skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting that you're getting a lot of suggestions from people that don't claim to have disabilities. Perhaps few of them read hacker news?

It seems that their needs would vary. One thing you could do is try to an interface to test it yourself.

I tried to write and edit a document once using just voice commands. (Let's say someone has carpal tunnel and needs to use voice commands). It was eye opening. I realized how much more frustrating it is to go back and try to delete or fix something than anything else. And if the software didn't recognize an unusual word, it was really hard.

Dragon dictate -- the software I used -- had already learned a lot of this over the years, and there were many commands for changing that, or deleting up to a point. The hard part was moving the cursor to exactly one spot and then talking in a new word.

Anyway, if you tried something like that you would learn a lot.

Imagine if you are blind folded, and have to hear the program and then have to keep it all in memory. Well, that is a lot to keep in your working memory. I would want some kind of canonical "view" to always get to in order to find my way around.

I am glad you are working on this.
Why would I need a twitter account at all? I have used twitter on and off for years, and have never been able to get any value from it. Sure, if you have a twitter account (or any social media accounts, really) it should be semi- frequently updated.
Anything, web servers, systems programming, video games, etc. Its more of a different way of programming and thinking, using logic variables and unification to solve problems. Once you wrap your head around logic programming, its pretty easy and very powerful.

Mercury's selling poings are:
- runtime performance (automatic parallelization, very efficient due to logic programming understanding and rewriting sequenced operations)
- static typing (in an ml style / like OCaml)
- logic programming (unification of lvars)

As a language it fills an interesting niche as logic progamming language typically aren't dyanmically typed or high performance (ie Prolog, most miniKanren implementations).

Paul Bone has some good talks on Mercury if youre interested (heres some slides from an intro talk to Mercury https://paul.bone.id.au/pub/pbone-2015-mercury.pdf)
> If I had a dollar for every DUI story I've heard that involved getting pulled over "a block from home" after rolling through a stop sign..

If a cop suspects DUI, I want that driver pulled over even if they're entering their own driveway. "But I wasn't going to put any more people's lives in mortal danger by my recklessness tonight" is not a good argument. And keeping people from recklessly endangering others, whether by penalties that make them think twice or by taking their license, is one of the most basic reasons we have police at all.
Can you really say you have morals if you sacrifice nothing for them? Are they not merely preferences at that point?
Last death: Scotland 2002. A chiropterologist studying native bats. He had not travelled out of UK
The Wikipedia page seems to indicate that the success rate is closer to 8%.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Milwaukee_protocol
Thinking with Types: Type-Level Programming in Haskell
Really interesting project and will be very keen to keep our eyes out on progress. I think it would be very useful for us if Vyne becomes like a Zapier and easily lets us hook into other systems.
PWAs – What are the benefits
time please, sounds lolworthy
I bet they'd still have significant savings if they made everyone wait in 5-second lapses.

Pausing and resuming elsewhere would mean changing to a different multicast stream or starting a new one if there weren't any before.
Geocities and MySpace comes to mind when seeing the redesigns. Websites needed some type of convention for the average user to feel comfortable using.
Off topic but these days I load every website in reader view. It’s amazing how annoying custom fonts, sizes and colors become once you get used to reader view for everything. Doesn’t matter what font, font size, color or layout you use - I won’t see it and I love it.
Carson was saying that as a rejection of minimalism. It was an embrace of experimental graphic design. He was specifically saying that "efficiency and the ability to be understood" were not always the most important factors in a design.
Oops. How could I forget, my favorite one? This should have been 10, and 10 becomes 11.

10) Beyond just the website...The Experience is The Product. Not just the X in UX, but the end to end experience. For example, does the contact form send me a copy? How soon do I get follow up? Is the getting starter / documentation up to date? Etc.
Lisp:

- Avoids the use of gratuituous special characters: (a b c)

- use-dashes-in-symbol-names-instead-of-underline-so-its-easier-to-type (you can still use underlines or most any special character, but we like to keep it simple and easy).

- has a simple prefix syntax, that makes it easier to read and understand complex expressions: (loop (print (read (eval))) So no risk of confusing special characters or syntax: the meaning is clearly labelled by the first symbol of each expression!

- is not whitespace-sensitive, how can you see the size of whitespaces when you're blind?

- includes a reader and a pretty printer, so the code can be processed and formated automatically easily for either sighted or blind programmers.

- time-sharing was invented for the lisp REPL by the authors of lisp!

- as a good integration with emacs, which itself has a good integration with various tools such as screen readers, vocal commands, etc, and it's fully customizable.

http://cliki.net/
http://common-lisp.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp
Hinkley C is costing £92.50 per MWh in 2012 pounds, rising with inflation.

