skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Have you read the Afghanistan papers? [1] I'm sorry, but these are not people we want in our country. We spent 20 years and trillions of dollars on these people, and they blew it all on corruption and graft. In many cases they charged protection money from us, then killed Americans so they could demand more protection money. There's a reason that two decades of military armament and training has resulted in a force that the Taliban is completely rolling over. If you haven't read the Afghanistan papers, I strongly recommend it. These people are NOT our (ideological or political) allies. They almost entirely consisted of people who were simply interested in using American power and money to enrich themselves. Not to mention problems of...extreme cultural incompatibility.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-to...

> From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.

> Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene

> "The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.”

The whole situation sucks. We basically should have never been involved. It one of the most massive expenditures of American money and lives to absolutely no purpose in our history. Who knows what we could have done for Americans if that money had spent here. But we aren't going to improve anything by inviting our "allies" here.

The most mindblowing thing about all this is why aren't more heads rolling? All these decorated generals and "experts" spent two trillion dollars and two decades supposedly outfitting and training up Afghan militias and police to American standards, and now according to their own assessments (in the article) they won't last six months on their own. How is it possible that the American military brass and foreign policy is so stunningly incompetent and nobody is being punished? Indeed, the people quoted in the article make clear the whole thing is just naked propaganda to spend even more time and money there after having utterly failed to do their job!

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...
Given most things are frontended by API Gateway anyway this isn’t too big of a concern since there’s already an effective 30 second timeout there. For ETL like stuff you can use Stepfunctions too.
I think paper newspaper ads are great. Hell I used to buy papers at the newsstand in my building or gas station for ads.

The problem with my local Hearst paper’s online presence is that there are literally hundreds of irrelevant ads, pop-up videos, 40+ trackers, tabloola or something similar and other junk.

That stuff doesn’t go away when you pay.

I’m no expert on the metrics here, but since the economics of the online ad market are so awful, and the ads are mostly shit, I don’t understand why the paper can’t sell ads online like they do in print.
Can this animate and export svgs? I have been looking for something that can do that for a while but didn't really find a satisfying solution so ended up manually editing the svgs (which is quite laborious).
>What are you doing that can't be done in FF or Safari?

It actually works in FF, so maybe testing to make sure it works? If their Github account is accurate, this is done by a 3 person team, so resources for that sort of thing are probably not abundant.
Probably Afghanistan was also the wrong target, or at least not the only country in the region that should have been targeted. Bin Laden hid in Pakistan after all, and the Taliban often crossed the border to Pakistan to seek refuge.
> Those stereotypes include being seen as less competent and less adaptable, particularly when it comes to using new technologies.

Anecdotally, I have encountered the latter a few times. I've known older developers (> 40) who didn't want to move to Angular/React and would rather have stayed on jQuery (for complicated brand new web apps) or didn't want to learn beyond Java 8.
Yes, but you need very good latency to the other player for it to work well. The typical setup is to use something like parsec where one person hosts the emulator and streams audio/video and the other person sends keyboard commands.

You can add a small delay to the host to even things out but to properly account for latency is a major reverse engineering project which afaik off the top of my head has only been done for super smash bros melee
If we didn't stop building plants 3 decades ago, you wouldn't have to worry. Anyway, USSR was building new plants in 3-5 years, I'm pretty sure we could get by for a decade more it would take to make 100% generated energy without burning fossil fuels.
On the other hand, young boys will probably be better off. The Taliban are said to be much less tolerant of the rampant sexual abuse of young boys which is otherwise widely practiced and accepted across the country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
Arguably the Wii is emulating parts of the GameCube. I was pretty sure that certain MMIO banks on the GameCube were being emulated by starlet rather than having hardware blocks like the GameCube probably did. That's how custom MIOS hacks floating around the internet allow for USB controllers and mass storage from GameCube games.
in many ways:

In Syria outplayed by Russia

In Iraq outplayed by Iran

In Afghanistan outplayed by a league of local tribes.
I can't imagine graduating college and having this be my first job experience. Abusive bosses deserve to be publicly flogged. But based on the threads, it seems the psycho-genius trope is still being idolized, when it needs to be buried.
Slapstick?
It's called safe withdrawal rate...and usually 4% is what people use. $2 million safe withdrawal rate = $6666 per month. Not sure why you are seem to be offended and saying they are out of touch, or insane and unattainable when this is the goal for many people who wish to, and are, living financially independently.

