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> An actual shortage would, by definition, mean that, at least in the short term, no amount of price pressure would meet the need, because of a supply constraint that prevents response to price level changes.

There are over a million Arabic speakers in the US, hundreds of thousands of whom are legally able to do the work. I strongly suspect that a number sufficient to handle the city of Detroit's translation needs could be brought in at under (likely far under) the rates proposed above. Having done translation work myself, I can say the pay is often startlingly low!

In the unlikely case that weren't possible, the necessary salary would exceed the H1B qualifying threshold, and translators could be imported to do the work.

What exactly are you arguing here? In what situation would a shortage truly require importing labor at low wages? As they are now, H1Bs suppress wages, especially immigrant wages.
I signed up for a hey.com trial, to test it with emailprivacytester.com (of which I'm the author). I was a bit disappointed to be honest. When you use hey.com's webmail, it loads remote images when you read an email, and there doesn't even appear to be an option to turn that off. Granted, they hide your IP by proxying the content, just like Gmail does, but they don't hide the fact that you read an email, or when you read it.

These systems should really just fetch all remote content in advance, rather than waiting until it's read. That would make it impossible for a sender to know if a message was read or not.
You are saying "violence", but the statistics cited in this thread are myopically focused on murder. Non–lethal violence, racial profiling, disproportionate sentencing, etc, are all forms of physical and judicial violence that might justify Black people fearing the police more than criminals.
Yes I understand that the finalization of NAFTA was years later but the seed of NAFTA was the immigration program the same players where lobbying for both and saw them as complementary legislation in a package of legislation they wanted passed. It did not reduce the cost of farming for my family because it was a family farm, any labor cost killed the economies of scale as we did not have the volume to compete. The reduction of return to noncompetitive levels started with the immigration visas and was completed with NAFTA, then the conglomerates turned around and picked up most of the viable land from the farmers NAFTA killed and then petitioned for more immigration reform, to reopen those combined tracts. As I said, I have no skin in the game, I did not want to be a farmer, but that is how it works and that is how it is done. You can argue that it has an overall net positive effect because it reduced the cost of goods and that is one way to look at it. But it came at the cost of consolidation a good deal of middle class land wealth into the hands of a few mega-corps.
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Going to the beach increases your chance of getting eaten by a shark by 1000X.

My point is just that 2-3X of a small number is still a small number. It shouldn't affect your decision about whether to go outside or not when there are much larger numbers to worry about (like the risk of getting murdered).
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I thought that the point was to show that even in a challenging setup like that one you can still read ok
This is sorta already how it is in the US. While we obviously don't have universal healthcare, or a national pension, we do have Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. These are separate than income tax. On your pay stub, it's the FICA ("Federal Insurance Contributions Act") deduction. There is also a smaller separate supplemental Medicare-specific tax. Federal income tax is a separate deduction.
This. In US there are many benefits of owning a business. Cars are an expense, home office is an expense, etc. When you work for someone else you don't have this flexibility but your risk is lower and you are not worried about finding clients.
That is a very interesting interpretation of the law.

Another would be to regard such a construct as income. Report your income. Pay your taxes and be happy.

It only becomes "gray" areas when people think it is possible to have non-taxed revenue streams.
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There are dozens of studies, so don't take just one as "the truth". For instance, here's one that was published last week:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550620916071

The overall trend appears to be that racial minorities can expect more violence and shootings from the police, even though quantifying the exact numbers is difficult and subject to contextual considerations.
> I assure you it matters to the victims and their families.

Your assurance is no different than my opinion. You are speaking for victims just as I am, but I've been hurt by people I trust and I've been hurt by strangers. They aren't equal to me and I don't think I'm alone in that.

> Again it’s not like the victim of a sexual assault is saying thank god I was rapped by a non-officer.

If you think that is what I was trying to imply then I must have severely mis-worded my previous comment.
I suspect you're being downvoted because this is an empty, meaningless comment without some elaboration on why you've decided this. As it stands, there's no room for discussion: the only paths forward are for others to simply agree or disagree, or to try their best to guess at what your concerns are in order to further the conversation.
I'm not going to waste my time repeating myself on everybody who disagrees with my usage of the word "accessible", since I already explained in another comment why it's not accessible. The word accessible is certainly appropriate.
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> People would ask astonishing questions, like “who’s going to pay to make all those links?” or “why would anyone want to put documents online?”

