skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the owner of a small brick and mortar store in California. She decided to create a web site to sell her products on line. She got a domain name and a hosting account and installed a canned platform (OpenCart) which allowed her to create her own web site and started to try and sell. Total sales on the web site over three years: about $3,500.

Then she received a letter from a lawyer in Florida,telling her that a) her web site is not ADA compliant; b) If she doesn't fix it, they'll file a law suit; and c) She needs to pay the lawyers $4,000 to "cover their time in handling this unfortunate situation".

With her sales, she can't justify spending an additional few thousand to pay a programmer to fix or redo her web site to be ADA compliant. Her only option is to just shut down the web site.

The only winners here were the lawyers.
Because every used had the list of numbers, the number was already in use, and changing the actual numbers would require interaction with every user of the inventory system.

Then once word got out that you were willing to modify this system to suit one customer’s ego, it would be open season for everyone to make ridiculous requests (“we really like 69. Can we be 69?”)
“Today, class, we’re going to learn about Saturn’s newest moon, whose name the district has forbidden me from actually saying.”
BigCo problems: slower decision speed, dehumanized support, limited social presence, volume requirements w/ supplier side, draconian terms, data collection and privacy issues...

Marketplace problems: limited control over 3rd party suppliers, fake products, lack of accountability for indirect damages...

Volume problems: fake reviews, hard to find specific niche products, lack of product details, standardized photos...
More relevant than ever. Some More News on Feral Hogs coming for your children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9MTMCo8JbQ
Gerrymandering does lead to wide margins. You pack your opponents in tight.
FYI for those interested, there is a Google Group called blind dev works:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!forum/blind-...

It's a small, low traffic group. I'm one of the admins.
All this is going to do is push Venezuelan users to pirate the software, through torrents or other means. This actually would provide some economic benefit to Adobe. At least some of the Venezuelan users that pirate their tools will wind up collaborating with users in countries where Adobe can charge. Ultimately that will result in Adobe making more money than they would if the tools simply ceased to exist entirely in Venezuela.
Yes, of course it will
> full and equal enjoyment

I know there is a snarky comment about enjoying Dominoe's pizza...

But it is comical that Dominoes championed ordering pizza by tweeting an pizza emoji, but failed to address helping the bling order online.
Detecting guns using machine learning [video]
> Obviously some people do want GPFS, if they can afford it, but Cori uses Lustre

Data model at CERN does not match the one of a supercomputer. CERN data are not processed locally but distributed and spread to ~100 of participating institute in the experiment.

Moreover, "personal opinion", GPFS is crap. It's an old relic from the 90s that has so many quirk and problem of design that it would deserves an entire conference on it. Plus the fact it's proprietary and expensive.

The only reason that make GPFS still alive is that for a long time, the only alternative was Lustre, and Lustre is even worst.
It affects device models with “CN” or with “ZA” set as region:

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/05/taiwan-flag-emoji-disa...

It is also limited to just the keyboard and not enforced in 3rd party apps or websites:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903613/apple-hiding-tai...
This would probably be an exciting "Ask HN" post subject. I love learning from others experience handling customer requirements.
Also expect a claw back by the energy sector, probably under the form of an extra tax on batteries the receipts of which will turn up in the private company coffers, to cover their 'losses'.
> ideal for publishing to services like the new Apple Arcade and macOS/iPadOS Catalyst

I was just looking into this yesterday but found no info - so you're saying it's now possible to write an iPadOS app with SwiftUI and use Catalyst to port it to macOS? It used to be a "known issue" in the beta that this was not supported... does this work now?
Music labels wary as Apples tries to bundle services
Is there a lint-like tool that you would recommend to developers to scan their web application for accessibility issues (and ideally suggest alternative best-practices)?

EDIT: found this Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List with 132 items listed! Anyone have advice on which ones are best?

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/
I prefer the risk of some people installing some bad apps then the risk of Trump forcing Apple or Google to brick my device that I own.

You are still avoiding to answer why is Apple not locking down the MacBooks ? I mean is for the users safety, are this users in danger and Apple not caring enough abut them?

The answer is simple, you can make it safe by default and let the user unlock their device(from BIOS or from a setting s) Apple can afford to hire a UX designer to make the warnings clear for average person, can afford a lawyer to put some disclaimers there, can afford some developer to implement this unlocks. The reason they do not do this is not for your safety is for money and when they will be forced to implement it I am sure you will praise them on how a nice job they did when implementing it.
It’s a little more tightly scoped than that. From what I’m seeing, no parties are arguing that websites are themselves Title III “public accommodations”. Rather, the 9th circuit held that the Domino’s websites were part of the Domino’s services at their brick & mortar restaurants.

