skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a frustrating situation because these low-value staffing companies (eg Infosys) are flooding the system and denying actual good jobs. And yes, USCIS is allowing this to happen by just allowing an application with a filing fee. I'm not sure requiring a full application when the odds of success are so low is the right idea but clearly we have problems and no real interest in solving them.

People of certain countries (India in particular) who want a green card are so backlogged that they will be on a work visa for decades. This allows these companies to depress their wages and it's essentially indentured servitude. There have been efforts to fix the green card backlog but those solutions haven't been great either for various reasons.

I'm also curious how this works with all the recent layoffs. Why do employers even need H1B applications when they've so recently laid off so many, some of whom are already H1B holders and have been put in a precarious position of having to find a new job or leave the country (within 60 days)?

Layoffs seem to impact your ability to sponsor for residency since part of that process is to "prove" you can't fill a position with a US resident or citizen. I don't think that's the case with H1B visas. But I honestly think an employer should be unable to file an H1B application for 2 years for a given position where they laid off similar employees in any large layoff.

Anyway, given the cheap cost of buying a "ticket" in the visa lottery, it's unsurprising to me that people are filing applications through multiple employers like this.

It's really hard to get people or the government to care about immigration issues however.
> My opinion - USCIS can't legally reduce H1B visas so they intentionally wreck the lottery system to invite bogus applications, who they can later reject, or they simply won't file a full petition, and they don't have to issue all the 85K H1B visas Congress has allowed.

USCIS merely follows the laws and rules. As with most things in the US, this is a Republican-created disaster.

In 2005 the Bush administration invented this system after the Omnibus Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005. Which was, to put it mildly, a shitshow. They gave members a few hours to read over 3000 pages of new laws and 9 new bills. No one had any idea what they were voting for and parts of the law weren't even properly drafted; only 2 bills had ever even been debated. It took nearly a week after voting for the actual text to come out.
Serious question then, why are you posting about it?
I cannot understand how someone can make that much money and be so irresponsible with it. Even in NYC with high income taxes, on a $250k salary you'd have to be spending well over $5000 on rent for it to constitute 50% of your take-home pay. And spend at least that much on top of that on other unnecessary luxuries every month to be "living paycheck to paycheck". That's beyond disconnected, and implying it's normal in HCOL areas... Maybe normal in circles of trust fund kids. Reading HN comments makes me feel like I'm poor when I'm making 6 figures, or 2-3x the median household income.
I think Reddit has bigger priorities, like attracting advertisers that aren't fly by night companies that can no longer afford to advertise on FB.
Paper also has intrinsic value.

Fiat coins materials aren't changed in value to match their face value. They're changed to lower production cost and achieve a particular quality of production.
Not copyright but illegal data access and service use.
Good idea. Just not sure how many interviewers are comfortable with sharing the recording. The interview process is private in nature.
The reason is that of all the methods of immigration, getting high skilled tech workers is the method that makes the most amount of tax dollars for our country.
There's this thing called "climate change" that's been associated with fossil fuels. If these related externalities were internalized, Exxon would be bankrupted many, many, many times over.
I save around 100 a year liquid (very, very far from paycheck to paycheck). I have felt very wealthy relative to my desired lifestyle. And yeah, I can buy pretty much anything I want. But now, thinking about having kids at some point and thinking about college, I do not feel this way. Idk what to do about that. I'm not convinced I'm saving enough. But ffs, it feels grossly excessive for my current state.
Yes, although not in ways that are as obvious as looking at a price number. Peaceful democracies make much better economic partners than belligerent autocracies. If you're one of the millions of people living near Russia, a Ukrainian defeat would mean a much higher chance that your city gets flattened by rockets in the future.

The more that wars of aggression and nuclear threats get rewarded, the more of them the world will see, increasing the odds of larger scale violence.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530370

This is the issue tracking it, and it looks to be nearing completion.
So far, no problems using Vector to ship logs to Grafana Cloud (Loki).
I don't know. Do you really know what you're giving up by signing these? I'd have to study CLAs and hope that I am interpreting them correctly within our respective jurisdictions, or ask a lawyer.

All of this stands in the way of contributing. And this is their decision to make, of course, but it is hostile to would-be contributors.
Yes but not just though the lottery. USCIS has massively increased visa filing fees, especially for employment, to fund application processing for other areas like asylum etc. which don't have any fees.
This thread is about H1B visa, which is not an immigration visa
Well yes for starters this is not an optional check and it’s not on just “bug-prone” moves it’s on all for them.

Then it also has a borrow checker so if you refer to the content of an other object the langage ensures the (non-owning) pointer does not outlive the pointee, at compile-time. Though this concept is lexical so it’s quite restrictive.

And then it encodes some forms of thread-safety in the langage directly.

