skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that there are many interpretations of the concept of "self pity". You don't specify what sorts of thoughts you are referring to.

In my experience, I can't tell whether depression leads to self-pity or the other way around. The "falling into" part is hard to discern until you are already in that negative space. If I find myself lashing out at others and hurting them, I stop and ask myself how am I hurting? Why do I feel that the people I hurt are out to hurt me.

The act of "stepping outside of myself" in the moment provides an alternative perspective and the kernel upon which I can forge a new direction, hopefully out of the pit of self-pity. Not easy but achievable.
> x80 - For high-end gamers, high budget card, for high/ultra settings and higher resolutions.
x90 - These are pretty much just two x80 glued together with a custom cooler. For the insane users with more money than sense, overpriced / overkill card.

If only marketings gurus were as clear and BS free than this guys...
I suppose one could make a Firefox/Chrome addon for that.
I use a custom stylesheet anyway, but a native one would be nice, and less prone to breakage.
I've been wondering how much climate change is taken into account in decisions such as these? If I were planning where I built my headquarters it wouldn't be in the South. (In fact I'm trying to convince my mother to move- we were only 30 miles away from Michael and it's only a matter of time until we get hit.) Besides the threat of natural disasters, I imagine the increased cooling bills would not be insignificant.
Well, servers typically care about throughput and not latency. So if your ARM server will process 10000 requests per second with each request taking 100 ms and your x64 server will process 8000 requests per second with each request taking 80 ms for the same price, ARM will be preferred. There are exceptions, of course, but generally server workload is an ideal case for multi-threaded applications, because each request is isolated. That's why server CPU's usually have a lot of cores but their frequency is pretty low.
Dozens of those exist already.
Digital fascism needs a thriving private sector, otherwise nothing gets accomplished.

Stalin couldn't come up with anything high tech because he didn't have a private sector, so the Soviets had low-tech gulags. The American fascist state has its MIC, and China's Communist Party has its digital industrial complex.
It's a good decision, but it shouldn't be Google's place or role to make such decisions.
https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark with Stylus works very well.
Seems a little post hoc to me. Due example, what evidence is there that "a sequence" is specifically necessary?
"I often find black-and-white people a bit stupid, truth be told" - Linus Torvalds, 2005 (not on the subject of race)

https://www.linux.com/news/linus-compares-linux-and-bsds
It will be used for porn and military purposes. It's extremely naive to assume the opposite.
"I often find black-and-white people a bit stupid, truth be told" - Linus Torvalds, 2005 (not on the subject of race/ethnicity)

^ https://www.linux.com/news/linus-compares-linux-and-bsds
Mathematica never hade widespread appeal because it wasn’t even close to being affordable. Sage never had widespread appeal because it wasn’t even close to being Mathematica.
Lab Meat: More Hype Than Substance?
Why are dark themes only just becoming popular? I've been using dark, low contrast themes for more than a decade now. It used to be a sign of a true geek. Why is it becoming mainstream now all of a sudden?
Stop reading in the dark. It's not good for your eyes. The human eye has evolved over millions of years to work optimally in an environment where it is flooded with light (leaning blue).

Honestly, the mania for dark mode baffles me.
I've been using the chrome extension https://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/ which includes a dark mode.
Blank on mobile. Cool?
I think that is a brittle and somewhat superficial definition of censorship.

Here is the Oxford dictionary definition:

> The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security

Note there is nothing there about "rights".
There're plenty of browser extensions for this which also prevent the problem you get when eventually you have to switch to a different site that doesn't have a dark mode (like 99% of the sites on the web). I use Midnight Lizard.
> I am the opposite, If I see a targeted ad, I just leave the site.

The site usually does not usually handle the serving of ads themselves. They often use a service like AdSense to outsource advertisements.
Just because a site has targeted ads doesnt automatically mean its bad.
What Is Truth?
I don't think your post makes any sense.

It's on AskHN and you don't have a question. Also...

- How did you define and measure progress?

- How did you measure the number of people working in the field?

- If true, why would any of this be a problem?

- Why does a field need to constantly progress? For example, you could say that there's been even less progress in linear regression or random forest methods over the past five years - this doesn't take away from their usefulness in certain applications.

- Why would the assumed slow rate of progress mean that DL needs to be replaced?

- If you find more suitable solutions, you're always free to implement them in place of DL.
I don't think so. Delta Chat seems a system running 'Chat over ICMP', so CoI goes on protocol layer, while Delta Chat goes on application layer.
My guess: increasing evidence that blue light disrupts sleep, and that sleep is very important.
I've just found a solution that works pretty nicely for me: Coda. It has an integrated SSH terminal, it has FTPS and uploads changes to files on save and it has support for many languages (don't know about rust though). It also saves your terminals and open files within each project so you can easily switch around.

