I just want to know what level of crazy this person really was. Did he really have a novel piece of code, and just didn't know how to deal with the loss. Or are we dealing with a nutcase who saw a fellow student use a linked list the same way he did, and assumed that they must have gotten it from the teacher.
He was a doctoral student. So, the code was probably few thousand hours of work over 2-3 years of research. Not a trivial homework code.
The important thing for researchers is getting credit, giving code to someone else to use is not stealing, *but claiming you made it is*. Having said that the case could have been either, we wont be able to tell for a while it is still to soon.
Even better, there could've been a good reason for the "code sharing" - perhaps he was asking the other student to verify the code, or verify the results, or something.
You know, as part of the whole "reproducible results" thing - where people are asking that data and the software processing it be made open for inspection and for reproducing the results.
Or maybe the professor was continuing the research by giving it to another student to extend the research - the data and code exists, so start from that rather than reinventing the wheel.
The problem is, both the professor and the shooter are dead, which means finding out the whole truth is going to be a lot harder.
There's lot of valid reasons for "sharing" the code, which may very well have happened. Then again, stress might've cracked the shooter (finals were starting next week, apparently).;l
You have no idea how much some professors abuse their power. I have no idea if Klug did or not and not implying he did.
Add to the fact that you have international students who are essentially chained to a university and advisor by immigration laws.
Murder is another level. But, US graduate schools filled with Indian and Chinese students is quite a messed up place and some awful things going on.
Previously, the amount of information gleamable was limited by the need to have physical access to the court. Someone would have to go down to the courthouse, hall of records, or similar location, and physically look at things. Now, one button and the entire country is searchable.
Unfortunately, this ease of information access removes the grey area of "public, but requires time/effort to get and is not easily accessible," and as a result, it's a lot more black and white. The parallels with massive aggregation of data, Hack Once Break Everywhere security issues, and even physical access to an iPhone by the FBI being sufficient or insufficient to overcome local security options, are all similar technological areas where a dichotomy is coming into play.
I can't say I think this is a good thing. Grey areas are good. Humans are grey, and technical models of human society should have grey considerations as well.
Personal information can easily be redacted and the records still made available online.
Data aggregation is also a very positive thing since it gives information on the trends in society.
The absolute worst thing is to hide the information away and carry out these activities in secret.
How many people go to university to study subjects related to Islam and how many go to study science (and obviously subjects related to science since STEM has more than science). I don't remember a religion department in my university but maybe that's different elsewhere.
Also, US presidents don't study subjects related to political science.
Maybe this is a perfect fear mongering platform. STEM is an immigration term. It was originally created to implement immigration policies that favored immigrants who studied science and engineering. So, a large portion of recent immigrants are educated in science, precisely what the immigration policy set out to do. Perhaps you meet an immigrant who has studied science, they he's likely a terrorist? Seems something perfect for Trump's America.
The Capitalist system has created more jobs, more wealth, more prosperity, and higher income mobility than any other system in the history of mankind.
In spite of capitalism, we have created more jobs, more wealth, more prosperity, and higher income mobility than any other system in the history of mankind.
FTFY,
In all seriousness, it's all mixtures now. Most freeways are technically communism since it's built by the government and anyone can use it. So, basic income is not really communism, we can just call it basic economic participation threshold grant.
America desperately needs President Trump. He's the only candidate we've seen so far who has taken anything resembling a pro-American stance with respect to this issue. He has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration. He has taken a strong stance against unjust "free" trade with the third world. He has made it clear that he would put America and Americans first.
It's no wonder he's seeing such strong support from the legal immigration communities. They had to ensure a very arduous process in order to get into America legally. It's extremely harmful and disrespectful to these legal immigrants when illegals are allowed into the country, and it's even worse when these illegals are then given amnesty.
America needs President Trump more than ever. America needs President Trump's policies more than ever. America needs a defender like President Trump.
He also has a strong stance against legal immigration (unless they are like his wife). He also associates with supremacists so it feels more like immigration is the code word for race.
His whole stance is all against rapist Mexicans, cheating Chinese, terrorist Middle Eastern Muslims and H1B Indians. Americans first just is code word for hating those groups and doing something to institutionalize some sort of persecution.
I wish Americans first meant Americans first and not let's do something about "those" people.
