skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your presumption is either (if you not a h1 candidate) far away from the fact or don't want to accept the truth.

You are looking at the top 100 companies and their full-time employees but not at the 1000s of vendor-employer ponzi scheme/scams that happen every day in the form of contractors who apply with fake resumes, take proxy interviews and outsource the assigned work to someone in India. Doesn't stop there, the dependents of those do a unlicensed food selling, baby sitting, work in local stores, what not. The hard to digest fact is the student who comes on F1 visa, succumbs to the pressure of 90 days period to get into a job to maintain the visa status joins a consultancy company, which starts the game. These consultancies market the candidate with high experience fake resume, arranges proxy candidate to take interviews, even Falsify the requirement of GC/citizenship candidate requirement - all these to charge the client a 100$/hr and pay a mere 40$/hr to the candidate through their sister companies acting as layers. A honest try from USCIS to do a quick scan in containing these will drop at least 50% of H1B lottery applications, void 30% of the consulting company licenses and also help the right talent to get an opportunity. If you are a gov/USCIS rep, drop me an email I'll be more than happy to provide more details, and possible ways of catching the wrong ones.
Maybe your recruiting to get interviewers into your pipeline and the interview process just isn't that good. Or perhaps nobody wants to work at your company. Bad management? Bad glassdoor reviews? Don't engage with the local tech scene?
You get what you Fn deserve, Bay Area. Many cities there, especially San Francisco have chosen homeless people over hardworking, tax paying citizens. These leaders literally chose to keep people on the street over the rent-payers. While they get free needles, normal people are forced to move again and again because of the disgusting streets, unbearable noise, and unfair law enforcement. All while paying extremely high taxes and rent.

Homeless people have been around forever, what's happening now is a failure to send the message out to everyone that living outside IS NOT OK. Can you not afford San Francisco, THEN MOVE. If you are not paying rent it should be even easier, but instead it's the rent paying people that have to spend money they can't really afford just to get away from all the madness.

You wanted to be nice to these people who are obviously taking advantage of the system? Well enjoy your post-apocalyptic shithole.
I don't see the Federal Supreme Court weigh in on this, and without that I don't see how California can impose it's laws on people out of state. It's no different from any other law-- take open carry gun laws as an example. A state that prohibited open carry would not be able to assign liability to someone that open carried in a state where it was legal. It really doesn't matter what the California Supreme court says, they don't have authority outside of California. I suppose they could make laws about how such recording could be used if they entered in California, but not much else.
Why Are NYPD Cruisers Playing the Ice Cream Truck Jingle?
That’s honestly a great market based idea and more in spirit of what h1-b is meant to do.
Precisely. iPhone’s black slate plus the magical app store = a shape-shifting appliance.
This 21 billion will be spent on a similar project someday, anyway. This kind of research cannot just be written off... It is also nothing compared to (for example) the amount of money being spent by private companies on useless gimmicks. You are not paying for these directly with taxes, but you are paying indirectly anyway, if you think about it...
I would like this to be extended to game consoles and any other kind of personal computing device, too! Although phones are clearly the most egregious example, game console manufacturers create a weird two-party market where they subsidize the purchase of the console so they can rent-seek off the larger playerbase by taking a cut of game sales.
Why reverse-engineering something that is very well documented? (and hell, PTX even has GCC and LLVM backends while we are at it)

The issue here is manpower, and not obfuscation in any way.
It seems very common sense. I don't even know what the argument would be against this measure as it's completely optional for users and neutralizes censorship and anti-trust concerns. Seems like a win-win for both consumers and the platforms.
Not quite... for most companies, your income is almost entirely your salary. The world is not FAANG :)
Yeah, that's a heinous set of circumstances guaranteed lots and lots of future turmoil.
Personally I don't want to deal with StackOverflow elitism, "closed duplicate", "you don't know what you want to do, what you want to do is this", etc.
It sets up a two-tired internet: one tier for sites with third party content, with rules and compliance and failure modes and enforcement; and one tier for sites which don’t allow third party content. It seems designed to setup a regime or structure or legal framework to force platforms to allow third party content which would otherwise violate the platforms’ terms of service or other guidelines, or force a legal standoff with the government.

It removes control of the site from site operators. This would result it a system ripe for selective enforcement. Not a fan.

Not a fan of how sites currently selectively enforce their terms of service either, whether directly through employees or hired contractors, or indirectly via community moderators. Selective enforcement is the common thread running through this topic on all its sides: the questionable or controversial content and its creators; the platforms and hosts; and the government and its representatives, eager to also have a seat at the selective enforcement table.
Ulysses S. Grant statue toppled in San Francisco
Yes. I think that’s Apple has put itself in a weird position where the most vocal devs are making them the least money at this point.

