skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that this thread is driven by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, I think it's important to remember that the invasion of Afghanistan was a NATO operation after NATO invoked Article 5 (Collective Defence) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks that Al-Quaeda launched, organized by their leadership based in Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban.

There are a few additional facts folks forget since this is now 20 years later. Such as on Sept 10th, an assassination attack was launched against the Northern Alliance because they knew that the US would retaliate for the attacks coming the next day. There were also a number of Taliban leadership that directly aided in the planning and execution of 9/11.

IMO, "nation building" is always an impossible mission. The objective should have been to attack, destroy the enemy, and leave - immediately. Punishing the sponsors of the 9/11 attacks, not entrenching an ideological split.
At sufficiently high temperatures you overcome all molecular binding energies. The result would be free atoms. Spinning the resulting plasma would separate the atoms by atomic mass.

This is basically a high-temp version of a cracking tower used in the oil industry. The difference is that the temperature is high enough to "crack" anything.
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Both of your examples shows you bought new products because you learned about their specs and tried them for rational reasons. It isn't a counter-example at all. Traditional marketing works via emotional manipulation first and foremost, informing the public is secondary. If marketing to nerds mainly works via informing them of new products then marketing isn't very effective on that group.
The IETF contains some really questionable propositions lately, not sure what to make of this, but it doesn't seem to solve a problem.

What does this provide in contrast to DKIM? Perhaps there are logistical problems with DKIM, but I wouldn't know. I wonder why it isn't more widely spread in the first place. The receiver can determine the requirement, which is the best solution imho.

For Google it seems to be more of a marketing issue than security. Furthermore provider could track domain requests. That isn't just suspicious, this is almost malicious. There is a reason mail clients don't display pictures outright.

I hope my mail client will never support this.
If you run your own router: yes up to a certain point.

https://www.myhelpfulguides.com/2018/07/30/redirect-hard-cod...

Afaik nobody has a fix for the client hostility that DoH brings to the table.
That ^^ made me think of this, for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
that's not the same article...
I heard that Taliban rule is, like many authoritarian states, more stable than chaos and civil war, and also reduces crime across the board.

This stability gives a sizable level of local support. For many however it's literally a death sentence.
Are you accusing tomp of being part of that crowd? Seems an uncharitable interpretation of their words.
If you include the pop culture/gamer/marvel fans in the nerds category then they are the biggest group of consumers and marketing there are.
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Isn't posting bad information a "willful intent to injure"? I can't imagine the banks are piblishing bad info in order to help the consumer.
The New Yorker touches on this:

Over the years, starting with his experience in wartime Hungary, he had developed all the instincts of an outsider; he was distrustful of government, disdainful of the establishment, allergic to institutions generally. Traditional foundations did not escape his contempt. He saw them as too bureaucratic to respond in a timely way to real need; laden with overhead, which benefitted the givers instead of the recipients; and inherently corrupting, almost demanding to be exploited. (“They go against human nature,” Soros says, “which is to take and not to give.”) This last point was particularly nettlesome for him, inasmuch as he is a singularly untrusting person, intent on not allowing others to take advantage of him.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/the-world-acco...

I don't find the "human nature" quote referenced elsewhere.
“You’ll lose so much weight traveling ”
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They think children are legitimate targets?
We don't have (a lot?) Of the classic diary cows here in Switzerland. My neighbor calves are grown either 8 months (grown calv) or ~12 months ('cow') and sold as meat. A majority of our cow meat is grown in such a 'organic' way.
>Another tip for domains that don't send email: set a null mx record. This explicitly tells sending servers that your domain does not receive mail...

Most of my domains don't send mail, however I do prefer to receive mail to the standard aliases (webmaster@, abuse@, etc) and often a catchall. Even for domains I've got parked and awaiting deployment.

