skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black Swan Ideas: Mediocristan, Extremistan, and Randomness (2009)
The "Upas" tree of history, doesn't exactly exist but it is true that some trees waste product is bioactive and supresses other plants, if not actually digesting sleeping buddhist monks.
> In python, these type annotations are a relatively recent addition that the community has not completely adopted yet.

I think you'll find I've said as much elsewhere ;)

I think I make essentially the same argument as you do here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701113
Um, Advertizing is not the same as blackmail. Not even close.
They should change visas to be auctioned off, so people who wish to stay can do so.
This isn’t a good comparison, due to differences in population and wealth of different countries. Just because Governments are required to take care of only their citizens interests doesn’t mean that’s the only thing they need to do. Especially considering the people in question here are immigrants who contribute to the economy and society of the US, and are likely to be citizens themselves in the future.
I recommend django, especially if you know python. There are some guides on hosting it with something like pythonanywhere or Heroku and you're set!
In the MySQL vs PgSQL comparison, it basically feels like MySQL tried to obtain fast performance first, then worked towards correct and useful behavior later, where PgSQL went for correct and useful behavior first, then fast performance later. While the end result after decades of development is comparable, the echos of those very different beginnings remain in the current products.
How does bidding matter at all as far as the employee/employer relationship in this context? It'd make more sense to argue that reinvesting in things like self-driving cars is what breaks the dynamic because the "platform" is withholding revenue from drivers to expand in a way completely unrelated to their work.
There are people who jump off a bridge too not sure what your point is.

Also I was specifically not talking about larger organization level decisions as much as smaller start ups or individuals who have to make the decision.

The premise is even after this many years experience we all have with SaaS versus self hosted it’s still not an obvious decision. It seems like some people can be dismisses of it as an easy decision but the devil is in the details and the specifics of the situation.
You can search for text, then press `v` to go to visual mode, and then `y` to yank.

There’s also a caret mode you can get into with `vc` that then let’s you move a caret around the page with the motion keys, and you can use it to highlight and yank text like you would in vim.
What makes you say that? From what I've seen, there's an entire cottage industry of cheap, expendably treated labor which forms the WITCH acronym which exists to abuse the H1B visa. I believe that is who they target.
Oh boy I know a lot of H1B holders. They're far from "super talented" but boy were they cheaper than their competitors. They're not bad people but they're not "super talented" nor were their particular skills that difficult to acquire.
The universities, yes, but at least for 4-year bachelors' programs, the country should be viewing it as an investment considering how selective they tend to be for mid- to higher-tier instutions. From a national government standpoint, they bring in some revenue to the economy, but it's miniscule compared to the GDP value they will create, directly and indirectly, with their newfound skills in a lifetime.

I'd even argue in favor of government financial aid for international students that meet certain bars of merit or talent. Give them a free ride if they are that talented. Then let them build the next company and hire a bunch of Americans. Hand them a US passport as well if they get there.

Also, PhDs are another story -- they are not revenue sources for the university, but they are a means to quality research, and very much an investment.
Foreign students typically pay full tuition. Rather than being subsidized by the U.S., they are actively subsidizing U.S. domestic students.
What has happened in other countries that has similar systems, like the UK and Australia (to name two I have experience with)? I don’t think that happened there.
Not sure if I understand you correctly. Do you mean that you can't access the link either and that living in a more prude country therefore is not a relevant factor here?
> - The default 'latin1' character set is in fact cp1252, not ISO-8859-1, meaning it contains the extra characters in the Windows codepage.

Actually, it's generally saner to assume that people mean Windows-1252 when they say ISO-8859-1. Charset labeling is frequently incorrect, and C1 characters are so infrequently used that seeing one pop up probably means you actually wanted Windows-1252 instead.
As with many other things, the extremes might be clearer but the interesting parts lay in the huge grey area in between. Sure, we might not need to deliberately memorize syntax, but what about memorizing the different ways of writing loops (for the lack of an better example atm)?

My take is that there is value in putting in deliberate effort to remember the key takeaways from our readings or talks we've listened to (among other things), as the original comment pointed out. The blog post is then on how to go about doing it.
Hey,

I am sorry to hear of this and I hope your wife (and you!) find answers and see improvement.

I want to be very clear that I am not dismissing long COVID. In fact, I am hoping that via a more accurate diagnostic environment (which it seems like you went through) we can better identify true long Covid vs. anxiety/depression.

