skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Your fitness is literally measured by your ability to reproduce...

Choosing to use this device for sexual pleasure does not mean that they are incapable of reproducing. It also doesn't mean that they don't want to reproduce at all. These types of toys are also not necessarily limited to single, childless people - couples with children almost certainly employ these devices as well.

>... intended for somebody else to control (weird)...

Just because something is someone's kink, but it's not your kink, doesn't make it weird. People are into what they're into. Someone controlling someone else in the bedroom is actually an incredibly common scenario, and chastity for both genders is found quite often in the BDSM scene especially in dom/sub play.

Your lack of understanding on this subject - which is OK - is coming off as kink-shaming. Just keep that in mind when you ask yourself why you're being downvoted.
Apple supports only their own touchpads, ChromeOS also selected ones. Windows provides the great experience only for the Precision touchpads (i.e. not even to Apples under Bootcamp). Linux is expected to work with random crap, that even its vendors have given up upon.

That's the difference.
First those other eCommerce platforms need to show up. I've been looking for PC parts in the EU and there don't seem to be great choices. Newegg has a good interface but their offer in the EU is poor compared to the US.

Amazon filled a lot of these verticals with sometimes the best service they've ever had and often just good enough. Finding someone else for each is hard. But it may be a good business model fot the next 10 years. Spin up good customer-focused eCommerce operations for a vertical you know well in a market that's large enough (US and EU are both huge). Fraud and cut-throat pricing may eat you up though.
Discussion on Facial Recognition within the next hour
A group friends and I want to understand Facial Recognition better (How it works, Who is using it, etc).
If you would like to impart some wisdom on us, or have a listen at what others have to say. we have a meeting at 4pm Pacific time.

Jump into our zoom link anytime:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77603594116?pwd=YnFjRjh1UEhFeHcxNjlXR0NNMEFPUT09
We’re gonna need a napkin doodle...
Is it only me, or does this sound pretty empty? Except for narrowing of the `specialty occupation` moniker, all the rest seem like things that are already part of the H1-B program?
Follow up: How do you quickly import the questions that you write in the plain text file into Anki? And how do you organize information into different decks?
Facebook bans QAnon across all its platforms
In my experience pair programming is good when it happens organically and bad when it is prescribed. The times I have seen it prescribed have usually been the result organizational or planning issue. "This feature isn't getting done fast enough, you two pair on it." Or, "I don't want to bring anything else into the sprint, you two pair on this story." In those cases it seems like leadership is looking at pair programming as an avenue for gaining some form of efficiency, but most of the time this encumbers things further.
>The process of bringing in H-1Bs is already so expensive, arduous and wasteful that companies aren't going to be bringing in huge quantities of "US replacement" labor. I certainly wouldn't if I were in charge of hiring.

You might not be, but there are certainly companies where H-1Bs are their bread and butter[1]. Taking Cognizant as an example:

* their wikipedia page says "The company has 281,200[2] employees globally, of which over 150,000 are in India", which means there are at most 131,200 US employees

* in the year 2017 they brought in 28,908 H-1B workers. This works out to 22% of the US workforce. If we include 2016 as well that works out to 38% of the US workforce.

* the figures above are conservative estimates. We probably overestimated their US workforce and underestimated their H-1B population (we've only looked at 2 years of visas, but H1-B visas are good for up to 6 years).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Top_H-1B_employers_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognizant
yes but this will further encourage it.
Posting here because I’m addicted to seeing bad takes.
Requiring competitive wages is a good move. They should also have allowed H1B holders to switch to a different employer without requiring a new visa. Along with that they should also have increased the number of H1B visas available.

Currently many strong developers are being hired into Amazon and Microsoft but being positioned in Vancouver BC (a Canadian city a couple of hours from Seattle) [1]. These developers take American jobs but pay taxes to Canada, and contribute to Canadian economy instead of American.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/prope...
Thank you for explaining it so well. Like I said I am not against immigration as I myself am one. I would just like our government to be mindful about the challenges it poses as well and adjust the rate based on how much we are able to take in at any given point without stressing out the system and making life worse for people already here.
No, viking didn't originate with Anglo-Saxon; the term's origin is not certain, but it goes something like this:

from Old Norse víkingr, from vík ‘creek’ or Old English wīc ‘camp, dwelling place’.

There are Norse grave markers that use the term víkingr as a verb and a name, for example.

More information: https://www.etymonline.com/word/viking
Over the 16 years from 1998 to 2014 where FAANG is even relevant, small business share of GDP declined from 48% to 43.5%. (Their dollar amount has grown 1.4% annually vs. 2.5% for large businesses.)

