skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t going to have any impact on the number of H1B visas that are awarded. There’s a cap at 85k/year, and most applications get rejected. This is just going to result in the available 85k/year slots being awarded to the intended pool of high-skilled industry specialists, rather than those people being swamped out by a mass of applications from companies that see this as an opportunity to hire cheap labor. I have had a colleague who was probably making $200,000+/year sent back to his native country because all the king’s horses and all the king’s men (and all the king’s immigration lawyers too...) couldn’t secure them a continuation of their work visa.
I wonder if there is a way to monetize people wanting to type things. Like a long Captcha? Probably not though with how well AI is doing, but 10 years ago... :)
Both the premise and the conclusion here are poorly reasoned.

We are told multiple times that the Constitution was intended to be socially normative, yet no historical evidence for this is provided.

then we are told that Munroe’s comic has been hugely damaging because it doesn’t acknowledge the premise, which again, is unsubstantiated.

But what we aren’t told is what damage is done or how discourse has been affected.

Nice theories. No evidence.
Did I say it did?

Ryzen has seen improvements to DDR4 module support with each generation and to take advantage of the latest generation you may need to upgrade your motherboard to one with the latest chipset, depending on vendor support. Even if your older board supports the newer generation, likely you have a more limited QVL for DDR4 modules, so compatibility and perf may be limited.

This is why I implied it had limited impact, though there is some truth to boards with newer AMD chipsets offering better memory support.

This was a response to parent comment stating it was greedy behavior to try to get consumers to buy new motherboards with new chipsets, when the chipsets have little impact on RAM compatibility/support.
Postdocs are not even on H1B the vast majority of the time, because it's considered academic training. It's possible to get on a H1B if everything has been exhausted, but never the preferred option.
It's not necessarily a demand issue. It may be that companies are abusing the system to gain more such workers. I've certainly been part of hiring searches where qualified US candidates didn't get the job. It often came down to money. I'm in a higher cost of living area, so salaries tend to be higher than average. But the company was offering lower than the national average, much lower than the local average. The candidates from the US were often offered the job, then turned it down because the pay was so low.

"I can't afford or don't want to pay market rate salaries" isn't supposed to be a valid reason to grant an H1B visa.
And I thought that situation lead to the invention of Correll...
I've seen this abused so badly though--our compliance person in HR was asking me to help write one a while back for a candidate that had a BS in mechanical engineering and no relevant work experience, claiming that a course the applicant had that taught MATLAB was sufficient experience for a role as an android dev.
Even assuming that the average lifespan is solely due to child mortality (it wasn't), would you prefer that to be that much higher? This isn't even something that has to be discussed abstractly - it was much higher not all that long ago, and we have plenty of personal records from those who were directly impacted by it. Going further back, it only gets worse.

The reality is that humans playing with larger ecosystems is only as destructive as humans make it - it's not inherently destructive, it just needs to be done with appreciation of long-term effects, and it's something that we're still learning to do as a species.

The reality, also, is that any group of humans that goes there, is going to stomp any other group that doesn't, because things like agriculture are necessary to produce a surplus that's needed for the society to maintain specialists - who become specialists because they don't have to spend most of their life foraging for food, because other people can produce more food than they need just for themselves. This category includes professional soldiers.
Show HN: Bit – an experimental Git CLI with powerful suggestions written in Go
Before YouTube, Who Was Our Audience? – 1991 Interview Then and Now
Nobel peace prize nominations don’t mean much.
Want to know how I know you work for a good company?

Be grateful! Not all of us are so lucky!
I think we're making mutually reconcilable points here.

> Quality is distributed somewhat evenly.

Starting from that assumption (which I can agree with), here is a simplified (perhaps numerically inaccurate) argument. Assuming the top talent constitutes 1000 best researchers who have just graduated from their PhDs, and all relatively equally qualified, 500 US, 500 foreign.

There are 400 postdoc appointments. Currently if 200 postdocs are US and 200 postdocs are foreign and these H1B rules then inevitably disallow the next generation to have 200 foreign postdocs we still have 200 US postdoc candidates who are just as good and are still top talent.

Would this not still retain equal quality?
Note that this not only applies to H1B visas but also to employment based green card applications (PERM). This will prevent lots of people from getting their green cards (if not shut down by courts).

