skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may as well shut down the company

As I said PG&E makes a really great case for municipal power.

There is no reason for them to be shouldering increased risk if the reward is reduced compensation.

Fire prevention reduces risk. Conversely, this reduced risk scenario you're talking about has resulted in PG&E going bankrupt twice this century.

As for exec compensation and buybacks, PG&E spends a few hundred million dollars annually buying back stock. The fire prevention budget doesn't need to be infinite, but $200-300 million would go a long way. KTVU identified three SVPs who make around $500,000 annually. Yes, that's not a ton of money compared to PG&E's income, but a couple extra million could easily pay for brush/fuel removal.

https://ycharts.com/companies/PCG/stock_buyback

http://www.ktvu.com/news/despite-bankruptcy-pg-e-executive-g...

Edit: Per the KTVU article, that half a mill per SVP is the base salary, so bonuses and non-cash compensation aren't included.
I'm not sure what you mean by "our", that's ambiguous in this context. If you mean US, we don't have a "healthcare system", most health insurance is partially employer paid. My comment was not as clear as I meant it -- I meant that Japan's healthcare system is employer paid, which is similar to how most people in the US are insured. Maybe that's more clear.

Japan does also have NHI, but most are insured through their employers, as nearly everyone in Japan either works or is insured by someone in their family who works.
Yeah, same with a lot (but not all) US bike companies. Cannondale was a family owned business, got bought by private equity, and manufacturing moved overseas. I can't say much as to the quality of their bikes, they're probably still fine, as high end bikes are all about geeking out over the tech, and you don't cut corners on that kind of market, but still.
Yours is a good example, if a bit meta, of one side arguing in bad faith and being less legitimate than the other. Arguably so is this one.
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Yep when I was doing accessibility dev, that was exactly how I tested. It's pretty effective and it also gives you a feel for how crappy the tools are for the blind.
Five years? I was involved in a graduate research program in quantum computing in 1996! It really hasn't gotten too far in all that time and I'm pretty happy that I didn't make that my dissertation topic because it was just not timely or possible to make decent progress on any of it back then. We're more than 20 years on and it's still dubious as hell.
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I can't think of a single use case where Java is more useful than C++. Unless it is the "we've hired some Java programmers, now what do we do with them" use case.
I work in a big IT company and often times internal tools are not very accessible. Sometimes when I talk to their respective maintainers, they are willing to help me, but they don't know what is accessibility and what is screenreader. Is there a good document on how to make web sites accessible that I can show them?
I don't agree with this. Instead of California law makers fixing the problems with the forests, they put the blame on PG&E. The state is just making the problems worse by advocating that it's okay to miss-manage forests. We're fighting one extreme problem with an extreme measure and solving nothing.
The bogus concept of “capital gains” needs to be changed. Unless someone invest in a pre-IPO company, or purchases stock during the IPO, capital gains should not apply.

Buying stock on the market is not investing a company, unless the company gets the cash it’s not a capital investment. Buying and selling stock regardless of how long it’s held is not a capital investment. Also the selling of stock should be subject to state sales tax.

The simple fact that your home isn’t consider a capital investment, but a boat is a capital investment is proof that it’s just a tax dodge for the rich.
GP's main remark was how are these major metropolitan areas generating the electricity they are distributing?

Fossil fuels. There's a plant in Antioch and there was, up until about a decade ago, a plant in BVHP.

Is generation near the city, or is PG&E shying away from turning off power for thousands of business and millions of users for political reasons.

Oh give me a break. No, San Francisco is not being spared because it has political clout. San Francisco doesn't have the same combination of environment and poorly maintained above ground high energy transmission lines that PG&E is worried about.
> Despite the somewhat misleading headline, the Supreme Court didn't really say anything new here.

A unanimous denial of certiorari (declining to hear the case) sends a pretty strong message to lawyers and their clients. It only takes 4 votes (1 less than majority) to hear a case, so the fact that there were zero justices interested is a clear message. While it is technically possible that there could in the future be a circuit split, which could then be appealed to the SCOTUS, it is unlikely SCOTUS would hear that case.

And given what happened today, it is even less likely that a competent lawyer would counsel their client to appeal a similar case up to a federal appeals court (because it looks like it would be a loser of a case).

So while the SCOTUS did not affirmatively speak today, their unanimously declining to hear the case does actually say something new, and this is being hailed as a landmark-ish case in the legal accessibility community.

FWIW, IAAL, and I run an assistive technology startup.
There's no way they don't wave that fee for blind customers.
So I can add it to my CI that builds a new app several times a day and have my CI upload the noterized binary to github release like it does now?
An illegitimate side according you, might not be illegitimate in general.

