skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, it would read it as "ay-one-one-why". And if you're trying to dictate it, you'd have to say "ay-one-one-why".

I don't want to distract from the main point, which is that you should make your websites accessible and that doing so mostly involves not letting some UI designer use a cool trick that lets them do some cute effect that has the side effect of breaking the experience when using accessibility tools. Because they're usually written by people without a need for accessibility tools they don't even notice what they're doing. This is extremely important educational work.

And 'a11y' is less horizontal width, so someone who needs to zoom in really far to read text would probably appreciate it, or someone who can still type but doesn't do dictation has to hit fewer keys. But what other situation does it help with? It's jargon,

You have to just kind of know that there are 11 characters between the 'a' and the 'y' in accessibility? If the goal is to educate people who don't need accessibility tools themselves it should not be a challenge for people who aren't in the know to find the information. I appreciate the effort and recognize that it caught on. I just don't get why, it seems like it is throwing a needless barrier in the way of the target audience finding the resources.

I still try to follow the ideas presented, I just don't understand making it require jargon to find.
I'm stoked to see how this develops. Exciting times for sure.
Of course NFTs are art; and this, too, is art!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
It says Cessna even in this article, those are small planes. The one detail that it doesnt miss :)
See also HedgeDoc https://hedgedoc.org/ which is collaborative and supports tables.
I guess it depends on what is your criteria for "dictatorship", but afaik they _love_ to give loans specifically to dictators. Because they know that the dictators agree on much worse terms as they not the ones who would repay the dept.

Also many countries on the https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/COVID-Lending-... don't look very democratic. But again, it depends on what is criteria here.
Throughout the day i have misread “Birkins” as “Birkinis” and have been simultaneously confused by the trend and also disinterested in actually reading the articles.
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Hi, I am the author and I am 40yo! I appreciate your comment and your optimism. I wish I had more of this, I am actively working on it. This was something I wanted to get off my chest. I also acknowledge it's a pretty cynical take, but perhaps with some parts that ring true.
>Even if you are unqualified for the role, and they know it, they still want to help you along so they can see your best work

So ~14 years ago - after about a year at Microsoft, I was encouraged to assist with interviewing new candidates. At that time, there was no official guide/rulebook for interviewing, but I was told unofficially;

"We hire people with a solid technical base, who may not know EVERY thing at the time of interview, because we really want to hire on their future potential".

"If a candidate is doing poorly, don't be rude - if they asked where they failed, tell them - because, they may very well interview again in 6-months, and if they show a significant improvement, they may well get hired then."

"Any technology they list on their resume is 'fair game' - they had better know it, and if you have direct experience in a niche technology that they list, grill them to see if they are being 'honest'"

And - we were often paired with other technical interviewers, and everyone kept detailed notes. A single veto by any interviewer during any of the multiple phone sessions (and/or eventual in-person interviews) would end that stage of the process for that candidate.

It worked well - I interviewed more than one person who didn't make the cut in the first round of tech screen calls, but 8-months later - they did - and ended-up being very valuable members of our group.

However - there were definately other interviewers that were basically trying to trick the candidate at every step of the process - they were not some of our better team members and honestly, should not have been involved in interviewing.
Help me out, why does anyone want their crypto wallet connected to their web browser? Isn't that a huge security concern?
Contracting has been a very large component of the London market.

Developers have been contracting at £600+ per day, more than £120k per year income, for 15+ years.

It has historically been very easy to achieve that if you don’t mind working for a bank.

I don’t even think I’m in a bubble with these numbers. I know and have hired hundreds of contractors over the years.
Officers of a company are held to a different standard when it comes to public statement.

Declaring it as personal opinion would not likely absolve him. 'Funding Secured' was also a personal believe, from the SEC standard it had to be substantiated in a meaningful way though, or gets fined.
Of course what we'll actually get is networks which require[0] your OS to attest that you are running in Secure Boot mode, so the network can ensure you are running an "approved" OS that prevents you from running VPNs or Tor or bittorrent or E2EE messengers...

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/riot-games-anti-cheat...
But North Face co-branded with his company and not with another O&G company. That was the trigger (or one of them):

https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/issues/what-happens-w...
The issue is, originally FAANG jobs were exciting.

