skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That whole "it doesn't look like job replacement" is completely ludicrous, because math.

H-1B exists solely because industry says they can't find needed talent. If you've just had a huge number of layoffs of said talent, you should be getting 0 H-1Bs.
#FiyahFestival?

(No lessons learned.)
I do not know how to start with this. Reading through the comments, however, is enjoyable :)

my short and random list of less important things:

a) annoyingly difficult to leave a window slightly open on an otherwise locked vehicle (live in desert).

b) lack of control over raw data on instrumentation due to gui and locked code. impacts science...wherein people are not field and not CS.

c) wanton disregard for self-image due to perceived shield of teh webs. vast majority of us do not know how exposed we are.

d) total collapse of previously accepted informational authority.

e) we need societal help, but we dont know why or how.
> Why shouldn't they, when they put up all the money that the company's been burning?

Because there is another group that's putting up all the work. In startups, that work is generally more intense and risk laden, which is why employees are offered shares as part of compensation. Otherwise, why would they be offering shares? Both groups deserve protection.

The SEC was created so that people couldn't swindle each other in a legal manner. It works to some degree for investors who are, by the definition of these types of investors, rich ($1mm in assets or $200k/income). But it clearly isn't working for the people doing the work.

So our system protects the rich, but not the people who apply a trade. If you think that's ok, fine. But I find it terribly unfair.

Joint stock companies exist as a result of legislation, the separation of capital and management requires courts for mediation. I can't see why someone wouldn't support changing it to be more equitable to all involved, especially if it is done based on merit (where labor and capital are both weighed as equal inputs at the time of distribution of large liquidity events)
the original iphone was network exclusive to AT&T in the USA, I don't think there are many corporate visionary geniuses there personally.
Could be brand recognition - subsidised by the airlines (potentially unintentionally, when the price of the marketing is baked into the cost of an airplane) to make you feel somehow better in flying in an Airbus instead of a Boeing.
You don't see an issue with being unable to have your in-game relationships progress past "you're a woman and that's the only thing we care about you"?
I have a brand new iPhone and the cable that is included with the phone connects directly to my 2019 MacBook Pro.
Space Invaders in the URL Using Emojis and JavaScript
Was this info not in the original article? It seems to be the most important point, yet nobody else is discussing it in the comments.
Ask HN: Why do public hotspots deliberately circumvent Apple’s portal detection?
When I join a hotspot using my MacBook Pro, sometimes a dedicated web browser window comes up and navigates me to a portal where I can agree to terms or purchase wifi. Other times, that window doesn’t come up at all and any website I attempt to navigate to just stalls on “Connecting…”. Now, me being a technical person, I am aware that if I try to go to an HTTPS page (which is just about any page I’d normally go to now), the hotspot is not able to redirect me to a portal. So I deliberately try to find an HTTP page I can go to, then I instantly properly get redirected to a portal and can proceed to get on the internet.

I am perplexed by this, specifically:
1. How do non-technical people successfully get on the internet with these hotspots? If I didn’t know to go to an HTTP page, I feel like I would be stuck on hanging page requests forever.
2. One thing I’ve noticed is that macOS seems to use http://captive.apple.com to test for portals. For many hotspots, it seems like this is correctly captured and redirected to the portal. But for the hotspots I mentioned above, this URL simply returns “Success” with no portal redirect headers. Is this deliberate? Why would a hotspot try to circumvent this detection from Apple?
3. Am I misunderstanding this whole situation or have some aspect in my environment that makes this a very different experience for me than for others?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20427578
All this is just noise.

Globalized world. You can throw some visa restrictions in the path of that tornado but it won't stop it. Profit seeking companies will always gravitate towards optimizing quality per unit of cost.

The solution isn't more complex regulation...the solution is become more competitive globally. It's the only way to win - anything else...regulations, rules, red tape...people with incentive will find a way to circumvent.
I take my Kindle when I go backpacking. I like that it's light, sturdy, waterproof,and lasts many days without needing to be recharged. It doesn't compete with my phone. It competes with lugging a bunch of paperback books in my backpack, and it's so much better.
When people say that options or pre-ipo shares are “worth nothingl, it doesn’t mean that they literally have zero value on the market. They obviously have value, they have the company had a valuation at issue. It means that you shouldn’t assume you’ll see any value from them. Until a liquidity event, you’re not even a paper thousandaire.

Most private equity is worthless in a couple of years. Most companies crash before any liquidity event. Those that don reach an event, have such a preference stack, and so for such a pittance, the options are underwater.

