skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On that lack of unskilled worker visa - this is the H-2B visa.

Planet money did an article recently on it: Could foreign workers unlock America's tight labor market? https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1134417921

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WOODS: So remember when we said that there's a yearly cap on H-2B visas of 66,000? Well, that limit was put in place in 1990 when there were far fewer H-2B workers in the country, around 20,000 workers. So the cap of 66,000 seemed really generous at that time.

CLEMENS: That number was seen as so high that it would never be reached.

WONG: Well, the number was reached and then some. In 2019, employers requested triple the number of H-2B visas available for half a year. By 2022, the number of requests was four times the quota.

WOODS: And the government's tried some stopgap measures. Like, in the law, they are allowed to extend the number of visas by up to around 65,000 extra visas, and that's what they're going to do in the coming year.

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WONG: Last month, Michael and a fellow economist published a working paper that studied the businesses that won and lost the 2021 lottery for H-2B visas. And here's what they found. Businesses that were able to hire foreign workers, the winners, produced 17% more stuff than the losers. The winners also spent triple the amount on investing in their business.

WOODS: In other words, just being able to hire H-2B workers unlocked productivity, not just for the foreign workers coming in but for the entire company. And Michael says businesses that are expanding tend to create more jobs for Americans.

CLEMENS: If a restaurant can operate because there is a dishwasher, that means not just more jobs for people who are waiting tables. It also means more jobs for the accountants who keep the books of the restaurant. It means more jobs for the people at the businesses from which things are bought by the owner of the restaurant with the revenue they get because the restaurant can operate because there is a dishwasher. There are all kinds of ripple effects.

WOODS: Michael's analysis found that businesses who couldn't hire H-2B workers, the losers, weren't able to hire American workers for the unfilled positions either. And the result was that these businesses' output and investment fell.

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The Michael spoken of in the episode is https://www.cgdev.org/expert/michael-clemens

Some of the articles on papers written recently:

U.S. economy loses billions of dollars a year due to the sharp decline in refugee admissions, economist says - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-economy-loses-billions...

Another Study Concludes Immigration Critics Are Wrong (this appears to be the one about the H-2B visa) https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/10/26/anoth...

Digging further... the actual article is The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery https://www.nber.org/papers/w30589 (the PDF of it is https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30589/w305... )

The summary of the paper from the author: https://twitter.com/m_clem/status/1584506960514527232
The US and the rest of the West uses Ukrainians as cheap/disposable peons in a war against Russia. Even before February 24th, Ukrainians have lost their country to western interests. Today, Zelensky (who is not a Slav) sells the last bits and pieces to Americans for pennies on the dollar.

They have done the same in the nineties to former Yugoslavia. Almost all of us are Slavs, we mostly speak the same language, many of us have the same surnames. But, through "divide and conquer" the West (led by the US) has unleashed bloody wars. As the Serbs are the biggest group in former Yugoslavia the West has used todays Croats (Roman-Catholics) and Boshniaks (Muslims) as their peons to fight us. They cynically apply the same tactic today, using Ukrainians and Poles to fight Russians - but always for western interests.

Keep in mind: Slavs are the biggest ethnic group in Europe (over 300 million). Our languages are very similar, our worldview as well as our mentality. If we'd be together in some kind of confederation, the West would have a very strong competition. And an obstacle on the way to cheap resources (humans, commodities).

You must read about Heartland Theory [0] which was summarized by its author as follows: "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_Hi...

