skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average is not median.

Historians say the number is skewed due to the higher infant mortality rate. And I would need to do more research on the prevalence of starvation.

Seems like there was plenty of that after agriculture was discovered and we had high populations during a season of crop failure.

None of this addresses the reality that humans' playing with the larger ecosystems is incredibly destructive.

In a hundred years, people may have a very different view of "progress".
It will put upward pressure on wages.
Ha, nice to know, thanks. All the best idioms seem to be completely broken when you look into basis for them, so I'm not surprised. Not that it matters too much (although it would be better if they were more accurate), they do still let us express somewhat complex ideas concisely. :)
I like the Canadian system too, but it was recently pointed out to me that the Canadian system is biased towards wealthy immigrants. Many of the points are things that take money to get (like advanced degrees and knowledge of French).

And then you end up with the "PhD taxi driver" problem too.
This is pretty much the method I settled on while studying as well, but I use Obsidian.md just for linking while doing my "metacognition" as the author calls it. The important thing for me is that while in my 25 minute block of study that I don't go hunting for those links to my other files though, sometimes, they just come to mind. To me, that's a signal that that particular note has 'stuck' if I'm recalling it while writing about other things.
I made an alternative to hosted Redis: Serverless for Redis
> H1B has been/is being abused by all companies (big and small)

I don't see this exactly.

I have worked with multiple, brilliant visa holders. Many of them have moved on to bigger and better things. Presumably paying a huge amount in taxes for the privilege.

Most software developers I know are not making what I would deem suppressed wages, especially in the current conditions (and I don't have an SV job). Most firms I know would hire more people, but instead are contracting with firms and individuals outside of the US.

I suspect that's going to ramp up more.
Exactly. The H-1B program is intended to be for highly skilled workers. Most folks early in their career (GP is probably thinking straight out of school) can hardly be considered highly skilled. And surely there are plenty of American recent graduates from similar programs as the recent graduate H-1B applicant.
I'm not sure what a "server hall" specifically is. Is that referring to a single data-center or a whole set of data-centers (limited to a geographic area perhaps)? There is some interesting ideas here but with my limited domain experience I can't really make much sense of what's going on other than simply that we spend a lot of power on servers.
I think that's just a coastal problem - granted that is where a bunch of folks want to live but if you shift to some of the middle-america tech markets then housing becomes a lot more reasonable.

I really do think that Americans need to figure their crap out though - either you live in the middle of a city or you get your yard. I hate cars so I'm pretty happy in the city but that isn't the opinion of everyone.
eh... sounds typical right wing comment. Japan has low immigration rates, yet they are not having any more babies. So is Hungary (most restrictive country in EU for immigrants), Italy (lax about immigration), or even Albania (has outflow of people).

It is a world wide issue in all western countries, and it is independent of net 'in or out' immigration. The more developed a country becomes, the less babies it makes.

Even if you stopped immigration, people would not be making more babies, as countries that don't have net immigration still don't make more babies. Baby making seems independent with net immigration rates.
I don't really see it as the same thing. Using multiple fields of bits works fine here. 60 possibilities for seconds and minutes fit very well into 6 bits each. A raw 24-bit integer gives you plus or minus 2330 hours, and if you don't reserve a bit the format they actually went with gives you plus or minus 2047 hours. Since it just needs to represent 999 hours and change, that's fine.

The problem is the weird non-bit packing they did before.

DOS is different, partly because there are fields that fit worse, and partly because 32 bits is just barely enough to store seconds in the first place. If you did a DOS-style packing with 34 or 38 bits it would work fine. And it would be able to represent leap seconds, making it arguably better than unix timestamps!
Human rights violations weren't a problem; only optics mattered. The contract was a boon initially, and only became a liability because of the media attention. Shameful but typical corporate behavior.
It's multi-valued, I suppose. tan^-1 (tan (x)) is equal to x plus any integer multiple of pi (or of 180°). Same for the other pairs of functions. But one of the values results in a division by zero.
> do you really think the Eu and Canada have worse medicine?

I'm not sure where you got this impression, since I started with the opposite at the top of the thread.
Correct, this was exactly my point. The last thing is -- if the Accounting Firm business model doesnt work w/ fair wages, then the firms need to re-think how much they charge ("lets abuse desperate foreign workers" isn't really a good business model.)
Good question, but I have no idea, and ... it's ... complicated. Basically don't think about it in that way, because the math uses QM and frequencies.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/BlackHoles...

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hawking_radiation#The_or...
It’s not supposed to make sense... it’s supposed to make the system unwieldy and frustrating.

