skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other things that was fakes was the ability to live in tents on the surface and travel on the surface for long periods of time. The radiation would kill you pretty quickly.
As an O-, this is good news.
Are they more efficient though? Right now the average seems to be 4kg of grain per kg of pork[1]; if these large pigs require 5kg per 1kg of pork, then does them being bigger create any benefits in a shortage? Another question is growth rate - how fast are they growing? Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but their end size seems to be one of the less important factors in the mix when it comes to efficient pork production.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/sep/02/era-of-chea...
I wonder at what point would corporations consider it a risk too big. Any comment can trigger the Chinese, it’s hard to gauge what they find insulting, since according to them all their neighbors and the west has humiliated them in the past. The volatility to the bottom line jsut isn’t worth it.
Better tell that to the business owners and managers, not the developers.
Are many folks compiling sensitive personal data into binaries?
You’re not forced to work at gunpoint - you could’ve chosen not to build the website at all.
Small personal story:

My father is an amazing salesman. He used to sell for Schwan's food in the 90's (those big yellow trucks that delivered frozen food to your door every 2 weeks).

He had a blind couple (husband and wife) that were on one of his routes, and they bought a little bit of food every time he came by. But they could never read the menu, because Schwan's only had printed brochures. One day, he had me and my siblings record on audio cassette the entire menu and their prices.

His sales from that couple shot through the roof! All of the sudden, there were all of these options for sale that they didn't even know about before, and now they wanted to try them. From that time forward, they were very faithful and consistent customers. And, of course, they were very appreciative of the gesture!

Every 6 months or so, when Schwan's updated their menu and/or pricing, we would re-record the menu, until Schwan's finally figured out an audio offering of their own.

A few years ago, my father ran into the couple when he happened to pass through their town (my father no longer sells for Schwan's, but now sells insurance and investments). The couple remembered and asked about each of us children by name, these decades later.

It's neat to see how just a little consideration (and a bit of extra work) can make a huge impact on someone else's life!
If my feelings are an indicator that mirrors others, I agree that it will likely fracture GNU. Especially if the new leadership cannot recreate the same sense of ideology, purpose, and deeper change that RMS stirred up with his writings.

The GNU Manifesto (written by Richard Stallman) was one of the biggest change-my-life documents for me. Probably it was just a matter of timing and luck that it happened to be that document, but it was. It exposed me to new ideas that I could relate to, and really made me think in a new way, a way that is generous and creative towards other people, and that has stayed with me for decades since. It went beyond mere software; my relationships, and the way I treat people, were affected for the better as well.

And so I've long been very sympathatic to the FSF/GNU projects and cause.

I would have been proud to contribute and operate a project under the GNU banner, and nearly did on several occasions.

Since recent announcements, I'm starting to feel different about the FSF/GNU projects. My feelings about the GNU Manifesto and RMS's activist writings have not changed much - there are good and profound ideas in there.

But I no longer envisage myself wanting to contribute under the FSF/GNU umbrella, since the last few weeks. I expect there are quite a few people who will feel the same "change" of enthusiasm.

The joint statement is very short and doesn't say much. But it says enough, in that second paragraph about RMS, to make me feel wary of wanting to work with any of the people whose names are listed below it.

> The GNU Project we want to build is one that everyone can trust to defend their freedom.

The undersigned have shown, with crystal clarity, that they cannot be trusted to defend everyone's freedom, since they blatantly have chosen to not even try to do so in this case.

And so we need a new movement, to replace GNU.

Ideally, one that everyone can actually trust to defend their freedom.
I’m not the parent comment, but VoiceOver and NVDA are great text-to-speech screen readers.
> If you are getting heavily down-voted, a possible explanation is that people perceive you to be engaging in an uncharitable reading of the remarks you are responding to

If they wanted to say that ISIS was using conventional _AND_ terrorist tactics that would be one thing. They specifically said "not". You even quoted.

If my options are either to stay silent or charitably read someone's claim that ISIS' tactics don't meet their definition of the word terrorism, because they're a state, then honestly I don't want an account on this site anymore.
If you're bleeding out and compatible blood isn't immediately available, we already have several volume expanders that can be used.
> Pardon my curiosity, did you type this on a keyboard by touch typing? If so how do you recognize and correct typos?

I'm merely a sighted user here, but I can personally attest that when you've mastered touch-typing, you can tell when you make a mistake and correct it without needing to look at the screen. It is a bit of an eerie feeling the first time you do it.

Full disclosure: I touch-typed this reply, and I made five mistakes when doing so, and fixed all of them without looking at the screen.
I believe the lawsuit is that there were deals which were web-only - meaning the blind person could not take advantage of them.
> And at the end of the day developers worldwide like all humans choose to keep a job, maintain their livelihood and avoid getting fired.

