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The story adds up from a technical point of view and from a political point of view. Just because the future is OLED doesn't mean LCDs are going to disappear overnight.

Regardless, it was obvious foxconn intended to open operations in the US because of the political climate. The same reason japanese automakers opened up shop in the US and the south koreans and the germans and so forth. It's partly to win political favor, gain market access and for good public relations.

My guess is that china is using foxconn ( I know it's a taiwanese company ) to put pressure on Trump after canada arrested one of their executives. I'm guessing there will be more tit for tat ( arrests, projects delayed, etc ) going forward between the US and our allies and China until this trade war is resolved.
In the case of flat panel displays, I don't think overseas shipping is an issue. Sea freight is priced by volume (not weight). Foreign TV manufacturers built factories in the US in the 80s because they were paying a lot to ship picture tubes, which are big, empty glass bottles. But flat panels are much denser; shipping flat panels overseas can't be that much more expensive than shipping the raw materials for making them.
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I guess no one will really regret Google+
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Yes. There's value in being able to change jobs as you see please. That value is about 1.3 to 1.5x of not having the freedom to do so.
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I think philosophy and culture are important, but this meme is very silly.

Personifying self-driving systems is a great disservice and misleading. A self driving car detecting a sudden obstacle will not have time to classify anything to the extent that these stories have in mind, and certainly not to the point that humans would (leaving aside the fact that humans also would not have time to classify the items at a "sudden" obstacle).

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That being said, there are very real ethical questions in the self driving world:

1. Just because you can commute farther, should you?

2. Should more expensive cars be able to disrupt traffic for individual benefit, or should all self driving systems follow a consistent set of rules of the road to maximize throughput?

2.1 Should I be able to tweak my car to be a little more dangerous, but also quicker?

3. Should carpooling be mandated? Encouraged through tax breaks? subsidies?

4. Should self driving cars be allowed to cut through neighborhoods or be required to follow major roads around them? What about parking lots?

I'm sure there are other really interesting questions as well, but the trolley problem is not one of them.
H-1B visa lottery changing to favor those with advanced degrees
I wonder if this is Foxconn's way of signaling to Trump that Foxconn wants the Wisconsin factory to be exempted from paying the new tariffs on imports of Chinese parts.
I think you’re putting the cart before the horse. Why is there a shortage of low skilled workers in a country of 400m? Because you have illegal workers who’ve driven the price of that work below what the market legally supports. If the law was effectively enforced those low skilled jobs would pay enough for Americans
>There is no measure of skill less meaningful than a degree.

I really don't see how salary is better. A higher salary is simply more correlated with the profitability of a company, not with the skills one has. People doing the same jobs at different companies can have vastly differing salaries.

I should know - every time I've bumped up my salary, it's by moving to a position that required lower skills. The market does not pay high for skills. You'll get paid more if you switch from a job that requires advanced mathematics or physics skills to coding web/mobile apps.
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If we went by majority and popular opinion all the time there would still be slavery, segregation would still be a thing, same-sex marriages would be illegal, there would be no abortion rights and so and so forth.
There is no such thing currently as reducing the risk of killing yourself or someone else with your car to 0. Braking distance and speed are insufficient variables to alter given people's preferences about the speed at which they'd wish to arrive at their destination. This will very likely also be the case when autonomous vehicles are deployed. There will be collisions, this is simply unfortunately a fact.

Given that there will be collisions, it seems prudent to have the car try to figure out what's better to collide with- the tree or the child. Given that there will be collisions, it also seems prudent to think carefully about other, more difficult moral dilemmas.

Refusing to code for an eventuality is itself a moral decision; inaction is an action that has an impact on the world.
Nope! :)

Its actually part of the syntax of search queries for google. That said, it still isn't always the best results.
I agree with you that this example is so theoretical as to be useless. In addition, focusing on this masks some other more relevant ethical/legal questions.

1. If the car sees a police car flash it's lights for it to pull over, should it pull over unconditionally - not allowing the driver to over-ride?

2. If there is an Amber alert broadcast specifying the car, should it automatically try to alert the authorities as to it's location and/or flag down the nearest police vehicle?

3. Should a car be able to be programmed to automatically avoid going to places that would violate a restriction order on its owner or occupant.

