skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true, as evidenced by many, many empires, past and present (Spanish, British, Roman, American) that spanned more than a month of travel.

What they're trying to say is that the span of control is limited by the ability to project power/information to the extremities of the empire. That makes sense, but the way they measure the limits is wrong.

The way the empires get around this problem is by putting people who have drunk the kool-aid in positions of power. While this can lead to abuse (ie: the Spanish), it can also lead to surprising amounts of consistency (all of the above).

Empires that fail are empires that require centralized decision making...and that's due to the communication limits posited and the generally poor quality of the staff in those types of organizations.
For sure it can be improved, but at least it points you in the right direction (/r/HeadphoneAdvice)

Remember we are comparing this to Google where the entire first page for this query is either ads or results full of ads and affiliate links.
ANC gives me a whopping headache from the pressure, even since the early Bose days.
> The point is that, despite massive economic growth (GDP quintupled) and very high rates of inflation (in the 1970's) during that 17-year period, at the end of those 17 years the market was valuing the index of blue-chip companies at the same market capitalization they had at the beginning of the 17 years.

Makes you think that perhaps the stock market is not a great reflection of any on-the-ground reality, and that then makes you wonder what it is a reflection of, and... well, best not to think about it. Let's destroy pensions and put all of our savings into this casino run by the wealthy.
I cannot believe we are still in this ridiculous situation with these dreadful cookie approvals on Every. Single. Page. How did we let Europe do this to us?
That's not what he was doing. He was pointing out that stocks and the economy aren't the same thing. As in his example, if prices are too high at point X, then over the next 17 years prices can go down even if GDP is going up.

It's an expectations market.
When I bought my house, the first two purchases were a super fancy bidet (Toto Ultramax II with an S550E+), and a fancy dishwasher.

Best purchases ever.
What I'm saying is most people don't deal with it.
I think you’re conflating “consistently beats inflation” with “always best investment”.

That US stock market real total returns are positive doesn’t say anything about whether all long-term money will flow into it.
Third party from AliExpress. I just replace keys as they fall off. The laptop is fine otherwise.
The point of the OGL is so you can include or reference things from the System Reference Document in your publication.

EDIT: I realize people might not know what an SRD is. It's basically the bare-bones document explaining the game and its mechanics with all the IP-encumbered names filed off. D&D 5E has an SRD (copy: https://www.5esrd.com/) which 3PPs use when making their own content for the system.
Once a pickup truck decided to back out of a failed left turn when the light turned red. Stupid and illegal.

I'd remained well behind the stop line, lots of space between us, so I figured he was just using up a little of it to get his nose out of the middle of the intersection and I hesitated.

He had no idea my sedan was there and backed right over my hood.

I'd never used the horn in that car. It took a firmer press than I expected, a slightly different angle... the milliseconds involved in figuring that out contributed to the accident.

It's worth practicing your horn in any car you're driving and it's worth honking at someone backing up if you're not absolutely sure they see you.
Depends on one's motivation. I really doubt at any point the Dwarf Fortress guy expected to become a millionaire with his game anymore than Notch expected to become a billionaire off Minecraft. They pursued the ideas because they were doing something that they themselves wanted, and enjoy(ed) making.

There are other examples like UnReal World [1]. It's a game about surviving in the wilderness in Finland made by a guy living out in the wilderness in Finland. It had its first release 31 years ago, and the dev is still going at it. He's not exactly rolling the dough, but what's better than doing what you enjoy and making enough to get by doing it?

Well sure, making way more than you need! But spending the prime of your life doing something you love with the chance of a nice payday, seems more pleasant than spending the prime of your life doing something you dislike but with a more guaranteed upper mid payday.

[1] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/351700/UnReal_World/
Same here.

They have our data somehow anyways, and will always find clever non-direct ways to access it. They will also show me and I think it's fair for most free services/websites.

