skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your theory doesn't match the actual statistics:

Among smartphones, Android™ devices are the most commonly targeted by malware. In mobile networks, Android devices were responsible for 47.15% of the observed malware infections, Windows©/ PCs for 35.82%, IoT for 16.17% and iPhones© for less than 1%.

Nokia Threat Intelligence Report (https://onestore.nokia.com/asset/205835)
"Apple takes 30% of the purchase price. No other transaction fee — in any industry — comes close."

Google's? All video game companies?
You have literally no idea whether an untested line in a dynamic language could ever work. A line in Java that compiles but doesn't have test coverage still probably does what it says, and how badly you need that test coverage depends on the complexity of what it says.
UberEats? Steam?
Pretty sure my dog will stare at an intruder with a derp face and then run away.

But, she’s still the sweetest little potato ever.
Can you show your 3d printing proces with the result? I'm very interested.
> We have feature releases every 4 weeks. If your feature is merged before QA, it goes out in that release. Otherwise, it gets delayed till the next release, and we don't make a big deal about it—several other features will still be in the release.

Um, yeah, that's a sprint. That's exactly how it's supposed to work. Like you say, it's a good way to work. What do you think a sprint is?

I've worked in non-sprint models - i.e. no regular time-based cadence - and found them harder. It's very easy for a feature to scope creep if you've not got any regular schedule, and it's harder to feel a sense of achievement if you're not releasing regularly.
There are other cases of them bringing shiny rocks and glass to humans as gifts.

I think this is well established.
I just don't understand how you can send a kid to school without any papers/documents/etc.? Here (in slovenia), every citizen has a citizen ID (not really public, but not secret, and can be generated by hand), you have a permanent resident address, your kid belongs to that school district, your kid has a medical file, documents (medical card too), everything, and without all the papers and the kid being "in the system", there's no way for a kid to go to school here.

If I understand correctly, you can just bring a random kid to school, say "this here is bobby, he'll be going to school here", and they just take him? Without an ID, any checks, checks on parents, etc.?

Same with jobs.... i understand the "under the table" jobs, e.g. picking fruit and getting paid in cash at the end of the day.... this is theoretically possible here too.... but people working in large companies? How do you get paid? How do you even open a bank account? Here, again, you need an ID and a tax number, every bank account is tied to your personal tax number, and you get paid to that account. When you start your job, the company has to pay for benefits (pension, medical, etc.), and those are tied via your tax number and paid directly to the government. Just to start working, you need to pass a medical exam, where they also check your documents, and even check your medical records from your personal doctor.

As I said, i'm not advocating for anything, I just don't understand how you can do all that, without being a citizen, having your ID number, tax number, bank account, ID card, registered permanent residence, etc.

(yes, there are exceptions, foreign workers get temporary tax numbers, and use special documents, kids of diplomats get special documents again, etc., but in general, if you're not "in the system", there's no way to do anything).
As you point out (“inexpensive energy”), if fusion ever gets to be less than “10-20 years away” :D then the crazy concept of water shortages will thankfully be a thing of the past. I hope to see it in my lifetime.
I know the reasons and the means. I still don't like it. Apple already has my credit card number, so they should provide a better way to do this safely & take the 30% percent cut.
Sure I can use it for some things, but no one else can. I can't even get an SSL cert for them, or control DNS using an API like I can with Cloudflare (I can setup my own BIND server, but its a lot more work for not much gain).

I can use a gateway like HNS.to to share it with other folks, but thats uglier than a normal domain and bad practice due to shared cookies and the like.

Its just not worth it right now.
Worth mentioning that one of the most popular games on twitch right now is Among Us which basically has SNES graphics
The primary issue is the games catalog, something neither Amazon or Google can crack a dent in
I think its interesting how almost all content has gone to streaming and subscriptions but games have not. The way most people use games seems to be fundamentally different though. I listen to new music every day so subscriptions work best. With games I always play the same stuff, I buy a new game once every few months so a subscription would cost me more.
> can't get your GPS location without telling Apple, etc.).

I'd rather an iOS app have location listed as a capability in the manifest than have Android send my location to Google for the purpose of selling advertising based on store visits.
> All there is, he concludes, are “stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch.”

A tempting philosophy for such a time, but too reliant on the senses. Change is all there is. Accept that and never be disappointed.
> impediments shouldn't fester for a significant fraction of a day, and usually don't require synchronous team-wide communication.

