skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it would be silly for a web developer to complain, because they are paid for it. But, yeah, some additional work — non trivial amounts of it — must be done. By designers, developers, QA. And all of them are paid for it. So all this costs money. Non-trivial amounts of it.

So, while it might be cumbersome, but doable for, let's say, Amazon, it could be a real problem for a new small business. Consider this: as a startup, you always wish you can satisfy all you customers. But you cannot. So you make sacrifices, trying to satisfy the customer base that brings to most money first. You always discriminate, even while US Supreme Court may not be able to see it. And there is no other way.

So what this law really means: there still will be commercial web-sites, that are not accessible for some customers. But they can be sued for it. And while it won't drastically improve lives of many of disabled customers, it will improve lives of some lawyer firms, that can use blind people to sue businesses. This won't happen to everyone, but this is one more additional risk, that every entrepreneur will have to consider

I always tend to support blind/deaf/etc people as much as I can, and I honestly care for them. But I don't feel I must be legally obligated to target my services to anyone. And I think this is a stupid law.
go get has nothing to do with github. Why wouldn't it work? Just use it the usual way. The readme directs you to a hello world program:

https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio/tree/master/example/hello/h...
It's really hard to tell the difference between what is genuinely offensive and what is not.

No easy answers. In this case, maybe there is a relatively simple rule: Supporting democracy must not in itself be regarded as offensive...
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Still cant believe the economics profession managed to convince people it deserves a seat at the table of the hard sciences
I was getting an error message back, apparently. So I needed to send EBCDIC too, but apparently nobody thought to document this anywhere.

It wasn't binary, but it was fixed length fields, which were surprising common in those days.
They're not the same thing but can be tightly linked.
Propaganda is when say a government controls its citizens through lies spread by the media, censorship can be the step further to prevent those who don't buy the lies from exposing them, usually it's used when propaganda alone doesn't work, which is the case of people not divided in small factions fighting each other (lefties vs righties etc).
Basically in the western world we have more propaganda than censorship because in "divided and conquered" contexts propaganda alone does still work; people buy the lies then fight against the neighbor ignoring the evil king so no need to make them feel more oppressed than necessary, a step that could incite revolts.
No, this is about Chinese influence.
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Ran this script, it uploaded my whole network to Github as an open source project and sent a broadcast notification to Krebs On Security.
Are you surprised? He's got a product which he believes has no value to blind people and a record of exactly zero people calling to complain, but he's getting shit on by the a11y brigade anyway.

I believe it should be his right to just simply say my product is not for blind people, and dedicate no resources to servicing this hypothetical user base.

It's very easy to tell others to do something a certain way with a condescending tone from behind your screen if you've got no stakes and don't have to do any of the work involved.
Tons of programming projects has the name of an existing project. Go itself is an illustration of that fact.
Russia liberated Ukraine and USA will liberate Hong Kong. Makes perfect sense, and then Trump has something to one-up his good pal Putin with.
> "a new normal that entire people can have their "feelings hurt" (what?) by mere non-insulting opinions, and it tries to make it a new normal that all actors should censor any undesirable or potentially undesirable opinion"

Umm... yeah... but... oh boy... okay look, I AGREE with your ultimate conclusion here. But I think you might need a new rubric which with to argue it. Because as-written, this calls to mind half of all social interaction within United States culture today.

To differentiate these things, you have to tap dance around the "non-insulting opinions" qualifier. Which is kind of a mess, because we've largely coalesced around the idea that insult should be determined by the insulted.

I do think there's a great (and obvious) point here. I'd love to see it phrased differently, because that might be helpful more broadly.
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Slightly more racy when trying from Denmark: https://southpark.cc.com/sitewide/img/messages/geoblock/dk.j...
At this point electron will beat something like this on a time to market front. I suspect this framework would work better for people who want to do real-time drawing but stick with go and not setup a bunch of OpenGL boilerplate.
For those really curious, the standard explaining the detailed structure of data CDs is free:

https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...

DVD-ROM is here too, for comparison:

https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...

And indeed there's really not much point in doing so. Any disc copy protection scheme trying to mess with CIRC codes, or worse, EFM codes, would have a really hard time having any drives read the resulting discs.

Some copy protections did play around with EFM, leading to "weak sectors". Amusingly enough, when I tried to search for info on it for this post, I found an article previously linked from HN, and which quoted me...

https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/error-beneath-the-wav...
Ahem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
FIFA (The governing body for soccer) issues similar fines and bans for any political messages. ie fined they recently fined English/Scotish FA's 100k for players wearing poppies (a flower) which symbolize fallen soldiers from WW1*.

