skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The significance of the study is explained here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1567

As I understand, this study proves that birds have something equivalent of a cerebral cortex which has been considered exclusive to mammals. Cerebral cortex is critical for awareness, consciousness, thought, memory, and language.

I don't know what's that got to do with "higher intelligence" though.
Framing the 30% as "payment processing" is a fundamentally flawed comparison. Apple builds the entire ecosystem and suite of tools that developers use to actually make apps for the iPhone.

Visa and Mastercard only provide payment processing, they don't provide the equivalent of the iOS SDKs, Xcode, the App Store, etc., to their merchants.
The solution here is a free market approach. Apple or someone else can be a more strict gatekeeper for people who want that type of service, while users who what a more laissez-faire marketplace can go through some additional hassle to install a 3rd party app store without Apple support.
Amazon’s newest Ring device is a flying security camera drone
Given sane priors, shouldn't one always assume that they penetrated farther into the continent by some amount than the recovered artifacts indicate?

1) for any single artifact X, the chance that X is found at the innermost point that vikings reached is low, given the large number of artifacts they would have generated

2) the exact number of discoverable artifacts is unknown, and the majority of this number must be undiscovered so far

Archeologists' failure to think this way has always baffled me. Bayesian archeology should be a thing
The other side of the argument is often how do you keep things objective and consistent across the company, especially when it’s a large company. How do you make sure a “senior engineer” on one team is reviewed on the same criteria as someone on a completely different team.
Except we can't grep for our or other people's names because the FinCEN leak isn't necessarily available publicly. It was only (rightly) given to the ICIJ -- even though it was a global team of over 40 journalists trawling through the data trove.
Yes I agree - that's pretty much my concern with the concept; although I've only really experienced stand-ups in normal offices in accessible environments, your description highlights the potential for it to be even more exclusionary.
Congress is free to consult various other branches, but that is substantively different from the DOJ proposing legislation. Congress should be in the drivers seat, imho.

And yeah, the devolution of quasi-legislative ability to regulatory bodies is a serious ball of wax that I haven’t managed to formulate a coherent solution to.
Because there is money to be made, and leaving it on the table is just downright unamerican

/s
> What is the significance of the sprint, then?

Among other things, releasing something on a consistent schedule. I hope you (and the rest of HN) will forgive me for making this little meme: https://i.imgflip.com/4g6z3o.jpg
I'm gonna say that Zoom isn't paying anyone to associate their brand with sentencing someone to the death penalty.

Zoom blew up as the video conferencing solution of the pandemic. And in this case they are using the product.

But ultimately it's just become the parlance for it.
No, you don't get it. We've seen the people trying to do it. We've chased them. They're real, they use ropes and knives. Those are not random accidents.
Iceland was probably not uninhabited when the Vikings got there.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papar
"Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." --Douglas Adams
Watchmojo created a tool for producing 500 videos a month using the XeroAPI
I'll just leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ISE6R_-b3A
What filters (knobs) would you always disable?

Would you prefer that Apple reject all apps that match your list from the app store altogether, instead of offering those specific ones as search filters?
Apple already takes $99/year for quality assurance (free-to-user apps get it too).

Apple charges for (in-)app payments literally 10 times more than competing payment processors. Apple bans apps from using competing payment processors.

Apple also bans apps from even informing consumers how much this costs, or that other payment options may be available elsewhere. There's no pro-consumer explanation for forcing opaque pricing and uninformed purchases.
My understanding is that these isolated runestones deep in North America, thousands of kilometers away from any other evidence of Norse presence, have about zero value as archaeological evidence. It's hard to come up with a story for how a genuine ancient Norse artifact could get there like that that is even remotely plausible. Modern hiking ethics are a pretty modern invention. Usually, when people go on expeditions like that, they leave a trail of trash behind them. And nobody's going to make a clean hike thousands of kilometers into an unknown land without leaving any traces, then stick around somewhere long enough to carve "gnome valley" in huge letters on a rock - which must have been roughly the plan all along, too, because otherwise, why did you pack stone chisels for the trip, and if you didn't pack them, then where's the on-site smithy? - and then just fade into the mist, again leaving no trace.

Carved rocks are somewhat too convenient of fodder for mysteries like this, because they're just so difficult to date. I think that the most plausible hypothesis for the Heavener inscription, though, is that it really is of Scandinavian origin. But that it dates to the 19th century, not the 11th. This is based on three things: The only thing about it that looks remotely medieval is the simple fact that it's using a runic alphabet (the vikings liked to decorate their runestones), and it is reportedly somewhat nonsensical in Old Norse but reasonably straightforward to read in a modern dialect, and we know from the historical record that there were Swedes (IIRC) living there around then.
Except there's another factor:

3) Artifacts can be (and often were!) traded between different places, so presence of an artifact associated with a culture may be indicative of trade and not physical presence of the artifact.
A big hurdle for doing this is latency, every time you hop from one device to another you're adding at least ~10ms of latency if it's over anything like bluetooth. There might a clever way to do it, it's something I'm thinking about but it's too early to say.

