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In fact parent was making claims about the extra markup required for a traditional dealership to make a profit on EVs. This expense doesn't magically disappear on a Tesla, unless their dealerships are more efficient.

Feel free to argue with my prisoner's dilemma point earlier in the thread if you want, which is in my view how this will play out. I've already agreed that what you're describing is an issue (and am at a loss why you took the time to write it out), I'm merely asserting that it's not going to spell the end of a quarter trillion dollars worth of wealth.
VW's car platform play to kill of Tesla
YNAB is fantastic for this.
FWIW I became $500k richer this year and my happiness has not changed a bit. Same highish functioning depression.

But purely see money as something that gives you options to do more things, not as something that allows me to buy a yacht, car, or McMansion. But I suffer from the paradox of choice and get anxious over feeling like I'm not making the right choices.
I think when you're contesting a well known economic principle (increased supply tends to decrease prices given equal demand) the impetus is on you to prove the claim.

That said, this would be difficult to demonstrate with data because the effect manifests as salaries growing slower than they would without H1Bs. Obviously, there are a million other variables involved, so without some kind of controlled study it's unlikely anybody can be more specific than "increased labor supply decreases wages".
Alan Greenspan
Former Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States, is a life long devotee. He had great influence over the economy from 1987 to 2006. A period that saw a great market boom and collapse.
Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff
Wow, I’m not sure what world you live in but it’s certainly not over here with the rest of us. Anyone can claim asylum even you, so long as you can demonstrate credible fear and hardship in your home country in an immigration court (a process endorsed by the United Nations) and has nothing to do with flipping over a fence. Then you get a green card and wait 5 years for citizenship.

Birthing children is no easy path to citizenship, you have to be here, birth your child for the low average price of $32,000 then your child gets citizenship — not you - and has to wait until they’re an adult so they can sponsor you for a green card which is when your 5 year clock starts, so sure, squeeze out a baby who moves to America and a mere 27 years later, problem solved. The whole interim period paying US taxes - and then for the rest of their natural lives - no matter where on earth they live. EASY.

I’m not pro jus soli for what it’s worth, but your arguments are just flat out wrong.
I find integrating a new API into an existing app fun. It allows me to learn something new while adding more functionality into software I'm already vested in.
There’s a huge difference between stating my personal opinion and making factual claims. My opinion is that more diversity is good and makes the world better.

Also:
> I’m not against any color but...

lol.
Also, don't forget this is something that they tend to do (see the Confucius Institute), have the money, and that journalism in the US is hurting for money.
Wanting control over who comes in and who goes out is not “anti-immigrant rhetoric”, If those countries had sudden surges, you’d see them change, just look at the Venezuela/Colombia border to see how a surge will change opinion anc behavior.

Chile is also cracking down on illegal entries now that they’re more prevalent. No country will have unrestricted immigration, otherwise why not form a union with neighbors?

Also my claim wasn’t false as you suggested.
The date signals that on April 1st (aka April Fool's day), Google will announce that they're resurrecting Google+
I am sure you've heard all of these but they worked for me: 1 month of doing this on the regular and I've never been more productive.

All you need is 40 hours a week of solid productive work. that's it. Get that in your head and work from this first principle.

make time for downtime - allow your mind to wonder and be bored and go off tangents sometimes. Counterintuitively, that's part of the magic. do some breathing exercises throughout the day(if you hate meditation like me lol)

Get a gym membership and do a rigorous workout 3/4 days a week.

Become friends with water: seltzer, regular, fruit-infused, tea, it doesn't matter. drink lots of it. It'll have 2 main effects: keeps you hydrated of course(with the many benefits) and it makes you get up every few hours to go on a break.
Agreed! 100%. What level of math is required for the LFD course?
Facebook does have this functionality. If you're willing to use Facebook.
Reducing the pain of developing apps
They’d only sort of be competitors if they are unwilling to sell to each other’s customers.
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Software engineers are being hired at much higher rates than any other profession in the US and that has been going up for decades.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
Pooling risk disincentivizes people from making the changes they need to be healthier. And people not bearing the full cost of their decisions makes it easier for them to displace the negative consequences of their choices on others.

I bust my hump in the gym a few days every week because I want to age well - I make an effort to eat healthy food and now I gotta pay for an cookie addict who would rather slurp down medication than make lifestyle changes? Screw that.

I made my choices, I can live with them. Others make their choices, they get to live with their choices. If they get to take good stuff from me to support their bad choices, I expect some reciprocation.
They probably had a lot to untangle from their systems after they tried to make it the company's sole focus.
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Zuckerberg says merging WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger will improve security
A dead language is one nobody speaks. There are still some of us on Google+, so no it's not dead yet.

