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It feels like the death of American ingenuity.

We've fallen from the era where we sent echoes to our neighbours and the stars. When we found clearings in jungles and turned them into monuments to humanity. The time when we put our best foot forward and reached ahead, into the future, racing towards a brighter tomorrow for humanity.

I mourn for what has been lost.

The American century wasn't punctuated by a war, but by callous neo-mercantilism and disregard. The fall of America's aspirations from the heavens to the bottom of a sinkhole.
As a parent, I'm super excited about this. I love going to see movies. My wife and I used to go every week. Until we had kids. In the last six years, I think we've seen maybe two movies in the theater.

I have however watched every day-of streaming release that's come out, even the ones that cost $30, just to support the idea.

I would gladly pay $20 to see new movies in my home. My TV and sound are good enough.

I'd still like to see the big action flicks in the theater, and if I were a teen, I'd still prefer dates in a theater rather than at home, and I'm sure a lot of people feel safer having a date at a theater than at someone's house.

When the VCR came out, everyone said it would kill moviegoing. To prevent it, they usually waited 4+ years to release a movie on VHS. It turned out, when they shrunk that window to 4 months, it didn't really affect moviegoing.

I hope they find the same is true here -- that there isn't a lot of overlap between people who want to watch at home and people who will go to a theater.
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Not really, they wanted 3000 positions, they only found 2000 qualified Americans, so they hired the additional 1000 on a H1b.
Do you think they have a problem finding 2,000 if they are paying market rate, or can you suspect that this is seen as a cheap alternative for getting equivalently skilled people at a lower cost?
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People will have to find the source document, which to the best of my knowledge is not public (note, not the message to Women and Allies), read it, and then reach their own conclusions.

I stand by my characterization. She characterizes it herself thusly:

"I said here are the conditions. If you can meet them great I’ll take my name off this paper, if not then I can work on a last date."

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334341991795142667
Wouldn't that lose all the cached query plans every deploy? Could be wrong, bit rusty on that stuff now, been a while since I worked on something where we had to worry about that.
Logically, the "surcharge for potential damage" should be a security deposit, or fines and penalties against specific behavior.

You'd have the same issues with tenants that were excessively noisy, or held parties and spilled alcohol in the hallways, or scratched doors/walls/floors from moving bikes, furniture, etc. So it seems inconsistent to apply the nonrefundable fee only to the case of pets.
With the debt that Disney has, I think that's an understatement.
If I make the change in code, I can roll it out, test it in prod, and then slowly migrate traffic over in very standard and well defined ways.

If I deploy to the database and something goes wrong, I need to really trust my rollback scripts. If the rollback scripts go haywire, you're in a tough spot. If that happens to code, you can literally just move all the traffic to the same thing that was working before, you don't quite have that luxury with the database.

You can have a bunch of servers, you really only can have one database. This means the database should be very sensitive to changes because it's a single point of failure. I don't like modifying or changing single points of failure without very good and well tested reasons.

Could you version your procs and have the new version of the code call the new procs? Sure, but now you have to manage deployment of both a service, and the database, and have to handle rollover and/or A/B for both. If my logic is in there service, I only have to worry about rolling back the service.

Database logic saves you a little bit of pain in development for a ton of resilience and maintenance costs, and it's not worth it in the long run IMO. Maybe it's because the tooling isn't that mature, but until I can A/B test an atomic database, this doesn't work for a lot of applications.
...but people aren't allergic to other humans? I don't understand the point of this hypothetical that does not occur in reality?
Perhaps it is too early to ask this question, but in case anyone here is an early user of Stripe Treasury (or there are Stripe employees here):

What is the Stripe Treasury equivalent of a Twilio Twiml Bin ?

A Twiml bin is a block of code that you can enter into your twilio account, through their management interface and then perform actions, etc., without any outside hosting of code or additional services.

It's perhaps not the most powerful mechanism but it is tremendously simple and efficient to just type the code into the user interface in your account rather than hosting code to call with webhooks, etc., etc.
Women and people of color are often silenced using the tactic you just employed -- ignoring the substance of a message and dismissing all concerns because the "tone" doesn't seem "appropriate" to you.
I wonder why airlines don't simply offer a higher cost flight without small children? Say, none under 5? I would happily pay more.
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> This is how is they feel about you.

What are you trying to say? That commenters here don't like how immigrant workers can be forced to overwork?
> Skipping parts of the chain of command to deal with grievances is usually a toxic behaviour

Not if you've already attempted to escalate up the normal chain of command. In such cases it's often considered morally required.
That it has a fairly well documented system I suppose? Their interviews are well defined. They tell you what their interviewers will look for. The hire/no-hire decision is made by a panel not a single individual.

