skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to increase the military presence to a level that they could effectively remove the Taliban

This is easier said than done, if it is possible at all.

Having recently taken a dive into the U.S.' involvement in Vietnam, this argument rings eerily similar the one that got us into and led to our escalation in Vietnam.
Troop levels in Afghanistan kept increasing for the first decade of the war[1]. If a decade is considered "too soon," what should be considered "too long"?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/07/06/484979294/chart-how-the-u-s-t...
Because the flu is really bad. But it’s not unusual.
If you look at a modern long haul cabin like a BA 777 [1] or the new SAS A350 [2], you'll se that the number of "economy plus" seats is quite small. It's 3 rows (18 seats) on the BA plane, and 4 rows (24 seats) on the SAS plane. It's well under 10% so even the evacuation time for the whole plane isn't going to be severely affected by the seat change in maybe 10% or 20% of the seats. There would be no emergency exit windows in this section, for example. It would be say 30 people of which half(?) would be on the upper level. So say 15 people out of 280 on a full A350. It's not nothing, but the speed of disembark in reality will be more dependent on the age of the people in economy than on whether 15 people will need to climb down from the top shelf.

Obviously the idea behind making economy plus more attractive like this is to be able to sell more of it and charge more for it, so it may be that airlines want to install this on maybe 25% of a cabin, at which point it might start affecting evacuation etc. But if it's a simple swap in current economy-plus sections it wouldn't be a big issue because of how few seats that is.

[1] https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/British_Airways/British_Ai...

[2] https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/SAS_Airlines/SAS_Airlines_...
Is it not morally wrong for non-Apple or non-Apple/Google companies?
I like the way they claim it stops "child molesters" but then goes on to say that Macy's uses it, presumably to identify shoplifters before they strike.
> neoliberal ideology gripped most of the newly independent states

I wish. There was a great liberal leap forward in the 90s, but now it's state-run economy all over again.
For point of reference, the clinic where my wife works has been testing for coronavirus since January 25. There are many private institutions with the ability to test patients as they saw fit. I know the protocol was more focused on travel but it seems like there would have been more reports since then.

With that said, my family has indeed suffered from the same kind of persistent cough you describe, so I don't know what to make of that.
From what I can tell, Xerox PARC didn't exist until 1970 and apparently used Smalltalk, which was after BCPL in 1967. I don't doubt you're correct, so do you have any links for earlier bytecode examples?
Is it possible to embed the editor on a web page?
Not a health food store but a decent alternative to everything else, esp. in NY. The prices are quite good too compared to other stores around.
And most people would be irritated and ring stuff up into the wrong "tab" multiple times a day, because people are bad at multitasking.

There is a reason why most POS software is intentionally restrictive and violating many common UI imperatives. Many common UI design rules are not governing the case of a user who is specifically trained to use a certain system, but must then use it in stressful situations at maximum speed and minimum error rate.
As specified in their comment and in our GitHub repository, the code is licensed under MIT.
Turbulence that bad would be the kind that causes injuries in normal seats too (by banging heads in the celing for example). Its more common and dangerous than people think and that's why we are instructed to always wear the seatbelt when seated. Cabin staff couldn't really give more than that advice to people in top seats, but perhaps people would believe that warning in this case because they can see the danger.
The capacity basically existed, but couldn’t be used until it had gone through fda certification for the virus. The new rules allow labs to perform testing after sending the required information to the fda but before the fda has had time to review that information
"Appears"? How does it "appear" that way? Do you have even a single piece of evidence for this claim?
> Governments have other concerns besides your individual health.

Exactly. And that's why I'm gonna look out for myself.
I haven't seen that. Where do you see conservatives arguing to ban liberal opinions? You appear to be straw manning them.

