skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't Uber/Lyft/food delivery gig-economy folks already encouraged to complete the ride (or delivery) as fast as possible?
There's no prohibition for remote work per se. The American company just needs to set up its legal presence in Canada since only Canadian companies can sponsor immigrants. That would still be a barrier to small companies so I expect the PEO (Professional Employment Organization) industry to come up with a way to make this possible at any scale. And that's before Canada changes IRCC regs to help this use case, which they could very well do.
I have images in almost every post. Diagram, schemas, stock images, gif, anything. I guess you don't?

The difference between $2 and $20 will strike when you start having pictures and with $200 the day you (accidentally) put a large image or GIF.
The three worst are: normalization of racism after 50 years of steadily decreasing racism in America, terrible COVID response responsible for 100,000+ deaths in excess of what average countries have achieved, and vast corruption that has destroyed hundreds-of-years-old norms on presidential conduct (Secret Service forced to buy rooms at Mar A Lago, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs participating in a political stunt in uniform, political campaign letter included in food boxes, etc).

The election is basically that of a homeowner deciding whether he wants the guy who is spraying a flamethrower into every corner of his house, or an empty cardboard box. If you loathe your house and want it destroyed, the flamethrower guy is who you want. Just be careful, there’s no insurance check when the house burns to the ground.
if you dont have an argument other than gut feeling and experience, just tell them. chances are they dont have anything either.
the problem is that those comments are never downvoted. they are ALWAYS upvoted.

so is it unfair to say a community that mostly upvotes plain xenophobic comments has an issue?

and it's not from now -- i've been here for a while and every single time h1b is mentioned, there are upvoted comments saying weird stuff that is never removed.
Gitlab scans its customers' source code, finds it's as fragile as you'd expect
My understanding is that Canadian residency isn't particularly strict, but Canadian citizenship is very strict. Besides, most of the companies in question (e.g. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc) already have subsidiaries operating in Canada so employment via the Canadian subsidiary is not an issue.
Old Wages

Level 1 - 17th percentile

Level 2 - 34th percentile

Level 3 - 50th percentile

Level 4 - 67th percentile

New Wages

Level 1 - 45th percentile

Level 2 - 62nd percentile

Level 3 - 78th percentile

Level 4 - 95th percentile

Source: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/oflc/pdfs/DOL-Int...
> It is only through writing down my thoughts that my argument gains clarity.

Start writing a daily journal... it is a huge help in clarifying your thinking in all aspects of your life.

Also, do a search for Lincoln & Euclid. Early in his law studies Lincoln took a break to study Euclid's Elements to learn how to reason and demonstrate an idea clearly. You probably don't need to slog through The Elements (but that would be great) so check out TheGreatCourses.com for some good basic lectures on mathematical reasoning, the older the better. I bought the Dunham lecture "Great Thinkers, Great Theorems" and it is excellent. He walks you through simple proofs such as proving the Sqrt[2] is an irrational number and much more.

NB: Don't pay list price unless you can afford it or can't wait. Most items regularly go on sale at signficantly discounted rate. I got the GT,GT lectures at a discount because I found it posted to YT and emailed them to alert them.
8-9 years ago there was a small movement to popularize Federal Register highlights on reddit. I hope it works someday. If there were a Federal Register fact of the day TikTokker, I would follow them
IIRC even as a non-permanent resident after paying into social security for 40 quarters you are eligible to collect out of it.

That doesn't make your point any less valid though.
That just means there'll be fast track CS programs pop up (They already exist - I have a friend who had a degree in hospitality management, who did an online master's program in CS in about 18 months, and she can't write a line of code today)
(Trying to think of something new to add to this discussion, not already mentioned.)

Well, one of the requirements of being a popular hard rock band of the day was to have a triumphant logo, and VH had one of the best. I even drew it once or twice in drafting class. :-)

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That wouldn't be considered backfiring if this was being done to move the US closer to an ethnostate.
There is a lot more talent out there today but I think it's the combination of the talent combined with the fame and recognition that makes the hero. Eddie was very good, as are many other folks, but he was also a guitar hero and most really good players are not. The world of "guitar heroes" got one smaller and I don't know who is filling it up going forward. It was the CEO of Fender that not long ago lamented that John Mayer (maybe one of the best contemporary guitar players around, he is very talented) doesn't sell guitars the same way as youth aren't trying to emulate him like they did some of those other guys like Van Halen. That and someone had to sort of do that stuff "first." It's going to be hard to reinvent tapping or impress the world by touching a drill to the strings again, I don't see it happening any time soon.

