skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venice was thalassocracy and never focused on real colonies - only military/trading bases. And it dominated Europe by the strength of ducat being both Venetian and global currency. Venice was skilled at setting gold to silver exchange rates - and maintained its monetary policy consistent for decades.

Venetian navy dominated Mediterranean due to high military budget but also first modern assembly line in Arsenal (Venetian shipyard) able of mass production of ships.

In other words Venice is very interesting and worth studying. Some of Venice's achievements still echo in XXI century.

> A thalassocracy or thalattocracy,[1] sometimes also maritime empire, is a state with primarily maritime realms, an empire at sea, or a seaborne empire.[2] Traditional thalassocracies seldom dominate interiors, even in their home territories. Examples of this were the Phoenician states of Tyre, Sidon and Carthage; the Italian maritime republics of Venice and Genoa of the Mediterranean; the Chola dynasty of Tamil Nadu in India; the Omani Empire of Arabia; and the Austronesian empires of Srivijaya and Majapahit in Maritime Southeast Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassocracy

> The Venetian Arsenal's ability to mass-produce galleys on an almost assembly-line process was unique for its time and resulted in possibly the single largest industrial complex in Europe prior to the Industrial Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Arsenal

The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 - https://www.amazon.com/Venetian-Money-Market-1200-1500-Renai...
But only a few companies (two? Arm and Apple?) develop new Arm designs, whereas anyone is free to develop new RISC-V designs.
Today having quality standards means that people have some amount of faith in the products sold on shelves. The alternative doesn't mean that the bad products go away, or that everyone would just "be careful" somehow and find ways to guess at how safe things are. We know we can't trust everything sold to us, and we really have no ability to tell what's killing us or our family. If we could all just always look out for ourselves we'd never have kids dying because of heavy metals in their applesauce.

It's a weird thing when people are convinced that the solution to snake oil salesmen and serial murderers are making those very things commonplace and perfectly legal.

There are times when corporations abuse regulations to add excessive burdens on their would-be competitors, but making sure your toasters don't electrocute you or burn your house down isn't one of those situations.

There are also times when our government and their regulations don't protect people as well as they should. That's a sign that we need more regulations and better enforcement/accountability, not an indication that we should give up trying to hold anyone to any kind of standards in the first place.

Honestly, we want the responsibility to be on government agencies because when they fail to protect our interests we at least have the option to vote them out and replace them with people who will do their job. You don't get to vote out the CEO or shareholders who decide to become serial killers so that they can make a little extra money on top of the millions/billions they already make in profits. Why would you want to limit your own power so that others can exploit you more easily? Companies have shown time and time again that they will knowingly poison you, kill you even, if they think it will make them more money. They'll spend tons of time and money trying to cover it up too. You'd rather trust them than your own elected representatives? Maybe you've been voting for the wrong people...
Simple, it's funny and we should glorify more "potential" fun in this shitty world.
I tend to agree on this. I never heard such (horror) stories in Switzerland where self-scanning is also present for the two major retailers.
The US really messed up in Ukraine. They tried to sneak Ukraine into NATO which means granting US military access to Ukrainian territory. Only an idiot could have thought that this would go without a military answer from Russia. In fact, the US strategists probably predicted that Russia would react militarily. However, they probably didn't think that Russia would be so determined. Now the real problem is if Ukraine surrenders and accepts Russia's terms of strict military neutrality this would be devastating to the US global stature and the US powers will do everything to try to stop it including dragging the rest of Europe to war. That is my fear.
This happened to us with a first model year vehicle multiple times until the dealership received the necessary software upgrades. It was quite frustrating to be stuck at a busy fuel pump for 10 minutes until the software systems restarted properly.
You've been downvoted by people who value the word "engineer" in their job title even though they haven't earned it. The title is valued because real engineers have earned a great deal of respect through their diligence, and software "engineers" are for the most part parasites leeching off that respect earned by others.
Disclaimer: OP @upwardbound doesn't hide, and in fact, takes great pride in their involvement with U.S. state-side counterintelligence on (nominally) AI safety. Take what they have say on the subject with a grain of salt. I believe the extent of US intel community's influence on "AI safety" circles warrants a closer look, as it may provide insight into how these groups are structured and why they act the way they do.

"You’re definitely correct that [Helen Toner's] CV doesn’t adequately capture her reputation. I’ll put it this way, I meet with a lot of powerful people and I was equally nervous when I met with her as when I met with three officers of the US Air Force. She holds comparable influence to a USAF Colonel."

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38330819
I think that’s an oversimplification. By that measure any assembler would be simple, yet assembly is not simple at all. Most esoteric languages compile super fast, but are usually complicated by design.

