skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Separate but equal isn't equal, and in the US, the ADA requires reasonable accommodation. It's not reasonable to require a second, separate app to cater to people with low vision/low dexterity, and chances are it's not going to have equal functionality (how many separate apps have equal functionality). It's better to require platforms to make accommodation a core feature (which they have largely done!) and require developers to use the accommodations.

The ADA has a private right of action which means that there's distributed effort to find out what's a reasonable accommodation and also to drag businesses into compliance. There's plusses and minuses with this approach, of course.
Big credit to this article for including actual charts that tell the story instead of relying on man-on-the-street quotes and vibes. I'm not sure if there's any way to tease out how significant each factor was in decreasing prices: frenzy buying normalizing, increased supply from new construction, increased interest rates significantly reducing buying power.
Odd how the sibling comment got downvoted into oblivion for this, but you're right - prophylaxis is an option here, and last I checked it was the recommended course of action if you develop the bullseye ring. Note that the tests have high false negative rates, so still might be sensible if you have a negative test.

Of course, these antibiotics are not without risk too.
Comparative Study of Large Language Model Architectures on Frontier
Hmm, I agree that the characters were mostly two-dimensional (esp. in book 2 and 3) and the story gets weirder and weirder, but I think it was still pretty good, especially book 1. In terms of terrible dialog and characters, the book will feel itself right at home among such luminaries as Asimov and Clarke.
Also, what is considered "significant" to be able to enforce it consistently?
Was. Now you can get it off eBay for $2000
I'd love it if the only thing this LLM ever replied with was "who's a pretty boy".
Thank you, and good job for isolating the root cause and solution.

Deregulation is an op designed to prevent the people from toppling dragons.
The funny thing is that most of the CYA cookie banners... are in themselves GDPR violations
The very community who needs this, is inclined to ask first sue second.

The ADA exists and is a powerful law. If you are willing to put in the work, generally you're going to get a pass.

I wrote a bunch of accessibility guides (with a lawyer looking over my shoulder) around 2000 for a F500. I have since worked with blind users to add accessibility to apps. If someone is asking, and you can help them do it. You will have a massive advocate for what ever it is your doing!
My main issue with The Three-Body Problem is that the average people involved are implausibly hyperintuitive, like:

“What can we infer from this picture of a footprint?”

“Well, obviously the wearer enjoys rhyming couplets and has a child who is in the process of moving to Chile.”

“Look closer.”

“A-ha! I am embarrassed. Of course, they also sit in the window seat in airplanes.”

“And from that we can infer?”

“They would have solved this physics question already.”

“Indeed!”

Oh, sure, obviously.
Jsonrpc over websockets is underrated tech. Simple, easy to implement, maps to programming language constructs (async functions, events, errors) which means code looks natural as any library/package/module usage devs are used to, can be easily decorated with type safety, easy to debug, log, optimize etc, works on current browsers and can be used for internal service to service comms, it's fast (ie. nodejs is using simdjson [0]), can be compressed if needed (rarely the need), we built several things on top of it ie. async generators (avoids head of line blocking, maps naturally to typescript/js async generators).

[0] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
Correct, a conflict of interest for sure, but it's still a peer reviewed paper regardless.
I hope that this article can do some small work in changing that perception!

My apologies for the math inaccuracy is in the mail.
Thought about it some more... this whole scenario makes sense in only the narrowist of contexts. Very few applications directly serve UGC to the public, and a lot of applications are B2B. You're authenticated, and there's a link to your employer (or you if you're self-employed). Uploaded data isn't made visible to the public. Services are often limited to a legal jurisdiction. If you want to upload your unencrypted child porn to a record in Google's Firebase database, you go ahead. The feds could use some easy cases.
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Sprawling low density cities consume resources too. Mass transit is less effective, so more people must buy and drive cars. Roads and highways are wider and more extensive. Cars need storage at the origin and destination of every trip, so homes need driveways or garages and businesses need parking lots. Other infrastructure must expand too: power lines, water/sewer pipes, communication wires, and so on.

One million people would need about the same amount of food/energy if they lived in 1,000 sq. mi. as they would if they lived in 100 sq. mi. But the cost per person to house and transport people in a dense city is lower than in a sprawling one.
It gives YouTube the justification to remove videos that may not be technically rule-breaking otherwise. Though, I do imagine proving that a video is AI generated will quickly become functionally impossible.
Nonetheless, you can count macros and lift to your heart's content but if your diet includes lead paint chips your physical and mental health will ultimately suffer. I'm not saying that ultraprocessed foods are as bad as lead paint chips, just that this line of reasoning falls short of addressing the concerns raised in studies on ultraprocessed foods.
So literally a few sentences that string together all the buzz words so that it gets picked up in automated systems? smart.
Also blending means no more chewing, aka less saliva to help breaking down things. Most blenders warm up the mix because yeah high speed, which means less vitamin as well. And there may be more aspects, I'm no nutritionist...
You're liable under the ADA everywhere in the US. Florida and New York are the big federal courts where people bring these cases. If it's found that you have created a barrier to accessing services, you can be sued.

