skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a good use case for Zapier...seems like a simple "If this then that" type recipe where you could set up an email/Slack/SMS reminder in X days or on a specific date.

Or just create a calendar invite.
I can say that, at least at Uber, this is not true. Salaries, stock options and everything else is the same, no matter if you have a work visa or not.
I agree that this looks fishy, but they could be replacing different skillsets or firing people who they thought had a skillset but didn't demonstrate it after a year.
I doubt Texas is going to secede from the US any time soon. And I honestly wouldn't care either way if it did or didn't. But, I don't know if some of your arguments necessarily work.

> Pragmatically, separating from the rest of the United States would be devastating to our economy. Much like the United Kingdom from the EU, but on a much larger scale, because the vast majority of our trade, people, and connectedness come from being part of the U.S.

If Texas seceeded from the United States, it could always do so as part of a customs union, or even single market, with the United States. That assumes the US of course that agreed to that (but it would be in the economic best interests of the US to agree). It would take away Texas' ability to run an independent trade policy, and Texas would basically have to accept various policies being dictated to it by the much more powerful and bigger US. But, there is nothing in principle impossible about such an arrangement. Indeed, the UK could end up with such an arrangement with the EU ("Norway plus customs union") – the latest Brexit deal doesn't have such an arrangement, but that is not because the EU is opposed, it is because the Johnson government is opposed. (If Corbyn was PM, it might actually happen.)

Likewise, freedom of movement of people and absence of border controls could be maintained if Texas and the US agreed. See the Schengen agreement, or the British-Irish Common Travel Area, for existing examples.

> Metro areas like Killeen and a good chunk of San Antonio would simply cease to exist if the military left.

If Texas seceeded from the US, it would need its own military. Given it has roughly 8% of US population, why could it not claim roughly 8% of the US military's assets and personnel? Obviously, the US would have to agree to that; but, it seems plausible to me that in a peaceful and legal secession, the US and Texas governments would sit down and negotiate a transfer of some US federal assets and personnel to Texas, including sections of the US military. Probably, any individual service member who had personal connections with Texas would be given the choice between transferring to Texas or remaining in the US. It wouldn't necessarily be exactly 8%, but it probably wouldn't be 0%. (Obviously certain capabilities, such as nuclear weapons, would be entirely excluded.)

> (Never mind that a lot of that oil that Texans are so proud of us dragging out of the ground has to go on pipelines that cross the U.S.)

International oil and gas pipelines are not unheard of.
They made it up. I got stock options and RSUs at multiple companies while on H1B. It may happen but it’s not the norm.
Nah, I had a C64c and access to YIS503II MSX.

MSX is nowhere near a C64. It's just.. bland. Also ugly.
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Thanks for the reply!

(I edited my comment to remove my questions about TLA+ and CakeML, when I got to the "Related work" part of the paper. I was also wondering about Milawa but couldn't remember the name! Kudos sir!)
>The whole thing makes literally no sense.

Compared to staying jobless it's a hell of a good deal.
That may be true, but unless you post relevant technical details, that means nothing to strangers in the Internet.
That's the law as written, but it is commonly sold to the public as the parent post's "filling competitive positions with talent that can't be found domestically."
A resurgence of obsolete analog things
Premium processing has been suspended for significant portions of the past 2 years. It's not all that great anymore.
I totally get your view, but stand by my team. "Architect" deserves the skeptisicm, but if you're doing the right thing, it does add a ton of value. I concede that there are "architecture orgs" that drain more value than they add. Basically, we are "city planners", which is needed, and useful if done the right way.
There are lots of ways to recruit in these conditions:

One is to deceive or withhold information from potential hires and hope they buy the sales pitch about the company's prospects enough to not care to ask anything.

Another is to be honest and find employees who agree with the sales pitch, even given full information.

Yet another is to just pay a high enough cash salary to attract good-enough candidates.
I'm quoting TFA.
You get a 1-time 60-day period to find a new job or leave the country.
Zuckerberg BOUGHT space in the NYT for an Opinion Piece
I feel the same way, I instinctually open my phone to ease even the slightest twinge of boredom.

I don't think it would be SO bad if the news wasn't so depressing and horrible.

There are at least 2 incredibly sad stories on the front page of Reddit at all times it seems.

