skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You reversed the timeline a bit.

Varangians came primarily from todays Sweden, and were initially going inland into the today's Estonia, Belarus and Russia from north, from the Gulf of Finland, using rivers. The group of them called Rus under the leadership of Rurik created Novgorod in 862. About 20 years later they've also conquered Kiev (some 900km more to the south). They were initially raiders, but over time they've conquered the local Slavs, established their rule and became very important traders, as they've created the trading (and also slave) routes all across the continent from the Baltic in the North down to the Black Sea - using huge rivers like Volga and Dneper - trading in south with Byzantin empire and Abbaside Caliphate. It was one of the main trading routes between West/North Europe and Arab world of that age.

And as their presence grown stronger, the Rus started more frequently raiding the Byzantin Empire, sacking even the big Constantinople a few times. To stop these attacks, in 10th century the Byzantines did the same move as king Charles the Simple did in Francia with Normans, they gave Varangian leaders some titles and employed them all as a royal guard. Problem solved.

And then, as you've said, the viking era was over, and they assimilated into the Slavic population (just like Bulgars and others did).

Another interesting note, the Rus ethnonym also got into many Slavic languages as a word for fair blonde or reddish-blonde hair ("русая" in Russian, "rusa" in Serbian/Croatian, etc.). In Serbian 'rus' was historically used in folk language with a meaning 'red', for instance for skin rush, names of some herbs, etc.
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Apart from all these legitimate reasons not to use an ISP router or modem, I find that they just... suck. The signal strength on mine is awful.
how do you go about switching out an apartment a router/modem combo with managed wifi at apartment complexes?

I've been told by different places it often can't be done, but I never pushed the issue. Always wondered if it was true
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Can non-welded contacts carry enough current?
The "purchase your own router" argument goes out the window on a GPON or XGSPON network where the ISP provides the interface to the single strand of fiber, unless your ISP supports putting the ONT in what is effectively a layer 2 bridge mode, and then you provide your own router.
> innovation

Target Advertisement? Gig Economy?

Er... We have different ideas of what innovation is desirable, maybe.
If you're on HN, you obviously want an OpenWRT router or better but most people are probably better off with equipment managed by their provider so they have someone to whom they can complain about wifi issues, etc.

Also, funny to see Bogleheads forum as source for tech advice. It comes up times and again in many forums that they are populated largely by computer janitors.
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It seems relevant when the GP claim is that money growth and inflation have no connection.

The definition was changed only because economists decided inflating the money supply was a brilliant economic policy and the old definition became inconvenient.

When you realize they changed the definition only for better optics it's easier to question the underlying principles.
Mine's still wifi 4.. short of breaking it they won't replace it.
I closely studied plan 9 many times, I unfortunately can't use it because of accessibility issues but from what I read and heard it feels more like a time capsule from the 90s, which is ironic considering it was meant to be a future path for os research. And even in the 90s there were developments in unix that the labs seemingly completely ignored, like DJB's daemon supervision.

To talk about the article itself, the only reason plan 9 can achieve such a design is because it's developed and used by the same small group of people. If linux is a bazaar and BSDs are cathedrals, then 9front is a monastery's citadel. Another thing that isn't mentioned is that both linux and BSD (and pretty much anything based on posix) has a lot of third party software that would be hard to maintain along with the rest of the system, if the monks even include it to begin with. And that software could include something like jq which a lot of software depends on and would love to just assume it's there.

And really, what more does someone get from something like this over, say, having a more or less formal standard on what a true plan9 system includes and waving it in someone's face when they choose to ignore it? This is pretty much what modern unices do and it works out great in cases when it's actually important. Most people don't care what commit your system is built from as long as it works as their programs expect it to.
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Promoted content from apparently a dev who has written this same app under another name beforehand (see comments there, reminds me of HN commentors)
There are different models of union. IIUC, Nordic countries use sectoral bargaining: [0]

Sectoral bargaining is when a union covers an entire sector of the economy, e.g. telecom, electrical, aviation.

In sectoral bargaining, companies don't fight unions as hard. ("We'll have to pay our workers more, but all our competitors will too, so we won't be at a relative disadvantage.")

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_collective_bargaining
It's both sad and funny that it comes as a surprise to you that the diet that humans have been thriving on for hundreds of thousands of years is able to keep someone alive, as opposed to the one that was brought about a hundred years ago and has only caused misery and ill health since.
fool me twice shame on me:

T-mobile 200mb for tablet for life
cloudatcost life time vps
I really wish one of the little GUI frameworks would develop this, but alas, the evidence is that "nobody" actually wants this. As evidenced by the things like Applescript that existed, and died.

