skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First tweet:

i’m going to give a full response asap. but quickly for the record:
1) the (relatively) small amount of spike protein produced by the mRNA vaccine would not be nearly enough to do any damage
2) i happily got the mRNA vaccine, FWIW
3) i encourage everyone to get it

Second tweet:

a couple prelim responses to anti-vaxxers misrepresenting these findings (here: https://twitter.com/manorlaboratory/status/1388717008544419843?s=21). tl;dr: mRNA vaccine is waaaaay safer than COVID19 and everyone should get it - I did and everyone in my family did as well! Our paper just shows this disease really sucks.
I’m not sure that’s a “dark pattern” that’s just AWS incompentence, spiced up with a dash of “no my department” in customer service.
I'm really curious how you can outlaw dark patterns.
Some landfills now harvest methane and inject it back into the natural gas grid. If this were done more widely, landfills could actually help solve climate change by reducing demand for natural gas.
But in what situation is this useful?

On the phone? There's a bit I don't like about W3W, but efficiency of communication is their killer feature.
Sounds like you (and so many others) were suckered by a charlatan.
The world is in the midst of its worst Covid crisis so far
Seek works incredibly well but has no paid version, so maybe that's something else.
About 10yrs ago
Go to your local farmer's market, buy what they have. It's not that hard.
> We are far from ready from centrally advocating for plant-based diets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan_nutrition#Positions_of_d...

"Positions of dietetic and government associations - The American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Dietitians of Canada state that properly planned vegan diets are appropriate for all life stages, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence.[5][6] They indicate that vegetarian diets may be more common among adolescents with eating disorders, but that its adoption may serve to camouflage a disorder rather than cause one. The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council similarly recognizes a well-planned vegan diet as viable for any age,[7][8] as does the New Zealand Ministry of Health,[9] British National Health Service,[10] British Nutrition Foundation,[11] Dietitians Association of Australia,[12] United States Department of Agriculture,[13] Mayo Clinic,[14] Canadian Pediatric Society,[15] and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.[16] The British National Health Service's Eatwell Plate allows for an entirely plant-based diet,[17] as does the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) MyPlate.[18][19] The USDA allows tofu to replace meat in the National School Lunch Program.[20] The American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics adds that well-planned vegan diets are also appropriate for older adults and athletes.[1]"
Apple does this as well on iOS where certain stock apps like Books always open links in Safari even when you have a different default browser set.
It’s been tried and done before via chemical and biological methods (if you don’t want to sleep for awhile, check out what has been declassified on THOSE topics and realize that is what they were OK releasing to the public!).

The problem of course is that in deploying it, you’ll inevitably kill a bunch of your own - no population is so consistent you won’t kill a bunch of senior leaders who had parents 3 generations ago who were transracial or whatever and lied about it - and it will inevitably turn everyone in the world against you.

Even states like NK or Iran need friends, and those friends would have enough casualties from anything like this there is no scenario I can imagine anyone would intentionally release something like that.

Doesn’t mean a mad scientist type would cook it up accidentally in the garage, but there are always real world constraints stopping wide spread (physics sometimes, often effectiveness limits or the like).
Huh, that's actually kind of a worst case I didn't think about: Since you're doing a reverse table scan my "sequential access" detection doesn't kick in. If you do the same query but with a forward scan it should fetch roughly the same amount of data but only do like 5 HTTP requests since the request size doubles for every sequential access.

e.g.:

select country_code, long_name from wdi_country where rowid >= 164 order by rowid asc limit 100;
Also Zoom. Their web version seems to no longer work on Safari/Mac and Firefox/Mac, so they essentially force you onto native or don't use it.
Thank you, I failed to find this one in my previous literature search.

I don't have it handy now, but for at least one SARS-Cov-1 vaccine candidate everything seemed fine, and good immediate antibody response (as in this paper), but another challenge 3 months later had an ADE response with worse outcomes than a naive infection. IIRC it was done in felines, not in primates.
Pgloader
Landfills generally burn off their methane, which turns it into carbon dioxide.

So, yes, they’re roughly equivalent. And things decay faster as compost, so you’d actually be increasing climate change by composting all organic waste.

Methane is mostly a problem when it can’t be captured and burned (ex: cow farts, a serious problem in preventing climate change).

Note that I still support composting. I just don’t think it can be argued from a climate change perspective.
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The Coming Conflict Between Introverts and Extroverts
I think there's actually a case to be made that there is widespread soft corporate censorship enforcing a new orthodoxy on race discourse (and other things), I'm just waiting on somebody to make it rather than just firing another blind volley in the culture war.
I was going to say, don't let Arduino LLC catch you calling it that ;)
> The stock mar­ket gives a glimpse of just how enor­mous these com­pa­nies have be­come in this ex­traordinary pe­riod: Com­bined mar­ket value for the five Big Tech com­pa­nies is now over $8 tril­lion, ac­count­ing for nearly a quar­ter of the to­tal value of the com­pa­nies in the S&P 500. That is nearly dou­ble the per­cent­age five years ago.