Coda on iPad + Raspberry Pi (or an old Mac mini) make a pretty nice dev environment.

If you are more of a VIM guy, something like Terminus works well too.
Yes, it is indeed a "bias". Otherwise BMI recommendations would have already been accounting for race.

They account for height and weight, but where do you see mention of race here, for instance? https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi...

Their recommendations are utterly useless -- even harmful -- to South Asians.
Microsoft Workers Protest Army Contract with Tech 'Designed to Help People Kill'
let's add some critical thinking: why not use it for war? Would it be better for the world if the US military was less well equipped relative to Al-Qaeda, Russia? I sure don't think so. I think it's best that any fight our military gets into is as asymmetric as possible, and in general the more asymmetry, the less people will die.

I'd further like to emphasize that the idea that the inequality in strength between our military and various 3rd world warlords is a form of injustice is absurd and childlike and anyone who thinks this way deserves to have their opinions discounted like children.
Flexbox is old hat, use your favourite search engine to see how easily it is done with CSS Grid - grid not flexbox.

You can nit pick on any example tutorial but do the research and you will find it all works great with CSS grid, you just might have to learn how it works rather than copy and paste.

The class bloat is another problem with div soup, also sometimes you need to put aside the mentality that everything has to be sooo complex, simplicity is hard, anyone can make everything complex and buy into the myth that everything has to be complex.

There is always a better element than 'div', the exception to the rule is where you need something that would have been an 'object', e.g. a Google 'recaptcha' needs a 'div'.

The same goes for 'span', unless you really need to change the colour of the second letter of a word there is always a better way, e.g. psuedo elements.
Writing this from China- it’s hard to really understand how little the Chinese seem to care about any of this. The systems that so obsess western writers seem to have absolutely no effect on Chinese society, and the majority of these new systems seem to be replacing similar but more intrusive systems of human-to-human checks. The concerns are warranted, but the interest approaches zero in the culture here.
After using custom userstyles and the DarkReader extension in Chrome I tried leaving everything at its default bright theme and instead use a bluelight-filter at a very low color temperature (1900k). The result is still very ergonomic and I don't have to worry about slight theming errors like dark text on dark backgrounds anymore.
My recommendations for a global dark-mode:

- lightweight, not perfect, never crashes: https://userstyles.org/styles/112107/global-black-for-amoled... (but don't install "stylish" use something maleware free like "stylus"

- heavy, as good as it gets, sometimes hangs on certain sites: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader
The Wild and Windy Aerodynamics of Just Cause 4
Its for reading in the dark. Less stressful for the eyes
I remember two stories on HN - one about a guy somewhere near NY, who is quietly digitizing tons of old newspapers. It is all available on his website for free. Another about a couple who are collecting seeds, I think.

Then there is this man who built a road by himself - https://www.thebetterindia.com/18326/the-man-who-moved-a-mou...
I bought two of the author’s books and also enjoy his newsletter. That said, I still have not drank the LOP coolaid, yet.

I almost always start Lisp development projects in a repl, getting low level things I need working. Initially I don’t worry at all about making things tidy. I keep this process going until I have something that works. Then I start cleaning up code, perhaps factoring out common code, etc. If I see enough value in the new code and if it makes sense, then I move parts out to a separate library.

It is at this point, after experimenting with a problem and having good code, that I think in some cases it would be good to step back and decide whether to design a new language for the type of problem you just solved.
This is a confusing username in this case. I read it as "ycombinator" and thought that this is an official request for feedback from the community.
This is more and more of a myth, to the point where it rings outright false. Tons of people work remotely successfully and don't miss walking into an office building. Basic tooling and online presence suffice.
Why not? They provision the adverts, collect the payments and take a cut. It seems reasonable they should be able to decide not to do those things. On the face of it the alternative is to coerce them into doing so against their will. What is the argument for doing that?
The username is "ycomb_O_nator". That's pretty sneaky, especially for a feature request post :)
userContent.css is your friend if you're not using a data-hoarding browser ;)
Well no dark mode option for mobile chrome.
Writing this from the West, pointing this out is a great way to lose friends

Different kind of firewall
No.... There are tools already there. Or build your own?
Why Julia
They are completely free to quit if they don't like what they're building is used to help their soldiers defend their own country.
http://hn.premii.com/ has a dark mode. Also available as an App. Best HN experience I've found.
I'm merely arguing that like the cold war, these conflicts are likely to be determined by economic might, rather than armed conflict.
Bright white scratches my eyes while reading at night. A dark theme is greatly appreciated.
Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for Nobel Peace Prize
Bingo. The author was always setting an example. He was simply setting the wrong example initially.
I’d say your paranoia and justification for any tool to be used for a potential unknown threat deserves to get discounted like a child’s

