skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm always direct when pointing out that I left the South partially because of discrimination

Any reasonable person who reads will infer that "the South" is that thing that is discriminatory in general. If you instead meant something else you worded it very poorly.

I honestly have a hard time believing that you don't understand how the sentence "I left X because of Y." implies that X is Y.

"I left my marriage because of domestic violence." It's entirely possible to construct a meaning where your spouse wasn't the one beating you, but that's the logical inference.

If you didn't intend to generalize that the South is discriminatory overall then why didn't you just say: I left my hometown because of discrimination? What additional meaning does "the South" add to that if you really just mean:

"I left my home town because of discrimination. My hometown happens to be in the South, but I don't think the South at large is any more or less discriminatory than any other region."

>All that said, I do think there are accurate generalizations you can make about the South, or any large region.

Sure. I don't think you can based on the experience of having lived in one tiny area of that region.

>Forsyth County, for instance, is definitely exurban and just as definitely part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Exurban is one step away from farmland. The differences between Cumming and say the area around Little Five Points is much greater than the difference between that same area of Atlanta and San Francisco.
> Some of the best software engineers I know are graduate degree holders from neuroscience, biophysics, EE, and more

This is evidence that H-1B shouldn't apply to those positions, they don't require any skill set that is in actual shortage.
Sure, there are low paid H1B workers, but why is that necessarily a problem? Your link shows no evidence that they depress the wages or employment of native-born workers.

In fact, there are many proper economic analyses that show that native-born workers benefit from immigration:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3pi8vo/highsk...
Look at the work force in other business sectors. What do you see? Do you see competition? I think tech world have changed quite a bit post Covid (I might be wrong),health care cost is rising(irrespective of where one lives in USA, ), college education cost. There is no competition. The general consensus in American civil society after Bernie's defeat is, there is no need to keep majority of Americans healthy and educated. Sorry.
Thanks for making this. It’s silly and fun and a bit educational. Plinko was the best part of being sick as a kid.
Are bankers fungible?
How do you copy / paste text in that setup? Often I need to copy text from browser and paste into vim.
In theory.[1]

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wa...
Interesting. Any kind of sanitizer like this seems doomed to fail repeatedly--I like the discussion at http://langsec.org/

I wrote a Semgrep rule (I'm one of the maintainers) to look for calls to the .sanitize() method and suggest the final recommendation in the post, which is to use either RETURN_DOM or RETURN_DOM_FRAGMENT. To use it:

pip install semgrep && semgrep --config=https://semgrep.dev/s/ievans:dom-purify2

Or you can just preview it on some test code: https://semgrep.dev/s/ievans:dom-purify2
>work to elect officials that make the political change you want

Not sure how that is supposed to apply to people like the Canadian employee referenced in the article. Canadians don't exactly have much say in American elections.
Life is about trade off, if the American want to be paid more in order to have all that then they better provide more value for their employer compared to someone from "shithole country"
Are you so sure? Surely the rest of planet was better off before the advent of agriculture, when density was very low.

Increased human carrying capacity does not necesarily mean increases for any other organism. I would think they would tend to be negatively correlated.
>That's because it's a pension fund

I don't think that's the most accurate way to view social security given the benefit structure. E.g., it's not necessarily typical for a pension to cover disability insurance, healthcare, etc. Regardless, it's a digression from the original comment point which is about the proportion of taxes.

Taxes need to be viewed in the context of the entire tax structure, not just a subset of taxes known as the federal income tax. While I don't disagree that the wealthy pay disproportionately more, it's not nearly as much as the GP post suggests when you look at the entire tax structure. As an example, in that context, the top 1% account for 20.9% of the total income and pay 24.3% of the total taxes [1]. The point being, we need to be careful not to cherry-pick from subsets of the overall tax structure. Only reporting federal income tax statistics can be accurate and misleading at the same time.

[1]https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2020/
Maybe academic research doesn't substantiate that, but reality definitely does.

This is from May 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/19/quarantine-...

Basically, the UK fruit industry was worried that it might not get "enough workers" because of COVID restrictions.

Which of course is brazen corporate double-speak. There are workers in the UK, like tens of millions of them. It's just that they're not willing to work for miserly wages. So there's only two options: (1) increase local wages, or (2) import cheap foreigners. Business obviously prefer the latter. ("But but but strawberry prices would increase" isn't a good argument - agriculture is heavily subsidized anyways.)
You do realize that US universities don't view foreign students as an investment right? They view them as a revenue source.
Cassowary: The Most Dangerous Bird
That's not true. Storing data has costs. And not just hard drives. There are organizational risks in keeping data forever. Analytics could be needlessly complex with excessive data retention. Just store the data you need.
> People oh H1B are either very friendly to constant moves or are banking on a path to citizenship through it

BY DESIGN, as H1Bs (as well as L1s and a couple others) are dual intent
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701732
> So you'd either have to live off of your savings or get another job or go back to your home country.

