skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if you realize this, but you've just laid out an argument that boils down to "I think your app is kind of stupid and not really important, since it just does email. I'd be more inclined to listen to you if you did something I approved of. You could also try to pivot to competing with two of the largest corporations in the world in something that is their core competency if you don't like the current situation." Do you see how you failed to address the part where there's a problem in the current situation and how your argument simply boils down to "I don't really care for what you're doing", which is completely orthogonal to the problem?
With all the push for remote work, won't that also accelerate these jobs leaving US? Well, good for us outside the US.
I getting seemingly contradictory comments here but one could weave a coherent story out of all of them:

1) H1B's get salaries that are comparable to US engineer salaries.

2) A middleman takes a big bite out of that, the engineer thus takes home less.

3) H1B's are essentially like most immigrants, indentured servants who have no freedom to leave their employers, thus have little leverage asking for promotions or even autonomy as an employee.

4) Companies probably are most aware of 3) but it seems like at least for FAANG the biggest factor is they don't want to invest in training people and rather want people who already are skilled and such. It's probably true if you draw your net very tightly yes anyone can find that there aren't enough qualified workers out there who won't demand I guess near half a mill salaries.
> Do you think the Police would like to see crime go to zero?

Yes, any proper non corrupted police would love to see that.
That's 1-2 USD per person in the US.

The couch cushions maybe?
Much of that money is spent on housing and services for people who would be considered homeless if not for those very funds paying their rent.
Figma users: can it export CSS grid? Would love to start using autogenerated HTML/CSS but don't want to go back to 'display: block' and the hacks that invariably come with it.
>Expanding the search globally just gave me a better chance of finding someone

At the price point you wanted. A pool of eager H1Bs reduces the need for companies on the same block to be competitive on wages.
North Korea reportedly plans cyberattack this weekend
>What precisely are you saying?

That you CAN say something, but its not true an never was.
Both cases likely failed due to imports from other countries.

If action was prompt before the virus spread to other countries, that wouldn't happen.
I recommend the opposite: educating is very expensive in the US. When a foreigner comes to the US, the US gets the value of that education for free.

Who doesn't like free things?
It's obviously not literally true, though. That's what I find irritating, the exaggeration and the tone, and I think it confirms that my prejudice was exactly right.

The cycle does not take a huge amount of time, and if it was extreme as people pretend, then we would know it because of inflation rates, and we would all be buying super-ultra-mega sizes of everything. And it's not a low opinion of peoples' intelligence, it's a recognition that people are sensitive to price increases for unchanged products. It's directly dictated by what people feel is fair.

I wish we could have articles that don't have the tone of feeding a persecution complex.
Depends on the state. But that opens up room for some jurisdictional arbitrage: an app that routed the audio of your call to servers in a state that allowed single-party permission, and record the audio there.
They could, and I might be wrong here but Apple also disallows you to mention that a cheaper version of the service is available elsewhere on the app. So the user has no idea what the actual price is or where they could avail the price. All they see is a button that unlocks an ad-free version for $2,147,483,647 (Assuming you're using a 32bit signed int).
$364 million is a staggering amount. In one year! Imagine if they put that money into an endowment and gave each homeless person a basic income from the interest...

But no, they can’t do that. It would piss too many people off. The problem with homelessness is that it’s always someone else’s problem. Everyone agrees that it should be dealt with, just that no one wants to deal with it themselves.
Name one country that has opened for tourists or has recently (as in the last week or two) said they will open for tourists.
Not a fan of the rumored platform switch, but I tend to think the vast majority of Apple's Mac users, who aren't power users/techies, care more about the Apple hardware quality/design and OS than the CPU platform that Macs run on.
But we're not talking about your decision or his, we're talking about the decision made by the government whose literal job description is to make rules for this country alone!
Your I-94 still has an expiration date, if you can't renew your Visa then your I-94 will expire eventually. Once the I-94 expires your stay is illegal. Also you're still overstaying your Visa, which is going to affect your future applications.

Also how would you transition to another visa when applications are suspended? You'll have to live in the United States without a job in the hopes the suspension is lifted before your I-94 expires.
Python Implementation of the Monster Group
I think the implication of OP is not that fewer Canadians would be in the US (though I'd point out that a lot of us Canadians are on H-1Bs too), but that immigrants from other countries could go to Canada and work from a satellite office in the same time zone.
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.

And here's the tricky part, if one city puts more money on the problem, the problem will only get bigger, because it will attract homeless people from other cities (though I can't blame them).

