skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pixelbook Go drops/skips samples all the time, and resamples everything to 48k for no reason. With all the dropped samples it's an unlistenable mess. Only works if you don't touch the machine at all while listening and have no background tabs. I don't think there's anything to be learned from this, except as counterexamples.
In parent's example, the overall wages didn't drop because the immigrants bought stuff in a small geographic area, so more shops opened to sell stuff, and more warehouses were needed to store stuff, etc...and those new jobs were filled by the immigrants. I'm not disagreeing with that. My point is that this isn't how it works when the pool of people is all highly skilled individuals scattered around the country. They end up just working for cheaper than an equally qualified American citizen, driving wages down and competition up.
> and DOL rule establishing the percentiles ( https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/oflc/pdfs/DOL-Int... ; goes in effect this week

Not true. I know this was "withdrawn" yesterday.(see my comment below).
H1B visas are in theory intended to be awarded only when there is a shortage of some specialized labor and it is not possible to find enough qualified candidates within the country. If a person hired under that premise ends up making a “pretty normal” wage it’s a pretty clear sign that the process is being abused.
Buddy, you gotta help yourself get into and pay for university.

Why should a university give a "rat's ass" about you when a foreign student will pay more?
I think this is a fun article, really fun little rawing.

But "imagine an SR latch!" is always funny to me in these kinds of explanations. The base circuitry for electronics have really powerful primitives, but if you are coming from first principles then it's like.... where did you get this from? In itself it's a really non-intuitive device, and only starts making sense in a larger context.

It's of course also what we actually do, just I think not something anyone would ever come up with in a vacuum if they were thinking "how do I build computers"
>To paraphrase someone I know, "once they run out of criminals, they'll just start catching people they don't like".

>Once they have this ability, it will be much harder to make them give it up.

There's an argument to be made that this is already happening and, in fact, has been happening for decades.

I'm of course referring to the "War on Drugs."

There's quite a bit of analysis in the literature to show that restrictions on mind-altering substances was explicitly introduced to disadvantage particular populations.

What's more, despite popular perception[0], the "crime" rate is at its lowest levels in more than 50 years[1], yet we continue to fund[2] law "enforcement" at levels even higher than when we were at the peak of the "crime" rate during that time.

So. Since crime rates have plummeted, yet we're spending more than ever, it's likely your paraphrase is already the case right now.

More's the pity.

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/amer...

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-04/america-s...
Can't we assess this article on it's own merits instead? It's offering advice that is completely independent from past scandals on the platform it's hosted on.

From the article, I thought this advice hit home the most:

"The problem is that lack of engagement in meetings is often interpreted as apathy or a general lack of engagement in your work, even in cases where that's the furthest thing from the truth."

Remote workers need to be more persistent in getting involved and speaking up where they can, otherwise they can easily recede into the background where colleagues are left wondering if they are participating as much as others - even when they are working just as hard, or even harder.
Setting aside the fact that this one comic probably did not have some giant causative effect on Internet culture — it just encapsulated the zeitgeist of a moment, as comics often do — the author is going to have to get more way specific to make a good counterpoint, I think. The argument could be made, for example, that more and more as the years go on, being kicked off a “platform” or “community” is like being kicked off the Internet. However, I think the point in the comic stands.

Calling people out for calling people out on grounds that it’s un-American seems to be what this article is trying to do. There’s
still no right to have a TV show or right to not be yelled at.
The post well describes my own concerns about that comic. Facebook/Twitter/Google censoring one's viewpoint at some point effectively become the equivalent of government censorship in its all-encompassing nature.

Forget computers. What if in 1950 every newspaper, every book publisher, every typewriter manufacturer, every mimeograph machine maker refuses to do business with you? Yes, you can still buy pen and paper, and no one is stopping you from putting up a modern 95 Theses on your front door. But aren't you effectively silenced as much as if the government explicitly acted against you?

This doesn't mean that every single website has to let anyone who wants to use it as a billboard for his thoughts to do so. But at some scale, Facebook/Twitter/Google are public forums as much as Hyde Park or Times Square, and those running those sites have the moral obligation to let the spirit of the First Amendment govern their actions as they moderate.
A friend I know tells me that they ordered a cheap knock off magic wand vibrator off eBay and after 3 months it never showed so they went to a sex shop and paid 200$ for the real deal. The fake one finally arrives couple weeks later but comparing them the fake one is just as strong but also has added features like different pulsations and more speed control. The 184$ difference will easily sway people to buy such products.
Would that be good for the people doing the current jobs in the crosshairs of these new immigrants?
We have all these problems with these companies because they are controlled by interests that help us only incidentally on their way to world domination. Why don't we put 1 and 1 together and just take control? It won't solve every problem, but a huge number of them will suddenly become pliable as the companies are run in the people's interest.
John McAfee arrested, indicted on tax evasion charges, sued for fraud
Seems like a trivially solved problem by introducing industry-specific segmentation.

