skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look again, you'll see that it's the 2019 file that is much smaller. That is because FY 2019 is far from over. You can see a graph of the approvals for the full years of 2009 through 2018 at http://econdataus.com/h1bhub_status_09_18.png . As you can see, initial and continuing approvals (I.A. and C.A.) are down slightly in 2018 and the denials (I.D. and C.D.) are up slightly. You can generate this graph by going to the application at https://labor.shinyapps.io/h1bhub/ , changing Start Year to 2009, clicking the Submit button, and then clicking the Plot tab. It may take 20 or 30 seconds to generate. This application uses the USCIS data that we are discussing.
Please consider not autoplaying videos on the main website http://cityboundsim.com/. Esp. when the video is below the fold!

It sucks up bandwidth if you're on mobile, and is generally not user-friendly. Why not have a play button for it when the user decides to watch instead?
That doesn't mean his point is not spot on.

I have more than one friend that has overengineered an industrial solution for basic computing needs. (and when things break, complexity goes exponential)

as to URL redirect: I don't see the image/redirect you refer to, even clicking on the link here on hacker news. Can you elaborate? I take the links I recommend seriously.
What kinda works is having a national press council that has the power to sue media plattforms to print corrections when they get things wrong. Even the most uneducated would think about changing the newspaper when ever other issue starts with a correction notice.

Actually, people have been calling out media organizations and getting them to print retractions and even suing them. When they do retract, they do it in a way where it doesn't get much space and much attention. (The mainstream media is particularly bad about covering this sort of thing.) Some (even mainstream) organizations in 2018/2019 would simply ignore the claims. Some (even mainstream) even quietly edited articles without retraction.

In any case, I don't think most media organizations care, because most of the time, the retraction isn't nearly as viral as the initial clickbait story, and even if there was outrage, that would still ultimately benefit them by ultimately generating more attention.
I think you're reading it as Annual Recurring Revenue rather than Internal Rate of Return. For IRR I think 12% is pretty normal, and depending on how good your project management is it could easily turn into 0%. But I'm not an accountant so I might be misunderstanding.
From the article:

It’s a cliché that refuses to die: personal finance guru Suzy Orman warned investors last week that if you “waste money on coffee, it’s like ‘peeing $1 million down the drain.’”

That's apparently the reason the article was written -- to rebut that claim in specific.
I don't agree.

Programmers are generally much better off than artists in both VFX and Games. But the worse pay and bad deadlines and time management proliferates in both fields.
In some cases, nepotism isn't even harmful. Plenty of cases where hiring a family member doesn't mean that family member is necessarily unsuited for the job.
I always thought Redbox was a market segmentation strategy more than a Netflix competitor.
Almost enough? In many parts of the country? You can rent a small studio apartment, or a room in a luxury apartment in New York for significantly less than $1800/mo -- in the second or third most expensive rental market in the country.
No. Based on what I've read, it seems to be Slightly Different Java. Is there some important difference?
From Disco to Techno, He’s Seen It on Sugar Hill’s Dance Floor
> I thought companies like Twitter and Google routinely rebuffed requests for information

Some, maybe. Definitely not all. Google reportedly has a system to let authorities access GMail. Similarly, Microsoft has been cooperating from pre-antitrust times, let alone now. And these are the richest companies in the world, with market caps in the hundreds of billions; they can afford to pay legions of top-level lawyers for decades-long litigation. Motel 6 in comparison is small beer; they were sold for less than 2$bn a few years ago.
If you read the article what happened is a policy change in China that’s causing a glut in batteries. Costs are down because supply went up, not a breakthrough in manufacturing.

Costs are down because margins are down. That’s not sustainable. It’s a one time thing or even a temporary one. It’ll be walked back, or we’ll see a plateau in costs until the trend lines line up.
Are you kidding? That’s what passes for confrontational now? You kids, I tell ya ;)

It was very slightly snarky perhaps, but appropriate to make a point. Maybe it’s better to hold off on the assumptions that everyone else must just be idiots. I’m fine with someone deciding that they are indeed idiots, but at least ask some questions and get their side first before declaring them so to the whole internet. Shit is rarely as simple as it might seem to an outsider. I doubt anyone who can manage to register for HN could fuck up the forgiveness application 7 times if the process was truly as simple as claimed.
Injecting entropy into your data in order to generate differentially private access actually typically improves model performance, rather than degrades it.

This behaviour is counterintuitive, but effectively you're enforcing a degree of regularization in a way similar to how data augmentation works. You'll get reduced training set performance and improved test set performance, as with other forms of regularization until you make it too strong.
Also CAD, CAM, CAE.

Also many random smaller niches. I've been programming 3D graphics for machine learning (grabbing labelled data between videogame and D3D), for enterprise (too much 2D data + latency requirements, only 3D hardware did the job), for GIS (a competitor of google street view, image processing), for video broadcasting..
What argument was used for forcing a copying decision upon the copyright holders?
You've studied law, so I'll use a legal analogy.

