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> My kid started wanting all kinds of Paw Patrol merch without ever seeing the show.

Oh, Paw Patrol. I smelled something is weird when I started finding PP-branded toys & stuffs in our local Walmart equivalent. Reading your comment, now I realize this must be it. The show is in part a vehicle for selling merch.

> Maybe there's an idea, a dumb stream with no skipping and no channel surfing for kids. Don't like the show? Maybe it's more fun to go out and play!

Great idea. I'm planning to go full "youtube-dl -> home media server, no Internet on devices" way with my future kids. An artificially scheduled programming is something I might try out.
Old coal mines can be underground food farms
Knights could have been thugs or even warlords but they weren't.

Having recently read A Distant Mirror, I was NOT impressed by what passed as chivalrous behavior then. Any norms of decent behavior they had was pretty much reserved for their own class.
But they're just not -- that's exactly my point. If you test a bunch of Harvard undergrads (the most common subject type in these studies) -- that's not a uniform sample. In any way whatsoever.

Furthermore, even if you get a high p-value ... your experimental design can introduce so much noise.

Even when you do find these high p-value correlations -- they don't really ever say much about "why" ... because they can't. So much of that is the study design.

Let's say I make a study on how well people navigate a maze under the influence of alcohol vs. not. You can probably get a high p-value that they do worse while under the influence of alcohol... but it reveals very little about why.

So much of that is dependent on the particular maze. In fact I bet I could design a maze specifically to prove whatever conclusion I wanted. That is the whole problem in psychology. There is very little focus given to actually characterizing cognition in any meaningful way.

I like the clinical psychologists because they attempt to do exactly that, even though they have less "scientific" findings.
I'm struggling to find a real catch here. In a Nutshell:

* Only for the new Tango Smart Home Printer,

* when you sign up for an ink subscription (starting at $3/month for 50 prints that rollover up to 100),

* photos up to 5x7 printed from a phone or tablet do NOT count against the monthly plan pages.

Really fascinating marketing move. The printer costs $150. Definitely a higher price than the average simple color printer. But it has interesting features and design. I don't really see the downside. Am I missing something?

Sure, you can't print from a Linux computer (although Android is 100% supported), etc. etc. But even for me, a techie, this seems like a cheap way to print small photos. And then, the ones that I like best I'll print at a larger size, up to 50 per month.
I’ve only been to the US once (San Francisco) and US cities are strange to me. Especially the fact that there is no real city centre, just blocks of buildings with wide streets between them.
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The choice of landscaping materials and chemicals is ultimately up to the customer. Ideally, people would be aware and care that a landscaping company is needlessly pouring poison all over their property.

The best plan would be to design spaces that don’t ‘need’ weedkiller or leaf blowing.
Killing weeds with poison serves only a questionable aesthetic purpose.
If you take away SLEEP, the attacker will exploit something else during their test. Better SLEEP than really badly customized DROP or DELETE statements to see if their last created resource is affected.

Why not monitor for SLEEP execution instead?
For the technology itself, sure.

For this particular open-source hobbyist project, not likely; those who're most likely to attempt to use such a tactic maliciously are likely to keep it to themselves rather than demonstrate that the security concern exists.
>It's counterintuitive, if anything you should be getting weaker as you wear yourself out, but, after a decade of not climbing much at all, my finger muscles were remembering how to fire the way they needed to to stick that particular hold, and they got stronger.

I think it’d be less surprising if you thought about it as remembering more efficient positioning, than getting stronger; which ofc is what I imagine is happening. I suppose thats unlikely to beat out the wear of the day, if you actually end up feeling stronger than when you started
In terms of strength to weight ratio, top women are pretty damn good, in sport they're only a couple letter grades behind the top men, and there are only 3 men in history who have outclimbed the best female climber, and only Adam Ondra, who is truly a genius of gymnastic climbing has sent 5.15D. At that level their technique is pretty close to being maxed out. They spend months, sometimes years training specifically to send those climbs. I wonder how much the disparity between top men and women climbers is accounted for by the size of their respective talent pools. There's just so many more men out there dedicated to climbing hard than women.
To me stories like this drive home the fact that there is no shortage of programmers. When there is shortage of programmers, no one cares about games like this and hire, because they want non-sociopath to work for them for next year and are drowning in work that needs to be done.

I think that this means there is a lot of good programmers with reasonable personalities around and companies are picky.
Narrator: Microsoft was not dead.
I was talking about teams in final games in pro sport. In these scenarios, competitors are very well matched. If outcome was predictable with very high degree of confidence in these games then people wouldn’t care much and all the reasoning chains and justifications would be offered before the games.
The problem is, that your kids, handicapped after the disease has hit them, will have to live of the benefits his vaccacinated kids have to pay to them.

