skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve used Vimium in Chrome for years and years now, I couldn’t imagine going without it. It’s such second nature I don’t even think about it.
Why It’s Better to Have a System Than a Goal (2013)
I hate to say it, but in NZ we've found our usage of sodium fluoroacetate (highly toxic to mammals) to control brushtail possums to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis, has had the side-effect of reducing what were once very high wild pig numbers - they scavenge the possum corpse, and in turn are poisoned.

Which is very unpopular with pig hunters and people who don't like 'chemicals'. And not very feasible for countries with native/endemic mammals that may scavenge a hog corpse.

But, poison works, albeit accidentally. We use a variety of other techniques to control introduced mammals - intensive trapping and poisoning in ecologically sensitive areas, judas goats[1], helicopter culling, and sometimes, just letting the free market handle it[2] - wild animal recovery is very good at keeping red deer populations at low - medium numbers... ...when the price of wild venison in Germany makes it economical. Although it has changed their behaviour - they become more daylight-averse, and quickly learn to hide from helicopters.

[1]: https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10136/judas-goat
[2]: https://www.doc.govt.nz/get-involved/apply-for-permits/busin...
given their apparent absurd capabilities (eats anything, breeds like rabbit, grows to absurd sizes) I'm not clear what stops them from overrunning any environment they exist in, including their native environments in europe?

All of the natural predators coming up from googling seem to be fairly "weak" at population control -- alligators, cats, large birds (preying on the young) -- so it seems to be the wild hog has both the traits of an apex omnivore, but also comical rates of breeding; combined with their ability to eat just about anything (including each other), it almost as if the inevitable outcome should have been complete and total domination of the world centuries ago
No, larger labor pool = higher wages, for two reasons:

1. Being able to hire more people means that local companies can grow bigger and take on more work
2. Merely having more bodies in the economy increases demand for goods in that economy

Rural American towns have extremely tight labor pools and can barely sustain minimum wage.
I think what people sense -- and this is related to the "Bayesian vs. frequentist" debate -- is that an election is not really a random event. The source of uncertainty is different.

The Card Sharks example is a genuinely random event. If you draw a random card, it will probably be higher than 5, but it could be lower.

Whereas an election is not truly random. By election day the outcome is essentially foreordained. The "randomness" that 538 is trying to model are things like uncertainty and unreliability in the polls. What is the relationship between what voters said they will do, and what they actually will do? You can make inferences based on the past, but every election is different, and the mood of the electorate is definitely unique this year. Nate Silver knows from his experience to hedge his bets, as he did in 2016.

It's much more complicated and subtle than a genuinely random event. I find it understandable that people get confused.
It's a good idea, but it misses something very important.

The last company I worked at I was one of 6 developers in the US. The rest of the developers was a team in Pakistan - 30 to 50 employees. The 6 employees were paid about the same as the 30-50 in Pakistan (combined).

So before I would support this, I would support the US making remote technical work illegal without also increasing that pay to match the equivalent pay in the US.
That's simply not true. I hit #1 a few times with content hosted on S3. Ended up paying maybe extra $2 those months. I'd be worried if I hosted any large files that came with it, but just a blog post? Barely noticeable.
Or you can just sit in a chair and stick a regular guitar in your lap, like lots of people have done.

For example, Jeff Healey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgOUzodS6E&t=2m25s

(Not trying to turn this into a competition, by the way. His style definitely seems like it was influenced by Van Halen.)
This sounds off. Both reddit and twitter have the potential for vastly more traffic than HN.

I also haven’t had the number one spot on HN (except maybe briefly), but was in 2 and 3 for long stretches and even an order of magnitude more traffic wouldn’t have been a problem.

Two orders probably would have been, but I have a hard time imagining a 100x traffic difference between the 1 spot and the 2 spot. Then again, if it was a very slow day here vs a very busy day maybe (though in my case it wasn’t a very slow day).
This is incorrect. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_certification#Difference...:

Temporary work visa: H-1B, H-1B1, or E-3

"The employer needs to demonstrate that the worker is being paid at least the prevailing wage for that region and occupation, and comparable to native workers in the firm, and that employing the worker will not adversely affect current workers. The employer does not need to demonstrate that there is no qualified native U.S. worker for the job."

Compare that to:

Employment-based visa (such as EB-2 visa, or EB-3 visa) that provides a path to permanent residency (a Green Card)

"The employer needs to demonstrate that there is no qualified U.S. worker willing to do the job at a comparable wage, and needs to have made a good-faith effort to recruit a native U.S. worker."

