skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does this tooling do? Of course I could Google the components and look it up, and I already know some of those so I can imagine what it might do. But it would be so much better to get the author stance. Ideally for users the first paragraph on both Medium and GitHub would be something in the order of "Use this tutorial to accomplish x through the use of y and z."
> 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've always used title in the anchor tag for that rather than the image alt text (title="back to the home page" in the anchor; and then alt="Company logo" in the img tag). That way you're properly describing what the image is and also providing information on where the associated link goes.

Can anyone here with experience with screen readers clarify if that's an effective approach?
Belarus registers over 2.1M cyberattacks in the last 31 days
> ideas implemented on edge devices. Noice.

What does that mean?

Edge devices here means the most modern browsers?

And noice means unnecessary?
Too lazy to learn is one of the reasons. Should use framework/lib is the other.
Now people think that by not using frameworks you will have messy code and happily create even bigger mess of frameworks rope spaghetti.
She has some video's on her YouTube channel about this topic as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1EXxUVEKnPNV5gTAijSZg (cat included)

I don't think they were linked from the document on github.
The "8 megabytes" is virtual memory. You're only incrementing a counter in a table, nothing is actually allocated until you actually start using that stack.
Former Tesla Programmer's anecdotes about problems
Don't worry. I don't actually have any authority over you. You don't have to do what I say if you don't want to.
The Weakness of Anthropic Arguments
Back in the old days that was up to 80%, so no not all developers.
I only use spans and divs. header, paragraph, etc elements have intrinsic styles I rarely want, esp wrt margins
Global warming.
I've not used screen readers much, but you can skip through links as a mode of navigation, but if all the links are "click here" "click me" "click" "get the info" then it's harder to keep track of which links go where.
On the positive side, you could use them for some privacy features, like predownloading images (works with popular clients like Gmail which prefetch them, whether you read the email or not, to water down analytics)
I think there is a correlation, but only because people with more karma have been her longer and probably posted more stuff. So naturally some of their posts eventually will end up on the front page.

As for getting it to the front page, having a few early votes are critical. Then it will be seen by more people, and it snowballs from there. So it's mostly luck/timing.
You are trying to make the argument, that Epic making a voluntary transaction with me, is somehow an infridgement on you, who is an unrelated, 3rd party.

Thats is an absolutely ridiculous claim to make.

The fact that I would be allowed to easily install apps on my phone, that I paid for, is a ridiculous claim that this is somehow taking away your choice.

No. That is dumb. It is my phone. Not yours. Don't install apps that you don't like, if you don't want them. But me installing them on my phone, does not infringe on your rights.

> of the long term needs of Apple’s customers.

Those customers don't have to install anything that they don't want to install on the phones that they own. Easy. Me, as a 3rd party, being allowed to modify the phone that I own 100% is not related to that.

> It’ll be more productive for us to wait for the results of the lawsuit.

You did not make a single argument against the idea that Apple has significant market power.

Because you did not make a single argument against that, I am going to assume that you agree that Apple has significant market power, and has used it to harm competition. (Which would mean that Apple's actions are illegal)
No underwater cables disturbing marine life, but 20% more turbines to make up for the efficiency loss!
> How many people would have stopped buying iPhone due to that epic run of malware and viruses that never happened?

I'm not saying make it super easy. I would be perfectly happy with a situation where it's hard to install a separate store (on Android to install any app not from the shipped with stores you specifically have to go to settings and enable untrusted apps. But there's a huge difference between "hard" and "legally impossible".

> Why does Apple spend so much on safety and security if it doesn’t sell iPhones?

Because it lets them completely control the platform, so they don't have to worry nearly as much about competition? The fact that Epic can't just install another store and get around Apple's 30% cut is a huge incentive to spend money on "safety and security", because the way they've chosen to achieve those goals is "we control it all, you control nothing, and we'll keep you safe". That's very convenient for them.
I used Celery (as a workaround) for a Django view that should have been in asyncio before asynchio was available.
I needed a quick and easy way (text lines) to condense information during the many and super boring meetings. Whene I need to edit the map, I change the text and regenerate the image. Not all "mindmap" recipients have the software to view maps, but everyone can see a PNG image. And above all...I had a lot of fun writing the software :-)
Completely agreed. Getting a different experience each time is a big part of what makes a return trip to a good coffee shop fresh and interesting.
Nvidia CUDA need competition. Note what amd has done to intel. We need competition. Market to work need competition.

Competition!
Unleashing Effortless Authentication: Huawei Account Kit Feat. React Native
In America you can buy privacy if you really want it. Buy a laptop here, install linux on it, and use a VPN. The NSA can't stop you if you really want privacy. This is illegal in China, where every VPN must be state sponsored and monitored.
It looks just a touch too big, and weighs 440lb. Another issue is power. While it can plug into a standard wall outlet, the total power used for a scan might not be convenient for the ambulance to supply. You'd likely have to design a vehicle around it to account for space/weight/power needs.

