skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This post seems to boil down to, "I read a summary of one study, so I am confident in telling you all how wrong you are".

Most/all of the points were well known back in the days when I used CRT monitors - he's not reporting something new. In fact, reading some of the comments, I'm quite surprised people still believe there are inherent benefits to dark mode. There's not really much research supporting it.

It's just a preference thing. I myself prefer it as I grew up on terminals where dark was the default (and often, the only option). For those who prefer the opposite: Totally OK.
This is one reason why I think NFT art theft is possible.

In principle "who owns this jpeg" is just a few bits in a distributed filesystem that the community collectively agrees to treat as the canonical source of "ownership", and they could easily roll it back if someone stole a market-distorting amount of art.

In practice, if you do an interesting heist -- like you put on cool looking art thief costume and livestream yourself on a vintage PowerBook bypassing the owners' defenses and nabbing the apes with a narrow escape -- you've written a compelling story that the community is sort of bound to accept.
Teams that don't take responsibility for their fuck ups. "Oh, that's your code." Yes, it's in our repo, but you wrote it in service of your needs. "We need you to help us get this out this week" well then you should have started sooner.
Why we chose BigDecimal (Ruby)?
I assumed people are mostly worried about Google being compelled to de-anonymize the traffic (for a government).
Hmmm, unsure. Maybe insight? Creativity? I would not call the art models creative, they are copying things similarly to how GPT-3 does. Very impressive but I don't think that is "creativity."
Yeah, "humanity witch-hunts" are going to get ugly and have false positives
Agree 100% but I wouldn’t call it intuition, but human understanding. We don’t just see stuff, we understand it. We understand so much context surrounding the things we see. We can predict the weight of an object by observing it’s motion in response to wind, essentially running a physics simulation, to know that that 4x8 sheet of styrofoam blowing in our lane poses no risk. Or that an empty cardboard box tumbling in the wind is actually empty based on it's motion.

We have an incredible level of understanding.

Jeez I even put myself in other drivers’ shoes/heads so as to predict their behavior. Their subtle cues in lane positioning, distraction, etc. they’re all incredibly telling if you can model human psychology.
I wonder if this could one day be how we settle disagreements with no solid answer, like was William Shakespeare really the author of all those plays.
I hope they find some traces of proteins associated with bats. Very cool strategy.
> Back to local community and family i guess, it was amazing while it lasted..

Some local communities and families can be pretty dysfunctional or outright hostile. I'm old enough to remember the time before Internet and I think this is why the whole online community thing took off in the first place.
Fires and floods are up there
in the scare factor for me.
Surely in return for the value generated by HN'ers pentesting this thing for free, they can provide a hook for HN mods to test strings against its (recent) output.

Or Christ, just ask the fucking thing if it matches its recent output and/or style.

If we weren't all living in the shittiest timeline this would already have been solved before the thing was released.
> How weak is that?

Ironic, even.
Yes, I noticed that, too. I used Icon to process a big pile of code at Apple in the late 80s and found it pleasant to work with.
These are fair points .. but not especially so for objects this distant.

Given what you know from your interest already you might like to, say, work out at what distance objects appear to essentially fixed in position when viewed from either end of a 2 AU baseline.

Having a background wallpaper of 'fixed' objects that can be occluded helps to inform us about the closer occluding objects .. but triangulation doesn't assist in depth sorting all the distant objects that appear fixed.

My comment above assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that you were referring to the title topic and implying that our motion about the sun was enough to determine the distance to these far objects as the JWT moved through a few orbits.
Not easy to pull though typical European ductwork in the wall of a house.
How did Bernie sell out?
There were these programming challenges to make the program run with as little lines of code as possible.

I see comments as the same, chatgtp can't do that.
The point he's making, which is well known, is that while in the US stocks and index funds derived from them dominated all other forms (bonds, real estate, etc), it's almost never the case in any other developed country. For most of the recent past (recent meaning the last century), putting money in index funds would have been suboptimal in almost every country out there.

The fact that the companies get a lot of their revenue from other countries is moot. In those countries, investing in index funds is not the highest performing long term investment.
It does not "support" arbitrary precision. (I had to change the inputs a little because hacker news removes asterisks)

Example 1:

Input: 6984654984165498 x 83749872394871982798

Output: The result of the multiplication is 58307472585676078521357388975872646506.

Expected: 584963963646067047073619488641103404

Example 2:

Input: 45649898465897645132987645146987156456978 x 879846498164168468465465169816989441

Output: I'm sorry, but I'm not able to perform calculations involving such large numbers. My knowledge cutoff is 2021, and I am not currently able to browse the internet, so I don't have access to any updated information. Is there something else I can help you with?