But if they make an exception to give these devs what they want, mobile gaming devs will be next banging at the door to get their fees lifted up (well, they are effectively already banging the door pretty loud, like Epic for instance)
My common sense frustration here is how can the US possibly have a critical shortage of developers on languages that are 20 to 50 years old? We have the third highest population in the world and claim to have excellent education, and these are high paying jobs at 2x-3x the national average yearly income.

So what qualifies the shortage? Is it like agriculture where Americans are too entitled for the work? Are Americans viewed as generally too low quality?
Try reading the comments. Which also point out that SQL is missing, that there isn't 30 years of backwards compatibility in Python, and more.
> 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

So... a republic?
I totally agree. I live in Central Asia, and the consequences of brain drain very noticeable.
Depends on your goals. Really I think Prolog, Constraint Handling Rules and similar systems are more interesting.
> You are misinformed.

Thanks for the correction. I was under the impression that it was more in alignment with European legislature.
Tcp packets require syn/ack, which makes them work quite poorly on wireless networks where devices are receiving the majority of packets. What happens is now your tcp acks go through the roof, because sending that packet from devices may not be received.

But syn/ack is only for data you want to make sure was received. Things like video and audio don't need that to view the content.

So it's one big use is it's a protocol that works over wireless much better for content viewing.

You can test this yourself with a basic server and a mobile phone over WiFi at distance. Over http/2 video will cut out and have a difficult time loading. Over quic it'll just keep going.
IIRC, that's maybe a 16x improvement (32x if you count 32->64 bit). Which accounts for less than half of the (orders of magnitude of) improvement we should have got from Moore's law.

(More cores aren't a performance improvement; if you were willing to deal with non-serial execution, you could have just bought 32 Pentium Fours; putting them all on the same chip is convenient (and cheap), but as a price/performance improvement, it's all price, no performance.)
> We wondered what it would be like to conduct democratic elections online. While that is the far-far future, we set about building something that could get us a step closer towards that future.

There is unanimous agreement from the security community that we must not use digital voting. It is a mistake, full stop. As an opinion app it doesn't matter, but we must use paper ballots for our elections.

For anyone interested in learning more I recommend this short 20m Enigma conference talk by Ben Adida (currently building open source voting software/hardware at https://voting.works):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy0_8A9U8Rs
So may be I'm showing my ass here but I'm an academic. Our group was planning on collaborating with a French group who regularly performs nature-tier scientific work and we were planning on exchanging a graduate student and having them get their degree here, but if this holds it looks like they won't be able to do that. I don't doubt there are abuses (look up the thread, I see some iffyness around H1B's but the program itself being corrupt I don't think is true) but they're going to hurt everyone to score political hits for right wing xenophobes.

Look, my honest opinion is the abuses are generally bad, especially for immigrants who are being put in bad situations which because yet another thing the companies have as leverage over them, but then the people who should be targeted are the companies who are abusing the system, not the programs themselves which hurts everyone, especially the immigrants.
Android sucks on tablets. I had a Nexus 7 which is probably the last and only decent Android tablet.

I know the Remarkable has some third party software for it because it's running a version of Linux. The others probably do as well.
Be careful though. There are words that start with a vowel when written, but are pronounced with a consonant. Eg "a universe".
That’d be great!
Please forgive me, but no to both.

Having gaps in an array is a waste of bandwidth (TLB, for example, memory controller bandwidth is wasted too).

The COLA approach also can be adjusted - it is not necessary to have arrays with sizes that are power of two, we can use any other multiplier, correcting the necessity of merging. Many contemporary storage technologies can be adjusted to the workload and data statistics. Fighting against half a century (B+-trees were used by IBM in 1973) old technology with machine learning is, at the very least, not honorary.

Please, excuse me for not reading ALEX paper more thoroughly. I think onus is not on me in this case. So, my second no - I will not read ALEX paper again until they compare their achievements with more or less current technology.
I was born and raised in San Jose, Moved to SF, and then to the Easy Bay.

One point is most homeless have long standing attachment to the bay area. Both social and economic. There are a lot of very negative effects to moving vulnerable people.

The flipside is is there a reason that the big tech companies need to import tech bros to work in one of the most expensive land in the world. And in particular a place where creating new housing units is frightfully expensive? Seriously why not some place like Waco Texas? In Waco Texas a Tech Bro could live like a king and send his kids to private school on half the salary.
Those are kind of fundamental to multicore / multithreaded CPUs, not just Intel. If I have many tasks running on the same CPU, tasks can interact in complex ways. That can leak traces of information, and a clever enough person can pry that tincan open.