I'm not saying there are no universally illegitimate sides, but even those have their supporters and some reasonable arguments. The focus should be on deconstructing these arguments instead of marking the side as illegitimate.
Yes, touch-typing. I feel when my fingers hit two keys at the same time - that's the time to go back and check the previous word for spelling mistakes. And I use screenreader to read things for me.
basically locking will create the serializability for that document... so if there are concurrent updates on mongo side it will have to wait... also for step-1 in dual write it should be automic/two-phase between mongo and RDBMS.
It's also one of the most easily outsourced tasks for a dev shop that does not want to do it in house.

A accessibility dev, does not need to have a deep understanding of your business processes, you back end or your dev cycle. They really just need the front end assets in a manner that they can run and access to a source control repo to check in their changes for the mainline dev team to pull in.
On iOS you can also enable the “Screen Curtain” to see how well voiceover will do: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443
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A bunch of Aspyr titles (a sizable publisher of AAA ports) won't work with Catalina, and there are no plans for updates.

These aren't old games for the most part: https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac-software/apps-wont-wo...
It doesn't, but it's evidence in your favor, much like meeting the physical accessibility requirements would be. If there's still a legitimate problem, of course you'd have to address it.
I think the problem is that you have only used mass-grade TTS. Google can't deploy the latest and greatest for the billions because it would be 10x more expensive for them, while a small local TTS doesn't have the power to cover every situation. In demo situations it would be a whole different thing. I have followed the papers on TTS and listened to the demos.

For example my MacOS system voice Alex often confuses 'live' (to live somewhere) with 'live' (as in live concert). That's because they have a simple model that can run on a laptop and not use too much space. This sample phrase tested on Google cloud TTS is perfect.
The next button on my steering wheel maps through bluetooth to skip ahead in my podcast app. So even driving isn't immune.
Typing class expected me to look at the sample I was typing, not at my own output. Being able to accurately type without looking at your output is a standard expectation for sighted people.
The big three are Jaws and NVDA for Windows and VoiceOver for Mac. You probably don't need to test with all three every time since they are similar in terms of what kind of content they can access on the pages. But each of them has its own quirks, there are web-pages that only one of them can read.
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>>Booking.com go to some lengths to minimise the latency introduced by models, including horizontally scaled distributed copies of models, a in-house developed custom linear prediction engine, favouring models with fewer parameters, batching requests, and pre-computation and/or caching.

Any idea what these are ? especially the pre-computation/caching and batching. I'm not able to see what advantage does batching bring...or how you can really cache a prediction request
I really doubt SF will ever be deemed a high forest fire risk area.
The mobile phones are not free. Don't belittle people who pay good amount of money to purchase them. Even though some can purchase iPhone.
The W3C preliminary check is a great document to get you to at least usable:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/preliminary/
What I struggle to see about this new era of podcasting is: why now?

Would someone with more insight help me to understand?
I understand what you're saying. Some of the other commenters are being inconsiderate. It's dangerous when a nation loses the ability to criticize its government.
Their link shortener URL is a nice touch:

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I think this is as much a "business thing" as a "US policy" thing, and it's been going on much longer than the Nixon administration. IBM sold Nazi Germany the tabulators that powered the Holocaust, Chiquita (then United Fruit) ran slave plantations well into the 50's, et cetera.

Don't expect corporations to stand up for what's right, especially overseas; you're always going to be disappointed.
My guess is that your comment is satire, but you should be aware that 'accessible' doesn't just mean 'accessible to blind people' - among other issues, some people have reduced motor function, others can't see contrast as well as the typical human eye.

WCAG is, from what I can tell, a reasonably good starting point and even attempting to do _some_ things and being generally aware is better than not doing anything at all. Give the guidelines a read, https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/
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I know of exactly nobody who was happy with how the Perl 5 to Perl 6 transition went, or the Python 2 to Python 3 transition. I think not ever having a firm cutover like that was beneficial to R.

EDIT: And yes, as citrate05 says, it's just an additional set of libraries. There's no changes to the language itself.
> That commenter is doing a lot of gymnastics to avoid talking about reinforced concrete's hidden failures. It's difficult to determine reinforced concrete failures before it gets bad, and repairing it is very expensive.

Care to elaborate? Concrete has already been extensively studied and has enjoyed widespread use, including under seismic loads. I don't understand how in this day and age where rc structures have been used for over a century there is any mention of "hidden failures".
Not all software is meant to be updated.
It seems pretty clear that Sara Chipps is effectively lying. Even if she's convinced herself that "we've been as clear as we can and your values are out of alignment".[0] At least, if "An employee with a 'director' title" is in fact
Sara Chipps. If it wasn't her, there's the possibility that the two SE employees miscommunicated, or could pretend so.