Your company has to declare what industry segment they're in when submitting annual returns anyway (here), not sure if it's the same case in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute!

(It says they quit doing the type-in programs after 1988)
Here we go with the protectionism. If we had SWE unions they would be making sure that all foreigners were evicted. You can read this thread to find out.

That's my number one reason to oppose unions: they will be super protectionist. I derive that knowledge from the fact that lots of SWEs on forums like this are pro-union and simultaneously protectionist.
And I hate to be the bringer of discouraging news, but the reason car manufacturers are succeeding at selling us polluting gas guzzlers is that we want it.

Every time we buy an SUV and pay for gas, we teach companies and their executives that we want what they have. And so yelling at the company for delivering what we have shown we want is a bit like yelling at yourself for eating so much ice cream.

Until we start using electric cars or transit, we're a big source of our own problems. You might as well try to change human nature.

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Yeah nope, this insight from the '80s didn't age well. Regulation has repeatedly fixed broken markets, and the whole ad tracking / data broker industry is beyond broken.

The real "human nature" is responding to incentives. Applies to companies too. Adjusting those incentives with regulation has a long track record of being effective when done with even a modicum of goodwill and competence, which despite politicking is usually the case.

Of course, breakups of individual companies won't achieve much as you said. But that doesn't justify jumping to "it's up to individuals to change their behaviour" mantra. That's exactly the bullshit that the plastics industry successfully used to pollute the whole planet with their garbage, blaming individuals for not recycling. You can debate the morals of that kind of blame, but you can't deny that it's completely ineffective at solving the problem.
Two people in a small apartment and currently spend 15-20 minutes a day hand washing but I feel like its right on the line where 3 or more people it is clearly faster to machine wash.
Excuse me .. yes $5 is charged but only by the entry level / inexperienced ones. Even $5 does not go much in those countries anymore. Experienced coders charge $30 or above from pukistan but I get your point it is still a lowball offer compared to $100 for a US based developer. But tell me if you are a startup and just bootstraping your company with your own savings , where would you look to get your job done? Would you rather pay $100 per hour to a developer based in US or $30 to an experienced developer from somewhere else if your goal is to get your MVP up and running as fast as you can so that you can then attact some venture capital that you can use to hire "real" developers here in USA?
This topic hits a number of beliefs I hold and I disagree with many parts of this post.

> Not Twitter. Not Facebook. This simple comic.

If we removed this comic and kept Facebook and Twitter, our problems w/ understanding Free Speech are largely solved? Hardly. Not to mention social media has become the beast we as a group don't know how to handle yet it ravages our landscape.

> It’s wrong because it contains a profound misunderstanding— that America’s founding documents are nothing more than legal tools.

Also vehemently disagree - it is exactly because it is a set of "legal tools" that it boils up into society. Through the interpretation of the Supreme Court and other judges.

The author is basically stating this is a belief system and that belief system is so much more than a legal document. But lest we forget, legal documents - especially the legal founding of our country - is rooted in beliefs.

I'll admit, Hamilton the musical helped me connect to the founding fathers like I never had as a highschool student studying the material. That the beliefs of a bunch of 20-40 year olds (who are insanely smarter than me), wrote essays based on beliefs and philosophy, to form our country - legally.

By legally, I mean an agreement which we start from and enforce. The enforcement is key and XKCD rightly touches on where that line is drawn.

There is a reason why, legally, the Bill of Rights for Freedom of Speech does not reach further into society. You run the danger of telling people how to live which is extremely against the founding ideals.

Please, go live in a country where the legal precedence of free speech does not allow you to speak against its leaders.
If I'm drunk I'd get in the passenger seat so it's clear that I am not the one in control of the wheel.
F1 has stated it plans to be carbon neutral by 2030 [1]. Cutting down forests for race tracks seems contradictory to that planned statement. Its hard for me to continue to support this sport much longer, but I hope that F1 can make the right decision about this.

[1] https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula-1-announc...
Firefox 81 on Mac: https://imgur.com/a/JQGcfTQ Does not look good.

It has something to do with the custom font. If I disable "font-family: AdobeSourceCodePro, monospace" the colors appear: https://imgur.com/a/mcUX5XD
They did right?
This blog post is the first clear explanation of how Vault actually works I’ve ever come across (and I’ve spent a LOT of time trying to make sense of it from Hashicorp’s documentation).
As a single person I can wash my dishes in less than a minute. Glass, plate no. 1, plate no. 2, bowl, fork, knife, no more than a few seconds each.
A lot of the best academics are foreign born. You could look at Nobel prize winners for example.

