skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don’t realize that big orgs are not markets, they are planned economies. There may be 500k people there, but 6 make the decisions for any particular thing.

You need the magic salesperson or lobbyist because they know the right 6. Some things get sold to the CEO, other things can’t be because the people downstream have another agenda.
Speaking from my own disability I'd say I'd much prefer if people used white on dark text over any use of light background. But this is because my own issue is with photosensitivity which affects a large number of low vision users.

In fact I often create white on black content because it is easy for me to author and read. I also have significant color blindness and am totally unsure which color combinations are hard for others to read, may not show up on a projector, may be a faux pas or may be gaurish.

And this is the profound difficulty of creating accessible content. What is accessible for one is often not accessible for others with a different disability. Simply saying don't do this or don't do that has long ceased to be considered a good method of creating accessible content. This has been abandoned in favor of using a broad suite of tools to validate content meets a wide array of accessibility needs.

Edit: I have never looked into whether such a tool exists for common slide presentation apps.
Adobe exposed nearly 7.5M Creative Cloud accounts to the public
you need content. if you're not sure where to start, checkout this article on movement first content: https://www.animalz.co/blog/movement-first/

Wistia's CEO recently posted about mistakes made early on, and a better approach to building affinity vs awareness through relationships. https://twitter.com/csavage/status/1180148970825437191

Sales matters, patience matters, but content brings people already seeking a solution to you...and/or agitates a pain point they've forgotten.
After I wrote this I discovered that cross[1] supports FreeBSD so it's probably the better option.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/cross
Yeah, it was a joke about the limits of marginalism to solve coordination problems.
> So hopefully this cheat will be VAC / PB undetected for ever ;)

That attitude really grinds my gears. I'd much prefer to see something like "here's how we think Valve could fix this permanently".
I like how you left out Fox News which is far worse. E.g The bogus Seth Rich story. There is nothing comparable. Maddow and Don are opinion.
Market Failure [1] is the definition in economics for this situation.

There is a non-price, non-market mechanism imposing a cost upon us. Just like if your neighbour at the restaurant lights up a cigarette and you hate that and it spoils your meal. You can't very well "give up smoking" to fix that. Just like any public good - eg national defence, it can't be done by a free market alone and so never is. Just like if a factory opens and pollutes a river killing all the fish, the fisherman can't stop transacting with the factory to get their livelihoods back. Just like any natural monopoly - eg piped drinking water supply and distribution to buildings in a city which is heavily regulated everywhere on earth, (often really badly, sure) because you can't change providers at will and you can't do a startup and get into that market. Proprety rights and enforcement - we don't do private courts and police as a rule and laws are not supposed to be for sale to the highest bidder.

Facebook have my data, they use it, without my consent and I have no way of taking my business elsewhere to remedy that. This is one of the many costs facebook impose on all of us. These are costs that not all of us feel we want to bare or feel there is a benefit from it. Us stopping using facebook does not fix that cost, we continue to incur it. That meets the textbook definition of "market failure".

Just by the by, this is not simply "my claim", this is the normal, definition of market failure in any economics textbook and regardless of political leaning. Whether you think that this market failure is an important one or not certainly can be debated. Eg it's market failure if I don't like the color my neigbor paints their front door - the response to which is usually "so what, get over it." You can, and facebook do, make that kind of argument here. Facebook PR will avoid "market failure" as it sounds somehow worse than a technical description of the situation to much of the public, as it does perhas to yourself. But there's not much doubt about it (at least as far as I'm aware), that it meets that usual, and well understood defininition among ecomomists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
It depends!

For IT, for example, my main sources are HN, phoronix, planetKDE and another webpage in my own language. I also read a lot of news from the POCKET articles that show up in my new tab page in Firefox.

HN (and Pocket service) provides news from all other web that I don't visit regularly but that, occasionally, do have interesting news (and not just in IT).

All the rest is trash (so, no paywalls - oh... And there's also a Firefox addon to bypass paywalls)
My favorite thought experiment: if you think you’ve found the smallest thing in the universe, then what is it made out of?
California power lines spark wildfires and prompt blackouts. Why not bury them?
Being unable to stand both white text on black and black text on white, I have found setting the foreground to black and the background to gray60 (in emacs and the terminal) is what allows me to look at a screen for hours without pain.

(Interestingly enough, I too have an astigmatism in one eye, but I don't know if that's the sole cause of my discomfort.)
Outreach to healthy people is a different care than for someone who is sick. The comparison should be between two groups with the same need/types of care.
that's a bit disappointing, seeing as this format is by far my favourite because of it being very simple and aesthetically pleasing.

any suggestions? my intuitive response to this would be black on brightly hued navy blue, but i worry that is also low-contrast, which also causes issues.

can't please everyone!
2yrs back, i had designed a website to stash information. stash.bobbydreamer.com

Data is stored in firebase and authentication is handled by firebase as well. Just a site to stash notes, links. Purely javascript.