0) See https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fias... at the second September 18 paragraph.
That's awesome to hear, thanks for clarifying.
There's also no guarantee the service desk will be open or responsive when you want it.
Hopefully all the tech talent in the bay area will start working on local energy generation to send pg and e into proper bankruptcy
This is actually a big deal because what was ruled on was the legal matter of whether a business could be sued based on their website.

The facts of what constitutes a sufficiently-accessible website necessarily have not been discussed, because Dominos was trying to boot the case before any factual determinations were made.

Their argument was that, as a matter of law, they could not be sued under the ADA based on their website. This argument prevailed at the District Court, lost at the Ninth Circuit, and was unanimously declined to be heard at SCOTUS.

That sends a loud and clear message, and this will essentially become the law of the land for at least the next few decades.

Note: I have not deeply read all the opinions, but I am a lawyer who is familiar with appellate procedure and the ADA.
I have noticed a trend toward this in Sydney, Australia, where grocery stores and quality restaurants are abundant. However it is not local home cooked food.

Instead large multi-national petroleum companies seem to be turning their branded stations into quasi-restaurants and cafes.

These have always existed on highways (truck-stops), but now I am seeing them all over the inner-city and suburban areas.

https://www.caltex.com.au/thefoodary
https://www.instagram.com/thefoodary/

*Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation
Oh absolutely. I totally understand reducing your hardware costs if your use case is focused. I wish there were more options for purchasing "no frills" hardware in life....particularly cars.
what is the learning curve like for screen readers? ...and what form does documentation come in? I'd like to learn but not sure where to get started.
Android apps? How about pretty much any web app?
I can't answer that question.

But this HN comment does a good job of describing events at a recentish conference, although not a banning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21186822

Although I'm a big fan of RMS's deeper works (as will be obvious from my other comment), it's easy to imagine him (or to be honest, anyone insufficiently skilled at public speaking) making terribly misguided (at best) "jokes" and the like about how few women there are in tech and implying something about finding sex and girlfriends etc., and these being understood in some literal way as actual requests for sex (probably incorrectly). Just like the poor-taste sexist humour in the lower-scoring comments on Slashdot, only carried into the public, verbal arena, where it's a really bad idea, and indeed, alienating and oppressive.

That sort of thing could get a person banned at a conference these days. (It would have been treated as humorous banter a few decades ago, and I find myself imagining that's when RMS learned his trade.) But usually there's some kind of escalation process, where people are told to stop doing it, and, if necessary, have it explained to them what is unacceptable and why.
There's a scarcity argument in there somewhere I'm sure, the price hasn't been based on usefulness really ever in its history, but there's no foundation for it going to 90k next year. It might go up in five years, there are some historical swings to look at for possible future trends, but even that is pretty iffy to bet on.
SCOTUS hands victory to blind man who sued Domino’s over site accessibility
Please share the data to which you are referring.
You literally could not pay me to program in Java. I've written non trivial code in over twenty languages, but Java, php, and perl are so bad for team projects that I would rather find a different job.
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None that I'm aware of. The problem is checking whether a web site is accessible is a manual operation and therefore time-consuming. And it often happens that companies break accessibility, and then they fix it, and then they break it again...
What? I eat meat, but this comment makes no sense. I have a number of healthy friends that have never touched meat in their lives.
why do you think this is a problem?
> Really? It seems like a lot of words to say "unfamiliar material bad."

Your reading comprehension skills are a bit lacking. If anything, they're a lot of words to say "unfamiliar material behaves in an unfamiliar way" which, as you might agree, is in itself a huge problem if you are tasked with designing a structure intended to be perfectly safe by design for well over 50 years.

And then there's the fact that some of those words are there to point out the fact that the material in question, and the technology that's used to put it to use, suffer from shortcomings that jeopardize the safety and longevity of a structure.
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If significantly fewer people were encouraged to donate, I wonder what that would do to the pool of bone marrow donors.

At least in Australia you're encouraged to sign up for this as you donate, which makes it very easy for them to run the needed tests.
Little do we know, there are five of them in existence already, by several ancient civilizations :)

I kid, but the more secure a vault is the more irretrievable it is, which only makes it useful to aliens, not us.
From another angle here, I occasionally have problems that make me use a screenreader.

When the nerves that make my eyes work stop behaving correctly, it's also normal for the nerves in my throat to flip out so that speaking feels like breathing razor blades.

