skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dark patterns are not illegal, but they fall in the reputation loss category.

Taking your example: Ebay decided that they couldn't afford the reputation loss to accept listings with dark patterns so they updated their T&C to reflect that, but that doesn't mean that the action that ebay took was the absolute truth.

To name a different example about dark patterns: There are websites which color the "Accept All Cookies" button with the primary action color and they place the button after the checkboxes where you choose your cookies, in the place that most of us expect a "Submit" button. As far as the GDPR is concerned they're complying.

As a consumer it is your choice to stop doing business with persons and companies that use dark patterns.

The same applies to open source. You are seeing that the number of maintainers who are disrupting projects is increasing. Would you really trust your business to a person that you don't even know? It is your reponsibility to audit the code that you're using.
annualized return is annualized return, his strategy gave him < 9% annualized return and that is being generous, saying he's invested for 4 years not 5.

if you look at SPX returns over the last four years, 2018 was a negative year but each year after was between 16% and 28%. also 2017 was over 19%.
You have experienced a certain amount of luck though. I have seen hugely talented teams get fired over a company pivot in direction. The last lot where I knew someone personally , were the WASM folks at mozilla.
Why can't I read comments (however unpopular they may be) because they are a very faint grey? Clearly some people thought this was worth responding to, but it's hard to understand the responses if I can't read the original question.

Personally I'm in favor of removing "downvote to oblivion" because it degrades my experience of using HN.
So Magellan?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)
I carry my backpack or have a jacket on me at almost all times, and having the headphone cable holes in each has prevented this from happening anywhere as often as it used to. Plus the reliability of wired headphones has reigned supreme that I sold my AirPod Pros a few weeks ago after they sat for about a month or two between use, while my corded headsets are used almost daily.
I appreciate the honesty. Fallaciously pushing an issue for dishonest reasons damages representation in politics.

If you dislike the census because you hate big gov't then it should be left there, even if you know it's not a popular opinion.
> Does such a mechanism exist?

Sign the puzzle solution with your private key. Check signature inside the circuit. This obviously can't be applied to this particular game since it has a circuit that does not employ such measures. Alternatively, if used snark is recursive - create a new circuit that will both validate original proof and check the signature.
Ask HN: Where can I find the old internet's short stories/fiction?
Or non fiction. All the recent posts about the "old internet" are reminding me of the content I came across in the late 90s/00s that I cant find anymore.

I remember coming across a cache of great short stories (some related to tech) over those years. One of them really stands out and I would love to read it again. The gist of it:

The main character (1st person) goes into work and some casual games are played that day (throughout the story he remains neutral). Over time, more games are played and everyone begins taking them more seriously. Soon the office separates into different cliques (marketing, sales, IT, etc), and the games evolve into competitive, office wide nerf gun fights. People start making bases out of their cubicles (roofs and all), eventually sleeping inside of them, fearing to leave them unguarded. It keeps escalating. People begin bringing hand guns/rifles into work and plot how to knock out the other teams. Then I think it ends with the guy walking outside to the parking lot to have a smoke after speaking to the head IT guy (who hasnt showered nor left his base in days).
The vaccine isn't permanent, as we've very quickly discovered. Death is.

How would you have done things differently to avoid racism, wars, poverty, and mental health crises? Do you think the suicide rate would have been half as high if twice as many people died from the virus?

These are not easy questions to answer. I certainly don't know, and I don't expect you to. It's very easy to act like you know better in hindsight.

The only non "groupthink" way to approach this pandemic would have been to do nothing. There's not a datapoint on the planet that supports doing nothing. Everything else requires some societal "groupthink" effort.
Is it that? Or is it maybe a sign that the current era is a little hyper-critical and in that hyper-criticality lost touch with what's actually possible and acceptable risks? This was no small engineering feat. It's also a good demonstration of the world of the possible.
I like the cold war tech aesthetic of this. I can imagine 1 million soviet troops being outfitted with a handheld MVP computer each as part of their kits.
> there's untold little quirks you have to deal with when using a general-purpose operating system

"Though initial iterations of the software for the original Xbox and Xbox 360 were based on heavily modified versions of Windows, the newer consoles feature operating systems that are highly compatible with Microsoft's desktop operating systems, allowing for shared applications and ease-of-development between personal computers and the Xbox line." Wikipedia

> and modular hardware

This is true. There are, e.g., fake GPUs that will make your experience quite bad. I always buy pre-build PCs from my favorite tech store, and I have personally avoided the problem. But Steam forums show that some people is not so fortunate. Also there is people trying to run modern games in very old PCs, consoles solve that problem by not running new games in previous generation consoles.
A worthy pedantic aside. Thanks.
>If you need good audio in one home location, then the dongle is just fine

Well yes, for things that tend to stay in the same place no need use Bluetooth at all. Not denying any of that, but which of those are issue that have to do with Bluetooth?

