skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along with the "What about accessibility?" FAQ answer being misleading about the current state, I have two additional concerns:

- Special text only for screen readers: This should not be a primary method of making a site accessible. Hidden text is often incorrect, or maybe it was correct and then someone updated the page and it no longer matches. Out-of-site, out-of-mind is unfortunately often true in this case, and should really be more of a last resort.

- Accessibility is about so much more than screen readers. My first concern for a platforms like this is people who struggle with animations - either feelings of vertigo or nausea, or just finding movement very distracting. Are prefers-reduced-motion settings respected? Does this encourage authors to create content in a way that has a minimal motion fallback that still works? Is it easy for users to stop animations?

Unfortunately, the accessibility challenges here are significant. I'm sure work will be done later to try and improve it, but you will be limited by previous decisions to patching in solutions as best you can. And that rarely results in a truly usable, accessible experience.
I've hit that (inevitable, apparently) point as an "IC" with my current employer where I'm so "indispensable" that I'm a required participant in at least 8 hours of meetings a day, which means that it's more or less impossible to meet whatever low-trust gamification metrics like LOC committed or # bugs fixed have been put in place by hands-off upper management. My direct boss knows and appreciates what I do, but when Elon buys the company, he'll just be looking at a spreadsheet that I'll look terrible on BECAUSE I'm good at what I do.
Slingboxes, streaming video way before it was cool, go dark tomorrow
I think the biggest challenge is to determine what is "a post about a job opening" from "a post asking if anyone knows a job opening". I guess some neural net (BERT) could be trained to figure this out. Or maybe a more classical "bayesian filter": its just a ranking after all (likelyhood of this being a job opening).

For now, I chose the most simple solution: just check for certain hashtags. It works surprisingly well. Though it does catch some 20% "false positives": people looking for jobs, and not job openings.

I'm also surprised by the amount of cool jobs there. I guess that's mostly due to the niche of people posting on mastodon or the fediverse, though.
You've linked to a private Google Doc.
As a contractor, I was definitely on some big projects where, from the perspective of an IC in the trenches, it didn't seem like anyone was in charge, or that the people in charge didn't care about it succeeding.

In the two examples I'm thinking of, it's been that the client stakeholder has a lot of pull, but not a lot of experience. For example, the top Sales guy decides they want to run a little tech startup inside the company, but they've never actually launched software before. Or, someone in a load bearing role, like the head of product, knows they are out the door (usually moving up in a different, more glamorous organization) and doesn't really care to devote 60 hours a week to this dumb old company anymore.
It might.

But she's 38, and she may have decided that even an 8-10 year sentence would make it impossible for her to have children later, so did it now while she's free.
Rather good guide: https://standards.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/standards/NAS...
Microservices: Is over-engineering always the best approach?
> Two years later, the client canceled the two-years-late project before it ever launched. They ate a $60M loss.

You could say that the customer got exactly what they paid for. The customer lacked the ability pay in terms of specifications, so what they got was what $60M and a half-hearted attempt to articulate what they needed could buy.

On the other hand, the customer never knows what they want. You could say that's the job of the software company - to slog through the mountain of feature requests disguised as specifications to arrive at a system that will actually solve the customer's real problem.
I recall seeing the goose and the golden egg. The illustrations were more 17th centuryish. The name Jean de La Fontaine has been suggested to me a couple of times and this would certainly be fitting but strangely i cannot find the book following this name anywhere. It was a very fine print, hardcover, very elegant with full page illustrations.

Thank you for the link, wonderful illustrations.
There are some advantages, accompanied by large disadvantages, and I don't think it has made us smarter or less ignorant.
Do you think it was about the money? My interpretation from the tweet was that it was more about their perception that the platform was no longer a reliable source of news.
> I mean, he’s not faking it, and that goes a long way when selling a narrative and embarking your next partner, whether a banker or an engineer.

I've said it before but I think he is PT Barnen 2.0: that doesn't mean he hasn't taken immense financial risk, it's just that he is marketer cosplaying as 'aerospace engineer' and will pick and chose what he is a savant depending on what meds he decided to take that day--no one asked him to make a submarine to save children in Thailand.

Which is what was necessary to get the masses interested, sure, but has ultimately back-fired at this point.
Aha, thx!
Better than what? What is your alternative?

Public school? OK, what are the schools like in your area? Do they actually teach, or are they mostly just daycare? Are the kids there going to befriend your kids, or bully them?

Private school? How far away, and at what cost? And, the same questions: How well do they teach? What are the kids like?
Boost content to reach your page followers
If accurate, realistic project schedules are considered a "career limiting move" then obviously the company was never a good place to advance your career anyway. As evidenced in this anecdote, this mentality doesn't produce good results for those companies.

