skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, the American Right has really marginalized Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, et al.

The fact that Trump is what you think passes for an ethno-nationalist these days is all the evidence needed to demonstrate my point.

>“Europeans did Africans a favor by bringing them to America as slaves”

This is a pretty gross thing to say, but it's not ethno-nationalism. Words have meaning for a reason.

>“Capitalist ownership of the means of production is a root of injustice and fundamentally incompatible with democracy”

The most popular politician in our country a couple years ago, and perhaps still today, is the open socialist Bernie Sanders.
Something is pathologically broken for you. Don’t know whether it’s client side like a corrupted browser or service side like a malformed attachment that is causing Gmail to thrash. Chances of course are that the problem is on your end.
If that happens, it's safe to assume that Apple will simply try to replicate Google's business model. iAds may have been a failure, but I would imagine digital ad market is simply too lucrative for Apple to leave to Google and Facebook (and Bing and Yahoo/Verizon) alone.
Give me a break. There are still a huge number of white developers across tech companies of all sizes. Cries of anti-American discrimination at American companies are overblown.
the schedule I was an exaggeration to emphasize how bad it really is.
I'm afraid you're not painting a correct picture here. There are climate sceptics (they call themselves realists) that used to work for the IPCC. There are established professors among them (no not psychologists, geologists).

Please do not act as if they are dumb fks. That is not the case.
How about them delivery trucks and waste cardboard boxes? Those data centers can also generate a lot of emissions. Amazon is throwing spare change at a massing problem they're involved in.
How does that work without your favorite hole-in-the-wall restraunt closing down because almost no one wants to pay $50 more for a bowl of ramen noodles every week?
It takes one bad application of such technology to ruin a person's life.
We can't have a mindless algorithm take or assist decisions that can effect a person's life without extreme caution.
Not because people who make these decisions are never wrong but because they are held accountable.
These algorithms give false impression of realness and truth while being totally unaccountable.
Just look how Yan Lecun (who wasn't even accused of anything) immediately took to throw the blame on the data and not the algorithm. His claim is just a silly demagoguery because with ML there's no real distinction between data and algorithm. But the point is ML is dangerous because it makes it way too easy to pass the buck and doing harm without accountability. Lecunn just made a great demonstration....
I'm currently working on founding a search engine that is in direct opposition of Google's values, or potentially lack thereof, so I think that might be a hard sell for them ;)

And the numbers don't really work out for founders for the first couple years in terms of any salary so I think again we view money differently. I'm not really disputing that your numbers work for being an employee but they don't really hold out for people working to start their own thing, at least in the short term. As I'm sure the OP is aware there's intangible benefits that don't take the form of a retirement account associated with running your own thing.

Edit: I'll also say we may be at a point where we're starting to talk passed each other, your math checks out for sure I just don't value the benefits associated as much.
Europe has a huge leg up on this problem due a variety of factors. One of which is relatively homogeneous population, which has historically made it easier to make decisions, approve/fund social programs and also not treat fellow citizens as "the others". Ethnicity and citizenship are closely linked.

The US has always had this exclusionary divided culture due to its diversity and racism. It makes it hard to fix some of the larger issues that exist, since much of the debate is framed as "us vs them".

You can see similar issues in countries like Malaysia, where the parties are mostly split on ethnic lines.

This isn't excusing this behavior at all. Just context.
Or Kickstarter or any other kind of fundraising effort I guess. It’s a pretty cool adaptation of a fairly established practice.
I can't do iOS still. Too many restrictions, compromise and missing functionality.

Like, give me a custom launcher option (custom everything options), emulation of classic consoles and handhelds, and easy plug and play access via a PC. If I can't even get one of those, I'm on Android regardless of how shiny I think Apple hardware is.

But if you don't want nay of that, it probably works grate. Just not for me.
ITT: People criticizing the H1B program for reasons that have nothing to do with why it was suspended, or considering the fate of people/families who are already here on H1Bs.

This is a pretty obvious move by the administration to discourage immigration, in any form. Could the H1B system be more equitable to workers, more efficient, less confusing, etc? Absolutely. But suspending H1Bs and green card applications like this does the opposite of all of that and throws thousands of families into limbo.
Public education has plenty of funding; maybe enable parents to choose where their kids go so failing schools and teachers can be shutdown and fired.

I like how state abuse is considered capitalist greed - prisons and police forces are run by the state.
I happen to be on that camp. Despite having anxiety I haven't been able to outright quite coffee. I also have mild hypothyroid so coffee helps to overcome fatigue. However, I have reduced to about 1-2 cups/day from about 4 cups/day.
Never understood the hype around superhuman. From the outside it looks as if it was hyped by a bunch of silicon valley VC's to drive up the valuation of the product.
It was just a typo, he accidentally omitted "not"
Fairly good points. And I guess you would actually need twice the amount of energy for station keeping, unless you were to use an unstable orbit on-purpose, and use the gravity as an assist for accelerating particles, now that I think of it.