We need new and revised antitrust laws, and a strong push to enforce them, to restore a fair, competitive environment that welcomes new businesses. Right now these conglomerates are too big, wield too much capital, have too much influence, and can copy others’ ideas freely to keep growing. Anytime we see someone smaller innovate (like Slack), we see a tech giant steal the idea (like Microsoft Teams). Their massive patent war chests make challenging them difficult. Their access to capital means they can loss lead and enter new markets while starving others. And as we have seen with their censorship and deplatforming efforts, they are as powerful as governments, able to control public speech across hundreds of millions of people. What we have today is an unacceptable situation.

I also think a new revival of small and medium businesses could be a great way to fairly redistribute power and wealth, within the structure of a competitive market environment, rather than simply redistributing towards equal outcomes for everyone.
i think there are some rather great comments/examples of Dark Patterns in this thread and I just want to remind everyone to also submit those as public comment to the FTC! Just posting it on HN won't get it in front of the people who can make a difference!
Not easily - Datasette is written in Python, so you could try running it in WebAssembly (like Mozilla did for Jupyter with https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/iodide-an-experimental-too... ) but it would be enough work that it might be easier to reimplement a subset of Datasette directly in JavaScript.
So the R code was pretty bad and your solution was more optimal - that's the only bit of information in here. The point is that rewriting something means you have extra domain knowledge, bottleneck knowledge, etc that you didn't have during the initial write. Tt might have gone the other way too, initial write in Python is too slow, rewrite in R is faster.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons does not have the best reputation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic...
A level 2 with more features and lots of risk.
The previous responses cover what are probably the most important factors, but I think it’s worth adding that avocados are also touted as ‘super foods’ in multiple trendy diets (eg keto).
You could say that about anything you construct in your model though? Stops being OO if it's not somehow similar to an admittedly vague concept of what an object is, surely?

I could write the whole thing as an ECS and call all the objects systems or components, and then they are nouns in the domain?
I don't know if this counts as a dark pattern but it really ticked me off when this happened: when YouTube on iPad changed to require a paid subscription to play content while the screen is turned off. What kind of fresh hell is that? I have to pay to use a hardware feature? What's the next move, requiring me to purchase a subscription to adjust the volume or the screen brightness?

Actually this reminds me of another annoyance: playing ads at a higher volume than the content. I tend to listen to content very softly to prevent hearing loss, and whenever an ad comes on I find myself turning the volume down, only to turn it up again when the content comes back.
Eligibility for a class action lawsuit.
The clever part here is only fetching 50KB out of 680MB.
It's an opinion piece, it doesn't need to present evidence for everything it says. Take the thirty seconds to look it up on Wikipedia if you want to see all the details.
Nope. Not sarcasm. I'm going through each of the kiddo's tablets and cataloging every dark pattern, in every game. Then I'm writing up the details of our nightmare with PayPal, the couple of financial institutions I've had nightmares getting things closed out from, and possibly even chucking in a few examples of contact template language that I think qualify like "To opt out, send a hand-signed letter to yada-yada...".

I'm so tired of malicious compliance, hidden or disguised unsubscribe links, and complete disregard for the burden imposed on consumers.

Gacha games, loot boxes, that type of thing.
Basically everything listed here.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3400901

but also

https://www.darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern

or monitored here:

https://www.darkpattern.games/

I've come to realize these types of "Dark Patterns" exist in way more than just UI's. Businesses often find ways of leveraging the fruits of them for alternate revenue streams.

I'm sure there are academics out there who'll nail down the white paper aspect, butI tend to try to supply a boots on the ground eye-view since I spend a lot of time trying to teach people what to look out for, and why it's a problem.
If it is done by big agrobusiness, it is bad for the environment/poor people. This is a constant that won't change. The only good food is done by local farmers.
> if you assume that this all powerful God really cares about this stuff

Nobody knows what God "cares" about, nor even if "caring" is something God does at all, in a sense that humans do it. It's like comparing human to CPU by clock frequency - these are different things, and clock frequency is a useable measure for a CPU (at least certain designs of CPUs) but quite useless if you want to talk about a human. You can't just bring terminology from one area onto another and expect it automatically to make sense.

> Is the God all powerful and all knowing?

Yes.

> Or literally so stupid that you can defeat the sacred logic

Why you think it's "defeating" anything? God is not a CTF contest. You framing it as "defeat" is just your framing, but it's not how Jews see it - they see it as "preserving", not "defeating".

> do religious people honestly think that this "trick" works, in a spiritual sense?