Also I'm not sure why you say someone with $2M can achieve something that someone with $6000 pension a month can't...you can definitely borrow against your pension and grab a large lump sump...
I’m increasingly convinced the endgame here is advertisers hiding content within the ads themselves via steganography.
One way would be to connect the browser version to a desktop version, so you can save your project and open it in desktop which can access video encoding.
> Research shows that children under the age of five have an exceedingly challenging time learning from a 2D screen and translating that into the 3D world without help

Numbers and letters are 2D. Any word on learning about 2D objects on a 2D object?
Nowadays at least in my country is difficult to find music legally to download and burn on a CD. My car stereo only has CD, and I don't want to change a very good stereo (it sounds far better than the built in stereo of most new cars) just to put one with bluetooth so I can play Spotify, and I don't want even to use the AUX input, since the quality is not that great (it picks up a lot of noise) and most importantly I have to use the phone to change track (and that introduces a distraction, I prefer not to use my phone when I'm driving).

Nowadays it's impossible to find mp3. I have a Spotify premium account, so I can download music, but not in a format that lets me burn it on a CD. So basically I pay 10 euro a month and I don't even have the freedom to listen to the music on whatever device I prefer.

I miss the old days where you could find everything to pirate. These days thanks god there is Telegram that lets me download some mp3 in decent quality, otherwise I have to download YouTube videos and the audio quality is awful (but probably most people will not notice since they have crappy stereos in the first place).
My experience is that this weird evaluation order stuff is only confusing for students with a lot of programming experience who already expect nice lexical scope. For those coming in from Excel, the tidyverse conventions are no problem and are in fact easier than all the pedantic quoting you have to do in something like Pandas. It only gets confusing when you want to write new tidyverse functions, and even then, base R isn’t any simpler: the confusing evaluation order is built into R itself at the deepest level.
Equal time never applied to newspapers, and the broadcasters began relabeling their news content as entertainment ("infotainment") so the rule did not apply all the way back during Reagan.
Well, prolly not in IBD. But in Sales and Trading or at a lot of quant funds it is very common.
If France had followed a less radical path, Occitania might be a separate nation today. There's no denying the efficacy of the French nationalist movement.
It is frustrating and illogical. Why do companies think they can do this to individual workers instead of just trading money for value? Imagine if a company suggested doing this in a B2B contract - it wouldn’t work and it would look absolutely absurd:

“Oh your company is in Backcountry Town, Flyover State? Well we will pay 20% less for your widgets then.”
The History of Phone Phreaking
If you don’t mind right wing politics, retalk.com
This is probably true, top university admissions is a function of innate ability, and programming is too apparently.
Another attempt to let God off the hook is to say that God is omniscient in the sense that God knows everything that happens in the universe at the present time, but not what will happen in the future because God has created the universe such that there is non-determinancy in it.. God winds up the universe as it were (ie. creates the "laws" of physics, starts up the Big Bang, etc) and lets it run, without knowledge of the ultimate outcome or even everything in the next moment.

Then, in some theologies, God withdraws.

One could question what kind of God is one that would let the universe run like this and not interfere to, say, save the innocent from harm? Or what kind of God would withdraw from the world? There's a lot of theological hand-wrining about such questions.

Another attempt is that of the Gnostics, who thought that the ultimate, perfect God did not create the world. Instead there were a great number of intermediate beings or gods that emanated from the ultimate God, each lesser and more imperfect than the last, and it was the lowest and most imperfect of these (the demiurge) which created the world, in ignorance, madness, or stupidity. Thus the blame for suffering is shifted on to this ignorant/mad/stupid god instead of the ultimate, perfect God.

Despite such efforts, of course, there remains the question why any imperfection would or even could come from the ultimate, perfect God in the first place.
In Greek cosmogony (well, one version of it) there is one supreme being called Chaos from which everything else proceeded. If you think of it simply as a being of pure creative energy that created the laws of physics at random (and possibly infinitely many other random universes we have no access to), would that fit the bill?

It's little more than a reification of "just because" as an actual being, but I mean, why not.
That is how spreadsheets work. Try Libreoffice or Google Sheets. You will find they operate the same. Spreadsheets format all cells as a generic type where the value entered to it is gets assigned a more specific type by the spreadsheet application. If you want to insure that the value you entered is interpreted as a specific type you need to identify that to the spreadsheet application prior to entering the value.
I agree with most of this, but want to throw my two cents in.