There are some major limitations with the design they have gone with for deep learning. You may think that thousands of chips will soon shrink to fit in a phone. (~15 years if moore's law holds). But thermodynamics won't let this happen, you can't flip an arbitrary number of bits for zero energy. There is a minimum amount of energy necessary for a register to perform a simple operation, and the amount needed for a deep learning system of this scale is more than you would want to comfortably power in your pocket.
This is for training. Once the training is done, the model can be used in a cell phone.
Sanders and Trump are the only ones actually listening to the American public. That's why these two are the only candidates getting huge crowds and generating big enthusiasm.
Unlimited free trade and open borders helps some Americans (stockholders and business owners) while hurting others (blue collar workers and offshorable white collar workers). As you can guess, the latter category is much larger than the former. Unfortunately those in power (doesn't matter which party) work exclusively for the benefit of the former and does not give a rat's ass about the latter.
I am praying, pleading with everyone. PLEASE vote for Bernie (if you're a Dem) or Trump (if you're an R).
Look closely at H1Bs. In the name of protecting American workers, it exploits foreign workers. There is a ridiculous mountain of legal work that needs to be done before a worker can come here and then stay here, all in the name of protecting the US worker. But, what does it do? It traps the foreign worker in a multi-year and even multi-decade long legal maze and temporary visa chained to the employer, the opposite of protecting the American worker.
If the foreign worker could come here and be free to work anywhere, they would go into the general pool of engineers who would demand equitable salaries. However, the government chains these workers with H1Bs for decades and that is what drives the salaries lower.
If you think law eliminating H1Bs and foreign labour will help the American worker, trust me it will be morphed into something that end up hurting the American worker.
You and most of us probably don't know any technical details about H1Bs. The business owners certainly do and know how to exploit the system. Any thing that replaces H1B will again be exploited more since they do get to write what it is.
I've never found a woman coworker to be even half as passionate about technology and computers as I am.
I'm coding at home on the weekend, coded for hours last night, will code for a few more hours today. During my breaks I'll read more about crypto or learn about a new fad language to see how it's gone off course.
When I am at work, I only go to lunch with other passionate types mainly so we can talk about our little "side" projects at home. I'm writing a few opengl games, a friend is writing a CMS, another is writing an order management system for healthcare, another is writing a tabletop boardgame application.
The women we work with however talented they may be, lack passion. They will go to lunch and get mad at us for "still talking about work". Then they wonder why they don't get invited next time around.
I've worked with a few that are that passionate, and they end up being published and respected like other men. They would be a welcome addition to our lunch crew but women like that tend to have other priorities which don't involve eating lunch with a bunch of men.
My passion is what makes me better at what I do. The fact that I don't stop should mean I get paid more than someone else "who only does it as a job". That's the black and white issue at play here.
I've met many women with passion for technology, and they were not making a few OpenGL games or a new CMS during the nights and weekends.
They are creating new technology and startups. Or they are just passing through and will be working at the top research labs and companies within a year.
If anything, I was super jealous of how easy they found to get support for what they were doing. Everybody wanted to work with them and they found it so easy to get help for things they couldn't do themselves.
Perhaps you should be in a blissful state of not knowing women passionate about technology. When you meet one and they leave you in the dust as they rocket by to bigger and greater things, you will realize how inadequate you are at the skills you need to succeed.
Everyone is getting their panties in a bunch over this when it's just not going to happen. There is no such thing as 'AI', there are just cheesy 'expert systems' that mimick intelligence for a very limited subject. There are simply too many things that humans need to do that you can't make a machine to do, and there are too many things that humans won't accept a non-human to do. Also you want to invoke World War 3? Put hundreds of millions of people out of work worldwide. There WILL be war. But it's all good: Because it's not going to happen anyway. Everyone is spreading FUD on this subject just like they're doing with self-driving cars. None of this technology is anywhere NEAR the point where people are being led to believe it is. Rest assured that you'll all live out the rest of your lives without having to worry about some robot taking your job.
Regarding world war 3, these expert systems will be pretty adept at keeping unemployed humans occupied.
Just look at how engaged people get with video games.