Yes it would be better for the world if the US took a more collaborative approach with other regional powers that it disagrees with
I still thought that even after reading this. Had to look a third time
Interesting thought experiment: if you think of the military as a business - then you’re basically advocating for the US to have a monopoly on military power.
As OP pointed out. Reading in the dark is the problem to begin with. Dark mode themes are a poor workaround for the real problem.
For FPS games the best experience is still at 1080p with 120Hz+ display IMO. Once you try it you can't go back to 60Hz, it legitimately feels choppy.
An unequivocal Yes.
Reading the thread there is a lot of pessimism in regards to whether measuring could ever be a positive and "life-giving" (in the sense of that flower story).

I'd like to argue that yes it can be just that, there's two reasons why I think so. First is Christopher Alexander and his work on wholeness.

Second is that I think the fundamental problem with our economic measurements is the "single source of truth" problem. When there is a just a single entity / stakeholder that prints currency and thereby defines baseline value then all the economic actors have less power to affect the definition of value. The development I'd like to see is democratization of stocks, making them the currencies of day to day life, and the phasing out of national currencies.

I haven't figure out yet exactly how to implement the intricacies of such a system but the general idea is that we need economic systems to acknowledge relativity in value better and stop hoping for a concrete truth to base our reality on.
These vidoes are not being suppressed or prohibited though, not even on Youtube. It's just that Google is declining to provision ads, collect revenue, distribute it and take a cut. It seems to me that has nothing to do with censorship, or even editorialising.
>It's certainly removed a lot of the humanity

The reason we measure things is so people can't make assertions like this without some kind of evidence.
What's more, it's extremely naive to work in big tech like Microsoft or Google and not expect your work to be used by military some day.
Yet, do these stories and the one above contradict the parent's Narrative around Reagan/Thatcher? They are examples of altruistic individualism- removing the "materialistic" part but not returning the "collectivist" part.
The problem I'm having with these is that the need some time to load and apply. In the meantime, the default theme is used, which results in an unpleasant "flash".
HN readers are probably tech savy enough to either have their own client or load their custom CSS (like for every other website).

If there was dark mode support, I think it should be based on `prefers-color-scheme: dark`.
The only attack on american soil I can recall is Pearl Habor...

Almost invariably, to provide the american military with hardware is to arm an offensive force.
The same way as nuclear fusion will help retired people to spend less on electricity. Both things will likely never happen.
People are trying various escape hatches in the responses but it obviously is.

First, censorship can be carried out by non-state actors. Second, they treat these videos differently to intentionally limit their reach and appeal.
Did I miss the part where we all chatted about US surveillance and came to some constructive solution; where we solved the problem and can now exclusively focus on other countries?

Twelfth China story in a week from OP btw. 12/30.
Been using this for years, it's great. Occasionally HN makes a change that breaks it but he fixes in a day or two.
Social media seems to blur the lines between fantasy and reality for many individuals in a way that they don't seem able to deal with.

In times gone by we'd generally expect that children realise what happens in a movie or a videogame is fantastical.

By contrast, social media is treated as a set of interactions with real people, whether those be your friends or whoever else.

Even posting here on HN is an example. The platform guides me; my (and I assume your) viewpoint of what the development community thinks about things is swayed.

I don't think the platform creators are to blame as much as, well, the entire society we're in. We really need to push organic interactions with the communities we're in, the people around us, not online bubbles with incredible bias that aren't even necessarily made of real humans.
I use a http://userstyles.org theme for it. Been using that site more and more these days.
Links that would've been nice in the article:

Craig Kaplan's page on near-miss Johnson solids https://isohedral.ca/a-new-near-miss/

Jim McNeill's polyhedra pages http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/ Near Misses page http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/acrohedra/nearmiss/near...

The article says "by Evelyn Lamb February 21, 2019"

..but at the bottom says "This article was originally published in our “The Absurd” issue in June, 2017."

..but John Baez's article "Rectified Truncated Icosahedron" (i.e. the name of Kaplan's solid) is dated April 1, 2016. https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/04/01/rectified_tru... .. Lamb somehow omits the solid's name. Baez refers to Johnson, Kaplan, McNeill and a lot of other people/sites as well. And links to them! Both have blogged for the AMS.

Unless Lamb is Baez, this seems oddly like plagiarism. But I guess there must be some decent explanation.

edit: Although maybe that's ridiculous - the articles are different: she's got some quotes from each of the main players - even Baez - including tidbits about other near misses (Only the Simpsons-Fermat one was new to me, so they didn't seem the meat of the article).
>It really says a lot about the linked article in question where the best arguments he had for debate were allowing Nazi view points and pedophiles.

