skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Low paid”?

I’m an immigrant myself and know how the visa application process works. There are a few mechanisms in place to prevent H-1B holders to receive lower wages than their colleagues, first and foremost the PERM, which guarantees similar wages in the same occupation and area of employment.

If Google or anyone else are hiring H-1B visa holders directly, they have to pay them accordingly to their own standards.

Also, visa salaries have to be publicly available. It’s not like they could lie about it.

When people speak of visa holders as “cheap” labour, they probably think of IT consultants hired by Indian companies, which regularly are the worst offenders.
> with the small caveat that the [...] worst [...] pay rates must occur the C suite.

It is not uncommon that C suites don't get paid that much money: the big money that they make rather comes from bonuses.
https://archive.is/gAQNd
You're not really free to leave if you have to leave the country if you don't have a job lined up immediately.
My guess is that they told a lawyer to write an agreement that allows them to collect absolutely anything with no limits whatsoever.
I'm a manager of a team that's mostly H1Bs at Google. It's mostly fine but a few of them just refuse improve their English, and it's frustrating spending hours every day just being an English teacher to an engineer who writes at a 5th grade level. The problem with hiring too many H1Bs is they speak to each other in Chinese and thus take forever to become proficient at communicating with the rest of the company.

Also, I'd call into question the credibility of this article. Google pays H1Bs the same as Americans as far as I know. What Google is doing is hiring a large number of engineers in India. These people I assume are paid much less than American engineers.
EternalBlue Explained: An In-Depth Analysis of the Notorious Windows Flaw
EternalBlue is one of the most infamous cybersecurity vulnerabilities known today. This article will explore the details of this flaw, its consequences, and how we can protect our digital landscape.
I’m all for using a private accountant to handle taxes, but boy does TurboTax shit the bed on anything more complicated than a 1099.

Sold a house and had a disbursement from an LLC this past year and TurboTax was under the impression we owed capital gains and a massive penalty. We opted in to their tax expert add on, a nice woman with twelve (12) years of expert experience! She also claimed we owed capital gains and her source for this statement was a blogspam link to a Myrtle Beach real estate agent detail how taxes work for OUT-of-staters. Not a factor for a lifelong resident and in any case I was shocked and appalled that this so-called expert cited me a f*cking WordPress blog for taxation resulting in a steep 5-figure sum being due.

Our new, beloved, local accountant has our taxes done in an afternoon and we saw a nice refund this year (God bless the child tax credits.)

So while Intuit may have a theoretical incentive they sure seem to be a lot more of a Comcast duty of care.
> So why not keep it that way?

That's like asking "This company's stock is doing well. Why not dump everything you've got into it?"

Apple is diversifying their income stream, and leaving money on the table if they don't take it.
Its hard to find either. Except for used cars. The environmental impact of production is already borne, and many older models dont track you.
>This is one of the boomiest industries, with truly insane salaries

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.

>Laying off makes sense. Sometimes you hire to backfill roles or for strategic teams. Sometimes an H1b is the correct hire.

Developers are seen by companies as over expensive peons and they have been maneuvering to turn the whole field in an low cost industry. I hope you are younger than 30 to still hold such a naïf worldview.
As laughable as that rule is, it seems to me like this is also the easiest starting point for inducing change. Make a rule that says this isn't a reasonable demand, and consent must be explicit. This doesn't prevent surveillance, but it definitely makes it a lot less convenient.
Apple going for quantity rather than quality. Or with $$ quantity is its quality.
"In Germany, the law prohibits the publication of recordings made by other people, road users and license plates."

Apropos, not related, but after the war victims of holocaust often recognized their tormentors from TV or from newspapers.
I'm no longer in my "Lego phase" but still found the article reading like a taxonomy of plastics in general.

Like if you were to create a (okay, not-so) Periodic Table of Plastics, you might as well populate it with Lego parts because most of us are familiar with the bricks and their characteristics.

(And, crazy, who knew Lego used Bakelite at one time?)
I've submitted it because it's been two days and absolutely no reaction from GitHub. I'd really like to hear from them.
Clean???¿??????

Dude, Node is as broken as PHP. And it starts from having no standard library leading to hell like leftpad and general software supply chain holes that PHP never had in the same quantity.

It isn't clean. Node was just shinier and had more applications to leveraging it for a shiny frontend.
Yeah. Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE).
Started to get bad around 2008, and quickly spread and got worse.
What’s the point of a country? To protect and empower its people or to use them to empower a rich few at the top?

As it is, the H1B system only benefits H1Bs in a limited manner at the cost of American citizens. All so that rich investors can make more money.
Doing their job.
No, I think this is awful advice.

It's not a case of 1st party or 3rd party for most users. Especially laypeople.

