skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows systems where everyone is using a shared account/password, no MFA, uncertain disposal of broken and obsolete storage devices, etc

This was true back in the 1990's. But hardly ever happens anymore. Healthcare operations are very strictly regulated, and everyone, even small offices, goes through security training. If they don't, they lose access to the things they need to operate.

The company I work for puts everyone in the company through HIPAA training once a year, and IT security training every six months. It doesn't matter if you're a receptionist, or a doctor, or the Director of IT. Everyone gets the training.
There are definitely edge cases where a ramp can be harder to build than an accessible website is to maintain over the long run. I'm unconvinced that's more than a tiny fraction of the overall problem space.
Speech to Text Alternatives?
Need to convert audio files to text for some work. Trying to find a good api. Google speech2text, Microsoft azure, etc. kinda expensive ~$1.4 for every hour of audio file transcribed.

Are there any cheaper API alternatives for speech to text transcription ?
I'm terrible at sewing, and rarely do it, but I own a sewing machine to mend clothes and repair other things.

The thing that's really fantastic is that you can f
(fairly) easily find a beautiful, used sewing machine for around $50. The workmanship on these things can be incredible! It's worth getting one just to check out the mechanisms.

Honestly, I think that basic sewing is an important skill, up there with basic car repair and basic carpentry, etc...
This is the right decision. Otherwise we'll end up with Berkeley-style results where things are removed from websites because they aren't accessible enough.

If this was primarily a delivery service (think Instacart), I would probably be on the other side of this. But it's clear that these are physical stores, and the online refilling is clearly a minor enhancement that only saves a little time.
I think I've tried migrating away from Chrome like 5 or 6 times. Always come back because it usability (for me) is not there, and things require workarounds[0]. Last time I tried firefox I abandoned it again because of these reasons [1]. So, for me, using Chrome feels more natural, and Firefox feels like a chore and I'm constantly annoyed that things work differently than the way I'm used to. Considering most people - not talking about HN audience, but general population - absolutely hate any kind of change, it's easy to see how people would try firefox, and then abandon it because it works differently.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756575

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756622
Did you know: You can copy documents(files) using Google Chrome
I was just reading a paper(.pdf) locally using Google Chrome and when I clicked download icon Chrome asked me for download destination of the .pdf document and I entered my preferred destination path and Chrome copied the .pdf there.

At first I thought Chrome moved it there but it turns out that my original .pdf document is still at the original path meaning Chrome copied the document.

Interesting function of the browser that I didn't know of and that I wanted to share.
At times like this I wish I had a downvote button
GDPR requires companies to make moving personal data from one service to another easy. I understand that your files created in a program are your personal data, so it should be possible to make it compatible with other applications - this will also help with tackling walled gardens and anti-competitive behaviours.
Given how many people downvoted my comment, I find it baffling, like you don't want to be able to have your personal data in an accessible format?
That "hordes" phrasing is at the center of it. And Greenwalds blogpost is all about national identity, something Marx did not write about and actually blamed as part of the problem.
This is tantamount to suggesting that language should always make sense regardless of context, which is absurd. Homonyms could not even exist!
Right. Which has been in the works for 15 years, only reached 0.5, and isn’t the native file format of anything(?). I wish the people writing image editing applications would take this more seriously, because to my mind the file format is more important than the application, but there you are.
“the browsers split into three distinct groups… In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex.”
I used RevenueCat's API for Apple and Google just to avoid having to do all this crap myself and it's free up to $10,000 of monthly revenue.

I was less happy with their Google implementation, mostly because of their bizarre insistence of treating every IAP as consumable but overall still less painful than having to roll my own code.
I might be alone in this opinion, but it seems the abandoned Semantic Web would have helped here had we all adopted it.

Commoditized API stories such as "order groceries" or "refill prescription" or "book a flight" would have a semantic level interaction instead of pixel one. Your user agent could act on your behalf through that API.

With that in place, flashy UI sites can be built on top of the same API and kill several avians with one rock.
Trump had talked about running long before the initial announcement. My mistake for thinking that the quote I was replying to, which specifically limited the scope to 2014, was accurate.

> A week ago, a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block the certification of Joe Biden as the next president. Even though some Capitol Police officers tried to hold back the mob and protect members of Congress, many observers wondered why the rioters did not experience the tear gas and rubber bullets used against the people protesting the killing of George Floyd. As the NAACP tweeted Wednesday, “They’ve killed us for less.”

They literally killed one of the protesters, and not with rubber bullets.

