skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, please do not take this advice as infallible and especially please do not mix medication that is self administered based solely off of the following paragraph.

I don't think OP is suggesting they be taken at the same time. The answer to the question however is that would depend on the stimulant being ingested. If it is an amphetamine like adderall, there isn't that much cross interaction in their pharmacology. Adderall (amphetamines) in ADHD medication based doses primarily act in increasing dopamine in between neurons while psilocin is primarily acts on serotonin and its receptors. While there might be some compounding sympathetic nervous responses at standard therapeutic doses it is unlikely to cause any noticeable side effects.
> It is convenient for the country to attract and retain their talent, of which there is currently a shortage.

I think this subtle misdirection is how the lie gets slipped in. It's not that there is a shortage for talent. It's that there is a shortage for talent available at the price point that corporations want. Does that mean we should create an indentured servitude system to make that available?

The whole idea of artificially creating an immigration system expressly for those willing to get exploited is pretty distasteful to me and harkens back to a bunch of other distasteful ways this country used to procure its cheap labor. The bandaid has to be pulled off at some point. People will get hurt in the process. But if this isn't rectified now, even more suffering will occur in the future.
let me understand this. It takes how many MBs of source code to interpret 1.00+4.00? And how many more MB of code to get it correct? I strikes me that 'Closure' is 'DumbAss'
> You're entitled to your opinion and you have a right to express yourself but you don't have an obligation. Please consider the effect your words can have.

What you say is nice, what you mean is rude. You wanna work on your manners there.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700628
well one problem is that Celery still has bugs and issues, and each new release fixes some bug of the month (it sometimes introduces new ones unfortunately).

There was a sequence of releases in 4.x that each had their own game-breaking bug for us, which has meant we have been stuck for a while (I've tried personally contributing fixes to this project, and fixed one bug, but another got introduced in the same release).

I would be happy about more granular releases, but I hope they could make more "bugfix-only" releases so I can make some forward progress on not having a busted task queue.
but he changed the colors /s
Another semi-fraudulent practice I've seen too often: find an H1B worker for a position you want to fill at a sub-US labor rate, then write a very specific job posting that perfectly fits that one H1B worker and no one else, and post the job only on the company website where no one will find it. Congratulations, you've just "proven" that you can't find an American worker to do this job, so you bring the H1B worker over as basically an indentured servant. In reality, there were plenty of American workers who could have and would have taken the role if it was represented properly and actually paid a competitive market salary.
They’ve enabled dick Ransomware. Amazing!
Oh now I'm curious if IEEE 754 NaN rules are isomorphic to a number optional type with monadic chaining syntax
Correct, the action on a pedal steel is very high (so high that you'd probably break strings if you managed to bend one to the "fretboard") and played with a bar.
> we have our own we fail to care for well enough.

Tell me more of this “our own”. 25% of the current US population is either 1st or 2nd gen immigrants arrived after immigration reform of 1965. They include the innovators, laborers, entrepreneurs, researchers that pay a lot for your “our own”. Can’t eat the cake and have it too.
It is. But people will make the (disingenuous) argument that you can transfer the H-1B to another employer...

The reason it's a disingenuous argument is that the H-1B is not technically transferred: The new employer is actually filing a new H-1B petition, which, yes, is not subject to the lottery. And the employee can start working while the petition is pending.

But here's the thing: Even though the new petition is very likely to approved, it's not automatically approved and there's no guarantee that it will be. Particularly if the new job doesn't use the skills that make the employee special.

It also adds uncertainty to the job hunting process. And, if the current employer finds out that they're looking, they could be fired... which technically makes the ex-employee immediately eligible for deportation... which means there's no counter-offers.
The malloc/free version is perfectly valid C++ too, isn’t it?
> These types of toys are also not necessarily limited to single, childless people

In this particular case it’s useless to single people; the whole idea is to have someone else controlling it.
The new administration will absolutely roll back these changes to kowtow to pro immigration groups and wage sensitive Silicon Valley. Obama administration expanded the coverage of H1B to their spouses (H4 dependents) who previously were ineligible to work.
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
Or change the law. Not particularly likely with power shared between two parties of course.
It’s likely we would need (much) more. If you look the efficiency of google and facebook they’re significantly better than many smaller organizations when it comes to utilization and PUE. Part of this is because they can afford to throw engineers at the problem, and a 1% savings in something like search easily makes up for an engineer’s salary. Depending on that 1% gain, it could also be applied to other BUs.
Eddie was a tapper, which is why this is innovative (not having to use your thumb to stabilize the neck opens up greater range of motion for tapping with the fingers). Very different method than pedal steel, which is always barred.
I studied classical guitar in university, Randy Rhoads was a favorite amongst the metal guys who turned classical because he played classical guitar too. The Van Halen brothers are both multi instrumentalists, both of them took piano lessons from a young age.
It does count, and it's certainly "points" for the ideas there (not that the author needs my validation...)

