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In all of Bitcoin's existence, at today's price, there's only few time ranges where you would have lost money, if you just held on, you made it back and then some.

Of course, past performance doesn't indicate future, but so far, BTC has performed much better than fiat consistently.
An informative prompt explaining why permissions are needed with a single continue button is not a dark pattern.

If you have a "decline" button that bypasses the browser, then you are using a dark pattern.
This is truly awesome. Very clever.
>You won't save cash in a bank, it's literally better to put it in a safe.

That costs money too. You need a safe, space to put the safe, and bear the risk of the safe getting robbed. Sometimes paying 0.75% might be worth the hassle.
Verizon Nears Deal to Sell Media Arm to Apollo
If a founder is looking for a job that would make that founder a failure. Of course that founder will struggle to find a job.
There are three main interest rates of the ecb: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...
At 33:24 into the video John Baez quotes a research article about the environmental implications of having children. That topic was also covered by me earlier in Ask HN: Why Aren't You Vegan? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27005062 and I've since referred a post there to this one.

Unfortunately, that topic is now flagged. It seems that that it's still too 'hot' to handle (even for HN) as Paul Ehrlich found out decades ago. Given that fact, I'm surprised that Baez is brave enough to mention it here (of course he's correct to do so).
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IV
I'm saying that a schema designers reaction to their users using jinja2 or dhall on their YAML ought to be to fix their schema so it's not necessary.

There are plenty of properly designed YAML schemas where people never feel the need to use something like dhall or jinja2.
It boggles my mind that phone makers don't use a grippy surface on the phones. The sleek surfaces look great in marketing photos but make for horrible usability.

I use Android and once a phone is nearing the 3/4 mark of it's useful life, I pull the cases off because at that point the smaller/sleeker form factor helps offset the annoying performance degradation. With my Nexus 5, which had a grippy back, the screen is still intact to this day. My Nexus 6p, which has a metallic back, slipped out of my hand the very first day I took the case off and the screen shattered.

My new strategy is to just buy a mid-low range android at the end of the sales cycle for a steep discount. I got last years Moto G Power model for about 40 bucks. Once I get about half way through it's useful life (~2 years), I am going to take the case off and I am going to scuff it up with sand paper and then spray on some truck liner or other grippy surfacing agent.
If you know a bit of linear algebra the transformation is surprisingly intuitive.

Your goal is to create a set of orthogonal vectors, each that captures the highest amount of variance in the original data (the assumption is that variance is where the most information is).

This is achieved by performing Eigen-decomposition on the Covariance matrix of the original data. Essentially you are learning the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix, ordered by their eigenvalues.
Not all webservers support/enable it, so YMMV.

But as long as you're dealing with a known server that does, then gravy!
URL’s is probably one thing that Salesforce solved well, at least in classic - you’re always routed to the right page by 15 character ID.
I have been working on the Salesforce platform for about 3 years now, and it has been a pretty enlightening experience(good and bad). It has certainly been lucrative as well. I would say that a lot of the issues around Salesforce stem from how easy it is to write or configure a terrible solution. Something that looks like it works but is so far from any sort of optimization.

Much of Salesforce implementation development also goes unvetted by the client. I have worked and currently work on projects where I constantly ask 'how did this ever make it into production...and how has no one noticed that this is hot garbage for 4 years'. Eventually someone digs deep enough and whoever is managing that project at the time gets the brunt of the blame unfortunately...
I think there are a couple of issues. One is that most countries consider giant piles or fine print that no one reads to be binding contracts and that customers can’t credibly negotiate them. The other is that it’s far too easy for merchants to extract money from customers without the customers’ consent.

Attacking the latter might make a large difference even if the former remains unsolved. The New York Times can get away with making cancellation difficult because they have the power to unilaterally take money from their (former?) customers. But, if anyone could trivially revoke their authorization to charge them money, I doubt that the New York Times would actually try to sue or collect from their customers en masse. Sure, they could try, but that would be a fantastic way to piss everyone off and to recover very little money.
Probably because of age difference, she's much younger than me. And also because of the way she behaves - i perceive it as a bit childish/immature

But yes, i'm afraid i might be wrongly accused and would have a hard time defending myself, and this also affects the rest of the team (as i dont think they're blind - they see and feel what's going on - but on the other side i'd rather not talk about this with anyone else from the team so it's ok we dont mention that)

PS (edit): "low performer" - this is probably the key, i have worked with some developers doing a poor job but it's first time when i'm served some manipulative crap to prevent any honest discussion of the work done.
Depends on state. ~$24K-$25K
This is not my first time that I hear about this. Two of my danish friends told me exactly the same without /s :). Why shouldn't I have savings ?
Alternatively you won't save as much and spend more on things without future monetary value (experiences, services, etc)
No it just causes more money to go into the stock market as people put everything except a nest egg, there.
I wonder whether this ends up decreasing consumption, as people are less able to buy impulsively when their money is locked away.

