skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why can't the results be explained by "Some babies dislike certain toys and prefer new toys over those they dislike."

It actually is explained this way in the paper: "If infants do exhibit choice-induced preference change, they should prefer the novel toy and avoid the previously unchosen toy."

The thing is, they are not only testing for this "obvious" conclusion. Each subsequent experiment tries to invalidate the previous one's conclusions. They thought of 4 experiments, and maybe even more could be done.

> It's swap methodology is also unconvincing. Why couldn't the baby simply be avoiding a toy that was effectively taken away?

This is a good reasoning — if the infants are aware of the swap, their thinking could be "I chose that and didn't get it, now I don't like it / don't want it anymore". Even then, it still points to the same direction: the infants are changing their preferences based on their first choice, now rejecting something they wanted but didn't get.
Exactly. Underwear does not work under this system.
Also a choice between several desktop environments developed and maintained by actual enthusiasts.

It is not for everyone, but for us who love one of them it is fantastic :-)
Don't you already have the statutory right in most countries to no-questions-asked return an item that you bought through distance selling? And it's normally 14 days isn't it?
This is a bug in their app, because it incorrectly canonicalizes %2B to + then + to space and then removes leading/trailing spaces.
I once saw a regular cd from Yngwie Malmsteen for several thousand dollars. It wasn't even rare. Left me wondering what the purpose of that was.
I don't disagree - but we would be subsidizing them anyway through higher cost of goods - since the only reason they are running around on the freeways is to deliver shit.
They are already liable for such things because they make active editorial decisions.

If internet publishers make active editorial decisions, they are also liable. Consider the new york times online.

I gave an example elsewhere that the owner of a physical bulletin board wouldn't be liable for posters on it, even if they occasionally came by and took down ones that they felt should be removed (for any reason).

Section 230 claims that internet sites are more like a physical bulletin board then a newspaper, in that they are remove-later, not review-first models. Aa such they deserve the same liability as physical remove-later systems: relatively few.
Not surprising to me to see CPU instructions being added for widely used use cases. Basically, a CPU instruction set maker's job is to perform clustering of the tasks that the CPUs do and accelerate commonly used tasks. If people do a lot of AES, the instruction set maker adds AES extensions. If people do a lot of CRC, they add CRC instructions. If people convert doubles to integers all day in a very JS specific way, then that's the instruction they add.
I remember playing with these things in late nineties and making jokes at my friends creating bleeding edge CMSes with PHP and mSQL/MySQL I can get much faster than them. I wouldn't have believed things would come full circle over 20 years later.
*not every European

For heaven’s sake, European names are not universal
Those fees are usually illegal but good luck fighting it
This book is a reasonable introduction to RISC-V:

http://riscvbook.com/
Books to read at every age, from 1 to 100 (2019)
Your math doesn’t add up.
Look for 5D10V82348. 14" UHD. Just drops in.
> Nothings stops you from learning whatever second language you want.

You're right, nothing is stopping one from learning a second language; unfortunately not only do most english speakers lack incentive, but also they lack the ability to practice in the way most other languages do. Most of the time when you run into non-native english speakers, they would rather practice their english with you, even when in their country of origin.

Additionally, there's very little lingual diversity in the US as it stands. Sure, there are plenty of spanish speakers, but early education doesn't really focus on teaching spanish with any sort of fluency as a true end-goal.

So situationally it just makes learning a second language that much more difficult. Nonetheless, I do agree with you that there are obviously huge benefits to it; the few that you mention, along with many others.
Please don't blame the victim.
Obviously everyone's needs are different, but what I want from a modern engineering calculator (which I use constantly) is quick calculation of simple things. Anything more complex/verifiable than napkin math, and I'll just use something more serious like Python/Julia, Matlab, any CAS, or whatever engineering/math software I have at my disposal.

So for me, a proper calculator, a tool you master to augment your napkin math, should focus on this:

- Keyboard. Absolutely lowest number of keypresses to enter the problem; the thing that is totally lacking in most non-classic calculators. I can't stress this enough. I should be able to enter all those sophisticated functions without typing their full name and parens. Simple ODEs/integrals should be at my fingertips. I should be able to quickly repeat binary operators for a different argument, and 1/x anything I have on the screen without breaking the flow (on-the-fly calculation often conflicts with that). And many more tricks classic calculators had, which are missing from most modern apps.

- Startup time. It should pop up in less than 100ms. Modern phones and computers are very good at that, but apps sometimes aren't.