Maybe I'm wrong and a whole new world of of guitar techniques will be discovered running it though a DJ turntable and scratching and cutting or something. I don't know. Maybe it's also just a quality of our time, hardcore blues fans have sort of lamented the dying off of the greats for a long time.
> Companies looking to save money would hire in the foreign country regardless of the new rules.

You're going to get people who are already productive for the company moving willingly to lower expense parts of the world, while continuing to be identical in disruption to someone moving to Wisconsin.

Companies (more importantly managers) do care about hiring locally, since they have a lot of opportunities to on-board, evaluate and guide - however, once they're all baked in, the shift is less of a concern for the companies.

"Hiring in a foreign country" is different from "We save 18k/employee if they move to Canada and they want to!".
> 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.

Except when the only thing you need over the $7 hobby instance is more memory.
They already exist. I have a friend who did an online masters in CS in about 18 months, and she's not qualified to be a junior dev.
A sufficiently authoritarian regime can outlaw pretty much anything they want, if they're willing to be heavy-handed about the enforcement and make a mockery of the justice system in the process—both of which can be observed in the anti-money-laundering regulations. Enforcement won't be 100% effective, of course, and the collateral damage would be enormous. It won't have nearly as much effect on the actual "bad guys" as it will on ordinary civilians. However, nothing prevents them from passing bad laws banning encryption. Which is exactly why such disastrous policies need to be strongly opposed.
this is close to subtractive PCB manufacturing,
the palladium is 'soaked' onto the FR4 substrate
then build up with electroless copper.
seems the only difference is the filament has the
required trace of paladium embedded in the filament.

certainly easy way to make pcb's by direct write to
substrate and then additive plating up.

I didn't say it's better, but might have quick turn use.
> I don't buy that they're trying to communicate in good faith.

What would "good faith" communication look like, then?

> I remember very clearly sources like this* in 2016.

Can you elaborate on what exactly is wrong with that source?

(That isn't a pollster, too; that's a (meta?)analysis/aggregation, but that's a relatively minor nitpick)

> They need to do a better job of being humble and stop trying to pass themselves off as apolitical number crunchers just giving us the facts.

Are they themselves claiming that they are "giving us the facts", or is that how they are being represented by others?

And are you talking about actual polls, or about predictions based on said polls?
For context, this employee spoke out negatively against Hootsuite, her employer, for taking a contract with ICE that she objected to: https://twitter.com/samelaanderson/status/130891700743848345... Her Twitter thread has over 10,000 retweets.

I can respect someone taking the initiative to speak out against business choices they disagree with, but you can't openly start a social media campaign against your employer and expect to keep your job.
How is this dataset being updated considering considering the data from the iCERT system is not available real time anymore ? Are you relying on their annual disclosures ?
Department of Homeland Security Releases First Homeland Threat Assessment
World of free movement, would make anybody remotly compent move to one of the huge cities, while the rest of the world would either empty out, or fail horribly with people left over, who are unable to leave.

I lived in a country where the biggest export was the (young, competent) workforce.... I still live here, but the country doesn't exist anymore.
> those comments are never downvoted. they are ALWAYS upvoted

That's far from the case. You might be running into the notice/dislike bias, which unfortunately tends to distort perceptions and leads to false feelings of generality.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

From there it leads to painful feelings about the community, which is particularly unfortunate. I wrote about this earlier today in a different context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701584.
IMHO, new layers of rubbish regulation on top of old layers of rubbish regulation. Would be better, I think, to throw the whole thing away and start over.
Yes, exactly. That was the point that I made at the very top of this thread.
Calling ICE a law enforcement agency is a generous interpretation..
You did it in radians. Try degrees.

Edit: (Or use 0.15708 instead of 9 in your link.)
Auto correct etc have made me a slower typist, but I'm great at hitting tab. 50 roughly what you want per minute (rwywpm) is more than adequate for programming.
Couldn't employers just ultimately recategorize a job title to suit the degree?

