skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not 13 years into my career (three under the table at a hometown co and ten professionally), I’ve had the mom and pop shop experience, the big corp experience, and currently the startup experience. I’ve found the same abuse everywhere, but it’s not always caused by top level executives. I think the abuse in software has a dynamic that other industries don’t have. A lot of product managers and IT managers don’t understand what we do (and I say that on behalf of devs, ops people, the whole works). They want to look good for their executives and they overpromise, or they start treating us like garbage because they are afraid not to have anything to show in their weekly updates with their boss.

When product managers and CIOs don’t have anything to show, we get tossed under the bus. I’ve never been a fan of the dev unionization movement, but I’m becoming more of a fan it by the day. I think of how I feel after having given my all to my career, and I can’t imagine how young H1B professionals feel when the abuse they put up with is far worse than what I’ve dealt with.
Most H1Bs in high density areas are not this way. A lot of companies like Oracle, Google, Facebook etc.. have very few H1Bs even though you see a lot of them. Look at them as a % of all employees. And most H1Bs are highly paid, highly skilled, US educated graduates. Atleast, they ought to be given a chance to live and work here.
What's the motivation? Give it a try… it's fun to vote.

I've posted this on Product Hunt and Reddit this week, and so far people did 33426 votes on pictures. Pretty crazy!

Interestingly, a few comments (yours and on Reddit) assume how "bad" people can be. Surprisingly, so far, overall voting behaviour been very positive. People have not been abusing votes, comments nor images in the past few days.

So far 170 users uploaded 218 photo pairs - and all of them are genuinely good.
That was an intense read. I’m not sure I actually learned much of value beyond how awesome it might be to have an entire IT department at your beck and call, but certainly his File System has helped solidify some of my germinating ideas on how to reshelve my own file system with which I am lately dissatisfied.
Well put.

Thank you for your thoughtful response.
Don’t have data about the right in Australia, but in the U.S., the term arises due to the prevalence of virtue signaling by left leaning Hollywood that doesn’t align with the reality of all the statistics pointing to far greater levels of charity as a percentage of income/wealth exhibited by those on the ‘right’.

This mismatch results in some of this derisive language in the U.S.
My experience doing integration testing with BATS was that it was complete misery (not the BATS project’s fault, I think it’s just inherent in the nature of the thing).

You REALLY want a real programming language for any kind of non trivial integration testing. Things like set up and tear down, checking outputs, and testing many-similar-but-not-identical cases gets hairy fast. Sure you CAN do it in bash but just because you can doesn't mean you should. When we rewrote our BATS tests in Go was a huge step forward for the project.
Linus is mean, but aware of it and actively working on it. Stallman is harmlessly weird. Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objectively not.

You are correct in that these are not the reasons they are impressive. It's the reason (in Linus and Wolframs case) they aren't particularly good people.

You should have to suffer brilliant assholes.
Maybe you just got 10 years older. And what did you get for it, now that your youth is gone?
Do you name them, or just put them en masse by date? And what ocr software do you use?
They 100% win this. They didn't treat him differently because he's religious, they made him work despite being religious. That's perfectly legal in the US.
Or a more tongue-in-cheek answer: if you're starting out, just pour money into ITOT, SCHB, or VTI and call it a day =P

In all seriousness, though, it's crazy that we're at a point where these hyperactive algorithms can perform price discovery fairly decently.
I finally got around to brushing off the year's worth of dust that had accumulated on my Matrix account and signed in to Riot on my phone, as well as their web client. I was pretty pleased with how easy it was to connect to a Freenode channel. So far it seems to be a decent experience, I'm looking forward to using it over the next little bit.
But if you cant build a quad core CPU inside the game then whats the point?
https://youtu.be/SPaI5BJxs5M
> Anecdotally I have a friend who works in IT that is on call and does get paid for all the time on call that he is working.

That's actually very common, at least around here outside of the startup scene. There's usually a fixed amount for just being on call, plus an hourly rate (often higher than regular rate) for actually having to do anything.

Last time I managed a team of on-call staff, they all got paid for 2hrs at their regular rate for each weekday and 4hrs for each weekend day they were on call (whether they got called or not), plus time and a half for every hour they worked (rounded up to a minimum of 1hr per incident, so three 5 minute "quick fixes" counted at 3hrs at time and a half, which on a weekend meant 7hrs additional pay). We tried to make sure everyone by default got a rotation of a week of weekdays, a single two day weekend, then a whole week of just office hours. They were free to negotiate swaps amongst themselves as needed (it there was not required payroll adjustment), and to request schedule adjustments as needed (mostly for when the change would need payroll to be informed). We ended up averaging fewer than 10% of on-call shifts getting paged. Everybody was happy enough with that arrangement - it was about as good as any on-call arrangement I've ever been part of.
If you exclude attachments, how many GB is that?

