skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business just got a massive tax cut. They can dig themselves out by spending on increasing productivity and paying higher wages. The economy needs to be run very hot for an extended period of time, instead of getting crashed by an obnoxiously over-eager Fed that likes to kick the economy into a recession to dampen wage growth for the benefit of businesses in the guise of controlling inflation.

Businesses need to be made to squeal in pain here. Run the economy as hot as we can get it for as long as we can and shove wages through the roof at the cost of business margins (which were just considerably boosted via the tax cuts).

If the Republicans and Democrats weren't collectively so stupid, they'd be cooperating on hammering out a massive infrastructure spending plan paid for by a trillion dollars printed by the Fed across 10-15 years (or similarly constructing an infrastructure bank filled courtesy of abusing the global reserve currency while we still have it). And doing that would juice things that much more right now and for the next decade.
I read nothing in that article that hints at any government violence in Hungary, so I don't get why you even bring this up.

Sure, there's lots of innuendo about how the EU is trying to teach a lesson about democracy and human rights to a reluctant Hungary.

The thing is, if we have to choose among Orbán and Jüncker the leader with the most democratic legitimacy, then Orbán wins hands down.

Hardly anyone in the EU voted for Jüncker, except for a few Luxemburgers. Hardly anyone knew what the program of his party, the EPP, was at the time of the election.

Orbán on the other hand enjoys a huge amount of support from the Hungarians. You may disagree with his viewpoints, but that doesn't make his leadership any less democratic.

He is careful not to follow the example of Western Europe with its disastrous policies of mass immigration and - as a result - islamisation. This viewpoint is shared with all governments in Eastern Europe and - at last - a growing number of people in Western Europe.

He tries to raise awareness about the Soros-funded no-borders NGOs, which are an attempt from outside the country to make the Hungarian press and politicians talk and behave a certain way. The article in the Independent tries to paint this as anti-Semitism, but in another article they admit that even Israel disagrees with this viewpoint: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/george-soros...

The only reason the unelected leaders of the EU put pressure on Orbán is because he poses a threat to their power. Of course they use words like "human rights" and "democracy" to cover their real motivations. Look at the non-reaction of the EU when the Spanish Rajoy government locked up Catalonian political prisoners (by the way, do you know of any polical prisoners in Hungary?). Why didn't they defend democracy and human rights at that time? The reason is that the current EU leaders see the Catalonian independence movement as a threat to their power.
If your thousand "node developers" aren't at least willing to drop the "node" part (assuming there was saturation in that segment) to use their skills in other languages/environment...then they probably have a problem.

(I know that wasn't really your point since you were comparing with something more different like dentists...but the fact that the example specifically said "node developer" instead of just developer is scary)
No, the X clearly discombobulates it for me :)
the 300k RSUs are very uncommon
(Replying to pavel_lishin - thanks for being civil!)

I get where your coming from, as we’ve seen a lot of the moving fast / breaking stuff.

However, do we blame FB for someone misusing it? Do we hold YouTube responsible for what people say? We don’t entirely, as they’re platforms. In this case it is the same - UpCall is positioning themselves as a platform that the customer has to ensure they are compliant in order to use.

That said - I’m not sure how long or well it’ll work; as we can see this is a divisive subject :)
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(I might get flamed for this but Perché no)

I have been a PM for many years. I used to be a dev (a reasonable one) but I have been out of it for a while. I want to build an app just for fun. I would like to use some AWS (maybe some serverless stuff). I would also like to make some money (not millions) out of it. It would be a solo effort but if it goes somewhere I am happy to take a go at it.

Dear HN, do you have any app ideas for me?
Not Peter, but from experience waiver doesn't piratically exist. A relative of ours got diagnosed with late stage of cancer and her parents (her mom a nurse) were denied visa to visit and was told "tell you daughter to come and visit you in Iran".

My brother also a US citizen is moving to Canada because her wife can't get a visa to enter the US.
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Yes, any company can and the size of the company isn't the most critical factor.
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I think I am in a long line of people who really appreciate all the help and guidance Peter has given. If you have startup immigration issues, Peter is your guy.
> Yet the experience of towns like Ames and Des Moines show that such “labor shortages” might be due to insufficient wages and crummy working conditions — not an unwillingness of workers to switch industries or improve their skills for a job.

