skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the trucks etc were broken down or worn out and some might have been contractor or personal vehicles brought over that they probably decided wasn't worth the cost to take back.

The ammo, weapons and military vehicles I believe quite lot of it technically belongs (or belonged) to the Afghan national army or at least was donated to them, although from what others on here have said, they were barely functioning as a force with rampant corruption at all levels.

None of this is new, pretty much exactly the same thing happen after South Vietnam fell, with the North Vietnamese getting an even more massive stockpile of basically US military equipment that makes what the Taliban have captured pale in comparison.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/29/archives/arms-left-by-us-...
https://militarymatters.online/weapons/vietnam-loves-america...

Not to mention all the helicopters they just pushed into the sea during the Saigon evacuation to make more space on the decks of ships.

Even back to end of world war 2 they dumped huge amounts of equipment into the sea or buried them or just left them in place to avoid the costs of taking them back. I suppose it does make some sense from an overall cost and logistical point of view, but on a personal level it does seem incredibly wasteful.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/wwii-ended...
Sure you can use external repositories. But why bundle old packages when everyone then has to use external repositories to not get really old versions?
Maps is spam spelled backwards, and is almost scam spelled backwards.
China has a long history of using tariffs and all sorts of regulatory tools to not only protect their industry, but export at below cost.
Maybe they are downvoting you because you're comparing the death of people killed by terrorist and the ones that died as collateral damage in a war.

Both are tragedies but both are different.
I uh. I know all of these really well. That is the one i would use to tell you you are wrong in the analogy of the chain. These all say that our systems do not work like chains.

Oh and btw, all these scholars consider Taleb like a wanker for a reason :)
Happens with florists, also.
I daresay hundreds of threadjacks on this same topic have happened in many threads in the past.

One of the most frustrating things I've been finding about HN recently is the duplication noise. Its like, what's the point, I'm not hearing anything new, just the same old complaint and the same old discussion.

;)
Yes indeed. My (huge amount of) competitors indeed have an army of sales.

If you are David and the others are Goliath just don't play the same game they are playing because you are bound to lose.
Find out what you are good at and play a completely different game from them.

We don't do sales. 8 years ago Waiterio was just a mobile app and got the customers from the app stores. These days we do a lot of content marketing and i18n.

Are you a founder from a non English speaking country?
I'll be extracting my internal tools for content marketing and i18n. Write me here if you would like to give it a try.
Job opening at U.S. Embassy in Kabul
Which politicians? The ones that sent the troops over there to take the country from the Taliban or the ones that wanted the troops back?
And if you have an openstreetmaps nut living near you, it's going to be much more detailed too, one near me updated the location of a rubbish bin within two days of it being moved.
Public service announcement: stop voting for presidents who start wars. Here's the pattern since Johnson in 1964:

- Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the Vietnam War throughout 1964 and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was passed just before his re-election in November 1964. There's a book, Dereliction of Duty, about how Johnson did this for the popularity it would earn him.

- Nixon didn't start any wars and he was re-elected.

- Jimmy Carter didn't start any wars, and the Iran hostage crisis had the opposite affect: it made him appear weak. He only served one term.

- Ronald Reagan got involved in Grenada and Lebanon in 1983. Both conflicts were relatively small and the U.S. withdrew pretty soon afterwards. His re-election was in November 1984.

- Bush Sr. started the Gulf War in January 1991. His re-election would have been in November 1992.

- Clinton got heavily involved in Bosnia in 1995. His re-election would have been in November 1996.

- Bush Jr. started the Iraq War in 2003. His re-election was in November 2004.

- Obama started the Libyan War in 2011. His re-election would have been in November 2012.

- Trump didn't start any wars. He wasn't re-elected, but we can be sure that he didn't start any wars to increase his popularity, like every other two-term president since 1964 except Nixon.
> that induce the reconstructed audio to sound like the uncompressed original input.

What if we want the codec to produce easier-perceptible sound, not just a reconstruction. Could bake in noise and echo reduction, voice improvements etc
flatpaks are great, you should really try them.
The way babies cry may be influenced by the language of the parents

https://archive.is/CYLFm "Do Babies Cry in Different Languages?"

> Quantitative acoustic analysis of these recordings has produced further insights into the factors that shape a baby’s first sounds. Newborns whose mothers speak tonal languages, such as Mandarin, tend to produce more complex cry melodies. Swedish newborns, whose native language has what linguists call a “pitch accent,” produce more sing-songy cries.

It's not that far fetched to imagine that adults can vary in the way they cry for many reasons, and this variation be consistent across populations.
Likely not, but that was not my point either, it was just an non-stretchable analogy.

