skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original study that's mentioned here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Abstract:

> Calculators are often unnecessary to solve routine problems, though they are convenient for offloading cognitively effortful processes. However, errors can arise if incorrect procedures are used or when users fail to monitor the output for keystroke mistakes. To investigate the conditions under which people’s attention are captured by errant calculator outputs (i.e., from incorrectly chosen procedures or keystroke errors), we programmed an onscreen calculator to “lie” by changing the answers displayed on certain problems. We measured suspicion by tracking whether users explicitly reported suspicion, overrode calculator “lies”, or re-checked their calculations after a “lie” was presented. In Study 1, we manipulated the concreteness of problem presentation and calculator delay between subjects to test how these affect suspicion towards “lies” (15% added to answers). We found that numeracy had no effect on whether people opted-in or out of using the calculator but did predict whether they would become suspicious. Very few people showed suspicion overall, however. For study 2, we increased the “lies” to 120% on certain answers and included questions with “conceptual lies” shown (e.g., a negative sign that should have been positive). We again found that numeracy had no effect on calculator usage, but, along with concrete formatting, did predict suspicion behavior. This was found regardless of “lie” type. For study 3, we reproduced these effects after offering students an incentive for good performance, which did raise their accuracy across the math problems overall but did not increase suspicion behavior. We conclude that framing problems within a concrete domain and being higher in numeracy increases the likelihood of spotting errant calculator outputs, regardless of incentive.
I have 2 cloud keys and have suffered power outages on both multiple times. Never had any issues with corruption.
And yet when I expressed a negative opinion on dropbox "Paper" I was downvoted into oblivion. Same happened when I was critical of antirez "disque" project, which is abandonware now. Part of HN seems breathless about new and shiny, and others seem to like this kind of "Unix philosophy" minimalism. I guess it's just a matter of taste at the end of the day?
People who would regard farmers as 'simple' don't know any real farmers.
How do CPUs read machine code?
The CFO isn’t incompetent. You agree to all sorts of awful terms by default, including automatic acceptance of changes, severability, etc.

It’s less obvious with GitLab given the nature of the business, but in most cases the vendor has the power in the relationship and can basically tell the customer to fuck off. Where are you going to go, Github?

Same deal with Ubnt. Their core consumer market is WiFi. The competitors are Google, Amazon, Spectrum/Comcast/etc, and a bunch of random companies. Backpedaling is dumb — they are better off letting the angry internet people spew for a few weeks. If you care about privacy, you’re not buying Google WiFi or Eero.
No? It would seem to apply to current employees who move to Russia/China who are in roles covered by the block. i.e. they would have the choice of moving and changing roles/quitting, or staying.
I'm not very worried about the remaining carbon producers once fossil fuels become minority energy sources.

I think the ability of the biosphere to sink carbon is underestimated as are the benefits of a higher carbon atmosphere. Most talk about anthropogenic climate change are either denying it exists or exaggerating (usually without much knowledge) its negative side effects. Nobody talks about the benefits of expanding the arable land at higher latitudes or increased plant growths in forest (and forests denser and further north). At one point during a carbon spike the planet was more or less covered by jungle pole to pole, how's that for biodiversity? Change is hard and people are always upset about it, but this is a change we have already made for better or worse. There is much doom and gloom about any change and this one will have big consequences but we need to move past arguing about whether or not it will happen and towards how best to respond to it (and in ways other than only desperate attempts to reverse it completely). That doesn't mean there isn't a great benefit to capping the size of the change or to stop the forcing, but at some point you have to accept it and stop treating it as your doom.
afaik the subsidies would go to the landowner, not the company who's renting it, no?
IANAL, so I would need someone to explain to me how this differs from Netscape's claims against Microsoft in the 90s.

Because it seems pretty similar.

Also, I wonder if this was code inherited from WebKit, possibly even from Apple engineers.
Three-State Logic
No, you clearly framed any belief outside of yours as part of "the problem", I was responding to that. I don't think you're genocidal, if you don't consider people whose beliefs you don't agree with as part of a "problem" then I withdraw my response as a misunderstanding.
Probably in relation to this:

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/09/chinas-new-cybersecurit...

Whether it's real or not or even likely to be effective, there's a chilling effect and businesses are obviously concerned to be raising the issue of Chinese-based employees with GitLab.
Electron apps can be submitted to the Apple store...
Slack has recently been updated for example.
This seems to only affect some developers, especially electron <= 5
It goes pretty fast if you have kids in the US. We have twins and preschool alone is 700/month. You're also supposed to save like 500/month/kid for college - we have 3 so that's another 1500/month. Minivan to lug everyone around is 600/month.
DNS Push Notifications[1] could be tacked on to resolvers and clients.