I can't believe people don't see what's going to happen when all the unskilled work either disappears or pays so little that you have a permanent underclass of people. Driving a cab is pretty much a last-resort job for people who need to moonlight or can't get any other job. It's unrealistic to think that all these people have the intelligence or resources to train for a higher-level job. Look at all the factory workers who can't get anything better than a home health care aide job. I'd sure hate to be thrown out after 20 years on an assembly line to clean up after dementia patients.
Don't be surprised when the "knowledge worker" jobs are gone too. I consider myself reasonably smart and a hard worker, but no job is immune to this. I also worry about a massive glut of middle-skilled people getting displaced. I work in IT services, and there are so many "customer account coordinators" and "relationship specialists" and "technical project enablers" who fit this mold. They're not deeply technical, most are ex-fraternity or sorority types from Big State University who partied their way through a business degree or maybe even an MBA, and they'll be absolutely screwed when big corporations get around to cutting them out too. The thing is this - those C students pay taxes, buy stuff with their salaries and have children. When the safety net of stable work is cut, no one is going to want to spend or procreate, and then we're really stuck.
Research has shown that we are really bad at predicting the future but compulsively do so anyways.
Let the problem arrive first and then we can figure out what can be done.
I can pontificate endlessly on how we can use the tens of millions new workers instead of driving around in circles all day. If they have the discipline to be inside a car all day and drive people around all day, I'm sure they can do a lot more interesting and useful things.
You really missed the loophole. If they were to directly replace them with H1-B that would be illegal. But they contracted a third party to now do the IT work, so those positions no longer exist, and the company gets away with it. Since Hertz is not hiring for those positions.
This is the main problem with H1-B is that there is this large loophole they can all run through.
No, it's not a loophole. You're mistaken.
Even if the position was eliminated, a qualified applicant can still take the job of an H1B away by applying to the similar job that was created in place. All the information of what the H1B does and how much he makes is public.
The real reason that the third party thing exists because H1B has such a bad name that companies don't want to hire H1Bs and have them show up websites and government databases, and also have to deal with super-convoluted, super-expensive immigration policies.
Most companies have a strict no H1B sponsorship policy. But, when hiring a third party consultant, it doesn't matter if the consultant is H1B or not.
There was a paper filed for H-1B? More domestic employees being replaced by a program that is only supposed to be used if there are no domestic employees available?
Out of the 25 LCA petitions, 1 has been withdrawn. About12 of them are in IT. There rest seem to be in immigration case management and a bunch of ones that started last year.
I can't tell if all the 24 are for the Hertz building.
There is a chance that the new H1Bs are for projects that they could not find local talent for. Obviously, the petitions are fewer than the jobs outsourced to IBM.
It is required by law that all the H1B job requirements and salary be posted on the company common room. Any US worker who feels they have been replaced can walk in and demand a job currently held by an H1B if he/she meets the job requirements.
advanced mathematics requirements, like algebra, trigonometry and calculus
That is not advanced mathematics.
That is just about basic mathematics.
However, the curriculum needs to be revised with modern tools. Computer algebra systems makes a lot of what is taught in these courses obsolete. Courses that use CAS then start pulling in advanced content to fill up the time.
This is analogous to what the calculator did. Nobody knows how to even calculate a square root by hand (ok a few people) and nobody does long division. There are so many things in math classes that simply need to just go away like long division.
Since when did a country protecting its borders and putting the interests of its own citizens ahead of the interests of foreigners become some buzzword for "evil racism" that every self-righteous liberal now feels the need to decry?
Every country in history has protected its borders and controlled immigration to some extent. Only in this weird modern era is that somehow viewed as a BAD thing.
And yes, when the U.S. was being settled, we were much more open to immigrants coming in. But that was back when we had tons of unsettled land available and plenty of jobs to spare, when infrastructure wasn't much needed, when there was no "social safety-net" to speak of, and when anyone who could handle a plow and work hard could make a go of it as a farmer.
It's perhaps referring to one kind of immigrant over the other.
H1B is synonymous with Indian workers. Even though H1B is open to any nationality, 85% of H1B is taken by Indian nationals. Indian nationals are also on H1B status longer (for a decade or longer) because of diversity quotas (only 10% of the total yearly immigrant can be from one country).
Do we have complaints about the British actors in Hollywood movies and TV? They are also technically taking jobs from American actors.
Have a look someday at what the AMA does to immigrant doctors. (Hint: they usually end up as nurses.)
