skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the whole population, it's a bit over 60% so the "misinformation" you're referring to is approximately correct.

The context is important, that 40% was a response to someone that said that a great proportion of people are for the vaccine (now whether his 10% figure is right or wrong, that's a whole other things that I won't debate here), thus his point for giving that figure is to give doubt over whether enough people are for the vaccine or not.

So yeah I would argue that saying 40% of people are against, by including people that can't get vaccinated in Canada (younger than 12) and people that didn't get both dose, to show that not that many people are against the virus, is disinformation. He didn't used theses words, but he was responding to something and not simply stating facts about how many people got vaccinated.

82.521% of the population that could get vaccinated, got the vaccine in their body. That does show that a good proportion of Canada population are not against the vaccine.
That's roughly the start of the Neolithic Era, with early forms of farming.[a]

Perhaps there's a connection?

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic
The downvotes on this post illustrate the partisan politics that have invaded even HN. It's nearly certainly true that this poster is correct. The point isn't Biden vs. Trump, the point is the varying tone of the press coverage.

See also: "overflow" vs. "children in cages" — I have seen this personally because I work with some of those contracts, and the terms used by the press changed when the administration changed. Nothing has changed about the conditions in those detention facilities (I would know), and more are being built/repurposed out of things like convention centers because illegal entries spiked when Biden took office. But if you were to read MSNBC you'd hear little about it, and what would be talked about would be anodyne (and Trump's fault).

Again, it's not about the partisan politics, it's about observing editorialization in action.
I really think that most people, even those in tech, are blind to how easily the world can be manipulated as long as it's not a threat to corporate profits.

If your propaganda campaign lines the pockets of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, then they are open for business. Also, if the company refuses the business by banning propaganda accounts or creating special rules for who can advertise, then they have entered the political arena.

It's not very expensive to force a meme.
I'm guessing they are overloading the ref's usage with the custom renderer. I believe that a renderer can accept non-function/class components in theory, which is why this works.

I don't really like this though, although interesting, it feels like a hack and might not integrate well with tooling (e.g. the Typescript example).

How I would have implemented it was exposition a Mesh component which wraps this, and a useMesh hook to wrap and type the ref.
A guy I work with did his PDF diffing (basically testing whether invoices generated by new code match those generated by old code) by running the two invoices through ImageMagick and subtracting them from each other, basically looking for different pixels (maybe > $threshold) and then looking at the visual diff with missing pixels brightly colored. I thought that was really elegant.
One of many reasons to despise Reagan. I was promised we would go metric and he cancelled it.
What's striking is the speed with which the government and army crumbled. It implies they felt the masses supported the Taliban. How did the US miss that?
> Certainly it was a disaster for it ever to have begun.

It was, arguably at least, an unfortunate necessity when it began. It had the capacity to have a positive outcome. It was an unrecoverable disaster when it was back-burnered so the US could wage a war of aggression in Iraq.
Rocking the latest Nightly (93.0a1 2021-08-15) on Linux, which has AVIF enabled by default. Maybe the implementation is broken.
I've always wondered if the big unspoken reason for establishing American bases in Afghanistan and Iraq was to surround Iran. They perfectly sandwich Iran in from the east and west. Maybe with that clash seeming less imminent it was time to pull out. Geographical advantage is behind most military decisions but it's never enough of a reason to get public support for invading countries. Hence, the need to defeat terrorism and get Bin Laden.
Yeah because clearly DRM has never been broken and none of those keys are known to the public already.
Your blurb further clarifies not just our deep incompetence but also our extraordinary arrogance. Even though there is a history of nations failing in Afghanistan we somehow thought we will succeed. This is nothing but a power and money grab by our politicians and defense contractors.
Whilst I agree with you that Elixir is an also-ran Tiobe is the worst yardstick by which to measure a programming language. I can never understand why anyone takes it seriously.
Bush, Obama, Trump all kept it going. Trump finally wanted a withdrawal which Biden is keeping. The implementation of the withdrawal wasn't all the great, but the problem is the US keeps thinking it can force democracy on people who either don't want it, or don't have any experience of it.
Your objection applies equally to the 2D crystal.

As far as I can tell the fact that charges reside on the boundary only really applies to induced charges. When the conductor itself has a net charge then you'd normally expect these to configure themselves so they're as far apart from each other as possible. If the conductor doesn't have any kind of weird shape this should normally result in a roughly uniform distribution of charge (if it has spikes then most charges will move there to be away from the bulk).
Depends, what you consider convenient. If you happen to have homelab cluster and you want your rules to survive a VM migration from one host to another, it is not convenient to have them defined per-node.

