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TL;DR: Accessibility settings can be super powerful but so hard to learn that, without either an experienced trainer or a determined learner, they’re useless. Does anyone have recommendations for learners and amateur (family) trainers?

To the OP: I’ve been in a similar situation with my mother. Unfortunately her loss of eyesight happened so suddenly that we weren’t able to follow the excellent advice to get her started on the technology adaptation before her eyesight (mostly) went.

I’m hoping that our negative experiences here can be a warning to others. The primary lesson is this:

Apple products, especially the iPhone, have the best accessibility features for vision-impaired users. Unfortunately, getting fluent with those features requires lots of time and training. If your mother isn’t able to reach that fluency, she may end up not using the devices for more than a couple of basic tasks.

I recommend finding videos of experienced people with impaired vision using their iPhones, because it’s quite amazing: they can feel their way around the UI with tactile feedback, and read via text-to-speech that’s often running so fast that it sounds like brief bursts of noise if you aren’t used to it. We’re used to Apple devices being super-constrained in customizability, but the Accessibility settings provide far more flexibility than the rest of the UI settings. (This is a double-edged sword, which I’ll get to.)

We were hoping to give my mother that ease of use with her phone, but first we had to move her to a new iPhone from an old Samsung. We (her family) were very time and energy constrained, so didn’t complete the first and most basic step: moving her fully from one phone to the other. This meant that she kept using the Samsung by default, and effectively got no experience with the iPhone.

Even with the iPhone in hand, there’s a bigger problem: no obvious route to go from a standing start to a trained-up user. I found very few good guides to using the low-vision features, and even when I had them, I didn’t know how to start training my mother. The double-edged sword I mentioned earlier is that the Accessibility settings are copious and complex, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s easy to accidentally switch the device into a usage mode that’s hard to understand and even harder to turn off.

If your mother is sufficiently motivated and downright brave enough to experiment with the settings and learn them for herself, it _might_ be possible. But I can see a hundred reasons why that might not be the case. Modern technology is terrifying enough for seniors as it is. So I’d start by looking for in-person training help in her area.
I don't think the thousands of people who lost their life savings and have been scammed would agree your assessment.

Perhaps those who lost their savings and are affected by ransomware by crypto should they see a specialist for the amount of damage that crypto has caused them in getting their savings wiped out due to the speculative nature of crypto that Vitalik has helped to build.

No amount of technical talk, ad hominems, or you fawning wax lyrical over Vitalik will change this fact and my statement still stands.
Michigan will have beef with Ohio until the end of days. Ohio is like the butt of every joke here because it really doesn't have many redeeming qualities. I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when crossing back in and seeing a "Pure Michigan" sign. Finally, I can do 80mph without fear of going to prison.
It is Visual Studio 2019, _not_ VS Code.
Everyone alive everywhere is always at risk of death at anytime, your statement has no meaning.

Are you trying to imply that a human driver monitoring a self driving system is somehow increasing the risk to others when its actually decreasing risk?
How much of this is because this is what VCs want?

Really, if this is going to change, it stops here, in this community.
I don't pose my comments as...

"Here's why we need to stop making headlines like this"

I said a statement of fact (to my own mind) which may be a fact or an opinion to someone else.

Regardless, never once in my opinion did I say "Heres whats best for you." I simply stated a fact about what I believe to be true, and what looks stupid to me.

I can't decide what is best for everyone else. Perhaps someone likes being spoon fed their decisions, and in this case the headline would be great for them, however that doesn't change my statement.

Also, my statements of facts/opinions could be wrong, and that is still further beside the point. Being wrong about something has nothing to do with me asserting that YOU would benefit from my opinion by adhering to it.
If by a few years you mean 50, sure.
You're saying that when Volt and V were first announced, there were no advertised features that were missing?
Oh I completely agree, but I am a mere senior software engineer and I have not yet figured out how to chisel past the corporate cruft of the three folks in charge of the codebase who believe monorepos are right because Google is doing it, therefore it must be the best way to do things.

Nevermind that I have some experience with how Google did it, and it turns out there's a lot of ills you can solve with a 25,000+-strong engineering force that you can't in a smaller org. VSCode at Google never worked for me either, but punching a novel symbol into company-wide syntax-intelligent internal code search and glancing at the first response, which was likely to be the right one because it was a Google search engine so had well-tuned signals for "things humans care about," always did.

