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Yes, there is a trivial fix for this: Remove H-1B visas entirely.

H-1B visas lower employee power in the hiring arrangement, forcing potential candidates to accept lower wages by allowing companies to retain existing H-1B workers indefinitely without wage adjustments. Lowering the ability for a class of workers to advocate for themselves lowers the ability for all workers in that field to advocate for themselves by removing a subset of those workers' bargaining power.

In all honesty, H-1B visas mostly seem to fit into society as a way to outsource without looking like you're doing so - I'd rather companies outsource as they desire (and feel the penalties of doing so) or be forced to hire from a pool of candidates who were able to legally immigrate into the US. If the pool of candidates available in the US is too low then we should relax quota laws and let more people immigrate.

Done.

And there is no political will because a lot of companies make tons of money off of exploiting workers who have two options (1) continue working for the company and accrue no or very few benefits over time (2) quit and be deported. Giving your employees a choice like that makes all the worst people in management salivate... thus no one lobbies to remove H-1B visas, many people lobby to maintain or expand this "source of skilled labour" and politicians see no reason to take a stand on an issue that gets very little time in the spotlight and would cost them big in terms of donations.
I agree completely, though I wonder why do-not-call even needs to be a thing here. These spammers are calling repeatedly for the sole purpose of committing fraud¹. Fraud, normally, is illegal. Why do phones need special legislation here?

¹The factory warranty on my vehicle is going to expire? I don't have a vehicle with an expiring warranty. "This is your final notice" how I wish those words would be true. Or my "medical-grade knee brace" that I supposedly wear. Or the interest rate I could get on the CC I don't have.
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The capital spending is mostly for data centers and not opening engineering offices
Thanks! Initially, I thought about just generating a big batch and cycling through it. Then I thought it would be more dramatic if the machine was "dreaming" up a face every 2 seconds in real time. I went for the dramatic approach just so I could phrase it that way to my non-tech friends!
Actual title is "Going to Work in Mommy's Basement".

Wanders from Roosh V to Damore to "gendered technologies", without really making a point. Saved you a click.
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To combat the case presented in the article, I think you'd also need to cap applications at a relatively low percentage of workforce to prevent the flood effect rather than just capping the number of H-1B holders.
TL;DR: we don't understand genetics well enough to make definite statements about the degree to which genes determine phenotypes, how this happens, how malleable or environmentally influence-able it is, etc. As a result we should not dogmatize statistical inferences from genomics and heritability studies, especially if such dogmas influence policy or prejudice.

I studied genetics quite extensively and none of that is news to me at all. Dogmatic genetic determinism is Dunning-Krueger effect territory, not because it's impossible but because we don't know enough to be certain enough about it to make it useful. Trying to assert otherwise is wishful thinking, usually by people who really wish there were a way to make scientifically credible assertions about the value of human beings based on their genetic lineage (hint hint).

The best way I can describe what seems to be happening with genes and development is that it's something loosely analogous to procedural world generation in games. You have this genetically encoded series of very complex chemical structures that when embodied in a given environment and "executed" via energetic processes generate a phenotype. The phenotype is the product of a set of genes embodied in an environment. Beyond protein structure genes do not contain any kind of "blueprint" for anything any more than e.g. a fractal equation actually contains its complete output. The blueprint analogy is even wishy washy in terms of direct protein structures due to things like RNA transformations, epigenetics, proteins influencing how other proteins form, etc.
Well, it punishes bots in an equal amount, in that the bots have to wait longer before they can retry.
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> Is just a Javascript API that gives you a score

Yes, this is the worst of them all, as it will completely lock me out of websites that use it.
Yes, it's been posited right here on HN years ago that GCP could dwarf their existing ad business and that gets clearer by the day. However the vision and momentum just doesn't match the opportunity.

It's especially strange that Amazon is now getting in the advertising business and is very quickly (in less than 2 years) posing a serious threat to some of Google's ad products.
> For this reason, these laws, and their advocates both, are extremely evil entities.

That's some nice alliteration you've got there, but I'm still of the opinion that you are responsible for what goes on your website. I run a blog just like the author does, but I unlike him I am not flippant about legislation designed to protect my readers' privacy. Since it's my website, I can ensure that I don't run cookies at all, which means I don't have to hire "lawyers and tech experts". And finally, I'm pretty sure the comment was automatically flagged due to its tone and the fact that the account was new.
That, too, is a form of visionary leadership. He is protecting a bubble of chaos in which creative ferment can occur, by refusing to let outside forces impose too much order on it. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on whether the bubble of chaos in question is working for you or not.
As an H1-B visa holder, on EB2 green card queue for 7 years, and in the US for over 12 years, working for a FAANG in the Valley, make a ton of money, I must say it is kind of grinding reading repeated headlines (in HN and elsewhere) about how I am the enemy of the American worker.
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At minimum, they should outlaw global outsourcing companies. They take an inordinate cut from the employee's paycheck for the entire employment period and provide little benefit to either the company trying to hire or the worker being hired.

