skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean that all apps that can’t also be used via the web are a ‘dark pattern’?

I ask because I can easily imagine that if most customers are using apps, they might choose to remove functionality from the website rather than maintain it, just because it’s not worth it.
Slack app has 4 trackers, requests 21 permissions on Android. Harder to block trackers, while their more tech-oriented audience probably uses browser adblockers more often.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.Slack/l...
In the US we bit the bullet and regularized addresses (to the county level, which is typically the biggest entity providing urgent emergency services).

A rural place I used to live formerly had a named road, that got switched to a number that roughly locates it east to west in the county, and then the house number was set to roughly give the distance north from the nearest crossroad to the south. So anyone that understands the addressing system in the county can basically drive directly to any address without any further information (with perhaps a few short detours where roads don't continue or the like).

Of course this works much better in a place that has relatively new properly lines that were drawn based on a regular survey, but I'd think there would be some momentum to at least make things simpler over time.
You are right, outdated would imply not useful which is obviously not true. But all of this stuff was in my copy of Hennessy & Patterson from those days so it is not exactly new (because I am that old!).
If you what you say is true, it still doesn't survive N+1 invocations, we are talking about 1,2,3 vs infinity.

My statement still stands, there is _next to no_ information in the call stack of TCO enabled functions. Which is by design.
From the article re Boing:

> They were even telling the manufacturers look, we only put up requirements, we don’t actually tell you what to do

From other sources:

> Starting with the 787 Dreamliner, launched in 2004, it sought to increase profits by instead providing high-level specifications and then asking suppliers to design more parts themselves. [...]

> Rabin, the former software engineer, recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature. “I was shocked that in a room full of a couple hundred mostly senior engineers we were being told that we weren’t needed,”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...

That's the point where you loose your in-house grip on things, and run into trouble if your contractors are not up to it. Keep that up, and you loose the ability to fix it.

The chip-designing companies are betting that there always will be an external fab that's world-class, and likely better than what they can do themselves. AMD literally couldn't afford to keep up. (and when world-class was inside Intel, they somewhat suffered for it, but didn't really have an alternative)
Range headers are a pretty standard tools to e.g. continue interrupted downloads and similar.

Any well designed system, especially if it has static sources and is server cached should support it.

Surprisingly many web-frameworks don't support it out of the box, or don't support it well.

Either way gh-pages are static content and probably with some server side regional caches, so I'm not surprised it works.
Chiming in as a low-income person, yes these Flagship phones have been off of our radar for a very very long time. If I wanted to, I could go into Walmart and buy a perfectly capable locked simple mobile phone for $20 or maybe a bit more than that. There is no possible way that I consider spending multiple weeks worth of paycheck on something that could be broken or stolen easily. If I was going to treat myself to a nicer phone there are tons of great options for me to choose in the 100 or $200 range.
> AFAICT, B was polite and respectful while engaging in open debate.

Yep.

> The problem here is A, not B.

I'm pretty sure the implied problem is "B's manager" and "HR".

> The problem is _not_ the requirement to be polite and respectful.

The problem is that this requirement is not seperable from the details of how it's interpreted and enforced, and in a plurality of organizations that talk about "politeness" and "respect", it is in fact interpreted and enforced in a A(-hole)-ish manner, rather than a manner based on actual politeness and respect. Conversely, organizations that care about actual politeness and respect generally don't belabor the point as much as those that use it as a flimsy excuse, so people tend[0] to see a explicitly "'polite' 'respectful' org" as warning sign of the latter.

0: rightly or wrongly; I'm not sure how the statistics work out on that one.

TL;DR: as other people have pointed out, the scare quotes are there for a reason.
Well, I wouldn't know, that's why I clicked on the article :P

I said "outdated" in a wrong way, because this means is not valid today, which is obviously not the case.
I know. Sacrilege, Abomination, ...
>The difference between a technical person and a non-technical person is that the former has decided to learn what is needed to do what he or she wants to do

that feels overly reductive and conductive to the majority of trades and hobbies today. If a court ruled based on this concept, antitrust wouldn't exist as a concept.

"the difference between an artistic person and a non-artistic person is that the former decided to learn what is needed. All the information is on the internet"

"the difference between a Spanish speaking person and a non-spanish speaking person is that the former decided to learn what is needed. All the information is on the internet"

"the difference between a guitar player and a non-guitar player is that the former decided to learn what is needed. All the information is on the internet"

The more common case of this is :

1. most people aren't "motivated" enough to learn a new skill, especially one that is only indirect to their goal. I COULD learn HTML and host my own website, or I pay some template site $30 and get my portfolio up. Even back in my college days, $30 was worth an a few hours of my work time. well worth a few hours to let someone else keep my portfolio up. Paid off well in hindsight.