ADDEDENDUM: I forgot this, highly relevant for the previously said, quote regarding the NATO (you wrote "strong military alliance like NATO"). NATO's first Secretary General has said that the NATO was created to "keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." [1]

[1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_137930.htm
Artiphon videos don't play on the browser. They chose some weird player with unknown host... Why...
"The people in favor of a lot of the erasures would want the wheelchair ramps removed, if people with functioning legs were the minority"

This is a perfect analogy, thanks for it.
Maybe the excerpt from the Wikipedia article I used was a bit too subtle, but the similarity is, in the story they are using random noise coming through earphones to suppress thoughts ("loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people").
"Technology has advanced since 1960"... I would argue not significantly, and in some metrics it is now less reliable. When you see GPU lock up and burn down a power supply, the concept of hardware failure modes will change. LOL

Cheers ;)
One way is to more or less auto-convert (//|#)TODO:, to (//|#)INFO: or (//|#)NOTE: when merging or pushing.
Yea this also one reason I don't like how these two languages are often lumped as C/C++ so often.

These days they have diverged even further. So I find funny to see C/C++ on job listings like it's one thing. While you can write code in a very C like manner in C++. That is not how typical C++ is often written these days.
I think the background noise the old guy has to listen to (I can kind of see it relating to brown noise)
I’m a web developer. My company pays for JetBrains IntelliJ for me. And I love it. But, if I had to pay for it out of my own pocket, I’d use VS Code instead. I’ve used both and IntelliJ is superior to VS Code, but not to such an extent that I would pay my own money for it. But I’m more than happy to have my company buy it for me.
Search pulled up this which contains this list: { US, Germany, Australia, UK, Canada, Switzerland } with emphasis on greater preference for countries with francophone cities (CA, CH), which makes sense.

https://medium.com/@vivier.lola/the-french-brain-drain-in-th...
reminds me of https://globalnews.ca/news/3311903/woman-named-alexa-seary-s...
Oh, the glorious nostalgia! I never attended a LAN party, but I was spoiled beyond belief and my school had a bay if 8 terminals starting around ‘96/‘97 and my nerd buddies and I would race to them every day after class to play MUDs together. Our faces had the joy of the boys in the pictures. Such great adventure we had.

Edit: or maybe it started around ‘94/‘95. I’m getting old and my memories are fading a bit.
Just do it. Hopefully an employer will read the code
and decide not to hire you. (Because it saves you wasting time with a company that does that sort of shit).
That’s not the point. People are still harmed by scams. Many criminals do get away with scams, and even if they don’t, they are often caught well after several successful scams when victims have already needlessly suffered, and most won’t be fully compensated.

Here, as in other criminal areas, prevention is always preferable to punishment.
Probably differs a lot, but the Navajo have a massively developed story-telling tradition to pass on wisdom across generations. Iirc these are symbolic and has moral or philosophical contents, similar perhaps to fables and religious miracle-stories. Encoding information in narratives is highly effective for memorization, and I believe deliberate so. Literal interpretations can be fun, but a deeper semantic interpretation can really unlock ancient wisdom. It's fascinating.
If you have to design a databse schema for gender this is a tech topic.
I count about a dozen claims, so I'm not really sure what to begin with. But I disagree with your comment here too.
Changed because parent changed. Don't sweat it, fren. We all have done it!
The Soundplane: https://madronalabs.com/soundplane
These people usually know exactly how to get to civilization if they wanted to. Many have "walked out" of the forest and into civilization, and they generally become what people would recognize as bums and layabouts since they have basically no skills that are relevant to city life.

And they're observed remotely merely to help ensure that violent people don't disturb them - making sure they aren't killed or driven to civilization unless they want to go.
Having a copy of Perl, for example (https://computoid.com/APPerl/), on a USB stick means one could run scripts using the same version of Perl across multiple platforms, no need to wrestle with outdated instances.

Also, it's an awesome hack! C'mon, man, this is Hacker News!
> Then a specific budget needs to be approved to use Office, which will reduce its use to only people actually needing it

You have great faith in bureaucracy. The reality is anybody who was using a free version before will probably be given a paid version afterwards, and if not then the cost of administration and the creation of new fiefdoms around this process would be a net burden on efficiency anyway.
For tinnitus, try massaging the back of your head/neck. Tightness there can be the cause in some people.

