skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Storage for NFTs Based on IPFS and Filecoin
I think the number of people out there who see this and relate it to trans people is vanishingly small.
They weren't building walkmans or cars for export.

Their skill base was intact but their industry was razed by WW2.

Either way they needed raw materials and markets to develop their industrial base and that required favorable American trade policy, $$$ and military support.
I'm primarily commenting on the misconception about "Spartan" and "Spartiates" being different words in Greek.

On the other hand, this is an exaggeration:

>> "The absence of any taboo – legal or religious – against the killing of helots marks the institution
as uncommonly brutal not merely by Greek standards, but by world-historical standards."

World-historical standards should include, for example, the Aztecs, who sacrificed their prisonners of war and then slaughtered them and sold their meat at the market for families to buy and eat [1].

The Spartans were possibly more cruel to their slaves than all other Greek city-states at the time as a society, in the sense that they had murder rituals that others certainly didn't have. But in most places in the entire ancient world, the life of a slave, or her dignity, was not protected in any meaningful way and some, hopefully few, masters would have murdered and raped their slaves with impunity (though perhaps polite society would tut-tut, but not much more than if the master had murdered or raped his dog). For instance, the Spartans murdered their helots outright but the Athenians sent theirs to work at the silver mines at Laurion where they lived a short, miserable life and died en masse [2].

I am Athenian (obviously modern so) and I grew up with the ancient historians and more recent works so I'm used to thinking of the Spartans as the "bad guys" mainly because of the Peloponnesian War. But the author's criticism of their society is exaggerated and is not sufficiently placed in context of the era. In any case, as the author admits, most of the sources on Sparta were, indeed, Athenian and cannot be trusted to have been entirely objective. But even taking them at face value, sufficient context is not given.

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[1] See: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. I have a French translation not at hand, so I can't quote directly- my apologies.

[2] During the tyranny of Peisistratos systematic exploitation of the mineral resources of Athens began. Shafts were driven down into the ground and galleries opened where slaves, chained, naked, and branded, worked the seams illuminated only by guttering oil lamps. An unrecorded number were children. It was a miserable, dangerous, and brief life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_of_Laurion
Down in Dubai too
Here's an actual case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramón_Sampedro

> Ramón Sampedro Cameán (5 January 1943 – 12 January 1998) was a Spanish seaman and writer. Sampedro became a quadriplegic at the age of 25 (on 23 August 1968), following a diving accident, and fought for his right to an assisted suicide for the following 29 years.

> ...

> Sampedro died on Monday 12 January 1998 in Boiro, Spain, from potassium cyanide poisoning.[2] Several days later, his close friend Ramona Maneiro was arrested and charged with assisting his suicide. Sampedro had divided the elements required to complete his suicide into individual tasks, each small enough that no single person could be convicted of assisting the suicide process entirely. Maneiro was released due to lack of evidence. No further charges were ever filed in connection with Sampedro's death.

Amenábar (from The Others) depicted the events in a movie (not sure if known outside of Spain).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Inside
No idea what that first paragraph is trying to say.

And people can contact other people and criticize world leaders whether or not those leaders spend countless hours a day tweeting.

Twitter is quite possibly one of the worst places for that anyways for multiple reasons (established fake account infrastructure distorting conversations, poor layout for async discussion between many people, etc)
King moved to Versailles so that he could control the nobility in one central location.
> It is absolutely obvious why this is terrible behaviour:

It’s absolutely not. You were ranting about a character set issue while the problem is unrelated to character sets - punycode is the solution chosen for domains that use non-ascii characters since that would open the space for attacks using similar looking characters. HN is absolutely capable of displaying “allestörungen.de”, no character set issue here.
This comes from from someone who enjoys the convenience of centralized services, but that honestly sounds to me like an argument for decentralization of mobile notifications too, not a refutation of the idea of decentralized messaging.
Here's a [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1kalgn/why_d...) that matches my recollection from elementary school.
Alpha King here. Thanks for the shoutout from all us in B7. Be sure to check out our latest pack, a tribute to FiRE. https://16colo.rs/pack/fire-34/
The 20 year minimum penalty is the only thing keeping poor people from coming in the houses of privileged people.
[2021] On the internet, it doesn't matter that you are a dog
No. What's naive is to think that the United States President being banned wasn't political. This is an admission of that and an attempt to save face.
Especially since it just makes you look "worse" by comparison in real life. I've actually had this happen to me: meeting a friend I've only seen online for the better part of 10 years. My brain stalled upon seeing them because I knew who they were, but they just look so much worse than their pictures.
Chill. Take a breather. I get it, I get where you're coming from, but you're going to get yourself banned or penalized if you keep this up. And that's really not fun.