1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnssd-push
> How do you do CRUD with views? I know Reads are what views do

Both automatically updatable views (supporting insert/update/delete by default because their structure provides a clean mapping to the backing table) and views made updatable through instead-of triggers exist in Postgres.
That's actually a pretty long TTL by Amazon standards.

Amazon.com:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
amazon.com. 60 IN A 176.32.103.205
amazon.com. 60 IN A 176.32.98.166
amazon.com. 60 IN A 205.251.242.103

Or some AWS services

Glacier:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. 60 IN A 54.239.30.220

S3 has even shorter:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com. 5 IN A 52.219.0.8

Or, say, DynamoDB:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. 5 IN A 52.94.2.72

The main reason to do so is to be nimble, it's to be able to react to incidents as fast as you can and change, and to make potential deployment patterns possible.

From time to time, you need to do something with customer facing infrastructure: Remove the DNS entry, watch the traffic drain over the next 5-10 minutes, and then do what you need to do on the device, test, and then add it back in the DNS again, from which you can watch traffic return to normal levels and verify everything is good.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but imho it's problematic to consider class a characteristic that's easily mutable.

When social mobility is near non-existent, then class has effectively become it's very own immutable characteristic. People can be born into wealth and poverty just as much as they can be born with colored skin.

The "American dream" is the anti-thesis to that, stipulating that everybody can elevate themselves out of their lower-class if they just pull those bootstraps hard enough.

But how realistic is that actually nowadays, particularly to elevate larger parts of the population?
i m seeing an opening for corruption-squashing technoloty, although i have no idea how it would work
That's reasonable for just output selection. So shouldnt be able to send audio to all the devices? .. and different audio streams? .. which is all commonplace in the desktop world.
That's a strange article. Cement-based substances like concrete don't dry, they cure. It's not like adobe.
"Meritocracy is not as good an idea as it seems to be in practice"

Why not just consider that it is a label which may not apply to the reality you observe? Have we gotten to the point where considering that any X is not Y is considered a "no true Scotsman" fallacy?
We can block them but what is needed is laws. They'll always find a way. I mean just using your IP enough ad retargeting can be done, their hostility has no consequence.
what if you could do this electrically? https://www.researchgate.net/post/Surface_tension_and_electr...
Code signing does not do what you apparently think it does. They can’t block it unless it’s a windows store app/universal app, which is sandboxed. And that’s exactly what they do for those apps. Tim Sweeney ranted about this quite vocally!
Inherent architectural flaws:
- Complete lack of separation of concerns: you can see this by the terrible idea of simply slapping a transformation procedure to a non-specified part of the codebase. Every time you do this you end up having to maintain a codebase which has no architecturally defined place anywhere. See: https://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/how-tos/casting-type-to-custom...

- There is no ORM that you can control. It doesn't mean that there is no transformation needed though. It just simply means that you lose control over it. All the work which were once under your control now is handled by the database layer. Of course you can go to that layer and change the logic of the framework yourself (by sending strangely formatted HTTP requests according to the doc), but then you gain nothing by using this framework. Of course this problem stems from the same fact that there are no separation of concerns. So basically the framework is simply ignoring the fact that there is an inherent object relational impedance mismatch. Of course the authors are aware that there is a mismatch but they simply sweep it under the rug by saying that:

"The PostgREST URL grammar limits the kinds of queries clients can perform. It prevents arbitrary, potentially poorly constructed and slow client queries. It’s good for quality of service, but means database administrators must create custom views and stored procedures to provide richer endpoints."

This will come back and bite you in the ass when you try to work with anything slightly complicated like inheritance for example. So the authors basically dump every single person in the world under the category of poor programmers, and they offer their excellence in place of your lack of skill or talent. Go, figure! I am always very skeptical when I read something like this. See: https://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/api.html#resource-embedding

https://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/api.html#custom-queries

- No testability: pl/pgSQL is a really poor language to write unit/integration tests for, mostly because it's ancient and it's procedural and there are no native frameworks to do so. Of course you can use pl/Python and others, but then again, why would you when you can write the same thing in Python without embedding the code in Postgres, and the Python ORM would take care of having the same performance on the database level for you.

- Lack of tools for migrations, etc. The list goes on.
Not sure if you're being tongue in cheek, but Gates basically ripped off Xerox.
I am (slowly) working on a project with similar tool (postgraphile) to eliminate most of CRUD stuff. One thing I always wondered - how you would version control the schema itself? I settled on Skitch - https://sqitch.org/
Then why suggest that the reason Chrome is approved is because they sneak in private API usage?
Consolidation looms in the crowded data protection market
FEE is quite biased.
You could use PostgreSQL Foreign data wrappers[1] and leverage PostgREST for a SQL Server schema.

tds_fdw[2] works pretty well for this(I've used it in a project related to open data). Basically, you'd have to map mssql tables to pg foreign tables[3] defined on a pg schema. Lastly expose this pg schema through PostgREST.