There is no requirement that you assume good faith. It’s usually a nice (and calming) place to start, but when the evidence is to the contrary it’s reasonable to not give them the benefit of the doubt.
Bad scare call.

In the US, over 3 million Puerto Ricans are now allowed to migrate to the mainland US (say to DC). The borders are completely open to them. In Europe, similarly, around 20M Romanians are allowed to Sweden. But they don’t.

Just because people are allowed to migrate, it doesn’t mean they will. And in the case of an overwhelming majority, they won’t.
The general idea is that once you are here you can stay. But since you're not a citizen, you can't "live on the dole" since you wouldn't qualify for any benefits.

So you'd either have to live off of your savings or get another job or go back to your home country.
Any proof that cannibalism was prevalent in preagricultural era, or are you just dropping in some more mythology?

Also there are more slaves in absolute terms today than at any other time. Not sure what agriculture and messing with ecosystems has to do with the human urge to enslave and kill each other.
>"Business absolutely doesn't care about spend, if they get some kind of marketing result traffic spike they just want the site to stay up even if it blows the average budget"

While this statement can be true in some cases I vividly remember bosses of largish (budget wise company) running around like headless chickens yelling to kill every running instance of service just because they were hit by way more "success" that they've planned for.
Ok, here is a better word - "garbage", as in Garbage In, Garbage Out.
American visa programs are run for the benefit of americans. Whether or not the visa holder benefits is incidental and not the point of US law.
While I'm definitely for preventing companies from taking advantage of the system and foreign workers by underpaying them, there seems to be many obvious and clear negatives to this (some are highlighted from others)

- Restriction of qualifying degrees
- Contraction of months for contractors
- Retroactively forcing salary increases
- ... not explicitly stated, _more headache for doing H1B visas in the first place_

The H1B process is already heavily complicated and difficult and I've seen many strong candidates be denied because either the company they were applying to didn't find it worthwhile. Two personal friends had to leave the country after they had lived and worked here and found employment in other countries simply because it was such a headache.

It's also important to remember these are not the only changes that have taken place to H1B visas in this administration, and that it's already become more difficult.
https://www.investopedia.com/news/impact-trumps-h1b-visa-cra...
The higher price makes the economics around that job different. It makes it valuable to utilize the existing individuals' time better, it makes employers give them secondary resources to help them perform their job better/faster, and it will punish employers that don't use their highly-paid time properly and to full efficiency. Also, the requirements for said position would be under pressure to be reduced to increase the available labor pool that can perform that job. Not to mention that it'll act as a price-signal for more people to train in that field.

It's not a binary "oh no not enough people" type of deal. It's a sliding scale and the closer you get to each side, the higher the incentives are to revert to some sort of equilibrium.

It really is quite one-sided (and potentially suspicious) to just try figure out "how can we get more of these people from other countries" instead of looking at all the other locally-available solutions. The same "circle" you speak of will happen regardless, even with plenty of immigration, with the double-whammy being that it'll affect the poorer countries that can't afford to keep those skilled immigrants.
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In a true race to the bottom like that, the American is out of a job regardless.
The latter, only allow H1B for highly paid people.

I can't find anything specific about the new requirements.
Umm no. Everyone but Indian/Chinese H1b holder, get their green card in 1-2 years.
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If we had that pipe dream there would not be a country left at the end of the day to argue policy over.

It's quite amazing that even 6 months after 100 year pandemic people still have wide eyed beliefs about open borders as if it's a net positive.
I think working remotely for a US-based company as a resident of another country is more nuanced than you seem to imply. It may require significant changes to their relationship, which in turn may be more expensive than just raising their salary.
This is very true. It was bad wording on my part. Thank you for correcting it.

Edited the previous comment to reflect this.
I'm not anti-immigrant in any way, but I'm wondering if things like H1-B have just run their course. Why would I pay to essentially import a worker to the US instead of just hiring staff in another country? Currently, my teammates could be 5 blocks away or on another continent and it makes no difference.
BTW, here's a link to the twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/the_antlr_guy/status/1313569854918590465
> This is bad for the local workers.

This is short sighted.

If an expert is brought in from overseas to do something that local people can't do, then it can create additional employment opportunities on projects and development that would not have been possible without their expertise.

That's the point of the visa.
So what? If there is not enough workers, they'll have to raise wages. What's wrong with healthcare workers getting 80k? (in reality, they'd poach someone elses workers, they'd have to raise their wages, and so on, then slowly there would be more workers due to more people going into field due to high wages, and if not, then get a H1B worker for 80k+).
> Serious question: wouldn’t that be leaving less jobs open for Americans?