You are creating a unnecessary society debt by ideology. Illogic behaviour creates a damage to the allmende, that is redistributed in small quantities on the back of all of us.
> In this day and age where all public statements are stored ad eternum, it only takes a change in heart in how free speech is handled for an inoquous statement made in the past to serve as an excuse to punish you in the future.

We don't have to refer to the future, this is already happening now if you have conservative views.
They weren’t just doctors - at their peak, these knights were fundamentally bankers: at a time were travelling with valuables on your person was extremely unwise, you could open an “account” with them in Europe, travel all the way to the Middle East, and withdraw your cash when there. It started as a simple issue of logistics, but soon the order realized all that cash could be managed, and they started loaning it out to kings and merchants, which obviously made them even richer. This is the likely cause of their eventual downfall, because kings of that age had the annoying habit of defaulting on their debts by “eliminating” their sources.
Setting Up Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 18.04
The city isn't flat either... it has many hills in the middle that are 10-12% grade and a few at around 30%.
How to Dance the Blockchain?
I'm not saying Facebook mobile, I'm saying I think the iPhone made a huge impact in driving internet consumption into the public consciousness.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15273228
very true and yet duckduckgo somehow insist on keeping their awful clumsy name
A Computer of One’s Own: Pioneers of the Computing Age
With GDPR version in each country after some time the best market will be for companies to lawsuit other IT companies over violations..

After some time smaller companies will be forced to work on market siloses, to not jave to worry about such lawsuits.
Anecdotally I didn't ride a bicycle from 11 to 19 (didn't buy a new one when I outgrew the old one) and I had the same shaky experience you had. Recently I bought a gravel bike, coming from road and city bikes. The first few days on the new bike were not shaky but a little unsteady. The comment of another reply about the importance of the frame geometry looks spot on.
I would pay for YouTube Premium, but it's not available in my country.
What to do when you're not writing code
UK plans for satellite navigation system in doubt after Brexit
Statement by Vice-President Ansip ahead of new EU regulation to end geoblocking
Show HN: I wrote a book teaching Browser Extension development for beginners
Experience of phantom limbs lets amputees control real replacements
Where i live there is no why you find flat ground, if you drove a bike you spend most of your time up and go which is very exhausting and don't forget not everyone has special roads for bikes.
You'd think someone involved in e-commerce would at least know that the dollar sign goes before the number and the percentage sign after.
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> it doesn't do any real damage

I'm not sure about that. You can perform blind exfiltration of row data by using SLEEP. Handy in situations where you can run a query but can't get it reflected in the server's output.
Such business models "better suited to the modern world" were actually developed. Click here to read 5 reasons why the result might shock you!
I understand the reaction, but this comment breaks at least two of the HN guidelines: the one that asks you not to snark, and this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As someone who explicitly blocked everything FB on a DNS level in his home, I'd like to thank you.

On a related note, I noticed that Outline.com is useful for grabbing FB posts like that one: https://outline.com/csDYmp
Using this classic piece of software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software)

This account tweets random schemes for an idea of how they can look: https://twitter.com/kaleidoscopemac
Indigenous peoples across the world no longer seem doomed to extinction
Israeli Police Recommend Indicting Netanyahu in Telecom Case
Actually, in trying to describe the phenomenon to a friend I drew the analogy of a musician who hasn't picked up a guitar in a while trying to remember how to hit a particular chord. They kind of fumble around for a bit, and all of the sudden their fingers just fall into place and they got it.
> scarred a whole generation

That's a rather optimistic way of putting it, unfortunately. The senseless destruction of cultural heritage that went on during the CR, combined with the sheer scale of it, makes it a civilizational-scale disaster. (The silver lining, I suppose, is that people are finally growing comfortable with this assessment, though for obvious reasons this is not something that will ever be admitted publicly - at least not until a _long_ time has passed from the actual events, and some sort of closure has been independently achieved.) THIS is why the title of this talk is offensive.

Edit: And to be very clear about this, I'm not even assuming bad faith of any sort on the part of whoever was involved with this talk. But it's a fact that people will take offense to that title, and that this is something they should be warned about.
Ponging with the mouse is awkward. There should be keyboard controls.
The view of people as irrational has huge implications of how we think about public policy and even the concept of democracy too. It’s a huge threat to the enlightenment era form of classic liberalism. Unfortunately given the success of the new model from fields as disparate to economics to hostage negotiation (Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss) it seems this is closer to reality.
It is possible to give chimps medical treatment without anaesthetic blow-dart knock-downs, at the cost of a lot of training time for the chimps and staff. At the Ape Rescue Centre in Bovington, UK[0], chimps are trained using clicker training [1] to present their arms for injections on a routine basis so that when an anaesthetic is required, the chimps aren't subjected to a blow-dart but to a seemingly normal injection. Some primates still require knock-downs but it is not routine.