Imagine if the only way to get a court to hear your plea were to file the correct form of action. Depending on what you want the court to do, you might have to file a different form, and you also have to know which court to petition. As you probably know, courts following the English law tradition have simplified their forms of action (say, [0]) so that this task is much easier now than it used to be.

A common problem with this sort of program is that the bureaucratic requirements end up preventing people from successfully applying or completing paperwork which they didn't know that they needed to handle. While this might seem like a mere UX problem to you, or perhaps "a formality", I assure you that it can and does drive people mad. [1]

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_2

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmYecnk
I disagree, based on this articles logic everyone should strive for a perfect codebase which is impossible.

You will always run into issues because code just like matter decays to entropy.
As a point of reference "warmed up" compilation for me still takes ~1minute. Bearable for general work, horrible for quick tweaks or UI-related work.
I mean, he was a poetic philosopher. Do you read poetry literally? Also, you can't just pluck quotes out of their context. Notice how he talks about pain, but doesn't say things like "you should kill the weak." Inflicting pain in order to improve things is a necessity. Ever heard things like "pain is weakness leaving the body?" That's how he meant it.

I'd like to remind you that even Jesus has been used to justify atrocities. It's not the words of men that justify things, it's the authority others give them and those who distort their words for their own purposes. Don't blame the messengers, blame yourself, blame us, blame our weaknesses for falling for the same thing over and over again.
I don't understand how the prevalence of "chemsex" (I'd never heard of it before and had to look it up) gives you any protection from the police.

I'd assume that the reason they didn't stop you was because you weren't the first drugged out person they'd seen today and they don't have time to stop them all (and in the Bay Area, they'd likely be back on the street in a day). Unless you were harassing or assaulting other people or committing some other illegal act, I'd be surprised if the police bothered to stop every suspected drug user.

It seems surprising that the police would be afraid to stop a gay man just because they think he's gay.
Ain't that the truth.

I used to buy DVDs to support creators, and just leave them on the shelf while I torrented the contents. It was so much more convenient than sticking plastic discs into slots and fudging through menus and copyright warnings.
This need a (2018) tag.
In what sense did other societies have meaning, that modern societies lack?
Selling you minute by minute geolocation from your phone: Acceptable. Credit card companies and retail companies selling your purchasing history: Acceptable. States selling license data and even your license photo: Acceptable. Municipalities selling property tax information to anyone: Acceptable. Unicorn companies monitoring your every move and everything you do on the internet: Acceptable.

Motel 6 employees giving registration information to law enforcement for free: NOT OK.
Not really. Which documentation exactly do you mean? Code or for players?
It absolutely is "a thing" in the US, depending on ISP.
Spotify can use the same API that Pandora and Overcast use to play audio.

Spotify doesn’t “eat” the 30% cut. You haven’t been able to sign up for Spotify through the App Store in years.
But isn't our current power infrastructure just pumping the toxic waste into the air (pseudo) invisibly?

For example, the reason we have smog laws is because we can see the results. I suspect if burning gasoline pumped low-level radioactivity into the air invisibly (like coal does), then smog laws wouldn't have taken off years ago.

At least lithium battery waste stays put.
You arguments are all nice and dandy - but who uses OOP like this?
And you still have the state being all over the place problem.

I think I made it clear that OOP is fine if you can afford to live in that space.
In practice you often can't.

Re the boundary problem: Sending objects over wire doesn't solve it at all, it makes it worse. Object identity for once and incompatible classes between client/server.
Hiding data in magic objects just doesn't work.
It's the reason CORBA failed, it's the reason RMI is a nightmare, it's the reason we have data-oriented wire protocols.
Frequently "the news" puts telling a good story ahead of Truth. That is, they don't tell the most informative version of the story but the most compelling version or up/downplaying a story based on bias.

This doesn't involve outright untruths or even significant manipulation of facts.

It does involve things like cherry-picking facts, quotes, and statistics that paint the desired picture without drawing conclusions while the reader's intended conclusion is obvious.
If you really want to suppress religion just educate your population.

Higher levels of education are linked with lower levels of religious commitment, especially the more extreme versions of zealotry.

I don't really understand how someone who studies biology or physics to any degree could subscribe to an interventional deity.
"In addition to removing TVs, they added 12 more seats to these planes."

Am I the only person on earth who thinks those god awful wastes of space should be removed? I've never interacted with one, they don't play anything, and my phone is about as big as those screens anyways and already contains all the content I wish to view?
This is also a density problem. If you've got enough people living nearby it becomes easier just to make sure the power never goes out.
If you think this is bleak, just wait until they're no longer grounded. I hear it will be a $20 upsell if you want to guarantee flying on a plane with the fixed software.
Just did !
Yes, maybe he will admit that Globalization which caused income stagnation in much of the western world is a big problem. Simultaneously it is also the thing that made big money for him and his wealthy clients.
Whenever I can I schedule my flights to avoid 737s. I know it's as much the airline's fault as Boeing's but I find them cramped, rattley and generally uncomfortable.