AMA does require residency and some years of schooling before practicing as doctors but it hardly forces them to nursing. There are a lot of foreign practicing doctors. The biggest barrier I've seen is language rather than anything technical.
It is worse what H1B does to workers. It makes them temporary guest workers for 10-20 years. Yearly renewals. Very short window between jobs. Begging for sponsorship and then lock in employer for green card wait after sponsorship.
In the past, one could buy a 400 CD or DVD changer for a few C-notes.
Why can't we have this technology, except with a BDXL or other high capacity Blu-Ray drive? This isn't rocket science, as the autochanger mechanism has lasted for decades in a lot of people's homes before they put their collection on their computer. Sony does have it, but it is priced into the stratosphere.
Putting the pieces together, it wouldn't be surprising to see the autochanger mechanism in many audiophile hi-fi cabinets still usable, add in a 300GB to 1TB Blu-Ray writer, add a few TB of SSD as a landing zone for data, then add some backup software like NetBackup. This would give tape a run for its money.
Now, add some form factor like disk packs (sort of like the 5-10 disk caddies that were popular way back when), some redundancy (basically one disk with a PAR archive on it), and it would have the ability to function almost exactly as tape... but for far cheaper. To boot, removed disks take up 0 watts of power (other than environmental), not to mention being immune from remote tampering.
I just wish this type of solution can hit the consumer market.
But what would people store in it that they can't on a multi-TB hard drive?
The only thing I can see is huge movie collections. But, we have Netflix and cloud storage for that.
Family photos, videos and other such files are not big enough to warrant such a thing.
If you work produces large files, it is valuable and might as well store them in hard disks because compared to the labor costs, the cost of storage systems is negligible.
The only people who want low cost storage of 99% fluff throwaway data are companies like facebook and google who trawl the internet for data and never delete anything.
But according to Brooks' law, adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. So hiring additional workers would actually be counterproductive.
Different situations. Brook's law is for when there is a deadline for a software to be delivered.
In this case, there isn't a deadline. It is a continuously supported product.
It would take at least 6 months for the new developers to get up to full speed.
However, I would think hiring additional workers would make the "problem" worse. With additional workers, there is more rapid feature development leading to more fix and feature requests.
This appears to be a press release, nearly verbatim, from ISRO. I am happy for them, but is blipping out public relations information with no other content the new Slahsdot?
This is not press release information.
India Today, the Hindu and the Indian Times are independent newspapers in India.
The concept behind the H1-B program sounds reasonable. Bring in highly skilled experts from overseas that we can't find here. However, since it's now been thoroughly demostrated that:
1) Employers can't be trusted to act ethically and honor both the letter and spirit of the law, and
2) The government has been steadfastly failing to monitor the program and enforce the rules
The entire program needs to be scrapped. No H1-Bs, period. We apparently can't handle it, so employers need to find the talent here, or do without (or, you know, invest in employee development/training again).
No, you're mistaken.
The intent of H1B is to find skilled labor that no LOCAL American can fill.
The highly skilled expert or a Nobel prize winning scientist comes under EB1 which is directly green card.
That's why H1B is tied to a specific job at a specific location. There is a region based minimum salary requirement so that salary is not the factor that determines if no local can fill it.
Market Forces do not guarantee optimal, or even beneficial outcome to everyone affected. Just most profitable outcome for decision makers.
This is a clear case where US is bleeding jobs and wealth to other countries, so few individuals can enrich themselves while passing the costs/consequences "downstream".
is bleeding jobs and wealth to other...
You know the 1% also sees the rest of the 99%s trying to bleed wealth from them.
I know it's bad when someone tries to bleed your wealth but good when you stop others from bleeding yours.
I don't quite get that you say these without a hint of irony.
I say spread the wealth. The 1% to the middle class and the middle class to the poor countries. In the long run, wealth imbalance whether at home or in the world isn't a good thing.
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I just want to know what level of crazy this person really was. Did he really have a novel piece of code, and just didn't know how to deal with the loss. Or are we dealing with a nutcase who saw a fellow student use a linked list the same way he did, and assumed that they must have gotten it from the teacher.
He was a doctoral student. So, the code was probably few thousand hours of work over 2-3 years of research. Not a trivial homework code.
Even better, there could've been a good reason for the "code sharing" - perhaps he was asking the other student to verify the code, or verify the results, or something.