AI is not a single network usually, it is a pipeline of networks of different kinds, see e.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0 (seek to 1:35 for beginning of an architecture overview). You can’t call it “just pattern matching” without fetching it too far.
from the title, I expected this to be a standard for video signals (like NTSC), and was excited to learn about a video standard I had never heard of.
As usual, reality is far more nuanced than the stuff that gets you easy virtue points.

It wasn't a stable secular state when we started influencing things. There was a king. The commies overthrew the king, the US didn't do much of anything at this point (because we just got done with Vietnam and there was zero appetite for anything that could lead to more of that). The commies started infighting. The soviets picked favorites. The US didn't want to see the soviets build a total satellite state so we gave the other guys weapons and training via Pakistan who were the ones who fanned the extremist flames. 35yr later here we are.
What Are the Different Types of Acquisitions
I’m going to leave this link because it seems like people are unaware of the events of the past several years. This is basically the outcome that was negotiated with the Taliban unilaterally without the involvement of the Afghan government.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973604904/trumps-deal-to-end-...
While I agree with your points, it's not the only outcome. As a German, technically the US did the same thing to our country in '45: Throw bombs, invade and then occupy it — then gradually leave and pull out and let us handle our own stuff including military and defense. Being a bit biased, I'd still say it worked out brilliantly.

I'm seriously curious about what made this work out so well, compared to Afghanistan or Vietnam.

Is it because there was no big difference in religion? Because there was more mutual respect? Because there was a common enemy in the East? Or because the US _really_ made a giant effort to rebuild the German economy (The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan is still remembered fondly by especially older Germans and to this day is a core reason for friendly sentiment towards the US despite the anti-foreign sentiment into the other direction lately)

Like, maybe I'm dumb, but the US went into Afghanistan and theoretically gave "them" weapons and training to defend themselves, but apparently the big majority was either not interested or too scared to defend the country against the Taliban. I'm stumped on the big difference.
Spam Calendars
The CFR is the number of people who die of covid vs the number of people who get covid, so in a hypothetical where everyone who got covid was given ivermectin, yes, it's very relevant.

> Nobody's suggesting that...are they?

Some ivermectin enthusiasts do indeed suggest using it as a prophylactic drug.
Easy solution for this "problem" - allow and encourage more immigration!
Didn't Biden say within the past couple of days there wouldn't be helicopters evacuating the embassy like in Vietnam? Guess he got that wrong.
If I have a SaaS (e.g. website that offers some service) then is there a good service that takes care of the technical part of user registration, payment and user support / CRM?

Even if there are services like stripe and Auth0, as a solo developer it takes considerable time to connect all these together to get the basic functionality to actually sell things and integrate it into my product.
It costs money to scan all those images. Also those are public images so they are not a big deal to them.

They'll instead spend that money scanning your private device.
"Install a tin pot who owes us" is a more likely route to a military base.

Supplies are an issue, hence why you don't see the military doing much complaining about letting Bagram go.
Don't embed the tweet, which also prevents Twitter from tracking your users, and just copy-paste the text of the tweet and include a link for those who want to see?
This building is similar to that in the second series of Homecoming.
It was a bit exhausting, I understand, five days and five nights from Lisbon to New York.
> 5Wikipedia disagrees, but for me, the defining feature of a transpiler is that its goal isn’t running the program but getting human-readable source code that can be maintained.

No, not really. Perhaps the typescript transpiler is the most widely used transpiler in history, and anyone with a cursory experience in typescript can tell you that the transpiler's role is to just generate the code intended to be packaged or fed to a barreler without any human ever looking into what code is generated.

Another famous example was the initial "c with classes" transpiler which was the precursor of C++.
This is the online version of picking up the trash when you're at the shopping mall. Some people actually just enjoy improving their immediate surroundings!
Yeah the Arduino libraries are a big help and let you get off the ground quickly. But the point I'm trying to make is that unless you're manually translating assembly instructions into opcodes, you're relying on some layer of "magic" somewhere to make your life easier. I don't really consider it "less complex" so much as "hiding complexity that most mere mortals won't care about".
Yes, and I tried to summarize why I think the cost of hiring enough people for this particular job is extremely unlikely to be more than a rounding error for Apple.
I have one of these. The screen keyboard has a very high error rate that makes it highly frustrating to use. Also, the battery life is surprisingly short. I get less than a day with almost zero use on mine. The idea of the phone is great, but the implementation is sorely lacking. Particularly at the $400 price point.
"But we make so many cupcakes, it is 'literally impossible' for us to be able to make sure each one is glass free" ... is what some people in this thread defending Google seem to think.
If it isn't obvious from the panic or from dmesg streamed over ssh, it sound like you will have to try a git bisect.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/GitBisect
Taliban penetrate Kabal – Biden Triumphant: "Mission Accomplished!"
How about just no front facing camera? Why do we need a camera pointed at our faces constantly whenever we use our devices? For someone who never takes selfies, the whole concept is absurd
Thanks that's interesting. The article says 0.5mm/s of change is enough to miss the earth, but how much time ahead do we need to find the asteroid? (Assuming we launch the day we find the asteroid, which is politically-wise unlikely but well)
“We are awaiting a peaceful transfer of power,” Taliban spokesman Suhail Saheen told the BBC.

