skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends what you mean. Can they sacrifice “luxury” to afford something like this? Yes, they have been accustomed to this mode of operation since ever. The populace really never had s chance to get to know what a modicum of affluence and consumerism is. They had a small taste before the Oct/Nov revolution, but that’s all been forgotten.
I reject your implication that not being allowed to lock you out of your own device would somehow be equivalent to mandating official manufacturer support of arbitrary user modifications. I already provided what I believe to be a reasonable example of such a system. No manufacturer support is required beyond an interface for the user to disable key checks or possibly to replace the manufacturer's key with their own. Once you do so, you are in unsupported territory and everything that follows is entirely on you.

Perhaps an analogy would help here. For example, suppose auto manufacturers started welding the hoods of new vehicles shut. Suppose that legislation was subsequently passed which banned this practice and asserted that you have a legal right to access, inspect, manipulate, and replace the internals of a vehicle you own. This would not be equivalent to requiring the manufacturer to actively support such activity! It would only prevent specific undesirable behavior on their part.

> I support their freedom to build security countermeasures

This is a false implication about my position, and my previous post very clearly addressed this exact point. Providing the user with the means to optionally unlock things does not require that security be diminished. Functioning examples of this already exist in the wild.

> If they can lock me out with their technology, that is their right as author of the technology.

Currently, yes - from a legal perspective. For the public good, that needs to change. We have ample evidence at this point that we cannot rely on the market to make choices in its own best interests in this case. The market consistently chooses the cheapest devices and the largest ecosystems; it does not appear to select based on the openness of the ecosystem. Meanwhile, manufacturers are actively walling off their ecosystems wherever they can get away with it. They often point to security when questioned, but I find these claims dubious at best. Meanwhile, their behavior demonstrably protects their profits while actively pushing our society towards a state that is very easily abused in a great many ways.

To my mind, such regulation is conceptually analogous to the ADA compliance requirements for certain types of buildings in the US. Without the ADA regulation, the market would almost certainly not choose to conform on its own. Nevertheless, it is clearly in the public's best interest for it to do so.

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Editing to add: Your belief that there are no known ways to break into an iPhone if it is up to date is almost certainly incorrect. This article (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakb3/inside-nso...) from ~6 months ago was on HN at some point. From the article:

> He gave NSO that phone number and put the phone on the desk. After “five or seven minutes,” the contents of his phone’s screen appeared on a large display that was set up in the meeting room, all without him even clicking on a malicious link, he said.
If there's no side effects of long-term usage, I wonder how much power this needs - could you make a hat of some sort to just constantly provide the jolts to offset the limited duration of the benefits?

Perhaps the 90s dream of "space helmets" will come to fruition.
Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
If you're accusing the author of something just spit it out.

> the one continuously posting links about Zig here is just self-promoting their own creation

Nothing wrong with that. If their creation fails to excite people, there won't be any conversation, it won't make it to the first page, etc.
Just think -- there's people like Caucher Birkar the world over, especially in places that might not fully recognize the talent and drive. Without access to higher education, and the connections attached, talented individuals will have a very hard time realizing their full potential.

Developed countries around the world should be tripping over themselves to offer asylum, motivated not only by humanitarian concerns but by considering asylum as an investment in the brainpower of a nation.
> too much accidental complexity (memory management, type declarations, etc.)

I know those were just examples, but that might hint at why ruby is a fine choice here. It has neither explicit memory management nor type declarations. It's pretty close to pseudocode already.
It seems impossible to ask questions on some subjects here (on HN, I don't really use other mass fora); which makes it very hard to learn the scope of someone's position. 'Assume good faith' has to be the basis of online discussion -- I'm really not sure what's wrong with the questions.

>"in the face of comments which they suspect to be in bad faith" //

I asked two questions and avoided making comments (other than to set the basis for the second question. People often don't appear to read questions as questions.

It's like if someone said "So, do you just not like static typing?" and the responders appear to think the person said "dynamic typing is crap and you're crap if you like it" when in fact they're just interested in someone's rationale for avoiding statically typed languages.
Hey, UpCodes cofounder again, yes, they do ask volunteers to sign a copyright form. You can see it in this ICC tutorial (at 24s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hebfUQ-G24

Very interesting about that document. Yeah, none of what ICC is doing fits at all with their stated mission or anything.

I'm bookmarking that to read more carefully. Won't help with the lawsuit, but might make for a good tweet.
Why doesn't the article excerpt any language from the bill, or otherwise link to it? It's hard to imagine a bill that defines, to an enforceable legal standard, what is a dark pattern, and what is an addictive game (another thing that the article mentions is banned).

