skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What aren't you willing to dismiss by invoking the magic words "conspiracy theory?" Is this just a joke?

Lol, well, I'm definitely willing to dismiss the idea that reddit, twitter and facebook are why Trump is president if that's what you mean. I suppose Obama won the 2008 election because of some dank memes posted in 4chan, and Bush won in 2000 because of funny things some weeb posted on Usenet.

As far as why people continue to say it: as I said, it's projection. The US has done 1000x worse than whatever imagined ridiculously effective Reddit posts the Rooskies have done. The fact that adult humans with day jobs who are somehow able to feed themselves without choking to death on their tongues are able to believe in such nonsense will never ever cease to amuse me.

If you actually believe such things, you really need to learn how to count.
> It is not surprising to me that productivity has skyrocketed for problem-solvers working from home.

Do you have a source with data to back that up? The early indicators of the efficacy of WFH that I've seen have been pretty mixed.
Is there an easy way I can apply this using developer console so I can see what it looks like?

I want to try out the different styles in the comments, but I'm hesitant to upvote until I see for myself what it looks like.
Whoa quite the surprise to see this posted on hacker news. I used to work with Travis for a few years. He was pretty much never in the office and if I did see him, he was usually hiding in the fish bowl.

I also lived in Cherry Hill Downtown Lansing for three years about two blocks from Reo town. The food at Saddleback was decent but never knocked my socks off. Now crack chicken, east side fish fry, astros pizza and Olympic broil, those places had some food that brings back memories
without your comment I wouldn't have detected the sarcasm, I was aghast
Certain, check out https://community.nodebb.org, super quick SPA.
Still waiting for Google Drive official linux client...
> Some parts of the world certainly did.

i believe that's all they had. if they had other choices...

i do agree with OP. it just seems like whatever the era provided to you to occupy your mind.
Trump wants to make coronavirus vaccine free of charge
The Algol 60 language report appeared in May 1960 and changed the world
Programming languages are just a means to an end. I've used various language over the years and what I remember is what I built, not whether the language had pattern matching or not.

I have fond memories of writing PHP because it helped build a site to share messages with my family before Facebook. I remember VB.net because I tried to write a game in college. I remember C# because I built a laptop battery meter that I still sell 10 years later. I remember learning JS with node.js because I wrote a log aggregator.

Let's stop focusing on the how we get there and celebrate what we build.
Blockchain. No one said blockchain yet. We have to blockchain it. Blockchain it with cryptos.
The Oculus Rift has been out of stock since March when the pandemic started. It's really hard to find VR headsets right now.
That's hugely backwards, sacrificing 10 people's time to help 1 is what's inefficient.
What browser support do you expect?

https://caniuse.com/#search=css%20variables

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44271920/css-variables-w...
It took Google several years to implement in Chromium as well. They just happened to have the convenience of having it ready when Spectre was revealed.
You could add it to your user stylesheet?
As someone who's put a ridiculous amount of effort into mouse-specific user experience, I agree. Apple's only physical/technical advantages are resolution and accuracy (and they only have that because they have software that justifies the cost). The real advantage is they spent research and engineering hours, LOTS of them, determining how to give the best user experience for the majority of their users, including users coming from other platforms with other expectations.
this has already been debunked, Star Trek took inspiration from NASA logo, and existing Air Force Space Command Logo almost identical to new Space Force logo https://globalnews.ca/news/6459588/u-s-space-force-logo-star...

next.
The relevant question isn't is it possible, it's is it likely.
Yes, and until you do the correct analysis and estimate just how bad the estimate is going to be (off by 10%? Off by 50%? An order of magnitude?) You can't just dismiss it out of hand. So how far off will it be?
Backwards compatible (with light mode) dark mode

Preview: https://i.imgur.com/nbkPFyL.png

Source + Live Preview: https://stackblitz.com/edit/js-bgp3k5?file=style.css

Edit: updated stackblitz link, previous link was incorrect.
Java is not pure OO, neither is it objectively any sort of failure, being one of the most widely used languages out there.

