skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quora: Is this a bug or a Dark Pattern?
Summary:

Quora is indicating the number of "unhandled" questions and makes it cumbersome to dismiss these questions.

Detailed descripton of the interaction:

In the top navigation bar I find the menu point "Answer" with a red circle with a number inside. I often feel the urge to remove the circle by clicking to open the "Answer" tab.

Then on the left side I see three sub-points "Questions for you", "Answer requests" and "Answer drafts". I then proceed to click "Pass" on some questions I find uninteresting. This doesn't decrease the number, even if click to a different tab.

Confused and irritated I return to the "Answer" tab then click on "Answer requests". I proceed to click "Pass" on more questions. This doesn't decrease the number neither. Only if I switch to a different part of the web application the red circle disappears.

Conclusion:

First the number indicates the number of open answer requests and not "Questions for you" and second the number is not displayed reactively.

I wonder:

Is this done intentionally as a Dark Pattern to increase engagement time or is this just an usability bug?
You're using the term 'adventure' quite liberally. Disco Elysium is, at best, a really drunken, long-winded and exposition-heavy stroll in a pretty mundane harbor area the size of a single city block.

It's not really even that weird of a fiction. Everything is extremely based on reality, with a mere facade of "look we changed the names of everyday things! they are now strange!"
Berlin's long-delayed airport undergoes dress rehearsal for October opening
uh, you could do the "add site to home screen" thing in the old version too.

and in the new version, enabling the (very cool, by itself) "Open links in a private tab" setting does guess what to PWA's (but only if a tab for the specific PWA does not already exist, because of course)
> Exactly. If you are developing a product you have to make sure that it reaches a sufficient number of people that would pay a certain amount. Number of customers times the price and you get your expected income. If that is too low then don't spend your time on it cause you'll just be losing money.

I hope it doesn't come to that. Because then we'd only end up with apps like Fortnite, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Office. All the specialized apps would be gone, and if you need something in an industry that just isn't that large, well tough luck, because at $9.99/app the developers won't ever make a living.

Look, it's fine to only need mass-market apps. But let other people make niche apps and charge an amount that results in sustainable software development, without criticizing them for subscription pricing.

Subscription pricing is the only sustainable way to maintain a niche app.
Yes, 3D secure leads to a different liability layout. Stores that don't implement it face liability on chargeback, whereas stores that do use it are protected, and the banks themselves take liability.

At least that's my understanding of it, might not be that clearcut.
If you follow the instructions of the police officers you have little reason to not feel safe. If you fight, resist, run etc. you've given up your rights to safety.
Meh I'll wait for the TLD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#...

Some island police don't carry firearms, although those aren't really comparable. Also many (most?) street cops in China aren't armed.
One option, if ferries are ok, is to take the Stockholm-Riga ferry. In a few years it might also be possible to travel north around the Baltic Sea uninterrupted by train to Helsinki, and then onwards.
The kit requires replacing the USB hub and adding a new USB cable to the infotainment computer. The equipment itself costs about 150$ and plenty of people did the installation themselves (apparently the hardest part is to get the plastic off from dashboard between the screen and the USB ports to run the new cable).

https://www.amazon.com/Mazda-CarPlay-Retrofit-0000-8F-Z34-TK... / installation instructions: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2367/6353/files/CPAA_INSTA...

I heard that USA dealers charge about 400$ for both eqipment and installation work. Here in EU I paid about 250EUR.
There is no such thing as unqualified names at this level. All domain names are fully qualified, and comprise one or more labels.
> 3.) Policing is an adversarial job. This leads to a us vs them mentality and also contributes to the next problem

This has another point: America's desire for ... extremely long and, from an European POV, frankly ridiculous prison sentences.

In most of Europe, even someone carrying a car load worth of meth earns only a couple years of prison time in decent conditions (don't get me wrong, our prisons are not perfect, but generally mental and physical healthcare are given, food is decent and gangs/prison rape is nowhere near the widespread problem as it is in the US) if caught. There is no incentive to shoot a cop, in fact there is an incentive to be cooperative and friendly with cops at e.g. traffic stops (so that they don't search the car in the first place).

In America however? A drug runner often has to choose between either not shooting the cop and definitely earn decades of prison time in overcrowded prisons with inhumane conditions or shooting the cop and possibly getting away. This is why US cops are so trigger happy and assuming every person they interact with is out to shoot them, plus the ... extremely widespread availability of guns.

A huge part of solving the police violence problem will be gun control, sentencing reforms and prison reforms, as unintuitively as it sounds.
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It was all making for such an interesting read until the last paragraph.

I don't know about anyone else, but I have this inherent hatred of company marketing material disguised as blog posts.