You only need to demonstrate an effort to recruit someone when applying for a green card.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24684861
> these are not an offer of citizenship

No one said that it was, but there is a difference between submitting for an extension X months ago and fully expecting to get it, and then the rules changing out from under you and being told "No. I understand you've been here for 10 years, but pack up all your shit and leave".

5 years ago it was technically "and leave tonight" (which I'm sure you understand is unreasonable). Luckily now there is at least a 60 day grace period to look for something else, but still.

You are being rather unsympathetic to people who find themselves in this situation.
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There's no need to speculate on "what's plausible" when it's a documented process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24703643
The first half I disagree with: if a law is passed, circumvention tools won’t help. This is what it seems like you have been arguing for up till now, and frankly not getting traction.

However, the second part (about the fait accompli) is a very important point.

You’d have to achieve widespread usage among the general population for this to be effective to be effective.
Exactly. Last year I went on a date with this person. Her family immigrated to USA when she was 2 years old. Recently for some reason her family didn't get green card. Everyone had to leave USA. Her whole family is disbanded. Parents and siblings are living in different countries. She couldn't join her cousin's wedding because according to USA immigration officials "she has too much ties with USA". Her family was law-abiding, tax-paying and highly-educated. This begs the question. At what point do we care about people who don't have backing of the poiltical outrage machine?
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Wealthy immigrants are more useful to a country than poor immigrants, unless those poor immigrants have a lot of promise which is most easily approximated by educational credentials.

The PhD taxi driver isn't a huge problem because it's voluntary on the part of the immigrant and usually those people send their kids to top universites.
> Linux is expected to work with random crap, that even its vendors have given up upon.

What prevents Linux from picking ONE touchpad to optimize for? After all, both Lenovo and Dell are now shipping certain laptop models with official Linux support.
Yes: it's just you; or at least, you're in the minority. You're from the same pool of people I last saw harassing employees over at Linode when they started matching DigitalOcean with the offering of $5/month VMs. Within just a few days, there were forum posts complaining that $5/month was still too expensive compared to the previous $10/month minimum, and that the cheapest VM should be $2/month. What you're asking for barely pays for the electricity to run a server, let alone covering even 1% of a single employee's salary (out of hundreds or thousands of employees), or the company's many other expenses.

I'm tired of people bashing on hosting providers. They provide services which take many thousands of man-hours to plan, engineer, and develop at insane scale and high availability. They only charge what are already bottom-of-the-barrel prices; yet the only thing users can do is complain about $5 or $15 a month for professional services that, by the way, none of these complainers could ever "do better/cheaper on their own" (a common–and fictitious–criticism).
After the Boston Marathon bombing, Reddit users scoured images available on the internet looking for clues. They were absolutely convinced that they had found the perpetrator. In a self-congratulatory frenzy, people began looking for more and more photos to support their theory. Everyone was energized by this apparent wisdom of the crowds, a miraculous use of technology to convert readily available information into a conclusion that (they thought) traditional law enforcement couldn't figure out. Later, it turned out they were all completely wrong and the whole thing was a disaster. Police had been operating the entire time on data that wasn't available to the public, allowing them to come to the correct conclusion.

This is how many of those online health communities operate. They collect anecdotes and combine them with morsels of information from publicly available papers to give themselves a false impression that they're on the cutting edge of research. If you search their history, they've usually been doing it for years or even decades. Their past is littered with dead ends that everyone thought was the next big thing. Meanwhile, they're all convinced that the latest pet theories or the latest supplement hold the key to unlocking the secrets to their illness.

There's a minimum amount of online reading that can help direct your own treatment, but getting caught up in the endless posting, negativity, and dead-end theories becomes counterproductive very quickly. Unfortunately, the loudest voices and most frequent posters tend to be the least qualified to be dispensing information. There's an added complication where these people start building their online identities around their illness, which can result in weird turf wars intertwining of egos with discussions.
Facebook isn't selling your data. They're selling access to you.
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Hootsuite has been the center of a bunch of controversies up here in Canada including illegally employing unpaid interns (and employing paid interns without offering relevant training). I don't understand how they've managed to keep hiring when the Vancouver market is so full of better alternatives.
The abuse is that the H1B program is supposed to be for truly distinctive skills. But the "body shops" bring people with very low skill.
Your software requirements sound like they dictate the choice.

But I don't have those requirements, and my main dev environment is Linux. I ran VM Fusion on a MBP, and I really liked that setup. The Mac was for play, the Linux VM for work, and I had everything in one box. Linux networking just worked.

But my 2015 MBP was on its last legs, the new MBPs had really bad keyboards (butterfly switches, touchbar), and they are really expensive.