You know, as part of the whole "reproducible results" thing - where people are asking that data and the software processing it be made open for inspection and for reproducing the results.
Or maybe the professor was continuing the research by giving it to another student to extend the research - the data and code exists, so start from that rather than reinventing the wheel.
The problem is, both the professor and the shooter are dead, which means finding out the whole truth is going to be a lot harder.
There's lot of valid reasons for "sharing" the code, which may very well have happened. Then again, stress might've cracked the shooter (finals were starting next week, apparently). ;l
You have no idea how much some professors abuse their power. I have no idea if Klug did or not and not implying he did.
Add to the fact that you have international students who are essentially chained to a university and advisor by immigration laws.
Murder is another level. But, US graduate schools filled with Indian and Chinese students is quite a messed up place and some awful things going on.
Previously, the amount of information gleamable was limited by the need to have physical access to the court. Someone would have to go down to the courthouse, hall of records, or similar location, and physically look at things. Now, one button and the entire country is searchable.
Unfortunately, this ease of information access removes the grey area of "public, but requires time/effort to get and is not easily accessible," and as a result, it's a lot more black and white. The parallels with massive aggregation of data, Hack Once Break Everywhere security issues, and even physical access to an iPhone by the FBI being sufficient or insufficient to overcome local security options, are all similar technological areas where a dichotomy is coming into play.
I can't say I think this is a good thing. Grey areas are good. Humans are grey, and technical models of human society should have grey considerations as well.
Personal information can easily be redacted and the records still made available online.
Data aggregation is also a very positive thing since it gives information on the trends in society.
The absolute worst thing is to hide the information away and carry out these activities in secret.
How many people go to university to study subjects related to Islam and how many go to study science (and obviously subjects related to science since STEM has more than science). I don't remember a religion department in my university but maybe that's different elsewhere.
Also, US presidents don't study subjects related to political science.
Maybe this is a perfect fear mongering platform. STEM is an immigration term. It was originally created to implement immigration policies that favored immigrants who studied science and engineering. So, a large portion of recent immigrants are educated in science, precisely what the immigration policy set out to do. Perhaps you meet an immigrant who has studied science, they he's likely a terrorist? Seems something perfect for Trump's America.
The Capitalist system has created more jobs, more wealth, more prosperity, and higher income mobility than any other system in the history of mankind.
In spite of capitalism, we have created more jobs, more wealth, more prosperity, and higher income mobility than any other system in the history of mankind.
FTFY,
In all seriousness, it's all mixtures now. Most freeways are technically communism since it's built by the government and anyone can use it. So, basic income is not really communism, we can just call it basic economic participation threshold grant.
America desperately needs President Trump. He's the only candidate we've seen so far who has taken anything resembling a pro-American stance with respect to this issue. He has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration. He has taken a strong stance against unjust "free" trade with the third world. He has made it clear that he would put America and Americans first.
It's no wonder he's seeing such strong support from the legal immigration communities. They had to ensure a very arduous process in order to get into America legally. It's extremely harmful and disrespectful to these legal immigrants when illegals are allowed into the country, and it's even worse when these illegals are then given amnesty.
America needs President Trump more than ever. America needs President Trump's policies more than ever. America needs a defender like President Trump.
He also has a strong stance against legal immigration (unless they are like his wife). He also associates with supremacists so it feels more like immigration is the code word for race.
His whole stance is all against rapist Mexicans, cheating Chinese, terrorist Middle Eastern Muslims and H1B Indians. Americans first just is code word for hating those groups and doing something to institutionalize some sort of persecution.
I wish Americans first meant Americans first and not let's do something about "those" people.
There are some major limitations with the design they have gone with for deep learning. You may think that thousands of chips will soon shrink to fit in a phone. (~15 years if moore's law holds). But thermodynamics won't let this happen, you can't flip an arbitrary number of bits for zero energy. There is a minimum amount of energy necessary for a register to perform a simple operation, and the amount needed for a deep learning system of this scale is more than you would want to comfortably power in your pocket.
This is for training. Once the training is done, the model can be used in a cell phone.
Case in point, voice recognition.
Sanders and Trump are the only ones actually listening to the American public. That's why these two are the only candidates getting huge crowds and generating big enthusiasm.