Is 43.5% too little? Or perhaps it's too high? Across the EU, the figure I found has 99% of all enterprises employing fewer than 250 people, whereas in the US it's 98%. For enterprises with 1-9 people employed, in the US it's 67%, vs 88% in France, 93% in Czech Republic, 78% in UK, 61% in Germany...

I don't think this paints a dire picture for small(er) independent businesses. Why stop consolidation now? What numbers would we need to see to loosen up on consolidation restrictions again in the future? In other words, what is your model here? What values should trigger action? Given a value, what should we be able to predict? Then we can go look at random other countries and see if the model is any use.

On a more general side of discussion, before breaking up big tech companies, I'd sooner break up big government. In a few months regardless of who wins the election, there will still be someone roughly 50% of the country despises who is going to claim to rule me and try to control my destiny from the other side of the continent. Why any rational person would want such a situation is beyond me, even if you genuinely see yourself as a Federalist.
By the way, I'm a real person. Here is my LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetrodri/

:)
> None of those things were “invented” or truly brought to the edge of technological abilities by the companies you described.

Actually, the large conglomerates do have R&D labs working on semiconductors, chemistry, manufacturing, and so on, so that they can come up with improvements to sell.

The reason why semiconductors get smaller, TVs get brighter colors, larger panels have acceptable manufacturing yields, is exactly because of this R&D.
I feel like rather than pitting immigrants against native born workers, and trying to come up with the perfect arcane rule, we should have sectoral bargaining where the workers could negotiate pay standards directly with their employers. Then it wouldn't matter where someone is from, because they'd be covered by that contract, and the government could get out of the way of the labor market.
TL;DR: Text replacement on iOS/MacOS:

Dont = Don’t

rr = remember

wd = would be

etc.
Not sure about the other cloud providers, but AWS has billing limits with email warnings when you approach them. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...
This is a rule in the Federal Register. So it's basically like law. It's essentially how the executive is interpreting the laws that congress has passed.

There is a rule that says a new President can automatically overturn all rules made in the last 90 days of the previous administration, but we're before that deadline, so this is pretty much a done deal.

If the next admin wanted to change this, they have to go through the long and arduous rule making process again.
H1Bs usually require the employer to prove they couldn't find someone within the country.
This undecided voter would appreciate the gesture of you sharing with me some examples of the “other absolutely horrible stuff”.
"Body shops" like Infosys and Tata Consulting that import thousands of H1Bs under borderline fraudulent applications, and then underpay these employees.

Just a random link, but the contours of the problem:

https://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-pr...
It's called hysteresis.
For most of America's history, immigration meant indigenous genocide and the slave trade. Maybe there was some small window when immigration was a net positive, but that window has been closing for while now.
There's lots of articles if you google for "h1b visa abuse", but this will get you started: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3004501/proof-that-h-1b-vi...
Im just curious, what actual policies / actions has this administration taken that you most disagree with?
> I am, however, arguing that companies, once reached a certain size, are less and less incentivized to do so.

Well, I am not sure I agree with that. Large companies can afford to take the risks. For medium-sized companies the same effort is much higher chance of going out of business. e.g. If a smaller company like Sonos announced development of an AR product I think that would be really surprising.
Yes and no.

Most companies I see using H1-Bs are startups looking for people to get technical work done as cheaply as possible. These are the same people who give employees 0.1% of a series A company and whine about how there's a "skill shortage".

When in truth, there is no "shortage" -- it's just that software engineering is one of the only (somewhat) high-end careers subject to absolutely no credentialing whatsoever, meaning, if you can get someone here (to the US) and they can do the work, great, they're hired.

Contrast this to the absurd coddling present in other professions. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects, etc. have massive barriers keeping people out, competition down, and in the end, prices of their services up.

It blows my mind what middling lawyers can charge: $300/hr or more for mediocre law work for my California HOA. These people have zero side projects, don't study a minute out of work, and work strict 8-hour days, with the expectation of earning $250k/yr or more mid-career. This is what the cream of the crop in our field earns (Google SWEs making 350k or so). The cream of the crop for layers make millions/year at places like Cravath or Orrick billing $1000/hr or more. Even my wife, an architect, is now billing out at $250/hr.

It blows my mind how underpaid software developers are, given how difficult the work, and the working conditions are, compared to other similarly demanding fields in terms of professional education, and raw intellectual horsepower required to do the job. A typical H1-B can be productive a few months after a good software education anywhere in the world, assuming they speak passable English. My best friend's sister-in-law, an Indian dentist, had to retake the last year of dental school before she could touch a single tooth in the US.