The better we can (and forgive my terrible analogy) separate the wheat from the chaff and identify true long Covid patients the better we can help true sufferers
Especially in the midst of a global pandemic, seems a little callous.
>The question for me is why are you trying to force "natives" to have kids they don't want to have?

I'm not sure how you got the impression that I'm for "forcing" people to have kids.
We'll let's take a step back just to start here - a company in the US that makes some dashboard widgets for a hospital chain. The hospital chain pays this company lets say $1M per year. Half of this money goes directly to people in Pakistan that are "employees" of the company. The other half goes to US citizens. So overall, things aren't so great. We've just contributed $1/2M per year to a country that's let's face it - has a history of supporting terrorism.

I want that kind of outsourcing to stop. I mean, what amazing things can come from that scenario?

Maybe my original comment didn't capture it, but I would rather force the these remote style companies to not really have that giant pay advantage. I mean what do you think is the total combined amount of dollars leaving the United States per year because of relationships like this.
There is nothing amusing about families being ejected. That's the nuance.
it's easy to say. But it suddenly causes more than a million people forced out of this country after following all the rules for decades. Think of human cost here.
It depends. There are lots of brilliant engineers and programmers on H1B visas, but there are also job shops, like Infosys, that grabs lots of H1B's for contract jobs. They aren't going for stars, they are going for competent people that they can underpay.
> The paper is interesting and talks about very real problems, but it's still a far cry from something that can be used in production.

It’s used in production in the default Android calculator app. Does that not count?
On what basis are you deciding what someone's (or some group's) birthrights are?
> Umm no. Everyone but Indian/Chinese H1b holder, get their green card in 1-2 years.

That's false. Maybe this was true in the past.

First, they cannot self-sponsor. Which means that the hypothetical company would have to apply as soon as they step foot on US soil. There are no incentives to do so and incentives against it. So they generally won't.

Expect the process to start a couple of years before the H1B visa is set to expire.

Even if started immediately, just for processing time alone you are looking at around 2 years. 2 to 6 months for the PERM process. I-140, similar. The AOS stage can take 10 (or more!) months to process. The last two can be filed concurrently. It's still one year on the absolute best case with no RFEs or audits whatsoever, counting from the moment the application was filed, assuming all documentation is instantly available (like employment verification letters from past workers, translations etc) and assuming lawyer time is zero (which obviously is not the case).

Of course, if you are Indian or Chinese, add years or decades to the above.
For "pre-echo" I was reaching back to the rennaisance, and the reformation. I am sure that there are heaps of 19th century onwards cases.
How did you get hired as a kernel engineer without a degree out of college?
"This pandemic could reshape education once school safely shifts back to the classroom..."
...just like, after the 1937 polio epidemic, radio remained a key tool for the deliver of education to children. Oh, wait...
It will be interesting to see if history repeats. I'm holding off buying a new PC until this is known.
What's concerning is how people easily fall into these conspiracy theories. To me, it seems like vast swaths of people are uneducated, illinformed, and flatout unintelligent to think on their own feet and reject unsubstantiated claims. The fact that religion exists on a global scale is a testament to this.
That may be a valid theoretical objection, but Java does not have a "least upper bound" function, so its computability is not of practical interest to designing a real number Java API.

Real Java programs produce numbers via arithmetic and finite applications of java.lang.Math functions. Those are the numbers that this API hopes to handle.
That language gets used in the US too.

Somehow businesses forget how supply and demand works when it comes to labor, and "journalists" aren't, so much as they just transcribe whatever falls out of rich peoples' mouths and call it 'balance'.

We'll be back to feudalism in a couple generations.
What would the brute force algorithm be? You mean like a 3 step selection sort?
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1
Trump is literally a one trick pony. Stop anybody not born in the US from being in the US.

This will really hurt their economy. Elon Musk as made the point, really logically countries should advertise and do recruiting for the best people. That is what would allow more technology, production and growth in a country.

I just don't understand the logic. I understand the 'poor people come here and take jobs' even if its wrong, but high payed people this clearly isn't an issue.
As a serial immigrant myself - hit the nail on the head there. There is the “pay debt back” (relo, visa/lawyer costs) issue in some companies but this is a very good start.
There are 2 things to keep in mind.

First, DRAM and SRAM are more than just the transistors, they are the lines going into each of the transistors carrying the signal. They are also all the control circuitry around those transistors. When you write out, you aren't just involving the 6 transistors to store, but rather a whole host of control transistors.