For now it looks like it's going to be a behind-the-ear hearing aid. Maybe in 5-10 years it could fit in your ear canal.
Do you stand on a sled?
Given the incredibly small number of artifacts that are going to exist, I don't really see why it would matter.

The story about the sailboat trip to find the camp on the beach shows that they are plenty willing to investigate assumptions based on evidence they do have. With ~0 evidence to go on and a continent to search, what more would they do?
The vast majority of software companies are not producing things that matter beyond the scope of capital accumulation.
Yes it does.

Sentencing anyone to death (or anything really) is the maximum expression of state power on a person.

A person should have the right to face the person sentencing them, and Justice should be served by the state facing the person.

Without this face to face interaction, there is no real distinction between justice and a bureaucratic process.
> Each failure, including one of his accounts getting "hacked", is an opportunity for learning.

I do not have a child but I completely agree. Some of my best learning experiences have been from being manipulate when I was younger. The loss was nothing of consequence in the grand scheme of my life, but the lessons had tremendous value.
Using Poetry for Dependency Management for a Django Project
Apple modified Safari so that Amazon was able to launch Luna on iOS:

> “We worked with the Safari team to ensure that some of the things that weren't there are there, and that allowed us to kind of get to where we are today,” Luna head of engineering and technology George Tsipolitis said.

https://www.engadget.com/luna-amazon-cloud-gaming-interview-...
Um, no. My day starts at 7:30 or 8:00 am. Standup is at 11am. I'm about 1/2 done with the day when standup happens. Other folks on my team start work at 10:00 am, so it's closer to the start of the day. I prefer having 1/2 day to get stuff done by the time standup rolls around.
Not an Apple App Store vendor, so my information is sketchy at best, but it sounds to me like in-app purchases are only a little more complicated than listing something on the app store in the first place. If the money is the same, and the dopamine hit for the latter is greater, of course everyone is going to 'race to the bottom' with in-app purchases.

Apple has not provided any incentive for people to retain customers by any other mechanism than in-app purchases. Not on iOS, and now not on OS X. Strictly speaking, Steam also doesn't have a way to give a discount to people for upgrading, and yet I've bought several sequels at a modest discount because they support bundling and the bundles are prorated.

However, while a bundle of Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2 might not need an explanation, a bundle of Photoshop N and N+1 is only good for giving a discount for upgrades.

If Apple is interested in turning back this Doom Clock, then support for bundling, and taking a smaller cut of app purchases than in-app purchases would, I think, function as a carrot and stick combination.
Intel 14 Nm Node Compared to TSMC's 7 Nm Node Using Scanning Electron Microscope
> People in fact do buy handheld devices that play games

But do people buy devices exclusively for playing handheld games? The 3DS is now officially out of production (and hadn’t had first party games in years, IIRC) and the Vita has been dead for longer. That leaves the Nintendo Switch, and while the Lite does exclusively play games in handheld mode, it plays the entire library of Switch games, including ones that were originally only designed for home consoles. And Nintendo created the dedicated gaming handheld market and was the uninterrupted leader and as often as not %70+ marketshare monopoly ever since Gunpei Yokoi made the Game&Watch AFAIK.
I think the answer is that the US population is much less "lefty" that people in that milieu would like to believe.
The Grand Migration
"Another doctor, Dr Andrew L Lundquist, agreed in the report that the liquorice was to blame" it really wasn't. The man was to blame (if there was any blame at all, because addictive behaviour doesn't really mesh with "blame"), and the liquorice was just the last addiction he'd ever have.
You mean, anywhere other than the world's largest unitary single-language market not subject to government censorship?

Europe has too many languages. China requires you to give up 50% or more of your company for the "privilege" of doing business there, plus you must deal with censorship with respect to the type of content your game(s) can include. India has an extremely heavy tax burden. Japan and Korea are too small. Latin America, as a whole, is generally a rounding error in terms of video game sales, for various reasons.

The U.S. is the only place where it makes sense to launch. Especially when you're a U.S. company, with U.S. employees.
A good reply.

> Whereas you perceive a threat about the slide into censorship, I perceive a threat about the slide into unrest and violence.

I certainly only addressed the former, but I'm also concerned about the latter.

It seems to me that cooler heads are more likely to prevail, if hotheads remain on the same platform as those cooler heads. Not going to go full horseshoe theory here, but part of what makes the far left and far right "far" is their willingness to engage in violent rhetoric and follow it up with action.

