skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could tell you. Every time I upload a picture thinking it is going to be a home run, it would always be a 5 out of 10.

Only 5 pictures made it past the 8 out of 10. I used photofeeler.com
That graph doesn't say first dates. It's just people dating the same person a lot. Even if it was first dates, that doesn't mean much.

I'd advise you to think about what these things mean, rather than draw wrong conclusions from propaganda.
If everyone thought like this, I suppose the author wouldn't have felt the need to write the article.

I've been using light themes for some time now, after years of dark mode-ing everything. It actually works better for my eyes, at least where I'm able to set the background to be just a bit off-white. And like the author, when I've pasted screenshots into discussions, I've received jokes about my choice. You know, the gifs about people in dark rooms being blasted with light from their monitor. And ironically jokes about eyes burning, when this is friendlier to my eyes than dark mode was.
Remember when you could set the color of individual display elements any which way you liked? The 'theme' idea of giving the users what they want, by giving them the controls was far superior to this mode nonsense. Don't like pale light blue highlighting against a white background? Oh! Try 'dark mode'! Charcoal grey against black is sooo much better. Why does anyone even have to choose between exactly This or exactly That in the first place?
Unexpected Origins of Mysterious Mummies Buried in Boats in a Chinese Desert
I used those green-on-black terminals for a while before getting my hands on Windows 3.11, and I remember it being very bright the first time I tried it.
I quickly got used to the brighter themes, and I felt more "awake" and able to focus more.
Over time though, I've reverted back to using mostly darker themes, but only for my personal computer.
At work it's all fully light themes.
San Francisco doesn’t have good transit.
> First of all, why would anyone even care about you enough to want to steal whatever health data is available? Is there any particularly sensitive personal info stored there?

This is a strange argument. Of course there can be sensitive data there. Photos, (i)Messages, eMail, calendar events, addressbook, health data, voice recordings, location data. The device is password-protected for a reason.

It is also usually connected to a paired iPhone and to the Internet. You might be able to do some shady stuff with the phone using private APIs.
No, because LSTMs are recurrent. You couldn't use the same algorithm outlined here. Instead you'd have to iteratively pass elements of the sequence through the same layer over and over.
I like pastel colourschemes e.g. https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin.
> Especially on the DAC side. Lots of snake oil that measures worse than very cheap solutions.

-Which, cynically speaking, is really a requirement. After all, many manufacturers of such gear claim a 'house sound' - but how do you differentiate between sonically transparent gear?

You don't. Hence you need to add some imperfection to the sound in order to claim an (audible) edge over others.

Or, as (signal processing major) me liked to quip to audiophile friends - "Tube sound? Tube sound can be DSP'd!
yeah, I have HD600s and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t tell the difference blind between my amp+dac setup or onboard audio on my desktop & thinkpad
having a chunky volume nob on the desk is nice I guess
It is not that simple. The rock is still hot, hot enough that it will take decades to cool. It could reignite decades later if given air. Any effort to seal and extinguish the fire would be a project more like chernobyl remediation than putting out a forest fire.
Again this is subjective. I think 3BP is better than the Culture novels, and I like the Culture novels and have read 6 of them.
There is one context where it is legitimate to give unsolicited advice: Projection. Projectors don't work with dark mode and small text. It's frustrating to be in a meeting where someone is clicking around in their projected IDE while you strain yourself to pick up even half of what they are doing.
“Hey is Dave working today? We were supposed to groom the backlog today.”

“Dave is no longer with us”

“Oh no! What do we do? Send a condolences card to his partner? Do we have contact information? I worked with Dave for three years”

“Oh.. no he just has been let go.”

“Okay.. uh. So who will be the scrum master now?”

“You will have to take on some extra responsibilities while we transition to the new team structure”

“:sadparrot:”
No, they specifically said they have no objection to the option of dark mode. They defined their zealots as people who won't put up with other people using light mode.
None of those things are as bad as a war though. If I had a choice of being in Hong Kong or the Gaza strip; I'd rather take Hong Kong. It is a bit fucked up, but it could be a lot worse.
My comment was aimed both at the author and the "dark mode lobby" they are complaining about.

