skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We definitely have a unique ability to change our world but whether that's an effective "ruling of the world" and "smart" is really debatable. While that may sound be glib "judging them by their results" is really a ridiculous notion. The "results" would be purely framed in human terms "who can solve puzzles" who can "think like we do".

A cat doesn't need to think like us to live in their cat world, a worm doesn't need to solve a puzzle to live and thrive. Yet they both have thrived for a long time and existed in a way let them persist with their environment in an equilibrium.

It seems pretty reasonable to frame intelligence as thriving within your environment and persisting, and humans have only been around a short time and driven our planet to literal environmental collapse. I'd contend it's equally reasonable to describe humans as some of the least intelligent species.
I think that’s where I have a problem with the policy.

I’d specify though, that it makes sense Apple would not allow developers to make the signup via web a work around, just to avoid paying Apple and still use my service through iOS.

However, if I block access to my service from native iOS apps until a user agrees to pay the 30% extra, that feels fair and still follows the spirit of the rules IMO.

Not letting me tell users what they are paying for, or why they can’t access my service on iOS until they cough up an extra 30%, that’s overreach.
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5ed57622ee14fb96d022d544/5f6...

Is this list representative of the entire scope of the sprint? Unclear from the article. If so, while the sprint was arguably successful in that the engineers felt good about it, it didn't really succeed in improving the customer experience directly.
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It's not just people gatekeeping, developers are usually going to target whatever gives them the biggest return. PC games have been gimped for a long time because the developers make sure the game runs on consoles as well, and if cloud gaming takes off, it'll be even less likely that people develop games with PC players in mind. I can't blame people for wanting cloud gaming to fail; if it's succesful it could cause major changes to their hobby as games are developed for the lowest common denominator.
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The issues you describe are happening on computers where by default there is no sandbox, so an evil game or a bad application can do a lot of damage. But in an OS with strong sandbox and a good permission model the fact you add a dude to review your app does not add some extra security, from what I see this review people will check to make sure you follow the GUI /UX guidelines and also make sure you don't give the users information Apple won't like (like you could buy this cheaper from this webpage)
They identified a variation which is needed to distinguish a chemical in cilantro at all.

Having that variation is necessary but not sufficient for finding it has a soapy taste.
That's very cool. I have mixed feelings on replacing humans in yet another role, but if it can do a better job than humans (automatically dump & flag mastitis cases, clean more thoroughly, etc.) it's a win.
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I'm partial to the subscription service model because most of my life I could barely afford a console or a gaming PC to play a lot of games, so it seems much more accessible.

But regarding the argument that we will have a bunch of different service which we would need to subscribe to: Is that really a downgrade?

We already have exclusives for consoles. There a number of games you can play only on Xbox. Then there are the games you can only play on PS4. And then there the PS3 games, which you will need yet another console because there is no backwards compatibility...

One way or another we already have this fragmentation today. Subscribing to multiple services actually seems cheaper for me.
All it takes is one rookie mistake and it wipes out the other 99.9% perfect. Yes, there are guys and girls that can do 100% of what you need to run a darknet market perfectly, but they are typically in very high demand on the employment market, so their acceptable risk to reward ratio makes participation in criminal conspiracies very unlikely. So crime naturally selects for half-asses.
Looks like an interesting and potentially useful tool! I periodically use schemaspy to generate an ERD but have often thought it would be great to do this as part of our CI process, so we have an always up-to-date diagram to refer to.

One suggestion, you should remove the footer on your landing page if all the links just point to `#`...
Very few software projects in my experience fail because they were too technically difficult and/or that the people involved were incapable of working through some technical problem.

When I say failures of empathy, I'm not even saying that that was the failure of a single person to empathize, but that at the end of the day the collective parties could not understand enough about what all the other parties needed to create an actionable plan and put the people in places to do it.

This can be:

A software developer failing to empathize with someone in the c suite and understanding the direction the project needed to go in to be considered a successful project

The c suite failing to empathize with the development team in terms of understanding what skills and abilities they are offering and what resources and direction needed to be given to them to properly convey their goals

Failures of the dev team or executives to empathize with their users in order to create a thing that is actually wanted in a way that will actually be used.

Failures of technical teams to empathize with budgetary and business concerns and the reverse.

All sorts of other failures between people in the middle to empathize in terms of being able to understand priorities and goals and allocate energy accordingly and understand the hierarchy among those goals.

Failures within a dev team to empathize with each other leading to all sorts of various breakdowns.

People are generally not very good at mapping out complex webs of incentives and goals and the ability to empathize is what underlies that in my opinion.

