skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unions protect bad apples, that shouldn’t be the purpose of unions. It should be illegal.
This is really not true. If you do hiring in tech, just finding qualified candidates is a long, arduous process way before even talking about compensation.

There's a hell of a lot of problems with hiring practices worldwide, but qualified software engineers are not abundant.
Hey thanks! I just grabbed from the first google link. That's SUPER messed up. I hope he sues. Will update. Love Taibbi!
There's lots of room for the population to grow on the mainland still, and Tasmania doesn't have much of a draw, except for wine, and isolation I guess. Not that there's a lack of isolation going around...

Historically, Aboriginal people didn't really expand their population much, not that the barrenness of most of the landmass helped, while white/ other people have only been on the island for ~240 years.
What people seem to be missing is that this isn't a complaint -- it's a call to form effectively a union:

Therefore, we are starting a group today for Chrome Extension developers to work together in check with CWS. It's not a technical support channel, nor a platform to get attention when CWS is unresponsive. It's a place for Chrome Extension developers to rally together and discuss improving the foundation we stand on (it also won't be hosted nor managed by Google).

United, we can have a stronger, common voice to:

Pressure Google Chrome to allow for 3rd party extension stores.
This would break down the walled garden of extensions, give extension developers a leveler playing field, and lower the risk of getting wiped out on CWS's whim.

2. Pressure CWS to be more fair and communicative with extension publishers.

Canned emails about rejections with only general policy information are “lose-lose” for publishers and CWS alike. Both parties waste time because of all the guesswork involved currently — especially when CWS makes a mistake.
It is true depending on the country he lives in. As he's a US citizen, even if he lives overseas he needs to fill in a W-9 form to get the money from GitHub.
And it's not a race thing, it's a money thing. Hong Kong Chinese don't want paltry wages so they import Filipinos. Lebanese don't want paltry wages so they import Sri Lankans. Even black South Africans don't want paltry wages to they import Zimbabweans.
glhf refactoring and changing repo name..
Everything will now be digitally signed, look at the iphone jailbreak scene on how hard is it to customize your own hardware to run the software you want.
Is humor not allowed on HN?
I thought this might have been caused by a difference in whether image/webp is included in the Accept header on requests for web pages (not requests for images), since some people who run web sites prefer to serve different html to UAs that support and do not support webp rather than serving different image formats at the same URL. But when I looked at the Accept header Firefox sends for pages, it included image/webp. So I'm not sure what these sites are doing.
Hey. I've been lurking HN for years, and just made an account to reply this.

There's a way. Reach out to anybody or me if you need it.
You were able to build a stellar resume.
You did GH projects with thousands of users.
You have experience.

You got this.
Google doesn't care.
For historical flavor, though not necessarily reading ease, you might also enjoy the scans of the Boston Public Library copies of the (nearly) original, hosted on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/paradiselostpoem00milt_0/
https://archive.org/details/paradiselostpoem00milt_1/
Politically Correct Hypocrisy in the Tech Industry
There are millions of death happened due to various cases every year even before pandemic. If I let this bother me, I would be depressed all the time. Why would I want that?
Kudos!

I've been doing OSS for twenty years, and never made a dime.

Qualifier: Never wanted to. It's always been a labor of love.

Even when I have done a bit of commercial work (outside of what I did as a 9-5), I open-source that work, as well.

I like doing OSS. I take pride in my craft, and like having it out there.
It's ok to espouse your dislike for something but please do it correctly: "everything else" is not sent in plaintext. "Everything else" is encrypted to the server.
A response:

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/taibbi-cotton-fre...
Best articles for digital nomads. Want to add a blog?comment on this post.
Because you mentioned Result specifically: I've recently seen a talk by Rich Hickey that (for me) made a pretty strong case against Result/Maybe/etc. and for union types instead. Maybe you'll find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug
Hey, Reach out to some consultancies. I really like AIM consulting. I know it's tough right now, but the nice thing about consulting is they bring in experts they want to teach them and kick ass.

Opinionated, well spoken people tend to do really well in consultancies. Find companies that do cool things and be part of them. You can also gain experience while moving around and helping non-tech companies come up to speed. It can be PAINFUL but it can also be SUPER duper fun. When you find someone going the wrong direction, offer advice and they listen to and improve from your suggestions.
Riot makes league of legends, the biggest esport game in the world for quite a while now. They're a giant company, getting into a legal battle with them would not be fun
None of the big tech cos hiring H1Bs are doing so below market salary; they in fact have substantial bonuses attached to these hires.

H1Bs aren't stupid are they're not exactly desperate for work opportunities either.
> So what's this AVIF format they mention that's actually better than both?

