skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they left in 2012 the Taliban would have done then what they re doing now.

Yes, that is my point. The options were Taliban (or other tribal groups) take over, or the US spends the next 100 years rebuilding Afghan society and waiting out for all the old people to die.

> There's no good leader that was willing to abandon people to that fate until the public exhausted of the war as it has.

The US public has been exhausted of spending on other nations since the 2008 recession.
Don't get me wrong; I think the article is very unfair and awful in many ways. I just thought that particular counter-argument wasn't valid. I think their point about ETC can't really be compared to the Bitcoin community splinters, since the point is about the DAO hack rollback. The block size debates were very controversial and heated, but not to the degree of the DAO hack incident.

Ethereum is the cryptocurrency I personally like the most, but I do find supporters tend to downplay just how controversial that incident was.
He probably doesn't. It's just a mumbo jumbo of something he read on a message board, convoluted after a few years of posting the same thing on multiple boards.
The author has said many times that the Iranian Revolution was part of the origin story of the book. The book is set in America, so what do you expect?
Sensible carbon tax proposals are generally based on extraction, not consumption. There are only a limited number of companies mining coal and drilling oil. Those can be measured fairly easily.
I understand where you're coming from in pointing out what seems to be inconsistencies. But we've been dealing with coronaviruses since the beginning, while mRNA vaccines were only deployed en masse in 2019/2020 (right?). I don't think this is so inconsistent, and I addressed this in my post. Such limited data is never ideal in making these kind of decisions, but I'd wager we know much more about COVID's risk than mRNA. As I understand it, the technology for mRNA is a few decades old, but this is the first time it's hit the market, is it not? If so, the risk is still in the process of being discovered.

Generally vaccines have a much longer trial and study period, this has been rushed due to emergency circumstances.

>But worse, you're putting your friends and family who cannot get the vaccine for actual reasons instead of gut feeling at risk.

How so? It's currently up in the air whether or not the vaccines reduce transmission.

I still disagree that I'm exposing myself to more risk by inaction. My risk is already nearly 0, so I don't really care to minimize it further anyway, but by vaccinating I'm taking on a lot of uncertainty (in personal risk, effectiveness of the vaccine over time, transmission reduction, etc), so it's impossible to assess properly with these unknowns. I would much rather just get COVID. You don't see an issue with that, right?
Somewhere, an economist is regretting creating an inflation measure based on a shipping container of pasta, chips, and tennis balls.
For those, like myself, where Melatonin doesn't work well. Try 'Calm' brand magnesium drink it relaxes me and keeps me asleep, without the need for ear plugs. I've tried the magnesium pills and they don't seam to work, the drink mixture does.
Reddit's hate speech policy used to explicitly stipulate that "the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority" (https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/reddit-hate-speech). They've since edited the policy to remove that line, but they haven't given any indication that they've changed their mind on it.
I got to play with that original Android demo; it's floating around Google and I even wrote an internal Google doc tour of what I found before I left. For those that work at Alphabet you may find it interesting to search that out. The demo itself is basically a bunch of JavaScript.
Are we savages or what?
The Democracy also doesn't work in USA. Americans are too immature for the Democracy, so let's hand the country to Putin.

People following your line of logic are so arrogant, and coarse.
https://archive.is/DGQrA
"legal citizenship/visas are a real crapshoot in the US"

I know several developer that immigrated to US, and then because of what they had to deal with regularly. No personal experience though
false attribution is worse than no attribution

He was taking ownership of work which was not his and profiting from it with ads and facebook traffic.
I think they mean the TAPI pipeline [1]. I do recall reading something about Taliban representatives being flown to Washington about it before the negotiations broke down due to the embassy bombings.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakis...
> Maybe once the glaring bugs in it are fixed.

Paintings, books, movies... are finished with the bugs in.

Vulnerabilities need rapid fixes.

Every other bugfix requires additional effort and comes with the risk of introducing vulnerabilities or other bugs.

At some point 99.9% of the users are happy and the benefit of fixing another bug becomes marginal.
There really is some science coming up linking sugar to obesity and metabolic syndrome including Type 2 diabetes. For example Dr Lustig has good videos on YT.
Retirement is news to me; I've seen one in action within the last year. Where can I read about the developments you're talking about?
Go Big or Melt
> If we cared, we'd address the culture that is making us miserable.

Many people do care, the real question is how do we change this culture? Where do we even begin?