It also removes things like nullable pointers.
I've been really enjoying using Clojure with Clerk: https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk

It's a bit like a Jupyter notebook, but you get to use your own editor, you still have a normal Clojure REPL, it's stored in git like "normal" code, etc.

For exploratory, information processing type work, it's pretty great.

Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bs3QX92kYA
I'm convinced that many drivers over here in the US see them as a requirement to "release the steering wheel" to make left and right turns.

Nothing else explains why so many drivers will sit at lights, not a signal in sight, then turn the bloody thing on at the same moment they commence the turn...

What the hell's the point I that?

In the UK we were taught it's called an "indicator" - and that it indicates to other drivers that the vehicle is about to make a maneuver that'll involve a lateral shift.

Over here I rarely see folk use them to change lanes because I'm sure many folk don't see a lane change as a turn, thus negating the need to use the "turn signal"...
Life is complicated. So our the relationships we forge with people. I do not condone the mistreatment of others. And it saddens me to read this, but we all have darkness inside of us, even if a little. It can be tough co-existing, especially with those we love very much. I guess I just wanted to see the joy but you are not wrong in pointing out that Sasha is human. Quite.

And as the other commenter mentioned, there was an abundance of love in that relationship too. That much is evident.
The vast majority of implementations I saw and still see in the scientific community are plain Fortran 77. In the nineties and early 2000 most of it run on Irix, some on Solaris; today most is on Linux.
The whole stuff is so much worse than "old unix" architecture of "you give logger an address to push stuff, and it pushes stuff there".

We have DNS, we don't need log sender to have a service discovery mechanism on top of that. Set it to log server address and be done, scale at that point if you need to, we know how to do it.

Log processor doesn't need a fucking queue. Log sender does, for network reliability one. And that gives you ability to restart log processor quickly (only need to process current message in transit and close) and with zero impact (as long as you're down shorter than the logger's queue)

Only reason to add queue is if you have multiple readers for logs. That also conveniently gives you a form of QoS on log processor, if you read with equal rate from all sources the most spammy ones will hit their own internal queue limit first and wont cause other servers to miss the logs. Even then you might just op for the loggers sending things into 2 places at once.

The "shit logs" (whether by volume or needing messaging decoding) is a problem that's complex but IMO most of that should be within log processor, as it should be. That's also a good place to resolve any geoip or DNS if needed.
Sure, but presumably they're difficult to solve. I'm saying that if they can _solve_ an unsolved one using this algorithm, that would certainly be compelling.
The article itself isn't actually dunking on AI, the title is a (kinda clever) clickbait.

If you actually read it, the author uses image gen models and such a lot, and is opining on how technology that allows us to tinker and "waste time" can be more impactful than technology that is simply "productive."
Salesforce is impossible to set up by design. The mistake here was that these small businesses and government agencies didn't contract with a Salesforce-preferred ISV charging $250+/hr per consultant to correctly configure it for them.
The Intelligent Illusion – A practical guide to the business risks of Gen AI
That's kind of his point. They don't seem to care about local.
A lake of shit overflowing and poisoning the water table won't make the skies foggy. Granted, I am talking about rural things, that 26 story building probably has its own unique issues.
I want to be as optimist as the author. But it's hard to not believe the existence of a "low-hanging fruit depletion" dynamic in science, at least the hard sciences, to some degree. At least the material and equipment costs tend to go higher.
Meat is resource intensive and certainly more resource intensive than eating vegetables directly. Meat is so inefficient that we grow most of our crops to feed meat, for example.

Why is this difference presumably not an ethical concern for you, but it is with lab-grown meat?

Differentiating on energy intensiveness sounds like an empirical claim, so I'm going to ask about the empirics.
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot
But we aren't there yet, and grandma is going to be dead in a decade, and the source code for the radio playlist gimmick already exists, as does Spotify.
EV’s don’t actually need much power and adoption is going to be really slow. 15k miles per year at 4miles per kWh is only ~430 or so watts per car on average.

Considering the average car lasts around 25 years even 100% of new cars becoming EV would spread the transition over 25 years.
No kidding, these days if I get prompted from cloudflare bail. I also noticed if using a VPN, cloudflare will block your access in some cases.

Maybe time for a boycott of sites using cloudflare /s :)

I also wonder how hart this is for people who are blind, I think they would have a very hard time. Seems to me blind people in the US could use cloudflare using the American Disability Act.
> Out of the top 10 companies, you've got the usual suspects like Google, Microsoft, Amazon.

One of the reason for that is, from experience, they don't really ask for immigration status (at least not long ago they didn't seem to care). If candidate received the greenlight from engineering, it was the legal department's job to get them a visa. What's a 10k of legal fees when the employee's signing bonus is 3x that?
Musk has done a lot of stupid things, but I think the absolute stupidest was regarding Twitter users as freeloaders to be milked, mocked, or both.