I’m currently in the process of applying for a green card. This really sucks because I’m relatively young, just moved to the US from Germany 3 years ago and thus probably not in the upper 5% percentile for Staff Software Engineers in my area (surprise surprise). It’s disheartening to see so many negative comments here on HN. This does not apply only to staffing agencies but to most people in tech that don’t have a green card.
They have a history many years back, of not being fully truthful with customers about hacking incidents. Do a google search.

relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667027
Pippi and the Moomins served as a social antidote to fascism
There's a bit of a....risk profile difference between a vib and a chastity device.
The complexity of the system acts a deterrent to applications. The point is is to force H-1B's to exist as a lever you start pulling when your business depends on it, not as labor force optimizations for capital-flush companies.
How is that relevant to this blog post? Do you think we should stop reading any posts hosted by triplebyte for a mistake they made months ago and didn't even roll out?
While both cheap and very reasonably sized in the end... tbh I don't think I'd do this one personally. Assembling cubes smaller than a fingertip is substantially more difficult than something even slightly larger. The "fold each square in half" step does give you at least one sharp edge on every piece though, which helps a bit.

That gallery is great though, thanks for the link!
The onus here would be on the us citizen to find out how much an equivalent H1B is being paid and asking for that much money. It's not guaranteed.

You can do that though:
https://h1bdata.info/index.php?year=2019
I think there is something weird going on. I am heavily involved in my company's staffing process, and the vast majority of the referrals we get from our recruiting sources are from overseas (and often cheat and have cruddy IT skills).
Recent endemic coronavirus infection is associated with less severe Covid-19
I think you're overestimating how much hardware manufacturers care about the Linux market.
Hi,

Git is an awesome tool and there are many UI tools built on top of it. I've been experimenting with how to improve the User Experience of using the git CLI (based on my experience over years). Bit provides interactive suggestions, organizes branches by most recent, automatically fetches and fast-forwards (when possible) from origin and much more. Furthermore, its functionally can continue to be extended using Go instead of bash :).

For those of you who are interested. Please take a look at the README. Bit is very much plug & play so you should be able to simply run the installation command and be ready to go.
I never really got into Van Halen until I was an adult. As a teen in the early 90s a lot of the kids in my circle would make fun of anyone who listened to them because it wasn’t “cool” any more, especially when grunge became popular. Later in my adult years I began to really appreciate EVH’s technique and spent endless hours trying to replicate his style (and mostly failing, as I could never get my stubby fingers to move that fast). A few things I did learn and absolutely loved was his use of pinch harmonics and other right-hand techniques like palm muting and tapping — he of course didn’t invent those things but he elevated to a new level. I also don’t hear this often from fellow fans, but he had a unique “swing” that so many guitarists just didn’t have.

Cool story: I read somewhere that when EVH first started performing in public, he would often play with his back to the audience, as he didn’t want to people to see his techniques and possibly steal them!

RIP Eddie - may you enjoy your time in heaven among the guitar gods. Or is it supposed to be hell? After all you did run with the devil.
> I agree with your thesis and conclusion about electoral responsibility

How did resolve the "Canadians can't vote in the US" issue? I found it to be a bit of a showstopper.
Well in the long run you need both builders and operators to succeed. In today’s world Everybody ( I mean everybody individually not any race religion etc) brings their own strength to the game , unitedly we should harness them take care of each other and not become more divisive and blinded in the process.
a lot of people tend to think you need to pre-rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. no, you don't: in fact, this can remove the substrate that's needed for the detergent to be most effective.

most of my dishes, which I have a lot of: finish eating/drinking, straight in, no sink stage.
Kent Beck was one of the first software engineers I admired when getting into the field 7 years ago!

We are undergoing a mono->service shift at our company, and I think for reasons in agreement with this article. The main goals being to handle persistence of high write data beyond stable capabilities of our monolith, build services whose logic perspective deviates from the monolith (recommendations, text generation, search), and add new features that have a clear purpose and boundaries thought decoupled services.

But we still invest in the monolith, and develop all important things on it. It's our camel.
Or when they can use foreign students as a ridiculously cheaper labor pool.
Another thing is that Earth is close to the upper limit of size to be practical to build rockets to get off of.

Of course, a planet that's hotter and wetter presumably has more intense competition and it might be better for us if they can't achieve space travel.
I enjoyed the read, but it glossed over some really important details:

> Failovers took more than 20 minutes to complete and would often get stuck requiring manual intervention. Messages were often lost in the process as well.

Data loss while RabbitMQ is down is certainly a problem.

> The Kafka-consumer process is responsible for fetching messages from Kafka, and placing them on a local queue that is read by the task-execution processes.

