skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not that software designers don't care, but that accessibility is very expensive and doesn't get rewarded proportionally by the market.

I like to automate boring menial tasks. I've often had the problem though that I automate something as a cli tool for myself, then colleagues ask me how I did that, and I show it to them. The first thing they want is a GUI, and I tell them I don't have the time for that. Creating a GUI would take more time than the cli app itself.

Often creating a good GUI will take more time than the automation. And then when you want to add in accessibility that takes even more time to get right. All of a sudden you need a team to do that, because there are almost infinite ways to be disabled. And many different systems you need to Target. Low vision, different types of color blindness, low hearing, etc.

Every accommodation takes time to make. It's just not feasible to make everything accessible.

I know how to design a good UX, but I also know it's hard.

And making an accessible UX for everyone, is even harder.

Making that UX work on every old system like mentioned in the article adds another multiplier.
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You didn't understand this sentence: "Simply buying a new cable does nothing to fix that because the springs are in the phone." With Lightning, the springs are in the phone. With USB-C, the springs are in the cable. Springs are a moving part, and thus especially vulnerable to wear. Replacing a cable is cheaper than replacing a phone.
As a regular person, I've spent $400 to travel to DC and walk in and meet with 12 senators and congressmen. No donations required and I got to spend an hour with each as and even got treated to lunch by one of my states US reps. Got the policy change,too. So many people are way to cynical. Lobbyists show up and citizens do not. When a citizen shows up (and is rational) legislators listen.
So everyone can simply just be above-average? Given how that is the cognitive bias most widely associated with driving it's a tad ironic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

Regardless, let's turn that comment around: could it not similarly apply to hygiene and risk of infection? Just be an above-average smart citizen and you'll be fine, yes?
> Without a proper explanation how he got to this strong conclusion.

Seems like the author would say the same about any other language that's not Assembler, C, or C++.
So your argument is that it isn't on a wikipedia page so i'm wrong?
> I've never considered rebasing ...

Sounds like you either don't use GIT a lot, or your team doesn't care about clean history.

With clean history, you can, for example, automate the generation of release notes. It's very helpful if you ask me.
E.J. Epstein's "the death of the diamond" was a great read. But, since 1984 is long behind us, kind of wrong.

I had no idea how much bort the world consumes. Industrial diamonds are .. industrial. Hard to feel romantic about drill bits and cutting saws.

Also the simplicity of the financials to lend liz Taylor the dough to buy the diamond .. Who actually bought it if the money came from the shop?
Swedish speakers of HN: Please check if testimony on Assange was manipulated
Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and supporter of Assange, claims, based on transcripts of emails between Swedish policemen and his own fluency in Swedish, that the senior police officer told the policewoman to "rewrite" the purported victim's testimony: he accuses the Swedish police of "proactive manipulation of evidence"[0][1].

But then a HN reader, based on a screenshot of the transcripts provided in [1], comes to the conclusion that Melzer is confused about the emails[2]. However, in the tree belonging to that HN comment, another commenter posted the link to the entire freedom of information document provided by the police[3].

Could those of you who understand Swedish take a look at that document (I think one would want to start at around page 9 of 16) and clarify the emails and the situation?

[0] https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=24838

[1] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22203599

[3] https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/Assange/Assange-Sthlm-polismyndighet.pdf
Folks who enjoyed this article may also be interested in this one [0] from The Atlantic, published in 1982, which chronicles the rise of the diamond industry during the 20th century.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
Development of a standard does not nearly equate to deployment of a standard.

There are open standards for instant communication. How many proprietary protocols and implementations exist? How many are so widely adopted?

Contrast that with open ones.

There’s quite a lot of money in peripherals; it’s also a neat way of obsoleting older phones. Broken custom chargers were usually the reason I stopped using a phone; meaning I bought a new one.
This is really US taking down strategic competitors. It's nothing new.
It's foreign policy, america first, double standard or whatever you want to name it.
Reminds me of Vaclav Smil
This is vaporware bordering on a scam, please don't signal boost it.

https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...
Definitely one to cite in the "overreliance on calculators" - the comment you are replying to should have realised that multiplication can't create digits to the right like that!

(Most desktop calculators do it in BCD which would give the correct result, too)
Pretty easy: just don't include charger in the box at all. Make Europeans pay for the idiocy of their politicians. Apple, BTW, makes the best power supplies in the industry, as confirmed by many teardowns.

If there's anything that needs to be standardized it's the port which is used to charge the device. That port, today, should be USB-C. But the law doesn't do that.
Those fast compiles, fast speed, plus the feature list (standard generics and hot code reloading) make this look insanely cool! What's the secret sauce? The translation from C and compile being 25x faster than just compiling C seems nearly impossible.