[1]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

[2]: https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw/

[3]: https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw/blob/master/ForeignTableC...
In fact, if you use Route 53 with an alias to an ELB, the TTL is hard-coded at 60s -- it is not even configurable. If it were, we'd follow the practice of lowering it prior to changes, and raising again once things or stable, but as it is, that's not an option (moving DNS off AWS would be a hard sell, not cause it's terribly hard but afamic, there's not really any value to doing it).
The underlying issue is that while the Sanders campaign’s collective bargaining agreement with its staff union sets hourly pay above $15, there are also salaried workers on the team.

Your statement is at minimum misleading, according to the article you linked.

EDIT: Reading it further, it's a terrible article. Yglesias is a hack. No Sanders fan, but this is yellow journalism.
>if my views weren’t characterised as inhuman, since they are motivated by a desire to help people who inherit nothing.

Is this some kind of joke? Who on earth inherits nothing? You've received a body and genetic material from your parents. You have inherited a geographic location from your parents. You have most likely inherited food from your parents. You have most likely inherited an education from your parents. Your parents have passed on so many things onto you before they have died and you call that nothing? Your views are clearly inhuman because they are considering some sort of pseudo life form that exists in a vacuum with no support from anything. The reality is that you start inheriting things from your parents the moment you are born.

If you are truly worried about someone inheriting money while others get nothing why are you complaining about something that usually happens when people are in their 40s and 50s and have already received a substantial advantage from their parents during childhood? You can't undo that injustice after the fact. It's too late, the rich kids who are now middle aged are already ahead of you with 100% inheritance tax or without.
My Advice for New Managers
People don't understand yet why you don't need as many public charging points as gas stations. People who buy EVs charge at home. Public charging ports are only used by people who don't live there.

Edit: Yes people who don't have driveways still need them. Overall, not as much infrastructure as we needed with gas pumps. Everyone with gas cars needed public gas pumps, but only a subset of EVs need public charging stations.
Ease of use, UX, network effects, positioning (the fact that it isn’t called Virtual Hard Disk)

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-and-set-vhdx-or-vh...

Even if you could get the above working yourself, good luck trying to get someone else to so you can collaborate on a project.

Developers often dismiss ‘marketing’ as though it is just a fluffy icon or slick website, but how a product is positioned (in Dropbox case for ease of use and the fact that the project is engineered to ‘feel like a folder’) is absolutely marketing and critical to its success.
Sadly I know very little about about ROS considering I'm personal friends with one of the maintainers. One of the more exciting things about nerves is that they are making it "easy to do the right thing" in terms of using end to end encryption for all of the parts of your nerves network when you deploy.

I would say that ffi on elixir is... Hard. Not impossible. (I'm currently writing a zig ffi library that aims to make it as painless as inlining the ffi code) If you're an abject beginner at both elixir and robotics I don't recommend going beyond what nerves has to offer off the shelf. If you're an expert in one of either the underlying robotics c interfaces or elixir, I think writing your own ffi might be neat and worth giving a go. The documentation on how to do things isn't terrible.
Seems kinda superfluous, given that the suspect's explanation that Ms Galva broke off one of the pointy bedposts and "it ended up inside of her" seems too incoherent to qualify as a 'reasonable doubt'.

On a side note, I know it's Florida but $65k bail for a murder case?! That seems insanely low considering the rather plausible allegation that the defendant stabbed his victim with a piece of furniture.
Read more carefully.

Almost all of your enterprise vendors do this today. Some of them even give Sales Engineers real-time access to performance and utilization metrics. It’s a great way to get competitive intelligence about other companies.
Yeah I guess that's a bit of an extreme analogy. What you said about this abiding by laws of the country makes sense. Thanks.
Popular applications often get passes for private API usage.
At the bottom of the article, it links to [1] as the original article. Could we please update the link?

[1] https://theconversation.com/would-you-notice-if-your-calcula...
Nice! So, how do you use this setup?
Apple wants to own the user's machine. They want to make it so their computers run only the software they approve. This is already true for iOS and it's only a matter of time before it also becomes true for macOS. It's the opposite of a free system.

Giving up software freedom for "ease of use" seemed like a fine deal at first but then Apple started making decisions that don't quite align with what neither users not developers want. Apple has already started taking advantage of their position as the gatekeeper of the platform.
Ot: "In an effort to improve our user['s] experience..."
Sorry for all the people suddenly feeling vindicated but the sample size is kinda small to make such a broad statement. The "sorta double blind" study only has 40 participants, 20 of whom were doodling. Plus, it wasn't random doodling, it was filling in shapes. The other cited study that I can find in TFA is (presented) a case study, aka n=1. Can't actually read it but if this is the case, it's still pretty flimsy.

