skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nusalt or equivalent provides potassium.
Thanks for your recommendation, too. I've just read an NYT review of it [1] and am definitely going to read it. From the review:

Gopal’s book is essential reading for anyone concerned about how America got Afghanistan so wrong. It is a devastating, well-honed prosecution detailing how our government bungled the initial salvo in the so-called war on terror, ignored attempts by top Taliban leaders to surrender, trusted the wrong people and backed a feckless and corrupt Afghan regime. The book has its flaws, minimizing the role of neighboring Pakistan in the Taliban’s resurgence and letting the Taliban off too easy. But it is ultimately the most compelling account I’ve read of how Afghans themselves see the war.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/books/review/no-good-men-...
The lab-generated pandemic is being used as the blame for everything.
'And He Built a Crooked House' – Robert A. Heinlein (1940) [pdf]
Yes, I use it for https://www.comparedial.com/

It's ridiculously easy to use and has faceted search for my needs. However, there are some limitations so I have to use it in combination with redis, but the developers have a roadmap to fix these problems.
It never means a damn thing. It’s always the same story book for the US. And each time you have a fresh batch of recruits from the poorest neighborhoods of every major city ready to “fight for our freedom” and be discarded after like we discarded the Afghans, the Vietnamese etc…

All for the sake of lining the pockets of some billionaires, companies and politicians. Politicians who stays there for 40 years and tell us they’re fighting for us and this time will be different.
We can dance around environmental issues all we want. Everything reaches overconsumption and overpopulation eventually. Reducing both is straightforward and can be done with time-tested, strictly voluntary, noncoercive means that improve health, longevity, abundance, and stability. Nothing else works. On the contrary, generations trying other methods have increased the problems.
Trump is an idiotic and morally corrupt leader, it likely would have gone worse
Out Of Stock! :) but thanks a lot, that looks very interesting.
The trick is to disable all notifications. Always use the phone as a “pull” device. A reply can wait until the next day, and if it’s important they will call you (more than once).
The other side of the Covid-19 origin argument
I moved to Apple Maps since the past 6 months or so. At first I thought I would be back to using google maps but I haven’t opened google maps even once. Apple did an amazing job so far with maps. Although once in a while I keep running into a minor bug with traffic updates so far it’s been much better than Google maps
I've been a solopreneur boostrapping waiterio.com for 6 years and then 2 more years with 1-3 fulltime team members with a 20k MRR after 8 years.
I've chosen the bootstrap SaaS path after working 1 year in Silicon Valley. I thought all my life my dream was to build incredible stuff in Silicon Valley, then I got there and I didn't like it enough. When I was there I felt lonely and tired and sad. Despite having rare skills as Android and iOS developer 10 YEARS AGO my manager assigned me to build landing pages.
This was after not passing hiring interviews for Facebook/Google but still getting in one of the big ones.
I felt unappreciated and pushed to work a lot on something that wasn't even my specialty. The Silicon Valley is/was a sausage fest and it was very hard dating.
When I pitched at events I felt I wasn't being considered at all. I was and I am too afraid that the fact I am Italian and/or a pragmatic and nerdy developer with no salesy wowing pitch skills would let others with little technical skills and a big mouth take all the venture funds.

I left the Silicon Valley and started to work on waiterio.com while travelling the world.
I lived in 10+ countries for 6 months each, I saw the world, met a lot of interesting people and found love.
I do wonder if the world will "re-invent" ekranoplans so to speak. Improvements in engineering design, tooling and material science could make them economically viable in a niche of the global economy. The youtuber Mustard [1] has a great video on the mad ideas of Italian born Soviet engineer Robert Bartini.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD7xiWWs-bs
I don't think it is ridiculous if you can afford to and want to pay the absolute top line to get the "best" (best by their metrics not everyone else's - not trying to spark a war).