Or crime.
> We're looking at people with kinda average engineering skills, poor understanding of the American culture, no connections, and grim determination to grind their way out of their old life.

I don't think these are the kind of people getting an H1B visa, though. It's usually the super-talented people they hire on H1B.
> I guess what I don't understand then is what big advantage "enterprise ECC" has left over this DDR5 "non-enterprise ECC"

ECC should be end-to-end, so it detects and (hopefully) corrects errors anywhere along the path, not just within a chip.

Step 1 of handling a lot of ECC correction events is to reseat the DIMM, because often it's just an issue with the connection, not actually a memory defect.

And you may not care too much about reports of correction events, but you definitely want to see correction failures reported - the point is, after all, to avoid corruption.
That's an arbitrary line to draw, and really misses the forest for the trees.

It makes little difference in the end if it's a corporation blackmailing and ruining a person's life or a government. Facebook can share your data with whoever they want to, so the government can probably get it anyway. We have no idea who Facebook shares data with, who inside Facebook can see it, etc. Every company claims they have great security and follow best practices, until it's found out that they don't, so taking their word for it that your data is safe is naive.

In both cases the end user is powerless unless they stop using the service altogether.
Maybe you recall the CSV import window in libreoffice
I was a Linux user for a long time, then switched to Mac for working hoping that would result in less fiddling with things and more actual working. That strategy worked for quite a while, but lately I've been frustrated by myself and all my coworkers getting hit with the keyboard issue, and one of them had a swollen battery. Lots of random crashes.

I've been slowly switching back to using a Lenovo ThinkCentre running Linux (which requires a lot less fiddling these days) and I'm really starting to like it. I just get shit done again. Oh, and I can install any software I want without having to go into settings to allow it...

Even on Mac I ran a Windows VM for some things, I now do that same thing on my Linux machine.
I've worked in quite a few fairly sophisticated technical environments, have many friends working in professional positions who have discussed the issue (from engineering, to academia, to medicine), and I've yet to encounter this situation where a unicorn from another country is the only option for a skill in the entire country with a population of over 300 million.

What I often do see instead are situations where local markets seeking a skill can't or don't want to compete with the labor rates needed for to attract or contract the skills they desire. They instead have to look for more leveraged labor abroad to pass their desired cost savings onto who is willing to accept living in undesired locations, working at below market rates to escape even less desirable situations, etc.

Obviously, this is anecdotal. I'm sure the case does arise where you actually need some highly specialized labor abroad but nothing near the labor pools the H1B program allows. If there are labor supply shortages, you shouldn't need to artificially inflate the market with labor through visa programs. Raise compensation and let the markets adjust to attract talent. This sort of competition is what's forced on the labor market while businesses, yet again, avoid competition when it's against their interests.

If you truly need international labor you should absolutely be required to pay near the top of market rates for the talent is truly that rare. If businesses aren't willing to pay above market rates this talent, it must not be so critical or rare. This should prevent the case of manipulating labor markets under the guise of projected artificial scarcity.

I have nothing against immigration, let people move to this country if they so desire and seek opportunity but let them do so without being leveraged by a business holding their citizenship, freedoms, and future hope of prosperity hostage while suppressing local wages, all to make a quick buck.
https://scalingo.com/ too.
Deplatforming has repeatedly shown to be effective, so while there will likely be an initial spike in interest I doubt it will help QAnon long term.
I've read study that shows automation has a much more significant impact on the job loss than immigrants.
> A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90%

Colleges are unrelated to visa refusals.
I assume you're targeting reddit programming and similar subs, they're similar to HN in aggregate. You're right that Reddit and twitter have way bigger audience in total but only a fraction of all reddit users is relevant. Assume we're talking about a tech blog, not articles on election or brexit?

It's not about rank. It's about the specifics of the article, mainly the title and the content. It simply attracts more or less readership.
I grow tomatoes and some herbs on my balcony. It’s fun and they taste better, but it is clearly orders of magnitude less efficient than basically any alternative. I pay about $10 for supplies and many hours worth of labor to produce maybe $40 worth of produce.
> In Europe, similarly, around 20M Romanians are allowed to Sweden. But they don’t.

Supposedly allowed and not at all welcome. Like most affluent countries, Sweden doesn't actually want poor people immigrating into their country. So they make things very difficult for those people. It's also why they shut down the big immigration flood, their society was highly intolerant to it.