- Correctness! It sounds silly, but you can't trust most math applications out there, calculators are surprisingly unreliable, even for simple arithmetic and trigonometry calculations. What math libraries did you use? Or why should I trust your results in general?
My learning notes of teaching myself TypeScript
I really don't like the frontend world, but this weekend I decided to teach myself some TypeScript and leave the bad dreams of JavaScript behind. I decided to publish my learning notes as a series of Medium blog posts. Here is the first one.
https://medium.com/@vahid_r/typescript-tutorial-part-i-1afef7e0085b
Thanks! This is really needed in a world of constantly distractedly updated news feeds and doomscrolling. I'll try having this in a tab, F5 once a day. Just to get that feel of "I know what's going on".
Exactly.

Or if it's even caused by Covid and not some underlying pre-existing pathology that ANY disease could trigger.
Yes - I'm aware. The age of a product does not correlate to the maturity of the product.

Thanks for the "correction"
How I “met” John Nagle in a home-network troubleshooting
As a Romanian person I am baffled hearing the speed and data cap woes of American people. I always saw America as superior and something to aspire to as a kid. What your ISPs are doing is pure robbery and I am surprised there's not more backlash about this.
Startups can be libertarian (small people believe in free market because it has been the source of their development) while superbig startups become left-wing:

- Inside a company, comically the communist model prevails. Everything is shared, and decisions to produce for another department are not exchanged for money nor compared on the free market. Left-leaning employees fit the internal structure of large companies, where things are more managed by paperwork than talent.

- A sufficiently large company has an interest in a heavy government, for example to prevent entry of competitors (that is an underestimated effect of GDPR), to control norms, or even simply to look good. A libertarian government is of no advantage to Google. The best demonstration is MS in 1998: A libertarian company is also of no advantage to a government.

It’s a well-known fact in rightwing scene that SMBs and craftsmanship people are right-leaning, as free market is the process by which medium classes have a chance of becoming rich, whereas regulated market is the process by which the rich stay rich.
Clarify please.
I helped out one of my friends that ran a spring break coding camp for middle school girls where we used Cloud9 back when it was free (pre-aquisition at least). We had easy access to chromebooks, so it made sense, especially since you could have a teacher account where you could set up accounts for students. They have a similar teacher mode today, but getting it set up looks more involved, and I'm not sure what the features and pricing are.

I wonder who the main users are. Schools certainly make sense with the notoriously locked down computers.

There appears to be more free competitors now, so I'm curious what we'd use today. Eclipse Theia looks like VSCode, so that'd probably the most appealing to a lot of teams like mine. Eclipse Che/Codeenvy looks like the most popular. There's a lot more low-key options for sure. Has anyone tried Github Codespaces?
1.3 million gallons, not 60 million, but when you get to that scale it doesn't really matter.

The good (?) news is that the list is apparently intentional, in order to repair some ballast pump valves. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-pdvsa-eni-vessel/idled-ven...
Yup, Automation Direct is my go-to "cheap" option for this.

They also make some very low cost PLCs that work pretty well. I built a solar powered DC irrigation pump with proper PID control+SSR to support varying flow rates(most irrigation pumps are on/off only) with their hardware.
Apparently the ideas in the first amendment were influenced by the enlightenment thinkers philosophies from Europe such as John Locke and Cesare Beccaria. It's said that Thomas Jefferson influenced James Madison heavily as well in having him come up with the bill of rights.

So already you can read up on those people and their phylosophies to get a better idea of the concepts behind freedom of speech.

Similarly, about 200 ideas were proposed by the various states to be included in it, and Madison selected 10 from those ideas. It can be interesting to see the ones that weren't selected. And there were influenced from states bill of rights, the English bill of rights and the Magna Carta as well.

For Freedom of Speech I found:

> He studied at Princeton where a great focus was placed on speech and debate. He also studied the Greeks, who are known for valuing freedom of speech, too—that was the premise of Socrates' and/or Plato's work.

This was his first draft for it:

> The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed. The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable. The people shall not be restrained from peaceably assembling and consulting for their common good; nor from applying to the Legislature by petitions, or remonstrances, for redress of their grievances.

Various dictionaries say:

> Free speech means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government

> Free press means the right of individuals to express themselves through publication and dissemination of information, ideas and opinions without interference, constraint or prosecution by the government.

And there was a legislative case where Madison argued against the narrower interpretation from common law of what is considered speech. So at least we believe it includes a broader set of speech then that.

The main issue that's unclear, and might have been unclear on purpose, is that the constitution says: "the freedom of speech" emphasise on "the". The presence of the "the" article suggests it refers to the existing freedom of speech that existed at the time. And debates about how wide or narrow was that at that time still linger.
Have you ever heard of a money order or wire transfer being reversed?
Silicon Valley's workforce is feeling more burned out than before the pandemic
Searching for Power Bugs
I also wonder if neural approaches will be embeddable into non-experimental engines as it's hard to inspect their behaviour / worst-case scenarios.
That was always a risk even before COVID-19. Regular seasonal influenza can be deadly, especially to the elderly. Patients can transmit it to others when they are asymptomatic or presymptomatic. COVID-19 has a longer incubation period and a significantly higher fatality rate but the same fundamentals still apply.