Whether tech interviews should be algorithmic or not is beside the point. But they have a very well-defined process. So every rejection and acceptance is probably very well documented.
For me, toxicity often boils down to these questions: Are you acting in good faith or not? Are you acting to resolve a disagreement and advance knowledge, or is the primary function of your speech to inflame and provoke? Do you accept that it is possible for smart people to disagree with you, or do you believe any disagreement is completely unacceptable?

When I view Gebru's Twitter argument with Lecun throug the above lens, it is pretty obvious to me that she is behaving in a toxic manner.

In that fracas, she emphasizes emotional appeals and "you just need to listen to us" and "I'm so sick of this". She also takes a page from the AOC school of argument where you (the rhetorician) play the meta-game where you judge who is allowed to participate in discourse (hint: everyone who disagrees with me is excluded!). It's a useful trick, for once you have purified the field your arguments will easily win.

Lecun later offered an olive branch and apology, but, true to form, Gebru doesn't offer any hint of awareness that she also may be responsible for the toxic devolution of the conversation. She personally blamed Lecun for her getting trolled, whilst failing to acknowledge that he was also being trolled by her supporters.

Later, and separately, when Google calls her on her resignation bluff, she employs the "call out" tactic, where she accuses Jeff Dean of personally firing her in an obvious attempt to shame him. This whole affair reeks of a PR play (and thus, not acting in good faith). That, to me, is highly toxic.
That's still worse than having it all at 15%, so it's still worth breaking it up if possible.
I would contend that the unknowable numbers the person is asking for are not actually relevant to the argument at all.
I was listening to a Philosophy podcast and a philosopher noted that Artisans were different than merchants. It got me thinking. Are there examples of a solo founders/Engineers being able to make sales?

While I'm often praised for my Engineering abilities/content on my website, I've been unable to profit.

My service is (best in class) helpful to low income people and/or Time Poor people. I have struggled putting up a paywall and made a mere 1600$ in donations over 2 years. Prior to donations I made 1k/yr off book sales.

Any marketing people I hired failed to generate traffic, but I'm starting to consider I simply need sales.

Edit- no I can't post my website, one dictator here doesn't like me. But if you are in the Frugal community, you have visited it.
Tractors, combines, trucks - there's a lot of heavy equipment that gets used to grow corn, and then there's emissions related to both producing and applying fertilizers.
They tried to cease-and-desist Rockstar, actually.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-11-take-two-r...
This is exactly how I feel about handicapped parking spaces. If I could pay for a spot right next to the door I would but they don't offer that and schlepping myself all the way across the parking lot makes me feel uncomfortable. Or at least sweaty.
> Even if you're not required to be physically present there's still value in being under the same legal system

I mean, sure, ya, there is value. Unfortunately it's not really the kind of value that USCIS cares about when it comes to work authorization.

> There are full remote companies like GitLab

Gitlab is not a US-based company anyways, and does not do any US visa sponsorship. Also, claiming that their work isn't innovative and is therefore getting off-shored kind of discounts the work of everyone working there.
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edit: I'd also like to point out the obvious: Google was censoring her publications. How can you suggest that remaining in that environment is going to be conducive to her publishing high quality research?

I disagree because I don't think Big N has exclusive access to the data necessary for cutting edge research. You don't need petabytes of data to train cutting edge neural networks.

It also seems she published the paper she is best known for before joining Google, suggesting academics are not submitting subpar research compared to Big N.
who doesn't use pip?
You don't need cocaine to be in the final level, though. The safest use for cocaine is to make sure the person is healthy enough for it (avoid heart attacks) and to do some work to limit quantities/strengths to limit overdoses and hopefully addiction - and possibly, some education to recognize signs of addiction, though this could be told by the doctor or nurse giving a physical. You can buy it from a place trained to sell it, and have limits on how often and how much you can buy (Like sudafed was/is in some states).

Part of the reason you make it more accessible is knowing how people use it, and to try to get people to do the less harmful thing in a class of things. So, you know, try to steer people to cocaine and way from meth while recognizing that cocaine isn't alcohol or weed or caffeine.

On the other hand, you probably want anything involving needles to be administered by a nurse. Opiate pills after surgery? Prescription so you'll have enough.
If you want the lowest latency in a terminal, use a vga textmode console with a ps/2 keyboard. That's pretty hard to get on windows 10, so I'd go with Linux.
I guess I just don't see the value from either side, then. The best supposed features of Bitcoin are lost in ETF form.
The first problem is you’re making the issue worse, not better. It feels good to some white men to publicly announce that they are unworthy of anything positive in their life, but if anything is reductionist, it’s that. Trying to justify racism to combat disproportionate representation (which is not an indication of racism or bias whatsoever, and we know this) is the type of evil behavior (not to mention mental gymnastics) that have no place in a society that has made so much progress. Also, your usage of “caste” is highly inappropriate.
The problem was her almost incoherent email that failed to communicate her thoughts in any way a sane person could understand.

