skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope we’ve reached a point where aside from pedophilia or coercive sex practices, sexual proclivities and drug use would not be enough to blackmail anyone today. The religious right and their “moral majority” have been hamstrung both through the courts and through culture moving on.

Prior to the first tech boom wider society also believed not wearing a suit was a reliable indicator that a person was stupid. We’ve progressed past these ridiculous ideas. I know plenty of exceptional performing individuals who both like sex and occasionally use drugs. If we’re backsliding into the right’s moral majority tyranny again, someone let me know as my filter bubbles may have me blinded.

Either way, none of the high profile Silicon Valley people I know would care that someone knows they have sexual desires.
Hey guys please don’t take this the wrong way but as a consumer when I saw the behavioral psychology headline in this post I got really excited.

Suffice it to say I was sufficiently disappointed to find out it was a prize linked savings account ... these have been run in the US for years, one of the largest in the US right now Is run by wal mart.

I LOVE nudge and I love behavioral psychology but this is not that.

Check out what we’re building at HMBradley if you want to see a real nod to creating habits.

I was hoping to see a new and interesting take here so I’m kind of curious why you settled on this angle?
> I would agree, with the giant caveat that I would like those activities to be surveilled only upon a showing of probable cause and with judicial oversight. The government shouldn’t have carte blanche to “investigate” citizens who are not suspected of committing a crime.

In Western jurisdictions, probable cause and judicial oversight are only relevant to searches of private property, arrests/etc. Police have always been empowered to surveil public behaviour, and in my opinion, rightly so.

It would be incredibly impractical to require judicial authorization for something as simple as browsing a public neo-nazi forum, or driving around looking at known drug-spots.

The question is whether the ubiquity of social media/phone cameras has changed our attitude. Arguably, we've created an inescapable, 24/7 surveillance apparatus . If you attend a protest, there's a real chance your photo may very well end up on Twitter/Facebook/etc, inadvertently or otherwise.

I do think it's time to discuss the role of phone cameras in modern society.
> such as ignoring laws against selling alcohol on sundays

Seems like a poor example to reach for.
Yup, during college I even created electrical schematics in MS Paint during one course, nobody believed it was done using it :) Although I must admit creating schematics in CAD software is more sane ;)
FWIW: there is at least one HNer (me) who has read both subthreads and completely agrees with your assessment of the situation. 'mst is engaging in those time-honored tactics of the online troll - mischaracterise, redirect, disengage. Unfortunately these bad faith discussions are all too common recently and it's sad to see HN swallow the bait.
What about Google Search API?
We’re basically giving all the money to the developers and the 30 percent that pays for running the store, that’ll be great.” Really. It’s impossible to square that mindset with the App Store of today, where the highest priority1 seemingly is the generation of ever-increasing revenue in the Services column of Apple’s quarterly finance spreadsheet.

In this case the issues with the 30% fee are orthogonal to the quality problems as the gmail app is free.

Ultimately I think the problem is that Google isn't very good at client side software, it isn't in their DNA.
Or it could stem from mere auto completion or any kind of spell checking.
This article references that and it says that new research shows there is no leveling off.
Spending hundreds of dollars on mobile games doesn't make someone a whale imo. More like thousands or tens of thousands over years.
I believe that the difficulty of controlling external monitor brightness is a significant factor in almost all people running external displays too bright (often much too bright). Because the standard software that comes out of the box doesn’t let you adjust the brightness of external monitors in any operating system I know of, and adjusting brightness by pressing buttons on the monitor’s on-screen display is invariably a pain.

Windows has two completely different APIs for adjusting screen brightness: one seems to only work on internal displays, the other seems to only work on external displays. I say “seems to” because they don’t document these facts, this is just what I observe by fiddling with the APIs. And only the first one is exposed anywhere in the UI: in Settings → System → Display (where you change the screen resolution and such) it lets you change the brightness of an internal display, but says something like “you can’t adjust the brightness of this device” for external monitors.

Laptop brightness keys (what Linux calls XF86BrightnessUp and XF86BrightnessDown) can’t be remapped by any means I know of. I don’t know of any way of being notified when the internal display brightness changes, either. I think you can poll the value, though it’s three years since I prodded this stuff and my memory is vague. Even so, it’d always be a delayed reaction. Kinda wish I were back on my last laptop where I used Arch Linux + i3 and handled XF86Brightness{Up,Down} myself.

