skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great response, you also have to think that Starbucks are "convenient" when you cannot get the specialty espresso places. For example on my way home to see family I pass about four drive through Starbucks.
It would seem to me that this would be a simple problem to solve for screenreaders as they are just 1:1 mappings, and in many cases even consecutive blocks of Unicode characters.

Understandably though, screenreader software probably isn't as fast moving as other industries. If there was an open source screen reader I think I could easily make a pull request to solve this particular problem, if it is a problem.
Thank you, champion, but no. I've got people to talk with, and I am using that. Not everybody does though, and it disappoints me to see so many people missing that point.
We were talking about Amazon here, that discussion probably merits another thread. But yes, I do believe more in companies that don’t bring in ex-government crooks on their board of directors.
I bought a 1700sq foot house that was ready to move in, in a pretty quiet and safe neighborhood, with decent (but not amazing) schools, in a suburb of Chicago for $230k with no HOA fees just 2 years ago. There are neighborhoods here that are really expensive, but others that are more affordable.

If I worked in the city I would have at least an hour commute each day, though, but it only takes me 30 minutes to get to the city outside of normal commuting hours.

Property taxes are kind of high around here though. I think I'm paying about what you're saying, and some of the homes I looked at (but decided against) were over $6000 a year in property taxes. Those were in areas with really good schools though.

Also Illinois as a whole as a state has one of the highest overall tax burdens in the country, because the state is pretty much broke, so that might be enough to stay out of Illinois.

You could actually find a place just over the border in Indiana, though, and have the same commute to downtown Chicago as I would have (about an hour) but suddenly have a much lower tax burden. I've worked with several coworkers in the past that commuted to the suburbs of Chicago for work every day from Indiana, it's doable.
If traders have to be covered with the actual stock, would that mean they can only short Foo shares up to the amount they own? Surely that's equivalent to just selling your holdings?

Or are there people who'll loan out their stocks for 10 years, trusting the borrower has enough cash not to go bankrupt in 10 years no matter what happens?
Implications of sexual relationships with artificially intelligent partners
Well, that's interesting. for context I worked for Ubisoft and I left approx. 1month ago (August 12th) to work for Tencent.

Although, while we had good relationships with Microsoft at Ubisoft on a technical basis- I'm not sure about the business arrangement. If Valve is any indication then it was likely incredibly hostile.

Epic does only take 12%, it's an outlier, and is gaining traction because of it.
Interesting how you presume that no one like you is blind. Though I think your use of "gimping" might be answer enough.
The problem is where do we automate the pulling of the hash to verify against? I do not know of a source.
> You could still host it in a country with a less bad track record of industrial espionage.

Good luck finding one.
The world is divided in 3 spheres of influence: US, China and Russia. To make business you must obey one of them.
I work for a relatively small company (about 15-20 odd people) and we've got a server rack in the office. It's positioned in a very specific angle (with tape on the floor) along an AC unit because of cooling, but we self-host a lot of our stuff.

It's done on a budget as well so we're kinda forced to use open source software.

Weirdly enough we use Skype for work chat and Zoom for video meetings, so it feels a bit inconsistent.
They used to. But your comment made me search a bit and it seems most don't any more, you have to turn that on.

I guess you can then use alt="" for "decorational" images and practically hide them from screen readers? It still seems odd to me though to even have these kind of images.
i had the pleasure of going to a talk/Q&A that Murakami did many years ago. i am paraphrasing the following question and answer, but the root of it made a deep impression on me:

> someone in the audience asked what his stories meant. there was a sense of the plots being profound, but just out of reach.
>
> Murakami replied that there was no great meaning. they were dreams he had.
Steps That We Use for Hypothesis-Driven Development
Snowden: It turns out "Hey Alexa" is short for "Hey Keith Alexander." Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) host ~6% of all websites.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1303829551999602688
This one's also pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI&t=1s (Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5)
> However, Apple has no monopoly on the devices market

A monopoly is not required for anti-trust law to apply. Instead, only significant market power.

And the "market" in this case will likely be defined as the smartphone market in the USA, of which Apple has ~50%. Having 50% of a duopoly is within the realm of when anti-trust law applies, as a singular monopoly is not required for anti-trust law to apply (as defined by section 2 of the sherman act).
Best of luck on the job front!
I'm fairly sure that if the NSA want your data they will get it, if necessary using rubber hose cryptanalysis.

