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So in barely 30 years Afghanistan will transform into a peaceful, economically prosperous, and basically free society, finally having cast off the yoke of colonialism?
by focussing on the suburbs https://twitter.com/michaelxbloch/status/1335608284338909187...
I love the simple style, this is great. I’ve been toying with procedurually generated drawings in Racket and find it mesmerising to observe how much conplexity can be generated from the permutations of a few rules. There’s still a lot of fish to catch in generative art
The biggest problem is they live there, we don't.
They know we will leave.
I get called out by others for overthinking - until the risks I've pointed out become reality

It's all relative - one person can be thought of overthinking and the other person can be thought of as a 'cowboy' and just winging it
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See 'Facial Recognition Should be Used with Care' - the police detectives should have been the 'human in the loop' in these cases, but appear to have done their job poorly in all these cases.
> In terms of what you can't do with plain old inline CSS?

AFAIK you cannot do responsive stuff (media queries) in the style attribute.
If I remember right, Atari Basic had 4 byte floats and Commodore Basic has 4 byte floats. The extra precision mattered for some programs, but the small size made the Atari Basic faster.
Thank you for the comment !!

We cannot share our models but we are using brain wave analysis to detect stroke. Our algorithm is currently tuned for maximal specificity and might be tuned differently for inpatient and outpatient use. We are in conversation with several EEG vendors for inpatient use of our algorithms.
Yeah - “affordability” in most people’s minds stops at the monthly payment. It isn’t whether they have $200K to invest in a house or invest in the market. It’s “I can afford a $200K house with the rates they are today. But if they go up, I can only afford the payments on a $150K house”.

I think we will have a rude awakening when, for every % we move up in interest, we add ~$200 per month on people’s payments on a $200k house. At 6%+ mortgage rates we will see a lot of people stuck in their current house and a lot of the people who look at affordability through the lens of a monthly payment will suddenly be able to afford a lot less house.
Nope.

The Fed's powers come from Congressional legislation, and the Governors are Senate confirmed. They have substantial power over the Fed.
Governments forcing action will not work. Or maybe it will but indirectly: people will revolt, chaos will ensue and economic activity will drop like a rock. For example flying will become too unpredictable.

Assuming we want to preserve some semblance of social order, the task ahead is to downsize our intimate desires and expectations of the world.
Helvetica definitely was not designed with screens in mind—Apple replaced it with San Francisco for both a legibility and a brand cohesiveness purpose.

That said, this feels like a weird argument given that Twitter didn’t use Helvetica on any modern platform when it used system fonts. SF Pro, Segoe UI, and Roboto are all designed for screens unlike Helvetica.
Monitor your GCE VMs in context for faster resolution
Remember that kobanî almost fell to ISIS, it only held thanks to the kurdish ground combatants (helped by western air force strikes). If you cannot hold ground, no amount of airstrikes will push a ground army back.
I've heard some people saying we ought try to escalate our definition of what "end to end encryption" means, to make the definition exclude platforms where your data at rest is no longer secured by you the end user.

It's an interesting argument.

My gut reaction is that end to end is still a good definition as is, that we shouldn't update it. This highlights a separate & just real issue, illustrates that encryption still interactupon multiple other layers of platform, which are themselves security issues.

But we should try to re-rally around this. There's no catchy pro-user term like "encryption" here, or "end to end". "omniversal encryption," to imply across all time and space, or "end to end, you to me". Finding the right name for this weakness, for what we want & will not accept short of: we should find this flag to fly.
I'd expect this to be also used for installation media, and for Raspberry Pi deployments in education.
It matters to the people running those companies (Because they own a lot of stock, or work for people who own a lot of stock). It matters less for the firms, themselves.

A high stock price prevents a corporate takeover (which is not a real-world-value-destroying activity - factories operated by a company don't burn up when it happens), and it makes it possible for the firm to raise money by selling stock. In a world of low interest rates, and easy credit, this is not very important.
Hey HN! I am an editor on this piece, which I think highlights a trend not enough people are aware of. Would definitely welcome feedback / any knowledge wrt these kinds of news stories you think is relevant.
I dunno. I've never worked a FAANG, but wage increases have been great for every new job. Maybe my US perspective is showing? Maybe move to a hotter market?
You're air superiority means nothing if you don't know who is the enemy and who is not. How can you tell if that truck is carrying boxes of ammo or boxes of clothes? Also you can't surveil everywhere and you cant track everything.