At least let those ads be interesting for me: which is a good thing; I've discovered and bought many goods from ads.
Remember sitting around the radiocasette deck, waiting for the desired song to play? And swearing at the DJ when they interrupted in the middle? Would be nice to recreate that from a streaming service. Could probably literally voice record an Alexa Echo Dot playing some song.
It's accurate but for case law was not really cited. Also missed out on a few important nuances, including but not limited to:

- that the legal action to be taken against WotC would be focused around building a coalition for a "class action" injunction against WotC based on their "apparent intention to breach the 1.0a Open Gaming License".

- "22-23 years of conduct on the part of WotC which ratifies the important section",

- provided a very narrow alley for a semi-face-saving "out" to WotC in the form of "perhaps this was all a big misunderstanding".

- overall tone was very "we will 100% absolutely demolish you in court but would rather you just come to your senses".

- threatened legal subpoenas depositions with all that entails, namely the implications implicit in depositions that resulting information would either: cause great embarrassment to WotC or potentially open up perjury/etc charges against individuals if they obscured embarrassing testimony.

If I was posting a ChatGPT summary I would have used the ChatGPT output as a starting point and edited these points into it, and blending my style with OpenGPT's style. That's what I'd like others to do as well if they insist on using ChatGPT so much.
Cron Alternatives
Looking at this thread, I don't think you have much room to call someone else out for being condescending. I think it'd be useful for you to slow down and write a more considered position, taking time to address the valid concerns others have raised.
Just a guess, that's all this is. Year 2022 has taught us that even the most worshipped CEOs are not necessarily as smart as people like to think. Zuckerberg thought Metaverse was a great idea, Musk thought buying twitter would be great and we already know what happened to Sam Fried. We need to stop worshipping CEOs like they are gods. They exist just to maximize company's bottomline and minimize workers pay.
that's an assumption that more intelligence means that they would have to be motivated by revenge and vengeance as opposed to that being a distinctly human flaw
I watch those videos as well but many of those influencers are dumb enough to put their wallets in their twitter bios (eg their ENS names), or its because they are linked to their project from the flow of large amounts of tokens.
On my homeserver (a Raspberry Pi), really just OpenMediaVault to manage data backups, Jellyfin for local media streaming and a Kiwix server which serves local copies of a number of services like Wikipedia.

I have a VPS where I "self" host more stuff, like Nextcloud, Mealie, Paperless, etc.
You can use the efficient market hypothesis to talk yourself out of pretty much any good idea.
I mean, I think they were probably genuinely thinking about their own origin and not closing that off for others. Or it could be just that it's good PR to appear as much. So they kept with the license that'd let them mix with the existing OGL ecosystem where it made sense.

In retrospect if that was their goal, it would have made sense to use a different copyleft license for the open content that did not include a clause that paints Wizards as the body to update the license, especially given the mechanics of using PF 1E content in 2E requires subjective decision making compared to the relatively automatic 3.5 -> PF1E or PF1E -> SF compatibility.
It's not that I'm referring to. It's how likely a change in software will cause more bugs. Specifically, how a bug fix could result in more bugs because of interconnections (that's some layman definition I've constructed based on online stuff)
Sure, different people like different things.

Netflix wastes the billions it earns on the really good productions like Arcane into hundreds of garbage statistics-driven shows canceled after the first seasons, because some people like watching meaningful, intent-filled stories made by passionate humans, and others just want anything to play in the background while doing other stuff.

And this is precisely why AI art will not be the end of human creativity: humans will keep creating, and other people will like watching the passionate work of other humans, not randomly generated garbage.
For a minute I thought you were making your dog carry your shopping for you.
I was a beta user and paid for a while, but my search results were too intermixed with my wife's and my child's. It's absolutely worth it to me, but paying $30 a month for 3 users was a little too much for me to stomach.

To be clear, I pay $20/mo for ProtonMail Visionary so I'm not averse to paying! I just can't see the value at $30/mo when the other family members don't use it nearly as much as I do.

