skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> dark pattern

I wonder how often dark patterns are the result of goal directed A/B testing?

If the goal is set to "did the user click on an advert" - and the A/B changes are fuzzed CSS - then the results would be deviously dark.
A similar thing happens with immigration. The public discourse is about "jobs Americans won't accept", labor shortages, bringing in the best and brightest, etc. The closed door discussions are all about wage suppression of the middle class.
> The attention market cycle is wrapping up and at this rate AI/LLMs will further kill the market for grabbing your attention by filtering that crap out. Grab the signal, filter the noise.

That's not my impression at all, but I suppose we'll see which force prevails - user filtering out noise with AI, vs. producers generating much greater volume of low-quality noise with AI tools, and some of them also using AI tools to make some types of noise harder to discern.
is it just me or has there been an unlikely number of strange restructurings recently?

unity and openai as the most high profile, but also in niche places like yahtzee crowshaw / escapist mag, and now even fdroid

maybe a covid aftershock, have there been any others?
I think at this point in the discussion we are getting to a very interesting question: about the meaning of the word "wisdom". To my eye, Devereaux is using the word in a way that sounds a lot like how it is conceptualized in Ackoff's Data/Information/Knowledge/Insight/Wisdom model (sometimes instead of "insight" people use "understanding" as the penultimate level). Its Wikipedia page is a little bit rambling (which is actually quite fitting given how many different ways it's been formalized), but is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid

"Wisdom" is probably the hardest part of the framework to define clearly, but across formulations it's about being able to integrate different kinds of knowledge from difference sources, and then using that to be able to know when and why to take a certain action, or to know what the right thing to do might be. Obviously this is something that is frequently informed by knowledge derived from science and scientific reasoning, but usually also relies on some of the ways of thinking and understanding that the humanities can help provide. So that's how I'd understand what Devereaux was saying (allowing for some rhetorical flourish on his part)- it's a "both-and" kind of situation rather than an "either-or"; in other words, science and humanities on their own are both necessary and insufficient.

And of course for a humorous take on the matter, SMBC is always a reliable source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-10-18
You just described all websites
NB: There's no HN guideline against discussing politics, though political submissions are somewhat discouraged.

Where political comments are problematic is generally where they run up against other guidelines, notably:

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

The other red line is accounts that principally push political viewpoints.

A fair bit of political discussion tends toward each of these. Avoid those rails, however, and you're good.

Dang's posted often on what does and doesn't work with political discussion, see: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...>

I'd specifically point at: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34481375>

Where a problem, such as robocalls / spam phone calls, really is fundamentally one of politics and policy, discussing those political and policy elements is entirely appropriate.
I understand, but by this logic, no technology matters so long as it gets the pixels on the screen, because that's what the user ultimately sees. In that case, why even use HTML at all? Just upload a huge JPEG that looks like a page and call it a day.

I think HTML vastly outgrew its use case because it kept avoiding breaking backward compatibility. It was obvious from the start, but we patched the lack of built-in templating with frames and then with AJAX.
Tbh I would rather listen to a ML song than drake. At least the ML song would sound less robotic.
Yes, that term captures what I'm talking about.
It doesn't matter, if my employer would treat me as interchangeable anyway.

And even interchangeable employees deserve reasonable accommodations. I do think a union can highlight those needs more effectively than individuals (especially for interchangeable ones, to your point).
Well well, Fn-C that!
Sadly getting a 404 here–maybe this is a private repository?
> It looks like Critque is a branch of Gerrit

IIRC Gerrit is an open source re-implementation from scratch of Critique.
Does any other brand have something similar to Apple's support? I was kinda surprised to see that you could get called back as easily as I did. Or that their stores could quickly fix e.g. a bricked bootloader. The Windows/Android devices I had before had nothing like that.
or a submenu [other mentions] or [similar] something like that...
I'm running definitive edition from steam on my M2, works great, using Wineskin with dxvk
sure, my point still stands. It is a reasonable evolutionary hypothesis that groups that err on the side of trusting a leader succeed more that distrustful groups. Obviously there is a learned behavior component. I'm just not certain its completely that.
I provided it as context. For fucks sake, this is the article we are writing comments for! God forbid I talk about the OP!