>But also, in general, they say perfection is reached when there is nothing left to remove. Extra features often mean something is wrong with the design.”

Perfect is the enemy of good here. Bluetooth wasn't meant to be the perfect way of connecting devices, that's impossible, it was developed back in the late 90's for connecting millions of mobile devices to each other over a standardized, cheap (in terms of silicon die area) and most importantly, low power connection (batteries were small back then), and it does all that pretty decently. Sort of a jack of all trades master of none.

If you're looking for perfect solutions then you should be looking elsewhere and that's why proprietary solutions exist and there's nothing wrong wioth that.
This is very interesting to me. I've been working on a retirement calculator in my free time as a hobby project for a while [1], but it never really occurred to me that there is real value in allowing people to do the 'what-if' analysis more easily. It seems obvious now...

Could you see yourself using something like this if there was an easy way to compare different scenarios?

[1] https://lunchmodel.com/lmrc/scenario
Please follow the HN Guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
> The thing they don't always mention is that hospital capacity is always close to being overwhelmed, by design, because otherwise you're sitting around with a large amount of extraordinarily expensive idle hospital capacity. A small change is enough to go from "almost full" to "over capacity."

If that was true, it would not be okay. There needs to be enough capacity to handle unpredictable spikes in load. This can be described using the same sort of queueing theory that anyone legitimately operating at scale needs to worry about: you don't just track average latency, but also track tail latency.

Luckily, emergency hospital buildings are not "always close to be overwhelmed." Their staff is always close to being overwhelmed, but the buildings are not. Instead, they maintain a reserve capacity of temp nurses, who get called during brushfire season and New Year's Midnight to handle the unusually high load. They are paid well by the hourly wage, but don't get any benefits, and either have a second job or a retirement plan to carry them over the rest of the year.

Only this time, they were never sent home. And, since some of them are being forced to quit their jobs, they're demanding the benefits package, which is getting expensive.

Edit: and, of course, this all goes to crap once a brushfire happens on top of the pandemic
This is wrong according to the CDC. Prior infection is better than the vaccine by itself but vaccine + prior infection is best. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2022/01/19/cdc-prior-c...
Not in my experience. The most recent one was a developer who joined every standup from the ski slopes, when asked to work on a particular task responded with "I'd rather not work on that, can you give me something easier?", and failed to ever actually work on anything. We still had to go through the whole drawn out process of working on a performance improvement plan with them. They simply didn't care.
It's even worse when you're on an active phone call (the standard iPhone phone functionality, not third party meeting/voip app) talking to another human being and an alert sound plays on the computer, stealing the audio from your phone call and you can no longer hear or speak with the other person. I can't think of a better example where "don't steal the audio" is more applicable.
The "Introducing MockRocket" looks great. I'm guessing you used a tool such as FCP?
I'd love a tool that makes creating such videos easier.
If the world ever gets bad enough that I have to hide from Google and TPTB, your customized system will probably be contraband. In which case, I wouldn't want something like that, because I... don't want to go to jail, and I am rather certain they could find out if they wanted to.

Probably by machine learning looking for houses with an absence of pings to certain servers and using old fashioned police work from there.

Keeping that scenario from ever happening is a political issue. Perhaps it is in part technical too, but ultimately, people should not have to live like fugitives. For the same reason they shouldn't have to wear a guy fawkes mask in public.

And if someone does need to, they probably don't consider themselves to be free.

I may have never tried to get away from Google, but we did grow up poor enough to not have the latest tech for quite a long time.

It would be nice if it was possible and convenient, but a lot of things are still way behind.

When you add up all the details... it's probably more of a luxury than being rich in the gilded age, and it's accessible even to people like me who don't even make minimum wage when you take into account all the Ubers and Lyfts and crap.

With simple technology, one mistake and it's all gone. It doesn't help you out at all. Remember how this stuff was done 15 years ago? Nobody ever would trust computers for anything important. We all used pens and paper every day.

Every person I know who cares about privacy seems to need tons more analog tech than I do.

Lose your phone? Too bad, there was no Google page with which to track it and remote control it. Lose your wallet? Hope someone turns it in. There was no Tile.

Cooking and need to set a timer? Better wash your hands first and be careful not to forget in the time it takes to do so, or you'll make a mess and transfer germs when you touch the timer.

It would be a LOT of work to set up replacements for all of this while preserving privacy.

These things are only a few minutes per day, but collectively they are a big lifestyle change.

