skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t think it’s possible to claim that you have the ‘correct’ source of information.

What does this mean? I read the WHO reports at the time, and they are still the same. They are "incorrect" in the sense they didn't know things at the start, but they are a correct historical record.

> It is well reported that a doctor who identified the virus early on was forced to lie and claim he was mistaken.

Indeed. And look what happened to the officials who forced him to do that.

> Are you really so certain that your timeline is accurate?

Yes, absolutely - which is why I'm so surprised at the "blame China" narrative.

I'd be quite interested to understand why you think it could be wrong? It was less than a year ago, and the information is all publicly accessible.

I was following Covid from early and ordered masks in late January. The WHO started publishing daily updates at[2] from Jan 21 and prior to that on[3]. People knew and were making preparations for a SARS type epidemic - I'd suggest you read some to see how much people knew and how seriously they were taking it.

Their update on Jan 21 reports:

Additional investigations are needed to determine how the patients were infected, the extent of human-to-human transmission, the clinical spectrum of disease, and the geographic range of infection. [4] (note the human-to-human transmission bit)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/chinese-inquir...

[2] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

[3] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

[4] https://www.who.int/csr/don/21-january-2020-novel-coronaviru...
How in the world is Excel supposed to know which fields you want to be numbers and which to be strings? CSV doesn't have that info built in unless you surround the number with quotes and you select the right process. Excel isn't just a CSV importer, it reads all sorts of files, and it needs some help if you expect it to work. What ever happened to process and a sense of responsibility and craft in your work?
One interesting issue is that there are around 700,000,000 people interested in immigrating to the U.S.

Would be fun to build super cities at a rapid pace over the next decade though :)
Americans lost more manufacturing jobs to China.

Americans lost jobs to Europeans after the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe and kickstarted the European economy.

Americans lost jobs when Japan industrialized and dominated the semiconductor industry.

Despite Americans losing jobs, the United States Government continued to support other nations on their path to development. Despite losing all those jobs, America continued to prosper, is still the wealthiest nation by far, and most advanced and militarily powerful.

Americans are not constantly being fired and replaced by cheaper h1bs. Some are. There is little evidence to support that h1bs have contributed to any kind of large scale wage depression in the technology sector. In fact, wages continue to grow, and most companies are still hiring lots of software engineers.

If you don’t have your facts straight, I don’t know what to tell you. You can look at localized instances of job losses caused by companies abusing the system. I can point to localized instances of immigrants on h1bs starting new companies and hiring many Americans. This gets us nowhere.

There is no evidence that H1b abuse is causing anywhere near the amount of wage suppression that would cause massive shift in wages across the US tech industry.
> Use Slack as your water cooler

> Did you recently read an interesting article about how ML could solve the pandemic?

> Share This Stuff On Slack

Shows a picture of him messaging himself on Slack (you can tell by the "Jot something down" placeholder text)

Edit: all the examples are that way, it seems.

Overall some decent advice, though I don't necessarily agree with all of the points. Such as sharing news articles aka reposting HN in random channels throughout the company Slack.

Or coffee breaks outside of office/work hours, how about just virtual happy hours _during_ work hours or something. Or grab a coffee in the morning during work, you know - when most people usually consume caffeinated beverages

Also, doesn't this guy just work at Triplebyte blogging/interviewing people? His Linkedin says he's a technical interviewer at Triplebyte. When was the last time he remote engineered anywhere?
So to your first point you need to understand I am not taking about “needing” to outsource/offshoring to provide UBI to citizens. No, “offShoring” is “needed” by companies to be more efficient and profitable. It is a business decision. That is inevitable if US companies wants to stay competitive in the global market. If not outsourcing or offshoring there WILL be automation as time goes on and many skills will become older or stale. This is also inevitable. If you deny these trends you are living under a rock really. Now in your answer I do sense some frustrations around demographic changes , which is also real , but again that kind of thinking leads to stereotyping biases and sometimes making the wrong judgement, which I think we can all do without and definitely the United States constitution does not prescribe classes of citizens based on ancestry. But to all the other issues UBI is the answer not stopping the profitability of companies.

Secondly the fact is most of the developed countries run on successful immigration policies. Countries like Japan which did not encourage immigration until recently had a stagnating economy for a very long time. Only recently they are loosening up immigration to help boost the economy. In fact the reason USA is a great place to come and work for many SKILLED immigrants is that immigrants has contributed greatly in the last three decades and helpers US companies to dominate in the global competition and increase their profit to stellar levels. Look at any of the global hi tech companies from IBM to Microsoft and you will see immigrants holding not only back office roles but also holding all kinds of positions from middle managers to being CEOs. Do you think these companies could have been so successful without the contribution of the immigrant communities? These companies success are America’s recent success and let us not deny this fact or take steps that will kill this glorious fountain of prosperity and innovation.
It's used as a modern indentured servitude. I think you said it well, they love the "traditional way", which includes dangling someones life above their heads to get them to work in situations where other people wouldn't put up with it.