I got a System76 Darter running Pop OS, and I'm very happy with the combination. The hardware is decent, much cheaper, and Pop OS is extremely stable and pretty. (At the time, the MBP didn't even go to 32GB, but that's been fixed.)

Maybe get a Linux ThinkPad and run photoshop and Microsoft Suite in a VM?
I thought you were talking about FB. This is the natural course of any platform that can’t self moderate. Everyone gets a megaphone. FB is the norm, there might be rare outliers like HN.

But Eternal September is always a semester away.
As someone who's gone through both H-1B and PERM, H-1B only needs the company to prove two things, specifically about how much you're paid:

The actual wage: This is the wage paid to other employees in the company who do the same work.

The prevailing wage: This is the wage for that occupation in the geographical area.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Condition_Application##1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Labor_Condition_Appl...
Don't you currently have relatively high unemployment? And how is staying at minimum wage (instead of raising them, to get people from elsewhere to move in) good for local workers? Don't you have a bunch of cities with unbelievably high cost of living (SF, NY,...), where people come (and sometimes live in tents), just because there are no jobs for them in "rural american towns"?
Right now that data is not truly equivalent. E.g. twitter/fb have email addresses, and use them to notify friends, but they won't give you your followers' email list. There could be a way to ask your followers to give them for example, or at least a hash of it, so they can be discovered in another network. The issue here is that whatever value is in friend lists /subscribers is locked into these companies, but in reality it's the users who have earned it.
I got the same feeling as brtkdotse when Chris Cornell of Soundgarden died. "They aren't making them like that anymore". And if they are, I haven't found any.

Can you give us an example (like a YouTube link) of a modern guitarist (from the past 15 or so years) that approaches Eddie Van Halen's level of talent or innovation? An uplifting thought is that, like Cornell, although we have lost him, we still have his music.

Another "hacker's guitarist" is Tom Sholz of Boston. If the younger generation has never heard of him, his story is amazing too (an MIT trained engineer; rock star; built his own gear; wrote, played, recorded and produced his own work):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scholz

While his style is a little different than EVH, he has a similar innovative spirit.
In terms of cost this seems silly. They say that it won’t get more expensive as you grow bigger, but that’s because it’s essentially a pre-deployed droplet.

The benefit of PaaS offerings is generally that you pay per request.

The bandwidth limits on this also seem incredibly out of whack with standard droplets.
Thanks! Data is sourced from the Department of Labor: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance

If you click the column heading in the second table, you should be able to sort by median salary for the major H1B employers.

Any suggestions on where to find non-H1B median salary data, aside from doing something like scraping Glassdoor?
I would never have made it to the US with that rule. I had a UK BS(c) in molecular biology, had done 1 year of a PhD at EMBL in computational molecular biology, dropped out to focus on the computers instead. 2 years later, hired on an H1B and emigrated to the US.

6 years after that, I was the 2nd hire at amzn, and the rest is history. Does the Trump admin really want to mess with that kind of story?
AWSCLI.amazonaws.com needs some premium support on setting up a CF distribution
I don't think you can dismiss the moral issue. The fact that there may technically be no "guarantee" does not mean that people ought to be treated unreasonably. The fact that some people may not care about the effects American policies have on people who are not American is not the same thing as it not being a moral issue.
You want the US government to step in and start dictating to companies what it pays employees in different countries? If that happened, there is an almost-0% chance you get the outcome you want (which seems to be the staff in Pakistan getting paid more).
You can search HN for top articles mentioning linode. The comments speak for themselves. Basically Digital Ocean is better in every aspect you can think of.
I just have to say, it's my name, it's my name! A cool sciency thing has my name! (I'm not sciency at all. Social worker by training, policy and budget wonk as my one-and-only non-human/non-canine love).
Talking with friends that were international students, who also knew about the abuses of the current system, we came to the conclusion that to avoid abuse and get actual world class talent you would want to tier the system. Master's and PhD holders already benefit in the current system so better to expand the idea.

Undergraduate degree holders would only be rewarded for completing degrees in in the US in emerging and vital fields (mostly STEM). Awarding permanent residency to someone completing an Bachelors in communication at the worst college in the US is simply inviting abuse. Master's holders would get permanent residency in an expanding set of fields and ideally PhDs in every field. There may be some cases of abuse, but there should never be the case where a smart person educated in the US, especially in a growing or important field is forced out of the country because they didn't win a lottery.
> In the US, over 3 million Puerto Ricans are now allowed to migrate to the mainland US (say to DC). The borders are completely open to them. In Europe, similarly, around 20M Romanians are allowed to Sweden. But they don’t

According to Wikipedia, as of 2018 there were 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living stateside. The population of Puerto Rico is around 2.8 million. There are more than twice as many Puerto Ricans living on the mainland as there are in Puerto Rico.
Keller lost by 67 points in 2018. I'm guessing he's going to lose by even more this year. https://ballotpedia.org/Craig_Keller
It certainly is. The point is, is it necessary? (To be really pedantic one could ask which computable reals, but let's assume the usual definition, i.e. the set of reals defined by a computable Dedekind cut.)