But in my opinion what our problem in Europe is, is a very conservative investment culture at the very top. It is very hard to get funding for anything. No wonder there is barely any growth. Even most flashy startups here get money from government grants.
Employees have a fiduciary duty to their employers.

As such, employers define their own culture.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=724a91e1-94f1...
Most banks in Germany do this too, and have been doing it for a while, both for private as well as business accounts. The limits are sometimes well below the €100k insured deposit that you typically don’t want to exceed.
Do you think your team’s usage of SQLite is representative of the average SQLite user?
How do you foresee that working? Would the government publish a standard API for all chat systems? Would chat system makers have to build a bridge for every single messenger ever made, even if it only has 1k users? I just don’t see how the law can make apps interoperable without huge barriers of entry that would benefit the incumbents.
When you’re in the thick of it, the fog of war is real.

It’s hard to overstate how hard it is to leave this kind of project as a manager. You spend years of your life building relationships with engineers and trying (and sometimes failing, admittedly, but trying) to protect them. You know the situation is a disaster and you want to get out of it. But you’re afraid of letting down your people and hurting their careers. You’re afraid the next person won’t be able to protect them as well. You’re afraid of losing the years in your resume and not accomplishing anything. You’re afraid of being a failure if you give up. When your body is breaking down due to the stress, you’re afraid to lose your health insurance.

You’re right - I should have quit as soon as it was clear it was a death march. But in the shit, I found it almost impossible to lift my head up and say “this is literally killing me, I quit”. When each individual day is at your maximum trauma threshold, it’s hard to work up the time, willpower, or ability to interview prep and change companies.

I regret it immensely.
That has a lot more to do with personality than career. If you’re an irritating know-it-all weirdo, people aren’t going to like you regardless of your job. I’ve known engineers like that that, but most people I know and work with are normal people and are respected.
If water used in agriculture – including water sucked out of aquifers from wells – were appropriately priced, (a) water-intensive crops would move to places where water was more abundant, and (b) ways would be found to reduce water use.

Growing e.g. alfalfa, rice, cotton, or almonds in California (not to mention beef/dairy production) happens partly because water for agriculture is artificially cheap, not reflecting its true costs.
I honestly thought this was going to be about alternatives to less and more.
>Will they produce false positives? Of course. Do the benefits to content creators outweigh the costs of these false positives? Yes if you believe creative content should be protected.

False positives are absolutely unacceptable when it comes to anything dealing money. I sure wouldn't stick with a bank if they said "oh well, false positives happen. you'll get your money next week... maybe".

but there are several banks that help ensure that security. There are no checks to google allowing for such false positives.
What is the most reasonable way that "we" and people like us on HN could do to prevent Dark Patterns as they are right now? Maybe the FTC will prevent some in the future, maybe they won't, I don't put much hope into it. Lawmaking on the internet right now is a mess, and GDPR whilst it might have had good intents ended up being a big mistake imo. (Certainly the whole consent-cookie thing is a mistake)

We can all promise not to implement Dark Patterns in the software we write. But the good old "personal boycott" isn't really working, and hasn't really been working since forever. If for example Youtube won't allow you to turn off your screen on a mobile device, unless you buy premium (turning off the screen is a hardware feature, not a website feature), then the solution isn't really to stop using Youtube. There isn't an alternative.

Man, when I think about this stuff I can get kinda jaded. Antidotes like youtube-dl, or ublock origin work, but they only work for "us", and not everyone else who has to live in the Dark Pattern hellhole that the internet is turning into. I meet people who have never heard of an adblocker, still in 2021.

And even if "we" all stop implementing Dark Patterns, there will be plenty of other cheap hires who will gladly implement the same features when we refuse to do that kind of stuff. And if you're in a bad enough spot it would leave you out of work even. What if there was some kind of union? Like say something called "union of ethical software", which may more technically be a international non-profit rather than a union, which does a few different things:

1) Establishes open standards for how things should work, in regards to "ethical software", rather than say technical standards.

2) Has a donation fund which funds

A) A small team of lawyers/tech-people, who will on a strategic basis defend cases where an employee might end up in trouble refusing to implement features which are in conflict with 1). Not to primarily save employees, but to primarily scare tech-giants from going for the "do it or ill fire you stick immediately".

B) A small team of educators and speakers, who would spend time creating educational content and essentially political content as to garner public opinion in favor of all this, the types of people to appear on say TV during a big case against for example Google.

I'm just throwing ideas at the wall here though. Saw another comment here about living in a off-grid cabin. That sounds very nice, and better each day.

