skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I have severe convergence insufficiency (that is highly variable and cannot be corrected, from a practical standpoint) due to a rare immune-mediated neurological disease.

I either use Kurzweil 3000 (Windows|Mac|Browser) (paid)|JAWS (Windows) (paid)|Voice Dream Reader (iOS|Android)| VoiceOver (iOS) (free)| Talkback (free), depending on what I am doing and how my much my eyes are affecting me at that moment.

I taught myself braille and I have a couple of refreshable braille displays, which I use, depending on how well my eyes are working.

I can digitize printed material well, including STEM material, using a program called InftyReader (Windows).

It is no fun, but you have to do what you have to do.
Understanding the distributions helped me the most. My favorite class was something like ‘single point estimates’ because it covered a lot about why mean and std dev are so powerful, but also sometimes so broken at conveying meaning.
What do five HUNDRED people in tech do at an office rental company?
I disagree but only for one major reason: the entire reason this is coming up is because the OP is using an old version of Alfred that wasn't prepped for the new permission settings of Catalina even though there's a fully compatible version that's been released since. The vast majority of users will never, ever get something this obnoxious so it's not a bad on-boarding experience as much as it's a side effect of running old software.
>> why should I care?

Because we all have the responsibility to improve the working conditions in the software industry? I love this field too mu ch to leave it up to "markets will figure it out".
"I want to point out that Morey's HK tweet is out of line"

Which part of freedom of speech is still unclear even after supposedly you've "lived in the US for over a decade"???

"and doesn't deserve NBA's endorsement."

The NBA did not endorse nor reject Morey's words.
NOTE: I think this has been handled incredibly poorly by the NBA and that Morey should have doubled down on his tweet, not caved.

That said, the reason additional profits matter is that 51% of the revenue (not profits) go to the players, and the salary cap is tied directly to total revenue. This was collectively bargained and cannot be changed without a renegotiation. A lot of decisions have been made making assumptions about revenue that include revenue from China. On the player side, the total amount of money available to them is directly impacted by how much money is generated in China.

All that said, the NBA and the players should absolutely speak out and dare the CCP to delete the NBA. It's the most popular sport in the country and they've spent years cultivating the relationship. People will notice if it disappears.
> The government knows your citizenship status when you register to vote.

Yes, but if you register at a time other than the time you vote, how do you prove at the time you vote that you're the same person who registered and had all that information checked when they registered?

That's what the ID is for. A passport would also work, but I don't think that should be the only possible way to do it. Now that most states are supporting RealID, your state will most likely be able to issue you an ID that you have to prove citizenship to get.
Is there anything which allows user choice (i.e. state) that doesn't involve JS?
Got any links to the research? Would be helpful to me and other readers. Thanks.
>What would have moved to Vietnam would have been more basic textiles and cnc/molding.

And these are the types of jobs that provided a decent living wage for the middle/lower-middle class, of which a lot of people in the midwest and rustbelt use to do, and the loss of such jobs has decimated these communities. Service sector, warehouse fulfillment, and gig economy jobs don't provide nearly the value, nor do they provide the types of benefits that former jobs did.

Edit - Not sure why my comment is being downvoted. A lot of the jobs in the midwest were things like basic factory work of plastic products, textiles, CNC machining, molding (of which my dad was previously employed doing), and other things of that nature which have been outsourced over the decades. These jobs not only provided a stable livable wage, but most of them also provided benefits such as health/dental insurance for not only the workers but their entire families. These jobs have left over the years, and nothing which provided the same standards of living has come into replace them. States such as michigan, illinois, ohio, wisconsin, and others in that area have been hit hard over the past few decades because of these changes in the global economy.
Ask HN: Libraries that define interfaces similar to “Iterable”?
In JS, to implement Iterable, you expose an iterator on the property [Symbol.iterator]. Are there any libraries/frameworks/whatever which define interfaces this way, so that many packages can implement them? This could create interoperability opportunities around a shared collection of "-ables" or "capabilities". As an example, there could be a Serializable interface which expects a Seralizer interface to be implemented at [Library.seralizerSymbol].

It seems like a standard, concise set of such interfaces could ease package interoperability and module interfacing in general if adopted by a significant number of packages.

Open to feedback, and please let me know if this already exists.
Why not just run `:term` followed by full gdb? Doesn't seem like it's worth implementing a whole other interface.
BTW This is the pilot who was the last to land on the stormy night in one of the episodes of the documentary series "Carrier". He's relaying this incident as reported to him from a pilot friend. he had his own encounter in 2004 with a "tic-tac" flying object.
This is why they are a pretend tech company. Tech roles are the company otherwise. This is part of the likely 2,000/15,000.
You expect applications to have access to your desktop?

