skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blind person here, I definitely agree.

Decorational images aren't important, so use empty alt texts or aria hide them.

Most images should have short, to the point descriptions, containing the information you need to fully enjoy a given article. When writing a good alt description, think about why the image is there and why does it matter, not only about what it shows.

There could be two articles with the same image, but completely different alt descriptions. If your article is talking about how pretty graphs produced by a given tool are, describe what kinds of data the graphs contain and how they look like. For example, "A screen with three graphs, showing a company's stock prices across the last month, year and decade. There are points for the highest and lowest values marked on each graph. There are also average prices displayed". It doesn't matter what company it is, or what the actual values are. If your article talks about how tech companies did during the coronavirus pandemic, that same image would be described like "the stock price of x was $100 on march 20th, fell to $5 on march 21st, then slowly started rising, ending back at $95 on june 3rd". Same image, completely different information highlighted.

Sometimes you need very detailed and complete alt descriptions, particularly when you're describing diagrams showing complex relationships, function graphs and so on.No, "screenshot" is definitely not a good alt when you're trying to show what kind of output a given command is expected to produce. Yes, you should painstakingly retype the text (assuming you can't copypaste for some reason), or at least put it through OCR.
Why do voting machines break on election day?
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Doesn't that make it illegal for someone to use Clearview in public, as opposed to making Clearview itself illegal?
> Will anyone be able to sell access to the data?

This is an extremely concerning point, and one that a lot of people (myself included) wouldn't even think about. If you search for "dmv" on this site, there are several posts within the last year about DMVs all over the country selling personal info. I really doubt police departments wouldn't do the same with this data.
> and never you mind that common iron is worse than bronze; unless you have truly outstanding Damascus steel, you're using sponge iron at best.

Not really. Perhaps pure iron is worse than bronze, but metallurgical studies of ancient iron artefacts show that even weapons from bloomery ('sponge') iron often has some nontrivial carbon content (e.g. ~0.5 %, highly variable) making it quenchable steel. Definitely softer than crucible steel (wootz, 'damascus') with 1-2 % carbon content, but still harder than bronze.
Business decisions and climate are also the driving forces behind literally everything a company does.

The banality of evil doesn't forgive laziness in the construction of hypotheses, unless you're Fox News.

To spell it out, what leak / disclosure would constitute proof of GP's belief? A memo from the WaPo editorial staff which says "Pursuant to Mr. Bezo's comments on X, please assign Y to story Z, so that reporting will be more favorable"?

And barring a plausible method of provability / falsifiability, we're in "just asking the question" rumor territory with regards to the original assertions of malice. Which, personally, seems below the level of discourse I expect from HN.
We got one 50 years old a few years ago, but it was a return to sender because the street no longer existed. It happened to be a Christmas card right around Christmas.
Social media is specifically excluded.
Man, I'm so conflicted. I used to be 100% in favor of _responsible_ surveillance technology. Even came up with a few ways to do it that would cryptographically enforce whatever rules we set on it, so that abuse is difficult. I've made a few comments in the past as such.

I was very much in the "few bad apples" camp until recently. But the protests have made it abundantly clear that my understanding of the situation was wrong. The last thing we want to do is give more tools of control and abuse to corrupt systems.

It's not that I don't agree with you or that I even disagree with my old belief in responsible surveillance technology. But we (America) clearly need to do a _lot_ of work reforming law enforcement and public health first and foremost. Augmenting those systems can only come after.
When you find a way for a country to exist with 0 enemies, please let us all know.
3dof. 3 degrees of freedom. These are typically rotation - yaw/pitch/roll. You can look around. 6dof is 6 degrees. In addition to rotation you add translation (x/y/z) so that you can walk around the environment. Generally you can't get translation without at least first having rotation because humans are more sensitive to rotation.
Sure but now you can compose multiple binaries across many runtimes into a portable unit.
I like the scepticism!

But the fact that the story was posted by the recipient of the post card, to a Facebook Group, and then only hit the news after going viral means it probably wasn't done by a PR company.

Having done some of this "black hat PR" myself I can tell you that we don't typically cover our tracks that well.

We almost always plant bullshit by going to the news outlets themselves, or paying a blogger to put up an article on BI, Forbes, of HuffPo.

On a completely unrelated note, have you guys heard Amazon is hiring 33,000 new employees with a compensation package average of 150k? Just to help with unemployment during this time of crisis. Pretty cool of them to do that.
KnotDNS 3.0.0
Docker doesn't run on windows 10 without virtualization enabled in the bios. The computer a purchased last year didn't have support for this feature and there is no way to run docker.
I think it's definitely a wisdom/experience/age thing. I know now that my ability to not run at 60 miles an hour as soon as something turns or a new opportunity arrises is as much a blessing as a curse.
Many studies proved that most images on docker hub have serious vulnerabilities:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315468931_A_Study_o...

