skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you have high unemployment at the moment?

The right solution would be, to require high wages for H1B visas - if you're hiring a developer, the minimum wage for the H1B worker should be (eg.) 1.5x average developer wage in that area/state. This would solve companies firing local workers and replacing then with H1B workers, and still solve the problem of a company 'really needing' that one worker.
One of the greats, that completely re-defined guitar, and spawned a new class of guitar players, as well as gear.

I remember having played guitar for probably a year, when a friend of mine (who had been playing for the same time) threw on Van Halen 1 on a cassette, and we listened to Eruption. It sounded out of this world, like nothing else I had heard.

After listening to Eddie play guitar (on/off) for decades, I've come to love his dynamics and touch, as well as his rhythm playing. He mastered the the technique of blending lead and rhythm into one, in a tight yet loose-feeling way.

There are, and have been, many much more advanced guitar players since Eddie started - but few are as fun to listen to as Eddie, and most of them (in hard-rock and metal) stand on the shoulders of greats like Eddie, either through his playing and style, or gear used. He made 80's superstrats what they are today, he made hot-rodded/modified Marshalls what the are today, hell, he even made the Peavey 5150 what it is today - which in turn spawned a whole slew of metal amps.

It's been a tough year so far, as far as my heroes dying goes. I've been lucky enough to not have lost too many idols in the past, but with the passing of Neil Peart and Eddie - two of my top 5 musicians and music idols of all time, it's been a real blow.

It's been no secret that Eddie has suffered from cancer for years now, but still, you kind of forget about that, until the day comes.
There is a privacy problem there. If I can export my social graph from Facebook, that isn't just information about me -- if you are my friend, then my graph also contains information about you (specifically, that you are my friend).

If enough of your other friends export their social graphs too, then it wouldn't be too hard to reconstruct yours, even though you never exported it yourself or intended to share that information with other social networks.
Demand for housing in Canada has in part been driven by foreign non-residents real estate speculators who are looking to park their money in Canada, and other places. New Zealand banned all non-resident foreigners from buying property there [1,2].

I would assume that if a population remains stable as a result of migration, that as many people are leaving houses as entering them, and there shouldn't be substantial pressure on housing prices. I don't have specific data for this.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/vancouver-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45199034
Levels.fyi supports what I said. Amazon, Facebook, and Google have L6 as the second level of management. (Facebook sometimes uses the "L" indicator, and M1 is L6). There is no company where "L6" means upper management.

> Historically, the org levels pull from military enlisted/officer E1-7 vs O1-7 splits so actually would lean towards our definition more.

I don't think there's reason to believe this. Google, for example, doesn't have a split. Nor does Amazon. Facebook does, but it only resembles the military rankings by coincidence, since it likely took more from Google's leveling system originally (and afaik there are still leftovers from that).

To the main point, while the compensation methodologies work differently at every company, I expect that the "rising tide" effect is always present.
Manhattan's peak density was in the early 1900s. There are cities on the planet denser then NYC. The transportation networks in Asia blow the MTA out of the water. We can do it here. All we need is the political will.
This is a cancer equivalent in the society. The internet has brought us amazing things, but its starting to show its downsides as well. I've said this before - that before the Internet, we had to rally up support locally and physically in person. If we sound too crazy, it will not take off. The internet allows for small voices to reverberate and pick off individuals that resonate, enough momentum is built up through this and then it is unstoppable.

I am a life long believer of free speech and free press. We need better ways to deal with these fringe theories and how they propel through society like cancer while still maintaining reasonable level of freedom of speech. At this point, QAnon is clearly unsubstantiated by any stretch of logic, reasoning and data. It needs to be killed hard with a strong dose of radiation.

Don't feed the cancer. I am terrified of what else is brewing on the internet today.
It looks like you're assuming there's no salary elasticity in the job market, which is probably not accurate.
There are always trained nurses that maybe decided to retire early, considered the stress not worth the pay and switched jobs, or something else like that. Higher pay can get them back on deck.

Demand for nurses doesn't change abruptly and before importing people became a fad it was largely followed by supply.
Many of them aren’t white though. So shouldn’t matter as much right? /s
immigration is bad for the planet unless you walk.
You mean, if you wanted to constrict international immigrants you would block all immigrants from coming here. If there was no visa system, then companies would be free to hire whoever they wanted.
Well that is the original stated legislative intent, for "jobs local people can't do."

