skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. You're making a screen recording of your content to demo or educate others (Youtube, etc.).

I very much prefer using light themes but I also record screencasts (400+ of them at this point).

Every time I run a poll asking folks if they prefer light or dark there's been a majority requesting dark mode in the recordings.

Personally I find the colorization of most dark themes having more contrast between the colors. A lot of light themes will make certain keywords dark colors which kind of looks the same on compressed video. I'm not sold on that being the reason most folks prefer dark themes, but I'm also not convinced light mode is better for video recorded content. I think with the right themes, maybe both are equal.

I've gone as far as writing a shell script to easily toggle dark and light mode for my terminal, tmux, Vim theme, FZF and other tools: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/live-coding-a-shell-script-to...

All I end up doing is running `toggle-dark-mode` to seamlessly switch between the 2.
Dark mode is useful because its always usable regardless of screen brightness. Who wants to be chaining their brightness all day? Also for high contrast, white text on black is always readable while the reverse is not true, limiting the contrast.

And the points you mention are not a problem with dark mode but with low contrast. These can be fixed by increasing contrast.
I appreciate the criticism and many of the other commenters here make other great points. I'm left wondering, though, if they may still make the effort to break their research down and publish the detail everyone is searching at some point in the future. Is it not possible that they just haven't gotten there, yet, in the mad rush to polish the software and get ready for the competition?
> more useful because they have fewer features

That’s probably why DuckDuckGo’s `!man man`/manpage.me default to FreeBSD manpages. But if you really want something non-verbose you may prefer tldr.sh, cht.sh, or bro pages.
If you're OK commiting blatantly illegal acts for money you could just go rob a bank, too.
Citizens United (the group) was a non-profit advocacy group that wanted to publish a video critical of a politician. The government wanted to stop that video from being published. That is not money-as-speech, it's speech-as-speech.
deep blue not dark :Ð
Show HN: Curated List of Online Learning
Hi HN,

The discussion pops up regularly about which MOOCs and courses to take so I figured I'd start a curated list of recommendations. It's by no means exhaustive (and it's just the ones I know) and is quite broad.

If you had any suggestions, feel free to create a PR or Issue, or even respond to this post and I will add it.

I'd love to be able to capture quality somehow, but not sure of the way to go about that just yet.

https://github.com/tombasche/professional-development
right every charger would be like a high voltage substation, of course people have complained about the safety potential of every new innovation and for the most part they're tamed. Seems likely that people dying from stupid drivers will far exceed deaths from the charging infrastructure even of hydrogen or this very high current.
Between Silk and Cyanide is one of my favorite books ever. Highly recommended.
Show HN: Infinite Tiling of Art Images
> Congress is paralyzed for some reason having to do with the new atmosphere of microsecond attention span and single-issue voting.

I'd blame First Past the Post voting. [1] It's mathematically always going to lead to a stagnant two party system.

When people are forced to vote against someone they don't want in office, representatives have no incentive to be anything other than "not #otherside".

There is also no longer a reason to have voting in primaries at different times for different states. Having it setup this way means the results are influenced by various special interests (and not just through the media).

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Sorry if this comment was to political in nature for HN.
What does freedom of expression have to do with anything? Freedom of expression != all opinions are correct and equally valid
Is anyone else confused about how you're supposed to read this thing?

Would appreciate any hints.
The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 10 – Evidence of a Lunar Calendar
Until parallel construction kicks in and the police find some way to introduce the unlawful evidence anyways.
Everything We’ve Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong
I believe your argument is sensible, especially in society at large. What you lack is evidence that the kind of behavior you're describing happens on HN.

I don't know if it does or not but without evidence this is just conjecture from all sides.
You happen to know some more nefarious actors?
I'm finding "gm compare" to be faster.

$ time ./imgdiff cypress.png cypress.png
Success! Images are equal.
3.22user 0.10system 0:00.50elapsed 661%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 478524maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+48339minor)pagefaults 0swaps

$ time gm compare -highlight-style assign -highlight-color purple -file diff.png cypress.png cypress.png
1.99user 0.21system 0:02.21elapsed 99%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 874948maxresident)k
0inputs+5240outputs (0major+217173minor)pagefaults 0swaps

$ time gm compare -metric mse cypress.png cypress.png
Image Difference (MeanSquaredError):
Normalized Absolute
============ ==========
Red: 0.0000000000 0.0
Green: 0.0000000000 0.0
Blue: 0.0000000000 0.0
Opacity: 0.0000000000 0.0
Total: 0.0000000000 0.0
0.94user 0.14system 0:00.67elapsed 161%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 585832maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+144881minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Have there been any electrical accidents from current superchargers, etc.?
So newspapers should be compelled to print every letter they receive?
What is so novel about holding that the First Amendment means what it says about the rights of freedom of speech and to peaceably assemble?
Yeah that's a more realistic approach. Probably are extensions that do this already.
> It's interesting how many different ways there are NOT to be earnest: to be cleverly cynical, to be superficially brilliant, to be conspicuously virtuous, to be cool, to be sophisticated, to be orthodox, to be a snob, to bully, to pander, to be on the make.

