skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if Sparta would crack the top 10 for me.

The Celts, if the Roman authors are to be believed, were pretty metal. Sacrifice, impalement, hanging severed limbs or running into battle with them (naked, drenched in their blood), etc.

Vikings were pretty brutal, both in their raiding/raping/pillaging/murder, and their treatment of slaves, their enemies, and people who committed crimes. Slaves [typically female] were killed and buried with their masters (similar to Egyptian and other ancient cultures), but not before being gang-raped in a drug/alcohol stupor and stabbed to death.

Medieval Europe could be pretty atrocious. Besides the harshness of life for most of the population and their indebtedness to the nobility and church, punishments were often incredibly brutal for even minor crimes, and many punishments extended to not adhering to religious dogma. Plenty of ethnic and religious cleansing to go around then too.

The Maori, Hawaiians, and other polynesian groups could be pretty brutal, torturing, killing and eating their victims. Ritual sacrifice of slaves was common, sometimes throwing children into the sea (the Guanches).

African American slaves (you know, the people whose labor we built our nation on, during/after which we committed ethnic genocide against all the native peoples here?) were worse treated than Helots. At least Helots got to live quasi-normal lives, keeping some of their produce, raising families, having homes. We killed something like three Nazi Holocausts-worth of African Americans, after brutalizing them for centuries. So Western Culture definitely is up there with the most brutal societies.

Native Americans could be pretty brutal too, regularly involved with scalping, skinning, torturing, on occasion forcing their victims to consume... themselves.

Nazi-era Germany and the USSR were also pretty brutal, with Russia having a muuuuch larger death toll, literally starving their own citizens in addition to the work/death camps for crimes such as political disagreement, wrong ethnicity/gender/sexual identity, and various crimes.

But, yeah, Aztecs win the most-fucked-up-practices-in-history award.
You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about if you say the F35B is the most sold F35 variant. It’s the F35A*.

It’s also STOVL, not SVTOL. You slapped an S in front of VTOL instead of thinking about what the acronym really means.

*From f35.com - Designed to operate from conventional runways, the F-35A is the most common variant operated by the United States Air Force and most international allied customers.
If it gets traction this could be great. Industry sure could do with some standardisation
To quote William Gibson, ‘The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.’ While AI is clearly making a big impact for you in software development, there are still many industries and areas of daily life where its full potential hasn’t been realized yet. For example, how much could it revolutionize how people handle taxes, navigate complex legal processes, or streamline personal and professional tasks? We’re seeing the early waves of change, but there’s so much room for growth in ways that might seem mundane but could make a huge difference for everyday users. Excited to hear your next update!
"Stricter rules and punishments over campus protests seem to be working."

Working to do what? Enforce group-think? Even when it is in the service of enabling genocide?
What interesting times we live in.
I have a drivers license and a passport, but the combination is insufficient to get a real id drivers license.
If you take out a few, the debris will take a bunch more.
The meat is this, using bsky-sdk + atrium-api from crates:

let agent = BskyAgent::builder().build().await?;
agent
.login("username.bsky.social", "X")
.await?;
let rt = RichText::new_with_detect_facets(msg).await?;
let record = RecordData {
text: rt.text,
created_at: atrium_api::types::string::Datetime::now(),
facets: rt.facets,
};
agent.create_record(record).await?;

Works well enough. It's a bit on the lower end of the "abstraction ladder", there might be more user-friendly libraries for doing this even easier now.
Small discussion (23 points, 1 day ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228814
Under the threat of death. While death isn't officially a legal punishment for copyright infringement, you typically don't need to resist the law for very long before it become a choice between bending the knee and facing death. In practice, every law is under the threat of death.
I'm an Ex-Google SRE. Kubernetes is not Borg, will never be Borg, and Borg does not need to borrow from k8s - Most of the "New Features" in K8s were things Google had been doing internally for 5+ years before k8s launched. Many of the current new features being added to k8s are things that Google has already studied and rejected - It breaks my heart to see k8s becoming actively worse on each release.

A ton of the experience of Borg is in k8s. Most of the concepts translate directly. The specifics about how borg works have changed over the years, and will continue to change, but have never really matched K8s - Google is in the business of deploying massive fleets, and k8s has never really supported cluster sizes above a few thousand. Google's service naming and service authentication is fully custom, and k8s is... fine, but makes a lot of concessions to more general ideas. Google was doing containerization before containerization was a thing - See https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/14/370 ( https://lwn.net/Articles/199643/ doesn't elide the e-mail address) for the introduction of the term to the kernel.