Think about it this way, everyone who was early at Microsoft/Apple/Google/Facebook/etc has awesome stories of being on the first team in the world to ever try solving some really difficult problems. Exploring unknown new fields of computing, designing new UIs for never before imagined devices. You did super cool things.

It is comparatively recent that FAANG jobs have become sort of lame.

Remember how cool Google maps was when it first came out? Or how awesome Gmail was? Those were ground breaking projects!

Heck we take distributed databases for granted now days, but Facebook pioneered a lot of amazing technology, so did Google, Amazon, and Twitter.

Microsoft actually may have had the right model way back when, back when they had teams and job roles in charge of making new products, and another org just devoted to maintaining current versions of software. Of course that division was easy to make back when software came on CDs. Now days everything is cloud based and evergreen.

Maybe companies need to have a career path that is just "maintain stuff" and your promos are based on how well stuff keeps working and any cost savings/perf improvements you can squeeze out of the existing code w/o doing a massive rewrite.
>in the event it ever declared bankruptcy, “the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings.” Coinbase users would become “general unsecured creditors,”

That's terrible. Coinbase act very much like stockbrokers but with crypto instead of stocks and should segregate client funds the same way. If you deposit a 1000 Apple shares say with eTrade and they go bust the Apple shares are still yours and can't be taken to pay eTrades debts - that's how it should be. Otherwise it's just asking for the brokers to legally steal your investments by paying themselves huge bonuses and then saying oops, we're broke.
Distortions trigger promising thermoelectric property
Personally, I want to know how much Y Combinator companies have lost in Market Cap in the latest route. Many are trading below their IPO prices and have lost a huge amount of value.
Yes within a field.

Ex: You'll find it impossible to memorize music until you learn how to think and remember notes. Once you understand rhythm (8th notes, quarter-notes), and pitches (C, D, E, F, G, A, B C), you start to remember music.

You then study common patterns, such as Blue's Scale (C, Eb, F, F#, G, Bb). Or common chord patterns (I - vi - IV - V progression), and suddenly music is just "oh, right, the common chord progression in this rhythm".

Its not that people are memorizing more-and-more information. Its that they're memorizing __LESS__ information, but smarter information. Its far easier to remember "Loved" by The Beatles is the common-chord progression in 4/4 common time, rather than actually trying to memorize the individual notes and rhythm.

Then you can kinda-sorta forget little details (maybe play a few mistakes), but no one else remembers it as well as you do (not because your memory is better, because you have a better system of memorizing). So those little mistakes are forgotten by the audience.

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I'm playing Age of Empires 2, and the same thing for build orders. As a beginner, memorizing "2 houses -> 6 on sheep -> 4 on wood -> 7th food on boar lure -> 3rd house + mill -> 4 on berries" is difficult.

But then more advanced build orders are "British build order" is same as standard, except with 5 on sheep to handle the +25% bonus to shepherds.

It is said that you can only ever remember 7 things at a time. But those 7 things can be advanced concepts built up of *other* sets of ~7 things.
Sometimes losing tons of money is an intentional decision, so if the board/investors are OK with it, it's not a failure. Certainly not the best way to run a company though...
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Did the passenger have to move the pilot out of his seat? Or is the plane designed so that the passenger can also pilot in scenarios like this?
It helps when you have people staffed full time for the work. Stripe views docs as a product, not an afterthought
> to protecting kids

Let's be clear, this has nothing to do with protecting kids and everything with backdoors. The idea here is that anyone that opposes this can be easily accused of being a child molestor.
Where do you live/drive?
Concepts of the Text Editor Lara (1985)
2K Games is the publisher.
It's an amazing game, but it also shows how useful modern UI affordances are. A star system for scroll wheel support.
way cool! I work at dbt Labs and see a similarity with dbt jinja, where all dbt does is render the jinja tags into "pure" SQL. is this the same thing in that markdoc "compiles" markdoc files into markdown, that then can be used in static-site generators?
> US taxes all income you earn anywhere in the world

US taxes all income you anywhere in the world for US residents.
It's not exactly bullshit, 10% of the global carbon emission is a result of the fashion industry[1], which isn't a pittance. But you are totally right that transportation is a much bigger share. The North Face's own contribution is probably a pittance.