They're glorified recruiters with a foothold in a buyers market, and the H1B system gives them anti-competitive leverage.

This whole system of tiered second-class employment creates a slew of perverse incentives. The whole thing should be abolished in favor of clear citizenship pathways and strict visa-blind labor rights across the board.
The aerodynamics, what parent was talking about, were why I said there would need to be a cover.
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Used to be: indeed.com/jobtrends
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What's really interesting is that even plants have more awareness of the world around them than we like to give them credit for. So if we are to assume that plants can suffer similarly to how we do, how does that change our relationship to them?

If you extend the concept further and just assume that everything has some experience of reality, whether you can relate to it or not, what does that tell us about how we ought to behave?
I get that, but there are rules governing that on other mediums. There are specifics to every distribution channel that change how something like this occurs and the impact it has. Social media currently has 0 accountability or oversight.
Woof. I didn't even notice the "for sale" part at first. That's probably the biggest red flag. You should never sell a backdoor into thousands of codebases to the highest bidder.

Of course, the real problem is thousands of codebases shouldn't be banking on the honor system for stuff like this.
I think the closer you are to the actual killing of animals, the more you tend to revere them, if anything.

From my viewpoint, our current views on the killing of animals are as much a reflection of our cultural fear of death as anything.

Death used to be an ever-present part of life. Killing an animal was viewed as taking the life of something else to prolong your own. And all to often, people would die in horrific ways anyway.

Now, death is a thing we try to hide away and not talk about. So we also hide away the killing of animals for meat. Death is a taboo in our society in some ways.
'Jesus Camp' doesn't have any narration, it only shows a glimpse of the religious kids camps. It's completely left up to the viewer to think the the camps are crazy or awesome. It's brilliantly done.

I don't remember if there was narration or not, but 'Word Wars', about competitive Scrabble, doesn't take a side (there's no side to take, really). It simply shows the competitors and the kind of zany world they live in.
This is what I’m increasingly going through with apple’s Touch Bar. Half the time I’m accidentally hitting it when I don’t mean to, and the other half of the time I have to look down, as a touch typist, to find the “button” I want.
> So this designer set out to solve the problem, taking cues from modern consumer apps.

The problem is, the arrogance of the designer. Who would ever redo something without talking to the user?
To white Americans, white Americans are normal people. It is unremarkable when they play any role.

I’m sure China features plenty of movies featuring evil Chinese people.
We're talking about federal taxes exclusively
> Only one thing, please do not call yourself a programmer, because a programmer is an engineer.

No, programmers are not engineers, generally, even if it became trendy around the late-90s dotcom boom to give every programming and programming-adjacent job in private industry (government didn't really join this trend) an “engineer” title.
It's used for a number of other things, from proof of control for cert issuers to information for OIDC. One of its main advantages is that it's self-describing. That is, it's a well-known place to put this sort of metadata about a site.
3m votes out of XXXm is not much to show for 2x spending. Secondly, both candidates spent their efforts where things were tight, not where the most voters were. Hillary's 2x spending advantage failed there, where it counted.
Yes, reading manual submissions is almost certainly algorithmically scanned, validated, and scaled.

If an outsider like yourself could see 'the technical details' then it would be too easy to game results, like you were already complaining about in another comment.
Staffing companies should not be able to bring people. Only direct hires. This will fix H1 and will not require increasing cap and such.
I've wished we had this same concept of OS-provided base layer in other areas as well, where your app provides plugins that could be enabled in the core app. It came to my mind when Apple released their share extension method.

Maps: I use a few apps whose sole purpose is to provide location-based info (eg we have a govt app that gives fuel prices). This could just be a plugin layer that could be enabled in the Maps app. Property searches, your favourite fast food place, etc.

Camera: plugins could provide more effects or manual camera settings control UI, or indeed... AR overlays.
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Asking for an example isn't trolling, and claiming otherwise is uncivil.
> My facebook career

Interesting interview process!
Maybe "undefined"/"undetermined"?
I wasn't attempting to argue the OP's point, merely answering the question posed: "what [is the] value [of randomizing your integer keys] in cases where you know you don't have collisions."
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Unrelated to the article, I'm seeing a lot of material from habr.com making it to the front page. Most of these articles are direct translation from posts from the main Russian-language site, which I've found to be an excellent-quality blog aggregator with really interesting long-form articles. Many articles are posted directly to Habr by large Russian tech firms (Yandex, Vkontakte) or firms with a lot of Russian-speaking developers (Badoo). There are also translations of many popular blog posts that make it to the top of Hacker News, and high quality discussion in general. I read Russian with difficulty, but Google-translating or finding the original linked article in the case of translations works very well. I don't know of a similar tech-focused English-language platform (Medium focuses on all sorts of topics, and is getting scummy, and Slashdot/Hacker News/Reddit are not platforms for long-form content). I wish there were an English language equivalent. Maybe habr.com will accomplish it, but with it's mostly-in-translation articles, I don't know.

