skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remarkable + koreader has been one of my primary work tools for the last few months. However, it's the storage capacity that most aggravates me (a commonality among most ereaders).

Really, I wish we had a sort of eink (and lcd) tablet PC: general, bare hardware that it's just assumed you'll probably throw your own OS onto at some point. Make it ugly: four torx screws and the back comes off and you can access the battery and the mainboard and the onboard storage. Maybe an external micro SD slot.

Not android, just plain linux + off the shelf components with solid driver support.

The real frustration is that the Remarkable is 90% of the way there to such a thing.

If desktop computers had started out like tablets, we would have skipped over the Apple II and it would have been hermetically sealed Macs from the beginning.

The problem with projects like these (other than for fun) is that the software isn't where the issue is. It's the lack of open hardware. We reinvent too many wheels and never bother to get to the actual cart.
I believe they're legal in any single-party-consent state, but I honestly don't know how that plays when the other person is in an all-party-consent state.
Remote Workers and Network Support Demands During Covid
https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Facebook+Inc&job=&city=&ye...

This doesn't include stock so maybe double that number for TC.
Same thing happened in Germany, UK and France. They waited until Apple/Google could provide Low Energy Bluetooth support. Earlier apps had energy problems, bit did implement the tracking ID securely, decentralized. Now the OS update the new apps don't use their own decentralized tracking anymore, they switched over to. the OS provided new "Random ID", which is a centralized Tracking ID. All those countries are lying about the security implications. In CH at least there was some public criticism which is conveniently ignored, I guess.
The implication is that each government has now to ask Apple and Google via their friendly NSA contacts for the ID's in question. Which is not different from the previous protocol to get the search history or location protocol for its citizens.
One thing to remember is that in many cases H1-B workers are brought over by sponsoring companies which take a huge cut (I know cases of 40% or more) out of their salaries for the service of securing them the Visa. So those salaries might appear to be a certain number but the workers themselves may actually receive significantly less while some rent seeking company stashes the differences.

I know for a fact that in my industry (not in SV) H1-B wages are lower, going off both public data and conversations I've had with H1-B coworkers, many who I consider my friends.

As a side note, I don't blame H1-B workers at all for coming here. They're generally great developers and great people.
Yes that's how I use it, shpeck is a little funky under Wine but it basically works correctly. I think it will crash in some cases if you stop the visualisation when it's attached to the main window or something, I forget. I run it in a separate f2k install that just has a single shpeck instance filling the whole window, and receives audio input from pulseaudio's loopback.

Example: https://streamable.com/nzy730
The answer here is to actually fix the system with compassion rather than suspend it and harm everyone using it.

I'm not unbiased: I'm a former H1B visa holder and wasn't underpaid at all. I promise you we exist! It's not a fun situation to be in... if you have a pending green card application (up to a certain point in the process) you can't change jobs easily. And if you come from some countries (India, in particular) you have a wait of ten years or more before receiving your green card.

It feels like a collision of a bunch of otherwise unrelated decisions that ultimately harms both immigrant and native workers and only benefits companies. It's all fixable, but like so many things in the US right now, not politically possible.
Make it easier for H1B's to transfer to another, better-paying job without losing their privilege of staying and working in the country. Then it's a real win-win, for both guest workers and citizens. The only actors who would lose are those seeking to abuse the system in the first place.
Not letting people in status travel and come back is crazy. It just shows the lack of common sense of the US government. It's the same lack of common sense of the US police and why it's such a mess (besides the systematic racism). Those people wouldn't leave the country as a result - all it means is that you prevent them from visiting their family, sometimes even in emergency situations. It has nothing to do with jobs, just pure stupidity.
Banana peels and bell pepper placenta compost, orange peels can be candied and zested, and carrot tops go into the pot for vegetable broth and _then_ are composted. There's a lot to reduce / reuse / reanimate [1] in your fresh produce's "packaging".

[1]: https://logo.cafepress.com/5/1221917.6258105.jpg (Order of the Stick)
From what I know, the legality if this differs between state. In some you need consent from both parties, in others only your own.

Given their hesitance to official statements, I'd guess the call would be terminated immediately.
We use Figma at work, and while it’s a nice tool I think it’s easy to fall (or maybe we just fell) into a kind of uncanny valley. The designs we get are close to realistic mockups of our actual UI, but are often not 100% there, and it’s the little deviations that can be quite distracting.

Engineer: So are we changing the nav icons as part of this story, too?

Designer: Oh, no, ignore that. I didn’t have our real icon set so I just grabbed some others

Engineer: This modal doesn’t look like our normal modal, are we supposed to be building a new one?

