skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me, or other people out there terrified of trusting their life to some closed-source neural net that sees in black and white at 18fps which apparently believes that cars pop into and out of existence in a matter of milliseconds? This is not the future I hoped for.
People who can be paid less due to being tied to visas/desperation may be a boon to shareholders but not to the job market for locals.
There are plenty of disabilities that cannot be prosthetic'd away, yeah?
>With the high cost of living, I don't know how anyone can live there.

what's the cost of healthcare, childcare, and transportation like in Canada? I know this discussion personally because I've seen it play out between European and American tech jobs and I've seen a lot of difference in cost for raising children.

In Germany or the Netherlands good public education, kindergardens and so on set you back a few hundred bucks a month, I've seen Americans pay tens of thousands per year. Same for two cars that you don't need if you're an urban resident near a tech hub.
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Also better healthcare. My parents have friends that moved from the US to Canada due to this and the very competitive job market in the US with virtually no employee rights. They weren't working in tech but banking/services.
Exports account for 25% of Japan's GDP. So in all - it has strong local market.
If they are working in tech, their employer either pays for it fully or subsidizes it to the point where the person just pay something nominal like $50-100/mo, and it is not counted as their salary. So people usually don’t include that when saying how much they make, because they typically dont even actually know or care how much their employer pays for it (at my place of work you actually have to go pretty deep into the HR portal to look it up).
Much of that echoes with me.

I spent a lot of my teenage years in Dhahran as my dad was a UK expat instructor pilot to the Saudi Air Force. Living on compounds with swimming pools, endless sunshine, homebrew and smuggled pork products are features of a few of the childhood memories I cherish, that most around me in the UK don't have.

We crossed paths with Aramco families occasionally as there weren't exactly many other reasons for Westerners to be there. The US influences were striking to me, while things like segregation in restaurants were a little jarring even as a child mostly sitting in the family section, it gave me an exposure to US brands I still don't have in the UK. We get quite a few McDonalds but Dhahran had Fuddruckers, Baskin Robbins, Taco Bell, Wendy's - it was like being Charlie in the Chocolate Factory to me at the time. These were places I had only heard of from movies, something we still had in Saudi despite the lack of cinemas - one of the houses on the compound had bookcases full of pirate VHS tapes where we'd spend ages choosing from just the titles printed on labels.

We left before 9/11. I've no idea what, if any, is left of that life. Odd to read about it here, news coverage of the Kingdom is very one dimensional.
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I took this class as well and agree that it was the most useful course I took at Penn. I still use all of the things that I learned in this class every day (especially emacs). Luckily, I took it early in school and it made subsequent classes so much easier. Thank you Perry Metzger!
So... when does the music stop? Some kind of debt jubilee or currency reissue?
Yup, most ppl I know who've moved here for a tech job have no desire to move to the US for a similar role, even if it pays more.
I can't imagine the political shit show if the United States attempted to set up a points-based migration system like Canada.
This is how the film industry moved to California from New York. Back then it was far enough away not to worry about Edison patent lawsuits. By the time the rail improved and the patents expired, Hollywood (they tried Fremond and Tanforan first) was entrenched.

There's really nothing like working in the Valley but not everyone likes it and if there's a solid alternative I suspect that Vancouver and Toronto will continue to prosper no matter what the US policies end up being.
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I think the problem is more a lack of imagination. They just keep doing things the way they always have.

I seem to have a surplus both of "there has to be a better way"-itis, and some skill in finding such ways.
Possibly relevant to the spirit of the lawsuit... the other Crema location mentioned at the end of the article is almost directly across the street. This second location is at street level and accessible by wheelchair. I’m all for enabling access, but in this case, I’m also left wondering if the plaintiff was actually denied access to Crema’s products or services. The law is the law, but the spirit seems off here.
Publish an (academic) paper in a journal

"Publish" a paper (pre-print anyway) to arXiv.org

Write and publish a book

Write a white-paper

Speak on the topic at a conference, Meetup, etc.