This is really bad, yet unsurprising, when you bundle together hundreds of MBs of packages into each image.
This is a good example of why eventual consistency is a weak guarantee.
I've got "<up> <ctrl-a> q = " in muscle memory by now. I feel like I've got a hand tied behind my back when I'm in a place that doesn't support those keybindings, but I'm not sure finding rightward assigns peppered at the 128th stack depth is going to make me a happier developer.
Is DynamoDB baked into the product or could new adapters be written to use different key/value stores? Things like leveldb for local-only ledgers or even an adapter on top of PostgreSQL's jsonb field might be useful.
It'll be very interesting to see how going remote impacts various urban centers. I can imagine that centers like Silicon Valley will be hit hard as a ton of their labor can work from anywhere. Whereas places like Boston that have a heavy bio-tech investment are harder to relocate because you need people working in physical labs.
This is not correct. The “word shape model” itself is actually probably wrong[0].

> The weakest evidence in support of word shape is that lowercase text is read faster than uppercase text. This is entirely a practice effect. Most readers spend the bulk of their time reading lowercase text and are therefore more proficient at it. When readers are forced to read large quantities of uppercase text, their reading speed will eventually increase to the rate of lowercase text. Even text oriented as if you were seeing it in a mirror will quickly increase in reading speed with practice (Kolers & Perkins, 1975).

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/word-rec...
42 is the age
That CLA doesn't seem to assign any copyright, just attest that the user has the right to license it under the license.
I flag most "Considered Harmful" articles. I hate the articles, and I hate the vicious discussions they inspire.
It's a tough existence on your own right now, but in other ways it's easier because everyone is in the same boat. We are more remote, but also more understanding that connecting with people means so much to us...
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had upgrading the bandwidth of the already present RF link or doing a microwave ptp link on your own any part in your prior research?
Is there any reason you need to have bitwarden run its own TLS instead of letting Caddy terminate?
Alternatively, there is an AI technique for translating between languages without needing a bilingual dictionary or parallel texts[0].

There may not be enough data in the Voynich manuscript to generate an accurate translation of any word in it, but the model generated by the AI might be enough to decide which language is closest to Voynichese, or which transcriptions of the manuscript are the least "noisy".

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/11/29/241639/artificia...
In one of thr updates for Beyond the Sword they introduced an option to choose the menu. So you can have both the additional features and Baba Yetu!

(While you're at it make sure you disable the enhanced espionage mechanics, for better gameplay. But that may be just opinion!)
The basic idea is as follows: each week, you have an HTML file with some content, and your goal is to create the CSS file that makes this a beautiful piece of (web) art. The contest runs on Github on top of some automation. Contributions, entries, and content suggestions are all handled there. At the end of each week, the project bot selects a winning entry (you vote by reacting to the entry PR), which is then deployed to https://csscontest.com and stays there for the whole week. A more detailed explanation is here: https://github.com/bitsofart/contest/#welcome.
This project is the result of a lot of my interests put together. I wanted to be a designer at the beginning of my career. Back in those days, https://www.awwwards.com/ was a fantastic source of inspiration, and I dreamed of one day having that website of the day ribbon on my website. This day never came, and my interests shifted towards programming and code. But I still love seeing amazing visuals on the web, and I've always thought how nice it would be to have an award, like the Awwwards' site of the day, but more open, both in terms of content and selection.

Along with that, I'm also fascinated by evolution and the idea of things organically progressing in ways no one can anticipate. And I've been long thinking of this idea of a "crowdsourced" code project, and where a community of coders would take it.

So I merged the two ideas in this project: An open space for the community to participate in a contest to make beautiful things on the web. All the few contest's rules and their application are open-source (there are links for them in the repo), and everything is automated so we can have as few single-person interferences as possible. In an ideal world, everyone interested can participate, and I, as the owner of the repo, don't even have to look at it.
The only purpose for those images is eye candy, something to make the article "prettier" and prevent a wall of text from forming.
There is and there are market offerings in that space. Thing is, at the end of the day, you do want a live human to review it.
Don't Be Dogmatic: The Final Programming Lesson
New gravitational-lensing study hints at problems for dark matter models
Talking the Dog: Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse [pdf]
Some people may also be leery of scams in the "hallo this is windows support" vein ...
So in the end they only convict people based on legally permissible evidence that shows they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? How horrible.
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Responding to community questions on social media isn't just a marketing task. Every question should be answered by the employee that is responsible for that part of the business. Your employees will be exposed to direct feedback about their work and your community will always get the best possible response. This is also the best way to ensure that you're building a product that people actually want. See how we achieved this with Respondo [1].

