skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people fight, then the alternative (not fighting) must be (or at least seems to be) worse for them. So what is it, that is so bad, that fighting (it) is worthwhile? Western societies fought these wars, too (WW2) and the outcome was clear: Equality / individual liberty and freedom, in short "left" leaning values, rather than "right", which would be dictatorship/Nazis and conservatism. Today these societies are in decline, get replaced by foreigners and they have accepted this (because of the lost world wars). This result is visible to Afghan people. They don't want or share these values. They value their own people and their own offspring more than foreigners. They are right-leaning/conservatives. They don't want their women to "invent stuff", maybe they even doubt that they can. They certainly don't want them to. They want a setup of their society to maximize the prosperity of their own people: Women as housewifes, having a lot of kids with them and women taking care of all of them, while the husband protects the family (men are on average stronger than women, which unfortunately became a topic of debate in the west). While the west abolishes itself and replaces itself, they don't want that and they also don't want that to be forced upon them. It also imposes such a great threat to their society (it's extinction, rather than it prospering), that it is worth fighting it. It is the choice between certain death and likely death. And they chose "likely death". In the face of extinction they chose "(very) likely death" and they won, which I am very happy about. I wish Afghanistan, the Taliban and it's people a successful and prosperous future!

By fighting and winning this war, Afghanistan was actually able to export a lot of people to other countries (as refugees) and keep their own country for themselves, which is (turned out to be) -only because they won the war- a double win for them. So the result "winning this war" was very attractive to them, which ofc boosted their motivation (to do so). What's the motivation for men in having women do men's stuff? Would men really fight for that?
That’s an obvious lie. US is extremely loyal to its war criminals - good example is how people responsible for downing Iran Air Flight 655 not only never got punished, but were actually decorated. Even Russia handles this kind of situations better.
Duck?

Does this always assume a 2-D room?

I wonder what the simulation would look like for a 3-D?

Makes me think of Catherine Zeta Jones in 'Entrapment', or Vincent Cassel in 'Ocean's 12'.
Both Microsoft and Google will outright claim that files are Malware and even make up names for some trojan or whatever that the file supposedly contains based on nothing more than machine learning algorithms an heuristics. They will then drag their feet in removing the false positives, deny the review without any reason or simply automatically flag the same file again and again and again. All while Microsoft and Google are not letting users download the files without navigating through intentionally misnamed menu options or just straight up delete the legitimate software without any user promt. At this point I can only assume that this behavior is has malicious intent.
This is a nonstarter. Forcing services to go IPv6-only would deprive the majority of Internet users of their services.

I can just about imagine the shitstorm and political blowback that would entail.

Even just forcing IPv6 support would be a tough row to hoe.
Well... no.

These are two separate problems.

This example doesn't show all places where the shadow is.

It only shows, when you place yourself and a light, an example arrangement of occluders that will prevent you from being hit.
These inventors are usually from very poor countries trying to replicate a known vehicle. I strongly believe most of them are doing it to get some sort of recognition or to get funded to achieve financial freedom (or to find a job?).

Tuk Tuk didn't show anything extra other than having solar panels on the sides. Simply, slapping several panels to a solar charger for lithium battery pack to operate an ebike-ish drive is not an invention in my opinion.
No.

The hierarchical ontology is a DAG. It's got a root, it propagates from the root to leaf nodes, and there is no recursion.

A fully tag-based system is neither directed nor acyclic. My view is that the better ones appear as DAGs withiin a localised area, but that constraint falls at a broader level.

The main problem with tag-based systems is that they tend strongly to be "folksonomies", where terms are not controlled and there can be multiple variants of spelling, naming, etc., often reflecting both personal, geographic, and temporal preferences / ideosyncracies.

That's where a controlled vocabulary or defined set of relationships / associations (perhaps probabalistic) helps. E.g., "Yerba Buena" -> "San Francisco", "Frisco" -> "San Francisco".

The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings make for an interesting study. They're quite extensive and have evolved over more than a century. They have their own inconsistencies, ideosyncracies, and controversies. Part of their strength is the surrounding infrastructure establsihed to support and address these. There are of course other classifications.
That's clearly not the sense in which the word "nerds" is used here.
Check if your bank is funding the fossil fuel industry
As harrowing as his story is, remember that he is one of the "lucky" victims of the War on Terror. If our success rate in imprisonment was 8%, how high was our success rate for the 800,000-3,100,000 killed in the War on Terror?
Any evidence to back up this claim?

All the messages on Exchange Online and Teams are logged and can be searched through by an admin, that's to be expected.

It's not logging keystrokes of other apps.
> Ok so never mind...

Keep reading, specifically the Variations section. 50% occupancy is for constructions with a per-bucket capacity of 1. At a capacity of 2, occupancy improves to a little under 90%, and at 4 to just under 98%. The linked write-up uses 8, which does in fact achieve very high occupancy.