Obviously we must teach the youth about the relationships between diet, exercise, and mental health - which science has unveiled over the past decades.

How do you help people fill their spiritual void? Historically religion has served that function. Now science is the new religion, and the world is slowly being reduced to mechanistic and predictable processes which displace the wonder and awe humanity once held.

> Yeah, no shit they're getting fat and sick.

Just about everyone can see the problems, yet no one seems to have solutions.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-use-the-uni...

"Creating international characters

When you press the APOSTROPHE ( ' ) key, QUOTATION MARK ( " ) key, ACCENT GRAVE ( ` ) key, TILDE ( ~ ) key, or ACCENT CIRCUMFLEX,. also called the CARET key, ( ^ ) key, nothing is displayed on the screen until you press a second key:"...
Goodreads: Extortion Scams and Review Bombing
We pay farmers to _not_ produce crops.
A lot of those people in congress would also be affected by the changes. They're not the kind to implement more taxes on themselves. After all - the difference in ideas between "conservatives" and "liberals" in office comes down to how much they want to wave a confederate vs pride flag. They have almost no fiscal differences and all want as low of taxes as possible on the highest NW individuals like themselves.
Not strictly to the article, but rather the discussion here. There are a number of people saying the "solution" is to tax sugars or various other things. I think people would benefit from reading (or re-reading) Donella Meadows "Leverage Points" [0] essay.

I'll reproduce the list here, like a top-10 list the most effective is at the bottom (but it's also the hardest to accomplish):

12. Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards).

11. The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.

10. The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures).

9. The lengths of delays, relative to the rate of system change.

8. The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impacts they are trying to correct against.

7. The gain around driving positive feedback loops.

6. The structure of information flows (who does and does not have access to information).

5. The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints).

4. The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure.

3. The goals of the system.

2. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters — arises.

1. The power to transcend paradigms.

Why I think this is relevant: Taxation is #12. It is not at all the most effective way, and is highly unlikely to provide us with a solution. #11 & #10 are related to another idea here, outright banning sugars or HFCS. It can work, but there are other issues (like portion size at restaurants) beyond just sugars. This isn't to say these can't be used, but they're unlikely to be effective. They also miss a major part of the diabetes epidemic which is the relatively sedentary nature of people in the US, and that requires more of a culture change. Sugars are the low hanging fruit, it'll help some, but it's far from a solution.

#6 has been applied for over a decade now in the US as restaurants have increasingly placed caloric values on their menus. And caloric values have been listed on food packaging for decades. But just having the information is not itself that useful unless people understand what to do with it or have the discipline to track and make use of it (or at least say, "Maybe I don't need that 2000 calorie hamburger and the 500 calorie fries and the 300 calorie drink.").

[0] https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-t...
For those who don’t watch the video, this was actually an internet hoax. The end credits never said this.
Microsoft acknowledges yet another print spooler vulnerability
It may indeed be a problem with hinting. Certainly two o's render very differently on my screen. I first tried to show what I saw by doing a screen grab, but then realized that the image apparently looks different on my screen vs others.

Now I realize that for others to see it, a good zoomed photo with my phone will go a long way:

https://imgur.com/a/Wpw97He

Step back ten feet and you'll notice that the o In "Notice" looks roundish and the o in "Today" is squared off.

Screen grab that I used:
https://imgur.com/a/0LcqKej
Let me guess, you're one of those idiots who thinks that modifying your stance when presented with new evidence is bad because it's "flip-flopping"?
Nominally, around 1993-1995, but Omar and co. group was around since 1985-1987 for sure.
I agree, but this is a human system so efficiency is never the only concern. Would people feel comfortable handing their possessions over to a central service? Would they trust the people running it? Should they? Would people appreciate the overall time savings of a centralized service, or would they prefer the flexibility of being able to wash whenever they need? Which solution is more efficient for people who live in very remote places and can't easily travel? Is it really feasible to ask overburdened and underfunded administrators to set up another centralized system on top of food, water, medicine, shelter, education, etc.? If they have no capacity to take on more work, a distributed system might be better.
I'd like to know more about the Semantic UI project.

The way text input is implemented depends on the user's platform and input needs. When using a screen reader with a hardware keyboard, the screen reader will often use the accessibility API to programmatically move the keyboard focus, but once the focus is in a text input control, the input itself happens as usual, not through the platform's accessibility API. For users who require alternate input methods such as speech recognition, it depends on the platform. On Windows, for instance, text input isn't even done through the accessibility API; it's done through a separate API called Text Services Framework. But AccessKit will offer the ReplaceSelectedText action for platforms that can expose it.