The point of k8s was to make "The Cloud" an attractive platform to deploy to, instead of EC2. Amazon EC2 had huge mindshare, and Google wanted some of those dollars. Google Cloud sponsored K8s because it was a way to a) Apply Google learnings to the wider developer community and b) Reduce AWS lock-in, by reducing the amount of applications that relied on EC2 APIs specifically - K8s genericized the "launch me a machine" process. The whole goal was making it easier for Google to sell it's cloud services, because the difference in deployment models (Mostly around lifetimes of processes, but also around how applications were coupled to infrastructure) were a huge impedance to migrating to the "cloud". Kubernetes was an attempt to make an attractive target - That would work on AWS, but commoditized it, so that you could easily migrate to, or simply target first, GCP.
Yes.

That, instead of "people who think that this is an erosion of privacy are wrong" is exactly what I am saying.

Face scanners at airports change exactly and precisely, with no room for qualifications, unequivocally, irrefutably, nothing.
I agree with you, so I did some quick research and: Bieber is very well known by the general population, Kardashians moreso. A large majority (70%+) watch a moderate to significant amount of live sports on TV. Anecdotally, interacting with normal people at my job agrees with this.

We're the non-neurotypical people they're talking about.
Not parent poster, but absolutely.

Look at all those other pre-2001 hijackings, and ask yourself what would have happened if most of the passengers were terrified that the hijackers were preparing to destroy the entire plane and everyone on it, regardless of any demands being made or met.

Would-be hostage-taking hijackers know it too: Their business plan, as it were, has been ruined for a generation by their suicidal colleagues.
What are the regulations and who are the relevant regulatory bodies? I could not find with a google search
>So by your logic we should just fully accept its further normalization with absolutely no pushback or regard for any notion of private life and activity?

Yes.

That, instead of "people who think that this is an erosion of privacy are wrong" is exactly my logic.

Face scanners at airports change exactly and precisely, with no room for qualifications, unequivocally, irrefutably, nothing.

Sorry I hurt your libertarian feelings. Some more YouTube videos on stoicism may help. They won't, but keep thinking they will.
My comment was about whether it is reasonable for random people to demand open source devs pay a platform fee, not about whether the fee itself is reasonable.

Quoting the last line of my comment again with added emphasis in case it was confusing:

> I'm not sure it is reasonable *to demand that open source devs pay a fee to Apple* so that you don't have to right-click the app and whitelist it...
Syncing an M4 Mac with a 2001 iPod
“Clever doesn’t sell, clarity does.”
> The notification process was some janky thing involving text files, cron and sftp and frequently failed. Sometimes it didn't work at all (which Synapse would spot) but sometimes it just omitted loads of transaction records.

What the hell…

I’d seriously question the bank that thought that was ok.

When I worked with big banks long ago that kind of thing would be shocking.
Yes because when I look for rational management of a sovereign country my first thought is Argentina.
This could use an RSS feed (Blogtrottr reported there isn't one). Looking forward to seeing how it develops!
The Value of AI Isn't General Intelligence
Will the forests be open to the public for hiking, fishing, hunting, etc?
I briefly saw this HN post on the front page, but when I came back to look for it, shortly after, couldn't find it in the first 25 pages of HN.

> Synapse still can't find its money (bloomberg.com)
28 points by ekpyrotic 2 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 43 comments

I did find two other stories:

> 154. Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis (cnbc.com) 246 points by hunter2_ 2 days ago | flag | hide | 237 comments

> 163. Synapse debacle cost some users their life savings (axios.com) 18 points by toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | flag | hide | 10 comments
It’s not clear to me if the banks are in the clear yet.
> This was simply how cities worked: the elite in the centre, the poor on the outskirts.

That checks out today as well - at least in Europe. Difference being that we have mass transit now, so everything close to stops is also more expensive.
They don't stick out that much. The geely vehicle has front sensors recessed just above the front wheel well, without much additional side clearance. Either way, a collision involves regulatory filings, downtime, and sensor recalibration even if no damage is sustained.
> This is why not only does your broker not hold your stocks for you, they also tell the holding company who owns them.

Are you sure about that?

