skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This honestly is highly concerning - if that can be done for species, the next step could be to target ethnicity. I feel like this is one of those Oppenheimeresque moments in human history.
Selling the base product at a loss to make it up in accessory/operational purchases is as old as razors and razor blades. My favorite example was I think it was one of the early xboxes was being sold for less than the cost of the hardware, expecting to make up the difference in licensing on game sales. Well, a bunch of college CS labs realized the cost advantage, starting buying them in bulk, loaded linux onto them, and used them as cheap GPU clusters.

I see this model as a financing hack... the reason you can buy an HP printer for like $40 isn't because the hardware costs $40, it's because you're effectively paying interest on an invisible loan every time you buy inkjet cartridges. The longer the manufacturer has you buying cartridges, the bigger return on their initial (invisible) loan.

What makes this model shitty to the consumer is there's no cap on the "interest". The "loan" ends once the plastic gear somewhere deep inside the machine breaks and your customer needs to get a new one. Then you're back to competing against everyone else offering the same invisible loans on the Best Buy shelf. If you're lucky, the consumer doesn't see the stockholm syndrome they got themselves into last time and they choose your product again because it's familiar.

It's not helpful to call this an "unethical proprietary practice". It's more helpful to see this as the useful "low teaser rate" financial hack it is, then try to think up new financial models that might be a bit more honest (while still being sufficiently profitable that it makes business-sense to switch).
Yeah, I get an error saying something like f.asm is undefined and the maintainer is MIA. I’m taking a look at creating a form of the project and seeing what can be done at some point.
Just watched that video, and I don't know what canary is, but I can guarantee you I will never use it. Fuck that.
Your plumber tells you to never use something that might result in you not needing his services? Imagine that!
This hits on an interesting point, the more kids in your general life, not just your own but among your family, friends and neighbors, the easier having more kids is. Its interesting in the tit suggests population growth is hard to find a stable equilibrium and instead groups would be expected to oscillate between growing too fast and shrinking.
> I don't think that the algorithm is sentient...

Thats not how I read what the commentor is describing. It doesn't need to be any of those things to display emergent properties
Is lasting twice as long really a convenience if the repair costs ten times as much? I've always preferred simpler appliances that are easy to work on.
That does sound great. I'll look into it.
> Communication with the Find My network is end-to-end encrypted so that only the owner of a device has access to its location data, and no one, including Apple, knows the identity or location of any device that helped find it.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-introduces-airt...

In case you care about details: https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/security/sec60fd770ba/... https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/security/secd4ab33e5c/...

I'm not sure how the e2ee works out when using Find My in the browser, but that's a different topic, I guess.

edit:

> This entire interaction is end-to-end encrypted, anonymous, and designed to be battery and data efficient, so there is minimal impact on battery life mobile data plan usage and user privacy is protected.

https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/security/sec6cbc80fd0/...
That is hilariously wrong for a lot of use cases. I will find this very handy for some SQLite databases I have that are several GBs in size. I am looking right now at using this contribution.
It's still a nightmare to use say, Python, to write Android apps.
In some places (even in "first-world" countries like Spain, my own experience) postal services, the police and visitors don't have a clue where your house is located at.

I'd pay 0,50€ per delivery if amazon.es would allow me to specify a what3word-address and have UPS/DHL/etc use it. For years the drivers have been calling us, asking where the address ist at...

Also really fun when there were burglars in your house and the police doesn't know where to drive to.
Didder – An extensive, fast, and accurate command-line image dithering tool
Nobody ever asks how to exit Emacs
It seems they could pre-make vaccines for all 131 extant types and then mix the flu shots based on the current season. Though, likely that wouldn’t be economical.

