skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

This doesn't make sense. The country already incentivizes child birth, and provides socialized medicine. You can't make people have children.

The reality is that as a country becomes more developed, it's birth rate plunges. There's a strong negative correlation between income, development and birth rate. [1] This is not an east-vs-west thing, it applies the world over.

In developed countries, women do not want to have more children, and you can't make them. So, you allow immigration

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
Because a good chunk of immigrants are underpriviliged kids of the world, when you compare the GDP levels of their home countries to the US.

That and US doesn’t need to pay a dime for them developing their skills while getting to skim the cream of the crop.
I feel you are going back to the early days of index websites before they realized the internet is to large to curate by hand and either died or became search engines.

I wish you luck though.

The one part I feel YouTube is failing currently is content suggestions, it used to be crap for years until it wasn't but it feels like it's goimg back to a hoshpot of weird and random suggestions where a year ago I felt like I wanted to watch 25% of the content now it's either 0 or 2 %
One of the world's first electronic calculators, the Friden EC-130
Of course they do but the description described "techniques"; he's talking about a horizontal guitar play style.

As my comment said I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the patent itself (and really the claims are the thing) just saying that that part of the description is probably wrong. And that the patent system doesn't care.

FWIW all the pedal steel guitars I've ever seen are in fact electric guitars... but I know what you meant.
That works for me if I use a mouse (in fact I'm currently using it), but not when I use a touchpad.
Really? What if you need a bunch of translation/localization work done. America has a shortage of people who are bilingually fluent and have the engineering skill, in many of the needed cultures and languages.

Do you think companies are going to go to war bidding up salaries for a tiny number of qualified American candidates who can do this work, or are they going to outsource to overseas firms that can do the work?

So then the question is, do you want this work being done here, in America, paying taxes here, or do you want some consulting company in Asia or Eastern Europe to get the money?
So you have an auction, and you're capping the number of people.

A hybrid monster that takes the worst of both a private market (heavily benefiting the richest incumbents) and government regulations (broad and non targeted rules).
> I’m surprised that there is no discussion on this thread about the impact to people who haven’t done anything wrong.

Existing H-1B holders should clearly be grandfathered in, but those aren't the only people who have done nothing wrong. What about the would-be future H-1B holders who would have benefited from working while making less than the new requirements? In other words, the vast majority of people who are going to be affected by these new rules.
> Ultimately does it matter?

For coding, no. If your typing speed is your bottleneck, you're doing something wrong — either don't use your abstractions the right way and write too much code, or don't know your editor macro engine well enough. Probably both.

But for writing prose? Yes. Being able to type faster gives you more freedom to test more ideas, get more rough material and then edit it out.
Eh. I think that's a little unfair on us HNers. I have seen comments like that. But I've also seen a lot of comments about how the H1b visas should be more flexible and widely available so as to give visa holders more freedom.
All that I know of at least?
There's the problem, you're comparing the overall immigration numbers for Canada to just the capped employment portion for the US. In addition, Canada isn't as accepting of illegal immigration (estimates of 35-120k in total there now), while the US adds 600k+ yearly.

> Immediate family of U.S. citizens. U.S. citizens can sponsor their spouses, unmarried children under age 21, and parents for a green card. This category does not have annual numerical limits.

> Family-sponsored preference visas. There are 226,000 green cards reserved each year for other categories of relatives. U.S. citizens can sponsor adult children and siblings, while green-card holders can sponsor their spouses and unmarried minor or adult children.

> The Employment Route. There are 140,000 green cards available each year for immigrants in five employment-based categories (formally known as “preferences”).

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/explainer-how-us-leg...
There's a scan of it here: http://vinylalbumcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/micha...
They don't type in conventional English, they type in shorthand.

"The stenotype keyboard has far fewer keys than a conventional alphanumeric keyboard. Multiple keys are pressed simultaneously (known as "chording" or "stroking") to spell out whole syllables, words, and phrases with a single hand motion. This system makes real-time transcription practical for court reporting and live closed captioning. Because the keyboard does not contain all the letters of the English alphabet, letter combinations are substituted for the missing letters. There are several schools of thought on how to record various sounds, such as the StenEd, Phoenix, and Magnum Steno theories."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype#Example
> accounting firms are competing with tech firms.

