skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, accessibility is probably the last remaining hope of power users[0].

With general-audience software, the market doesn't care much about the minority that are the serious users, and it's hard to make a convincing argument to business people here. However, accessibility does have a strong enough ethical argument behind it, which is also increasingly being backed by regulations.

Allowing accessibility tools to work with an application involves annotating UI with machine-readable metadata about information displayed and operations available. That makes the interface comprehensible to any external software - including software that could use this information to provide an alternative, more ergonomic frontend, undoing various user-hostile decisions of the original design.

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[0] - By which I don't mean just computer nerds, but also everyone who uses some bit of software on a regular basis - particularly in context of work.
Agreed. Want to make serious strides on illegal immigration to the US? Remove the funding of the cartels.
Resurrecting Scratched CDs and DVDs [video]
pressure waves in the air are objective. Your conscious experience (“percept”) of them are subjective and contingent on your current mental state, health, attention, etc. Psychoacoustics is a real wild trip.

my point was that in order for you to hear a bass guitar sounding noise, no external stimulus is required.
The bacteria was a fungi, and yes trees piled up for a long time. We use them today - as coal deposits.
> It can't simply be short sighted hubris

What about warp drive tech, are we reasonably confident that that won't be possible in 50 million years?

Also, what about travel through wormholes. If an advanced civilization sent probes out 2 billion years ago that travelled at 0.5*c and created wormholes, couldn't they feasibly now travel FTL in a 1 billion light year radius?

> Also, there's the matter of the Fermi Paradox.

Right, but we're talking about whether some UFOs are actually alien visitations. For the people that think that, they believe the Fermi Paradox isn't really a paradox because aliens are already here.
Housing cost is directly link to wages, when wages increase then the rent goes up, sometimes more than wages. This is because housing is in very limited supply (some artificial due to zoning and regulations) and extra income will be sucked out as rent.
Pretty easily solved imo by ending the warranty on the rated TB written (they all have ratings for this and they vary wildly - faster drives can have 1/10th the endurance of others) - in addition to the time limit.

I do have a problem with someone selling me a product and then telling me what I can and can't do with it.
Lots of negativity, as is expected on HN. For what it’s worth, I like Elementary OS and hope version 6 is a success. I’m going to kick the tires today.
More detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK

I believe it wasn't exactly styrofoam, but was rigid and low density. This suggests probably an aerogel: https://www.lanl.gov/science/weapons_journal/wj_pubs/17nwj2_...
The HN thread did not seem "rude, mean spirited [or] dismissive" to me.

People are obviously skeptical about the product and price point, but the majority also seemed curious.
Wow, impressive response. Thank you for taking the time. I like your examples of humans vs. water in a box, definitely stealing that. I'd never considered a volume of vacuum being entropically maxmial. I'll have to think more about the false vacuum being attractive. This would be thought to happen in real life due to the vacuum energy leading to the Casimir effect et al, right?

p.s. Maybe you should ask and answer this on StackExchange so that more people can see it.
to go all sophomoric on you; that sure depends on what you think “real” means!

(you might like listening to the mcgurk effect, or shepard tones)
It's faster then installing fedora, search for VirtualBox and have to manually sign the virtualbox modules (secureboot).

Thanks Redhat for not including it.
Because while i don't have numbers, i'd bet a weeks pay that the vast majority of youtube views (especially after exluding viral content) come through the youtube recommendation system and not external hyperlinks.
It's #7 on DistroWatch and rising, right behind Debian and Ubuntu. I don't know how well that translates to real market share, though.

https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=popularity
Yeah, seem to have middling abilities there.

I’m fairly normal in most other ways, mentally, with really high (tested) spatial reasoning, and a good-but-nothing-special (on HN, anyway) tested IQ.

Just badly deficient autobiographical memory.

I didn’t even realize there was anything wrong until my mid 20s. Turns out this is a relatively-recently-discovered disorder of some kind, and on reading accounts by people who have it, I was like “…oh.” Not super well studied, I think in part because it tends (incredibly!) not to actually impair living an OK life. You just don’t really remember it like a normal person does.
But I was describing subversion and takeover, not 'damage'.

And even in the case where the subversion is poorly executed and thus perceived as damage (or perceived at all*), China, due to its size, can withstand more damage than Taiwan. And this damage is merely a short-term cost China may be willing to pay, for the long-term benefit of controlling Taiwan.

*For an example, look at the Chinese trade war before Trump retaliated with tariffs [1]. Forced technology transfer, joint ventures as condition of market access, and unofficial policies and roadblocks, all to protect Chinese companies, while helping them take foreign markets. But because Xi Jinping publicly urged for "trade and cooperation" instead of openly stating his intentions, while continuing these policies, it was not perceived as trade war.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/business/china-technology...
There's a certain danger in framing life continuation in terms of value to society though. I don't say this flippantly because I've wrestled with these things in a very real sense, and appreciate the argument you're trying to make. I'm not trying to trivialize it.

