skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It may well be that the demand for physical presence H1Bs drops significantly in tech firms.

Even if you're not required to be physically present there's still value in being under the same legal system - good luck enforcing NDA/IP ownership on an employee you never met from a random country across the world with a different legal system and different employment laws.

Also employee retention is even harder in that scenario (the opposite of H1B scenario where you basically capture the employee).

I say this as someone who's freelancing for US clients from Eastern Europe - the only model I saw working for non-trivial stuff is opening offshore offices with a dedicated team/staff/etc. - but then you're dealing with plain old offshoring C19 probably makes this harder because travel is harder and you probably want to fly key people to set things up properly.

There are full remote companies like GitLab but most of their stuff is OSS anyway and their core product is not very innovation based (something that needs IP/NDA protection), this kind of work was getting outsourced/offshored full speed even before C19.
We've only shipped a helper library for Preact, but the Prerendering is actually generic. Some folks are working on helpers for other frameworks. The "API" is just a function exported from your first script tag:

export async function prerender(data) {
return {
html: "<h1>hi</h1>",
links: ["/other-page"]
}
}

Hot reloading is a similar story, it's the same API as Vite and Snowpack:

if (import.meta.hot) import.meta.hot.accept(({ module }) => { do stuff }));
Fortunately, the USPS actually has this. I almost always just use the machine to buy stamps and to post my mail. Very fast.
> The discussion seems to have settled down to "M1 is great! But you'll soon be able to get a Zen 3 CPU that's just as good." Which may or may not be true

Even if it is, I doubt there will be a Zen 3 laptop out that has the screen, keyboard, trackpad, and case quality of the MBAir. Even if it were slower, literally no one is building machines of that physical quality.

Some are attempting to compete, like the Dell XPS, but they're still falling short. They're high quality laptops, yes, but people who think they're "just as good" need to take a better look at the current MBAir - and this has 0% to do with the chip. Nobody is making laptops this nice.

I'm actually thinking about picking up an Intel MBAir (the one that just got discontinued) as it's likely the single best Linux-able laptop (no longer) on the market, even if it needs to do an opaque, closed-source, online activation each time you wipe the disk (to reactivate the T2).
Not surprising they were wary of conceding to that demand, since it doubtlessly would have caused at least some of them to be harassed on twitter.
Am I reading this right that there's a big cliff between making $999,999 and $1M? With that and the somewhat fuzzy notion of "associated accounts", I predict a lot of ugly rules-gaming & enforcement activity in the future.
O-1 requirements are very strict, and it’s not enough to just be an expert on a random arcane topic X.
If I buy a company, I literally can choose what to do with its earnings. That’s the point of valuing businesses. You’re not buying the stock. You’re buying a portion of the business.

Say you have a drywall company in town. You and the owner are good friends and the owner wants to retire but doesn’t have a family member who is interested in the enterprise. He seeks out buyers. You mention to him you’re interested but you have to ask yourself how much you’re willing to pay for the business, its fleet, tools, leads and customer database, current lease agreements, employees, etc.

Someone has to value that, because it intrinsically has value. It’s not worthless. You can’t rebuild a multimillion dollar business over night.

So it turns out if you have this entity that produces cash flow, it’s worth something. So how much are you willing to pay for each dollar of earnings? At the end of the day, that’s what a business produces for its owners.
"Millenials" have been entering the industry for more than 15 years now. Don't put an entire generation in the same basket as a few visible people.
It is a myth the Netherlands are handling drugs well. Reports on 'ondermijnende criminaliteit' are muffled away, but meanwhile agencies and police are reporting that this industry is something the size of the Italian mafia and are every bit as criminal (and are in fact well connected internationally and often inventees of said Mafia).

Maybe this is overlooked because urban users are far from the illegal labs and most killings, but things are nowhere near a 'good experience'. Legalisation of weed has only attracted the worst of the worst and police and 'opsporingsdiensten' don't have the resources to stop the trade, pollution or shootings.

