skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of the discussion here is about commercially viable sites. Some budget and staffing exists to make progress, and some chunk of that will be redirected to a11y.

I deal also with science research and education outreach content. There's often no budget. No staff. Crufty pages put up by graduate students. Or zombie sites left up long after their funding is gone. It's severely bottlenecked on overworked people finding a bit of time to volunteer on something that helps the world and largely doesn't help them. Even having a working web server is a challenge. It's profoundly marginal, and every tweak of barrier energy directly throttles how much of it occurs.

High-stakes a11y could be a disaster for this area. The liability exposure, associated administrative hassle, and simple bare technical cost, might have severe impact.

When Berkeley took down years of youtube lectures in response to DoJ ADA concerns, they had already stopped making new ones pubic. So while dramatic negative impact on the scale of large projects is a thing, I'm more worried about the smaller-scale but systemic stuff.

For marginal efforts, an "if it's public, there are requirements and risks" has a straightforward impact - it won't be public, it won't exist. At least not there.*

And if a11y requirements aren't grandfathered, then as standards rise, the long tail of pages that persist long after their authors have moved on, retired, or died, that persist until a host name changes or a disk dies, will likely be intentionally cut off. Like corporate email retention minimization, but for human knowledge on the web.

Having watched copyright compliance dramatically slow open education content creation at a range of scales, and HIPAA kill off promising work on patient-created orientation content, and now hearing of "high-stakes" a11y... I worry that we don't fully appreciate just how large a price in retarded progress we're choosing to pay, since it's hard-to-see "that which might now exist... doesn't; those we might have helped... weren't".

*Or... maybe small-scale content will simply be shifted off university sites, onto personal ones? And google and archive.org can fill in the gaps? There's already a trend of research groups having two sites; an institutional one, and a second more extensive one under the personal control of the professor who might move elsewhere. And graduate students having their own, describing their own work. So perhaps "high-stakes" a11y will merely accelerate this?
Using screenotate to save screengrabs to my personal wiki
I've been curious about this too. Instead of hacking around HTML to make it accessible, why not just have a completely separate page which is explicitly designed for low vision/screenreader users? Is this a 'separate is not equal' problem?
ADA does not define the technical specifics of conformance for websites. It defers to WCAG for such which is well defined, achievable, and reasonable.
My company is actually great. Lots of money, job security and no long working hours. I just dont want to work anymore.
What a deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg reveals about how we're manipulated
What about the illegal war of aggression in 2003. Our (western) leaders are war criminals.
The state massively rounding up religious minorities and harvesting the organs of its prison population is practically the same thing as being incarcerated in a non-restorative justice system with shitty incentives where prisoners assault each other.

Btw, judging Nazi Germany for the Holocaust while celebrating Columbus Day? You don't know how bad you look right now. XDD
> Ignoring the trillions of dollars that would cost

(Most reasonable proposals I've seen for UBI include an assumption, stated or unstated, of drastically reduced administrative costs and costs of numerous other more specific programs for both aid and employment. And that also ignores other secondary effects. For the moment, let's treat that as a tangent, please, though.)

> Supply isn't magically going to boom

Not overnight, no. And not without some fixes in housing regulation. (That's also another reason to avoid indexing it to ridiculously-high-cost-of-living areas.) But in general there's no fundamental reason supply can't increase to match demand.

Also, right now supply has a massive constraint created by "proximity to work". If people have a lot more flexibility about where and how they work, the economics of "where do people live" changes drastically.
Climate Scientists’ Motivated Reasoning
I like that this website offers a variety of pronunciations for each word. A lot of websites people use for pronunciations will provide a single pronunciation they deem to be correct, whereas there are multiple pronunciations in actual use.
The effectiveness of types of persuasion change with time.

Eventually there will be something that moves people if it becomes important enough.
> Deaths from car accidents are unavoidable because driving a car is a societal requirement for many careers or needs

Absolutely avoidable. Just don't get into a car. Most of humanity that ever existed was able to avoid it just fine. In fact, challenge me to not get into a car for one year for 100,000U$S and I will do it, no questions asked.
The homeless have problems mostly unrelated to minimum wage.
This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist
At Vox Media, Workers Win a Voice Beyond Wages
Searching for “gif” left me even more confused than I was.
FAANG still uses Java heavily.

Android will keep Java relevant for a long time, even after the introduction of Kotlin.
10-year-old Colorado girl is the youngest to scale Yosemite’s famed El Capitan
It's like gif (ghif) vs gif (jif)... even among native speakers it will be heavily polarized
You might want to put her on a certification track (of which there are legit and respected certs out there now). Gomez v GNC highlighted the need for someone that could be pointed to as an actual expert on Accessibility on staff.

