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Does the research cited distinguish between hardwired vs culturally (or developmentally) entrenched behaviour? I haven't followed all the links so I'm asking, not answering, but if the research doesn't make that distinction, then the 'hardwired' aspect is unwarranted, and the title should have been something like "Contemporary humans tend to dismiss ...".

In general, most social psychology research is still conducted on WEIRDS (and if the current Euro-American 'global' culture continues to spread, this is going to become an increasingly harder problem to tease out). Richard Nisbett & others claim to have shown that many cognitive behavioural regularities merely assumed to be 'hardwired' turn out not to be universal, therefore not hardwired at all.
> and the constant pot shots are unnecessary to the point of distraction.

For each their own I suppose. I found it unnecessary and also entertaining.
We have {}[], but for me they're a pain to type since it breaks my typing pace. When I was gifted an old laptop with US layout I saw the light and changed my desktop keyboard to US as well. When I started working my employer asked whether I wanted US of our local layout (I think 30% use US).

I'm using a US intl no dead keys layout, and can easily type our Umlaute (actually much easier than {}[]).
...except eating 4000 calories a day of fat and protein.

Conservation of energy is the law.
Yes and Yes – Because Yes Is More Fun Than No
You see the same thing in The Sopranos - about the only people who directly use the word are AJ and Meadow. Everyone else, "this thing of ours".
Thank you for this comment; I will keep this in mind.

When working with a language like Go, where I have a DB access layer where I'm running raw SQL queries, I agree with this.

When working with Rails, though, I typically just make ActiveRecord calls in my service layer; it's simpler.
I think your advice is on point.

But my impression of the author was that they are well off already and is just trying to have fun while also possibly earning money down the road. In other words, they are trying to follow their passion.
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Lobste.rs looks cool but I see you can only join if you're invited by an existing member. Would you mind sending one to me, or letting me know where I can go about getting one? :)

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I suspect a major factor in keeping the Lightning stuff is also because of how intense the complaining would be if they switched it to USB-C. The introduction of Lightning got endless negative PR over all the old 30-pin accessories, and this would be that plus the extra complaining about how they keep "constantly" changing it.

For similar reasons, I suspect there's at least some factions in Apple that would be secretly pleased with a mandated switch to USB-C, because then they'd be able to get past it by redirecting any complaints to the government involved.
nah, a mm is an incredibly useful unit for woodworking, it's a little less than the width of a saw cut, it's just about the right precision for most woodworking
We could decentralize things more, but then people will point to decentralized communication and claim it's dangerous because it helps drug dealers and pedophiles.
It's not. The extent to which old-line businesses like telcos and banks will literally sell your data is way beyond anything Google has ever contemplated. I can call a credit card data clearinghouse and order all of the transactions of every age 30-35 male in Akron, Ohio in December 2019 and they'll put that in a spreadsheet and send it to me. It really is important to distinguish between "selling your data" and what Google does in the course of business, because if you are unable to make that distinction then you aren't aware of the terrifying scale and specificity of the data provided by other industries.
It doesn't matter how it's implemented from the user's perspective. The important part is that it's guaranteed to work - and it does.
Then you can't use USB-PD protocol and only get the gimped resistor-based current negotiation.
USB 4.0 [pdf]
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Inability to understand reality will lead to the species' extinction. I guess that's indeed how it's supposed to work.
Re: I have learned that objectivity...is astonishingly rare.

As somebody who has been in many political debates, I have to agree. A good many are addicted to authority figures to tell them how to think.

Another frustrating aspect of human nature is that most people don't know how to be logical. I strive to be logical as a personal goal, but it's often not valued in the work-place, or anywhere.

Keep in mind "logical" is not necessarily the same as "being right", at least not my working definition. Being logical is being able to back up your viewpoint and claims using a clear chain of logic. I define any assumptions I make as givens, and my conclusion can be formed directly from those givens. I don't necessarily write it out in formal logic, but if one questions a specific informally-written step, I can and do formalize/clarify it.

Most don't return the favor. "My guts have proven accurate and I'd rather trust my gut feelings" is a common response. Screw Guts, I want logic, damn humans! Human guts have proven dumb.
The continued subversion of our democracy
> The original iPhone cable, then lightning, then wireless charging.

It's also worth noting that Apple began the move from Lightning to USB-C charging on iOS devices in 2018. The next generation of iPhones won't use Lightning.

