skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ebooks.com has plenty of them, Kobo has some of them, and pretty much every publisher offers DRM-free works if you purchase directly from their website (to name a few: Smashwords, Verso, No Starch). Oh, and there's Humble Bundle. Sometimes there's watermark involved, but I'm personally completely fine with that.

If all else fails, you can remove DRM protection from pretty much any major DRM method (Adobe Adept ePub and PDFs, Barnes & Noble ePubs, Kindle ebooks, Kobo ebooks).
I wonder if this shrinkage skews cost of living indices to any relevant degree. Changes to individual products may not amount to much money lost, but I could see them adding up in a non-trivial way that flies under the radar for most researchers.
> I think it's up to the consumer to pick purity that meets their needs.

This isn't legal for pharmaceuticals, for instance. And if this were true, what is the point of the FDA? Why was the act established in the first place, why does the administration exist? What makes food, which is just as consumable (and can also have a significant impact on one's body), any different from drugs? I think that there is a reason the act's name is called the "Pure Food And Drug Act" -- emphasis on the world "pure".
Not if your conception of the nation only includes white people...
The average H1B doesn't seem to have a PhD or get more than $100,000/yr (indicating that they can't do something that rare or valuable that you likely can't find in the American labor pool). It seems pretty clear to me that the program gets abused and Americans could fill most of those jobs. It does, of course, also fulfill its intended purpose of supplying skilled talent when/where Americans can't.
Seeing how the image link has expired, here's a decent one: https://i.imgur.com/qMN1are.jpg
I am not sure that this app is for blind and visually impaired users, or for everybody but also useful enough that blind and visually impaired can use it (which would be pretty darned useful, for a keyboard)

If it were explicitly an assistance app, would Apple be in violation of any discrimination laws by refusing to have it in the app store in that way?
This is great news for Canada. Once the Covid situation resolves, if Trudeau doesn't give a lot of incentives for tech companies to build offices there Canada will miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Canada has already been benefiting from the recent restrictions on work visas and rejecting visas for no reason, for example by saying a forensic pathologist isn't a specialty occupation.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799402801/canada-wins-u-s-los...

https://insights.dice.com/2020/02/11/canada-continues-benefi...
It took me forever to find out that the “back channel” with trump tower and Alfa Bank was a hacked Point-of-sale terminal in the lobby sending spam mail. Snopes still laughably lists this as “unproven”

I remember at the time thinking “what are they doing, using an IRC channel?”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-server-tied-to-russi...
Plot twist: in martial arts, black belts are masters and white belts are the dumbasses.

We need to change it too, right? There shouldn't exist a martial art master AND the highest levels should be black&white belts.

This is getting insane.
I don't know that that's true, any source for that? If countries are opening up for tourists (!) I don't see why not for immigration.
I'm a developer who has to dip into design files every now and then, so maybe my opinion isn't the most reliable. But I just don't really see a huge difference between Sketch and Figma. The major difference is that you can design online (which is admittedly a very big diff). But the UI itself doesn't really seem to set itself apart that much.

Can anyone here lay out a few major differences that I might be missing?
“Nationalism” in the US is about using fictive in-groups to inflict pain on others. There’s no rational calculation. It’s just about demonstrating the in-group’s ability exert power over out-groups.
That's simply not true. SV was built in the 60's thru the 80's long before the H1-B visa program started in 1990.
Is this being greyed down because folks just don’t want to consider the possibility that straight up racism might be just as much a part of this or did it touch a nerve for some parties who saw themselves getting called out?
I had a similar negative reaction to this opinion piece in the Tech section of the site. We should focus on refutation and not censorship as the way to address most ideas with which we disagree.

Moreover, his approach to identifying these offensive ideas could do more harm than good.

They could build teams of civil rights experts and empower them to root out racism on their platforms, including more subtle forms of racism that don’t involve using racial slurs or organized hate groups.

Which civil rights experts? Would there be a bias on this panel towards some civil rights over others? Also, while some ideas are clearly racist other ideas are arguably racist, but not necessarily so. Who decides? "Root out...subtle forms of racism" sounds like an invitation to characterize non-racist ideas as racist.

They could dismantle the recommendations systems that give provocateurs and cranks free attention, or make changes to the way their platforms rank information….They could institute a “viral ceiling” on posts about sensitive topics, to make it harder for trolls to hijack the conversation.

Again, who decides who the provocateurs and cranks are? Also, without ranking algorithms much of the platform value for good is lost.
The type of nationalism that is currently a component of the Republican platform can better be described as xenophobic nativism. The nationalist counterargument is going to be that US companies have gotten away with not investing in employee training and instead ship trained workers from overseas to do jobs that could have been held by trained Americans.
My partner can get 3 meals for 3 of us out of a single chicken.

