skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent article generally but I don't think the point about Napoleon was very strong and rather diminished the article as it conflates the concept of military supply with Imperial administration and I think the two subjects differ in practice.

(i.e. in another reality where Napoleon had superior temporarily military supply in Russian held territories then he could have conquered Russia. If that happened; whether he could hold the territory for the years that follow would however be an argument for this article).
I looked at the image and it feels like art in the terms that you put it.

What now. Is my inner experience of art not valid? How do we reconcile this?
That website is everything that's bad with news websites, but all in one site.
^^^THIS. I've always felt that my greatest superpower was the gift to search/find information fast. This allows me to both discover a wide range of info and also go hunting for targetted info when the situation dictates a more narrow scope. Pre-fetch provides the quickest time-to-value. With a near infinite cache to fill, it only makes sense to continually feed a steady diet of information to satisfy relentless curiosity. Bookmarking, re-reading/re-visiting past info, writing and sharing info tidbits of random info, etc ... all help to lock-in what I'm aware of and also provide confidence to go hunting and rediscover a known nugget when a particular situation/conversation could benefit.

TL;DR: Awareness comes in two forms: quick immediate recall and fuzzy vague confidence of related material. To expand breadth and depth of both forms, it's beneficial to hunt information efficiently.
Very well timed post! The author really should produce an update for the new millennium.

I was just ranting about this yesterday, after having to endure a chat session w/ a "customer care associate".

The blatantly patronizing platitudes are really rudeness with flowers, and highlight the corporations use of exploited offshore call center workers as a human shield against the frustration of their customers.

I'd also be curious to know about the tech of delivering "We're so sorry for your inconvenience, thank you for your patience..." messages automatically after certain periods of quiet in the chat channel.

How many other patronizing platitudes are delivered automatically? Or with single click buttons on the "care representative's" console?

Does anyone actually like these interfaces?

Do people really want a bot to kiss their ass while they're trying to report a broken product?

Someone seems to think so...
>This also helps explain for example why feudalism was so prevalent in Europe during the Middle Ages. Without well-maintained Roman roads, the time needed to go from one place to another extended, which made it that much harder to control big empires. Small, local warlords emerged. They were the ones with enough money to afford a horse and armor

This point is another reminder for me that Game of Thrones' Westeros, the Seven Kingdoms, should've collapsed the minute all the dragons were lost in the Dance of Dragons, particularly the North, where it takes months to get to Winterfell from King's Landing. This writer[0] also noted how impossible Westeros as a united entity should be along with other issues with GRRM's world design.

Nevermind that the size of Westeros should have a significant impact on its anthropology. This is a needlessly nerdy analysis, and most are aware of GRRM's well-known disclaimer about his faults, but no one even comments on anyone having an accent in Westeros, except for that of the Dornish (which is kinda sketch IMO).

* The relative isolation of the North and the Iron Islands would've seen them continue to speak and evolve the First Men's language, though with far more Andalic influence than the language spoken north of the Wall.

* Dorne would speak a spectrum that goes from the Andalic of the Marches to the Andalic/Rhoynish patois most people would speak in Sunspear

* The Sea Lords, much like the Channel Islands IRL, would've continued to speak a dialect of High Valyrian that would've had a strong Andalic influence and the Targaryens would've spoken this dialect. Its a bit strange that the Targaryens basically just stopped speaking Valyrian though where IRL it took the Normans, also a dominant political minority, almost 400 years to start speaking English conversationally. The royal court and the high lords would all have learned to speak it.

* The Riverlands' dialect would be most related to the Stormlands' dialect since the Storm King ruled there for 300 years.

* The Vale, also relatively isolated since its accessible over land through a scant few mountain passes, like Portugal and Spain IRL where Portuguese has more in common with vulgar Latin, would speak the 'purest' dialect of Andalic that has more in common with the Andalic that was spoken in Essos.

[0]https://medium.com/migration-issues/westeros-is-poorly-desig...
Serious question: Do you tip them? Is there an expectation to?
Chinese saying: "the mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away" （山高帝遠）
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Thanks! That's part of the picture. I'm looking for something similar to nand2tetris but level up one notch. 539kernel definitely can serve as part of the puzzle.
I'm not too surprised, /r/art has been famous for completely arbitrary rules for years by now.
What if AGI is not necessary to make a lot of harm?
The logic is fine, it's just massively overstated with the clickbait headline, and travel time in a region is an endogenous factor which depends on where the boundaries of the empire are drawn, because empires build roads, chop down forests, drain swamps and make rivers navigable.

