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Politicians responsible for the war should be put on trial and then executed. (I’m against capital punishment, but the usual rules of law don’t really apply to this kind of crime.)

Sadly, the US is extremely loyal to its war criminals, so this can never happen.
Oh wow, had no idea about this.
This video has a demo of what is happening: https://youtu.be/bvlzZnhZhrc?t=851

Essentially if you make a bunch of fake listings all around the State you work in people who are desperate will search for "X near me" and if you have the most dots it will resolve to you. This means more panicked buyers which directly translates to way more money.
> For one, transpiling is an unnecessary word,

No, not really. Transpiring is an entirely different problem, and one which is not limited to programming languages. Transpiring involves parsing a high-level language down to an intermediate language, and afterwards encode it back to a high-level language. Therefore problems involving semantics enter into play, instead of just transforming high-level constructs down to primitives.
I set an alarm for 10 years from now (aug 6th 2031). If hn is still around we may make front page ;) My calendar has been around for more than that so it should be fine.
Affordable healthcare and housing would help increase the ratio.
And they lived in a septic tank. You can work 90 hours a week for a couple of weeks. Than the ambulance comes.
How do you approach your potential customers? I applaud your effort, I was in your shoes. But for your idea (SaaS for restaurants), your competitors probably hire an army of sales because restaurant owners are busy with day-to-day and relatively not high-tech.
How can someone write an article like this and don’t include a single picture of how maximalism looks like today?
Thanks! I'll try it.

p.s., you know the state of the art has truly advanced when meh is useful. :)
Thank you, very clear!

I was confused as in your comment I didn't connect that you were discussing the loop from the grandparent comment.

Your patient explanation makes it super clear, both for my over skimming and for others who read this and are less familiar with O notation!
Invading Afghanistan was very popular, to the point that I kinda shut up about it at the time because it just made people mad (at me), and even being against Iraq sure didn't feel like being in the majority—or even close to it—at the time.
Surprising to see a recent article on maximalism that doesn't mention Boris Johnson's adventures in redecorating.
The reason it wasn't a quick in-n-out was because a "significant enough to cause political problems" chunk of the American public would have never tolerated wrecking a nation purely as punishment and then leaving.

Wanna blame someone? Look around. HN is chock full of exactly the kind of people who cause this outcome (albeit many of them are too young to bear any responsibility). Upper middle class types, the kind of people who vote, write the occasional blog, people who's voices are heard politically and who generally will not tolerate violence without some pretext of necessity. They're why we got stuck in Afghanistan. Lower class voters would have mostly been fine with "bomb them back to the stone age and go home". We had to spend 20yr pretending we were actually going to fix things so that educated voters could feel good about themselves. It's like the nation state equivalent of not wanting to sell a project car you'll inevitably never get around to and then finally selling it because you're moving and the prospect of incurring a bunch of cost hanging onto it finally forces you to deal with reality.
Don’t ATMs tend to run windows? I agree they are sluggish.
> even those who vote, do not want war.

Didnt Americans want some kind of war after 9/11
How so? Trademarks have to be registered in order to be protected and even then you have to actively pursue potential violations (i.e. "defend it"), lest you lose it anyway.

You really think that your average family restaurant or mom-and-pop store that does offers delivery on the side can afford that?

Besides, in my region there's at least 4 restaurants and hotels named "Black Eagle" in a 10 km radius. You could never protect that name for various reasons.
5m in profit in a few years seems very rare from my experience talking with small business owners.
Fill knowledge gaps in the data scientist-back end developer transition
Long story short, after being assigned a few purely backend-related tasks, I realized that this appeals to me much more than data science. It turned out pretty naturally that within my current team I can gradually become more of a backend engineer (we use Go).
In general, I have had experience (mostly with Python though) with web-frameworks, used SQL a lot, Docker, CI/CD, even some Kubernetes, but I cannot get rid of the feeling that there are still so many foundational gaps in my knowledge that it's only a matter of time when I say or, even worse, do something stupid that will sabotage my chances of being considered a backend engineer. I am, however, really willing to fill all those gaps.

Can you please recommend a really short list of books that are must-reads in your opinion?

It's no secret that Designing Data-Intensive Applications by is a gem. I have read around half of it and it has greatly improved my understanding of the basic concepts.

I am also thinking of watching the CMU's course on database design by Andy Pavlo. It has great review and I notice more and more frequently that a decent understanding of databases is something that helps you stand out and impress interviewers.

It also seems a good idea to read Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant and Helleron to cover the fundamentals of hardware and software. Even though I have a master's degree in computer science and mathematics, the focus was really much more on the math side so I guess that would help.

I am wondering whether I should read something on operating systems. Based on the contents, the book by Bryant and Hallaron covers the basics of operating systems so probably that could be enough so that I am not a total noob in how operating systems work under the hood. Need your advice here.

