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As an OP, I'm engaged in this topic (you can look at my other comments on the primary thread).

I'd provide a comment back to your comment here but two of your first sentences fall into the category of ... not providing any direct value to my original comment. In your first comment you disagree with me. Fine. In your second comment, you are asking a question to a question, and then you judge me back. There's nothing I can say about this.

WRT to your third sentence/paragraph, about ..

> If someone comments more generally, philosophically, 'a level up', is that off-topic? If someone comments on one tiny part of the topic, is that off-topic? I suspect one person's off-topic is another's insightful comment.

I agree with you above. It is a subjective matter for sure. But you probably missed my point about this question asked as collective whole. If you look at things individually, then yes, it makes sense what you're saying. But I am asking this question from the collective-whole perspective. It isn't about one or two person. It is about everyone, looking at things from the platform's perspective. I tend to think, all comments (short form or long form) if they are on topic, provide value to the post at hand.
I agree that if you can confidently decide whether 1) or 2) is the case, the actions you laid out are the correct ones.

things are rarely so clear cut in my experience, especially when you only have the resources of a sole private citizen at your disposal.

my "contrived example" is actually lifted from a similar experience I had in college. I found it pretty suspicious at the time, because the gatherings where the other people lost their wallets were quite small. ultimately, I acknowledged privately that I could not conclude one way or the other, so publicly I defended my friend. at the same time, I was always a bit more careful of my stuff when we were hanging out (no idea whether they noticed this).

my point is that there is a difference between taking punitive action against a person and taking protective actions towards oneself. my position is that there is no inherent contradiction in being too uncertain to punish but certain enough to protect yourself, provided that it does not unduly harm the other person.
I'm sure how it compares, but here it's $5 USD for a book you'll finish in 15-30 minutes. I find that to be _very_ expensive and I have a great job. So expensive that I've given up on buying and I always go to the library or use a subscription service.
> I think the issue should be fixed by the browser vendor really.

Yes, I agree. Or whoever built the dark theme. They should be checking whether inputs have been overrided with styles for both background/color or none.
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Me too.

Though now I'm wondering if such a civilization existed if it wouldn't be part of their moral imperative to educate other cultures about their morality, or if being sufficiently moral assumes that other entities need the ability to explore morality on their own.
It is the developer's concern. If one layer of presentation sets either the foreground or background color, it also must set the other. The C in CSS is cascading. Different sets of rules can be applied with differing precedence. There's no spec that I'm aware of the states that black on white is the default user-agent styling. If your site is unusable with inverted colors, it's your site that's broken.
This is a real issue for me at times. I have a dark theme set in Gnome, because I want dark system windows, but lots of sites don't bother setting their colours properly, so if I open the Web UI for my Ubiquiti Router, or one of my switches, and try to select a drop-down, the background of it is dark, like my system theme, and the text is dark, so I can't see what I'm choosing.

Other times, like if I'm entering text into the Name field for ports on my switch (Ubiquiti) the background is white, the text is white and so I can't see what I've entered until I select all.

These aren't such a big issue so much as an irritation, but, lets same I'm trying to login to something, at times I can't see the username/email I've entered until I highlight, not such an issue for passwords because we do this blindly anyway most of the time.

I'd prefer if Firefox wasn't using my system UI elements at all, but even toggling the hidden config doesn't seem to make any difference there.
Thanks for the link. I make a lot of generative / procedural / algorithmic music, but not using any AI tech. I've looked at some works created with various AI / ML approaches, but they all feel a bit like Markov mush. I haven't heard anything that has the same kind of compositional "surreality" (for lack of a more precise term) that Deep Dream images have.
I think the question is whether we would prefer Amazon Smile to exist as it is or not exist at all.

Even if there is a forced advertising aspect, it makes the world better.
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Thanks for reading!

>Admittedly I haven't followed your blog, so you may mention this somewhere on there. You seem to fall into the common developer trap of building a bunch of stuff without gauging demand and then trying to monetize it afterwards.

