skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a freelance DevOps consultant working in Germany

I consider my duty as 50% as consultant regarding DevOps culture and agile culture and to 50% "building pipelines and all that automation stuff"
This shows quite clearly how DevOps as a term is used in Germany. Either the fusion of responsibility of Dev and Ops is meant or just someone who does this modern cloudy stuff
One thing I really like in the DevOps space is that I never had a problem with the tech stack at a customer. Some want more cloud, some more pipelines, some more infrastructure, still I could do every project and never had problems with my qualification.
So when I have calls from recruite I kinda skip the tech stuff, since it won't be the issue anyway. I'm more intersted in how much the company really does DevOps and Agile.
I just recently declined a job opportunity bc the company wanted to buy this modern DevOps stuff but actually couldn't risk an actual change.

The customer I currently working for is a mess. It's a middle sized company who has to finish 3 projects at the same time and do neither the "new world" nor the "old world"
They overthrown a lot of the old world rules and took a lot of power from the project managers.
But what they are doing now is taking random parts of the new world and implement it in a broken way and say "we are modern!"
Like this they are doing neither of it and they end up with basically just chaos.
Companies often want a change without having a change. And for me it's kinda annoying to run against corporate walls, when I was hired (as an expensive external!) to solve those problems but then getting ignored.
So they throw more people at the problem and just churn them. As you guys already know, what 1 guy in IT can do within 1 day, 2 guys can do it in 2 days.

P.S.: I'm planning to relocate from germany to NY. If someone needs a DevOps, give me a shoutout to: jjdjnrjfifj@gmail.com
Also open for non-work contacts. Don't want to be alone in NY
Every decision is a discrimination of an alternative decision.
Oh boy, driving through the shit town of Haaren by bus while trying to text my girlfriend I'll be there in 10. I miss my Nokia 6230i or E75 so much during those times. I don't get why nobody made an E75-style phone with Android, I look for it every time I need a new phone but there is never anything reasonable.
How about I just kill the person, then let's see who's really free?
> Therefore, the provision is to maximize value. It is the basic responsibility of anyone running a public company. Of course this is all fuzzy and you do have a lot of leeway in justifying expenses/investments, but the principle remains.

And this is where the law can step in. The shareholders can unite and take action. Or the gov can atep in. For example, the state of NY is going after Exxon Mobile for fraud, as related to EM's lack of disclosure over their role in climate change.
It is not the same. I used to go dancing for years, but most people were going to a bar after that to socialize. Some dance events are a combination of both (the milonga for Argentine tango), but I haven't seen one to replace it.
Not going to react to that because Poe's law applies here.
A definition that many HN readers are familiar with is at http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html
Poe's law strikes again. Peace.
Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked
it's not self-determination when your government lets 1 million foreigners a year into your country to vote in your elections
calling this not-censorship and 'a free speech law' is the most opposite-of-reality reading possible. This is an attempt by the government to force private companies to carry the government's desired content ("compelled speech"). This has repeatedly been tried in 1A cases and repeatedly been rebuffed (e.g. Riley vs. National Federation of the Blind).
Touch screens are amazing interfaces for interacting with zoom/rotation of multi-scale data (maps / 3D space / molecules / etc.).

Buttons are amazing interfaces for changing a single state of a machine.
lol @ all the pajeets in this thread downvoting the anti H-1B comments
> the planet is based on physics and doesn't understand GDP, so this is all in a wider sense irrelevant

Per

https://xkcd.com/435/

economics (GDP) would be to the far left (or between sociology and math if we're on S^1), so if efficiency became a part of the exchange rate or tax on goods, it would become immediately understandable by planet.

I like BTW, the suggestion that the planet's understanding things. I can imagine she feels rather itchy these days.
That reminds me of how great of a device my iPod shuffle was. To bad the battery died..,
What culture? American culture, the one that is comprised almost entirely of immigrant experiences?
I've always seen wisdom as the ability to reason well from moral axioms, whether yours or others, to normative conclusions. If reasoning from the axioms of others to normative conclusions you yourself would disagree with, you've demonstrated the ability to understand their views.

Once you're able to do that you're able to engage in the synthesis of several viewpoints to do things like conflict resolution, negotiation, leadership, etc.
All the other commenters are saying you should hire Americans, but why don't you instead hire remote?
Poliastro – Astrodynamics in Python
Same. For me this is a symptom of my ADD. I know this because I can hear voices in loud rooms much better if I’m properly medicated. Makes sense considering ADD is the brain not prioritizing the right inputs. Unfortunately the medication makes me very uninterested in going to pubs or loud places.
This is the old way of thinking, profitability doesn't seem to matter much anymore. The last two startups I worked for were (luckily) profitable and growing, but when the Series A investors found out about this they got very angry and started demanding we increase spending on things we didn't need: more engineers, more AWS, more initiatives for crazy tangents, hire a growth hacker, hire a growth marketer, then some more engineers who have nothing to work on.

