skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even close. For one thing, Leif was a Christian. For another, his father, who more lived up to the stereotype of the murderous psycho Viking, had been twice banished for murder already, which was why he found himself in Greenland in the first place. The Norse were never a lot like the rapey pagan party Vikings they're portrayed as in popular culture, and certainly not by 1021.
>> but if you're not blue teaming your country then an adversarial country can use exactly all those same tools you're excited about

You miss the point of these tools. They are not being used to protect country A from country B. They are being used to protect those running country A from those living in country A. Country B and its people are not in the picture. You don't blue team the target because you don't want to make it more difficult to watch. If anything, you want to deny them strong security tools. Your red team can do that very well.
Drinking ~everyday is a lot for a lot of people.
Keeping the voters alive and dealing with a public health emergency is a basic job of the government. I am not going to praise a leader for doing their job. I would have praised if they did exceptionally well, and rapidly set up a way to manufacture vaccines in a war-time urgency and made the vaccines available much earlier than they did.

I have family in India, and they have no hesitation to get the vaccines. It just wasn't available for very long. India insisted on a seaparate Indian trial from Pfizer which almost eliminated access to those for Indians. Only to embarrassingly withdraw such requirement and allow them back as cases spiked.
I mis-read this as "if you need 136 bullets to say something..." and was making all kinds of bad analogies.
> "Apple's hiding the notch in a lot of its promo images on its own website. Not embarrassed, surely?"

Actually, they aren't hiding it at all. The app in the picture is in fullscreen mode. They have added additional space on the vertical, and they take it away in fullscreen mode so the notch isnt an obstruction.

They literally gave you additional vertical real estate and you complain because theres a notch it invalidates it...

Im happy for the extra pixels that are being used by the menu bar, giving me more screen realestate to play with.
The server backend will, and this is also a way to run VSCode on system browser without Electron bloat.
Books are your friends. I used to use the down time (bad weather, equipment being moved out of the line of sight) to read surveying books that I kept in the truck. Also, it's to your advantage to brush up on your trigonometry. You'll need it.
May he flow in peace _/|\_
Hurray! They finally built a machine that could replace my 2012 MacBook - a proper keyboard with fn keys, SD card slot and MagSafe. HURRAY!!!!
> There’s no doubt they’ve known for years they could do this if needed.

Honestly would not be surprised if it comes out at some point in the future that they launched the ARM-Mac project as soon as they'd successfully switched to Intel.
Oh right. It's been a while since I read them. I have Robinson's 2312, which I guess is a sequel to the Mars trilogy. Has a train city running along the dark side on Mercury propelled by the sun on the light side expanding the tracks. I got distracted and never finished the story.
Exactly. For me, I can upgrade my existing desktop by spending $560 on a Ryzen 5900X. I have all the other parts so there's no additional cost.

I also don't need portability nor a fancy display because I use all external monitors and keyboard/mouse. Fan noise is irrelevant because I wear noise cancelling headphones.

For me, it's not worth spending the $2500 on a MacBook when I can get similar/better performance with a much cheaper upgrade.
> Solar has been tomorrow's energy for a while, but what's the best way to store excess and rebalance today?

Reversible barrages. Some innovation in pumped gaz.

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> Speaking of batteries: any discussion on batteries devolves into worries about lithium mining / shortages. How big is that problem, quantitatively?

Its an issue for the price and how fast new vehicles can be produced. We will either change our battery tech or try getting lithium/cobalt from less concentrated deposits.

The main issue for lithium/cobalt is how destructive it is when the mining is done in unregulated environments. Heavy metal pollution that will kill for millions of years.

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> Do modern coal plants still pollute as much?

Not the new german one, no. Still worse than any other plant, even oil plants.

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> Are the claims about coal plants releasing nuclear material into the atmosphere true?

Yes, but it isn't worse than natural radiation in granitic areas. And since its in the air, it wont produce enough radon to kill someone. Not a real issue.

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> What are energy technologies where the widespread / mainstream / media belief and the reality are not aligned?

I'd guess offshore wind? I've a childhood friend who is working for total, in the NRE department, and the only reason offshore is done is subsidies and "plan" that the mast will stay 20 more years than planned. And that the maintenance crew will get cheaper.
This is disregarding reality. If incentives aren't aligned with policy then you'll get bad outcomes. If the company says "report medical issues" and also "no downtime" then you won't always get people reporting issues.
People in America were not stupid, there were not repetition guns yet, like Repeating rifle or early machine guns.

The biggest significant factor for Spanish people was getting the support of the local population. It was not foreign powers against local powers. But local powers against local powers.