I've definitely been guilty of that. I wrote a blog post about how I did this without realizing it a few months ago:

https://mtlynch.io/shipping-too-late/

These are good questions! I'll try to answer each:

>Like, are there people out there clamoring for a one-stop location where they can check if food is keto?

Honestly, I think there are.

I initially got the idea while I was trying to find an audience for KetoHub, but I'd constantly see people post in keto Facebook groups, "Is X keto?" and they'd just get a lot of unsourced, contradictory information.

I have the problem myself if I forget whether a food is keto. Dark chocolate is an easy one but like "is thousand island dressing keto?" currently doesn't have a good result. The best you'll find are forum posts and people disagreeing with each other.

>Is your site less friction than just Googling "Is dark chocolate keto?" then reading the little blurb answer Google generates?

Google generates a little blurb, but it has to pull that information from somewhere. I'm hoping for Is It Keto to be the source that Google uses for most foods (it currently is if you Google "is propel keto" or "is pure via stevia keto").

Maybe some people are satisfied with the blurb, but about 1/3 of my traffic is currently SEO, so I feel like I can continue growing it.

>Can the bulk of your value proposition be copied easily by anyone with access to WordPress?

They could, but they'd have to spend a lot of time building up a corpus of food data. And they'd have to catch up to my (admittedly small) lead in search rankings. Unless you're talking about someone just plagiarizing all my content?

>IMO you are going after areas that are too saturated/competitive. Those sorts of fields are great for marketers that know how to navigate, differentiate, and promote them, but they are not so good for developers that mostly specialize in building complicated things.

I think that's true. I've been trying to think about smaller niches I could focus on. Like keto resources for other languages (seems to be fewer players) or keto + some other diet, like vegan keto, kosher keto, etc.

>Not trying to be harsh, just trying to help.

Not harsh at all. Thank you for the feedback!
The thrust of the GFA is that changes to the constitutional status of NI and other devolved decisions should be agreed between representatives of the respective unionist and republican communities (or in the case of NI choosing to leave the UK, by referendum). A customs border down the Irish Sea might not pose as many practical problems as a land border but is a pretty dramatic change in the constitutional status of Northern Ireland which unionists who consider NI to be an integral part of the UK naturally oppose.
(the DUP don't talk up the GFA angle, not least because they actually originally opposed the GFA and aren't exactly upholding the spirit of it themselves, but there's a legitimate argument that the spirit of the agreement was also intended to protect unionists from having major constitutional changes imposed upon them without their consent or a public vote)
Ability to remove any content when I delete my account. Some forums allow that, others don't. HN for example has no 'delete my account' feature.
Sure, but they're not going to say she's wanted for leaving the country. They'll flag her as a missing person, or for the theft described in the story:

> Creeping barefoot out of the bedroom, al-Mohaimeed gathered her family's credit cards, keys, passports, and, crucially, their phones. This would slow them down, she thought, when they tried to follow her.
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>> And getting rid of it would cause massive pain, real and metaphorical.

I don't doubt the premise, I doubt the scale of the result.

>> I cant think of a revolutionary financial system that I'm confident

This might be true, but it is in no way revolutionary. Defaulting is a very normal routine in every capitalist system. That's why there is always a 'risk' involved when considering investments. After a big default, there would still be the necessity to trade, exchange, and hedge the risks of deals like that. All of this would be valued, given a price- and a risk tag and so on [business as usual -- except the weeds have been rooted out]...

What will be lost is "money" invested in "values" that werent values to begin with.

>> And if its evolutionary, why would you chuck out what we've got?

If it really is evolutionary, you should give evolution a chance and not intervene at the first sight of trouble.

If a gambler has made a bet on the wrong horse, and keeps betting on the wrong horse, with money you provided, wouldn't you be concerned? Instead of funneling even more money to the gambler, you might be incentiviced to find other options.
If he ever accessed FB by phone, that was the rat.FB is built into most popular apps, and those rat you out many times an hour...in some cases like Spotify, every song change.
There are tens of attributes that can be used to identify you and generate a unique id of it. Cookies are just the 101.

Canvas fingerprinting, extensions, screen resolution and etc.

