skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The invasion was not enough to create ISIS. To do that, US had to name an idiot as Iraq's governor. Enters Paul Bremer. A single decision of his made ISIS possible.

He got to manage a country that just got invaded, that used to have a huge military and where the occupiers are still fighting the remnants of rebel forces in some part of the country.

In that context, he decided that the former officers from Saddam Hussein's regime would be barred from the new Iraq military and that they should not receive pension either.

He, put yourself in their shoes: when your job is to organize a military, that the only lawful employer refused your services and denies your pension, are you going to go homeless and beg in the streets or are you going to join a rebellious startup?

The ISIS of the origin was organized just like the Baath army was, because that's the framework the officers knew. There were some documents captured (that involved less "hacking" than physical invasion of command structures but of course we never know the amount of covert ops going on) and what they revealed was that one budget line was the biggest of the whole organization: pensions. Suicide bombing is not the career path everybody chose there.

ISIS is not a US creation: that would imply GWB's administration capacity to plan such a thing. But it came from crucial mistakes the US did despite being warned about these years prior.
I wonder when we'll see the rise of drop-in replacement motors to convert combustion cars to electric? It seems to me that, done properly, this would be a major market for someone to enter and engage.
Call your states bar association for a referral. Probably no one will want to help you unless it is criminal defense, in which case you have no choice except pay what they want. In civil stuff no one will help you unless it is open and shut payout for six figures. Probably better and cheaper to just get a law degree if you frequently need a lawyer.
It doesn't work that way. The USB HID usages (and PS/2 scancodes) are the same. There is one usage for the key at (say) D01, and the keyboard doesn't know or control whether it is "Q" or "A" or something else entirely. You cannot switch layouts on the keyboard, because the maps are on the host. Multiple keyboards with D01 engraved with different symbols will not actually vary anything, and all send the same thing across the wire.
The thing helping the Raspberry Pi fend off clones is their deal with Broadcom, not whether the board, firmware, and boot code are open or closed source. It's easy to copy the board and binary blobs either way. The closed nature of the boot code hurts tinkering without helping sales.
To put it more bluntly: People have studied how to weaponize Facebook, and are have finally got around to make sure others can't to them same to them. It's the classic two sides of intelligence and counter intelligence.

I would expect the big IT companies to be treated more and more as intelligence assets over time, if we aren't already there.
3 will be allowed to defect and Pence will be the tie breaking vote.

All of this is coordinated, all of this is staged.
> 0: any program that doesn't support --help is defective, which was rather my point.

Fair enough. My point was that there's a category of operating systems where long options (including --help) isn't really a thing. You may of course consider them defective, though I'm not sure everybody agrees.
Sophistry laid bare for all to see.

There are a number of highly concerning posts you've made attempting to normalize a flagrant attack on the rule of law across this thread, but this post in particular is extremely difficult to reconcile with the principle of charity.
Link below. Anyway why do they have such a low quota? To stop people from using it for Crypto? But surely they could have make multiple account if it needs to be.

So why put a limit?

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1305967411749892098
Yes. You should cover your legal ass. Make sure you're not responsible for illegal stuff users might try to do with your service (to the extent possible by law).
With the anyhow crate and ? syntax I find current rust error handling a pleasure to work with.

Of course there are a few rough edges, but nothing major. I also don't mind having to wrap the successful result of a fn in Ok(...).

I hope "do a few minor things, add better documentation, but leave the language itself as it is" is also one of the possible outcomes...
Starting from iOS 14 which was released just a few days ago (I don't know about Android side), it does. It also displays which apps have used camera/microphone in control center recently in case you've missed the subtle dot. I think they've nailed it this time. (Though I personally think the design can improve)
Yes, sorry, that may need more explanation. In some circles "put an LS in it" is a meme bordering on cliche. GM has historically been willing to sell parts to anyone for any purpose, kind of the opposite of what Tesla is doing. The classic US automakers (especially GM) have a reputation of being friendly to the shadetree mechanic.

So for gearheads ICE powertrains are an easy swap with lots of aftermarket and manufacturer support. Electric drivetrains are more exotic and have many question marks. As we get more mass market electric vehicles from the likes of GM electric swaps (and maintenance!) become much more approachable.

I'm looking forward to seeing electric motors on a site like this: https://www.chevrolet.com/performance-parts/crate-engines
Understanding Computer Networks by Analogy
I'm writing a series of post to help me and help some of my friends to understand a little bit better computer networks by using analogies.

I'm going to start with Networks, subnets and devices but I want to expand to more topic like switches, routers, internet, SDN, etc.

