skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a term long used to deflect the sophisticated tactical, strategic, technological, and governmental methods of the Mongols

Setting aside the fact that the term refers to the Mongols using their own word, why are we describing their governmental methods as sophisticated? How do they perform relative to comparators?

In China, they're not impressive at all; the government before them lasted for about 300 years (traditionally dated 960-1276, though it lost control of the north of China for the last 100 or so years), and the one after them also lasted about 300 years (1368-1644).

If you were paying attention to the dates, that leaves just under 100 years for the Mongols' "sophisticated" government to survive. [In reality, they almost certainly deserve credit for a bit more than that -- transitions of power take place over multi-year periods, not instantaneously.] I tend to make the assumption that the brevity of their rule is related to the fact that they had no administrative tradition -- perhaps you know better?

(I've also read that Mongol rule was extremely beneficial to the economy of Europe -- where they weren't in charge -- [because the pax Mongolica made overland trade economically viable] while being a step backward for China, where they were.)

> technological

This is even weirder. What technological methods? The Mongols couldn't even make metal objects.
COVID-19 is no joke.
I worked for an anti-virus company. There are tools that check if your malware can avoid detection by the major virus scanners. As such, the recommendation is never to rely on a virus scanners alone to protect critical assets.
Creator here, no GPS because I always have my phone on my, hence no GPS. I designed it for myself. Also this was my first pcb, so did not want to complicate it more than necessary :)
Scikitlearn has a bunch of machine learning routines including knn, xdg, decision trees and so one. There is even a model zoo there. Id say bayesian mixed gaussian models to be in the same class of algorithms. Bayesian models have its own peculiarities and statistical foundation, but it isn't far fetched to imagine it inside scikitlearn and to be considered a machine learning routine.
It's a result of a situation largely outside of their control (the war), so I'm not sure if I would call it a failure. It's unfortunate of course, but it's a speed bump in the long run. Maybe it's even a blessing in disguise, without Putin nuclear would have been dead and buried in many countries. Now there is more interest from the public and governments than before, but the economics are still a big issue and the current high-interest (loan interest) environment definitely doesn't help. It would not surprise me if governments agree to unfavorable terms to help finance these things, governments have a huge information disadvantage here.
We're on Google Cloud and pretty okay with Google Cloud Build - not as good and powerful as Buildkite but does not require us to run/maintain our own agents and one less vendor to manage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Un...

It should be pretty telling that the duration between recessions is growing.
The other ones I can maybe understand, but why would I be embarrassed to go to water parks?
not so much memorization as decomposition of numerous examples into logic based knowledge. As a simple example, knowing volumes of words is not as useful as knowing etymology since etymology brings you a deeper structure.
Keep an eye out, my next version will be easier to build. We'll see if I can manage to get a small batch built that sell.
Deciding on "expert" seems completely intractable. What if one fellow has spent a decade studying the subject and agrees with 90% of his fellow decade-studiers on 90% of things but the remaining 10% of topics he has views shared by approximately no one. Is he a crank or an expert? What if he's fairly persuasive to layman/politicians and thus is the head of the Bank of England?

Additionally, if a subject matter does not lend itself to experimentation or feedback mechanisms then you can easily have all the experts be consistently wrong for decades due to group think or conformal pressures.
Any idea why it's weekends? That's presumably when those who are actually working have time.
This is like Coca-Cola making the Covid-19 tests positive.

Cola making the test positive doesn't mean that the test is fake or that the Cola has virus and ChatGPT scoring something on SAT doesn't mean it's equivalent to a person scoring the same and should study in Stanford.

These tests are designed to pick people to limited number of spots and doesn't say much more than the persons' preparedness for the test.
I don't think Multics run a RCE program like Firefox or Chrome.

When your RCE program has "accelerated graphics", all bets are off.
> This happened in WWII so if these conditions starts to appear it risks to happen again". Just to take history as an example. All other subjects have similar examples

History is a particular bad case to drive such example since there are thousands of factors that are always different and we have very poor data beyond a few centuries so theres that. With History you are much more likely to end up with confirmation bias than actual understanding.
> Why do you say the target audience were parents?

because they are the ones vetting what you could or could not watch.

> At the time animation was always for kids

I am not saying that they were made for the parents to watch them, but for the parents to accept them.

I bet American kids never watched shows that slightly hinted at communism or socialism in the 80s.

> I think it’s just that Link’s behaviour in the show was socially acceptable at the time, but it isn’t anymore.

I wouldn't bet on that.

This is the one of the most popular anime in USA right now

https://i.redd.it/u3i0ue892i251.jpg

I mean, only the slang has changed, not the actual content.

