skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is entirely true of imperial Rome, but less true of the republican Rome. In the context of this particular thread, the conversation was centered on republican Rome and whether a recent civil war was an indicator of the transition to empire. I and my parent were observing that republican Rome had endured multiple existential crises which might suggest a civil war wasn't uniquely noteworthy for the progress to empire, but see my other comments for better answers on why I believe that. (I'm not sure history can be charted with that obvious a causality.)

An interesting aside, the civil war being referenced was actually over a question of Roman citizenship, which used to only apply to people in the city. For quite some time, the (now-)Italian peninsula was under Roman control, but its inhabitants were given a sub-citizen status with much lesser rights. The civil war established that citizenship could be offered to a much wider area.
No pictures?
Just FYI, I don't believe Slack deletes them. They just hide them. If I go from a free tier to paid, I believe my message history becomes available again.
Webcams still remain an issue on laptops because the space for them is extremely limited; the iPhone 13 Pro camera has tons of z-space to work with, while the Mac has to keep it thin to continue to look like a modern laptop and not a 2003 thinkpad.
> There are people who think like you about abortions and wars caused by the west/east because of "democracy" as well.

Do they think abortions don't work??

I doubt it.
Sure, and the past week is proof of the folly of daily limits.

LME has added limits. So every day, the nickel market opens, drops 8%, and then closes immediately. No one gets to trade, because everyone knows the price of Nickel hasn't reached its "logical" value yet. So these price limits are a de-facto long-term close of the market until the dollar value matches what people want.

So in effect, you've closed the market for days (weeks?) since no trading activity takes place to "correct" the price shock.

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I mean, its a terrible situation for the nickel market, but I don't think hard price limits like this are a good idea either. After closing the market for a week (presumably long enough to fix whatever political-glitch was going on), it would have been better to just let the price float to whatever it was, instead of this "lurch 8%, close the market" kind of situation.
Tweet: “LAPSUS$ extortion group claims to have breached Okta.”
Income equality and xenophobia isn’t exactly unique to the US, I don’t think China or Russia has any less income inequality or (governmental) xenophobia.

I’d argue xenophobia is very limited in a population of >300M, it’s just one of those issues where the minority is very vocal which the media loves to magnify. There was just an article on HN about people grossly overestimating the size of subgroups in the populace and I’m sure xenophobes would be one of those overestimations.
Cheers, that fits better with my memory of what I read. That does somewhat diminish my point.
Ask HN: Can Spotify employees access songs database?
I want to discover new songs. But song radios suck in general. I might filter songs that are listened nigh on & above 10 millions. If the answer id yes, i might consider applying to job vacancies. thanks..
Your comments imply a lot of knowledge - are you from Nigeria? Have you studied these things? I wish you would tell us more.
*2017. Was really confused why they'd print an article about Duncan's first book shortly after the release of his second about Lafayette.
That logic runs both ways, you could just as easily say:

Well, the short squeeze traders knew the risks - they knew that LME had the legal authority to cancel trades in extraordinary circumstances, they made the trade anyway and boom that's exactly what happened. They gambled and lost; they have to pay.
This isn't reddit. No one appreciates going on wild tangents here. Calm down and read the rules.
When do you think America's political divisions got so tribal? I couldn't tell.
Android's Messages, Dialer apps quietly sent text, call info to Google
> false requests for legal advice," DOJ attorneys wrote in the brief, asking U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta to sanction Google and compel the disclosure of more documents.

The US Government is 44% of GDP - with big plans to grow. Google is not the problem here.
That’s…extremely debatable that a phone produces better colors.

For my particular weird niche of photography: there is no way a phone is going to get anywhere near the richness of tone and color I get in very low light.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/perardi/albums/721577201444334...
The exchange being able to roll back trades in extraordinary circumstances is also part of the game. The exchange obviously has a strong incentive not to abuse this power or the traders will find another exchange.
If the price of nickel goes up, nickel miners go out of business because they hedged their bets? I guess they were consenting adults who should have realized they could fold if their assets became too valuable? Because nickel is so expensive we just have to produce less of it, because they deserve punishment for gambling.