They could've done better, though. By using windows instead of buckets (i.e. allowing the buckets to overlap), a capacity of 2 already yields > 96% occupancy, and 4 reaches 99.9%, so smaller and faster (lookups examine fewer keys on average). This approach is detailed in "3.5-Way Cuckoo Hashing for the Price of 2-and-a-Bit".
How would this matter if they were tried by counties which are not US allies?
The US went to war against the entire UN vote and suffered no consequence whatsoever, who is going to hold them responsible for breaking the rules of engagement ?
Creating a Typewriter Effect using React and a generator function
IIRC all browsers try to perform name resolution if you append "/" at the end of your input in the address bar. After that fails they redirect to a search engine, but not before.
How many people know that the ship in the Netscape's banner on that web page is Jim Clark's yacht, completely controlled by SGI IRIX servers?
True that we aren't infant cows, but we're very close. There aren't many nutrients that we need but they don't, or vice versa (vitamin C is an exception) -- the bigger difference would be in relative amounts. You can live quite happily for a long, long time on a diet of bread and cow milk.
I don't disagree that there should be some kind of scheduling or, at least, some kind of cost limitation.

But the hotel is the same thing, right? If you don't check out, and they keep the room empty because they think you're using it, you're still monopolizing the resource.

How can they make the difference between someone who will be back but just happened to spend a few nights away (say using the hotel as a base for trips) and someone who won't be back but forgot to check out?

But I guess, in the case of hotels, you can usually tell them "I'll be here for X days" upfront. Then again, if you change your mind, they won't always reimburse you the cost you've paid.
> The trade-off was the machines behind the NAT mechanism couldn't be reached from the Internet

That can also be pretty awesome given that so many devices now may not work in the interest of their users.

It is a hassle for IOT, but we have long since then solutions for that and maybe those are better anyway.

My provider only supplies IPv6 and you always connect to IPv4 through a transport. That is sometimes down or has too many concurrent users. Makes the net almost unusable still. Perhaps I should learn Hindi.
Surely it's more like:

[Red Circle]: I suggest a Duel of Titans, "mano a mano" the only true test for gentlemen.

[Valet leading Green Circle to room of mirrors]: If you kill him, all this be mine. Monsieur, Good shooting.

Although it does also rather make me think of Buster Keaton standing still as half a house falls over him and the cameraman closes his eyes.
You can fight back. You just can't (legally) bring implements to help you with it.
also : text in black not the today's crap look.
>Whatever happens is up to the US internal politics and the culture of the US nation.

If only the US would live by that when looking at other countries. Sanctions, embargos, trade-restrictions, threats are used against other countries by the US, why should they be treated any different themselves?
Oh man, I'm getting too old for this shit...
Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago
Txtify.it: Convert web articles to plain text
A fake Kepler portrait became iconic
Doesn't debt incease with inflation? I thought lenders just adjust the recurring payment to keep up with it. This might be a result of the aforementioned poor understanding though.
Most countries, even non-allies would not want to be invaded by the US.
Amazon still have copies available of both the Official Netscape Visual JavaScript Developers Guide[1] and Netscape Visual JavaScript For Dummies[2] books.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Netscape-Visual-JavaScript...

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Netscape-Visual-JavaScript-Dummies-...
> SPF will verify, but for the wrong domain

I can see that argument, but - it's kinda a philosophical question about "who the sender is". Is the the person who typed out the text? or is it the server which transcribed that text into N new emails?

The ML server will verify the original authors SPF. The N recipients will verify the ML servers SPF - the chain (which matches the series of MTA's involved) is still verified end to end.

> It'll break when used together with DMARC's alignment checks.

Yea, DMARC is a much bigger issue for mailing lists, but that's no reason to say "A mailing list will _always_ break SPF" - a well configured* ML has no issues with SPF at all.

* And, yes - the definition of "well configured" had to change when SPF was introduced, that's of course annoying, but there has been many many years for ML operators to make these changes.
Google wants me to submit my passport (“age check”) to watch this video (despite being registered there since 2008). Any other links to it?
But wings are not only major producer of lift, they produce the most of drag as well.
You can try, but if they find out then good luck ever releasing anything on a Google platform again.
I don't think that's at all true. Moreover the assumption that they are more rational by default actually leads them to be more susceptible.

Slap "google" on an open source tool and it'll get 50x uptake, for instance. It might not be a sports shoe but the same emotional dynamics are in play.
Education in India is restricted to English speakers by state diktat.

The inventor noted above didn't have much of a choice - or indeed even a sequence of books he could work through.
> Turning off case sensitivity lead to orders of magnitude difference in directory performance

What filesystem are you using? I assume case-insensitivity means your filesystem does not support UTF-8 filenames. Is that the case?
I personally find Ruby's built-in shell features more ergonomic:

`cat package.json | grep name`

branch = `git branch --show-current`
`dep deploy --branch=#{branch}` if $?.success?