In both cases while on a base human level it FEELS wrong, if you follow the $$ end of the day the broadcast is the product they're selling to advertisers. Adding any sort of political/divisive messaging could be easily kill those deals - makes sense given the finances. You're attacking their primary income stream, of course they're gonna come at you hard.

The player is not owed any platform by participating in this Blizzard event. If they banned him for comments made on his own social media outside of the event it would be a different story.

To be clear I'm not defending Blizzard, just explaining why most broadcast orgs will react similarly.

It is what it is, until the advertising based model of entertainment changes it'll continue to be this way.
Sometimes you see initiatives where the tourist board of a city or a region provides a convenient site for booking a stay. But of course they don't come near the SEO power of Booking.com, so the accommodations also put their rooms there. For the traveler, it is easier to just always use Booking.com.

And people like me and you, who really don't want to book at Booking.com and make an effort to book elsewhere, are often in bad luck, because they own a bunch of other booking sites too.
There are no rational arguments for my cause if it involves whether I should exist or have rights. I want rights because I want them. How would a rational argument even work?
> Is Trump evil? It's not clear to me

Trump is corrupt, abuser, a fascist, arguably a traitor of American people. He's racist, sexist and he gives his support to horrible movements (like KKK and alt-right) and normalizes their views. He's responsible for ICE and putting children in concentration camps.

There must be huge gap between perspectives, because I don't understand how it something like this can be unclear.

If not this guy, who would you consider evil if anyone?
This is a problem with science reporting in general. Current theories or observations are presented as absolute truth even though they're only approximations of the truth based on our current data and understanding of what's really going on.
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Nope, you need to have a Developer account.
I'd suggest using an encrypted volume file, that's what I currently do and am using MacOS Catalina. So far, no problems.

The added advantage is that you can easily do backups of it.
So stating an opinion with valid comparisons is simply just flaming now, eh? Good to know the concept of "genuinely new" is up to you and you alone to decide.
You've been "advertising yourself" for years. Not to sound too LinkedIn-y, but every interaction with a person is an advertisement, and every person is a potential client.

Most freelancers get started doing work for family, friends, or former bosses or coworkers. Having a prior relationship increases the odds of acceptance, and if you are a worthwhile consultant with a decent client (ideally, you wouldn't approach people who you know would be bad clients) it will usually result in a success story.
Tbh, "intern" doesn't need to mean that she copies documents and hangs around shadowing people. I agree that she most likely didn't tell them anything new when she recommended Palantir, it sounds more like what Trump is doing having his daughter work with others on his behalf. When it's about business with people you trust, immediate family is often the obvious choice.

It's not ruled out, but it's not that likely that any random person would get great offers. Being the child of one of the most powerful men of the industry helps, so of course there's the family is involved. Playing the "oh yeah, but the relation is totally accidental, it had nothing to do with any decisions of businesses"-card sounds a bit strange.
This assumes acceptance of a few premises that are not stated, significantly, that "all of group X disregards all opposing arguments as [a priori] irrational". I reject that premise holds true for all X.

I am always suspicious, initially, of either/or questions. They are frequently "loaded" in such a way.
> Liberals lecture, conservatives communicate: Analyzing complexity and ideology in 381,609 political speeches

At what point does it become irresponsible to put out studies with this kind of title?

All this does is create two warring factions - one side that is bolstered by the claims and feels they are superior and the other side that feels attacked and loses some faith in the instition of studies like this.

Furthermore these are rarely ever conclusive. They take a topic like understanding and interpreting linguistics (an already incredibly difficult field of study) and boil it down to a dinner table conversation quip.

But the damage is done. This click bait will be freely shared on social media and be consumed by unwitting participants.
Complicated prolog does that too. Spaghetti C++ does that too. This tool is way easier compared to the method you have suggested. Just copy/past your text with/without image and it is done.
I wonder if they were aware of the controversial nature of the episode. I’d bet really money, though, Viacom et. al. wouldn’t hesitate for a second to censor South Park if it starts hurting their bottom line.
I really don't like how this is made out as "China clamping down on Blizzard", just like it was framed when Ubisoft tried to get a lower age-rating for Rainbow Six Siege and claimed that was what China demanded for their market.

Blizzard has been suspending plenty of pro players in plenty of their games for all kinds of questionable, and not so questionable reasons.

And because Blizzard is a private company, offering a service they maintain, they have the house right, they have the final say about who can partake and who can't.

To that end, they don't need the Chinese government to pressure them because they will already do it themselves to make their product as uncontroversial as possible. In that context politics is just not something that Blizzard, or any of the big publishers, want to be as a part of their "e-sport scene".

