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Or we could just get rid of H-1B and still maintain our freedom?
Novelist Vikram Chandra on writing and building software for writers
Unfortunately, Americans aren't worthy or anything beyond flipping burgers or making Frappuccino.
Do you know why good engineers are so hard to find?

Because we invented millions of arbitrary reasons to disqualify a "not-best" engineer like their coding syntax, the editor they use, stack they aren't familiar with etc.

It's gatekeeping, the people on the inside are learning on the job and googling instead of constantly cramming for an algorithm test. Three weeks ago none of you knew the new framework you're now using. The successful candidate will be neck-deep in your bugs for a long time.
That is ignoring my point with a deflection. This isn’t 1999 with Linux as a (relative) newcomer and on the upswing, the adoption rate has clearly dropped over time. I did miss the fact that Facebook uses Mercurial internally, but their public-facing repos are all on Github (including, ironically, their re-implementation of Mercurial, Mononoke). Open Source software doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it needs a community to support it and use it.
I'm going to wildly extrapolate from here and go meta about the future, though this is just a piece about your usual visa abusers finally getting the treat they deserve.

In 10-20 years there will be one viable immigration policy: closed borders. This is an inevitable corollary to the climate crisis.

In other words, if you're trying to better your life by relocating to a better place, get into pace - now.
That's comparatively tame. My two startup shutdown stories (in both cases I left 1-2 years before they totally blew up and heard about it through former coworkers):

In one, the VCs came in, ousted all the management, installed their own highly-paid employees, and then promptly ran out of money. The technical cofounder stealth-bid (through an employee friend) against the VC for the company IP at the bankruptcy auction. The auction house messed up and told both parties that they'd won. Lawsuits started flying back and forth. The founder decided that rather than deal with this, he'd move to China with the IP, where they don't enforce IP laws, and start the exact same company with Chinese employees. The company failed for exactly the same reason the first one did, namely the technical founder's complete and utter inability to manage a production-quality project to completion.

In the other, the business cofounder quit, ran off with the customer list, contacted all their customers saying "Hey, I'm founding a new startup", a lawsuit was filed, and AFAIK both businesses failed.

I've been lucky that with my own startups, I've parted on amicable terms with all the cofounders I've worked with - though this is usually because we only gave up when it was clear neither of us wanted to do it anymore.
Here's an idea. Make the caps salary dependent. No caps for positions paying > 100k (example), or keep the lottery if needed but every 10k increase on the salary from the minimum gets the application a new ticket on the draw.
The fork+exec is sort of a special, common case already. There have been attempts to explicitly implement that because even the current fork() has turned out to be too slow or too convoluted to implement, as witnessed by things like vfork() and posix_spawn(). We could just have fork() and fork_and_exec() sycalls separately.

The other common case is to actually fork() a child process. Even then it would suffice to just reserve enough physical pages to make sure the child won't OOM-by-write, but only copy pages when they're actually being written to so you wouldn't be copying a gigabyte of memory even if you never used most of it.

The kernel would allow applications to allocate at most physical mem size + swap size - any memory reserved for kernel. Thus you could still use MMU to push the least used pages into swap, and you could run more or larger programs that would fit in your RAM, but when memory is low these programs would always fail at the point of allocation, not memory access.
Absolutely. After having been here 17 years and still without a green card, having to be at the mercy of my employer, I'll most likely be going back taking my $1.5M in savings with me. You can replace me with one of your mass shooters.
I spend a lot of time in the neighborhood described by TFA. My experience is that beers will run me $6-10 before tip. Eating anything other than fast food will be at least $12-15 often $15-20, perhaps more if I go to a more chef driven place. Again, before tax & tip.

None of these are fancy places. In fact this description applies to both the bar from TFA as well as the other bar the author mentioned, and both are frequently described as "dives" by people in the area.

When I moved here not quite 20 years ago the prices were about half of what I just described.
Kazakhstan’s aggressive mass surveillance technique explained
Sucks to be them if it takes off then. After all, your chances of success on the second time around are substantially larger than the first. But then again, you'll also be a much harder case to take advantage off so that would rule out quite a few investors up front. And accelerators too, for that matter.
What even was the point of putting them there in the first place? It's a freaking gunboat.

You want this things to have a single clear mode of operation. You're using this to kill people, not play games. Clarity and intent of use are paramount here, over sweet transitions and looks
But, figuring out if visibility is good through the windshield is still manifestly a much easier problem to solve than self-driving cars.
Guitar hero guitars and rock band drums.

