skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know what the cause is. From the article:

Scientists are now scrambling to figure out what is killing these 40-foot-long marine mammals. The “what” is anything but obvious.

Some scientists believe there may be too many whales for the population to sustain itself. Others say this explanation of “overcapacity” and “natural causes” overlooks the gantlet of hazards that grays now face — including ecosystem alteration, ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, plastics pollution, disease, ocean acidification and loss of kelp forests.
Just downloaded this to try it out... This is now my new Spotify client!

It's so damned efficient it barely registers in my CPU monitor. Check out the memory utilization too!

https://i.imgur.com/Fa3Dnnb.png

Now compare it with the semi-official Spotify client:

https://i.imgur.com/nNWFIj1.png
Some of those examples are not very stellar examples, I understand that they are just samples but trying to share some of my experiences to help illustrate a better picture. If listening to locals about placing a well or a playground or a zoo, I think you'll quickly get people saying yeah closer to us and not them. You are allocated finite resources to help improve living conditions, sometimes there are compromises. Just noting that transporting fuel by helicopter should not be the gauge regarding incompetence. Many of the bases are very remote, there are different fuel types and/or routes could have been closed and the requirement to get fuel to a location or other emergencies might be a driving factor. But it does sound like something that is pretty inefficient and dangerous.

From my experience and social contacts, I don't think "incompetence" at doing anything is accurate or would I describe it as affecting morale. There are inefficiencies and incompetency with leadership or supply chains, some of this waste is part of running such a large organization like the military. One that sticks in my mind is having 60 people assigned to shake debris out of parachutes when there are only 25 hooks to hang the parachutes on, requiring US mail to be transported by US citizens, and I'm nit picking here: US Air Force intra-Base Security Police enforcing a 15 MPH speed limit...

There have been many lessons that have been learned, from these conflicts and I think a large contributing factor to the cost is rapid procurement of enhanced equipment such as individual and vehicular armor improvements; equipment that had been identified in review's as being a deficiency.

I think a positive attribute around the military is what is being viewed and cited, is lessons and critique. The Army does have strong systems in place for reviewing actions. I think it's something that I try to take a utilize in the civilian sector. I think there is waste, and certainly there could be modifications to improve efficiency, but I also think for a very large organization it does fairly well, and modernized fairly well to the challenges that were presented. However if I were joking around with some friends, I would totally would be tossing around incompetence left and right (haha)!
The Taliban taxes opium farming and manufacturing. It’s believed to be a significant source of revenue for them.

But, China probably still has the upper hand in the opiate business here, because fentanyl is far easier to smuggle.
> Narcopolitics are so fantastically more significant than ever gets any attention from "surface" media

Indeed! The speculation is that there are people very high up in Chinese system who are cashing up on industrial scale fentanyl production.

Syrian Assad family now makes more money on captagon than they were doing before the war from all their businesses.

Putin Vladimir, the Russian president, made his early fortune on providing legal cover to drug trade in Saint Petersburg, and later delved into the business himself. Russia now runs a state business of drug smuggling through its military missions abroad, and diplomatic missions.

And of course, most famously, Great Britain used to be the biggest narcostate in history. Fortunes of many modern day British elites were built in these times.
A point no one seems to be making is that the $6.4T - a good amount of it just did not vanish...

it just found its way into the employees of the state , the war industrial complex seen in the posh houses around the beltway and beyond...

it just did not reach all the Americans...

those that made bank will no doubt be incentivized to keep up the charade..

the scary part to me is what they are going to cook up next to keep the dollars flowing...
The easiest way to find alternatives to almost any popular open-source project
> I resent having to write three lines of boilerplate every time I want to reverse a slice.

Up above I talk about gopls's postfix completions, and reversing a slice is one: https://github.com/golang/tools/releases/tag/gopls%2Fv0.7.0
> ie. you could not say, cut the military budget in half without severe consequences

You could easily cut a third and match 2000's budget, adjusted for inflation. I bet half isn't even hard if we stop funding things like multi-role fighters.

> and that's only for $500, an in-significant amount of money in major metropolitan areas

UBI doesn't have to pay enough to live anywhere without a job on top.

And again, who is arguing for $2k monthly? That's enough for two people to almost hit median household income. Definitely much more than necessary.

> $864 Billion annually.

Why is that not sustainable? If military cuts take that down to $500B, that's only an 11% budget increase.

If the top 10% of earners paid a bit over a third more income tax, that would be enough to cover it. They're not even taxed that much when you consider capital gains.

You could make it happen without military cuts too, if you wanted.

And make no mistake, $500 a month with no strings attached is enough to do amazing things.
But Apple created the problem. No company that offers white label applications wants to have to upload a completely separate app for every client, but there is no other option.
They don't break the DRM and use the official WebAPI.