Well, in any case, so much for the circumsolar collider described in the Three Body trilogy. I guess it might still be doable/useful with some hypothetical future technology, though.
Historically, this is what police were in the Northeast US. (In the South, police trace their heritage to slave patrols. I'm sure they would argue that these patrols were also just defending property. Gross.)

Landowners and merchants hired private police to watch over their holdings. Over time, they convinced locals that it would be in the public good if the guards they hired were paid for by everyone.

In the 1850s, in Boston, they formalized this arrangement into the first police department in the country. (There's an interesting history here around the oppression and then incorporation of Boston's Irish population by the police force.)

Edit: Curious about the downvotes -- this is a review of US history.
Did you get a closure on this ? You can also use this form to file a request. https://support.google.com/business/gethelp
> It might still be systemically racist, but at least the consequences thereof will be lower.

If that’s the final output I suspect most people will want to retain the status quo because the primary problem is ignored at great expense.
because it shows how much money you leave on the table to go pick up so much happiness on the other side of the money table :)
>The largest H1-B visa sponsors are Cognizant, Tata, Wipro, Infosys, and Deloitte. None of those scream "innovation" to me.

of course. Those are the B2B ugliest enterprise software jobs that not many people really want to do, yet those are necessary jobs. Bad as it is, when/if those jobs move overseas due to the factors like those visa restrictions, i don't think it would make that software and its support for US customers better as overseas situation adds additional complexity and cost, and that in turn may get reflected in the performance of those US customers.

Note: i did almost 8 years on H1B in the previous decade (and before that few years as a remote in 199x), and i think the greatest threat to our cushy jobs here isn't small (85K/year) inflow of immigrants, it is full fledged remote work to which the companies have been pushed by factors like covid and now the work visa restrictions which can as well result in tech jobs leaving the country like manufacturing jobs left it in the past. The work visa program is like a safety pressure valve - shutting it off brings the risk of the thing blowing out, ie. the jobs just going away.
> To convince yourself that the task of "value of human life" is futile, the following thought experiment suffices -- there are different penalties for deliberately causing the death of another (and distinction based on the quality and recency of those motives) vs. negligently causing a death vs. recklessly causing a death, in all justice systems invented by humans.

How does that prove the futility of the exercise? It only proves that there must be more than one way to do it, and that the right method depends on context. There are metrics for use in criminal cases, civil cases, insurance, etc. It's not like we can fail to make these determinations -- failing to put a value on human life in each relevant context is akin to saying there is no value to human life at all.
I do remember the police beating people for having the fake voting in Barcelona a couple of years back. Or the french police clashing with the yellow jackets.

What (some) european countries have is a much lower violent crime rate, which might jade perceptions either way.
In the town I used to live in in GA (about 125k people) accidents like this (though not that severe) were frequent on a couple of hilly roads. Marked as 35-45mph depending on the section, the police would drive at 80mph or more down the road. Usually they ticketed the person they hit. At least one cop I knew was actually proud of how he was able to stick it to the guy pulling out of a fast food restaurant.

I respect most people by default, but individuals like them make it hard for me to respect police by default. I'll be respectful, but in my head I can't help but think of all the scummy things they or their colleagues do.
>It’s not quite as easy as it seems, believe me software companies have been trying to pull this off for decades. I’ve been around situations where a US team was offshored and returned again because the results were so dreadful

>What people forget is that the folks who actually make it here are the absolute cream of the crop.

You know a good way to reverse this trend, though? Force all those people to take all the skills they've learned back to their home countries.

I work at a Big-N and there are many teams that are majority non-citiens. If they're forced to leave the US, do you think the company will try to replace them with Americans, or just move the team?
I don't understand why folks are doubting the possible performance gains here. The latest iPads are already faster than the vast majority of PC laptops, including almost all MacBooks in single-core performance. And that's with the thermal constraints of an iPad. Can you imagine what that exact same chip can do with better cooling?