It’s a mindset.
Huh interesting. Zooming works fine for me on IOS. Maybe it's only blocked on Android. If I remember I'll take a look on Monday.
the reliability of nuclear is 90%, the reliability of wind and solar is 20-40%

So yes its pretty disingenuous . Nuclear is a backup for wind and solar, not the other way around.
Which in a way is the point. How many folks in DC want to move their family to rural West Virginia to work with a group of inexperienced locals who know little to nothing about how their agency operates? The interesting question is how did the Scandinavian country manage to avoid this pitfall?
It went from horrific to merely bad. That model also had a 30% unit failure rate.
Historical Data Says XRP Price Could Surge Notably Before Swell 2019
Seems like the ideal would be a number of theorem provers each capable of verifying the next. And the first one simple enough to be verified with pen and paper
Probably Tree Tabs, a vertical treed list of tabs on the side of the window.
WeWork: Sometimes We Flew to the Maldives
The word you're looking for is resilience. That is basically all the regulators and grid ISOs do for the most part, make sure the grid is stable with different power sources of all types - be it gas generators and wind turbines that exist within a region under their control, or connections to outside grids. Regulators, national security people and others are definitely looking at what a hacking event might look like. The various grids, connected to each other or not, are definitely not as well designed to be resilient to something like a deliberate malicious act to damage power equipment by essentially hacking into the control systems to do something that they never were intended to do.

The design of electrical power grids is such that their control systems are by their very nature suppose to keep frequency and voltage within tolerances no matter the unpredictability of the grid. This is the definition of stability and resiliency that you're talking about. And the design takes into consideration failures of any device on the grid.

That being said, even being a minor power grid, it isn't actually isolated. Its just not subject to FERC regulations. But for the most part, its own regulations are similar to that of what other grid operators are doing, because it makes sense to do for grid stability reasons.

"The Texas Interconnection is tied to the Eastern Interconnection with two DC ties, and has a DC tie and a VFT to non-NERC systems in Mexico. There is one AC tie switch in Dayton, Texas that has been used only one time in its history (after Hurricane Ike).

On October 13, 2009, the Tres Amigas SuperStation was announced to connect the Eastern, Western and Texas Interconnections via three 5 GW superconductor links.[2] As of 2017, the project was reduced in scope and only related infrastructure was constructed for nearby wind projects connecting to the Western Interconnection."
They'd also have to release "The Whole Web as it was in 2008"

What people don't seem to realize is, as much as you think Google has changed, the Web has changed even more. If you kept Google the same as it was ten years ago, your results would be far far more full of irrelevent, SEO'ed, spammed up content today.
For me, tech has turned into a crutch when I don't know what to do. I've caught myself in the middle of automatic behavior and it's a bit scary - opening Reddit or HN, closing it because I've already read everything on the front page, then opening it again a few seconds later without even thinking about it.

I wonder what I would be doing without it. Creating art? Going out? I'd have to do something. It's something I want to explore more. Maybe I'll schedule just an hour each day where every device is turned off.
I think most people stick to 1-2 apps based on their culture and friends. But when you live in a culturally diverse society you end up having to install quite a few (e.g. WeChat for China, Kakao for Korea, LINE for Japan/Taiwan, Whatsapp for India/many other countries, Signal for the privacy expert in your life), etc.

I'd consider SMS as an "app" too, with the limitation of no group chats, and requires a roaming SIM card if you happen to go abroad.
Eh, the problem is that any such project should be tied to efficiency. And it should be able to ramp up very slowly, and should be cancelable any time. Usually the problem is that these projects run into issues that need escalation, eg. a small change in scope, requirements, specs, budget, structure, milestones. They usually have to start by building bridges to other groups, and there's usually no mechanism to make good incremental agreements, that are needed to facilitate a great systems design. (So in the end a lot of thing hinges on random/arbitrary interpersonal relations and chance.)

Just delivering something for the sake of it leads to atrociously bad public infrastructure, be it software or a stretch of pavement.
> Look, I am pointing this out not primarily to make fun of SoftBank, which is easy enough in hindsight, but to suggest that these are really big changes. Not just for SoftBank! Fast-growing money-losing tech-adjacent startups under the absolute control of their founders were the dominant category of big private unicorns not that long ago, and SoftBank was the leader and trendsetter and deepest pocket in funding those companies. And now, after some disappointing results, SoftBank is heading in the exact opposite direction, emphasizing profitability and good governance over growth and, you know, bad governance.