(That brings me to my second major annoyance about built-in monitor brightness control software: stepping by a linear 10% the whole way is stupid; something like a logarithmic scale is much more sensible. The difference between 1% and 10% is at least as important in low lighting as the difference between 10% and 50%. I wrapped xbacklight to make it logarithmic on Arch, but I can’t do that on Windows, where the keys just jump by 10%. Similar deal with phone brightness, the difference two millimetres makes at the left end of the scale is more than the whole right hand half of the scale. Who on earth thought linear brightness was the right thing? Do they know nothing about human perception of brightness? Why is this obviously-badly-wrong practice universally adopted?)

What would be rather nice would be the ability to calibrate internal and external displays to match, so that the brightness of connected external displays could match my internal monitor immediately, following my chosen curve.

As it is, I use ScreenBright and script it so I can do both my external displays at once. (Now, I could reimplement the needed functionality from the relevant API in a short time, but ScreenBright does the job so I don’t bother.) I tend to type `b 20` in the mornings, sometimes `b 40` in the afternoons, and `b 0` in the evening. Seldom do I want to go past 40%. As I said, most people run their external monitors too bright, often much too bright.
And besides, we're talking about a supersonic aircraft with no prior platform to build this out of. Given the safety profile that will need to be proven, the schedule can't be taken seriously. It's harder than making a rocket.
Steps to Make Vector Image in Adobe Illustrator
The land around the Ouchita Mountains is not shitty at all. In fact it’s gorgeous.
Though I'm not necessarily disagreeing, eliminating direct taxation is more complex than just giving oversight to states. If a state can say, "no, not giving you money unless we get it back", it becomes a lot harder for the country to function. Money from Connecticut helps pay for numerous programs in other states. At a high-level, we like to say that states would make the right decisions, but would they? Or would Connecticut say they'd rather have the money to sustain their state better? Of course, is the federal government making the right decisions?
I grew up in a neighboring country, so I understand most of the things you're saying.

I'm just a little uncomfortable with the expression "moral decline". In the vast majority of cases when I've seen it used, it was just rhetoric. Maybe you can clarify?
ipad pros are already there, they're so thin they can arrive bent right out of the box.

ipads and iphones are amazing hardware in every other respect but Apple really needs to chill with the ultra-thin fetish.

(same goes for their PC hardware, but the hardware is not particularly amazing there.)
I signed up and deposited $25 to test it out, with a recurring monthly $25 deposit.

Seeing that it's effectively a 3% interest rate, I'm now trying to deposit a much larger amount.

However, it's infuriating to do so, because the only way I can figure out how to deposit more money is in $25 increments.

I also can't figure out how to do a single deposit instead of a recurring deposit.

Is there no way to enter the specific amount of money I want to deposit?
This reply deserves HN Gold.
I have one word for you: Russia.

Now if you excuse me, I have to go jump out the window.
Just wondering if we could talk over email. I feel your frustrations and I'm wondering if there's something that could be done.
Romance versus Realism: The Origins of the Novel
I have to disagree. No one chose to be citizens of the collective populace and state, they were born/forced into it since they were young. Try not to participate in the system by say not paying taxes or ignoring any law and you get locked up. Try to physically leave the system and at best you are at the mercy of another system. There was no choice where you are born. It is a collective agreement only by force.
There's a lot of lingering resentment in that whole general area, even after all these years.

Some of it is justified. Most of the satellite countries had to pay tribute (taxes) to the empire, money that could have been used instead for self-development. Compound this issue over centuries, and maybe you can understand why people are not happy about that part of history.
> Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting or threatening. They evolve from discriminatory grounds, and have an effect of nullifying or impairing a person from benefiting their rights. When these behaviors become repetitive, they are defined as bullying. The continuity or repetitiveness and the aspect of distressing, alarming or threatening may distinguish it from insult.

That's the definition of harassment from wikipedia and it characterizes the actions from many people in the tech community. I showed an example of such from Balaji against Taylor. In fact, he goes further into bullying territory because his actions are repetitive and consistently of sinister nature of painting the free press in broad and negative brushstrokes. He's not just bullying and harassing a specific member of the free press but he does so more generally and demeans the entire profession. That's what I call harassment. I don't care about legality. I care about decent behavior. And Balaji is not acting as a decent person so I'm using his actions as evidence of what I mean by harassment and indecent.
I recently looked around to see if this was possible in gmail and found the following: https://github.com/garyholeman/CreateGmailFilters

It has some limitations but mostly it was useful to learn that google app scripts are a thing.
Ask HN: What are some Storytelling ideas in AR that would be meaningful to you?
My partner and I created an AR storytelling experience - interactive and uses full body tracking.

Unexpectedly, our daughter is hooked to it, and just can't get enough of making it rain on herself and others.

Here's what I'm talking about:
https://twitter.com/methodiva/status/1280732116347547648

A gloomy, rainy cloud tracks you. Play music with a clap. Use hand gestures to raise the sun or bring it down.