IAAP Certification Tracks: https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/certification

Gomez v. GNC: https://www.levelaccess.com/federal-court-decision-gomez-v-g...
I mean, a counselor can only do so much in this type of situation, since the patient is not in a position to remove the negative stimuli from their lives.
Not always, since a lot of jobs demand that you’re “available” way more than they actually schedule you, and ready to come in at a moments notice. They are trying to legislate this though.
Left only shortcuts because of the implementation of the map function. There could just as easily be mapLeft and mapRight functions instead, allowing you to choose the shortcut behaviour.
If German listening and speaking practice is what you want, give this a try: https://eardoor.com

it's got spaced repetition practice, plus lots of listening material and no sign up required. its free, and there's no annoying app to download.
I always used forvo.com for this kind of thing.

Edit: It's a "pronunciation dictionary". Ppl just record how they say words and indicate their geography. Super useful for languages like English where there are a lot of regional varieties.
And you can contribute too to the dictionary of your language. :)

I'm no affiliated w/ it btw, just really love this website, have been using it for years.
In the USA it's called Florida. The Coachella Valley in California is also an enticing prospective home for retirees, especially rich ones.
The Hemingway Marlin Fish Tournament
Are we talking a temporary boredom, as in a few hours a day/week? Like, I'm bored this afternoon so I'm on HN?

Or are we talking bored of your job, every day?
Yes, when you’re putting a class with exceptions inside a generic container that doesn’t allow for exceptions, it gets ugly.

The solution in that blog post is clever, they should consider adding that to Java.

Although, as the author touches on but doesn’t explicitly call out, this problem can be avoided in current Java simply by adding (generic) exceptions to your generic classes. Unfortunately that hasn’t been done for any of the standard library classes, old or new.
This is kind of a tone-deaf comment, don't you think? It manages to highlight its posters success (went to college, left), humble brag about how frugal & uncomfortable the poster situation once was (lived with 6 roommates), and dismiss other experiences (I was just fine) in two sentences.

The common definition of a livable wage is enough income to "secure food, shelter, clothing, health care, transportation and other necessities of living in modern society"[1]. If you _need_ to procure the assistance of others to live, you're not making a livable wage. So if you need food stamps for food, you're not making a livable wage. The same is true for housing. If you _need_ to live with roommates because you cannot afford even a studio on your own, you're not making a livable wage.

Sure, you were just fine during your stint co-habitating with near-strangers. But we're not talking about temporary inconveniences. We're talking about an alternate situation where you had failed to launch and 10 years later, are still stuck with random roommates, still grinding the same shitty jobs, still trying to save but failing because the most you can pack away is $50/mo, and there's always something that needs to be fixed or bought that takes those savings up. We're talking about how public policy should be able to help you help yourself.

There is nothing remotely livable about $290/week (federal minimum), just in case you may have forgotten how small that number is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage
Except it's not $500 monthly. They claim £250 MRR but they got rejected 2.5 weeks ago so we don't actually know how many of those users will continue to pay next month. I'm not arguing this isn't still impressive for a weekend hack, but it is categorically misleading to claim £250 MRR when you haven't even had a billing cycle yet.
Maybe they need to build down, not up - subterranean apartment complexes; or a cave system carved into a mountain.
Where is the Facebook walkout, to demand humane working conditions for everyone at Facebook and its contractors?
China produces so much steel that even it itself can not consume it all. Yes, Chinese steel output is going UP with vigor despite steel mills being closed left and right!

India is extremely protectionist with steel, but even it, with its own construction boom going on, gets overflown with semi-legally imported Chinese steel.
Well, it isn't as simple as light levels or color. The randomness would come from measuring aspects of individual photons, things that could not be shared between telescopes. If you want to measure something like entanglement, you want a source of randomness totally divorced from any local influence. Nobody can argue that photons formed in a star millions of years away could possibly have been influenced by local forces.

Use two quasars separated by 180* (ie on opposite sides of sky) and you could definitively say that, given the speed of light, the incoming photons could not possibly have interacted with each other before being measured.
Oversight over key quality metrics (including understanding what exactly raters/moderators do) is a VP or even SVP level job. It's critical if your entire org's goal is to deliver ever improving data quality at reasonable latency and reasonable reliability (example: Google Search).

Not to mention that, in data driven orgs, the launch/no launch debates are focused on those metrics. So if you want to call the shots you kind of need an in-depth understanding.
Samsung message signature reveals scripted Egyptian government news story
Definitely.

#5 in the world I think? And quite rigorous. It's a subset of the in person program -- they don't offer all the on campus classes or programs, and they don't offer the thesis option online.
This is desperately needed here in Silicon Valley...
Great extension and easy to use! Just what we need!
> For every hour of time saved for the blind or otherly disabled, dozens of hours of time spent by others. A saner society would choose a different path.

