skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Browser extensions are also really important for accessibility. People with many kinds of disabilities use extensions to make websites more readable, easier to navigate, or more accessible in other ways.

Unfortunately, the big mobile browsers do not support extensions, which is a huge blow to accessibility. I think Firefox for Android is the only mainstream-ish browser that supports extensions. Apple prevents them from doing the same on iOS because it would be considered "an app store within an app", which is forbidden.

The only thing Apple allows is action and share extensions, which have to be manually activated on every single page (2-3 taps to do so — which is super user-unfriendly, esp. for PWD). It's great that Apple does a lot for accessibility in general, but I really wish they would open things up a bit more so that users could customize the iOS experience to make it more accessible.

As a dev, I would be more than happy to have my code scrutinized even further in order to ensure that what we're doing doesn't create security, privacy, or performance issues. We'd just like to make our accessibility software as useful for folks on mobile as it is on desktop!
Understanding Bihar’s Super 30 Phenomenon
it looks like contracts are composable the same way interfaces are so I don't know how much of a limitation this will be in practice.
Your math is flawed. This is about reviewing videos that face copyright strikes. Every single minute of uploaded content does not need to be reviewed. And on top of that there are several technology aids that can be used to shorten review times - while still having some human involvement.

> If their claim is found to be without merit, they forfeit the bounty to the person who created the video in question.

That would mean there needs to be an appeals process and humans who do the reviews, right?
It's a good example of black magic.
My guess is that throwaway's statement was hyperbole, and Bed Bath and Beyond isn't a literal example of an employer that requires a polygraph. Instead it was an exaggeration meant to show how common the practice is in his circles.
The demand for diamond was entirely driven by their very successful marketing campaign: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...

IIRC the whole 2 months salary "rule" was also invented by them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding

If the two people can agree on the pronunciation of various symbols, then you can choose a more "dense" encoding like Base85.

If the key is designed to be spoken and heard, then you're better off avoiding case-sensitive and sound-alike symbol set altogether. Instead, generate a dictionary of words that is designed to reduce the possibility of mistaking one word for another (something like the phonetic alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet), and then assign each symbol to a word.

The larger your dictionary, the shorter each key exchange will be but also the chance of including sound-alike words increases as well.

A dictionary of 256 words means you would need 68 per key but if you double the dictionary size, you half the number of words per key.

And of course this falls apart if two people exchanging keys don't speak the language of the dictionary. Although this is (usually) the case with just numbers and letters as well.
Why not do it by default? Why do you believe you can choose one "right" pattern?

Also:

Questions repeated multiple time within single session.

Question: Write the command that clears the terminal
command line screen and shows it as new
Your answer:
reset

Correct answer:
clear

"Clear" will not fix terminal in some cases. Maybe do not ask for "and shows it as new" and note you only want to remove current text?

Question: Write the command that you use
to move into your home directory '~'
Your answer:
cd

Correct answer:
cd ~
Some reasons, playing devil's advocate:

1. While today's incident was unfortunate, Slack has been historically reliable.

2. There's a team of real people that works very hard to keep it that way. Using dismissive language just dumps all over their hard work.

3. It's easy to be dismissive but once you move away from Slack you'll realize how much an app that size gives you. IN other words the "sucks less" statement has shades of ignorance, and of course subjectivity.

4. Why be rude at all? Even if you don't buy into any of the above, is it that hard to be nice in making a point?
>Have you seriously considered what sort of problems that would have on you and your fellow workers who want to get to sleep at a reasonable hour so you can be productive at work, when Cletus wants to shoot off fireworks all night?

i cant tell if this is satire or if you actually agree with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxJsa8miNQ has a lot more information on thermophotovoltaics, including drone applications, and some more info on solar panel economics.
The Unsolved Load Balancing Problem of WebSockets
IMAP over SSL is a "less secure app", so imapsync is no longer an option?
Some of the creators I follow have taken the drastic step of beginning to upload their SFW content to Pornhub as well to maximize views and take sole control out of YouTube's hands. This way, if their video gets taken down on YouTube for some (often BS) reason they can upload a junk placeholder video that just links to the Pornhub version.
It's the same with money service businesses. There are federal regs, then each state has their own. It sets a huge barrier to entry.
I thought "Hmm probably an ironic title.", three paragraphs in... "this is the pinnacle of shit posts".
The resource curse occurs when there are abundant natural resources and a group of people small enough to coordinate action controls those resources.

In the eastern half of the USA, most of the land is owned by (relatively) small holders, who are too numerous to not compete against each other. That is slowly changing as consolidation continues to occur, but the base ownership of resources is so diffuse that there would still need to be a lot of consolidation for resource cartels to become dominant.