Eventually, open source will catch up. But it is slowed down by the fact that the FOSS community.... likes to shit on such things and doesn't want them to exist at all, and prefers ongoing manual involvement, and shits on most zero conf stuff, because they're so absolutist about security and minimalism.
Nice. Is there a link to the 60 (63) lines of source code? It's not obvious on mobile at least?

Ed, nevermind:

> I highly suggest going to the site and viewing the source!

For chrome on Android:

view-source:https://arhamjain.com/hyperwordle/
Article that really reinforces your point about Australia, can it even be called a democracy anymore?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...
>> This is why we explain how something is wrong, and support it using data from mutually reliable sources. You repeatedly sidestep this, for whatever reason I don't know.

> Mate there's CBO, BLS, Journal of Economic Research, IMF, and several academic study citations in the video, post, blog, and all over the internet.

Yet the only thing you've linked is a blog and a medium post, not IMF, or BLS or the sources you seem to agree are reputable. Why is that? Is it because they don't say the things your blogs claim they do?
The signed hash doesn't matter because you only need to de-identify the document, not pass it off as someone else's. If the organization finds a document with all of the identifying information removed, they know that someone fucked with their DRM but they don't know who.
Yes, the San Francisco Bay Area... which is not only expensive to live in, but software engineers are in high demand and well paid. But pretty much anywhere in the USA, $30 is not high pay for a software engineer.
Well the delays were a real thing, I don't think it is uncoupled from the engineering methodology
I wonder how this went so far without getting caught by a system of checks and balances. Feels like some are above the law.
You can't split the assets in the target date fund to be tax efficient.
"Is the explanation simply that so many nurses are being forced to isolate with Omicron?"

A explanation why people are frustrated, who work hard and intense, take all the risk - but only get low pay?
A collection of headlines on
vaccine efficacy, https://youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE
Since the JWST design started, there's been a revolution in the "easiness" of launches.

I wonder if a future evolution of space telescopes will be some kind of interferometric (obviously extremely hard for IR or visible light, but easier for radio and microwaves) swarm of cheap semi-disposible telescopes than one enormous one.

Then you can add to the swarm, upgrade elements, and retire failed elements without having to eat a multi-billion helping of humble pie.

And rather than have a fearsomely complex integrated sunshield, you could have a similar swarm of simpler satellites that provide a large cool area at L2, and then the observers just need to handle their own heat.

I suppose this could be described as microservices...in spaaaaace. Draw what parallels you will from that!
The bar for "insanely old" keeps rising as life spans increase, though.

And things could change by the end of his term. For instance, he might accomplish something. (Ironically, losing the midterms might be the best way to do that. He's tried to govern as though he had a large majority in Congress, when in reality he has a 50/50 Senate, and he can't pass anything further to the left than Manchin will go along with. If he clearly lost the Senate, he might stop trying to govern that way.)
You have assumed wrong.

I do not use this method for security. I use it for speed, reliability and aesthetics. The complexity fetish of too many software developers has driven me to appreciate minimalism.

Also, the computers I use are often older, underpowered and/or have limited resources. Running VMs is usually not an option. You cannot assume that everyone has the free overhead available to run VMs.

The large, graphical browsers controlled by corporations are slow, unwieldy and overkill for making simple HTTP requests. The "full browsing experience" is highly unsatisfactory for me. I am not "trading off" anything. I like fast, text-only information retrieval.

That said, the statement I made still stands. Using TCP clients and a text-only HTML reader is probably "more secure" than using one of the corporate graphical browsers that allow users to do more dangerous things. A side benefit.

To each their own.
If that data doesn't exist then that's just because it isn't tracked. Here in Germany if you test positive on a PCR test you have to quarantine for 14 days, then you get a proof of recovery which for 6 months you can use like a proof of vaccination (which you need for non-essential shops, gyms, etc when the 7-day incidence is too high, like right now). As a result, tracking numbers for the "recovered" cohort isn't a problem. Obviously the "unvaccinated" group will always contains some unknown number of recovered people we don't know about, but at large enough effect sizes that isn't a problem.
You get to decide the scope, so don't fill it with annoying things.
Surprise? No. A source frustration? Absolutely – the rules are frustrating by definition, and this is the point here.

And even at 15%, Fanhouse would still need to either raise their prices, reduce creator payouts, or run at a loss. Plus, the rules shouldn’t be such that they disincentivize companies from growing.

Frustrating, indeed.
What happens if I’m wearing a dress?

Selling me on going back to wired is like telling me to use an Ethernet jack on my laptop for optimal performance.
From what I’ve seen the current shortages are primarily due to lack of sufficient pay and firing nurses who don’t want to get vaccinated. Additionally it seems like current nurses are over qualified for covid care.

How long would it take to train someone from a nursing adjacent field to treat 95% of what they are likely to see when treating a covid patient? Is anyone even asking that question? If not, why not?

