skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I am expecting that Japan and South Korea are going to be permitted to clandestinely nuclearize.
Awesome channel! Am glued to his channel.
When People Close to Us Behave Immorally, We Are Inclined to Protect Them
$3.3M Pagani Huayra BC and Porsche 911 GT2 RS Collide
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To think that someday Facebook, Google, Apple etc could also just deactivate all accounts from a specific country, leading to people losing access to everything they do on any connected computing device...
Don't all of these still cost $1000/yr in California franchise fees if you so much as touch CA?
Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing
Rather than crippling the rest of the world for the blind, why not improve the tools for them instead?

Screen readers that are limited to structured inputs can't be the end-all final solution right? It would be shortsighted to set this tech in stone with legal precedents. Do we seriously want to require every blind person to be fluent in reading html/React as the default way to consume sites?

We should be trying to improve the tech so they can consume the world just like sighted people. There are already apps that can use computer vision to caption and describe images. It can even connect you with real people if the AI sucks.

I think pouring investments into those technologies might be cheaper relative to the amount of work added to the industry as a whole.
Up to about ten years ago, the Chinese government was generally viewed as becoming more liberal, progressive and open. Under the current regime, the opinion of most western commentators has gone the other way.
Google's recaptcha is actually somehow really good - you just click on the checkbox and somehow it magically understands that you're a human, even when using a screenreader. Other websites have audio captcha. In the worst case, you can install a captcha-solving browser extension - they are typically 90% accurate.
I mean, someone signed off on the footings of the millennium tower, too. SF is not taking a cautious, informed approach, they’re just burying their heads in the sand.
It's not the job of Apple, the NBA or the Coca Cola Company to conduct foreign policy.

It's a political issue. As far as I can tell, the sitting US President has, at least, identified the issue.
Is there some kind of "Yelp for websites for blind people"? In other words, a web site for blind people that lets you know whether a given site works with your screen reader? It seems like it could be a big time saver.
Most only care to make it look like the mockup. And the people making the mockups only care that the site looks like their design.
"a11y": Accessibility

https://a11yproject.com/ has patterns, a checklist for checking web accessibility, resources, and events.

awesome-a11y has a list of a number of great resources for developing accessible applications:
https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y

In terms of W3C specifications [1], you've got:
WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative: Accessibile Rich Internet Applications) [2], and WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines [3]. The new W3C Payment Request API [4] makes it easy for browsers to offer a standard (and probably(?) already accessible) interface for the payment data entry screen, at least.

There are a number of automated accessibility testing platforms. "[W3C WAI] Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List" [5] lists quite a few. Can someone recommend a good accessibility testing tools? Is Google Lighthouse (now included with Chrome Devtools and as a standalone script) a good tool for accessibility reviews?

[1] https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y/blob/master/topic...

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/

[3] https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

[4] https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

[5] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/
Yes, it would! This is actually an example used in compliance guidelines: https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/smallbusiness/smallbusprimer201...
Children need to eat meat.
That isn't the point of (most) advertising. The point is to get the brand or product into your mind and make it familiar. That way, when you are in the market for Product X, you'll think of Brand Y due to their podcast ads.
But isn’t this “nuclear’s weakness is humans” argument disproven by history? We humans have been running nuclear plants for a very long time and yet deaths from nuclear power are still lower than all other power sources, and much much much lower of course than fossil sources. So it seems more correct to say, actually we humans are better at running nuclear power safely than any other power source.
There are two goals only if you don't do the first one. It's like saying the two biggest goals in owning a knife: not stabbing people and staying out of prison.
Lighthouse is pretty good: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/
It's actually really, really hard whenever you go off the beaten path with your UX. That's not really important though, what's important is that companies recognize this is needed and adequately staff it, and engineers are empowered to push back on designs that don't translate to screen readers well.
So now everyone can pretend to be blind to take advantage of online only deals on the phone?
I think that misses the point. There's a mile of difference between adding sufficient accessibility to serve a demographic vs adding new legal requirements.

(Especially new requirements for which customers are financially incentivised to file suits, and for it's trivially simple to code up automated scanning to find businesses you can target.)
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In your opinion, what major sites are doing it right?
> so will have to switch to Pages

dude, Libre Office wipes the floor with Pages, Numbers, etc. If you haven't tried open source office programs in the last decade, they've come a long way. And I find they work better cross platform (ie they save in MS office format much more seamlessly and less buggy)
That seems like such a weird combination of outwardly sensible and utterly batshit ideas to me. Remote work can be successful and SF increasingly seems like a terrible, dystopian place, but how the hell does blockchain solve the same problem as legal incorporation? Can you take a blockchain to court to stop people from seizing your personal assets to cover your business debts?
Ha, I was wondering why I couldn't recreate and then I saw in their changelog they removed Guy Fieri from the source code. I bet that was a sad day. The end of flavortown.
I see over 20 torrents for "Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2019.012...".