This is a bit confusing, so now instead of a centralized outage, grinding everything to a halt, the risk is distributed data loss as local queues go down? As long as they stay down, it should be limited data loss to the size of the queues times the number of consumers, but if an instance is flagging it could eat through a whole lot of messages before someone notices the problem. I guess it’s really dependent on the types of messages being processed and if they are idempotent enough to be replayed without consequence.
Nice! Your product is cool; hype to learn you built it on repl.it
Why would insulin be a natural monopoly?

It's the confluence of the low profit margin, high barrier to entry (FDA) and inelastic demand. The market does not support more than five or six players worldwide. It's like that for any generic.

That's common to all commodity medical supplies. Remember the IV saline shortage after Hurricane Maria took out the manufacturers on Puerto Rico? That doesn't need FDA approval (the facility does need inspection though), but you don't spin up a sterile bulk manufacturing facility in 6 months because of upfront costs that will take an eternity to recover.

You can only really make money in the US market

{{citation needed}}

You can fleece the US citizen only so much. Elizabeth Warren showed in 2004 how stretched he is, and it has only gotten worse since. The rest of the world may pay less but it's bigger. Also, when you can justify the cost to the public authorities it will be paid - note that a course of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir Hep C protease inhibitor is 26 kUSD in the US and a comparable 27 kGBP in Britain. A heap of money, but beats the liver transplant, both in cost and quality of life.

The bigger threat to pharma is the poor return on investment. Information technology pays off faster and with lower risk. Goldman Sachs suggested the government step in, they are the only ones with big enough pockets. The suggestion is sound.
We're bringing in foreign students to graduate programs because colleges want to grow revenue and demand to go to grad school at all but the top 10% of schools isn't high enough to easily fill every seat. Outside of top tier programs, colleges are fighting for every student they can get, and international students are a good supply.
Philosophically, the hardware and software should probably be broken up. Practically, there are much bigger fish and only so many hours in the day. That wouldn't be my priority if I was a legislator or regulator.
Probably harder, actually. Google and other high-paying tech companies have been lobbying for this change for years. There are only 85k/year slots for H1B visas and they are awarded by lottery. High-paying tech companies generally have a high hiring bar and don’t find all that many candidates, so they don’t submit all that many applications to the lottery, and as a result their candidates get swamped out by the hordes of applications from body shops like Tata. This change will drive a lot of applications from low-paying companies out of the pool, and high-paying companies will be able to hire a larger share of the candidates they submit applications for each year.
Site doesn't even scroll on Chrome
There are so many things wrong with that article, but let's start with this one:

> Yet in many other countries— perhaps still in most of them— mob justice, unethical businesses behavior without complaint, and complete disregard for any rights of criminals is a normal daily occurrence. Their citizens know that far away silly Americans bother with fair trials and non-ironically litigating the temperature of coffee, but it would never occur to them that it may be a reasonable thing to try in their own society.

I hate to break it to you, but the rest of the world does not view the US as some bastion of liberty. Most of the rest of the world has much the same set of rights and protections that US citizens enjoy.

What's truly amazing is that the author fundamentally misses the point of the article, that while you can say whatever you like, you are not shielded from the consequences of saying that.

If you are the public representative of company x, and you post something awful on twitter, then people are allowed use their free speech to say they no longer wish to do business with company x while you are the representative.
>do you think that food-born illness is more or less common in countries that have more centralized their food production?

Tricky one to answer, since each country has a lot of counfounding factors (e.g. Use of pathogen-bearing 'night soil' as fertilizer, availability of refrigeration in warm and humid climates, potable water availability). Best measure IMO would be each country taken individually pre- and post-centralization of agriculture.

What those figures seem to show (taking primarily the CDC figures for USA) is less frequent outbreaks, but greater spread when they occur, overall the number of impacted individuals looks similar if not slightly lower. This makes sense - centralized production and wide distribution means a single instance of contamination, though much lower in likelihood to occur, will reach out and touch more people than it otherwise would have when it occurs.
Is there a relevant XKCD or long German word for the feeling of "I get that this is a legitimate grievance but it's not a priority to me"? I've found myself wanting for something like that with these kinds of posts and the ones about Apple in-app payments.
Someone once told me that these cock cage devices are more dangerous than they seem.

