skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Afghanistan shows how a military/country is more than the sum of its parts. The US gave the Afghan military all the toys and training that they need to stomp the Taliban but there is a missing element- decent standards of living, opportunity, education, and national pride/identity.

It would take generations of investment and the US standing guard while Afghans attend school and prosper to slowly gain those elusive qualities.

Just my 2 cents.
> ... Speaking strictly about mRNA vaccines, the risk is not yet well-defined.

> ... On the other hand, COVID has a pretty well defined risk being that we've seen it for 2 years now, and it's from a familiar family of viruses.

So, to be clear, you're saying that 2 years of observational data on COVID is conclusive because COVID is very similar to other viruses (SARS, MERS) which we have on decades of observational data on.

And yet you're saying that almost a year of observational data on COVID vaccines, over 3 billion doses delivered, is inconclusive even though it's also based on decades of study of similar vaccines. Vaccines developed using the same platform - both mRNA and viral vector vaccines are decades old. And in some cases, the studied vaccines were developed for SARS - the same virus you credit towards understanding of COVID. Should credit not also go towards understanding of the vaccines?

Is this not inconsistent?

At this point the COVID vaccine has been studied, trialed and monitored more than probably anything else you've ever interacted with in your daily life. Most vaccine trials are run with one thousand people, not three billion.

> Lastly, you have to consider when comparing these numbers, that there's a non-null probability you won't ever catch COVID. I'm not at risk, and I believe I probably have natural immunity, so I see no reason to expose myself to additional risk; it wouldn't help anyone any.

There's a very high chance you will catch it unless you mask and vax. Even then there's a pretty high chance.

You have no reason to believe you have natural immunity - you almost certainly do not. This is at best wishful thinking.

You're exposing yourself to more risk through inaction. But worse, you're putting your friends and family who cannot get the vaccine for actual reasons instead of gut feeling at risk.
And America is supposed to spend $1 trillion+ per year so that a thousand women can keep banking jobs? Many middle eastern countries are extremely conservative. We can't police Afghanistan nor the world. Should never have been there, should never have stayed, should have gotten out far faster.
Anything that isn’t a large donor-funded private organization would be an improvement.

The wiki model seems alright to me. It just needs a better way to view changes.
It's all hindsight. Iraq was a colossal mistake but the world was in agreement about the Taliban and their war crimes. There was never a right time to bail out; the US and allies have invested hundreds of billions in infrastructure but it's a state of tribes more than a nation.
I think there's another side to this coin: very small software teams moving quickly in markets where truly senior devs are scarce. It makes far more engineering and business sense to invest in cloud infrastructure than it is to build and control all of those systems in-house. I can hire a middle-of-the-road developer and trust they've (at the very least) heard of the AWS or GCP tools/services we're using, but if I wrote my own systems in clojure/elixir/whatever (even though that's what I'd prefer to do), then there's nowhere near the likelihood that the new engineer will know what to do, and it'll take months to train them up to even a basic level of competency. You can make all sorts of "it's better in the long run" kind of arguments, but those don't help when the C suite says "yeah sure, maybe that's the best approach, but we need to get this done right now." That's where clicking a few buttons to spin up a load balancer in front of a handful of serverless handlers becomes rather nice.
Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
Fox did multiple coverages on Obama's tan suit that he wore once or twice... lol.
I didn't really think sugar causing obesity (and in turn causing diabetes) was open to debate? People gain weight because they consume too many calories and then eventually overweight people develop diabetes. The big calorie contributor to modern diets is the sugar content in food. For example, there are no shortage of stories of people losing weight just by cutting out soda from their diets.

