skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is some offensive garbage -- talk to anyone working in any of those organizations, of course they want homelessness to end. More than anything.

Seeing the most downtrodden people in society continually crushed is an awful experience for people on both sides of the table.
Robbery? I'm guessing you also feel that the people who escaped across the Berlin Wall were "robbing" the Soviet Union of their labor? I don't suppose the actual humans involved get a say in this, do they?
Ask HN: Is Plivo free to receive inbound SMS from local numbers?
I am thinking about creating a project that will hopefully be receiving millions of inbound SMS messages per day if it became successful.

Plivo claims to offer free inbound SMS at least from local numbers.

Are there any caveats to that?

I am wary because "unlimited free" plans typically have hidden clauses that don't mean what they advertise.

Just curious if anyone has run into a situation like that, or if there is another better option to plivo?
Yeah, it reminds me of the Monty Python's Merchant Banker sketch: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hwql1
> Employers must attest to the Department of Labor that they will pay wages to the H-1B nonimmigrant workers that are at least equal to the actual wage paid by the employer to other workers with similar experience and qualifications for the job in question, or the prevailing wage for the occupation in the area of intended employment – whichever is greater.

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

According to you, L&T were taking a cut out of the wages. Honestly, you should blow the whistle. L&T or whatever that middleman company is, they need to shutdown their H1-B program.
What is the goal of this project?

The focus on technical details is fine - if you are going to build an opinion poll app it sounds like you're doing a fine job, but I don't really understand what it gains for users, society or your company?
Figma approaches design from an engineer's perspective. They have features like auto layout [0], swapping elements in a list, scaling multiple elements at once while preserving each aspect ratio, and so on.

Can you imagine that if designers before this wanted to move an element in a list, they would have to move every single one instead of having some drag and drop swap functionality? That if they wanted to dynamically change a button size for the text inside it, like we can do easily on the web, they simply couldn't?

Basically, Figma is turning design more into something like front-end development, doing things in a design program that engineers could do normally with code. This is because the developers of Figma are themselves coders rather than designers, so they know what real ease of use should look like (ironically). This is the fundamental corporate culture shift that is the difference between Figma and others like Sketch.

Of course, you could go all the way and simply turn the design software into a web/mobile development framework, which is what software like Framer [1] does, which is literally a design software built on React, and it can spit out React code for you once you're done designing.

[0] https://www.figma.com/blog/announcing-auto-layout/

[1] https://www.framer.com/
How are you measuring impact?

My concern with this is it’s easy to write off as virtue signaling. Right now is a moment where you can get people who wouldn’t agree with you on board with deep important structural changes. Going after something like this feels like just a waste of energy and distracts from those problems, especially when you’re wrong on the facts
Please don't tell me what I said, especially when I didn't.

The new product I particularly had in mind is both cheaper and better (coffee).
I have my own "perfect world" solution that I can shed some light on, sure. It's built to address the concerns that I myself have observed, so it might not apply to all. Never just blindly follow the advice of a stranger on the internet :)

Stop wasting time with high fidelity mocks. Engineers shouldn't need a picture perfect rendering of what product wants in order to implement it. The end result almost never ends up being an exact replication anyway for "reasons".

Start doing both of these in parallel:
1. Free up design to build systems that can be used to solve problems. Have them work closely with engineering to ensure the vision will carry ALL the way through to implementation
2. Lean very heavily on low fidelity mocks to hash out the SHAPE of changes to product (inspired by Basecamp https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.1-chapter-02)

To use object oriented programming as an example, a design system is used in the concrete implementation of the abstract shape of the product requirement. When something doesn't fit into an existing abstraction, you refactor instead of fork.
See my other response in this thread.
There's an estimate of 10.000 homeless people in SF. And the budget is in 400 million.

At 40k a year per homeless person..how are they homeless. Answer: they aren't getting 40k of benefits.
Yes, chop shops out there abuse the system, and have become substantial factor in some industries.

Much of the H1B candidates out there are graduates of american universities that are trying to take the next step to be in America. We should be embracing these people where possible, not villanizing them. Make it so the chop shops can be weeded out, not the good people that are forced to work under them due to a broken system.

