skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indeed, but if you ignore much of the crack-pottery

She claims to have studied physics for twenty years and have a PhD in accelerator physics. If true (and she seems too well-informed to be lying), her crack-pottery is at the very least well-informed enough to likely contain many useful insights and views worth considering. Especially regarding physicist culture.

There is a page where she shares a few of her novel[0], and speaking as someone who dropped out of physics myself (just a lot earlier than she did) I certainly recognize more than a few themes in the feedback contained therein.

[0] https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/07/30/reviews/
Anytime somebody here would like to claim that 'new' Microsoft is so much better and moral than 'old' one, I want to punch them in the face and start rant about Windows 10. Never met a single person, IT or not, who would not complain about it after moving from Windows 7.

Now I don't have to, I can just point to this thread and this comment.

This is pure arrogance - they know they have whole corporate world stuck with Office, even immediate move to Open source would take 20 years due to mostly Excel tight integration/expertise. We would all benefit from a good competition in this area...
I just became an a11y programmer :)
We should've listen to RMS about Free Software huh?
Tptacek

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615

(1) Start a freelance practice.

(2) Raise your rates.

(3) As you work for clients, keep a sharp eye for opportunities to build "specialty practices". If you get to work on a project involving Mongodb, spend some extra time and effort to get Mongodb under your belt. If you get a project for a law firm, spend some extra time thinking about how to develop applications that deal with contracts or boilerplates or PDF generation or document management.

(4) Raise your rates.

(5) Start refusing hourly-rate projects. Your new minimum billable increment is a day.

(6) Take end-to-end responsibility for the business objectives of whatever you build. This sounds fuzzy, like, "be able to talk in a board room", but it isn't! It's mechanically simple and you can do it immediately: Stop counting hours and days. Stop pushing back when your client changes scope. Your remedy for clients who abuse your flexibility with regards to scope is "stop working with that client". Some of your best clients will be abusive and you won't have that remedy. Oh well! Note: you are now a consultant.

(7) Hire one person at a reasonable salary. You are now responsible for their payroll and benefits. If you don't book enough work to pay both your take-home and their salary, you don't eat. In return: they don't get an automatic percentage of all the revenue of the company, nor does their salary automatically scale with your bill rate.

(8) You are now "senior" or "principal". Raise your rates.

(9) Generalize out from your specialties: Mongodb -> NoSQL -> highly scalable backends. Document management -> secure contract management.

(10) Raise your rates.

(11) You are now a top-tier consulting group compared to most of the market. Market yourself as such. Also: your rates are too low by probably about 40-60%.
Try to get it through your head: people who can simultaneously (a) crank out code (or arrange to have code cranked out) and (b) take responsibility for the business outcome of the problems that code is supposed to solve --- people who can speak both tech and biz --- are exceptionally rare. They shouldn't be; the language of business is mostly just elementary customer service, of the kind taught to entry level clerks at Nordstrom's. But they are, so if you can do that, raise your rates.
Had a dubious pleasure to implement both on a website of a major publisher. Eventually both got removed due to low business value. They didn't actually drive any traffic.
> Adam Singolda, who runs Taboola and will take charge of the combined company, characterized the deal in a statement as a way to “create a more robust competitor to Facebook and Google” while “strengthening journalism.”

Do potential investors/employees actually believe this kind of drivel or is it a sort of expected formalistic dance?
My SwiftUI experience is quite different. For me it worked ok for everything they do in the tutorials but everything else is underwhelming. Animations are really cool though.

Some of my issues where that sometimes the buttons seem to have a very small hit-box (yea, I changed that but it didn't help), you have to use lists because tables mess up certain animations, lists always have this separator line, the documentation is not really there, ....

I started to use it from the 3rd beta and still, the API changed with every update and generally it felt more like an alpha. Overall I wouldn't do much more than a simple example ToDo app with it and definitely not rely on it for a product.
You can figure out the basics in about 20-60 minutes.

If you use a Mac, just enable VoiceOver:
https://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1121.html

If you use Windows, I suggest NVDA - it's a free screen reader that's similar to the most-popular-but-expensive one (JAWS):
https://www.nvaccess.org/download/

IMHO the best screen readers are on your phone / tablet. This might sound crazy (how can a touchscreen work when you can't see it?) but they're much better designed than their desktop equivalents. Mobile software tends to be simpler, resulting in a better experience:

iOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDm7GiKra28

Android:
https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6007...