Garden-variety guns and beef conservatives are more likely to speak the language of actual white supremacists, but they aren't going to go onto Stormfront to do it.

Extremists are angry people, with a story about oppression: either the shadow globalist cabal is trying to replace them, or the evil capitalists are trying to grind them under their boot. So it's a bad idea to actually go in and oppress them. They will absolutely find a forum to air their grievances and plot revenge, and moderates will no longer be a part of the conversation.
Four communication techniques for solving technical problems
> > open-source in spirit

> It ain't. It is firmly in the spirit of "source available" licenses

Let's put a few more of the OP's words around that:

> a source-available license that was open-source in spirit, but
I've come to realize that stand-ups are generally useful. You're right that out of, say 15 people, only 2 care that you are struggling to import some dependency, but the rest overhear the discussion, they register some keywords and they know what you are working on. Maybe next month Joe Junior Dev goes directly to you with a question about that dependency instead of wasting half a day googling.

Then there is also the side effect of our monkey brains to give importance to people you see often. Stand-ups cultivate the feeling of "this is a team". It's important to show members what the team is.

Stand-ups however are not a requirement for a good functioning team. I'm leading a small team of senior devs and, despite my praise above, I decided against daily stand-ups. There is sufficient intelligence and communication, and just general professionalism in everyone in the team, that daily stand-ups are not worth the hassle and corporate feeling.

As a rule of thumb, if there are junior devs on the team, I would insist on having daily stand-ups on that team.
Add some bacon to really juice the effect.
RTX 3090 has been purposely nerfed by Nvidia at driver level for AI training
> Just like old media.

The jury is still out on that one, I believe.
Unfair enough that you can articulate why?
You have me wondering how many false flag conversations I've read where an Android developer argues that the Apple App store's rules should be more byzantine in order to confound 'the enemy'.
"noise reduction" means these amplify the vocal range without amplifying the low or high, dsp, maybe not, but at least a lot and hof.
That’s splitting hairs, a few monks living in seclusion (not having children) doesn’t really count as habitation per se.
One reason might be related to xCloud bypassing Apple's parental controls for both screen time and in-app purchasing that Apple requires for games distributed via the App Store. I expect Microsoft will work with Apple to resolve these issues and xCloud will be eventually be released in the App Store once they are resolved.
Free and simple developer tools for everyday usage
it doesn't matter but I can understand that this can be very subjective.
"Text book history of the world" is very rarely written by history experts. And way too often, that textbook history is actually in direct contradiction to scholarly consensus.
Niantic has a legal requirement to verify that a legal guardian has allowed a child to have an account.

To do so, they use credit card verification, a commonly-accepted way to verify an of-age user that satisfies COPPA/similar requirements. Credit card verification generally works by placing a small authorization charge that is shortly refunded. This is explained here: https://parents.nianticlabs.com/faq/

There are a variety of reasons they likely can't use IAP for this. Two I can think of are that (a) IAP may not be sufficient enough for COPPA, if e.g. a parent has allowed their child to make purchases using a gift card balance, and (b) they likely have no easy automated way to refund this fee if handled through IAP.
The issue is that the network has to learn from an n-step transition, which is hard to do when minimally parameterized.
It's good to have a regular reminder to take stock and see whether you're going down the wrong path. Since that often means asking the rest of your team a couple of questions, it's less disruptive if everyone does it at the same time.
How so? Corporations can use and sell software and run services for money that use copyleft software if they want to if they abide by the terms of the license, and some do, whereas the TSL specifically disallows this. How does AGPL exclude "all non-OSS companies"? These companies are choosing not to use AGPL software; that doesn't make AGPL not an open source license. The AGPL doesn't even require source code publication when run over the network unless you modified the code, so if Timescale were licensed with AGPL, Amazon could directly offer Timescale as a service and not even need to provide a source code download link. AGPL obviously does not exclude other companies from merely using the software in other ways, so I really don't see how the TSL is "strictly more permissive".
A couple observations: First there is a lot of "no true Scotsman" in the comments here, saying, for example, thaht they were not doing standups correctly. Secondly "Agile metrics" is the "diet snacks" of project management. Yes, their metrics improved. But does that really tell you if they made great high-value software?
I have low risk tolerance, but these contracts are usually very simple. I described the basic process of analysis on reddit some time ago (second half): https://reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/ihpj6f/yield_farming...

In total, I did this with about 40 different farms. There was a time when there were several new ones every day. For a while it was pretty much a 24/7 job as maximizing apy required constantly jumping to some new hype. I was constantly afraid of depositing into a contract that would allow the owner to steal everything, but the worst I noticed were locking bugs + two contracts that allowed the owner to mint infinite tokens (of these two, only one used it to clean the liquidity pool).

