skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is dark mode less useful than being able to change the color of the top bar (which is already a feature)?
they are trying by buying out publishers to only release it on epic or only release it on epic for the first year.

their client is super garbage. like battlenet if you leave it open it hogs your cpu.
the fact that a game can turn the store color into a white client is insane to me.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theory
"Nowadays, talented people spend their time and mental stamina on selling ads with 0,01 per cent more efficiency ..."

I rather have them doing that than have their time spent on how to make a hydrogen bomb more poisonous.

Friendly trade and competition works. The idea we need war or war-like circumstances to perform our best is a foolish idea (or something worse).
Jeez has it been a year since that comment already? Time flies.
At night on mobile, I switch to Samsungs browser which has built in Dark mode. I dont use it for anything else.
I don’t keep mine in cal (or even powered up all the time), so I can’t claim full volt-nut status here, but my understanding is the 100K/sec 4.5 digit measurement rate is limited by communications not by sampling rate. (The 5.5 digit rate is 50K/sec, implying the 4.5 digit rate limit is not in the measurement but more likely in the GPIB.)

On thing I know with perfect precision: HP/Keysight knows more than me about this. :)
Gotta love the “alligator energy” that kept approximately 10 lines of CSS from being added in the months since that comment. This isn’t rocket science
> We're not talking about nuclear warheads here.

True, we're talking about something worse. The danger is higher and the detectability and barriers to entry are lower.
I'm missing a reference to the hardcore 'gabber' techno which was a hugely popular subculture in The Netherlands in the 1990s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabber
> I instinctively go on HN all the time even when I'm in bed.

You probably mean "habitually"; that's not what "instinctive" means.
Love the whole project, she's my hero. :) I'm wondering how much did she pay in total to look like a billionaire.
> Exactly. You can't buy all the gold in the world at the imaginary "market cap"

Nobody said that. We clearly acknowledge that it is at least market cap.
I am curious, has anything got fixed after latest USA elections?
You mean on their product over every other product on the appstore?

Compared to the appstore over.... nothing else on that platform.

One is profit from a product, one is profit from capture.
Agreed, this is a really bizarre article. It starts with "following responsible disclosure procedures..", and then you scroll down and the author says they downloaded millions of entries and then... checked to see how much of it was NSFW(!!)?

How is that not just prurient snooping?
Agreed, I have to open in the normal browser most of the time. Also if I want to see responses to my comments it doesn't show any of the context which is frustrating.
I use in on Firefox mobile, it's great.

It's also easy to configure to get a totally black background on HN for an OLED screen.
I initially liked the idea of empathy tests, however I'm not sure if it's a global personality variable - that someone might be emphatic to someone else and not be open to other technological viewpoints.

I now think that it's not empathy that's missing. The woke are able to empathize with many people. It's primarily that they believe certain others are not actually people and worthy of their empathy. Bigotry. Othering.

Perhaps questions about Ethical Source licensing might be rewarding? Or talking about types of users?
"And the younger generations say we should walk or bike everywhere. "

And then they also say, more trains. Because you can combine walking and cycling quite good with a train.
Don't you see any room for a scientific development whatsoever? Or every dogma or fork from a current dogma is accepted normally immediately as it emerges? No, rather let's look into political perspective on this, because we are talking about SU after all.
I simply unfriended everyone online who virtue signals and/or engages in hostile politics. That includes some family members. If asked, it’s simple enough to explain calmly and honestly.
12-eights for "microns turnabouts Como migraines": 9a7e6f41875b444851cb19f018cea83e6565762d88888888888813ac47d39ce7

Although I'm also a fan of "Georgetown surfboarded rips nodding", which hashes to the very pleasant 01234567894a7924a0a568c01ae2f48f93921fc9b4437d7866db3be132411b08
Nah, obviously everyone who works in IT makes 500k a year, has a spouse who earns the same, and can afford 1 mil houses 5 minutes from where they work. At least from what they say.
>In the UK we don't have and have never had freedom of speech.