I believe modern common practice in the US and many other countries is for the stock to be held by the depository in the brokerage name (which is referred to as "street name" ownership), and only the brokerage to have customer-level records.
Same issue here. Is it geolocked maybe?
Is there a lidar unit I can take home and scan my house at high resolution (than iphone)?
Thanks - I have the 16" and love the screen but was wondering if I get the 13" for staff/family would it be the same quality.
It's also possible to enforce the use of conditional writes: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3...

My biggest wishlist item for S3 is the ability to enforce that an object is named with a name that matches its hash. (With a modern hash considered secure, not MD5 or SHA1, though it isn't supported for those either.) That would make it much easier to build content-addressible storage.
Even by such early point in time, Cuba had already banned free elections. Castro proclaimed in 1961 that "the revolution has no time for elections" and that his dictatorship represents the highest form of democracy. If anyone argues for legitimacy after this point, then they have more faith in the loyality of Cuban people to Castro than he himself apparently had.
Thanks Ian.

I was looking into the bandwidth (apparently most important parameter in cellular service) offered but nobody is mentioning including the Starlink landing page for the service. Sure it mentioned LTE but it can be anything from 1 to 100 Mbps and LTE+ can be well into Gbps.

Here is the previous post last year on Direct to Cell by Starlink and the main complains is about the puny bandwidth [1]. But if you are outside the town in remote places or in the middle of ocean any communication albeit a few bytes is most welcome, beggars cannot choose. For most IoT services it should be adequate but if you're inside tropical jungle or Amazon forest it will not work need to climb tree for the reception to work.

[1] Starlink Direct to Cell:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37848212
"Oh look at this idea. Neat. Next."

That's exactly what HackerRank feels like. Same with "normal" social media like Reddit or Twitter
Ask HN: What browser do you use?
I'm curious to see what browsers the HN community uses.
If absolute freedom of speech is a good thing, the universities should just be patiently countering the bad actors' speech, rather than applying harmful cancel culture to them. Turnabout is fair play, certainly, but this is freedom of speech.
The Tipping Points of Climate Change – and Where We Stand [video]
A tiny bit of availability, unnoticeable at web scale.
Having no code corresponding to the software in service is a bigger liability than having it
https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1859556171918479626 (2024-11-21):

> Evil has a sound. It's the sound of humans screaming in agony as they die. Aztecs made implements to simulate this sound. They have been found in the hands of sacrificial victims… the Aztecs considered the ceremonial experience incomplete without the screaming, and built death whistles to simulate the proper sound of agony.
TSA video walkthrough of flying without ID:
https://papersplease.org/wp/2021/04/08/tsa-posts-video-showi...

TSA ID verification procedures (redacted) for people without ID:
https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/05/08/tsa-releases-redacted...

records of how the TSA decides whether to let you fly without ID:
https://papersplease.org/wp/2016/06/09/how-does-the-tsa-deci...
What does it mean by "redis-py" is down? It's still on Pypi?
What we learned from the IE & Chrome periods of historical browser dominance is that defaults matter, and tying (specifically an anti-competitive move) works.

Facebook is doing the same with Threads. Sure you don't have a default account, but the pestering works, and it is "tying".
You are perhaps looking for software transactional memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
Throughout the RealID farce, a passport has been a perfectly reasonable form of identification.

It proves my identity as a US Citizen as much as it has to be.
What happens when all functions are overseen by people unable to process no-fluff information.
Yes, definitely. Good point (I was knee jerk assuming the A is always chosen and the real “choice” is between C and P).
Oh dang! I bet that's it! Nice find, thank you!
wrong question. depends on who you ask. The right question is if you think based on TOC, you like it, buy it. I have been reading the author's newsletter for a while now, and know he is doing a hell lot of work educating himself and us in the process. the book is mostly a work about his experience, which he has mostly shared already, but some new things obviously (which i think he will share over time). unless you do this for a living, you cannot match this reference. So, these were my 2 cents worth of shit talk.
Waymos sometimes stop briefly in parking spots while waiting for assignments, but they don't really park as such except in special lots. The big problem I have seen is they tend not to always pull to the curb when releasing passengers and if a door is left even slightly ajar then they will sit there requesting the door be closed even if they are blocking a lane with many cars behind them beeping.
It's a conceptual and implementation issue; the conditions must also be met in a multithreaded environment, which means they have a synchronization effect (and corresponding thread synchronication code must be added by the compiler); this synchronisation must be considered when doing multithreaded design, and this can become pretty complex.
This is called nominative fair use. But Redis's own guidelines for nominative fair use acknowledge that there are cases where you can "use the trademark in the name of your own product": https://redis-doc-test.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/trade...