Gee, what a bunch of rubes. Why couldn't they imagine our modern internet from first principles?! Why would they care about silly details like how things get paid for?

("Who's going to pay for all those links" is a big reason why we spend our time on here talking about stuff like "dark patterns", btw.)
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I often think of this as "it's hard to tell people the solution to a problem they don't have", or don't know they have.

I think it's one of the major problems in the entire structure of the educational system... it's all telling people solutions to problems they don't have yet. Sometimes this is just unavoidable; I'm not sure how to turn geography into a problem you have. (I mean, you can fake it, but people's brains know when it's a fake problem.) But a lot of times in math and science I think we'd be much better off leading off with the problems, and giving the students time to grapple with the problems without the answers, because then the answers would stick.

I've mentioned on HN before the git training curriculum I have made for my workplace... it's an interactive tutorial, and rather than just walking you through solutions, it's really more a guided tour of the problems that every git user encounters, then the solutions. We do merge conflicts, detached head (easy for git experts to forget how confusing that state is!), getting confused about why the things I used "git add" on now doesn't show diffs, etc. It seems to work reasonably well.
SqlBolt is fantastic. I got an entire team up to speed in sql by having them go through it.
I know that Java is not hip nowadays (was it ever?) but at some point Jobs bragged Macs are the best Java workstations. Clearly Apple not only does not care about Java but hates it. macOS Catalina is also pretty scary.

So, I am enthusiastically waiting on getting a new laptop with the Ryzen 4800 CPU to run Linux on. I do some Java tooling projects and I will just use the existing Mac gear to support them, for a while.

As weird as it sounds, even Windows is starting to look like a good target OS for somebody spending lots of time in the terminal and doing some Java.
Judging by the article, apparently lynchings aren't a Federal crime, at least not independently of more wide reaching statutes. But a lynching is a category of crime that would readily fall within the purview of Federal jurisdiction under one or more of the Civil Rights amendments. To the original question of why create superfluous crimes, specifically of acts already considered murder under state law, it's because the states cannot always be trusted to vigorously enforce them, yet the Federal government doesn't have the power to criminalize murder generally.

I was surprised there's not already a Federal anti-lynching statute, but perhaps it existed and then was rescinded or invalidated during Jim Crow, maybe on the pretense that it was already covered by other Civil Rights statutes or that lynching as a class of crime was too ill-defined. Prosecutorial discretion to abstain from enforcement is more easily abused the more general the statute. During the Jim Crow era both the Federal Congress and Federal Supreme Court were complicit and in some cases active participants with the states in relaxing Reconstruction era reforms. The history is complex, especially when you factor in the period of marshal law. (And it's made more complex by attempts to obscure it. In my high school American history class in the 1990s we were taught that the Confederacy formed principally to preserve "states' rights", not to preserve slavery. Such semantic games work quite well over time.) Unfortunately, I already blew my monthly time budget reading about the history of Qualified Immunity last week, so haven't dug deeply into the history.
It's the same situation with VP9. It's supposed to be a competitor to HEVC, but in reality lack of serious psychovisual optimizations in any of the publicly available encoders make it at best on par with x264 compression-wise, while being significantly more computationally expensive.

Its only appeal is that it's royalty-free, but since all devices that support VP9 decoding also support h.264, is it really worth it?
> mortgage deductions,

Agreed. This is a huge tax break.

> In 2018, I took my total $$$ paid to Fed + CA and divided over total income and effective rate was only 28%

Do you mind plugging in the same income to https://simpletax.ca/calculator for Ontario, use $26500 of RRSP deduction and see your effective rate? In this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23618074) I showed that an income with 30% effective rate in California has a 35% effective rate in Ontario. Higher? Yes. A lot higher? IMO, no.
The good news is corrugated cardboard is one of the most recyclable materials, with a high market value for recycled cardboard. It's probably not the biggest problem right now.
> If executable code is being generated at runtime, it's going to be x86_64 binary machine code still