Furthermore airplanes can't hold ground they can clear it but that doesn't stop someone from hiding in a cave and coming back out.
There is no need for them to be ubiquitous, just a few large drones will do.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
> will always be an Electron app

I can't guarantee that
The American diversity meat grinder
Thanks, I didn't know that! It doesn't let you go slower than 1x speed though, which was the useful thing. I used to use it to learn tunes by playing half speed.
> I used to believe this -- "too good to be true", then I played with the tech and realized the folk borrowing the money at a higher rate (of course) were earning 2x that via various defi contracts.

Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme survived for decades before it was revealed to be "too good to be true".

If those defi contracts collapse, your savings that got loaned out to them are gone. You're not getting that APR, and you're out the principal too.
Still less than 1% for under 60s

Also the death count was way over exaggerated, so it is probably even lower
There's no such thing as perfect reconnaissance from the air, let alone unlimited fuel and ammunition. You can't always tell with 100% accuracy whether you're bombing a Taliban camp or a wedding party.

Frankly, the policy decision has been made that the fate of Afghanistan is of marginal strategic value to the United States. That's why we're leaving. Why would we try and eradicate an insurgent ground force from the air--a feat that has never been accomplished in all of military history--if keeping a minimal troop presence to deter them from overrunning the rest of the country wasn't considered worthwhile?
This trope belies two thousand years of present-day Afghanistan being part of flourishing empires or being the seat of empires itself. Read this to learn more: https://twitter.com/Alex_Khaleeli/status/1425608335726940166...

Maybe the calculus has changed in the past two centuries?
If we are even the least bit creative, there are easy solutions to your problem.

Just provide users with a way of "locking down" their phone to only allow the app store that they choose, with some difficult undo process, if the user chooses that.

So that way, people who want parental/child controls on their phone can have them, and those who disagree, and want to remove those protections, can choose to do so.

As long as the locking down, is a choice that the user can make, and it is not forced on everyone, then we all can get what we want. Well, except Apple I guess.
Many of them will be killed by the Taliban. There will be video. Like this from last month.[1]

The embassy in Kabul is still hiring.[2] They want a Public Engagement Assistant, a Cultural Affairs Assistant, a truck driver, and a plumber. Really.

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/07/13/taliban-executes-afghan-specia...

[2] https://erajobs.state.gov/dos-era/vacancysearch/searchVacanc...
> This is a real "I just pulled a random number from Google" take

You didn't specify so I gave you the number I am familiar with on the subject of my own interest, that is the surrender of power into the hands of the arbitrary.

Had you been more specific, I wouldn't have asked.
That's standard for that style g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_New_Roman#/media/File:Ti...
How TikTok's Algorithm Figures You Out
I'm not sure that's what people mean by package management.

For example if a configure script has a dependency on a library... then what? It doesn't help me find and install the right version of that dependency, does it? In my experience it just says 'dependency not installed'.
You mean that you're _sure_ that nothing will be dependent on the format of the version string of a >100yo project?

I'd bet everything I own against that
There are different types of epigenetic mechanisms anyway which have different levels of persistence/reprogrammability, so to dive into technical details one would need to get very specific. Different methods for changing the DNA sequence would also have functional differences in how they could store a memory. And it's important to distinguish these mechanisms on a single cell level versus how they function in the body as a whole.

In a single cell I wouldn't call VDJ recombination memory, it's just an efficient way of encoding many different possibilities for types of receptors (and then selecting one). There exist many cells in your body that match a potential antigen you've never seen before - it's just that there are an extremely small number of them. The memory is really encoded by increasing the population of that cell in the body. Which has different storage properties than the individual cell's DNA does. Epigenetic change to a single neuron is unlikely to have a functional effect either, but it is a change that can occur to a mature cell as a reaction to the environment, in a way that VDJ recombination is not. AFAIK there is a lot left to be understood about how epigenetic modifications affect the brain.

I agree this is all interesting and can have implications for computational models, but there are models at many levels of abstraction. So I don't think it is necessary to get at the biological details in order to discuss higher level computational implications. Questions about the capabilities of the memory for each individual neuron would arise, but they could be theorized about without much knowledge of biological details. Of course it depends what your goals are whether you would consider that useful.

Anyway, I think we're both in agreement the OG comment was wrong, I just feel that "in DNA" is very ambiguous, and also not really the problem with his comment given the purpose of HN.
What is missing is figures about how many cases facial recognition helped solve.

Without figures, it's difficult to tell if it brings more troubles than benefits.

It really sucks for those wrongly convicted, but it may cause more harm not to use this technology.

An immediate way to alleviate those injustices would be to instruct police officers that statistical models do not spit absolute truths. Great tools are not a substitute for either thinking nor humanity.
Git password authentication is shutting down
> Right now it is effectively impossible for a consumer to buy a TV that doesn't include a computer capable of this.

