skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure they do! When I press "brightness up" shortcut on my keyboard, I want my laptop to brighten by 1 physical step, or by 2%, whatever is bigger.

Having to press the key multiple times just to get any effect is super frustrating.
“I read the Italian Fascists daily... you have to look at them all and triangulate to find the middle ground.”

I have some bad news for you, the middle isn’t a great place.
I know this is the rule, and it's always puzzled me. Of course you can do the work every time and find anything, and in most cases it's doable. I just find it a sad state when I have to do this regularly, on top articles. Difference of opinion I guess.
Ather has been doing an amazing job with their first vehicle, I'd definitely purchase one of I were still in Bangalore. I have high hopes for more in the future from them.
The author made multiple variants available, including bolding, grouping via squashing, and commas. There are versions of each type published.

https://thume.ca/numderline/
After 15 years on OS X, I won't be buying another Mac. The MB keyboards with no Escape key and constant breakage, and dropping support for 32-bit apps, would have been enough for me. The newly onerous restrictions on software signing, and Apple's general obsession with sacrificing anything and everything to get thinner and lighter, only make it worse.
Why not just use fail2ban or similar, to automatically block the ninnies for a while after a few attempts?
Russian eagles' global roaming sends scientists broke from tracking device bills
To be fair I legit don't know the details of the fine print. I just know that I see things that don't really make sense to me and seem abusive of the system.
What If “Sesame Street” Were Open Access?
They didn't risk their time. They got paid for it. That is the difference. If they worked for free, then you could argue they risked their time.
File Formats for ML with a Feature Store: Columnar, Training, Inferencing
Are Income Share Agreements the Future of Higher Ed? This Startup Says Yes
Doesn't work for my birthday 06/10/82..
Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/28/breitbartcom-...

https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/breitbart-headlines_n_5829...

Gee whiz I wonder what the point could be Dr. Bothsidesism?
> Natural selection still happens for humans.

Does it really? Humanity is very very keen on keeping alive every individual, even the most disfunctional ones. Not only that, but also try really hard to let even the disfuntional individuals procreate. To me it looks more like the opposite of natural selection. After all natural selection is not only about the best and most fit individuals but also about the pool of genes of the species also.
> Anyway, parent was saying that Windows is shit because it forces frequent updates. Ubuntu, which as you say it's the closest to a user friendly Linux dist does the same thing.

Windows will kill all your apps and reboot your machine in the middle of the night on a regular basis, unless you do some serious digging in the registry. (And they may have closed off even that by now.)

Is that "the same thing" as Ubuntu?
Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman
You can probably keep hoping. India has some incredible human capital in the form of the upper castes, but China also has a ton of human capital, plus a monoculture (the Han Chinese are the largest single ethnic group on the planet) that makes coordinating societal and economic change way easier. India is a mishmash of dozens of different ethnic groups that have been further factionalized by 1700 years of the caste system.
The Healthiest, Anti-Cancer Foods: G-Bombs (2017)
Thar Be Witches, and Us
> They clearly had a political slant, but they couldn't just ignore facts that they found inconvenient, or only mention them in hit pieces meant to discredit them.

Newspapers ignored inconvenienent facts all the time, probably for all of human history. Even when they don't completely ignore some facts, they often choose to make a big deal of some facts and not of others.

Some examples of the former would be the missing reporting on the US atrocities in South America, except maybe the Contra deal. The 100 catholic priests murdered in SA by US or US-supported troops were never mentioned, but the Soviet murder of 1 priest was an international scandal (as well it should be, but the others should have been an even bigger scandal).

