skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Seattle and enjoyed it, but staying in America long term was never an option for me. There's so much more to living in Canada than just our immigration system.

You work at AMZN - I work at a US company in Canada too. Canada is a nation of branch-offices, largely because we have no VC-ecosystem, which is largely because we're a highly redistributive country with high capital gains taxes.

What makes us attractive for branch offices is that smart, hard-working, well-educated immigrants who can't make it into the US can often make it into Canada. Native born Canadians, OTOH, are leaving in droves (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-...)

But we're a terrible place to start a company and exit, which is why it doesn't happen very often.

The original poster claimed that Canada could replace Silicon Valley - that's not going to happen without a better ecosystem for funding start-ups and rewarding founders.

As for those devs who choose to stay here when they could leave on a TN-1, make twice the money in the US after taxes and expenses (including health insurance and private schooling for kids), and work on more interesting problems at US companies, I encourage them to do the math. They're not doing themselves any favors living in unliveably-expensive cities earning pennies and not saving for retirement, and retirement will come a lot sooner than they think.
Not necessarily. While waiting for green card processing to finish, for instance, people can be on an extended H-1B. Nor do these technicalities mean anything when I’m talking about treating people humanely.

Go “visit” New York or San Francisco for 2-3 years (the length of a visa) under the same constraints as visa holders and see how far your money goes.
Employers can do whatever they want if the employees are OK with it. When I was 22 I signed up for a job that kept me in hotels 250 nights a year. I loved it but now with kids would obviously tell any such job to go fuck itself.
I am aware of Wickard v Filburn as it is regarded as a particularly, historically bad ruling, and obviously set precedent for this case.

Did you actually read this? Have you read any parts of the constitution?

Federal powers are constitutionally enumerated, and those which are not are reserved for the states.

The premise of this discussion you've quoted here -- that the feds have the duty to centralize command and control authority over modest home production of plants for one's own consumption -- is obviously not the intent of the constitution, nor is it remotely American, nor remotely consistent with liberty.
I'll say it again. Foreign born != H-1B visa. Like I said, most of the foreign born workers in silicon valley are people who immigrated to the US as children. You used to lie about Jerry Yang and Sergei Brin being H-1B visa holders.

Both Jerry Yang, Sergei Brin and most of the foreign born tech workers immigrated to the US as children with their families. They became US citizens before they started yahoo or google.

Once again, stop intentionally conflating H-1B visas with foreign born american citizens. Two different things.
A High Performance, Distributed RPC Framework
It would effectively be a tax on energy.
do you stone adulterers where you live? how about homosexuals? soothsayers/crypto-pagans/fortune tellers? stay out of the synagogue when you have ejaculated until taking a ritual purity bath?

Me? No, but I make “lapsed” seem observant. Plenty of Jews do all of what you describe though, it’s why you’ll find a mikveh in most communities for example. Jewish orthodoxy is sort of famous for being extremely into all of the rules, right down to mixing certain fabrics. Still I take your overall point, and certainly it doesn’t seem to be anti-Jewish or anything of the sort.
A Lightweight Distributed Service Registry and Discovery Platform
You mean like Macsyma, now Maxima, where he probably got some early ideas from?
Rubs me the wrong way when a cloud computing company repackages open source code and starts making huge money without contributing.

Rubs me the wrong way when these same companies can just re implement the API and cause massive hurt to an open source competitor.
I think podcasts, from a consolidation POV, looks more like video than music (for starters, think of the content length and engagement level). You'd swap app/provider to listen to a different podcast, but a music player with a limited subset of music is essentially DOA.
There are plenty of comments here that advocate for active trading, so Munger's quip still rings true.
I can't quite sort it out either, but sometimes it feels like we are treated like favored pets.

We're expensive, sure. Difficult to replace, absolutely. But you know that sooner or later you will be, and in the meantime you only get limited privileges.
Value investing works even better when you're not in the public markets.
That's not how interconnects work. You don't even have to connect to Matrix, you can just use it to link existing systems more easily. Pretend there is no protocol/standard and it still does a good job.
From the article:

"Often I’ll do a meeting where I have lots of people in case we need to get their input. But for most of the meeting I don’t need all of them to be paying attention (and I’m happy if they’re getting other work done)."

So they're not paying attention because he enjoys having excess people on calls and wasting their time.

Sounds like torture. The CEO wants you on the call, probably won't need you, and you're supposed to feel comfortable disengaging when he's berating coworkers about a missing third argument in a function's documentation.
I've shared a bunch of Willoughby Britton's talks here in the past, mostly from the Buddhist Geeks podcast/conference. They're super interesting, I'd recommend checking them out.
> Why does one have to make money with open source? Why does that have to be a goal in and of itself.

Because we need money to live in our society right now.

