skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It might not seem as clear cut as other natural sciences (which also get fuzzy once you go into the details) but there is credibility in psychological reasoning.

Any "fuzziness" in the other natural sciences (thinking biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc.) is usually limited by current technology or measurement methods. Newton's classical mechanics were observably true for a long time before their flaws started showing. In most situations, classical mechanics is all you need to accurately model a system. Is there any such well accepted theory that semi-accurately predicts psychological phenomena in a similar fashion?

I agree that sometimes psychological findings seem credible because they align with our personal models of how we think people work, but this gives you nothing in terms of the scientific method. Just because a model is intuitive doesn't mean that it is any more true.

>Such models must, by design, simplify the real mechanisms.

What model? They essentially have a single claim backed by evidence. I don't see what predictive power their conclusion brings. We don't understand what "ego-depletion" is, how can we pretend to measure it? How can this "measurement" of something that we don't understand give us any more information about human psychology?

What real mechanism have they suggested as an explanation for this phenomenon? I didn't see one.
For archival use, isn't buying video from iTunes already a non-option because of DRM?
The problem I believe is not with the startup time. If you load bunch of scripts in your emacs, it also gets sluggish at start. The way Emacs people solved this problem was to use a server client architecture and run Emacs as a daemon.

I think the real problem Electron apps face is that rendering everything on the DOM is really expensive. I still remember the VS Code bug that caused a huge battery consumption because the gif they used to display the blinking cursor was in a high resolution.

Emacs was critisized, heck even banned from uni labs back in the day, because it used too much RAM. Now the time has come for us to mock Electron based editors :).
But it doesn't really, it just saves money for the people who already have it.
It's much easier to be cocky and negligent if the last 100 times you drove you never encountered something to hit.
What the hell are you reading?

By your reasoning no sciences should exist until we completely understand the mechanisms at a lower level.

Plenty of phenomena are observed and even experimentally manipulated all the time without understanding mechanisms. This happens in lots of biology all the time--infectious disease being one prominent example but there are thousands of other examples you could pick. This also happens with various phenomena in physics and chemistry as well, and is routine in astronomy (minus the experiments perhaps).

The undergrad student example is an armchair criticism, but think about it carefully: if the process you're studying shouldn't vary across populations, in a fundamental way, why does it matter if you use undergrads or 40 year old engineers?

Ego depletion is not such an unreasonable hypothesis. People perceive many things as effortful, and become exhausted. Try running a marathon for example, and tell me there's no such thing as fatigue.

A similar thing is also reported and observed for temptation. This is extremely common, so much so that people here are variously posting that the presence of the effect is obvious, and its absence is obvious. It's a bedrock idea invoked by all sorts of people all the time in explaining unhealthy behavior. It's also not unreasonable to assume, for example, that glucose in the brain is a limited resource, and that certain pathways are involved in certain types of tasks more, and might need rest. But you don't need to study the brain to examine whether depletion exists as a phenotype.

The effect in question is about the depletion idea, period, not about the mechanism. And you don't need a mechanism to study whether or not it exists.

Your final sentence betrays the problem in your reasoning: various lines of reasoning, including this paper but not limited to it, and involving all sorts of behavioral tasks, suggest that the depletion effect does not exist. So what insight is there to have in a mechanism that is not present? It's an illusion. This seems nontrivial to me.
This seems very appropriate as a state-level issue. There are many states larger than England. New York State, for example, is larger. Why should it be federal? Besides, federal agencies already directly control enormous tracts of land in the west. State-level control over land use is a good thing.
They will announce a cryptocurrency by EOY.
Far more people use the subway than drive to work.

Only 28% of people in NYC commute by car/truck/van. 55% take public transit and 10% walk, 1% bike, 4% work from home, and 2% take a Taxi or other. https://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-york-commute

PS: The van thing is also closer to a bus than a private car.
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This is actually an interesting idea in theory. However, from the looks of it (and I may be wrong), pressing an "I consent" button only proves that you pressed the button. If somebody can be coerced into having sex, why can't they be coerced into pressing a button on an app?

As a corollary: if two parties did have consensual intercourse, and also consent via the app, then what's stopping anybody from falsely accusing the other of rape, AND falsely stating that they were coerced into pressing the button? Since there's a hard paper trail, this could actually lower the barrier to making a false rape claim.
The test done here was comparing 11.2.2 vs 11.1.2
What makes you think those features are superfluous? That's how they plan to make money with these applications (well, I guess part of the plan).
Google cache:

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A lift/weight ratio of 2:1 would be quite remarkable, and the ceiling of a mere 4000' suggests that it does not have that sort of reserve, even at sea level and when being powered by the gasoline motor. Being anywhere somewhat hot or high would quickly erode that margin.

