skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Park has been around for so long, and has gone after so many things, its probable they've tackled several issues in a way that really resonates with you, and makes you laugh at the same time. And in many cases, they've paid a cost that others would be unwilling to bear in doing so.

This China thing is a current example. The NBA is cravenly grovelling to the CPC, and the SP creators are taking a proverbial dump on the lawns of the CPC and the NBA and Hollywood self-censors, while giving zero-fucks. Its great. Its inspiring. Another was when Isaac Hayes (actor who voiced Chef, and a Scientologist) quit when they did their Scientology episode (and it was such a brilliant episode, and at a time when Scientology was a bit of a sacred cow in Hollywood). Isaac had no problem when SP went (and continues to go) after Christianity.

Chances are, even if they really piss you off at some point, there have been other times when they've made you cheer and laugh.
It’s reassuring to me when drivers honk at me on my bike because I know they see me.
They're also a monopoly... so penalties to PGE just become penalties to Californians... and actually we were just notified about a increase in our bills to cover their legal costs... https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/news/Lawmakers-Vote-to...
I tried to watch the episode. It's not blocked here in Thailand, but the site throws up a "Due to copyright and other issues...blah blah blah...targets for US audiences...blah blah blah. So what's with that?
Ask HN: What's Up with the New Google Search UI?
Since a few days Google search results no longer include domain names. This is extremely confusing. Any Google Search engineers here? What's up with this?

https://i.imgur.com/3QNEz3e.png
This seems like overreach. Clearly the law doesn’t cover websites.

Why can’t congress just pass a law to make the ADA apply to websites? It’s not SCOTUS’s job to create law.
It’s indeed a kind of person who tend to ride scooters....
Maybe Russia will do it. I heard they have a 1:1 rip off of the Big Bang Theory. You can YouTube it, it looks obscure.
"Autumn's sorghum harvest" sounds almost like "Autumn's organ harvest".......I love South Park!!!
It would need a usability measure. For instance, are accessibility features for the blind on the web better, worse or exactly equivalent to using a voice menu on a phone?
Python (3.x, as 2.x is mostly deprecated) can do and there are plenty of libraries around. Not just for data science, but about everything under the Sun.

For performance-critical sections, you can plug in C/C++, wrapped in Python APIs.

A 500K SLOC project in Python might be unwieldy, though.
the result of letting Republicans draft hamfisted deregulation legislation

California's ludicrously gameable "deregulated" energy market of that time was set up by the leadership of the Democrat-controlled Assembly and the Democrat-controlled California Senate, then signed into law by Democrat Governor Gray Davis.

CA Republicans were powerless to "draft" anything.
The league should have said: “We regret the truth offended you; we stand by the truth”.

Now we know they don’t operate by principles but as everyone knew they only side with “the right thing” when it intersects with their money. And at no other time.
I don't think that's a new market actually. But I guess startups can be anything now.
Yes, the situations are quite different because you're looking at environmental factors versus purely financial greed.

As fun as it seems to be for folks to shit all over San Francisco, neither the rolling blackouts of the early 2000s nor the preemptive blackouts this week have anything to do with city or county management.
The Washington Post’s Most Valuable Asset Is Now Its Software, Thanks to Bezos
Are you accepting internship applications?
One issue that has been mentioned multiple times on Hacker News is that, in some categories, it is almost impossible to find good products: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/28/18168354/amazon-marketplace-pr...
I mean—I live in the Oakland Hills myself. Nobody out here would be able to get solar. Our roofs/land is covered in trees.

Also at 15k for a powerwall, it'd make more sense just to get a hotel for these blackouts.
Does the ADA really apply and enforced at all publicly available businesses? Does every Chinese restaurant in Chinatown have a Braille menu? If we really start enforcing this, only larger businesses will survive.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Half of these aren't even problems?
Ethical investment funds do exist, and these explicitly don't invest in fossil fuel industries. There are also ethical superannuation funds (in the Australian context). Individuals can choose a direction for their investment.
I still have a working iRiver iHP-100 (40 GiB) with Rockbox on it! Switched to it soon after purchase, as the original firmware was limiting.

Of course, I keep it around for the memories as this was my first buy with money earned from RentACoder.com when I was in college. Fond memories :)
That's just what happens when the Communist Party of China has you by the balls. Note to other manufacturers: diversify and disengage.
Harley-Davidson new electric bike costs almost as much as a Tesla 3
Thank you for your prompt feedback and kind words! Indeed, MSE and mechanical engineering are fascinating domains, which I have learned to appreciate, especially in recent years. By the way, IT is my main domain (with MSE being secondary), so, actually, we are industry colleagues ... :-)
We should just force them to maintain power when doing this even if it costs more than whatever fee they have to pay residents. I don’t even live over there but this is a huge inconvenience and I wouldn’t mind spreading out the extra costs for making sure it’s done safely to keep giving these people power.