Or we can just act like real consenting adults and agree that markets break every once in a while leading to outcomes that are bad for everyone. And thus we can reverse these outcomes. Even casinos have rules, and have reversed winnings or losses.
Why, if you can score a quick political win by just buying gas from Russia? Nothing bad can come from sending billions of euros to a maniacal dictator threatening to nuke the West, and energy dependence on the said dictator would never create any problems, right?
The article is not about the fall of the Roman Empire, but about the fall of the Roman Republic and its replacement with a dictatorship under Julius Caesar. The Empire expanded after that point.

Rome was bloodily founded, with the forced subjugation of other nations and peoples across what is now Italy.

The correlation seems less about the fall to ruin, but that that somewhere like the US would fall into a dictatorship and has many ingredients as Julius Caesar served to claim emperor. I would also add a hefty amount of backwards looking rhetoric also to the mix - things were better, more moral in the past; or we must address sins of the past. Putin has been using similar rhetoric to Caesar swapping the Ukraine for the Celts.

I recommend Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History on the Celtic Holocaust that poses that the whole expansion and annihilation of the Celts was a money making scheme by Julius Caesar to grasp power.
USA warlords are totally obsessed with thievery.
Out of curiosity, what other measures might they neglect to take? I feel like I was sort of under the impression that the alternative is going in blind, but in retrospect I guess that's a somewhat silly assumption. Still, how likely is it that better genetic screening would have a net negative effect?
Do you suppose it's a sort of impostor syndrome? They're afraid they aren't smart enough to understand what they're paying for and so they just keep pushing the doubts down and writing the checks? Or is it full Dunning Kruger?
Agreed, there are lots of ways to explore the problem space.

The OP framing can be helpful when the manager has context on solution X and its pros and cons so it’s helpful for the team to explain through a shared understanding.
Here's one belief many of us hold, one that is right in front of our eyes: That Africa is a primitive, pre-modern place of magic, lions, and brutality.

There is so much going on in Africa, and what story makes it onto HN front page? The one that confirms our beliefs. (This is an issue common to the portrayal of many 'outside' groups.)
> unless pursued with a bit of self-discipline

Any programming unless pursued with a bit of self-discipline may result in spaghetti code.
Totally.

I think your service could add value there in doing manual curation and better cataloging across. Like 'high quality' or search walnut veneer or no cheap fiberboard lol.

Crowd reviews are all gamed now it seems. i would be into some more sources of professional curation.

Financing in general isn't great. Not an easy thing to fix. Personally I'm into having it as a service for low income Americans through USPS. write-off losses or take them out of tax over very long time frames. A few $k with low or no interest + reasonable long ish time to payback would be life saving for a lot of people
“Worse” [citation-needed]
I know we don’t say “disruption” any longer, as it’s a phrase co-opted by hucksters trying to sell ad tech…but the camera manufacturers got disrupted.

Because of what you said right here. They kept trying to appease their highest-end clientele without actually thinking about the job to be done for 98% of photography, which is to post kid and cat photos instantly.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17004/apples-iphone-13-series...

Platform Model Life Size Efficiency

iOS Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max 21.7 4352 4.98
iOS Apple iPhone 13 16.8 3227 5.21
iOS Apple iPhone 13 Pro 16.6 3095 5.37
Android ASUS ROG Phone 5 16.6 6000 2.77
Android ASUS ROG Phone III 16.5 6000 2.75
Android ASUS ROG Phone II 16.2 6000 2.7
Android Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (S888) 15.9 5000 3.18
iOS Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max 15.6 3969 3.93

(Efficiency is just Life / Size * 1000)
> it didn't have a civil war at the scale of america

Only barely so, and not for lack of trying, and Rome still had massive and frequent civil wars both in the late Republic as well as throughout the imperial period.