Immigration has much less of an impact on employment than you might expect in some cases — because immigrants also consume goods and services.

One widely cited example is the Mariel boatlift, where more than a hundred thousand Cubans immigrated to Florida over a short period of time. Subsequent economic analyses found essentially no change in wages or employment for native workers. (There was one study by Borjas which did find a change in wages for a subsection of workers, but this was widely criticized for basically p-hacking — split a population into enough subsections and you'll eventually find one that had a decrease in wages.)

More reading:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5f6gqu/open_b...

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/btt4uo/the_le...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift
Once during college, I lived with roommates (and girlfriend) who loved cats. Think we had 3-4 indoor cats at one point and some other strays outside they liked to feed.

We had 3 litter boxes and they had to be scooped daily or they quickly became disgusting.

My point was that cats still need upkeep and it's really not fair to leave them living in filth for a week at a time just because someone can set up an auto-feeder.

Any pet is going to be an inconvenience if properly cared for. Doesn't mean a person can't travel, but as mentioned they will likely need to ask or pay someone to come and check on the pets.

Giant litter box is helpful but still needs to be regularly scooped.

If someone can invent a feasible self cleaning litter box (or a good way to toilet train a cat) I would love to have a cat pet, but right now the idea of them using dirty litter boxes and walking on every surface in the house is just too unappealing.
So all the doors should open for the person with a rich family background, while the poor one should stay in poverty?
YouTube became way too money centric. I try to watch a 5-10 min video and can't without 5-8 min of super shitty scammish ads. what the actual fuck? That's really annoying I frankly just bare use youtube because of this shit. I either put some 3-4 adblockers on my chrome to watch some video. The suggestions became super weird and full of promoted stuff. I mean, it's okay to make money out of all this, but I really think google really took this too far. I personally won't be coming back to youtube unless they will be pulling their shit together..
I mean, it kind of is.

As other comments have mentioned, most of Texas' population lives in large urban areas. Even though hogs are starting to show up in and around cities (I have personally seen them right next to I-45 in The Woodlands/Conroe area immediately north of Houston), it's illegal to shoot them there. And there are only so many people willing to spend their own time and money to leave the city and go kill them.

If we're talking straight theory (and this is HN so why wouldn't we), all it should take is enough predators to reduce/eliminate any given prey population to the desired number. The predator count that is needed could itself be reduced if more effective predation methods are available, but it's still a numbers game.
If you look at the chart, you'll see there is a substantial global negative correlation between income and fertility. High income countries have low fertility. Everywhere.

The question for me is why are you trying to force "natives" to have kids they don't want to have?
The issue is not about the “accuracy” of a filmed historical subject but rather of overwriting a new set of authorial and editorial choices over the original. If you’re trying to understand how the author thought of the world in order to understand a historical mindset, you look at the choices they make as reflective of their world view and values.
This is so true. In fact we've seen this happen already. Once big-tech started paying market salaries, their applicant:position ratio has exploded to 100:1. In a prior era, those same workers might have gone to Wall St or Strategy Consulting.

The Market works. Pay fair wages and your personnel problems go away.
The interesting bit is that Hootsuite is a B Corp: https://bcorporation.net/

> Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
This!

And when you reach 80k (or whatever the number was), you'll also be able to get H1B nurses.
This is spot on, except for one thing: Google Cloud Run.

It's the closest offering I've found to Heroku and am planning to migrate all our services to it due to significantly better pricing. Make sure you look into it.
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Many of the places in the US with space and cheaper housing in fact consist mostly of standalone housing.
Agreed. I can confirm; hunted pigs get educated and super skittish. It's like tracking the Viet Cong or something.
At the top of the page, you can hit "gi" to put the text box in focus and start typing your comment.
Surely working with computable reals is sufficient? There's no point in writing a computer program that attempts to work with non-computable reals, for obvious reasons. And computable reals are countable.
The decision would be ok in most other countries, where the land is some ethnic group's birthright. America, however, is unique in that it's everyone's birthright. The only reason most educated people don't support totally open borders is because there's so much poverty outside the US, but H-1B holders are not poor.
Ask HN: How do I get better at creating well-reasoned arguments?
Today I was told by my manager that my arguments come across jumbled and incoherent.

This is not news to me. Since a young age I've found it incredibly difficult to reason about and form an argument for or against a topic. I first encountered this in my high school design and technology exam when I was asked to articulate why I would choose a particular material over another. No matter how much I tried, I simply could not reason about the different materials and which one would be better.