Well, now, as developers we have more ammunition to backup the moral obligation.

Now we can demand the time to validate that a site is compliant with WCAG 2.0, and point to this ruling as a legal mandate to do so.
a bit dated, but:

http://xvtx.ru/rockbox/
You can say the same with plenty of languages.
Not really. Housing should be more expensive than is is now, both in cities as well as in suburbs. We don’t want growth, we want less growth. High prices will slow growth which is a good thing for the environment.
Surely you don't think I meant something that simplistic. Of course the first goal is what matters. However, pretending there aren't people that will hunt for technicalities is naive.
so you would revoke credit from Turing?
>Japan for chrissake even forces devices to emit a camera shutter sound when a picture is taken.

This is actually pretty cool, I'm always paranoid that I'll end up on someone else's photo without knowing.
The main problem I see is that these taxes serve as a friction to conducting business. That is, after all, the intent, but if they only apply locally and there is no international enforcement mechanism (there can't and won't be) then this will disadvantage more our already failing economies.

Killing people, even indirectly, is already illegal. We need enforcement (esp. abroad) and not more laws. Show me that there is a tractable enforcement mechanism for these taxes in other countries and I might support them.
From footnote 4:

> However, the district court did not reach whether a genuine issue of material fact existed as to the telephone hotline’s compliance with the ADA, including whether the hotline guaranteed full and equal enjoyment and "protect[ed] the privacy and independence of the individual with a disability." ... We believe that the mere presence of the phone number, without discovery on its effectiveness, is insufficient to grant summary judgment in favor of Domino’s.
Absolutely except for federal buildings. The powers not expressly given to the federal government in the constitution are reserved to the states. At worse it should be a states rights issue with each state deciding their own way.
Obviously you should just be allowed to use the same services as everyone else. The web is accessible by design, so all sites that are not accessible are broken. The people that made them broke them.

But, just for the sake of your curiosity, American Airlines charge $35 per ticket[1] when you call them to book.

[1] https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/support/optional-se...
It depends. If I know I'll make an order only once, calling phone is probably easier. If that's a pizza, and say I have expectation that I might be ordering same pizza every week or every month, then ordering through website is easier, since you can save your credit card information there instead of repeating it on the phone every time.
But even for one-time orders it is good to have an accessible site, since what I mentioned above - I would waste my time if the web site is not accessible. I assume if they had put a notice on their web site saying that it is not accessible for screenreaders - please call this number instead - that would be already a better solution rather than just an inaccessible web site.
I believe that one had [ʃ] (English 'sh') when the Spanish got there but then there was a change in Spain (in Castilian only even, not in Catalan or Galician) from /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ -> /x/ (like the 'ch' in loch) and they brought it to the Americas.

Somehow those Spaniards brought that change to /x/ to all those Nahuatl place names but they never brought /θ/ to everyday speech in Mexico. I scratch my head at that.
That’s a pretty low bar and if accepted will place a chilling effect on any debate in moderator lounges.

Note that the essence of the debate is: “you must always use the person’s nominated pronouns” versus “you can write in such a way that pronouns aren’t used at all.”

To me there is a huge difference between, “you can write inclusively without talking about a person in the third or second person” and “I refuse to accept this attempt at inclusive regulation.”

But we will see what SO dredges up in order to justify their position that debates in a moderator lounge are the equivalent to formal requests.
The people filing civil lawsuits generally are disabled, since they would be the only ones that could. A civil suit doesn't just get thrown out because you passed WCAG.
Most handicapped people live in poverty. I'm quite convinced that a lot of privileged people are also moderately or significantly handicapped and hiding it. If you are important enough, people meet all your whackadoodle requirements without wondering why in the hell you can't do it "normally."

I've been in situations where I had privilege and I've been in situations where I couldn't get adequate accommodation for my handicap. Having privilege usually beats the tar out of having handicap accommodation.

If there are any genuinely blind people managing to supposedly "game the system" in the manner you describe, more power to them. Because trying to play it straight and do the right thing and earn my way and blah blah blah mostly seems to get me absolutely crapped all over.
> See Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins

Or, for a far less conspiratorial take on the same phenomenon, read "Globalization and its Discontents" by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

In it you'll learn how institutions like the IMF treated open markets and no currency flow restrictions as a religion regardless of whether they made sense for the stage of development of the countries on which they imposed those as terms of their loans.
As a polyglot, I have to say this is a misleading and false equivalence. The upgrade treadmill in Java is nothing like the upgrade treadmill in any other popular language - certainly not Javascript, Python, Ruby, or Go.
>Did you know that if you leave updating Windows too long the calculator just straight up stops working?

