skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Even ebooks that are formatted correctly for TTS can have other issues. Math and science are the worst. Textbooks may be formatted for 100 percent accurate text-to-speech, only to falter when it comes to formulas, equations, charts, and tables. Those are typically rendered as images in an ebook, which would require publishers to take an additional step to record "alt text" for each individual figure—audio that would describe the image once encountered by a screen reader.

My now wife and I spent hundreds of hours during undergrad converting text and graphs to plaintext for a grad student. Truly nasty formulas, with multiple integrals, fractions with many factors above and below the line, exponents all over.

While the legality was questionable at the time, I broke the DRM on the PDF of the book, copied everything to Sublime, removed line breaks, formatted footnotes with [1] formatting, labeled graphs.

Then I fired up GIMP and translated the images. When embossed on paper, braille is much larger than normal text, so I had to greatly simplify things.

The frustrating part was, on math books, there's a good chance it was LaTeX to begin with. The format we converted formulas to was almost identical to LaTeX.

Additionally, surely for undergrad level classes, multiple colleges were each paying undergrad students $1,000+ per course to make the materials accessible. A website where School 1 could see that School 2 had already converted Calculus 1 to braille and allowing payment to reimburse a proportional amount of the cost would be incredible helpful and maybe legal. In essence, $1,000 would be paid by School 1 to do the initial work, School 2 reimburses $500, then School 3 pays $333, split to the other two schools so ultimately, they're all in it for $333 rather than $1,000.

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I also worked with another student to build a molecule generator for 3d printers. Extensive use of the Blender Python API. Each bond type was a different shape connector, and the periodic table was divided by row and column to form a unique combination of scale and shape.

MacMolPlt [1] generated plaintext files that contained the position of each atom, bond connection types, and a list of coordinates for the electron clouds which could also be generated on top of the molecular structure, all exported to .STL for 3d printing.

It was a neat project, definitely opened my eyes to disabilities, and I became a more empathetic person because of it. Through some weird stuff with funding, it's sort of in copyright gray area. The disability office was paying to make things accessible for the student, not necessarily to build a tool that would be released to the greater world. It wouldn't be hard to replicate though. Back in 2011, I knew every 3d printer on campus and was kinda begging to print stuff while we tried things out. Now printing is trivially cheap and capacity is abundant - it would be 10x as easy and helpful.

[1] https://www.swmath.org/software/7039
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You probably won't be successful. As the landscape currently is, and has been for quite a while, you have to really enjoy doing it to the point where you self educate quite a bit. If you aren't willing to do that you will fall behind your peers.

It's similar to playing the guitar. The people who are good at it don't just take a guitar class and call it a day, they spend hours working to improve their playing, learn a bunch of songs, learn to play them perfectly from beginning to end, and learn to write their own songs. That's what it takes to be a successful guitar player. Coding is similar.
He sounds like a total moron because the next paragraph talks about how that secrecy lead to this chip being used for cable sets instead of computers until the Raspberry Pi. But pushing back the state of the art must be worth it for the stock price!
I've had a recruiter try to get me to interview from a job I'd just given notice on (before my notice period was even up!) However, I didn't actually _take the interview_; that's what makes this case funny.
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I was expecting it to be hard to recognize, but I guess all those countless hours listening to Kid A on repeat back in the day have finally paid off. The moment is unmistakable.
I recently saw this Two Minute Papers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5MFQnZM3k (real-time soft bodies) and noticed that they have browser demo. That led me to discover that Matthias Müller (an author on the paper) has this neat series of videos and browser demos of physics. Was surprised to see his youtube channel only has a couple hundred subscribers (though I see now that it's only a couple of months old).
> Don't matter to you maybe

The point is swap out the people in those geographies, rerun the timeline, and you’ll find them in conflict. The reasons they each come up with in this iteration is dressing.
Its pretty otherworldly, I was an active member of a top 25 sub. Although the sub is decidedly non-political, the mod recently decided to post a politic-specific sticky as first post.

I commented in that thread "this sub is probably not the place for these overtly political posts"...the mod responded to me by banning me for "advocating politics / agenda pushing"...its literally orwellian newspeak site.
I guess "ex-wife of Google founder" is slightly worse subtitle than "sociopathic daughter of Enron vice president"?

