skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We lost a great pizza place down here in Gilroy for the same predatory-ADA reason. The owners were/are great folks, and deserved better. I've known many small businesses that have had this kind of issue, too, and almost without exception the suit had no moral merit. It's infuriating, and I say this as someone who is very much in favor of ADA-style accommodations in general. But they way things currently work as written is fundamentally broken.
Have you ever played a multiplayer game when someone else is cheating?
How much should companies charge to review your resume when you send it in? Job interviewing is a time sink for everyone. Imo the ideal case is to read over the resume, have a phone call and be pretty sure that as long as they are what they say then they will be hired which the take home test can do.

I have had companies send out a test as the first step and then reject me after completing it because my resume didn't meet their needs even though they had that info to start with.
so disappointed this was not about Darude
Yes absolutely a data schema question. And yes, you can set whatever arbitrary policy you want. eg "nmn" for no-middle-name. Or require that a horse's birthday is recorded as 1st August.

But SQL and the relational model is meant to be a logical system, and I'm interested in preserving some conceptual integrity in the domain modelling.
It's a problematic comparison because few people in Canada earns $170K CAD writing software unless they are contracting for the government. Even then.

There are a few people lucky enough to 'make the deal' that you have.

Also, there are very few 'great companies' in Canada to work for, that can leverage high end talent - Canada is 1/10th the size of the US and spends less than 1/2 on R&D per capita. This is because Canada doesn't generally have the kinds of companies that are R&D intensive. Unfortunately.

I think most Toronto devs would happily move to California for a huge pay increase and a chance to work for a 'great company' whereas I feel few wold do the reverse.

I'm really wary of reading NPR articles like this because I feel they are basically playing the facts into a narrative of their political viewpoint.
Have a federal trust fund mandatory advanced prosthetics.
I'd hit the brakes.

But then again, I am actually able to discern what is a bridge and what isn't, and thus don't have the need to suddenly cover my eyes and scream, "I'm confused and I don't want to drive anymore!"
That sounds difficult but also doesn't sound like a bad idea.
The literal cause is that several HN readers clicked the "flag" button, and not many upvoted it.

People probably flagged it because it's about identity politics, which doesn't usually lead to constructive discussion on HN.

For more about what makes good submissions, see the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I want to get on the Pixel phones but every time I dig details of the latest models, I get turned off. They seem to be always one generation behind, For example, Pixel's highest memory model is always 2nd highest for iPhone and now Pixel can be expected to carry the camera system of iPhone 10 instead of 11 Pro. All these show off in their unveiling events. Google Android events are often held in venues that are ted better than the high school conference room as emergency meetings with amaturish audio/video system. It's as if they have determined that no one is watching this so why even bother. To me, iPhone always felt like they work hard to be a state of the art while Android is something that the rest of the world would have to buy anyway due to lower cost. Given the available cash and talent, they can do MUCH better.
My feedback is to keep doing what you're doing. Some people will talk about how this kind of mundane training might not be relevant some years later. By the same reasoning students shouldn't learn the layout of their campus or how to add and drop courses, because those skills won't be relevant after they graduate. Keep helping students not waste time now on tasks that should be simple.
It was also the release date of Slayer's ominously-titled "God Hates Us All".

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Slayer/God_Hates_Us_Al...
Vancouverite here. When major tech companies started setting up satellite offices here, I assumed it'd be a temporary situation, and that we'd be at the mercy of any change in the U.S. immigration process. The longer there's an immigration bottleneck though, the more entrenched these companies become here. There are more senior roles opening up here all the time, and salaries are increasing in this competitive market.

From my experience on the media / marketing side of things, a lot of people moving here that didn't consider the U.S. as an option. For some roles, our entire crop of interviewees have moved to Canada from other countries.

Yes, the U.S. immigration situation is helping the Canadian tech scene, but cities like Vancouver and Toronto are more than a mere crashpad for people waiting to move to SV. There's real momentum here as well.
Robotic Cleaning of Solar Modules Gaining Traction in India Amid Water Scarcity
US was playing the last few decades with an easy cheat code of sucking in smart immigrants while the rest of the developed world was twiddling thumbs.

Now that the US has shot itself on its foot and others are waking up, the playing field appears to be getting more balanced once again.
But it had e-mail based login?
[Ignore this comment. It was posted by mistake. I'm only leaving it here for the historical record.]

> the current implementation is just fine, it has been tested by time.

No, it isn't "just fine". It is broken. Just because something has been broken for a very long time and has spawned an entire industry devoted to dealing with the fact that it is broken does not change the fact that it is broken.
>He uses a wheelchair but it’s a prop as he was found out to be able to walk.