As such I don't think the rest of your post is worth consideration.
I bet those are not a Front end's preferred language and you end up need JavaScript anyway if you need some extra client form handling. Now you use two language to do one thing and made it more difficult to be maintained.
In inverse order:

Because nobody gives a shit about quality unless it hits their paycheck.

"Onnnngggg. They pay me hourly. Onnnngggg."

They cut lots of checks.
Algol 60 was an interesting language in many respects. It is the mother of nearly all imperative programming languages existing today; it had no data structures, just scalars and arrays; but it introduced block structure and scoping rules; and it was the first language specified using the Backus-Naur-Form (BNF) which is still in use today. I recently wrote a parser for it (on my way to a Simula 67 compiler): https://github.com/rochus-keller/Algol60.
When you click on a link to the news.ycombinator.com domain, what should happen if you prefer dark mode? And vice versa?

In comparison, the pure-CSS ideas that some people are posting would work automatically if your browser supports dark mode, and would enlarge the (cached with long ttl) CSS file only very slightly.
> I don't want my eyes to burn when I'm browsing HN at night on my phone.

I've looked at HN and many other sites on my phone at night for a very long time, and never once do my eyes burn. Why is this the expectation? Use Flux or a similar light dimmer on your phone/laptop, problem solved.
You'd be surprised what you can find on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lmaeronaut...

Obviously healthcare providers market to consumers, medicines are marketed to consumers even when they're supposed to be prescribed by doctors, and of course, marketing healthcare wares to doctors is a pretty big deal.

But ask yourself how healthcare companies and defense contractors market themselves, find new talent, even lobby. (Targeting advertising can literally shove ads just in the face of people in federal government buildings.)

Google has the eyes of well over 80% of the global population. Which means if you want to talk to... pretty much any group of people, you likely have to do it through Google.
Never heard of Bisq. Can you tell me more about what it is and how it works, and any connection to it you may have that you are comfortable or obliged to share?
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>What’s striking is that the professor and A/Chairman doesn’t know that he doesn’t know. I’m struck by his ignorance of his ignorance, his willingness to think that he knows what he’s talking about when he doesn’t.

Does this make sense to anybody? The author is "struck" that somebody is "willing" to talk about something they believe they understand? The only annoying thing about academia is that it seems to attract smug, selfish people like this.
The “best of” is a great place to start and is grouped by topic

https://www.saastr.com/best-of-saastr/

Don’t get overwhelmed. I suggest starting with the stuff about building an MVP, getting traction, and getting to $1MM in ARR. Even if you have read the “technical” side of those stages of a business (building prototypes fast, shipping and iterating, picking an unsexy tech stack, etc) these articles are great because they explain the business side: pricing, average deal size, cost to acquire a customer, inbound and outbound, churn rates, sales channels, lifetime customer value.

Basically all the metrics you use to judge the health of a SaaS business and thus how they are valued.

I know it’s a lot, but he does a great job ramping engineers to understand business and I have really come to enjoy the Science aspect of business (modeling, forecasting, etc).
It cost him 50% of the order per review posted.
It's weirdly déjà vu to see this sort of sentiment to appear in every thread about google and it's absolutely true — google's search quality has been on a noticeable decline for years now.

It's especially funny to see headlines like "google achieves quantum superiority" and "google can't understand the word 'without'" next to each other. It almost seems like the search engine is being purposefully sabotaged by google itself.
> I don't consider inheritance an important feature for a language to be an "Object Oriented Language."

I mostly agree except for one catch. How do you extend a class which is encapsulated properly? Often this is the only way I use inheritance because I need to do one or two extra things that rely on the internal state of an object which I can't modify directly. So I'm wondering if there is a good way that doesn't rely on modifying the implementation of the original object to be more flexible.
The same way someone might not have heard of Yuri Gagarin, the first person to reach outer space.[0] In the US, we only hear about the first person to step foot on the moon. I certainly didn't know Yuri Gagarin's name; I had to Google it. I wouldn't even recognize it if I heard it.

Or the One-China policy.[1]

Or that the United States doesn't have a prime minister. Ever told someone you're from the US and been asked who your PM is? They're not referring to your project manager.