But in reality, this was never an enforced requirement. It is very common for expensive americans to be fired and replaced with a cheaper holder of an h1b.
Are lot of tiny non profit insurance companies exist generally created by companies or religious groups to run their insurance. However, in terms of the overall market share it’s under 1/3 and significantly less when you look at companies that accept anyone.
Because musicians never lie or self-aggrandise, of course ;) i bet it’s one of those things where half the people in the recording studio have a different story to tell.
$0.10/GiB bandwidth. Ouch. That's 10x what they charge for droplets exceeding their included bandwidth. Seems to follow the trend of grossly overcharging for bandwidth that most other PaaS providers do.
>There's a big assumption in "Since remote work has become acceptable". Some companies are talking about making things permanent, others are already trying to get people back in the office.

It costs companies a lot both monetarily and in time/effort to advertise job postings, get applications, schedule interviews ,hire someone new to do the same job, train them and get them set up and acclimatized until they become productive. If they can still have them working that'd be a big boon for them. Of course this won't happen for all jobs, but is likely to apply to a large fraction.

Someone making a conscious decision to hire in another country takes a lot of effort, but an existing productive employee who is already working 100% remotely for the past 6+ months asking if they could work in Canada or India till the uncertainty around the election is resolved will definitely have a good chance.
>"Under the changes, an applicant must have a college degree in the specific field in which he or she is looking to work"

For software development positions I suspect it is the dumbest requirement ever. When I used to be employed by company we've hired and brought over many people from former USSR republics. Some of the best programmers ever and not a single one had specific programming education. All were graduates of various universities.
You missed /s at the end of that sentence.
Friggin' love Vimium. I wish it was easy to install on MobileSafari and its ilk (Firefox, Chrome).
If the goal was to expand domestic labor, why don't companies just hire and train domestic labor?
As someone who worked in Architecture first, you’re way wrong about at least that profession. SWEs make a LOT more than Architects. My first job as an entry level SWE was 2x more than I ever made as an architect.
Curious, you didn't agree with the ME work that got 3 nobel peace prize nominations?
Shopify appears to have a ton of momentum and I've heard it mentioned a few times as a serious future competitor to Amazon's ecommerce business.
Density is good for the planet. The Earth's carrying capacity is multiplied with more people in dense cities.
Ask HN: Lenovo ThinkPad(Linux) or Apple MacBook Pro as a Developer Machine
I’m planning to buy a laptop and I have decided either to go with these two.
I’m very much okay using linux but the only drawback would be running softwares like photoshop (which I run occasionally) and Microsoft Suite if I end up getting lenovo thinkpad to run linux

But if i go with MacBook everything would run easily

Anyways I would love to know from you guys who have been using linux or macbook as there daily driver and what are some pros and cons of owning either of these laptops
I will never buy another CyberPower UPS
>the American is out of a job regardless

yes if the American can't find their competitive edge.
Be sure to read the last section - really deep work involved, including writing a Python parser! Here's a snippet:

"I used the built-in Python tokenizer, but built my own parser for the subset of statements (assignments, return) and operations supported by TensorSensor. There is a built-in Python parser, but it generates a different AST than I wanted; plus, filtering the built-in tree structure for just the parts I care about would be about the same amount of work as writing the parser. I built the parser using simple recursive descent, rather than adding another dependency (my friend antlr) to TensorSensor.

Next, we need to augment the AST with the values of all subexpressions so it looks like the AST from the previous section. This is a straightforward bottom-up walk of the AST calling eval() on each subexpression, saving the result in the associated node. In order to execute the various bits of the expression in the proper context after an exception, though, TensorSensor has to walk the call stack back down to the specific context that directly invoked the tensor library. The trick is not chasing the call stack too far, down into the tensor library.

Once the AST is augmented with partial values, we need to find the smallest subexpressions that evaluate to tensors for visualization purposes. That corresponds to the deepest subtrees that evaluate to tensors, which is the role of tsensor.analysis.smallest_matrix_subexpr()."

(Note: the author is also the creator of ANTLR.)
This logo is meant to be such labelling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation#/media/File...
I'm not sure how widespread use of it is though.
But his trade policies are ineffective and scattershot. Literally nothing he's done on trade has improved anyone in the US's wages, net profits, or way of life, nor has any of it set up the conditions for that to happen in the future.

It's all bullshit posturing.
I don't mind the salary part much (see below) -- it's such a hassle to bring someone in on an H-1 anyway (at least if you are scrupulous about following the rules) that that's not a big worry. I've only done it when we really couldn't find someone local.

The degree issue is short sighted though.

The salary issue will be a legitimate problem for some people though: I was on a school board for a private foreign-language school and we needed teachers fluent in their native language and familiar with the curriculum. It was already a nightmare for us when the H-1s would run out in October or December as teachers look for new jobs during the summer. Trying to meet 45% of the median for local senior, unionized teachers might be quite difficult. Still, it's a cost of doing business.
what are they going to publish, and why?
The US economy isn't the same as the state economy. For local revenue states and cities could simply tax the employer a percent of the outsourced employee's paycheck and if the problem did become federal then the federal government could do the same. Since these employees are coming from places with a lower CoL there's no reason they couldn't make up the difference in savings anyway.
Wow, knocked that one out of the park! Love the idea.