To me, it's the legal version of having your passport stolen for ransom in a third world country.
You are deliberately twisting it. The crime stats says "violent crime is more prevalent in black communities...", but no AI/ML will produce the conclusion "...and therefore black people should get longer criminal sentences for the same crime". They are completely irrelevant. The AI model will simply conclude that race would be a factor when you are looking at crime rate, or posterior probability when a violent crime happens. And that is exactly accurate. What's wrong with that? That's a fact. Math doesn't lie nor does it have any agenda. There is nothing the AI is making up or adding up to. It is pure statistics and probability. It is the human beings that can't take the truth and the consequences.
Obama administration allowed Employment Authorization for dependents of H-1B visa holders who applied and were chosen for permanent residency and were stuck in the backlogs. Many of these people - women, mostly - have been unable to participate meaningfully in the economy of many years. What is the problem with allowing them to work while they wait for their turn to be permanent residents?
Guangdong Dong Lock Hack: Prick Release Fixed in Release.
Intel released the Xeon D series to fill this niche https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/...

The D-1529 can be TDP limited to 20W (at a whopping 1.3GHz), but if you goal is idle power consumption under 20w you are better off with one of the 35w TDP D-1602 since it is only a dual core and has the lowest standby consumption. The D-1518 is also a popular choice, and basically the same as the D-1529 but with a 35W tdp limit so it can turbo to 2.2GHz.

You can get a barebones motherboard (even mini-ITX is available for making small machines) for about $500 or a complete computer for a bit under $1000 ex https://www.newegg.com/supermicro-sys-e300-8d-intel-xeon-pro...

note - the xeon-d series is not socketed, so the motherboard price includes the CPU. Make sure to get board that takes full size DIMMS since there is not a lot of ECC laptop memory on the market.
+1 I was never asked about my immigration status before me accepting the offer. I had interviewer training afterwards and there was no mention of immigration status in interviewer guidelines as well. This was 20000+ employee company. It doesn’t seem logical from company’s perspective to hire a direct employee who’s gonna be with them for many years, just on basis of their immigration status.
Grandfather, Father, Son Rotation Script
I tried deploying a static site. DO App Platform makes the file page1/index.html available both at /page1 and at /page1/. If the page contains any relative links or images, it is impossible for both URLs to reference these links correctly. Most web servers handle this by redirecting /page1 to /page1/ before serving it. Netlify does this as well. Vercel works the same as DO in its default mode, but it allows the user to configure the trailing slash behavior to get the redirect. Hugo, for one, assumes all files are served with a trailing slash.
I figured this would eventually become a thing. First because of the commercial cardboard projects you can buy at Toys R Us, and secondly because I follow a guy on Twitter who makes a smaller scale version of cardboard toys and automatons that are always fun to see in action.

Everyone interested in diy building started with cardboard! So it's incredible to see technically interesting ways to make it all come full circle.
Your best bet is to become a pig farmer.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/28...
You don't need to be on a privileged horse to make both the privacy argument and the welfare argument.

You don't have to argue against them. There's options for public funding of such things. I know that's nowhere near where our political mindset is, but you could require a browser to be paid, but have government programs and subsidies that make the browsing free for most people. Then all the incentives are properly accounted for.
orgasm control / BDSM. It’s a fetish.
We have a monolith and it's great. It's also organized, which appears to be unusual.

Microservices have become a panacea for bad design. If your code is spaghetti, the microservices will be even worse.

Maintaining consistently is also way easier when different parts of the app share the same db context.
Did you mean to respond to GP?

If not, that is a rather disingenuous reading of what I wrote. No one is saying it "should" be hard for foreign students to get a job in academia, my point was academia has ample domestic labour, so even if H1B salaries are raised, the research attempted is unaffected.

Wanting more researchers is well and good, there just aren't enough jobs and funding for them in the current STEM academic market (which is completely separate from any H1B related issue), hence the rather large number of people who move to industry.
The problem in the US, as I understood it, is that there is shortage of workers in IT [1]. To me, it sounds like turning off the stream of potential workers, without fixing the underlying issue. With the current rules (85k H-1Bs a year), it would take 10 years for immigrants to fill all the spots. There may be a lot of untapped talent left in the US (based on under-representation of women, that's a discussion for another time), but somehow, the vacancies are not getting filled - what gives?

