skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TCS and Infosys should had been kicked out of the H-1B system long ago.

They are fraudulent as fuck.

- They realized the quota system is based on the physical action of taking random entries from the mail. So what they did was submit the same application multiple times, so that their H-1B applicants had a higher chance, to the detriment of other applicants.

- They forced their employees to sign a power of attorney and kept all money from the employee tax returns.

They suck. They should be sued to oblivion until bankruptcy.
One problem I've noticed about Reddit+popular media -- there's not a lot of room for critique unless you amass a large enough collective (eg, 'saltierthancrait'). You can't engage in a critical manner on a subreddit dedicated to worship of the material.

I would love for the chance to
Petrov Day 2021: Mutually Assured Destruction?
The author's interpretations of Chris's points (the Spotify example is a clear one) keep trying to reinterpret Web3 as a set of incremental improvements ("let's cut the take rate") rather than create a new set of opportunities to replace (and sometimes invert) the old business models.

Here's my example for Spotify: music shouldn't be monetized by taxing distribution; instead, let artists directly monetize through myriad new ways where they don't take platform risk — ever. NFTs, social/community tokens, direct ticketing + access to secondary sales, and so many more methods are all being explored now.

It's great to dig in here and continue the dialogue, but most crypto critiques on HN feel like tourism.
My opinion is that it should be inclusionism and not deletionism. Include many thing as needing.

> Actually, I've seen "the content is already available in another website, why do we need it here?" being be used as an argument against reinstating some very uncontroversial articles.

Having it on Wikipedia is helpful. This way, you can find it in Wikipedia, can have a free license, mirrors (if there are any), can use MediaWiki API, and will have the wikitext you do not worry as much about the hostile JS/CSS and can also print out. And, you can also fix it if there is a mistake in the article, too.

They should also try to be neutral from corporate or other interests (although if there are multiple points of view about some subject, they can try to be included if you can avoid being biased, but in the total it should be neutral).
When speaking of people who have moved out of your country and into another, they're emmigrants. If they've moved into your country, they're immigrants. To their own perspective, they're migrants.
I have many prominent disagreements with a friend of mine, and this piece has defined aspects of our memeplexes which might prove useful.

I would consider myself a San Francisco schooled individual, and I am frustrated by a world where finance 'black magic' is used to counteract the world of 'white magic' I consider engineering, technology and architecture to be. The reason I have not spent much time investigating finance, is that finance fails to view the world as a subjective environment. Without a hill to ascend ($++), it cannot serve it's function as a mechanism for allocating labor to 'important' tasks.

My view is that most people cannot know what they want before they have an experience of it. I also believe that most people are greatly misaligned with what would make them happy and prepare them for further happiness. In this world view, the San Franciscan paradigm is the only way to break people free. Following the finances may enhance predictive ability, but if its improving your predictive ability regarding something that won't maximize human happiness, whats the point of using it as a decision making tool?

Look at the 3 faces chosen to represent the San Franciscan school (later in the article, described as masters of both, while primarily San Franciscan). I asked myself if I wanted to be any of them, and the answer was no. I would rather be good than esteemed for my prudent (or ruthless) business maneuvers.
I use navidrome with bobob and it works great!

bonob acts as a media libary bridge so sonos can use navidrome as a media library (instead of having to use a janky old version of smb auth that sonos requires)
I have tried it a few times, I still feel it lacking over emby which is what it was forked from when emby moved to a more closed license model.

I still use emby as my primary server, but I keep Jellyfin around to keep tabs on the project
Yes, but this one is 50% of that 50%.
Is this similar to the HGV issues Britain is having with food and fuel shortages? Nobody to deliver it.
Coming from traditional statically typed languages (Java, C++, Typescript, even Python or Ruby...), you might think of a type like "int" or "Float". He's calling stamps "micro-types" because they're more fine-grained than that. A stamp might tag a value as being between 0 and 255, for example, which is much more specific than "int".

It would be really cool to work with a language that allows the user such fine-grained types, which is one reason I keep eyeing Idris.
America has an everything shortage because we shut down the damn country for a bad variant of the common cold.
Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
Posted to HN 2-3x per year. Here's the bottom line:

1. Remove rational human beings from the nuclear C2 loop at great peril.

2. Its hard enough for so-called super powers to C2 nuclear weapons, its even more difficult for developing nations with fewer resources & less public accountability & greater instability. Industrial accident prone nations should not have nuclear weapons, period. It is questionable if they should have nuclear reactors for peaceful purposes. Yes, I'm talking to you Iran.

