skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would be interesting to characterize the behavior of the encoder (ie; how does it differ from a mel warped spectrum... or what is the warping that it learns?)

also would be kinda neat to see something that is pretrained in this way, and then does a small amount of humans in the loop training iterations to see if quality improves or perhaps an uncovering of something previously unknown about human auditory perception...
How would you notice that without proof? Seeing that two squares sum to the same area as a third isn't easy.
Because you only have to express it for it to be respected.

... and if you do not know that an opt-out is required to not have your organs removed, then how can it be said that you have willingly contributed them. And if your organs are removed by default, without you actually willing that this be the case, then how can this practice be called "donation"?

So instead, shall we call it "organ retrieval", "organ harvesting" and so on? All rather ugly words. But when the words that accurately describe what you are doing appear ugly, instead of looking for words which inaccurately describe what you are doing, perhaps you should ask yourself if you should be doing what you are doing.
you should move from china
Are you trying to blame this on the Biden administration? Seriously? What would you want to see happen?
Many people might not know, but early version of IE was built on top of Mosaic, the first web browser, created by same people who built Netscape Navigator.

Also, IE didn't win because it was better than Navigator but it was shipped free with Windows OS.
I find it strange they were able to fly KLM (the flag carrier airline of Nazi-occupied Netherlands), presumably over Nazi-occupied France.
T-when till the robots classify humans as weeds and go to work?
Absolutely the government were in it for themselves, not for the people. The average Afghan has no love for the Taliban or the government but it’s pragmatic to side with whoever is winning.
Tools like Copilot will always be one step behind: as soon as we are able to avoid writing boilerplate code (auth, api endpoints, etc.), the requirements of the software we need to write go up by an order of magnitude, and there is no tool that can help us. We need to wait for the tooling to learn from our creative efforts. By the time the tools are able to automate the more complex software needed, then again requirements have gone up another level, and again human creativity to the rescue.

Unless, of course, we are talking about a general purpose AI that can "think" like a human. But I think that's sci-fi for now.
What would the talibans do with the money? It is quite obvious the Afghan army has a more expensive operation than talibans with rifles and pickups.

I guess the Afghan army should have focused more on quality than size to be able to afford talanted soldiers.
Vaccines do not pay for themselves. The proposed tax is literally about paying for the vaccines. So you're literally talking about giving out corporate welfare. Want to silence this talking point? Abandon the effort to tax people to pay for the vaccine and obtain them purely at-cost so Moderna, et al. are unable to use "the greatest global pandemic in a century" to make a mint. I mean, if this is really about getting the vaccine out then you should have no problem backing a proposal like that... RIGHT?
This not unique to software though. We see the same with the law. Lawmakers often underestimate of even ignore costs imposed by a new law. And old (often known to be bad) laws are repealed slower than new laws are created.

May be it is basic human psychology (loss aversion?). People are happy gain something (even not very useful) and unhappy to part with it.
There have been quite a few attempts to use a 2D layout to describe logic. While it does work to some extent to problems naturally suited to unidirectional data flow, it is overly limited for general computation. The patterns immediately behind the distasteful (to some) text of code are N dimensional and cannot easily be mapped to two dimensions.
This seems like a market niche that is going to grow very rapidly as it passes a tipping point.

I look forward to the repeat of hearing about Africans paying for things with their mobile phones and thinking, wow, that sounds like the future. But this time it will be low pollution urban areas near the equator where renewable powered electric transport is the rule, not the exception.

How liquid is the market for second hand PV? If half a panel is damaged does it make economic sense to ship it to a poorer but sunnier location where it can be repurposed even if it doesn't meet the needs of the original owner? The second hand EV battery market seems fairly robust even at its current small size.
Some try to confuse this aspect by calling opinions "best practices"
I have a “rule” for myself and I believe it has served me well: I avoid comparing myself against others. I think this is a sound approach. I try to do the things that I believe in and make sense in my life.
What is the vergence-accomodation conflict in AR? Isn't AR just a 2D plane with a camera image superimposed with virtual objects? (e.g. a tablet with an AR app?)
Or do you mean it is solved because it doesn't occur in the first place?
The most fascinating thing to me about this blog post is that here we have a guy in his fifties who got insanely rich by working very hard (no doubt) and then selling a major stock broker platform (it is briefly mentioned as "in banking") - and what does he choose to do now with spare time and more money than anyone could use? He is maintaining Emacs. For fun. This is why open source will grow. It feels meaningful to contribute. He could sail, travel, invest, buy expensive stuff, etc. But Emacs hacking it is. Makes me happy to see.
> Very rarely it comes close on terms of usability to paid software.

Free software is not about price. It can be paid.