When did terrorist groups get spokespeople, geez.
Came across this today, when my mother called me and asked for help with messages on her phone that said her phone was “at risk” and stuff like that. And she told me it wasn’t regular SMS nor email. And first I thought she’d seen some deceptive banners on the web then, but she also told me it wasn’t in the browser or anything like that.

I told her to pull down the notifications screen and send me a screenshot. Turned out she had become subscribed to a calendar that had spam events in it.

I helped her identify the spam calendar and unsubscribe from it.

Apparently this is yet another way the spammers and scammers have found to use.
There are 6 million people in Kabul plus some elite Afgan Army. That is enough to make a no passaran moment to Taliban. Theoretically.

But it seems like all Western-minded urban Afgans want to get evacuated to US, Europe, Canada rather then put up a good fight. So why the West shall fight for their freedoms?
Or just speaking English [1].

> A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations are located.

> A tree plantation, forest plantation, plantation forest or timber plantation is a forest planted for high volume production of wood, usually by planting one type of tree as a monoculture forest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation#Tree_plantations
I've never seen a major version upgrade on Debian go flawlessly -- reinstall is typically indicated. That being said, that you got it to boot at all after a boofed upgrade is really great work!

Historically, the upgrade process with Debian has been rough. RH & derivates always seem more resilient to the upgrade blues, to me. It's gotten a lot better, though.
A DC cop died of hyponatremia some years ago. I remember being amazed at the amount of water he had drunk.

[edit: changed "killed himself with" to "died of"; the man wasn't suicidal]
not only is this the first solution presented in the article, you've not even bothered to pass -layout to pdftotext or -u/-y to diff which would make this marginally workable. spaces after shebang also doesn't always work (e.g. in qemu), you don't clean up the temporary files, and the temporary files have unhelpful names.
No activity doesn't necessarily mean unmaintained, it could just mean usable and stable/bug-free.
I tend to not be a fan of replies that are just "thanks" etc, but I must say here: thanks for your comment and link - that is ridiculously fascinating.
Without the soviets, the war would not have been won, but how about we celebrate and honor this without shitting on America?
I’ve got no experience with this stuff. Is it possible to model asteroid redirection in KSP or something similar?

One oddball idea I wonder about is turning suitable asteroids into something like an O’Neil cylinder. They offer lots of mass that you don’t need to haul up and could be resourceful. Seems the mass would help with radiation hazards. Gravity could be simulated by spinning them through traditional means. I’m talking about hollowing them out.
Actual title: "Taliban enter Kabul, await ‘peaceful transfer’ of power"
Nearly the whole plant is edible, no leaves or sticks to dispose.
No, they aren’t - the difference is all about formalities; from the moral standpoint they are precisely the same. It doesn’t matter if you go killing innocent people because of religion, political interests, race, or money.
For anyone alarmed by this headline - a main conclusion is that there is a possibility of this asteroid being on course to hit earth in the year 2182 or later.
If I could distill it in a few phrases...

The German right: "We are a superior nation due to our precision, organization, engineering and business skills. Everyone should, naturally, emulate us, or fall behind."

The German left: "Morality is the measure of all things and there are no compromises possible. Everyone should follow us to salvation, because we have been through hell and, as a consequence, we know best."

Sorry for having offended anyone :) The common thread seems to be the conviction that Germany is a Vorreiter (leader) of Europe, which, frankly, it isn't anymore. Europe has weaker and stronger countries, but no clear leaders.
It was clear even to a child. I was 14 when we invaded Afghanistan and it was blatantly obvious to me that it was a terrible idea and that Iraq was an even more terrible idea. It continued to be a terrible idea for ever one of the last 20 years. The scars we left will stay for another hundred. Actions have consequences.
Well that’s not reassuring for the field of archaeology … Couldn’t the ‘cranks’ just pool together some funds and do the testing to settle the debates?
Gotta nuke something.
The panic scrolls on the screen I hook up, but I was reading I could rebuild it with kdump if I want to get that deep in to it and try to figure out more that way. I will take a look at that wiki article though and see if it helps out any.
This is why you always install your own OS on a new computer.
Dictionary.com just now:

peaceful - adjective

the state of being mostly tranquil with only some beheadings
> Work Two Remote Jobs, Reach Financial Freedom

Be employed at two jobs, do what you can to prolong getting fired, put as less energy as you can into your jobs, let your team colleagues do all the work.

