skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H1B is screwing generations of US tech workers, and dampening STEM initiatives which is really going to hurt the economy later when we need skilled labor and innovation at another scale.

We need to hire and train US. Anyone can learn the skills, why are we rewarding education in other countries? Why are we drowning a hot job market and neutering the innovation industry?
Goodbye blue sky!
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From the outside, big organisations have massive resources and access to experts. But inside there is intense competition for those resources and people. The people are expensive and there are many opportunities so you need to justify spending their time, especially in the FAANG impact ecosystems. Despite this pressure people may misallocate their time and it can look weird if you don't hear the justifications but they are really trying hard to spend time on the right things, and they do feel constrained - there are so many rapidly growing areas that need investment, there's actually always a shortage if you think about what could be done.

Using a library versus building internally is a tough trade-off and can have long term consequences. I think everybody is comfortable with the downsides of building. But we sometimes forget the costs of dependencies. My framework is that introducing a new concept whether written internally or through a dependency has a cost. Each class hierarchy, external tool, build system, etc. has a cost and we must weigh this cost against the benefits. Dependency sprawl is expensive especially in languages like Python or JS where libraries break backward compatibility on a frequent basis. I like that Rachel is bringing up the longterm cost of dependencies, they can often be more expensive than just writing a simple function or HTTP call without supporting libraries. Building may be cheaper.

Some people just hate managing systems they can't fix. Other people enjoy the challenge of reverse engineering complex systems and squeezing the best out of them. It is only reasonable to ask for the job expectations to be explained upfront. Rachel's post about onboarding https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/22/boarded/ goes into this idea in more depth. There's so many differences even in Silicon Valley. Companies should share more honestly what the day to day will be and their appetite for building. This would restrict recruiting funnels upfront but make people happier.

The problem is that inside a company there are many perspectives. The representatives of the build faction may achieve a temporary ascendancy and will obviously try to hire then and paint a rosy picture, but then the buy faction will see the hires and become highly incentivised to point out the lack of immediate results and trammel scope, causing the conflict Rachel is writing about.
My YC-Alum cofounder and I just launched Smiiles.com to provide the highest quality masks to the homeless.

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A bit ironic to see Spaniards afraid their natural resource are stolen from them and be made available on the South American market. I mean, it's not like they did the same with Avocado, tomato and so on and so forth. Not to mention all the gold from South America.

That being said, today's Spanish farmers are not responsible for their ancestors deeds. However, true "Pata Negra" ham is actually so expensive, I don't think people who used to buy the real thing will buy the cheap American alternative instead as it doesn't have the Omega-9, taste and status. Only people who randomly bought super expensive Pata Negra and now decide to get the cheap alternative could affect their revenue, no idea how much this would make up.
It looks interesting - but...

The first thing i did was hit the search button to see if the site could help with my own projects - being asked to login when I tried was pretty jarring.

If I ran across this in the wild, that behavior would probably be enough to leave without bookmarking.
Okay. There's also a download manager called xdm. Wasn't a typo..
https://subhra74.github.io/xdm/
It does not. In general, visa holders can't be sure they'll get one until it's in their hand.
Oof:

"Unsupported features:

Stored procedures and functions

Triggers

Events

User-defined functions

FOREIGN KEY constraints #1820..."

https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/mysql-compatibility
> It is very much NOT limited to public figures and is pervasive in large companies.

That is not cancel culture. That is something else. Cancel culture, by definition, requires something that can be cancelled. Equivocating the two issues is an attempt to make public figures, organisations, etc less accountable.
Good. They're all worthless, all of the ones I've seen lie and cheat on their resume, code crap code, and just do the needful. Fix India before you try to "fix" the USA.
Vanity can be fatal
"put the name in whatever product that barely resembles the original, like they did with their “manchego” cheese"

Or with cheddar cheese!
How awful is that substance they mark with the word cheddar and sell in stores in the states! Argh!
On windows, yes. Linux, no.
Can't you buy and import from Spain? Or there may be little stores with stock in cities.
speaking more maliciously about unicode, I know that there are ways to attack the domain names, for example replacing the o in Google with a cyrillic o or some other character that looks like o for the purposes of phishing.
it's more of a classification than a product, and the location is part of the definition. similarly, whiskey cannot be sold as "bourbon" if it is not from US or "scotch" unless it is actually from scotland.
So would anyone care to explain how vimperiator style customization is possible with webextensions? Newer Firefox explicitly does not support that level of customization.
I think you mean Datastore, not Bigtable?
The amount of hatred towards America in this circle is astonishing, and the schadenfreude just feels like a drug. I honestly don't understand, I keep trying to imagine how it would feel if people were like that towards my country.
This is exciting for all the learners!