Why can't a company sell products running free and open-source software? In such case, you pay for the software, too. By the way, this is exactly what Purism is doing, the company behind this article.
> IE didn't win because it was better than Navigator

But it surely did help.
We live in a complex world, we just have to accept it
The Taliban has already entered the capital (https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistans-taliban-seize-jala...). This is an utter disaster for Biden and America. We should instead have performed a slower withdrawal and also continued to maintain a military presence permanently at Bagram field. Instead it appears China and Pakistan will welcome a new Taliban government and build new economic ties while America loses influence in the region. This withdrawal was so poorly handled that just two days ago the administration claimed Kabul would fall in 90 days when it seems it may fall today. Meanwhile the Taliban, who harbored 9/11 terrorists and is still allied with al Qaeda, is literally taking over American weapon stores that were left behind in this hasty evacuation (https://news.yahoo.com/weapon-seizures-massive-boon-taliban-...). What an utter and complete failure of leadership, military intelligence, foreign policy, and “nation building” (or rather lack thereof).

EDIT (in response to reply, since I got the dreaded rate limiting message):
Trump didn’t initiate a departure. He set up a deal that included numerous conditions and phases contingent on commitments and actions from both the Taliban and Afghanistan government (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-sign-historic-deal-taliba...). But it really doesn’t matter. Biden is either the President or he isn’t. The withdrawal timeline he set and executed is his to own. Anything less than full ownership means he isn’t fit to be President.
I don’t think that’s a valid question. What would they do with money? Buy more weapons, I guess? Invest in training. Hire more recruits.
When people say 'I never said that,' the reason why they're saying it is usually more important than the statement's veracity.
Isn’t IPv6 huge for mobile Internet connectivity…?

IPv6 definitely has its issues. But I recommend you have a look at these graphs:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

https://www.facebook.com/ipv6/?tab=ipv6_total_adoption
Lenovo is actively submitting kernel patches for the finger print readers, they should be 100% compatible.
Do you think Linux magically will stop them from integrating UEFI backdoors or something hardware-related? I don't wanna test it and don't buy Lenovo.
Wow neat, I hadn't seen this before. Besides watching the animations, the most interesting thing was the AMS article by Lenstra and de Smit:

https://www.ams.org/notices/200304/fea-escher.pdf

It explains all the math, shows Escher's work drawings, etc. Escher himself didn't seem to be completely cognizant of the math, so he worked by intuition and eyeballed things, but he came to a very close approximation of what the mathematicians worked out decades later.
I think it’s more a failure of the people who sent them there than the forces themselves.

This is a management issue. For all of the failings of the current US president, getting the hell out of an endless, unnecessary war is a good thing.
> I was told in January this year by many gleeful people they were so happy that "competence" was coming back into the US administration.

I share your frustration - this withdrawal literally couldn't have been done worse. They were so ill prepared they left weapons for the Taliban to pick up, seemingly had zero plan for evacuation of their embassies and failed to tell allied embassies.

A withdrawal was definitely on the cards though - printing money for a year whilst people don't work has had a massive effect on the US economy. It just could have been done better. After all those deaths, after all that money spent, after setting up a Democratic government - and it goes down like this.

I would also take a moment to point out the fact that China is highly likely to have been involved, they literally were in talks months before this went down [1].

> What an absolute bunch of morons and their failures.

I think we can quite fairly call this one a failure by the Biden administration - Trump had zero involvement in their withdrawal planning.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/29/china/china-taliban-tianj...
Saigon 2: Sharia Boogaloo
It's interesting to note that DRA (the pro-Soviet Afghanistan government) has fought for 3 whole years after the Soviets have left Afghanistan. And it was with the almost complete lack of military support from the USSR (you know, the Union collapse and all) and with Taliban being actively funded by the US and Pakistan. Meanwhile, the current government probably will fall even before the US will finish its humiliating retreat and it does not look like Russia or China have substantially supported Taliban, at the very least it most certainly was not on the US scale of 30 years ago.
Sure, but how you become independent if your tariffs hinder your own r&d? China seems to do it smarter by importing what needs to be imported until they can do it on their own
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Yes. Seriously yes. I would have liked to see a withdrawal that did not turn back the clock 20 years to where we were in August 2001, squandering all the blood and treasure that has been expended in 2 decades.

"Explainers" are why this is happening - weak minded people who prefer marketing (appearance of performance) over results. Surprising to me considering the heated replies to the other thread on the front page about how "story-telling" to appeal to VCs is fake news, and we should all be concerned about product quality first.

US governance (both domestic and foreign) has devolved into nothing more than marketing sizzle instead of product quality.
As would I. But I would still prefer if they sold XPS' that supported Linux.
Ola S1 electric scooter launched with car-like features
Ah yes, the greatest irony of Liberalism is that it's designed to eventually self destruct. Extinction by low birth rates.
I think you're overestimating Pakistan's capability. It gave Taliban leaders shelter at their worst moment, and that is about the only leverage ISI had.