This is not an issue that's solvable only from the criminality/police side but not exclusively from the social side neither.
> It's a win-win.

Except for the individuals. US educated students who want to remain in the US, work, and raise a family are now basically being told to go back. Or people who prefer the US for non-monetary reasons (crazy thought, I know).

But what I find interesting is that programs like the diversity visa (DV) lottery with even more relaxed requirements or even illegal immigration don't get scrutinized as much as H1-B. I wonder if it's because H1-B workers primarily compete for well-paying white collar jobs while most DV winners and illegal immigrants go for blue-collar jobs.
You can take the high approach and give up your job for someone else, then. Are you going to welcome strangers into your family and your home as well? Resources are limited, that is a fact. If you've never experienced that, consider yourself very lucky and privileged, and work to deserve that good fortune and privilege.
Free trade reduces costs for people. I’d agree that things have gotten more complicated than that though in the transition to a service based economy.
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When I called the electric company yesterday the first thing that was stated on the IVR was, "If you don't want this call recorded, please let the representative know."

I thought that was nice. New to me.
I've been researching your point since I read your comment, but I haven't been able to learn if he actually disliked functional languages.

Personally, I prefer Haskell or some functional Python at times, since that solves certain problems well. But, we have a lot more computing resources than existed in the past. I guess it could be possible that he enjoyed the functional paradigm, but pragmatically created a procedural language, given the hardware constraints.
Items 7 and 8 seem to be at odds with each other to me, don't use reduce and map because it's ugly and unreadable, but if you use the alternative for reduce and map then you can't make a deeper pipe because it becomes too complicated to read? Get real!

Is it even true that comprehensions are faster than reduce and map? I write a lot of python with reduce and map, and I know it's not considered a best practice for perf reasons, but whenever I go-ahead and rewrite it in the "more pythonic" way, I can't help but think that it ends up a lot less readable. I feel like this divide makes functional programming in python more of a hassle than it should be.
In layman terms, what the fuck they want!!
SV isn't the only place you find H1B's. Everyone from Toyota, AA, Sabre, etc in the DFW area has hired what seems like 1000's. There is hardly anyone but H1B's at Toyota in Plano from what I understand. I have heard some companies are laying of permanent staff and keeping H1B's because they're less expensive.

Personal experience in my part of the world seems to suggest that it is cost. Permanent employees are expensive and H1B's are so terrified of losing employment they are willing to work around the clock and for less.

I would like to see the whole program gone. I don't believe it is being used as it was intended.
Accelerating AI on Intel Xeon Processors with TensorFlow and Bfloat16
> Real solutions are too easy to attack, so the only safe position is speaking platitudes.

No, a "real" solution is one that actually works for everyone.

You wouldn't want a homeless shelter on your street either once you've seen the consequences. It is not just a minor inconvenience. It is not morally wrong for people to want to preserve quality of life and physical safety for themselves and their families.

Find a way to house homeless people without causing everyone else to suffer. That would be a real solution and more people would support it.
I think describing what a good article on the subject would be like is constructive. Do you have one?
The final wage that shows up in the W2 still needs to be above the prevailing wage for that position. You cannot get an H1B approved without it.

It is simply illegal otherwise.
Yeah that is the exact result I have observed before as well. I'm really curious to hear more examples about how this actually works out well in the end from others.

I recognize that my view of this is from the bottom up in terms of only really having worked for SV startups, but I want to learn more and see if I can't make it work a bit differently this time.
>> the fact that race is a social and cultural construction rather than some genetic reality

> That is an absurd claim.

Indeed. Idpol/woke ideology posits one outlandish race-realist conception of race to use as a strawman in order to claim that race is but a social construct, and simultaneously advances another (implicitly race-realist) conception of race that's shallow and incoherent in order to license its moral claims. It's a mechanism of manipulation.

"Race" is an ambiguous term — it has to be operationalized to be used coherently. There's a sense of the term that describes a social reality and another that describes ancestry groupings.

This is a great primer for anyone who's interested:

https://www.amazon.com/What-Race-Four-Philosophical-Views/dp...
I've read both https://docs.voteism.org/ and the Github README, and found no mention of this algorithm that prevents multiple votes from malicious actors. Except a brief mention of collecting "device id, location, ip address, etc". Could you point me to the specific section where it is explained?

