skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the labs are - some of them have changed their names, or the PIs have moved on. But two of those papers were with my group, which has moved.
Yet despite all of those arguments, there are many budgeting or expense tracking "apps" (of the non-spreadsheet variety) out there that are popular, some of them massively.

Analogy: with a little time and some equipment, practically anyone could learn to DIY their own oil changes, yet very few do.
The most important differentiator will always remain that Firefox is free software and Chrome is the proprietary expression of the largest advertising company in the world. Anything else either of them does is peripheral to that.
UPS is very much a 24 hour operation. All of their flights are from like midnight-4am.
I can't quite put my finger on why I don't care for figshare - it just never seems to quite grip.
Out of curiosity, what did you change about your work habits?
Something most have changed in the last 80 years.

> marriage was the only financially sound option for most women, and if she was no longer a virgin, her prospects

Ah, that.
LastPass ran into some issues moving to the new WebExtension API last year, but it does support Firefox and is actively maintained. The most recent LastPass update was released just yesterday.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...
I thought one of America's principles was having a free market. Net neutrality goes against that, no matter how many years of building support it's gained. What if a better solution would be something like New Zealand has where the owners of the physical cables to end customers are required to make them available to competitors so that the ISPs are numerous and competitive but all sharing the same cables. That eliminates the need for net neutrality. However, it does kind of just push the competition problem back to the cables themselves but that seems to be a simpler problem and the government has stepped in and said "let's give everyone fiber to the door".
The initial intro is an interesting read, I wonder if a catchier title would make this a best-seller. It could be in the horror section.
You seem to be confusing materials and design issues with mechanical issues. I expect that I have more understanding of the situation than you do - decades' worth, in fact. I've even laid hands on - and spun, as best I could - military jet engines that had been partially dismantled. (I've also seen open civilian jet engines up close but have never laid hands on one.) Once you stripped away all of the external paraphernalia their relative mechanical simplicity was obvious, as was the reason why those particular engines had been grounded.
Getting sometimes NaNs when press on bookmark
I'm excited to see your first point articulated by someone else! I prototyped an app just like that for a group assignment when ARKit first came out. Being a Swift dunce I never got it anywhere near market-ready but the idea seems obviously appealing to me. Hopefully someone else puts it together.
Please don’t derail the thread with political rants. In addition to being off-topic it’s based on logical errors, such as assuming your limited personal experience is globally true (for me, s/USPS/UPS/) or that quality is an inherent trait of the concept and constant (this is why Comcast is not usually cited as proof that capitalism cannot work).
there's a lot of enthusiasm, yet, i feel less enthusiastic about Flutter after reading this.

i had not thought about this right in the past. i hadn't factored in the reality of needing to maintain two separate UI trees, one with Material Design widgets and one with Cupertino widgets. this makes me think one of the really big advantages i thought Flutter had -- a unified UI -- is not really realistic.

i must be misunderstanding this
He was charged federally, and federal prisons don't do parole. If he was sentenced to 20 years, he'll do most of those 20 years.
Agreed that N made it worse, but Termux seems proof that it's mostly usable.
Amazon does have competition though.

Ebay Stores have been around forever, and Walmart and others have now also entered the third-party marketplace game.

But you can buy the same questionable goods they all peddle by buying directly from Alibaba and saving yourself the reseller markup. Shipping just takes longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
It may not be that there's no warranty, it may be that it's in the country the product was designated for. If I buy a South Korea only Samsung product, they may say "call the warranty number in Seoul to arrange to ship it to the repair depot in Seoul, and by the way that line is Korean language only. You're also going to need your receipt from an authorized seller so we can be sure it didn't 'fall off a truck.'"
Customs in most (maybe all?) countries enjoy something pretty close to absolute search powers.
Speak of grotesque, macabre, and unreal, HR Giger and Mark Ryden spring to mind.
Pharmaceuticals could be the prescription for trade war that truly hurts the US
Solving classification problems using Adjacency Matrix in GPU neural networks
I've never seen one involved in an accident in the news. Must be better coffee for the drivers?!
There are similar elements in how the electrical engineering computer science and letters & science computer science programs at UC Berkeley admitted people in the early 2000's.

L&SCS admitted you to the university and department, but you didn't get officially into the major until after 2 years of taking prerequisites. Admission to the CS major was very competitive, and yet if you didn't get high enough grades to beat the curve, you didn't get into the major and had 2 years of CS prereqs. Choosing another major at that point required either studying in uni for longer or graduating in a "normal" time while studying something from a very limited set of options.

EECS had a much more competitive acceptance curve. If you were accepted into the department, your position in the major was secured. If you didn't get into the department, you also didn't get into Berkeley.