The majority of negative comments here fall squarely under the description of clever cynic.

I'd wager most commenters are proud of their skepticism. Speaking truth to power makes the world a better place.

But, what's the opportunity cost to being cynical?

Being cynical takes energy. And, doing so in an intellectually sound manner takes even more energy.
I don't know. I vastly prefer IRC. Maybe it's because using discord takes virtually zero skill and a lot of non-techy chatrooms are on Discord? Most Discord people I know are not aware of IRC, Mumble, or other (older) chat softwares...
Just keep using https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark

If nobody else could do it then do it yourself.
I think those are worth a lot because there isn't a comparable thing in the market anymore. At least there wasn't when I looked a few years ago.
I think that no-fly lists are pure BS, but for the sake of argument, flying is not a right as long as it's provided by a private entity. When a private entity flies you from point A to point B they have the right to refuse service (see what happened to the anti-maskers that did not want to follow the airline guidelines)
relatively shallow startup founder wannabees, ie the kinds of people he sells his anti-intellectual "genius" to in order to make money off of.
"when describing a product that many people use for free." There are no free services. Github is a product, the free features are there to onboard paying customers for their commercial repos.

However, yes, that kind of language over a dark theme is ridiculous and not persuading.
It reads like a tweet.
idk about where you live but in Toronto 3+ million people will have to be vaccinated. It's going to be a chaotic mass experiment in the first few weeks. Which I intend to wait out.
> They are definitely separable, based on intent.

That is frankly naive. Many earnest people repeat dangerous lies, and wicked people are more that willing to use the truth, especially if it is an uncomfortable truth that is important but overlooked by polite society.

> If you can't tell the difference between a genuine opinion and a misinformation tactic, you are ill prepared to participate in today's media environment.

On the contrary, I can do a much better job at the scale I operate at than YouTube can do at the scale it operates at.

Furthermore, I take the very liberal view that I have both the right and the responsibility to make up my own mind about others' speech. I hold in low regard those who try to take that from me.
On the second point, my experience comes from a Kobo Glo HD eReader, but the rendition of photographs is very good - cliché, but its like a printed page. Line art obviously works best because its bold and high contrast, but colour digital art and black and white photographs all display very well in my opinion.
Nice explanation, thank you for sharing.
Do you have any experience working with mobile apps? I'm wondering if any aspects of the design process you outlined differ when working with mobile apps?
I have a friend whose car was torn apart with a knife by cops during a traffic stop. Cops didn't find whatever they thought they would, and my friend was never charged with anything.

According to the law, none of his rights were violated. He can't recoup the thousands of dollars he had to pay after having his car destroyed by cops, either.
Exposing State wide corruption, collusion and illegal activities... pretty much fit what "journalism" was meant to be.
You have an unrealistically high expectation of code review.
How does calculus relate to the context of this discussion though? Photons are discrete, not continuous, so I don't see how calculus applies.
Supplies won't be that limited by the middle or end of next year, and yes, some airlines are waiting for that (it's fun being in Australia - you actually cannot leave.)
Right because Facebook would never exploit you.
This is why I'm ok to stop updating browsers and risk getting pwned just to keep uBO. It's a lot more likely that I'll get pwned by a fishy script distributed by an ads network than by a buffer overflow bug in a font renderer. Especially if uBO blocks custom fonts by default.
I suspect this too. I've been watching the community response to Rocky and it's mind blowing. hundreds and hundreds of volunteers spring up.

How come these people didn't help with CentOS? AFAIK it's been like two or three people doing almost all of the maintenance.

I'm not casting blame, I haven't helped much with CentOS either besides maintaining some small packages. But it's interesting to think about.
There should be an equivalent of Godwin's Law for gender.
Writing a Memory Allocator (2019)
The difficult bit is making it not look like a screen. Even the fancy Sony "the frame" (which are supposed to do clever matching to room brightness etc) TVs don't get that quite right, and only do it in some special mode...
Open Dialogue: A New Approach to Mental Healthcare (2015)
yea its general tech/sv thought leader styles content. there's the other guy on twitter nevel or something? i cant remember. i hate follow a bunch of these guys idk why really. they're like living memes but also really rich with cult like following. im probably just a hater though. who can never be sure these days.
We might be getting at different parts of "earnest", which an internet search defines as "resulting from or showing intense and sincere conviction". Your post is about intensity, and I guess mine is about sincerity.
40" is massive for a picture frame
It's fascinating to me that Facebook is so much more the target of these suits than entities like Google or Apple. Facebook controls a couple social media platforms and an instant messenger and a VR headset. Google controls the number 2 social network, every browser you use to access it, 71% of the mobile OS market, 92% of the search engine market.
What's the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?
Start from the summary then follow the intro https://riskfirst.org/overview/Quick-Summary

They could have layed-out the articles better than this.
That's extortion and it's illegal.
Then time is the disincentive.
Valid point. I guess he didn't think that far.