The biggest winners from the H1-B regime are high-skilled professionals in the US. Low-end labor doesn't care about any of this. They work for cash, and still pay sales and property tax (through rent) just like the rest of us, and all for absolutely zero government benefits.
If technology is a tool to make something easier, then I would say there's no such thing as "unambiguously awesome tech", as all tech can be used for good or evil...
Genital mutilation is intrinsic to who we are.
seems there are a few, though not sure if their results are applicable to server-based programs

https://jaxenter.com/energy-efficient-programming-languages-...

https://stefanos1316.github.io/my_curriculum_vitae/GKS17.pdf

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01496266/document
I hit the paywall, so I can’t tell whether it’s explained in the article, but are they planning on fixing other H1B related issues?

It’s great if the program is abused less, but there are a ton of other problems with the work visa programs in the US.
> under pay them, the worker would just get another job that pays market rate

Then the employer would go back to the H1B well, underpay another worker for 6 months until the worker bailed, go back to the well, lather, rinse, repeat.
Start a company and see how much it costs to sponsor some uneducated kid.

You have good intentions towards the kids, but some communist intentions towards business owners. Let them decide how to spend their money. It's their money.
Perfect. Exactly the kind of suggestion I was after. Thank you. :-) -- asked them at https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/dell-u3014-panel/
If you're expecting HN, in all its "rational glory", to be anything but extremely pro-migration to the West when most of the users' are likely either 1st or 2nd generation migrants to the West themselves, then you're very naive.
> Canada, a country 1/10th the size of the US, brings in 300,000 new immigrants each year. The US brings in 140,000. This means Canada brings in 20X the number of new immigrants per capita than the US does.

The US had 1.8 million new immigrants (legal and otherwise) in 2016 and ~13% of the population is foreign born. Canada exceeds that (~21%) but nothing like the 20X rate you're claiming.
Someone (skipants) did respond that way:

> Your comment and the one higher in this chain makes it sound like a hard problem when it's only a problem for the United States and no other (1st world) country. I don't really understand how that's possible.

Yes, healthcare is byzantine in the US, but it's not less complex in any other first world country, yet America is a dramatic outlier -- in a bad way -- in terms of price to performance. Countries that do markedly better on such measures are also countries which tend to have some kind of price controls built into their healthcare system.

While I understand the temptation to bristle at the more needling comment, it's hard not to see debating over whether someone whose username is "Asshat" is being unfairly sarcastic as a bit beside the point. (Also, the good admiral did not, as far as I can tell, attack you, he attacked what he perceived to be your argument.)
Are the moderators not the ones deciding which threads get removed and which don't?
What date? It’s eminently possible that they adopted the Anglo word for themselves.
The problem with this is that H1Bs are not just for software engineering jobs. Other professions that qualify are things like accountants, or health care workers.

If it was a straight up "who pays the most", then the software industry (mostly FAANG) would end up with 80k H1Bs per year, and other industries would still not be able to hire for jobs they can't fill locally.
>Wages in Canada might be lower, but that is because they get a number of other social benefits, such as healthcare, that gets paid through taxes taken from said wages.

Not really. They (and most other developed countries) simply pay less of their GDP towards healthcare.
At what cost? $50/hr?
A majority of H1B visas are currently issued to relatively low paying consulting firms, who are then hired by big enterprises in place of their more expensive technical employees. This isn't supposed to be legal - you're not allowed to hire H1B employees if an equally qualified American could have filled their role - but due to the specifics of how the program is administered you can often pull it off with that kind of arms-length deal.
And, to the question of "What certain people?", the answer, in the general case, includes Chinese dissidents:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-resurrects-great-cannon-...
I don't understand who a company such as Google cannot manage to launch this internationally. I get you don't want to wake thousands of good for various translations, but region locking your new product just seems... shortsighted.
Except the passionate minority here are the environmentalists who will put up huge billboards with appeals to emotion to stop a heartless law from killing poor innocent wild animals.
I never claimed Intel invented Memory Protection, i didn't even use the term "Memory Protection", and i didn't assert anyones failure on not taking any path.

You are reading twice as much into my lines than what i said. I find this awful. At this point i regret writing my comment - not because its factually wrong or bad, but because im suddenly in the defensive because you are not putting much effort into understanding what i intended to express.
With housing prices in Canada now it’s terrible to be young. As a landlord it is working great for me when I can get $2000 a month for an apartment in Hamilton.
I know that motivation but I'm more curious about the hardware architecture angle. Integrating the memory controller in the CPU was supposedly a big gain at the time. Now it's in a different chip and multi-socket motherboards already have to traverse the board to access RAM attached to another chip. Are the interconnects better now and so going back to a single northbridge is workable? Would it simplify the topology in multi-socket systems to have all the RAM together instead of having to take care with process affinity to RAM? I'd love a source for discussion around these kinds of tradeoffs.
Do you imagine the same governmental bodies and regulators work on all of trade and antitrust, public health (tobacco), and energy and environmental policy? In other words, does it really follow that the problem of oil is being ignored in order to address monopolists?
An idiomatic C++ wrapper for the Monocypher crypto library
Enzymatic DNA synthesis enters new phase
Would the tech dwarfs choose to store all the data they ever came across, forever?
As long as you configure things properly, yes. By 'configure things properly', basically make sure that your timeouts for the shard regions is longer than the time it takes to shut down the entities living on the node.