...The ESITF, Ethical Standards for Information Technology Foundation. Did it have a ring?
That doesn't really encapsulate anything, then. You end up with global data wrapped in classes.
While this is true, there has actually been no point since Dogecoin's inception where buying Bitcoin was the better option (denominated in fiat, of course).
Of course, just because you cancel your Direct Debit doesn't mean you aren't legally on the hook for that payment.

They can still send demand letters and "send you to collections".
Like many fruits and vegetables, I’m guessing quality has to do with how early it has to be picked before the ideal picking time in order to transit to the destination.

Almost all fruits and vegetables in the US taste better on the US West coast, in my opinion, and I suspect it’s because you’re closer to the origin (Cali/Mexico/WA/OR/the rest of Central and South America) so the fruit/vegetables take less time in transit and therefore don’t have to be picked so early.
It may not even have been that you would have ignored him if via text, but that they may not have been as engaged or been able to read your genuine concern or attention - reading your response in whatever projected tone he believed someone/everyone would treat him.

These tools can be used or wielded either as weapons or for healing-learning. I think we're just beginning to organize to understand after the clusterfuck of the experience of Facebook and the current mainstream status quo "social media." Likewise decoupling someone's reach by providing video services - whether live or recorded - and not being dependant on mainstream media to determine who's messages get out, and how long they can be, along with rehumanizing it, faces and voice being more engaging than simply test, is what we needed; where an individual like Joe Rogan acts a curator to expose interesting guests to share their story for 2-4 hours - essentially creating/expanding nodes of leadership - whether entertaining, educational, or role modelling.

I think whatever experience people have on Clubhouse will fully depend on the context, the curators, and so ultimately how Clubhouse or such platforms are governed; along with how access to the information is managed, if all the most popular people start putting their content behind walled gardens then that's arguably a problem - or then we allow privacy if anyone is trying to extract too much, whatever is considered unreasonable.
columnar layout is only faster if reads are sequential
> wouldn't it be more interesting for people to have spinning drives (for the better ratio of GB / $)?

You do trade off for a slower read rate. If the rate of requests coming in is fast enough, your spinning drive/s may not be fast enough to go through the indexes for each one.
the nsa and cia are not victims in this story, neither are u.s diplomats. these are weapons that the nazis have touted for decades as their secret weapon. i've had weapons like this used on me a lot
Absolutely, it's not a perfect analogy but it's a surprisingly good one.

The value is in the sheer size of the ecosystem and the idea of everything being plug and play, even if the reality often necessitates actual code when you get past the happy demo path to your business's weird edge cases.
Love that this website requires following a link for every comment.
As a partial response to the part about accessibility, Clubhouse is now quite accessible to blind people, and a growing proportion of the online blind community is embracing it. Here's a podcast episode about Clubhouse from a blindness perspective:

https://mosen.org/episode-99-all-you-need-to-know-about-club...

Of course, the fact that it excludes deaf people is still a concern.
About every bank in the Netherlands, though it usually starts at either €100K or €250K, so that's a bit higher limit than this Danish bank.

I don't think this policy is actually a problem for many people here. Most people above that limit either invest it, put it into a "savings deposit" (you agree to not touch the money for some pre-definied time and in exchange you get better, positive interest rates), or spread it out across multiple banks (since savings accounts are usually free, but only guaranteed up to €100K when the bank fails).
Thanks for the specific and constructive feedback, I'll pass this along!
That really is quite low. I guess they don't get the constant PSAs that you should always maintain 6 months worth of salary in savings to handle emergencies?
> Sending the data back to Apple could be more significant. But I guess that’s only of the AirTag is “lost”

To do that, your phone has to know which AirTags are lost.

A solution might be that Apple periodically sends a list of lost AirTags to phones (possibly as a bloom filter or other inexact, but compact, structure), but I’m not convinced it does. Maybe, it bets on AirTags being rare enough (who’s going to buy tens of them? I wouldn’t, as the idea of having to replace those batteries would put me of buying many) for this not to be a problem.
This is hilariously clever.

Using the "Range" HTTP header to read chunks of the database file absolutely works!

But to be clear, there's no write equivalent, is there? You can't use "Range" with a PUT request.
#ExplainLikeImFive

Could somebody explain to me what a PVC (Personalized Cancer Vaccine) is? Like what is the personalized part in there? Is there really a realistic scenario in which we'll get some regular vaccination and then we'll be cancer free in the future?
The way I think about it is that Lead is a stage of a Contact, not a separate object.
>People looking for extreme safety might want to at least put a tiny bit into Bitcoin or some other crypto.

This. This is why people put money in bonds and gold. It's not a get rich quick scheme, it's an uncorrelated asset. Which BTC absolutely might (heavy emphasis on might) be. BTC is a perfectly valid hedge, but beyond that it's speculation.