Some of these fetishists wear them for weeks or months so that they arent able to get a full erection for a long period of time. It's all fun and games until they finally take it off and realize it's not the same. It turns out if you don't use it, you lose it.
> I don't know any alternative way to reach the moderation of hacker news

This is explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which is something everyone posting here should be familiar with. There is also a Contact link in the footer.
React is Dead, Long live Reactive Rails
kernel/shmernel, why not? Ain't like a kernel is a mystical land in a far away galaxy. It's just another program. In DOS era every program was a kernel when was running. If you wanted to play nice with others you'd do a TSR program and make sure you did not freeze the PC. I know it's an oversimplification but the basis is the same. When you write for kernel you make sure to no tip over anything, just like with a TSR in DOS.
I feel like I should have paid for that experience, it was magical!
> - The default 'latin1' character set is in fact cp1252, not ISO-8859-1, meaning it contains the extra characters in the Windows codepage.

Oh you sweet summer child. No it isn't. It's somewhat like Windows CP1252, but it also defines 8 other extra characters that are not in cp1252.
When I am angry, frustrated and disappointed or depressed, I think of the pale blue dot every single time. It helps me put things into perspective. Our little knotted lives and our petty concerns are meaningless and inconsequential in grand scheme of things. Just let it go. Enjoy what little time we have here!
It would be a huge change in behavior to fix utf8.

Changing the limit from 838 to 999 wouldn't.
My main problem is the high cost of repeatedly switching between mouse and keyboard. Type a sentence, move to your mouse, click a link, move back to keyboard, type another sentence, move to your mouse again... It gets repetitive and tiring after a while.
I have a feeling like the Lock Picking Lawyer would have no problem here.
I think this is a poorly written article devoid of substantiative argument. The author's substack earned a unsubscribe based on it.

It has become fashionable to argue the "I might disagree with you but I will defend to death your right to express it" to which is appended "in the NY Times, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Youtube and every private channel that exists."

First, the disagreeable opinion part is wrong since every open+democratic society has a section of speech that is curtailed - sedition, libel, incitement to riot, etc. These extents of censorship vary by country. The USA is relatively liberal but the UK has stricter limits on libel. The author demonstrates a poor to no understanding of these limits.

Second he/she conflates the limits on government prohibition on free speech rights to the right on the property of others - i.e. the right to free speech is the the right to publish on privately owned media channels. The Sulzberger family which owns significant equity in the NY Times (>$1B) and controls it has the right to decide what gets published in the NY Times, which you might agree/disagree with. Similarly for Twitter which is privately owned.

However I don't think it should be flagged ;)
Good. At any other time in the last hundred years trust-busting regulators would've already smashed these companies into tiny pieces.
Or you go to their manager and to your HR department. Good companies provide more than one escalation path.
> Must have been more than 10 years ago when utf8mb4 was added where you don't have to activate any kind of special settings.

Less than 10 years ago; MySQL 5.5 went GA in December 2010.
It must be. The passage does not mention orcs.
Been a little while since posting one of my own pieces on here, but have been hoping to get some discussion going about these new techniques that are popping up inspired by Elixir Phoenix's LiveView. Freshness in a field that has been pretty stagnant lately (server-based web apps).

Since writing the blog post I found out that there's another competing framework that might realize the design goals I'm describing in succint, self-contained fashion:

https://github.com/unabridged/motion
I'm not sure. But if you're looking more than just a general idea of the change, I am not the person to ask.
I propose a “51% tax”. Once a given organization takes over 51% of a given market, their revenue begins to be taxed. This tax is then used to either fund public R&D or consider that to be a tax credit evenly distributed (somehow) to their competitors.

Non voting control of the market doesn’t count (so for example, if intel bought a bunch of AMD shares and didn’t use them to vote, that would be okay)
And then if you select Desktop mode everything seems to get stretched in one direction as if it isn't correctly getting the aspect ratio
Yes if you eat microwaved crap. Try cooking sometimes.
I kind of agree, but von Braun didn't exactly come to us through "traditional" channels. The Russians were a little more forceful about it, but neither them nor the US gave the individuals a significant choice in the matter as we embarked on that scientist gold rush.
> Market forces do a poor job driving science. Its too long term, too risky, and you lose to much to the tragedy of the commons

Then how did we end up with things like nuclear fusion startups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding? Market forces do a superb job of driving scientific innovation. We live in the most scientifically innovative period of our history.

I find that what people who say this sort of thing actually mean is “the things I perceive to be valuable are insufficiently resourced (according to me)”, rather than “things that are valuable fail to find resourcing”.
Well, let's work remotely, the way Linux kernel or LLVM or GHC people do.

But we will have lots of not needed managers? Well, let the chips fall where they may.
Try "diversity" and "social trust" in google scholar.
Long Before Nikola Trucks, Trevor Milton Sold Investors on Startups That Faded