It does raise the question of why they couldn’t just put a bit of all 131 subtypes in the vaccine. Or if that’d overload the immune system, say, the X subtypes most likely to makeup say 99% of probable flu season strains.
For anyone not knowing what these do, google and find out!
I worked for some time in Utrecht in The Netherlands, which has a somewhat extreme recycling regime, with punishments, if not done correctly. After the first week of me staying in the flat of the guy I was working for he said "Don't even attempt to put things in the bin (of which they were four) - just let me do it"

In the UK you can more or less sneak anything into any bin - of which I currently have three.
Their business model is to own access to the dataset. They don't want hierarchy as they want people to be required to use their software every time they interact with these addresses. They're just scummy. There's no reason to use this scheme vs a hierarchical decomposition using something like S2.
Started reading to find the answer, but gave up wading through the hagiography.
You aren’t being forced to do anything. Apple already supports their devices much longer than the industry standard. If you don’t like Apple stop using their products.
When creating a member account within AWS Organization it asks for root account email, this address is never validated before account is created. If you made a typo in that email and it happen to be on a valid domain you have no access to, then it is impossible to close that account and support is refusing to do anyhing, even if you contact them immediately.
Suppose for argument's sake that climate change is both significantly driven by humans and that it poses a real and grave risk.

What would be the Libertarian solution to that, and what would be its justification?

I've heard Yaron Brooks, who I usually agree with, on this topic but he seems to downplay negative externalities, which I view as a non-starter, given that they clearly exist and in some cases are large in magnitude (e.g. dumping of chemicals in a river).

> serious flaws with that [1]

I've read this before and agree with it.

> That is an extreme over simplification

Is it an over simplification of minarchist-libertarians, though?

What state apparatus do they want? Police, courts, etc. These all have the purpose of protecting individual A from individual B by using force (arrest, prison, fines, etc) on individual B if they commit violence/fraud/etc against A.

I perhaps shouldn't have used the word "Libertarian" for that though since that's a broader category.
Push notifications and their subtle ability to form usage habits (see notification -> open app -> browse feed) is a "Dark Pattern" that is used all across the consumer app industry. You can tell how focused a company is on growth and engagement by how many notifications you get a day (Clubhouse for instance slammed me with notifications until I shut them off).
Then why didn't they provide simple instructions to refill it at home? All of the factors you mentioned are still there if they were home refillable.
SkyTransfer – Free, Open-Source, Decentralized and Encrypted File-Sharing
Swedes copy everything America does and insist that they do it even more slavishly and fully. They are notorious for being pretentious, but most Americans aren't familiar with the characters of the European nations.
Alternatively, you can buy a console. It's cheaper than a desktop PC.

I have many games on Steam that I can run on Linux but I hardly ever play. I don't have much time for that.
I don’t think that is a dark pattern.
Assuming that all mining capacity is visible is the sort of assumption that cryptographers typically avoid because you can easily be blindsided. Why shouldn't an attacker hide their equipment? Cryptographers also typically avoid speculating on the attacker's motivation, so talking about the opportunity cost is a pretty weak argument. Maybe the attacker just wants to cause mayhem in the system regardless of the cost, and they are idling their equipment until they are ready to attack.

It is also worth remembering that someone trying to attack Bitcoin is not limited to amassing enough of their own mining equipment; they can also try to reduce the work being done by honest miners by sabotaging honest mining operations, which at some point will likely be cheaper than trying to buy more mining rigs. So the honest miners need to do more than just match their own estimate of the capacity of would-be attackers. Honest miners must exceed attackers by enough of a margin to absorb attempts by an attacker to reduce the honest mining capacity, and that margin is also difficult to estimate.