If you are ultra profitable then the difference between paying market rate and top of market rate might be double the salary and that would still be a rounding error on a spreadsheet somewhere.

I guess it also depends how sensitive your output is to the quality of the developers, lots of enterprises I've worked for you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a competent developer and an excellent developer since the end result is from a distance pretty much the same in that case it would make no sense to pay more than will get you a bunch of competent developers.

My impression from the outside is that janestreet does see that value.

Some what correlated I love it when companies say "We hire the absolute best developers" and you ask what they pay and market-rate is the answer.

JaneStreet remains fascinating to me though because while they do programming and I'm a programmer we are almost different species because of the problems we solve - which makes it interesting to me.
This was obvious from the outset. Afghanistan has been the graveyard of empires for hundreds of years. You can't save a people from themselves.
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Was there really anything good to expect from the intervention anyway?

Invade a country, throw bombs, and try to control the population, all you get is a bigger mess than they were in to begin with. All these countries have nothing to do in there, they aren't welcome and only trigger more hate towards the west at large.

Congress approved a lengthy occupation costing over 2 trillion dollars on tax payers money, all to feed an industry that murders and benefits a small number of crooks.

Democracy at its best.
I suspect the OP feels the US saved them (also) from the Soviets, and that there was no need to replace one murderous ideology with another.
Agre?
There's always a stated reason for these middle east US wars, and then there's a real reason. I can work out Iraq but what is the real reason for the Afghanistan war?
The gut-wrenching horror here is the people involved in the decision making from the start probably foresaw this outcome, and everyone involved after about 5 years must have known what was going on.

Honestly, this should be enough to soft-ban anyone who was in the US Congress in the last 20 years from running again. It is quite hard to describe the scale of this disaster without seeming wild-eyed.
Counterintelligence is the first consideration we must never let the public know anything of significant truth value. Whatever it takes to ensure this mission--is justified.

Also we must build underground and off-world bunkers where both genetic subsampling of the population and those who are able to contribute to the construction efforts (a la the film 2012) are provided shelter from the coming apocalypse.

But why stop there The apocalypse likely provides many opportunities for which we can extract significant profits. By carefully coordinating the amounts of chaos and confusion in society we can maximize our benefit. Surely it's basically a linear optimization problem.
Makes you wonder how he keeps his blood pressure stable when switching between "states" ...
But there is not "a deepest" root cause. It's a complex network of causality. By limiting yourself to one path of the network, and by restricting yourself to blaming the deepest politically acceptable thing to blame (this is what happens in practise) you're not fully exploring the network and you are bound to end up in a situation at least as expensive as a more thorough process that casts a wider net, e.g. a system-based causal analysis based on constraints and dynamic control structures.

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If I had time, I'd type out the steps more explicitly, but important questions that an analysis process must raise:

- Why is this rock here to begin with? Did it need to be before? Does it need to be now?

- How far can we move it?

- What do we do to salvage the situation when it tumbles down?

- Why do we need people to hold it up? What other solutions were explored? Why were they rejected? Has the context changed?

- Why isn't there a system that monitors how well the rock is held up? Why do we not have systems that warn about faltering assumptions, like cliff slippiness?

- Can we make it cheaper to roll the rock back up?

Etc. These questions come up when you dig wider, not deeper. Any process that doesn't produce (and ideally answer) these questions is suboptimal.
Unless this is actually used with some recycling on a long term basis, it's a net loss by weight. Just ship up some cooking oil. So I suspect it's entirely for the practicality and scientific value for now.

Lettuce, especially a hardy cultivar, is delicate but fast growing and parasite resistant. And not picky about the growth media usually. Potatoes are slow and I suspect they might start to rot on the space station before they got to full size. Hydroponic potatoes is possible but tricky. But I'm only making a guess from having grown these plants here on Earth.