I don't know anything about this guy specifically but I just want to point out many wheelchair users have some ability to stand and walk. Merely having the ability to walk doesn't necessarily mean someone's wheelchair is a "prop" or unnecessary.

https://www.realsocialskills.org/blog/respecting-wheelchair-...

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/ambulatory-wheelchair-users-exi...
You probably got told off because S3 isn't a file store. Asking for such a feature displays great ignorance about what the S3 service actually is.
Well, we're hiring. https://careers.squareup.com/us/en/jobs?location%5B%5D=Toron...

I acknowledge I'm not in a position many will find themselves in. The shortage of senior engineering positions that pay accordingly is real. There's much more selection of jobs in SF than TO.
It's possible to log in with just an email address; you don't need to use GitHub or Google. There's an FAQ entry about this too:

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/faq/#why-d...

Though that doesn't address the intranet issue of course.
Sandstorm is an open source
platform for self-hosting web apps
I have a MIT degree and learned these when I encountered them in my work. An important thing is to learn how to learn for the rest of your life.
> some people are creating FPGA boards that use DMA to read memory

Do you have any links handy where one could read more about this? I'm really curious about the kinds of projects people are doing which requires this kind of hardware.
Why? Plain old 4 is supposed to be the "safe to sleep" level.
S3 is one of the last things I would manage from any GUI. I don’t use GUIs when I’m searching or listing local files either.

Besides the S3 cli commands are some of the most intuitive.

S3 is not a file system though and is a big blob of objects with tags. I think the worse thing AWS ever did was present S3 as a file system in the web console.
In fairness, this did come a bit later; it was there for quite a while before the company shut down, but when I first showed up I had a similar wtf reaction since at the time it was just GitHub and Google. But yeah, that was fixed a very long time ago.
The fact the I plan conversations does not make me any less of myself. You are mistaking planning with deception.

And anyone I meet will eventually learn all my flaws, but that's an incremental process. It doesn't make sense to just throw each one of them on the first date.
> Redistributing 100% of these 5 executives' salary to all 2.2m workers would be a raise of... $32/year.

I don't understand why this is even brought up? Surely the line worker who failed high school can't contribute the same value as a software engineer automating away 20 line workers?

All the studies I've seen compare the highest to the lowest salaries, while a more comprehensive look across all employee positions would provide a better data set for setting pay levels.
Nice to see some Penn alum on HN :)
More than CEO salaries themselves, due to tax laws and McKinsey style advice, CEOs have huge incentive pay schemes. Most of these are tied to the stock price. This does two things:

1. The stock market effectively becomes the CEO. The stock market is not a very good CEO because it doesn't have access to all of the detailed information that the CEO and the board do, and so it must go based on the numbers it receives and obvious metrics. A CEO of a private company can explain himself and his strategy at length to a board of directors who can give a lot of time and has access to private company information. This lets them potentially act at a much longer time horizon. This is essentially the Berkshire Hathaway thesis, and it's worked well for them.

2. The natural balance of interests between the stockholders, the workers, and the community, enforced by social norms, is disrupted, and only the stockholders interests are respected, because the CEO has a much stronger personal interest in the stock under an incentive scheme.
The Life of Einstein's First Wife (2016)
I'm at somewhat of a cross-roads related to this matter.

Note that this mostly applies to immigrants from India or China. I'm from India. This applies irrespective of education level (I did my Bachelors in the US, just FYI)

Currently I'm in the US on a student visa (currently during a period of that visa that permits me to work) that expires in a couple years. I cannot renew it. If I want to continue working in the US. My only option is an H1-B (work) visa.

There is basically no other option to me.

Okay, so let's say I do get the H1-B visa. Then, I have to work for a few more years on that visa, before I'm eligible to apply for a green card - which grants permanent resident status. Now, once I file that application, I'll be on a waitlist. Guess how much time it takes to get a greed card? Atleast 100 years. I'm not joking. Unless there's a policy change, there's no possibility.

Even if there's no possibility of me getting a green card, I can still work. I can still buy a house, get married, have kids, etc. A lot of Indians and Chinese in the US currently are in this limbo period, where they don't have a green card. So they still continue to work, start a family. Because no other country will pay as well.

But personally, I hate the uncertainty. While even getting a green card isn't a guarantee to get to stay in the country, not having a green card is much worse. A CBP officer has the authority to deny you entry at their discretion. If do deny entry, you are banned from entry for atleast 5 years.

That's it. You're life in the US has vanished into thin air.