I don't really get this attitude. If a web forum that most people haven't heard of with ~100 users shut down, it would still be sad for those users.
Use YNAB.

The blogs are fantastic. It's an electronic equivalent of making envelopes and putting cash into them

It's important that you work out roughly how much you're expecting for the month and you budget every dollar that you're expecting. 'Every dollar has a job'.

I budget all my yearly expenses. Place money aside every month for those, think license renewals, car registration, car insurance, rainy day funds. These are almost always direct debits. Car serving. Home maintenance and the like. Now it's important to state here that it's ok to not budget the exact value you're expecting for car serving, house maintenance and the like. But it's important to have cash put aside every month to contribute to those expenses if they're a lot greater than expected if you have a water leak or a break down in your as an example.

I then budget my monthly expenses which are groceries, new clothes, Netflix & Spotify subscriptions. Eating out\going out for drinks. Debt payments too.

I put 10-20% of my money away as savings. Anything left over goes into a seperate savings account for emergencies/rainy days.
The vast majority of web sites don't need mousemove events except to enable bad UI design. The exceptions that are trying to implement a desktop app or video game inside the browser can ask for permission. It's not at all hard for users to make the one or two clicks necessary to grant a domain permission to use the bundle of advanced features it is requesting, and it gives them a reasonable opportunity to provide informed consent before a website starts monitoring their every move.
It seems to praise Chinese government.
I agree that the split was for a dumb reason (however it was inevitable with the prior issues) but that's why I listed both sites. Besides that though, communities split all the time and often for dumb reasons.

Also, on your comment that it's just a cyberpunk focused /g/, well ya that's kind of the point. It's a cyberpunk board. It's centred around a lot of the themes from its namesake. As for the value of the threads on /λ/, most of them are either fairly focused discussions of various topics in Computer Science or language discussions. There's obviously some noise in the posts but the moderation results in fairly reasonable quality levels compared to the larger chans.

As for your final comment, I respectfully disagree. It's not for everyone but that's expected.

Also in case there was a misconception, I am not threwawasy1228 and they are not me.
Thank you for calling this out.

The best way to think about Facebook is that it is a time filler. I don't know where I read it but an average FB session lasts around 75-90 seconds. People use it when they are in a line or when they are in an elevator. It is a great way to stay in touch with what your friends are doing or communicate with them. I find it very difficult to understand what is to hate about that. Sure there is data usage with which some people are upset but you can just go ahead and disable that in settings (assuming you are comfortable with less relevant ads).

Also, it is time to #undeleteFacebook. You know you are missing it!
I wonder if Facebook may argue on what constitutes an "organization" or "consumer", because the sum of all Facebook users is clearly a something... and as much as those users consume, they are also the ones ultimately contributing to Facebook's profits... it's not so black and white after all.
From what I understand, this isn't the case on two points. One, the incentive package includes hundreds of millions in construction (road building, utilities, etc) that would otherwise be unneeded and is being paid for out of pocket by the state government instead of Foxconn. Two, because Wisconsin doesn't have a corporate income tax, the subsidies would occur in the form of cash payments to Foxconn that the Walker administration claimed would be repaid via personal income taxes on the new Foxconn workers.

And Wisconsin is on the hook for around ~$1B in cash regardless of Foxconn's actual investments.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wiscons...
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I personally wouldn’t share my emails with anyone, and would never use any service that requires sharing my inbox with it. Unsubscribing may also be a problem in some cases, especially with spam, where you signal to the spammer that you’re around just by the act of unsubscribing. So unless a service like this knows which ones are fine enough to unsubscribe from without further repercussions, it could exacerbate the problem.

Ideally I’d prefer an app that analyzes this locally and does it. Apple’s Mail.app shows unsubscribe links at the top of emails sent through lists. I haven’t used it for the reason mentioned above.

The pricing for this service seems decent enough for certain cases since it’s more of a one time use case, but some sort of combo pricing for multiple inboxes could serve those who use multiple email addresses.

Edit: jamieweb’s comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038588) here states that it supports only Gmail. Since Gmail already has unsubscription options in each email, this one seems to be doing the consolidated view and taking additional steps by sending an email. Doesn’t seem like a lot of differentiation and value add, which is something that needs to be explained on the front page.
Well - are they anti Google or anti Amazon?
The "sub-character pixels" are such a clever idea! Nice work.
The thing about Gsuite is that they're paid versions of ad-based apps. I'm skeptical that Google doesn't still "mine the hell" out of the activity in them, at most it just suppresses the ad display in certain places. To do otherwise would have Google 1) spending money on privacy features that would 2) reduce tracking-based revenue. Market-logic says they'd decide to continue to track their paid users.
No, it isn't "incorrect". Linus named it "Linux" and, by definition, that is the correct spelling, end of story. Just because you can construct some linkage to previous, related, terms and find a place where "there wasn't supposed to be an X" doesn't mean Linus was ever bound to follow their convention(s).
Talking about demand exceeding supply is somewhat nonsensical without reference to a price.

