skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will throw a different perspective here on why tightening regulations on H-4 spouse work is important:

- Fact is everyone comes to the US to have a better economic life.

- Even asylum seekers, would want to move to the US over any other progressive European nation , because, American Dream, easy upwards mobility, diversity. This is a personal observation.

Let me shed some light on how it works for Indian people. You can extrapolate it to other entities too.

- Indian girls in general conveniently marry a US living
husband of their parents choice(not all but many), and
compete for the same jobs with kids who finished their
Masters Degrees here.

- H-1B visa system is fucked up. Infosys and Wipro and
TCS ship tons of their employees to the US.These people
work at a price less than the current market price.

- This is bad for three reasons:

- Kids don't want to come to the United States to do their Masters because, job market
is tight. Its bad for schools and kids too. Schools for those foreign dollars, for kids- its important to have
an exposure to outside world - this helps shape world view in a tremendously good way.

- These people are employed mostly to replace existing American workers.

- From my observations, the reason I am biased in favouring kids coming here for
Masters is because, with in the time it takes to finish their education, and the
time it takes to find a job, they imbibe American culture. This may sound silly, but
it is very important. These people at some time will become citizens and will become
part of national discourse.

- Contractors shipped by Infosys and Wipro and TCS could never be part of that. It is
hardly possible. Again , its a personal observation.

- So , how do all these things tie together

- Someone who finishes his Masters in the United States is expected to find a job with in three months of his
OPT(Optional Practical Training) start date.

- Now these people are mostly by themselves and invested heavily for their education. No reason why these people
flock to so called 'consultancies'.

- Compare that to the spouses of existing H-1B visa holders, who never invested anything here. No cultural
investment, nor education. They have a security to live here for as long as their relatively smart husband is
allowed to live. With unlimited amount of time compared to some one with a Masters degree, they are at a
disproportionate advantage.

- People finishing Masters should be given precedence over H4 spouses and H-1B's(for reasons above) hired by
outsourcing companies.

- There is more to it than we know.For all the xenophobia, this administration is displaying there are times,
they are not wrong.
Reputation is just as important in China.
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Not really. It is usually the case where a lot of young men/women come here for their master's at the age of 22-23. And typically get married around 28-32, so this would be very useful for the spouse who wants to continue their career here.
If you want financial losses, you're thinking too small. There's a ridiculous amount of infrastructure one can break. Mostly telco / power / water / ... It's a great testament to how people are mainly not dicks, given how everything keeps working.

Either they're the utilities are exposed https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ships-anchor-cuts-interne... or the overreaction is very expensive https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/portland-flush...
Great to have support still.
It seems to fall under the quiet assumption that technology advances and automation are inherently good, and that manual processes and analogue things are inefficient and undesirable.

We don't even do the whole 'should we' evaluation because it is assumed it will happen anyway somehow and we'll figure out the rules after the fact.
If you want to have globally competitive companies, I'm not sure protecting them from global competition is a particularly effective way to achieve that. Brazil has high tariffs on computers etc but that hasn't caused them to develop a competitive tech industry.

You're looking at the companies themselves but I think it's also worth considering the users too. If the rest of the world uses Github but China uses a Notgithub that otherwise couldn't compete, that's good for Notgithub but probably bad for the rest of the Chinese tech industry. Just like in Brazil's case, their computer tariffs are good for their domestic computer industry (if it exists), but bad for any other industry that uses computers.

It's certainly not obvious to me that protectionism is an overall win. Even if that were the case, the proposal is actually to block US components from China, so it seems like it should support any Chinese competitors for those components since they don't have to compete against Qualcomm etc anymore.
No, some shareholders brought forth a motion to ban the product at the shareholder's meeting, and it was voted down.
It's clear that the game being considered is the prisoner's dilemma, which is famous for not being zero-sum.
Okay so I came here expecring something different. Turns out that this is a stack overflow search engine.

So ever since I read a book on AI I have been pondering on when and how computers will steal our jobs.

I do have an idea on the subject though if anybody is interested in working with me on this please comment:
So with github and loads and loads of other open source repos don't we have enough training data.

Couldn't throwing loads and loads of processing power on training an AI on commits create an intelligence with an "actual" understanding of day to day programming problems.

Love to discuss this please comment! Crazy idea but huge if it works!
I read the article which is mostly spent making excuses for iOS and how it will eventually get better. Maybe one day and Esc key. And ending with:

> In the past, I've written about how devices like Surface Go are the perfect venn diagram of productivity and portability—and remain convinced that Microsoft's approach is the right one, allowing a tiny tablet to do run full desktop apps.

