skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, the question is "are they part of my tribe or not?"

I see it over and over again in my city in coastal California. Car dealership, gas stations? A-OK, they help me out. Instead let's go do a climate protest of a bank, an Amazon office, and a software as a service company, since they have Big Oil as clients. And let's conveniently forget the massive oil and car infrastructure from our city design, which creates huge amounts of demand for emissions. As long as the enemy is one- or two-degrees away in terms of connection, it's a target to be attacked.
I had a similar experience switching to the Kinesis. I mean I don't think as stark as yours.

I noticed the Kinesis Advantage forced my hands into a position that encouraged touch-typing, so I thought I'd give it a try and learn to touch-type while doing my normal work (Still QWERTY though) It worked! I can now touch-type greatly...

Sort-of, it really only applies to the Kinesis though, when I go back to a normal staggered layout keyboard I go back to my two-three finger pecking around the keyboard.

It's obviously still the same layout, so I don't think I experience it as bad as you do on a standard keyboard, but now I'm pretty much stuck on my Kinesis!
Mind sharing some numbers? This is a patently false statement. 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.
exactly. although there's more than one way to fix this. one controversial idea, but in line with capitalism is to just give (highly) skilled immigrants permanent residency (other countries do this already, and the H-1B process is also pretty rigorous). why? because right now with e.g. the H-1B, your employer has to petition for a green card. as you've said, it costs a lot of money to sponsor an H-1B. a reason some bad-faith companies do this is because they know the H-1B employee is tied to them (although an H-1B transfer is not too difficult). imagine if it was easier for visa holders to switch employees? i'm not holding my breath though.

in any case, having H-1B be a lottery was always weird. i just hope this doesn't impact any existing H-1B holders :(
My first side project launch was pretty weak. How to make the most of it?
I've got no CS background but wanted to build an online business. After a long time of playing around with tutorials and waiting to stumble upon a perfect idea, I decided to just start working on something that I felt I could finish in a reasonable timeframe. Long story short, started working on a Product Hunt style listing where companies could post their affiliate marketing programs and bloggers could search for the most interesting ones.

In about two months I learned enough about Django/Heroku/AWS to get an MVP up and running: https://www.commissiondb.com

Now I only needed to find some users. So I did the obvious thing and posted the site on some relevant subreddits (e.g. r/affiliatemarketing) and listed it on Product Hunt. To my mild disappointment, I got basically no traffic. Maybe 10 visitors total. The highlight of my launch was when some bot decided to try brute forcing my Django admin panel and kept beating at it for 24 hours straight. :)

Despite the lacklustre initial performance I'm kind of proud that I got this thing up in the first place. However, it is quite obvious that acquiring users is very hard and I'm not good at it.

At this point, lots of questions come to mind:
- Keep working on it or move on? How do you determine when to quit if there is no initial traction?
- How to improve the "launch" with future projects? I now realize that most submissions in PH, for example, don't ever even make it to the main page. To get there you would probably need to mobilize some critical mass of people to vote for you right after you publish? How do people do this when they're just starting out and don't have an established audience?
- What are the alternative ways for user acquisition? For paid services I would imagine direct sales or paid ads, but for a site like this I can only think of content marketing i.e. blogging.
- How would you gauge interest in something like this before building it?
Why are the bandwidth costs 10x higher than Droplets, Kubernetes, Spaces...?
If a slightly wetter climate and 5C higher temperature than Earth are considered more habitable than Earth, why are we worried about climate change at home?
The world's just getting more habitable by astronomical measures
Why not make companies sponsor underprivileged kids who need the opportunity just as much but don’t get as much consideration?
I looked at the page and FAQ but can't find a clear answer for this: does this have billing limits? That's the main reason why I don't use AWS or any major cloud for personal projects because there's potential for unlimited cost if something goes wrong. I would rather have a hard billing limit that just shuts down everything if it reaches the limit.
Right, in the long term it would be beneficial, but the infrastructure takes time to build up. Most immigrants understandably crowd in either Vancouver, Toronto or a couple of other big cities because that's where the opportunities are. Not sure where you live, but the food and rent have gone up dramatically in these cities. Forget about being able to afford buying a house or an apartment even if you've been responsibly saving up. The commute before covid was killer. I don't understand this off-hand dismissal of concerns because I don't have citations.
And before this you could implement Cloud KMS in your app to decrypt the encrypted secrets you can store in your repo.
F-35 Crash Blamed on Landing Speed, but Software, Helmet, Oxygen Also Faulted
One of the great ironies of modern computers is we dispensed with ECC just as we started ballooning out the size of RAM and shrinking the transistors so that single bit errors were more likely. I'd be very grateful for system ECC.
Apart from xcom players, to whom 90% of something working means almost certain disaster.
So, first point: I reject the idea that in my first comment I made any general statements about the South. I recounted a particular experience I had, and some people extrapolated that into a claim that all of the South is uniformly homophobic or some other statement I'm being held to which I didn't make.

