skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be what this has cost the US taxpayer but I suspect that a lot of that sum has ended up back in the US economy because it was actually spent on US contractors, US equipment, US military personnel, etc
Sorry but I don’t have time to write a case study on NYT biases. Also, you seem to be thinking purely in terms of U.S. politics, Democrats vs Republicans, left vs right. I’m talking more broadly. You’re not going to get a balanced view on a lot of international topics by consuming and comparing an ensemble of U.S. mainstream media (you can even throw British media in there) for instance, however bitterly they fight about U.S. politics.
Ah, yes IEX and, darn it's just marketing?
Wait what? Number 3 doesn't ring a bell. Which report specifically? Was that the exact phrase?
In Common Lisp you can use FLET or LABELS to declare local functions. This works, but there really is no good solution: utility functions often just take up space and belong nowhere.
I’ve been coaching folks on jumping to new jobs for the last several months (helping others level up is my jam). In all cases, when I’ve told them to have the employer put the remote terms in their offer letter (if it’s not in writing it doesn’t exist), it has been done. Most of the time it’s painless, the few times the candidates have been told no I suggested they walk and the company capitulated in under 12 hours and remote was codified in the offer letter. In no cases is an on site required more than once per month for the folks I’ve been working with, and most are fully remote with zero on site requirement ever (“team building” or otherwise).

Labor market conditions are very clear.
it often isn't so easy. In many jurisdictions, there needs to be a system to make sure the proper social taxes are paid.

In a 'normal' employment situation these are handled by the employer. As a freelancer, no. So the law requires some additional structure to make sure these taxes get paid.

If you simply declare your freelancing income as 'normal income', you are not paying these taxes, which probably makes you guilty of tax fraud.

Also, if you are freelancing, you may be required to charge sale tax or VAT or similar. In the EU, you need to be VAT registered to collect VAT. As an individual, only certain countries allow this, but only if you have a business license in that country. Otherwise you need a corporate form, or you are commiting tax fraud.
Nigeria’s central bank projects 3% GDP, 13% inflation in 2021
Oh that's so sweet and sentimental. True romantics those taliban.
It was "slow the spread" or "flatten the curve", not "stop the spread". The goal was to prevent the hospitals from being overrun while we built extra capacity, after which that extra capacity would allow us to go back to normal.

Instead, the extra capacity barely got used and was dismantled a month or two later.
Because the population is letting them.

These people DGAF about "Afghanistan" the nation in the western sense. The nation is not a nation. It's a series of tribes, ethnicity and clans that happen to share an area that is all shaded one color on a map. Those groups are where their allegiances lie. They don't have a multi hundred year history of nationalism like European nations do. Furthermore lots of them don't really want a national government because national governments tend to try to steal power and control by these other institutions and homogenize things which they see as a negative.
I've found n [0] by TJ Holowaychuk to be vastly simpler and easier to deal with than nvm because n just swaps out binaries instead of using shell tricks and indirection.

[0] https://github.com/tj/n
> all the pedophiles will stop using iPhone

Sounds like “mission accomplished” for Apple then
You clearly don't know what inflation is.
Where can I read about that? I'm under the impression that monopolies, vendor lock-in and other anti-competitive practices are the logical conclusion to capitalism.
I really wish we'd have these kind of tools when I took Linear Algebra (or many other math and engineering courses, for that mater).

When I took it, it was purely proofs up and down on the blackboard, zero visualizations.
Google & other tech companies that can shift their force to remote can be expected to offload real estate to an MLP and restructure remote workers to 1099 contract employees. This probably would also enable them to get around pesky H1B rules to further reduce costs. They can't do that for every project or function but, remote workers might want to reconsider their fight to stay home.
The classical definition of terrorism is using public violence and fear to achieve political change.
Are they offering rates that offset the cost of that stuff? Most contracts I see absolutely suck because they just offer what an equivalent full time roles would with an additional tax burden.
The safest and most straight forward is to use an umbrella company. I have friends who work for SV companies (they actually relocated from SV to overseas) in both Europe and Japan. This was the solution they chose and it works. The overhead costs are less than what the employer would usually pay for US payroll and health insurance, so the deal basically worked out that their foreign pre-tax salary through the umbrella company is what it was back in California.
Congratulations! Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and related treatment areas can be excellent ways to help people help themselves.

As a heads up, what I've seen is some tech folks can be greatly encouraged to try mind-improvement apps; it turns out one phrase works wonders: "you can hack your own mind".
The current White House administration has a terrible poker face.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan has become a fiasco.
It's clear from media reports that not enough planning was done and the wrong assumptions were made about the Afghan Army. It didn't have to be like this.
Nothing here that hasn't been a common knowledge in a long time.