Also, many jobs require base salaries that are VERY in line with the market, if not higher, as a financial check to the Employer to make sure they want said (H1B) candidate.
We had trouble finding a JR DevOps person, basically forced to go H1B, and a JR in the midwest was going to cost us 95K with little experience. That was widly out of line for a JR devops candidate
Solving homelessness is more a question of addressing mental illness. There is unfortunately a strong correlation between untreated mental illness and homelessness. One of my hospital friends has told me about homeless people who regularly hang out near the ER entrance, hoping to be admitted for treatment. If they are admitted, they are discharged right away. The Reagan era got rid of the "Mental Health Systems Act of 1980" which provided funding for community support of mental institutions. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...
>> Use 2fa

Even better: use u2f
Sword-wielding scientists show how ancient fighting techniques spread
One reason for 'even'. Silicon Valley contains some of the richest zip codes, richest corporations and highest paying jobs in the country. Yet all this monetary wealth doesn't seem to help with a major humanitarian crisis unfolding on its doorstep.
(Who is this guy? The youtube comments on that video don't suck.)
This the opposite of what I believe has made the us great. Look at all the Elon Musks. High skilled immigration can never harm your country. It can give competition to some people who feel entitled to their high salary, though.
If globalization and automation are so good at job creation, why did the American manufacturing workforce collapse?

Economies are complex, counter-intuitive feedback machines, but the "supply and demand" model fits the last 40 years of data, while the "floats all boats" model really doesn't.

"Lump of labor is a fallacy, honest!" sure sounds like the kind of opinion I could get a good penny for if I were an enterprising economist, though.
Because it's an area with a lot of rich companies, presumably they have more money to solve the problem. I don't agree with that, the solution is moral and pragmatic in nature, not monetary.
No, most opinion polls don't work that way. Typically polls a) try and sample at random rather than self-selection and b) ask demographic questions that allows sampling to be adjusted to ensure it is representative.
This post encapsulates why Figma is winning, because there are thousands of teams doing this work dealing with the headaches of having design spread across multiple expensive tools. Figma just does it better.
Visualizing the True Size of Land Masses
YouTube is markedly similar to Netflix architecturally I’m sure (precompute ahead of time) and uses quic.
To be fair, most of that is them catching up to where Intel already was. Noone seems to actually be fabbing meaningfully smaller feature sizes (or higher layer counts) than what Intel is stagnating at.
> Not letting people in status travel and come back is crazy.

During the initial roll out of Trump's travel ban, it seems like they seriously considered, and perhaps initially intended for it to affect Green Card holders as well. Perhaps the public reaction was what changed their mind. Perhaps public feedback could change it this time too.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/donald-trump-travel-...
> The transition from PowerPC to Intel was about IBM and Motorola not being able to deliver parts...The transition from Intel to ARM is about Intel not being able to deliver parts...Apple knows it can deliver the parts it wants with its own processors at this point.

I think this is the key reasoning. There's something really interesting happening here. In the past, when Apple transitioned from Motorola to PowerPC Apple wasn't big enough to design and fab their own chips, this was also true when they moved from PowerPC to Intel.

However, Apple has some choices here, and I think the decision comes down to long term supply-chain risk:

1) Switch to AMD. Their processors are blowing the doors off of Intel, at better prices. They aren't having the same process problems and their high-end components are fantastic. However, history has shown AMD surge ahead for a bit, then Intel, and back again. Apple probably doesn't want to risk this happening after they engage in some huge volume discount contract. More importantly, neither Intel nor AMD are winning in the lower power vs performance segments.

2) Become their own fabless designer. The risks are enormous. What if they can't keep pushing the performance envelope against Intel/AMD? What if their fab partners can't keep their processes moving forward? What if they fail to make this architecture jump (again)? But if gives them better supply chain control and increases their vertical integration.

In some sense it points to a weakness of highly vertically integrated companies...as a model it makes their entire product lines dependent on every component being able to progress. If any component lags, the entire product line suffers. So outside suppliers, who have multiple customers to please, become key sources of risk and it will become the instinct of the company to move the riskiest parts of its supply chain in-house.

If Apple is unable to keep advancing ARM chips in terms of performance (regardless of power) it will be a problem for them. But one final advantage of building their own, is that they can obfuscate this component from the rest of the market and make comparisons on cores/Ghz/etc virtually impossible. It's a bit like how Apple really doesn't even advertise how much RAM is in their portable devices.
OK maybe SV are bad for this. The govt needs to solve this by building low income housing but lol building low income housing in the US.

Finland figured it out https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...
Funny how ppl don't like to mention this and just focus on H1Bs getting paid "market rates".

It's almost like the SV's previous gentleman agreement of non-poaching got replaced with "hey, let's use H1Bs, sure we might have to pay near market rates, but at least we can tie them down for at least 3/5 years without any option of leaving".
Ok, I've appended a question mark to the title, which is a standard HN moderation trick for making an objectionable title a bit more neutral.

> I'm not sure I would say I am an expert, but I am a real detective, not an armchair one, and I have previously worked with RCMP.