While I love my current job, I trying to immigrate to Canada. You get a PR immediately if you quality based on a points system calculated using specific, meritocratic criteria. If I have a PR I feel I won't worry when I buy a house, plant roots, that my life won't be upended because I failed to follow my visa's restrictions.
It's hard to extrapolate anything from this, as they may have intentionally been testing some new variation on an algorithm that made it more reticent. Besides, it doesn't sound like the car was unsafe, just timid. A crash would be way worse.
The enterprise features for SAML and LDAP authentication are now open source too. https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/for-work/#...
Which document describes where it "misclassified Elaine Herzberg so many times"?
I think the big picture is that The Onion has reached peak brand value, and its most profitable exploitation mode is to gradually lower content expenditures while maximizing revenue through ad-plastering.

I hope I'm wrong, but that's a general trend I've observed.
Ray Bradbury on War, Recycling, and Artificial Intelligence
Does anyone know where to find more details about the sensor and hardware stacks the different self-driving companies are using?
I got really excited expecting some javascript implementation of Darude Sandstorm
It's easy to look at Jeff Bezos and say ego-driven billionaire jealous of Elon Musk. That's a fun narrative.

On the other hand, why should Amazon leave money on the table to be happily scooped up by other companies. Forget Tesla, Washington state was giving billions of dollars in subsidies to Boeing, while Boeing was cutting jobs in Washington. The city council of Seattle was feuding with Amazon for "for making the city too expensive". The city is complaining that Amazon is making some of their citizens too rich.

I think his frustration would be understandable as businessman, and not as envy.

Of course the whole system is perverse and corrupt, but hate the game, not the player.
Sure, kill the largest engine of profit of the last fifty years. We'll replace it with all the money the nytimes makes on it's paywall.
In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them
It'd be great if someone can do a teardown of this app.
> I did not reboot.

...Got something to share with us?

;)
The article seems to be gone from the website... but my standard diatribe could still fit... here's the tldr:

Current OS designs can't protect themselves because they lack "capabilities".. a concept created to solve problems during the Vietnam war, perfected in the 1970s and then forgotten by almost everyone... except a few folks, some of whom are at genode.org
They don't have AVX512, only AES-NI. Netflix would need the former more, I guess.
Almost! But not quite. Extensions work fine on mobile Firefox and battery life and performance are improved when ads are blocked.
I've tried that in the past and it's far outside the reach of most people. Getting just Dropbox going is like 150 keys, clicks, and taps from virgin to working on more than one device. Then there is Keepass(X/XC/2) which is FOSS but impenetrable.

Security is like investing, don't use what you don't understand. (At least at a high level.)
It will still be power hungry and mess up aerodynamics even if it is smaller. Tesla is looking at the entire picture of autonomous + EV which IMO is a better strategy.
I have easily driven 12,000 miles under autopilot and regularly do the kind of tasks the parent described.

Maybe I will have an accident and comments like this one will age poorly. Or maybe we will find that the scary technology wasn't as scary as first thought.
MicroSoft went to sh*t under its 2nd CEO, but recovered under its successor. Hopefully IBM can revive under future leadership.
Yeah when I hear great debugging story I’m thinking Smalltalk, not Ruby PRY.
By analogy... I'm a well-off technocrat and I think the big tech monopolies should be broken up and taxed more (and I think I should be taxed more also). That doesn't make me a hypocrite, it makes my position stronger because it eliminates resentment toward successful tech elites as a possible motive.

I think it speaks well of this guy that he's not some bitter barista ranting about elites - he's talking about knocking his own class down a peg.
Learning to use the editor macros well, could save anyone lots of effort typing. And should definitely be in your course.
Those scenarios from Google were obviously selected for the presentation, but very much represent state of the art in _real time_ processing for autonomous driving systems from the time of the presentation.

I’m not sure what is implied with saying it’s a recording - both the Google and Tesla presentations are “recordings” and equal opportunity to pick best case examples, but I would bet strongly there is nothing not RAW = “real time“ for their respective compute platforms.

The top down viewpoint helps show off the quality (still by no means perfect) of the world representation. If you projected Tesla’s model into 3D you would see far more jitter than in the video overlay for a variety of reasons.

That said, I think comparing them directly on specific technical components is a bit of a sidebar. They are taking two very different paths along the way to a still ambiguous problem. Both are leading their respective approaches, but have fundamentally different and unproven assumptions.

Also worth looking not just at how accurately objects are detected but what the visualizations show about the intent of other road users. The Google video shows predicted trajectories for important objects in a number of scenes. We don’t get to see any of that clearly from Tesla, and that is by no means a small part of the problem. Not sure if it is there and not shown, just highlighting there is a lot more downstream even once you are finding objects reliably in the sensors.
It's not very long bets but very few bets. The YC model has shown us that success is highly unpredictable and if you want to have big winners, make a lot of small bets. This is exactly the Nasim Taleb's philosophy and other well-known approaches to cultivating the long tail and outliers. Google actually had right model 15 years ago where they were churning out one product after another and today's big winners like Gmail and Maps are the survivors of that era. The story goes that Larry Page went to Steve Jobs and Jobs told him to cut down on all the random projects and do fewer things. Unfortunately what works for Apple apparently doesn't work for others.
Thanks for the clarification. I'm left confused about why this is happening then. It seems well designed to not allow for the situation we see described here, yet this situation is happening and similar situations are referenced.

