skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who did (US citizen now resident in the UK), it's a very difficult and expensive process. Most countries require you to have a visa sponsorship which basically means you are highly skilled enough that a company there is willing to pay a lot of fees and demonstrate to the government that they tried but couldn't find a local with your skillset. Once you've got that, it's also a lot of money on your part to get a visa, pay immigration lawyers, accountants, etc. You need money for that, a good chunk of cash up front for an apartment (first, last, security deposit, brokers fees, we had to add in a few months of rent up front because we didn't have a credit score in the UK), and a million other things. All made way more complicated because you probably don't have a bank account in the country, so everything is happening via international wire transfers.

It also happens that I don't have children or family members that need me to care for them, etc. It would get significantly harder if I had to deal with that (though I did move a cat internationally, which was not trivial).

The irony of course is that having the privilege for all that (cash reserves, highly employable skillset, etc) means that most of the problems in the US don't actually affect you as much as others. The people who are getting screwed the worst by the terrible systems in the US are in no position to extract themselves.
That was my reaction too. Maybe I just work much more in hardware, but if I came across that issue, I would have just pulled out the wires for the switch and soldered a new one on there.

Is there something I am missing?
The boat? Not much. It’s the act that offers value.
I think it is a "deeper emotional experience". But I'm skeptical that this is anything new.

Today we (or at least me and Alan Moore) look back at the 60s and 70s and think "wow a movie like Easy Rider was a hit. How times have changed". Maybe. But maybe we just remember the hits from 40 years ago that were actually good. And maybe 40 years from now we'll remember a handful of good movies made today that did well in the box office but we'll forget all the junk.

Part of me does think that big movies today are essentially philistine. But it's also true that movies are cheaper to make than ever. And plenty of wonderful movies are being made, so I find myself unable to get too sad about our situation. There's more interesting movies coming out than I have time to watch, so if I was complaining, I'd be complaining that "other people don't have the same taste as me," which seems childish.

> Put it this way: if people generally need movies for meaningful emotional experiences, there are some profound problems in our society that goes far beyond cinema.

I think you're deeply wrong. People experience "meaningful emotional experiences" via narrative, fictional or not. This has always been the case and there's no reason to assume it will ever not be the case. Movies are just another narrative form.
Ask HN: How to easily transfer files between devices
I own one linux and one mac computer, and also one iphone. I found transferring files between them is not convenient.

Airdrop is nice, but is not available for the linux machine. I have been using scp between the mac and the linux.

And if I need to transfer something to my phone, I will have to scp to my mac first, then airdrop.

webrtc based anonymous services like

https://file.pizza/

https://www.sharedrop.io/

are not ideal either. mainly they expect people to type very long urls or share urls with a message app. But in many cases, I need to share files with random people, I don't know how to exchange the long urls.

I want to make something better to solve this problem (as a side project). I have been having the itch for doing it for long. But every time I consult my friends about this idea, they don't seem to feel the pain that much.

Is this worth my time solving? Or I just missed some already existed solutions?
it is threadsafe; there is a unit test for it.

Objects are create on the demand with maximum number.
I don't see 'ok boomer' as a hostile attitude, but rather as a response specifically towards the media that has been calling millennials lazy and entitled for the past decade, despite the fact that education, housing, and healthcare and much more expensive for them than they were for boomers. It is dismissive, but I would say those who spout these generalized, ill-informed complaints have earned it.

And I'm sure there are some who use the phrase to refer to every boomer, but I don't believe most do.
I think the mention of computer vision is spurious. Their website doesn't mention it, or anything related. Any modern heliostat CSP system would use computer guidance, based on the predictable trajectory of the sun. There's nothing revolutionary here; this is just hype.
If they already have the batteries and they are this revolutionary, then why wait a year to give a demonstration? Surely a demonstration of such batteries right now would cause the value of their company to skyrocket.
Nurse Ratched incarnate, named the fifth top villain in movies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Ratched.

I'm surprised the word "sexism" doesn't appear, or rather not surprised but disappointed. If the ratio were reversed I suspect we would change the system immediately.
An actual superhero universe would be much closer to Amazon's The Boys, I would argue.
While I may not buy Valve Index specifically, the announcement of this game is the decision maker for me to save up for VR. Previously I just wanted it, but probably wouldn't have purchased it. So I think people will buy VR for this game, whether or not it's Valve's Index is unknown though.
Nixon also had a whole lot of things going for him, he was hardly an unpopular president and the watergate scandal is sort of ridiculous with hindsight because he won re-election by a wide margin. The 1968 election was close and he likely would have lost if not for the trainwreck that was Wallace, but in 1972 he absolutely trounced McGovern.