[0] http://www.monkeyworld.org/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicker_training
As long as you don't plan to transmit. A 20 bucks tuner is cute, but won't get you too far, especially with noise and heat problems affecting signal quality. But yeah, a generally nice way of getting to know sdr and whether you're interested in it at all before spending serious money on grown up boards.
I have a genuine question which might sound dumb but I really do wonder.

How do you actually read math, physics and programming books?

Reading them the same way as you'd read a novel doesn't seem right.
I try to go chapter after chapter and make notes but I often get bored because I don't see the usage in my real life coding. Maybe I'm not working on problems that are challenging enough?
Also after few chapters it often turns into a "job" of finishing the book. I don't have the pleasure of learning new stuff anymore.

Do you really finish such books? What am I doing wrong?
According to an addendum to the listing, the engine is not included.
Depends on the market. I'm in Los Angeles where there's a ton of people willing to work here, but not very many companies hiring. Bay Area I know is the exact opposite.
Misrepresents the work? Didn’t he and Amos Tversky come up with most of those experiments?
Aaaand... there's my rabbit hole for the next hour!
How flat is Netherlands compared to other countries?
the decentralized aspect seems key here. It's like a tiny team operating in parallel. Each don't need to be extremely efficient if the coordination reached a good enough threshold.
> I got a code violation warning last month for not mowing my front yard

That sucks. Why do such restrictions exist? My whole front yard is ivy and bushes. There's no mowing that, and it looks very pleasant (and the frogs like it, too).
Darpa Successfully Tests AI“Swarming Drones”That Can Make Battlefield“Decisions”
I’ve never skied, but it seems very similar to riding a bike in that you need to make constant adjustments to maintain balance and avoid obstacles without thinking consciously about every adjustment.
There are middle-grounds between folks happy with dollar store earbuds and those spending $30k on a stereo system. Many in that middle care about sound quality PLUS design. This is why Bang and Olufsen still exists, and I admit I'm a sucker for good design too, I own awesome 1980s Magnepan speakers that look even cooler than they sound.

People spend $200 or $300 on Beats headphones, and are happy to overlook the inferior quality to get a hot name brand. I have two wishes:

(1) that companies with very strong brands actually cared and invested in quality and R&D (ahem, beats);
(2) that companies that actually do have the quality and attention to detail in their product, find a way to use modern media effectively, and not just drive potential customers to their particular products, but encourage folks with a passion for pure beautiful sound that their aim is worthy.
How did we get to the state where staying home and raising kids is regarded so poorly.
The road that direct experience of the world has something to do with understanding it? Despicable as usual dang... And Please uncensor me.
Depends how they're written. Some are written to be read cover-to-cover, whereas others are references that you dip into as you need.

If you're getting bored because you're reading something that's not relevant to what you're doing, skim over it instead and make a mental note of what the content covers so you'll know what you have available to you should the topic come up later.
For advanced techniques, I agree, but the same probably applies to advanced bicycling techniques. Basic handwriting is probably not something you would forget, just like basic bicycling.
Great work, bookmarked for inspiration.
> Free/open source components of Phabricator feeling half-finished because Phacility has redirected development resources to paid features

There are no closed-source Phabricator components. The email is complaining about development focus being on the wrong parts (the ones paying customers use), rather the ones Haskell uses.
Dang, you are the censor here, you are in the wrong. You've never argued effectively - and I have lots of email evidence of users being censored unfairly. You just ignore it and hope it goes away, but things you ignore or shadow ban do not go away.
speedybarcodes says "At this time, you have no choice but to obtain barcodes from GS1 if you want to list your products on Amazon." on the additional information page.

I wonder what the fallout will be like when the boxes arrive at amazon and the UPC codes are considered to be invalid.
Notably Drupal is also moving to GitLab. It's over 40 000 projects, it's not easy. Announcement was at https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/blog/developer-tools-initia...

And it's coming https://groups.google.com/a/association.drupal.org/forum/#!t...
Me too. Apparently the Lytro folks were absorbed by Google.
That’s true but in most languages the things you prove are relatively obvious propositions like “(A and A)implies A.”
The semi-autonomous part isn't that unfamiliar.

I don't need to concentrate on finger or hand movements while I'm typing this. My brain thinks about the words while it delegates the details to other systems. There's an incredible amount of processing involved in operating human limbs which we're mostly unaware of.

I'd guess octopus consciousness is similar - goal oriented, with delegation. I'm mot sure, given the relatively small distances involved, if the slight physical separation of the central and distributed brains would make a huge difference to having an all-in-one model with distinct areas squished up inside a single unit.