Americans - commonly ignorant to the details of rest of the world - would be shocked to learn how regressive Scandinavia can be. From very strict immigration to virtually bulldozing minority neighborhoods in Denmark [1][2], to attacks on immigrants in Sweden and burning immigrant camps, to large political parties derived from former neo-nazi groups.

From Reuters in 2015 (the Romanians got the message):

"A series of attacks in Sweden on beggars, many Roma, has highlighted a dark side to a country considered a bastion of tolerance but where the far right has been gaining support by claiming society is under threat from waves of immigrants."

"An influx of thousands of mainly Roma migrants has shocked affluent Swedes, with beggars now a common sight outside supermarkets, IKEA stores and subways in the capital."

"There were around 300 reported attacks on Roma in 2014, up 23 percent on the year before, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. Police say the figures underestimate the scale of the problem."

"The government reckons around 5,000 migrants, some of whom also come from Hungary, are in Sweden begging. Many live on the street or in squalid camps. In recent months, attackers have thrown acid at beggars and burned tents and caravans."

"Many migrants in Sweden say they want to work, but lack of education and language skills make it impossible for most, leaving begging as the only alternative."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-sweden/sw...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/europe/denmark-immi...

"When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law. Because she lives in a low-income immigrant neighborhood described by the government as a “ghetto,” Rokhaia will be what the Danish newspapers call a “ghetto parent” and he will be a “ghetto child.”

Starting at the age of 1, “ghetto children” must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in “Danish values,” including the traditions of Christmas and Easter, and Danish language. Noncompliance could result in a stoppage of welfare payments. Other Danish citizens are free to choose whether to enroll children in preschool up to the age of six."

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/15/900874510/facing-eviction-res...

"Facing Eviction, Residents Of Denmark's 'Ghettos' Are Suing The Government"
I'm fully supportive of massively more immigration - I believe it's a net economic positive and a moral imperative.

At the same time, if a program is designed to bring in 'exceptional talent' but is really just importing mediocre drones from a single country, that's not really serving the purpose of the program.

Let's fix H1Bs and then work on more equitable ways to allow other forms of beneficial immigration.
The word "vikingr" can only come from Norse, as I already mentioned, because it includes a Norse inflection, the nominative case suffix.

The modern word "viking" similarly cannot come from an Old English word "wicing", because Old English /w/ does not become modern /v/. The only words beginning with /v/ in modern English that come from Old English began with /f/ then.

Compare "wit", "will", "water", "wife", etc. etc. etc. etc.
They aren't limits though, the email warnings is the only thing they actually do.
Yeah. I am looking for the same. Doesnt seem to listed anywhere.
I would have thought that the comment "xenophobia is natural" is fairly uncontroversial. It's certainly not an artificial construct forced upon people (although certain expressions and targets might be). That's why there are articles like http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/why-your-brain-hates-ot... . After all, even animals can exhibit xenophobic behaviors.

I don't think runarberg meant that xenophobia is acceptable or proper.
That's actually completely incorrect. I say this as someone who was blessed with eidetic memory for the first few decades of my life. I could see or read something once and it stuck. I actually trained myself to not remember things that I found emotionally unpleasant and didn't want just popping up. I literally got tired of people telling me how smart I was, because I knew I wasn't. I was just capable of recalling what other actually smart people thought about the scenario in question or one analogous enough to more or less fit. It always felt incredibly empty.

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.
Ever considered debating a person instead of claiming new ideas or different option is

" racist "

" Sexist "

" Conspiracy theroy"
The OP seem to be talking more about the benefits of self hosting, Hence that line of reasoning.

Secondly, I was specifically not critical of plausible in fact I was positive toward them.

The issue in general is that the trade off is subtle and not obvious, and I think a fair number of people think it’s an easy decision one way or another but it’s often not.
Why does the Linux community as a whole rely on one company to fix a lot of their problems ?
Usually?
At the same time, the people in a given geography should have a say about what the companies in the area are doing. If a company decides to be anti-social with the people already in the community, I see no reason why the people in the area shouldn't object to it. It's clearly a balance, and both sides should be willing to play ball.
Yea, it could. A similar argument got rejected. That’s the problem.
Is AWS CLI v2 Download down
I have been trying to download awscliv2 from their official link
And have been continuously getting curl CERT Error

https://awscli.amazonaws.com/
This only makes my point against the GP stronger. So half the population of Puerto Rico has already migrated to the mainland US, without anything terrible happening to the mainland US as a result.