If you are going to write a decent blog post, then write a decent blog post. If people are curious about the author they can look them up (and their affiliation). Don't turn it into a sales pitch.
Sure. It's honestly not even a stretch. Any studio that depends on UE4 to deploy to Apple hardware would have been affected if the injunction did not go through. If Epic doesn't have access to tools for UE4 or even just Fortnite (which is used to test UE4 in the wild), that means we have to spin up an internal team dedicated to the maintenance of iOS/MacOS features. People underestimate just how vast the surface area is for a game engine interoperating with the platform, and all features currently in progress would need to be manually ported/tested (file i/o, rendering, audio, networking, changes to the store API, notifications, etc). It's monumental and for many studios, not something anyone budgeted for.
> You've done it poorly.

The other commenter seemed to understand well enough. Maybe instead of playing a blame game you could accept my clarification and move on?

> You can't specify the degree to which you think you were personally selected.

And I never claimed to.

> And you've given two examples of them shooting indiscriminately. So no, they didn't personally target you.

The second example was closer to me than anyone else and I was at the rear of the crowd.

I don't know how productive it is for me to keep telling you what I mean by saying I was personally targeted. But okay, I'll try again with the same substitution: I had a first-hand experience being targeted by police with chemical and explosive weapons.
Yes it's very close. The only reason it will fail for private citizens is the device needs to be easily auditable for correctness. The auditing process needs to be at least simple enough that children in public schools can be taught how to assess their PKI dongle to make sure it's real and trustworthy.
"The longest train ride in the world"

Longest bullshit post. With changing trains, it does not mean much. BTW, the China - Thailand Railway opens soon. Then you can go to Singapore from Lisbon. Or from Marrakesh to Beijing if you take the ferry to Spain.

"All prices were hastily sourced from various travel sites."

TLDR: No idea what I am writing about, but I collected some stuff from the internet.

For some real world experience: https://www.seat61.com
Sex, race, clothing and general aspect, like everywhere else.
Should you self-flagellate for being born in the situation you are in? How would that benefit anyone?

Guilt is a negative emotion, and in my opinion you shouldn't have to do penance for things you have no control over. Instead, you can use your position of privilege to do good in whatever way fits.

My small contribution, I run an online community (~1000 members in our Discord server) with a zero tolerance policy on racism, racist / sexist / orientation stereotypes, etc. It's ran and frequented by a highly diverse range of people from all over the world. It's not much, but I know I'm not contributing to the problem and I like to think my community is making the world a better place.
I'm not sure what sort of tradeoff is there to explore: there aren't any real (not perceived, like prefering Apple's control that you do not really lose since you can have the option - even by default - stick with Apple, i mean actually real) positives for anyone involved outside of Apple. But the negatives is currently for the users not being in control over the devices they bought (i really cannot fathom how people are fine with that, every response i've read here really sounds like Stockholm syndrome) and in the future having a precedent for other companies to follow - thus affecting not only the people who use Apple now, but also people of the future (also many people taking a "let's see first the bad stuff happening and then we might judge and take some actions" is a problem by itself - by the time this is commonplace it will be way too late to take any real action).

And besides, what different organizations exploring what different tradeoffs? Right now the only practical options are Apple and Android, there aren't really that many options as to have a healthy environment and Google isn't immune to making decisions that can have an overall negative impact to the control that people have over the stuff they buy (see their Stadia console as an example and how it completely and absolutely removes any notion of control from people buying games - not even consoles, let alone PCs, feature such loss of control).
Did you read the rest of my comment? It addressed the matter of substance. Ask yourself what other field of a like nature has led to an outcome of this type. Does a Sony VHS only read Sony produced films? Does a Philips CD player only play Dutch cds? Does an iPhone only play iPhone music? Does chrome refuse to show pages for Microsoft?

The Kindle imposes a strong wall that (pdf aside) says only Kindle managed epub is routinely available and then imposes constraints on how content is added 'for a better reader experience'
what kind of twisted stuff is this? what could I do to not be born to well off parents? nothing lol

people who carry this pointless guilts should see a shrink maybe. they might suffer from something
> The outlier for the US is murder, overwhelmingly due to the mass proliferation of illegal gun possession.

Emphasis mine.

Most people miss that part and just blame people having guns in general, when law-abiding citizens with legally registered guns is not part of the overall problem.
> Using the shortest timetable, the distance from the
> coastal centre of Porto to the Polish capital of Warsaw
> can be covered in 40 hours and 33 minutes (including time
> zone changes) with just four transfers.

Wait, what? How are timezones relevant? If I travel one hour across the date line, does it mean the trip took me minus 23 hours? Not that I don't care what time it is when I get off the train, but that has no bearing on the time that the distance can be covered in.
MIT/BSD it’s the same as GPL in this aspect; it’s CDDL that’s different by providing patent protection.
I don't think US PhD's are required to have a Master's to begin with, no?
Heads up, adds items to your browser history, might make it difficult to go back.
Palantir builds tools for other government agencies to analyze their own data. Palantir the company doesn't see the data that Palantir the tool (Gotham or Foundry) is used to analyze.
Seconding this. I have multiple cards by SMCC, some basically given to me.

