skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese Communist Party is prepared to recognize the Taliban if (when) they overtake the government.[1][2]

This is a truly historic fuck-up. It's not about it being right to withdraw (it is), but how it's done. We've wasted unfathomable money and time, not to mention lives. Now we have truly nothing gained, we're embarrassed and humiliated, and our enemies emboldened. It's pathetic.

1. https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2021-08-12...

2. https://nationworldnews.com/china-has-taken-new-steps-with-a...
A lot of Taliban funding comes from Pakistan's ISI, as well as individual elements in Arab countries (prominently Saudi Arabia - wealthy ultra religious folks who might even be distant members of the royal family, but not affiliated to government). Apart from that, the Taliban do have the drug trade to keep them afloat.

There are a few enough Russians in Afghanistan, but afaik, the Taliban are mostly ambivalent to them now. The Taliban mostly targets 3 types of folks - US and NATO people, Afghan government people, and open allies of the Afghan government (countries like India). Uzbekistan and Iran maintain very tight borders with Afghanistan so that the fighting doesn't spill over.

For a very interesting tidbit, even very recently, Taliban was fighting ISIS near Badakhshan and Nuristan.
Ok fine, then lupa non grata (singular) or lupae non gratae (plural)

"Lupae non grata" just sounds wrong and agramarical, in the same sense as "people is happy" would to an native English speaker. Yes it's just a little sounds, just like the small difference between "are" and "is"
the alternative would be US citizens placing no trust in the media or US government, because they became a "blood thirsty mob" under their influence.

people wonder why today so many people are skeptical when it comes to the pandemic and anything else the government says, the government constantly lying to them is the primary cause
you can also quickly navigate text.
Why not? Don’t you think people should understand the difference?
Rooftop solar (if you can) is the future. The cost will (must, really) come down, even if we need a "Solar Corps" (volunteers, Habitat for Humanity style) or similar to get generation on the roofs of the disadvantaged. AC load shedding will become untenable in the hottest of places, and the power grid will become taxed from demand faster than infrastructure upgrades can occur.
>What is your solution?

To be necessarily skeptical of all things, at all times. Understand that the search for "truth" is a journey, not a destination.
Makes me wonder how hard it would be to either just snip the control circuit from the utility provided thermostat to your AC unit and run your own in its place while retaining the discount, or setup an rPi or such as a MITM and intercept the control commands.

Alternatively: just don't overthink things and install a mini-split/window unit/small portable that doesn't get connected to the house thermostat in the first place.
And as sad as it is, bin Laden completely won in that regard. The US and practically everyone else got so side tracked by Afghanistan that neither noticed the growing threat of Russia and China, plus local right wing people and parties were emboldened by an Islamophobic mindset in general (thus, in turn, leading Muslim communities into isolation instead of integration).
A few variations in line with that:
If you're betting on near-total collapse, and you are right (and you survive from living in the developed world), you will be around to collect

If you're betting on collapse, and you are wrong, you will be around to pay up

If you bet against collapse, and you are right, you will be around to collect

It should also be said that with prediction markets, you don't have to wait until the event happens before selling your position.
It seems that the problem is more insidious than this study hints at. We know from the behaviour on social media some morally righteous outrage is satiated by furiously liking or sharing something that you might agree with, but most people just harumph and move on once they've satisfied their itch to "do something".

However there is a certain element in society that gets truly over-stimulated by this stuff - the over-amplified likes and shares are making it seem like the outraged community you are aligned with is much larger than it actually is. Or more precisely, the number of people actively engaged and willing to undertake actions to back up their likes looks much bigger than it actually is. This pushes our over stimulated friends into over-reactions.

This has now fomented a lot of extreme acts - hitting the streets, burning stuff, occupying buildings, safe in the completely misleading knowledge that your in-group is much larger than you think.

The outrage machine has been an interesting social experiment but now people are getting killed because of it and it's probably time to nuke Facebook and Twitter from orbit unless they start taking moderation seriously.
Wow. So much hate for the article in the comments.

Years ago, I would have said the same. But living in the AWS world for a while, I now see that infrastructure-as-code is so damn powerful.

The reason I posted this link was because I think I've turned around and have embrased this next evolution in industry (but its taken a while for me), and thought others here would have agreed with me. I guess not!
Wondrium (formerly the Great Courses) has many excellent related series. Academic but very watchable. Like a 20 lecture series on the history of Jerusalem. I particularly liked their series on the Etruscans: https://www.wondrium.com/the-mysterious-etruscans
Make no mistake, the Taliban stands to gain from this conflict. Not to mention Pakistan.
no, it is control underscore

alt g is another binding for the same.
Bill Gates said that tech companies deserve higher risk premia due to the risk of technological obsolescence (which in short means lower equity price for the same projected future earnings). This story is a good example, IBM is another. Funny to contemplate that given the current prices of tech equity, both private and public.
> "debunk" COVID and the efficacy and safety of the vaccine

What evidence is there of the efficacy of the vaccine that isn’t provided directly from Pfizer/Moderna?