As the article acknowledges, travel times within the Roman Empire tended to be less than a month. But they conquered land regions (where possible) before they built the roads that let them supply them that fast. Certainly there's nothing about lowland Germany that should make it more difficult to reach than Hadrian's Wall, but they effectively subdued the British tribes and built roads all over that particular faraway island, and didn't have as much success against the Germanic tribes who inhabited desirable land closer to their capital that could have been reached in a shorter time with a nice lowland road from Gaul, if they'd ever been able to build it.
Why should they start spending time on writing notes on links, even if it requires looking at less links to make the time for it? It's really not obvious that writing notes habitually is good advice or a healthier use of time
They've said it's coming. No particular timetable, but definitely this year.
>Someone investing at age 18 might care about the subsequent 50 years

Those 50 years are part of the next 150, and are no easier to forecast. Most market projections are for numbers ~7% annually, but periods worse than that would drastically alter investing plans, and hence social infrastructure planning.
are you thinking Hewlett not Hewitt ?
Or maybe they influence these negative downturns to implement cost cutting
Ask HN: Is TeXmacs for mathematicians who love programming?
Although programming is not needed to use TeXmacs, maybe a love of programming is needed to appreciate the technical marvel that TeXmacs is?

And maybe this appreciation will make them want to use it?
It seems to me that distance would just be a correlation to the real variable. If a government could keep a people 5,000 miles, or even 50 million miles, away content enough to not undermine them, then obviously that government could continue to rule this group of people indefinitely.

So it seems that the real variable here is contentedness, which distance correlates strongly against. The further someone is away from their government, the less likely they are to feel that it's "their" government or have any sort of shared "camaraderie" for lack of a better word.

There are plenty of examples of empires having at least tentacles stretched well beyond 3000 miles sustainably, even at the beckoning of the colonies, as in the case of e.g. Anguilla with the Brits. Yet no empire can maintain stability, regardless of their size, in the face of rising discontent.
I get it, and I've been back to that Nordstrom without the hired stylist and gotten advice from the in-shop stylist. I expanded my answer a bit, but I never would've gone into the Nordstrom to shop if it hadn't been for the hired stylist. I didn't know what I didn't know.

Maybe $175 wasn't a good objective value for that, but for me, it worked.
Not exactly, price increases with some certifications and branding. In the high end of purifiers, they can handle much smaller particulates and gasses (e.g. carbon matter measured by dozens of lbs with replacement filters costing hundreds). The most effective filters for general use will have higher CFM. CFM also decreases with smaller particulate filtering. Unless you're spending ~$1k+, most activated be carbon seems to wear out faster than it's worth considering.

Overall, yes, a cheap box filter (placed specifically in the bedroom, if limited to one room) is often the most effective.
> Don't you still have Iterator invalidation to keep track of and I thought I saw posts regretting using `std::string_view` because it is easy to reference deleted memory.

I don't run into iterator invalidation that much in practice. I'm not often erasing elements from collections. There are all sorts of things like std::string_view where you could reference bad memory if you don't manage lifetimes, but I... just... come up with designs where lifetimes are managed properly? It's probably habit and very intuitive for me, hardly conscious of it.

Also, this is where the static analyzer is fantastic. If you have good unit test coverage, it will let you know you've screwed up and pinpoint where.

I don't mind the borrow checker as a default, but it would be nice for an escape hatch that wasn't an unsafe{} block. Perhaps one with runtime checks? Predictable conditions are virtually free with branch prediction.

> Recently, I've seen an inverted pattern for this, define a trait and `impl MyTrait for Fn`. I've found I much prefer this pattern over the cases where I would have used a functor. Granted, there are more ad-hoc cases where functors would be better.

Can you give an example or provide a citation to this? I'd love to read more.
Huh, TIL. Does seem to be the incorrect gas/context in the original article though (or at least the BBC article and the post are incompatible in that respect).
Sleeping mask ~$15

Becoming comfortable sleeping with a sleeping mask + ear plugs makes it possible to sleep anywhere.
There is much more agriculture in Utah County, particularly in the southern portions, and the Great Salt Lake is fed by the Jordan River flowing from Utah Lake.
You csn select bed and select placing multiple ones now, so no need to spam hotkeys.
Not only sponsored - but also automatically added to your list of subscribed sub-reddits! I only saw the "sponsored" posts when I went out of my way to unsub from this new subreddit I was unceremoniously subscribed too.
I did the same thing several years ago, only in my case I was able to follow the guides at /r/malefashionadvice for free, highly recommended if you don't want to or can't afford a personal stylist right now.

