skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone now living in Japan, I think I can understand how frustrating the user experience is for disabled people.
While not disabled, I often need to use Google translate or lookup for Kanjis/Words in a dictionary.
There are a crazy amount of websites (and mobile applications) where text selection is disabled or where text is written inside images, which often completely prevents me from using the website...

I'm not even counting the number of websites breaking the system scroll speed of forcing a custom mouse cursor. I may be too sensitive here, but it is very annoying so I now just close the tab whenever it happens.
Ah yeah. Badge numbers and pro pedophilia comments. Tomato tomato.
Whait until 10.16 MacOS is out. Then you will not be able anymore to open not notarized app.

And for 10.17, Developers will have to pay for notarization, as an "insurance" low quality app will not end on your Macbook.

For 10.18 or 10.19, nothing will run unless it's installed from the Apple store or certified with an enterprise certificate delivered by Apple. Just like on iOS.

Apple has previously expressed frustration about the poor financial performance of the Mac App Store...

They want to bring the iOS App Store business model on Mac in order to optimize financial return on the platform.

It's on par with the T2 ship insertion in new models in order to prevent third party repair (google Rossman macbook) just to be able to ask outrageous prices for minor repair or to push for the purchase of a new model at every random glitch on your device outside of the Apple Care contract or legal warranty..

Beside, in Catallina, they just put the /System folder as a separate partition in read only mode... But even if you can still currently mount it in read-write mode, in a future version it will not be possible anymore, unless if you start in recovery mode, system used by Apple to install new version of MacOS.

Soon, you will have to jailbreak your Macbook, taking advantage of a providential "bug" on a specific version, and lost all unix permission system benefits in order to install third party software (at that point cracked, because all legit developer will either have already paid for notarization/Mac App Store or abandonned the platform), just like on iOS.

It's all writen betweens the lines. They're just going forward slowly enough to avoid brutal outcry from the MacOS power users base and the press.
This is the gist i believe:

> In 2015, CERN’s LHCb found pentaquarks in their data with 9 sigma significance!!! This either proved that CERN can find whatever it wants in its data or it proved that the experiments which showed the pentaquark did not exist were wrong. I suspect that the former is true because I wonder what the expected probability of seeing the particle was in their application of Bayes’ theorem.

I 'm not sure that's an indictment of LHC itself or rather of the sloppy way with which science attribute importance to whatever is statistically significant. It's probably true that there is too much data and not enough good models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
I would say that yes -- sometimes. Often making a piece of software accessible to the blind for a small time developer or a small business owner is an undue burden.

If I was forced to modify two of the apps I put up on the apple store to accommodate the blind I would just take them down because I could not justify the investment since it would require retooling the entire product and even re-imagining how it functions internally.
I started a discussion at
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPUEYuYuJSRE_c_k%2BuB...
You're right that public dissents from cert. denial are not as common as dissents from SCOTUS opinions. However, given the questions presented, the current composition of the Court, and the fact that only 4 justices are needed to grant cert., it still seems unlikely that the Court would rule in favor of a different defendant in a different case.

That is, this case presented a novel issue, and it was at a stage where the questions were legal in nature (not factual). That's the perfect opportunity for SCOTUS to take the case if they planned to interpret the ADA as not applying to business' websites. They could hypothetically weigh in on the case after Dominos has a full trial with all the facts, but if they planned to say that as a matter of law the ADA does not apply to Dominoes' website, why would they wait to do so?

And since both "sides" (liberal and conservative) of the Court have at least 4 justices right now, either could have independently granted cert. This is especially true for the conservative wing, which is typically viewed (or typically caricatured, depending on your perspective) as being more business-friendly — and which has 5 justices.

Regardless, thanks for raising this point. You're right that the absence of a cert. denial dissent does not strictly indicate a unanimous vote.
> I bet most people that have eaten a hamburger have never pet a cow.

Given that most Americans have definitely never pet a cow, and I'd go as far as to propose most have probably never even seen a cow in person, that's probably a very safe wager. But what percent of people that have pet a cow, would you wager also do eat beef?
Show HN: How to automate incoming emails with a restdb.io database
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If you can't play your old games it makes the entire platform unattractive to players, which in turns makes it unattractive to game developers.