Really, we should be hiring twitch streamers to pilot these multimillion dollar vessels.
My hand was hanging from my wrist: gilets jaunes mutilated by police [video]
Why do you assume that they are saving money that way?
Quite a lot of companies pays people with h1b exactly the same _and_ they go through the effort of getting the visa itself which is not free. They wouldn't if they could hire someone locally
How to Be a Great Data Scientist
The Navy has tested using Xbox controllers for controlling periscopes. It's saves tens of thousands of dollars each over the fancy custom joysticks they used to use. If one breaks, it's easy to replace. It also helps a lot for training--the old ones took a few hours of training to get new users comfortable, but since a lot of the users are dudes in their 20s and 30s the Xbox controller is a lot more intuitive
> and access to great workers

and access to cheap workers

Let's be honest here.
He has a book on "Universal Artificial Intelligence" , that defines what he considers AI and then solves it. The only catch is that it relies on Kolmogorov complexity, which is incomputable.

The Kolmogorov complexity of a string is (loosely) the size of the smallest possible Turing machine that will output that string when run. So a string with 1000x "a" has a lower complexity than a random string of length 1000.

He sees GAI as a system that, given all its input up to now (from sensors and the like) and some value-function that defines the goal we're trying to reach, takes the action that has the highest expected value of the value-function. It's hard to give a better definition of intelligence in a completely general sense: given all input, choose the most likely best action.

That requires some guessing about the future: given all this input so far, for all possible next inputs in the next time step, what is the likelihood of each.

And his answer is: the likelihood is correlated with the Kolmogorov complexity of the sequence of all inputs so far, plus the possible future input we're currently considering. The idea is that there is information in the inputs so far, and the sequence that best uses that has the lowest Kolmogorov complexity and is most likely to occur. If we've, seen 999 "a" s, we expect another one. If we've seen a car-shaped object slide left to right on previous camera images, we expect it to continue its movement. If the input so far is completely random then every possible future is equally likely. Et cetera.

Given that, it becomes possible to calculate the value function for every combination of possible action and possible next sensor input, and the AI can know what to do.

Except of course for the detail that this is (wildly) incomputable.

But what is somewhat correlated to Kolmogorov complexity? Compressibility.

So that is why Hutter is interested in better compression algorithms.

All this is very loosely stated from memory, I was interested in this stuff over a decade ago...
I'd take a burger flipper over an Indian that poos all over the code base.
Set the spf fields in DNS and you should be fine. It's not really that hard unless you do send out spammy mails.
It's a choice, often an emotional one. One message our society sends is that power, expression and escape can be achieved through buying things.

I came to a point in my life pretty early where I realized that I don't need much. Also, I don't really give a shit about proxies for status, and that the people who do care about those proxies rarely are people that I want in my life in any significant fashion.

In a way, I've self-selected a social circle that doesn't pressure me into adopting principles and behaviors surrounding consumption that I don't agree with.
"They are hopeful that, as Hacker News continues to grow, it will become, simultaneously, more diverse, more interesting, and more humane, while remaining in some fundamental sense a single community with a common goal."

Right on. Greatly value this melting pot of diverse views and links that often lead to serendipitous discovery, clever ideas, and considered thought. What I originally hoped the internet would turn out to be.

So in case no one's said it in awhile, thank you to Paul Graham for starting and sustaining this outlet for reckless thought experiments, and to Scott and Daniel for their devoted management to herding all us feral cats. Keep up the good work!

Now back to the lab to continue coding my dueling libertarian Markov bots...
Why don't cars have 2 batteries? One for starting the car, and the other for all the crap that tends to kill the battery when you most need it?

Probably because it costs more money and nobody will pay for it. That's the best guess I have.
Wow, just hired first employee.
You really must have a _lot_ of experience in sourcing engineers then, right?
You're not a racist for saying it's bad. You're a racist for saying that the mere presence of nonwhite people has somehow harmed your "community".

If this is what you've taken away from your ancestors' struggles for freedom and self-determination, then I'm sorry to say that they died for nothing.
I agree, but isn't one (tiny, almost never worth it) benefit that it is not a mechanically moving part? Shouldn't it last longer?
When your attitude is one so absolutist, arrogant, defeatist and cynical, that's true.
Do many people speak to themself in the third person? It seems kind of odd in my opinion since we usually think of people that speak about themselves in the third person as being self absorbed, eccentric, or both. I do often take on the role of a third party in my own thoughts. For example, if I am fixing something on my house and not 100% sure of the results. It may seem ok to me or my wife, but then I think of the previous owner (a very meticulous person named Tim) and think “what would Tim have to say about this”. Then I proceed to scrutinize things from their perspective. It’s not really the same thing, but I think it serves a similar purpose and doesn’t seem so internally awkward.
>I know people will say that this is what happened to the Native Americans, and how I'm a racist white man for saying it's bad.