Am I thinking too much, not enough, or is the opening phrase of the advice meant to be "Another tip for domains that don't intend to receive email"?
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This is what Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are supposed to do. If convicting all the horrible monster people would leave very few people free, sometimes it’s just better to make sure the future better. Restitution can be more important than punishment.

But, forgiveness is hard, and it means evil people walk free.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_commission
and how are conspiracy stories about Russia any more/less reasonable than conspiracy stories about deep (US) gov?
Yep! Curation is though.
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Does this carry over to jruby as well?
> when I was in the office to perform some server maintenance

So this work you did "around newsrooms" and "with journalists" was sysadmin work? Have I misread that?
This isn't networking advice, but its what I've done either professionally and for home in some limited cases.

For fee paying networks, the "router" will most likley be in charge of some sort of DNS. If thats the case its made canonical for a subdomain that one owns. If you're lazy, just plain split horizon. However limit it strictly to DHCP. As soon as you start re-writing public services, you're sunk.

Side note, its a really good time to start putting in location data into subdomains. using option 60(might not be this, its been a while) you can work out what switch the request came from and add a different subdomain based on that you can make subdomains like server01.rack3.datacenter.country.company.com. this allows you to make search params to create local services. ie "time" would first check rack3, then datacenter, then country, then company.
Using documentation in such a context is still very much marketing.
I agree Hancock's theories often has a lot of wishful thinking but they seem more plausible to me than the current orthodoxy which imo is definitely wrong.

> Another possibility is that chances of advanced civilizations developing are extraordinarily rare.

My issue with this theory is it makes us special (chronological snobbery). It makes a lot more sense for us to be standing on the ruins of many great civilizations that were roughly around ballpark or even more advanced than us. This would be more in line with our understanding of nature which is very conservative and cyclical.

> We have evidence of populous and vibrant civilizations existing

My understanding of this is, nature is a very powerful destruction agent and most archeological finds are rare exceptional cases where multiple unlikely things happened to get the area preserved.
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Interesting concept, but based on the screenshots, the assets look significantly worse than Settlers 2. Hope this will be improved
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They did, there are completely usable phones in the 100-200euros segment, which do at least 2/3 of what the 1k ones do, albeit more slowly.
Yes, I always found "left" and "right" so unclear and ambiguous.
Not finite. Not even countably finite.
It would be nice to have a codepage in Unicode for vertical bars of 6-8 monochrome pixels instead of abusing braille. That would solve most of the "I want complex graphics in a terminal" issues IMO.
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Failing SPF doesn’t matter if a DMARC policy is in place. You just need to pass SPF or DKIM at that point. It’s why it’s important to setup both.

Both fill in gaps in the use case of the other.
I've seen this linked elsewhere. The short answer is: No. America lost Afghanistan because we spent twenty years fighting a proxy war with Pakistan without ever being able to actually talk about it. Just like we can't talk about Ecohealth Alliance making the Damn Virus or the fraudulent studies that they used to ban treating the Damn Virus with HCQ, or Obama sending the OPM Database to China, or Joe Biden being a senile puppet.

It's rather like how 1940 Russia couldn't talk about how Stalin spent the previous ten years purging the Soviet Army on German Intelligence's orders.

It'll all be disturbingly meta and recursively when this comment is voted down so y'all won't have to see all the things y'all won't talk about being talked about.
taxing the rich how about we actually try it before calling it a failure.....
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I'm a little wary of games which boast of their "depth".

Oftentimes it means "we didn't have a cohesive enough vision to reject any features".

All that said, I do like Settlers 2, so I will give this a try.
domestic terrorists, attempting insurrection, without a single fatality on the capitol side?

so, where was the violence?
Since you are bringing up NATO, I will just spell out the Hague Invasion Act ELI5 :

US Congress signed into law the a priori consent of invading the capitol of one of its NATO allies ( NL ).