> But, what Microsoft still doesn't have is a good enough dedicated tablet software story yet: Surface Go is one of my favorite devices in years, but its problem is a lack of tablet-mode apps worth using. If it had better battery life, that might be worth the compromise in the opposite direction, but that'll need to be addressed in future revisions.

This last bit didn't really fit with what was being done on the iPad, writing. Was it also supposed to play casual touch-screen games, I don't know. As for the battery life, I can code all day running Chrome, VS Code or IntelliJ, and a WSL session before consuming a full charge.
Oh the glued hinge right behind the hot air vent is hilarious. I forgot about that one.

Yes, glossy screen had an anti-reflection coating added for Retina models that then proceeded into staingate. To make matters worse they took away the matte anti-glare option entirely because they thought their new compromise was best. Yelp.
The emergency exits in the stations used to, and the signs still say "alarm will sound if opened", but they were disabled around 2014 because there were too many false alarms. Mostly because the emergency exit doors are also used for strollers, luggage, etc. that can't fit through the turnstile, or as a general exit when there's a large group of people exiting.

Case Neistat did a New York Times Op-ed video on YouTube about it, before they were disabled: https://youtu.be/aUcP5OD-ctQ
Yet it will still be as easy as deploying a docker container from the repo and hooking up the API.
My sense is that it doesn't strictly rely on an external device - you can find your way to where you like without a screen... My long-term fear is what happens when the internal batteries get old.

(I love my OP-1 and pile of pocket operators; Teenage Engineering is doing amazing work.)
Supply and demand.

Demand:
The vast majority of customers they get are seeking to get a lower price. Many of the customers are in non-technical companies, doing non-technical things, and they are told to acquire a software service company to develop something. They approach it as a bidding process and they go for the lowest bidder since they can't really assess anything else. Larger companies usually select a few long-term vendors and they work with them exclusively. Therein starts the problem.

Supply:
Likewise, many of those software services companies will actually go out and try to compete on price. When they do that, they know that most of the customers they sell to have very little technical knowledge (think of banks, retailers, insurance companies, freight companies, telcos, etc.). When they're one of the few (or exclusive) vendors that the work with the client, they're creating a bulk deal for x amount of resources (i.e. a number of people). So they have to provide those people. However, the supply of skilled developers is low, since there are many great product companies within those countries (India, Ukraine, and Belarus) who offer great jobs to the experienced developers. So the fastest and cheapest way to meet the quota is with "freshers" (as they appear to be called in India). So now they're billing for people who have no experience at a very low rate in order to be competitive, they're also paying those developers pennies, and they're patching it up by having the few seniors within the company act as leads. And those seniors are split between 2-3 projects, and on each one of those projects, they have 4-5 juniors below them. This gives them a good "blended rate," but they still can't make a profit higher than 20%. The rate at which they lose talent is fast because the product companies are always stealing their good developers.

Overall, when I ask them why don't they just sell the senior developers at a higher margin and have fewer JR devs, the answer is that they'd never get a project because the competition is undercutting them on the price.
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This sounds normal and not specific to Japan.
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Every single thread someone has to bring it up. The acquisition isn’t even closed yet and suddenly every decision done is mysteriously pushed by IBM.

There is more than enough people who have their own minds. That is the RH culture, if this freedom is touched they will just quit.

IBM won’t affect RH in any way, Jim is not an idiot because he knows this would destroy RH and IBM are also not idiots because it would destroy they purchase.
Indeed, convenience at all costs is a curse that's driving towards 1984. The destination of this absurdity is why even bother thinking if someone else can do it for you...
You are missing NVN, GX2, libGNM and libGCN there, as OpenGL isn't a thing on consoles.
A similar but longer poem ("The Chaos") can be found here: http://ncf.idallen.com/TheChaosPRETTY.pdf

This version has IPA included, in case anyone knows IPA better than English and wants to try to follow along.
Chatter on Twitter from people at Panic indicates that you program it in Lua. Seems like C might also be an option. There’s definitely going to be an SDK.
I wonder how this is legal. I work for a Danish municipality and we once used WiFi tracking to help us build a better inner city. The data were wiped of any identifying features, because we really didn’t care who went were, we just wanted to track the flow of citizens in general.