Re: The cloud

I used to say that snarky thing proudly, and then I worked on AWS services for a year. Yes, many of them are seemingly overcomplicated. No, you should not go to the cloud to save money.

Yes, you should go to the cloud for a host of potential reasons. One example is IAM. In AWS, every single thing that one can do is controlled by the same policy language and user/role/action framework. Even if the policy is (very woefully) expressed in JSON and not one of a dozen more appropriate languages, it is an incredible feat of IAM to have so many disparate tools controlled with the same language.

Re: Security through Obscurity

I put my SSH ports for lab boxes on port 222. My auth logs drop by orders of magnitude. It doesn't mean I weaken my password or SSH cert, but it means my logs are cleaner, the chance of getting pwned by a 0day are just that much less, and those are benefits.

Re: Open source

I love FOSS. I don't think it is the end-all and be-all of security, though. And when it comes to cybersecurity tooling, I would much rather use certain closed-source NGFWs than opnsense/snort at the perimeter of a large organization. Disclosure: I work for one of the NGFW companies. Point is, seeing the code isn't the last bastion of security.

Re: Compliance

Yes, yes. OP is correct. It is needed, but is not the end-all. A competent audit/compliance regime sets up requirements and recommendations specific to your organization based on government regulation and industry best practice. They will work with you on what is a hard requirement and what can be justified as a mitigated measure, balancing the law, the threat risk, threat likelihood, and compensating controls. At best, they are partners with Infosec, pushing management to do what Infosec knows needs more focus, and slows down management that doesn't want to spend money, or just wants to "move fast and break things".

So yeah, this person knows what they're talking about.
What country is that? While the focus for sure has shifted to streaming, here in Germany e.g. Amazon will sell you files if you want.
> The NES doesn't tend to do tricks with dynamic runtime code generation, so NES games are good candidates for being statically analyzed and transpiled.

Runtime code generation is rare, but dynamic dispatch (i.e. "JMP indirect" through RAM), jump tables, and certain instruction-level hacks are fairly common. This can make it tricky to reliably identify all subroutines or traces [1].

[1] https://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html
> tech debt is not always bad. Using MongoDB to prototype ideas or writing an ugly function that does abusive things to solve a critical bug can be justified, and the optimal way to do things. It’s just a matter of doing so deliberately.

I've seen this put slightly differently before: technical debt is like financial debt. Drowning in it is obviously bad, but it has its place, and it's typically unwise to aim to never take on debt.
Regarding the NY Times test drive, I would recommend to read an independent review rather than taking Musks blog posts as gospel.
Fucking both. The invasions were popular with the American public. Who could argue with both the New York Times and Colin Powell?
So Iraq didn't ask for it with WMD? Afghanistan didn't ask for it with harboring Taliban?

"Asking for it" is an acceptable excuse for a war internationally.
It doesn't rely on order of operations, at least in this example?

"Tarzan" will match one character earlier than Tarzan as the sting is scanned, so it would be discarded even if you flipped the order of the alternation.

This isn't true of examples where the good and bad marches can start at the same character.
Is that really the crew? Or is this like a Milli Vanilli kind of thing?
What's the point?

Astronauts and cosmonauts who have been on the ISS's famous globe window...it's not like they were overwhelmed or collapsed onto the ground crying because of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXi9PTh96w

What makes our jaw drop is wired into our brain for evolutionary purposes.

A wonderful wheat field = means abundant food

An amazing lake/river = means abundant drinking water

An incredibly attractive woman = means possibility to pass down genes

If travelling at 600mph and 40000ft gets old so fast, I think so will the trip at 50 km or 100 or even 200.

Bezos and Branson are happy and pumped because they are the people behind the effort and managed to allocate raw materials, human resources, goodwill, money...in a way which made them succeed at something so hard as space travel.

But it's not unlike what the CEO of BioNtech and Moderna felt, or even Zuckerberg , Brin or Gates for their endevours.
Yep. "It isn't the one solution, so it is worthless". Or even, "It isn't the best solution, so it is worthless".

Defense in depth, people!
I don’t think news sites can survive on the tiny slice of revenue. Musicians make most of their money on live events, so while the content creator is taking a hit compared to more lucrative CD sales, they are still using Spotify as marketing for the real product.

