skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like they aren't sure which direction the travel might have gone:

"Our earliest estimated date of contact isad 1150 for Fatu Hiva, South Marquesas. This is close to the date estimated by radiocarbon dating for settlement of that island group13, raising the intriguing possibility that, upon their arrival, Polynesian settlers encountered a small, already established, Native American population. It was on the island of Fatu Hiva—the easternmost island in equatorial Polynesia—that Thor Heyerdahl hypothesized that Native American and Polynesian individuals might have contacted one another, based on islanders’ legends stating that their forefathers had come from the east39. The Marquesas lie at the latitude of Ecuador, and wind- and current-based simulations indicate that they are the islands most likely to be reached from South America via the strong east-to-west currents and winds at these equatorial latitudes4,40,41.

We cannot discount an alternative explanation: a group of Polynesian people voyaged to northern South America and returned42 together with some Native American individuals, or with Native American admixture, as speculated in ref. 10. We have dated the contact event to the time when Polynesian explorers were, according to some studies, making their longest-range voyages (the century surrounding ad 1200)—a time when these studies suggest that the Polynesian settlers discovered all remaining island groups in the Pacific, from Hawaii to New Zealand to Rapa Nui13,38,42. The Tuamotu Archipelago, which lies at the centre of the Polynesian islands in which we found a Native American component, is known to have been a Polynesian voyaging hub, and according to simulations it is the second most likely location to be reached when voyaging from South America4. Further population genetics collaborations with these genetically understudied island populations are needed to resolve these alternative hypotheses."

By "single contact event" I think they mean that all the contacts between Polynesia and South America happened around the same time period and stopped thereafter for some reason. So the contact could have been groups going in either (or both) direction around that time period.
This isn't true: Google preloads their design conceptions, namely Material, into Flutter at the ground level, and Material is a terrible set of UI patterns, such as the ones the parent comment was complaining about.
> best podcast search engine and database

Interesting - I had never heard of this particular search engine before. All I really use is iTunes and (rarely) spotify. And the occasional cross-promotion from within a podcast.

Of particular interest from their dataset is the "Dead" vs. "New". It's interesting how the "Dead" is level around 30k, while the new is a simple exponential curve.
I said, without going casual, so the limit is far lower.

I don't work much, and besides friends and alone time I can handle 4 partners.
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I always have the issue number and short description in the branch name, e.g. foo#123-handle-new-orders.

So that might sometimes be good enough for a first automatic commit message. I typically clean the history before I submit I submit my work to review.
Did not run on Wine for me, sadly.
Dart compiles to native machine code, so unlike Electron doesn't need to host an interpreter, which tends to aggressively allocate memory. Should be much friendlier on RAM.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (includes a Firefox extension as well)
> * There is huge amount of introductory materials (guides, tutorials, examples) but the amount of available materials falls drastically as you start to progress.

Aye. My coworker described it as being able to find 100 guides on how to hammer nails and build a small bench. "Shed building for beginners" or something. But then the next exercise is "build a house" and the one after that is "build a shopping mall".
They did? I can't seem to find anything about that on Google. I wonder which other podcasts have disappeared off the web. I'm a paranoid bastard so I have complete archives of several shows I used to listen to.
Slack in the browser is visibly superior to the slack app. When I close the tab it's really dead. Great feature.

The slack "app" is just their web site and a web browser zipped together in such a way that it doesn't actually quit when you tell it to quit. Why anyone wants that I cannot begin to imagine.
Oh, and sorry about stack ranking. It can be the beginning of the end. Job market is bad right now. But it might be wise to look at postings, and see what techs you want to brush up on. I’ve seen stack ranking destroy orgs, especially since good teams tend to disproportionally attract good talent. But management never believes that your whole team is above average.
So this is basically "Kind of like Electron, but with reasonable resource consumption and performance"? An Electron competitor?
The burn-in is real: 7-month-old Apple Watch Series 5
It’s not really gamification, Robinhood just literally adds smiley faces next to alerts like “:) your order to sell 20 contracts was completed.” I imagine it is nearly identical to any other brokerages notifications but with an emoji added.
Maybe reverse-SEO would be good: list higher those sites with less SEO-complicance lol

I have an analogy:

I'm new to programming and have been trying to build a web app using python. I went through a lot of websites and youtube videos, and the most fancy-looking ones where more often than not incomplete or bad. When there was a video and the "youtuber" would hit me asking for subscription or like all the time, or fancy 3d animations etc, I would know quality of content itself probably wouldn't be very good. Not to my surprise, the best tutorial I have found features a guy with his webcam only, with nothing fancy at all - you might call it a sloppy "production", if you want, but it's far better than anything else I've seen! - and it was never a top ranked search for my queries oon google.
For anyone wondering, I'm talking about grinberg's mega-tutorial on flask (https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com).
Could this be the best to Learn Languages much faster?
Thandie Newton Is Finally Ready to Speak Her Mind
And at some point, if you can make 20 or 24 hours of flying comfortable enough and maybe have good enough communication systems, who cares? (OK, there are a few people who want to go back and forth to Japan in the least time possible. But, let's get real. Air Force One isn't a supersonic jet.)