Now, some people will change their life through incentives and some people won't. The nice thing about a sugar tax is that if the funds are appropriated for health care funding or UBI for low income individuals, then you can provide more of the opportunities you were talking about for people to get healthy (gym discounts, nutrition consults, etc.). The tax is two parts. Disincentivize the purchasing of high sugar content food and fund discounts or incentives that improve health outcomes.
The upside is shifting resources to focus on industries with less competition like software and semiconductors. No country can sustain the current quality of life of their citizens without imports.
But these are merely historical facts. My ancestors almost certainly did a lot of things I don't like, and "But your ancestors did them" doesn't make them OK for me to do.

There likely are other ways we could have got here, but we can't change how it actually happened, that's not how time's arrow works. However we can choose how we go forward.

The explosion of fossil fuel conversion is much later than subsistence farming. Even by the time of the previous pandemic you aren't doing subsistence farming. Once it has occurred to somebody to have horses do the hard work, which don't run on fossil fuels, one man can produce far more food than his family can eat.

Lots of tricks can be done independent of the fossil fuel conversion if you either don't have that yet or you have reasoned that it might be a bad idea. Where my sister lives there's a mill, the mill has a canal, but it also has a river next to the canal. A river is free power for a mill, whereas the canal is an easy way to move goods to the mill for processing. Now, Salt's Mill was never in fact operated this way, it had enormous boilers and a vast rainwater reservoir - but if we'd not used fossil fuel power you could have built a (smaller, much less powerful) mill at this location and still produced fabric and changed the world.

In a sense the reason we have the microwave oven is World War II. You can make good radar using a klystron to get shorter radio waves (the basic idea of radar will work with nice long radio waves that are easy to make but it's shit), but the klystron you're using won't fit in an aeroplane. However, once you invent the cavity magnetron that's much smaller, you can put radar in an aeroplane - now your planes can find enemy planes. Or, you can put the magnetron in a relatively inexpensive steel box in your kitchen and cook food with it. Would we have invented the microwave oven anyway? Probably, but the actual way we got it involved a global war that killed an enormous number of people.

Still, "Let's have more wars so we get better kitchen appliances" doesn't make sense, and likewise pretending fossil fuel usage doesn't accelerate climate change doesn't make sense.
The original ending of the movie Rambo 3 ended with the following:

"This film is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan."

https://youtu.be/Cx4ey-EmLm4?t=553
There's always been propagandistic journalism, since colonial times there were multiple newspapers and pamphlets with highly biased information. The question is, do we throw up our hands and say education is politicized, we can't do anything? Or do we try our best to teach news literacy, knowing like English or History class, it'll be infused with the personal views of the teacher.

In my view, you see 20-30% of Americans won't take the vaccine that is patently obviously far better than catching COVID. This is a massive self-inflicted wound due to the misinformation and disinformation of bad actors, charlatans, and Russian agents.

Even with a non-objective teacher, we NEED to give space for debate and discussion on news sources, otherwise we will continue to allow our "freedom" to consume garbage content to overpower our education to process that content. I'm all for freedom of speech, but we should pair that with robust education on information diets, biases, logical fallacies, lying, etc. The fact that still, 60% are educated on vaccines and trust doctors, that is a hopeful sign, that in future generations we can banish this ridiculous anti-expertise narrative rampant on the political extremes.
You don't have to sell any physical piece of it, only shares in it. The company can still grow, but individuals would not be able to hoard the wealth it creates.
I’d assume Facebook would be appointed a partisan czar during each administration, much like many government agencies. Unlike the EPA or FCC though, controlling Facebook has huge political implications.
This is a common misconception. Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes is mostly caused by obesity.

Sugar has a relatively high caloric density and can be addictive, leading to obesity. However, you can eat large amounts of sugar if you do a lot of sport, for example, and then burn off the calories again. Then you don't get diabetes from it either.
You’re talking about processed food - anything that comes in a box, jar, or bottle.

Those products all have brand names and each one has a product manager who wants to grow sales so they add sugar, salt, and fat to manipulate you into craving more.

Healthy food is simple to understand - fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, nuts, grains, pulses, and meat.

That’s it.

It takes time to prepare and cook and the ingredients don’t stay fresh very long so you have to synchronise your shopping day by day.