I am planning on upgrading the site to support markdown. So notes can look like article. Some can be private, some can be public.
>>In other words it would require 100 billion times as much electrical energy to convert nuclear waste that way than you get out of the reactor creating that waste.

I'd bet that something lost in the translation or someone else would have pointed this out before.
Scientists generally don't like to talk about things they can't say anything meaningful about. (String theorists are in another category.) "Of that which we cannot speak, we must remain silent." -- Wittgenstein; maybe the only useful thing he said.

So, for example, plasma fluid dynamics is way, way harder than regular fluid dynamics, which is itself very hard. So, anything that takes understanding plasma fluid dynamics to talk about, most try not to discuss. If they can get an interpretation together that describes a phenomenon without reference to plasma fluid dynamics, but only, e.g. heat and gravity, they will prefer that, even if it doesn't account for everything. Then, they will prefer not to talk about the parts not accounted for. (Thus, the universe is full of "hot gas", not plasma. It's there, but it doesn't do anything.)

If it needs dark matter and dark energy, or perfectly parabolic nozzles in the geysers of Enceladus, or volcanoes on Io that bob about like ducks in a bath, then so be it. They're only human, and used to being right.

Solar physicists are awesome because they take on plasma fluid dynamics head-on, and get meaningful results. They are hot on the trail of the apparently-million-degree solar corona. So to speak.
Watch “Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy” on YouTube
or keep the mushrooms!
I'd like to further expand on the topic of ncdu.

rclone is a great utility for syncing data between local and remote (including remote to remote) locations and supports a ton of online services.

Well, rclone also supports an ncdu command modeled after the ncdu utility. It lets you quickly calculate directory sizes on remotes that don't show dir sizes, like Google Drive, for example.

https://rclone.org/

https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/
Cardiac health is correlated with mental health/happiness
I didn't think this was a problem as I assumed most people with astigmatism (myself included) wear corrective lenses or glasses.
It seems to be 10k chars.

Otherwise, it displays a "message too long" error.
That oatmeal comic is ridiculously inaccurate and in the author's rebuttal he pretty much says as much. Please stop posting it as it has done huge damage to the conversation on Edison vs. Tesla. Just one quick example: in the comic it implies that Edison, out of some sense of rivalry with Tesla, used his position on the naval board to prevent Tesla from getting a grant to utilize Tesla's method of submarine detection. Tesla proposed using radar to track the submarines which the naval board rightly rejected as radar is quickly attenuated underwater.

There is a bit of a nasty strain of hero worship in some parts of the tech community.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tes...
Like many have told , hiring a good sales person is going to work wonders. If you must sell stuff yourself , do yourself a favour and ingrain this [0] before you go wasting time on folks inside a megacorp. We wasted 9 months focusing on the wrong person in a big sale ..

[0] https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/identify-sales-prospects-infl...
amazing that you could sue the King...
It's conceivable that they printed papers on the train to save time. In a similar vein, a relative of mine worked for a company that made a product by pouring the ingredients into a tank truck with a built-in mixer, and letting it mix on the way to the customer's location. It was some kind of simple stuff that really was just a mixture of a few things.
If I remember correctly, this wasn't really a "mathematics" mistake. The formula simply wasn't applied to the right number of cells (they didn't apply the cell-selection far enough).

Although that's beside the point. This was a tragedy of the academic economist profession, and should be covered day-one in any Econ research class.
Maybe you find this browser extension useful: https://darkreader.org/
>> It just feels like people are being obtuse at this point :S

Maybe -- just maybe -- people understand your point but are bringing up something else that they think is relevant.

> Yet you still doesn't give a straight answer how it is fair that Saleforce pays less tax than Square. I don't blame you. Nobody has answered that question.

I don't think people are saying that the tax situation is fair. Rather, I believe the claim is that Square's CEO is likely not exclusively focused on the unfairness of the situation when he is complaining about the tax situation, but complains about tax in general. I think abalone wouldn't be giving Jack grief (or at least much less), if Jack did not lobby for that tax earlier.

