skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there we land on the real reason for this: privatizing the TVA. The US jobs thing is just an excuse to take control.

Edit: for the downvoters -- a citation to back up my assertion: https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/president-tru...
Why shouldn't the government hold itself to a higher standard?

That sounds like a pretty reasonable thing to do, to selectively enforce higher standards on government organizations.
I wonder, do any non-tech centric employers look here? I’m interested in research positions and have a PhD in informatics and do mainly metadata, knowledge organization, linked data work. I do have some programming abilities but are most of the hirings aimed at full stack engineers at al. or are there any more esoteric opportunities?
It's always interesting when unsavoury politics is mixed with the difficult realities of such programs.

The neoliberal benefits of H1's make sense, but the context has to be clear.

I think it would also make sense if at least public agencies should be required to employ Americans, because the H1 program is not supposed to be for the purposes of 'saving money' and it's hard to fathom what kind of 'highly specialised expertise' is needed in governmental IT operations. Perhaps on a consultative basis.

If there are legit R&D needs, i.e. if they were designing new chips for NASA or whatever, fair enough ... but most of this is pretty squarely in the domain of 'off the shelf' IT work. Again - even then the benefits are possibly positive 'on the whole' for the economy, if not for the workers who otherwise did not get a job ... but it's public money ... I think it makes sense to hire locally and I don't think for a second Americans would have a problem with that.

Of all the things everyone likes to argue about (i.e. taxes, unemployment benefits) - I suggest there would be at least some easy consensus here.
> Most big HVAC systems have this ability.

This is patently untrue.
I’m probably missing sufficient context but this quote suggests a more involved route
[0]

DEC approached Apple wondering if they might be interested in a high-performance ARM, to which the Apple engineers replied "Phhht, yeah. You can’t do it, but, yeah, if you could we'd use it."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
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Reviewing https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/ and https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case... I don't see evidence for the thesis of the article.
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Well, if and when a new administration comes in, they can announce the new policy and then you have to abide by it. The new administration ought not to be able to punish you for the old policy.

My whole argument is premised on what ought to be. I don't disagree with you on what the case may actually be.
I don't want to represent anyone but I personally think the fear is a bit over exaggerated. Ordinary people in general don't have such fear. You really have to get the attention of the very top and pissing people off big time. It's mostly having nothing to do with democratic movements. See example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Lijun_incident. And people in general enjoying discussing these issues and will understand all the subtext.
Article quotes the Spotify CEO, not the Netflix CEO.
> I am not convinced that design software specifically actually empowers engineers to be any faster at designing new and novel engineering

I don't adhere to a luddite attitude. It's my opinion Autodesk's tools are deeply lacking and this is based on my experience and knowledge on software.

When I first starting learning AutoCAD, I was very annoyed at the slow snail pace to designing things (as to pen/paper). I used to be a web designer/developer for a handful of years, those tools are much more refined and allow a person to do more with less time.

Revit is a step in the right direction for the building industry but it has many drawbacks too. I strongly believe this is due to lack of competition and innovation on Autodesk's part. Adobe should be seen as the model. They've developed many tools that empower it's users and they continue to push the envelop forward.

Autodesk will be unseated, if they don't continue to push their tools forward like Adobe has with many of it's products. The software isn't terribly hard, just needs a lot of investment upfront for a MVP competitor that chips away the market, then reinvest back into improving the tools with AI/DL/ML. I.e. One agency may use specifically a specific contractor, the AI recognizes revisions and highlights them to the architect. Or using specific materials. Etc. Etc.

Construction industry is stuck in the 1940s, IMHO. Hopefully a competitor arises to bring it into the 21st century.
Version 1.5 is an awesome release with some really nice stuff. That said, I can't help but feel frustrated by all the attention and effort being poured into compiler latency. I get that some people value it very highly, but to me it just seems silly to put so much effort towards this big group of whiners who find it unacceptable to wait __ seconds for the compiler to run before their first plot is produced (especially when PackageCompiler.jl exists!). To me, the important thing about julia is runtime performance. I'd gladly pay hefty compile times to have even minuscule runtime improvements.

To be clear, I'm not saying the Julia devs have been ignoring runtime performance, far from it, but I just sometimes feel the need to chime in like this because I often feel the compiler latency complainers are disproportionately squeaky wheels, so I'd hate to see that cause the devs to over-correct.
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You're query's not applicable:

> Trump said the authority was replacing many of its in-house technology workers with contractors who rely heavily on foreign workers under the H1-B visa program for highly skilled workers.

You have to search for whoever those contractors are... which I don't know.
What level and experience of Applications Engineer are you looking for? Also, I'm not seeing a position pop up on the careers page for that role.
"Why does anyone need to know" is a restrictive premise.