It's a case of 3rd party or none.

Most users are not going to piss around manually syncing KeePassXC or whatever.

3rd party makes it easy to use secure passwords. The alternative for laypeople is going back to what they do otherwise. Password re-use.
> Could it be done in 1 millisecond with assembly? Probably.

I know you're probably just knowingly spewing hyperbole to make your point, but unless your L1 cache is 200GB memory bandwidth alone makes this impossible.
Yes, Harvard Graphics was good. I remember using it around 1991.
I don’t think you understand the first amendment - there are numerous Supreme Court decisions that place limits: obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, speech integral to criminal conduct, threats, child pornography.

You cannot have absolutism in a well functioning country.
The public's lack of understanding of the real motivations of political/business leaders with regards to immigration policy is like a masterclass on propaganda and brainwashing.
Yes takes a single string with no embellishment, and that's what C provides. There's nothing additional to parse. There are no flags, no additional options, nothing else to configure… and that's by design as there's simply no need.
Remember that video were that twelve year old was interviewed and sounded like the average burned out developer.
>At what point can we finally admit there is a coordinated war on against freedom of expression online?

Just call it a war of hate speech or "disinformation" instead and plenty of people will admit it.
Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love is something I would encourage going through if you are unsure about what you don't know.

Although it's based on 3.x kernel, it still is pretty relevant.

Good Luck!
"plant medicine = good"

That's risky. I and millions and others have natural hallucinogens growing in the fields in North America and much of Europe. Henbane is pretty hard to completely eradicate, is likely one of the most naturally powerful hallucinogens and is also one of the most dangerous to use as a recreational drug safely as potency varies wildly in each plant. Every part of the plant is a drug and every part of the plant is deadly. It can be and has been used in the medical field but has been replaced with chemicals that are safer to measure.
One way of doing things without kube I imagine as follows: I do coding, build an image and push the container to a container repo. Then I have to ssh into the server and stop and start the container with the new version.
Which I find time consuming. How could I automate this deployment cycle? What people usually do?
Inevitably though, the vector version will be lost to your client’s inbox.

Years from now the client will be gone and someone else from the company will explain, “I didn’t have any special design programs installed on my computer so I couldn’t open that eps thing and I didn’t know it was important.”
Maybe they can't find people who want to work in the office.
I love how much it includes out of the box. I wrote a little zero-dependency app in TypeScript. It’s got SQLite, routing, etc. It even understands JSX. The only tricky bit was writing a ~100 line JSX-to-HTML function. It’s quite nice and starts so much faster than the normal Node + npm + essbuild stack.
Thank you, I didn't even realize that I failed to copy the 3. It was unintentional and it's fixed.
US has historically low unemployment past several years so idk who you think they are taking jobs away from but most let go are almost immediately re-hired elsewhere. With little to no slack in the local unemployment pool it only makes sense to hire from elsewhere.
Too much calcium amplifying the effects of too much adrenaline that causes problems in the body and mind, seen with things like a higher heart rate, as well as panic attacks.
Do they also use microplastics?
> You don't understand what slavery is. Slaves don't get paid and it isn't voluntary

Technically, that varies. Slavery is as old as humanity itself and it exists in different forms. It's not even unheard of for a slave to be wealthier than his master, although, of course, this is more of an exception. What I'm trying to say is if someone isn't picking up cotton in the american south, it doesn't mean they cannot be enslaved and don't need help
Fresh of the boat immigrants are not entitled to welfare in Europe. Taxation and electricity/gas bills tend to lower in the US.

Rent in Silicon Valley and NYC are definitely a lot higher than anywhere in Europe but those are not the only places with tech jobs.
> Something like 50kUSD/y is laughable to an american but is actually a ridiculous amount of money for a lot of people due to exchange rates.

For anyone on the globe able to go through a Google job interview that's also not going to be really that much.

There was a shift in salaries during the pandemic when more companies opened to hiring remote workers.
To be fair, a customer discerning enough to read the privacy policy probably isn't considering a brand with a reputation as dubious as KIA (at least in the USA).
To be honest, I'm actually in favor of them not needlessly struggling to communicate with each other in broken English.
I was once in an Econ class with a Chinese professor that spoke mandarin natively. As did a slim majority of the class. I recall him trying to explain something to the other mandarin-speakers and struggling before squeezing in like a 4 second mandarin quip and the response was a wave of "eureka!" across the other ones. Like he just somehow squeezed the past 40 minutes into 4 seconds and they all finally understood it completely. Astonishingly, really.
Trump actually tried to end H1B, and suspended the H1B program with an executive order. One of his policy decisions I support. Actually the entire platform was centered around immigration.