The myths about the negative consequences of open border policy have no basis in reality.
This is fantastically awesome!

What people often miss is that a statement like "X wins with 75% probability" means that X's supporters have a very solid chance of losing. The odds (and risks) in the long run aren't the same when there is no long run, just one experiment.

My recommendation would be to change the script so that "dropping all balls" stops after one run, and the button "drop one ball" gets highlighted after that, encouraging the user to click it.

Because it is then that you get to feel how real the chances of ball ending up on the right side are, even if most balls end up on the blue side.

We all only get one drop.

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Personal plug: my 3D-printed Galton/Plinko board[1].

If anyone's interested, I can share the STL file or OpenSCAD code.

[1]https://i.imgur.com/O4ZqOVR.jpeg
Across the US, about 20% of the spots to get a computer science degree are occupied by foreign nationals. The research at these universities is funded by US research grants. If there's a need to create more skilled tech workers, it might make sense to tie federal search funding to changing these numbers until the need for H-1B visas falls below a threshold value.

Right now, the US taxpayer is funding the education of skilled foreign workers to take jobs from US citizens. That's messed up.

For reference: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11347
When you go down this rabbit hole enough though you realize how totally inept pretty much every government has been in facilitating standards and supporting infrastructural software throughout the tech sector since its inception.

Projects like BSD, ARPANET, etc were largely public money going into public software that was liberally licensed. Huge swathes of modern tech are built on foundations of public funding. But by and large today there is absolutely no interest or investment at the state actor level into infrastructural software - Linux is built by corporate involvement, html by whatwg, and fundamental technologies like how ubiquitous Blink and V8 are becoming throughout the software stack are corporations acting as authorities on structural software because public actors have totally failed to fill a necessary role in providing these interoperabilities for decades.

The IETF was publicly funded before 93 but became a nonprofit thereafter. There are now dozens of similar foundations relying on largely corporate sponsorship to develop standards - new ones like Matrix, old ones like XMPP, or are just largely dumps of corporate will on our collective experience like PDF.

Activitypub is a W3C standard but the W3C is basically a private club for university departments at this point. Again, it had public funding and involvement in the 90s that atrophied over time.

The consequences of our fragment ecosystems built largely on lock-in for-profit motives have wasted a billion man hours of human labor reinventing the same wheels and have produced a software ecosystem where free software is predated by the most powerful and wealthy companies to ever exist on Earth to produce insane profits never before realized. And its largely a consequence of totally non-existent climates of public infrastructural software development being funded and paid for by tax revenues.

If humanity survives in some form long term future generations will look back at this period and ask "how were these monkeys so stupid as to not collectivize coherent standards and have them deployed ubiquitously to make the benefits of software more available to all and to push the envelope of progress faster?"

Hell the premier way to do complex research or theoretical experiments in software today is with CUDA, a holistically proprietary toy of Nvidia used to sell 5000% marked up workstation graphics cards because public institutions have been totally unable to even recognize that's a problem let alone do anything about it.

Its a problem the west is having in many industries. The cult like idolization of the profit motive as a means to every end means roads crumble, bridges collapse, Internet infrastructure goes undeveloped, transit is nonexistent, housing is a nightmare, and software is in a perpetual wild-west state of eating itself reinventing the same wheels in perpetuity to try to appease gambling addict shareholders.
Yes! All those wealthy immigrants who helped to build the US
Ants farm mites which attack plants I like. The ants live off the primary disease: the ants are evidence the disease is active. I am sure the plant has a bio defence, its probably the flavour I seek
> Raise compensation and let the markets adjust to attract talent.

But this can take decades.

If Google wants to start a large new compiler project, them opening a job position with a high salary isn't going to convince anyone to go away and do a PhD in compilers, and if it does they wouldn't be available for five years.

If Google want to build a compiler now and they aren't able to hire anyone locally with the skills, what do you want them to do? Abandon the project? That's not great for the US economy is it?
So this is amusingly similar to the argument against a minimum wage increase. People will lose their jobs, families will lose out. In either case, the employer is the actual baddie being forced to either raise the wage to an appropriate level or send the employee home (and then attempt to backfill the job with the local market, probably not easy). So if you are for an increased minimum wage, legislation at least in part intended to eliminate abusive employment practices across the low end labor market, (and I assume you are because of your rightful concern for the families) wouldn't it make sense to praise this legislation and focus your frustration on the inevitable corporations that are taking advantage of foreign labor? Or is there more nuance to this?
The point isn’t to change their minds, it’s to prevent it from spreading. If it’s banned from Facebook, it’s much less likely that random people will encounter it and fall down a rabbit hole of radicalization.