skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why everyone calls the correlation between the number of storks and childbirths per country as "spurious". That's incorrect. There is absolutely a correlation, but it is the statement that the fabricated cause of that correlation as presented (i.e. storms deliver babies) is true that is spurious. The truth underpinning the correlation (i.e. increased country size tends to yield increased populations of flora/fauna of all varieties) requires additional data to reveal - especially, in this case, if your a person who has never heard of a "stork" or what one is.

The p-value tells researchers that there's something interesting going on between data sets and further exploration is likely warranted to reveal the true underlying relationship. It's not a proof of a fabricated conclusion. "The golden way to test a causal relation is an appropriately designed experiment, where only the suspected "cause" is varied and the "effect" is observed."

1. https://www.researchgate.net/post/If_correlation_doesnt_impl...
_Stop trying to make syndicalism happen! It's not going to happen._

But seriously, I love the theories behind systems like that, but practically it's not something like that will hold in the US any time soon. Unions are still a hard sell to most folks. And that's exactly what you need to make that happen.

Semi-related: the effects that cheap H1Bs and H1B subcontractors might have on unionization efforts sounds like a fascinating topic.
yea aphids. thats what I meant. word-fail.
Are "protocols" the python term for what Go (and I guess java but I'm way rusty at java) calls "interfaces"? eg the set of methods exposed by an object.
Too bad it hasn't been ported to Android's FF... because I don't have a mouse, only a bluetooth keyboard.
Yeah, its been 5 years since I bought it, I'll just return it...
Thanks for expanding your points, and apologies that I was glib in the synopsis.

Your point is taken on free throws vs test prep. But I think the underlying issue is actually that you are focused on what kinds of prep we should respect, and I'm focused on what kind of admissions we should expect. I do think kids show an admirable and relevant grit by any kind of practice. But we do them a disservice if we overindex on a single method, and should adjust - just as you'd require a coach to adjust if they based team membership.

That amounts to an argument against overweighting the test, and not one in favor of the lottery. But I think the other piece is that if the test does more harm (in making things harder for otherwise qualified kids without access to prep) than good (in detecting the grit that will lead to success), it's better to retire it then keep it. Either way we shouldn't stop with the lottery.

Finally, this point is really interesting:

> the K-12 education of the US is so bad that it does not hold back brilliant kids, but hold back millions of ordinary kids by not pushing them hard enough

I agree that way more kids should have an opportunity to have effort and capabilities recognized with more opportunities all along the education track. I'd be really interested in finding ways to do this that are less dependant on the parents.
What you say is true, but thousands of smart grads apply for big tech companies, why choose someone without a degree?
Loss leaders are fine when they’re the same business. Like McDonalds offering a loss leading burger or drink; or even a cinema offering a slightly loss leading ticket to make up on concessions.
I can't access the link, but if the headline is accurate, that's probably a good move.

For FAANG companies - they usually pay all their employees including H1Bs pretty well.

But it's hard for Google/FB/... to even get a H1B visa for their prospective H1B employees because the cap is filled by a number of consulting companies that imports people from other countries (I think mostly India) and treat those people pretty poorly (bad wages, they might don't have the skills to make it in the regular job market).

In the long run, I think this problem will go away because people working from abroad is becoming much more common: these consultancy jobs and other H1B jobs will see a lot of pressure to be outsourced.
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If you want to listen to generative music (not by Brian Eno), check out: https://generative.fm/ (I recommend anything with drone). Not created by me, just a fan

The creator of that references Eno (and his awesome album, Music for Airports) in some of his articles on why he got started
Which other companies do you think should be pitching in but aren't?
you can just represent those as a pair of real numbers, one for the real part, and one for the imaginary part. As long as you only (recursively) apply exponential and trig functions on those numbers, I believe you'll stay within the realm of complex numbers.
I say this as a naturalized citizen who went through this process myself a few years ago: it's our country and we can decide which people we want to let in. It's not their right, it's a privilege we provide them with the expectation that they will contribute to our society more than the average Canadian. So, yes, we cherry-pick the applicants who will most likely contribute the most.

People running away from war and famine have a different humanitarian immigration path into Canada which is not built with the expectation that they will become net contributors to our society.
Yes first or second generation Americans (or long established Americans) don’t owe anyone else any responsibility. They only owe their descendants and fellow Americans here. They don’t owe non descendants elsewhere anything. It’s not like they can go back to their grandparents country and say hey, remember my grandparents, they were from here, I need help, help me out over here!
Part of the problem is that in basic science, it is hard to measure the value of a project until years in the future. But we do allocate money on academic projects -- through federal grants.. nevertheless the base salary for a postdoc is pretty standard across the country, an subpar compared to industry. Hence, salary does not necessarily correlate with importance of the research.
ok, here is my devil's advocate point - what if more companies switch to even more offshoring? how are we gonna protect the jobs then?

