skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desert Storm (first Iraq)? Even second Iraq War militarily ended up better than Afghanistan (because the politics involved was mildly less delusional).
Creator of Tailwind here — if you don’t want to go deep into JS tooling and really just care about spitting out a CSS file, it's a lot simpler to just use our CLI tool:
https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation#using-tailwind-cli
> but if you're one to tinker for utility, the utility is just there with the iPad

Listen, I think the iPad is a pretty versatile little piece of hardware. The amount of work required to turn it into a decent writing experience is almost comedic, though. I know a few artists who use iPads, and they cannot use it without the basic accessories: matte screen-protector, proprietary $100 pen (of course), battery bank, etc. On the other side of the spectrum, I see Mac users frustrated by how unintuitive their desktop is compared to their iPad.

If you want to fight your hardware to get it to do what you want, get the iPad. If you want to tinker, look elsewhere.
Those 2750 control the allocation how much of the capital of the entire world? Another reason we should tax them is that so few should really not be making the decisions for that much capital. That’s not even a good basis for a competitive capitalist system to run, let alone a social system that wants to maintain some baseline level of minimum fair distribution of wealth.

Even if you agree with Mackenzie Scott’s allocations, she wasn’t the direct individual who amassed the fortune (though I’m sure she contributed a lot), it’s something of serendipity that she’s in a position to be allocating her portion at all now. It really shouldn’t be this way.
Think and Grow Rich in three minutes.
This logic is utterly ridiculous.

Sunken cost fallacy: if you're making a mistake, don't keep making it because you've lost a ton already. Stop making the mistake.

The person executing the withdrawal is not to blame.
This years 20th anniversary of 11th Setp. will be something else entirely
Interesting to read that they are using Unix sockets to send traffic to their backend processes. I know that it's easily done when using HaProxy but I have never read about people using it.
I guess the fact that they are not using docker or another container runtime makes sockets rather simple to use.
That's my read on it: Facebook gets giphy, and they reach into all kinds of things they currently can't see. I'm sure the giphy integrations in slack, discord, telegram, etc. would become fresh sources of data depending on what the bot APIs give you in a request.

They start learning who you're working with in Slack, and you start seeing them in your friends suggestions. I don't think there's any reason to expect that FB would act in any kind of good faith with this stuff - why else would you buy a gif hosting platform if not for the entrenched integrations and their access?
It’s not as easy or straightforward to test drinking water. I tried and failed at Amsterdam, NL just last week. There is no easy reliable test for drinking water quality( one that tests for common bacteria, heavy metals, minerals and soluble pollutants). The only tests I could find were all lead tests, but that is just of my many concerns.
You cannot be serious. The Biden administration has made only a token effort to protect and evacuate translators and other vulnerable Afghanis who worked for the US occupation forces. Biden abandoned them to their fate and their blood is on his hands. He could have simply issued orders to load them on US aircraft and fly them out, but chose to do almost nothing.
You mean America attacked Afghanistan to protect itself after an attack by 15 Saudi Arabians and 4 others also not from Afghanistan?
Yes! Check
http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/MobileDasher.html

Also on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/dasher.android/
The thing is if you count what your employer pays for health insurance as a tax (because that would be a tax in say, Canada) you'll find that many Californians already pay more tax than Canadians.

So we already tax the middle class, just opaquely, and without the benefit of healthcare not being tied to work (which would enable more entrepreneurism).
Really old pipes will be carrying your water in a calcified layer
Agreed. Redmonk then? Not in the top 20 https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-2...

I think Elixir fans should learn a lesson in being humble...
Hey, could you please stop posting flamewar comments? It's not what this site is for, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. I don't want to ban you again - we unbanned you a while back and it has mostly worked out pretty well, but if you keep posting this sort of thing, we're not going to end up having much choice.

On the other hand, these are great!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176344

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28136015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28129665

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28124807

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28118733

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28104247

It would be a shame for HN to lose contributions like that, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and be more mindful of the intended spirit of the site, we'd appreciate it.
Paging Graham Hancock...
So happy to finally see Jan quadrant Vincent from inter dimensional tv
According to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)#History) she actually played not such a small role in founding the company.
I miss when Yahoo was really cool. Even long after it was made irrelevant, it had some of the best freely available public data APIs on the web.

I remember in college, one of our first programming projects was to create a "weather website" (this was before everything was an "app"). The project instructions suggested we use the Yahoo weather API, and it blew my mind that anyone could just make a http GET request and instantly get back some human-and-machine readable data, no scraping required.
Chiang Kai Shek and the nationalists were failing with or without US intervention.
Most legumes add nitrogen from air to the soil. The effect can be easily replaced adding industrial urea. On the other hand, many native plants (those that will survive) dislike having too much nitrogen in soil.
So you must have missed that whole "flint michigan" thing huh?

