skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On iOS I have accessibility functionality mapped to triple-clicking the lock button. I’m using a function called ‘smart invert’. I’m sure there’s something equivalent on Android.

How can you browse a site called ‘hacker news’ and have no ability to ‘hack’ your way out of a simple problem? /s haha
I think my main contention can be illustrated by trying to discover where Disco comes from. I was looking for this kind of shoestring style story for years.

Then I gave up trying to construct it. The reality is it's a bunch of things smashed together like pressing all the buttons at the soda fountain at once. That's what happened.

That's where techno came from as well.

Sometimes the narratives are super clean, like rappers delight for rap (there's pre rappers delight style rap records, but under like a dozen or so) or the amen break and dnb or the configuration of the swing drum kit for swing music or house music proper being "the stuff knuckles plays" in Chicago.

But a few styles are inherently messy with no clean lines. Rock, Disco and Techno are three

Rock is especially super messy, here's Meade Lux Lewis in 1927 for instance, https://youtu.be/tDuLezFRMNU swap the piano with a guitar and you have 50s rock
So we just need someone to take the time to re-colour news.css, and he'll pop it in there under a prefers dark css rule?

It seems a bunch of people have tried it. Some notes:

* Why have people given it a blue-ish tint? HN if anything has a warm tint. I think a neutral grey is most acceptable.

* People that are suggesting high contrast for mobile: On mobile you have a plethora of apps.

* People that are suggesting high contrast for accessibility: People with vision problems likely have some other thing to make it high contrast.
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>The overton window has shifted to the left on many issues. E.g. trans rights
>
>In my own workplace the overton window shifted notably left in gender issues in the last decade.

These are not shifts to the left, they are a shifts towards liberalism.

The left still has a big problem with gender identity. Take a look at Rosie Duffield and Jess Phillips in the Labour Party, Joanne Cherry in the SNP, and the issues surrounding the formation of the Alba Party.
Bitcoin did not have a premine
I think GraphQL might be unusually easy to accidentally get wrong.

It handles very powerful untrusted input, by design. And it has enough features that many, maybe most users don't know about all of them. This vulnerability wouldn't have happened if GraphQL didn't have a certain feature.

I've implemented a simple GraphQL API and I didn't know about all the features that were involved here. I thought carefully about security, and I think I ultimately got it right, but there were a few false starts.

Good software is not just possible to use correctly, but easy to use correctly. Software that's easy to use correctly will be more secure in practice, even if it has the same theoretical properties.

I don't know if GraphQL would be better if it were less powerful. I'm not an expert. But it's worth considering the possibility.
EU court rules software transfer is a sale (2012)
Pfizer’s new at-home pill to treat Covid could be available by end of the year
This reflects a peculiarly American perspective. This is now how the police operate in other countries. It is now how they should operate in the US.
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Got it, thanks for elaborating, I failed to understand that point from your initial comment.
I tried this out for a while but unfortunately there were a few too many websites where the text became illegible and for many websites it simply did nothing.
Which is the reason why they were willing to get banned from the App Store. They'd never risk that otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a collaboration between companies to to this.
This is just short of asking them to increase the font size... that's an exercise left to the user.

Your browser will let you do this via user styles, plugins, user scripts, etc ad nauseam. The OS might even let you do it.

On a normal website, that might be a bit much to ask, but this is hacker news. Even so much as googling the term "dark mode" will give you a plugin that does exactly what you want.
Yes, but I think not as much as advocates of it would suggest.
I operated the photo finish at the Amstel Gold Race for a few years, in the early 2000s, as well as at many other races in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. We weren't a constant presence at that event, as the association liked it better to either bring in their own people, or rather full-time professionals like the company that does La Tour de France. My boss at that time later sold his timing business to the guy who operated the photo finish this year (the one being interviewed).

While all folks involved here take great pride in their work, the alignment of the camera just never got the attention it clearly deserved. No one ever did the math and they just assumed the difference wasn't significant. Also, people just liked it better to align the camera on the white part of the finish line, since it greatly improves the contrast of the capture. I am sure the equipment has improved, but for a long time, the only thing you were concerned about was contrast, a sudden change in weather (lighting) was known to, at times, render the entire operation useless. Particularly since we were a small operation with only one (photo-finish) camera. Plenty of times I had to climb up ladders and vans to make eleventh hour adjustments to the equipment, with the contestants already in sight.

I feel super bad for the guy. To his defense, the responsibility lies with the UCI officials. To their defense, they do not check up on details like this. Until now, that is.

