skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’d be pretty hard to get passed since not only does the government buy this data but political campaigns are massive customers. Every political party in the world is leveraging microtargeting now.

It would require a really huge uproar, boycotts, lawsuits, and a wide spectrum movement.

Hard to get that together in a world where political consciousness is constantly trapped in the tar pit of culture war trolling. The culture war pretty much guarantees no other issues can sway elections.

…and of course all that data driven microtargeting is used to drive culture war rage trolling to keep things this way. They know exactly what will make you mad, and thus distract you.
Yes - or rather you have more control over what you decide to let it track.
JSTOR happened a few years after[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#PACER
How much does Roblox exploit the kids if they instead go and play outside?
If the H1B program is really this bad, and if everyone involved is truly morally compromised, would it be better for the US to shut the H1B program down completely?
Most plastics with degrade to microplastic size, Lego included.
If your passport is taken you are not free to leave. You physically cannot.

On an H1B you are free to leave whenever, and under certain circumstances forced to.

It’s a black and white difference. I don’t grasp why it’s hard to understand.
I think the bigger danger there will be terrorist groups with access to drone technology. For a few K you could re-enact 9/11 on a slightly smaller scale. That's got to be tempting.
Ninite.com is a good place to find chrome if you want to install it.
I know plenty of US families who gross less than 50k. They live comfortably, but not extravagantly, and not in California.

I also know a handful of people who make less than $25k/yr. They struggle more, but they still get by.

$50k/yr, $25/hr may be chump change to a big tech company engineer with a degree from a prestigious university, but it's a very normal hourly (non-overtime) wage (maybe even on the high side) for a lot of regular people.

Addition: For example, journeyman electricians average $24/hr in my state.
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UniFi generates random usernames for device administration.
Intuit has lobbied against policies that would simplify the tax code. They have enormous financial incentive to make people believe that taxes are hard and must be hard. Just look at the new "don't do your taxes" schtick they've been pushing since this lawsuit got off the ground.
I get it. High income antiwork congregates on blind and low income antiwork congregates on HN.

H-1B hiring has dates that matter that you're lined up to do.

Go read "Important Dates" here https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

Ultimately, the Silicon Valley job market is bimodal. If you don't make $500k+ here, it's not because a H-1B worker is taking your job. It's because you're not good enough at interviewing. Because people are hiring even now.
Therefore you are saying that having diversity leads to bullying and that you’re ok with that.

It’s always the goal, after all.
> this is meant to be a jobs visa

It isn’t, it’s a dual intent visa. Job and path to permanent residency.
A strange legacy. Most of the management in my company cannot digest even simple information if it’s not on PowerPoint slides.

Even when it is on preparing PowerPoint slides, text heavy slides are a big no no.

Some days, more time is spent on PowerPoint slides than writing code, or actually engineering. We jokingly call presentation prep work as getting ready to push the PowerPoint to prod.
I wish cheap server hostings allowed loading php modules or at least had FFI module. Imagine thin php API-layer with rust-or-whatever-module under the hood. Easy deploying toys without need of VPS.
What do you advise instead for non-technical people?

No password manager sounds like an awful idea, who can memorize all their passwords?

How can I keep passwords on 2 computers, an iPhone and iPad all in sync?
If you send me your resume, I can write a job description that only matches you in 15 minutes.
I guess that the question here is, are they hired workers or outsourced?
I’ve been seeing this a lot recently.
Semi related piece of advice:

Also get a random raspberry pi and a simple peripheral for it: some 1 wire temperature sensor or something on i2c.

Then ignore the existing drivers and do your own. Do a character device and have a read from it trigger a read in kernel and copying of the data to user space, maybe in human readable form.

Should be good practice.

And for general embedded Linux development you also want to take a look at Yocto.
Well, the Republicans can solve that at one stroke and win the election: nominate Trump as running mate of whoever wins the primaries that isn't 80+.

Of course that would still create all kinds of potential for trouble but it would almost certainly win them the elections. But maybe I shouldn't be giving them any idea. Otoh Trump will almost certainly not want to play second fiddle to anybody. But it would be one way to get pardoned.
What about food safety? Can I safely put a sandwich in my self-made LEGO lunchbox and then eat it?
How did you figure out the link between yeast and cognitive decline?