Doesn't make sense to me. Cos on my laptops is running a 2015 version of windows 10. I refused to update it. Yet calculator still works there.

It's possible that you're right and mine only works cos I did a lot of firewalling.
After a few years in web development I began working for my dad’s business - we sell commercial doors and hardware and do a lot of work in SF. ADA requirements now force many restaurant to add an auto-door operator (push button that opens door) to their main entry. The total cost can be in the range of $10-15k for hardware, electrical work, union labor etc. this absolutely is a burden that some owners really struggle to afford so I’d argue the “myth” is very much alive. And I’m one of the people making money off this transaction. I have mixed feelings about it.
Hong Kong has been a part of China since 1997. Funny that you compared it to the appeasement policy.
The issue is deciding what "reasonable" means in this context, which is the crux of this whole debate. This lawsuit allows blind people to due retailers for their websites, what if someone was both blind and deaf? There are a range of disabilities that put burdens on businesses from small to massive depending what disability we are talking about and what sort of services are being offered by the business.
There is no Nobel Prize for psychology for a reason.
and it's called "floppy" even though they weren't "floppy" anymore!

And we still call "hard drive" that because they weren't floppy even while floppies weren't floppy!

And we call it a "drive" after the tape drive motor from reel-to-reel tape storage!
I've spent a bunch of time travelling through these places for work. I'm vegan and surprise surprise there is almost nothing I can eat. All the veges have either meat or dairy or both.

Good thing is often they will have a tin of beans on the shelf for sale and some hot sauce, so I never went hungry.

Also really nice folk literally 100% of the time. You won't find that in the cities.

Bonus note - i'm a foreigner and it never made any difference, I was always treated the same as everyone else.
I've wondered about this a few times and always started by asking myself what would be left after armageddon.

Android phones. Tens of millions of them. It must be the most ubiquitous computing platform by now...
Just install a screen reader and close your eyes.
Could you provide us a list of all legitimate sides?
Furthermore, apart from the fact that geek culture has always had a hate-on for TBBT, we don't import/export TV show concepts because they are perceived as good, but rather because they are seen as profitable. Good is subjective, money is its own metric.
People who are blind should have the same access as everyone else. The web is accessible by design, so all sites that are not accessible are broken. The people that made them broke them.

Yes it works for pizza, but American Airlines charge $35 per ticket[1] when you call them to book.

[1] https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/support/optional-se...
I've learned to ignore the dark patterns. Still use them because their free cancellation booking process takes a lot of the pain out of picking a hotel.
> I'll take lawless anarchy over a relatively well organized state that bombs children to secure foreign oil production facilities and prop up the petro-dollar.

Those are hardly the only two options.
It's misleading to claim that 25519 pubkeys don't require validation: In some applications validation isn't required, in other applications validation is simpler but still required.

Marketing bullet points aren't a replacement for careful cryptographic review.
I subscribe to HN for the insights into technical subjects I might not otherwise have exposure to. My primary takeaway has been "this is why we can't have nice things", whether it's safe air travel, affordable housing, or affordable healthcare.

Demolition on the Waldorf-Astoria began on October 1st 1929. Unforeseen financial difficulties slowed progress. Construction began January 22nd 1930. The steel structure of the Empire State Building was completed on September 19th 1930. Construction was completed April 11th 1931.

These days it's more difficult- impossible- to get permitting for low rise medium density housing buildings in a city with significantly more financial resources and significantly more demand for floorspace.
Nice derailing there!

The thing about Norway is that they were responsible before they were as wealthy as Croesus.

Where did the UK North Sea oil profits go?

Where do the US oil profits go?

Just what do you think a responsible fund should do, significantly beyond what Norway does?
> There will always be more people

What are you picturing, government enforced house sharing?
Cool, I didn't even know that was a thing I could do. I suppose I imagined screen readers as some sort of expensive software.
Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds
That's why we need an album shuffle function.
Essentially polluting businesses are externalizing some of their costs to the public purse (who eventually have to clean up after them) - these are not really taxes, they are simply those externalized costs that they should have been paying in the first place. Really we should be criminalizing this behavior.