EDIT: The point is that Apple's been moving to standards-based charging for both macOS and iOS products for some time, making this EU effort even less necessary than it may first appear.
As a primarily C++ developer, I absoloutly hate maintaining code that is written like this. C has it's place in the world, but despite the fact that the language has a large amount of overlap in syntax, they are very different languages. Trying to write one in the style in the other will, at least from me, earn you some very bad thoughts.
Lol. What if the standard turns out to be lightning?
No they are not. You could become a landlord and find out for yourself. Or you could simply do the math. Mortgage plus Insurance plus Earthquake insurance plus upkeep plus taxes. Costs are incredible.

The only way to bring down rents is to increase supply.

Everyone else is lying to you.
He has some legitimately very interesting ideas, but yeah there's more than a whiff of man-with-a-hammer syndrome. Understanding the tails of distributions made him rich, so obviously they're the most important mathematical construct ever!

I've not regretted reading some of his books, but I strongly advise anyone who wants to maintain some respect for him to avoid his Twitter feed at all costs. And I'm one of those highly analytical types that isn't overly burdened by emotional sensitivity. The man really is just that grating in real time. I get the impression that in his books he does some rewriting to limit his more egregious impulses.
It depends on the perspective. Imagine an FCC shopping page for businesses that says something like: "Gain ability to sell customer location data for a year: $10,000,000"

"Fine" is a euphemism for market price. If the profits outweigh the fines and the poor PR can be controlled in a timely manner, then they'll do it every time.
There is no right answer because it is not like a math question. It is a question of values. What is the correct answer depends on what you value. What you think society should be optimized for, and assumptions you make about human nature.
i’m not disagreeing with you (i’m learning rust, so don’t have a strong opinion yet) but am curious how you feel that way?
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While I don't necessarily disagree with your point, in the future my crystal ball shows your desk will not have a supercomputer below it. Most people have fully converted to doing everything through their smartphones. It's been years since my wife had to do anything on a computer outside her work...

Besides, those "website applications" generally rely heavily on Javascript, so they are in fact running in your computer (just in a very very inefficient way!).

Besides, one can also argue that phones are the supercomputer anyway...
A significant portion - if not the vast majority - of laws and regulations have no criminal penalties and have civil penalties at most. Many are just advisory. Notice how Apple has technically been in violation of these rules for years and is only now getting punished and nobody is going to jail.

Everyone shouts about GDPR but fines are something like the 3rd or 4th stage of the remedy process - up until that point the regulator is working with you and no punishment of any kind has occurred. Of course since the GDPR is at an EU level, individual member states could opt to jail people for violations - I couldn't find any examples of that, however.
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This topic was so successful I almost wish we could revisit it either once a month or maybe even once a week here at HN.
Isn't that obvious? Think of the human brain as a byzantine fault tolerant distributed system. You are collaborating with other "nodes" that may be malicious, manipulitative or omit critical information. Therefore every message you receive has to be validated but since there is no objective criteria that can be used to form global consensus the only way to validate messages is by drawing upon your existing knowledge. When you are young you are more receptive to messages because you haven't gathered enough knowledge. Your "worldview" is being developed and then once it has matured you can use it to validate further messages.

Lock-in happens when you build a whole network of beliefs that are fully dependent on each other. Admitting A can mean that B is no longer valid but you are fully convinced C must be true and if C is true then B is true as well. Therefore denying A is the only way to maintain your worldview.
It's not quite an apt comparison because the vast majority of people already own USB-C chargers and accessories, whereas lightning was a brand new thing.

Also if Apple were that bothered by complaining, it would not have taken them 5 years and 3+ years of service programs to replace their laptops' butterfly keyboards with regular scissors switch keyboards.
I'd also add unique_ptr. Being able to have a heap-allocated object under RAII is a godsend.
It looks quite good, but I don't see any information on:

1. Is it open-source?

2. When am I going to see the "you have to pay us now" screen, and how much will it cost? I realize it's a business and am fine with that, but want to know what I'm spending before setting stuff up.
The DNS lookup would be of the form "request PTR record for 128.2.1.2" - this would leak a little info from the nearest recursing resolver, but maybe not enough to be useful to an attacker. I suppose Snitch might conceivably use some other, non-DNS repository like ipinfo.io though.
To be fair, the media was also talking about Russia before the election too, and so was Trump himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kxG8uJUsWU

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "didn't stick as planned":

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

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

but I'm glad we both agree about the correctness of the article title.
Something else to keep in mind is the importance of frequent hand washing, as skin contact is how these viruses spread in the absence of coughing and sneezing.

Hands should be washed for 20 seconds, all the way up to the wrist.

Frequent hand washing could cause skin dryness and cracking, so you might want to only use mild hand soap. I've found that the soaps with the fewest ingredients work best. You could also try applying moisturizer to your hands afterwards.
El mercado para equipos de gimnasia y entrenadores personales parece ser pequeño.
Sure, yes, of course, but protein especially being harder to digest means for eating a constant mass of food, lower carb will cause faster weight loss than a higher proportion of carbs in the diet.