Yes there are abusers (& outright fraud - https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/telugu... ) of system, and on other hand we still need brilliant Computer science engineers !

Secondly, there is no law that currently prevents moving the H1b labor pool to a offshore heaven like India or Philippines or whatever! so what if this actually increases the bottomline of major h1b users?

Finally , what exactly is the 45th percentile salary? this is a vital question because the base h1b salary is $65k?! would that be increased to $100k? how many delta jobs that are we talking about? or all is this for the elections?
How do you come to that conclusion about video distribution?
People who oppose H1B fundamentally believe that foreign workers should not be allowed to enter the American labor pool thereby depressing the wages here. Fair enough.

While on the margin, it is true that if a company can't hire a foreign worker, it _might_ be forced to hire a local worker in the short run. But in the long run, restricting labor this way only increases the chance of that job moving entirely abroad, especially for information workers like programmers.

Take this real example.

Google has offices in both Mountain View (USA) and Bengaluru (India). The hiring bar is the same and Google employees can easily transfer between offices.

A SWE in the BLR office makes ~40K USD (due to the local cost of labor), while the same SWE would make ~150K in MTV if they decided to change teams. USA gets $0 out of the 40K that the BLR SWE makes, while it would make ~55K in federal and state income taxes and even more in payroll taxes if the same person moved to MTV. And I am not even counting the sales taxes, and general velocity of the money that person would spend if they lived in MTV.

Either way for Google a SWE is a SWE and if the US made it impossible to hire them in the US, they would just increase hiring in India.

How is this a better outcome for the US or its citizens? Unless you ban all outsourcing, you are only increasing the chances of shifting the labor entirely outside the country by having strict immigration control, as opposed to labor that lives in the country and pays taxes. It's ironic that most of the H1B rage is targeted against programmers, one of the MOST remote-friendly professions as COVID lockdowns have re-affirmed. It's also ironic that there is always generic xenophobia against "second-tier programming talent from India" when Indians as a group pay the highest taxes per-capita in the US and are one of the most law-abiding.

Historically the US has had the benefit of being a desirable place to live in, due to being a developed country that largely had its shit together. That encouraged the best minds from around the world come and live here, whether researchers or working professionals, even if they had to jump several hoops to do so.

It feels like the US is extremely insistent on killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Due to the constant volatility in immigration policies, university toppers and budding researchers across the world are already wary of choosing the US as a place to work or live in. It will be a few decades before the chickens come home to roost for the US, but it will be too late by then.
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I don’t want my government making a web browser, but I do want it to keep a competitive market for web browsers.
$9-10B? Even for Google that's not a small amount, and the fact that Google asked SCOTUS to have a look means that they care, otherwise they would be fine with the Federal Circuit decision.
Haha Murder
That's not true. Our CPU VMs are similar to DO's CPU optimized droplets. The cheaper droplets are all shared CPU.
I don’t think it’s fair to say H1B holders are super-talented. For example most WITCH consultants are on H1-b and... not super-talented. I’ve worked with some brilliant people on H1-b too but the H1-b system as is does not filter for “super-talented”
> The problem isn't so much the bandwidth but the serendipity.

It is what I meant. Can the "hallway track" experience somehow be simulated in VR or MMORPG to improve the interactivity between participants? It doesn't sound like a practical idea, sure, but I don't think it's stupid enough to be excluded from investigation.

On second thought, a simulation in video games isn't a particularly new idea, there must be a good collection of researches and conclusions already. I should look it up on Google Scholar someday to answer my own question...
H1B and immigration shouldn't be used interchangeably. I think immigration should be easier, but I highly doubt that when the company I work for uses hires junior web developers with H1B visas for low pay based on the area, that they couldn't find a single native to fill the position, especially since it's always been a fully remote position.
> A greater surface temperature, about 5C more than Earth, was also considered to be better for life.

Wonder how that corresponds to Paris agreement ideas...
That's so insane re: 'ghetto children'. How is that tolerated, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations#Emergence_o... is considered unacceptable?
And the state level polling errors were highly correlated, which 538 called out in their pre-election coverage, but people ignored.
Another fan here, great site and lots of great background music.
Until a sizeable chunk of the world's workforce is erotically DDOS'd into blissful oblivion.

Mmm cyberpunk.
I think Tesla should absolutely take the money.

But it means that buying an EV in the EU doesn't really help the environment as an individual action. The emissions are essentially locked in by government policy, although it's very aggressive.

I think this is better though. It doesn't rely on consumers being conscious of their externalities, because regardless of their choices the aggregate carbon efficiency will be improving steadily by the exact same amount year over year.

The program is clearly creating a vibrant BEV market and forcing economies of scale that will eventually make them profitable outside of compliance. It's a major win.