What do you think? Do you have any feedback?

https://memogarcia.mx/posts/understanding-computer-networks-by-analogy/

Edited:
Updated link
The low-rpm torque of electric motor is liable to damage whole drivetrain, unless clutch and transmission are replaced, too. Or the motor torque will have to be limited by control unit. Either way it quite lowers the appeal.
While they're being taken off passenger routes, a cargo conversion makes them great propositions: they have a greater higher Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) and Maximum Landing Weight (MLW) than anything else in the same price class both in terms of purchase price and running costs.

A 747-400 is about $15m, and can carry 412 metric tons. A 747-8 will cost you more, but you're heading up to 447 metric tons.

The only stuff that can lift more is: an A380 which will be _at least_ 10 times the price for an extra 130 tons MTOW, but you can only hand with ~50 tons more, so 80 tons of that is for range you might just not need in a cargo operation; a Strarolaunch which is a complete non-starter on many counts; or, finally an Antonov An-225 which comes at a high purchase price and a whole bag of operational problems you likely don't want as a cargo operator, including high running costs and a relative scarcity of spare parts.

There are plenty of businesses out there who can throw down money for a 747 in reasonable working condition and be confident they'll recoup that after other costs, and also know there are lots and lots of parts out there that will help them keep their fleet in the sky for a long time, and pilots and ground crew with plenty of experience on them too.
If this ruling stands, I could imagine them just shutting the marketplace down entirely.
Thanks mate, been looking for something like this for weeks now.
I read part of the paper. Note the graphs where the y axis is as short as possible to make the effect size look larger. The title is explicitly non-serious. They also represent that they can measure cognitive capacity and fluid intelligence reliably and meaningfully, instead of presenting the data more clearly in the form of... data, eg, raw text scores. It also lacks the sort of control group that has a non-smartphone distraction present, so there isn't conclusive evidence that its the smartphone itself. What if it was a chessboard or a sandwich?

They need to hold themselves to more serious standards, this makes science itself look bad
Shared feeling. I once ran into a early 20th researcher that rebuild history through causal analysis rather than event listing. I failed to note his name or the name of his field.. but it felt exciting.
The article explicitly states it is a requirement. If you want to build a non halal certified product... You can't.
Refusing to vote on a nominee is also unprecedented. You've yet to acknowledge that in every other case the Senate voted. This time they refused to even put it to a vote. (And some senators considered continuing it through the entire clinton presidency, were she elected, I might add)

That's also a huge taboo, and for good reason. It prevents voters from making politically informed decisions because their representatives don't have actions on which to judge.
I try, but I realised that as soon as I sit on the computer, there's a 70%+ chance that I get sucked in. Then it feeds me just enough dopamine to discourage starting a more rewarding activity. It can take hours to break out of it.

On the other hand, if I don't touch the computer before noon, there's a solid chance I'll end up in the garage building things.

Unfortunately, I'll still need my laptop at some point, either to do research for a project or check things off my todo list. Just like that, I get sucked in.
The article about NSA "getting ISIS" mentioned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520757

Once there, see the posts by bashinator and _kbh_ for other sources.

Back to the topic here, the "technical glitches" were present throughout the process, as reported day after day on:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

E.g.

"This hearing has frequently been interrupted by the strange incompetence of the Ministry of Justice in establishing simple videolinks."

"It was not Professor Feldstein’s fault the day finished in confused anti-climax. The court was unable to make the video technology work. For ten broken minutes out of about forty Feldstein was briefly able to give evidence, and even this was completely unsatisfactory as he and Mark Summers were repeatedly speaking over each other on the link."

Also playing with the times:

"Daniel Ellsberg was to give evidence this afternoon. Edward Fitzgerald QC applied for his videolink evidence to be heard at 3.15pm [(in England)] which is 07.15am in California where Dan lives. Baraitser insisted it could not be put back beyond 2.30 pm, thus forcing an 89 year old man [Daniel Ellsberg] to give evidence at 6.30am [(his local time)]. Simply stunning."

The use of internet was also intentionally restricted:

The judge "explained this by stating that the public could normally observe from within the courtroom, where she could control their behaviour. But if they had remote access, she could not control their behaviour and this was not in the “interests of justice”."
Nobody disputes that China is already playing this game.

That is true in many areas. The questions is what a liberal democracy should do.
Almost fully agree, just the ergonomics are fully there and while static analysis tools aren't fully there, nor ever will, as you well point out, the likes of Google and Microsoft seem quite minded to bring Rust into C++, despite their ongoing adoption of Rust.

As the latest posts from Visual C++ seem to imply,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/new-safety-rules-in-c...

https://cppcon2020.sched.com/event/e7C0/introducing-microsof...

Because the language alone isn't enough, the existing eco-system and tooling also plays a big role.

Since we are speaking about games here, C++ just hit the jackpot with GPGPU programming, even though other languages are also supported in PTX and SPIR-V.