AVIF is an image format based on the intra-frame coding of AV1, as WebP is to VP8 and HEIF is to HEVC.

AV1 and HEIF are super recent though, the AVIF 1.0 spec was only released in early 2019. By comparison, WebP was initially released in 2019. So AVIF currently has very little support (it's behind flags in Firefox and that's it).

However all the big names are part of AOM, which oversees AV1 (and AVIF): http://aomedia.org/membership/members/

So chances are pretty high it'll get widespread support, eventually.

There’s one problem though: like WebP, AVIF just is not solving a big issue.
This is a good point. Historical context can be important. You see these issues with people who have been in the public for a very long time (often politicians).

We also saw this with the ok sign where people were digging up pictures of people from years ago and somehow connecting them to using racism through the ok sign. It's challenging for a person who isn't on top of every news story to navigate this time.
You are right, I miss-typed, I had non-universality in mind.
The presence of content that is extremely inadmissible for Big Tech is a good sign in my book. It's very easy to select the type of content you actually want to see.
This is really useful! I've been exploring some Python data wrangling libraries / Pandas competitors (e.g. modin, Dask, Vaex, RAPIDS) and trying to find a nice way to visualise how they all 'link' together (similar to what Jake does in his "The Python Visualization Landscape" talk[0]).

The linked "Flourish" tool from the article is also really nice. It's a pity it doesn't have an API and is pretty pricey for the premium features, but the default network graph looks nicer than anything else I've seen.

I threw together a Repl here [1] (code at [2]) that lets you put in a keyword and produces CSV output that can be copy-pasted into Flourish (excuse the rough code)

[0] https://youtu.be/FytuB8nFHPQ?t=262

[1] https://google-vs-graphs.garethdwyer1.repl.run/

[2] https://repl.it/@GarethDwyer1/google-vs-graphs
Parts of my company have come back onsite, while other parts are still WFH. There really has been no rubric for bringing people back to work, but rather how political or aggressive different division heads have been.

But you know what? It could be a lot, lot worse. I still have a job - the hit to my productivity is manageable, and my wife also has her job too. Every day I see on Linkedin, people posting about how they have been laid off. These are people with 5-10 years of work experience post-MBA (often from prestigious schools) and I am still really grateful to not face any financial hurdles yet.
All of these problems come from the department being fully controlled by the police union.

I am typically a pro-union person. I even think that police unions, as a concept, should exist.

But police unions, as implemented, are the reason that civilian oversight of police is impossible.

Typical unions consist of line workers - with maybe line managers. They are then overseen by professional managers, directors, etc, who are not part of the union. The union advocates for the line workers, in opposition to managers.

Police department unions are completely different. Every level of management, except for the very top (The mayor and city council) are part of the union. And, unsurprisingly, this leads to a huge conflict of interest, where the line workers aren't opposed by the managers - but are working together, against the civilian authorities.

To draw a parallel, it would be like the entirety of GM, including the CEO, being part of the UAW union. Do you think that would represent shareholder & board interests well? Or would it lead to a completely out of control company, that would operate without any care for board oversight?
I guess we all have our limits? Just wish the newsletter was more concise with the opp to dig deeper...found that just reading a segment at times drags on and gets interrupted/ incomplete.

A better approach would be to either pull a single paragraph from the full length piece, a TLDR type summary conclusion of the broader thought and hyperlink that clip to the expanded/full content on Bloomberg's site. This would result in my stayed subscription to the (truncated) newsletter, a higher open rate, and actual visits to their website (which the newsletter does not drive IMO). Cheers!
Actually, windows 10 has a built in mail client, that I think is called... Mail ?
From the article:

> It's very possible for a 3rd party extension store to do a better job than Google at blocking malicious extensions.

I don't know that that is the case. Google clearly does a _terrible_ job on this, but they are at least theoretically financially motivated to do the job correctly. It's hard for me to imagine a 3rd party extension store being financially viable with correctly aligned financial motivations.
By hording the wealth you mean drastically increasing GDP?
Jepsen: Redis-Raft 1b3fbf6
The ad campaign for the new easier UI practically writes itself: "Come home to simple Rix."
not really. Most H1B rules are written in law. You cannot make significant changes without going through Congress. Otherwise they will be defeated in courts.
With such limited resources, I wonder if just targeting wayland initially would get usable results faster.
Thanks, that's how i got it working too but that stopped working for me about 2 weeks ago :/
What would a bond accomplish? It seems easily gamed by say an insurance company that would pay the bond for premiums.
Yeah, possible is fine. We don't need amazing speed just an ok UI speed. It is truly a shame that Java apps didn't actually take off with government & industry developers. Maybe they will do Electron at some point.