I also believe those characterization were imitating this kind of comedic effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ1UdYOrR3E

They made people smile because they were exaggerated, not because they were polite.

I'm quite convinced that people understood that Link was being a moron and was not a role model, he had to learn how to behave.

having said that, socially acceptable does not necessarily means better.

also having cartoons specifically made for kids, especially very small children, made things worse, not better.
As I said, writing is a small part of the job. I wrote for video and produced those videos. Half the time it'd be multiple videos from one script (interviewing different people with the same questions). I guess maybe a "prompt engineer" could just copy and paste ChatGPT answering its own questions into wherever but that's not going to be a comparable product to actually setting up a professional interview setup and asking a subject questions.
What is a different / better way to convince someone?

How would you have approached it?
> Yeah exactly,

I say that it is a heuristic, you conflate it with evidence, and then you say that’s exactly the point (that it’s not evidence)? You’re not saying anything that I haven’t said originally.

Your supposed counter-example is beyond facile. Who-benefits presupposes that the agent has the means to affect some outcome. But no human could have arranged the rotation of the Earth.
That’s true about any person you talk with, to be fair.
-- Korea is still an emerging country - 40 years ago we were basically "3rd world" - still a lot of growth to go! --
Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations
You have that backward

> If I’m in a room with no chairs, there would be no chairs unless one is added visually.
> They wouldn’t walk through my bed because they aren’t in my room.

If you're sitting on your bed with your AR googles there is a bed in your room. If they are standing in their room they'll be standing or sitting through your bed. They have no concept of where your bed is because your bed doesn't exist in their room.

Tons of AR demos try to show this feature. Tons of companies are working on it. Most believe it's a mass market feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d59O6cfaM0

https://youtu.be/uVEALvpoiMQ?t=55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG3tQYlZ6JQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2GK0qDtRg

But it's unlikely to work because each person's surroundings don't match every other persons. One's at a desk, One's at a cafe, One's in their bed, One's on their soft. They aren't each positioned in a way they can all appear in each others AR.

Maybe this will make it clearer. Imagine you're on your bed laying down. You want to AR video conference with your friend. They're in the bathroom. Where does their AR project your body? Your body is laying down. There's no place to project your body in the bathroom that fits you lying down.
On win 10 ?

On win Nt it will happilly make your system unbootable after a power failure.
Using an ESP32 board with LoRa module to talk to 433 MHz sensors
Harry Forbes and George Axon – Bits and Bytes TV Theme (Intro and Outro)
> You wanna zone out on YouTube? Go for it. That’s just as valid as staying up all night to watch a sunrise.

People should spend their time how they please but I strongly feel that feeding The Algorithm directly into your brain for hours is objectively less mentally healthy than staring at a sunrise, even if the sunrise is mind numbingly boring.
Alternative app stores will be a big yawn. iPhone users do not want them, and Apple will make it a pain to use them. So it will take a big push from third parties before they’ll take off. And I doubt those third parties will be able to push hard enough to overcome user inertia. Alternative app stores will be a niche thing, like FDroid was (is?) on Android. Which isn’t a bad thing for anyone but isn’t a big deal either.
When you use a system to get work done without having to consider how the underlying system works.
Most recent example is Russians

https://theins.ru/confession/257790
https://theins.ru/en/confession/258330
Sets are probably one of the most dull objects in maths, or at least overused as the become dull. Everything is a set, a circle is the set of points with a distance r from the center c, and so on.

There are a lot more interesting things to write about than yet another article about Russels paradox. Maybe next time do the Erlanger program on why everything is a reflection.
I’m in my early thirties now and I would like to think I am leading s comparably healthy life: no smoking, no alcohol, no drugs, resistance training 3 times a week, running 2-3 times a week maintaining a lean athletic physique, balanced vegetarian diet without sweets or salty snacks, good meaningful relationships, taking hyloraunic acid supplements and using Retinol cream on my skin while making sure to use sunscreen, regular mindfulness meditation sessions, proper sleep hygiene and challenging my brain regularly by learning new languages. Some of these factors I have only introduced in the last couple of years, some have been with me for more than a decade. I often get told that I look like I’m in my mid 20s. However most of those lifestyle choices I specifically and only made because I absolutely hate to age and it terrifies me.

And yet over the years I can see (but still hide) the hair at my temples receed ever so slightly, some wrinkles on my forehead get a little more pronounced, I notice my energy levels are not what they used to be and my pace of learning has ever so slightly slowed down. When I think about it it frustrates me to no end that these things will probably only go down hill from here. Slowly but surely. And so if I could I would love to intervene even more. There are so many things to experience, so many things to learn, so many things to create, I feel like I could comfortably fill 200 years worth of stuff in my life simply based on my bucket list but most of them either require or are more fun in a young, healthy body. So for purely egotistical reasons I want research like that to succeed and be available to me rather sooner than later.