Almost everything online wrt yeast seems like Goop-level pseudoscience.
They won't file an H-1B for people working from outside the country. It's much faster to just employ you in one of the other places they have a presence. And if they need you to visit, there's an L-1 and related class.
"chances are they’ll converse in their native language from time to time"

This needs to be a big No No. Everyone should speak the language everyone else can understand in the workplace at all times. I natively speak German, but I never speak German at work even when I temporarily was only working with someone visiting from Germany. It would have been rude to everyone around us. But then I'm also weird in that I dislike speaking my native language...
Some past comments here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31312035
Again, personal choices. We all rationalize our own morality :-). You can probably tell how I feel about that level of deception, but as long as you're not in my circle of coworkers or friends, have fun :-).
Let's see it. I'm going to always be skeptical of tech like this until it is proven even if the theory is solid. The road to the market is littered with the corpses of revolutionary battery technology ideas.
They just want to sell some expensive hardwares?
https://archive.ph/hZowM
didnt they only start blurring on maps after european courts told them so?
This is great advice thanks!
How many software developers can, in a reasonable timeframe, buy a house in the place they live and support alone a family of four people? Then the truly insane salaries you are talking about are not really that insane.

House prices have gone absolutely nuts in the last forty years. We are witnessing the largest generational transfer of wealth in the history of the world.

Healthcare and education have also experienced broken cost growth.

But those are problems for everyone that’s not on the winning side of these giant money sucks.

It doesn’t change the fact that ratio of programmer salary to median salary has been moving way up. It’s both true that we are doing relatively much better and we are getting screwed by costs just like everyone else.
HN will drop a number in a title by default. I have to edit the titles all the time for this. I'm not sure why HN has that logic but never asked dang.
I agree, I assume the manufacturers aren’t out there writing code to detect, categorize and store sexual acts happening in their cars, and then selling that data to third parties.

But the fact that we’re even discussing this is ridiculous.
The new chicken sandwiches taste terrible. I'd take the simple mcchicken over them any day.
Water it. Freeze it? Sounds not very carbon intensive if done right?
It's bare minimum of a tech salary in the USA, even helpdesk makes that now
I know this exact sequence, because I've seen it with Volvo as well. Any car that's using AAOS now, really.

The manufacturer has a checklist for "delivering" the car to the customer. Usually that's stuff like taking off the shipping labels and checking the systems. But now it also includes training th customer on the car's infotainment system and the mobile app.

The dealer doesn't get credit for the car unless the checklist is complete. So they demand the customer log in so the training can be held.

I created a dummy gMail account at the dealer to get this done. Haven't used it since.

There's probably a way to opt out of all of it, but I have no idea how or where you do it.
I'll need it, thanks!
AI nose predicts smells from molecular structures
The only scenario where this makes sense is if the "all H1B team" is all from the same country / speaks the same language. The issue is not "all H1B", it's the lack of diversity in the team.
I'd love to hear your take on exercise
It relocated wealth, but it did not create it.

There are lots of industries that are lucrative, but there's clearly no linear correlation to quality or societal benefit.
Which one? There are like 7 or so episodes that discuss LP!?
You must live in the US to work there.

There are worse stuff than H1B, eg L1B. H1B has the req that you must find another sponsor within 60 days of leaving a company, but you can quit just fine otherwise.

L1B means you can only work for the sponsor company and nobody else and as soon as you get fired you are gone.
I thought there was very open evidence of activist investors actively pushing for this
The issue was the lack of a rich government contract
Not surprising attitude from these companies, at this point H1B are more "warm bodies" hired for low wages than hiring for talent (with all respect to the recipients of those visas)

But why does this site looks like an intranet site "best viewed with IE6"?
It’s fundamentally a distributed problem because it involves a hotel.

If the worst case scenario the hotel could be totally screwed up (IT error, bankruptcy, nature disaster, …) and you might not be able to stay there. Booking.com has to have something in the contract they serve you under that says in some cases they will put you up in another hotel, offer a refund or something but maybe in others they don’t.