What you're saying is "at the price my company is willing to pay, we're unable to find qualified candidates." That means you can either pay more to attract qualified candidates, or do without.

Alternatively, we can raise the supply curve, which has the affect of lowering wages, and might allow your company to attract talent without paying more.
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Ah sadly it's $10K plus. At this point I'm just opening an account in Hong Kong. They do CNY conversion and wires now which is amazing.
This honestly has been true for the past 5 years! But it doesn't say anything about the same high schoolers start using FB when they come to college. These numbers which FB is showing wouldn't have been possible if people are not coming into FB at a large rate.
That's the section where they acknowledge that, yes, people lose jobs to immigrants. They go on to say that actually more people gain jobs at higher wages because of immigrants.

There's a section on high tech jobs to read too, take a look.

Most people believe that immigrants generally lower wages and take jobs. They almost never do. Economists who have done hundreds of studies on different wage markets have found that immigrants create more jobs and raise wages in most cases.

Also in the paper? "... how does immigration affect the average American?...annual economic gains to the native-born population to be between 0.1 and 0.3 percent of gross domestic product". This is an astonishingly large benefit. Some estimate that switching completely to self driving cars would add .2% to gdp a year. It's that big a gain. Almost no other policy we can think of has this great an effect. Our current gdp growth is at 2%.

It's not unusual to be wrong about this, there aren't more than 5 people at any major newspaper who understand that immigrants create jobs. 95% of news stories you have ever read get this wrong.

Add to that the media always going for max outrage, and you get stories about workers being replaced. Never stories about the workers that immigrants added.

Btw, H1-B workers are not magic, an American worker is creating complementary jobs too. This is why cities have such high wages, the high density of complementary labor.

And hey, when have you ever known software to not create the need for more software :0)
I've a daughter who is now 23. Growing up she dabbled extensively in the evolving Internet - through the transitions it has made over the last 15 years. Seeing the sites and apps that she has used over those years has, as a techie, been an oustanding experience. I say "Don't trust anyone over 25 to make the Internet fun and weird".

I've not doubt that in 15 years we will look back at the current internet as tame or simplistic - like I look back at the computers I used in the early 80s. We might still be carrying "smartphones" but I doubt it.

Lastly, I am more concerned about us users controlling the internet than I am about it being fun or weird.
I have a Facebook account, but I don't want to spam my friends and relatives with my blogging. It has to be opt-in.
There is nothing in the H1B that entitles you to a green card. You can only renew the H1B once, so after that you need to either somehow get a green card or leave the U.S.
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Ask HN: Changing jobs, what should I remember to do from day one
I've been working at my current job for over 4 years, it is/was a startup that just went bust. I am leaving for a similar company, although an established and big one.

At my current job I did one thing that I think was nice.

- I saved all screenshots I ever took (instead of dragging to Trash I simply dragged to "Work Trash"). It makes it fairly easy-ish to stroll down memory lane to see what was being worked on at any given time (almost).

At my next job I plan to do the same, with the addition of maybe write a 'job diary' with things I work on. For use in performance reviews and later job searches.

Are there anything else like this that can be helpful to do, down the road?

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Bonus question, is there anything I should do during my last week at my current job that can be useful? I've gotten signed 'he worked here' papers, but that's about it.
I created https://shadergif.com which has similar features (bonus: p5.js coding). I render gifs in the feed though, preventing most laptop crashes. We are a very tiny community now, but we have fun! (like 3 actually active monthly users)
I don't think so. Mount Pleasant wasn't the only city being considered, and it was all behind closed doors until it was a sure deal. We don't hear about the headlines for the cities that were passed over in this instance.
>Even with H1B, there are literally not enough engineers in the Valley to saturate the demand from companies.

Why is this? This sounds like a huge U.S. talent development problem. How does this visa change help to fix this issue?

>I can’t find any to prove that H1Bs are dragging down salaries.

The very fact that the number of employed software engineers is expected to go up by 24% in a single year is the evidence you're looking for that there is a massive supply distortion in the labor market.
Software engineering isn’t most professions. Salaries have been going up more than a decade accounting for inflation.

If 10 million software engineers dropped in Silicon Valley, a lot of things would happen (for one there’s nowhere for them to live). But that’s not what’s happening.
That's precisely what TestFlight is for. Internal use, testing, and production each have their avenues: Enterprise certificate, testflight, and app store
Fun thought experiment is to think what would happen if you told ____s to replace ____s.