I think this sentiment has been repeated time and again here on HN.

I suspect the tech community is particularly attuned to it, as our sector has something like this employment situation even when the economy as a whole isn't doing as well.
Would be available to help out?
I had a similar experience after a visit to Mexico. I picked up an ATT Mexico SIM card, and noticed that it still worked after I got back to the US. I bought a new tariff each month for about $10 USD using Ding, and it worked great.

The only downsides were that I had a Mexican phone number (I use Google Voice anyway, so just needed the data) and, more importantly, that all the customer support was in Spanish...

I ended up ditching the SIM after about a year when the data stopped working when I bought a new tariff. Not sure how much this was due to my inability to navigate the Spanish customer interface vs. ATT cracking down on people doing exactly this.
From your linked article:
> It recognized touch input, allowing me to move an on-screen cursor and tap app shortcuts, among other things. But I noticed that tapping the “Show Applications” icon made the app list expand and disappear quickly. I think it’s registering single-taps as double-taps.

To me that's an annoying enough problem that I'd say it does not work.
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An acceptable risk for boeing is not an acceptable risk for society. This is the whole point of regulation.
That’s an excellent question and one I would expect and answer for posted pretty clearly on the site. Probably a similar process, and I would also expect some sort of stats around rejected calls akin to spam stats in email platforms like MailChimp.
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It's ironic that the tool to increase friendship is evil.
"you must have an Established Business Relationship"

They say on the prospecting page:

"UPLOAD YOUR LIST: Upload a list of target businesses to call. We can help you finding one too."

It doesn't sound like you need an Established Business Relationship.
I love Guix and GuixSD and would like to move to it as my main OS, but I dislike that they actively censor information on how to run a custom kernel and get set up on a machine where some drivers linux-libre removes are required. I understand that they don't want to distribute those stuff and that's fine, but not everybody can buy new hardware and especially any hardware easily. This is extremism for me (banning official information, not the offending drivers), it's distasteful and discourages me.
My answer will depend in part on where you are from and your background but the short answer is work for a large global company and then after one year seek to transfer to the U.S. on an L-1 visa.
It's not about face. It's about being able to effectively deliver stuff without needing to blow all estimates because you have to learn everything.

My family doctor constantly has to learn about new things, but he needs to have a basic foundation so he doesn't have to learn everything every time a new patient comes in the door. If he did, I'd go see someone else.
Having observed software and worked in software development for decades, a great sign that a software product is on a final decline is a grand UI redesign. There are exceptions, but it is a fairly reliable indicator. It’s a sign that could mean a number of (usually bad) things: the designers and/or marketers have taken over development, there is no longer internal direction to work on quality or fix bugs, the product people are out of ideas that are feasible so the only thing they can think of to keep it fresh is a paint job.

“A full UI redesign would make this site/software so much better!” - said no end user ever.
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No, they say you need an EBR or other reason. In many jurisdictions, for B2B calls "it can be imagined that they might be interested in our product" is a valid legal reason to cold-call someone.
According to my understanding, GC has nothing to do with H1B visa. How will you work in the US while you obtain your GC? You can work at their foreign offices until your priority date is current and opt for consular processing.
Yeah it's nice Dell is building Linux machines, but they're not equally nice by my measure. Dell's machines are usually made of lots of various bits of squeaky, often ill-fitting plastic, they usually still require barrel power adapters of various sizes that rarely match between models and have HUGE bricks you have to lug around, and the logic which they use to choose which machines have which display options available seems to be casting bones.

Dell really couldn't go wrong just taking the xerox machine to Huawei's machine. Aluminum body, USB-C power, 3:2 high-DPI display, new processors and maxed out memory, and it's pretty damned light at under 1.5kg. It even nicely hides the camera under the keyboard so you don't have to put obnoxious tape under the lid. It says a hell of a lot the biggest design change I'd make would be to put USB-C ports on both sides so you could charge it from either side.
Option 2, for sure. Remember Bill Clinton's slogan during his 1992 campaign: "It's the economy, stupid." People vote with their wallets first. The recession at the time lost Bush the presidency.