Even in the short term though it is the real reservation at the hotel that matters, not the state of their system, so there has to be some kind of concurrency control for the system as a whole.
Agreed, this is probably the best ad for managed k8s, this and horrors stories about self managed k8s clusters falling appart.
The photos are not necessarily from public spaces.
You use a seperate program for that. I use mako for notifications.
All the recruiters that were reaching out with 120-130k offers are now down to 80k. People will likely stay where they are at those rates
You mean as a source material to create the pellets that ultimately go into the molding machines? Well no, microplastics can't be recycled because they've broken down too much to make usable plastic.
It's presumably because of this item in the submission guidelines:

> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you use ABS or MABS bricks, yes. If you use older PP bricks, I'd recommend against it.
Have to be on the US for the visa to be valid. They can go for holidays for a short period.
You don't need a Visa if you don't live in the US
What’s wrong with the standard library? Seems pretty extensive. Supports all kinds of DB drivers out of the box, JSON, XML, drawing tools…
Yes, some backward nations still have kings, but thats a bit dated.
All this legal maneouvering just so nazis can nazi without fear of consequences. Sad.
> They were getting like 50k TC on a team where the rest of the team was making 200+.

I don't believe this for a second.

Were they outsourced?
I pity the fool who trusts Intuit to offer a quality product in a market with a captive and serially misinformed audience. Then again, it seems like you'd fall into the latter category. I don't care how you file your taxes, but take off the tinfoil hat, people are staring.
Why wouldn't you? I'm pretty sure lots of kids put lego (or more likely duplo) pieces in their mouth all the time. Probably about the same risk as drinking from a plastic bottle.
Freedom of speech isn't just about what the government does.

We can dislike a platform because it's a poor means of expression and urge people to stop using it.
They could send a drone ahead?
> It doesn’t change the fact that ratio of programmer salary to median salary has been moving way up.

This has been true up to about a year ago
They didnt review any Porsche's then!

Porsche is reportedly concerned over the Android Auto collecting too much data.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/07/google-de...

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/porsche-models-still-not-androi....
Discord _is_ particularly hostile to user privacy, that said.
It's a lose for C either way. Either it cant parse flags, or we remove that requirement, and my code goes from 9 lines to 6.
The rules work 99% of the time but the automation of the rules some times make it so a little manual work is needed
Perseverance Mars rover wraps up MOXIE oxygen-making experiment
In general, you can only expect the interval between the rising and setting of a celestial object to be similar to that for the sun on that day if the object is near the ecliptic. Perhaps the most obvious counter-example is the pole star, which, being closely aligned with Earth's axis, never sets on Cupertino.

According to the same site, however, the comet is currently in Leo, which is close to the ecliptic and is currently setting before the sun, so I cannot see this being the explanation here.
HN removes it
I had some media files I wanted to verify the integrity of -- I was using tdarr.io in a podman container on my local server. I then spun up an m7a.12xl spot instance, mounted my local storage to it via SMBv3. I ran tdarr on that instance, and connected it as a worker node to my home server instance. tdarr ran ffmpeg to decode every video frame to /dev/null, and reported any errors. It was able to process a few thousand FPS or about 2-3Gbps. I found some corrupted files, and was able to restore them from another backup.

There was no practical reason to do this, it cost about $100 to double my processing speed.
That's fine - so long as the bottom-end H1B's are getting proportional bonuses, stock options, expense accounts, etc., etc.
H1Bs aren’t second hand citizens, and canceling the H1B program would trigger an immediate humanitarian crisis, not to mention completely shut off America’s main advantage in innovation; the idea that we don’t care where you’re from if you’re great at what you do.
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> Instagram doesn't linkify URLs in comments or descriptions.

This is a personal preference you have that Instagram decided against in order to offer a slightly larger barrier to scams. Not a great example.

> This is what killed Tumblr and ruins the photography site 500px's native app.

I know nothing about 500px, but forcing PG-13 killed Tumblr because Tumblr was built on NSFW. They tried to pivot too late. Apple has never had their brand wrapped up in NSFW—on the contrary, their brand is explicitly family-friendly and this policy is designed to keep it that way.

Honestly, there may well be a coordinated war on freedom of expression, but your examples kind of suck. Each of them is trivially explained by companies pursuing their own goals in ways that are only vaguely related to each other and only tangentially related to freedom of expression.
> How many software developers can, in a reasonable timeframe, buy a house in the place they live and support alone a family of four people?