3. It is almost a certainty there will be a mistaken or accidental nuclear launch in the next 15 years.

And, finally, the Miley/Xi/Trump narrative is pure propaganda. China's alleged insecurity about a US first strike, requiring the CJoS to reassure them, is based on a laughable misunderstanding of how US nuclear launch works, either by the Chinese or the author of the leak - or both. China just announced its reversal of "no first strike" and Biden is POTUS, so Miley's attempts at reassurance must've fallen on deaf ears if you believe the story in the first place.
I mean, this degree of knowledge barely rises above bar trivia. There are lots of people whose jobs or studies give them an interest in the affairs of some region or another. I'm sure you can find some wonk's blog just by searching for <country name> + "current events." Lots of international studies students write blogs.
How about the fact that Facebook is doing psychological research on people with no oversight?

This ... is ... evil. Doubly so when children are involved.

This is the core problem with the social networks that promote "engagement". They are carrying out psychological research with no oversight whatsoever.

See: Stanford Prison Experiment for the kind of problems this creates.
That's a feature (not a limitation) of TOTP. Also, the time step defaults to 30 seconds, but can be changed: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6238

My OATH HOTP/TOTP implementations are here:

https://github.com/62726164/oathgen

https://github.com/62726164/goathgen
Yes. And I think his point is that you shouldn't cater to extremist behaviour. Which I agree as well. Don't pick a side as a defence. Just censor any attempts to start the war.
Ghosting is the biggest problem I've seen personally. I might not know why a company that doesn't want me, ageism, sexism, racism, or whatever. But at least has the courtesy to tell me that I'm not longer in consideration. That's the least thing you can do after talking to me about your company and ask my resume.
just add a dot :)

https://www.economist.com./by-invitation/2021/09/24/noam-cho...
We can’t start living in hamster balls just because something might be dangerous. Many of us grew up with a Facebook or a FB-like and survived just fine because our parents understood that it’s the parent’s job to parent, not Facebook’s. When are we going to start pointing the finger where it belongs - the deficient parenting?
I think you are mistaking gas fee for take rate here...

Gas fees go to the miners, not OpenSea. The OpenSea take rate is a separate thing.
the fact that facebook even employs a person with the job title "Global Head of Safety" is telling. Sounds like they have a lot of unsafe stuff going on.
I've really been enjoying the posts from Chris unpacking the TruffleRuby optimizations. I've been hearing about Graal and Truffle for years, but didn't understand exactly what made them so fast.

Paired with my current reading of Crafting Interpreters, these posts make me really excited for all the cool things you can do when implementing a language.
I weigh in on this now and then.

The H1B visa is a visa created by tech companies that allows them to run a shadow, parallel immigration system where they get to decide who is allowed to live and work in the US, what they are allowed to have studied, what jobs they are allowed to work, and the circumstances under which they are allowed to remain. They have been partially successful in convincing people that opposition to this is xenophobic.

I'm not sure how much support there has been for a points based system like Australia or Canada has, where tech is one of many fields of study and work that is considered worthy of skilled immigration, and each field gets a determined number of points (plumbers get top points, as do many high educated fields outside tech). I do recall a debate where a spokesman from Oracle called a system like this "communistic" because it would allow the government - not business - to decide who to hire.

That's the kind of toxic bullshit we've gotten in this debate in roughly forever. I don't hold participation in the H1B against anyone (really, truly, I absolutely do. not). The US immigration system is bizarre, and if you don't have relatives in the US, it's hard to immigrate. Tech immigration is one of the ways you can get access to one of the most lucrative job markets in existence. And the US closes off many other avenues - I've had international students explain to me how much harder it is to get into a US law or medical school and remain here, or what it means to graduate from a program with a STEM designation vs one without.

But I do hold it against the tech firms, the people who claimed that there was a labor shortage while conspiring to fix and suppress wages. I think tech firms' real nightmare is a workforce, immigrant and otherwise, that is free to choose a career path according to how their own life interests align with market signals.
I thought by the time you're 54 you could retire. I'm much younger and I could retire in a couple of years. What is your saving rate? - you can read more here https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

Your job starts at 7am? You could start later, like 10. Have your 2-3h lunch time. Finish at 6pm. Change jobs until you find a job like that. There are plenty, I can assure you.
Sort of. When you dig in you discover it that support isn't that great. There are efforts by the community, but Microsoft is doing nothing to help - in particular they regularly break things with each release, and once they do a stable release the previous release is no longer supported.

There are some great efforts, the other comment linked one, but in the end forums are full of users asking for help with something not working and no getting any response. Not a situation that makes me willing to try at this time.
I've tried in the past for other issues. You get on the phone with someone who has no power to help, and that's all you're told. They don't do a good job.
I built hacker news client HACK for iOS, MacOS and Android which scrapes the HN page HTML and this is how I implemented it - when you collapse a comment, it tells you how many child comments that comment has.
You could try my app to see if it’s user friendly for accessibility (I don’t have much experience with it so I am not sure).
> While it's true that in some societies some women were in position power, it does not mean that woman as a class eschewed domination. IIRC in the Iroquois confederation, women were organized as one of society's pole, the economic domestic one, and had power in times of war because war needs the collaboration of the whole society. It is also hard to say if that they had always had that power or gained it during war times. In any case, they were/are statistically rare.