Championing the rights of the disabled despite it being a net loss of productivity for humanity (which is my reading of your comment, and could be inaccurate) may look insane to a logic-less machine, but less so when reasoned through for a bit.

If you're suggesting we change the laws to avoid this kind of productivity loss, it may be worth wondering why all these government websites only reacted to the stick, not the carrot.
but that has nothing to do with tariffs and whether tariffs are good policy...
If you want to see more than 2 pictures (one of which is of a small drainage channel), there's a detailed blog post about the construction: https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/c14-story-part-1-meet-our-nuc...
Do you have evidence for this? Specifically C++ and Rust tend to be written for applications where tight control over memory is necessary and so any sample like you're describing is going to be biased by these carefully tuned C++/Rust applications. Even the standard libraries for C++ and Rust differ considerably in allocation behavior from Java or Python--these languages are conventionally designed to allocate differently, but that doesn't mean that the GC is the problem. Further, different programming paradigms allocate memory differently and the distribution of these paradigms across GC languages and non-GC languages (or whatever terms you like) are almost certainly varied. There are lots of confounding variables to control for, and until you control for them you're pretty much just guessing.
What's a monad?
> the customer isn't paying the true cost of the service

How would you determine the "true cost" in this case?
I'm an EdgeDB co-founder, happy to answer any questions!

EdgeDB is a new relational database based on Postgres with native support for GraphQL.
Declassified spy photos show glaciers in the Himalayas are melting fast
Does anyone know of a site for fixing low contrast. My blog has v.pale grey (like #EEE), on a dark-green background. To me - normal vision - it looks high contrast.

What I'd like is to see what the Lighthouse tool considers fixed text (eg with either foreground or background adjusted, then with both) to help decide how to fix it. Probably showing images of the failing elements put through colour-blindness imitating filters would be useful too.

As it's just my blog I've left it ("works for me"!); but I try to always deliver 100% pass on mainstream automated tools as a first approximation of a working site.
While I’m sure most people over 25 still making minimum wage would prefer a pay raise, and for the sake of argument, I’ll even accept that the world would be a better place if they got that pay raise, if you raise the minimum wage enough that it’s no longer profitable to hire inexperienced workers, then those potential workers will be locked out of the market.

I acknowledge that there’s a serious problem if millions of experienced workers are unable to get more than minimum wage, but I would prefer we fix that by helping those workers become more valuable, not by putting a “you must be this tall to ride” sign on entry level jobs.
I can imagine it because I lived it. Film is equivalent to 5k uncompressed. The shit we get today is awful in comparison (most egregious recent example being the dark scenes in the last Winterfall battle).
Oh man, I just remembered that day ten years ago when I wanted to kill myself because of Citrix.
You might have missed it in the article, but their explanation is really apt.

"Therefore, we thought that if we can get first paying users and MRR over the weekend and get back to YC next Monday morning, they would see that we had achieved MRR in only a few days. Additionally, we would look like a team who could move fast, listen to feedback and get stuff done."

The reason they were rejected is because they had no MRR. They were also told they need to move fast.

They proved over 1 weekend that they can get $500 in revenue and move fast.

It's the notion that they got feedback, moved fast to implement feedback, and showed that users were willing to pay on day 1 with a half-baked MRR plan.

Also their reply email hits all the points they were rejected: https://ghost-veed-blog.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/2019/06/S...

They did all this in 48 hours as 2 developers.
I used lighthouse to look at a prototype that used an iOS look framework.

It showed that the standard blue on white used by iOS (approx #07F on #FFF) doesn't have enough contrast... Is Apple's dark-mode partly designed for accessibilility reasons?
I'm 100% with you.

And honestly, seeing something like this would make me less confident in a startup, because as I said in another comment, the impetus for charging seems to be completely tied to getting accepted by YC, rather than trying to build revenue for the business. "Let's just hack our way to $500 then we can show we have revenue and the objection they listed will be moot and we'll get accepted."

The better move would be to have a solid plan for a pro product, start charging, be able to show growth in paying users, and then reapply for the winter YC class showing those data points.
How is it the same? There's no ramp up time, no foundries to build and the demand is instantaneous. That doesn't prove tariffs are good policy in the slightest.
I once wrote a chat bot for a printer (think big photocopier with network printer functionality operated by student body of ~10 students and used by ~2000 students).

It had simple commands for showing the state of consumables or monitoring budget spent (calculated based on spent consumables). But the real value came from the chat bot requesting actions ("yellow toner at 12%, verify replacement is in storage", "A3 paper is running low, refill suggested", "heavy A4 paper empty, replace now", etc).