It might be worth someone's time to research this area of the economy and provide cross-platform tools.
I think you missed the headline - the police are murdering in broad daylight without legal repercussions.
I give my cat anti-depressants when he won't eat. It's pretty common from what the vet told me.
Or we can acknowledge that discussions oriented around in-group violence perpetuated by members of said group (which isn't novel nor unique to the black community) do not obviate discussions of police misconduct and issues apparent in the criminal justice system perpetrated by a powerful and state-operated out-group, Mr. Davis.
The difference is in the forward probabilities. Most people who are murdered by criminals are socially connected to their murderers, e.g. they are in gangs. People who are killed by police are killed without that connection, and there's little they could have done about it.
Code only says what it does
I don't think that's a realistic hope. A free-floating pool of nonresident employees would be, wrongly but inevitably, seen as a scheme to reduce American employment.
He's replying to the comment the other user posted, not the headline.
When interspersed within an insightful comment, it's encouraged, even. On its own... Well, it won't get you banned, but not everyone will be impressed.
The training data is racist. This is a common problem in AI.

It produces no black faces. Even as a guess.
Sounds like another win for languages with an LLVM backend. Definitely excited to see this language grow, especially as it has generics already.

Does anybody use Crystal professionally here? Any thoughts so far if so?
When someone is rewarded with attention for a social position, it tends to polarize their views. The politicization of Covid opinion shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody. There's a strong self congratulatory component to alarmist opinions. A restaurant re-opened in my city recently and they posted a bunch of ads proclaiming they're, "opening responsibly" picturing their servers wearing masks. Public perception being the key point of consideration, not necessarily the efficacy of forcing laborers to hide their faces behind spit covered masks. The attitude in general seems to be, "post a sign blaming people for Covid-19 next to the door, some sanitizer, aaaand we're done." Opposed to something like propping the door and ensuring customers don't all touch the same door knob, for example.
Oh - so actually AVIF (as discussed in the original article) is an HEIF container with AV1 as the codec, and HEIC is the same but with H.265.
Like anything, the introvert/extrovert dichotomy is actually more like a scale. Few people are entirely on one end or the other.

I can generally prefer personal time and a quiet place to mull my thoughts, but at the same time miss the spontaneous discussion and emotional attachment that an office provides.
maybe it's because you use the "redesign"?
Immigration is good for innovation, the H1B system is not. This administrations rollout of the suspension is cruel, which is the point. H1B Reform/Replacement is needed, the status quo is not.
This is a very dumb move on his part.

He just went from "big interesting blog" to "very suspicious behavior".

Think about it from a reporter's perspective, they were about to write about an interesting blog, and suddenly the blog gets deleted because his real name will be revealed. Well, that's a pretty big reaction, so big we can't ignore it. The reporter's first question now will be "Wow, what's he trying to cover up?"

One thing is certain, reporters are now trying to dig up the thing that they're imagining he's trying to cover up.

And maybe he does have something to hide given his irrational behavior, who knows?

This won't end now until reporters find something, and they're gonna go to great lengths to find something.
A silly question: how to build the examples?
I haven't found a build tutorial in the project.

As a rust newbie, I guess I should run in "cargo build" in the example folders. But both output the error

error[E0463]: can't find crate for `std`

What I missed here?
Yup this was my experience at a very large financial corporation in the US. As a Team Lead I had to interview and hire for multiple positions across my org. Most of our jobs ended up being filled by H1B candidates, and not necessarily because we couldn't find local people. We paid them peanuts, and worked them to death. A lot of the money went to the staffing company that provided them.

Predictably, some people are going to claim racism for this move by Trump, but I think it's a big problem that needs to be addressed.
Would you be willing to make a Caddy plugin for it? Here's how: https://caddyserver.com/docs/extending-caddy
Don't forget that California is a big state and a lot of it is not very populated or popular. A house in the bay or LA will probably run you a lot more than that.
> * I am also really curious about the accounting and financial disclosures required in such decisions. *

There are none, beyond the dollar figures set aside for R&D.

> How much are institutional investors informed of long range plans?

In the case of Apple, very little to not at all. Other companies have different policies - most share roadmaps and long range plans rather freely compared to Apple.
I'm assuming its this: http://www.castingcall.club
Bringing up "black-on-black crime" is a common disingenuous tactic to distract from conversations about police brutality. Most violence is committed by people you're around, and in an intensely segregated country, that will usually be people that are the same race as you. It's a complete digression from the actual conversation here, which is about agents of the state, entrusted to act as enforcers of the state's monopoly on violence, abusing that trust and meting out violence to people who have done nothing wrong.
He only needs one-way anonymity. There aren't many problems with his blog readers searching for "scott alexander real name" and finding it. But there are problems if his patients search for "[real name] psychiatrist" and find his blog.
For an image gallery, the balance could be the opposite: a small (56k) download of a decoder allowing to show many large (a few megs each) pictures.

