skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H1B = Modern day slavery
It has all the same characteristics. Large corps 'sponsor' a worker; smaller ones can't. The slave worker gets to enjoy a somewhat better life under their master but can't run when their master is a viscous slave driver. If the slave wins the green card lottery or comes into a lot of money, they can eventually get freedom.
Are mobile apps the target market for Go? CI/CD takes care of upload for the dev side at least.

It would be handy to have a compile time flag indicating the desired file size optimisation level still, with tradeoffs being ease of debugging, and performance.
If you've already been accepted, consider looking into options for deferring your starting year. I saw an article on the WSJ a few weeks ago showing many students are doing that

And when the time comes to recruit during your MBA, please hit me up if you think you'd be a good candidate at a top boutique in NY
I think you are, sadly, completely correct. And that is why Section 230 in IMO unworkable as it was conceived, as it provides exceptions on a justification that is completely false.

Honestly I don't see what's the best alternative. Probably the segregation of comment platforms and sites. If Section 230 were to be substituted with something effective in regards of speech protection, or conversely the right of platforms to curate comments, then still this would only apply to the US and it would be a significant factor to move the comments elsewhere.
Apple Is the Newest Chip Giant in Town
Avoid this crypto project, biased leadership and disconnection from reality, probably true of most crypto projects
I feel very fortunate and luck. I do well in a WFH situation as do most of my coworkers, and nobody I know has taken sick. I've taken to cooking, learned tons of new recipes and virtually eliminated a lingering health condition because I finally have time to exercise.
Yes, and I find it a bit weird that the newspapers won't collaborate and do sth about this -- I wonder how much money they're missing out on.

@catacombs -- those, + the economist, + 3? more in my home country

Most of all I'd like to support small local newspapers
How this compares to commercial software solutions? Seems very interesting.
Is Dark Matter Made of Axions?
When people ask "why isn't anyone talking about black on black crime?" or why aren't "we" in the black community talking about it, my response is usually to start by asking "Who is 'we'"?[0] and then to retort that "'We' are, 'we' have been" and several black authors have written and are writing about it.

- "Locking Up Our Own", James Foreman, an analysis by a black attorney discussing black crime, black recidivism and black involvement as attorneys and judges in the criminal justice system

- "In Contempt", Christopher Darden, an autobiography written by one of the attorneys in the OJ Simpson trial where swaths of the book are dedicated to Darner's views and interactions with other attorneys who tackled "black on black crime" in LA during the 90's prior to his time as a District Attorney

- "The Man Not" (the most recent publication in this non-exhaustive list), Tommy Curry, explorations on the victimization of black men by their black guardians, with some focus on sexual abuse and exploitation of their bodies as the lens through which Curry focuses a larger critique

- "Negroland", Margo Jefferson, a memoir of the black elite class of Chicago and ramifications of black success experienced sometimes at the expense of lower-class black Americans, perpetuated sometimes by upper-class black Americans

I'm a bit fatigued by the insinuation that black America is shirking a responsibility to tackle these in-group issues, because it's not as if there's a lack of poignant critical theory emerging from our group on the topic. It's all there and readily available, and the names and reference content I provided here isn't an exhaustive list either.

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[0] https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/who-is-we-1833100853
Because it was written as a response to a statement that, individual records being broken on their own isn't significant, it's the number of records being broken over time. And so when your parent poster responded with "yeah well maybe this record isn't real", while they might be right, it really isn't all that relevant.
Hopefully management will find out.

It will be very easy for them to buy a few updates and catch the upvoters in a sting.
>The 2% fee might mostly be captured by the credit company and thus represent a net benefit to most consumers (at the expense of retailers) because retailers tend to want prices like 1.99

How does it benefit the consumer if the credit company takes 2%? I cannot see why it would make a difference to the consumer (at least in the short term) whether the retailer or the credit company takes the 2%.
Beg to differ. H1B's may live the high life in Big Tech, but that is not the experience of most H1Bs. For the rest, it is akin to indentured servitude. They are dramatically underpaid compared to American counterparts and unable to change jobs without losing your place in line for citizenship. I have worked with Indian subcontractors that have waited 20 years! H1B is nothing more than the wealthy using labor arbitrage to exploit foreign workers at the expense of American workers.
I can understand why you’d feel that was as an individual, but as an American, for my children’s sake, I want the top 5% of every economy to keep immigrating here. That gives the US an incredible advantage in terms of innovation and growth, and I believe that rising tide really does lift us all.