Disclaimer : I am Dutch.
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Completely true, I wasn't too serious about that, just pointing out that there were unintended benefits.
Yes, it's what they called "collateral damage".
We have a free marked and please just buy what you want. Did you buy a Nokia?
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From what I can see, it is the very same CAs who used to peddle normal certificates (and are currently mostly failing to sell EV certificates) who are now desperately trying to save their business by pivoting to convince businesses that VMC certificates are the new big thing.
We aren't really taxing the rich, on the contrary they are complaining about not being taxed enough.
They have all the metadata and have made it clear that they are analyzing it. Either their marketing is a complete lie or they were very aware of this.

It's not unusual for Facebook to just ignore things like this. It's a popular platform for grooming children and Instagram is how people are buying drugs now. As far as I can tell effective moderation of these global platforms might be impossible (or unprofitable.)
That man is pure gold. Sadly the video is geoblocked, I'll have to find some alternative source.
I did not mean to dismiss him, sorry if it seemed that way.

I enjoyed some of his works. You can admire his work but not follow his lifestyle, that's I think relevant for many artists.
Whichever mental illness he had didn't get better by drowning in absinthe.
Probably not a good idea with something as security sensitive as a browser.

Electron lags behind Chrome versions, and requires deliberate effort to secure [0].

Also, on GitHub, Vieb has just one main developer so you'd be trusting him with everything from your reading habits to bank credentials.

[0]: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
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It seems like a great incentive to not have leaks, share information, or hold onto information they don't actually need.

Cell phone companies ask for social security numbers (SSNs) to do a credit check when opening post-paid accounts. Most people don't know any better, so the give out their SSNs. The companies can just delete the SSN after they use it once, but they don't. That should be on them. If I was a company, I would not want to take on any more responsibility than necessary. These companies decided to take on the responsibility, so it is on them.
> If you're completely satisfied with your material needs, a marketer is going to have a very tough time selling you on something.

I'd argue that the way it works is that they create desire on the one hand and sell their products as solutions to things that they aren't on the other. To explain the latter, for example, selling beer or handbags to fill a need for self-esteem or something.

If you think about it, a lot of people have most of what they need and are persuaded by these created desires anyway.

Then you also have to consider that people are trying to get you to buy their butter rather than the other butter. That's the third part.

In summary, being satisfied is not a defense since they can make you unsatisfied.
Airplane wheel well stowaways have a 3 in 4 fatality rate [1]. Clinging to hope like this is the end result of a desperate decision from people who are clearly very desperate. So incredibly sad.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wheel-well_stowaway_fl...
Article is weird and does not construct a coherent argument, feels like something written to throw out the idea as a headline.

As in a headline was written and then an article rushed to fill the topic, rather the other way around.

A point it raises (2 decade long housing boom in Melbourne) does not get addressed, how can there be a “boom” like this that prices people out. Where does that money come from? Maybe tackling it at the root is better.
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I'm not sure I'd hold him responsible. He isn't the one that ordered the torture, and we don't know what he was told ( did he know the guy was getting tortured? did he know he wasn't any threat?)
Meanwhile the US knew fully well that the Taliban would claim power over Afghanistan if they withdrew their military.
The US behaves like a deranged abuser in a codependent relationship. Destabilise the region, exploit it, nurture dependence on western military and then abruptly leave.

The TV series Always Sunny In Philadelphia did a skit on this, its called the DENNIS system.
the following explains the 'why':

https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure...

no idea to what extent, if at all, it is true. I can imagine there being a grain of truth in there but that implementing this correctly is much more difficult and nuanced than it might seem at first glance - most "digital designers"[1] probably don't get the budget/freedom to properly tackle accessibility in their commercial projects, I can also imagine that the majority of digital designers are 'young' and have close to 20/20 vision making it that much harder for them to truly put themselves in the shoes (eyes?) of people with lesser than perfect vision[2].

as someone with only a laymans' understanding of all this stuff I'm probably guilty of talking out of my **; I welcome someone with real graphic design credentials putting me straight :D

[1] "digital designer", a person working in/with visual design, who started employment, or was born, after the release of the first iPhone ;-) (alternatively someone working in the design industry who never had the privilege of buying a copy of "The Face" for the simple fact they we not born in 1985)

[2] a category I begrudgingly have to admit to being part of more and more ;-/
It's becoming almost funny how quickly a wave of "analysis" articles are unleashed by outlets such as WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC... whenever something negatively affecting the bank accounts of the rich comes up as a proposed solution to a burning issue.

