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graeduson Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)

Interesting comment, thanks. Two questions out of curiosity:

> Even though I have top notch viewing gear properly configured and calibrated

Any chance you'd be willing to share a few details about this?

> While some pre-compressed streamed film content looks quite good when delivered via a streaming service willing to devote sufficient encoding time and delivery bitrate, it's still hit and miss.

Which streaming services are doing things right in your view?

graeduson The American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal

> Everyone in the big city is a transient, only there to make money and find love before it's time to head for the suburbs.

I might be taking this bit of hyperbole(?) too literally, but while this might be a common trajectory for young professionals, it obviously doesn't cover everyone.

graeduson “How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

Yes, he refers to his source throughout the piece. I believe it's just one anonymous source for the entire thing though.

graeduson Fake Men on Hinge

https://archive.ph/EOVNX

graeduson One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants

Related, from March 2021:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking...

graeduson Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

From the article: "Zuckerberg indicated that Meta plans to slow its hiring plans for engineers by at least 30% this year – adding roughly 6,000 or 7,000 workers rather than the 10,000 it initially expected to hire."

So yes, still hiring quite a lot of people, just fewer than originally planned.

graeduson Dolt is Git for Data

I thought this was an odd name too, but I'm guessing it's intentional, as git also is a derogatory word with a similar meaning.

: a foolish or worthless person

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git

graeduson Ceephax Acid Crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyGw3U8JdFA

"friend track"

big fan of this one, reminds me of selected ambient works era aphex twin

graeduson Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says

https://archive.md/MW0cN

graeduson Advent of Code 2021

twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim

graeduson Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710075

graeduson Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign

Not a strawman at all, it's a very common attitude if you are not on HN or in a similar bubble. I heard it in person (verbatim, actually) about 5 days ago.

graeduson Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

Delightful! Really challenging.

graeduson Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews

That's what the one star reviews are for. (I read "unexceptional" to mean "neither exceptionally good nor exceptionally bad").

graeduson HN was down

it's per subdomain i think.

graeduson Cover Your Tracks

This is funny and relatable, but from my anecdotal experience it doesn't really matter whether you click boxes that contain a little corner of the object you're supposed to identify. I think those are weighted less, or the scoring mechanism isn't that simple/binary, or something like that.

graeduson Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall

> Capital One used to offer different mortgage rates to IE users and Firefox users

That's amusing, I didn't know about it before. Looks like the story broke 10 years ago:

https://hothardware.com/news/at-capital-one-different-browse...

https://consumerist.com/2010/11/01/capital-one-made-me-diffe...

graeduson Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019

> Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last for a fraction of a second in the video.

There was a nice little examination of this phenomenon, dubbed YouTube Face, a couple of years ago.

Article: https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-goi...

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803937

graeduson Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

More generally Enter acts as a left-click on whatever element has focus in the browser. If you press tab, you cycle the focus to the next link/input/button/whatever. Shift+tab cycles through them in reverse order. If a normal hyperlink has focus, you can do things like CMD+Enter (MacOS) or CTRL+Enter (Windows) to open it in a new tab, etc

graeduson I got my first $50/mo customer

This is a concept that matches my lived experience, and I find it's very useful to keep in mind.

graeduson Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

I'm not denying the unfortunate reality that in many/most cases in the US today, the employer holds outsize power relative to employees. If you are precarious - you don't have emergency savings or the ability to quickly find another job - then it is not bad advice in a strictly pragmatic sense to be careful when it comes to criticizing your employer publicly.

I was taking issue with the specific idiom used. "Biting the hand that feeds you" often carries with it a moral dimension, and is usually used in cases where you repay kindness or generosity with some kind of bad behavior. If your employer hires you in exchange for a compensation package, they typically do so because they calculated that your labor would provide them value above and beyond what they are paying you. It's not kindness, it's not a gift, it's not to be compared to a master feeding his/her pet dog because of love.

edit:

I'd again suggest another perspective in response to this sentence:

> Every bit of money, and everything I've bought from it, has been from my employers, from pizza delivery to robotics.

Your skills, your time and your (presumably) hard work were the source of value that you provided to your employer in exchange for money and benefits such as health insurance. I don't know your specific situation, but maybe it's possible that you could choose to provide them to a different employer, maybe for even more money.

graeduson Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

Imagine framing your employer as "the hand that feeds you", as if it is generously giving you a gift by paying you your salary in exchange for your labor.

Here is a different view: don't expose your most vulnerable and precarious employees to a deadly virus by failing to take the necessary precautions to protect them while they keep your company running.

It's scary not because this specific dataset was used to train Teslas that are on the road today. Rather, because it makes us aware of an entire class of errors that most of us probably hadn't thought about before. I guess you are absolutely certain that training data used in production cars will be free of these issues, but it's not clear why.

graeduson How ‘big law’ makes big money

This is a book review of Katharina Pistor's "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality". The review is written by Adam Tooze, himself the author of the excellent "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" among others.

graeduson Show HN: Interactive Periodic Table in JavaScript

Frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof phenomenon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...

graeduson Anna Wiener on her book “Uncanny Valley”

Adding to the chorus: this was superb and I'm looking forward to the book.

Here's the HN post from April 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565691

graeduson Click Here to Kill

I got two. For those that don't know, a good portion of these nagging modal windows play nice in the sense that pressing ESC closes them - good to be able to instantly dismiss them without having to hunt for the close button. The first one I saw could be closed with ESC, the second one required clicking "Close".

graeduson What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?

> we want the Iranian people to stand up to the Mullahs

How are you defining "we" here?

graeduson Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?

I did near the height of the frenzy (Jan '18), but I got lucky and got it for MSRP. That's a great example though, I remember seeing retailers charging 2-3x MSRP.

graeduson Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?

> 'MSRP stands for the average suggested retail price and that because it's an average, sometimes the actual price will be higher.'

It stands for manufacturer's suggested retail price, but I guess your point stands because it is only a _suggested_ price. Still, I can't remember ever being charged more than MSRP, although perhaps it's happened without me noticing.