What they want is the least controversy possible and the lowest ages ratings possible, so they can sell their products to as many people as possible. That's their main and only motivation here, not "pleasing the CCP!".
Similar experience. He said Mao had to make hard choices as a leader to propel his country forward. I asked him why India didn't have to starve millions to do the same thing.
> I feel like the majority of gamers won't care

The simultaneity of the NBA and now Blizzard so publicly siding with Beijing may elevate this out of the realm of commercial issues (subject to boycotts) into a political one.
So do most people on Facebook. For many, Facebook is the internet. And they trust that, and everything on it.
> previous car insurance and painting anecdotes proved to me that you can conjure up a hypothetical interest of a blind person about anything.

These aren’t hypothetical! Blind people really are interested in both these things, as you can easily find out by googling — or just using your common sense.

Like OP, you’re illustrating exactly why we need the ADA. People often have wildly inaccurate perceptions about what people with visual disabilities can or can’t do and about what they may or may not be interested in. If “I don’t think blind people would be into this” were a valid excuse, then virtually nothing would be accessible in practice.

As the OP has already demonstrated that they have mistaken ideas about blind people, I’m not willing to take their word for it that they have some kind of special product which couldn’t possibly be of interest to the visually impaired. They are free to reveal what they actually sell, if they think they have a slam dunk case.
No, it's the PR weasel words that have existed in sports contracts from the beginning of broadcast media

> 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
Comedy is threatened by corporations and people assuming the position for tyranny.
I said a similar thing yesterday but I think it has become clear that importing from China was mostly fine for our country, debatable on the lost jobs and environmental part sure, but exporting to China was a poison pill that we never should have swallowed.

China has become less liberal, in the meaningful ways, since Nixon "opened up" China in the 20th century. And the flip side is that when we began exporting to them we installed pathways for China to control and de-liberalize the US.

The more economically important China becomes to the US the more it will control our companies and public political sphere.
Turing completeness is a statement about the nature of infinity. It is always decidable if a Turing machine with a fixed upper bound on it's tape length will halt.

There was a post (this year?) mapping Godel's incompleteness theorem to the halting problem. I found it inspiring, not in the least because the link revealed they were both in fact statements about the properties of infinity - something that was not obvious by just looking at either problem on its own. It is of those few cases where the whole was obviously bigger than the sum of the parts, for me at least.
Varies by country, but per the article France will let you drive one of the "VSP"s without any pre-requisites, and even if you've lost your car license due to drink driving.

https://www.justlanded.com/english/France/Articles/Travel-Le... : "From the age of 14, children can ride a moped with an engine capacity below 50cc capable of a maximum speed of 45kph" (!)

The UK used to let you drive a moped on a provisional license, but nowadays it requires compulsory training. Effectively they are two separate licenses you can learn either before the other.
All of the "cable replacement" streaming services" - I should have been more clear.
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this is also a very good article:

https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-set-up-your-iphone-f...
I really don’t see anything wrong with this. I blame the modern web a lot for this As javascript hijacks functionality of the browser, and the browser is typically better accessible
> "he opened by asking the organizers to turn the house lights back up so he could see if there was anyone in the crowd he might want to have sex with"

There's video. This alleged event occurs at about 6:11 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uckLT7mPPIw

I think your words mean the opposite of what RMS actually said. So much for justice.

Your words:

"so he could see if there was anyone in the crowd he might want to have sex with."

RMS's actual words (speaking to a darkened room where he can't see anyone & conference organisers are having trouble getting their projector working, so he has to improvise to fill the time):

"And I always like to be able to see the people I'm talking to but it's so dark in here I can't see you. Now, I mean, I might conceivably enjoy sleeping with some of you but that's not what we're here for. Uh, so if it's possible to increase the light on the audience please?"

That's poorly judged joke/banter: If there's one lesson we're learning from all this, it is avoid jokes that are likely to be misunderstood. I don't doubt that some women got up and left, and were put off contributing. Someone should have had a word with him about how it was received.

My guess is RMS would be mortified if he thought people, such as yourself, were misunderstanding his words to that gross extent.

Frankly, given the severity of the accusations, what you have called him out for on this occasion looks to me like a brazen outright lie on your part, as evidenced by the video to correct the record.
People forget the context of the uproar and protests against Brendan. Indeed he was the lover of freedom that sent in political donations to take freedom away from others - namely, those not like him. It's interesting to see how people, especially champions of freedom of expression, can compartmentalize that mentality so easily and justify it to oneself. Those people deserve to be called out. Calling them out is also something freedom affords.
Those zones are called cities, which pass laws for themselves. A state has a wide range of cities.
> Then we have to boycott Hearthstone. While the current case is neither surprising nor substantially important, it is important because of principle.