The Severn barage will be more, but it is a “first of type” demonstrator design and it is hoped that costs would be lower for future, larger projects.
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Not necessarily, but good developers need to be thinking about their upstreams and downstreams. This is often uncomfortable because a developer personality often wants to know all the minute details and not have to worry about areas outside their core competence, but you can't build large scale software without at least a critical mass of developers thinking big picture. UX in particular depends on the task at hand, but if it's a consumer product and you're working fairly close to the surface (client or API tier) then yeah I'd expect some awareness of UX.
I find this NLP guide helpful, and would love to know of any others that people are aware of:
https://nlpprogress.com/
> Do you see tech disrupting

Disruption is a good word. With newer tech, you find newer capabilities, and therefore seek a newer fit in your career. Some areas of medicine are getting more impacted than others (radiology, surgery). Others are becoming better facilitated (cardiology, nephrology). But probably the most difficult cases doctors have to deal with is when a patient has multiple problems (old age, diabetes, high blood pressure, blood clot). If a doctor has 1 or 2 patients like that, all of their time gets sucked up in those cases. So the answer is tech advances in medicine is welcomed/needed and/or disruptive based on the area of study.

For Civil, the field is dominated more by government clients than private clients. And government divisions for infrastructure maintenance and improvement are far too closed and opaque, too rigid for outsiders to propose tech advances, and too authoritarian for consultants to slip them in. On the private client side, building design dominates as prime allowing for better advancement by tech. But Civil Engineers are way too backwards in their minds and resist these kinds of improvements. So tech companies are taking the lead (sidewalk labs, google moonshot Flux) here. And civil engineers are unwillingly getting into formation (monkey ordered, monkey do).
I was about to write this off as a jq clone but it is MUCH more that than! Looks pretty cool, I've installed it for the next time I work with JSON in the CLI.
"Give it a couple iterations, a little trial and error and you'll probably get your aspect ratio or tiny bezels."

Did you read the rest of the post? I'm saying that mathetmatically those two things are completely irreconcilable.

I'm not saying the phone will be bad, just that it is impossible for the both the phone and tablet to conform to the form factor of a typical phone/tablet that is out now.
The comments on this article are nuts.
I'm not assigning blame. I'm choosing who I want as a role model.

Blame is nonsense black-and-white thinking. There is shared responsibility in everything. I share in the responsibility of all things that occur after I take my next breath.

Abandon blame and it's possible to read what I wrote without finding anything wrong with it.
From the article, the plane has had 2 reports of sensor malfunction by the time it took off. If it was as simple as "sensor is bad -> plane falls", it would had fallen much earlier.
Not sure about 13, but the "only one success" is old news https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5258433/Brazilian...
>I guess as I understand it, it doesn’t matter if animals are normally friendly because rabies causes them to act aggressively.

I wrote a whole comment about bats being asymptomatic carriers, but Googling around the information is not clear. According to [1], bats have been shown to be symptomatic (and they die from rabies), but other bats of the same species remained asymptomatic (but still spread the disease).

At least it seems it's possible there were asymptomatic bats in their house.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168224/
Salil Parulekar Ex-Tesla employee indicted, accused of embezzling $9.3M
I'm actually gonna have to go ahead and blame the demise of Flash for the current lack of interesting web design. I know there were technical reasons to get rid of it. Security. Mobile. Proprietary. etc. Whatever.

Some flash sites were horrible. But there were some real gems. That Hacker News design by Tyrion's brother is probably inspired by a bunch of old Flash sites that followed that template.

Flash was so easy to work with. Draw some neat stuff with their tools, animate it in the same program with their timeline, then make it all navigable and smart, still in the same program. You test it, in that same program. Then you publish it, and it works exactly how you made it work, in every browser, ever. One file. So easy for artists, designers, and non-technical people.

That's why we don't see cool shit on the web anymore- it's too hard/boring to make.
This is a great deal if you're one of the heavier music streamers. Everyone's paying for more than 3 GB, and people who try to use it for things other than music streaming get throttled earlier.
Except in the USA, voting is constitutionally a state thing, not federal.
I'm working on a fairly complex e-commerce platform built on .Net Core, I'm really happy with it. We use EF core too.

It's a pretty serious project, and for us, the benefits of our developers being able to natively develop on Macbooks and being able to deploy to Linux containers outweighs missing features.

Swings and roundabouts...
How to increase sales (up to 20%) for a large Multilevel Marketing company?
I personally have 25B just for fun / side projects / analysis. The surprising thing for me is that for them it is petabyte scale (25k+ each!) and for me they take up 2TB (80 bytes each, compressed). Must have a tremendous amount of metadata or elastic search is super inefficient.
Rabies is far less common than other diseases that you are vaccinated for. The market is small enough (~50K vaccines per year) that it is unlikely that multiple players will be able to enter the marketplace and survive. Vaccines also expire regularly and are typically money losers for most clinics. Add to that the crazy sticker price scheme that most hospitals have in place in order to negotiate with insurance companies and you wind up with insane bills.

