HackerNews Summary (2023-05-07 03AM)

Source: Google Workspace Updates: Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders will migrate to Google Tasks soon

Summary
Google will migrate Reminders from Google Calendar and Assistant to Google Tasks to create a unified to-do list experience for users. Users can create tasks from multiple Google Workspace apps, including Tasks, Calendar, Chat, and Docs, and use Assistant to create hands-free tasks. The migration will prompt users beginning on March 6, 2023, and it will begin automatically migrating to Tasks for users who have not yet migrated starting May 22, 2023.

Facts

🔄 Users can migrate from Reminders to Google Tasks to create a single and consistent to-do list experience across Google apps.

🗓️ Users can create tasks from multiple Google Workspace apps, including Calendar and Chat, unlike Reminders that were limited to specific apps.

🗂️ Reminders created in Keep will not be migrated to Tasks, and they will not be displayed in Google Calendar.

👥 Enterprise end users can voluntarily migrate beginning April 12, 2023, and all users will start receiving prompts to migrate from March 6, 2023.

🕰️ Assistant and Calendar Reminders will begin to automatically migrate to Tasks for users who haven’t migrated starting May 22, 2023.

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Source: Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out Has Been a Disaster

Summary
German scientists warn that the country’s phase-out of nuclear energy has led to an energy shortage. They demand that the continued operation of nuclear power plants alongside solar and wind power should be guaranteed.

Fact

💡 Fluctuating energy from wind and sun would require a huge network of power plants, power lines, and storage facilities, which is “only now being created” and in part has not yet even been designed since the technology is lacking.

👥 In the 1970s and 1980s, the primary focus of environmentalists in Germany was to demand a phase-out of nuclear power.

📝 A coalition government of Social Democrats and Greens was formed in 1998 and in 2000 regulated the end of nuclear energy for the first time.

🌍 Germany has failed to reduce its carbon emissions by as much as it could have due to the decision to phase-out nuclear power.

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Source: React Aria Components

Summary
React Aria Components is a library of unstyled components built on top of the React Aria hooks. It offers a simpler way to build accessible components with custom styles and provides components for common UI patterns, with accessibility, internationalization, interactions, and behavior built-in.

Fact

👨‍💻 React Aria Components is currently in alpha and is a library of unstyled components implementing ARIA patterns.

🧩 Compared to React Aria hooks, it provides a default DOM structure and styling API, and abstracts away the glue code necessary to connect the hooks together.

🚀 React Aria Components can be easily used with just one package (‘react-aria-components’) allowing ease of dependency management.

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Source: Effect of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on reinforcement learning in humans

Summary
This study aimed to examine how LSD affects probabilistic reversal learning (PRL) and underlying learning mechanisms using computational models of reinforcement learning (RL). The study also investigated whether LSD alters how positive versus negative feedback guides behavior and how LSD affects a perseverative tendency.

Fact

🔍 LSD was predicted to modulate sensitivity to feedback and learned values in perseverance behavior.

🧠 Computational models of reinforcement learning were used to evaluate LSD effects on value updating and exploratory behavior.

🤔 The study tested how LSD affects positive vs. negative feedback and how it influences a perseverative tendency.

🧪 The study utilized probabilistic reversal learning (PRL) to examine the effects of LSD on instrumental conditioning and cognitive flexibility.

👨‍🔬 The study was conducted on healthy human volunteers in a placebo-controlled study.

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Source: The tale of -mrtd in GCC and Clang

Summary
The m68k LLVM backend had an issue supporting the RTD instruction and the return statement. The use of the -mrtd flag in m68k GCC implements a special kind of calling convention where the callee has to pop out the space allocated for the arguments passed from the stack. After digging into the issue, it turned out that -mno-rtd was already handled by Clang for the X86 32-bit i386, which enables the stdcall calling convention.

Fact

🤔 The i386 retains RET and RETI (return from interrupt) instructions but doesn’t have RTD or anything similar.

🤔 The -mrtd flag was added to Clang by 65b88cd in 2011 for the X86 32-bit i386, to enable the stdcall calling convention.

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Source: Memoirs from the old web: IE’s crazy content rating system

Summary
Internet Explorer attempted to pioneer a content rating system allowing web pages to be classified based on profanity, nudity, sex, violence, etc. Websites were supposed to add specific meta-data to each page, but almost no sites included the rating metadata, making the mechanism largely ineffective.

Fact
💻 IE’s Internet Options had a parental control dialog where you could configure a maximum level for each RSACi (Recreational Software Advisory Council – Internet) criterion – language, nudity, sex, and violence. Websites were expected to add metadata to each page, but very few did.

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Source: Burnout

Summary
Dependable Drew faces a series of crises all through the year, including the loss of belongings worth $2000, a difficult break-up, problems with friends, and a person’s death. In the end, he decides to take leave and rest.

Fact

💔 Drew faces a difficult break-up in February.

💼 Drew loses his belongings worth $2000 on the train from Berlin to Amsterdam.

🔥 Events take place over the background of a world on fire.

😔 Drew’s friends are struggling to be there for him while he is there for them.

⚰️ In the end, a person’s death culminates in the difficult crises Drew has to face throughout the year.

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Source: The Google Analytics alternative that protects your data

Summary
🔐 Protect your reputation and customer trust by using Matomo, an ethical alternative to Google Analytics. No privacy sacrifices or consent needed.

Facts

🔐 Matomo is an ethical alternative to Google Analytics.

🔐 With Matomo, you won’t compromise your site or make privacy sacrifices.

🔐 You can use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.

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