In addition, it seems that even currently, H-1B program has rules to make sure the wages paid are fair [2] - if they are not, it sounds like a problem with enforcement, or with how prevailing wages are calculated. To me, based on [3], it does not look like calculating the prevailing wage is the problem.

[1] "In the past three months, U.S. employers had about 918,000 unfilled IT jobs, according to IT trade group CompTIA." - https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-got-talent-just-not-en...
[2] "Employers must attest to the Department of Labor that they will pay wages to the H-1B nonimmigrant workers that are at least equal to the actual wage paid by the employer to other workers with similar experience and qualifications for the job in question, or the prevailing wage for the occupation in the area of intended employment – whichever is greater." - https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b
[3] https://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-1...
What am I supposed to tell my kids when I wake them up laughing at this? Where do I even start? I'd have to put the movie on and hope they fell asleep.
In the book Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin [0], she mentions that there was one member of the LIGO project who became the "go to" person for any technical discussions because they had memorized large parts of the infrastructure. Having memorized it, they could quickly "debug" issues and evaluate proposed changes. The implication was that asking the individual was faster than having to get together multiple people and then poll them for what they thought the answer might be.

In my own career, I've spent the last 15 years working in finance technology. Many of the systems involved in this industry are legacy (with lots of patches), complex and distributed with all of the attached problems that come with them. Multiple times over that, I've seen people with excellent memories and understanding of the system be able to pinpoint problems just by taking a couple symptoms and deducing the root cause in a few minutes. It really can be a superpower.

The one down side of course is that you build this great mental model for a system that only ever exists at one firm. This can lead the situation where you become more valuable to the firm over time as fewer people remain who understand the system. In turn, your opportunity cost of leaving goes up because you would have to start from zero at your next job.

[0] - https://amzn.to/3lkSfmu
It's very simple. If it's harder for foreign people to become postdocs/profs in the US, the quality of US research will fall. Quickly.
He's 100% MAGA. I don't care, but I am sure that's what the parent is referring to.
Lets simplify and say we have 1 spot and 2 applicants.

Mediocre engineer with a sponsored job for 70k.
Great engineer with a sponsored job for 140k.

With no salary requirement both has equal chance to get in, meaning the great engineer has 50% chance to get lose the position. With salary requirement at 100k the mediocre engineer will no longer get sponsored leaving the great engineer as the only applicant left and thus guaranteeing that he get in.

Edit: With the old requirements bringing in mediocre engineers was still profitable, with the new requirements it wont be since the salary cap is set at a very high percentile.
Gaining security and privacy by partitioning the cache
The rule linked came from https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2020-22347...
> Myalgias, headache, encephalopathy, dizziness, dysgeusia, and anosmia together accounted for 95.8% of all neurologic manifestations at Covid‐19 onset and 91.4% during the course of the disease.

Don’t these things happen for other types of flus too?
I know that the EU and ECHR are separate institutions, but how on Earth would this be compatible with article 8 of the ECHR, a persons right to a private and family life, his home and his correspondence? Why must we always be fighting this battle?
A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher
Quoting:

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Thus, going back to the snippet:

<form id="outer"><div></form><form id="inner"><input>

In the beginning, the form element pointer is set to the one with id="outer". Then, a div is being started, and the </form> end tag set the form element pointer to null. Because it’s null, the next form with id="inner" can be created; and because we’re currently within div, we effectively have a form nested in form.

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I was under the impression that a closing tag automatically also closed any tags that were currently open, but contained within the tag being closed. Is it not a bug that, when the </form> tag is encountered, the open <div> tag isn't closed at that point?
No doubt that H-1B has brought many talented people to the US that have made enourmous contributions. But this has been out of random chance rather than design. The program needs calibration.

The H-1B visa program currently requires to have a "bachelor's degree" or equivalent. When you open the door to any "bachelor's degree or equivalent" from anywhere in the world, results are pretty random. You can get a freaking genius, or a person that cannot implement fizzbuzz, and anything in between.

I think the solution is to give priority to the most skilled applicants in the pool, in this way, the cheaper talent will be left behind and wage depression becomes harder to achieve.
Could you remove the word "political" and make the same headline assertion?
> Type ascriptions don't "change" behavior, because there wasn't valid behavior without them. The type system failed to check (but again, different inference algorithms might be able to get around this)

No, they exist to change behaviour, that's the whole point of that terminology. The example they give is passing a sequence to a vararg method: if you have a generic method that takes a vararg (generic) parameter, then calling that method with multiple parameters from a sequence, or a single parameter that is a sequence, are both valid but have different behaviours.
Yes, though Eddie's solos tend to get the notoriety, his rhythm playing was brilliant, arguably his best side. (I thought his lead guitar was kind of haphazard at times.) For rhythm work, I love the title track from "5150". And of course almost anything from the first album. "Unchained" from "Fair Warning" has one of the all-time great opening riffs.
ThinkPad with Linux. Just replaced my trusty old T410 (2000GB) with a P53(1000GB).