I've sat in on an absurd number of projects where whatever silly stuff they thought was their roadblock was so far away from what was meaningful to the higher level goals of the project that they were absolutely doomed from the start. You can have projects like that go on for years in enterprises where they never even get on a viable path to creating anything productive. It generally ends up as some sort of battleground for internal politics in that case.

At the end of the day, the ability to think in terms of hierarchical goals and incentives and escape the concerns of your personal silo is a majority of the time what could avoid this in my opinion.
It took us 1000s of years to do that. One might ask, why did we master fire in the first place? Maybe to cook? To stay warm and go north? Do crows need to cook or can they just eat what humans cook? Do they need to stay warm?
1000% this! The key takeaway of Agile that a lot of people lose sight of, is that you should be doing whatever works for your team, not whatever you did at a previous company or read from a trendy blog post. By all means - try out anything you think will work for your team.

If you're trying to plan out which individual stories your eng team will be working on 6 months from now, or you have a half-dozen "Sprint Retrospectives" with the same complaints every sprint from your team with no changes being made - you've probably made a wrong turn somewhere.
> It was dismissed with a reason like "common sense dictates that this was a bad idea" (think: "lol, wut? u dumb").

And this is why Europe is less litigious than the US (that and reasonable healthcare costs): the courts won't stand for frivolous cases.
Given the mobile connectivity history, I am pretty optimistic the cap is going to increase. It’s not that long ago that I had a few mega bytes per month.
Maybe they are smart enough to realize that jumbo jets would ruin the planet? /s
Generally yes, there was strong demand for software engineers in Berlin pre-covid. It's still there albeit weaker, so you might not find something you want immediately.
As for the visa, there's generally a 3 - 6 month grace period to find a new job that's granted by the immigration office before you lose your status.
I'd be fine taking the current 'welfare state' budget and redividing it any which way between UBI and current welfare priorities- for instance completely gutting food stamps but parsing out equivalent into the UBI stipend.
"walled garden ethos" I like that. Apple is all about exclusivity and premium priced products. It seems like developers develop for them and consumers buy for them for that reason. But expecting Apple to be a free, fair, and open company, is really going against their business model.
Microsoft has definitely spoken out about app stores and their 30% cut. Here's a quote:

> “If you look at the industry today, I think what you’ll find is increasingly you’re seeing app stores that have created higher walls and far more formidable gates to access other applications than anything that existed in the industry 20 years ago,” says Smith. “They impose requirements that increasingly say there’s only one way to get onto our platform, and that is to go through the gate that we ourselves have created. In some cases they create a very high price for a toll, in some cases 30 percent of all your revenue has to go to the toll keeper if you will.” - Microsoft’s chief legal officer Brad Smith [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/19/21296657/microsoft-apple-...
Liquorice is not licorice in the US. Only licorice has licorice in it. Liquorice does not.
I used to work tech support at a big tech company. I have little faith in the technical literacy of people outside of those who have specifically studied the issue and done an informed risk analysis on what they want to do.

I feel (especially in today's world) that people are too willing to accept risks that put themselves and others in danger without being informed of the implications or that they maintain a "yea, it will never happen to me" attitude.

That willingness to take risks is especially prevalent in younger demographics. With respect to fortnight when Epic was doing a "disable this check and load from another site" there were numerous copies of the software with malware installed because people were ignoring the risk and looking at what they have. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/10/fortnite-on-an...

If you are a power user, and want those features, jailbreaking the phone and doing whatever you want to it is an option. Or maybe, not using an iDevice and going with something that is more open.

There are a lot more people out there that want the training wheels on their technology experience than there are power users.

Personally, after having a linux system that I built myself and compiled kernel patches for back in the day - I'm glad I have the experience and I'm quite happy to let Apple do that now and not have to spend time on that level of verification of software and administration of my own devices.

On the phone itself - I've got lots of personal information, credit cards tied into NFC, email, and IoT controls. And while I'm not going to take risky actions with my phone, I am confident that others will take those risks. As part of Apple's brand identity is privacy and security - allowing people to take those risks works against that brand identity.

One of the frequent comments on HN in the past is "HN may not be the targeted demographic."
The really addictive and dangerous drugs are the ones that society would most benefit from decriminalization. Sure, it's not great when college kids get a criminal record from smoking reefer, but that's the least of our drug problems in the US. It's the dangerous drugs that are killing people and orphaning children, and those are the people who have the most trouble getting effective help due to the criminal nature of their addiction.

