skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an absurd article. The only thing to learn from Afghanistan is that we never should have gone there to begin with. The author paints a quite ignorant narrative about the collapse of Afghanistan’s government being somehow the fault of modern day progressivism when the reality is that all of this was started by neocons 20 years ago who had 0 interest in helping the people there and were only in it to line the pockets of defense contractors and oil companies. The mistake was already made we are just now living through the consequences of our collective delusion called the War On Terror.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the same dialog that pops up for Bluetooth devices or am I missing something?

I haven’t used my Pokeball Plus since about a month after I bought it, which was basically day or week 1, but if I recall correctly the mandate to ask for permissions only came around after that time frame and I would expect it the next time I pulled it out.

But if it does work without Bluetooth permissions; then that’s cool, or if this is a separate dialog than the Bluetooth permissions dialog, then I’m just wrong which is also fine and I can live with that.
Troll. You've got no plans or actions, so this is what you comment. At least Biden had the balls to pull out and finish this war that nobody wanted to continue except for the Neocons and chickenhawks.
That we can be triggered is triggering... omg
If you’re billion dollar company’s application architecture is such that any one compromised system leaks the entirety of your customer data then you’re definitely doing it wrong. It’s not just a matter of one compromised package being able to wreak havoc, it’s the scale and blast radius of the havoc.
Amazing 3d mode for such a classic game.
On the other hand, for all of these points you could argue you aren't gaining all that much added productivity for the amount of compute power this all took vs the 1990s.

- Live editing requires people to be working on the same thing at the same time, otherwise its back to back and forthing as people have different schedules and don't get to things right away.

- Google has now gone to shit with basic search terms. Too often you end up in some longwinded article seeking another 10 seconds from you to pay advertizers before you back out and look for another. The web had a lot more signal and a lot less noise in the 1990s. I'd even reach for a book on excel today where I can quickly flip through (or ctrlf a pdf) vs waiting for a 15 minute youtube video to get to the point.

- the scheduling improvements have costs, you now have to put everything and anything up on your google calendar lest you be scheduled for a meeting where you are "free" on the calendar but really working on something else. Invites for these sorts of meetings/zoomcalls/calendar events takes places over decades old email.

Really the biggest productivity gain would be from going from a printed book to a pdf you could search. Everything else imo is sort of a wash or a massive waste depending on how you look at it with the compute resources being used to run that zoom meeting (that could just be a conference call like the 1990s).
Sure, but that's one move after year/semester 1, not a "every X month" thing if it isn't forced to be.
I think that this kind of content doesn’t belong on HN and I think that it’s a violation of the guidelines. It saddens me deeply to see today for the first time ever a blatant Reddit post reach the front page of HN. I’ve been here a decade.
Yea, you're right, I think the previous poster seriouspy underestimates videogames as performance critical (and performance consistent!) apps. In the modern days of desktop Java and C# (and even more in web dev) the vast majority of coders just don't come across the need to "do everything you need to do" in 33ms or less, consistently.
In my opinion the underlying assumption autopilots are built with are wrong.
It is assumed that the road is free to drive on.

Only when the vehicle computer detects a known object on the road that it knows should not be there it is applying brakes or trying to steer around.

I would feel safer if the algorithm would assume the negative case as default and only give the „green light“ once it determined that the road is free to drive on.
In case of unknown (not yet supervised) road obstructions the worst needs to be assumed.

That’s where the ‚unexplainable‘ crashes are coming from. Something the size of an actual truck is obstructing the road. But couldn’t quite classify it because the truck has tipped over and is lying on the road sideways. Not yet learned by the algorithm. Can't be that bad, green light, no need to avoid or brake.
This is why I don't understand how Microsoft can't compete in the mobile market. They could be successful just by using AOSP with Office and an alternate app store that doesn't screw developers and users.
Just a heads up, if you are looking into using this in your project: The popup onclick triggers are currently broken in the latest version under Safari, using an older version solves it.

Other than that this is an awesome library with tons of great plugins that I’ve used for years now.
Two recent related threads:

Go 1.17 Beta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462884 - June 2021 (118 comments)

Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27630625 - June 2021 (215 comments)
Thank you.

For those not wanting to click through, it was 2.4% to 4.0%. I do wonder if the timeframe could be obscuring any seasonal trend, since it's measured from Nov 2019 to Mar 2021.