I feel like it could be done if it was really a goal from day one, and there were things like "record this set of actions as a script" built into the toolkit. Even Applescript was still an afterthought, I think, albeit a very well supported one.

In the meantime, given the comprehensive failure of UI toolkits to support this style, it is completely fair for people to act and speak as if it doesn't exist.
Yes! That’s how government works. Not everyone agrees equally and not everyone benefits equally.

Also the tickets cost extra.
You will only make money if there's a mass of people willing to spend money to see you, and they need to be able to do that regularly. Brands will only sponsor you if you show up on the news wearing their brand often. I don't think there's a lot of triathlon events around and people willing to pay good money to watch them. And those events usually have minor media coverage.

I think that the only solution here is to focus on those sports which people actually want to watch. Unless your priority is not to give people something to enjoy but to get medals and international reputation, in which case yeah, the Government should cover the bill, not sure if that's what this article is trying to get at?
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I agree with this! I simply find it hard to explain the shortcomings in a way that people accept, and clear examples like this are the best I can do. But you’ve said it nicely.
Here you go I hacked the page into React so you can see performance.

https://static.crowdwave.link/index.html

And the source:
https://static.crowdwave.link/sveltetest.zip
Or a person with a sick kid, or who is about to be evicted, or who made some bad financial decisions or for some other reason is about to run out of food money. In those situations it's very easy to rationalize that the good outweighs the bad.

I've only been in a similar situation once. I could barely sleep at night for a week before I finally told them that I couldn't do it. In my situation I would have taken a financial hit if they decided to let me go, but my wife works and I have savings and there was no immediate threat, and it still was a difficult decision.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033102
okay now I'm curious

what happens with an incoming packet if there are no firewall rules on the NAT gateway/middlebox? without having a corresponding conntrack entry they will be dropped (and maybe even an ICMP message sent back, depending on the protocol), no?

for example if there is an incoming TCP packet with a 4-tuple (src ip, src port, dst ip, dst port) ... by necessity "dst ip" is the public IP of the NAT box, and on a pure NAT box there are no bound listening sockets. so whatever "dst port" is .. unless it gets picked up by an established NAT flow ... it will splash on the wall and getting a TCP RST.

isn't the argument that "NAT is not required", but that "NAT is implicitly a firewall"?
It would be nice to see some examples of what this site actually does.

I honestly have no idea what this does from the string of emojis telling the story.
This isn't efficient at all. It requires a 3090 to get 60fps - and presumably it requires all the GPU's power to do that for the simple scene in the article: a couple of sheets and cushions on a sofa.

Possibly it's RAM rather than compute limited but still. You couldn't use that in a game. Existing techniques like PBD or verlet integration would be far more efficient.

Maybe on future devices with separate neural processor units this could be useful. But even then I bet those same chips could run standard real-time cloth algorithms really really fast too.

Edit: I downloaded their video and there's no movement at all, only still images. Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the technique. But I re-read the article and it certainly seems like they're claiming to do full simulation, not just static scenes.

That scene with the sofa isn't even getting 60fps! It kinda feels like a disingenuous article after watching the video.
The effect of lead toxicity is not immediately and enormous so it is not remotely analogous.
Yeah AT&T, being the #1 fiber provider in the USA, does not allow customers to supply their own fiber modem. You can put it in a sort of passthrough mode and use your own router though. But AT&T owns everything up to the ONT - and what exactly the "passthrough"/"bridge" mode does is not exactly fully verifiable.
The Fed is expected to cut soon regardless, not to bail out the government but because inflation is falling. I imagine that will be the resolution to this. Perhaps rates won't go as low as you're suggesting, but they are expected to be decently lower than they are now.
tl;dr bikes should have dedicated lanes with barriers because there are asshole drivers who will use the bike lanes

(in this case impatiently passing another car and killing a cyclist)
I'm double NAT here. Broadband refused to play ball with a DIY router, so the ISP one hands out a DHCP lease to a single machine and everything is on the other side. I'm told double NAT is very bad but overall it seems to work in practice.
> The definition was changed only because economists decided inflating the money supply was a brilliant economic policy and the old definition became inconvenient.

That probably isn't true, both because it isn't that obvious that the economists thought it was a good idea or that they were the ones who changed the definition. "Economists" don't have any power over anything and the consensus position seems to tend towards disagreement with government policy.

Inflation is one of those topics where there seems to be a dearth of actual economic evidence bought to the conversation. The policy justification in the public discourse tends towards just-so stories.
Oh for sure there are worse companies. They just aren’t in the list of companies in the comment I replied to.
Usually the proper way to handle this is to flag and/or send a mail to hn [at] ycombinator.com; probably just the latter because there are a minimum number of flags required for any story to be taken off the page, while the issue at hand is a bit serious.