"I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER"

Or maybe he did a "curse" or something on the victims who knows.
Yeah I think that most people would hate this situation too compared to, say, similar scripts written in Python. But as parent said, the wrong tool for the wrong job is rarely a pleasant experience.
Fish is better, but it still only gets 1/10th of the way.

Why does terminal have to look like terminal? Like why is the 1980's ASCII telnet style the only way to do this?

The ASCII fish image on boot and fully ASCII menus only reinforces again that this isn't a modern interface, its an improved 1980's interface.

Why, for example, can autocomplete not look like this? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense

Why do progress bars when you are downloading from pip not look something like this? (still in-line with the terminal like a sparkline)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/progr...

Like surely everything doesn't have to be SO 1980's if we want shell to stay relevant.
Bash has no REPL?
in short, yes; and yes.

the limitation is an understanding of the virus+host interaction at the level of molecular structure and function.

when you have the amino acid sequence of a protien that triggers the immune system you can work backward and derive an mRNA that would be responsible for coding the protien.

there are multiple layers of complexity in getting from stage 1 to end product but this is a quick simple layout.

DNA virus has some extra tricks compared to RNA virus but the core concept is the same for both.
Lol at 2%. Not even 2% of devs in silicon valley could do that.
AFAIK people who like dark mode prefer AMOLED black mode. So, I disagree. If I want dark mode on, I want it as dark as possible. I don't want a shitty washed out dark grey color. So I think Github is fine. There are more interesting things to complain about.
> Sure, but there's still a basis in facts where can corroborate accounts from different authors, even different sides in a war. yes it's subject to interpretation, and there's no one right answer. But you also can't just make stuff up and get people to take you seriously. There's some rigour to making and presenting your arguments. Very different to gender studies.

Except that a lot of it is just made up! Both the Greeks and Romans were happy to make up foundational and battle stories to support their cultural lodestones; we don't really know much about how Rome was founded other than that it certainly wasn't Romulus and Remus. Even our best period sources (Dionysus of Halicarnassus and Livy) were (1) 800 years too late, and (2) under immense political pressure to "prove" (there's that word again) that the myths were real.

And note: the greatness of Rome is conditioned on the greatness of their founding myth, which goes from Romulus and Remus to the great Aeneas of Troy[1]. The greatness of the Western neoclassicial period (democracy, free speech, property, capitalism!), in turn, is conditioned on the greatness and intellectual rightness of Greece and Rome. There's a reason why George Washington is apotheosized on the Capitol Rotunda, and it's not just because Brumidi thought it would look cool.

If you can see why these kinds of observations and analysis might be interesting, you can get an inkling of why people find gender and other critical studies interesting: they don't exist to destroy Western culture, only to reconcile its lionizations with what we actually know. And, as it turns out, we don't know a whole lot other than what our progenitors want us to know.

[1]: This, among many other reasons, is why Rome had its own reactionary anti-Hellenic scholars. Modern conservative groups frequently borrow their names. Parallels abound.
Degoogle: Search Google and extract results directly
I like the moto, "do the hardest thing first", that way if it turns out something is impossible you know this as soon as possible.
One caveat is that it only works for known-unknowns.
This may be totally untrue, but I had a history professor who said that when a company made an argument that it had equal protection under the law from the 15th Amendment, they managed to hire the only living writer of the amendment as their lawyer. Given that it was written under secrecy, his word was all anyone had to go on.

Regardless, the Citizen's United decision was actually pretty clearly pro-free speech, and abuses by companies may well be cleaned up as time goes on and more cases reach the Supreme Court (or so said Scalia when I asked him, honestly it did sound like he was a little embarrassed about how his opinion turned out)
The big question for the next 10 years in the automotive industry is: Will the main automakers catch Tesla? Or for you gambling kids: When will be the best time to short TSLA?
I'm not that interested in 'upending' the car, in the sense of getting rid of it, but creating much more balanced systems and urban design as seen in countries like the Netherlands - where you have the choice of multiple ways to achieve every goal, and where you don't have to drive to have a safe commute. The city designed around the car is just poor urban design for any goal other than the convenience of the car.
Facebook is openly evil and disingenuous in how it fosters addiction, circumvents ad blocking, collects personal data despite claiming otherwise, etc.
Google, I feel, is a lot more cognizant of the ill effects of their practices and is generally trying to be less evil (except pop-up under your mouse ads which you are meant to accidentally click on)
As mentioned in another comment here, I Googled the definition of "earnest", and it mentions "sincere and intense conviction". My post focuses on sincerity which (perhaps in an extreme form) seems to require honesty and an aversion to misrepresentation. This kind of aversion would seem to make play and humor harder.

