skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The stated goal of the attacks was to show Americans that their continuous war and support for secular dictators in the Muslim world would come with high cost, and to force the American government to retreat from the Middle East. This of course backfired spectacularly.

No, this was not his goal, and no it did not fail. His stated goal was to recreate the mujahedeen success against the Soviet Union, where they used low cost guerrilla fighting to draw out a costly and unpopular war until it bankrupted the Soviets and then they retreated from Afghanistan. It is debatable how much effect the cost of the Afghan war had on the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the key is that Bin Laden believed it.

His goal was to drive out the Americans eventually. There is no evidence or reason to believe he thought that 9/11 would directly lead to American withdrawal from the Greater Middle East.

>”We—with Allah's help—call on every Muslim who believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.” Osama Bin Laden’s 1998 Fatwa [1]

Even in 2004, we knew that Al Qaeda propaganda fueled by US invasions of Muslim countries was strengthening, not weakening, Al Qaeda.

“Any assessment that the global terror movement has been rolled back or that even one component, Al Qaeda, is on the run is optimistic and most certainly incorrect. Bin Laden's doctrines are now playing themselves out all over the world. Destroying Al Qaeda will not resolve the problem.” 2004 M.J. Gohel, head of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a London think tank [2]

And in his own words, what Bin Laden wanted out of the Afghan war, in 2004. Russia lasted 10 years before they were “forced to withdraw in defeat”. The US made almost made it to 20.

>”Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred”

>”All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.”

>”This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.” Bin Laden Interview in 2004 [3]

[1] https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm

[2] https://www.globalissues.org/article/512/the-new-face-of-al-...

[3] https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/september-11th/911-ac...
Fair enough, I missed the domain, and didn't read the article.

I assume the phone rules have been tightened up since I visited India somewhere around 15 years ago when the rules said you needed government ID and to submit stuff, but I hadn't brought the right documents with me, and they let me leave with an activated SIM and said it would turn off in five? days if I didn't submit the application. I was only there for less than the time they said I needed to submit by, but the SIM kept working overseas for several years.
I don't think putting it in a NUC gives it the groundswell it sounds like. There's no reason the 12th gen couldn't have a processor on a dinky motherboard just like every generation before it.

What the compute element really needs is a solid commitment. If they can promise me the next 3 generations will be drop-in compatible, there's value to it. If all we get is "in theory the next generation could be drop-in compatible, but Intel's track record says otherwise", less so. very much less so.
> domestic air travel has traditionally required very weak identification (driver's license).

They have been trying to bump that requirement to RealID for years but a lot of states still don't issue it as their default license/ID so less than half of IDs in the US are compliant with the RealID standards. It's been pushed back for years maybe a decade by now? I wonder how long it'll be until it actually gets implemented.
Giving disproportionate advantage to minorities because minorities of the past several hundred years had disadvantage is not justice or even logical. It's just racism.

I don't ask for anything special despite my ancestors being treated like crap. My ancestors were discriminated against, yet now my children are seen as benefactors of a "history of racism" despite our ancestors being literally subject to that racism.

It's a farce, and a thinly veiled excuse for modern racism.

...and it's very telling that progressives have abandoned the notion of equality.
Elizabeth Holmes living in $135M Silicon Valley estate during her trial
I don't have any great articles on this but it's a super sleep secret. Turn off your lights at night. Seriously people leave the lights on every second until they go to bed, but what you really need is for the lights to be off an hour before your planned bed time. You can still use screens, but at a distance (like a far away TV). If you need to see to get to bed, aim the phone at your feet on a low brightness setting.
At least in Kansas, the toll roads are not using tax money, so that's better than a government-funded TSA wanting more cash from you to make your life easier.
Hos do you correct for angles around the axes x, y and z? That’s the hard part I imagine
Long term ethereum is looking at adding more 'infrastructure' but it's early stages, the current paradigm is to move transactions to "roll-ups" that inherent their security from the mainchain. Rollups are expected to increase throughput ~100-1000x (so optimistically getting back to ~1 cent per tx)

All of this is early enough that it's all currently exposed to the user. The fact of the matter is that cryptocurrency is still quite technical and under heavy development (well bitcoin isn't, but you can only do one thing with it). Hopefully as these technical solutions are rolled out wallet software will start abstracting across them so the user doesn't need to worry about whether they are transacting on a roll-up.

The current state is really not ready for general adoption. It's easy to lose all of your funds to some sort of hack or rug-pull, if you lose your keys you've lost your funds, it's hard to determine what is trust worthy, tax day is a nightmare etc.