Seriously, it's your computer, just use whatever setup you prefer. If someone comments, make fun of them for caring about what you use on your machine.
Whether content is easier on the eyes depends also on environmental lighting and monitor brightness/type. For some setups large areas of light content is more fatiguing on eyes, especially with poorer eyesight and when body text is overwhelmed by whitespace, so it can literally make reading more difficult and likely to even get ignored/bounced (speaking from my own experience).

Browsers have thankfully accommodated for such subjective preferences even without site theme choices though via reader modes and userstyles (whether browser or user-forced).
I don't want light or dark modes, I want a low-contrast UI that doesn't fatigue in the long run.

This is usually associated with dark mode because:

1) on older monitors, even CRTs, black was actually dark gray

2) on a 60Hz CRT, white background was a flicker-fest

But, many of today's dark mode UIs choose a background colour that is too dark, and the result is as shitty as light mode.

That wouldn't be that bad if only OSs and WMs kept the ability to customise theme colours (Windows was good on that side, now not anymore, the only exception out of the common ones is KDE) and if applications actually respected OS style instead of delivering their own theme.
Looks like this is the welder they used, for anyone wanted to try it at home:

https://hgrinc.com/productDetail/Welding/Used--Welder/022017...
The iPad Pro, a normal tablet, has an M2 without even having a fan, unlike the AVP, so the chip gets certainly not "incredibly" hot. The idea that a metal frame would contribute significantly to heat dissipation is implausible. It's just a frame. Apple uses metal all the time in other products for aesthetic reason where it isn't at all necessary. The Quest 3 doesn't use metal without requiring a large fan. Let alone a metal frame.
Yeah, good reason to spit up pull requests ;) I do think it improved a lot over the last two years, though
Like most older programmers, I have some astigmatism - not even that bad, apparently.

(A majority of adults in Europe and Asia also have it.)

One of the side-effects is that light on dark text is harder to read. And now a lot of people seem to use light grey on dark grey, which I can barely read at all, and more, use images of their program instead of text, so tools that rewrite webpages for better contrast can't help.

But mentioning this in a comment thread often gets a wave of abuse. I avoid the temptation to say, "If you're lucky, one day you'll be old like me."

If you want people over 40 to read your writing, please figure out a way to give us a "light mode"! "Today you, tomorrow me."
Not really. Batman uses dark mode. Crime never sleeps man, things look different in the bat cave at 3am, trust me.

Agreed about Matrix type themes, that's something the joker would use and is obviously cursed - but it ain't proper dark mode.
Land, not drop... And the boister is not coming in hot from a ballistic trajectory...
Those were likely long-term studies only. I can tell you I always feel a drop in stress within minutes. But I only take it when I feel stressed, and not daily. I think the effects could be too strong if taken daily.
Hoaxers hoping to drum up enough news stories to impact Apple's share price to make money on shorting it?
Eh, I feel like there’s some part of the JS community that gets a kick out of snubbing Typescript entirely, so when I import those packages I get to provide my own types. I just don’t want to facilitate that, so a ‘TS only’ repository would save me the trouble.

Like, it’s not a huge issue, but I just don’t want to spens the time thinking about that stuff.
Read what I wrote. The price of electricity is what gets paid. If you pay 5c per kWh and say I have the cheapest electricity in the world, but your electric company has to get bailed out by government intervention your electricity is not actually 5c per kWh.

I just checked and you can get a new contract in Germany for 25-30c per kWh. If you compare it to France, the price there is 24c per kWh, but at the same time the government fought tooth and nail last year to be able to fund repairs of the nuclear plants. They want to spend 20-25 billion per year of taxpayer money in the coming years. So do the math on what it actually costs. If you run a real company for profit you fund the future repairs through the price of the things you sell.