Or that they might actually be the Virgin Islands' president without realizing it.[2]

Or any of the following websites, which are among the top 10 most visited websites according to Alexa:[3]

3. Tmall

5. QQ

6. Baidu

7. Sohu

8. Tmall login

9. Taobao

10: 360.cn

In this case, it sounds like the person who made the comment knew of the space shuttle; they just didn't know much about it or recognize it by name. I bet many readers here could say the same for many of the aforementioned items.

Yet if you went to China and asked about Tmall, I bet you'd get some funny looks. I don't really know for sure, though; I'd never heard of it until today. Sure, I know of Taobao, and I could've guessed that the T in Tmall stood for either Tencent or Taobao, but heck if I know what they do. I misspelled it as `Tmail` initially and only realized my mistake after Googling it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy

[2]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-president-virgin-isl...

[3]: https://www.alexa.com/topsites
Wonder what will come of the Signal integration... not exactly a good look...
It makes FF on my high-end desktop slow too, sometimes.

In the dark reader popup window you can set the Mode; the default of Dynamic does an excellent job of making everything dark but is pretty slow. The other modes have basically no performance impact but you might see some visual bugs from time to time.
Probably UIKit versus Foundation. UIKit is iOS/Mac only and I think indirectly includes Foundation, which is where the essential non-UI APIs are.

All this really means is you don’t get the iOS UI tools for your Windows and Linux projects.
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Subcontract it to someone who writes it with security holes.
> AFAIK, is the scrolling bits, and even that isn't critical.

It seems that this is in fact the chief complaint of the folks who commented above you. It seems like they're saying that they choose to purchase alternative goods because of that behavior. That seems critical to me, no?
Cute! Just tried on threads and the frontpage.

I think #000 is the way to go for OLEDs, though I'm not 100% sure. I imagine it'd be nice to configure it. #cf looks cute too for text, I guess it's not super important to be closer to #fff? Maybe we just have good eyes tho w.

Having contrast on the textarea with a different colour is definitely nice.

Any reason you're selecting on .admin td and .admin? I didn't dig into the DOM too much; I just went down news.css going through each selector with a color:, then inspected elements to make sure none got through.

The only new additions, similar to yours, is <body>, #hnmain, and textarea. input[type=text] could also be tackled, but I decided it was fine. Textarea is definitely a lot of bang for buck tho.

The .c5a, .c73, etc selectors are also important; those are for downvoted comments.
Thanks, enjoyed this. That SICP quote really nails it too.
Small businesses, strip clubs, public houses and bars, restaurants and their staff, handymen, private cleaning and janitorial staff, groundskeepers and lawnmowers, etc in every country in the world are innumerable counter-examples to that assumption.
https://twinkletray.com/

Most desktop monitors have their brightness & other config exposed via the DDC (DDC?) protocol. This is a simple UI that exposes the brightness controls on Windows. Much easier than using the buttons.

You might need to go to the monitor's menu and enable DDC if it's disabled by default.

On Linux this script works for me:

sudo modprobe i2c-dev; sudo ddcutil setvcp 10 $1 &
The hammer and the dance
Wow. That was an exciting rollercoaster post you made there. Was not expecting the twist towards the bottom of it, but it was very informative!

I`m fortunate to be a slow ager (other than a few greys) and attribute limiting stress, choosing coffee w/ cream, maintaining good diet/exercise routines and getting quality sleep the past 3 decades for making approaching my 50`s a pleasure. Had I chose the wrong beverage, I don`t think any of my other habits would have prevented a health decline by now.

This almost sounds like getting on the same gerbil wheel as hbp and diabetes. Unless they change their lifestyle, they`ll be getting mislabeled blood from China, India and Africa`s (just like the seafood debacle) youth until they die or all gains will be lost.