A very good example of the latter should be the COINTELPRO[1] revelation of the FBI actively seeking to blackmail and even assassinate members of civil rights groups, including an attempt to convince MLK to commit suicide, threatening to reveal his extra-marital affairs otherwise. This was reported to some extent, but then Watergate happened at around the same time, and, despite being much less worrying for normal people, it became one of the largest scandals in media, and COINTELPRO was forgotten from public discourse.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
My DESK CHAIR has a 12 year in-home warranty. Twelve years is not that long for a business relationship where reliability is a factor.
Ask HN: Selling my startup ($50K ARR)
Selling my startup/side project ClientGrid.com, a legal CRM. Making $50K ARR. Contact sam@clientgrid.com.
If the H1Bs are bid up by the Fortune 500 companies, then the US citizens will be cheaper in comparison. It will ensure that the BEST from around the world are given a chance in the US, not entry level IT workers.

As for the indentured slave mentality, I’ve seen that today, even in companies where it’s against policy for the H1B to work more than 40 hours a week.

As a US Citizen, I can’t imagine a better system. Our underprivileged citizens will be provided a subsidized education and when they graduate, they will be cheaper to employ than the H1Bs.
This software _so_ should be a rewrite of the Apollo 11 guidance computer software...

To The Moon!!!
I personally think "mobile first" should mean we force the devs to use a mobile device as their work computer until they all realize how fundamentally crippling mobile UI is and we all agree to stop shoving it on everyone.
Show HN: eBook repository for the permaweb
My native is Russian.
For those who don't know, Mir translates as: 1. World, 2. Peace, 3. Microcosm, 4. Non-Religious life (в миру).
Yep, they exist. I'm one of them.

When you see either red or green in isolation, does it take you longer than usual to tell which it is? It does for me. It's pretty rare that I simply can't tell at all, but it does happen, and it's common that it takes me multiple seconds to figure out which it is. The little red/green leds that the sibling comment mentioned can indeed be particularly shit.

The purple thing sounds familiar to me. If you take blue and add red or green, it can be very difficult for me to tell which it is. That was my earliest issue with colors, I got in trouble in school for mixing up bluegreen and purple.

There do exist some pretty detailed tests for exactly which type of colorblindness you have if you're curious, though I'm not sure if they can be done reliably on a non-calibrated monitor.
I think our relationship with boredom over the past 30 years mirrors that of hunger post-industrial revolution.

Humans evolved in environments where both calories and information were very sparse. Natural selection encouraged a continious psychological drive to seek those resources whenever and wherever possible. Over-consuming food or stimulus was such a rare condition that we have very few naturally in-built mental mechanisms to avoid it.

And then all of a sudden our environment drastically changed. Sometime in the 20th century the central risk related to food went from starvation to obesity. In the 21st century the central risk of stimulation has gone from mind-atrophying boredom to compulsive zombie-like wire-heading.

To resist obesity we had to re-evaluate our relationship with the feeling of hunger. Always giving into our base impulse would mean that we gorge on calorically dense, hyper-palatable, nutritionally poor food from morning to night. Modern people had to learn that feeling a little hungry sometimes is okay. It's necessary for a baseline level of healthy physiology, and actually not that unpleasant when you get used to it.

I think we have to re-learn the same lesson with boredom. The skeptics are right. The average level of moment-to-moment boredom in 1980 was extremely high, and well past the point of necessity or even marginal benefit. But virtually no one with a smartphone ever experiences anything like 1980 boredom on a daily basis. While a lot of boredom is bad, we have to learn that a little bit of boredom is necessary for healthy cognitive and emotional functioning.
I haven't noticed any stepped up enforcement against high income H1B people, but I don't follow the field.

Like I said, talk to a lawyer if you want to know what's really up.
> The sources you cite either do not support your claims, or are disreputable like the deep gaydar paper

"Measuring sexual arousal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_for_Paedophiles" certainly seems to support the first claim: "The fruit machine was reincarnated for pedosexuals: a device attached to their genitals measures if they get sexual arousal from pictures of children. Those that do are not deemed ready for rehabilitation."
I find it "funny" that the whole sharing and startup economy is basically built on top of something that resembles a Ponzi-scheme (not in terms of the actual operation of the scheme, but in the way how unfair the scheme is for different people in different roles). And the fact that the software industry happily embraces this modus operandi is simply mind boggling.

