skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible to make a website accessible using existing tools and guidelines but you can make a much better experience if you build a dedicated edition of your website to use by screen readers.

This would be the equivalent of publishing 2 versions of your iPhone app. One highly optimized for blind people and another version for everyone else.

Although the iPhone has great accessibility an separate optimized version of your app would provide an even better user experience but that we were not allowed to do.

The idea for the text only edition was an idea that was formed by a group of blind people and was the solution they said was the optimal solution for them
GM Cruise: We Have to Talk About Your Shitty Workplace Situation
Are you open to remote candidates from Europe?
That’s a pretty dumb thing to say given all the excellent books written by younger people.
Yup. 30 years ago or so, I was in 1st or 2nd grade and I remember they fingerprinted all of us in the school cafeteria. i think they told us it was in case we get kidnapped.
Thank you for clarifying. I've been incredibly impressed with the adoption by the mathematics community with these tools.
An invasive species under attack by human “urbanization”. Sounds good to me.
To prevent mirrors shading each other. If you look at the upper part of the photo, it's almost a uniform mirror from this point of view. But if you look at the bottom, there's lots of spaces. The overlap/spacing is likely optional for reaching the tower.
I do this in my ssh config to get what I assume is the same effect with the iTerm badge.

Host * !github.com
LocalCommand printf '\e]7;file://%n/\a'
PermitLocalCommand yes
I say we mount AI controlled weapons on the boar's back to give them a fighting chance against humans.
Your idea of the limitations of our right to free speech seems to depend on a referee; otherwise, it seems that you are conflating the idea of 'rights' with 'legality'.

> I have no right to say "Hey, so-and-so is a cheat, don't do business with them," however strongly I believe it, when they're not.

Who gets to say they are or are not a cheat? Spreading false rumours is reprehensible, but within your right to speak freely: just like the so-called cheat has the right to sue the rumour-maker for defamation.

> I have no right to say "You should rob a bank, and I'll teach you how."

It's illegal to encourage/enable illegal actions, but you have the right to do illegal things - just like you have the right to bear the consequences of your illegal actions.

> I have no right to say "This herb will cure your disease" merely because I believe it, if nobody has convinced the government to also believe it.

What if the herb (or cutting-edge treatment developed in some other country) works beautifully in another country, but the FDA in the US doesn't recognize it yet? You've set up the US government as the referee who gets to decide when we are allowed to have our right to free speech.

> I don't even have the right to repeat your comment, except in specific ways and circumstances.

You have the right to repeat the comment however you like - but you also have the right to be sued under copyright and defamation laws.

> fundamental rights must be preserved even when used distastefully

They are also, as recognized in the US declaration of independence, unalienable: the government has no say in whether we get to have them.

> not at all clear to me that propagating dumb conspiracies in a way that leads to violence is within the line...since it's not the conspiracy itself that makes it questionable here

As you point out; someone theorizes about a Bad Person, someone reads that conspiracy stuff online, and decides to 'do something' about it, and tries to shoot that Bad Person. In the US Code, inciting to commit a crime looks like this: "whoever...solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct".

So what exactly do you mean by "in a way that leads to violence"? Because what the US code describes is vastly different from "theorizing about the existence of a conspiracy", however 'out there' the conspiracy is. And in at least the example of the pizzagate shooter, he persuaded himself of his actions - the conspiracy just made him think that a Very Bad Thing was happening there. And there is nothing wrong with theorizing about the existence of a conspiracy of people doing Bad Things.
I like my 8+

The X and beyond are nice, but I think the facial unlock is a pita and stopped my upgrade. I also ordered a purism phone...
EU, Vietnam to become brothers in arms
I have always had very reliable electricity just from the grid. The value of additional reliability would be almost neglible for me.
Little too early to disclose the details, but it's in the eCommerce content marketing space currently dominated by the likes of BazaarVoice, PowerReviews ... >$5B TAM (for overall marketing automation space) and a CAGR of 15-20%.
> If you can leave it for 12 hours alone, it’s not a real responsibility.

