skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A whole lot of people don't like writing in Microsoft Word, for a variety of reasons, and there are editors of varying types aimed at that audience. A lot of professional authors write in Scrivener. I know of more than you (apparently) think who write in Ulysses or iA Writer, which are both pretty capable editors. I own all three of those apps, am actively using Ulysses for a big fiction project currently, and don't own Microsoft Word. I know of more than a few fiction authors who like writing their prose in text editors -- Charlie Stross, Cory Doctorow, and Steven Brust come to mind off the top of my head. (Brust has used Emacs for a very long time and I presume still does; Stross and Doctorow both used BBEdit at some point in the past, and I believe both used Markdown, although that was years ago.)

As for whether Markdown is "a bit of a joke in the real world," I suppose it depends on what your definition of the real world is. Having attended a major technical writing conference a few weeks ago, I can assure you that while there are arguments in my field over Markdown, they are not over whether we should just give up on it and use Microsoft Word instead.
> That something loads faster or has better support for blind people or renders better on my iPad doesn't mean that it's more relevant to my search.

To a blind person, whether a website works well with a screen reader is extremely relevant to their search. Why are their needs less important than yours?

> Ideally you could opt in to additional weights like "I'm on a slow connection" and "blind-friendly results first please".

This just makes it easier for websites to bloat up or ignore accessibility. I have no issue with search engines penalizing websites to encourage them to take accessibility seriously.
Another "store" is fine. But another device is a very doubtful prospect.

From what I see, the resilience of the PC through the years only shows that people want less consoles, not more.
Sometimes stuff gets reposted, and sometimes one or other of the reposts gets a bigger discussion or more upvotes, maybe because of the time of day, or maybe because of other things getting discussed that day that change the context, or whatever. I don't think it's really a problem?
It will be improving the quality of search to blind users - their search results matter too.

It will be improving the quality of search for non-blind users because websites will be structured better for Googlebot.

Any gimping will be temporary as the websites rush to comply.

The gimping can be non-existent if Google simply announces ahead of time that accessibility will weigh more heavily. That'll give devs time to adjust. Look how Google pushed the adoption of HTTPS.
I just want to rep Trio, mentioned in the article. I'm using it to prototype a system in a different language before doing another iteration of said system and it's is quite nice to use, at least compared to what I remember asyncio being like.
See, for publishing:
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journals_published_by_libr...

And for archival:
https://www.lockss.org/
Automating design isn't easy. Here's my story
Curiously enough even using a command line Browser like lynx can be enlightening. You start to see all the crap.

I'd urge everybody to take a simple unstyled HTML page as a markup. If your page looks bad without styles, you are doing something wrong. If the navigation is cluttered and convoluted in unstyled mode you are doing something wrong.

If your page is less usable than a basic well structured HTML page, go back and make it a basic well structured HTML page and add styles from there.
This article could really do with a discussion of how the positive test rate is increasing over the past month, see: https://www.ft.com/content/e26349e5-29d4-4797-96ea-a09aac8cd...
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Over ehre in Small Belgium it doesn't feel like it.
In bed with big internationals for other reasons some of which local like de beers sure tho but that just smells more of corruption than anything protectionist or intelligence based
Internationally, mostly https://www.lockss.org/ and https://clockss.org/ .
Although there is projective space where it does make sense to say x = infinity (and also that f(0) is defined). In projective space all of the conic sections (lines, hyperbolas, ellipses, parabolas) are connected loops.
Jessica Krug: white professor who pretended to be Black resigns
I think there’s a lot more to it than just sharing values. If my values are mutually exclusive with your values, then there’s a lot more reason to kick me out.
Which is fine if the pages are receiving updates, but a lot of content exists on pages they are no longer updated and never will be again.

We shouldn't lose that content which can still be very relevant just because they're not following the current trend of constant website updates.
Google already does that with amp and god knows what else.
>> this in particular

I assume he's talking about using unicode characters that visually similar to english letters, but are not actually english letters.
> If you don't want to install competing app stores, then don't install them.

This is my position on this matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24287042

Meanwhile, we clearly disagree. It’ll be more productive for us to wait for the results of the lawsuit.

Best of luck to you and Epic’s position, but I truly hope the court isn’t misled by the short term “needs” of some iOS developers at the expense of the long term needs of Apple’s customers.
Always think about what an image is for, as well as what’s in it. Images are “inline replaced content”, meaning that they are considered part of the text content, not a structural element like a table, and they are “replaced by” their content. So imagine them as a text sized box containing their alt text, and then replace them with their visual content. In other words, read out an image’s alt text with the text from the nearest block level container. That’ll give you an impression of the context A blind user will experience your alt text in.

