skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea. But for the work most developers do, making their content accessible is largely just learning how to do it. UI toolkits will generally do the right thing out box. Using the semantically correct elements for your content, once you learn how to do so, is no extra development cost. For me, I belive it is the morally correct thing thing to do, for the 1 of me to spend a few hours learning in order to make N people's lives that little bit easier in the future.

The main accessibility cost is when it comes to building new UI patterns. But that's a relatively rare case, most sites will be served fine by piecing together elements from existing toolkits and modules.
Yes, especially when you write it like that.

I get that some people really want to make a distinction, and such a distinction can exist, I just don't think it's reflected in the texts that they claimed it is, especially given their context.
VCs purchase a different class of stock than you have as a founder, called preferred shares. It is standard to require a majority of the preferred shares to authorize a sale of the company.

See this article for a standard, clean series A term sheet. https://blog.ycombinator.com/a-standard-and-clean-series-a-t...
The issue is the term "native", not requiring fluency in a given language. None of those tests will certify you as having "native" fluency in English.
Book Recommendation for Interns
What are books that are appropriate to be recommended to a Software Engineering Intern who aspires to become a great software engineer someday? Why?
My experience with Registrar has been 4/5 okay and 1/5 horrible so far.

I transferred five domains from Namecheap, and four of them went through within an hour. The fifth was in a pending status. I was charged a one year renewal for each domain as part of the transfer process.

The fifth domain hadn't transferred after a few days so I filed a support ticket. They told me it could take up to 15 days.

After roughly 30 days, I was billed _again_ for a one year renewal of that domain which is still on Namecheap (unlocked), and still pending transfer. Registrar has now charged me $90 (.io domain is $45/year) for a domain _which they do not control_, and this has obviously not been reflected in the domain expiration date.

I contacted support again and they issued me a $45 refund, but the domain is still not transferred... not sure what to do at this point. (ticket #1657921 if anyone from CF is reading this)
Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Key Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras
These days going through Y Combinator practically guarantees success for B2B/SaaS startups. Their network is so big now that you can hit growth targets that most VCs look for just by selling to other YC companies. Then you can throw the late stage logos on your landing page and use that to lure in enterprise customers.
Amtrak trains are very long. I've never seen anyone play a guitar or make any noise outside of the bar car. The passenger cars are quite comfortable. More room than a domestic first class flight. Also, usually the last car is the 'family' car, so babies and running kids are usually just hanging back there.
I was expecting a shitty article after a clickbaity title, but was positively surprised. Not new information, but well argued!
We really need lots of good, verifiable data from both sides on comparison of nuclear vs. solar/wind technologies.

Absent that, both approaches will probably develop naturally, as technology and political climate allows.
Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand: “Extremism Is Not a Mental Illness”
It goes deeper than that. At my enterprise company, our accessibility department explicitly does not gather any data on our users with accessibility needs. We don't know who they are, what problems they are facing, or if our solutions work for them or not. The reason? It would infringe on their "rights" (What rights are these? I didn't press further).

What they do is hire a few people with visible disabilities (wheelchair or missing limbs) and then parade them around to development teams to shame us into accessibility "compliance". It is a gross process involving lots of trial-and-error.
Spreads like a virus.
It's an interesting discussion. Governments often require buildings and businesses to have certain accommodations for certain types of people.

Are websites different to buildings of businesses?

Mr Bob Hypothetical makes his new burger joint, and spend hundreds of hours working making it so people can eat his awesome burgers. Should there be any building or health codes he should have to follow?

I realise the barrier of entry to a website is lower than a physical business. Presumably though at somewhere between ismyideafunnyyet.xyz and amazon.com/co.uk/ca/multi-national doom machine we have to start treating them with the same or similar expectations to the local chippy.
This is very correct.
> I ran into §

This is the symbol for section, it means that a new section is starting, or it may be a reference to a section number.
We have vision algorithms that are able to tell that a picture is a picture of a horse, why do we still need the alt attribute ?

We have the level of knowledge to build a tool that make website accessible, so my opinion is you need that tool. It is easier to build one accessible tool than to ask all developers of the world to put an alt attribute and respect the h1, h2 naming
Chalk it up to SEO if you need to make a business case for it.
Yes, but.

You don't have to pay back the money, but you do have to be seen working hard. You have to maintain good relations with your funders.

The principles are the same.
Exactly, but purely in terms of privacy it seems to be the best bet unless you would like to manufacture your own smartphone.

Apple's profit, to date, relies less on user data than any of the other companies.
I see a few problems:

1. The author claims the lower bound is above 0 because "Bitcoin offers people a money storage and transfer system with two key properties: (i) permissionless access and (ii) decentralized database management." That might be true if Bitcoin were the only technology that offered those features, but it isn't. Cash is the most notable competitor, but there are also dozens of other cryptocurrencies which are drop-in replacements for Bitcoin.

