skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Propaganda also acts by wearing you down, shaping your perceptions over time, and influencing so many people around you that you lose sight of where “real” is on the first place.

Essentially, gaslighting you. Gaslighting the whole society, in fact.
Python gets out of your way as long as your code base is small enough. It's great for experimentation and building quick things. But it strains you a fair bit when your code base becomes large, with many contributors, and a significant amount of components and interfaces between them. You start to grab for static analysis tools.

(I say this having worked with Python for 20 years, and loving the language.)
No they expect you to learn COBOL and keep the economic machine turning.
Any chance for EB3 green card for university drop outs? (assuming X years of studies finished and many many years of progressive relevant experience). Thanks so much.
Just want to chime in and say that I can relate to this tremendously, and am eagerly awaiting to hear what others recommend.
Lots of people come to the comments without reading the article. I wonder how many of your downvotes came from people who did just that.
By doom I meant getting so slow it becomes unusable after a while.
> those who are earning less this year compared to last due to inflation and wage stagnation.

The article discusses this briefly:

> The trucking industry is instructive here: Trade groups have argued that it is facing a shortfall of 51,000 workers, yet businesses have not yet shown much willingness to cut hours, boost pay, and improve conditions to lure workers in. Indeed, across the economy, companies have shown a remarkable unwillingness to boost wages, with growth barely keeping pace with inflation even as the unemployment rate has dropped to 4 percent.

It'll be interesting to see what happens if those industries start to get really desperate for employees. My guess in some of them is a hard push for automation (esp. in trucking), but we'll see.
The TN process can be very quick and easy but it's definitely getting a lot tougher and the outcome oftentimes really depends on the NAFTA occupation - some are straightforward and some aren't - and, as a general rule, it's easier to get a TN as a Mexican citizen than as a Canadian citizen.
Do you eat fake sugar?
That's why they invented emoji
>People seem to forget how god awful email had become with spam back around gmail was launched.

While I used spamassassin (not simple), my friend used Thunderbird which did a good enough job.

>That's why people used gmail and it's why people still use gmail and why even the people arguing in this thread that google are evil are all still using gmail!

In the early Gmail days, I didn't know anyone who used Gmail for anti-spam use. It was all about:

1. Space (1GB)

2. Nice interface was a distant second.

Most average people I know did not care about spam during those days. I mean, they cared and complained a lot about it, but getting anyone to change their provider (or software) to handle spam better was an exercise in futility.

Keep in mind - this is during the days when IE 6.0 reigned supreme and had something like 90% of the browser share. Almost no one I knew was willing to change browsers, despite IE not having tabs, not having banner ad blocking or any other extension, and causing all kinds of Windows issues. If they're unwilling to change browsers, I can assure you they're unwilling to change email providers so easily. What tipped things in Gmail's favor was the extra space, when 50MB was advertised as large).

>When it comes down to it, despite what people say they care more about getting good services at no cost to themselves than they do about their privacy.

Agreed there.
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I'm disappointed about the lack of D, too, since the author gave Nim a try. And it's definitely more mature than, say, Pony (which is an interesting language for other reasons). Also, you can get excellent performance in D, really close to what you will get with C, and that's very often the crucial factor in systems programming.
Telemarketing isn't inherently wrong, IMO, even though it's often poorly-executed and painfully annoying. In some cases, it's a better way of doing client outreach than email.
Could you share more details with those of us who are unfamiliar with the issue? People from India have a multi-decade wait to work in the US? That sounds horrible.

A new US President may be more interested in immigration. AFAIK the US public largely supports it still, as do the powerful (businesses). It's mostly the nationalists who object.
Oooh, Python to Rust! It would be so thoroughly incomprehensible!
I agree...it's also funny because The Verge in Feb wrote an article about not trusting Huawei phones.

> https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17011246/huawei-phones-sa...
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User's computer => Encrypted => Sent over the internet => Mozilla's public servers => Mozilla intranet gateway => Mozilla non-internet-facing server => Decrypted here

It doesn't say the server is completely offline. It can be connected to through a server which can connect to both that server and the wider internet, but the machine in question cannot.
Thanks! :-) Please email me if you can. I'd love to discuss more.
There's a web site dedicated to this http://translationparty.com
chrisseaton, I don't get your question. Imagine a person while working for company has motivation to start a company. The option is move back to country of origin or to a different country or stay in US. My question was about staying in US and starting the company.
Very quick, it turns out. Judging others is a deflective tactic against being judged yourself. "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is great spiritual wisdom but most people don't abide by it.
I think raises lose effectiveness if someone is a lone job-hopper with no serious investments anyway (house, car, family). An appreciable raise would be $5k, and surely you can onboard someone, ignoring their salary, for less than that as long as you aren't purchasing new equipment. Money is just not an effective cure for boredom.

