skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a wheelchair user. Something that annoys me is that a typical small hotel or restaurant website will go to tremendous lengths to tell you how accessible its website is, including having a dedicated page with paragraphs of details about how dedicated they are to serving disabled users. Usually there is a prominent icon linking to this page on every other page. But, try as I might, I cannot find a single piece of information about the physical accessibility of the property. At best, they mention that you should call them for details. So it’s pretty clear that these places do not actually care about disabled people except insofar as not caring could get them sued.
It's one thing to shoot down a russian jet that was allegedly flying into turkish airspace (despite the kremlin claiming otherwise). It's a whole other thing to declare a no-fly zone above ukraine and actively shooting down jets.
No, it is not more dirty than diesel emissions. Coal plants are stationary, so they can install huge scrubbing apparatus. Diesels have to drag whatever cleanup mechanism they have installed with them, which is inherently limiting.

Also, those coal plants aren't parked outside primary schools idling, and schoolkids aren't spending hours sitting around their smokestacks.

Don't get me wrong: Coal is dirty as sin and radioactive as hell. Coal delenda est.
mourner,

I hope you and your family are well.

I think https://comebackalive.org.ua is a phishing website, which has now appeared on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back_Alive

It was created a few weeks ago in 2022, unlike

https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/

which was created 7 years ago.

Also, I cannot find

comebackalive.org.ua

being referenced anywhere on their old website

https://savelife.in.ua/

Perhaps you could use your connenctions to tell them somebody is impersonating them for phishing purposes?
The law only applies to poor people. Rich people can and do ignore laws all the time. When corporations get involved they can just bully around all the local municipalities with size
Massive PDF of A Pattern Language: https://arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%20docs/Alexander_A_Patt...

But I recommend owning and reading it in print. Great book to dip in and out of at whim.
> They clearly didn't want to do the work to make their content accessible

I would rewrite that to: "Nobody who wrote the law allocated any money to DO the work."

I'm sympathetic to your cause for "official" documents. Government needs to be accessible to everybody. Consequently, those kinds of websites need to be held to strong standards.

I'm somewhat sympathetic for holding big businesses to account. Your utility website needs to be accessible. Registering for your college classes needs to be accessible (mentioned because class registration web stuff is normally barely functional for anybody). As does your ISP billing website. etc.

I'm less sympathetic when small businesses are involved. We have already seen the ADA being used to shake down small businesses in meatspace. Moving this to webspace is a bad idea. There need to be both size and grandfathering limits.

I'm not sympathetic at all after that. We've have been down this road. UC Berkeley pulled a ton of teaching videos from the web after being forced to comply with web ADA. Those videos are offline and aren't coming back. Technology changed and now automated captioning could probably work for most of those videos--except that they are gone by legal order and nobody is going to put themselves out to reverse that.

This was a terrible result--for everybody including those needing accessibility.

The people preaching web ADA need to remember that this isn't meatspace ADA--"Pull content off the web completely" is always an option.
> new screen readers and new web APIs come out and and more.

New web APIs, for sure. But the screen reader market is not fast moving, in terms of new software being adopted. The line-up of the most used three screen readers (NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver) has not changed in over a decade, despite the individual software applications themselves undergoing changes, and of course the market share of each one increasing and decreasing over time.

> Do we seriously expect every small non-technical business eking out a living with a small store to be experts on every facet of accessibility?

No, but I also don't expect such a business to be up on the latest in security, PCI compliance, GDPR conformance and more. For that reason, they are probably either:

1. engaging a web design/development agency; and/or
2. using a pre-defined platform, like Shopify.

In the former case, I do expect anyone making money from website building to at least give accessibility some thought. For the latter, Shopify is one of the businesses you describe, as a "large tech company who can write a blank check for a large team of full-time developers who can work full time on nothing but accessibility". As such, they absolutely should be setting up small business owners for success, by making their out-of-the-box themes, widgets, flows, etc. reasonably accessible to the widest possible audience.
> ... (c) give up some money to live another day?

The Crimea in 2014 sure does not count in your recount.

How would you deal with a bully that feels he's got a free reign over you?
Hit the nail on the head. There is no guarantee that a website will be functional or work correctly for those without disabilities, much less be designed in a user friendly easy to use way. When does a bug or bad design choice impacting screen readers constitute discrimination or failure of reasonable accommodation?

The answer is nuanced and will depend on the history of the website and not just the current state. Is the site always buggy for everyone? Is the site confusing for everyone? How do the developers respond to bugs/feedback for general bugs vs bugs impacting accessibility.

Of course if you completely ignore accessibility that is much more straight forward.
Ok well said I buy your argument (so to speak:) )
Yeah, that's definitely what he should do. Very surprising he didn't do it already, this is the perfect use case for markup plugins.
Goal for the next century: discover paragraphs, levels and table of content.
> The Studio is Apple’s first professional computer running Apple Silicon

What do they think the "Pro" in MacBook Pro stands for ?