In regard to calories I've heard good things said about oats and switchgrass. Not many people's favourite staples but they grow like weeds under wide climatic conditions with minimal water.
They probably care because they want to stay employable. We live in a system where you can’t work you are fucked (for most people) so yeah learn React, Redux, NPM, css frameworks etc. Whatever is needed so you can get that pay rise or just stay employed.

Also what are beginners doing who are trying to break into coding? Learning as many frameworks as possible. They want to get that first gig, rung on the ladder and double their salary from their non coding job before.
A long time series on the amount of debris and number of satellites in orbit would be nice alongside this. Should I update my prior probability of the likelihood of Kessler Syndrome?
Trump initiated the withdrawal: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-afghanistan-war-wi...
What "time-tested, strictly voluntary, noncoercive means" are you referring too?
If the affiliate link was the one promising something, then you might need to file against that affiliate (likely not under the CFPB). It's possible they were advertising something that wasn't approved/supported by Brex.
If only they had advanced skills in AI to detect patterns and images. Perhaps one day, Google’s algorithm will improve to not show me irrelevant ads and not show me nudie pics.
So how do we remember this time? And make sure it doesn't repeat itself. In the age of information, what can we do?
Redirect it. Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission is going to test soon if this would work in practice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_...
Much like the British and even the Russians did, Americans will stop stomaching further losses and will reduce their empire to a more manageable extent. I am practically sure of that. Hillary Clinton lost election partly on account of being a "warmonger" and there is little appetite left in the American electorate to go elsewhere for an armored vacation.

What that is going to mean for the rest of the world, I don't know. Vacuum of power never lasted too long, and will last even shorter with 8 billion people competing for resources, water and arable land.

I think we will see more conflict in the future, but with fewer American dead. Perhaps the U.S. will end up where Germany and Sweden currently are: an ostensibly peace-loving nation that just really likes to sell hi-tech weapons, ehm.
The thing that amazes me is how frequently the US engages in foreign wars, when the vast majority of the US population, even those who vote, do not want war.

There was a decent (but one I still disagree with) argument made once for bringing back the draft, as a way to make the actual bloody practical cost of perpetual war felt by the average person, perhaps in the hopes that they would become less frequent. Slavery is slavery though and it's only a thought experiment.

Say no to war, and say it loudly. Don't work for or with people who support or supply wars.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
The EU is discussing large investments in green and sustainable. But they do not need to invest, they just need to change rules and laws. But unfortunately spending money makes politicians much more likable. This will not end well
With all the spotty footage of the lochness monster, whose to say this actually, isn't, the loch ness mosnter finally discovered?
And what’s the recourse if a company breaks their own ToS? Also no company will give up any rights as they have no real way in knowing if the gov will come force more images to be added. What then?
Blablabla. More is certainly not more and this article demonstrates it very well.

Get to the point, provide value, readers can get hold of millions of novels if they want to read descriptive storie, and with a well crafted plot coming from authors who work on stories.
If it had turned into a friendly, America-loving democracy that would tolerate our bases, then it’s an unsinkable aircraft carrier bordering Russia and China. Pretty good real estate.
I like the idea, but there is now way I will pay $300 for it. They are just offering you less for more price, nice trick.
Defense contractors got paid, that's all that matters in the United States. The military support industry owns the entire country. We will never see a Pentagon audit, nor any meaningful scrutiny of the U.S's military spending, ever. It sounds so conspiracy and implausible, but the United States is completely owned by it's military contractors, to the degree they insure their dominance is never mentioned in public without "that source is a crank" labeling.
The same: revenge for 9/11. And once it had been started, it had to be kept going to avoid losing face.

It's not a coincidence that the withdrawal is before the 20th anniversary.
What trap?
The video footage of the journey could use some stabilization.
No worries. I didn't object to the title, so much as to the parent comment that suggested the original question was something that should have been obvious from the title, when it was not.
Did you mean AbstractCorporationCategoryLanguageMemeFactory?