Some tips:

- blank alt text is better than no alt text: alt=““ should be fine if the image is pure decoration

- if a photo repeats some text next to it (such as an avatar image beside a user name), it could also be blank, or “User Name’s photo”

- when a company logo links to the home page, an alt text of “Back to hone page” is probably more useful than “Company logo”
I know a few people who use VoiceOver on Mac with standard safari. You can also turn it on on an iPad or iPhone, if you have one lying around.
When you say "threads per connection" do you mean "process per connection"? There isn't a lot shared between the connection in the way that I think of threads.

Anyway, I agree that async seems to be more trouble than it's worth for most cases.
I don't think so. The company I work for is really focused on digital independence. Their core business is industrial electronic component design. The whole supporting office runs on libreoffice, thunderbird, mattermost and nextcloud, all hosted on company premise. They employ two full-time admins, one for the windows clients, the other one for the linux clients (which one can ask for) and servers. This whole setup is, according to them, surprisingly easy to manage and maintain, you just have to find a boss who's willing to try it. Maybe it's different when you're a software shop and really need s3 or something
Not Cyrillic in particular, all scripts(I just happen to have Cyrillic layout hence the reason I used it for my example), but if you go around blogs, twitter or other websites, there are tons and tons of people mixing those up to look fancy or whatever it is they are trying to do. It's a nightmare for those of us who know several alphabets and an even bigger nightmare for those who need to use screen readers.
One thing that bothers me is how all-or-nothing visual assistance on today's smartphones is. It expects you to either be blind or be perfect. It baffles me I can't say "Ok Google, read me this web page."
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Get real the founder of ycombinator is a fucking loser small b dick power bottom.

I know, I’m English, with a twist. How’s my wordsmith sheen of brilliance glory and bream? You plebs on hacker news, you ain’t gotta shot

Viva Nicaragua Libre! Abajo con el imperio Yankee. All English men are gay, I’m a scouser, I know for a damn fact.

How many British billionaires on Forbes? Let it go, you had your chance.

Into a canal to beat all canals, bigger than Hughes, Twain, and Van Derbilt combined
Remember that we the customers GAVE them that power. They are allowed to do whatever they want with it. People here complain that they have so much power while wearing an apple watch...
How does this compare to using twobird[0], which was launched recently by the guys behind Notability? Anyone who's got experience with both clients?

[0]: https://www.twobird.com/
Or to look at the same idea from another angle: Starbucks recognise that it's fashionable to say you're fussy about your coffee (and some small percentage of people actually do care a lot about their coffee), but the majority of their customers don't really care that much.
I agree. She answers questions like she's being tested. I wouldn't be surprised if she needed to get approval from her boss before emailing her responses back to Vice.

"Do you feel nervous when you’re doing these covert operations?
Not nervous, I feel invigorated, excited and absolutely determined to do the job. We don’t always find people when we’re deployed but I can say that those people have never come past us either. That’s just as good for the venues or events organizers. We cover big gigs at arenas too. The last one I did was Slipknot. We had someone deployed at every entrance of the arena. We scanned thousands of faces and they’re all irrelevant, until that one person comes past and your hairs go up on the back of your neck and you know it’s them."
I think i've figured out how they are doing it. This is copy paste about a company he co-founded on his linkedin page. Case cracked! Psychic power transfer... awesome.

Zodiac Psychics operates a marketplace for online spiritual and psychic consulting. A rapidly growing number of advisors are servicing their clients daily over the Zodiac Psychics platform.

Zodiac Psychics has become a top destination for anyone looking for guidance about love, relationship and life’s day-to-day challenges. Professional Psychics and spiritual advisors from around the world are available for online psychic readings, spiritual coaching, and connection with deceased loved ones via confidential, one-to-one online chat. Qualified Psychics and Tarot readers are enjoying lowest fees in the industry and timely payments. see less

Edit: Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zodiac-psychics/
Not sure if HN approves (it removes emojies at least, this went fine it seems), but there are glyphs that look like the alphabet/normal letters, but are not really the same characters, like these: 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘, ⓣⓗⓘⓢ, 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤, ㄒ卄丨丂, ｲんﾉ丂, ꙅiʜƚ, 🅃🄷🄸🅂, sıɥʇ, 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈

My guess is screen readers can have trouble telling what it really says.
The site must be running on a $1 microcontroller, it takes 30s to display anything but a spinner :)
The first one confuses me.

He says "click here" isn't helpful, in isolation but that's not helpful to a sighted person either. In context? Do screen-readers fall over on links present mid-sentence, like saying I have the article on my block you can [click here] to read it?
However: Does Walmart support other Stores that sell your chips?

No! You need to move away from Walmart.
Some CSS libraries suggest not using HTML semantics and just use CSS. So H1 isn't used, rather SPAN with corresponding CSS to make it look like an H1.