In other words, this case only directly applies to physical businesses with an online component (buy-online-pick-up-in-store or similar).

I’ll be curious to see – assuming that Robles eventually wins – if this case is ever used to argue that an online-only business is subject to Title III. It doesn’t seem like a slam dunk connection.

(Not a lawyer, but I do enjoy reading court documents.)
I was watching a video by Kevin Buzzard, he talks about using Lean Theorem Prover, seems pretty interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-mQ3HxgDE
AS if venezuela can't figure out a vpn. sigh
They have this because people don't trust their kids to walk home or be unsupervised any more, not because of individualistic thinking. And to be blunt, they are not entirely wrong; a dirty little secret of the old days is how much bullying or worse happened among unsupervised kids.
I will check those reddits, though should people create a different account when going there?
A peeve I have would be to use a language of certainity ("has moons"):

> This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79

When it's clear we don't have the absolute truth. We need to be humble. It's clear then that Saturn has at least 82 moons. Or maybe not even that, taking account the "lost" moons mentioned in this discussion. Now we believe that Saturn has about 82 moons.
Indeed, they (sort of) already did; their mobile app includes a gimmicky "chatbot" feature.

Admittedly, I don't think the chatbot can actually do everything the website can. But it's a start!
SRE as a Lifestyle Choice
You could pick the letters that correspond to the way you want it to be sound since it is your name. I suppose there are people who may prefer the difference between the spelling and naïve pronunciation. Maybe an alphabet altogether separate from that used by the IPA would help?
How do you check this CN/ZA settings?
I have an iPhone bought in HK, region set to “Hong Kong” (General -> Language & Region), iOS 13.1.2 and I see the Taiwanese flag in emojis. I test with the built in emoji keyboard in the “Notes” app.
I think you're overlooking the fact that understanding your audience and the issues of our times is a big part of good comedy.
Nets Owner Joe Tsai Didn’t Seem Political. Until Now
In fear of sounding insensitive, what if a business has decided that their website is just one way that customers can engage with them (much like their physical storefront is another), and that there are other ways as well that customers can purchase from them -- such as via phone (, etc). They can handle anyone's needs over the phone (, etc) if they can't use the website... much like the website enables them to engage with customers who can't visit their physical location, which could be in a different state or country. Can't visit our location? We still want your business, buy from our website. Having trouble using our website? We still want your business. Here, give us a call (, etc) and we can take your order. Once we have your order ready, we'll give you a secure PCI-compliant interface to enter your payment info for the order, that's totally accessible in whatever form it is, but is certainly separate from the rest of the not-so-accessible site, since your primary means of interaction with our business for this purchase is via [phone call or some other accessible interface separate from the website].

I say this after watching my mother struggle using the IRS' website this Sunday. Even though she is not blind or otherwise physically disabled (she doesn't use a screen reader, for example), she isn't the most tech savvy person. While searching for a form she clicked on a link then scrolled down straight to the footer, thinking the footer was the page's unique content, and already starting to click on links in the footer, which wouldn't have gotten her where she needed to go since what she needed was above the footer but she missed it. If she had someone she could call she would have gotten done what she needed to do faster than using the website. I helped her out, of course, but it was still helpful to watch how she used the site on her own before offering assistance.

So what if a company acknowledges that not everyone will be able to use their website and provides alternate ways for customers to engage with them that can still accomplish the same thing? When you define a business as more than just a website, is having multiple different interfaces (physical location for those nearby, website, voice call, etc) for a customer to purchase from a business not one way to provide accessibility?

If Domino's will take my order over the phone and deliver it and I can pay at the door, is that not accessible for me, even if their website isn't?
You might already have read this, but Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is a great overview of all the ways lust for oil has messed with so much of recent history. He also wrote follow-up, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World which I have not read but also may be of interest regarding energy economics.
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Microsoft Word is fully accessible. As for PDFs, as long as they are not scanned, most likely they are accessible. Sometimes forms in PDF files are not very accessible.

And also every now and then I need to read a science paper in PDF format - somehow they still haven't figure out how to make accessible formulas in Latex-generated PDFs, so I'd have to use an OCR called InftyReader to OCR this PDF to get the formulas.