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but probably 80-90% assuming you adjust your living standards and move to an area that is affordable.

Yes, it's probably more like 10% if you're sending your kids to private school, buying a house in expensive metros, etc.
Why are Americans more deserving of jobs then other people?
I really don't get it. There was a massive wave of misinformation during covid-19 that contributed to the USA having the worst mortality count of any country.

A lot of people died. This isn't a case where people thought the wrong things and it made them vote wrong. It caused them to spread diseases to other people and kill them.

That's what this court case is about right? I'm shocked that people think this is a case where the government should not step in. I think they should have been much more aggressive.
You can keep a physical password book. For someone to get it, they need to physically steal it. If you keep it at home in a fairly safe location, it seems fine to me.

If someone breaks into my home, they’ve got it. But that’s not a threat model that scales, so it’s not a major concern to me.
It would be cool if there was a way to corrupt a vault if it leaks using the master password.

I guess the only way that would work is if it was somehow connected to a large concensus network and could only be unlocked if connected requiring some sort of proof that can't be forged which in itself may be an issue.

Oh god I think I may have just given someone another idea for a crypto startup...
Yes, literally everyone but employers is worse off because of the system. It depresses wages for everyone. The limitation of worker supply might even hurt employers enough to make up for their benefits as well. Like tariffs, this hurts everyone involved because of misguided, protectionist instincts.
That’s actually the opposite of what they’re saying. Lack of diversity leads to bullying.
As far as I know they don’t have guarantees. They simply make good on refunding if there’s a downstream issue (e.g. hotel is overbooked).
Ask HN: Is your team full stack or specialized?
The program lets you come in to the country on a fast path when you're a low-risk traveler. For that to work you need constant evidence of being a low-risk traveler.

They're not standing outside your home to see if you're smoking weed. They're scanning DBs to see if you've gone from low-risk person to "currently being investigated".

A friend lost her GE recently and the only link I can think of is that a relative of hers was being investigated for visa fraud.

I have all of Global Entry, TSA Pre, and Clear and it's obviously a voluntary choice between convenience and privacy. The last of them has face and eye scans and fingerprints and the rest of them have my photo and fingerprints and consent to do whatever.
Not just the border; Global Entry members have PreCheck access domestically.

The article suggests TSA also does some sort of check of regular PreCheck members when they travel. I wonder how that check is different.
Yea, don't debate that. I just personally have no tolerance for the behaviour of these framework developers and the level of work they impose on their users.

For a business that has engineers to manage this day to day it's less of an issue. For building things you want to live online untouched for a decade it's just not an option.

Laravel is nice to build stuff fast in one particular way. It's awful to maintain and heaven forbid you have a different idea about how things should be done.
I’ve been the only US citizen on a team and now I am on a team with exclusively white, remote employees. I’ve watched my current team build the worst systems I’ve ever seen while constantly congregating themselves.
My old boss in academia went through a “hire tons of Chinese chemists” phase and it got so bad he just had to eventually ban Chinese from being spoken in the lab. That seemed to work well and their English improved greatly and understanding in the lab went up. When they went back to China, hopefully they got more out of their experience here also. They learned new techniques instead of just doing things the same way they had always done them.
They each have tradeoffs even only considering security.

Consider a situation in which there is a new vulnerability in openssl. you can treat this as a hypothetical question or just.. remember any of your past experiences of any of the many openssl vulns.

How many binaries on your server use the vulnerable version? If all binaries are dynamically linked you can answer this fairly trivially with a shell script to enumerate binaries, pass them to ldd, and a little grepping.
If all of your binaries are statically linked what do you do? Ideally pull the build info from your build server that shows you every version of everything that went into the binary.. which is data that just doesn't exist for most people

Maybe you scan the binaries to do some kind of signature analysis... but I would not be confident in the results not having false positives and false negatives.

Now let's patch it. How quickly can you recompile every static binary on your server? Can you even easily cut new builds of these existing versions but with a small patch increment or will your dev teams just rush a new release of any changes they're working on?

or with dynamically libraries, you update the library on your server and be done with it

... or so you thought. you didn't check what processed were running with the old library still open in memory and restart them so you're still vulnerable :)