Reddit posted a similar trick a few years ago, but in my experience, massage seems to be just as good, so if you haven't tried it, do so and you might get some relief from that.
Bare C GUI applications with somewhat modern integration are always that 'verbose' when compared to older or framework-based ones.

I do wonder about MS-DOS on different machines, technically it would be the BIOS and VBIOS doing much of the heavy lifting so vendor variations might have a real impact here. Same as a CSM on UEFI; DOS wouldn't know the difference, but traversing a firmware that as as complex (or more complex) from DOS would cause a whole lot of extra latency.
that's a shoddy metric though. I'm not an aircraft pilot or a lover of 90s teletext, measuring efficiency in terms of number of buttons per square inch makes no sense on a medium that has infinite scrolling surface.

Empty space is very much a good thing, we crammed things together in the past because we had no other choice, not because it was very legible.
I have been working on small motion camera devices like this using off-the-shelf parts, and getting 1080p to stream over wifi with arducams is nontrivial. There's a lot of special MCU features you need or you're effed: enough GPIO for the camera and the SDCARD, h.264 acceleration, enough RAM to run the LWIP stack and TLS (or crypto accelerator), zero wait-state memory. Trying to get good battery life is a whole different ball of wax. Hats off the companies that finally nailed this.

EDIT: Part 3 of this is truly impressive. OP decoded the IP used, and it came from freaking EVERYWHERE.
You should read some of terraformation's blog posts, they're quite sensible and talk about why you need desalination. Tldr, while forests do create their own microclimate, maintaining moisture, etc you need desalination for the first decade or two while the forest boots up.

Also, desalination is largely a function of energy, as solar falls in price, so does the cost of desalination.

https://terraformation.com/blog/solar-powered-desalination-r...
I haven't seen any junior roles for Scala in the past 6 years.

Probably wise to switch to Java or Kotlin where there is growth.
Not all women can become pregnant but if someone is currently pregnant then that proves they are a woman.
Challenge is housing costs. A 3/2 SFH will run about $2M, which at current interest rates is about $12K. It takes childcare income from 6 kids just to pay the mortgage, and sole-proprietorship home daycares are limited to 8 kids total (less if some are infants).

For people who already own their own home, though, it's a pretty attractive living if you like kids. Most of the home daycares we looked at are run by people who bought ~10-15 years ago, and they make a very good living, and oftentimes have the house fully paid off. Either that or they bought recently but are pooling resources from multiple family members to afford the house, and then have them helping out with the childcare.
Additional note: there are directives to also stop paid Office 365 [0], especially from the education branch with clear orders coming from the top to stop any new deployment[1]

To the unavoidable question of “what to use then?”, I think the answers are “tough luck” and “the gov has a new service for that”. It’s set a case where GDPR has priority over costs and efficiency.

[0] https://siecledigital.fr/2021/09/24/etat-francais-micorost-3...
[1] https://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q16/16-971QE.htm

> S'agissant de l'emploi de la solution Microsoft Office 365, le ministère de l'éducation nationale et de la jeunesse a informé en octobre 2021 les recteurs de région académique et d'académie de la doctrine « cloud au centre » (circulaire du Premier ministre précitée), de la position de la Dinum (note du 15 septembre 2021 précitée) et de l'avis de la CNIL sur ce sujet. Le ministère a ainsi demandé d'arrêter tout déploiement ou extension de cette solution ainsi que celle de Google, qui seraient contraires au RGPD.
How to pick a good programming book to learn?
For a moment, please keep aside the discussion whether you really need books to learn programming.

Generally the reviews online are highly confusing. If you start reading all negative and positive reviews, you'd be forever confused.

So, how do you pick good programming books?
Have you considered a touch screen toaster?