And when it comes to a chat client, it's not a big deal to pick which chat to search, vastly reducing the amount of data you need.
Pocket gets worse the more you use it: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...
Rather than throwing even more money at Wolfram, it would be even better to put up a fund (maybe a crowdsourced campaign) to buy the rights to Macsyma and PDEase to release them under the GPL.
A lot of foreign born workers are not H1B because they got their green cards or citizenship. I'd safely say a majority of them were H1Bs till recently. Till 2008, getting a green card for any country was not a problem. It has gotten a lot worse since then.
Oy, I'm fascinated that this is publicly available, but kind of horrified if I was one of the developers on this public "con call"!
Historically US and its economy has benefited tremendously from immigration. In the modern world it continues to be a big edge. Anti-immigration mindset is also anti-American mindset. How about we revoke the citizenship of folks with such mindset and make way for a prosperous nation? Maybe we could let them cut in front of the line to earn back their citizenship with hard work after catastrophic events. I’m of course just using a far fetched example to make a point.
> "using ICE (from WebRTC)"

Would this leak the ip addy of the sender to the receiver and people along the wires?

Each time I looked into webrtc and websockets I think, I noticed the need for a stun/turn server in order to mask sender ip addys, but don't know enough about all that atm.
As a former H1B visa holder with a spouse, and friends in the same boat, I have experienced first-hand the effects of having a spouse that is not allowed to work.

First, they get bored out of their mind. They're young, they want to grow, but they can't. While you're off to work, networking, learning, your spouse is at home, trying their best to chase away the feeling of stagnation.

It's OK for the first few months - they go for walks, cook, read, go to the gym - anything to keep busy, but unless there's a child that takes up their entire time, they just get bored, then they get sad, and then they get depressed.

It takes a hard toll on the relationship, which, ironically, is the primary reason why spouses agree to this in the first place. Most just want to live with their husbands or wives and have a normal life. Long distance isn't a realistic option when you're talking about a 6 year H1B visa.

Being unable to work makes the relationship one-sided, because one person goes to work, provides for the family, and has various experiences which slowly add up and allows them to grow personally and professionally. In addition, if you come from a society where gender roles are heavily promoted culturally, it is especially hard when the roles get reversed when the couple is in the US. Typically, men lose confidence in their ability to provide for the family and get very depressed. Women from cultures where there's an expectation that they'll be a homemaker, have much less stigma associated with not working, especially if there's a child to take care of.

They are also competing with other couples in various areas: social status, disposable income (that lets you go on vacations) or ability to buy a house, and they'll be losing ground simply because of the income level (less so for FAANG employees, but there are plenty of places hiring on an H1B visa that pay the minimum they can to meet the H1B criteria).

There are only 2 realistic options most spouses end up taking: the spouse works illegally (clearly a risky move) or the spouse changes their legal status: divorces you and marries a citizen (risky and further damages the quality of your relationship), tries to go to school on an F1 status (which now requires even more income and puts more pressure on the H1B holder), or the relationship deteriorates to the point where the non-working spouse goes back to their home country because they are unhappy here.

Finally, I will say that yes there are many real issues with the H1B visa, but disallowing the spouse to work is not a solution to any of them. It only manages to get these young couples behind in life.

I am fortunate enough to have come out of this ordeal fairly unscathed, but others I know have not been so lucky.
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The program was not a thing only because long wait times for a green card was not a thing. A lot of companies have a lot of Indians compared to elsewhere. But, majority of them is probably factually wrong.
E2E encryption may make the messages unreadable out of the Delta client app.
Specs here: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/blob/master/s...
The clause in CA 2870(a)(1), "relate ... to the employer’s business," gives an exception to the protection when it's related to the Company's business. The problem is Google is doing so many things that some area will overlap with your idea ever if you were not directly working on it in Google, and Google can go after that.

I had a conversation with a CEO once on this very topic and he said, "Remember, it doesn't matter whether the suit has merit or not as long as the company is willing to sue you. The company has the money and resource to drag it out in the court to force you to sign over the IP."
Yelp seems like a super toxic workplace and essentially a pay-to-play extortion racket.
The FOSDEM video: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/matrix_french_state/
Same as linearizability?
I mean, I wouldn't make a website with it, but for computational/mathematical code I'd choose Mathematica and its editor over a Lisp language any day, even if it's just for the syntax (though it most certainly is not). Some of us actually find it easier to understand and write math when it looks like math and not just a wall of parentheses or ASCII art.
I basically do the same. We are critical development/operational support so I have to have on-call support and do so 1 week at a time with primary and backup (I'm implied 2nd backup if not higher in chain). But my google voice number is only listed on the official schedule website and not in the company contact database so only those that need to know know.