Despite that, I do believe there's a pretty clear need to regulate to protect conservative speech. There's a clear problem with liberals taking over companies that were once neutral and systematically attacking conservatives online. They are much more aggressive about speech control than the other way around.
> I have been to Greenland a year ago and saw it for myself. And that’s where the warming is most extreme. And it’s spectacular, no doubt about it. And glaciers are shrinking and so on.

> But, there are all sorts of things that are not said, which decreases my feeling of alarm. First of all, the people in Greenland love it. They tell you it’s made their lives a lot easier. They hope it continues. I am not saying none of these consequences are happening. I am just questioning whether they are harmful.

His arguments on the topic are bizarrely anecdotal and unscientific. He suggests that the happiness of locals over the past few years of warming is sufficient reason to doubt that it could get worse for Greenland in the future? Making dramatic changes to human environments is not good, people react poorly and things like resource wars can start / have started.

Super weird to see such anecdotal experiences extrapolated to "locals love it, so what's the problem?" while dismissing decades of intensive scientific research (not even including modals) that suggest a global chaotic event is happening presently.

Also, this:

> There’s been a very strong warming, in fact, ever since the Little Ice Age, which was most intense in the 17th century. That certainly was not due to human activity.

What does this mean? I went to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age and it lists multiple possible / probable causes of the little ice age that are directly human-related. He dismisses yet another field of scientific research as "certainly not due to human activity" without any evidence to back that up. He makes stuff up, dismisses decades of real science, and claims that major problems aren't real simply because local people don't understand large-scale chaotic events are are 'happy' with warming local climates for now. Bizarre.
Metal Retrospective (2016)
Any system that involves verifying reports is a non-starter IMO. That solution doesn't scale to a game that has millions of players.

Server-side detection really should be easy, but developers tend to write code that gives the client too much authority so that the server code can be faster and they can run more game instances per server. It's kind of shit, really. You can't do anything server-side to prevent aim bots, but you can absolutely prevent people from shooting through walls and terrain.
Translation: Squeezing my vocabulary for all its worth, trying to spread uncertainty that helps support my nonsense belief.

The word salad looked good, though.
I share this experience. My company switched to Office365 from GSuite. It feels universally like a step down. The workers who all used MS desktop products liked it, but everyone I work with it had expressed nothing but disdain.
I don't know enough about QBE to give a well-informed assessment of it, so I'll refrain.
If having a user-removable battery makes my phone not water resistant, then I don't want that. I have never had an issue with an iPhone battery. As things are, the battery is replaceable by any skilled technician so the cost of having it done is low. Perhaps they could enforce a standard battery form factor, if that.
>a well-spoken critic of the supposed existential threat is dangerous

This is also true when the threat is actually real and the people concerned about it are acting in good faith, which is the case here.
The company I work for uses high quality carbon offsets to reach carbon neutrality for all business activities, including business travel by employees. Of course, this isn't scalable, so it doesn't really absolve me. But the travel I do is also not really optional. I just personally don't think it's necessary or helpful. Doesn't mean I don't have to do it when I'm called upon to do so.

The other thing I do is live a fairly carbon efficient lifestyle. I travel much less than other folks in my income bracket, and I live in the most carbon efficient city in the U.S. I take mass transit to work and don't own a car. There is of course more that I could do, but if I zero out my usage it will make precisely no difference to the outcome. So I also vote with my dollars and my actual votes for political candidates who will push in the right direction on this issue.

But more than anything, I think if I'm honest, I don't justify it. I just do it. These scales cannot be balanced -- the human mind cannot encompass actions whose harms are so incrementally minor and diffuse, but corporately so major and severe. Our social heuristic engine is not equipped to process it, and mine isn't an exception.
It's already here...I saw an issue a few weeks ago a bunch of production systems failed upon seeing a certificate signed by a CA root that expires after 2038.
Can you please explain more about how your response relates to my comment?