So I am actually curious how far the companies with seat at ISO C++ are actually going to adopt Rust on their platforms, versus briging Rust learnings into C++.
Until ISO C++23 papers for pattern matching get accepted.
For example, ZIMBABWE MINING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is sanctioned by the US, so it cannot participate in business transactions with any American company. Another one is Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. an oil company from Venezuela.

You can read more about it here: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0410/countries-s...

The important bit is this:

> The U.S. sanctions countries that sponsor terrorism or perpetrate human rights violations on their people.
The U.S. can sanction an entire nation or specific individuals or entities within that nation.
The upcoming election will only be disputed by one side, because the other side will have such a clear majority that a dispute is practically impossible.
This really misses the point of why the LS and previous variants were and are so popular with gearheads.

GM is more than willing to sell parts to anyone and they don't really care what you plan on doing with them. Fix your car and keep it stock, modify it with more power, put a GM motor in a Toyota, they don't care.

It's a very hacker friendly mentality actually.

Tesla is actively trying to prevent people from even maintaining their own cars, forget about trying to put a Tesla drivetrain in a 1990 Corolla or something.
Something I've thought about a few times is how a fair number of smart folks who are in the know view VLIW as something that was tried and failed, so they're dismissive of new designs which use VLIW.

For example Linus Torvalds has made this assertion a few times that I've seen. However, it seems to me (at least by their own telling) that their focus was almost entirely on trying to do x86 better than x86 and doesn't really seem like a straight forward or easy task.

What I wonder about is VLIW doing its own thing (e.g. not trying to run Windows games) but running applications intentionally developed for it. Perhaps there are use cases where VLIW works very well... or at least well enough to a reasonable alternative value proposition.
Democrats were literally the party of segregation when Buckley wrote that (there would have been no New Deal coalition without the support of segregationists). He was vastly out of step with Republicans at the time, and he did a 180 by 1965, the year after LBJ flipped the Democratic Party on the civil rights act. It’s a shameful period of American history, but unless you’re going to stop voting Democrat over what some Democrats said in 1957...
A brushing pattern, even if perfectly straight, consists of scratches with random thicknesses. It does not have 180 degree symmetry; if the piece is reversed, the scratches do not match, and that is pretty obvious if held up to the light.

I believe all the center face re-orientations are paired, 180 degree rotations: there are no quarter turns.
I moved a little further out to have access to a garage. Even before that, I had my motorcycle, my bicycle, my ice skates, a well-equipped kitchen, board games etc.

You are right though. The good stuff happens behind a keyboard.
I find i'm normally a little better at grasping how all of the components work together on large systems than others.
Huge discussion on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24522908
Sure, but the argument that the Senate shouldn't approve or even consider a Supreme Court nomination in election years because voters should have a voice was made by Mitch McConnell, at a time when not approving a presidential nominee suited him.

I don't think anybody can argue in good faith that it is equally incumbent upon the Democrats to act in a manner consistent with principles argued for and precedents set by Mitch McConnell.
PhyteByte: An endeavor to identify bioactive compounds in foods
Most people drink coffee blends rather than single-origin. And in the U.S. at least dark roast coffee is very popular. Once the beans have been roasted that much the subtler coffee flavors are going to mostly disappear and it won't matter what sort of coffee it is.

How coffee is prepared generally has a much greater impact on flavor than the varietal - when very lightly roasted it has a flavor profile closer to a tea than what we generally think of as coffee.

Most people are unfamiliar with existing diversity of coffees from around the world. A lot of that is due to the economics of the coffee industry and the desire for consistency in flavor. Sure, maybe we could add more genetic diversity, but it's unlikely to change how the coffee you'd buy at the supermarket or a cafe chain will taste.
The problem is that a lot of the specialist machines weren't designed with security in mind — it’s not so easy to do as you describe
Guess it’s back to civil war then.
Quite the contrary, NVidia is quite willing to contribute when it comes with money attached, like scietific computing and Hollywood studios.
>Not really, there are no punitive consequences for merely being attracted to the same sex

Actually there is in many countries, including many claiming to run sharia law systems.
In some respects it is, it’s just correlated I’d say.
Fair point. I am just pointing out the hypocrisy.
> These zoning laws were originally created as a way to get around federal laws prohibiting discrimination of race and sex by making it more difficult for people who can't afford housing to live within a certain neighborhood.

I'm not from the US but I'm just not sure I'm reading this right, you say these zoning laws are literally racist? And they're still around??
Because this time, most likely there will be a contested election. And because this time it's different because both the WH and Senate are held by the same party unlike 2016. SC judge needs both Senate and WH and that was not the case in 2016.
All TikTok politics aside, this is another case why walled-garden app stores are a terrible idea. Content controlled by a single corporation means it is this easy to shut down software.