The biggest bullshit is that now that PGE knows they’re too big to fail, they don’t even have to give a shit when they piss people off. If North Berkeley residents sued in a class action suit the state of California would probably just bail them out.
It’s a TV show that was shocking and taboo-breaking when it was new and has now largely worn out its welcome. Nobody really talks about it the way they chew over the Simpsons, it’s just sort of... there.
The pace of their VRU reading out toppings, coupons, crusts, sizes, etc would likely be maddening. As would other things, like reliably getting customer info like payment, address, etc. An accessible website would allow for screen readers customized to the individual user pace and preferred voicing, Braille, enlarged text, etc.

Legally, SCOTUS seems to be taking a specific position on what “full and equal enjoyment of the goods and services ... of any place of public accommodations.” means.

Note that US airlines have had to provide accessible websites since December 12, 2016, under the Air Carrier Access Act. So there's some existing work other industries can follow.
It looks like you can manually upload submissions here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission

This may be outdated, but you can also configure Defender to always prompt before sending:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

It would be interesting to set it to always prompt and see what triggers it. There must be some level of fingerprinting done on the client (hash of the binary? network activity, etc.) that can be used to compare against known threats.
California's ludicrously gameable "deregulated" energy market of that time was set up by the leadership of the Democrat-controlled Assembly and the Democrat-controlled California Senate, then signed into law by Democrat Governor Gray Davis.

You need to go back a bit further than that, back to Republican governor Pete Wilson and Republican author of the bill Jim Brulte. Wilson knowingly set up his successor (Gray Davis) to fail.
nope lol are you in the medical community or are you getting this from twitter activists?

gender identity is accepted as different from sex and because males and females are different so its possible that some people may have gender dysphoria (which is literally a mental disorder like body dysmorphia). nobody disagrees with all that.

but 100 different genders and non-binary is not accepted by science. believing in that is like believing in creationism and flat earth at the same time.
Yeah...and SwiftUI is by default an iOS only program. Flutter you can plug any phone in that's been made in the last 5 years, type `flutter run` in the terminal, and get hot reloading.

SwiftUI is walled-garden bait. Hard pass.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted - (one of) Flutter's main selling point is that it's cross platform by default. SwiftUI doesn't do that and yet is marketed to be very similar in coding style to Flutter, which yeah great, but no cross platform so you still have to code everything twice, unless all your users happen to have iPhones. I mean really?
Have you taken a chance and maybe explored faith and visited a local church on a sunday? It's amazing how getting your spirit filled will allow you to head back refreshed and with a different perspective on work on Monday.

Go to a synagogue, a mosque, or a temple. Just connect with a deeper reality.
Here you go: https://www.dw.com/en/taiwan-reduces-reliance-on-mainland-ch...

"Beijing's attempt to punish Taiwan by throttling tourism from the mainland hasn't made much impact. Taiwan set a new tourism record last year by successfully courting visitors from the rest of Asia."

Yes Taiwan has the sovereignty to do that, but China also has exit restrictions (USA does not have exit restrictions, which I assume is why you may be unfamiliar with this concept).
If you're blind, can't you just call up a Dominos to order your pizza? "Talk to a human and order your pizza" sounds like a friendlier approach than the automated screen reader or whatever they'll come up with to resolve this litigation.
Not a medic/doctor, but I would assume higher pressure would result in pushing blood out of your system faster. This probably offsets gains
I think I'll add one more issue on top of your great points:

Constantly shifting work requirements. It's the fun and draining part of our jobs as engineers. No single task is the same as the last. This is where the job can be exceptionally fun, but it can also be grating over time.
What does"college educated, but middle class" mean? Are college educated people supposed to be heftier than middle class?
Nearly the entire state of Connecticut was without power in 2012 for a few days. Where we lived, city of 100k, we didn't have power for a week.
The law has covered websites for decades. It used to be not that much of a problem because screen readers worked well enough with plain html.
Thank you for doing what you did!
I appreciate that a lot of their commentary is about how people can get carried away, regardless of how good/bad the character's ideals or intention are. A fair bit of pop media really turns me off by how hard it tries to force-feed me fashionable political opinions that I already agree with.

Most of my political disagreements with people come down more to ends vs means, implementation details, unintended consequences and the like, rather than actual core goals/ideals. In that context I did - and probably still would - enjoy the original Man Bear Pig as a gag on political advocacy even though 2006 was pretty late to be denying climate change.
With this set up we get the worst of both worlds from a consumer perspective, we might as well just make PGE a state owned entity at this point.