But I absolutely agree - they are amazing and fascinating. If they were more social they'd probably be running the planet.
My main takeaway: “How can deep learning be good if it’s not symbolic reasoning, you know, like scientists have proven brains work like? We think in symbols, symbols have inherent meaning, why aren’t deep learning learning symbols?! I’ve been saying exactly this for 20 years now! You know, all those deep learning hot shots think they’re so cool, but have they anticipated symbols like I have? Symbols won’t just allow us to play Atari games from raw pixel inputs, they will give us general AI. Somebody please write a paper showing how a symbol based algorithm of some kind is generally intelligent, and also that any connectionist-leaning mechanism is orthogonal to complex adaptive agent behaviors!”
The problem with these questions is that the cost of answering them is an order of magnitude greater than that of posing them. That's what I mean about a boxing match: anyone who responds to the barrage will exhaust themselves, only to meet with twice as many questions. That is not how good-faith discussion works. You have to meet the other person halfway—and if you can't meet them halfway, why engage?

When I read your comments, they seem to carry a charge of aggression presenting itself as inquiry. In order to be in the spirit of this site, that quality needs to go. Here's an old pg quote that I love, which expresses the right spirit: Comments should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.

Re facts: your comments are probably being flagged, first because they do a lot more than merely state facts (examples: "I encourage you to open your mind", "Can you not read?", "The only one being a jerk here is you"), and second because facts can also be weapons; it depends on how they're used.

Re the GP: taking someone to task for using the word 'kvetch' is cheap and has overtones. You can see that in the bewildered way the other user responded. Had you been following the site guidelines, you'd have dropped that bit. Please take the guidelines to heart, and you'll do much better here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Are you saying supporting SA is in our national interest?

This is "if you're not with us, you're against us". It was a bad argument then and it's a bad argument now. Can we try to keep such short sighted reasoning off of HN?
Eliminating skin in the game won't result in quality. Just like trying to impress peers won't.
I remember a newspaper article cut out and posted on the notice board in the Computer Science Dept at my University, probably around 1986, entitled "Looking forward to the day when IBM rules the World".

Like you, this memory has stuck with me.
Thanks! I'm happy you like it :)!
agreed. 100 companies are responsible for 70% of global emissions, and you're punishing the people? come on, that's not right.
The article you linked also speculates on the main topic of this thread:

> Intriguingly, using chromatic aberration to detect color is more computationally intensive than other types of color vision, such as our own, and likely requires a lot of brainpower, Stubbs said. This may explain, in part, why cephalopods are the most intelligent invertebrates on Earth.
This is another reason why you want 2FA.
No, I don't think you're understanding my concern, it doesn't relate to security at all, it touches on privacy, but it's more about monopoly control.

If you start using Google's password manager with their auto-suggested long complex passwords, there is no way you can remember the passwords yourself. You'll need to be logged into Google Chrome to have access to the password. Therefore, you'll need to be logged into Google Chrome to log into any website. Currently, there is not way to export passwords from one browser to another, so if all your long complex random passwords are in Chrome, as a practical matter, you won't be able to use Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer, you'll be required to use Chrome.

The apprehension over the feature is not about security at all (in fact, this system is likely more secure). It's about control. If you allow Google to manage all of your passwords, then you'll need Google to do anything.
Evolutionarily speaking, what is the impetus for this?

It isn't like a dangerous situation, where you would benefit from remembering it for the rest of your life, despite only experiencing it once.

Also it isn't like remembering something that you do every day.

The closest approximation I can think of is something that happens seasonally, it is probably beneficial to remember how to harvest the berries of the bonga bonga tree, despite not having seen them for 51 weeks.

Is long term memory not fine grained enough to bother differentiating between 'a year ago' and '20 years ago'?
Could you maybe do away with training beforehand on a single source and instead use multiple, very sensitive microphones and triangulate the locations of the keys being pressed? The estimations might not be accurate, but you could put the results through a smartphone typo correction algorithm.
Deep Learning Go bot tournament
Reading the captions is incredibly saddening:

"She spent the next 11 years living in isolation as a research subject. ... She fell into an extended period of depression and was treated repeatedly for rashes and sores on her neck and wrists inflicted on herself during anxiety attacks. She also suffers from the 'phantom hand' syndrome, which has caused her to bite all of her nails to the quick, rubbing them until there is nothing left." - http://franknoelker.com/collection/chimp-portraits#Rachel,20...
To all downvoters: you actually support my point.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16122171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659565

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11762835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15273629
I find them beautiful. I thought to myself, “there’s no way whatever the developers put up will be as nicely designed”.
Youtube - he said it in the first line.