skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By default, the human pupil changes size depending on the amount of light in the environment

This is the key: Do you work on a very illuminated place? Use light mode. Do you work in somewhat darkness? Please use dark mode.

At least that's what I try to follow, otherwise at the end of the day my eyes gets very tired.
> Citations aren’t intended as a goddamn endorsement (or metric).

This. I may well write the equivalent of:

"So, those clowns of [18] thought they could sneak it past us to only model the near-trivial case which accounts for less than 5% of real-life occurrences (as per the distribution estimated in [5])."

The second citation is barely-endorsing, and the first citation is an anti-endorsement. Or I could write:

"A bunch of useless attempts have recently been published to achieve what I'm actually going to get right. [4, 7, 8]."

Now, I wouldn't use this language, I'd be more polite and much more circumspect, but still, those are legit and not-entirely-uncommon citations.
Leptocephalus
> $30 25MHz 16bit/50MHz 8bit cards

wait waht? tyop? if not please tell me where i may ask Santa for this item cuz i wants it.

edit: this link was useful: https://github.com/happycube/cxadc-linux3#where-to-find-curr...
As a quick, temporary emergency measure? Yes.
Yeah, either heavy-ion beams or electrically-pumped excimer lasers seems like the path forward for the driver. Higher efficiency, higher repetition rate, possibly more robust. They also need to do away with holraums and switch to direct drive, to reduce target cost, ease alignment issues, and increase energy efficiency.

I don't hold out much hope for a practical, economical reactor from inertial confinement, but it's certainly exciting to see them achieve ignition & scientific breakeven, even if it's 10 years behind schedule. The one nice thing about ICF is that the energy gain shoots up dramatically once you cross the ignition threshold. That means they're arguably closer than tokamaks, even though both concepts need ~100x the demonstrated gain to get from where they are now to a workable reactor. (Ie, tokamaks have hit Q~0.3, need to get Q~30, vs ICF that has hit Q~1, needs Q~100).
Until recently, they've been able to keep expenses relatively low, but selling cars has always been low margin business.

Their sales is still pretty strong, so I hope they're able to restructure their debt with creditors.
Think they probably meant a user exodus, as that's where the revenue comes from.
Personally, I find using f.lux and running all screens at 10-20% brightness more pleasant than dark mode.

Depending of course on the individual screen, so occasionally it can be higher. And my phone outdoors on a sunny day may very well be at 100%.
I mean, Redox is cool but it's not going to replace real, full-fat kernels. Linux is just as secure (if not more secure) than Apple's XNU kernel, or Microsoft's NT kernel, in that respect.
A couple of fun ones heard on the playground growing up in Mumbai, India:

Inky pinky ponky
father had a donkey
donkey died
father cried
inky pinky ponky!!

Dip dip dip oh god please tell me who will give the den in this very fairy old game A E I O U and that fell on YOU!
> In regards to eye strain with light mode, what I found important is to match screen brightness to „environmental brightness“ (don’t know the proper term).

Oh yes, exactly this. At evening when sun is going down, then I can feel eye strain as I am looking into brighter and brighter monitor. Switching the light on will easily resolve it.
You could try Windows Server 2022
do I just wait until this gets walked back or...?
Jay Leno on electric cars, hydrogen fuel, space travel - and his recent accident
its good for parsing movie summaries
An even cooler approach is microneedle polymer array patches, currently under R&D last time I checked (it’s been a while though). It consists of an elastomeric array of microscopic needles (<1/4 mm I think) that are coated with vaccine, making it truly biocompatible and painless, since the pain nerves are located deeper under the skin, while the blood capillaries are closer.
I also don't mind feedback like that.

It's just hard to take action on it because it's 1 data point. For example, I also record video courses. Tens of thousands of people have gone through them and I've gotten a handful of comments from people saying I sound robotic. But then I've also gotten hundreds of comments saying they like the way I explain things and had fun.

This podcast is different because I kind of feel like if I'm doing my job correctly the guest will be speaking 98% of the time. I'm there to ask thought provoking questions and hope it sparks a good response from them, then maybe I'll add a little bit of color and opinions around their answers and move on. I don't want to take away their thunder or be the focal point of the show. I hate listening to guest based podcasts where the host doesn't let their guest speak and always interrupts them with "actually..." type of remarks or tries to 1-up them.
This convinces me that leaving for Fedora 100% at home was the right move. It surprised me how it’s so far a _better_ desktop OS than Windows for me. Really. There are stuff all over the place working more smoothly, even things like hardware video decoding and interacting with windows. It’s so solid too. I have an Xbox for games and miss nothing.
Doesn’t help they seem to have played so fast and loose they lost the legal ability to register vehicles in the name of their buyers:

https://www.motor1.com/news/621947/carvana-title-registratio...
Vitadao
Terminator 2
I use "light" mode in daytime (most of my programming time), and "dark" mode at night (mostly on my phone). Works fine for me.
“Generative Art” is Not Art: Consciousness is a pre-requisite
It's the same experience for me.

