skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, my preferred solution would actually be that Apple acts as a PSP and lets Amazon and other companies use IAP without the 30% cut (let’s say it stays at 3 or 4% for instance)

My angle was just that taking 30% instead of 3% doesn’t do anything for me as a customer.
Work-from-home will reduce centralization of residence demand, eventually thinning out the population in urban areas and permitting technocrats to live in high-appeal remote areas. That will reduce rental demand and thus bring about a reduction in prices for renters and buyers.
These differences are academic at best, yes there are options open when your Visa expires, but they're all intentionally very bad options. No tech company will want to keep you on their payroll without a Visa for any extended period of time.

You're better off leaving the country because life without a Visa will be difficult and will eventually result in your arrest when your I-94 expires.
> You need a Visa one way or the other to stay in the US as an alien

No - you need to maintain status, not visa. For H-1 workers and F-1 students, staying on expired visa is quite common and legal - as long as they do the paperwork to maintain their status.

If they leave the US to visit another country while maintaining a legal status, then they cannot return without applying for the visa.

For H-1 workers and students, a visa is only relevant for border crossings.
I was going to say my experience is kind of the opposite — everyone seems to be waxing poetical about "design thinking" but UI work is more and more cut and paste. That being said, the "wrists" may just have moved one abstraction level higher, and they're parroting design thinking tropes (design sprints, etc.) instead of lower level ones.
>No, a "real" solution is one that actually works for everyone.

Good luck ever finding a "real" solution, if "working for everyone" is your requirement. Also, I don't support more homeless shelters, though I can see how my first post could be interpreted as that.
Things like kinetic storage are geographically limited. Most places with available hydroelectric storage already generate electricity from dams.

Chemical storage in the form of natural gas produced by the Sabatier process is very inefficient. Currently it's at 55% efficiency to go from power to gas. Even the most efficient combined cycle plants are currently 65% efficient. End to end efficiency is ~1/3.

Also, using synthetic natural gas requires a means to capture the exhaust of gas plants to actually make it carbon neutral. Converting the fraction of a percent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not currently possible.

The conversation is mostly about batteries because that is the only known option at the moment, other than geographically limited ones.
Why would you expect businesses to solve social problems? That's the government's job.

Be careful what you wish for -- at least you can vote people out of office when you don't think the government is doing a good job. I'd hate to see welfare policies managed by Google.
I don't agree on any of these points, nor do I think the questions are of any relevance. But we will just have to end this thread now, as it is going to get flagged.

(Wouldn't it be nice if HN had a "Take it Private.." mode, hmm..)
You know why it won for me? It had a Windows version from the start, so our team (Mac/Win) could actually get work done, since most other tools are Mac only.
So I think I understand the confusion here.
- In Riemannian manifolds, we take R^n as the building block
- Every hyperbolic space can be locally represented by R^n. If you do this, the hyperbolic manifold will have negative curvature. Hence, hyperbolic space is a Riemannian manifold.
- On the other hand, one can take Minkowski space as a given, and then build spaces where we have space that is locally hyperbolic. So we are trying to complete the analogy:

Locally R^n :: Riemannian
Locally Minkowski [signature (n-1,1) :: ???

The answer to `???` is _Lorentzian/Psuedo Riemannian_. You can check the wiki link for more(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Riemannian_manifold#Pro...), to quote:

> Just as Euclidean space can be thought of as the model Riemannian manifold, Minkowski space with the flat Minkowski metric is the model Lorentzian manifold.

Notice the use of the word flat here: Just as flatness in the Riemannian case means "globally like R^n", flatness in the psuedo-Riemannian case means "globally like Minkowski".

You can also notice that the tangent space structure of the psuedo-Riemannian manifold is different from the Riemannian case:

> Every tangent space of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is a pseudo-Euclidean vector space. [Once again from the wiki page]

As for _why_ we do this, my understanding is that we want to generalize SR(special relativity). For SR, we use a single space of signature (3,1). For GR, we want to 'put together' many such spaces, which are then distorted by gravity (this is curvature of space-time). Hence, we take the local space to be (3, 1), and the global space connects versions of (3, 1).

Does this make sense? Please tell me if this is incoherent; This is my current understanding of the state of things, I could well be wrong.
It’s hard for “honestly wanting to improve the world” to scale to organizations of thousands of people.
> This would be a great place for a citation.

If you actually care, just google it. There are dozens of great large-n metastudies. Chances are you don’t care (mostly based on the fact that you clearly haven’t googled it already), so I have to be jealous of my time - sorry.

> would need to show statistically significant variation controlling for the noise.

