skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This advice is incongruent with that of any lawyer I have consulted on the subject (both from the perspective of an employer and as an employee). To those interested in the subject, you'll have a more accurate picture of the current legal climate from a lawyer. In my experience, it will be very different from this user's legal determination of whether one must prove the existence of 0 US residents for the job. As an employer, USCIS has never required this proof from us for a H-1B.
Twitter is totalled. There is no recovery or any amount of repair that will convince anyone that the platform is worth consuming or saving.
Its certainly a town square, just because you have your own little tavern/forum doesn't mean the town square isn't the town square.
The protests are related to covid restrictions. I think they are saying that we suddenly support anti-lockdown protesters now, when they used to be absolutely reviled barely a year ago when the same protests happened in the west.
> Most of my team has found other positions and I am hopeful that the rest will soon.

Wow, I guess I would've figured that it would take people with this kind of background a while to find another gig (working on similar things) in the current environment. So maybe things aren't as bad as they seem? (yet, anyway)

> But after >26 years of thinking about programming languages for corporations, and the last three years of my work being thrown away, I need a good long corporate detox before I go looking again.

I feel this. I'm about to finish up a contract working on a product that's about to be killed (before ever really seeing the light of day) and it's kind of hard not to feel like Sisyphus at this point. Not really interested in looking for something else for a while.
Huawei is not different from Apple, Google, etc.
No company really standing up for democracy. Companies defend their business and profits.
And the idea "If you are not a customer, you are a product". it is totally innocent. EVERYTHING for any company is a product. Customers are products, employees are products, freedom, democracy. Anything is for sale if it makes a profit.
And then those empty counters and slow service are used as evidence that the government is incompetent and should have its budget reduced further. It's a vicious cycle and I am confident the reduced service is a deliberate attempt to undermine confidence in government.

See also: bans on common-sense measures like including sales tax in price tags, making it easier to pay income taxes.
That article doesn’t say they removed it.
Right, and the tweet even has the disclaimer "Not sure if it’s from the cloud or device level". If it's deleted from the cloud, which I consider more likely, it has nothing to do with Huawei phones.
> The GDPR doesn't single out cookies so you can't get around it by using a different storage device.

Quibble: this isn't a GDPR issue, it's an ePrivacy issue. Two different regulations.
Advertising losses are not Musk's only financial concern.

FTC, EU commission and EU member states are all circling as a result of them losing trust in the companies ability to enforce previous agreements. And it's a legitimate concern since all of those employees responsible for this are all gone.
"This question hasn’t actually been answered though." Yes, it has been.

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...

"Also if your scientific explanation is questioned by half of the people then the problem is with your scientific explanation"

I don't know if half of all people have an issue with the explanation. Regardless, that seems like a strange thing to say. Most people aren't qualified to analyze the findings of most fields of science. Your disagreement with the finding, if it does not involve an alternate, evidence-based solution, is entirely irrelevant, and has nothing to do with the scientific claim.
What's hilarious is flame language like "castigating" and "personally dislike."

Corporate is widely and justifiably condemned. It's not just a personal thing. Even on this thread.
It's not a clever technical trick. It's a pointless technical trick.

You can do exactly the same thing with cookies and they are better for privacy because there's an opt out mechanism. They're how you're supposed to do this sort of thing.

Using a trick like this is no different to cookies in the eyes of the GDPR. So the only reason to use this trick is if you don't want to respect your users' privacy by being able to block cookies.
And if you think VPN users are too obscure a use case to account for, a specific case I've dealt with is (1) all of AOL coming from one IP in Virginia (yes this was a while ago) and (2) almost every university appearing as a single IP (on a website frequented by university students)
Czech Foreign Minister: “Ukraine Will Win This War”
Nothing wrong with other protein sources - I prefer chicken as it's cheaper and much leaner for shredding and lean gains for example. Every bodybuilder I know is eating primarily chicken breasts & eggs. Why doesn't everyone in the world eat mainly chicken? ;-)
That actually endears me to businesses doing it.
The term “macroeconomic” is becoming a meme with how companies are throwing it around.
the way things are going this might end up being the last release
It's not hypocritical at all.

There's a drastic difference to wearing a mask and getting a vaccination vs: being forcibly quarantine, having your apartment door welded shut, all because of a relative small number of infections in your city.
What spyware does the Librem 5 USA come with?
"One side often uses a particular tactic against their enemies (cancellation). You criticizing it makes you sound biased".