Maybe this is an untenable problem due to your costs and you need those low use paying users. I'm not sure.

To clarify: by intermixed I mean our tuning was different so it became somewhat interesting, as we all wanted to tune the settings differently. It's not a huge thing, but between that and feeling bad for having three people using one sub...
I love our Instant Pot! I keep finding uses for it. The other day I'd forgotten to thaw a 4-pack of pre-cooked chicken sausages. Threw them into the Instant Pot (steam tray w/ a cup of water under them), 5 minutes on low pressure (~10 min total), and they were totally warmed through.
Do you love targeted pricing too? Like user X is more likely to buy product Y so make the price +10%. It’s a good thing that targeted pricing is illegal in many places, but oh wait, there’s an AI pricing layer which cannot be reverse engineered so evidence of price targeting can’t be found.
The problem with user data is it lasts forever, and as the political and technological environment further shifts into "profit-friendliness", your user profile will grow and be more and more valuable as it provides more advantages to the counter-parties you’ll be trading with in the course of your life. It will likely affect your insurance premiums, your interest rates, your every day purchases, but I guess it’s worth it for those swell ads.
Essentially, yes—they're both examples of centralized planning, where the conceit of politicians drives complex economic systems arbitrarily, resulting in chaos.
Hmmm I wonder if there is any work on federated github alternatives. Seems like a much more consequential network effect to tackle than social media tbh
It is a bug in Xwayland. Theoretically the rest of the world is not affected. Apparently some people think that breaking compatibilty is the way to go.
There are plenty of free-to-use Mastodon instances. They claim theirs is nicer, but it's hard to tell upfront, so it makes sense to me that they'd focus on the whole personal homepage aspect.

If I liked the omg.lol domain name a ton, I'd pay for this.
> The fact that most published papers have no value is also true.

Is that true though? If I'm about to embark on a bit of extensive research, the first bit of that research would be to see if someone else has already done it. If they have, then there's value to me in not having to spend time/money in repeating what someone else has already done. Or it could show me where other things can be tried instead of just repeating. If we know 999 ways on how not to build a light bulb, we can scratch one more method off by seeing what other people have published.

How is that not considered value?
Modern tools reveal the brutality of death by multiple sword blows 700 years ago
It's weird how most of the return from bonds comes not from yield but from capital appreciation [1], which happens because yields are dropping. There's something perverse and circular about it: "Make sure you buy your collectible widget today! It'll go up in value, because next year's widgets won't be as good! Prices only go up, because everything's downhill from here!"

[1] Actually, is this literally true?
REST vs. GraphQL vs. tRPC (audio discussion)
Microsoft's future with OpenAI, and if it will make a takeover play
Which is true. What's your point.
I strongly disagree. You could find a thousand headlines of executives making market predictions that were completely wrong. This is a total illusion.

Two years? Man that's an eternity. Imagine making a two-year prediction in 1999 (dot-com crash, 9/11), 2007 (recession, series of financial catastrophes), 2015 (trump elected), 2019 (covid)...
KDE looks good (the current version does, at least). It _is_ a bit stable, though.

Dolpin is excellent as a file manager. Nautilus was terrible when they introduced it. It's still terrible.

I don't like how GNOME handles multiple desktops. I can get very close to i3 with KDE, support for shortcuts and customization, and virtual desktops, but have a still full DE to go with it.
Be careful with calibre-web; it's had a ton of vulnerabilities. To the author's credit, they are typically addressed quickly, but there have been enough related to auth to make me wary.

https://huntr.dev/repos/janeczku/calibre-web/
"The question is whether the power and influence of the U.S. will grow similarly over the next 150 years as it has over the last 150."

No, I think the question is more subtle ...

Will the relative power and influence of the US grow similarly.

... and I think that may be a very good bet.