One google search away
https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-worst-tap-water-us-20...
Yeah, I can totally see the argument that it's a programming model that's well understood and you can get a productivity boost from that. However I don't think you can say that doesn't come with a cost, otherwise it would have been pretty widely adopted across the industry.
> it also employs thousands of civilians directly or indirectly

You're off by an order of magnitude, the MIC employs MILLIONS of people directly and indirectly. Each of the government agencies that make up the security state are as large as some of the largest private company. DOD has 700,000 civilian employees alone.
eInk displays have 85-90Hz refresh rate. Just look up the datasheets.

Though it does not mean the same thing it does for LCD displays. It just means you can stuff raw data to the display at that rate. Pixels are sticky so you're either driving them towards white or black or not at all (individually). And you may need to drive them multiple times (or for different periods of time), to get the correct shade of gray, or whatever.

So you still need several full scans to perform what user would think of as a screen update.
The only democracy that people want is theirs and you cannot implant it in culture and society if they haven't wanted it and fought for it.
I genuinely miss this site. I had so much fun playing with this as a kid. It’d be cool if they open sourced it!
Use Adalo[1] or something like it.

[1] https://www.adalo.com/
(off-topic) cool Smash Bros video compilation
> with a country that is not anyhow threatening you

Afghanistan did harbor Al-Qaeda, which executed an attack on US soil.
Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off
Here's my take on it: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Firefox-89-proton-ui-tab-styling.h...
> stopped spending lives and treasure to kick the endgame down the road

Yes, there was a lot of stupidity involved, but last casualty was over a year ago, and amount of troops was 40 times less than in the peak. There was no need for Biden to cede the country to the Taliban due to an artificial timetable and sunk cost fallacy.
"The Afghan army fighting alongside American troops was molded to match the way the Americans operate. The U.S. military, the world’s most advanced, relies heavily on combining ground operations with air power, using aircraft to resupply outposts, strike targets, ferry the wounded, and collect reconnaissance and intelligence.

In the wake of President Biden’s withdrawal decision, the U.S. pulled its air support, intelligence and contractors servicing Afghanistan’s planes and helicopters. That meant the Afghan military simply couldn’t operate anymore."

Bottom line, the U.S. trained and armed the Afghan army as a colonial auxiliary force, able to do boots-on-the-ground scutwork under the guidance and support of the U.S. military, but totally unprepared to stand on its own. Biden unthinkingly yanked that support away and the Taliban were ready.

The picture would be far less tragic if the U.S. had done a competent job of building the Afghans up to the point where they could defend themselves, and then their forces turned traitor and joined the Taliban. Then we could say the Taliban are the rulers that Afghan's really want, and quietly fortify the borders, apply sanctions, etc..

However, we (and I include allies of the U.S. such as the U.K. and Canada) really pulled the rug out from underneath Afghans. Yes, the government we propped up was corrupt and inept, but we sold Afghans on the lie that, if they wanted to, they could enjoy some semblance of a secular Western democracy. Everyone the least bit progressive who stuck their necks out to educate girls, etc. is now going to get beaten down, or worse. We lured them out for the Taliban and abandoned them. They're now in a worse position than they would have been if the U.S. led coalition had simply bombed the bejeezus out of Afghanistan and then buggered off without spending two decades trying to build something.

There is a lesson here that the victims of any future "nation building" efforts will be forced to remember.
It's just based on a flawed premise. Democracy functions based on the public's democratic beliefs about legitimacy and power, so you can't impose it on a country the way you can install a king or set up an occupational council. No matter how well you mimic the forms and functions of a democracy, if the fundamental root of power is "the Americans said this is how we're doing it", the government's gonna fall as soon as they stop saying that.
Attitude really does determine your subjective success. Because if you have a good attitude you can find optimism and success in almost anything.

Trained for a half-marathon, only to get sick and miss / fail it? On the surface that looks like a failure, but it's really not. The real success is the training, the weight you lost and fitness you gained. Or even if you didn't lose weight, the muscle and habits you gained which will make it easier to lose weight later. Or maybe you don't even need to lose weight anyways, especially since you probably lost fat. The big race is only a demonstration of your training results.

Spent 6 months working on an app but never released it? That it can actually be a big "success" if you learned a lot from development. I can vouch that I've become a much better developer by making apps which were never released, and learned concepts from functional programming which I probably wouldn't have learned otherwise, because I wouldn't have seen the point.

Built a company only for it to go bankrupt? Same as above, you get experience so that you'll do better next time.