But an API for a language like Java needs more generality than that. The use case was (relatively) simple, (relatively) predictable, and (relatively) self-contained.

Crucially, equality in general is still undecidable (it wouldn't play nice with Collections), and it's not obvious that numerical algorithms would in general play nice with it.
I'm also not really convinced that having random functions that could either terminate or not in your API is really more intuitive than floating points, but de gustibus non disputandum est.

There's also the issue of performance in non-toy examples. With the world going more and more the route of ML, efficiency of numerical algorithms is not a secondary concern.
This looks like a neat tool, especially for students taking courses like CS 231N! I imagine this already works in Jupyter Notebook? Perhaps this could be integrated into an extension for the VSCode, maybe in the debugger.
In addition to there being no self-service, the kinds of people who want this aren't going to be using Fly.io in the first place. Look at the prices. DigitalOcean's $5 droplet would cost over $50/month on Fly.
Though, even in the being-eaten-by-a-tiger era, we apparently had sex toys; examples of dildos from 30,000 years ago, and maybe longer, have been found.
No, they invest very heavily in cooperation with the NSA. Much better than lobbying.
Yeah, I think the best example is S3. Only when you have to hat much data with a Pareto access distribution can you do things like oversubscribe I/O a ton, or do clever encoding / compression schemes that wouldn’t make sense at the scales of an individual organization.
Netflix faces indictment in Texas over controversial French film “Cuties”
It has been shown over [1] and over [2] and over [3] again that deplatforming is effective.

Sure, there will likely be an initial wave of interest. But long term, this will hurt QAnon, not help it.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/study-finds-reddits-contro...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba...
He seems to have attributed you. Please check the post. You can ask him to take it down.
What is this even supposed to mean? We already have bargaining between workers and employees. When you have a larger labor pool, market forces will obviously shift the market towards lower wages in the absence of government intervention.

People who oppose H1B oppose it because they think that foreign workers should not be allowed to enter the labor pool thereby depressing the wages.
Google will lose on purpose. The ruling is more valuable than the money they'll lose to oracle.
I find repeated use and connection to other (perhaps familiar) concepts far more valuable for memory than rote memorization. Flash cards would help me pass a test in school, but I wasn’t going to remember a year later when I needed that prerequisite knowledge for the next class.
Reddit, collectively: “wtf I hate immigrants now.”
Tuition is a drop in the bucket of the funding model for a research university. The majority of university funding comes from research grants and that's why the piece they take off the top is so outrageously high.

Note that I don't question your point about the use of international student fees to subsidize domestic students. I'm just saying reducing the cost for students can be done many, many other ways.

The point I'm making is that the US tax paper should not pay for foreign students to take US jobs. And if we tightened up that we might not need so many H-1B visas.
Did Covid not teach us anything? How long do you think it will take for your job to be offshored? Maybe few years? This will give incentive to increase offshoring to the companies. Mind you - offshoring is not equal to outsourcing. If you work for a Global company like Google or GE - good luck. Stopping immigration is like stopping oxygen ... this economy will slowly stagnate and be overtaken by other more efficient economies. Either you try to dial back time and go back to the 40s with no globalization OR you have to push forward with globalization to level the playing field for all countries wether it is a developed or emerging country and achieve a parity in salary which makes the American workers competitive in the Global scale. Do we have the guts to make the second choice because certainly we cannot go back to the 40s and aim for global dominance via WW3.
A couple thousand dollars per H1B hire-attempt is nothing to a big business, especially if they're eventually able to pay each H1B worker a fraction of what they'd need to pay an equally qualified American worker.

Worst case scenario for the business: they lose a couple thousand dollars and a few months of employee development time, then still have the option to immediately hire the qualified American worker (or try the H1B route again).

Best case scenario for the business: they get an overqualified employee at an extreme discount, since that employee is willing to accept less just to be in America. Since that employee knows it's hard to get H1B status, they're probably willing to work for a discount for many years. (therefore the business makes its money back from other failed H1B attempts, and they retain the employee at a discount)
I imagine there's also some selection going on with people (primarily men) who cannot detect it or find it inoffensive and people who hunt boars and post about it on the internet.