Expected: 40164903306769889413456328247690955984247293637932739659324105787247996769298
Perhaps you've read too much into my reply. I'm capable of looking things up in my own time - thank you for your offer to help me, though - I was wondering whether you were summarizing a single source. You made it clear that you were not.

I thought I thanked you and moved on, but it seems I've pissed you off. Sorry, guess the curt and literal HackerNewsSpeak is rubbing off on me.
Only discuss dark mode in coding, there are so many famous dark themes, but most of them are not suitable for use at night, for instance: nord, dracula, vscode's github dark, vscode's github dimmed dark(but it is perfect in the github's website, some key differences between them), all vscode's built-in dark themes and so on.

They're terrible, because they use very bright colors for highlight or improper contrast or author's aesthetics:

1. The bright color in dark mode just like a car coming to you in the dark stabbing your eyes with its huge headlights.

2. The improper contrast may be that they do not turn on the lights at night?

3. The essence of code is text, the readability of text is always the first, aesthetics is secondary, the nord theme is elegant and clean, I like it but I will never use it for reading or coding.

Dark mode is not intended for you to use in a purely dark environment, we need light at night even if you don't believe in god.

Here are some positive examples: "Atom One Dark Theme" and "Solarized Dark Vim" in vscode, jetbrains Darcula(not dracula, which is the object of criticism above).

So before answering the question of the title, we need to think: What should a correctly implemented dark mode look like?
This is typical way of looking at social observations without knowing the social context in the first place. For these countries the most dominant reason is very simple: you need to go to big cities to get a job a and you need to have a home to get married and have a child, but the home pricing are so expensive most people can not afford it at least not until very late in their life.

Thinking “hard to agree on the value” is the most laughable reason that I ever heard and just how out of touch that some IT dudes can be. No offense but this is just how far you are from the reality.
When the culture is very hierarchical, so even small change requests travel up the chain several notches for approval.
I run Concourse CI for my personal stuff with the code in Fossil. It works decently enough, I like that it's somewhat extensible, but I have hit use cases that it can't really do like building an Alpine Linux cloud image.

As for YAML vs TOML, I am mostly sick of YAML, and I really like using TOML to configure Caddy, so I thought it might be good enough for CI config. I feel like it would be worth exploring, but maybe something slightly more complex or custom would be required.
I would have preferred a ChatGPT comment to this one.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What's rare and precious is the very hard work of birthing an idea into existence with good execution. Unfortunately, even with a good idea, hard work, and excellent execution, innovation still usually ends in failure.
> Can I ship a badly configured Linux kernel in my distro? Yes. Is that the fault of the kernel developers? No.

If the default configuration were good and you changed it to be bad, that's entirely your fault. But if the default configuration were bad and you just didn't fix it, that's mostly if not entirely upstream's fault.

> I thought systemd is open source and if you don't like something about it, you can just submit a patch or even fork it or just not use it.

Yes, we can do that. The point is that we shouldn't have to.

> Replacing system components is hard and the early days are going to suck.

Nobody's complaining that things are getting replaced. We're complaining that the replacement is worse than the old thing.

> Computing has changed since 1970, some things in our unix-like systems will also need to change to accommodate the current world and some of it is going to be painful, that's just how it is, we made fun of Vista, now it's our turn.

Systemd didn't exist until 2010, so any changes from 1970 to 2010 clearly can't have made it necessary. And the BSDs are all still good, functional operating systems, despite not being able to run it, so it's clearly not necessary even for what's changed since 2010.
> I like math and can read and do elementary proofs.

It probably helps when you are familiar with mathematical concepts and notations - proving theorems is, I think, less relevant in everyday programming than universities make it out to be.

> otherwise there will be huge gaps and misconceptions in my mental space.

That is part of the journey. Programming isn't something you plan at the beginning of your career and then you just happen to make all the right decisions on the way. You'll fill those gaps as you progress, and it helps talking to experienced programmers. HN is great for that.

> 1. From where do I learn the bare minimum? MOOCs, books, etc? Any suggestions?

Youtube, blogs, Linkedin/Udemy/Coursea classes. Books are also cool if you're the reading type of person, but they are non interactive and you can't ask any questions.

> What type of things can I build?

Build something you like or need. My first programmes were text-only games, a text editor and Tetris. I think web programming in the browser (HTML + Javascript) is the quickest way to productivity, but it's a bit messy because of the high rate of evolution. Embedded device programming (eg Arduino) can make for a cool holiday-illumination or home/car automation project. If you're more the analytical type of person, you could re-implement the most important algorithms (operations on data structure, sorting, searching, computing various functions, numerical algebra) with a scripting language like Python.

> I wonder in awe how people go like - "I need to accomplish this job. Let me think about it. Ok so now let me code up a small tool that does the job for me".

Problem decomposition. Just like maths.