That's not true - we do have freedom of speech.

It's just not absolute freedom of speech, which is a frankly horrible idea, because absolute rights almost always undermine other rights. (As an example, absolute freedom of speech would preclude all rights to privacy and confidentiality.)

What we have is a framework of fundamental rights, most of which are "qualified rights" and must be balanced with each other.

That it is a balancing act means that it's an imperfect system, for sure, but it's better not to allow the use of one right to trample over another.
I have seen that clip multiple times, so I know what is coming and must come, but that sense of anticipation followed by what I can only describe as second-hand mortification is never lessened.
There's a Chrome flag to force dark mode for all websites, it does a decent job at inverting colors. I recently started using it, no plugin/extension required.
Web Design vs. Web Development
> Take a simple node.js program or a Rust program that has a single-threaded tokio executor, or a C# WinForm program that reuses the UI thread for running Tasks, and everything I wrote applies. A single Account value used to be fine to be shared between coroutines because only one invocation of ChargeAccount would be active at a time, but the "transparent async" breaks that assumption.

That's not true at all. Here is a simple NodeJS implementation that is completely unsafe despite having non-transparent async:

function delay(ms) {
return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
async function LoggerWrite(s) {
await delay(Math.random() * 100);
console.log(s);
}
async function ChargeAccount(account, cents) {
let balance = account.balance;
let newBalance = balance - cents;
await LoggerWrite("changing account from "+ balance + " to " + newBalance);
account.balance = newBalance;
}
async function Main() {
let account = {balance: 0};
let t1 = ChargeAccount(account, 1);
let t2 = ChargeAccount(account, 20);
let t3 = ChargeAccount(account, 18);
let t4 = ChargeAccount(account, 12);
await Promise.all([t1, t2, t3, t4]);
console.log(account);
}
Main()
//will randomly end up with -1 or -12 or -18 or -20, instead of the expected -51

And here is a Go program that does the right thing even with transparent async:

func LoggerWrite(s string) {
<-time.After(100) //this means "block for 100 ms"
fmt.Println(s)
}
func ChargeAccount(account *account, cents int) {
balance := account.balance
newBalance := balance - cents
LoggerWrite(fmt.Sprintf("changing account from %d to %d", balance, newBalance))
account.balance = newBalance
}

func main() {
account := account{balance: 0}
ChargeAccount(&account, 1)
ChargeAccount(&account, 20)
ChargeAccount(&account, 18)
ChargeAccount(&account, 12)
fmt.Printf("%+v\n", account)
}
//will ultimately print -51

You can try these yourself:

NodeJS: https://replit.com/talk/share/Async-race-condition/138001

Go: https://play.golang.org/p/ypKfQFUF5M2

Edit:
> Explicit async-await makes it more obvious that multiple invocations of ChargeAccount might interleave unless proven otherwise, and the programmer has a reason to confirm that it is not the case, or use locking / atomics as necessary.

As shown by the example above, I think almost the opposite is true: async/await take code that looks linear and single-threaded and make it run concurrently. It's easy to accidentally end up with code like the JS one. Even worse, it's easy to accidentally call async code without await-ing it at all, and have unexpected behavior.

By contrast, transparent async + cheap coroutines means that you can make all of your APIs blocking, and rely on the user explicitly spawning a coroutine if they want any kind of parallel/concurrent behavior, at the call site. In the Go code, I could have called `go ChargeAccount(...)` if I wanted the ChargeAccount calls to happen in parallel - I would have explicitly created parallelism, and I would have known to be careful of sharing the same pointer with the coroutines running concurrently.
They require login. It wasn't verified at least earlier so you could just use a bogus email address, but I suspect many people used their own email.
Class diagrams, the most used of UML diagram types, are not exactly for system design, they're too low-level, and yes, "Round-trip engineering" that generates code from class diagrams (and class diagrams from code) was advertised as important feature of advanced UML tools.
> I mean it is no coincidence Japan is they only country to ever get nuked..... Twice!