4. If owner/occupant experiences an emergency (heart attack, impending child birth, etc), should the car have a button that will allow it to break traffic laws to try to get to the hospital faster. For example, at 2 AM on a deserted street, do you really need to wait the full time the light is red if you can see that there are no other vehicles?
I also wish they stuck with OSM. It was far more functional on the non-Apple products I use. Don't know how well it works on Apple, but I can't seem to figure out zoom and pan in Firefox.
You know or probably should know that all conversations between prisoners and their attorneys are privileged. If you're saying that you've illegally recorded and listened to those conversations, you belong in a cage with them.
Due to the per-country-quota limits, people immigrating from populous countries are stuck in multi-decade green card backlogs. Immigrants crossing the southern border from smaller countries might be going through the same process, but the per-country-quotas ensure that most of them will get their green cards much sooner than legal immigrants from populous countries.
This should not be getting downvoted, no matter how much you disagree with its claims. It is articulate, well-written, contains novel (for me, anyway) biographical information about Godel, and is respectful enough even its critiques.
I was interested in tt-rss until I tried it out and there was a problem with the Android app. I checked the forums for a solution...

If you do check out the forums for it you will very quickly see that the developer is a massive asshole.

I wouldn't trust any code that a person like that writes to run on my machine.
> There should be one pool, everyone’s in it, we spread risk, and the whole damn thing is simpler and easier to regulate.

Call me naive, but I also always thought that's kind of the point of it: spreading the risk, or solidarity to use a less fashionable term. People can be very sick through no fault of their own, and those who are healthier should look out for them. If you calculate that "fair share" according to exactly how sick people are, then what's the point, wouldn't that just be a needless middleman that gets paid upfront?
Indeed:

Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...
A large number (most?) of the H-1B visas go to students on F visas who have a job offer and want to change their status. Almost all the foreigners that I know on H-1B visas in my company came from a F visa. Some definitely were recruited from abroad, but it's simple economics. With so many people graduating from US universities, it's a lot easier to interview and subsequently apply for an H-1B for someone already here.
But fortunately for Apple users, it won’t be iMessage. :)
> It also doesn't make a huge amount of sense - the GDPR applies to companies operating inside the EU market, both foreign and domestic.

Enforcement however is at the discretion of European courts, and as noted previously, affects companies disproportionately foreign. If the EU can (slowly) force a foster a segmentation in the internet, similar to China with Baidu et. all, there are obvious economic benefits

The parent's wording aside, I wouldn't consider it prudent to assume any regulation is benevolently intended. Better to judge on game-theoretical merits. Which makes me suspicious of the GDPR in no small part because of its vagueness and the potential for selective enforcement.
Does anyone have a cheat sheet of sorts for the symbols and syntax used in these?
Are you seeing these criticisms from the same people, or from different groups, who might have differing opinions?

When you become as big as Facebook, there are going to be arguments about your moral responsibility, and not everyone will agree.
now i can come to US too
now i can go to US too
https://nomorobo.com and https://donotcall.gov

nomorobo was crowdfunded and works well on old-school voip lines where it 1 rings on spam calls.
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop regarding how Peter Thiel became Trump's biggest fan and to what extent Palantir was involved with CA.
I'm a prospective H1B applicant also without a US master's degree, and I think, while this does hurt people in our situation, the argument that the H1B must preferentially select talented people is flawed. The O1 visa category (for so-called aliens of extraordinary ability) is reserved for that purpose already, and is more stringent in terms of criteria.

The H1B is a general-purpose skilled labour visa. It's designed to meet the needs of US companies who need to bring in specialized labour that the American labour pool cannot staff - not talented, but specialized. A master's degree at the least (and I don't recall the process needing it to be a master's degree from the States, though I could be misremembering and this would undo my point) is a good proxy for specialization.

Outside of conforming to visa intent better, I think this change makes sense given the current caps on H1B issuance. If you're going to cap total H1Bs issued in an year to 85,000, why not favour the degree class that correlates better with talent (even if it's not a perfect predictor as has been pointed out)?

I also doubt that this will affect that many people - raising the limit from 20,000 reserved entries for master's students (currenr case) to 25,000 means 5,000 fewer people without a master's get their H1Bs. In any given year, the chances of getting an H1B are 33% anyway (applications dwarf yearly caps by a factor of 3). It's a barely noticeable blip in what's already a painful immigration process.

I would certainly like the US to have a progressive immigration policy. But I expect immigration policies to serve US interests, and this change does.
Ah, the perfect way for Tesla to segment their different product lines — make the expensive ones more “selfish” in their accident mitigation algorithms.
I suffer from a strange sexual fetish and I will not soon forget the feelings I had in the 90s when I realized I wasn’t the only one.