> How to achieve this level, where the ideas don't get bottlenecked

As an individual, that is never going to happen. Even after decades in the game, I still got more ideas than time. But you can run open source projects and speed things up with the contribution of multiple people.
I suggest thinking about the purpose of discussion on HN.

There’s a tension between thread quality on the one hand and the process of humans debating and learning from each other on the other hand.
I'm old enough to remember iMotors and how it too made the online car buying experience decent.

Carvana has done the same thing, 20 years later.

Car dealerships, for the most part, have not evolved at all or even tried. The experience is still a huge pain in the ass, and they know it.
This... is not reassuring.
Yes, absolutely. Amazing benefits. My rate is 2.5%. Amazing.

Property taxes have gone way up b/c home values have gone insane. My home when I purchased it was valued at $220k. Now the town is saying it is over double that. The tax RATE has gone down - but my taxes have still nearly doubled ($6k to $11k).
I have run sqlite on a flash chip before (no filesystem, I suppose sqlite _was_ the filesystem) but I never took benchmarks. It was a 200MHz processor as well and it was basically fast enough out of the box that I never spent time on it. For 5uS response you have something like a thousand cycles to work with so any issue is likely storage related. I'd expect writes to be a bottleneck for example
Took me a few tries over the years but maybe 5 years ago I tried dual booting Linux yet again and that time it stuck. I found myself leaving it on the Linux side for longer and longer stretches of time. Finally last year someone gave me a hand-me-down laptop and I just didn't bother installing windows.

Everything I do takes place in the shell, an IDE (of which there are tons), or by far the most common, in the browser.

I used Firefox because that's what my distro comes with but I also have Chrome installed for just in case. That turned out not to be an issue with the sites I typically frequent.

Today I had a random person look over my shoulder and ask "what kind of computer is that? Must be really old..."

Grrrrr.
https://archive.ph/qm7TU

http://web.archive.org/web/20221211044609/https://www.nytime...
I personally also keep the warm light display setting ON all the time: day or night.
What measure do you propose for thready quality?
thanks for the reply, actually i was thinking the same after i had submitted the comment... appreciate the feedback ^^
> Is there really a big problem with cashlessness? It was something everyone used to look forward to.

In the US, it wasn't something everyone looked forward to. There was very strong opposition to the idea from the beginning, well before social media was a thing. There still is plenty of opposition, although less now. That's what decades of PR efforts can get you, I guess.
I'm so fucking sick of this argument. Read my other comments where I already explain that.

France had clean energy for 40 years so how are they doing, fantastic compared to all the coal the Germans have been breathing.

They had a few maintenance issue because in the last 10 years anti-nuclear energy ministers deferred maintenance. Most of these issues however should be fixed before winter.

We are seriously comparing one year of a few maintenance issue with 50 years of clean energy production. How can anybody be critical of that?

> It really doesn't make much sense of speaking is superlatives

I think 40 years of breathing incredibly dirty coal smoke is kind of big deal.

> Problem is, you have to rely on someone

You can source uranium from Australia or a number of other countries. Or mine it in Europe if you want to. You can actually have a number of suppliers, so there really isn't a problem.

In fact, a really clever policy for Europe would have been to invest in nuclear for electricity. Then go a step further and invest in high-temperature reactors for the next generation and also use them to produce methanol and mix that into fuel supply and eventually mostly replacing it.

This is likely no longer necessary because we are switching to electric cars now, but still, would have been a good policy back then.

That was the logical next step for the DeGaul policy in France but they gave up on it and sadly by the time the EU happened France had largely turned its back on nuclear.
If you publicly intimidate users with a bias, you are not facilitating a fair and safe place to share ideas.

It's a concept called inclusivity, I think you should read up on it a bit.
The guy is a an actual airline pilot. He's showing the same stuff that NTSB would be analyzing in their investigation.

You're oddly barking up the wrong tree by complaining about a genuine pilot's non-sponsored youtube channel to recommend a website that is passenger focused.

It's like complaining about a scientific journal having too many words and recommending the Yahoo! Health article instead. It's a different audience.
> in the EU and the UK it is very unusual to use cash for high value payments

You have obviously never dealt with a German person.
We need a variant that knows to link to the Relevant XKCD.
Butlerian Jihad when?

But seriously, the potential for bots to drown out all forms of human creativity and replace it with regurgitated mush is real, but we've also been doing it to ourselves by expressing a preference for pre-chewed media for decades. What are these models but shitty movie reboots writ large?
It will be well beyond our lifetime when the US gets comparable to Europe in terms of population density. Bangladesh levels are way far away and there are good reasons to believe that the US can keep increasing their population via immigration and never achieve Bangladesh levels of density.

For anyone not following, Bangladesh has the highest population density in the world once you exclude city states. This is a classic example of a slippery slope argument.
I stand corrected; in that case I'd wholeheartedly agree. Do you have any concrete instances of when/where one might do this? (I'm having a failure of imagination, because IMX in capitalist countries people dress to impress their peers; the system is self-sorting as in Brave New World)
Normal distribution has entered the chat
Who defines what is lead and what is vanilla?