On a different note, recently I was looking to learn AWS concepts through online courses. After so much of research I finally found this e-book on Gumroad which is written by Daniel Vassallo who has worked in AWS team for 10+ years. I found this e-book very helpful as a beginner.

This book covers most of the topics that you need to learn to get started:

If someone is interested, here is the link :)

https://gumroad.com/a/238777459/MsVlG
I read the quote a bit more charitably than you. FTA:

> This all felt quite abrupt and hostile, and I’m still not sure what to make of it.

That’s not an unreasonable feeling to have, and I also don’t think such a statement is in and of itself offensive to RC, especially recognizing the guy quit his job in a pandemic to do this thing, and was kicked out for missing an intro meeting.
really riking rhe rocker.
I'd suggest that successful monetization strategy has already been accomplished at w3schools. Is it pretty? No. How about Stackoverflow? Prettier and that seems to work ok too.

Looks like MDN was on mediawiki at some point. It worked fine then too.

Who pays for Wikipedia?
Who pays for NPR?
People do use fundraisers from time to time.

Where are all the Universities in this? Should they have a roll in any of this? Seems like all the Ivy League places could donate? Maybe they already do.

I suggest that if the management team at Mozilla were actually good at their jobs maybe MDN would already me profitable. I'd also suggest that it's in browser manufacturer's interest to provide documentation. If MDN disappears something will fill that void. Maybe it's time for a change.

If all else fails, just slap everything into a man page.
Quantum was just one of the milestones, albeit an important one. Servo continues to develop and pass on many more features to Firefox. Shutting it down is basically shutting the major pipeline of progress that has gotten so many of us excited over Mozilla in the past several years. The decision does not augur well for Firefox and Mozilla.
> A bit ironic to see Spaniards afraid their natural resource are stolen from them and be made available on the South American market. I mean, it's not like they did the same with Avocado, tomato and so on and so forth. Not to mention all the gold from South America.

This is not twitter, leave your 500 years old hatchet by the door.
> The ones you specifically want to target have all kinds of ways to evade inheritance taxes.

Like moving to a better state.
I presume there are legal safeguards, but what would prevent ByteDance from #yolo and turn the entire platform into an overt anti-Trump/Republican advertising network for the next 90 days? I mean, what's the gov't going to do---shut them down?

I just remember in NYC when Uber added a "De Blasio" (the mayor, who was in the pocket of the local taxi cabal) mode (in addition to Economy, XL, etc.) that had higher prices and longer wait times.

EDIT: In fact, they probably won't even need to be explicitly anti-Trump. They can just turn the entire app into a get-out-the-vote campaign aimed at a young, mostly already anti-Trump user base.
I think tools are great. I don't get into it in the article, but with both tools and humans you can in fact makes sense of complicated structures even if there are dozens of attributes per object, but the thing is it's hard, and that work is throw-away.

If you spend three weeks studying a complex piece of code until it makes sense to you, unless you modify the code with your newfound understanding, the next person has to climb up that same ladder.

So even if the tools are great, I think in maybe cases it's go to push that understanding back into the artifact, so the artifact improves. A counter-example might be legacy software where it's just too risky to make anythings. Then maybe you just push your understanding into really good documentation, or a 2nd parallel implementation.
If you meant akin to Japan, Australia. No.
I think that this is misguided. If a malicious installer sneaks in toolbars it can also install a keylogger/send all of your data to a server/install a firefox fork with the toolbar preinstalled/etc.

If anything this kind of thing only hurts the users that know what they are doing (such as someone wanting to install a 3rd party addon or someone wanting to install addons via nix).
If you work in Silicon Valley you will make friends that will pull you from company to company. All of the companies I worked for in my career (except 1) I got a call from a friend.

The one exception was they knew about me even though I didn't know about them. Halfway through one of my interviews I realized that I knew the interviewer by reputation.
That's so heartening to hear! I had friends from Assam who were similarly disappointed by the broadband coverage there, and had planned doing something about it, but the problem was too hard to solve unless you had deep pockets. It's great to see Government doing it instead of leaving it up to private operators.

Additionally, the recent announcement of laying Fiber cables to the Andaman and Nicobar islands is another good thing - I don't remember anybody talking any policy related points about the remote islands ever. Note: Andaman is far from Indian mainland (1200km) - about as far as New York is from Georgia, and it's closer to Myanmar (100km). It has a paltry population of only 300,000, spread across scores of islands.
William Taysom has did this strangeloop talk that I thought had nuggets here and there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voG5-15aDu4
It shouldn't, I was talking about addons.
Your comparison has nothing to do with the subject at hand. The problem is a country allowing the counterfeit production of an inferior product that will both impact sales and undermine the brand, very much like shitty “Parmesan” does to Italian Parmigiano. Ironically the USA has a hard on for intellectual property protection but seems to be very casual about this type of IP crime.
I mean...maybe...so long as the critical software is sufficiently isolated from anything not appropriately vetted. If the untrusted software shares _any_ hardware with your critical system you're setting yourself up for a bad time.
You can't generalize Soviet Russia this way, without quantifying the particular decade of the country's 74-year existence.

