skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Qualified supply is nowhere close to matching demand.

This is wrong on so many levels.

1. "Qualified" supply means experience. That means you arent hiring 22yos working at subsistence salaries shacking up with three buddies in a double-bunk apartment. It means you have to pay a "qualified person salary." I'm a qualified person, I have 18yrs experience at top firms. But guess what...175k/yr in SF/SV doesnt cut it, it gets you a 1br apt. You cant raise 2 kids in a 1br apartment. Where would the kids sleep? in the bathroom? on the dining table? Also, option compensation doesnt count, as I cant pay rent with options.

2. If you want "qualified talent" perhaps SF/SV would not age discriminate. But they do. They want young people willing to earn so little they are forced into having 3 roommates.

3. There are tons of qualified workers. Most of us dont want to move to SF/SV because the prevailing wage is too low. Pay the right wage (i.e., perhaps something that one can raise a family on) and your "shortage will magically disappear.

>> Qualified supply is nowhere close to matching demand.

I think what this typically means is: we're looking for talented developers willing to earn so littler they are forced to bunk with multiple roommates and/or live in roach infested apartments, something only desperate overseas workers are willing to do.
Even refuse to make money from them!
Here is an example from their docs...

"The remote launch feature enables task-oriented user experiences; a user can start a task on one device and finish it on another. For example, if the user is listening to music on their phone in their car, they could then hand playback functionality over to their Xbox One when they arrive at home. Remote launch allows apps to pass contextual data to the remote app being launched, in order to pick up where the task was left off."
> Would you rather have three engineers with an undergrad degree or one with a master's? Where do you draw the line?

We are comparing 1 to 1, not 3 to 1.

In the context of this conversation, we are taking about whether it is a bad thing for someone with more education to receive priority access to the H1B visa.

And my opinion is that this is at worst a neutral thing.

The person I was responding to thinks that giving masters students priority is somehow negative.

In order for it to be negative, he would have to prove that these masters students are somehow worse, on average, than the non-masters students.
Not sure if you're already aware, but tracker keyboard shortcuts for note entry typically mimic a piano keyboard:

2 3 5 6 7
q w e r t y u, etc.

I thought this was pretty slick when I first encountered it.
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Ruby is Perl and Lisp inspired from start.

Python sacrifices flexibility for consistency. Like Java but with duck typing.
I initially thought this as well, but it turns out that the reverse thrust is actually made of bypass air in most engines
The two-hour edit window and rapid falloff on HN are two of my least-favorite aspects of discussion on this site. It is almost a daily occurence I'll come across something interesting here, get ready to type a contribution to the conversation, then realize that it's too late, and it won't be read. It is a little demoralizing.

I'm sure this approach also eases the moderation burden, and I'm pretty impressed overall with how dang handles things. So maybe it is a simple workload necessity. It does strike me that HN could be quite a bit more if these two restrictions were loosed.
The disregard for security is so bad, I was actually surprised. How does India, a giant in terms of providing technology and tech workers have such bad standards?

And I quote: "The passwordless database allowed us to see all of the text messages going to customers in real time, including their phone numbers, bank balances and recent transactions. The database also contained the customer’s partial bank account number. Some would say when a check had been cashed, and many of the bank’s sent messages included a link to download SBI’s YONO app for internet banking."

Most importantly why wasn't this tested for security purposes and instead allowed to go live with adequate QA?
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I believe IRBs are only required for federally funded research such as that performed by universities.

I’ve never heard of corporate market research being reviewed and approved by an IRB. Not sure how that would work since the board would hardly be independent anyway, but I’d guess the main reason it doesn’t happen is there is no law requiring it.
You do realize that in the post war period we were the only large economy that was relatively unscathed helping out domestic producer margins?
I think you're right. Two main reasons: the number of sites grew exponentially, and the ratio of "fun/weird" people seems higher to anyone that has been on the Internet long enough.

Why is that? Basically: because not everyone had access. So if you were there, you belonged to some sort of minority (privileged artsy, IT student, etc).

The Internet nowadays is a commonplace thing. Billions more are online. It's not surprising that the stuff you used to trip over everywhere is now not as prominent - that just reflects the ratio of like-minded individuals in the real world better.

But that doesn't mean weird/funny doesn't exist anymore. It just means that - just like in the real world - you'll need to know where to go to find it.
Beyond that, to imagine that maintaining a medium sized farm or ranch isn't a skilled position is pure ignorance. There is a reason why a bunch of schools in the midwest were called agricultural schools.