Republican Rome stretched from Spain to the Nile River in the south and Syria in the East. Over 350,000 (and quite possibly a lot more) Roman soldiers, out of a population estimated to be around 60,000,000 (most of whom were not citizens), fought at just the Battle of Actium at the end of the Republican era.

In a pre-industrial era with a pre-industrial economy.

The American Civil War had more soldiers, yes, and proportionally more with regards to population--but also had an economy that could support it. And it happened once. Not "every few years for centuries on end". Roman civil wars were titanic and they went on for decades. (The third century CE is referred to as an ongoing crisis for a reason.)

As for the rest--the differences between the Western Roman Empire and the East are so significant that even if you happen to be right (and you might be, I don't find it credible myself) it strikes me as it'll be by accident.
I’m super sympathetic to the argument that the LME overreached here (and if I made my living trading there I’d be reevaluating my participation).

But I don’t believe this was as corrupt as you are claiming.

First naked shorting in commodities futures is a completely different proposition than in equities. Failure to deliver in commodities can be quite literally the risk you are trying to hedge. The market is supposed to account for this!

The idea that a market should atomically support every form of financing independent of company fundamentals is perhaps a goal to work towards but not anything market participants believe exists.

And as for nickel not meeting the contract? This is a classic case of a continuous signal having to meet a discrete measurement goal. When, where, why and how you assay are important for the discrete signal but both unnecessary and overly complex for the real world goals. Most of the nickel in the world doesn’t meet LME contract spec (neither does WTi crude for that matter) but that doesn’t matter so long as the market displays orderly pricing, to remove that assumption is to destroy commodities futures markets.
CLIPxGamePhysics: Bug identification in gameplay videos using transfer learning
Could the old practices do any of this cool stuff either? Did they claim to?
> Out of curiosity, why do some people change "F" to "M" for Facebook to Meta, but leave the "G" there for Google?

Google is still a major tech company, though it is a subsidiary of Alphabet, while Facebook is now a product (not a subsidiary firm) of Meta, as I understand it.
If you have a single deployment unit, you have a monolith, regardless of how that deployment unit is structured on the inside. There's a lot of fuzziness about what "microservices" means, but some degree of independent deployability is pretty non-negotiable.
> full re-build in ~45 seconds

That's cute. How about the test suites?
I believe this small picture to the right is of the Pi - I missed it the first time too. https://www.curtisswrightds.com/content/images/PR-DuraCor-PI...
ViewFormer: NeRF-Free Neural Rendering from Few Images Using Transformers
Motorcycles and bicycles are indeed more dangerous, but exactly because of cars.

If more car owners would at least sometimes switch to the smaller option, it would make life easier and safer for 2 wheel drivers.

This is not likely though, so I hope for ebikes and more cycle lanes and car free zones in cities, to make it more attractive.
This reminds me this: At Least 27 Phones from Special Counsel’s Office Were Wiped before DOJ Inspector General Could Review Them https://news.yahoo.com/least-27-phones-special-counsel-21293...
This article is so poorly written because it attempting to cater, and it misses several key facts.

The best example is this gem

> The ultimate consequences of allowing the Italians to become full roman citizens was nothing. There were no consequences. Rome just became Italy and everybody thrived, and they only did it after this hugely destructive civil war that almost destroyed the republic right then and there.

This is incorrect.

Citizenship ( and subsequent Military outsourcing) was devalued in imperial times because citizenship was liberally granted . "Barbarian" tribes on the borders would be granted citizenship. Even the Apostle Paul was reputed to be a citizen. This dynamic led the eventual collapse of the Roman work ethic, and the filling of Rome with destitute populations depending on handouts (bread & circuses). The cultural loss of Roman-ness

Would this cavalier attitude come back to bite them?