And that was because local empires were terrible with the subdued tribes. There was human sacrifices with subdued tribes and they were slaves. Under Spanish rule those who supported the Spaniards were soon considered Spanish citizens, a huge improvement.

And Rome usually worked the other way around. Rome did outnumber everybody and squashed any opposition. First they did because mandatory Conscription ("the draft")in the army, an army of peasants that was way more numerous than anybody else and a population that will replace casualties much faster than anybody else.

The Army of peasants did fight against elite warriors that were much better trained and equipped but were way less numerous, for example against the Macedonian Army,and they won.

Finally, after growing and organizing themselves much more, Rome will use infrastructure that only they had like the Mediterranean sea and specially roads to move massive amounts of soldiers very fast from one part of the Empire to another.

This was the equivalent of the train that will make it possible for Germany, Russia or the US moving so much people to the war front fast.

It was the Romans those who did outnumber everybody else concentrating the army at one point, defeating the enemy and moving the Army to another place.

And it was Julius Caesar who wrote "divide et impera" because that was the Roman way of doing things, dividing their enemies, and fighting them isolated with a much bigger army.
"rate of change of the phase angle" is just a convoluted way of saying 'frequency'
Didn't think about this. Smart comment.
I wondered this too, though the sibling comments make good counterpoints.

I tend to look to nature for inspiration in thorny problems. For this one - essentially confirmation bias - genetic mutation seems an attractive metaphor. That is: there's always a bit of randomness thrown in. That could be dialled up/tuned to always include some contrarian answers.

I don't expect we'll all return to the great debating chambers of the past, but it'd be an interesting experiment at least: what would happen if every anti-vax search result included something on the benefits?
That's probably me simplifying and misremembering.

I heard a random radio interview somewhere in the 1990's as a teenager, started really listening only in the middle of it, and by then the introduction phase was over. I never really knew who the interviewed person was, if she was famous for anything, ... It's just that what she told stuck.

Needless to say: plenty of chance for miscommunications, errors in representation are my own.
It basically says that the "intel inside"-logo on laptops has become meaningless.
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The coddling of the American mind.

Grow up an realize that you can have your own agenda and that you are never powerless regardless of what the epsilon minus semi morons are telling you. Be free.
Nigerians, other African migrants suffer ‘wage theft’ on deportation from UAE
>>>> [@RHSeeger:] 3. People that express the opinion that someone who has undergone a gender change operation is different from someone that was born that gender. Expressing an opinion that they're different in some ways; not mocking or insulting them.

>>> [@dehugger:] 3. The words you use for this are trans and cis. No one is going to get upset at someone for using them.

>> [Me:] The word the most rabid "PC warriors" use for this are "man" and "woman". If you dare say "Trans women are different from other women in that...", you can bet there's some looney who will jump down your throat [...]

> This hypothetical situation with the looney you made up is not very fleshed out.

Fleshed out enough for anyone reasonably intelligent to get the gist, I would have thought. What, exactly, did you not understand?

> The looney seem to be referring to an individual woman that is somehow out of frame in the story

What "story" -- my hypothetical? Since "the looney" is prominently mentioned in it, how can they be "out of frame"?!?

> and judging by the looneys remarks, the person who now is talking about trans women in general seem to have made previous remarks about the individual

No, absolutely not. Where on Earth did you get that from? My hypothetical was talking about trans women in general, period. There's no need to make up any complicated backstory, because what I said was all I wanted and needed to say: If you dare say, in a general discussion on the Internet, e.g, "Trans women are different from other women in that...", you can bet there's some looney who will jump down your throat BECAUSE you used the term "trans women"; to some people that, too, is anathema because it "singles out" trans women from other women. Some people are so blinded by PC that to them, acknowledging any difference is a sin.

> that was insensitive to that individuals desires to be referred to as a woman and not a trans woman. Which is kind of a dick move...

Yeah, in your weird made-up story that has nothing to do with anything. You are of course perfectly free to make up little fairy tales and publish them on the Internet, but not to impute them as back-stories to anything I (or anyone else) has said. Don't put your shit in my mouth.

> But cool story bro. Fight for your right to be a dick I guess.

If anyone is "being a dick" here, AFAICS it's you.
So... how about Windows (11?) Phone, round two?
You don't think the idea of having to support a spouse as if they were incapacitated or a child for years after you've gone your separate ways absurd? In a society where supposedly, both men and women are equal to boot? And the base justification being little more than that you happened to have lived together for a time as partners.
> 1) people are running all kinds of applications on Linux, not just open source ones. The solution has to work with Siemens NX or Autodesk Maya just like it works with Gtk Demo.

Applications which are extremely performance critical and accuracy-critical, where the compositor shouldn’t touch rendered pixels at all? Yeah, that works great, right?