I guess I'm not woke enough to comprehend these people.
I agree but everyone on HN regardless of whether they actually work in SV or not seems to be under the impression that every new grad working in tech are all pulling $500k right off the bat :)
I'll entirely support this take, as one of those people (allergy side of things).

I'll also mention that it's the contact side of it too. If I touch anyone's dog, I have to wash my hands, because one absentminded rub of my face is all it takes to go full allergy misery. Sitting on any furniture that a dog has been on for a length of time (say, your couch)? Also going to cause me problems.

Pets shed, airplanes have carpeted floors and airplanes aren't exactly deep cleaned between flights, at least in non-COVID times.

If your dog was in that seat or on the floor of that row on the last flight, and I'm in it on this flight, I'm likely going to be both personally miserable and making everyone else around me miserable for my entire flight.
I get this, but being private is often a reason why a company is great.
I am someone who went through (fully legal) immigration hell while building a company that in the end, employed 100s of US workers and had global competition (meaning, if we didn't do it in the US the jobs would probably go to some other country).

Here's my conclusion from this experience: if you are in a business that depends on Intellectual Property competes globally (i.e. not a nail salon hiring local workers), then in the area that gives you your competitve advantage YOU NEED TO HIRE THE BEST GLOBAL TALENT. Period.

If the immigration system doesn't allow that, then either you'll hire remote, or you'll be beaten by an international competitor with more liberal skilled immigration rules. Neither is a great outcome.

There are simple ways to ensure H1-B is used to hire this type of talent. The recent rules that prioritize H1-B applicants based on their salary are positive IMO and address a lot of the Tata/Infosys abuse (which is real). If you are truly going after the best global talent, that won't be cheap!

H1-B is super old school. The notion is that you only hire someone in H1-B if there's nobody that can do the job. However, the challenge today is not if you can do the job, but can you do it better than the global competitors? That concept is super foreign to immigration legislation (no pun intended :).

Short of a whole new immigration framework, increasing the number of H1-Bs and prioritizing based on salary would be a good short term fix - no lawsuits needed.
There was also a strong connection to the woman's suffrage movement. Since support for temperance skewed female, one of the main consequential arguments about extending the vote was precisely whether it would lead to prohibition.
That's also not a bad idea.
> I think if you threaten to sue your employer, the employer isn't too much at fault and just covering their own neck when you later threaten to resign and they take you up on that offer.

It's not clear to me here what you're advocating for -- a lawsuit wouldn't be raised by such an intelligent and virtuous individual unless there was some clear wrongdoing. Are you saying that you think workers shouldn't sue their employers if their employers are breaking the law?
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Have you SEEN the top 100 grossing on app store recently?
What? The $100 fee has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with the review process. Like, do you seriously believe that makers of all the shitty apps out there can't come up with $100??

Also, Google developer account used to be paid at one point. I have no idea if it still is but when I used to publish in the early days there was a fee to pay. Didn't stop the shitty apps from appearing because....that's not what the fee is for.
"It is sad to say that all the people who know how to run a country are busy driving cabs or cutting hair." Peter Ustinov
> Who decides when a mask is needed/not needed?

The elected authorities, whether local, regional, state, or federal, preferably as advised by trained and trusted experts.

> Should we always be forced to wear masks going forward given that we've been made aware of the efficacy?

If that makes sense, as determined by the above answer.

> Why stop at Corona? Flu is next.

If that makes sense. In fact, there would almost certainly be a net benefit to society for the majority of the population to wear masks during flu season, and literally no reasonable downside. But it won't happen, despite making rational, logical sense, because our society can't even get people to wear masks, maintain social distance, wash your hands, etc. during an actual, honest-to-God pandemic.

> Who decides when we are required to wear masks?

See the first answer.

The value of your "slippery slope" argument doesn't seem to be there to me; you seem to have already decided that the buck of mask wearing or public health in general stops at the individual level, ignoring the fact that that's simply not true. Cue rehashed arguments discussing seat belts, nudity, etc. etc.

> Forcing mask wearing probably won't go anywhere federally.

Here's hoping Biden can be persuasive https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/11/joe-bi...
Wrong banks then. I can instantly transfer money between my accounts in Ireland, Portugal, Germany, Latvia, Belgium and The Netherlands.
> The first thing you linked to is the personal opinion of someone with what looks like a personal blog.

Anything you or I write here is effectively the same thing. ;) Equal valuation. This blog does cite the ADA and IAADP though.

You seem focused on the bureaucratic hoops and seem to think I want them enforced more strictly? I haven't mentioned that. Please evaluate only the words I use. You seem to be making a point about specifics I haven't raised.

