skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to butt in here with an observation that might be 'uncool', but it needs to be voiced.

Mongols didn't just 'withdraw' and leave Europe alone. The article mentions they brought Chinese gunpowder - so they left behind a valuable technological legacy.

They killed one million Hungarians, but that was just one nation. The overall conquest(s) effected a vast death toll across Europe and near Asia.

What else did they leave behind? Not mentioned: a genetic legacy. This was a living legacy as impactful as anything else, arguable even more so...

And what's involved in that? Conquering armies tend to kill men and boys, and rape women and girls. (The most comprehensive recent record of similar events is from post-war Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...) A significant proportion of those rapes resulted in pregnancies. In medieval Europe, we can assume that abortion was mostly unavailable.

So actually, in one sense Mongols remained in Europe, spreading their genes through the most vile and traumatic acts inflicted on the hidden victims of conflict: women.

Women are half of humanity. It's wrong to neglect that aspect of invasion.
NC-SI. It allows the BMC and the host to share a single physical network connection.
Rename is totally atomic in a way that is simple to reason about. Ten processes try a rename to a per process name, and just one wins, even on an NFS.That one is free to do whatever and then rename back.
Is there anyone using Business Model Canvas to brainstorm business ideas?
> The fact that we now know

Some of us knew they were lying from the start and had a very frustrating few years: Pfizer made no claims about infection/transmission, just symptoms, because they never tested for infection/transmission. That claim popped up out of nowhere a few months after the vaccines were available.
I'm pointing out that the model has a piece missing - the input from the user. You can't just flippantly dismiss it, because input from the user is a crucial part of recreating the works the model is supposedly copying. It's an important factor to consider, because any digital painting program will let you recreate any art work with the correct user input.

It's not sufficient to just consider whether it can reproduce an image, but also how much user input was required to do so.
The endgame is a machine with only an OS.

What does this mean?
Ask HN: According to You, What Is Good User Experience?
Part of the history exam is just that, internalizing the subject.

The part that ap fails to deliver on is the written portion, where it asks you to extrapolate your own insights. If chatgpt can solve the problem that should require human insight, is the prompt really testing students properly?
I would hate to see rename semantics in this case.
Why would you choose to read it in this way?

How is sharing some (correct) information about biological realities non-consensual?
> there was a recent HN thread about Google's rsync-with-fastcdc tool

Was this the tool & thread you mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34303497?
AFAIK Cyrus has JMAP support. We are using it for more than 20 years at work without any issues. However, we are lacking compelling client support for JMAP (via using SoGo via IMAP currently). Would be great to have a good static webclient for security reasons. Configurable notifications would be another plus.
They’ve taught the world that anti-satellite capabilities are futile. Such weapons cost several orders of magnitude more than a Starlink sat, and there will soon be tens of thousands of Starlink sats.

Once Starship is online there will be tens of thousands of any kind of sat you like. Sure that can and will include military anti-sat sats, but the economics of that just don’t work. Targeting such systems is incredibly complicated, time consuming and expensive, there are going to be many redundant target sats, and a replacement of the destroyed sat can be on orbit in a day or two. It will be like using Patriot missiles to shoot down off the shelf camera drones. Sure you can do it, but there’s just no benefit.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing :)
The original idea for the Amiga was to be a UNIX like media workstation, similar to what NeXTSTEP came to be, which they had to pivot given the constraints and politics it was born on,

https://lowendmac.com/2016/the-amiga-story-conceived-at-atar...

You will also find many background histories around these gathering videos,

https://www.youtube.com/@TheGuruMeditation/featured
I want to +1 the earlier comment about it being a tool. I understand your sentiment, and agree with the idea of farming out content to be cause for concern. But I want to offer a glimmer of hope with a different take.

I've thought about writing a children's book. I have a few ideas I want to share after watching my younger relatives gifting mediocre "glitter princess goes to the ballet" type books which truly offer no educational value, and are cliche children junk.

I can't illustrate, so an AI art tool could help me generate graphics easier - even if just to establish a "vibe" to share with professional illustrators.

A more uniquely enabled by technology idea: They also offer the opportunity to tailor micro-niche books. If you wanted to make a book, say on entrepreneurship (this is HN after all, so it's just an example), it'd be cool to make 50 versions... maybe one for black boys, and asian little girls, and every combination of inclusive under the sun. I know "inclusivity" has become a culture-war topic, but minority kids do seem to respond well to it, and being able to make a version for everyone is an exciting idea. It'd be hard to do that for a traditional artist, but much more affordable for an AI model. Every book could be AI-modified to be tailored to the actual child reading it! You could buy a book for your kid, where the parents look like their parents, and the child has the right number of siblings, in the right country/city, with the right nationality, eating that kid's favorite food, etc.... all while supporting a single narritive/moral.
The model can generate original images, yes, and those images might be fair use. But it can also generate near verbatim copies of the source works or substantial parts thereof, so the model itself is not fair use, it's a wholly derivative work.