2. There isn't time to lean every sub step to your goal, which is why various scaffolding exists. I didn't need to understand how my OS, web browser, nor web server worked in order to send this comment. And I wouldn't send it if it wasn't convenient to do so.
I put parental controls on my phone to block all but only the most vital apps. Only my wife knows the password to unlock. Maybe something similar will help you out.
GitHub: Microsoft's clash with security researchers has finally arrived
Sure, but now the case is before HR and B has to waste cycles defending themselves. Or, depending on just how dysfunctional the place is, they never even hear of the false accusation until months later when it has already metastasized through the organization.

Obviously people should be polite and respectful, but when there is too much posturing around these facts, it's easy for malicious actors to weaponize.
I'm a pretty new Salesforce admin, and so far it has been a horrible experience. Apart from its horribly sluggish user experience, developing for it as also very frustrating.

You can't restore backups! You can export your data, but there's no way to import it, because you can't set the object Id or autonumbered fields (like the case number, which gets communicated to the customer). They used to provide an extremely expensive recovery service, but they stopped doing that. That's just unbelievable for a business product.

I also can't count how many times I looked up an issue and found an "Ideas" post that's over ten years old, with 10k upvotes and no reaction from Salesforce at all. Id doesn't seem like they work on the core product anymore, they just release new things that you need a license for.
Lots of things become easier when your answer is just redesign cities.
> Inflating the number intentionally would definitely be a dark pattern.

Inflating the number intentionally would be criminal fraud, plain and simple.

A dark pattern is making the „Delete account“ button smaller and grey while making the „No, take me back“ button huge and green.

Literally lying with the intent of getting money from somebody is fraud and has nothing to do with dark pattern.

Btw not attacking you personally, just wanted to clarify this misconception.
There are parts of
our vast industry that aren’t as large, and the “premier” places to work at are only a few big names. Embedded systems comes to mind for me here as does something like chipset design or telecommunications infrastructure, just to name a few examples I can think of

All complex rewarding software jobs but it’s not the same as say, web development, in terms of choices and volume
Because you are trying to hit a 15cm by 15cm sphere in 3D space that you cannot see.

That it could maybe be done under ideal conditions doesn't explain how you do it when the target is mobile (but let's be generous and say you assume they're in bed), and you need to accurately visualize where they are through an unspecified amount of intermediate interfering elements (people's bedrooms aren't glass boxes).

Foil wall insulation would disrupt an attempt at microwave beamforming - so how is targeting being achieved so precisely as to be undetectable and cause no other environmental effects?
Sure, everyone wants to get to the latent factors that really drive the outcome of interest, but I've never seen a situation in which principal components _really_ represent latent factors unless you squint hard at them and want to believe. As for gaining insight and explaining user behavior, I'd much rather just fit a decent model and share some SHAP plots for understanding how your features relate to the target and to each other.

If you like PCA and find it works in your particular domains, all the more power to you. I just don't find it practically useful for fitting better models and am generally suspicious of the insights drawn from that and other unsupervised techniques, especially given how much of the meaning of the results gets imparted by the observer who often has a particular story they'd like to tell.
>In a competitive market, when you outsource, you get immediate costs savings.

That's a good point. In addition, there's the (mostly) inevitable tendency for economies of scale to push for outsourcing. Several companies I've worked for shut down their board shops while I was there, there's just no way to practically keep up with that. Fabs got bigger. Specialty sheet metal shops can pound out the work faster than you can.

One related thing I've noticed is that older companies (dunno about places that make exclusively software) are never well equipped to deal with perpetually cheaper products with smaller margins.

As a side note, I suspect that the real magic in making toasters, if all done in-house and using simple inputs, is to design the manufacturing facility. The toaster itself is relatively simple. The Rouge must really have been something.
> given the extreme, tech-focused, affluent, bourgeois-as-fuck description that implies

While I understand where you're coming from, this is the kind of conversation that has turned me off from most of the internet.

On the months I've been on ClubHouse, I've never had an exchange like this. But elsewhere on the web? It's fairly common.

Text is a hard medium to discuss complicated ideas in. It's too easy to be snarky. You get kudos for it. But that's harder to do in voice. Because you'd have to hear my reaction, and the reactions of others. You'd have to hear how off-putting it is.

I prefer ClubHouse now, because the rest of the web is so snarky. And do you blame me? Given how you've reacted to me?
> We barely develop any software here anymore. So even very European companies like like Nokia and Ericsson, that are now trying to tell us that they are building our European telecommunication infrastructure. They’re actually not, they’re getting that built by other people in other countries far away. Anything having to do with server and PC development and manufacturing, there’s nothing left of that in Europe anymore.