Check any reputable publication for articles, e.g.
1. https://www.groene.nl/artikel/een-industrie-die-over-lijken-...
2. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/12/17/italiaanse-maffia-exper...
3. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/ondermijning/onderm...
4. https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/albanezen-verdringen-mocromaffi...
5. https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/125305/nederland-narcostaat
for some reason, on my last long haul flight on a 250+ people airplane I counted at least 20 cats and dogs being boarded (in cabin, not hold). Only one of them was classed as a service dog. I was hoping for the worst as I never seem so many animals on a flight before but in the end the flight was almost uneventful. BUT... in the middle of the night, a cat did wandered about the isles, and the stewardess did have to go catch it and look for the owner who clearly didn't mind a wandering cat.

If this trend continues (of loose animals in cabin) I bet we'll start having serious problems between pets and people inside an enclosed metal tube. Flying experience is already bad enough...
> It has gotten so annoying in the last few days I'm considering selling all of my Alexa devices and exiting the ecosystem entirely.

A good choice. The only better choice would have been not to enter it at all.

I hope this works out well for you.
Hahahahahahahaha

Apple bans competition from the App store, charges tremendous fees from hardware, to software, to access.

All while denying hardware issues and security issues.

This is nothing more than Ammo for Apple apologists.
They provided a breakdown on the invoice for me, stripping out all the sensitive info (reminder this was a decade ago):

Item #: Transport Fee (small animal)
Unit price: $495.00

Description: Total of 1734 Miles (fuel surcharge)
Unit price: $246.80

Sometimes a plane is not an option - I was moving, a large moving truck was transporting the house, while I was transporting the items they could not carry on their truck (liquids, firearms, ammunition) across state lines. Bringing a pet along while trying to maintain eyesight on a vehicle full of sensitive items was not in my best interest.
I am not sure if the market is healthy, though. GOG and other alternative stores didn't take off. While Epic has their strategy of giving away some free games to attract traffic, I am not sure how well that translates to actual purchases. If a customer has a choice between buying a game at the same price between two stores, they're going to stick to the one which they already use and have a big library on. And even though Steam's community features are anemic, people do get SOME value from having friends on Steam that own the same game and so on. I think it'll be hard for Epic to crack this one.
Microsoft introduces LAMBDA functions for Excel
The U.S.? Do you think China would like this? Even Europe? You think Europe would be gung ho for a bunch of Columbian cocaine rolling into their country? Really?

Maybe Columbia will legalize but I would tend to think 95% of the rest of the world will say "we're going to make importing it illegal" and after that the Columbian government is going to have a lot of people knocking on their door asking them to help stop Columbians who are exporting to places that don't want it. And when they either can't or won't do that there are going to be consequences.

But who knows. Maybe it'll all work out. I don't think so though and I don't think it's just a matter of U.S. thinking it a bad idea.
"she's not just another SJW."

How is this either/or? Highly educated people can still join fringe political clubs.

There is nothing about technical education that immunizes you against radical politics. At the risk of Godwinizing the reply: the engineers who built the first liquid fuelled rockets in Peenemunde were N..z..s, including the guy who was later brought into the US and built all kind of powerful and ingenious rockets there (Wernher von Braun).
I dunno. Consider that when Google found that a sexual harassment claim against Andy Rubin was valid, and so Google asked him to leave, they also paid him 90 million bucks when they didn’t have to.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/tech...

“ Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package, paid in installments of about $2 million a month for four years, said two people with knowledge of the terms.”

Let’s assume that’s true. What is worse behavior? Obviously his. Yet he gets paid.

It’s not an apples to apples comparison but if google was to say to anyone, “goodbye and don’t let the door hit you on the way out”, shouldn’t it be this guy and the other dudes mentioned in the article?

And IMHO the fact that they didn’t is a great example of systemic sexism in action. So it’s not unreasonable to wonder if similar forces played a role in this situation.