Besides winning the Civil War and outlawing slavery, the Lincoln administration also passed one of the most momentous series of laws in American economic history with the Homestead Acts, which sold almost 10% of the total area of the US for pennies as long as the land would be homesteaded, that is, occupied by someone who worked the land. This was a deliberate policy of the Free Soil movement to prevent moneyed interests, primarily plantation owners, from gobbling up the frontier.

In eastern places where large estates had already been assembled, such as Appalachian coal country and the Mississippi Delta, politics has been predictably corrupt and exploitative.

Where the frontier land was not homesteaded (mostly arid western lands), "land barons" gained control of much of it and began to manipulate local politics in a similarly predictable way.

The remaining western public lands also benefited from the notion of "scientific administration" in vogue during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some land agencies are worse than others (Parks service is a far better steward than the BLM, for example) but by and large the federal agencies have succeeded in preventing the formation of new land baronies.
It seems more like self interest than any broader concern about saving face. If government and private enterprise were actually separated then motives would be clearer.
Because they sell their devices for US-based prices to people with EU-based income.
16-Inch MacBook Pro Will Feature Narrow Bezels and Launch in September
Hmm, very interesting
After Oblivion, I'm not sure why we give Bethesda any credit. Even Oblivion was a stretch, it was incredible for the time period but still comically buggy.

Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 were tremendously buggy, and if you take a step back from the "whee immersion" aspect, aren't that good RPGs. The choices are extremely limited and by the time you get to Fallout 4 insultingly so. They all pushed the envelope for explorable area, but you really had to make your own game out of it, and you really have to work at it. Skyrim is only fun for me if I load it up with hella survival mods.
What CIOs need to know about 5G: time to plan, not implement
His critique here isn't particularly well-worked. But the author here doesn't seem to have read his post....
In theory they could get everything right I suppose, but in practice? They didn't even manage to get the audio right, lots of people report performance issues, and the lighting has been botched. What are the chances they got the rest of it right? I suspect more discrepancies will be uncovered as people dig deeper.
The stated purpose of telemetry is to improve their products. Yet the telemetry itself is a massive problem in their products.

Does anyone know what, if any, product improvements have been made thanks to telemetry?
Junky TV is making people dumber, more likely to support populist politicians
Extensibility is [an explicit goal](https://github.com/notqmail/notqmail/wiki#goals), for reasons such as these. If we introduce some more small interfaces -- 1998 qmail was already ripe with examples -- we'll make it easy for anyone to program extensions. If we make it easy for folks to program extensions, we may find there lots of common extensions available. That's the hope, anyway :-)
This is terrible. Russia is going to lose a pretty substantial chunk of its forests if there are no heavy rains soon. We've had very high levels of air pollution for the last few days here in Kazakhstan, with visibility levels of a few hundreds of meters. I mean, how many trees do you have to burn for the air to be so bad more than a thousand kilometers away?
As a nerd, once I found out that lab grown diamonds and other gems are chemically and physically the same as their natural counterparts for a fraction of the price, it became VERY difficult for me to buy natural gems. It's hard for me to justify being stupid. Thankfully my fiancee was on the same page.
Java did this with package-info.java. It is underused, in my experience.
When the government makes you waste a a day filling out paperwork to prove that your dog food doesn’t contain human remains, don’t blame the regulators. Blame the guy before you who made a buck by vertically integrating his cannery and his morgue.
That's what I was thinking initially too.

But I don't think their goal is to have the videos removed. It's to collect any ad revenue generated from the video.

If they collect all of the ad revenue then the last thing they want is for the video to be removed because now it's free advertising for them. If 100 people upload a song and those songs get millions of views, the record label keeps all of that ad revenue.

I believe that's why you can find nearly every song ever made uploaded by many people on Youtube. The record labels and Google love it because they get paid.
Economics of profiting from misery will prevent any effective change as numerous industries actually make more money from this state of affairs.

This won't change until/unless civic participation in government increases.
>1 EUR = 1 USD pricing

Isn't that mostly explained by the fact that EUR prices have VAT included (typically 20%) and US prices do not?
> You've really opened my eyes here.

Once upon a time, there was a wise Zen master. People traveled from far away to seek his help. In return, he would teach them and show them the way to enlightenment.
On this particular day, a scholar came to visit the master for advice. “I have come to ask you to teach me about Zen,” the scholar said.
Soon, it became obvious that the scholar was full of his own opinions and knowledge. He interrupted the master repeatedly with his own stories and failed to listen to what the master had to say. The master calmly suggested that they should have tea.
So the master poured his guest a cup. The cup was filled, yet he kept pouring until the cup overflowed onto the table, onto the floor, and finally onto the scholar’s robes. The scholar cried “Stop! The cup is full already. Can’t you see?”
“Exactly,” the Zen master replied with a smile. “You are like this cup — so full of ideas that nothing more will fit in. Come back to me with an empty cup.”

https://medium.com/the-mission/empty-your-cup-a-zen-proverb-...
We're seeing a lot of sentiment similar to this on Quora as well, now that they pay question askers. This is the first time I've been on "the other side" and see what's actually going on, rather than just seeing blog posts about "I made $X and got banned a day before payout!"