We're just getting started and we'd love to hear your feedback! [2]

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Well, if you have a life long history of persistent problems relating to education, finance, health, and/or relationships caused by behavior impulsive or otherwise that you just can't quite seem to explain then maybe.

Unfortunately the condition is just pernicious enough to do real damage to your life, and just subtle enough to go unnoticed for decades.
text and videos, I group into the same category due to the full consumption of the content is over a period of time that is much greater than an instant. Consuming text obviously is a much less passive pattern than video, so they diverge greatly in that respect.

Images, for the mass consumer audience, require orders of magnitude less time to fully consume.

The dynamic is very much different.

The Tiktok vs Vine comparison is very apt.. there is hardly any differences between them in terms of the process of content creation, and how compelling they are to a mass market audience
true, percentiles are important for telling you how your system is doing and how typical users experience it. However, I contend that you should also measure max latency, just that is is less important for understanding typical usage. But seeing your max go crazy can signal that there is something else in the stack that needs work. Silly example that I hit: max was consistently 2hr on something that p99'd at like 1min and p50'd at 2 seconds. Dug in. The 2hr was a default tcp timeout being tripped due to some connections not being properly returned to the pool. Fix the pool logic and max times came down into the few minute range. This also lowered p99.
In the end, it's all about time. People are rational creatures (despite rumours) and quickly decide whether they are willing to spend time to do the email activation thingie, and so they bail. Someone should do a survey of conversion rates vs time it takes to sign up somewhere, i bet there will be a strong correlation.

Anecdotally, i ve observed the opposite too. I don't require email to sign up, but there is an email field further down in the form, and yet 95% people DO enter an email that looks valid, and not just garbage. That said, only 5% clicked on the email verification link , presumably because they don't have to
I love the Civ games but I definitely agree with that criticism. Civ is to politics or culture what the world music genre was to music. Even the styles of the civ cutscenes, the character design, or the dialogue screnes aesthetically seem to resemble sort of 90s world music album covers.

This is why Alpha Centauri is by far my favourite Civ game, it's free from having to deal with a lot of historical accuracy and just has a very strong narrative and great worldbuilding.
Docker may actually simplify some stuff and the author doesn't do a great job of describing why it's bad.

Docker might be bad because it creates an abstraction to something you might have to go digging around in anyway so the abstraction is leaky.

That abstraction also has complexity in it's own right. There are a lot of docker-related issues - e.g. how to dockerize data stores - so there is non-trivial complexity cost incurred when reaching for docker.

The argument could be that we've added a layer of complexity without much gained.

The same sorts of issues are there when you make the choice of AWS - abstractions that are themselves complex that, at the same time, are leaky.

An abstraction where I have to understand the layers underneath is not very useful.
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That crosses into personal attack, as well as the sort of insinuation of astroturfing that the site guidelines prohibit (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Please don't.

There's nothing wrong with creating an account to post a comment about a situation you have some personal connection to. On the contrary, we want people to post about what they know—and if they wait for a topic they know something about, so much the better for the rest of us.
I agree and both these two projects are remarkable contributions.

My point was admittedly an aspirational one that requires major changes to the current IP ownership model of (often publicly funded) scholarly work. For example: see how publishers have used the legal system to throw the book at projects like sci-hub or individuals like aaronsw.

I do disagree that the main issue is universities not being keen on having their work circulated openly.

My take is this:

1. Publishers used to have a reasonable value prop, but are now basically robbing the public blind.

2. University admin roles, even at public universities, are more and more occupied by metric-obsessed, run-it-like-a-business types leading to:

3. Academics are stuck on the publish-or-perish hamster wheel that is fueled by a vague amorphous notion of journal prestige, set up and profited by said publishers.

I can't see how we can fundamentally change this situation without either of:

- top-down structural change in academic admin system allowing people to pursue academic careers without h-index and citation obsessions. Major tenure reform?

- bottom-up mobilization of academics or public interest groups, forcing publishers' hands into a more sane (and less profitable) business model. They will fight it tooth and nail of course, hence the need for mass coordinated action (boycotts, public shaming, etc.)

Both these avenues need playing politics on one level or another.