For instance, I've not placed the burden of "conveying identical information in a manner everyone can understand" on anyone, nor have I assumed bad faith. So it seems like a weird comment to tack onto mine, but I am assuming I just don't correctly understand.
Effectiveness of surgical masks against influenza bioaerosols (2012) [pdf]
My understanding was that prior to Friday, CDC Atlanta's comically limited RT-PCR capacity was backlogged even under the "see-no-evil" testing criteria, and that approximately no other labs were able to do tests (since validation of the CDC issued tests failed). If there was also unused lab capacity that is good to know, do you have a source?
Air pollution is a big problem. The biggest problem IMO is water and soil pollution. We're putting far worse chemicals into our food and water (and in household products we absorb) than what we're putting into the air (in the developed world, anyway).
Can you add sarcasm next to snark in the guidelines? I’ve never seen sarcasm improve a conversation and it inflames passions unnecessarily. Thanks for considering this, whatever you decide.
Amazing! I just tried it on a picture of me, and it found several other photos of me that I had no idea were on the Internet, and a few photos of people that looked so much like me that I thought it was until I took a close look.
It links you to the source of the image which is presumably subpoenable for identity information.
Apparently in `config.txt` you can set `arm_64bit=1`

Then `sudo rpi-update`
The article is so annoying, I searched for the word "security" and this word came up zero times. I wonder if the fancy San Francisco "industrial designer" even considered that?
We are in this mess exactly because the people who know the most about climate change have FUCK ALL political power compared to the absolutely massive industry that will do anything in their power to deny it.

You are absolutely delusional if you think anybody advocating for climate action has any meaningful power whatsoever. All the power and all the big money is solidly behind denying, delaying and avoiding any action on climate.
The OP said if something similar happened in the mainland. Is NO not the mainland? It’s fine if you’re shifting the goal posts (you weren’t OP after all). But some more details should be provided then.
I feel like this is a much more subtle way of reframing what OP said.

> Arguably, geeks are better at business (i.e. information handling and problem solving) than non-geeks.

Do you believe there's something that geeks aren't better at than non-geeks (when it comes to being an employee)? Because OP's point, as I read it, was that geeks are superior and should be running everything and was incredibly dismissive of non-geeks being useful.

I agree that respect is earned, not given. But if you just immediately dismiss what someone has to say because they aren't part of your geek tribe, you are beginning the relationship from a hostile standpoint. Why would non-geeks look at this as anything other than geeks being antagonistic?

> Anyhow, the article starts out saying management often views geeks as being business challenged, which such a viewpoint is questionable given what IT is.

I read the article differently. It was much less about geeks being business challenged and much more about geeks being elitist, such as OP's bellicose comment.

If neither side is willing to work with the other side, the fault almost certainly lies with everyone.
There's a lot of complexity in gpg that's unnecessary for this usecase, I'd use age instead.

https://age-encryption.org/
>> “Clearview helps to identify child molesters, murderers, suspected terrorists, and other dangerous people quickly, accurately, and reliably to keep our families and communities safe.”

It helps to identify child molesters. "Think of the children".
Apple has blocked Clearview AI’s iPhone app for violating its rules
This guide suggests 44 steps. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+11+Battery+Replacement/1... I think one could use a/the screwdriver as opener or instead of the tweezers lately but replacing the battery is not something everybody can do. Compared to how easy it was 10 years ago to swap a battery.
It plain looks bad. But also, it requires more scrolling to get to the meat of the project
I think they also provide the origin of the images (example MySpace), and more often than not, the origin ends up with a definitive identity.

The response report on the author, for instance, clearly identifies her
Just use Nuclear and STFU about this useless topic.
The title of page six is:

"Dates When PRISM Collection Began for Each Provider".

That is not the same as "company agreement", by any stretch of the imagination.

(gaslighting? seriously? you're clearly the person who is trying really, really, hard to twist the facts here)

I don't like Google more than anyone else. The truth though, that's important stuff worth spending time defending.
There is a huge bias in funds allocation for research, I doubt skeptics get as much or any funding to prove their counter point. Another important point he makes that people from other disciplinaries like biologists are not that involved in the research.