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

And its not just the owners, it goes right down to a lot of the year round labor.
Though Google is in the tracking business, the increasing lack of diversity in social media platforms is highly disturbing. Now Facebook (with all its platforms) is the biggest, and the next is...who? Probably a limited service with a single digit share? When companies with so much money fail miserably (and put up with lousy decisions that were known soon after the decisions were acted upon), everyone loses. Way too much hubris is one reason for this, and Google seems to have that in many pockets in the organization, going by how many services it has killed in the past.
I dunno, there's plenty of twitter that is just plain weird. Full of bizarre dadaist humor and all sorts of super referential jokes that require like a bibliography unless you are up to speed in the relevant sub-communities where the original jokes circulated.
GDP per capita is $59,531. So .1-.3% of that is $60-179. For every man, woman, and child in the United States. $19-58 billion per year. This is value created, money from thin air, you don't have to tax anyone to give $120 to everyone in the United States every single year.

If you know something else that good, you should let us all know. Economists and policy makers scrounge around for stuff that's not a tenth as good as that. 333-1000 things this size make up every single dollar anyone in the United States has ever had. That's all the light bulbs, car makers, services and food you've ever seen.

GDP is the perfect thing to look at, it's our national income.
Writing a .mod player is a fun recreational programming project. I kind of want to get an Amiga so I can hear the sound of the Paula chip doing resampling by changing the audio clock rate instead of my PC doing digital resampling to 48kHz.
If the function could move overseas, it would have. Why assume companies are acting irrationally and paying higher US wages when they can hire inexpensively overseas? Companies hire locally because many jobs cant be moved overseas cost effectively.
Funnily enough there's an old Soviet joke about this.

Caller to Radio Yerevan: Comrades what is the difference between the constitution of the US and that of the USSR? Both support freedom of speech and assembly.

Radio Yeravan: In principle nothing comrade. In practice the US constitution guarantees freedom after speech and assembly.
Donate 100k to an open source project so they can fund a developer to work full time on it for a year.
Someone doesn't want to profit off of something that they feel is against their own moral code and that becomes "everything that is wrong with American politics"? Wow.

So am I to believe you have no concerns with how anything you create is used?
You can give priority to people who have integrated into the society in several other, more obvious ways. In this case, they are making the explicit argument that they want "more skilled" workers, and using a US-based degree as the criteria. If they had a points system, and a Masters degree would get you X points, and every year spent in US would give you additional Y points, then this would make sense.
Isn't Facebook just a form of microblogging?
The cynic in me believes this is the real reason. Use foreign students to fund US universities in the name of immigration.
The shows named in the article are for entertainment, not information (that's why they need collaborative editing so much - because most of what they're doing is "punching it up" not fact-checking or adding additional factual information). News just happens to be the topic they're riffing on. Jon Stewart admitted as much on Crossfire in 2004, and just last Saturday Night, Michael Che said basically the same thing on Weekend Update while taking down Buzzfeed's latest missteps.

Of course there is also a lot of mainstream media (that does purport to be serious news) that is slanted and biased to the point that much of it is misinformation and propaganda and there isn't a whole lot of value. But the comedy news shows are explicitly that - comedy. And at this point, it's rote, saccharine, safe, and played out.

Unlike Infowars, which is hilarious and subversive and dangerous all at the same time.
See comment by @askmike, this is not innovation, this is bullshit. And maybe even deceptive because they took the name "WBTC" to mimic "WETH", however, the latter is truly decentralized and trustless, while the former is not.
Everything about this story is heartbreaking.
If we want stuff to be made in America instead of China, we should increase the number of skilled immigrants allowed in.
The longer you work with a big company, the more you develop habits and luxuries that make a startup harder. Money isn't even the bottleneck most of the time. Hunger helps more.

Big companies don't necessarily pay well in the short run either. It's a longer game.

Your best shot might be joining a mid stage startup (Series B and above). They have the money to pay quite well. Or even something late stage like Uber and Dropbox, but these often lose their startup culture.

Go somewhere with a real risk of falling apart.
The population grew from 179M to 281M so the workforce didn’t really double. More like a 50% increase
Yes, this is right. Large increases in the workforce have increased the supply, reducing real wage growth, household earning has grown by adding a second earner. More work is getting done to get the same economic outcome. Put one way, this is terrible for wage earners, out another it is excellent for spenders since the thing you can buy have gotten cheaper through plentiful labor.
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>> The United States has the worst education system known to science. Our graduates compete regularly at the level of third world countries

This has been debunked so many times. Even if you take the data at face value, this statement cannot be backed up. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/us-students-are-laggi...

Yes, we are behind a lot of countries. A lot of (VERY) small and (VERY) wealthy European countries for the most part, but also a handful of small Asian countries. But wait, we are ahead of Sweden in science? Is Sweden in the middle of some kind of crisis in their inability to educate their children? What about Norway and Denmark? What about Belgium and Austria and France? They all score about the same as the US in science, are they producing a "generation of dummy"?