What are some storytelling ideas that would be meaningful to you, or to your kids?

Especially interested in hearing about ideas that spark learning or seeing something with a new perspective.
Once the long promised delivery drones are finally here, it’s actually less wasteful. So the younger generations are just adapting to the yet to come future :)
No intellectual stimulation, no peers at your level. Academia is challenging, fun, motivating, and you can always find interesting people to talk to. It’s really boring in the real world.
This is a very simplistic view. Keep in mind that before 2007 emigration was borderline impossible. The first time I set my foot on foreign soil was in 2002 in Greece. And that was for a holiday with an invitation which went through the Greek embassy and a copy of my parents' income to verify that our intention was indeed to go on a holiday. A process which took around 4-5 months. So once the gates were opened, understandably, many fled. I know a few people who fled before that and many of them spent years living in migrant camps and this isn't for everyone.

I'd argue that the vast majority of the people who have left/are leaving are not educated. Statistically most of them are construction workers, taxi drivers and so on. Yes, arguably some of them have education. I know one which was an electrical engineer but I'm not joking when I say that he has no idea what the difference between direct current and alternating current is. Hence the reason why he ended up delivering pizzas. Which is not to say there aren't educated people who have emigrated but that's not a real issue:

And the counter argument - people like me who went there young, studied abroad and returned afterwards. Which was the case for many of the people around me. 60 people out of 90 in my class from school went to study abroad. 59 returned. And believe me, when I left I had no intention of returning and neither did most of the others. But things have changed and at a certain point it made more sense to make that step. Which is arguably one of the best decisions I've personally ever made. And for those 59 people, we were the early adopters of a huge wave of people to do that. The one that didn't return? Well honestly, a tiny country has very little to offer to a world class cancer researcher. I see nothing wrong with that, on the contrary - bravo.

At this point I'd say the biggest problem the country is facing is not economical, or political but... I can't even call it social. Mental is probably the right word. The notion that the grass is greener everywhere else. The idea every country has it better. And annoyingly that comes from people who have never lived anywhere else or even worse-never even been anywhere else. The problems you face elsewhere are simply different and as an alien, they are much MUCH worse and often you have even less people to rely on. Been there, done that.
Thanks, that's a pretty nifty systemd command[1]. Sadly my confusion is only furthered, since I'm seeing both target files and daemons (although maybe they're both considered 'units' in systemd) and now a new name ("networkd") joins the fray. No sign of NetworkManager at least.

What's also interesting is I've somehow managed to have the networkd-wait-online.service fail, despite having an internet connection.

This is mostly a curiosity at this point, nothing's broken - but it is a really humbling experience to realize how little I know about the modern Linux network stack after "using" desktop Linux for a decade or so.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/VYX7lmu
Were you thinking of this?

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2015/bkag
Looks like I was wrong about self incrimination in a grand jury, but even given that caveat, a grand jury can be useful for breaking through the blue line. For example, a prosecutor can petition to grant immunity to a key witness, and if granted immunity, can compel them to testify about things that would normally be self-incriminating, in order to reveal testimony of criminal behavior of a partner.
> we were wrong that you will be happiest if you work on what you want

I’m not sure that’s true. Perhaps the right conclusion would be “we were wrong that it would be best for the company if you work on what you want”.
>Does the military let POTUS pretend he has ultimate power, or does "respect for the institution" really overpower the military?

A huge portion of the military really comes down to who has money to keep paying the soldiers, fueling the bombers etc. If the military revolts but no one ends up paid, a problem ensues.
I can attest that cheating is rampant in the UC system. Especially among Asian nationals. College is mostly a joke at this point.
Dear lord man. You've actually thought about this. I'm flabbergasted to see someone actually attempting to solve this problem. Out-grouping for the sake of sharing logic.

INTJ?
Runescape embraced the subscription model and very little people had a problem with paying that subscription. It felt really fair.

But still today RS3 is riddled with MTX while you also have to pay a membership fee.
Refinement: Threadripper is for professional consumers.
Pinboard Turns Eleven
Its always corruption. Everywhere that's not doing well isn't doing well due to corruption. Corruption is the most important thing to fight and keep in check.

There's actually an inverse correlation between corruption and GDP, and a few studies showing that lowering of corruption directly boosted economic prosperity.

I wish more people actively brought up corruption, literally the most fundamental thing to fight.
> Of course they are responsible, who else should be if not the one who are getting the historical benefits?

This idea of generational responsibility, taken to its full extent, might have some unintended consequences. For example, aren't there historical records that indicate that the at least some Native American tribes themselves fought over territory? How should those claims be adjudicated?

