skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the keynote has always been aimed at the users (via journalists, I suppose) - in the ones I've watched, it's always been "surface level"; never much below "we have these spanky new technologies!" on a slide. The rest of WWDC is for the developers with the workshops and whatnot, really.
can is not the same as must ... there is absolutely the possibility of adding support as a binary implementation, especially with the relatively short turn around of green browsers. IE11 and Safari are the last of the old guard on this and mobile devices have a 2-3 year burnout in terms of support.

Not to mention it could be feature detected via browser, js and other means as an interim solution. Also, I'm pretty sure the implementation is wasm with a very thin JS shim, at least that would be my presumption as I'm not familiar with this format/project.
On the contrary, it's a smart and deeply reasonable move. Scott is being quite transparent about the reasons for his choice, and the NYT reporters' and editors' behavior will look far more suspicious than anything he's doing.
Anybody have opinions/reasoning on Patreon vs Github Sponsors when it comes to open source work?
What is the ostensible purpose behind that law? Seems like something you could get changed (with considerable effort) considering there appear to be no strong interests who benefit from it.
The other poster was remarkably rude for no reason. I’d say that you don’t really want an H1B though. What you want is a concrete and easily accessible path to citizenship that takes your high-skilled degree into account. To that end, I would support broader immigration reform rather than trying to fix the irredeemable H1B program.
I think what he's generally saying: aggressively deduct expenses used to support your business. This would include rent, home office, computers, phones to conduct business, business meetings, travel, health insurance, retirement, etc. Then the member and spouse would draw low salaries putting you in low income bracket and thus low taxation. The 2017 TCJA further reduced taxation for business owners via the Qualified Business Income (QBI 20%) deduction.
Spacewreck Terran Trade Authority Handbook
>Bringing up "black-on-black crime" is a common disingenuous tactic to distract from conversations about police brutality.

It's part of the story, though. The incident in the linked article started because a group of teens jumped another and stole his phone. If that's happening 10x as often then innocent kids in that neighborhood are going to be 10x as likely to be swept up in police action.
I'm still impressed. It makes me happy to see that people are getting a bit of money for the value they bring us.
Fine, thanks.

How about you?
The lump of labour fallacy is just that, a fallacy.
I fully agree with that. But I think there is another angle to this that is often ignored/overlooked.

With their (intentional) behavior you described, these companies often violate even basic legal principles and sometimes even specific laws (depending on country/jurisdiction). Moreover, these same companies (again, intentionally) also use their financial/legal weight to pretty much stifle/kill any individual attempts to bring them to task for those violations. In fact, that itself is illegal (antitrust) behavior in many places.

This isn't just about governments failing to regulate these companies, but probably even more so about their failure to even enforce existing rules and protect citizens against such abuses.

It's a pretty good demonstration of how bad the state of class (in)justice really is, including all the corrupt governments that keep it a reality.
>some of whom arrive on a H1B

Isn't this the key part, isn't that graph rather irrelevant to the H1B discussion if it doesn't specifically point out the H1B numbers?

As an aside the H1B is an abusive system that depresses technical wages and oppresses the visa holders who can lose their residency on the whims of large corporations.
Since I'm disagreeing with the majority here: I have nothing but love and respect for people of all countries. I also happen to disagree with the groupthink on the H1B for reasons that have nothing to do with being bigoted.

1. The H1B is unethical because it intentionally brain-drains countries.

Why is it good for the U.S. to take the most educated (and wealthy) foreigners from their countries? Doesn't this hurt these countries?

2. The H1B is unethical because it advantages large corporations and rich immigrants over small businesses and locals.

Small companies can't generally hire using H1B, so they lose out on the scam. The immigrants are disproportionately the wealthiest people from their countries. By buying expensive educations, their parents are buying them access to the U.S. Rich corporations helping rich people by exploiting others.

3. The H1B is unethical because companies commit fraud using it without consequence.

It's an open secret in the tech world that the H1B (and other visas) are being used to lower costs (through lower salaries, increasing supply, and coerced retention) and not to hire for roles that could not otherwise be filled by locals. This is fraud and yet there is little to no enforcement.

99% of the H1B jobs could all be filled locally. It would just drive up costs for large corporations like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Tesla.
This seems like more a solution to open, transparent platforms. It’s a shame that we are going backwards: you used to be able to download software from the internet, direct from publishers with no limitations. Now everything’s all stupid requiring developers to beg the “powers that be” for access to distribute their work.
Symmetries, permutation groups, and why six is a magic number
I was impressed with the momentum this project has been building and was just about to sign up to become a sponsor. Reading the update though shows their current focus on X.Org - as an otherwise happy Wayland (Mutter) user I'm going to hold off supporting this until they start making changes that will benefit me.
Sure, it has to be scaled to the market. However, even the equivalent of 30 dollars given a higher per hour rate (such as 50) is cheap. That Superhuman does not institute a region-based pricing is a different story, but you cannot deny that to Americans, 30 dollars is cheap when considering the time saved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam's_Bridge

Sri Lanka doesn’t seem too isolated.
It competes on battery life on idle time, not when in use, doesn't it?
> Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police

They are both worried about criminals. The fact that some criminals have badges and guns and a conspiracy of accomplices in positions of power shielding them from accountability for their crimes doesn't make them any less criminals.