Of course it did. Many times, but foremost is the name Arminius [1]. Yes, the same Arminius, a barbarian child, became a Roman citizen, and later on as an officer, led Roman legions to the great debacle of the Teutoborg Forest [2]. Because he knew Roman tactics inside & out, it enabled him to destroy completely three legions (17th, 18th, and 19th legions, three cavalry detachments and six cohorts of auxiliaries) - Some of the auxiliaries may have become part of the ambushing force. Later on, this became so rampant that even words to describe the outsourced military to barbarians became synonomous with the barbarians themselves. When they eventually threw off their labors, conquering Rome was easy, as many of the barbarians were the standing military of Rome at that time.

Similarly, it was also Alaric of the Visigoths that sacked Rome, having become familiar with Roman tactics after working for them for years. After several shakedowns, he finally just took Rome.

Of course, I am not talking about other key points such as currency devaluation & Inflation/Hyperinflation

" Nero was one of the first emperors to devalue the denarius, and by the time Gallienus took the throne in 253 AD, the coins contained approximately 5% silver and consisted of a bronze core with a thin layer of silver. By 265 AD, the denarius contained 0.5% silver; the result was inflation of up to 1,000% across the empire. By this time, Rome had no more enemies to steal from so taxation was raised. The resulting mess completely paralyzed trade. By the end of the 3rd Century AD, the vast majority of trade was localized with barter methods used instead of the exchange of currency." [3]

I recognize the fully irony of the military outsourcing of the Romans, and ours, with Blackwater and the other associated Private Military Companies. Our currency debasement, and more recently, inflation, just to name a few. There are many more parallels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest

[3] https://historycollection.com/downfall-5-reasons-roman-empir...
To this day I can't quite fathom how 300 developers work on the same thing. Just about the time I accept that I am alone in this opinion, someone like Discord shows up proving the sorts of crazy force multipliers you can get from The Right Tool for the Right Job.
> But if you can make money appear out of a pot, why has no one ever demonstrated it happening?

It could be rare and conditional and the typical claim is it was demonstrated many times. What you are really asking is why can't it be reproduced ondemand with any condition.

> If someone has a charm that can make a person turn into a cat, it would be trivial to show that it works.

With many myths, it involves preconditions and activators. Not trivial. The underlying reason for the belief system is what sustains it, not the superficial activity you take at face value and evaluate against your way of thinking.

> Well they're the current theories with the best evidence. If someone can show me an alternative explanation for either that has more physical evidence and a compelling theory to explain it, I'm all ears.

Under your belief system where indviduals evaluate correctness of evidence and best theories are practically equivalent to fact that makes sense. Billions don't share your belief system but they do share a planet with you. Also, why would random people care about proving things to you, have yoy considered they just don't care if you accept their belief or not? Most of the time most believers of a belief system ask for respect and with that, for the curious they are open to explain it to you. Your pursuit of correctness and standards of reason can be different from others. Ultimately truth does not care what you believe but in your pursuit of truth, you must not consider others unworthy of your respect or understanding unless you have acheived knowledge of absolute and complete truth.
Just like a lawyer in court he wants you to come to a given conclusion but he is constrained by the facts.
better on teach content of text book. But if someone want to learn how to research, they should learned it from who actually research each day
There are things you cannot do on your DSLR and computer setup. For instance, the phone can take the same picture simultaneously at three different focuses. That's just data you don't have, whether you blend it together by hand or not.
It is myopic to focus on the highly visible component of the greater problem (loose plastic bags in the environment) rather than a holistic view (total environmental cost of shopping conveyance).
My understanding of flat earth was that it's about coming up with convincing arguments for something that you know (or at least assume) to be false. There are a large number of people who participate and they've been doing it for a long time. I'm sure they've heard and come up with solid refutations for every possible argument against flat earth. There are a lot of people who genuinely believe as well, but I've come to see it as more of "a lot of people who enjoy playing a rhetorical game"
I'll assume you use natural gas for cooking and hot water. They're not too common in Canada. Maybe a big more common in Alberta (lots of fossil fuel extraction), but still, less common than Europe.

Possibly with what's going on in Russia, Europe will move away from being gas-first.