Next up, changes in current on a wire induce current on surrounding lines. This induced current is results in what's known as "cross talk". There are a bunch of methods to combat this, the primary one is to make sure there is enough space between lines to avoid it. This means that while your transistor size may get smaller and smaller, you still have a limit on how close you can place those transistors, otherwise you risk unwanted bit flips. DRAM has a major advantage here simply because it requires fewer lines to control state. That results in a more dense packing of memory.

With those two points in mind, there's simply no way for SRAM to ever have the same price/GB or density as DRAM (without the market screwing with prices).
You're most likely experiencing https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/28.... The workaround is very simple: just comment out the tp_detect_wobbling call in tp_process_state. The real fix is a bit more involved, and I've been meaning to get to it for the last few years, but since commenting out that one line just works, there's little motivation.
Kind of clickbaity considering most of Intel's security issues are also "unfixable"
The UN classifies a migrant as a person that has moved across an international border [1]. If you are born and live in America, you are not a migrant by definition. So I am not sure where you are getting your 98.4% number.

While immigration policies can always be improved, your initial statement was that America is "anti-immigrant." This is hard to reconcile with the actual immigration numbers.

From the UN [2]: "The United States of America has been the main country of destination for international migrants since
1970.15 Since then, the number of foreign-born people residing in the country has more than quadrupled –
from less than 12 million in 1970, to close to 51 million in 2019."

We can debate whether the number should be increased or decreased. But it is unfair to classify a country as "anti-immigrant" when it is leading the world in immigration. Even on a per-capita basis, America is way up there (look at the map on page 23 [2])

[1] https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/migration/index....
[2] https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/wmr_2020.pdf
How does this affect people who are already here, working? Are they going to be harassed for even more documentation than they produce today?

This sounds good in theory, I'm wondering how well this is going to be executed in practice
They also founded the Kingdom of Sicily.
Not only anti-competitive, but also far more privacy invading.
Did the administration actually make a change, or are they just talking about it like they've been for the last three years?
Asymmetric access to the work force is probably the most valuable right that most HN readers have. Why should we want to give that up?

I struggle to see how your idea would be better for any Americans, except the owner-class.
Even the TLD choice is apropos.
Just looking at accidents that did happen, its not a reliable way of judging overall safety.
Yes, I agree getting design choices right is important in order not to end up with a lot of legacy code in future versions of Julia.

I think the pipe operator is probably the area that needs most urgent attention. Lots of libraries have their own slightly different macros for improved pipes with partial application, and that introduces a bit of fragmentation and hurts composability.

There's an open issue for this with some background: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5571
So precisely what level of national wealth does it become a moral imperative to sacrifice the interests of your own people?

Americans are constantly being fired and replaced with cheaper h1bs.
Agreed. Thanks for pointing this out. As a Scandinavian my self I am aware of this. And I raised a nibling comment pointing out that bad policies (like racially biased policing, lack of labor laws, lack of – or unenforced discrimination laws, etc.) cause issues in immigrant communities, not open borders.

Sweden and Denmark are easy to point out as they have very racist and discriminatory policies on a national and local level. But Iceland and Norway also have terrible refugee policies and rampant xenophobia (especially in more rural setting).
Liberating them is probably pretty complicated, and I would love to see that happen, but preventing more becoming indentured (at a cost to the local labor market) probably is a legal switch.

We've had other forms of indentured servitude that were summarily abolished, sometimes with difficulty. Certainly the government should not be incentivizing this, which seems to have been the case for a while.
Faulty transportation of messenger RNA is the culprit in ALS
NZ has a robust social security system, and fairly minimal oil reserves.
The H1B program was not designed to alleviate poverty around the world. Maybe there should be such a program, but H1B is probably not it.
Immigration is a tricky one, regardless of country. Me: UKoGB and an employer: I'm keen on it.

My firm only grades pay on function and time served. We also grant shares based on time served.

I have an employee who lives in Poland and is Polish. He used to live here in the UK. We came to an agreement when he wanted to go home, have a child, get married and get Britain out of his system! His granddad flew and broke several Hurricanes on behalf of the RAF a few years back. Granddad survived quite a few scrapes.
Haters can continue hating(or decide to grow up). Truth is I've found no ecosystem more productive than .NET in all of my coding. The only problem with .NET is the sheer amount of haters and we fare very well even though.

You all screaming performance and techempower stats don't even realise that C#(ASP.NET Core) is 6th placed on techempower's list when you check the composition of all the various benchmarks.