I wish there was something positive to fill the gaps.
They had a big population boom, also they very much did a lot of reforms needed to increase economic output (eg. private property laws, market liberalization, free trade agreements, clear-ish laws, education, healthcare, dense urbanization, public transportation).
I'm not talking about any legal requirement. Two things:

1. I'm simply refuting the ludicrous-on-its-face idea that if you just laid off hundreds of highly paid technical employees, that then hiring double the amount of H-1B's the following year, claiming you are not "displacing any American workers" is total BS.

2. Regardless of the letter of the law, certainly the political justification of why the US should have the H-1B program at all, which is argued by all the SV lobbying groups, is that the US needs workers in specialized fields because there aren't enough US workers.

Also, FWIW, I believe H-1B is a horrible program because it really only benefits the companies while basically allowing the visa holders to be treated like slaves. I'd be much more in favor of a simple "skilled occupations" global lottery that wasn't tied to any specific employer, with stronger protections to ensure visa holders aren't underpaid.
Spend less time in incel communities. You're falling for baseless propaganda written and spread by depressed people looking for a way to "rationally" blame others for their unhappiness and self-perpetuating loneliness.
Can the Sinclair do nearly full-screen 16fps video and 8khz digital audio streamed and real time decompressed from a floppy? Demoscene shows how vastly more capable the C64 was. Look at the hi-res ultra-color art in this demo. (watch from beginning to see some of the art)

https://youtu.be/FTtKHLZTbtA?t=653
Then to cheat, all you need is a friend who works at a mail sorting facility. Deliver the ballots from zip codes that vote the way you prefer. The others, possibly just half of them to evade detection, get dumped in a swamp.
The SOEs are not behind China’s economic growth. The export sector is.

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2014/08/passages-i-highl...

> Westerners often describe China's explosive economic growth as a product of its export sector. This sector, however, is not "in the system":
“The private export oriented sector suffered massive losses in jobs, earnings, and the closure of small companies in 2008 and 2009. But China’s banks were not exposed in any material way to this sector. It is simple fact that China’s financial system and its stock, bond, and loan markets cater only to the state sector, of which the “National Champions” represent the reddest of the Red. These corporations, the heart of China’s state owned economy, are “inside the system.” The private economy, no matter how vibrant is “outside the system,” and in fact serves the will of the system.” (p. x)
At an IPO the preferred stock holders have an option to convert to common stock, which they invariably take. It's specified in the term sheet.

As such after the IPO all stocks are common stocks which are valued at the market price.
> Uber received 299 approvals for the year. First, this is a miniscule number.

That is NOT a small number. They obviously won't be able to fill all of them, but 300 people is larger than the entire IT departments of some relatively large tech companies I've worked for. I realize Uber is global and there is a lot of infrastructure there, but I still don't see how this is a small number at all.
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I'm curious how you define "democracy". Email delivery is very democratic, with each person having the power to choose with whom they associate and who they choose to delegate decisions to. Anyone who doesn't like Google's spam blocker can advertise an alternate address on a mail server that welcomes all submissions (or host a blog, or join a freely open IRC channel,...)
In most cases, you'd want this to be handled at the OS-level by setting your locale preferences to match your region. However, this would require the app to be properly internationalized (using number formatters, etc.) to work correctly.

So you bring up a neat idea. I'm not sure which OSs support it, but OpenType does have a `locale` feature, primarily for glyph variants (ex: same codepoint, but different glyph for Chinese vs. Japanese). I'm guessing it could be abused to accomplish what you want and not require an app to adopt i18n APIs.
I agree completely.

One other aspect that often gets lost in these conversations is that manufacturing capacity is a huge part of what wins wars. The US won World War II largely because we could produce planes and ships faster than our enemies could destroy them. When we shipped our manufacturing capabilities overseas, we also undermined a key wartime advantage.

It is within our national interest to have a strong industrial base. The only way I can see that happening from here is automation.
I really doubt that, because any journalist with integrity would quit and make a stink about it, which would tank the Post's reputation. I would cancel my subscription the same day, and I imagine so would a lot of other people.

Also, I've seen plenty of negative stories about Amazon in the past months. I remember them because they always have a disclaimer about Bezos owning the post in the article. Here's one from just yesterday: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/24/amazon-.... Can you point to any specific negative story on Amazon that the Post has noticeably not covered?
>2) Older workers often need higher salaries because they have families to support (along with the many costs associated) which young workers do not. It's a naturally unbalanced situation.