What evidence is there that it is safe, when there are 0 mid-to-long term studies on the effects of it? If it safe why are the pharma company’s immune from all liability?

Why is anyone that question the narrative on how safe and effective the vaccines immediately labeled a “quack”, “alt right”, or “anti-vax” (there are plenty of pro-vax people that are skeptical of THIS vax, not all vax).
this interview is full of deliberately misleading statements on the part of Craig Federighi.
please, just, no.
Unpopular suggestion: Actual imperial rule for a couple of generations.

Tax enough to pay for the effort but not for a "profit". Build infrastructure by bringing outside expertise to train and build local business. Take control of schools, make them safe and required for all children. Respect the local culture but smash hard some cultural practices.

Would it be incredibly hard to do without abuse? Absolutely. Is it questionably moral? Absolutely. Could it even be done at all? Questionable.

We keep acting that the outcome of every military conflict is going to be like the liberation of France in WWII, kill the "bad guys" and then champagne and croissant parades with the locals.

The repeated failed attempts at just handing self-government to nations after we depose their governments shows that you can't just win wars and fix problems with force alone. War is awful, it should happen as infrequently as possible, but if you're going to do it, you better have a plan for winning the peace. Corrupt, half-assed nation building doesn't cut it.
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> Images of bonsai trees?

Ha! Come to think of it, I think that was one example. The main examples that came to memory (it’s been almost 8 years since I was involved) when discussing this last week were essentially extremely common photos (like the stock Windows XP background, among others).
Except when it's vi and casual vim users can't figure out why nothing works
The only thing that keeps me from using it as my daily editor is the clipboard functionality in WSL (using Windows Terminal). The first problem was clipboard not working at all, after some updates and tweaks (aliasing xclip to a custom bash script) the clipboard worked. The second problem is yet to be resolved: copy/cut and paste ignores new lines, I haven't found a solution ... Any advice is appreciated!
If you don't think this is possible, you are not understanding the technical implementation they announced.

Perceptual hashes on chunks of images will yield false positives.
Students attending remotely report worse social, emotional, academic well-being
Integration between Apple devices makes the experience greater than the sum of its parts. If someone switches from iPhone they'll lose the ability to use iMessage on their phone, to receive SMS messages on their Mac, to sync Notes, Calendar, Photos, etc. That's why the alternatives are an order of magnitude worse for me.
>And if you have an especially strong opinion, I'll consider you even more experienced, even if your strong opinion differs from mine; simply by virtue of having of strong opinion it means you likely have been using it for years and have found other tools inadequate for your skills.

If you really think strength of opinion indicates experience, then clearly you don't have a lot of experience with people...
The CSAM mechanism proves that Apple will send information to the RIAA or another non-government entity?

How exactly does it prove that?
There are many parts to answering this.

First, "plain" text editors have caught up with IDEs in many ways that you're talking about here. With a good LSP plugin, you can hop to definition and autocomplete perfectly fine. For a strong statically typed language, the editor can even tell you why it won't build and how to fix it before you even try. Many things you used to need an IDE for just no longer require it.

Second, even without those tools, people hacking away at a keyboard are often doing a lot more than just writing executable code. You're editing config files, READMEs, comments, documentation templates, test data, API request examples. None of these things are amenable to any of the niceties an IDE can help with.

Third, in a microservices world or even just working on a plain library that calls into lots of other libraries, unless you download the source code for every dependency, hop to definition and autocomplete isn't guaranteed to work anyway. It's often easier to pull up the API documentation in a browser on a second monitor and refer to it while working. Screen real estate is cheap these days and the more mature projects you're better off using as dependencies anyway tend to be pretty well documented.

Fourth, an increase in the use of dynamic languages has brought with it an increase in dynamically-generated code. There's a lot of convenience here in reducing the amount of boilerplate you need to type out and being able to change behavior without even having to rewrite the core code, but it also makes IDEs less useful. It pushes the mental burden of understanding how code gets generated and runtime objects get decorated and changed by understanding the underlying data model of the language and its runtime, but hey, that's what we're paid for.

Fifth, what does it even matter in the grand scheme to have definitions and names more readily available inside the actual window you're typing into? It's a convenience, sure, but if you type subst when it should have been substring, you try to build or run a test or just a static analyzer or whatever and you get an error message and remember "oh yeah, that's Language X and I'm writing Language Y," you lost what? A minute at most to go do a global find and replace? Compared to the time studying a problem domain, designing and vetting a solution, coming up with adequate test cases and a suitable type representation that models the domain, the time spent literally typing out function names is minuscule. I'm not going to say saving seconds there is worthless, but it's not a huge gain.
Turn up their second AC system, pay a different AC technician more to travel further, go into their furnished basement, hang out in their running car, travel to a friend's spacious house, pay someone else to keep up their daily necessities while they fix the system themselves, or it won't have broken due to having better maintenance to begin with.

