skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ Because those required wage increases take effect this week, existing H-1B holders looking to renew their visas might not qualify unless their employers raise their salaries accordingly.”

This is really bad. Families are going to get told to leave. I’m surprised that there is no discussion on this thread about the impact to people who haven’t done anything wrong.
I doubt it. The problem isn't so much the bandwidth but the serendipity. I got at least peripherally sucked into the Second Life hype and I'm very unconvinced VR was the missing ingredient.
> What amazes me is how much hate the US gets for being one of the most generous countries on Earth.

Well, "generous" is a big word. There's not much handed to you when you move to the US, you'll have to work hard for your money, like everyone else. If you want to know what generous looks like, try talking with an immigrant in Europe.
this is user-generated content and it should belong to the user, i.e. they should be able to export it in an interchangeable format, like we had RSS a long time ago. But it would also mean the end of lock-in for many companies, so i don't think they 'll allow it
a bit of the current nuclear FUD - Lithuania considers giving out iodine to population to be prepared in case that new Belarusian nuclear power plant gets issues (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7383941/Lithuania-p...), and Armenia/Azerbaijan conflict this time seems to be going into full blown war, with things not going great for Armenia (Turkish drones have been proving themselves very effective there) which does have a nuclear power plant (giving the level of hate between Armenia and Turkey/Azerbaijan i'd not bet that, even if the direct war zone wouldn't reach the plant, the strategic chance to plunge your enemy's whole country into darkness would be passed by, especially if sabotage or strike can be made to look like an accident) .
I am all for immigration, but not at the expense of suppressing wages for anyone. That money that was suppressed (indirectly) goes to the pockets of the C suite and contributes to income equality. What is wrong in addressing one of the reasons contributing to income equality?

> Canada, a country 1/10th the size of the US, brings in 300,000 new immigrants each year. The US brings in 366,000. This means Canada brings in ~10X the number of new immigrants per capita than the US does.

I love Canada, would move there in a heartbeat, but the he IT salaries in Canada are pitiful compared to the US. Maybe one of the reasons?
Wouldn’t that cause a large displacement of the existing labor force and significantly drive down wages?
it's hypocritical and worth calling out for discussion, not justifying with a shrug. if a particular user doesn't care about kobe, why then care enough to flag? just let it go and move on to items of greater interest. it's not a political issue rife for flamebait, certainly no moreso than van halen.
The H1B system is supposed to be for shortages. In a real economic shortage, prices are supposed to go up. If salaries are not going up, it is not a real shortage.

I think there is a shortage, so I'm proposing increasing salaries. Accounting firms are not competing with tech firms necessarily, they are competing with the market for accountants (lots of accountants go into other fields because they cant find work at a suitable rate.) Their business model should not be to underpay workers, it should be to pay workers high enough to attract them and charge customers appropriately.
Sounds like we agree on what you're doing, we just disagree about whether it's a good approach.

I don't want to need to depend on you being in a good mood to waive fees (or more likely, to hope you're not so low on runway that support gets incentives not to waive them until after your next round closes). I don't want to have to guess whether your terms mean what they say, or whether that giant potential bill might magically go away if I incur it and can convince you it was, quote, nasty.

I do want to deal with people who have thought hard about how to build their product in a way that I can depend on and reason confidently about, and who treat me like the seasoned adult I am.
People have already hacked tesla's APIs allowing them to see the location and details of random users.
This is really the correct measure. Power to GDP ratio.
I have one I built[1] out of a key switch tester and other spare parts. It saves me some awkward hand flexing and key stroke positions to reduce the chance of a repetitive stress injury.

[1] https://twitter.com/Azxiana/status/1285402557846781952/photo...
You can still be pro-migration while disagreeing with the pace of it - despite what the downvotes imply.
Serious question: wouldn’t that be leaving less jobs open for Americans?

As an American myself, I want to see my fellow Americans getting good jobs over people from other countries.
Even a clock running backwards at triple speed is right eight times a day.
Canada has much lower income inequality than the US, so it seems like the increased immigration rates are not the reason.
I read Cal Newport's Deep Work (https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...), which explains how to work in a way that maximizes your output. In short, he recommends spending short periods of time hyper-focused on difficult problems with absolutely no distractions.

I applied this way of working to how I approached studying for software engineering and it helped me tremendously. I was able to pick up difficult solutions quite quickly without spending huge amounts of time studying. I've continued to use this way of working over the last couple of years, which has helped me perform well at work + on side projects.

During this time, I had no way to track my deep work hours or what I was getting done in those sessions. This allows you to do just that. You can think of it like Google Analytics for your Deep Work time.

It's in the early stages now, but I'm in the process of adding essential features.
> “America’s immigration laws should put American workers first,”

Quotes like these irk the heck out of me. American workers is a subset of the populace and no, they should not be prioritized over other competing groups. For example, American Business owners, American Retirees, American disabled folks...