I guess this makes things hard for a screen reader since HTML isn't saying what's what anymore.
also called "the asshole technique",very popular with people playing power games
I was wondering the same thing coz seems to me users with higher karma has a much better chance that their posts surfaces. Wonder if the HN algorithm works karma into the equation?
> You think that 25,000+ employees that work at AWS have somehow been silenced into some grand conspiracy?

You seem to suggest that every single employee that works at AWS is aware of everything that goes on with the company.

Isn't just possible that despite of what we know about the architecture, this might not be the whole truth and concerns about involuntary inter region transfers might just be warranted?
Is there a "rationale" for this sort of thing? It seems quite silly to do that, on a first look.
Old relevant content will still be there. However, content that is relevant and accessible will be higher.
1. I try to write about daily life although I am far to inconsistent for that to work, I am a bit better at writing short reviews of books I read. The goal is to use the blog as a practise area for general writing and reflections about what I read.

2. Very inconsistently sometimes weekly and sometimes yearly... however as a target for the autumn I am aiming for monthly.

3. Currently it's a hugo site on a S3,cloudfront stack however I am in the process of moving away from US owned services so it will be moved to another host shortly.

4. https://fredrikloch.me
“So much io wait”. What io is your app waiting for? Is it a webserver, or another type of app?
An easy to remember short URL if you need a PDF copy: https://git.io/sicp.pdf
I'll never understand why people are ok installing recording devices in their home from a giant ad company or retail conglomerate.

Granted I do walk around with a smartphone.
Thanks for the link to the discussion on Github. I don't think it is a good idea to rely on inference (owl:sameAs) for something as basic as foaf:name vs. rdfs:label vs. schema:name, ...

I have not used JSON API yet but it is cool to see the "follow your nose" approach be applied to REST APIs.
And they will host it on Amazon, Google or Azure where their firewall admin won't possibly notice..
In my limited experience, Germans are more sensitive to personal privacy than other Europeans, even the rest of the world. To non-Germans they might seem paranoid. Maybe we can all learn from their historical mistake.

The problem I see with the DIY-attitude is that security is easy to get wrong and is moving target. The other opinion here is "keep it in the country". If someone really wants your data, the locale won't save you. And yet, if there is a breach, I could see an foreign company like AWS trying to hush it, where a German company would make a bigger fuss (diplomatic issue).
Shut the fuck up and go sit in that corner: there is no honor in humility. A gold hacker knows a feeble wannabe who is here to make friends. If you want a friend, get a cocker spaniel. You ass kissing Java but kissing assholes, with the hacker ness karma And my ycombinator súper scanner for un semantic web? But I knew RUST YOU GUIIISEEEE
It is using kilobytes as the unit.
Google will not fix this. They will only monetise your trust in them.
It might not be hard, but now you need a number of skilled sysadmin devops people who can also be availble oncall.

Thats not a insignificant cost.
As someone who has been in the industry for 20 years everything seems to be getting worse. Like Kubernetes and SPA apps. People rarely need these (OK, high availability via Kubernetes is nice, but few people need elastic scaling).
> & disallow shorting.

Why would you completely disallow shorting ?

I'd think that in such a framework, shorting would just need to become a longer term bet. So one could offer something like 2,5,10 year LEAPs, but restrict their trading to a window of 1 week per year (e.g. one can trade derivatives as much as one wants, but only during week X, which is the week when all derivatives expire, and all derivatives are long term).

Also for options, one would need to always require traders to be covered with the actual stock.
My company self hosts everything. They’re so bad at it. Something is always down and we waste so much time with our shorty tooling. We even had this amazing idea that we could implement our own version of GCP from scratch. The result is dismal, we dread using it because it’s very unreliable, and it costs double or triple what GCP costs. We’re not a small company, we have about 1k employees and our business is software.
While I can't speak for the author, I have a few blind friends who use screen readers. They often access a list of all links in a page to navigate, but naturally, you get only the text of the link in this list. I suspect the same problems occurs if you use tab to go from link to link. Surrounding content is of course not read aloud unless requested.
It is true that ESP8266 chips are slightly more expensive than 30 cents, but I believe you were not planning to use the development board for mass production.
Ah, OK. I haven't seen this much outside of screen names in some games.

If people are going to do strange things like this en masse, perhaps the screen readers could implement some normalisation rules.
If you're looking for tech that will change the world, a good signal is when people try to ban it.
At the end it looks the "same" for a normal user. Semantics in html is butchered a lot (remember the alignment with tabs ?)
Is it possible to “write” using speech-to-text software?
When Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney he was talking about using to money to produce medium to high budget genre films with deep fine art sensibilities with almost zero meddling which is almost never what we get from Hollywood. Unfortunately that was like ten years ago and Lucas is like totally removed from the cultural zeitgeist.