(For this one, I just sent an email; and it might be a good idea to introduce a reason for flagging that might help set various thresholds for moderator actions on the story.)
Sure, the question was if this is actually beneficial from an evolutionary perspective. Was this an advantage for survival and humans evolved to be this way or is this an accidental side effect of the working mechanism of the brain which just stayed because it wasn’t a large enough disadvantage to evolve against?
> these poor people served as a "buffer" against the Mongols, saving Europe from the slaughter ...

You mean saving Western Europe :)

Mongols ran over (and did a lot of slaughter in) the most of Eastern and Central Europe, including Poland, Czechia, parts of todays Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia and Austria. There was no "buffer" that stopped them, they've stopped eventually because their Great Khan died. As the leadership broke down and fights for power arose, they've been forced to return back home.
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What I like about Sartre is his tremendous life journey from 'hell is
other people' to a belief that solidarity and engagement with others
is the only proper path.
> Plan 9 lives on as the filesystem network interface that allows Windows and Windows Subsystem for Linux cross-platform access to your C drive.

Same with other hypervisors, virtualbox etc do the same. If you have docker installed on macOS it also uses 9p to share data with the host.

But IMO 9p is a terrible choice for this, particularly because it doesn’t support hard links. It breaks a lot of software like sccache etc which rely on hardlinks to work.

The reply from the plan9 devs on why this is the case hits staggering levels of arrogance:

> If you look at what a hard link is, you'll realize why they are not in Plan 9.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.plan9/c/24mMVoy6wXA/m/JW...
Could this not also be evidence for bias?

A judge scheduling longer hearings for cases with good outcomes suggests they've already made up their mind.
If you think of a dominant 7th chord as four notes in a 4:5:6:7 resonance, then it seems the 7/5 interval is the "correct" tritone in this context. But a proper tritone substitution means turning the 7/5 into a 10/7 or a 10/7 into a 7/5, which means one or the other of the chords will be out of tune with itself.

Alternatively, one could just hold one note fixed and move the other three, so you end up with both chords being self-consistent. That seems more mathematically satisfying at least.

Ultimately, though, I suppose the only real standard of correctness in music is whatever you can get away with.
Thanks for the hint as to the ∂; I had been racking my mind in an attempt to figure out who in Trieste has been known for being especially trigger-happy?
Well, perhaps you use different definitions than I do, but it should be obvious that it is possible to design an algorithm using dynamic programming that does not solve the problem optimally. By optimally here, I mean always output the optimal solution.

If you, by optimization mean that there's a function value you are maximizing or minimizing, than that's not true either, since Subset Sum and Hamiltonian path are canonical decision problems for which DP is used.

Heck, you can even take the standard TSP DP algorithm and, instead of looking at all possible "exit vertices" in linear time, look at a randomly chosen constant number of candidates, thereby reducing the running time by a factor n and getting a randomized heuristic function not guaranteed to give the optimal value.
> most people are probably better off with equipment managed by their provider so they have someone to whom they can complain about wifi issues, etc

I strongly disagree. The degree of troubleshooting ability this grants the often almost useless tech support at major providers is not sufficient to justify the many downsides and resulting risks.

There have been numerous documented cases involving ISPs configuring these devices in horrifically insecure ways, and that hardly seems to justify the ability to remotely reboot the device and look at basic troubleshooting stats.

It’s 2024, and I think it’s far more important to continue pushing tech literacy than allow such a critical aspect of modern life to be controlled by demonstrably hostile entities for dubious benefits.
Allowing hybrid ICEs is the most stupid, disastrous loophole that can be created. Vast majority of ICE cars sold today are so-called "hybrids", which in essence means they have no idle mode, starting the engine every time it starts moving and shuts it down when stopped - which means nothing but an oversized starter and battery (and more engine wear and more expensive maintenance). That's simply a gift to the ICE manufacturers and maintainers - let them sell more of more expensive and more maintenance-hungry ICE cars for essentially zero environmental effects (estimated fuel savings are under 5%)!

