skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair trade policy has consistently been the one thing on which I agree with the Trump presidency.

It hasn't been enough to outweigh all the other absolutely horrible stuff, but it is one thing.

I am concerned that Biden will return us to the old days of "free" trade that allows corporations to import totalitarianism via near-slave or even actual slave (see Uyghur prisoners and forced labor) wage arbitrage to crush domestic wages and liquidate the middle class. This isn't even getting into the export of environmental destruction ("out of sight out of mind") or the export of American technological expertise to unfriendly totalitarian states.

H1B programs can be shady this way too. It's not as shady as actual slave labor or near-slave sweatshops, but there is certainly a serious power imbalance when your employer can pay you sub-standard wages and threaten to cause you to be deported if you don't keep your head down.
I forgot to put the patient facing info in my post, so I'll link it here: https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/gps/how-to-reg...

They have leaflets with information tailored to homeless people, asylum seekers and refugees, gypsy Roma and traveller communities, and visitors from abroad.
The thing to remember about US immigration is that most immigrants simply over stay their visa. The US may bring less immigrants over but there is a reason you can press 2 for Spanish on nearly every single companies help line.
If you do host large-ish files, even a couple MB JPGs, your personal finance wouldn't be happy.

I've had some images hit reddit (hotlinked) and exceeded 10-15TB per image, and that cost under $10 at other (non-AWS/Azure/*) places.
This is another good point, some things you can’t get around memorizing. I also grew up in an environment where I learned to loath rote memorization. But some things are impossible without a bunch of memorization work. I tried DJing for a bit and it’s just a fact the better you have songs memorized and lots of them the better you’ll be at it. The best DJs I’ve met have a memory of at least the structure of thousands of tracks.
If you are going to call out “infrastructure to support it”, care to elaborate and maybe throw in some numbers?
isnt it very popular server side too?
Not sure about Chrome, but that extension works on Firefox for me for WSJ.
I'm glad you liked it! You should definitely check out Michael Nielsen's work: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html.
> The thing to remember about US immigration is that most immigrants simply over stay their visa.

That is patently false.
> This means Canada brings in 25X the number of refugees per capita than the US does.

> This means Canada brings in 20X the number of new immigrants per capita than the US does.

You assert this as though it's just automatically a good thing with no actual analysis as to the impact on Canadians. What happens to the cultural cohesion, wages, and living standards of Canadians when immigration is at such a rapid pace? Is this not a factor? Or is the sheer availability of cheap, undercutting labour just a natural capitalist good that we should accept regardless of the hard to measure, intangible impacts?
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.
Yes, they added Secret Manager early this year: https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager
Three years later, Facebook says it will ban QAnon
You make it sound like bubble sort is trivia when in reality, it's quite useful in specific real world situations. If I need the top 3 elements of a list, bubble or insertion sort are the most efficient ways to do that.

But that's something you wouldn't think about if you didn't know how bubble sort was implemented. Do you see how memorizing this can lead to creativity?
Please nobody tell the qanon folks about setting up card tables full of literature and harassing passerbys at busy intersections.
For much of human history cities had disease rates so high that they were below replacement rate even in the pre-contraception era. It remains the case that that's where the art and culture happens, because the synergistic benefits of bringing like minded people together make them far more effective at producing culture than isolated farmers.
>would have been enough to buy a ticket to go to Europe, visit a random country get the operation done, fully pay for (without insurance coverage) it and fly home to Cali.

This isn't even uncommon among people in Europe. A lot of people from Western Europe get on a 50 bucks Ryanair flight to Hungary or Romania, get their dental work done and fly back home.
While I'm in favor of the move, wages are just a band-aid fix. The core of the problem is that the premise of the H1B visa itself – extraordinary skill that cannot be found in the US – is complete bullshit. Everyone participating in the program (including the government) knows this, and yet they have to do the entire song and dance of years long approval processes, fake job listings, RFEs and whatnot.

Fix the real problem, and salaries will take care of themselves.

Another problem with simply raising the salary bar is that there are actually professions (especially in healthcare) that genuinely have a talent/supply gap. A small hospital in the midwest, however, isn't going to be able to compete with a hotshot SF startup with unlimited venture funding to throw at foreign hires.
FWIW I am an immigrant myself (in Australia) and I am in favour of strict regulation. Skilled migration schemes should bring in skilled people, I've seen many people migrating on a skilled visa only to end up making a living as taxi drivers.
Google is aiming for 24/7 carbon free energy by 2030:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/google-pledges-...