> This app uses the Web API from Spotify, which doesn't handle streaming itself. So you'll need either an official Spotify client open or a lighter weight alternative such as spotifyd.
I think nuclear is not a perfect solution but probably the fastest option we have.
As a recovering cartography student, I would just like to say: the Mercator projection is misleading garbage and I hate it with the fire of a thousand very round suns.

I'll concede that it's useful for when you're a 16th-century bluewater sailor though.
If you're a billion dollar company, your attack surface is insanely large. Just as per usual work, thousands of people need to have access to the data, hundreds of software developers write code processing it and it's distributed over a lot of places. Plus, if you lock it down too much, things like simple customer service become either insanely expensive or outright impossible (imagine you'd need to iterate all your account details and show your passport just to answer a question about your account in a store!).

That's not to say that breaches like this should just get punished by a slap on the wrist; this clearly must not happen. But especially when the company is so large you simply have an insanely large attack surface that comes with it. And it only takes one weak spot on there for an attacker to get in. People have casually carried out all data from Facebook, LinkedIn and even the NSA (multiple times!) - security at that scale simply is hard.
Yes germany does not have identity fraud in the same way US does
> Close-to-stock OS, Good update policy.

Also look at phones with Android One. Although in 2021 only Nokia is delivering phones for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One#2021
It can be either piped as hydrogen or converted into ammonia.
I love seeing software like this, even if it's not legal. Who cares? I remember being a teenager and trying out all sorts of cool underground, fundamentally illegal software, or stuff that worked around Terms of Service.

Where would the world be today without Napster? Maybe the same place, but provocative software is the definition of cool.
Government debt isn't guaranteed by anything, expect by the promise that it'll be paid back (although it won't be). Commercial banks can also borrow money that is guaranteed by government instead of being backed by any asset. Expanding the money supply always causes money to lose value.
No, they didn't. They're going to be launching a feature that will send an alert to parents if the kid opens and views or sends an image determined to be sexual by ML. There's no indication it will let you see any part of the conversation, much less the entirety.
Self-driving cars are a long way away
Subspace?
Another approach to this problem is the emacs aligned nyxt browser

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
Luckily the number is not trademarked in the context of calendars.
How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?
In France where I was raised and China where I raise my kids, which both have affordable good quality health care, we tend to say it's due to economy of scale.

We negociate national prices with indian labs, we manufacture at planned cost locally, we use the school system in synergy with healthcare to do preventive vaccination, dental, eye and ear care, we work hard on conflict of interest between doctors and drug sellers (a doctor always find you sicker if he makes a profit on the medicine he prescribes), we encourage to fix very early that way rather than when it s far too late. In France, competition between providers is hunted even more than communists would, with geographical quotas and strict university numerus closus to ensure price stability and fair enough spread of providers nationally (but still have challenges in the countryside).

Both systems are far from perfect and bleed tax money, but... so much more efficient than the weird US system that requires loan from poor people to fix a broken leg (I probably exaggerate).
Here's my dumb explanation:

Ever seen Fight Club and that recall equation?

Yeah, that's why. It would cost them more time, bad PR and money to fight than it would be to just settle and take the lumps even if it is untrue.
* the founder Nick participated in it, the developers didn't.
It's a nice saying... but may I push back? Maybe it's like saying instead of insisting to keep a positive balance, take a debt and go study in a callege. Then profit for the rest of your life?
Because I as the parent can choose the kid-friendly app store that allows managing subscriptions in a sane manner. At least until Apple inevitably sherlocks the feature, which they will, because competition forces all participants to improve.
The closest thing you're probably going to find for languages is the Pimsleur method, which is also based on a specific formula of spaced repetition. I don't know how effective it would be for trying to achieve true conversational fluency, but I've found it very effective for quickly learning a basic set of words and phrases for a trip to another country.

https://www.pimsleur.com/
If the Taliban were to attack US forces or otherwise enrage the West right now, they would likely be bombed. If they wait a week, they can do literally whatever they want with no reprisals.

They haven't "chilled out", they've just won.
thank you! always want to make this kind of this more accessible – especially since its so interesting.

I can only say the grey market becomes more enticing every time.

I personally feel like pure web bugs like this just generally get paid less (on the bounty market only) due to a strange kind of prejudice– people expect the big-ticket bugs to be binary or cryptography, and tend to dismiss XSS, even when the impact is extremely high, as in this bug.
is it just me or Google+ seems popular among academics?
This site breaks my browser back button. I find that enormously frustrating.
> We don't know what the cause is.

I'm always wondering what cause someone who replies with this is trying to advance.