EDIT: Thanks to sbov (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19620441) for doing the legwork the news isn't doing and digging up the text. It doesn't seem to mention addictive games at all; maybe that's another bill?
Damn, that is lame.
Overcoming TV Addiction
Anyone have overcome TV addiction around here?
Care to share any tips, tricks or things that worked?
Vapor Boss
are vapor shops allowed in India?
Ability Access blocked on Facebook, records botched customer service call.(NSFW)
I think you misread an emphasis where there was none.

Coming home from a 140 hour work week it’s nice if you don’t have to also do cleaning, cooking and other maintenance at home.

And to be fair, if you work that much you should probably have the money to pay someone to take care of that for you.
I’d be ashamed if this was how I made my paycheck.
I can also attest to this two-level phenomenon.

> These images can be much more vivid, they're usually in full color and animated, but with a small field of view. It looks a bit like having a small CRT-style color TV at the center of my vision and it feels like watching a dream while you're awake.

This almost exactly. I have experienced this a handful of times on waking. A stream of photoreal content, in a small round field of view in the center of my vision. The images often have fewer colors than real life, and some kind of artifact not unlike "scanlines" from a CRT. So far, they're also distinctly 2D. It's like watching broadcast from the part of my brain that's still dreaming, through my eyes. It's what I expect retinal projection looks like.

As opposed to the "back buffer" of normal visualization or daydreaming, there are separate "front buffer" phenomenon that are as close to hallucinations as I've ever experienced. If they happened at any time other than waking or falling asleep, I would drive myself straight to the ER.
Arbitrage over time is properly called arbitrage. If the fluctuations are known in advance, then you make a guaranteed profit by trading over time.
With proper caching even a $5 DO droplet would be easily able to handle this load. With caching + cdn you should be able to handle virtually any load. I personally run cloudfront in front of all of my WP sites, even the low traffic ones because the costs are negligible.
> 2. An almost superhuman ability to put bad experiences behind me. People with aphantasia don't have the tendency to ruminate. I've had some traumatic experiences in my life and within a few months it's as if the experience never happened. I can recall details of it but the recollection is as if the experience happened to someone else.

Are you sure? I am not a psych(atr|olog)ist, but that sounds consistent with some sort of dissociation. People can even be impacted by traumas that they do not remember at all.
Who do you work for new account?
I'm going to reveal myself as entirely too geeky here, but my primary complaint about this approach is that it relies on a linear scale for evaluating utility, when much research suggests that utility curves are frequently logarithmic. (Example: Going from earning $20k to $100k per year is a huge difference with substantial implications for financial security, but $1m to $1.08m has a substantially lower impact.)

One could argue this article looks at a restricted range where the log behaves more lineary, but if we're going to apply mathematical modeling to our life choices, ... :-)
Suggest that you point out that paper bags are friendly to our planet and all species that it supports.
How to do that? Are you aware of the film where Charlie Chaplin (as a hobo) eats one of his boots?
You could mimic that but substituting a `salad' consisting of various paper bags. Olive oil might be a healthy dressing to consider.
Maybe your Brain-VCR is missing the Rewind button. :)

It's super interesting how memory works. Like, I can remember the content of songs because they have rhyme and rhythm and pleasantness, but I can't remember anything else word-for-word. I'm the king of paraphrasing jokes and quotes, because I can never remember how they originally went.

edit to add: I'm just kidding about the brain damage thing, but seriously, I very much don't like the idea of presenting this as "aphantasia" as though it is a lack of something. I think it's (probably) just a different system that's optimized for different kinds of behaviors.

I do also suspect that the mental visualization could be learned. I feel like when I played Legos as a kid I was incidentally practicing my visualization, perhaps the only reason I'm good at it now is an aggregate of those kind of coincidences.
Based on your paragraph on children never seeing their fathers etc. Japan does seem terrible - perhaps Canadians, underneath all that complaining, are in fact happier; whereas Japanese don't complain but suffer silently? The scores may in fact be accurate..
This assumes a level market with even distribution of information and power. Companies pay as little as they can get away with, not what the job is worth.
It looks like they only look at numbers from 2008. Not sure why...which was well before the current economic issues there started.
Here is my take.

There is a lot of "science" behind those boring business and consumer applications. People spend a huge amount of time at work with applications they hate. Quality is always a problem and people are also upset about costs, schedules, etc.