Deal makers need to be forbidden from creative decisions. One of the major studios should consider adopting a Blumhouse business model where new talent are given a very small budget to prove themselves with zero restrictions or meddling and if they can turn a profit on the Low stakes film then they are promoted to a new budget tier using the previous films profits to bankroll the next film. I truly believe the cream would rise to the top under this model and a new golden era of groundbreaking pictures would occur. Or not, we’ll never know until someone tries. I’m really hoping Blumhouse keeps going in this direction and take bigger risks.

There’s no reason why Dune couldn’t make a great movie, or any other SF book classic but it seems like once SFX and money enter the picture you get deal makers injecting weird love triangles, buddy sidekicks, Rihanna songs, whatever it takes to ruin everything. Hollywood is also super arrogant about how they have mastered storytelling so whenever they adapt something good, like let’s say the Sandman comics, they need to “fix” everything to make it really good.
Very cool, thanks for sharing. Currently sitting in the early drawing board stage of a potential portfolio tool for a small pool of asset managers in my north-European country, so this was very interesting to look at.
The arrangements brought to light through amongst others the Snowdon files did involve extremely few people at huge companies. We are talking a literal hand full, not '25.000'. Are you really suggesting there are no three letter acronym operators embedded into the large US tech companies? Modern US systemic tech industrial espionage was brought to light as far back as Echelon. so deriding people who are cautious about it as 'flat earthers' seems disingenuous.
It's funny that the only technically correct answer got downvoted.

You can never answer that question with 100% certainty with "yes", only with "no".
This is not specific to Umami, but I always find it puzzling people call all kinds of things, which are only a minor step up from the visitor counters from the 90ies a "Google Analytics alternative".

In my eyes, website analytics tool is not an analytics tool if it does not, as a minimum, have proper segmentation and funnel tools. If all you need are some hits and visit numbers, you do not need an "active" component at all and could mostly rely on website log analysis anyway, like http://www.webalizer.org/ - but yes, probably less shiny than the current "GA alternatives".
This short-term-pervades-the-market is based on the idea that the current stockholders are able to trick future stockholders into buying stocks that have eaten their seed corn, before those future stockholders realize this.

How can this process of continually tricking the next investor possibly work out quarter after quarter? Wouldn't the stock market have tanked long ago if this was, in fact, underlying the bulk of the market valuations?

The reality must be, as soon as investors realize a company is short-term only, they dump and run from its stock, because they will be unable to trick someone else into buying it at the high price.

Some years ago, I knew the CEO of a company who said he did the financials "according to what Wall Street short term investors wanted". The stock promptly tanked as investors actually do not invest that way, and certainly don't want to invest in companies that eat their seed corn.

Take a look at the companies with the biggest market caps in the world - who thinks they are driven by short-term thinking? I don't. The investors obviously don't. And the rewards of long-term thinking are off the charts.
For better or worse (in my opinion, worse) recent iterations of the Google algorithm already severely penalize, or even drop, static pages that have not been recently updated. I suspect it's a big factor in making small academic and personal websites significantly harder to find than they were in the past.
How do you prove that a german company does not have secret data sharing agreements? Think cryptoAG.
Yea, it seemed a weird speculation that going after Trump using WaPo would be a serious reason behind the onboarding.

They already publish a ton of heavyweight criticism... and I think there is no new information that could persuade those that still support Trump.
Some reasons I see for sticking with Django is that it is big and well known. So easier to hire devs that know it, plenty of knowledge on Stack Overflow and elsewhere. Plus a large ecosystem of packages. (We use Tornado at my current workplace, and we would be far better off with something like Django).
With the Schrems 2 ruling of this summer finding the Privacy Shield inadequate for storing personal data in US-owned clouds, your previous employer made the right choice for GDPR compliance.

Cloud Act and National Security Letters really fuck things up for American cloud providers with regard to doing business with European customers.
My point is your perception is YOUR problem - not those who use something for their own benefit.

Also fuck your opinion of anyone using A Mac. Seriously. Fuck off.
Tablets and phones are computers, IMO. They're still general purpose machines. For many tasks, their interfaces are less confusing than a desktop's interface, which is progress, but when it comes to web apps, there's no difference, and especially phones can be really clumsy.

Not using computers would be falling back to paper forms and mail.
OP points real evidence for BEV.
So what? Like I said, it’s literally zero hassle to create new instances. What makes you think you’re entitled to mix all your users into one database anyway. If you’ve a hundred users in one country it’s worth your while having an instance just for them.

Lawyers will oversubscribe for everything it is up to you to familiarise yourself with the legal aspects and get your engineers to design within these constraints. You didn’t think engineering was just programming did you?
The problem is the park service actively advertises places which brings in more people. More people requires infrastructure. Which brings in more people.

Better is to not advertise and if there are too many people require permits. It may be beneficial to remove infrastructure. For instance blocking of roads that allow access. Because most things that aren't heavily advertised and are more than a mile from a road see very little traffic.
If you are underpaid, then you should be able to easily find a company that pays you more, no?