Idk how much attitude affects your objective success. Attitude won't help if your goal is flat-out unachievable or you don't have the luck / skill. I think the real reason attitude determines success is that, if you have a good attitude, you can basically change anything into a success.
93 percent of cattle's lifetime diet intake is food that is essentially inedible to humans, for instance agricultural byproduct/waste such as the cornstalks, husks, and depleted cobs and therefore their diet is not in direct competition with the human food supply. They don't feed cattle valuable cornmeal and soybeans. Unlike humans, cattle can efficiently digest fiber and convert previously human-inedible feeds into nutritious, human-edible foods.

http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1...
>Local water testing lab only tests for specific pollutants with legal precedence like Lead, Cadmium, Mercury etc.

Does the pollutant list only contain chemicals, or do they include microbial pollutants as well? The EPA for instance has standards for microbial pollutants in addition to chemical pollutants.
Or maybe if a new_handler is installed, which returns.
Hi, Dan and Genevieve from burstable.ai here. We created a tool called burst to make on-demand cloud compute easy. This lets developers access powerful machines for CPU- and GPU-intensive tasks, with minimal devops overhead.

Using our burst CLI, you can provision a cloud VM (or restart an existing one), sync your code and data, run the task, re-sync the data back, and have the VM stop automatically once the task is done.

We've also added support for running JupyterLab in the cloud, with automatic timeout so you don't accidentally leave expensive machines running overnight (or worse).

burst is an open-source project with a permissive licensing model. We do intend to build a PaaS business leveraging burst (the so-called "open core" business model). However, we are committed to the development of burst itself as a viable FOSS project. Our vision is to make simple cloud devops as transparent as possible for data scientists, ML / AI researchers and the like. With the support of users and contributors, this vision can extend to other domains such as 3D production, video analytics and more.

One of our beta testers, an Astrophysicist/Data Scientist, put it succinctly: when it comes to devops "I treasure my ignorance". Developers who are not pursuing an IT/devops career should have an easy way to provision compute resources---one that is predictable, and consistent across platforms. burst is our first step toward that vision. We’re excited to share it with you.
> * Japan - preexisting army with a long tradition.

> * France - preexisting army (also, De Gaule was a good military officer and knew what he wanted).

One could argue that France had a preexisting army with an even longer history :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Franc...
Say what you want about Amazon and how they treat their developers, from the outside this looks like something really cool to work on.
Is it problematic that the same link was submitted by the same user 49 days ago?
For anyone speaking of concern with the Afghan people, do not be troubled. In a week like always no one will give a shit.

The only fair and just war is total war, the American people have never signed up for that since ww2 and will continue to lose until there is something worth fighting for.

9/11 was bankrolled by the saudis.
Would you say they were worth the multiple day wait?
I never understood the logic behind the claim “X wants to keep Y” down. How does keeping any country “down” benefit anyone? It doesn’t. It hurts society even more.
as absurd as it may seem to you, this is a react feature. the upcoming react 18 release is pretty much based on concurrency.

this is the test you are referring to: https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/advanced/scaling-perf...

the github repo now contains a vanilla test that you can run
Yes - their claim has no relation to time-to-response, so static data, etc. is irrelevant.

Thought experiment: if it suddenly took 10 seconds to respond to the calls, the number of responses still equals the number of requests, so the request velocity mentioned in the headline remains the same.
20 years of contractors-heavy operations, what did we expect? The only good thing is that the party is over for now.
One of the critical and dumb errors was Bush refusing to reinstate the monarchy (which Afghan elders asked the US to do), because it wouldn't have been a perfect democracy.
These are staggering numbers, but my understanding is that IAM roles are wholly contained within the boundaries of an AWS account, so it seems like something that could relatively easily be partitioned horizontally with no shared state required between instances.
Helping a friend troubleshoot a Rockwell-Collins KWM-2a SSB radio transceiver. High voltage, tubes, many, many factory revisions.

I've learned not to freak out when the magic smoke lets loose.

I've also learned how horrible Silver-Mica capacitors are. I invented a new troubleshooting technique to track them down. Any resistors in series with them and high voltage should have zero volts across them, if there's voltage across the resistor, there's current, and a leaky cap. You have to first pull out all the tubes, but leave B+ on.
World War 2 and the Korean War.

Modern US war doctrine is garbage. They believe a fallacy that war can be fought with precision weapons directed only at enemy combatants. Leaving most civilians and their infrastructure unharmed.

The best result this can bring is occupational victory. Territory can be occupied but its not been won. Only occupied.

War can only be won after completely submitting an opponent. With indiscriminate violence. Only then might an enemy submit. If not, they'll all be dead.

This calculus wins wars. Its horrible. Its inhumane. And its the genius of the Taliban. The population knows: Submit or die.
Exactly. Trading has a clarity of purpose that I just love: unlike other jobs no one is lying to themselves, no one is claiming to help other people. We know there is only one reason why we work together: to make as much for ourselves and the firm as humanly possible.
Polarity Puzzles – Physics inspired mobile game
What is her criterion for what to spend it on, does she state it publicly?
HN invited me to repost it. I thought it was a good idea.
I hate to go Michael Corleone with this question, but at heart that really is the answer. The same thing will happen in any of the nations in the MidEast or Africa in which we installed our puppets. Our puppets are fighting for money.