Any of us could have inadvertently killed someone by giving them the flu without even realizing it.
If anybody else was curious, it appears that the performance win of use of this instruction looks to be about 1-2% in general javascript workloads: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184023#c24
> The person writing this post lives for his job

I think you are completely mischaracterising the author. The article is about career: for most of us a career is a necessary evil that cannot be avoided.

If you read the article as though the heading were “optimising your career to suit your lifestyle”, the article still makes sense.

Nowhere in the article does it imply that you should prioritise work/money over living.

There are multiple references to ensuring that you achieve personal goals inside and outside your job:

“if you don't want your talent to go to waste”

“Staying in a job for loyalty or money's sake is like staying in a bad marriage for the sake of kids. It's not healthy for anyone involved.”

“Am I excited and happy to go to work every morning and see my teammates.”

“She had grown tired of her role and was burnt out.”

The author mostly talks about the time cost (not $) of your choices - most of us are given similar lifespans so choose how you invest your time wisely.

PS: “Valley Girl Newsletter” - @leokennis: assuming “his” is impolite IMHO.
The only really sad thing is that so many people believe others should be forced (through the use of the monopoly of force the state holds) to do whatever they believe is "right"
I think it's more about being a power broker than left-wing ideology.
Interesting.

On one hand we have clear and ample evidence that the virus kills, and even more so when the health system of a country gets overloaded.

On the other hand we have a bunch of hypotheses arguing that lockdowns kill, etc, but no clear evidence for that yet. E.g. suicide rates are up on some locales like Japan and the UK, but down in others like Germany. (I am not disputing theses hypotheses as false, btw, as there is ample evidence that in order situations of e.g. economic turndown or e.g. isolation severe adverse effects occurred/occur; tho it remains to be seen what damage there actually will be)

Given how you seem all about the evidence, this should give you pause.

I agree that the effects of measures have to be weighted against the good of measures - namely "curve flattening". However, I still do think that the initial lockdowns were warranted as a short term measure, and that future, more fine-grained (hotspot) lockdowns are warranted.

Then there are other measures, such as facemasks... some people dispute the effectiveness... But really, that's a no-brainer now; even if it turns out the masks are not effective at all, the worst that came out of it really is mild discomfort wearing them (exceptions for medical conditions of course apply) - and some morons shouting at each other for either wearing a mask or not wearing a mask.
no, the build step was info, not warn. It is detected as an error, and stops CI
Civilization is built on trust. "Just stop trusting people" isn't a solution.
Not really obvious. This policy applied only if you didn’t do a test-drive, and anyone I know who bought a Tesla did a test-drive.
No. Optimize for money (unless you don’t actually care how much you ever make). Money follows money. If you’re not learning at work, learn on your own time, and learn things that are worth money.
In the EU we have Instant Payments powered by SEPA[1], which requires banks to confirm payment is sent/received in under 10 seconds.

So yes, it's certainly available and possible, and incident of fraud is very low by all accounts.

[1]: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/integration/retail/instant_pa...
Careful with DigitalOcean, though. I had my entire account frozen (and all servers stopped) for an hour due to spinning up dedicated CPU instances to do some video transcoding.

Fortunately for us, we don't have anything mission-critical on DigitalOcean. Running a similar load on Vultr (high frequency CPU nodes) simply got us a polite email asking us to switch to dedicated nodes, which we happily did.
Huh, when did this happen? I deleted cloud servers via the GUI a few months ago as we are migrating stuff to AWS, but I still have some clients on Rackspace.
Allie Brosh is back with a new book
> Flu kills 60000 a year max in US

These numbers are patently false. If this was even remotely true pretty much every family would know someone who has died from the flu at some point.

The flu numbers are statistical evaluations based on no actual death counts. The real numbers of deaths from the flu are very likely much, much smaller.
> Somebody who uses/deals with cheques in this day and age though kinda deserves it in my books. Cheques are themselves bad UX today.

Nobody deserves to get scammed. This is puritan thinking, to blame the victim. People aren't supposed to understand every single thing and systems, and banks should do a proper job at educating their clients, if they care about good PR. Obviously, Chase and many more do not.
Don't worry, you wouldn't be not impressed for long.
1000 lines! What decadence!