As a skipper I have also went through a lot of training for emergencies and children are practically treated as their own category on every step. In particular increased metabolic requirements, decreased ability to survive without oxygen, inability to survive in cold water for any length of time, and so on.

Consequently, when I train my crews before I go for a cruise with them we have separate scenarios for emergencies with kids (assuming there are children on board).
If they’re going to be scanning in the client, wouldn’t it be better to scan when someone is downloading something—-the way viruses abs malware are scanned? This way they can -prevent- crime.
Did at least a month passed since US withdrawal? What the hell were they doing there all this time?
For some international contractors this can be a nice pay bump, but I wonder if it's just hay fire and in a few months time companies realize that keeping a remote team functional requires work and they decide to just roll back. Time will tell.
The warning suggests that your search might return child sexual abuse imagery, which is odd.

If Google was doing its job, no search results would contain CP and they wouldn’t need to warn anyone. They probably shouldn’t warn anyone since all it does is alert people who might be looking for CP that they are being watched, and scares anyone who isn’t looking but their search terms have similar words.

The outcome is overall worse than if no alert popped up.
Fast, accurate 3D-imaging for RNA
Agreed, but it also allows for a more sophisticated <condition> testing to take place within the body of the loop.
What? Now I kinda understand why USA is so fucked up.
"confidence-men" love it!

"I have done my own research watching 100s of FB and Youtube videos and I don't need vaccine!!!"
You're missing that the probability of getting Covid is less than 1. And that bad symptoms from Covid are highly age dependent.

The AZ vaccine has been banned or disused in many countries (it's not even approved in the US!). Do you know something multiple world governments don't?
The Afghan population is on their side. The size of the "army" does not matter. The ANA (Afghan Army) has no willpower to fight, just bail when confronted.

The US overthrew the Taliban, but never "liberated" Afghanistan as most of the population was on the Talib side. The alternative was warlords and constant civil war.

...and Pakistan helped quite a bit too :)
apt install python3.10 python3.8 ? If packaged, those can be installed alongside. Or libsdl1.2 and libsdl2 by example.
I'd go to that concert.
Monitoring operating conditions of natural gas engines
Thanks for the heads up on the link! We'll update in the original post, but you can also try https://apps.apple.com/app/iona-anxiety-mood-support/id14913... which seems to be working from our region

I would certainly agree on the stepping away and hiking approach. In CBT Jargon, doing an activity that you would normally enjoy when you're feeling low is often called "Behavioural Activation" or BA, and it's definitely a valuable self-help tool.

Thanks for checking out the app, and any comments and thoughts on our product are always gratefully received.
Fair enough! If that changes let us know
This is such a weird comment. India is well known for its mangos, and the article is about importing them from Pakistan and India because they're so good compared to mangos from the U.S. Why shouldn't Indians share their clearly relevant experiences and opinions here? And why are you bothering to keep count?
Codespaces clones your repo to a VM that you have full access to, github.dev is “serverless”: it operates in your browser and all interaction happens via the GitHub API

(I work at GitHub)
>Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop?

What exactly do you mean by this? Do you mean explaining how it was a giant ratfucking [1] shit-slinging fuckfest perpetrated by political animals? I don't think they ever really make their viewers aware of the fact that they're non-stop hounding a dude, who happens to be the child of a politician, that had to witness his mother and sister be literally crushed to death at a young age [2], while he too was being crushed to death. Gee, I can't imagine why somebody who had to live through that as a child might go on to live a slightly fucked up life.

I hope, that when discussing something such as "Hunter Bidens Laptop", they discuss the fact of how no coverage was given to conflicts of interest around a point like this regarding the other political party, such as the Trump Orgs fairly massive outstanding debts to China, the near infinite list of fucked up things Trump's children have gotten up to, disgusting facts such as when Trump offered to pay for a family members (child) cancer treatment, then took the money back because the parents did something to make him slightly mad, the fact he's had to pay prostitutes hundreds of thousands of dollars after being sued, going back to the fact he'd parroted donating the entirety of his salary to something charitable, and then... imagine this... actually didn't, lol.

But yes, of all the things and conflicts of interest that should be covered and reported on, surely "Hunter Bidens Laptop" is one of them. Man. Remember when people said "maybe it's not a good idea or very nice thing to do in having secret service members drive around a contagious Trump for a small self-serving driveby of a rally of supporters" that was reported by most reasonable news stations? Turned out they were right and one of said service members got so sick with COVID he had to have a leg amputated, and even with whatever insurance being a secret fucking service member entails, he's seriously struggling to afford care. I do not see any news stations bringing this back up though. Why isn't it reported on? This is something that should be discussed in any reasonable class they're attempting to create.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

[2] https://www.biography.com/news/joe-biden-first-wife-daughter...
That's quite timely advice. That's a very good point.
Yeah, though at this point it would help to be a bit more explicit about what we even want. The most consistent interpretation I can come up with as follows:

- Partition the list into strictly monotonic runs (either increasing or decreasing)

- Reverse the decreasing runs.