Designer: Oh, no, ignore that - I’m working on a design for a new modal and I just used that here

Engineer: Ok, do you know our current modal doesn’t support X, so this part of the interaction won’t work?

Designer: Oh, okay, I’ll go update the design I guess

Etc... sometimes makes me wish for the days of Balsamiq / sketch style designs where the idea was to not try to make it photorealistic.

Having said that I guess if you could get Figma completely in sync with your actual UI it’d be pretty nice.

EDIT: I will add that the clickable mockups seem really helpful for our Design team when they're doing user testing, which is happening before the designs get to us. But this is not unique to Figma, InVision can do it, too.
Anyone who thinks this is good for the US is stupid. In the era of remote working, all this will do it hasten the retreat of software engineering from the US. Facebook and Google do not care where their employees live, they want the best in the world. This will just mean that jobs will truly flee the US.

Right now the US is winning because of such a high concentration of talented software engineers compared to the rest of the world. It’s the same reason why there is only one Hollywood, the same goes for Silicon Valley. If you prevent people from coming here, the top companies will find them in their own countries and then those are jobs lost forever. And then the drain begins. This is a stupid self-defeating move by a self-defeating president.
These kind of tweets kinda defeats the true purpose of Twitter, why don't the people write a blog instead of making dozens of tweets? I mean, you can write a blog with exact o more words, you can express yourself more and make the article much richer, and then you can link it to your twitter account, it makes absolutely no sense to do what he did.
I believe that a longs distance communication is amazing, the video chats from around the world allow people to connect in many ways, but in the end, there is nothing better than being there with a close friend or family, and having a conversation face to face
you forgot to mention that we all get a pony. what the heck is going on in this country? have we lost it?
Honestly it's not the SV companies. It's the body shop consulting firms.
Thats probably nightmare as H1-B holders are kept on a tight leash already
I tried to tackle this issue in a more general way, so i wrote rss proxy [0], that analyzes the dom structure and derives feed candidates from it. Feel free to try the demo [1]

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/
[1] https://rssproxy.migor.org/
> an illegal impurity

What makes an impurity illegal in the first place?

What is the difference between a legal and illegal impurity?
Unemployment in tech is down from Jan to May this year.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/06/11/unemp...
Well it looks like US is not an option anymore.

Canada on the other hand gives you PR on entry if you're skilled enough.

Money doesn't matter if it becomes an eternal struggle or impossible to maintain legal status.
My point is that Trump isn’t pushing for that, and instead just suspending it completely, because his goal isn’t to reform H1Bs, so mentioning specific criticism of the program is irrelevant when the primary objection is idealogical.
Great suggestions for general-purpose code, but I would NOT recommend following them in 'mathematically dense' code (e.g., deep learning models), for which being able to fit as much logic as possible into a single editing screen becomes increasingly important as we increase the complexity of the code.

Taken to the extreme, the "fit as much logic as possible into a single screen" approach leads naturally to code that looks a lot like something written in APL or one its descendants (J, K, etc.). I recognize this is not for everyone.

Personally, I think Jeremy Howard and the folks at fast.ai have struck a pretty good balance of readability and succinctness with their coding style for ML/AI code:

https://docs.fast.ai/dev/style.html
Hi guys,

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It's surely an indication that the tool should not be available though, assuming the two sides are subject to the same rules.
Does it hurt anything, besides the feelings of people hell ben on using names for things that really don't reflect core concepts of how things work or what they are used for?
> It's easier to replace the CUDA kernels

If it's your software, yes. But not if you're trying to fix an already-written framework or run other peoples' machine learning models.
The immigration restrictions to Canada are more strict aren’t they?

Is there a minimum asset requirement? Is there a requirement that to apply have have to have been there for 3-5 years? An English language test? I don’t know for sure; asking.
A mechanism for regulatory compliance will probably err on the side of less exposure to lawsuits. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place, but the demands imposed by the government for copyright compliance are backed by a bigger stick.

Don't kid yourself, any other commercially successful VOD platform will have the exact same problem. A startup might squeak by under the radar for a while, but as soon as it gets critical mass, it won't be long before it gets encumbered by all this regulatory "fun".
BTW any horror stories about H1B people stealing good jobs from locals?
All H1B salaries are public: https://h1bdata.info/

It's possible (maybe even likely) that title deflation is happening, but based on my experience the salaries are definitely in line with the pay ranges for each job title (I worked at Amazon for 3 and a half years, so I have some first and second hand information on pay.)