There's also a lot of "virtual credit card" offerings right now to pair with peer-to-peer payment apps. I imagine that those need to get cycled through frequently.

8 is not an exageration.
How do you remember how many Y's to use? Or did you just register all the in-between ones as well :p
I agree, full AGI for 90% likelihood in 50 years is optimistic. However, a book rivalling human authors? I'd definitely assign higher than 90% likelihood for that. Gpt-x might not cut it, but there's sure to be a lot of work in that direction, and 50 years is a long time.

I'd like to take that bet. I'd even speed up the timeline a bit, especially when it comes to the book.

Let's say, if there's no completely AI generated (so no human editing) book on the new york times best seller list #1 for at least a duration of 2 weeks, before 2040, I'll be very surprised.
Power users in general will dsable telemetry, so the bulk of the data these companies get come from the patterns of usage of the lowest common denominator users. It's no surprise then that everything that appeals to power users is slowly but surely removed from future iterations of the software in question. Mozilla is just another dumb corporation circling the drain of death at this point.
Don’t forget my new business that lets you make websites from Google sheets for some reason

.. what do you mean they revoked our API key?
> Unless you can eliminate fraud

Which is exactly the purpose of good security measures.

Bad or nonexistent measures and an insurance against fraud slapped on all prices is a local maximum. Good security measures which really push back the fraud and allow prices to drop the insurance premium is obviously a better local maximum.

You also don't have to eliminate 100% of fraud, just make it so rare that you can basically ignore the risk because it happening to you is as unlikely as being struck by lightning (or any other risk of life that people are comfortable to ignore due to it being vanishingly small). The classic credit card fraud with magstripes was the exact opposite of that: there was almost no credit card owner who didn't get hit by it, and while people generally didn't lose money due to reimbursement by the cc companies, they still lost time and nerves over some stupid interruption in their lives that was entirely unnecessary in the first place.

I myself had one of my cards suddenly deactivated by the bank because of alleged fraud (it wasn't even real fraud, just some heuristic going crazy over an actually intended payment). I was on a cruise ship in the Caribbean sea when it happened and all of a sudden couldn't pay my beers with my ship card anymore. Fortunately I had a second card with me that was working so I continued using that, but in order to switch my onboard expenses account over to it I had to spend some time at the customer service desk on the ship, where there was a row of passengers standing at phones, occasionally speaking with someone in various languages, but most of the time they seemed to be waiting in silence for some kind of response. It took me a few minutes of overheard conversation until I realized that these guys were in the same spot that I was, but less well prepared; they didn't have another credit card with them and thus had to call their banks back home in order to get them to unlock their accounts again.
Can you still get a goatse e-mail address though?
A frustrating work around. But a good router like from ubiquiti should have qos options to throttle your streams or a single computer on the network from hogging the bandwidth.
This comment is hilarious - you are aware that there is no "post 911 world" in 90% of the world, right? Its just a blip in a history book. Pretty sure any regulation which was put in place in America after 911 has nothing to do with any of the countries which are involved in this story.
Well, in PKI a CA doesn't keep much secret data. SSN is a symmetric shared secret, not PKI.
I'm no friends with police but they have been way more times in my side that against me.
Haven't watched it yet, but looks like the author gave a talk recently about differences between Kotlin and the latest Java: https://jakewharton.com/whats-new-in-java-19-the-end-of-kotl...
Shipping breaking changes without warning is really bad...

They already did it for beta users before and I lost add-ons, their settings (and can't even remember some names).
Absolutely not. You will find winners and losers for every language.
A PhD usually focuses on depth because you need to find new results, which usually isn't possible with breadth alone.

A nice visualization: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
The comment I was replying to is the other way around. The times the USA has attacked other countries are too numerous to type out.
They moved here knowing some things in the US are broken. They can pitch in to help us fix it. I’d guess that most would be be honored to do so.
I wasn't advocating being naive about conflicts of interest.

But the solution to a conflict of interest is not to internalize your advisor's point of view!

So don't think of them as your manager, in some traditional sense.

Think of them as your mentor, not your boss. Most of the time it's hard for them to fire you. Think long term, don't be tricked into optimizing their need for a stream of low quality papers to inflate their indices, or whatever pathology they may be pursuing.

I had a great advisor who didn't do any of this. But if my advisor was just trying to exploit me, and I had no way to effectively ignore it, it would substantially decrease the value of doing a phd, to the point where I'm not sure id recommend it in terms of expected value.

>What are they paying you for, then?