I participate because I find it fascinating and can stomach the technical complexity and risks
I think it is always wise to get ethics (/institutional) review board clearance if you have people participating in your experiments and particularly they do not consent in advance. I understand from our own experience that one avoids those boards sometimes, but IHMO one needs to accept criticism if one hasn't done. I hope he would have got clearance anyways. He could have complained I guess if not.

Nevertheless the penis paper proved a point and we use it in our teaching as an example how peer review sometimes "works".
Until Zig fixes the issues with use after free, it is hardly an improvement.
ugh docker only ever did one thing right, allowed me to run postgres + mysql on my laptop without the DBs shitting on the rest of the laptop

if they had just released a chroot database runner, would have been as good as what they did

it has never been good at build or deployment. it has definitely never been good at cloud. even kube is still awful at most things

these systems have never been sure if they're configuration languages, buildsystems, plugin hosts, or operating systems, and so they've been bad at all 4
There can be honesty even if they are playing it safe: Just state plainly that the data is inconclusive, things are moving quickly and this is the best estimation they currently have. Spewing out patronizing misinformation (see the FDA's sassy "You are not a horse" tweet) is counter-productive.
There is no purpose in comparing those two things as one is self inflicted whereas the other is involves a second party’s actions.
Definitely! Or if you’re a green card/visa holder.
Can't reply to response from Retric below so will do it here.

Wrong choice indeed the Xeon® E-2386G Processor its not what I was looking for. Instead of going for the latest lets review the latest offers from Intel:

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

A few models that have a peak turbo frequency approaching the sustained frequency of Z core. Also, of course due to different architectures, internal caches, we should not be comparing purely on frequency. Although the mainframe is again wining here in frequency and cache sizes...

Also agree that what counts are real workloads with real commercial applications. I have so far posted
at least three but here is another one:

"IBM MQ for z/OS on z15 Performance"

http://ibm-messaging.github.io/mqperf/MQ_for_zOS_on_z15.pdf
Vaccine Mandates Work, but They're Messy Business
Once I see data that provides a level of comfort, yes.

I'm looking forward to a booster that works as a nasal spray for better targeting.
There was an interesting discussion here the other day about what makes a company a tech company. Reading here about R&D investments like this from a company that isn’t considered a ‘tech company,’ I can’t help but think back to that discussion and chuckle.
It does seem like that's the play. Pretty sad that it took them this long to make this investment, but I am excited for what Toyota might bring to the EV market.
Because I know what it means to work a 40hour shitty job. And I mean shitty. As in fill paint cans and inhale paint fumes all week shitty. I mean crawl into a conveyor belt that's stuck, use a torch to heat it up and a sledgehammer to straighten it shitty.

That I'm now able to what I do and earn what I earn, to me, is like a miracle and I enjoy every minute of it.
UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push
> My air purifier is built into the furnace ductwork

That's neat! Do you know if the ozone is produced before or after it reaches the blowing mechanism? I ask because if it is produced before, like right after the air intake, that's a really great setup for keeping your ductwork mold and mildew free. I've wanted to buy such a system but keep holding out for things to get cheaper... in the meantime, I use an ecoquest "FreshAir" model sitting on top of the fridge.
> Having a high wage but not enough stored wealth to feel invincible against an increasingly uncertain future

Hate to be the one to tell you this, but there is no guarantee on what the future may bring, money can't fix everything, and true security is a lie. Live your life in the here and now, before you regret wasting it.
I'm not in charge of making public policy, but the target that makes sense to me is hospital capacity.

It seems that since COVID is highly contagious and not going away, we are all going to get exposed to it and have to fight it off with our immune systems eventually.

Being vaccinated to train your immune system before your first bout with COVID seems to greatly improve your outcome. In my state currently COVID is 15x more deadly for an unvaccinated person than a vaccinated one. So it made sense to try to limit the spread as much as possible while we were waiting for vaccines to become available, because the difference between "everybody gets it eventually, with no vaccine" and "everybody gets it eventually, but most were vaccinated first" is a significant number of deaths avoided.

Now that the vaccines are widely available and pretty much everybody who wants to be vaccinated, is, the only reason I see to continue with restrictions is to keep the rate of infection slow enough that the hospitals aren't overwhelmed and can continue to serve everybody who needs medical care (COVID or not). That threshold is being hit in some states in the US, so I can understand why some restrictions are still needed. Eventually I would think we will accumulate enough immunity from vaccination + natural infection that we don't have a hospital capacity problem anymore.
Unfortunately, that's a lofty dream. There will be a hierarchy somehow, and it will limit your freedoms. You will be governed in all but name.
I don't remember ever seeing a three layer board. If you're going to have a ground plane you're probably going to want a power plane as well.
> Would it be fair to say that Zig is to C, what Rust is to C++?