So dog ownership does count. (I'm pretty sure leaving a dog at home alone for 12 hours straight is not a good practice.)
anything similar but for Taiwan?
GraphQL is intended for public APIs which are interacted with by arbitrary, possibly malicious, queries.

This appears to be for known queries. Unless it is designed for arbitrary queries, DoS is a likely problem.
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Do people really think this way, besides young people and tech managers?

I'm over 35 and my productivity and capacity to learn new things has only continued to grow over time.

It's true that many exceptional artifacts have been produced by people when they're relatively young. I think this is more a byproduct of ignorance (i.e., seeing the world with a fresh pair of eyes). But as this list shows, maybe age isn't the critical factor -- maybe it's about diving into something new and unfamiliar.
>I'm confused about why being a minority means you need more help?

In simple terms, many minority groups in America have been forcefully and intentionally disadvantaged for generations through programs like redlining, segregation, the so-called war on drugs, gerrymandering, and hundreds of other racist schemes designed to deprive minority citizens of the same rights and privileges you and your ancestors were afforded solely based on the colour of their skin.

And I would hope that you can understand why centuries of systemic oppression would have a lasting effect that needs more than just words to address.
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Lieutenant is "Leftenant" in other parts of the world (those with a British connection, of course) as well.
I mostly agree. I am finding Apple Services to be much improved and I often leave my iPhone at home and just wear my Apple Watch.

I hope I don’t sound too judgemental, but every time I see a room full of people where most everyone is staring into their phone I question if they are really making best use of their time in the wonderful world that we live in.
What a load of crap. Tell me you are serious.
NonStop (Server Computers)
I'm starting my PhD in genetics later this month, and I'm 34. So, this is good news!
This is the final project of Berkeley's intro to cs class, cs61a.org.

It used to be writing a Lisp interpreter in Lisp.
Show HN: A Mood Tracker on the Web
It's just way more efficient and uncomplicated to build large scale than to build a large number of small scale stuff. This shouldn't be surprising.
I am building a mood tracking/journaling site, and I would like to have some early users to give me feedback. It is something I am doing for-profit, but currently, there is only a free plan.

It is on the web (rather than an app), so you don't have to worry with backups, changing phones, etc. And if you like to write, it is better to write on a desktop.

If you are interested, please let me know what you think.
A Primer on Analogical Reasoning
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I wish the usage of FAANG would die. Firstly it exlcudes obvious others like Uber, Microsoft, etc. Secondly, and purely aesthetically, it sounds silly. I hereby propose we call such companies the Big N, and I'm definitely open to other ideas.
Petition calling for suspension of crowd control equipment exports to Hong Kong
> The author instead seems to think they are approximately the same because the lower order terms are small compared to the highest one.

In fairness, this is actually why we care in practice about asymptotic issues. The fact that there is a rigorous mathematical viewpoint that makes them strictly comparable is helpful for being confident about the non-trivial results -- but the reason we care about it is because we want to know roughly how expensive our code is (or will be).
Maybe blowing air would work.
Hard for me to imagine wanting this life. Imprisoned in a state worse than solitary confinement for more than a decade. Life is very good, most of the time, but there are states where less is more.
Tesla Model 3 is roughly 15kwh per 100km.

See this [1] for discussion of gasoline production - even more unexpected and complicated to tally.

We are already getting EV emitting less CO2 each year, see here [2]. With wind/solar (+batteries) getting even more wins over coal due to price drops, this process will only accelerate — no need to wait for fusion.

[1] https://greentransportation.info/energy-transportation/gasol...

[2] https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/new-data-show-electri...
Google pays Adblock plus so they can get their ads through their "ad-blocking". The same org behind this is the one that bought the uBlock clone and the uBlock.org domain name.

The upcoming changes to the Chrome browser, will limit the performance and capabilities of actual ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin. Google claims these changes are being done to protect users privacy.
Interesting choice of dimensions... So basically how human and how rhythmically distinct.