Looking back at the places I've worked, I'm having a hard time thinking of any examples of people committing singular "career limiting moves". Most tech companies I've worked for have been extremely forgiving of anyone with tech talent, to the point that some people were given countless extra chances despite longstanding patterns of misbehavior or failure to deliver.

The only true incidents I can think of that fit the "career limiting move" description either resulted in getting fired, or doing unnecessarily vindictive/petty things when disagreeing with management.
In that scenario they could point to some of the wallets to help calm the fears the money isn't available. Or they could approach a number of different lenders who would be comfortable lending at high interest rates if the money is there but slow to access. They only sell if we're in the non-charitable case.
I haven't, but the way I'd do it would be to use something like this: https://github.com/edsu/feediverse which till turn your RSS feed into Mastodon toots.

If you want to use Mastodon for comments, there are a bunch of blogs written about integrating them into a comment section (for example: https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2021/01/07/comments-via-mastodo...)
* Everyone serves at least 85% on federal terms. You don't get off with half unless you are pardoned.

* She faces maximum charges of many decades in prison. It's unlikely, but you can't count on a short sentence. 10 years is not at all impossible.
Fallacy detected: strawmen

Impolite rhetoric detected: sarcasm
Curious why it seems restricted to veterans, considering nightmares (and night terrors) affect many with PTSD across causal groups. Maybe it’s a regulatory thing right now.
The events functionality stopped working well around then, so you didn't miss anything there
No, the opposite is actually true (I worked on things like this, it works)
> This functions kind of “unpacks then type”, works with it's internals and then “packs everything correctly”.

Right, like I'm five years old and hence don't know what a monad is. :)
> Does anyone know of an example of a simple physical system where eigenvalues have a physical interpretation?

Yep, vibration modes. Vibration frequencies represent their eigenvalues while the shape that the structural system exhibits when subjected to said vibration corresponds to it's eigenvector.

If a structural system is modelled as a linear elastic system it's possible to apply an eigendecomposition of that system and represent it in terms of linear combinations of it's vibration modes/eigenvector, and consequently we can get very accurate representations by using only a hand-full of these eigenvectors.

You know swing sets? We would start to swing back and forth just by moving our legs in a particular frwquencey, and without much effort we could move more and more? It turns out the frequency we moved our legs was the system's vibration frequency/eigenvalue for the vibration modes/eigenvector representing the we swinging back and forth.
Middle Management doesn't really control the purse strings. They can certainly lobby for it and they do. In most companies budget's are allocated at the executive level to each of the departments.
I should have more sympathy for all of these addicts, but I don't. I sympathize w/ a herion addiction because it's physically addictive, etc etc. Addicted to Facebook, to other people's baby pictures??

Consider this: everything you learn about your friends through Facebook, you weren't important enough to be reached out to personally about. THEREFORE! You shouldn't even know those things.
"Given the necessity of work, I would rather enjoy my work and excel at it than sluff off."

True, but from my perspective the career oriented people don't actually care about that stuff or solving problems. In my mind, the people I would label as career oriented are usually pretentious assholes preoccupied by the "status" of someday being in the C suite and driving the most expensive BMW/Tesla.

On the other side, you can have fun, perform well, and solve problems yet have a stagnant career. You would have to play the politics to leverage those into career advancement.
Look at the artist's rendition of the hominid. Then read the article where they're talking about likeness and genetic similarity to Neanderthals. Then consider what we know of what genes Neanderthals passed along, especially relating to skin tone, eye and hair colour...

There's a constant attempt in the British archaeology sphere to paint 'indigenous' Britons as dark-skinned even though all the evidence points to them being very light-skinned (as you'd expect at their latitude). It's not just this article but many articles.
Yep. I use their bare metal cloud and it connects to our whmcs so we’re able to resell it. I did get a better deal than they advertise by asking.
For some, a creer is a means to something else. For example, if you want to retire early, making more money is the best way to save more. Progressing in your acreer can be a great way to increase your income. Therefore progressing your career can be your best option to reach a goal outside of your career.
Don’t know by looking at it if it is the related to or the same as my link below but had a class where the professor liked Datalog for some reason. Entire class found it hard to learn and not really useful, and not much more work to do similar things in other languages. Very niche but I know HN loves niche-y languages.

http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/

Maybe some useful scientific applications I am not aware of?
None that ever done more than a demo now lost to the ether unfortuantely. Hardcore punk scene in Scotland in the 00's wasn't big and a bit incestuous.
It's funny, I think hearing somebody say this in person and seeing the exasperation on their face would invite empathy on my part and help me understand their situation (i.e. they're in a bad mood because of this problem), BUT seeing somebody say "Everything, nothing works." in a Slack message would absolutely annoy the f out of me. I'd immediately assume they're not communicating properly. I'm not saying the latter is their fault, but just that communication differs based on medium.

