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>> 168 Spanish vs 3000-8000 Incan warriors

Actually, those were not warriors. Note the listings of the Stength of the belligerents in the information box, on the right of the article (on the right as seen in a PC browser):

>> 3,000–8,000 unarmed personal attendants/lightly armed guards [2]

The opening paragraph of the wikipedia article also makes it clear that the "battle" was more like a slaughter:

>> The Battle of Cajamarca also spelled Cajamalca[4][5] (though many contemporary scholars prefer to call it Massacre of Cajamarca)[6][7][8] was the ambush and seizure of the Inca ruler Atahualpa by a small Spanish force led by Francisco Pizarro, on November 16, 1532. The Spanish killed thousands of Atahualpa's counselors, commanders, and unarmed attendants in the great plaza of Cajamarca, and caused his armed host outside the town to flee.
I did that too with an old home address. Contacted an admin (easy to find obviously), and they took it down pretty fast.

Of course this only happens if you fail to exclude this in robots.txt, so there’s probably plenty more wide open but not indexed.
It's up to the end user to accept the suggestions.
FWIW, some DDoS attacks against political targets, you could argue, are the 21st century equivalent of a protest sit-in.
Clever name!

"Oklo" is the name of a region in Gabon with rich uranium deposits. In the 1970s, it was noticed that uranium mined from the region had a different isotopic makeup than expected, and it was characteristic of spent fuel.

Further investigation revealed that, billions of years (many half-lives) ago, when the naturally-occurring uranium was much "hotter", it was sufficiently concentrated to form a natural fission reactor. Groundwater acted as a moderator, and as the vein of ore would heat up from the reaction, the water would turn to steam, which would form voids in the moderator and slow the reaction down. It would cool, water would seep back in, and the reactor regulated itself this way for a few hundred thousand years before its fuel burned to a concentration too low to continue.

Now there's a startup with this name which is gonna make it harder to search for, but if that helps solve more problems than it creates, more power to them.
Maybe because a computer game is just a handful of precisely defined rules that is possible for a single person to understand in depth while science is the real world that incomprehensibly more complicated and nobody fully understands?
Mortality is dropping in the richer countries https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2016/16_0211.htm (2014)

Smoking and medicine.

People seemed to think smoking was lung cancer, when it was always about cardiovascular health. (It was also about smoke not tobacco)

Poorer countries climbing, a lot due to other diseases lowering.

You'd need to really drill down to find where to link it to Alzheimers, assuming this best guess from the researchers is correct. It seems a very good guess, it fits in a few places.
Moxie complained about F-Droid recompiling and resigning his stuff. And cited this as his reason to use only the Playstore. But I guess things were more about analytics and control after all.
Does their split have anything to do with this?
> His father sounds like his manager.

Welcome to life of an Asian parent
Shorts must have the stock go down at a certain time. Longs don't. So shorts are far more incentivized to promote fake news every now and then (or they get margin-called).
Got me confused, too. It's GPL-licensed and uses GPT.
The lack of change in notifications is the biggest red flag in this review — rather than showing that it has even heard the chorus of hate for BS-style notification buttons, Apple has (so far) continued on its merry way without even a nod toward better usability. This makes me wonder what else they're ignoring from users, and what bothersome changes they will impose on us next.
>The fact is that this "spread" you speak of is a much more theoretical concept than Matt Levine understands. There is ample liquidity between the bid-ask in 99.9% of markets, and by selling order flow to someone who will internalize it at the worst legal price possible, they are intentionally failing to fill an order at the best possible price.

I remember reading about this (can't find the original source) and I thought there was a subtle distinction here, where the regulation only requires you to fill at a price at or better than the best quoted price, which isn't the same as the best possible price. Which does allow a broker to make their money (directly or indirectly) from the difference.
5/ Boilerplate is easy to write but expensive to maintain in large quantities. Proper abstraction/templating requires careful thinking. Copilot encourages the first and discourages the second.

6/ Copilot learns from the past. It can only favor popularity and familiarity in code patterns over correctness and innovation.
What makes you say that? He was used to strengthen the US case late into the proceedings. The UK judge, while refusing extradition on humantiarian grounds, sided with the US based in part on his testimony:

> The Stundin article continued:

> ‘With regards to the actual accusations made in the indictment Baraitser sided with the arguments of the American legal team, including citing the specific samples from Iceland which are now seriously called into question.
The current British government is a pathetic joke, why would anyone expect them to handle even the simplest things competently, let alone something complex?