The demand for perpetual (even artificial, fraudulent) growth is prioritized over all else. The VCs can't get out of their investment unless things have grown. That's all that matters to them.

Neither of those startups is around anymore, they were both driven out of business by this demand for more growth. The Series A investors couldn't care less, they exited long before the end and left someone else holding the bag.
There is a much smaller set of useful 100Mb text files than there is of total possible ones. If there's only 15 million such useful 100Mb text files we should be able to map them to 15Mb executables.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20668578
The math stuff is being rendered with a library called MathJax https://www.mathjax.org/
Replacing the touchscreen won't help with that, you'd need to re-do the whole ship with hydraulics, which has its own downsides.
Some friends that have a small bar told me the taxes and the rent are by far their biggest expenses. You cannot put 3x the number of customers in a place, but you can increase the taxes a few times until the number of pubs closing gets a temporary relief, then the upwards cycle continues.
The Economics of Bubbles
Yeah, this is important context. Even as a previous H1B holder myself I see any increase in refusals to companies like Infosys to be a good thing, they're renowned for their abuse of the system. The other feedback we see in this thread that smaller companies are struggling to hire, however... not good.
Not closed borders. Just specific closed borders. Notably, the ones facing the equator. Awkwardly the ones who will most need to close borders will be the ones against whom borders will be closed in the next wave of emigration.
Remote is the new open-office. It’s quite hard to make it work and you have to be set up that way from the start.
Putting the interests of mostly white Americans above foreigners is racist. @dang, can you ban this person?
>Some mathematicians consider...

Sheesh, citation needed. Doubt this paper would be allowed as a post on wikipedia.
Drinking from a brown bag is not "responsibly consuming freely", it is "covertly consuming".
From what I have read, a major source of error is lack of sleep. With 4 hours of sleep, it doesn’t matter what the UI/X is...
Right click, create shortcut, 4kb
> market rate for the role, the highest salary paid to any non-H1B employee at that company in the same role.

Easy, just give all your H1B software developers the official role of "janitor".

The real way to solve this is with a higher salary floor, or even better, a salary auction.
If they could hire someone locally at their desired level of pay, they wouldn't. But while a legitimate talent shortage (at any price) may exist for super elite, specialist roles, there are plenty of citizens who can do typical engineering or IT work. Companies that don't pay enough will have a hard time with hiring though, thus perceiving a shortage.

Employers know it's harder for them to switch jobs so they have leverage. They can't complain or do much if management requires they be on-call in the evening or work late. This makes the H-1B worker more attractive to management at the same salary level, since they'll do more work and won't rock the boat. I've also seen H-1Bs receive the same base salary offer, but over time their variable compensation/RSUs (large portion of TC at many tech jobs) and salary progression are much worse.

I don't think it's unreasonable to limit H-1Bs to exceptional talent, or at least review their total compensation more thoroughly to ensure they aren't putting excessive downward pressure on the wages of ordinary middle-class citizens.
Dude, I’m the same way! Was there an event that caused this to start happening to you? I used to toke up all the time, but now it’s always an uncomfortable experience.
That would be a huge drain on small businesses like startups, though. Only companies like Google would be able to afford it.

> the current salary requirement (min 60k)

That's not actually what it is. You have to submit the job for a "labor market opinion" (if I recall the name correctly) that tells you the prevailing wage for that job in your area.
Where do you draw the line?

How about Thailand or Malaysia (as an example)? They are both fairly developed and hoping to avoid middle income trap and become developed countries within few years. In both countries disregard for enviroment and citizens health is just sad. Toxic haze, toxic water, pollution, trash.

When is the moment that a country decides that it is rich enough and it is time to clean its act?

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1643388/chiang-...

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/thailand-monks-adorn-robes-ma...

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2019/08/06...

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/07/13/two-incid...

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/07/19/incinerat...
It's interesting that despite Apple's no-buttons obsession, even the latest iPhone still has a physical silent-mode switch and volume buttons.
This is what they do on your rear window - those lines are heating elements.
Pubs don’t have to be loud.
I've the same issue at times, it's called hidden hearing loss.

https://hear-it.org/hidden-hearing-loss

https://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal/Fulltext/2017/010...
Between 2006 and 1010, an average of 152,280 passenger cars caught fire per year, causing an average of 209 deaths and $538m in damages.

https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-st...
The article isn't talking about denials for FAANG or other reputable companies.

All the companies in the article are well-known abusers of the H1B visa, and a primary reason why Indians using the system as intended at top companies have the huge Green Card backlog.