We can just enforce the functionality in all new toolkits and deprecate old ones. Existing, old software will just render badly, like it does today, and everything new or updated will get all the advantages.

We can even enforce a new Wayland2 protocol, everything old can just render through XWayland as a blurry mess, Gtk3/4 included (they do support X still after all), and everything new can use the improved protocol immediately.
Hah, they would kill for a straw.
And the fact intel hasn't updated their CPUs is Apple's fault how again?
Most comparisons have always been questionable. Main reason MacOS gets away with charging so much more for similar hardware and still dominates the productivity market is it squeezes so much more performance (and stability) out of equivalent hardware.
Just check the geekbench top multithread scores, windows starts around the 39th _page_ - and thats for windows enterprise.
How the fsck is performing surgery analogous to being sexually penetrated by a stranger for money?

> Sure, and helping a disabled person experience human intimacy is not helping them?

First of all, it's all fake, there's no real intimacy there. Secondly, you make it sound like these whores take the job out of the goodness of their hearts. Having sex with cripples is the last thing on their mind... it's money first and foremost. Otherwise they'd just get a normal paying job like any other person who has self-dignity.

> The real "problem" here is people's hang ups about sex.

The real problem here is you misunderstanding human nature and attempting to normalize and rationalize something which clearly goes *against* human nature. Sex is not a commodity, selling sex for money is taboo and frowned upon in pretty much every society, even the so-called progressive ones that legalized prostitution. Since this stigma is universal to every society, there must be a psycho-biological reason for it, therefore prostitution is always going to be a niche, and never going to be "mainstreamed" ("My daughter is a prostitute!" said the proud mother).
I agree, this is very on point. It's hard to take the "DRY everything" out of a junior (catchy acronyms get the best of them); I will lean on this.
The original intention of the web was to make hypertext documents available to people - PDF is just as valid of a format for this purpose as HTML is. Perhaps more inaccessible but certainly not antithetical to the web.
If you poke around on TikTok you'll see videos from both truckers and longshoremen from both sides; for my money, it looks like it is the port, not the truckers.

I saw the Flexport thread and that didn't gel with the countless videos I've seen of traffic jams of trucks, with truckers comparing timestamps on their receipts to see who's spent longer waiting for a box. Just popped in and this was among the first videos: https://www.tiktok.com/@juanolivares05/video/702129087728481...

Maybe it is the truckers, maybe its the port. What I see in any video I've seen, is lines of trucks and boxes not being put on them, haven't seen the opposite.
That may be true in the US but not in Europe [1] and not in China [2]

[1] - https://insideevs.com/news/523295/europe-plugin-car-sales-ju...
[2] - https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Electric-cars-in-China/Sur...
OP isn't true but partially true.

Most common and ubiquitous FTTH service (Flets) only provides fiber but no internet connectivity so customer also need to sign up ISP to connect internet. Even without ISP, Flets provides IPv6 address and network service without internet connectivity, but can use VoIP, IPTV, VPN, and other non-internet services.

But generally no individuals sign up only Flets without ISP. Nowadays it's bundled. Most ISP provides IPv4 connectivity via PPPoE. Many ISP also provide IPv6 connectivity, and IPv4 connectivity via v4-over-v6 technology like DS-lite, MAP-E. AFAIK no consumer ISP charges v4-over-v6 service fee if it provides v6 connectivity.

The weird point in Japan is that sometimes said that "IPv4 connection is VERY slow!" because Flets don't want to invest old PPPoE infrastructure much. Instead, Flets and ISP recommend v4-over-v6 service for IPv4 connectivity because they invest it. As a side effect (maybe not side effect), ISP could save usage of global IP addresses.

Still there are some homes use slow v4 and fast v6 connection, due to equipment doesn't support v4-over-v6 or need a global IPv4. So I recommend content providers to enable IPv6 connectivity, especially for CDN.
I'd highly recommend the Hidden Brain podcast When Did Marriage Become So Hard?. [1]

It goes into detail on how much we expect from our spouses, and how these expectations put pressure on a marriage. Couples who are able to get all of these benefits are super happy, but for many couples it's prudent to realize that historically we've not expected so many things from our spousal relationships. This realization allows couples to adjust their expectations for what a marriage is supposed to provide, and give them permission to have some of their social or other needs met by friends/colleagues/etc.

1: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/12/584531641/when-did-marriage-b...
enumerating numbered passages from codified documents as a response in a discussion comes across as very religious. taking it a step further and assuming bad faith and acting in accordance with a "playbook" though, that's something else entirely.
It can be done with MNG. There just has never been a tooling ecosystem that supports it for non-animated applications.
People forget that this was 2006. CUDA was not invented yet. And arguably didn't take off until Alexnet.