Anyway, the nice thing about in-person conversation (or even over video call) is the conversation can flow a lot more easily, so even if you said "Hey, just do X" and they angrily respond, you can adjust quickly and say "Oh, sorry, I figured we'd go for the most obvious thing first. Okay, let's figure this out." I think opening lines matter way less when it's in person, and tone matters way more. You could say "Oh, just try X" in a friendly manner or "Oh, just try X!" in a condescending manner. In text, it's up to the receiver of the message to interpret.
YT is SO bad. It's not even funny at this point.
Sorry, I made a mistake. You said

Lisp has a readability issue

which I interpreted a statement of generality, but I think you meant

Lisp is difficult for me to read

which I have no business arguing against, except to offer you guidance on what I believe are best practices for reading and writing Lisp. (In short, it's to use an editor specifically equipped to write Lisp. It gives you canonical indentation and structural editing. Emacs is the most popular choice, but there are extensions to Vim and VSCode; as well as full-blown commercial IDEs (plural!) by LispWorks and Franz Inc.)
They have become much more unpredictable for me, some Prime items will be delivered same-day, others might take 3-4 days, my impression is that they expect only a small subset of customers to bother complaining, in which case they'll be "very sorry" and offer an extra month of Prime or something else which doesn't really cost them anything...
I read through some of this author's other articles, and he has a really inaccurate view of technology workers. We're not VC-backed digital nomads spending our days eating artisanal hot dogs. Most of us are just nine-to-five workers with families and hobbies, and most of use work on relatively boring parts of code that keep the wheels turning. (Only a specialized few get excited about automating mass data migrations. I love it, but it doesn't make for interesting TikToks.)
You are misunderstanding the problem.

Given a particular set, the question is enumerating the subsets that add to a particular thing. The fact that numbers themselves could be represented as a linked list has nothing to do with it. And there is no particularly useful generating function to use either.

For example there are 303 primes less than 2000, and 47,839,398,752,301 subsets of them add up to 2000. If you arrange them in lexicographic order, what is the 5 trillionth one?
Or when a smart jerk discovered a thing, and then discovered another thing based on the first thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramond%E2%80%93Ramond_field
I'm seeing a cloudflare error; is the page down now?

> Web server is returning an unknown error (Error code 520)
I don't think they have it at my company. Or maybe nobody was nice enough to tell me. That might explain being just a midlevel after 10 years and a masters...
1. In an average project Lisp would rank fairly high for me. In fact for making meaningful changes in an average quality large code base I'd rank it at the top, my order being (best first):

Lisp, C, Java, C++, Python

It all depends, e.g., C++ would rank higher in a very high quality code base.
Show HN: Faultier-CV – the laziest way to generate a CV
You might be overfixating on “keep scrolling”.

So the goal was/is to get people to engage more. So? Is the goal to keep people engaged for ad’s sake or not? Or is it to foster community and togetherness.

The thesis is about engagement with ads. Not whether you scroll or not.
Once you have a family, debt, obligations it does matter. Health care too.
That doesn't make sense. I'm no epidemiologist, but have friends who work in disease modeling, and used to follow some virology blogs/podcasts. They usually make lots of models, each with different assumptions, specifically to guess what the intervention of different public health measures would do.
The Death of a Statesman
Reminds me of vclusters
If you are a manager, and you make this type of remark, do not get it twisted. You have made a threat, and you have created an adversarial situation that limits your report's ability to trust you. You've telegraphed to them that you're willing to throw them under the bus, and they will remember.

If it doesn't feel like you're making a threat - it may feel to you like you're genuinely giving advice - then you have not really understood what it means to be a manager and what sort of power you have over your reports. Try to think of things from their perspective and imagine this coming from your boss.
From Russia with WikiLove
Haven: Self-Hostable Private Blogging
How else are you supposed to convince someone of a point, if not by mentioning the evidence?
I think it depends on context.

If "Can we just <x>" is coming from a trusted colleague who understands the problem space that is exciting because they may have found a shortcut or clever solution.

If "Can we just <x>" is coming from a non-technical client or project manager then I feel nervous because in practice it often indicates that they have underestimated the scope of the problem or we have overestimated the scope of the problem. In some cases it is possible to have enough meetings to level-set expectations but in some cases the "just" seems to be a leading indicator of persistent project tension due to mismatched expectations.
The midterms turned politicians into content creators
> Source? Also note the phrasing "illegal and unsafe". Strictly illegal behavior seems to be about equal based on the link I provided.

Are you saying that when driver breaks the law, it not unsafe, or more frequently not unsafe than when a cyclist does it? How do you square that with this statement?