I wonder how good the performance of that decoder is, though; if the decoding delay is much longer that the network transfer delay, the approach becomes much less appealing.
This is news to me so I'm just saying, if you wrote about this in more detail, I'd read the shit out of it.
Ignoring the fact that the majority of the source code is not open sourced and that "impact" biggest variable is going to be chance.

Impact of one open source project measure slightly more than developer talent. It is a combination of a lot of skills, development skill just one among other like marketing, business sense, ability to make video, ... Extreme example would be Zuckerberg: is he the best developer in the world and wouldn't you waste a bit his potential if you hired him as a PHP dev?

And in any case, impact is always going to be a star system. You are going to have a tiny percentage of developers (like a few thousands in the world) that have impact and all the other that have 0. You are back to square one at trying to find a way to differentiate between a loser that can code and another loser that cannot.
> better GC pause times

What does that mean exactly / in this case?

My assumption is that "better" means more predictable. Or does it mean straight up fewer/shorter?
You are contradicting yourself. Apple hasn’t been sued because of their patent portfolio, but they still have that. Little changes with this transition, they are still building computing devices around the ARM instruction set.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/783047584/leaked-emails-fuel-...

"For almost three decades, Jared Taylor has been publishing his ideas about race at the American Renaissance magazine and now at a website called AmRen, which is considered a mouthpiece for white supremacist ideology. ... The website is not well-known outside white nationalist circles — but it found an audience in White House adviser Stephen Miller."
I'd be interested to see these same benchmarks with the Go LLVM frontend.

https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/
Yup, top notch engineer will always get paid well but most salaries will fall. 1st the engineering pool will increase both due to the distance between employees and employers not being a big obstacle and more people who can choose it as a career will choose it. 2nd engineers can now live in a lower cost community and will be willing to settle for a lower salary.

As always employer will look to pay the least so they will do their best to push salaries down when ever they can.

But keep in mind it will still be a well paid job when compared to other careers.
Why Google invested in Dunzo to solve Local search 2.0
> A cost to coast drive in the US is something everyone should do at least once.

Why?
I used to enjoy it, cant bring myself to buy a new macbook pro with what they put out lately. Will go with some ryzen based book and run some apt-get or pacman distro of linux instead. Hell, I'd take w10 Pro over apple offerings of late.
How does this negate pjc50's thesis?
Protests are always a battle for the hearts and minds of the general public. Accusing protesters of violence, painting them as criminals as opposed to citizens exercising their rights, is absolutely key to justifying any crackdown.

Symbolism matters. The tongue in cheeck nature of a name such as Riot can easily get lost or deliberately mischaracterised in a heated propaganda battle.

When authorities decide whether or not to ban an app, it matters what the main purpose of the app is, and it matters what the broader public belives its purpose is.

Using an app called Riot is simply unhelpful if you're constantly defending yourself against accusations of rioting.
Ah, OK. Then I agree absolutely. Brits are sold very low quality stuff. A bit sad, really. And don't let me get started on the quality of fresh fruit and vegetables in this country. Honestly my diet has suffered because it's so hard to find good fruit that I really want to eat- and vegetables are just bland. Then I go back to Greece and eat something stupid like boiled zucchini and potatoes with olive oil and vinegar and I want to cry because everything has a taste.

I guess it's a huge privilege to have grown up with good quality food not just sufficient calories- and being able to eat good food a few times a year still. I freak out a bit when I think how much we can lose with climate change. But that's another discussion.

Anyway this is why I don't like to accuse the Brits of having a crap cuisine (or eating too much meat). They do, but that's because their (other) materials are not very good to begin with. If you think about it, the only stuff that grows locally are cabbage, turnips, potatoes and apples. You can only go so far with that.

I'm sure that's a major reason for all the problems this country has. Food is one of the biggest things in life, up there with companionship, sex, good wine and natural surroundings. If you don't get good food, there will always be something missing from your life.
Does it also seem weird to you that small countries have intelligence bureaus? Denmark and Finland are both less populous than New York City.
Unfortunately the reality is that there is absolutely no one who is interested in pushing a visa scheme like this. Employers are not interested in going through effort and paperwork for an employee who can jump ship for a better offer down the street once they are in the country. Other employees are not interested in increasing the supply of similar labor that will drive down their market value.

The only ones who are interested in a visa like this would be foreign-born skilled workers looking to immigrate, and they are going to lose the fight over who gets the visas with people who have no specific skills but family in country since that family can vote.

There is no constituency for such a visa, so it is never going to happen.
Negative sound waves steal energy from rotation