I think it's possible to do a radically better job at making that kind of application and from compilers to software engineering I think there is a lot of CS behind that.
The number is wrong. They're using data from 2008. It's fallen to 5.00 in 2018 according to the report.
Describes arguments around range in one deployment. A long way from every non-Chinese transit agency that has purchased BYD's electric buses has either cancelled or downsized their order.
Do an anesthesiology residency. I love how, when residents with engineering backgrounds as undergrads run up against the immutable fact of 5 minutes of hypoxia = brain death, they quickly abandon their old way of thinking in which finding the optimal solution is paramount in favor of whatever works, however kludgy.
This is my understanding as well. Supporting data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Note that fatalities per 100M population has not just been trending up, but it is doing so after trending down for many previous years.
> The cult of personality ~~around Marissa~~ is just confusing ~~to me~~.

Lest we forget Elizabeth Holmes, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and for those old enough to remember Bill Gates in the 90s.

If you're lucky you die before you start making terrible decisions. A quote from Napoleon that he supposedly said while in exile "Had I been hit by a canon ball on my entry into Moscow I would have been remembered as the greatest statesman and general the world had ever seen".
The point is that Silver's predictions are the result of coin flips, but that the underlying probability isn't. If he's updating further than he should then you can make money by updating the correct amount and betting against him.
I've been working through this book over the past few days, and writing my own git implementation in Rust in parallel, and I've found Ruby to be much simpler from an implementation standpoint. Ruby's standard library provides a lot of useful functionality out of the box (SHA1 digests, the deflate algorithm) which I've had to pull in dependencies for in my Rust version.

Obviously the Rust version is significantly faster, but the Ruby version is higher level and better expresses the concepts the book is trying to demonstrate without getting too bogged down in syntax, types, etc.
Hell-banning is by far my biggest fear with Google. The idea that you could be banned for life without any explanation just seems completely insane. It feels dystopian.
I cannot recapitulate your claim: google is at the least 80% the price of AWS across both instances and storage, given a good faith, reasonable analysis (given the differences in config types and feature sets in the two services).
Please find me one real scientist who would argue it's ethical to encourage some people to commit suicide to find out how to avoid encouraging people to commit suicide.

Just because the outcome of the research is potentially valuable doesn't mean it's ethical to conduct it on people, especially without their consent.
I wonder if using Netlify's DNS with a subdomain only would work properly if you delegated only the subdomain and not the top level name to Netlify's DNS servers...
The studies are real, your snide comment aside. Blue light is damaging and a causal relationship with macular degneration is well established.
What is EF?
Someone several comments up suggested Silver should include error bars and should bet based on a spread, I said that was not proper Bayesian methods, then we had this back and forth.
I agree with your position, especially when you compare it with Safari, which is not open source in any sense. However, all the Pocket features that Firefox integrates with are (still) closed source, even 2+ years after Mozilla spent $29m acquiring them. So the person you're responding to does have some hint of a good point.

Remember:

- Mozilla Corporation is _not_ your friend.

- WebKit is still a viable third-party alternative to both Blink and Gecko.
Building codes do definitely play a role. A lot of them are written in reaction to some tragedy (fire, earthquake, structural failure, etc). Here's an interesting assertion:

"the biggest potential saving of lives in rural areas lies in compliance with better building standards, so that homes and schools do not collapse so easily"

(https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2106507...)
How many people can run for 16 hours a day? What % of the population? .00000000000000001%?

What % of the population can play video games for 16 hours a day?

So again, video game addiction is substantially worse than a running addiction, for the vast majority of people and in far worse ways. You all can play games as you please, the facts are plain.
I sold my Apple TV and replaced it with a Roku Premiere +. I found the Apple TV to be a usability nightmare.
Good riddance! It’s high time companies stop gravitating to the local maxima for every decision. As a user, I want thoughtfully developed experiences; not everything has to be a news feed.
Government (and its cheerleaders) has the same solution to every problem: ban it, or declare that it can't exist. Which is the same solution a child could come up with.

Fixing a problem sounds good, so it's easy to market. Defining what the problem is and avoiding unintended consequences is hard.
Thanks to sbov for posting the text of the doc here, https://www.scribd.com/document/405606873/Detour-Act-Final, and my take on this is (and IANAL), well, yes, most definitely it would apply to A/B testing in certain circumstances.

Many types of A/B tests are designed to increase conversion - to get a user to buy something, or signup, etc. I have personally (and I'm sure lots of folks on this site) been involved in A/B tests that specifically test what many would consider "dark patterns" to increase conversion.

Just take a look at Booking.com, which is famous for their A/B testing. Right now I get a popup banner when I hit that which says "Welcome back! It's always a pleasure to see you! Sign in to see deals of up to 50% off." I guarantee the text in that banner has been A/B tested 9 ways to Sunday. I'd even bet they tested the percentage amount (i.e. whether it was 50%, 30% etc.) Of course "up to 50%" could mean 0%, which it probably is in most cases. And the whole purpose of that banner is to get you to authenticate and sign in, so they can track you better.