What about this: https://jakubmarian.com/map-of-the-results-of-pisa-student-a...

If you don't just include the rich countries, Europe is doing terribly compared to the US. Of course when the US average is calculated, they don't just take the scores from the rich states separately.
>> Even with H1B, there are literally not enough engineers in the Valley to saturate the demand from companies.

By "not enough engineers" I'm assuming you mean not enough engineers willing to work for so little they are forced to bunk with 3 roommates?

I know plenty of engineers. Most dont want to work as SWEs because the median salary barely affords a studio apartment, especially after California taxes.

Also, what about the 40+yr olds who are oddly purged from the workforce regularly. If there were a shortage, elderly workers would be retained, not purged in favor of cheaper, younger workers.

Tons of engineers go into consulting, real estate, finance, etc because engineers simply dont make enough, especially given the SF/SV center-of-gravity of jobs. There isnt some magical shortage of workers. There is a shortage of workers willing to work for near subsistence wages [in SF/SV prices]
Twitter, surely?
The real tragedy is that g+ wrecked Google. It was a nice place to work that I was proud of. They got scared of Facebook and threw out reason, taste, common sense, and ethics in an incompetent desperate rush to win Social. It was deeply saddening to watch it happen. Now the parasite is gone but too late for the host.
I just answered this elsewhere as well. This reasoning would make sense if that's what they said. But the explicit reason for the changes is to get more "skilled" workers in. Then, it should not matter if the degree was from US or Europe or China. I would have accepted this reason if they had separate weightage for "How long the person spent time in the US". This particular formulation puts a graduate from Europe at a disadvantage, for example.
>Wage trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of that group by at least 3 percent. Even after the economy has fully adjusted, those skill groups that received the most immigrants will still offer lower pay relative to those that received fewer immigrants.

>Immigration redistributes wealth from those who compete with immigrants to those who use immigrants—from the employee to the employer. And the additional profits are so large that the economic pie accruing to all natives actually grows... But behind that calculation is a much larger shift from one group of Americans to another: The total wealth redistribution from the native losers to the native winners is enormous, roughly a half-trillion dollars a year. Immigrants, too, gain substantially; their total earnings far exceed what their income would have been had they not migrated.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinto...

Unless you're an immigrant or high up in tech business why would you cheer more high-skill immigrants? It will depress your wages and the economic gains will not accrue to you.
Personally I find that Google is great for "social knowledge" like the examples above, but for work related troubleshooting/documentation/error codes/etc duck duck go brings me better results.

If I'm searching for a place to eat near my house I use google, if I'm searching for WSUS error code 0X8024401C I use DDG
Facebook has a lot to answer for and those answers haven't been forthcoming yet.
define high-skilled workers.
Currently an steven's institute graduate cs master could get a h1b visa by lottery while a Harvard graduate might not be that lucky.
Consider this, is knowing how to use kubernetes anything harder than working in a Physics Lab? The system is flawed~~
This sorta reminds me of the stories of homeless people committing minor crimes to get off the street during bad winter weather.
How do you feel about the broader high skilled worker market? I'm not personally familiar with it, but the internet™ makes it sound pretty abysmal. Low wages for most science careers, horrible working conditions and pay for graduate positions, professorships replaced by adjunct positions, fewer and fewer tenure track positions offered. It appears as though the high skilled worker market has really taken it in the pants the past few decades.
You could also ask if someone has an agenda for nytimes.com. This is the 21st article posted to them in 24 hours.
It also had some very opaque errors that never were resolved, suffering from the same lack of customer support Google is well-known for. At one point I tried setting up a business page on it, but something in the verification got “stuck” causing most actions to edit anything to error out with no recourse.
SIDE NOTE: I miss watching college debates!

If your ideas or views are so weak/undebatable you fear and quickly move to censor and silence any differing view or opinion that's pathetic. Reminds me of a little kid "I'm right, you're wrong, and now I'm gonna punch you!"

Do they still have college debates or have those been labeled archaic, hurtful, and unnecessary? lol
Wouldn't everyone become a founder then?
Back up. You cite Japan as a strict immigration program (they have no caps, quotas and are actively recruiting foreigners and changing laws to make immigration more attractive), China (a totalitarian ethnostate actively placing a portion of the population in labor camps), South Africa (struggling with the fallout of apartheid) and Korea (I don’t know enough to comment) as your prime examples of tough immigration policy being ... what exactly? I don’t want Japan’s system for America, I want Canada’s - largely merit based, quick, efficient and open to anyone skilled, while still open to refugees and people in need. That’s how economies grow.
>> They aren't competitors, they are complements and create more jobs.

