I miss the days of pronounceable acronyms
The more "spoiled" and sheltered one is, the more they think things are the same as where you came from.

There's also a lack of cultural awareness and an excess of "tourist mentality" ("look how funny these people look", "oh wow why was he rude to me", "can't he speak English", etc).

The same thing happened with Russia a couple of years ago and unfortunately some didn't return home.
Aside from the general anti-China slant that is fairly common in the journal, I have yet to see a 'manage the market' to achieve results desired by the state to ever succeed, anywhere. Markets just don't work that way in my experience, they evolve, they change, and if you box them in they die.

So the fundamental question is, "What did these people expect?" (and were thus disillusioned when they didn't get their expectation). Did they expect that they would be able to build large foreigner controlled businesses? Did they expect that their success would not be impeded by a desire on the part of political entities to craft a narrative? Did they expect to secure more wealth for themselves before they were shut down?

I am always surprised by people who think they can do what they do in their home country in any other country and get the same results. But it is particularly true of people in the US it seems. If you don't really internalize how the laws, politics, and policies of a country shape what is, and what is not possible, you are setting yourself up to be disappointed.
World's expectations!
> Unityped, as in, they have only one type.

If there are no distinguishable properties ("one type") then untyped vs unityped seems a distinction without a difference.
Sure, the web server SHOULD... but what if it is misconfigured? Or doesn't have an option to properly validate the Host header?

This is an internal client using an internal IP address to communicate with an internal service... just so happens that a malicious user made the internal client talk to it maliciously.

DNS rebinding attacks being stopped by the resolver are a great place to start and something we can do. Bypassing that protection in the name of resolving using DoH just means you've made things less secure.
I was thinking the reputation Microsoft had under Ballmer, as it seems to have stuck even if it largely doesn't apply anymore.
Yes, and their odds of being kidnapped by the state just went up 1000% this week.
I would recommend checking out Refactoring UI, there is a YouTube channel, blog posts, and a book coming out next Tuesday. Their tips and samples from the book have already made a huge impact on my designs.
I appreciate the quick response Peter, thanks !
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Negative matter is created spontaneously everywhere, according the article in theconversation.com. Why then can't we collect it, isolate it, and poke and prod it? Because the particles are too small and interact too weakly?
I remember reading Phil Greenspun’s blog circa 2004 as a new grad and him alluding to people teaching their kids mandarin.

I remember thinking, geesh, this guy is at Harvard and MIT, he must know more than me.

I’m glad I never followed through with that.
I would not quit the program until you have obtained a job offer and been granted another visa classification, such as an O-1, cap-exempt H-1B, or cap-subject H-1B. You need to check with your international student office but I believe that if you just quit the program, you will be out of status without any grace period. And that's correct about your master's degree OPT - it's gone.
Is there a doubt we couldn't though? I think that's what defines the moon landing as an accomplishment, it was an impressive feat, especially for the time (an ESP8266 is much more powerful than any computer they had at the time).

I'm sure if you gave 20 billion more a year to NASA and said put a man in space, we could do so. It's just that quite frankly, we've out grown human beings in space, beyond simply doing so for bragging rights. You can do any kind of tests you want, with almost no limit to complexity, with robotics nowadays, and I don't believe we feel the need to "race" Russia and China to goals we've already accomplished. There's simply better ways to spend the money, research wise.
Your "etc" includes writing the damn thing in the first place, which indicates he is more than qualified for "will contribute to a small portion of software that will be run by a large fraction of the planet's computers".

Furthermore, for L5 and up Google is most certainly looking for systems design and engineering leadership skills.
For example: 3D printers that are more amenable to 'short production runs' instead of just prototypes. Low cost / fast turnaround injection moulding. Quick turn around on smaller components.

This already exists in the North American market, I.E. Protolabs
How can a new company qualify? I "freelance" through a Delaware-corp I registered a couple of years ago. I am a Mexican citizen, not sure if that changes anything.
Stockfish 8. The paper is completely out of date. Play against version 10 under fair conditions.
At a glance it actually looked like Dutch to me (with apologies to my Dutch buddies!)
Biometrics are creeping into everyday life. One of my local gyms this week switched to requiring fingerprints or you were barred from access. Another local gym uses facial recognition for entrance, although you can choose to have a member card instead if you ask for it directly, they don't list it as an option.

Thankfully in the EU we have GDPR. It considers biometrics as a similar sensitivity to medical data, so unless you genuinely need it (maybe a hospital) then you can only get it with explicit consent. If consent is not given then that can not bar you from service.

So I reported a company to the ICO this week for the introduction of fingerprint scanners and was assured they consider it was a breach and will deal with them. GDPR isn't perfect and I think defaulting to consent is wrong and alternatives must be called out but you can't help people sleeping walking into it, it is very convenient.
"engine-ecks on whaz'm-jit"
It's certainly pronounceable, though perhaps that pronunciation is non-obvious.
> Package manages often determine the success of an entire ecosystem.

Nobody said it wasn't great, just that whether he is good to make a package manager, doesn't determine if he is a good fit for anything else. If that hiring position was to build a system to manage packages, sure, he is probably the best hire for that, but theses skills are specific to exactly this task.

