skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cockpit with Virtual Machines plugin also works quite well for normal VM scenarios - create/edit/view console etc. works great.
Ask HN: How to convince my company to avoid dark patterns?
I'm a co-founder of a small bootstrapped company. I also created an open source A/B testing framework[0] that we use to run A/B tests at my company. It helps us answer certain hypotheses and improve the user experience, as well as conversion.

Lately we've ran an experiment that felt to me like it crossed the line into dark pattern territory. It offered bonus eBooks for those who purchase within 24 hours on the pricing and checkout pages. With a ticking clock to build urgency... textbook example of a dark pattern?[1]

Despite being a co-founder and leading A/B testing at my company, I'm not the only one calling the shots, and others were keen on running this experiment. In their mind it was simply a nice gift that we offer to customers. They couldn't see the potential harm.

Luckily(?) this experiment didn't fare that well, so we're in the clear. For now. I'm wondering how to make them see the dangers and temptation with dark patterns, especially if they increase conversions. Any thoughts / advice?

[0] https://github.com/Alephbet/Alephbet

[1] https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/
It has many names. "Natural selection" and "free market competition" are others. It's the same mechanism.

> The reason morality does matter is that over a long enough time frame, bad behavior becomes clear, good behavior breeds trust but that requires you play a long enough game with a stable set of people.

This is an exception rather than a rule, which is why you see little morality in nature, why it's a struggle to keep people behaving, and why it gets harder as societies become larger and more subdivided into specializations and abstraction layers.
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By they definition, isn't going to work an energy restoring activity?
How's it not 4K?

You need to use Windows 10 Creator update or newer and the Edge browser (most likely the old one and not the newer Chromium based). You need an Intel 7th generation CPU (i3, i5, or i7) or an Nvidia GPU.[1][2]

[1]: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931

[2]: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4583/~/4...
USSR was dysfunctional for many reasons, the least important of them was economic system, the most was that it was a totalitarian state with no way to change the government. It was shooting its own citizens and starving them to death in millions (and not because it had to - it was simply "better" for their policies).

I agree communism doesn't work, but these particular problems can and did happen just as well in other economic systems too - see British starving Ireland or India for capitalist examples.

On the other hand there are socialist countries that are quite heavily regulated and perfectly fine - see Scandinavia and part of western Europe.

The important part about modern democratic countries isn't that they are capitalist. It's that they are democratic and have rule of law and a way to change the government. I'm focusing on this because I see many democratic countries turn illiberal and autocratic over time thinking they will be ok because capitalism will save them.
Can somebody explain how is this a good thing? Whenever nobody in a group has a different opinion on a serious subject that always seems extremely suspicious to me. Communist commissions used to vote this way traditionally.
When it comes to voting on laws or elections yes, but criminal conviction not so much. It's not an opinion of what you think is better but certainty of guilt that you are voting on.
These are not "gun rights" groups. These are "gun rights" clickbait scams, targeting the grass-roots conservative types to get them to join various "rights" organizations. There are a bunch of these groups, and they do absolutely no lobbying. I suspect most of them are shell companies for a fewer number of individuals. They claim to be non-profits, but are not tax exempt. They have been around for many years, and they always use the latest hot-button issue to exploit their target audience. I'm amazed no one's gone after them yet.
Burnout comes from always being driven to achieve. We need time to take stock
So you dont support free speech? No big supprise.
> Smartphones and webcams don't spy on people. People spy on people.

Well yes, but those smartphones were designed by people, and many of them are designed to spy on people. While it’s true that there’s (almost) nothing about smartphones that makes them inherently intrusive, that’s cold comfort when surveillance is the industry standard.

(But yeah, I’m keeping a close eye on Linux smartphone development for that reason.)
The possibility of contradictory decisions is a feature of juries, not a bug. Juries are able to make decisions metalegally, not just legally. They are one of the most important checks on the power of the legal system.

In the US, if you do not want a jury trial, you are free (and encouraged) to do so and settle for a bench trial, where everything is decided by a judge. I think that gives you the best of both worlds as a defendant.
Here's the stats today for some countries including Sweden

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...

They seem to be doing better than average.
Only down side is that it can't scale to the levels Factorio can. (Only applies to us that like to build massive megafactories).
ISPs compete with them. They need to think of Comcast wanting to degrade the experience of watching a show that is also available on Peacock.
Satisfactory is great. Its different than factorio, but definitely worth exploring. There is something about walking through your factory and seeing all those machines work in 3D.
It's interesting. If there is a later sale at say facebook scale you could have a case.