Edit: so out of curiosity I looked at the bottom right corner and found "tanci". Odd name. Clicked on it, and it's Chinese spoken word artists. Incidentally I practice Chinese so it's perfect.
This isn't a secret by any means.

Even Google Chrome's built in Spell Checker is constantly sending data back to Google and functions as a keylogger.
Can you give an example problem?

I wonder how rigorous non-algo challenges can be inside of an hour. Or how you would “get a sense” of CS fundamentals without algo tests.
What about understanding how the world works makes me automatically part of the problem?

I do disagree that there are other cultures with a 'better' notion. Culture matters, but nkt that much in the long run when theres status at stake
Just Corrected somethings
Look up the history of the helpful IBM census machines just before WWII.
>Experimental feature flags is basic software development.

No, it is not basic or even recommended. Experimental feature flags should be used sparingly, especially those that take effect at runtime.

The worst codebases I have worked in were littered with runtime feature flags all over the place, which rendered many tests worthless by creating a combinatorial explosion of runtime complexity.

It is the greenest of developers who use experimental flags liberally.
I’d like to be corrected if I’m wrong, but this seems to be about arranging data to be better processed in quantum computing, to retrieve parity information. I wonder if this has application to McEliece codes, or future communications.

I hope so.
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wow! really nice demo.
Where did I say I was an authority? I'm just sharing what I think based on what I've read.

I was saying that the "extrapolation" of current trends into the future without bound is unscientific. Perhaps that isn't quite right. I could have made it clear that they are unproven hypothesis at this point. So just an element of the scientific process, but not a conclusive scientific results.

Positive feedback loops are very unusual in nature and so that is one reason I said "unlikely".

In any case treating the predictions of climate models as equivalent to the confirmation of hypothesis via the scientific method is just wrong by definition. They are different things.
I liked this piece for the attempt to imagine what using an early personal computer was like and getting it wrong in good and interesting ways - statistically nobody had an Apple I and everything later had BASIC and higher level (i.e. not just monitor) CLIs - that was the big selling point. Later there's a bit about maybe using a decimal FP representation and my first thought was 'no, that's nuts' but your mention of the 800XL sent me to the wikipedia page:

"The first is that all numeric values in [Atari] BASIC are stored in floating-point binary coded decimal (BCD) format"
Is that really a nice feature? I live in tmux + iTerm, and have set up the integration but never really used/enjoyed is so I just disabled it. Not sure what I'm missing honestly
Ask HN: Good resources for a US startup expanding overseas
We are a US company expanding into Canada, the UK, and Europe (any eurozone country is fine). Anyone have some good resources for learning about corporate structure, tax implications, etc? Recommend any good lawyers in California (ideally)?
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Maybe you should start a coding interview prep course...
so he was mostly unresponsive but could still feel pain. they were doing stuff with his tubes with no pain meds for almost two decades. that has to be one of the most horrifying things ive ever imagined.
Data-mining finds 80% of books published 1924-63 are now in the public domain
I think it would actually be easier. They frequently present big modal popups about adding items, with tiny font in the bottom right saying 'no thanks'
I would suggest that many people have dogs because they are emotionally ready to be a caregiver and feel the desire for a nurturing relationship, but don’t feel that child rearing is economically feasible. Perhaps if older generations hadn’t pulled the ladder up behind them, there would be more kids and fewer pet dogs.
Ok that explains why they want to do it, but how does it benefit the market to allow that? How does it benefit the consumers and corporations? In other words, what is the argument against creating a law that requires a minimum of 1 second batches for example?
Alaska’s scientists despair over plan to shrink state universities
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That does show up one area that Chrome still eclipses Firefox - the Shift Esc task manager that will usually reveal which tab or extension is cratering things. Firefox is much more opaque about memory and especially CPU use, making it far harder to pin down.
Nim (higher level than C) creates small binaries and uses Emscripten to produce WASM.
>Living under total US dominance as in Canada or Finland or Hawaii is far preferable than any alternative.