That's a terrible thing to say. Maybe people weren't friendly to you because you have a horrible attitude.

Saying that neighbouring countries hate Japan is more or less a cliche. It's like saying neighbouring European countries hate Germany. In fact, Koreans for example commonly go over to Japan for a weekend trip.
It's gated behind a CSS "prefers-color-scheme" media query, so it will not affect people like you in any way, who haven't opted-in to dark mode in your operating system.

Some people suffer from things like eye strain and this would improve the accessibility of the website.
" People will have to adapt"

I think that's a particularly unhelpful way of framing it, when actually we are trying to help people adapt new technology.

"it will be uneconomical to keep a petrol car in London in 10 years time"

Just means that people will hold on to their old cars, because they can't plug them in - and be a bit poorer. Now, if "people will have to adapt" means that there needs to be a massive effort to provide in-street charging infrastructure, you might be right.
Except it doesn't cost that much. It's mostly profit margin. You're paying extra for the illusion of free.
Same deal. I like to imagine I'm just plain smarter than others because of it, but smart is a pretty reductive term. I think it's more that debugging is an acquired skill, and one that we've practiced more than them.
Objections and disagreements are pretty common (many of the things that I would like to change are not easily compatible with neoliberalism/the modern corporation). I try to use them as learning opportunities to understand other people's viewpoints and refine/revise my own. I do get frustrated as well though, sometimes things seem self-evident to me and then it's painful when that view is not shared - in some cases it's not about arguments but about the underlying value systems from which people derive their arguments (e.g. what does fair mean to a person). These things are definitely not easy to talk about and I also don't think that I always manage to find the right tone or approach, but I try to be persistent and adjust as I find out how things work.
You could fit 59 Manhattans in the London Green Belt. Manhattan has 1.6 million residents. The problem is not building.
What is it with you people and dark modes? I can't look at light-on-dark for longer than a few seconds before my eyes start hurting, no matter whether it's in bed or during the day.
I just use an Android client for HN that has AMOLED Dark Mode. Very happy with it.
> quietly placing new senders into their own ‘message requests’ type bin for me to approve or deny.

New email services like Hey.com or Onmail.com are doing this. It looks like this kind of feature is getting some traction.
tomato tomato. "identifying as" is also a modern mostly anglo-saxon concept. the world is much more complex than individual egos.
I know it's not a fix but I usually try to use dark mode for all the website in chrome by using chrome's experimental flag feature { https://www.xda-developers.com/google-chrome-android-dark-mo... }. However, this feature have some side effects like improper rendering but works fine for sites like HN.
Maybe it's someone's "personal pronoun"? /s
Except Ishkur is running his electronic music site since 2000. Which is basically since the beginning of time in internet terms.
Once it's valued correctly by a proper appraiser you will not get the tax scam to work. They are not as dumb as this chain of posts assumes. Neither is the IRS.
There's two parts to Chia: plotting and farming. Plotting is a one-time cost of ~5-10 hours for a SSD, and after that you can start farming and you continuously earn Chia by proving your drive still contains the random data that got initialised during plotting. Erasing the drive would mean you have to start over and you lose ~10hrs of income.
When I worked in the travel industry some luxury hotels would agree to do deals where heavily discounted hotels would be bundled with flights.

They wanted to sell at < £X without the appearance of having sold a premium product so cheaply. Bundling with the flight hid the cost.

It's possible this happens occasionally for phones but I doubt it's common.
One of the most depressing/irritating things in modern political and current affairs discourse is how standard it has become to say things like “X group is stopped more frequently by police” with the implication that the expectation is for equal rates of stopping. Basically the entire point of the entire discipline of statistics is that there are covariates, and substructure within a population, that cause expected rates to differ, even in the absence of the sorts of bias that are the focus. I wouldn’t want my children to think that sort of content was anything less than stupid since if they did not, they would be unable to think rationally about data.
I've been playing PC games since 1998 and I've played them exclusively until 2018.