As far as I am concerned this scheme with the stock options (some people call them opportunity or investment) never should be substitute to social contracts, like a monthly pay check.

I find it especially nefarious the fact that people who invest time are penalized over people who invest money. This is especially true when the 4-5 year long time investment of a developer today can be easily worth millions. And a dozen developers' time investment can easily reach tens of millions.
I'm curious why you're downvoted. Do people disagree?
The Tale of Genji’s Image-Conscious, Experience-Hungry Courtiers
Amazon's facial recognition technology misidentified athletes as criminals
I would seek to bring in several new stores as the initial members, and borrow against the agreed-upon future revenues. No city borrowing, efficient infrastructure development, and if the project fails somehow the city has no obligation to act.
The U.S. Housing Market Crash Is Officially Here
One is deterministic and you can easily avoid a 7 hour travel if you know that a country rejects people from your country while the other not so much.
If the machine could catch people lying for $10 (or $50, or ...) in a double blind study, that would set a quantifiable lower bound for its effectiveness.
Try paying attention to cars running stop signs and red lights (and speeding!) some time. You might be surprised to realize how often you've ignored this happening.
exactly. Thank you sir! It’s a rough night out here in hacker land.
Re your fear and stigmatization of STD's: If you're genuinely worried about STD's then maybe get to know that person and let it be something you glean after loving conversation and an understanding mindset. Demanding to know like it's your right in a transaction is not only unromantic but really demeaning.
It's been widely used in Russian segment of livejournal.com for a few years already(
Ask HN: Can Tesla's Powerwall Replace a Generator?
Given that many in California will have to deal with unplanned blackouts. Is a Tesla Powerwall a good option to use during a blackout? Can it be installed without a solar installation?
It is new in iOS 13, for the record.
Curious about "minimal homes" there. Do they exist?
圆 is a deep match for silver coins, because it also means full moon, which is the ultimate silver circle.
There are 50 year old planes flying and getting upgrades today. I don't think it's unreasonable for the F-35 to still need testing in a decade.
Good question.

Still, the ACIWA fees aren’t enough to make US Citizens cheaper than H1Bs. Another side effect is that housing prices would fall dramatically as the H1Bs would no longer be able to afford expensive Bay Area rentals. They would live 4 to an apartment, freeing up housing stock.
Well, the writer's strike was also during the last season. So it was just the producers winging it with no one left who could tell them "no, that's stupid, we need to come up with something for else".
> Another fascinating thing is how escalators have two lanes, one for walking and one for standing. Why doesn't everyone so this?! It's so perfect!

I wish they'd just draw lines on escalators in Germany already. Keeping the left side of the escalator free and standing on the right is an unwritten rule here, but about one in twenty stand on the left anyways (tourists? people lost in thought?).

In the morning I often want to catch a connecting train that departs only about minute later, and pretty much every time I have to ask one or two people to step aside so I can pass. The fastest way to reach the other platform happens to be by means of two escalators. Other people who have been to Berlin Friedrichstraße station probably know which escalators I'm talking about.

The fastest way I have found of getting people to step aside is startling them with a firm "SORRY!" - works on tourists as well as Germans.

When I see more than three people on the left side I usually just give up though. By the time they'll have sorted themselves out the train will probably be gone anyways and I don't fancy breaking into a sprint just to make up for the lost seconds. I'd rather suck it up and wait a few minutes for the next train while getting a coffee on the platform.

I guess what I'm saying is that something as simple as two lines on escalators can make a difference of ten minutes or more in the commute of some people.
Tech addiction. Information addiction. Addiction to HN, TechCrunch and Elon Musk. I spend more time dreaming about tech than actually doing anything about it..
In Defense of Comic Sans
They're running in the same Government-only datacenter.
Though, these days they're technically not plants. Red and brown algae have been moved out of the kingdom of Plantae, as they are believed to have developed photosynthesis independently.
A person working at startup will take a fairly decent haircut for those options. You valuing it $1 pretty much proves my point :).
Why do so many people think it's reasonable to use a messaging system like SMS that's tied to your cell phone?