The moment Taliban started to carve out territory inside Afghanistan, that leverage was gone. There's some gratitude, but also lots of resentment among Taliban leadership about the way they were treated by the Pakistani authority.
This album [0], Tracked (1991-2000) by Purple Motion is excellent. Got all the nostalgia.

[0]: https://purplemotion.bandcamp.com/album/tracked-1991-2000
Your comment could not be more irrelevant. OP said "websites were organized according to a hierarchy" - a hierarchy, not THE hierarchy.
Both you and the parent poster are missing the forest through the trees.

The failure is not in money, training, or conscription. The failure is in not giving the army any reason to fight.

If you don't give a rat's ass about your cause, and there's a serious possibility of defeat, why would you keep fighting?

The problem is that in twenty years, the coalition-supported government failed to make enough of its constituents give a rat's ass about their cause. They might not like the Taliban much, but they seem to prefer to live under them, than die for what is perceived as a corrupt, self-serving, ineffective government.
I just saw some videos of teenage girls being dragged to be forced married on the street. Not sure how I can unsee it, really.
>>>Why would we ever pour money into such a terrible, incompetent system?

Not that the US DoD is in any way a model of efficiency, but I suspect you are vastly underestimating the difficulty of the problem set.

Over the past 200 years, the British, Soviet, and American empires have all failed to pacify Afghanistan. Probably the Mongols and Alexander the Great struggled too, I need to dig into the history of those campaigns for more specifics.

Can you articular which particular aspects of our nation-building and counter-insurgency techniques are distinct from our equally-failed predecessors? Have you considered that the objective may not have been to erect a fully-functional Afghan government and military, but instead to conduct a multi-decade delaying action to stymie Chinese expansion for as long as possible?
I have a U939X and I'm very happy with it. Very light (<1kg), a lot of ports, even a Ethernet port. Nice keyboard, full sized cursor buttons, real PgUp, PgDown buttons. Pen and mate touch display. Does run linux without trouble.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Fujitsu-Lifebook-U939X-Review-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
Technically it won't stop them. But have they been caught for it? I hope lack/price of skills will stop them. Windows programming is cheap compared to UEFI programming. As long as they can address >90% of their spying "needs" by Windows I hope they stick to that.

It's all about trust. But whom should I trust? I don't trust Intel for their ME, their Meltdown and whatever. But still I have to use them in real life.
Apparently, the ambitious program did not hurt their careers!
I would be surprised if the numbers were that different, especially with aggregations at the state level. Each state has people who drive all over the country. Each state has people who only stay local. If we were going granular, at like a county level, tourism to low population locations like the Grand Canyon might need to be accounted for, but states encompass enough area and people that just taking the total for each person in a state would probably be accurate enough.
Worth quoting this passage from an insightful article[1]

People fought in Afghanistan, and people died, but not always in the obvious way. They had been fighting for so long, twenty-three years then, that by the time the Americans arrived the Afghans had developed an elaborate set of rules designed to spare as many fighters as they could. So the war could go on forever. Men fought, men switched sides, men lined up and fought again. War in Afghanistan often seemed like a game of pickup basketball, a contest among friends, a tournament where you never knew which team you’d be on when the next game got under way. Shirts today, skins tomorrow. On Tuesday, you might be part of a fearsome Taliban regiment, running into a minefield. And on Wednesday you might be manning a checkpoint for some gang of the Northern Alliance. By Thursday you could be back with the Talibs again, holding up your Kalashnikov and promising to wage jihad forever. War was serious in Afghanistan, but not that serious. It was part of everyday life. It was a job. Only the civilians seemed to lose.

Battles were often decided this way, not by actual fighting, but by flipping gangs of soldiers. One day, the Taliban might have four thousand soldiers, and the next, only half that, with the warlords of the Northern Alliance suddenly larger by a similar amount. The fighting began when the bargaining stopped, and the bargaining went right up until the end. The losers were the ones who were too stubborn, too stupid or too fanatical to make a deal. Suddenly, they would find themselves outnumbered, and then they would die. It was a kind of natural selection.

[1] https://scholars-stage.org/fighting-like-taliban/
Remember that it was 20 very profitable years for some. Check the stock tickers, see what companies stocks have skyrocketed.
The reason why i think it might be firmware(not the touchpad firmware) is that it was working happily for 2 years and i just recently booted into windows to do some flashing(not firmware, just rockchip firmware) and lenovo vantage decided to upgrade.
Could it be some kind of proxy warfare? Others mentioned agreements that require companies working on a standard to license their patents, so it would make sense to move them to a "patent troll" company that isn't bound by these agreements and can go after the competition without fear for reprisal.
I disagree that getting out is a good thing. It means a terrorist organization will control a nation and harbor terrorists once again in the future (remember the same Taliban sheltered 9/11 terrorists and is still allied with al Qaeda!). It means we lose a foothold in the region, militarily and economically. It means rivals like China expand their influence and force projection at our expense, since they plan to recognize the Taliban government and invest in their infrastructure via their belt and road initiative (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-s...).