They heyday of PC games from a market share perspective was in the past (probably around 2005?). At the time there were just PCs and console, I think they were reasonably close.

Now desktop games are less than a third and they will probably be around one fifth or less within a decade.

That doesn't mean that they will be bad, the overall PC game market value will grow, it's just that the mobile game market will grow much faster and become much, much bigger over time.
They'll all hit assembler on the metal.
Open sourcing the code base might help. I'm sure there would be no shortage of pull requests to improve all sorts of things on this site that could be improved without too much effort. Plenty of more than qualified readers here. Of course that would increase dang's workload, which I can imagine is not something he's after. But he could fix that by delegating to some trusted people.

But, with a site this big, any change is going to make someone unhappy. So, I can appreciate his hands off approach here.
Dark mode is an accessibility feature.
Could you please give any info on "intentionally rigged evidence"? It is generally viewed as a problem of reproducibility in science.
I am working on the topic and this is particularly important. It seems very hard to have a solid proof of any fraud except diary notes, confessions of others.
I have no issue with Dark Mode, especially at night. I don't use it for my IDE/Editor, which sometimes earns me a sneer, but otherwise, it's great.

I really like the spartan construction of HN, though, and would be sad if it started to become a "Load 1MB of bootstrapped CSS and JS chrome manipulation software before you lose that 'X' in the address bar" site.
I use HN Enhance: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-enhance/dmnbgmc...
Why exactly would Google need to do any of that? They're Google, people will come to them for as long as they are Google (and as long as they hand out very generous six-figure salaries).
Filecoin has 4.6 EiB of space, of which only 11 PiB is actually used for file storage. It also has insane hardware and staking requirements. We are talking about $10k of hardware (including CPU and RAM) and staking $20k of the coin just to get started.

With Chia anybody can get started with their spare hardware.

Right now, it is a gold rush and this is leading to shortage of supply especially in China. This is a short term phenomenon as there eventually comes a point where you cannot compete against people who just have spare hardware and therefore $0 upfront investment.
It's pure waste. You fill your disks with random data in a very computationally heavy process, and then wait for your "number" to be called on the network, for which you get a reward(which admittedly can be/should be done on a thin client like a raspberry pi, as their docs recommend).

The more storage you invest, the more numbers you have, it's analogous to bingo in a way.
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines 94 percent effective against hospitalization in older
in most recorded history people have been writing things the way they wanted to, which is why we encounter a lot of different spellings of the same names, and in several languages occasionally we'd get this or that corruption. it could be that i don't have a lot of education and you are patronising me for that, or it could be that i am highly educated and i can't be bothered to use the shift key. could be many things ;)
For HN, this really could be as simple as:

html {
background-color: #fff;
filter: invert(1);
}
body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-of-type {
filter: invert(1);
}

Yeah, you could make micro adjustments, but that adds almost zero bloat...
(Someone commented that it's "insane" to say that you should be able to shoot someone if they attack you with their fists and I typed out a long reply, but they had deleted their comment before I could post it, so I'm going to post my reply here so I don't feel like I wasted my efforts)

Yes, it absolutely is a valid reason to shoot someone, and anyone with training in firearms or self-defense would agree. You're not necessarily going to get shot for throwing a single punch, but you're increasing your chances of getting shot exponentially.

First of all, a fist can be a deadly weapon. It's possible to kill someone with a single punch, or knock them unconscious, or do all manner of nasty and permanent damage. Cops know this, as does anyone who knows anything about violence.

And this is crucial: every interaction you have with a cop in the US is colored by the fact that the cop has a gun on his waist. If you attack a cop with any kind of weapon, you've demonstrated that you're willing to use violence against him, and he has no way of knowing how far you're willing to take it. What if you get your hands on his gun? He knows that a single punch might be enough to disable him, even temporarily, and even a second's delay might be enough for you to grab his gun - and then he's fucked.