If you work in web tech and take 1-2 hours to learn one of these you'll be able to dazzle others with it for the rest of your life.
Here's a better analogy: Imagine your employer requires you to work some night shifts, just to have someone on premises in case "something" happens. You and your employer both agree that often nothing happens, so you can in fact sleep during those night shifts. But your employer says that sleeping on the job is not work and therefore should not be paid.

The European Court of Justice held that the employer is wrong, and if they require you to be on premises, even if sleeping, that's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landeshauptstadt_Kiel_v_Jaeger (this was related to European laws, of course, not American ones)
Consider installing a screenreader and the Lynx web browser so you can demonstrate what it’s like to access internal apps/websites with those tools. It might help to record your experience so people can watch the demo at their convenience.

Lynx...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29?wprov...
Ask HN: How do I work out how much my domain is worth?
I have been contacted by a large startup enquiring as to whether I would be open to selling a domain I own.

I currently have a side project up on the site and, while I've not worked on it for a while, I had intended on picking work back up again and developing the project further. It wouldn't be the end of the world to rename the side project, however.

What I'm unsure of is how to work out what a reasonable price is for the domain. They have offered $1000, but I get the impression this is likely a low ball offer.

Is there some established way for finding out what similar kinds of domains would typically sell for? I do believe this one is particularly high quality if you're looking for a domain in the space.
I had to write software that sent updates out to retail outlets. I specified they should use internal modems capable of at least 9600 baud.

Customer replies "Your salesman said we only needed 2400 baud modems" - and buys EXTERNAL 2400 baud modems to save £5 per modem. (Different budget to the phone line you see).

Of course now you had to rely on the retail staff to have left the modem plugged in and turned on. (Which they often didn't).

And the transmission time increased so much that we had to build in additional compression (and complexity) to try and ensure it finished in time.

Why employ technical experts if you're just going to ignore them?
I really wish that their search page had a static thumbnail image version - or if it does, that I could find it.
I’ve started to write something but here is a good tl;dr -
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/122566
Ten thousand Chinese voicing their support for 9/11 following the NBA incident
Was just listening to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q4ngz (WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain).

Spoiler: Yes. The city of 900,000 has more rough sleepers / homeless than the country of 65 million.

And I think England has way too many homeless. Don't really see any out where I live (rural town in Hampshire) but I do see a lot of unfortunate ones in the cities.

At least compared to where I grew up where there were very few homeless people https://www.quora.com/Are-there-homeless-people-in-Norway
That’s true, good point. Then the prices of suburbs and new developments should be raised so high that they’re not worth building or moving to.
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Furthermore, there's so much technology being utilized in this conflict. The GFW, social credit scores, facial recognition, an army of censors policing chat rooms... there's a lot of dystopian science fiction materializing here. Some of it using technologies that "we" are familiar with or even work on.
There have been attempts in this direction, it's absolutely doable to use a shared seed where many people contribute a random value.

However ultimately a different approach was chosen that solves the same problem: You don't choose an arbitrary curve, instead you define a set of properties that you want your curve to have, based on security, speed and ease of implementation. Then you end up picking the very first curve that fulfils that property.

That's how Curve25519 was created. There's very little wiggle room in there.

Also it should be said that the hypothesies of choosing a "bad" curve that noone can spot are very hypothetical. We know these NIST curves have an unexplained random seed, but noone has an idea how this could've been used for a backdoor.
> The whole ecosystem needs to be preserved.

Indeed. It takes a civilisation to build an iPhone.

I don't think people appreciate that even within the highest-tech manufacturing industries there is a lot of tacit knowledge. People shake their fists about "technology transfer" to China, and before that Japan; but that's taken decades for them to reach parity. And that's with running, copyable examples and all the parts of an existing supply chain widely available. Similarly the process for making a nuclear bomb can be written in a short paper, but few countries have successfully replicated it.

"Post-collapse recovery" and "technology transfer" are the same problem, except that post-collapse recovery is cribbing from a dead example rather than a live one and in much worse circumstances.