The best thing that ever happened to me was company implementing a lockdown policy so that email/chat/... are only allowed from company assets so I am totally cutoff from work via my phone except through that list and the best part is it by the companies own policy. I only get true emergency calls now.
Yes this seems correct.
Now a days, I'm wondering about Apple's past great innovations. I'm glad to have owned many iPods (even to this day), travelled cross-border to get the original iPhone, loved the unibody MacBooks, but if Apple hadn't made them, we'd still be carrying around computers in our pockets. What if.. Steve Jobs had set his sights on improving humanity? I now seem to value innovation more critically. (Meanwhile this Surface Go I'm writing on is very capable.)
Yep, that is the point...there isn't a spectrum. Countries that have tried to take the middle ground, like the US, have ended up with a political system that is bought and paid for by casino groups (because they are often the only vested interest in semi-regulated markets, another possible comparison is Hong Kong but that is more complicated). Afaik, the only non-theocracy with regulations that as severe as the US is South Korea (military dictatorship within living memory).

There is nothing immoral about gambling. Smoking and alcohol are infinitely more harmful, are they immoral too? On what basis? If you enjoy gambling, fine...good for you. Addiction affects a tiny proportion of the population, under 1%. And we can reduce this by being adults, and working with operators on harm reduction rather than judging people. The implication that people who gamble or gambling addicts are immoral is quite sad. It is common to most theocracies but these are usually places that will rail against immorality of things like gambling and then drop bombs on their citizens the next week. Moral authorities indeed.
All you have to do is try to run a conference in Chicago to see how bad unions can make things though. Sorry, you can’t plug that in, only a card-carrying electrician is allowed to do that! And he’s on break.

My point here is that unions have done plenty to make a bad name for themselves, blaming everything on the media is simplistic.
1. "Hey boss, I need a raise." "How much?" "Enough to cover my spouse's income or I have to quit." Seems compelling.

2. I didn't say anything about current recipients. Just commented on how it may impact new applicants and the housing market.

3. Demographics change slowly.
I found the article a little disorganized and the author seems to be having trouble expounding a clear thesis. I just read it for the second time, and I still don’t have a good grasp of what he experienced or what connections he’s trying to make to Buddhism. Maybe that’s understandable given what happened to him (though I’m not really sure of, besides him going “crazy”), but I still think that as a journalist he should be able to write a more cohesive and lucid article. And for reference, I’m saying this as someone who’s gone through a number of ineffable experiences with heavy doses of psychedelics. Just saying that he felt like he was dying and being reborn ad infinitum doesn’t really cut it as phenomenological explanation.
Definitely one of the better official tutorials out there
It does. I was describing the HTTP library. My bad.
Well, he started Wolfram Research. You should try their products if you haven't. If you have, just try to imagine how you'd make something like Wolfram Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha.
The system is fundamentally broken and it's partly my own countrymen to blame. I've lived here for 17 years (in 4 years, if I live here, I'd have lived here longer than in my home country), earn more than $500k per year and recently got an offer for $600+k/yr. I've probably paid at least three quarters of a million in taxes. I'm still on a H1, cannot change jobs easily, cannot do anything on the side like advise companies and though I get opportunities for VP roles, cannot take them up since companies usually don't want a VP that's on a H1. This news is devastating since my wife quit her job after my kid was born and only recently has used the EAD to work with autistic children which has been her passion all her life. If HR1044 does not pass, we've decided to move back. I'll take my $1.5M, which I could have invested here, with me and invest it in my home country instead (or I'll come back on a L-1 visa like so many of my lesser-qualified friends and get a green card in a couple of years).
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You’d think Pinkerton would have rebranded.
Sure, but companies have a heck of a lot more bargaining power than individuals. I don't think "this didn't cause large numbers of employees to quit" means that this was okay.
I'd argue any contract is problematic if there is both a significant power discrepancy between the parties, and the terms are non-negotiable (take it or leave it).

When I think of the word "contract" I don't picture two companies with a meeting of the minds, on equal footing, settling something. Instead I associate the word with a hammer that a powerful company uses to smash a relatively powerless individual--because that's the only kind of contract 99% of us will ever be party to.
Lol good analogy, although Mozart had a sense of humor going for him
Not really. People can have ideal ideas that don't match their own lived reality. And the Newton / Hooke feud is probably more interesting and relevant, than the Leibniz one (given that was entirely of Newton's making).
Do you know how many H1Bs are issued per year? Do you know how many jobs are lost per year? Do you know how many jobs are created by immigrants (and their kids) who started out on H1B? Do you know how much tax revenue comes in from H1Bs and how many social programs they support? Sorry about your friends, buy H1B here is just a boogeyman.
Problem is it includes distractions. A personal homepage would be better focussed on things I SHOULD do, rather than things I actually do.
iOS Core Trust Bypass, Jailbreak for A12 devices(CVE-2019-7286, CVE-2019-7287)
I couldn't take tips on personal infrastructure from someone whose monitors aren't perfectly aligned.
I just set a sleep timer to 60 minutes and rewind the next day until I encounter a part of the book that I remember. Slightly annoying, but not a big deal at all.
Out of curiosity, why do you view gambling as unethical and/or immoral?
Good on her.

