skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a vast difference between "businesses should have wheelchair ramps and accessible bathrooms" and "everything possible must be done for the disabled and borne by the people providing it".

That's a really patronizing comment. If we're going there, I'd like someone to point out the law that says that "everything possible must be done for the disabled and borne by the people providing it".

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Did you read the article? The only requirement put on this person was to add subtitles.

Asking someone to add subtitles to their videos seen by thousands is like "requiring wheelchair ramps to be installed at any house that was offering candy for trick or treating"?

I mean even OP calls out the exemption for up to 500 users... that's a lot of trick or treaters for one house.

While there have been abuses of accessibility laws, this isn't that. This is definitely a lot closer to basic affordances like wheelchair ramps and accessible bathrooms. Actually if anything I clicked the link expecting to see someone had weaponized W3C-style guidelines and was raking them over using #111111 instead of #000000 for black or something... but subtitles?

They're even pivoting to running a for-profit business and still complaining about that basic affordance, so it's exactly appropriate to bring up those concepts.
Is there a way to get this guide without the annoying side-commentary?
There's a simple way to solve this.

Companies could just require everybody to enter a name and surname of the person the ticket is bought for. There's the issue of people who later discover that they can't go to a show they have a ticket for, but that can be solved by allowing them to return their tickets to the general pool and giving them (some of) their money back.
France becomes latest country to leave controversial energy charter treaty
Machines don't do jobs, machines do tasks. It's very rare for a company to fire people because there is now a system that does exactly what they did before, no more no less. But when you take all the core tasks that a person did as part of their job and automate them away, such that the employee now is doing something completely different, they have been replaced even though they're still on the pay roll. It's functionally equivalent to firing and rehiring them for a new position. The manager may still hold the title of manager, but if they're not doing any management tasks, then they have still been replaced.
I worked in healthcare ML solutions, as part of my PhD & also as consultant to a telemedicine company.

My experience in dealing with data (we had sufficient, and somewhat well labeled) & methods made me realize that a lot of the prediction human doctors make are multimodal - and that is something deep learning will struggle for the time being. For example, say in detection of a disease X, physicians factor in blood work, family history, imaging, racial genealogy, general symptoms (like hoarseness, gait, sweating etc), even texture & palpitations of affected regions sometimes before narrowing down on a set of assessments & making diagnostic decisions.

If we just add in more dimensions of data to model, it just makes the search space sparser, not easier. Throwing in more data will likely just fit more common patterns & classes well, whereas a large number of symptoms may be treated as outliers and mispredicted.

We humans are incredibly good at elimination of factors & differential diagnosis. The findings don't surprise me. There is much more work needing to be covered. For straightforward, and conditions with limited, clear cut symptoms they are showing promising advancements, but it cannot be trusted to wide arrays of diagnosis - especially when models don't know what 'they do not know'.
Agreed, my wife and I have shared a single Spotify account since forever: I would just “offline” playlists and then block network access to Spotify. But now that their family plans are well priced and our kid is starting to want to use Spotify we’ll be getting a family plan soon.
Its weird they don’t mention their horrendously failures or attempts to take over all the independent social media groups. I expect that slowed them down quite a bit as well.
Her video content is just unwatchable. Too bad as there are probably interesting bits inside.
Yes, let's get some work on this and then I can finally move to Wayland!
Generally, the Israeli regulatory approach is built on the realization that a country the size of a large urban area just cannot spend the money and time to write its own regs. Everything from pharmaceuticals to (recently) food are regulated based on "use rules from the US or EU [depending on market] with a list of specific Israeli changes".
Man says he lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade
This is IMHO the only way to go at the moment.
Japanese is a turn-based strategy game rather than an RTS.

I'm joking a little. But interrupting someone is almost unspeakably rude in Japanese, whereas 'Yes! Yes...yes. Yes! I'm terribly sorry, I couldn't understand any of that. Bye!' would be common in Japanese but infuriating to many Americans.
Nothing written here makes me feel unsafe about taking my daughter and wife to an Air BNB. Just what on earth is this non-sequitur, "ergo company unsafe" [10 billion upvotes]. There is nothing here even explaining how this is any worse than hotels. Yes, sleeping in some random person's house is inherently less safe than hotels (slightly) but we already knew that. So then what actual tangible point am I missing here? What do you even expect the company to do about it? This entire post and its context just seems like a Simpsons episode where Homer yells at the mayor and demands that it stop raining. I haven't have and don't plan to ever use Air BNB, by the way.
>The mere fact of it being better or open doesn't make what Google is doing any less of an abuse of their position.