The US doesn't really have any regulatory apparatus for disability access - ADA liability is how it gets handled. The legal test is murky, the amount you're liable for is murky, and thats generally considered ok, because it will make you fix your shit (legal term).
The Martian has a charm to it. It's not a massive literary achievement, but it has a character with charisma and actual feelings. The Three Body Problem is entirely cardboard cutouts with at best laughable motivations and at worst, none whatsoever. And the sequel, my god, it has some of the most sexist, insultingly bad writing.
They seem to have stopped training new astronauts in the later seasons. I can't believe Ed is still a character, let alone in command of a mission in deep space. I agree the whole show has gone off the rails since season 2.
I love this series, read all the books multiple times and also watched the 30 episode long book 1 tv adaption in Chinese. I can't wait to watch the book1 adaption on Netflix in a couple of days. I am really hoping its well received and they go on to make the season 2 based on book 2 which was by far my favorite book in the series.
In the limit, languages will be designed by AI for AI and the same goes for hardware. This assumes that languages higher then machine code will be needed which is not obvious.

Will this be acheived in a few years or a a few decades or never I can't tell.
I had the same experience, after some time spent thinking about why I agree with your point about translation, but I also think it's the author's style. In many ways it's a series about big concepts, about communicating scale, and a series of fascinating events... but not really about people. I remember every story beat, but none of the characters except for the one who (to avoid spoilers I'll phrase this a bid oddly) tells the 'fairy tales' later in the books.

I would recommend this series to anyone and everyone, but it's a great idea more than a great read.
Was going to comment this. Definitely should just be done with webfinger instead of creating a new .well-known.
I fed it a bunch of real images and it failed on all of them.
What kind of stories aren't "we" supposed to enjoy anymore? Action-filled, hero-centered stuff, usually based in a particular time period? I don't think that's ever truly gone out of fashion since movies have existed, nor will it, most likely.
Should also test -Os when doing this sort of thing. Sometimes the reduced size greatly improves cache behavior, and even when not it's often outright competitive with at least -O2 anyway (usually compiles faster too!)
Genuine question: do you have any links you could share regarding the "emulsifiers as detergent" claim? I assume this mainly refers to chemical emulsifiers and not
those that are naturally-occuring (like in eggs or garlic).
Among the workplace population, if you look at fatal workplace accidents [1] you'll find that falls are the second-most-common cause of death (deaths on the road are the most common)

Construction workers have the second-highest number of workplace deaths (transportation workers are the highest) and among construction workers, falls are the most common cause of death.

Transport and construction are second and third in fatalities per worker-hour, with 'farming, fishing and forestry' the most dangerous per worker-hour.

So ladders aren't the most dangerous thing out there - but falls are pretty near the top of the list when it comes to workplace deaths.

That's not to say people can't use ladders safely - just if you're hauling a heavy ass drill up a ladder and it's stopping you using both hands, the cable's flapping around your legs, your pockets are full of sharp pointy tools, and it's raining - maybe think twice :)

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf
Hmm ok. Because I know first hand that senior developers can get 220-300k easy. These aren't even owners or super niche. Just ~10yoe, and working on jira tickets nothinig wild.
If I'm putting out a free app as a single developer, I don't have the time or money to do everything. If it becomes popular, I can use metrics to improve the accessibility situation.

If government regulations are going to insist I have to put that investment in day 1, I'll just take up badminton or something.
Ask HN: What do I do if a job is causing me to be depressed and demotivated?
It is a legacy application with lots of internal tech and proprietary software I’ve never heard of or am able to find online. The manager and team push the undesirable work onto me despite me asking to do something else. The job market is pretty awful now and I’m not sure if I could find something else if I quit. The code base is of poor quality and just opening it makes me demotivated. All of this has caused me to spiral into depression the last 1.5 years. Is it possible to get out of this situation?
It’s a little ambiguous, but it seems as though they’re specifically talking about industrial steel making as it emerged in the 18th century (the Bessemer Process).

“That is a little-known fact in the Western world, where steel production only took off in the nineteenth century with fossil fuels”

Was the sentence immediately prior.

Regardless, making a claim and citing an article you haven’t written/published is essentially very weak.
Printing the HackerNoon Homepage (day 1) [video]
I agree. Unfortunately you can only have 6 SSE streams per origin per browser instance, so you may be limited to 6 tabs without adding extra complexity on the client side.

https://crbug.com/275955
Except that's what low code is today. You'll have to describe it in such detail that you might as well as paint it yourself.

