skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economists have researched that data, and consistently confirmed what the GP asserted:

"Research by Daniel Costa, of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, and Howard University political science professor Ron Hira, found that 60% of H-1B workers receive lower-than-average wages for their job and region. Google, Facebook and Apple “take advantage of program rules in order to legally pay many of their H-1B workers below the local median wage for the jobs they fill,” Costa and Hira said in an Economic Policy Institute paper."

(from the article above)
Yes. Check the example section of:

http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~richard/teaching/s2019/Cauch...
Seriously...

As a fan of Halo, I want them to support the Xbox forever, but as an investor, I wish they'd stop.
Weekends in Montreal. 8am, just before opening there is already a very long line. Walmart the same. Other supermarkets don't have lines.
Just add 300 DNS queries and wait for the RTB to complete!
Not really; it's exactly where people who need to read it are most likely to be found. Reminds me of an old British TV series called "Why Don't You...?" that was made for kids during the school holidays and was all about doing something other than watching TV. The full title, which was sung over the opening titles, was "Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?"
> unlike Europe

Unlike the Schengen zone, certainly, but some European countries also do not check passports on exit (the UK is a good example).
nice, yeah thats something I find interesting too but the Fed's junk bond ETF purchasing has already been active. this article is about its investment grade primary and secondary market corporate credit facility, which was authorized with the CARES Act but took till June to get started.
If someone's code isn't self explanatory from the naming and organization, why would you expect their comments to do a better job?

The vast majority of comments I see are completely useless, either giving incorrect/outdated information or restating exactly what the code says. I've even made comments nearly the same color as the background in my text editor so it's easier for my brain to skip them.

Comments certainly can be useful, but I think they should be used extremely sparingly.
Oooh, I see how I misinterpreted! Thank you for clarifying. Cheers.
That is true. But the difference is that students used to have a choice (online vs in person classes), and now most don't.

To be honest, there is no purpose for most students to be in the US if they're taking online classes. But there are a lot of edge cases (e.g., students doing research in the lab, graduate students with a research stipend, students in economical hardship with a part time job, etc.) I wonder whether there will be exceptions for them.
That's partly mythological, and partly a symptom of something being rather amiss at the WHO: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/09/who-comments-asymptomati...

It also feels like you're happy to use some inconsistencies (real or imagined) as license to do whatever you feel like. Considering that only the most deranged lunatics would suggest that health care workers and scientists are actively trying to harm people for some reason, it's odd to pound on any opening they may give you, instead of engaging in a good-faith effort to understand the issues involved and do the bare minimum to protect yourself and your community.
It's horrible. I used the Inspect feature and changed the font for the "seriouscopy" class to Arial. It's much more readable. Why would anyone ever use HelveticaNeueUltraLight?!
They live here at the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html
Sorry, I've got better things to do.
What I don't understand, why do internationa; standardization organizations allows patent-encumbered technologies to become de-jure standards.

MPEG, WiFi, GSM…

IMHO, intentional standards must be implementable without any patent fees, or they are very bad standards.
Displacement the word means moving something out of a place it currently occupies. You should find a better word.
The cause and effect may not go the way you think.

I was just reading, about Houston I think, that hospitals were continuing to have elective surgeries to avoid sending a message that people should panic. And to make money, because they may not be able to keep the lights on with only COVID-19 patients.
Yep, I owned one that I purchased in 2008. Mine was the size of a typical netbook (of course they had models with normal sizes), yet it was a fully featured laptop.

The case was from magnesium alloy and it weighted exactly 2 lbs (less than a book of the same size I couldn't tell I had it in my backpack).

Perhaps today it might not seem like a feat but that was 12 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB0_g9U9Dc8
Just so you know, Red Letter Media has a sub-show called "Best of the Worst." "Bad" is a weird classification. I call it "bad," but I love the movie. People call it bad because it is super campy.
And about $5 in gold in a 486 chip:

https://www.ozcopper.com/computer-cpu-gold-yields/
Same thing can be say with every coronaviruses and every flus though.
I agree. I'd like to see more educated foreigners stay in the US through a more sensible immigration policy. But another way to attempt to fix the weird brain-drain is by controlling who is getting the education.
Brave team?
Two non developer anecdotes from what I’ve heard or seen

Solutions Architect - answer the soft skill questions aka “tell me about a time when..” and they had to do a writing sample either a sales blog post or an SOW.

Project Manager - same soft skill questions, talk about processes, previous challenges and outcomes. Maybe do a simplified project plan.