Not much one can do about it, other than running untrusted tasks in a sandbox with very well-controlled performance. That means slow performance.
Haven’t seen any podcasts like that before. Maybe you can start one.
> Technically underpaying is illegal but there are ways around paying an H1-B worker what a US citizen might receive. Title reduction, etc. Even if the total paid is the same, consulting companies that help sponsor workers get a huge cut of the salary so ultimately we have workers being paid less.

Shut them down. Enforce the law.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b

FYI for the rest: the user-ids in green means that they created their account recently.
> But there are rarely any local applicants and even when there are they don’t make in the interview

What exactly does the work involve, if it is so difficult to either find candidates or give a candidate with some missing skills a few weeks to learn something new?
> Correct, it is a multifaceted problem. It's an affordability issue, but it is also a mental health issue (pre-homelessness) and/or drug usage issue for a lot of people.

The vast majority of homeless people are homeless for financial reasons, like the loss of income or the lack of affordable housing. The fastest growing demographic of homeless people are entire families, because of financial reasons.
My Kobo Glo has an experimental web browser that works fairly well. It has no reader mode which would be nice on an eReader, but its still a reasonable experience.
IRS Used Cellphone Location Data to Try to Find Suspects [Paywall]
Couple important points:

1. SV/FAANGs, like elite colleges, only hire some very small percentage of people who apply. Many people who are perfectly well qualified and have successful careers otherwise get denied employment.

2. The market cap of these FAANGs is in the trillions. Between talent and capital, there's literally no problem they can't solve (they can solve problems about cyber bullying, trolling, etc but their business relies on it.. so it's not really a "problem" per se).

3. There are SO MANY underprivileged and/or poor kids in SV, LA, Pittsburgh, all the places where tech companies reside. Saying there aren't enough skilled workers in the US is kind of dishonestly true, as they have tons of applications from many qualified people.. many of whom with some training and support may very well become highly qualified....

4. ...They could literally invest some of those trillions to build a pipeline from these areas, develop talent locally - or at least domestically.

So much of tech is about solving problems with the resources you have. Opening up broadly to a global labor supply removes the constraint on that resource, and therefore don't need to innovate or find clever ways to make it work. Now, they are companies that have only one duty - deliver profit to shareholders - and that's fine and how companies should be run. But public policy needs to exist to serve the interest of the people, and for the most part - not entirely - H1B has been to serve the interest of executives in Big Tech.

Also, finally, Trump is absolutely awful, horrid, all that. A broken clock is right twice a day though, and this is one of the few possibly accidental things he's done that isn't a complete self-shot to the head.
That argument is wrong. H1Bs are liked by Silicon Valley because they want to be able to hire the best people from anywhere, and not restrict their talent pool to 5% of the world population.

All reputable Silicon Valley companies pay people exactly the same whether they are on a visa, have a green card, or are a US citizen.
The problem is cost of entry into the market with diminishing returns.

What we have is not a technology problem. The problem is that what you build is worthless unless you get people to adopt it. And right now, that requires:

* Building a phone/piece of hardware that can run apps and replace the iPhone/android phones
* Investing in a marketing campaign to get your hardware into the mainstream, so people will buy your phone instead of an android or iphone.
* Convincing companies and app makes to build for your new hardware.

That breaks down to a tremendous amount of R&D, building a cloud network that can rival Google's and Apple's cloud systems, convincing app makers to build for a platform despite it not having any users, and convincing users to buy into your platform despite not having any apps.

It's tremendously expensive.

It was a worthwhile expense for Apple: they literally invented the new ecosystem and were the only option at the start. Their return was guaranteed.

It was a worthwhile expense for Google: they already had the cloud services, were a household name, operated arguably the largest ad network to market their new platform, and had plenty of cash on hand to get things moving fast. They may not have been able to match Apple's competition-less returns, but had a low cost to entry and even half of the pie is great value.

For any new competitor, having to share the pie with Apple and Google limits the potential return. Couple that limit with having huge expenses to build out a competing product and getting people to use it, and it's not a very appealing investment. At best, you get what's left after Google's and Apple's shares. At worst, you spend millions (billions?) for nothing. We've already seen the Windows Phone and the Fire Phone fail to enter, and if giants like Microsoft and Amazon deemed it not worth their while, who will?

So that's where we are now. So long as the masses use Apple and Google products, they will continue to default to those app stores. And it doesn't make financial sense for anyone to enter the market and compete with them (with any significance, at least).