It is interesting that Bill Gates put 1 billion into tech companies trying to actually do something while Bezos pledged 10 billion into research and "advocacy", in other words, pushing a political agenda. I think we need a bit more balance in the research of this subject, at least divert 10% of the funds to try to prove the counter point.
Re bush: They also refused to negotiate / reintegrate the Taliban, in particular early on when they were weak (yes, there's a lot of parallels to Iraq). Once the Iraq war started there was very little attention paid to Afghanistan, for several years. Including very little effort building up security architecture.

Re Obama: there clearly was a lot wrong with the Afghanistan policy. But I'm not sure I really buy the "low troop level" argument. Even at peak deployment levels (pretty darn high) under Obama the military operations weren't going particularly well. And that wasn't sustainable.
Perhaps the craziest part of these graphs is the 3970X, this generation's second best, versus the 2990WX, last generations very best Threadripper processor. Both have 32 cores/64 threads, but the 3970X has 2x the multithreaded performance, literally 100% faster under many workloads. Its base clock is 25% faster but there's still an enormous microarchitectural improvement. Part of this is moving away from the asymmetric NUMA topology of 2990WX. What a feat.
We were always going to invade Iraq, as soon as GWB and Dick Cheney were elected it was inevitable. 9/11 just provided a convenient opportunity to manufacture the pretext by implying links between Iraq Intelligence and the hijackers.
A sibling comment discussed most probable message; on further reflection, I suspect there's a dynamic programming algorithm for the shortest possible message... this problem could have some nifty angles to explore if done right. But only if you know that you're testing on how people work in the face of ambiguity!
Was all of Hurricane Katrina’s after math the local government’s fault too? Was not properly helping 9/11 first responders into the next decade the local government’s fault?
If his contribution has helped delay proper action, I can see that.

Does it not make sense to you?
And stop having friends who might decide to upload photos they take of you? It’s not a good solution to this problem.
Counterfactuals are hard. If Nato had stepped in after Syria used chemical weapons we may not have had a global refugee crisis. America has kept the peace pretty much everywhere but the middle east, and even there, I'd wager that Saudi Arabia would have nukes by now were it not for the American presence in the region.
> The worst case scenario right now is that some people might lose their grandparents a couple years early

"Colleagues mourned the death of Peng Yinhua, a 29 Yo doctor who postponed his wedding to fight the COVID-19 outbreak"

"Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuhan Wuchang hospital, died
at 51 Years old"

"Dr. Li Wenliang died at 33 Yo.

"Xia Sisi, 29, was a digestive physician working at Hospital in Wuhan. She died Sunday morning"

"Huang Wenjun, 42, deputy chief physician at the department of respiratory medicine at Xiaogan Central Hospital also died Sunday".
> It’s because no matter how smart you folks are as individuals, in the aggregate you are like toddlers.

That's a great line, and it's only funny because it's true.
This isn't true. Take the @valvesoftware twitter account for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20191118232351/https:/twitter.co...

The account was already verified right from the start.
To be fair, there's really no objective merit to this comment in the context of this acquisition really. I don't doubt your assertions on Turkey, but this is not Turkey. Not even FoxNews owners gain any indirect advantage from supporting the current government, rather, their owner's strategy is to simply stake out a claim on 'one side' of the political fence, wherein there happened to be a 'market opportunity'. It's cynical in the view that political views = markets, but it's not cynical to the point wherein we see clear corruption.
When a founder creates a corporate culture based on strong values, it will last for hundreds of years.
> Vinyl, CD's, tapes, whatever: you had to collect them and physically go to stores to get music, video or any content. The content revolution is mind-boggling.

I used to sit by the radio, ready to hit record if a song I liked came on. Now, nearly every song is available to me, on demand, for free. (I actually pay ~$8 a month for it, but I don't have to.)

