skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gobekli Tepe and others in it's surroundings are surely a great archeological discovery that brings the date of what we call civilization back some thousand years. Anyway let's not forget that Jericho is 11k years old or even older and probably there are many many other ancient cities buried deep under the thousands of tells in the Near East.

(those that follow are just wild conjectures)

A thing that I always thought is that around that era the sea level was rising since some thousand years and kept rising for some thousands more [1] to a total of 130 meters. Humans always tried to live near the sea, fishing was easier, we need iodine to be healthy, better and more stable climate, etc... so my take is that our first settlements will never be found, they are 100 meters underwater, eroded and covered by sand.

The cities we find are the ones that humans built after they got pissed of by the ever rising sea and one day decided "fuck it, I'm going way up now". So those ancient fellas already had lot of experience building cities by then.

[1] https://sealevel.nasa.gov/faq/13/how-long-have-sea-levels-be...
If you were to try this with real text that you wanted to read instead of lorem ipsum, you’d figure out pretty quickly why nobody wants text to rewrap like that as you scroll. Your eyes would have to rescan the text every time it moved to figure out where you’re supposed to continue reading, instead of just following it in a continuous line.
You can search on a site like nowhiteboard.org for jobs that don't do interviews that way.
Blockchain is not inherently decentralized. Decentralized consensus protocol is what makes Bitcoin decentralized and ineffective, Nothing to do with blockchain. Governments and big banks generally use blockchain with more centralized permissioned consensus for their infrastructures.
Definitely. Imagine a world where perennially late to the market HP is chasing the trend of Linux on the laptop. We now live in that world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31391880
You are correct. The problem (that I neglected to articulate) is that global demand for shipped goods continues to increase (1). The traditional megaships philosophy says "let's match that increase by pushing the increased goods through the same set of channels (ports) we've been using - we'll just expand the ports". It's very strenuous on a road way infrastructure, both road/bridge builders, trucker traffic, and local commuter traffic that all share the same space. At some point, that approach will become cost/time prohibitive and will break. You can only dredge so much, add more roads that stand up to the increased traffic, and fit more vehicles on those roads. Trains help ease congestion in the near term (2), but trains also have a limited capacity.

The modern approach that recognizes the challenges of diseconomies of scale would use a distrubuted/scalable system to create new ports, perhaps closer to underserved locations on shallower draft coast lines.

Still an infrastructure investment (either way), but at least the latter approach can continue to scale for a much longer time to come.

I guess we'll see what happens over the next 40-50 years. Will the growth continue or will Moore's law of megaships break down?

1. https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL113045...

2. https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/freight-trains-deconges...
So, they don't have the ability to pass general bills without Republican support. They'd need to change the rules to have that ability.
Works for all the Allwinner and Rockchip boards that I own.

The device tree describes the hardware, you write the driver to match that.
"there simply is no incentive to progress without being penalized". Perhaps I misunderstood?
I learned more from this comment than the article, and I thank you
What other way was there to feed a city full of people? Certainly, you could have culture within a hunter-gatherer society, but not civilization. How could hunter-gatherers provide enough food to sustain a city? Unless we redefine civilization by removing cities/urban centers from its definition.
Thank you so much! Just applied on hotwired.dev

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True, artificial sweetener is just as healthy as apples.
Disagree. I’m very good at puzzles.
Local charities don't even fully cover the holes in the existing welfare system. Why would you expect them to be able to bear the full burden in its stead?
> "I don't myself believe the Russians were serious."

Oh so it was a prank? - -
What a weak thesis...

> You also seem unfamiliar with the purpose of NATO. Wikipedia

You seem unfamiliar with the fact the USSR asked to join NATO it seems
Much better advice than “get used to ‘em” as alternatives to the status quo do in fact exist.
The truly burning question I'm left with after reading TFA is:

How much extra radiation does the RPi-eiger counter introduce to the scene?
Ok, let's agree to disagree, then.

I'll note that I never "pretended that it's not justifiable". I did explicitly say earlier:

> That's a fair position (you seem to be a utilitarian), and probably quite defensible.

I'm disengaging, for now, since it seems like we understand each other's position, and we had a productive, lively discussion.
Similar enough, yeah.

Both are quite complex but in different ways.
> this type of AI is not getting us any closer to that.

That is not obvious at all.
What workload do you do that 16GB isn't enough? Compiling large database backed .NET projects and Rust projects and AAA gaming all fit fine in 16GB
There were valid reasons to not be friendly to USSR. Does this justify USSR entering friendship pact with Germany, thus enabling it to start the war?

I also want to know more conditions under which Stalin (who really handled foreign policy then?) offered to send troops to Europe, considering USSR was sort of fighting Japan at the same time. I'm sure UK and France could corroborate and provide more details, if this offer was real.

