skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A typical company nowadays has slimmed down, especially in middle management, compared to 50 years ago.

The profits of this slimming have not necessarily trickled down.

Don't trivialize these points. This has been the econo-political trend for decades, and only now is the general public starting to become aware of it (thanks in no small part to Andrew Yang).

It's also the dark secret of the idealistic neoliberalism taught in undergrad economics classes, where they like to emphasize that "the pie has grown" with little regard to how said pie is distributed. Economists understand the subtlety here, but it doesn't end up in the lesson plans and kids come away with some pretty warped ideas about what economic policy.
It's a red flag if the basic operations (like string and array functions) are so inconsistent and weird so as to require use of an IDE or constant use of the docs.
Modelling inertia seems like a special case of a low pass filter? A very useful and physically plausible special case, of course.
AES-GCM-SIV takes a nonce; if you reuse a nonce with two identical plaintexts, you reveal that the plaintexts were identical, but not much more.

With AES-GCM, if you reuse a nonce with two different plaintexts, you reveal the XOR of the two plaintexts!
Nobody said anything about whether or not there is an RTOS involved.
The simple fact is that the vast majority of the people writing programs aren't very good programmers, even if they've been trained to be. We need more languages like Tcl and Lua that are quick and easy for beginners to pick up and become productive with. Add easy interfaces to AWS services for back-end programming, and a Tk-like interface that dumps out JS code for web app front-end programming, and you'd have a real winner...
Nvidia is in an interesting spot - trying to create chips and toolkits for self driving without anyone actually having created the full self driving solution yet. How do you know that if you buy the new AGX chip from them you'll actually end up with a product someone will buy? Some of the other tier one suppliers (I'm looking at you, Continental) are kind of in the same boat.
> comply with the law

It's not a defense of a bad law to say that it forces people to by "comply with the law".
That is definitely false.
As far as I can tell, it's what you'd see hitting https://www.google.com.br/ from Brasil, but in English.
Ah that would make some sense. Certainly I’m expecting extremely good performance from the new computer once everything is running natively.
Nope. It was donated to ACMS https://www.acms.org.au/
MLIR Linalg Dialect Rationale: The Case for Compiler-Friendly Custom Operations
> That's not unusual for computer vision (or any kind of sensor really), [...]

Including human vision. The raw sensory data is pretty messy, and with some ingenious experiments some researchers can get a glimpse of exactly how messy.
This is nice, but the blog post should point out that FastText has language identification built in[1].

The authors knew this, because it compares it in the paper, but doesn't call it out in the post!

Edit: just realised the link on popular "open source" goes to the FastText post I linked below. Still - I think it would have been good to explicitly note this!

[1] https://fasttext.cc/blog/2017/10/02/blog-post.html
Do any of these businesses contest the facts of the case? I'm unaware of any that do, but I don't follow ADA cases very closely. So is the outrage is more that someone is advocating for compliance with the law, by bringing civil suits... as required to enforce the law? Did this "serial plantiff" hit a quota limit or something?

I understand the empathy with the business, but I don't understand the animus towards the disabled person.
Oh I was thinking of Quake. There is also a Doom 64 re-release coming, but don't think that'll have the RTX treatment.
Ask HN: Is Linux the best way to get my elderly parents new cheapo Dell to work?
My parents are in their late 70s, rely on their computer for many essentials, and aren't technical. Their beloved old Toshiba became unusable after it tricked them into updating to Windows 10, so, they bought a new, reasonable-seeming Dell all-in-one for 600 bucks. Apparently it arrived broken, and they returned it and got another. Same result, so I decided to take a look.

(They don't see why a computer should cost more than 600 bucks with taxes and shipping, and they want Windows (7), which they think of as "how a computer should be." Before anyone suggests an iPad, they'll consider it when it's 24", easy on the eyes, and sits on the computer desk in the computer corner.)

Anyway, out of the box it takes 10 minutes to get to the desktop and then pegs the disk. I figure it's updating itself and give it a good half day to do as it pleases. Now it's updated and not much better. I remove all the crapware, disable all the telemetry junk, generally remove everything I can. It's better, but still takes ages to get to usable and occasionally pegs the disk with various Windows processes. Because it does so sporadically, the performance drops confuse the hell out of my parents, who think THEY are doing something wrong.

I figure: Windows 10 Home has its own agenda and always will. That means it will never perform well without an SSD, and my parents will never have an SSD at their price-point. So, what to do? Invest a day to see if I can coerce Windows into behaving? I haven't used it in a long time, and I'm not sure I'll succeed. Convince them to switch to better hardware or an iMac? The cost, new UX and their stubbornness are a problem. Or wipe Windows and install the Pro edition? I'm sure it'll cost me and not sure it'll be better behaved.