2. The number of Bitcoin users has a hard cap because the technology is not scalable. It is just plain impossible for a large number of people to use it. This is not like Facebook, where the system is scalable and user growth is determined almost entirely by user interest.

Also, those graphs make me nervous. Fitting a line to a log-(log-square-root) graph using linear regression sounds awfully fishy to me. Would anyone with a better grasp of the statistics care to chime in?
Bitcoin was a great experiment... but it arguably failed.

Nobody really ever used it for normal things.

The one attempt at actually attempting to take a first step to fix scaling issues collapsed due to governance issues.

It never worked as a reliable store of value or means of reasonably transferring funds.

Really cool project but it was an experiment. We can still learn from failed experiments to make even better new ones...
>Venture backed companies only have about a 1% chance of reaching a $1B valuation. [...] I’m sorry, but you aren’t the 1. You are the 99 and your startup isn’t going to become a unicorn. [...] Why play a game that has such terrible odds of winning?

Because people have always liked to pursue things that interest them regardless of the odds.

(cue Han Solo's "Don't tell me the odds!")

Why do aspiring writers work on novels with long odds of it ever being a bestseller on NYTimes -- or even being published by a reputable publisher for that matter? Because, writing is what that person wants to do. Telling them it's a "waste of time" isn't going to change their mind if writing is what makes them happy.

Why does the high-school basketball player keep working on his jump shot even though the odds of NCAA players getting picked in one of the 60 slots of the NBA draft is ~1%? It's because playing basketball is what interests him.

Same for aspiring actors pursuing Hollywood fame that probably won't happen, researchers toiling away on scientific breakthoughs that may never materialize, startup founders building elusive unicorns, etc.

Yes, the similar DHH essays promoting "bootstrapping" and "slow growth" are always highly upvoted on HN because VCs are widely perceived as detrimental. However, both your and DHH's philosophy leaves out a crucial detail: What is the entrepreneur interested in working on?

If the interests happens to be a business that can be bootstrapped, then great. Pursue that option. However, if it's a business that requires millions to build out infrastructure (e.g. many consumer-facing websites), somebody with deep pockets (e.g. VCs) is the typical financing option since banks won't provide loans.
> I did not mean to imply that each value in the interval is equally likely (and looking over my comments, I do not think I did imply that).

When you said that "the values at the boundary of your interval are as credible as in the center" you kind of implied that, which is why I asked.

I won't defend the article being discussed, but you opposed their statement that "the values in the center are more compatible than the values at the boundary" with an equally ill-defined "the values at the boundary are as credible as in the center".
Note that for some reason, Cloudflare charges substantially more for .io domains than other registrars. Cloudflare charges $45 whereas Dynadot charges $26.99 and Porkbun charges $28.97.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/io-domain-price-not-whole...

https://tld-list.com/tld/io
I've vacationed in new york city and I agree. Even the "nice parts" are crowded and shabby.
Cough, cough...

> A non-profit giving away free software makes sense. Some of the biggest companies in the world giving away free software is suspicious.

followed by...

> Fortunately, you can tell your computer which DNS to use. The company Cloudflare has a publicly accessible DNS at the address 1.1.1.1 that they claim is encrypted and secure.

So wait, you suddenly forgot the axiom you used just a few paragraphs back? Clouldflare is a for profit company and they give something for free but hey, this time it's not suspicious? Strange standards you live by...
One big factor in performance is whether a process can be parallelized. It can be an interesting computational problem, and these techniques has really gained relevance lately now the the barrier to clusters has dropped (cost and technical complexity). A lot of algorithms (say for solving a massive optimization problem) that were 10x slower in total operations but can be split up and solved in arbitrarily small pieces are suddenly immensely valuable. And in this context, the actual speed of the programming language probably isn’t terribly important.
When I was in Kobe I had a hard time figuring out which restaurant sells the real thing.
No one's mentioned this yet, but if you do exercise it may cost you more than $20 a share. In the US at least you need to pay taxes on the difference between the exercise price and the fair market value of each share. If FMV > $20, the difference is counted as income by the IRS.
I've tried learning multiple languages and have lived abroad and learning another language for me was not easy or fast despite years of studying and practicing the language.
Cloudflare's entire business model is positioning themselves as the middleman to every part of the internet.

They don't host your site, but they'll mirror the front-end on their CDN to speed it up. They'll handle your DNS and TLS certs, and even your domain name, even though they aren't (yet) in the business of selling either.

Pretty much everything Google and Amazon offer as side services Cloudflare offers for free to some extent, and then charges for enhanced versions of those products.
Over the years there was a shift from let's change the world by creating great technology to let's make a quick buck.