She also buys the 'cheaper' parts like Chicken thighs and then slow cooks them to utter perfection, with a few herbs and veggies it is sublime.

I honestly though since I 'cooked' I was been economical but things like spaghetti bolognaise jars of sauce added 30% to the cost of a meal compared to the way she does it.
What the parent comment is saying is that he made a comment that in practice didn't actually amount to anything.
Certainly. But the risk is incredibly high. If trump gets re-elected he’s going to go after these guys big time. Breaking them up would not be stretching the imagination.

Censoring trump is the nuclear option.
That is a great description of the reality and mirrors my experience doing a lot of meditation for mindfulness in college.

Three years ago, I picked it up again for about 18 months years and once again let it slip.

It took me a long time to realize why, which is this: I have not found meditation to have been very useful in actual day to day life despite the multiple attestations from people that it brought them ... something. I got something out of meditation also, but unlike weightlifting, for me it has never been a continuing something.

There's the eye-opening moment of really becoming aware of the ephemeralness of so many impulses that inflict us day-to-day. That is a great lesson and probably helped a lot with self control. It's like the first time you realize that you can change your mood - you don't have to ride the tiger, you can stop the process, it is subject to your conscious influence if you want it to be, but you don't need to practice this once you learn it.

In practical terms, I think those impulses are actually very valuable because they tap into faster, broader lower-tier reasoning, and mindfulness, at least as I understood it and practiced it, ended up disempowering them in a way that was mildly negative, especially in interpersonal situations where the side-effects of added latency and inevitably reduced amplitude have consequences.

YMMV, obviously. Possibly I am just lazy.
Agreed and of course. He can and should continue his research as a well paid full professor at MSU, which I assume he will. He gets a lot of attention for doing so. Otherwise he’d just be a random really bad quantitative geneticist you’ve never heard of that thinks that no one else but him understands L2 regression.
As a former H1-B: makes sense. H1-B is abused a lot, and importing new entry-level workers when unemployment is at record highs after COVID makes zero sense. Although I'm sure Hawaiian judge will disagree.
Fair. Maybe the rules say '"Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."' to avoid this stoking this exact kind of inflammation and defensiveness, which detracts from the discourse. You have a point.
I think despite gathering his courage to speak out, he is still afraid of Apple's reprisal, so he doesn't want to speak too harshly of Apple, lest Apple decides his apps are in violation and his account must be banned.
No official details yet but apparently 1) all issue of new visas will be delayed 2) current visa holders won’t be allowed at port of entry

So it doesn’t affect current visa holders in the country unless they travel outside the country and have to enter back.

Need to see what are the broad exceptions.
Mind map / flowcharts with automatic layouts that work
Nope, it's based on the first sound. (Hence "an hour" rather than "a hour").
Your comment appears to break at least three of HN's guidelines:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here?

It's particularly important not to post like that when (a) there aren't any comments in a thread yet—threads are sensitive to initial conditions and we if start with a routine internet putdown, there's a good chance the thread will never recover; and (b) when the topic is provocative, which Freud is, and religion also is.

Freud certainly didn't "end up with beliefs no different than anybody else", as the article makes clear, and if you have some reason to believe that he ever claimed immunity from defense mechanisms, I'd like to know what that is. It doesn't sound like Freud to me.

I invited keiferski to repost this article because I had no idea that Freud's views on religion changed at the end of his life, and the backstory to his publication of "Moses and Monotheism" is dramatic. There are also plenty of side-things in this article that are fascinating, such as his "parting gift" to the Gestapo and his views of America. Even the Nietzsche quote about Jesus was completely new to me. Basically this is just a surprisingly good and interesting article, at least if the general topic is of interest to begin with, and if it isn't, there are plenty of other threads to join.
Previous Discussions of TempleOS and Terry Davis:

Terry Davis has died [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912618]

TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105043]

A Constructive Look at TempleOS [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9681501]

... and many more.

Also:

Terry Davis HN Profile [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TerryADavis]
Life is not cheap in the USA. However, liberty is of greater value. Liberty is possibly what Americans value above all else, life being a close second.

Hence: "Give me Liberty or give me death.", Patrick Henry, 1775

And: "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.", Declaration of Independence, 1776
Tech is what? 90% of H1-Bs?