However, this could be a interesting product for field hospitals used in disaster relief. It could also be of use at medical facilities in more rural areas, where the purchase and/or use of a conventional MRI may not be feasible.
Yes you're right. What a silly mistake. Normal Python interpreter = 9mb, with 20 threads = 14mb.

Edited the original post.
My guess is screen readers can have trouble telling what it really says.

It's actually the humans who don't know what it really says. We see 'some weird looking glyphs' and mentally translate them to letters we know. This quirk of the human brain is how we can read a random jumble of letters from different alphabets as English words.

Screenreaders on the other hand know exactly what it says and they read it out precisely how it's written.
Every single one of these companies to date has been vaporware, but very interested to see if we ever get one that isn't.
The 'effort' is that being an annoying arsehole grabs more attention and makes more money; it's a choice, not a lack of effort.
I know the feeling.. found out recently that someone in my team is on a good 80k more than me!
Something of the sorts could be implemented but this would be an attempt to make something idiot-proof. And from my experience, nothing can ever be idiot-proof. To quote Mark Twain: "they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience".
Publishers in general are very bad at preservation. Entire runs of journals often vanish because the publisher went bankrupt, sold some assets or just didn't bother to do their homework.

For this reason, customers (mostly libraries and universities) around year 2000 have started demanding that the closed-access publishers have preservation mechanisms and provide dark archives to ensure access after subscriptions expire or are otherwise breached.

This has resulted in initiatives like https://www.lockss.org/ and https://clockss.org/ .

> Since CLOCKSS launched in 2008, 53 journals comprising 13,000 articles have been triggered

That's 13k articles (mostly from closed-access publishers) saved from oblivion, but there's many more. The English Wikipedia alone knows thousands of articles where even the DOI is broken (usually they're from publishers like Elsevier, Wiley, T&F, LWW, OUP).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_DOIs_inact...

On average, fully open access journals present a much lower risk of vanishing because they're easier to archive, especially if they use a [free license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_license) like CC BY or CC BY-SA. However, publishers still need some nudging towards archival.

DOAJ requires a digital preservation plan in place (at least with CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, PKP PN, PMC, Portico or a national library) for a journal to be granted the [DOAJ seal](https://doaj.org/publishers#seal). At the moment there are [about 1400 journals with the DOAJ seal](https://doaj.org/search?source=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22filter...).

Authors can publish in a journal with the DOAJ seal and be sure that their work is safe. On the other hand, they have no recourse against a commercial and closed-access publisher, which can be forced to comply with archival only by contracts with its paying subscribers.
In general, it is far easier to reason about locking with async code, as the number of preemption points is far far lower. As a result, you get very low overhead inter-task communication.
There are more than enough email clients that only support Gmail. It's OK.
After over a decade of discussion about the semantic web and accessibility, after so many best practices and recommendations from experts, it breaks my heart that in 2020 we are back to that.
I would imagine they'd have to use new ones every once in a while.

What I am most worried about is vendor's key becoming compromised (whether cracked or stolen), which means that a revocation mechanism is missing.

Even with revocation implemented, such equipment would be rendered useless (I imagine vendor would have to cover for replacements).
If you read three, include Stephen Toub

Why?

>https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/graphs/contributors
> read out an image’s alt text with the text from the nearest block level container.

never thought of it this way, but this makes sense. Thanks.
Fastlane – making the deployment process more seamless, simple, and fast
Starbucks' goal, like all chains, is not quality per se, but consistency. The coffee at one Starbucks should taste the same as at any other, whether it's in Tokyo or Times Square.

To achieve that consistency, they tend to over-roast their beans -- to the everlasting chagrin of coffee lovers everywhere.
Answer to your question was already discussed right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24429221
Putting aside the shared space aspect, I would argue that Starbucks does not really even trade primarily in coffee, but milk drinks. Starbucks is a "milk bar" (and lots of other local coffee shops could be described in the same way).
Keep in mind that most of the money Norway make from oil & gas are invested [1], it's not money used directly for anything in Norway. Up to 4% of the money made from the investments can be spent, the rest is re-invested.

Of the 1.173,5 bn NOK income in the 2020 national budget, 1.084,8 bn NOK are from taxes and various charges.[2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
[2] - https://www.statsbudsjettet.no/Statsbudsjettet-2020/Satsinge... (Norwegian)
> This is a true fact and questioning it is illegal.