It was a surreal feeling to know that not only was I not alone I wasn’t the weirdest person anymore. Some were much more into it and much weirder than I was.
We are in agreement. We need some low skills workers, we don’t need all the unregulated low skills workers we have. Instead of 10-15mill, whatever the estimate is, we could probably use 4mill regulated foreign low skills workers to balance economic labor needs with giving and affording our own low skills workers an opportunity to make a living wage. We know it’s possible. We had it in the 70s, 80s, before our low skills workers were undercut in price.
Get an online MS in CS from either Georgia Tech ($10k) or UIUC ($20k) and you are set. Your degree will be exactly the same as on-site ones and you can do it in 2-3 years.
I rewatched 2001 : Space Odyssey last summer and was surprised how prescient he was about certain things. He got video calling right, but I also chuckled when people were still dialing on a physical number pad. He got the big idea right but was off on little details.
My take on Soviet Five years plans and the like is a plan is usually better than no plan. Good plans usually spec the what not the how. Also Soviet stagnation occurred under Brezhnev's policies which de-prioritized consumer goods and infrastructure.

On the other hand Communist China seems to have gotten better at planning over time. (What you do you get good at)

'No plan' would describe US industrial policy since Reagan.
A bit of an extreme solution, but I hear this workshop run by Air France is good. https://www.airfrance.fr/FR/en/common/guidevoyageur/pratique...
Maybe if data is truly a strategic asset (oh hey Facebook) then it's worth vertically integrating everything in house.
False; pretty much all of the Americas are jus soli.
What is fundamentally wrong, if anything, with people with less education being more valuable? Would you rather have three engineers with an undergrad degree or one with a master's? Where do you draw the line?

In my experience advanced degrees do not equate expertise -- if anything, professionally, it's the opposite.
Sorry to disappoint, but I think this is just one of many ways. example - as an iOS dev u want to advertise on fb. for that to be effective u want to track conversions. easiest way to do that, esp. for a small dev - add the facebook sdk to the app. and you're done - facebook can potentially hoover a lot of data from an app that has no obvious relation to it.
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I totally agree. Instead of putting the focus on degrees, the H1B program should have a wage floor. If the minimum H1B salary was, say, 150k a year (dependent on local cost-of-living), it would ensure companies would only use high quality H1Bs for high value work.
I refer you to the second sentence of my comment. With that said, it is worth remembering that only a small number of very elderly people have meaningful first-hand memories of the social and political circumstances of the 1930s and 1940s.

The Stasi is clearly a more pertinent example of the perils of mass surveillance. The scale and sophistication of their surveillance is the closest historical parallel to contemporary digital surveillance, and many currently-serving politicians and civil servants have first-hand experience of it. Germany is still dealing with the legacy of decades of pervasive surveillance and the billions of records collected by that agency. A notable example of those records is a Stasi identity card, issued to major Vladimir Putin of the KGB.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46525543
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And yet you’ll find essentially no anti-vaccination sentiment among left-wing politicians. (In fact, by far the most prominent politician to espouse anti-vaccination views is the Republican President.) Left-wing anti-intellectuals certainly exist, but they have little traction.

Contrast this with the right wing, where things like denial of climate change are a major part of the party’s platform, to the point that you’d hard time getting elected as a member of that party if you express confidence in the scientific consensus.
I wish there was some easy way to archive everything you see on the internet.

Like a browser that records every page you see, exactly as you saw it.

Unfortunately it's probably just too difficult with Web 2.0 and its dynamically generated pages and needless flashing lights.
>Only if I have root permissions (granted, I probably wouldn't be watching porn on a machine I wasn't admin on but that was just an example application).

It doesn't take root to do so, in most cases you probably still want to run the transient scope under your user so you'd use systemd-run --user in order to create it not with the main system instance of systemd but with the user level instance of it.

>I'm pretty sure Windows does do it like this

No it doesn't, as for your remote desktop example you can have the exact same behavior on Linux with systemd reaping user scopes by just using a VNC server. Windows is different in that when logging off it won't allow you to while an application is still running. It gives you the choice to either stop and go back to whatever application isn't closing (because you have unsaved work or something) or to kill it.
>And asylum is a special case, it's not really a normal immigration route.

If it works it's normal. Just in a different sense.
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Not false. How is ~164 out of 194 countries jus sanguinis not most? There are approx 30 of 194 that are jus soli. How is that “false”.

And except for Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chili and Uruguay, the rest aren’t what one would think of as “sought after”, otherwise you’d have other people trying to take advantage of their citizenship policies.
Look at it from the other direction: large companies have fought giving H1-B workers better protections. They wouldn’t be doing that if they weren’t profiting from workers with less negotiating ability.

That’s also my position: don’t ban them, give them flexibility to switch jobs like everyone else so companies can’t hold the threat of deportation over them if they want a better deal.
Her book, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" is a series of essays written in the early 60's. Reading it today, I would say she hasn't had enough influence over the world.