I remember at least one other time where the broadcast camera (they also tend to have one exactly on the finish line) seemed in disagreement with our "official" photo finish results. That time, a simple shrug did the trick: "hey, photo finish, you know".
>Everyone felt the other had a place in society

I'm sure that in the depth of their hearts the coal miners not only understood but also accepted Thatcher as a fundamental and important part of society.
Last time this got asked about one year ago dang said they were willing to do it.[1] Several people offered to help — so much that I found reasonable to expect the feature to get shipped quickly. No idea what happened.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
Fascinating article, and great to see a problem solver at work.

However, I question humanity’s sanity when we declare a winner in a 216.75km long race by someone who (possibly) won by 0.016 seconds (and poorly declared either way from the article).

At what point do races become a tie instead of 1st/2nd ? Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. I mean, if we had a camera that could take 350,000 photos per second does that mean we should use it to declare the winner?

I remember this issue came up in swimming a few years ago, and people were arguing that the timing measurement was finer than the tolerance for error of the measurement of pressure on the pad. We still talk about that race venue today: https://www.theringer.com/2020/7/29/21345181/milorad-cavic-m...

This article seems to make the argument quite well: https://olympics.time.com/2012/07/27/technologys-touch-how-a...
> We now think (but guessing) our own users were complaining about contact form message spam getting through (as it seems google v2 recaptcha is easily spammed these days).

Interesting. Could you elaborate how your users can get spammed this way?
Thought: What about a box on the user settings page in which a user can specify their own custom CSS? It would only apply when logged-in.

That means those who want dark mode can get dark mode, and those who want whatever other zany random style changes they want can get that too. (Yeah you can use an extension, but an extension isn't very friendly if you use different browsers on different devices–e.g I use Chrome on my Mac and Safari on my iPhone.)

Wikipedia has something like that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css
That's perhaps because many believe that gabber has more roots in house, rave and punk rather than techno.
Radicalizing the Romanceless (2014)
No, the point was that the choice of where to live was made before the pandemic sent people to work from home.
> I use rail when I visit multiple European cities. It’s great.

I'm going to counterargument this.

Certain rail corridors are great--Naples to Rome, for example, was wonderful. But somehow when we were visiting Europe, we often found that air actually did better in both price and time.

The cheap rail fares often require quite a bit further advance purchase than air fares. This strikes me as ... odd.
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I' not sure where you have worked, but the people who freely give their political opinions are grouped accordingly. They are not grouped by left/right, but by how annoying they are.

All are avoided if at all possible.

I have worked with people who's politics I greatly and deeply oppose. I liked them personally and never delved to deep into their political lives. However, where we have strayed I have tried to learn from their view point.

After all, if we cannot understand one another, how are we supposed to forge middle ground?

I think we really should start to teach _how_ to talk about things we disagree on. It appears that people think that re-iterating the same points (the ones that the "other" side find so extreme) at volume will change people's minds.
Where do I sign up to help combat miner abuse of CI?
I don’t care what they spend it on, I never claimed to care. I agree ideologically with Adam’s premise though. It is in the best interest of the nation and the individuals living at that time that the assets and wealth of that nation be accessible to anyone living in it.

The accumulation of wealth across multiple generations has an extremely long history spanning back centuries of corruption, self dealing, preferentially treatment, and the hoarding of the more desirable assets (land for example) that the heirs did not earn or work for and cannot be enjoyed by a new entrant in the market. Being entitled to something because of your blood is fundamentally unamerican. We fought for our independence from such a system.

This country.. at least as how I was raised was one of grit, hard work, and innovation which determined who you’d be in life. A country where anyone with a novel idea or ruthless cunning can carve out a slice for themselves. The idea of inheritance undermines that, heirs did not earn anything by being born to the right parent, own things they did not work for.

This country is too young to have the problems of some European nations past but I think it’s starting to go that way. I think the founders saw the problems caused by bloodline rule and heirs and didn’t want that here.

There should be no inheritance. The heirs didn’t work for it, they’re no more entitled to it then I am. If a parent is wealthy then the kids will enjoy a life of potential high society, connections, and Ivy League educations, but they have to make it for themselves. I stand firmly behind that American ideal
Because sarcasm and personal taste have gone out of style?

Not to mention those things were a thing at the time of Lester Bangs or the NME, 50+ years ago (and even in reviewers of classical music) hardly a Pitchfork era phenomenon or invention....
Yes, but this does not refute what I said. The parent comment makes it appear as if the motive for staying out of the was was, easy profit. Clearly not so.
There's definitely something missing when you don't have a common or standard visual language for communicating ideas between different engineers/teams.
Is the F-35 officially a failure?
Also Compared to Python Fortran is an old school compiled language - you have to get used to working with a compline/link cycle without the interactivity that Python has.

This isn't any better or worse but does require a shift in mind set.