Where can I get some more colleagues like that?
> as a solo developer it takes considerable time to connect all these together

Well hopefully it you’re a developer it doesn’t take that long. I just switched a SaaS to Stripe from PayPal last week and it took less than 30 minutes. These SaaS support tools/websites are increasingly easy to use, making time to market for even a solo dev pretty easy.
That would make it a framing problem:
A loss of complexity can also be seen as a gain in simplicity, freeing up time and resources to be spent elsewhere.

And about laws: I totally agree that it is a huge problem, maybe even a bigger one. Because I have never heard lawmakers talking about technical debt or legacy code. So it seems they are not even aware :)
Oh fuck it, I will do it too, just so you don't bail on your promise. Not sure how to contact you tho, but feel free to send your contact to my username @ gmail and I promise I wont send you a beep until aug 7th 2031. :) Except once to check if its you, if you don't send me legit contact, that I will check ASAP once, I count you bailed.

I also saved this thread on web archive in case HN goes down and added it in my calendar note:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210815125616/https://news.ycom...

Also on archive is in case web archive goes down:

https://archive.is/wip/LOZgi
I'm not sure whether OP referred to pedophilia at all. I understood this much more in the spirit of subjecting young boys to weapons and explosive training in camps.
The ones who initiated it, or cooperated in any way.

It’s not particularly hard, you just need to stop pretending it’s any different from, say, Mussolini.
The nice thing about solo bootstrapped is that it is extremely quick & easy to cut losses.

Most 'indie hacker' founders have 5 - 10+ failed businesses that didn't grow fast enough or just weren't quite right.

The indie hacker scene is pretty different from your typical VC startup where a business is 3 - 5 years minimum, most indie hackers are running on time frames of 1 - 3 months to gain traction.
I feel like this comment is from a parallel universe, cause I don’t understand what it means lol
Serial adventurer let her Facebook followers plan a trip across Europe
Yeah — I was expecting something to break with the way the steps seemed to go, not sure why, just had that feeling. That said it is nice everything else seems to work so far but I am planning on most likely just backing up /home and rebuilding on Debian 11 or one of the new CentOS replacements.
Yes. But I don’t control what others do. I’m not allowed to downvote top level comments.
Or they would start widening their diet to include non-agricultural plants as well. That, too, is a way of escaping the killer robots.
Young kids (10-11 years old) in my area seem to uploading selfies to Yelp for certain restaurants, as pictures of the food or the building.

I've reported it and they don't take them down.
From the submission guidelines: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One thing this article doesn't point out is how beneficial it is to have a decently large highly engaged audience beforehand.

ConvertKit is an example of this.

The founder started by selling books and then made a course on how to sell books, got a pretty big audience around that and then started to build ConvertKit. Eventually he figured out who he wanted to market ConvertKit to and his prior audience of people wanting to sell things online was a great match. Naturally a lot of people who bought his books and courses are a great fit for his email service because the whole premise of his course on selling books is around building an email list. The books ended up being a lead generator for his SAAS app.

That's not to take anything away from Nathan's work. At the end of the day he made a very successful and well deserved business but the specific circumstances around it are a bit different than what this blog post makes it out to be. It was a 10 year journey with multiple good ideas at the right time to get to that point. All of it is documented on Nathan's site. I remember reading some of his posts many years ago.
To me it's more like a "fly in cupcake" level than "glass shards in cupcake" level. But it's all subjective so I respect your opinion.
The point to real minimalism isn't throwing perfectly good stuff out, but not buying unnecessary stuff in the first place. Everything else is just a fad.

So after throwing everything out, people now buy new stuff ? Great trick, great for the planet, slow clap!
With virtually any major OS upgrade there's rarely a reason to immediately upgrade and be an early-adopter. When stability is paramount it's highly recommend for most machines to wait a few weeks (or even months) and then upgrade.

This advice applies to Windows, macOS and Linux.
A failure of the Afghan people! Hahaha, OK. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And ah, okay, the war in Afghanistan was to liberate women? Meanwhile the US is in bed with the Saudi's.
Welcome to HN, one of the few Internet forums where humor is actively discouraged and unfailingly frowned upon (with the possible sole exception of idlewords[1]).

Dear HN users, make yourselves a favor and stop taking everything, including yourselves, so seriously.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords
Map cam sac spam scamps maps camp.
We do not really know how the robots will look like in 20 or 30 years.

It is entirely possible that the robots will remember positions of individual crops and kill anything that grows outside the grid.

It is even possible that the robots will be capable of seeing individual cells on the plant and distinguish the species by morphology of the stalk.
Thanks for this. This was very informative, and now I'm hooked on Marketplace episodes!