Logically, you are correct. So if you're looking for someone to say you're right, here it is. But being right isn't automatically a win in a group setting. You have to phrase your ideas well.

HN is about performance art. And your performance leaves something to be desired here. It is what it is. It's also not the end of the world: simply start talking like you would to a colleague, instead of thinking of HN as an angry crowd out to get you.
Is there evidence to show that it actually works? Me I instinctively want to close the window anytime a Youtuber asks me to "smash that like button and hit the notification bell" 5 seconds into the video. At a minimum I think less of the Youtuber and am less likely to recommend them to friends. Some of the fastest growing and most popular channels never beg their viewers for likes/subs.
You're the second person to ask that. Can I ask why you think Juarez would work? Not trying to be mocking, just curious if its a regional thing that explains it or something else. That Warez = wares with a Z for cool factor was self evident to me growing up on the east coast of the US at the time.
Mechanical Turk?

HTTP get each pdf, look for tillable fields? Flag those for review.

Even manually, 2 months to review 2000 links is a long time. I don’t think the author meant he literally sat there for 40 days, but likely did other stuff too.
> They can absolutely maintain 3 different services

Lol, I'd believe you when they did purchased the service but the countless amount of times it went down since then obviously proves that they cannot even maintain the services when they are folded together on the same infrastructure.

It was a long time ago Facebook employed the best of the best. Seems like it's mostly average developers and infrastructure people there now just trying to hold up the house of cards they built.
FBI is investigating whether Cuomo undercounted Covid nursing home deaths
Lets be honest, most users right now use the main matrix server. Anyways there is atleast an option to use own servers.
I agree, the oculus 2 made me super bullish on the space.
Given that the list of organisations [0] consists of public and private ones, your statement reads somewhat disingenuous to me.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_press_corps
Do you still have that art?
I don't care about your shitty punycode domain, I care about being able to see when a link is pretending to be "google.com" but is in fact some utf8 garbage.
> the url that's previewed simply doesn't match the one you'd type in the address bar.

I can type "xn--allestrungen-9ib.de" in my address bar and get to the same site. Not everyone uses a keyboard layout with umlauts to type allestörungen.
There should also be a lot less carcerial punishment. We overuse the prison system. Far too much of that is due to either minimum sentencing laws the judges and even prosecutors tend to hate and to line the pockets of private prisons or private corporations servicing public prisons and inmates.
Great idea! I wonder why nobody has ever thought about that before! You must be the first! A modern day Prometheus!

The highlighted part about the fact that it takes 30 minutes to make a change, and FIVE WEEKS to get sign-off is spot on. I fucking hate bureaucracy. But you know what happens if you don't take the FIVE WEEKS to get sign-off? Nothing.
I don't understand it either. If there are 2 channels with otherwise comparable quality and 1 begs me for likes/subs, I'll watch the other one
I hate when I see people who hate other culture and want everyone to conform to globalization, like you.
At what level of advancement does a hack stop being a hack.

Maybe when it becomes documented or otherwise supported?
Ah, yes... they’re available, they say.

Reminds me of this scene from Hitchhikers:

—————-

“But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”

“Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.”

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”
Go check out https://16colo.rs and enjoy! Lots of art still being put out.
And they are back up (at least for me, India). I hope it was not a push on Friday evening or worse "after EoD".
Suppose the mid 20s waitress finds a guy who marries her... and divorces her a few years later. Is she in a better position now? Now she is in mid 30s, with no money, no job experience, and a child -- that doesn't work well neither at job market nor at dating market.

I am not disagreeing with you here; just saying that traditional strategies worked more reliably in traditional environment. I wanted to add that today they probably work well among religious people... but then I remembered a few divorced religious people I know.

If the society stayed the same way it is now for a few centuries (which is unlikely to happen; either we get full automation, or we run out of oil), new traditions would probably develop, better fit to the new conditions.

In my opinion, the lesson that many middle-class people miss today, is that just because you have money to spend, you should not spend it all. I would recommend that people who don't have children yet, save 50% of their income, if they can afford it. Because that means that when two such people marry, they can now live on 100% of one income, keep exactly the same economical level they are used to, and have as many children as they want to.