[
"sleep 1; echo 1",
"sleep 2; echo 2",
"sleep 3; echo 3",
].map { |cmd| Thread.new { %x(cmd) } }.each(&:join)

name = 'foo bar'
`mkdir /tmp/#{name}` if $?.success?
Learning foreign languages can affect the processing of music in the brain
In Australia I can’t recall hearing anything other than “double you double you double you”. (But if we could do a bit of language reform, shortening w, 7 and 0 each to a single syllable like all the other letters and digits would be the first thing I’d do.) But then, “double you” flows in sequence a bit better than “ay”.
Let’s Unveil These Secret Tips for Appliance Repairing
It is mandatory for fridge repair in New Westminster to turn off the power before you get your hands on the repairing work. It is not about fridge repairing only but for all types of appliances, power off is compulsory. More on, you should try to know if there is water near the appliance, if so then dry that water first because such things are good conductors and cause damage.
I think it is good that they exist, because sometimes you want something that is similar to food you had growing up. A staple food when I grow up was milk-boiled macaroni with a special kind of sausage (falukorv) and ketchup. I have been able to make it for my kids, and I really like to present at least a small part of my culinary heritage. And sometimes I just want a friggin burger. Which I can get almost everywhere by now, and it is greasy and savoury in all the right ways.

But in general I do think there are great products out there already. In the last years in Sweden tempeh started becoming available, and more brands of tofu (especially smoked varieties) started showing up in the groceries.

People have been eating those for hundreds or thousands of years, and they are amazingly versatile products. I have come to the realization that I don't need new products. I just need to discover the ones that are already available.
Peg money to atmosphere carbon, something with real value. Sure clever people could do this
The Orange Man tells how it is and what will happen: https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1427103372776255489
Well, yeah, if you start by quoting a message explicitly making statements about ISPs and then opining on that, why act surprised that others think you are talking about ISPs?

As to the RIR fee thing, yeah, you are right about the ARIN thing. It differs by RIR and region, tho.

You are wrong about the allocation thing, tho. You can get new IPv4 allocations, even in ARINland, by joining the waitlist or to support a IPv6 deployment.
Have you read Knuth’s article? It is a bit more nuanced than a wholesale defence of GOTO in preference to structured programming. It surveys various control flow structures that are not easily expressed in terms of IF conditions and WHILE loops (what structured programming advocates of the time argued to replace GOTO with), but more easily expressed with GOTO, and it argues that, since we don’t know which of those constructs will ultimately end up the most useful, it might be prudent to keep GOTO around, at least for a while, and not confine ourselves to simple conditionals and loops just yet. But if we do find better structured control-flow primitives, perhaps we may get rid of GOTO after all. The comments under the Torvalds link kind of point it out already: GOTO is used in the Linux kernel as a crutch for the deficiencies of C, like the lack of scope-based destructors, exceptions and the ability to specify which loop a BREAK statement targets.

My favourite part of the Knuth paper is this:

begin until error or normal end:
if m = max then error ('symbol table full') fi;
normal end;
end;
then
error (string E) =>
print ('unrecoverable error,'; E);
normal end =>
print ('computation complete');
fi;

This is pattern-matching on a Result<(), String>, in 1974. How adorable!

It’s a shame that innovation in this area has stagnated so much: most languages only feature IF, WHILE, FOR, single-level CONTINUE/BREAK, SWITCH (with fallthrough), and GOTO as an escape hatch in case the others are insufficient, just because they are so familiar. Only now languages like Python or Java are getting any form of pattern matching. Though props to the latter for at least allowing to break multiple loops by way of labelling the outermost one.
Pros and Cons of the Dedicated Development Team in Ukraine
I don't have a link, but I've noticed that quite a few videos in the similar corner of topics need an "age check" (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI , the creator of which was (according to them) visited by DHS for "anti-american sentiments" [1] )

[1] https://twitter.com/_secondthought/status/133274615894763520...
At least one person did need to know that YouTube was not an alternative to an engineering degree...

But no, I was referring to the more general problem: how to keep people safe without withholding educational information.

Also I have no idea what warnings you're talking about. I've watched hundreds of YT videos on topics like chemistry experiments, woodworking, etc. A very small fraction of videos have warnings, and none are provided by YouTube.
But that's how the far right operates.

1. Use narrative engineering to persuade angry, frightened, gullible people to tune in and self-select.

2. Use narrative reinforcement to make them angrier and more frightened.

3. Wind them up and point them at a target.

4. Profit politically, and possibly also financially.

It doesn't matter what the narrative is. As long as it has an outgroup that can be accused of doing terrible things that arouse fear, rage, and disgust, almost any narrative will do. It could be vax conspiracies, it could be election conspiracies, it could be any number of other hot-button topics.