There are structural inequality issues and problems with upward mobility in the US which we urgently need to work on, but those problems are not caused by high skilled immigration, and economic stagnation would just make them worse. Telling the smartest people in the world that America doesn’t want them coming here any more (which is a side-effect of how the Trump administration has handled immigration issues so far, whether or not the intent), makes them a lot less likely to try and come here, and robs our future of the many incredible contributions those people would make in our communities.

I understand the economic fear that many in the US feel. I spent years unemployed and then underemployed after 2007-2008, and it was brutal. But I fear the US turning it’s back on it’s own history as a nation of immigrants, and it’s role as the aspirational “best place in the world” for the ambitious to come live and work, leaves us even poorer.
> They also come with a minimum salary requirement, which for most tech companies would start at $150,000.

While I understand that my company is cheating the system, this particular requirement is news to me. I personally work with dozens who are probably taking home something in the $70-80K range. I'm guessing this particular cheat is that most are working through Tata and Infosys (and others, but they're local, and would give away who I work for). The company is probably paying the placement firm that kind of money, and the visa holders are getting shafted. The direct H-1B's are higher-level, and, given what I know of the company's salary schedules, may well be getting paid at the bottom of the requirement.
Yea, it's a joke. I guess it doesn't come across well, but if you say it in person while people are talking about crows, people will usually laugh :)
They're going to "dig" in obscure web archives to try and make him look bad? Anyone could do that, but good luck trying to sell that as reasonable after you've doxxed the guy. It would be so obvious that this is what they're doing, they probably wouldn't even bother.

And Scott has no reason to care about "drawing attention to himself" at this point - you can't beat a NYT article (even a sympathetic one!) as far as "attention" goes, and that was already in the cards.
You mean ~500 million.
Could be wayland/xwayland if you're using that. My first thought.
Really, we should just enforce the original intent of the H1B.

1. Companies that import labor when they had a perfectly acceptable local candidate should face severe fines, and Justice should be given a real budget for running these investigations as a matter of course. And the burden of proof to demonstrate you needed to import labor should be pretty high. If you don't do this, then H1B abuse will happen.

2. Companies should be forced to pay H1Bs significantly above prevailing wage, where "prevailing wage" is interpreted liberally instead of conservatively. H1Bs for software engineers making less than $200K (maybe 150K) in a major metro area is a pretty obvious violation of the intent of the H1B, imo.

NB: this will have the effect of making H1Bs a lot harder to get and keep. But I think this is the least evil of all possible worlds. In addition, we could also independently argue for increased immigration in general. But midskill immigration to fill jobs for which local qualified candidates exist should not be done through the H1B program. That's not what it's designed for, and that mismatch between program design and actual use is the source of a lot of H1B mistreatment.

I actually don't believe that ending the tie to an employer will help. I mean, we should do it anyway, but the abuse will continue.
Last time I checked there is quite a lot of evidence pointing to him being a white supremacist: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/katie-mchugh-stephen...
It is a tactic commonly used as you say. It's also a relevant statistic here, although all race on black violence would have been even better. It still serves to support the point quite clearly that police are not to be feared as much as criminals, even if you're black.

Having said that, a lot of criminal violence happens if you're mixed up in that world or frequenting a bad area as opposed to just random violence. There's something different about police violence where it has that random quality and can affect you anywhere, sometimes just minding your own business.

Plus it's doubly egregious because the police are supposed to protect you, not hurt you. Even before this became an issue, and as a white person, I get nervous with police interactions. You just don't know what kind of mood they're in or how they're interpreting the situation.
take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
This gets confusing, because many (including cotton elsewhere) intentionally blurred the lines between protestors and "rioters", and stood behind plans that served to suppress peaceful protest.

People on this forum are usually quick to remark that free speech is powerful and important and worth protecting even at great cost to individuals. Property damage caused by a small number of violent actors falls into this category, especially when the majority of the protests were peaceful and actively discouraged property damage.

So yes, Cotton's plan would have served to suppress political dissent and therefore probably violated the first amendment (and the third). Printing a sitting senator advocating for violating multiple constitutional rights without a disclaimer to that effect is a disservice to nyts readers.
It probably extrapolates, much like how when you stare at those videos of a moving background and look away, your environment appears to shift in reverse of the motion you were observing.
Hey looks awesome! I'll give it a spin when they release custom domain support. I've learned not to lock myself in to a service specific address.
This. My first thought was there is a UNIXy way to do this already.
Agreed completely. I feel like this administration exists simply to taunt Congress to take actual action with regards to its wild swings on various issues.