Regardless of legality.
Well, most bad Hollywood movies are not scientifically accurate.
Oh no! A few people reported this crash today, I'll be fixing it hopefully tomorrow!

You can reset your cache by running these this in Terminal:
rm ~/Library/Containers/com.mimestream.Mimestream/Data/Library/Application\ Support/Mimestream/Mimestream*

rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.mimestream.Mimestream/Data/Library/Application\ Support/Mimestream/Attachments
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. [1] 'Tis but the first overture in the Butlerian Jihad.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...
Project Loom: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main
In my experience, the people helping you out are the ones that went through a similar thing themselves.

They are also the ones that can give you the most emotional support. Because you will see that you are not the only one, which already helps a lot.
But you have to follow through. You can't stop at the cloud and happily use closed source software from (eg) Microsoft or Apple. Or letting people carry Google-powered microphone arrays into meetings in their pockets.
The experience operating sats is very different depending on where you are on the globe. Advice that's okay in one place may be bad advice in a different location.

One final heads-up, the vertical antennas typically fitted to vehicles make really poor satellite antennas because you can easily emit enough power to make it into the sat, but there isn't enough directional gain to hear the downlink, so you're back in the same situation. A dual band yagi antenna really is the way to go. You also don't want to use a mobile radio with a yagi unless it's turned down to low power, because of RF exposure limits at VHF/UHF. A typical portable station is a dual band yagi (e.g. Arrow II) with one FD or two HD handheld radios, a headset, and a voice recorder, and a typical fixed setup is az-el rotator with computer control, dual circularly polarised X-quad yagis, masthead preamplifiers, and Doppler control of uplink and downlink frequencies.
Microsoft: 'We Are Finished with F# 5'
You are right. It seems screen readers these days do skip over images with empty alt tags.

I don't use one myself and have most of my knowledge from friends that do, but this info is obviously outdated.
This is a new thing. Earlier tech companies use to start with an on premise server.
David Edward Hughes developed a working Radio system long before either Marconi or Tesla.

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

Nether Marconi or Tesla could claim to have "Invented" Radio as the principles were well documented before they started work.
Same for me.

The advantage with the standard is that my phone proposes from itself what it would do when I click a "tel:" URL or "mailto:" URL. And what I do most is just long-press and copy to clipoard. As this uses the native UI from my mobile OS, this just feels better then a HTML-rendered custom UI.

This is one of the old and golden web rules: Don't surpise the user with some UI he would not expect. Be consistent to the standards.
What evidence do you have that investors are not irrational about the long term?
We use https://github.com/samuelcolvin/buildpg, which is built by the same dude that built pydantic, which is also used in FastAPI.

It's neat, it's a query builder, not an ORM or any nonsense, and it makes queries a lot more manageable (bringing SQL logic into python primitives).
I think there's big a difference between using Windows (with local account only) and using Amazon cloud services, in terms of data safety.
It's probably more easily understood in Australia where there's press and some corporate efforts to publicise it. Gives people an excuse to check in on friends who either need support or just want to vent to someone who understands.

The founder was prompted by the suicide of his father and then his own mental health battles.
I think that's more than just a technical point. If someone sold me an email client that only supported one provider, I'd feel swindled.

I would encourage them to reconsider their "email client" language. It's asking for a headache.
Your Linkedin profile mentions a US patent for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LONG-RANGE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER", yet the only Google result is that Linkedin profile or yours.

Is the patent application still unapproved and thus unlisted, or has it been rejected?
I understand none of these concepts. If you're like me, make sure you take the time to learn these things before you trust any tool to help you invest.

This is not to say I disagree with this or think it's bad, it's probably great. Just please don't invest with until you understand. Then go for it.
While this is true, you also need to be aware of the pay ranges available in your country. A few years ago I felt underpaid, people younger than me were earning more, self-employed people that took two weeks to come up with a screen with some text and a button that didn't work showed up to the office in a Maserati, things like that.

My then-employer did compensate though; I got a double pay raise because of performance, and another raise on top (for a lot of people in the company) because they realized they were behind on market rates.

But now I feel like I'm at the top end; there will be some growth but nothing dramatic. To gain more, I need to either shift to a managerial role (and I suspect that if I stick with this job I'll slowly grow into that while the company grows), work for more desperate companies (but that'll increase my commute), US startups with bases in my country (but that'll involve US working culture and timezones), or go self-employed.
This brings back memories! I discovered the same thing in high school in a programming class. We had a speed-golfing assignment and in the end my program ended up quite a bit faster than the "golden reference" our teacher had. He refused to believe I had come up with it myself (though I got the highest grade on the assignment).