In my experience, what follows it are less rights, less ability, greater compliance & increased malleability (eg: susceptibility to "election meddling").
It's certainly possible to see it this way. However, I'd like to argue that there is a certain kind of value to what you consider a problem as well. Quoting Bjarne from the article:

> “But besides adding object orientation to C, he also remembered his earliest design goals for C++. “I wanted very great freedom of expression, very great generality. [...]”

I can only speak from my own experience here, so it's anecdotal, but the main reason I love using C++ is precisely this "great freedom of expression", which is most likely, but at least in part, a direct consequence of the fact that it "tries to be everything to everyone". When writing C++, my mind often wanders and comes up with code and designs that would either be actively discouraged in the majority of other (opinionated) programming languages, or straight up impossible to implement. It's a great and highly valuable (possibly creative) experience that I haven't, to this extent, experienced in any of the other (numerous) languages I've been using. I also feel it makes me a better software engineer as a whole, even when I'm not working with C++ (which is actually most of the time). Beyond that, I also feel it's one of the reasons why C++ is so successful.

Obviously it also leads to the fragmentation you described, and it's perfectly valid to criticize, but I wish people would, more often, at least acknowledge that this kind of programming language is still valuable in certain ways and situations.

Yes, if you are mainly focused on getting a job done with minimum friction (and maybe maximum speed), there is a high chance that there is a language better suited for the task than C++ in today's age. That does not make C++ obsolete, quite the opposite in my opinion. I believe the fact that C++ isn't as opinionated or streamlined as other languages shouldn't be considered an "issue" or a "problem", but a feature.
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Funny because the whistleblower Witness K might disagree with you there (No name because his trials are conducted in secret and he's had his passport removed to prevent him testifying at the Hague upon their request)
It doesn't make any sense to 'control your own thoughts'. It's weird how people seem to picture their 'real self' as some disparate nonphysical entity in their body pulling levers, in this case even separate from the brain and thoughts
H1-B is only for jobs where there are no qualified Americans to fill the job, for example, a PhD + post-doc physicist in condensed matter physics who has a masters in CS.
who is going to do, and who is going to pay for, the actual reporting on which the smart but frequently bloviating sort of writers that you cite rely?
This is fair. What's happening here is purely political, but it would seem reasonable to apply such rules consistently.
The incessant use of wipes and sanitizers is basically "Hygiene Theatre" [1].

> In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines to clarify that while COVID-19 spreads easily among speakers and sneezers in close encounters, touching a surface “isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads.” Other scientists have reached a more forceful conclusion. “Surface transmission of COVID-19 is not justified at all by the science,” Emanuel Goldman, a microbiology professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, told me.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy...
I would think they are going to go after the contractors as well. Criminal charges take more time. For example:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/26/h-1b-prison-for-visa-...
thanks, looks like I didn't look hard enough ... https://juliacomputing.com/industries/
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No wonder all the smaller AEC software firms out there are pushing OpenBIM very hard. If you think you need to convert an Archicad .pln into a Revit .rvt you're doing it wrong and essentially playing into the hands of Autodesk.

We really need to stop with all that siloing going on. OpenBIM with IFC and BCF are the only way of going forward.

Revit is a mediocre product in all categories, but that's the thing: People are using Revit since it somehow can do all the stuff a bit. Architects love Archicad because it's a software tailored to their needs and far superior to Revit in that domain, but if you're a consultant doing e.g. MEP work you will be probably not so happy. You still won't be while using Revit, but since "everybody" is using it at least you won't have to deal with OpenBIM and correct file workflows.

Source: I'm an architect myself.
with PackageCompiler.jl, you can do this within 100 ms
It's okay to hire illegals though, so you don't have that pesky H1B paperwork. Trump properties are doing this now, not a decade ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/undocumented-housekeep...

__ edit__ if someone's downvoting, maybe they could come out and indicate if (a) you can't detect sarcasm, (b) you approve of hiring illegals, or (c) you think Trump should be allowed to break the law while grandstanding on an old H1 question?
Wow, thank you! The pipeline output is still a bit bad contrast but it's so much better.
Agreed. This administration doesn't care about US workers, but it does care about their personal profit.
It seems like this is a government owned corporation, so most private sector CEOs don't need to worry about this.

If you're a CEO of a government owned corporation, it seems like it has become a good idea to go out of your way to either a) hire local workers, or b) make sure you have a paper trail to prove you really needed those contractors for a reason other than cost savings.
The case studies section[1] highlights some industry players using Julia in precision instances, such as the New York Fed, Pfizer, Astrazenca, Aviva, Lincoln Labs, NASA, Cisco, IBM, etc.