Unless your problems can be solved by shouting “Vaccines! Vaccines” Boris Johnson literally has nothing to offer you (unless you’re a tory donor or his mistress of course).
This reminds me of that episode of Star Trek: TNG where they find Scotty in a transport buffer, and he's shocked to learn Geordi gives accurate estimates to the captain.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99114/source-of-sc...
What? What sort of mental gymnastics is this?
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> This would enforce bad behaviors and make it even harder for fresh developers to argue against it.

I think this is a significant point. It maintains the status quo. We change our guidance to devs every other year or so. New language features become available, old ones die, etc. But we're not rewriting the entire code-base every time, we know if we hit old code, we refactor with the new guidance; but we don't do it for the sake of it, so there's plenty of code that I wouldn't want in a training set (even if I wrote it myself!)
I have to use "theory" loosely here, because there isn't any known or suspected way to do it. The energy, as you observer, is off by orders of magnitude.

It's just that it's "merely" orders of magnitude. The odds were ludicrously low, but with a whole lot of particles being collided. So maybe, ridiculous outside chance, they might see one event out of the 10^20 events to be observed.

But almost certainly not. So it was never worth talking about. But people loved to talk about black holes, so the math got done.
So the corpus has been compiled under license and the derivative work is eligible for distribution?
It's the modern era, we have science. Influencers are modern day priests who sell potential happiness.

It's best to teach people not to Trust humans, we have misaligned incentives and can be incorrect.

The alternative is using objective quality metrics and science.

I dream of a future where marketing is taboo because it exploits human psychology.
Robocall numbers are marked under "Block Spam Call" for all the people I know. Looking at the ratio it seems everyone has the same option activated. It is bound to get reduced in future because in today's world people are in a rat race and when robots calling is distressful.
I have no idea how this or GPT3 works or how to evaluate them, but couldn't you argue that it's working as it should? You tell copilot to write a fast inverse square root, it gives you the super famous fast inverse square root. It'd be weird and bad if this didn't happen.

As far as licenses go, idk. Presumably it could delete associated comments and change variable names or otherwise obscure where it's taking code from. Maybe this part is shady.
Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down
If I want to search the last 15 days of email then client-side search might work. If I want to search the last 15 years of email instantaneously then I need server-side storage and search.
You think this is only going on in the US? You must not get out much.
Wow, Quake is owned by Microsoft. This is mind blowing, and a little sad.
I wonder why they don’t help them get more qualified if that is the goal of the company. My guess is that it would be admitting the new hires are deficient which could backfire.
Not when done by the FBI. Unless we think it’s ok for government employees to be paid to sit in for a political protest.
its not always about saving a buck. i spend more in hosting +domain than i would if i went with fastmail or zoho or whatever.
what it feels like is going from google to zoho. when you own the server, you own the backup on s3, you know you can just switch servers if need be. your addresses and everything comes with you.

i see this as a hobby if nothing else. maybe others have the same idea
I think this is the missing piece that will complete the workflow of developing and designing on the web! Great work guys.
>Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a former WikiLeaks volunteer, who admitted that he had made false allegations against Assange after being recruited by US authorities. Thordarson, who has several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and financial fraud, began working with the US Department of Justice and the FBI after receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution. He even admitted to continuing his crime spree while working with the US authorities.

That he is in any way involved with the case on the US govt side is extremely unsettling. Especially if he were given immunity child rape for any testimony.
I use an email address provided by Inoreader to get all my newsletters along my RSS feeds.

Unfortunately some newsletters are tied to my user account and my main email address for some services, so I had to do an email forward rule in Gmail for those for them to skip my inbox.
Absolutely this.

Also, I’ve had to explain this to so many other engineers, both junior and senior to me: most data is inherently relational. This next statement is a bit opinionated: 9 times out of 10 you probably want an RDBMS. I’ve seen so many attempts to shoehorn some ElasticSearch/Mongo/Neo4j/whatever database into a design because the developer wanted to work on CoolDatabaseTech. Then you’re stuck dealing with joins in CoolDatabase that it wasn’t really designed to do and frustrated at CoolDatabase’s lack of drivers in X language. Later on you’re dealing with stability and scalability issues you would never see with BattleTestedRDBMS.

The amount of capability a well designed Postgres instance can output is insane. I’ve seen a single vertically scaled Postgres instance compete with 100+ node Spark clusters on computations.
Congrats to you as well!

I'll look into powerbi - thanks for the suggestion.

It sounds like you're using it to track your budget & net worth.

I actually disagree with tracking my investments this granularly. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should. I find it's better to zoom out when it comes to investing and let time & compounding work for me. If it was granular to the day, I think I'd drive myself crazy! :)
The arguments that the GP makes are not based on a specific style or value of coding. Instead, they're based on the simple truth that it is harder to understand code that somebody else wrote.