It's very hard to make the call about when it's worth interrupting another team member. You're potentially setting back their work a significant amount, and it tends to feel like an admission of failure. Having a regular scheduled time to do it takes a lot of the sting out of it.
and them i'm going to fork both of the forks to a mega fork just because we know how much we like forks
I'm not artistic so I can't speak to that and I don't work on any projects outside of work because I don't have time or energy. What I do I wouldn't call "producing" but things like gardening or going for a run are things that make me feel better and don't require my analytical mind.
I suspect it’s the historic levels of party disaffiliation.

Since parties largely lack an ideological foundation and their constituencies aren’t attached, they need to portray things as pure disaster and make clear will-to-power arguments, cast their opponents as devils, etc.
> 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'.

None. Most app developers target both stores and those that target one or the other do so for financial reasons not fanboy reasons. No app developer is going to waste time trying to make an App Store worse. They are too likely to need that other store to be functioning properly on their next project.
crows and other birds are very good at recognizing faces so they absolutely know it's you
I think good management takes employee input and uses it to influence decisions while also considering the needs of the entire group of employees and the company.

But either way, I’m not bashing you, just disagreeing :) No harm in trying things and experimenting to find what works for you.
Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all participants in the PRISM program, which provides data to the US federal government without a warrant (FBI and military intelligence) under the authority they claim via FISA Amendments Act Section 702. Edward Snowden is the reason we know about this.

https://www.eff.org/702-spying

Any data you provide to any of those companies (or any others that have been added in the time since, which presumably includes Dropbox and AWS) that is not end to end encrypted should be considered compromised by the state, or able to be compromised by the state at any time the moment they want to look. (PRISM is not mass surveillance, they specify the accounts they want data for.)

As far as the other apps go, you can watch it yourself. Install the iOS app called Charles Proxy, and you can see all of the hidden connections that apps are making.

Alternately, install NextDNS, and make sure your custom configuration settings (on their setup portal) is set to retain logs for a few hours. You’ll be able to see all of the different hostnames to which your phone connects.

I have stopped using iCloud, and only use Google for YouTube (or corporate/work stuff, for which I have no special desire for privacy from the state). I give my clients the option, though, if they wish to use a different method of collaboration.
I think your comment would be better received if you explained how the parent's information was out of date. As it stands, this isn't really helpful.
Depends on what you're trying to work out - if you want to know the furthest some lost drunk straggler wandered off and died in the woods - yes, but if you want to know the extent of relatively large exploration/camps then a single artifact doesn't actually prove that.
Also - not everyone lives in the US :)
Bundles have been a thing on App Store for years.
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> The semantic web was much richer

Which is probably why it failed. Richer means more complex, means higher effort, means harder to justify the immediate effort.

It also means more difficult to figure out which sources are trustworthy because it all gets mangled together. The success of google is not that they are good at indexing, but good at ranking. People are constantly trying to game the search engine system. The naive model of querying a semantic web builtup doesn't mesh well with a certain percent of participants being malicious.

And that's excluding the whole problem that scaling searching large complex graph databases is basically an unsolved problem
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Google for pictures of it. It's quite vibrant. There are even older Egyptian murals that are still colorful, too. Pigments can last a long time if you keep them out of the light.

That said, once you have looked at a picture of the mural, I strongly doubt you'll come away thinking that it's a picture of Vikings.
Happily my current team contains remote workers, so even before covid, 'standup' consisted of at least two rooms of people staring at a screen or conference room phone. I haven't had to stand for five or six years.

Also the flip side of the "some people can't do thirty minutes" is "some people could do six hours". Trying to use gravity as a timer does not work on endurance athletes at all. And they often have partial immunity to long, drawn-out activities. An alternative mechanism to control for time would be less problematic all around.
If you were still making an easy six figures during a global pandemic and the only cut was (temporarily) 10k in perks, complaining would not be the right move.
This is the worst. Microsoft killed so many games when they shut down their Games for windows live DRM.
If Timescale were AGPL Amazon would be free to just run it as a service for profit and all they need to do is publish their modifications to it, if they make any. Amazon has no problem running all kinds of other open source software for profit, and this is what TSL is specifically designed to prevent.
This kind of stuff is infuriating just on the "right to own stuff" level. The thing is, I'd like to do general purpose gpu computing. Not conventional AI at all but if it has a driver that nerf some things, that gives me... pause. What is being nerfed and how. Nvidia's proprietary drivers for Linux are already annoying. The spirit of "we'll be screwing each device for anything but what we consider it's purpose" just rankles.
Black Crows, REM, Kooks... I really kept reading this assuming it was a troll post, but still entertained by the anecdote!
The real difference is books are a single use item. You read it and then largely its useless. The same game can be played for years.
> If someone is working on something for a long time, they can explain what part of it they worked on, whether they need help, whether they're blocked, whether they need to adjust expectations, and so on.

