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Maybe the OP or the makers of this website don't know, but there is a definitive source of visa, passport, and transit permission info that the IATA already publishes to help airlines determine whether they should allow you on a flight. It's called Timatic.

It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held.

I would go to that source first than any other cobbled together fancy looking website that someone is hawking as a advertisement. And I don't know why someone would bother trying to duplicate Timatic by gathering their own info, which is guaranteed to be out of date. Honestly I don't even know how some small team could keep up with the 100x100 combinations of country/destination paperwork requirements.

It's found through the airline websites themselves, as they have to subscribe as a service, like: https://www.united.com/web/en-us/apps/vendors/default.aspx?i...

Edit: The OP's website is already so slow and low in info content, and Timatic while ugly, works. Why was this even a website worth posting about?
>If you think everyone or even most people commenting on this site are pro-Tesla

The "influencers" are, and if you don't think so you aren't paying attention. Look what they say on Twitter. I posted a link in another comment, but miraculously it disappeared.

It happened with Theranos too. People of "high reputation" on this very site claimed everything was "FUD", that if you were against the company it was because you didn't want to see a young woman succeed in Silicon Valley. Then it turned out to be a fraud. And yet these people are still reputable here, after ridiculous commentary. It says a lot about the community, unfortunately.
Well... generally I would say that a good artist is a mix of the technically adept, some kind of sense of self, and ‘being there where it’s at’. That last value refers to how in tune they are with the cultural zeitgeist. There are ways around the first value, but not the second and third.
For anyone who is actually looking for this information, here is a site that Airlines use:

https://www.traveldoc.aero

You can input your Origin and Destination, Passport info and select one way or round trip/transit etc and see the relevant information, up to date.
>> there's an interesting thread to follow from Nolan's behavior and company culture, through the development and marketing scene of games in the 90s, to today.

What is that? Whenever I think of Atari, I think of the amazing innovation in both game play and hardware. Sometimes names come up, like David Theurer or Carol Shaw, but not so much Bushnell for anything other than founding the company. At times I have thought some of their games designers were either insane geniuses or taking some kind of drugs (I, Robot for example). What is this thread you see?
Interesting overview of requirements.

I use https://www.viselio.com/. They take it a step further and offer a fully automated visa application form. Just enter the country you want to travel to and they take care of the visa.
I really don’t know. They usually say everybody gets treated but I would guess quality will suffer. Or you will get relaxed as quickly as possible.
The issue is that it also depends on the place of departure.

For example, a Chinese person wanting to go to Taiwan from china will need 2 visas: one from the chinese gov., and the other from taiwan authorities.

But when the same person leaves from another country, only the visa delivered by taiwan is needed.

Visas are complicated
I've only seen clips of "late stage" Alex Jones where he's very clearly gone off the deep end, but it's interesting that earlier Richard Linklater cast him in "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006) as a ranting blowhard shouting into a bullhorn.

I get the sense that Linklater saw him as basically a harmless crank local to Austin. I don't really know much about the arc of Jones' career but it seems his rantings carried him off into a very dark place indeed and one I assume Linklater would totally disavow.
How does this compare to fixed/growth mindsets?
> Anti-evil works best when the evil cant see the inner workings.

That’s just security by obscurity.
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It's definitely better than pop tarts and chocolate milk but I still wouldn't consider that healthy. Switch the juice for water and cheerios for a source of protein and it would be much better

> bowl of Cheerios

carbs and added sugar

>whole wheat toast

better but still carbs

>orange juice

glass of sugar without fiber

>a banana

better than juice and added sugar, but still natural sugars.
I met them back in 2015 at PyCon and they said that they loved the art design of Iron Maiden shirts and Eddie, so since it was their product, they decided that'd make it how they wanted
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HackerNews mods could help out by messing with rendering on Chrome, as revenge for Google's continual messing with Firefox rendering issues[1] ;)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20755348
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Link is broken from the parent figures.cc site too.

EDIT: Google DNS 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 doesn't resolve, but Cloudflare DNS servers do. Interesting.
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Reading as a woman, I agree with you about the cringe however you may not be also picking up the same stereotypes and unreasonable expectations demanded of the male characters. They are often required to be some kind of impossibly strong, rational, perfect male-figure which is equally impossible as the feminine roles they write about. If the story has other qualities, I can put these issues aside however often I just feel that the entire tale falls apart since I can't believe in the characters and their decisions.