Did you read literally any other part of my comments?!?
The UI was one step below Spotify or Apple the last time I tried it though.
I see. It's helping them learn the available flora
Doesn't seem hard to me? You could easily run a spell checker on identifiers and comments. It will produce a lot of false-positives, but that can be solved by making the changes optional or using an allow list.
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Weather apps are trying to be more accurate
Ask HN: Isn't this price hike from GoCardless kind of insane?
I run a small non-profit and have been using GoCardless for years to collect recurring direct debit donations. I just got an email from them that updated me about some “Important changes to your GoCardless plan”. This didn’t at first sound so ominous, but apparently they want to move us to the “advanced” plan, based on “on your current payment volumes and product usage”. As it turns out, the “advanced plan” a bit more expensive than the standard plan. After reading the linked PDF (as they interestingly enough didn’t write it out in the email), instead of paying 1% per transaction, you pay 1.25%. A very interesting move indeed, to just move customers to a more expensive plan without their explicit consent. However, this isn’t what’s insane about this. Apparently they have also changed the constant fee per payment from 2 SEK to 5 SEK (1 SEK ≈10 cents). The latter fee change applies to the “standard” plan (which we’re currently on), so essentially they want to stealthy increase fees by 150%.

As we are a small non-profit that are reliant on small recurring donations, 5 SEK (~50 cents) per payment means that ~6% of every transaction (up from ~3%) goes to GoCardless, even if you factor in the 25% fee discount you get from GoCardless from being a non-profit. Isn’t this incredibly greedy? I have never been through anything like this with the many different payment gateways I have used. This change means our organisation will have to change our budgets for 2024 significantly.
I like the website: it's pleasant to look at, clear, and doesn't take 20 minutes to load like most government sites.
Corona ?
I would love to get a proper source on this. Seems a bit crazy, and wouldn't this be thrown out on appeal?
Of course HP's C?O would think that.

But can you imagine needing a printer and having to buy another dumpster fire HP? Or buying an HP because you had HP-UX on your last computer? Ugh, what a dystopia.
Consider, for example, that a large portion of the labor on these projects must be conducted in large negative-pressure gloveboxes. Just the engineering to design these gloveboxes and systems for loading materials in and out of them, without releasing contaminated particulates, can be a significant expense. You then have to operate an extensive environmental monitoring program, health and safety precautions and services for workers, and at the end of this all in-out time takes long enough that workers aren't able to actually work for a good portion of their shift.

The safety concerns here are significant and complex. For example, remediation efforts in Los Alamos have struggled with a high rate of rotator cuff injuries among the workers due to the placement of pass-through locks in the gloveboxes. This has necessitated development of a new glove box design.

When working with dangerous materials, every individual step of the process becomes much more complex. You end up with more staff to perform safety and environmental monitoring than to actually do the work. Workers need more workers to help them don and doff protective equipment. It's a bit like working in space.
I am working on a side project that currently stores data as json-decorated markdown in localstorage, without any backend. It would be trivial to write a backend that oauths with dropbox/github/etc and sync data through it, but there's little point in doing so (assuming you allow data export, and unless you want to avoid storage costs), as once user data is going through a closed backend, you have to trust the provider.

A while back I looked into the feasibility of accessing various APIs from the browser directly, and I ran into a dead end. Everything I found has CORS restrictions that prevent this from working. If anybody knows of anything, I'd love to take a look at it.
If it's metric, k is not capitalized, M means million and G means billion. No need to get Godwin involved.

But it isn't metric, it appears to be a perversion of roman numerals.
Not sure. Asciidoc is pretty comprehensive though. Git uses it for man pages too. https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation
I just think that this is a manifestation of poor management. A responsible and competent executive would carefully research the actual capabilities and limitations of AI and not release a chat bot without testing it thoroughly with users.

So first you have to find a smart executive who is willing to dedicate time to research and set appropriate expectations and business goals given the actual capabilities of AI, and then you need to execute a software project very well involving this cutting edge technology.

