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I've taken to asking the engineers on my team to just share the original prompt, no judgement because its frustrating having to read through pages of AI generated technical documentation. Another approach is to feed the AI generated content into AI... who knows where this will end.

While these advances are genuinely impressive, I'm curious when we will see practical implications for this work.

For example, will we see advances in material science, medical cures, etc?

Would love to read about some examples of practical impact.

Close encounters with their own satellites

“The current 1,600 close passes include those between two Starlink satellites. Excluding these encounters, Starlink satellites approach other operators’ spacecraft 500 times every week.”

Seriously, this article reads like it was written and sponsored by Blue Origin.

There is a reddit community all around this kind of approach:

http://www.reddit.com/r/juststart

However, as in all these things, the money is in selling the shovels.

Don't do this - the best way to evaluate is to compare the visual output with the auditory output, something you can't do if the screen is turned off.

This is an extremely risky business. It’s a simple concept - Google Sheets API to Firebase to App that we’ve used many times before, however Apple may decide to block these apps at any time as it has done in the past, eg see this article:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-revises-its-controve...

Edit: And its broken with a Firebase error "Error : could not handle request".

How do you propose we send you a pm on HN?

There isn't any difference between a job for someone with a disability vs someone without a disability.

For ycombinator to state “an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails.” is extremely disrespectful. You seriously expect us to believe that? Since this is a hacker forum, please can you tell us exactly what this error is and why it occurred?

I think you misread the question - the question is about "user testing" not "QA Testing".

I was referring to the use of the brand name 'Q Tip'.

Sigh. Its quite depressing to see Americans rely on brand names rather than the original meaning of the word.

It would almost make you want to take an Advil.

These are the kinds of tools that Open Banking in the UK promised, however I've as yet been unable to find a simple API reference or tutorial that outlines a way to get started.

Why do the planes not move?

This isn't a new, licensable or patentable idea - there are tons of apps out there that allow you to swipe to view different web pages.

You might find it useful to read the HN Guidelines [1]

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

How do you actually use this?

Simply transfer the Bitcoin from GDAX to Kraken and back again?

You're describing how things are now and have missed the point - this bill will mean that you will have to pay tax on vesting.

My very HN username is based around this idea of building a simple app and throwing it on the App Store and making 10 dollars per day, rinse and repeat..

Hey Matt, love the idea but your rates for England are completely wrong.

For an iOS developer in England with 3-5 years experience, the mode is £120-£140 per hour?

Please show me one single contract advertised in England where the daily rate is £1k.

Read up on the Dunning–Kruger effect.

"At present, we are unable to handle flights from the past Currently, you can only enter today's or future dates"

Isn't claiming delayed flights from the past the whole point of this? How would I know if my flight is going to be delayed in the future?

What is truly amazing is that this is becoming normal.

NHS Dentistry in England and Wales is one of the biggest hidden scams yet to be revealed. The 'Unit of Dental Activity' scheme encourages dentists to delay treatment unnecessarily to cover their basic costs. The sooner the UK government acknowledges that the current NHS Dentistry setup is not sustainable, the better it will be for all.

Agreed - this idea has been around since 1914.

Don't give up the day job.

Is an open source list of radio streams available, e.g. with URL/name/lat/long?

The best way to evaluate software as a sighted user is to learn how to use the assistive technology with the screen turned on.

Sure you can play around with the screen turned off to get some sense for the experience, but with the screen turned on you can compare the visual experience with the non-visual experience.

Another issue with testing with the screen turned off is - if an element isn't accessible, how are you going to know that it should have been there...

What kind of computer does he have? Screen magnification software is built into most OS's for free.

E.g. macOS:

http://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/osx/#vision

Free screen readers:

VoiceOver (built into macOS / iOS)

NVDA: http://www.nvaccess.org/

ChromeVox: http://www.chromevox.com/

I've been re-reading "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" and am no longer convinced that "2. Launch fast" is true.

Launching and iterating a product quickly can easily lead to false negatives, where an early unpolished product that does not quite meet the needs of the end user might turn off users and harm the brand for good, but by involving user research before launch, product fit for users can be evaluated and iterated on without annoying potential future customers.