In my experience the worst offenders are drivers for printers and scanners. Every time my printer runs out of ink on my computer it'll show me a dialog, that my screenreader doesn't recognize at all. So by the presence of empty window I'll have to deduce that it's running out of ink. Scanner driver is completely inaccessible, so I had to get a linux box just to use my scanner - at least all the command-line tools are accessible.
Captain Swing
Shouldn't it be the other way around? It's expensive but super shitty compared to actual luxury cars. When Hyundai trumps your build quality you have serious issues.
I noticed adobe was spamming reddit with ads today on reddit.

never saw a single ad from them before there
Ha! Literally just upgraded to Mojave yesterday thinking it had been long enough to iron out the bugs.
That's great. I can push to rotate between those three on deployments.

I've typically only tested with one, so it'd be good to ensure there's nothing weird with others.

Thanks!
Right—sorry. But point still stands. Under what circumstances was that much data being generated from (what I’m assuming is) normal logging?
This is a state-by-state thing. In Michigan, restrooms are required if dine-in is available. In NYC and Boston, there are numerous eat-in places with no bathroom. Good luck washing your hands before eating.
I would be surprised if the team has the rights to continue elsewhere.
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"JAMstack Architecture" Gatsby MDX Slides
Your English is fine. You could work a little on plurals vs singular forms of nouns if you want to present yourself as a native speaker. But your post was very understandable.
> The problem isn't line spacing whatsoever, it's tracing which one of the 10 lines you are reading from one side of a screen to another as your read it.

Then make your window less wide. It's not the writer's problem.

> Did you make your comment 3 paragraphs ironically?

No, but I don't think it would be hard to read if it was one paragraph. That formatting is to add in small pauses, not to make it easier to read when lines wrap.
https://github.com/iamskok/jamstack.systems is the presentation about fast, secure and dynamic sites built with JavaScript, APIs, and prerendered Markup served without web servers.
counterpoint: having to scroll around to understand the code with superfluous syntax makes understanding harder and slower as you have to jump around.
Currently in China, from what I understand, it is not about efficiency per unit food but per live animal.

Their herds were severely depleted by disease and they need to make the remaining pigs count for more.
Here is an overly simple example:

Pre-compute the recommended hotels for my top users every night. Now when that user comes back, they see a slightly stale recommendation, but it's lightning fast.

You can also pre-compute and cache some of the inputs cheer model, like maybe a vector representation of the description of a hotel.
Unpopular opinion alert: if police shoot rioters armed with molotov cocktails it's is totally justified. If this were happening in my country I'd fully support the police. There is no place for violent riots in a civilized modern democracy. Oops...
Our phones are Taiwan models and we can reproduce it. Which iPhone do you have? If it still has the ZP region for Hong Kong instead of ZA region it will not be impacted. More here on it:

https://hiraku.tw/2019/10/4855/
In my experience a far more common and much harder issue is dealing with dependencies.

A large project probably has lots of them. If you are lucky there is a 64 bit version of it. Very often though there isn't so you have to find something equivalent and rewrite all interactions with it.

And there might have been very good reasons for choosing those specific dependencies.

That can take ages upon ages and can be quite demotivating. You might have issue even finding out if you have any problems in your own application after you've spent months on replacing dependencies.
Being there when NeXTSTEP was new, and having done my graduation project by porting a particle visualisation engine from NeXTSTEP to Windows, seeing it being called retro low performance OS feels hilarious.
Wage fixing scheme?
So "we're cancelling your account and not giving you a refund for what you've paid for and we're not providing"

Seems pretty immoral if you ask me
You are in for a rude awakening if you just think in terms of 'international' company regardless of where it is actually from.

'US company' is to the rest of the world becoming a liability in many ways fast.
The actual magnetic media encased within the hard plastic 3.5" shell was "floppy".
Unfortunately places like these are dying out the UK, from experience they seem to be failing to attract younger customers. They're also quite out of the way. As such, they put up their prices to compensate and start a death spiral until they can longer afford to stay open. A lot of older traditional pubs suffer the same fate.

My great grandparents and I would occasionally drive out to these places to enjoy a traditional Sunday roast, with little door-ways, a thatched roof and a wall filled with Sheffield steal / horse shoes / plates / other collectables. There we could trade old stories and enjoyed traditional English food to the point of becoming food comatose.

A tip to the serving staff wasn't expected, but it wast customary to give notes and tell the staff to keep the change. Often the food was so cheap that leaving the change didn't make much of a difference.
Yeah, I noticed that too. I thought the whole lot was unbelievably funny back when I was a kid, now in the same boat as you.
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I'm amazed they run these with internet access. I understand though that without it a malicious program may not run the same.