But tbh Mac was hardly a gaming platform to begin with.
Google do reward you for following web accessibility best practices, but it doesn't know if the actual experience is accessible.
Coq used to support a "declarative proof mode" that's a lot more readable and maintainable than the usual proof scripts. Older versions of Coq could even output a pretty-printed version of any proof term, where the structure of the corresponding proof was explained in English text.

Very old versions of Agda had an even more developed support for "literate" proofs, where any item in the proof language could have a natural-language form, that could also be endowed with features in natural language grammar (singular/plural forms, grammatical class such as noun/adjective/verb/adverb, symbolic vs. written out form) and thus allow for complex phrases to be pretty-printed automatically.

All of these features were left to bitrot, unfortunately. I don't think the version of Agda I mentioned can even be downloaded anymore. (Newer versions of Coq have some support for 'structured' proofs that is supposed to improve maintainability if proactively used, but it's a far cry from what those features could allow 'out of the box', with no need for special care or discipline from the user.)
I don’t think anything would have to be enforced. Look at San Francisco or NYC. Most people wouldn’t want to have a family of 3 kids there because it’s too expensive.
If you make your browser window half width, or increase your text size, you may find it's easier to read. When I'm awake and focused, I can read smaller text across longer lines without problems. When I'm more tired, I need to increase the text size, bring the screen closer, make window widths smaller.

You may also benefit from getting your vision checked. This may be early stages of something occurring, and the sooner it's identified the better.
What standards should those sites adhere to?

Are those standards sufficiently complete as to be referenced by regulatory agencies?

If so, what's keeping us from adopting standards or at least recommendations for legal compliance?

I think that Domino's assertion is that the current framework is too vague, but I regularly see the argument that there are standards to follow. So... What are those standards, and why aren't they law?
What makes you think this wasn't sent to RMS privately? Or that there haven't been personal discussions with RMS in the past years?
It marginalizes itself by being disgusting

Quite the opposite. By being "disgusting" it makes itself required viewing by every school child in the country to to prove how subversive they are.
For all his faults, Jobs was never reported as creepy https://youtu.be/7uu8UC12hBI?t=352.
Screen readers are modal and I believe e.g. JAWS has a character-by-character mode to spell out the character that's under the cursor. Aside from that, from what I saw in a conference presentation, sight impaired users can use tools like Intellisense.
I think gaming roleplay is an underappreciated art form. This seems like a text version of it
A lot of apps over the years have exploited the fact that kernels used to sit above the 2GB address space boundary to encode data into the high bit.
There where web only deals you couldn’t get via making a call.
That's not really the situation about South Park, Netflix chose to not make those episodes not available, there is no censorship from the CSA.
Nerflix claim that those episodes were censored originally was false as those were broadcasted on Gameone. The only thing that happened then is that the channel got a warning that (for 2 of those) the episodes should have been broadcasted after 22 and rated +12 due to the content.

https://information.tv5monde.com/info/netflix-zappe-des-epis... (in french)
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Scaling Elasticsearch broke our ranking. Why it happened and how we fixed it
"Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image will result in removal from Grandmasters and reduction of the player’s prize total to $0 USD [...]"

That's pretty close to "Blizzard can remove you from Grandmasters as soon as you open your mouth".
Sad to see such a cowardice from corporations, although in the case of Blizzard it was kind of to be expected after all their visual modifications to Hearthstone in order to appeal to the chinese market.
Ask HN: I came across a copied HN: Hacker Next. Why is HN copied?
www.pkuosa.org

I know some people create apps that make reading HN easier, but a google search of pkuosa seems to reveal nothing of that sort. It looks like a cheap knock-off, which begs the question: why would anyone create it?
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This is my sentiment as well. A twitter summed it up nicely:

> the notion that every developer of every app is part of the constant, incessant update loop that Apple encourages is fundamental to the problem. Someone's super personal narrative unity game from 2013 is not getting updated!

[1] https://twitter.com/MammonMachine/status/1181327259057082368
NBA, Blizzard, who is next?
You may enjoy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19221446 | Remembering a Programming Language that Helped Shape the Digital New York Times

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20877047 | 25 Years of New York Times Website Design History

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20940209 | New York Times Developer Portal
Anyone tried Catalina on an old late-2013 16GB 15'' MBP? Is general performance affected? So far so good with Mojave.
The act didn't bring Blizzard into public dispute. Blizzard banning the player brings Blizzard into public disrepute because it shows that they are cowardly whores willing to do anything for money.
Accept that you've got a limited throughput. And just chill.
Yeah, but 64 bit doesn't give your users anything usually, so it's a tax that is more of a drain on smaller software shops. Especially consider that lots of programs and especially games have a spike of sales when new and then sales decline to nothing. There may not be new versions, ever. So going back and updating them is pure loss for the developers.