For the record, the position* of Sotskov (the only source mentioned in the article you linked) is also that occupying Baltic states and dividing Europe between USSR and Germany was not in fact a land grab by USSR but rather a necessary measure to be able to resist Germany.

Never mind that this protection buffer would not have been needed if Germany did not expand its invasion... which it did thanks to USSR siding with it. Dubious twist of logic.

It seems obvious that leaving Germany to take more of Europe in the beginning of WWII would have drastically reduced the ability of USSR to withstand a subsequent attack by Germany, so the argument seems to be "our geniuses could foresee this, so they invaded Europe in order to save the world from fascists". This argument is canceled out, however, by considering that at the end of the day not entering a pact with the UK does not imply USSR needed to side with Germany, the act that enabled Germany to start the war (which presumably USSR was aware of) in the first place.

I'm not sure to which degree this treatment of WWII is truth vs. revisionism.

* Which also seems to be the official position of the Kremlin: http://www.svr.gov.ru/material/sbornik-dokumentov/otzyvy-na-...
The book "Thinking in Bets" by poker champion Annie Duke made the same point about life being more like poker than chess
During the early republic, only the richest could equipment themselves but my understanding is that the Marian reforms changed this by professionalizing the army and having the general of a legion supply the soldiers with their weapons.

Also, the thing about a village supporting one cavalry soldier seems off. The roman army focused on infantry with cavalry being supplied by allied forces.
Things rarely depend on any single form of evidence. The prevailing interpretations are usually based multiple forms of corroborating evidence. For example, there are plenty of other neolithic sites in the same region, and many of them share the same art style as Göbekli Tepe. The overall timeline is rather well established based on evidence such as human / animal / plant remains, art, tools, and genetics.

Also, [2] seems to be a self-published article written by someone with no background, publication record, or known collaborations in archaeology or related fields. I would not put much weight on it, especially because I have no background in archaeology either and I'm therefore unable to interpret its reliablity.
Also, scammers like to clothe themselves in the guide of "just the facts man"
How did you get such access to first hand knowledge of multiple peoples experiences at different places of worship?
> what the general public thinks will change how we understand the brain,

I suspect it's a stretch to consider that the general public has any opinion at all...
I’m sorry but this is profoundly and aggressively incorrect. The civil war was not reframed after the fact to be about slavery, quite the opposite in fact. The ‘reframing’ is in fact what you’ve tried to assert, in that it was supposedly a matter of economics rather than slavery (though of course other factors were certainly at play). It’s part of the ‘lost cause’ narrative furthered by the southern states after the civil war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederac...

https://imperialglobalexeter.com/2015/03/02/debunking-the-ci...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/the-lost-c...
I'm sure that's just what you do when you're innocent
There’s really not a lot of of discussion of foreign trade in the documents the states ratified to enact secession. [0] They sure do talk about slavery quite explicitly though.

[0] - https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...
Yeah it's a bit of a joke at this point, especially for a device marketed to developers. To me it screams cost cutting. If Lenovo and Dell can start to go back to taller displays then HP certainly can too.
I'l look into it, btw
Are you related to the user aaaaaaaab ?
Pokemon the video game, not the TCG. The video game requires no money aside from the cartridge, and the strategy is surprisingly deep: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ss-ou-metagame-discuss...

Magic is the superior TCG in my opinion, thou Pokemon TCG is fun. In any case, don't play the 'pay to win' formats.

Instead, play draft or sealed, which are much more fair.
qbt is an awesome torrent downloading tool, but doesn't come close to offering what parent indicated they want. I read Peter's comment to mean he wants a web stack that mostly self-hosts via p2p.

I love love love this idea as a concept, but in reality I'm afraid slow page load performance would make for a poor UX.
“And it would require a bureaucracy to qualify and whatnot, but that is the same as the situation now.”

I’m certain it would be less onerous than what we deal with now. It’s hard to describe the disability process as anything but “onerous”.

As long as those with needs greater than the average population are accounted for, I (cautiously) favor this idea. One of the hardest things about being disabled is that suddenly many people feel entitled to make choices for you. I sorely miss having the control and choice in my life that I had when I was able to work.
Then it seems like a very bad idea to put the security of your home, food, and livelihood entirely on the whims of the government to such a degree.
Or maybe not. Who knows how many large civilizations have never been found.
> a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key
There is literally no reason to use a block chain if it’s centralized. You’d just use a database. Maybe a light bit of PKI on top if you want.
> Wikipedia is no bastion of free speech either.

Wikipedia shouldn't be a bastion of free speech, in the same way that a text-book shouldn't be the bastion of 'all forms of crazy and unsportable ideas'. Anything that doesn't have requisite levels of credible evidence should be removed from Wikipedia or at least appropriately marked with caveats.