You'll find endless discussions about those companies dating way before Trump.
There is a cap that is always reached. More denied applications just means more people are applying.
An amusing aside, I have a 1972 Schwinn frame with similar vintage parts on it. I can practically disassemble the whole thing with a couple of crescent wrenches.
The way the system is currently set up it's both. Outsourcing companies like those mentioned in the article (Infosys etc) absolutely abuse the system to hire cheap workers. But a lot of talented engineers are hired that way too. Hopefully I don't sound too biased when I say that, since I'm a former H1B holder. Whether I'm truly talented or not, I can assure you I was paid market rate.
I think I'll wait for successful replication before believing that one.
They tried to get permits, but ... for some unfortunate chain of events they never got the paperwork right. So now it's illegal, hence the tanks! The rule of law is perfect, only these protesters cannot seem to fill out a simple form. Maybe they need some re-education.
It is a negative thing, but it used to be a way of life. No idea if there is a correlation to decreasing levels of testosterone and sperm count in males in the past half of a century since we have reliable data. Possibly taming men to extinction, possibly completely unrelated.
Looking at my young male cats, playing and fighting is a big part of their lives. I think this is true for most higher species.
No, the article completely distorts the truth. It makes the order sound as if Trump is implementing a censored internet in the style of China.

A less-biased article would describe the order as an attempt to reduce the political favoritism being done by social media.
The Moral Case for Lightning: A Global Private Payment Network
Some cars have do two batteries, one for start/stop and one for everything else. (For example, some Mercedes have these, Suzuki "mild hybrid" cars, etc.)
I've got a very knowledgeable and experienced friend from Sweden that aced both Google's and Amazon's interviews, but they're only willing to employ him outside the US (Canada for example) due to the H1B issues. He didn't accept their offers and is now a top paid developer at a local startup.

I'm not sure how this is "Making America Great Again".
Only 132KB to load to memory

It's amusing to see people think 100KB+ is small, when the whole TOTP algorithm, including SHA1 (probably the biggest part), and the input/output conversion, likely needs only a few KB of code. With the exception of SHA1, everything else is doable in dozens of bytes.
I used a bash script with homebrew to reimage my MacBook fresh. With cask I can get almost every app I need and reinstate python and necessary packages. As you're working on the command line you can also modify most settings with defaults.write. I'm sure there is something similar you can do with windows and Linux.
I was going to disagree because I had misunderstood the GP. But if you’re both considering mega churches to be an example of evangelicals then I while heartedly agree. The mega church is the worst thing to happen to Christianity. While once you could be part of a small community and you’d notice new visitors and introduce yourself that doesn’t seem to be the case at the larger churches. I recall visiting small churches with my grandparents in our (likely evangelical) denomination and always being greeted and invited to potluck. The few times I’ve visited mega churches it felt so impersonal and hollow. I am a pro-church athiest but I’d like to see the likes of Joe Olstein pass away.
11 Years of Top-Selling Book Covers, Arranged by Visual Similarity
Correct, but there are many times less rich people than regular people. If all the pubs are targeting rich people where will the majority of the world go?
How many of those were sitting in a garage or just parked, doing nothing, when they caught fire?
I would argue that it is not really covert as brown bagging for public consumption is a well known social convention. Most Americans (especially those enforcing the law) know or assume that when you are obscuring a bottle with a bag and consuming from that bottle in public, you are consuming alcohol. It is not much more covert than not placing the drink in a brown paper bag.
https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machi...
every culture is the result of immigration and foreign influences, that doesn't mean Americans lose the right to have a country for themselves.

India is a nation of immigrants heavily influenced by centuries of foreign rule. Does that mean Indians don't have a culture?
There is another reason they want spending to increase. They need you to run out of money before you hit profitability or else you won't need to do another round of financing so that the VCs can take a larger piece of the pie.
It must be peak. You could see how an electric motor efficiency map looks like here:

https://x-engineer.org/automotive-engineering/vehicle/electr...
Those numbers are skewed because they count visa extensions and transfers to a different company instead of just new H1Bs arriving. They also don't count people leaving, except in the sense that they won't apply for an extension or transfer in 3 years.

The country numbers are also skewed because someone from countries other than India/China, say France, shows only once or twice in your data before they get their green card and don't have to renew their work visa.

This is because of the hard cap of 7% per country for work green cards regardless of the size of the country. i.e countries with a billion plus people have the same 7% limit as tiny countries.
Let's picture a mechanical throttle, with force feedback to indicate conflicting inputs, and self positioning to indicate current settings. Spiffy! The interest in this thread is understandable.

Except this is 7th fleet, so operational tempo and deferred maintenance means those new throttles will be variously broken. So now absence of force sometimes means no conflict, and sometimes doesn't. And position sometimes indicates setting, and sometimes doesn't. You just need to keep track of what maintenance state each throttle of each pair is in. But don't worry, mechanical inputs for continuous variables reduces cognitive load.