This is one reason why ecosystems like Java are so valuable! The 64 bit transition was so easy for it because of the common insistence on "pure Java" for portability. Combined with pointer compression 64 bit was hardly noticed.
Not affected now, but being non-US is not a guarantee. Many European companies would like to trade with for example Iran, but can't since they also have a big market in the US, so they can be targeted.
Yes. It’s interesting approach. Still your apps will be timebombed for 7 days.
Imagine making a app for private use by my family and going on vacation longer than 7 days. I must have access to my computer...
Isn't it common to refer to the "US" or "EU" when posters mean the administration and not the people? It's up to the interpretation of the reader probably. Curious to get perspective if readers indeed were offended by that comment from the poster? I'm normally not offended if someone says Americans do this or that.
No - they live in the suburbs of new developments and drive in to work there. Massively, unarguably a worse impact on the environment than building some condos downtown. It's like you think people will say oh well, can't afford San Francisco, I'll move to Detroit!
Trillion dollar class action suit against Tether[pdf]
It wasn't being cheap, but accepting things that didn't pass Soviet safety rules was one, another was that the process was not followed. Same design RBMK reactors have been operated for years without issue, but the Chernobyl plant did a test in wrong order,meaning that the safety measures that were backups for the tests... Weren't running.

After significant human process training, the rest of Chernobyl NPP operated till around 2005
The earth is small and the moon relatively large (diameter 27% of that of earth; next is Triton, at 5%; volume-wise, the difference is even larger), so I guess the moon caught a lot of candidates. They may have more moons, but we likely have more moon, by mass, relatively.

And does it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claimed_moons_of_Earth#Modern_...)
Is DuckDuckGo not Perl as well?
"This action concerns a sophisticated scheme that co-opted a disruptive innovation — cryptocurrency — and used it to defraud investors, manipulate markets, and conceal illicit proceeds.

Part-fraud, part-pump-and-dump, and part-money laundering, the scheme was primarily accomplished through two enterprises — Bitfinex and Tether — that commingled their corporate identities and customer funds while concealing their extensive co-operation in a way that enabled them to manipulate the cryptocurrency market with unprecedented effectiveness.

Calculating damages at this stage is premature, but there is little doubt that the scale of harm wrought by the Defendants is unprecedented. Their liability to the putative class likely surpasses $1.4 trillion US dollars."
> For better or worse, we are typically the ones who are riding on roads designed and built for them.

There's your problem right in the open. (Interestingly, the first modern roads were built for bicyclists.)
Title is clickbaity. They did it for a political protest during an official Blizzard tournament stream, not for actions on his own stream or something.

He put on a gas mask and called for liberation of HK. I'm with him, but I definitely see why Blizzard has the rule in place, and it would not be right to overlook this - they would then have to be OK with others doing other protests. Blizzard should not pick a side.
Not that this dismisses the ridiculousness of the original design, but couldn’t you just use materialized views as a workaround?
The cost of Tencent investment funds.
https://tracker.geops.ch
Similar thing for many different parts of the world.
ed25519 is the signature system based on curve25519
Figuring out geospatial analytics using first principles
From time-to-time, it’s always good to introspect-- to go back to the fundamentals, to think about the WHYs, to question things from scratch. It gives clarity on things you know and makes you aware of things you need to figure out!

Two of such questions for us are:

1. Why did we choose geospatial analytics?
Today, there are plenty of analysis tools that provide answers to your questions on your users, their behavior, tastes, and preferences. We feel it is the “where” part of that pie that is completely broken. For example, where are your delivery agents idle? Where do orders get canceled the most?

2. What does "analytics" mean to us?
We think about analytics as starting with a problem statement and answering four questions about an event: who, what, where and why. Once that is done successfully, the loop should be closed by influencing a business decision.

To read more, check out: https://medium.com/locale-ai/how-do-we-go-about-solutioning-our-offerings-using-first-principles-44b369fb2c0c
A strange bug was that a permission prompt appeared during the OS setup phase (large centered window in background), blocking part of the setup window but refusing to accept input.