I read it somewhere that FB is pre-creating profiles for those who haven't even created a FB account yet (Face recognition and etc).

Avoid using it.
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I agree that no one really wants May's deal. It is more accurate to say that about 1/3 think that May's deal is the least bad option at this point.
> Browsers have supported user defined CSS defaults since forever, and plugins like Stylish have been around for a while.

It looks like Chrome removed these several years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7329855

Plugins are a thing but why should you need a plugin for something that is a core part of the CSS specification?

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade

> the average user

This is (mostly) about accessibility. Even if the average user does not need it, some do. And those that do would be quite glad to have it easily.

> there is no "quick and easy" way to do that for any but the simplest sites

Just because user stylesheets have been ignored for many years doesn't mean they shouldn't be acknowledged. Design your site with them in mind.
javascript has a lot of power, and it acesses more than the browser, and none of this is remotely too complicated, it happens on a daily basis. your browser does a lot more than you think. FB most definately does not stay in your browser when it gets its hooks on you. BTW modal dialog buttons do more than the label says, the old meme "what button do i push to hack someone" can be written to "what button do i click to let facebook hack me"

It soon becomes apparent that not a lot of people know as much about thier hardware, and or software as they think they do. Dont forget zuckerburgs roots, hes a black hat 101%

FWIW all you dvoters need to bone up on your skills if you think this, and more is too complex.
Funnily enough I think this is specific to Linux, I've not encountered this issue under Windows, and I don't think macOS has a dark mode.
It's benefiting the special interest of GMO companies at the expense of the special interests of stupid people who are irrationally scared of them.
If a physical commodity is backing the currency, then there has to be some official body (similar to a bank) to make sure the commodity matches the digital balance, and how would they enforce that rule other than censoring transactions (a.k.a. freezing money)?
It’s blood oil because the US/UK want it to be. It’s beneficial for the west to have a small tribe control the natural resources than a democracy, which might be more difficult to “deal” with.
I don't see anything about that issue in the article. Are you just wandering off or am I missing the segment?
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Yes, though some of them already had a proclivity when they were young, it's gotten worse.

Sometimes getting them a prepaid phone with limited minutes, like 100/month or 1000/year, manages to fix it because it stops them from answering calls from unrecognized numbers. I guess the logic is they get upset about spending 4 cents a minute.
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I wonder if there was ever a time in history where it was okay to just run a business and make some money.
I was more pointing out how either side can hypocritically rationalize things that run counter to their supposed beliefs because they make money off being hypocrites.

Nobody thinks they're evil, people can rationalize all sorts of crazy behavior.
Well what he is saying is true. Women carry 52% of all disease.
I've always wondered this myself. I ended up taking a course on financial valuations. My novice takeaways were there were two approaches:

1. An intrinsic, detailed "bottoms up" approach by projecting future cash flows and discounting their value back to the present day. There might be 2 stages, the first years of explicit growth assumptions and the second along some kind of long term growth rate.

2. A market based, "top down" approach where you find comparable transactions and make adjustments for different levels of investment, leverage, to try to get an apples to apples comparison.

In either case, you also factor in gains you'd get from a strategic acquisition like eliminating redundant departments. Compare this to an acquisition by a PE firm, that doesn't do anything other than buy and sell equity in companies.

What I realized was it wasn't a science. Sure it deals mainly with numbers. And from an outside party you think it's this really rigorous, matter of fact assessment. But there's lots of areas where there are just guesses, albeit with a lot of money.
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> are users really expected to be able to improve their browsing experiences with custom CSS

Actually, yes:

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade

User stylesheets are supposed to be applied at a precedence level below the page author's style, so any time the page author did not specify a style, the user's style can be used as default.

Browsers should have made this an easily accessible feature, but they seem to instead like to remove access to it. Think "Developer tools window", but persistent.
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> I skip 'Ask HN' style posts because they are too hard to read.