In some cases the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs (such as using a stack overflow answer that's stood the test of time for something you don't know how to do), but with Copilot you don't even get the benefit of upvotes, human intent, or crowdsourced peer review.
Anti-Semitic Myths
"Normal usage" for many Westerners, and surely other nations, includes destroying the surface coating with metal utensils while cooking, and then eating small particles of the nonstick (because if they're not attached to the pan anymore...where do you think they are?)
> I hope that GitHub is at least limiting any training data to a sensible whitelist of licenses (MIT, BSD, Apache, and similar)

Yes, and even those licences require preservation of the original copyright attribution and licence. MIT gives some wiggle room with the phrase "substantial portions", so it might just be MIT and WTFPL
https://archive.md/DHm1A
https://www.mail-tester.com/ is a useful tool for testing.

Gmail is hit or miss, even when dkim/spf/dmarc are setup correctly. It may work 70% of the time, but it becomes a constant guessing game if you inboxed or went to spam. If you're using DO/Vultr/Linode, there may be issues with noisy neighbor IPs, but it still sucks that you may get penalized for no fault of your own. It seems like there is no incentive for Gmail to play friendly with small mail servers.
Given the expected gains (or losses), is it actually worth investing in equities if you have less than $3000 to invest? If you only have 3 grand to your name, you probably shouldn't be investing it.

Personally, I've never invested less than $2000 in a single lot. I also aim to have around $5000 cash in my accounts, more than that is a waste, and less puts me at risk of being unable to pay for things.
That would actually be potentially useful, it could do a kind of combination of autocompletion of internal libraries, automatic templates for common patterns and internal style/linting type tasks all in one. Certainly augmenting those other things.

It would be interesting how much code you would need before it was useful (and how good does it have to be to be useful? Does even a small error rate cost so much that it erases other gains, because so many of the potential errors in usage of this type of tool are very subtle?)
Ultimately millions of gamers are competing at the same well known game, so anomalies are more evident and it's in the gamers interest to catch fraud.

Scientists even when working in the same area are working on different aspects or using different paradigms than other scientists so fraud can be much less evident. Also scientists aren't directly competing and there may be a cost to ones career of saying someone is a fraud when there isn't much of an incentive.
> Pop quiz: out of the journals Aequationes mathematicae, Indagationes mathematicae, Inventiones mathematicae, Quaestiones mathematicae, three are mediocre and one is absolutely top-notch. Without googling can you guess which?

Is the good one Indagationes ?

(Edit: looks likely. I picked it because it seemed the better name)
Ill take a crowded inbox over the previous system: a crowded post box. At least i can throw spam blockers and other tools at the problem. Setting roadblocks to catch postal trucks is a federal offence.
You can see the signs of this happening live,

UWP dropped from WinUI roadmap and desktop focus,

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/main/doc...

While Project Reunion gets renamed into Windows App SDK

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/06/24/what-w...

C++/WinRT also does COM anyway,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-a...

All Language/WinRT SDKs become /windows,

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/05/06/announ...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/01/21/making...

Microsoft Game Development Kit makes it clear that for AAA titles, the Win32 + GDK model is the future, while WinRT APIs are being deprecated, and only community support is planned for UWP, not from Microft XBox teams.

https://github.com/microsoft/GDK

So one just needs to read between the lines, combine it with years of experience with previous technology reboots from Microsoft, and it is relatively clear where they are heading with Windows 11.

Naturaly when playing futurology games there is always a possibility of being wrong.
You will always be abused by Apple. They don't need you and they know it.

It's best to either enjoy the walled Prison or escape. You can't really enjoy freedom and Apple.
At the time European technology wasn't mass produced either. Technological artifacts were still hand made one at a time by artisans.
I've run into this same issue communicating with potential employers via GANDI mail--more often then not when I make a followup call my email is in their SPAM folder.

My sister-in-law's employer's mail service (k-12 school district) ALWAYS bounces back email from myself and my wife, and their sysadmin always says "Nope. Not a problem on my end."
Depends on who you ask.

I think a lot of modern software development shops, these days, exist only to make their founder[s] as rich as possible, as quickly as possible.

If they are willing to commit their entire future to a lowest-bid outsourcing shop, then I don’t think they are too concerned about playing the long game.