Our puppets are paid. The Opposition is not.

I know it's cliché, but that's the root of the issue. Wherever we are in the world, we never give the people a narrative that evokes strong belief. A narrative that will convince young men that the beliefs evoked are worth dying for. Wherever we install governments, the opposition side almost always has foundational beliefs in place.

We generally paper over the imbalance with money and military power, but that will only work for a time. Particularly in a place like Afghanistan. (As we're seeing today.)
The article is clear. The US built an army on the US model, reliant on heavy logistic and air support from outside. Without that support, the army collapsed.
> You need enough capacity to carry the IPv6 traffic over IPv4 in case your IPv6 transport, transit or peers fail. Again, not optional.

Surely you need enough IPv6 capacity incase your IPv4 transit fails as well. If JIO could have built enough IPv4 capacity to run their network over IPv4, they would have, but they can't, so they've been pushing IPv6 hard.
Is much more utility not an advantage?

Like I said, for some people it's not an advantage. They want something that is about as "dumb" as a stack of papers and so the iPad is not even an option.

But once you get into people who tinker and want to add features and integrations, like I imagine many PineNote owners might skew, well the iPad does that a lot better.

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It's also just a generally snappier device. In theory being barebones should make the Remarkable faster, but between the limitations of eInk and the low power hardware (which yes, I realize come with some great benefits) picking up the iPad for a quick thought always ended up feeling more fluid.

Also while the Remarkable is better in daylight the current iPads are much more usable than used to be. Meanwhile the iPad is useable in little-to-no light but not the Remarkable.

(side note on screens: pen feel is also a little oversold imo. A random matte screen protector made my $20 Apple Pencil knock off feel 9 tenths as the $99 stylus I got for the Remarkable and improves daylight performance too.

The 1 tenth is down to personal preference, I'd say the iPad felt like a nice pen, the Remarkable like a nice pencil.)
> If you want to make people stop using water bottles you have to improve the water going to their house.

It's not that simple. The quality isn't the cause, the cause is people's lack of trust in their water. It's not like you can just judge water quality by its color and taste.

e.g., "Drinking water from 118 of 120 (!!!) locations tested across the US had levels of PFAS or arsenic above Consumer Report's recommended maximum, or detectable amounts of lead." [1]

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/water-quality/how-safe-is-ou...
Sure, name some counter example.
> local pizza place
you are an asshole. why would you do that?
I mean the folks that don’t get on are gonna get killed and tortured. Kind of makes sense from that point of view
IIRC the problem with flint michigan water was high lead concentration, which isn't something that's as visible as the gp described. I can see how elevated lead levels can fly below the radar, but not brown water.
I remembered that ad campaign and (more vaguely) the lawsuit the moment I saw the headline here. Before I clicked the link I said to myself, "Harrier jet, right?" This made me happy since I sometimes indulge in fear regarding cognitive decline.
I'm sad I wasn't aware of this "app" when it was around. But everytime I hear about it, it is from people who "miss" it.
If this is the case, then why nobody came up with a clone to it?
The death of most big gain is a lost of food source that needs a substitute. The theories are climate change due to the end of the ice age, overhunting by people, and cosmic impact. All three could be true with different weight adding to the end result.
I don't agree.
You prefer burning your coal in a last-gen coal plant that capture some of the CO2 it emit than a 30 year old inefficient coal plant.
Ask HN: Is DuckDuckGo Violating Bing Search API TOU?
Bing is one of the main sources for DuckDuckGo's (DDG) search results [1]. Section 4(k) of the Bing Search API clearly states[2]:

When using the Services, you may not, nor may you permit third parties or your End Users to: [...]
Redistribute, resell, or sublicense access to any Microsoft service or Content;

If DDG takes results from Bing and presents them to me on their website, is this not redistribution? Is it not considered redistribution because the results are aggregated with results from other sources? Is Microsoft not terminating their relationship with DDG because they're afraid of a lawsuit?

If I upload a movie, book, or song to the internet and give you a link, I'm violating US copyright law because I'm redistributing the media without permission. But if I take search results from an API, and display them on my webpage, that's not redistribution? If anyone has any good references for understanding this further, please share them in the comments. I'm working on a tool that would like to use these APIs in a way similar to DDG, but I can't understand what they're doing to avoid violating the Terms of Use.

1: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

2: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/legal
Like I said, you can only avoid CGNAT costs if you accept the failure modes inherent if/when your IPv6 fails.

Thus in a properly designed network these are not optional costs.