> Just to spell it out: this is why so many BLM activists feel comfortable saying "abolish the police" or "defund the police", because 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's starting in the general direction of the truth, but not correct. It's not so much that Black community members (much less BLM activists, who are more likely to have detailed statistics at hand) think police are the most likely threat, but that police as currently constituted are a threat that Black communities both pay for and get poor returns from, both because of actual abuse by police and because their actual law enforcement needs (and other needs which society has shoveled into the police portfolio) are simultaneously underserved (and not just when it comes to crimes by cops; BLM, after all, didn't start in response to police violence.)
The Globe and Mail, a newspaper that I have a fair amount of respect for, frequently changes names to protect sources, the subjects of articles and interviewees who aren't willing to be named. They say in the article that the name has been changed. It doesn't detract from the article at all.
I came to the US from Canada under TN status, and later switched to an H1B so I could get a green card. I used to think it was a good thing, but I have since changed my mind.

The Wikipedia article for the H1B outlines most of the problems, but I'll talk about my experience.

When I moved from Canada to the US (for a software engineering role), I thought I getting a huge raise. It was about twice what I was earning in Canada prior, so for me personally it was a big step up, but what I didn't realize at the time is that they were actually paying me about 50% below the market rate in the US. At the time I was making about $56k/year in Canada (in CAD, about $40k USD), and I was hired at around $85k/year in the US. This was in 2009. What I realized soon after, was that someone with my experience was making about twice that much in the US.

It wasn't until I got a green card (which took 5 years) that my salary adjusted upward to the market rate. The company that helped me get my green card was Airbnb, but even back then they hired me (while I was still on a TN) well below the market rate. I managed to negotiate my salary up, but I was still anchored near the bottom of my cohort.

While working at these companies (including Airbnb), I felt trapped because I could not easily quit or search for a better paying job. My employers knew this, since according to the rules I'm required to leave the country if I lose or quit my job. Many companies also don't want to deal with H1Bs or TNs because they don't want the fuss of dealing with immigration problems.

While waiting for my green card to arrive, I was trapped at Airbnb for about 2 years. They actually fired me from my job before my green card arrived, and were kind enough to let me wait a few more months until I had the card in hand before I officially left the company. In those months I pretty much just sat around, enjoyed the nice lunches and dinners, and hung out with coworkers.

I think immigration is great, but I think these employment based visas only work well for employers. They make it easy to hire cheap workers at below market rates, and have them stick around because they can't leave. I think we need real immigration reform, or, better yet, allow companies to hire the best people and make it illegal to discriminate based on nationality. The TN/H1B system is just legalized discrimination.
That's definitely not a bad deal! Definitely seen worse at my job for domains that sit unused, and we aren't even really a tech company.
Not really. The images aren't pixelated as an effect - it's just a representation of the actual number of pixels taken from the ground truth.

You can just as well take these pixels and apply any kind of blur filter - you still wouldn't retain any more information. If you go from say 1k x 1k pixels down to 100 x 100 pixels, you end up with 1% of the original information, no matter what you do.
'Heroes, Right?'
The SQL composition seems really intuitive. I'm pondering whether it's worth the effort to port my Servant application to this or not.
Exactly, and then it is up to your defense attorney to somehow dispute that the AI just made up a face, that just happens to look like yours, and then explain it to 12 laymen who likely know nothing of how ML or computers work.

The company that develops this tech will want to market themselves as some sort of oracle to the people and LEO. Junk forensic science sticks in courts forever, we should be careful before we assent to more.
Stephen Miller, the one working in the White House, doesn't host any podcast. You are thinking of Jason Miller.
It takes around that much time until interactivity, yeah. It's incredibly slow, and I have gigabit internet.
Congratulations :)

This is really inspiring and motivating for doing OSS work.
but with h1b you aren't getting the same employee though. You are getting an employee who doesn't have much freedom to switch his job, doesn't have leverage to negotiate a raise, cannot say no to overtime requests.

I would def hire an H1B even it costs me upfront premium for those reasons.
The insidious part of suppressing dissenting opinions is that it gives carte blanche to lie about what those opinions were.
If we're talking raw numbers, that doesn't compute well.

