skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will repost my quick immigration quiz, for Americans/others who may be unfamiliar with what the typical visa process is for an immigrant:

1. An international student graduates at the top of their class in Stanford in CS, and goes to work for a tech company. What visa do they use?

The correct answer is F1 (OPT) for one year, with OPT STEM extension for 2 extra years, while they apply for H-1B. If they weren't a STEM major, regardless of their actual role, they have a single year to apply for H-1B, with a ~30% chance of success by lottery, before being asked to leave the country. Regardless of their qualifications.

2. Instead of staying in tech for their career, they work for a year in a tech firm, then go to MIT for CS grad school. They perform excellently, having many publications under their name, doing several industry internships at Microsoft/Google labs. They then get accepted to a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Columbia. What visa do they apply for?

Still H-1B.

My understanding is that the latest executive order includes several exemptions, but I still want to emphasize how widely used and important H-1B is as an channel for introducing talent into the US.
Yes and no. You get to hire PhDs and senior developers into entry level positions, with entry level pay, and then keep them there until they get a green card and show you the middle finger. Glorified indentured servitude. And I say this as a former H1-B myself (sponsored by Microsoft). Once I got a green card (which, BTW, took 7 years), my career took off like a rocket. Elsewhere.
Object-Oriented Design Heuristics (2017) [slides]
Goldman Sachs now has its own font, which you can use
> [...] I wish DNS had some way to define a load balancing algorithm for clients to use, so browsers could make load balancing decisions.

There's actually the germ of an interesting idea in that statement. If I'm going to go to the trouble, let's say, of running a local TCP forwarder (good for the whole device), can I run a packet sniffer at the same time and watch netflows and edit the responses I return to the device based on what I see performance-wise concerning those flows?

Expert me says that web sites are loaded with too much cruft and since the far end terminations are spread far and wide, there's not enough opportunity to apply that learning in any practical sense. But I could be wrong. (https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo)
I've often considered an alien planet with an atmosphere so thick that one couldn't see the night sky. Would inhabitants of this world even be interested in space travel? How much longer would it take for them to discover space, or even effective navigation of their own sphere? Maybe these people just wouldn't be explorers.
I disagree, I don't think they're anywhere near locking down to the iOS level.

Could you explain some of these incremental lock downs? I honestly can't think of any that are genuine restrictions, but that might just be because I don't encounter them with what I do.
because you dont want your competitors to get anymore air than they are getting already. 73-17 is better than 70-20. if youtube gets its act together on the streaming front they are a big problem because so many more people that don't currently watch streams use it compared to twitch.
They are entertaining enough to a big group of people and they managed to build and sustain their audience. It's like asking is Robert Downey Junior the best actor in the world. If you don't see the value that just means you aren't the target audience
I prefer to combine the approaches. Read blogs to get a general sense of what's worth studying more deeply. Then study it more deeply with a textbook or MOOC. Then read blogs and watch videos to help clarify the concepts that you didn't quite grasp. Usually your understanding will be solid enough by that point that you'll be able to judge the quality of the material pretty well.
FWIW when Twitch started as justin.tv it was much, much poorer quality than 8000k.
> I consider a trip to a stationary shop a real treat..

Yeah. Those ones which move around can be really hard to find.
I still think that comments here, which require some minimal creative effort and are attached to identifiable user names, are usually somewhat legitimate, and more likely to be from fanbois than financiers. Voting to amplify or silence perspectives, on the other hand, entirely lacks accountability.

(I'm curently taking bids on an HN account with 4575 interweb points.)
Those curves also apply to Intel & AMD. As in, you can drop frequency on AMD to also achieve significant improves in perf/watt. That's not a unique aspect of the A12. That curve is more "this is how TSMC's 7nm transistors behave" type of thing.

> 4x the perf/watt of Intel and AMD competitors in Geekbench

Geekbench only measures perf, not perf/watt. It does not try to achieve maximum perf/watt, nor has Apple tuned to the A12/A13 to achieve maximum perf/watt in Geekbench either. Geekbench's single thread numbers where it "competes with Intel & AMD" are also these ~5W per core power figures.

I'm not sure where you're getting this random 4x better number from anyway?
Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea

https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...
I'm a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, and we've written a bunch of different guides over the years. For a good intro that discusses first steps with flags and also how to approach testing flagged code, see our eBook "Effective Feature Management"[1] (Download page is right behind the form, you don't need to wait for an email or anything)

One of the best ways to start is add a simple kill-switch to low-impact code. (More about that in the book.) But, I have to ask: what are the main issues that are blocking you from starting? Is it that you need ideas for cases, or are worried about breaking something, or just want to ensure best practices from the start?

We're constantly writing new guides, both as blog posts[2] and long-lived guide articles on our documentation site[3]. Feel free to message me on Twitter[4] if you need more help!