The three closest "competitors" - the Eurozone, China and Japan - are, in their own unique ways, dysfunctional basket cases:

Europe's northern savers and taxpayers have to pay for southern workers to retire at 60 ... and southern workers need to eat benefit losses to avoid further (br)exits. This is a not-insignificant economic and cultural mismatch and the results of even minor adjustments are riots in the streets[1] ... or boring, orderly referenda[2].

It is unknown whether the CCP can survive any meaningful slowdown in growth and whether much of the growth of the last 10-15 years (enormous empty cities) was substantive or useful at all.

Japan is undergoing civilizational and cultural collapse.

So ... while there is much dysfunction - both economically and politically - in the United States, it is an enormous, resource rich country that can exist wholly independently from the rest of the world.

It also enjoys absolute control of the worlds oceans and brutally dictates economic and geo politics[3].

In a world of troubled and fraught investments, the US is probably the least troubled and fraught.

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

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_pipeline_sabo...
It isn’t YAML.
Yeah, China has already indicated that it would prefer the ability to implement sudden, nearly total capital controls rather than be annoyed with the day-to-day of a reserve currency.
I don't think limiting and gate-keeping are good for cultural progress. The way to deal with the amount of content is building better systems (not necessarily technological in nature) for curation. Building artificial barriers to what and how things can be created will only harm "cultural progress" (put in quotes because I am not sure I like all the implications of the concept).
Barbarism is certainly a factor in the Roman expansion into Germania, but if you look at how the Romans were able to colonize Gaul completely. I think originally they thought they could follow the same playbook into both Germania and Britain. Britain was never full pacified and required a large occupation force to keep the province under control. After the defeat of Varus during the reign of Augustus, I think Roman leadership looked at the area using a cost/benefit analysis and decided it wasn't worth the amount of money that would be needed to fully pacifiy the region. The Romans should have pulled out of Britain after Claudius, the invasion was a vanity project and had no real value as a province.
Could you mention some books?
The Salton Sea, however, is unnatural. Before humans interfered, it was just a dry valley. It was never sustainable, regardless of the usage pattern or climate trajectory.
You are correct. Neurons are not Turing machines. However, they are complex enough that they can be Turing machines so it can be fun to call them that.

I didn’t expect this topic to be so controversial to be honest. I’m not surprised though.
Biases in human perception of facial age are more exaggerated in current AI tech
Yep.

Search below for response from 'caitb' who works at Stripe:

> I work at Stripe, and we're already in touch with OP.

> We don’t comment on specific user cases for privacy reasons. As a reminder, facts presented in a public forum can often be misleading or untrue.

Along with:

> We were in touch with OP over email before this post was made.

> We know that confirming we review cases posted here provides an incentive for bad actors to post.

> We wish that weren’t the case–but we do pay attention to both internal case reviews and to any public complaints where users are having a bad day (or, in some cases, profess to be having a bad day).

And the resolution posted by OP below was:

> UPDATE : Stripe has just closed our account without further notice and refunded the whole balance.

So, this story is that Stripe just protected a whole bunch of people paying around $100 for scams worth up to $250k or so.

As an exercise everyone should spend some time on r/tifu, r/ChoosingBeggars, r/antiwork, etc and play spot-the-fakes, particularly when some story that hits the front page of reddit sounds very appealing to your biases.
Of course it is. That does not entail that forums moderators (myself included) are exclusively motivated by a desire to push an ideology, which was the topic at hand.

Nor does "subjective" entail "ideological" unless you're going to torture the term ideology being having a useful meaning.
By definition you can't fry something without oil. The food would need to have some oils inside of it already or you would have to use at least a little bit of oil to fry the food. But you could fry something in an oven by putting oil on it too. Otherwise you are just baking it.
In essence, one star system. Planet orbits are generally much less than a light month, and distance between closest stars is generally much larger than a light month.
You can have a city with brown lawns though
I'm sure I seen it, just don't recall. usually if I click a link and its a blog, I'm gone. If its a block with something I have to click to read further, I definitely just close it.