Nah, she just didn't actively put the 10000 hours to pursue publicity. Journalists are lazy
What is "free speech" and how did it manifest?
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This is some serious Jim Halpert stuff right here. Tip of the hat to you, guy.
Short answer: don't. Because if they aren't forced to figure it out for themselves they'll just keep coming to you every time they have a problem.
The article links to literature about it being a nocebo effect. Do you have literature pointing in another direction?
Here's a list of number one posts about Aaron in the past for those interested:

https://hn-saga.com/?q=aaron
DBM and similar databases are simple on-disk key-value stores. The use case is a lot like a SQLite, where you just need to put some data on disk and retrieve it efficiently later.

Can CouchDB be used in that fashion? Seems a lot more complicated, more like MongoDB than anything.
The first problem, as Troy pointed out, is that this sort of behavior poisons attempts to create a straightforward and useful bug-reporting mechanism, as anything that is straightforward gets buried in bogus beg reports.

The second potential problem (I do not know if it applies to this particular person) is that the beggar may be on the lookout for an uninformed and manipulatable person who can be comprehensively scammed.

If you don't think this should be on HN you can choose not to vote for it or avoid future links to troyhunt.com.
Why make this bash specific by using command -v? How is that better than "which" which works on any shell I can think of?

Running FreeBSD, one of my pet peeves is folks who assume /bin/bash is going to exist everywhere.
>Look at abortion for example, do right wing evangelicals value this issue less than their support for a 10-thousand+-kilometer-away country? did they manage to make it controversial and costly to not adopt their position on it?

Being anti-abortion is a political litmus test in many parts of the US.
>After that you install the games in steam, launch them from steam, buy them from steam etc.

You mean you buy them from Steam, you launch a third-party launcher from Steam and launch your game through that launcher. I know that at least EA and Rockstar force you to use their launcher even if you buy on Steam and Microsoft also requires you to have Xbox stuff (at least for Forza Horizon).
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I was thinking more if you had access to some leaked nso exploits somehow, not paying them. And i do think israel is vulnerable to bad PR, especially right now when there has been a lot of it recently - at least that seems to be its weakest point right now. Its not like anyone is going to win a straight up military conflict with them.

> Any US journalist critical of Israel for example.

But if you do that, NSA becomes involved, much easier to get discovered. It also fits with the narrative a bit better to make the target a Palestinian human rights activist.

On the whole though, i do think its more likely that Israel is behind this, i'm just exploring this from the perspective of who could potentially benefit.
Not sadly. Purposefully.

This is a huge attack vector. Enabling arbitrary execution at compile time creates two problems which the Go authors have done well to avoid:

- all Go code builds without external tool dependencies (with a single exception).

- no execution of untrusted software in the build environment.

It would be comically easy to inject malware into a popular Go package otherwise.
That's a different conversation. And yes, I agree with you.
Bitcoin is practically a consumer technology with youtube channels, tens of mobile apps and even bitcoin exchange machines in tech hubs. This is just a lazy excuse in 2021.
> An iPad costs non significant amounts of money

Less than a PC
software engineering is not a get rich quick scheme

students don’t have time to learn… what else are you doing then besides sitting down and studying and working on class coding projects?

a CS program teaches you the fundamentals of CS and software engineering. it is not intended to teach you the latest fad toolkit or language.

you wanted to hack some websites together. i did that at age 15 before going to college. so yeah, no CS degree needed.

do you want to build the next search engine or graphics engine? that CS stuff might come in handy.
I'm curious how regional that is. Back when I was just doing software 2-3 years seemed normal, now in a more industrial setting it's more like 5-7 years. It's interesting though how it seems to jump from 'normal tenure' to 'lifers' wherever I go, there's always a few who've been around 20+ years.
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Look for Pinephone. It has about as powerful hardware wise as Purism (4x Cortex A53 cores for both) but is $150.

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-linux-smar...
You can make it even more generic than that. A rather simple at first glance, but discussion provoking question: "What do you like and what do you dislike about the Technology X?". A good candidate who has experience with the said Technology X would not shut up on this subject. A bad one however will struggle. This is of course provided that you are hiring for some specific stack.
I have noticed that it is not unusual to do so on personal websites.
The health arguments simply don't fly here in Europe though. There was a practitioner of circumcision in the Netherlands who went to court this year to argue that their income was tax deductible because it served a therapeutic purpose. The judge did not agree and wiped away the argument that it prevented future complications as well. It's still legal, but it's not health care (except presumably in rare special cases like phimosis where it may be warranted if other solutions are not effective).