It was still deemed illegal under the government adapted GDPR laws because we didn’t have consent. So how on earth is London getting away with this, and I guess you could say the same about their CCTV footage?
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How's that been working out for the last 40 years?
> I feel like there are clearly ways in which facial recognition can improve a lot of systems -- ticketing (think airports, sporting events, concerts etc); automated stores (like the amazon cashierless stores); payment (imagine not needing a wallet because the combination of your face, gait, and voice is enough to verify you); security (home/building/car entry, detecting suspicious individuals, known terrorists, past offenders, restraining orders)

I’m not even sure how facial recognition brings anything fundamentally different to the table in these examples: no airport will let you board only by facial recognition. Even payment is already super fast with contactless terminals, and credit card companies will never allow low fees billing by face recognition alone.

Every other low stake application already has a somewhat fast biometric option that didn’t take off because people just don’t want biometric databases of them (either by just being too lazy to opt in and give the info, either by clear opinion)
You can apply for a H-1B transfer and the process usually takes about 3 weeks.
Fair, but I was replying to this being a good example of modern C++. It's atypical that implementing your own vector and string is even a good idea, let alone exemplary.
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> Talk of "efforts to protect what natural habitats are left" does not seem to relate to warming from CO2 emissions.

They're connected. I mean, everything is.

Even if we didn't emit so much CO2, we destroy habitat for other species through agriculture and forest harvesting. And if we hadn't destroyed so much habitat, there'd be lots more slack for CO2 emissions.

And as you say, destroying habitat through biomass energy production -- whether it's fast-growing trees for pellets, or palm oil for biodiesel -- just makes it worse.
Thanks, hadn't seen this before!

I wonder why they didn't have just one median function and control its behaviour with keyword arguments instead of creating 4 different median functions.
You have to show your ID for the alcohol venue sometimes - that's common. But I've never seen anyone actually scanning one to get a copy.
What is wrong with facial recognition ? The problem should be government using it to enforce laws. Even that is debatable. Most public spaces are currently under surveillance.
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I played with one of these a month or so ago and will definitely get one for my more musically oriented child to play around with. They're fun and a different way at making synthesized sounds, the UI is reminiscent of handheld game consoles. Beware though, these could very well be a gateway drug to a house full of gear ;)
BS !
I don't know the solution.

We did used to have FCC rules that largely prevented the problem without any Ministry of Truth, but the rules were abandoned because billionaires found them inconvenient.
>when people believe that their bad mood is unchangeable, they do not engage in frivolous procrastination or acting on other impulses to engage in other activities

This is so simple, but also so enlightening.

Unfortunately for me, it means removing most of the instant gratification from my life, such as video games, social media (incl. HN), etc.
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CCTV cameras monitored by humans are COMPLETELY different from a facial recognition system recording the identities and movements of all people. There is no comparison.

There absolutely is an expectation of privacy in public. Being seen in public by a series of uncoordinated people is massively different from a PI tailing you and recording your actions. This form of privacy is generally termed "obscurity".
Android was just Google for 3 years and I imagine Huawei will be moving much faster. If they see the value in the OS (as opposed to Apple's HW strategy) it can have a Android-sized market share rather than an iOS-sized one which is significant outside our bubbles.
I wonder how many other people detest stickering as much as I do...
Someone linked to Amber Brown's talk and I thought this point would be important for discussion. I think there is something that isn't being considered here when it comes to relying on PyPi.

3PP(Third Party Packages) issues are responsible for a lot of application security vulnerabilities today. Every large enterprise organization has no idea what packages a developer is pulling onto their laptop and into their codebase.

As a security engineer, I like having a core team and a standard library in place that has gone through a long mature process with experienced developers, instead of someone who just git pushes code every night. You have no idea who is on the other end of that push too. It's too hard to keep track of changes and causes us to have to pin packages and versions that have been ok'd for use instead of a new release of Python. You have no guarantee the security engineer who reviewed the code didn't miss anything either.
It's talking about the Sabatier process, which takes hydrogen and carbon dioxide, and puts them with a nickel catalyst and high pressure to make water and methane (useful for rocket propellant)
14 years in this career and Japan is the only country I've had to do this with.
Aha! gfx.webrender.force-disabled was false. Now to ser how much difference it makes.
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(I am going to assume you are genuinely curious and will answer sincerely. Also, this topic has enough easy to Google sources for my claims below that I am not bothering to cite them, primarily because I am on my phone. However I am happy to add them later if that becomes the only point of contention)

Actually there aren't (white people being affected). This primarily affects Indians and to a lesser extent, Chinese immigrants.

For every one else, if you are here on a H1, and your spouse wants to work, you apply for a green card and get it in about a year. Now you and your spouse can work (and NOT WORK without consequences) for the next 10 years, after which you have to renew your green card.

