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>First of all the media player space is dead.

Not quite. In fact, the premium media player space is essentially the only one that still exists. They're mostly Android-based devices with high-quality DACs for the playback of lossless, high-bitrate music files.

>Secondly just because Samsung Andriod phones or Dell XPS laptops are nominally premium doesn't mean they are on par with Apple in terms of how they are perceived by consumers.

I disagree. Microsoft's Surface line is also seen as premium, and Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still considered to offer top performance for business and enterprise customers. In phones, Apple is not unassailable in the US, and outside it, deals with heavy competition from Samsung and Chinese brands.

>I think the other factor is that Apple uses their own proprietary operating system.

You sound like a fanboy.
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> Is there a public list of the companies that took the aid?

The latest count I’ve seen today is up to approximately 230 companies who have done so. There are some lists being compiled, but I haven’t found a definitive, complete list of all 230+ companies.

From a few days ago, 40 of the companies: https://s-marketwatch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/s.marketwat...
1/2 as many times as a human does. I've driven about 250,000 miles in my life and had 5 accidents, none with injury. But I think a self driving car could do a lot better.
The first thing I do in the morning is look outside and try to guess the clock time from the shadows and the position of the sun to test my sense of time and to check how fucked my sleeping schedule is. So I guess I've already done this? (If you don't count the days when I've set an alarm because my phone doesn't have the "shake to shut up" feature and it wouldn't make sense to guess the time if you've just woken up to an alarm.)

Except for that, I generally don't use my phone a lot. I don't trust most mobile apps because I have no good way of isolating and limiting an app's capabilities on my phone (compared to the web where things like uMatrix and related tech are commonplace) and the few apps I do have are more of the information-pull rather than the information-push type (although that's unintentional).

Maybe a bit off-topic but I think mobile operating systems are generally more a burden than a help for me. Android's design decisions make a lot of sense for a lot of people's needs but for me it's just too limiting compared to PC operating systems so I simply don't do a lot on my phone.
That makes sense. Even if private information isn't leaked, Amazon would still know things about usage and billing.
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I migrated the company's services from AWS to OCI at the startup I was at. The trade-off is simple, if Oracle can say $product runs on OCI, they'll put you in front of the biggest industry players who are using their POS, database - and since our sales pipeline pivoted around web integrations this was crucial. They also give a bunch of credits (as do the other providers).

We argued against it in the dev team, but it wasn't the worst cloud migration I've done. The console reminds me of early days AWS as it's essentially just VPC+EC2+S3, but it was refreshing to spin up a server without a pages of config being presented to you. We took the opportunity to containerise our older sites and ran everything in their managed k8s cluster. I very rarely had to use the console for anything, which tbh is a bit of a grab-bag of managed services beyond the core cloud offering. Terraform support is there if you need to do anything serious.
People used to bake their Xbox 360s to get them to work again. Worked pretty well actually.
I agree with the paper, it has a great description of the problems with debugging distributed systems. But I think it is missing one type of solution which we call "Systematic Testing". See https://microsoft.github.io/coyote/. This is a testing tool that integrates into your development process and has been used successfully by several large very complex distributed systems inside of Azure.
This situation has presented an incredible opportunity to flip the education paradigm around and we are missing it. In my opinion, there are two different opportunities that should be explored:

1. Using the "best" teachers from the school district to provide lectures for every student taking that course while the other teachers provide TA-esque support to the students in their "section." If a student is struggling with homework or to understand the lecture, they can go into a video breakout room and get 1:1 support without interrupting others.

2. Education has been focused on in-person lectures with home "work" for decades. Given the current situation, it seems to make the most sense to provide offline/prerecorded lectures and to use the class time to support the students with direct help for their work. Students can listen to a lecture without a live teacher, they cannot ask questions about their work without one.

Are their holes in both of these? Sure. Are they as bad as just moving the existing paradigm online? I don't think so.
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The content needs to be encrypted with the "AMP provider"'s key too, so each of the providers needs to be explicitly supported. The webmaster might go through the trouble of supporting Google and Bing, but I doubt many would bother with any of lesser-known search engines, if those were to adopt AMP.
The utility of version controling production-sized (not sample training data) data (as opposed to code) is something I've having trouble grasping unless I'm missing something here -- and I may be, so please enlighten me.

It seems to me to be able to time-travel in data you almost need to store the Write-Ahead Log of database transactions and be able to replay that. Debezium captures the CDC information, but it's a infrastructure level tool rather than a version control tool.