This is one of those situations where I don't like anybody on either side, and just hope that the argument doesn't get too annoying before it goes away. I don't think oil and gas is evil (because it is amoral) but the industry certainly is destructive, both in its externalized costs, and in how it tries to prevent people from fixing the mess we've made together in order to sustain itself. The fashion industry is similar in that it depends on weaknesses in human nature, and both would happily ride our civilization into the grave rather than abandon their business models.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-fashion-environmental-i...
Can confirm. I once, with perfect calm and focus, steered into a bad slide on long slightly-downhill curve covered in ice. I'd never, ever done that in real life before then, in 15+ years of driving. I didn't think about it, didn't even worry for a millisecond. I'd 100% for-sure have hit a parked car if not for all the semi-realistic-but-still-arcadey racing games I've played.
Hey, I hear you. That just means I'll have to get good at a different UI!
The way you wrote this could come off as kind of harsh, but this is a very valid point. If you're job hunting in the United States, you'll be contacting recruiters and interacting with clients. Having good written English skills will be critically important.
I think they meant "better than my docs are now with $0 funding" rather than "better than the median company with $2bn funding"
Perhaps! Depends on how you set up the system, I think.
What in the fuck judge would allow that in their court
How true to the original is it?
He just said be peaceful once while repeatedly suggesting our election had been stolen and encouraging a large crowd to fight back. Meanwhile explicit efforts were being made to prevent the election certification. The subtext is readily apparent and its rather disgusting when people try to weasel in his token use of "peacefully".

To believe that was his intent you have to think Trump was incompetently unaware of the effects of his actions, or that he knew the potential outcome and encouraged it. Both are damning.
This thread is simply about a user-visible warning screen in Chrome. It has nothing to do with apps, etc. And the warning looks like it's skippable, since it has an "Advanced…" option. Not sure how this is supposed to impact dev workflows or be user-hostile in any way.
Webassembly is just the JVM in the browser all over again.
It is most probably not meaningfully painful for people, but it does seem to deflect responsibility from actually helping marginalized people, while giving status to assholes who enjoy harassing others instead of contributing anything.

In some cases such as the git branch name, it also actively lost us many hours.
What a lot of people seem to not understand is that mistakes or failings are sometimes on purpose. If software is slow, sometimes (not always!) it’s because the software that focused on performance didn’t get traction with users and failed. Too many programmers just see the immediate failings and not the larger, successfully avoided failings that the software prevented due to a tradeoff.

Likewise many programmers don’t seem to get that the incentives of a programmer are quite different than the incentives of a manager. Programmers think “aw man my stupid manager is making me push out features instead of refactoring, if I were in charge I’d focus on code quality and performance”, not understanding that maybe, just maybe their manager might have different incentives and a different perspective.

Worse is better is essentially a shorthand for understanding product management and scoping.
Indeed. The market cap of YC backed companies has tanked in the last few months, even days.
A lawsuit is just a tweet with a filing fee
Higher interest rates would mean less risky investments, so let's see how the most debt-fueled startups are going to navigate the next rounds.
You're looking for rout, not route :)
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> Allow at least two seconds' following distance behind other vehicles in good weather and road conditions (three seconds on a highway).

> Slow down for poor weather conditions or uneven roads and increase your following distance to at least four seconds. Remember that the distance required to stop increases in wet or slippery conditions.
Over last 6 months, NASDAQ is down ~28%, S&P 500 is down ~15%. Its not just tech stocks.

Typical knee-jerk reactions by publicly traded companies is to restrict hiring, restrict admin spending and possibly have layoffs. There are some companies posting positive quarterly results and their stock still moves down so this downturn isn't really something a company can do anything about. If employees are sitting on a bunch of grants/options there is a chance they might be worthless depending on how they're awarded.

I suspect the few trillion dollars pumped into the economy the last couple years is catching up with itself. At end of Q2 if GDP is down/slowed then I think someone will use whatever official wording they use for downfall/recession/slump/correction. And people will go "gee really?!?"
You mean like requiring functions instead of basic blocks in a compiler target?
thanks for this. am looking at the benchmarks. how do I get huge.csv? Don't see how to fetch or generate
Isn't this effectively the same as using a static site generator? Could you potentially freeze or pre-bake your generated files and then just serve that?
It's weird, I had the opposite reaction. I find myself wondering whether there is some way to fit them in my org. To each their own, I suppose.
More like… holding the oil and gas companies responsible for knowingly trying to hide their negative environmental/social/economic impact of their industry… since the 1960’s
IMF, as well as World bank and co, are anti-anything that could help a country to be less dependent on Wall Street.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_adjustment#Criticis... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enough_Is_Enough_(letter) for examples.
Bit of a tribute video (there are many about "skyking") with some video clips and atc audio. https://tv.gab.com/channel/fosco/view/fly-high-skyking-61130...
> Based on your other comments, it seems your main complaint is the use of the word "toxic". Which I agree is overused and has been expanded to cover more ground than it used to, but the OP is far from the first to apply it more broadly. This is well within the range of how the word is used today, especially when referring to "toxic work environments".