I doubt anybody would argue against finding ways to make Twitter profitable, but Twitter is one of these companies where the users really defined the culture, service, stature, and even their most iconic features (@replies, hashtags). Musk's attitude towards them from the beginning has been one of hostility and resentment, so it's hardly surprising that the company is crumbling.

There's certainly discussion to be had about his personality flaws, but from a basic business perspective, he didn't understand the first thing about the company he spent $44 billion on, went in there with no plan to speak of, and has been managing it ever since by trial and error, with a particular focus on the "error" part.

Never mind the fact that he's an asshole; that's just bad, lazy business.
You only think that because you haven't seen the alternatives...
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We should drop staffers; replace them with a number of representatives closer to the original 1:30,000 in the Constitution.

Any direct report to a Representative should be another elected Representative not an employee, if direct reports must exist.

Aspiring politicians should work their way up from the state and local level, which has it's own set of problems holding back my ideas.

The current system is just a lobbyist recruitment system.
There of course was never a credible doubt that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, either.
> I'm not using a VPN or Tor, just AT&T Fiber. I don't have ad-blockers. No weird extensions. Nothing special (besides being on Linux).

Even if you were doing any, or all of these things, you are no less a legitimate internet user than anyone else. This whole "rain dance" supplication to show you are worthy of browsing a web site has got to go. Stop visiting sites who treat their users this badly!
Also they assume the entire world lives in America.
Hard to answer. Because the most technically challenging and interesting work I've done has been for employers or clients, and under NDA, closed source, and now part of their IP or trade secrets.

Whereas for myself in my own free time I bias more to the ruthlessly pragmatic, which often means the simplest or easiest solution, so I can move on to the next thing.

Random pick from those:

- many many years ago I once wrote a Terminal-like UI widget for Java AWT/Swing apps. This was in the very very early days of Java. To scratch my own itch. It gave me a way in my Swing/AWT desktop apps to embed a console/REPL-like widget (which could be kept invisible/inactive by default, then only appear when a special key pressed) to let me issue CLI-like commands in-app, for example for cheat codes or dev testing or to provide extra features to advanced users. It provided an API for registering comands and their handlers. Had built-in commands like "help" and to repeat the last command, etc. So my Java GUI apps could have the best of both worlds: the "friendliness" of the GUI and the power and conciseness of a terminal workflow. Super simple. Only ever used in a few of my hobby apps (and a few games I considered selling then.)

I named it, originally, in private, SwingShell. Then renamed it to Grio, because that had more personality. (Obligatory Pulp Fiction reference.) I even devised my own little theme song for it. Okay more of a tune. A melodic catchphrase. Why? Here let me show you my nerd license. Hold still, please. This will only take a second.
LOL. This is an 8 month old account, but no I'm actually a KGB ultraspy warlord with golden AKs or whatever. All I want is for my country to stop pouring billions of dollars into fueling our imperialistic desires and doing the opposite of it's original job which was safeguarding our freedom and rights.
> Biggest complaint from rural people is that the "city folks" don't understand them and pass legislation that hurts them

This is true. I don't think there's any arguing that; often city policies including things like limitless expansion have harmed rural life. Rhetoric from constituents often paints rural people living a "lifestyle", which is largely a marginal amount of people. Most people live out there because that's what they can afford. Policies that are statewide that make sense for cities often don't make sense for folks in rural areas.

> We say it will help them but then why aren't lobbying their representatives to vote for this bill.

I'm guessing you haven't spent time immersed in any of these issues. I am a Democrat and spent some time living in a rural area. Often Republicans pay lip service to rural people, veterans, first responders, etc but don't do anything other than serve their own (the representatives) needs and desires. I have no mercy for Republicans as a party, but I have empathy for the people they claim, and fail, to represent. This is not a complex paradigm.

Now, combine my previous paragraph with this paradigm to understand the full scope of their choices in voting:

- Democrats have been outright hostile to them. Hillary Clinton walked into a coal mining town, told them she was going to take their jobs, and that they were going to become coders. When concerns were voice they were trolled and turned into a meme. This is just one example of the outright contempt some Democrats have shown in the past.

- Republicans on the other hand at least speak in a friendly tone to them, but hardly do anything. At times, they also harm them in their pursuit of self-gratification.