On the other hand, the chances of four motors failing in the time it takes to set down is probably not high. Back to the first hand, if you do have multiple failures, it is not likely to be an optimal grouping.
This is from 2016. Try http://www.segwayrobotics.com/ instead.
> I didn't intend to be reverse-age-ist.

No one ever does.

also it's not reverse-ageism, it's just ageism.
There's a difference between what you expect, and what you like. It doesn't mean it can't be a little better. Having something playing in the background makes the other noises less weird. It also makes me less self-conscious when I make my own grunting noises.

You're telling me if they invented a machine that stopped anyone in a room from sweating or smelling, you wouldn't want your gym to have them?
Some of the very first programs written for computers (assemblers and compilers) were so that programmers could automate their own jobs. Nearly every advance in system software since then - recursive functions, software libraries, virtual memory, high-level languages, garbage collection, lexical closures, object-oriented programming, constructors & destructors, smart pointers, version control, package managers - has involved automating progressively higher-level tasks so that programmers can focus on new stuff.

Dreamweaver and FrontPage have existed for over 20 years. The use-case listed here isn't all that useful - if you just want a quick prototype website built from a WYSIWYG graphical editor, there are already very good tools for that, starting with the above two and going through web services like SquareSpace, Wix, and Weebly. I found the discussion of his approach fascinating, though, because it could be applied to lots of other, unsolved problems. Imagine being able to publish a website by taking a photo of a poster using your smartphone.
As a New Zealander currently living in the UK, the contrast in conservation approaches is stark.

I've come to the conclusion that New Zealand is beautiful in large part because a) it has a low population density and b) it hasn't had a sufficiently high population density for long enough to ruin it. Not so much because of broad public support for conservation. Luckily, I think some good basic protections exist (national parks), and are mostly respected.

In the UK, there's so little wilderness remaining that it commands a considerable respect, and considerable conservation effort and public support. Noticeably more so, I believe, than I witnessed in NZ.
In terms of targeting infrastructure to reduce cycle casualties in Britain, overbridges at rural crossroads are about no. 73689532686 in the list.
So we just need some novel superconductors, a portable fusion plant, and then we’re set!

Almost anything you can make work with a suicidally unstable hypothetical power plant, you could also make work with a suicidally concentrated beamed power system.
2016 :(

I applied for the developers program as a hobbyist individual. The offered to send me an SDK for ~20k :-/
A search for "android chrome disable JavaScript" gave me this as the instructions on how to do so.

The top result: http://ccm.net/faq/39964-google-chrome-for-android-turn-off-...
Well, i'm in the same boat with respect to netfix and disks. But my usecase tends to be more along the lines of watching the movies on my tablet in the gym (which requires time shifting them if you will).

That isn't possible with UHD blurays at the moment, and I've sworn off buying DRM encumbered products. Just one of my reasons is that exactly 100% of the HDDVD's I purchased that were warner brothers products have bitrotted (its apparently true of nearly all of them if you believe other peoples posting) despite the fact that the disks from other studios continue to play. Some people have gotten the disks replaced with blurays, but WB didn't even respond to requests I made.

So, I won't buy DRM encumbered video products. I might rent them, but they can kiss off if the price is more than redbox or similar.
I agree with momentum. I've been using the anology for years.

There are only so many points in life where it changes direction. Most of the time is doing what you did the past months/years, whatever is staying home getting drunk or working non-stop.
Sure you can change direction, but it's not easy to fight inertia.
You gotta apply some force to change direction!
I have a feeling that if SnapChat allows sharing Od urls outside of the app (profile, stories etc) it will experience growth.

No idea why it isn't that way today.
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I've never known Cloudflare to do things well. It's the last CDN I'd want to use.

Edit: For example, the 502 page is showing, but supposedly, you are supposed to see the site based on this: "However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site."
This is because, humorously, the snapshot is actually of the 502 page. Apparently Cloudflare kicked in too late.
Indians were clearing large swaths of forest too...ever hear of slash and burn?

Why is it less fun? At least on The east coast forests are making a comeback. The Moors are still as bald as they have been for 3000 years
> As long as all the communication between peers are e2e, I think this situation can be solved by peers advertising the people they have invited to the group, later clients can refuse to do key exchange with parties, which are not announced before.