Stanislav Lem, along with Asimov discussed here, has excellent women roles. Obviously as does Ursula Le Guin. Some other recommendations here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/50-sci-fi...
> All decisions made 20 years ago. The future is UTF-8.

As you can see in the examples, they are all (except perhaps the Joilet file system) still very actively used. I see no reason that they will disappear soon.

Also the decision to use UTF-8 under GNU/Linux is a decision that was similarly made about 20 years ago.
As a long-time Emacs user, I think you're not totally wrong.

The thing is, it's the idea of Emacs that's important; you could argue that Emacs itself is an antiquated and idiosyncratic implementation of that idea. I'm fine with parallel attempts at programmable editors; seems like a win.
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I didn't say it would be comfortable. But most "climate-friendly" policies already affect consumers (and often much more so than they affect industry, making them entirely pointless).

Keep in mind capitalism not only means producing excess junk. It also means producing unnecessary excess junk: overproduction and shredding/landfilling the surplus because selling it would harm the desired price point or create unwanted market dynamics (i.e. people waiting to buy at a discount later).

"Modern housing" often means tearing down existing McMansions in order to build new ones on top of them. "Choice over what we eat" often means importing produce that would be available locally but is currently out of season, or producing ready-to-eat meals only to throw them out at the end of the day, always stocking hundreds of an item in dozens of variations just to give an illusion of choice, etc etc.

And that's only the immediately obvious harm of "consumerism". Industry also means shipping parts around half the world to process them with cheap labor, then ship them all the way back so you can add a sticker to the finished product saying it was "made" locally. And with "just in time" production this means repeating that process dozens, hundreds and thousands of times with individual packaging, repackaging, shrinkwrapping, unwrapping, loading and unloading -- a simple cardboard box can end up going through three different factories (being itself unpackaged and repackaged at every new location) before being thrown out after a single use for, again, transport of other goods.

Recycling and renewable energy are bandaids. The current production levels are unsustainable, especially if we seek to lift the developing world out of poverty to similar levels of comfort as the average person in the West.

Sure, it'll suck for the average person and society and economy will have to change drastically. But it'll suck even more for the billionaires because their very existence is subject to maintaining the current status quo.

We can't sustain the "consumerist excess" of the middle class, but we certainly can't sustain that of the very rich. And they know this, which is why they would rather let "the Event" happen rather than give up their luxuries and join the rest. Because even if they have to protect their rusting food bunkers with armed slaves wearing shock collars, at least they'll still be better off than the rest.
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> The argument was users should have the ability to run whatever code they want on their iPhones. That is actually possible today.

Technically possible, fine. But there's a big gulf between "possible" and "not extremely painful".

Let's say I create a personal fork of the open source Bitwarden password manager, to add some trivial quirk that makes the software better fit my life. How do you propose I actually use my custom version without paying Apple an extra $100 per year?

Every 7 days, my version of the app will suddenly refuse to launch, until I get back to my computer and re-sign it. I would need to create a weekly calendar reminder, and never go on vacation without a computer nearby. Oh, and I'd better not have more than three of these forks, because that's another limitation for free accounts.

The 7 day limit is not Apple refusing to provide "free access to the development tools", it's an artificial restriction explicitly created to make running un-blessed code impractical for more than rudimentary testing.
I think doing infomercials instead of an effective interview is a disservice to the listeners.

"I'm smart enough to figure out for myself" is sometimes true, but it's also what gets us anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists.

Joe Rogan can do whatever the fuck he wants, just like I can criticize his choices.
What about an alternative where any usages have to be reported and measured and incorrect usage has an increasing penalty. It starts small and only ramps up with repeated abuse.

If you don't consent to the rules, that is fine, you aren't allowed the drugs at home (same as today).
I work at a Big Four firm doing Software dev. From my experience I would give you a high degree of confidence that you will be on projects interacting with a lot of legacy code, using platforms and software that is outdated and typically a code base that serves business purposes only, so sometimes the code isn’t top notch.

If you are a typical HNer that likes cool stuff like LISP, functional programming, best practices, etc. you will most likely not be getting any exposure to that. Big Corp to big Corp consulting is about the business first and foremost, not your enrichment and learning best coding practices.
The problem with the rainbow color map is having green in the middle; green is the highest contrast color and stands out from red and blue and so gives the impression of being “brighter”, undermining the red-green-blue ordering.