My last rent in Houston for an actual cool place to live (downtown Westheimer area) was a solid 1.3k, or 15k a year. So after taxes rough estimate 70k - 15k = 55k into your savings account, before expenses etc.

I have the best apartment I've ever had in my life practically on top of 16th mission station right now for 2.1k. I'm not making 300k but if I was, let's see: 210k - 25k = 185k into savings each year, not including expenses. That's 3x the amount of money for investment, savings, playtime in places where the money goes the same distance no matter where your permanent address is.

State and city income tax aren't going to eliminate that 3x difference. Brunch costing 50$ vs 20$ isn't going to make up that difference.

We can talk about quality of life as well but that'll be a much, much longer comment from me, and feels like a pointless conversation (city folk gonna city).
Agree 100%. I've felt a little guilty too. I started working from home full time about 4 months before covid landed in US. I'd built a nice above garage office. Kids homeschooled already. Planted a garden that's doing well, had more time for home projects, etc. I have friends not doing so well. I have donated to individuals and organizations since I feel I have an obligation to help people in need.

News is the biggest drag on my mental well being. It is important to be informed, but I genuinely feel that media is so driven by ad revenue and has optimized itself into being as negative and outrageous and _loud_ as possible, to the detriment of sane balanced information and opinion. I need to know the sides of current issues, but not loudly 24x7 with as much vitriol on all sides. I blocked several news sites and social media I habitually check in my hosts file, but somehow my browser still resolves the names. I need to fix that.

HackerNews is really one of the few sites I can expect to find calm reasoned discussion and information.
Depends on the type of plastic and what was used in its manufacture. Most plastics eventually degrade into water and carbon dioxide. However, until they are completely broken down they cause all sorts of problems not the least of which is mentioned in the article.

Some plastics like PLA and PHA are highly unlikely to cause problems 50-100 years in the future because they don't last that long unless carefully preserved. California funded a study of how long it takes PLA and PHA to break down in the ocean and figured out that PHA is basically gone in six months while PLA will last about 3 years:

https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/Publications/Download/1006?op...
Looked at the links, didn't find anything relevant to address my question. I don't consider "may be" to be data, you seem to have a different opinion.
So, let’s look at the numbers. What’s the ratio of people to police? I would bet that it’s a lot higher than 20:1. In other words, a black person meeting a polic officer is a whole lot more likely to get killed than a black person meeting another black person. That’s why fear of police is perfectly rational for blacks.
Apparently LGPL, while not ideal for redistribution should be enough for general usage.

https://github.com/mirrorer/libbpg
Pretty sure this is demonstrably false. There are large spreadsheets out there documenting H1B wages at FAANG type companies and they are almost universally less than the equivalent US Citizen wages.
How many of those really arrive on H1B, and how many of those have no other options? I was told that even I could apply for some "talent visa" (the one that fashion models often use) because I competed in the math olympiad... the bar seems to be set incredibly low (speaking of myself, not the models).
Between this and Apple (profit/brand motive) and YouTube (incompetence/copyright bs), you have to be really careful building anything that relies on a platform you don't control. This is why RSS and similar tech is so important...
If H1B visas were actually used for rare skilled talent, it would be great for innovation. Unfortunately, the majority of H1B workers are no better than your average run-of-the-mill CRUD programmer.
In my opinion, the true contender to JPEG is JPEG XL. [1], where is has better quality than even AVIF at >0.5 bpp ( Bits per Pixel ) [2].

But the truly amazing next generation VVC manage to compress image with even better ratio than JPEG XL.

Both JPEG XL and VVC is expected to be finalised in July/Augest. JPEG XL will be royalty free. VVC as usual is lots of unknown.

[1]https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im...

[2] https://medium.com/@scopeburst/mozjpeg-comparison-44035c42ab...
[edited to add context] a comprehensive reply to the "what about black on black crime" comment from journalist Michael Harriot.

https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/126846376828518809...
I'm still stuck on default trackpad Y-scroll direction under Linux. I've done some hacky input stream filter fix, but it's not working in ALL applications. (dunno why...don't really care...)

I STILL feel uncomfortable using my thinkpad scrollpad in geany under linux, as it jumps and the scrolling isn't clearly indicating (through some animations i gather?) scrolling direction when I drag 2 fingers up and down...

Multi-touch, great!

...I just feel like basic behavior still appears to be an anti-intuitive, if admittedly equally logically viable (swiping the paper up or down vs swiping the scrollbar, metaphorically speaking)
I just read Caro's The Power Broker. People have voiced this criticism for a while now. Change some dates and names, the story could easily be told again today.
Anybody knows the status of light-weight threads, channels and automatic multiplexing ("mapping") of light-weight threads on operating system threads in Crystal?