Journalism doesn’t have the same revenue stream to fall back on.
And I almost feel bad I didn't give more attention to my intuition. I will not delete my other comment immediately though :)

To repeat another commenter, I have also noticed increased difficulty in spotting satire when browsing the web. I guess this is one consequence of the C19 crisis.

A little bit out of topic but just to share: 2020 taught me that the people I love(d) the most could fall prey to disinformation. 2021 is teaching me even worse: I am slowly coming to the realization that people very dear to me have totalitarian values.
> it's about Democratizing Space Tourism[0].

Sorry to be a party pooper, but why should space tourism be promoted and developed in the first place? Given the ongoing climate crisis is this responsible? I mean, what's the end game here? Having near space infested with tourists taking selfies and over-consuming like in pre-covid Venice [0]?

[0] https://veneziaautentica.com/impact-tourism-venice/
> Reality: certifications represent a foundational body of knowledge for new entrants to the field - to start the "scaffolding" of their knowledge. It helps employers test a candidate’s commitment to the career and so is useful as long they don’t mandate it above all else.

Sure, that's the intended outcome. But I work with equally as many certified idiots as I do uncertified geniuses, so at this point it means effectively nothing to me.
"To me a "being" with power able to create reality is different than physical matter just always existing. I'm not saying it's right, it's just more convincing than saying that matter has always been here.."

Why is it more convincing to you? They seem equally preposterous to me.

What difference does it make if one is physical and the other not? Saying that one or the other of them always existed seems equivalent to me.
I am pro refurbishing/reusing and having less waste but its hard to care about tiny airpods being tossed.

Maybe they test the message and it resonated better than "Airpods should last longer than your last relationship"
or
"1 trick that Apple hates"

etc.
> From the Blair-era defeat of national ID cards onwards, the British people have been wary of anything that seems like a national database. Begin tracking people in a centralised system, they fear, and it’s the first step on an inexorable decline towards a surveillance state. But as the weight of legislation piles up, it seems inevitable that something will change soon.

It is "inevitable" that unwanted legislation will be passed? This sounds like a tacit admission that British democracy is broken.
Ehh. There are two kinds of tech debt:

* Things you haven't built yet

* Things you shouldn't have built that way

IMO first one is OK, and the second one is what kills you.

OP is absolutely correct to point out you can find tech debt in code, architecture and data, but... That doesn't really help to make general decisions about it, both in handling it once you have it, and in making decisions about accumulating it.
When that happens we should just bombard their social media profiles. Won’t do much to them but hopefully others will see it.
Not sure if you're referring to a different simulator since model.energy doesn't seem to allow modeling nuclear?

But, qualitatively, it sounds like the step-like behavior you describe simply reflects whether LCOE(nuclear) > LCOE(renewable+storage)?

That wouldn't tell the whole story though, since you might still want to keep the number of nuclear plants low, or you might simply be thinking about whether to keep operating existing plants, rather than building new ones.
Most ppl who use excel would benefit from Access and creating some repeatable processes. A lot of the sorting and ranking from excel could be done in linked tables and improve the repeatability
> Given the different ways silence is used in China (a listening culture) and Canada (a speaking culture) ...

I observed the opposite. When I speak Chinese to Chinese people in Toronto, Canada - friends/family/business - I find that they speak faster, are more likely to interrupt or talk over me, and tend to push their viewpoints instead of waiting to hear yours.

I've interacted with Chinese vs. Canadian bankers, salespeople, doctors, etc., and the contrast is noticeable for me.

This isn't a statement about whether one way is better (e.g. I find the Chinese are more straightforward with their intentions, whereas Canadians leave more things implied); this is just an observation about tendencies.
But that is what happens via negotiation, isn't it? Just like people in lower cost countries can accept lower pay and sometimes do, there are firms with lower cost bases that can accept lower offers for their widgets and sometimes do so.

Inflexible entities either find someone willing to pay up or they have to find something else to do.
> No, it's like complaining that a chain of restaurant randomly takes dishes off the menu, and it's different in every country.

Which is still ridiculous. Even McDonald's don't have the same menu everywhere.

All restaurants I know have dishes that are taken off (because if's off season, because a new chef, because they try something else, etc.).

Plus, the analogy is distorted, you can't complain about a different menu in another country, it's not like you can hop from countries to countries 20 times per evening to get your Mc Bulgogi Burger.

> Eventually you get fed up with unpredictable menu and stop going there.

Good, that's what competition is about between services.
Couldn’t the risk of hefty bills be lowered by using CloudFront as a caching layer?