I think GP's point is that that's the way it's supposed to be. The shortage of accountants could be due to some combination of:

1. There are not enough people with the physical / mental / psychological capability to be accountants in the US

2. People with the physical / mental / psychological capability to be accountants are choosing other jobs; perhaps because they pay better, or are more fun, or have better work/life balance, or whatever.

#1 is a reason to steal^W import capable people from other countries; but I doubt very much that's the source of accounting's problems. It's almost certainly #2. In which case, if accounting firms want more accountants, they should make the job more attractive: pay more, have better hours, etc.
> then any reasonable employer is going to go with the candidate that they can hire the next week, rather than going through the H1B process.

Except in industries that have high turnover, like technology and fashion. There, H1Bs are abused by companies who don’t want to compete for talent at market rates and instead can lock in foreign workers. It makes more sense to hire the foreign worker specifically because they can prevent them from leaving. Illegal threats and intimidation of H1B workers are more common than you think.
Or by handing them a CD
Personally I think there's a middle ground that's very important, which is that I think anyone who received a university degree in the US and passes the background check should be able to get an unrestricted work visa.

The US should want to keep the talent it selects and trains. These are people who build the economy, generate IP, and create jobs in the long run. Not only that, but these people who have spent 4+ years in the US university education system are extremely well-adapted to life in the US and will thrive at making the US a better place.

(Yes there's OPT, but it's not long enough and doesn't provide a path to permanent residency.)
It seems that the Republican party decided that it has no hope of contesting the gubernatorial seat, which was reflected in their primaries - a race among a lineup of absolute clowns, among whom Culp placed first.

For folks who don't live in Washington - his official blurb is that he has no platform, and his qualifications consist of owning a construction company and being married for 43 years. No elected experience, no other professional experience, no education, no background in community service. [1]

This state of affairs is, of course, bad for democracy for two reasons. For one, the opposition candidate is completely unqualified (And heaven forbid if he actually wins.)

For another, when the opposition is so incapable, the bar of competence for the incumbent can't be lower.

[1] I wish I was kidding, but that is what I see in my voter guide. The folks who are running unopposed for their seats have more to say about themselves than he does.
> - Limit H1B to 75th percentile in salary terms.

Do you mean, cap the amount of money a company is allowed to pay someone on an H1B? The entire change of rules here is because companies were not paying market rate. Requiring them to not pay market rate defeats the purpose here entirely.

If you mean require that companies pay _at least_ the 75th percentile, then yes, I believe that is what the action that this entire thread is about is going.

I would also disagree that H1B destroys the feedback loop of jobs being needed. I don't believe the number of H1Bs issued is any where near large enough to disrupt an entire industry.
Great news. Deplatforming works, and will hopefully help defuse this group of potential domestic terrorists.
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I use Keyboard Maestro with AppleScript to replace @@@ with email+currentsite.com@mydomain.com. No iOS though
It's just one of those things that's assumed as good and not to be questioned, not even with reasonable and genuine discourse.
Overall, I really support these changes.

However, this piece really struck me as a big mistake:

"Under the changes, an applicant must have a college degree in the specific field in which he or she is looking to work. A software developer, for example, wouldn’t be awarded an H-1B visa if that person has a degree in electrical engineering."

Some of the best software engineers I know are graduate degree holders from neuroscience, biophysics, EE, and more. This might be a distinction that is only relevant in software engineering, but my intuition is that other fields will feel the sting of this decision.
Please keep this sort of flamebait off HN. Generic ideological comments and nationalistic flamebait also.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> utf8 being effectively alias of utf8mb3 has cost us so much work its not even funny.

An extra warning about that mess: mysqldump in many configurations will silently convert utf8mb4 down to utf8mb3. So when you're testing your backups or migrations, do an extra check to make sure that emoji and rarer characters didn't get eaten!
Facebook Completely Bans QAnon
You need to pass laws for all that. Even this regulation surviving legal challenges is doubtful.
I know this has nothing to do with eddie dying. rip. but i just wanted to say. i think Hagar was the better singer. I just prefer the 80s synth rock sound. Not to say roth wasn't good. he was great. i just prefer hagar.
My multipliers were per capita. Canada brings in 2X the US refugee count per year in absolute numbers, but is 1/10th the size, so ~20X per capita migration rate of refugees. Napkin numbers of course.

My parenthetical section indicated that Canada's numbers are world-leading per capita, not in absolute numbers.