Also worth noting that depending on the pattern used to send to the entity, there is a possibility of dropped messages during such a case.
Actually your comment brings an idea into my head. What if loss leaders could be a great probe into whether or not the behavior is anti-competitive. I know loss leaders exist, but how do they exist in a positive aspect? They seem to purely exist in order to siphon off capital from one business arm in order to extinguish competition in the loss-leader's sector. It seems to be it gets at the crux if this issue.
The linux kernel has the option CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME, which adds syscalls for 32 bit time_t. If this option is not enabled, much badness happens if you run 32 bit binaries, for instance, Steam and many 32 bit native linux games fail to run. (I ran into this problem a few weeks ago)

32 bit linux applications can use 64 bit time_t if they were configured to do so and glibc and the kernel are new enough. But enough closed source binaries don't support 64 bit time_t that we'll probably have problems in 2038.

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/COMPAT_32BIT_TIME.html
There is no primary evidence that the word Viking originated from some word other than the Anglo -Saxon word. If you’ve found some feel feel to share.
You're bound to the employer that sponsors your visa. Lose your job? You're effectively deported.

Your employer has... well, a power imbalance over you, to put it nicely.

I'm not sure how the proposed changes will play out for American workers. Theoretically, treating H1B workers better could benefit American workers: there is less incentive to callously replace them with underpaid H1B workers. On the other hand, American workers will face increased competition, it seems to me.
What date for what? Here's more information:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/viking
It's not an improvement if you prefer prolog syntax (for the record, I personally don't). Everyone likes to say that syntax doesn't matter, but it can affect your time-to-POC, example comprehension, debugability, especially if you're starting a greenfield project.

Otherwise, I would say stick with elixir. It is more opinionated about how to do tests, how to organize your code, how to do documentation, how to deploy, how to use libraries, all of which will make your life way easier, especially for a greenfield project.
At the moment, only through Airplay and iPhone. But the new update is apparently bringing a possibility to set default music app to other apps (similar to email now) which should allow direct playback.
Surely thinking about how quickly you can make money will distract from building something people love. Not that it will prevent you from making FU money, but I personally think this the wrong way to approach building a company.
His music wasn't really my style, but I remember the Heavy Metal effect pedal from Boss that my cousin owned had a booklet in it with the setups of various professional musicians - to show off how they used Boss pedals in different combinations. Everybody had complicated setups with multiple pedals. Van Hallen's "setup" went something like this:

Heavy Metal --> cable --> jack --> amp
> The reason why Amazon is likely anti union is not because of any "evil overloards" that believe that workers are slaves to be exploited, but the warehousing/shipping business runs on very narrow margins, and any restrictions in this regard means they stop being #1.

Are you really trying to justify concerted effort to exploit people and rob people of basic rights and a decent living wage and work conditions because otherwise the richest company in the world might not have such a comfortable lead over the competition?
On the flipside of things, here's a series I'm working on:

https://github.com/cbailes/awesome-ai

Currently:

https://github.com/cbailes/awesome-ai-cancer

https://github.com/cbailes/awesome-ai-cardiology

https://github.com/cbailes/awesome-deep-trading
Direct democracy just means that the majority rule on minority.
Representative democracy is just plain oligarchy, with moral justifications on top.
Trump’s (and Jared Kushner’s) role was much more active than just signing it after the fact: https://time.com/5486560/prison-reform-jared-kushner-kim-kar...
Don't listen too much to what 'should be avoided'. PHP is a perfectly fine tool for a simple dynamic website and is trivial to deploy.
I don't think Amazon, Google, or Facebook do on any significant scale.
you shouldn't do it in your code, and code linters (well, credo) can check for it and yell at you. I think you might have to activate it currently.

I 100% guarantee you don't miss "immutable variables" in your REPL.

Pid = module:start_link(...).

oh crap. start_link/n returns {:ok, _}, not naked pid.

{ok, PidForRealThisTime} = Pid.
How to Store Session Tokens in a Browser (and the Impacts of Each)
> However, the fact 20% of the world's immigrants reside in America doesn't mean nearly as much on a per capita basis.

What? We have 5% of the world's population and 20% of its immigrants, 4 times second place, but that's not enough for you? Wild moving of the goalposts.
Does anyone know a fast mirror for Erlang? Every time I try to download its very slow:

https://github.com/erlang/eep/issues/12
If this actually worked well and was designed by a very security and privacy respecting company than it would actually be pretty neat. Long distance sex toys are popular for a reason.