skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought at least some of the services offered a DNS-based approach (similar to Google's "forcedsafesearch" cname - https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669?hl=en), but I couldn't find any documentation.

Possible otheroptions:

- agreements with the service providers to throttle users from certain netblocks (the carriers partner with the service providers to some extent e.g. to deploy CDN nodes, so such agreements would be plausible)

- throttling bandwidth (potentially selectively to/from streaming providers) and letting the service figure it out

- separate host names for high res content that can be DNS-blocked
Ultimately I think we agree about consensus being fundamental, democracy is great in that people have a path for the peaceful transfer of power in the face of disagreements and cultural shift. It's great because it gives us generational paths to decrease violence.

How fundamental? Where would you draw distinction (if at all)? So my brother is an anarchist, he is also a drug abuser that has spent time in jail and is a dangerous person to be around physically.

I have yet to ever see him argue in good faith.

He does not tell 99% of people that this is a what he believes, he just argues in person and online whatever can cause the most turmoil and/or positions that point to everyone being selfish and fundamentally evil, or the situation hopeless and that cruelty and power dynamics are not something that often "is", but something we "ought" to embrace.

In a democratic republic people "can" do a lot of things, just like the individual "can" do all kinds of things without dying or being jailed right away.

That doesn't mean they are healthy or good, that doesn't mean every ungrounded belief that exists needs to be engaged or given equal billing in public discourse. It's noise, not signal and if we are intelligent we will reject it as noise instead of rebroadcasting it. It also doesn't mean we ought to abandoned working towards a "grounded" consensus because rejecting factual evidence is somehow "virtuous" or cynically sophisticated.

Increasingly I see that people seem to argue as if rejecting a pragmatic, propositionally grounded and arguable discourse is something to give up on, or to stop advocating for, and I do question the intent behind that as it seems unsustainable and counter to past, evidentially productive, consensus building.

Seeing these arguments in the wild is to be expected when an increasing percentage of the population express a rejection of democracy itself in polls. On pluralistic open forums people/anarchists/my brother will argue orthogonally about how to "do democracy" while advocating positions that epistemologically undercut attempts at consensus, and they'll do this instead of saying "I reject democracy" because in many circles it's not in vogue _yet_ to say you've rejected democratic governance.

The idea that a majority of people in any country can fundamentally disagree that we live in a shared pragmatic reality, one that can be scrutinized, investigated, argued/communicated about and we will somehow still end up with sustainable democratic outcomes seems improbable, and I question anyone saying grounded arguments aren't that important.
I think you're supposed to just be mesmerized by (and envious of) these wonderful people.

Quite a "hey, look at us" piece.
Also many people fail to seroconvert after natural infection:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042-f2

And the virus contains immune evasion genes like ORF8 which evade humoral immunity responses by downregulating MHC-I:

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/23/e2024202118

Nobody in their right mind would produce a vaccine with ORF8 in it since it defeats the whole purpose of stimulating T-cell and B-cell recognition.

There's good reasons why natural immunity has been downplayed.
If you ask me, all of civilization is a continuous exercise in repeating the Milgram experiment in more and more extreme ways.
Oh yes, yes there are.

Millions of hectares burn down every year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfire...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_wildfire...

Last year an entire town disappeared:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-sept-7-2...
Oregon was on fire most of 2020.

And the pine beetles are doing a number on BC. It's only a matter of time before those catch on fire.
Just like tech startups!
Have you played Elite Dangerous recently? They made a misstep with space legs (bowing to public pressure from a public who aren't game designers), but other than that it's pretty darn solid.
I think there is a more genuine take. The bell is not what makes TF2 enjoyable. The fact that GP is thinking about the bell instead of his game session brings into question whether or not it's a dark pattern.
F-Droid is great for hackers- a niche subset. Chinese app stores are a special case because of legal and political separation. How successful are Amazon or Samsung's app stores, and do they actually host any popular apps that users can't get on the Play Store?
we already know it causes malware. Android has demonstrated this very clearly.

You also can't retroactively undo a security hole: once you've installed malicious software the other software on the system by definition can't be trusted.
I believe that is correct. I don't have a great source handy, but here's a preprint which agrees:

Conclusions: Myocarditis (or pericarditis or myopericarditis) from primary COVID19 infection occurred at a rate as high as 450 per million in young males. Young males infected with the virus are up 6 times more likely to develop myocarditis as those who have received the vaccine.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34341797/

Not sure about ratio age dependency. My prior would be that it is similar, since I don't have any reason to suspect otherwise. Still not a doctor or biologist though :P
The two games I looked up have a handful of votes, but are wrong, or based on a optimistic view of a portion of the game.