We can't have many of those on HN! Care to say more about your background? No need, of course. Just curious.
If you haven't seen Stuff Made Here's other videos, you're missing out. He started 3 months ago and every video is good. My favorite is the robotic golf club that adjusts as you swing to match any club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Cv9fvajrc
Exactly. Also, it's worth pointing out the fraction of people outraged about Google's process for administrating copyright takedown requests and demanding justice vs. the number who apparently aren't concerned about Gameloft's ability to tell the difference between their own IP and Sony's.

Both are mistakes. Why is it Google's job to not make mistakes and not Gameloft's? The system is just broken, agreed. But it's the legal system that is at fault here. We aren't going to fix it with outrage at our favorite tech demon.
I don't know why this is being down voted. Building housing and giving it to homeless folks would, by definition, make those folks not-homeless.

Though I'd believe that the folks in Silicon Valley are more likely to propose and implement this sort of solution than many other parts of the country.
I think most Canadians working in the US for tech companies would be on a TN visa, which is not being suspended according to the Globe and Mail [0]. Internships would be significantly affected though, since they go on a J1 visa so it could help the new grad pipeline for Canadian tech companies.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-tr...
How was it? For every rule, there is an exception: http://www.sosbrutalism.org/
Yes the high carbon footprint means they are at risk of becoming uneconomic due to higher carbon taxes. Or forced to shut down due to outright regulatory action. Either likely to happen as the powers that be[1] get more and more spooked by climate change.

[1] Consider world wide only a minority of leaders have any particular personal interest in coal, oil, or gas.
No, but there's a persistent sense of entitlement where people honestly believe they have the Right to live in San Francisco.

It's mind-boggling, like commuting is some special Hell only they experience. Nobody bats an eye when Manhattan schoolteachers are in the bridge & tunnel crowd, but if you listen to some folks they will assure you that San Francisco's children deserve teachers who live near their schools, and anything else would be a travesty. Think of the children!
If you're immigrating for economic opportunity, it would make sense to try to make the most of it.

A lot of people have a plan to make a bunch of money for 10-20 years and then go back and be entreprenerial in their home countries etc. Canada may (or may not) be a better permanent home, but if the goal is to make a bunch of money, that's not the best place to do it.
Possibly a reference to /{usr,var}/spool.
Anecdote: at my current org the ideal we talk about is having a component library designed in Figma by the Designers and implemented by the engineers.

In reality Design doesn't use components and most pages end up being composed of a bunch of one-off components and we waste a ton of time.

As a side effect of this, the app design isn't consistent across pages because we aren't sharing components.
Housing more people is an engineering problem: materials, construction techniques, density, cost. It’s the aesthetics and social justice crowd insisting that the engineering techniques we have must not be used (for example demanding onsite union labor at prevailing local wages instead of trucking in prefab components from a cheaper labor market).
What's the homeless person to bureaucrat/middleman ratio? I'd be very curious to see a breakdown of what sort of organizations are involved, how many people are involved, and where all that money is actually flowing.
Limiting the question specifically to "can you record your own phone calls for your own use", and ignoring questions about what you can do with the recordings (which is where things like CCPA or GDPR would apply), there are two regimes which cover the vast majority of telecommunications law: one-party consent and two-party consent. (India doesn't allow recording at all, but that's because they're stuck in the Ma Bell era of telecom law.) One-party consent means one party - i.e., yourself - needs to consent to recording for the recording to be legal. The latter means all parties need to consent to recording. (Evidently "two-party consent" was coined before conference calls were a thing.)

About three quarters of the US is one-party consent but a quarter are two-party consent. California is part of the latter group and if any party to the call has California residence, then you need consent from all parties to the call before you can record. Yes, this has gone up to California supreme court. Yes, this includes all of the FAANG companies. So you would need some kind of notification that you were recording and for the person on the other line to consent to the recording, regardless of where you live, simply because Apple employees live in California.

(Depending on jurisdiction, there are exceptions for a party to a call to record the call if it has something to do with specific crimes, but "violating antitrust law" isn't one of them.)
These links are very interesting, thank you! I haven't heard of the term autonomic computing before. Software systems are so far from achieving properties of life such as homeostasis...
No. Housing more people is a people/politics/wealth distribution problem. The engineering portion is trivial.

Even if you truck in prefab, where will you put it if no one will zone or sell you the land to place it on? Everyone wants to be upwardly mobile, and many signal status with their housing. Would you live in a trailer park with your kids? Would you invite your coworkers over for game night to the double wide? No one wants to live next to trailer parks, I know because I try to buy and build them. Existing trailer parks are valuable because zoning for new ones is incredibly difficult, and the cap rates (return on investment) are higher than single family homes or smaller multi family.