Also, it’s not even a sound measure: There are C compilers that are extremely fast and some that are a lot slower but achieve better performance. Java compiles to byte code and performs compilation to machine code during execution. Interpreted languages sometimes only use an AST for execution and don’t compile to machine code at all.
Hi Saagar, thanks for checking it out!

The goal here was to run small bits of the app's business logic. Specifically, it was about inspecting (for example) the contents of an NSDictionary that was passed to a particular system API.

My initial goal was to improve my own iOS static analysis tooling, and the way I initially thought about doing this was building a decompiler and then introspecting on the decompiled code. I didn’t have any knowledge of decompilers, and so the approach I took was essentially simulating the code and logging what it did. About a month down the line I realised that I was actually building a simulator in earnest, and ran with it.
Unity Cutting About 1,800 People in Company's Largest Layoff
I agree. If I wanted max power and cooling efficiency, I'd go for a PC anyway. When picking a laptop, my first question is whether I would be able to carelessly carry it around every day.

The compromise with bulky gaming laptops is simply not worth IMO - it's not as good of a desktop computer as an actual desktop, and not as good of a laptop as some notebook. It's nice to be ocassionally able to do something more serious while on the go, but that is optimizing for the 10% use-case instead of the 90% use-case.
you could infer the currently used bandwidth by inspecting the retired load/stores rate, which should be readily accessible to perf. That includes L1/L2/L3 bandwidth of course, so you might need to inspect more performance counters to distinguish them.
I see something that makes me chuckle, I upvote it. 20 more people do the same and it is on the front page. Nothing mysterious, really.
If you'd left off "not pumpkin", you'd be technically correct. But it's a somewhat nuanced topic.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canned-pumpkin-isnt-actual...

[I'll just add one more note, not mentioned in the article, which is that typical Jack-o'-lantern pumpkins are quite awful for cooking. Much worse than any canned pumpkin. If you want to cook with fresh pumpkin, research the varietals that are known for good texture and flavor. Don't grab a carving pumpkin from the pile.]
If you mean "culture wars" as in the right leaning people who are obsessed with attacking minority groups, that is fine.

If you mean said minority groups just trying to exist in a space without harrasment then that is not fine at all.
I dislike spam as much as the next person, but the article makes some serious leaps. Demanding that the governments regulate hyperlinks while decrying "regulatory capture" feels like a non-sequitur. Moreover, it isn't immediately clear how vanity URLs or redirects are part of regulatory capture. However, it is easy to see how inviting regulation of hyperlinks could lead to regulatory capture.
For clarity, the Rosenfeld study referenced in the Pinkerton article (while talking about inflation rather than Interest Rates) also uses the UCR dataset as its primary datasource, while its european equivalent, also collected from police reporting, is used for its non-American datasource.
This sounds like it will be a great place for less ethical hacker to find product ideas to steal outright and beat the people who came up with them to the market.

Why would I as a developer post my ideas so openly on your page, just inviting competitors to copy me, before making an MVP? Sounds very high risk/mid reward to me.
It isn't mysterious. It just doesn't match the vibes of HN. I don't come on HN to see silly jokes. And as you can see by the number of flags this post has received to kill it, it looks like most HN readers agree with me.
> Heh. Well played, even if you put words in my mouth. (A surprisingly effective LLM technique, btw)

Thanks :)

> Edit: wait, that cat is out of the bag too, RTW already has GPUs. The techniques matter way more than absolute cutting-edge silicon. Much to the chagrin of the hardware engineers and anyone who wants to gate on hardware capability.

Depends on how advanced an AI has to be to count as "a threat worth caring about". To borrow a cliché, if you ask 10 people where to draw that particular line, you get 20 different answers.
Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years
+1 on your initial comment. Exactly how I feel about the current situation.

MilkV Oasis with SG2380 would be the end-game for majority of developers, but they are definitely loosing money if they keep starting price at 120 USD. They don't have it frozen (they changed the SoC specification some weeks ago) thus I wouldn't be surprised to see this slip into 2025. I wouldn't be surprised if this outperforms MilkV Pioneer.
This sounds really dubious.

They talk about rates affecting unemployment which affects crime, but if you look at the unemployment chart, it is completely out of sync with the rates vs crime chart that they base their argument on.
I don’t see any nostalgia. Venice was indeed a Great Power [0] centuries ago. It doesn’t even call France and England great powers , just that Venice was in their league long time ago.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_power
In Norway, the trend is that shops that have a mix of both, now remove more and more of the cashiers and increase the number of self-checkouts. This wouldn't happen if the shops lost money and the customers hated it, so it's strange that this is the opposite of the U.K. Population more tuned to automation, perhaps?
Ask HN: What Happened to SendGrid?
I just had a negative experience with SendGrid and decided to look around. e.g. here:

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/sendgrid.com

It seems that the last streak of positive reviews ended on June 2019. What happened?
Yes. I started using Anki for learning Chinese twelve years ago but gradually moved to using it for other stuff. About 60 % of my reviews (170k) are not vocabulary.