If you vaccinated everyone for rabies, the cost per vaccine would come down but you would likely do more harm than good. Vaccines (like all medicines) come with risks. I've printed the specific risks for the Rabies vaccine taken from the CDC so you can get an example.

Mild problems
• soreness, redness, swelling, or itching where the shot
was given (30%–74%)
• headache, nausea, abdominal pain, muscle aches,
dizziness (5%– 40%)
Moderate problems
• hives, pain in the joints, fever (about 6% of booster
doses)
Goddamn it. Either way, they got us.
The OSI guidelines are themselves a codification of values; all systems are. Don't fool yourself into believing that there's any way to function in the world without exercising discriminating judgement. Your responsibility is to make sure you're exercising productive judgement, not avoiding judgement altogether.
The article mentions the ability to “opt out” out but I can’t find it anywhere on the usps website
> not everyone's life experience is the same to allow them freedom to move to an area that is

Very true. Recognizing one's own power and stepping into it is an extreme privilege. We don't live in a society where this is often role modeled.
I just signed up and 2 out of the 4 questions could easily have been looked up on Zillow and they're all multiple choice with 4 options. The 2 questions were the year my house was built and the original sale price.

So anyone would've had a 1/16 chance of just guessing it right.
Totally. .NET Core SDK, VS Code and the C# VS Code plugin are enough.
I'm surprised he even categorized HN as looking the same. This place is very streamlined compared to other news aggregator type sites, even pre-redesign Reddit.
The only reason you see so many electric car companies in China is because of money laundering, scams and non existant regulatory enforcement.

There's no chance in hell China is ever going to release a car that people will trust/forced to trust outside of China. That would mean actual due diligence, not chabuduo. Especially, not after they put ecstacy in lego.

Xi should ditch the "2020 made in china", create a whole new country to label manufacturer label, "Made in Xina"

Xina? Hey I'll take it over "Made in China" because I'm a dumb ass consumer who has never seen Google Maps before.
Need to keep in mind that every tobacco smoker who switches to vape is much more likely not to die of lung cancer.

If you know someone who combusts tobacco, please get them to switch to vape and SAVE THEIR LIFE.
One success on top of a solid 100% fatality rate is extremely significant
Watch South Park's "Canceled".
There are many different environmental disasters, but many of them are already successfully being addressed. Acid rain is less, the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking, rivers are cleaner in many countries, the fish in my supermarkets are increasingly MSC or ASC. It shows that we can address these issues, and it works.

CO2 is the big one that we can't seem to get a grip on, because it's so strongly tied to energy production, and energy is tied to prosperity. Carbon emissions were reduced the most during severe economic downturns. But we don't want to save the environment by making everybody poor.

Recently, economic growth has become a bit more independent from energy use, thanks to improved insulation, LEDs and similar advances that help reduce energy use without reducing comfort. And that's important, because if you ask people to sacrifice comfort, prosperity and way of life to save the environment, they will resist.

I don't mean to be arguing for consumerism, but if you ignore this, you're going to make the struggle a lot harder. Success is easier if you make it easy for people to do the right thing.
By that standard I seem to know only shitty compilers.

Sorry to be blunt but you don't have a clue. As a rule of thumb, compilers can make a 10x difference (for example in machine code performance). Programmers can easily make a 1000x difference. Not even looking at algorithmic improvements.
.NET Core is special because it increases the portability of your .NET code in case your cloud provider decides to jack up costs by 15% for no reason other than you are locked in. cough cough
Creating Expressive C++ Smart Pointers for Remote Memory
I happen to think that how people react to news is determined to quite a large extent by the anchor's delivery. Stress and and intonation give clues about interpretation and expected response. Eg BBC newsreaders in the 1970s delivered in a very flat and non-opinionated style. Today it's full of their own "personality", ie opinion.

Worrying therefore that such stuff may be just a few config variables away from being centrally controlled.
Why Privacy First Products will make business sense (2015)
"Generic fonts"

The web had ~ 5 system fonts before Web Fonts were available in 2008 / 2009.

Now the web has many thousands of the best fonts ever created by the world's best foundries.
I'm not saying they aren't nepotistic nor prone to poor attempts at covert ops. Just that they expect a modicum of results, even from their appointed family members. No one wants to die on an airplane because their cousin wanted a few extra bucks to look the other way on airplane safety. Where as bribes for access in the first place are very common in authoritarian regimes, I wouldn't even call that corruption per se, because they have the feudal power to extract the value from the post as long as they perform.
Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here. Chinese people are human beings.
How about a podcast about programming subjects? Would probably be more beneficial and less distracting than trying to write code while driving.
Being at the front and facing the orchestra, a conductor can also balance the volume of the various sections. An orchestra is usually large enough that when you are sitting in one bit you cannot judge your volume relative to others.
Evergreen Intent palette colors HEX, RGB codes
Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python
Thank you for asking this question. I don't know a lot about databases, but I would have thought redis, as a major key-value store, would have been part of this evaluation. So your answers were helpful.
People love repeating this for some reason, but mail crime is under-funded, rarely investigated, and even more rarely enforced.