What I find interesting is that while J Verne's 80 days was inspired by the calculations of a news article, she was able to accomplish it in 72 and as the years went on the duration was whittled successively shorter attesting to the rapid progress and investment the world was making in transport.
Tower of Silence
The more likely outcome is that GNU Hurd would be developed to be similar to Linux if Linus chose to stick with existing projects instead.

Linux had real improvements over Hurd but it'd be silly to suggest that a separate "Linux" brand kernel needed to exist to make those improvements possible.
The library may be fast but is useless if it does not provide the client IP. Also, there's no info about how to broadcast in a performant way..... imagine you need to send the very same json to many clients.... it does perform good? it does notice we talking about the same data? or will do useless process over the same data again and again for each client?
Do you have a source for that?

That does not sound like Newton ar all.
Yes, but now with restrictions on buying property. (It makes it much less of an attractive proposition.)
I have been hoping to see some new email clients that would auto load a feed of contacts and make the views appear similar to fbok / buddypress - have it auto load next emails and any images (if from contacts) - so an endless scroll could be - and option to reply to each post / feed item / email..

I think making the ux similar to what people are familiar with / similar to the most popular options (maybe like twitter and wechat too) -

we'd get a chance of getting people away from the walled gardens -

I'd love for new apps to not only provide that kind of ux, but also give options to send comments (and also recieve in the client and display) via other platforms like signal, matrix, activity pub, all the bridges..

It would need icons next to messages to show which portal they are coming from / going to, is it encrypted, etc.

I for one would very much like to see new viewing options for some shitty email clients.

I appreciate the home page of this delta chat is showing screen views for desktop, android, iPhone - wish all products did this.
If all their users are threatening to switch to some AWS managed service because it is better for them, then perhaps the software should fall into disrepair and the developers should get other jobs. There isn't anything wrong with this, it happens all the time.

It's probably true that Amazon is able to accomplish this only through strong-arm tactics, but it also seems unfortunate that Redis Labs feels the need to resort to similar strong-arm tactics in retaliation. It doesn't invite anything besides more pressure from Amazon and companies like it. Nobody wins in this in this scenario, especially not the customers who now have no refuge because both competitive offerings are trying to rope them into participating in a turf war.
I think one of the big ones is that, if setup right, you should be able to change tracking tools and not change your frontend code. They may be banking on the setup cost to be potentially expensive (engineers time) but the buyers are not in engineering (so value the engineers time highly).
I haven't tried Matrix yet, but I've tried some other chat platforms like Telegram and Discord, and was really disappointed with them compared to IRC.

I had to use their closed-source, bloated, binary blob GUI clients, couldn't logs the channels I was in (and so relied on having to log in to their servers to get backlogs, which was super annoying), and needed invites to get in to channels.

Apart from the superior multimedia capabilities of these clients, I saw absolutely no advantage of them over IRC clients (which could do useful things like logs all mentioned URLs and mentions of my nick to separate, logged tabs, and which I could run from the terminal and even from within Emacs).

I really hope Matrix is better in this regard, and I'm trying to keep an open mind, but so far attempts to create next generation chat services have been really underwhelming.
simply reduce it down to is gambling socially positive or not
It breaks freedom 0.
The noise is different every hour, meaning that basically the canvas can't be used as a signal. It's not a perfect solution (my useragent string is more unique, which annoys me) but it is better than a 100% identifiable canvas.
There's a bit of passive aggressive hierarchy conflict at play but it doesn't go that far IMO. Tone mostly goes back to relaxed ... could be friendlier but alas.
Wow. That title is click-baity, fear mongering, garbage (and the post isn't much better).

One might as well just read the non-blogspam version, which is indeed quite interesting:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-trac...

I'm actually still trying to wrap my head around the second part of this post. I mean, how cynical does one have to be to suggest Facebook's anti-suicide measures are purely profit motivated? That's just ridiculous.

Finally, the post seems to imply, without any statistical evidence, that the anti-suicide measures will result in an increase in deaths (because cops kill every mental health patient they come in contact with ... or something).

For the record, I dislike FB as much as anyone. But really Techdirt?