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/revolution-r180-toaster-review/
The book already resonates based on your description of it as I through my own experiences and have come full circle wrt to emotions. As a child and till very recently I always considered myself a rational person who has to do things by reasoning. Always thought emotions muddled things and emotional people are volatile as they are extremely capricious and do things that make no sense if you were to broaden the timeline in which their actions and consequences play out. However I have now learned that our emotional system is something that is extremely useful and should not be ignored wholesale. Emotions are a fantastic source of signals that can point us in the right directions and when introspected can reveal a lot about who we are and what we desire. I now pay close attention to emotions and they often help me make choices that are more in congruence with my inner self. Using the rational and emotional parts of the brain can be spectacularly powerful. Since I have found this for myself your desc of the book seems to affirm that.

Will definitely check it out. Thanks for suggesting.
Sure, complicated systems can easily break down on their own if a hard drive fills up or crashes or if some network configuration gets screwed up by desperate programmers on a late night crunch trying to impress the new boss. But a well-designed system shouldn't necessarily die so quickly even if it's not maintained by anybody.

Could this be an act of sabotage to get the new Twitter in legal trouble? Perhaps somebody broke the copyright system on the way out of the door in order to get Hollywood's lawyers endlessly suing them? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't rule out some wild plot twist in this story.
We'd run 2-4 consoles in separate areas, with each console being a team.

As a kid split screen adversarial was common, and the screen looking was never really an issue. If someone was better, you'd play 1v2, 1v3, or 2v2 with the best and worst player on the same team.

If you were at a LAN party and were too good, then it was you and the worst kid on one console vs 4-6 kids on the other 2 consoles. Haha good times.
I run large scale data centers. Crypto mining has been pushing a lot of this technology ahead as well [1] (yea, yea).

Liquid cooling is nice on paper, but as others have noted, it is messy AF.

Another huge issue that you don't normally think aobut is staffing... some data centers are in the middle of nowhere. It is hard enough to just fine skilled enough labor to work reliably... getting them trained up to do maintenance on wet systems is a whole another level of pain.

It is great for small systems... not so good at scale. It is amazing how proper airflow with fans can solve most cooling needs. Even if the outside temps are high as well.

[1] https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1564441153306406912
I think your comment is fantastic, and it made me think of a curiosity:
Matt Levine is an excellent journalist because he's not a journalist historically, writes about a topic he knows in depth, but Krugman supposedly also writes about what he knows, but is just plain (as you cited) corrupt to a disgusting extent.
> The largest issue is that state-of-the-art models don’t understand the structure of code, such as non-local context.

Copilot ended up being rarely helpful for me. But on the other hand, MS IntelliCode (I think it only works for C# in full Visual Studio) was a fantastic productivity tool that actually sped up writing code because it does understand the structure of C# and your codebase. Wish it was available for other languages and VSC
EDIT... :)
> The safety net in the US is actually quite strong for citizens

And permanent residents. This used to not be the case but changed in the late 90s for reasons I won't derail the thread on.

> SNAP benefits (free food) and Medicaid expansion for low-income people are quite generous

I'm not sure our definitions of "quite generous" are the same. In Washington State, if you are a family of three who makes under $2,300 per month and pays rent and utilities, you qualify for $383/month in food benefit. In western Washington, this is not enough to pay for an entire month of food for three people. It's about a third, or half if you try really hard. (If you have a small child you can qualify for another program, called WIC, but what you get through it is more regulated.)

> If you can get a Section 8 (free housing) voucher you can essentially live without working

The phrase "if you can get" is doing a great deal of work here. The public housing voucher--of all types, not just section 8--waiting list for every populated county in Washington State is closed right now due to far more applicants than availability. In most of the country the waitlist is years long, if not decades. There is that notable story of a person who is now an Alderwoman for the City of Chicago[0] who was on the waiting list for 29 years and finally reached the point where she could apply for (but not yet receive) housing benefits.

The social safety net in the US is neither as strong nor as ubiquitous as you might suspect.