Digital Signage Displays come to the rescue, although they cost more and some are starting to put Android inside, which however can be kept offline as the device would work merely as a display.
The upside is that they're designed to work 18/7 to 24/7 and won't easily break like cheaper Smart TVs; setting up a wall of screens in a mall can be a real pain in the ass if every month some guy needs to climb up there and swap the one that died because of bad capacitors etc. That stuff must last or it becomes a huge waste of money.

Then the necessary tuner can be either bought stand alone (and kept unconnected), or enclosed in a Linux/Kodi mini-PC in the form of a cheap USB dongle.
https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T2_USB_Devices

The result can be bulky and probably Grandpa wouldn't welcome it, but for technical inclined users, the level of freedom and security that can be achieved is worth the effort.
Thank you. I was familiar with Ricardo but didn't understand the word spaghetti about metals in the article.
It was about 25 years between Vietnam and Afghanistan, and Americans are far more isolationistic now than they were after Vietnam.

Like GW Bush, it will probably be whichever president is the next to preside over a deadly attack on American soil.
Could you cite a source please?

I'm not sure that I buy that. Cost is no object, the govt can afford to buy fuel if it needs it.
Oh, I was just joking about the author’s prominent pgp key: https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html.
Irreversibility in the core protocol is a feature, and a necessary one at that.

If you start with irreversible payments and you need payments to be reversible with some kind of review/appeal process you can add reversibility through escrow. The classic arrangement is a 2-of-3 multi-key system where the payment is made to an escrow address where it can be either finalized or refunded only when at least two key holders concur; the third key, held by a neutral third party, is used to settle disputes when the payer and payee cannot come to an agreement on their own.

There are, however, situation were reversible payments are a liability, and there is no way to build an irreversible payment system on top of a reversible one. For example, you can't build a reliable escrow system on top of reversible payments since the payer can trivially circumvent the escrow by unilaterally revoking their payment to the escrow account.
Depends on how much value said time has, and how much of it one is willing to donate. I, for one, wouldn't mind burning two dozen USBs/SDs each Sunday with some cobbled-together hardware and software. I'm pretty sure that 12-port or more powered USB hubs can be gotten quite cheaply.
In the long run everyone's risk of catching the virus is close to 100%. It's now endemic (like several other coronaviruses) and no matter what you do you can't expect to avoid exposure forever. Just a question of when.
Yeah, it works very, very well, the basis of modern international trade networks

It sadly has externalities such as compounding benefits of manufacturing, or the inherent nature of anarchism on international relations which as the model of Joan Robinson showcases it leads to lopsided effects on economic development such as was the relationship of Portugal - England, or the de industrialization of India for the benefit of having a hostage market to British early phases of manufacturing
There’s no reason to blindly believe every report of crime. In this case there probably wasn’t sufficient evidence on the victim’s side that any crime had happened.
Seems like a really... weird preference for a kernel on your phone.

A UI, sure, I could understand that, but a kernel?
Where does your trillions comes from?

It comes from dominating the world and specially oil. If the US does not dominate the world militarily then the US becomes poorer overnight.

Would you believe that the US world be able to continue printing $USDs ab infinitum if the world countries didn't need $ to buy energy?

If energy countries were free to make deals in euros, yens, renminbis or reals without being invaded by the US the next day, then the US would be much less wealthy. That is the reason the US does not let countries do that.

Americans can print as many dollars they want because the rest of the world is forced to buy them. Without that, the $USD would be valued probably half or a quarter of what it is today.
This one has if anything gotten worse rather than better:

> Car Theft is rarer, and in particular, we no longer have to worry about our car windows being smashed to steal our car radios

Yes, car radios have been made harder to steal, but now our car windows are smashed to steal laptops and other valuables. And catalytic converter theft is also rampant.
The Senate just passed a bill to spend trillions of dollars on infrastructure.
What I've learned over the past twenty years dealing with the middle east issue, is that everyday Americans should not be trusted with having to vote for politicians on this issue.

The truth is the Taliban will win because that's what Afghanis want. No amount of Western huffing and hawing about how terribly the Taliban treats women and girls and progressive activists is going to change that most Afghanis (women included) don't really mind the taliban. The western media picks and chooses to make Westerners believe that Afghanis hate the group. in reality, no government can persist long without broad support on the ground.