In data science, most time-travel issues are worked around using bitemporal data modeling: which is a fancy way of saying "add a separate timestamp column to the table to record when the data was written". Then you can roll things back to any ETL point in a performant fashion. This is particularly useful for debugging recursive algorithms that get retrained every day.

But these are infrastructure level approaches. I'm not sure that it's a problem for a version control tool.
Oracle has a long history of being an all around shitty company. So is probably that. Even if they have may have a good cloud offering.
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I think the TPTB decided that a next pandemy may wipe the whole humanity off, and decided that it is the time to start giving out the information, piece by piece.
Oh shoot, I didn't even notice that. Looks like he's at a constant Happiness=100 though.
From the start of the article before the paywall:

"the 3,800-person Uber engineering group could be slashed by nearly 800 people in the coming weeks under the proposed job cuts."

That's certainly not most of the cuts, but it's not negligible either.
Utah AG suspends state contract with Banjo in light of founder’s KKK past
A lot of companies do this. My buddy found out that he had two EA accounts, so he asked nicely for them to merge them into one and they "did". Well what they actually did was grant the games to the new account and "delete" the old account.

Of course "delete" meant rename it from username@custom.tld to usernameDELETED@custom.tld. He owns the entire domain (and has catchall) so he got the notification of the changed email to the new email address.

Now he has two EA accounts with all the games on both!
Anything critical of the far-right tends to wind up flagged on HN. It's reflective of the overall industry.
Especially if it's not single students missing 3 months, but large groups of students.
That is pretty much what they are doing right now in my state. Packets can be downloaded every two weeks, or picked up if they do not have access. Teacher does a zoom with the class a minimum of twice a week.

But with everyone WFH, making time to work with and teach your kids is difficult. At least young students..
> GPL is in a similar vein

The GPL is not-not-commercial, or in plainer terms, it's commercial.
Does twitter really need those metrics? Just because people want metrics doesn’t mean they need to or should be collected. I have seen over the years posted here and again that highly targeted advertising and the ensuing surveillance infrastructure that that entails hasn’t really resulted in a significant improvement over non-targeted generic advertising like keywords and brand based advertising. So they could probably be as effective from revenue perspective without all the infra to spy on people and the manpower that requires.

Huge revenue slumps like these tend to facilitate come to Jesus moments with regards to staffing and mission priorities. I suspect if twitter had or was going to losE confidence of the stock market and needed to show improvement a lot of the so called mission critical metrics would probably go.
Original title was too long to post. It was: Utah Attorney General suspends state contract with Banjo in light of founder’s KKK past

Related post on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23007512
Me, but not because I wanted to. They advertised pretty heavily in the Washington DC metro, big bright red ads all over.
Then how are Elvis impersonators not a copyright violation?
Based on my observation of Uber and similar businesses, they are likely losing money slower during this downturn, and this layoff will help preserve more needed cash.

Less rides means less revenue but also less cloud compute cost to serve them, payout to drivers, and certainly no driver subsidies at this point, which during normal times is quite costly. Many of these are variable costs tied to ride volume.

The only major fix costs to operating Uber's ridesharing business is people, office commercial leases, and maintaining IT infrastructure (I believe Uber operates its own cloud, but not 100% sure).

And now it's cutting the "people" part to preserve more cash for the long-haul.
i'm a reporter on the team that broke this story, if you don't mind passing along my email to those people: dave@medium.com. much appreciated, and sorry to barge in on your comment.
Can Zoom stop logging me out from current computer (while I'm using Zoom) just because there's another computer on standby where I forgot to log off Zoom (and I'm not in any Zoom call on that computer)?
Is that another IoT doorbell thing they acquired?
False, in South Africa you have to pre-register to vote at a precinct with a photo ID, then on election day you have to show your photo ID to vote at the place you pre-registered for. After you've voted they mark your thumb with the ink as a secondary (or tertiary) security measure.

I'm honestly not going to check every country on the list, but it's blatantly false in South Africa where I've voted before. And I'm going to bet it's false for a lot of other countries on that list too, like India.
Yeah, one glance at that setup to me and you can tell it's modular on purpose. Farms like these use their tractors as modular platforms that they build to fit their specific needs.
Like Nokia made boots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokian_Footwear
Don't blame the teachers. They have been thrown into this with little support or guidance, nor the long term clarity that is needed to comprehensively redesign the coursework to meet existing standards - which may or may not change over the next few weeks/months.