Are those the types of take home tasks you are referring to for non developer roles? Just curious.
Let's say it does not match what many Americans think of when they hear "socialism". There's no such thing as a "textbook definition" of socialism.
Doing More with Less: Marie Kondo at Work
I too got exposed to him via the Venus project and Robert Steele's "open source everything manifesto"[1]. Having read Jacque Fresco [2] and found it clear and easy to follow, I tried to read Bucky's book "ideas and integrities" [3], but his almost stream-of-conciousness kind of writing style is so opaque and non approachable (to me at least) that I had to give up.

Can you recommend anything from him that is more readable?

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[1]https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Robert-David-Steele/dp/1583944435

[2] https://www.amazon.de/Best-That-Money-Cant-Buy-ebook/dp/B077...

[3] https://www.amazon.de/dp/B004WH04LM/
I agree with you that its circular logic, but I disagree that its a waste of time.

Books, movies, and other consumable media (songs, poems, etc. etc.) present perhaps the strongest arguments from various "camps". They are strongly representative of the ideals and ideas of large groups of people.
One major problem with the Falklands is woeful internet access. Population is too low to make a submarine fibre connection viable, so it's connected by expensive and slow satellite backhaul.

Assuming Starlink continues to go to plan, it would be a huge boon for remote places like this and probably very transformative to its economy.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16701830

How exciting! Jane Street developed an internal tool to augment the GitHub UI. Unfortunately, the code is proprietary, the features and UI are tailored to their own requirements, and the tool is not available in any form to the general public. So what's the purpose of this blog post?
Who tags though, publishers? I mean, you're right; I'm not being a contrarian for the sake of argument.

Contextual targeting probably will have a more interesting pitch in a post-third-party cookie Internet, but it's not going to be _the_ solution. There are already proposals for targeted advertising that may be more compelling/cheaper-to-implement, see TURTLEDOVE: https://github.com/WICG/turtledove.
Which SBC do you like, from that vantage point?
I don't think anyone's going to earn $10-$30 a month to watch media content containing the occasional ad, especially not given the obvious adverse selection problem: audiences whose media consumption is influenced by micropayouts probably doesn't have enough disposable income to buy what the advertiser is selling.

Creators generate ad revenues from volume in the order of fractions of cents per viewer. Viewers watch because the media itself has value to them, so it really isn't rent-seeking for the content creators to regard themselves as the value creators and generally keep the money. And if creators think a selective wealth giveaway will help grow their audience or encourage creative contributions from their community they can [and often do] already give selected fans meaningful rewards without a layer of crypto-MLM bullshit on top.
It just means Berkshire Hathaway has too much capital and needs to do something. Those gas assets are worth half their book value, if that.
That's exactly my point: those options don't exist so there is no hard data on what people prefer. It's silly to say the market decided when it's only speculated on the most profitable path, but that doesn't make it the only profitable one.
> Those big tech companies already have international offices. Why wouldn't they have just expanded those offices?

Because they still want to hire lots of Americans. They just don't want to pay them market prices. So they bring in H1-Bs to lower wages. If they hired them overseas, there wouldn't be that effect:

From the article above:

"Research by Daniel Costa, of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, and Howard University political science professor Ron Hira, found that 60% of H-1B workers receive lower-than-average wages for their job and region. Google, Facebook and Apple “take advantage of program rules in order to legally pay many of their H-1B workers below the local median wage for the jobs they fill,” Costa and Hira said in an Economic Policy Institute paper."

I'd personally like to see the US adopt a systematic and generous immigration system like Canada's. But the H1-B system has mostly been a farce, used as a weapon against American workers. There are exceptions, but overall, it's most benefited the big tech company stockholders.
My comment was only considering graduate students, whom I think, are the group most affected by this change. Graduate students in STEM usually don't pay tuition--their lab pays the fees for them to be enrolled.
All of Amazon Alexa's jokes are curated by a single person. While they obviously get screened, the guy clearly has a lot of discretion. There is no committee. His taste in humor becomes Alexa's.

I have to imagine it's the same way at Google. There are hundreds of little voice commands. Each one curated by a single person as a passion project. You may be seeing someone's unique interests and personality poking through.
Wonder how they calculate this with any accuracy. They can't see the time you spend comparison shopping on other online sites to see if you're getting a good deal. (which you usually aren't - Target and Costco, for example, often dramatically raise their online prices vs. their in-store prices)

Agree on the farm boxes - had one of those and we were overloaded with produce. Bit expensive but once you taste fresh carrots it's hard to go back to store bought.
This assumes the green card quotas are actually solving a problem in the first place.
Not comparable.