No doubt there will be some schadenfreude. But there is a reason these things affect the poor harder.
The Saigon heli pic is of South Vietnamese crowds who were desperate to get out of there with the Americans, right?

Sure the Taliban can wait, but the "mob" will be the people who were associated with the occupying forces, desperate to escape their deaths.
Fear of COVID-19 in Kids Is Getting Ahead of the Data
Shocking. Oh all the months for it to be friggin hot outside, it had to be august. Who would have guessed.
Chinese: 程序错误 (程序=program, 错误=error) is used for the generic sort of software bug. If the bug is a security hole, then it's instead called 漏洞 (leak). Though sometimes the English word "bug" is used, see for example https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%8B%E5%BA%8F%E9%94%99%E8... which uses a mix of the two terms. Sometimes it's mistakenly capitalized as BUG, see for example https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E8%BD%AF%E4%BB%B6BUG/12618010 (this phenomenon in Chinese of capitalizing some English words that aren't actually acronyms happens with some other words too, like APP instead of app/application, etc).
Valve have been pretty good about sticking to their "hackable" guns so far. With exception to the Link, everything of theirs is abnormally tweakable. Newell also seems to understand how tenuous PC gamer loyalty can be (hell, it could be argued that he sowed the seeds of that mentality).
> It's not gatekeeping,

> you bet I will judge your ability to code by your preference of editor,

FYI. That's called 'gatekeeping.'
I think you are confusing WIV and WCDC. Check whether in that light the theory still makes sense.
Many of the things you mention are absolutely in nano :) Like highlighting, jumping to a line, importing.. I don't have the time to do a point by point comparison but trying nano for 5 minutes doesn't equate knowing it, just like with vim.

I'm not big into coding anymore and nano is handy for my muscle memory, coming from DOS :) It's good enough for my purposes. Sure vim is more powerful but it's not as accessible to the casual user. It's a good tool for its job just like vim is. They're just different jobs.
These programs are optional. Google's Nest (among others) integrates with utility signaling to perform this shedding, and it's typically allowable for you to enable cooling and override the load shedding activated during peak demand (in the programs I'm familiar with).
Thank you. This does not support your claim, however.

1) That is an MD5 hash, not a perceptual hash. Apple is not using md5s.

2) It is a false positive, not bad info in the database. All involved acknowledge the possibility of false positives.
Unfortunately, I don't think this has been anything more than a small blip to Apple's reputation. If I were not on Hackernews (like 99+% of Apple users), I would have either not heard or given second thought to this move.
The Taliban's big mistake was actively refusing to turn over OBL.

The US's big mistake was not trying to make a back room deal with them to the tune of "we'll make you more secure than any south American tin-pot dictator so long as you make the kind of example out of Al-Qaeda that we can't make"

If either of those things had went through it would have saved both parties 20yr of money, blood and associated bullshit.
Well, I was conflating two things for simplicity’s sake.

They care that the down payment came from legitimate savings with a documented history, to ensure it’s not from another loan they’re not aware of.

And they care that your reported income is stable (you’re reliably employed with a reasonably predictable income stream) so they can reasonably expect you’ll continue to be able to make monthly payments.
This is way bigger than any RF engineering mishap.

I’m going to actively evangelize alternatives to Apple devices and that’s coming from someone who has been doing Apple evangelizing since OSX Panther days. Tens of thousands of dollars of bought devices and services not including all the people I convinced to make the switch over the years.

I’m sure I’m not the only one in this regard.
Apple does not make significant income from the US government where the loss of them as a customer would materially affect their revenues.
I also go out to nature to enjoy nature. I also enjoy silence outside. You mind hikers with music and I don't.

You may not understand this, but there's such a thing as disagreement and preference.
Hell, even the mouse scroll wheel works.
Apple has a huge potential profit motive. Once they roll this out for US users, they can sell the exact same capabilities to authoritarian regimes for detecting subversive images, images of warcrimes, etc.

China would happily pay billions of dollars per year for this capability.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.

It is absolutely terrible that California's economy is controlled and strangled to the point where parents don't make enough to feed their own kids.