Because moving to a place for work purposes is the same as committing literal genocide? Wow.
NYC's $15 minimum wage hasn't brought restaurant apocalypse – they're thriving
Steady on my friend.

I'm an ecology nut but you have to give credit where credit is due: e.g. artificial nitrogen fertilizer really has been an incredible advance, to the point where we have literally been turning oil into people ever since it was invented. The "Green Revolution", pesticides, and even GMOs work, it has to be admitted.

Here is the rub though: For how long?

The final verdict on agriculture is yet to be determined, the story isn't finished yet.

We know ecological food production works long-term because it has, for millions upon millions of years. Every single one of your ancestors got enough to eat to reproduce at least once, going back all the way...

Farming, on the other hand, only works so far (approx 10k-12k years), and in terms of life and ecology and such, "so far" is nothing.

The evidence shows that our systems of food production are more akin to a disease or infestation than any sort of sane harmonious interaction. You can see it on satellite photos: our cities are like scabs or crusts, our farm lands are vast tracts of monocultures, our forests are riddles with clear cuts, our rivers are disappearing where they are not eroding the land, etc...

If you integrate productivity over the long-term then applied ecology beats farming despite all the arguable advances. That's the argument to use, eh?
> in the original paper, 500W is going somewhere, but there is no explanation of how, exactly, any current flows in the circuit

I puzzled over that a bit too. I think the answer is that as protons are shot out the negative side and electrons out the positive side, they create a field that counteracts the field between the grids. Maintaining the field strength thus requires continuously adding charge to the grids. In the hypothetical case of infinite grids (being charged by an infinite number of generators), the areal charge density on the grids would increase without bound, so that the charge density difference, and therefore the field, across the infinite plane halfway between the grids would remain constant. Exactly how this would translate to the finite case I'm less clear on, but I suppose the behavior would be similar, at least shortly after the drive was first turned on. Sooner or later, though, I think the voltage across the gap would increase to the point that any generator you could actually build wouldn't be able to push any more charge onto the grids.
There's something like a network effect at play insofar as it has a "rich get richer" effect. Farming practices that get more use get more research, which means that the orthodoxy is going to be closer to its local maximum than fringe methods. That means that a fringe method could have more potential efficacy than the orthodoxy while still being worse.
Whose definition of freedom? The capitalist would argue that by stripping away their ability hire from the global labor pool you’re restricting their freedom to operate as a free enterprise.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Module.html

The Module Learning With Rounding (MLWR) and Module Learning With Errors (MLWE) problems are used for a couple of the round-two candidates in NIST's Post-Quantum cryptography contest.

Which makes it more confusing. Modules aren't first/second year university math.
Retroreflective material could be used in nighttime color-changing road signs
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I worked in automative for lots of years. Up until around 2010 SH4 was mostly the dominating architecture for infotainment systems. Either with Windows CE or QNX running on top of it. Due to long development and product cycles as well as software reuse new cars with SH processors might have been released up to much later points in time.
What's the logic behind thinking your freedom is being impacted by tech hiring? What freedoms are specifically being impacted?
He asked a question and I answered. He never asked how much experience.
This is exactly what I think of when I see hopefuls talking about climate change, among other topics. The guy who doesn't have enough money for rent? He's not buying the expensive free range eggs.

If I were in a developing country, I would be worried that climate accords become a other way for those on top to stay there.
Companies want the visas primarily to undercut American workers.
Good. The system is rigged against local workers in favor of global corporations.