This is what I use for my blog, it is 250 lines: https://gist.github.com/jes/88e3e587413d5794f69c281bdd14a27f

(Joking aside: cool project, and I expect it is substantially more capable than my ridiculously-hacky version).
There's nothing quite like PAIP. It's more a book history than a book of programming. Although the programs are the main focus of the book it's not what gives the book quality. It's programs are relics but, it's content is not.
That's fine. Checks are risky for the receivers not the sender.
That's a bit of a reactionary straw man there.

Nobody said anything about prosecution for incorrect views. Neither I, nor the article, advocate for jail. Accountability can take many forms , none of them need to be dire. Many can just be tantamount to better transparency so we know who to hold accountable in the first place, and the requirement for posting sources in political ads for further reading.
I got a new 2021 vehicle, not a Tesla, but with the latest assistive tech that they are putting on even low-end cars now, and while it is pretty neat, even from a "traditional" manufacturer it doesn't seem fully baked.

My first drive on a rainy, foggy night, everything went haywire, although given the limited ambitions of the systems, it wasn't serious.

The recognition of speed limits somehow failed so that it thought it was 70 mph everywhere. It couldn't recognize the lane markings, so it's jiggling the wheel and flashing warnings when I'm in the fast lane on the interstate, and for an instant I think I'm hydroplaning. Not helpful.

I think it has radar cruise control, which I haven't tried out yet, but I'm not sure if I trust it. And I sure hope the auto-braking doesn't do anything weird. It did warn me a couple days ago that someone stopped in front of me to turn left, but if I couldn't see that, I would still have had an accident.
It's a lot more like the fraud attempted in Office Space (... and Superman 3). Spotify artist payments are not based on play counts directly. They are actually based on Spotify's total revenue and the proportion of global Spotify streams that the artist received.

As a result of these extra plays, Vulpeck's stream rate increases, but Spotify gets virtually no extra revenue (especially since a user would have to be a premium subscriber to get a fully quiet experience listening to the album). Vulpeck gets paid a bit more, and everyone else gets paid a minuscule amount less.

For reference, here's one article that mentions this model of how Spotify pays its artists: https://qz.com/1660465/the-way-spotify-and-apple-music-pays-...
>It amazes me that in 2020, we still struggle to implement a simple system where someone can reliably and permanently transfer money to someone else as the default, expected behaviour of the financial system.

It's called cash, maybe you've heard of it?

If you want an electronic system that's exactly like putting cash in an envelope and handing it to someone, Zelle etc. represent that system. A wire transfer is basically the same, only with greater formality, complexity and cost.

By and large, consumers don't actually want that. They like protections such as being able to chargeback if services they've paid for don't get delivered; goods are defective or counterfeit and so on. Yes, this can make life hard for merchants: on the other hand, they are free not to accept credit cards. Most do, because it's a price of doing business.
I think that the advantages of being a native speaker in the end outweigh the disadvantages. You are exposed to the dominant economic and cultural ecosystems easier and much earlier. You may lack some ability to switch context and reframe things for different cultures, but it's not generally a practical necessity in life.

On the other hand, you may sometimes be harder to understand for non-native speakers, especially if you speak some non-mainstream dialect or pronunciation. (Even standard British, in normal speech, is probably harder for me to process than American: depends on what you've been exposed to.) Coming from some other Latin script language, you'd probably have a better feel for oddities in English pronunciation (like 'thumb', or 'pseudo', etc.) and can easier adapt some more consistent 'euro' way of pronouncing as needed. Sometimes people won't understand you otherwise.
Don't sufficiently advanced compilers infer what the real type of a variable is, in the most important cases?
So this is what the hilarious price change to $69,420 was intended to cover. Clever work, Elon.
> It's very interesting, and disturbing, how differently people treat traditionally attractive people and unattractive/less people.

Yes! I had a group at work of a core team. One guy who, in retrospect held me by the hand and led me along stupidvising as I learned a new system. He gave me endless attention and tutoring, celebrated wins and helped redirect when I messed up without ever getting upset. When I came back to work after having gained, he was weird and cold and blunt, and was way more demanding and curt in his feedback.

What really opened my eyes was when I lost again, suddenly I had my patient and thoughtful "mentor" back. It was disheartening, to be honest... just a feeling of sadness for humanity on how many opportunities the unattractive don't have offered to them on silver platters.
Consider Node JS is a top server side language, and arm for data centers is coming ( to the extent it's not already here), this makes sense.

Technically someone can just make a better VM engine for JavaScript to execute inside of, but whatever I guess they decided this would be easier.
Try deploying python apps in corporate environments with fairly locked down machines to non-programmers and get them to perform simple operations, and then compare that with just emailing someone an excel spreadsheet.
How many people do you think, realistically, would risk tying up $30k+ for more than 5 days dealing with return processing to take a car on a road trip? Do you really think that's more likely than excess returns due to quality issues?