Also, regarding your HN bio, google no longer claims "don't be evil" as a motto as of 2018.
Actually, the keyboards are not different. The keytop engravings differ, but that's it.

There are really only a few actual physical differences amongst Model M/Windows and workalike keyboards. (i.e. I am not talking about things like Maltron keyboards.) Those are the differences between 101/104, 102/105, 103/106, 104/107, and 106/109 key keyboards.

Ironically, that's really all that looking at the keys next to the shift keys gives one. The 102/105-key and 104/107-key keyboards add a key at B00, in between the left shift and B01. The 104/107-key and 106/109-key keyboards add a key at B11, in between the right shift and B10. So it's possible to detect the number of keys somewhat by seeing what USB HID codes come down the wire for "next to the shift key".

But this does not tell the computer anything about what is engraved on the keytops, and is not sufficient information for determining, say, Dvorak from AZERTY. (It's not even sufficient for detecting the 103/106-key keyboard, whose extra keys are on row A.)
I just bought Antifragile and can't believe this guy gets away with the constant petty swipes. There are enough interesting ideas to keep you going but there is so much petty noise in these books. If he has an editor they are doing a terrible job.
What kind of problems do you like to solve? Figure that one out and then learn the tools/skills required to solve those problems.
Its sad how almost all of HN blindly points to apple and states they are the bad guys. With the number of devices out there, its totally more natural that the standard will be lightning instead of micro-usb ir usb-c.
>No. That's bottom feeder stuff generally

That might be true, but it doesn't negate that there are a lot of business owners there doing exactly what I stated.
"Near C" performance is often not good enough, and usually misleading. You can write poorly performing applications in C, and certain benchmarks may favor or disfavor certain elements of a language. Generally they're created to be "similarly written" in all benchmarked languages, which may seem like the fairest comparison at face value. But what that means is that they are often naively written in one or more of the languages. Expertly written, hand-tailored-to-the-problem-domain C code is almost always going to outperform other languages by a significant margin, especially languages without manual memory management. You can do things in C like use arena allocators to significantly reduce memory performance overhead - things which require low-level control and a non-naive understanding of the problem domain. Garbage collectors can be quite performant, but they aren't capable of this kind of insight. Code that is written in C similarly to a garbage collected language will be similarly naive (another malloc call for each and every allocated thing, versus allocating out of an arena, for instance).
IMHO gamification really enhances the learning experience, so I would argue for things like https://zty.pe/ lol :)

(yes, I know, it doesn't teach you how to properly use your fingers on the keyboard)
With due respect - prior to the introduction of templates is _super old_ C++.

"Modern C++" means C++11 and later versions. It uses templates extensively, leaning towards more compile-time computation rather than relying on run-time polymorphism.
as to whether it is conscious or not influences whether you would want to model it a-la 3d physics engine, or if not then perhaps there is a more elegant solution we do not know of yet
Just a personal hypothesis, probably colored by my own biases, but I think it has a lot to do with the ad-based economy of the Internet.

The news has evolved to grab attention. It's always done that somewhat, but the Internet and the explosion of options available to people has made it worse than it used to be. Media companies compete for attention by presenting their stories as the most outrageous, most outlandish, most urgent issue ever in the world.

A cute puppy is not just a cute puppy. It's everything you need. It saved me. It is the sole beacon of light and goodness in this cold, heartless world.

Political party X proposing something that a media outlet's demographic dislikes is not just another bill being proposed, it's the enemy trying to destroy everything good in this world. Literally Hitler and so on.

Everything is hyperbolized to the nth degree to try to get it to stand out in the morass of everything else. This trickles down into the way we talk to each other. People don't just disagree, anyone who has a different opinion is literally the greatest villain humanity has ever known and people treat them as such.

The root cause is advertising. Media makes money by attracting eyeballs. They attract eyeballs by standing out with something more urgent than what everyone else is saying. Unless we can provide another way for media to make money that changes their incentives for how they write stories, I expect this will continue.
How on earth do you distinguish between the people and the government in a properly functioning democracy? That is essentially the same thing. The government in a democracy is an expression of the will of the people. You cannot argue that the people want something different from a democratically elected government.

That makes absolutely no sense. It only makes sense when it is a failed democracy where elections are corrupted or bought in some way.
I have no inner monolog, although I once did. I consider it an achievement.

Verbal creativity is the shallowest kind. Freeing yourself from words enables thought that cannot be represented in the words you have. Most potential ideas can't be, at their beginning.