You can literally ankify (and therefore memorize) anything you want to remember: names of friends' children, algorithms, arguments from papers or articles, code, ...
Agreed.

I see this less as a matter of jingoism (though I do love the US as the "least bad" nation in a world where no nation is purely blameless) and more as a matter of pragmatism and embracing what power I can in order to help save our species

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I also think the US Constitution + Thirteenth Amendment is quite noble and it's something I genuinely believe in.

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Even I sold and leased back my own car.
There's no tea, and they aren't cakes - but there is a whole fresh Tunnock in every one!
I still dread the fact that 15 inch laptops are the norm and not the exception for a 17 inch one.
Was curious what it is "jasync". And man it hurts me to see documentation like this (when compared to classic javadocs)

https://github.com/jasync-sql/jasync-sql/wiki/API-Overview

From project WIKI (https://github.com/jasync-sql/jasync-sql/wiki)
That's hyperbole.
In social sciences: natural experiments.

In medical sciences: interventions.
Oyster stout shouldn't have oysters in, but usually does.
Zero Jet Aircraft Crashes: 2023 Was One of Aviation's Safest Years on Record
No they trusted management to be infallible, even when management couldn't redo the calculations of the software manually.

This sort of thing is inevitable once a company is controlled by people who don't understand what the company does.

Management replaced know-how with software, and it mostly worked. Then they probably fired the few remaining people that had the know-how. Then, when it became painfully clear something was wrong, management chose to blame anyone, including to the point of pursuing prison sentences, rather than admitting they didn't know their business and someone made a mistake. They chose to destroy people's lives rather than admit they couldn't do the ONE job they claim they can.
Can you explain? I'm curious to why this is the case. It's more evident to me in the case of Lithuania.
No it's absolutely not close to correct that most mainstream computer systems don't have upgradeable RAM as stated in this article. Source: I have an IT company.

I can see that saving a mm or two with this form factor would be advantageous though. Slots change every few years anyway - DDR3, DDR4, DDR5 all have physically incompatible slots so moving to this new saystem isn't that big a logical change.
I think that there is a strong argument that to be truly transformative (in a copyright moral/legal sense), the work must have been altered by human hands/mind, not purely or mainly by an automated process. So find/replace and AI is out, but reinterpreting and reformulating by human endeavour is in.

I do wonder whether that will become accepted case law, assuming something like that is argued in the NYT suit.
Clean water flowing in the pipes to a house will often be warmer than outside air during winter and have a higher heat capacity than air used in heat pumps.

No idea if using another heat pump and lowering the temperature from say 10C (ignoring any water heating in the house) to 6C of the gray water flowing out of the house makes sense.
If the AI already had the capabilities, it would be a bit late to do anything.

Also, I'm old enough to remember when computers were supposedly "over a century" away from beating humans at Go: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-experts-were-way-off-on-w...

(And that AI could "never" drive cars or create art or music, though that latter kind of claim was generally made by non-AI people).
When USA reelect Trump my willingness to pay for such a service is infinite
Wouldn't the same apply to https://www.indiehackers.com? Can't see this as a huge problem. At that stage the idea hasn't been validated yet so all the work is still there to do
Incentives do matters. It should be pretty clear to anyone on this forum. The parent is absolutely right. Responsibilities do matter. In this case, there was clearly a systemic problem that was repeateadly ignored by mulitple levels of hierarchy.

You position is a position of principle. When peopke lives are at risk (boeing, fukushima and yes even the post-office) pragmatism must prevail. Those in charge must pay the price, otherwise you incentivise financial results over everything else. People die? Oh that's because Greg in engineering is an idiot, burn him!
I believe there are self-checkouts and self-checkouts. In some places they don't weigh the products just rely on you scanning the right label - much simpler for everybody (including thieves).
This is very cool. I wonder if we are going to have to get used to a new paradigm in software, where you have tools that are incredibly powerful and that you just accept that sometimes it 'gets it wrong'. There's no debugging, no root cause analysis, just a shrug of the shoulders and 'sometimes it gets it wrong mate, what're you gonna do?'. This is probably the mental model most laypeople have of software already I suspect but for software engineers it's somewhat of a shift. Bit of a deal with the devil, perhaps.
> - look tough on welfare cheats for image/election purposes

Ironically the same reason for the Horizon system which ballooned into the PO Scandal.
Spare a thought for people with unreadable fingerprints. Airports & foreign immigration are a continuing pain in the neck.
Two deadlocked processes won't exhaust the thread pool in Erlang, they will simply never wake up.
I've heard of that happening with people on beta blockers, oddly. When I tested it, I felt like I was "on fire" (uncomfortably flushed and overheated, not burning or in pain, though), sweated, and took off clothes to cool down to no effect.