WTF? Those were not the "best arguments he had for debate," he made it pretty clear that those were in fact his softest targets that his detractors could use to shut down debate. Which they accomplished.

I'm not saying I agree with Alexander's position, I usually have a lot of problems with anything he tags "things I will regret writing." But the one thing that's patently obvious about him from his writing, is his commitment to arguing the point even if it means straying into taboo topics that are much more easily avoided. As far as I can tell, that's sorta "the rationalists" _thing_. It's not my thing, but that doesn't mean I don't get what they're going for.

To characterize "allowing Nazi view points and pedophiles" as the _point_, rather than _an unfortunate consequence_ is an uncharitable take on their thing.
So if you're in a dark environment doing something other than reading and want to switch to a reading activity, what should you do?
You must live in a big city huh? I know zero young people who would give up the convenience of a car, and I suspect this is the case for a majority of the country.
If you add dark mode, please make it optional. I can't stand it.
They are being suppressed. Google will show a warning before them and deny creators usual benefits.
3rd world warlords aren't the only other militaries in the world.
I use darkreader based on someones recommendation here, i really love it.
Their recruiters reach out to me about 4 times a year. I will say that some of the challenges and scale of the problems Facebook is solving really can't be found at other companies. You're doing data analytics, product design, infrastructure engineering, dev ops, security and software engineering at a scale that's pretty much never been done before. Also, companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google generally define frameworks that other companies use. Think about products like Angular (Google), Bootstrap (Twitter), ReactNative/ReactJS (Facebook) — If you want to work on a project of that scale, there aren't that many options for companies to work for. I always tell my buddy who works at Turner — Your company is never going to be better than Facebook when all of the tools you use are built by Facebook. I also hear that compensation and benefits are really good, plus their stock value is going up faster than other companies in the market. If you live in the Bay Area, you need that equity boost to move up the socioeconomic ladder.

I probably won't ever work at Facebook (I have all of their services blocked in my host file and I've deleted my account and they aren't working on anything interesting to me) but I'm just trying play devils advocate and paint a picture of why someone would choose to work there.
Being an African I never understood why most westerners don't get the simple fact that to people who have been starving to death any policy or government that creates wealth for the majority of them is very welcome to them irrespective of their poor human rights disadvantages.
Me too, but that's not the point. We are not watching a random sample of old films, we only watch the old hits.

We are watching a random sample of present films.
Refreshing to see employees of a megacorp speak up against company decisions. I wish we could see more of the same from Facebook. Unfortunately a huge paycheck seems to do weird things to your ethical compass. It’s not enough that those that disagree simply quit.
I tried Darkreader (along with a basically all the other dark theme addons available on AMO) and found those "hangs" really annoying.
The one I've been using is this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou.... It doesn't hang, works on pretty much any site and has customizable colors.
I think we should try to avoid "upvote if you agree" type of posts (especially feature requests).

This call to action is too direct and it's too difficult to argue against it or retract the vote. In my opinion a better submission would be something that encourages discussion, like: "Do you think HN should add support for dark mode?"
While a parachute is helpful in certain situations it's better not to fall out of the sky to begin with. It is, so to say, a poor workaround for the real problem.
Search Amazon for "USB light laptop"
1440 @ 144Hz seems to be the sweet spot (at least for now).
Haha... I didn't even notice that but I just did a double take.

"Upvote for official ycombintaor up/down vote bot"
Luckily they are also completely free to use that leverage to pressure their employees to try to change decisions.
The human eye also has evolved to adapt to different lighting conditions, so if you are in the dark for a while, it will get more sensitive to light. This is what dark modes fix.
Even though it's important to point that out it is rather unrealistic for some parts of the population to completely restrict reading in the dark and makes no argument against an optional solution that would mitigate some of the downsides when it occurs
This would seem to make the most sense, as it's the same line of thinking around why only 1 out of thousands at the NSA would be a whisteblower (see: Snowden); despite the shady shit that they were (and probably still are) undertaking.

Also, non-disclosure agreements really fuck people in the overall scheme of things. If you worked for Facebook and came out tomorrow showing some really shady shit that they were doing, it's conceivable that no other company would ever want to hire you. (I think the term is "black-balled" but not sure if it's still in use, today?)

(Whistleblower laws only protect government workers and do not affect the commercial industry. Even then, the whistleblower laws only go so far...)

So, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Being fair - the Rift hasn't been superceded and there's not really anything imminent that would make it obsolete. So someone buying it on release has had a pretty good run.

Obviously - this is partly because of VR uptake being slower than some expected but I use a Rift daily and it still does it's job admirably.