Prior to, and during the second world war, Russians worked like slaves, yes.

But starting in the 60s, the urban workweek became 41 hours over 6 days. [1] Kolhoz farmers, though, continued to work insane hours (for almost no pay) throughout the country's existence. (And much like in China, they could not leave the Kolhoz to go work in the cities.)

[1] Yes, some employers had really shitty overtime expectations. However, depending on other economic conditions, those employers could have also have a hard time attracting and retaining workers. Contrary to the popular belief in the West, you weren't just assigned a job at 16 that you had to work for the rest of your life.
They're also asking "hey, go without a job/just find some income for another 6 weeks" (and if they instead were taking a "sabbatical" or time off, shifting that for 6 weeks might also not be easy with their employer). Requiring to delay is a pretty tall order for a full-time program that's running 6-12 weeks (so not something easily fit in holidays etc), and pretty likely instead throwing them out completely.
Why is it uncertain? They'll get acquired or wind things down. They've had a good run.
I'm not a programmer, so I don't know anything about RC. I just find this whole situation and blog post odd.

How is the job market for programmers right now?
You seem to use "character" and "codepoint" interchangeably, but its important to note that you are not saving on bytes.

You mention this can be used to avoid filters, so I guess this is specifically to trick "string".length?
Soon they will be calling Christmas songs racist.
I'm very aware of MIMO and the other physical layer technologies. But the original topic was about how wireless could somehow progress faster in these metrics than physical mediums. Mediums like fiber have progress much more in the last decade by adding more wavelengths and different modulation technologies compared to space technologies. SpaceX is only using MIMO in the sense that they have a phased array antenna, but that's not the same as your typical wireless router at home with multiple antennas. The other issue is space is severely power limited, so they are not going to get really high modulation schemes that fiber or cable have enjoyed (256+QAM) for many years.
I don’t think so either, but it does breed confidence when there is a large organization backing a project
The unstated thesis of the article seems to be that Mozilla lacks a killer app.

So what are possible killer apps, given their history building user-facing internet infrastructure?

(I love FF and never touch Chrome except for testing, but <10% market share is not killer.)
Why I'm Launching the Magnet
I am surprised to see Canada there. Jobs in tech in Canada pay lte half of the comps in US.

Between SK and China, SK's per capita income is not far off from US but China's is. I am surprised China is able to compete better than US purely on financial might.
Life expectancy for blue collar, or white collar workers?
Under a Slashdot style system the "closed-duplicate" questions would be downgraded for those users who choose; you might like dupes and so you could choose to boost dupes for yourself.

The community provides a default position (duplicates closed), provides the information ('this is duplicate'), but under a Slashdot style system you can choose that content that others 'hide'.
Just to add some color to my comment: https://mobile.twitter.com/Megaconstellati/status/1294628802...

So SpaceX only has 2 PoP locations, and it happens to be the areas where they are doing trials. As soon as the ground system needs to backhaul the signal over long fiber distances, things change quite a bit.
Hi devonkim,

Thanks for checking out Isoflow, I'd love to know more about how you use diagrams in your work. The intention is to take Isoflow in the direction you're describing (i.e. being able to show different processes on top of the same diagram), so would really love to get your thoughts on what you think are the most important aspects. Please reach out to me through the 'contact' tab on Isoflow if you're up for discussing further. Thanks again for the feedback.
Eh I don't mind it too much. Once everyone writes jambon iberico on it you will have a minefield of quality. In the end people who want to avoid this problem will get their stuff from controlled origins.

Although I do enjoy the hypocrisy of the US considering brand name and image is everything there. Companies and government are especially keen on being punitive against trademark abuse. Yet many people there try to piggy-back on other products' success (e.g. Parmesan and Champagne)
If you have a facebook account, you could start with the link to what is supposedly the original Chinese text, and translate it yourself...
I which case I would apologize, say it won't happen again, thank them for making the changes they said they would so it doesn't happen to someone else, and say I look forward to joining again in the next batch.

> especially recognizing the guy quit his job in a pandemic to do this thing, and was kicked out for missing an intro meeting.