It's mostly a case of dialing in the space and price per passenger for the market. Given enough space and entertainment options--hey, live performances in the lounge!, celebrity chefs--very few of us really care that much about getting to a destination 12 hours faster.
There's no place for comments like this on HN.
I get a lot of "get rich quick selling stuff on Amazon" ads, that all seem to start with some guy pulling fistfuls of notes out of a cardboard box. Otherwise, Google seems to think I really like iced tea, Spotify, and Facebook.
The lowest bandwidth signals are not enough to secure reproductive success. It would be enough only in the scenario where the lured (with a nice photo) dating app user is immediately kidnapped when meeting the photo fabricator for the first time (and "prompted," to put it delicately, to reproduce). Even then, there is birth control.

The higher bandwidth signals (shared values, etc.) are what is used to determine a suitable match for reproduction, especially in more developed societies. You can see those values occasionally supersede actual romantic compatibility when it is common in some professionally competitive places (less time for dating - Bay Area, New York...) for two people in their 30s to agree to have a child together outside of marriage and with shared custody only because they

a) want a child
b) have not yet found a suitable romantic partner
c) the reproductive "partner" has shared values

That, in my opinion, is more likely to change humanity, especially as the above article demonstrates how much harder dating has become for everyone.
> She is not asking for money "just because" she is a woman.

That's why I asked to see the track record. You won't get anywhere in this business without a track record. Moreover, if you do have a track record being a woman is an advantage these days, not a disadvantage. There are a lot of VCs chomping at the bit to invest into women- and minority-led startups. But they won't give you money if they don't have some degree of certainty that you can do what you're promising to do.
It's definitely irritating but I consider the root daemon the primary offender. Kill it with fire!

Oh, forgot to mention: /var/cache/snapd/
Blank Paper
https://support.system76.com/articles/desktop-environment/

I don't use Pop!_OS, but I recommend Plasma.
MSFT launches new beta app to help devs working AI
I have [self-diagnosed] Code Style OCD. Like you, the Flutter nesting levels was a major fear entering the space. It feels both ugly and inelegant.

I found i was over this fear in days if not hours, and continued to improve with my ongoing discovery of helpful UI components. Furthermore, defining your own components and breaking out inline functions into proper functions in your UI classes goes a long way, too.

Android Studio, if you use it (i didn't), auto-appends closing bracket comments to keep you visually aware of your nesting. For the reasons i stated, i don't think it is as important as you might think.

If you haven't tried Flutter, particularly for syntactical reasons, i would urge you dip your toes in.
I need a ui for an internal tool and don't want to start from scratch
I worked at Google, and if racism is present in the hiring process, it's to the benefit of minorities. Google would (at least during my time there) jump through a lot of hoops give POCs and women on-site interviews, and the review process was scrubbed of racial information. Many employees took it upon themselves to avoid using gendered language in their reviews as well, to avoid that possibly playing a role.

That being said, over the course of ~50 on-site interviews I conducted there, only 2 were Black, and they were both from Africa, not the United States. The reality is, African Americans are woefully under represented in computer science well upstream of companies that would love to hire them. Even if you assume all corporations are evil, hiring more POCs would be in their best interest at this point just to avoid lawsuits and to have better optics.
Yes, if you're not religious it's actually pretty ridiculous to believe that there is a "perfect person" for you. To paraphrase The Office, if that were true they're probably in China or India anyway so most of the readers here are out of luck.
No. The opposite thing is true: HFTs want your retail trades because the cost basis of trading with you is lower than with trading with the broader market, and they can split the difference in savings with the brokerage. If anything, you're likely getting price improvement from the HFT.

(None of this makes Robinhood good; it's just that PFOF doesn't explain why they're bad).
If you read the article you will see that they aren't sure if there were people going from Polynesia to South America, or from South America to Polynesia. Or it could have been both ways.
"in the end they would invest only in the hottest SAAS startup by an ex-Googler."