It's strange to me that sellers put up with this. Why wouldn't you want it listed to get the best possible price?
By mid-September, I think.
Everything is subjective so company can do anything it wants.
That's not surprising. Some of us here are part of the problem.
How foolish we have been to privatise our public square
To me, the most interesting change is the performance improvement due to the new register-based calling convention. Your CPU-bound programs will magically get 5% faster when compiled with 1.17:

> Go 1.17 implements a new way of passing function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack. Benchmarks for a representative set of Go packages and programs show performance improvements of about 5%, and a typical reduction in binary size of about 2%. This is currently enabled for Linux, macOS, and Windows on the 64-bit x86 architecture (the linux/amd64, darwin/amd64, and windows/amd64 ports).

I love how they're doing it in such an iterative fashion: even assembly functions don't have to be rewritten. Then again, I guess doing it progressively like this is the only feasible way to avoid reworking all the low-level assembly routines in one fell swoop.
The WeDivvy App – Easily Split Chores and Bills with Your Roommates
Hey everyone! I'm Phil the head developer of WeDivvy.

I came up with the idea for WeDivvy through my past experiences living with lazy or forgetful roommates. I've been living with roommates for the last six years and I've always found it extremely frustrating constantly having to deal with my roommate's messes or having to remind them to pay me back for bills and shared expenses. Due to those frustrating experiences I've created this app to help others avoid dealing with the same issues that have plagued my life all these years.

I'm happy to answer any and all questions you may have as well as take any feedback any of you may have!
Although, to the grandparent's point, that's very much a "getting distracted while performing the task" video -- the first several steps didn't show Hal having to divert, after all. He could have replaced the lightbulb and then gone back to fix the shelf, and fixed the shelf and then gone back to oil the drawer.

It's only oiling the drawer that demonstrates true yak-shaving, since he then has to buy more oil and fix the car.
If there was a Trump Doctrine, it was "apologize for nothing." The Biden Doctrine, as of today, is "Sucks to Be You."
Use the southern entrance.
That just sounds like a product type with some dynamic checking, no?
I know there's more to this game, but the name reminds me why I stopped playing a certain type of RPG when it started to feel like I was interacting with a complicated spreadsheet interface.

These days I value exploration and story far above chasing stats, and simply increase or decrease difficulty levels to accommodate how much I enjoy the battle systems.
LeafletJS is not just limited to mapping applications, it is used in LibreOffice online [1] to present pixmaps of rendered documents in the web client.

[1] https://git.libreoffice.org/online/+/master/loleaflet/README
Would be interesting to know how many buy based on the fsd hype(including the ones who don't pay for the package) and how many buy because of the "green" factor.
However many there are who buy because of the fsd promise, all that revenue is coming from vaporware (beta ware at best) and is possible due to lack of regulatory enforcement.
History shows that the longer the self regulatory entities take the p, the harder the regulatory hammer comes down eventually.
Seems like it's easier just to drive regularly. This sounds very distracted
If you don’t have a devops person, then you end up with developers pitching in to fill that void. That’s OK and may be desirable but it is still a cost.
This tweet explains how they might have gotten in (i.e. unpatched ssh servers) https://twitter.com/damienmiller/status/1427195852011937797?...
In what universe was the Vietnam War “reckoned with”? Kennedy was most popular after The Bay of Pigs disaster. The entire Cold War fits the mold of what the author describes here — projecting our worldview on regional conflicts that could care less about our concerns at the time (Capitalism vs. Communism), complete with an inflated sense of trust in those we backed. Hell, in the war between Ethiopia and Somalia a bizarre series of events led to each side supporting the troops the other side had originally trained.

Has nostalgia actually reached the point where we romanticize previously accepted embarrassing failures? If you want to give off an air of sophisticated Student of History, and go on about the “Before Times,” it doesn’t help to present such an idealized view of recent history. Perhaps your 5th grade history book gave you the false impression that things were more “serious” before, but I invite you to dig a little deeper.
> If we assume

You shouldn't. 16% of accidents are pedestrians. 8% are motorcyclists. 40% of accidents involve excessive speed or drugs and alcohol.

Accidents aren't a fungible item you can do this with.

> bag on the passenger seat since there's no software option to disable the beeping.

There is in the US for the rear seats. Additionally, you can just leave the belt always clicked in and just sit on top of them. There aren't many great technological solutions to human behavior.
Less Wrong seems to be a manifestation of a thing that comes in cycles: Something triggers the rise of a "rationalist" movement, including possibly a new evangelist or a new medium. Eventually, rationalism and rational people end up at a standoff. Then the whole thing repeats itself after a period of time.

I'm probably rational enough but also can't make sense of much of the rationalist literature, so I simply follow my own compass and hope for the best. I'm skeptical of Bayes Theater.
We spent more time talking about Afghanistan, and the consequences of a non-humanitarian pullout, and a non balanced power transfer over to the Taliban in the last three days than we have as a nation for the last ten years.