JITs have to explicitly make the memory they write the generated code to executable. The OS "just" needs to fail to actually make the page executable, and then handle the subsequent page fault by transpiling or interpreting the x86 code therein.
Hi I'm the author I actually already posted this article earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611403

Should I respond here or in the earlier post?
1/ Yes, there are companies like Tata and Wipro who game the system to hire software developers at below market rate. This is absolutely a problem that should be addressed. Outright banning H-1B does solve the problem, but it is nowhere near optimal. For many skilled talents, H-1B is the only path to work in the U.S. Banning H-1B is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

2/ No, there is no systemic difference in compensation for non-U.S. citizens at FAANG and equivalent. Compensation packages are formulaic. No one gets +/- X% just because they are a citizen or immigrant. If Google one day decides to pay H-1B 20% lower, they would lose out on a ton of qualified candidates to, say, Facebook. It'd require the entire conglomerate of FAANG, and whom they consider "peer" companies, to agree to suppress compensation for this to work [1]. It would also require everyone involved in the hiring process, many of whom were immigrants, to be onboard. I simple don't believe companies who compete for top talents would find this tradeoff worth it. I might just be living in a bubble, and am willing to be proven wrong. Just show me the data.

3/ Many successful companies are founded or led by immigrants who now happily call the U.S. their home. These are success stories that the country should celebrate, not chastise. You might think that Larry Page could've founded Google without Sergey Brin. You might be right, or wrong. The fact is we only have reality to observe. We don't have counterfactuals to compare against.

[1] I know about the Steve Jobs no-poach email. That was also 13 years ago.
You have this backwards.

The Mac silicon is inheriting the investments Apple made in the iPhone CPUs. This will continue. The bits which Apple invests to make their existing hardware scale to desktop and high end laptops won't benefit the iPhone much at all. On future generation chips, Apple will spread the development costs over a few more units, but since iPhone + iPad ship several times more units than the Mac, the bulk of the costs will be born by them.
I highly doubt that's the case for most people when using Github on a daily basis though.
I feel like that has become my typical experience reading The Verge - "here's this thing! You shouldn't use it, you should totally use this thing that we (or our sponsors) like better!"

I remember reading their articles about the Windows Phone and some early Android devices, and realizing that the 'review' was just some guy complaining about how it's not like an iPhone, as if approaching a user interface or solving a problem in a different manner than Apple was inherently a bad thing for all use cases, in all places. That sort of promoted fanboy-ism permeates, well, almost all of their articles, be it a tech piece or a purported report on politics.
The last thing China needs right now is another hit to its GDP, which would be quite substantial if it was subjected to similar international sanctions as Russia was for its actions in Ukraine.
This is an externality, and the best role of government in a market economy is to tax externalities such that the tax imposed is enough to "fix" the externality. Fixing it would be extremely expensive, so it would make plastics only viable where they are needed most, and in applications where there is tracking and accountability in recycling and waste management.

Also note two major flaws in your reasoning about trying to blame pollution as a "market economy" failure.

1. The US military is the biggest single polluter around [0], outside of perhaps some "non-market-economy" country's militaries like China and Russia. It's hard to know exactly how much damage they do and impossible to hold them accountable for it. The substances they leak into groundwater tend to be worse than plastics. Good luck finding a government model that doesn't have a military.

2. Most of the microplastics in the ocean are coming from third world countries, where there simply isn't enough wealth for there to be political willpower to reduce externalized pollution.

The real solution we need is more futuristic waste management technologies that can break down harmful pollutants and turn them into usable material, and I expect they will come from the "market economy."

[0] https://qz.com/1655268/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than...
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> When people ask me about my life’s ambitions, I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so that the finished product can be the explanation. I think this will be a major labor saving improvement.

This is an excellent explanation that mirrors my own life goals, but I have struggled to put the sentiment into words this well. At the end of the day, I just want to spend (waste?) all of my time doing AI research or working on a cure for cancer, but I want to do it my own way.
What about non–lethal violence? What about racial profiling, e.g. "stop and frisk" and "driving while black"? What about bail and sentencing disparities? The fear of the police extends far beyond murder.
Unless one lives in Mexico, where the police assassinate people regularly, being terrified of the police - especially in Europe - doesn't fly as an excuse.