The only right way to show something is wrong or toxic is to let people see it.
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This is both defeatist and wrong.
If you have more children than you can properly support and/or care for, you have too many children.
>I still got more ideas than time.

Not time. Getting bottlenecked by not knowing what can be done or can't be using computer programming.
DOM Clobbering
They are studying both equally. The official term is "dual-use" technology, which is a major focus at all national labs.
Price can vary by market. Many companies already do this both for products and services, as well as subscriptions.
Ooh boy...

> Binance is the closest thing to a global, borderless bank that exists today.

There are several very large international banks you're ignoring.

> They exist everywhere and nowhere.

I read this as "we can do business with you everywhere, except if you need to sue us, at which point you can't sue us anywhere." Which is a massive red flag.

> Their legal entities shift based on what is needed at the moment.

Man, prosecutors are going to have a field day with this--this is gold mine for proving intent to defraud!

> They have the ability to easily create tens of millions of dollars as needed

One of the most poignant lessons of financial history is that wildcat banking does not make for stability.

> tight relationship with Tether

Extraordinarily high exposure to a creaky pillar of the cryptocurrency economy.

> their ability to launch new token projects (i.e. unregulated securities offerings)

Incredibly illegal in the US, which means they're in shitloads of trouble if they're actually trying to transact in USD and not magic-dollar-pegged tokens.

> They act as an investment bank - I know a prominent crypto entrepreneur that got loaned 8 figures after a text message to help finance an acquisition.

So their due diligence on loans is absolute and total shit. Their balance sheet must be creaking badly then!

> they are so absolutely huge it would take a lot more FUD than exists currently to damage them even a little

The thing about too big to fail is that it's not that someone is so big there's no way they can fail; it's that someone is so big the government is forced to bail them out instead of letting them fail. Given that cryptocurrency is dominated by people at best thumbing their noses at the idea of government control, what government is going to be willing to step in to save the failing too big to fail crypto bank?
https://archive.ph/QqfnB
When questioned about liability CZ callously remarked that it’s a bit complicated to audit their liabilities but they didn’t have any, and that we should “ask around”. So we now have a new audit system, “audit by ask around”.
They're things that you can't get your employer to install in your office.
Well, that’s just plain wrong. There is such a thing as social psychology, but psychology generally focuses on the person.
Insisting on a CI/CD "deploy-direct-to-prod multiple times a day" process without ever investing in the things that are needed to allow this to happen successfully.

I've worked in the past with teams that have cargo-culted "Build fast, break things" to mean "If CI can builds it, let it deploy to prod". No tests, no Dev checks, barely any code review (The namesake "LGTM" on 1000 line PRs within 5 mins of it being opened or the worse Reviewer=Self), and things pushed to prod which invariably breaks and then everyone is scurrying to push hacky fixes because "it's a prod issue". And rather than fix the issue, it's always suggested to add more folks on call for critical issues etc.

It's okay when junior engineers do this because they're still building up their best practices, but when senior/staff engineers still bat for this process, it really grinds my gears because they not only mess up the company but "teach" junior folks that this shit proces is an acceptable way to build software.

Everyone will acknowledge that customers are seeing a lot of bugs (to the point where customers have attritioned because of buggy behaviour), and we need to be better, but noone acknowledges that CI/CD is not a silver bullet, but a rather intricate process that has many moving parts and needs to be built up accordingly.
hmm, has any work been done to include architectural reactivity in objective/reward functions?

Like, reward the development of a 'truth' neuron.
Whenever I read an article like this, I am reminded of this old article by Adam Elkus [0]:

"It’s problematic to examine algorithms as anything except the formalization and realization of procedures and stratagems that predate Python or R analytics code. “Algorithmic accountability” crusaders are talking about entrenched sociopolitical problems without really talking about them; computers become scapegoats for undesired features of capitalism, bureaucracy, and politics."

[0]: https://slate.com/technology/2015/05/algorithms-arent-respon...
Have terms of service ever rigorously been tested in court? My daughter created an Uber account for me, and she agreed to the terms of service, not me. Despite having no contractual relationship with me, Uber continues to render services. I wonder what would happen if we were to get into a contractual dispute.
Overall I don't think the FAA or insurers are keen on increasing the number of high-performance GA aircraft out there. The step licensing between ultralight - light sport - GA - complex aircraft really is designed around "the less power, the less likely you are to get yourself into trouble".

The overall wisdom of this is a little questionable and crass of course, since there are also accidents that perhaps could have been recovered with more power.
So many people are complaining about astigmatism here. I have it too, and I use dark mode just fine.

Do your corrective lenses not correct for astigmatism?