Electric space heating is exceedingly rare, unless you're really in the middle of nowhere off the natural gas network. and somehow can't/don't want to deal with propane or heating oil.
You're definitely going to get a better shot from a f/1.8 lens in low light than a cellphone camera, even vs night mode on iPhone. If you just set it on a stable surface you can take exposures >10" and have it come out crystal clear. (Or carry a gorrilapod)
Tony & Chelsea Northrup's Youtube channel and their book(s) is something I could recommend. (Not affiliated with them in any way.)
Facebook launched its news feed feature in 2006, and set the stage for a generation of doomscrollers.
I'm sure he has an interesting life story, but I'm surprised that he passes the requirement to get a Wikipedia page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people...
Why do you constrain yourself to a single pellet? It may be simpler to shoot ten pellets at a time than stabilizing the barrel.
Yes, it is a relatively niche comedy podcast so it isn't that common to run into fans outside of that niche. But on the other hand I'm also a baseball fan and hadn't heard of him until yesterday so it was a little surprising to see his name again immediately. Plus the story of his name is too memorable for this to just be the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Just a funny coincidence I guess.
Wow. I hope we can galvanize around something that is a real enemy (climate change, disease) rather than made-up stuff.
Frugal Scaling for Startups
I believe there is a middle ground ... monolith + satellite services
Large print size helped. Highest resolution. We filed down a few imperfections very carefully with a lot of testing as went and got one that worked well. It has to be very precise.
Ask HN: Company wants to isolate corporate network from the Internet
Corporate is nervous about cyber attacks and has asked about isolating the corporate network from the Internet and use VM's for webmail and browsing. Updates can be done offline.
Is this doable or just ridiculous?
Well, keep drinking the Kool-Aid...
monopoly is the goal of the free market, not its opposite. "supply and demand" are clearly forces at work in the economy, but the idea that an unspecified dynamic simply called "supply and demand" is predictive of anything is not accurate.

this false dichotomy between monopoly and its precursor is non sequitur.
Right era, but I disagree with the reference to which war. The Social War was absolutely not republican Rome's finest hour, but the "uh oh" seeds were planted 15-20 years earlier with the Marian reforms to the army. The Marian reforms created a standing army rather than a conscript-civilian army, which did then fight in the Social War, but the fuse set by those reforms didn't really blow up until after the Social War when Marius and Sulla started fighting over just who got to have all of the consulships and just who was the bigger, manlier man who got to have all their enemies murdered by the public for gold.

...Ahem.

(It is not a pleasant period of history to read about.)
About what I expected.

I’ve only tried editing Nikon Z7 RAW files on an iPad Pro, and I honestly don’t remember which generation of Pro. It was OK, but not stellar.

The file size, oof, yeah. That’s a good point. My lossless compression RAW files from my Fuji are ~30 megabytes. Given an iOS device averages 128GB of storage (my rough ballpark guess), that’s going to fill up quickly.
Russian Asset Tracker – Is squatting allowed?
Is squatting allowed? lol
The easiest improvement would be to remove the employer from the equation and just provide taxpayer-funded benefits to all. The main reasons employers are still involved are inertia followed by a concern that employees won't feel as obligated to stay in shit jobs.
> income inequality, racism and xenophobia are symptoms of an underlying disease

And what is that? India (and Pakistan and Bangladesh), China, Russia, and all the Gulf States, are also xenophobic and racist and have high levels of income inequality. Most countries are xenophobic and racist by American standards—if they lack income inequality it’s because everyone is equally poor. So what’s the common thread?
Ya, vaccines make it less deadly, that’s not new news. But you’re asserting that yin didn’t get covid because you live in a blue state, and that’s demonstrably false.
Yes, Rome was very civilized apart from genocide, slavery and the breaking wheels.
American health care is ridiculous, episode #193993.
When I saw the yellow of the graph it made me think of Tufts famous book. A few paragraphs in I had to check that it actually wasn't authored by him.

The depth and knowledge the author displays is fantastic.