A great interviewer though would have kept his contact information though and would have tried to put him somewhere else though. He may have not been a good fit for what they were looking for, but they can clearly use his skill in some ways some where else.
Agreed, the key is how much you box in versus grants and early pushes to get to a tipping point IMO. is China doing it right? Hell if I no, but there is a ton of good data from what the USA/EU have done right, and what they have screwed up to do better.
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> before installing was setting up the basic settings (wallpaper, resolution, keyboard language, etc)

Plenty of things there could be edge cases. In fact the very first thing I thought of was resolution. Running a non-scaled retina display could definitely cause all sorts of problems as all of a sudden the browser is rendering a much bigger canvas.

> I'm not making a judgement on Mozilla devs and their competency or work ethics, and I don't think OP is either

OP is absolutely judging Mozilla employees and if that carried through to the bug reports I'm sure OP filed, well, that could definitely color the response from Mozilla.
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GodMode Trick:

Create a new folder and call it:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Under Windows 10, it will hide the name, but the Icon will change. Click on the icon for wonders.

The GUID is the important bit, you can replace 'GodMode' with anything, but it can't be blank.
I tried this and what I couldn't figure out is: How can I keep my containers separate so that when I click on a link from an external app, it opens in the most recently active container? Similar to multiple profiles in Chrome. I couldn't figure this out and feels like a dealbreaker with the browser behaviors I've adopted.
Firstly, why just Google engineers? Many Google employees and any 3rd parties Google share data with would be included.

Secondly, that's a single step in the threat model; it's not just about what a Google engineer would do with your data, it's about attack surface area when any Googlers (or Google infra, or Google partner infra) that is compromised automatically exposes you.

The simple act of transmitting and storing your data to anyone, no matter how secure their systems are, is still by definition less secure than simply not transmitting that data.
Hyundai Kona Electric?

300 mile WLTP range and £32k cost.
Also you can't interact with the WSL directory outside in a graphical text editor or File Explorer. There's going to be someone who responds to this saying it works for him, and I'm very happy for you. Every time I create a folder in the WSL directory in File Explorer it's permanently un-cd-able in WSL, and vice versa. Editing text files outside corrupts them. Yes, I've tried reinstalling.

WSL is just a shitty implemention on a shitty OS. Linux and OS X work perfectly and they have package managers and I can control updates.
> Again, what is your specific proposed solution?

Why do you need a proposal from me? What's wrong with this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c8

Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c12

Or this one? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/22026...

Or this one? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/22026...

Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c36

Or this one? https://github.com/lightradius/firefox-dark-theme-fix

Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c45

Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c46

Or this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461538#c9

And those are only the proposals that are linked from the original 18-year old bug, there are probably dozens of others that were opened independently.

Granted, some of them are dumb (the patch that hard-codes "Adwaita-dark" as a trigger seems particularly bad) but there is no excuse for this to still be around, 18 years later, despite all of the proposals and patches that have been sent to fix it. There are multiple firefox extensions out there that fix the bug, and they are very popular, with thousands of users each. In what crazy world is it considered good design practice to force thousands of your users to install 3rd party extensions to be able to read text on the internet?
Maybe this is true for many other fields as well, but in my experience you can't just push someone into coding. It has to be something someone wants to do. Exposing kids to a coding class of any kind is a good idea but with all the code bootcamps and other stuff for people who just want to make a living but have no passion for coding just aren't going to make it.
give it 3 years. Pure Electric Cars depreciate like crazy right now.
I don't drive much at all on busy highways/interstates/city roads but when I do the side mirrors are often unused. The most used is my memory and spatial awareness of the cars around me, the cars I have passed or who have passed me along with the rear-view mirror. If it's tight traffic and there's uncertainty I will turn my head to look. With that said, I can see virtual side mirrors giving me an advantage to the analog version by having a wider range of view, lane change assist with lines like a backup camera, night-mode, etc...
I don't think the point is to be "interesting", just motivating to someone who just got rejected themselves.
> Surely Jiankui is his _given_ name then, not his _first_ name

first name = given name = forename = personal name; family name = last name = surname

But you're right that for cross-cultural clarity I should have used "given name" instead of "first name", I just have real trouble remembering that term (english is not my mother tongue, and my mother tongue is much more prescriptive about these terms).
Virtual mirrors really only exist because of fuel economy requirements. Mirrors have long been a thorn in automakers side when it comes to aerodynamics. It's just now that every .0001mpg (or mile of range) matters enough to justify the cost of tackling the problem. In the case of this Audi I suspect this ads a handful of extra miles of range when cruising on the highway.

Whether or not they're "better" depends wholly on what your metrics are and their relative importance. If you care about cost or reliability beyond the warranty period then it's not gonna beat a traditional mirror.

You could easily implement a bunch of little luxury feature type things with virtual side mirrors, like show a line where the vehicle will go (like a backup camera), dim them at night, point them more inboard and low when reversing, etc. If they ever find their way onto a Land Rover or Jeep I can see them having a "rock crawl mode" that points the camera where needed for visibility. Personally I don't think those sorts of things are important enough to justify the cost.
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