Which is to say, it feels like this site itself is being gamified to a degree. Fans of games will no doubt "vouch" for their favorite game, ignoring dark patterns unless they're severe.
Engineering firms have commonly done 4x 9 hour days with the remainder (to hit 40) either half day Friday or alternating Friday's off.

I've always enjoyed it.

Plus it makes adjustments easier and feel less burdensome - where if you need to take a few hours off during the week, it's easy to stay a bit later on Friday's without working past normal business hours.

And you don't feel overworked by Thursday night, as the guy interviewed said after doing 4x 10s.
If you buy from Apple they do provide the network.

If you buy from 3rd party and 3rd party doesn’t pay Apple, why should Apple provide the network?
I don't think this is right at all. The attack first created 100,000 wETH ($320 million) on the Solana side, and then bridged 93,750 wETH ($250 million) to ETH on the Ethereum side [1]. So some of the added ETH backs the remaining 6250 "extra" wETH tokens on the Solana side, but almost all of it would have gone to replace the stolen 93,750 ETH, and that's a pure loss. Either way I don't think this would cause any inflation, since the wETH still corresponds 1:1 with locked ETH.

[1] https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1489044939732406275
Dip Switch USB Stick
> If only one could control the place of birth…

Puny aur punarjanm
Most never come.
This house and lot are incredible and I would love to build a modern home in the woods, but I feel like this article was missing a disclaimer somewhere "Step 1 be rich" - even though land in Canada may not be super expensive this project was clearly in the one to several million dollar range.
The essence of what you’re saying is:

People should want something they don’t want.

Because…

People who want to make that thing would like a job making it.

But it’s backwards, you can’t say that people “should” be a certain way you have to look at how they actually are.

Being passionate about building something does not convey a right to a job doing that. It makes for a fine hobby - but outside of that build something people want.
I purchased my goods with the express contract that the AppStore will be the only way a developer gets access to Apple's APIs, Libraries, and instruction sets for iPhone.

That's the thesis for a treatise I could write. This breaks the contract I had with them upon purchase.
Interesting how some "dark patterns", especially of the psychological kind, are actually important elements of good game design.

For example the "illusion of control" (The game cheats or hides information to make you think you're better than you actually are) is everywhere, and it makes better games. One classic example is "coyote time" in platform games. Or for a more specific example, in Portal, at one time, you have to quickly fire a portal to avoid being crushed, it is a tense situation, and an important part of the story. So, to avoid a stupid death at the worst time, if you fire the wrong portal, it silently switches the other portal to correct your mistake.

Aesthetic Manipulations (Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires) is the entire point of many games. We want games to play with our emotions. Take a horror game for instance, you are sitting on a couch, at home, in the least scary environment you can imagine, the game has to pull all the trick on you if you want the scares you paid for. And no one is going to tell you that getting attached to characters is a bad thing and they would rather see them as the bunch of pixels they are.

Frequency biases are all over the place too, usually in favor of the player. So much that when the game uses true randomness, it feels unfair. Good games are designed for player enjoyment, not to punish them with randomness.

It also considers competition a dark pattern, are sports a dark pattern too?
Well the linux foundation picked it up when mozilla dropped it so it's not dead, but the last commit was also 8 days ago so not very active either
If anything, it seems like the public is shifting its interest away from Facebook, thus obviating the demand for a Meta App Store to begin with!
Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody which targets a B cell surface protein, CD20. Monoclonal antibodies are pretty cool, in that we've figured out how to make a thing that our bodies normally make, and engineer versions that target specific items we want. Antibodies binding to things can alter their function, disable them, and/or cause them to die. In the case of rituximab and CD20, through a variety of antibody-mediated mechanisms, the attached antibodies in effect causes the B cells to die off.

CAR-T cells, on the other hand, is essentially making a fairly small (but kind of insidious) modification to T cells in the lab. These T cells when put back in the body then do their normal T cell thing and proliferate and recruit more of the immune system, but to try to eliminate a target you've chosen for them. The most useful/successful target thus far has been CD19, another B cell surface protein.
Most people who get in trouble for misdemeanors are observed by a police officer directly (drunk driving, speeding, vandalism etc). They usually aren't "investigated"..
FYI Cloudflare terms of service (at least for free accounts) doesn't allow using it for video streaming purposes such as Plex:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/is-plex-allowed/172158/5
In my opinion, yes. Take for example DuoLingo. It is very aggressive about trying to get you to turn on notifications. They claim that if you have notifications on you're more likely to continue learning at a regular pace. That may be true (though spaced repetition seems best, and they use "streaks" of days you've interacted with the app as a metric, which is the opposite of spaced repetition). However, my understanding is that they also slip in other notifications about things you might not care about like your "rank" on the "leaderboards". (I'm trying to learn a language, not compete in the Olympics. Why do I need to compare my progress to random strangers around the world?) Some of the dark patterns go away when you subscribe, but not all. Using the app feels really gross, even though I am learning a new language. Many of the dark patterns may have positive outcomes, but it's all still to juice their metrics in the end.
Quitting World of Warcraft may have similarities to quitting smoking. The thing that brings ex smokers back to smoking is the social component.
> long-debunked

lol.