The motivation seems to have changed, and its showing...
Keeping Passwords Secure
I had a very good experience taking the train from the Orlando, FL area to the Washington, DC area when I moved many years ago. That is Amtrak's auto line, so I also moved my car that way. As I recall, it was about $200 for my ticket and $200 for my car. I could have gotten a bit less buying earlier than I did. My other option was to drive myself, but that would have taken longer and been more expensive considering gas and lodging.

The trip was about ~16 hours total, including some time arriving early enough to line up to load my car, and time waiting for car unload.

Each carriage had an upper and lower half, and the lower half was further divided into restrooms and sleeper bunks on one half, and general seating on the other half. I just got a regular general seating ticket, which was fine because my trip was only one overnight - seats were spacious, reclined fairly far, had electric plugs and so on, and had a key advantage: the lower general seating compartment was a dead end. Only people sitting there had reason to come in, so it was quiet.

The upper half of each carriage linked to the other carriages, and was how everyone moved back and forth and got to the dining carriage. There was another carriage (top half) set aside as an entertainment space, with TVs and tables, reading area, decks of cards, bar, etc. People sitting in the top area had the less pleasant situation of sitting along the path everyone had to use to move around the train.

I thought the food was just fine. Yeah it isn't fine cuisine but it was tasty and included in the ticket.

Anyway, I'd like to try a longer train ride sometime, I know some folks who really enjoyed a Trans-Canada train vacation that included one or two overnights off the train. It sounds kinda fun, I'd spend my time reading, bring along some compact boardgames and a portable console to play.
I know robotics company, that worked with grants, was funded by their first client and then VCs came in. VCs gave them runaway of another 3 year.
If all you care about is the US.

Presumably the 2.5% figure is reasonably similar in many other countries, as opposed to the % who speak spanish, which will be higher in spain but lower in kenya.
Maritime Analog Computer from 1503 Is the Oldest Remaining
Fourth Batch of Scala 3 Sips
Just option click the script name. The script look at the current window body, RE match dot or RE match texts right before the dot. The first match executes the associated action. It's basically an extended version of plumber.
I'm surprised their threaded interpreter was slower than switch, this doesn't reflect my benchmark as well even for post-Haswell CPU.

Also this is not true on non-x86 hardware and I unfortunately didn't test on AMD.

The article should at least cite this paper regarding Haswell branch prediction: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document "Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters -
Don’t Trust Folklore", 2015, Rohou et al.

Also I'm leaving my interpreter optimization resources here with decades of research papers and highlights of the techniques I found most interesting when implementing a fast VM: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus/wiki/Interpreter-optimiz...
It's a real "melting pot" and is very very desirable as a place to live. It's the center of youth and technology culture, lots of hacker spaces. There's huge youth communities, public garden projects, lots of alternative communities. I love visiting there and if I moved anywhere in Germany that would probably be the place. I have a lot of friends who moved there. Apparently one of the strongest start up cultures in Europe as well.
You don't give 'em hell?
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Implement ```-style (fenced) Markdown code blocks
Deep Image – how Machine Learning improves your images
Seconded, having the full Matrix way of architecting data synchronization available from any endpoint is something that can truly change the field.
I've used a number of carbon output calculators, and one of my major carbon outputs are two flights from the Inland Northwest to the Northeast part of the country each year (work related). It seems that in the case of my travel, my lowest carbon option (according to at least one calculator I've used) is actually an economy ticket on an aircraft. It also clarified that for shorter trips, the greyhound bus is without equal.

I haven't been able to discover if this is something that is specific to the United States, or how that calculation is made. However, I am of the opinion that there is always a good reason to ride trains, particularly in the US: increased demand for train travel.

Other than those two flights, I have abandoned all long distance travel for the rest of my life, or until largely carbon neutral and safe travel exists. I believe that such technologies will be produced in the medium term.
Show HN: INDI Robot Combat Competition (Dutch)
As successfully reframed by the NRA in the 1970s. Prior to that your argument was not used. Thus it wasn't the intent of the amendment in the first place "within a well regulated militia".
'The Wandering Earth': What China’s Latest Sci-Fi Blockbuster Has to Offer
If there's no CSS then there is no color. It's up to the user's browser how to display it, what fonts to use, and what colors.
Citizens of other countries, who don't have such a weird constitutional attachment to gun ownership, don't have the concept of self-determination?
I was involved with json-e a while ago:
https://taskcluster.github.io/json-e/

Which to me seemed more intuitive.

But I'm also pretty excited about the UI-as-code features happening in Dart:
https://medium.com/dartlang/making-dart-a-better-language-fo...

Mostly I prefer YAML w. json-e because it's declarative and expressive enough for those few cases where you needed fancy stuff..