> Yes, the severity is likely higher with a car.

With regards to licensing, there are real logistical issues and macro scale affect associated with that approach.

Licensing would be expensive and very difficult to enforce, not that governments haven’t investigated the possibility before. It would presumably require even children to be licensed before going near a bike, which in turn would basically eliminate cycling as form of transport. Who can be bother with all that hassle?

It also feels entirely disproportionate to risk. The stats show the bikes don’t kill or injure people very often, hardly greater than injuries and fatalities caused by pedestrian-pedestrian collisions. Compared to cars that kill dozens every day.

If there was data, rather than hysteria, demonstrating a high risk caused by cyclists then I would agree. But there isn’t, and I doubt you’re going to advocate for licensing for pedestrians as well?
The vaccines were not approved on the basis that they reduced transmission. This was a widely held hope, given that other vaccines do this, but that wasn't an endpoint of the studies. There was a little bit of data in the Moderna trial that was very encouraging, namely that everyone in the trial took a PCR test at the time of their second dose, and people in the active arm had a much lower positivity rate. There was also a lot of epidemiological evidence for the vaccines dramatically reducing transmission.

The problem is that this data was gathered with a different version of the virus than we have now, and it was gathered with relatively fresh vaccinations. Even pre-Delta, you could see immunity waning leading to increased transmission in Israel. With Omicron, the efficacy of the vaccines is also much less.

That said, from all the evidence we have, the existing vaccines still do reduce transmission, but not enough to prevent epidemic spread. There are a lot of numbers, because every study has a different population and different ways of measuring, but roughly speaking, being vaccinated cuts your risk of contracting and transmitting COVID by something on the order of 50%. That's a lot better than nothing, but COVID is so contagious that it's not enough.

The "R values theory" is perfectly reasonable and almost tautologically correct, and works regardless of an animal reservoir and imported cases from travel. We have the same issue with imported cases with Measles, but hardly anyone gets Measles, because almost everyone is vaccinated, and the R value in the population is much less than 1. If you import a case, that case infects less than 1 person on average, who infects less than 1 person on average, etc, until it dies out. R<<1 doesn't mean you have no cases, it just means that it's self limiting. If you import say, 100 cases a year, maybe that leads to 50 or 100 locally acquired cases total, but for the average person, you don't really have to worry about it. The exception is communities with low vaccination rates. You sometimes see Measles pop up still in the U.S. in religious communities, etc, because R for Measles in those communities is greater than 1 due to the lack of vaccination.

It would be great if COVID and COVID vaccines were like Measles, but unfortunately the vaccine isn't yet good enough.
As long as you have it documented in an email ( issue plus proposed remediation ), you are good. You did your part. Sometimes it is best just to slowly walk away like you did.
MySpace peaked at 75 million users, currently Facebook is approaching 3 billion and still growing (just slower). Of course I am counting humans and you are measuring by stock ticker.

But hey at least it didn't drink the blood of all humanity, what's done is done. We should move on, you are correct.

Although, on second thought, it did spur those new next fads and set a precedent. And they do seem to be improving on the original in habit forming. It is also attempting to generate a new one to ride to a higher water mark and to be completely honest I'm not sure all those posts and things it prompted people to do en masse were beneficial to society overall..

Maybe there's some sort of lesson to be gleaned here.
Some kids wanted to be stars. And they had creative outlets that honed their physical, social and cognitive skills.

The content being promoted, and the social "skills" and interactions originating from social media, are more prevalent and much, much less useful than someone wanting to play sax or act.
Blksnap – creating non-persistent snapshots for backup
> This prints something on a screen. It does not prevent the usage.

-Werror=...?

> It was used, and now you've detected its usage. It did not prevent the usage.

foo_image: $(OBJS)
....
if $(NM) $@ | grep -s -E 'malloc|...' ; then \
echo "dynamic allocation not allowed" ; \
exit 1 ; \
fi
The point is that wire fraud is apparently a much more serious crime than fraudulent medical practice, otherwise the fraudulent medical practice would be much easier to sue for. The problem is the law, not the prosecutors.
Person hits $2B Powerball jackpot, lottery officials announce
I'm not sure I'd label every staff+ engineer at FAANG as a pretentious assholes.
This seems like you injecting your own political hobby horse into the arena. It’s an illustration not a diatribe. The article doesn’t mention skin colour and casts doubt on the link to Neanderthals.
If it isn’t tested in a systematic, reproducible manner, written down, and peer reviewed, then it hasn’t been proven and doesn’t really contribute to our understanding of the world in a meaningful way. This is how science works. Sometimes a seemingly obvious thing isn’t once it undergoes rigorous testing, and sometimes the obvious thing holds up.