I've seen it used as broadly but very rarely - generally, "toxic environments" are ones where intentional malice is involved.

> people are forthright about how your well-being doesn't matter

Where in OP's post is this said? This would actually constitute malintent for me and elevate the situation to toxic but I can't find where this is said. It's possible given your experience that you know this happened, but I don't see it in the post itself.

My main issue is the use of "toxic" coupled with the post's advocacy for helping others recognize when they're in a toxic workplace. My concern is that anyone identifying with the general stress described could then accuse their coworkers/managers of manufacturing a toxic work environment. God forbid I have a meeting that someone else thought was unproductive and then accuses me of creating a toxic workplace.
Tell the recruiter/HR contact, or your next interview, about it and see what they do. There is the possibility that this person is an outlier, or even a known problem.
Funnily enough, I think this may be accidently done by parents for their kids learning improvement. When they get home at a young age parents, or atleast mine, would ask what I learned in school. My memory from times I answered faithfully vs started answering "nothing" seems to be rooted deeper. Could simply be due to age though.
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I disagree. Consider: You're hiring for a data science role, and the candidate doesn't know what an array is.

Consider: You're hiring for a senior systems software development role, and the candidate doesn't know what an instruction is.

etc.
Kinda sorta maybe. Yes you can get “cheaper” plans through private insurance but the trade off between lower premiums vs higher deductibles makes the equation a bit more complex.

That being said… yes cobra is usually insanely expensive. But that might be market rate for whatever “all you can eat low deductible” health plan your employer was offering.
Oh so they're doing the goldsmith does when he realizes he always had a baseline amount of gold in the vault no matter to whom it belonged?
I feel like crdts are sold as a panacea. I can esily imagine users making conflicting changes, so I dont really see or understand what the real value or weaknesses of CRDTs are.

Im also used to seeing them used for online synchronization, & far less examples of distributed crdts, which is, to me, highly important.

Git by contrast has straightforward & good merge strategies. At this point, I feel like the problems are complex & that we need complex tools that leave users & devs in charge & steering. Im so ready to be wrong, but I dont feel like these problems are outsmartable; crdts have always felt like they try to define a too limited world. For now, I feel like tools for managing files between different fs'es are more complex, but a minimum level of possibility we need.
At an upcoming meeting, the Indian Goods and Services Tax Council (GSTC) intends to tax cryptocurrencies up to 28%.
It makes petty people feel they have power over you. It’s not like they are that wrong. We like to reward norm enforcing, but we aren’t sufficiently inoculated against exploitative ones. The end game can be seen in any big religion.
There's toxic workplaces, and there's actually _hostile_ ones. We don't need to be literally abused for a workplace to be toxic.
> because of your security-based product

Nothing in the article has to do with the product or the fact that it's security related, other than to provide a motivating use case.

> The only potential benefit there was for security

And performance.

> even that was just relying on the ephemeral nature of lambdas

I think you've failed to understand the article, which may be my fault, I haven't read it in a long time. The key is isolation. Ephemerality gives you a sort of temporal isolation. Splitting your messaging from your data storage gives you a capability based isolation. And so on.

It also means we can scale to the limits of S3/SQS - each service is itself stateless, the majority of state is managed in SQS, which could be quite loose about its consistency since every service is idempotent - arguably a form of temporal isolation.

What I've described in this article is effectively the actor model. I feel like I don't have to really justify the benefits of the actor model with regards to scale?
"let them in" after they had already attacked officers and pushed through barriers. Please don't argue about this event if you are so unaware of what actually happened.
Though looking at the timelines, the team left or had been moved around after a two year period. So it wasn't necessarily an abrupt change.