It's only by making this a matter of religious autonomy that MGM isn't banned outright yet, because politicians are always really careful around matters that might anger religious groups. Especially right-leaning politicians or those who belong to a Christianity-based political party.
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Omg. Hetzner is similar to OVH and DigitalOcean.

It seems that i misread somewhere? Weird

I think the sentence: how can DO and Vultr even compete was my interpretation of the better offering of Hetzner ( including uptime). Sorry
> When you use language like "we the people", users assume they'll be part of it.

Pedantically, yes "we the people" are part of it - we gave the company our DNA sample. Not sure what you're trying to say?
Epsilon stands for a "arbitrarily tiny bit" in calculus.
Many people have no idea what they're talking about when speaking outside of their areas of expertise. So, yes, it's very possible that those people have something very different from mass bombing in mind.
Clickbait dressed up as "protecting people's narcissism" is still clickbait.
There are biases on all sides, and it’s often hard to extricate oneself from them to see the facts as they are.

You could flip the question and ask why is so much of the world anti-Israel, no matter what?

The data on this is that in 2020 the UN adopted 17 resolutions condemning Israel and 6 for the rest of the world.

Now it’s possible that Israel is so much worse than the rest of the world, and the US is biased. Or perhaps there’s a lot of anti-Israel bias globally and the USA is actually closer to neutral.
The thing this proves to me is that getting hired in Tech is more of a game of lottery than anything else.
but since when governments need to provide evidence and to whom? the world government? Can I go to random governments around the world and ask them to show evidence about their security issues to my organization?
Reading this again, it was more confrontational than I wanted it to be and lacked details about why I think super structured interviews are a bad idea.

Some of the best candidates I’ve been involved with hiring have been compelling for reasons you’d never get to in a very structured way.

For instance, a candidate who was just out of university. They were very shy about technical topics, and their tech depth wasn’t great. They went to a university in Africa that I knew taught people more stuff that was wrong than right, and they were starting at a disadvantage. To get him out of his shell I asked about things he’d done outside of academics. He told me that he had not done much because he was very busy. Busy with what?

Oh, just starting a real estate investing side business with his family where he’d been responsible for their international expansion into the UK. With no finance background, he’d spent his time understanding the financial, legal and tax implications of their expansion and successfully launched in his third year of university.

And I’d done a bit of finance so we talked about concepts there and he was able to walk me through complex topics in simple terms.

My job for that interview was judging bias for action, curiosity, and diving deep into metrics. He couldn’t show that for tech because he went to a horrible university and had been very busy with other extra circulars.

He apologized to me for spending so much time talking about non tech subjects. And here is the problem: people who are bad at interviewing are punished by rigid processes. There’s a lot of data to show that women and immigrants from certain backgrounds are more reserved on average. You have to be a much better interviewer to pull off a structured interview that lets these candidates shine.
Doesn’t make it less of a disorder.
As mentioned in my original comment, if someone isn’t comfortable showing me the source code I simply ask for them to describe how it works, challenges in building it, how they built it, etc.
Ask HN: What does Y Combinator to prevent fraudulent use of the YC brand?
If a founder of a YC-backed company leaves and starts a new company, are YC comfortable with that founder implying their new company is a YC company when in fact they themselves were part a YC firm and not their current firm. I am asking this because a friend got really messed around by a firm that claimed to be YC backed. The use of YC branding gave him the reassurance to choose this firm over another firm. Unfortunately this firm did not deliver against its contract and my friend was put in a difficult and expensive spot. Since this is a firm that is a) trading on YC name and b) damaging the YC brand I would have thought YC lawyers would be cracking down on this type of activity. What is YC position on this?
Pex doesn't embed the executable.

Besides, it doesn't work on Windows, if you want a zipapp, shiv is a better alternative: http://shiv.readthedocs.io
The Chinese are going to be putting sensors on these missiles. Aircraft carriers are huge targets that can be detected perhaps even before re-entry by the missile itself. Timely and precise targeting data is unlikely to be necessary.
What's the better alternative? Halt science as if it's the middle ages?
Especially when you could just operate a chain of labs that run blood tests, and covertly sequence them on the side. Easier to scale, not reliant on something temporary like a pandemic, and probably has a more representative sample of the population than PCR tests.
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They're probably in the news because quarterly results are released in two days. Their core product is facing a retracting market (partially) because of privacy concerns.