I do not know what counts as "strange" but I certainly say that Bitcoin's security model is inefficient and backward by the standard used in cryptography. Honest parties have no advantage over the attacker and thus are left devoting ever growing amounts of energy to mining, continuously raising the bar for the attacker (and also raising transaction costs to pay for all that energy, not to mention creating an environmental disaster in the process). No competent military commander would pursue a strategy that depends purely on numerical superiority; armies set up bases in locations that are tactically advantageous (e.g. on a hilltop) and focus their planning (offensive or defensive) on strategically valuable targets (bridges, supply lines, etc.).
Lighting is free. The only time you have to pay more is to get custom pieces of your system built in classic rebuilt. In what ways are lightning's UI "5 years outdated?"
FTC website falls victim to the darkest pattern of all: relying on javascript to manipulate html elements, so this is just a blank page; yet another anti-HTML site.
Doesn’t this only cause issues on non-HiDPI screens.
I'd love to see how you characterize Americans being healthier today than they were in 1960. Maybe you mean that life expectancy has increased from about 70 years to 78 years. However it looks like a lot of that is attributable to reduced infant mortality.

In 1960, 0.91% of Americans had Type II Diabetes. In 2015, 7.40% of Americans had Type II Diabetes: https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/slides/long_term_tre...

Obesity has also skyrocketed: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
Nice. Reminds me of Bellard’s https://vfsync.org/ . It’s file system pages served over http, to back his jslinux browser VMs
But as parent says, for that use case, the word-ness isn't relevant - picking coordinates of a map or any of the other position encodings would work just as well. And not require paying W3W license fees for no good reason.
Here are the top nvidia driver files

3975 | 98 | 54 | 9 years 8 mons 21 days | 5 mons 28 days | drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
7187 | 63 | 33 | 16 years 16 days | 7 years 3 mons 16 days | drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c
16033 | 31 | 23 | 16 years 16 days | 7 mons 5 days | drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.c
22720 | 22 | 11 | 16 years 16 days | 11 years 1 mon 3 days | drivers/video/nvidia/nv_i2c.c
28134 | 17 | 10 | 12 years 9 mons 10 days | 10 years 1 mon 10 days | drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c
28390 | 17 | 7 | 14 years 10 mons 7 days | 10 years 1 mon 10 days | drivers/video/nvidia/nv_backlight.c
30344 | 16 | 10 | 2 years 5 mons 23 days | 22 days | drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nvidia-gpu.c
33584 | 14 | 10 | 16 years 16 days | 11 years 1 mon 3 days | drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c
39992 | 11 | 10 | 7 years 15 days | 7 mons 24 days | drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
40300 | 11 | 9 | 16 years 16 days | 7 years 6 mons 3 days | drivers/video/nvidia/nv_hw.c

The first column is rank, second column is commits and third column is authors so they are in the top 4000.
> you're trying to live somewhere that you chose to live precisely because it was more exclusive

*didn't get lucky when searching for a unit

source: got lucky so I don't pay $1400/month, still live 1hr away from work.
One suggestion. As someone who knows nothing about composting, the first title asks "why composting?" Then it answers:

> The purpose of this site is to raise awareness for composting, why it's a good idea, and to encourage as many people as possible to get started.

So, we should composte because it's a good idea? Maybe your kid can expand here a little.

Also... What is composting?

Ps: I'm on mobile maybe the website answers these questions and I can't find where.
That struct should be just struct bla { int n; std::unique_ptr<int[]> mem; bla(int n) : n(n), mem(std::make_unique<int[]>(n)) { } }. There is no reason to use new/delete there.
If you want to reduce you intake of animal produce but still have fatty meals your choices are limited. Avocado, olives, nuts and some oils are exploding in popularity due to this I believe.
Constructor Theory (Video, 2015)
The New York Times does this. Unforgivable.
i also don't notice any speedup. it was a bit disappointing :)

i use gnus and org-mode heavily. 80% of my day is in one or the other.

i would add that emacs28 w/o compilation feels faster than emacs27.

emacs28 w and wo compilation feel the same.
Most of those dark patterns revolve around stealing personal data to sell it to data brokers, sometimes accompanied by extortion to give more of that data. If a big international corp made money by stealing bicycles or cars, its execs would quickly end up in prison, but this is what's happening right now in the internet. If our politicians had balls and moral, they would make it a crime to steal PII, unless the firm has a contract with the customer signed by ink, not transferrable, expiring in a year at most, with gov entities exempt. Unfortunately, PII theft has become the backbone of the modern economy.
As a non-American: is this actually something the FTC has authority over?
For last 20 years in the US, we have been recovering from decades of misinformation about the “dangers” of fat. The avocado is one item that benefits from a return to nutritional sanity.