It would probably be best for me to come to terms with the fact that aging just happens and make the best of it but this attitude feels impossible to adopt.
SLT – A Common Lisp Language Plugin for Jetbrains IDE Lineup
There's actually even more volatility than what is revealed in the dayahead table. Check intraday prices. They predictably go down at night and up at day (because while production is unpredictable, consumption is not).
Money creation by fractional reserve banking has been Econ 101 for longer than anyone currently alive.
When a builder Alex builds an original building (typically using a construction loan), we both agree that’s productive (that construction loans are good things to exist).

Now that the building is standing, Billie wants to buy it. Maybe they want to live in it; maybe they want to rent it out. Is that purchase productive or unproductive? Since it’s the way Alex gets the money to pay off the construction loan (and thus be able to build another building), I think it’s as productive as the construction loan. (Further, no bank would make the original construction loan if there was no prospect for it to be paid off, so builders would have to hold buildings for their economic life if no one else could get loans to buy them.)

Now some more time passes and Charlie wishes to take a loan to buy the building from Billie. Is that productive? Well, it supports Billie’s ability to pay off their loan which supported Alex’s ability to pay off theirs, which is what supported the building existing at all, so…
The only difference between them and anyone else was the sweeping success. That, and that the Mongols directly threatened Europe from the outside, all other European wars were internal affaires. Except the European conquests outside of Europe of course.
Is it possible to mount a database so that its rows (or columns, or whatever you have selected upon the call to mount) are accessible as regular files?
Jesus when did it become unpopular to know that Google in general and Brain in particular is the friggin NBA?

I never worked there, I don’t know Jeff, I’m just a fan. I’m not bragging or anything.

But it sucks that acknowledging the real ballers in the room gets slammed by haters.
There is no reason for Twitter to remove third-party clients unless they want to move ads outside of the main feed. If you allowed the API anyone could build a Twitter minus the ads.

This approach would allow them to decommission their existing ad system likely because they have lost too much institutional knowledge about how to run the previous one. Especially given it is heavily intertwined [1] with the fundamental timeline systems.

And given that I am constantly recommended random ads e.g. fertilizer and industrial mining machinery my guess is that the ML models powering the ads system have not been retrained since the last major wave of firings.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649
> So many minor flags already that the problem could be completely accidental.

I hope you're right, but honestly there are also legit reasons to think otherwise. It could be a fuck up due to staff shortage and knowledge loss crisis, but it could also be an impromptu, poorly implemented and communicated decision. Both scenarios would not be surprising at this point.
Same here, I never understood what all the fuss was about. It was irritatingly twee, and absolute dogshit to actually learn from.
I am fully aware of it and well used to it already - I've gone through hundreds of 3M and Moldex N95s already, I can properly put on and take off a face mask with a single hand in a second. I'm sure the first people who put on underwear were also ridiculed and others thought of them as crazies, but from modern day's perspective, they were the clever bunch.

Face masks might be a novelty in the Western Hemisphere, but in the more populated other half of our planet, people have been wearing masks as less inconvenient than getting sick.

People should learn about Hayflick limit before saying they can keep surviving a reinfection every couple of months - especially one, which exploits such a common receptor as ACE2!
Ask HN: How do you backup your photos online?
I'm from India and so far I used to backup them using google enterprise student account, but recently they have started enforcing 100 TB storage limit for each organization, just 5 GB for my account.

Using an hard disk offline is always an option but I'm looking for something online and less hazzle free and allows auto backup from iOS photos, allows one to have albums and easy sharing with others. Also allows easy migration from current google photos account keeping albums intact.

Some of the options, which I have seen are -

Google One - Easiest to auto backup, everyone around uses it, so easy to share, costs 650 INR per month

Microsoft onedrive - Never used it. Easier to auto backup?, no one around uses it, so difficult to share, costs 25% less than Google One

Dropbox - Never used it, costs 50% more than Google One.

I'm lowkey inclined towards Google One, what are the other options I have?
These particular tests maybe. I'd want to see how it does on the ones from a few decades ago.
> The biggest scam of renewables is not the viability of the technology itself, but the lie by omission that all renewables require baseload power which always happens to be non-renewable. The massive expansion of gas peaking plants in Germany, Europe and the rest of the developed world is the prime example of the lie

Peaker plants are not baseload power. Baseload power means constant output, peaker plants are by definition variable output. You should also take into account that renewables+peaker plants replace coal plants in Germany, the emissions are reduced compared to before.
Yep. And I still think I borked one iDRAC precisely because I ignored the reboot, because it worked fine on its identical twin sitting right next to it.
Ahh, /etc/machine-id, we meet again... Last time I met you, you were causing my cloned VM to get the same DHCP address as its original and blow up my VM network, despite libvirt's virt-clone utility properly randomizing vNIC MAC addresses, because netplan defaults to using you as the DHCP client identifier. If only we could meet under more pleasant circumstances.
It's easier to read if you split it into tokens and qualifiers. The & is a reference. The '_ is a lifetime parameter. The things in the <>are types. So this is a function which doesn't mutate self and takes a mutable reference to a formatter with a sensible lifetime and returns a result which will contain either nothing (or a unit) or an error if things fail.