Number of genotyped customers:

FY18A: 2.4M
FY19A: 3.4M
FY20A: 2.0M
FY21A: 1.5M
FY22Q1: 0.3M

Numbers from https://investors.23andme.com/static-files/8db681b8-4ea3-452... (page 11)
But it's a crucial subset. It's not that WGS is that expensive, but what can you do with it that cant be done with 23andme?
I've asked a virus biologist, and he said there's actually not that much interesting in full genome for them. That "small subset" is all he needs.
No it's not because that won't allow the .001% to rule over our daily lives. We plebs need to be ruled over. We need fear based propaganda to help us shut off our own economies so the rich can buy us out for pennies on the dollar. What are you a nutty right winger? Just submit to our will and we may let you eat.
and the mainstream political world is much safer, steadier
Aren't most teams already fairly multi-disciplinary comprised of product managers, UI/UX, and other skill sets?
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Isn’t quality of life correlated with wealth? Isn’t most people’s wealth tied to their property value?
Every app isn't re-implementing auto-rotate by reading gyro, the OS handles that
I watched Cheers religiously when it was on and there was an episode where Coach was helping Sam study for a geography test. His trick was to remember facts with songs and because of that episode, I know Albania borders on the Adriatic, is mountainous, and chief export is chrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_tT-q8EF0
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There's normally a list of things I could have messed up, e.g. poor English, no visa, wrong time zone, sloppy code, too slow on a certain test, many other great applications, poor understanding of a framework, etc.

You can trace back a one sentence comment to the actual root cause. It's like debugging. And from that, you spot the pattern and optimize.
Cool, now can I get 100k for all the noise and health problems caused by the roads and fossil fuel power plants that are built around me? If this case could serve as a precedent for the existing and future health impacts of the harmful infrastructure we're forced to live with it could be a useful tool for tackling climate change but somehow that seems unlikely...
>outside of a stall in the toilet

Until they'll make toilets open space.
I realise you’re being flippant, but if you turn parks into windfarms then suddenly many, many people have no access to any green space.

Transmission isn’t that expensive in the scheme of things. Else offshore wind, of which I am a fan, would not be viable.
I didn't know anything about this, that's really cool.
> The only downside is that external light can actually affect the chip operation (light hitting the die releases electrons at PN junctions creating errors in circuit operation ) .. .however here the Faraday metal shield helps prevent this.

Brings me back to when it was discovered that high intensity flashes could make a Raspberry Pi 2 reboot...[1]

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/xenon-death-flash-a-free-ph...
That's incorrect. There is a visual range. You can either image in the UV spectrum, or simply choose your optics so you can image the carrier from before re-entry.

Once you've got a position there's nothing the carrier can do in those 30 seconds before impact so you won't hit it, so there is not even a necessity for terminal course correction.
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Some years ago, I wrote the code specification for our ebook conversions. I made a priority of specifying good semantic structure, employ ARIA tags where needed, etc. I work for a university and there was yet no mandate for it, but it seemed only a matter of time. In the long run being a little ahead of the curve aid paid off, but now I need to go through and revise things to account for changing standards, and my own improved (I hope) understanding of what's needed.

I'm also reminded of an incident years ago when I was working in a New York, and an agent (for a popular, well-paid writer) called our contract department from my desk phone to insist they remove the clause allowing the LOC to make audiobooks for the blind. As agent crimes go, it might not be the worst, but it always struck me for how egregiously petty it was.
It's not impossible for this to actually be legit. At one employer, engineering fired someone for poor performance, and a year or so later the CEO, having forgotten about this, got them back in as a consultant on his pet project. This was very awkward for everyone.
Yup

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.

In that order

Get the airframe under controlled flight, then avoid obstacles and fly towards safe landing, then tell control & other aviators about the situation so they can help (or at least not worsen it).

In that order, to save your life.
The fact that Anne Wojcicki is the younger sister of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki makes Anne's lack of fame even more surprising.

Close family member of Rich And Successful CEO founds successful company is not an interesting story. In fact it is how most people assume it works, if you come from a rich family of course your company is a success. 'Poor' kid pulls themselves up by their own bootstraps and builds company with nothing but grit and brilliance, now that is a story you can sell. Especially if it's a company doing something the 'experts' said couldn't be done.