You should only ever expect the user to have access to the desktop and, even then, the only apps that would ever prompt for access to the desktop are those that aren't updated for High Sierra and above. On the latest versions of macOS, the Desktop folder is shared by iCloud. This is definitely not an instance where security has been lowered nor is this the standard behavior of the new OS.
Is 'national socialism' a thing outside of Nazi Germany? I thought the term was basically invented by the nazis.
But how do they know the person showing up to vote is the person they have registration information for?
If you’ve been inside of a WeWork office, there is a pretty advanced process in place for checking in and alerting different people about you being there. It felt a bit over-engineered when I went there, but I suppose that is the kind of stuff these “tech roles” worked on.
You will not find a person that despises current POTUS more than me, but I'm also very positive about the fact that China is finally being identified as a real and present threat.

Unfortunately current POTUS is doing his very best to implement ineffective measures, it would have hurt China a LOT more to enter into TPP (I know, horrible treaty otherwise) than the stupid tariffs that were imposed.

At the end of the day, as a society we need to come to grips with a simple question: do we as a society keep doing business with a country that behaves like an enemy in any way that matters, and commits genocide and mass censorship of free speech for the profit of private corporations, or we say that our values (as imperfect in their application as they might be) are worth more than money?

I'm not holding my breath for us doing the right thing.
Coming from somebody who is disabled: this is what life is like for a disabled person.

There are many, many indignities that we encounter, even nearly constantly due to the way society ignores our needs.

If you go and check out some disabled activists' Twitter accounts, you may be shocked at the anger and the lack of "decency". But, put yourself in their shoes, and realize that they have been forced to deal with systematic and near-constant indignities, and many of them have been forced to fight for their mere existence as human beings.
Infrastructure and software are hard.
I recently had a third-party seller from an Amazon purchase send me a marketing postcard. Item was "fulfilled by Amazon", so transmitting my address to the seller was not needed to fulfill my order.

The postcard contained a call-to-action to visit a URL. Fortunately, I was suspicious and went there in an incognito window, because it redirected to use a signed-in facebook session to send themselves a message, presumably to harvest more data about me.

I wrote a review on the product condemning this practice and Amazon removed the review as "not about the product". Quite frustrating - seems Amazon just doesn't care about customer privacy.
Without meaning any offense to anyone, I am also genuinely curious how is a company such as Twitter have so many employees? Outsiders like myself know what goes into running GE or Tesla (and is easy to understand), but I would really appreciate someone from silicon valley enlighten about various needs for a company such as Twitter (or WeWork, etc.); what really goes on inside the doors, how are teams organized, what are some of the most challenging problems?

If I were running Twitter, I would freeze the feature creep, have a robust security and site-reliability team, perhaps make small improvements to UI/UX by eliminating friction/impedance. Similar to how Craigslist and surprisingly how Ebay is today - it is pretty much the same experience as 2008, I vividly remember. Instead, engineering resources can be channeled to new ventures (or augmentation projects) for additional growth.
"Future Zion Williamson"'s have chosen to play in China over the NCAA already. The ones who have all spoke about the culture shock and language barriers and how it impeded their development. The Australian leagues seem far more likely to carve out an early career role for American high school stars.
Yep. Many democrats are unfortunately criticizing the tariffs just because of Trump, without actually thinking them through. However, I have read that Elizabeth Warren could be even tougher on China than Trump is being, so that's something.
According to [0], apparently at least some of them are involved with exploring fancy over-engineered tech-stacks

[0](https://vicki.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-kafka)
Investment banks (i.e. "Wall Street) underwrite and manage the IPO.
The consistent line colour-coding and set platform allocations makes it super-easy to find your platform (and train) as a foreigner.

The only issue I ever had was determining the best exit at an unfamiliar station. Pick the wrong one at a larger station and you can find yourself a long way from where you were heading.
I think it was a typo and he meant 60 days without carbohydrates.
A WeWork recruiter recently sent me a SRE job role and I just laughed.
Because at scale small changes can save or make a company more money than an engineers salary.

Simply making a process 2% more efficient can save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Or increasing advertising conversions by 1%. etc etc.
The mass internment camps are really the nail in the coffin for China on this one. A lot of the other stuff can be excused away politically, that one can’t.
You’re right. It’s growth rate of oil consumption that is stalling, not overall consumption. My mistake!
Is there any way to turn this feature off?
I love this idea; it plays strongly into American strengths.