That's completely illogical. What you need doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what type of work is available for you and retraining expands the availability of work. If retraining is unattractive because you see higher paying opportunities elsewhere then you don't even have the problem that retraining is supposed to solve.
Depending on the markup, the second example in “myth 6” is flat out wrong as the author ignores one of the failure modes for color only - unless there is an accessible name on those success/failure dots, screen reader users are SOL.
It will help during a war for sure.
There will be naysayers when a second or third world country achieves a milestone.
Tell HN: HN should have a search bar
I've personally experienced this. I believe that I am somehow predisposed to recurrent feelings of death anxiety; panic episodes have plagued me since early high school.

Around that time, I first experienced a cannabis high. It was horrible. For whatever reason, I felt like time was skipping and my existential fear of death grew to never-before-seen levels. I vividly remember spending over an hour shaking, spilling my fear onto my dad. Even the thought makes me dissociate and feel panicky.

(Yes, I've seen a psychiatrist and become more able to control my response. My incompatible mindset, however, remains.)

I believe other people in my life are better at ignoring or denying these feelings. I'm curious if anyone shares my experience.
When housing is part of compensation would you still think that ?
The people who produced 800-1160-digit approximations of pi before computers ... back in the late 1940s (e.g. Wrench & Smith) ... used electro-mechanical calculators (e.g. Marchant). That (doomed) technology is well-documented here: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/
I received something similar with my last offer, but it also included the caveat that the shares are currently completely worthless unless we have some sort of exit, which probably wouldn't be happening in the short term.

It was pretty refreshing.
>Were forms easier 5, 10 years ago than they are to implement today?

Yes. Less was expected of us. Things have grown and evolved in such a way that user interfaces can provide much better experiences than they use to be able to and as the capabilities have grown, so have the expectations. Along with it the barrier to entry has gone up.
> My understanding is that DNA is basically unique

It is, in a lab environment with lots of source material.

If you are taking small samples of DNA from terribly dirty places and then amplifying the hell out of it, you get massive amounts of contamination.

Rape kits are "mostly" reliable under most circumstances, but have some problematic edge cases. Swabs from crime scenes, on the other hand, are generally garbage.
Haha I wish! Too much fidelity has been lost already. The model would just be guessing.

The sniff test is if a person can’t do it, then a model can’t either. Lots of queries look fine for matching, but you really have no idea what the intent or information need of the searcher is.
This! I'm always amused when people go to great lengths to announce how they made their color palette accessible, only to showcase some graphs labeled red and green right after :)
Do everything in your power to make the people deciding to skimp out on pay feel like shit for being greedy.
We recently launched a simple stock option value calculator on our jobs pages https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen... that has a few scenarios. I love how this calculator gives a lot more variables to try. Maybe we should link to it.
H1Bs are basically modern day wage slaves.

Anyone who thinks the technical interview process is based on merit/technical proficiency alone needs a very big wake up call.
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The thing that doesn't make sense to me here is that layoffs are supposed to be about having too many employees rather than about having low-quality employees. Why are they hiring at all? Shouldn't they have just laid off fewer people if they need more than they have now?
>c)

If they don't care then there is no problem. If they are unwilling to take paths toward self improvement maybe it's for the best to not force them to do something they don't want?
It's incredible that even in an arcane technical discussion that detoured through a metaphor to races and species rooted in not one but mutliple
niche sunbgenress of fantasy literature, the author still managed to cram in some bizarre sexism.
I once got to have dinner with Penn and Rob Pike years ago. I had no idea at the time who Pike was. Looked him up afterwards (this was pre-Wikipedia) and felt like an idiot.
Here's a direct link to that page: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandM...
I was also wondering why it's not being discussed much. It could be because HN is mostly non-political, although when I see political discussions come up there is a noticeable Republican slant.
I don't know what to tell you. The reality of the situation is clearly different than what you think it is.
Sim Daltonism is another:

https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/
I'm going to have to call you out on this. You can't criticize a person for not taking the time to type out text-to-speech and then yourself use "1000ms" - because if I Google "1000ms" it returns 2236.94 Miles per hour!
H1B salaries must be at least as high as the average salary for that profession in the area. How is above average salary 'wage slavery'?
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Newspapers were at least, historically at least in the 20th century, were expected to inform and keep a separation between opinion and news. They clearly had a political slant, but they couldn't just ignore facts that they found inconvenient, or only mention them in hit pieces meant to discredit them. Exceptions to this, like Yellow Journalism and Hearst's use of his papers for personal and political ends were at least considered failures of journalism in hindsight.