If nothing else it's a great resource to see the unfiltered payscale at SV companies.
Re paywalls, it's not so much that most users have subscriptions as that they're making use of various workarounds. That's not by coincidence because paywalls with workarounds are the ones that are allowed here. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Yes, the popularity of such articles is, as far as can tell from the data, organic.
With a rabid lunatic in the WH it appears so..
Also, Silicon Valley is all about making money. How do you make money solving homelessness?
I'm sorry to break it to you, if your company isn't paying prevailing wages, they're doing something illegal. They need to be shut-down, not the whole fucking program.
A PWA can be install-able onto your phone, work offline (via service-worker cache), and receive webpush notifications. All three of these could be removed from chrome.
Doesn't that make you a nationist?

A nationalist is focused on 1 nation.
Well, then the government in the USA is wrong, because they wrote that the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H) is for foreign workers in specialty occupations, especially due to the need of skills that are urgently needed by the country.

Also, those mass layoffs you reference are rather recent and doesn't seem to have anything to do with this specific visa system. At the same time, the pool of available people might suddenly exist now, and that means that a company that needs someone with those skills now has a native worker available instead of having to search for people elsewhere. H-1B workers that were laid off have to exit the USA so it's not like they will add to that pool.

That said, it is still possible that those laid off people were selected to let go because their stills aren't as needed as others inside that company (i.e. positions that only exist due to scale). That doesn't mean those people happen to be the ones that you'd need to seek someone else for. Assuming that all tech people have identical skills doesn't help the conversation.
Does AMD have the necessary volume to supply Apple? (Assuming they switch all their various models at once, and not just one or two).
There is a chance that common sense prevails and they probably will allow some exceptions for those in status. I’m just saying from what I read from immigration news sites and forums so far. We will know soon enough or they might leave it intentionally vague too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_plant_economy
I'm not exactly sure. Partial application is not a term I know. I am not an FP guru.

My familiarity with FP tends to be around "Hey! I like this Swift feature! Where did it come from?"

It's the part where we clump together functions to make a single, rather powerful function that is, in essence, a rabbithole.
Figma is a solid design tool for basic web/mobile apps, however I think that this post reads like a sales pitch more than an honest assessment of the product.
The market for design tools is highly competitive, and the 'wins/winner take all' framework does not really apply here. Someone once remarked that every design tool is Photoshop and to a certain degree this is true. Consequently is is easy to clone/transpose the basic functionality/interactions and get teams to switch to a new product. (Think about the recent transition from Sketch to Figma). Companies like Adobe have done well by bundling a suite of complementary products to gain an edge however this is not trivial from a business perspective. Even with bundling the business is not winner take all.
Figma is in many ways worse than Sketch, but collaboration is really helpful. That said, it is not that hard to spin up a competitor with React + Firebase in short order.

As much as Figma is in vogue right now, I would rather put money on Notion in the long term. Internal documentation has much higher switching costs than design tools. Notion already has excellent support for Management/Teamwork. They could easily roll out support for prototyping Mobile/Web apps and start eating into Figma's market share.
If some of your best friends are H1-B workers wouldn't the right answer be changing the regulations such that companies must pay market rate (as in for the US labor market, not internationally) for H1-B employees here?
Apple spends a lot of money at TSMC (about 75% of TSMC 7nm production was for Apple chips in 2018, according to a link below). AMD also makes its chips at TSMC and TSMC fab is a limited resource. Instead of paying AMD to make chips at TSMC, Apple can just make them itself.

https://www.eetimes.com/tsmc-to-keep-supplying-chips-to-huaw...
I think each nation[0] should be entitled to make decisions for themselves and have a right to run their state the way they see fit. I wouldn't presume to move to, say, Japan and then start telling them that they're doing things wrong.

[0]https://www.etymonline.com/word/nation
From the article:

What was the moment you realized the threat was real and that you had to take action to protect your residents and staff?
“Right after President Trump said we had 15 cases and it would soon be down to zero.”

I dare not put words in a Baptist minister’s mouth, but it sounds like he listened to what the President of the United States had to say, then decided just the opposite would be true.
“It does sound like that,” Reverend DeWitt agreed.
Interesting opinions. But mostly opinions, not backed by any data. Those features that the author considers to be "winning bets", might not be winners at all. Actually some of them may be considered Figma's downsides and maybe it would grow faster having had done things differently..

It all may be down to being relatively reliable (not that common among design & prototyping tools) and keeping the right balance between adding some slightly advanced prototyping features and still keeping it overall rather simple. Obviously I don't know the truth. Just saying it might be just that, and people are happy with it despite being browser based and without anybody really needing collaborative designing..
tradeable morality credits
I don't think the complexity of chip performance can be captured by assigning a trajectory number to wholly different product lines and assuming we can use the trajectory we hand waved into existence to predict future performance.