> Defining inflation as a function of supply distracts us from the real-world problems causing broad-based increases in price.

price is a function of supply and demand already. you don't need to redefine inflation unless you're trying to dupe feeble-minded rubes.
Honestly, I'd settle for jail time for the actual persons making the illegal decisions, rather than virtual jail time for corporations. You know... personal accountability.

Say a factory is poisoning the riverwater, what is more likely to disssuade such actions: penalties to the company (taken in stride as the cost of doing business), or actual jail time and forfeit of assets to the person making the decision and reaping the profits from it?
This Novalpina thing has been creating a lot of drama in the past few weeks. It turns out

1) The purchase was done as a leveraged purchase, very odd in the Israeli high tech/startup world. maybe even unprecedented. NSO is about to default on said debt

2) Novalpina are now at odds with Hulio, blaming him on trying to move all of the debt to 3 of the companies "healthy" subsidiaries. Apparently NSO is built like a maze, with lots of smaller companies, some of those aren't on the US ban list, and Hulio is trying to move all of the debt to them. The Israeli courts are now in the mix, trying to figure out who owns what

Unfortunately I couldn't find an article in english, but here is one in Hebrew with the ability to Google Translate

https://www.calcalist.co.il/local_news/article/rksf58atf
Mario Savio ended his career as an adjunct
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Sure, but this was the presence of a bug. In a web framework you can easily have a test that fails when CSRF vulnerabilities are present. It's not some zeroday that has just been published, CSRF has been known for a very long time now.

As a demo, here is a link to an 1100 line file full of such tests for the Rails framework: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/main/actionpack/test/con...
I take it you can't use gated checkins to prevent someone from checking something in that'll break the build?
I'm sure trailers make the trip. But are they pulled by one tractor the whole way?
I feel similarly sometimes myself. It's like those studies on giving money to little kids when they draw. You're doing something for the intrinsic reward, the joy of playing, and now they've slapped on some extrinsic reward you didn't ask for. So the game makes you feel, on some level, that you're doing it for the extrinsic reward, and it saps some of the intrinsic joy you felt earlier.

https://www.spring.org.uk/2021/07/intrinsic-motivation.php

> So, those who had previously liked drawing (high intrinsic motivation) were less motivated once they expected to be rewarded for the activity.

> In fact the expected reward reduced the amount of spontaneous drawing the children did by half.
The paragraphs you quoted are at least partially self-explanatory, mostly using common English words like "platform" in a metaphorical sense. Whereas the paragraph the grandparent quoted has several concepts that are opaquely named after mathematicians, providing not even a hint of what they might mean.
Yeah, "larger wide 14" screens". Or larger 5 " screens on phones .
An Algorithmic Theory for Conscious Learning: 10M-Dollar Problems Solved
>You're combining all deaths and treating it as if it were the same thing.

Couldn't that be applied to deaths from other diseases? Why wouldn't all influenza deaths be considered one event by this standard?
Ask HN: How do you care for a nerd who is grieving?
A friend lost a close family member suddenly.

Maybe the answer to this question is, "the same way you would care for anyone who is grieving." But do you have any special tips for caring for a fellow nerd/hacker?
Openbase (YC S20) Is Hiring
> It really blows my mind that the US makes it so hard to get in legally and stay.

Huh, why it blows your mind? Is it some kind of human right that anyone can come to US at any point in time and just start living there. Besides if they are so talented why they can't stay in home country and apply the talent.
Ask HN: Consultants and independent contractors, where do you find clients?
Pre-pandemic, I was able to network easily at conferences and meetups, but in the time since, I haven't found a good replacement.

I'm a software engineer and former CTO, interested in both custom development and higher level questions of technical strategy and system design. Places like Upwork don't seem geared to this type of work (unless I'm mistaken).

Is this kind of work now mostly handled by large consultancies that provide contractors, unless you have significant connections? How are you all networking and marketing yourselves in these unprecedented times?
Not if you consider that the return was a nice side effect of also not crashing the world economy. Not every "investment" is just about making money, this one just had the nice side effect of not costing it as well.
The same holds for a rotating stepper.
Again, I did not bring Faust or the Iliad into this conversation. I don't even know what the conversation is about and how it relates to my original comment! Let's wrap this up here because at this point I'm being lectured on the classics by one person who can't spell 'Iliad' and another who thinks it was 'written by Homer' and neither can actually tell me why.
>While there are some terrible mistakes, Israel's treatment of Ethiopian Jews is definitely not terrible.

