skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

> All of our body text is WCAG 2 compliant - we wanted to ensure the primary usability of the app is accessible towards the current standard. Where we diverge is when combining saturated colors with desaturated colors for foregrounds/backgrounds, which WCAG has some trouble with.

Why not use APCA only though? Isn't it hard to keep track of where you're following WCAG 2 for some colors and APAC for others?

> Even with #000 and #fff as your colors, fonts under 11.5px are not allowed (Figma uses 11px for much of the UI). For many expert tools, 11px fonts are fairly standard due to the amount of UI you have to have on screen - other examples here where this is common are tools such as Blender or CAD software.

I've encountered this pain too. It feels like the only solution is the user configures their browser/OS to say what they find acceptable so the UI can adapt to that, rather than the default UI for everyone having to conform to the most restrictive rules.

> Hackernews uses black 12px font for the main body text against a #f6f6ef background, which according to APCA requires a minimum 15px font at normal font weight.

Do you have any tricks for conforming to APCA when you need to keep track of font weight, font size, and background vs foreground color while designing/developing UIs? There's style guides for reference, auditing tools, and potential for automation (e.g. CSS variables that pick a contrasting color for you), but curious if you had some thoughts given it can be a lot to manage.

> This was relevant for our Figma's brand color, as prior to our accessibility pass it wasn't compliant when combined with white text for neither WCAG 2 nor APCA. We modified it slightly to be #0D99FF, which was close enough to the original brand color it didn't feel like a rebrand, while still allowing us a passing APCA color contrasts score.

I'm curious how WCAG managed to miss this one during standardisation given how common blue is for a brand color. I wonder how many brands this has impacted.
And of cause the fact that the Perl community relished in inventing new and exiting shorthand tricks that allowed perl script to be essentially write only unless you stuck to an style-guide that had not been codified.

Perl like VisualBasic had a well deserved reputation for facilitating atrocious hard to debug code, and it was this reputation more then the lack of OO/XML support that led both of those to fade back into the realm of forgotten memory and business critical enterprise applications that nobody dares to touch.
That's what I think as well. No way countries like the US (and others, obviously) can make that kind of changes. Unfortunately we're all on the same boat, we will all sink together.
I tend to agree with you (on both the infrastructure and your opinion of Bloomberg) -- the city is, overwhelmingly, a far better place to cycle than when I was a kid.

At the same time, it's been my impression that there's been a backslide over the last few years: cyclist deaths are way up (and continue to rise), and I see way more obviously illegal cars (missing plates, defaced plates, etc.) and driving behavior (rolling through reds, turning on reds, etc.) on the streets than I used to. The city badly needs enforcement of these behaviors, both as a matter of public safety and a form of incentive and fine alignment.
It does provide plenty of PG specific capabilities, but PG has always had much better conformance to SQL standards and support for all the standard features than other DBs like MySQL. It's one of the most compatible DBs from a few points of view.
A lot of place in the US have a comparable population density. Nobody is discussing the creation of a bicycle highway across Wyoming.
My hair dryer is rated for 1875W - a bit over 15 amps at 120V.
Thank you, well done sir.
Most fuses are slow blow - they will allow somewhat over the rates power draw for a while before blowing. Many things (motors) take a lot more than rated current for a few seconds and this is perfectly safe so the fuse shouldn't blow. The purpose of the fuse is to prevent a house fire, if your wires are good for 13 amps that means at 100% duty cycle, you can draw 16 amps for "a while" before the wires get hot enough to burn the house down, so long as you drop under 13 amps for "a while" so the wires cool down and never get hot enough to start a fire the fuse is working.

Note that the above is about safety. If you are going to draw 16 amps you should stick to a circuit rates for that, as it will have less resistance and thus waste less energy.
400v 3-phase in a house is crazy to me. I was hit with 480v once (someone cut my lockout and turned the power on). That stuff will outright kill you unless someone else is around to help.

One of my favorite things about US residential power is that 120v is far less dangerous when homeowners (or worse, kids) accidentally do something they shouldn't.
Somewhat related: in New Hampshire your rural property taxes go up if you post no trespassing/hunting signs. And if these signs are not posted, others have the right to roam over your land and hunt. I love the concept which I here fly recognizes the social value of land but preserves the right of landowners to pay for exclusivity.
Your comment literally says "It's super efficient" though.
> Learn vanilla JS instead

Then learn TypeScript.
Here’s the RCT paper: “Muvalaplin, an Oral Small Molecule Inhibitor of Lipoprotein(a) Formation” by Stephen J. Nicholls, MBBS, PhD; Steven E. Nissen, MD; Cynthia Fleming, RN, MSN; et al.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2808864?gu...