I have certainly thought about latency; as a Windows screen reader developer, it has been a difficult problem for a long time. The relevant factor here is not the amount of information being pushed, but the number of round trips between the assistive technology (e.g. screen reader) and the application. If I'm not mistaken, this is what makes AT-SPI problematic in this area. This has also been a problem for the Windows UI Automation API, and a major focus of my time on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft was to help solve that problem. As for AccessKit, I'll refer you to the part in the README about how applications will push tree updates to platform adapters. Since a large tree update can be pushed all at once, AccessKit doesn't make the problem of multiple round trips any worse.
Wealth being 'locked up' doesn't matter. If we're at near full employment and our tools and machines aren't sitting idle, then we're producing at full capacity.
It doesn’t matter where the fingerprints are coming from, they’re all just fingerprints. Today they come from NCMEC. Tomorrow they could be from the Chinese Communist Party.
But the culture problem is a result of the corporate problem. Expectations are set by what people are used to being offered - heck, your stomach physically grows when you're regularly eating larger portions - it should be no surprise that those norms carry over when people leave their environment for short periods.

I don't think it's fair to call it a moral failing of consumers. We've been set up to fail.
Punishment for unwise choice of house guests and unwillingness to turn over said house guests.
I lived in an apartment some years back and tired of using the (often filthy) public laundromat.

So I got a breather washer, a small spin dryer and a heat dryer.

https://www.lehmans.com/product/breathing-hand-washer/

https://www.amazon.com/Panda-PANSP23B-Swimsuits-Laundry-Extr...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265264876599?var=565132371636&hash=...

(They weren't these exact models but hopefully you catch the idea.)

The breather washer and spin dryer both worked wonderfully. Clothes came out cleaner with the breather washer then a washing machine. I don't know why those aren't in more common use in non-industrialized societies.

For larger stuff I'd still have to go to the laundromat.

The heated dryer was kind of meh, it worked but produced a lot of humid air and I'd have to have windows opened to use it. But much of the time I could just spin dry the clothes then hang in bathroom overnight.
Might be, might not. I always wonder, who funded that or such studies? I know the mdpi is a credible source.

As long the sweeteners do not have calories, they will not directly make anyone gain weight.
The taste might cause a desire for more sweet things and eventually people will give in, but that's tangential/collateral.

On the other side, it's proven beyond doubt that sugar directly, the fructose component in sugar causes dysregulation of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Indirectly, sugar promotes positive energy balance, thus body weight and fat gain, which also cause dysregulation of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4822166/
There are some misconceptions about this. The first issue is people assume you have to render the whole gui every frame even if nothing has changed. This is the usual pattern in games, when you have to redraw the screen anyway, but you do not have to do that, in applications where it doesn't make sense.
The touch keyboard can be really useful for any other special characters too. Just hold your click down on the key and you'll see other variants (e.g. S = šß§). I wouldn't rely on it to constantly type characters like that, but it is great every once in a while.
No problem pushing for a 'political' workplace, but then you have to push for genuine political values as well - stuff like conciliation, adaptability, humor, compromise, intellectual variety and diversity. Authoritarian ideology is not politics, it's the utter denial of politics.
Newspapers have been a thing for hundreds of years
I will die on this hill but I'm never trying pickleball. Silly reason - tennis looks cool, look at Roger. Pickle ball looks...less cool
1Password 8: The Story So Far
They're not even great for dogs: https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/are-tennis-balls-sa...
Do you know if such a tool exists for Linux? I would like to use the US-INTL keyboard, as it allows me to write international characters easily, but comes with the downside that ' and " are dead keys, which makes programming annoying.

I did once manage to manually write a keyboard layout that gets around that, but it was a painful process and I've been since looking for a tool that allows me to create keyboard layouts more easily.

edit: I did a quick search and it seems that such a keyboard layout already exists. Here it is in case it's useful to anyone else: https://pieter-degroote.github.io/UltimateKEYS/
> Perhaps the phobia suffix in this case is being used as a political tool?