It's a lot less about the specifics of this article/case and more about how the "Jobs" aim has become impossible to balance

EDIT: If you're going to downvote then leave a rebuttal to the point. Why should Immigration laws (or any law for that matter) focus on a subset of Americans?
Although this question is more academic in nature, how "difficult" is memory training/initialization compared to DDR4? I recall an active microcontroller needing to calibrate the DRAM on startup for DDD4.
Why would peer to peer be greener? Forget studies, peer to peer doesn't mean less less bits on the wire, and doesn't mean less CPU cycles to process those bits.
They'd be stupid not to
Background about this project --

I read Cal Newport's Deep Work (https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...), which explains how to work in a way that maximizes your output. In short, he recommends spending short periods of time hyper-focused on difficult problems with absolutely no distractions.

I applied this way of working to how I approached studying for software engineering and it helped me tremendously. I was able to pick up difficult solutions quite quickly without spending huge amounts of time studying. I've continued to use this way of working over the last couple of years, which has helped me perform well at work + on side projects.

During this time, I had no way to track my deep work hours or what I was getting done in those sessions. This allows you to do just that. You can think of it like Google Analytics for your Deep Work time.

It's in the early stages now, but I'm in the process of adding essential features.
Applications for an H1B open up in April, IIRC are accepted for a short period of time, and are not actually granted until October.

That is 6 months, plus a couple thousand dollars minimum, to try to get an H1B status for someone you want to hire.

If an employer is knowingly expecting the person they hire to bail after 6 months, they won't go through the process.
I think I read somewhere that Chat is basically just a modernized frontend for Wave but I can't find the source.
Not only that, but outright lying about the breaches. When I used them in early 2010s, they managed to expose two different virtual CC numbers (which I _only_ used for Linode) to fraudulent charges. But both times they insisted I was not part of the breach they were suffering at the time ...
The analogy does not hold up. There are quite a lot of differences between a "pedal steel" guitar, and an electric guitar. First, electric guitars do not have pedals. Pedal steel guitars do not have a resonating wood body. They produce very different sounds in very different ways.
Low skill immigration hurts the poor. When economists talk about it having a neutral impact they are referring to 4-5 year time scales which is different from having zero consequences. Most poor people are not in a comfortable enough position for it to be ethical to tell them "just deal with it" without offering some kind of support.
Cloudflare can now send DDoS alerts for sites under attack
Cryptographically signed transactions...
Ah nice coincidence. I was trying to estimate how much power was wasted in our compute grid due to poor memory allocation from linux malloc() and came around 1-2% of a nuclear power plant.

For those who wonder how come? Poor allocation and fragmentation have a small performance impact that appear to get significant across thousands of cores running the same tasks. That'd make a nice blog post I guess.
The date of the appearance of “vikingr.” The fact that the old norse word "vic" meant inlet or bay doesn't establish that vikings called themselves vikings prior to the appearance of "wicing." If it did, the literature would just say that they called themselves "vikings" from the word "vic" and point to some primary record of it.
That's not the kind of families HN cares about. Only the right kind /s.
> Economies of scale are dictatorial dynamics. Economy of scale means you're putting unbalanced pricing pressure on suppliers.

I think you are confusing economies of scale with monopolistic/monopsonistic dynamics.
In many cases big tech companies are financing green electrical generation capacity. I don't know about this specific case, but in many cases the local green energy capacity is specifically built to power the data center.
There's no such thing as "can't fill locally", there's "can't fill locally right now".

The sacrifice to the "right now" bit is immense, it destroys incentive to learn pretty much anything.
SSDs are non-volatile — they don’t need power and constant refreshing like DRAM does. So you can do different things based on a different heat and power budget, like going 3D and adding more layers that would kill regular ram or a cpu, etc.
It's more about a lack of available reputational signals. There's little brand awareness and few people are willing to review such intimate products. With electronics you can go by manufacturer if nothing else, intimate products often don't even have branding.
If someone is keen on cost-cutting through outsourcing, they already don’t have an incentive to bring someone in and pay benefits. This is a false narrative.
FortRabbit.com
Platform.sh

There is probably a good hundred of them at this point.
I don't think you need any of that. Just a capacitive sensor to enable the card is enough. Pure contactless was a mistake as anyone can use it remotely.
If differences below the resolution that you can see can cause the opposite outcome to happen, then perhaps an estimate of "30% chance of this thing happening" should be paired with a "1% chance of that estimate being correct".
Just to echo Tkf here, I think it'd be great to have something like ThreadsX.map in base someday, but when the multi-threading features in Julia first came out, it was unclear what the best interface to provide would be.