It takes more than a decade of construction time to build a fission nuclear reactor in the US and Europe. Though Google does mention nuclear as one of many technologies that may help decarbonize, I don't think fusion is going to have much of a chance to be part of the solution.
From what I read in previous discussions about fusion, it’s unlikely to be economically viable even if we have a working one.

Maybe they could invest that money in improving fission, or solar/wind instead.
> of course these rules do not take into account equity based compensation

I would not consider startup equity equitable to salary compensation.
afaik there's no native Zoom client for ARM [0]. You'll be stuck with the web version of it, which according to some functions poorly no matter where you run it

[0] https://devforum.zoom.us/t/have-you-considered-building-zoom...
There's a lot to be said for a slow steady pace. Society's relationship with politics tends to be oscillatory. If you push too hard in one direction (liberal or conservative), things swing back the other way and you end up with two steps forward, one step back and a loss of power for your team.

A more productive approach would be to set the cruise control just left of center and not get greedy. If you do that and simultaneously monitor and manage externalities of policies you see as progress, you'll probably see more mileage.

The complete lack of concern for externalities of policies and disregard for second and third order effects is why I've largely abandoned supporting most democrat positions. It's gotten so destructive that I'd rather stick with the devil I know than the devil I don't. And I would rather avoid oscillating between which devil has power since it's at the point in the reversal of political direction that the worst authoritarian abuses from either side happen.
I’m getting an unprecedented level of political spam via text. It’s really, really annoying.
Without reading the whole IFR, what would be the minimum pay for h1b holder? Will it make harder for entry level F1 OPT students?
Immigration to Canada has stayed very consistent over the last 20 years, check the wiki article [1] for details. It's not political (well, the rhetoric is political. The actual policies and statistics are not.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Canada
First of all, I'm pretty sure the US accepts way, way more immigrants than that. Also, how is it anti immigration to ask employers to pay H1Bs a competitive wage? Yes the process is expensive, but so what?
If you really needed H1Bs, you'd be willing to foot the bill. The program shouldn't be used to get access to cheap labor & it shouldn't be used to save money.
The immigration quotas in Canada are simply out of control.

Almost every week on this forum I see Canadians whining about low wages in Software.... in a market that's more or less flooded with cheap labor!
It isn't the moderators, it's the users. More people here care about Eddie Van Halen than did Kobe Bryant. I won't theorize about the rationale behind that but the decision about which celebrity obituaries stay up and which don't seems to be entirely up to the zeitgeist. If people have nostalgia for the work of someone who died, they won't flag the thread. If they don't care about the person, or other biases are at work, they will. No greater explanation is necessary than the dice roll as they do.

The culture is the culture. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If he had spent four years on trade instead of being a moron on Twitter I might be voting for him this month.
As a doctor, this looks like quackery to me.
Can't wait to hear leftists cry about how racist this is.
For (low voltage) lithium-ion batteries, water is the correct extinguishing agent. The amount of metallic lithium contained inside is minimal.

Water is easily available, safe, and most importantly, it cools the battery (important if it has multiple cells). Powder could insulate it, causing the other cells to get overheated from the burning one and join the party.
Which wayland environment are you using?
It's difficult to do raw socket (not QUIC) UDP over browser.
So kind of like trying to read the original blotch manuscripts from Beethoven vs reading clean modern sheet music. Or better yet listening to a modern orchestra playing it.
I mean they will pay H1bs higher but still doesn’t make a company pay a us citizen higher. Maybe it will open up space for lawsuits based equivalent responsibilities and help the equal pay for equal movement. Even excluding H1bs we know there are people doing the exact same work for vastly different
Do you have a reference? The numbers I'm familiar with have the US adding over a million new permanent residents each year (https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigra...). (Good numbers for "immigration" are hard to find because programs such as H1B aren't legally considered immigration.)
I finally agree with something this administration is doing.

This is a solid move.

H1B has been/is being abused by all companies (big and small) for a number of years at the cost of not only American workers but also the visa holders. The only ones benefiting are the companies that sponsor H1B visas by suppressing wages for everyone.

I just hope the new administration don't role back these changes. Typically when a new administration comes in they have a "throwing the baby with the bath water" mentality. I hope they realize the things that the previous administration did which makes sense and keeps them
In terms of completely mental steps these are the two that work for me:

1) Existential Panic.