They're not interested in how Google does it, merely that they do it so you can't get fired for making an architectural decision that worked for Google. Nor are they really interested in solving the tooling issue because it works for them; they just grep-and-pray. They're very fast at it because it's all they know so they've gotten quite good at it (when they have to do it at all; often they just know the types because they wrote the classes. ;) ).
I can't believe you're serious.

How often does autopilot in airplanes speed up, veer off course, and crash into fire trucks and palm trees?
"You're not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations." - Joe Biden circa July 2021.

I think we can give people some slack considering it was trumpeted by many elected officials and most of the national news networks for over a year.
Stuff like this makes me wonder if I should deworm once a year just to be safe. In the U.S., the recommendation is that "healthy individuals do not need to deworm".

But then I see stats from the CDC on infection rates. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0508-npi.html

- More than 300,000 people living in the United States are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease

- At least 14 percent of the U.S. population has been exposed to Toxocara, the parasite that causes toxocariasis

- 60 million U.S. citizens are infected with Toxoplasma Gondii

- The Trichomonas parasite is extremely common, affecting 3.7 million people in the United States

A healthy individual is far more likely to be asymptomatic if they do have a parasite infection. That makes me question the recommendation for healthy individuals to avoid deworming.
As far as I can tell... this isn't VS Code as a dependency, it's Visual Studio (and the associated MSVC C++ compiler) as a dependency. And this has been normal for years when installing native modules with no prebuilt releases in Windows for languages like Node.js.
Lots of people I know have half-migrated to Bluesky or totally moved to Mastodon, so my feed is much emptier than it used to be.

I'm pretty optimistic about the fediverse in the medium term, certainly for many communities. But right now twitter.com is still the default for organizations large and small, and I'm not sure that changes. It's gonna be a mess.
"Never tested for immunity" do not meaning "not providing immunity"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-021-00578-z

"Most COVID-19 vaccines are designed to elicit immune responses..."

It's crazy how many people spreads information without giving any prove.
My mom went through a similar path, so here are some details I haven't seen already mentioned:

* Not too many people know that losing your eyesight is often followed by nightmares. The moment I told my mom this fact she stopped having them.

* The "problem" with suggesting Braille is that it requires an acceptance that one has lost their eyesight for good, which is a difficult step for many. So audio solutions could be better in the short term. The same goes for training for how to move around using a white cane.

* iPhones have a feature called VoiceOver that lets you use your phone without looking. My mom never really got the hang of it too much, but she definitely uses Siri a lot. Android has something too, but last time I checked it was not as good. Being able to take short and long notes (voice notes, small recorder, whatever works) should be a priority.

* If you install a screen reader, I encourage you to use a Linux laptop. Windows has a tendency to move things around for no good reason (and God have mercy if your OS auto-updates), which breaks my mom's muscle memory of how to open this or that program.

* Audiobooks: I typically convert EPUB/MOBI books with Calibre to DOCX, put them in a shared folder, and she uses the screen reader to hear them. I also use the same shared folder to download podcasts. Alexa didn't work well here at all, but that's because Alexa in South America sucks. Your case may be different.

* Be ready to curse whenever some clueless news anchor talks about a "miracle bionic eye" while praying that your mom doesn't hear about it. Having to be the one who's constantly shooting down someone's last hope is not cool.

I submitted a similar question here 8 years ago. You can check the answers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546311
I've never recovered. I permanently lost the ability to taste certain things and can literally get 10 hours of sleep the night before and feel exhausted by noon.

I look forward to people who pretend that it's the same as the flu catching it for themselves so that they can enjoy this "no big deal."
I am a fan for Cal Newport's books and podcast. In general I think that the more consumer choices, the better. I agree however that Threads doesn't serve any of my purposes. I tried it for a few days.

I get a lot of value from Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@mark_watson) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/mark_l_watson) for very different purposes:

Mastodon is where I post personal and some tech stuff and read a lot of fairly random stuff.

I follow specific tech people on Twitter/X and that is my "morning tech news."
Wow. I just turned into a well-done steak lover.
I don't think you'll find scientific literature to support your point.

Living the most stress free life will not prevent your macular degeneration from progressing.
Your First Self-Driving Laboratory for <$50
Hi all,

I put together SDL4Kids as a community project to lower the barrier of entry into this fast growing space of 'self-driving' laboratories.

I love how in the UK, many schools will already have the BBC micro:bit lying around, so many school kids have a real chance at trying themselves at this setup.

I presented SDL4Kids last week at Accelerate23, here is some more info on it: https://matterhorn.studio/pages/blog/your-first-self-driving...

Keen to hear what people think!