But the new Dart features coming up, makes me think I could write config as code -- we'll see :)

(Disclaimer: I work at Google)
I guess if you have high wpm, this might be feasible. I unfortunately don't, even after constant practice.
> Business schools fetishize entrepreneurial innovation, but their most prominent heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance.

Sounds pretty innovative to me.
Nokia phones and spyware – the trade of privacy for convenience
Announcing Conveyor 1.0
.io is heavily subsidized by most registrars for a couple reasons: the .io registry offers substantial volume discounts and .io domains are associated with a higher spend on add-on services. In most cases, they discount .io domains because they hope users spend more on other upsell products.
Well the author's bio is

Nan Enstad is the Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism
A similar cross country sleeper trip could be around 50$ in India, though by Indian speeds it may take the train several days, it is common for train rides India to last more than 2 full days. The longest distance passenger train on the Indian network takes close to 80 hours one way.
I don't see any generalized 64x64->128-bit multiply on ARM's intrinsic documentation: https://developer.arm.com/technologies/neon/intrinsics

I see "pmull" (vmull_p64), but that's polynomial multiply, which is used for Galois Field multiplication. Not "normal" multiplication.

You can search for "uint64", to look for all NEON intrinsics that take a 64-bit integer. (ex: uint64x2_t). I personally didn't see any 64x64->128 bit standard multiply in NEON.
How is nuclear safer than solar/wind etc. Who has solar power ever killed?
It seems that some companies do not like to be "secured" by NSA, according to the article [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables...
Again, “a bit selfish” and “hell” are worlds apart. I was just addressing the latter.
Unfortunately nobody actually supports it. Dreamhost doesn't, Namecheap doesn't, etc.

If you try, they all give you the same "The WS registry doesn't allow transfer of domains." error, because historically they have not.
My Microsoft loving office started pushing people to use Teams recently. I know my team in particular has adopted it.
Ask HN: What is Computer Science 101 for a self-taught web developer?
I'm taking three months off work to become a better programmer. I'm self-taught, my skill level is intermediate, and I've been a web developer for the last 5.5 years. Part of the reason that I'm taking a break is that I find myself solving the same problems over and over again, and I'm bored. But I'm not sure what I would like to do next, other than continue working as a programmer. So I thought it would be good to build a stronger foundation in programming skills that are broadly applicable. Data structures and algorithms come to mind. I also don't know much about how a computer works on a lower level. I think I could benefit from something like a Computer Science 101. What do you recommend?
Zuck should resign
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Pihole is the only blocker I have found that passes the wife test. Every thing else I've tried on her computer has ended in frustration.
Firms are not people.
> Ethereum has very different philosophy (just as an example it's supposed to be an universal computer, not a cryptocurrency).

Etherum doesn't have much of a philosophy. They have recently been pivoting away from a "universal computer" rhetoric to one focused on "decentralized finance."
These dev boards were modular, so that engineers without a need-to-know for e.g. the screen or radio didn’t get one. But this is not a retrofit; if you needed a display or touch then this is what you got.

The video out ports were only used for the 30-pin video out, the main display never ran on them (could not run on them).

iPhoneOS kernel developers could hardly care less about the display; everything was done with the serial port and JTAG (I don’t recall whether Ethernet debug was ever supported).

There are a bunch of other errors / misconceptions in the article sadly. These boards were pretty cool & highly functional and it’s sad not to see justice done to them.
For AofA from those inputs, you also would need to need to know what the air is doing. Over a period of time I imagine you could approximate it, but for what MCAS does with it, I would think you need near-instantaneous (~ 1 sec.) figures, especially in turbulence or a downburst.

On the other hand, there is indicated airspeed, the traditional proxy for AofA. It, too, has its dependencies, but I think they are either measurable (e.g. flaps (, outside air temp.?)) or can be estimated from slowly changing values (e.g. weight from initial gross weight and fuel burn.)
Thanks for the feedback. Working on new registrations now; focus at launch was to help users of Cloudflare's DNS services find a better alternative to domain registration.
Yes, it's a good thing for sites and apps to be accessible.

No, it's not an obligation of any kind (nor should it be).

For companies that have grown enough to be providing services to (and profiting off of) a large enough part of the population, it would make sense to expect them to put resources into this. For someone working for free, trying to get an idea off the ground, or servicing a very niche subset of the population (i.e. a very restricted market) this blanket statement makes no sense and the costs it would add to make it an obligation would likely only cause a decrease in quantity of what is available (which, if deemed valuable, can be made more accessible later on) rather than an increase in quality of what's available.
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Boston to Washington is something over 7 hours. I've done it but it really doesn't make sense most of the time--especially given that Reagan airport is on the metro which neutralizes one of the advantages that taking the train has in a place like Manhattan.

It's really the two segments you mention that get a lot of the traffic. You see this when you pull into NYP from Boston and the train pretty much empties out.