However, I don't know if China would be more successful in convincing it's top talent to stay with their families, and I have no idea how to sell this idea politically to American voters. The stereotype of Chinese culture is that they tend to be more collectivist, and the stereotype of the general population of American voters would most likely rather spend any money on Americans first. For the later problem, it is hard to articulate concisely the roundabout way this ends up causing brain drain, and the eventual benefits to the US citizenry. It is much easier to sell "China did something bad, we will punish them with tariffs" than "Chinese government bad, we will pay top Chinese citizens to defect."
Try to impeach this? Challenge accepted
You mean 1500 people.
Well no, technically it's just the point of maximum change, where our existing model would trend towards infinity. In much the same way as this is a meaningless result in physics for a black hole (and hence a lot of new theory to try and bound that infinity) it's a meaningless prediction for the future as well.

But it is very much reasonable to posit that certain, seemingly achievable advances, do imply that predictive models of the future become meaningless beyond them.

In some areas I would contend we're circling that right now: I don't think anyone has a good model for what society looks like if deep fakes become accessible to the point of ubiquity for example (think: whole performance replacement in movies with moderate investments in computing power) or the like. We don't have a predictive model, really, for how society operates when "perfect" fakes are possible.
It’s a shame people don’t know how to print out paper tokens and keep them safe.
There IS a market for a WeWork like service.

A WeWork-like model has appeal to someone like me that would love good coffee and an office/hoteling space! Especially as I travel a lot and sometimes want a reliable private workspace in an arbitrary city. Coffee shops frankly don’t cut it for working/meeting with people all day.

Also there’s often a need for meeting spaces in arbitrary cities. my company would have used an airBNB style conference room scheduling solution half a dozen times last year.

All to say there’s at least a potential customer base here. Whether it’s a profitable business model, well, maybe :)
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Yup, this just happened to me too.
> The climate argument is not "weak for electric cars." Electric cars are about a factor of 2.5 better in terms of emissions per mile even with the current US electric grid.

Isn't a large benefit also that the emissions generated by electric cars is centralised at the places producing the electricity, which makes it easier to clean up the pollution?
Ideally all trade with China would cease - and bulk manufacturing would be moved either domestically or to allied countries outside china's sphere of influence. This reduces risk of supply-chain attacks and improves self sufficiency.
Modular pc's, but on top of Intell.

Yeah, that's a fundamental mistake. I'm not seeing what problem they want to solve also. PC's are the most modular hardware I have.
www.Levels.fyi started out as a side project! One benefit of starting out as a side project is it allowed us the flexibility and freedom to focus on user features without needing to worry about revenue.
Or turning against bullshit business models. The growth for taking egregious commissions on takeout and losing money while doing it is a finite market.
Or you know, many companies are based on private valuations that are often gamed to boost the books of investors but don't match reality.
Because you’d have to have the right name and address while also knowing the person you’ve impersonated hasn’t voted yet.

Then you’d have to wonder why you’re going to the effort for one extra vote because this is a made up problem.
It’s called a hotel or motel. They contain all those things you desire.
Math is built of analogues to preexisting patterns. The symbols may be invented, but the concepts are discovered.
That is one learning style but not the only learning style. That style is reserved for kids, because often explanations are too abstract, so instead of fully understanding what they're doing, they're given tons of examples, turning the process into muscle memory.

If a topic is muscle memory, it becomes very hard to explain or teach to another. This is why it is important to learn topics beyond muscle memory. I had to go through this because I learned how to program before I was a teen. I found it difficult to explain what I was doing to others.

Today when people get stuck early on learning to program I show them decomposition, as it is the most common hold up people get stuck on. Decomposition is the opposite of abstraction, so it leads into a beneficial second lesson later on. (I don't explain decomposition, I show them.)

At the end of the day it comes down to personality and beliefs more than prerequisite experience when it comes to learning. If someone is afraid to stop and go out of their way to learn a prerequisite, because they're afraid to be seen as ignorant, they're going to struggle. Likewise, if someone is afraid to make a mistake / have a misunderstanding, it can cause too much anxiety to quickly pick up topics.