milvus integrates and wraps libraries like faiss and nmslib, which are alternatives to Scann. (If anything, I expect the milvus developers will soon be looking into integrating and wrapping Scann.)
Support people like Jim Browning who identified and goes after scammers, and Kitboga who, although more show, eats there time and does there tactics.
Jewel/ Safeway/ Albertsons online ordering systems are abysmal. Very high friction to browse, endless searching, and when you get to the end you find out that the items you selected are not in inventory for that store. The switch sizes and brands like there was no consideration for price or storage preference.
Were these computer science classes? My experience is that the difference between top and “poor” schools is much wider in CS (likely because the academic job market in the humanities and sciences is so tough that you get highly qualified teachers even at “poor” schools).
The movie is great. But it falls into the "bad movie" category because it is campy. "Bad movie" is more a genre. And it is hard to argue otherwise with Starship Troopers because it did poorly on release and got popular during the same time bad movies became popular (there's also a strong overlap between lovers of bad movies and Starship Troopers). "Bad" here doesn't mean unenjoyable, really the opposite.
Absolutely this
Pure speculation on my part, but I think Apple wouldn't want people installing either other OSes on their machines or their OS on other hardware, so I would expect some lock-in hardware/firmware/software to make impossible or really difficult to build ARM hackintoshes and the other way around. Hoping to be wrong, though.
Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research
What do you mean by "bad" though? "Bad movie" is a genre. Starship Troopers is SUPER campy. Entertaining? Yes. Campy? Also yes.
When was the last time you traveled outside the USA? Did you notice how Customs and Border Patrol did not check and stamp your passport, like they do for incoming travelers?

Therefore, since there is no way to detect when an H1B worker leaves the country, there is no easy way to estimate the number of H1Bs currently in the country.
Yes, this article should parade the p-value to make its point and for some reason it doesn't.

On p-values and linear regression in general, though: when you're new to inferential statistics applied to really complex data, such as anything that relates to human behavior, you go through this "clearly that's not a linear relationship" phase. But that's not really the point. You can choose any sort of function you want to maximize r, the options are endless [0]. But linear regression has a distinct advantage in that you can interpret the model coefficients as meaningful numbers. You can say things like "for every 5% increase in the proportion of binge drinkers in your state you can expect an X% increase in the proportion of the population that will get Covid" ...if the model satisfies some significance parameter threshold, like p<0.05, and, you know, correlation equals causation. Everyone knows that. Anyway, with your great 4th order polynomial, all you can say is "see, it fits!"

About significance thresholds. Yes, they are totally arbitrary, another realization in one's journey with frequentist statistics that is quite deflating. Still, we need a rule of thumb so we use things like p<0.05 and have a bunch of fancy ways to account for things like multiple comparisons, which increase the likelihood that some spurious correlation would have appeared to be significant without such adjustments.

This stuff is all super-useful when used appropriately. That's why, when you need to create a model (outside the Bayesian/ML anything goes world) and you need to get it right, the first thing you do is reach out to your trusty PhD statistician friend. At least, that's what I do. They spend countless hours to get to a place where they can say "in this situation, I would suggest..." I'm glad some people are into it that much.

[0] https://lmfit.github.io/lmfit-py/builtin_models.html
>“important to the company” work that has to be done and your own manager always going along with it.

I've worked in some highly political large companies and one of the best managers I had would basically say "I know this is basically BS but there is lots of visibility on this so we have to show something." He'd then work with us to find the bare minimum we needed to do to to make it seem like we did a lot more.

It's a lot easier to tolerate crap if people just admit it's crap and your job is to shovel it. It's awful when a bunch of managers hand-wave and act like you're smelling roses instead of crap. Then they make you work 10X harder then you need to just so they can show their boss you are growing roses, not shoveling crap.
By coincidence the Youtube algrorithm landed me on the very first re:View the other day where they explained the distinction between the type of movies they would feature on Best of the Worst vs re:View. Basically, BotW would be for "so bad they're good movies", movies that are truly awful but have redeeming quality in their ability to be laughed at, whereas re:View would be for movies that they think are truly good but are not as well known today, or at least not known as good movies today (as is the case for Starship Troopers).
ICE's decision is going to radically impact this. In-person classes or bust. I cannot imagine the migraines that sub-50 university presidents are having today.
> Being able to make an easy-to-deploy binary just by typing "go build" is huge, and the compile times are great. Sure, .NET supports some form of AOT compilation, but it's not the default, and when I google ".net core aot", the first thing that pops up is the CoreRT repo that says "This is an experimental project. We have no plans to productize it in its current form" which is not super encouraging.

While not the same thing as AOT compilation, `dotnet publish -p:PublishSingleFile=true` achieves the goal of having a self contained executable.
Yikes, that's embarrassing, could you possibly clarify your meaning? My point was that communicative strategy changes significantly depending on whether you account for the other person also having a perspective which is also a product of history
I'm not sure I understand your point. Did you actually look at the regression line through the data? It looks crazy off. I'm not a statistician but that line looks like it doesn't represent that data very well at all. People area also saying nuanced comments above but the underlying fact seems to be that this is not a good use of linear regression, and there is no strong correlation between the two axes.
Nice link, great info, thanks.
The biggest problem with Google currently is: monetization.