Once change I'd make: Make pressing f again hide the links. So don't use f or f* as a link anywhere.
> Industrialized farming is only so efficient because we sacrifice everything from ecological sustainability to taste to get that efficiency.

Agreed. That's a point I touched on with my comment about industrial farming being, if anything, too efficient. There's concerns about water use, fertiliser use, carbon emissions, biodiversity, monocropping. Industrial farming is about the most efficient use of resources possible (ignoring any negative externalities; if it's not priced in - like, eg, the potential harm of fertiliser runoff to marine life - it's ignored).

> They are not ecologically efficient

....well, no. That's just not true. Subject to the caveats above about exernalities (and the fix there would be better regulation, carbon taxes, etc.), industrial farming is about being efficient with everything. Yes, in many ways small scale agriculture is just as efficient; in others it's significantly less efficient. But there is no way it's more efficient. And keep in mind one of the most important ecological resources is land, and industrial farming is very land efficient. (Unused land is critical for regulating carbon, among other things. We need forests! There's a reason people get so wound up about Brazil.)

Example: Organic farming (which is, these days, generally highly industrialised, but still a step closer to what you have in mind, I imagine) yields less food per acre - or to put it another way, uses more land per unit of food. Studies have shown a 20-40% gap between organic and conventional farming in practice. Worse, they show that the carbon footprint is the same; the lower carbon intensity is fully cancelled out by the lower efficiency. (See, eg, https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/26/organic-farms-use-more-...)

> Yes, it's "inefficient" by some arbitrary measure that makes no sense now that we're past 400 PPM.

No, it's just inefficient. And it's inefficient that is more important in a high carbon world. The planet is not going to be saved by cutting down forests so we can grow food less efficiently. Even if we really, really wish it would be. You can't say "but carbon" and then push a solution that isn't any lower carbon.

If we really care about the environment, we're talking about a shift to largely vegetarian diets, with the bulk of our calories grown in dense, super efficient ways. There's X billion people, we need Y trillion calories per day, how can we achieve this with the least amount of land, water, fertiliser, carbon, and labour? That probably looks a lot like massive industrial farms in places with good climates and spare water, being shipped to places with lots of people and little land and water.
I don't approve of seamlessly replacing "people" with "Americans," and the idea that Americans should not care about whether people from elsewhere are harmed by American policies is vile.
I like to see how Prometheus ecosystem grows!
It would be great comparing Promscale features and resource efficiency to other long-term storage systems for Prometheus such as VictoriaMetrics, Cortex or M3DB.
> H1B visa-holders don't pay any social security taxes

Of course they don't... H1B visa-holders aren't white and are the reason the white man is failing to become a multi-millionare. You can hear these and more in the regular "How to blame other people for my problems" party's mail communication.

I wonder if going to the USPS and requesting no more mail from these people since it's "obscene"
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...
Must have been more than 10 years ago when utf8mb4 was added where you don't have to activate any kind of special settings.

I was using MSSQL prior to 2010 so I have no idea of MySQL unicode handling before that
Hey futhey,

The team agreed that we had some gaps that needed to be filled, you will now see new plans:

Basic $40/month 4GB RAM & 2 Shared vCPUs

Pro $75/month 4GB RAM & 1 Dedicated vCPU

We've also increased the vCPU count on the Pro $50/month plan from 1 to 2 vCPUS so it's now:

Pro $50/month 4GB RAM & 2 Shared vCPUs
Right, that was my understanding as well, but the WSJ article said the rule "narrowed" the list of degrees so I was curious if they had limited to some specific list like STEM degrees + Law + Medical or something like that
It'd just reach some equilibrium.

In your scenario, American workers will eventually just accept lower pay (we're overpaid already anyways). Why should someone hire entry/mid level engineer in Canada, if they can hire at same price the same level engineer in the same city?
I have one deck only because of mixed practice (ref: https://youtu.be/cwaWHeyK_aM). As for import, it sucks. Currently I just copy & paste them on my iPad.
Given the name, I thought this was being used on prisoners. These devices terrify me, from a security perspective, and from a physical safety perspective. Kudos to whoever is brave enough to use one I suppose.
> If that's what you wanted to achieve then you'd be best off not having any visa system. So obviously this is not what they're optimising for.

If you want to change an existing system, slice the salami thinly.

Whether they intend it or not they are optimizing for moving a lot of work overseas. They seem to think the economy is the same as in 1945. And even to get to 1945 the US imported a ton of nuclear physicists and other scientists.
> Since remote work has become acceptable and they already know the ins and outs of the job, many of these folks losing their visa will just be allowed to work remotely from India or Canada where it's trivial to get a work visa if you have a job offer.