It’s not surprising that companies function like this but that doesn’t make it right, and, it doesn’t mean that (even though change is slow) it isn’t possible to change norms.

We don’t know the full details; Googles firing of her may be valid.

But to be as dismissive of her being a representative of marginalized groups, and facing prejudice (conscious or unconscious) herself, is wrong. IMHO.
> which is why it has been dual intent since the beginning.

It has not.
The comment by the first John in the comment of the article here [https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...] adds a lot of insight too (starting with "As I understand, the social and structural problems are that AI learns the social and structural biases that are already present.").
> I want to emphasize that most of these features are ridiculously easy to implement, if you have a parse tree for your language.

I like how he emphasized ridiculously. That was the enlightenment moment for me many years ago when I found ANTLR. Hadn't clicked how all these non-Lisp languages were as easy to manipulate as Lisp, once you parse the tree.
Well, if well-intentioned one could see this as yielding Pareto-optimal outcomes. We could improve service for normative users at the DMV, perhaps charging them for the privilege, and use that to serve other users better.

The USPS does this already and I can't see that it's anything but good.
No, you are reading it wrong. All money up to $1 million is "taxed" at 15%, and all money after $1 million is "taxed" at 30%. It's like income tax brackets in the US.

Thus, there is no advantage for trying to stay at $999,999. If you make $1.2m in sales, you get 15% taken on the $1m and 30% taken from the leftover $200k.
The email from Jeff Dean in the article describes one of them - to ubmask all of the anonymous feedback provided on her paper and list everyone who was consulted on the decision to prevent publication.
Getting the credentials is too expensive. Skills are nearly free. Most industries run on credentials. It's an important distinction.
> Does it matter? There is no realistic way that all the best developers, or even all the good developers, already live in the USA.

Yes, it does, you used a figure to suit your argument, now people are rightfully asking for a more relevant figure to see if your argument still stands. So what % of developers live in USA? The rest is just purely your opinion.
That's how <25 year old spoiler> how 006 died too </spoiler>

https://youtu.be/wGmDAjRRNXs?t=160

Surprisingly inaccurate and led me to think up until today that the reflector dish was a concrete bowl rather than a metal mesh.
YouTube Software Gets 1,137,064 Views.. – Sport news from all over the world
It would be logical for the manager to send it to another account so she could read it.
Why are we ignoring dividends? That's a significant piece of stock valuation
Yes, but you can choose how much risk to take on using your leverage weight. You don't have to accept the baseline risk of the inherently riskier asset. It's easier to start with a less risky portfolio and weight it accordingly than it is to derisk a portfolio which is intrinsically riskier.
I’m talking about situations where they are possibly fired.
Please provide some sources for your claim. I don't follow your logic on how 宝 means treasure in Japanese because "The King's balls are his treasure", and not because the character and its meaning was adopted from Chinese.
I use BitWarden and run my own vaults. Pretty easy to set up using docker on a Linux machine.

I've had some trouble with the BitWarden anrdoid app not wanting to help fill in login information, but I put that down to user error - it's close enough I just can't be bothered to dig deeper.
As a non white person this is just getting ridiculous to watch from afar.
If Mr. Bezos wants to operate a business in a country, he needs to follow its laws. If he doesn't like them, he can take his business somewhere else.
Mass generic recruiting doesn't mean that the jobs being filled aren't highly specialized. They're not hiring cafeteria workers on a H1b.

SWE is a specialization and job descriptions typically ask for things like experience dealing with high QPS distributed systems which is a very specific skillset.
How would you react if someone reacts allergic to another human? Genuinely interested as a non-pet owner.
good move, now it's time to get rid of the $100 yearly developer fee, which is absurd.
> There’s a systemic component to this.