It seems like we’re willing to take drastic action when it comes to mandate public behavior, but not when it comes to reforming bureaucracies, processes, and regulations.
Driving is a bad example. Almost any other public safety regulation is a better example; most of them apply to private property. Almost never do private companies get to "choose" to follow safety regulations. McDonalds must follow food safety regulations, construction companies must follow building codes, industrial companies must follow occupational health and safety standards, aircraft operators must follow FAA regulations, etc.
Dude was the oldest president during his first term.

He’ll be 86 at the end of his second term.
It doesn't illustrate your point. You, on your soapbox pretend you have it all figured out. You, on the side of science. But as some of the responses have shown, you haven't really thought it through. I agree however, that the media hasn't either. But when was that ever true?
the commission lost against Apple recently too
HEPA filters can only filter out larger particles, many viruses, bacteria, mold spores and volatile organic compounds are not affected, and consequently neither bioweapons.

Luckily bioweapons are not commonly used, so this marketing probably won't hurt anyone for a change.
The project mentions that it uses snarkjs and I thought I'd link it directy here. [1] What's interesting in the setup of these systems is the "Powers of Tau" ceremony which, in a decentralized manner (using secure multi-party computation), avoids the "trusted setup" problem in non-interactive variants of zero knowledge proof systems like this one. [2]

[1] https://github.com/iden3/snarkjs

[2] https://github.com/weijiekoh/perpetualpowersoftau
A critique of longtermism: why you shouldn't worry about the far future
Quite sad that this is the Allwinner SoC without a FPU in it, making distro options more limited. Something like the v3s has similar specs but has a new enough ARM core to have an FPU making it possible to run armhf/armv7 distros instead of armel (debian naming)
You just need to strip out the parts of the documents that are different until they hash to the same hash.
If you have a college degree and are willing to go through what essentially is an apprenticeship for 2 years, Residential Real Estate appraisal is not a bad gig. I’m just now getting my license after apprenticing since 2019, and there is a lot of work to be had in large metro areas (I’m in the Phoenix area). Having a degree gets you the highest level of licensure, but even with just specific appraisal classes alone and no degree you can still make a mint.

It’s pretty much data analysis and comparing apples to apples as close as you can get, adjusting for differences between homes; And while the forms you fill are repetitive, the homes you see are usually anything but. You can run your own shop and make a comfortable 300k+ a year, and if you really want, you can expand your services outside of working for appraisal management companies and mortgage companies.

There is a deficit of new blood entering the profession, and certainly not as many technically skilled people getting into it. This does mean that a lot of processes are a bit archaic (like submitting files in XML, or counties having aged FTP sites for their parcel maps), but the tide on a technical front is changing, ever so slowly (no one does their reports on index cards or uses microfilm readers like my grandfather used to).

One thing that might be tough if you look into this route is finding someone to train you. Most of these old guys (and truly I mean old guys) are happy with their little kingdoms of the area they cover, and their reluctance to train the new appraisers wanting to enter the field has created the lack of qualified workforce that has had people like me working overtime during the pandemic.

Great job, and has been the best choice of my life, and would not go back to front end dev or call centers; Cause nothing has given me the freedom of working for myself and running a business with my father, with the ability to start my own business when he retires.
Traditionally 'date' has been a negative SEO thing in that Google prefers to surface "new" things rather than "older" things. As a result, web sites will pick one of three strategies; Remove all date indicators from the content, Put the date on when "new" but remove the date after the content has been up for more than a set period of time, or use a js function to always render a date from yesterday as the date of the material.

Google isn't about "reference" data (who clicks on ads when they are looking for a history of stories about topic X?) so the archival and reference function falls to meta services like Wikipedia where a human curates the history and provides links back to the that history.

Of course such links get very few visitors and often the place hosting the content will simply retire it rather than spend a couple of nanocents on leaving it up, and the result is link rot.

Yes, I am cynical about how Google is now an agent for "destroying the world's information" when at one point they were simply trying to organize it.
> For sure, but did you see Democrats do anything different with Trump's agenda? They fought him just as hard or harder than Republicans fought Obama. Nobody gets a pass in my opinion.

I believe that the difference is that some in the Republican party—McConnell, for example—explicitly advanced the position "whatever Obama does, we will oppose." Whereas I am aware of no mainstream Democratic politician who stated a blanket opposition to anything Trump might do; it just happened that they very often disagreed with him on the things he did do.

I think bad-faith accusations come from opposing a person's positions ad hominem, because of who holds them, rather than from simply disagreeing, even consistently, passionately, and vociferously, with many or all of the positions that a person happens to hold.
About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.2
Fascinating. Where do you live?