Portugal had a bad heroin problem in the 90s. How did they fix it? They decriminalized possession of every drug, including heroin. Instead of sending users to jail, they now send them to treatment. It was an overwhelming success.
My comment was not about a particular company, nor was it advocating for any specific policy. It was merely illustrating why equating smartphones with consoles is foolish and lazy.

>Basing policy on the current ephemeral norms rather than consistently applied principles seems ill-advised.

I agree. What "consistently applied principle" did you interpret my comment to be against?
This is fascinating - similar to octopuses. But I am not sure if its arrogant of our species to assess intelligence in this way (absolutely no disrespect to these great scientists BTW) : surely there must be a better way; and perhaps our notion of "intelligence" / "consciousness" is primitive and our current assessment is backwards?

Also, if we were to make contact with an alien civilization, hopefully we have something better than "let's see how they open this tightly closed jar underwater?" or "flash them a few red/green cards and see what happens".
Not to mention it makes modding dead on arrival. I get it, most gamers do not mod. But being able to write mods and work with Microsoft Flight Simulator in the 90s is what got me hooked on computing in the first place.
It's the linking or sharing manually that matters. Chronological order doesn't. If a hundred things are shared with you, who cares what order they're shown? If you want to have any real effect, you have to change the distribution patterns. Change what's in the list, not in what order. (Note: recommendation systems are a whole different matter. I'm talking about what's left after they're taken out of the picture.)

Limit shares/retweets. Limit groups sizes. Surface more information as topics/tags/whatever so that users can do more sophisticated filtering themselves or collaboratively. I want to mute my uncle when he talks about politics, not all the time. Facebook already does more sophisticated analyses than just extracting topic information (I know because I work there and I can see the pipelines). Show those results to me so I can use them as I see fit. That's how you make things better. Chronological vs. algorithmic order? Pfft. In fact, I do want the most interesting things out of that set shown first. I just want to have more control over what's in the set.
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I've though about improving [[Roam]] with semantics but maybe this is a fools errand.

Human's use of language is somewhere between the bag-of-word model and part-of-speech tagging. Neither a word salad nor a constructive proof based in first-order-logic.

I had a [[meeting]] with [[John Doe]] about [[Project X]].

Is much more natural then:

_:meeting1 a schema:Meeting;
schema:participant [ a foaf:Person; rdfs:label "John Doe" ] ;

The early web is also more like roam than the semantic web, and the reason why something like page-ranks works is because the links form "naturally".

The semantic web wanted to make them "understandable" to computers, but made linking too difficult for people.

Even still, the task of understanding humans has nothing to do with semantics. The academic discipline that studies this is called language pragmatics.

BTW, this problem was why Wittgenstein had a nervous breakdown, trying to proof/compute the meaning of statements with other statements.

At the end of the day words mean what they mean, i mean, I have a Beatle in a box in my head and you have a Beatle in a box in your head. Mine walks and flies though the air, yours drives on the road.

We expect computers to be able to do this but I suspect that this won't happen until they can take a shit.

Maybe it's not a bad goal to have, but, even the semantic web (academic) community has given up on that question and has pivoted its effort to saving the web and giving people back control of their data with the power of a digital twin, whatever that is.
Currently, a lot of the members on our team just miss standup entirely. For example, I missed the last 3 days of standup. Showed up today to re-iterate that I'm making some prod changes. Our sprint backlog and sprint planning meetings are a disaster, too. Watching our manager struggle every single time with jira is just.... mind-numbing. We complained about those and did get some changes made. For example, our sprint planning "meeting" went from two 1.5 hr meetings (one before lunch, one after) to one 1.5 hr meeting before lunch. I sometimes miss those, too.

I raised these concerns with this manager when they first started (specifically about the number of meetings AND the daily standup). I raise them in the retrospective every time we have one. I raised them with my engineering team manager. I raised them in those anonymous feedback things.

We're currently in the process of getting this manager out of our team. Our manager went on vacation and our productivity went up by some crazy amount, lol. The only thing keeping us stuck at this point is the current covid situation (long story). But normally, I'm pretty sure they would have been gone as of a month ago or so.

It's an organizational thing, though, not just that manager specifically. Half the battle is getting upper management to listen to our concerns and do something about it.

