skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand why someone would want to run WhatFreeWords if What3Words is already a standard: it's dumb to pay for 238-lines-of-Python-as-a-service. The added latency alone is ridiculous.

My question is, why would anyone commit to What3Words as a standard? There are much simpler ways to map geographic data to three-word combinations.

One obvious way, dividing things up into rough "squares" of approximately even size, has the added benefit that shared or alphabetically proximal words would indicate geographical proximity: with What3Words, wounds.client.face is feet away from to jumped.storm.nest, but hundreds of miles from wounds.client.fact.

If you don't think that's useful, then perhaps it's useful to use one of the other word lists which are on many computers, to share space, such as the PGP Word List[1] or the word list from RFC 1760[2]. One of the touted benefits of What3Words is that it is algorithmic and therefore doesn't require a large mapping file, so it's appropriate for systems where storage comes at a premium. Yet they used a more complicated algorithm and didn't reuse an existing word list?

It seems like their algorithm design was basically driven to try to make it hard to reverse engineer, and it didn't even achieve that. The only reason I can see why this became anything resembling a standard is that some people really want to pay for services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1760
Would be nice if someone well versed in Coq will add[1] the corresponding page in Learn X in Y minutes site.

[1] https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs/issues/316...
Thanks for the hint! Any experience with high FPS footage? My old Premiere version I still have around works fine for regular 30/60 fps footage, but 240 FPS stuff it just can't handle properly.
Baidu would certainly like to think so, and has said as much on occasion, but do the facts really support the claim that Google left China primarily due to competition rather than ethical or security concerns?

Despite continuous friction with the Chinese government, Google's share of the search engine market in China had grown to over a third before it decided to pull out: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703465204575207...

Google hasn't pulled out of other markets where it faces strong local competitors, such as Yandex in Russia, and it remains popular in Chinese-speaking markets outside of mainland China such as Hong Kong and Taiwan. That the developers of the Google Pinyin input tool were found to have copied data (something other companies in and out of China have also been guilty of from time to time) is hardly evidence that Google in general was not competitive.

Ironically, the fact that under Pichai a return to China was seriously contemplated would suggest that financial reasons alone can't explain the original decision to leave.

Similarly, YouTube wasn't forced to pull out of other markets where it faced competition. Also, YouTube was frequently blocked by Chinese authorities even before Google decided to pull out: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703465204575207...

Competition may explain in part why Google hadn't conquered the Chinese market before it left, but conflict with the Chinese government, in the form of official censorship as well as illicit hacking, would seem to be the main reason why Google pulled out of China but not elsewhere.

Unless of course learning to comply with such demands and intrusions is included under "understanding the Chinese market".
I worked in a company that have been using a sql database for a really long time, like +20 years.

In the original design of the database, they though it would be a great idea to use negative ID for system use (on the same tables that are being used for user data). No foreign key whatsoever.

Forward 2018 when we have to build a system that have to work with this widedly used database (it's for a french ERP).
Because there is no index or foreign keys the queries are really slow which make our interface slow. Because the tables are accessible but belong to the ERP we cannot modify them because the ERP is under a licence so we don't have access to remodeling of the tables or how the data is processed before being saved in the database.

So to work around the problem we had to create duplicates of the tables with proper index and foreign keys and start a cron job every minute to read from the original tables and fill the datas into our tables ...

Mind boggling .. The software is being sold to a lot of companies which is kind of sad.
The developer will pass those costs along to the buyers of the new housing. Which means you effectively want those people to subsidize the existing residents.

Besides that, making new development extremely expensive with all this haggling is one of the major reasons for the housing crisis.
> If using GPLv2 means companies stay away from the project instead of building on top of it, that's not a win for anyone.

Companies having problems with GPL is a problem of companies and not a problem of the license. If the library you want is GPL, then why blame the project and not your company's legal department?
It's really scary how much the cloud is taking away from us. It's not even standardised in any way, little interoperability to export data etc. All magic and things.
Now I realize that I still use Word 2008 for when I need to open a .doc or .docx document that Google drive does not want... Time to upgrade...
I switched to ExactScan to support my Fujitsu S1500M:

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912628/

“Need” was perhaps a strong word. But basically if one eats a strictly vegan diet during growth years without supplements, they WILL develop malnutrition related disorders and/or stunted growth. It is the recommendation of pediatricians to feed kids some meat so as to provide a natural source of essential vitamins and minerals. Kids who do not eat meat need to be screened for various malnutrition, growth, and eating disorders.
Funny and wrong (or even just controversial) are different things entirely.
Next step: chips include critical components that can be damaged by x-rays.
This would be wonderful news. I am blind, and can report that accessibility on websites is getting worse and worse with every new web framework invented. Accessibility is usually bolted on as an afterthought, with all the quality issues implied.
However, I only believe this headline when I see the first lawsuits being won. Lets hope this is no clickbait.
The Distributed Entropy Service (2002)
It only has two moons, one more than earth for sure but nothing compared to the more massive planets.
Same for me. From what I understood you want to say that "people love spreadsheets" but "spreadsheets have limitations" (e.g. they have weak/no data schemas). If this understanding is correct then it would be helpful to see a practical example where said spreadsheet limitations become a problem and how your solution overcomes this problem.
Some accounting firms actually take this into account when you're sending bills.

In my country bills must have an auto incremented bill number. You cannot issue bill #100 without having 99 bills before.

I know one auditing firm that used those ids to spot fraud: some managers started their own firm and started giving contracts to that firm.

The auditors spotted something was going on because the bills have a very low number, and they incremented by 1 or 2 every month - a sign I am your only customer.
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I like the idea. I've signed up, verified my email, and provided all of my details, but am still stuck on "Complete your profile to be approved"
If I do this my apps are limited to the lowest common denominator which means supporting either 6% best case of Android users, or going back further, supporting say 30%, if Flutter will even support doing so, and giving up many features thus hurting not only my Android users, but also my iOS users who could be way ahead and who stay updated. And tying the future of my project to Google? No thank you. Have you seen any Google projects lately? Shallow and not impressive at all, and often abandoned. OMG I have to code everything twice you say that like coding is not fun, or like it's the end of the world. How about this: code everything once, and target iOS. If cross platform is really needed, go with something from a serious company, like Xamarin.
How much did it cost you to keep providing the discounted price?
And if you've just paid your yearly prescription last week, you aren't even getting what you paid for:

> You’ve charged me, when will I get my refund?

>We are unable to issue refunds. Executive order 13884, orders the cessation of all activity with the entities including no sales, service, support, refunds, credits, etc.

So no refunds either. Renting stuff in the cloud is just waiting to be screwed if the country you're in is on the hit list of the US government. And that's not a short list either, btw.
Remember web counters for visits? My company started them always at 1000 :-D
yea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone

my understanding is that a good feature of the goldilocks zone is that it has fewer small objects than the outer planets region. maybe someone with better knowledge can pipe up.
Of course it's about money! However the problem is because the situation in HK is not as straight forward as people think. I would recommend everyone watch this video before making any judgements or comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYuGYLesx0

SCMP has been for the past few months been very supportive of the "protests", so I am not even sure why they put this video up in the first place. As we can see, these guys are not the "peaceful protesters" people would like you to believe, but more rioters or even terrorists (yeah, they threatened a 70 yr old lady). So I would say at this stage expressing support for these guys in HK are like supporting the Sandy Hook conspiracies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s... which I would imagine a similar response from the NBA.
Griffins already did it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEo0wnKoixo
Don’t they also have voice ordering via amazon echo / google home?

Then again pizza websites are pretty garbage from the get go. Not sure why they make them so damn convoluted.
Did Apple lose some critical people in the last year or so? Johnny Ive we all heard about. But maybe more such important foundational people on systems and core OS side also left? I'm guess this because the drop in quality in both iOS and MacOS even in released software is significant that regular people are feeling it. I seriously hope this is a temporary glitch and I won't be forced to figure out a new system setup (back to Windows? Or Linux or ChromeOS?) for my day-to-day.
I use https://khan.github.io/tota11y/ which you can add to your browser to run through your site. I also sometimes just close my eyes and run a screen reader through a site to see if I could navigate it reasonably. Neither of these options helps with catching everything but they're better than nothing.
Do stunt-men, soldiers, arctic explorers and other jobs with risk to life and limb pay no tax?
Can you provide any examples of sites that might be using particular frameworks that are inaccessible? If open source, I reckon I could raise an issue or two on your behalf if that's OK.
I once inherited code written in Spanish and I knew just enough to figure out how to maintain it. Definitely slowed me down a ton but I learned more of a real language while coding! I wouldn't recommend it though for any serious application haha. Back in the day it was on Flash and classic ASP which were both new to me too. Back then you didn't handpick your projects. You just took them and figured them out. I'd attribute a lot of my success from plunging into those types of things.
Devices keep running even if the controller goes down. Just no Config updates during outage unless you connect directly to device and change there.
I think this kind of approach is really underrated. I remember from playing around with Rails that you can do very similar things quite easily.