Personally, I like the change in direction..
This contextualizes the Hackers cameo a little.
Reminds me a bit of the story of Charles de Gaulle. A war hero, a powerful man of his time that overstayed his welcome when the world changed around him.
One of his buddies is Rob Pike.
Provers in the LCF tradition have tiny cores that avoid having to trust lots of code. There are also reflective provers that can admit self-verified extensions. One project, called Milawa, had several layers of this.
H1Bs have no (EDIT: limited) mobility. They are indentured servants to their sponsor. If you hired citizens, they’d bounce for better pay sooner rather than later. Your company possibly does this because the power imbalance is useful.
Oh, I think he's political. I think he carefully tried not appearing that way though.

My point is, I don't think he bought the Post to be political or political reasons. I think he bought The Post because he's a rich collector of nice/novel/rare things..and it seemed like a fun hobby. At the time.

If someone wanted to sell me The Post or let's say WSJ for what I consider pocket change, I would most certainly be interested. Good journalism is something that is going away, but, the obscenely rich can curate and prop up.
Maybe they did it slowly? And the new site started with a new version?
That definitely could explain it. Having taken LSD a few times in my life, I sometimes wake up and see form constants and tracers. But it’s only immediately after waking; then it disappears. This too is a rare occurrence, maybe once every 100 days or so.
Pretty much and the thing is, businesses that don't remember their employees are the ones there every day making them their money aren't worth working for. Even when/if things get better, the treatment won't change. There'll be something else. It's not like this company is some upstart, starry eyed and hopeful first time startup or anything.
Some rich guy died, so what?
Blue collar workers cant be more competitive than the cost of living supports.
Zooms fine with Brave on Android.
You will have to try pretty hard to convince people that using a small adapter IS THE END OF THE GODDAMNED WORLD.
There's a lot of virtue signaling on HN.
unfortunately, my excel spreadsheet crashes at 2,147,483,647 rows :(
Um, we have an alpha channel now on every single computing device display.

You can make a scrollbar that "ghosts" over/under the content.
I’m confused. Are you saying that startups should supposed to lie and tell prospective employees that they’re going to be billionaires? Why do you think you think “the best people” are so naïve?

Never join a startup for riches. You join because you join for professional enrichment. That’s it.
WARN notices should trigger an H1B lockout/cool off period for at least a year.
Transforming an ELF Executable into a Library
Ribbons (2018)
But there's a broader aspect to this. will.i.am is a pop musician. Obviously he's successful in the music industry but why would anyone think he can suddenly found and run a tech company?
Doing an incremental approximation is very much possible. And it's up to the customer to say when to stop. And also to judge the sufficiency of the speed of convergence.
Microsoft has had a variety of government contracts, and even government clouds, for a long time. Not sure this will create much of a difference in culture.
Roger Mcnamee and Bill McGlashan did something similar to Bono, though Mcnamee at least got Bono his cash back. In Will's case, it looks to be some notorious Indian national with a checkered past that took him for a ride. (I can totally relate.) If these people had tried as hard as Bono and Will did but then failed, you can bet these artists would be the first to understand; but that's not what happened. Their product was always about sucking cash from some rich celebrity and using it to take risks that they themselves wouldn't have taken on their own, even if they had the means to do so. It's one of many reasons why many VCs these days simply use OPM (and all of the ensuing chaos that happens while trying to protect their funds LPs). have no fear, Bono and will.i.am are legit enough (again, weird to include them in same sentence) that they can pull millions out of thin air with nothing more than a MacBook and a set of, uh...headphones...make that RED headphones. :)
My god this has been confusing me for weeks.
It's not. Pressing the escape key stops Javascript from running.
It's not only about the $10 billion. Microsoft has essentially cemented being the cloud provider for the Pentagon for the foreseeable future.

Once all of the pentagon is integrated with Azure, after the 10 years are up, it will be very unlikely for Pentagon to want to switch, not only due to costs, but everyone will have been trained specifically for handling Azure.

This gives Microsoft a massive lead in terms of government infrastructure and all but guarantees we'll be seeing more and more contracts handed to Azure.
A better name for their company would have been Oh, The Irony.
There definitely are people who confuse red and green, I know one. He really hates all those battery chargers that change color from red to green when they finish charging because he cannot distinguish them at all.
> Let's start with the major area of economic policy called taxation

How about if we start with the ones I listed in the linked comment. The link you cite is Krugman aggressively trying to signal something anti-Trump after it was already too late.

I've been reading Krugman's op eds for years and nearly everything Trump says about economic policy is practically verbatim Krugman.

Also, one could argue that Trump's massive increase in deficit spending will likely result in increases to future income tax rates to the levels AOC advocates, but with the beneficiaries (unfortunately) being defense contractors rather than the poor and middle class.