Buying an EV, buying its certificate and not letting anyone use it would mean you're not also allowing 10 ICEs to be sold. But that would really be going above an beyond.

And I don't think Tesla (as the only auto maker that could have this program) wants to draw attention to the dynamics at play.
> In "safe" languages we often talk about how you can't ignore errors in return values.

It’s pretty important to define what you mean by “error”. We should not conflate state or execution errors with approximation errors, they are very very different kinds of errors. It is quite often not an error condition to have an approximation, and so would not count as a “leak”.

> If it only takes 6k lines to provide an API for more precise real numbers, then almost every programming language should have it.

There are a lot of libraries in a lot of languages for supporting arbitrary precision, big numbers, and other various representations. I’d venture to say that almost every programming language does have it, if you count a third party or open source library as having it.

On the other hand, high precision reals is a performance drain of enormous magnitude if you don’t always need it. Do keep in mind that even with all their problems, 32 bit floats and 64 bit doubles are really fast compared to software number libraries, the IEEE formats have broad hardware support that doesn’t exist for high precision reals.
Why would insulin be a natural monopoly? It seems like a commodity, which is kinda the opposite.

Aside from modern insulin variations under patent, but that's different.

I suspect the barrier to entry that creates these monopolies is again the access to FDA approval. You can only really make money in the US market, due to the price controls elsewhere.

The high US drug prices subsidizes the world to a big extent, and I wonder how much of a drug industry would survive if the US also went for price controls.
And the people who make excel will just tell you "excel is not a database" lol
I think the intended simplification is :
(sin⁻¹(cos⁻¹(tan⁻¹(tan(cos(sin(9))))))−9)⁻¹ ->
(sin⁻¹(cos⁻¹(cos(sin(9))))−9)⁻¹ ->
(sin⁻¹(sin(9))−9)⁻¹ ->
(9−9)⁻¹ ->
0⁻¹ ->
1/0
My previous company spent tens of millions on Amazon ads. There was definitely a shift in the past couple years to where it became a necessity. Those in charge just shrugged it off and said it was all part of the game.
I would hope they are also restricting offshore hiring because otherwise these efforts would be in vain.
Is it the consumer buying them, or retailers/drop-shippers buying them to resell?
Are you really dismissing research on the basis of anecdotal news articles? It makes total sense to question the value of the types of studies I linked to, but "the real world disagrees with research" is kind of a bonkers take.
> So DOMPurify has nothing to do here, and returns a serialized HTML:

<form><math><mtext><form><mglyph><style></math><img src onerror=alert(1)></style></mglyph></form></mtext></math></form>

This seems to be the wrong part. If "</math><img src onerror=alert(1)>" was interpreted as part of a #text node, it should have been serialized into "&lt;/math&gt;&lt;img src onerror=alert(1)&gt;" so that it becomes harmless in any subsequent round-trip.
Why the preference for Americans?
This is a case where the right TLD makes all the difference. If it were .biz, no one in their right mind is going to click that. Org must have already been taken.
A lot of technologies only work “at scale”. Some things can be scaled down, but I don’t think that’s trivial.
Reminds me of my visit to the Museum of Torture in Italy. Quasi-NSFW-ish but nothing gory, still, proceed with caution if you are squeamish.

http://www.torturemuseum.it/en/
They have to restrict offshore and outsourcing in parallel to visas or this would be a total wasted effort. It would actually backfire if not done in unison.
Are you sure the hiring bar is the same?
A key problem with H1B visas is not just the wage requirements, but the fact that the requirements are ever changing, the fees keep getting higher, and that you can get rejected for some arbitrary reason even if you meet all criteria. This means most companies barring the biggest Silicon Valley employers, banks and Indian consulting companies are simply not willing to stomach the perceived administrative expenses or uncertainty that comes with visa sponsorship. It doesn't help that vested political interests use administrative hurdles as workaround to decrease immigration because they fail to pass legislation.

It would benefit all parties to have a system that is more transparent, predictable and administratively simpler.
Deplatforming works. Most pizzagaters had no idea it was a homophobic conspiracy. The save the children shit is as predatory as those spam callers from india or nigerian prince stuff.
more great logic - we need to outsource jobs so the companies can earn a higher profit to pay UBI to the citizens they displaced.

This is the equivalent of a ponzi scheme if you think about it - unsustainable.

US is a country, not a company - citizens are non-voluntary members - some of them have ancestors that served and died to make it what it is. US did not magically become an epicenter of innovation where Google could be created, it took the whole history of the country to get to this point.

If "more efficient economies" were about to take over, people would stay home. folks continue to come to the US because it is still best here.

some of the "more efficient economies" come from are growing by widescale industrial espionage, made easier by lax controls on intellectual property. People still come here.