I used to use dark mode every where because it was somewhat accepted that the lesser bright the better.

But then I read a science-based post years ago about why light mode is better for our eyes, especially for people with astigmatism, as our eyes are naturally used to focus on objects on bright scenarios (sunlight).

Switched back to light theme right away, except for coding, because actually syntax highlighting is better with dark background.
Have you heard of the Address Programming Language?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsLlYY50zec (English subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxgFR_tK0iA
I’d be careful making assumptions about a group of people like you’ve done here. I’m not quite old enough to be in the “dad professional class”, but I’ve been around long enough to have worked with plenty of people who are. In my experience, the people who dress “like shit in ill-fitting [overly professional button downs and slacks]” have been dressing like that for at least the last 20 years, and that it was common (at least in IT/development) to dress like that.

Tech workers dressing casually at the office is only a (relevantly) recent phenomenon. Working from home, for a lot of people, is even more recent.

You’ve made a lot of assumptions, and I would consider that this group of people are just defaulting back to what they’re used to, rather than “avoid their wife and collect a salary”.

I don’t know where you work, what industry, or the demographics of who works there, but if “people [who work there] don’t always take them seriously”, and it’s based on older people dressing like older people, then there is a culture problem.
As long as you are using fossil fuels to generate electricity using electric space heaters is counterproductive because you actually produce significantly more CO2 than just burning the gas directly (this applies to France as well btw). The space heater comment also let's me to believe that you never lived in a country that requires proper heating.

Now heatpumps are a different issue, however they require to upgrade insulation as well.
> Blizzard Entertainment spokesperson Andrew Reynolds told The Post, “As you may know, game development in general, and ‘Diablo IV’ specifically, follows an iterative process where the scope evolves over time. Production on the game is going extremely well. Overtime is voluntary and limited to specific teams. We regularly survey the team on their professional well-being, and the latest results are the most positive they’ve been in years.”

Replace evolving scope with increasing scope and you've got the most common recipe for development failure being pitched as a good thing.
Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world
Yeah I can't find any reputable source that suggests that are painless and I can't understand how they could be.
> that sounds like a bad idea

Why? If you like it, you like it
Goog won`t allow it.
Why not both? Google may dominate search for websites, but anyone is free to create their own search engine for people to use.
I have a more intuitive explanation of Q and K.

Q (Query) is like a search query. K (Key) is like a set of tags or attributes of each word that the query can look for.

Imagine the self-attention scores for the sentence ”The chicken crossed the road because it wanted to get to the other side.”

Let’s look specifically at the word “it”. We can imagine the matrix Q_it as a representation of attributes of the word we want “it” to gain context from. For example, “it” is a pronoun, and therefore gains context from nouns. Therefore, the matrix Q_it might have some representation of “noun” in it, because we want it to take context from nouns.

In other words, one of the goals during the training process of a transformer network is to train a weight W_q to map a word to a matrix representation of attributes of words it gains context from. So W_q should map any word that’s a pronoun to a noun query.

Similarly, K can be thought of as a representation of attributes of each word. So K_chicken should also have a “noun” tag. So one of the goals during training is to train W_k, that maps the latent-space representation of a word (chicken) to a matrix representation (K_chicken) of it’s important attributes (noun).

When we take the dot product of Q and K, what we’re finding is the similarity between those 2 matrices. In other words Q_it * K_chicken should have a high value because “it” is looking for nouns in it’s query, and “chicken” is a noun.

Obviously this is a very human-centric explanation and how the weights W_q and W_k are trained in practice may not align perfectly with human interpretable concepts, but hopefully helps with understanding.
Not bothering!
This attitude is dismissive and reductive

At the same time, a couple years ago I read a bunch of social sciences crap and realized at the end of it that none of the ideas were actually falsifiable. It was just a bunch of ideas and nothing more. At least with computer science, you can actually apply the crap you read in books to real world stuff

So with respect to social sciences and how much time and money they've wasted so far, I'm completely on board with being both dismissive and reductive
>Industrial mining activities leach chemicals into the soil, cause lead and mercury contamination, groundwater contamination, habitat destruction, and so on.

And the alternative is oil drilling and fracking. Not only co2 emissions. Oil production is an extremely dirty process itself, and oil spills aren’t uncommon.

It’s pretty laughable that you frame it as though oil is only about co2 emissions. Reading your comment makes one wonder why you left out the “windmills kill birds” comment. Not to mention in a lot of places coal is being phased out entirely, in my state coal is a fairly small component of the energy mix.
I've also worked as a SWE for many years, and I can tell you hands down that self-rolled frontend codebases are _always_ harder to maintain and add features to, than ones that lean into frameworks and libraries. They are shared understandings that are easily transferrable between contexts.