Most executives do not perform step 1 or step 2 very well. Just because both are fairly involved tasks.
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When would you ever want Bubble Sort?
Quantum Discord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord

Quantum nonlocality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality

Butterfly effect -> Quantum chaos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chaos

-> Perturbation theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbation_theory_(quantum_m...

But then entropy in fluids,

Satisfiability > Model Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability

Goal programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal_programming

And, ultimately,

Self play (AlphaZero, ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-play

"Q: LLM and/or an RL agent trained on [Lean mathlib] and tests"
https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/issues/17919
I don't see how standard error applies here. You are only going to get one data point, e.g. "violent crime rate in 2023". What I mean is a prediction, not only of what you think the number is, but also of how wrong you think your prediction will be.
As an example of today's continued presence of the 8051, there's the CH559 family, which adds USB interfaces to the 8051: https://www.wch-ic.com/products/CH559.html
I don’t think interlaced video is still broadcast, since analog was shut down.
man. i'd like to see what study you pulled that from. that is pretty much categorically un-true.

<EDIT>

I think I see. This claim was so out there I had to look it up. There is actually a 'U' curve. So very low and very high cholestoral is risk.

But think this goes back to my point. Health isn't about 'cholesterol' because there is good and bad and the relationship to cardo health isn't clear. You can have high 'good' cholesterol.

But, that doesn't mean you can eat ribs everyday. There are other factors.
Enferno Framework: https://github.com/level09/enferno

a little flask based SAAS starter kit.

Got multiple work contracts some little publicity :)
*Hanford.
Something I thought about when working on a news aggregator idea: for similar cases, where multiple sources report slightly different takes, have a kind of a submenu with the list of other sources. Like [similar] perhaps?
Basically a system cannot be accountable to only itself. There must be an outside entity that can hold the system accountable.

However, even if you have two systems accountable to each other, once they realize that there's no third party that's holding the gestalt accountable, they're free to play tit-for-tat and essentially become a single entity.

It's kind of why "internal affairs" doesn't really work in police departments. They are part of the same system. If internal affairs clears the police, the police won't mess with internal affairs.

And I'm not saying there are easy solutions to implement. Because even if you have an entire web of systems configured in such a way that cooperation among some would be detrimental to the others so they would have incentives to keep each other in check, it would only take a sustained imbalance of power in order for the cooperators to neutralize the others so that they could create their own fiefdom.

But anywhere you do have a system that is only accountable to itself, you have a system that is likely rotting from the inside.
so much drama, but I was not learning enough about what is actually going on so I did some simple searching.

TL;DR if you believe that there is a (quoting Hillary Clinton) "vast right-wing conspiracy" that the govt, media, social media, and academia should be coordinated and marshalled to contain, you're on her side. She is the one who figured out that Jan 6th was "in favor of" Trump, see below. But the skullduggery may be of a more pure nefarious nature, she had a non faculty staff position and got fired, but she wants to be treated as an "academic" in the sense of the academic freedom that goes with professorships.

Here's her wikipedia page trimmed down to essentials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Donovan

Donovan's expertise is in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns

As Director, she published a number of impactful research papers and books.

Donovan co-wrote a widely-read study that discovered that a significant number of participants in the January 6 attack on the Capitol were driven by their support for President Trump.

In September of the same year, Donovan released a book titled "Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America," which explores the spread of right-wing political conspiracy theories through online media.

Donovan earned her PhD in Sociology and Science Studies from UCSD, and was a postdoc at the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA where her expertise was social movements, technology, and white supremacist's use of DNA ancestry tests.

She later held the role of Research Lead for the Media Manipulation Initiative at Data and Society, and mapped how interest groups, governments, political operatives, corporations, and others use the internet and media to disrupt social institutions.

Donovan went on to lead the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy School and teach the class Media Manipulation and Disinformation Campaigns.

She joined the Boston University College of Communication in September 2023 as a tenure-track assistant professor.

Donovan has authored over 35 articles, paper, and books [10] including:

How news organizations should cover white supremacist shootings, PBS NewsHour

Big Tech Companies Are Struggling With How To Best Police Their Platforms

Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives

Navigating the Tech Stack: When, Where and How Should we Moderate Content?

Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure: Cybercartographies of Order, Scale, and Scope across the Occupy Movement.
...what in the befunge?
Be mindful however that recipes and song lyrics are the two specific cases where OpenAI is explicitly telling the model not to cooperate, via the default system prompt. They really don't want you to have the bot regurgitate existing text in these two categories, and that includes a recipe you added into the context window yourself. I don't know if the extent of their exception here is limited to system prompt only (so technically not relevant to API users), or if they also biased the model itself at RLHF stage to not reproduce recipes and lyrics.
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"As always 100% of tips go to dashers" lol it was "as always" definitely remember reading that DD kept couriers tips...
> is it, loosely speaking, an expectation about a mean/true value or about the distribution of unobserved values

If you don't mind typing it out, what do you mean formally here?
Cloud providers would benefit from actively fighting such abstractions.
You can self-host Bitwarden via an open source implementation of the backend API called Vaultwarden and backup the data as often as you like.
I have an app that allows users to select data directories for storing config files. This allows customers to sync their settings using an existing syncing solution. Whether they use Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, SyncThing, or even Git is up to them.

The huge advantage is that most people already have some kind of syncing solution set up, and they can just use that. This is especially important for corporate environments where IT has to evaluate what's allowed and what isn't.

It comes with some drawbacks. Your code needs to be resilient enough to deal with inconsistent syncs, you have to use file system observation, stuff might be delayed etc.

But on the plus side, it seems to work very reliably, I've not gotten any complaints yet, and if something does go wrong savvy users can just fix it themselves. It's just a bunch of JSON files on disk, after all.

Most sync tools offer a way to share folders with other users, so if you do it right you get multiplayer for free.
Human recipes are extremely inconsistent in that manner too.

When I was fresh out of college my wife and I tried to make some sort of recipe with hamburger and flour. I now know and understand it was trying to get us to make a roux [1] and then mix the hamburger into that. But it described the steps for that very simply and directly with no way to know when to stop cooking the roux, and I had no idea what a roux was at the time. So we ended up with one of the worst meals I've ever cooked: Browned hamburger mixed in soggy raw flour. Heck, I wasn't even salting anything properly then, so it would be unseasoned browned hamburger in soggy raw flour.

As cash-strapped as I was at the time, that one still went in the trash. If I recall even the dog was not impressed.

Many years later I saw the Good Eats episode on roux and the light bulb went off.

Mind you, even made properly what I recall of that recipe would be something more like a base to further spice and use with something else rather than a meal. It was a supposed to be a simple recipe, but it was really too simple. But it would at least be an edible base for further elaboration.

Since then I've been on the lookout for recipes that are clearly invoking some cooking technique but don't really describe it correctly, either because they assume you already know it, or it is straight-up just described wrong. There's a lot of them. The "Internet Cookbook" is full of ideas and I like it for that, but it's quite caveat emptor when it comes to following recipes directly. The skills to make a recipe website, SEO it so it actually gets hits, keep all the ads working, and get pretty cooking pictures don't overlap much with the skill of writing a good recipe.

[1]: https://www.seriouseats.com/a-brief-guide-to-roux#toc-what-i...
I encountered "broken" machines all the time before ~2010, probably more often than working machines, in major US cities.
Not even mentioning that (some) non Mac keyboards have an Fn key too (Thinkpads do for instance). But no secrets are re veiled for those
The idea that computer code can't be a company name is just begging for clever company names to skirt this rule, especially with so many languages that are light in syntax.

SQL is a natural contender with potential queries like “select customers from store” but I'm curious how far this can be taken and what other “computer code” company names other languages would make possible.
> I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product.

Having had a wee insight into how it worked at Rdio (obligatory: I miss Rdio!), one big chunk of the answer is they need a literal army of lawyers.

A worldwide streaming music library is a hoard of licensing liabilities for every possible country, with deals that expire, renew and change hands daily on every possible mix of business days and holiday calendars.

As for the design and development headcount, I guess they dispatch teams and tasks as efficiently as Meta with their thousands of acqui-hired product people.
>There are polls showing support specifically for Hamas not for Palestinian liberation cause among students.

Link please? I'm not finding any.