You really don't want bored people on your team long term. Often technical debt goes unrealized for years, which a bored programmer is likely to produce more of. A dedicated hiring manager is not going to be paying off technical debt directly.
I was watching the documentary HyperNormalization and at 1:12:00 it was mentioned Larry Fink built one of the first "supercomputers" (at least a large system for its time). It was used for risk analysis it was built in 1986. The company was BlackRock and the computer was called Aladdin.

https://youtu.be/-fny99f8amM?t=4320
Encrypted data is uploaded to some Mozilla server. From there, the the encrypted data is copied onto some sort of storage device (USB stick or DVD), which is then inserted into the non-connected machine where it is decrypted.
No, I'm from the UK, it's a common idiom over here.
Most likely they mean that it only gets decrypted after going through a bastion-like host that's connected to both the internet and one of their intranets.

A sneakernet would be an option but it's fairly unlikely
I definitely consider D one since it's meant to be a continuation to C / C++ without caring about 'backwards compatibility' which is a good thing imho.
Apparently not. This Daily Dot article quotes the EFF as saying that, even when a company informs you that your call is being recorded, you don't necessarily have the right to record it yourself:

"Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that what Davis did is likely illegal. 'Just because Comcast told the customer that the call was being recorded, that doesn’t mean it’s legal for him to record the call without notification,' Maass tells the Daily Dot. 'To stay on the right side of the law, everyone has to let everyone else know if they’re recording a conversation.'"

Source- https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/comcast-customer-service-rec...
Stop getting your economics reports from political news sources. "They don't count people who've stopped looking" is not a meaningful statement. There are many statistics that report this. Labor force participation rate is the one I always look at next to unemployment rate and gives a better overall picture.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

In this case, I think you make a valid point. Why is the labor force participation rate not climbing back to 2008 levels?
this comes up a lot, and I can never find the actual questions that get asked on these surveys. do they mean an actual savings account at a bank? the kind that pay 0.02% interest? few people I know, even with high net worth and liquidity, have much of anything in a 'savings account'. But... "Only 41% of adults reported having enough in their savings account".

Do they just mean 'savings'? Or liquid cash? I can never find the actual text of the questions asked, and any clarifications on this point, although I see pop media references to these sorts of surveys regularly
Absolutely. A lot of our corporate clients are deciding to set up shop elsewhere, such as Canada, and a lot of our individual clients from China and India are moving elsewhere as well, such as Canada - or pursuing an EB1A green card, although the standard is tough and getting tougher.
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I don't think that her prejudices are conscious enough to be evaluated for logical consistency.
$5 say their marketing dept will "accidentally" install/push something that will "accidentally" opt-in everyone.
Close!- the phone calls are making angry people.
There are much greater absurdities within the capitalist economic system which mostly go unquestioned; I'd actually start there rather than attacking something much higher up the chain and less fundamental. Taxes also help alleviate the burden of a capitalist economy on people, by providing for social institutions.

So it's fine to attack taxes (even with this naive-libertarian "stealing my money under threat of force" line) but it's a very small problem in the big scheme of economic organisation.
To me it seems that the answer to this question is contradicting your answer to "Can a F1,J1 or H1B visa holder register a company outside USA (home country)?" - am I missing something? Or are we assuming that just "registering a company" doesn't imply earning money? :)
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Are they kidding? I know the Verge is run by strange people, but their top recommendation is a Chinese laptop with a design ripped-off of the MacBook Pro, made by a company that we are recommended to avoid right now because of questionable connections to Chinese government?

Edit: My perspective with this comment is American.
Hi Peter,

My father has applied for my GC and the processing may begin after several years. He’s a GC holder, and may have his oath of citizenship done soon, his lawyer expects the oath to happen this year. I believe I fall into EB2 category.

Meanwhile, are there any chances that Trump may try to kill those GC aspirants who are coming via family route?

Thanks :)
I don't see any policies around types of businesses, code of conduct, adherence to Do-Not-Call policies or information regarding privacy or security rigor applied to the citizens that would be effected by this platform.

This just seems like an amoral SaaS service I kind of want to die. Fast.
Probably reporting is not really easy.

If every time someone sees feces on the street they could just say "Hey Siri, I just saw shit on the street." the report rate would be like 16k a day.
You will send your data to publicly available server, which will forward it to other server available only through local network, hidden from the prying eyes, secured by firewall, routers, and/or some network configuration.
Duplex only works because it was highly optimized for specific domains, like booking haircuts and booking tables. Every conversation in these domains pretty much goes the same way. If you go off the standard reservation script, it falls apart.