For example, if a publish a music remix tool with a massive database of existing music, creators might use to create collages that are original and fall under fair use. But the tool itself is not and requires permission from the rights owners.
Sure, none whatsoever.
BeFS “includes support for extended file attributes, with indexing and querying characteristics to provide functionality similar to that of a relational database.”

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica

[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...]
> The key to economical operation is to share a big motor-generator and winch, protected from weather, along a single shaft with a long line of reels and weights coupled via clutches.

With respect, placing machinery at sea and protecting it from weather are antithetical.
I think you missed the point completely. Rioting affects the political and cultural ambience of our times. It does not need to affect you directly or be a nuisance in your local communities for one to voice displeasure. Your take feels very dense in this regard and concern trolling is not a sufficient description of the post your responding to.

This is not the first time I have heard about police departments infiltrated by supposed fascist elements. Unfortunately, these accusations never seem to come from honest actors; usually from agents with a dedicated agenda to push.

I don’t doubt that there is a presence. I’m sure there is some symbiosis between the police departments and right-wing elements and I’m open to understanding the severity of the issue.

The question now is do you have any evidence of the severity that isn’t from paid political agitators? Keep in mind, snarling out invectives like “nazi” is currently in vogue; I expect the evidence to be excellent and demonstrable irrespective of political affiliation.
That means we would have to build our own fusion reactor on Earth or on Mars. Sure, it would be worth it on Mars since you don't have any other choice but on Earth? Anyone who thinks that is arguing in bad faith.
Or the fact that we updated often enough to make it annoying for crackers to keep up.

But mainly my point was that some of the "piracy" turned out to be paying users who had issues with our licensing system.
Have a good luck in how many feminists regard women that choose to become full-time mothers and you’ll see that it’s not that simple.
>Funding for education has gone up for decades (even when accounting for inflation) and results have been flat.

Throwing money around in the wrong directions doesn't magically return better results. You need to make sure the money goes to where the pain points are, otherwise it will just get chewed up by the bureaucratic machine and nothing will come out of it.
I think so too. I also think that this is a dangerous issue, because we don't really know how our brains work. If we set legal restrictions over this and then it turns out our brains work in a similar manner, then what?
One wonders, given that most grain is milled into flour if precision fermentation might be a better solution to this particular problem of producing what is essentially just a mix of proteins and starches.
tfa says "slaughtered", no idea if it's accurate, but scary if it is

> Ogodei's armies slaughtered an estimated 1 million Hungarians: Troops, clerics, nobles, knights, and peasants.
Can recommend the Snow Peak Wabuki chopsticks

https://www.snowpeak.com/products/wabuki-chopsticks-sct-111
ReiserFS was really good. Too bad that nobody continued it. I’m not sure it was due to the original author story or due to it’s code being really hard to work with. But the FS was so much faster than ext3/4 on machines from 2000’. And I never lost a file with it. Something you cannot say about xfs or jfs. I’ve had to reinstall os so many times after system crash due to them getting corrupted.
"It's about the journey"
What you and many other in the thread seem to be oblivious about is that algorithms are not people. Yes, it may come as a shock to autistic engineers, but the fact that a machine can do something to what a person does does not warant it equal protection under the law.

Copyright, and laws in general, exists to protect the human members of society not some abstract representation of them.
I hadn't really calculated what percentage my life I've used up. This is so anxiety inducing. I'm realizing how much of my time I've wasted. I need to live more.
Seems like a security vulnerability...

https://storage.googleapis.com/thismodeldoesnotexist/photos/...
And of course the physical characteristics - yes, that ASUS laptop has the same or a slightly better technical spec than the MacBook Pro that I want, but it's also made out of plastic and it's half-an-inch thick!
Like with “six-minute-abs”, the idea that something hard, but (for many) fulfilling is achievable without any sacrifice is an idea that’s easily sold to people that want to believe it.
Elon's a genius.
It is a section of "Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview" from the 1990's where he talks about how company growth can fail from internal structural and personnel problems.

Specifically, he observes the dynamic-range of technology people being vastly different from most other business roles. Additionally, how large mature tech firms often liquidate the goodwill previously earned with consumers.

While he was a controversial character in some ways, much of what he observed remains true to this day.