You are probably correct, we don't know what the cause is for this specific problem. We do know that we cause massive, let's say, "alterations" to the oceans by acidification and plastic pollution alone, and there is very strong indication that the effects of those alterations are not positive.

So the worst case when addressing those issues is that we have solved or at the very least ameliorated acidification and plastic pollution, only to find out that gray whales dying specifically was not covered by those causes.

Yes, finding out the actual cause is important (there may be other issues we are not yet aware of), but prioritizing the recovery of the ocean in general is not exactly a waste of effort in the meantime. As an analogy, if a bathroom smells like excrement, fixing the toilets known to overflow is a suitable activity. If it still smells like excrement after, or if you discover a different cause while the toilets are being fixed, you're still glad you fixed those toilets.
This problem is almost solved by UPI payment service in India. All payments need manual approval. Credit/Debit card not required to be added here. Apple was forced to add UPI payment because that’s what people use here. I will trade the payment safety anytime over whatever convenience credit cards offer for auto debit recurring transactions.
> We gave them a society where they can enjoy music, culture, and attempt to gain literacy and education. It didn't last, but its clearly an improvement over the 90s-era Taliban. Whether the people remember that moving forward will be another question.

This is an absurd fantasy that has no relation to the reality in that country.
I think they do have the same feature, despite being different services. In fact, I believe that the call screen service is offered even on any Pixel phone, regardless of carrier (Google Fi).

https://support.google.com/voice/answer/9262934

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9118387
I know someone that has used this for quite some time.

It’s an excellent library.
GC is quite problematic for web servers too. Lots of people "solve" that by giving AWS more money.
> I'm over 30 too, and I believe in not allowing corporations to externalize costs onto customers.

They shouldn't be externalized onto the victims. The cost will, by principle, always be externalized to their customers, since that is were the money has to come from.
With your estimates on payback time, I think you might be underestimating how many things I've built around the house ;)

Some examples:

* At least five sets of shelves, the biggest of which was https://www.jefftk.com/p/built-in-shelves

* Piano stand, so I could put my keyboard at just the right height on top of a wagon

* Folding monitor/TV, that is pretty sturdy and well protected when it's away: https://www.jefftk.com/p/folding-couch-monitor

I expect to keep doing this, and most of my tools aren't even halfway through their useful life.

There are some downsides, and you're right that a professional would make a lot of these things look better, but there are also serious downsides to working with a professional aside from the cost. It can be quite hard to get them to come when you want, they may not build exactly what you had in mind since communication is hard, and some people will cheat you (https://www.jefftk.com/p/brendin-lange-is-a-scammer)
Hawaiian Residents beg tourists to stop visiting amid post-pandemic boom
Nice, thanks for sharing! :D

My personal inspiration is Vim (as mentioned in the post), but we want to avoid the initial punishing feeling that learners feel when learning Vim. SigmaOS should still feel faster to use even from the first time you start using it.
> A nation has to work out its own problems for itself.

This point being raised, it is time for the US to spend money on education to support its own democracy.
When has the US ever done anything but whatever the hell they wanted?
Defining countries as "first world" wasn't even a thing until after Switzerland had joined the League of Nations.

And Switzerland was, in fact, part of (and [charitably] aligned with) a few different empires in its day, to say the least possible about that. They are (and in modern history always were) dependent upon other nations for their trade routes which is determinate in their first-world status.

What argument are you trying to advance? That because Switzerland is first-world and landlocked - one of a few exceptions to the rule, surrounded by and allied with some of the planet's most powerful first-world nations - that Afghanistan could be expected to become one of the exceptions too?

The fact that the word "miracle" accompanies any explanation of Swiss economics ("The Swiss Miracle") should tell you that the odds of replicating their circumstances are long. Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic are all exceptions because they're unusual. They benefit immensely from being small populations with developed and friendly neighbors.

Afghanistan is thirty million people occupying a country whose borders are notoriously unsafe, whose regions are partly characterized by their ruling warlord, and whose chief product is agricultural. Who are Afghanistan's neighbors with coastal access? China, Iran, and Pakistan.

What are the prospects, as you build up industrialized resource development (mining, wells) in Afghanistan, for leveraging your coastal access rights with friends and borders like that? Coastal access is not just about exports, either.

Switzerland's geography, population of 8m, and history in Western Europe are hardly a useful roadmap for Afghanistan because the circumstances of each country are quite different.
The exams were more than a few years ago now. Thanks!
Are they serving the original Roman menu or pizza and burgers?
Why must we force mainstream dumbed down platforms to open up. Moving the discussion to somewhere open will bring people over and create new safe areas where this content can be discussed.
so as a medium to small business maybe I’ll try pushing on my vendors if they don’t support ipv6 I’ll switch to a competitor that does? Maybe that will help? I already do this with two factor authentication.
Nope!