Maybe some are honeypots, but probably not all.
The American Psychiatric Association and the DSM-5 on gender dysphoria: https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Prac...

Notable points: Gender nonconformity is explicitly not a disorder. Gender dysphoria is, but only in "the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition." Approved treatments for gender dysphoria explicitly include "transition" and "hormone therapy, related surgery."

The other major classification system, the United Nations World Health Organization's ICD, has similar language. Feel free to look it up.
Nice opinions you got there, but unless you become dictator of the US, they are completely worthless and irrelevant to this conversation.
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I'm wondering how Sidecar compares to Duet, which I've been using for a while. Anybody have experience with the two?
There are all sorts of pitfalls and potential attacks even if the curves are truly random[1]. Some curves also require you to verify whether public keys are valid points on the curve (and their security breaks if you don't do so). So they're harder to implement safely. Others are hard to implement in a way that avoids timing attacks.

This is one of the reasons more paranoid people have generally preferred Curve25519 over the NIST curves -- the NIST curves have very arbitrary base point values which (in theory) could have been backdoored. NIST later published a proof that if you hashed some other arbitrary values, you get the base points -- but then the follow up question is where did the other arbitrary values come from.

[1]: https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/
The book you linked to is really cool. I like it.

Math alone is GIGANTIFIC! To working mathematicians pre-university math is not fundamental. I hate saying this, but high school math is not even considered "actual" math. Even undergrad curriculum is just a sampling of pieces and bits of what's to come in grad school where you get to look at things a bit deeper. But even after grad school it's still very hard to say you know all the fundamentals of math. You might come out a capable differential geometer (after grad school), but that doesn't mean you'd know the, uh, the "fundamentals" of, say, number theory past the undergrad level (which, frankly, is not enough to say you know the fundamentals of the subject).

That said, not all is lost. All aspiring mathematicians must start somewhere. You can start here [0]

[0] BOOK OF PROOF by Richard Hammach.

https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

Prerequisite for reading [0] is math at the level of, say, 7th-grade. Basically, all you need to know is some elementary algebra. The material in [0] is what all math people must know.
Linux (the kernel) has a decent desktop marketshare.... if you include chrome OS, which uses the Linux kernel.

Of course linux (the kernel) also has a pretty huge phone marketshare, with android which uses the Linux Kernel.
I'm really curious about the latency metric. I'm running elasticache redis and the round trip average of our Redis get commands is around 1ms. We may have 5-10 in a transaction and look for 10-20ms total time.

Anecdotal, but it leaves me slightly confused
I'd like to make sure I'm testing more of the website that I work on to make sure they're as accessible as possible.

I want to do more than just run sites through validators. Is JAWS still a good accessibility program to test with? Are there other major accessibility programs I should be testing with?
While this take is accurate, it's because they want to _do audio stuff_ and not debug computers.

As a DJ, My Serato set up _works_. I don't have any show stopping bugs, and I don't want any new features. It's running on Sierra with an older version of Serato from like 2 years ago. Why do I need to upgrade the OS?

When I'm playing in the Club, I shut off wifi/bluetooth, and everything else that I can.

If I could simplify even more, I would. General Purpose computers are both great and a liability when it comes to digital audio especially for any live performance.
Satire is all the more sweet when it almost crosses a line, isn't it?
If you're issuing takedown notices and threatening litigation over IP that can be completely contained in a 2MB JavaScript file, you've got serious problems as a company. They're obviously a one-trick-pony that's on their last legs... This is the only thing we'll hear about them until a small notice somewhere in a year or so that they've gone bankrupt.
For example the arbitrary nine-dash line and China's claim over other countries's territories. China's even lost the case against Philippines [0], but has chosen to ignore it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_v._China
"but this time it is from one country to another"

Isn't Hollywood the same?
Pardon my curiosity, did you type this on a keyboard by touch typing? If so how do you recognize and correct typos? Or did you use speech recognition? Same question about handling errors.