And lets not forget the equity issues inherent in redesigning classroom content for a class that now consists of kids with no internet, no laptop, old PCs with old browsers, kids being expected to look after young siblings, etc

This isn't just 'tweak a few things so they work better on a laptop', it's really a fundamental shift that needs time and careful planning to address.
Given that there is a change from the norm, yes it may be harder and there will be adjustments. But claiming that children cannot study at home during school closure is wrong. Also, a parent has a duty to educate his children. It should not be so foreign a concept.
See page 71 of Uber's 2019 annual report [0]. The short of it is that Uber made $1.383 billion in "adjusted net revenue" on Eats (on a total revenue of $12.897 billion) but lost $1.372 billion on an "adjusted EBITDA" basis (on a total adjusted EBITDA value of -$2.725 billion). Every company defines those terms differently, but you should assume that the bias is towards making them look better than reality.

[0]: https://s23.q4cdn.com/407969754/files/doc_financials/2019/ar...
Why do these companies seem to fixate on fixed wing aircraft? Why not use a big parachute style kite similar to what paragliders use? You could send control signals to collapse the wing when the end of the spool is reached, making it eay to reel in and/or direct it upward out of the powerband. Then let it expand back to full size to repeat. The cost, weight, and complexity would seemingly be much lower. I would argue the surface area of a parachute can be scaled up more easily than the wing area of a plane.
This just in:

Utah Attorney General suspends state contract with Banjo in light of founder’s KKK past

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/04/28/utah-attorne...

Discussion on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23012144
I've stopped using delivery apps, and am calling my local restaurants directly. Some have, um, less formal delivery options, and I fall back to just walking over.

In my estimation, my local restaurants need that 30+% more than public companies.
Last sentence before paywall reads:
"Pham has notified managers who report to him of his plan to leave, which comes as the 3,800-person Uber engineering group could be slashed by nearly 800 people in the coming weeks under the proposed job cuts."
Oh so brave to be using a throwaway account to attack someone. Do you understand what the word candidate means? These 69 strains COULD be attenuated, but until we actually check into this we don’t know. The only way to find out is to actually investigate.

How could it possible be harmful to check the clinical history of the patient that was infected with these deletion strains?
Thanks for sharing! We actually tried the same approach but we have a couple of more micro services relying on the same shared code. This has some additional complications, e.g. managing all dependencies for all services in one package.json is a bit messy and preparing a pkg for deployment gets a bit more complicated...
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Oh great... I'm sure we all have been waiting for more big brother features like this one
A lot of people are used to eating at a workplace cafeteria or eating out as part of their normal routine. In my case I’ve shifted to ordering delivery or takeout for some meals which I almost never did before. I recognize that I’m privileged to be able to afford to do this, but I think it’s common among a big chunk of the population. People are checking on local restaurants and spreading the word about which are offering takeout to try to keep them going. I feel like it’s the least I can do to help.
`kebab-case` isn't perfect. It works just fine in a prefix notated language such as LISP, but less so in an infix language. I suppose you could require significant whitespace to differentiate `a-b` from `a - b`, but even that is a little counterintuitive to read. `snake_case` is popular in both Python and Ruby, and canonical in the former. Moreover, it's canonical in SQL. Frankly, even though I like the idea of kebab casing, without the ecosystem around it changing, I have historically just apathetically accepted camelCase and snake_case, and despite being a Python lover at my core, I've gravitated more and more to camelCase as time has gone on because I definitely do find capitalization easier to parse than hyphens or underscores. I like it for the same reason I like significant whitespace. Yes, it's more painful to parse and design a language around, but it's that much closer to pseudocode.
Why are they touting "GCM encryption" without explaining what that means? Do they mean "Galois/Counter Mode" [0]? If so, _why_ is that better than the encryption they were using before?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode
This is needlessly personal, bordering on ad hominem. I've never received a paycheck from Uber but I have worked for large organisations. 3800 people on engineering doesn't seem unusual to me. I can't justify the employment of each of those 3800 but I know for sure that this product could not have been built by 100 engineers.
As a generalization for people reading these comments, that may well be true. Heck, many might do even better than they would have under normal circumstances. But, for others on the edge, they may basically lose a year in school, maybe not graduate high school as a result, and have a poorer life as a result.
There is a mac version, why do you require it from the mac app store instead of the developer's site?
You can absolutely extinguish the virus if you have good border control. What makes you think you can't? The infection numbers exponentially decay toward zero when the replication rate is below one. At some point, the last infection recovers or dies without passing it on, and the virus is gone.
The US government hasn't banned most international travel for legal residents. There's a list of restricted countries that require legal residents coming from them to only go to specific airports with enhanced entry screening.