Since Julia is committed to semantic versioning, this is a kinda scary prospect because it means that any high level, exported interface we decide on, we'll be stuck with until at least 2.0 and probably forever.

So with things like this, it's important to be conservative about the interfaces we expose and instead, we've have people explore different approaches out in the package ecosystem. One day, if someone can make a strong enough argument, I'm sure we'll see one of these package solutions end up in Base.
Some teams may use it at the big companies and I myself have used lesser performant languages at some of the big companies but only for smaller stuff. For the widely used stuff which big companies do a lot of, you need high efficiency and javascript ain't gonna do that.

One of my co workers worked on a 5 person project for half a year that just refactored a core algorithm for a heavily used product and that halved the 5 million dollars a year in hardware costs and that's not expensive public cloud cost but the highly efficient internal data center costs and all of the code was in C++. Writing any of that code in javascript would just be wasting money.
The only way this would make sense is if Digital Ocean offered the PaaS layer for free (or very cheap) to boost the sales of their underlying services (droplets, spaces, etc). Otherwise, what's the point? It simply won't be able to compete.

For example, static sites should be included for free on top of Spaces. There's no way this offering will be able to compete with Vercel, Netlify, or Firebase which all offer static sites for free with CDN. Vercel even includes 1TB of traffic per month, for free.
PTSD your kids much? What 5 year old wouldn't want to have dad actively shooting at/near them?
I'd love to understand where the gap is.

I believe the cap on the number of green cards issued per year is 366,000 -- 140,000 of which are employment based. [1] Is mistook the latter for the former and have updated my post to reflect.

[edit] It's about 1M once you factor in family members of US citizens. Updated.

Similarly Canada's 300,000-ish per year number is also the number of new permanent residents admitted per year. [2]

My goal was to track immigration, i.e. becoming permanent residents, not temporary migrant workers, including those under H-1B.

[1] https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/how-to-read-...

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-to-admi...
we use vault for certificate generation
I love Borges, thanks for posting this!

His fiction always generates so many questions for me. Is the real writer the reader who constructs the story from the bare framework the author provides? And then is it possible for anyone to actually read the same novel?
That is... the opposite of what Canada does? Healthcare there is not uber-funded, but also not necessarily strapped for cash.
Six months of development is barely useful for most companies. It can take 3 months before a developer is reasonably efficient. Learning the codebase, culture, and business logic takes time in most cases.
That's actually why we made a big deal out of it in our launch post. We thought maybe it would attract underserved customers. I am surprised that it had no effect.

My guess is that people who are interested in controlling costs are also not getting enough value from auto scaling services. So we're already not attracting those folks, and offering a cost control feature isn't enough to get us over the hump.
That's BS. I read jalopnik regularly for brainless amusement and car news. You're perceived slant against tesla is baseless. They regularly shit on H-D for their idiotic product decisions, chevy and BMW for their idiotic truck/M car grilles, nikola for fraud lately, tons of other cars/manufacturers, and yes, they shit on tesla for poor QA practices, dickish moves on resold cars, and being run by a petulant egomaniacal manchild.

What's the deal with tesla fans? Sure, every brand has fanatics and haters, but tesla fans are special. They froth at the mouth like an attack dog. Any single miniscule criticism of tesla is treated like you'd pisssed on the dinner table. They're like some hybrid of a 12-year old who thinks the supra has 1000 horsepower stock, and a basement dweller who thinks the Oculus is the pinnacle of technology.

Seriously, what's in the kool-aid and why has no one called the FDA about it?
I have not moved the goalposts. I never mentioned the total number of immigrants already in the country. That number is pretty close to 98.4% of course, since the number of First Nations or Native Americans is 5 million. Everything in my post is focused on the rate of new immigrants per year.
How is that related to immigration?
If you need the top 3 elements then neither of those are efficient. Technically insertion sort is more efficient if you stop early, but the straightforward brute force algorithm will be faster by a factor of 3.
Is there a typo in that? Where's the division by zero?

Wolfram alpha has that as exactly equal to

1/(3pi - 18)

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28sin%E2%81%BB%C2%B9%...
I saw this on Reddit the other day and have read some of the worries from historians about changing history.

I view this as one half of the equation, if people can relate to the past more (like WW2 in HD, They Shall Not Grow Old) etc, then suddenly they can connect and understand that human problems have always been around and we aren't so different.

As long as we can balance that effectively with the historical preservation part I'm all for using things such as ML upscaling/recoloring etc in order to make the past much more accessible.

I had the opportunity to see the Apollo 11 documentary on the IMAX last year when it came out, it was one of the most incredible movie experiences of my life and helped me to "get it" in regards to how the people acted, the public's reaction, enthusiasm etc.
Are you suggesting that people growing food for themselves could somehow serve the same function as basic income?

Will we need carbon taxes for that?