Compare this scenario vs. trying to prevent people from using, say, irssi (or any IRC client) where the source code is available from a thousand places and one can simply compile it locally.
Yet no competition was able to provice a polyglot OpenCL and IDE with graphical GPGPU debuggers.

Failure of execution from the competion is also to blame.

Yes, OpenCL finally adopted SPIR-V, when it was down and the referee started the countdown.
$100k is a very tidy sum in India. Even $10k isn't pocket money.

This is why those labelling the comments about Indian outsourcing as racist as missing the point. Outsourcing significant business operations to developing countries makes corruption and hostile interference really really cheap - and therefore far more likely.
That would not help iOS users.
If you avoid the extremely common mistake of mounting the SD card RW instead of RO then Pi problems are negligible.
> "Folder directory deleted," said another.

maybe they're dealing with the kind of people who name their folders "directory"
Volocopter now accepting reservations for flights in its electric air taxi
Speak to your manager about it. Be prepared to speak to legal about it.

Not doing so - even if you don't do what they're asking - is possible grounds for disciplinary action if discovered later, e.g. these people are caught bribing others, their files are gone through, and your name pops up as somebody they approached and it's realised you kept quiet. At that point you may have damaged the trust your employer has in you.
How about "history as a service"? Your history is encrypted and synced remotely.
Every page/tab you've got open, you can add tags and notes. So even if you close everything, you should be able to find what you visited before based on your custom annotations, even if it was years ago. Then, no fear of closing all the tabs.
DNSSEC?
I agree. It's a huge issue for software dev companies as it is related to a non-negligible effort to keep your software working efficiently with a large array of GPUs. One potential workaround are libraries such as KOKKOS [0]. Of course it's never going to be as fast as pure optimized CUDA, but if it gets you half the way there, you'll still be faster than using the CPU. Particularly when considering that some of the new CPUs seem to have scaling issues themselves [1]

[0] https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos
[1] https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/Threadripper-3990x-64-...
Their links are dead now, but Tangram browser (2015)* was an Android browser that tried to break up researching on the web into three distinct UI tabs.

1. Seek:
If you give it a search term it'll display the results as list of links

2. Sort:
Any links or images you click on while in Web goes into a list called the Stack. I think it acts like your working memory in the same way that a traditional window of tabs might, and the act of sending links to the stack may be related to the "seeking circuit".

Links in the stack can be clicked on to navigate to, or swiped right to be sent to the Store section.

3. Store:
Links here are saved from the stack as you use the app, and you can create folders.

* https://imgur.com/gallery/AwBTxlZ
Here's an imgur post I just made with screenshots of the walk-through and a gif of usage. I don't use it anymore because it's been unsupported for years so I'm assuming that it's not exactly secure, but I loved the idea.
Wait, does not mean that Cloudflare (or AWS) can read and modify all the user input inluding passwords?

Genuine question, I never used one of these services.
OpenCL is no match for CUDA.

Stuck in pure C, printf style debugging with graphical debuggers that never properly handled everything.

CUDA, polyglot GPGPU development environment, graphical debuggers that allow for single stepping and conditional breakpoints in GPGPU code, interoperability with graphical APIs.

OTOY just replaced their rendering code in Octane Render from Vulkan to CUDA (via Optix 7).
Each of the internal units is reasonably simple compared to a modern superscalar x86. There are just huge numbers of units.
The complexity is in the software needed to keep all those units busy and pumping around data between them. What you're doing down at the bottom of rendering or machine learning are usually very simple computations done a huge number of times. Somewhere above that is the problem of parceling out work to all those hardware resources in a somewhat optimal way. That's the hard problem.
I'm sorry, but from a neutral perspective (i'm not American), but what's the problem here? He was(probably still is) a science denier or egotistical ( knew there was an issue but thought it won't impact him during his lifetime). Yes, he deserves for his house to burn down as a lesson, and if he had burned with it it would have maybe taught that lesson to other idiots in power refusing reality. Natural selection.
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Hey arnath, I'm working on a new open public chat app called sqwok. It does _not_ have events, but that said, it's a new alternative for easily starting and sharing a quality chat with anyone.

As an example I just made a post about Amazon's Alexa Hardware event on Sept 24th. You could share this with anyone and they can open on phone or desktop and instantly chat: https://sqwok.im/p/S8-O4B-p6C_2tg.

I know it's not entirely what you're looking for but thought I'd share that people _are_ in fact working on new alternatives. For just the chat component you could create an account, make a post about the event, and share with everyone you want to talk to. Anyways thought I'd share, cheers mate.
How is it any harder to dual boot Linux now than on a desktop in the 00s?

Didn't seem any harder with Manjaro Linux and Windows 10 to me.