Currently, I am also reading A Philosophy of Software Design. It's a great read and I have noticed many times that it's considered to be a less radical and more modern alternative to Clean Code.

What should I read on software architecture and design? I wanted to start with the traditionally recommended Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob, but then after reading a series of posts on why the book shouldn't be recommended anymore, I am no longer sure. What are less controversial options to cover this area?

Thanks in advance!
The CEO of my old Fortune 500 laid out our Foundations thusly:

"Make money". This isn't the most important thing, but it is the means by which all of these other things are done... then he listed the "things that are important"
Unicode is basically a superset of ASCII that can encode original ASCII text losslessly, so I imagine that's the case
Bucha bazi is illegal by the Taliban because it consists of music, dancing, and sodomy, which are three things that are in themselves unacceptable.
Are you interested in a genuine discussion on this topic or have you already made up your mind?

For those genuinely interested, for the most part trading firms employing quantitative and automated strategies look to keep the price of derivative or correlated assets in line with their underlying securities.

For example a stock ABC might either directly or indirectly represent two other underlying stocks FOO1 and FOO2 and a trading firm will create a model to determine the relationship between ABC, FOO1 and FOO2 so that ABC = f(FOO1, FOO2).

The role of trading firms then is to compete both on coming up with an accurate model (one firm might believe that the relationship is really ABC = f(FOO1, FOO2) while another firm models the relationship as ABC = g(FOO1, FOO2) and yet a third firm models the relationship as ABC = h(FOO2, FOO3) for some third asset FOO3) as well as premium (a firm will trade ABC = f(FOO1, FOO2) + small_fee and pocket that fee), as well as engineering aspects such as identifying cheaper costs to trade, providing fast execution etc etc...

In the absence of efficient trading strategies or market makers whose job is to maintain this price, what you get is ABC will trade at a huge spread and trades will cause the price of ABC to fluctuate significantly. Both of these properties are vaguely lumped together and called "liquidity" so that trading firms are said to provide liquidity to the market. They ensure that ABC is available to buy and sell at all times at a price that reflects its actual value at every moment in time.

If there's some kind of economic inequality created by keeping the price of assets tightly coupled to one another so that their price reflects their actual underlying value then you are welcome to take some time to present that argument.

From my point of view having done this now for close to 15 years, I find it to be a very interesting and challenging career that lets me consolidate knowledge from a variety of different fields. I get to study and put to use knowledge of many areas of computer science from machine learning, graphics/data visualization, compilers, databases, computer architecture, networking, as well as other fields such as physics, economics, law. I feel very privileged to be able to work in a multidisciplinary field and be able to see almost in real time the effect of my work. I worked as a software developer at Microsoft and Google prior to this and while those were both comfortable and pleasant places to work, it didn't compare in terms of feeling like you had an actual impact on anything. I felt at both of those companies like I was being paid a lot of money to do basically menial jobs.

There is nothing menial about working at a trading firm.
California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being
6L in one hour can kill you, not in one day.
Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup
Personally if a bug report does not get a reply in two months I'm probably not using it anymore. Collaborating to these kinds of projects is extremely frustrating. Why will I spend my time debugging and implementing features when issues and PR are promptly ignored or closed? Is my time a joke?
> Everybody I knew in that period, myself included, smoked marijuana, drank alcohol, and experimented with psychedelics and occasionally with harder drugs. Several of the donors who supported our work were known to smoke marijuana.

I can't help but wonder how the author's life would have been improved by a felony drug conviction.
Exactly. Next time, if there is a next time, we'll probably go straight to installing some despot because at least that gives us a defined goal to work toward.
Heads up, in-place upgrade from 10 to 11 caused a kernel panic on boot with the new 5.10 kernel. Having it boot with the old kernel seems to work but isn’t ideal. Haven’t done much troubleshooting so I can’t give much more to pinpoint but welcome any input on what to do/look for. My first time doing a Debian upgrade and it’s not a great experience compared to CentOS
> if you have a look at carbon emissions, and carbon emissions per capita.

You can argue about emissions per capita until you're blue in the face, but the fact is that global warming is a zero sum game and projected 4 billion population of industrializing Africa will have a significantly bigger impact than USA's stable 300 million.
Someone got sick drinking 3L water per day? I find that hard to believe.
Is the device in the article pedal powered?
Show HN: Portfolio site for my RPG side projects
You haven't quantified the magnitude of the insulin response just from tasting something sweet, which is relevant to how much of an impact it will have on behavior, nor does a lowered blood sugar necessarily entail you crave sweets. Simple biochemistry does not capture human behaviour.
Prof Bursill-Hall had a fascinating theory that the early Christians were to blame for Pythagoras's elevation. The Pythagorean's believed, "all was number" and identified 2 and 3 with man and woman, 5 (= 2 + 3) with children, and 10 (= 2 + 3 + 5) with God(s).