I used to watch episodes of Star Trek when they aired, and if I missed it, I just had to wait a few months until it aired again. (Often, football aired immediately before and it would run overtime, so they'd just start Star Trek partway through the episode.) Also, if the signal was super-staticy, you could play with the antenna for a while, but most likely, you just lived with it.

Now, I can go watch whichever episode I want at any point, static-free. It's not free (unless I pirate it), but it's included in an annual subscription I already had for other purposes (free shipping).

We (my family) used to spend hours hunting through used bookstores. There were various books by my favorite authors I never found, despite dozens (hundreds?) of hours searching through dozens (hundreds?) of used book stores.

Now I can go buy them online and have them in a couple days, or if they're available as ebooks, a few seconds. A few years ago, I was waiting at a bus stop, and decided I wanted to re-read one of my favorite books. I promptly downloaded it and was reading it before the bus arrived.

My parents had (actually...have) a large cabinet to store their records and tapes. And then another smaller one to store VHS tapes. And then couple more to store DVDs. And a closet full of floppies. Digital media saves me a room worth of space in my house. (Books are an order of magnitude more space -- they have literally tens of thousands.)
Ebola is closer to what you're describing. 2-21 days to show symptoms and you're only contagious after symptoms arise. Isolation 100% works.

Corona is closer the flu/common-cold in terms of transmission.

Quarantining patients is too late. The viral point is the 14-21 day incubation period where patients aren't showing symptoms yet very able to spread the disease, which is the whole reason why it's so scary and affecting the world markets.

If Wuhan removed home isolation and everyone was allowed to go back to the old way of life, the virus would spread again.

I'm not sure how you can argue against home isolation. I haven't been convinced of what you claim; that it isn't helping.
Sorry, I meant the JVM ecosystem, of course.
Your percentages are backwards, IME. Timeouts and logging and such are definitely not “80% of use cases”. Interfacing with humans and human systems are.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 has a replaceable battery and is water resistant, it's definitely doable.
The Northern Alliance, which the US sided with, also contained its fair share of bastards: they've been accused of summarily executing thousands of Taliban POWs, murdering civilians in raids on villages, and profiting from the opium trade, among other things.

Despite fighting alongside Al-Qaeda and despite harbouring bin Laden, the Taliban aren't Al-Qaeda.
Reduction and Functional Exhaustion of T Cells in Patients with Covid-19
You don't remember the iPhones slowing down to protect their old batteries?
That’s insane. Do you know the reasoning for wastefully leaving supplies to rot? Is it laziness? It’s one thing to keep supplies or money for yourself. But this isn’t the case here.
I’m afraid you’re responding to the wrong comment.
I do not suspect a bioweapon and agree with your points. I was just angry that people assume racists intent when asking simple question as this.
We don't have a 100 years anymore.
Another plausible explanation is those who share his view won't admit it publicly to not destroy their career.
Also assumes that higher temps don't have secondary effects cascading into more extreme weather or disrupted ecologies with attendant resource issues.
> For the Obama administration, they ignored recommendations to increase the military presence to a level that they could effectively remove the Taliban.

1. Of course the military would ask for this, and complain after the fact.

2. It's easy for generals to make promises, but I have zero confidence that they would have actually delivered any results.
> To list backups that will should be kept use the --invert option.

May I suggest changing the name to something more direct? Calling it "--invert" means the user must think through what the default sense of the test is, then negate that in their mind. Not exactly a tough mental task, but people do make careless errors.

Perhaps something like "--list=keep" and "--list=discard" (with the default being "discard").

Also, typos:

"will make prunef to keep" --> "will make prunef keep"

"list backups that will should be" --> "list backups that should be"
This reminds me of something someone told me about "build vs. buy" for SAP. When you build, you can solve for your business model. When you buy, you have to fit your business model to what you buy.

The insinuation was that trying to buy and customize SAP to your business was a fools errand.