That's done on purpose to discourage people from posting (or reading) them too often. PG was afraid letting people write text posts would lead to "blogging."
No, it isn't the developer's concern. You use cascading styles for a reason: so they can cascade. If I had to explicitly set the color, background color, font size, font weight, etc. everywhere, this would defeat the purpose of using CSS. It would bloat up stylesheets into giant download-speed-killing blobs.
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Saudi-Arabia, together with slave-holding Qatar, the Arab Emirates and all the other countries that feed off Western oil money but completely ignore any basic human rights standards, should be sanctioned into oblivion.

If that fails, why is literally the entire tech world doing business with them? Why are their internet uplinks still active, why do Western companies trade with them and why has no one in the SV a major problem with Saudi investment funds?

We as techies are as complicit in enabling these abusers as our governments are.
Same here! The two terms I've heard describing the cultists so far are Muskians and Zuckerboys (and we should also include Zurckergals and Zuckerfolks).
> Not really, I still find lots of errors on recounts of past events. Aside from a few articles, that almost always come from rare good journalists, I don't really see any research on most news media, not for recent events, nor for historical accounts.

You're looking in the wrong place. You'll find the first rough draft of history in a newspaper, you'll find the final draft in a book (or at least the most polished draft).

I often find lots of bugs in software that's been rushed out the door to fill and urgent need, it's the name with newspapers.
You cannot claim a network that has one of their anchors literally having daily phone conversations with the President of the country they are reporting on is less biased. That's just silly. Commentators on Fox News are blatantly supportive of the President. I don't know how one gets a cozier relationship with a network than that between Fox News and President Trump. He literally watches the network to dictate policy decisions. The right wing outrage about the border wall from Fox News directly led to President Trump changing his political position. Fox News is to Republicans in America what RT is to the Russian government.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-sean-hannity-talk-befo...
I'm in the market for something like this for on call purposes. Something small/light enough to stow in a coat pocket but which has a physical keyboard and enough functionality for me to be able to triage most issues without having to resort to a laptop.

I've been trying the Gemini which almost fits the bill but doesn't quite cut it - the keyboard is OK but not backlit (I didn't think about how often that comes in handy when purchasing). I'll probably try the follow up 'Cosmo' when that comes out.

Would love to see any other suggestions.
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This is disingenuous and unreasonable. The setting is unnecessarily restrictive. It's simple:

"Do you want us to store your data on our servers?"

Answering "no" should mean you store it locally, not that you don't store it at all. If you tell Google not to save your search history on their servers, they just disable it completely, when they could just save it locally.

This is nowhere near a product problem. The setting is per-account, so it's not like it'd be disabled on one device and enabled on another, so they'd get some weird UX, they just like crippling their app to force you to give them data.
They don't generally require anything special though. Maybe a parameter or two. He installed OpenBSD on a serial console. Here's someone installing Debian on a serial console: https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/installing-debian-over...
I recall seeing a video years ago (unable to locate it at the moment) with an imam explaining how science grounds the ruling that a woman's testimony is only worth half of a man's. He presented brain scans of a male brain and a female brain, explaining that men's brains light up in different areas when they speak versus when they recall memory. Women, on the other hand, use the same brain regions for speaking and for recollection. Thus, a woman's memory cannot be reliable, because when she speaks (which women do incessantly, so say the stereotypes), the memory is wiped out.

It is very, very difficult to combat pseudoscience draped with religious authority.
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Yes, perhaps the study I linked to that from Northwestern using FBI Unified crime report sources, and a published data set you can examine - is biased and wrong.

While your source that has no data at all - that does seem more trust worthy. Not to mention rate vs incidents.
It seems your questioning his motives as starting from a position of distrust, rather than curiosity :^)
Yeah this is like saying you are a Sanford PHD dropout.

Im most situations it tells the same story (you are smart and qualified) as if you were to stay and finish the PhD.
Make is simple.. it gets me started. I can do multiple targets with dependencies and incremental compilation..

Sure, you should be careful of scaling it far. BUT, please enlighten me on a sane high-level build system?

cmake, bazel and the like all seems to rely on unintuitive macros. And let's not talk about auto tools :)

What other mainstream build system will get you started quickly without unintuitive macros.
(I won't claim that makefiles are often intuitive, hehe)
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