skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That site helped me to write a Plasma dynamic background.

https://invent.kde.org/vandenoever/tiles/
yeah. it starts in October but they cannot take the visa back, right?
The encrypted data along with the signature of the encrypted vote is written to the bigquery table (and not directly to the air-gapped server) which is written to another temp folder (only the account that has access permissions can write to this folder) before being downloaded and processed on air-gapped server. The malicious server will not be directly able to write to the air-gapped server.
I think this is what he called threaded trees. Just space efficient.

HTML dom has the necessary links. Let's you do dfs without a stack.
Homelessness: The Problem That Silicon Valley Doesn't Even Want to Solve

Because you know, it isn't clear how and if solving homelessness will make you money.
Tech salaries are not even close.
Only Toronto and Vancouver would be attractive options for tech workers, both cities have a housing problem.
This reminds me of Democracy Earth. I like how Democracy Earth takes into account the concept of liquid democracy, where people can vote through nominating a trusted person they feel is more suited than they are to make what they feel is the right decision. This representative vote is an option to take on a vote-by-vote basis.

https://democracy.earth/
I suspect that we are in for a massive, top-to-bottom rewrite, cross-platform. Just not sure when it will hit the streets.

That's a really big job, and they can't afford many screw-ups.
The rule is just "which one is easier to say? use that one". "A nvidia" is just wrong.
I think it's an astro-turf campaign, it feels like it. Because no one thinking logically is gonna push an agenda that hard without actually thinking through it.
it’s political. and an attack. insert something about guidelines
Looking Forward to the End of Humanity
Tactile displays are a thing

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014193820...
Why? It creates clickbait, commentbait, and sharebait for computerhistory.org, which is good for them.
How much are companies expecting to save by going this route? Is it dramatic?
Yeah the rule is just "which one sounds better?". That's why "an" exists in the first place - because saying "a nvidia" is super awkward.
I just want to chip in to say that I think darcs also deserves a honorable mention :)
Thanks for the data. I see comments across threads on HN that say that H1-B hires are common. What is the incentive to hire them then? Are professionals in the US really that ill-equipped? I guess there is a bit of cognitive dissonance with FAANG complaining about no qualified workers but then FAANG only hired people who went to Stanford or Harvard and such.
Unemployment is up from 3% to 11% YOY in information sector:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm

These number are said to underestimate the true unemployment numbers.

U.S. should focus on American unemployment numbers.
Thank you. Not everyone is like this however. I can't even begin to tell you how amazing, friendly and compassionate were the staff at the hospital(Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara). They definitely made up for the awful ride there.
Around 68.7% in 2017.

Going by these numbers (WARNING: PDF download): https://immigrationhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/h-...

That shows what a short-sighted move this is on the part of the administration - just re-election theater, I guess.
My previous boss would openly brag about doing this, while he was doing it.
What's the mechanism you suggest for funding education and training in our country? It doesn't seem to be popular.
I do contracting for a professional services outfit, and they gave me the Windows corporate laptop (Dell Latitude) and also sent me a MacBook Pro 16", which my manager had to explicitly ask for.

The only difference? I can receive encrypted emails only on the Windows laptop due to some software not being available for the Mac.

I do all my development on macOS, and if spending $4k on a machine means I am more productive, can get work done faster, it's a return on investment that pays back multiple times.

Do note that laptop refreshes in my past companies (current is ~2 years) have been on average every 2.5 year... so it's not like I get a new laptop yearly.

That Dell Latitude is frustrating to use. The trackpad is absolutely atrocious, the display is dim, the keyboard is really mushy and causes pain in my hands when I use it for short periods of time...
> there's no way to check out an ebook from a library in a way that doesn't involve Amazon

Isn't this what Libby - https://libbyapp.com/ - does?
Microsoft wanted to establish a Windows phone platform where phone manufacturers pay license fees.

If they had finished Nokia's Maemo with a Windows graphics framework and given away the operating system for free they would have had a much better chance.

There is room for another platform as long as it serves what the market wants.
This isn't a remotely recent phenomena.

Back in the 90s when I was studying computer graphics I checked out a textbook on statistics and data visualization from the local library. I don't remember the year it was published, but it was one of those old hardcover books with browning coarse paper pages and a dark linen lining on the exterior.

It was full of real world, hand-drawn visualizations, and one of the economic examples plotted Hersheys chocolate bar size per year across over a decade, with some other economic factor, GDP or some such. The text went a bit off on a tangent describing how the price of the bar stayed relatively constant but its volume varied in lockstep with the economy.

I doubt you could use the Hersheys bar today as an economic barometer since we have so much variety on the store shelves. Back then there was just one Hersheys bar... but they seem to have always manipulated its size over its price.
I grew up in a non-religious household. I have a science career track. I study a good amount of science. I didn't know much about religions. When I was young, I consider myself an atheist. I enjoy reading history. Sometimes, I end up reading some religious material.