US banks seem to have zero interest in doing so because it doesn't bring them money and Congress isn't interested in forcing them to. EU though is working on a solution between themselves. [0]

US banks solutions range between "screw off, no scraping allowed even on your account" to (probably) "here's an undocumented SOAP API last touched in 1998"

[0]: https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/europes-new-api-rules...
Or maybe it’s those 25,000 barrels of DDT that were dumped no that far from there??

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/27/up-to-25...

I get that as a civilization we had to go through some .. let’s call it “growing pains”, before we learned what’s ok and what’s not.

Dumping metal barrels full of chemicals into the oceans while understanding chemistry enough to manufacture DDT is criminal. It should have been criminal back then too. They knew better.
> we've thought continually we were dealing with another defeated Japan or defeated Germany --the enemy population would just comply to our wishes, so we kept on thinking we could "turn them into replicas of American government"

You though, but you did not did.

In both prior cases US ran moderately competent occupation government, and by some accounts one better than their own.

The model US followed in Vietnam was not this. Ngo Dinh Diem was a Syngman Rhee 2.0, but even worse. Here, you can say Karzai was Syngman Rhee 3.0.

All shared a history of being overthrown because of progressing nationalist drift within their own power bases.
A healthier population would lower healthcare costs

Just like building one clean water resource in an African village reduces costly ailments by orders of magnitude
What fantasy?

The Taliban are already issuing cell-phone bans and bans of music. Those things were allowed in the US-sponsored regime.

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2021/08/13/smartphone-bans-...

> “If single girls are found using smartphones, they are questioned over the possibility of having a relationship with a boy,” said Ansari, who declined to provide her last name out of fear of retribution. “If boys listen to songs, their memory cards are smashed by the Taliban.”

Girls having a relationship with a boy is punishable by death in the Taliban regime. Its a serious threat.

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The music-ban was a key attribute of 90s-era Taliban (among with other forms of cultural repression: they were destroying museums, libraries, and statues). When the USA invaded, we allowed them to play music again (among other rights). Literally giving the gift of music back to the people.

Unfortunately, it was temporary and the Taliban are taking back over. But there's no "fantasy" about my assessment here, that's the ground truth to what we did at a literal level.
Realistic impact of such issues is usually quite exaggerated: https://xkcd.com/1958/

I think that any massively deployed true autopilot system will maintain a global semantic map of roads. Most sudden traffic sign changes, especially those which may influence car behavior, will be manually verified and committed to the global map. Any consistent discrepancies between the model and reality will be investigated as well, especially if it causes customer complaints. And it can be followed by releasing map patches telling software to prefer the model over detection for the problematic sign. Considering that at this stage such maps will be probably integrated with government services (i.e. the map will be compared against official road data), I think such attacks on the autopilot systems will be found quite fast.
I don't mention the one I use because every time I do I get immediate downvotes. But I use the system from Comma.ai which is based on Openpilot, which refers to itself as open source autopilot.
Supernova shoots a dying star made of metal out of Milky Way at 2M MPH
I agree, the "we don't know that the cause is" type of answer makes me think of those doctors saying back in the days that we didn't know whether smoking cigarettes caused health issues.

There's something called common sense and it's whatever contradicts common sense that deserves a clear explanation/evidence. It's quite obvious that whales shouldn't expect much from the way we treat our oceans.
Whoa! WTF? I always just assumed that would be there in Settings as an option, like it is on the Mac—but nope!

I'd have expected that to be added in iOS 3 at the latest. (I'd say at launch, but then it did take until iOS 3 to get copy and paste.)
Thanks. I wasn't aware that struct{} is zero-sized, so that plugs that hole.

I'll admit freely that I'm not a proficient Go programmer, so it's easier for me to see the things I don't like than the things that Gophers praise. But even this solution leaves me unsatisfied, in contrast to what I'd reach for in Rust or even C++: it requires that I know that struct{} is zero-sized, and I still have to do the manual legwork of writing a CS101 dedupe function.
Same. I fire up Endless Sky whenever I need to scratch my Firefly itch for a bit.
> You get more brain power to watch out for the semi

That doesn’t help at all if you’re reading a book or playing on your phone, both of which are things I observe Tesla drivers doing pretty often when I’m in the Bay Area.
That's what I'm saying. Nobody, literally not one person, thought they would go from capturing their first provincial capital to capturing ALL 18, including Kabul, within 10 DAYS.

How is a vague predication of collapse "predictive"? Everybody knew they would collapse. Most thought at least several weeks, at most 6 months.

How is it "bipartisan" to complain he's on vacation when Camp David is a 30 min heli ride from the White House. It's not like some extravagant trip.

Trump would be golfing in Mar a Lago in Florida and you probably wouldn't have made the same issue about it.