Look at the guides on their sidebar (on old reddit at least) and they have everything you need, such as a basic guide, what to buy for $X, and so on. Take particular notice at their What Are You Wearing Today (WAYWT) threads, while they are sometimes ludicrous, they often show the current fashion zeitgeist.

https://old.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/
I'm really curious why the DOJ is not investing this. The magnitude of this collapse is almost as bad as FTX and there is good evidence floating around that the execs were pulling some shenanigans. I guess I am too spoiled with SBF running his mouth and incriminating himself for weeks.
It's not "perfectionism". It's called entertainment. Some people like watching desperate housewives, some people like reading about compilers.
Anybody dreaming of Mars colonies should keep that in mind. As long as the Mars colony will be dependent on supplies from Earth, they will do what Earth wants. Once they are self sufficient, this will change.

C.f. the immigration-friendly early U.S. and its "close borders" and PR lottery approaches of today.
Direct link: https://www.seriouseats.com/colombian-chicken-stew-with-pota...
Why restrict to URN when you can use a URI that looks similar to a URL but doesn't have to be accessible. I've used URIs for partner supplied identifiers. They're also used with GraphQL as resource ids.

For widely standardized things URNs make complete sense e.g. ISBN for books.
If he ~knew~ it was two years, wouldn’t he start taking action against that, making it less than two years? Sounds like random bs guess imho.
Status seeking behavior and Narcissism. They are more concerned over their children making them look good to other parents / people than their kid enjoying themselves.
Well, traditionally the Gary slang usage is used to as a synonym for the orifice through which one performs a vital bodily function, but the word it rhymes with it can also indicate the venue for such[0].

0: https://www.wordsense.eu/shitter/
> I bought some new plants for my home, which makes the place feel a lot nicer.

I second this. My wife went through a health scare (she's fine now) early in 2022, during which she was a little depressed. one of her outlets was to go to home goods or lowes and buy house plants - one or two at a time, every week or two. those stores have pretty generous return policies if you kill the plant - homegoods 30 days, lowes - a full year!

I think we have about 25 houseplants now including a couple of large ficus and fan palm trees, she waters them all at once on the weekend and it doesn't take much time at all, maybe 15 to 30 minutes per week; there are some annual maintenance tasks as well like re-potting but the return on time investment is really fantastic. Guests always comment how lovely it is in our living room surrounded by plants, and she has a new hobby of propagating the houseplants and giving new plants as gifts. All in all, I'm sure it's more than $200 in total, but if you find good deals, $200 can probably buy between 5 to 15 very nice houseplants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familicide

There is some interesting theories behind this:

In this typology, the anomic (amoral) killer sees his family purely as a status symbol; when his economic status collapses, he sees them as surplus to requirements. The disappointed killer seeks to punish the family for not living up to his ideals of family life. The self-righteous killer destroys the family to exact revenge upon the mother, in an act that he blames on her. Finally, the paranoid killer kills their family in what they imagine to be an attempt to protect them from something even worse.
I got a pair as well which I use for exercise, and to listen to podcasts when cycling somewhere for transport. A very good buy.
I have the instant pot vortex, which is really cool. The weird thing is all the oil and grease that materializes on the bottom rack thing. Does anyone else use instant pot vortex?
If I’ve learned anything in the past 2.5 years, it’s that nobody can predict the stock market. You might as well be telling me the exact day Jesus is going to return.
Hubris is necessary but not sufficient to make truly new things.
Is this an excerpt from Faust?
What you are doing is interpreting everything as you like, not as it is meant. You paint yourself as the victim when this all started with your baseless accusations. If you don't like people reacting to your accusations, you should not use a public forum.
I set up an account and made a small donation for the 'verified' account thing.

I can use my sdf email address for email newsletters and such. I also log in (as another poster mentioned) and use the text mode browser for checking on Web sites from outside my local and national network.

Finally the system is a nice example of netbsd in action.

I have not joined in any of the forums &c yet. I might play with gopher and gemini for lutz
How to Make Kubernetes Secrets Truly Secret
I wonder if it's possible to replace mods completely with a bridging algorithm such as the one used for Community Notes. The algorithm is very clever in that, so far, there doesn't seem to be a way to game it. It aligns user incentive with a goal of quality. As a result, it tends to make high quality decisions.

It might be possible to use this method to crowdsource things like creating subreddit rules and removing comments that break those rules.
The point was they couldn't hold the Canadian colony. Britain didn't give home-rule to Canada because of their good-will. American belligerence towards European presence in the New World, and their rise as a major military and economic power, made holding Canada practically impossible by the mid 1800s (for example, it was untannable for Britain to maintain a large military presence in Canada anymore). Britain fully expected Canada to be annexed. Without the civil war and reconstruction preoccupying Americans during the critical early and fledgling years of the Canadian Dominion, I don't think Canada would have survived as a nation.