What you mean by "works"? It certainly works for them. It may not work for you, but if you are neither an observant Jew nor God, who cares if it works for you or not?
> a $4B company

Small correction: a company that acquired capital at a $4bn valuation. As VCs are well known to shore up countless failures with few overwhelming successes, That valuation is essentially useless.

If you want a correct valuation, you'll have to wait and see what employees get for their shares.
It's a question all Tesla customers should be asking, and not just for "FS"D:

Roadster deposits? Deposits opened in 2015. That's more than half a decade ago. The Roadster is still vapourware as far as anyone can tell. Barely gets mentioned anywhere except for the occasional outrageous Musk tweet lie "it will have rockets!".

Tesla Semi? Deposits opened a couple years ago and the design isn't even finalized. The line to produce these does not exist yet.

Tesla Cybertruck? At least the deposit is just $100, but this was a shift in interest-free capital raising by Tesla (volume instead of quantity). The design has not yet been completed, never mind the line - the pre-requisite line to produce the batteries this vehicle will use doesn't even exist yet.

Now imagine if you had put any of those deposits in an alternative investment. Roadster deposit holders could be millionaires just off not putting down a deposit and instead putting it on anything - including Tesla stock.

The stock is Tesla's real product. Everything else is something on the way to meeting the performance milestones so Musk can get hits bonuses, but the good news is he can help you get a bonus too since you could have bought shares.
> sql.js only allows you to create and read from databases that are fully in memory though - so I implemented a virtual file system that fetches chunks of the database with HTTP Range requests when SQLite tries to read from the filesystem: sql.js-httpvfs. From SQLite’s perspective, it just looks like it’s living on a normal computer with an empty filesystem except for a file called /wdi.sqlite3 that it can read from.

From this paragraph it should be pretty clear that it's actually a great result. The database will obviously need to read more data than it presents, so more is fetched.
This is indeed newly listed as a risk factor in connection with FSD features. Items from the previous 10k where about competition and regulation:

- "For example, Model 3 and Model Y face competition from existing and future automobile manufacturers in the extremely competitive entry-level premium sedan and compact SUV markets, including BMW, Ford, Lexus, Mercedes, Volkswagen Group and Volvo. A significant and growing number of established and new automobile manufacturers, as well as other companies, have entered or are reported to have plans to enter the alternative fuel vehicle market, including hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fully electric vehicles, as well as the market for self-driving technology and other vehicle applications and software platforms." [1]

- "In particular, we offer in our vehicles Autopilot and FSD features that today assist drivers with certain tedious and potentially dangerous aspects of road travel, but which currently require drivers to remain engaged. We are continuing to develop our FSD technology with the goal of achieving full self-driving capability in the future. There is a variety of international, federal and state regulations that may apply to self-driving vehicles, which include many existing vehicle standards that were not originally intended to apply to vehicles that may not have a driver. Such regulations continue to rapidly change, which increases the likelihood of a patchwork of complex or conflicting regulations, or may delay products or restrict self-driving features and availability, which could adversely affect our business.
" [1]

1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data//1318605/00015645902...
Thanks for pointing this out!

I wonder if someone can start a service to facilitate this for people. So many dark patterns, so many opportunities to ease the transaction costs/friction of disentangling? ;)
Smart Summon? That's about it I think.
Have you actually read the article? SQLite is unmodified, and thinks it runs on a virtual file system, which fetches file chunks via HTTP range headers.

It's REALLY impressive that you only need to read 54 KB out of 700 MB, to fetch the records.
po*nhub is almost criminal at this to be honest smh
Everything is sustainable if you put enough chemicals into the ground and divert a few rivers! Ask the Dutch.
I think it means that if a company had money for $14/h for labour, and it originally hired 2 people for $7/h, then if minimum wage was raised to $14, one person would be fired and the other (presumably better) worker would get a raise. But total available capital for labour for the company did not change.
I started keeping track of useful tidbits i found or cobbled together from stuff on the web, on my blog, years ago , to keep them easy to find. This is mainly for my own benefit though there’s some added value in publishing it all in my public page, as opposed to keeping it in my local notes (easy to refer to and search) - if search engines index my content and it ends up helping someone, that’s an extra win :)
But what requests would it even make? If you opt out you're effectively telling it to _not_ make any requests.
To use Django like this you need'd at least a handful of Django devs writing the models, frontend views, and api views as code.
This looks pretty efficient. Some chains can be interacted with without e.g. web3.js? LevelDB indexes aren't SQLite.

Datasette is one application for views of read-only SQLite dbs with out-of-band replication. https://github.com/simonw/datasette

There are a bunch of *-to-sqlite utilities in corresponding dogsheep project.