This breaks group join links.
What it always was: something in-between Facebook and Instagram. It's not the giant killer the founders thought it would be or the bust that others expected. Just a multi-billion dollar content (not camera) company with tons of young eyeballs.
Your example doesn't show excessive value capture for the upgrades in the home. Rather, for the extra 50k in bank loaned money, the buyer is choosing not to engage in renovation for reasons typically related to: inconvenience, time restrictions, lack of vision, etc.
> I have observed it in myself, time and time again. If not it directly, something similar enough. [Emphasis added by me]

This is the crux. I agree with you that there are certainly some sort of effects related to will-power, self-control, focus, energy levels, and so on. This feels obvious enough, based on everyday experience.

But it seems we don't yet know how to isolate, measure, or analyze these dynamics in a highly rigorous way.

Of course, there is possibility that the everyday experience is actually by caused some different mechanism we don't understand yet.
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> I don't use my computer exclusively for editing text, and therefore my text editor is not open all the time.

Ok, well if I was developing a programmer's text editor I'd consider you a marginal user and design for the use case of the editor staying open 24/7. Startup time seems pretty low on the priority list.
He is pretty sure that it'll collapse, but he doesn't know how high it'll go before then.
I think that what would generally be construed as "car culture" would be "how they're used and how the automobile infrastructure (roads/highways/etc.) is constructed".
Not really, crypto is high risk but it's a far cry from a lottery. The point is that safe investments over a couple decades do nothing for people who are trying to actually move their life forward now.
I'd still say it's a red flag. The developers of a browser library didn't test their site in Firefox. Makes me wonder if they tested the library in Firefox. Nerv is a library that wants to take an absolutely critical role in my app, I need to feel extremely confident choosing it.
Actually, if bitcoin becomes 15k then you don't have to pay anything. The put option gives you the "option" to sell a bitcoin for 10k (in this example), but you're not required to do so. In practice you only sell it if you'll make a profit. So in the case where bitcoin is 15k after 5 years your put option is worthless and you've just lost whatever the put option cost when you bought it.
I'd like a new computer architecture, where communication between different parts of software systems was more explicitly treated as communication. Instead of an exception to pass control to the kernel, how about sending data? Instead of multiple CPU communication through memory (and therefore the cache) how about sending data?
I heard once that if you're doing something boring to pick an exciting technology.
If you're doing something exciting, pick a boring technology.

Not sure what you would consider exciting or boring, but I thought it was decent advice.
I think the blockchain is super interesting and will lead to many useful implementations. But advocates sure like to get all whacky over it.

If your partner can prove you consented at 1 am, it doesn't mean you stopped consenting 30 seconds later. This is a total non-solution for a non-problem. If you want a "paper trail" have your partner text you "I want to have sex with you right now" before removing undergarments.
I wonder what the difference is between the 6 used in the benchmark in the article and the iPhone X that would cause these different results. They both support speculative execution.

Either way, encouraging results to a fellow iPhone X user.
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> I think you shouldn't be bringing up Telegram here. The article does not mention Telegram by name, and I think that bringing it up here, as one of the developers of the Signal Protocol, distracts from your point.

He quickly dismissed the idea that this vulnerability is a real one, and explained why. In the end it looks like a minor issue, blown out of proportion by this article.

The problem is precisely that this article does not mention Telegram even though it is in direct competition with Signal. If I didn't know better, I would assume from the article (and the paper) that Telegram is not subject to this vulnerability, and is probably "still" secure (if I thought it was before). Moxie addresses the issue, so this is not whataboutism; he just hints at what the article should have mentioned, that experts have been recommending Signal (and, after it, WhatsApp) over Telegram for ages, and that even though this recommendation could now take a hit, it probably won't budge with a vulnerability that small.

> Holy war threads between Signal and Telegram

"vim vs emacs" is a holy war; the fact that Signal is more secure than Telegram is not, when there is a consensus among experts about the question. IMHO, calling it such is misleading.
Wasn't it sort of the same way during the first AI boom? Expert systems providing some real value in limited and sexy prototypes working with a simplified blocks world that hinted at something power world-changing. Then...

> the thinking is that now all problems are going to be solvable

...and then failure and the "AI winter" for a generation after the initial promise had been discredited.
From the FAQ:

Is this legally binding?

The application generates a Live Contract, which is a legally binding agreement. Just remember, the point of app is about setting clear rules and boundries, not breaking them. To which extend the contract holds up in court, depends on your country of residence.

Can I still change my mind?

Absolutely. "No" means "no" at any time. Being passed out means "no" at any time. This is explicitly described in the agreement. Additionally you can withdraw consent through the LegalFling app with a single click.