Collapse recovery is a fun little competence fantasy to play out in your own head. Like "the rapture" for atheists. But within our lifetimes, we have to put in the work to avoid the collapse.
Lifetime value (LTV). It’s tricky to measure in the travel industry because users only transact once every few months or even years.
I never even thought about this before, you gave me a little eye opener, thank you
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I actually wish there were more sovereign orders like that. Any group of people sharing common values and resources sufficient to make sense this way should have a right for sovereignty even if they don't own any land whatsoever, let alone when they have legitimately bought some. Sure there should be limits on what they are allowed to do (e.g. they should probably not be allowed to assemble nukes at a member's farm) but these should be applied by means of the same procedures like with recognized nations.
You could try an online valuation tool or look around for the price of similar domains. But really the value comes down to whatever the market will pay. Consider how much you paid for it + the cost of maintaining it versus the amount being offered.
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That guy is saying that alternatives to redis are better, meanwhile he's still using redis..
Cool, but why not FUSE?
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It's a bit more complicated than that. The British Empire had some battles with China in the 1800s and took over Hong Kong. Eventually in 1898 a treaty was signed effectively ceding the territory to Britain in perpetuity, but for face-saving reasons it was written as a 99 year lease. In 1984, after multiple regime changes in China and the decline of the British Empire, a new agreement was made between China and the UK that would make Hong Kong a Special Administrative Zone as a part of China. Under the one country, two systems policy, Hong Kong would retain domestic political and economic autonomy for 50 years (until 2047). As China has grown more powerful and the UK less powerful in the past 20 years, China now has more power to try to accelerate the integration of Hong Kong. This is worrying for Hong Kong citizens, who fear they will be subject to persecution and retaliation under China's judicial system.
Bugs were found, actually.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/02/truecryp...

https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...

The keyfiles bug mentioned was previously disclosed against 7.0a: https://cyberside.net.ee/truecrypt/misc/truecrypt_7.0a-analy...
> while doing repression even more violently than chinese or russian governements

Source on that?
VueScan works, but it is stupidly bloated compared to the macos native scan tool.

I remember how it was so easy to scan directly to multi-page PDF with my Brother portable scanner. The Apple build in capture software was just so easy and clean to use. Then Apple removed TWAIN support in snow leopard, and suddenly my 2 month old 400 euro scanner was no longer usable. :(
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Either one ought to be much better than a french robot pronouncing it “péter” (to fart)...
The demo part of this video by Tanja Kleut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgZTeMBihQ make me understand better accessibility issues.
Without understanding and experiencing, I think it's difficult to really empathize and so the priority to have better accessibility is seen as low.
I think your post summarizes my view of the whole situation.

Stallman created that movement and has a lot of community support. Outing him to the public without discussing in private or even giving something actionable is just inviting outrage.

If you disagree with an organization, quitting and/or forking (and announcing your reasons) is less damaging to the cause than this.
Seeing as most of the Top All Time are fairly old (a year to 6 months) it seems the page has taken a hit regarding active members posting meaningful content. Pretty sad, I would've loved to contribute some stuff. But I also wrote on a roleplay forum in amounts that accounted to about 1000 Word pages so I might have a different goal here.
1Blocker also blocks it for me on iOS and macOS.
>As a meta point, I figure this is only the beginning and we'll continue to see China flex it's financial and population muscle abroad in ways that may seem hard to predict in advance, but are pretty obvious once they happen.

People in the west who complained about the great fire wall is going to be in a rude awakening when they realize walls are designed to keep things out AND in. If China actually encouraged netizens to interact abroad then every social media platform will become unrecognizable. People will beg for Chinese users to be siloed like in multiplayer games.
The sum of all kinds of regulations like this one is great news for mega-corporations. Economies of scale mean that the costs are small for them, and proportonaly much bigger for smaller companies.

While I think it is a great goal that services should be accessible by people with special needs or restrictions, would it not be better if this could be achieved by incentives instead of hard regulation?

Perhaps as follows.
1) Create a registry for companies to self-declare that they are accessible for a given user segment by some given standard. (For essential utilities and government agencies, compliance can still be made mandatory) For registered entities, make this statement binding, and follow up breaches with fines that are sufficiently stiff that only companies that comply will register. This registry could contain information would contain information about standards that are already regulated, but could also be extended to include other needs (dietary standards, child friendliness, accessible to people with certain mental limitations, etc)
2) Make this information open to the public, and attach a rating service such as TripAdvisor where users can rate the degree of availability. This would make it easy for the beneficiaries to find services suitable for them. The data should also be made accessible through an API, so that special interest groups can mirror it on their own infrastructure.
3) Step 2 will provide an incentive in itself, but where it is not enough, introduce a tax incentive on top. Companies with the necessary accesiblity could be given a tax benefit in the order of 1-5%. This benefit should be on the profit, not the turnover, to avoid putting companies with limited profitablity out of business over this.
https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...