Perhaps you'll argue that prefab isn't a trailer. Fair. People still want to live in the best neighborhood with the best schools their money can buy, which is rarely a prefab or inexpensively constructed community (see: signaling, with a dash of entrenched interests such as taxing authorities and builder profits).

Remember white flight? Very similar. Humans are tribal, will always seek status, and always measure themselves against others. These are deep rooted socioeconomic problems to solve. It's not just a matter of spitting housing out of a factory Gigafactory style.
As solid reasoning as using tariffs to promote American industry.
The only real solution to this problem is to completely reverse-engineer the iPhone and iPad down to the level of the ISA and device drivers and load a free operating system.

And no the ISA is not ARM. It resembles ARM but it contains secret Apple sauce. And there's lots of crypto chip voodoo going on; we'd also have to figure out how to disable all that.

In any case the requisite reverse engineering could be done with enough money. It's not a technical problem. But it definitely is a money problem: I don't know how to make a good enough business case for offering IOS device owners a completely alternative OS because most of the muggles just don't care.
Where's the extortion is the case that needs to be built here. "I can't sell my app at no cost to the most wealthy segment of mobile users" is not a credible complaint.
Had a similar situation (a Windows and a MBP) and just putting VMWare and Windows 10 on the MBP solved pretty much all the problems of having to lug around two machines.
There’s plenty of people living in poverty in America, along with the multitude of other major problems right now. I’m not a closed border person, we need immigrants. But we don’t have the resources to help every single person who wants to come here. It’s not discrimination, that’s a terrible argument. It’s a government helping its people.
Construction of the 10000 year clock (2011)
I don't know what the parent is referring to recently, but years ago Wikileaks had a Stratfor memo during the violence of the Zetas which gave 'tacit' approval to Sinoloa.
https://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-c...

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/17/1747720_re-fwd-re-fw-f...
Is there a way to opt out of this other than pinning your git executables to an old version or forking?

I want to make sure all my git repos are forever readable by the original git they were produced with, even if newer git versions are used for producing commits.

The article makes some troubling comments like:

> countless repositories need to be transitioned from SHA-1 to SHA-256.

Absolutely never doing this.
This could be a knock-out punch for many US universities. H1B is the visa International students pursue after paying full out of state tuition to colleges here.
Free college I guess.

Oh wait...

That’s a very interesting thing, I had no idea. So a sensible thing to do would be to increase that fee substantially and have it go straight to subsidizing degree programs that aren’t creating enough home grown talent.

In other words, the company should expect to pay close to market rate per H1B plus the fee.

We remove the incentives to abuse the program for cost reduction, and straight up use the fees to fund college.

That brings me to some weird job posts that I keep seeing for some large bank. The role was for ‘Specialist’ developer, and I wonder if it really is some specialist role that they can’t fill in a major city (seemed like typical web developer stuff).

Shrugs, say it ain’t so, would hate to know that’s how it’s being gamed.
> Ban it

It's not "banned", the proposal is to temporarily suspend it. When it is resumed, however, I would ask that they put a lower bound on the wages paid. Say, $100K for programmers - the "real" middle class living wage where I live. That will reduce abuse significantly. To reduce it even further, switch to the auction system, where a fixed size quota is allocated, and employers "bid" salaries for workers. I do have skin in this game: I'm paid a lot, and this will create more competition for me, but it will improve the ridiculous situation where people get into debt to get degrees and then can't find jobs. Why anyone in the US be against this is a mystery to me.
I don't know about SV specifically, but a majority of the homeless in LA County have been here for more than 10 years and weren't homeless when they arrived. Seems like the rising cost of housing is one of the causes of homelessness in the first place.
Tl;dr: You will be able to run Wayland and maybe even X programs. And CUDA and, maybe, Vulkan.
That doesn't explain having imports of any kind.
There's also a class of controllers that contain a PID loop, but that dynamically optimize the PID parameters.
> But there is only so much developable land, which keeps supply low.

Repeating this line is a horrible idea. It gives ammunition to those pushing the idea that Silicon Valley homelessness is the “natural order” rather than the direct result of bad policies by those living here.

There’s more than enough land to solve the issue, it’s just that it would mean people who already own homes would have to make some minor sacrifices that’s they’re not willing to make.
J1 visas are what all the tech companies use for interns from Canada. Technically you aren't allowed to work under a J1 visa, but everyone seems to be doing that anyways - tech companies will always say that you are going to be treated just like a full-time employee during the interview, and then say you are only in the US for training when applying for the visa.