I guess we won't have to imagine long, though, since that's exactly what we'll see with the developer kit. Can't wait to see benchmarks of those.
Another weird thing about the NYPD is that each police officer gets 20 so-called "get out of jail free" cards to give to friends and family. The recipient can show the card to the police if pulled over and use the card to "wiggle out of minor trouble".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42780382
The problem you are trying to underline is that these are meant to be an alternative when force is absolutely necessary, whereas a lot of users pretend they are "safe" options to be used in any situation without harm.
> from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals

That point of view is just factually incorrect. It’s like thinking that the way to get rich is to become a movie star. Sure it might happen but that’s not the normal way.
They also fail to keep people safe, who gives a shit if they're nice to talk to.
Why not just stack rank h1b applicants by salary instead of using a lottery system? That forces the income levels up which should benefit Americans workers as well.
> it is quite clear that Tom Cotton is not advocating the use of the the military to "suppress political dissent"

That's wrong. Regardless of how you feel about the tactics used by the protesters, their dissent is clearly political in nature, and Cotton was advocating stopping their demonstrations with the military. It's a terrible mistake to misunderstand or sugar-coat his message and you shouldn't do it.
Graph: A niche market going mainstream
There are a couple but I think the most Rails-like are Amber or Lucky:
https://amberframework.org/
https://luckyframework.org/

There's also sidekiq.cr from the same person who made Sidekiq for Ruby:
https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq.cr
If you’re surprised by how police are acting, you don’t understand US history
But you’ve gotta admit they’re like 10 times better than the alternative.

I mean, their whole operation is optimized up the wazoo. Imagine the time saved, the carbon emissions saved when folks don’t have to drive to and back to get their stuff.

I’m kind of hooked on this grocery delivery stuff too now, so much time and headache and gas saved.
Civil Forfeiture means private property can be a liability unless one has a lot of extra liquidity to fund a legal defense.
Posted the wrong link before.
https://www.hoover.org/research/auctioning-temporary-visas
Gnome in Apple WWDC 2020
Even if they were equally corrupt to everyone else, they have much, much more authority to use violence and be shielded from the consequences. We should demand that they are significantly less corrupt than everyone else.
It would be extremely bizarre if x86 programs are linking against arm libraries.
In addition to any emails one might send the relevant editor at the NYT, you may also email your concerns to editors@cjr.org

The Columbia Journalism Review does a lot of "reporting on reporting," and has a very high profile in their field. I CC'd them on my email to the NYT section editor.
there's nothing stopping the NYT from being more ethical than US law requires them to be. and they regularly argue that current US law isn't sufficiently ethical (though perhaps not on this issue).
This is a great rebuttal twitter thread, so thanks for posting it. But you should really add text to give the link some context. People are more likely to click on it if they know what it is first.
And then there's times I want to save an image, and can't convince the web site to give me a jpeg, so I have to convert it again.
Are you sure re: CI/CD? I was looking around the job market recently, and every role was interested in my experience in it, since they were using it too. To be honest, that could be self-selecting, as my resume likely attracts companies similar to ones I have worked at. I still do hear about microservices, CI/CD a whole lot in job descriptions etc, but whether they are already practicing it (well), is another question...

I was going to suggest TinyGo! I mainly work on a backend system, so I guess we have different priorities and needs. The embedded work I have done has all been C/ ASM, though it could be fun to revisit with Go.
The increasing politicization of the machine learning field makes me grow tired. It makes me want to work on things without political implications. Something like electrical engineering. Does anyone else feel this way?
In San Francisco, I've seen so many occasions where police and fire (not the fire truck, the little cars) do the "lights and full speed" for really no reason. Or screaming high speed U turns just for the heck of it.

Honestly, I'm somewhat sure that this is just considered a perk of the job since it lets them ignore road rules.
They have (also known as an "LRAD")

https://genasys.com/video/buffalo-ny-pd-acquire-lrad-500x-fo...

I know it was deployed in the past month Buffalo, Portland, Seattle, New York and Washington DC at least, and I'm sure many more police departments have used it.

These should be banned along with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash grenades. The indiscriminate nature and damage these weapons cause is the definition of excessive force.

EDIT: Sorry, was mistaken. ADS is not the same as LRAD - though neither should be in the hands of local police departments.
Or you may fail at interviews because for you it’ll be conducted in English vs their native language. Not a hypothetical. At least an anecdote. Old colleague casually admitted to this despite company policy.

Also note that most interviews are known to be more extreme than the actual job needs: e.g. leetcode is the interview; random CSS manipulation is the actual job. I wonder how hard would it be to teach a top 15% high schooler in America to do that stuff.
anyone tried running ads on their open source repos?
Strangely, the title of the page has "that allow for" instead of "allowing".
Doable but it won't be something amazing.
$100K would translate to about £4600/monthly (after tax).
Housing: £2000-2500(2-3 bed, decent area)
Food: £600-800(normal food)
Transport: £500-£700(public transport for both +1 car/)
Some notes in my personal diary that may help. In this case a framework/strategy to "advance" my career.

Below are the criteria.

- Desire
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” - Napoleon Hill

- Remove self limiting beliefs.
Great comment on this very thread[0]

- Never be satisfic with what you have.
Keep lifing the bar for your self. Do harder things once the current ones your doing are easy.
For instance, I plan on moving from web development & start doing some cryptoraphy.