Thank you for posting this. I had to google and read up some things.
"Backgrid alleges it sent over 6,700 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices to Twitter requesting the removal of its copyrighted photos, but Twitter failed to respond or take down a single image."
Not to mention that (retail) electricity prices went up like crazy and are now at up to 50 cents/kWh if you sign new contracts. 35 cents/kWh are pretty amazing already…

The depiction has a breakdown of taxes also and the trend is what I remember. I must admit I’m not 1000% sure whether the page that links it is great though:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/13/german-household-elec...

That did the industry in Germany a real solid: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Schlaglichter-der-Wirtschaf...

Compared to 2015, it is down by 10% or so:
https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Schlaglichter-der-Wirtschaf...

Now, I certainly advise caution how to interpret these figures and how inflation is factored in, etc. are big factors. Having several family members across Germany working in industrial production, there is a common theme that “production is shifted abroad at scale” though… Also keep in mind: the industry didn’t pay these 35 cents/kWh prices, those were what consumers paid…

The past 17+ years of political failure did the German working class a real solid. When the head of a state advises people to “use a sponge and not shower so often to preserve hot water” it’s almost surreal that a government charging 45+% of tax of a countries GDP is unable to ensure people have hot water, heating or keep up the electrical supply for industry.
*stated
People fleeing under shelling from their destroyed apartment blocks in Syria or eastern Ukraine after weeks without fresh food, electricity, health care or running water, leaving newly dead relatives and live pets behind are at rock bottom. The UK isn't there yet. Getting closer, but not there yet.
It's sad that your paragraph is still written.
You are aware that the Mongols replaced dysnaties in China with their own, until those dynasties were replaced centuries later? The Mongol Empire span a huge chunk of continental Asia for quite sometime, their government seems less sohpisticated to Western eyes because we are used to impressive monuments left by local kingdoms. But monuments don't tell you anything about government or bureaucracy.
And I've just noticed the formatting for the resolv.conf file is buggered, and it's too late to edit =-)

nameserver [German company DNS IP #1]

nameserver [German company DNS IP #2]

nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver

::1

search [an IP name from German company]
If you're into AWS, CodeBuild.
Can apparently simulate a 'simple' AVR core.

Although lack of pins would seem to prevent it being used as a processor.

What's the tooling like for FPGAs these days? It's something I'd like to have a play with but from what I understand the software isn't conducive to a hobbyist messing around.
Nice. For anyone getting an LCD tablet for drawing, look for one like the link above where the drawing area is all one color. My kids have one with a rainbow gradient, which I find annoying -- especially because the darkest/lowest contrast color goes right across the middle in the prime drawing area!
And then after reusing /etc/machine-id everywhere you spend the day after that debugging miscellaneous systemd issues.
Extroverts work hard at what they do. They expend effort to talk to others, learn about them, contribute to interactions, etc.

Many just appear at ease, the same way a duck appears to glide across water. You too can do this. Learn what they do; don’t try to emulate how you think they feel.

With practice, you may feel better when using these skills, but actually using them will come first.

The harder question is going to be whether you find this to be worthwhile.
It's alluding to the fact that the Developer API seems to have been decommissioned.

Maybe it was reactive to reduce load on the platform but more likely it's because it was a deliberate change.
If people constantly use money substitutes (including fractional banking) then how exactly is gold supposed to be a good basis for money? It sounds like there is a fundamental problem with gold and the fact that it doesn't depreciate that has rubbed off onto the pure fiat model and this is why central banks try to create 2% inflation to make money decay.
To start, lets remind that if there is any evidence in the article, it will cover just a pool of English speaking men.

I predict that will be extrapolated shamelessly and happily to half of the humanity in any case...by, hum... "evidence" says what we want to hear

Evidence that can be easily destroyed by logic and observation.

Because this is the kind of clown science that we promoted. "Science" must be funny! (and stupid) currently
> Jesus when did it become unpopular to know that Google in general and Brain in particular is the friggin NBA

What the hell does any of this mean?
It's not possible to get inconsistencies here either unless you force it, which is kind of the intention.