However, it's ethically a slippery slope in the strongest sense:

There's the argument that older people don't have an obligation to live as long as possible because it puts a burden on younger individuals when the older individuals aren't contributing "'much' to society anymore."

But how do you define "much"? Who gets to define that?

Logically, too, that argument can't just apply to the elderly anymore, so now you have to apply it to the population at large. Where do we draw the line at that? People in prison? The severely disabled? The socioeconomically less fortunate? How do you make the distinction between the self-destructive thoughts of the depressed versus others? Is the depressed person always wrong?

I tend to think that the decision to end one's life is the ultimate manifestation of autonomy, and as such should be protected and respected.

But by the same token, sometimes I think these discussions are slightly misguided, in that we should be focused on improving life circumstances rather than on the means by which someone dies. To extend your example a bit, I'd argue that if age burden is a tremendous issue for society, why not invest, in a "moonshot" kind of way, in eliminating old age as a disease state, along with the stereotypes that go with it? Why is there so much focus on preventing suicide rather than improving people's well-being?

Death is inevitable, but sometimes I think we spend too much time focused on whether people should be able to choose to end their lives, and not enough on how to prevent them from being in that state where the decision is even an issue.

Finally, I see a lot of these types of posts on HN, about suicide and euthanasia; I appreciate them but wonder if, and if, so, why, they appear here more than in other places.
IMO the biggest issue with all this is the lack of a suitable appeals process, handled by humans.

Would such a process be expensive? Yes, but you can't have it both ways, enabling copyright holders to lodge spurious claims at will, and not allow content creators - who the entire platform is built on! - to disclaim them.

Would such a process be expensive? Yes, of course - but YouTube can very well afford it.
IMO second chance pool is a good name. (+ I think it’s great that you’ve made this hidden feature public.)
RCA of Auth0 Outage [pdf]
Definitely not. Modern morality must not place individuals in debt simply because they exist. Becoming alive isn't a choice. Participation in society in any way is not an obligation.
same here. I would love a tape drive at home. My dji osmo action cam is producing films at 100Mbps. A 1Tb drive can only hold 23h. That's 11.5h if you store the data twice for redundancy.
Thank you for the sponsorship!
I mentioned the tradeoff involved in a later comment.

The difference between a technical person and a non-technical person is that the former has decided to learn what is needed to do what he or she wants to do. It’s not a secret club. All the information is on the internet.

I never went to Apache engineering school, I have been running my own sites and others for many years, and no one has taken anything over for porn. There is a lot to learn, but it’s not like going to medical school. Anyone can do it who is motivated.
Got Mud? For Coastal Cities, Humble Dirt Has Become a Hot Commodity
Cool!

Is there a similarly simple core to compare with in Bluespec and Clash?
I went digging.
APRA = Australasian Performing Right Association Limited
ECAD = Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição
SOCAN = Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
VCPMC = Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright

CS stands for collections society. In another age CS would stand for the Mafia.

All but ECAD were found from here: https://www.cisac.org/
The same is true of every sense. How do you think hallucinations work? I’ve experienced phantom sounds and sensations. Visual almost never though.
How can we preserve article like this forever?
If P&G is really not making a penny off this, I'm fine with a little CDC plug.
That is how we did create such topologies. But if we had not, could they have been discovered through neural architecture search [1]? NAS has been used to find architectures that outperform those that were hand designed. And in RL , Google used a method inspired by NAS [2] to learn methods built by hand (i.e. TD learning, DQN). I know it's not the same but if you use a bit of speculative imagination you can translate what has been done to signal processing applications.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_architecture_search

[2] https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/04/evolving-reinforcement-lea...
> We might do better to ask whether we have good reasons to prolong our lives or whether we act virtuously if we seek to prolong our lives.

I think it all comes down to quality of life. If a person is still able to enjoy living, great. If they’re miserable and suffering from physical deterioration, I consider it immoral to suggest life-extending treatments unless there’s a good chance that life enjoyment is also restored.

I support the right-to-die movement. If I’m only able to survive on a machine in a bed, give me time to say goodbye and then let me drift away and die. Definitely don’t pressure me and suggest that I have an obligation to the living to stick around.
On the plus side immigration has been absolutely stellar for the Australian economy.
She built a toy empire while hiding a lifetime of existential depression
> how about at least a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment; nutritious, nourishing food; Walmart clothing at a minimum.

It's interesting to see how standards have shifted over time. Not too long ago, it was considered sufficient if people could afford their own room in a boarding house. Those frequently had shared bathroom and dining facilities, and provided nutritious and nourishing meals. That was considered a worthy, dignified life by a great many.