Although computable reals have many properties shared by the actual real numbers (e.g. they are a field, which is not that trivial of a property), they are also different in very significant ways, for example, they aren't computably comparable, they aren't computably enumerable, their order is not computable.

Also, real analysis works very differently on that set, for example, it is not guaranteed that the least upper bound of a bounded increasing sequence of elements of the computable reals is itself a computable real.

Even ignoring feasibility in practice, working with non-standard mathematical structures is very unintuitive, much more than floating point numbers can be. (Let alone reasoning about the time-complexity of operations in that setting!)
Calendar Fallacies
This is not mere dislike of a law enforcement agency. ICE is keeping children in filthy conditions, conducting forced hysterectomies, knowingly deporting people who will be murdered on the other side, and imprisoning people in conditions where they will die from COVID-19. Any association with them whatsoever is anathema to any ethical human.
A minimum wage, set as (eg.) 1.5x avearage wage in that sector in that state would be a good requirement for getting a visa. That would make companies offer more (1.1, 1.2 ... 1.499x average) and get local workers, and if they're still, even with a higher wage, unable to get a worker, they'd get one with an H1B visa.
> I have worked with multiple, brilliant visa holders.

I don’t disagree one bit. I think immigrants contributed and continue to contribute tremendously to the US economy. But at the same time policies should not be used to suppress wages by the “C” suite class. By paying low salaries it increases profits for the companies and contributes to income inequality
Why not just write everything down in a private git repo which you can grep later.

Write your thought in a structured, bite sized chunks and you'll be able to recall it quickly.
https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/a-world-of...

In this article, The Economist covers a study credibly suggesting that a world of free movement would be richer to the tune of $78 trillion a year, suggesting that affected by the competition would do better figuring out how to get a cut of the take.

With these kinds of numbers, immigration by default is the only platform that makes sense. The added economic output could do more than fix the highest budget deficits on record; we could be looking at paying off the national debt, free healthcare, and money left over. You're concerned about negative consequences? We can work something out.

Instead, we fret that this is "bad for local workers", condemning the would-be immigrant and our own nation to linger in mediocrity.
Does anyone know what is necessary for someone to manufacture their own fast-acting insulin? I’m a T1 diabetic and would really like to buy the necessary infra to create my own insulin in preparation for the end times.
> The App Platform is one of the few PaaS products built on a shared Kubernetes platform.

I wonder how they are doing this from a security standpoint. For customer workload isolation is every container actually a VM? The pricing/sizing kind of makes it look like that.

> App Platform provides predictable, easy-to-understand pricing

How? Outbound network is charged per-GB. I know autoscaling isn't supported yet, but hopefully they support setting a max number of instances. One of the things people like about DigitalOcean over other cloud services is that you can sign up to pay $X per month and know that is what exactly what you will pay, no surprises.

> Upcoming features

The list of things not supported yet includes auto-scaling and VPC. It is hard to imagine using a PaaS without autoscaling. And I wouldn't want to build out a microservices-like architecture without VPC.

Overall I really like the concept of the offering. Simple PaaS, with custom container support, Kubernetes (for what it is worth in a PaaS, I don't know), and predictable pricing. That all sounds really good.
I’m a high school graduate and a self-taught developer. I got hired by Microsoft as a software engineer to the Microsoft Windows Core OS team based on my skills with an H-1B. I made Microsoft millions of dollars with my work. I’m now writing a book on software development published by Manning Books. None of that would have happened if such a criteria existed. That policy doesn’t make any sense at all.
A small note, the DigitalOcean dev DBs do have daily backups though these are not accessible by the user and only come into play when there is a non-recoverable issue with the node they are on.
> 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.

If remote work becomes more acceptable, companies in Canada and EU can also move their jobs outside those countries. Less taxes and laws to worry about.
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Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of the term McCarthyism but I fail to see how this can be classified as such.

I agree with your thesis and conclusion about electoral responsibility and cancel culture. However, isn't McCarthyism necessarily the use of spurious accusations to incite such tribal enragement, as opposed to the use of the proven claim of HootSuite actually having said ICE contract?