Get featured in an interview on the topic in question

Be quoted in news article(s)

Write an op-ed or column for a magazine

Write a blog post, or series of blog posts

Get a patent

Start an OSS project related to your desired topic

Probably zillions of other things...
I guess that’s why the smart money in the US is buying stock in banks and financial corps. They are expecting euros to leave the EU and invest in US financial products
So it operates under the conditions that we expect the commercially available product to operate under? Yeah cool thanks for the caveat.
There are two major issues employers have with employment gaps.

1. Were you in jail.
2. Did your skills decline.

As long as you weren't in jail and you can show in the interview that you still have the technical skills, you should be fine.

Also, it's none of your employer's business and you could tell a innocuous white lie. If you don't want your employer to know your business, just make something up. After you start the job, it won't ever come up again.

Something everyone should take to heart: Fake it, til you make it. Just get through the door however you can and then perform. That's all that matters.
I am in the middle of a cyber incident response engagement and we identified compromises basis this. Wrote a quick and dirty code to enumerate it en masse and do automated connection analysis basis available teamviewer logs. The results, are actually eyepopping. Good analysis and w00t!
I mean, there's an easier way to set a negative interest rate on cash. Periodically select X% of the circulating serial numbers and declare that they're no longer valid currency.

In effect this makes X% of cash "burn off" every period, and allows the monetary authority to set any negative effective interest rate that they want.

This is by no means an endorsement of negative rates. But if you're going to go down that road, it's a better scheme than just trying to make holding cash too much of a pain in the ass.
> Guess how much time it takes to get a greed card? Atleast 100 years. I'm not joking. Unless there's a policy change, there's no possibility.

So my entire family migrated from India (not H1B though, so no idea what that process is like), and some are still migrating, and this is just ridiculous. Green cards and citizenship are issued quite regularly. I'm not going to say its fast, but it's not literally 100 years (can't tell if you were being sarcastic or not). My uncle got his a few years back, and got his citizenship this year. The system works, as long as there're no discrepancies.
In some ways, perhaps. The fact we frequently have to pay for prescribed medication is mind-blowingly ridiculous. Even with medical insurance (through your employer or paying for the plan yourself), you're usually forced to use generic medications if you want coverage - even when your doctor signs a Special Authority[0] form to have your medication covered. And yes, there can be pretty substantial differences between name brand and generic.

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Absolutely, though this article is focused on the left. The anti-science movement is especially frightening. I think it is related to what the article is talking about. The rejection of science being a kind of blowback
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Same mentality behind why each of us have a box of old VGA cards, 8MB RAM modules, and serial cables still in our closets that we haven't touched in years. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist but for $0.50 per cable why bother?
Sure, and if you live in Canada, you're explicitly paying for healthcare in the form of high taxes.
While EU does subsidize poor EU countries but we must question what's the impact of that subsidizing.

1. EU is single market
2. Germany micraclously had strong currency at the time EU was created, so Germany businesses bought everything in cheaper EU countries and winners became bigger winners engulfing all small players across whole EU
3. EU taxes winners of the game and sends some money to improve the quality of life in poor nations but this ensures that poor EU nation get trapped in middle range and never surpass Germany.

They've managed to get all benefits of "imperialism" without any of the downsides.
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People are sharing less of their personal lives on social media. Only 39% report using social media to stay in touch with what friends and family are doing. Most people are sharing photos with MMS, which is time-consuming, inefficient, and get buried in lines of text.

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ADA is not exactly a new law -- it was over a decade old when Tran set up shop.

It's entirely on her (and her real estate surveyor) for not doing the diligence to ensure that her coffee shop was accessible. I can't shed too many tears here, since she's got a profitable business; enough to expand.

ADA accessibility is great. Not just for the disabled, but for everyone with reduced mobility. Ever tried to get around old European cities? It's tough even for the able bodied. Imagine that, every day, for those who are permanently with reduced mobility, including the elderly, sick, pregnant, or otherwise handicapped.
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Companies that are nowhere near as successful as those in the US, developer salaries that are nowhere near those in the US.

I don't think I get it.
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Yup. I think we agree on that.