To communicate new ideas, you might need to invent new language for the job. That is where all language comes from: idea first, then the word.
It's not just the US. Where I live (Northern Rivers, Australia), large numbers of people in the hippy areas would situate themselves politically as ultra-left and/or deep green. So highly anti-capitalist, anti-racist etc. They'll attack the right for its hostility to science when it comes to climate change, yet ignore any science relating to GMOs, nuclear power, vaccines, chemtrails, 4/5g ("Death Rays!" say the local signs). They're very pro-welfare so kind of Statist, yet left-anarchist on drugs, attitude to cops, etc.

People are a mixed bag, and becoming more so (I think). Longstanding political maps are being redrawn almost everywhere it seems.
Did anyone check out the claim that the address of the Wuhan Lab was moved in google maps?
They could have proposed a USB connector which worked in either orientation to the USB implementers forum back in 2012, couldn't they?
Incorrect.

Media influence society.
This could be a side effect of how intelligence works. Intelligence is at least largely about making parsimonious models, and that involves a lot of throwing away of noise. So this is sort of a failure mode of that system. Sometimes contrarian but otherwise good information gets misidentified as noise.
There's a funny little nod to things like this in The Wire. Stringer Bell, high level drug dealer, is trying to organize a coalition of all the differing gangs. He's studying at business school to help this. Learns about Robert's Rules of Order, runs meetings that way.

Until he looks over and sees one of his underlings with a yellow legal pad. "Yo, what is that?"

"Robert's Rules say we gotta have minutes of the meeting, right? These are the minutes."

"... Are you taking ... notes ... on a criminal fucking conspiracy?!? The fuck are you thinking, man?"
At this point one has to point out that US gallons (and pints and cups and flu ounces) are different from the gallons/pints/cups/flu ounces used everywhere else on the planet (for reasons that mostly have to do with English kings trying to get around the parliament's limits on taxation they made some gallons smaller, the US standardised on one of the smaller ones) - fortunately most of the rest of us have stopped using those units so we don't care as much, but we do have to have to be careful with, for example, US recipes.

When visiting Starbucks I'm often tempted to ask the person behind the register "Venti? that's Italian for 20 right? 20 what?" they invariably will say "20 fluid ounces" .... of course the correct comeback is "I'm pretty sure they use the metric system in Italy, it must be litres, or maybe mililitres" - usually they will choose "litres"
I'm sad that it doesn't support older versions... There are still many users on these devices.
If you really learn and understand the SOLID principles then you already have better tools in your architectural toolbox than most “software architects”.
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

This is geared for interview prep but I found it a very concise overview of how to build many kinds of apps.
I'm reminded of another comment from some time ago [0] that recommended 'permissive' parsers for a different reason: you can build a list of syntax errors for the user, which isn't possible if you explode immediately, and you may be able to generate better syntax errors than your parser would have.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17072670
It's not just language: it's support, tools, compiler etc.

I just spent a day trying to get C++ working properly for a specific project in MSVSCode, surprisingly, it won't work, there are arcane and cryptic bits of help on StackExchange, and the sheer amount of inclusion variables, paths, special cases, compiler settings etc.. is beyond bewildering.

It takes far too long for someone to develop the competency just to manage anything more than a trival build and this is a failure of the language because there's simply no reason for it - it's 'arbitrary complexity'. We're wasting serious chunks of our lives solving problems that shouldn't exist in the first place.
Locusts are a solved problem in most parts of the world. Insecticides do work.
I understand that this is HN and people are interested in drones, lasers, genetic engineering, etc. but in cases like this it's better to use proven solutions rather than experiment.
There's this incredibly inconvenient thing in Anglo-American jurisprudence called "burden of proof". In criminal cases, until you show that the defendant is guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt", you have to act like they're not guilty: also known as the presumption of innocence. "Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit non qui negat" (Latin for "the burden of proof is for the one who makes the claim, not the one who denies it").

See the links below, making special note of the fact that the "reasonable doubt" standard applies in both countries relevant to this case, the UK and the US (with the caveat that judges in the UK don't use the phrase anymore post-2008):

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_doubt

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
> From a fake account?

No. From a new, anonymous account where I intend to post my opinions without them being tied to my identity. At least until I post enough for stylometric analysis to work...
I'm curious about that "almost all" ?
I don't think that "sharing 99+% of definitions and values with us as a fellow human being" has really provided much protection against deliberate human-caused disasters. It's true that I wouldn't expect most people to invent a virus as a weapon, but I absolutely would expect governments to do so, and in fact I think they have done so.
An abusive alarm clock that deletes your files if you don't wake up