Right now their profits and equity are privatized but losses socialized, what absolute nonsense
Wouldn't VR be a lot better for a lot of these things? A huge amount of VR innovation is focused on non-sight feedback mechanisms. Implementing braille via VR interfaces would be actually be a lot easier since you're always using your hands to interact.
As far as I can tell this is a blanket generalization of Venezuelan Adobe account holders. Any student body, civil society NGO or independent media outlet that relies on registered copies of Photoshop, InDesign or Acrobat will be impacted.
Love the idea not a fan of the tough to google name. I had issues googling for it a couple of times to show people Gio.
Thank you. I would love to read these sources when I'm able to!
I remember the last update (Mojave?) where the first release gave root access and allowed unlocking of the computer by default. Woops!

Yeah, no thanks. Until Apple learns to release non-buggy crap I'll wait out the horror show for at least the next 6 months. You guys have fun debugging this for me!

EDIT: Pretty funny watching all the Apple fanboys going through my account and downvoting all my posts. Oh no! My fake internet points! /s
Are you trying to quantify the "information" by the size of the DNA? I think this is a pretty meaningless number to multiply since most of the DNA will be exact copies and DNA alone doesn't capture all the information about a cell.

OTOH the amount of "information" needed to perfectly simulate a cell is probably unbounded. Just a corollary of the fact that we currently don't know how to perfectly simulate reality. Even a single "real" number can take up infinite space.
Your mileage will vary. A lot.

But CSS sizes are defined by viewing angles, not by linear size. There was plenty of debate at the time it was standardized, and really, none of the options is good so they got one of the bad ones.
> and possibly extend the league

So much for NBA.

(I mean, I guess it ain't unprecedented, given that there are Canadian teams in the NBA, but at least Canada and the US are close geographically and culturally, while China is neither, last I checked)
Here is how I like to use R, which can use the authors more introductory methods or full fledged data crunch:

Like I do all my other data sources, as code blocks inside an emacs-org notebook. If you are doing data science, you quickly find that it's management and combination of the various particular projects that becomes the most daunting (imho), and your data science notebook becomes the most important part of that organization. In that arena for me it's pretty much either jupyter or emacs org-mode.
They are hit and miss. I love them when they are really nailing it. The rest of the time, I forget about it, until something like this comes along.

Trey & Matt have done some other pretty brilliant things too, like Team America World Police, and The Book of Mormon.
I'm in favor of requiring that all deals and coupons be available via all methods of ordering, with things such as app-required deals only being legal if the app is accessible to the blind. Other than that, I fail to see how having phone ordering doesn't completely cover the accessibility requirement. It's very easy to get silly with these requirements. Should comedians be required to provide transcripts for deaf people? Should paintings come with exhaustive descriptions attached to their frames?
PG&E makes an excellent case for municipal power (sadly they fight every effort tooth and nail). Rather than forcing PG&E to do anything I'd settle for jail time for the management.
I really hope not. I don’t think “X compliance” is a good idea for a startup, because of trust and liability.

Whomever does the compliant would either need a ton of liability insurance, or would need contract language that actually gets them out of responsibility (similar to the language in many travel insurance and point-of-dale service plans). The former would be expensive, so you’d probably end up with the latter.

Web accessibility compliance does require a human to look at (and interact with) a site, and it requires people who either have training, or experience. That costs more. I really hope we don’t end up with “Uber for accessibility compliance”, with testers who aren’t paid enough, and who don’t get enough time to test a site.
I read a lengthy blog post on how Booking.com basically has people code live in production (slight exaggeration) and they're fine with it, due to some monster of a monitoring test suite.
US blacklists 8 Chinese tech companies over human rights issues
They have a UDM and UDM-Pro in early acces that handles the all-in-one device scenario you mentioned.
That is depressing... top three by a wide margin are pick up trucks.
Yes that is the Bond movie script with all the juicy bits.
A start-up is nothing more than a new business. Has no relationship with market segment or particular technology or whether that tech is new or old.
Restaurants don’t need a Braille menu to accommodate blind customers, a sighted employee can walk them through the ordering process. With websites that’s not always an option, which is legally and morally an issue.
Someday we may regard those "achievements" as the worst strategic mistake by any sitting US president.
ADA in general has different levels of mandatory compliance based on business size and type. I can't find specific rules about website compliance though.
For starters it means not integrating them into a country with concentration camps, kills journalists, suppresses dissent

Hong Kong was a democracy, it getting eaten up by China is horrendous.
I am not familiar with the details of ADA. Would it not suffice if a server reads the menu out loud upon request by a blind patron?
> a dialog act is an utterance, in the context of a conversational dialog, that serves a function in the dialog. Types of dialog acts include a question, a statement, or a request for action.

This seems important for an application like extracting new facts from a news article.
Up: Instant file sharing across multiple devices
Depends on how long the blackouts are for and how frequent they are. The longer they go on, the more economic sense it makes.