Krugman has advocated closed borders for years as well:

The New Deal made America a vastly better place, yet it probably wouldn’t have been possible without the immigration restrictions that went into effect after World War I. For one thing, absent those restrictions, there would have been many claims, justified or not, about people flocking to America to take advantage of welfare programs.

(https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/opinion/paul-krugman-immi...)

To be clear, Krugman is a respectable person unlike Trump, but he shares the same ideology of economic populism and framing of rust belt workers as victims of modernization, globalization, and trade.
1) Good question. In my experience it's generally around a 1-2% gain over inflation, although in reality that dropped a lot for many workers since 2009 as companies raced to cut costs. But compounded over let's say 20 years, you're looking at 22-49% over starting fresh. Manufacturing is an interesting case beyond this since a lot of jobs were unionized and came with tenure benefits in excess of my numbers above.

2) In a purely rational way, yes. However,

a) I'm most interested in discussing average scenarios which in this case is young people = generally mortgageless and childless, older people = generally have children and associated costs

b) It often ends up more complicated than that when you factor in social safety nets. You could very well do better by not taking a job that allows you to barely scrape by and instead take the government assistance.

c) Rationalizing away a massive decrease in standard of living for a significant number of people as, effectively, "at least they're not homeless" is one of the ways you end up with massive inequality and eventually the populism push we're seeing now leading potentially to something akin to the French Revolution.

I think we can find a better solution. This is exactly the kind of discussion that has been missing on a national level until very recently.
If you're not doing the most complicated thing in the world, why would they have to be competitive with pay?
Texas interconnect long predates cloud computing!

MS business has long been built around large corporations and government yes, but this is putting the cart before the horse.
You are going to need to more clearly explain how this

That's my point: everyone has to learn a bit of english, and that's good.

is "good" then.
I have a friend, an engineer but not a programmer, who wrote a fortran program he's been using for decades to solve real problems.

But then recently he had to solve it for 10 different things instead of one. So he copy/pasted his calculations 10 times. He said the problem he was running into now was when he tweaked something, he had to change something in 10 places.

I think that's how normal people solve problems. They just bumble ahead doing what they know will work, but it's not pretty.
Welcome to common stock
I would say the community is biased the other way around, where everyone always thinks that it's the little guy that has invalid configuration, instead of Google being at fault.

What sort of config do you require from the OP? Their domain name is public and uncensored right in the top of the post. Their configuration has been cross-checked by many people so far. A lot of folks claimed that it has issues (like a `?all` in SPF, or `p=none` in DMARC, or some other nonsense that any spammer would easily get right), but those issues have been rebuked as not being significant to the issue at stake, plus, there's absolutely no confirmation that fixing these "issues" would resolve the problem, either.
Web Extension Starter to Build “Write Once Write on Any Browser” Extension
I'd imagine they aren't paying any cut to recruiters. I guess that leaves real estate, equipment, contractor, and legal/accounting (assuming outsourced) overhead.
Genius. Love it.
My previous company had this triple threat of compensation problems going on: (1) Didn't offer high enough pay, (2) Got burned badly when they did try to offer higher pay to get senior engineers because they weren't good at identifying top talent anyway (I repeatedly complained and tried to fix this but no one cared), and (3) Was not in an amazingly profitable industry anyway, so they were never going to be able to come close to FANG salaries regardless.

It was sad to see the slow/inevitable march of good engineer being hired essentially by accident (the hiring process didn't recognize them as such and didn't tend to offer them more) and then leaving to greener pastures when they weren't being rewarded properly. When I left, they offered me a near 50% raise as retention offer (why weren't they paying me that already since I was clearly worth it?!), but despite that being a director title, it still couldn't touch the SWE offer at Google ... so here I am.

The biggest overarching problem I would say with most businesses like that is they aren't profitable enough, and engineers can't produce enough value in those companies, to justify really top-tier compensation like what would be necessary to get and retain top talent engineers long-term.
> The 50% to 90% bracket

what percentage of the u.s population fits into that bracket?
Because you're not hiring enough people otherwise.
Beyond automatic accessibility testing: What I check on every website I build
Doesn’t look exponentially increasing: https://images.app.goo.gl/e2Bo8NnsFvGoMCS46

https://images.app.goo.gl/Vycafp5WiuNgUy9m6
I was an avid reader of PC/Computing in middle school and vividly remember calling that fake ad number.
This seems to assume the US would close its borders to an independent Texas.

I would expect there to be a free trade agreement at least as good as for Canada and Mexico.

Canada has similar population as Texas and does very well outside the US. I don't see why Texas couldn't do the same.
https://youtu.be/gHN-EhL8x3g