That leads me to believe one or more of:

a) the case cited here has more extenuating circumstances that are not being reported, which I see as likely as articles have a point of view to express and I'm willing to believe the author may leave out information they deem not contributing to that point (whether through malice or incompetence)

b) there are additional laws at the state or local level which are less lenient

c) there are other parts of this law or other Federal laws which interact in a way limiting or making ambiguous portions of this law

d) there is specific case law that severely limits how these escape valves are used in practice

I have no idea how any of these apply, if any do, but it's odd that there are specific allowances for businesses to no be forced to shut down, yet, we have examples of exactly that.
It'd probably be more sane than trying to stuff a 3VL into bunch of 2VL operations, because you refuse to acknowledge that you don't actually have a 2VL type
Just like me. I did my BSc in Iran and was applying for grad school for cs 3 years ago. I just picked Canada because of easier immigration policy. Thank you Canada.
Everyone here seems to assume that salaries are the biggest factor and ignoring that for many the goal is to gain citizenship in a developed country. For them getting paid well and Canada and becoming a citizen in ? (how many years does it take?) is better than being paid awesomely and waiting decades for the green card lottery.
I believe the "News" may be thanked for that.
The kicker for me was when I realized my browser history was being accessed to serve up product suggestions. Gross.
That sounds totally radical when you first hear it but it actually makes total sense to me. I guess they're just trying to avoid technological domination by Google. Right now they still have a player in the game thanks to Edge. If they were to lose that player Google would be able to make technological choices that might be harmful to Microsoft?
How to Start a Fintech Company and Make It Successful. Part 1
Manage Consent -> Decline All?

edit: Oh wow you have to do that per click. Wow.

Let's hope they get sued for that.
Taxes in canada are very high. The ontario income tax rate of 53.53% applies at 220K CAD. the equivalent rate for Cali in USD is 34.75%. you then have PST/GST (14%), way fewer deductions and european gas taxes. The one thing that is a good deal in canada is cheap high quality education. The "free" healthcare that you get is not very good and even the for pay services are of surprisingly low quality.
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We're mostly seeking a developer familiar with mobile applications, ideally with kotlin native, ios (swift) and android (kotlin) experience.
If you only have android experiences feel free to apply anyways, but be ready and interested to change that fact rather quickly
(same for software developers without any mobile experience but a strong interest in diving into that direction).

German knowledge preferable, but English is alright as well.

More details about the position here: https://ams.personalwerk.de/templates/job/PRNe4EN:3C-o:6E/in...

Feel free to PM me if you got further questions!
"Took 12 months off for self directed sabbatical"
It's sort of been tried https://artofgears.com/2015/12/16/did-a-fiat-crash-into-a-pa...

A problem I think is the visual appearance of a tunnel changes as you move in relationship to in in a way that a static image would not.
Worked for Microsoft for 4 years. It’s a classic big company problem. The execs and the chain downward want their fat bonuses. You get fat bonuses by shipping features.

There’s a famous saying “no one gets promoted for fixing bugs”. I imagine it’s why Google has 10 messaging products that are half assed too.

It’s really hard to say No and focus on making the best essentials. It’s something that even Apple is having trouble with.

I think this is where Startups sometimes shine and why Slack is here to stay if they don’t also fall in the same trap.
I wouldn’t mention it; I presume because you are posting here that you are working in technology and, compared to most people, make a lot of money.

One nice thing about that is, of course, that we don’t have to work all of the time to cover our expenses.

That seems obvious to most people working in our field, I think.

I wouldn’t worry about mitigating it. If they ask, I would say something along the lines of what the other commenters mentioned re: sabbatical, but I don’t really assume anyone will ask. It’s not the red flag that it would be for someone working closer to wage slavery (where a gap might mean something more dire due to the necessity of constant work).
> Anyone who criticizes McKinsey has no idea how consulting, or real companies, or the real world, works.

LOL. I'll tell you how it would go if you brought in a consultant for a library. The consultant would produce the most beautiful wire-frame UI you ever seen, with lots of arrows, buttons and stuff. It would organize all books in a neat table by title, author, publishing date, etc.

Then at go-live, you'll realize the table is all funked up because "JK Rowling", "J.K. Rowling" and "J. K. Rowling" are all listed as different authors. Let the behind schedule and over-budget fun begin.

Whereas, if you asked the nice old lady who's been a librarian for 30 years, she would have told you to start with a table of authors first and then build up to the UI from there, not in reverse.