I'd like to make sites I build more accessible, but I must admit I'm only familiar with the bare minimal guidelines I've read in a couple articles. I don't even know if they're correct or up to date. Nobody I've worked for has ever made this a priority, so I'm quite ignorant on the subject.
Completely incorrect. Denying someone service is completely different than them being unable to access your business because you can't afford to build out the accommodations. The constitution first and foremost guarantees freedom. Being forced to work at gunpoint is known as slavery.
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It's probably easier to just rework the website than to try to enact that policy. Training, print collateral, keeping employees updated on current coupons verifying blindness. Vs some front end changes.
Ok, what is a job/second?
> Either don't break screen readers with javascript bullshit

It's your site. You have the freedom to break your own property. This is apparently a contradiction. This addition seems to say that I can't break my own property if it means some people can't see it. How is this constitutional?
Well then, time to copy/paste one of my Mojave VM and upgrade it to Catalina. On a side note, 20 years ago my girlfriend at the time name was Catalina. Hopefully this macOS not going to leave me with broken heart like the ex-gf.
Interesting corporate taxonomy there.

On the other hand, if China is willing to cancel something as big as the NBA at the drop of a hat (or tweet, as it were), it really highlights the risks of doing business with China in a very stark way. Nothing is to big to fail if you offend the party. You operate at their whims. Transgress, and its lights out. Too many of these kinds of reactions could backfire (one would hope).
Pretty cool, reminds of how Advanced Renamer handles batch renaming filenames through a visual stack of methods, like sorting, regex replacing, trimming, renumbering, etc. I think that's a really useful thing. There are lots of other weird online formatting tools I've seen over the years that perform things like this, but the experience is pretty poor. I will probably recommend this to my dad.
That's a good point, though something I see commonly is a rather sizeable discount for doing an online-only order. Yes, you lose the discount if you call in.
What languages can't run 5yo code right now?
Yeah, not available in the UK or ireland either.
I ran into serious problems with Numbers (it just wasn't good with them, and broke some of my existing spreadsheets...), and I didn't like Pages because it makes it a serious pain to work with or save into MS .docx or rtf, or anything other than pages format. I found Libre Office to be waaaay closer to the office suite of tools I was looking for on my MBP. (and less buggy, believe it or not).
Rural counties in the Mississippi Delta average one grocery per 190 square miles...

Yes. This is the spot in Luca mentioned.[1] Nearest Wal-Mart Supercenter, #714, is less than 10 miles west. Two more about 20 miles east. That's why there are so few small grocery stores in those tiny towns.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4526085,-90.4791913,3a,33.8y...
Ah ok. I haven’t been to China. I’m in taiwan right now. People here really don’t like mainland China tourists and always complain.
Indeed, what honest business can hope to survive in the face of such reckless malevolence? Truly, it is the end of e-commerce as we know it!
There another short story by Niven where someone gazing at the moon sees it get as bright as the sun. They quickly come to the conclusion that some horrific event will end life on earth as soon as the earth rotates towards whatever made the moon so bright.

It's a fun little romp.
I would be very hesitant to use a new hosting service for anything business critical or sensitive. I don’t know how well they will operate nor the security of my data. AWS/GCP/Azure/etc. do a lot to physically secure your data.
Lot's of people watch it. It's counterproductive because no one gives a f if you're mad about it or what your friends will think. Being a 'public figure' generally means you're considered fair game.

I guess this is as good a time as ever to not take freedom of speech for granted, that this concept is seemingly so hard to understand wherever you're from.
It there is one, I hope they made it styled with black on black text and/or with a braille font!
Well they could, but:

1) Those options, similar to spending the fire protection budget more smartly, also cap out at some point.

2) One of the reasons things like executive compensation get out of control is because they are a rounding error vs. the overall corporate spending. Cutting that back to the bone is not likely to be materially helpful.

3) "cut back or eliminate their dividends, ... stop buying back stock"

They may as well shut down the company (which is what they are doing on a temporary basis). There is no reason for them to be shouldering increased risk if the reward is reduced compensation. If that is the way the game gets played only idiots would be willing to own and manage a power company. It is more comforting to think that power companies are being managed by intelligent and rational people.
> But it really opens a can of worms. What's a place of public accommodation? With brick-and-mortar, it's easy; if you have a physical location open to the general public, it probably qualifies. But on the web?

If this is the question you want to answer, then you should agree with SCOTUS that this case should not be heard. A pizza delivery company falls very clearly on one side of the question. Instead, you should wait until a case comes up that actually squarely deals with the question of if an online-only site might qualify as a place of public accommodation.