Good luck, =)
Gitlab pipelines work well for me. I’m sure the Github and Azure offerings are on-par.
If enough time or technology has passed that someone has to write a wav parser, how do you expect them to mount your file system, assuming it has survived?
This is true - and I think what’s also being missed here is the potential to further this research for producing grain off-world. Growing crops in space or other planets will be a heavily optimized and controlled process so it’s good to explore these possibilities here on earth even if it doesn’t yet make commercial sense.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, now amended by If it could have been malice or stupidity, first make sure it wasn't Elon Musk
Inegy – test investment strategies based on alternative data
Interactive Music Theory Cheat Sheet
I'm perplexed how come the larger CA reservoirs are nowhere close to their storage capacity : https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
These specific subjects shouldn't be solely about memorization, rather they should teach kids how to link that information together to solve problems (or in the case of history, avoid them in the future).

Thats the issue. The point of an AP test shouldn't be that the problems are difficult. But currently thats what it's all about. They're just trying to test that kids are capable of surviving a "rigorous academic curriculum".

[1] https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/ap-a-glance
It also happens frequently on economic topics, especially regarding inflation and monetary policy, which seem to be fertile topics for conspiracy theories.
What tool do you use to record ad hoc meetings on a Mac?
I need a way to record meetings but to do it discretely so that it won't be obvious even if I'm sharing my screen. My ADHD makes it hard for me to keep up with conversation details if I don't do this.

Even if company policy didn't restrict a lot of useful software I've never found a workable software solution.

The ideal software would be something like Nvidia shadowplay where pressing a hotkey saves the last N minutes of video and sound.

I've tried using a capture card to stream to my own PC and then record from there which is an okay solution. The drawback is that I then need to deal with the maintenance of another device.

Surprisingly the best solution I've found so far is to use a small home security camera on my desk just out of sight from the Webcam. I can view tbe recordings from an app. The drawback here is that the text on the montior is barely readable, the sound sucks and I need to be mindful of where I put it.

There must be a better way?
If the US did not offshore manufacturing, is the suggestion that countries like China will not compete by knocking off US products and making them cheaper anyways? For tech stuff I mostly agree but manufacturing is a lot more than that.

Tech or not, much of the world can't afford US pricing and even if they can, you need precious dollars before you can buy from the US. Even im Europe, it isn't realistic to buy only from the US or locally.

Along with population growth there is a natural explosion in consumer demand. Someone has to meet that need. The only way you can protect US companies from such competition is isolationism. For "post-WW2" reasons, the west has elected to be against that since the 1940s. If you want to sell US good to say China for example, you need to let them sell to US consumers with competitive pricing.

The fact of the matter is, the US has continued to develop and get richer. This means US workers can't compete with lower wage workers globally unless they have better skills that make them provide higher value.

The real problem in my opinion is the cruelty and animosity with which middle-class america had seen the working class and even each other. In many countries, college is free so long as you study something in demand. There is a ton of untapped human potential in america wasting away simply because older people can't accept change. They can't let someone have free college or debt forgiveness because in their time when global competition was not there they had it rough. There is also a lot of other social hostilities like the war on drugs, poorly funded public schools, crime infested areas because the police is militarized war om drugs made much of inner cities a war zone. Not enough public school spending, bit even if there is education is politicized.

The US could have competed, just not by cheap labor. All the immigrants coming into the US are a competitive advantage. Why do we desparately need H1-B migrants? It's not because offshoring I can tell you that.
> I can’t help but wonder

I’m more in the thoroughly convinced category.

“Who profits?” is a great heuristic.

Yoshinori Ohsumi won a Nobel Prize for his work on autophagy, which is triggered by fasting and has anti-aging properties. And yet it seems you have to go seek out low-carb/fasting sources in order to hear about it. As if people who care about anti-aging directly wouldn’t care about it. (Well, maybe I’m wrong and autophagy is more well-known than I have the impression of.)
A colleague from a different department was managing a fleet of servers doing a lot of computing. Their BMCs would just stop working after a few weeks of uptime, every time. He was annoyed by it but mostly ignored it as it was mostly just used for additional monitoring. The power outlets in the racks were remote controllable, so you could still hard reset a server if this was required.

However, as this fleet was used for computation, after a while they noticed that whenever the BMC stopped working, performance of the system increased by almost 10% or so. Definitely a non-neglible amount. So they kept the machines running in the broken BMC state for as much as possible.
see also: an empirical analysis of how many "u"s the Internet thinks are in "excuuuuuse me, princess", by Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics and other fine literature)

https://qwantz.livejournal.com/112122.html
Tell that to cruise-line passengers and offshore wind-turbine operators.