It has banned entry by foreign nationals from those countries, but I wouldn't call that banning most international travel.

https://www.dhs.gov/coronavirus/protecting-air-travelers-and...
Ah, I guess so. Thanks. Perhaps my tinfoil hat got in the way of seeing the context.
Many game developers do this for any kind of NDA-enforced testing. Not necessarily to the audio but to the video.
> I don' see a reason why Amazon or Azure would be passed over in favour of Oracle. Why wasn't GCP a contender either?

Because Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are competitors to Zoom. Why would you host on your competitor?!
I love the fact that external profits subsidise the staff meals. Very wholesome setup
> Operation Popeye was deemed effective enough to
> continue for five years, from 1967 to 1972."

If this farce had been successful in any way, politicians and their corporate benefactors would have milked it for every dime possible. Remember, this is America and the "success" of a war is only defined by which side of the cash register you stand.

If that is too difficult to comprehend, then consider:

The Vietnam War was deemed effective enough to continue for twenty years, from 1955 to 1975.

The Iraq War was deemed effective enough to continue from 2003 to present.

The War in Afghanistan was deemed effective enough to continue from 2001–present.
They were using ECB mode before
most common technique is a spectral encoding, which can be quite resistant to degradation.

here's some old (ugly) code - quite short as you can see:

- encoding: https://github.com/jcelerier/libaudiotool/blob/master/src/li...

- decoding: https://github.com/jcelerier/libaudiotool/blob/master/src/li...
WP:BEANS

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Uh-huh

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BEANS/U...
I've been home schooling my son for the past 3 years. The reason why it's "too hard" is because the traditional model of learning in public schools (in the US) translates very poorly to home schooling. Once you stop focusing on grooming for optimal test-taking, a whole world opens up.

Additionally, we don't do common core in our household, so my wife and I have no issues teaching my son math (we settled on Saxon math). I neither have the time nor energy to learn common core math in order to support my son.
similarly, I've found TripAdvisor pretty useful for travels around Taiwan, HK, China, and Japan - the quality of reviews and recommendations written by Chinese/Japanese tourists is quite high, and helped me discover some interesting, smaller local attractions and restaurants while abroad
For ages, I have argued that Google and Amazon owe much of their fortune to the Dot Com Bubble.

In a nutshell, the bubble put a TON of great engineers out of work. Those two companies were able to acquire talent that would have been impossible to find otherwise.
At university, my classes in C required using C89. The rationale given by the professor was that he wanted us prepared for industry, and if you learn to stick to C89 you will be able to write C for any job out there. I argued that C99 block scoped variables free up stack space (pretty silly argument but true), he wasn't buying it.

I think this kind of thinking is very common across the C community.
Genuine question: do people really expect to be back in the office at all this year, given how high the risk is and that those jobs can almost certainly be done from home? Why?
It's the same difference. It doesn't matter if you buy an ETF or not. You're propping up a broken system and destroying price discovery for the bond market. Price discovery is the pillar of capitalism and efficient markets.
> Now he has two EA accounts with all the games on both!

oh what a great service
Simulators can be pretty good. The FAA certifies some pretty low-end simulator setups for commercial/private pilots to get IFR training in, for example. And of course, airline pilots almost exclusively train in simulators. Very few pilots have experienced an engine fire in their 787, but I'd bet that about 100% of them would handle the situation correctly because of simulator training (and good documentation).

I don't know how good driving simulators are, but at least self-driving cars are modular enough to test components. Even if you can't test the machine vision, you can still invent data coming out of the vision to test the rest of the system. (You can probably fuzz test it, too. Generate a bunch of random scenarios, fail if an obstacle hitbox and vehicle hitbox touch. Tweak that, and then set up the scenario in the field when COVID-19 is over.)

Certainly the vision part of the equation is one of the greatest engineering challenges. That is why they are testing cars in the field. But just having a working vision system doesn't get you a working self-driving car, so quite a bit of effort has to be invested in the rest of the system. With noone allowed to go to work, now is a great time to invest in that.
Same goes for iPhones, Airpods
Some businesses are getting ludicrously more traffic during this period. I'm not sure how much Amazon sales have increased for my workplace, but I know we've been pulling in more orders on Etsy in a day than we did in a month before.