This was back when we could assume 8-bit encodings(iso 8859-1 was the one we used). Simpler times!
Yes we should. We should have a standard which is actually a standard and actually makes sense for what people are actually writing APIs to do.

gRPC would be a candidate, but the need for dev-side tooling to turn proto files into code is a bit of a downer.
Even if they weren't explicit partners it seems highly likely that intelligence agencies would get covert access to the resources of the main web companies - they are just too tempting a target not to.
Framed Tweet
I dabbled a bit with Elvish recently and enjoyed it. What I found harder than I expected it to be was getting an initial configuration to my liking. While the documentation is excellent I find that it lacks some kind of beginners tutorial for plain users. The Fundamentals section is a good intro to the language but what I wanted to know more as a newbie was that my startup file is expected to be ~/.elvish/rc.elv, for example. It's all there but the basic info could be more prominent in the docs in my opinion. Otherwise I'm happy with Elvish, thanks for the good work.
Why doesn't Mcdonalds beat local artisan restaurants?

Because their strategy is to be easy, convenient, familiar, safe, etc. The food/coffee is pretty bad, but you know what you get. This apparently is what the masses want. Predictable experience.
German researchers evaluate gargle instead of throat swab for Covid test
What would the CPU-heavy code await on?
I believe you're acting in good faith, and am a little sad you think I'm acting in bad faith.

Can't speak for ed25519FUUU, but I certainly do not have anything against the above linked research. I think ed25519FUUU's point was that doing honest research has become tricky: if a researcher were to get a factually correct but politically incorrect result, could the researcher publish it without facing negative consequences?

It was not an argument against the linked research, it was just a tangential hypothetical.
Emacs is special regarding UIs
This recent blog post has more details on the new features in F# 5 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/f-5-update-for-august/
Here are some of the most common things I've wanted, all of which do not work:

"OK google zoom out the map a little" (while driving)

"OK google scroll down"

"OK google insert a waypoint for the next grocery store" (while driving)

"OK google turn off the alarm"

"OK google switch the map to satellite view"

"OK google what color is the Uber I just called"
Look up `extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains` in `about:config`, you can remove Mozilla domains from the restricted list.
Does this include reinvested dividends?
Speaking for myself, some mailto links I would like to open in gmail (browser), others in my work email (office).
The principals for it success white paper was what I was looking for, thank you.
There is a point at which empathy does not supercede the mental and societal burden required to appease people
Reducing aerosols might paradoxically increase global temperature
> Maybe when we (re)create our own electronics industry.

It works the other way around. We cannot have an European industry meanwhile USA government backed-up companies are competing with our startups.

> collection of small countries

Europe is bigger than the USA. And the division within the USA is as big or bigger than Europe. And, we cannot talk about China.
After some clicking around:

https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/

Second post on the page.
Is the local cache encrypted on disk? Really nice app.
What are your favourite learning resources for F#? I've recently started reading https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-f-sharp and do like it - any other recommendations I should check out?
> "There are some community efforts you can find in https://github.com/elves/awesome-elvish#completion-scripts, but it's quite clear that Elvish is lagging behind."

clap-rs, which is a popular command line parser for Rust, can generate Elvish completion scripts automatically and it works really well. Maybe you want to add that to the list.
This bullshit game of "which is worse" between the US and China, with both countries constantly moving the goalposts, is just tiring. Yes, China is currently worse. But with children locked up in cages and a massive prison-slavery industry, not to mention crazy NSA spying and so on, you're kidding yourself if you say the US is that far behind.

You can say, as a US citizen, that all this stuff doesn't affect you much. But I can tell you, from considerable first hand experience, that the average Chinese citizen says the same about China.
That is a false stereotype attributed by people who have no access to the military and no experience with it. In what job do you not follow orders?

If anything I am decidedly (perhaps obcessively) less conformist than most developers I have worked with BECAUSE of my military experience.
I remember this campaign, it influenced me to not buy a paid service from Dropbox. (I know I am just a drop in the sea.)
The one where you did not need to enable Javascript to be able to launch your preferred mail program from a web page.
> Now I've been to SF and Peet's was excellent

http://www.daleisphere.com/the-intertwined-history-of-peets-...