Page 15 describes it in detail.
There was a Ross Kemp episode about how the British counts of rough sleepers could be very wrong; many towns with official counts of zero having visible dozens, etc.
> That formatting is to add in small pauses

But... The lack of pauses is exactly what makes a tall paragraph hard to read?
>The average live weight of US hogs at market is right around 280 lbs., not because the animals can't get larger than that, but because growing them beyond that size cuts

For reader reference a full grown sow can weigh 500+ lbs, a full grown hog can weigh 1000+ lbs and live 20+ years (~900M heartbeats). Livestock pigs reach market weight in 6-7 months.
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> if gender is truly a fluid, to-be-perceived, non-biological construct, then why shouldn't we treat it the same way?

Because no one sane can keep up outside of a small personal group of friends.
If I use a postcode as a destination, Waze sometimes decides to pronounce the letters as if they're units. "You've arrived at "AA1 5Terajoules"
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Not the biggest in Tokyo area though.
Isn't FUSE mostly *nix specific? At first glance this seems to be platform agnostic.
'Full and equal enjoyment' is quoting US code out of context. The law reads "No individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation."

There is a clear difference between 'discriminating' against someone because of their disability, and a person's inability to participate in something because of a disability.

Later in the law discrimination is defined, and it gives an exception that auxiliary aids must be provided, except when providing them would be an undue burden.

If I were Dominos (I'm not a lawyer, so I probably have this wrong), based on a reading of the law, I would argue that since Dominos offers pizza ordering through the telephone it is not depriving anyone their services if the website is not accessible. The service Dominos has to provide access to is delivery of pizzas, not the use of their website, which only exists specifically for the purpose of ordering pizzas. Could a library be sued because a specific book doesn't contain braille, when the same book is available in braille? What if Dominos had two phone numbers, one that offered teletype and one that was voice only? This judgement seems to imply that they could be sued unless both their phone numbers offered TDD, because they are depriving people of the use of the other phone number?

I'm all for making websites accessible, but I find it hard to believe someone who orders a pizza over the phone is being deprived of 'equal enjoyment' of the pizza.
I am thinking about it from the angle of video games vs. real world.

Be a hero, a revolutionary, a pirate, feel encouraged to work hard, explore more, improve yourself, rebel, but only there in a safe artificial illusion, virtual world they built for you. In real life, do stay a passive compliant consumer, a source of money (or energy like in Matrix).

This chasm seems to keep widening with the progress in technologies like VR, and this way of organizing a society is very convenient for businesses and people in power. Welcome to Coward New World!

Ingenious next steps in this direction would be to seamlessly integrate our jobs into artificial reality, so that people can sustain themselves, make money for corporations and people in power - do all this staying totally immersed in the illusionary world. Get exclusive game currency, bonuses to your stats from your employer for a good work. Mmmm, I want to write a book about it :)
Just to agree with the other's reply here: I am not blind, but do touch typing. Sometimes I don't even look at the screen or keyboard since I've learned to copy things (Such as a paper I've written by hand). You do get to a point where you develop a "sense of typo" and can simply correct the mistake.

It has its limitations: It doesn't help you spell better, only correct typing mistakes.
There has probably been a lot of thought into problems like this, and it would be interesting to hear any real solutions used.

My addition would be to pre-calculate a checksum for the encrypted blob, and only send the decryption key after receiving the checksum from the downloader.

You would then have a clear audit history showing that the user had downloaded the file completely, though you still have the possibility that they would claim the encryption key wasn't sent, or similar.

I also wonder what the impact of (presumably) having to encrypt the file for each downloader individually.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1141568/yellow-vest-...
Thanks for the clarification! Either way, the scripting capability is still very much a part of the system.
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I have to say, I don;'t see this as a counter - isn't it a norm and a good idea to try and avoid wars and stop them as quickly as possible? The implacable hatred of "the other" is the problem - not the reluctance of the sane to debate with the folks who have the implacable hatred issue.
Awesome that they got 5000 students involved in the excavation.
It's not particularly this episode and it's not banned. You can't watch any South Park episode on South Park Studio in France because the streaming rights for the country have been sold to another company.
Note that you can buy edition that are limited to one maker (Fujifilm or Sony) for quite a bit cheaper than the whole package. Combined with semi-regular sales/promo code (check the fujirumors or sonyrumors website), you can get a perpetual version for very interesting price: I reckon having bought the Fujifilm edition for about 125$.

You do have to commit to camera brand though.
Even more extreme version would be abbreviations like "k8s" or "a11y". T4h s7s I w2h p4e w1o a3e t3e w3d j2t f2k o1f a1d d1e.
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