Exactly, that's why I would post anything that could remotely be considered a criticism.
As the author of CBofN, I thank you for the plug. But just one little correction: Gary is my first name and William is my middle.
Please keep the guidelines[0] in mind when posting and commenting. Thanks.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ecuador. I used to live in Denmark and paid $1500 a month for substantially less space than I have now for $160 (and the bathroom in my Danish place was terrible). My whole family can live on about 300 to 400 a month here. I cannot even begin to describe how much better I feel being able to live like a semi-retired person. I don't need to worry about going in to a 9-5 anymore, can take interesting projects on as I like, and no idiotic coworkers who try to convince me that 1500 is actually a good price for a shitty little apartment in downtown Copenhagen (cause I guess someone told them it was).
T-Rex: The first sentence is a prompt for GPT-3 to write the rest of your book. :)

T-rex: But then it's a PUSHING TITLE to PATCH.

T-Rex: And you cram more of your book into the space between them, like a book loop!

Dromiceiomimus: That's... well, I guess it's a little too much.

T-rex: The space between them is called "the foamy bottom".

T-rex [[with emphasis]]: It's basically the space between the page and the ol' spindle!

Utahraptor: So what's your climax?

T-rex: That yo know, I mean

T-rex: But you don't say "that yo know where to look for inspiration". You just say, "That yo know a place where I can start."

Utahraptor: It's the place where you can start a sustained conversation about what idea would be an excuse to tear this friggin' book off into the corner of the room!

T-rex: You can? Let yo start!

{{title text: I could have a place where I can START the conversation and tell yo I think the guy should pull the trigger!}}
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Thanks for the very well-put advice. At what stage of a company do you recommend getting coaches such as yourself? Do you coach early-stage CTOs as well?
Not really, it's entirely possible for an EULA to have unenforceable terms, i.e. where they contradict applicable law. Not a good practice! But also not that uncommon.
Stop the FUD. Facts or please go away. This isn't Reddit.
The difference is that we actively take measures to defeat squirrels from impacting infrastructure.

Social media information warfare is happening and is novel. Institutions don’t have a good process do deal with it.
“... [your opinion doesn’t matter because you’re] a white man”

Give me a break. You don’t know who I am or where I come from or what my family is. And what a ridiculous, low, way to argue.
Ghost once messed up my site, and they promptly gave me a refund when I closed my account, which was nice.

My 404 is still holding a grudge, though :-P

https://juanuys.com/404
Their skill is attracting and utilizing the best Factorio players, not being any good at Factorio itself.
You can sprinkle into my comment stream. It's already generated mock confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23980312

(The thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006393 shows that GPT-3 can already pass my screening turing hurdle, one which many actual people arguing on the internet fail.)

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stolen from https://arachnoid.com/jokes/index.html :

Two academics, Albert and Bill, are sitting in a bar waiting for their friend Charlie.

Albert: "Charlie thinks women don't know any math, he might be right, but I want to play a trick." Albert calls the waitress over.

Albert: "Delia, my friend Charlie is going to arrive in a bit, and I want to play a trick. When he arrives, I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to answer, 'X cubed divided by three.' Can you remember that?"

Delia: "Sure, no problem, I can remember that."

Charlie arrives and Albert raises his favorite topic.

Albert: "I think you're wrong, I think women can learn math. Just as a test, let's ask the waitress a math question." Albert calls Delia over.

Albert: "What's the integral of x squared, derived with respect to x?"

Delia: "Umm, that would be ... x cubed divided by three"

Delia: "... plus a constant."
While I recognize what you're saying here wrt types of programmers and what they're likely to get into, I am not convinced that this doesn't have more to do with relative popularities of terms + the tendency for people who are "into" a subject to explore the subject / be open to explorations of different ways of thinking about the subject.

neither fp or oop are well defined terms in actual usage, more of smears of approaches really. moods almost. We have an awful lot of this sort of thing and often a term will get smeared out into a kind of emotional suggestion + some things that help you avoid types of bugs or accomplish a specific sort of goal.

I don't like this much but for a lot of situations it just means you have to understand things well enough to talk about them without using their name or take the time to establish contexts of meaning w/whoever you are talking to, both of which are good things to have in programmers in general.

That is to say: I think you are correct they have passed through a filter, particularly if they came from an oop background, but I suspect that filter isn't much related to fp vs oop principles as a matter of comparison

edit: just noticed you're the author of the article. here's a thought: the reason you want to avoid mutability can be framed in terms of it causing the number of things you have to hold in your head to very quickly exceed nine, often in ways you may not be aware of unless you have pretty comprehensive knowledge about the runtime characteristics of your entire system's stack.
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1294653961211752448

> Friends, at the request of the original author, I have deleted the thread entitled "What's going on with Intel?" He was not comfortable with the attention it is getting.
I highly recommend using a USB mouse if playing on a laptop.