I don't hunt boar because I don't like eating it, at least.
You are right, McCarthyism was the incorrect language to use. Thanks!
There’s also trickle down economics at work here. The rest of the industry got brotli and zstd for free. Every dwarf benefits.
There are two issues here. American companies need workers with multiple skillsets. Your one app startup that thrives on user unwittingly selecting location on might need a highly qualified European graduate with experience at CERN. But the average utility company needs help maintaining their database and make sure they are billing users correctly. They would need a QA tester from India. There's a real shortage of those jobs too in America. You could argue against work visas and wait for 400K Wall Street exceutives switching to testing jobs. You could imagine a market where software engineers are paid Google salaries at utilities. But overall poor people would suffer at the expense of few highly paid developers.
Microsoft denies suggestion its diversity plan illegally discriminates by race
bias coming from bad experiences in the computer science field

https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2020-H1B-Visa-Category.as...

It isn't bias, just look at the H1B distribution, it heavily biased to the CS/IT space. Like for every possible biologist you are imagining, there probably 100 IT/CS guys coming in. I'd love to have the biologists and chemists come in, but the big IT consultancies are massively abusing the system, and that needs to get fixed first.

Look at the top company sponsors, not STEM fields like biology, chemistry, and physics. It is entirely software.
> As an American myself, I want to see my fellow Americans getting good jobs over people from other countries

How many of your fellow citizens do you know who have the skills to get a good job and don't get one because of foreign competition? All I know is companies having trouble hiring really good people.
I noticed it requires access to the clipboard plus browsing data, among a slew of other stuff.
You need a PHD to be able to build a compiler?
My favorite Eno essay, which also touches on similar themes, is "Composers as Gardeners".[1]

In the "Generative Music" essay, Eno mentions being influence John Cage. For a closer look at his thought, I highly recommend his book "Silence".[2]

[1] - https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_eno-composers-as-gar...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Lectures-Writings-50th-Annive...
H1B here myself but someone who moved here during one of the years that had surprisingly lax demand for H1B visas. I moved here for a startup as the first engineer with a pay much lower than what I could have gotten in the market. It was purely because there was no demand for H1B that year that I got in. Every year since then has been the top 3 Indian companies stuffing the applications. However, the current rule change would shift the balance from consultancies to big tech companies. Startups do need talent too and there are people like me who are willing to take a pay cut in exchange for a reasonable equity. The winners of this rule change would be big tech companies - not necessarily the US in general.

What the US needs is a point based system with automatic green card in x number of years. This would allow the government to prioritize "desirable qualities" (education, age, salary and whatever you want to optimize for) and balance them out (e.g, I could get points for my education instead of my salary and still qualify). The automatic green card option would then open up the employees to work anywhere they want instead of the company that sponsored them thereby preventing wage suppression.
> I'm sorry addition isn't commutative...

My understanding is that in IEEE 754 compliant implementations of floating-point arithmetic, commutativity over "+" holds but not associativity. (With the possible exception to commutativity for the NaNs, though I don't remember offhand whether this caveat is necessary).
Great logic - give up citizen jobs at home because they'll be offshored otherwise.

Foolish logic for a country to operate under, and why should any citizens support that kind of policy? Lose either way.
Thinking about it problem might be you need a printer from hp
> But I've never gotten an email from In n Out saying they need to sell 549 more burgers before midnight to beat Five Guys in quarterly sales rankings.

I'm pretty sure their staff do, though.
I loved Choose Your Adventure novels–Now Roam makes them possible for nonfiction
The candidate. If we can find a way to punish blatant falsehoods from our candidates, we are going to get better candidates.
Protection against exploitative debt collection practices extends to non-citizen residents with US bank accounts and employers. Granted, it's effective coercion if the visa-holders think it's effective, so there's definitely some cultural integration and teaching stuff there, but it can definitely be done.

Granted, if family in the mother country are effectively held hostage to the debt payments, that's a different story, but there can be enough protection for US law to protect h1b workers against exploitation by law-abiding employers and creditors.
finding new (to me) bands that sound like the old bands I like is much easier given tools like everynoise.com, which I highly recommend (though it works best if you also have a Spotify account because of the playlists).

my current heavy rotation playlist of EVH-style guitar shredding is here, if anyone is interested:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iCImsdr0rrYHStbFpOi2h?si=...

vastly different sound but the technical mastery is apparent.
I don’t understand. Microsoft’s telemetry is very invasive from a privacy standpoint. How does it improve security?
https://archive.is/mTunw - archived version for those who are being paywalled..
By the same token computers are finite state machines? Yes, technically they are, but it's not really useful to conceptualise them this way.