The lousy job market cost Hillary the presidency too.

Trump is a protest candidate. His supporters are not knuckle-dragging troglodytes who crawled to the voting booth, drooled on the voting machine, and grunted "make America great again!". They are rational beings, who looked back at Obama's presidency, and were not impressed.

Yes, employment improved during Obama's tenure, but new jobs have been low-paying and low-status. No bankers went to prison. The corporate-friendly policies of the Obama era didn't earn him friends in the working class. And Hillary promised more of the same.

Targeted advertising can prod racists to vote, as the OP suggests, but that only works if the non-racist voting majority feels some hope.
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I would like to see more e-waste initiatives based in reuse instead of recycling. To me it seems like any advances on the recycling front are outpaced by throwaway tech culture and general overconsumption.

Seeing as processor speeds have pretty much plateaued [1], I wonder if it is useful to start thinking less in terms of precious metals and instead in potential processing power of e-waste. I remember a discussion on here about cheap web host providers using consumer grade boxes as servers. With today's cluster technologies, there's certainly creative applications for processing power that would end up in a landfill.

[1] https://www.maketecheasier.com/why-cpu-clock-speed-isnt-incr...
Rust seems so low level that I don't get why people flock to it when C# and Java would be much better fits? Is it just because they're bored of C# and Java and want to learn a new language? Even Erlang should scratch that itch! I would guess that only the Servo team really benefits from Rust, or maybe some wall street traders who need hyper speed! Every other app should work fine with something slower.
“There are not a lot of welders sitting around looking for work."

That's a good thing. Welding is hard to learn and takes a lot of practice to get right. There shouldn't be people sitting around idle with that skill.

Ask employers who are whining about a shortage of skilled labor "how many people do you have in training right now?"
You’re basically describing Fuschia. I believe they have some of the main haiku kernel (probably a bad description) developers.
Advanced degree and/or Track record of accomplishment and "well-positioned" to serve the national interest.
My family of four live on that FBer's income in a nice single family rental and still save over half that IBMer's gross income. I can mortgage a multi-family dwelling in the Midwest every 4-5 years or so, invest in stocks/index funds, and generally do a lot more than the IBMer will ever be able to.
It comes down to equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity. Homelessness can be solved with the former, it’s just that everyone else will suffer as well.
The database that stays up even when you command it to remove the last replica
Look at the MAX chart on your link [2]. We’re barely above where we were in 1998. Hell, look here: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...

Real wages have been stagnant since the mid 60s. The short term picture is most likely a blip.
Or the three point hitch, or the...

You might be able to set up a convoluted system where you have the power cells being dragged behind whatever equipment you're using, assuming you can get enough tires underneath to not undo whatever work you're doing to begin with (first we plow the field, then we pack it down tight!)

But then you also can't use the ~10 tons to provide extra weight on your wheels.

It just feels like you ought to be able to store your batteries in a way which makes swapping them/carting them around easier, if you don't need to have a sleek aerodynamic package that fits on a highway. Actually requiring a crane to swap your batteries adds a lot of overhead, along with room for comic fuckups.
I made it clear early on I had dismissed approaches from about 10-15 other companies, and that they were my first preference, and they made it clear they were going to take their time on this one. We're all happy.
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?

Thank you
The article is about the dangers of large companies tracking users to such a high degree that it's dangerous for us, profitable for them. Facebook is an example. Google is also an example. Personally I'm more worried about Google because they have all my e-mails and everything my phone does. I don't have Facebook anymore.

It's not about hating Google, it's about recognizing the power and ubiquity they have, and how for many in HN, it dwarfs Facebook in terms of potential personal impact.
or EB1C
"A toolbar added by a hacker group could have stolen fonts in it."