There is no such thing in Germany, or at least there wasn't until recently. There is a renewables surcharge but it was always on the electricity bill. Last year it was removed because of high electricity costs so it wasn't needed, and the current plan now is to finance it through taxes once the fund gets depleted. Personally I hope it gets put back on the bill because I like to know how much things truly cost.
After reading the article I was wondering is AI generated images Art! We showed them millions of images and it's reinterpreting those, in a way it's Art.
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Simulate Arduino, ESP32, Pico, STM32, ATtiny Microcontroller Designs with Wokwi [video]
Today's computers no longer boot into BBC BASIC - the barriers to entry have become higher.

A Lisp-like language would be easier to implement than a BASIC-like one - but is probably too unfamiliar for beginners.

Update: I have read through your post again. Yes, macros or basic functions can make a lot of things easier for beginners - I once did something like that with Java. But the language and especially the environment is still not beginner-friendly, for example when the first confusing error messages appear.
Because some people think the world needs nuclear weapons :-(
The final layer will not encode high level concepts anymore, it's essentially just tokens from the vocabulary. It would be impossible to encode abstract things like "niceness" in it. As long as we don't know exactly at which layers this behaviour emerges, randomly choosing a subset also won't work. So what they did is apply a custom vector to every layer and let PCA figure out which of these vectors are actually necessary. Curiously, looking at these vectors should also tell you more about where and how the model processes these things.
In Japanese, "sama" is an honorific used for "individuals of higher rank than oneself", and can carry connotations of admiration or worship [1].

I don't think this makes it a problem to use given the mainly American audience of HN, but could be why some users take it to be inappropriate.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_honorifics#Sama
Apple Employees can certainly access your devices remotely, I have seen it happening with iPhone, I don’t know about Watch.

Nevertheless, this does seem like an anti-Apple campaign.
There needs to be some deception and a stronger consequence than a bad popup. Accidentally signing up for a mailing or buying something unintended, for example.

Or the classic one: anyone can sign up for an account and subscribe to the service but to cancel you need to call and speak to a retention specialist over the phone.
"The Halleck Creek find is reportedly high in two of the most in-demand rare earths, neodymium and praseodymium oxides, both of which are also low in radioactive byproducts. Exploiting the Wyoming find, along with other mines in Arizona and Nevada, could help power a new generation of American manufacturing, ensure a supply of military-critical materials, and further reduce American reliance on trade with China."
for me current version isn't bad, but if I would have to improve it, I would add little "pro" somewhere in background of the X
I typically use light themes for work and dark themes for personal use - I find it enforces a nice mental separation between work and home.
You're not getting it. People don't make fun, they complain about images using light theme, supposedly because it's hard on their eyes, dark mode now considered by many the neutral/inclusive choice. Which is bullshit, especially for people with astigmatism.
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Why wouldn’t you trust Zuck’s word? He seems like an honourable
The article is making fun of them. Is that not obvious?
I really like the idea of generating learning tasks in context, that you can later practice at spaced repetitions. It's quite easy to get started: https://docs.withorbit.com/

But I am unaware of good alternatives. On GitHub you can find scripts for making Anki flashcards in-text, but that's impractical if you want some outreach
How do we have time where there’s so much else going on?
Hi khokhol, you seem to have missed the point of the discussion. Best I can suggest is to re-read it again.
Yes, I was tempted to include some screenshots of various OS and application theme editors but I was worried it would be too confusing in the context.
I feel the same way about the utility of my AirPods. It is simple, boring, works every time I need it to, without any fuss or connection issues or pesky cables.

Although, I have a strict policy of not sharing my AirPods, or let it connect to anything other than my iPhone to make sure I don’t get into the mess of “figure out which device it auto connects to” etc.
I concur on all your points. The writing was so bad - basically middle of the line fanfic level - that at first I thought that it was a low-quality English translation; but I was assured that it was faithful to the original. When it was announced as Hugo winner, I was speechless.