The best you can get with this case as it stands is whether or not the website of a brick-and-mortar store must be accessible. And since trial hasn't even started, you don't even have any sense yet of what the interpretation of "the website must be accessible" even means.
Curious, not trying to be a jerk. For something like ordering pizza (or even plane tickets), how much worse is calling to make the order as opposed to ordering online?
1. China and Taiwan have had several skirmishes since the PRC came into being in 1949 -- there just haven't been any in recent times since China doesn't want to risk American intervention or accidentally hitting a US Navy ship in the Taiwan Strait. The status quo is China effectively allows Taiwan to function autonomously so long as they don't claim outright sovereignty, which is when China starts flexing the warhammer. The current government in Taiwan has floated the idea of declaring independence far more openly than in the past which combined with Trump's wishy-washiness on alliances raises the risk that China might try something, even if not outright invasion.

2. Japan committed some horrific atrocities they have yet to atone for and Shinzo Abe is certainly not helping the situation with his nationalist rhetoric either, but China is chomping at the bit to justify a conflict with Japan (see the Diaoyu/Senkaku island situation). I take it you're familiar with Korean history and current events, so it's effectively the whole comfort women dispute x10.

3. What the rest of the world sees of Chinese social media is likely a filtered version, and some platforms like Tik Tok straight up have different versions for China/the rest of the world. Who knows, perhaps the excessive rhetoric there is just users trying to buff up their social credit score, but the fact that there are different versions for Chinese users and external users feeds the divide (probably by design).

4. Nobody can know the full extent of what goes on there given how deep Chinese surveillance runs, but we can draw a negative inference from that itself. Why does Xinjiang need special surveillance programs and restricted access even beyond the measures already imposed in the rest of China?

I get the comparisons can be a touchy subject but I think the world ought to have its moment of reckoning with China sooner rather than later, since later might turn out to be too late.
Boycott the NBA
Went without power for a week in the middle of Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy. I lived on the 10th floor too and our elevators didn’t get restored for over two weeks due to the basement flooding.
> Welcome to the new dark ages, courtesy of our PG&E overlords.

It sounds like PG&E are universally unpopular, but don't forget the contribution we have made to this.

Welcome to the carbon consequences world, courtesy of mankind. Strap in, it's going to get worse from here.
PG+E isn’t “too big to fail” at all, they just went bankrupt!

Twice, since deregulation. Zero times, in the century before deregulation.
Better tell that to the people that maintain jury duty, or the Selective Service
>Facebook just published a blog about moving petabytes per hour.

But it's not like that's through one pipe. We don't talk about how many zillions of tons of steel per minute are moved on freeways.
Higher traffic loads result in latency increasing. This benchmark covers the maximum load so latency will be much higher.
So I take it you're opposed to the ADA in general?
yep, all political activism: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-05-31/...

evidence of banning by sensitive/offended people: https://www.christianpost.com/news/twitter-banned-psychologi...

you really think not picking a gender is not a disorder? yep thats right there next to flat earth then
You are correct, but they force the same purchase type on all consumer, rather than let people decide.
The post references Cupertino, not Shanghai. Or are you trying to say something else?
"The PGP Replacement" So does this have some kind of official backing that means it's likely to surplant PGP?

I don't really know how these things work. Does it require a certain amount of backing to do so?
In my experience, it's a lot LESS work. Fair or not, the people reviewing accessibility standards are likely not disabled, and the mere functioning of a website is enough to pass WCAG 2.0. It doesn't have to work well - all of the bits that make a website nice are at level AAA or are advisory, and the government's claim here is that Level A Sufficient would be enough, it just has to work.
The trillion [insert currency denomination here] question is what 'pollution' is.
Microsoft and Adobe already have 64 bit versions of everything. I just haven't upgraded in eight years. So it's really my fault.
The Redis version does not thread query parsing. Its limited to only IO which is why its performance is much lower.
Thats a very negative book, would highly avoid that and the author
Probably also opposed to safety regulations like having a sprinkler system if your business is in a building over a certain size. After all, building those are way more expensive than wheelchair ramps, and sometimes even more expensive than web devs who know how to make an accessible page.
I don't know if this would even be possible but, since you're a programmer and all, it would be cool if you built a small webapp/task-based game for people who aren't vision-impaired to try to navigate and experience the frustrations you experience every day. A gallery full of mystery photos, random buttons that needed to be clicked a weirdly specific way or don't work at all.
Socialism is not "the state doing things" or "state intervention" or "state ownership." Of course these can be aspects of an implementation of socialism, but they are not socialism in itself - the "how" and "why" actually matters. This is a conflation that historically came to prominence during the Cold War to make the difference between capitalism and socialism "digestible." Even young modern socialists believe this now, no longer understanding socialism as a historical tendency towards emancipation, which attests to the current pitiful state of the Left.

You want actual evidence of what actual major socialist thinkers thought of the state during the time when socialism was most relevant, read Marx's 18th Brumaire or read Lenin's State and Revolution and come to your own conclusions.