However I got the impression that American was the most premium of the US airlines when I was last flew with them so I'm surprised at how low cost carrier this fitout looks.
They canceled it because the iPhone is going to become a wireless charging pad for your AirPods, watch and even another iPhone.

Samsung just released Wireless PowerShare as a feature in the S10 that allows you to share a charge and reports note this will be coming to the iPhone.

Incidentally and FML ... I was filmed pitching this idea to Intel and Mark Burnett (reality tv mega-producer) for the reality tv show, America's Greatest Makers. They reached out to me as they really needed fledging inventors. Overall we pitched sharing battery power between two phone cases https://ryanspahn.com/GetLeech .

I haven't looked but if Intel has patents that are from Sept 2015 and on then really FML. Otherwise what I thought was potentially a completely unique idea wasn't.
Actually I feel like Delta has quite a nice experience. They also have many new release movies available. I don't own a tablet because I don't find them particularly useful personally and I'd rather not watch a movie on my phone.
Advice like this isn't real financial advice. It's a thinly veiled way of telling the poor and middle class to accept less or starve.
Delta and Norwegian are two examples of IFEs done right. Good content, the ability to browse the in flight menu, and very responsive. I take a tablet on anything else I fly on. I’m sure the premium cabins form premium carriers are similarly nice.
They may be accepting applications for 2020 but some subset won't be approved until they have the lottery. Also, it may take some time to update the file. The 2019 file will grow larger. Ignore it for now.
FYI: this is the same model that got pulled due to safety concerns. The first comment is from "October 11, 2018 at 12:08 pm" which indicates this review was from well before the current crisis.

I recently flew to Miami on American and on my first two flights there was no TV, but fortunately on my flight from Dallas to Miami there was a TV which I kept tuned to the map the whole time, to see New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southwest Florida come into view.

Edit: GPS is now available in Airplane mode. I hadn't realized that. https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/ios-airplane-mode-gps-n...
I actually got annoyed by it myself when opening the page on my phone to check something. So I disabled autoplay now. Thanks for sharing your concern.
This is an excellent video on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv6SbFlZMbU

Short answer: a decent house for a family can be had for about $400k in Tokyo and that's considered expensive.
I love on-board movies, airplanes often have new releases, and if I bring my own headphones I can have a great experience. Heck international flights are the only time I get to catch up on the latest movies! I've seen most of the Marvel movies that way.

The screens also don't run out of battery. Some planes have chargers now days, but plenty still don't. I want my phone battery available when I land, so I try to avoid using my phone during flight.
I disagree. I think hacker news is what is implied by the very strongly its name: Hacker news.

I do notice stories that are strongly off topic tend to rise and fall precipitously. So there is some guiding hand keeping us straight.
Interesting case.

Exec team got a bit of $$$.

I think however, knowing that story how many people would like have any of that 10 people as their bosses?

Say they decide to build another start-up, who of sound sense will join them?
Good optimistic point of view.
When you’re on meth you can read minds so I’m positive I’m right in my mind reading! Lol.

In all seriousness though, I’m quite sure my appearance as a homosexual protected me from police harassment. I think to them, stopping and harassing me would have felt like “picking on the gay kid” so they just didn’t do it. (This was NOT the case in other countries and cities that are less sensitive to lgbt rights than the bay).

Also a highly relevant factor in my not getting harassed by Bay Area cops: i’m white.

>It seems surprising that the police would be afraid to stop a gay man just because they think he's gay.

It’s not solely because they correctly judged me to be gay, it’s because of a confluence of cultural factors. When you see a non-homeless gay tweaker in the Bay Area, you can be almost assured that his addiction has to do with chemsex, and thus stopping him would just be an uncomfortable conversation for the police because they’re in constant hetero-bravado mode and they realllllly don’t want to stop and ask a gay dude about meth because that conversation will instantly turn to chemsex which is a conversation they REALLY REALLY REALLY DON’T WANNA HAVE, lmao
Making them get lost is as easy as picking a random turn instead of the correct one with a certain probability.
Many airlines put iPads in the seat pocket instead. Some have a clip in the seat back to fit it while you're flying. They're lighter and have much better screen quality (plus use a standard 3.5mm headphone jack).

I wouldn't be surprised if they were significantly cheaper, too.
No, I owned four Meraki mesh APs. This was before they got bought by Cisco.
I have struggled with the speed at which I can write code live in class. It is hard to do it fast enough to keep students interested. It is also difficult to show even moderately complex programs from start to finish.