Doesn't seem like you're using a throwaway for this. Why aren't you concerned for your safety?
I'm guessing the free users aren't worth that much to them now they have got established. If 90% of their revenue comes from 10% of their users then this might be a convenient way to cull them.
I am in the process of building a small application that will have a lot of text. However, the application will be driven by a game engine that means it won't be easily accessible to screen reader software. Would there be utility for a blind person if I created a built-in method of reading the text and offering a blind-mode/low-sight mode navigation option that radically alters the UI? Is there a standarized API for the popular screen reader software packages that I can tie in to that my application can use?
In Apple-speak, 'deprecated' means "we told you so" when/if it gets removed in a few years at a WWDC.
JAWS. It's costly, though.
It's usually product/marketing offering subscriptions, not developers. And unfortunately they are usually motivated by greed.
This doesn't look too bad! Thanks!
I assume that service would only cost ~$10/month, because that's what Apple currently charges for Developer accounts.

The 30% per transaction only really makes sense for apps for which Apple has provided the advertising, distribution and processing -- the App Store.

I'd love to just provide a direct download for my customers who also happen to be Apple (device) customers.
I'm sure he was chuckling to himself when writing "crickets" down.

But a lot of the criticism here seem to think he is somehow cheating the reader with these minimalist word-games. As if he is pretending there is a deeper meaning than there really is and therefore deceiving the reader. If someone enjoys the poetry it must surely be because they have been tricked!

The unstated assumption is that poetry is supposed to be serious, difficult to write, and having many layers of complex meaning, requiring hard work to decipher, and above all, not allowed to be fun.

Another streak is people getting angry at what they think other people might hypothetically think about them if they don't enjoy the poetry.

Where does this come from? I don't know. Possibly bad high-school English teachers. But I can't see how Saroyan is to blame for thees weird notions. Poetry have always been a vehicle for jokes and memes and koans and absurdist humor. Printed poetry opened the possibly of having fun with the visual presentation of the text.

But it is amazing to me that anyone can look at "cricket" and get offended. "There is a joke in the poetry! I have been cheated! I demand my money back!"
Someone posted a video on Twitter about this. What happens is that it reads out the meaning (similar to the unicode names) of the symbols.

E.g. 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 get read as "Mathematical bold fraktur small t, mathematical bold fraktur small h, mathematical bold fraktur small I, mathematical bold fraktur small s"
Good stuff. Even though a lot of people just don't want to talk to anyone when they're depressed, it doesn't hurt to remind them that there are always people willing to listen.
Can ultrasound do brain scanning ... we cannot do mri of everything due to cost and hard to arrange (even ct scan I were told is much easier to arrange but I stick to the ultrasound vs mri). but we do ultrasound more frequently. If that help, that helps.

When people are hunger As cannot afford food to tell them meat can also be food may not make sense.
Not all "change the world" developments are for the better.
>This is false, if you look at expected deaths

So, would it be true if you looked at recorded deaths? After all, at the beginning of the pandemic they were expecting millions of deaths in the US.
How popular are “And Daughters” businesses?
This is all good top-level stuff, but one thing I'd quibble with in this article is something that they don't say, except in the linked article about writing alt text - the vast majority of images are decorative, and those images should have an empty alt attribute. I see far too many images with pointless alt text because "you need to add alt text to all images". The easy way to think about this is to read the page as if the image alt text was part of the body copy. So if it goes like this:

"There are a number of different issues at play in universities at the moment. Stock photograph of students talking at a table. We spoke to the dean of the faculty of social sciences..."

You can see that this is pointless alt text. So the default should be no alt text unless there's some content in the image that is important for the context of the article.

I'm even dubious that photos that show something described in the article should have alt text, and I'd be interested to hear from blind and partially-sighted users what they think. For example:

"The dam burst on Saturday, inundating the local town. Photo of burst dam with rubble and uprooted trees at the side. The mayor said that they were lucky nobody was injured..."

Presumably if what the dam looked like after it burst was described in the article, that image shouldn't have alt text?
There's no "easy" to the tech interview process
In addition to the points that pbhjpbhj and Grumbledour have made, in badly written HTML the 'Click Here' link might be in a completely different part of the DOM tree to the rest of the content. For example, a developer could create a <p>Content</p> at the top of the DOM tree, and a <button>Click Here</button> at the end, and then use "position: absolute" to move the button next to the content. Visually they're next to each other but if you strip out the styling they're miles apart. Screenreaders do a decent job of trying to figure out what link goes with the text but understanding HTML is a crapshoot at the best of times.
Newly opened accounts. Often it's people who are regular users using a throwaway.
Azure Files SMB Multichannel provides improved performance for clients
> there is no lose in the atmosphere

I know bullshit when someone spells it out for me.
The unthinkable consequences of global warming
My screen reader knowledge is a bit dusty, so this might have changed:

As far as I know, screen readers don't read the title tag by themselves, though users can request it. So your approach works. And I think it is also has nicer semantics.