It doesn't matter if you have a highly performant pipeline for detecting other cars if you have a random 200 ms VM pause as another car blows a stop sign in front of you.
What forum software are you using?
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The US is still the most prefered destination country: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/these-are-the-countri.... It overshadows the next four popular destinations combined.
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I suspect Google uses their own projection for maps in Australia, as they do in the US, which, depending on how they defined and implemented it, could/should add the intermediate layer needed to help resolve this quickly. But there are way too many variables to speculate in any meaningful way.

Depending on how they store imported data vs different Google generated data, you could be talking about a simple transformation parameter change to their projection, or you could be taking about some complex, varying corrections.

For instance, if Google was already using street view or proprietary aerial images for ground truthing, they may have already compensated for the shift in various data sets, in different amounts, depending on when it was collected, and how they handled location adjustments due to discrepancies.

But being Google maps, I wouldn't expect accuracy better than a few meters for any given dataset anyway, given past performance.
I solved it. My solution was pretty ugly. I ended up brute-forcing it from both directions after finding the multiplicative inverse. Did you have a more elegant solution?
Working for a Silicon Valley tech company, you typically have extremely good health insurance and a vastly higher salary than anything in Canada. Salaries north of the border are a pittance compared to what you could earn in even a mid-tiered US city. I remember about 3 years ago being offered a “senior” “lead” rails developer position in Toronto paying $C30 per hour. And a non-lead was paying $C25 per hour. Ridiculous. And Toronto isn’t a cheap city. I made triple that working remotely for a Kansas City company.

Canada is a nice place, live there if you want, but “competitive compensation” is definitely not a reason.
Dedicated police call numbers are always routed via regular infrastructure.
Those wildly successful US companies have Canadian offices too, usually ;)
I misunderstood this the same way but the work is still interesting. I'm also glad to see more South Asian language support as some languages (e.g. Marathi) while spoken by a lot of people aren't well supported by e.g. Google yet.

The multi-language detection is pretty important too; I have a cousin who posts on FB in a mixture of English, Malay, Marathi and Bengali (the last of which I don't at all understand), mostly in the Latin alphabet. My kid also switches languages mid sentence. I t's pretty common.
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I'm not trying to be cheeky, but you're proving the point: I'd argue that UNIX systems and tools are the foundation of AWS, not TLA+. Amazon was famous for being held together with Perl, back in the day.

If your service or company survives long enough for the marginal cost of applying TLA+ to it to be worthwhile, you can afford to hire postdocs to work on it. They probably have 10 people using TLA+ on it. There are probably 500 software engineering teams in the world that are mature enough where the payoff is worth it.

It's not to say that TLA+ isn't useful, or that it isn't worth learning. It's just that TLA+ is never going to be a bedrock tool in the same way that UNIX systems knowledge is.
> One issue not discussed enough is all this push for automation really needs road marking guidelines pushed down from the Federal level

Yup especially because every country is USA.
Yeah! We don't negotiate with terrorists! I want to install this game, except for the parts I don't like, even though they do what I want them to! It's wrong of them to include stuff I don't like in their thing I want to use!

Seriously man, it's a game. If you don't like their methods of anticheat implementation, feel free not to play! It's easy. You won't be missed by those millions of internet strangers. I like that Riot was so upfront about this. They did a great job of describing what they were doing, why they were doing it, how it was being done, and did it in a way that wasn't dry as a chalk ball in the Sahara... So don't "sacrifice your computer freedom". Freedom to choose what's running on your OS is the same freedom they have choosing to use kernel level anticheat. Your attack of that freedom is pretty distasteful.
I'm a voter in the Bay Area and I disagree. So do many others.

The Bay Area isn't even close to full, it's just NIMBYs who hate any change blocking things.
>The US is the sole exception where developer salaries are priced close to doctor salaries.

This is incorrect. Good software developers in Poland, and to some extent the Ukraine, are enjoying salaries comparable with doctors there, if not more.
> Someone has given you a very unrealistic conception of California.

That someone might have been a Californian. To pick a recent example: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Videos-show-fatal-shoot...