So it's looking good but with the track record in academia, I wouldn't consider this "proven" until a meta-analysis happens.
I have no problem with sites being able to do this, after I’ve given them permission to access the audio stack in the first place, and limited to first-party scripts on the page.
People who own homes with driveways or garages often discount the hurdle of renters and street parkers who often must rely solely on public chargers (or not buy an EV).
> People who buy EVs charge at home.

What if they don't have a garage or driveway?

How do you charge at home when your only parking space is the street?

Not everyone is a millionaire with their own private parking space and charging point.

I don't understand how people think this works...
Who are you going to blame when applications start breaking because Apple removes or changes the functionality of a private function? [1] without warning?

When you are writing any software that has a public API you should feel no obligation to change the functionality or completely remove a private method without warning.

[1] I refuse to call it a private API. An API is public documentation of the inputs and expected behavior of a dependency. It should be a completely black box how that functionality is implemented.
Reddit and the Toxic Culture of Anonymous Social Media
A lot of people in Europe live in big apartment buildings ... they may park in the street... how would they "charge at home"?
The entire advertising/sales/PR industry is all about engineering compliance. Trying to guilt trip people is just one manifestation of that general theme.
Surveillance app is to personal data as woodchipper is to arm.

It's a gross failure of professional ethics to allow these attractive nuisances to exist and trip people up.
I'm not up to date with e mobility.

What's the average distance you can travel today with a electric car?

How fast can they be recharged?
There are taboos on the left, but there's no right wing alternative to the science. I mean, if there was some viable insight into biology that required eschewing leftish ideology, why couldn't it be monetized with startups?
So you work for a financial institution and you provided your private key to a third party company so they can impersonate your server to host fingerprinting code?! That sounds really irresponsible.
This is nothing new, developing iOS and MacOS apps you use public APIs and never use private ones. I have never had any desire or need to use something not documented/public in anything I have built. You'd have to be pretty dumb to depend on something that Apple can and will change whenever they want. When I worked at Apple 25 years ago I remember the source code to the old MacOS was riddled with "if Word version 4.05 do this, if 4.15 do that" to try and avoid breaking Microsoft's apps". It was a nightmarish attempt to ensure buggy software didn't suddenly stop working. I don't blame Apple for wanting to avoid this kind of pain today.
I've been saying for several years that, eventually, we will all end up having to put in "default deny" rules for our outgoing traffic, just as we do today for incoming traffic.

(Either that, or hosts will have to be configured without a default route and will need to use a proxy server for all outgoing connections.)

When every piece of hardware and software you use is spying on you, blocking everything by default and only allowing explicitly whitelisted traffic will be your only option to stop it.
> You can eat the pufferfish (and I must say that I urge you to)

Ahaha, just like a statist to wish death upon their enemies. You really took the high road there, buddy.

> Plenty of things part of nature are illegal, including (but not limited to) rubbing the back of a frog that produces deadly toxins onto all the objects in your home.

See, this is what I'm talking about; you guys wanna take all of the coolest frogs away!
I think that if you don’t, you might end adopting superstitious “best practices” to compensate.

For example: Countless engineers I’ve worked with don’t know operator precedence. So tons of ”y = ((i * m) + b);” type stuff. Do not need any parentheses in this case, but if I remove them, then they have no idea what happens... So they litter all math with superstitious parens.

There are so many better examples, but you get the idea. I have suffered “coding standards“ that existed solely because of the devs that won’t RTFM.
Edit: I said it seemed to make sense, but I did a quick Google Scholar search and 1 study was negative, 1 study positive and 1 study inconclusive [1]. I couldn't find any meta studies [2]. So yea... hmm...

eh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty related, I recently launched a show HN about a free doodle web app that I made [3]. It is meant for doodling with an ipad, wacom or any other pressure-sensitive stylus.

[1]

https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/16260

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41465-019-00124-9

https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/edpsych_fac_articles/164...

[2] https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?q=doodling+meta+study&hl=n...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21399910
This video is the second in Ben's series on writing a program from scratch on a 6502.
If you're opening a video editing web app, I would expect a bit of loading time the first time trying the app.

WASM modules also execute as they load (unlike JavaScript, which only executes after being loaded), decreasing the value of relying on a cache in general.

> I can imagine a future where library payloads will increase significantly.

TBH I see the opposite; to use the focus of the article, jQuery was obviated by browser improvements, the pace of which is not really slowing down.
Ah nice, that's a good use case.
Engineers have figured out how to charge electric car batteries in 10 minutes
Chinese Hackers Just Gave Us All a Reason to Stop Sending SMS Messages
Yes, you can play with statistics that way if you want to sweep the problem under the carpet. If only the victims could get their potentially life changing losses amortized over the country's population somehow.