Anyway, at the time Enterprise Java was developed, it was commonly believed that the best way to do large scale development is to hire busload of outsourced workers and give them tools that don't let them do too much damage. If you let them have C++, you'd end up with Series 60.
He would have done in a more controlled manner, and slow down if necessary - not let it get to this point where it's a total takeover by the Taliban while Biden is vacationing.

He was also the first president in 40 years to NOT start a war.
There's a modern remix of Space Debris on the soundtrack of the 2011 game Rochard by Recoil Games. It was made by the original artist Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsapsOqc7UI
It actually started with Obama.
Like Caliphate of Córdoba?
It's an intellectually-enticing title, but I wouldn't lump it in with "Clickbait" (with a capital 'C').

It's way more interesting than "10 things... , number 4 will shock you!"
Radicalism terrorism grew under Bush, Obama and Biden and fell drastically under Trump.
The trick is to delete your accounts and never run Facebook spyware binaries on any device you own for any reason.

Suggestions like this seem to come from people who are ignorant of or indifferent to the privacy labels on Facebook apps.

Notifications aren't the problem, Facebook is. You won't ever get rid of Facebook if you keep using their services.
That isn't the only problem. Scams also abound - try searching for a locksmith in your neighborhood. While they've cleaned that up considerably since the last time I checked, I can still find a "locksmith" entry in my area located in a vacant storefront.
From what I've gathered, KLM was mostly dormant during World War II, but their web site has the following.

> All that remained of KLM during World War II was a single European service (between Bristol and Lisbon) and the so-called West-Indian Operation.

Source: https://blog.klm.com/klm-loves-dutch-royals/

Also, Portugal was neutral during World War II up until about 1944, which probably explains why there was a route to Lisbon.

There's further information here, as follows.

> During World War II, however, KLM lay largely dormant except in the West Indies, where its service, begun in 1941, grew rapidly, expanding to nine Caribbean and Latin American countries by 1945.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/KLM
The Daily Tribune: "thank the heavens! Earth saved by Wikipedia article"
Thank you. What is the intended build system? I see you've added empty NEWS etc files, but the configure script is still broken for me (config.log shows SDL test program fails with:

gcc: fatal error: cannot read spec file 'libgomp.spec': No such file or directory

I get further with cmake (which is not mentioned at all in the INSTALL file) but compilation still fails with:

/home/dtal/d2x-xl/audio/songs.cpp:48:29: error: narrowing conversion of '3759186702' from 'unsigned int' to 'int' [-Wnarrowing]

This a warning, not an error, so I assume the working system calls GCC with the correct flags. It would be great if you could update the documentation with working instructions.
Worst part is, it didn't have to be a waste of time. The Bush administration half-assed it because they actually wanted to go to Iraq, and the Obama administration half-assed it because "bringing the troops home" was easy political points. So many lives and so much money wasted because politicians from decades ago turned Afghan society to shit because they only cared about stopping the Soviets.
Odometers benefit from the fact that they’re supposed to be a permanent recording, I’m sure we could come up with a non digital way of making a permanent mark. I doubt even that would be necessary though since most people don’t cheat on their taxes and auditing a physical system is easier than tracking cash flow.
Sure, it even has continuous derivatives of all orders and the right slope at the origin. It just doesn’t saturate to +/-1 as fast, which probably doesn’t matter.
That's biologically impossible, but we might end up with weeds which resemble the crop in new and interesting ways.

This has already happened in history for weeds which came under artificial selective pressure due to practices of separating seeds, etc. The fascinating thing is that some of these weeds took on so many of the desirable properties of the primary crop that they became crops in their own right. Rye and oats originally being mimicks of wheat for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry
You meant: "...being required to be vaxxed to go to the office seems reasonable to provide a safe work place for the unvaccinated."
I'd rather have interesting posts like this in moderation, not a free-for-all with lower quality posts.
Athena is great for if you have _a lot_ of data. It isn't great for real time queries.