This is quite an exaggeration, if not actually an outright lie. Ericsson's main hub for radio software development is in Kista, and there are some 3000 developers in Croatia as well. Some of Ericsson's radios do have their software developed exclusively in China (to my knowledge at least), and there are also a decent amount of developers in Ottawa, but to claim that all of Ericsson's software is "built in countries far away" is highly misleading imo. The 13,000+ Ericsson employees here in Sweden aren't just sitting around doing nothing.
By what principle does it make it more treble-heavy? This is the part that I haven't had explained to me and I don't understand it. I have a basswood Mustang and it sounds fine with decent humbuckers in it.
Cherished indeed: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bob-ross-paintings-smithso... "In a short video report produced by the Times, Joan Kowalski, the president of Bob Ross, Inc., explained that while the company does indeed store Ross’s many works—around 1,165 of them—they lack the resources to do so properly. The video shows the paintings stacked in everyday cardboard boxes, piled together in a bland office space without much of a filing system. “They’re not ‘climate-controlled,’” Kowalski explains with air quotes, adding that it’s not “white glove service.”"

Interesting to think a little about how Harberger taxes would fix this; no one can make the company treat the paintings better or do something more productive with them, because 'property is monopoly' - but if they had to pay a Harberger tax on the tens of millions of dollars those paintings were worth, they would probably discover that they can in fact do something better with them than stacking them randomly like lumber to get moldy in a warehouse or that people would happily take the paintings off their hands...
A nice recollection of some events in the spring of modern science. Russian revolution happened just recently, and Hitler didn't yet get to power, although a German magazine printed a list of “enemies of the German regime”. Heisenberg is about to publish his paper, Marie Curie and Hendrik Lorentz - two-times Novel laureates - participate in intellectual cooperation committee, the large part of XX century - WWII, Hiroshima, moon landing, Cold War - are still ahead in the future.
I hate it when Linkedin or Lunchclub does a "connect your friends!" and you accidentally click a button and it literally launches spam invites for your entire address book.

Worst part is that NO ONE has ever called them out for such a dark pattern, but the pattern forces ppl to send unsolicited emails to their contacts AND pretends it's meant to be sent by the person.

Incredibly devious
Which would mean that at least some of the white noise signature of an opus-encoded audio track would be ... a compression or encoding artefact.

Does opus have a notion of bitrates similar to mp3 or ogg vorbis? If so, the white noise would vary among bitrates.
"It" refers to this outage.

Changing the subject mid-sentence does harm readability.
Agreed, I don't believe there will be any such autonomous coordinated cars in many decades. It is a seriously difficult problem for the general case. It's effectively AI and true AI has been just around the corner for many decades but never arrives.

For the happy path of interstates in good weather, sure, that's not too hard.
I am a high school dropout.

I'm happy to send you an invite. Message me on twitter.
I don’t think you’ll see much criticism of people’s personal preferences or habits for their own guitar playing, even for things that are pretty eccentric or obviously superstitious. What is legit criticism in my view is when people are trying to convince other people of these things (and especially selling these things at exorbitant prices by making dubious claims).
Traffic source that gets your post in front of 4M people (any niche is allow)
> Does someone come into the house and change it out?

No, you mail it to France and get a full one in the mail.
Aerobic breakdown is totally different to anaerobic breakdown.

In composting you have to turn the compost periodically to keep it oxygenated, otherwise you get methane and poor compost.
Even when it used to be true, I feel like what was true was that tube amps sound more like tube amps than solid state amps.
> I think the closer we get to the point where all vehicles are autonomous, the easier it will get.

The last 5% of anything is the hardest, and on this particular problem it's even harder.
My previous statement is not sarcastic but should also not be taken as fact. It’s more like theory and I doubt we know how far it strays from reality. Yes savings get invested but not all money flows are equal. For example, stock buybacks might have a lesser impact on economic velocity compared to consumption spending.
Is it as simple as that though?

Ideally you’d have the same care put into making the “cheap” body. So that we can isolate the difference to just the material.
The banks themselves act as the brokers in most cases. Sometimes the banks themselves get the money because a lot of people put their money in structured investments managed by the bank itself.

They aren't pulling the money out of the bank and using a third party broker.
> There is no fixing some people. They want to believe that a single narrow interpretation of something is right

How would I not be doing the same thing if I looked at other people as needing to be "fixed" any time their thought processes don't work exactly like mine?
Sure. I think we mostly stand on the same line here.

I just tend to take hard stance against anything I find user hostile. Nagging, dark patterns, exploiting addictions, attempts at leeching personal information, lock-in, etcetra will quickly put you on my no buy list.