I don't think that's the parallel I would draw.

Rather, I think both Zig and Rust aim to serve the use cases C and C++ do, but Zig and Rust pick different points on the tradeoffs involving safety. Zig feels like a "better C", in the sense of bringing modern language features to C, but it chooses safer rather than safe. Rust supplies modern language features as well, and chooses to prioritize safe; sometimes that comes at the expense of other factors, such as productivity or compile time. I personally prefer the point on the spectrum that Rust chose, but I think Zig still offers improvements over C.
As 14 billion US dollars over a decade it sounds less dramatic.
> Zig's explicit goal - as stated by the creator - is to replace C. Nothing more, nothing less.

The ZIG compiler requires a C compiler to compile to a native executable though.
Anecdotes on Reddit. Great source.

Don't believe anything you read on Reddit, especially anecdotes.
I agree with what you're saying. I think we just differ on what constitutes a disaster.

Given the potential to end civilization, I feel any outcome short of that is a win of some kind. Even if the consequences are still severe. I also have serious doubts that we'll actually remove enough carbon to stay under 1.5 degrees of warming. We may just have to live with the consequences. I definitely don't mean to imply in any way that things will be just like normal. It's going to get rough.
My country does have postal vote and I do trust it. This is how we run it:

- mail-in is limited to municipality buildings

- mail-in is limited to wednesday-thursday in a week leading up to the election day

- you can go to any municipality regardless of your legal address

- you have to show your ID to get voting papers

- election officials and community supervisors are present in voting hall

- votes are counted along with normal votes after polling station closes on sunday
Why exclude IPFS? That is near and dear to the web3/cryptocurrency space, but can also be leveraged without participating in currency speculation at all.
That's still quite a lot, but yeah, trillions are more exciting than tens of billions.
> ” Most of open source fails because they don't acknowledge this reality.”

That’s a bold statement. Most of projects that do acknowledge this reality also fail. Like all for-profit and even those web3 projects that are using cryptocurrency speculation. So I think there are tons of reasons that open source projects fail, not just because of this reason.
> nothing is permanent in life

practically yes, but

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
This is similar to, but not exactly, how the PC port of Kingdom Hearts 3 used their save files: Image and data in one nice .png.

https://www.pcgamer.com/kingdom-hearts-pc-save-files-are-tuc...
Not the author, but this[1] looks to be the listing for the D1 Mini from the LOLIN official store.

1: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32529101036.html?spm=a2g0o.s...
So cool! This could be a great model for keeping this kind of music and style of DJing going.
sounds like an excellent way to make mathematical proofs more accessible to the masses!
Animal reservoirs are usually only meaningful if there's significant interaction with those animals and humans and a meaningful ability for the virus to spread between species. Most people don't snuggle up next to a white tailed deer every night so the chance of catching COVID from one is pretty low.

Even if clusters emerged from animal reservoirs, a vaccinated human population would help keep the r0 value below one and allow for containment. COVID had an r0 above one and little meaningful mitigations against its spread early on so it quickly got to epidemic and then pandemic levels.
bacteria mostly need to be replicating to spread mutations as well.

There are mechanisms for bacteria to uptake dna in the environment and incorporate it (e.g. antibiotic resistance). But without replication of the bacteria the resistance wont spread.

One interesting point is that in general biology they teach that lamarckian evolution doesnt exist, but bacterial uptake of DNA demonstrates that it does exist.
True, but this article is about "insecure overachievers" who work at "elite professional organizations". I think there's a decent argument that these people are largely driven by prestige AKA social relevance.
I don't call that postal voting, but early voting. Entirely separate system.
Why? Do you think anything new will come out of this? The market is pretty far past them in battery tech, hard to catch up for the price of 1 tesla battery factory.
Ask HN: I sold my company – how to decide what to do next?
Hi HN

I sold my company and made a good amount of money. I can allow myself not to work anymore. I have just quit the acquirer company. I have a family (spouse and 2 little kids). I find it difficult to decide what to do next. I have few hobbies (like swimming, woodworking, reading) and I do invest my time into those but they are narrow enough to take small amount of my time, overall. I am not interested in extending my time spending on any of those hobbies. Few alternatives that I see as the next thing are: 1) create and run another company 2) go to academy (do master's or ph.d on something that interests me) 3) concentrate on enjoying life - be with the family, travel, eat good food, discover new wines, etc. (although I can't travel for long periods of time because of kids).

