skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not incompetent, but if you're looking for the top performers (not saying it's the case with most H1Bs) you shouldn't restrict yourself to only Americans
H1B is not about the employee, it is about the employer.

I am 100% for more immigration, hell I favor open borders completely. However as much as I am in favor of more immigration, and I am staunchly opposed to the H1B program.
H1B is not meant to bring smartest engineers. O-1 visa is for that purpose. H1B is meant to bring generic engineers who have Bachelor's degree or above.
It's funny you should ask. Buffett has actually said that if a company is not able to find good ways to reinvest their earnings, then it should be issued to owners as dividends. Buffett is actually breaking that rule right now by Berkshire Hathaway having a massive cash balance.
Is your point that I should get off my ass and do it instead of complaining?

Or is your point that it's substantially more complicated than it appears, and I'd know that if I tried doing it myself?
So does that make 2 or 3 things that you and jacquesm agree on now?
I’m having difficulty articulating exactly how, but you definitely don’t need to have round laces for it to work. You can form the loops by other means — I wind the left lace around my thumb and forefinger to create one loop, and then those fingers are ready to grab the other loop which usually just falls in to place.
#1, who cares if its relatively low cost for a space station. it just matters whether its costly or not, which it is. 2 billion is ~20% of nasa's budget.

> "It's budget has been less than $2B/year consistently for almost 2 decades."
first off, that is just factually wrong. Nasa estimates in 2018, even 3-4 bil is overly optimistic. but even if that were true, 2 billion 20 years ago is north of 3 billion in today's money.
Non-standard is not superior.
I have some strange urge to mention Electron right now... ;)
By any chance to you have any good links or books on this kind of thing? So much of continuous deployment winds up sounding remarkably like things industrial automation already has language and studies for.
In similar ways, majority of people that believe in climate change do nothing (or barely anything) to fight it. No one is reducing their heating/cooling, no one is changing their diet, no one is measuring their heating patterns and trying to optimize it (by no one I mean barely anyone).

People still want their 24/7 AC, their steaks, their huge cars, their big heat inefficient houses, their plane flights etc.

No one does a thing.

Believing in climate change, or not believing, when reflected in the actions of people, is in my eyes completely equivalent.
Though I don't "welcome global warming", I think this is a good point of debate.

The comparison to "getting colder" isn't really valid, as it is not the only option.

Most people would like things to stay the same. Perhaps we should be looking at what temperature would be the most beneficial to the planet as a whole.

If we were to create a new earth, what would be the ideal temperature, how would we manage it, where is that in comparison to where we are now, how can we get there.

Is it a dangerous question? probably.
Ditto. My brother uses some of our stories in his stand-up act sometimes:
Mom: “Unplug the phone! The government is listening to our conversations!”
Brother: “Mom... of course they’re listening, but I don’t care.”
The Ia-knot
It's not. You need standards to get the ubiquitous charging availability to make electric cars popular.
Bitcoin is only a microscopic fraction of the whole fiat currency that is around, processes an even more abysmal fraction of the total transactions per day and it uses basically the same amount of energy as the whole global currency production as per your post.
Ah, and this energy cost will only go up because of the increase in difficulty.
It’s like saying that 10000 people that for a living are destroying the Amazonian forest are positively green because they do less harm than the whole coal burning that happens in the world.
Honestly I can’t wait for the day when this cancer for the whole humanity will disappear.
> Everything is so expensive that people can't live on low wages and be content.

I live on low wages and am content.

I work a hundred-something days a year at a job any idiot can perform and manage to keep a roof over my head in a pretty decent neighborhood and food in my belly. If I really want something all I have to do is work a few extra days or weeks until I earn enough to buy it then go back to my regular slacker schedule.
I'd hope that we agree on a lot more things than that we disagree.
> That's why the other replies directly jump to talking about training data augmentation, since that can give you similar benefits without the runtime penalty.

Exactly. It's a fix that doesn't work, apparently, so that's why I'm thinking towards the runtime.

> it would also multiply the model runtime.

Predictably so, I would think? Such an approach could scale decently since it's not adding a dimension to the runtime, just a multiple.
> Seeing the universe around them is comparing clocks with another frame of reference

So, if you don't sense anything, you don't sense time dilation either?

This is slightly more complicated. First of all, you haven't given a frame of reference. If you claim someone were moving at 0.99c then you have already set the frame of reference. And they would have to gain near infinite mass and would die. You seem to assume a restricted frame of reference though, inside the spaceship. So, a point of reference inside the spaceship would see light moving with c inside the spaceship. And would assume his own point of reference as the origin of the inertial frame of reference. So baring any outside measurement, how do you know the spaceship is moving with 0.99c and in which frame of reference?
America, and the market as a whole benefits because something new is created. Even if you didn't own any Apple stock, you can still buy something that didn't exist until Apple made it. iPhones are an option for consumers to choose when making a purchase that otherwise wouldn't have existed. You can buy something that previously didn't exist.