All of these without sacrificing readability, compile times, verbosity etc.

Or do you want to talk about the agility of the framework, speedy bug fixes, endless innovations and all. Don't even get me started on the tooling. It's unmatched in all of programming. VS2019, VS Code, Rider, dotnet cli etc. Ever heard about Roslyn?

Drop your hatred and check out dotnet's current state before jumping into conclusions.

C'mon, let's be real. .NET is supreme in the streets of code.
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Just wait for the next "miraculous covid cure found" article next week. Vitamin D, fasting, .. What's next?
That is an entirely different point than the one you made in your previous response.
They are. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Condition_Application for details.
Does anyone know of a way to do this OS-wide, so I don’t have to use my mouse to navigate at all? Either macOS or Ubuntu/pop_os. I know most OSes have built in keyboard shortcuts, but Linux distros are often inconsistent from app to app, and besides I’m looking for something that will let me “click” anywhere in an OS without a mouse
Does that mean Nintendo can no longer launch the next console with Mario and Zelda games? That's 100% competing in their own store, but I also wouldn't own a switch if there wasn't a new Zelda game on it.
Why would this make any sense?

The probability is expressed by the number of times a ball ends up in each of the end slots. That's the whole point!
The video was a staged (I believe) silent film[0], so it seems like the impression you got from the original black and white version was more "accurate".

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_boules_de_neige
I’ve also seen them used as a bad escape valve for poor code quality, as if the process of migrating a spaghetti monolith into the beautiful microservices we envisioned would somehow solve the underlying code quality issues.
Well, there are certainly areas of Vancouver and Toronto and their outlying suburbs that are on the verge of this; but it's more of an issue with recognizing the potential issues by looking at other countries that are further down the demographic path than Canada is. Or do you think it's necessary to have a problem in order to understand it?
> It's clear to me that the actually smart people don't need to recall someone else's clever solution, they just figure it out on their own from the observables.

You gotta be able to make connections. If you have to figure out everything from observables, you're gonna be very slow at anything that isn't truly uncharted territory compared to others.

If your memory is lacking, you won't be able to make the leap from "here's what I'm seeing right now, here's a vaguely similar pattern from that past, what does that suggest?"

That's where "just google it" breaks down too because if you don't know that the symptoms you're seeing are characteristic of a race condition, say, you won't know to google for "race condition"!
There's a big difference between requiring a minimum wage for anyone and specifically requiring a higher wage for existing H1-Bs. In particular, the fact that H1-Bs will have to emigrate if it isn't increased.
The name and its "design" seems to hint at something to be used in prison.

Does anybody know if my guess is correct?
Previous threads on HN[0] and Lobsters[1]. I'll be watching this thread as well, so just ask any questions you have about the project. I've been steadily improving things, in particular adding more documentation (as well as the first two tutorials[2] for non-array programmers) and error checking in the compiler. Just recently I added the capability to draw SVGs with embedded BQN in markdown (which is processed with BQN), so expect to see some nice diagrams like [3] in the near future.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24167804

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/iwqpw8/bqn_finally_apl_for_your_flying_s...

[2] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/tutorial/index.html

[3] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/types.html
If you work at FAANG, they file immediately(and many more do, it's not a big deal). Are you aware for rest of world i-485 and i-140 can be filed concurrently.
It's not about tuition.

It's about funding of the university.

Typically a university will take 50-90% (Yes, up to 90%) of a research grant to fund the university (keeping the lights on, etc). And universities are the ones making the decision to fill available slots in CS departments with foreign nationals.
Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell? Weak Interaction Trap for Charged Particles?

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/WITCH
If they are “super talented,” then why not the O-1 visa?
I was able to to induce single and multi bit errors into DDR4 RAM by increasing the clock frequency, reducing timings, and undervolting.
How much of that difference was due to the different soundtrack? I noticed the difference as well and attributed most of it to the slow and sappy music of the upscaled version versus the fast and irreverent music of the original.
Git for Ages 4 and Up (2013) [video]
John Brennan’s President Remembering Comrade Gus Hall – The American Spectator
Aww thanks. :D
Quotas are per-country. Your scenario doesn’t change either way, no?
Honestly colleges don't teach you much about practical kernel developments. Most people just learn them as side projects. This is the same for other fields as well, e.g., frontend developments.

Requiring degrees for doing anything is a big step backward. I'm working for Google and lots of my peers are from non-CS majors (Physics, EE, even literature), but they are all excellent engineers.
That is not the original light gun.