And maybe instead of a mechanically complex positioner, we'll put a more reliable indicator next to the throttle. I know, it could be screen. Or even better, let's have both!

And ... oh, never mind.

Just two observations.

First, apropos unilateral transfer of control.

"In addition to the coordinated procedure, a unilateral procedure, in which one station could take control of thrust from another station by action of only one station, was also available. However, the unilateral procedure is not relevant to the accident and will not be discussed further in this report." Page 6 (pdf's 16).

"Considering the speed and timing of the control transfer, the NTSB concludes that the unintended shift in steering control from the helm to the lee helm station on the John S McCain was likely a unilateral transfer initiated from the lee helm station. [...] and contributed to the errors that led to the accident." Page 26 (36). Reflected in Findings 7 and 8.

Second, apropos the big red button.

"According to the John S McCain’s emergency procedures and other written directives, the helmsman’s first action in response to a loss of steering was to press the emergency-override-to-manual button. This action would have shifted steering to the helm station in the backup manual mode. However, the helmsman told investigators that, during the accident, he did not press the emergency-override-to-manual button because he believed that this sent steering control to aft steering (an opinion shared by other bridge watch standers interviewed by investigators)"

It seems the accident might have been avoided if the single big red button in the middle of the console, ambiguously labeled "EMERGENCY OVERRIDE TO MANUAL", had been sharpied with "Get manual helm control".
I think that including a parser in the standard library is either too high a bar or too low a bar, depending on the scope of the language's standard library. Either way it's somewhat arbitrary.

It would perhaps be better to say that a (language idiomatic) parser is available for the language that is maintained and used by the core language team and easily importable by third parties.

That way you avoid the minimal vs. batteries included standard library philosophical arguments.
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI

http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine
Hmm decent math proficiency is necessary to understand data science, but I don’t think it’s much of a differentiator.

Communication and critical thinking, not unlike many jobs, are the more important things. IMO many data scientists suck at the former.
> i.e. doesn't need to morph into a different and back again

The UX terminology for what you're describing is a modal interface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface)

... which is to say, an interface that works differently depending on what "mode" the interface is in.

A classic example of a modal interface is vi/vim, where you have to explicitly switch into "editing" mode in order to actually insert text into the document. And a classic demonstration of why modal interfaces are undesirable can be produced simply by taking someone who's never used vi/vim before, sitting them down in front of it, and telling them to enter a line of text. They will start typing, and immediately become confused when the words they typed don't actually show up anywhere. (Or worse, when they happen to have typed a keystroke that corresponds to a vi command and weird stuff they didn't expect starts happening.)

As you note, modal interfaces are particularly bad in situations where the user needs to operate the system under pressure -- such as (say) on a warship, where the life of the operator may literally depend on them being able to accomplish tasks quickly and accurately. Modal interfaces force the operator to first orient themselves as to what mode the system is currently in before they can do anything, which slows down even experienced operators, and pull away attention that could otherwise be applied elsewhere.

What does all that have to do with touchscreens? Because how a touchscreen operates can be modified with only some programming, they tend to lure developers into building modal interfaces in an effort to cram as many features into them as possible. From a feature-checklist perspective that's great, but from a usability perspective it's a disaster. Anyone who's experienced a modern car infotainment system will understand why -- paging through menu screens to find the one mode with the feature you want while piloting a two-ton hunk of metal at 75mph is a bad combination.
Wait. That's illegal!
In our fractional reserve system, money is made through loans themselves, not deposits.

Moreover, being a bank is about arbitrage. Traditionally, banks arbitrage between short term loans (the federal funds rate and the overnight rates) and long term debt. i.e Banks borrow short-term and lend long-term. The way they make money is taking on risk: converting a lot of risk (long-term loans) into short-term risk (the banks borrowing at the overnight rate). This is where quants and models come in. It takes a lot of skill to turn that long-term risk into short-term risk.
Developing tools for creating immersive binaural mixes of music
I believe that the activity-based stuff you list is quite orthogonal to the concept of “the third place”.
I never said America doesn't have a culture. I said that it is almost entirely informed by immigrant experiences, so the idea of shutting off new immigrant experiences makes no sense. You're just picking some arbitrary moment and saying "culture is done now". Culture is not and has never been some static constant throughout time. It's always changed, in few places more so than in America.
I wonder how much disk space a file system link would take.
My H1B at a ~200 person org was returned RFE and then denied. I'm a Canadian who worked at a bonafide SV startup. Been hearing a lot of the same.
You don't think this has anything to do with the plethora of suggestions that Twitter and YouTube apparently suppress conservative views?