But you have to also remember that the current group of academics came out of PhD programs in the 1970s. That was a time of expansion in academia. These folks are just about to retire. On the other side of this, I think the universities walk a fine line with respect to graduate student admissions between foreigners and US citizens.

The fact that we bring in foreign graduate students from foreign undergraduate programs either means that our current system is not producing applicants of sufficient caliber who then apply or it is not economically viable. In that sense there is evidence that graduate student research stipends are depressed. Is this due to foreign competition?

There is some anecdotal evidence to this in that the majority of CS undergrads get a job ratherhe than pursue a PhD etc... b/c of the salary differences. Foreigners have to get a masters at a minimum to achieve better odds in the H1B lottery. And after they graduate from a US masters program, they can work at a US company for a couple years anyway.
Can somebody reconcile these points, they seem to be conflicting:

- they set the new threshold for acceptable wages at 95% of the distribution for that position

- they say that this will affect 1/3 of applicants

- they say that h1b workers are underpaid

Those can’t all be true at the same time can they? If 2/3 of applicants are in the upper 5%, they’d certainly be earning more and not depressing salaries.
>Should that be counted?

Yes. The Supreme Court ruled the mandate is a tax.

”The mandate is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code, and it is calculated based on a percentage of adjusted gross income or a fixed amount, whichever is larger. Starting in 2014, it will be collected on your form 1040 just like your other taxes.” [1]

The issue wasn’t with your claim that wealthy pay a disproportionate share. That’s literally what the intent of a progressive tax regime is supposed to ensure. The issue was with the biased representation of a subset of taxes to make your point.

Would you claim that long distance commuters pay unfair levels of taxes because they are disproportionately represented in gasoline taxes? Or does it make more sense to frame it in the overall context of total tax revenue?

I’m not quite sure if your stance is that the tax code is wrong morally or pragmatically but it’s doing exactly what a progressive tax schedule is supposed to do.

[1] https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/256706/
It depends what you are washing.

If you live by yourself and only have to wash one bowl and one spoon every day, a dishwasher can be overkill.

But that's not the situation for everyone. If you have a larger family with babies, a dishwasher can be very useful. Baby bottles have many of different parts and washing them by hand can be time consuming, baby toys can be washed in the dishwasher as well...

And if you cook your own food rather than buying prepared food, you'll also be washing a lot of stuff: frying pans, pots, cutting boards, blender cups, etc.
Exactly the rub then, isn't it? I got the token half off 200% markup while I watched my graduating HS class get nearly free rides. I had similar grades, but was mostly straight A (but in harder honors classes) and was white and male.
In my mind, the benefits of the program have been mostly met. We've helped other countries increase their IT capability. Of course the offshoring of work will only increase with this change. Companies had been bringing work _back_ to the U.S. and now they will be moving it once again to offshore locations. It's not going to do what the administration thinks it will do...unless they started some nonsensical regulatory penalty against offshoring.
I couldn’t find the core of an argument in this piece. Could someone paraphrase?

Defending to the death someone’s right to not be imprisoned for objectionable opinions is quite different from enshrining a right to be free from social isolation.

I don’t understand what part of internet culture is being missed.
Sorry. I was going to type something rude. The thing is, by "educating the world", the world educates us. We need to do a better job at helping students like you pay for college, but this does not mean that we close our doors to everyone else.
Replying very late, but I've always found it interesting that in poorer countries, obesity can indicate wealth (you have money to overindulge) whereas in richer countries it's often the reverse (poorer people buying sugary/fast food, can't justify a gym membership, etc).
Honestly, how many people outside of the college educated and software development set read XKCD? How would it even be possible for it to be as influential as claimed?
Swap out astronaut with a more common highly-skilled occupation and my underlying point still applies.
There are limited seats. At the extreme end you have medical school, where foreign students likely are taking away a position from a capable citizen.
Get Mandelbulber[1] and take a flight[2]. Enjoy!

[1] https://github.com/buddhi1980/mandelbulber2

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGt5Mql-i8
You can use BoL statistics for this. In the SF-Oakland-Hayward area, 90th percentile is $207k. 95th is probably north of $250k.
Same. I live alone. I have a spot for a dishwasher under my counter, and I could afford one, but I've chosen not to own one. The problem is that there are many things you can't wash in the dishwasher, and it often does a poor job, you have to pre-rinse some things. At the end of the day, it's like, whatever, I can spend 5 minutes a day washing dishes. But I agree with others, it might make more sense when you have a family with several people.
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Why? Your operating system of choice lacks a proper calculator on your desktop PC?
If the car only saves 20 lives when it could have saved 70 lives, I don't care if you want to call that "killing people", I think that car is fine.