Boarding houses went away in no small part because they were zoned out of existence. Often on the grounds that they were an immoral existence and it was the duty of the best of us (read: richest) to mandate a correct social order for the lower classes.

I find this interesting because it implies that we're going to continue to have this problem - a lack of dignity - no matter what we do. You can already see the ratchet turning. There are people who earnestly believe that food isn't nutritious and nourishing unless it's Organic (by some definition) and thus that universal access to Organic food is a moral requirement.
The solution to this problem was to not ship millions of manufacturing jobs overseas (destroying middle class employment for people who prefer to work with their hands) and to prevent illegal immigration (flooding the economy with an endless supply of unskilled labour).

But Pandora's box was opened, and destabilization seems to be the only possible outcome at this point. It won't be as rosy as this article makes it out to be.
I know that and there is an easy fix: Don‘t work after 6pm.
> I think it is, because the core problem is not the wrongful takedown of a single repository itself, it's the outlook that the only way to get these "mistakes" reversed is the hope that it will reach the news, Youtube/Google shows us what the latestage of this nightmare looks like.

YouTube/Google is bad because they use their own system instead of or in addition to the system required to get the DMCA safe harbor.

For sites that simply follow DMCA, such as GitHub, there is no need for the issue to reach the news. There is no need to be popular or have any reach. The most obscure poster with no audience can easily get their content restored. Here is what happens at such sites:

1. Someone claiming to represent the copyright owner files a take down request.

2. The site temporarily takes the content down, and notifies whoever posted the content.

3. The poster files a counter-notice saying that they have the legal right to post the content.

4. The site put the content back up, and notifies the party that filed the take down notice, telling them who filed the counter-notice.

The site is then out of the loop. The content is back up, and the party claiming copyright violation cannot sue the site over this. The site is now in the DMCA safe harbor. If the party claiming violation wants to take it farther, they need to go to court and sue the party that posted the content.

The counter-notice is trivial to fill out and file. Here's the one for this case [1] if you want to see how simple the form is.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/04/2021-04-2...
I don't really have anything like that. People diagnosed with bipolar disorder in Norway are given the opportunity to attend a six months intensive and in-depth group therapy where the primary focus is to learn about the disorder by psychiatrists that specialize in bipolar disorder. I've always taken what they said at face value. At least a couple in the group was first admitted after having had a seizure during a manic episode.

I think you're right in that we don't think they are directly associated. I was more trying to explain that people might experience something that looks like a seizure without having epilepsy. And that medication (previously, mostly) used to treat epilepsy seemingly have great effect on people that suffer from bipolar disorder, which would lead us to believe that there are some neurological similarities.

And you're right, the most common way to end up in the hospital is from having a manic episode with all that it usually entails. I shouldn't have written it was often the reason, just one of many reasons people might end up in the hospital from mood disorders.
The human brain builds structures in up to 11 dimensions
> I assume that a USB-C or Lightning-type design just wasn't possible at the time without undesirable tradeoffs

Interestingly, reversible USB-A cables are readily available (at least here in Japan). They just have a too-thin "lip" in the middle which is prone to breaking. https://www.sanwa.co.jp/product/syohin.asp?code=KU-RMCB2W

I think it's just that nobody thought of it when the plug was designed, because this wasn't a problem that serial cables etc before USB-A had (and even USB-B is keyed!)
Depends on the person. To a technical friend, I'd just say, "this data is being used to effectively run a PID controller over your behavior".

To a less technical friend, I'd probably start with pointing out that modern advertising is trying to make Inception work in real life, and ask them to look at their recent non-essential purchases, and consider how did they come to desire the things they bought in the first place.
We hear this same diatribe every time this topic comes up.

"Fast food work is a stepping stone to a better job!"

Have you been to a McDonalds or Wendys recently? Most of the workers are in their 30s-40s+. The concept of a low-wage "stepping stone" job is a fallacy that people have subscribed to to justify paying unlivable wages.
I think the problem is that the whole system they have is to appease copyright holders so that they don’t get sued for individual videos. They’ve productized it and made it all look very official, but the underlying fact that this is about appeasement puts them on a bad footing for banning trolls. If they ban someone, they’re basically saying “sue us instead”, which is exactly what they don’t want.
Forever is a stretch, but, being the web, you can always save the page and store it somewhere locally. It'll probably be archived by the wayback machine soon anyway.
Because people upvote without ever clicking on the link.
Iceweasel is a good example, Debian used repackage Firefox wihtout the trademarked stuff.
Remember that our ancestors living in caves during the bronze age were our mental equals. It took people untold millenia to create fire rather than just maintain it. It took a thousand years to go from bronze to steel. It took less than half a century to go from the beginning of quantum theory to a working nuclear reactor. People are still stupid, but our technological growth continues to be truly exponential.