Alternatively, you can have a look how Proxmox does it. Proxmox uses qemu for VMs, iptables for firewall and their own cluster solution (corosync) to distribute the config (if you happen to have cluster) to all nodes. They are capable of isolating VMs connected to the same bridge.
That's details, it's not a few months earlier or later that would have made any difference. The point of the plan being prompt and full withdrawal within a year.
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Considering the devastation invoked when filling up newly minted plastic vessels with rich, inland aquifers, believe this factor is not 3500 but actually much higher.

>They used something called a “life cycle assessment” which estimates the environmental impact of an item over its entire lifespan. That includes the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, use and disposal.

Would like to point out that extraction does get more costly over time. Think of oil wells or any other resource, the low-hanging, easy-to-grab fruits are taken first, then the tech to extract must be advanced, then more precarious pursuits in search of resource are undertaken and the ecological devastation is quite a bit more each successive time.
I believe the `null!` is some trickery to let the rest of the code know that the `ref.current` will never be null, but with how React works you can’t really provide any other value. It prevents having to check for `null` everytime you address the value.

I don’t understand your first issue. The component is assigned to the ref, not the other way around, so why would it render `undefined`? It’s possible that `mesh.current` is undefined at first render, but that shouldn’t matter for the component, only for the reference.
Not to mention that, if you believe the typical marketing bullshit, your bottle water is probably sourced from the Alps or some stream in the arse crack of New Zealand and then transported across the globe for however long that takes, until it finds its way to a store and then to your lips.

Brita filters (or any other filters/jugs) have their own environmental costs as well but you can chug through a decent amount of tap water before you need to replace one of those. Couldn't live without one of those in Barcelona (unless I wanted to down a glass full of limestone), and was much more useful than lugging back a few huge jugs of bottled water every few days.

Back in the UK, not a single reason to buy water in a bottle unless you're outside and in a pinch.
OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]
WW2? But, that was a team effort.
D Day
Don't think we can even get 50% of our populace to agree to it. Much less a bunch of countries.
Honestly, I don't see what difference it would've made. The past week has shown that the ANA is either utterly incapable of or uninterested in defending Afghanistan against the Taliban. Whether we'd left by Christmas or stayed another two years, the outcome would've been the same.
A lot of crops are grown to feed cattle. Most livestock in the US are fed on consolidated feed lots using feed like corn and soy. Grass grazing couldn't support the amount of meat raised, so it's a chain of fossil fuel fertilizer -> feed crops -> livestock
Not to embellish too much, but one could even say that the Germans had on their own plenty of experienced personnel, significant expertise and deep traditions in military matters.
What if every manufactured good had a nutritional label that told how much energy, oil and minerals were spent on it?
I think this about my government's decision to implement electricity metering in all new apartment construction. Except apartment dwellers have little control over their appliances (they're generally included), and you pay $13+/month in account fees for the individual meters.

They even tried to push this on existing apartments, but I'd have to consume 33% less than average just to break-even. Hard to do when HVAC&DHW are central and laundry is common.

So while I would have some incentive to conserve, I end up poorer and somebody else gets rich off account fees and likely lives a very wasteful life.

Then the transition to smart meters that do time-of-day billing, but its been shown to shift demand by under 1 percent. Meanwhile the thing consumes a few watts 24/7 + implementation capex. Meter-reading is now remote, but what did the meter-reader human start doing instead?

> The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario's 2015-16 Energy Conservation Progress Report found "a 0.7 per cent reduction in peak demand among residential customers" attributed to time-of-use pricing over a four-year period.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/smart-meters-hydro-bi...
If you want things to be more stable use clojure
I'm not sure that it matters most either. But it certainly matters somewhat.

The point is that if the "other side" were in power at the time and executed the process exactly the same with the same results, the way it would be covered by our influential newsmedia would be very different. How and why it would be different is important to observe. Being able to see it allows you to interpret the world around you more intelligently, and make smarter decisions.
With avif enabled in Firefox (latest nightly), the images do not show. Loading them directly shows "The image "https://nestflix.fun/img/_header/header-bg-1280w.avif" cannot be displayed because it has errors".

I'm not sure if this is an image error or a Firefox issue, I have heard about Chrome being more lenient than spec when loading avif images. I might look into that a little more and maybe file a Firefox bug to see what they think, I'll update here if so.
So who makes the choices then? Who is the group that validates we are ready to try out a new idea?
Classically sensational title for article which omits the biggest problem with donation like these (which are admirable, nevertheless) is how this money [sadly] often end up being "managed" by people in charge.
That’s a bizarre generalisation.
A lot of the calls in the organizations I have worked for use assume role and are usually associated with temporary credentials. Those are often shortish lived and not static
The policy documents don't change that much I think, but there is more than that that goes into evaluating a policy. You've got resource + org policies, all kinds of tags, complex conditionals, per-assumption stuff etc etc. Fascinating problem space.
> IPv6 either works, or doesn't

Oh, you sweet summer child! :)

IPv6 “just works” only if you completely control the routing stack end-to-end.