At the start of 2018 BTC hit around ~17k, it took 2 years to get back to that price and the history of this asset means you can't even expect that to be predictive. So be careful.
“Eight young healthy volunteers (mean age, 25.4 ± 3.5 years)”

Don’t expect representative science here. It suggests there’s something worth studying, but drawing conclusions about the effects of fasting for yourself or others from this paper alone is not scientifically sound.
You usually split a humbucker rather than tap it. Either way, that’ll give you a lot less grunt than a P-90, which are just as hot or hotter than the average PAF-style humbucker with both coils going.
> You must be able to cancel subscriptions from the same website that you created it from.

More to the point, it should be required that canceling/downgrading is as easy as or easier than signing up/upgrading. Want to offer 1-click-buy, you also need to offer 1-click-cancel.
Worst dark pattern IMHO these days is the free trial that requires a credit card and rolls right into subscription, especially when it defaults to annual and there’s an early cancellation fee. Canceling subscriptions is also a labyrinth that differs by site.
It's not a very good analogy!
By home movies I mean replacing the super 8 format.

The design behind VHS made camcorders cheaper to make as well as enabled them to be used to play video. Betamax at the time had a more complicated solution where a separate player was needed and also initially a two stage solution where different tapes had to be used.
Savings are a drag on the economy. It’s negative aggregate demand and we can’t have that. While I don’t have any proof, I have a feeling that the negative rates environment is making people even more scared of spending money.
> If we start creating laws around these things, then it’ll only be even tougher for up-comers to challenge the existing big players.

For interoperability etc I disagree. Leverage on existing protocols where possible and you get most of it for free. E.g. use xmpp/matrix if you need IM-like functionality.
Not to mention, back when the Emacs we know today was created, there weren't many GUI platforms available in the first place. First public release of GNU Emacs - the one with Emacs Lisp - was in 1985, so the Emacs we know is ~3 years older than X11. Emacs added GUI support in 1986[0] - before X11 was a thing (though X itself existed since 1984).

Emacs started as a terminal app, the GUI was added as an afterthought, by pretending it's a TTY. The concept of a "UI thread" wasn't on Stallman's mind back then. It continued to evolve from there; fast forward 35 years, and now we're living with a GUI program that still thinks it's writing to a teletype[1].

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[0] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10084842/first-gui-versi...

[1] - https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
I wouldn't say outdated, but these ideas have a long history. Superscalar processors go back to Cray's CDC 6600 in 1966. Cache memory was used in the IBM System/360 Model 85 in 1969. Pipelining was used in the ILLIAC II (1962) and probably earlier. Branch prediction was used in the IBM Stretch (1961). Out-of-order execution and register renaming was implemented in the IBM System/360 Model 91 (1966).

It's interesting to see how many CPU architecture ideas that we consider modern were first developed in the 1960s, and how they took a long time to move into microprocessor.
I promised myself that I'd stop wasting time getting into internet arguments. And to be honest, I don't even like Clubhouse. But this article is full of so many bad-faith arguments that I just can't. Here are a few examples:

> It is clear that Clubhouse was not designed with privacy in mind. The app, which initially launched without a privacy policy,

To support this claim, the author links to a Twitter thread [1] where someone first says there is no privacy policy, then someone else provides a link to it, then the first person shows a video that appears to show a broken Privacy link on the Clubhouse website -- a web site that nobody visits because Clubhouse is an app. As far as I know, the in-app link to the privacy policy and the link on the App Store have always worked -- this is one of the things that Apple consistently checks before approving an app.

So somehow, having a broken link becomes they "launched without a privacy policy". You might say, well, maybe the author didn't read the Twitter thread carefully. But who was the person on Twitter who pointed out that Clubhouse does, in fact, have a Privacy Policy? It was Elizabeth Renieris -- the same Elizabeth Renieris who wrote the article! In other words, she's completely aware that her claim is untrue, yet she makes it anyway.

> Instead, Clubhouse is yet another example of technology designed by, and largely for, privileged, white, Western and able-bodied men.

First, this ignores the fact only one of the two founders of Clubhouse is white -- the other is a brown immigrant from a non-Western country. I doubt the author is unaware of this, and is simply reclassifying asians as "white" because it supports her narrative.

Secondly, attempting to paint the founders as ablist because they don't yet support captioning is both heartbreaking and absurd. One founder has a daughter who was born with a genetic defect that causes severe disabilities, and he has put a tremendous amount of effort raising awareness and fundraising for this [2]. He's literally the last person you'd accuse of holding a prejudice against the disabled.

Finally, at least in my experience, Clubhouse seems to have created a community where minorities and women are welcomed and play a prominent role in leading and moderating discussions. The claim that Clubhouse is designed largely for white men seems... completely unsupported.

[1] https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1360044616217628677

[2] https://www.lydianaccelerator.org/
Is it at all possible Teams is coming back due to a company group policy?