Edit: sibling comment points out it may seem amazingly cool and nearly impossible because it does not, in fact, exist. How can we learn more about the feasibility of this living up to their claims?
Society would have to work to convince people that status symbols are not worth pursuing. Unfortunately, based on my experience of how people’s brains work, that is quite an uphill battle.
Have you taken a look at the entire freedom of information document? I am interested if the possible missing context changes your understanding of the situation.

Anyway, I submitted a post on HN to request speakers of Swedish to try and make sense of the situation, that presumably includes you :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209868
This is why options are dangerous. Other people set the price of the stock.

That said, stocks are fundamentally safer. If you own company X and they succeed/profit well longterm, you receive great dividends regardless of the stock price.
But can it run Doom? Yes.

Proof for those clicking the small triangular: https://vlang.io/img/doom.png
Thanks for the tip. I hadn't known about powermetrics before. I've had a 16" MBP with the same specs as OP for almost 2 months now, and I use it with a 4K external monitor, and haven't noticed the any issues with fan yet.

**** SMC sensors ****

CPU Thermal level: 47
GPU Thermal level: 0
IO Thermal level: 0
Fan: 1828.89 rpm
CPU die temperature: 64.80 C
GPU die temperature: 68.00 C
CPU Plimit: 0.00
GPU Plimit (Int): 0.00
Number of prochots: 0

Incidentally, the `Number of prochots` field in command's output made me chuckle. At one of my previous jobs, I spent some time on a team that owned the fleet wide server auto-remediation service and the prochot alarm and the resulting CPU throttling would end up reducing the available CPU capacity in clusters and sometimes knocking out entire services. I have bittersweet memories spending sleepless nights trying to debug it.
Because it makes their lives easier. Not only does systemd take on a lot of the work distributions used to do by theirselves, a lot of the features of how it works makes maintaining packages easier (e.g. the fact that you have 'system' unit files which can then be overridden or augmented by the admin as a seperate file).
Brownout detection is definitely one of those things to turn off for low-power operation. I suspect glitch detection is harder than it sounds, too.
Last few weeks I have been working on a project in Go that required using multiple libraries I had no previous experience with. Usually when in doubts I would Google or go to Stackoverflow or Github issues.

But Google results today are mostly spam or copycat sites that echo forever some old answers. And Stackoverflow answers are too often outdated for fast evolving language leading onto false paths.

Surprisingly I started just go to source libraries and read the code. It provided answers faster and with less noise.
Looks close to Crystal but very much a work in progress
Monitoring REST APIs with Custom JDK Flight Recorder Events
Just teething problems I reckon par for the course for a new language.

Not honoring monotonic let alone semantic versioning is a bit annoying but oh well.
> Some composers came very close to complete atonality, particularly Scriabin and Stravinsky, but Schoenberg was the first to dive into completely atonal music.

Atonality can already be found in some late piano pieces of Liszt, e.g. "Nuages gris", which is largely based on augmented triads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYKl41e_hoU).

Before that, the music of Wagner already shook the foundations of Western tonality with its excessive chromatisism where any notion of a tonal center is often lost. Schönberg just continued where others have left and went to the extreme. It is also worth pointing out that he first composed in the so called "free atonal" style and only then, after a long hiatus, he developed his twelve-tone-system. By the way, there have been other people who developed similar systems around the same time, notably Josef Matthias Hauer.

Fun fact: Stranvinsky turned towards twelve-tone-technique in the fifties.
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Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA
EPL: Ighalo Shunned Spurs, Inter Milan for Manchester United
> hellomodule ... hellomodule.o ... hellomodule__print_1_1 ... "cannot import module "mymodule" (not found)" …oh dear. Can someone file this as an issue for me?

Well...
This has been discussed on HN several times before, and as far as I can tell most of the claims have been too good to be true. For a bit more nuanced review, Christine Dodrill has written posts on the topic, with this being the latest: https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...
I don't often say this ...

From the guidelines[0]

What to Submit

On-Topic: ... anything that gratifies
one's intellectual curiosity.

Does this submission really gratify anyone's intellectual curiosity.?

--------

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
hi, from your point of view, how does this compare to amazon polly snd google cloud speech ?
hmm that's weird... have you succeeded with any other artist or perhaps after reloading? Also if any message appears on your browsers console that could help me out :)
Tested on different browsers with different people many times and it loaded correctly, kind of hard to debug
If you convince their constituents to whom they are beholden, sure.

Behind closed doors, not at all, I very much agree with GP, there's a lot of pernicious shit going on that is actively harming democracies across the globe.