The key is keeping parts necessarily exposed to weather simple and sturdy, and the touchy electro-mechanical stuff well housed. A physical shaft between them safely moves power in or out.

We see the same dichotomy play out in wave-energy extraction systems, where wave action pumps air through a turbine. The air could easily be conducted via a culvert to a turbine onshore, safely indoors, and shared. But somehow people building those seem never think of it.
Why didn't that experiment start with real old mice? And reversed their age to young again? That could be more convincing that "reversing" ageing of artificially aged mice.
TL;DR: a decade ago Ubuntu wanted to update a few computers first, then more computers if no issues were detected. Due to missing tooling, this didn't hit mainstream until now.

A practical problem with these phased updates is that you may end up with different versions of some software on your fleet of (until now) identical servers and you have no way of avoiding it.
Apple and Google are facing real competiive pressure in 2023
Something like Chrome OS, I would imagine.
I'm not sure what that link was supposed to be before it 404ed. But clicking through from the Twitter Developer homepage you can get to these:

https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api

All links to dev portal, product information and docs seem to work.

I assume the post is suggesting the Twitter api has been "removed" in relation to the reader apps being blocked. But it looks like everything is there still. Anyone got more context on what the "missing" page was?
I don’t see how they replace human relationships though. I have 2 dogs. 2 kids too! But yeah dogs are nice to have around. Sometimes annoying (barking, toilet incidents, training issues and so on)
ChatGPT passes US Medical license examination
It's great it worked for you to get you your "1 nice house with no mortgage", but as the article states this only works if property prices don't fall. I think your comment completely disregards the really bad flip side of this scheme that the article is talking about and you are cherry-picking your personal anecdote to... flex...?
> Women are aware of what a period is and the connection to eggs when they start, they are aware of what menopause is, they are aware that eggs become less fertile with age.

Maybe, but they aren't that aware of the timelines involved like I said in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34386625#34387391

> I'm not sure what your authority is to speak so authoritively and yet incorrectly for women at large particularly as it appears you had an actual university education in Canada but, seriously, check your circle .. and if if it's reinforcing your notions then consider having a wider and better informed circle and look to why it lives in a bubble.

It's not really a bubble, it's popular culture constantly reinforcing the notion that a woman only needs to think about families in their mid-30s.

All the most popular (and watched) shows over the last 30 years that are aimed at 20s-30s almost always show people searching for and finding their life partner in their mid-30s.

In reality, if a woman hasn't made up her mind by age 30-32, then her time is very short.
It would be interesting if somehow credible (including heterodox) experts could be tagged so you could differentiate them from people with no or limited knowledge larping as experts. Then, anyone could choose to filter by experts or not, to their preference.

I love the format of discussing articles/links, but the amount of people confidently pretending they know what they are talking about that you see when you visit a topic you're an expert on is wild. It must be the same for all topics, I just don't notice when I'm not an expert myself.
What is the backend for the storage buckets we see in cloud (and increasingly, HPC) computing? Seems like a database filesystem would be a good fit there.
Tried to use DragonFlyBSD as a desktop environment a couple of years ago, which turned out to be a disappointment. Haven't touched it since, did it get any better recently?
Except that isn't a feature from Rust, rather from ML linage of languages since it was designed in 1973.

It just happens that many never used any other ML inspired language, so they attribute those capabilities to Rust.
You’ll be as happy as you were in 1963!
Yeah, pumped hydro has response times on the order of 10s of seconds, but the capacity is only useful for short term generation. For example, the UK has 24 GWh of installed PHES capacity. Last year the UK used ~915 GWh per day on average, so best case about ~40 minutes worth of consumption.

PHES is for peaking and grid stability, not long term storage.
The only interpretation of this post that isn't a clear strawman is that you're implying smells are akin to physical violence.
There is no way I will have fun with this; so I didn’t enter the date.
IIRC this is similar to the experience with Windows where people have been struggling for years to get consistent patch states
> to an extremely clear explanation of how it actually works from one of the most authoritative sources possible.

If I'm not mistaken late into the 2000s authoritative sources like the Bank of England were still not completely on board with the idea that commercial banks themselves are in the process of actual money creation, a process explained described/explained by Schumpeter (I guess amongst many others) ever since back in the 1940s.

So a little bit of "not following the authoritative sources" on this one is understandable, as those authoritative sources themselves are pretty new to the idea.
For one thing, many developed nations would have solved their projected geriatric population problem where way more people are retired and have all those old-age health problems compared to the working population compared to today.