If I'm actually making general statements, I would say that big cities in the South are more gay friendly, though they're still impacted by state politics and as you enter the suburbs and especially rural areas you encounter much more bias. Two hours north of Atlanta is much worse than two hours north of San Francisco. If push came to shove, I'd feel more welcomed in Atlanta ITP than in many parts of the Central Valley; but I'm also not particularly interested in grading on a curve. But everyone's mileage will vary, and all the tradeoffs involved are complicated and will differ between different people and even in the same person at different times in their life.

These subtleties are lost, though, because my comment wasn't intended to provide a comprehensive overview of life as an LGBT person in the South, but to counter someone who was writing off someone else's experience as merely a way to feel virtuous about their self instead of anything real. It's a common response to many negative experiences from marginalized groups, so I see it as perfectly natural that I drew on my own experiences to call it out.
The R governor candidate in Washington has said that Democracy is the gateway to socialism, and that socialism is the gateway to communism, so we should all be wary of democracy.

It's wild right now.
> 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.

Actually, "more than 1 million immigrants arrive in the U.S. each year. In 2018, the top country of origin for new immigrants coming into the U.S. was China, with 149,000 people, followed by India (129,000), Mexico (120,000) and the Philippines (46,000)."

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding...
I don't think this is a good move, it will encourage remote work/outsource more.
Walmart sells an inexpensive OTC insulin type ($25 a vial).

https://diabetesstrong.com/walmart-insulin/

It's an older formulation, and not commonly prescribed, unless you're cost sensitive.
> commuting has significant mental-health benefits.

My experience has been the exact opposite. I've been fortunate to have very reasonable commutes in all my jobs, but WFH is much better than my 25-30 minute commutes. I no longer get the "it's 5:50PM but can you take a quick look at this because you're the only one still here" issues that had me commuting home at 7 or 8 pm every few weeks. And then there's the 20 hours a week of time I get to play with my kid, do chores, or relax. Sure I still get the occasional slack message mid evening, but that was happening before WFH as well. There are downsides around ease of communication and sense of camaraderie, but work life balance/separation has been pretty much 100% win.
OK, so where exactly has this NOT worked? Where is this huge number of people that just aren’t adjusted to the “Canadian lifestyle”?
Your numbers are wrong [1].

> The United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world. Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants.

> The U.S. foreign-born population reached a record 44.8 million in 2018.

> More than 1 million immigrants arrive in the U.S. each year.

What amazes me is how much hate the US gets for being one of the most generous countries on Earth.

The US has changed since the 19th century, when we needed endless amounts of unskilled labor. Things are much different today, and the H1-B Visa has been abused for decades.

> 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.

Good. It sounds like it's somewhat serving it's purpose. Hopefully these changes will improve it more.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding...
Netflix faces indictment in Texas over controversial French film 'Cuties'
Optimising for evolutionary fitness is about as productive as moving things downstairs to help gravity.
So this statement: “See encryption is just math, and you can't really outlaw or limit how math is used.”

Is false.
Atrium link is down since the company folded (sadly), would advise someone on YC to update the link.
It's not "extraordinary skill that cannot be found in the US" though, it's for skills for which there is a shortage in your market, similar to the subclass 189 visa here in Australia.

When you say "extraordinary skill" you are probably thinking about the O-1 visa (which is similar to the Australian subclass 124).
TLDR: Yes, you can disable PV entirely on x86 systems; on ARM systems, there never was PV.

On x86, as you say, has "classic" Xen PV, which doesn't require virtualization extensions. It also has "HVM", which includes a full system emulation (motherboard, etc); but also "PVH", which is basically what PV would be if it were designed today: It takes advantage of hardware support when it makes sense, and paravirtualizes when it makes sense. It doesn't require a devicemodel to be running at all, but also isn't susceptible to the PV XSAs. There's also a mode called "shim" mode, which allows you to run "classic PV" kernels in PVH mode.

Xen now has KConfig, and you can now disable PV mode entirely when building Xen. You can run dom0 in PVH mode, and then run all of your guests either in PVH mode or HVM mode.

The ARM port was made after ARM had virtualization extensions; so it never had a "classic PV"; nor does it require any devicemodel whatsoever. There's only one guest mode, which corresponds roughly to the "PVH" mode above.
That's not a record player though, that's a DJ controller. Very different.
It's curious.

The US is a heavily militarized state, spending a lot of money on it's use of weapons. However, these weapons tend to be very expensive and hyper targetable.