If that was her main point, fair. But she's out there naming names and strongly implying that they didn't help her due to their racism and/or sexism. That's a pretty nasty accusation to throw at someone. And the names she named were the people who bothered to reply to her at all - they just didn't spend an adequate amount of effort on her to not be called out like this. She called out the only people who would give her the time of day! I think any VC who sees this article will know what to do from now on...
> That growth has kept the money flowing in from venture capitalists. Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates are among those that have poured $1.3 billion into Robinhood. In May, the company received a fresh $280 million.

What does a trading app do with $1.5 bn? Isn't trading a commodity technology?
It's true that Mac has different font rendering, but this is not that.

This article is about "faux bold", which is intentionally faking a bolder text. This goes way beyond any antialiasing preferences.

You're describing Mac-style antialiasing, which has nothing to do with this article.

(Also your description of thin fonts isn't even correct. Thin fonts, if rendered mathematically correctly e.g. converted to curves in Photoshop, are too thin to be legibile at small sizes period. Mac compensates by giving heaviler antialiasing, while Windows compensates with hinting that forces strokes to be a full pixel wide. They look different, but there's no widespread problem of fonts being too thin on Windows.)
This is a super interesting read! In my previous conversations with Prof. Fehren-Schmitz he was highly skeptical of any Pre-Columbian contact based on his findings in [1]. He says the issue is pretty strongly politicized, because there's a modern Polynesian immigrant community in Peru that would "benefit" if admixture is found, while the Polynesians in Polynesia are a lot more skeptical due to nationalist tendencies. I might be getting this backward, not completely sure, but his point was basically that it's super hard to study this specific issue because of the surprising amount of politicization there is surrounding it.

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(...
The line that stands out most to me concerns the driving force behind the obsession with Robinhood - the confetti and emoji-filled notifications that make it into a game.

It reminds me of the stories of children spending hundreds of dollars on apps like "Clash of Clans" and "Smurfs' Village" only for their parents to find out when they see the bill. Only now it's the parents that are getting taken advantage of.

As social media and TikTok-like products shorten our attention spans and continue providing instant gratification, it will become easier and easier to take advantage of people. These aspects, coupled with making the user feel smart (think "I'm a Wall Street trader"), and giving them the potential to make lots of money, may start getting applied to other spaces and could have drastic effects.
Robinhood enabled cheap buying/selling,which means deals are made more frequently and that's what kills most newbies. Imagine looking at your screen and seeing your Google shares going down by 20 points. People panick,they sell only to say two days later that it went back up by 60 points.
THIS, thank you for acknowledging that! It often feels like there are two lanes, there is all this talk of the steps to get on the fast lane, and then you realize there are some people who just got put in the fast lane, and you are still supposed to be 'working' towards getting in the fast lane.

It is frustrating that happens all over the place. Even YC - if I had a penny for every male founder that got into YC without an idea or just a new idea and then if that penny was taken away for every female founder who had a product that was doing well, well, I would be in real debt!
If you'll pardon the pun, what would you consider to be low hanging fruit regarding automation for small farms?
I've been developing Go web applications for the past 7+ years, some services getting billions of hits a day, and still have more than a handful running on various platforms currently.

In the past few days, I've been playing around with Kotlin because a client of mine is wanting an Android app developed, so I figure this is a good opportunity to dive right in. I have experience with Spring Java as well, not as the primary dev of the project, but I've written enough code to be comfortable with the process.

After being impressed with the process of writing Android apps in Kotlin, I decided to jump into Spring Boot + Kotlin and have been nothing but impressed. It's certainly different, but I'm feeling more productive than I was in Go because I can't say there is anything quite like it available in Go. I've tried Buffalo, but kept running into issues, and my typical go-to stack is Echo for the framework and Gorm for the MySQL library, but even then I need to pick my own tools for auth and caching.

The build time is certainly something to be desired, but with one of the more basic apps I'm writing for a client right now, it takes just a few seconds to compile, so it's certainly nothing to complain about at this point.

This is the tutorial I initially followed: https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/ and swapping out the h2 database for mysql was pretty straightforward, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was able to have the app automatically set up the DB structure for me, similar to how AutoMigrate works with gorm.
You can get most pages down to 1 character if you craft your own custom selector, e.g. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/dc8919e7e65d5dfa...

For the record we don't recommend piping straight to `!` as a malicious (and fairly Tridactyl specific) site could use it to execute whatever it wanted. We have a default bind for open in mpv that sanitises things - https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/dc8919e7e65d5dfa... using https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/dc8919e7e65d5dfa...
I know a few investors who think Robinhood is amazing. While they haven’t lost the sums highlighted in the article, they trade often and tend to not realize they lose money. I’ve noticed they tend to exaggerate movements in individual stocks; my theory is the scale of the default stock chart views encourage this.