Or, install Linux (probably Mint), hope they like it and it likes their cheapie computer, and hope for the best. Seems like the least-bad option, but giving Linux to an elderly person also feels somehow wrong.
That may be true, but how many lay people selected for jury duty know that? Also how many are going to believe a defendant where a lawyer says it's not illegal? They don't care if it's legal or not. They think it's abhorrent and will sentence you to a fate you now how to spend YEARS to get through the supreme court...again!
The loss of efficiency is still probably worth it. At least, it's worth it for systems where failure has severe consequences. You wouldn't want to ride an elevator where they skipped all the paperwork, for example.
Study claiming coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms flawed
Just to clarify I'm no expert in USB in any way, shape, or form and do not wish to claim to be. I have never worked with USB (beyond quite literally sticking a device in the port or reading about which USB storage drive to get) prior to reading the original article this post linked to and don't want to give the false impression I'm an expert in the field because I've read a few documents/demos followed by a couple of blog posts after.
Realtime has nothing to do with absolute performance. It's about meeting your deadlines.

And, of course, often real-time systems have much worse throughput performance than a non-real-time system on the same hardware. After all, latency guarantees are not free.
I was curious a out some of their early sort-of cloud offerings around 2013/2014, partly under the Watson brand. They had some interesting services for text analysis similar to services like AlchemyAPI (which IBM actually purchased not much later) that I wanted to check out. But they were also starting to try and offer more general purpose cloud services, albeit it beta forms, and I poked around a bit.

My recollection is that nearly all of them were attempts to back-door users into their
traditional enterprise software, not to actually offer true cloud platforms.

For example I remember an "analytics" offering that promised on demand instant analytics environments for exploring data and generating insights. I was interested! In reality, it was a thinly veiled portal into a hosted cognos environment. And if you're not familiar with cognos, let me tell you, while still entrenched in some Enterprise environments, it is an object case study in crufty klunky product design that has accreted disparate layers of functionality over decades. The Advent of Cognos 8 in 2005 simply smashed together a bunch of prior products like report net, power play,metric manager, and others that worked together poorly, if at all. I won't bore you further with the details except to say this, along with similar non-strategic product design by Business Objects, is why products like Tableau grew so fast in popularity.

So, yeah, as the cloud hit its stride in the 2012-2015 era, IBM was just trying to slap "cloud" labels on something they could use to sell the same old stagnant products.
This is a great company with an awesome engineering culture — you should talk to them if this connects with you at all. (I spent some time with this team in 2018 and only have amazing things to say about them)
On a related subject, I've learned speaking to some blind programmers that Apple is very good as far as accessibility. It was fascinating watching them use their iphones.

They said google/android was hit or miss, usually miss.

EDIT: I also recall the quote...

"When we started Apple, Steve Jobs and I talked about how we wanted to make blind people as equal and capable as sighted people, and you'd have to say we succeeded when you look at all the people walking down the sidewalk looking down at something in their hands and totally oblivious to everything around them!" ― Steve Wozniak
> Anyone who criticizes McKinsey has no idea how consulting, or real companies, or the real world, works.

What corrections would you suggest for the article?
U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada
Tests suggest Microsoft lets enterprise customers shut off Windows 10 telemetry
Not to mention, there's literally the exact same business two blocks away that IS ADA-compliant.

This has nothing to do with not being able to buy coffee, and everything to do with hurting the business in the hopes of getting a large settlement.
While personally I do find it a tad creepy, I'd 100% rather pervs draw it than actually exploit children. It's a solution that too many right wing morons would never be satisfied with.
You can't use a TDD relay operator?
The Stoicism of Benjamin Franklin
This is one of the issues that I have with how CS and software engineering is taught in universities.

Yes, you could look at this as "vocational training" and not "education". But you could also look at this as education with a hands-on component using commonly available tools.

Sure, you could have students memorize a list of git commands. That would be terrible. But you could also teach students to understand how a distributed VCS works, the graph operations involved in commands like "checkout", "merge", and "push", and the underlying way of thinking about data and how it changes. That both provides students with an extremely useful practical skill as well as setting them up for understanding much more complicated topics like CRDTs and distributed data synchronization. And when the tool that was used gets replaced, so what? If the concepts used by the tool were taught correctly, then picking up a new one should be trivial. I've been through countless IDEs and debuggers and version control systems in my career, but the reason I can do that is because at some point I learned the first one of each and was then able to transition that knowledge along the way.