I should also add that as reasonably hard sci-fi goes, the very notion of "sophons" (and their mechanics) as presented are not even wrong. In general, when it comes to most sci-fi elements of the book aside from the titular concept, it felt like someone just clipped whatever sounded cool from a popular science magazine and then tried to write a segment of the story around it - i.e. some things, like nanowires/sheets, are introduced not because they make sense in context, but solely for the cool factor.
Big fan of dark mode, but i didn’t think people get this zealous.

Also a big fan of apps that respect my system settings and don’t hide the option somewhere, so if i’m out in bright sunlight i can easily turn it off
> "I'm from employee success. I'm here to give you an important update about your future at Techaro."
Yes, this is what I was aiming for. Thank you for realising!
I think that is what the author is trying to say to some degree, hence their call to bring back themes.

I agree with the author’s article; it’s not that it’s a never ending torrent of dark mode zealotry, but at least for apps i’ve maintained, one of the first and most zealously pursued requests was always dark mode, even when theming options existed.

I prefer other color schemes and themes; not all white but mixture of softer colors — i have a language syntax file for np++ with lots of soft pastels and coloring for .log files that i prefer as it’s more gentle on my eyes. Usually i can get this with themes or ui hacks (e.g replacing assets when possible), but I’d never pursue such modes as diligently as dark mode enthusiasts do.

i don’t quite see the larger esoteric dilemma on binary design choices like the author did, but i’ve had the same experience of persons trying to “call me out” for not using dark mode in that “joking but seriously why are you doing that” sort of ways; the words were spoken with jest, but the conversation dragged on far past a friendly jab about not using dark mode and just became
annoying. It’s probably the only feature with such zealousness and such low usage from my experience, and i also find the evidence of it being “better” very much so specious. Nothing against someone who wants dark mode a lot, that’s fine, just enough with the drama about it
I have astigmatism and 24/7 dark mode. Let’s not generalise.
*quarter of a century. A millenium is 1,000 years and quarter of a millenium would be in 2,250
A fine suggestion. For you and others:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15010

also available at:

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.15010
How are we going to deal with already emitted carbon after we transition to a post carbon world? I haven't looked at the latest UN climate change reports but I recall previous ones indicating that carbon capture needs to be part of the mix of solutions to limit us to ~2 degrees warming (now probably 2.3 degrees :/)
I dislike dark mode because I have to use a laptop with the shittiest reflective screen ever made (Dell for ref). Anything dark and I can see myself better than what is on the screen.
Hold on, do people use light mode in terminals?
But they don’t work at all. They will get better but they all are pretty much unworkable for the moment.
Jemisin gets a lot of flak for her politics and the way she weaves it into narratives, but as far as quality of writing itself goes, I'd say she's vastly better. Characters behave like, well, people, not like cardboard cutouts that are there to say the line that author needs to be said.
Here’s my take: the simple reason this topic is coming up more and more, is that new monitors are brighter and sharper than old ones. It’s more (un)comfortable than ever with a bad theme.
Valve isn't really different, PC gaming is different. Almost all games are available via piracy, no matter if Valve still offers a game. This includes games like the recently unlisted Spec Ops The Line, where the barriers are entirely legal.

Xbox people have said quite openly that the releasing everything on PC is their game preservation strategy a few times.
I can strongly relate, as I have a mild astigmatism that only really is noticeable at large distances or at night.

In the list of related literature I include a paper that found light on dark text is harder to read for contrast reasons.
It's more creepy.
Modern AAA games are so huge that I don't even bother installing them anymore. I only play classic and indies nowadays. If I want to watch a movie I watch a movie, I don't play games to watch a bunch of movies.

CPR - Completely Personal Rant: ALL modern AAA games are 80% garbage. Yeah! Downvote my however you want. I don't care how much time you spend on optimizing those engines or making those assets. I *hate* the "progress" of modern graphics programming.
> Seriously, it's your computer, just use whatever setup you prefer

The problem is that many websites simply turn on dark mode without checking what my OS/browser is configured for. That is really annoying.
And auto vectorization isn't all that common. In many cases you need to structure your code in a certain way, in which case you're better off doing it yourself if you want the vectorization benefit.
Or Threema.
If you care to read deeper, including comments by many of the principal parties involved, there's no better place than https://file770.com/ (also linked to from this news article). It's hard to follow if you come in fresh, as it's a very active blog, with many pages of insightful comments on each post, but worthwhile.