I assume the real reason for low birth rates is the combination: some people don't want to have kids, some people would like to have more kids but they can't afford to. Having the former would not be a problem, if the latter could compensate for it; for one pair without kids, another pair would have 4, and everyone would be happy.
What Facebook Sees in Newsletters
I've been looking for data around how many people actually use the various matrix servers, but seems you have it already. Could you please link here so I can see it too?
Down in Spain too.
WhatsApp is up now.
I think you still don’t understand how Punycode works. The Unicode URL is translated by the browser before a request is made.
This is fantastic! Is this an official Microsoft supported plugin?
Hey folks!

Although scalable build systems have historically meant lots of hand-maintained boilerplate, Pants 2.0's dependency inference eliminated the majority of the maintenance needed while editing code. Pants 2.3 goes even further by adding a `./pants tailor` goal, which will automatically "fit" (albeit only when asked!) your existing BUILD files to any newly created files that aren't owned by existing targets.

Happy to answer any questions!
macOS does not forget that Safari has location permissions. In fact, they're enabled by default. Chrome however has its location permissions reset so often that they had to add a feature to tell users it was off again.
brilliant idea. the only challenge is.. constant changes.
Bakeries aren't generally found in malls. Malls are for items like shoes and socks -- items you get a few times a year, perhaps, not every day. Malls will have cafes that sell baked goods, but you probably wouldn't go there for your daily bread.

Sadly, bakeries in America are rare. Your daily bread comes from the supermarket. Much of it isn't baked on site, and it's designed to keep for several days. We don't have a tradition of daily fresh bread, which is too bad for a lot of reasons.

But Americans have plenty of food options so don't weep too much for us. If you want decent bread, it's available in many places, including many of those supermarkets and chain bakeries like Panera. It's not magnificent bread, but it's good. Magnificent bread is also available; it's just not a priority.

Americans do have a pretty dysfunctional relationship with food, and we'd be a lot healthier if we fixed it. But the mall isn't really part of that. That's more about the supermarket than the mall, and those are separate niches.
Does anyone get any use out of chat bot corner pop ups other than feeling patronized? You could create one that calls your users names or responds with middle finger emojis and nobody would notice.
Well, yeah, but why do they need to make changes to their API so frequently? This is both developer and business hostile. I get extremely pissy when paying for a service where the provider regularly dumps non-value-adding work into my product backlog that sucks up time I could invest in more valuable areas.
There's an interesting train of thought that could follow from this. I've been trying to figure out what could eventually enable people to realize that most of what they see on the internet is entirely made up (or could be). Perhaps nothing would make this more clear than considering that literally any face or persona you see on social media could be entirely fictional. For example, in light of this Japanese biker uncle story, how could you ever really feel confident about dating online? And if you didn't, what's the alternative? Well, if you still trust your own eyes, there's always the physical world.
The market capitalization of a cryptocurrency has no relation to its utility as a currency, except insofar as a volatile currency - particularly in the downward direction - hampers its usage as a currency without converting from USD at the time of tx
City official names and emails are usually public records and are in Boston. So it’s no more of a risk than current levels.

There is a risk of posting the wrong info, but that should be acceptable given the unlikely probability of that happening and the harm of when it does. Posting a citizens form is really bad, but posting meeting minutes probably isn’t too bad.

I think it’s important to consider the risk vs the benefit. How much is having better collaboration and avoiding a JIRA license worth?
This is part of the reason I switched to Linux. I've heard so many people say "Linux is free only if you don't value your time" and then turn around and write one of these. If I'm going to go through the trouble of customizing an operating system to fit my needs, I may as well do it with a free and open system rather than MacOS, which can change for the worse at any moment (the dealbreaker for me was dropping 32 bit support). I spent 2 days getting my dotfiles spruced up, and now I can bootstrap any fresh Linux install by curling a script from my website and running it. On MacOS, it felt like I was constantly discovering things I didn't like, only to have the system fight me when I wanted to change it.
Then we should thank God that God does not exist!
> because reads and writes are constrained to a particular device

That constraint means nothing here. You can issue two parallel reads to two drives in RAID-0 just as easily in RAID-1. The only case where this doesn't work is where you're reading more than 2x the interleave size and you're issuing separate requests for each interleaved chunk. With command queuing, a smart storage system should even recognize the pattern and buffer to reduce the damage, but you'll still pay a cost in extra interrupts and request handling though so it's better to learn about scatter/gather lists.

> they can give you a true 2x increase

I already explained why this isn't actually the case, and have observed it not to be the case with multiple generations of dual-actuator drives. Stop presenting theories based on misconceptions of how disks and storage stacks work as though they were fact.
Virtual Land Prices Are Booming, and Now There’s a Fund for That
Kinda curious now, are there other examples of cities like this? Rome? Jakarta?
Many many problems (several revisions), but I cannot go into them, because fortunately I was not part of the hardware design team. Definitely nothing I would recommend as part time project.
Which shortcuts do you have saved?
Public/state workers had to know German, military personnel had to know German and as the education system was building in Habsburg Monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire children and university students were learning German. There are more than 2000 German words in Croatian language today dating back from Habsburg Monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire.