My closest friends applied to L&S CS, while I applied to EECS. I didn't get into Berkeley, while my friends didn't make it through the meat grinder prerequisite years.

Looking back, I'm happy with my own decision to try to study what I wanted without compromise. It was definitely a blow to my ego at the time, but when I heard about how overcrowded the L&S classrooms were, I honestly think I got a better education experience at a smaller, less prestigious UC. my friends routinely told me about massive overcrowded lecture halls. If they got to class late, all seats might be taken and they had to go home and watch the lecture online. Oh and none of my Berkeley friends made it through the prerequisite grinder, either.

I don't know how the system is now, but if my nephews or nieces were considering that path, I'd look into it and make sure they were informed of how the experience was as a student. In my opinion, it was less about learning and more about proving yourself all the way through. The quality of education still seems objectively lower to me, looking back.
Potomania: Drinking too much beer
Damn, I hate articles like this, they take me back to the good old days and suddenly it's HOURS later.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/a_generational_patho...
Or maybe someone at YouTube just has great taste ;)
It is correct because there are lawsuits and settlements involved. Maybe it is no longer the case but it has happened.
Dan Green and Stan Efferding both take steroids though (or at least Stan did at one time), and they weigh a ton. Not sure anything that applies to them would apply to most anyone else. It's probably best not to glean health tips from powerlifters in general...
I often forget to do nothing. I’m very action oriented.

Recently I’ve started taking a few short breaks during the day. If I’m at work I put my arms on my desk, rest my head in my arms, focus on my breathing and count ten exhalations. If I’m at home I do this laying down, usually counting thirty exhalations. The home practice turns in to multiple ten to thirty minute rest periods throughout the week.

When I’m in the habit of doing this my life is, self-reported, sample size of one, noticeably calmer and more enjoyable.
Well, it kinda takes more people working part time to do the same amount as someone working on it full time. Throw in the fact they also probably get paid. Yes, the will code more the most volunteers. Sadly, volunteers who would contribute more have to eat too.

Although, I find the statement "all" is a bit misleading. I know of quite a few projects done by people on the side.
We need AMP/PWA for PDFs!
This was an interesting article.

Changes my impression of SFDC.
“That means that Canada’s symmetrical retaliation is not working...”

That’s because Canada and other countries are responding rationally with tariffs targeting America as a whole. They don’t seem to understand that guy in charge (Trump) and his cohorts who started this trade war don’t care about America.
Clearly not accurate. For one thing, there are many kinds of meditation, so the assessment that meditation (as a whole) is demotivating is overgeneralizing. Secondly, as further revealed by the study itself, motivation isn't a factor for successful task completion, so there may be something about self-attributed motivation that is superfluous to task completion (i.e., meditators become disabused of that and merely handle the task at hand).
Do you really think government research absent private bias is free from bias?

How government money gets spent is a very political process, and naturally that puts a lot of pressure on research organizations to produce the politically correct result.
They are all about profits from inertia. I’m seeing organizations migrate to the cloud lured by low initial upfront cost that increase once they have completed their migration. When the real bills come in people do hand waving and say the increased cost are negated by “agility.” And don’t even think about migrating out of a cloud provider...you will have to beg for permission.

There are a lot of benefits to migrating to the cloud, in my experience, cost isn’t one of them. Unless of course you are mucking around with accounting tricks by cutting employees and moving that cost to services or cost of goods sold, I’m not a expert in this, but it works and will save you money because you can control these expenses more easily and because of how payroll vs services are accounted for.
That one netflix show, Ozark, with Jason Bateman, is just like that. "Samey".

It's like the show was written by a robot trained on Breaking Bad and The Wire. It has all the building blocks of a hit show, but it totally lacks any personality or inspiration.

Don't get me wrong, Bateman's performance is just great, but the material is so blah. You can tell the show thinks it's much smarter than it really is.

I think we'll start seeing more of those shows on Netflix. People binge the hell out of Breaking Bad, so we got Ozark. I'm sure we'll eventually see their own "The Office", because people binge the hell out of that, too.
Terrible headaches.
UPCs are not as universal as they once were. By removing an ounce from a can of soup (Walmart Rollback) or adding an extra hairbrush accessory to a Barbie to make it a Target Exclusive, the UPCs differ and become more specific to its destination in the supply chain. (It also makes it impossible to price match since the Target doll and Walmart soup are no longer technically the same item competitors sell, even though they practically are).