I usually keep a Windows 30-50 gig system tucked away 'in the corner' but I rarely bother to boot it.
Easy steps to legacy cloud migration
Against Xkcd 1357
Citation needed.

Looking at Form 990 for several top private research universities:

Harvard: $1,462M tuition vs $592M government grant

Yale: $680M tuition vs $528M government grant

Princeton: $369M tuition vs $293M government grant

Stanford: $938M tuition vs $1,299M government grant

As you go down in research activity, the differences only get bigger.

Rochester Institute of Technology: $501m tuition vs $113m government grant

University of New Haven: $214m tuition vs $6m government grant

U.S. taxpayers are not paying for foreign students. Foreign students are paying for themselves, and then some.
And they excluded Pluto! Guess it's just a faint memory now :(
> Here in Seattle we have a lot of crime but not a lot of violence. In larger midwestern cities there are huge poor black neighborhoods, even entire parts of cities encompassing many neighborhoods, where the violence and suffering is incredible.

I don't think those living and working in San Francisco are exactly strangers to human misery and poverty.
On top of that ALL of these sales figures aren't based on real value to begin with - everything has been significantly distorted by government subsidies, from cost of inputs to taxes to various car ownership costs subsidized by the government.

Complete BS and nothing but a big con job.
I think you meant to say there will never be an excess of talent? (If I’m reading your comment correctly)
It has nothing to do with AI/ML. If you see someone repeatedly stealing from your yard, you can't predict he would do it again with high probability, because it would perpetuate the trend instead of trying to change it? Why would the responsibility of change lie on the observers instead of the perpetrators? If he cares about his image, he can stop stealing and with time, people would conclude so.
When you say "high paying" do you mean Silly Valley 10x Coder positions that are as likely as landing a job as frontman for Aerosmith? Or are you talking about $125-200k code monkey positions?

Atlanta has plenty of the later.
What do you do when you want to type "9" though?
Give up some, or give up all. Same reason capital gains tax is lower than income tax.
To be fair, pedal steels typically have their actions raised so high (deliberately) that tapping isn't possible.
The Lakers don't have all those fans, that's more than a stretch. The NBA has been declining in popularity for years as well. Finally, knowing who a person is, is rather unimportant in the scheme of things.

Face it, running back and forth throwing a ball, even with excessive style simply doesn't move people the way art does. I do have additional respect for Kareem for that reason, he's shown himself to be a deep thinker outside the court.
Which is why we desperately need legislation protecting workers rights do decide they want to collectively bargain, and protection from this kind of predatory bullshit. I couldn’t care less if Amazon workers want to unionise, but they shouldn’t be blacklisted or surveilled because some might wish to do so.
I have collected about a dozen single bit (corrected) errors in my home cloud, and seen 2 uncorrectable errors.
I also have come across about a dozen 'bad' sticks of ram which show errors in memtest86, about half of which only have 1 bad row, and 2 of which only show errors after multiple passes which I assume is thermal based.

I do however build all of my computers from pieces from the recycling, so the statistics may be a bit off of the norm...
Found it just as I was about to give up

https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/shop-management-and-ow...
What problem did you have with linode? I had been using them for a couple of months and the experience so far has been great
I have heard stories (that don't seem too uncommon) of unscrupulous companies doing a variety of things - including charging the hopeful visa recipient payments to secure a job, paying the required salary only for the months leading up to the H1B interview and then lowering the salary immediately after, etc.

Not sure what fraud these new rules will prevent, if they are implemented.
Of course. If even a single foreigner mixes with a population, that populations genetic, ethnic identity becomes entirely invalid, and using it as something to unite around becomes illegitimate.

After all, if a thing has fuzzy edges, that's the same as the thing not existing at all.

Fortunately every other ethnicity will be equally rigorous on what they use as a basis for common identity, so there's no risk this approach leaves you atomized against a unified competitor.
K-12 schooling in America is paid through property taxes, so unless they are living in a area with high property taxes you most likely wont be helping much.

College level school funding (state/federal) has basically dried up in the past few decades with budget cuts. The idea is affordable public college education is not realistic for most people. I believe this is what the commenter is talking about needing more funding.