That’s why we’re not serious. Did we discuss the possibility of a Taliban government coexisting with stipulations of certain human rights protections (women’s right to work, education) as a concession for American dollars?

That’s the tough discussion. The easy discussion is ‘leave; this was a mistake’, and now ‘who fucked up the exit strategy?’. It’s not easy to maturely discuss this because ‘uh, Taliban bad’. Well Taliban is all there is now because we didn’t take the time to think seriously.
Right but it itself is a framework. When people say "vanilla JS" they typically mean building an app with just browser APIs.
Good luck, I can only assume you are using WKWebView, you’ll quickly run into limitations if you want to do truly sophisticated things. Please let me know if you would like to connect, I would enjoy talking about browsers together.
I think we don’t need to have the author enumerate them. We’ve taken a lot of small-to-medium-sized wrong turns over the last 40 years or so
I remember downloading this for Windows, probably not long after the original copyright date of 2001. Who could have predicted how the genre of idle games would explode in the coming years? Truly a trailblazing game, whatever that may say about human beings.
There have been three posts to hacker news today of open source RTS games ... what's with that? Is it RTS Day or something?
How many people have been killed by Taliban, compared to the number of victims of US invasion?
I'm not sure how I feel about the myriad of services that serve as the service layer between cheap talent in developing countries and the western world. These people are indeed talented (in varying degrees) but doesn't stuff like this simply hollow out the market for local talent?

Maybe this serves to break down barriers of language and nation, but is it also a product of the fact that we've built our society to be so expensive (education, bureaucracy, housing, regulation, you name it) that we're constantly eroding our skilled labor in favor of countries with less overhead?
We've updated the title to try to make it more accurate. Thanks!
I'm saying that if the researcher is incapable of using any of the reputable ways of publishing research, we have to consider it possible there is a reason for that.

Why do you think the historical document is legitimate, other than this LiveJournal post?
I used it in conversation with my spouse the other day and was legitimately surprised to realize that it wasn't in common usage. Or that I apparently had failed to use the term in their hearing in the past 20 years of us knowing each other.
I expect this series is similar to Wirth's own chapter on writing a PL/0 compiler. It seems to be following the same recursive descent approach, but using C rather than Pascal.

Since the implementation is in C, perhaps it might make sense to compile a version of PL/0 ("C/0") with C syntax rather than Pascal syntax. It might be possible to get something close to a C/0 compiler that could compile its own source code.

Though one issue with C is you also need a cpp implementation.
Do they mandate chip + pin yet ? Some years ago I got a Credit Card in the USA with chip but without pin, thus unusable in some places in Europe.
The TAO of Topic Maps (2003) [pdf]
Take a job in an early stage startup doing something that leverages your background (e.g. computer vision). You'll take a pay cut for now but if you become someone that early stage startups want to hire you can hop around until you hit the unicorn jackpot while still drawing a good salary. Also there's a better chance you'll find the work meaningful. If nothing else, you'll have more say/agency

Seems like equal or better EV both in terms of $ and QOL over next 10-20 years
When I used it, I really wished it used JS inheritance rather than its own custom inheritance/mixins.
BAR supports Linux natively, I'm running it on Mint right now. We're hoping for a steam release "some time in the future".
Some past related threads:

How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19784355 - April 2019 (20 comments)

Leaflet – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149725 - Jan 2018 (36 comments)

Leaflet: An open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095390 - Dec 2016 (71 comments)

Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12589447 - Sept 2016 (99 comments)

D3 and Leaflet maps (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017763 - Feb 2016 (8 comments)

Show HN: Lens Battle – Make comparing lenses easier (with leaflet.js) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279358 - Sept 2015 (11 comments)

Show HN: Quizzity – a geographical quiz built on top of a Leaflet map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8981162 - Feb 2015 (6 comments)

Show HN: Traverse City Platmap with Leaflet and D3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8164315 - Aug 2014 (6 comments)

Testing web map APIs – Google vs OpenLayers vs Leaflet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451375 - March 2014 (12 comments)

Show HN: Earthquakes on Leaflet, Crossfilter and D3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157054 - Feb 2013 (7 comments)

Leaftlet - A Lightweight JavaScript Library for Interactive Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746178 - July 2011 (21 comments)
There are a different set of laws for me and you. Corporations and CEOs play by their own rules.
You will likely also find Lex Fridman's conversation with Matt Walker "Why we Sleep" last week interesting.