12 years on and I now have a PhD in computer science. I find software development extremely straightforward and the accompanying decision making easy. But during design discussions before development takes place, I still find it very difficult to present a reasoned argument as to why I'd design a piece of software one way over another. I mostly rely on an internal feeling that either provides positive or negative emotions (intuition). Project level decisions are also affected by this.

The absence of reasoned argument is not due to a lack of trying. When I attempt to reason about a problem I struggle to think of the questions I should be asking. Thoughts about a topic do not come naturally, and often they are very cyclic and disjointed. It is only through writing down my thoughts that my argument gains clarity. You can imagine how problematic this thought process is for active oral discussions, my discourse appears sporadic and poorly thought-out.

Is there anything I can do to improve my reasoning skills so I can participate coherently in oral discussions?
What are you paying and do you post that information on your job description? I am a software engineer with 5 years of experience in Chicago IL and am open to new opportunities. What would you offer me?
You don't need a time machine to stop a pattern of destruction that we only seem to be accelerating.
I vaguely recall that the "indentured" h1b workers (as oppose to the "proper" h1b like I had) owe money back to home, and that debt becomes instantly due if they bail out.

If they were super-stars they would be able to cover it from the Amazon signup bonus (and become indentured to Amazon - your signup bonus is due back if you bail out early). However superstars rarely end up in those jobs. We're looking at people with kinda average engineering skills, poor understanding of the American culture, no connections, and grim determination to grind their way out of their old life.

Liberating the indentured h1b workers is not just flipping a legal switch, it's a cultural integration project.
> it seems to be always pounded into me "hunted out of existence" was a common thing that hunters would do if left to their own devices

Haha yeah, people say that, but recreational hunters typically have a vested interest in maintaining something to hunt...

I say that as a recreational hunter - I started hunting after encountering starving deer in very poor condition in eaten out forest, they had even eaten all the mountain beech seedlings[1] which is a sure sign of desperation. And an obvious part of population control is shooting the hinds...

...which makes me somewhat unpopular with other recreational hunters. Although trophy hunters, at least, realise that lower populations lead to better antlers due to better nutrition for an individual animal.

[1]: Not a real beech - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothofagus_solandri_var._cliff...
The point of any given set of rules is to balance both objectives: expand the domestic labor pool, but also avoid undercutting local labor. As with any political process, the incentives and power-block dynamics shift the line over time in different directions.
50k-60k is pretty normal in many places in US. Were they bringing staff in SF or NYC?
If you don't like a law enforcement agency, then work to elect officials that make the political change you want. Don't use cancel culture to enrage your tribe and shame everyone you disagree with.

edit:removal of inaccurate reference to McCarthyism.
"That we are eagerly accepting money from an organization that is allegedly subjecting its female detainees to forced hysterectomies, that has a documented history of locking children in cages, that tears families apart and destroys lives is devastating and disgusting," she wrote at the time."

Then why were you working there?

Meanwhile, you still live in a civilization that exists only because it was able to conquer both nature and competitor civilizations — you are a party to genocide and ecocide.

If you had as much integrity as your posturing suggests, you'd have removed yourself from that civilization by now.

People like this combine a grindingly midwit intelligence with extreme narcissism in ways I find morbidly fascinating.
Hehehe... I like this solution. I'm an American citizen, my wife was on H1B and now we're in the middle of transfering her to a green card. This process is designed to make immigrants' lives hard, as far as I can tell.
Is there a shortage of bankers in the US ?
Among articles you see on the front page, there is a two orders of magnitude difference in visits between the more popular and the less popular.

HN/reddit/twitter/android can all send a similar amount of traffic. There's one order of magnitude there, how many places an article is featured at the same time?

Then there's an order of magnitude within each place, how much interest and readership the article could gather? Highly variable. The first comment alone can make or break an article.
The paper says the Java code throws exceptions in such cases.
Ahh, I see. There's a logic to it, but I really don't agree with this zero-sum mindset. The tech sector is one of the few where the US is (arguably) a leader, and it seems like we will all benefit in the long run if the most talented people in the world build their careers here. It seems like there must be a better way to ensure that native workers are not harmed by it, such as collective bargaining.
I'm a bit biased as someone who's already used to nvim, but the coc-elixir support is fantastic. Takes a bit of configuration but once you've got the language server set up it's better than any IDE.
It doesn't matter. You can define your market as whatever you want.

The point is that if someone you need to hire is not available, you're going to try to find them elsewhere. You're not going to wait 4 (or whatever number of) years for someone to go to school, train, gain experience, and be available for you to hire.