A smaller scale example is restaurants open late. If you wanted a meal at 4am, a 24-hour restaurant is providing you value because otherwise you would have gone hungry. The value to you is fulfillment, even if you don't own any of the restaurant, or even if the restaurant didn't pay any taxes.

There is real value in companies moving the world as a whole forward. You don't have to own part of them to get the benefits.
AMP: the missing controversy
The "+32" in the conversion from Celsius measures to Fahrenheit measures is to account for the base offset differences in the absolute measures.
My understanding is that Apple recently enabled end to end encryption for iOS backups using your password?
Today is Steve Job’s birthday
The US was built on free trade. This is untrue. Look at US history as it was becoming a superpower before WW2.

From 1871 to 1913, “the average U.S. tariff on dutiable imports never fell below 38 percent [and] gross national product (GNP) grew 4.3 percent annually, twice the pace in free trade Britain and well above the U.S. average in the 20th century,” notes Alfred Eckes Jr., chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission under President Reagan.
As a pantheist I agree.
A cyclist’s widow asked a lawmaker why she opposed a distracted-driving bill
I remember reading an article somewhere discussing the difference between the US saying of "The squeaky wheel gets the grease," and the East-Asian (I think specifically focused on Japan in that article) saying of "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down."
It seems the cold moved to central Europe, giving us -15 degrees celsius at night in the upcoming week.
That's about as "self-driving" as the 17th century Mechanical Turk was "intelligent": hiding the human component is not quite the same as not needing it.
Isn't this an oxymoron. Open borders completely, but against H1B program.
But that gets gamed look at all the people who do a Bsc and the immediately a MBA to game points systems.

MBA's her originally designed for high flying corporate types in their mid 30's who where tapped for advancement.
>>However, my out of pocket costs are zero.

No your out of pocket costs are hidden, abstracted away, and hard to quantify so you never know if you are actually getting a better value, it only seems that way because you lack the proper levels of information to make an informed opinion.

Similar to how the True cost of National Defense is abstracted away and shifted to the US by virtue of your proximity to the US... Canada has a much much smaller national defense cost (which they can use that saving for national healthcare) because they know the US would never allow an invasion/attack to the Continent of the North America,
They also won't stand for unpaid overtime or union crushing.

Musk's cult doesn't work as well when workers are used to real protections.
Most supermakets have Coke, Pepsi, and a white-label manufacturer with their brand on it.
Assuming for a moment that you're serious or even a little accurate, consider for a moment the cost of the infrastructure the human race has built over centuries based on traditional climate patterns. Now imagine build all that again, no not from scratch, but it's still a vast endeavour that we will struggle and suffer to make succeed, if we even can.
> Facebook just made this a legitimate user workflow

Haha - says you.
Some of them do end up broke. I met this junkie in Amsterdam, who claimed that he'd burned through his trust fund. And then supported his lifestyle as a heroin smuggler, using young trust-fund women as unwitting mules.
I'm a Buell fan and owned two Buells. Erik Buell really had to fight tooth and nail to do anything with Harley, and was saddled with using Sportster engines which are quite archaic. This led to bikes with a lot of character but no mass market appeal.

Buell did release the 1125r near the end, which was finally a bike that could truly compete with other sport bikes, and used an engine made by Rotax. Sadly it was too little, too late, and the 1125r had reliability problems to boot.

In short, Buell never stood a chance of being anything beyond a very small, niche brand.
I knew Rossignol was French. It was emblematic of Japanese tactics back then where they engaged in passive aggressive trade manipulation.
For me it's not a problem, it rather makes problem solving easier and faster.

When I'm stuck at one bigger problem, I cycle to the next open problem which is most similar, and work on that (max 1-2 weeks), and switch back then. Sometimes this cycling can last for 1-2 years, until I can solve the first problem where I got stuck. Walking around also does help, but solving something similar as like attacking the problem from a different angle.
Nowadays managers call that agile.

For shorter times, e.g. waiting for long test runs, I can easily switch to another task, in a 2nd git branch and workdir, and work on that until I know if the first testrun passed or failed.

Max parallel tasks is 3, but they should be related. Wife interrupting is forbidden. This does not count, and destroys the concept.
Many cars don't even get 300 miles, although it's true you can "recharge" them much quicker. One thing I'm not sure about: how long lasting are typical EV batteries? Because I can see not wanting to buy a car that will have half its range a few years down the road.
Nope - short answer - git internals store whole files even for the smallest change. The thinking is that "disk is cheap (compared to computing time)", and there are different algorithms to present diffs / history that's useful having the original files around.