Edit: After rereading your comment, I felt there might have been a miscommunication. I'm sure your server discards multiple votes from the same registered user. With "voting multiple times" I instead refer to a malicious actor masquerading as multiple distinct users by registering multiple accounts.
There’s also a sense of entitlement from homeowners who believe they should be able to stop any and all changes to their neighborhoods, while paying property tax rates from 1980s (and thus having all their services paid for by the income tax of those “commuters”, who won’t even be able to use the services they pay for).
I don't quite enjoy "explicit mathematically dense" code, it leads to bad habits, see item 4: Python's syntax makes it all too easy to write single-line expressions that are overly complicated and difficult to read.

If you really need to pack a lot of math, just define it in a module (e.g. tensorflow does that nicely).

I've had an intern who came from MATLAB. Convincing them to stop packing numerical constants in the middle of every expression was unexpectedly difficult. "But it's shorter that way!"
I always felt that the contemporary architecture is cheap first and easy to clean/maintain second. All those nice ornaments are expensive, not easy to clean and their replacement in any case is even more expensive. Is there a way around this.

I prefer this older aesthetic, but I think I couldn't afford it. My one idea is to build with CLT and keep wood exposed both in and outside (with proper thermal insulation in the middle). That way it's cheap, but with this warm feeling of wood.
On the other hand.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=STRATEGIC+STAFFING+IT+INC&...
...and, if I remember well, ARM JVM were generally slow, and require(d) pay-per-every-user that you'd distribute to.

I don't know of any fast BLAS/LAPACK implementation for ARM (but I might be wrong).

So, for something that works well on x86, and is available for free (in the beer and speech sense) now requires payment, if available at all if I want to support macOS? I guess I'll skip.
I def agree that highly skilled immigrants are important to America. I disagree wholeheartedly with the concept of open borders though. It’s too idealistic and in practice would cripple America.
It is a legal problem. 70% of my housing costs are due to land costs, construction and taxes accounting for the rest. When zoning prohibits dense building, everybody is forced to buy (or rent) more land than they need.
the mother of all parsers https://github.com/feedjira/feedjira

sure Inoreader for android

sure https://bit.ly/37Mtlq2 for browser, perfect to guest it on 2nd monitor, gets updated every hour.
why don't the people write a blog instead of making dozens of tweets

I agree. And it's why I didn't read his screed once I saw that it was a whole series of tweets.

In the spirit of tl;dr, I propose "tr;dr" - Tweet rant; didn't read.
Of course it’s leaky, but obviously the cases where engineers built the right thing on the first try because of the clear design are harder to measure.

Also, look! Engineers are talking to designers.
I live in a country that has been know to conduct extrajudicial assassinations. Should I simply renounce my citizenship and go live on an offshore platform or work towards getting them to stop doing that?
So that means the next cyber-attack against the US comes from Afghanistan, Iran or Vietnam?

That's NOT evidence...could be true or not.

PS: But i think your 'evidence' is exactly what people of color have a problem with, especially in the US.
This is one reason why the “making the world a better place” rhetoric from big tech companies comes off so tone-deaf.

Fundamentally, tech companies have been a major driver in increasing income inequality. For all the productivity gains we get from automation, low-income jobs are lost - at least in the short term.

A popular solution is UBI, but I fear that it’s overly-simplistic and could have unintended negative consequences.
Paying H1-B less than prevailing wage is illegal/fraudulent. However, there are many legal tricks to get around it.
I know and use both Sketch and Figma on a decent level, and I prefer Sketch over Figma. My only complaint to it is that it doesn't have Ubuntu version (I understand why, but still).

To me, is main advantage of Sketch was how many tiny things they got right (before Sketch, I was using Fireworks), and this combined volume of tiny improvements resulted a huge advancement of user experience.

Figma, on the other hand, innovated just one thing: made design online and collaborative. All other tiny niceties are mostly copied. So I prefer to support the guys who crack their heads and innovate.

I also think that Sketch team knows about their main disadvantage, so a web editor for it looks to be in the works.
“Reader” apps (consume content) versus utility/creator apps.

Apple concedes not taking a cut of your content subscription (Netflix, Kindle, magazine readers, etc.), but if someone is subscribing to your app as a tool (not to the content), Apple feels justified in charging for the tool’s ecosystem.
Great book that every Python developer should own! Even for the recommendations you don't buy into, you'll still benefit just from reading a lucid argument in their favor.
Yeah, homesteading laws are one of the biggest social inventions of the united states. So many people were given the opportunity to start a life of their own. That's really powerful.
It seems like a simple law could fix this:

Phone device makers that provide an application store must also allow the user to load non-approved applications with equivalent API access to approved applications, and must make it possible for the user to load a third-party application store with equivalent access to the first-party application store.
Also, tweets in a tweet thread can be commented on specifically rather than on the blog post entirely

So it's like a college lecture where the professor stops after each sentence and has to answer questions from the audience. Pretty much the opposite of communication.
> When zoning prohibits dense building, everybody is forced to buy (or rent) more land than they need.