Best,
Jakob
It's not open to the public, but Aurora has a testing track in Pittsburgh: https://goo.gl/maps/pqvXWptAEWjC918z5
This works when your data fits in L2 cache
I didn't have tutors or parents helping me with homework when I was in school. Also, bad grades were not tolerated in my household, so I had to keep up.
>My point was saying Canada uses bags of milk is no different than saying Americans do X when its only Florida or a handful of states.

It's just a stupid meme from the old internet, circa 2004: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-canada-milk-comes-in-bags
Yes, a lot of things can be parallelised with OpenMP or MPI, just like in C/C++. These extensions and libraries are not core language features, though.
That's a great idea. It reminds me of this podcast that releases a new episode on every full moon: https://www.3books.co
Probably more Meetups than larger and more formally-organized volunteer-events. As the sibling notes, there used to be more along those lines in the Boston area in the late 80s/90s but a lot of the more grassroots type of conferences have tended to fade out over time. (And I suspect COVID--and tightening of tech budgets--killed some more that were holding out mostly on the basis of momentum.)

DevOps Days is still around and there's a Boston one this year although I haven't been to one of those for a few years.
I remember when I was doing my masters I was really excited to go and see Penrose speak, and I was surprised when none of the cosmology staff I had lectures with were going to the talk. When I asked them they told me they'd looked and they couldn't see any evidence for cyclic conformal cosmology in the CMB
If you have deep enough pockets and you're worried the verdict is going to be very expensive and probably not in your favor, there are lots of ways to stall the forward progress of the trial.
For context, this is the lead developer of V.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31061295
Why someone would want to migrate from lastpass to google's password manager manager is beyond me. everyone has got to be aware of google's history[0].

Instead migrate to bitwarden[1]

0: https://www.killedbygoogle.com/
1: https://bitwarden.com
One day I hope the New Drug Application process can have a monitoring and supervision system as sophisticated as FSD Beta.

Just imagine: Constant 100% always-on supervision, supervision of the supervisors with 3-strikes you're out attentiveness monitoring, automatic and manual reporting of possible anomalies with full system+surroundings snapshots to inform diagnostics and development, immediate feedback of these into the simulations that validate new versions, and staged rollout that starts at smaller N (driving simulators are actually pretty good) and continues intensive monitoring up to larger N. Even Phase 3 trials only involve thousands of people, while FSD beta is driving a million miles per day with monitoring that feels more like Phase 1 or mayyybe Phase 2.

One day drug development will be this sophisticated, and it will be glorious.
What does the paragraph of text on the order page say?
This might be factually correct that the Covid vaccines were not tested for immunity, but immunity in this case is not a guarantee, it’s a statistical concept. And we do have a large body of evidence that suggest vaccines, in the general case, do provide both immunity and reduction in symptoms. I think it is disingenuous to say that they don’t provide immunity, or to think it’s crazy people would think that, because it is most likely true.

What would really be wild is if Covid vaccines were this effective at reducing hospitalizations and symptoms and provided no immunity at all.
According to Wikipedia[1], you need 501 karma points:

> Hacker News does not allow users to downvote content until they have accumulated 501 "karma" points.

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1. Housing isn't necessarily provided, can depend on rank, marital status, and other factors like the amount of military-provided housing provided on a post (it's often not enough, or of extremely low and even dangerous quality)

2. Salary is provided to the person who is in the service. Unfortunately, the areas that military bases are in are generally not economically productive areas. This especially hurts the spouses who'd otherwise have jobs because they're living in a career desert, and there's not a lot of households today that can survive on a single income. In fact, it was only just this year that the Biden admin finally recognized this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

3. Substinence (I'm going to put healthcare in this category) – so let's say I'm a soldier who gets injured on the job. Not only is military healthcare awful (https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/military-hospita...) but often times they won't even properly care for you to the point you could die: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pentagon-denies-cl... and so you seek second opinions in severe cases, which you have to pay out-of-pocket. Combine this with the fact that the VA will deny real claims for literal decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoring_our_PACT_Act_of_2022 and you're so far up shit creek in a job you can't quit...
This brings up a follow-up question: how do the parasites know where to go? For example, the parasite in this article has never been observed in a human before -- yet it knew how to navigate a human's body well enough to get to the brain. That's some pretty impressive adaptive navigational instinct.
Could it possibly be that people on HN are out of touch with how most users use technology?

https://youappi.com/european-app-trends-2022/
Regardless of race, it shouldnt be on the road if it cannot detect jaywalkers at night wearing all black. Where I live POC are more likely to be the pedestrians because it's an immigrant-heavy community. I've seen a white guy jaywalking at night wearing all black in between street lights but I couldn't tell he was white until he got across the street and I could see him head-on.
Clorox Takes Servers Offline
around me, only kids whose parents are illiterate and/or busy make a living who don't get helped by their parents to do their homework and study. so, yes. cultural thing.
Knows how to build a feature or small system without handholding.
Mastodon/AP should be the place most state agencies turn to. It's ridiculous they don't "own the pipe" and continue relying on other platforms as a primary method. It gives them everything they need OOB.