It probably also allows them to do some spying on networks used by malware.
Office on the Mac has been 64-bit (only) for the last 3 years, and it should work fine in Catalina.
Most people I know prefer to use an online system to avoid talking to people especially if there's a complex process or lots of information to enter. Blind people feel the same way. A phone based option is not "offering the same service" to blind people.

If there was an online system that only worked with screen readers and the company said "sighted users can just call instead" I wouldn't use that company, and if they had the best price offering I'd be very annoyed. Making an inaccessible website is exactly the same.
Most of those groups reject all parts of blood transfusion. This "artificial" blood only replaces the platelets and red blood cells so would still require plasma and white blood cells for a balanced breakfast.
This is insane. Those power lines should've been put underground years ago.

California seems to always build infrastructure on the cheap.
More accurately, we shouldn't rely on corporations to ensure free speech.
Think of all the confusion that could be caused if the voted name was actually "whose name the district has forbidden me from actually saying".
Apple watch uses a variant of LLVM bitcode as deployment format.

And no, it isn't raw LLVM bitcode.
this is when uuid would be nice, or at least 6+ digit non-sequential ids...
Those are old games for the most part. The newest thing on that list appears to be from 2015, and it's a remastered version of games released in 1999 and 2003.

They certainly weren't making much money off these particular games even before Apple announced the deadline for going 64-bit. It's unfortunate and disappointing for customers who had already bought those games, but this deprecation didn't shut Aspyr out of much in the way of future sales.
I had never heard this name before, and that's the guess I made before reading the rest of the comment.
There are many who have a fulltime job and yet want to learn to code. I have been trying JS for last two months but I am not consistent because I often get stuck. There is a limit to what one can do with online resources unless there is someone to comment on your code. I have started with Eloquent JS and Codewars. Ultimate plan is to advance to Javascript30 by Wes Bos, post that one should be good enough for jobs.

First few members will be involved in brainstorming the design. Please comment and I'll reach out to you. Please update your profile with email as I have done.
Its scary how much communism is affecting our daily lives, even if we live far away from it...
There are so many great tools out there now. Lighthouse in Chrome Devtools has an Access audit built in which will give you a few hints. There's also a very useful auditor that just came out from Paciello Group called the Arc toolkit: https://www.paciellogroup.com/toolkit/. Chromevox and Voiceover can be turned on to get quick screenreader-ish feedback.

No Coffee: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nocoffee/jjeeggmbn... is quite useful to get a non-scientific empathy hit for graphic decisions and how that interacts with common sight problems (98% of people by age 51 have presbyopia) and Sim Daltonism: https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/ will give you a more accurate representation of all the most common colour blindnesses (1 in 12 men).

I also urge everyone to turn ON tabbing on their Mac (System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts tab > All Controls) and tab into their sites (unplug your mouse). I also often do a run through with Vimium: https://vimium.github.io/ which gives me some aspects of a voice interaction type system.

These tools will get you some of the way there, though there are established ways to build components which will solve 90% of all known access problems. The main solution is simply to write native HTML. A major issue is how hard it is to style native form elements (like datalist) -- it means developers can't get it past design/clients.
What happens to every game on Steam, every app in the two main app stores, websites and software for 3D mechanical CAD (Solidworks, Fusion 360), ECAD, etc?

Just trying to understand this. Where are the boundaries, limits and rules? What happens if you use web technologies to control equipment, say, 3D printers, robots, etc.

To clarify, this isn’t to say I have a problem with this ruling. Not at all. Just trying to understand if this is a massive world-wide hammer anyone can wield against any website and tangentially related technologies or if the range, domain and impact have certain limits.

Put a different way: Should Mom and Pop lose sleep over the possibility of being sued out of business any given Monday or sleep well knowing the process is sensible enough to allow for a reasonable ramp to adoption?

There’s even stuff like, for example, if you have 200 domains parked with a registrar who puts-up a non-compliant page on all of them. Are you exposed?
Database IDs should be considered an implementation detail. It's better to assign a randomly-generated identifier for public-facing APIs for exactly this reason.
No? If you have any remote sites you need it to be directly accessable from the internet anyway. Or am I missing something?

Now you might not like that, but realize that this service is exactly that.

You might be comforted by the fact that a breach of the controller doesn't affect your internal networks.

...until you realize that having control over the controller means root access on all of your sites. So it shouldn't be that comforting.
Thank you. This is insightful
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