You don't build a bond with some nation and culture over the course of one century it takes more than that. For example like you probably know Ottoman Empire was ruling and controlling south-east Europe for 500 years and impact of that is very much visible and present today.
I took the post mentioning the de-facto normalization of tokio as implying that the default could be tokio, or at least based on tokio. Maybe I misinterpreted, but that was my reading of the post I was replying to.

That said, I think no matter how minimal it is it would still be a mistake. If anything, I think the only thing that would make sense to include is basically a "not-really-async" executor to appease things like the sibling thread where people want to be able to incorporate async code into their sync codebase without spawning a reactor thread. But that would also require the ability to genericize libraries over executors (and would obviously come with some significant caveats around potential deadlocks).
Youth in hospital for suicide attempt tripled over 4-month period under lockdown
“In other words, advocating for the Biblical view of sex and marriage in law and policy is, according to today's armed forces, tantamount to oath betrayal.”

TIL being a Marine means enforcing biblical law, not US law.
Simple doesn't mean simplistic.

I'd like a platform that removes illegal speech, nothing else. Such a platform should be legal.
Hey I actually like that dark, spiced chocolate! I'm also skeptical it's any more expensive than the Swiss chocolate sold in gaudy mall stores like Lindt and Teuscher.

There's obviously a market for these sort of "non-European-style" chocolates, which, as you said, are marketed specifically as being associated with countries like Ghana. In NE Asia there's actually a chocolate bar just called Ghana (made in Japan..)! So why shouldn't Ghana try to capture more of the value of that market? I'm sure Swiss chocolate makers can source their cocoa elsewhere, and milk chocolate needs far less actual cocoa anyway.
Also Ottawa, after the Burning of the Parliament in Montreal by a mob [0] relatively similar to the recent January 6th one here in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buil...
Glad you like it! Thanks!
> All the marvels of the last 100 years are because of productive people

How so? Those people were paid, why should they be also be thanked on top of what they gained?

The world is unfair by definition.

Why should things not be given for free? That's the premise of the basic income you agreed on.

I never really encouraged for communism either, and never said it would be fair.
Kerry Davis from Valve gave a talk on doors a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OWjxGL8PDM
It's already up in Argentina.
> Only about 40% of the population lives in a coastal county

Counties have a variety of shapes and sizes, so that doesn't really tell you proximity to the coast, but a majority of the population lives within 50 miles of the coasts.
Beauty is a skill like any other that has both a factor of talent and training to hone it, that, as with many skills, declines with age.

It happens to be a skill that influences require for their work.

Here, I see no problem; where I see a problem is that often those who hire judge those on their beauty where their beauty would play no factor in their performance, not only hurting those whom they would hire, but their own finances in the processes.

Of course, the scariest part of all is how much more easily the ugly are found guilty on the same level of evidence than the beautiful.
No, I'm saying that if they work more than 40 hours in a week, they get overtime pay at a higher rate than their usual pay instead of working 90 hours and getting paid for 40. Maybe an extra tax on Goldman's end so they're discouraged from scheduling people in this way.
A killer feature would be doing semantic analysis to attach steps to AST nodes instead of lines.

EG a class or function.

Without this it seems tours could be broken/outdated very quickly in active code bases.

Do you have any plans for that?

tree-sitter [1] supports parsing a lot of languages and could be a good way to make that happen without too much effort. (as long as items stay in the same file)

[1] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
Sigh. Where was this wisdom when I was an undergrad...!
Somewhat unintuitively the statistics in trials don’t require a 50/50 split.
Yes, the great lakes are usually included as coasts (when not included, their exclusion is typically explicitly noted.)
i am not even mad. this is amazing. now i’m gonna follow the dude. deal with it :))
Technology Tips for the Backcountry
I follow a lot of rock climbing on insta, and the top men definitely have more followers than the top women, but if it's a pic of an average climber on an average climb, it'll get way more likes if the climber is a woman.

In the old world of professional climbing, when the magazines decided who was worthy of attention and accolades, sponsorships were generally handed out according to merit.

Now days, sponsorship is shifting more and more to climbers who are media friendly and good at drawing attention to themselves. Top tier climbers are now refashioning themselves into mediocre youtube celebrities, with mixed results.