Boycott the Hearthstone pro players/streamers.

Blizzard won't notice the money from a couple hundred people going away. The streamers/pros on the other hand will most certainly notice even a couple of people going away and will leave Hearthstone to rot.

Once the pros leave Hearthstone for another game, Hearthstone will die. THAT will get Blizzard's attention.
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Try Gitless[0]. It's an alternative 'UI' to Git which is kind of build top down instead of bottom up. The commands are much higher in the abstraction tree and clear single operations and dropping some concepts like the staging area. It operates on the Git database the same way 'normal' Git does so you can always fall back.

[0] https://gitless.com/
like graveyard orbit
Blizzard are a sell-out company anyway.
That's a lame argument. US could be considered more evil than China (I agree with you), but both are evil when looking at specific aspects of their behavior. Argumenting that they (brutally) repress their own citizens does somehow absolve US from war crimes done on foreign soil is simply not valid.
I guess this comes down to whether a country is its government or its people.
> There are no rational arguments for my cause if it involves whether I should exist or have rights. I want rights because I want them. How would a rational argument even work?

This is a pretty important question, although I don't know how well it applies to specific causes. On the other hand, there are reasonable questions we can ask about rights themselves whose answers are not easily reconcilable. For example:

1. Are rights discovered or invented?

2. If discovered, where do they come from?

3. If invented, can you "uninvent" them?

4. If invented, by what process?
That it's between GNU project webpages and Sourceforge circa 2002?

>"Other projects use Github" will not be accepted as an answer

Well, not that I care whether it would or would not be accepted, but It would still be a valid answer: using common services others use, makes for less friction:

1) immediate familiarity for most (not having to learn yet another thing)

2) common tooling with what other projects you use, use,

3) more available tooling -thanks to popularity-

4) more dependable to be around,

5) easier to engage with others since they more likely already use it -network effects-,

and so on...
The developer sold me a product that is unsuitable for its purpose. Of course they should either fix it or stop selling it.

I don't think that "If they can't sell broken/illegal stuff, they will just sell nothing" is a convincing argument or that nobody will show up to sell non-broken stuff.
That was the whole point of the episode. Has China never heard of Barbara Streisand?
Well, this is “fiction”, but he described his method precisely: get the publicly available Reddit comments archive, sort by controversial, set up the GAN generating and scoring texts according to controversy (the comments that cause the most schism and/or initiate discussions), train it, then try to generate new controversial comments. Seems doable.

I presume that everyone with a spark of scientific mindset and even a slight interest in the field now warming up their OpenGPT-2 instances and trying to reproduce the effect.
So you are anti people, not anti housing.
We live in the US and our Toyota Highlander's navigation basically loses it's mind when we travel into Quebec. When we're in a city, we like to have voice navigation on so we're not looking at the screen the whole time, but it will just go "In 300 feet... turn on... (large volume increase) GAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA". It was disturbing the first time, but hilarious the next few until we just turned it off.
You don't think there is any moral difference between the two?
That is exactly what I need, but unfortunately the post is from 2004, and he didn't link to that precious sample of data =(

Still, some very interesting info there. It looks like if and when I get this data, I may need a follow-up article that goes even deeper.
If the Western governments could maybe grow a pair and call out how this is very unfair maybe something would happen.

I work for one of the largest news publishers in the Nordics, and we were criticized for letting the CCP take out a full page ad in our largest newspaper that essentially said "no need for the Western governments to get involved, this is an internal issue that is best handled by us". Our editor in chief of that paper responded with this:

"Now we have the moral high ground. Until the Swedish government can take out a full page ad in The Global Times criticizing the CCP we can use this as one of many examples of how China does not value freedom of speech, but we do."
Alexander is known for being a bit...chicken. There are very few positions to which he's willing to firmly commit beyond "don't get mad" and "don't be mean", for fear of antagonizing his rather...politically diverse audience. The charitable interpretation is that as a psychiatrist, he's been daily confronted to some of the worst aspects of human life, society and personnality and still learned to sympathize with his patients whatever they might have done. The less charitable interpretation is that he's terrified of conflict in general.
That would be composing music, which would match building games (or game artifacts for Minecraft or Mario Maker for instance)

We get into muddy territories, but playing games (electronic or not) is doing something within rules, that’s not so far from making sounds or pictures with given tools.
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