0 - https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1104338319/chicago-public-hou...
The problem with seeking employment in "modern Java" is like doing the same for "modern C++", so many teams with Java 8 (or older)/C++98 codebases that drown out the options to do modern work. Plenty of them might advertiser planned/inprogress updates while hiring but then put roadblocks on the way of ever doing them.
I use ZFS on root on NixOS and love it. I have dual 10TB mirrored drives that cache to a 2TB NVMe. It’s shocking how often it is finding and fixing data corruption. I’d love to be able to use it on my Mac
Was about to post this. I may have posted it before on HN. IIRC, I first read about it in the K&R C book.
Halo Infinite greatly reduced post game stats too.
In the apps that allow it I just move myself under the camera on my laptop so it looks like I'm just looking into the camera. Or I hope that's what people think!
Rise in Indian corporate lending signals new investment cycle
Why isn't it, and the atrocious conduct of pat to win games a bigger deal here? Chest china has more sense and integrity than our government
Any good articles covering this setup? I was looking for a one stop solution for streaming and file management but it always seemed like many systems had to be combined or I had to pay other companies.
> Targets can be missed, and reasons for the miss can be explored, e.g. were there sufficient qualified candidates in the pipeline? If not, what can be done about it. The hope is that over time, a target will be hit.

And if it's not, surely the company can find a hiring manager "a bit more motivated to hit company diversity targets".

If you run a mom and pop shop and need a new employee, sure, this strategy is great. Codifying it at major corporations creates all of the same bad incentives as quotas, just implicitly.
Ask HN: What sort of systemic risk to crypto is Paul Graham referring to?
There does not seem to be much exposition for the recent tweets from @paulg. Based on the tweets, however, we can assemble the following facts:

1) He's known his friend since at least 2012.

2) He (@paulg) didn't write that.

3) He is trustworthy.

4) He is convinced the "cryptocurrency economy" will shortly experience a "systemic risk."

How should we interpret these tweets from @paulg?
I agree with your comparison to Webpack (and also brought back all of my pre-esbuild memories...). I've worked at some places where a simple component library repo has >100 LoC storybook config files and I was always confused why it had to be like that.

Thanks for your feedback. This is helping me a lot towards understanding what we want from a "component workshop" that perhaps Storybook and others (like Ladle) don't either have or do the way we want. :)
Stories, myths, knowledge verbally passed on for generations.
I think we need to define “survive” to discuss this without just talking past each other.

If “survive” means, won’t immediately collapse and can continue on for months to years while extracting value I’d agree. If “survive” instead means that they can’t both do required maintenance to keep the company operating _and_ simultaneously build out new features and aspects of the business, Kim not sure I’m as convinced
'Penrose's nonsense'

Scientists have repeated all kinds of nonsense in centuries past. Newton said that space was empty, so because that Pope had spoken, the idea that meteors fell from space conflicted with that orthodoxy. Finally the evidence won out.

Humans have long shared 'numinous experiences' fairly universally. They gave rise to many religions, which cooked up a lot of orthodoxies and belief structures (impervious to evidence), which needed to be enforced (e.g. Servetus, Bruno), largely to support a range of power structures.

I hardly think Penrose is so naive. Denying consciousness is the more naive. Denying the universality of mankind's life-changing experiences is akin to denying meteors ... but the evidence is perhaps too subtle for determined materialists.
Guide to Adaptive Optics
Great post, such a clear writing style. Farewell Kite!
I indeed found pink noise more comfortable than white for me. The explanation around frequency makes a lot of sense.
Here would be a long winded thread debating a very pedantic point while using the definition of different fallacies to argue the other poster makes no valid points.
Most of the decisions about the direction of UIs weren't made by "programmers" acting on their own but by companies - mostly Apple and Microsoft with Google and others involved at different points. I think the decisions were made for the same reasons companies like to dumb down everything - least common denominator is good for sales and dumbed-down means users have less power and are more dependent.

Extra tragedy here is that people now live in software and so most people have to live in this stupidity.