Each time I tried to enter my password the focus would glitch back to the large background window, which oddly could still be clicked. So I had to keep clicking grayed-out Continue buttons in the background setup window, until the desktop finally appeared and the password prompt (which was in front the whole time) would finally accept input.

I mean, this is the first thing you see when you launch the OS, these are exactly the kinds of bugs that need to be found by Apple and not by users.
Companies are spineless and will do pretty much anything for money.

We've seen it from the NBA, Blizzard, Disney, and the like. The fact of the matter is that if you want to do business in China, you have to be open to censoring things that they don't like.
Top quality software isnt as valuable as we like to think.
I live in the UK buddy! Here is what I see of democracy, UK PM, voted in by less than 100k pensioners, at the same time, outside my office here in London we have a church that operates as a food bank! Tell me, who is being disingenuous at this stage? People who just cry democracy as Casus Belli to destroy their own city (heck even other people's countries), or would you rather try to look for the actual underlying problems? From what I've seen, democracy is certainly not doing a good job at that.

Brainwashed, yeah, I agree with Mark Twaine:
If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed

That quote about the misinformed part is certainly true in the west (or at least the UK where I live).
There are a lot of legacy apps which are still useful and not 64 bit. I have a license for Aperture and Logic Pro for instance. I use Aperture daily and it meets my needs perfectly. Now I need to find a solution. I don't see why they couldn't include an optional compatibility mode forever. Even if it were something I had to download and install.
> Blizzard should not pick a side.

Not picking a side is siding with the status quo, which is Chinese oppression in Hong Kong.
Why not Beef > Mutton > Pork > Chicken?
Web App Development Agency
Trains not running well today, on the green line there's one running 5 minutes late. That's unacceptable by Japanese standards (and on-time by UK standards)...
While I agree with the sentiment that is being expressed here (i.e. it's "wrong"). I can't help but think about the fact that he ... simply broke the rules. There is a clear clause in the ToS that states basically "You are working for us. If you say anything that can damage our reputation, we can cease working with you." Which, to me, makes a whole lot of sense to have as a clause.
Being a developer at one of the big tech companies is much easier than being an SVP in a big org, as one example. From what I've seen, you need to be extremely type A to succeed as an SVP most places.
This is the best explanation I have seen so far. Some aspects are still left in the shadow, but most points are now connected.
Show HN: Idea Growr
Back in 2013 I created my idea growing app Idea Growr for Android [1][2], it's simple and quick. Unique feature being there are question sets that help you take on new perspectives. Free, no accounts, no ads.

I've been stuck at taking it only since I lacked the time and skills. Recently I partnered with my employer to take this step. We started rebuilding it in React Native so we could also do iOS [3].

For reasons we chose GraphQL first, but it is a bit hard when the plan is that you can use the app offline without an account. More about that journey here [4].

End result is we now launched the iOS version to be like the Android version first (no online accounts, etc). It has an unholy use of GraphQL to store data in SQLite, and I'm eager to step away from Expo.

At this moment I would like to iterate quickly on the iOS version, but we need some users (you perhaps?) to provide feedback. The goal is to take Idea Growr online with a freemium business model. No ads, but you pay for online storage and some premium features.

So love to get your feedback on the iOS app [3] and it would also be interesting to hear from anyone who made an app that actually works offline first (can do so for a year) without an account. The most used frameworks (GraphQL, FireBase, etc) all seem to assume your users have an account from the start and are supposed to be online (I call that 'online first').

[1] http://www.juliushuijnk.nl/2013/04/read-more-about-my-android-app/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.juliushuijnk.tools.ideagrowr

[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idea-growr/id1473108858

[4] https://www.medium.com/idea-growr
It's very cool but it's not even showing 20% of Tokyo's train lines. There are over 40 lines in Tokyo
> Blizzard has ruled that Hearthstone pro Chung "blitzchung" Ng Wai will been removed from Hearthstone Grandmasters, following the player's call for Hong Kong's freedom during a post-match interview. Additionally, Blizzard has stated that it will no longer work with the two casters who appeared in the now deleted broadcast.

https://www.pcgamer.com/blitzchung-removed-from-hearthstone-...

I am a huge starcraft 2 fan. But from now on, I'll refrain talking about it. Boycott Blizzard. They support Chinese censorship.

I am so sad. That was a company I really loved.
I'm not sure if you're referring to KeyDB or something else as "closed source commercial software", but KeyDB is BSD licensed like Redis: https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB/blob/unstable/COPYING