[1] https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/
Yeah, I'm not trying to say that everyone shouldn't wear an N95, but from a pragmatic standpoint they won't. People will barely wear one today that is made out of a t-shirt and barely fits. I just think we'd get better results meeting people halfway.
"dogwhistle for a particular sort of nationalist authoritarianism"

No such dogwhistle signal was intended here, at all. "Western values" was meant as shorthand for democracy and democratic ideals. Related tangent: it bothers me that the far right attempts to conflate patriotism with nationalism.
The point is not to advocate for both sides, but just to tell the part of the story that both sides use to conjure their slants.
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This is great! Giving non-coders a clean way to interact with engineers using Github is really useful.
Reading charitably, I don't believe that it's what you meant. But with disturbing frequency, I do see similar words uttered and written with fairly clear cynical intent.
I don't think their website even uses their own font. It looks like Comic Sans or something, not like the example on https://www.opendyslexic.org/about
The Californian analogy is that we let the brush grow and grow so by the time someone accidentally started a fire, it became a conflagration instead of a regular small fire.
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Here's an open-source attempt at something similar:

https://github.com/ryxcommar/fullstackexcel
Expensive watches are comparable, but really, most luxury goods. Anything unnecessary and scarce and/or labour intensive.
Yes, somehow in this discussion iOS and their custom chips have been forgotten about. As if Apple discovered ARM last week.
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In the industrial world, sure. In Iran? I really doubt it. And even given good morgue and hospital reporting, there are confounding factors: we're dying more to covid but less to other causes due to the lockdowns. Or alternatively some conditions are harder to get treatment for and less likely to be well-diagnosed, etc...

I think I stand by "years" until we have a good consensus model for how the pandemic spread and what the effects were.
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This will cost you the taxes, so up to you if it's worth it.
As noted in the rewritten scope docs at https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/variables-and-scopin...:

> An important property of this design is that any code that executes in a file without a warning will behave the same way in a fresh REPL. And on the flip side, if you take a REPL session and save it to file, if it behaves differently than it did in the REPL, then you will get a warning.

So there's no real danger of deviating behavior unless you're in the habit of ignoring warnings.

As to why bringing back 0.x scope rules is not a good idea, this post explains why it was changed in the first place: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/explain-scoping-confusion-.... In short, for non-toy programs, it's a significant source of hard-to-find bugs.

Also: changing this behavior in non-interactive contexts would violate the semantic versioning compatibility commitment of 1.x releases. Of course, 1.5 does sometimes introduce a warning in existing code, but (a) it will keep working the same way it did only with a warning and (b) this only happens if you had a global implicitly shadowed by a local, in which case there's a large chance your code was actually broken.

Give it a try. A lot of time and thought was put into this change and we believe the new design is pretty much locally optimal. It preserves the safety of the 1.0 behavior for non-interactive programming while recovering the convenience of the 0.x behavior in the REPL.
This might be helpful: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211227

> To reduce this privacy risk, iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7 include a feature that periodically changes the MAC address your device uses with each Wi-Fi network. This randomized MAC address is your device's private Wi-Fi address for that network—until the next time it joins with a different address.

iOS 14 is in beta, but has been pretty solid for me. https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/
And still no proper dependency versioning, it seems that the progress made by Npm, RubyGems, Cargo is entirely lost on them.
This, along with https://nutrimatic.org, gets used a lot during puzzlehunts. Very neat tool.
Have you looked at DataGrip from JetBrains or RoboMongo?

I have used both of those as DB tools. Currently I have no Mongo databases and only use DataGrip, but I understand it supports Mongo pretty well and it is a decent tool. DataGrip isn't free but does have a free trial. Also, I believe there are a couple of different plug-ins for Visual Studio code that work with Mongo, but I don't use it so can't say how well etc.

* edit, sorry, just realized you said in browser, none of my suggestions are in-browser.
How much on boarding did you have to do manually? Have you found a way to scale this?
>> Hashing client-side doesn't help with that. The password already couldn't be correlated in dumps, because it was salted server-side.

> Yet it does help, because if your server is exploited, the attacker can potentially read the plaintext/cleartext passwords as they're received from the client.

I can't tell if you're agreeing with me and claiming that the client-side hash is valuable for reasons pests didn't mention ("yet it does help"), or disagreeing with me and claiming that the client-side hash is valuable for the reasons pests states. ("yes it does help").

But you have commented elsewhere that you believe pests is correct ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24027030 ), so I'll note here that reading the password the user typed, straight off a compromised TLS connection, has nothing to do with correlating dumped password hashes. If you can see the user's password, you don't need to learn that password by matching its hash up against the hash of someone else whose password you already know. (And you can't hash the password you read to compare with other hashes stored in the database, because those other hashes are salted.) With the server-side hash already blocking this attack, the client-side hash is adding absolutely nothing.
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