Congress has given way too much power over to the executive, and having the most corrupt real estate developer in a city frankly renowned for the corruption of its real estate developers in charge of the executive should be teaching Congress that they need to actually exercise power rather than just handing it over to whoever is sitting at that desk.
5G Networks Will Inherit Their Predecessors' Security Issues
> Here’s how Sponsorware works:

> Create a cool piece of software

> Make it exclusive to people who sponsor you until you reach a certain number of sponsors

> Then open source the project to the world

This is how ICOs worked, for the teams that actually delivered anything. Without any other monetization path they resorted to taking presales of tokens shoehorned in convulated ways into products that didn't need them, but frequently involved open source code for a community. This resulted in many misaligned interests for people that eseentially were sponsors.

It's nice to see the same sentiment reflected in other parts of the tech industry in a way that more people respect and can relate to.
WWDC 2020: the little stuff you might have missed
Quote from the link you use as a source in your original post

> Although half of the people shot and killed by police are white, black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. They account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans

Pointing out that the point is the frequency and not absolute numbers. Yes, of course, murders by people within one's own community are most common (for people in any community). Domestic murders in particular are by far the most common. Does this make the police murder rate acceptable?

It also doesn't make fear of police in any way misplaced when the rate is more than twice the rate for black than for white (stat also taken from the source you provided).
Well color me surprised. I figured that’d be on the chopping block.
> Yes, and I find it a bit weird that the newspapers won't collaborate and do sth about this -- I wonder how much money they're missing out on.

Way easier said than done.
It's bad policy because it was done super abruptly, throwing an unnecessarily large number of lives into chaos, and packaged with a plan to make large unspecified changes when foreign workers are allowed again. Anyone who was planning to come to the US over the next couple years is now basically forced to cancel, because who knows what the immigration system will look like then?
I agree with all of your points about the diffusion of responsibility that is common in ML, though I think you may not be sensitive enough to the harmful framing being created by the "anti-bias" side.

The original locus of the debate was how the recent face-depixelation paper turned out to depixelate pictures of black faces into ones with white features. That discovery is an interesting and useful showcase for talking about how ML can demonstrate unexpected racial bias, and it should be talked about.

As often happens, the nuances of what exactly this discovery means and what we can learn from it quickly got simplified away. Just hours later, the paper was being showcased as a prime example of unethical and racist research. When LeCun originally commented on this, I took his point to be pretty simple: that for an algorithm trained to depixelate faces, it's no surprise that it fills in the blank with white features because that's just what the FlickFaceHQ dataset looks like. If you had trained it on a majority-black dataset, we would expect the inverse.

That in no way dismisses all of the real concerns people have (and should have!) about bias in ML. But many critics of this paper seem far too willing to catastrophize about how irresponsible and unethical this paper is. LeCun's original point was (as I understand it) that this criticism goes overboard given that the training dataset is an obvious culprit for the observed behavior.

Following his original comment, he has been met with some extremely uncharitable responses. The most circulated example is this tweet (https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1274809417653866496?s...) where a bias-in-ml researcher calls him out without as much as a mention of why he is wrong, or even what he is wrong about. LeCun responds with a 17-tweet thread clarifying his stance, and her response is to claim that educating him is not worth her time (https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1275191341455048704?s...).

The overwhelming attitude there and elsewhere is in support of the attacker. Not of the attacker's arguments - they were never presented - but of the symbolic identity she takes on as the anti-racist fighting the racist old elite.

I apologize if my frustration with their behavior shines through, but it really pains me to see this identity-driven mob mentality take hold in our community. Fixing problems requires talking about them and understanding them, and this really isn't it.
I’d rather not give my employer the ability to abuse my H-1B coworkers.

Why should they hire someone who can walk to a competitor at the drop of a hat when they can hire someone that will probably be deported if they step out of line or demand market-rate compensation?

(Also, many of my friends have/had H-1B’s...)
> "[...] justifiably or not [...] extrajudicial and unjust tactics are used"

...how could this be justifiable?
(FWIW, psychotherapists and psychiatrists are not the same thing.)
When I hear riot usually the first thing that comes to my mind is a “riot of colors”.
Looking at the details, this allows for transitions from F1 and OPT status to H1B. However it suspends H1B stamping, meaning you probably cannot leave USA. Having said that, there's been rumors of some form of restriction or suspension of OPT as well.