We should have at least kept a smaller force around as a presence to maintain continuity. See this “rescue plan for Afghanistan” from the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board for more suggestions that aren’t blindly exiting Afghanistan in a few short months: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-rescue-plan-for-afghanistan-t...
> ...how do you get your butt dry without toilet paper?

Towel, or get a bidet with an air drying option (but few models have effective dryers, so shop carefully).

I have yet to find a comparison of embedded energy costs between bidet dryers and a supply of cotton towels, but I wager towels will win out when taking into account bidets breaking down. As far as I can tell, they're very repair-hostile designs, and would love to find a manufacturer that stocks all the parts for their models for a long time.
Teen builds a device so his 99 year old BLIND grandfather can watch TV
Note that at the time, there was no Raku Steering Council yet, but there was a core team, of which I am a prominent member.

Mr. Trout was made aware of the upload by Mr. Spek. An upload that had been superseded within half an hour by another one without the offending (empty) directory. With the original upload marked for removal, but since PAUSE doesn't let you remove modules immediately, it stayed up for a week. And *ANY* module ever uploaded to CPAN, stays on BackPAN for historical purposes. Which I think is a good thing, so we can see what we're talking about.

Mr. Trout, in his self-assumed role of moderator of the then #perl6 channels, kickbanned Mr. Spek without further ado from the #perl6 channels. Even though Mr. Spek was a regular contributor to the Perl 6 project and user of these channels for asking questions and giving answers. In an ironic way very similar to Mr. Trout. Who, by his own admission, has made *MANY* mistakes, yet until then, was *NEVER* banned from anything in the Perl community.

I considered the action of Mr. Spek more as trolling / stupidity / bad habit / young foolishness at the time. And the first offence to my knowledge, by no means grounds for a permaban on the channels as instated by Mr. Trout. I therefore, on behalf of the core team and after conversations with our de-facto BDFL Jonathan Worthington, asked Mr. Trout to raise that ban. Which in the end he reluctantly did. And since then has been interpreted by Mr. Trout as condoning racism.

Sadly, over time, it has become clear to many that Mr. Spek is either too stupid to realize what he's doing with his trolling (saying he is a proponent of free speech and using that), or indeed a racist at some level, or both. The commit in his personal repo (which he makes public as good examples of using dot files) was about using the "master" branch as the default for new git repos, rather than the current git default of "main". With as single comment "Get a job, N*". This was no longer a use of the word as just a word: this was adding context and meaning. For which the Raku CAT team has banned him from public Raku places and revoked all of his commit bits until Jan 1, 2022.

Meanwhile, it looks like Mr. Spek will not change.

As to Mr. Trout: I will no longer interact with Mr. Trout in any way, shape or form. With pain in my heart, I must say that I've given up on the Perl community. And I say this is a recipient of a White Camel award, awarded for services to the Perl *community*.

I'm not the only person who left the Perl community because of Mr. Trout's antics. I guess in the end, only people willing to put up with Mr. Trout, will be left in the Perl community. I sincerely hope they will be happy, as life is too short to be unhappy without good reason.
Most of the Afghan government just pocketed as much money as possible and stashed in (and their families) in Dubai:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-11-04/the...
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If the panels catch some light while it is moving it might make for a good assist, 150 watts extra is nothing to sneeze at with a pedal powered vehicle. When I'm cycling longer distances I can sustain 80-125 watts for 3 hours or so, which is definitely not athlete material but pretty decent for an old guy with a gimp leg ;)

Going uphill that would make a huge difference (especially because a Tuk-Tuk is quite heavy), more so if you can store the power when you don't need it and dump it all in one go when you're going uphill, but then you'd need to have a battery in the system.
It's certainly something that countries should have seen coming a long time ago and have a better plan than just tariffs once it's too late. Sometimes feels like China was the only societal model that didn't allow itself to be captured by fossil fuel interests from within their own or other countries and so could react correctly to this obvious development.
Is there even such a thing as an "Afghan state"? From what little I know of their culture, they're more accurately described as tribes or clans who happens to speak similar languages and have the same religion rather than a nation-state.
Vietnam ultimately became a pretty nice country a few years after the US government finally gave up on trying to turn it into hell on earth, and it’s only getting better.

If this really is Saigon 2.0, 20 years from now Afghanistan will be a peaceful country with active tourism. With the Taliban seemingly making efforts to appease China for economic gain, who knows, it just might happen.
Lenovo's BIOS setting is infamous for that. I once disabled built-in camera and it was bricked.