Personally, I prefer to use a text link with the company name, then move the text out with css and add the logo as a background image. This also works great in text browsers of course, the company/site name just becomes the h1 of the page.
Goodbye Xamarin.Forms, Hello .NET MAUI
I believe there’s a business registered... in fact, that’s the point, right? This is an ad.

The name was changed only a few months ago. Before that, the company name was Freedom from Debt Collectors.

Like I said, I’m sure there’s a bit of truth in this. And I’m 100% sure he’ll take someone’s money to show up at a funeral. I just feel like somethings off in general.
Only for me as the GP was right. :)
On my MacBook Pro, using python 3.8.5 I get

>>> 2/1
2.0
I used Mailplane in the past and like the team, but honestly, it just didn't operate as well as pure Gmail in the browser and I had to switch back.

This app is native and fricking fast.
I’m doing ok-ish. I’m waiting to start a new job but I’m afraid maybe some of my past mistakes might have an impact on the ultimate decision. I’m in a really tight financial bind (on top of it all, the only family car broke down yesterday). This new job would be life-changing in terms of financial security and my future career. Taking a cue from this site, I think I will take action by reaching out tomorrow to the recruiter I’m working with.

All we can do is keep our chins up and try to keep moving forward!
Every generation learns anew, so that is one of the reasons why this occurs. At best you have a mentor who is at max 100 years old.

Books can be informative, but it is no substitute for people actually being part of history. Especially if you frame it in the lens of power dynamics and the ownership of wealth. Those in power are connected to those with wealth and their ethics and politics determine to a great extend what happens.
I know it's pretty common in user generated text like comments, titles of the posts, etc. I'm not sure if they are a popular pattern in website content. I wonder if there are any popular websites that actually use this pattern. As it would be super bad for their business from SEO pov.
That support is limited, Gmail API allows you to do much more with labels.
You should use a CSS reset stylesheet like https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css instead.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't like for anyone to be able to open a bank account in my name.

Opening bank accounts (and accessing them later) without authentication is insane not archaic :)

Most banks here require physical presence and the government issued (photo) ID to open accounts, and online banking has 2FA via either physical token or at least SMS.

There is an unique number assigned to you on that ID, but it's stored basically everywhere and only used to look you up faster, never for authentication.

If you call the bank and try to do something over the phone they either tell you it's impossible or for less impactful things they randomly ask you pieces of info about older transactions, info that isn't on your ID card etc. Or just give you a plain phone PIN when you open the account.
It can be found on Twitter when people want to tweet with fancy formatting.
Your conclusion cracked me up. I guess you either die a hero...
I put Blade Runner 2049 music to drone footage of San Francisco on 9/09/20
it is indeed very similar to how I use gmail (both personal and work accounts) and the reason I've stuck to the web interface so +1000
When you're promoting your own product try not to be a cunt.
Eric Meyer wrote a good CSS reset more than 10 years ago. He made an updated version 8 years ago. https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Boris Johnson pinning hopes on £100bn 'moonshot' to avoid second lockdown
I actually consider the lack of Wi-Fi a feature.

I couldn't find a scenario where Wi-Fi would add value as opposed to BLE. It consumes more power, forces you to use TCP/IP, which pulls in lots of complexity without great solutions (you need to deal with pairing, security, etc), is more complex to set up... I could go on. Solutions like Thread are relatively recent (in fact I still don't know if licensing has become more reasonable).

BLE and Bluetooth Mesh give you tons of functionality with low power, in a complete solution. Do I really need my devices to have an IP address?

I guess this depends on what you're building, but in most cases this is about home automation, sensors, lighting, toys, etc.
Capital One and Microsoft team up to fight fraud at the point of sale
I wish there were better technology around the use of alt texts on images.

Most images on heavily visited social networks like Facebook are not curated by the site owner. They are uploaded by users, and the alt text can only be as detailed as the uploader bothers to type in. Most people don't bother at all. If required, they'll type in garbage to get through the form as quickly as possible. This is not something that site owners can easily control.

This would seem to be a prime opprtunity to whip out modern image recognition software, either on the server side or as part of the screen reader. We've all heard about server side image recognition, but there might be privacy implications about exposing automatically recognized details as alt text. Are there any screen readers that can analyze an image and output something like "an image of a woman and a baby in a playground?"
Ask HN: Startups Working on Second Language Acquisition?
Just wondering if anyone out there is working on any novel approaches to SLA. I'm a linguist and software developer hoping to find something interesting to work on at the intersection of my two interests.
PS. At least high quality food doesn’t scale like that.
I've come to appreciate the value of a really good, dedicated sysadmin. I used to think I was pretty good at it and that was fine, but I've come to realize that the skillset for an awesome sysadmin are quite a bit different than a developer, even though there is some overlap. And there is definitely a range.