International edition textbooks also have different UPCs (but not ISBN) than the standard versions.
Curious why impression would be different? Benioff has been outspoken like this for at least a decade (two?). And Salesforce is well-known to be very charitable.
You’re asserting that so long as any code is closed, the platform is not “open source”. I disagree. When 99% of software on a device is open source, open source has clearly eaten than device.
I am interested in your hypothesis and would like to see the research supporting it.
Yes. That's how people like Elizabeth Holmes raise a billion dollars and gain a who's who board comprising of famous statesmen without any questions asked, how young son in laws become more powerful than career diplomats and how C- suites always get other C-suite jobs.

At least this Chinese version in the electronics is more democratic and let's the little Chinese startup try out things quickly and get into a full commercial relationship if things succeed. I understand American companies used to do this early on but eventually rent extraction mindset took over.

But this behavior extending up into actual corruption is very much a current problem for that country
You're not wrong. It's an insightful observation. It's a meritocratic system, but with fuzzy rules around the merits for reward.

There are few people I know whose parents would have treated them according "the most performant of you will get the best of our resources. Ready, set go.", instead of say, trying to help each child grow as much as they need.
If even half of these amazing battery technologies had come true, my car would be driven by a D cell battery.

But I'm ok that it hasn't, because I once heard a battery chemistry guy say that "the higher capacity a battery is the more it resembles a bomb." I can't find the reference any more, but with all the Samsungs and Teslas catching fire, it rings true.
As @twic and the OP discussed, the equal distribution of numbers within a defined range is naturally achieved through low discrepancy sequences (eg recurrence,Halton, Sobol, etc..) Furthermore, in ultra high-speed / low-level computing situations the additive recurrence methods are often preferred due to the incredibly fast and simple method of calculating the each successive term simply by adding (modulo) a constant value to the previous term.

For the one-dimensional case, it is well known, and relatively easily proven that the the additive recurrence method based on the golden ratio offers the optimal 'evenness' [low discrepancy] in distribution [1].
For higher dimensions, it is still an open research question as to how to create provably optimal methods. However, one of my recent blog posts [2] explores the idea that a generalization of the golden ratio, produces results that are possibly optimal, and better than existing contemporary low discrepancy sequences.
In the one dimensional case, the critical additive constant is of course, the golden ratio. In the two dimensional case, the additive constant is based on integral powers of the plastic number. The generalization to even higher dimensions follows other Pisot numbers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence#Addit...

[2] http://www.extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness...
Benioff is one of my inspirations and one of the technology CEOs I most look up to.
I’ll bite. I write a simple free surf forecast app for my local region with around 1000 active users. I am currently rewriting the app because I have time and ideas.

I am writing the same app in both Flutter and Swift/objc simultaneously, and I will grant that I am much better iOS dev than Android. The previous version of the Android app was written in Java.

Honestly, Android dev for me is very not fun, there is so much mental load that is probably necessary for large apps but for me it’s just a time sink. Flutter on the other hand gives me Material widgets our of the box and easy declarative layouts. I will say this is my first experience working in the react paradigm and it’s been a learning curve. Flutter is super fun to play with though and making user interfaces is actually pleasant.

I decided to also write the new version natively on iOS because some of the most important parts of the app for me are the Today Widget and Watch Complication. Now with Flutter you can add this manually in swift or objc or whatever, but they can’t talk to Dart code. So I would have to essentially write the networking client code twice. That, and the iOS widget support just isn’t good enough for me in Flutter.

So I am using Flutter to develop and Android version of my app, while keeping the option that it could eventually become a full cross platform version someday if I choose.

Also if Dart ever gets extensions like Kotlin and Swift that would be a game changer for me, since I use generated specs for my API schemes.
> I am not quite sure if LCA is an accurate metric of visa count. For example, I had my visa renewed 3 times so far. Every time, they filed for an LCA

You can ignore the GC LCA, because most companies do it too, and companies like Google, Facebook and Apple at a higher rate. Even if Infosys applies twice per three years for a candidate's H-1, it stands at the top of that list.

> 100 thousand Indian students come to US every year. How many of them end up working in these companies? Your own list shows less than 15k.

And I am seeing very few people without a US degree in that 15k.

> Further, 25405 number doesn't mean they all were deputed from India. Indian companies hire a lot from US.

What is the point here? So does every other company.

> Both said there teams were trying to hire people locally (Americans)

It is a legal requirement.

> I actually developed a bad opinion of them based on their performance in my own company

Actually me too. I have worked with cliques from hell, coming from Infosys (mostly), but also Wipro and like. 10 people do the work of 1 person, with the end result being
a mess.