Corporate lobbying is for the most part a well-funded, knowledgeable adversary generally in opposition to a bunch of people who at best can sign some petitions or march in the streets. It's an asymmetrical game that should be acknowledged.
Is this kind of working environment normal at Apple? This isn't the first story I've heard about mandatory long hours and screaming in the office. Can anyone else chime in?
... and factor this into their pricing, completing the circle.
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It's true, but it's also true that many things that are considered corruption/illegal when you do it for the government, they are not when it's inside a company. If a business owner hires his nephew, that's not illegal and many people wouldn't consider it corruption. If a government official appoints his nephew, that's frowned upon to say the least. But going back to your argument, if an employee uses his position and gets bribed, of course that's going at the detriment of the company... but you could also say that if the company has the right checks and balances he will get caught, and that if the company had made sure that the interests of the employee were well-aligned with the company's it wouldn't be a logical step. And that's why some companies pay so handsomely.
Why someone bump this again?
> Simplicity: the language can be learned in less than an hour

> Built-in ORM

Chortle
To quote Feynman: explaining how something happens makes the why irrelevant.
> What's the secret sauce?

Lies.

On a more serious note, compilers and programming languages take years to get into a usable state, and V very much in early stages of development, pre-pre-pre-alpha or similar quality. It is far from usable for any serious work at all. All the listed features are "planned features", many of which are not yet implementd or buggy. In other words, as development progresses, the author of V will realize that it is not easy to design/implement those features properly, otherwise every language would have that.
Be careful with using Little Snitch etc.:

'Predictably, online discussions about problems with app translocation and Little Snitch usually recommend stripping quarantine flags, and from what I can see, this has become quite widespread practice. Yet – just as in the blog article – no one seems to be concerned that what they are doing is bypassing macOS’s primary security defences.'

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/01/26/last-week-on-my-mac-when...
The Flyweight Pattern in Go
Agreed, however there is a big difference between stating that it doesn't work at all, and accepting that there are plenty of use cases where having a soft real time GC tailored for embedded development is perfectly fine, and actually does improve productivity.

Since you mention telecommunications, I would consider network switches running Erlang a use case of embedded development.

Other examples would be the Gemalto M2M routers for messaging processing, or some of the NSN base station reporting platform.

So while it doesn't fit your scenario, it does fit other ones, this is what some in anti-GC field need to realise.

This isn't an all or nothing equation.
I am indeed on ext4 (and MATE DE). Thank you for the information, although I am not sure what's the next step to have the OS enforce a certain group (and 775 permissions optimally) on all files created/copied/moved (moved is the part that's the biggest pain) within a certain directory.
Except the diamonds discussed in the article are from Botswana, where the article states "the firm paid the Botswanan government eighty-five million dollars in taxes, and nearly thirty million in royalties, on profits of about a hundred and eighty-five million."

Seems pretty good deal for the Botswanans.
I don't understand why someone would even waste their time writing an article like this.
This breaks down when politicians get some kind of personal benefit such as campaign contributions or a consulting job. This is a conflict of interest and should exclude them from any vote about the interests of the lobbyist.
These are not normal teething problems, it's straight up poor poor software and the claims about the supported features are quite simply lies right now. Last time I looked at the compiler, it was basically doing search and replace to generate buggy C code.
I find such blanket statements against censorship perplexing on a heavily moderated site like this. If someone replied to this post in a very toxic way -- say they got mad at an argument of yours, and posted embarrassing personal info about you to make you look bad, or they very uncharitably and purposefully misinterpreted something in your post to mean that you were a pedophile and then they posted contact info of your co-workers' families so others could warn them -- would you complain if a moderator or even some kind of system on this site applied some degree of censorship so that the reply wouldn't be displayed prominently?

(Yes, I'm counting the fact that this site has a downvote button which lowers/obscures/hides posts as a censorship system. That system exists in the first place not only to raise good posts, but also to try to solve the problem of bad posts by slightly censoring them or more.)
My apologies, I didn't realize at the time of writing that the sentence could have been interpreted differently. The err is mine.
Exactly. Less hassle, less wasteful, disposable electronic junk.
Machine Learning and Node.js, is this a match? [video]
Came here to ask why this project was at the top of HN with 15k stars on github yet I had never heard of it. Was also wondering just why- the scope, claims and goals of the project make no sense.
Added binary teaspoon and dessert spoon, also renaming a few units:

tspn
dspn
tbspn
oz
jill
gill
cup
bottle
quart
half
gallon
peck
jimmyjohn
bushel
rundlet
barrel
hogshead
butt
tun
It's quite well documented that manufacturers have to pay Apple to use lightning connectors, under the MFi scheme. While Apple doesn't issue a price sheet publicly it's been widely reported [1] as $4 per lightning connector - and that in the past it's been as much as $10 per device.