After spending a year building the product I would hate to walk away.
As far as I understand, the idea in Regent is that the memory hierarchy is used dynamically, since the programmer cannot know about much of the memory hierarchy anyway at program writing time. So dynamic scheduling is used to construct the memory hierarchy and schedule at run-time. The typical use case for Regent is physicists writing e.g. weather / particle physics simulations, they are not aware of the details of L1/2/3/Memory / network/cluster ... sizes.

This is probably quite different from your use case.
I always love seeing small, yet very valuable and informative projects on the front-page-- bravo!
I don't mind; in public groups its for everyone to see.

Snooping by the government or by the corporations? Which one is more insidious?
While it is a competitive advantage inside the system (team, company, country, political system), it decreases the competitiveness of the system as a whole in relation to other systems. For instance the more a company is like this the less actually valuable results it can show (since there is less and less to steal from actual value producers), the more it needs to spend its resources on also fighting off external competitors like other companies who still create results, managing bad press, and stopping customers from leaving to better providers.

It's very much like a parasite-host relationship. Sure in the 1:1 relationship the parasite might keep the upper hand and live longer, but in the end both are dying to make place for another organism.

For the world as a whole it's also not a bad thing. The world changes and new problems need new systems to deal with. But the new systems cannot prosper if old systems are efficient enough to defend their place.
"Spod lady" (from under the counter) in Polish :)
My wife needed a new laptop just recently and she's a ThinkPad-only kind of gal. It was nice to see that there are many AMD options, but you can't buy them. In fact, you can't buy much of anything from Lenovo. Outside of the L13 (what she ended up with), everything is "ships in 5+ weeks" on the Lenovo site.

Having one in stock at NewEgg or Amazon might be helpful, but they are typically base spec with soldered memory. If you want 16G+ memory, you are just generally out of luck.
There shouldn't be a difference, but in the real world humans are not perfect and we all come with our own biases that we can't always overcome.

People should be judged by a fair impartial jury. I have no idea how to ensure this. Race is one known factor. All white or all black juries are somewhat likely to be partial in the same way and thus not give a true result (as if that is possible) so you want a mix that reflects the community, and also has enough that the one other person isn't intimidated. Easy to say, hard to do.
The recent political climate in the US has made factors like this major considerations for people to have. Whether it's right or if it's just fashionable for the moment, I'll refrain from making a judgement on whether it's normal. But it's certainly becoming a thing as there are more public conversations about equality and fairness.

To be fair, it's increasingly a topic in Europe as well. Or at least in France where I currently live. Sure, it's not as in your face as in the US. But there is increasingly more public discourse on diversity and what equality means/should mean. Point is, I think it's now more a global phenomenon than just the US.
Very cool!

Do folks feel like there would be value in a hosted service that provides a backend for spaced-repetition apps? It's a bit niche, but feels like there would be demand for a service that would let folks build memorization apps without having to manage their own spaced repetition implementation.
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Like it says, <1kB minified and gzipped. But 9.5kB only minified, i.e. The css is highly repetitive so gzip is able to do a lot.

I know it's still small, but I'd be tempted to extract just the rules I wanted. Very nice regardless.
I wonder if the same thing is possible with sight reading music.
For me as a noob with very simple requirements, it’s very refreshing not having to care where and how my server code runs. Just add to a repo, push and forget. And if my code is written against some simple HTTP request interface, there shouldn’t be much trouble to move it elsewhere.
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Should all sites use SSL by default? The top answer is no
Color me uninformed, but couldn't more jurors be intimidated if needed?

It seems like difficulty in intimidating jurors would scale linearly, O(n)
If you want a sandbox game with no fighting, play the freeform game mode instead of the tutorial/campaign (which is how factorio is mostly played) and turn on peaceful mode?
Smoking isn't a fitting example. You can do whatever you want to yourself in your own home, but it is significantly restricted in public were it effects other people. It's obviously about calculated risk, but that is weighted very different once others are involved.

An interesting other aspect is the change to the status quo. To stick to the better example: Humans accepted that some traffic deaths will happen. But lets imagine that for unknown reason all around the country, car tyres start to just suddenly burst, steering cars into incoming traffic. I'd not be surprised if driving would be restricted until we got to the bottom of such a phenomenon. Even if the average chance of dying on a given day for the average citizen didn't increase manyfold.

Now that I've written that... kind of reminds me of a certain Boeing plane.
Could you go into more detail on this? Lime specific examples? Not trying to be disingenuous; just apparently terribly unimaginative apparently. As far as I was aware the major driver of the absolute level of unethical behavior in the market tends to be your least ethical actor who lowers the bar for everyone. That I understand. Like Grocery stores that hire lots of part timers and only them, and limiting total hours to avoid paying benefits will tend to push out those that don't do that.