Our definition of 'not terrible' surely must be different.

I first became aware of the issues this community faces when the news broke last decade about the government sterilizing immigrant Ethiopian women without their knowledge or consent. A matter of record: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-ethiopians-fool...
Joke is thinking OG is somehow fancy digs.
Second that. I don't keep it in my library unless it's classic (by my standards) or I want to read it in the future. Accessibility breeds opportunity.
None of this is remotely accurate and nobody minted Solana. They minted tokens that no longer exist ON Solana. $320 was spent in ETH - a plenty liquid asset that they have that much less of and that lowers the total value of their holdings by that much.
Not defending the other design choices, but there are places in snowy mountain areas where (almost) flat roofs are common [0].

[0] https://www.davos.ch/en/information/portrait-image/storybook...
Hilarious filter pattern in use in the top games list: https://www.darkpattern.games/games.php?alignment=dark. At the top is a "Filter by Platform" list which filters out, not in. I clicked the Android logo expecting, you know, to filter for Android. The resulting querystring when you click Android is "?alignment=dark&android=0". It literally filters out not in.
It's strange. I hear a lot of talk about 4 day work week but not if they mean the same amount of work in four days or four days with the less total hours.

It's a bit frustrating because I don't like the 4 day 40 hour work week. In the winter in many areas it would be absolutely soul crushing. But the 4 day 8 hour per day work week I think should absolutely be implemented into almost every job immediately.
> To me, the idea of a 'dark pattern' here is when a mechanic is being used to push people to play the game more past what they actually enjoy.

Would people play less if such mechanisms were left out? I'm sure of it. Thus they are nudging you to play more, to get that achievement, to round out that score. I don't see how it couldn't, or what this adds to a good game. Below you are spot on: these things are not intrinsic to the game and thus, IMHO, best left off. The meta game of completionism does not affect everyone the same, but I don't think it ever adds.
To clarify a little: Where I am interested in building, there are county-wide laws or code regarding mfg vs mod homes, effectively taking one of those options off the table for me.

And, just to be clear, I am not a build my castle person, but I do want something more modern than the usual cabin in the woods. Hence, Ideabox...
If you want to refer to it then just archive it yourself.
Sure, but Netflix uses HLS, I assume, and doesn't have segments that are 15 minutes in length. So if you did drop a tcp packet, you're more likely to have lower quality for 10-20 seconds, not 15 minutes.
regex101 has a few more distinguishing features:

- more flavor support,

- a regex debugger,

- code generator, with support for a lot of languages,

- a complete quick reference with examples,

- an extensive regex library,

- a regex quiz for "golfing" and learning purposes,

Perhaps, most importantly, it runs entirely client side and does not submit any information to the server unless you hit save (which returns a delete link to remove all data). You can even run the website and (most) of its features offline.

Regexr submits all input to the server for processing.

But, I'm biased, since I wrote regex101 :)
FYI, that just buckets you into the "false-prompt" or "prompt-to-prompt" pattern.

eg: https://blog.hurree.co/blog/ios-push-notification-permission...
What a nice story!

When they create an ebook, be prepared for the next HN story to discuss Dillon's book being the most pirated pdf worldwide.
Because a market is suddenly opened for business, alternative payment processors can now start offering systems that take care of this, and with different terms from Apple's. You wouldn't have to handle all of it yourself, you could simply sign on with one that provides you with service you like.

This is the free market competition that tech is supposedly in favor of.
Listening to a big corp like PG&E whine about how they are going to need to spend billions to upgrade a grid I'm not using, and so will need to charge me to have solar and battery power is rediculous if part of the reason they need to spend all this money is they won't allow folks to be disconnected from the grid.
Are you a parent? If you are, what degree of control do you think you have over what your child is exposed to during the times when they’re not with you?

Not saying I like the draconian levels that China is going to on this, but a lot of how your kid turns out is based on what they’re exposed to by their peers, and so some things are societal/population level problems. Parents can broadly try to affect this by controlling the school their kids go to, but that’s a very blunt instrument at best, generally much more expensive than less great schools, and a huge amount of work to redo. If they’re already struggling due to eg high housing costs relative to their wages (another one of our societal issues), then the parents are going to have a really uphill challenge trying to curate their children’s’ experience.

It takes a village, and if your village is not working well, you’re going to have a hard time as a parent. This whole idea of nuclear families as independent units was never true and needs to die.
Or have them be asymmetrical, one has the half-tweezer at the left side the frame, the other at the right.
I'm letting you know of an alternative that has worked well for me. If you want to respond to that assistance with silly assertions and general whingeing, well, that's your choice. But you are not coming off as very...impressive, shall I say.
I have found some of my clients in end-user forums related to the tech for which I specialize. In some cases, they have found me.