We've had the H1B program for 25+yrs. We accept 65+20k workers a year. That is 8520+ workers who have entered the country on this program. Lets round down and say 2million workers. These are 2million jobs that didn't go to local graduates, but instead to overseas graduates.

Of those 2 million workers, could anyone cite any significant companies started by the H1b workers which created jobs?* I mean, not a dozen jobs here or there, but serious job creation that would offset the 2 million local workers who were displaced?

There is this myth that H1b workers create more jobs than they take, but where are these jobs?
Oh, please dont mention Google or Tesla, as those founders didnt come in on H1bs.
(Rant)

Yeah, no. I don’t “fear and dislike the open exchange of ideas.” I’m tired of the (primarily online!) assumption that all opinions are equally worthy of my time, and I’m especially tired of being accused of being anti-free-speech for daring to decide who gets to occupy my relatively limited attention.

Whether free societies are durable is immaterial. They are good because they embody principles of agency and autonomy for all involved. Those principles entail both my right to ignore bad opinions, and my moral obligation to not lend credence to views that would undermine the system itself.
Good discussion. The arguments that because humans can do it with two eyes any approach using more than cameras is wrong frustrate me to no end. Technology and engineering isn't about imagining the minimum theoretical requirements, it's about building stuff that works with what is available. People can navigate cross country without gps, but it's not wrong to put gps in cars.

It seems like the teams working on autonomous vehicles need all the crutches they can get, and it seems like a good idea to lean on superhuman sensors to make up for subhuman "cognition."

I do wish, though, that people would stop equating all radar with the adaptive cruise control style radar - imaging radars are a thing that exist, and can be competitive with lidar.
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I kinda agree but it also depends on the jail. I imagine Japanese jails are nice, esp for small crimes.

I’ve seen Nordik jails in a documentary and I’d totally pick that over many other places to live, if I was not able to afford living.
Cody's Lab has frequently had to remove science videos because some idiot complains about him mining a mine on his parent's ranch. Adam Neely had one of his jazz performances complained on because it sounded so much like the original (uncopyrighted) work, the the detection algorithm thought it was someone else's copyrighted work. I can't imagine how much $ Google is making off these two guys, you think once you reach a million subs there would be a direct line to customer service to clear up any mistakes.
It's not productive because it doesn't matter how much you're right and they're wrong. Yes, mainstream Conservatives and the GOP are anti-science. If they deny it and you try to argue, what is the point? What are you going to achieve by arguing with them about what side is worse?

You should be focusing on how to reduce GOP political power. How can we actually get people elected who won't be anti-intellectual? How can we turn out more voters? How can we elect people who aren't corporate stooges?

Another route: think about how you can better communicate with Republican voters that the Democratic party better represents their interests than the GOP. You definitely aren't winning their votes by telling them that they're the whole problem.
Overstrike makes ASCII the first multi-byte encoding of an internationalized character set (for the Latin family of scripts anyways).

I'm not kidding. The ASCII character set was actually designed to permit overstriking to yield a variety of characters such as, e.g., &aacute;. But of course, this follows from the fact that the typefaces used in typewriters were so designed. Historically that is how people wrote characters like &aacute; and &ccedil; back in the age of typewriters. This is also why Spanish rules made accents on capital letters optional: it wasn't easy to typeset those on typewriters.

The way to encode &aacute;, then, was: a BS ' (a, backspace, apostrophe).

Do I have sources for this? I've lost track of them, and I'm not going to look just now...
There are negative aspects to it, to be sure. Some people get addicted. Some believe everything they read online. Some post embarrassing stuff that undoes their lives, etc. There's also a lot of tracking and data mining by FB done outside FB (I have no problem if they track everything in their own products).

But my point is orthogonal to that. My point is FB is alive and well, and the recent scandals, as damaging as they seemed PR-wise, have done basically nothing to it.
Years down the line, a brand of self driving cars will market themselves as the safest care you can buy, exactly because they prioritize the occupants of the car.

At some point it will have to be regulated.
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This is also why we should abolish federal and state minimum wage laws. Gotta support those marginal businesses!
> The main point of my comment is that when economists spend 10 years looking at data and arguing out every detail, they conclude that immigration is increasing jobs and increasing wages.

Economists look at the past and extrapolate into future, often with really poor results. With increasing amount of automation, software development is probably safe from paradigm change for a short while. Given that, it is always risky to claim that immigration will increase jobs and wages in the next decade, because it did so in the previous one.
Actually it says the 20,000 is only for Master/PhDs, so this could reduce the total number of H1Bs issued if there are fewer than 20,000 Master/PhD applicants. Otherwise the effect is more Master/PhD H1Bs and fewer others.
Or maybe G#?