What would happen if you took programmers and told them to fill the roles of teachers?

What would happen if you took teachers and told them to replace programmers?

What would happen if you took policemen and told them to manage portfolios?

What would happen if you took nurses and told them to replace lawyers?

In some cases, everything would grind to a halt. In others, things would rattle on but perhaps in a suboptimal manner.

I suppose there's a few variables like training time, and whether a job has some sort of 'coasting' option, eg. portfolio managers could just buy the index and come out OK.
> You might be able to say something similar about health insurance and sedentary smokers vs. runners. If an extra hour of work is less economically valuable than a gym visit, the incentive structure should reflect that.

If someone gets sick and thus becomes sedentary due to their illness now you’d be effectively discriminating against them due to their preexisting illness because they can’t go be a marathon runner.

So we better create a rule that somehow excludes ill people from being discrimated against like this. Oh and then we’ll force the sick person to go through a hellish process to prove it too. Etc.

Wrt health insurance we should just get off that train. It only leads to a worse and worse place.
I like the forwarding idea, not only because of privacy issues but also because I can easily forward emails from account types they don't support.
This is addressed in the article. Your answer is one click away.
An American getting struck by lightning might be on the order of a one-in-a-million annual risk, but it's still a really bad thing if it happens TO YOU, so it's sensible we minimize our risk by choosing not to go out on golf courses during thunderstorms or choosing to install lightning rods on church towers. (The low mathematical risk already prices in the fact that we take such measures - the risk level would be much higher if we didn't!)

Getting falsely accused of sexual impropriety may be a low risk (whatever the base rate might be), but it's still really bad if it happens TO YOU so it's sensible that we minimize our personal risk with relatively low-cost policies such as the Pence Rule. (Once again, the low risk already prices in the fact that some take some such measures - the risk would be much higher if they didn't.)

Terrorist attack basically doesn't ever happen (statistically speaking) while our attempts to prevent it via mechanisms like the TSA are absurdly costly to the point of sheer idiocy, but cheaper simpler policies like "don't swim where there have been recent shark sightings", "don't carry metal golf clubs around in a thunderstorm" and "don't put yourself at undue risk of false gossip or malicious attack" seem basically sensible and proportionate to the risk being addressed.
i'm sorry but this comment reads like a puff piece. the red flag for me was when you simultaneously claimed that economics is complicated and then almost immediately... make an economic claim?

look, i get that you want to signal positive sentiment towards immigrants. that's great. but it's not at all clear what you're saying is true - one would need to factor in inflation, minimum wage growth, purchasing power, and things of that nature.

there's also the other (darker?) side of the coin, which indicates that in the US, there isn't nearly enough opportunity for US citizens to bridge the gap between where they are and to get prepared for these jobs. that's a black eye on our education system mostly, but it should be emphasized every time something like this is under discussion - given the incredible demand for these roles and the incredible amount of people not in the labor force who actually want a job, we really, really ought to be focusing on education here so as to fill these roles with US citizens.
Does someone have an agenda against Facebook on HN? I see four stories a day on the front page.
Chili sounds spicy.

I’m not pro jus soli but to characterize birth tourism as a big problem is crazy. A conservative think tank estimated it at 40,000 births per year out of 4.3 million (0.9%) — the average delivery costs $32,000 for an economic benefit of $1.28B per year. Then those poor kids are going to have to pay US income taxes for the rest of their natural lives no matter where they live. We can expect the first 18 years to be abroad since their parents don’t get citizenship and the US has effectively zero social safety net anyways. What’s the big deal?
> Also, “not finitely axiomatizable” doesn’t mean “having infinitely many truths in the (?) model”. Not sure what you meant by that.

If you take all truths in the standard model of arithmetic, and make them your axioms you'll get a complete and consistent system with infinitely many axioms, and an extension of Q.

If one uses Roser's trick, Godel says a system cannot be all of these at the same time:

* a conservative extension of Q ("minimal amount of arithmetic")

* finitely axiomatizable

* complete

* consistent

It is ok to have any <=3 of these 4.

Note that PA is a conservative extension of Q. So you can replace Q with PA above.

Godel's original proof doesn't generalize this much but using Roser's trick Godel immediately implies this.
> If a web forum that most people haven't heard of with ~100 users shut down, it would still be sad for those users.

I agree. I was really referring to G+ being even a remote competitor to FB, which it never was. It is definitely a loss to see it go, but not unexpected.
https://www.axios.com/immigration-h-1b-dhs-foreign-workers-f...
The haproxy method doesn't rely on DNS at all so I'm a bit confused.
I was never really sure what they were trying to do with marketing it, the feature set, or the vanilla design. Pretty sure my first and only post on there was "RIP Google+ 2011-2011"