I'm reaching the middle of my life. I gradually transition into religious beliefs. It's somewhat an awkward and unexpected journey. There's so much mystery in life. When you were young, you think you understand a lot. You can study anything. But you'd slowly find yourself clueless. No book can describe the experience of having and raising children.

I'm not sure if I'd go back to atheism towards the end of my life. I did meet people who go that route. It's kind of interesting to see. Maybe, we just bounce around.
It’s just nitpicking but visa in US immigration parlance is only a tool for entry to the country.

Work authorization and visa are not technically same. You can stay in the country legally even with expired visa (the one pasted in the passport) but with work authorization approval documents extending the same visa category or another category.
I'm not sure if you are right: https://www.blackenterprise.com/will-limiting-h1b-visas-help...

BTW 500k people on the H1B1 visa is a hell lot of "skilled people": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/foreign-workers-visas-...
There's money in homelessness, just like there's money in for-profit prisons. A great many people are employed in San Francisco working for publicly funded homeless programs.

> Between 2011 and 2012, SF spent $157 million on homeless services. By the 2015-2016 fiscal year, it was up to $242 million. In the most recent 2019-2020 budget proposals, the figure hit more than $364 million. But the consensus remains that more is needed.

(Source: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21027974/san-francisco-home... )

That money's not going to the homeless people. It's going to the people who run the services to support them. You think they'd want to see homelessness end?

And, indirectly, the Police make money from homelessness because they can use it to get their budgets increased.
I know people on H1s who make 500k to a million dollars per year at FAANG.
Lost in Yellowstone, the Misadventures of Truman Everts
I don't think Canada is more strict, not at all, but would like to hear from commenters who moved to Canada. Especially draconian is the fact that the spouse of a h1b holder can't work (last I checked). As an immigrant in the Netherlands that's not the case there and it's a huge deal breaker for me to ever think of the U.S.
Worth noting that the solution is simple. If you want to end homelessness, you give the homeless houses. It turns out we have a ton of empty houses and apartments in America. If that’s not palatable I’d be more interested in looking at why.
Exactly, shut them down, American interests will be protected. Most of the folks getting on the H1-B have a masters degree in an American university, if they are in SV, it's usually a top-tier one. I've personally made some of the best hires on-campus.
I found the part about him moving in with his coworker/friend and effectively becoming a grandfather to his children so deeply moving. What a beautiful thing.
My anecdotal experience as a hiring manager in tech firms for over a decade: it’s not about money, it’s about quickly finding qualified employees. Unemployment has been (until recently) low. There wasn’t some large supply of unemployed, qualified engineers sitting around. Nearly everyone I hired already had a job. Expanding the search globally just gave me a better chance of finding someone.
Thx for reply.

Regarding NewsCatcherAPI, I plan to do some examples that I will post on our website (newscatcherapi.com).

Some big works will be also posted on my sub stack, yes.
I’d love to see comprehensive data on this. I worked at a fortune 10 oil and gas company in Houston. We had onshore contractors across a range, but I know a few of them made less than $18 an hour. The rest that we paid went to two different contracting companies.
Apparently all visa holders will be denied entry so basically they can’t enter until this order expires.
Years back I had a college friend who was hired on an OPT visa. When they wanted to convert his visa to H1B (I think) they kept getting suitable candidates so had to rewrite the requirements so its only suited to him. He confided this to me as he felt bad but really needed that job.
Intel 10 nm does not use EUV.
That's just weird over-correction. "A historic day" is correct but for some reason people heard "An historic day" and the idea spread that it was a special exception.

Kind of like how you see lots of people on Reddit saying "water isn't wet, it just makes other things wet". They heard someone else say it and it sounds smart so they repeat it, without spending 10 seconds to look it up in a dictionary.
Fun talks so far! The esp8266 one is a good example of running Nim on embedded targets. I’ve been happy with Nim in iterating on a hardware product with an esp32, despite being more of an embedded Linux guy. Hoping to expand it out once async is ARC ready. If others are interested in esp32 support, I was able to create an initial PR to target for the ESP-IDF, which is a fork of FreeRTOS and LwIP. It supports much of the basic POSIX api’s, including `select` which is crucial for efficient servers. Freertos tasks and inter-task queues need Nim-ified, but I’m not an expert in FreeRTOS. :/ The Nim library code is surprisingly easy to hack on!
HN battling over grammar which is a standard. Focus on topic!
I think it's more that they're fairly indentured. Their visa is tied to a specific _kind_ of work, they're legally prevented from making money in any other way other than their current job, and while they can change jobs, my understanding is it is generally viewed as risky (for instance, if the new place doesn't work out, you've got a few short months to find employment or your visa is no good and you have to uproot your life)

It'd be really interesting to see data on how often H1B's change jobs compared to the rest of the population.
Wasn't Intel saber-rattling about patent lawsuits when Microsoft announced that Windows for ARM would run some x86 apps via emulation? [1]

While I don't know what became of that, I can see Microsoft working out a deal with Intel because Windows is still huge on x86 and wasn't going anywhere.