NVIDIA had not even released the API for writing vectorised C code yet.

Hence all those 2007 supercomputer stories. They actually had a genuine use, because the Cell was fully implemented into the Linux kernel by IBM.

These guys did incredibly well for their time, and they were entirely right about vectorised code.

They were just superseded by the longer term trend of tying together multiple silicon dies and ASICs for HPC.
Building a search engine from scratch (2019)
I knew Esperanto, but it's kind of alien and soulless.

Interlingua is readily understandable for a westerner and seems to check all the boxes - easy to learn, built on widely spoken languages (notably English, French and Spanish but void of their cultural bias), minimal grammar, gender neutral and coherent, orthogonal spelling rules.

It would be interesting if the EU would investigate using it as a working language.
There may be but there shouldn’t have to be
Is it common for tech employees to see fraud going on in front of their eyes for more than ten years and not say something, or at least stop enabling the company ?
Not to mention that the ships, while nice by 11th century standards, were not exactly airline level safety. A significant number of would-be traders (and raiders for that matter) ended up on the bottom of the sea, with the implications that would have for prices.
I think the joke may be about binary size and not memory, which would make sense when talking about DNA.
No. There are currently 11 variants listed by the CDC, but only one of that is a variant of concern (delta)

If another variant pops up with mutations that increase how fast it spreads, or how much strain it causes on the body, it may be classified as a variant of concern as well. Those are the ones to look out for, and the ones most likely to get special attention from vaccine manufacturers.
Would you rather dig your own hole or find, at some point in time, you've actually been living in one?
Relatedly, how does a 17 day old account, with no submissions, attract 416 karma points? Not commenting on the quality of your writing, but it seems extraordinary. Unfortunately the market history on HN is private.
> Calculating seigniorage income in the age of electronic money is more complicated than it was in the Middle Ages, but the core concept is the same: it’s the profits that derive from the monopoly on issuing currency. Printing a $100 bill – a decorative piece of paper that is worth $100 only because the American government says it is – costs just 14 cents. And every time the Fed sends one out of the door it can invest the remaining $99.86 in something which pays it interest. Printing money, at the risk of stating the obvious, gives central banks a licence to print money.
As a Danish person it’s sort of interesting to see how much focus this particular area gets in comparison to other Norse history, but no, it hasn’t really been disputed in any serious manner for a while.

A lot of the evidence doesn’t really prove anything. The map turned out to be a forgery, and wood having been worked by metal tools could have happened through trade.

L’anse aux Meadows is a Norse settlement similar to those found in Greenland, however, and that’s sort of the evidence you need.

This is the only settlement found however, and it may never have had contact with the indigenous people considering how isolated it was. The “vikings” weren’t there to raid, they were there to find some decent farmland, and if that’s what they found, they could have died out without anyone knowing about it until a thousand years later.

But what they actually did is anyones guess.
In music (as opposed to apps), it’s not about a 30% cut, and more about a $10 _cap_ on monthly music spend by consumers. That $5-10 needs to be split across all the artists on the streaming platform in proportion to their streams. And consumers are listening to far more music these days.

A lot of people hear this and say: “well, I never spent $10/mo on CDs”. Sure, but some people used to spend $100s/mo, and now they don’t need to. I’d bet that music superfans/whales were once a very important revenue stream, just as they are for alcohol, sports teams and mobile games (likely less extreme than games though).
That's not really being fair, because the metric is presented to look like traditional perf/watt. And idle is not so important in supercomputers and cloud compute nodes which get optimized to keep them busy at all costs. But even in cases where it is important, averaging between the two might be reasonable but multiplying the loaded efficiency with the idle efficiency increase is ludicrous. A meaningless unit.

I can't see any possible charitable explanation for this stupidity. MBAs and marketing department run amok.
Unfortunately laptop price are somehow high up for thin laptop with 32gb+ ram ryzen models recently, probably due to shortage. And about the igpu. AMD haven't release cpu with RDNA2 igpu yet. The first general purpose ryzen with RDNA2 igpu will be probably on steamdeck. But it will be released next year.
Most of if not an of those components are reusable, such as case, power supply, monitors, peripherals, RAM, etc.

In my case I'm reusing everything and just upgrading the CPU for $560. The end result will be similar or better performance than the MacBook.

If you don't own any desktop computer parts at all then, yes, one can easily spend $2500 building a machine with similar performance.
Nine UK schools are using facial recognition to take pupils’ lunch money
If you're measuring text for terminal display, you might like my "widecharwidth" library. It tries to be what wcwidth should have been.

http://github.com/ridiculousfish/widecharwidth
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