About 65 minutes in (just after a great discussion on coffee and caffeine) they go into how sleep (and dreaming) facilitates memory and learning - basically the creation of new schemas (models) and the updating and rewiring of existing ones.

What made it interesting was how it meshed with Hawkin's ideas from a completely different angle.

He also touched on why we forget things which is closer to the OP (like not remembering where you parked your car two weeks ago, but remembering where you parked it today), and how some people don't/can't forget things. Also the intricacy of things that we remember (like a particular pair of shoes someone was wearing when we first met them).
The document from BO [0] reads like an add for SpaceX.

"There are an unprecedented number of technologies, developments, and operations that have never been done before for Starship to land on the Moon. This includes developing Super Heavy, not only the largest launch vehicle stage ever produced, but one that has to be reusable, and Starship, the first ever reusable second stage. Then, the two systems must work together. A launch site in Boca Chica, Texas that has never conducted an orbital launch must demonstrate the ability to do so 7-11 times within 1-week increments. And cryogenic fluid transfer, a process that has also never been done, must work to refuel up to 100 MT of propellants from Starship to Starship"

It's just like Apollo: So many new tech (launching the largest payload ever, precision docking, computer assisted flight).

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/11PzZvWXOlV09B4wI9jPA_yRp5N9...
Great insights and commentary - also thank you for the references, looking forward to digging into those (especially your site).

I was going to ask about your thoughts regarding the ReZero paper, but it looks like you already have it cited in your FCN/MLP bibliography! I will study that list a bit harder, especially the MLP-Mixer section.

One paper that I didn't see cited is [1] - I only mention it because I'm intrigued by your thoughts on normalization and gating, and I can see how the early literature on dynamical isometry (especially with respect to weight initialization and choice of activation function) would add further support to your general line of thinking.

[1] Resurrecting the sigmoid in deep learning through dynamical isometry: theory and practice
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2017/file/d9fc0cdb67638d50f4114...
5 Benefits of Using ES6 Classes over Constructors
Still interesting and relevant in this age of note taking and bidirectional links.
Another take: https://ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html
There are credit card services that provide some privacy, such as proxies: I've heard of Abine, Privacy, and something called Final, but I haven't looked into them.
I used Mnemosyne to memorize baby Rudin, Munkres’ Topology and large swaths of Dummit and Foote. Perfect scores on analysis and topology qualifying exams… good enough on algebra haha.

I had always been reluctant to use memorization but I found it helped immensely. Especially as a returning graduate student.
FWIW: Tesla AP is primarily vision based now. Newer cars in the US aren't even being fitted out with the radar units anymore (mine doesn't have it, for instance). So while this may in some sense be an unavoidable edge case for radar, it really shouldn't be for Tesla Autopilot.

It's worth checking out for sure. Not worth the headline bandwidth and flamage budget being spent on it.
Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
> America doesn’t have the patience to oversee Afghanistan like was done with Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc.

In what way are a loose collection of tribesmen dwelling in the hill country in Afghanistan comparable to Germany, among whose exports to the US are the most brilliant minds of humankind?

You didn't mention that before the post-war occupation, there were functioning institutions in Germany, South Korea, and Japan. This is different from building a state from scratch. Can't do "nation-building" when a nation is not there to begin with.
Recent and related:

T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28192423 - Aug 2021 (183 comments)
I got a new graphics card just to run this game properly in 3d mode, and I have not been disappointed.
What makes you believe Afghanistan was a democracy under US control?
I got maybe two calls in France in the last 10 years, from companies I am with (but still unsollicited)
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Getting downvotes, but until corruption and deceit are basically eliminated in Afghanistan, their security forces will be overall not competent against an organized foe. How much would that cost us to stick around to achieve? They can’t even feed their soldiers much less supply them. And we were trying to set them up with a massively complicated system.
I wonder if some sort of standard display showing what the vehicle "sees" and is predicted to do will be regulated. For example, if the display shows the vehicle doesn't understand a firetruck parked half way in the lane or the tight curve on the freeway, at least the driver can validate on the display and have some time to react.
Just my opinion, but what Greenwald and Taibbi say is much more aligned with news from other countries. I occasionally choose one story that interests me, and try to read coverage of the same story from news sources from around the world.
America's Covid-Reporting Breakdown
Get out, there are more options than you realize. Even another firm in your industry might be a better fit. You are free to move. You are probably better at your job than you realize.

Start applying find out what options you have.
It is easy to naysay and complain.

The problem is ... what does a positive outcome for Afghanistan look like and how do you get there?

And, if we couldn't get there in 20 years, should we be there at all?

Apparently, there is not enough fight in any group in Afghanistan to oppose the Taliban. So, now what?