Nixon was a generally popular president and it took a long time for his support to start slipping. His famous line "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." wasn't nearly as in poor taste as it seems in hindsight.
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I think it will, but not before the current generation's white knights get hoisted on their own petards. The stuff they say and do today is going to come back and bite them, and then they'll realize the value of forgiveness and start preaching it.

The next generation will see it as they grow up, so it'll be smoother for them.
GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI
Seems like the onus is on the NYT to be more scrupulous in establishing that.
https://www.humblebundle.com/developer/widget#features

Depending on how much time you have, some of those features can save you a bit. Not sure how that compares to other widgets like itch.io though.
Ugh, I just got it in my workspaces. Folks, can we get #WYSlackIWYGate trending? https://twitter.com/Jeff__Ward/status/1196847624285896704
Well, I suppose I should say thanks that an actual auteur of the genre has finally said this. Should a regular person make the same point (although not as articulately), they'd be shushed by the "let people enjoy things" industrial complex.

I would have no issue with superhero movies if we lived in the pre-Spiderman (2002) world where comic book franchise products co-existed with other types of cinema compared to dwarfing them in terms of budget and release frequency.

That development has sucked all of the oxygen and funding out of other types of films, and has poisoned the well to the extent where studios are too risk-averse to put money behind anything other than a spinoff or reboot of something that already has name recognition.
The way I look at it is there was really no way to make Half Life 3 interesting while following their method of integrating emerging tech into it as a primary focus. Flat gaming on PC has been stale for a very long time. Now that we've got VR, there's finally a new and fresh thing to use in FPS games.
I hit my head a while back and had to get about 10 staples. Total cost was only $150 without insurance. This was at Penn Urgent Care in Philadelphia. Our combined anecdotes reveal how useful it would be for customers to be able to shop around.
I have to imagine the Pixar shorts are, however, a way to do this kind of technical experimentation to better render mediums between stories? Some examples for me include the sand / features rendering in Piper, and the water rendering in Lava? I guess that's more of a question - are those used as tech platforms, or story platforms to test teams? (Either way, a good way to do it!)
I find it _much_ more likely that shoehorning `verb(noun1, ...)` to accept `noun2` will result in sub-optimal design than factoring out an interface (`verb(...)`) that both `noun1` and `noun2` will implement. A verb's meaning/implementation can shift dramatically depending on the noun to which it is attributed. E.g. `validate(user)` is materially different than `validate(order)`.

Any argument predicating on "massive rewrites" and "huge efforts" is a straw-man. A programmer can model dependencies incorrectly using either approach above. Expanding a discriminated union (to include `noun2`) will lead to the exact same amount of refactoring as extracting an interface. We know this because it _is_ a matter of semantics.

The discussion at hand is about comparing/contrasting the dependencies between object-methods (`noun.verb(...)`) and stand-alone functions (`verb(noun, ...)`). From the POV of the method/function, the dependencies are the same. Whether `noun` is explicitly passed as an argument or compiled into `this` does not change what information is available to the function body (i.e. it's dependencies).
So in your opinion, neither France nor Switzerland are “functioning, civilized countries”?

Price discovery works for a certain kind of care (e.g. non-emergency outpatient care), and we shouldn’t discard it without any consideration.
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Instead of `scp` you can use `rsync`. iOS13 supports SMB via the file manager, you can set up SMB on the Linux machine and access your files on both the Mac and the iPhone via SMB.
Losing a hand or eye in exchange for personal freedom is much better than staying (relatively) healthy for life in prison or until executed.

Individual rights were never won or kept by lying down.
But nuclear plants produce so much less waste than coal plants that overall, they release less radiation joule for joule.

Even that isn't quite accurate. Reactors release more radiation, but mostly in the form of elements that don't bioconcentrate into the food supply, so that the effective exposure of the human population is lower.

I wrote a long comment a couple of years ago discussing the original article that Scientific American paraphrased for this report:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14466887
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This argument seems a bit silly. The rescuing circumstance for the argument is that whatever legal process he would face in the US might not be described as predicatble or maybe not even just.

But in general, the arument is flawed. If I rob a bank and barricade myself in my basement when the police shows up I'm not being subjected to torture because I'll face jail for my bank robbery if I leave the basement. Not after one day nor after ten years.
Looks like the whistle is working lol
Anyone compare Bing vs Google for searches recently?
We have obviously routed out a LOT of fraud by forcing the auto repair industry to change its practices to inspect -> quote -> customer decision.

I guess the question becomes this - is there so much fraud in this industry that we need to do this change?

Even if it's NOT fraud, have hospitals simply become used to charging anything they want because they have no competition?
I loved how efficient it was. Unfortunately, that was also the downfall as it allowed people to spam efficiently.