Additionally, it may highlight that the team underestimated the size of a story or perhaps that the story should have been broken down further.
It's fake tan of some sort. You'll notice there's quite a lot of variance, and sometimes the eyes are much more obviously weird-looking than others.

> is it the media manipulating images?

Implausible; it would take a ridiculous degree of media cooperation, and official press photos are often quite orange.

> has he ever commented on it?

I suspect he doesn't see it as a problem; he could make it go away any time he wanted by putting down the makeup. His team don't seem keen on it, though; note that in the famous photo where they lengthened his fingers, he has been de-oranged: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46977712
Weird, of all the basics I can think of I wouldn't put Qt bindings in the top 10.
Then they should have charged for it from the very beginning. It's manipulative to use hobbyists as beta testers (while giving the impression of being benevolent and caring for the hobbyist and maker community) and then when the software is mature making it impossible for most hobbyists to financially buy into the software. This is not a one-time $500. This is a yearly or monthly subscription that is very expensive for most hobbyists who do not make money using the software. So while I agree that it doesn't need to be completely free, it does not make sense to charge a hobbyist the same amount as for the business user who's making money with the software.
For me, the real takeaway is that there are far fewer galaxies in the observable universe than I thought
After moving to Portland I've become enamored with our local corvids. Lots of Crows, Scrub Jays, Steller Jays. I toss them peanuts and they peek in the window looking for me.

Its fun to compare how cautious and skittish a murder of crows is compared to a mating pair of Scrub Jays. The little blue birds will swoop right in, feed a foot away from me, out of my hand, occasionally they've even hopped in the front door.

Meanwhile the crows will miss out on lots of tasty peanuts just watching the smaller birds show off their bravery and acrobatics.

That said: there are a lot more crows than scrub jays. The caution pays off.

They're fascinating to watch, the signs of intelligence are so clear, but at the same time they feel alien. They are very much not like us.
It is explained on their home page:

> An acknowledgement to the contributors of the open source drawing tool Excalidraw. After using Excalidraw for some simple graphics and forking their repository to experiment with their architecture of the Web Canvas API in conjunction with Roughjs, we wondered if it was possible to give software engineers a set of common symbols that could be seamlessly created, almost as fluidly as a physical whiteboard.
People who can’t have a sense of perspective about temporarily not getting a free lunch shouldn’t be making decisions about what content is censored on Facebook.
This particular category of "speculative" history raises red flags with me for another reason - it seems to be a tradition with white supremacists to push theories that say that "actually europeans were there first", and using said theories to downplay issues that indigenous people have.
That's what we do as well.

I have been in good standups and bad standups, sometimes at the same company.

A bad week-after-week standup was one that dragged on and on, and started at 8AM because that was evening time for our off-shore team which the US team knew was going to be canned in a few weeks. Each person would go on and on, on a bad connection in a thick accent about what they were working on. Between the connection, and accent, and knowledge they were all junior and working on minor tickets and flubbing them and all soon to be getting axed, I did not pay attention when that off-shore team was talking. It was all a waste of time for me.

On the other hand, I have had standups where the scrum master (or product manager in the scrum master's absence) would keep the standups to 15 minutes, and if anyone went on too long or some conversation went on too long he said they should continue what they were saying after the standup, and anyone who needed to hear it could stay. Standups were brief, and sometimes productive if I heard something I needed to know, or was blocked on something and was offered help. And if I or someone else was still just plugging away on something, we would say "I worked on X, still working on X, no blockers" and the meeting moved on.

Insofar as chat, some people get to the standup a minute or two early, and after the hour for the first minute people would still be joining the standup, and people would sometimes chat then.
+1, definitely.
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One tradition says that they felt compelled to leave. That still means that Norse settlement was not as peaceful and rosy as you made it out to be.
I didn't like beer, wine, whiskey or coffee at 16 or 18 and now do.

I don't know when I started liking black licorice but surely I didn't eat that as a toddler.
I remember my parents giving it to me when I couldn't sleep pretending it was a sleep medication. It worked haha
If you reread my comment I did mention that.
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> It's actually the fiscally conservative thing to do. Every study around social programs show they grow the economy more than they cost it.

The idea that government spending somehow manages to pay itself back is the complete opposite of fiscal conservatism, at least in my understanding.
Sure it applies, but it's even less likely than typing in one of Google's 4096-bit RSA key by chance.
The Definition of Hard Work
Sort of agree with the author, but oh well, the world is not perfect and by trying to make it perfect, you're stealing away from people who do not want to live in a perfect world. There is a room for everyone.