As soon as it happened though, there were news stories left and right about how "Immigration is our strength" and "The US is a country founded by immigrants". All these sob stories about why we need cheap, exploitable labor to undercut American workers.
Connecting your phone to a rental or friends cars bluetooth will also snarf all your contacts and identifying phone data. Often times in a way that cannot be erased, even by a tech.
This is one of the few games that my kids (6 and 4) can sometimes beat me while playing straight (not letting them win), making it a really interesting experience(since almost no luck is involved).

Also there's an easier version with fewer cards (30) and drawings of animals that should be suitable for even younger children.
There's nothing really new in this article. These companies hire H1B's all the time. There is no evidence that they are low paid. I was an H1B at [FAANG] and I had a bigger salary and more stock options than most of my teammates (not sure why, but I think I was more aggressive in asking for raises). I also received help to get my green card quickly.
It's kind of like being asked by your employer to provide statistics on how often you insult a specific coworker behind their back.

They can promise all they want that the info won't be used against you, but it's obvious that they wouldn't be asking if they didn't intend to do anything with it. Thus it would limit how often you insult that person.
This is what creates more downward pressure on everyone's comp than just getting foreign workers. It artificially creates a group of workers for whom it's significantly harder and more risky to change jobs or simply quit when they are unsatisfied. I think everyone in tech would be better off if you wouldn't lose the H1B quickly if unemployed and if you wouldn't need to rely on an employer doing extra work to sponsor you. Make it two years instead of two months and make it so that the visa holder just can mail in proof of a paycheck. There is no real downside to this change for anybody in US society.
As someone with some exposure to Chinese characters as a Japanese speaker, I’ve had the please to casually glance a WeChat group and realize some of the back channel Chinese from my teammates was joking about trying to get me fired.

(Edit: my also Chinese manager dealt with it very well and that person left the company after some time)
> if you have to leave the country

i mean, this is meant to be a jobs visa. The fact that if you quit said job, you no longer have a reason to be given to stay, seems pretty normal. You are free to leave, it doesn't mean leaving is consequence free.
Are there any political candidates on the Presidential ballot for 2024 who might be willing to hold corporations accountable for these types of practices with stricter enforcement or perhaps changing immigration policy?
Are H1Bs hired at big tech paid that low anywhere? From what I saw, they may be given the bottom of the job level band, but it's still usually quite high.

At the same time, it was obvious that having h1b engineers gave the managers a lot more power to overwork them and prevented them from speaking out.
They fixed it after I submitted feedback.
Ask HN: Small indie game studio Twitter account blocked from ads
All I did was announce we won a grant to make our first game in Arabic, and promoted that post. Go banned for "Unacceptable business practices such as deceptive or misleading or false claims". To be clear it's not associate with anything crypto either. Just a standard indie game studio making a game in Arabic, that won a grant.

I don't even have any links to my website or anything people can actually pay for. Just this account, which I can't promote now.

So now I've paid for 2 verified accounts, and a twitter promotion, and I'm banned and can't reach a person. My only recourse is here or connecting with a twitter employee on linkedin or in person. It's so disempowering.

https://twitter.com/ViceBeast
First dot point:

Developing and updating new community guidelines on YouTube, that we strictly
enforce, on a range of harmful content, including suicide and self harm, scams,
elections misinformation, harrassment and hate speech;

YouTube actively advertises videos of investment scams to me.

In our experience, algorithmic tools are effective at
identifying CSAM and certain types of violent extremist content, but will struggle to accurately
identify other, more context-dependent forms of illegal and harmful content.

So Google aren't against automated scanning of anything and everything, it's the potential of mis-classification that they're concerned about.

This would leave UK users with a poorer quality Internet relative to elsewhere.

Elsewhere will catch up though.

We believe that protection of children
should be considered holistically, and their right to access information and to privacy must be
respected in much the same way that we would expect for adults

Sarcastic chuckle at the arrogance and meaninglessness of this commentary.

The whole Advertising section is worth reading to get an idea of the value Google believes it is offering to the world.
I really understand your point. But still in my view you are describing how a society can function by hierarchy but it’s still only functions in society you are describing. Hierarchy can be also absolut senseless. For example: god told someone that this person is now king.
That hasn’t anything to do with needs. It’s only hierarchy.
Here the definition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy

I Stil get your point and I sign that hierarchy is mostly needed to archive goals in society. But that most society’s rule on hierarchy is mostly coincidence in my view.

Edit: also interesting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterarchy
I think there's a very reasonable distinction here between platforms that publish content without promoting it, and what Facebook is in the business of doing which is promoting content. Facebook opens itself to additional liability by increasing the reach of posts which do well.