At least in Quora's case, almost everyone making thousands and getting banned right before a payout are gaming/scamming the system to make those thousands, and just play the "right before I got paid!" card whenever they get caught because, well, there _was_ another payday coming... even though they should have been demonetized a long time prior.
It's the classic "I already know the truth and lying will only make your punishment worse" trick that most moms seem to pull at least sometimes
Network Effects (Animated Video)
Doesn't a cardboard box also provide protection? Often, the box includes the product as well as packaging material. In the absence of material, doesn't the air help it a bit (ala a potato chip bag)?
I'm not really sure about any of these premises. Maybe there is some reflexivity in there. Maybe there are causes as far back as anyone cares to look and we'll never know for sure if there are loops or starting point(s).

How is anything caused, what does it mean for a cause to not exist, what hardware does God run on and so on?
Sounds interesting, but that looks like straight gasification. You have an old “gasworks” site in your city? Before natural gas they used to gasify coal to run the street lamps. Nasty stuff full of carbon monoxide. Lots of soil remediation to clean them up afterward too. The one in Seattle was cleaned up, failed inspections, was closed down and cleaned up a second time. They made it into a park which still seems nuts to me.
What sort of disqualifying info, if you don't mind my asking?

There were a lot of interesting questions in the psych interview, from porn use to romantic relationships and digital pirating...

And, just spitballing, I wonder if it's a crime to lie in the psych interview. I know it is during the polygraph, since the examiners are federal investigators.
I wanted to play Hitman on the Xbox recently. It's on Game Pass, so I set it to download and then left for the day expecting to have the game ready to play that night. Nope. The Hitman download only has one level. You need to download every level separately (even though they're all included with Game Pass) and they're all absolutely gigantic. I'm not sure what's up with the file size but it's out of control.

You can buy the complete edition of Hitman, and it clocks in at 172GB. The Halo Master Chief Collection is only 70GB and it includes four full complete games.

Fantastic game, but they really do make it hard to actually play.
it’s quite unlikely that land value will go down with upzoning. when you can build more, the value you can extract from a fixed amount of land goes up. but what may happen is that an individual unit on that land may sell for a little less for a short period of time.
The first draft they send highlighted grammar errors with a red pencil. After that I'm sure it's just stacking up somewhere. It's a waste for sure, but changing the system is a long process.
Let those old farts who start the wars fight it out.
I'll bite - is there some reason you're calling the switch the "stitch?"
Sure that didn't fail too because its creation could not be announced on Slack? ;-)
GP said the rest of the discussion is about a temporary solution, but in the longer run overpopulation is the root cause which needs to be addressed.

I don't agree that overpopulation is the root cause, and I'm not a fan of talking about it much either. However, assume for the sake of argument that it is:

Reducing Earth population in the long run doesn't have to involve harming anyone.

For example, we could use changes to politics, technology and culture to provide better skills, education, even healthcare and assisting the old to live longer, and assist with more fulfilling lifestyle aspirations, and generally empower as many people as we can to lead happier lives.

Much of the scientific study we have suggests that will both reduce world population and improve quality of life across the board, because of how humans make choices about reproduction.

Nobody needs to be killed, nobody needs to have medicine withdrawn, nobody needs to be sterilised or even discouraged from having children. No odious racism or elitism or eugenics is required.

It's enough, to just improve lives, and it looks very much as though humans may naturally reduce their population replacement rate in the long run.

So that leaves only the climate problem in the shorter run, for which "temporary solutions" could be good enough.
The actual fact is that YouTube has publicly committed itself to doing exactly that (building levers to raise and lower the profile of individual videos and channels), and continues to face media pressure to keep doing so as corporate policy:
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-t...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/youtube-conspiracy-theories_n...

To me the problem isn't that flat earth videos exist on Youtube, but the implied "legitimacy" of the recommendations, along with the typically addictive UI elements like autoplay. Flat earth / Nibiru / etc insanity has always been on the internet, but when you saw it, you knew that you were in some obscure corner of the internet that was not normal. If anything, YouTube's insistence on mixing brand-safe, front-page recommendations along with content-adjacent recs lends credibility to the (many fewer now) "rabbit hole" recs. If you're on "Tony Blair is a reptile.mp4" and all you see are things like "Tony Blair is ACTUALLY a hologram.mp4" with 2k views, it's like "whoa, this is weird". But if you get 3 reptilian recs and 5 TED talk recs that have millions of views, maybe it seems more normal? I'm not sure.
What is the benefit of making something like this into a PDF instead of a website?