“Oral doses of 30 mg to 800 mg for 14 days resulted in increasing muvalaplin plasma concentrations and half-life ranging from 70 to 414 hours. Muvalaplin lowered Lp(a) plasma levels within 24 hours after the first dose, with further Lp(a) reduction on repeated dosing. Maximum placebo-adjusted Lp(a) reduction was 63% to 65%, resulting in Lp(a) plasma levels less than 50 mg/dL in 93% of participants, with similar effects at daily doses of 100 mg or more.”
Germany is much cloudier than California and it is also at a significantly higher latitude, where the solar insolation is a lot smaller.

Solar panels above about 50°N almost never break even from a carbon budget POV over the lifetime of the panel once you account for mining, smelting, panel production, transportation and end of life processing.

You can fudge it if you have a location that far north with both a high altitude and low annual cloud cover but there aren't very many of them. AFAIK the only place with good annual solar potential at that latitude is in the Amur Oblast of Russia.

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That said, all of this applies to solar buildouts in the northern and central latitudes of Europe. Building panels in Spain/Italy/Serbia/etc and transmitting power is a wonderful idea that hasn't seen as much uptake as anybody with green ideas would like.
theres also movies like Primer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

which shows what can be create with minimal budget and crew. I heard a lot of the cast also doubled as backstage workers during the shoot.
Very cool that there's a "preview" downloadable version: https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/omni
Yep my kitchen outlets are all the 20-amp specific ones, with the T slot.
They didn't access any random computers outside of their jurisdiction, only Qakbot servers.
I thought residential US service was 240V split phase with two 120V legs.

I've heard for some wet construction locations they'll set up 120V split phase with two 60V legs, to keep the potential to ground smaller.
what's the likely outcome here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_E_propagation

Even without drones, aircraft, or spot beams on satellites, you might be able to do this with ionospheric bounce or tropospheric ducting. 150Mhz is on the top of 2 meter HAM radio.
TEMU's business model could only work in China. But they're aiming to go global
A duck is not a horse due to... it not being a horse. You can macroexpand Z to "not having four legs", etc., but incomparable things will end up being different just based on their very essence.
This was the case here as well.
I’m sorry you are totally, utterly wrong.

Wrong abstractions percolates to your system, assumptions on how your abstraction is supposed to work is hard ossification that hides concrete implementation and their actual, generally simpler, contraints.

Basically your refactoring work now requires to understand all user code that relies on the wrong aspects of your abstractions find a way to correct it if your lucky and make it work exactly the same way the duplicated code would have.

And I didn’t mention implementations that drifts in incompatibles ways with the abstraction, a large source of errors and regrets.

The good bet for productivity is recognizable implementations patterns and duplication.

In the end refactoring duplicated code that had time to settle and drifted in legitimate ways to find your correct abstraction is a blast.
I've posted on this a few times. Rehashing[0]:

> https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/pull/294

> So basically they stopped running the older version themselves but don't consider the newer version production-ready yet. What a mess.

This doesn't seem to have improved much since...

Some of my experience self-hosting the whole stack previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30315816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727935

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30728966
no, the article says "groups seek permission from the government to break arbitrary software locks and passwords that keep consumers and repair professionals from diagnosing and repairing equipment they own or are authorized by the owner to work on." It doesn't mention "lockouts", or bypassing safety features. It's about access to the machine, and the diagnostics that a repair person has access to, but the owner does not.
These drones are for accompanying new fighter planes. They aren't super expensive ground attack drones, which we already have in cruise missiles, but really cheap fighters. Peer conflicts is the only reason to have them.
> Also I don't see how sysadmin is worse than programming

Probably pay. Neither is incredibly prestigious, but it seems development work can cap out much higher.
My reply was intended more like: You're addressing a bank robber convention, to morally condemn a convenience store robber.

(That parent should have the guts to broaden their scope of condemnation. Unless throwing the first stone in a glass house was a clever Socratic prompt intended to lead to this discussion.)
I don't normally like YouTube talking videos, but this one is really good and to-the-point. Will say in response though, at least 120V makes this less of a safety issue.
I am not sure such a clause would be upheld in a scenario where the franchisor blatantly acts in bad faith outside of industry norms to fleece the franchisee. There is a reasonable expectation of good faith.
I’m saying the statistic is flat out incorrect.

I followed the link and the closest I could find was 13 bicycle deaths and 95 pedestrian fatalities totaling to 108 for the region.
I feel like small formulas could clarify better these 2 fusion algorithms. I have read the article twice and checked some of the references and I’m still a bit confused how each of the algorithms compute the final order
Is Google Cloud SQL a more direct alternative to Aurora? I'm having a hard time keeping all these database services straight.
I don’t think the comment is about riding on the motorway, which as you say is illegal, but to the side next to the motorway on an adjacent path.
To claim that any one device won the war is reductive and narrows the focus too tightly when considering a global war.