I just don't like the blogging experience, I never did. I'd much rather consume my information in video content. I feel like the ways they can convey the information is much more dynamic, and its painfully obvious if they are just trying to fluff the video for time. With some blogs, they add so much fluff writing and reading isn't something I particularly enjoy.

The video experience is getting worse, with in video sponsors. personally, content creators should be forced to tag the video sections that are for sponsorship and the player should be able to automatically skip them.
Uganda: Computer Misuse (Amendment) Act Enacted
The OGL specifically protects use of the copyrightable text of the mechanics, that's the whole point of the OGL-compatible System Reference Document. Anyone can write a d20 system with the same mechanics, but the more literal text you crib from the SRD, the more you expose yourself to litigation — unless you agree to the OGL.

The OGL says, here, crib from and directly reference this copyrighted text so you can eliminate broad swaths of reinventing the wheel and focus on your compatible content. Third-party publishers on shoestrings adopted it en masse for both litigation safety and convenience.
Meet Cheryl Johnson, the House clerk managing the speaker votes
I use zemi smart curtains, they were a huge pain to assemble but work great now. We’re just using the remote so I can’t comment on the smart home features
No, but preventing the Nazi camel from getting its nose in the tent is now an important motivator for moderators.
That all sounds about right. The point I was making is that the poster was looking at it from the standpoint of "reducing harm", whereas in reality they were merely following their moral intuitions about what's sacred and taboo in society, and then backwards-rationalizing it through the "harm" moral axis.

Very common in the liberal West where we think of ourselves as being above taboos and caring about divinity, except we still do very much. E.g. digging up the corpse of a dead relative and having sex with them doesn't harm anybody, but is highly taboo. Having sex with a dead family pet, doesn't harm anybody, but highly taboo. Siblings on contraception having sex, zero harm, but very taboo. Hentai of protagonists who could be underage, zero harm, very taboo. etc. etc.

Women, children, LGBTQ members, the involuntarily unhoused, minorities, Muslims and many others are all currently sacred groups whose sanctity you cannot violate even in a work of art and fiction.

So back to my point, it has nothing to do with harm, it's all about sanctity.
In what sense? Would tipping that scale entail that "all reddit moderators are only and exclusively motivated by ideology?"
That's a good question! I am not too familiar with how job assignment worked under the hood in classic DF so I can't really answer. I'm mostly going off of a devlog and a followup reddit post from one of the Kitfox folks.
A fountain pen! I got a LAMY safari and it's so nice to write with. It's expensive for a pen although cheap for a fountain pen which can get expensive. I was peckish about buying it for 20 bucks but now that I use it I'm eying a $200 LAMY 2000.
Machines aren't humans.
The rise and fall of the mail-order house (2015)
Most of your arguments regarding resources are in general valid points, but when you are showcasing 3 results as selling points how hard is it to keep them updated. If you're not personally bothered by this showcase -- which is your product advertisment -- you perhaps should be. Going against a trillion dollar company needs a very convincing pitch IMO to average user.

> We are a ten people bootstrapped team.

We are a 2-engineer startup. We give business analytics/market trends on mined webdata (through our B2B dashboards) with a 48 hour live data guarantee. Every time, user queries crunch through about 9 million data points for every day over last 36 months - in real time. Sorry, but it isn't a very good reason to have stale results.
To take the analogy further, it also (arguably) wasn't poisonous for many years. The poison would have been added in June of 2018.
I've clarified in my edit, thanks for pointing that out.
FWIW, this isn't mentioned in the book, and only extremely cursorily in the official Rust docs, but looks like 128bit atomics have landed (on supported architectures): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/19bc8fb05ab083a315ee4...
> I like specific authors and want them to get paid.

Rent the book on Amazon as you already are. But then download a DRM-free copy from somewhere, uhhh, free.