This is the fault of the media which is fishing for clicks and demonizing the police to the point that people are becoming paranoid.
It's funny that people pick the most successful app development platform, well, ever, to knock down as broken and fundamentally flawed. Compared to what? All the other platforms are not as popular, probably for a reason.
Blacks are killed by police disproportionately by a factor of around 2-3x

The fear may be there, but I don't see it justified in the numbers.

It's not just about getting killed - it's about getting unfairly fined, arrested, beaten, jailed, and so on. From my own life experience, the fear is warranted.
Do you have any reason to believe that you can judge it better than people doing it? Or any specific data, reference, etc.? I read that on every thread on the topic so far, usually upvoted to the top, and I wonder where this comes from.
Ugh, that's not good. Latest commit message and date will not display under <> Code without Javascript enabled, but if I click around in the repository and go back to <> Code or keep refreshing the page, they suddenly show up, still with Javascript disabled. Can anyone explain this?

However, I do like the visual part of the new layout.
Same here. Currently I'm doing a Linux desktop and a minimal Windows laptop for remote work via SSH. Once I'm convinced I'll never realistically need to run mainstream apps I'll go full Linux.
Did you ever use PPC apps on Intel through Rosetta? It was a substantial slowdown, like at least 2x. But the app was usable.
Using xinput set-prop on the touchpad to tune parameters doesn't really fix it.

I end up having to disable the touchpad and use the external mouse just to be able to type without accidental mouse jumping around.

#1 linux usability issue on laptops in my opinion.
Coming from a poor (and incidentally very white) area myself, I understand the sentiment behind 'defund the police', but being comfortably middle class now, I also recognize it's something of a nonstarter with people who don't have that experience.

I prefer 'Police Out Of Poor Neighborhoods'. Police actually add value in rich neighborhoods (maybe by definition), and it's got a humorous acronym.

Edit: And police are much less likely to be shot at in rich neighborhoods. It's really win-win-win.
It's not the culture of anti-competence (although, yes, that exists).

How many times have you tried to communicate a novel idea to competent people just to have them dismiss it with obvious problems that clearly don't apply to your idea? That doesn't happen because they can't evaluate your idea, it happens because they don't understand the idea itself.

When the innovation is small you can get away by repeating it again and again. At some point people stop, take your idea into account, and suddenly understand why none of what they said applies. But when it is something too different, you can't do this one either.
Wow, I totally missed that version number in the About box. Very interesting! I guess 10.16 will be the last version of "OS X" as we knew it (even though it was already called macOS). The end of an era, indeed.
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No no, you see, you must be _brave_, be _bold_ and irrevocably tie yourself to our product.
> Then you come to a situation where you have to make a trade-off: some must die in order for others to live.

I mean, in a wrongful death case, nobody is going to die for anyone to live.

The healthcare thing is more nuanced, and is part of the problem with any sort of centralized decision-making around it. On an individual level it's not usually any sort of tradeoff -- your choices don't make anyone else live or die except in imaginary fantasies. For governments they do have to make the choice AND THAT IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM. Governments have been dominated by the pursuit of efficiency against metrics and avoiding any responsibility for outcomes because it's a "science".

If more people are dying than should be dying, then you just spend more in accordance with your principles; this is the way that the NHS (for example) was designed to run, until the 1970s, when this obsession with deference to "experts" and pursuit of metric-driven efficiency (not just in England but in most other countries too) drove it to become a managerial culture and alienated the entire workforce associated with the program.
I'm sorry you're suffering and I hope you don't commit suicide. You are not a peasant. Peasants don't have $2m at any point. Maintaining a middle-class lifestyle today, which is an opportunity still available to you, makes you one of the richest people to have ever lived, in terms of both material and opportunity. It sounds like you've hinged all your happiness and self-worth on professional and economic success, which is a losing strategy. Becoming as rich as the people you've worked for is a bad goal. You can learn to live more frugally, move to a cheaper area, work a job that's easy and boring but sustaining, declare bankruptcy if necessary, try to find communities of people you like, etc. You have options. If you've never lived in a rural area you should try it.
> but Police are a concept that all of America inherited from the English roots of our governments.

No, they aren't. Because police weren't a thing in England when America split off from those roots.