The people acting unethically/immorally and abusing the system know who they are when they do it. It's why they are so defensive. Selfish people ruining good things, once again.
no HBO Max for LG TVs either. I can watch HBO (on Amazon), along most of the rest of the usual suspects, but not HBO Max, without additional hardware. Luckily my wife has a Kindle Fire that I think will do the trick.
(difficulty to execute hardest to easiest)
- Starting the right business

- Picking the right businesses to invest in

- Investing in Crypto(used to be easier than it is now)

- Convincing shmucks to invest in the wrong business

- Investing in index funds

ROI if executed successfully(highest to lowest)
- Starting the right business

- Convincing shmucks to invest in the wrong business

- Investing in Crypto

- Picking the right businesses to invest in

- Investing in index funds

strategic money making popularity scores

Don't try this at home. Very few people do this well. Those that do make a lot of money.

- Picking the right businesses to invest in

- Starting the right business

The "Dominant Strategy" of the market right now

- Convincing shmucks to invest in the wrong business

If you know what you're doing

- Investing in Crypto

What shmucks should do

- Investing in index funds
A good way to get high returns is to simply use a low-cost, tax-efficient combination of stock and bond index funds. After taxes and fees, the results compound in your favor. I have no interest in gambling on even higher returns - those are plenty for me. If you want to maximize your chances of getting rich as well as getting poor, yes, you can put it all on Bitcoin, or Tesla, or 32 at the roulette wheel, but I'm more interested in growing a nest egg than taking those risks.
Was a long time since I last heard about NE2000. Getting flashbacks of me creating NetWare 2 images with Novell linker, disk-jockeying 5,25" floppies while making notes about jumpers for IRQ and I/O address, trying to bind AppleTalk cards for IPX and TCP/IP, etc.

Is there even a new x86 ISA system that you could buy today?
Epic Game Store is still invite only as far as Im aware.
Their response was probably more along the line of previous "advertising campaigns" [1] (ie, payola) for the big PC manufacturers to avoid using AMD for their high margin items.

They can't do that with Apple.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/dells...
Mining asteroids is quite possible in practice. In fact we've already taken material from asteroids and returned it to Earth. The only question is how long it will take for the technology to advance enough for profitability; there are no fundamental issues preventing it. It really seems inevitable assuming no civilization-ending disasters. And it can increase Earth's gold supply arbitrarily up to many times the current supply. And it only takes one company to do it. Anyway, if our only disagreement is on the relative feasibility of changing Bitcoin consensus vs. asteroid mining, I'm happy to continue to disagree with you on that.
Good for the people that want to speculate on the stock price, but bad for the people that actually use their products.

I honestly hope they never go public, otherwise I fear they will just become another souless "salesforce"
I got a M1 Mac mini and had zero issues migrating from a 6 year old macbook pro.
The purpose of the program seems to be to bring in workers where there is a specific need, so if it’s a generic role then that’s not helpful to their cause.
That piece of plastic will spend its hundreds of years of retirement buried in a hole in the ground in the landfill. It produces no harm to whatsoever, and we are not going to run out of land for millions of years.

Whenever I bring this up someone inevitably brings up polluted oceans, so I might as well address it now - if you don't throw your plastic bags into the ocean and neither does your local waste management those bags will never make it to the ocean. They will be in the landfill.
> why not just add

This is an extra burden for having a disability which is specifically what the ADA tries to prevent. It allows anyone to train effectively any animal to perform any task that helps them with any disability they (or someone else) may have. It's ultimately these tasks and abilities that make an animal a service animal, not a registration or tag that needs to be kept up to date and costs money.

To be clear I'm talking about any registration that certifies an animal is a service animal, to my knowledge all service animals still have to have all other forms of legal registrations and tags.

It's really about the spirit of the ADA which tries to make sure that there are as few barriers as possible for people with disabilities in society. Someone else made a comment that describes how low the rates are for people with disabilities to have normal forms of ID for themselves, let alone their animals. For someone with a disability even the smallest of barriers can sometimes be insurmountable.
I may have read too much Douglas Adams. Also, Arecibo doesn't spend anytime looking anywhere now.
Yeah, this is true, but there are also people on L1 visa which are tied to the company all the way until GC.

Also worth adding that interviews or hires from the PERM process would significantly add to length of the PERM process, if I remember correctly.
Small businesses don't need another stimulus – they need customers
FAANG resources are the highest in the country. They could afford to hire 100% US citizens if they chose to. Even if that made it much harder for non-FAANG companies. No one could afford to compete with them.

The motivation for FAANG committing so much fraud using the H1B isn't really debatable. They do it to to steal money for their shareholders. The same motivation for all their tax cheating. The difference being that the H1B fraud is clearly illegal, even if it has remain unprosecuted by virtue of political bribery, etc.
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