So yes, it most definitely will apply to certain forms of A/B testing. That also appears to be the point.
> does it feel like the images are taking the same path as ones that actually hit the retina?

I can remember or imagine voices like they're really hitting my eardrums. The more familiar I am with the voice and especially with what it says (like phrases the person commonly says), the easier it is. I used to routinely say goodbye to my mother before leaving home every day, and on the days after she passed away I would remember her voice on leaving like she was really speaking to me. As time's passed though, my memory of her voice has faded somewhat, so I can't really do that now.

I have been able to imagine visualizations like I can really see them, but for that I need to be on the brink of sleeping. Right on the point that you can dream while still being aware of reality.
Ripcord is currently running in 23.3MB on my machine
Aside from the free file program, which is a partnership with private companies, the IRS does offer a bare bones free fillable forms tax filing application.

For most filers with W2 income, there’s nothing to it and they could easily do that. It’s fairly simple and you just need to read the directions and do maybe a half dozen additions and subtractions.

Where the real return has come in is the millions, if not billions, of dollars that the industry has spent convincing consumers that taxes are super hard and complicated and open to tons of interpretation, that their tax filing experts know this ONE WEIRD TRICK to get you thousands back, and if you screw up even once the IRS is going to come after you hard and put a lien on your house and put you in jail. The reality is not like that at all - if you do screw up they are happy to help and it’s actually pretty simple for most people. But this has engendered an incredibly deep mistrust of the IRS - most people would still taking their taxes to one of these firms or their local accountant because they’d be convinced they could get more back.

I’m not saying the system couldn’t be even better for these filers, but it does require the federal government and the IRS to start collecting data they they don’t right now, and the actual gain is pretty minimal in real terms - taxes for most filers is already incredibly easy and free. And the you’ve only solved half the problem - what about state taxes?
I was going to write a rebuttal to this, but mindslight is right. It is the government's job to restrict the usage of technologies that can be very dangerous. But in all the cases we have, the restriction is done via the law enforcers, not via the technology.

It's mandated that you can't drive a car without a license. But the enforcement is done by the cops, not by the car.

It's mandated that you can't own a gun unless you meet certain criteria. But the enforcement is done by the cops, not by the gun.

And so on...

It can be mandated that you can't use a phone while driving. But the enforcement must be done by the cops, not by the phone. If the cops don't do it correctly, then the right course of action is to fix that, not to restrict the phone.

Because once we do start restricting ubiquitous personal devices in order to enforce the government's rules, it will never stop. Democracy can never work if freedom is granted by the government - the people must be able to do whatever they want, with the government potentially revoking a person's freedom after the violation if it finds one.
If one effort is to get people to think how their actions impact themselves and everyone else, and there are consequences (life threatening or some form of punishment). Then why limit that to just driving.

Also, if the issue is an attitude of "no fucks given", then they seem just as severe to me because then they might take their "no fucks" on to the road.
I was driving on the freeway with my girlfriend and we saw a guy driving next to us who was literally holding the phone right in front of his face video chatting with someone. Not looking down, but looking straight and level into the huge phone he was holding in front of his face. It was so unusual that we looked at each other in disbelief.

I was in San Jose and there was a young woman who was behind me. We were stopped in a turn lane waiting for the green. This girl literally engaged in this unprotected left turn while looking straight downward into her lap. like, completely 90 degrees neck bent downwards without looking up whatsoever. She was half way through the turn, half fucking way, before I laid on my horn. She knew exactly who that horn was for and she bolted upright with a very pouty look on her face. She could have easily killed someone.

Everyone seems to agree that this is a serious and deadly problem. Therefore I think it is justified to discuss the problem in as much of an open fashion as possible, not overlooking any patterns or aspects of the problem that might help to solve it, no matter how unpopular. The fact of the matter is that 90 percent of the time I see someone looking straight down into their laps while operating 2000 pounds of metal, they are a young female. Girls have a problem with phones. Nobody would argue with me if I said that guys have a problem with high speeds, as the insurance companies know. And I’m sorry but girls have a problem with phones. It’s just true. It might help to put on a PSA targeting them. But the ultimate solution is to just not let young people drive. It doesn’t make any sense to let these children drive. 90 percent of the time I observe a car doing something dangerous and I am able to see inside, it’s a young person. Letting people drive at 16 is fucking retarded.

And some enforcement of drunk driving would be nice too. The few times I’ve been at bars, I saw people streaming out the back at closing, all of them drunk with keys in their hands. Nobody does anything.