[1] https://launchdarkly.com/effective-feature-management-ebook/

[2] https://blog.launchdarkly.com/

[3] https://docs.launchdarkly.com/guides

[4] https://twitter.com/yoz
Must have missed it. Where was the update?
iOS gets some things right where macOS gets them wrong. That doesn’t mean that they’ll merge the operating systems, when they literally just split up iOS and iPadOS to allow more depth of differences between those platforms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetic–usability_effect
Meh. You're in tech. The CEO could be a dildo on a stick for all I care, the only thing that should matter are the products itself. Otherwise you're just buying into a cult.
At least disputing it is an option. Apple’s terms don’t really allow for disputing; “ALL SALES ARE FINAL”.

I bank with Chase, who makes disputing a charge take a few minutes from their website.
I dont believe android has anything quite like sign in with apple, that lets you make an account at a service with only your name, and provides you a one time use random email address as a forwarder to your real email.
Even iOS doesn't have full keyboard support.

Trying to delete (instead of backspace) brings up the emoji palette, even using Apple's own keyboards.
Why does a CPU running 500+ gigaflops struggle to animate a gif? Is the software stack really that bad?
Is MS Teams for Windows written with Electron? It is on Mac.
A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist in San Francisco
The lc0 group has switched the result prediction to predict win, loss, and draw probabilities instead of just win/loss. Some information can be found in https://lczero.org/blog/2020/04/wdl-head/
The problem is there's only so much room for automobiles in a city. The more you decrease traffic, the more you'll induce demand to fill those improved traffic flow patterns.

The more infrastructure that is built downtown, the more people want to be downtown.
Your hope has come true! Kindof. I don't think this comes with a dashboard, but the data is there

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/waze-for-cities-data-puts...
> Think how much investment you have to make on a child's health care and education to make them into a highly skilled workforce.

Let me fix that for you:

Think how much investment you miss out on — investment in a child's education to make them into a citizen who will carry your country's patrimony into the following generation.
My point is imperialism is a distraction. The Koreas, Taiwan even Singapore were under Japanese imperial rule and were destitute countries —one of them isn’t even officially recognized as such, yet have prospered. And the Koreas provide a “twins study”. SKorea even went through military rule (arguably Taiwan too) yet they’ve prospered.
Tell that to the majority of displaced American workers who lost their jobs and whose lives spiraled into homelessness and drug addiction because their jobs and dignity were lost to imported labor.
> Moore's law is dead.

GTX 1080 - 11b transistors (2016)

RTX 3080 - 45b transistors (2020)

From Wikipedia

"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years."
That's true from a political perspective but it's definitely not true from an engineering perspective. Got enough energy to hoist almost anything you like into orbit if you choose your thrust and scale appropriately. As to what happens to the ground underneath, that's a different problem :)
> Safari is the best way to surf the web on all your Apple devices.

It's also the only way to do that, other browser engines are deemed too impure to run on Apple hardware.

> improves on industry-leading performance

According to these benchmarks[1], the only performance category where has a large "lead" is using about 50% more memory than the next competitor.

Why do Apple even bother writing fiction about Safari. It's not like Apple users have any other choice.

[1]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/chrome-edge-firefox-opera-or-safa...
Professional users of Logic (but also Pro Tools) tend to be very conservative with their upgrades. People who use Logic for a living won’t be using this for years to come.
> StackOverflow is intended to be a repository of good questions and answers, rather than a service of helping people solve their problems.

Can you elucidate how these are not the same thing? In my mind, a good answer is one that solves a problem proposed in a user's question. A good question is one that poses a problem other users are / will also share.
Should have happened years ago, and the fact that they've only gotten to it now just proves they are going down hill.

As they say, "Apple: Going out of business since 1984."
> I fully expect any reduction in costs for Apple will get sent to their shareholders, not the consumers.

Apple's margins are consistent, if their costs go down significantly, pricing comes down or features increase. The iPad is a perfect example, for years it was $500 and they just kept increasing the feature-set until eventually they could deliver the base product for significantly less.

Shareholders benefit from increased market share just as much as they do from increasing margins, arguably more. The base iPad and the iPhone SE both "cannibalize" their higher end products, but significantly expand their base. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a $800 MacBook enter their lineup shipping with the same CPU as the iPad.
Does this apply to the H-1B1-Singapore?
Lessons learned from (almost) failing to deploy a simple AI model in the Cloud
What number would that be though? Any number is going to be made up and subjective based on the individual. I might day my data is worth $1000 a year while it’s worth $1 to you.
I'm an American citizen with a Canadian wife and would love for more companies to have offices in Canada. We would definitely move if the job market was better compared to California.
The real-time nature of Mixer streams was amazing. I loved being on voice chat with friends while watching their streams, it felt instantaneous. Hopefully more platforms can pick this up (looking at you, 7 second latency Steam streaming).
I'd never gladly give up all of the things about college that had nothing to do with coursework. Yes, over the years the discipline, fluidity and acumen required and acquired from mentors was invaluable. But that was maybe one-third of the value.