Personally I much prefer colormaps that contain any two primaries out of the three red/green/blue, but not all three. Chroma can be included (so mixing white and black). All the non-rainbow colormap pictures in the article can be described this way, and to my eyes the perceptual value is superior than all the rainbow-map images.

I found it a little strange that the blog post made a deal of calling out Jet for not being perceptually linear, and then announced that Turbo is not perceptually linear, just a bit smoother.
> Mozilla has to found further development and is financed by Google's money as well?

This was also mentioned at the bottom of the article:

> If I were a Product executive at Mozilla, I would be banging the table to introduce useful, paid products that could enrich and support the Firefox ecosystem. Chief among these would be a low-cost, independent email service focused on privacy and spam protection that would allow people to migrate off of Gmail; a VPN service; a media/content whitelisting service combined with an ad-blocker that allowed people to easily pay for content; and maybe even its own password manager.
The guy is pretty honest and open. I remember when he was commentator for the Khabib vs McGregor fight, all the other guys were saying McGregor was holding back and trying to preserve energy when he went into fetal position and Joe Rogan was like "nah, he's getting his ass beat."
on what basis would you find the push back acceptable?

On the basis that that is the interviewers role. Have you watched skilled interviewers? An interviewer pushing back against a statement is not a signal that he disagrees with the statement or believes there to be anything wrong with it. A skilled interviewer will often challenge statements they 100% agree with and believe to be true as a tool to strengthen and clarify the point.

if there's something he should 'push back' against that is clearly 'propaganda and bs' then there must be some basis for evaluating this.

You're putting the cart before the horse. The interviewer shouldn't be pushing back because they a priori believe a statement to be BS, but to test if the statement is BS. Questioning someone and giving them the opportunity to defend and clarify their viewpoint is surely the opposite of policing and filtering it.
>> Providing a platform for anyone is tremendously good for democracy.

>Umm, is it? Really? Was electing Donald such a great idea? Well, the media certainly made its deal with the devil.

Considering that Trump got elected in a time where actively shaming his viewpoints was the dominant approach in the mainstream media, it seems like your suggested approach is ineffective.

There are Trumpian viewpoints, and there are Trumpian-adjacent viewpoints that are more centrist and more extreme. The mainstream media lately is whipped into such a frenzy lately that it can't tell the difference. I listened to an NPR correspondent, a supposedly minimally biased source, call Trump a white supremicist two days ago. When the norm is so obviously skewed, right-leaning folks don't have the opportunity to hear meaningful critical discussion of their own wing- and when this is true, more extreme candidates have the opportunity to win.
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The “Reported Cases of Lyme Disease” by year graphic is pretty interesting - but what happened in MA in 2016?

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2019/08/m...
You're 100% correct. Joe Rogan's popularity has nothing to do with the fact that he's not adversarial. I was shocked to read that too, American interviewers are laughably tame, no one is ever held to account for egregious ideas or behaviors. And yes, most of the tough interviewers I've seen have been on the BBC (see Ben Shapiro's interview where he literally ran away or Boris Johnson's interview where he display an utter lack of understanding of trade law despite posturing as an expert.)
I think it comes down to the dichotomy of being human. We have this inevitable end that we know is waiting for us, but we are alive, dammit. For many on HN, that life is full of curiosity, so many things to learn, and so much cool stuff to do and see. Especially for younger people who have not experienced much grief or loss, contemplating this end is especially jarring compared to the vibrancy of life. For others it can be very morbid and bring back bad memories and induce anxiety. I think, ultimately, we should embrace our sometimes unpredictable end and become comfortable with the idea of our end to better celebrate our own lives as we live them. I do think Stoicism is not for everyone and some people just naturally develop a very stoic mindset. Ultimately, a lot of it comes down to controlling what we can and simply accepting the rest as our lot in life as humans (the living and the dying).
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The Wikipedia article offers more information. Two groups, one dating from ~9th c CE, the 2nd about 200 years ago.

Even if the earlier set of skeletons were from several different dates or years, the possiblity that this was some sort of travel route and local sheltering spot, with as noted, hail-induced fatalities, seems plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roopkund
For me, if a journal/conférence has a weird format but gives a functional latex template with a bibliography style that matches their needs I’m fine with it. Although I do wish that it was more standardized. In my experience a lot of the time wasted for submission is filling forms which contains the same information already in the paper: abstract, authors, affiliation, funding and etc... I wish this was adressed somehow.
It’s not comparable. This tool reformats pdf to pdf which fits e-book readers, and often needs your input for fine tuning. But it does what other tools don’t (at least as much as I know).