If you are from India, your green card queue is currently estimated to be 30-100 years long. This is because green cards have country of birth quotas that ignore the population of countries. During this wait time, your spouse cannot work unless they can find another employer to sponsor an independent H1B for them. Also, you have to renew your H1 every 3 years, and if you lose your job, you have less than a month to find a new one, else you have to leave the US.

The Obama administration started the H4 work permit for the above situation, for people whose spouses are stuck in an insanely long green card queue. The number of people actually on H4 work permits is a miniscule percentage of the US labor force, such that it is not going to change any economic dynamics. But it is a massive blow to the unfortunate spouses who rely on it.

At which point, the most likely logical explanation for this step is that the Trump administration thinks that it will please his primary voter base, and the actual distribution of the affected people suggest (even if it is hard to prove) that racism played a role.
For someone living in Asia, it's crazy that people in Western countries have to always fiddle with their phone to search and connect to Wi-Fi, because their plans are expensive or the tunnels don't have coverage.
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It's the problem of worse programmers seeing something used, and then misusing it because they don't understand the fundamental reasoning that led to its use in the first place.

Graceful error exiting is to this day an unsolved problem in computer science (at least as far as the popular languages are concerned). Even after GOTO elimination hit its stride, Knuth noted:

"Another important class of go to statements is an error exit. Such checks on the validity of data are very important, especially in software, and it seems to be the one class of go to's that still is considered ugly but necessary by today's leading reformers. Sometimes it is necessary to exit from several levels of control, cutting across code that may even have been written by other programmers; and the most graceful way to do this is a direct approach with a go to or its equivalent. Then the intermediate levels of the program can be written under the assumption that nothing will go wrong."
I’m more concerned with how long this thing is going to last.
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I thinks it’s more comparison to compare travel time than travel distance when measuring safety. If we invented teleportation device that could whisk humans billions a mile way to the next star but killed 1/2 of the people that used it, it shouldn’t be considered the safest way of traveling.
Not in Sydney as far as I know. I'd love a lens portal at the "Planespotting beach" (-33.947075,151.168389)
Some bars and nightclubs use ID scanners for verification purposes. A machine vision system is much better than a bouncer at spotting fake IDs or knowing what a Latvian driving license is supposed to look like. The scanner can also check names against a list of banned patrons, which may be shared between venues.

https://www.patronscan.com/id-scanner-for-bars/
That's exactly what I thought of. I thought, dear god, it's real. I really hope someone didn't read Manna and think, gee, that sounds like a good idea!

I have to disagree with Marshall Brain's "solution" to the problem. When I read those final chapters, I couldn't help but think the Vertebrane system was subtly and insidiously even worse than Manna.
> America is, at its core, a nasty, venal, selfish and racist culture.

No bias to see here folks. Move along.

Trump voters and conservatives rarely care about pissing off liberals. Remember the internet is a crazy place where those who shout the loudest get the most attention. The vast majority of people are relatively sane and aren't out to hurt anybody. I'd encourage you to have an honest conversation with a few Trump voters before making blanket accusations.

People seem to think that all Trump voters care about is the economy. In reality, most of the ones I've met care deeply about their families and their country. They tend to see left wing policies as a threat to their future and the future of their children.
> Cheap laser pointers often skip the IR filter and will pass through a lot of IR light— which is especially dangerous because it doesn't trigger the blink reflex.

This is just outright wrong.

IR lasers don't trigger the blink reflex. Visible lasers with an IR component do trigger the blink reflex.
Impressive unpacking of a low detail, fairly innocuous comment, into a high detail, somewhat sinister assertion. What mechanism do you use to add specific details where none existed before?
The approval process for getting libraries okayed for production is a massive pain in the ass, and for good reason. Without a batteries included language, it'd be easier to write all those tools in-house than hope that maybe in two months I can get a library out in production, even though it's just JSON parsing or something. The "this is an official part of the language and held to high standards, guaranteed to be suitable for poduction and needing no approval beyond already being approved to use the language" makes Python way more preferable IRL than languages I love, but don't even include a random number generator in the standard library.
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It can be. Sometimes the requirements are complex so any expression of them in code would also be complex. Then another person sees this complex code and automatically assumes that it is bad and should be made less complex while completely ignoring the fact that it would break the requirements. And to the person who is now going to interject that the requirements should be simpler. I am all for that if possible, but in many cases it is not. E.g., if they are written in contracts. Of course, bad programmers will create complexity where none is needed.