It's relatively easy to make a model that works essentially the same as the actual integers (most modern programming languages have a built-in or stdlib variant of bignum), while it's prohibitively difficult to do the same with real numbers. And yes, computability is in fact the difference here, because as long as you are able to keep up the illusion of infinite memory, the integer version problem is trivial, but the real version stays just as hard.

-- edit answering the edit: I'm not familiar with that application, but if I'm not mistaken graphical software uses a different model than the one outlined in the OP, based on algebraic approximations. I'm not saying this stuff doesn't exist, obviously. I was talking about the general rationale behind the OP, i.e. using a model like this one instead of floating point computation for generic software.
In my experience most people working on compilers have PhDs in compilers, yeah.

But if you don't agree, take any example you like that requires at least a few years to come up to speed.

People aren't going to become an expert tomorrow on whatever subject you're hiring for, no matter how much you pay.

If you offered me a million dollars to play the trombone for you I'd love to accept that, but I can't do it until I go away and learn the trombone which would take me years. Offering me ten million dollars wouldn't make me learn it any faster, either.

We say that markets are 'inelastic' - they don't adapt to demand magically.
There is already a cap on the law, i'm not proposing that. The government regulations are also already there, i'm not proposing that either.

I'm just proposing we auction to increasingly higher salaries so all those people get nice high wages. The H1b system is to get the best and brightest for talent we cannot find locally, so paying these immigrants handsomely seems like the right thing to do. Its also good business, because high end R&D facilities should not be crossing their fingers for luck in hiring, they should be able to purchase talent by bidding for it.

I'm not sure how this benefits the richest incumbents -- the pool of workers continues to be the same. It benefits companies who desperately need the most talented workers by making them pay fairly for that top talent.

Frankly, if some company thinks they need the best-of-the-best and cant pay fairly for it, do they really need the best of the best?
You joke, but... Jared Diamond wrote a famous article about this: "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race". Spoilers: agriculture.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-worst-mist...
Analysis – Why Nvidia will take over Intel?
Honestly, because mild changes are much easier to get consensus around.
I believe the more accurate thing to say is that many of us got so fed up with rote memorization that we devalued all types of memorization. There are good and bad methods of memorization, experiential memorization is definitely better than rote if you can create the circumstances for it. But some of us just wrote off memorization being valuable period.
Poison? It seems easy enough to set up a trap for an animal that will literally eat anything.
For those enticed by this article, I recommend the wonderful science fiction book, "Semiosis" by Sue Burke. Plant wars, competition, and cooperation are central to the plot.
If they do, then it’s uncompetitive and it deserves to be broken up. We may not be in a mobile OS duopoly if Google wasn’t allowed to dump infinite amounts of money into a loss leading product.
Absolutely. But perhaps it is precisely for this reason that we need a comprehensive and thoughtful reform that takes into account the value added. I am worried that blanket-raising the requirements solves one problem and creates another.
> extraordinary skill that cannot be found in the US

You're thinking of the O-1. The H-1B is a specialty occupation visa, not an "extraordinary skill" visa.
No that is short term outlook. You need to look long term. But I agree the pain of losing a job is real and that’s where UBI comes in. UBI (Universal basic income) is a must because job losses are inevitable wether due to automation / offshoring / health issues or skill shortage. Where will the money from UBI come from? From the companies that profit because of these mechanisms. Tax them , tax the ultra rich folks. If humanity has to continue its progress in the current path this has to be the future. If you have an alternative in mind please share.
Oh man, this takes me back to an old job where we all would order business cards, which came in 500 or 1000 card boxes, yet none of us ever had a need to hand them out (I maybe gave out 10, mostly to friends & family).

We built so many boxes, and you could connect then together -- it became almost like Lego. At one point we used an empty cubicle as a museum for the creations we made, probably a thousand business cards wasted on cubes!
I’m not sure that it’s just that. In some ways, you have force multipliers that have multiple order effects. I’ll give two examples.

One, food preservation. Food preservation has made it so we need to go to the grocery store far less. It’s also made food borne illness much less of a thing. This in turn leads to a more efficient economy, and removes overheads like food waste. Although freezers take a ridiculous amount of power, a similar standard of living would be much more expensive. I realize that the hole in this argument is “don’t eat that kind of food”.

On the other hand, telecommuting. The infrastructure to run gmail and hangouts is minuscule in terms of its carbon emissions to buildings and cars.

I believe in economics, these are called externalities.
The data is from 2018, before the 4 executive orders signed in late July that forced huge price cuts.