We already rightfully put research money into all kinds of interesting areas simply because they are interesting. You can thank exactly this kind of work for making development of the covid vaccine possible. In fact i would assert that essentially all major tech developments in the last century benefeitted from or required input from basic research.

It's worth investigating these things because we don't understand them, full stop.
Question. As i read can one use intel AC wireless with OpenBSD now?

Having a x250 and try'd FreeBSD13 some days ago, wireless speed was horrible (2.5 MB/s). It's a bit disappointing that FreeBSD just cant bring that to work...at least n would be acceptable.
Something odd is happening here. Perhaps I can offer a piece of insight.

APRA is the Australian music copyright organisation (https://www.apraamcos.com.au/)

ECAD is the Brazillian version.

VCPMC is the Vietnamese equivalent.

Not sure about the others, but basically these are the people with whom a composer registers their work.
These organisations work together by forwarding royalties collected within each territory to their rightful owners.

I am a member of APRA and very much doubt that someone got away with registering a Beethoven work as their own.

Very curious indeed. I have no explanation.

[Edit]
You are only meant to register your work in one territory, so it is odd that this 'work' would be registered in four of them.
Well this Twitter thread is very insightful. If you're a Twitter user and like random people's dumb opinions. (But then again, look where we are)
That’s a rather eugenic standpoint. I think the argument is actual children are part of those family’s, it’s up to society how to deal with it. Currently we subsidize business and families, but perhaps we could remove the business subsidy.
YouTube's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU
How much would you bet that the same wouldn't happen to e.g. Warner Bros.. YT is quite definitely taking a stance, the problem is they're not taking a stance on truthfulness, but simply on how much money does it make us.
+1 for the minimal, HN-friendly design ;)

Actually have some light PVC plumbing work on the agenda this afternoon. And the research, as per most projects, involves an amalgam of downloaded product manuals, improvisation and youtube tutorials. And yes, a myriad of specialty products, fittings, tools and treatments.

I see tremendous need for a resource like this. "How To Make Anything". Using what you have at hand. Readable on a phone with cellular internet. Great work and will surely inspire some wonderful projects!
Google - you are becoming the most dump entity in the internet. Laughable level of work you are providing in recent years. Maybe consider laundry business if you can't grasp technology for people.
Best place to learn more about science and technology
I go to work to get things done.

Gender is completely meaningless when it comes to do real work. This should be similar to filling a form with preferred title "Mr", "Ms", "Mrs", "Dr", whatever. It doesn't make a difference in the final output of my work.

It's the same as religion, for example. Someone wearing a Hijab or a Kippah, or a Dastar shouldn't and doesn't affect anyones capacity to work. And it doesn't. I don't need access to the hair of my co-workers.

Even if you dislike someone's life choices, you're not being asked of anything other than to behave as neutrally and as professional as possible. You don't need to love them or spread their gospel. You're just being asked for a bare minimum of respect.

Just because some people want to turn this into a political crusade doesn't mean that the trans people or religious people are. They are just living their own lives and those things we're discussing so far are completely harmless.
I would use it at work because I know it. There are a LOT of libraries in Scala for HTTP up to database stuff, and it really depends on what kind of ecosystem you're walking into:

* Scala as Python: https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/cask, maybe https://github.com/getquill/quill

* Scala as Haskell: HTTP4s, https://tpolecat.github.io/doobie/

* Scala as Rails: Play

Play is the closest thing to Rails-like CRUD productivity IMO, and honestly for CRUD most times I would like to write as little code as possible and just get it done, even using low/no-code solutions (postgrest, hasura, htmx), but that wasn't the question :)
One issue with "self-care" is that it reinforces the idea that those problems are just individual problems.

And to some extent, they are. But to let an employee go and send them on a quest to fix their personal issue is such a very easy distraction from more systematic causes. No need to fix work culture if it was just that one person. No need to question social norms that might nudge people into working an unhealthy number of hours. I guess this is a good day to think about this.
>Maybe abolish capitalism?

Can you concretely define how to do this and what the alternatives are?
Yes, it's called a patched kernel.
Yes, electronic products are highly optimized.

But I'm not sure I agree that using more generic components should make the technology so expensive.Especially if there was a demand for that.

So using a versatile mcu, with lots of ram/flash, dual-core(big/little) for low power, and a rich set of peripherials, together with some affordable fpga, and some greenPak programmable gellybean logic, and some voltage conversion parts could be good building blocks for digital electronics.

As for Analog, programmability exists too, in the form of via-programmable analog chips(laser programmable at the factory, I think for volumes of few thousands). That still doesn't cover high-performance parts but that would fit many projects.

As for power electronics, I don't know much about that, but I do wonder.