As far as I know there is no actual audit of what the contents of the work are.
Here's a business model

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/06/nivelo-nabs-2-5m-seed-to-r...
How was this Canadian supposed to vote on American policy? She doesn't have that right. She exercised her right of free speech.
Is it that simple though? Maybe for companies that are incorporated abroad. Otherwise looks like international workers are subject to 30% withholding, unless there's some tax treaty
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/international-businesses/us-w... .
my preference is to only use rebinding if I need to rename something more than once (can happen, in with blocks), and when I do it I postfix-sigil with ! as a code annotation to remind myself to watch out when refactoring the code.

def foo(bar!) do
bar! = decorate(bar!)
bar! = some_more(bar!)
{:ok, bar!}
end
That's a problem with the colorization for all of these. It's also just not very good. Faces are all a uniform color, sky is a grey-ish blue-ish color, ground is greenish-brownish. It adds color, but, as you point out, it's just guessing, and it's not guessing very well for the most part.
All: don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That's what the More link at the bottom points to. Or click here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702393&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702393&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702393&p=4
People oh H1B are either very friendly to constant moves or are banking on a path to citizenship through it. The latter category is the vast majority, let's be honest here.
Hogs and boar are not afraid of much once they're fully grown. They have few natural predators, and animals known to prey pigs them typically only prey on piglets, as a boar can turn the tables on even the deadliest predators if they get a little lucky (black bear and cougars for example).

Your best bet for audio deterrence would be firing blank shells, and that's most effective on a sounder (herd) that's already been hunted.
This doesn't appear to be true. There are other ways for health insurance companies to increase profits.

The US Health insurance industry spends on average, 86% of premiums on healthcare costs[0], which means they can increase their profits by reducing those costs, since 80% is the floor.

12% of the left over premium gets spent on operating expenses, which leaves the industry with a 2-3% profit margin[0]. So another way of increasing profits is for the companies to become more efficient.

These figures are for the industry as a whole. Any individual company will have other avenues of increasing profit, such as growing their market share.

[0] https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/20...
> What's the abuse?

That's probably about the handful of consulting companies doing shady stuff. Not the overall program as a whole.
Converting back to string is asking for trouble.
AI Diagnostics and repair for 3D Printing
Sure there is, once you have your basic needs met, you opt-out of any further status games.
Nothing vile about it, it is how all governments around the world operate, for the benefit of their citizens.

Does the Indian government care about americans? How about the Chinese?
The other discussions have already pointed out some limitations in your interpretation (heh) of types.

I think the key difference between the annotations in Python and types in Java, or even more strongly in languages like Rust and Haskell, is how they are used in the language ecosystem. In Java and Rust, the types are cental to how programmers think in those languages. A large part of the dev cycle goes into ensuring the types are consistent. In python, these type annotations are a relatively recent addition that the community has not completely adopted yet. A lot of real-world python code will have no types, thus the (3rd party) python type checkers will fail to ensure the benefits of having strong consistent types.

And how can we then justify "types" like Object in Java or Any in Rust? Well, sometimes we do want to write code where we want to tell the compiler to stop checking types. However, these are more of an escape hatch rather than a central part of the language ecosystem. As someone else already pointed out, the Java or Rust community does not go about writing code with only Object or Any, even though they can in principle. But in python, that's what the community has been doing till now.

It goes the other way too. If the python community starts taking the type annotations seriously, it will start approaching the same usefulness as in these other static languages with good type systems. Then we can start expecting that the 3rd party library type annotations being accurate, which started this discussion in the first place.
I thought of addressing that, but figured it would be obvious from the tail end of what I quoted:

> There are more than 30 kinds, but only three or four affect people.

There aren't enough cold viruses around to allow for a 0.2% fraction.
With vim vixen, at least, f shows links, [capital] F hides them, which follows a lot of vim patterns. (esc hides them too.)
I often hear people say things like, diversity leads to conflict, but what is the actual research?
I absolutely feel like a different person. I started on it youngish in my preteen years and have spent a lot of time reflecting on the question of what being a different person means and my conclusion is basically: I like this person more, off the meds I'm quicker to anger which burns bridges and my concentration is absolute trash making me unable to pursue things I want to do. This person's life is better so I choose it over the other one.
> A more reasonable policy would be to make sure the that doesn't happen. Say by abolishing racist policing, better urban planning, better labor laws, and partly socialized job market

It’s not clear to me that these things are true. Unions and socialized job markets, for example, often exacerbate ghettoization by excluding née entrants from the labor market.