No. The only one here who comes off as biased is you.
With those enormous fees, how were they not profitable?
And for all of those people mentioned, they need custodians to clean up after them, and all of those additional people need their own managers, HR people, etc.
This is completely false for most types of immigrants. Only work visas are somewhat easier to get.
Here in British Columbia, Canada, our equivalent of the DMV is run by a Crown Corporation, ICBC. I've never had a problem with the wait times. (Mind you, they generally require you to pre-reserve a general timeslot to come in; so, like a restaurant, they can just say they're full for a given half-hour and push people to coming in earlier/later. That by itself fixes a lot of the issues around wait times.)
A reality check history reminder: a certain US President sent a mob of raving mad racist violent lunatics to storm the US Capitol and assassinate the US Vice President and US Senators, in a failed attempt to overturn the results of the election that he lost.

Remember the gallows that Trump's mob built and chanted "Hang Mike Pence"?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/us/politics/jan-6-gallows...

And how Trump reacted approvingly?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/trump-pence-j...

The same US President who eased the restrictions on land mines.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-war-landmines-idUSKBN...
Oh, I thought this was under the comment about understaffing, but I see now that it isn't.
> I guess according to Apple, Chinese people don't deserve any of what's written in their post.

Sometimes I find Apple's response to some of these issues cleverly passive-agressive. For example you can still use mass airdrop, you just have to keep enabling it. While, I assume, Google would simply have disabled the feature (does Android have a similar feature?). A related example is how they support you disabling face/finger authentication when you are afraid of the authorities.

N.B. This is not to defend or condemn Apple. They are simply a huge, largely incomprehensible steamship not deserving my adulation or scorn.
If this becomes widespread, browers will probably start fudging the timestamps.
First Twitter was going to crash in a week, then it was everyone would flee to Mastodon, now it’s that all the advertisers would leave.

Maybe Twitter really didn’t need 7500 people, and maybe having more voices speak is a good thing (there is always block button), and maybe advertisers won’t flee forever. That seems more likely to me than Twitter imploding.
The word you want is empathize.

Not emphasis.
The complexity is not in the math. The complexity is how normal people eat _just the right amount_ of calories to maintain the same weight.
Twitter 3.0, now with blockchain and rug pulls!
There is no way, in any language with any type system or any amount of tests (except maybe in a pure language with tests that cover the entire domain of the function, in which case you're just reproducing the entire function in the tests), to guarantee that calculateSalesTax produces the correct number in all cases. So the problem you describe exists equally for both dynamic and static type systems with tests. Dynamic type systems just rule out fewer possible errors (and fewer possible correct programs as well, to be fair) before the program runs.
Oh, there's a vague connection then. The Chinese protests aren't just about Covid restrictions though.
A town square is usually a public project, maintained by the city on behalf of taxpayers.

This is more like a big private club.
Do you have any empirical evidence for that 1/3 claim?
> if I understand this correctly, you are deploying multiple versions of your application? So if you have 100 clients, you have 100 deployed versions of your application?

That is correct.

We've written a lot of code against our cloud provider's APIs to spin up a new instance of our application. The application itself is pretty simple: java runtime, java code and a relational database (plus optional elasticsearch).

> It was an absolute nightmare trying to keep all of the individual systems in sync?

We don't try to keep all the applications in sync. We let folks upgrade on their schedule, not ours. We inform them of features and security issues and let them make the assessment on when is best to upgrade. These are devs and this is sensitive user data, so they tend to be receptive to upgrading when needed.

It's absolutely a tradeoff between more granular control and operational simplicity (for us; the end user doesn't really care).

FYI, I gave a conference talk about our infra evolution which led to that podcast interview I linked. I can try to dig up the PDF if that would be of interest (it wasn't recorded).
It might be the school calendar. Kids having difficulty and then some time to diagnose and there is a spike of diagnoses in October/November
Because the crypto exchanges with less failed.
Nobody wants to use BS words like "upskill" and "learnings" except the corporate drones who are preaching them.

If you have respect for your readers, then you use language they can relate to.
I am specifically worried about the extensiveness of the surveillance and control estate globally should western liberal values lose influence and autocratic control is grandfathered access to these tools of mass oppression. I think the discussion of the present can digress into relevant but distracting political debate, but it’s impossible to assert regardless of your political bent that these tools could be extraordinarily harmful in the hands of some future society.

I don’t see a way out honestly. The tools are too useful and too compelling. Any work done now on differential privacy, E2E, FHE, and other technologies can be easily reverted in a way that’s entirely transparent given the UX people expect. I feel that the rigorous maintenance of rights and freedoms as seen from a western liberal perspective is a very high energy state, and nature and human societies settle into lower energy states intrinsically.
> I am having a hard time to understand how so many people prefer this as the outcome of a Web / polyglot / language neutral standard, especially since affected languages cannot change, and the problem is so trivially avoided, say with a boolean flag "this end is WTF-16, it's OK if the other end is as well" (otherwise use well-formed/UTF-8 semantics).