I am a little annoyed that habr.com now directs to the English site for me by inferring my geo/browser language, but the Russian language content is accessible at https://habr.com/ru/
Setting aside everything racial, do you know @ZijianHe personally, or was he simply the highest bidder? That's what this all comes down to. Thousands of people (apparently) put trust in you not to backdoor their codebases, and if you simply sold that vector to a random person, that's at best a hugely irresponsible decision.
H1 does not lower employee power. I came on H1, got laid off within one year and then had to change companies again in 6 months. I could do it just fine.
Significant changes since this article was published:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/20/big-american-tech-companies-...

> Four U.S. tech companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Intel and Google — were among the top 10 employers for approved H-1B applications in FY 2017,

> The top seven Indian technology companies were given a total of 8,468 H-1B visas in FY 2017 .. a massive drop from FY 2015, when these companies got 14,792 H-1B visas. One of the largest Indian outsourcing firms, Infosys, saw a 49 percent drop between FY 2016 and FY 2017.
We use BambooHR to store the "truth" about everyone in the company (around 360 people in 3 countries now), and during our most recent hackathon, a few creative folks made a phone app that did face recognition and when you pointed the camera at anyone, their name would appear on-screen and you can click it for more information including which office they're in and a floor plan showing how to find them :)
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accounting fraud, for one. Banks carried so much unsold bonds on their books at prices that were nowhere near reality.
I can sit through stand ups like Dave Chappelle, Chris rock, Peter Russell or any number of Adam Sandler/Ben Stiller movies without even cracking a smile, but can roll on the floor laughing after looking at silliest of stuff that not many find funny. I could never figure out what and more importantly why a certain situation/picture/pun makes me laugh.
Rate limiting can be achieved without actually inconveniencing regular users. Put a exponentially growing delay on the server's response for requests coming in too quick succession.
3d printing was a thinedge of the wedge, i think we will see leaps and bounds regarding atomic scale assembly of materials and compound items. lasers are becoming much more precise, and materials science is making gains. i think very soon we will have crystal perfect alloys, and JIT manufacture of assemblages that will not only be ultrapure but self healing.

Micro generation and actuation is another avenue. 25 years ago when carbon nanotubes were a curiousity i could see world changing potential. we are now learning to produce nanotubes and nanosheets of graphene in deliberate fashion versus throw everything into the alchemical oven and sort through the mess for the good pieces. The potential to fabricate atomic scale objects and the potential to manipulate quantum phenomenon is growing tremendous, regarding energy generation, computation , communications, and weapons technology. that being said, warfare is going to become something of a nightmare never before imagined.
TRUE AI with real world based experiential machine learning and the ability for these {devices?} to design and manufacture themselves is in its infancy, and may lead us into a realm of artificial consciousness. We have nearly cracked the code of life itself, with the advent of artificial unicellular devices, and have gone into directions in a perhaps irresponsible manner. CRISPR is not as new as its being made out to be. It was far to irresponsible to develop such tech 20 years ago but someone did it. It is only a matter of time before someone makes a tremendous mistake in these areas, similar to the early concerns that a large enough fusion bomb would ignite a nitrogen fusion event in the atmosphere and burn it all.
the final nail in this coffin is particle physics, and high energy physics. we may get to a point of understanding the nature of spatial structure itself, and actually manipulate the fundamental structure of spacetime [for lack of a true descriptor] if so such things as quantum weapons [singularity weapons or string manifold devices] or artificial spacetime constructs may be feasible.
If you take, for the sake of argument, that the cycle of samsara is a real thing, then it makes plenty of sense: Suffering may be inescapable, but a virtuous person would still seek to avoid causing it to others as much as possible. The more you avoid causing, the more virtuous you are.

It frankly seems no more or less odd to me than any other form of religious asceticism. From a purely practical perspective, sweeping the ground in front of you is probably not any more of a nuisance than the vow of silence that some Christian monks and nuns take. I'd personally find it to be less of one.
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I'd prefer that they be required to register with an organization that can bop them on the head if they abuse it.