I don't think I ever see a PDF link online and think, "yes, this is the ideal format for ingesting this information."
Probably 1916

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Zoning_Resolution
I don’t understand how being able to prove who you voted for is going to lead to more negative than positive. Can you walk me through how, realistically, a large scale voter coersion operation would even work?

If you know how a district voted, why not coerce the entire district? After all, if you have access to unlimited coersion powers, you’d be wasting them on a couple individuals.

I say if someone has the power to coerce others to that extent, we have bigger problems in our democracy. They can, for example, coerce members of the opposing party to stay home and not vote.

In short, I think this is a fantasy problem. There are far easier ways to fake a vote (like this: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/06/gop-was-...) and the app would prevent those.
Almost everything? Insider Blogs continue to make it pretty clear that in the Windows 10 "Windows as a Service" world, almost everything is subject to telemetry based development/focus/resourcing. Insider Builds themselves often have A/B testing experiments in play.

Even things like the giant Console rewrite and WSL apparently owe just as much to telemetry meriting their resources as the (return) of Azure and DevDiv's "developer-first focus" to Windows (after all these years).

(A fun irony of the "Start Menu debacle" to which you refer was more of a sample size problem than a telemetry problem. With Windows Vista-8 keeping telemetry primarily opt-in, they mostly only had interesting subsets of newbie/casual users that clicked yes during setup and power users with vested telemetry interests. Newbie/casual users tend to launch apps "Search only" or "Desktop only" keeping all their shortcuts on the desktop. Power Users tend to use alternate launchers or become increasingly "Search only" over time, especially if you count Win+R old timers, which Windows did. Microsoft had a good argument that trying to make the telemetry opt-out would avoid such biased sample sets going forward.)
So its even more difficult to recycle than single-layer plastics and still of no use to anything too large for a padded envelope.
My wife doesn't like colored stones, so emeralds and sapphires are right out. We are looking at Moissanite stones. Not synthetic, but significantly cheaper than diamonds.
Lyft chief operating officer to depart after 18 months
A nationwide water grid wouldn't be economically viable unless electric power gets a lot cheaper. Pumping water uphill is just too expensive.

And we don't really have a unified grid of oil pipelines either.
This is my take on mainland sentiment also. If it comes down to HK being torn apart by some group, the CCP would rather that group be the HKers themselves than the PLA. HK is sufficiently culturally, politically and geographically insulated that don't have to worry about the unrest spreading over to the mainland. They’ll let them burn their own city down if that’s what they want - and if they do, the problem largely solves itself because an act like that would alienate most reasonable HKers from their cause.

What they won’t tolerate is an external force stepping in on behalf of the protestors because that would be a direct challenge to their sovereignty over the region. That’s the one and only scenario where the PLA has a possibility of being deployed.

The CCP has time on their side when it comes to dealing with this issue. Are the businesses in HK attempting to conduct their day to day operations able to say the same thing [1][2]?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/hong-kong...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-28/hong-kong...
Well, let's look at Google's ethics here - they still run ads on demonetized videos, right? So Google is okay making money off that, they just don't want the creator to make money off demonetized videos.
I mean sure? But on the other hand it still costs 650$ so if they'd charge me double for the privacy, it should be comparable to at least 300$ which is not
Unfortunately you’re one of the very few that is willing to vote with your dollar and actually signal to Bethesda that being shitty can affect their bottom line (versus people who bought the game, become salty about it on Twitter but don’t ask for a refund because they need their Doom fix).
Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis
US imports of Saudi oil are way down.[1] About a quarter of peak. Between fracking, wind power, and solar, the US is in a very strong position with regard to the OPEC countries. It's time to pull the plug on the Middle East and let them sink back into the sand.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37253
This seems similar to events during the Cold War.

The majority of the West's major miscalculations occurred because they were evaluating Soviet responses through a democratic political lense.

When a fall from power means a firing squad (though less so now) or labor camp and total asset seizure, political calculus changes substantially.

If Xi's grip on power were threatened, there are a lot of things that would be reasonable for him to do... that would appear very unlikely to any observer in a democratic country.

The PLA wasn't sent into Beijing in 1989 because it was the smart play. It was sent in because the alternative was to cede power to a citizenry you'd just spent decades terrorizing and murdering. (The madness of the Cultural Revolution having happened about 10 years earlier)