>you may only name it "XYZ for Redis™"

However, I'm not sure where courts would land on a name like "redis-rs". There are arguments on both sides, and I'm not sure if there's enough case law to make the legal outcome clear.
The original shareholders created the company. Without them there wouldn't be jobs.

The newer shareholders provided liquidity to the original shareholders. Their benefit to society was helping to incentivize the people who created the company (and all the jobs) by making them rich.
Given how much of the rest of the chemical processes of life seem to proceed fairly straightforwardly from the rules of chemical structure and energy requirements for various reactions, I’d almost expect the opposite - that there’s some structure or reaction core to life that’s marginally cheaper or easier with left chirality that caused the divide, and the rest is history.
Ask HN: Any Marketers Here?
What are problems faced by marketers? What can I solve for you?

I have 10+ years of experience building startups and at large corps. I have built low-latency ad systems and DMP, scheduling, marketing sequence (email) apps.

What can I build for you?
"until the code evolves [...]"

That is already a desirable place to be, where you managed to get a working implementation ready to evolve. My issue with opinionated languages like Rust is that they make development more expensive. I then afford to pay the necessary work-effort for fewer projects than I otherwise could if I was to focus more on the problem(s) at hand instead of that and other mandatory constraints forced upon me by the compiler. I very much want my development tools to limit themselves on being tools, to assist me on the part of the problem I chose to focus on with little to no cost paid for their usage. I want to be able to focus on prototyping some working solution first, and only then, if the project's needs really warrant it, to switch on paying the development cost for other aspects, be it safety or whatnot.
I was likewise looking for it again to no avail. It showed up in search.
They fall under the same regulations as lasers.
How would they be confused?
It has growing influence in computational chemistry where heuristic approaches can give massive speedups. Mixing AI and theorem proofing together is going to be big.

Increasing use in customer service will be massive annoyance and great business success.
As a DAW developer, I find myself chuckling over security concerns in other kinds of apps.

You see, it is absolutely expected and required that our applications will load and run arbitrary 3rd party code, generally with the expectation that it lives in the same address space as our application (though this is not formally required).

No sockets, no network, no backdoor hacks. You write code, call it a VST plugin, make it sound desirable ... we are expected to load and run it.

Yes, several DAWs have made the move toward out-of-process execution of plugins, but that doesn't begin to address the myriad problems caused by loosely-written plugin APIs not adequately pinning down threading, thread priority, memory access and more.

Filesystem access? Of course! That code runs as you! Because you want it to!
All of them, and the founders, officers, and investors, personally?
I'm not familiar with that gimmick.

One thing I learned, for example, is do not access global immutable state from within a function. All inputs come through the parameters, all outputs through the parameters or the return value.
I like this post. Complaining about Facebook is pointless but complaining about people that complain about Facebook is a bottomless font of immense value
if methane were valuable, it would already exist, and there are a number of techs in development now: https://horsesport.com/magazine/farm-management/heating-with...

if you have a problem with farmers, maybe you should just eat less?
What a silly requirement? Since 1% cannot benefit, let's remove it for the 99%
> - Name for package deliveries. If I'm ordering a package from abroad, I want my name (and address) written in my local convention - I don't care if the vendor can't read it, first the package will make its way to my country using the country and postal code identifiers, and then it should have info that makes sense to the local logistics companies, not to the seller's IT system.

I am not sure that what you ask is possible, there might be local or international regulations that force them to write all the addresses in a certain way.

But on the positive side, I have found that nowadays most online shops provide a free-from field for additional delivery instructions. I live in Japan, and whenever I order something from abroad I write my address in Japanese, and most sellers are nice enough to print it and put it on the side of the box, to make the life of the delivery guys easier.
To avoid any dependencies other than object storage, we've been making use of this in our database (turbopuffer.com) for consensus and concurrency control since day one. Been waiting for this since the day we launched on Google Cloud Storage ~1 year ago. Our bet that S3 would get it in a reasonable time-frame worked out!

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/turbopuffer
Explain Twitter then - it made a paltry amount compared to Facebook even pre-takeover (which then got burned to the ground by Elon).

Yet it was definitely the place to go and get the latest updates.
I feel dumb for asking this, but can someone explain why this is such a big deal? I’m not quite sure I am grokking it yet.
pasteurization is just a heat treatment to remove bacteria. it isn't some fancy filtering process to remove the yucky bits.

fruits and vegetables are covered in bacteria too.
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