I'm still bummed that everything went to the web instead of trying to fix the moderation problem on the Usenet. I have never seen an online discussion forum as fast and featureful as my old Usenet client.
Also, on the surface, it looks like a replacement for reddit/HN than a fb replacement. Am I missing something?
Also it doesn't seem to be getting as much press as you'd expect for something this widespread :(
Boomer is a mindset, not a generation
Everything orbits everything?

Nothing orbits anything: everything moves in a straight line; space is curved
My take is that, in the game, the Eliza software is extremely overhyped in its capabilities. As a player, you're supposed to develop the impression that it isn't what it's cracked up to be, which is part of what makes the game a rather deft criticism of how so-called "Machine Learning" is used by many real-world companies.
I'm not very familiar with Qt or Qt webview but from their documentation it states:

> This version of Qt WebEngine is based on Chromium version 73.0.3683, with additional security fixes from newer versions.

Assuming they both have a full Chromium embed, would there have been better performance? I assume the developers are mostly JavaScript devs so their choice to use Electron/Node makes sense.
Is that a criticism? Because if it wasn't the tone of your last line I'd take it as a compliment to the site. What would the value being non-hyper-functionalist, or to ignore access needs of some people? Are you trolling?
I would agree with you although I’m not sure what this has to do with my original comment.

On Amazon’s scale, there’s a very common mistake made by people in the 11 countries where Amazon delivers (out of a possible 192): they don’t realise that Amazon is actually hardly available internationally. They can’t have a billion users because they don’t serve countries with more than 800M inhabitants.

AWS is a different story but it’s B2B. And I think that Amazon (Prime) Video is available more widely but Amazon, for all it’s Revenue and Market share isn’t a billion-user company.
The BBC writer really seems to want the conversation to remain focused on the slightly childish topic of "Are superheroes GOOD or BAD?", and avoid discussing the larger issues of human dignity and worker's rights that Alan Moore raised, by changing the subject one paragraph later to Martin Scorsese also saying that superhero movies are BAD or at least not film. Like, what? We are not really talking only about superheroes, here.
Factorio devs mentioned they do a lot on anti fraud (something with charge backs from stolen credit cards iirc). I don't remember the details but they used humblebundle's payment system because of that feature.
You know, you do not need "export" anything if you occupy territory

And if you have plans for 20-50 years you don't even need military or police force

Just buy any politician and push your ideology and rewrite history books. And in 50 years people can't think that was something else

And 50 years it is a lot. In rusian federation that was done by less that 5 years

1984
The US definitely wouldn't risk any blowback by killing someone as low value as Assange. What would be the point? Easier just to chuck him in jail forever, and the political consequences are minimal to nonexistent.
It was actually one of his campaign promises: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpomete...
From a Bogleheads topic titled “How to Minimize Your Emergency Care Expenses”:

> Fifth, nobody you interact with at the hospital at the time of your visit has any idea how much anything costs. Part of that is the whole price transparency thing. Those who know the price don't want the front line workers to know it. Part of it is the fact that there are so many moving parts. Medicine gets inappropriately compared to aviation a lot, but it really isn't a fair comparison. Every one getting on a flight is basically getting the same thing. Medicine is like an airline flight where every row has its own flight attendant, every one on the plane is going somewhere different, and they all get a different movie and meal hand delivered to them. Imagine how much that flight would cost? Finally, despite the fact that there are hundreds of different products and services being sold, everybody pays a different price for them. This is due to dozens of different insurance plans each of which has negotiated a different price for every product and service, co-insurance plans, government plans, and various different levels of deductibles and co-insurance and different amounts of previously consumed care already in the year.

(The full post is worth reading.)

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=238610
The article's title is entirely factual. I didn't see any sentiment of "orange man bad" in there. Unless the words "Trump administration" are themselves somehow critical. Which is weird.
IIRC when you want to dispute a claim of copyright infringement there is no box for "This is fair use." Either you assert you have a valid license to use it or say you do not and submit to the removal or monetization by the copyright holder.
Isn't Youtube banned in China?
I saw some while killing time at an electronics store. My thought train went something like:

Uh, nice. Oh wait. Fitbit? Wasn’t it just acquired by google? Ah I need to get off gmail too..
Gabe said as much himself[0]:

> Products are usually the result of an intersection of technology that we think has traction, a group of people who want to work on that, and one of the game properties that feels like a natural playground for that set of technology and design challenges.

> When we decided we needed to work on markets, free to play, and user generated content, Team Fortress seemed like the right place to do that. That work ended up informing everything we did in the multiplayer space.