To describe the rest? let's say: the concentration of similarly-oriented students and the time to explore and grow in an intense and stimulating environment. But - then - college was a lot less expensive.
Thanks for the info. That link is broken for me though — is it up for anyone else?
> So the bottom line is: “your previous tools won’t work, will have to be rewritten, the burden is on the developers so we can rake in more cash”

Did you miss the part where there’s going to be a “Rosetta 2” AOT/JIT translation layer?
> Imagine Lebron wishing your kid happy birthday

This makes sense if the service is relatively unknown on small. But if Lebron is mass-producing birthday wishes, and if everybody knows he's mass-producing birthday wishes, then wouldn't the coolness actor diminish somewhat?
Of course we could: https://xkcd.com/1162/
If they have a number or publications as you say, they may be eligible to apply for O-1 visa. I know a couple of people who received it and (in my opinion) got it for less than what you may think of as good technical merit
Using built-in OS indexing features to find clear text credentials
Design allows computer engineers to mix systems to boost performance
Sure they could, but it still needs to make sense from either a growth or a defense play. I don't see that for any of these companies.
The 1080 and the rumored 3080 are not the same architecture: they didn't just get die shrunk.

For the same number of SMs, you're also paying substantial area for the tensor cores, ray tracing acceleration, independent thread scheduling, different I/O to support memory technologies, more NV link, larger caches, etc. That stuff didn't happen for free.

A simply die shrunk 1080 would have had more TFlops than what we have, but it wouldn't be as interesting of a product.
There are lots of data quality and simulation assumption issues that prevent results from being meaningful. I'm mostly positioning this as a way to get people interested in coming up with specific ideas, but of course I'd love to reach trustworthiness parity with industry standard traffic sims.

I actually got started in traffic sim while I was in Austin! If you know anybody there who'd be interested in putting in some work to get the area running smoothly, I'd love to include it as a second city in the game.
I read "Hollow Kingdom" a little while back, pretty good novel about how a crow that learned human language saves the world from a zombie invasion.
exactly, thanks
undoubtedly, that’s capitalism! but they may also introduce some price cuts. These would probaby increase units sold, so they could better take advantage of their increased margin.
this is something that's looking at getting moved to storage controllers on motherboards, ex: PS5/Xbox consoles so that compressed data can be streamed directly to the GPU. Hopefully we'll start to get this type of tech after it's been proven in the console space.
No? This is an odd submission.
Have you tried Welcome to Lightfields?

If they get that working with video, it's absolutely worth it.
It’s entirely reasonable for a free service. Apple hosts and distributes terabytes of free apps.

But Hey! isn’t free, they just charge you using a different platform. Maybe 30% is too much for Apple to charge them, but zero percent is definitely too low.
Looking at the results, there doesn't seem to be a large difference between the two languages. And it is a very small sample size. I am not sure how to interpret it.

Here is a link to the paper: https://brussels.evolang.org/proceedings/paper.html?nr=10

> Language discrimination has previously been found in human infants, cotton-top tamarin monkeys, rats, and java sparrows. This ability might also be relevant for the crow, a social passerine with extensive auditory perceptual skills living in close contact with humans…
ARM-Based Apple Silicon Changes Mac Forever
Poster above me, reusing their number to keep the thought cogent. The point is if the revenue per user is low enough some (many?) would want to opt out of data/privacy infringement and pay for the service directly, maybe even at a greater cost than revenue share.

Also keep in mind that some percent of that revenue is from other things (ads for example). They could still make ad revenue on paid users, just marginally less.
> The question is to what extent culture serves to magnify any underlying differences.

This sounds like irrelevant bikeshedding between genotypes and phenotypes. It also doesn't have any bearing against my claims, c.f. my original comment about "significant population-level phenotypic differences between ethnic groups".
> (WFH employees not getting on VPN for days at a time, for example).

This is a metric that should be taken with a huge grain of salt in the world of cloud services and bad VPN software.
A secure for psychologists to track client therapy
we did a lot of our early experimentation with small networks. I don't think we went any smaller than 5 layers of 64 filters as we mentioned here: https://medium.com/oracledevs/lessons-from-alpha-zero-part-5...
Of course they send that information... it is just the information that the advertiser would get anyway when you see their ad. Do they send the tracking cookie though, even before you buy?
It’s exactly your statement.
I see you worked at Google at the same time I was there. I'm surprised we never got in touch, I helped work on a project that did traffic light optimization research, also investigating some of the approaches you mentioned, such as microbidding. We didn't build our own microsimulator but instead worked off of SUMO + OSM, which I'm sure you're familiar with. :)

I no longer work there either, but feel free to reach out if you're interested in chatting.
And surprisingly frustrating. Why is my city gridlocked? Because only the left most lane of my 6 lane avenue is being used by these 1000 hot dog trucks leaving my port.
I reckon this move will drive an arrow straight through the entire desktop market.