I think Rand would be horrified at the current popularity of socialism. She rightly points out that, historically, it's created nothing but poverty and misery.

I would highly recommend her essay, A Textbook of Americanism, available free online here: http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/textbook.htm

Perhaps if more people read Rand (especially her nonfiction), we might not be in this predicament.
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You say this and I want to agree... but then again who are the people building driverless cars?

Unless the software is opensource how are we supposed to know? Are we so naive that we’re going to take any company’s word for it? ...and then are we so naive that we’re going to fall for the obvious plant arguments in forums against it? If the internet has taught me anything it’s that you can’t trust anyone.
Vegetable and dairy farmers would go out of business, if prices can't be raised due to competition from imports. You'd need tariffs as well, and people would need to put up with significant price increases at the grocery store.

There are not many Americans who want their kids to grow up to be farmhands or migrant workers. If you can speak English, you're better off in retail. For immigrants, there is a valuable benefit that makes it all worth it: being able to live in the US. Without that incentive, it's going to be really tough.
> I’m not trying to accomplish some absolute ideological position

You did.

Any attempt at right of privacy must be mercilessly crushed with maximum force
I've worked with a few H1-B holders in Silicon Valley and they're awesome.

A great improvement would be to allow H1B holders to change jobs easily (maybe after a year). It's too easy for them to get stuck in not great situations. It would be great for everyone if they could move to better fitting jobs, especially for startups who have trouble running H1-B programs.

If you are, like me, a software engineer, you should cheer every immigrant. They aren't competitors, they are complements and create more jobs. Economics is complicated and sometimes counterintuitive, but just because "immigrants lower wages" is "common knowledge" doesn't make it true. [1]

To prime your intuition a bit, consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages.

And if you are in SV consider that more than half of public tech companies were created by 1st and 2nd generation immigrants. 1st generation founders include Sergey Brin, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Pierre Omidyar, Stewart Butterfield, Sebastion Thrun, and Patrick and John Collison. [2]

[1] https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2014...

[2] https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17385226/kleiner-perkins-ma...
Why would the opinion of a neurosurgeon on homosexuality be relevant or interesting? It’s not as if homosexuality is apparent in the large-scale structures of the brain that are visible to a surgeon.
Something like the H-2B visa?
https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
Got a green card or got citizenship?
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The llvm support in CLion is terrible, basically the only thing that works right is breakpoints.
Airliners are incredibly durable machines. This article about about how much stress the wings can take is what I think about anytime I see the wings bouncing in turbulence.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/airplane-...

Then there is this image:

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/03/index1.jp...
> not the unilateral decision of technologists.

It should be, and would the judge disagree, show the honourable justice disagree, make him feel who is the boss in the internets.
Hacker news is 30x worse because you don't even see replies to your comments so the fire and forget mentality is very strong. Also very discouraging to reply to older comments because once it gets over a day old its likely even the person you reply to wont see it.
No, even if you start with the axioms of PA and enumerate all theorems provable, you'll miss some true sentences, one of them being the Goedel sentence of PA.
Stewart is still pretty Canadian... His primary residence is in Vancouver last I checked. I mean, the whole city would probably start crying if he permanently left.
Rents are bad in the long run.
You should try it before making uneducated, general comments that don't add anything. Rust in CLion/IntelliJ using LLVM is terrible: breakpoints and stack callers work, but variables, llvm and the rest are 99% broken.
A great improvement would be to give them citizenship if they want it.

The economic impact of immigrants is not under debate, however your examples are poor choices as I don't think any of those people came to the US on an H1B visa. If anything it's an argument against H1B.
I feel for you. I was the same way. I just internalized the stats and remind myself of them every time I fly. As a numbers guy, I simply cannot justify my abject fear compared to being a pedestrian or auto driver.

Another thing I do is to remember the physics when I'm on a bumpy. Thanks to momentum, planes don't just fall out of the sky, and even bad turbulence is not likely to result in deaths.
> It doesn't take root to do so, in most cases you probably still want to run the transient scope under your user so you'd use systemd-run --user in order to create it not with the main system instance of systemd but with the user level instance of it.

If a non-root user can do it and leave a program running then doesn't that invalidate all that BS about security?
Now you need to buy a domain name, understand dns, understand web hosting and rent out a server because many home ISPs and routers don't support hosting servers.

Sure you can still do things but we are constantly raising the bar for creating and making consuming easier.
Basic game theory: you should always defect, because you’re always better off. Yet the ideal outcome happens when nobody defects.

This is why the states should agree (or the Feds somehow impose restrictions) not to make these sorts of deals.