The early church trying to enforce the slightly odd concept of the trinity found solace in a triangular number being equivalent to god.

As you say, proving this would be practically impossible.
Hi HN, as I wrote about earlier[1], my creative sideprojects have been moving to RPG writing from software.
Initially, I (somewhat naively) hoped that I wouldn't need to do much marketing, since there is a central marketplace in the space I write in (Dungeons & Dragons 5e).

Since those assumptions were challenged, I decided to set up a quick landing page with email list signup.
I find that I'm able to apply the software engineering skills I already have to accelerate my learning in this new space in ways that I hadn't imagined before.
As an example: I do all my typesetting with LaTeX and version control everything with git - normal for the audience here, but definitely not in the RPG space.
Likewise, setting up this marketing site was much easier for me than for my peers in the space.

That got me curious: what skills has the HN audience found they can apply to another space?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27220403
He forgot the /s tag.
>Your solution is nothing if you can't build it, and nothing if nobody uses it.

I know really smart engineers that would do well to internalize this.
Closing issues by itself do not fix bugs.
UK Police Seize USB Stick with Ethereum Worth $9.5M
Show HN: Diary.by – minimalist, ad and tracking free publishing platform
Where do you get this war and famine being a control from? The information wasn’t even hard to find, war claimed 100m+ and famine 128mil. 228mil dead from these actions over 100 years vs 7.8billion. Is this an excruciatingly slow sink?

https://ways-to-die.com/people-died-war/

https://ourworldindata.org/famines
Which, from a neighbor's perspective, is quite a bit annoying...

When I visited Denmark and talked to Danish people, I was surprised how much the Danish and the Czech perspective on German politics overlaps.
Status Update, August 2021
No secrets every person on the planet has access to a high grade telescope nothing is censored we can access all data across all frequencies across all portions of the sky. There's absolutely no control... Nothing to see here citizen. Move along quietly now

You'll be like the anti-vaxxetss saying the virus is a hoax as they lie dying of pneumonia. When the elites are funneled into their underground bases you'll be saying the asteroid and the cover-up is a hoax as the blinding flash obliterates everything you love

Edit: Hey someone should rewrite this Truth for The gentle cottonwool-coddled hn minds that prefer the peaceful vista to the real one before their eyes... Transmit the same truth but share it in a gentler more familiar package to ensure delivery
In Kotlin, loops are deprecated
So we've established that you didn't understand what I wrote.

> A large group of people have determined that it is wasteful and have therefore pushed to change it. I'm not a "lone thinker" in this regard. I can't imagine a world view in which you deem the disposal of straws, used entirely to suck liquids inside of probably an hour window, is not an easy problem to solve. I would also argue that such seemingly trivial changes are symptomatic of increasing reflection and movement towards the reduction of plastic, rather than as you paint it, some kind of virtue signalling exercise intended to piss off other people. At the end of the day, most people are not in control of global supply chains or have extenuating circumstances that inhibit their ability to contribute to the reduction of plastic waste beyond mitigating what they do and dont chuck out.

Logical fallacies. None of what you wrote addresses what I wrote or the flaws in your assertion.
He did nothing of the sort
Where did you buy it? I get exclusively old/reused machines when searching for Fujitsu laptops.

Hardware-wise, these do actually seem very compelling! Like a breath of sane design after a decade of worse and worse design.
Almost every single old/retro multiplayer game that relies on ipv4 to connect that I've seen. :(
Is "natural" the right word when a robot is involved?
Didn't expect that an inquiry into scurvy finds the root cause of all problems, glad it did.
Did you use PSLIght SDK to develop the rendering engine on the PS3?
Not sure the war against the talibans was winnable without engaging Pakistan.
The last time the US installed bases in a nation bordering Russia, Russia parked a nuclear missile battery 90 miles off the Florida coast.

China is exerting soft power now by buying up properties and ports in the Caribbean and Latam. Make no mistake, if a real US base had been activated in Afghanistan China, or Russia, would have planted one in Venezuela.
I suspect this is now to be known as the Cuomo defence.
Indeed. There are diminishing returns with this whole approach, all the way back to Unix crypt.

If you have a good password (say, 16 alphanumerics = 36^16) even if the password storage is literally MD5 you're fine, I can't get anywhere. Fancier password schemes make no difference.

If you have a bad password (say "password") then even if the storage uses an incredibly complicated GPU-hardened, ultra-impossible hash I can just guess "password" and I'm in, fancier password schemes still make no difference.

So these schemes are intensely focused on the middle - trying to shore up the quite-bad passwords, the people who don't actually have a random password, but they put a little work in. Maybe bad guys would need a million guesses to find their password, and if we can make that cost $1000 instead of $1 they won't bother?