Because, we have labour intensive crops rotting in the fields, when prices are low, because harvesting costs too much (when prices on strawberries is low; or migrant workers aren't available).

I'd like to see math where growing your own crops out performs a job at seven eleven.

Note. I think it can be a great stress relief and a great hobby. But the economics of it, seems sketchy even if we had aggressive carbon taxing (you can't build a garden without materials).
I'm not convinced people actually have trouble misunderstanding probability. I think it's more likely that some bad faith conservatives said "look at how stupid the liberal media is, they said Hillary couldn't lose" and people actually believed that without checking what 538 actually said.
Signup pages can't be 'Show HN' but please resubmit when there is something to play with https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I also have a dell xps but I'm on X11 right now due to teams screen sharing. I also have no problems doing exactly the same thing while my sisters MSI laptop on windows makes it almost impossible to move the pointer less than an cm on screen.

I suspect this is more a hardware issue than software.
> Accounting firms are not competing with tech firms necessarily, they are competing with the market for accountants

Yes, I'm not disagreeing with this. However if you put ALL H1Bs in a single pool, and they go to the highest bidder across all industries, then yes, accounting firms are competing with tech firms.
Fire extinguishers require regular inspections/refills that, I fear, many home users won’t do.

Because of that, I think the blanket, combined with a fire alarm (also requires inspections/maintenance, but will annoy you so much that you will replace the battery regularly) is the best option for kitchens.
On top of this, people don't usually shop around much for the best product when it comes to intimate devices. A lot of it is even specifically marketed toward impulse buys.
But gross wages are also lower here. If anything almost everyone I've came across here in Canada talks about their salary using the gross amount. So not only are wages employers advertise pretty low already, they are usually pretax too.

Unless there's something more that is taken from wages that isn't shown on paychecks. Which would be weird considering that paycheck stubs usually have a full breakdown of where your money went and how much taxes were taken.
This is not. As with anything in the Trump admin, this is not well thought out and just focused on election based xenophobic messaging. The people who can game the system, can easily do that. However, many people who really benefit from H1B will be shafted. For example, doctors and nurses in rural areas. H1 also is a path for many engineers, doctors, and phds to enter the workforce. With blanket higher salary requirements, it will just deny a path to the job market for many international students graduating from Ivy league universities. Also, this benefits FAANGs, and if you are a startup looking to hire someone on H1B, forget about it.
True.

However, most Sonic Fusion accounts are resold AT&T circuits, including FTTN. As long as Sonic is at the mercy of AT&T, infrastructure issues can crop up. In the late 1990s, which was pre-Fusion, my Sonic DSL service stopped working. After a week of no Internet, Sonic informed me that AT&T had used my active circuit for another customer. The DSLAM was over subscribed and AT&T took a reseller circuit and used it for a new, non-reseller circuit. Because the DLSAM had no capacity, I was SOL. I switched to Comcast.

I had another issue when I lived in my last apartment a few years ago. When Sonic came out to service the line, they put a quality cable in the building's wire closet. Well, AT&T decided they liked that cable and took it for another customer. The cable had a Sonic label, they knew it wasn't their service. I am convinced AT&T does this on purpose since resold circuits bring in less revenue.

There is nothing Sonic can do for these types of shenanigans. Dane keeps on pimping Sonic's fiber but it has limited availability. I am in my 50s, I will be dead before it comes to Santa Clara, California, the middle of Silicon Valley.
You can't even trust hardware manufacturers to get audio drivers right, why would you ever trust them with something like this?
Perhaps that view says more about the hiring process than it does about the available labor pool.
Most hospitalized Covid patients have neurological symptoms, study says
Users are the ones who flag threads, not moderators. Mods will unflag threads if they don't feel they should have been flagged or otherwise manipulate rankings but as far as I know flagging is entirely from users.
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
gnome-shell 3.38
Some H1Bs are talented, many, many copy paste.

Yes it takes years to develop talent. It’s not easy. But these are the same companies who throw money to the wind for the purpose of empty virtue signaling and making some connected politicos happy. Why not devote that money to real causes that actually provide hope for kids rather than fill the pockets of people who know how to shake corps down?
>Frequent neurologic manifestations and encephalopathy‐associated morbidity in Covid‐19 patients

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acn3.51210
Yes, and maybe our political and public perception apparatus doesn’t scale well to the long tail of public interest topics and a singular strong entity with clear goals is simply taking advantage of that mismatch.
I also dislike the Google {Fit,Home,One, WiFi) icons since they all use the same ingredients. It's like Google is actually paying graphic designers horrendous amounts of money for remixing the company colors into various shapes. It's so sad.

Remember the beautiful icons introduced in Android Lollipop? https://images.app.goo.gl/zrbLWopUrqs26i7CA
Nope. Not confused at all.