Apologies if that was unclear.
I like autoload, have you thought of maybe a floating/fixed footer that's always there no-matter the scroll...
Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw
I am against taxation without representation. If it require "balancing out" (via taxation), then it wasn't a workable system in the first place.
For the second time this week on here, I feel compelled to recommend https://krabby.netlify.app/

Ever want to copy all the links in a column of a table to the clipboard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJXCnRBkHDY
Yes it can, if you consider hundreds of dollars a significant amount. I do.

A good article is around 50k visits. The most I've done was 300k over a few days of going viral on HN/reddit/twitter/other. I published some stats there https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...
That's exactly not the point.

The point was, that the other OSes picked specific hardware and they provide great experience only on that hand-picked hardware and nothing else. I specifically noted, that Apple touchpads do not work under Bootcamp as nicely as the Precision ones do, as an example.
We've resolved the issue with all 3 providers, thank you!
Why do you care whether or not it's cost effective to hire a foreign UI tester? That has zero correlation with whether or not its cost effective to hire someone with experience at CERN. Your hypothetical lists 2 different profiles that would be hired for vastly different jobs, and it seems like you only care that one of them is fucked over - is it just a strawman for racism? Can you point to any actual examples of CERN interns being passed over in favor of foreign UI testers?
What profession doesn't require training or experience to do well? I wouldn't hire someone who had never built a house before even if I wanted one built right now.
I don't think there is a definitive answer on that but this is one of my favourite articles on the topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-l...

In the end we'll likely never know unless we find some new notes.
Unfortunately your smug reply is wrong, as I said before.

From: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2018/tab...

Table 1. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status: Fiscal Years 1820 to 2018

Year Number

2018 1,096,611

2017 1,127,167

2016 1,183,505

This also obviously doesn't even count the number of illegal aliens coming here every year.

> The immigrant and descendent of immigrant population of the US is roughly 100%, because there are only 5 million native Americans in the US.

Native Americans came from elsewhere at some point too, I suppose they are immigrants also according to your meaningless definition.

Forgive me if I don't care about the per-capita number of refugees in Canada.

You are the one who is mistaken.
This concept intrigues me a lot. Not sure how I could make it work swapping between Windows and Linux, for work and play respectively.

Other things that come to mind are..

+ How would this affect your writing style? How would it affect your vocabulary?

+ If well done, I can see this having a positive impact around purposefully changing the way you write, by making shortcuts for the kinds of words you want to be using vs not using.

+ It is almost like creating another language as a translation/input layer. Could we agree on a mapping for the majority of English words to make this something worth learning? Something that could become common place?
Those jobs will flee the US. What has happened over the last few years is that many of those jobs have flown to Canada. And that's just with talking about making things slightly difficult, and not succeeding in actually changing rules.

I don't understand how people can go through this pandemic, where at least 50% of the people on this site are of the view that we can all work from wherever we want all time, and think that a company who is willing to pay 90k to hire somebody in the US, will not be willing to pay half that to hire that same person in Bangalore or Kiev instead.
nice... seems to work in Safari (Mac) despite being chromeexperiments.com
> Under the new rule, the required wage level for entry-level workers would rise to the 45th percentile of their profession’s distribution, from the current requirement of the 17th percentile. The requirement for the highest-skilled workers would rise to the 95th percentile, from the 67th percentile.

If you've got an undergraduate degree in CS looking for work as a SWE does that mean you'll need to get paid at p95? Won't this isolate all employment opportunities to places like the Bay Area at companies that pay a high base-salary (no equity counted)?
You would still have to have a job lined up to get a work visa. So there would need to be 500M new jobs.

If our economy grew by 500M new jobs, that would be unequivocally good. Those 500M people would be paying taxes, buying goods and services, paying for housing, etc.
Here’s a Redshift oddity that I don’t think is documented:

select sum(y.a), count(y.a) from(select distinct x.a from ( select 1 as a union all select 2 as a union all select 1 as a)x)y

sum | count
-----+-------
4 | 3

Sqlite3 returns the correct results of sum of 3 count of 2.

To fix this don’t use subqueries.
I spent $130 in ‘Genshin Impact.’ If you might do this, maybe don’t play it
Great news. Adherents to this conspiracy theory have committed domestic terrorism in the past. Hopefully this action will help prevent future tragedies, as deplatforming has repeatedly been shown to be effective.
You could get a keyboard that supports QMK, then set up the shortcuts at the keyboard level, rather than the OS.
> "you studied math and cs, and now want to work as a data scientist? That's not closely enough related"

This could be trivially avoided by simply aggregating the job posting requirements for similar positions or doing any sort of survey of the qualifications and education of currently employed highly paid data scientists.
We already have export in interchangeable format, because of the GDPR, but it doesn’t make people move their data because it’s difficult, and often, there isn’t really anywhere to move it to.