Other emerging economies have almost intractable demographic issues that only so much hope can address.

The US would be well served to not blindly repeat the mistakes of other countries for the sake of short term economic gain.
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Is this just a small sample size? There aren't that many EEs working on software, certainly compared to the whole universe of software developers.
I think this is true when we're talking about a large number of immigrants in general, where a significant percentage of them don't have advanced skills (akin to any large sample-size of humans). The dynamic changes entirely when the sample size is comprised mostly of immigrants with advanced skills.

If we allowed in 100,000 immigrant astronauts, I think it's safe to say they'd impact the hiring prospects of American astronauts. And they wouldn't consume enough goods and services to spawn new space ventures that create 100,000 new astronaut jobs.
It is more difficult, but its not completely horrible. It's certainly better than the death in the post I was replying to ("was found dead in his home because he couldn't afford $1,300 per month for insulin."). I get that the older insulins are not as good. I get that they're more difficult to use. They are, however, most definitely better than dying. Any story that says says the person died because they couldn't afford 1300/ month for insulin is being disingenuous.
> living in a more prude country

I think they're trying to say that given there's open advertising of various sex related things, that Germany isn't exactly prudish.
I note that MediaWiki's VisualEditor uses DOMPurify in some capacity.
Pretty sure that comment was in reference to syndicalism - a theory of government where worker-controlled unions would have leverage over laws that relate to their domain... But that hasn't been a relevant system of anything since Revolutionary Catalonia was a thing in the 1930s.

(disclaimer, I actually love syndicalism as a concept. In an ideal world, syndicalism could ensure that naive and bought-out politicians wouldn't be able to arbitrarily outlaw encryption - because laws which relate to technology would be in the domain of people who actually work on technology. But like so many systems that sound nice in an ideal world - getting there and making it non-corrupt would be no minor feat).
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Not sure what the faux outrage here would be, Sweden is pretty cool so should use less power. And if it's nuclear then that's pretty clean.

Technically it's a interesting and exciting infrastructure project though!
What do you nean with selection sort giving logarithmic time? I mean any algorithm finding anything unique on an unsorted list has to be at least O(n) or resort to magic.
I play both guitar and pedal steel. The tapping techniques that would be used on a horizontal 6-string guitar would be impractical on a steel guitar (lap or pedal) because the action is too high and there are no frets.
We already have a system for that -- taxes. Why would you underpay H1B workers? It seems punitive w/o cause.

1. It is unfair to the workers

2. The H1B Programme is for top talent, for talent you cannot find locally. If anything you should overpay for such valuable talent.

3. High H1B salaries also come back to the country in the form of taxes just like for all workers, which should improve schools.

Schooling is a shared problem for communities and our country, and should be paid for with taxes -- why would you put the burden of that on immigrant workers?

Finally, if despite taxes, we cannot fix our school system, perhaps instead of blaming/punishing immigrants we should be looking at our municipal and state governments.
Why? Are there more jobs for Biologists than Computer Scientists/Developers/Programmers?

It looks like this is a response based on demand. Why in the world would you want more biologists when there isn't market demand for them?

This is mostly wishful romanticization of particular "underdog" areas of studies. Makes no sense to me. Even more preposterous is the parent's profound claim:

> I feel like this thread has a lot of bias coming from bad experiences in the computer science field

I don't understand why we are talking about bias? It's not like the market goes "Gee ... we are a software company, but only if we would abandon our biases and hire an archeologist from Columbia and sponsor an H1b visa for them. Not sure what would do with them, but we must hire them though. Hey Rob! You got any ideas man?"
Fanaticism is proportional to the fear of being proved wrong. Consciously or subconsciously.
Businesses should have the expectation that they can hire zero H1B workers. The suggestion is that they do something in exchange for that privilege.
In Google and similar big cos, certainly. If anything it's harder because college grads in India and China are some of the most zealous and effective when it comes to Leetcoding and similar preparation techniques.

The elephant in the room is that the vast majority of less-paid and supposedly 'bad' H1B talent comes from 'IT consulting firms' like Infosys, Cognizant etc. who files 10s of thousands of H1B applications, compared to say Google which filed 5000.
I'm having a hard time coming up with a scenario in which the user of such a device would not be in an abusive situation. Any examples?
In my view, we can never not have a shortage of talent when it comes to scientific disciplines - at any pricepoint. The beauty of bringing more researchers to the country is that they eventually help create as many or more jobs than they "take".
Probably because he smoked a metric ton of cigarettes / did lots of coke.

RIP
The extremely established ants in my garden allotment are advanced aphid ranchers!

* yellow aphids on milkweed

* black aphids on yard-long beans

* green aphids on lettuce
the title of the article is right, the WSJ article doesn't correlate with the rule linked.