But just killing literal pigs, in the wild, with really no restrictions at all, and practically no need to track the kills or process them for food, is a nearly impossible task. Just pure, cheap, blunt weapons will do the job more than fine. But there just isn't enough, even with the massive spendings.
Where are you getting the 140k new immigrants each year number from? Wikipedia says: "According to the 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the United States admitted a total of 1.18 million legal immigrants (618k new arrivals, 565k status adjustments) in 2016"

And refugees are only one type of immigrant. Should illegal immigrants count as refugees, since many frequently claim to be fleeing violence, even if they don't get officially declared as a refugee by the US? If so, that means the US admits closer to 500,000 refugees per year.
The new rule is that H1B workers need to earn higher salaries relative to the distribution of salaries in their profession. The worker must make the 45th percentile wage, where previously it was 17th. Won't this primarily hurt people early in their career, or does it also take into account experience level?
Really, a kitchen should also have a type K fire extinguisher which isolates burning oil from air to prevent reignition (burning oil extinguished with an ABC dry chemical fire extinguisher is likely to reignite on its own). Unfortunately they seem rare in home kitchens, likely just due to a lack of awareness as they really aren't that expensive at the home improvement store.

Glass fiber blankets are also a good choice for kitchen fires but once again not very common in homes.
>The real issue is that Canada's birth rate is 1.4 children per woman on average. This means within a generation the population would be reduced to 2/3. With a points-based immigration program, the country is able to be selective about who it brings in.

And instead of supporting the native Canadian population in having more children themselves, Canada, like most of the modern West, simply opted to replace them over time via migration.
> Canada, a country 1/10th the size of the US, brings in 300,000 new immigrants each year. The US brings in 140,000.

I don't know what definition of "brings in" you are using, but around 1.1 million people obtain permanent legal resident status per year in the US. By this metric your Canada numbers are about right (a bit low, around 340,000 in 2019).

Perhaps you're looking at purely comparing Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program with just H-1Bs? If so those numbers are still a bit off -- there were around 190,000 H-1Bs issued in 2019 -- but also that's only a small sliver of all temporary foreign work visas issued in the US (there are again over a million per year).

Canada does admit many more immigrants per capita and generally has a much better immigration system but the numerical difference is not quite as huge as you say.
Which... can already be done today?
It's not gonna take a long time before, most of the tech jobs move to Canada/rest of world. Why should someone hire entry/mid level engineer in usa, if they can hire at same price much senior engineer in same time zone? After successful taste of work from home, things have changed a lot. Unfortunately, now USA have not much to offer (rising healthcare cost, continuous degradation/humiliation of non white immigrants, rising intolerance of society, high cost of education etc). Let's see how it works out!
Your data for the US is far off every source I can find. Per the UN, ~20% of all immigrants globally reside in the US.

On an annual basis:

The US brings in 100-200k refugees.
Total immigration is 1.0-1.1M.
The US grants citizenship to 700-800k immigrants.
I agree 100% with you. My view is even more extreme, I think we should allow anyone who passes a criminal background check to be able to get a work visa, with no quotas.

But barring that pipe dream, this seems like a good interim step.
It's not so much his ideas, but what he is leaving out. The root cause of his malaise is probably the nature of employment in a large corporation.

See http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html.
> The H1B program has been abused for a long time

What's the abuse?
I take it you've never tried to hire experienced software engineers. The supply is significantly below demand.
Misuse of analogy. This analogy says that inaction eventually is the right thing to do. This is action.
If your talking about the First Step Act that was a bipartisan bill that passed in the Senate unanimously. Semi props for embracing it, but this gets into a bigger issue of whether an administration can take credit for the bills passed underneath them.
OTOH the PG Standard 0 (4GB RAM, 64GB storage) of Heroku costs $50:

https://www.heroku.com/pricing#data-services

On Digital Ocean the first offering with 4GB of RAM costs $60 and it only has 38GB of storage:

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases
The US receives half a million undocumented immigrants per year; Canada receives almost none. Plus another 1.2 million legal immigrants.
The changes described in the article do not change your hypothetical whatsoever.
HA. Oh boy.

Well. I sorta mis-spoke. I need to ship RTSP/RTP with hella-different stream profiles over WebSocket. Imagine slamming the entire RTP and RTSP datastream into binary packets shipped around via WebSocket only to have the packets reassembled in-order on the other end.

RTSP isn't quite the problem, especially if I had your use case. I work in PSaaS (physical security as a service) which has really unique streaming circumstance where security + latency are prime. Also, there's tons of additional features I need from RTSP as well, ex: "hey give me a new I-frame right now".