That shift has laid the foundation for items like avocado toast or Chipotle’s guacamole to help popularize avocados.

There are lots of other factors, I’m sure. But it helps that they’re tasty.
Devil's advocate: the back of those drain cleaner solutions make a point that the solution should never sit or pool in any surface or pipe. You have to run water and chase it down so it doesn't corrode the pipes. I know where I live some of the pipes have "flow issues" because of bad design, and if there was already a partial blockage I can see drain cleaner corroding the pipes...

We just mechanically clean them out ourselves, anyway.
As a general rule, it ought to be no more difficult or time-consuming to cancel a service than it was to sign up for it in the first place.
The future can look pretty grim when you start considering how rapidly quality of life can shift upwards even for huge populations, and how many people on earth have nowhere to go on that scale but up up up.

Population growth historically received a lot of attention, but at this point there's enough queued up people waiting to join the West's way of life it looks to me like that ship has sailed.

China promptly overtook the US in co2 emissions as they arrived in the past few decades [0], by a wide margin. What does the world look like when India starts competing with China for that position? They certainly have the headcount for it, at least they're mostly vegetarian right? For how much longer...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
The reason those don't command respect is because they don't pay well in the main.
> Why was the app store showing apps to me that are not compatible or, rather, why was there no way to filter out the ones that are not compatible?

To show you what you're missing out by not buying the latest iPad
Nothing beats a Fisher Space Pen!
You know, that's not really true. For road transportation, a car is a great improvement on a horse — but it can't take you home when you're too drunk to guide it. Some things are an improvement in general, but still a compromise.

A stronger argument would explain why the better technology is a bad compromise for this application.
> The “microwave attack” story came out in mid-2017 when Trump was in office. Travel restrictions came back and foreign relations languished. It’s trivially easy to blame a nation state for an attack, and then use it as excuse to end political support, agreements, or funding.

> it is patently obvious that the US is making politically-motivated conclusions that Cuba is to blame

That is called innuendo friend, and right here you are asserting a conspiracy.

Especially considering that the US and Canadian governments have not officially identified causes or those responsible (though that has not stopped officials and health professionals from speculating).
I bet this could be great for accelerating Acorn BBC B microcomputers as well. Elite on a 6502 Tube was out of this world when released during the late 80s.
It's a nicely put together site and I congratulate your kid on a job well done.

That said, I don't see the space taken up by landfills as a big problem. Not in the US anyway. If they are done properly (and yes, that is a big if), they shouldn't release toxins or otherwise have downsides comparable to all the other sorts of damage we do to our environment.
Could you elaborate on why you don't think it's a dark pattern?
> Till now I equated Acre with Are but it turns out they are different things.

Oh well, so did I. Until your post I thought `acre` was the translation of `are`.
Etsy does a "Only 4 items left, but 7 people have it in their cart" or something similarly worded
New York Times does this also. As far as I can tell it's literally impossible to cancel a subscription. I had to close the card attached to my account.
in general terms yes, there is no real hard number on minimal number of viral particles required to result in infection, its most likely a small number compared to the number of vaccine particles in a dosage. assuming 30 micrograms dosage in a volume of 300 microliters that is a very large number of particles in one place. this is not a lot of vaccine, but this [30micrograms] would be quite a lot of viral particles.

something to keep in mind is the fuzz of biological systems.
molecular processes can have more than one outcome but there is a general bias toward an overall stability, so when a vaccine is produced, there is a certain amount of fuzz to it in the form of particles that dont assemble correctly or ar otherwise non desireable, processing the vaccine keeps these characters to a minimum.