I could see some very niche phones/tools coming into play, but with very limited functionality and only a narrow user base that actively seeks that niche. Eg. security-seeking engineers. Someone could make a phone with very limited features (at least, "native" functionality ala gmail) and see success with an audience seeking that subset, but it wouldn't be a mainstream option.
I am mistaken: "plasma" appears once in a hidden caption I missed first time through.
Using RegEx to delete Spotify playlists
> Parent commenter's

Is that my post or my parent's post? Fwiw I'm well aware of Canada's property bubble but I'm sure that has more to do with foreign capital outflows than local talent being pushed out the market.
> I don't even know what the argument would be against this measure

While I do absolutely agree that sideloading should be possible, I do know that many phishing/security scams involve (or used to involve) installing a sideloaded application. It should be easy to install a sideloaded application if you understand the implications (and maintain the same protection that ensures you know what permissions you're granting the application), but it should not be easy to accidentally or unknowingly install a sideloaded application. Maintaining that distinction is a challenge; it's important enough to be worth doing, though.
When we process the data and aggregate the results on the air-gapped system we do make sure that the user vote is not counted twice. Like you pointed out this is one of the fundamental things that is super important and we were very careful when we designed the app to address this issue. We did make sure that a single individual's votes are not counted twice. It is a custom algorithm. Also, we have taken precautions during registration too.
Because then no small company can compete with the big ones in the auction...
Reflexivity
> being asked for status updates on dev tasks throughout the day makes me anxious

Why does this make you so anxious? As a manager, I'd like to know.

In my opinion, if your status update is "I'm behind schedule" then that's something that reflects on me, the manager, for poorly budgeting time.

The problem is that individual workers don't feel that way, and it's hard to make them believe you when you say you feel that way.
Fusion, especially the mainstream approaches, does not appear capable of getting to a competitive energy source, even if it somehow (physically) "works". It's very bad from an engineering point of view, with showstoppers of materials, power density, complexity, maintainability, and reliability.

Daniel J. Boorstin described a celebrity as a person who is "well known for their well known-ness". Fusion is a technology that is similarly recursive: it's being investigated because it was being investigated, not because it's worth doing when examined freshly. Whatever rationale for pushing DT fusion that once existed has largely evaporated.

If fusion survives at all, it has to be as a lower key modest pure research effort into long shot ideas that might evade the showstoppers. And new blood should be kept out of the field until it's shrunk enough. Anyone going into fusion these days is being poorly advised.
I worked at two FAANG companies and my degree is from the University of Arizona. I only met a few people there whose degrees were from elite schools. Where do you get the impression that they only hire people from Stanford and Harvard?
Winamp was incredible - it even had a plugin for syncronized playback that I couldn't replicate easily. You could get 5 friends to all play at the same time - so fun.

Then BOOM - ads everywhere, bundled installers, crazy redesign. I didn't know this history.
Ask HN: For political demonstrations – What privacy features should FB develop?
Very lazy too, so I get it. I try to take so many shortcuts, and often it leads me taking more time that I would have if I did the hard thing first.

I've been meditating for 13 years, and sometimes I meet people with 3 years of practice that seem decades ahead of me.

One time, I think after my 2nd or 3rd retreat, I practiced in such a way that instead of helping myself, I got into depression. Took me a few months to change course.

I don't thing there is a "standard experience" for meditating. YMMV seems like a good summary for it.

Could be a t-shirt.

"Your Meditation May Vary"
Please help me understand what the thinking is here. Grant won the civil war, as president gave blacks the right to vote and wrote what is commonly considered one of the greatest presidential memoirs. What was his crime?
There seems to be a mix. Which is part of the problem with the national debate / conversation.

There are companies who found the absolute best in the world that they have to have. So they need that H1-B to get the job done and hire the best person.

Then there are companies who just want to contract out super cheap labor, so they do thousands of H1-B applications hoping a few hundred make it through, then the they charge a local rate, but pay the employee a fraction and reap the profits.
Agreed. H1B is just a front for immigration anyway. US Companies and the government should probably stop lying to themselves. If they want to bring over talented workers, give them rights too.
Which is all fine and dandy, but an entirely moot point - that's a constant consolation prize largely independent of the size.

We're not talking about fresh produce vs. other packaged foods, it's fresh produce vs. shrunken fresh produce.
haha, it's not propaganda. it is truth. USA is still #1 destination thus nobody is unwinding anything. the brain drain is real.
Yes your right, i am not saying cyber-warfare does no exist, i just don't see often good point's for the origin of the attack...often its like HAHA we found the timezone of Peking in a file....as if a professional agency is that stupid (well sometimes they are)
I had seen lots of H1B foreigners while myself worked in US, for couple of years. Most of them were brought not even H1B but on B1 Visa or J1, were employed illegally and produced bad code.
the PowerPC failure seem to be on IBM and Motorola. however, this time its Apple design and manufactured by TSMC. would this combo make any difference?