"To this day Peet’s remains a largely a regional player though it has expanded to a few other U.S. states. It still makes the best chain-store coffee I’ve ever had – far surpassing the coffee made available at Starbucks"

This seems like something of an exaggeration. Peet's seems marginally better than Starbucks. Maybe.
Very nice! I had not heard about distroless. I will look into an alternate configuration with that perhaps - Thanks!

I will also update the README with a guide on choosing other providers.
Great explanation! Thanks.
Even the most worthless articles and the worst pay-to-publish scam journals should be preserved as historical documentation and negative references.
There's no such thing as an alt tag, you're mixing up tags with attributes.

Screen readers have skipped over empty alt attributes for decades. I'm not certain they ever behaved differently, but if there were a time when empty alt attributes caused problems, it was back in the 90s. Best practice for purely decorative images has been to use empty alt attributes for 20+ years.
I think this is a good solution to a problem, but the demo doesn't illustrate the more annoying version of the problem:

If I click an email address I expect the mailto behaviour (and to a lesser extent with hyperlinked phone numbers) but often you'll see the case where the hyperlink text actually just says "Contact" or similar and it opening my email client is completely unexpected
That's my line of thinking. I don't have the interest to be micro managing my investments. I put some of my money into the stock market some years ago (with good results, probably doubled my money if I sell now) but a big part is in a managed fund (a product sold by my bank) and another part is in just hobby / meme things, amateur "I think this company will do good".

I try not to think too hard about things like "I should've held onto those TSLA stocks" because I can't predict the future and the company could easily have crashed instead.

I had one left in TSLA (now 5 because split), I've bought Take Two because I'm confident GTA VI will be ridiculous (again), and I think most right now is in S&P 500 indices because it's a solid long term investment.
> It feels like the rampant capitalism in the United States, and lack of regulations, fuels the VC economy.

Google, Apple, Amazon, ... are not startups, they are behemoths backed up by the USA government. Europe has many very good startups that are just purchased with USA dollars once they are successful.

> we'd have to adopt the lax corporate regulations of the US

That would only ruin Europe standards of living and open us more to be purchased by USA companies. The other way around is the way. It worked for China. Forbid non-European companies to purchase key software companies.

USA is not successful because capitalism, USA is successful were the government puts a lot of money: Military, I+D.
Yeah that is a silly loophole. If it's dangerous enough to ban ( and it is) how can social media be a justifiable exception. Unless they implicitly trust the people that run social media companies for some reason?
Not only it's a bad idea to ban shorting, but it's almost impossible to do outside regulatory action by the SEC and even then.

Shorting is essentially borrowing the control of stock to some other party. That's it. It doesn't have to be done on the market, it can be done in a private, confidential contract where I oblige myself to sell my stock when directed to do so by yourself, provided adequate warranties exist that you will cover the price difference when I want to purchase it back.

For this ceding of control, I get paid. The market only "sees" regular buying and selling of stock.
BLURtooth Vulnerability
I don't know why you would assume that a stock exchange being "open for business" meant having a company listed. If you have a company to list, LTSE is now a place you could take it public. Yesterday that wasn't true.

Maybe it's people used to stock exchanges treating companies as the product, instead of as their customers? If so, you seem to be demonstrating the problem LTSE is trying to solve.
Ask HN: How hard is it to find meaningful work?
Hey HackerNews,

A bit about me, I've been programming since 11, I started with Pascal and have dealt in many varieties of programming (game programming, backend, frontend, kernel, low level systems, you name it and I probably have messed around with it).

I graduated HS, I got enough marks that I had choice of any college and any degree in my country.
I finished my degree last year, and I have been working since the start of this year.

What I have found is that, the joy that I found in programming doesn't really exist at work.
I'm largely just moving JSON around, I'm not really working on any unsolved problems, just adapting existing ones to specific business cases. And not many people care about quality software, they just want software out fast, so they have insane deadlines. (I am outputting 200-400 LOC of garbage code a day at the moment on average)

I feel like I've been fed a lie somewhat, "Do what you love and you will never have to work another day in your life". I am somewhat regretting majoring in CS, maybe I should have majored in something that makes more money, maybe I should've become a Mechanical Engineer, I love math, so solving math heavy problems at work sounds fun.

Its thrown me into a bit of an existential crisis, is this my life for the next 40 years or so?