Obviously g-factor researchers have thought of this. Current best estimates place 60-80% of human intelligence variance as being genetically heritable.
Everything in this article makes sense to me. But sadly, I don’t know how useful it is to the aspiring founders who are trying to build a product right now. It’s relatively straightforward to see Figma’s success depended on these reasons but what will drive the success of the products that are getting built from scratch right now? I would love to see someone point out technical decision like “browser-first experience” but in 2020 version that’s fundamentally different from what everyone else is doing but will make sense in 2025 in retrospect.
> I don't even know what the argument would be against this measure

The standard argument is that non-approved applications could damage the device, which the device maker would then be on the hook for fixing. This feels like a weak argument to me, given that PC makers have been dealing with this for 30+ years.
It seems like English is this person's second language and writing a blog is a good way to practice. However, there are quite a few spelling and grammar errors. I can really recommend "English Grammar in Use" by Raymond Murphy on the subject. It is impeccable until the intermediate level and "Essential Grammar in Use" is great for advanced speakers.
> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/new-york-exo...

You're aware of how the pandemic uniquely impacted New York, causing 17,000+ deaths in the city alone, along with the massive lock down that accompanied them, right?
My app has been repeatedly rejected because I do not offer free in-app trials (but offer money-back guarantee on my website) and also do not offer in-apps purchases.

I asked if I offered in-app purchases, would the app be approved?

No, since I offer 3-day money-back guarantee on website-based purchses, I must ALSO offer a free trial in the app.

But I don’t want to offer free trials. I’m ok offering a 3-day money-back guarantee, but Apple says that’s not an option for apps.

They insist that I (1) change my business model from 3-day money back guarantee to free trial and (2) purchase a shit ton more infrastructure to handle the audience that free trials attract (I’ve tried free trial business model and it created a lot of use but no more revenue than 3-day money back guarantee). The money-back guarantee seems to weed out a lot of free loaders, at least in this domain — not necessarily others.
I run a diverse set of acquaintances. Whenever my far-left and far-right friends suddenly share their (identical) opinions I take that as a sign of something.
My architect asked me to tell her stories from the future when my family lives in the house she was designing. She asked me to not speak about details of what the house was, but to tell stories of things I dreamed would happen in the house. I told her of multitasking cooking and monitoring homework, of children laughing while chasing around walls in a circuit, of seeing children and pets from the window while doing dishes.

I love my house and all those stories came true.

But: My architect considers herself to be in Le Corbusier's school of thought. She understands that sleek lines and honest materials can serve human stories.
The best case I ever found was insisting that designers and developers sit together without much PM interference. The unplanned communication and collaboration ended up producing gold.
Some do, sometimes relying on things like Storybook.js to do QA in the middle. There's more and more things to maintain consistency between Figma design and e.g. React components being built.
Yeah, well, I'm not in a patient mood today, so I'll just say this is a load of idiotic horseshit not worth anyone's time or serious consideration, and leave it there.
We live in a democracy and a large subset of "everyone" has to be happy with any policy or they won't vote for it, and they will also vote against policies they don't like. "Real" solutions proposed by serious people will take that into account.
Not many folks are developing on servers. Now, I will agree that devs should be able to write the Makefile/Dockerfile/whatever to tell the CI system how to build the artifacts that are deployed to the server, which does probably exceed what an IDE can do.
So again, you have no substantive questions/comments on the criticisms brought up in the blog post other than to call it long and rambling. Nothing on how common variants associated with intelligence don't segregate substantially across populations. Nothing on the poor accounting for population stratification; nothing on lack of replication on populations outside the regressions; nothing on effect sizes; nothing on IQ test score changes over time that are too short for genetic changes...

anyways, the flex is because you now know who I am and what I research. If you have serious questions about the above topics... the same topics for why most people don't take Hsu seriously, feel free to email them to me. In the meantime, I am laughing because you were anything but sincere.
Excellent point. It should probably apply to any hardware where you can load applications. There should always be a way for a user to load their own applications.
Wouldn’t this lead to intense efforts to install malware and scams?
Many/most such people are in the US and already working under something called OPT. They have a timeline where they can work under OPT, and they need to get a conversion to H1-B status before their OPT expires.

So if they were approved in April, and the OPT doesn't expire before October, they can keep working and simply switch to H1-B status in October.
Facebook... privacy features... lol
> Even if you're developing puzzle games for low level Android phones an i5 is not enough

$ sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5287U CPU @ 2.90GHz

Works just fine for Android development.
Anyway it helps to know that "intel" in context has nothing to do with the chip vendor.
Ok you win, since the NSA and the CIA have a complete transparency rule like all the western security services have...it has to be China (or something like that) ;)
Unanimous? That seems extremely unlikely, no?
> There is a difference between an academic dispassionately studying the subject and a man trying to harm other people by saying stuff like this

There is indeed such a difference. Some clarifications:

(1) That's not Hsu.

(2) That's not an academic.