Still, the above chain of reasoning is longer and less convincing than I thought it would be.
It's not a non sequitur. Freedom of speech is not the same thing as a (nonexistent) right to post whatever you want on a private platform regardless of the consequences for others or for the platform itself.

I never said it's not censorship. You can post links on a number of competing services (or start your own), therefore statements like

“A group of unknown people at a technology corporation should be the ultimate authority on what I’m allowed to say, read, or share with my friends.”

are the real non sequiturs.
Nice post, but 2020 and still using an unauthenticated connection (plain netcat) to transfer data including executables (if I understood correctly) is not something you can justify when there are plenty of safe alternatives (e.g. wormhole, syncthing).

Maybe the recipient and the sender just compare hashes via a secure channel, but there's no mention of this.
Insane that I can buy a fuel-cell Toyota but not an electric. The Hummer is actually going to go electric before the Camry. I get the feeling that Toyota wrote off existing Li-Ion batteries as not good enough to make a marketable car, focused their resources on next-gen moonshots like fuel cells, and are now stubbornly refusing to admit their mistake after Tesla proved them wrong.
Have you ever been on hacker news before?
Is there any mention about it on Linux Mint website?

Mint only has desktop .iso images. No server .iso images without desktop. Mint also mixes packages from Debian and Ubuntu that would probably cause conflicts on server usage.

CentOS is usually used on servers, with server .iso images without desktop.
Quoting Wikipedia:
It is an intrinsic expansion whereby the scale of space itself changes. The universe does not expand "into" anything and does not require space to exist "outside" it. Technically, neither space nor objects in space move. Instead it is the metric governing the size and geometry of spacetime itself that changes in scale
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
There are no downsides 'per se', that is not really the question. The question is more 'what is the upside'.

Until these batteries are in mass production, unless Toyota is much, much further along then anybody think, it is questionable if 'traditional' batteries might not just be simply better. 'Traditional' lithium ion is also evolving very fast and is produced in numbers that will be incredibly hard to reach, and thus achieving cost parity will be difficult.

What Tesla interceded for example is just a further evolution of li-ion but as you add more silicon to the anode, the performance is not actually that different from lithium metal anode (ie what everybody is working on for solid state).

Confusingly pure lithium metal anode does not actually have less volume then a silicon anode that is full of lithium-ions. That is very everybody is going, current batteries have 10% silicon anode, Tesla is likely taking it to 20-30% or more in the next couple years (other working on the same probably). There are already companies selling pure silicon anode products that are on the same kind of timeline as solid state companies. They however generally have the advantage of being usable in a standard battery factory.

One of the claims to fame for solid-state is safety. That can be true and probably will be. However there are also developments in the traditional space that might make them just as safe, by introducing new seperators.

So its kind of race, between different paths of design and maybe even more importantly on how you can scale the technology. You have some startups QuantumScape (VW invested), SolidPower (Ford, BMW invested) and large companies like Toyota really pushing solid state as the future. You have some startups like Sila Nanotechnology (Daimler invested) and some large companies like Tesla push silicon.

One question is, really how much better does your car need to be then a current Tesla 3 or comparable. Practically speaking we are not so far away from where you will likely stop just boosting the specs. So it will generally come down to how cheap can you produce the batteries and how many can you actually produce.

This is why my bet is that by 2030 the waste majority of EV and even the EV sold will not be solid state.
I used to believe that, but realistically the problem goes much deeper. Game theory is at most a small part of the problem, a lot of the issue has to come down to the Ingroup-Outgroup dichotomy. With one ingroup and one outgroup, there will only ever be two real types of person, politically speaking. Be they split among two parties or twenty, the coalitions will never be unclear.
True, he has done more than any "journalist" in mainstream media. No comparison possible.
I'm skeptical about it's high claims. Looking at the code its just using the Go standard library image package, looping over the bounds and calculating delta?

Doesn't seem like there's anything special here? It's roughly what any novice would build if asked to diff two images in Go?
I don't think demanding a sum of money for a problem that you personally solved could be considered blackmail. I'm not an attorney though.
Citizen's United (the case) held that any government restriction on political spending was presumptively illegal and in violation of the first amendment. That is exactly my point. It was NOT a narrow ruling tailored toward the needs of PACs trying to avoid censorship. It was a extremely broad ruling throwing out the whole concept of campaign finance regulation.