I suppose Duplex could maliciously attempt to book a bunch of fake reservations, but the technology behind it really can't do much more than that

Also, I'm not really sure what you mean by "Google's good gatekeeping". 3rd parties have no control over Duplex, other than initiating specific tasks through Google Assistant. If Duplex does anything malicious, it would be because Google went rogue, and there would obviously be massive legal and PR consequences for that.
Kotlin gives you enough metaprogramming and syntax sugar to feel a rung above Java. You can pack a lot into a short line (list / map literals, compact map / fold / iteration, elvis operator), so it feels to me much closer to Python than Java 8 ever did.
Unfortunately there aren't very many phones that currently support verified boot (https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/), which would be a requirement to be supported by this project.
Kudos to the first person to get one of these working right for anything beyond Hello World:

JavaScript -> Js2Py -> PyPy -> Machine Code

JavaScript -> Js2Py -> CIL -> LLVM IR (-> Machine Code)

JavaScript -> Js2Py -> Pythran -> C++ -> LLVM IR/Machine Code

That's got to look like spaghetti by the end, no?
Homelessness is not a trivial problem, full stop. There is no way around this. It can be lessened with extra housing for those who are only homeless because of cost of living, but that doesn't get to the root causes of what causes people to lack funds for housing and such.
They really have perfected the "against x" argument as a content marketing strategy. This article is void of any details.

Someone has to believe in the long term to buy your business.
I have been using NixOS for a week now. I am curious, could you give more details? I haven't tried any games, but Plasma is accelerated.
> then again at around 1 pm for another 2 hours

What timezone is that?
The problem DDG has is not understanding the search terms. eg "usb 3 voltage" will get you lots of results as though you had left out one or two of the words (there are far more pages about "usb voltage" than "usb 3 voltage"). You know the 3 is critical, but they don't. A general rule of thumb is that 3 or more words in your DDG search dramatically worsens the results. (Amazon search is even worse where two words begins the spiral of spectacularly bad results.)

That said DDG often does get reasonable results. And if you don't like them, just add in !g to see what google gets. (Conceptually I like to give DDG first crack at a search, and then fallback to google if DDG didn't do well.) What I have noticed is google's results are getting worse, as sites are getting better at gaming google.
The author states:

>'Similarly, a Java programmer must understand the runtime behaviour of the JVM, but until OpenJDK, the implementation language was irrelevant."

Can someone say why did the implementation language become relevant with the arrival of OpenJDK? My java app should run on any JVM no? After all that was the raison d'être of Java no? Or is the author referring to something else?
Well, if some devs would bother to learn how to use their tooling properly instead of keeping urban myths alive, that wouldn't be needed. :)
Everything falling into China's hand.
I know, the options are very limited and the O-1 can be tough even for incredibly talented engineers who don't have publications, press, etc. I would need to review your CV to give you a firmer assessment.
How is that kind of bias mitigated by privacy though?
Would this work for Comcast/Xfinity?
Good stuff! While it's nice that the change made things cleaner, it's great to see it laid out in a more "why should I care?" fashion.
>by far the cheapest way of them being considered a major power

Cheap compared to what alternative? It's not clear what you mean by this. They're spending a fat chunk of their military budget on nukes, they're spending far more on nukes than they need to spend just to be a nuclear power (since they're maintaining all three delivery options), and they're spending more on nukes than any other country except the US.

>they do spend a larger percentage of their GDP then most European countries but with such a small economy I'm not sure it makes much difference

Just check the figures. Russia's military budget is a bit higher than the UK or France's. Russia generally ranks 4th or 5th in the world for military expenditure.

>. After all - nobody feels particularly threatened by Canada...

Because Canada doesn't have nukes or anything like the same military budget. You seem to be confusing GDP with the level of military threat posed. They're only loosely related.
Unless it's officially supported, brand new laptops usually (read, in my experience) have a rough first year with Linux and things stabilize over the course of the second year.
Absolutely. A degree isn't necessarily a requirement for EB3 or even EB2 and EB1 green cards.
Can a college dropout get a visa to go through YC program for 3 months?
Our policy is that it is easier to cancel than sign up. It should take fewer clicks, or be just a simple email.

People who cancel frequently come back, unless you make canceling hard and you burn the relationship.
Forget this path if you were born in India. Just an MS is not enough. Unless you qualify for GC under EB-1 or O-1 visa, high skilled India/China born immigrants, are basically well paid bonded laborers in the US.
No one knows if it is actually a bad thing to leave yet, give it 50 years.

For some reason people read a couple of articles and become experts on really complicated, multi faceted, non deterministic systems and decide to expound their opinions on those around them.
Isn't it only a tax on sugary drinks? And from my personal experience it just seems to be pushing people to buy Coke Zero/Diet Coke instead. Most people I know haven't complained much about it. I wonder if it will have the indended effets of reducing sugar consumption.
A bit cynical, but my guess is the vast majority of people forcing themselves to consume productive media are not retaining anything and just don't want to feel like they're wasting time.