It's no different to how official propaganda works. [1] It isn't even all that different to conventional advertising.

The only difference now is that it portrays itself as covert, revolutionary, transgressive, and individualistic, where during the glory days of Time it used to present itself as wise, objective, and paternal.

But in fact it's just the same old farmed behaviour modification reinvented for social media.

[1] The suggestion that there was ever any kind of benign separation between old-fashioned patrician journalism and the US establishment is itself obvious bullshit. Historians have written books about this. This is just one intro.

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
> if the last directory entry remains, the directory size won’t shrink

So if you keep appending data the directory will never be shrinked? If so i would say "the BSD world" is also affected by this problem, in practice. I'm assuming it all depends on the specifics of your filesystem, though.
Mlocate can also be used for this so long as the updatedb index config contains the path of interest. Just run “updatedb” then run “locate /full/path/of/interest > file”
I wonder what a thorough comparison between the fossil fuel industry and the chinese communist party would reveal.

I can imagine a few surpises in stats around number of political opponents or inconvenient civilians killed, democratic accountability, propaganda, human rights abuses, wars started, deaths due to negligence, etc.
Thanks to US we already know how to handle this - there is a plenty of secret locations in various different countries where the perpetrators can be safely tried and then handled according to the sentence.
Was thinking the same thing! Miss those feels.
> When was the last time you bought something because of ads?

The last major purchase (>$100) I've made because of an advertisement was a ROG Phone 3 (two of them, actually) late last year. I had not ever heard of it before seeing an advertisement for it, and upon looking it up it seemed like a really good option.

The last one full stop was a billboard advertisement for a block of chocolate with a flavour that I know I like from a brand I don't normally purchase. Decided to try it out, liked it a lot. That was about three weeks ago.

> Would a fancy jingle convince you to sit 40 mins in traffic for the same crappy burger with slightly different sauce from the same Sysco truck?

I don't think it's possible to sit in traffic for 40 minutes on my continent, so that's going to be a pretty tough sale.
> Worse still, this was "managed" cloud storage with strict IOPS limits.

It almost sounds like the cloud was someone else's computer all along, and we don't have any control over it. Thanks for sharing this anecdote!
It’s not much further back you hit My Lai.
However there are more recent examples. The events Eddie Gallagher was involved in are grim.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gallagher_(Navy_SEAL)
in terms of physics I see a good reason to wear a mask. If COVID did not invent a sneaky way to go around that

Article 2 has a whole lot of pre-prints with data in the citations ... :)
Here's a follow up (also with a lot of paper citations : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01394-0

Talking with friends who are virologists, they all seem to agree masks help.

What's wrong with the articles the nature commentary are based on
And articles like that:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883189/#__ffn_...
I created one using Codex here, hope it helps illustrate what is possible:

https://www.loom.com/share/7a6ed39dcd0749aa87e93067624506d9
As a somewhat imprecise example, if a single "request" requires sorting 2.4 billion integers, then a 2.4 GHz CPU with 16 cores will be able to process at most 16 RPS no matter how much you switch from JavaScript to Java or if you write assembly.

At the end of the day efficiency is ultimately a business problem and not a technical problem and is rarely the thing that tips a project (Clubhouse in the article) from being profitable to being unprofitable. It's usually an investing question - I have X engineer-months to spend. I can cut costs by Y by optimizing stuff or get Z more profit by building a feature. I will choose to optimize stuff if and only if Y>Z as it returns more.

Clubhouse's major costs are probably bandwidth and engineer time rather than servers. That is to say, even if efficiency was infinity for compute (i.e. server costs magically went to zero) it would probably not change Clubhouse's business proposition that much.

More to the point, I think you are uncharitable at best when you say elsewhere that other frameworks and languages won't require more development work. These frameworks (and the choice of language being implicit in that) are specifically designed to reduce development work. Let's examine for example garbage collection. Garbage collection is undeniably more wasteful than other solutions to memory management, absolutely. But would you really argue that garbage collection does nothing to reduce development time? I find that extremely hard to believe, empirically and subjectively having written programs in many environments including bare metal, reference counted or otherwise semi-managed and garbage collected languages. And so it goes with all of the choices these frameworks like Django and Rails take. And it's getting better with time as things like JRuby are developed, inefficiencies in Rails or Django are removed, etc.
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Do you brush your teeth after lunch?
I worked at a large corporate bank during the late 90s, and they[1] rolled out a branded version of Netscape with the animated 'N' logo swapped out for rotating 'Golden Keys' which was their logo[2]. I've still got the image files for it somewhere.

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[1] I say 'they' I mean 'me' - I did application packaging at the time.

[2] Upvotes for those who guess the bank! :D
You need a firewall if your end points are publicly reachable, not NAT.