At first glance, that seems like a bad idea, but peeking into the '.git' folder, there are certain advantages of it over diff/patch storage formats and vice versa.

Longer answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41482898/git-seems-to-st...
I have been building a new not-exactly-a-programming-language using Racket and it has been an absolute pleasure, and the community has been extremely friendly and helpful.

One existing stumbling block that I encountered on the way is that I could not find documentation for the full process for the setup for creating a new packaged language (I have been known to fail hard at finding the right documents so this may just be my problem). https://beautifulracket.com/ has excellent coverage of the general process, but the differences between #lang br and #lang racket/base are just large enough that I couldn't fill in the gaps without going and looking through multiple repos to see how others had implemented their repo layout and then could intuit which setup commands I needed to run.

If I find time I intend to write up my findings and submit them to the documentation, the short version is here in case someone finds it useful.

repo-base
├── .git
├── my-lang ; run `raco pkg install` here
│ └── info.rkt ; meta package depends on my-lang-lib
└── my-lang-lib ; run `raco pkg install` here
├── info.rkt ; include actual dependencies
└── my-lang ; implementation goes here
└── main.rkt ; in theory you can put your whole implementation here

Once that set up is complete you should be able to use `#lang my-lang`.
it's not so easy without US credit/debit card
Not... really?

I mean, obviously atheism is a pretty broad thing (just like "religion", or even "Christianity" encompasses many views).

But for a lot of people, the essence of atheism isn't about anything to do with final judgement. It's just... not believe that God exists. For lots of atheists, it's not a rebellion of anything like that. We don't believe in God in pretty much the same way you probably don't believe in Shiva.
It's completely untrue that those 'religious rules' mean the animal is treated more humanely.

"UK Food Standards Agency figures from 2011 suggest 84% of cattle, 81% of sheep and 88% of chickens slaughtered for halal meat were stunned before they died."

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27324224

The fact that 16% of cattle aren't stunned is completely disgraceful.
India’s Air Pollution Crisis Risks Becoming Humanitarian Catastrophe
Some of it's here on the west coast of the US too. It hit -18C here in central Oregon the other day, and has been snowing a bunch.
Pretty much every intolerance worth opposing harnesses very violent elements in it's base while maintaining a veneer of civility.

Look at religious motivated systemic violence against LGBT people in the US. Our current executive has waved a rainbow flag a time or two, but our vice president has personally funded things that look like camps and penned legislation that let's police ignore and LGBT person being beaten on the street. Neither of these things are particularly unfair characterizations.

So yeah, you're right. It's just that intolerance naturally leads to violence rather quickly in humans.
Would love to chat and exchange some info

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We're currently able to work with applicants from a small number of countries outside of the US: see https://triplebyte.com/candidate_faq#question-8 for details. (I'm an engineer at Triplebyte.)
Exactly. I'd comb the script a bit (since it will probably share some traits with the rest of them), but other than that, don't worry.
Instead of having to think about every possible way a language might be used and account for it up front, languages with good metaprogramming facilities let the users them to fit their needs. This way the core language can stay small and focused while remaining flexible.

While you don’t want everybody building their own language, userland extensibility can play a huge impact on the overall cleanliness of the language because new ideas can be tried out as libraries. If these ideas don’t pan out, the community moves on. Projects using these libraries will keep working, but the core language doesn’t end up accumulating cruft. I wrote about that in detail here: https://yogthos.net/posts/2017-10-03-MovingForwardByLettingG...
Good read. Such a fun era! Glad I was there to enjoy some of it.
It's even worse than that: the small percentage of people who have changed their consumption patterns out of concern for the environment are probably having zero or negative impact.

For instance, the following products are worse for the environment than their alternatives:

1. Hand-crafted, locally produced goods

2. Non-factory farmed food

3. Organic food
I disagree with a lot of what you wrote, but I think the most obvious one is - this exact argument can be used to show that you must believe in the Hindu gods. Or in Islam. Or in Mormonism. Or in any of a number of other (mutually exclusive) religions.

What makes you think any particular God is the right one?

Edit: cleared up the language to make the point clearer.
An inside look at different memory types and how they work
...and flat earth theory also has a lot in common with religion.

I'm sorry, but it is impossible to be a truly intelligent person that also believes in any religion without serious cherry picking or psychological compartmentalization. I say this as someone that loves studying religion (I have a degree in it), but I study it as an artform of human expression or an oddity that once was, not as a serious pursuit of self-completion. Hopefully, we can one day study those that deny basic climate science and geology the same way...
> Racket eliminates the hard boundary between library and language, overcoming a seemingly intractable conflict

I don't buy it.