Also, a Powerwall is about $7k + install, not $15k. After the tax credit, that’s about $50/month over 10 years (more if you buy two Powerwalls instead of course). $600/year is almost what you’d approach spending a few nights a year in a hotel without any of the hassle.
If I may recomend the book "Stars' Reach: A Novel of the Deindustrial Future" by one John Michael Greer, maybe we can see this idea from a different perspective.

From Greer's point of view, the factors that make today's hardware brittle are not technical, but economic. Corporations have to make electronics at a profit, and at a price point that is accesible to the average working class citizen. This business model would not be sustainable in the either a fast-collapse or slow-collapse scenario.

Instead, in the novel, governments take over the tech industry sometime in the second half of the 21st century, and treat it as a strategic resource in its struggle to not be left out in the global musical chairs game of climate change + resource depletion. They run it at a loss, and put the best minds they can spare to the task of making a computing infrastructure that is built to last.

By the 25th century, which is the time when the novel's events take place, Humanity has lost the ability to manufacture electronics, but computers built 350 years ago are kept in working order by a cadre of highly trained specialists (most of which have the skills of a geeksquad employee, but still). Common people have maybe heard some wildly innacurate legend about robots or computers. Wealty individuals are probably better informed but still cannot own one of those at any price. They only computers depicted of spoken about are US government property operated at US millitary facilities (or maybe there was one at the Library of Congress, do not really recall, though).

There's one post-collapse hacker in the novel, a secondary character that is part of the protagonist's crew. The author is not an engineering type and dances around the actual skills of this guy, but I'd say he seems able to use a debugger/hex editor and read binaries. His greatest achievement, though, is to fix and set up an ancient printer and recover documents from a disk that was "erased" but not wiped clean.
Target.com is accessible because of a similar case from 2006.
This appears to be a decent summary: https://www.jimthatcher.com/law-target.htm
Much worse?? Equal at best. Ronald "Union buster" Reagan did absolutely nothing for the average working man. We'll likely never recovery from the trickle down economics bullshit he kick-started.
The Perl syntax to access a multidimensional array will be familiar to programmers in any other mainstream language:

my $array = [ [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6] ];

say $array->[1][1]; # Prints 5, as you'd expect.

It's really not that arcane.
lol civilly? yea 99.99% of people dont have a problem and get along just fine. whats not civil exactly? oh you mean demanding that literally everyone else treat you special? got it.

heres some articles since i think youre being ignorant on purpose:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

https://nypost.com/2016/05/19/city-issues-new-guidelines-on-...

https://californiafamily.org/2018/good-news-law-penalizing-m...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-california-law-allows-j...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/california-law-threat...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/02/23/teacher-acc...
Any plans to add support for datahike or Crux? Datomic is not exactly cheap.
Cars also allow for exploration, going through remote roads at you will, traveling to where you like and when you like. The US is enormous and cars are not purely negative there.
Amazon sells a Kindle with ads on the lockscreen. Is that malicious?
Then the Supreme Court is wrong (which isn't impossible, by the way). If I draw on my street with chalk, should I also be compelled to play a cassette on repeat outside my driveway describing what the picture is? This is absurd.
But you can call your local Domino's on the phone.
How does it compare to BTRFS? It has many of the same features and is supported today in production (SUSE ships it today by default).

I really like ZFS, and it's definitely more robust than most other filesystems, but there are multiple solutions "if you care about your data".
The Bleacher Report article was taken down, but can be still be read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20191007075632/https://bleacherr...
> The executive order is only against the government and their associates

Under the plain text of the order, that's true only for a very expansive definition of “associates”, since it includes anyone who has (past tense, without limitation as to time window) acted, even indirectly, on behalf of the government or any of the identified individuals and entities, or on behalf of any entity that is, even indirectly, owned or controlled by the government or any of the named entities or individuals.
No, no, courage is when you remove the headphone jack from your phones so you can sell dongles and wireless earbuds.
> SwiftUI is by default an iOS only program.

and macOS, tvOS, watchOS (and soon I suppose, AROS?), all counting for over a billion devices.

You can literally run the same SwiftUI code on all of them, then make small changes to adopt each OS's unique paradigms (like menus on macOS, the crown on watchOS, the remote on tvOS) and get the most native performance via Metal etc. for free.

It's ideal for publishing to services like the new Apple Arcade and macOS/iPadOS Catalyst.

How is Flutter for accessibility features? Those seem really effortless to adopt in SwiftUI.
The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New? (2005)
If you want research experiences, then try to email professors directly. Summarize your experiences and how it aligns with the professors' interests.

Otherwise, try reimplementing algorithms and blogging about them. Do fun projects like deploying a model online or to phones. If you are a fan of competitions, then you can try some Kaggle competitions. With some projects (if you say you have experience then you probably already done some) it should not be hard to get research experiences because you have something to show off. Remember to post your projects on Reddit and HackerNews to get internet points and encouragement! It is quite motivating.