To spell this out further with an extreme example, imagine a recent college grad who's super smart and has the attention of the world. He says "It's crazy that recent college grads are saddled with student loans. Instead, we should soak the rich and heavily tax everyone making $1 million or more." People agree, and the tax is instituted. A few years pass, and after his college debt is forgiven, this recent college grad is doing really well and finds himself making $2 million a year. At this point, he says "It's crazy that higher income workers pay such a high percentage of their income relative to others -- everyone should pay the same percentage." To which people respond "but then we can't forgive student debt with the reduced tax revenue," and yet the recent college grad persists. Do you see the problem with the behavior of the recent college grad?

It might be that the grad sincerely held his conflicting positions when he proclaimed them, but it's also possible that he was always advocating for what was advantageous to himself. Given the short time period (and that the grad makes no offer of accepting his college debt back), people generally guess that he using a sense of fairness to advance his own interests.

Again, I'm not very familiar with the situation, but it seems that the current tax is not a good one, and the CEO of a payments company could have foreseen that it would not be good for his company once his sales got rolling. Why didn't Jack advocate for some other tax scheme earlier, such as one that is based on net income?
Genuinely curious. Do they keep having security issues like this because they've got a huge target drawn on them, or are they just genuinely bad at security?

I have not been able to trust them since I had to install security updates for PDF or Shockwave nearly weekly.
NPR is great new source for local and international
I didn't see images in the article, but there's some really nice illuminated manuscripts, of hedgehogs collecting fruit on their spines:

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/10/how-to-be-a...

There's also a couple of really nice animated stories featuring hedgehogs:

Hedgehog in the Fog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0jvJC2rvM

Hedgehog's Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCeZEwmZEk
Ouch. Don’t read the NZ Herald’s front page today then!

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/mourning-has-broken...
React Native Car Parking Finder App UI Clone #1: Map View
This is all good advice.

A note jumping through the legal/paperwork hurdles with large companies: be prepared for it to take a long time. A very long time in some cases.

It all depends on who you’re working with, how big the company is, and how much money the deal is worth.
On mobile, this site has a “toggle high contrast” widget on the left side that seems to directly contravene the points made in the article.
I get that old, inconsiderate, a-holes clap loudly right next to other people's heads, causing hearing injury, but normal clapping... wtf? It seems a bit fascist to tell people what they can and can't do, like an ISIS encampment. Are they going to tell people they can't sneeze or nod their heads next?
This very recent case was similar: https://www.eagleview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Order-g...

The jury found that the plaintiffs patents for measuring roofs on aerial imagery were valid, even though every photogrammetrist in the world would say otherwise. Hopefully they'll appeal and have better council...
to be fair, that particular example says "being marketed to Law Enforcement only".
"Godlike genius.. Godlike nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! I've failed my way to success."

Thomas Edison
They don't stop at absolute zero, either, because then position and momentum would both be fixed.

But there is a continuous range of temperature all the way down, and there is plenty of work at increasingly tiny fractions of the last degree. It is meaningful to talk about what happens at a billionth of a degree.
Swinburne TAFE as well? ;)
You can try to get a rough idea by doing web searches for various random integers of different lengths (courtesy of random.org, which graced me with lots of 7's).

7 - A lucky number

92 - How old Lady Gaga wants to be when she retires

420 - A class of dinghy

7260 - A wireless card

5108 - A section in the U.S. Code about supplemental claims

51664 - A hydraulic filter

794101 - A postal code in India

7578146 - A patent number of a knitting loom clip

74703567 - A clothing trademark serial number for "authentic bad lands"

760314276 - No useful search results.

2641309883 - No useful search results

24235991397 - One (useless) search result

415865230233 - Zero search results
C# Intermediate Course: Classes and Objects Part 2
Um you know football isn't year-round, right?

Also, why the fuck is it "impossible" to socialize with family and neighbors at 6pm? They are probably at work until 5pm anyways. By the time someone is old enough to play football they should already know how to cook.
Unfortunately, if we come to deeply rely on the idea that Whisk[e]y that produces tree-like patterns is superior, producers will exploit that, finding means of inducing the pattern without actually enhancing the quality of Whiskey. Better to drink what you like and try not to be too worried about authenticity. Though sometimes the so-called authentic stuff is great.
This isn’t exactly what you’re talking about, but I’ve read about large companies engaging in tortuous reorgs just to conform to the constraints of their new shiny new SAP implementations. I wonder how much truth there is to those stories.
QCObjects Will Exhibit in Web Summit 2019 on Lisbon
I have to disagree. A psychopath will value their freedom more than $10 and will be inclined to react differently.
You're right, in that there is a tension between systems behaving equally and equitably, and that either one can be seen as "bias". (Although there can of course be systems that by design behave neither equally nor equitably, whether intentional or not.)