Anyway, the methodology is obviously flawed. They include alternative and mainstream news sources. Only one of these categories is granted "legitimacy", and that one skews far in the other direction.
What Klarna does is immediately send you some sort of IQ test after you apply. Needless to say, I failed miserably. At least now I know that I'm cognitively challenged.
Yeah, pretty much, looks like Android 9, 10 & 11 only add up to 63.2% of Android market share ?

https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-sdk-versions
I read it, and I read its absence as well. If there is no (insert interface commenting format that your IDE can parse), that's a code smell. Too often the preceding devs didn't explain themselves because they couldn't.
I do use an IP to geo database. It puts you in NYC if the IP is unrecognized.

I checked out search.ch. Looks like a great add to Weather Animations section. I’ll try reaching out to you via Twitter. In the meantime please share with anyone who finds it useful. I use it for hiking and snow conditions myself!
I've never put GPA in an application, and never even imagined doing so. I don't think I've seen GPAs in most professional applications.

It's different if you're applying to a university, or you're right out of college, I guess.
When I run a query at work in my browser, it uses that API to give me a push notification when it finishes. I like it a lot!

I also get push notifications when meetings are about to start.
Some time ago i discovered, that when I am unable to write code, I am still able to engage in less demanding but still very beneficial activity for my project:

Pair programming with less experienced members of the team. It was very important for me, because previously, when i had "bad day" i was ending with completely wasted day. Now, even when i am not able to do work myself i am still able to boost significantly someones output.

For solo projects, watching advanced tutorials, or conference talks about technology beneficial for current project gives me sense of progress during days when i am unable to code.
Every “personality quiz” I took for the military I “popped” on and had to talk to a psych doc.
After the third time, having no history of killing animals as a child or other aberrant behavior, I asked the doc, “why am I here?”

“Your answers were too normal, indicating you’re hiding something”

Can’t win with these guys hahahaha
What makes it so great?
Also, making webpages inaccessible usually takes work. Reasonable use of semantic HTML, styling, and alt tags for images are probably good enough. It's when you start doing ridiculous things with SPA frameworks (something no asked for or wants) that this gets hard.
The same problem arises in logistics, job queues in programming, and elsewhere. The study of stocks (aka buffers) and flows (aka processes) is the domain of system dynamics. Its a rather interesting field of study.
Charities are not the only entities that receive donations. Political candidates and other advocacy groups (like the ACLU) are mostly donation based non-charities. This year I've seen dozens of restaurants asking for donations to keep afloat. Google may have a more constrained definition for their TOS, but I don't think this use of "donate" is outside the common understanding of the word.
gomuks: A terminal based Matrix client written in Go
But The Hindu writes the same story, so surely this is not relevant here?
How to grow your early-stage consumer startup?
Firefox nightly on mobile allow you to install any extension from their site. Firefox stable however has a limited set of extension you can install verified by mozilla.
Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed to No Earlier Than April 14
A Sense of Déjà Vu: Peak Oil
The outrageous profit Valve make from skins and the like is only half the story imo, their internal structure is the rest. Some of the stories ex-devs share from that place are just... idk, they explain the company’s apparent ineptitude
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Ask HN: Cloudflare CDN alternatives with similar (free) bandwidth pricing?
Hi HN,

I've been doing a bit of research on CDNs for my app lately, and Cloudflare's CDN has stood out among the pack due to the fact that they only charge for features, not bandwidth.

And my research so far seems to suggest that they might be the only CDN that does this.

Is this actually the case? Or are there others out there that I've missed?

If this actually is the case, I'm curious why people think nobody else is adopting a similar pricing model to compete.

Cloudflare's market cap and the fact that it may have captured close to a 10% share of all internet traffic [1] is living proof that it's possible build an extremely lucrative & competitive business off of this pricing model at scale.

Any insights would be appreciated.
Thanks!

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2017/cloudflare-introduces-argo-a-virtual-backbone-for-a-faster-more-reliable-internet/
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On the other hand, imprisoning people, which is arguably dystopian, has a 100% success rate of preventing people from harming the general population, at least as long as they're in prison.
My experience is with Postgres, this might vary for other databases. As already said, using EXPLAIN ANALYZE is very useful to see what the planner is doing. This might be hard to read for more complex queries, but it is quite understandable for simple ones.

One of the more important parts is simply understanding which indexes can be used in a query. The other part is understanding when the database will intentionally not use an index, this is mostly related to column statistics. The basics of indexes are pretty simple, but then there is a whole bunch of subtle details that can mean the index can't actually be used for your query.

Another useful part to understand is how much IO a query requires, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) is helpful for that. But you also need to understand a bit the layout Postgres uses to store data, how it is stored in pages, TOAST and related stuff.

For Postgres I'd really start with reading the manual on index types and on the statistics collector. After that I'd just play with explain analyze for queries you're writing.