Though I wasn't. at all under the impression that the problem encompassed as large a swath of businesses as you are asserting.
Attendence is mandatory so that "bad" parents - bad usually because of circumstances, not ill will - do not pull their kids from schools and have them work or help around the house, reaping short-term benefits at the expense of their children's futures.
To quote the top answer: Putting SSL everywhere is only a way to get a warm fuzzy feeling on security that is no good. It is usually only used as a distraction allowing administrators to disregard actual security issues.

Was looking up some info on SSL and came across this first. Sadly a good illustration of how difficult it is to find security recommendations and how stack overflow is rotting with time.
A few days ago I picked up a SFF Dell (precision T1700) with a Xeon E3, 32GB DDR3, small SSD + HDD, 11 USB ports, and a thunderbolt pcie card. All for $200.

The CPU is roughly equivalent to a 6th or 7th gen i5, but with 8 threads instead of 4.

Installed proxmox with 1 VM and several containers. Couldn't be happier with everything. My wife can't even hear it under decent load in the living room.
That's exactly what happened to me. I played it obsessively for a few weeks and then it just started feeling like I was solving the same kind of problems I already solve all day for money, and if I was going to be doing that I might as well be getting paid. Which I guess shows how much I love my job (or at least the fun bits of it) but also kind of took the wind out of my sails in-game.

Edit: Also I got to the endgame point where you spend 99% of your time just setting up new mines and rail depots to keep feeding the beast. That was a fair while ago though so maybe there's more to do endgame, or maybe I'd just finished the game which is also OK.
True, but there are other ways it could provide this information to me. It could display a volume level meter on the screen, for example.
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This one quite old article about a blind software engineer at Google, may not directly help in any way, but thought to share it here https://www.businessinsider.com/how-blind-google-engineer-wr...
Basic dell computers with any video card play games fine. The hardware scene is a benchmarks "game" hobby on its own, separate from the video games.
You write this long post, but then finish with the CDC guidance which agree with what I said -- that doctors have to use be able to say to the best of their knowledge and experience that the deceased had covid-19 and that it caused death, or that it contributed to death.

The problem here is that you don't know what "COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death" means.
> Trying to keep track of what's trending tires me out

From your post, it sounds like you are tying to spam everything with irrelevant content just to try to trap people into getting something they don't want.

Maybe you feel bad because that's a bad way to behave?

Social media is what you make it. If you are promoting a product you like in areas where it is relevant then maybe you'd feel better?

Others have suggested finding a niche and working that, which is a great approach.

Otherwise, if you product isn't about cute puppies why do you care if others are posting them? I use Twitter, Facebook and Instagram pretty heavily and I go days without seeing any puppies.
NES and SNES emulator and ROMs.
You can play them via Switch, or pirate them and give Nintendo money to salve
your conscience.

Especially if you have kids.
I would consider this greatly valuable
I've been using the iPad pro 12" with the pre-existing keyboard folio from Apple for 2 years now and its my favorite device. I can't wait for the trackpad to be integrated.

I personally think this Magic Keyboard is a much better design than a kickstand to the iPad, and I think it looks great. Its reminiscent of the old 2nd Gen tear-drop-with-aluminum-arm iMac from the mid 2000s.

Its a different device category and target build quality, but my Nintendo Switch has a kickstand. It never works the way I want it to. I think on-device kickstands are tacky and liable to break, not to mention limited in function.
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No, because not all jurors are equally easy to intimidate, so you should expect effort to be superlinear depending on the distribution, and intimidation itself is not a risk free crime.
I was under the impression you actually can via exactly one browser: Microsoft Edge.
Sure, all that excess mortality is likely to be an increase in cake-related death caused by quarantined shut-ins eating themselves to death.
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It's a familiarity thing. Sighted people are used to a manner of communication that includes visual cues, and people always prefer what they're used to. I also find that people who are used to visual in-person communication also dislike videoconferencing because they can't see things like when another person is crossing their legs or tapping their foot.

Whether any of that is actually beneficial is another question entirely. Personally, I have an easier time concentrating on the conversation when it is audio only.
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I also went to Heroku. Icing on the cake was when I discovered that even on Heroku's free plan, we were getting significantly better performance than on Zeit's paid plan. Response times were more stable and had far less latency. Made me really happy and almost made it worth the frustration of having to migrate in the first place. Almost. Heroku has definitely improved over the years.
As far as games that I've enjoyed recently there is: Disco Elysium (enjoyed more than any AAA game I've played in a long time). No Mans Sky, despite it not living up to it's hype I do enjoy it a lot, easy to get lost in your own stories. I was enjoying Bloodbourne but I don't want to invest the amount of time needed to git gud. And that's about it... any recommendations on your end other than Factorio? it's been recommended to me by a couple of people but it looks a bit too grindy and addictive for my personality.
Any advice on an oxymeter to purchase, or components/features to look for? They all seem to be the same, but vary in price from $20-$300. Reviews on websites are just garbage.
“ Cellular Pizza Fax (CPF), in which fax machines would be
places inside roving pizza trucks to reduce the mean time
between order and delivery.”