I think the "algorithm has bias" type of headlines proliferate because there's a common misconception that algorithms are somehow "objective". See for example Ryan Saavedra implying algorithms can't be racist because they're "driven by math": https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/1087627739861897216?...
Not just mobile — it's on desktop too. I also saw this toggle and thought it a little ironic. OTOH, this is an opt-in feature that a reader can activate, as opposed to a presentation that must be absorbed by everyone in the audience as-is.
In my previous job I wrote a couple of not-too-complicated apps targeting Linux in PyGTK and I found it to be pretty pleasant, except when it came to custom styling.... mainly because the styling language does didn’t seem well documented and i found it to be somewhat arcane. Didn’t stop me though and the project got done. I wouldn’t mind working with it again
Some terms to get you started:

- outside sales executive (e.g., the person who visits the customer, they typically work from coworking or home-offices)

- inside sales executive (e.g., a sales support person, typically doesn't travel and works at coworking or home-office full-time)

- outside sales engineer (e.g., a customer-facing technical person who answers questions and helps sell solutions with the sales exec)

- master agreements (generally-agreeded terms and conditions)

- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

- Letter of Intent (LOI) - before final quote & contract

- Purchase Orders (PO's)

- Request For Proposal (RFP)

- Request For Quotation (RFQ)

and lengthy sales cycles that often take 6 months to 2 years, depending on the product or service

Another way to get in is start immediately under a master agreement and do consulting-ish tasks, and gradually sell more solutions and temporary staff roles as they come up ("building a beachhead").
It's very expensive to rage hack, mostly due to account age and phone number requirements. Sure, you can buy an account or play for 20 hours to get in good standings, in matchmaking - but VAC will evaporate you in a single match.
So the machines don't indicate who I individual voters selected?
There Is No Algorithm for Truth – With Tom Scott
I will use the "just try it out" method no matter how intensely you believe that studies performed on fonts during the pre-ww2 era relate to modern programming.
why does it need to be sent to the sun? Just launch it at the moon
If whatever’s rendering eventually maps to native API calls I’d consider it native, and I’m pretty sure GTK does native calls. If XUL really did mimic GTK (which I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, a lot of other GTk apps had the same feel as Firefox back when most of its UI was native dialogs) then it’s the best damn mimic job I’ve ever seen
The most helpful answer I can give is: you’d have to start from a neutral position. Which means really giving up on what you believe and being open to the possibility that there is a real difference you haven’t seen yet.

From that position you can then try to practice active listening. You’d need to develop a rapport with people—lots of people, both people who see things similarly to you and especially people who see things differently. You’d have to be gentle with other people’s ideas so they feel safe telling you what they really think.

After doing that for some time, and ingesting stories from whole populations of people, you would begin to get a sense of the breadth of experiences beyond your own.
I absolutely agree, the problem is that we are not there yet.

While I can see mouse being pointless, voice recognition is slow, problematic (can you imagine saying something private by voice, like firing someone?) and prone to error.
Keyboard usage is still very necessary for any profession that need to be efficient at using a computing device.

And for multi language speakers (using 2 terms from different languages in the same sentence for example), voice recognition is very behind. Not to mention is very behind on non-english languages (this is based solely on my experience with italian though, no objective data)
for a split second I thought you said `my wife and I back everything up to the NSA`
The problem is that people still tend to complain about the outcome if it's not an egalitarian distribution, regardless of the accuracy of the inputs.

Let's say I want to identify violent criminals based on things like type of jewelry or clothes they wear, or tattoos (symbol, location). Reasonable model: it tries to identify gang membership by visible gang membership symbols (i.e. it exploits something gangsters themselves signal). It's not perfect (false positives: hip hop artists who are not necessarily actual gangsters) but it's probably a decent model. I would not be surprised if the outcome did not match the racial distribution of the US population, precisely for the reason you mentioned. Would that model be racially biased?
Sad mystery of elastic bands found on remote Cornish island solved
Yeah, It’s Still Water
Dark Reader in dark mode with the contrast turned down has saved me from soo many migraines <3
I have used dropbox paper to collab on things in realtime, but not sure what kind of reply you were looking for.
Even though there are still bits of XUL in Firefox, the XUL tech itself has not been maintained along with the rest of Gecko. It was probably not in much of a better state in Firefox 56 than it was back when you were working with it.
Market Is Not Ready for Libra
that's about the only thing i am good at and can do quickly
I see the question as pertaining to pure mathematics, rather than engineering or applied science. For sheer mental anguish, I imagine it's hard to beat the flaw in Andrew Wiles's first edition of his Fermat proof. Discovering that must have sucked.
For me, I find that a very dark gray background with a light gray text color is best. I like dark themes, but I get "ghosting" if the contrast is too great.