I truly think you are over-estimating the number of H1-B employees working these jobs in order to have the power to systemically drag down wages for everyone.
"In Theory, Theory and Practice are the same. In Practice they're not." Charlie Munger
Consider for a moment how many independent developers rely on x86 based Linux systems versus ARM. x86 isn't open, Linux's support for it is a symptom of Intel's monopoly.

> And yet, even Windows DELL laptops are more likely to run mainline Linux than any average ARM SoC, even including the ones targeted at developers.

This is more about inertia and developer resources than openness. The more developers you have on ARM, the faster device and software support will come.

> I am no fan of x86, but trading what we have now for an M1 is a net loss in terms of our ability to install anything we want as users, no question.

You've changed the question here. We were speaking about ARM in general, not the M1.
If you include Cypress, you need a log scale to fit its awesomeness on the same chart as the others.
The same intergenerational pendulum that drives so many human social trends?
Half of the comments here are focused on the appropriateness of an email after things had already become beyond repair. It's way, way less important than Google potentially preventing publication of damaging research.

It's a bad sign from Google that this is their argument. If they were good on diversity/ethical ai they'd fight on that not on tone. If the facts are bad fight on tone, etc
> They're hiring the kind of person that would command $750,000 a year or more as a native American, then.

No, they're not. Facebook employees have very thoroughly reverse-engineered the compensation bands in internal groups. We know for a fact that it makes no difference whether one is on a visa.
Distribution still is a pain unless you're going through pip.
So when is HBO Max going to start streaming in 4k and HDR?
Nothing is 100% and/or guaranteed in trading. It's a game of probabilities and risk management
U.S. bill proposes only banks should issue stablecoins
There are 200,000 new cases in the United States every day, and nearly 3,000 people dying from this every day. This vaccine will help to arrest the free-fall, and help us get this whole thing under control. It will restore ICU capacity, and open-up hospitals again, so that those with immunocompromised conditions (alongside a hell of a lot of other conditions) will finally be able to get in to see their doctor. It will also stop killing their doctors.

I assure you that your immunocompromised friends and family will benefit significantly from getting people vaccinated, in the same way that they currently benefit from vaccination campaigns surrounding seasonal influenza. Not only that, I'm sure your severely immunocompromised friends and family will appreciate actually being able to get their hands on N95s again.

If your friends and family are that immunocompromised, you should be wearing a mask around them anyway, because they're very vulnerable to a hell of a lot more bugs that you could be toting around than just SARS-Cov-2 .

But, understand that if you live in the United States, there are thousands and thousands of people dying every day from a raging, uncontrolled pandemic that a significant percentage of the population has chosen to simply ignore. I am not the enemy here man. If you think the enemy is someone on HackerNews who actually takes the time to read the papers you cite, you need to take a trip to an Oklahoma WalMart.

Remember, I'm not the guy you need to convince to be cautious. I'm the guy advocating the public health benefits of vaccination, not the guy running around telling people that masks are for pussies and that vaccines will give you autism. You have to have a sense of perspective about this whole thing.

These vaccines are awesome. They are literally a wonder of modern biotechnology. This technology is pretty much completely novel! This is a net plus for the entire human species.
I'm amazed they had a drone up there to catch that. Were they flying drones multiple times a day just to catch this footage?
>[1] Side note: It somehow never ceases to amaze me how very year, my mental shortcut for approximating the number of years since a given date by subtracting it from 2000 gets less and less accurate.

Remember when partying like it was 1999 was something to achieve? The one that gets me every year is my graduation date from high school gets further away. It is now more easily measured in decades.
> This isn’t a discussion about some ECON 500-level course topic.

It is.

> There’s an academic argument to be had about whether or not the accounts of the event are credible, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.

It is.

You brought it up. You threw in conjecture. And every rebuttal is more complex than you decided to be willing to pursue. That doesn't become false by saying we aren't talking about something that we absolutely are, and all of your hyperbole keeps reinforcing your willing self-proclaimed but obvious ignorance.
Well Bitcoin does have almost central authority - if Top 3 mining pools decide to change their software in literally any way, then everyone else will comply of will be left in the dust. It's not that hard for 3 people to agree on a common action plan.
"App transfers are not allowed while participating in the program."