If you want a bastion of free speech, consider the Internet as a whole as your only viability.
Yes, but, for the tourists who dont know, they dont actually check you used a ticket every trip ;)

Source: just came back from a week long trip to Berlin and I still have 2/4 tickets unused.
> We all know how rampant sexual harassment and misconduct is at Musk-owned and operated companies.

I don’t think this should be stated as fact without some references to back it up. I certainly hadn’t gotten this impression of Tesla or SpaceX.
We have tools that don't require us to find sites that may have been destroyed. For one, genetic studies constrain human population levels assuming any descendants were related to either living people or sampled remains. That constrains population levels quite a bit. Moreover, we can roughly track human habitation on landscapes by how much fire they used as well as changes in flora and fauna. Recent results have even demonstrated direct detection of ancient humans from environmental DNA they left behind in skin cells and such, but that's quite new.

All of these different lines of evidence greatly constrain the types of 'civilizations' that were possible to highly localized ones with small populations, or that were completely and utterly wiped out with no surviving material culture, technology, or descendants.

That's to say it's not impossible, but highly unlikely. Any explanations all those lines would have to be parsimonious and no one's brought forth good evidence for such a narrative.
Pokemon the video game is NOT a pay to win game or gambling game. Everyone is on fair grounds.

The strategy is surprisingly deep. See one discussion thread from Smogon: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ss-ou-metagame-discuss...
Made a throwaway for this.

Despite being highly educated and qualified, my spouse and I have to turn down work and stay within proximity to the poverty line to ensure access to healthcare for my spouse that has a chronic health condition.

There’s literally no reason to get a good job unless it pays $200k+ right off the bat, because up to that point healthcare costs would be in excess of 100% of our combined income.

This is intentional. The United States maintains a population of poor people by design. Any politician that says otherwise is literally lying!
Show HN: (Another) easy to use Web3 NFT app (alpha)
That’s not what I’m saying at all.

Buying a house requires signrifajt savings for a down payment, moving costs, and so on.

Subsidized housing isn’t meant to help people build up savings and accumulate possibly six figure savings to buy a house. Subsidized housing is meant to prevent people who can’t afford rent from becoming homeless.

If a subsidized housing program is structured in such a way that it’s a net financial win to be on it than to be self-sufficient (e.g. renting on your own) then it becomes a “trap” as you penalize anyone trying to escape it and you incentivize people near the threshold to stay below it.

If someone wins the lottery or gets a new job with a huge signing bonus or gets a huge inheritance then by all means go buy a house right away and skip the renting step.

However, we need to revoke their place in the subsidized housing program as soon as they can afford to be off of it. I think people in this thread are forgetting that subsidized housing is a very limited resource and therefore we need to focus it on the people who need it most. Leaving people in the program who are accumulating six-figure house down payments from the savings would suggest that they don’t actually need the program but are taking the place of someone else who does need the help.
I feel I can focus a lot more on my work now, as I don’t even want to look at how my stocks are doing. When my stocks were going up, I felt less motivation as I felt I didn’t need to work that hard to make $$$ (and wasted more time looking at tickers)
Not when sleepy, drunk or distracted.
I dunno, I can see value in saying "If it says ThisDistroName then it is actually this specific build of these components from these people, and anyone else can use the code but they have to call their version something else so there's no confusion." If that wasn't how it worked, I could just make "Ubuntu X" or something that used a lot of Ubuntu but mixed in unstable changes and adware and whatever else I wanted and ride off the Ubuntu name.
Pachirisu was the star of VGC a few years ago. https://pokevillebloggers.blogspot.com/2014/08/pachirisu-201...

A very weak Pokemon, but had the right moves and right team support.

The video game is far more about teamwork and team composition than just throwing the highest stat Pokemon at each other.

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Stats matter for your sweeper (attack and speed), pivot (attack and defense) and sponge (hp and defense).

But there are a whole slew of 'trickster' Pokemon, like Pachirisu, Ninjask, klefki, whimsicott and others who have rare moves and/or abilities that can beat raw stats in the right situation.

Some lower stat Pokemon, like Clefable, are used despite better stat Pokemon (ex Blissy for sponge purposes) because of teamwork, movesets, typing, or abilities.
Inverted-T with page up and page down in the two "holes", forming a 2x3 grid of equally sized keys
Viper – Go Configuration with Fangs
Programming languages: Go developers explain why they use it and what's missing
I believe it's Theory Of Poker by David Sklansky that has a great section in the beginning comparing poker to other games, and specifically to tennis, which I've never forgotten.

I read this like 15+ years ago, so I'm paraphrasing, but it explains the core of why poker and other games mixing skill with chance are so counter-intuitive to humans and difficult to learn compared to games that are primarily skill-based like tennis (or chess, I suppose).