I know the FCC doesn't have express legislative power here, but can't they impose fines or am I mistaken-on either or both?
Billable Hour as SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity)
I am about to do some contract development work for a seed stage startup I would love to get on their cap table eventually. Should I simply ask for a SAFE that is based on my usual billable hour to other client?
Nothing you wrote in anyway refutes the article's points. If the article is correct, should your feelings be put ahead of the economic wellbeing of citizens of a nation of which you are not a citizen? If the article is not correct, then there are arguments you can make that don't involve your emotional state.
Congrats. I was a H1-B holder myself and I agree.

How did you manage to get beyond the 6 years limit for H1-B?
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You don't ask them how do they want it redesigned. You ask them what they like, what they don't like. And preferably, you get a chance to see them use it.
Good thing the definition of white supremacist is commonly agreed upon and noncontroversial and absolutely isnt subject to definition creep :)
Great points. I agree the critical and biggest innovation is building a secure environment inside the browser. When I explored keyboard/mouse biometrics it was for detecting account theft which is a bit different.

If they have a way to create a secure, immovable cookie across browser sessions even in incognito mode then they don't need biometrics. In the absence of persistence, biometrics could serve as the cookie. Even with a naive approach in a hackathon, a member of my team was able to get very high precision identifying users based on a small sample of keyboard and mouse movements. I'm sure Google can do better.

So it's not really about attackers being able to look like any human. It's about being able to look like a specific human. Which is much harder.

But maybe you have more experience? We abandoned it seemed intrusive and because we knew we couldn't invest in the secure environment. Without that it doesn't matter. And with it maybe there's an easier solution. But I figured that given Google made it that they would be using keyboard/mouse movements for user identification.
from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/12/record-mi...

The share of auto loan borrowers who were three months behind on their payments peaked at 5.3 percent in late 2010. The share is slightly lower now — 4.5 percent — because the total number of borrowers has risen so much in the past several years
Wheels and axis are probably universal. Don't believe in sci-fi moves about floating transports.

A cooper wire around a iron core makes a good electromagnet. Deducing from there that it is a motor is not difficult. (It's even connected to the wheels.)

I'm not sure about the battery. I guess it's guessable because it has some unusual metals.

The lens (a clear piece of glass, thin, with a rounded surfaces) are also probably universal. If you have a few of them in line connected with moving parts with gears will confirm that it's the zoom of the camera.

Probably at the end of the camera is the sensor, I don't know how long it will keep the photo sensibility. It is connected by wires with the big chunk of wires and weird electric parts, so it must be the main board. The main board is also connected to the motors of the wheels.

The high gain antena is not parabolic (IIUC), it would have been an easy task to recognize it if it were parabolic :( . The low gain antena is a stick. By this time they already know the technology level of the motors and they will deduce that the communication is electromagnetic waves. So a big metal stick connected to wires is a good low gain antena candidate. The other weird thing has similar conections. And is orientable (they can see the inner gears of the support arm) and perhaps if you open it the inner structure also help. They will deduce that it is another antena.

[I personally think that for long distance transmission (specially in space) the electromagnetic waves are irremplazable. They may have a better encoding and filtering methods, but I guess they will mainly use electromagnetic waves.]
This. They make it easy to replace local workers as it is them who need to justify bringing the workers and the client.

Pretty sure, it would be hard for Disney to justify bringing H1s while firing locals. It is much easier for stuffing firms to justify that and then supply to Disney.
It doesn't affect just them, though; something like Sandstorm Oasis or GNU Savannah or public Mastodon servers or the Internet Archive - all of them rely on Safe Harbour provisions just as much as YouTube.
> Businesses see unions as enemies

Only because unions frame it that way. I used to work in a union shop, and the union members simply poured out their hate for the business on a daily basis. Who would want to do business with people that hate you?

> and transactions zero-sum.

Businesses that screw their customers don't last long.
So, in music there’s the concept of vocalization. Literally conveying emotion without formed words or formal specifics.

Anecdotally, I definitely am thinking first and later applying words to the underlying concept. It takes practice, but it is possible to introduce a lag, of sorts.

Further, the best hunters, I’ve heard, are the most empathic. All the better to manipulate prey.

Even more, my cat is very expressive despite not having English. I can even identify patterns in his speech that clearly repeat for similar reasons. I spook him, there’s a meow for that. He’s hungry, there’s a meow for that. He’s tried and I’ve ignored 2 attempts of his to ask me for something and he’s pathetically resigned to his fate, there’s a meow for that. (Gets me every time)
They have an interesting article about how they localized to English: https://habr.com/en/company/tm/blog/435764/
Provide the link to this person’s profile. Facebook, Linkedin etc if possible so we all can learn more about them. Their work. What are we going to do with the image?