> Bad Stuff: expensive

They are comparing their old $16,599 machine, which could cost up to $52,000 (as per their own article) to a $6,199 machine that wipes the floor with the old one and call it expensive ?
I wonder how big the star in the image actually is without the glare and if Webb would be able to capture direct images of exoplanets. That would be truly astonishing.
I'm not talking about inductive bias. I am talking about it being erased from the data before inductive biases or parameters ever have a chance to matter. What you are proposing is tantamount to expecting a model to be able to generate colorful Impressionist masterpieces while trained on solely monochrome bitmaps. Yeah, doesn't work like that.

Doesn't matter how many parameters it has; and as a matter of fact, the GPT models have not improved their rhyming noticeably even as they go from a hundred million parameters to over a hundred billion parameters.

(And I have extensive evidence consistent with my interpretation at the link, ranging from several years of failure by many people to prove me wrong by eliciting rhymes even a fraction as good as its non-rhyme poetry to fixing GPT-3 performance on tasks by working around BPEs to different models by different groups but the same data encoding also showing the same utter failure to rhyme.)
It works out to approximately the same thing in terms of the outcome of the invasion.
Really cool, but these heatmaps seem to be compiled from source code. I wonder how much the _actual_ distribution of keys pressed would differ. (I use paredit to write scheme code, and I'm assuming IDEs would skew the distribution in other languages.)
Thanks for sharing this with the world. Did you manage to include all of a common crawl in an index? How long did that take you to produce such an index? Is your index in-memory or on disk?

I'd consider contributing. Seems you have something here.
Yes. Actually, Brazil is the B in BRICS. S is for South Africa.
Thanks, I didn't know about ctrl+w

For anyone else like me who might not know all the shortcuts, ctrl+l takes your mouse to the url bar! This changed everything for me when I learnt this, ctrl+w is great too!
Violating sanctions is a 30 year jail sentence.
They'll slam into the seats and still be safer.
This is an interesting visualization, but a bit confusing too.

The daily temperature record map only shows the # of days since the last temp record was broken, so it is sort of a snapshot and doesn't depict any trend. I'd like to see each location marked for the number of temperature records broken in the past N years instead.

The all-time temperature record map is more informative, but even that would be helped by some kind of a slider or animation that lets you see the records evolve over time.

The Pacific Northwest heat wave from last year is pretty clearly visible though.
True. I was reexamining the way I worded my question and I certainly could have put things better. There is more nuance there than I had given at first thought.

Having grown up in rentals, and having had close family member kicked out of a rental with something like 1 weeks notice, I am very conflicted over the issue. Thank you for not responding in kind to the way my question was worded.
My 2014 era i5-4670k is still running happy at 4.2ish GHz. Nothing really beats it without adding more cores.
He is rational, just misinformed. Dude is scared shitless of losing and he knows he can’t win this game. He will pretend he’s willing to though, because it works.
Google Research is also one of the top (NLR|IR) R&D gigs in town - they discovered BERT, a model that has re-defined how NLP is down and the respective paper describing it already collected 800 citations by the time it was published based on a pre-print spreading like a wildfire.

This technology is now part of Google search.
The reason it looks better isn't directly codec or resolution.

But it does mean that there are reasons to want 4K playback on a phone.
Link for others curious: https://www.google.com/search?q=dave+winer+outlining

If anyone has a better, more specific link, please reply, I'm curious.
A new kind of equity program
Yup! Took them long enough, after everyone already gave up and replaced them with M1!

Also, if you have this issue with an external GPU, something else is going on, since in that case the GPU inside the Mac isn't being used and generating heat.

And no, haven't had that kind of extreme issue. Maybe you have dust?
Not at the moment. I am building up a Hugo implementation that will document the first one… but one of my coworkers keeps asking me to get the next one running before music festival season.
Agreed - it is a great bathroom or subway book, because you can pop into it randomly for 4 minutes and read a section, and then go on with your day.
Yes, and by voting the way that you do, you are creating a housing crisis.

I'd like for people expressing these political preferences to not be allowed to live in my neighbourhood either, but unlike you, I also recognize that you have as much right to live there as those 8 college students.
Same. Pinky/ring finger RSI lead me to split ergos for this same reason, landing on the Moonlander by ZSA.