Why would I say that? Because the assumption desktop developers have made for decades is that Wintel/Lintel is the norm, everything else is a side dish. And Macs since their Intel shift have conformed to this, if not in terms of API, then certainly in the core architecture decisions. And that means that you design the software "for x86". If you try to run Linux software on a Chromebook you'll often have a nasty experience with these assumptions making things break. And nobody is paying much attention to Win10 on ARM chips.

But now you have a top-down mandate from Apple, which is in a strong position to direct the desktop platform again, possibly the strongest it's ever had. Everyone who follows Apple knows that they tend to obsolete things quickly; they have played this game before. The move they've made is to usher all the developers, not just the mobile ones, to ARM. And that means throwing out a substantial part of old codebases optimized for many generations of Intel chips. It pressures the Linux junkies to be more cross-platform, which in turn topples over some assumptions around Linux desktops themselves. The major distributions will scramble to support Apple hardware.

And a consequence of the assumptions in Linux changing is that you can start doing some ground-up rethinking too. "We're redoing this part of the codebase, let's change the design." And with Apple support may also come Surface support, Chromebook support - giving all the ARM platforms equal treatment. So it's likely that multiple operating systems will see a generational shift, not just Apple's. A big chain of events that will explode some projects and leave others untouched.

And then at the end of that, we might have RISC-V hardware coming over the horizon.
Maybe look at work output instead of hours.
Clearly you haven't seen crime or police data. It's truly, truly awful. That, and the people running analysis on it are just as bad:

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-police-arrested-more...

Garbage in crunched by garbage is still garbage out.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process

Note that the marketing name is meaningless, has nothing to do with feature sizes. Also note that "Intel 10nm" is denser than "TSMC 7nm" and Intel's planned "7nm" should be denser than "TSMC 5nm".
Am I missing something? I don't have a button for the camera or for the flashlight.

https://i.imgur.com/tyOYZXW.png

It's not for lack of space on the screen, but maybe Apple got lazy with designing for older phones and just deleted it. Once upon a time I think the camera was indicated better.
9 year gaming/esports industry insider here.

I don't understand why Mixer, after failing to penetrate the game streaming market - didn't pivot to a tech/coder oriented streaming service. It would have better integrated with Microsoft's other products (GitHub, Teams, etc), and trivialized finding marketing/ad-fill partners.

Twitch has a 'science & technology' channel grouping which is nice, but there's a demographic mismatch and thus it has less than 10k viewers on average. This niche would have been a shoe-in for a Microsoft service.

I also wonder what would have happened in a parallel universe where Beam wasn't acquired by Microsoft.
> Those curves also apply to Intel & AMD. As in, you can drop frequency on AMD to also achieve significant improves in perf/watt. That's not a unique aspect of the A12. That curve is more "this is how TSMC's 7nm transistors behave" type of thing. Geekbench only measures perf, not perf/watt. It does not try to achieve maximum perf/watt, nor has Apple tuned to the A12/A13 to achieve maximum perf/watt in Geekbench either. Geekbench's single thread numbers where it "competes with Intel & AMD" are also these ~5W per core power figures.

While similar curves also apply to Intel and AMD, their mobile parts are drawing 10-20 watts per core to acheive the very top results. When you're using all the cores together under a 6W TDP (as apple is doing), Apple is able to achieve a much higher Geekbench result than Intel or AMD parts set to a comparable TDP, or even 3x the TDP. Compare multi-core Geekbench scores of Apple's parts running at a 6W TDP to Intel or AMD's most efficient parts running at a 15W TDP, and you'll see that Apple outperforms them while drawing 1/3 the power. Similar curves apply, but Apple can achieve far morea at 1W per core than any x86 competitors.
It's not at all bullshit. The H1B criteria mean nothing and are trivial to game. They've been abused continuously to bring in entry-level talent, avoid hiring Americans and lower wages across the board.

This is a great decision and one of the few good things about this presidency. H1Bs as they now exist should be banned outright and only specific VISAs handed out based purely on merit.
What about racist victims?
No Mangekyô Sharingan. I can't say it's truly complete.
Wowww Game giant Mixer to transition audience to Facebook Gaming
> its the only shipping ARM chip with SVE

IIRC the extension was specifically designed by Fujitsu for their needs, so it is not surprising.
Looks like they've been selling around 18 million macs a year (https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-ma...). If you ignore individuals having multiple computers, and assume the average lifetime of a machine is 5 years, you get 90 million people with a Mac. I don't know how many developers there are, but saw 20-25 million in some estimates.
Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems (2000) [pdf]