I use a SQLite database stored in S3 + SQLite's FTS5 for a really cheap full text search implementation.
Knowing someone working in one of those companies it's mainly computer vision (based on recent machine learning techniques), and they're accurate for particular conditions only (not working on all crops yet).

The difficulty is on handling edge cases (unsurprisingly), and they're tackling that by collecting a lot of in the field feedback; afaik they send technicians on lot of deployments still.
I was more than fine with the steps taken in Afghanistan after 9/11. Iraq, not so much.

How quickly a generation forgets the horrors of 9/11.
Did you take this from George Carlin? :)
To me, the spirit of this 1% better every day is to have at least tried to be better. That alone counts as or at least towards the 1%. It’s not something you literally measure, but just aiming for. 1% of a day could be as much as changing a thought pattern. It could be not drinking that Coke Zero today - note to self. It could be not letting the full trash can in the bathroom spill over. It’s more about the intention than the measure.
Cookware is not designed to go to temperatures as high as those that cause decomposition of PTFE. But, there is plenty of wood cookware in common use. Spatulas, pot handles, etc.
Microsoft Envisions a Blockchain-Based Bounty System to Catch Pirates
>"User Generated Content is great, innit? As a company, I want users to submit photos, so I don't have to do any content curation. Moderation? Nah mate, stick some AI on there to filter out anything offensive and we're golden."

>"Anyway, I reported it - yay for doing unpaid labour for a megacorporation "

I don't get this sarcastic tone.

User-generated content on Google Maps is pretty solid after all these years. One or two bad apples don't diminish it. And no, I don't think Google have the manpower, nor should they waste theirs, to "curate" or "mod" the content proactively other than dealing with reports.

The author probably has a point for things like YouTube comments since the SNR is so damn low, but GMaps? Really?
Which part of the world do you live in? I am guessing it’s North America. Here in the UK, Apple maps is fine, but still a good few years behind Google. It’s things like footpaths and cycle lanes which are vastly more detailed on Google Maps, not to mention the actual data in Apple maps being a few years behind (a few of the roads in my area aren’t on Apple maps, and it has no building outlines. The satellite view is about 3 years old.

I find the data on businesses is better on Google maps, too.
> Ship strikes are not thought to be a predominant cause of the West Coast die-off of gray whales since 2019, but they are a factor, and an increasing concern.
Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released
Thousands of Kindergartners No-Show
If you've ever eaten freeze dried, canned and dried foods for extended periods of time, you'll know the joy of something crisp and fresh. Leafy greens are spot on what you'd want. Before refrigeration, greenhouses and global shipping, our ancestors were the same way. It's why something like Polk salad (one of the first greens in Spring) or storing chicory roots for their mid-winter chicon (a single crisp leaf that sprouts from a single root) were so enjoyed. Fresh and green used to be celebrated, before it became too normal to worry about.
The real horror of 9/11 was not the few thousand deaths in the western hemisphere, but the few hundred thousand unnecessary ones executed in retaliation in the eastern hemisphere (none of which reduces the likelihood of a recurrence).

All we learned from the whole thing is that if you want to attack the USA, terrorism is the most effective way. A tiny investment will cause the entity to respond by working hard to abandon its own principles destroying itself, destroying thousands of others, and wasting unfathomable amounts of money.

This is as true now as ever.
My observation is made from experiences, you are suggesting that if something is good for the market then that's where the market will go.. Unfortunately my experience is that decisions are made by individuals who have their own ORG politics to play out.. they don't really care about this "market"..

> I'm puzzled by your reply though, about "having a good time" and "talking to a manager". How is that relevant to dbg23's point?

I believe dbg23's point is coming from frustration of what needs to happen to get to this "success" as a software engineer ("to create higher quality software"), if one side believes it's good enough to have "meh quality software - but good sales team", I was sharing my thought on how to deal with this frustration..
Afghanistan's Angry Neighbor