I've got Space, Bk Space, Shift/(, and Alt on left thumb cluster; Enter, Tab, Shift/), and Esc/Ctrl on the right thumb cluster. Pinkies have far less to do now.
I can recommend Fennec. You can activate a developer mode and install any extensions you want to.
i turns out to be incredibly useful as well ...
Arguably that (and I think it might be Columbia you're thinking of) represents a misuse of lists though, because in my mind all the things on a list are supposed to be of roughly the same importance or size or magnitude. I would say that's part of the "contract," as this author puts it, that a list represents. (Although he doesn't mention that specifically.) On the PowerPoint slide in question, there are a bunch of good-news points and then the bad news is at the bottom in a smaller font. It's either incompetent or deliberately deceptive to set it up that way, and actually come to think of it, under those circumstances I kind of doubt the incompetent or deceptive author would've done a good job with paragraphs either.

Anyway here's where this battle is really raging right now: on my resume. For years I've been distilling things down to action-oriented bullet points with dots, because I heard the Deputy likes dots.[0] Then I got an eyeful of someone else's resume that instead had articulate paragraphs intended to be read by, you know, a calm human being with some dignity and self-respect, and immediately felt like that was way better. But I dunno.....

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYuGNpOk5U
> are slippery slopes to moral absolution of any reaction.

Calling these arguments slippery slope doesn't really do much here. We are in fact at an absolute circumstance, so the slope doesn't really have much room to slip. I think the actions of the Russians are quite extreme, and we are allowed to make some moral judgements of these actions given how horrific they are. If we can't, then morality loses a lot of meaning. To say that we can't make a moral judgement is to say that the images we are seeing are not real or are not horrific, and that's a different discussion entirely.

> The US is shipping weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers. I support this and believe it to be the best action possible, but I also deeply and resolutely believe it's evil.

If you're going to take something that can be together just, right, practical, the best option, and yet still evil, we need to have a deeper discussion of what exactly your perception of evil is, because it seems to encompass quite a lot. If everything is evil then nothing is. Because since you're using such extreme words, you really have to take your argument to the extreme. And like I said, just because it's the extreme doesn't mean that's not where we currently are, so it's appropriate to analyze the extreme. Your argument taken to its conclusion would be that the allies freeing prisoners at Nazi death camps during WWII was a justified act of evil. I don't see any other way to interpret your argument.
Really? The last item 'Assets of russian "oligarchs"' seems like a massive violation of due process. It's basically civil forfeiture 2.0.
See comment history, I’ve proven it with direct links to NASA.

Edit here I found it for you: Here is proof of altered NASA data directly from NASA.

Read the links in the “Except it absolutely DID happen” comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=willmadden&next=2730...
What are your reasons? Personally, I like the idea of checks and balances in a healthy political system, and allowing those checks to be applied to the monetary system.
"Most people" is something you're making up. I'll wager it's a minority.

Most iPhone consumers either had a USB-C charger before, or a USB-A charger with Lightning cable from a previous iPhone, or they have a recent Mac with USB-C ports, or they have a recent PC with USB-C ports, or they have an iPad and a USB-C charger from that.

Probably it's a tiny minority who are in your situation.

Would you have rather paid extra for the phone and not gotten to choose your preferred charging method? This way you can go out and get a MagSafe charger, which is better anyway.
Myself, I tend toward flowery prose with copious clauses and parentheticals. But listing — or building out a list into an essay — is an incredibly effective communication tactic. I would rather have people write lists than write nothing, and for most writers, I would also rather read their boiled-down lists than their hilariously padded nonfiction books.
Honestly well before then. Phones—Apple's largest product by far—have been competitively priced their entire lifespan. One might even argue based on performance numbers and battery lifespan that they've been by far the best deal.

As far as I understand it, their laptops have also been within a pretty reasonable margin of being competitively priced (at least for base models) for many years. Sure you can find cheaper alternatives, but those usually come with significant sacrifices (build quality, missing features or lower-quality versions of those features), etc. Obviously different people can vary widely in how much they value feature sets, but competitors' laptop models that line up closely in those feature sets have tended to be around the same price for awhile now.
Doesn't seems like a big problem for me, I can use via tor. But it will be hard or impracticable to convince everybody I know to do the same.
> unsustainable societally for housing prices to continue to rise long-term

Housing supply is rising slower than the supply of dollars.

Simple supply and demand, you should expect housing prices to continue to rise long-term and it shouldn't be a surprise, nor should it be considered unsustainable if the supply of dollars continue to increase at this rate.
Oh wow, you are absolutely right. I don't know how I made that mistake, but I think I got confused with Sheldon Andelson as I saw him on the news due to his recent passing (the cheering by some people is probably what made me see some parallels with the George soros obsession).

To be fair, it's hard to keep up with all of America's billionaires!
I’ve proven it with NASA data. What is this you are linking? Are those primary sources?