I don't "like senseless deaths" but I think it's acceptable if people like the former car better than the latter car and purchase more of it.

> If you're operating under the assumption you can relax a little with it active like a co-pilot or watcher, you're following for it's most dangerous trap.

If it's still safer than a car without those features even after falling into the trap then my reaction is a big shrug.
Senior full-stack dev (lean more towards devops->backend than backend->frontend, but I can still sling some React components together and reduce your JS payload size)

I excel at figuring out how to solve problems at all levels of abstraction (including what level of abstraction you should use), getting a solution in place, and then figuring out the feedback loops to iterate on that solution. I'm the senior engineer that knows that most coding is coming to an understanding of what problem you are trying to solve. Sometimes the most impactful code is the code you don't write. Trying to change the world, still parsing the source code. I've been programming on the web since 1995, had a first career as a social worker and policy statistician, and have worked full-time as a programmer for almost a decade now.

Tech keywords: Ruby, Rails, AWS, Heroku, Docker, Ansible, CI/CD, TDD

Especially enjoy API design, integrating with crappy systems, and really weird bugs

Will give you more looks if you can tell me why what you are doing makes the world better, not just makes you richer, but you've got to really believe it in your heart.

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

Email: hello@ericstiens.dev

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Mostly seeking contract work at this time, but happy to check out remote FTE or PTE as well!
Protests and Power
I don't think we should go without some form of review -- just that other academics are not representative of the real world. Perhaps a system where the 'relevance' claims are evaluated by industry reviewers, and the scientific claims are evaluated by academics?

Post-publication (I'm counting arxiv here as publication) review is an improvement. My branch of science doesn't use arxiv to any real extent, unfortunately.

Edit: I left a word out.
Looks like it's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520157:

I think basically what's happening here is that the font includes some SVG glyphs (for a bunch of emoji, no doubt). This causes us to render it via a "color font" codepath, and color fonts ignore the CSS color property as the glyphs are painted with their inherent colors instead.

But in this case many (most) of the glyphs do not actually have color versions, and so they simply paint as black. We need to be making the decision whether to paint "as a color font" (ignoring CSS color) on a per-glyph basis, not per-font-run, so that glyphs without inherent color don't just default to all-black all the time.
Lessons from TiDB's No. 1 Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs
I interviewed at a bay area tech firm and out of 30 candidates there were maybe 3-4 Americans including myself.

I know multiple Americans who are good software developers with good credentials who would be qualified for that job and similar but never got them.
Any time you want some specific even with very high accuracy. Shortcut combos don't always work/trigger at the right time/in the right focus context. Or if you have a QMK with altogether too many virtual keys - I have like 60 x 7 layers = 420 possible two-thumb-one-finger events, I don't use them all but I still lose track. I'm thinking of building one of these for things like "jump focus to chat window and mute".

Also it saddens me we have a speaker mute keycode but no system-wide mute mic.
I'm having trouble understanding the point of the article. I can't connect how the XKCD comic has acted for or against the points the author is trying to make.

This comic is reactionary to an existing situation, it hasn't created the situation. Same as the comic that adamnemecek calls out.

quoting the last line of the article:
> It is my friend Daniel's observation that tolerance is the experience of suffering through unpleasant ideas. We endure that suffering because the world is dramatically better on balance when we do.

There are limits to this. Unpleasant ideas continually raised by very few people adds nothing. If an idea or point needs to be continually brought up by a small group of individuals then it probably doesn't have much value. Hell, even QAnon has 'caught on', so the bar is low enough that I'd argue there's not much of a problem with the stuff that's getting filtered out. 'Proud Boys' exist, QED.

If you don't like that you're censored on someone else's platform, then build your own. If you're getting jeered while proselytising on your soapbox in public place X, keep moving until you find a more receptive audience.

Having said that, even non-public platform (FB, twitter, etc.) censorship is a situation that requires on-going re-evaluation.

Unless I'm missing the point of the article.
Fly.io is more exciting for me because it's edge app servers and it terminates web sockets. I've been envisioning a live-view like framework, or heck even a regular old rest api, where the client connects to the fly.io server with a single request then the app server makes a request to N number of back end processing servers using an efficient protocol like grpc.
Tip for the pro when buying a dishwasher. Make sure the distance between so lower and upper drawer is big enought that the "washing wheels" can still spin if you have your plates inside.

My new Whirlpool dishwasher is nearly useless.
I believe it is enough, as long as you have received an I-140, but I'm not sure. This is something that should be answered by an immigration attorney.

Edited to correct the form number
That's just the base pay right?