Unfortunately the RTSP spec is all over the place with my vendors... and throw the whole ONVIF WebSocket thing at it + trying to actually keep stuff cryptographically secure and welcome to my nightmare. I'm talking about craziness like not having an "ack" to the final "PLAY" command in the prelude but the server still shipping the data, packet parsers/fixers implemented in ECMA, browsers acting as the RTSP session client... unfortunately the list goes on.

There's a lot of overlap with your world. I even have your project bookmarked + labeled "sane light-weight RTSP gstreamer implementation" from when I was in my research phase! Small world =)

If you're interested you can check out the ONVIF streaming spec:
https://www.onvif.org/specs/stream/ONVIF-Streaming-Spec.pdf

And the pipeline tech that most of my jazz is based on:
https://github.com/AxisCommunications/media-stream-library-j...

Thanks for being an open-source resource with well-documented work!!!
Plants also fight each other. If you look at a forest on a time scale of years, you'll notice a desperate battle for sunlight.
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I share your concern. It feels like this will make it harder for immigrants to find work and incentive outsourcing.
The best thing to do would be to treat them like local workers -- increased pay AND increased flexibility. This will help retain the best overseas workers in the US.

Even better would be a salary auction where US companies get to auction (higher and higher salaries for the best overseas workers.) The highest auction rates would fill the quota first. Overseas workers win bigtime. Companies seeking talent also win. Local workers win as well. Companies trying to underpay lose.
The data I provided for you is per capita.

The US has set a target cap of 18,000 refugees next year [1] vs Canada's now world-leading (per capita) 28-33,000 [2]

You are correct that I was off re: 140,000 (that's the quota for employment based green cards), the number is ~1M total and I have edited my post to reflect. This is based on the total number of green cards available, as they are the only "immigrant" visa. Every other class is considered to be non-immigrants -- temporary workers, or visitors.

However, the fact 20% of the world's immigrants reside in America doesn't mean nearly as much on a per capita basis.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/26/politics/refugee-cap-historic...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/19/canada-now-...
The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time
Lots (perhaps most?) of US health insurance providers also non-profit.
Will an executive order (which I assume this is) actually make any difference?

Doesn't it take an act of congress to make any serious headway here?

Personally, I was an H1B a 4.5 years before Trump convinced it was time to leave. I was in the bay area and handsomely overpaid.
I have no personal experience of it being abused, but I'm obviously privileged, having worked at reputable tech companies and coming from reasonable wealthy european country.
(I was never as scared of loosing job or healthcare as my American co-workers, because I would just move home, and have access to healthcare if I lost my job)

But I will say, that the lottery aspect of the H1B adds a lot of uncertainty that might discourage me from living in SF again. So lifting the caps and/or stemming abuse might be a good idea.
This will elevate the income of low paying H1B workers, but also decrease the income of average paid American workers. If the market has an abundance of low paying workers, the market overall will pay workers lower.
Tech uses a minimal share of power considering how big a portion of the economy it is.
Because educating underprivileged kids takes up to 20 years(school, college, potential post-grad studies), whereas the H1B worker can start immediately. H1B workers also typically have several years experience in the specific position where they're being considered. You need both.
They're probably public domain books.
> I am concerned that Biden will return us to the old days of "free" trade

Based on his latest rhetoric, he seems to have adopted Sanders's views on trade, which is mostly protectionist.
> what constrains it from orbiting

Not quite what you seem to be asking, but the event horizon is the point where[0] the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light; the orbital velocity at that distance is greater (by a factor of ln 2 IIRC, so v_orbital ≈ 1.44c). There's a more distant distance, called the innermost stable orbit or the photon sphere, where the orbital velocity is equal to c (so photons will orbit if you emit them tangentially at this height), but the escape velocity is only ~0.69c.

0: It's not quite right to say that that's because the escape velocity is equal to c, though.
In a world replete with misinformation, in a thread where the misinformation is being called out, I am going to be excessively pedantic at you. Individual legislators do not collect Social Security funds; the Internal Revenue Service collects them and gives them to the Treasury. Nor would an invoice be an effective manner to secure the return of these funds. You know, or ought to know, such things.

You are proposing a stunt. Regrettably, this is a poor forum to evaluate the effectiveness of such a stunt.
Great read, I kind of do this but on just one page in a notebook. Splitting it up into 3 'areas' (for want of a better word) makes a lot of sense and makes those notes a lot more useful, thanks!

I think a few commenters are missing the point or just skimming over the post. It's not about memorising a 'book' or subject by rote, it's about being able to consume, rearrange and remember the subject in a way that's more suitable to how you remember or think about things.
It not only clears your thoughts as you study (allowing you to move through the material quicker) but aids in recollection with better organised note taking.
Cheers