(3) You're not in a position to divine whether or not there was intent to harm in that tweet (re. "trying to harm").

(4) It's a safe bet that no one was harmed by that tweet.

(5) For cognitive democracy[1] to work in a free society, the possibility of marginally hurting someone's feelings can't be grounds to silence people.

[1]: https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/23/cognitive-democracy/
Your comment indicates the assumption that homeless people are homeless not for situational factors, but because of personal characteristics. However, I think it's more accurate to recognize that homelessness is a trap that makes it hard for a person to attain employment and healthy living. For example, a homeless person must invest far more energy to suit up for an interview than a non-homeless person. I see homelessness as a poverty trap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_trap
lol! I'll never understand where these people's pessimism comes from.
Extremely risky, I’d say. There would be people who have already changed jobs pending H1B transfer authorization (since premium processing was suspending earlier), also called joining “on receipt”. Normal processing takes weeks to months and if their transfer applications end up getting rejected now, they lose visa status.
I assume the policy is based on the fact someone at Apple has decided that keyboards on the Apple Watch can never be designed to have a satisfactory user experience, therefore all watch keyboards are banned.

However OP's app is grandfathered in, but when he tries to make other similar apps, they aren't allowed.
No, it's just a way to bring in cheap labor, and bring salaries down. That's it. It's very rarely the case that there's genuinely no one here that can do the jobs. It's widely know that companies are making no legitimate attempt to hire a citizen. I'm not saying this is a good move, and I'm not commenting on the morality of it (ie. who says someone from another country shouldn't be competing for your job)
I would imagine that our body subconsciously pairs amplitude and frequency. BRB, gonna go re-read my entire Oliver Sacks collection.
Australias gullible populace will be humbled and embarrassed for its covering of Americas immense crimes against humanity, soon enough.

The 5-eyes are in a lot of hot water.
A recent conundrum that occurred to me.

Post WWI we see architecture completely incapable of producing stuff ordinary people like. In fact it would appear the opposite, architects secretly revel in designing stuff ordinary people hate.

Yet there was an explosion of high quality popular music. Probably the most productive 100 years in history.
I realize this is Apple's argument but it's also completely specious for the simple reason that Apple has a conflict of interest. They see the App Store as a revenue stream which means they are much more incentivized to protect that revenue stream than to protect their customers.

The App Store has become a protection racket. "Nice app you have there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it." The only practical way to fix this is the way all protection rackets are fixed: The government comes in and says "Stop this or we put you in jail."
The T60 with that wonderful 1400x1050 screen is fab, I agree. (I wrote a sibling comment about using a 2014 Thinkpad as my main box, but I also have some older ones.) The main problem with it from a modern perspective is that it's strictly 32-bit, so can't address more than 4G RAM or run many contemporary Linux distros.

I also have a T40p, from 2003-ish, with the same 1400x1050 display. This is an even nicer computer to use in many ways - the keyboard in particular is even better than that in my T60 - but the difference in performance between 2003 and 2006 is striking. It's almost as much as the difference between 2006 and now. The T6x used Intel Core CPUs, but the T4x was still Pentium M days - single core and quite substantially slower. The T4x still has a PATA drive, so it's harder to put in a modern SSD. It's limited to 2G RAM for reasons I can't remember. It's also much less robust - the T60 series has a completely rigid chassis (and my T60 still looks like new) but the earlier T40 would bend if picked up from the front, which would cause both the case and the tracks on the motherboard to crack (the USB sockets stop working first, then everything else).

The T40p is a lovely, lovely computer - in some ways the best one I own - but it's for occasional document-writing only, not really for development any more.
if you know them, make them public, push them to be illegal. Also, I'm curious to know what those "tricks" are.
> It just shows the lack of common sense of the US government...you prevent them from visiting their family, sometimes even in emergency situations.

With this administration, the cruelty is a feature, not a bug.
The more people speak up about these situations the faster they will be fixed permanently to avoid a neverending flow of PR nightmares.
I am. If you want to have a longer look back period pre-COVID, here are the top 10 fastest growing counties in the US. Majority are sprawl (Texas, Florida, Arizona).

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/estimate...
I thought you could already do this on iOS? I can’t remember where I saw it but I could’ve sworn you can without jailbreak
"The encrypted data along with the signature of the encrypted vote is written to the bigquery table (and not directly to the air-gapped server) which is written to another temp folder (only the account that has access permissions can write to this folder) before being downloaded and processed on air-gapped server."

No, you say it is. From the client's side, all I do is POST my encrypted vote and signature ( https://github.com/VOTEism/server/blob/d8d3752af99d7f4c25c0b... ), encrypted with a public key I just got from an HTTP request to the same server, no? ( https://github.com/VOTEism/server/blob/d8d3752af99d7f4c25c0b... ). I can't tell what you're doing with it after that.