Each item on its own contributed to the war effort, absolutely. The cavity magnetron and the RADAR it enabled saved lives in the Battle of Britain, the PTO and elsewhere thanks to its early warning of incoming air raids, to be sure. To claim any single item was decisive is pretty tough, though, when compared against broader concepts like disparity in industrial base, logistical ability, and so on.

To the T-34 example you quote, how well would the T-34 have performed without locomotives to bring fuel, consumables, and the tanks themselves to the front? Or the resources to the tank factories in the first place?
Note: I am the author of this article.

Yes, they fixed this particular issue (and a few more), the article mentions it. But the update I published today explains why Chrome Sync is still very bad privacy-wise (as opposed to outright horrible which it was back in 2018). https://palant.info/2023/08/29/chrome-sync-privacy-is-still-...
A web search turns up loads of cases where the police bashed in the wrong door simply because they are morons. Here's one that was expensive for them (for the city anyway): https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/01/13/brighton-f...
> we concluded that the formations of a part of Omicron isolates BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2 were not the products of genome evolution as is commonly observed in nature, such as the accumulation of mutations and homologous recombinations. Furthermore, the study of 35 recombinant isolates of Omicron variants BA.1 and BA.2, confirmed that Omicron variants were already present in 2020. The analysis we have shown here is that the Omicron variants are formed by an entirely new mechanism that cannot be explained by previous biology

> This paper aims to point out that SARS-CoV-2 has undergone unthinkable mutations under conventional coronavirus mutation mechanisms, and we hope that the possibility of artificial theory should be included in the discussion seriously as to the formation of SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Oh it's another lab leak theory. The Lancet (the most prestigious medical journal) already debunked these conspiracy theories [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_letter_(COVID-19)
This would make me nervous. Sure, things are holding up now, but what happens when that heat exceeds design tolerances on the seals? Does the warranty stand up if you have this film installed?
This sounds like what lispers call something like “language driven design” or “growing a language”
Co-Pilot for Everything
"judgment call" is what I'd say if I knew the data wasn't nearly as conclusive as I'd need it to be to call it a "data driven" decision.
Landlords can indeed be liable is many ways for some kinds of illegal activity that take place on their property (especially if it involves drugs.) There are a variety of local and federal laws that enable this.
Anti viruses act like malware anyways
"Evading regulations" is a phrase that holds a different weight when you don't live in a free society. "Evading regulations" could be using a gay dating app in Iran. Or organizing to fight against a repressive government in Russia. Even in so-called civilized Western nations, there are increasing tendencies toward autocratic rhetoric and encroachments into personal liberties. See: abortion access in the United States.

Not too long ago the US government put pressure on all financial institutions to stop processing payments for Wikileaks without them ever having been convicted of committing any crimes. That's just a single example plucked out of the sky, regardless of your feelings about that organization.

The great advantage that we get from a decentralized, opt-in trust infrastructure is that we have an avenue around these unjust and extralegal encroachments.

Having said all that, even if you don't care about politics, there are countless examples of centralized entities changing ownership, or changing strategies, and their users pay the price. See: Twitter taking people's usernames.

You might be fine with dealing with living at the whims of billionaires but I want my digital life to be more durable than that.
Is/will AlloyDB be open source?
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37288856
Can you summarize that video? I got about 7 minutes in and it still hadn't answered the question but did get an ad, so I gave up. Too much filler and noise!
Yeah this does not ring true anywhere I’ve lived (mostly coastal cities)
You and many others seem to be hell bent on the lycra/ spandex outfits. I really don't get it... What's with this? Consider that wearing tight fitting sports attire makes most of your body's surface area into a highly effective radiator.

Try it, you may just like it.
Not sure if OP is from Dylibso, but would love to see telemetry data emitted in OpenTelemetry format as well so different tools (including open source ones) which support Otel format can also consume this data.

I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz [1], an otel native open source observability platform and would love to enable our users to see telemetry data from WASM

[1] https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
> They decide on new hires.

That honestly does NOT reassure me. I'm getting flashbacks to being chosen last during football practice. While I can convince tech leads of my skills, I have never been a very popular guy and when it comes to being judged by a crowd, I fear they will pick the guy who is more handsome, taller, or Biodeutsch, or who has a more „sympathisch“ profile.
These were withdrawn from the market for Cinema in 2018 according to Dolby

https://professional.dolby.com/product/dolby-cinema-imaging-...

but there might still be some theme park rides still using it.
I must have missed it, but does the article mention that those servers were all located inside the US? (where I supposed FBI has jurisdiction for stuff like this).
The extent to which this just seems to be openly true is startling. Some games, in response to new strategies that are particularly effective, by embracing them and setting aside older approaches. Some games respond by rebalancing and changing rules to keep the game working well. Bridge just bans the strategies themselves (eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_pass and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_unusual_method ).
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Feuobserver.com%2Fgreen...
It's not really more complicated, just different. It's funny, the F in FDA stands for food, so you still need to deal with the FDA and its regulations, just different ones.