But the reason our last manager was so good about these things is because he had clout within the company and the assertiveness to say "no, that isn't ok."
No longer in Berlin, I ended up moving to Estonia to work for their government and then just bounced around Eastern Europe until Covid happened. If your work was sponsoring your visa you have to leave after a set amount of time unless you get another one (assuming non EU citizen). That said, if you're an engineer or have access to capital it's not that tough to get a visa somewhere in Europe. I'm personally considering doing the Dutch American Friendship Treaty path once Covid is over but haven't decided yet.
Technically upscaling with machine learning can be amazing, and it's what most real-time renderers use nowadays. You won't be able to tell, and it can even add detail if the network is good. I'm not an expert though, but I suppose it can only get better?
It probably makes more of a difference if you kind-of liked it to start with. I will happily munch on broccoli and other green veg out of choice, but it can taste a bit plain. If you salt and butter it, it brings out the flavour, which is a good thing if you like the underlying taste.
Sorry but a market consisting of a single manufacturer's own product is generally not considered a valid antitrust market for legal purposes. You can't simply declare an arbitrarily narrow market like this because every manufacturer would then have a monopoly over its own products.
Thus, the warrant I am applying for would permit
law enforcement personnel to, with respect to any device
that appears to have a biometric sensor and falls within
the scope of the warrant: (1) depress BERMUDEZ’s thumb-
and/or fingers on the device(s); and (2) hold the
device(s) in front of BERMUDEZ’s face with his or her eyes
open to activate the facial-, iris-, and/or retina-
recognition feature.

These documents read like an instruction manual of what not to do (use biometrics in this case). Upmost of which is commit a crime, but if criminals knew to read these docs first, they'd be much harder to catch i suppose.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1318666/download
I agree with missedthecue that this response is kind of ridiculous. We know things about anaesthesia, blood clotting, soft tissue, and our physical actions are informed by an amassed body of knowledge and an ability to reason from that knowledge and apply it with a degree of sophiscation that crows don't apply, even within the domains of things that are easy for them physically to do.

This is so ridiculous that I'm wondering if I'm missing the point. Is this sarcasm? Is this playing devil's advocate to prove some kind of point?
The Motorola 68020 has a MMU coprocessor, and the 68030, 68040 have an on-chip MMU. The Macintosh II, SE/30, Quadra, and Centris series were able to run A/UX [1] since 1988. A/UX was a SystemV with X and Finder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
Chrome is far better than IE6 ever was. Not even close to the same situation IMO.
Humanity couldn't for 99.61% of its existence either and apes in general couldn't for nearly 100% of their existence. If we were to rely on your criterion, then all humans before a few thousand years ago would be deemed unintelligent, whereas we know they are essentially identical to us.
I don't know anything about how these murals were made.

1000yr old books do for the most part. Silver pigment will have turned grey, but other high quality pigments were often based on minerals that are still vibrant to this day. (Cheap pignents on the other hand were often organic, which would often not have lasted).
Yea but other than streaming, we've been seeing exclusives slowly disappear over the past generation. They still exist but are becoming much less common.

The thing is that I've probably spent the same on games as I have on Netflix for the past 10 years. But now I have a Steam/GoG/etc.. library with over 1000 games I can take with me and maybe even share with my kids some day. I have nothing remaining but memories from Netflix.
what would be the next trump card above intelligence for survival/evolution/procreation/whatever the "goal" is?
I’d argue that someone just decorated their office. It’s perfectly reasonable to talk business while watching TV. I do it all the time.
Punish Abuse not use.

I would say punishment of abuse doesn't get us very far. What do we do with alcoholics? Sure, we punish them if they drive while intoxicated, but other than that, they are offered treatment and if they refuse it, they just suffer the consequences of their addiction until they decide treatment is a better option.

Seems like that could work for drugs as well.
Doesn't that accomplish the goal then? Make your project AGPL and with a commercial license, so only you will be able to make it a commercial business as other big cloud companies don't want to touch it.
The problem is when both real and self-appointed experts combine the following behaviors:

1. Going out of their way to promote the narrative that we should listen to the “experts”.

2. Lying to us for our own good—for instance, about masks early on.

“Question authority” sounds a lot more appealing when the alternative is, “shut up and do as you’re told, dummy”.
> Hearing aids (nor cochlear implants, for that matter) do not "restore hearing", except for light hearing loss

This claim is totally false for cochlear implants. I am a cochlear implant recipient and before the implant I had essentially no hearing in my right ear ("profoundly deaf"). With the implant in my right ear my hearing has been restored to 90%+ of normal hearing.
I think non-foods are things like sweeteners which we literally can't digest and just go straight through us. They're not nutritious, and thus arguably aren't food at all (although you can eat them).
Perhaps you might be interested in this project, orthogonal to your question: https://www.hungerforwords.com/