I type at least 5-10 times faster on a real keyboard than on a phone... I can't be the only one who gets annoyed after two messages and prefers to move the conversation to a real computer where I can type faster, open lots of reference material, copy and paste content easily, etc. Most messaging apps let you do this, iMessage lets you do this, but without jumping through hoops, SMS on Android is stuck on your phone.

Yet tons of people seem to use plain old Android and use the plain old SMS app, and... are just fine with this?

Does this just not occur to people? Do kids these days not learn how to touch type anymore? Every time someone sends me an SMS I feel like I'm going insane.
Holy moly this is cool! Thanks for all the detail and the link to your blog post. The process sounds really cool, i bet it was awesome seeing it work the first time!

Also:

>Almost!

You’re quite generous with your knowledge and compliments haha!
This is one reason I changed careers from research to medicine. Now social interaction is built into my job, whether I want it or not, and I'm a much happier man for it. Sometimes all the grind does have a useful endpoint.
They just haven't yet figured out everything behind

./a.out
Paytm will be one of the leaders with the new Ecomm model. I am sure they will be a huge player in ecomm also dont forget they would be the largest bank in India.
Msi is deprecated.
I tried Airbnb many times, but exchanging keys, meeting with strangers and that force interaction I don't want in my vacation, rooms that look different in picture...no thanks already had 2 very bad experiences: 1 in Brazil and 1 in Oaxaca. Now just use regular hotel
I must be missing something... how is higher (or lower) hash getting exponentially harder?

For each extra leading 0, there are 1/16 as many hashes available as the previous one - so that is exponentially harder.

But higher could be just by 1, and which is almost exactly the same difficulty... I guess, it would usually be randomly distribited in the remaining range, uniformly, so on average, the range would 1/2 as many each time. Which is also exponential (though, not as fast as 1/16). Is that the reasoning?
Yeah I wish there was a "door-to-door" buffer that was enabled by default. I don't think a lot of people are ever taught the concept of backwards planning.
They spend about a billion a year just on email. Another billion per year of cloud stuff is nothing
Exe installers support unattended, headless installs with a command line switch.
https://d3js.org
True. Underlying tech is the same though.
I have an iPhone, iPad and MacBook. I use a lot of Messages (iMessage) tied to Apple IDs. Maybe one Android contact.

Sometimes I use Hangouts and Slack. Very little crossover among people on those. I don’t use WhatsApp or Telegram, but I can’t imagine those who are committed to Android don’t care about phone based messaging. Or they care a lot about other kinds of messaging and not about SMS and what else it will evolve into.

An iPhone using friend got a Windows laptop and couldn’t believe he couldn’t get his iOS messages on it.

On this front, I’m totally happy with the state of iOS Messages.
Probably happy. Stock is up 3% in after hours trading.
the prosecutor told the judge it didn't matter where vargas got the alcohol. the judge agreed and found him guilty.)

Indeed, I believe the laws only say something about "under the influence of alcohol" and specific BAC, with nothing about where the alcohol came from.
WHO just declared another polio virus strain eradicated. There’s one more to go
Arbitrary censorship is OK now. Services do it. Schools do it. Governments do it.
I’m moving back to SF on Nov 1 for work. It’s bemusing to watch the fire, electrical and BART outages this week. I’ve had CA related travel stays cancelled twice for PG&E outages.

Looking for a place to stay/live, too.. if anyone here can help. Will be on Embarcadero, but I like the east bay, and beyond.
Second that the very first thing I did was zoom. I had no idea this was a privilege. I shall try not to take it for granted lol
It's a mindset about for thinking about your own finances. That's it. It's absolutely the wrong tool for thinking about equity grants.