"Training" gets looked down in a way that seems actively harmful to me. Just because a tool might not be relevant in the future doesn't mean there's not a huge amount of value that can be gained from learning it today.
*By not being able to buy coffee from the vendor at this particular location, instead of the ADA-compliant location two blocks away…
Your statement would be more convincing if you provided a counterexample...
surprised it went for only 1 mil
Seems like the building owner should be obligated to make the changes to the building.
I guess you're saying that the earnings of the 1% stifle the earnings of the 99%. Do you know how we can go about verifying this, as well as finding out what upper percentile of earners stifle the earnings of others? For example do the earnings of the top 10% stifle the earnings of the top 90% as well?
This page does not show Taiwan as a separate country, which is ludicrous, but is in line with the WHO policy. Because of this policy (mostly dictated by the Chinese government), not only Taiwan is excluded from this map, but Taiwanese experts are also barred from participating in WHO meetings, even though there are already 10 cases diagnosed in Taiwan and Taiwan has a "good" history with epidemics (the current vice presdient, Chen Chien-jen, served as Minister of Health from 2003 to 2005 and was praised for effectively managing the SARS epidemic through quarantine and screening procedures [1]).

I recommend using the Johns Hopkins map [2] or Corona Help website [3] for more accurate information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Chien-jen

[2] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

[3] https://corona.help
I have no clue why I never thought of that. I was kinda in a hurry and needed stuff up and running quick so I just went with the first solution that came to mind.
Sorry about that I'll edit the post with an explicit mention right away.
And compliance does not appear to be the goal, or the outcome, in cases like these where the business folds.
I do appreciate your intent, but I learned that to get the intended response you need to add way more humility into your provocative question. Especially in written communication amongst strangers, where there's a lot of contexts from body language etc missing.
The disabled person works with a serial litigator to sue. They might win $4k in damages. If they do, serial litigator is able to recover attorney's fees which can top $200k. Serial litigator can demand a $50k settlement rather than you spending $100k defending and risking being $304k out of pocket in total.

Thus, it's possible to extract settlements far beyond any actual damages incurred by the disabled person. This is what makes it a shakedown operation.
No. It would be cheaper to get them an SSD and a little more RAM.
related: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/02/the-new-red-sc...
> private alternatives introducing inefficiencies in the form of rent seeking

Um, what? Rent seeking is one way of taking advantage of government-granted privileges. How are FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc. rent seeking?
must the environmentalist arm themselves?
Not much evidence, but they stopped reading emails to target ads a while ago.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-wi...

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en
So which is it - not Pete's fault, or something to be proud of?

For the record, I grew up very poor. Lower-middle class was an unattainable aspiration for my parents. I'm doing very well for myself, and have never compromised my morals to do so. I turned down good paying jobs when it hurt to do so because the work was slimy.

You don't have to sell yourself out to make money. If you do, that's a choice.

(To be clear, I'm not saying Mayo Pete is a sell out - I don't really care enough to look, but from what I've seen he seems like a true believer in the notion that his job is to tell the proles why they can't have nice things while cutting deals in wine caves. It is easy to understand why the Democrats produce so many of these people; what is inexplicable to me is why anyone except Republicans like them.)
$15bn a year: YouTube reveals its ad revenues for the first time
Going through Linux From Scratch[1] manually and reading each component, while allowing yourself the time to look into interesting bits of each, is essentially this. I did it back in the early 2000's, and view it as one of the most useful educations I've ever gotten on how a Unix-like system functions (even if a lot of the knowledge is somewhat obsoleted now for many Linux distros with the introduction of systemd). I was doing it as research for how to ship a custom distro for a small purpose-built device, and while that never panned out, I've never once regretted spending the time to go through the process.

1: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Well, there's some trade-off between false positives and false negatives. Otherwise the optimal would be never to start the car.

But yeah, the scales are heavily tipped.
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Looks like $4,000 is the minimum and it's per offense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_Civil_Rights_Act

>Combined with the California Disabled Persons Acts, disability access plaintiffs are allowed to tack on state claims for money damages onto requests for injunctive relief in ADA lawsuits. The act allows plaintiffs to claim treble damages with a minimum of $4000 per access violation plus attorneys fees.
I think I maybe was a bit too vague. I am aware that they aren't 100% labor or currency oriented both ways. I think what I was saying was it was more prominent. What I was getting at was these "labor vouchers" are essentially worthless if there isn't a supply for you to use it. So labor isn't exactly just what the state needs, but what you need. So instead of working for a wage, you work for yourself making something you'll need.
It’s not necessarily about how much damages they suffered. Statutory damages also serve as a deterrent and a way of motivating plaintiffs to pursue ADA compliance suits.