Who does that? Hardly any couples with kids and a full work schedule, particularly those working three minimum wages jobs. They buy convenience foods in boxes and jars from the supermarket, or fast foods from a drive through.

Convenience ——> Diabetes
>Humans have lived for millennia with a slower rate of tech advancement, yet here you're saying that the planet had to be sacrificed out of necessity. [...]

They also had life expectancy at birth of 30, and regular famines. I'm sure you'd change your tune after your wife died with your child in childbirth.
"For some reason", for obvious reasons, given that in the years following 9/11 there was real backlash directed at muslims. I'm not saying it's fair but it's obvious what the difference is.
Sometimes a superpower comes in and enlists you in their war in your country, and then leaves and hangs you out to dry. This happened to the Hmong in Laos during the Vietnam war as the CIA used them in their secret war across the border. Eventually thousands of them did settle in the US [0].

[0] https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/10/25/how-a-former-cia-wo...
Most of my life, all of many Zoomers’ lives. Twenty years, surpassing even Vietnam.

All that money wasted, all those dead civilians, all those broken soldiers. All of it for absolutely nothing.

What an abhorrent clown world we live in.
Scope creep is always a problem when wars are a jobs program.
Author has a great imagination and no need for insulin.
That's very unfortunate. Sounds like it'll affect the Epic lawsuit, too, in all sorts of unexpected ways.

I'm really curious to see what happens to this bill since this is such a strange time in history that it has a chance of passing, though I have my doubts, despite that I'd love to see it do so.
That is because every good investment causes deflation, which in other words is increased economic efficiency. Capital must be misallocated in order to create inflation.

It's a huge misconception that inflation is good for the economy. What actually happens, is that the economy on the whole gets more inefficient and wealth concentrates.
The 'merit' you get from keeping around someone like this has to be weighted against the 'merit' you lose from their behavior driving other people away.

For example, where's the merit in this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210625135404/https://git.tyil.... ?
I think we know less about a lot of metabolic processes than we need to.

It’s obvious that obesity is correlated, especially since losing weight often makes symptoms disappear. I think we need to better understand precisely what the metabolic pathway is. Losing weight obviously is the best intervention, but the statistics I’ve seen indicate that for people needing to lose in excess of 30 lbs the success rate of keeping the weight off is <10%. So while it’s the best intervention, it’s not a particularly effective one.

An interesting note, bariatric procedures have had mixed results in this arena, laparoscopic banding has basically been abandoned as ineffective over the long term, in favor of vertical sleeve gastrectomy (restrictive) and gastric bypass (restrictive and malabsorptive). Paired feeding research indicates that the greater weight loss from bypass vs. sleeve does not just come from malabsorption, but from an as yet unknown metabolic change.
> Global warning at worst will slow our development. It won’t lead to catastrophe.

I find "not slowing our development" a weird definition for catastrophe. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. Extinction rates are multiples higher than the background rate. Climate systems are at historic weak points (arctic jet stream, AMOC) with speculations about collapse that people in the field didn't anticipate they would have to deal with in their lifetimes. Other tipping points are inching closer or are crossed already.

I'm glad the economy will live to see another day, but is that really the best metric to say it won't be a catastrophe? Because it really seems like it will be.
Serbian cave hermit gets Covid-19 jab, urges others to follow
... this brings back memories! In the late eighties I, as a teenager, found a Jackson Struct. Pr. book at the town library. I remember I was amazed at the text and wondered why I hadn't heard about the method before.

If I remember correctly did the book clearly point out backtracking as a standard method, while mentioning that most languages lacked that, so it had to be implemented manually.
Good god, man. This is slavish. And - I'll note - not unpopular, which is distressing.

Tax isn't punishment. Ever. Especially when tax rate is already so low that the proposed "emergency tax" is still less than historical income tax rates.