I don't think GPLv3 will help, You need AGPL or even more aggressive licensing.
When it comes to development and security engineering a certain demonstrated base qualification might not be a bad thing. It's pretty unbelieveable how quality is handled in software engineering...
It's had multiple undo in notebooks (quite more than "an editor") for a while, and you can run it from a command line or use an IDE.

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/program/wolframsc...
I just sort of estimate which means in practice I sometimes listen to parts of it I wasn’t paying attention to over again. Most of the podcasts I listen to are like 20 minutes long and it takes me like 5 minutes to fall asleep.
I don't have an input on the potential security risks of pen cameras on airlines, but I do have an opinion on your description of economy travel on modern airlines.

It's spot on, and unbelievable to me that there are no other options available for air travel. With the amount of time business executives spend in the air I have to imagine there is an airline company out there modeling the business case for increased ticket prices with the justification of companies subsidizing to make up for lost productivity.

- written from the 3rd flight I've taken this week
I mostly buy and resell so I actually don’t spend much at all on items. I lose from the depreciation, but not too bad actually.
I am aware, but dual intent means just that. Until they file for a green card, their intent isn't known and calling them immigrants is wrong. They are not immigrating. Although they may, if they choose to.
AGPL doesn't prevent AWS, AGPL forces AWS to be open with their changes.

Which I think is better. You might not enable FOSS devs to make much off their work, but you at least force companies to contribute.
Finland’s Universal Basic Income Trial Made People Happier–But Not Employed
Guild Wars 2 Developer ArenaNet Plans for Mass Layoffs
Yeah there's live information sourced from all over the place...kind of like Wolfram Alpha in a notebook

https://www.wolframalpha.com/knowledgebase/
We don't. Which browser/OS are you seeing this on?
Shouldn't change your ability to scale. AWS is happy to clone your single lambda an arbitrary amount of times.
Ανεβασμένη η Μίλαν, δύο ματς στην Πρέμιερ Λιγκ
It’s not that nobody notices that he’s walking... it’s that, what is anyone going to do about it? Who signs their paychecks?
these individual pages get compiled into a single file with zero dependencies leading to super fast cold start times. I'm a bot, beep boop.
Weird how everyone you disagree with you tag as crazy and all concerns about murders are folded into 'there will always be lone crazies' as if their motives were inscrutable. You sure have an odd set of priorities.
You don't need years to produce a phoneme that can be recognized by a native speaker. The important point is two-fold: being close enough to the actual sound, and working on minimal pairs where confusion can occur. It means you don't need to sweat over how you pronounce /r/ in French because however you make it it won't be confused with something else, but one sure should work on making their Chinese /t/ and /tʰ/ correctly. Also for listening given the sheer amount of audio and video that there is on the web it is easy to cram the required hours of listening in a few months.
It doesn't matter how high the price on CO2 is if you can't capture 1 unit of CO2 without emitting >1 unit. There's no guarantee that such a technology exists.
It doesn't, but it's also not a huge condition on freedom 0.

> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Commercial purposes requires compensation doesn't sound unreasonable.
I'd always known this as wall-clock serializability. Not a technical sounding term but very descriptive.

I'm not sure I know of any traditional RDBMSes that run in Serializable but not Strict Serializable mode. It's only the horizontally distributed ones that squeeze more performance that seem to choose the trade-off for performance. CockroachDB (-is-)was the notable one that used SNAPSHOT isolation permitting write skew. "As of CockroachDB 2.1, SNAPSHOT isolation is no longer supported, and SERIALIZABLE SNAPSHOT is now simply known as SERIALIZABLE." Good to know.
> The idea that a nation of 350 million people can't supply the workers needed for the US economy is nonsense

What is the nation doing about it though? People that go to ivy league schools (and even not so elite schools) mostly are only able to afford it because they themselves have the financial means, whereas in many countries, top education is 100% government-subsidized.

Also, consider this: there's a thing called a PERM application, which involves advertising for a position for 6 months. The reality is that people getting green cards via H1B sponsorships do so after companies literally spend half a year looking for local talent, and at signicant cost (a I-140 application w/ premium processing costs the company $1400 and that's only one step in the green card process, and that's without counting lawyer fees.)

When high tech companies hire foreigners, it's not for lack of trying to find native talent
> But, I know that restricting building API compatible software is not a solution

It's certainly a solution. It's just a really really bad one that makes lock in obscene and would probably strengthen amazon.
Source: Google Plans to Announce Long-Rumored ‘Yeti’ Hardware at GDC Event
Most unions and guilds do this. I don’t find it unreasonable, and would still sign on to a technology workers union, dues and all. Credentialing? I’d be okay with that, otherwise if everyone can “be an engineer” just by saying so, no one is (and credentialing would be superior to the white board gauntlet mess tech interviews currently are).