> Left 4 Dead is a good place for creating shared narratives.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5olhj4/hi_im_gab...
Coming from a Linode employee, yes and no - you're not charged for uploading to an object storage bucket in general, but if you upload from a Linode over IPv4, that counts against your transfer quota for that Linode. Also, any outbound data (including to the same DC) is billable. It's also worth noting that any IPv6 uploads don't count against the quota. Here's Linode's pricing doc: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/object-storage/pricing-...
I didn't say that it was a developing country, I listed, as the parent commenter said, "aspects in which the US is far closer to today's developing and third world countries than to the Western average".
"The CCP subsidizing a social media platform hurts no one. "

only idiots believe this. tiktok can be an extension of the ccp propaganda grand scheme.
I did not say tax compliance was easy. But figuring out the rates is a simple table lookup.

Also, using a US business to collect in-game payments no longer lets you avoid VAT compliance if you sell to EU customers. Which is why you can now use an EU VAT compliance "one-stop shop" which does it all for you.
No audio-logs either. No text. Just experiencing the whole thing first-hand, with set pieces that felt like plausible places and not just "cool geometry."
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Agreed. While I disagree with him on a great many things, he's right about this one.
Dogwhistle for what? I'm genuinely curious, I don't know what that could be used as a dogwhistle for.
> Superhero movies, and any sort of movie franchise, are about getting to revisit a world that you like. We care less about whether the story represents a "window into our soul" and more about soaking in the environment that brings us some level of joy.

This sounds like a theme park to me, which was exactly Scorsese's point.
> The boat? Not much. It’s the act that offers value.

The value of invading another sovereign nation's territory in order to repatriate some hunk object that has purely symbolic value?

Hardly seems worth the cost and massive fallout that would ensure.
This is an interesting story, a cyber disfunctional Griffin and Sabine? Are these affiliate links to the strange products author was sent? Is this short format to drive page views of the “stop Amazon” site? Are we being played by the author?

Edit: The about section of the site gives some insight.
I agree, but why do you think that matters? "Fantasy" is a genre for a reason. We don't always need or want 'realistic' interpretations.

There was no mention of realism in your comment. You argued that we should be emphasizing other traits in these movies, and I argue that we already are.
There's boundaries that the VR will put a red wall on screen if you approach. Setting them up is part of the installation of VR. I helped a friend setup Rift Oculus a while ago in a very small living room. Like bedroom sized living room. I've also played VR while sitting on a couch. Room is not an issue unless you play in a closet.
The usability difference between a platform-agnostic AirDrop, and Dropbox, just isn’t big enough imo. Most people are happy enough with Dropbox or Drive.

I mean, I wish something like this existed, but I just don’t think there’s enough real need
Agreed, and in doing this we've robbed ourselves of what makes us human. We have built machines and now we seek to emulate them, see how in games like System Shock the evil AI is referred to by terms like 'perfect' or how its often said that 'robots don't make mistakes'.
Sad to see this devolve into politics and hardly anything about the underlying technology, strategic execution, monetization prospects and the like.
Where are you from? Since you understand so much about the US, what policies would you implement here, and how do you propose getting those policies passed and funded?
The women did not accuse him of rape. They described alleged sexual assault, wanted the police to contact him to ask him to take an STD test, and the police took it upon themselves to want Assange for questioning in regards to sexual assault.
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What you say is true, but does not negate or discount what I said in any way.

Again, with the XY problem...

If someone asks for X, but really needs Y and there is a better way to get Y than to help them with X... Of course X is better than no X and no Y.

But that doesn't change the fact that Y is much, much better than X. And in the case of health care, it is not even close. Price transparency may lead to each person paying a little less, or at least being less stressed, but it still won't fix the fact that America has the most expensive system, with the worst outcomes, in the developed world.

So yeah, X is better than --X, and ++X even better than X, but that doesn't change the fact that Y is still the correct solution when you focus on the problem you really want to solve rather than making the incorrect solution slightly less incorrect.

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Also, IANAE, but I do not believe that in Canada, hospitals are permitted to have a 1000x variance in pricing. I think that for those things we socialize, the government sets the price.
If people can understand that a bad person can do good things (and maybe help), there's still hope left for humanity.
Its important to consider what their goal project is. Narrow all technologies to their goal product. If they just want to learn programming, I would suggest learning Ada because it is clear and has very good compiler errors. This is very bad advice if they want to build websites.

Have them ask a seasoned industry representative to write a soft syllabus with resources based on their interest
Procrastinating is a weird word to use?
Peace Talks is supposed to be in December or January I think. He has been wrapping up the editing since September.

The dresden files subreddit has one of the author's beta readers that sends us some updates although no spoilers of course. She says it will be as big of a whammy as "Changes".

There was also a new Goodman Gray shirt story released recently.