EDIT: formatting and clearer wording.
Espionage and random events can be rather annoying.
Looks very cool, but you are going to run into problems with the name because people are going to confuse it with https://www.relativity.com/

That company sells a major legal document management platform, and has the standing, incentive, and capacity to drag Relativty into court for trademark infringement and easily win. The sheer number of people getting the word wrong on this HN thread is itself evidence of potential consumer confusion. Trademark infringement doesn't have to be wilful or malicious, and trademark holders are required to defend their marks or risk losing them through a legal doctrine called 'constructive abandonment' so it's probably only a matter of time before Relativity-the-legal-software-company sends a finger-wagging C&D letter to Relativty-the-bedroom-hackers.

tl;dr find a new name or get sued.
yeah, personally a new idea is a new idea. Personally nothing is new. Everything has being done before.
"Death Ball" was just a problem in Civ4 and ONLY Civ4.

Civ2 / Civ3 had no death balls, because your entire stack lives-and-dies together. A stack of 20-musketeers in Civ2 could die in a single combat.
Facebook does this. Example of a picture on my feed of some friends outside:

"Image may contain: 5 people, including <Redacted>, people standing, sky, cloud, shorts, twilight and outdoor""
Because if that information were released it would cause significant damage to the country. Why on earth is my company's TLS private key kept a secret from all the employees?
It's useful to a security researcher or privacy advocate looking into what an application like zoom is actually sending around.

It may be also helpful when reverse engineering "proprietary" protocols, e.g. to create compatible clients.

It may be even easier to just "mitm" the traffic like this in applications you develop yourself to find out what going on deeply buried in some third party library. Easier than modifying the code or attaching a normal debugger.

There are plenty of legitimate uses.
> remote managers have to communicate more explicitly

Can you provide an example of this and whatever the implicit alternative is?
So only crimes are wrong? The coffin confessor does mention that he offers to confess crimes after someone dies.
Out of curiosity, what hardware? I thought pretty much everything since 2015 supported virtual machine extensions.
Boulder is our own mini SF here in Colorado. Housing is artificially expensive and has many of the same things going on as SF regarding zoning. Really cool and hip place that has become increasingly unaffordable over the last decade.
> With Inspect you don’t need an expensive Mac, all you need is a USB cable

> Inspect can debug your iOS devices over Wifi. It's time to let go off the cables.

Which is it? Also minor typo, "off" should be "of".

But looks great, congrats on launching. Excited to try it out!
The current price is not usually what you would get if you sold down to zero, if you could.
Problems with date object and how to validate them
Exactly! You could measure the collective eye-rolling of all the electronics engineers who work in the photo industry on seismographs around the world. (hopefully overstating the reach of this garbage article)

Edit:
Not to mention that the auto WB algorithm out dates smartphones by more than a decade.
Thanks to Chrome which saves the zoom settings per domain, I have "configured" every site I read to be at the same size (125% for most of them, 110% for some, 200% for monsters who put a very small font).

I do this mainly because switching from font size to font size actually tires my eyes (they always need to refocus) on the long term.
It's not a huge leap to see how the same could apply to add-ons too, it frequently does even on desktop. It would be many times more likely for the new android Firefox, hence the existence of the allowlist. Not to mention that some of the restrictions aren't artificial at all.

As for support, a) we'd like to support all of our users, and b) it often takes a lot of support time until you establish that an add-on or hidden preference is responsible.
Well it is within their rights, in the hypothetical scenario being discussed where the law was opt-in rather than prohibition.
I think the trend was already in progress, and Covid-19 just accelerated it by N years.
They has 1.2B in operating income in each of 2018 & 2019, they’ll be okay ;-). This does appear to be a larger than avg settlement though.
Nuclear Power Needs New Dreams
a lot of SV's tax base is going to disappear
Excellent, I'm glad it's working well for you! Thanks for the feedback.
I am in the camp of all these can benefit society provided we have rules in place governing who can use it, how they can use it, and retention.

The same applies to facial recognition. The technology will improve and it behooves us to be making sure that when it does end up in daily life we made sure it does behave in the best interest of all. This means making sure mismatch issues don't get brushed aside or hidden and its all out in the open to see how it works.

The next major privacy concern may not have a Snowden type in place with everyone standing outside the doors stamping their feet refusing to play.

Don't fool yourself into believing a few cities and even states declaring that it is not allowed, that has never stopped the intelligence community before and certainly won't going forward. Too many will buy into the idea that even a law at Congressional level will do anything but so many exclusions exist and so much is permitted under completely innocent sounding legislation you can never be sure.
This is literally the point of legislation and I haven't seen the opposite asserted even once.
I thought Palantir was headquartered in Langley?
If I can do that, then I'm going to get my tax return postmarked early and then just sit on it for a while.
New cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections
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Honestly this is a really, really good point I hadn't thought of (and well articulated) and I think you've changed my mind on prohibition v. opt-in.