Now put yourself in the shoes of someone that's a voter: Do you vote for the person that speaks and acts with contempt for you or do you vote for the person that speaks nicely and at times acts with contempt? That's why this whole thing is big to me. Democrats finally grabbed a thing that's stupidly important to rural folks and ran it to the highest extent they could. This won't undo generations of harm, but it will start a conversation, and with any luck will get some folks to flip their voting. I say this from the perspective that Democrats used to care about rural people, businesses, etc. Hell, Democrats were even the ones that stood up the VA (and subsequently abandoned fighting to maintain it).
Nah I made this account with its ftxbro name to make fun of them and you can even see the first comment I made on the account. I think cryptocurrency and nft speculation is some beanie babies stuff, but I think large language models as trained on the whole internet with these data centers full of sci-fi GPGPUs are amazing transformative tools at the level of the discovery of fire or the invention of language.
Very idealistic to think that money would be reallocated to give police better training and resources, unless you mean military grade equipment for responding to domestic disputes.

One can dream though...
It's ok, Moore's Law will save us.
> Of course, that means that the hijacked 3rd parties are the ones footing the bill...

A bit like we are footing the bill for openai's training data.
Are people not generally inclined to engage in conversation around topics that interest them?
It's not bad. You can question some decisions about it but currently and for last few years it's absolute peak with no competition in industry
They don't agree that the rights you're claiming are found in the Constitution.

The Ninth Amendment makes it extremely clear that the list is not exhaustive. There is no originalist or textualist reading that can make "these are the only rights you have" valid.
I hope you generated this summary via an LLM instead of reading the whole thing yourself.
LOL. I wholeheartedly disagree where you place the blame. Broken-by-design means blame lies with Salesforce entirely.

What _other_ major sources of data leaks should we expect from such past performance?
Updated my original post with more info.
I can’t use phind on one of my machines thanks to this. It’s Just stuck trying to load the checkbox. Windows machine.
I call BS on their claim they cut resource usage by 95%.

Traditional greenhouses (which the one at that landing site appears to be) are extremely energy intensive. This article explains why, and describes a common, practical alternative:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-gree...

Also, people ridiculously overestimate the percentage of food’s carbon footprint that comes food transportation:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-bene...

(Search for locally grown food to jump to the right figure).

Note that, even if the greenhouse, transport, storage and packaging all used zero resources, the percentage of food they produce that is thrown into landfills (and turns to methane) is going to be more than 5% the impact of traditionally grown food.
It does and we can’t do much but avoid using it for our services.

On Firefox it hasn’t worked for a long time.
> NY and LA don’t need farms within city limits.

And generally speaking, I don’t want my food grown where it’s the most polluted. From the middle of nowhere with minimal population density, ideally upstream of any big city, is where I want my food coming from.

(Will admit I start a garden at my mom’s in a medium sized city’s suburb, but when I run some containers on my balcony on a busy city street, the layers of dust from ??? concern me)

Maybe this will get better once we don’t have the concentration of ICE vehicles in urban centres, but until then…
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In Norway, Potatoes are grown as far north as the Northernmost region of Finnmark, around 70°N, and Norway is able to produce more potatoes than are eaten by people (Norway still imports potatoes because the growing season is short).
As they say, the cruelty is the point. :(
As someone who had actually recommended a team to use reCAPTCHA and implemented it, it's really not that they don't care about losing a sale, it's that they lose more money by not using reCAPTCHA and letting bots run rampant. It's a business decision: they are still ahead even after accounting for lost sales due to a small minority of people who are opposed to reCAPTCHA and the money they pay for reCAPTCHA (which may be zero).

Obviously most small sites are not actively targeted by bots and using reCAPTCHA is a waste of money and people's time. But if you are, reCAPTCHA is a godsend.
I watched the gif for a few loops...
By eliminating the requirement, the exact thing you lament about has been legalized. Now they have taken away whatever power we had as citizens to demand changes.
I created a todo thermal printer so that I can write messages whenever I remember something. For example when I'm lying in bed and I remember that I have to do something or reading a book and think that's a great thought that I should look more into someday.

Basically I have a mobile app that I can send a message to a api. Sometimes it's just a note, sometimes it is a todo item.

Then I have a raspberry pi that polls the api for new messages and prints them onto a receipt/thermal printer on my desk. Then every morning I usually look and see if there is a todo item, or more long term item.

I haven't exactly thought of how to store the messages, but basically when the "receipt" gets to CVS level, I rip it off and store it in in a document shelf organizer. Every few months I'll go through the receipt for any long term touch items.
If we can't have a free enough market to do things like buy drugs from Canada at a tenth of the price, I see no reason to make it easy for corporations to import labor from abroad. Protectionism for me and a free market for thee.
I've heard it's actually not that hard to be a congressional staffer on the house side, especially if you're willing to work for someone unpopular. It is not however, the job that most people think it is. You mostly answer calls from constituents.
I used a Raspberry Pi with a Hifi-berry card to make a web-controlled MP3 player hooked up to my stereo. It's a fairly bare-bones app but I wrote it myself (Flask, VLC) and it works great!