Maybe it will abstract away setting up the paint and brush and the canvas, that part I'm fine with though.
I’d call those books competent. They didn’t advance the art form but the prose supported a fun story and was never distracting.
If it were purely random it would generate rubbish.
This is basically what the "early Internet" looked like that people often write paeans to. Lots of pages written by people very dedicated to a weirdly specific thing while also peppering it with nonsequiturs and their crazy theory about who runs the "real" government. It was fine, but hardly the glorious wonderland often portrayed. (Not that the current Internet is without its flaws, but if I want to learn something from someone it is a million times easier today than it was in the late-90's and early-00's.
While it's generally a good idea to make your app/site accessible to all users and user agents - the trouble usually comes when you're big enough to get sued.

In my previous life at an ad agency we had a number of clients getting pursued by accessibility lawyers and firms. These were typically nothing more than shakedowns for some insignificant settlement (<$10k) - but it was an open-and-shut case if you wanted to take it to court so it was just easier to settle and spend a couple of sprints on WCAG best practices.

IANAL and my agency didn't do the actual implementation so it was typically up to the client to sort out - but having a lawyer on hand should be one of the first things you take care of once you start making or accepting large amounts of money.
This blog feels like something from Internet hyperspace: Informative, but shitty formatting / layout. I say the latter with genuine love -- no trolling / hate. This blog post could have been posted in 1994! Can we please get more of these on HN!?
It seems like quite an indictment of the tech sector to say that success happens because accessibility is ignored.
Mine is 8', uninsulated, and lifting was with the aid of the opener (which stalled without help, with the broken spring).
What I love about Apple TV+ is that the stuff on it feels like it was made for more than just "do we think this will drive some metric." I'm not saying that you'll like any given program on Apple TV+, but when I open up Netflix I'm bombarded by a bunch of low-rent reality stuff, Disney+ seems to be focused on finding new ways of churning out as many iterations of the same franchises as possible, Max (Warner Bros) is canceling their content, Paramount+ is for Star Trek, and Prime Video is all about showing me content that isn't actually included so I can buy Prime channels.

When I open Apple TV+, I get choices like CODA, the story of a child of deaf adults. Whether you like the movie or not, it's something new and different. I get things like For All Mankind which just feels so much better than anything I've ever watched before and meaningfully different from other stuff I've seen.

I love TV and movies. Not everything has to be grand or new. But there's something nice about opening up Apple TV+ and having a bit of a different experience from what a lot of the apps are pushing.
Biggest historical mysteries that will probably never be solved
What are the advantages of keeping FreeBSD for the NAS use case instead of migrating to Linux?

Linux seems to be a more popular choice.
Awesome!

How are you doing the synthetic data generation?

What is the best open source small LLM?
The bit that annoyed me was just how completely inept the protagonist was in the 3rd book. If there was a decision to be made, the wrong option was chosen every time.
Uber shows how much they will pay, the driver doesn't have to accept the trip. If drivers don't accept Uber will have to adjust the price.
Moreover, the target "audience" of an app is always specified before the design phase, in the Business Requirements Document and such and it's a defining element for the development. I've read/wrote hundreds of such documents in my career, yet I've never seen one that sets its target audience as 'everybody'.
Here's a beginner question: what's the big difference between emotion perception and sentiment analysis (which is offered everywhere)? Sentiment goes only plus/minus and emotion produces multidimensional charts?
This is for local work, so you use the same compiler for your dependencies and for your own code. Only the codegen backend differs.
It does improve, there's a little more characterization further on but you're not wrong... part of the issue is that the timescale gets massive so there's a lot of world to build. It's definitely more universe-building than character-building. FWIW it being less juvenile than Ready Player One kept me interested enough.
This was another hysteria that was constantly government-fueled, and discussion of it completely disappeared once the people who met every morning to whiteboard how best to push it were assigned to other projects.
"people's work would not be specialized enough to get us there"

This reminded me of one of the arguments in "Selfish reasons to want more humans" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39497686 : we can get more scientific, technical, and economic progress with a larger population on Earth, as more people can specialize in narrow domains.
Thanks for the Book Title. It looks like an interesting read.
I don't think you've established any factual challenge to either of my statements:

> But the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the former to be their forefathers. They are not genetically closer to them than other Europeans, nor do they speak the same language or call themselves the same word or have the same lifestyle or inhabit the same places.

> Modern German is no closer to the language of a randomly chosen 'Germanic Tribe' than English, Prussian, Danish, Yiddish, Swedish, Czech, etc

The fact that there is some connection between modern German and Old High German and some connection between Old High German and the languages of the Germanic tribes does not contradict either.
The bounds safety C compiler extension research by Apple has measured the runtime impact of adding bounds checking to C and it is not a lot more than 1-2% in almost all cases. Even in microbenchmarks its often around 5%. The impact on media encoding and decoding was around 1-2% and the overall power use on the device did not change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK9bfrsMdAM
https://llvm.org/devmtg/2023-05/slides/TechnicalTalks-May11/...