Here's the list of all posts from the last month which are primarily about this. (There are also daily roundup posts, and lots of small and relevant tidbits in there, too.)

https://file770.com/chengdu-worldcon-releases-2023-hugo-nomination-statistics/
https://file770.com/2023-hugo-nomination-report-has-unexplained-ineligibility-rulings-also-reveals-who-declined/
https://file770.com/chengdu-hugo-administrator-dave-mccarty-fields-questions-on-facebook/
https://file770.com/hugo-controversy-hits-mainstream-news-a-chengdu-vice-chair-comments-in-social-media/
https://file770.com/zimozi-natsuco-guest-post-the-hugo-awards-evil-fall-is-a-watered-down-affair-and-certain-issues-to-watch-out-for/
https://file770.com/dave-mccarty-makes-statement-about-his-facebook-responses/
https://file770.com/worldcon-intellectual-property-announces-censure-of-mccarty-chen-shi-and-yalow-mccarty-resigns-eastlake-is-new-chair/
https://file770.com/decoding-the-tianwen-project/
https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion/ (the big one)
https://file770.com/2023-hugo-awards-related-statement-by-kat-jones/
https://file770.com/diane-laceys-letter-about-the-2023-hugos/
https://file770.com/glasgow-2024-announces-kat-jones-resignation-as-hugo-administrator/
https://file770.com/chengdu-worldcon-wont-account-for-sponsorships/
https://file770.com/cheryl-morgan-dave-mccarty-resign-from-wsfs-hugo-award-marketing-committee/

The original nomination statistics dropped on January 20th (already bizarre; usually these are released as soon as the Hugo awards are awarded). In the month since then, fans have been puzzling together just what happened. Chances are that more will come to light in the coming weeks.
Corporations are a legal proxy for the owners and management; protecting the rights of these people and pooling their resource are essentially a corporation’s raison d’être. They can’t really do that if they don’t receive the same due process protections, and they are under our legal system entitled to those.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414077
> turn down the brightness

That is the correct answer.

Hold a sheet of paper next to the display when it‘s showing a white (notepad windows or so). Is the display brighter than the paper? It‘s too bright.

At home, the brightness of my display is set to 0 (zero!). At work, it‘s at around 15 and 20. It depends on the display.

Looks weird for fifteen minutes, after that you never want to go back to "burning my eyes out with an energy beam".
Wrap in an SSH tunnel and you can do some fun stuff over the network, too.
You're talking about better models for our current physical reality.

I'm talking about consistent models that don't match our physical reality, but that can potentially simulated and which can give rise to intelligent life.
I don’t like the vocal minority that complains about the vocal minority that uses $MODE.

Can we just ignore them all?
> turn down the brightness

Which is easy, works in all OS, does not require any work from the developer and/or designers and solves the problem at the individual level instead of forcing some type of cultural fight.
„Popping up a keyboard“ as the user described is also not something trivially possible on the watch. That raised a red(ish) flag for me.
Yeah why pay millions to an upcoming star when you can simply license Harrison ford (again) or some cheaper alternative.
I always set mine to black on a fairly light (192) grey, or sometimes grey with a hint of red (192, 160, 160)
Which is irrelevant when Amazon has all IP addresses.
Surely they could refuse to endorse the event, retracting any right to the "Hugo Awards" brand. The event would have to use another name, which would highlight the schism. Obviously a dangerous game, as the committee would attract more scrutiny on its composition and role as ultimate owner of the brand, but probably worth considering as a nuclear option in case, say, "fans" vote for Saudi Arabia next year (yes, "fans" - I'm sure any semi-competent state actor can easily stuff ballots in polls like these...).
lol plenty of mainstream media write positivity about China. But equally they write about how terrible the CCP is because, it’s the truth.
If people cannot tell the difference will they care?