That is not correct.

> When the 5 nations needed to make a critical decision, such as going to war, they would decide via the Grand Council. Representatives of each clan called Sachems conducted the council meetings themselves.

> The Sachems were voted to their political positions by their designated Clan Mothers, the matrilineal hereditary leaders of their nations, and were perceived by the Haudenosaunee as sacred leaders. Women were seen as almost divine beings, albeit for practical reasons that aided their society’s survival.....

> Although the chiefs held most of the political power and day to day governance, the Clan Mother possessed the power to dismiss the chief if she and other Mothers felt he was doing a poor job.

> Chiefs handled civic matters, others took care of military operations, and Sachems acted as a Congress to vote on decisions for the Confederacy at the councils. Making the chiefs and sachems more akin to elected officials and not the monarchal leaders we often associate with today in indigenous culture. [1]

This shows that the role of the clan mothers was more similar to a permanent parliament that could form local executives (chiefs), dismiss them at will, and controlled the decision-making for the confederation by selecting representative decisionmakers for the grand council.

This has some similarities to the Italian style parliament, with permanent members dominating the government.

[1] https://historyhustle.com/iroquois/
This would make me quit
By opening both versions of the app side by side, and by default not objecting to things that are in the already approved version?
> It is almost a certainty there will be a mistaken or accidental nuclear launch in the next 15 years.

Given that we got through the whole cold war without this happening, I'm not so sure
C2 stands for Command & Control
Intergalactic jump inspired by science-fiction movies
I’m not defending Trump. I’m just saying the nuclear situation wasn’t comparable to Petrov. Accuracy and precision matters.

A general saying he would hypothetically disobey orders is quite different from actually doing so.
> No co-worker is going to give you advice that doesn't serve their own interests first.

This just isn’t true, unless you’ve managed to find a supremely hostile workplace.

I’m always shocked at how cynical some HN comments can be about coworkers. I’ve had my fair share of bad coworkers over the years, but I’ve also found numerous wonderful friends and built lasting relationships with many people.

This idea that all coworkers are inherently out to get you is bizarre.
Author here. This is essentially what I’m getting at!
Extrapolating logic to other realities requires no gaps in the system though. If it doesn't encompass our own reality how can we assume that it would even exist in others?
Would it be possible to develop a computer from linear transformations? Suppose registers, op codes and their parameters were represented as images, and at each clock a led grid is turned on with the current computer state, the light propagating into a sequence of diffractive surfaces to generate the next state through linear transformations, which is picked up and its result is used to change the led grid in the right places. Even if such a thing could be turing complete I guess the current computing problem is memory retrieval time and not internal cpu processing time...
There isn’t a labor shortage. There’s a shortage of people willing to be abused and exploited.

I don’t think any amount of money would be enough for me to work with retail customers again. Much less unruly kids that you can’t do anything about.

If it’s between your story and the story the kid told their parents, you’ll lose that battle most of the time and likely end up getting yourself in more trouble than you already were.

As soon as the customer stops being always right, we can talk about pay.
Wow, never thought I'd see a Chomsky essay on the Economist, of all magazines.
thanks. I used notmuch before I settle down to mu. How does astroid display HTML emails? LIV can use a sandboxed iframe becaue it is running in the browser already; a native progrem will have to embed webkit, I suppose?
Work remotely and not be micromanaged is how I manage something similar. Mine might be even more extreme. Sometimes the second half of my biphasic work schedule may not occur until as late as 9 PM.
Ask HN: Free software for CMYK image conversion/editing?
I've got some RGB images I'd like to print, at local printer and on print on demand sites. Apparently I need to convert to CMYK for best results. Is there good free software where I can convert RGB to CMYK and then adjust the saturation, contrast, brightness etc (as CMYK)? Thank you.

(So far I only know of Scribus, but seems it can only save as CMYK, not adjust the levels.)
>"bus driving has been privatized and the for-profit bus companies laid everyone off for C19" was the main one

To be fair, they'd be happy to keep the drivers on the payroll if the schools continued to pay for their service.
It does imply a flaw if you intend to extrapolate it to other unknown systems.
And SO and kids?
> consider whether this stuff could instead be taken care of directly in a "README.html" in the repo root

I'm not sure what you mean?
But that will only justify more gun control measures. It's a win-win for them.
Yeah you are right it must be a happy accident of timing. The whole "NZ is highly vulnerable to DDoS" thing has been brewing for a while though.