People don't mind. If you note, demand for suburban properties is still high. The more land you buy, the less density = better quality of life while also appreciating in value year over year. If people wanted dense city life, why are they fleeing metros now that they can work remote?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/coronavirus-update-people-fl...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-are-eyeing-homes...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/new-york-exo...
It is / will in various shapes. Check out Andy Pavlo's (CMU) work on self-driving databases https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/
"Information bubbles" means that people on both sides are only willing to communicate with those who supports and shares their own opinion. People are not listening to each other, people are not giving the benefit of doubt and even heavily ostracize those who suggests there may be "some fine people" on both sides of the barricade.

A compromise on racism is easy: for most people being non-racist is enough to make this world better. We cannot and we should not mandate everyone to be actively anti-racist. Race relations is a complex topic. It's actually more complex than most people think and there are no easy answers. The same way like everyone should not be actively anti-covid: leave it to doctors and nurses and simply do your part not to make the problem worse.

The BLM issue is too vague to detract it further: the way it's put now it's "against all bad and for all good". Is it about black lives? Or about police brutality? Or about police accountability (or lack thereof)? Or about racism - in its direct sense when people are laid off purely because the color of their skin? Or about black culture which does not promote education and other "white people values"? Or about economic inequality that went through the roof?

And, by the way, when I wrote about refusing to make a compromise, I was thinking more about police unions: they've built the dam that is now broke open.
i have no dog in this fight but the comments in this thread...

the amount of layoffs and unemployment since covid 19. this move is not to please you. it is to please the American people. only employers will care. the middle/working class American won't care (this is the biggest voting bloc that Trump needs)

this is a persuasion for Nov.
It doesn't cost much to build housing, it's the cost of land underneath it and the zoning that are problems.
Pretend you're a politician and go tell some poor US kids or young professionals that.

Ideally we are all together in the human family, but practically a Democratic country's citizens are the ones who set policy with their votes. A country's policies therefore will tend to align with what's best for its people.
This is also why it's "a university".
I was pretty clear why I included Google. Because using their app store is the single best chance for a dev to monetize their app on Android, or at least to get it noticed. Sure, they can use another store like F-Droid but while the possibility is there, they'd severely limit the audience. And most people are discouraged (for good reasons) from installing APKs from random places on the internet.

Few Android apps are distributed exclusively outside of the Play Store and even fewer get any traction with users, not to speak of being a financial success for the dev.
For a while I was involved in the private sector with companies that earned money from the "Lifeline" program (you may of heard of it called the "Obama Phone") that has been around since telco deregulation in the 80s.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...

When Trump said he wanted to eliminate it, tons of politicians and whatnot defended it as essential to getting cell phones into the hands of poor people.

Trump did reform it rather than eliminate it, putting stricter requirements and adding things (less payment to the companies, must be a smart phone, must provide some data, etc.). But up until this, I knew of one company that had about 30 employees and earned over $200mil per year directly from the government operating as an MVNO. The industry was rife with fraud (and likely still is for all I know, it was absolutely shocking before which is why they reformed it, but hopefully it's better now) - recipients had to fill out a stack of paperwork, but they would pay independent contractors to go to methadone clinics, homeless shelters, etc. with pre-filled paperwork and get people to just sign their name and hand them a phone. It was also a scam for the recipients who were in on it somewhat, as they would switch providers every month or sign up for multiple, and get gift cards (or booze, cigarettes etc.) from the independent contractors for doing so. Companies I worked with would have churn up to 80% per month so they constantly had to refill with "new" people who the independent contractors found.

I have seen so much fraud in various government programs that have a veneer of "doing good" but the end result is legions of private companies that execute the mandate and collect the check. If you are an enterprising person and want easy money, government programs are a great place to look, which is sadly why it attracts so much fraud.
>That sounds like a monopoly problem

Okay let's follow that logic: precisely at what point does that become a monopoly problem?
> Get comfortable or get left behind.

Yes. I understand the fear and loathing some people feel, but I've been watching this research area for the past decade or so — it might move around, but it's not being shut down.
That's a good idea, but alas I fear such a proposal would be deemed too... umm nationalistic or something... better to have local talent pay through the nose for their qualifications so that they can then compete on the global market with folks that don't have such debt.