Having expected more blockchain based proof-of-record applications, I don’t think we’ve seen courts support blockchain proof-of-record and I’m looking forward to how this will play out. Surely court decisions will not be swayed by just any blockchain implementation. Most of these so far (TRON, PO.ET, both still in development) are storing proofs on the Bitcoin or Ethereum network. Will this be upholdable in court? Will governments settle on a network or collection of networks to use for legally defensible proofs? Will this be more a matter of attorney legwork? It seems the market could be enormous for these sorts of applications.
In the UK at least the teens I know consider snapchat uncool and hard to use; they prefer to use Instagram. When I travel to India and the far East (Indonesia and the Philippines most recently) people seem to be all about WhatsApp. Obviously a small sample and the plural of anecdote isn't data, but you don't quote sources for your "vast vast vast majority of young people" either.
Except Cloudflare is saying this: "However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site"

It shouldn't be telling you that the host is failing.
Have you considered that Atom is not an editor meant for "quick jobs"? It's a workhorse for programmers who are coding all day every day.
Snapchat is and always has been a way for me to connect with my drug dealer, and trade nudes with open minded individuals in my social circles.

Because of this, I have been utterly fascinated by Snapchat's continued existence, partnerships with major media brands, and being publicly traded. It boggles my mind that the app I use to buy weed and see titty has such a large footprint. It always feels like reality will catch up to Snapchat, and the ecosystem will come crashing down once everyone else realizes the Emperor is not wearing any clothes, and he's using the app to send pictures of his unclothed behind to everyone else.
The irony is that a lot of statistics has really been developed in psychology and allied disciplines without even realizing. Meta-analysis, for example, really developed into its modern form in psychology, as a way of examining psychotherapy effects (even though the basic idea was around beforehand). Deep learning models too also have their roots in psychological models. They're called neural networks, but the models are more psychological than neurobiological per se, and have connections to other models that are firmly in the realm of psychological models.
Yep, good feedback. Will route it to the team :)
Essentially it has the same issue as any other "smart contract" — the interface between the contract and the rest of the world cannot be monitored by the contract, and so must fall back on the existing legal system. This makes the "smart" part of the contract a lot less useful, so it's easier to just set up a normal contract.
What I don't get is this: what makes them think that they're early? When it's on TV day and night and Paul Krugman's barber asks him about it, is that the right time to build up a long position?
It is one of these things that it is too little too late. Ad blockers filled in the gap and there is no need for a solution anymore.

Not to mention that AdBlock has lost all the good faith from the users, so including it in the coalition only does damage to the public image.
That’s fine if that’s all it is - a mistake in the docs. Should be easy for them to fix up. However now that I’ve searched and discovered the issue, I have to ask why they wouldn’t have done that before.
Still doesn't remove the ambiguity of whether the consent is real consent. Look at the Louis CK cases, those women "consented" but only because they felt unable not to consent.
> I would not hold the exactitude of 99% against the original poster but what is the non-hyperbole number I should be taking home from the quoted comment?

I actually very much dislike hyperbole for this very reason; it prevents substantive discussion and the reader gains little for it. Hyperbole really expresses only the author's emotional reaction, and it's even vague about that; it charges the discussion with emotion. If I were benevolent dictator of my own forum, hyperbole would be banned.
> an individual farmer is no more "critical to the survival" of city folk than a Deere software engineer or an Exxon scientist

Utter, pompous nonsense. And I say that as a software engineer.

> farmers don't deserve to be the dictators of a minority-ruled psuedo-democracy because farmers are just one more cog in a huge machine

What they don't deserve to be is permanently dictated to because their profession requires that they live in less population dense areas.

> There are lots of people in cities who depend on and know a lot about the agricultural industry.

What percentage of people living in New York have worked a farm? I think you're pulling your conclusions out of thin air.
There have been drop in replacements for react+react-dom before, like inferno and preact. They all have claimed perf benefits, though benchmarks usually don't mean much. The size differences have been meaningful in the past though. If this gets React down to 9kb, it would be pretty amazing.

React-native doesn't care on the other hand if the payload is 20kb smaller. Never seen a drop in replacement for it.
Practically though, I downloaded the microcode from the link for my 2009 era i7 920 Family 6 Model 1A stepping 5 CPU (Bloomfield) and applied it to my AMI BIOS and the tool gave the date as 2013 AND after rebooting the Powershell Get-SpeculationControlSettings command shows I do not have the hardware microcode support.

For those interested I used the instructions here -> https://www.delidded.com/how-to-update-cpu-microcode-in-ami-... and to get my family/model/stepping I used https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
Mine died several years ago.

I saught professional grief counseling, DBSA groups, CoDA groups, and self help audiobooks.

My initial awful state took 3-6 months before I started seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

Realizing another chapter in life after such a passing is exceedingly difficult, yet can be amazingly rewarding.