The order of JOINS is optimized automatically in Postgres, but only up to a pointf, for a large number of joins it has to fall back to heuristics.
I also had trouble memorizing arithmetic/multiplication tables. To this day I have no idea what 7*8 is (I can spend a few seconds figuring it out but I just never memorized it like most people). For some reason my university math courses disallowed calculators, and I vividly remember sitting in my Calculus III course counting those "number dots"[0] on every exam.

[0]: https://64.media.tumblr.com/uwQaNeR4EjfyqysnvQFexD3vo1_400.j...
How can they demand that you keep it confidential if they've already declared it to be out-of-scope? People need to start releasing these exploits instead of being a slave because they'd no longer get any payouts from HackerOne. Once the exploits are public, I assure you that either Valve will scramble to fix them or people will start looking for safer alternatives.
12+1 for me ;-)
lol yes
If I wasn’t drunk I would read it .
Why do you live your life like this?!?
Should we interpret a problematic hiring process as a red flag about the company in general? Any stories showing the opposite (i.e. poor hiring process at a great company to work for)?
>This wasn't an insurrection, and none of your gaslighting will make it so.

They literally discussed their plans for violent revolution openly on various social media platforms for months beforehand. Who is gaslighting whom, here?
Same here brah. I use finger tricks for much of my quick on-the-spot arithmetic. When I was young(14-24) I could do it in my head, as the years went on I started to rely on some rote memorization and the aforementioned finger shortcuts. These days (in my 50's) I unabashedly use the shortcuts and don't care what wtf anyone thinks...of course the gray in my beard stops most people from razz'in me.
> Firefox is significantly better

Most people use browsers for facebook, gmail, youtube, and things like banking, taxes, etc. It's common that, when facing any issue when using Firefox - with banking and government sites, you are going to be told to try using chrome. So, for the end user, chrome is the better browser, as more sites work properly on it.
Agreed. Google just wrote the check.
I'm only imagining this tool, I've done no research on it. In my imagination you may need to point the sound, you may need specialized speakers to get the right frequency and duration for the click, and you might not want the clicker to be in your pocket / might not want to be holding your phone out of your pocket for long periods of time.
This post seems like the author is early in their career and is realizing everything in the world is half broken and not perfect. What stood out to me is when he said “you could build what takes weeks in an enterprise in a weekend.” I don’t know about everyone else but I’ve become a much much better engineer since college and I still have to carefully handle every edge case for production and write a lot of tests before shipping something and I really don’t think code I write in a weekend will be production ready at a large company. Truth is by any metric, the massive systems in place by Amazon are pretty amazing examples of scalable software. At my day job at least managers have seemed to figure out that they set the high level goals/milestones and then let the engineers figure out how we want to get to those goals. This system has worked pretty well (of course the deadlines can get tight and we accumulate technical debt) but once we hit a milestone we deliberately decide to take some small amount of time to fix technical debt, as long as we kept track of it as we scrambled which also requires some discipline. The way things distill up to management is for my VP he doesn’t know what details you did on x day, he wants to know did you help implement y one of our org’s high-level goals. This system works to some degree and I haven’t thought of a better one yet.
Some of them do (especially, but not only, on the Mac) so I wonder if calling them out would cause them to change. They responded when with they were called out for letting their own Mac apps bypass connection filtering.

Also some of these questions are asked in the setup dialogue.

For this particular case (the user ID) they explicitly assert that they are also subject to it.

I suspect what happens is their own apps don’t go through the App Store process. The lack of that kind of dog fooding is, IMHO, the real problem.
When they said notifications are the platform of the future, this is what they meant.

It’s not desktops, it’s not mobile, it’s notifications.
I wholeheartedly agree that we the engineers must work on our non-tech talking skills!

I've been working on it for a few years now and it's REALLY difficult but even the small wins feel very rewarding and are motivating me to refine my comm skills further.
Yes, this.

I originally learned how to build accessible web sites and apps in 1996,when I interned at a startup. Most web standards make it easy to implement accessibility. It's generally only when building complex, custom stuff that it becomes harder, IMO. And (also IMO), that custom stuff tends to be fragile and break on other browsers or over time anyway, so I've avoided it ever since.
Site hugged to death? I only get a database error.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210409170904/https://fergus-mc...
"It can also exacerbate mental health problems, especially anxiety and depression. One major American study suggested that up to a quarter of young alcoholics have social anxiety disorder."

The first sentence might be true for all I know, but I can't see how the second one makes for supporting evidence.
We all as human beings seek the approval of our peers, so to some extent, few things are ever "pure art" by my definition - including the Sistine Chapel.