My guess is that the Taliban is more popular amongst the average Afghani than the US federal government is popular among the average American. If that statement shocks you, stop reading American news.
I would change "raided" to "arrested". The word "raid" is only used by El Reg and not any primary source. The account the arrestee gives in the BBC is "four police officers turn[ed] up at [my] door at 8:30" which suggests to me they just served him with a warrant and he let them in. Perhaps some people might call any execution of a warrant a "raid" but to me it suggests a forced entry.
As I understand, happiness is free time from necessary work. Quote from book Hunnicutt, Free time:

Benjamin Franklin, agreeing that “the happiness of individuals is evidently
the ultimate end of political society,” offered his vision of Higher Progress:
If every man and woman would work for four hours each day on some-
thing useful, that labor would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out
of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and
happiness.

Also Epicur:
"Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest, sustainable pleasure in the form of a state of ataraxia (tranquility and freedom from fear) and aponia (the absence of bodily pain) through knowledge of the workings of the world and limiting desires. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism
I’m waiting for someone to concoct a cryptocurrency “kidnapping,” where they steal a bunch of coins and then demand payment for their return.
Yep, near Malaga too. Fine in the montes, while insane where there are no trees. And the Montes were planted to stop the floods from the mountains after every tree was cut to fuel steamboats, so why not replant trees everywhere if we can see it clearly works? I know the answer while dipping my head with a luckily wet towel in Alentejo 43C.
Outstanding. That's the closest thing to free power I've seen.
The screenshots are horrible quality, it's effectively a meaningless comparison. (And even if they weren't, comparing two fonts using Windows' font rendering is an exercise in pointlessness since the heavy hinting destroys small differences anyway.)
I guess i should have said 'net useful'.
It’s like Vietnam all over again.
I think the difference is that hitting "." as mentioned lets you browse in VSCode for free but does not launch an entire codespaces VM.
Any links to a technical breakdown of such an OS? I'm particularly interested in the boot process and whether it's designed to run on non-x86 devices.
It's not my area but there are probably lots of vehicle columns from refugees. That means our pilots need to rely on Afghan forces on the ground to call for strikes.

That's been one of the problems with the Taliban all along, they blend in.
Very relevant to Hackernews.
Hey, can you please not do this ("Did you read the post?", "Read harder", etc.), even when someone else hasn't read an article? I understand how frustrating it can be when people don't read what you write very closely (believe me, I understand), but it's one of the tropes that degrade discussion and we're trying to avoid sinking to that level here.

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
NDAs are extremely important for businesses to be able to work together on common projects. I work in finance and if I told one of my customers or vendors that we were not going to execute an NDA, the conference call would end very abruptly.

Also consider if the tables were turned and it was you who had the mountains of IP and other liabilities that would be shielded by an NDA.
How about uranium-glass sculpture from the 50s or ceramics painted with radioactive paint?

I suppose civilization is capable of remaking them, but likely never will.
We might not have a world government on paper, but governments around the world tend to be largely on the same page. Those that aren't following the lead of the world hegemony have an unfortunate tendency to get invaded, have uprisings of dubious origins, or other inconveniences like assassination[1]. Considering how long that list is, I don't think it's unfair to assume there's many more subtle instances where foreign governments decided to cooperate that we don't even know about.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...
Can someone explain to me why ordering matters at all in financial systems? Transactions are idempotent by their nature and in this domain, I just don't see the value of imposing any kind of order. Am I missing something?
No mention of the externalities that the oil industry benefits from - well reclaimation, carbon emissions... It is impossible to have a proper discussion about the oil industry if so many fundamental long term costs are ignored in the public discourse.
Atari had 6 byte floats, BCD. Commodore had 5 bytes, binary.
I would think that's appropriate for React Native. It depends where you draw the line of "production-ready", but React Native falls short on a number of criteria (stability or bug-freeness for example). It's just a damn useful tool, despite its many shortcomings.
maybe even dumber answer ahead: the lattice positions might be big enough not to cause any conflict with the uncertainty relation?
I don't think the theory that consumption drives production holds true when talking about child pornography because the material can be copied infinitely, it's not a finite resource.
Oh please. Do you really think you were there to liberate the women of Afghanistan? That was cooked up by the CIA to get some liberal EU countries to cooperate.
Agreed. Democratically decide where the lines are, or ought to be, then move those lines with amendments and revisions as needed. Judge those lines in the broader context of our legal system. We balance these issues in the physical world with warrants and judicial oversight - that's what we need here - sensible middle ground the democracy can live with.
The "correctness" section is very cool:

Double-spending. Suppose some execution of the protocol produced two confirmed transactions t1 and t2 that spend the same output. Each confirmed transaction is signed by a validator quorum. Since the adversary controls at most f validators, at least f +1 correct validators signed t1 and t2. Since there are 2f +1 correct validators, some correct validator v signed both t1 and t2. However, when signing a transaction, correct validators check whether they have not signed any of the inputs previously – a contradiction.
What are some of his tasks that call for perl?