(This has been promised to come in Crystal (as opposed to pretty much any other language than Go), but has always seemed to be "yet to come").
We run it in production. Our apps are mostly Ruby but we have been rewriting services in Crystal. Originally we were attracted by the speed and type checks, but one surprising benefit has also been the reduced memory consumption. It's difficult to compare directly, but in some cases it cosumes 10x less memory and performs around 20-35x better. Even I/O bound services are sped up since we can take advantage of Crystal's concurrent fibers (rumored to come in Ruby 3.0).

The main downside has been the somewhat frequent deprecations of methods and changes to the standard lib. But it's mostly due to the preparation to launch 1.0.
METHODS[m]["attributes"][a]["data"][4]

Is this a five dimensional array? How does it get populated?

EDIT: I see it now in the code. Excellent!
Agreed. Went through it twice and that combined with a bit of real-world practice made me pretty proficient at RegEx.

Fantastic site.
This figure is rarely brought up in good faith, but if you're curious, it mainly consists of inter-gang violence, i.e. turf wars. Which is not generally something regular people are exposed to all that much. It also asumes death could be the only negative outcome of interacting with police.

It is also something exacerbated by the war on drugs, the criminal justice system and deap-seated discrimination. Police seems like a pretty good place to start fighting.
No, not really. Diminishing returns. I've pointed it out elsewhere, but there's no stopping point for that approach. Make an accelerator that goes around the world. Dismantle the Solar system to make an even larger accelerator. Continue onward and use self-replicating probes to slowly convert, over millions of years, the Milky Way into another accelerator ring. Where do you stop? You can always do more until you paperclip replicator the observable universe into one big accelerator.

Like I said, I advocate for looking for more clever ways to look for new physics, rather than bigger ways. And you must accept the concept that at some point we may have discovered all fundamental particles that can be found in the Big Baryon Bashers and that all accelerators after that are completely wasted effort, but we'd never know that, because we would say, "Well, we didn't find anything there. Gotta build a bigger one!"
> by the white supremacists and nationalists currently running our government and deciding our immigration

This type of baseless rhetoric is rooted in identity politics and underlies the current division in the US.

Directly from the Whitehouse Proclamation[0]:

"American workers compete against foreign nationals for jobs in every sector of our economy, including against millions of aliens who enter the United States to perform temporary work. Temporary workers are often accompanied by their spouses and children, many of whom also compete against American workers. Under ordinary circumstances, properly administered temporary worker programs can provide benefits to the economy. But under the extraordinary circumstances of the economic contraction resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak, certain nonimmigrant visa programs authorizing such employment pose an unusual threat to the employment of American workers."

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
Any blanket statement in this thread or elsewhere that reads like "H-1B visas X" is probably wrong, as the visa is used by a wide range of employers and employees.

That is probably the biggest issue with the visa. It's meant to do one thing but abused to be solve many other needs, some of which are needs society really doesn't want to solve (hiring cheaper labor for positions Americans could easily fill)

Attempts to solve this problem should start by shining a light on the many current uses of the visa, figuring out which are worth safeguarding and which are worth eliminating and then discussing how to reform this particular visa (and possibly create others) to address the worthwhile needs.
Title has been completely changed for submission from the one on the link
FWIW my wife used to know a guy who was a magistrate (a kind of volunteer low level judge) in England. He told her many stories about police telling obvious lies in court in order to justify minor violent behaviour towards suspects.
Most white people are killed by white people. This is an artifact of segregation and systematic racism.

But that's beside the point. We fear the police because they operate with impunity, and especially so among black people.

- https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11510274/black-on-black-crime-...

- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/07/27/wh...

- https://www.amazon.com/Ghettoside-True-Story-Murder-America-...
Jeff Davis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis

I'm assuming your username is an unfortunate coincidence.
Have an uncle in prison. Part of me hopes this time helps people empathize with those essentially in solitary confinement and how it is the opposite of helpful in terms of recalibrating behavior toward what society wants/needs. We should ban solitary confinement at least...
It's hard to convey to a citizen how demoralizing being on an H1B is. If you get laid off, you have at best 30 days to find a new job and transfer your visa (from what I remember), otherwise you have to leave the country. H1B does not allow moonlighting. You can't start a startup by yourself. You can't take significant time off between jobs unless you transfer your visa and negotiate it. Your spouse likely won't be able to work (it's not trivial). You can't protest unfair working conditions to the extent a citizen can, because getting fired is effectively exile. Calling it indentured servitude is accurate.

I'm sure most people understand that it's a transactional relationship, I.e. you get to live in the country while you work and that's it, but if you live in a city for several years and settle in, form friendships, hobbies, and maybe relationships, it's very difficult to put all of that at risk for any reason.