Unlimited free trade and open borders helps some Americans (stockholders and business owners) while hurting others (blue collar workers and offshorable white collar workers). As you can guess, the latter category is much larger than the former. Unfortunately those in power (doesn't matter which party) work exclusively for the benefit of the former and does not give a rat's ass about the latter.
I am praying, pleading with everyone. PLEASE vote for Bernie (if you're a Dem) or Trump (if you're an R).
Look closely at H1Bs. In the name of protecting American workers, it exploits foreign workers. There is a ridiculous mountain of legal work that needs to be done before a worker can come here and then stay here, all in the name of protecting the US worker. But, what does it do? It traps the foreign worker in a multi-year and even multi-decade long legal maze and temporary visa chained to the employer, the opposite of protecting the American worker.
If the foreign worker could come here and be free to work anywhere, they would go into the general pool of engineers who would demand equitable salaries. However, the government chains these workers with H1Bs for decades and that is what drives the salaries lower.
If you think law eliminating H1Bs and foreign labour will help the American worker, trust me it will be morphed into something that end up hurting the American worker.
You and most of us probably don't know any technical details about H1Bs. The business owners certainly do and know how to exploit the system. Any thing that replaces H1B will again be exploited more since they do get to write what it is.
I've never found a woman coworker to be even half as passionate about technology and computers as I am.
I'm coding at home on the weekend, coded for hours last night, will code for a few more hours today. During my breaks I'll read more about crypto or learn about a new fad language to see how it's gone off course.
When I am at work, I only go to lunch with other passionate types mainly so we can talk about our little "side" projects at home. I'm writing a few opengl games, a friend is writing a CMS, another is writing an order management system for healthcare, another is writing a tabletop boardgame application.
The women we work with however talented they may be, lack passion. They will go to lunch and get mad at us for "still talking about work". Then they wonder why they don't get invited next time around.
I've worked with a few that are that passionate, and they end up being published and respected like other men. They would be a welcome addition to our lunch crew but women like that tend to have other priorities which don't involve eating lunch with a bunch of men.
My passion is what makes me better at what I do. The fact that I don't stop should mean I get paid more than someone else "who only does it as a job". That's the black and white issue at play here.
I've met many women with passion for technology, and they were not making a few OpenGL games or a new CMS during the nights and weekends.
They are creating new technology and startups. Or they are just passing through and will be working at the top research labs and companies within a year.
If anything, I was super jealous of how easy they found to get support for what they were doing. Everybody wanted to work with them and they found it so easy to get help for things they couldn't do themselves.
Perhaps you should be in a blissful state of not knowing women passionate about technology. When you meet one and they leave you in the dust as they rocket by to bigger and greater things, you will realize how inadequate you are at the skills you need to succeed.
Everyone is getting their panties in a bunch over this when it's just not going to happen. There is no such thing as 'AI', there are just cheesy 'expert systems' that mimick intelligence for a very limited subject. There are simply too many things that humans need to do that you can't make a machine to do, and there are too many things that humans won't accept a non-human to do. Also you want to invoke World War 3? Put hundreds of millions of people out of work worldwide. There WILL be war. But it's all good: Because it's not going to happen anyway. Everyone is spreading FUD on this subject just like they're doing with self-driving cars. None of this technology is anywhere NEAR the point where people are being led to believe it is. Rest assured that you'll all live out the rest of your lives without having to worry about some robot taking your job.
Regarding world war 3, these expert systems will be pretty adept at keeping unemployed humans occupied.
Just look at how engaged people get with video games.
Research has shown that we are really bad at predicting the future but compulsively do so anyways.
I dunno, Kafka and Orwell seem to be pretty much on-the-money.
Just because someone wins the lottery doesn't mean we should all go out and buy lottery tickets.
Or maybe it does?
I can't believe people don't see what's going to happen when all the unskilled work either disappears or pays so little that you have a permanent underclass of people. Driving a cab is pretty much a last-resort job for people who need to moonlight or can't get any other job. It's unrealistic to think that all these people have the intelligence or resources to train for a higher-level job. Look at all the factory workers who can't get anything better than a home health care aide job. I'd sure hate to be thrown out after 20 years on an assembly line to clean up after dementia patients.