Collective action is the only way to improve working conditions and dissuade abusive employer practices.
You're forgetting E2E encryption.
Watching his livestreams, he seems like a reasonable guy focused on real work designing a programming language and software. Not sure what you're alluding to in 1990, guess it's been disappeared from the web.
There is a 2 billion dollar start up product lurking at your desk.
Cisco is a really good example of this. They actually ran afoul of anti-discrimination laws for explicitly rejecting American born workers.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/21/h-1b-visa-reliant-cis...
AppsCode Releases Service Broker for KubeDB
A company who values inclusion and diversity should understand that people who are unable to float a monthly expense buffer are very often those same demographics that have been marginalized by those working in the software industry.

Getting credit card points while you know your employer is almost certainly going to reimburse you is a nice benefit, but the industry should definitely seek to improve by making this optional. Especially for prohibitively large large expenses (flights, lodging) default to paying these upfront.
Related/Unrelated: Does anyone know a way to block pinterest results from appearing in the google search results? I hate searching for furniture or other hobby things but end up clicking on a pinterest dead-end page. Especially searching on mobile or by voice-search, I can't specify '-pinterest' ... google doesn't appear to offer account wide search block lists, or does it?
Picking at the program by brutalizing people here and there is unconscionable. Put everyone out of their misery, stop trying to predict winners and losers and just end the program.

The normal immigration processes served the country well for generations. The new policy of catering to particular industries by creating second class citizens is never going to be fair to anyone because it was never designed to be.
when you're not slumming it online, do you speak old english, middle english, or early modern english?
I feel like most open source projects are like that.

https://github.com/antirez/redis/pulse/monthly

https://github.com/django/django/pulse/monthly

https://github.com/moby/moby/pulse/monthly
Reminder that the Amazon pay raise occurred because Bernie Sanders shamed them into it. Disney as well.
Every company is set up to cater to the whims of one overlord. Then there is a group who can change the overlord. Most effective companies are dictatorships with a fairly reasonable dictator.
and you call yourself an info collector...
Tangentially related: if anyone (or their kids) is bored with voxels, try Astroneer; it's more like virtual clay. https://astroneer.space/
Maybe, or it could mean they have to do more ads to stay afloat, where before fewer ads were sufficing.
For some reason, when clicking this link, I've expected SQL database running inside PDF files. Which considering how PDFs can embed JavaScript and that Emscripten exists (and that PostScript itself is Turing-complete if you want to go hardcore), may actually be doable.
1. Might not happen in the probably the next decade. Earning 200k+ in Bay Area is common and still hard to live on a single salary. What should an engineer do to make it go to 400k?
2. So, you want experienced, well trained experts in their respective fields to leave the country and go elsewhere after the companies spend so much on their younger selves?
3. This would be a small minority whatever happens. After growing up in a country with a completely different culture for ~25 years, a sudden shift in a small timeframe is not expected.
Hearing this coming from Newton is surprising, given his infamous feud with Leibniz over which of them invented calculus.
Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass
What does that even mean? Go into depth on both of your points.
> For a local variable, the name i conveys as much information as index or idx and is quicker to read

This is only true because i is a specific, common abbreviation for index. When writing arbitrary glue code, a single letter variable would be a meaningless abbreviation without shared context. If you encounter "i" and it doesn't mean "index of a for loop", you're going to be taking additional time parsing meaning.
That's only if you can access private equity. For the average retail investor, it may as well not exist.
The way quality assurance works in software engineering is way below any other industry - so I wouldn't be surprised if at one point some base qualifications are needed, much like a doctor, architect, nurse or teacher...
Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020
Technically, this is backtracking... to move 1.
All that dual intent acknowledges is that people, who obtain such a visa may have an intention to immigrate and still be allowed to get such a visa. It does not grant any immigration benefits.
He’s like a Mozart who thinks he’s better than Bach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo0bejtOnQc
> 10 years is the length of the current backlog for Employment 2nd, 3rd, and “Other Workers" preference visa from India, but only two years for Employment 1st Preference,.and Employment 4th preference is current.

Have you looked at what's required to get a first preference greencard? 99% probably dont qualify unless you abuse it with companies like CTS or Accenture.

> (1) Come to the US but not work, or

What do spouses with advanced degrees and prior work experience do? With H1B lottery, this was a decent outlet when you have stayed here already for a few years.

> (2) Remain in India, to which the H-1B recipient, as a nonimmigrant, will return.

You suggest stay away from your wife and family when you're just married or have young kids?
...but that isn't occurring in any regulated markets. The reason that is happening is because, in the US, this is a grey area. The process has been captured by casino operators (btw, a casino operator is one of the largest Republican donors) and, ironically, they have co-opted religious groups who are saying the same stuff as you (religious groups have given up on LV but casino operators like these groups shutting down the competition).