I think those things are evil at worst and a waste of time and resources (in a global, zero-sum way) at best, and long term we'd be better off if everyone rejected such behavior and put their money towards business that focuses solely on providing superb service without the abuse. Unfortunately these abusive practices tend to work as far as profit is concerned.. it's like tragedy of the commons, in a way.

I want to get paid too, and live in a nicer world.
Not really. You can buy a hammer made out of metal, or a plastic one for half price. The plastic one will break long before the metal one would. Is the manufacturer "planning" for breakage? Or it is just a side effect of the product being cheaper?

Real planned obscolescence is making software that requires online authentication and then switching off the auth servers 3 years in so that the customers have to buy a new version. That's a deliberate action.
I think you're referring to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g

Youtube suggested it to me recently as well.
> wpasupplicant is no longer bundled as a default package (fuck whoever came up with this, how is one supposed to do without it with no wired options?)

I haven't used the most recent versions of Ubuntu but maybe that has something to do with the fact that you chose to install Ubuntu Server. Servers don't typically have wireless network connections.
A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned. Also, Why do you think building are finished at any time? The insides change a lot, living space expands to the attic, old wiring get replaced, walls get extra support, roof gets patched, replaced, or maybe they even build a new story.
Even worse! Now you don't have protection from your credit card company not redress through the courts.

You already have the ability to "audit" the EULA/ToS/PP; it's that link you never click next to the "I agree" button.

The powerful (in money, size, skill, fame, strength, etc.) always try to (ab)use systems to bully the weak. Smart contracts only amplify their ability to do so.

Why would a company, which (reasonably) declines to deploy its limited legal resources negotiating with each user, possibly be interested in deploying its limited engineering resources to negotiate a smart contract with each user—especially when one screw-up can "legally" bankrupt the company? (See The DAO.)

If there can be no negotiation, the options are:

1. You reject their terms and don't use the service.
2. You accept their terms and legally use the service.
3. They accept your terms and you legally use the service. (Usually too risky/costly for them.)
4. You reject their terms and illegally use the service anyway.

We could legalize option 4, but that is a very bold move—the equivalent of the Chicxulub impact on legal and business practices.
One could get a Line 6 Variax and play with endless variations on body types, pickups, tunings and recordings of vintage guitars. Old ones can be had for very little these days.
No, the sources are horrible. You can easily fake up any number of Bob Rosses and simply say, "ah yes, I discovered another one of the tens of thousands of Bob Rosses which he sold as a young man or whipped out in a charity event in a small podunk place, and the original owners prefer anonymity". In terms of provenance, the sheer number, blandness, and indiscriminate original distribution of paintings makes it sound like a nightmare. If the market were more developed, so selling Rosses wasn't so unusual, I bet forgery would become a much bigger problem (although you wouldn't be able to tell if done somewhat competently - how hard would it be to get paintings and canvases from the '80s and defeat pretty much every possible forensics? that was not long ago at all... We're not talking trying to forge Renaissance masters here.)
Many companies have the revenue of Apple. Few have the profits. Something has to have a high profit margin somewhere.
There's a lot of C++ in financial/trading: custom silicon is only used for the most rudimentary/simple/rote part of the system (think like packet parsing or templating your messages you send to the exchange).

Many people are very interested in Rust right now for HFT: C++ is nothing but pain and causes tons of problems.
The goal is for a little bit of clever work to make the computer do a lot more stupid work. People get bored and make mistakes, and our brains are not getting any faster, so this kind of leverage is the only game in town.
>i'd bet a weeks pay that the vast majority of youtube views (especially after exluding viral content) come through the youtube recommendation system and not external hyperlinks.

I'd take that bet. There's a lot the agorithm does, but there's also a lot of companies and people sharing links to the videos. Any new movie trailer or album drop would definitely be linked from twitter or some company homepage. And I wager those are what make up the most views.

But I wouldn't be surprised to be right or wrong on this. the recommendations certainly aren't a tiny portion.
Ben Eater – Keyboard interface software [video]
Highly debatable. In fact, trying to classify it as a dark pattern may derail the very valid discussion that the FTC is trying to have. There are significantly worse patterns out there. See [1].

What the push notification pattern is, is annoying. And it is specially annoying because of a prevalence of confirmation dialogs all over the Web with GDPR/CCPA, paid subscriptions, etc. But does it cause harm or monetary loss as the sneak into basket pattern? Or the opt-out unnecessary "insurance" that airlines continue to put in the checkout flow?

We do a disservice to ourselves littering the web with these constant asks. But it's not what needs regulation and enforcement.

[1] https://www.darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern
in seriousness, I'm hoping people will comment here with the best places to get a mission burrito in NYC
With all the computation and memory stuffed into a modern microcontroller, is it still a retro computer? At some point, you might as well just emulate the whole thing in software.