They aren't paying you. It's whatever body awarded the Grant's money. And they probably didn't set out to increase your advisors hindex.
It seems to be using the reCAPTCHA v3 score to guess how reCAPTCHA v2 will behave, and therefore influence its behaviour so it doesn’t dig itself into a ditch. (c.f. main.sh lines 755–758, notabot.sh lines 47–57.)
I was shocked to hear that my mastercard which I always use with CVC and 2FA or PIN actually works like a normal third world mastercard in some places. So while the security problem is kind of solved where I live, if someone stole my CC details they can still skim my card!

Obviously I can block it for all transactions abroad but that doesn't seem like the best idea either.

The only working solution is to generate temporary card numbers for international transactions, but that leads to the shortage issue.
High-Resolution Controllable Face Aging with Generative Adversarial Networks
Except that communities work equally well with other licenses. GPL doesn’t enable anything; there’s just no correlation there.
Yes, I'm sure they were just cementing the doors as a practical joke, not planning to set it on fire as they are doing across the country. /s
This is the sole reason for me to keep uBlock installed.
... only when the delegation for google. is cached.
I'd expect something that's not so much more extreme than the idea it's trying to communicate. If people march around saying "tear down the bridges", tagging bridges with little Xs where the demolitions should start, I'm not gonna stick around to hear that they actually mean rural highways should be better funded.
Redrivers and retimers are also known as "signal conditioners", because it's what they do - to improve the quality of a marginal or non-compliant signal. They are used in many different interfaces to accommodate long cable/board run - USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, SATA, just to name a few [0]. USB is a relatively new market since USB 3.1 and USB 3.2, due to its signal integrity challenge at high data rate.

Retimers are digital repeaters. Redrivers are mostly analog, but they are not unity-gain amplifiers, often they do equalization and emphasis internally to compensate for the distortion at high frequency.

[0] https://www.diodes.com/products/connectivity-and-timing/redr...
The situation is frustrating when there have been Firefox developers on this site assuring us that there will be full extension support eventually. This no longer seems to be the case.
> It's only because the government wanted to steal/use/sell/recover $ this happened.

Then they would have done so instead of letting the cargo go bad.
> Greetings from Melbourne, Victoria, currently on stage 4 lockdown because enough people are selfish and don't care (unless threatened).

Much of the second wave was due to mishandling of the hotel quarantine program. Given the complexity of such operations it was more likely bad luck than mal-intent. It does, however, highlight the problem of using un-vetted privatized staffing for such critical operations, and then under-training them.

Add to those blunders Melbourne's excellent public transport system that everyone depends on, a lack of mandatory mask policy, and you have the perfect storm.

"Department of Health and Human Services epidemiologist Dr Prof Charles Alpren told the inquiry that for Victorians who had developed symptoms over the past month, 1,589 had been genetically sequenced. Of those, 1,577 were linked to the cluster from Rydges, and 12 from Stamford. There were no other genetically linked clusters in Melbourne."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/22/appalling-and-...
I'm sure you believe you have all the facts but this is why right wing people believe they're being gaslighted by the media.
Given the small size of mosquitoes, restrictions imposed on prey detectability by low frequency echolocation, and variable field metabolic rates, mosquitoes may not be available to or profitable for all bats. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3795000/
A new tool for the design of oligonucleotide therapeutics
Wonderful paper! I wonder if amateur real-world simulations are possible based on public data (streets, population density, daily movement).

The computing power needed for 100,000 nodes, ~8 edges, ~30-60 sim. days, >>100 experiments seems fairly limited. An estimated 5 GFLOP should be possible for a desktop in reasonable time.
You're just making things up. Apple has explicit exceptions for multi platform subscriptions. The only condition they require is that developers should not cripple the iOS app by removing the ability to create an account from within the app (which means your app essentially has to offer in app purchases as a valid way of obtaining a subscription).

If users want they can create an account on Mac (or even on iOS Safari) and set up a subscription with lower fees outside the app and then use it inside the app.

People can easily use the Netflix accounts they created on their Mac on iOS with no extra charge.

What's not allowed is making an iOS app where you are shown a login screen but no way of creating an account from within inside the app, which forces you to use a separate platform to create the account. The idea is that an iPhone or iPad should be a standalone device and not require the help of another platform or device to do basic things like create an account.
The Story of Naval Ravikant
The new UI is great, now it's finally on par with IE11 mobile!

But really, if the navigation bar is at the bottom I don't need an extra back button anymore, the system's back button is right there below.

Didn't have any crashes yet so that would probably change my impression, but so far it's been great.
While I share the annoyance for stealth sales pitches:

1. it appears to have been added 2 months after the initial posting rather than a cynical cash grab.

2. it appears the resulting company has pivoted to VPN stuff and is no longer in the log/event processing business anyways?