Don't be surprised when the "knowledge worker" jobs are gone too. I consider myself reasonably smart and a hard worker, but no job is immune to this. I also worry about a massive glut of middle-skilled people getting displaced. I work in IT services, and there are so many "customer account coordinators" and "relationship specialists" and "technical project enablers" who fit this mold. They're not deeply technical, most are ex-fraternity or sorority types from Big State University who partied their way through a business degree or maybe even an MBA, and they'll be absolutely screwed when big corporations get around to cutting them out too. The thing is this - those C students pay taxes, buy stuff with their salaries and have children. When the safety net of stable work is cut, no one is going to want to spend or procreate, and then we're really stuck.
Research has shown that we are really bad at predicting the future but compulsively do so anyways.
Let the problem arrive first and then we can figure out what can be done.
I can pontificate endlessly on how we can use the tens of millions new workers instead of driving around in circles all day. If they have the discipline to be inside a car all day and drive people around all day, I'm sure they can do a lot more interesting and useful things.
You really missed the loophole. If they were to directly replace them with H1-B that would be illegal. But they contracted a third party to now do the IT work, so those positions no longer exist, and the company gets away with it. Since Hertz is not hiring for those positions.
This is the main problem with H1-B is that there is this large loophole they can all run through.
No, it's not a loophole. You're mistaken.
Even if the position was eliminated, a qualified applicant can still take the job of an H1B away by applying to the similar job that was created in place. All the information of what the H1B does and how much he makes is public.
The real reason that the third party thing exists because H1B has such a bad name that companies don't want to hire H1Bs and have them show up websites and government databases, and also have to deal with super-convoluted, super-expensive immigration policies.
Most companies have a strict no H1B sponsorship policy. But, when hiring a third party consultant, it doesn't matter if the consultant is H1B or not.
There was a paper filed for H-1B? More domestic employees being replaced by a program that is only supposed to be used if there are no domestic employees available?
The article refers to this. http://www.myvisajobs.com/H1B-Visa/SearchLCA.aspx?Y=2015&E=ibm&O1=Employer&O2=JobTitle
Out of the 25 LCA petitions, 1 has been withdrawn. About12 of them are in IT. There rest seem to be in immigration case management and a bunch of ones that started last year.
I can't tell if all the 24 are for the Hertz building.
There is a chance that the new H1Bs are for projects that they could not find local talent for. Obviously, the petitions are fewer than the jobs outsourced to IBM.
It is required by law that all the H1B job requirements and salary be posted on the company common room. Any US worker who feels they have been replaced can walk in and demand a job currently held by an H1B if he/she meets the job requirements.
advanced mathematics requirements, like algebra, trigonometry and calculus
That is not advanced mathematics.
That is just about basic mathematics.
However, the curriculum needs to be revised with modern tools. Computer algebra systems makes a lot of what is taught in these courses obsolete. Courses that use CAS then start pulling in advanced content to fill up the time.
This is analogous to what the calculator did. Nobody knows how to even calculate a square root by hand (ok a few people) and nobody does long division. There are so many things in math classes that simply need to just go away like long division.
Since when did a country protecting its borders and putting the interests of its own citizens ahead of the interests of foreigners become some buzzword for "evil racism" that every self-righteous liberal now feels the need to decry?
Every country in history has protected its borders and controlled immigration to some extent. Only in this weird modern era is that somehow viewed as a BAD thing.
And yes, when the U.S. was being settled, we were much more open to immigrants coming in. But that was back when we had tons of unsettled land available and plenty of jobs to spare, when infrastructure wasn't much needed, when there was no "social safety-net" to speak of, and when anyone who could handle a plow and work hard could make a go of it as a farmer.
It's perhaps referring to one kind of immigrant over the other.
H1B is synonymous with Indian workers. Even though H1B is open to any nationality, 85% of H1B is taken by Indian nationals. Indian nationals are also on H1B status longer (for a decade or longer) because of diversity quotas (only 10% of the total yearly immigrant can be from one country).
Do we have complaints about the British actors in Hollywood movies and TV? They are also technically taking jobs from American actors.
Have a look someday at what the AMA does to immigrant doctors. (Hint: they usually end up as nurses.)
AMA does require residency and some years of schooling before practicing as doctors but it hardly forces them to nursing. There are a lot of foreign practicing doctors. The biggest barrier I've seen is language rather than anything technical.