Canadian agencies getting shut out by Facebook is the shining proof of this. There should be no reason someone has to make an account with a foreign company just to get fast updates on what is happening locally, that's absurd.
Exploring WireGuard’s NAT traversal capabilities
Ten minutes talking with this man single-handedly turned me off from attending Harvard grad school. Any environment that would promote him to (I believe) head of the department was not one I wanted to study in. Glad to see I made the right choice.
That is correct. Also French cars tend to be utilitarian and French people mostly don’t use them as status symbols either which is also refreshing.
> surely the request should'nt come from the client

Maybe this problem is intractable logically? The preview needs to be accurate from the perspective of the client. The only way to guarantee that seems to me sending the request from client.
Yes, it is clear they are arguing for their own book. But they do have a point: as currently shipped these packs are dangerous. But I would expand that to 'dangerous to use', and not just 'dangerous to repair'.

But they could make them less dangerous, they could also make them much less dangerous to repair. But with a pack costing roughly 1 euro / Wh they are stupendously overpriced and a major source of revenue. And most bikes have one or more pack replacements during their lifespan. So it's clear why they would want you to buy another, at the same time they are playing the safety card for disingenuous reasons.

A safe to repair pack would have cell modules that could be replaced individually and with sense wires that are bonded to the case in such a way that they can never end up crossed and squashed.

Leading causes of pack failures:

- breaking interconnects / bad welds

- water ingestion

- shorting out sense wires

- impact damage, or dropped pack

- electronics failure
Yes, but "network" itself is an abstract concept. Because the addresses aren't scarce you can theoretically get a new one every day, or every time you log on, and throw it away right after. Each device you own can also have its own IP, without any NATs in the way and no way to tie them together.
It was behind a firewall and internal-facing only...
If I shit in a box and give it to you saying "here's evidence of something you believe is likely true," the right response isn't "that's progress," it's "stop shitting in boxes and giving them to people."
Apple does care about government espionage, especially for journalists, human rights activists. But if a government can hack a device, so can criminals or people trying to make a quick buck by 'refurbishing' the phones with fake parts.

I can't take anything Rossman says serious since his 'miracles' can't be performed at scale. Apple doesn't fight him, they simply have different priorities.
This is what I was looking for. Look for a school of the blind, ask the doctors/hospitals for local resources, etc.

There's a strong community of people who have already helped other going through this. If you're really not finding anything, just try one of the large national organizations, and they can help you work down towards your local resources.

Based on my limited exposure to the blind community through raising Seeing Eye Puppies and having a relative who was born legally blind without glasses.
That's just normal flash memory degradation when you are using low quality chips. It's very common, especially among low end Samsungs. It's not something that can be fixed on the software side.
Your friend was a fool to not take the new vehicle (removing his financial burden) and then just do whatever he wanted with the info...

Granted, I'd lease a Hyundai before ever considering buying a Tesla. It's too bad bc I like the tech, but lack of ownership, software telemetry and shoddy service is a deal breaker.
Niedermeyer makes some interesting points about Tesla's FSD.

"Why urbanists are wrong about autonomous vehicles w/ Tesla critic Ed Niedermeyer" 2023-08-17

https://micromobility.io/news/why-urbanists-are-wrong-about-...

TLDR: Equating autonomous vehicles (AVs) with Tesla's FSD is a category error. Tesla's FSD is a fraud.
It’s not a separate issue. I’d sacrifice my right to repair if that makes stealing less profitable.
There's NAT and then there's CGNAT and basically all of the new wave ISPs are using it.

But, I'd rather deal with the cgnat annoyances than ever have a financial relationship with Mediacom again.
OpenTelemetry in 2023
Yes. The latest variants are less deadly. There is a pretty good reason for that. If the infected lives longer it has a higher chance of a successful transmission.
The comparison to airplanes only makes any kind of sense at all if you require that drivers have training on par with a pilot.