The use of “-phobe” as a suffix with the meaning “bigot against” (rooted originally in the belief that bigotry is tied to fear, but now operating largely independent of any assumption of the basis of the particular bigotry) is pretty well-established in English; the main case where its not used are for gender-based bigotry where the “mis—ist” circumfix is used around an existing Greek root.
During my time as a SRE-SE I began to piece together that infrastructure tends to be born from small software patterns. Looking at messaging systems, key/value stores, and even computational orchestrators much of their high-level mechanics comes from how you would produce such a solution in a monolithic repo. Obviously there's a lot of layered abstraction to make the solution generic enough, and there's code to make the system fault tolerant inside a distributed system which inevitably requires failure tolerance.

I don't think I agree with this article though. Infrastructure solutions are good if you require robustness or the same solution is needed by many components that can share the infrastructure.

Robustness in this case would be comparing a layer 8 load balancer and a thread that load balances workers. You could seemingly start up many threads on the same machine, or even segregate them by virtual machines (for example Tomcat does this) but if failure of a single host is of concern (or catastrophic enough concern) then dedicating the load balancer to its own machine is desirable. My point being, if you step back and look at what you're actually trying to solve for it will tell you where the infrastructure should go, and has the added benefit of influencing the rest of your surrounding ecosystem.
One of the most encouraging parts of the new tech unions is the parts that speak up about morality.

It's also the part which will be sacrificed first for other things like workers wages or hiring changes, but its nice that they see that people think that morality of a workplace should be something that's important in its own right.
I suspect it's more like two words: JIT Manufacturing
> For example, I've seen some ex-christians who decided to turn atheists by learning more about cognitive biases, and then realizing that some of their former religious arguments were circular reasoning or appeal to authority or whatever.

Similarly, there are some people (a much smaller number I would expect) that have moved from atheism to "spirituality", for the same reasons.
I initially thought Snopes was a great idea, and in the early days it seemed quite handy.

Now its only really minorly credible.

My personal experience was finding an article that talked about something I was directly involved in, and it was clearly wrong. I basically lost most trust in its ratings however it does seem to basically cover the issue in text. My main quibbles are with when the article covers something substantially and then says the rating only depends on less than 10% of the article.
Being aware of the broad applications for Linear Algebra in engineering, I'm very eager to go through some Linear Algebra course on my own. But my problem is that I can't just learn from a text, even if it's interactive. I need to apply it to something.

What are some fun projects that uses LA for an individual? I'm thinking about things like generative art, if anyone knows of any artists that inspire them.
> How can the whatever whatever suspend her boss from editorial duties pending a comprehensive internal investigation? Did she clear that with her boss first?

From David Mikkelson’s statement (scroll to the bottom):

> I have given full authority to our managing editor, Doreen Marchionni, to take any measures needed to address these issues.
> it means that there is only one instance that processes commands

Not necessarily. Depends on how you shard the aggregate/streams. Since aggregates _by definition_ maintain their invariants, you can have literally a shard for every aggregate. Overkill, but it illustrates the point. Since there's no state shared between aggregates, you can process each aggregate/stream on its own instance.

> this instance checks all command ids if they appeared before (so keeps track of all ids in an efficient way)

Yep. If you trust the client and don't mind losing old commands, this isn't too hard - use a monotonically increasing number (e.g. ms since the epoch) as part of the commandId. Any command with an id less than the commandId in the aggregate will be rejected as "out of date". Note that this serves as an optimistic concurrency check.

If you don't trust the client (or you don't want to lose old commands issued on a possibly out of date view) and just use GUIDs as commandIds, then yes you'll need to keep track of some ids - but not necessarily all. Do you really need commandIds past 1000? (Depends on your domain.) You'll need to "roll up" the events into some summary view anyway to check/maintain business invariants, so keeping, say, the last 100 commandIds as part of that summary view is simple.
Yeah, I mean sure, if you want to create a power vacuum that leads to the creation and rise of ISIS…
Never forget that this was done to us intentionally. The virus was unexpected; but the reaction was deliberate.
To me the biggest promise of cryptocurrency is the hope of an "uncensorable" form of commerce.
Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline #History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan%E2%80%93Afghanist...

Afghanistan Oil Pipeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_Over_Me

Keystone XL Pipeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline#Issues #Issues, #Protest and opposition, Total Carbon, Aquifer valuation, Total Long Term Costs and Benefits
I ain't got time to teach you, so yeah, appeal to authority and teach yourself.
Does this also hold for padel (not paddle) balls?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padel_(sport)