In practical terms I see the basic issue as being a lack of downvotes. Users can do nothing to combat disinformation, because every form of engagement boosts posts.
And how many of the other vaccines that were mandated by any government for instance to go to school, required you to get boosters to stay effective and how many lost almost all effectiveness within a year?

Do you really not see the difference in people’s mind why all except a few crazies were willing to get a vaccine that prevented a disease and maybe lost effectiveness after a decade compared to one that didn’t prevent infections and that did require you to get boosters?

It was beyond silly that a cruise I went on in December of 2021 required everyone to be vaccinated (that part is not silly). But at the same time would have accepted my J&J one shot I did in March 2021 where all of the studies showed had lost effectiveness by December.

I had an mRNA booster about a month before it was part of the officially guidelines because I read credible studies by government agencies in other countries about it. But they still would have let me on without it. At that point it was “Covid theater”.

Yeah I got Covid on the cruise and didn’t even realize I had it until I got home. I’m not saying that to poo poo the vaccine. Usually even a simple cold makes my immune system over react. I credit the vaccine to the mild symptoms
How would I know? I don't have insight into every bar of gold on Earth.

For a practically possible scenario I think it definitely raises questions whenever a theory flat out ignores it.
I thought he was scraping jstor?
Past: a man can own a slave.

Now: the system can own a slave.
If you need to work to survive, you are a wage slave
I never really thought about it much. But I guess this is why my baseplates from childhood want to shatter when bent and my kids just want to bend and go white? Or is that really just a function of time and not material?
Haha?
After the fact doesn't matter. If all tyranny requires is an after-the-fact judicial ruling then tyranny will just find a way to win before then.

The fact is, there is no such thing as a private company. Infringing speech is happening all over the place; the fact the Constitutions states Congress cannot enact laws against speech is tantamount to the people themselves being unable to enact action against speech and expression. Congress is the people, and the people don't get to privatize tyranny. Period.
Adobe should never have been allowed to buy them, there had been an anti-trust decree which was later removed...
"That's a shame", cya.

Or "give me one moment while I set up an account that I will never look at again"
> The mere concept of a "document root" is a problem though and a major footgun if you don't know what you're doing.

A non issue though after 2-3 days of working with this approach. All modern PHP frameworks have a so called front controller (an index.php file) that loads what it requires from ../ after, ideally, properly validating the request to avoid issues.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
— Adam Smith
Oh boo to the fake holier than thou virtue signalling :->

We will never have meaningful discussion if we pretend that the only safe speed is 0kph and we all need to stay home and anybody driving is a dangerous maniac. Because if you take the categorical stance that e.g. 40kph is reasonable and all people who want to do 50kph are dangerous drivers who must be stopped, be aware that somebody else thinks 30kph is reasonable and you are a ridiculously dangerous stunt driver for suggesting 40.

It's the old "everybody who drivers slower than me is a moron, everybody who drives faster is a maniac". Have the self awareness that your preferred speed is not the only way to be.

There are many dangerous driving aspects other than going 105kph on a 6 lane straight modern hwy.
I worked at FAANG and knew more than one Indian on H1B. They weren't getting paid "the same but slightly less". They were getting like 50k TC on a team where the rest of the team was making 200+.
There's no statute prohibiting it, so it's legal until they lose in court.
My mental model of Clojure transducers
Some frameworks in the old days of PHP relied on .htaccess files to restrict access to unwanted files. Properly implemented frameworks would load everything from a directory above the documentroot to avoid these issues.
I agree with you, but we also collectively bought devices with active mics, cameras and a constant internet connection while legal aspects of data privacy were (and still are) a bit of a Wild West, so I'm not sure what anyone expected. We as consumers and citizens need to stop assuming our governments and corporations will just do the right thing and not tread those ethically grey lines. When "consent" is defined by those doing the exploiting, only total abstinence from the decision is the safe option, but we all continued to buy smart phones.

Note, this is not a justification, but an attempt to understand how we got to now in hopes that by seeing where we've been, we can collectively make better decisions about where we are headed.
> They're at step 1 of the privacy invasion story: let's shame the lawyers

I would argue that they're at step 1, yes, but that step 1 is telling you these manufacturers have no respect for your privacy, period.
And this exactly the point I’ve been making, the incompetence of the CDCs messaging and even worse suppressing information that we all know to be true now based on the latest messaging of the CDC has done harm to vaccine programs that have been generally accepted by everyone.
> for loop and not passing current value as variable

In most languages, current for loop value is always accessed a variable, not a reference. The only languages where it's not the case that I know of are Go and Python (JavaScript used to also have this problem with for(var ...), it was fixed with for(let ...)). So if you don't regularly write Go, it's easy to make this mistake.