I was trying to express that there's a level of non-cloud datacenter use in NZ (for data sov reasons) that would seem anachronistic anywhere else and this is closely related to the prevalence of DDoS attacks targeting the country.

I still think it is an interesting dynamic that the effectiveness of big cloud in blunting DDoS pushes risk over to countries with no "in region" facilities.
I'm a little younger than you (43), but can very much relate. My current position is similar and trying to do all 3 of those things (and do them well) over the past couple of years has lead me to the verge of burnout. The paradox is that I still love what do, and I really enjoy it when I have a chance to focus on one aspect for longer than 15 minutes at a time.

But the demand to constantly be hyper-productive at all three of those things simultaneously just because I happen to have the skillset(s) means I have a hard time caring about any of them.
FreeBSD/EC2 uses TSC starting with 13.0, and this caused some issues with t3.* instances -- I'm told however that this is due to a bug in EC2 which will be fixed. TSC has been totally solid on other instance types, however.

Just some data points for anyone with an interest in EC2 and clock sources...
AFAIK teachers are often overworked and/or do extra work outside of the classroom. I doubt they'd want a few extra hours tacked onto their existing schedule.
Apple applies their rules entirely arbitrarily. For example- they have rules for app update release notes required to be detailed and rejects small developers apps with generic template update notes. Meanwhile larger developers like fAcebook, Google, uber etc regularly put the same generic update notes.
It's their tone, there is a difference between "a lot of older material isn't available on Spotify" vs saying that Spotify has mind numbing music.

Spotify to my knowledge and experience has an enormous amount of older music. Enough to make it the main source of music for my parents. I think this guy needs to realise that they don't need to listen to the curated playlists...
Can I use this with a PDF?

Something like pdftohtml and then load this page?
> This can mean that children who turn 18 may need to leave the US and return to a country they have possibly never known. This is barbaric and inhumane;

Why don’t the parents move back with their 18 year old so they are not alone?

People move to countries they do not know all the time.

If you come to the US on an H1B and a teenager it will also happen

Was it inhumane to bring the teenager to a country they did not know?
Ask HN: How can I help my son with Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability
Saw this post : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25512071 and that motivated me to post about our situation.

My son is 23 years old. He has completed AA degree in liberal arts at a local community college. He has complex-partial epilepsy and intellectual disability. In my personal opinion, he is borderline for both conditions : his epilepsy is controlled by medications and his intellectual capacity is quite borderline - he will be on top of the list of disabled people, but will find himself struggling to compete with regular people. Social skills are bad with strangers, but otherwise he is quite communicative.

His interests are technology - he can not program, I do not think he could write a for loop, but he can narrate the in-depth progression of technology of all iPhones, Androids, Samsungs and what not. Could he describe all features? Maybe not, but he knows quite a bit that he could be groomed into a salesman (except his current inability to connect to people which may be needed for sales). We looked at Quality Assurance but current QA is quite a bit of programming, and while I think he would be eventually good at manual QA (review of the product and finding faults), not sure those opportunities exist any more.

After the long Covid break when we did not want him venturing out anyways, we have just started to push him (yes we need to push him) to start looking for jobs. The first few reactions have been negative. It is clear that we will need to help him find something only via the disability route, and we have started pursuing that route with Department of Rehabilitation although it appears their focus may be to find him any job so that he is not a burden to society

Wonder if anyone has suggestions, or just opportunities for (even unpaid) internships where he/we can start figuring out what works. We are in South Bay and that would be a preference due to his inability to drive due to epilepsy.
"There's a lot of downtime during the day that you don't get paid for. You might work a 10-hour day, but you only get compensated for your shifts. .... [Corey Ford] as a driver, he earned $19/hr, which works out to a pre-tax income of ~$19.4k for 180 days of 5-hour shifts."

Imagine a job that required your entire day, but they decided not to pay you during the late morning through the early afternoon. This has got to be one of the worst paying jobs in the country. I'm surprised they could fill their roles during normal times.
I like "The Art of Computer Programming". It uses assembly language, which is one thing I like compared with other books, but there are other things I also like about this book compared with other ones too, I think it is better written.
Power in a war comes down to two main factors: Manufacturing capacity and the size of the military-age population.

In both cases, China alone outclasses the combined West. (5-eyes, Europe, Japan)
School bus driver is a good job for otherwise stay at home parents. You drive your kids to school and back home everyday and get paid for it. Sure if you drove your own care you could do the round trip in half an hour, while the bus means it takes 2 hours, but you get paid and ensure you kids actually go to school every day. You can also take the babies along with you to work (or at least my school allowed that)

It is also a good I'm retired but need to get out of the house to do something job.

Otherwise yes, you can earn more elsewhere with better hours.