Any mention of the existence of such a toolbar would have helped them some bit.
If the doc author was a font-nerd, that font would be none other than helvetica.
Where the work is performed and where the beneficiary of the work is located can affect the answer.
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Sorry to hear that. I haven't heard any complaints. Were your problems specific to running Linux?
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To sidestep upgrade issues, we're pursuing stateless immutable K8S clusters as much as possible. If we need new K8S, etcd, etc., we'll spin a new cluster and move the apps. Data at rest (prod DBs, prod Posix FS, prod object stores, etc.) is outside the clusters.
> The title seems misleading -- looking at the image in the article, it appears that the tax isn't on social media per se

The title is not misleading at all - the purpose of the tax is to discourage the use of social media. The (likely) president-for-life Museveni has expressed his strong displeasure with social media (particularly when it was used to mock him in the run up to removing term-limits) well before this law was promulgated. Strong-men do well with traditional media, which they can easily control.

Few Ugandans are going to spend 43p (per MMS) to send a meme gif mocking the government to 7 friends - this is entirely according to plan. Nevermind the local police (secret or otherwise) has easy access to MNO's servers compared to WhatsApp or Facebook for their investigations to support the charges of "incitement/treason".
Yes, she has applied for a visa multiple times, and has taken medical documentation on her husband's condition. So far she has not successfully obtained a visa.
This is about the FaunaDB operational API and how its commands are designed to take the risk out of topology changes.
> The parrots on the other end kept repeating that they needed to verify my identity (Ehm, stopping payments should be sufficient verification, thanks.)

I don't understand — how does stopping payments verify your identity?
No, not nationalism. Seemingly legitimate worries about security. I was just clarifying that I was speaking from an American perspective, where US government has published warnings against a specific set of manufacturers, not all Chinese products.

This moronic trade war is not relevant to that position, and I am not at all a fan of the current administration.
We've got a lot of comapanies using Rust for various things that aren't Servo nor Wall Street traders :) https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html

In many cases, C# or Java are great choices for a project, but Rust fits in quite often too.
What's a "bit boundary" in this context? And how does you subclassing scheme prevent wasted CPU cycles. at all?
>According to Chapman and Kipfer in their "Dictionary of American Slang", By 1975 the term had expanded in meaning beyond the poor Southerner to refer to "a bigoted and conventional person, a loutish ultra-conservative."[20]

If the OP was using it in this way, I don't see the issue. If he/she was using it to just describe laboring, rural whites, I agree; it's offensive and inappropriate. Given the context of the statement, I assumed the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck

On the topic, Randy Newman's song "Rednecks" is a scathing critique of Northerners and their "hidden" racism and hypocrisy on the subject.

>Yes he's free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he's free to be put in a cage
On the South Side of Chicago
And the West Side
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Hough in Cleveland
And he's free to be put in a cage
In East St. Louis
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Fillmore in San Francisco
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Roxbury in Boston
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around . . . (apologies for the formatting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTLHxpUQ_B8 (NWS)
Funny use of words, avoiding figuratively "tortured" plant proteins and instead opting for literally tortured animals.
When its time to upgrade the ewaste extracting robot, its child will mine their parents.
Yeah, it’s not terribly consistent what they require. I do agree they need to call it out more clearly :)
It might be a good opportunity to close your eyes and listen to many of the amazing (but nearly always way too long, IMHO) interviews available on developer podcasts like Software Engineering Daily, Microsoft Research, Hanselminutes, IndieHackers, etc. You get to listen to some great conversations and if you fall asleep, it's a bonus!
It doesn't work in desktop Firefox or Chrome either. I don't see any errors, so I think they just forgot to wire it up.
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If you are from backlogged countries (India or China), your best bet is one of the following options,

1. Marry a USC.
2. EB1A / B
3. EB1C
Two-thirds of LGBT+ people fear holding hands in public
The problem with JIT is the same as the problem everywhere else: When the wrong type of bean counters look at a cost too nearsightedly, they typically address the "static" costs and miss the hidden costs that are much harder to both understand and measure - typically "dynamic" costs that are both under-reported and hard to measure, and also to understand since there are a lot of moving parts.

The whole point of JIT is to take control of the dynamic effects so it's a bit ironic.
what's used to generate a png of this kind, pretty impressive and better than freemind
Yeah I only wish it was supported in the mobile app also!