This is why with interns my primary focus is neutralizing anxiety. I try to show ignorance and misunderstanding are okay and acceptable. I lead by example. Little ducks copy unsaid behaviors well. Once that criteria is met, then and only then do I slowly switch into dumping terminology and lessons on them, only once they're ready for it.
No One Needs a Superyacht, but They Keep Selling Them
Does it fix PGP not having forward secrecy?
Interesting. From what I've read is it fair to say that you're not primarily concerned with the driving experience, but rather the convenience a Tesla provides and supporting them as a brand? I hope I'm not at all coming off as judgemental, I'm genuinely curious about what draws people to the cars they own. I'm a huge auto enthusiast and I too couldn't care less about luxury. The driving experience is about 90% of my consideration when I'm shopping for cars, so I find it interesting to see what factors other people consider. I ended up with a GT-R, which I'm sure a lot of people think I'm absolutely insane for being willing to shell out that much for a Nissan. I can't wait to see the Tesla Roadster in action, it's really going to shake up the world of drag racing.
> IMHO, productivity tools should do more to help us stay on task: they should help with all aspects of cognition - from capturing ideas, to making plans, to making good on those plans. Fundamentally, productivity tools need to evolve to help us deal with the emotional components of 'getting unstuck'. It's the biggest problem, at least for me.

I've not seen any good solution (technological or otherwise) for meaningfully sorting all the information you've captured and prioritizing. There are plenty of ways to capture well (Org Mode!). In my experience, the more you capture, the worse things get. Until someone can come up with a scheme (need not be technological) to handle all that I've captured, /and/ in a manner that doesn't consume time, then you've got a solution.

One common approach is to timestamp things and just let anything beyond a certain date expire if you've not "handled" it. I honestly did not try it - probably should. The main concern would be that expired things will recur in my brain again and be captured later - over and over - a problem in and of itself.
There's definitely a profitable business there, even. WeWork is absolutely a very reasonable, solid business. It's probably just not worth $50 billion.
Say you own a co-working space. You probably should have some way to let:

- People book conference rooms.

- Let people check in and check out.

- Let people book hot desks.

- Manage access for members, hot desks, event participants etc.

- Lots of other stuff.

At some point, the off the shelf software is no good, especially if you're looking to... build a single experience around the world for lots and lots of office buildings under your management! The software will have a lot of other admin and reporting doodads. Especially if you're trying to turn your office company into an everything company. Then the scope goes way up.

You might even start thinking about managing everything because you're a control freak... stuff like central air con control and energy use analytics across all properties... I'm just throwing stuff out there, I've never worked for WeWork.

Does this justify hundreds of engineers? It is so easy to hire more people when you have a massive war chest. Projects begin to justify themselves because you'll need them "soon enough". And if the founder pulls it off, then they're a genius! Or not.
Even though this article's title sounds like it, this isn't meant to be flippant: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

Also see the other child comment: Once you have a significant amount of revenue, investing the effort improve things by 0.1% (or even 0.01%) can have a not-insignificant impact on the bottom line.
I think the 1Password experience for 2FA is pretty good, even on mobile. Literally just have to paste the code.
>You know, this is a pretty apt analogy.

Disagree wholeheartedly. It definitely has "hints" of Vista band-aid rips in the same way that shit like La Croix has "hints" of flavor but Vista was one of the worst OS releases I ever had the pleasure of being part of, only behind Windows ME. It took Vista a really long time to be a stable, fully-usable OS and, while I'm glad for the steps they took with it, their execution was terrible.

On top of that, this is completely due to the user.
But I was told WeWork is a tech company. Repeatedly.
HK protesters are doing exactly that. A list of yellow/blue (pro-democracy/pro-government) merchants and their locations on Google Maps:
https://www.restart-hk.com/ShopList.html

If you click on a merchant on the Google Maps, it also shows you why that merchant is marked as such, with links to forum discussions/news about comments made by its owner. This map has 3.5mil views in less than 2 months of existence, in a city with 7.5mil population.

HK protesters are actively boycotting many pro-government merchants because such information is easy to find.
Great way to get a bunch of spies, and pay for it.
Here ya go:

1. a) "Steve Kerr's silence shows NBA-China relationship is league's third rail" - [https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/steve-kerrs-silen...]

b) [https://twitter.com/JamesHasson20/status/1181422479115456512]

2. "NBA Stars Seek to Stay on China’s Good Side" - [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/james-har...]

3. "Opinion: It's time for LeBron James to speak out on China, regardless of Nike ties" - [https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/josh-peter/2...]
Comparing direct listings to IPOs always seemed odd to me. An IPO is a fundraising event. A DPO does not raise any money for the actual business, but it gives liquidity to existing shareholders. The reason we're seeing them now is that there are companies who don't need an IPO to raise money, but have shareholders who have waited 10 years for liquidity.
I wonder if requiring a phone number for access could create ADA compliance liability for web services.