$4 per cable in licensing fees for every single cable sold sounds pretty nice to me. I can understand Apple wanting to keep that.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/14/02/07/apple-lowers-mfi-...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Few dozen hours of reading in there.
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They did it by solving a great pain of a very large amount of people. Not many of these people would have been able to use Dart or PureScript.
Personally, when using node.js i am a little bit envious on python, for pandas, sklearn, keras.
A scam on what? Did you pay money for this? Just like any other open-source language, it is a work-in-progress and obviously isn't complete. If it were vapourware, it wouldn't be open-source would it?. ;)

It's nice to keep posting links from authors who are biased against the V project but I don't think you have at least tried the language.

Just like an operating system, a programming language is very difficult in itself to maintain and V seems to be actively maintained. So please signal boost it.
I'm enjoying the amount of pushback this is getting here on HN, given that we all probably think we're not victim to this, and are actively exposing ourselves to be.
> The doom example is still only one file that doesn’t even compile anymore. [0]

Seems that it can _sometimes_ do Doom.

[0] https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...
They had no choice. After the udev fiasco running the Linux kernel without systemd becomes prohibitively complicated for many use cases. The main GUIs were similarly captured (e.g. with logind). You obviously can still run a Linux kernel based system without systemd but it is already hard and will get harder to run the larger userland components that other distros get “for free”.

If you don’t like systemd then the only sane option for you is to make the jump to FreeBSD.
> If they want to force Apple's hand specifically, they should be focusing on the port on the phone, not the charger.

It's worth remembering that the backers of the EU legislation started with the idea of reducing e-waste, not punishing a particular manufacturer. Nor is it a Lightning vs USB-C squabble.

Getting people to throw their lightning cables, charging ports, docking stations, etc away would be counter-productive to their aims. The Lightning port has been around for a long time and getting rid of that will cause significant e-waste.
Oh that’s horrendous given the safety claims they are making!
Index unsafety w.r.t. bounds and `undefined` is something TS would like to fix; but it's not ergonomic to fix until there are, something like automatic refinement range types applied to array length fields. Without it, TS'd get in the way, demanding `undefined` checks it almost definitely didn't need. Those range types and their complexity are, ultimately, what currently block TS from making these indexed accesses safer.
Thanks. How do you go from paywall to archive.org link ? Or i was your action having access behind FT's paywall ?
I was fortunate enough to discover moissanite. Wife loves it, and the price was somewhere in the ballpark of 90-95% cheaper than an equivalent size diamond. The added benefit is, everyone thinks it’s a diamond and we haven’t yet felt the need to correct them...
I have feeling that internet infrastructure material and energy costs for a anycast IP/site would dwarf the energy/material costs of hosting the site in a datacentre.
I'm a fan of using iStat Menus to see what's stressing CPU and causing temperature rise. It enables you to put the main sensors (like CPU temp, Watt usage, CPU speed) into the menu bar and see the cause with a quick mouse over.
https://www.bjango.com/mac/istatmenus
What would be their primary destination of choice, and what are the major factors preventing them from moving?
Thanks for this. Can you please write up a blog post or a comment here with a lot more detail?
> There's no garbage collection or reference counting. V cleans everything up during compilation. If your V program compiles, it's guaranteed that it's going to be leak free.
Given a choice between having one or two charger for both phone and laptop, you'd prefer having 2?
> Society would have to work to convince people that status symbols are not worth pursuing.

On this note, a book recommendation: The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions.

Thorsten Veblen, 1899.

More relevant now than ever. From Wikipedia, a short summary:

> a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people and the division of labour, which are social institutions of the feudal period that have continued to the modern era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Clas...

I believe he coined the phrase Conspicuous Consumption.
> atmospheric noise would dominate, even at 20km

20 km distance between the satellites, not 20 km altitude! Those satellites actually have an elliptical orbit with an altitude between 276 km and 1010 km.
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Rust, WebAssembly, and the Future of Serverless (Steve Klabnik)
This is like complaining about a painting that is not finished yet.

The project clearly states that some features are a work in progress (wip)[0]. What happens when this project achieves all those goals? That blog post will become irrelevant.

If this is 'vaporware' why is it open source? We should be happy that this project is now developed in the open and not closed up.

[0] https://vlang.io/
I check the electronic waste bin in my apartment building every so often, there's often something interesting I can try and fix.

There are always broken Apple charger cables. They don't have a rubber grommit on the end of the cables, so they wear out.

Android or PC laptop cables that are in the bin are usually in working order, with an obsolete device.
Design doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Do we act accordingly?
Any recommendations for a good one? I know the Type C market is rife with poor quality stuff.