I've always considered illiquid equity lottery tickets. Yes, playing the lottery is stupid because the expected value is so small. At the same time, I am absolutely buying into the company lottery pool, and want to maximize the number of tickets I get. If it pays off, wonderful. It it doesn't, whatever, because I never counted on the money to begin with.
They lost me there as well. €200 per night, cleaning fee on top and yet they had the audacity to leave a handwritten note instructing to leave around €3,- per guest, per night, as pillow money. They tried justifying it as tourist tax, which was odd. Long story short, I did not end up paying and now I cannot book at any property this particular company lets out on airbnb. Next time I stayed in a hotel for €60,- per night and ended up getting exactly what I paid for - a room with a bed and shower, Mr. Coffee in the morning and no extra fees on top. Didn't get charged extra for the mess I made when I hurried out in the morning, leaving towels on the bathroom floor and everything.

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Another thing that I think is relevant is the "revelation principle", which says that any "social choice function" that can be implemented by some mechanism, can be implemented by a truthful social choice mechanism.

But it seems clear that the thing that I proposed as being an improvement on random ballot can't count as a mechanism which implements a "social choice function", because there can't be an equivalent mechanism which is truthful (... well, I assume that no probability mix of pairwise votes and random ballot stuff is equivalent to the thing I described. Can't see how it could be.).

And I think the reason why is that the thing that I described (or, any fully specified version of it) would have to have multiple Nash equilibria.

So, for it to make sense to call it a Pareto improvement, I think would need to have that _all_ of the Nash equilibria would be Pareto improvements on the thing.

I am now less confident than I was that such an improvement exists.
I was at Sun when SPARC was invented. And I think Sun killed it.

Every time someone started trying to take advantage of the "open" nature of SPARC, Sun would out compete them, fairly or not. It was a pretty open secret that Sun had hitched its wagon to the "best" processor for running Unix servers. As I told the leadership after I left that Sun was becoming DEC. They were retreating to the enterprise data center, nobody was buying workstations any more, and Solaris was not getting any more open. I suggested they build servers with the Opteron too :-).
I thought it was pretty clear this argument was being made in the early 2000s, not today.

But anyway, a few months ago I tried to install Office on a new laptop for my daughter, using a legit code I bought through work. However the laptop had a previously installed demo copy of a different office version. Oh. My. God. I spent 2 hours going through a handful of different Office download, install and upgrade sites, which were completely different in different domains and didn’t refer to each other or even look similar. I entered the product key into a dialog in the pre-installed office and into at least two different office web sites. I tried uninstalling it but it seemed to just end up broken.

Finally I found an MS online support site and got into a chat with a support rep. He remotely uninstalled the pre-install, which had to be done using some power shell command line utility to clean that up properly, then installed the proper version. Unbelievable.
Can you tell me exactly what you mean by this? It's a different thing to compare public sentiment (which seems to be vastly different between the two countries), and it's different to compare standard of living and economical factors (which are again vastly different between the two countries). It seems like you are picking one and comparing it to the other, is that correct?
There is a deep flaw in this logic. Person A and Person B are both investing the same amount, just in different forms.

Person A converted their 100k into 1 year of time.
Person B converted their 1 year of time into 100k of money.

They both put in 100k of something, B put in 100k worth of time, A put in 100k worth of money. If we assume a fair market rate for the conversion, then essentially this is a perfect exchange, and they both traded their different investments for exactly what they were worth. That is, the money invested, got back EXACTLY the amount of time it purchased, and the time invested got back EXACTLY the amount of money it purchased.

Person A and B are trading things of equal value. This means they invested equally, and hence should split the reward equally.
I think those shortcuts are often handled by the driver itself, so, it'll already know the required stepping. Another option could be to provide such stepping explicitly as another sysctl.

Otherwise, realistically, the keyboard shortcut stepping could simply be assumed to have only 16 variations in the first place, even if you're still using a percentage point through the interface.
It's not the bugs that are an issue with 10. It's the mountains of nagware, spyware and advertisements built in to it.