But art is the product of a vision, the result of some internal feeling. Sometimes their vision is likeable, and that's a happy coincidence. Other times it's not, but maybe the artist gives up a little bit of their vision in order to make it more likeable. At some point, they've sold so much of it that you can't really call the product art any more.
All seem like reasonable points. But the real test is the ability to survive the first couple of years and get paying customers.
A lot of the points here talk specifically about the harms associated with binge drinking or alcoholism. Certainly, those are hazardous in many different ways. But "Against Alcohol" implies harms from any drinking so great that teetotaling is justified, which is questionable.

There's little evidence that light or moderate drinking has major negative health effects. Anything under 10 drinks per week only has a very slight negative effect on all-cause mortality, and anything under 7 drinks per week has no effect: https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/9e0c4... (A standard drink is 14 grams, so the 7 and 10 per week marks are just before 100 and 150 on the x-axis).

Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I wish weed was socially acceptable like coffee. It makes me better, at least until tolerance hits. More focused and higher energy.

No one gives me crap about shaky caffeine hands.

Oh well I'm off everything now, the neutral state is okay, but I wonder if I lost potential.
If Apple can pull off its walled garden thing and there are many people defending it, then why should Amazon be any different? They jump on the bandwagon and will milk it until regulators ban the practice (hopefully).
It's all about money.
CC-BY-SA is only for assets: code is GPL3 and Apache 2, see https://github.com/agateau/pixelwheels/#license
I don’t think the ‘island’ part is the important bit, but the ‘small’ might be.
Hawaii and the the UK are examples of islands that haven’t done that well.
Ah, delightful. The progressive neo-puritanical fringe has come around to 1880 again; time to storm the bars with hatchets and howl for prohibition because that worked So Well last time!
If you can display something on :hover, you can also display it on :focus (and/or :focus-within). Pure CSS dropdown is more of an issue for touchscreen use; touchscreen-only users are not limited to smaller mobile devices.

Please don't make a megamenu using CSS alone; for any keyboard-only user, sighted or blind, that's too many links to Tab through.
> Maintaining alignment in these queries seems a pain.

I use tabs.

SELECT t.foo, t.bar
FROM a_table t
As long as you don't become an addict.

I think most people start with 4 drinks per week. 12 years later is a different story.
Well, it's a marketing page.
If the board had paid the same amount and gotten half the return from a service or consultant, they would be praised for it. But an employee! Good forbid!
Prohibition is back on the menu!

Any thoughts on how to avoid the folly of restriction on alcohol? There seems to be multi-pronged issues, one being that the chemical messes up our body and is largely incompatible, and even if we altered the chemical someway and left the fun effects, we still have the issue of people being taken advantage of while experiencing the effects. But the trade in alcohol is so great that any state sponsored curbs on consumption results in a worse illicit reality.
It seems like the model in this is assuming the conclusion of the post.
> And on Android, developers are free to list their apps on F-Droid, Amazon Appstore or just let people download & install it from their own website. Unlike iOS, the Play Store is not mandatory.

In practice, it is. Only the Play Store can update apps in the background.
It's not alcohol - it's alcoholism that is a problem. Maybe age should not be the only requirement for alcohol consumption.
Could be made socially unacceptable like smoking.
I've observed download starting slow and getting faster on all connection types: dialup, DSL, fibre, mobile wireless from 2g to 4g. It's just how TCP operates. Interesting that your experience on Comcast is different.
Not OP but I chose FireTV because of the inbuilt Alexa support.

Shouting "Alexa turn the TV off" from another part of the house when it's my daughter's bedtime is worth the entry fee! Also when my wife is in the car with her Echo Auto, she can say "announce that I'm coming home" and that message will play on the TV (and convert it to text as well). Ps. we didn't know the FireTV did this when we bought it. It's quite nice finding these features as you use other Alexa devices.

I've not experienced much in the way of lagging or unresponsiveness. Note that they just released a major update.
FWIW: If you embedded the original raw capture in the DNG file, you can use the Adobe DNG Converter application to extract that embedded raw capture.
> Some game companies (riot games) even install their anti-cheat software so that is loads in the ring 0 space.

Why are separate machines required, rather than dual-booting? (i.e. Windows for games, Linux for everything else)
For whatever it's worth, you can launch Emacs from the command line.

cd /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS

./Emacs-arm64-11_2
"No reports for harassers"

For how long, with what potential corrective action on the part of the 'harasser'? What if this is a manager?

"Mandatory team change for the harasser."

To what team? Does the new team get a say or even get to know why someone new is joining?

These requests just seem unworkable so here's my alternative.

"Any employee found to have engaged in harassment of another is to be terminated without severance"
We are 100% in agreement. But I don't think the Android team agrees with us unfortunately.
Android apps and iPhone apps are different markets.
I am admittedly not an expert on blockchain. So without mining, what makes this different from just having a voting mechanism where you need a majority?