Anecdotes aside, I don't know why you are fighting along Infosys here. The numbers are Facts. Also, not everybody in Infosys (US) is going through the same struggle you are. I am sorry you are going through this and I empathize with you, as I had some personal experience in that regard. I can also tell you this, this uncertainty will pass, but the after-effects will last for a while. Having a good social circle helps in mitigating it.
Your comment would be more palatable if you gave the OP benefit of the doubt. It seems reasonable to assume that someone who is in the position to affect such change, and is willing to ask HN for advice, likely has actual cost savings estimates.

Perhaps saying something like, "Are you sure the cost savings are really there, and you won't face unexpected hidden costs in the future? I have experience with X,Y,Z, and we found that while the cloud is optimized for x64 deployment, we had hidden costs A, B, C, crop up after 9 months."

As it is, it's only added noise and made you look bad.
There are a lot of benefits to migrating to the cloud, in my experience, cost isn’t one of them. Unless of course you are mucking around with accounting tricks by cutting employees and moving that cost to services or cost of goods sold, I’m not a expert in this, but it works and will save you money because you can control these expenses more easily and because of how payroll vs services are accounted for.

You should aim to keep 50% of your workforce. 25% won’t want to change 10-25% won’t be able to. I would invest in training on automation and multicloud / hybrid cloud management. I recently worked on a large scale migration and you will definitely discover that the cloud wont work for a lot of your high performance computing, or it will be cost prohibitive. You also need to take into consideration intellectual property, does the company really want all of its IP on another conglomerates infrastructure? But most importantly you need to avoid lock-in to one provider at all cost, training your trusted resources who understand the business requirements on hybrid cloud or multi cloud implementation will really enable cost savings because you will have leverage during price negotiations. If you get locked into one provider you are going to get royally screwed on long term cost, seen it happen.
Investors gambled $12M on Cryptokitties.  Now, sales are plummeting.
You didn’t even remotely answer my question.

There's a difference between displacing the local population (which you imply) and moving somewhere there's better opportunities (jobs, housing, &etc). As long as there's no coercion or violence involved then who's the victim if my new neighbor is from Guatemala?

Sounds fine, but what happens in the scenarios I actually outlined in my first post? It’s not about displacement, but simple overwhelming numbers. Would Japan still be Japan if tens of millions of people from all around the world decided to live there? Would Albania still be Albania if a hundred million people from China and India showed up? If everyone in California were suddenly matched 3:1 by Sub-Saharan Africans, what happens?

In terms of language, culture, social services, law enforcement, etc... you’re suddenly in a whole new world. I don’t necessarily think it’s wrong for Japan, to use a precious example, to wish to remain Japanese in terms of their language and culture. I don’t think it’s wrong for Switzerland to balk at the notion of a hundred million Americans showing up either.

If you remove all restrictions, it’s not just about having a Guatemalan neighbor; that’s just immigration as it is today. The US for example has absorbed millions of Mexicans, Central and South Americans without any real problems. It is after all, a drop the proverbial bucket. The issue arises when it’s far more than that, order of magnitude more, and all at once.

What would happen to Guatemala if a sizeable chunk of the US, or China, India, or Africa immigrated there? It would implode, socially, financially, and its existing culture would be consumed. If everyone who wanted to live in Hawaii or Monaco could just move there, both places would be environmentally and economically trashed. Immigration is necessary and human, and there should be more of it in most cases than we see today. That doesn’t imply that total freedom of movement is workable or desirable either. I’d no more want to live in a country with no immigration limits, than I would in a country with no immigration; both would be broken.
Sure, but it's a cycle that is easy to fall into and hard to break now that we're here. Distrust begets distrust.
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>"So, make another work that you can monetize?"

How are they going to monetize it if the printing presses will just print the work for free?
It's not really "favors". The person selling individual chips profits because they don't have the overhead of a formal business. There are open markets for formal businesses, which also expect you to be a formal business ready to purchase large volumes.

and, tbh, transparency doesn't matter at low volumes. If someone can afford to carry a prototype to production, the difference between the average and lowest potential guanxi price for a single chip is negligible.
It'd be pretty shocking to find someone performing at that level who doesn't increase their testosterone levels (and much, much more) artificially. I'm pretty sure Stan is still on HRT these days. It's sort of a loophole in the system these days for how to obtain it legally. It's not nearly as powerful as cycling it, but it's better than nothing.

I always find the whole "but they take steroids" argument strange.

It's actually funny you should mention taking health advice from powerlifters, bodybuilders and strongmen. Stan Efferding has an entire video on the subject, where he makes it clear that if you want to look or perform like him or some of his peers, you will most likely not be healthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHZrF4AFRg . The part that struck me the most was that some of these guys need CPAP to sleep once they get into the 300-400lbs weight category, just because a human body isn't supposed to weigh that much.