I'd like to see you live in Puerto Rico or Detroit then.
The most interesting thing I've seen done with L-systems is algorithmically compose music, which can have interesting self-similar, fractal like structures.
If you are growing shrooms then you'll likely being charged with possessing them with intent to distribute, which is 5 years in prison.
I don't have a vent fan in my bathroom so I put a 2 litter aluminum bottle on top of an aluminum plate in my sink, does wonders vs nothing at all.
This is such a great post, and if you are new to Lisp or Compilers or PLT I would recommend investing time in it.

> I think it meets Alan Kay's 1972 claim that you could define the "most powerful language in the world" in "a page of code." (However, I think Alan would disagree, because he would count the Python compiler as part of the code, putting me well over a page.)

If anyone is curious, I have some ideas on how you could more precisely define this problem and an objective mathematical way of evaluating it. Shoot me an email if curious.
Elon Musk's Las Vegas Tunnel Kind of Sucks?
Bingo. The absurdity of this, let’s create something that by their own admission is worth hundreds of millions for a few thousand dollars and some street cred. Also, VDF is probably worth much more than that if it can be effectively done.
I didn't say "picking the p-values". I said "picking the null hypothesis". (Although p-value hacking is certainly a major contributing factor to the replication crisis.)

It's good that the textbooks you were taught from point out that assumptions exist and should be acknowledged.
I'm more familiar with nginx (nginx-ingress, these days) but the HAProxy ingress controller and data plane API really piqued my interest. Very cool work.
Mauna Kea is important to astronomers, hence their desire to build there. Would you feel their decision would be more acceptable if that belief were grounded in superstition, historical circumstance, or contemporary practicality?
> When power analyses are more motivated by funding feasibility and 80% conventions than prior belief, decision theory isn't going to help.

You're assuming that power analyses happen. I'd be thrilled to get most practitioners that far.
Which one was YOUR first phone
prove it on one page.
I recently read two works by a great Australian writer who didn't publish his first book until he was exactly 35, Gerald Murnane.

You'll like his work if you enjoy literary fiction with a formalist and philosophical bent. Fairly calm and airy.
Yes. And the paragraph that most stood out to me was this:

> If the task you are working on can be expressed as a pure function that simply processes input parameters into a return structure, it is easy to switch it out for different implementations. If it is a system that maintains internal state or has multiple entry points, you have to be a bit more careful about switching it in and out. If it is a gnarly mess with lots of internal callouts to other systems to maintain parallel state changes, then you have some cleanup to do before trying a parallel implementation.

If you have clean interface boundaries, it's easy to have two versions of something coexisting. If you don't, you can't just change the component in question, you have to change the whole program, which means you can't go this route. It's not just about deciding to do two implementations of something, it's about writing your whole program in ways that facilitate this style of development (no side effects, etc.)
Herero and Namaqua Genocide
The people/times when I seen crazy hours worked are those doing paperwork or working on a death march for some project they didn't think when accepting it.
Sure, it just seems like if there were anything more damning the guy would likely want it front and center (unless there are legal terms around that sort of thing etc).
this has been on before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745322

I used the same article to write lisp in C#.... worked out really nice
A flat monthly subscription for what exactly? Advanced extensions with UI and extra privacy/security options? There is a reason why this doesn't exist, and people already pay extra money for Windows and Mac OS. If people are already paying for an OS, they shouldn't then be required to pay for a premier browsing experience.
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Yeah, sure, it's a matter of how you define the event.

Let's say some day you find an acquaintance on the street. Not extraordinary. But that specific acquaintance that you hadn't seen in 10 years. On that specific day, on that specific street, at that specific time. If you had wondered the day before how likely it would be that that specific set of circumstances would come togethet, you would have rightly concluded it was exceedingly unlikely.

This is another way of looking at the first example in the article. The question was not how likely it was that that specific woman had their two children die of natural causes, but how likely it was that someone in the country or the world would have such a thing happen in a large interval of time.