You don't mention maintainability in your examples, purely things like back button support and disk footprint. They're just pieces in the puzzle.
I'm also sick of this trend in particular when websites or apps start shipping dark mode as default. It's not a good way to read text. Light text on a dark background reduces the amount of light getting into your eyes, it means your pupil needs to open wider and that has several negative effects one obvious is a halo-effect around letters that makes light text bleed into the background reducing readability. You don't really need to trust any science for that. Look at bright text on dark background and then look at a white wall. Chances are you can literally still see the text as an after image.

The reason why so many people seem to switch to it is because they literally live in goblin caves without proper lighting. Working in a well lit room and not at night and a properly configured monitor is a much better solution than dark mode.
> the most math-based social sciences

Please do not confuse "with papers using math which is cavalierly assumed to model reality well" with "math-based".
Totally agree it's worth discovering how few employees it requires to keep the lights on. However harsh.

Musk mentioned cash burn was $4mm/day ($1.5bn/yr) and headcount reduction probably cuts that in half. Perhaps a sustainable business will emerge after all.

Not exactly equivalent, but I think Craigslist has like 40 employees. It's doesn't make billions in revenue like Twitter did (does?) but seems like a relevant case study.
That robot had a pretty extensive supporting human team. As technology improves, I hope it could be more self-sufficient, but that video did not demonstrate a clear savings vs meatbags.
sites designed in dark mode generally need to be larger / thicker, since white text on dark background tends to "appear thinner" and disappear into the background. Lots of sites only invert colors but don't account for this weird optical illusion and don't adjust font size/weights/colors.
There's been significant improvements in ICE efficiency in recent decades. Some of the biggest leaps include turbo charging, variable valve control and electronic fuel injection and there's still a lot more scope.
It’s not true. Modern Ukraine was created not hundreds of years, but just in ~1920. Google a bit more)
I think it's too soon to say that, but don't forget Musk's philosophy of working like hell (his famous 100h a week) and how this could bite Twitter in the future.

All in all, CEOs are paid for good decisions, not necessarily hard ones.
I've been wondering lately how the attempted acquisition from Microsoft is impacting the schedule, combined with the high-rate environment, worker leverage, and economy. I wouldn't be surprised to see D4 pushed out until 2024 or even farther.
Loops in Hatetris
Every classically trained artist and designer knows the principles of contrast.

Dark-colored text over a light background will result in a higher contrast ratio than the opposite combination.

Design decisions must be objective and based on data.

As an option, the user must have the choice to apply different modes and themes based on A11 for low vision.

For example, the principle of higher contrast (dark-colored text on light background) will be literally painful for people with photophobia.

More on this subject: https://www.w3.org/TR/low-vision-needs/#light-sensitivity
> The film is called "her", it's such a small title I feel I should make that explicit.

Thank you! I couldn’t figure out what movie they were talking about.
France is using the same percentage of gas, why is nobody calling out France for decades of bad energy policy? Even more their nuclear reactors despite massive subsidies are in such a state of disrepair that they had >60% off during the summer, and Germany had to take up the slack.
From my perspective, it looks like you are in denial that this phenomenon doesn't exist. (Actually what I would say is weaker than that: what I think is not that stuff like this isn't a thing at all, but that it is ridiculously overblown by clever people who find it interesting to have this weird perspective on human nature.)
History, and boots kicking down doors, are very old. Much older than modern "left" and "right", or whatever "sides" are in fashion where you live today
The first mover advantage also means that, as a matter of everyday experience for most people, the internet is not an open and free place, it is a highly structured and controlled place. Most people can only do stuff on the internet if a company has made a web hosted app that allows them to do that thing.

That goes all the way down to DNS and connecting a server to the internet in the first place.

ICANN and IANA allow you to have a name and IP address, but you pay a middleman extra (in many cases a whole lot extra) for those because ICANN and IANA don't want to deal with you directly so you do it they way they want you to.

Amazon/Microsoft/Google allow you to have server time and hard drive space, you buy from them because servers are super expensive...because they bought up all the servers and continue to do so.

Also you can't run a server at home anyway because the company that bought the rights to lay network cable in your town/county/city doesn't allow you to.

You might be able to run a server anyway if you buy or rent an office in one of the locations they serve business internet to, but you'll run it they way they allow, for the uses they allow, at the speeds they allow, and you'll pay a lot for it.

If you want to self publish, even with a basic site you probably use Wordpress or something similar because the existence of design platforms has raised the public's expectations for what a site should look like and be able to do. So you design your site the way the design companies allow you to.