How does this logic work for Dreamers(DACA beneficiaries)? Should a child who benefits from their parent's illegal activities be punished years later? Should the grand-children be punished? great-grandchildren? The Supreme Court even ruled recently that DACA was illegally established. BTW, this is another good example where Congress should have passed legislation rather then letting the situation live in legal limbo.
Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows
On android at least, you can click to edit the number and manually type in your larger amount
I was at that cascadia conference and getting to visit LCM was the most amazing and unexpected treat I could have ever imagined. It was an entire evening of geeked out bliss. I can't thank you enough for making that happen. The talks were all great but this for me was the highlight of the conference.
> demise of suits and briefcases

I still have my Samsonite briefcase my dad got me as a graduation present. Having a hard shell, it is perfect for my laptop, wires, and other junk. I also enjoy being the only person with such a briefcase.

A pic of what it looks like:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SAMSONITE-Gray-Slim-Hard-Sh...
What is your point?

I thought I made it clearly but I'm happy to repeat. The post-Soviet-collapse socio-political developments in Bulgaria are (for a lot of obvious reasons) almost, but not quite, entirely unlike those of the actual Soviet collapse.

One of these obvious reasons is that Bulgaria is a small country. Especially compared to the Soviet Union. Which was a big country. In fact, the biggest one.
Even more reason to stand up for what's right. And I appreciate your encouragement. I want more people to act in good faith so I try to model the type of argument I want to see more of through actual actions.
Personally, I hope that someone acquires the museum as a whole and relocates it further up into downtown. The current location is in SoDo amongst a bunch of warehouses, with a crummy parking lot and is not very well served by transit. It'd be a great complement to something like Seattle Center, in downtown near Westlake Park / monorail, or even somewhere on/near the UW campus.
To give an example from the german jurisdiction, if you buy a TV that fell off the truck, you are in posession of the TV but do not have ownership of it (however, you are not required to actually give the TV back, you can do what want with it).

If you sell that TV to a third party, ownership passes to that third party and the original owner looses all property rights on it. One of the few examples where ownership can pass from a party to another without the first party's consent (in neither express or requirement).

I imagine US law isn't totally different there.
Making Surrealism Art with Vintage Portraits of Nobles
Asking the right questions! I was so confused too. Feels just like keyword stuffing article spam.
what about guilt for the quantitative benefits you derive from no other reason but the position of your birth, often at the expense or detriment of others who suffer from the position of theirs?
A baseball cap works for the forehead but does nothing for the tops of the ears. A fellow I know had the top quarter of one of his ears sliced off by the dermatologist.
> But whose problems are these? The people who elected the state legislators who did them, right? There is a preexisting solution for that problem.

We see federal representatives rewarded for brinkmanship. What makes you think state level electorates would act differently? (And in fact I expect there's lots of examples of brinkmanship in state electorates as well, I just don't follow them closely).

A representation system that fails to represent is dysfunctional and should be changed. When the same system consistently fails to represent its constituency, for the same reason, across various constituencies at various times, you can no longer fault the people. The constituents should not be punished for being born into a dysfunctional system.

Don't place the founders on a pedestal. They made tons of mistakes. The 3/5ths compromise was terrible, but it was encoded into the constitution. We learned from it and improved. State managed senators, while less overtly awful, were still quite problematic. Celebrate that the constitution can be changed.
A step-by-step guide to build a command-line tool to manage multiple Git repos
I mean, you think people are happy when they never get to finish their projects and no one ever gets to play their games? I certainly wouldn't be. In fact, I would start to question what I was doing with my life.
Thanks. It looks like you can on iOS too, though I would probably never figured that out myself.

Turns out there's a $8000 deposit limit. Not sure if that is daily or what.
In history at what point? I think you have been lied to if think these issues are connected to racism. It isn't a lens for everything. The civil rights movement wasn't that long ago, so the discrimination is expected. Doesn't mean it applies to the current housing market that discriminates against poor people in general.
Yes but if you want a million an hour, that’s $8 million/hour. Suddenly photolithography seems incredibly cheap.
CPU and motherboard prices aren't really relevant since RAM is so expensive. And only real reason for getting this instead of 3990x is that you need e.g. 1 terabyte of RAM.
https://www.amazon.com/Tech-12x128GB-2933MHz-PC4-23400-288-P...
That'll work if you let your hair cover your ears.
Maybe that’s a bit grand to say “Western Society” where both examples would not apply to other non English speaking Western countries.

The American high incarcerations rate is an exception in the western world.

Legacy admissions simply do not exist in countries like France or Germany. Some elite engineering colleges in France have an exam based admission system very similar to the Chinese one but identity theft on this scale has never occurred.