I’d like to find something that will maximize the area of the pleasure x time rectangle, meaning something that will bring maximum pleasure / satisfaction for the longest period of time (ultimately more than 10 years). I am not sure how to decide what will it be.

I am missing a structured way in approaching this decision. How to evaluate different options? Is there any good framework for this? Do I miss any good alternatives? What would you do?

Thank you

P.S. I exercise regularly (weightlifting + cardio). My mood is fine.
Using https://autopilot.ooo I’ve automated myself in both my morning and evening routines. I noticed I have exceptionally poor executive functioning in the morning, but now I don’t have to think at all for the first hour that I’m awake, I just follow my pre-programmed instructions written for me by my benevolent higher-functioning awake self in the past. Thanks me!
How was your time with your Father? Or do you regret that his career got in the way of your relationship?
I have heard similar. I think that Apple's Night Mode is based on that.
> Are you sure NiMH has better capacity? You have to look at mAh * voltage (or just mWh) for a fair comparison.

Great question. Yes. At least I was, until I just found some newish 1000mAh 14500 cells. Last I knew, 800mAh was the highest capacity around. Ironically, I think in a lot of cases the 1.5V Li-ion cells use Wh rather than Ah to obfuscate the fact that the cell has less considerably less capacity than a 30¢ alkaline. So there is now about the same energy in an AA 1.2V NiMH cell as in a top capacity 14500 3.6V Li-ion cell. But this doesn't stay true for the lifetime of the cell as opposed to a single charge, for the most part because NiMH cells can tolerate 4X the recharges before resistance gets too high.

> NiMH is safer, and cheaper for now, but those factors are irrelevant when 1.2V is insufficient for a particular device. If a device accepts 3.6V with overdischarge protection, then regular Li-ion makes sense, but there are a lot of 1.5V-3.0V AA/AAA devices out there.

In hindsight, the observation I made does not apply much beyond flashlights. You're right, a 3.6V cell is not going to help someone whose device takes 2xAA cells without Dr. Frankenstein's assistance. However, if 1.2V is insufficient to power a device that was designed around alkaline chemistry, then it's a problem with the design, not the chemistry (granted, I have heard stories that NiMH doesn't work in some devices, but this wasn't most devices nor devastating to consumers). Alkaline cells aren't 1.5V for very long, it's a pretty steady discharge curve from ~1.65V down to 1V. So a device with such strict power parameters designed around drawing power from alkaline cells, without taking into account the discharge curve of alkaline chemistry, is thus poorly designed and wasting upwards of a third of your batteries' capacity (if 1.2V no longer works, and an alkaline cell is fully charged at 1.65V).
Reading how last US presidential election was caught... You could get hold of someone else's ballot. No need to show your ID to cast in your vote.
Both can be true if ~10% of the population do not have a "typical immune response" to the vaccine. This can be due to a number of factors such as age, preexisting conditions, general health, etc. Plus the immunity from vaccination "wears off" over time, and some of the earliest recipients are now 8+ months post vaccination.
A normal small family dinner is easily washed up in 5 liters of water and one squirt of liquid...

You can probably fit four of those dinners into a dishwasher and it'll still use only 10l. I agree that the comparison in the article seems exaggerated in the article and more reasonable estimates I can find put dishwashers at double the efficiency.

I've read other numbers (e.g. 131 times[1]) for cotton totes -- they're bound to vary since both plastic bags and cotton bags vary widely in their construction and how heavy duty they are. That said I'm sure I have cotton bags that I've used a thousand times and I expect I'll use them another thousand times, at least.

[1] https://www1.wdr.de/wissen/mensch/baumwolltaschen-papiertuet...
Maybe go to your local hospital and ask then among their own nursing social circles? They're the people who would have first-hand understanding of how full the ICUs are.

I'm not saying I believe everything I read on Reddit, but I know r/nursing is a longtime subreddit of mostly medical people and has a history of being as such for a long time. If I wanted to know what the actual medical field is dealing with day to day, I think a community with a history of being where healthcare people talk about what they're dealing with day to day is a pretty good bet.
> Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.

Yup, that's pretty much how things work everywhere nowadays. This guy gets it.
Beware that his advice about extra detergent for the prerinse stage doesn't apply to all dishwashers: some let a little water rinse through the detergent compartment during that part of the cycle, so some is released even if you're using a tablet. Once they get to the main part of the programme, the compartment flips open to let the tablet fall out so it can finish dissolving completely. This totally solves the problem described in the video. Unlike the type he describes, these dishwashers don't even have a separate place for prewash detergent (because it would be redundant).

I'm in the UK, and all dishwashers I've seen work this way, even really cheap ones. So it's probably a country thing (most likely Europe vs US).