Tax is part of the social contract that allowed those billionaires the stability, educated workforce, infrastructure, safety from theft, etc, etc, etc, needed to build and maintain their wealth.

The idea that billionaires "invest [their wealth] efficiently and distribute it" is laughably sophomoric, a parody of the Gilded Age's self-serving justification for robber barons. Billionaires invest efficiently _for the preservation of their wealth across generations of their family_, only the most credulously optimistic model of capitalism supposes that this aligns with "distribution" (whatever that means - trickling down, eh?) or with the best investments for society at large.
I lean toward your side here, but I still like to seek out confirmation for things I agree with.
Anyone who has amassed a fortune in the billions has necessarily done so through one of only two ways: exploiting the labour of very large numbers of poorly-paid people, or receiving it from those who have done so.

Meanwhile, they have seen the plight of the billions of human beings who live in poverty and want, and chosen to use their vast resources almost purely to make more for themselves, rather than dedicate to alleviating such suffering even enough that their lifestyle is the slightest bit inconvenienced.

The sanctity of "property ownership" is not so sacred a principle that it should take priority over wholly preventable widespread suffering and death. There is no moral argument that could possibly support this much of humanity's productive output being hoarded by so few, rather than going to improve the world in a myriad of ways.
I don't ever want to see any domestic #metoo comments someone who was OK with the US leaving Afghanistan. Any gender discrimination challenges in the west are an absolute joke compared to the dark ages we just condemned 20 million Afghan women and girls to. And it's being accepted without even a peep by the press and populace at large.
Ok what do you think is a good online platform?

I've yet to see one that promotes an open minded, fact driven, discussion about politics. Compared to my readings of reddit, FB, new's comment section, HN has been by far the best imo.
They made a list of 'Anti-Muslim extremists' and included both a victim of extremism and a former islamic extremist on it. Because their views which are informed by first hand experience are different from those held by the SPLC. Their entry on Nawaz also seemed to imply he was not a true muslim because he went to a strip club as well.
Autohotkey is also useful for this. Any arbitrary set of characters can be auto replaced with the desired output, or alternatively be bound to a hotkey.

This removes the need to memorize some abstract set of Alt key sequences and instead one could type something such as ++degree to produce °. The sequence of characters could be anything to distinguish it from regularly used text, here using ++ and name of the symbol to illustrate.

WinCompose it appears uses a similar principle.
> Person with depression and suicidal tendency (because we are talking about CBT) on the other hand is not comparable to yoga video. It is more dire than you think.

> Having lived with a person for 5 year with chronic depression, your comment trivializes the disorder that many people in the world are dealing with.

Bold of you to assume that I have no personal or otherwise direct experience with mental disorders, or that I'm otherwise trivializing it. Were I in a grumpier mood, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself : D

I've seen plenty of friends give up on finding therapists because of the seemingly-universal nightmare of delays and bureaucratic incompetence, and I've watched the medical system spend _decades_ chronically mismanaging the mental healthcare of a severely-mentally-ill immediate family member until I took over his care.

> Redirecting them to an app (because it is more easily accessible) is pretty bad idea when they should be going to an actual therapist.

The logic you express in this comment also seems unsound. You claim that access to an effective and highly-available treatment should be severely reduced because it prevents people who need more intensive, less-available treatment from seeking it. It's quite an extraordinary assertion that we should _reduce_ access to care, leaving only the highest-cost, highest-hassle, lowest-availability options, and then to further claim that this will _help_ patient outcomes overall. What's your reasoning here?

Again, I refer you to my previous examples. Do you think information on yoga, mindfulness, and jogging should be banned? Why do you assume that access to a chatbot will displace more intensive mental healthcare but access to yoga and mindfulness won't? If anything, yoga and mindfulness are far more widely-known as a form of treatment for mood disorders; the average person probably hasn't even heard of CBT.