That level of commitment is well outside of my range.
My version looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/KCHi5mO

CSS:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { body { color:#cccccc; background-color: black } center>table { background-color: #222222;} td { color:#cccccc; }
.admin td { color:white; }
.subtext td { color:white; }

a:link { color:#cccccc; }
a:visited { color:#eeeeee; }

.default { color:#b2b2b2; }
.admin { color:#ffffff; }
.title { color:#b2b2b2; }
.subtext { color:#b2b2b2; }
.yclinks { color:#b2b2b2; }
.pagetop { color:#dddddd; }
.comhead { color:#b2b2b2; }

.c00, .c00 a:link { color:#cccccc; }
.c5a, .c5a a:link, .c5a a:visited { color:#aaaaaa; }
.c73, .c73 a:link, .c73 a:visited { color:#838383; }
.c82, .c82 a:link, .c82 a:visited { color:#727272; }
.c88, .c88 a:link, .c88 a:visited { color:#777777; }
.c9c, .c9c a:link, .c9c a:visited { color:#6c6c6c; }
.cae, .cae a:link, .cae a:visited { color:#5e5e5e; }
.cbe, .cbe a:link, .cbe a:visited { color:#4e4e4e; }
.cce, .cce a:link, .cce a:visited { color:#3e3e3e; }
.cdd, .cdd a:link, .cdd a:visited { color:#222222; }

.pagetop a:visited { color:#cccccc;}
.topsel a:link, .topsel a:visited { color:#222222; }

.subtext a:link, .subtext a:visited { color:#727272; }

.comhead a:link, .subtext a:visited { color:#727272; }

.hnmore a:link, a:visited { color:#727272; }

}

.hnmore a:link, a:visited { color:#727272; }
}
Youve never worked on a minimally complex enterprise application?
It’s covve, a free personal crm app
Random numbers, at least, are now part of the standard library.

As for the rest, it depends on what you consider "basic functionality". AppKit/UIKit is probably never going to be ported.
I just right clicked a few pages -> Save page as (static HTML/CSS/etc) then hack on the end of the news.css file. You can just append my css to that and you'll see exactly what I saw :)
AGPL means they can't compete on features, but they might have better hosting economics, better sales and marketing, etc. Or they can offer better features, but split those into a separate closed-source program that talks to yours. The latter is presumably why MongoDB switched away from the AGPL (which was controversial; but I'm always amazed at the entitlement shown by people receiving software for free).
The important aspect of SwiftUI is tight integration with AppKit and UIKit. SwiftUI for Win32 (or whatever) would be a completely different beast.

There's nothing stoping anyone from implementing such a thing, just as someone wrote a SwiftUI for HTML. All the pieces are there, but it would be a huge amount of work unrelated to SwiftUI on Mac and iOS.
Swift wasn't originally open-source, either.
This probably isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you might find Robert Darnton's essay "First Steps Toward a History of Reading" interesting. [1] It mostly covers the early modern period, if I remember correctly, not contemporary reading practices.

[1] http://robertdarnton.org/sites/default/files/First%20Steps%2...
Just VC folks, not tech folks.
Also 'Hews' and other mobile apps have dark mode.
Did you check out LBRY? If so what did you not like about it?

I work on https://lbry.tv and the desktop app and am just curious.
> which, I would think, would be handled by the TCP library read()

You would be wrong.
Again, a small number of people might do that, if one gets too large by chance Giphy/Facebook will attempt to block them. Most users and integrations will be kept. As people stay on WhatsApp etc.
All individuals in Los Angeles now required to wear face masks when outside
Because after 12-18 months, we'll hopefully have a vaccine and won't need to resort to an antiviral drug anymore.

At least assuming people get vaccinated.
Easy enough to fix. Tell the Saudis that they don't get anymore hardware or support unless they sell us oil cheap, and otherwise we'll send all that support to Israel instead.
for the ui pros that want to take a shot at this you can use Charles proxy to redirect the css of the live site to a local file for testing.

it's a good hack to save you a bunch of dev setup time or if you have a production only issue.

happy hacking
There is a way to head off all the quibbling about false positive rates and methodology, etc.

Look at the all-cause mortality figures for April vs the historical average for that month. If it isn't COVID-19 killing all of those people at a multiple of the normal death rate, we have an even bigger mystery of what is causing all the extra deaths.

In fact, these numbers were apparent for NYC a month ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/corona...
Generally third party applications should not be injecting themselves into your browser and "populating them directly" ...