Hopefully this isn't a sting in the tail and they allow app transfers after leaving the program.
I'm torn on this. Actually, if you think you're a researcher and then feedback comes in this weird way, that seems pretty weird.
At the same time... "people like me who are constantly dehumanized" - really? I mean maybe, but to me this sounds like hyperbole, and actually, weaponized hyperbole. This is someone who's a respected and presumably very highly paid researcher. Dehumanized?
"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion." M. Ali
Who says programmers are responsible for pixel perfection? That's what the graphic artist do. But I get your point of thinking former game developers would be too exacting. That is what hiring filters and management is for, so you hire with reason and guide them to the company's level of production quality.

Also, the typical game is significantly larger than any single gamer experiences, and game developers certainly know the tradeoff of "good enough". Plus game production environment is a technological feat in itself too, and it is those type of game developers that contain the most value - not necessarily the game play developers, but the game production pipeline developers.
If you've got strong reasons to believe your chain of command is going to respond not at all (or worse, badly) to your grievances, then going outside that chain is not toxic, but simply attempting to be effective.
Fix the green card backlog for people born in India, China, Mexico, and the Philippines so they aren't stuck on an H-1B for decades and they have more negotiating power. Everyone else can already get an employment-based green card within a couple of years of arriving in the US.
Rats of hanoi, cobra effect and all.

Apple should have made this like the tax rates, first 1M at 15%, rest at 30%.

With this move, apple didn't affect their revenue, while looked good to everyone. From a prior thread [1], this affects very little of apple's revenue.

[1] Information from Sensor Tower indicating the App Store cut would apply to an estimated 98 percent of iOS app developers who generate roughly 5 percent of the store’s revenue.
That is a good point, but that all applies to riskier investments as well. Whether or not that specific example will beat out something like cryptocurrencies does depend on margin and transaction costs, this is true.
I'm wary of centralized power of any kind, but explicitly coordinated centralized power (in the form of industry-wide unions) scares me just as much as explicitly-illegal-to-coordinate-but-aligned-incentives power in the form of a set of a few gigantic employers.
Hard disagree.

This is needed to stop overflowing levels of trash like on android
AMDs current gen 4800h/u is still competitive with the air cooled M1(mac mini) in both perf and performance.

M1 has better single core perf, but the AMD 4800 edges it out in multi-core perf on Geekbench(apparently) and smokes it in multi-core Cinebench.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1-1804
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-amd_ryzen_7_4800u-1142
And whoever ends up with the one you didn't buy will be happy too. I see this as a win/win/win.
On the stock market: "Markets are people." B. Baruch
Sounds like you should start an airline that offers and allows pet to fly free or for whatever you think a ~10lb carryon should cost.
I think you are wrong. If you pass 1M$ in 2020, your 2021 apple tax rate would be 30%.

Key parts:

If a participating developer surpasses the 1 million USD threshold, the standard commission rate will apply for the remainder of the year.

-> Yes. For that year, first 1M is 15% but remainder is 30%. But following year, it's 30%.

If a developer’s proceeds fall below the 1 million USD threshold in a future calendar year, they can re-qualify for the 15% commission the year after.

->So anything you make affects your future tax rate.
"should have"? But they did, that's exactly how it works.
Worked for pot.
> Why don't we instead just auction off visas to improve efficiency?

The areas with lower cost and wages can't compete attracting local talent, but auctions would make it even harder for them to attract foreign talent as well. It's a losing proposition for pretty much everyone.
I'll wait, unfortunately.

I need docker today.

I need my imagePROGRAF printer drivers for photography today.

I need Luminar AI plugin for Photoshop today.

Etc.

But I am excited to pay for v2 of a MacBook Pro 14. So maybe 18 months. It will be a long wait... :/