Except it literaly does. Abuse in the market it not defined by the loss of another company but by the loss of the consumer. Anti-competition laws are ultimately meant to protect the consumer. The consumer. "Abusing" a company in itself is perfectly fine: it's a free market after all.
Anyone who has tried to do significant translation knows that Google Translate is pretty bad. If you just want to translate a word or even a single sentence, it's fine. But if you want to venture into larger pieces of text(like a script for example) then you couldn't do much worse than Google Translate.
Meetings are just time management. You tend to not be teleporting around the world to random time zones every week. Maybe your 7am meeting becomes 9am and months later it’s at noon for you. Or maybe it’s at 5am now, so you ensure that you are ready for it.

It’s very manageable and not something that should ruin your ambitions if you want to travel.

Personally, I never want to go back to an engineering job where i’m in constant meetings.
Time for you to incorporate in the US or Estonia.
https://stripe.com/atlas
https://incorporate.ee/
> A typical well-designed class will usually be a few hundred lines of code, tops. Often less than 100 lines.

It’s not the lines that take time; it’s getting the code to the “well-designed” state, double so (if not more) for an API.
Do you agree that it’s ok to pose a question whenever you don’t understand?
Tech Giants Settle $400M USD Wage-Fixing Lawsuit (2014)
'Brunelleschi had just the solution. To get around the issue, the contest contender proposed building two domes instead of one — one nested inside the other. "The inner dome was built with four horizontal stone and chain hoops which reinforced the octagonal dome and resisted the outward spreading force that is common to domes, eliminating the need for buttresses," Wildman says. "A fifth chain made of wood was utilized as well. This technique had never been utilized in dome construction before and to this day is still regarded as a remarkable engineering achievement.'

Brunelleschi was not an engineer he was a goldsmith. AI will advance in the same way architecture did during the Renaissance. By those with the winning ideas not with the right credentials.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/architecture/b...
Yes. One of the more memorable things that happened went on when I moved my office to Infinite Loop. Steve Jobs was curious about everything, so he would walk the halls, knock on doors, introduce himself "Hi. I'm Steve Jobs." And then ask about what people were working on. I was jealous as I would have loved to point out the biggest challenges we were dealing with in the hope of getting more resources. To my astonishment essentialy every Apple employee in this position objected "You can't ask me that!" And then quit the next day. It was genuinely bizarre to witness this.
I read it all, and don't agree with your interpretation of "transparent substitutes" in several of the cases.
Resisting the urge to use text as a primary method of communication
Starlink became available in my small beach town and definitely made a lot of jobs more practical there for travelers. It’s changing things for sure.
I agree the answer is likely both. However, one important thing to note is that the 'people who genuinely care about stoping child exploitation' really want to ensure that it is only used for preventing child exploitation and not by 'groups who only want a plausible excuse to violate people's privacy'. I am against the false dichotomy of protect children or preserve privacy; I truly believe, and have good reason to believe, that both can be accomplished together with care, thought, and trust.
my favorite part is where pfizer got caught lying and keeps getting caught lying and no one in the media is calling them out because BROUGHT TO YOU BY PFIZER!!!!!!!! i wont be getting the vaccine anytime soon. maybe after they stop lying so god damn much.
What is double-commenting?
This is it. The writing is just awful in every sense. I mean, the story begins with Galadriel not wanting to leave Middle Earth. At that point I though:
"okay already stranding off canon but let's keep an open mind. So she's going to return to Valinor, have a chat with the Elven higher ups, (maybe even the Valar!) and go back to Middle Earth to continue her mission with renewd support. They're really going to show off with those billion dollar sets of the blessed realm!".
But nope, the writers really thought that having her jump overboard the ship into the open sea, just swiming, was a believable thing to write.

You can't write Tolkien elves like that. At this point in the story Galadriel is like 3000 years old yet her dialog is that of an inexperienced teenager when she has already seen everything (or knows someone who has) there is to see in the whole world.

Then there is the tone. The harfoot sections are the most unwatchable with an almost Dinsey vibe. The Numenoreas acting feels like the cringey dialog right before they start singing in a musical.
are you really sure the doctors are doing a better job when they go through the motions of incorporating a wide range of data? Or do we just convince ourselves they're better?

I suspect we massively underestimate the amount of misdiagnosis due to incorrect analysis of data using fairly naive medical mental models of disease.
Well, that's one tiny step forward from "you can't share your account because I said so how dare you even think of such a thing you should be cancelled" (not even ranting about Netflix specifically, just all the companies in general that do this).
Agree 100%. Lived in the Tenderloin for 6+ years before moving to a nicer part of SF.
It's harder to jam GPS for "just one side" so doing so would harm both side's operations.
In 2015, I would have been all over that. But with every media company wanting their piece of my wallet, I have a hard time justifying paying for Netflix on its own.