"Free" lunch for kids only papers over this more fundamental problem.
Can one just make an app that doesn't show those links if the viewer is coming from a Google corporate IP?
Yep. FBI Lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith gets to lie to the FISA court, fabricate emails to get 2-hop warrants and then gets zero days in prison and as of this month is allowed to practice law again. It's an absolute joke.
Random tangent: This is the most bizarre thing I've seen in a while. At the bottom of the page is a "Protected by Recaptcha" logo that follows the page around. Clicking on it does nothing and no Recaptcha is displayed. What is it supposedly protecting and how is it doing that protecting if no Captcha is displayed? (I browse privately and am constantly hit with Captchas, but this one didn't prompt me.)
Right - which in this case are protected against by the visual derivative.
Protecting themselves against a possibly life-threatening disease, not acting as a spreader. It’s literally what vaccines are for. Do you have something else in mind?
The only explanation that makes sense to me is that they are doing huge damage to their reputation and trust for bigger reasons. Perhaps there are international or national security issues they are told to comply with that are not quite in the public view yet.
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Imo, programming isn't very different than assembling cars or jets. What makes it difficult is the uniqueness of every project: it's always a novel car engine, developed by a team who came up with a new combustion process, and it's a novel car frame with bespoke electronics that the engine needs to be hooked up to. Don't expect 12V from the battery: you'll need to build a custom adapter for it. Even the wheels aren't standard. Everything is in flux, every single component has its quirks, unexpected behaviors, and is constantly updated. Just attaching wheels needs the mechanic to be an expert in wheel and car frames manufacturing, because the unique steel recipe used to make this frame may be incompatible with this particular type of rubber.

What would make programming easier is hardcore standardisation of everything, so wheels are always round, engines have standard bolt patterns and car frames have standard size room for an engine and wheels. What makes such standardisation difficult is the complexity of what needs to be standardized: nobody has enough mental capacity to fully grasp the software equivalent of the car engine and make a sound standard for it. This is why most standards are a mess of exceptions on hundreds of pages.
>they allow the utility to remotely shut down your AC for a 75% or 50% duty cycle, which you are not allowed to override.

Switches can be bypassed ;)
If that happens and the Taliban grow in power, would the Taliban support or oppose the occupation and genocide in Xinjiang?
Weak. Hit the pause button, Apple. I'm not won over by being told "I misunderstood". No, you misunderstood your customers.
In the USA we call them "features".
> it provides all of the features from vim I would want anyway, but in a modeless format

> vim-like functionality with modeless editing

> nano is a quite capable editor in its own right

but the only features that are mentioned are syntax highlighting and hiding the help text.

Looking at the man pages for nano, it _is_ a lot more capable than I had previously though (though not as capable as vim or emacs), but the author doesn't really go into that.
This is misinformation.
Nano (or pico) is great for very small, quick edits. I often use it when setting up a VPS for the first time before configuring my editor’s remote SSH exten B sion (or in the past, installing rmate). I wouldn’t personally use it for more than just a quick change, but to each their own!
Not trying to steal from the dev here, but this same ability is built into Pocket that is run by Mozilla, and Mozilla will happily take your money.
The Taliban explicitly harbored Osama Bin Laden. We should have pulled out after we killed him.
All praise the holly p-value! May the null hypothesis be with you!
In before China starts diplomatically leaning on "multiple nations" to flag dissident imagery for review.
I think it might be one of those WeLive "communes".
Why does it matter that much which CPU runs the check?
You're disregarding my objectively factual comment? Not a surprise. Everyone knows where they stand, deep down. I suspect you know the truth.
Historically, a bunch of really important (to the war/counter terrorism efforts; you can say the war effort was not important and that's a fair argument but Bagram was at least helpful in the war). For starters, the raid to kill Bin Laden originated in Bagram [1]. If quick response times were needed based on intel with limited usefulness (the location of a specific terrorist leader) or the Afghani military needs air support, then Bagram couldve helped cut down response times in those important circumstances. The distances from the nearest carrier locations are real in terms of response time.

I'm just guessing here and I'm no expert but it just seems like maintaining the base would cost not much when compared to its usefulness in even just counter terror operations (not in the broad sense where innocents are hurt but like actual raids on specific leaders, baghdadi, bin laden, etc [though i dont think the baghdadi raid originated from bagram])

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Ope...
Even if you are asymtomatic you are counted as infected

Incorrect the vaccine trials only tested for symptomatic COVID not asymptomatic, so your assertion here is wrong. The 39% number is for symptomatic COVID only.

Also if you read my original comment you’ll see I only refer to symptomatic COVID and not to death or hospitalizations, perhaps you should read more closely before blindly accusing me of being misleading.
If this became enough of a problem, it would be easy enough for them to start auditing your hourly power usage. I wouldn't be surprised if they were already doing so to see the impact of such programs, and also because bypassing a thermostat or installing a window AC unit is within the reach of most people.
It doesn't sound like they had to do much of anything. The repeated complaint from defending troops is running out of food and ammo. They didn't really even have the option to fight.

Every soldier is also 100% certain their government is unbelievably corrupt, which can't help. If you read about Castro and his men taking over Cuba, they got people to give up military outposts just by firing at them few times. They had no real interest in fighting for their leadership.