No way they're going to make an exception for that
Nobody on the mainland voted for their current government either
So the primary funding source for citylab is now a car company? that seems a bit problematic.
Thanks for pointing the issue with the thread pool and will take a look.
What you've described is a political position, and the result of political policy - that of American conservatives, Republicans and libertarians.

It doesn't have to be a fact of life in the US, but it is because half of the country believes taxation is theft and "the government that governs least, governs best."
Note: not out of the box, but there's a plugin for that. Keywords that will lead you to it: Apprentice Alf.
Hi. I'm a malicious server.

When a client requests the public key from me, I give them a fake one- not the one present on the air-gapped PC, my own key. I then decrypt their vote, inspect it, and re-encrypt it with the real key before sending it off to the air-gapped server.

Does this work? How do you detect it? And what's your threat model?
The rumor is even opt will be canned which is fucking crazy. Wont surprise me if PERM or even N400 are next...
> Is this being greyed down because folks just don’t want to consider the possibility that straight up racism might be just as much a part of this?

There are folks on HN who are either covertly racist or simply delusional that their thoughts about policies come from some other place besides racism.
> Designers are frustrated because the systems they built are ignored.

Designer here. My experience has been that Figma has done the opposite. It's created a lot of consistency with shared component libraries and standardized type / color styles. Also, the fact that engineers can jump into Figma and inspect CSS has been immensely helpful.

In the design world, Figma is like the equivalent of getting a robust IDE with syntax highlighting, code completion, compilation, and debugging. It's replaced multiple tools and connected people in a way that's never been possible.
Stopping workers coming in from one place isn’t about making sure Americans have jobs tho. It doesn’t magically change the cost of rent. It doesn’t magically educate the uneducated. Nor should it. This is about being able to report to middle class white people that ‘immigration stopped’.
> Assigning to a list slice will replace that range in the original sequence with what's referenced even if their lengths are different.

Not only that, but you can assign to a slice with a stride:

In [1]: r = list(range(10))

In [2]: r
Out[2]: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

In [3]: r[1::3] = 10, 20, 30

In [4]: r
Out[4]: [0, 10, 2, 3, 20, 5, 6, 30, 8, 9]
As a nationalist, I think it would be better for those other countries to keep their skilled workers and so benefit. I think every nation has a right to its own existence, space, and policies. And they also get to decide what's right for them 'as a people'. Always optimizing for performance of 'the economy' is not in the best interest of the actual citizens of this country.
I'm talking exclusively about the US. Different markets have different market shares. Different countries have different monopoly and antitrust laws. Limiting it to the biggest market, and the one most germane to HN, is what makes it possible to have a discussion. Otherwise, we're all just talking to ourselves.
Using a tool available to you is not bad just because it would be bad if the other side could also use it.
You don't get kicked out because lack of visa. For people in country in status, effect of this would be the inability to get back into US if one leaves.
Instead of H1B, we should be issuing green cards and limiting the amount of leverage that companies have over workers.

Eliminate H1B and expand green cards for skilled people who want to live here.
This is going to have a chilling effect on international students thinking of coming to the United States.

Many people who do end up getting kicked out will probably take their jobs with them back home, especially in tech.
I've been using this for months now, and it's absolutely incredible.

I waste zero time re-organizing as I create charts, so I don't lose thoughts while trying to make sure the boxes are organized.

TIPS:

* F2 - change the caption on your shape

* F6 - update properties of the shape/connector

* Layouts - experiment with clustering to get cool insights!
The word doesn't make any sense in the context of something that is constantly changing. And Gitnis graph based and the is no real concept of a trunk, like in SVN. So we start calling the dog a dog, instead of a rock.
If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers. The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly "very niche, hard to fill" positions that they can't find any qualified Americans to do.
The Wizard's hat is labeled "su" and the huge shell that everything is mixing in is brilliant. Also note the pipes on the ceiling. This is amazing.

Oregano is still around!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_%28software%29
Won't the results of this just be heavily biased via sampling by the fact that only certain types of people want to download and vote using an open-source public/private key voting simulation app?
Whilst most of the discussion has been on Intel vs ARM performance and power consumption as a rationale it's probably worth mentioning two others:

- Complete control of the Silicon. Apple will be able to place its own silicon IP on the new ARM chips. Does this mean the integration of the T2 onto the main SoC? Adding Neural Engine hardware? None of this would be possible with Intel and this would seem to provide interesting opportunities for Apple to differentiate the Mac from the PC market.