I have created a tool that allows me to move quickly through my code where students can still see how the solution evolves. I can comment at interesting points in the development of the code and attach hand drawn pics and screenshots. Here are some examples:

https://ourcodestories.com/markm208/Playlist/All

(Click on the >> button to move from comment to comment. These work best on a big screen)

I show some of these in class before asking the students to work on a related problem. I require the students to view the rest outside of class.

My students really like these. They prefer them to textbooks (no surprise) and videos covering similar material.

The tool to create these 'playbacks' is free and open source (currently a VS Code plugin). I have also created the site to share these with others. I am looking for feedback.
Whenever I hear a complain about airline experience, I am reminded by the fact that air travel has become cheaper every year. What used to cost $1800 for a flight from USA to New Delhi just 10-15 years ago is now less than $800.

Consumers have shown that price is _the_ most important factor for choosing a flight. Unlike other industries, say buying a piece of furniture, consumers evaluate pros and cons of short term cost savings with long-term reliability and durability. In transportation, consumers are willing to sacrifice comfort for cost to the extent that Airlines are willing to go to extreme measures to cut costs. Consumers are asking for this whilst complaining about lack of comfort - what a insane dichotomy of entitlement and personal choice.

Furthermore, I don't understand the fascination for traveling first/business class as if it is some kind of an absolute luxury. People can't stop talking about "Dude, you gotta fly Singapore Air business class, it is the best thing ever". You know what? My apartment has 900 sq foot of space, a full sized bed, music system, hot shower, balcony and a fully equipped kitchen. I would rather sit in my lounge chair enjoying some Bob Dylan than to sit in that Singapore Air business class seat trapped in a tube full of entitled humans. First or business class is a relative luxury, relative to the economy class. It is not some sort of an absolute experience of ground breaking luxury that leaves me in awe. If I wanted that, I would get a night at the Four Seasons for much less or go eat a fine meal or better yet, go do something that is truly awe-inspiring like stargazing. I am not saying that Business class sucks, I am saying that it has its place - i.e., precisely between take off and landing.
Yeah, most movies hit almost 2.5 hours. For me, many movies build up really well to the intermission and then take some time to get back to that intensity and setting up for the climax. Then how well the climax is done determines where it ends up, rating wise.

It's also standard to spend money on snacks during the intermission.
I wish I knew about this back then. I had a PC with no Internet connection as well (paranoid parents). My school had a T1 for Internet in the late 90’s and I remember schlepping back and forth piles of disks and using file splitting programs to save a large file across multiple floppies.
I don't fly much. I spend my carbon footprint on eating meat for every meal, and driving a not very efficient car. I last went on a plane in July 2010.

It stuck in my mind, because it was hell. So this segment really leaped out at me:

> I sat in the seat for a moment ... My takeaway is that the comfort is roughly comparable.

My takeaway is that the author is full of shit.

Sit in that fucker for 4 hours. Make sure you're over the age of 30 when you do it.
Since this is downvoted, I'll be extra clear: these companies have websites and network traffic that billions of people use directly which means they can serve HTTP cookies and other signals which are not touched at all by ITP.
No, that's why I disable search and watch history. Watching a video won't affect my feed; only upvoting it or subscribing to the channel does that.
I'm with you. Airplane TVs are a scourge on my sanity. It's one thing when a neighbor is watching a movie I can't stop myself from glancing at. It's worse when they're just letting the promo loop roll endlessly. Every flashy cut pulls my eyes away from what I'm trying to look at, no matter how many times I've seen it, and brings me one step closer to snapping. It doesn't help that the only way to turn it off is to turn the screen brightness down to zero, so AFAICT most people just live with it helplessly. Then it gets turned back on to play the safety demonstration, and then the promo loop plays again, rising from the grave like an evil undead king, forcing me to turn it off again with clumsy buttons designed to withstand baby barf.

I may have some issues to deal with.
I'm interested in IPFS for allowing sites to be archivable. If a site I was interested in was hosted with IPFS, then I could mirror their content and help serve them their content on IPFS. If the original host goes down, I'll still be able to help host the content at its original URL, and the URL will still work for anyone else in the world who tries to follow it. And then maybe people will re-host my own content in the same way, even to long after I'm gone if my content is good enough.
this looks awesome I just wish it worked with my older kubernetes clusters...
this is how you end up with darcs as your version control system. It’s provably correct, but about 1 in 10 times it hangs forever and never terminates. Also it doesn’t implement branching because that’s out of scope for the model.
Ha, I don't understand it either, and I used to subscribe to your philosophy (increasing education == decreasing religious affiliation).

But the effect to which this is true is somewhat confuddled. For example many educated people on the conservative right tend to still skew religious. Maybe education alone isn't enough; intelligence, social circles, aptitude for self reflection/self criticism etc, might play more into determining one's religiosity.