It is worse what H1B does to workers. It makes them temporary guest workers for 10-20 years. Yearly renewals. Very short window between jobs. Begging for sponsorship and then lock in employer for green card wait after sponsorship.
So, sarcasm research in AI doesn't have a sarcasm problem, it has a sarcasm filter problem?
In the past, one could buy a 400 CD or DVD changer for a few C-notes.
Why can't we have this technology, except with a BDXL or other high capacity Blu-Ray drive? This isn't rocket science, as the autochanger mechanism has lasted for decades in a lot of people's homes before they put their collection on their computer. Sony does have it, but it is priced into the stratosphere.
Putting the pieces together, it wouldn't be surprising to see the autochanger mechanism in many audiophile hi-fi cabinets still usable, add in a 300GB to 1TB Blu-Ray writer, add a few TB of SSD as a landing zone for data, then add some backup software like NetBackup. This would give tape a run for its money.
Now, add some form factor like disk packs (sort of like the 5-10 disk caddies that were popular way back when), some redundancy (basically one disk with a PAR archive on it), and it would have the ability to function almost exactly as tape... but for far cheaper. To boot, removed disks take up 0 watts of power (other than environmental), not to mention being immune from remote tampering.
I just wish this type of solution can hit the consumer market.
But what would people store in it that they can't on a multi-TB hard drive?
The only thing I can see is huge movie collections. But, we have Netflix and cloud storage for that.
Family photos, videos and other such files are not big enough to warrant such a thing.
If you work produces large files, it is valuable and might as well store them in hard disks because compared to the labor costs, the cost of storage systems is negligible.
The only people who want low cost storage of 99% fluff throwaway data are companies like facebook and google who trawl the internet for data and never delete anything.
There used to be a time when the writing on the internet was for reading.
Now, it's just to generate clicks.
The only metric that anyone uses of the quality of the writing is the clicks and so the only thing that shows up everywhere is click-baits.
But according to Brooks' law, adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. So hiring additional workers would actually be counterproductive.
Different situations. Brook's law is for when there is a deadline for a software to be delivered.
In this case, there isn't a deadline. It is a continuously supported product.
It would take at least 6 months for the new developers to get up to full speed.
However, I would think hiring additional workers would make the "problem" worse. With additional workers, there is more rapid feature development leading to more fix and feature requests.
This appears to be a press release, nearly verbatim, from ISRO. I am happy for them, but is blipping out public relations information with no other content the new Slahsdot?
This is not press release information.
India Today, the Hindu and the Indian Times are independent newspapers in India.
Motorola has a long long history of doing this.
I purchased their MotoActv fitness watch and after a year or so they cut off all support and updates.
I don't see a reason to buy Motorola if there is a significant after purchase support portion attached to it.
This isn't the first time they've done. This is not the second time they've done this. Why do we keep acting surprised about this?
The concept behind the H1-B program sounds reasonable. Bring in highly skilled experts from overseas that we can't find here. However, since it's now been thoroughly demostrated that: 1) Employers can't be trusted to act ethically and honor both the letter and spirit of the law, and 2) The government has been steadfastly failing to monitor the program and enforce the rules The entire program needs to be scrapped. No H1-Bs, period. We apparently can't handle it, so employers need to find the talent here, or do without (or, you know, invest in employee development/training again).
No, you're mistaken.
The intent of H1B is to find skilled labor that no LOCAL American can fill.
The highly skilled expert or a Nobel prize winning scientist comes under EB1 which is directly green card.
That's why H1B is tied to a specific job at a specific location. There is a region based minimum salary requirement so that salary is not the factor that determines if no local can fill it.
Market Forces do not guarantee optimal, or even beneficial outcome to everyone affected. Just most profitable outcome for decision makers. This is a clear case where US is bleeding jobs and wealth to other countries, so few individuals can enrich themselves while passing the costs/consequences "downstream".
is bleeding jobs and wealth to other...
You know the 1% also sees the rest of the 99%s trying to bleed wealth from them.
I know it's bad when someone tries to bleed your wealth but good when you stop others from bleeding yours.
I don't quite get that you say these without a hint of irony.
I say spread the wealth. The 1% to the middle class and the middle class to the poor countries. In the long run, wealth imbalance whether at home or in the world isn't a good thing.