- Economics. It seems likely that the ARM chips will be materially cheaper for Apple to buy than comparable Intel chips, although Apple will have fixed design costs to meet that it wouldn't do if it stuck with Intel. Any advantage would grow if Mac volumes increase which would make it advantageous to try to grow market share. Is this the start of a push to grow Mac volumes significantly?
H1-B was intended for highly skilled workers that the US had a real shortage of. But now it's just being abused to bring in captive workers that are willing to accept lower wages and worse working conditions than otherwise while crowding out US workers.

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.

Scaling back H1-B in this way is the common sense approach. And it benefits other countries too by reducing brain drain.

It's a win-win.
Not sure I'm following. I know about Oct and that people overseas who got H1-B this year won't be able to enter. But many who got H1-B this year are already in the US (working on OPT, L1, etc) so they don't need to enter the country, they are just changing their visa status.
I make my own yogurt, my own ice-cream and maintain a wild-yeast culture for making sourdough. I roast my coffee in a popcorn popper for espresso. I make my own cookies, cakes, spice mixes, jam from raspberries on the back-yard and even some cleaning products. Sometimes I churn my butter.

But, still, found this article disturbing. I can't make my own toilet paper, milk or cream (for the ice-cream). We need some more creative destruction on the economy.
>My reaction to the headline is that the article is probably dumb and I don't want to read it

Other than being a bored, basic troll, why are you here adding useless cruft and commenting to multiple people on this particular thread? You are really just making yourself look silly at this point.
> get more than $100,000/yr

If this is objection, why not just raise the minimum salary requirements to 100k instead of banning it? Most Silicon Valley companies would easily meet it.
For many years I've used and continue to use an RSS reader named newsboat[1][2] (which is an actively developed fork of the venerable newsbeuter, which I used for years before that).

It's a feature-rich RSS reader that runs completely in the terminal, presenting text-only views of each RSS feed.

The links open in the browser of your choice (which for me is a text-only version of emacs-w3m, which I also run exclusively in the terminal).

However, some RSS items can be read in their entirety within the RSS reader[3], and does not require the opening of any links. This is my preferred method of consuming RSS.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

[3] - ie. those RSS items for which the author has chosen to make their entire article/post available over RSS instead of merely posting a teaser and requiring browsing to their website to read the rest
Every tech company I've worked at in Silicon Valley let the engineer pick their own computer and just submit a receipt for reimbursement. Up to $3000.

Frankly with the cost of hiring you, spending $3k to make you even a few percent more productive if money well spent.
It won't :) It has a LED backlight. Older LCD screens often had fluorescent backlight, which will and did degrade after hours of use. According to Wikipedia, LEDs are the most popular backlight in LCD screens since 2012.
How many mental health issues are caused by excessive lockdown measures?
You do know that H-1B's are already only in because there was no American that could do it, right?

Plenty of education and skill in the USA that doesn't have a fitting job (right now) to put that to use.

Say there are 100000 MBA's but you need someone who knows how to run a kubernetes cluster with a custom syscall shim for a modified kernel and there is someone in Norway who knows how to do that. Even combining all those college graduates combined with all their business education wouldn't be useful for such a role, but that Norwegian person would be. But you still want to stop H-1B?
I don't use many plugins. I mostly just need a reasonably capable, digital-first vector canvas to work on, and Sketch does that very well.

It also helps that it's pretty easy on resources — when I first picked it up, my daily driver was a Core 2 Duo MacBook with 4GB of RAM, so back then efficiency was very important. These days I have access to much more powerful machines, but it's still nice that it can sit in the background with large projects open without impacting a browser with dozens of open tabs and mammoth apps like Xcode and Android studio.

So for now, there's just not enough to gain from investing time and effort into moving over to Figma.
There's no indication in the article that any of the products have an illegal impurity is there? Some of them have a different purity level, which may not be what you want, but someone else might be happy with at that price point. If the purity of your old brand doesn't work for you, buy a different one instead.
Hey thanks for this lovely pitch, goblin89. <3 all my goblin friends out there
What I like about programming in Common Lisp is that it is easy to occasionally go off on tangents "playing" -- sometimes you end up improving something you've written before, but even if you don't, you end up not only enjoying the experience, you also solidify what you have learned.

To me, it's a lot like jamming out on the guitar. Sometimes a new song comes out. Sometimes a new riff or maybe an improved skill. More often, it's just a satisfying time spent on my gear of choice.
H-1B new visa entry cycle starts October 1 every year.

So it most likely prevents every approved visa holder for this year cycle.
I think it is a very good idea ... poaching of the best and brightest talent from less developed countries who invested in the education of these people is a form of robbery.

If you need them , then let them work remotely and pay them fair wages as they would have received in the US and let them contribute their tax to their own country.