Every regulated market has removed the incentive completely for organised crime. In addition to substantial harm reduction measures that actually make it easier for addicts to get help (where I am, gambling addiction charities are well-funded to an almost obscene level i.e. probably $100m+ in a country with a population of tens of millions) and work with operators to exclude these people from any form of gambling. Again though: this isn't unknown. Lots of countries are doing this, you just need to know about the world beyond your small corner.
Don't forget trading on margin and access to options.
This is a fairly go-specific issue due to its unexported vs exported convention. Many languages solve this through case conventions
>(2) Remain in India, to which the H-1B recipient, as a nonimmigrant, will return.

Sad to see people advocating for separating spouses from each other at the price of their careers.

Also this problem also applies to China, not just India.
https://qz.com/1342525/chinese-students-increasingly-return-...
Young Children Should Be Taught in Their Mother Tongue
The nextjs website has a tutorial that I found very helpful:

https://nextjs.org/learn/
Picking up those pennies in front of a bulldozer... Agreed, you can structure trades to greatly improve your risk/return. There are whole other levels of investing like selecting how to interact with capital structures or even the market microstructure of how the trades work.
Many people seem to be confused and think the "intent" applies to the visa itself, not the applicant. I.e. it's issued with a dual intent for both non-immigrant status and immigrant status or something like that.
Make a roguelike game. A basic one can be implemented in a couple of KLOC and will make good use of STL, algorithms, and memory management. Best of all when you are finished you will have a fun game to play!

The annual 7DRL challenge in which you have 7 days to make a roguelike is starting next week. See https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2019 for details.
I've got to say that you sound an awful lot more concerned about anarchists running around Berkeley and giving centrists a hard time in social spaces than you do about the rather large number of murders committed by proponents of some other ideologies.

It's easier for many to be concerned about a radiation leakage in a dramatic incident like Fukushima than about the cumulative radiation released in coal plants, even though the total effect of the latter is orders of magnitude greater. There are well over 600 incidents of violence committed by the Far Left just in the past few years. The widespread phenomenon of tenured college professors being afraid to speak their mind is a part of the same environmental phenomenon. It's not just "anarchists running around Berkeley and giving centrists a hard time in social spaces." The phenomenon is much more widespread and insidious than that.

It's true that historically in the past 30 years or so, the Far Right extremists have the higher death toll. As noted in a Forbes article, violent Far Right extremists have killed far more people than violent Far Left extremists since 1992, the trend has dramatically reversed: "Left Wing terrorists killed only 23 people in terrorist attacks during this time, about 0.7% of the total number of murders, but 13 since the beginning of 2016. Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists have only killed five since then, including Charlottesville."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/08/21/which-ideol...

Imagine what it would be like, if you spoke out against Antifa violence, then got a non-sequitur accusation of racism. Later, you get another such tarring accusation in response to a wedding invite. Later, you talk about this, and a musician you know comes up with the logical gem: Well, you got accused, you must be one! Then he starts in repeating the accusation -- specifically in the context of your wedding. This is the sort of immoral and downright sadistic tactic people like that employ. I know this firsthand.

Are you familiar with what the Antifa goons who attacked the innocent marines who were going to a dance were saying? They were talking like they were stereotypical sadistic KKK bigots as they were beating those men down. Really vile racist stuff. And that's just one incident. That sort of thuggish behavior and language is all over the record of recent history. Let me reiterate, the Far Left side has well over 600 documented incidents to their score, 13 or which were fatal. It's no better if you start talking to them online about their ideology. Really, the best many of them can do is literally, the other side is worse, so we can do nearly equally bad things as them. Start looking deeply into what those "anarchists running around Berkeley giving centrists a hard time" are really like, and what they're really up to.

All toxic extremists are toxic, obviously. Only one side is getting a free pass from the press at this time, however.
H1b employees in this category with an approved i140 have already expressed an immigration intent. So, they're almost immigrants except on a waitlist.
> Will developers be expected to write their apps in C/GObject?

I think this will be the "default" and it's the thing I'm mostly excited about. I've been prototyping an app and it's a small simple c file, the android equivalent would be dozens of xml files and require an IDE.

There are a lot of bindings for gtk though, and they do like to push their xml gui builder abomination.
Wow it exists! Might pick one up soon
The same thing happened to me. I recently acquired a pair of Bluetooth headphones, and even though it seems like a pair of wired earbuds or headphones would be about the same, it's not at all.

I listen to podcasts while doing all sorts of things now.
A bit more pop-sci, but i found this book a great read about how we went from simple on/off relays to full blown microprocessors.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by Charles Petzold
Whatever do you mean? I still see NZ companies hiring USA engineers.
As specs says it uses IMAP as Transport it's a CoI based messenger.

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/blob/master/s...