It's because the idea that languages "cannot change" does not appear to be true. UTF-8 is so widespread now that for languages changing the native string representation towards it has become an interesting proposition. Many modern languages (eg: Go and Rust) already picked UTF-8, others such as Swift changed over to it. Then there are implementations of languages like Python (PyPy) that changed their internal encoding even though that was a widespread assumption that it cannot work.

The web is also not WTF-16, JavaScript is and the web consists of more than just that. WTF-16 to WTF-16 is most likely becoming less and less a thing going forward except for legacy interfaces such as W APIs on Windows and even there it appears that UTF-8 on the codepage level is now strongly recommended.

To give you another example: I'm very interested in using AssemblyScript today to do data processing, but that actually is not all that easy because the data I need to process is in UTF-8. Now to use the string class in AssemblyScript I actually have to do a pointless data conversion to WTF-16 and back.

I would be majorly surprised if JavaScript doesn’t adopt UTF-8 at one point as well.
Apple was the largest ad-buyer on Twitter. Up until recently of course.
Isn't it the norm pretty much everywhere in the west ? I'd have been fine with 30% or so with my lifestyle
Have you read it? Judging a book by its cover is kinda like judging a book by its cover.

It definitely makes Harry a massive arse if you enjoy the original character, but once I got past that it was actually an interesting read. A lot of the concepts have stuck with me and I've gone on to look into them further.
The fact that Apple is more than willing to work with a violent repressive dictatorship is cool, but we won't advertise on Twitter because they are evil...
they aren't removing, they are limiting to 10mins.
I think brainf*k is a great example of a potentially offensive name that actually conveys meaning and doesn't harm adoption by its intended audience.
Twitter was previously doing A/B tests. Spaces, communities, downvotes, circles, and even moderation were applied only to a subset of accounts while they actively experimented. The new policy is an objectively less scientific approach to testing functionality than what was occurring before.
I mean, that just introduces another level of crap as sites clamour to be on the "not garbage" list; it'll end up like the issues Twitter has/had with verification.
Don't you think the news of its death are greatly exaggerated?
"Your antivirus program might think that MineCity 2000 is a virus. It's not."

Exactly what a virus would say...
Meanwhile it's reviving tens of thousands of accounts previously banned for harassment based on a single poll from Elon's fanboy as well as ending covid 19 misinformation policy. Pathetic attempts to appease advertisers, but it's just stacking another layer of distrust.
"improve my team's writing skills" wouldn't sound quite so pretentious.
But not what they could be? Prompting ready programs could easily be a thing.
Manuscripts. My spouse runs multi-hundred page manuscripts off anywhere from once to a few times a year.

Sheet music.

Patterns.

Legal documents. There are still places that won't do esign.
I print standard library docs all the time to read.

That includes building Table of contents/indexes.

I print out pages of source code to do physical cross ref of when I get in some really gnarly code to help me physically reckon through the abstraction spaghetti.

I print invoices, letters, diagrams, books, pamphlets.

I mean, just because you don't do documents or have anything you want on paper, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.
> I did read the article. You disagree with me, and my point apparently.

The point I'm making about your point is that your point is a pointless point to point out because it has nothing to do with the article. I don't even disagree with your point. It's just that it's about as useful in this particular comment thread as trying to make a point about the development of tools during the paleolithic era, or whether vegan mayonnaise truly constitutes a mayonnaise.

> The top comment in this thread reads: [...] How is this not a commentary on people wanting to have a job at spacex, but also wanting to be able to only work 40 hours a week?

Fine, you're right, that person is also going on a tangent, but at least it acknowledges and adds to the article.

Other points you could have made that would be an equally useful response to this article:

* He shouldn't have shaved his armpits in the bathroom sink

* He shouldn't have sniffed glue at his desk

* He shouldn't have levitated office supplies with his mind as a prank

"Of course, he didn't actually do any of these things, but I don't know why people are so upset that I'm suggesting these things are bad."
But it's not like they're saying "sure, Western countries violated our rights too, but the rights violations in China are way worse, so we're only worrying about them for now." They're denying that the former was a violation of rights at all.
The timeline doesn't match up with it being in response to the protests.

Apple needs time to design, implement and test changes even small ones.
The Go compiler doesn't use LLVM. They pretty much built all their codegen for every platform from the ground up. But that's only possible because they have the resources to do that. As far as I know, the only viable alternative to LLVM, is GCC, which I don't think is "lighter".

Also, Zig still uses LLVM. It's just that because LLVM is C++, the Stage 1 compiler had to be in C++ as well, and they've since slimmed it down by having LLVM expose a C API that the (now "self-hosted") Zig compiler can directly talk to instead.
I mean, i expect most people who use a vpn to also use incognito mode as well, which i assume would prevent this type of tracking.
Well, now instead of censoring people who spout right-wing hate speech and falsehoods on the regular, Elon is censoring people who say mean things about him or are known left-wing pundits while re-instating the right-wing hate mongers.