In CA’s cast it looks like statutory damages are up to 3x the damages, with a minimum of $4000. That minimum can apply multiple times, as in Hubbard v. Twin Oaks Health and Rehabilitation.

>Plaintiff asserts that, because the minimum statutory amount is $4,000.00 per violation, and she encountered the architectural barriers a minimum of 15 times, she is entitled to damages in the amount of $60,000. Given that defendant does not present any viable evidence to the contrary, plaintiff will be awarded the statutory minimum of $4,000.00 per violation, totaling $60,000.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/20041331408fsupp2d92311235
This seems weird to me.

Creating a working implementation of an algorithm like Chacha20 is really not that hard if you're comfortable with bit twiddling. It's much harder to create an implementation that works and doesn't have hidden problems, like being vulnerable to timing attacks. So they've made it slightly easier to do the easier part of crypto (get a correct result), while increasing their attack surface and the amount of effort that it takes to do the hard part of crypto (getting a result securely).
Kids have short attention spans, if you put them in front of a computer, why the heck would they pay attention to boring class stuff, instead of play a game or watch youtube? Learning hands on is essential when you are young. Homeschooling is fine, but remote learning is just not practical.
The quality of debuggers varies hugely, especially since different languages support different debugging features (e.g., conditions vs exceptions vs neither). Logging works pretty much the same everywhere.
Yes, mostly. Your brain also cheats and adjusts your memory retrospectively to a certain degree.
Given Epic's behaviour and reactions to people bringing up their flaws I wouldn't be surprised if they pull the carpet out beneath the devs' feet as soon as they think they have the market cornered. Right now they're slinging Fortnite money around everywhere to try to resolve all their problems but that's not a good way to earn trust.
I've always wondered why containerization hasn't become a player in personal moving.

I think I looked at PODS and the like when moving, but they have non-standard containers and end up being kind of expensive.

I know it can be done, because the SO of a friend of mine moved from the US to guam and got the container I believe for $1200.
"ADA has a purpose. However, it should be limited to corporations above a certain revenue (like how GDPR is limited) and the cost of non-compliance drastically increased. At this point, Apple can afford to be non-compliant while this coffee shop has to close, which is the worst of all possible worlds."

Does that mean that you also believe that only corporations above a certain revenue should comply with laws against racial and sexual discrimination?

If not, what makes discrimination against the disabled worthy of such a limit while sexual and racial discrimination aren't?
No, I had savings, and didn't want to work, so I didn't work for the amount of time it took to have no savings left.
Amazon's HQ2 fiasco was driven by Bezos' envy of Musk
> Just testing for Firefox and chrome/edge will be nice.

Thanks! Most thinks just work on Firefox but I also see a number of things not working because certain people just can't be bothered to:

a) learn to not use Chrome-specific hacks instead of the normal way

b) just test their sites with the second most used browser engine
> There's an easy way for them to win - pay the drivers some amount, perhaps their 50th percentile earnings of late, despite them not driving.

That's not how contracting works.
Yes. See eg https://hillelwayne.com/talks/beyond-unit-tests/
Well you can, there is a federal program you could take advantage of an IP Relay program to make the phone call:

https://www.fcc.gov/general/internet-based-trs-providers

I would suspect that's how they can get away with something like that.
Yup, that is exactly what I wrote in ~99 about Doom, that compared to modern games of the day (Q3, HL2) a lot had been lost. Besides the hordes of enemies, openness of the levels, and many other things: http://strlen.com/maps/pnf_columns.html
SGX is theoretically strong, but the implementation matters. If the motivation and budget is there, SGX enabled chips could be decapped and reverse engineered. It would be an immense challenge though, so I doubt the budget would be there for cheating. Implementation errors are a more realistic target.

But, assuming you can't cheat on the system itself, you can probably cheat with the video/audio signal and generating USB inputs. It's harder than reading ram, but it's not feasible to stop it. At that point, you have to depend on behavioral targeting and what not (which they're already doing)
2019-nCoV targets ACE2 receptor cells in the lung.

Current estimated death rate is 15% (based on now slightly out-of-date Lancet articles).

Asian men are the most susceptible group.

Male / female infection rate currently about 3:1 (but based on low statistics).

Ratio of ACE2 cells in Asian men to Asian women is about 4:1.

Ratio of ACE2 cells in Asian men compared to whites or African-Americans is 5:1.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1....

See some criticisms of the methods and results in the comments. Interesting correlation of ACE2 to stress and high blood-pressure, so could be strongly affected by some treatments for hypertension.

It is just about possible, in some qualitative hand-waving way, that reducing susceptibility by 80% could drop R0 from 5 to 1, hence reduce the threat of an epidemic in other regions.