Here is proof from of altered NASA data. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=willmadden&next=2730...
Good question! What do you do when he starts showing up every day asking for more and more, given you are such easy pickings?
I need a `time make all` benchmark on a kernel build for this beast!
Look at Microsoft's membership in Khronos and Google's membership in W3C for examples of this counterbalance not exactly working.
Are there current tools? http://outliners.scripting.com
is stuff from the 1980s, last updated in 1999

Today's premium Mac offering is OmniOutliner ($20 barebones or $100 full-featured)
https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner/
Oh, ok. That's confusing because systemic risk in finance is the measure of how much a stock tracks the market. E.g., if the market goes down X, how much will my index fund go down.

I read the comment as "an index fund perfectly tracks the market". Some are designed to do that, but others are not. Saying they all have the same systemic risk is demonstrably untrue because they don't all have a beta = 1.0
Chicago Public Schools has dozens of bus contractors. Here is one that is relatively big: https://www.unitedquick.com/

You can find bus contracts given to the owners of single busses though those firms do t have large web presences.
The standard typically referenced in legal cases is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Level AA. WCAG guidelines are generally clear and straightforward. Showing a good faith effort to comply with those requirements, is the bar for reasonable accommodations.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/

The few areas where subjective judgment applies and two experts might reasonably disagree are unlikely to get you sued.

> If a small business can't make an accessible order form for some reason,

There’s no reason for any web developer to make an inaccessible order form in 2022. It’s a form. Put labels on your inputs. Use semantically appropriate HTML tags. Do validation before the user submits.
Actually they've done a great job driving up oil and gas prices, which actually helps the Russian economy because European countries are too dependent (and spineless) to cut off Russian gas pipelines.
Unfortunately with that logic then we will never push back against Russia. Putin invades Poland? “Oh we shouldn’t attack because Putin is irrational and might use Nukes, we’ll try appeasement first.” This interview with exiled Russian M. Khodorkovski (who used to be the richest guy in Russia until Putin jailed him for 10 years) is pretty convincing that this fear makes the “West” look weak to Putin and he’ll keep pushing until he’s stopped. https://youtu.be/OX6ISz0FotU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nL10C7FSbE compares the flammability of several types of fuels.

2m08s for Jet-A. 3m50s for #2 diesel. 6m03s for heating oil. 7m30s for kerosene (all those are basically the same and surprising to most how not flammable they are in liquid form). 10m15s for avgas. 11m30s for auto gas.
This is what happened google updated breaking existing plugins. Why not use a version of chrome that supports this?
The index we are running right now are all URLs in commoncrawl from 2021 but only URLs with direct links to them. This is mostly because we would need more servers to index more URLs and that would increase the cost.

It takes us a couple of days to build the index but we have been coding this for about 1 year.

All the indexes are on disk.
Ukraine will join the EU, I'm quite sure.
> I split my humorous bone length ways

So you're hilarious, now that you have an extra funny bone?
Yeah, and school's budgets are cash tight, with comparatively little ability to fundraise, so any large cash transaction will be DOA.

The swap should take place, and I'm now wondering why this hasn't occurred.
Haha, ironically it lacks both precision and recall for that topic.
https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner/features/
GDC and other big, in-person tech conferences resuming
Saw him speak at Berkeley around the time his book on the Eshin project was released. Talked in very strong terms about the importance of working in a holistic, caring way.

A SWE in the audience spoke up, saying basically "look, we want to follow that approach, but it's hard, we have a lot of stakeholders to satisfy in order for a project to happen."

Alexander was unyielding. "Once you've worked with love, you won't want to work in any other way."

YMMW on the practicality of his advice, but it was super inspiring.
> We've pretty quickly decided to throw out decades of norms

So did Putin. Dying isn't ideal.
This is why it’s valuable to proof read your work. After you write it, come back the next day and see if you still like it or it makes sense.
Game crowdsources cyberattacks against Russian websites
We might well be in 1939, when hitler had not yet done the holocaust. The comparison seems fair to me. Who knows what Putin would be capable of if he kept on going full tyrant for another 3 years…
> I will often get a suggestion on how to fix an issue, fix it, and then someone else will test my fix and give me a totally different suggestion on how to fix it. It's infuriating.

Polite indication that this is a problem with your organisation, not accessibility or accessibility work. The same issues can occur with design and other areas where everybody and their grandmother has an opinion; it's up to a good org to manage all of those opinions and expertise in an appropriate fashion. If they aren't, and this is making it harder for you to create accessible experiences, you should raise it with someone.
Not pushing the world really close to a nuclear war also counts, in the eyes of those who think that a direct involvement of NATO would trigger the MAD scenario.
Why would Russia be attacked by Ukraine or West? That's paranoia. We wanted to trade, not fight, and we really tried, many times over. For some time, Russia was deemed an ally, until the Russian government turned imperialistic.
> > "no one can make you leave, ever, for any reason".

> No place in the US actually has the latter

Not technically, no. But there are areas (e.g. San Francisco) where getting a non-paying tenant out is close enough to impossible that it might as well be.