But writing a version that is entirely bug free turns out to be surprisingly tricky.

You also need to be careful about how you allow runs to be split up. You can't require each run to be maximally large because then [1,2,3,4,3,2,1] must be partitioned into overlapping runs. You also can't just require the list to be partition into any set of monotonic runs, because then [[1],[2],[3],[4]] is a valid partition of [1,2,3,4]. This is especially a problem when you allow runs that aren't strictly monotonic.
this is why that education is so critical. because the news literacy is countering the exact type of thinking you are responding to. Any analysis is treated as criticism. Analysis isn't criticism, its analysis.
Spent ... digging up materials, fabricating them into bombs and shipping them over to Afghanistan. The money was wasted - none of it was spent making people better off. The resources dedicated to the failed war effort could have gone to something else.

I'm calling broken window fallacy [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
> Here in Europe we have Covid passports - if you are vaccinated or tested negative, you are allowed admission to, for example, shopping malls and no need to wear a mask indoors.

That's a national policy thing; in Ireland, for instance, you can use the covid pass to go to a pub or restaurant, but if you're in an indoors public space you are still required to wear a mask. Same in France and Germany AIUI.
Looks good. I like the math and theory, but no code approach.
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The Afghan "Army" was a bunch of young men who just wanted to draw a steady pay check. There's nothing in it for them without an American Power Structure in the country.
Show HN: Nyxt transfers URLs to your phone via QR codes
Benefits are usually tax advantaged in some way, so it costs the company less to pay for my healthcare than to pay me sufficient cash to pay for my healthcare.
By this definition, a vending machine is a contract.

Which it isn't. You could put a sign on the machine, contact so-and-so if it steals your money, we will definitely repay you. That would be a contract.
I think the first time I saw something like this was in the 90s, and I'm sure it was around before that. Not sure what is so unique about this.
The title of this article is going to create a (hopefully friendly) flame war.

Also for the record, the best mangoes are categorically Alphonso.

But it goes without saying - the varieties from mango season beat the supermarket fare by astronomic margins.
Healthy Performance Reviews in Engineering: How to Deliver and Receive Feedback
They're good additions to a local economy, but they won't, in general, substitute for the manufacturing or mining jobs that some of these towns have lost. There's simply a different scale of labor needed between maintaining and servicing the physical plant for data transformers and operating a manufacturing system that turns matter into differently-shaped matter or an extraction project to pull tons of material out of the ground and sift it.

Data centers don't maintain themselves, but they don't have nearly as many high-maintenance moving mechanical parts as an automotive plant, for example.
> Calling them “big tech” jobs is almost as misleading as claiming that the construction workers and electricians who built the data enter were “big tech” construction workers.

It is called clickbait, and is the nature of “journalism” these days due to compensation coming from articles that evoke as much emotion as possible.
This is all new to me so I’m not exactly sure what makes a firm large. There are 50 companies give or take in their portfolio. Less than 1b in the fund.
Exactly. This is something we can do because we operate semi-private (as opposed to public) infrastructure, and over its lifetime each charger will see a (relatively) small number of users.
Raspuri is the greatest of them all.
Excel formulas probably have more beginner-level users than anything else.
The reactions explain a lot about why critical thinking/analysis is rarely taught in US secondary schools.
>It seems quite a few vaccinated people get COVID-19 but it seems very few get seriously ill.

You need to skate where the puck is going. If you look at the data coming out of Israel, which is ahead of everyone else on the curve with vaccinations (and also releases data without manipulating it first, unlike the US - which uses exponentially looser rules for diagnosing COVID in the unvaccinated versus the vaccinated), you get a very different story.

https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/08/08/israel-hospital-vacci...

Wait two months and the US and other countries will be where Israel is today.

The risk with ADE increases as antibody levels from the vaccinations wane. That's happening now.
> As I said, the most effective propaganda tool is omission. You’re not going to compare sources on something you never even read about.

How is that a risk? What are the chances that anyone will only see news from one source?

> After fact-checking a hundred times you’ll decide that NPR does report facts, but do those facts paint the whole picture?

After fact-checking a hundred times, won't you learn NPR's strengths and limitations? And wouldn't you learn if facts are sometimes omitted?

I think we form nuanced, detailed, if often tacit opinions about the sources. For example, I'll articulate a little of mine:

* Rule #1: Never trust opinion pieces.

* NPR: Quality news, no deception or try to push an agenda, won't always dig deeply. Always present a pleasant tone and has light information density. An inefficient source, but sometimes have stories and facts that others lack - I wish I had more time for them.