2) Having something bigger and/or more important to procrastinate against.
It's a shame you're getting downvoted so heavily for such a reasonable position to take.
Canada is selective about immigrants (they have a points system), so all the things you call out are accounted for in their model - they bring in those their country needs. And from what I see from down south, they benefit a lot from it.
Good rhetoric, half-assed and ineffective implementation.
I haven't asked this question unfortunately. Adding touchpad gestures needs changes in every GUI toolkit library except GTK and every application we would like to support. So I trusted my own experience of seeing the amount of effort needed to contribute an improvement for niche use cases. To make matters worse, an initial OK from a maintainer often does not really mean a lot. What matters is the actual time commitment to discuss design and review patches. Issues that increase the amount of effort needed for long-term maintenance and end-user support tend to decrease maintainer engagement a lot. Wayland-only touchpad gestures splits the user-base long term and thus fits this criteria very well.

At this moment I'm not really sure if I would go the same path had I knew all the information I know now. Having said that, we've only spent around a single man-month of effort working on this. In the grand scheme of things this detour is tiny.
Not sure what you're on about. I have a Xiaomi Mi 9 and generally like MIUI - I see no ads.
I suspect the method of loci works because our minds seem to remember routes through spaces better than lists. If you’re curious about spatial cognition, watch this intro to the subject from Barbara Tversky: https://youtu.be/gmc4wEL2aPQ.
Especially with that pear thing posted above (resembling a medieval torture device), this creates a whole new class of ransomware.
Disclaimer: I didn't write this code.

This runs at page load - https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f14.... If you keep pulling that thread you'll find we use it to populate an array of elements with interesting event listeners on them. We can then put hints on those elements. We simply fire fake mouse events on those elements if they are chosen.

The code could definitely be improved - a major annoyance to me is that the JavaScript hints ignore CSS selectors.
Exactly, the unknown unknowns are your biggest weakness.
It's about _carrying capacity_, not "infrastructure". We can only absorb people at some maximum rate and still have a chance of bringing them on board with hard-fought Canadian cultural values, getting them up to speed with our official languages, and integrating them into local communities. Past that rate, the tendency is for newcomers to seek out people who are from their home country and speak their language. This creates insular bubbles of culture and damages any effort to actually create a cohesive whole.

Multiculturalism in Canada is different than in America. Here, there's something bigger for us to assimilate to that actually still holds value as a construct; a greater Canadian archetype that has done extremely well as a common point for newcomers to converge on for the past few decades. However, it would be easy to exceed the rate at which this is workable, and end up with a fractured country where people retain their entire original identity and never "become Canadian". This is a legitimate concern for people that love the country created by people who are Canadian through and through and want to see some of our lesser-known values (such as anticorruption, engineering quality, sustainability, etc) continue to propagate.
> Blanket requiring additional pay for H-1Bs seems fine, but leaves startups in a difficult spot where they're unable to bring in the same level of foreign talent that bigger companies are, as, of course these rules do not take into account equity based compensation.

That's fine by me. For the vast majority of startups, the equity compensation should be considered worthless anyways.

> As it stands, 4 out of 5 H-1B holders make more than average Americans.

The average American doesn't work in a job for which an H-1B would even be permitted, so I'm not sure what this point means? I'd expect everyone in an H-1B position to be making more than the average American.

> The process of bringing in H-1Bs is already so expensive, arduous and wasteful that companies aren't going to be bringing in huge quantities of "US replacement" labor. I certainly wouldn't if I were in charge of hiring.

It's expensive, yes, but it's still a very small amount compared to their overall compensation and benefits. If your entire staff is on visas maybe you'd have a bad time, sure, but otherwise it's usually a drop in the bucket.

The real joke is that H-1B is still a lottery, and in the time it takes people to get theirs, they might reconsider living somewhere else, like Canada.
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IEEE 754. If you're going to do any serious computation in floating point, serious meaning people's lives are going to depend on the outcome or a lot of money is on the line, then you MUST know what you're doing. We have standards in place so people can learn it, people creating math libraries can adhere to it, and those creating these kinds of applications can have confidence that things are going to work. I'm sorry addition isn't commutative, there are known ways for dealing with it. I took two courses in Numerical Computing in college. Trust me, the people working in this space are serious, and really, there's a few basic rules of the road you need to learn and you're on your way.
how much higher wages are we talking? skimmed the ruling and didnt see anything.
That's only the case for Norway. And even then not really; it's not used for direct government spending. And, erm, I'm not sure _how_ easy it is (see Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Indonesia, etc etc)
> there is a reason you can press 2 for Spanish on nearly every single companies help line

1. If you're trying to imply that the majority of people who speak spanish in the US are illegal immigrants from Mexico, I suspect that you're highly wrong on that.