Once end user equipment and hosts are introduced into the network all bets are off.

In a mobile network, where the carrier controls what user terminals are allowed on the network, it is at least nominally possible to achieve “just works” status.

So, in the real world, forcing IPv6 would result in IPv6 being supported only in a particular configuration used in a particular way. Everybody will be told to go pound sand and no effort will be made to keep IPv6 working or prevent breakage.
Most of the regular soldiers and their families will be spared. The Taliban have nothing to gain now by killing them and making more enemies. They can afford to be magnanimous in victory. Reprisals will largely be targeted towards special operations troops who actually did fight against the Taliban instead of just running away, and the former translators whom we abandoned.
And you can't even count it fully, really, because of the Russians. WW2 was a joint effort, yes, but the USSR turned the tide and sacrificed the most.
Boy, talk about timing.

I just used up about 16 liters of bottled water in about 4 days because we started to doubt that our tap water got us all(family) sick at the same time. When I tried to test the water, I found no easy way to do so; all test kits on Amazon turns up with comically bad reviews. Local water testing lab only tests for specific pollutants with legal precedence like Lead, Cadmium, Mercury etc. There was not a single trustworthy test I could find to say here is a decent test profile we ran on your sample, and here is the water quality score.

Context: I moved 2 weeks ago to Amsterdam, NL from Denmark where we had been drinking tap water without any thought and trouble.

A scientifically dumb test to get off tap water while we were all sick(sore throat, bad stomach, and mild fever - yes, COVID negative) worked and we are not sick now. I don’t know whether to stop using bottled water and go back to tap water or to continue this environmentally bad choice of bottled water in fear of health.

I used to believe that tap water is a good natural choice as it packs minerals and useful natural solubles that would have been filtered out in bottled water. But, if it could get me sick, I don’t know what to do.

Hopefully we don’t get the same sickness again now that we are drinking tap water, and I could build up my trust again on tap water.
There’s a great podcast called Blowback that goes deep into the history of both wars: https://pca.st/episode/8b3805b4-76c9-479b-89f6-efd66a71f87a

The history of US involvement in those areas starts way before 9/11.
I suspect the kit will get bombed to smithereens by US et al too.

Modern armies do it to their own hardware if it’s at risk of being captured by the enemy. I guess there are few secretive things the Afghans got, but even that isn’t for wider consumption.
This is a tactical failure, not a moral one. One's ability to win a war is entirely separate from the justification of that war. My concern is that the American public seem to conflate the two.

I don't know what the correct response was to 9/11, but something had to be done. The invasion of Afghanistan wasn't a charitable maneuver--it was America defending itself (and supported by NATO and UN declarations).

Obviously any nation cannot just sit by and let thousands of their citizens get killed.
And that's from a developer point of view. As a user, most software is slow given that it's running on a blindingly fast supercomputer, less intuitive than it should be and just gets in the way a lot of times.
You've described why iPad doesn't suck terribly compared to the Remarkable but I didn't see you mention any of its advantages. Are there any?
You could get your water tested if you're concerned.

ADDED: I don't mean this facetiously. Even if I drank bottled water rather than tap water (which I don't in general), I definitely would want to know if I suspected my tap water wasn't potable for some reason.
IP address and gif search term might be a valuable data point to add about a person.
* Japan - preexisting army with a long tradition.

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

* Taiwan - preexisting army from the 'Nationalist' side of the Chinese civil war.

* Australia - army was built by the UK long before the US was involved.

* Israel - when it was established the US placed an arms embargo. Most support came from USSR, but a strong influence was service in the UK army during WW2.

So out of all examples, only South Korea maybe fits, and I'm not sure about that, just not so familiar with the history and what role the US played (it could be that they were modeled after the Japanese army which previously occupied the country?)
The Afghanistan war lasted pretty much the same as the Vietnam war. Are there any other major similarities?
Depends on where in Europe you are.