Its really more of a paperwork/comiance thing than anything. I.e. genaric drugs.
Source- I've designed medical devices and food processing equipment for 20 years.
Yes, that's the "embrace" part.

I guess my point is that "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is a really outdated saying and I hate it. Embracing and Extending are really good things.
I was a little surprised that my neighborhood must have some redundancy. A year or so ago a transformer on a pole two doors down from us popped, and our power actually didn't go out.
Possible, but the outlet will have a different plug. Most window air conditioners use that type of outlet, and some garages will have it for hobby equipment. I don't think you can legally install a UK (or EU) outlet in the US even though everything that plugs into it would be just fine on our 240V power (a few clocks won't work right, but they won't be harmed or harm anything)
Air Traffic Control System Update: Statement from NATS CEO
Reminds me of the film director dismissing the view of a film critic who had never made a film in his entire life...
How do you know the code you reverse engineered was flat and simple and not Best Practice with Scrum on top?
It starts to become annoying when you have a home office for 2 people though. 2 PCs + 4 monitors and some random things in a room can start approaching the wattage limit. Especially given that I think it's not too common to have one circuit per room (anecdata: my house has one circuit for all outlets per story; not counting bathroom and kitchen which I believe are mandated by building code to be separate).
> 4. Oil companies have been known to fund the likes of Greenpeace and CND to promote fear about nuclear power/weapons

It would be curious to see if there is a real conspiracy here, namely that green parties are really the creation of fossil fuel companies. Mainly to redirect and block credible environmental movements and replace them with ridiculous fearmongering groups with the goal of making fossil fuels the only option.
Thanks a lot!!! I can't believe I meet you on HN, great work so far
> I never called anyone immoral or even implied it. If I thought so, then I would have just said it clearly.

Lets quote:

"To my ears/eyes, those sentences above seem like a carefully crafted but still flimsy excuse. It’s like a lie that you tell yourself over and over so much that you end up believing it"

You called them liars. Most people consider lying to be immoral. You implied they had ulterior motives. The implication is that these motives were evil because people don't lie about good motivations.

> However, I was making 2 points in my original comment.

Yes i know, but they are separate points that don't build on each other. I disagree with both but i only find one of the points objectionable and was only contending one of them. What, do you think that people can only fully disagree or agree with you? That people have to disagree or agree with both points.

> It’s interesting that you’re fixated on this but you haven’t commented on any of the other comments on this post that did call Fizz’s employees immoral.

I have not commented on literally every thread on the internet. You caught me. However just because someone called them immoral doesn't mean i find their comment objectionable.

That said, are you really trying to argue that two wrongs make a right? If you want me to conceed that there exists other bad people on the internet, i'll happily agree with that.

> If you remember, the original comment that I replied to said “Devil’s advocate”. That meant that this subthread was supposed to explore a viewpoint that others weren’t commenting as much.

No, it means the original commenter doesn't neccesarily agree with the view being espoused. Given you said you agree with said view, you are obviously not claiming to be playing devils advocate. In any case, devil's advocate isn't a blank cheque to behave any way you want.

> It’s interesting that you’re fixated on this but you haven’t commented on any of the other comments on this post that did call Fizz’s employees immoral.

But i don't have an issue with their comment. While i might not 100% agree with his metaphor, i think his comment was reasonable. He did not call them liars with no evidence. He did not misleadingly imply the authors agreed that one should only do security research covered by safe harbour provisions when they didn't. Etc.

I may disagree with them being immoral but i don't object to calling them such if backed up with reasonable argument. I object to calling them liars (or accusing them of any other moral sin) without evidence. That's something you did that most other people haven't, which is why i am fixated on your comment not theirs.
HackerRank lays off 53 employees amid economic uncertainty
> OK, so drop their feed and block them?

> Great, done.

The "great" is the problem, no?
You just know that once these work, some narcissistic billionaire is going to create a whole ton of offspring using this.[1]

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-jeffrey...
I think what you're trying to say is that just because someone - especially [large company] - tries to improve/integrate popular open projects doesn't mean it's always EEE.

Which I doubt EEE is purposeful the majority of the time initially, even if has the potential to become that later. In the case of google I think this would be a case of "how do we add value to our product to sell" followed by "this feature costs us too much resources to maintain, let's cut it and focus on [new feature]"

That being said Postgres is not a good example because AFAIK they're both not a commercial entity (or any registered entity at all?) and they're true FOSS. At the moment they have no commercialization strategy (sponsorships maybe?) and no ability to extinguish anything given their open license and lack of any proprietary services.