So, in summary: in a skill-based game like tennis, the quality of your results will almost always correspond exactly to the quality of your technique. If you have perfect technique, you'll hit a perfect serve. If you hit the ball into the net, you know you did something wrong. This is what humans are used to and it's the way we evolved to learn. Try > observe results > adjust strategy/technique > try again.

Poker short circuits this system because the results of a single hand don't tell you anything. You can play a hand perfectly and lose your whole stack. Or you can play terribly and win a massive pot. Hell, you can play terribly for an entire tournament and still win a WSOP bracelet if you're lucky in all the right moments.

This means you can't learn poker just by playing a lot, because you aren't getting reliable feedback. Instead, you need to learn the underlying theory, and then how to apply it in the heat of the moment.

In my experience, it's extremely hard for people to really internalize this. They'll say they understand, but then when you ask them about their poker session, they spend all their time talking about the results. People who really get it don't do that: they instead tell you about tricky situations they ended up in and how they decided what to do. There's nothing less interesting to a seasoned poker player than the results of a specific hand... or session... or week's worth of sessions.
That's really cool yeah, Dell never bothered to change out the Windows key on their Linux-based developer models. It's not a huge deal but it's a really nice touch.
I thought one of the big benefits of UBI was that it does away with all other social programs? Are you saying that is no longer the case?
Even though the actual figure is unknown it still a fair argument, thanks
> With GPL the user is entitled to access the source code of the software and any modifications which allows them to hire another developer if they aren't satisfied.

Absolutely, which is why I used the term of 'giving freedom to the code' - in perpetuity.

> With BSD (and other attribution licenses) it depends on the developer's goodwill whether the user can get the source code or not.

Concur, which again, is why I used the term of 'giving freedom to the developer' - to do with the code what she/he wants.
Ask HN: Are Paywalls allowed to show Google crawler full content but not users?
Today I noticed the Washington Post I'd quite naughty.

Even when you click through from a Google search, they still gate the article content behind a paywall. Clearly they fed the full article to Google bot and Google news, but then show a different page, sans article content, to web users.

Is this a violation of Google search policy? If yes, does Google even care enough to enforce it?

I think this sort of publisher behavior makes for a hostile and overall very poor user experience.

.. Especially when Wapo is already bankrolled by greedy Uncle Jeff. But I digress.
> This essay makes some confident claims about the future and I wish to have cryptographic proof that I did not edit those claims between now and when they inevitably come to pass.

The only unconditional claim I saw was that Tether will lie again. Am I missing something?

This one is a bit more interesting:

> Tether originally promised to back the reserves with cash in a bank account. This was a lie. It was a well-chosen lie, because the value of cash does not routinely fluctuate. Backing a fixed liability with volatile assets and a wafer-thin equity cushion would have the predictable result of causing the liabilities to become unbacked in many stressful situations for any of the backing assets.

What's interesting is that I'm not sure many banks would want to hold the cash, regardless of the source.

When a bank receives cash deposits it has to do something with it. The money doesn't sit as bank notes in a vault.

The bank has a problem. The cash becomes its own liability. The depositor can withdraw the cash at any time and the bank needs to fulfill that obligation. And a lot of cash means a lot of obligation. So the bank desperately wants to turn the cash liability it faces with a deposit into an asset (i.e., somebody else's debt).

How do do that?

Banks are highly regulated on this point, especially post-GFC. There aren't a lot of options. What they'd like to do is issue loans to high-quality borrowers at profitable rates. But if the quality of borrow is going down the tubes (it is) and interest rates are at historic lows (they were), they would rather not do that.

Treasuries are an option. But the demand for short-term treasuries has been so intense that yields have been driven down to absurd levels relative to other instruments.

All of which is to say that the very idea of a US dollar-backed "stable" coin may not be possible for any entity other than the US Federal reserve or the Treasury.

And this defeats the entire purpose for Tether holders. They can already park cash at a bank. They hold tether to be out of the US banking system jurisdiction.
My impression of the instances I've joined is that the network is largely populated by anime-fans, artists putting out questionably sfw drawings, and censorious progressive fiefdoms.
Yep, get in through the backdoor.
This is super interesting work!

One thing I was curious about - the ACPT is a crossword speed-solving competition, with time spent solving a major aspect of total score. How did you approach leveling the playing field between the human and computer competitors?
I thought the position was called Jonathan, but the title was scribe?
You also seem unfamiliar with the purpose of NATO. Wikipedia:

> NATO is a system of collective security: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties. It was established during the Cold War in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union.

That is the stated purpose of NATO. The details of its real life military actions do not square with what you quoted at all - unless you can tell me which NATO member state Libya attacked.
Glad to see the inclusion of the "menu" key. Most HP laptops from the past several years haven't included one, but as a keyboard-first user, I can't live without one!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key