They might get a chuckle at how accurate this turned out to be.
I’m a lawyer, and I thought the same thing.
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but, do these companies in Russia, China, etc., that one pays to break the chip, promise to not re-sell the extracted chip contents?

I don't know --- I imagine a lot of the time they wouldn't even know what equipment the chip came out of, and/or it's something extremely obscure, so it would be very hard to sell the contents.

I think the last time I looked into a service like this, they required that you send them multiple targets to attack because normally the attack is invasive / destructive, and they might need to "burn through a few" before they succeed. If you have any experience in this area, do you know if that still holds true?

If it's a new MCU they've not done before, they might ask for that --- to find where the protection fuses are. It doesn't have to be the actual one you want, just an example of a protected one along with the code it contains in order to "check their answers". That will cost quite a lot more than known-extractions, however.
How many people die and how many are born each year?
>> At some point I hit a biter nest I couldn't beat, couldn't go around (some sort of story based misson). There was NO way past this obstacle......

The research tree gives you many different ways to kill a biter nest:
* Flame Throwers
* Turrets / Laser Turrets
* Personal Laser Defense
* Combat Robots
* Tank
* Artillery
* Atomic Bomb

>> Factorio has managed to get some market success despite being pretty badly built in many ways.

Maybe the game is not for you. But you are way off base here. The Factorio team has built a very solid product here.
The CDC scientists chose complexity over simplicity in the test’s design
So was trump correct when he said an ethnically Mexican judge was biased against him?
Correction: "here in UK the taxpayer is covering 80% of furloughed workers pay". Governments have no money, they take it from taxpayers and redistribute. Moving money from a pocket to another does not fix the problem of decreasing resources if people don't work.
don't get good at social media, get good at finding sponsors and scouts.

with this I mean, get good at finding 100 persons that either:
- would pay 1 euro a month for whatever you're doing next
- would happily forward infos about whstever you're doing next to that friends of theirs who is really into the same niche (who usually would love to pay 1 euro/month)
this opinion piece on the NY times mentions Booking, and sums up the situation quite well.

Its conclusion if you don't have time to read it entirely:

> The economy needs help, and fast. Yet it is hard to escape the conclusion that the $2 trillion aid package validates and indeed further rewards the questionable practices of the last decade. In a normal bankruptcy proceeding, equity holders and shareholders would incur significant losses based on the taking of risks that were not unknown. It is true that the $2 trillion aid package has a condition that would, going forward, temporarily bar further stock buybacks for companies that receive taxpayer loans. But viewed in context, the relief package still amounts to a bailout of private capital and the endorsement of a decade of self-enriching practices.
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> It's just baseless criticism of a cool new project someone was brave enough to build and put out there

I'm not trying to criticize the project itself - I think that a 1KLOC C font rendering library is cool. (I'm not sure if it counts, but I also upvoted & starred the repo as well.)

I was criticizing a bit about the 'suckless' philosophy which aims 'simple' software, as I've seen a lot of them recently. (Hence the off topic mention.) I wasn't trying to be harsh or anything - I had good intentions when I was writing the comment. (Maybe my not-good English skills might contribute to the harsh feeling :-()

I personally find that not allowing any criticism just because it's 'free software' and is provided 'as-is' isn't really productive - why would HN exist then? To fill up with praise and applause?
English is fine, googling for "stripeless shirt" works well enough. The question "shirt without stripes" is begging us to ask is whether we might want to reevaluate projections of imminent AI takeover.
Who are “people”? Who is defining “optimistic”, and “plausible”? Where are you getting these numbers?

The LA study implies a ratio of 30-50x the number of confirmed cases.

Even at the high end of that range, given the current confirmed infection count in nyc (141.2k), then about 7M people would have been infected. That’s not 100% of the population, and it’s entirely plausible.
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Yo seem to think that queries of this form are ambiguous, but they are not. Given the set of shirts, and that the subset of 'shirts with stripes' is well-defined (which you apparently accept, given that you seem to think that 'shirts with stripes' is an unambiguous query (which it is)), then its complement is well-defined; there is no 'Russell's Barber' paradox here, as there is no self-reference.