When saying "hybrid", people think of something like Toyota Prius. That could make some sense (increasingly less and less as EV batteries get cheaper), but thing is, vast majority of "hybrids" are not like that and provide absolutely zero EV traction.
That makes EU green policies sound a lot less crazy! Everything comes in comparison. Even Norway did not prohibit ICE car imports yet - only coming up in 5 months.
Mozilla are now capturing data on my behaviour without my consent (it's opt out), sending this data to a US based company (I'm in Europe) and that US based company is sending it to unknown advertisers and a universe of data brokers.
You really think the engineers working on this will be personally liable for this? That would honestly surprise me, the worst i can imagine is punishment for the company as an entity.
Buying your own high-end home router is a decent choice between giving your ISP root access on your home LAN and deploying custom firmware.
That's all true, but let's not forget the actual reason for children starting school very early in the morning is basically so that their parents can drop them at school and go to work.
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Part of the problem is the Army is not receiving goods or services in exchange for this money so if the money is being misdirected it is not immediately obvious. I'm guessing this grant system is able to work based on the reputation of the grantees not to scam the Army but because she was an insider she was able to exploit her position to receive grants without a strong reputation. If people are straight up lying to you its very difficult to detect the fraud unless you bring in an auditor that has the power to get statements directly from the bank and interview suppliers, employees and subcontracters to verify payments are going to where they are claimed.
So send a follow up email post meeting recapitulating the key points.
Once you are an expert at any topic, you can figure many outcomes from very small amounts of information. That does not mean the outcome was biased or flawed etc.

Is it difficult to believe that a judge would be able to predict at least some outcomes from a single paragraph?

All it takes is to predict above random chance to have a statistically significant effect.
> so a far left fool, wearing rainbow hat

What about wanting to make people feel safe when they are around me makes me "far left"? I'd like to think that it makes me considerate. I'm not particularly happy that far right have made it so I may come off scary to some people, but it is what it is.

> and speaks for all danes?

I think I can officially tell you that I am in fact speaking on behalf of every non-nazi danish person when I tell you that we collectively hate the fact that the far right in so many places has adopted our cultural heritage.

> Also, I wonder what your danish ancestors would think if you could speak old norse and explain them your 'inclusiveness' and culture appropriation to them

They would likely be fine with them. We have both historical and archeological sources to show us that vikings weren't really very judgemental in the sense that traditional monotheistic religions are today. We also know that things like "nationality" weren't even concepts at the time. They'd quite simply mingle with the cultures they encountered and you'd even have things like homosexuality being rather accepted in parts of society and not in others. Though obviously not in a way that is comparable with society today as you can see in the "law texts" we have from the period. For men the "acting party" wouldn't be considered to be different from a heterosexual man, while the "receiving party" would be anything from poorly treated to considered to be breaking the law depending on which specific city/area they lived in. Similarly women's rights were a thing, with them being better than they are for many women today in some parts and worse in others, though over all rather good for any period in human history.

It's sort of silly to compare our society with society 1200 years ago though. A huge amount of the concepts we've build our civilizations upon simply didn't exist in "Norse culture". A lot of our modern cultural, like the Scandinavian work ethics and our morals are hugely inspired by Lutheranism as an example.
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Dan Geer had some good essays and some good insights in the past.
As the Great Salt Lake dries up, it is emitting millions of tons of of CO2
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archive/paywall: https://archive.is/b94IG
Firefox version 130 should inject false data into advertiser endpoints. That would be a nice feature :D.
They can just spin up a new instance and destroy the old one. Legality aside…
> to start forming social individuals to form a society.

That's the explicit purpose of barnehage (from one to five years old) in Scandinavia, specifically Norway. That's preschool or kindergarten in other countries but without any academic instruction at all. Every child is guaranteed a place and the cost is strictly limited.

> Also is part of the primary school teaching respect for the Flag, the history and heros, anthem, etc. also patriotic holidays, like independence day,

We don't have that. I suppose that Constitution Day (17th May) has some slight similarity with American Independence Day. The barnehage children will walk in the procession waving flags but it's not really the same.

Of course part of the reason that hero worship isn't inculcated in barnehage in Norway is probably because every Norwegian has an unshakeable belief in the greatness of Norwegians (especially in regard to skiing championships against the Swedes) so it is unnecessary.

I exaggerate of course, but slightly. :-)
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I have a strong interest in different OS designs, and Plan 9 is one of the more interesting one. Having said that, it's only place is in a VM - it's not really cut out for everyday use. Pretty sure the people using it as such are doing so just to be 'different' - like BeOS back in the day.
Germany? You meets lots of Turkish and Russian Academia here.
There was a party in Australia that wanted to elect MPs (or whatever equivalent) whose only job would be to delegate decisions to a panel of independent experts in each field (I think the panel would be elected as well, don't remember the details, but it would be something like doctors deciding what public health decisions should be, for example), and IIRC sometimes decisions would be made by having polls where every member of the party could vote if the policy was not related to some field in particular. I think that didn't get anywhere though, unfortunately, as the idea sounds pretty damn superior to having a bunch of know-nothing but charismatic people who decide on all sorts of things pushed by lobbyists whose interest not always reflect that of the general population (or very rarely do so).