In another thread, I also made an argument for another major mitigating factor with respect to Americas, namely, the native populations were wiped out by old-world diseases which prevented local rebellions from succeeding and allowed Europeans to establish large population centers.
He isn't a random person, he's the CEO of one of the biggest companies on Earth, of course he will have some more insight into his own industry than some random person here or elsewhere. Stocks don't have to go up even during a decent economy, we've lived in a unique era where they have, but that hasn't always been the case.
Git commitments to your autocomplete library?
That's a fascinating question. I guess the answer is both. Fast info gives you extra time since you don't suffer the latency to send the shock troops.
Does Tesla do any real usability testing? Or is it strictly yes-man grab ass and fanboys?

/capacitive/ turn signals without even haptic feedback? How the fuck did that get through initial design? How is that even legal?

With the fiasco that is the objectively stupid cabin design of the Semi on top of bullshit like this it really makes you wonder what the hell they do over there.
> The Netherlands conquering Java in 1619? A lot more than a month.

For practical purposes this was more the VOC than the Netherlands. Similar situation with British India until they killed off the British East India Company; before that, well, you could call it an empire, but it was really more a separate country ruled by a _company_.

Goa is probably a better counterexample, granted.
All except the last.
Thank you. I just now went to buy the game and nearly bought it on Steam but I remembered this comment at the last moment.
Using a satellite photo from 1985 to show how far the lake has receded is disingenuous.

I was there in 1985. My father was working with hundreds of others to build dikes to stop the lake from flooding the city. Probably shouldn't be using a flood picture as the 'before' photo.
/r/art mods are swivel-eyed loons
> At this point, it’s time to recognize that ownership and management of software firms by private equity is itself a security risk

I feel like this is a pretty broad categorization, but ownership by private equity can definitely be a flag.
I purchased a $100 Insignia TV off Amazon and a stand for my trainer bike setup. Cycling workouts are far less tedious with YouTube or Netflix in front of you.
U.S. job growth solid in December; wage growth slows
Let me introduce the Treaty of Tordesillas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
>Why did this even turn into a murder charge

You're shocked at the murder charge, and not tesla doung everything it can to paint itself in a better light than it deserves?
"We should try", "may be ... effective"; propositions are not hard conclusions.

The biggest whiff for me in this essay is the idea that people aren't acutely aware of the fakeness. It would be like her acknowledging no irony in holding the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication.
A lot of counter-cases are conflating specific conquests with the the overall empire. There will be exceptions (in both directions of closer & further) but I think what the author is trying to do is set the radius of the empire, relative to a one or a few epicenters. I don't think the exact value is that important vs. the logistical impacts of distance and their influence on all aspects of controlling a geopolitical entity.
If you have a ton of clinical data on random people, the medicines they have been prescribed, ailments, procedures, etc... it makes sense that blasting millions of queries at that data will produce many papers in medicine for tons of conditions.
A coffee maker and a pair of motorcycle jeans. The coffee maker is extremely easy to use (with capsules and a single button), while the jeans is something I was considering for 15 years, I always thought they are too expensive but then I bought it and found it extremely versatile, comfortable and safe.
Most people make consciousness at least once for themselves and potentially many other times by reproducion. It's clearly possible, it's just a matter of finding new methods than the established ones.
I think about this a lot when you consider the world's largest companies today aren't stocks but sovereign wealth funds and oil reserves. Similarly in days past they were other state-owned entities like the East India Company.

The S&P 500 is not everything there is to be had...
OP commented again saying the money has gone back to the customers.
I agree with the sentiment however given the current political realities it seems we are happier to let people lose their livelihoods without any clear replacements , training or economic plan of any kind. See manufacturing in the rust belt for an example of what happened in the last two decades when we moved to the knowledge worker economy without a plan for the workers.
The surest path to promotion is to build something new. Maintaining and scaling existing systems to fit our needs is meager in comparison. The result is abandonware which are kept on life support until they cause enough fires to justify spinning up a team to revamp them. Rinse and repeat.
"keep discussions constructive and topical."

is subjective
The issue here is stuff like brigading and stuff against the terms of service like straigh out nazism etc. And even those subs stay long often.

Brigading is when members of sub coordinate and go to harass people on different sub or mass downvote their posts etc. The subs that have been closed or taken over were notorious for that.
The governor is from rural Utah and his family owns a farm. His deep roots in that culture will be a challenge.
We should also consider that simply copying everything, even the junk, leads to fewer errors than selectively trying to identify only the good parts.