On the other hand, if Apple is planning to completely drop Intel in favor of ARM and wants to implement x86 emulation, I can't see Intel letting OSX ARM emulate x86 without some form of resistance.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2017/06/16/intel... (sorry about the link being Forbes, it was the first search result for the keywords I used)
mysql databases can be stored in memory for non-critical data
A compiler course is standard, but it didn't teach me about linkers, relocation, loading, and all that stuff. So I see p4bl0's point.
Market of Robotic Process Automation Tools
"What if, instead of bowing to corporate greed which cares not a bit for our country or our people, we actually invested in our own population and trained them to do the jobs H1-B workers currently do."

Who's this "our people" you're talking about?

As a US citizen, I consider every person in the world as part of my people, and I don't begrudge any individual coming and working or training in the US.

The more people, from whichever country, have access to good education and good jobs, the better.

Good education and jobs should not be reserved for people who happen to live or be born in a particular place, be descended from particular people, nor just those who managed to get certain bureaucratic paperwork.
Mataroa Webring Integration
The SPEC benchmark code is rather short and synthetic. The vendors then write compiler "improvements" which are specifically designed for optimizing that exact benchmark code for their processors. It often causes the results to be unrepresentative of performance on general purpose code which nobody is doing that for.
No, you do not need a visa to STAY in the country. Legal status and having a visa in your passport is not tied together.

Your legal status is shown in your I-94. You can get into the country in a status, and adjust to another, without having a visa to reflect the new status.

If you leave the country and want to get back in, however, you need to have the right visa.

Again, a visa is only required to have a CBP officer admit you into the country in a specific status. After getting in, it does not have much importance.

What Trump is trying to do is, hack his way into enforcing the policies he thinks it is a good idea. Since SCOTUS gave him a carte blanche with respect to admitting aliens into the country, in order to stop H1B, he is using the same legislation. That lets him only to stop people from getting in; other ways of stopping it either takes time or needs to go through Congress.
If the "sub" passwords are 2 char long then then they have way too less entropy. For this to that make any sense it must use a sizable subset of the full password (which must be longer than usual to accommodate for that.

And all this to protect for keyloggers. Probably a hardware token second factor is more effective.
No need to argue extremes. The title makes it clear that lots of groups have failed to solve the problem. And, that SV puts it self out as the source of solutions for the world. Yet they have to step over homeless to get into their offices in the morning.

What I wrote is a bit long for a headline. What they wrote sums it up nicely.
I came to the USA on an H1B visa 2 years ago.

On a high salary and with the promise of being sponsored for a green card.

I got my green card just before covid impacted the USA and still have a pretty high salary (in the same range of my US born colleagues).

I already had a great job in my home country, I was not going to come to the USA to be paid a pittance.

Yeah, there is abuse of the green card system but it is in place because there aren't enough skilled workers in the USA.
The biggest employers of H1-B workers have almost always been consulting companies, most of them located well outside the valley.
You cannot offer both in-app. You cannot even mention that you offer both and that the credit-card signup is on your website. If you go with Apple's in-app purchases, you must not mention any alternative methods of payment.
I'd take 5% in a heart beat. But I'm not willing to run the interview gauntlet, especially as I get older. There's age discrimination, and everyone wants/expects you to be an expert on ephemeral technologies.
I was screaming inside when the FBI started waving around that they had evidence and all they could show for it in public at the time was a handful of incoming HTTP requests from Russian IPs.

I get hundreds of MB of traffic from Russian, Chinese, etc IP addresses every week scanning for drupal/wordpress/etc vulnerabilities. It hardly meant anything.