Part of the appeal of sharing your account is that it brings the effective cost closer to $5/mo/person at most.

Or, what most people I know do: one person pays for Netflix, one for Disney+, one for HBO, etc. Even if I can get a single screen 4K plan for say, $10, there’s no way I’m paying $50 for 5 different services for just myself.
I have sympathy if your site is fully compliant with the law and you get sued in error, because of some bad automation or something. Now you have to hire a lawyer and eat that cost having done nothing wrong. It would be best if this didn’t happen. But if the law specifically says web videos need captions, and you put web videos up without captions and subsequently get sued… I dunno what to say—Surprised Pikachu Face?

If a web site would rather take their ball and go home rather than comply with the law, we’ll that’s totally their valid option, but nobody is forcing them to do it.
Any data on cavities per capita in the area over the past decade?
The simplest PCB designs for C64 cartridges requires fewer components than the datasette emulator pictured, or you can buy a ready-made more advanced one with a 64K eeprom for ~$20.
Book of Proof (2018)
Shit happens because that's how the state of matter changes over time, the wave function is the description of the state and the Schrodinger equation is the description of the state's change. That's as complete and happy understanding as it goes.
Because they locked in for 3 months*

* You can sell early but you might take a hit.
> There also wasn't much mixing of isolated populations of humans, leading to a relatively large amount of inbreeding.

The genetics of Rome's population at the beginning of the Common Era were almost identical to that of Anatolia's, but just after Antony this began to change significantly due to the migrations that followed the Roman Empire's expansion: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/07/genetic-history-rome/
> My impression was that the underlying assumption (or at least, the end goal) of the physicalist interpretation is that this physical process can ultimately be used to predict how consciousness arises.

This is the hope of many physicalists, but it is not required for physicalism to be true.
I think what will happen though is that those cash buyers, who are not stupid, will read the direction of the rest of the market and realise the music has stopped. At which point they won’t want to buy either.

Crashes often happen in slow motion, as this one is. It’ll take years to play out.
Man uses Barbie fishing rod to make record catch
Being German and having lived for close to a decade in the US now, I feel like in German it's also more common to do these interjections.

One more jarring difference though is when giving numbers over the phone (e.g. your account number). In German, it's common to say digits in groups of, say, two to four, and then the listening party repeats those digits, to make sure there was no mistake so far.

In the US, the other person on the phone just... sits there. Not saying anything, not even an acknowledging interjection, until you gave them the whole number. And of course sometimes it arrived wrong and you have to dissect it...
I could not care less: every time I reach 100 karma points I feel I need a new account to project my renewed self...
That's an important point that a company might think that an economic slowdown is a time to let go of the bottom 20% of workers but it has the paradoxical effect that the better people see things getting worse and they are the first to go.
> You don't have to put up with postman

Unless you work on a team that's standardized around it as a collaboration tool.
If you think the average person is capable of doing the things needed to build a modern house, or learning to do them at a level of expertise compared to any professional, we are living in different worlds.

90% of people will not get past laying a concrete foundation.
But if diagnosis are multimodal and rely upon large, multidimensional analysis of symptoms/bloodwork/past medical history, wouldn't adding more dimensions just increase dimensional sparsity and decrease the useful amount of conclusions you are able to draw from your variables?

It's been a long time since I remember learning about the curse of dimensionality but if you increase the amount of datapoints you collect by half you would have to quadruple the amount of samples you have to retrieve any meaningful benefit, no?
I think the post-OS-X Mac dev experience varies a good deal depending on the type of software you're making.

Are you building a Mac-first app using the most blessed toolkit (Cocoa)? You're probably fine, so long as you're not looking to toss out a binary and forget about it for 5+ years (periodically recompiling with newer SDKs and such). Even 20 years down the road getting old FOSS Cocoa projects building and running again isn't too hard, because even though there are a lot of deprecations the deprecated stuff largely still works.

On the other hand if you're building lowest common denominator cross platform desktop apps, yeah life might be harder. Same for games. That said I think the bulk of this pain comes from making assumptions that an unavoidably changing world will remain static — the sort of backwards compatibility provided by Microsoft is really the exception not the rule, and even there it's starting to flake away likely because the teams at MS are growing tired of having nearly unbounded backwards compatibility act as a ball and chain on OS development.

For running apps that were created without their devs' intent of long-term maintenance I think the best thing is probably third party compatibility layers like WINE, which allow for a pinned API target without locking OS vendors into decades old decisions and emergences.
I was not there, but two things from that summer have stuck with me.