In most of eastern you need partuculate, charcoal and ion-exchange in series to somewhat approach acceptable levels of shit in it.
Not sure on IAM, but Google put out a paper on Zanzibar.

https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/
>Meter-reading is now remote, but what did the meter-reader human start doing instead?

presumably unemployed. Not that's a bad thing, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
They are fighting for it. It's just hard to see from you perspective because they are fighting against who you want to win.
I think they need to take a very serious and hard look at performance before it can go anywhere near VR (where rendering speed and stability are paramount). I'm sure it works for simple things and can handle GUIs fine, but the overhead seems huge currently.
I have a fine, really simple advice - don't start wars. I don't know where some US citizens take the idea that half of the world is longing to get invaded and westernized, it is simply not the case. If some politician tells you so, he/she is lying and you should seriously questions their motivation (like Bush' administration after 9/11 and its ties to companies who got many of the army orders). The idea that politicians are up there for the good of mankind if laughable at best, and dangerously naive at worst, regardless of country.

Don't start wars half around the world for made up / weak reasons with a country that is not anyhow threatening you, the amount of evil that is 'inserted' into mankind doesn't dissipate but all of us have to deal with it for generations to come. On top of all the destruction and death/murders/rape/torture/etc.

This is valid for any country, I may be bashing chinese in 10 years (and would be bashing colonizing west european states 100+ years ago), but for now its clear on whom this is aimed.

I can't imagine how all the patriotic US veterans must feel now - all the things they went through and lost friends, physical and mental health meant much less than nothing. Nothing would mean there wasn't 20 years of war and death, that would be a damn fine thing compared to current situation.

Oh and one final one, that one is also easy - don't start war in Afghanistan. Graveyard of empires they called it.
I drink bottled water because if I did not the next choice would be stuffing myself with soft drinks and other crap. I can only drink so much coffee and tea per day.

Tap water just doesn't taste well on its own.

I would be first to switch to drinking tap water if I could somehow make it taste well.
The definitive reference is Apple's own Inside Macintosh. Many parts of that are still available on the Apple developer web site, e.g.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

For a more directed and more C-oriented walkthrough, the Macintosh C Programming Primer was a pretty common go-to. It's been out of print for ages, of course, but there's a PDF available at:

https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/pdf/Macintosh_C_Prog...
The site is hosted on Netlify, which I believe in turn uses AWS for some infrastructure. Looks like Nestflix got unlucky and was issued a reused IP address for its A record.
Agile philanthropy
Be mindful of survivorship bias.

Lest people on twitter start posting pictures of the hypothetical WW2 planes that came back.
Biden is a complete fool for the way he pulled out. That much is undeniable. Who else is to blame and what the alternative should have been doesn't change that fact. He saw what happened in Iraq and ISIS, the moment the US pulled out from there. He was Vice President, even! This is a disaster and entirely predictable, if unavoidable.
Interesting. I nearly got an X1E, but really didnt want a 15" model.

I actually got a Razer blade stealth instead. Despite the massive complaints about batteries (and im still in the window of it not affecting me) I have been happy. It works fine with linux, and has all the graphics chips i could want. I can switch to windows to quickly play some kerbal and back to linux for daily work.

That said i did have to go with a new-ish version of Ubuntu and a couple of the other distros I was using on my x200s (including Elementary OS) just flat didnt work.

But i assume thats more the 11th gen intel and drivers, especially Iris more than anything.
400M qps seems mind boggling. What other things exist at this scale??

As people have pointed out, something like Dynamo is likely FAR more complex - but my understanding is that it's also 3-4 orders of magnitude smaller.
This looks really neat
Newtonian physics IS deterministic (sorry Norton) (2017)
Metrics metrics. The only metric I care about is happiness. I rather die when I am 50 than living in a cage till I am 80.
I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with unit tests [video]
As I read the headline I went right to the comments to see your comment. Thanks HN for such a nice service and community.
I'm absolutely not picking on no one when I point out this comment is yet another example of the hazards of applying apparent common sense to matters of law. One doesn't get any extra consideration from a judge for pointing out what seems false.

Also, the article makes clear that plaintiff chose a legal strategy closer to contract breach than false advertising.
What is stunning about the wars in Afghanistan is that they are all exactly the same. British in 19th century, Russians in 1970s, NATO now.

Each war is initially “won” very quickly, then the occupant struggles to find allies, reliable new political elites, and frankly purpose. It all turns sour, things go from awkward to deadly, and there is a disastrous and embarrassing retreat and that’s that.
Optimism and realism should go hand in hand. Proper optimism is not about dismissing the fact that real problems do exist, and are very serious, but in the realization that we are equipped and able to find solutions and implement them. Climate change for example, there is so much going on in the Green Tech sector, innovations and companies emerging everywhere to take steps toward solving this. Sadly, mainstream media doesn't cover these things. Warp News site that posted this Kevin Kelly article has a lot of great stories on the topic, among many others.

https://www.warpnews.org/green-tech/
I'm pretty sure Pakistan will help Taliban, after all they are the parent of Taliban.
So three calls per minute for every human being on the planet.