I don't believe this justifies continued effort and instead we should throw those resources at getting rid of passwords.

I wanted a way to allow a temporary machine (new employer wants me to be productive from day one but can't ship me company hardware in the first week) to share data with my own systems. I almost added a password step, with a random secret known to the temporary machine and in my password store. And then I stopped myself and just gated the whole data sharing behind WebAuthn. Tap tap, temporary laptop and main systems are both signed in, done. No passwords.
We can only hope that said asteroid isn't too big and evacuate the area of impact.
We can't do anything to prevent it. ICBMs can't even target something in space, and even if we blow the asteroid with one the same mass would still be flying towards earth as a shrapnel. Theoretically we can try shooting it with a laser to evaporate part of it creating thrust to divert it, but we don't have lasers that powerful and probably wouldn't. This is uncomfortable truth - we are completely defenseless against asteroids.
.. they have the word naked in their titles, its not like they are hiding haha

i dont even think its AI problemm, you can probably detect half of it with dhash or something
I’m Still Here, Though My Country’s Gone West
No jokes allowed. HN is srs bsns >:(
> If only they has actually a definite goal

We did have a goal. The building of the nation of Afghanistan into a functioning liberal democracy. Of course Afghanistan barely qualifies as a nation and many (most?) have no desire to live in anything resembling a Western nation-state. Short of a truly brutal, imperialist takeover or the installing of a strongman puppet to do the dirty work for the next 50 years, there's no real chance of transitioning the peoples and their cultures over to our way of things. Americans likely have no stomach for such things, and the state of realpolitik is such that this would be truly untenable on the world stage.
Aliexpress amateur porn was kinda decent until it was taken over by onlyfans spam.
That's assuming you are drinking water, which parent was not.
Decluttering Fandom.com with uBlock Origin
If Google can't afford to do something safely, then they don't have a viable business.

A business can't say "well, people just can pick the glass shards out of the cupcakes themselves."
Agreed and the answer to your question of why? This is the power engine of the American economy and dream. Our economy is based on us engaged in a conflict for which we print money and hand it to government contractors to later make its way to the rest of the economy.
All the while sucking like a predator a far away land and people for every last juice they have.

This is the only way to keep the faux heaven looking as it does. Utopian.

It’s also the one topic you can have both sides of the aisle always agree on. No matter the political climate. When the military is working, it’s always at work in keeping us free.

Woodrow Wilson would have been proud at how we monetized his emotional button of American exceptionalism
It just seems to overlay two pdfs' text and images in two colors. Looks kind of ugly but atleast its a free service.
Revenge.

Taliban didn't want to turn over the people who attacked us so we wrecked their country for 20yr.

Frankly I think we should have worked harder to get them to go after OBL and Al-Qaeda for us since they could go after them in ways that we cannot and that would probably have a greater deterring effect on any future people with dreams of attacking the first world.
I was naive enough to visit the region in 2004 and I wrote to my MP back in 2006 not to get involved https://natalian.org/2006/08/01/british-forces-in-afghanista...

Entirely predictable and I wanted to say that the Taliban misogyny is bit unfair. Offer free quality education for their sons and daughters and you'll see real change, I promise you.

Not like this https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58219114
Unions or Pointer Casting?
Jenkins is not the ideal place. We take some scripts and create pipelines that just invoke them. Some of these are configured to be scheduled jobs. We have separate declarative pipelines for each one.

But this isn’t good, we have Airflow and that’s where these things should be. Their stay inside Jenkins is technical debt, but at least is much better than not having it automated. The advantage is that you made an ad-hoc process less unstructured, you can add post-failure alarms, you don’t have to worry about long running scripts being interrupted by shabby notebooks, you don’t need to spread production credentials to every developer and so on.
Curious to hear more. Do explain please
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They don't have to if they don't want to.
Michael Flynn's (yes, that Flynn) interview in the Afghanistan Papers is one of the more interesting accounts I've read of the war.

https://archive.org/details/theafghanistanpapers_202001

That appears to be audio—I've only read the transcript, personally—but the text is hard to find a direct link to. A search can probably dredge up pages that'll eventually lead to the text.
Once I discovered a (for me) new feature in the iOS Google Maps app, showing recently uploaded videos and images for places in my vicinity. I was randomly browsing through it until I found a video of a woman on a car‘s passenger seat trying to pee out of the side window. Wasn’t expecting her to succeed…

Anyhow, reported it and went on, but couldn’t find it later when I wanted to show to friends.
Okay even if this is a serious question, do you think those actually responsible want their names easily known? The powerful ones? They know their heads would be on the chopping block. Ofcourse you ask to make your point - OMG look at these new conspiracists attacking these well off gentlemen, pfft peasants. eff off you monocle wanna-be shithead.