Whenever I hear "trickle down economics" The Chaser YT clip comes to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5x1sSjfknM
A previous version of MeiliSearch was using RocksDB and we were having a lot of trouble using it, a lot of setup to do to make sure that we were not killed by the OS due to OOM or even fixing a lot of strange segfault by patching the RocksDB library itself...

RocksDB doesn't support transaction but views in the database, which means that if you are indexing, writing into the database and that any event makes your program to stop unexpectedly, you can't just start your program and use the data like this as it could be corrupted.

This is why at MeiliSearch we prefer using LMDB, even in case of an unexpected crash, a reboot is instant and valid, you just need to restart the indexing you were previously doing and can serve requests to the users with the previous version of the database.

Also as you can see [0], the benchmarks between LMDB and RocksDB is very clear. I understand that it is maybe not reading the database that takes time on your side but it is on our side, combined with the set operations between sets of internal documents ids.

[0]: http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/optanessd/imdt.html
I'm pretty sure some people would be interested if they figured out you have a subdomain named say, name-your-password-manager.example.com. Motivated attackers could then attempt to exploit your password manager through websites you're likely to visit.
Presumably it doesn't work to just short the power cables together and let the overcurrent protection trigger?
I read the comments and I agree but I would describe that in my way:

Car mechanic buying bolts needs to know thread and sizes of bolts, he does not care about "our bolts are best bolts in the world", if he would spend an hour with sales rep that feeds him marketing and in the end it turns out they don't sell what that mechanic needs, it will make him angry.

IT people or "nerds" know what they need and they have specifications to meet. Making it an "ego" thing is silly :).
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> but expensive enough to ruin the profit margins of spammers.

And mailing list operators, and charities, and free software projects, and...

To be fair, your "rubber stamps" idea does mitigate this problem a lot, but I think the issue still remains that it's hard to get email providers to agree to drop emails from senders that haven't upgraded to this new system, as well as agreeing on a globally consistent set of CAs who are trusted to not act as a cartel.

It's even more difficult to get all existing pieces of email sending infrastructure to simultaneously upgrade to support users entering their rubber stamps, not to mention the security concerns of dealing with the funds needed to buy the non-rubber stamps. Perhaps the big email providers could force everyone to implement this as of a certain flag day, but I imagine the response to this weird new tax would be less than enthusiastic.
I'm sorry, it's been a long time some code made me feel so dumb. I mean I thought I had a good grasp on c++ and vectorized code and I can't find a simple example on how to use it properly. The benchmark example made me feel even more dumb.

Can someone help pointing what this code is supposed to do (yes I read the landing page and it doesn't help me much...), are there alternative libraries that do similar things and are there 'simpler' examples somewhere?
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>For a system to be unemulatable it has to be unloved. If it's unloved does it matter if it's emulatable?

Or it has to be completely tied to external network services. The gameboy (color?) web browser only recently started working in emulators for example. I wouldn't be surprised if we never saw an iPhone emulator.
There is very little code that a Googler could write that is unrelated to their employer’s business. You’re almost certainly going to need an explicit carve-out, as other Googlers in the thread have pointed out.
It also wasn't primarily the US, they were just onboard with it. But these interventions are never to transport values, that is ridiculously naive. It should be extremely clear in the case of Iran since it was its democracy that was undermined in favor of a more western aligned dictatorship which was then replaced by a religious theocracy because people were spiteful enough to just get western influence out of their country. Not a good solution, but completely understandable.