the same thing happens to the virus, the fuzz portion being in someway unable to replicate or enter a cell, just out of the way the fuzzy dice roll.

so its hard to pin down a number of minimally effective dose for either case, however virus amplifies past the original dose, and spreads to mutiple locations, signaling any molecular system that can be bound to, in this case vast preference being given to ACE-2, resulting in perturbation of the RAS system and the now stereotypic covid symptoms

so viral particles amplify over time, and over a spatial distribution, vaccine particles stay in site and dont replicate and dont migrate to interact with other cells in the tissue or throughout the body.
Avocados weren’t really marketed at all until the mid-90s and were also shunned by some due to high fat. It was a niche food almost completely considered a side for mexican cuisine. It has been expensive outside of growing areas for a while, hence the jokes about asking for guac at Chipotle and always being warned it costs another $1.39. I’d guess part of the expense is that it has a relatively small window between being unripe and too ripe.

My understanding is also that it can take 20 years from pit to fruit-bearing-tree, so supply will tend to lag behind demand (which has grown globally.)
Flatpak, of all things?

https://flatkill.org/
The pre-wash compartment is really just a lidless measuring scoop anyway. If you don't have one, put it directly into the washing compartment instead.
Here's another kid that isnt afraid to stand up to authority to repeat what that authority is constantly promoting back to it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6d0ROiFVg

Not to mention Greta and her fawning coverage in the American press.
Would also be great to add (efficient) search to a static blog.
"Salesforce’s point-and-click database editor and drag-and-drop UI builder alone make it much more than a CRM. But when you bolt on other apps and 3rd-party APIs, it gets close to programming without code: a new way to build software."

Seems analogous to Wordpress for building websites, without actually knowing how to build websites, yes/no?
Anything attempting to falesly manipulate someone with FOMO should be punishable. If not with jail time, then heavy fines. If not that, they should be forced to do the GoT walk of shame.
https://archive.is/cbMRz
> and the hangtag accessories look so pretty

I'm going to buy AirTags and 100% disagree. I will likely print a complete enclosure because the accessories they sell are expensive, look stupid and will still scratch the tags up like mad (will I resell them? probably not, but still).
Here's a fun one:

An e-commerce website that offers a subscription page for signup but requires you to contact customer service by phone or email in order for you to cancel. Went through this recently with Bespoke Post. I sent the cancellation email, their customer service person replied saying that they would instead suspend my subscription for three months, and required me to send them another email.

I'd LOVE to see an FTC rule that requires companies who take subscriptions by web have link on the account page to unsubscribe by web.
I had an experience a couple of days ago with exactly this type of thing (I downloaded the comment form, and I'll send it in).

In this case, it nearly cost the app maker a sale (I doubt they'll go out of business on the loss of my sale. As it happened, they didn't actually lose the sale).

I wanted to ID some of the plants in my yard, looking for native vs. introduced, so I downloaded a couple of apps. One was a good one, but was really a "crowdsourced" one. I had to sign up for an account, and participate in a community. Not a showstopper; but not really what I was looking for. I'm into instant gratification.

The other one was an ML-type app that would analyze photos in realtime.

When I started it up, it immediately wanted me to get the in-app purchase to the "premium" version, which is actually a yearly subscription.

The dark pattern, was how they did that. They obfuscated and deprecated the navigation to the free variant. It was almost impossible to see the buttons behind the premium banner, and it was difficult to actually touch them.

At first, I immediately shitcanned the app, as I assumed that you were required to get a subscription before using it at all.

I did a bit more research, and everyone was saying it was a decent app, and that it could be used without the subscription.

So I tried it again. This time, I squinted, and found the links.

It worked really well. I'll be getting the subscription.

The moral of the story is that they were so big on a dark pattern, trying to force new users to start paying immediately, that they actually drive off sales. The app works well. They don't need to hide it. That's what apps that suck do. This app does not suck.