Try searching for a commercial term. For example: say you want to buy an OLED TV, and want to see what it looks like wall-mounted. So try "OLED65CXPUA wallmount" in Google, and you're barraged with ads and ads-disguised-as-content. Even the Google Image Search page is littered with ads (both overt and covert).
Yeah, nothing in default yet from EOD friday in LQD. Of about 2272 CUSIPS in LQD then, 58 are rated BB, Baa1 392, Baa2 406, Baa3 251. I expect that it will happen soon that at least a few of these go into default.
There have been pushes to publish more code in recent years. Most journal article formats at least allow for a "supplemental material" section like here: https://journals.aps.org/prc/authors

Publishing code in a journal article in analogous to publishing key equations. Equations are just functions themselves after all. However, articles have to be succinct, and journals still exist in a hybrid physical/digital space. It isn't very useful to physically ink thousands of lines of code onto a page, especially if it represents a vastly different level of technical detail than the rest of the paper. In practice, people who write comprehensive software typically make it available through github or similar, and put a reference in the article. If not that, people will send you their code if you contact them. If they're stingy you may not get source, though. I don't know of any funding agency requirements that code source be made available, though I think that might be a good thing to try.

I think the biggest difficulty is with medium-sized pieces of code. Small enough that the bookkeeping/maintenance needed to make it available gets skipped, but large enough that it isn't possible to provide details in the article.
> Passing information on to to other people is fine. However, in this case, why forwarding? If you are convinced by the information, why not do an effort and post it yourself in the group?

If you are convinced by a presentation of some information that someone else has already done, why go to all the trouble of doing your own presentation of the same information, when you can just point to what has already been done? I don't see how that isn't part of free expression. Free expression doesn't mean you have to re-say everything yourself at tedious length.

Basically the author is complaining that when people have free expression, some of the things they freely express will be false. Yes, that's correct. Welcome to the real world.
(setq stories (list "http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html"))
(car stories)
This works iff there are good commit messages. In my experience, people who don't document their code tend not to bother with good commit messages either.
I'm an Indian. As a past H1B visa holder, I know that this happens. I've seen people being so biased that they only recruit people from the state they belong to in India.

And, I've come across Americans in bay area who were so pissed off with this that they voted for Trump. The level of politics and discrimination I've seen would make anyone angry.

There are highly skilled people working on H1B but they're a minority. If H1B allows only full time employment and no contract jobs, a lot of abuse will be eliminated.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Truth hurts? This is a known secret throughout the valley.
Have you ever thought that maybe people go to such places to get away from the constant interaction with an internet browser?
Of course you have the other side of the coin where those same ML students take a pre-trained VGG model, fine tune it on a couple thousand pictures of hotdogs or whatever and raise millions in VC money for their "AI" company.
That's federal rules. Many states, Massachusetts for example, do not allow inactivity fees.
This is why people put it in the "bad movie" category. It is very campy. But if you like bad movies, Starship Troopers is great. That said, I also love The Room and Birdemic.
The really labour intensive thing you could do goes like this:

1. Get a nice shiny modern Wireshark

2. Tell Firefox you want it to keep records of the session secrets that secure TLS. Set environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE=/some/path/to/log/secret.keys

3. Packet capture the session you're interested in

4. Give Wireshark the packet capture (if not captured inside Wireshark itself) and the secret.keys

5. Now Wireshark can show the TLS session and you can see what went wrong in detail. So long as you didn't actually do anything secret you can give all these pieces to somebody else to look at.

6. Otherwise, after your investigation destroy the secret.keys and optionally the packet capture itself.

I've used this level of effort to show a customer that, contrary to what they believed they were not presenting the nice client certificate I'd issued them when connecting. It turned out to be a config difference between their staging and production systems or something. But they were absolutely insistent their software was being turned away despite using a client cert (we used mutual TLS) so it took posting a Wireshark capture proving otherwise to get them to actually investigate.
Interested in knowing who considers the UK a superpower in 1980s, never mind in 2020s... Argentina is a regional power.

That a population of a tiny island much closer to a single country than to any other landmass nearby would prefer to stay effectively isolated and dependent on a "foreign" power, says for to the appeal of being part of Argentina than to whatever deal the UK has been offering to the Islanders.

Nothing like HK at all where majority of population actually doesn't mind (accepts) mainland rule
The fact that the underground scene is still pumping 264 instead of 265 (I'd estimate 90/10 split optimistically) tells me the real world is not quite ready for 266.

So I guess it comes down to 266 hw support. Or powerful CPUs that can push sw decoding?