And there's what may be an even worse issue (not even requiring tampering with the public key) - the user's signature appears to go outside of the encrypted blob. Now, I can't tell what the signature is actually over - but if it's, say, just a candidate name or ID, then... without ever decrypting the "encrypted vote", I can figure out who voted for what by just trying possible values and seeing if I can validate their signature.
You are still conflating legal status and visa in an improper way.

The I94 expiration case can happen in practice. I don't know all possible cases, but at least for H1B done through change of status, you are not required to get a visa as long as you do not leave the country. And no, you r I-94 does not expire for three years, so it is entirely possible to complete a whole H1B period without a visa.
Been there, done that. Usually is because you need stronger design/front-end glue (front-end developers with higher than average design skills).
I think you’re missing the point, I’m not offended by the word at all.

But a group of people said they were, and it was no skin off my nose to make life easier for them. Their explanation made total sense to me so I took it as a learning experience to see the world through someone else’s eyes instead of “doubling down” which is pretty alarming behavior tbh.

On the word itself, “someone who has enslaved another human” doesn’t have to be the only definition, but without a doubt it is one of its definitions (and one of the important ones in the history of the US). It probably doesn’t mean anything at all to most people, that’s okay. I don’t think they are racists or anything like that if the oppose this change.
Probably. Just like on your PC. But I'm not sure that is a good reason not to have it. We've put mitigations in place on the PC.
That Peter Eisenman building looks like it'd be a killer skate park. Say what you will about James Howard Kunstler, his TED talk on Architecture seems to be in the right direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
I came to USA for education in 2008-09. Payed for my own education thanks to my parents and their sacrifice of lifetime savings. Did not take any govt funds for education. I graduated with a masters degree with Perfect 4.0 gpa . I worked my way up from financial crisis to working SV today. I have family, kids going to public school and also own a home. I don’t remember anytime taking a pay cut to stay in the country. It’s been more than 10years that I was legally here and always followed the law and I am still 5 years out at minimum from getting a green card. I rely on h1b renewals to keep going.... so it’s not exactly easy for me to pickup and go back to my home country where I haven’t stayed for 10+ years now to “fix” this problem.

There huge nuance which is missed when talking about H1bs ... there are body shops which do cut wages and should be stopped. However the immigration system in USA needs significant reform as well. It’s hard already to build a life for your family with a normal 3 year lease ( h1b duration) for this kind of misinformed political rhetoric to have unintended consequences.
The difference is that ARM has been able to deliver desktop-grade performance at power levels that are suitable for use in an iPad.

Intel and AMD might be able to deliver somewhat higher performance by throwing a whole bunch of cores at the problem, but they do so at a much higher cost in power requirements. And it would be easy enough to design ARM machines with an equal number of cores (or even way more), and still have much lower power requirements.

Intel stagnated, and has high power requirements. ARM has caught up, and has much lower power requirements.

The reasoning seems pretty simple to me.
Those employees pay taxes. They pay into the Social Security which they can't access.

edit: literally, do the math, 420K+ active H1-Bs, they should be at least making upwards of 70K per year, tax revenues should be upwards of a few billion dollars every year.
“Foreign nationals account for 81 percent of the full-time graduate students in electrical engineering, 79 percent in computer science, 75 percent in industrial engineering, 69 percent in statistics, 63 percent in mechanical engineering, 59 percent in civil engineering, and 57 percent in chemical engineering.”

— https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/americas-stem-cri...
Glad to see any green/red team engineers doing any *nix stuff frankly :)

Seems super petty given the wholesomeness but would have preferred if he invested the energy into RPi4 to be honest though given how accessible it is now.
This is why as a European I low key wish that the right wing trend of the US continues (Trump gets another term etc) because the isolationist policies that come from it will be a net benefit to us in the long run. The reduction in US's soft power due to some region's reliance on US money will open up other global players to take their place and break the current chokehold. More competition and options in that vein will be a net benefit overall. I'm not saying it won't be painful in the short term but it'll be worth it. As a moon shot it might even mellow China out a bit if it is further tied to maintaining good relationships with the rest of the world
Sorry, recently the ratelimit has been exhausted almost all of the time. I need to add caching to solve this problem but have not gotten to it yet.
Lots of companies such as Mahindra, Wipro etc bring their people on B1, J1, L1 and employ them illegally. They receive INDIAN wages, while working in US, and the poor folks work just for bagging power back in India. For them, having worked in US increases potential wage in their home country.
Thanks for the advice. I was replying to a comment about buying local, not to the article.
We have h1b employees at our company. If we were to lose them right now it would be a significant disruption.

Personally, I can't take time out of my job to train employees - which in our case could easily take three months. I can't even imagine us finding and hiring some at this time. These guys are an absolute asset to the company.