It's a myth that bounds checking has extraordinary performance costs and cannot be enabled without slowing everything to a halt. Maybe this was the case 10 years ago or 20 years ago or something, but not today.
Used GPT-4 and speech-to-text to improve task management and note taking
I got pretty tired of typing out my tasks and notes. Sometimes, I'd even forget to note certain things down...

The application has your standard features you'd expect from a similar app, but allows your to speak and projects, tasks and notes are created for you.

The system is actually pretty simple and OpenAI has definitely helped out here.

Here's how it works:
1. Start speaking
2. Submit your audio
3. OpenAI's whisper API is used to transcribe the audio
4. Based on the transcription, the correct JSON is returned to the client
5. A project, task or note modal is prompted with the details previously voiced
6. User can then save their project, task or note

Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
Why make laws if everyone bad is just gonna break them?
This doesn’t vibe with my experience at all. We also use LLMs and it’s exceedingly rare that a non-trivial PR/MR gets waved through without comment.
Google+ was a boon for finding people by their phone number. So is to this day, to some extent, facebook. Add a number to your contacts and the social network will helpfully fill in the blanks.
Perfect is the enemy of the good and all that.

Still, I believe you are wrong despite your statement ringing true. You are conflating different reasons as to why people may want to generate AI videos. The nefarious motive may be nothing more than profit ('cheaper than paying actor') as opposed to malice('we want to defraud people'). There are all sorts of reasons as to why self-disclosure is not a bad start including the fact that if it turns out you lied, you can be removed without it being a question of freedom of speech and so on.
Industrial and agricultural pollution are not the only potential pollutants in tap water. There are natural sources of viruses, bacteria, and parasites that exist.
If you don't want websites to store (1st, 2nd or 3rd party) cookies then such behavior could/should simply be controlled within the browser. Just turn off cookies (although the browser cookie control options could be improved).

If I'm allowing my browser to set cookies, I don't need an EU law forcing websites to ask me everytime if I'm ok with a cookie being set.
I haven't noticed much difference between these. They're all well-represented in the VAE training set.
I don't live there anymore but I grew up in Paris -

I knew absolutely nobody living in Paris driving to another location in Paris. It's always been metro first, bicycle sometime. Almost all of the passenger car you see in Paris are people driving from the suburb.
We can lower carbon emissions while still using steel, but it would require factoring in sequestering equivalent CO2 or switching to renewable in the price of steel.

Obviously, this would dramatically increase the price of steel but this would now be more realistic price after accounting for how damaging it is to the environment and how costly it is to make that steel carbon neutral.

Or another point of view, the current price of steel is extremely cheap because people who benefit from it do not have to pay for the environmental cost of it.
Considering how poor the DoD response outlined in this article has been, they may have awareness, but that doesn't mean they're appropriately addressing the risk.
>It falls a bit on programming tasks, but I don't use it for that.

I suspect a lot of us mediocre coders probably are using these chat AIs primarily for this. ChatGPT's been a pretty solid replacement for what used to be Googling for "How do I do X in Y?" kind of queries. Obviously, that's not really what Siri needs to be.
> Wouldn't it be better to just have a "low vision" version of the app, a "low touch accuracy" version of the app, etc?

I find your comment interesting because it speaks to users who can see, just not well. When I think of web accessibility, I (mostly) think of users who are entirely blind. While it turns out:

~80% of screen reader users are blind. The other ~20% may be partially vision impaired, or sometimes not visually impaired at all (but use it due to things like dyslexia). [1]

~2.4% of Americans are visually impaired and use (or could benefit from) a screen reader. [2]

A "low vision" / "low touch accuracy" version of an app would likely be serving less than 0.5% (20% of 2.4%, see above) of your userbase. (As opposed to simply supporting screen readers in the "regular" version of the app.) Doesn't seem like a priority to optimize for 0.5% of your userbase when you're just trying to vet an unproven idea.

[1] https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/not-all-screen-reader-user...

[2] https://nfb.org/resources/blindness-statistics
Is above still an issue with http2/3?

edit: From the article:
To workaround the limitation you have to use HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 with which the browser will only open a single connection per domain and then use multiplexing to run all data through a single connection.
You’re being downvoted but this is true - most accessibility work seems to be generated by the accessibility industry, and is focused on short term fixes (modifying every website) rather than long-term solutions (fixing web browsers for disabled people).
> breaks Java

Good to see Apple back in the business of killing stuffy old runtimes.
There is a middle ground. There are Free widgets that you can install [0] that can add some accessibility features on top of any existing website/app. Not perfect but takes care of a lot of low hanging fruits.

https://userway.org/get/