They also don’t understand that Robinhood’s fractional shares and cryptocurrency are a degree more abstracted than traditional online brokerages and wallets.
Legendary software engineer 'Uncle Bob' Martin is slowly melting down on Twitter
In increasingly right wing tweets on
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin about Trump quotes and rants about leftists, and the police, Martin is appearing to take an ever more reactionary stand against the modernization movements running through our societies.
I think he's asking for evidence of Google's racism, not racism in general. Google can't 'fix racism' to hire more African Americans, they can only prevent it in their hiring process.
You could make this a commodity

https://andrewnc.github.io/projects/projects.html#heart-rate
Don't forget mine! https://glorp.co
I think it's clear that automation can eventually lead to a total lack of subsistence work. However I think there will long be volitional work that humans enjoy -- things like performing music, writing books, serving each other physically (like massages) and other things that are just fun/entertaining more than in the pursuit of resources.
The linked article was posted on January 6th, 2020. For some reason many people received an email about it today. Must have just been a soft rollout and now they are starting to actually publicize the feature?
Oh not like that (gas-lighting)....

Just saying the training-wheels should come off instead of the gloves.
While both holding full time jobs?
What you're saying now is that you think it's standard practice for peer reviewers to request the raw data for papers they're reviewing? The paper authors signed an actual contract affirming that they hadn't fabricated the data.
you've got to knooow when to hold 'em
It's basically scientific racism and was used to justify slavery for a while.
What is the difference (pros and cons) of using Square to trade stocks over Robinhood?
Don't know why but I've had much better luck with XeTeX and resume scanning.
A whole ton of SEO. Any keyword from which you can make reasonable amounts of money will be cluttered with sites made by SEO people, who are really good at gaming the index, but really bad at anything else (i.e. actually giving proper information on the keyword you're searching for).

Spam has become an issue again in my native language. For a couple of years Google did a great job at removing spam, but somehow in the past 2 years it has resurfaced.
Are you saying that you felt you received unfair treatment, like if you had been a man you would have been received better? Or are you saying that these VCs publicly talked about making an extra effort for female founders but you did not feel that they made those efforts. I 100% agree with making exceptions for female/PoC founders so that inroads can be made to start erasing pre-conceived notions of what a founder should look like, just wondering which area the VCs failed in, or maybe both?
The worst cases of people losing their shirt tend to be people speculating with options, and it's definitely up to the broker what options trades (beyond those secured by cash or securities) they want to permit their customers to do.

There are different levels of options trading for a reason. Giving level 3 options trading out to anyone is reckless; in the hands of many people these are tools that are pretty much being used for making leveraged speculative bets, not careful hedges of risk.
Anyone interested in Polynesian exploration would enjoy learning about Hōkūle‘a: http://www.hokulea.com/voyages/our-story/
Reported crime fell ~23% in cities during lockdown, but homicides stayed level [pdf]
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment (1949)
Matt Levine has written about how that's not exactly an accurate portrayal (second section of the newsletter below)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-16/carl-i...
> and the ability to go back to compiling for web gives managers a sense of "this isn't a one-way, I'm screwed if something goes wrong" journey

It wouldn't be a good idea to believe that though. Flutter website are just canvas paintings, and have nothing to do with the web. You can't add new html or js to it easily. can't make much use of new improvements in the web world.

Most importantly, if you are running a business, flutter web isn't really accessible, so please don't use it for any non internal tools
>Linux has settled on this middelmen-everywhere way of doing things,

BSD ports had it before. And before that, Irix machines had the packages split in several CDs.
I assume you are genuinely asking this but I wish I had more energy to dissect it but the fact that you would need to explain that or assume that I mean that one should be funded by phenotype are two quick examples of that condescension. I hope someone else on this thread can explain more in detail..
>Big pharma also benefits substantially from taxpayer funded research, which often gets omitted.

Big pharma receives some marginal benefit from taxpayer funded research, but it isn't as big as most think, and is given by the taxpayer with no strings attached. See my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23773601

>It's hard to see how such a thing would not get sued out of existence by Big Pharma,

Im not sure what big pharma would be suing for. Non-profits have a number of problems, but this isn't one that I am aware of. Here is a whitepaper describing some of the challenges. the Whitepaper was funded by a VC firm which actively invests in non-profit pharma.

>however generic drugs do indeed have a long history of saving lives.

Most generics started as brand name drugs which were developed by big pharma with a profit motive. Once off patent, other big pharma companies manufacture the generic with a profit motive.