Making a call isn't an option, but using a web browser still is, if they haven't gone out of their way to break all the ways a web browser is supposed to behave.
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Still have it and still love it! Not that I've fired it up recently.

But ya I ran rockbox..
High production values fail to compete with serviceable amateur content.

Sounds like the porn business when digital video got decent.
Domino's wouldn't give Robles the online price according to other articles.
You are right that Norway has done the best any country could do with oil money.

But it is also time they start planning for future when oil runs out or it is banned. The problem is the Norwegian economy still heavily depends on oil income. Huge number of well paid jobs are because of oil sector. All this party will be over once they are dismantled. Since the oil fund is not allowed to to be spent the economy has to go through a radical change. The biggest industry after oil in Norway is fishing! That says something about the economy in Norway.

The consequences of oil free economy on Norway at least as of today would be dire. Taxes will increase unemployment will increase. They will be forced to use oil fund.
Oh. So. Dry.

Here he is giving the eulogy for Graham Chapman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek
I should have some time to "kick the tires" this week, will do.
Does the SSD drive need a separate power source when booting from it or can it run on Thunderbolt 3?
> And they're not "liable" for cutting power to prevent fires.

State granted monopolies must serve the public good. If, as a broadcaster, I just can't manage to keep our transmitter on -- we're going to lose our license to someone who can.

Either PG&E needs to explain why they can't do appropriate line maintenance or needs to have their lines put up for bidding.
My children and 5 and 3 and have (almost) never eaten meat, eggs or dairy. Tested regularily in a world class health system and they are stellar in every way.

B12 supplimentation is pretty trivial.
I live to use keyboard shortcuts, mostly TAB. It's amazing how many websites don't even have that working correctly.

Or a page has exactly one text entry box and it doesn't have focus when page first renders.

That's just sloppy.

And for those with vision problem a major problem.
I was ready to be sarcastic here, but I'm curious which of your 17 other languages do you prefer? And why? And to do what?

I've always found that Java particularly shines in team settings in a way that a lot of individual productivity languages like python and Ruby fall down atleast.

Obviously there is a broad spectrum of other languages between and beyond them, but which do you prefer?
> The powers not expressly given to the federal government in the constitution are reserved to the states.

I don't understand why you're making a legal argument now when the root of your opinion is a moral one ("Being forced to work at gunpoint is known as slavery"). It sounds like the states' rights argument is just a convenient legal pretext for what you really want, which is the freedom to discriminate against disabled people.
We don't even have PGE service in Palo Alto but they're telling us we'll be cut off too. In 2000 we were subject to the rolling blackouts for reasons of "solidarity" even though Palo Alto had access to power.
This is a pretty cool idea! Wonder how much $$ can be made and whether it can be a sustainable side income. Feels like a much better opportunity than commoditized "gig economy" jobs. Best of luck(:
If only there were some way for people to band together to pay for infrastructure which helps all of them
Squeak. Also, see things like CodeSpark.

A5 y.o. usually has a limited command of the natural language yet.
pg&e owns the grid. A lot of bay area residents generate their own power, but we all rely on pg&e for interconnect.

And without grid, solar panels shut themselves off.
The Supreme Court just did.
I do not understand what the state of California gains from the pretend private status of PG&E. Seems like an unnecessary concession to the free market freaks for something that's naturally and obviously the domain of a government (public utility).

Just make PG&E public already, the current legal status is a joke.
And until people do corporations will continue to enact censorship on behalf of the CCP.
May have been better to use GPL2?
The blockchain is the court (and bank, and law). Each investor and executive and the corporation itself has its own address, and control over only that address. As with regular corporations, investors transfer cash from their own address to the corporation's address to fund it. Unlike regular corporations, repayment can happen automatically, with no lawyers needed to enforce it - a smart contract simply deducts the requisite payment from the corporation's address to the creditor's address every month, and triggers liquidation proceedings if the required amount is not present. Since said smart contract would have access only to the corporation's bank account, there is no risk of a creditor seizing your personal assets.
No - analogies are imperfect. But it's certainly a better analogy, RMS is not just a rude guest.
Good on him. It's worth promoting. And going to extremes is almost never the right answer, so enjoying meat on a special occasion with friends seems sensible.
If fear of lawsuits means businesses end up making their websites accessible to disabled people, then… mission accomplished?
MapQuest seems most valuable for its ability to petition Europe or the US to take antitrust proceedings based on its case.
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What about https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools ? Would this tool be problematic too?
lol, ladies and gentlemen we have our dear Potus amongst us.