It's not a popular approach at the moment, but I do feel like there is validity to it.

Kudos for taking the road less travelled.
This approach doesn't work. It has been tried in the past, and almost always produced the same result. The alternative version is not maintained, and after a while you end up with just a small selection of features to be useable for those which use the specially designed version. It will go out of sync, or the specially designed version will never get updated. This is the best way to create a ghetto.
I’d be interested to hear more about this as well
>> A lot of old CDs are not holding up as well as advertised

Are you referring to pressed or burned CDs? Or Both?
How does this actually fit with what the order says. It's supposed to affect people working with the regime, not tens of millions of people. Is this Adobe just trying to say "fuck you" to a whole country, or are their lawyers just really confused (or am I?)?
> The only reason I'm going to watch this episode is because China banned it.

Streisand effect!
I’m not blind. But I would be furious if I had to call to place an order rather than submit a web form, merely because the site couldn’t be bothered to adhere to basic standards and instead used meth-addled “code artisans” practicing resume-driven development.
That's really sad and stupid.
Now magically all the tech giants are blocking the accounts of HKers.

Here you have the power and the dark side of the cloud: one click and it's game over
W3W is a nasty rent-seeking operation. They have invented a flawed solution looking for a problem and are using lots and lots of dubious PR to try and get it mainstream so they can then start charging for the use of their stupid algorithm.

Their PR attempts are absolutely pathetic but sadly seem to work on the masses. Their most frequent angle is someone contacting emergency services but somehow can't figure out his location, and W3W comes along and magically saves the day. The problem is that if I need a phone app & GPS signal to figure out my W3W, why can't I just use the GPS coordinates directly?
A Z80 has over 8500 transistors, so even though it's much simpler than a Raspberr Pi, I don't think you're going to solder together an 8000 transistor processor in a post apocalyptic world. Even the old 4004 has around 2300.

I'd guess that those 8500 transistors would be better used to build thousands of much simpler logic controllers to help automate infrastructure that's lost its computer control systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

There are simpler "transistor computers" that might be more feasible to build from discrete components:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Transistor_co...
Hey I appreciate you hanging in there but i think we’re on two different wavelengths and aren’t communicating well. I don’t know what passive voice has to do with avoiding pronouns, you can write active and passive with and without. But let’s call it even its been a long day. Take care.
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The bus factor of one is the movement's ideology itself. If the mob is allowed to take down the leader, do you think anyone else who was sympathetic to the leader and their ideology would feel comfortable taking the place? Or would even be allowed to do so by the mob at large?
In 2010 Google determined that there were more people using the internet with accessibility features than Canadians. I can't find any new data, but I find it hard to assume that has gone down since. On top of that, making your website friendly to navigate with a keyboard doesn't just help people using accessibility features, lots of people use the keyboard to quickly navigate.
A word: censorship
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There is a very strong chain of these in South Australia (OTR) owned by Peregrine Corp and the Shahin Family. It's a smart strategy, buying up prominent corner sites everywhere and spreading the offering beyond petrol/diesel/gas which you'd assume has a fading future.
> It's really not hard to make your websites accessible at a basic level. Follow the standards.

Do you follow the standards? If you show me a web site that you've developed I'll show you a site with multiple violations of WCAG 2.0. Hell, JAWS' own site is littered with WCAG violations! Yes, "accessibility at the basic level" is easy but WCAG 2.0 is not "accessibility at the basic level". It's a huge set of rules that are often unclear and ambiguous. And that's fine because WCAG 2.0 is just something that you should aspire to. But if you start defining accessibility by whether a site conforms to WCAG 2.0 or not, then I can guarantee you that every single popular site is non-accessible.

We got sued and believe me it has nothing to do with blind people. Our site is of zero interest to them. Companies are sued by scumbag lawyers, who have made a nice little racket out of this thing. It's really unfortunate that the HN crowd is siding with them, as if they are championing the rights of disabled people. It's all about money.
Mars has even less mass than earth (5.972 × 10²⁴ kg vs 6.417 × 10²³ kg)
What kind of b.s. is this??