The list of farms in that reddit post is obsolete (I think only sushiswap is still running, but with low roi), in general this particular way of making money has run its course.
Yeah that is definitely true. In fact that makes a lot of these questions essentially impossible to answer
Yes. Also see https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
So advertisements deplete dignity, with no recompense or amelioration? No wonder our society's replete with indignity.
> They are seriously pricey though - cheapest model is Aus$2700 (US$2000) and the top line model is Aus$8400 (US$5900)

I don't disagree that those are not cheap, but custom in-ear monitors for musicians are almost exactly the same price range.

It doesn't seem like the medical profession is actually gouging people in this instance.
The United States military does this dozens of times each and every week, and they don’t even bother with the trial. It’s public knowledge, but somehow still isn’t “news”.

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

I suppose they use a different videoconferencing system than Zoom, however.
My read of your original comment was that Breaking Bad was at least pseudo-addictive. If you don't think BB is addictive at all, there was no "super interesting question."
I actually have a tmp on my desktop for this very purpose :-)
I think that they are being Bayesian, they're just holding it differently. Archaeologists usually look for a healthy body of evidence - entire settlements, for example, or evidence of campsites - before assuming that someone was there. A single out-of-place artifact with broken provenance, though, has little evidentiary value, because the broken provenance makes it difficult-to-impossible to establish when the artifact got to where it was. Even with good provenance, an isolated artifact is usually taken as evidence of trade rather than presence. (For example, see the discussion of the coin in TFA.)

So, you take a relatively lightweight piece of evidence that they made it even that far, stick it together with an enormous prior that they didn't, and, well, per Bayes' Rule, that artifact doesn't really shift the posterior probability by much. And, if Bayesian thinking can't even convincingly get you that far, it certainly can't get you any further.
Wrong, there was never any luck involved. The single worst case scenario was that the token price dumps to 0 immediately after I deposit, which would mean I don't even make the gas fee back. Didn't happen.
You have solved the problem of the considerable "extra" effort that web accessibility requires? Less than that, to be honest I'm not interested. If you have, well, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Would you say that you have extraordinary proof?

Reading this back to myself, I think that I sound like an asshole, but it's my honest thought process fwitw.
> Markets have thus far failed to solve for long-term environmental damage:

That's really not true in general. Market theory has been crucial in creating more sustainable resource usage in the US northeast fisheries, and the highly successful SOX and NOX emissions markets (acid rain really isn't an existential threat any longer). The US seems to be incapable of forming a sane CO2 market because of the rights intransigence and capture by fossil fuels, and the lefts reluctance to embrace a market solution/desire to overregulate (combining a methane/hfc greenhouse market with a CO2 greenhouse market is going to cause major arbitrage problems that could lead to greenhouse worsening)
> If everyone has a gun, we aren't all safer, we're just all each at the mercy of whoever decides to pull the trigger first.

I wonder how the math breaks down on whether you're safer having fun at the gun range, or on the road driving to it.

> The absolute "freedom is simple, and restrictions are all bad" position is nonsense.

I think this statement is needlessly antagonistic. Restricting the freedom of individuals who are acting in good faith and with sufficient personal responsibility seems wrong to me. This harms everyone who ever had to get a license just to serve drinks and wipe tables, as a common case.

> Ignoring that there are people who would use their freedom to infringe on others is naive and childish.

I don't believe anyone here has said that we should ignore bad actors. If someone has bad ideas, people should be free to refute them. If someone engages in behavior that harms others the legal system can intervene.

Censorship is a stupid mechanism for improving society. If you can use it against those you disagree with, what happens if they end up in power and use it against you? Rigging the rules is short-term thinking.
Where I work, most people in management positions work 50-60 hours a week because most of that time is spent on meetings and they have to work overtime to finish their "real" work.

I used to enjoy meetings when I first started there because it felt good to have a break from staring at a screen all day but I quickly got tired of being invited to 90 minutes long meetings on project X where my input was only needed for one point out of the 12 on the meeting agenda.
Really? Downvotes? I don’t get it. What did I say?
> 3. Timebox your snacking.

I find the Pomodoro timer technique (25-minute timeboxes) helpful maintaining short-term focus (and for breaking my focus, giving me a chance to review whether I am snacking or need to move to a different task for my next 25-minute timebox).

A web-based Pomodoro timer I keep in a pinned tab: https://tomato-timer.com/
I forgot that that was a think I could do; sorry about that!
now they will remember that google kills products.. unfortunately it's happening to an educational product that many of them love and use to learn
Does IPNS work yet? The last few times I tried it, it was all but nonfunctional.