You will not be granted a work permit to work remotely for an American company in Canada.

Canadian Immigration is actually quite strict.
FWIW health insurance and dental insurance are very different - dental insurance is always separate from health insurance and often covers very little, often nothing beyond checkups. The last time I had a plan offerred it covered up to $1200... but cost $100 a month. The cost was actually equivalent to the price of checkups. I'm not sure why this played out the way it did -- probably because it is procedure focused.
Not really a bad experience, but it's not for me.

I find it slows down the process considerably. I much prefer to have code reviews and open teammates that I can bounce ideas off of if i get stuck.
Equality of computable reals is undecidable.

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/40618/uncomputability-of-...
Yeah, the high level idea of “get H1Bs back to their original purpose” (hiring high skill employees in sectors with labour shortages in America) makes a lot of sense, and I say this as a major Trump hater. It’s a good idea. But some of the implementation details really suck, and this is a key one. It’s incredibly common for outstanding employees in technical fields to come from non-traditional backgrounds.

Screwing up details like this could be simple incompetence - the Trump administration is quite bad when it comes to putting “yes men” with little relevant experience in key decision making positions. Or it could be malice - a strongly anti-immigrant policy disguised as something less anti-immigrant. I can easily see it being either one.
> Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which makes it a dead end for anything non trivial.

That isn't exactly true, for a few reasons.

First is, the top tier public sticker price is roughly $35/GB.

Second is, at higher scales, you'll sign a contract with them that discounts your rates further.

Third is, this is presuming you're paying $ for memory alone. While that might be relevant for individual apps which need that specifically, on the whole you're paying for the ecosystem, the standardization, the PaaS. You're trading money for your time back. The product you're buying is not simply GB.
Doing it all through Canada gives them he same time zones and a just one additional legal system to deal with.
Of course and as expected. Because at Facebook, 'banning' and 'hiding' these guys will definitely change their minds, Right. Instead they will manifest their conspiracies on other underground platforms like Mastodon or Gab.

Meanwhile: https://gab.com/a/posts/104989941511561699
I remember the first time I walked into the "residence" for a major contractor's H1B visas. They were packing a dozen people in a 3 bedroom apartment in a bad area of town. You then see how they are treated by their companies at work, and it disgusts me.

This is why you can't have second-class citizens like this. They are terrified to go for help if they even know how. It's even worse for undocumented workers. At least they can quit though. H1B workers are tied to their sponsors, which has to stop.
I think you lucked out or maybe didn't pay enough attention to the seller reputation. I probably ordered three dozen items from AE, ranging from cents to 600 euros, only thing not making it was a 10 dollar cable during the peak of the Spring covid wave in Europe, when logistics was seriously disrupted. Got my money back. I suspect it was lost, as tracking showed it strolling across the Far East back and forth.

And items were not up to spec sometimes, but also got my money back or the seller sent a replacement.
> If there was no visa system, then companies would be free to hire whoever they wanted.

No. I don't know if you're not familiar with what these terms mean, but by default most people don't have permission to work in the US. That's the default situation if there were no visas.

Visas didn't create this default situation - they're the tool that allows you to get permission beyond the default of not having permission.

If you had no visa system... nobody would have the needed permission. You're thinking everyone would get default permission but that's not the case.
How can you, an american, with a family, mortgage, car payments etc., compete financially with someone from a "shithole country", who's willing to work for very little money and live on a bunk bed with 7 roommates in a two bedroom living container? (literal situation currently in my company)
Do they spend more than $5B on android though? I don't know, though I wouldn’t be especially surprised.

Edit: I made a typo and left out “wouldn’t” which reverses the sense of my comment.
For a escaping a single keypress in Vimium, you can use a mapping like

map , passNextKey

I think it's mapped to `I` by default.
If the options are declaring open season and not doing anything, you are correct that open season may be better (I say may because I do not know about feral pigs breeding patterns, etc. For example, some animals do not breed when they have a young child, so separating them from their children will have an opposite effect). But there is a third option that is better than both and that is having professionals do the eradication.
And you just cut services that customers want but aren't willing to pay for. Which will likely happen with a lot of the gig economy as-a-service things currently being subsidized.

Or stay more pedestrian. Grocery baggers in the US basically went away for a while. I assuume they came back based in part on what grocery stores had to pay for them to work.
....or outright getting replaced by those workers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...
It is my first time purchasing any type of business. In the past I've mainly invested in commercial real estate.

My thought is that it has a much quicker pay-off than pretty much any other investment. If I only manage to hold the site together for say 3 years it should have a positive ROI. Plus if I can actually grow the customer base it'll be an even bigger win.

No plans to flip it. I'd like to see it grow to rival some of the other bigger project management solutions out there.