To instill good taste in my kids, I buy quality, well-designed and well-developed games. It's just that simple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Apple does not have a “monopoly on iPhone hardware and iOS”. This is a fundamental misunderstand of the term. You cannot have a monopoly on your own product, because a monopoly is a state of a market and your own product is not a market.

Understanding this is fundamental to the actual legal issue at hand. First, the argument against Apple is not that they are bundling an App Store with their iPhone.

The argument against Apple is that they are restricting behavior that Apps may perform on their Store and also disallowing other stores. If their App Store was downloaded separately but then enforced the same restriction, you have exactly the same legal issue. Implementing the App Store to be a separate manual download, but keeping the same restrictions in place if it is installed, would be just as illegal as exactly what they are doing today.

They would have to at least allow installing multiple App Stores side by side, if not eliminate certain contractural provisions of being able to publish on the Apple App Store itself.

As for why Apple’s curation is bundled with the phone, it’s not a question of whether it “needs to be” that way, it’s a question of why Apple chose to do it that way. They chose that route for a myriad of very significant reasons relating to user experience, usability, privacy, security, safety, brand & reputation, performance, and accountability. From a financial standpoint they chose it because it ensure apps are profitable for both Apple and Developers, as well as consistent and predictable for end users. They also eliminate almost all software piracy on their platform with their model, which increases App Store revenue.

Their model enables HCI, Privacy, and Billing policies which they can enforce platform-wide, and which they can demand otherwise abusive apps to follow, simply because there is no other option if you want access to Apple’s customer base.
Some more context around 3% of the world population died in World War 2 which was over 6 years.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=black+crowes+lyrics&qs=SS&pq=b...
Nuclear power now most expensive form of generation, except gas peaking plants
Sounds to me like the farmer paid for research on animal behavior.
Are friendliness and loyalty important ethical factors? Is it more ethical to cause suffering to an unfriendly and disloyal person than a friendly and loyal one?
It's also the motivation from management to build process. Rather than agile being a toolbox you pull from because it's helpful, it becomes a suite of metrics that managers and executives can track. Thus everyone must use the full toolbox because their benefit is overruled by management's benefit.
Reminds me of work as an overnight security guard and the different rooms that would be commandeered for rest and relaxation. The job is down right hazardous because it's deadly boring so these worker s have my sympathies
well, that, or the primary client decides a direction and forces it onto everyone as soon as they update... :)
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We always drilled into him basic cybersecurity -- don't give out your password, it's too good to be true it probably is, etc. But for whatever reason he pressed on this one, and even socially engineered me in the process, I think just to see what would happen.

Much worrying and crying ultimately ensued. We were eventually able to recover the account and nothing really terrible happened. But I believe this was a more valuable lesson than all our previous talks about it. And he's now slightly more insulated from this kind of thing in the future.
I understand your point, and there was a time in my life when I would’ve agreed with you I think, but perhaps I’ve become cynical in my age and I question whether there’s sufficient agency in the broader population to achieve that goal.
Americans think that Germans drink a lot of Jaegermeister or love that stuff. I only ever saw old people drinking that in Germany, or people on a dare...

I am pretty sure Jaegermeister is more popular in the US than Germany
I understand the doubt about the Norse origins of the Heavener runestones and others found in the area.

Automatically assigning them to a 19th century origin date based only on the presence of Scandinavian immigrants in the local area totally ignores the historical evidence that the author of that site dug up and laid out in that horrible format.

I suggest that you read through the entire page to the end. It will be a slog but it offers a much more believable origin story than that of Scandinavian immigrants carving a few stones and scattering them at widely spaced locations on the landscape.

The French had a much friendlier relationship with Native American tribes and had explored a lot more of North America before the first settler ventured west from the colonies to see what lay past the Cumberland Gap. I am obviously more inclined to believe the author's (taking him at his word) well-researched account of events leading up to the inscribing of the stones in Oklahoma since they fit closely to historical documents and accounts taken from eyewitness records.

The whole story of La Salle's attempt to reach French settlements so that he can save those left behind in Texas is well known from contemporary Spanish and French records. The accepted story that La Salle was murdered by his own men in Texas probably needs to be discarded since, as this author documents, the route they took, the terrain they encountered, the distance they travelled and the azimuth do not agree with an end point for the murder occurring anywhere in Texas. It does however closely agree with that murder having occurred in Oklahoma or far west Arkansas.