* NY Times: World-changing revelations are taken for granted. Reporting is nuanced, never satisfying the desire for clarity (which is good - the world isn't clear). Sometimes leave critical questions (IMHO) unaddressed and can be lacking hardcore, expert analysis, and bury key facts in long, wordy reports. Recent, more narrative style is annoying.

* WSJ: Never quite trust them: Murdoch demonstrates they'll embrace the Reactionary movement at any cost to truth or society. WSJ reporting looks excellent - up to the standards of the best, like NYT, etc. - and they cover important stories, but a lot of doubt lingers.
You can't just "use the grid"...existing grid connections can't handle the load. You have to have high voltage lines run direct. Just the equipment to receive and distribute a high voltage connection, you're talking ~$150k. Then another $60k per charger. And before you can even consider installing anything, you have to have lines run specifically for your station, which can often be several miles. That's definitely not cheap.

So no...hydrogen infrastructure is not 20x more. It's probably slightly more expensive than an urban charging station, but significantly cheaper than a rural charging station. And remember: electrical infrastructure is mature...it's not going to get significantly cheaper any time soon. Batteries are the innovation driving EV growth, not the grid.

The only thing that is unambiguously more expensive is the fuel. And it always will be more expensive...but prices are going down constantly. If it costs $100 to drive a truck across the US, why would it matter if it costs $200 to do the same with hydrogen, especially if it means not having to stop for hours at a time to recharge?
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The bad news is that it happens, but the good news is that the killer medical worker is rare enough that they tend to become household names. Everyone's heard of Harold Shipman, which they wouldn't have if this sort of thing was even vaguely common.
This could actually be an interesting path to get out of the "employer sponsored health care" mess that we have now. Pay people a bit more and create a bigger incentive for carriers to offer interesting plans to individuals.
They are home. Which is unfortunately the problem.
> those benefits can be paid for with pre tax money

The standard deduction largely gobbled up this scenario - paying towards health insurance premiums is tax deductible, but unless you can itemize beyond that standard deduction, it no longer matters. So in that case, yes there's somewhat of an advantage. Overall it can lead to complicated math trying to determine which scenario (W2 or 1099) will leave you with the most money/benefits.

And yes - with things like pooling resources, big business can often get better negotiated healthcare premiums than small business, let alone individuals.

For couples, it just varies by situation. Sometimes the W-2 member of the couple can get family health insurance, if that's a better deal than what the 1099 can get. If that's not an option, then yes, the 1099 member has to fend for themselves and buy an individual health insurance plan.
This is a pretty bizarre set of recommendations.
They still sell iTunes Match subscriptions, a service entirely premised on you having your own MP3s.
A lecturer I had in college had a military background, optimizing energy consumption in remote military setups. Turns out, the cost per gallon can be over $100 by the time you get it to the region, build and start a convoy for protection, and drive to the remote camps. 40% vs 80% efficiency on the generators really makes a difference!

They were flying into an airport in the middle east, just like a commercial flight. The conversation was along the lines of:

"What are we doing? We're gonna get shot down! Why aren't we doing {aggressive landing style that limits the window for getting hit}?"

"Nah, it's completely safe to land at this airport. They don't mess with our stuff."

"What do you mean, we're in the middle of enemy territory!"

Turns out, there was an agreement between with the local opposition military leader. They wanted/needed oil for heating and other purposes. The US military had tons of barrels of used oil from all their vehicles. The US gave all that to the opposition with an agreement that they don't shoot at our planes.
Is the title is misleading? It sounds like it's a tool to build server-driven components for your native app?
Adda as a Way of Life
I am excited to try this, thanks for posting!
>Because the only conclusion I have with this whole mess is that Afgans do not want to resist the Taliban.

This...
My company has a intriguing combo of mandatory office with most teams being distributed.

So you are guaranteed a remote work environment from an open office.

I really don’t think that will work long term, so can see a lot of restructuring.
Thanks for the reply. This is some great feedback. Our deck definitely has some future features and strategies in it, so if I go forward with the call I’ll definitely need to do some trimming down
Yes, that's exactly the training I was referring to.
Less than 1000 poorly trained and armed guerrillero lead by Fidelo Castro managed to take Cuba when the Cuban army had over 35 thousands soldiers.

The disparity is even more crazy during the battle for Mosul that saw a few hundred ISIS fighters defeat 60k armed forces.

It depends on what are you fighting for. An ideal/belief or money.
People really need to start seeing taxes as a good thing.
History has always been manipulated. It’s written by the victor, after all (for the most part). It is very telling what your complaint is; you’re just mad that your favored whitewashing of history is being challenged.
This is one of my favorite resources for learning about Linear Algebra. Helped me immensely when I took it last spring.