Hyperbole aside, you are more likely to die from firearms in California than Canada. Most of that, on both sides of the border, is suicide.
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So did the article not meet the standards of technical writing?
How do you discount "personal catastrophe" appropriately, though? Surely the volatility in outcomes is very important, and not some simple expected value.

A 5% chance of my house burning down is much more costly to me than 5% of the economic cost of my house burning down. Indeed, there's not really a (reasonable) discounted price I will take for a chance of my house burning down.

Of course, this kind of aggressive avoidance of risk is exactly the thing we are annoyed with the employer for... But most employers do not have their eggs in one basket to the extent that someone returning to their career from a gap does.
Do you sign/is VRS an option available for you? I've had good success with the Video Relay Service with Apple.
Well, I just don't think about it. Pay being very high makes up for it. My priority date is 2 years behind the current priority date for EB2 so I'm hoping for a miracle. I cannot leave because we are so entrenched here and have lots of friends we don't want to leave behind.

It doesn't have to be a L1. Even with a H1B, if you worked as a manager in India and come here with a manager title (even Project Manager), you can apply in EB1 as a multinational manager. It's a terrible loophole and one that's mercilessly exploited.
The elephant in the room that went unmentioned by the article is scammers. Moving companies are notorious for holding your belongings hostage once they're all packed up and "renegotiating" their fee.

If someone could solve that problem - not just not being a scammer, but getting people to believe that you're not a scammer - I think they'd take over the industry.
>Canadian doctors, in relative terms, get paid about as much as American doctors and get to enjoy similar levels of prosperity as them.

This is again incorrect. Canada has a significant issue with brain drain in medicine as grads, like their CS counterparts, head south for better salaries and a better quality of life.
> I don't think it's a big secret that stamping out unions is a key part of modern management. If McKinsey and other consulting firms were management consultants, they should be even more aware of that strategy and would have been in a key position to effect that change over a large number of companies.

This is revisionism. Stamping out unions has nothing to do with modern management and everything to do with the (eternal) conflict between management vs. unions. The reason why unions are more and more scarce is a complex one riddled with both positives (employers are more sensitive to employee needs, government has implemented legislature that protects workers) and negatives (unions are often rife with corruption and cronyism). McKinsey is a footnote at best.

> CEO salaries are certainly relevant to the working middle class, since they are commonly seen as tremendously too high and the extra money could contribute to the middle class' wage.

This has already been debunked ad nauseam in this thread. We should be talking about capital gains, offshore accounts, low-interest corporate bailouts, quantitative easing (!!!), etc. But CEO salary outrage gets clicks.

> I think the point of that sentence is more like "the amount of effort it takes to become successful is significantly greater than it was when the system worked better."

I'm not sure how you're reading that. If anything, he mentioned how most CEOs of old had worked on the company line for like 30 years prior and is lamenting that "all" executives need these days is a diploma from an elite school and a McKinsey badge.
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Routing code + emergency number does work in some countries as a normally billed emergency call. Some countries silently redirect emergency call into billing infrastructure too.
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You need to show, and ideally being able to search by, the valid region/timezones of the jobs. For instance, US-only is very common. Another examples are Europe, UTC-1 to UTC+3, etc.
I don’t see a purpose to this in an era of Docker. They say their mission is to make it easy to host your own web apps, and provide some security around those apps, but Docker makes this easy as well and also provides a small amount of insulation around containers.
It is not just in Saudi. I grew up with a parent working for a very large European company. Lots of people from the home office lived rather 'colonially' when homed in my country.
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Under what circumstance would it cost a small company $100,000 to comply with laws against racial and sexual discrimination?

Maybe their business caters to rich white men who would stop patronizing the business if it allowed customers of other genders and skin tones? Obviously that doesn't make it "right", but if you're going to let the cost of complying with the law determine whether or not a business needs to follow it, then pretty much any bad behavior could be justified as costing too much to rectify.
I think you guys really ought to read about the lawyer that was only briefly highlighted in the article:

https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/07/07/judge-finds-witn...