Though I believe some people are trying to build a Fortan Repl
Fortnite is selling digital items. PURE PROFIT.
How is that not insanity?
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Predator and prey, you say?

So, developers are some kind of grazers for the most part, since they do not harm their prey?
They could even be seen as pollinators and plant seed spreaders?

So information in this model is the analogy of plant life, that can be harvested?
And obviously there is little evolutionary pressure to evade being harvested.
On the contrary, as I implied, it could be called advantageous to be harvested.

Now, that is a fun metaphor.
Just for a moment consider some kind of information that tries to evade being consumed.
And as a next step in this evolutionary process one that feeds on other information and that is not human.

An artificially evolved hunter-gatherer that feeds on information.

Now, that would be some interesting being, wouldn't it?
```

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {

* {

color: #ccc;

background: black;

}

}

```

Really all you need for a rudimentary dark mode that automatically changes depending on your system preferences. Let's stop pretending this would take HN more than 30 minutes of dev time. Definitely would help improve accessibility.
So what? Obviously a company entirely reliant on mobile users wouldn't be able to stand up to the mobile duopoly. That's entirely why opinion is split about the issue
> Would two cameras on different planes result in more accurate results?

A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two is never sure.
More importantly: who cares?

There are many good reasons to care. Off the top of my head:

* Having a diverse work force makes it less likely that you will be blind to problems caused by unintended side effects of your product that only affect certain groups.

* Having no women (or people of color, or people with disabilities, or...) on the workforce, will make you less attractive as an employer to talented people in these groups. Ultimately, you get to hire from a larger talent pool, if you make an effort to cultivate diversity.

* Making an effort to attract a diversity of people will make you uncover barriers of entry, that you might not have been aware of, and removing those has the potential to benefit everyone.

And finally, even if you believe strongly that your hiring practices are not the cause of the lack of diversity, and that the real problem is elsewhere (in the education system for instance), you can still choose to be part of the solution by providing proof that there is a desirable future to be had for a woman who chooses to go in to a STEM field.
Amazon is offering competitive wages (especially for Albama's cost of living), and benefits from day one.

Maybe a majority of the workers there prefer the status quo?
Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won't keep you up all night
> You believe you can perceive all the flaws in your opponents reasoning, they're obvious to you - but reject the possibility that they feel exactly the same way about you.

I'm not sure about that. I believe that (calm, observant, not the Yelling-at-you-on-Facebook kind) conservatives today better understand liberals and progressives than the other way round, because the liberal/progressive point of view is overwhelmingly represented in the media, so conservatives are much more exposed to it than any random liberal would be to conservative ideas (unless they specifically seek them out).
Usenet was decentralized.

Usenet didn't fight you if you wanted to scrape all of it. In fact, it encouraged that.

Usenet didn't require crappy "API tokens" in order to automate your interactions with it or bring your own user agent... in fact, you had to bring your own user agent; that was the only way to use it.

The only thing Reddit has in common with Usenet is good support for threaded discussions.
Do you guys consider Russia of today communist? Are you sure that communism as practiced today in China is the same thing as it was back in Warsaw pact Romania or Czechoslovakia?
for 317 you can build relatively decent PC without GPU, so add something like 200$ and you can have decent setup for maybnewest games like Cyberpunk on mid settings

I bought GTX 970 and Ryzen 7 1700 for 240$, but it was 2 years ago
Cryptography and how to deal with man-in-the-middle attacks in JavaScript
My 11 year old wants to play Roblox on my phone - but only when we're out and she doesn't have the computer available.
My take is that people mostly do what they want to do. So, maybe you deep down you don't really care that much about learning "cool stuff", or maybe you haven't found a particular cool thing that excites you enough to spend time and energy on it.
If you're putting your best quality spy equipment in space, presumably you want to be able to do regular maintenance on it.
The right wing whingeing that they are too timid to express their deplorable views.
No. The moment one needs to pay for HN, an alternative "free" HN would emerge... so why would I pay?

Besides, the authors of HN are already getting paid for this site (e.g., HN is world-wide known by almost every developer out there, startup founders wannabes consider PG a god, etc.)
Do you not see the irony in labeling people who politely disagree with you "members of the KKK"? Or are you just trolling?
I have the latest Vivaldi, but this feature is not yet available to me.
> feature creep ensues

I believe esbuild authors (and Vite relies on esbuild in development) are adamant that they are not going to allow feature creep.
A fine of 600k euros for Wi-Fi tracking for the municipality of Enschede
People don't mind role playing violence with friends but they don't want to role play sex with friends; I don't see this as unusual.