Cops don't carry guns for the exclusive purpose of stopping other people with guns. The point of a gun is to make someone stop doing what they're doing, and sometimes you really need someone to stop doing what what they're doing, no matter what they're armed with. We can't expect cops to be champion bare-knuckle boxers: if someone's attacking you with their fists, they're potentially threatening your life, and it's not unreasonable to use whatever tools are at your disposal to neutralise the threat.

Again: this doesn't mean that every use of fists should immediately be met with a death sentence. My point is just that guns can in some (not all) circumstances be a legitimate response to fists.

And on the more general point, that's not the only case in which it's justifiable for an unarmed person to be shot. In some cases of "unarmed" men being shot by police, the perp was trying to ram the cops with his car.

Conversely, not every case of an "armed" man being shot by police is justified either. Philando Castile had a gun in his car, but he didn't deserve to die.
It's long been thought unwise to discuss politics with your family:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair#/media/File:Car...
Sure, I probably largely agree with that. But there's a difference between what you're describing and what often happens in the real world where a twitter mob calls for you to be fired and your company immediately shitcans you to placate the yobs.

e.g. https://arstechnica.com/staff/2013/03/donglegate-is-classic-...
Everyone is going to disagree about what dark HN should look like. (I already see someone asking for an OLED black variant.) Just use an app that provides a mobile-optimized presentation. And on desktop, use an extension like Dark Reader.
No it isn't, what evidence do you have to support that?
I personally prefer how HN looks currently, it's simple and super quick to load. I'm not a designer, but if anyone has suggestions on how to update the css then email: hn@ycombinator.com.

I'm sure one of the mods would take a look there.
Use tampermonkey and be happy.
Slow mo camera's produce too much data to run continuously. These camera's are used to determine the entire finishing order. They need to be running constantly.
For chrome you have a flag chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark It makes thinks dark but for my tastes the contrast is too high so I combine it with DarkReader to smooth it out more. This flag is not perfect, QR codes are for example not readable anymore by any scanner.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

solo it works also great in FF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

When you open a new tab you may still get a white flash to prevent this you can use
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whiteslash-white-b...
The USA's obsession with race is still surprising, from my perspective. The article believes that (English-speaking) users of Goodreads read few "Black writers" like Alexandre Dumas because they're mostly White people. I read many novels of Dumas, decades before I learned he had Black ancestors. Why does the color of his skin matter? It has no visible (at least to me) influence on his novels. Forcing him in a racial category seems ridiculous. Supposing that one day he had an affair with a man, would Dumas be classified as a LGBT writer?

I can understand that people would select books because of the cultural or racial themes they contain (James Baldwin, Isaac Bashevis Singer...), but the nationality or the "race" of the author is a poor discriminant for this. When I read "Cry, the beloved country", I wondered the author was a Black South-African, but I didn't care enough to search for an answer to my own question. And maybe Jorge-Luis Borges in in the "Latinx" category and Ohran Pamuk is a "Middle-Easterner", but are their books less "Western" than those of Herman Hesse or Nicolai Gogol?

A nitpick: Khalil Gibran is certainly not a "North-African" writer. He lived in Lebanon, USA and France, and, as far as I know, never went to Africa.
The "dead heat" rules are fair, the bookies pay out half for both winners (or thirds for three etc.)
True, but they did not decide how to do it and did not implement it. I would expect the facebook engineer who implemented it to be able to explain it to me, at least the part which he did.
> And people might not understand that their stories will influence the story of others, so...

They don't. Pretty much all large-scale AI models separate inference/content generation from training. What you use is the frozen version which doesn't update unless its creators retrain it. And if they retrain then it's their choice which data to use for retraining, there's no need to restrict the generated output.
This is the Fifth Law of Robotics: A robot shall be able to explain how it reached any decision.
And there is the Fourth Law of Robotics: No robot shall have access to means of unlimited self-reproduction.