It's not any different that the city turning up on your front doorstep with the bags of rubbish you dumped on the side of the road and charging you for the cost of cleaning it up
Someday? I think we already do.
React/Vue/etc are all accessible. Almost all web technology that exists is accessible. The trouble is you can’t just do what you want, and you have to test it to ensure it’s accessible. Most companies put it to the bottom of the list or forget about it. It really isn’t that hard, no new tools are required, everything is already there: you just have to do it.
I have noticed this as well. I keep a set of "mildly interesting" podcasts for when I want to occupy mind enough to help me fall asleep, usually on airplanes.
Self-censorship is still censorship. If these companies crater to the least common denominator, then free speech in the West is also doomed. We can't allow that to happen. Putting profits ahead of everything else is a sure way to go broke because it sacrifices quality and every other good for the sake of short-term profit. We saw Disney do this with Star Wars, trying to pander to Asian audiences and failing miserably. Now Disney has alienated their original fan base. Soon, nobody is going to care about anything Star Wars. Disney needs to smarten up.

Every company that thinks they can do business with communists needs to smarten up. Realize that you compromise your ethics completely and whatever short term gains you think you are making are eventually eaten away by the sheer clown world lunacy that is communism. Places like China can never right themselves simply because basic truths are banned from being discussed. How do they then move forward as a society? They don't, they can only move backwards.
Be aware that not everyone who uses a screen reader is blind or visually impaired. People with processing disorders like dyslexia or reading comprehension disorders may use screen readers in order to intake the content/information in a way they can understand.
Websites from big IT companies tend to be good: Google, GMail, Youtube, Facebook, Amazon, Bing.
So somehow along my career I fell into accessibility dev for a while. Funny enough it was one of the most lucrative dev jobs I did and there was always plenty of work. It is easily outsourced to a remote developer because all you really need is a browser and a screen reader. In my opinion there really is no reason for even mom and pop sites to not provide even a base level of accessibility, it really is just setting tab indexes in correct order, as well as making sure items have alt and title tags so that the readers can pick them up and actively describe the page. No I am not saying that this provides a great experience for the blind but it at least helps them to be able to get around the site.

I personally an color blind, which is not a disability but it is a pain in the ass at times, especially give that color has the ability to convey data visualization in a rapid manner that is subconsciously parsed by the user. It's extremity effective if one can see color. It is kind of how I got into accessibility for a time. By simple adding a secondary reference of iconography for the color blind a site can convey the same info. (e.g if you show red put a small stop sign on it, yellow use a triangle etc.)

I see no reason why even the smallest sites should not be able to provide access to the blind, whereas larger sites should be striving to go the extra mile to make it accessible and easy to parse for everyone.
i miss analog buttons so much...
Right? You're using a piece of adware/spyware if you're not on the LTSC/B version. Even the Enterprise copies are atrocious now.

They're arguably worse than they were 10-20 years ago IMO... throwing some Linux support on top of stuff just makes me scoff.
Blind people are the same as everyone else, but with reduced vision. So when you ask "Why don't blind people just call?" you actually need to be asking "Why don't I just call?" Blind people will have the same reasons.
Money is a catch all term for investment in human capital. Paying for better schools, post-secondary training/education, healthcare for those who continue to struggle under the yoke of history would be a good place to start. And really, we ought to do that for everyone.
He also mentioned that its hard to compete on cost. The podcast audience is still growing, but its hard to compete on cost when Gimlet's series tend to have very high production values, often involving a team doing research and information gathering for months before releasing a season.

Meanwhile, theres been a lot more big podcast that basically just bank on the personality of the host (e.g. Joe Rogan's) that can pretty much cost nothing to produce, and can churn out episodes after episodes talking about random stuffs.

Bummer though, coz I enjoy Gimlet's model of podcast a lot more.
Yep, initial idea of HTML as just one dimensional tape of scrollable text - something that has given width but no height - literally just a Text for reading ...

Who would have thought that we will start clicking <button>s by literally fingers.

But how much of dev time wasted already in discovering that `px` stands for points in MacOS terms (1/72 on inch initially and now 1/96 of inch) and nothing near real pixels ...
Most likely, a large part of it is the extra burden involved in trying to understand what you actually need to do in order to be in compliance -- what's actually required and what's not.

I'm handicapped and also a freelancer and I have six years of college and I worked for a Fortune 500 company at one time. I feel I'm better positioned than a lot of individuals to figure out what I need to do without an accountant and a legal team and yadda, but I have my moments when I would like to go hide under a bed and cry and try to figure out how to kill myself because our highly regulated world sometimes seems like it is actively designed to make it impossible for people to make their lives work (without being part of a megacorp -- and what if that doesn't work for you?).
I used to do this as well. I realised this weekend my mom still does after I set it up for her. Those things turn out to be nearly indistructible.
Look up what Sidekiq is. It is awesome.
> what do they think will happen?

Booking.com A/B tests everything: the drill-sergeant-like funnel probably has higher conversion rates than any gentler variation. So to answer your question - they think you might not book through them without the shoutiness.