Concrete goals are apparently to stick it to the woke, or something.
You probably fall into that group of people who the government loves, just work your W2 job, autopay taxes without feeling the real loss of the money and don't raise any fuss. If you try to start your own business, hire employees or do contract work you will find it is a total nightmare.
But there have been CVS/Walgreens pharmacists who refuse to offer birth control or the morning after pill.
I'm less optimistic about the inevitability of this in the United States. We haven't been able to maintain competition in any utility spaces I can think of -- internet, cable, gas, electricity, etc. There's no freedom of choice in the healthcare industry either. In many parts of the country, almost all grocery stores are part of the same massive conglomerate. The FCC is completely captured by the ISPs, and currently missing a chair, IIRC.

So what makes you so optimistic about regulation in the tech space breaking up these monopolies?
This is an ad-hominem logic fallacy. He can be the creepiest fucker around and still be dead right about this specific subject.

Trying to point the discussion at his morals is literally a failing on your part in terms of this discussion - you're not adding anything of value to the discussion.

If you want to have this discussion (and it's fine if you do) - go do it when the topic is sexual abuse, or women's rights, or progressive policy. I probably agree with you on all the above in that discussion - but this discussion isn't that discussion.

This discussion is Huawei abusing the little green man in the phones that their customers "own" to serve the needs of China's government. A topic where I think Stallman happens to have a history of being correct.
To avoid people being targeted because they work at a crypto exchange.
Looks like they market CT scanners. Otherwise I'd ask - why not cut it open instead?
I recently introduced Subreply 9.0 with super fast, sub 100ms response times. Beat that, Elon!
> What worries me is that the US itself will go in the same direction. The surveillance is already there, but it is not acted on for the most part in everyday life. But there may be a clock on how long that will last.

The stage is already set. Just make sure your suitcase is packed. The craziness won't come from the government, it'll come from this culture's own inherently fascist tendencies
There's no "reliving" of the burden. It is transferred to others, including those who already paid their student loans once, and those who never went to college in the first place. That is, all taxpayers and holders of government debt.

If the money was clawed back from universities, that would be fine, since they were at the receiving end of the racket.
It does not, but the calculation is that any loss in value of brand is sufficiently offset by profits in the Chinese market.

Assuming any of the claims are even true.
I don't get what's 'in it' for people to have overly complicated forms. Like they have to store all the data and in some cases manually input it (like customs forms.) What's the benefit?

Ideally people would have a single universal identifier and then I'd never need to put my date of birth or tax number on another form again.
USA also has a lot of violent and career criminals, many of them decades-long repeat offenders, so that should be factored into the equation or risk appearing disingenuous.
> now it’s that all the advertisers would leave.

This part anyway is not really hypothetical.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t...
"The belief is that the climate is not static and that it’s better for humans to adapt (as they always have) than to commit economic suicide."

Whose belief? I don't understand how belief is relevant.

"This is unpopular online, but is the actual view of a majority of Americans imo"
Not true. Most Americans accept the scientific consensus - that recent changes in temperature are driven by human activities:
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/extreme-weather-poll-...
There's a really, really big difference between accidentally killing civilians while attacking military targets, and intentionally killing civilians.
The US doesn't purposeful target innocent people. Russia is raping and torturing Children[1]. US citizens have all the ability to criticize others - saying that because other bad things happened they're unable to ever point out anything bad happened is foolish.

Saying that the US is profiteering by providing billions in weapons and aid to Ukraine, which it will never get back, betrays your lack of objectivity or reasonability. Ukraine fights for it's very existence against a genocidal war of aggression by it's neighbor. The systematic torture, targeting of civilians by Russia along with open calls for the destruction of the Ukrainian people by Russian media makes it clear what Russia's objective is.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-troops-raped-tort...
It's been 15 years now I think? And still cryptocurrency mainly revolves around speculation.
It's adoption as a currency has been... lacking.
Same price point at the low-end Aptera.

https://aptera.us/vehicle/

...hoping that something like the Sion or Aptera turn out to be more than vaporware in the not-to-distant future.
Let's be honest – Musk doesn't know what the hell he is doing here.
Ah yeah I seem to have not uploaded the logic video there will track it down. It’s very much a first iteration at the moment but that is a great shout on using existing libraries. I also had ambitions to connect to data sources/apis etc so hopefully coming soon with that.

My ultimate aim is to get it so that you can actually publish a sketched app to the App Store… whether apple would accept a scribbled app or not I don’t know!