This is especially true when our sole means of comparison is a singular synthetic benchmark we are assigning as the arbiter of truth because its hard to compare actual applications.
The US government is operating at a deficit. And budgets are assigned to specific departments, who still try to fit all their programs within it.

A better analogy might be that we all live in a very grand house, but can't afford the mortgage. Sure. a family meeting could certainly find the money in a drawer somewhere. But until we have that meeting, everyone is just sitting in their room doing their own thing.
There are plenty of >200k H1B workers in SV, and I do believe these engineers and specialists will wonder how they can do their work elsewhere if they can't reasonably plan a few years into the future:

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=netflix&year=2020

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=apple&year=2020

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=linkedin&year=2020

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=uber&year=2020
Hey that’s awful, I’m sorry you experienced that.
Work Permit Fraud Boosts Hidden Workforce of Illegal Professionals
You probably signed a clause with your employer that stated that the company owns all work/inventions/art produced on company hardware.

If you use company hardware to work on your own projects, you're muddying who now owns those projects.

When I worked on prior versions of PhotoStructure while employed by other companies, I always did so on my own time, hardware and services. I also made sure PhotoStructure was in my employment contract, specified as a "prior invention" owned only by me.
I guess this is indeed an issue. I’m a manager and I am trying to hire. 100% I’d rather find a person who can start in a couple of weeks than several months for a candidate who needs immigration. But there are rarely any local applicants and even when there are they don’t make in the interview. We pay in excess of 300k for all roles so it’s not like we are trying to find cheap talent.
Eskimo Pie name, cites racial equality: We 'recognize the term is derogatory'
Text can be beautiful, but only if you don't go out of your way to make it less so.

This is a view of my entire screen when this page loads. https://imgur.com/Lh3Ibo3

That's decidedly not beautiful.

And while WCAG checkers all swear that both this site and the linked tilde.town pass text contrast guidelines with flying (* ahem *) colors, my eyes just cannot cope with trying to read the text on those backgrounds.
Is Wireguard proven to be resilient to edge case scenarios and general network instabilities?
In your experience, do you know if engineers implement the shared component libraries as such in the actual applications? This would be as opposed to engineers directly implementing the end result of work in Figma (Sketch, etc.) that utilizes said components. There is a big difference there, and I'm always curious to have more data points about how this actually happens at other organizations.
Yea but you get a government
Normally there are regulations about what you can and can't put in a food product. For example chocolate often has to contain a certain percentage of cocoa solids.

But again this isn't what this article is about. This article is about food products being smaller than he'd like and in some cases less pure than he'd like. Not illegal small or illegally impure. He should just pick another product if they don't meet his requirements. He thinks he's exposing some kind of conspiracy, when really it's market prices and tastes changing.
300k would put you close to the 99% in California. So it is not relatively low.
At a high level, that's about it, and it is huge. Sketch is macOS only. Hell, this page comes up when you google "sketch for <not macos>": https://www.figma.com/sketch-alternative/
I guess you didn't read close enough? It says that it is "not expected to immediately affect anyone already in the United States". If that means existing visa holders currently outside of the US won't be allowed to return, or that those inside the country can't leave then that's a huge effect on their lives.
Hong Kong Residents Erasing Their Internet Histories Before China Cracks Down
If he gets reelected (not likely) he would do it regardless. He’ll destroy the country too
Yea, but you could have chosen not to comment at all without detracting from the conversation. If folks around here don’t know what security folks do you have much, much, much larger concerns. Why not engage in good faith? If you can’t do that why comment at all?
The moral is, don't relies on Platform vendor's official distribution system as a sole way to distribute your software. If that platform doesn't allow you to distribute the software outside of it, don't bother to support such a platform. You have been lost already. Don't waste your time on dealing with such hideous non-free platform.
WW3 is going to start in the South China Sea eventually, it seems. With each year it seems less and less avoidable.
If it's in your profile it is plainly advertised to everyone.
It’s interesting to me that HN doesn’t seem to like my comment. Wonder what that means.

Edit: I can’t reply to these replies but the post is about something the whitehouse is doing. All conversations about this link are implicitly political and if that’s against the rules then either the post should be removed or the rules should be changed.
Instead of fighting the symptom you can also fight the cause. If you make the abuse not legal, and detect and enforce that, you solve the problem either way. You'll still need to educate the native citizens of course, otherwise nothing really changes. But you'll need to do both.

I don't know what local laws would apply, but I imagine that the same laws that have to do with equal pay can be made generic so that it applies to everyone for a position. In the end you should be paid for your value, not for your gender, color of your skin or the place you were born.
In the companies I've worked at, H1-B workers get compensated in software engineering roles just as well as their peers, I've also seen outliers where it's significantly higher (depending on when they joined, how much in demand they were with competing offers, etc).