This is only partly true. One example that comes to mind, in the early 20th Century, Winston Churchill deliberately started a successful newspaper whose sole purpose was to disarm a general strike by workers who were underpaid. Not only did it suceed but Churchill bragged about it in Parliament to the opposition party after the strike had been defeated!

> In the Soviet Union they kept a tight control on the media, and Pravda was controlled by the ruling party to amplify it's message as a tool of propaganda. It would ignore inconvenient facts and stories based on their propaganda value, or if something inconvenient was too well known to ignore it would mention it only to discredit it.

I think it's worth mentioning here how most media companies are totally or partly controlled by the acting CEO of FOX News, Rupert Murdoch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch). In the UK he controls almost all paper-based newspapers that the public read, in addition to most non-BBC channels. As a result, the papers have a staunch xenophobic, neoliberal attitude -- to the point of openly calling leading members of the opposition party in the UK "Maoist" (One newspaper in particular published 1500 words of fan fiction about the opposition party's socialist policies, mixed in with the ordinary news) and naming and shaming members of the UK high court for ruling that does not agree with the paper's stance. The papers have been known to publish outright lies about the European Union -- to the point the EU set up a website specifically to debunk the lies published in mainly Murdoch-controlled papers: https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
Can’t speak for cloud architect roles, but the roles I’ve been offered for security architect are $150k-$220k/year base comp with various levels of bonus and RSUs. That’s the market reality.

In the current labor market, you should be asking for a raise regardless.
This is a great point and pretty much mirrors my own views. I read the NYT but I'm under no pretense it's "neutral" or "fair and balanced". It is a highly partisan, albeit factual, news source that is selectively edited and clearly pushes a very specific worldview, through which every story is filtered. This worldview includes beliefs like: unions are always good, capitalism is at best suspect and makes a few rich, at worse a primary driver of inequality, all inequality is bad, middle-class wage stagnation is a huge problem, all government spending is good, regulation is the answer to any problem and any who oppose it are misguided/stupid, all law enforcement is racist/generally suspect, and my personal favorite, that some cabal of powerful people meet and regularly conspire to screw over ordinary "middle class Americans" (my wife and I call these hypothetical people "mustache twirlers", generally evil white men with white Persian lap cats and snifters of expensive cognac).

As a practical matter, I think the only thing a person can do is consciously seek out both sides of the story. Read a credible conservative daily (WSJ, Chicago Tribune) and a left-leaning Sunday paper (WaPo/NYT)/news magazine. Get both sides of the issue and see which you find more persuasive.
Interesting. If I remember correctly when the contract was initially made public there was a lot of critism as it seemed tailor made for Amazon. Microsoft has pulled a great coup but I have to wonder -- President Trump has brought up this contract in his critism of Amazon and Bezos, was this move political?
In China it’s almost all due to globalization. Multinationals doing siphon out wealth. They invest huge amounts of money in foreign direct investment, enabling faster growth than if all capital had to be domestically sourced and they take some of those profits and repatriate them, but the wages they pay and the capital investment they make stay in country.

In China the people who were poor subsistence farmers absolutely are those lifted out of poverty. The numbers are just too great for it to work any other way, with urbanization going from ~20% in 1980 to 70 or 80% now. Similarly in Korea.
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The assumption that they are hiring H1B employees to save money does not hold the water. It is a condition of H1B visa approval for the company to offer a competitive wage. The company must advertise a similar position and offer an H1B employee a salary in the market range.

As someone who was on H1B once myself, I find articles like this as a disturbing example of anti-immigration hysteria which is quite common in current political climate in the US. "Indians/Mexicans are coming for your jobs!" For people who really think this is the case, I suggest comparing size of the US job market and H1B visa cap. The amount of H1B holder is relatively small.

As someone who lives in the Bay Area, I know the demand for qualified engineers and I am pretty sure all the good engineers of 300 people they laid of will be snatched by other companies immediately.