Arrow JS for 'paged' browser client access to DuckDB might be possible and faster but without full SQLite SQL compatibility and the SQLite test suite. https://arrow.apache.org/docs/js/

https://duckdb.org/ :

> Direct Parquet & CSV querying

In-browser notebooks like Pyodide and Jyve have local filesystem access with the new "Filesystem Access API", but downloading/copying all data to the browser for every run of a browser-hosted notebook may not be necessary.
https://web.dev/file-system-access/
It's the same in the U.S. If you do this, the failed charges might be sent to collections agencies, but that doesn't usually matter much to lenders if it's a small subscription - although this $100/mo NBA charge might cause some issues.
The most interesting thing in this post was that Mark worked for Apple in 1984 and stayed in good terms with Jobs long enough so that he was still Benioff’s mentor in the 2000s before Jobs died
There are many possible ways to quantify importance? And many many stakeholders with often conflicting ideas, demands, and influence.

If someone is spending money on something, they are voting that it is important FOR THEM - and more important than whatever else they would have done with the money.

If politicians/government aren’t spending money on something - despite saying it’s important - that is a very clear signal that their words and their actions do not align. We have words for that too.

If they don’t even bother saying words about it, then that is a clear signal not enough pressure is being applied to make it even a pretend priority no?
Hah, I thought "in reverse order by ID" might be a stress test but I was still very impressed by how it performed!
An interesting idea, but not convinced, as they don’t look very adjustable for height, for example, my Tele pickups are higher on the treble side, compensating somewhat for the higher output of the bigger strings. You could cut this into the mount, but that defeats the purpose of being able to test things quickly, the moment one variable is fixed, you have an instant constraint. This experiment is a trade-off, I get that. He’s not an experienced guitar player and wants to fiddle with pickups. Fine, enjoy, EVH was all about getting the sound to match what’s in his head anyway, whatever it took.
The cause is overpopulation. Not agriculture.

Less people, less problems. More people, more problems. Just look at the world population since 1950

The current solution is more efficient agriculture ( ofc ) or finding better and viable alternatives

Forcing way more expensive meat is not a good option. Too many jobs will be lost
at once and people will view it as an attack on their freedom. Nobody will want to make that decision and i don't think it's realistic to execute.

I'd like some research on this too. Since I remember young vegans from school to be unhealthy looking and needing vitamin supplements.

Even China added eggs and other things to the school diet, since they wanted to catch up on height with japanese people. They had positive effects within 1 generation.

Just 1 example: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/vegetarian-kindergarten-china-orde...

I'll let my kids eat meat and they can decide what they want when they are full-grown.

Ps. I've met countless of vegans being offended by these claims/observations, while they couldn't find any proof against it.

Joy... I invite you to debunk it. Please... Alter my POV with some evidence.
Yes it’s a shame. I really like emacs but the lagginess is just too jarring while working.
I second the recommendation.
LDAP is lightweight compared to X.500's DAP. SMTP is simple (and lightweight) compared to X.400.
I'm not an expert but this looks vaguely similar to what you ask :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8UtnKWmstA
The rate of MIS-C in children is on the order of 1 in 20,000. So acute myocarditis (which goes away and does not produce lasting damage) at that level is entirely an acceptable risk.

You're under the impression that either the vaccine must be perfectly safe and/or that the disease is perfectly safe for young people. Both of which are false.
How essential the banking apps are in your everyday life? If you don't need them to be available all the time,
maybe you could store your iPhone somewhere behind a time lock and schedule specific times when you deal with your banking needs?
@jjeaff Of course they do development. They have software engineers and buy real software companies with software engineers. Someone needs to maintain all the software they keep integrating into their eco-system (some products which they acquire remain independent). But their business model is to expand by buying or investing in other companies. They don't invest in building new stuff in house. Partly because they don't really have the capabilities to build something like Slack for example that would dominate the market.
Early on in the pandemic, information about covid19 not coming from official channels seemed to disappear from search engines quickly.

That was the claim. I dont have information that would point the motives behind any such action, besides pure speculation (govt request, genuine awkward attempt to help, etc)
Can you list the problems here? For each problem I'll give you an alternative of Bitcoin that aims to solve it. I'm not joking.
American debit cards generally don't have these protections, but American credit cards absolutely do have robust consumer protection mechanisms.

It's also a pretty big negative mark for merchants that get charge-backs issued against them, if just a small percentage of people used charge backs to cancel these "subscriptions" it would make their processing fees skyrocket or even get them dropped by the major processors
One plus 6 support is looking pretty good. Give a few months and it may be a viable choice with decent specs.
Funnily enough I did that math the other day when this kicked off.

It comes out to 4th root of ((510.1 trillion)/9) which is ~2743.8

Where it gets interesting is that it's only ~4752 for 1mx1m cells :)

Another use for `Correct Horse Battery Staple` I guess.
Intention doesn't need to be a part of defining a dark pattern. It is a dark pattern whether it was intended as such or not. However, intention could definitely be taken into account during sentencing/punishment decisions.
It also helps find your phone if you loose it. So everyone wins.