All you do is post disingenuous commentary about the nature of the protest feeding directly into the CCP's propaganda about what is happening.

If you are a Chinese sock puppet - fine - carry on with your job.

If you are sheltered behind the great firewall or fear for your family's safety or your own social credit score - fine - i sympathize.

But if you are living in the west, and are deluded and brainwashed - i pity you and humanity's future...
Well, if the people don't even get a refund for what they already paid for, I guess that gives them moral right not to respect any intellectual property of Adobe either, just pirate anything they need.
Sounds like a pain in the ass.

In the case of websites... two years ago I started adopting a11y into my front-end code. But while plugins like eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y make the job easier, it honestly was also a huge pain in the ass familiarizing myself with the grotesque state of affairs in web accessibility standards.

However, one of the biggest gains might have been learning to properly leverage every HTML tag to its fullest. Modern day SPAs have all gone back to using wild div forests with no context or metadata available for readers. This also took much less effort than learning the rest of standards compliance. So start there!

After crossing that river, I think that accessibility is complex enough to warrant its own dedicated developer for almost any project if standards are to be achieved.

Still... until our bosses catch up, we do what we can. Here are some great resources for developers who wish to learn more about how to design for accessibility: https://a11yproject.com/resources/#further-reading

P.S. Is it a reasonable heuristic to assume a reader with no visual formatting in their comments might have a good chance of being blind?
Blizzard suspends Hong Kong Hearthstone player, pulls prize money
> I've seen mostly critism of many American polcies. Of White middle America in particular.

Isn't that very much aligned with the US media though? I don't know how much criticism of South Park holds true, I haven't watched it in years, but this doesn't strike me as a counter example. Also, they can be critical of some things inside the US and be aligned with US foreign policy at the same time, those aren't mutual exclusive.
Seriously...

For a country that supposedly prides itself on its individual freedoms, we have a surprising number of people who think they should get to decide what others do with their homes/land.
Size doesn't matter that much. Food-to-Meat conversion and the time to market normally matter more, in terms of profitability.

Also, the bigger the pigs get, the worse their health will be. Unhealthy pigs don't survive to market, convert their food less efficiently, get rejected at the slaughter house or their meat suffers in quality.

Next problem: You want similarly sized pigs for efficient slaughtering. Those "polar bears" won't fit into a standard line. But I guess China isn't that far into their agricultural industrialization yet. They are apparently also playing catch up in terms of food security and management of animal diseases.

The last two points are hampered by the general lack of transparency.
Or when it fails.
I'll preface this by saying that I haven't watched the show in years.

Watching from outside the US it does feel pretty solidly pro US. The core message seems to be that sure, we have some dumb politicians and occasionally our huge companies do some dumb and evil shit, but that is the aberration. The Real America is made up of fundamentally Good People striving to do the Right Thing and that will always prevail over any temporary glitches in the system. All the criticisms they levy are the same criticisms being made at the time by all Good Americans.

The show is obviously made by two people who love their country despite/because of all its flaws and that clearly shines through.
I can't even get past the sign up.
When I enter an email address and a candidate password, it just says "Enter a valid email and password" (no password rules are stated). It also doesn't trim trailing spaces, and when my device's popup keyboard comes up, the page scrolls upward out of view. (Manually trimming trailing spaces had no effect)
Your intuition is spot-on. Feed conversion efficiency drives profitability in the pork industry. The average live weight of US hogs at market is right around 280 lbs., not because the animals can't get larger than that, but because growing them beyond that size cuts into profits as efficiency drops.

I think pigs-as-big-as-polar-bears was just an opening hook to draw in eyeballs that would otherwise have skipped over yet another headline about African Swine Fever (ASF), which is covered in the second half of the article. ASF is the real meat of this story (pun intended, sorry) and the most significant factor currently impacting Asian pork production.
After reading this thread, what alternatives do we have to VeraCrypt? Or simply do we put our effort into improving the current version and help it improve?
A counter to that analogy is that where/when ramp access is needed and how one should be built in order for it to be usable is defined by building codes and the concept is well understood. Without what clear definition or a method to get a website's accessibility "certified" makes it seem like allowing litigation is not going to be produce meaningful results and could be easily abused.
Isn’t the USA doing this very thing with sanctions against Venezuela and Iran?

Even if you’re not an American company, you can be punished by the USA for doing business in countries that they have sanctioned.

So let’s not pretend like this is some horrible future, it’s already the present.