First, Steve killed Cyberdog. You'd have thought the world was coming to an end. Second, he came in with his Openstep Thinkpad, and that was it for months. I thought they'd turn that OS around, leverage MAE, and have Openstep 5 running by mid-98.
> As Auguste Gusteau (the fictional chef in Ratatouille) puts it, "anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great."

Is this referencing the movie Ratatouille? I was curious because the movie was released a lot later than this article. I figure it must have been a novel but can't find it, or maybe the article was edited since 1998?
Have you observed metal instances taking longer to boot? I did last time I checked, and the difference was big enough to affect pricing in a non-trivial way, given that performance is the same and that you start paying immediately.
The solution is not to care about breaking customers that depend on implementation details. If every interface author had this policy then I'm sure people would write better code.
I'm replying to the whole thread at once:

The Silverblue, IoT and CoreOS logo are in the section "Related Projects". This is probably because all of them (not sure about IoT), including Kinoite, use rpm-ostree.

Both Silverblue and Kinoite are named after crystals.

Kinoite is like Silverblue with KDE instead of Gnome. They have separate deployment channels due to the nature of underlying technology.

Neither Silverblue nor Kinoite is considered primary variant by Fedora Project yet, because they're still rough around the edges. But I hope they will be in the future due to their advantages, which are mentioned on the first page of their respective docs [1][2] and which I have experienced myself.

The only thing I don't like is using Toolbox to manage CLI programs and the fact that `rpm-ostree install` always includes `Recommends`. I think Flatpak should handle CLI apps as well as GUI.

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/#intr...

[2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-kinoite/#introdu...
There's a very clear distinction between doing harm to someone and allowing someone to consume content that once again, is made and distributed for free.
If they knew what the law existed prior to making the business.... Then it sounds like the business owner is at fault here. (Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, either way!)

They either comply with the ordinance or fight it in court if they think it goes against the letter of the law. If they don't like the law, petition their representatives to change the law.

It's just grifting at this point.
Statistics is not science- it's an application of probability theory and some other forms of math to hypothesis selection (among other things).

It's scientific. We only use stats because that's the best method for dealing with imprecise and noisy data.

Statistical thermodynamics contains all the necessary tools you need to answer your balls in a box question.
> That's assuming I keep my job during this time of course.

Sure, but that's the other jaw of the trap we've built for ourselves. The knock-on effects of large-scale drops in home values are highly likely to induce major economic disruption on a national scale, which makes losing that job all too likely.
"Within a few months, Pito had come up with the fundamental idea at the core of Improv: that the raw data in a spreadsheet, the way that the user views the data, and the formulas used to perform calculations can all be separated from each other."

This is exactly what FileMaker Pro does.

You have the underlying data structure that is independent of calculations and presentation. It is sparse by definition, and can store far more data than any spreadsheet in existence. It can include defined relationships between the different kinds of data.

You have the calculations, that are stored with the data structure, but are functionally independent from it. They can transform, combine, and summarize the data in just about any way you like. They can store their results, increasing speed at the cost of storage, or they can be on demand.

You have the presentation, which depends on the data but is defined separately -- you can have as many different presentation forms as you like, hundreds or even thousands.

And you have actual code that can run on the data and validate it, modify it, organize it etc.

I think only momentum and lack of vision has prevented FM from eating spreadsheets' lunch.
Not surprised. I remember pushing back pretty aggressively against some people trying to get this stuff codified into law here. Ostensibly it stands to benefit people by increasing accessibility. However, it hamstrings the average Joe because as it turns out the ADA is a labyrinth of gotchas and compliance is often expensive. In the case of software, a simple app doable by one person could easily take 10x as long if you are required by law to do this.

The only benefit to our industry is for people not trying to make money you can release things anonymously and avoid the pain. Unfortunately for everyone else once this happens here it's curtains for small business.
I've always seen Ubuntu as extremely non-utilitarian, given that the desktop is slow and buggy as hell for example, and now even the terminal itself will show ads instead of doing work. I'll stick with Gentoo.
There should be a standardization committee tasked with standardizing the collection of anonymized, semi-synthetic medical data from hospitals/hospital networks. It seems like so much research is just locked up in the IMS systems the hospitals use for their patients and that never see the light of day.
Well, frameworks vs vanilla JS doesn’t cash out into whether it’s hard to write ‘element.style.display = “…”’ or not.
I bought an iPad Pro 3 years ago for school and it's now completely useless.

I've reinstalled it several times but the device has gotten so unbelievably slow.