I've also failed more than once to realize how much adrenaline was in my system on beta blockers... until they wore off. That's a harrowing enough effect sober that I approach them and all potential interactions with caution.
I frequently hop between Spain and the UK. Self-checkout is ubiquitous in the UK and people seem to almost universally favor using it, manned tills are a minority and generally reserved for larger purchases. In Spain it's quite the opposite: manned tills are a majority and people _actively_ avoid using self-checkout, even when it means going through a much longer queue.

I found it an interesting cultural difference, and I can't help but wonder to which extent it's influenced by the preference for human interaction in both countries.
Well, maybe there will be some validation at the exit of the shop, maybe a message on the phone to check that you indeed bought those things. But cash is going to be gone too in the future-future.
I'll eat it in specific contexts: chinichurri and salsa verde, which have sufficient garlic to mask the taste. But I do feel a bit wistful that I can't truly enjoy it.
will check it out later!

p.s. love your home page, gonna steal ideas
"Split in two"? Didn't Apple say they had five already?
Chrome appears to be throttling Adblock users
As another comment said, I'm guessing on the taste of paint thinner from its smell.
Speaking about mswin.vim which does mostly what this does: what's the point of this project.
If you can't measure it to prove that before and after are different, then you shouldn't optimise it. You run the risk of making things worse.
We just need a massive open source movement, large tech companies to via weird competitive currents kinda act like open research departments, massive increase in compute power and a lot of hype dollars and a tonne of smart people distributed across the world in different companies and universities, 5 years and a research team please, errrr… boss.
I was being lighthearted, but I've seen a partner through chemo. Sell state secrets, assassinate a president, bring on the AI apocalypse... it all gets a big thumbs up from me if you can guarantee she'll die quietly in her sleep at the age of 103.

I guess everyone's got a deal with the devil in them, which is why I think 70% might be a bit low.
How do people who do things like this - get the time to do it? Did he do it in his personal time with or without a job? If anyone else does something like this - can you give your insights. I would love to be able to do something like this.
Because Marxism is a very particular political ideology with very sharp limits: "anything that advocates for prohibition of private ownership of means of production is a Marxism". It doesn't need to be quoted. Capitalism on the other hand, is all of the world economy and it has no alternatives, at least those are not being tried anywhere. People complaining on "capitalism" are simply complaining that "world is unfair".

I can't take any of those complaints seriously. One thing is to complain on particular issues in particular countries such as - overly high taxes, or overly low taxes on rich, corruption, zoning, etc. - but complaining on "capitalism" is like saying "i don't like this world, give me another one".
I'm guessing the flags are from people who get mad at xkcd comics and drink percolator coffee as a preference.
What is IA stolen?
> 1. while they're still not quite there, the protocol is federated, so they aren't the only servers storing your data once that happens.

Federation only makes it easier for everyone to scrape the public data, which most contents of a social network of this kind is. And we all know that by delaying the Federation Bluesky is making sure they will be the most popular and most used instance by default because it makes discovery and easiest engagement.
If you are starting a startup it doesn't make sense, but if you want a specific project to exist but you don't have the time or knowledge needed to create it, seems legit to publicly post the idea hoping that somebody will copy it, or at least give you the money to pay somebody else to do it.
Time (2018)
Land of ice and snow dweller here. Various reasons, but small perk being that the cold basically ends most things that want to kill you, at least until spring. We have only two species of venomous spiders here, both of which are very shy. And one species of venomous snake, that's actually quite polite in that he'll rattle his tail to warn you off first before attempting to stab you with his fangs.

I can answer a bit more seriously later if you are actually curious.
That gets me multiple times a day. What is even worse is ^h opens the history instead of just deleting the last character.
I think we need to know more about why the disk has "BILL" written in the corner.
Wow! Well this explains why carrot tastes like soap to me too, but no one ever talks about soapy carrot flavor!
I suspect the same reason why not all US citizen pee in a bottle
Humour that taught me, someone that doesn't touch C, that you can do some interesting / weird things with C...

But, you are absolutely right, good sir. This is the internet.

And The Internet is Serious Business
I suggest a strategy to reduce Twitter addiction: limit yourself to following no more than 100 accounts and avoid using the "For You" tab.
“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics…” – Sun Tzu

“My logisticians are a humorless lot… they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.” – Alexander the Great

"An army is a creature that marches on its stomach.”—Napoleon

...
I assumed it was because those bulky gaming laptops were the worst of both worlds.
>The UK prioritizes property owner profit.

So the US didn't fall far from the tree. It's just like
'daddy'. <wipes away imperial tear>
Someone cared enough to base64 decode your email and contact you personally about your political views? Name and shame, please.
Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base
It was a mess to set up the first time. It's getting better. With been using it for about a year and we're very happy with it.