The auto-type stuff is usually an external one, not a browser addon.
Disney forces explicit Club Penguin clones offline
I started reading through these comments expecting a tall wave of negativity, and was surprised to see such a warm wash of mixed and fond memories from the "bad old days" when ES3 and IE ruled the roost.

Full disclosure: I haven’t used it myself much since ~2012 or so, and modern JavaScript now contains many of the most important features that CoffeeScript offered at the time .... Although they did screw some things up (IMHO): null-vs-undefined in default arguments, super as a parent reference instead of a direct function call, optional parens for single-arguments arrow functions (Prettier agrees!), no shared semantics between arrow and normal functions, that class syntax only supports methods and not data as properties, and so on...

When all is done and dusted, I hope that CoffeeScript can be looked back on with affection as a little experiment that showed surprising vigor, one that — with no corporate backing and zero financial support — spread by word of mouth through the web community of the early 2010s, and helped fuel the fire to get JavaScript moving and evolving as a language again.

As a side note — and I write this without bitterness — I do find it a bit strange that extremely well-resourced companies like Dropbox, GitHub, CircleCI, Trello, Airbnb (and many, many more) would write so many hundreds and hundreds of thousands of lines of CoffeeScript without ever attempting to contribute changes or fix the issues that they wanted to fix. It’s open source! They probably would have been able to quickly and cheaply make most of the changes they wanted.

Anyhow, cheers for the blast from the past!
Dropbox still has the best sync tech and is the only one that can handle deep and numerous file hierarchies. The rest have better pricing and integrations like email/productivity apps.
Google Likely to Face Antitrust Lawsuits from Justice Department, State Attorney
URI Design (2004)
> I can assure you that Gilead has several magnitudes of more information about both of these molecules than the author has.

Sounds like a good reason never to take either.
If you think of them as incredibly similar then you are likely not making very good use of them.

For example consistency is not "roughly the same" with DynamoDB supporting strongly consistent and atomic operations, and atomic update operations.
Why would you assume someone is trying to learn guitar or programming solely from podcasts?

And yes, I have some idea about how much I retained from podcasts I listened to. Seriously, remembering facts is also form of knowing, it beats up not remembering facts. It is not "just", many times it is the thing to go after when learning.
Its interesting that Google is the first target here. From my anecdotal experience the last decade has been.

Content discovery: Google Reader -> (Twitter, Facebook, Apple Podcasts)
Chat: Google Talk/Hangouts -> (Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Imessage, Facetime, Zoom)
Product Search: Google -> Amazon
Video: Youtube -> (Youtube, Prime Video, Apple TV, Netflix, Tiktok)

A lot of these examples are big tech -> big tech but still if anything it seems like the rest of the FANG that have grown their businesses.

Obviously any lawsuit doesnt need to win over consumers, but personally I could care less who owns what in adtech.
Say what you want about Amazon, but they've encultured the best approach I've seen so far.

They constantly try to automate and make things more efficient, but they also assume they will constantly screw up for someone, somewhere, at scale.

So they back it with an empowered human CSR team, who do their best to make customers happy. They then (apparently) measure the rate of screw ups continuously, and iterate on their processes until they can drive that rate close to zero.

So essentially, Bezos realized that the way to excel was to (a) move fast, (b) break things, (c) apologize (and pay painfully!) when you break things, (d) do your best not to break things in the same way again.

I feel like Google (as a whole, some teams / products aside!) doesn't really grok (c).

Which may work for customer acquisition, but not so well for retention.
>Secondarily, the fact that the polynomial is described as cubic, when it appears to be quadratic.

wut. a quadratic only has one inflection point. that plotted curve clearly has 2.
I also added a screenshot if that is easier - https://imgur.com/a/mxaNky4
> Bisq is a start at trying to make something like Local Bitcoins WITHOUT a central authority.

It wouldn't be an HN cryptocurrency post without slipping in a reference to your own shitcoin. lol.
Hah, HN's load speed actually makes it my go-to bookmark to test if everything is working okay. Internet connectivity lagging? Check HN. My own web app loading slowly? Check HN.
I agree. Currently HN pages load instantly which in these days can be disconcerting.