Sometimes players justify their actions with "but that's what my character would do"; there is a popular rpg.stackexchange post about it: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/37103/what-is-my-guy... .
Thanks for bringing this. This article basically looks at what beatports has to propose but it just totally forgets so many things that it's not even funny. What about "pop corn" too ?
I, for one, welcome my new MySpace styled HN...

Seriously though, this could be a nicely elegant solution, especially if there was "suggested CSS to do X is, paste it below" or something.
That you have been involved in the project doesn't mean that you know where the real cost sinks are. The role of unions are discussed extensively in the linked to article's comments. The idea that unions drive the cost of construction projects through demands for more labor appear to be quite tenuous. If you have evidence to the contrary cite them. Otherwise I would chalk up GP's comment as the typical anti-union scare propaganda. It's very common on HN.
It also makes it trivial to unlock your phone under coercion. Same for fingerprints. Whereas nobody can (yet) get a code out of your brain.
I have been using the Svelte clone of HN [0] when needing dark mode. It has a toggle for dark/light and is relatively quick to use.

[0] https://hn.svelte.dev/top/1
Imagine a nightmare if this thing erroneously matches you with a criminal.
i agree with all of the above. i learned that alexandre dumas had caribbean ancestry in this article. would have been more interesting to add more details, like the fact that his "caribbean ancestry" was due to a nobleman marrying a slave, which definitely gives an indication of the class dynamics of the time and could be an interesting fact in itself.

i would go one step further and, exaggerating, claim that putting alexandre dumas and chinua achebe in the same bucket is, in fact, racist.
Right, I didn't even think about that.

I hadn't thought also that you are going to need to have a computer to connect to Mighty anyway, are people really going to get a $300 piece of junk machine with a terrible screen for this? Even if they do that already makes Mighty even less appealing.
Yes, tribal rivalries and fragmentation escalate when resources become scarce. Luckily we've solved that problem: housing, food and even luxury goods exist in abundance.

It's important to keep in mind that even the "alpha wolf" phenomenon was only observed in captivity, while wolf packs roaming freely had a much more egalitarian dynamic.

The reason we see ruthless competition everywhere is not that humans are naturally antagonistic, it's that we've created a superstructure that perpetually creates artificial scarcity and "hacks" our stress response.

We know that this is true in the small: "limited offers", countdowns and "exclusive deals" are widely understood cheap marketing gimmicks. We even came up with a catchy acronym for this: FOMO, emphasis on "fear".

We're less ready to acknowledge this exists in the large. We've become so accustomed to the so-called Great Man Theory and a Capitalist Realism lens of history that we struggle to even imagine a different version of prehistory than the violent struggle for survival we proposed under colonialism to justify our subjugation of the "savages" _for their own good_.
Makes sense. Why do you think Google and Amazon didn't pursue that approach for services like Cloud Functions and Lambda? Is there a trade-off or is it a matter of complexity?
Cryptography Redefines Private Property
I spent half my time in Japan for several years (3 months there, 3 back home), I absolutely _never_ experienced anything like you describe. Even in areas where I was the only foreigner around. Small children would glance an extra time at me, but everybody else treated me exactly as they did treat others. If I looked like I had some problems people would stop and ask. Service in shops was never a problem. And, as someone else already mentioned, Japan is the only place where I would actually leave my PC on the table in Starbucks while visiting the bathroom. And I'll just repeat again that contrary to your Nr. 2 - I was always offered help if I needed it.

And it just may happen that I'll stay in Japan for my retirement. We'll see. In any case I'll go back as soon as, or if, the pandemic situation is over.
> but only for terrorism

That little loophole right there would soon be big enough to let through a freight train.
In italy...
To be fair, it'd need to be a book to cover everything and they include quite a lot here.
> but only for terrorism

You do realize that means scanning everyone to check if they are a known terrorist, yes?

They said the same when they passed the Patriot Act - "We'll pass this to read the terrorists' emails."

And everyone cheered, without realizing that means reading YOUR emails to see if YOU are a terrorist. They did this through all the taps into the ISPs and carriers' cables, considering email wasn't even encrypted between servers until very recently.
Fine, but some which should be acceptable aren't and I'm talking about ones unrelated to one's business.
Your comment clearly shows that you haven't read the article.

The main point of the post is that the photo you are showing is not the photo at the time the two guys crossed the line
Maybe. Maybe not.

Once it's determined whether this was a fair vote, we'll know for sure I guess.

> The RWDSU submitted nearly two dozen objections to Amazon's conduct during the election, which it said prevented employees from a "free and uncoerced exercise of choice" on whether to create the company's first U.S. union.
The more space you have, the more likely you are to win coins. Therefore you want to plot as much space as possible.

If multiple people have good enough plots there can be multiple winners for the same challenge!

You can also win with the same plot file multiple times.