It’s hard to argue with the success story that is the US. Nearly every immigrant group in the US has seen incomes converges with the native population within a few generations. Even today, that’s happening for Hispanic immigrants.

That’s true few other places. Fourth generation Muslims in France, for example, are still often ghettoized.
> The only ones benefiting are the companies that sponsor H1B visas by suppressing wages for everyone.

... and those of us (perhaps sufficiently few) who work on H1B legally, for the visa's purpose (insufficient American expertise).
I think that was just a way of the manual showing you how to have a sound "inspired by" Van Halen, since he famously got his distortion sound not from a pedal, but from a Marshall amp that he ran at a low voltage using a variac (as an aside, the boss heavy metal was famously used by Swedish death metal bands turning all the dials up, not really a Van Halen sound).

He also used multiple pedals, such as the Echoplex, MXR phase 90 (Eruption), flanger (Unchained) and wah pedal. He later started his own signature EVH range of pedals in a partnership with MXR.
* Separated families at the border fleeing violence
* Installs government officials with conflicts of interest or intentions of undermining their goals (EPA, Post Office, Dept Education)
* Asks foreign nations to dig up dirt on his opponents
* Cosies up to authoritarians while insulting our allies (NATO anyone?)
* Undermined the free press by calling everything he doesn't like fake news regardless of its validity
* literally trying to call the next election into question so he can bring it to the supreme court by not agreeing to a peaceful transition of power and stoking fears about mail-in ballots o__0
Enjoyable read - very succinctly explained.
With a lot of these techniques, you can't just start with better source material. The frames have to be resized before going through the neural net, so that they fit its expectations.

So if you want to start from a 4k source, you have to train your network on 4k data, and that becomes a ludicrously expensive exercise quite quickly.
This isn't surprising. Reformed conservative thinker David Frum warned about this several years ago, with his most notable quote being:

"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy."[0]

Conservative opposition to democracy has already has wide, deep, roots and extends from kook candidates in blue states up to the Senate (where McConnell described attempts to increase voter turnout as a Democratic 'power grab'[1]) and the Trump circle, which has identified reducing voter turnout by disrupting absentee voting as a critical electoral strategy[2]. This problem isn't going to get any better.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/56364271-trumpocracy-t...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us/politics/election-day-...

[2] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trum...
Ok. Return it and get a different brand.

Solved.
> As an American myself, I want to see my fellow Americans getting good jobs over people from other countries.

Why?
It is considered among the most "fun" tech companies to work for in Vancouver. Its beautiful office, nap rooms, free Yoga and other exercise classes, meals, rooftop happy hours, as well as a general party culture. The lifestyle side of Hootsuite attracted young people and made them willing to take some of the lowest tech salaries in Vancouver. However, my latest litmus test on this was admittedly around two years ago: all of my friends who worked at Hootsuite have since moved onto other jobs, the core leadership has completely changed over the past couple years, and most early employees are now gone as well.
Suck shit Qanon

Its a fucking Larp to keep the mass's stupid and wrongy thinking Trump and anyone is on their side

Getting banned off Fakebook, Twatter, G00gle can be a really good thing, it will actually force a person to be exposed to different view points and new ideas
New Google/Samsonite Backpack – Jacquard
I seriously doubt that your average down-and-out Democrat think tech monopolies are a pressing issue - any more than I think the average hillbilly Republican thinks that reducing taxes on the 1% is a pressing issue ;)
The EU's Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption
"hey this government agency is doing things that are abhorrent."

"wow no way let's cancel our contract with them"

You: OhMgees it's cancel culture.

Yeah I remember when the Montgomery Bus cancel culture thing happened. It didn't actually do anything because only voting works.
The program that allows anybody to apply for residence is called Express Entry.

They offer something like 4200 positions every 2 weeks, or about 100k per year.

My understanding is that unless you're at the very top of the list (it's score based) you're likely to be waiting a long time.

Edit: For example the last drawing required you have a score of 471 or above. A 28 year old Indian person with a CS degree and 6 years of job experience who has perfect English scores would only have 441 points.
That is far too low, and far too bureaucratic and far too easy to game.

It should simply be a fixed number of visas allocated to the highest wage applicants, like an auction, end of story.