If all that's too much and you're just looking to write stuff for people to read on the internet, you most likely use Medium or Substack or something similar. And to do so you agree to their terms of service and end up discovering what gets attention and what gets ignored on that platform. So instead of writing what you want per se, you write what they allow you to.

If you want to share video content, you do it the way YouTube wants people to, right down to reminding people to like and subscribe and hit the bell, in every damn video.

If you want to share your love of crafts, you use Etsy. If you want to sell stuff generally, Amazon again. In both cases, you follow their encyclopedic sets of rules about what and how to sell as well as their convoluted, ever changing, unpublished rules around what shows up where on the listings and searches.

If you want to connect with people, you connect how and to whom Facebook or Tiktok allow you to.

If all this pisses you off and you want to rage at random people, you rage about the things Twitter allows you to.

In theory anyone can do any of those things without the platforms, of course, but in practice they don't and always for a slew of reasons that basically amount to someone got here first and built a moat.

In the most basic cases, anyone trying to do something on their own will at least need to advertise...on the platforms, the way Google, Facebook, and TikTok allow you to. Good luck.
The big issue with plastic recycling is getting ‘clean’ plastic.

Both color, and chemically.

If someone leaves their old
laundry basket out in the sun, that will degrade the plastic in a way that will make it unusable if recycled, and there is no easy or scalable way to detect it.

Same with it someone spilled a bunch of nasty pesticides on it, or used it to hold
some kind of toxic heavy metals.

This is rather different than metals, but a similar problem exists with glass (but less severe), which also makes it hard to effectively recycle.

That the raw new material is dirt cheap doesn’t help.
A shader for sharp pixels (2017)
I realise you said movies, but some Black Mirror episodes (standalone) for your consideration:

Be Right Back

Hang the DJ

Metalhead

Edit: typo
the dialects in australia, NZ, england, US, Canada have a handful of unique idiomatic grammatical structures. never mind the varieties in the british colonies in asia and africa where the native/imported community outnumber british descendants - and im not referring to the colloquial dialects or creoles but the formal english varieties within each country. when you are correcting someone's english, are you correcting a grammatical mistake or a grammatical variety that you're not familiar with? it's fraught with danger.
Haha this is the only illuminating reply so far :)
They're squeezing revenue from their large portion of users who are not technologically proficient to realize they're being exploited.
It depends what org you're in. Cloud seems to use a lot of Angular, but the rest of the company is coalescing around an in-house framework called Wiz (you can poke around the open sourced jsaction library to get an idea of the design philosophy).
So it'd basically just a versatile but limited crane with a novel UI
Am I the only one that kinda doesn't care either way?

I just want consistency so my eyes don't have to adjust between apps/sites and enough contrast for legibility (WCAG says 4.5:1).
Remember being sat in the pub circa 2000 and using my Psion Revo connected via my Nokia 7110's IR link to clear some disk space on a server and avoid having to return to the office.
The Youtube video for Perestroika is missing the sound from the intro because the game was skipping it if the CPU was too fast. I remember hearing it on a "Victor" 286 (16 MHz, but I am not sure). This recording has the sound intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IpYuXJ6u6A. This was quite amazing to get something like that out of a PC speaker. I don't think other games of this era was able to do that.
Yes agreed. Just couldn't go past the source.

I'm not German, but have clients in Munich and have been learning German (i.e more than a remote armchair view). Have considered moving to Germany.

This last year has disappointed me. I really thought Germany was one of the most rational actors in Europe and globally.

Nowhere is perfect, and I don't expect it, but the way Germany has dithered about sending tanks (and other things) just saddens.
It could just as well free up budget to make things safer.
I could be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that mars is doable with reinforced nylon cables
Ubuntu is bizarrely terrible for being the main recommended distro. I have to assume they're heavily focused on the server space these days. It even shows ads when doing cli software updates these days! That's part of what people are trying to get away from in the first place!
I’m coming around to a front end philosophy lately that shuns “all-in-one” component libraries entirely, because it’s a fantasy that never really plays out in reality. Take just tables for example; every component library has their own table implementation, and they all fall short in some fashion. Either they lack sufficient filtering, or their rendering performance nosedives with large datasets, or they enforce some kind of data structure that doesn’t work for you. So you end up pulling in a specialized table library and theming it to fit your needs. Now you have two redundant table components in your codebase, and it can be really unclear to new contributors which should be used where and why. Repeat ad nauseum for dropdowns, modals, etc. and all of the sudden the vast majority of your initial component library choice becomes dead weight.

Better to build your own simple primitives using Tailwind, (buttons, text, popovers, cards, and the like), then selectively pull in specialized components that solve one single problem thouroughly, and have widespread OSS support and usage.
Alternatively, evolving scope is decreasing scope as they cut ever more critical parts of the game to make the fixed deadline. Either way it isn’t a good sign to be changing scope this late in the development process.
No correction glasses/contact lenses?