In addition to depressing wages this corrupt system sucks for the H1B workers too. They can't earn more at another company unless they return to their home countries and reapply to the system all over again. Which is absurd.
here is my story, because it feels really relevant to this subject:

I used to think this way, it was very hard to study or go deep into abstract concepts for long periods, but it is useful to some extend, I was able to get a "decent life as an responsable adult" with this system in my head. you ended learning anything you studied, but I felt uncomfortable, uneasy,tired all the time, full of anxiety in social events of any kind, to the point I got into a deep frustration and depression that leaded to unemployment twice in my life. all because of my internal voice, it can get very uncontrollable, it fools you in to thinking that this voice is the only resource you have in your mind. that the voice is you.

unemployed, with a lot of time in my hand, I started to learn math, specifically,I got into category theory thanks functional programming. the subject just fascinated me. I started a really hard journey ,I got really deep into that rabbit hole, all of this ,with my anxiety at full and my brain in complete chaos. but I continued, even when I couldn't grasp any of the concept explained in the articles and books I read. I just continued mindlessly like a zombie, and at some point I really thought that I was losing my mind. suddenly, one day, watching a video on YouTube about philosophy, I heard the expansion of the famous phrase, cogito, ergo zoom. and everything , from one moment to the next, started to make sense, things like monads, functors, implications of Cartesian products, etc.. were concepts that I could handle naturally, I was being overloaded with new knowledge that seemed to came from nowhere. it was the most exciting feeling I had in my life. I started to see everything different. the reflection of the tangible world in my mind was changed forever.

now,
I just try to transform everything, every interaction, memory or concept to a category theory diagram in my head. my mental model was altered when I discovered that everything can abstracted to dots and arrows moving around and "zoomed" in and out if you filter the unnecessary noise that comes from your senses and your own brain, which is a lot. once you find a simple system to do that mechanically , it starts to be something like blinking or breathe. you are focused with clear mind, all the time, from the first thoughts in morning to the last one before sleep, is such a fantastic feeling. I started to be very aware of this just few days ago and it feels like magic, I can't control it in full but I truly think I'm someone new.
The army life is not a good example; it is an intense, catalytic experience that accelerates and exaggerates processes that may not even appear in the real life. For many people their army buddies are the people they trust because they trusted their life to them, nothing like this happens for regular people.
What if this very article in the NYTimes was enough to get our universe suspended (because of course even The Architects read the NYTimes).

This is hilarious, the NYTimes is the last place I’d expect to read such a metaphysical philosophical piece.
Show HN: Soliloquy – Note-taking for power users
Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
Hello HN,

Every couple of years I find myself facing the same old tired routine: migrating my stuff off some laptop or desktop to a new one, usually combined with an OS upgrade. Is there anything like the kind of luxuries we now consider normal on the server side (IaaS; Terraform; maybe Ansible) that can be used to manage your PC and that would make re-imaging it as easy as it is on the server side?
It does look like an attempt to hammer labor theory into something that pushes the right buttons in modern academia.

What employers today seem to want is a workforce which is available and disposable. "Just in time" employees. This is not like being a government. It's being the dominant player in a market. Which, in some ways, is worse. It's power without responsibility. Employers don't want to be bothered with worker control.

Classically, this is Marx's "reserve army of labor".[1] This is why homelessness is useful to business - it's a reminder that, no matter how bad a job is, there's worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour
Fun fact: Broadcom is now actually a former HP spin-off spin- off (HP->Agilent->Avago), but is now worth more than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc, Agilent and Keysight combined.
> Nobody wants to be on a beach with a bunch of bros being loud, passing out, fighting...

People regularly pay $20+ to be in that environment for an evening indoors.
I just crossed Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan few days ago in my travel.

In three days of driving there with a car I got stopped by the police 5 times for no reason and in most cases the cops just wanted to get a bribe

I'm not surprised The country is using a mass surveillance technique in an aggressive way.
1. Maintain our independence from the crown
2. Maintain our hegemony
As a 28-year old, I never understood the appeal of a pub as a meeting place. I think my main issue is that in loud places I just cannot for the life of me understand what is being said. I've had my hearing tested and it's absolutely fine, better than it should be at my age actually, and yet it's as if my ability to decode human speech goes to zero as soon as I'm in a loud environment, especially if there's sport events playing on the TV as well. I end up sitting there and nodding to conversations because I genuinely have no idea what people are saying. And yet people have group meetings and hold entire conversations surrounded by what seems like just an impenetrable wall of noise. Anyone else with the same problem?
Russia Admits Mysterious Missile Engine Explosion Involved Nuclear Power Source
Possibly in some places, but not in my part of the world. Different places, different cultures, different outcomes.
Because it destroys my culture and texture of being.
It’s impossible to identify writing that couldn’t not have been written by humans.
> Doesn't have to make it to court for them to strongarm you into a settlement.

And what would they threaten you with? Bring that lawsuit before a judge and they'd laugh you out of the building.

They'd probably have their corporate lawyer write a mean sounding letter, you'd ignore, no way anything happens beyond that.