What would you import your Facebook data, your Strava tracks, etc. into? Even if there were a product with feature parity, your friends still would be on Facebook, and all your old URLs would die.
Both can be done, activist opposition, and a practical move to build the tools that make circumventing such privacy-hating regulatory nonsense all the more easy to pull off. More simply put: while active public opposition to bad laws is good, few things nullify bad laws better than a fait accompli that's out of the bag.
The short answer: very extensive systems of phonetic shorthand, a special keyboard with very few keys designed for chorded input (multiple keys pressed simultaneously), and specialised software dictionaries to translate the shorthand back into English. Professional stenographers can type upward of 300wpm as standard.
The downside is that it takes years to become proficient. http://www.openstenoproject.org/ is an interesting resource if you're curious.
I would love to see an interface to Gitlab as well.
If this were a real product, it would have launched as part of Google Workplace (formerly GSuite, née Google Apps). Area 120 is a completely make-work division of Google that Pichai will shut down as soon as he remembers it still exists.
This is incorrect. A green card holder is a “permanent resident”. But that’s not where the line is for being considered an “immigrant”. Someone on an H1B without a green card is still an immigrant. As are temporary workers (for example on an agricultural visa).
I guess the idea would be that the employers are taxed, not the employee. Also, H1Bs are already taxed all the regular taxes even if they return to their country before they could use Medicare or gather enough SS credits.
it possible that someone keen on cost-cutting through outsourcing but didn't do it because it still affordable enough to bring someone in but now with the higher cost to bring someone in, they will chose to outsource instead.
"Every country has a troubled history, but I will only call out the USA for some reason"
This is great! There might be hope for me yet: future data engineer at Apple some day.
The higher pay seems like an overall positive change to reduce the prevalence of "body shops" and so that H1-Bs aren't an easy way for companies to lower overall pay rate. I'm not sure that narrowing degree qualifications is a win; high-skill immigration is a significant boon to America's economy, and I think ability to do the work, and American company willingness to pay above-rate salaries (legally mandated now to 95th percentile for the highest-skill work) ought to be enough signal, and having a particular degree is not as useful a measure at that point. I know plenty of people who are incredibly qualified in terms of industry experience who don't have advanced degrees.

I've been pretty impressed with Taiwan's Gold Card work visa program, where you either need certain educational achievement qualifications, or need to be a highly-paid employee in specific fields — but not both. And it's not tied to a specific employer, which I think helps negotiation (and thus also helps domestic workers, by raising labor prices). I wish America's immigration program worked more like that — specific quibbles about what exactly the rate should be aside; Taiwan's is certainly too low to use for the US — since I think encouraging high-skill immigration would help much more than it would hurt: high-skill immigrants tend to generate more jobs, and also tend to pay more in taxes than the services they receive, meaning it's a win-win where immigrants can get the jobs they want in the country they want to be in and Americans end up with more jobs available and more government services per (American) tax dollar spent.
If you can find another employer to take over the sponsorship, you can transfer (without having to deal with the visa quota gantlet).
I would absolutely speculate that this requirement was made to block many good candidates. After all, the point of a visa system is to constrict the pool of potential candidates anyway.
Will they keep recognizing equivalent experience in lieu of formal education?
Yes, that's a myth.

http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/publications/PreQ...
Have they removed the 3 years of experience for each missing degree year exception?
You're right. My initial comment that spawned this thread addressed exactly this. I'm copying it here for reference, because it is pretty high up the thread at this point:

"""

I'll give you that, but it seems like a much simpler solution would have just been improving the flexibility for an H1B worker to be allowed to work at any employer for the term of their status.

If an employer used an H1B in order to hire a foreign worker and then under pay them, the worker would just get another job that pays market rate, without the work status concern. Without the artificial control over the employee, H1B fraud, in this manner, wouldn't be worth it.

"""
BQN: A Self-Hosted APL-Like Programming Language
Since Google already has Plus Codes, what's new here?
We actually already tax immigrants more than citizens. They pay the same taxes we do but don't qualify for all the deductions, and pay into social security and medicare even though they can't get those benefits.