And as the sibling comment said, nothing wrong with a good movie. Enjoy your life.
If I had to choose between Kue and Bull, I'd choose Bull. But I found it frustrating to work with.

- I want to support multiple backends. Bull is a Redis queue. Which is fine, as far as it goes, but I have some early designs on an AWS-backed SQS/Dynamo backend that obviates the need for Redis entirely, among other things. ElastiCache is not the worst thing in the world to have to run but not having to directly run anything is, in many environments, preferable, so that's a route I want to go down.

- Separate queues for each type of job (per-key) isn't sufficient control. I think it's better to categorize jobs by priority. And while one could multiplex on top of a single queue it, tbh, makes it pretty rough to handle stuff like "these jobs are all of similar priority but have different retry counts and strategies". That multiplexer then isn't integrated with metrics, frontends, etc. and it becomes a "I guess we just reimplement everything except the basic transport on top of Bull" situation.

- Also, the basic transport itself is arguable. TaskBotJS uses BRPOP in Redis and I think it's better in the general case to go "if the process hard crashes and doesn't have time to respond to a stop signal I may lose a job". When necessary, an administrator can explicitly opt-in to more complicated and more resource-intensive completely reliable queueing. IMO, RPOPLPUSH plus a heartbeat is a better way to do this than expiring locks, too; expecting a developer to renew the job lock or tune its timing is a bigger ask than "the worker's still working on it--whoops, the worker went away, requeue the job".

- Bull uses functions over classes for jobs. In many ways that's defensible; I don't think it scales (people-scales, not computer-scales) across a large dev team without doing a lot of work on top of it. TaskBotJS expects you to provide dependencies to your jobs that it can inject into the worker state--every Kue/Bull-based processor I've seen tends to use globals wrapped in the job closure for stuff like database connections, and I do not subscribe to this point of view and I think you shouldn't either.

Any one thing (save pluggable backends) I could have implemented on top of Bull. IMO it'd have been worse to do so, but I could have. But the sum total of things I think could be done better made it easier to write my own, and then to refine it over time into TaskBotJS.

Don't get me wrong: I think Bull is fine. The compromises it forces upon you are ones I don't want to make and I don't think developers should be forced to, but of course you can get by with it. But I wouldn't have built TaskBotJS if I didn't think it was better. Throw shade if you'd like; I made the tool before I made the product and I really don't expect it to make more money than enough to keep me focused on its maintenance.
They go on to mention that they'd have to put it on credit card, or ask friends, so while the article says savings account I don't think they are that literal. But you're right, it's a flaw in the language.
How about $500, over the next.. 8 years (you have to stop a bet eventually). Or just $5 if you don't have the confidence in a mistake.
https://www.gcreforms.org/key-issues/
Do you think it is possible to receive L-1A after working one year on a US branch incorporated while on F1 OPT?

I've a start up incorporated on UK. If I open a US branch under F1 OPT status and work it for 1 year on this branch, my application for L-1A can succeed?

As USCIS states:

"Currently be, or will be, doing business as an employer in the United States and in at least one other country directly or through a qualifying organization for the duration of the beneficiary’s stay in the United States as an L-1."

and

"To qualify, the named employee must also:

Generally have been working for a qualifying organization abroad for one continuous year within the three years immediately preceding his or her admission to the United States;"
I agree but missing some info. Republicans in Congress are actually more willing t fix this and bipartisan bills that will for sure pass the House with a super majority have been introduced but not in the Senate. The Democrats don’t want to pass anything without passing DACA because they get no political points and The Trump Administrarion wants some other types of immmigration cut before passing this (giving diversity lottery slots to h1b backlog) to appease the nationalist base. Traditional GOP non nationalists and moderate Democrats are for this strongly however. Basically there is no political push to get this fixed. If h1b were more vocal or had more political capital, it’d get done in a month.

Edit: not sure why the downvotes, here’s a source?

http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/377886-congress-leave...

325 co sponsors 174 D 151 R with many more willing to vote for it.
I am diabetic so I avoid sugar, fake sugar, processed foods, etc.
And it looks like they copied the crappy Macbook keyboard!
It helps that we've been at war for ~17 years straight and are still largely quantitatively easing things.
Good thought. I can look at my desk setup and see if anything seems like it needs improvement.
100% of bad things look good enough for some people at some point, otherwise they wouldn’t be done. That doesn’t make them any good.
What's the path for an H-1B employee to start a startup in the US? In particular if they aim to have ~50% ownership.
I'd suggest that asking for a citation is more relevant when the position is hard to source, but sure: https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-ric...
Interesting overview on Aruba AP-325 for those also interested:

https://youtu.be/cMkH_cTw0D4
The burden of proof is on the person making positive claims (schools teach that men are bad, women on social media are becoming divas)