Worse still is that we know that this happens and my colleagues still just go along with whatever companies like CrowdStrike or Trail of Bits or whoever say. Like we make business decisions based on their word alone. They're popular, so they must be correct. Group think is real and there's large numbers of us who aren't as capable as we claim to be. 95% of the work for most is checking the boxes on compliance questionnaires and getting shut down/stalled by the engineering & ops teams who actually make their companies money.
Its an older device, all those links give https certificate errors
for fuck's sake, no one has to follow standards!
Isn’t that obvious ? Would you be OK if Bollywood makes a movie with cannibalistic villain with names like Moses, Zeus, Jesus or even Lincoln ? No, that won’t be OK. Just because something already happened long ago doesn’t make it OK. Don’t normalise it
The end of the flamewars is in the math
But he sent out emails to employees saying they just had to email HR and they would be released from their NDAs. I don't understand what more you want?
One dead in early morning shooting at Seattle Capitol Hill protest zone
This has been in the news for a while now. Good on Apple to disable the tracking by default.
Homelessness seems easy enough to solve. Build a bunch of free housing, but giving away housing doesn't jive with our society so nobody is motivated to do it. Least of all Silicon Valley.
Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes
I agree, I would love to get a subscription por my parents but I’m sure they will not stick to it unless Spanish is supported.
> […] the licenses are so expensive that people on the product team can’t even make small changes or illustrate concepts

I completely agree.

I don't see the Figma files as an output that designers produce. I see it as a product on its own that people should be able to collaborate on.

I'm not going to stop a designer from sending me pull requests. In fact, for small mundane updates I'd LOVE it, since it would take this burden away from me. In fact, our inhouse designers all have GitHub accounts, so in theory they are able to.

But when I want to tweak a little thing in a Figma file, like adjust naming of the symbols, clean up icons, add more diverse examples of the content to document edge cases, or to have grounds for my next discussion with a designer or engineer, I'm not allowed to. Also quite often the thing that I want to do is not necessarily meant for designers, but for my fellow developers. Things like technical notes for implementation.
The graph displays 150 GW, with no duration specified. 4 hours of 150GW storage, or 600GWh of storage, is still only 5% of the nation's current daily electricity consumption.

And that's probably going to be an even smaller share in 2035 as more vehicles go electric.
but if they say this call may be recorded aren't you consenting by continuing the call?
Why does Apple do anything? I think one factor that is always a concern for them is control. They switched to Intel for more control over their product lines.

Same issue here - they’ll switch to ARM for more control. AMD has some good hardware, but they’d just end up switching one outside chip vendor for another. So while a move to AMD would be “safer”, it still wouldn’t offer any more control over their products.

That’s my guess.
Reposting my response from a different thread:

Every time you file an H1B Visa, you pay something called a ACWIA Fee (“American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998”). For employers who have between 1-25 full-time workers, the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act fee is $750. For employers with 26 or more full-time employees, the fee is $1,500. [1] This fee was established to fund training and education programs administered by the Department of Labor.

As of 2018, there were 420K active H1B visas in the USA. These people need to renew their visas every 3 years (most are Indians and they can never become PR in their lifetime). So that means 300-630 million USD is being added to this fund on a recurring basis over a 3 year period.

I wonder where all that money went.

[1] https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-visa-processing-fees-2016/
This doesn't work at all in countries where Apple Pay is not a thing, or where Apple Pay doesn't have support from one or more major banks.
Nextdoor ends its program for forwarding suspicions to police
There literally isn't enough productive capacity in the world, at present, to feed people this way.

The only way to get healthy food to most people is for the regulatory power of the government to step in, backed up by the vigilance of the people. Capitalism won't solve this problem. Your individual choices won't solve it. Engaged citizens using their right to regulate business is the only solution.
Engagement. The majority of the people that such a blog would be shared with won't read it because it requires clicking an extra link. Tweets can be read in-line. Also, tweets in a tweet thread can be commented on specifically rather than on the blog post entirely.
Oh you’re one of those open borders people. It’s idealistic but unfeasible now. Countries need to take care of their own people first and foremost.
People use irc #nim (bridged with gitter, discord, matrix) to post simple questions or hangout. For more complex matters forum.nim-lang.org is used. All are pretty active. Github issues included ;) which gives you a good idea of how many people are using Nim.
Old buildings have gone through a filter. The ugly ones were destroyed with no one caring. The beautiful ones have armies of people fighting to maintain them.

There are beautiful and ugly new buildings. In 1000 years time only the beautiful buildings from this era will have survived and we'll be talking about why the buildings of today are nowhere near as nice.
In the US the spouse of an H1B visa holder can work.
Salary is not even the issue. The main issue is the employment restrictions. Instead of making H1-B a visa that lets an individual full freedom (like green card), it's tied to an employer and moving jobs is not that easy, and many employers also sponsor for green card, which is another process that can take years and make it harder to move. During this time the employee has little leverage asking for promo or raises. (promo and raises usually appear after the green card..)

Once you let employees freedom, the market will take care of the salary. I also understand that employers invest in the visa application and relocation of people, so it should be fair to them as well. This can solved by having a period (1-year is pretty reasonable) that prohibits new visa holders from moving companies.
What prevents normal users or malicious actors from voting multiple times?

If no such prevention is in place, are there any guarantees at all that the collected statistics actually reflect real opinions?