I am researching on brain function and mental health. As a grad student I make less than what many Americans get in unemployed benefits. I think you'll be hard pressed to find any American willing to do my job. My mom was denied US visitor Visa several times, I need to travel abroad to see her and this suspension will force me to rethink my future in the USA.
Loading a page and choosing not to run the code they ship with it is not theft.
this is the type of short time thinking that gets you in trouble. you’re not wrong that you’re going to do great for a while but when big tech starts moving operations overseas or in Canada you will see the macro result of this - and you’re not gonna like it
I'll mention this yet again so everyone can ignore it, but if you use the HTML-only option, it's clunkier but very fast. But I can say this 100 times and nobody does it.
Common. It is a capitalist, moderately wealthy country.
TIFF, I believe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF
The problem is people don't deny black-on-black crime is a problem. Society is in agreement that we don't want that.

Bring up racism and police brutality though and people strongly deny it's a problem.
Walmart is not an executive agency of an elected government, so no.
I don't entirely agree. I think that upvote and a flag, placed elsewhere, would have a substantial difference.
I think you’re thinking in the right direction. One could do some dual licensing, with a (slightly) different license. Eg BSD by default, and sponsors get the MIT license.

Seems like there would be a clear value exchange here.
Given their spread of CCTV and police officers you have a higher chance of apprehending someone compared to other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics
> wait until the same engineer can do the work for 1/3rd the cost from his own country, especially when everyone in the team is remote.

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. There are not a billion Indians just like the super talented one you’ve worked with at your office. And that’s not even getting into timezone and communication problems.
> While Andrew Ng is devastated that an H1B worker and their family has to pack their bags and return to their home country, one American worker will have the opportunity to enter the job market and feed his/her family.

And the H1B will also take their monetary capital (above average) and work potential somewhere else.

Which means, one lesser person paying rent, one lesser person buying local produce, one lesser person buying American cars, one lesser person paying taxes, one lesser internet connection, one lesser cellphone connection, one lesser purchaser of iphone.

Not to mention, the loss of productive work done, years worth of training that makes up that individual all lost.

How many jobs do you gather were lost by removing a productive individual now?
Good work :). That's awesome.
It's a matter of scale. As size grows, rules become harder to enforce and the amount of comments that would derail conversations sky-rocket. Living under the same rules globally, esp. across ideologies and world-views, is a disaster for everyone.
There's a world of a difference between living like a student and owning property in a reasonable part of Dublin/London. a €45,000 salary (which is roughly $50k) is definitely a comfortable, non student lifestyle. It's not going to buy you a decent house in Dublin, but it's a comfortable lifestyle, and more than adequate.
With full gesture support we'll hopefully get more interactivity, so e.g. if you switch workspaces with a four finger drag it moves as you perform the gesture and stops if you stop moving your fingers. fusuma seems to only recognise the gesture and then run a command afterwards.
Python Enhancement Proposal: Structural Pattern Matching
I'm not sure I fully understand the sponsorware model. Hopefully someone will educate me.

If my costs for writing a piece of software are initially X, I'd hope to make at least X back before I open source it. (Ignore loss-leaders for now)

If I'm counting number of sponsors, do I calculate them as if they will stick around for a year? 100% retention seems unlikely. Do I only open source after I've had Y sponsors for Z time such that sum(Y.donations) * Z == X?

Then after I open source it I have ongoing costs. His experience seems to imply that educational content (paid) then also pays for ongoing maintenance costs. Is that correct?

What if I later decide to stop supporting a project? Is there any mechanism to stop a stream of income from a group of sponsors, or will I have to assume they will "naturally" stop sponsoring when I kill new education content and updates to the project? This seems problematic as inertia will cause some people to keep paying despite not getting further value, which will cause some of them to be angry and demand "refunds."

What if my project really takes off? What would be a possible path to scale from say 1-5 paid collaborators?
American immigrant to Canada here. Canada has skilled worker permanent residence visas that, in many cases (and ignoring temporary pandemic-related delays), take half a year or less from start to finish.

Mine was slower but still faster than a lot of immigrant experiences to the US, and I did it from outside Canada and without an employer involved at all.

The skilled worker visas don't need family in country, though it can be a minor help in the points systems they use. My CS degree and work experience mattered far more.

As to why it's hard in the US, I'd attribute that more to attitudes among the population and media than to the inherent nature of having to make policy that appeals to voters: Canada is (at least) as much of a democracy as the US, and even the Conservative Party of Canada isn't proposing to eliminate fast skilled worker processing - they're in fact the party that introduced the quick program I alluded to above. Certainly the other two major national parties are even more friendly to immigration. There are xenophobes in Canada, but firmly in the minority when examined at the national level.

Canada also has fast sponsorship programs for spouses and kids.