Calibre can convert between the ebook formats.
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I'm not sure how things are run in the UK, but in Australia the theory goes that issues of physical and mental state would be picked up through the health system case-by-case.

I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that the retirement age was never universally seen as a reward. If a 70 year old can work, they should work. On basically the same principle as when I say that a 40 year old who can work, should work.

If they can't work then fair enough; 70 is a delicate age and life gets really hard past the early 70s. But it is a reasonable policy to say that the official age is 75 and then find a different way of filtering out people who can't work for health reasons.
It's relatively funny, however negative connotation is there. It is hard to predict the launch, but usually name is not a big deal.
I wouldn't recommend this website for visa information. For example, I put in "United States" -> "Peru" - it says visa is required and when clicked on more information it takes me to a page where it lists which countries require visa for traveling to Peru. In that list among the visa required countries, it shows "united states" and in no visa required section it has "united statesa"
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Well it's the right thing for users, but not for Microsoft and their shareholders.
So I have a Gmail (G Suite Free) account, and I use Thunderbird on any computer I use regularly. Gmail is painfully slow to being almost unusable on Firefox. Sometimes I cannot get emails to send. So if I'm logging in temporarily, I'm usually forced to use Chrome.

I think is just one example of Chromium being a bit too ubiquitous, and forcing users into the Google black hole.

Is there an affordable paid custom domain email option with good spam filtering?
Imagine if you have a non-linear function mapping to the height of the bars in a bar graph. For some input values, say, [0,25,50,75,100] we have a non-linear height function that calculates the heights of the bars, say [0px, 23px, 60px, 65px, 120px] - would you be ok with such a bar graph?

That's what Turbo or Jet or any of the perceptually non-linear colormaps are doing but on a chromatic scale. You are lying to your audience. It is beyond me that all this hoo haa about aesthetics, "highlighting differences" and other qualitative bullshit takes precedence over objective truthful representation of data. Sigh.

Turbo/Jet also doesn't care about colorblindness which Viridis, Inferno, Magma and Plasma does as part of the Matplotlib 2.0 spec.
A sibling reply to this one tell you how to tell libpng not to bother using different filters and just always use the null filter, but this will make some input images into _huge_ files (maybe similar size to uncompressed image data) so be warned.

If you had software that you knew spat out images with specific properties you could choose the filter by reference to what you know about the images, e.g. imagine you always produce noise anyway, the null filter is fine, if you produce a horizontal gradient you want the SUB filter, if a vertical gradient, the UP filter. But you'd need to make custom PNG code not rely on a generic library.
If only "experienced developers" are considered, they won't start attacking their choice to use JSON without greater insight into the parameters under which they choose it and whether the "overhead" is actually a problem.

Especially not with broad vagaries like "Binary protocols are easier than JSON".
It's clear that the author really likes Rogan but finds it politically unacceptable to do so.

Joe is a solid interviewer because he's all about letting the interviee speak -- this can also be a flaw if you get the "wrong" guest, but on net Joe chooses a wide and at least interesting array of people to interview.

Discounting the comedy and MMA episodes (which albeit, there are a lot of) Joe has one of the most diverse sets of guests of any podcasts I listen to and doesn't try to dominate or editorialize too much (cough Kara Swisher -- who I love, but definitely can overpower her interviee on occasion)
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> visas aren't quite as black and white as the website appears to make out

There are many of these sites and none of them ever has information that can actually be trusted.

The truth is that entry requirements are much too complicated to treat with a single uniform method, and the only reliable way to know what you have to do is to visit both your country's foreign ministry website and the website of the foreign country's consulate in your own country. Maybe the foreign country's foreign ministry website as well.

And even then, for some countries with somewhat shaky administration and rules you still won't be sure of what you need.
Maybe offtopic, but why should we expect police to exercise discretion? That's how you end up with disproportionate crime being prosecuted in neighborhoods of color.

I think laws should be simple and enforced. For example, raise speed limits so they are high enough that nobody has a reason to routinely break them, then draconian enforcement. Old white Grandpa weaving around should get the same penalty as young Black guy weaving through traffic.
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What is the point of making this comment? Why haven't you switched? It's not that hard.
What's the point of hacking a voting system that doesn't matter anyway? It's not like opposition parties in Russia have any chance of winning an election anyway, it doesn't matter how people vote, and the majority of the population have political opinions informed by state-run propaganda mills.
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