You can extend this even further. Should cardiovascular exercise be medically-gated so that the severely obese don't avoid gastric bypass surgery? Should we make it more difficult to get SSRIs (and hell, therapy itself!) so that the severely mentally ill don't avoid electro-convulsive therapy? Doesn't following your logic imply that both of those moves would increase patient welfare?

Truly, I'd like to understand how you think this logic fits together. I'm quite baffled by it.
I mean, I’m looking at this on mobile and desktop and just like a another poster mentioned, in relative terms, the damn thing is smoother than most web apps.

What’s the end goal here, right? The web sucks at the moment and I’m open to all ideas.
The Middle East cannot be fixed by using force. Only if you have a clear target such as taking out Saddam Hussein, it can work if you get out immediately afterwards.

I hope lessons are learned.
> why didn't they omit those references and reasoning regarding the Capitol?!

Your argument seems to be: Because Snopes didn't omit references in this one case, they don't omit references ever.

I've got no dog in this fight, but please, the logical fallacies are hurting my brain.
I can't really remember. I think I tried looking for some error message, perhaps in combination with the model, but it simply took too long. It may be fine when you're tinkering with a hobby machine, but at work it's basically me who can support Linux, so it was a no go. Wifi was not a solved problem at that moment, from my POV.
It's amazing how sleuths are able to uncover even subtle plagiarism from many years ago. If you take shortcuts , you will be found out eventually if someone is determined enough to find out. Eventually a few seemingly unrelated piece are arranged and shortly thereafter the full picture emerges.
This is disingenuous. Unless I somehow completely missed something, US military support was absolutely crucial in fighting back the Taliban.
> If 3000 soldiers can keep a whole country from going Taliban

Probably more like the expectation that in response to any substantial Taliban coup and thus danger to NATO soldiers, (tens of) thousands more soldiers with vehicles, tanks, aircrafts could be there in a matter of days.
Man, I wish I had the time, ability, and dedication to express my thoughts the way you just did. Thanks for doing my part
You're not the only one :D
If it can cause some good amount of time dilation, then send people into future by having them orbit around it.
What's with the hyperbole?

That's still 20 years of attempted infrastructure and education. I knew at least one person in graduate school that would not have been there. Just because this is a tragedy doesn't mean everything is dead.
Citation needed? I have a not too complex but definitely non-trivial editor I made for a little toy game engine and the Dear ImGUI code and related UI logic runs in under 1/10th of a millisecond per frame. My past Qt applications performed worse than that. My single page web applications often perform worse than that

But like the other reply says, bad is relative.
Or, supposedly, Saudi support.

Imran Khan's response to the Pak money allegation is to ask where did the 1T$ of USA money go? He does have a point, but still not sure why they want to support Taliban.
It was indeed done remote, you can watch/listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlB6tsLiY0w
And the most important missing element - a strong collective desire to be free from oppressive regimes. Best summed up by the old proverb "you can bring a horse to water, but you can't make it drink"
Chicago Crime 2021 https://heyjackass.com/

A person is shot every 1:56
A person is murdered every 10:44
Thru 8/12

August To Date
Shot & Killed: 35
Shot & Wounded: 184
Total Shot: 219
Total Homicides: 36

Chicago Crime 2021
Week in Progress (8/8 – 8/14)
Shot & Killed: 12
Shot & Wounded: 80
Total Shot: 92
Total Homicides: 12

Chicago Crime 2021
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 475
Shot & Wounded: 2306
Total Shot: 2781
Total Homicides: 501
Yeah, definitely. And a number of the cases I've tried to report have indeed been scenarios where a bike lane actually exists but cars are using it for various purposes— to park in, as a right-side passing lane, as a right-turn lane.

Most of which I wouldn't even mind; it's actually correct behaviour to block the bike lane when making a right turn so that you don't accidentally clip a cyclist when making your turn— but it's not correct behaviour to honk at a bike in the bike lane to get out of the way so you can make your right turn, nor is it correct to drive one off the road so you can swerve into the bike lane and use it to pass a column of five cars before your right turn.