A language extension means the syntax wouldn't ever be valid in the base language. The fact that Racket defines its 'for' construct using macros/functions/whatever is cute, but I see no reason to pretend it's a language extension.
No, it hasn't.

Also, re: this image[0], I thought entanglement couldn't be used to send information? Isn't this complete nonsense?

[0] https://media.nature.com/w800/magazine-assets/d41586-018-018...
> And on balance we experience trade deficits.

For years we've been exporting our inflation to other countries for actual physical goods and they keep buying it under the auspices of "reserve currency".

How many trillions of dollars of US debt does China own these days which they happily exchanged to fuel our consumerism?
I get what you're saying, but when he plugged it in it didn't work. Even if he was trying to do what it's supposed to do he would have had problems.

I'd like to add I'm completely appreciative and thankful of what you're doing.
There has to be a point where mere unemployment isn't stigmitized. Of course, being lazy, unproductive, and at worst destructive has to be condemned/disincentivized, but the association of unemployment to unproductive and from unproductive to some sense of worthlessness/leeching has to be amended in our society. Whether it's UBI, an increase in non-profits, and/or a proliferation of diverse and meaningful government funded projects (arts, public works, infrastructure), there are many ways to put people to meaningful work and utility besides working for a for-profit corporation. I think overcoming the stress induced by higher unemployment produced by automation will be one of the biggest societal challenges America (and beyond) will face in the coming decades. The outdated, 20th century model of work hard (for a company) -> be happy/fulfilled/successful will change. Ultimately, I think automation is for the best: let humans do what they do best (be creative, think abstractly, form and implement new models of the world/society/some concept, learn/iterate/improve/adapt) and let machines do what they do best ([generally speaking] automated tasks that require little improvisation or flexibility).
Well my iCloud account in China did receive a long email from Apple before this happens, saying that they will move their iCloud servers to China, and what can be done if you do not want your data to be moved. I think they've done enough.
Honest question: how do you survive. I don’t feel like I’ve ever had the option to opt out, unless I wanted to move home with Mom. The opportunity might be different than it used to be.
I've always been impressed by the lasting quality of this site. It's extremely simple (the only javascript is for ads), easy to navigate, fast to load and ranks 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th in Google for "shoe knot" and "shoelace knot".
I’m not sure that article says what you’re suggesting it says? Apple offered to "expedite [its] response to any legal process."

It’s unclear whether they’re committing to unlocking the device. Judging by the prior case, I’m not confident that they are?
Why must every tech job be SpaceX or Amazon or Boeing?

No, really. Most tech jobs are not super sexy, and I’m a little irritated that the prevailing opinion seems to be one of looking down your nose at every tech job that isn’t “prestigious”.
I'm a bit confused by the process of entangling photons emitted by two distinct qubits, wouldn't entangling those photons affect the state of the two original distinct qubits? Or is that simply how entanglement works?
What's the LD50 of sunlight, and how exactly does Erdős enter into the equation?
Veil is private browsing for the ultra-paranoid
Send us your best ? What for ? The best and brightest of India are nowadays working at startups in India itself. They are smart enough to realize the greediness and exploitation of US corporations who wants cheap H1B labor to look good on their Q4s. Tatas and Infosys scratch that itch of greedy corporations thats all.

H1B is not a skilled visa if anyone thinks otherwise. There is no merit system in H1B. An example for merit based skilled visa is Canadian Express Entry system.
I think"can but really don't want to" would explain part of it. What do people do when presented with a workable but unappealing solution? They complain a lot and then grudgingly do it.
Presume that the next dev to be hired will be the founder's slow nephew. Make sure none of the conditionals are too hard to read. No nested ternary operators, no bullshit variable names, no magic numbers. That's like rule 0 stuff. Past that I think it depends more on language and conventions and stuff.
the universal expectation is that you are available and ready to work

Maybe among Silicon Valley startups. That has absolutely not been the case at any of my jobs at companies ranging from 5 to tens of thousands of employees.
I believe it’s impossible to tie a granny knot using the Ian Knot method.
Well considering y combinator is not empty every year, there must be people who have a chance with that level of scrutiny.
Side-by-side images format comparison
No code yet, but promised: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chenk/
"Flat Earth" is not about convincing normal people Earth is flat. Sure you get a few that genuinely believe it because they lack the skills to evaluate evidence, but that's not the point. By using it, you have "fallen" for it's utility. It's a common theme if you study disinformation.