- Trust your instincts
Kowledege kills action its the #1 source of excuses. Stop asking, you already know what todo.

- Choosing a goal
Choose a bold goal, contruct daily routines that will move you to this goal.
Goals should also be focused & Intinsically rewarding. i.e Work on what excites you, not is whats on demand.
An example is me that has accumlated a not-so popular set of programming skills (Nim, Flutter, Solidity & Scilla).
I believe Paul Graham has an a related essay on this[1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23614989
[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Personally, I don't think it matters much. So what if we allow more software engineers from other countries? We haven't done anything special to deserve a job more than they have. My only concerns with it are about their well-being and freedom under the current system.
If Safari was your main browser during your web development you wouldn't have any issues would you?

Realistically people should be using either Safari or Firefox during their development. Then check for chrome compatibility after.
Complain HN: The new GitHub's layout is a monstrosity
I hope they will revert this.
Removing Sensitive Data from Git History
“ The second that renewable energy is a more economic and reliable way to consume energy it will easily become the default because there will be no reason not to.”

You ignore the realpolitik of climate change. FYI certain fossil fuel producing states invest heavily to disrupt the transition to renewables.

Ask yourself why the Green Climate Fund, probably the most important fund of its type, is based is based in the arse-end or nowhere.
Get a good accountant. They are seriously worth it.
All I know is that both of them are perfectly willing to discredit and throw science to the wind if it doesn't fit their needs. I hope the science community realizes this before they let themselves be used as pawns by politicians.
3. IBM wants to import 400 java developers from India to lower their wage bill. What visa do they use?
They're better at it than American Police are, as evinced by the crime rates.

Certainly not as good as some other countries but it sort of points to the fact that you can be better at stopping crime than American police and nicer at the same time.
It’s an artifact of colonialism that has been properly abstracted to fit the corporate interface, with a nice layering of cake to obfuscate reality.

I want no part of it.

Actually, no one one wants any part of it. The ones that take part in it are desperate.

I want no part in the desperation, it’s never good.
I got into the "beta" last night only to find out it was a 1 week trial and the cost was $100/year. (Also when claiming emails short addresses costs even more money per year).

Right off the bat it put a really bad taste in my mouth. I'm helping you test your product. Changing your email is a really big commitment, I can't imagine this is the way to convince people to try it.
Suppose the investments turn out to be wildly successful. They turn $2b into $200b. They could still fail at the goal of slowing global warming.

The accounting value of an equity, especially a growth stage company, is never the same as its economic value. When in history has accounting (like a price) measured something real / believable about the environment?

One way to look at this is what is the environmental impact of Tesla? Amazon would have love to have invested in Tesla. That would have made this fund. Anyone would. But just because their accounting values goes up so and so, doesn't mean that's a measurement of their environmental impact.

My point is, equities are ill suited incentives for even economic profits, let alone environmental "profits."
A new, undocumented INT1 tensor core instruction in Nvidia Ampere
For the hardware and architecture nerds, CUTLASS now appears to include support for an INT1 (binary) AND-popcount matrix multiplication, in addition to the XOR-popcount present in Turing.
Apple’s New Privacy Features Good for Bootstrapped Founders and Small Biz Owners
The part about all the school kids having instructions on the back of their student IDs for what to do when stopped by the police is just nuts!
A dictatorship is effectively what the police have become - a top down command structure that has escaped democratic oversight and the rule of law.

Continuing the theme, many police actually take indirect bribes. Look up Patrolmen's Benevolent Association cards and the like. There are different levels of tokens depending on connectedness and donation level, and you can find them openly discussed on police forums. I would guess the only reason we haven't developed a culture of on the spot cash bribes is that police would take the money and write you a ticket anyway for having insulted them. They have a psychological need to pretend they are on the right side of the law.
This is what Google has to say about "H1B minimum salary":

"The H 1B also requires that the H-1B employer pay the H-1B employee the prevailing wage or the actual wage, whichever is higher. The prevailing wage is the salary paid to workers in similar occupations in the geographic area of the intended employment. The actual wage is the wage that the employer pays employees in similar occupations at the location of the intended employment.. Since the procedures and record keeping required for the H-1B are complex, an attorney or other trained person will be necessary to complete the paperwork."

https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/h-1b_faqs
Please don't advertise on HN.

Instead use the Show HN feature and post something interesting like a blog post
Sure and this is kind of what I do. I have a sole proprietorship and sell stickers and in the future some minor features on the site. Of course it has the overhead of setting up the business and all the accounting/tax stuff (unless you use a service for that which takes ~5 % of your revenue).