Also, the software development industry, as an aggregate, has established a pervasive culture, based around developers staying at companies for 18-month stints. I don’t think many companies feel it’s to their advantage to incubate people who will bail out, as soon as they feel they have greener pastures, elsewhere.
Ask HN: What does it take to change your email address?
I was looking at the recent Purelymail post, and (over the past several years) every once in a while I've seriously considered getting off gmail for pretty much anything else (usually looking at Fastmail). But the barriers for doing so feels incredibly high.

In 1password I think I have something like 200 sites I'm registered with, of which I'm sure 199 all use email as the username. Is updating services like Netflix, Amazon (including AWS), etc. even possible? without calling someone on the phone and spending 20 hours trying to prove you are who you say you are?

So, for those of you who have decided to buckle down and go through the pain of accomplishing this task, how did you end up doing it? Were there any in-hindsight experiences you'd pass along to others? Is there some way of "slowly migrating" that's possible and I'm just unaware of?

Thanks!
For a website that links to it's sources a few times and talks about ethics in media, it's quite surprising they don't back this accusation.
If you have new IP and that IP don't have bad history, then your main issue is hotmail and Office365.
There is little bit rate limiting over next 24h period, but if you host yourself and don't send unsolicidated bulk messages, then you don't see those limits.
Some anti-spam services graylist you, that causes usually 5 minute delay for delivery.

90% spam score comes from message, sending server isn't that relevant (if you base configuration is reasonable: PTR is right, server knows it's hostname and don't EHLO himself as localhost and so on).
You can look at SpamAssassin default rulebase[1] for common rules.

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[1] - https://spamassassin.apache.org/old/tests_3_3_x.html
Looks useful, can it handle image and video manipulation npm packages? So I could crop and resize images on this service?
Yes, I was concerned I would come across that way - sorry if I did, just a reflection of the arguments I have with myself :)

Thank you for your replies and hope it all goes well for you!
alternative for 4. open Preview, and use Annotate->Signature to configure a signature to drop in straight on your Mac.
Copilot is a tool. If you take copilot's suggestions uncritically and push them to Github, - that's on you.
I'm curious: how do you learn your spam rate?
These skills have helped me at every single job I've had, including my current one, where I've employed the skill a couple of times to discover bugs or unintended side-effects in third-party library code. For context I've worked in the industry for about 15 years now, in roles ranging from low-level programming on real-time systems to (currently) high level machine learning work.

It might be niche, but it can also be a differentiator--even if I'm not the fastest coder or the best architect I have these other skills that make me valuable at critical times. That's worth something anywhere.

And it's not even knowledge of C or C++, or syscalls or whatever: it's just basic "use a debugger" (not merely pantomime the commands, but understand what's going on) skills that can be the real game changer.
All the "East Asian Tiger" countries achieved much faster economic development in terms of GDP per capita (per head) than China did: search for China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi....

There's no theoretical reason a political region should develop slower if the population is larger, if anything economic theory suggests the opposite (a common argument for why America's GDP is higher than Europe's is that it has a larger homogenous internal market). So China's size can't be used as an excuse for its slower development.
Things that are “different” are not “strange.”
>2/ The boilerplate is what bothers me the most (as someone who believes in the declarative approach to software engineering). The future for programming and programming languages should be an attempt to step up to a higher level of abstraction, that has been historically the way we step up to higher levels of productivity. As applications get larger and code-bases grow significantly we need abstraction, not more boilerplate.

Just the other day someone on copilot threads was arguing that this kind of boilerplate optimizes for readability... It's like Java Stockholm syndrome and the old myth of easy to approach = easy to read (how long it took them to introduce var).

I've always viewed code generators as a symptom of language limitations (which is why they were so popular in Java land) that lead to unmaintainable code, this seems like a fancier version of that - with all the same drawbacks.
As someone leaving Googles Prison, I'm currently looking for new ways to do this.

It definitely cost me a weekend for the photos thing, but at least I'm not locked in.
So even if we accept everything being said of the Neanderthals, this is left completely undefended:

> Why does every culture have legends of monstrous humanoids, and why are they are always depicted as fearsome and dangerous? Because the legends were real. The orcs were real.

Is the author really suggesting that these stories are the product of an unbroken chain of 50,000 years of oral tradition? If not, what do events from 50,000 years ago have to do with myths from 2000-6000 years ago?
I think the problem that many HN readers don't understand is that influencers have a really hard time monetizing the content they are making. If you're a lifestyle or a travel blogger you don't really have any easily available way to monetize other than brand advertising. If the value that you provide is entertainment in the form of beautiful visuals of aspirational lifestyle you can't really package that in a Substack newsletter or even a Patreon donation drive. That's a huge unsolved problem waiting to be solved.
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