Realistically if you tamper with mail nothing at all will happen to you, until your fraud raises to a headline figure and could get someone a promotion.
Like Hacker News. Most of us are on this website right now via the browser. It's the same interface it's been for years, and that familiarity increases the efficiency of understanding. Re-imaginging everything is a great opportunity for designers to showcase their skills, but wouldn't really improve users' efficiency.
Then link to Mastodon instead. The point is to have an active feed of news, updates, and changes. It doesn't matter if it's not on Twitter.
Let's see what a rational stance would look like.

- technologies like Internet, phones, GPS... is a result of militsary investment. It is no longer majorly funded from military resources. The technology is here and nothing would change if we stopped using it - actually, a lot of human suffering (including material - tax money) would be rendered pointless if we did that.

- employers like Facebook or Google do a lot of data analysis that might be considered wrong by many privacy oriented people.

- licenses are open, but that does not mean that a person should be expected to work on software they deem unethical. There is no connection between a license and subjective personal ethics.

- required functionality might be oriented towards anti-ethical functionality, or neutral, or ethical. A developer is free to choose whether they want or do not want to contribute and I expect them to make a subjective evaluation of their feelings.

- we have freedom of speech, developers are free to persuade each other

- taking things to the extreme is never productive
The purpose of software is to teach a machine perform tasks, even when many of those tasks are to show an interface so that a human can perform a task. Design is nontrivial, but computers are powerful, so we can layer on abstractions to ease the understandability and modularity of the code.

This is a creative process that's part engineering, part art: some people choose to take proven components and techniques and apply them in predictable ways, while some choose to experiment with new techniques, and some up with novel solutions. But any tradeoff has a cost, and future maintainers may not appreciate a solution whose meaty details aren't obvious.

While the creation of software may be a part-creative process, its maintenance is purely pragmatic: fixes to unforeseen problems need to be delivered quickly above all else, and enhancements along all extension points need to be possible, not just along axes the original authors intended. It's not hard to see that elegant code might be under immense pressure from more pragmatic modifications, any one of which can endanger its status in the eye of a beholder. This is likely why this article's author sees 'ugly' code survive: presumably, small changes are sufficient to make beautiful code ugly, while already-ugly code faces no such aesthetic pressure.
Ironically, this is a medium post. Why didn’t the author make their own website to demonstrate how creative they can be?

The real answer why sites are homogenous is because everything has to be mobile friendly. There are only a few options that work, unless you’re going to completely redo your layout and css for mobile. The truth is, modern front end is hard, so that’s not a good option. Ui designers also save a ton of work by keeping the mobile design similar to the desktop one.
Which colleges bring in the most money from applications?
It's amazing how, to doctors, what were once once meaningful life and death scenarios just become more work or less work scenarios over time. They are desensitized.
And that is very smart decision making. Professional!
Wow text-to-speech doesn't seem to have gotten very far in the last 20 years? When we were kids we used to use a windows (3.1?) program for prank calls and it didn't sound much worse.. I would have thought by now basic things like word spacing and tones would have improved to the point where you would only realise its artificial occasionally.
Another understudied issue is that it may be multiple interventions in parallel that will have a stabilizing or healing result; speaking primarily of non-medicated options.
For a website that's about UX, the actual UX of trying to read each of their articles is actually infuriating. I don't want to scroll. Why isn't the definition next to the name?
Yea, looks like 20% of americans have no religious identity[1]. That leads to roughly 69 million people. How does a population that large of non-religious people lead you to believe that a non religious child would have to be imaginary and raised in a cave?

[1]https://news.gallup.com/poll/224642/2017-update-americans-re...
> Recognizing one's own power and stepping into it is an extreme privilege.

I was thinking even in the case of familial obligations. It's not a lack of power that's keeping you taking care of your schizophrenic mother, it's compassion.
I can't help but find it unsettling listening to a subject of the universe describe it as "relatively simple". Simple relative to what?! Some arbitrary more complex system? Well
Sure!

Frankly, I don't think it's a question of complexity, or even expressivity, but more one of encapsulation and information hiding.
I usually try the html version first if available (and I asume that the pdf version is equal).
I understand your point, it's definitely something to consider as I'm still trying to find ways to write the best or most actionable articles possible.

Thanks for feedback, cheers! :)