Of course all of this could have been it's own app with push notifications. But getting people to install that would have been much harder than having them use a chat bot in a messenger they already have. Using a chat bot also made it available everywhere, on Android, iOS, Windows, the Linux distribution of the week, if you desire even your watch or fridge, with synchronised notifications. And all that with a bit of code running on some server, none of the head aches of front-end development.
Ask HN: Best Place to Sell Website with No Revenue, but Significant Value?
Hi friends, I recently tried selling a side project of mine I don't have time for anymore, because of another project's success.

I tried selling on Flippa, but they won't take a website that doesn't have revenue (at least, selling over a certain amount)

The project has thousands of dev and design hours in it. It's worth at least $10k, even after heavily discounting it. It'd be a shame to just throw it away, does anyone know of a good place I could post it to get that number?

Unfortunately open sourcing it isn't an option.

Thanks in advance, cheers.
This is a misunderstanding. The Federal government has a small set of powers because almost all legal and political power is vested in the individual States, which have most of the remit and authority of sovereign countries. Americans have always lived under the expansive social policy regimes of their respective States, which vary widely. It is only in the 20th century that the Federal government started dabbling in social policy at all.

Every State I have ever lived in had their own unique minimum wage laws. The Federal government is more like the EU, much of its policy function is to harmonize the laws of the States. Americans have almost no interaction with the Federal government; the laws they live under, the taxes they pay, and the social programs available to them are almost always specific to the State.
I have roughly the same consumption pattern as you do but I don't think it constitutes a reason to feel superior to people who want those AAA titles.
Actually, they are going to fix in the next print run.
It's not clever for its own sake. Haskell is rooted in math and Either is logical disjunction. Its semantics is precisely that. Error handling is a specific use-case that can be implemented with Either. Rust as a language is more pragmatic. In real-world industrial code the concept of Either is predominantly used for error handling and thus Rust named their data constructors aptly.
Im sure Im wrong, but wouldnt it make sense to start with like "all rice, bean, potatoes, and broccoli consumption at the personal level is free" and start with a food stamp / ebt that buys unlimited of something very specific? It wouldnt be a currency thats worth trading to other people, landlords couldnt collect ebt credits in lieu of rent, because everyone would already have unlimited.

Instead of subsidizing agriculture at the production side, you can combine farm subsidies, food stamps, and ubi into one consumer credit, designed to persuade people to consume mostly free food over luxury food.

Whats the next thing it would make sense to subsidize for everyone without creating some kind of cyclical purchasing power loop?
That is a societal level ticket for "disturbing the peace"
I work for a US multinational semiconductor company, and the Huawei sanctions took 20% off our share price. It's an interconnected world.
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Administrative blockage is a form of protectionism.
You don't pay a tariff but you are prevented from accessing the market. Same result.
not necessarily, last time the same tariff play worked for Japan, and Japan arguably never recovered since.
Don't tell Dave Cutler you're running OpenVMS on top of a *nix!
You don’t always need TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Interrupt...

Summary: If you define ‘_BSD_SOURCE’ or ‘_GNU_SOURCE’ before calling ‘signal’, you never get EINTR. If you use ‘sigaction’ to establish a signal handler, you can specify how that handler should behave. If you specify the 'SA_RESTART' flag, return from that handler will resume a primitive instead of returning with EINTR.
relying on churches to provide charity puts an emphasis on crowds rather than individuals

if you don't at least pretend to be Christian, or if you're say, gay, or like abortions, you lose access to many charitable funds, reducing your individual liberty when the rubber hits the road
The Factories of the Future Will Be Fast, Flexible, and Free of Wires
Many of the people in US prisons belong there. The same can't be said of the inhabitants of Xinjiang concentration camps.
It sometimes work for me to learn new words :-)
Well that's blatantly false. Everyone willing to minimally contribute to society should have an expectation of a living wage.

Able bodied people that choose to do nothing deserve to receive nothing.
The Mac no longer needs compatibility to thrive
cool man you're welcome to take time off from your job and teach them to code at no cost. until then i'll vote for minimum wage increases.
It's a quip among colleagues that "macOS is not a server OS".

I have to run a bunch of VMs for builds, and I really wish I could be running Linux instead.
If you want to learn to speak english well, watch those programs that use English properly. Blackadder. Archer. Sherlock. Even some of the marvel movies (GOTG) are very careful in how they pronounce and articulate words. Then watch every Brian Cox and Attenborough documentary. You might come out with a bit of a British accent but that is far far better than any youtube-derived accent. Better you sound like Stirling Archer than [insert random youtube person].
I'm confused, are you saying that the tendency for people to want more means we should never re-assess what is considered enough? I hope I got it wrong -- how would you ever improve anything in your life if you live by that rule?