2. I'm sure there are many people on tourist visa's who over stay. I'm sure there are many less people who came over on H1B's who overstay. H1B has a path forward (no matter how bad that path is), which allows you to still work at your career. You can't group every type of visa together to make broad claims like that.
If notation were the sole purpose there'd be little need for anything but row and column labels or simple string input. Instead there's a full set of string manipulation tools, embedding of other objects, charts, images, drawings etc.

You are taking the application as it existed 35 years ago and saying it must still be that thing, yet it has had 35 years to evolve far beyond that. Microsoft itself, when it talks about Excel, talks about using it to organize "data", not just numerics data. It has become a more general purpose tool.
Immigration quotas have remained constant at about 1% of the population per year since 1992.

Low wages in software compared to the US for sure, but that's in part because Canada has very low income and wealth inequality compared to the US. Most people make a living wage, and there's not a huge spread.

The US ranks near the bottom of the world in income inequality [1]. Canada's GINI coefficient was 33.8 in 2018 vs the US of 43.4. This puts America at 51st in the world (lower being worse) vs Canada's 107th.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/ma...
That’s all pretty difficult as Starlink is not location bound while everything else is. I think they’ll try convincing people it’s not good enough, not enough bandwidth, too high latency, limited quotas.
Sure. Do you know of any studies that analyze the power consumption of different languages on the backend? I'd be curious to see how they compare.
I didn't see your exact wording before but just the same to me what you said is ok.

HN (or really any forum) shouldn't be a place where people have to fear saying what they really think. I want to know what someone really thinks not what they think they have to say so that others don't jump on top of them and get them into line with what you are supposed to say.

Maybe someone should draw a line if a close relative of friend died but not a public figure celebrity etc. I read your comment more like 'get a life if this is what upsets you in some way'.

What I think? Didn't like his music (not a fan) but even if it was someone who I liked it wouldn't matter to me. For one thing (not the only thing one thing) none of these artists are typically making any good music anymore and even if they did the entertainment they provided can be easily replaced by another of thousands of artists.

By the way I would feel the same way about the worship by people about some tech figure dying or getting sick. It's not because it's music.

Harsh? Point is I don't think people should assume that everyone cares about this nor should people be afraid that they won't say the right or sensitive thing.
This is right. The answer that's best for the economy is to allow more immigration, not less (especially skilled immigration). This move will just make it more dificult for the average company to sponsor H1B workers
Refugees != immigrants. The US admits over 1M immigrants per year. [1] We have the largest immigrant population of any nation in the world and it isn't even close (our immigrant population is larger than the total population of most countries) at over 50 million immigrants (current population not born in the US). [2]

The rest of your comment is incorrect because of this misunderstanding, so I'll give you a break. And I'll also give you a break for accepting current Trump policies as standard American policies.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
Steve Lukather from Toto actually played the whole album and he's alive. Please do check him out as well, brilliant player that played at least a riff in every single important album produced in LA during the late 70s and 80s ;).

Eddie was the man though, sad times.
My setup is pretty close to yours, I've found this tool to be absolutely invaluable as an alternative to digging through menus :)

https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud
The Posner Bill of Rights (1792)
Can someone please make a browser add-in to hides any comment, on any site, that contains a xkcd link; they're almost always low quality.
Eddie Van Halen's famous rider(contract) has a useful lesson for tech companies.[0][1]

"It's one of those rock 'n' roll legends that turns out to be true: In the 1980s, the party-rock superstars in Van Halen demanded, via a clause embedded in their tour rider, that no brown-colored M&Ms be allowed backstage at their concerts."[0]

The reason was that if they included brown M&Ms, it was a strong indication they hadn't read the contract, which included intricate but important technical details.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/02/14/146880432/...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contrac...
There are more options than Heroku:

- Google App Engine (PaaS)

- Google Cloud Run (serverless containers)

- Fly.io (serverless containers with a minimum of 1 container running per configured region)