skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saudi politics and personal relationships are a mess. It is true that Bin Laden is a member of a very powerful family in Saudi and so obviously has a lot of personal connections there as do his close associates. He is however estranged from that family and has been for a very long time, but may have some in Saudi who have grievances against the house of Saud and are sympathetic to the jihadis.

Al Qaeda and many other jihadi outfits procure a lot of their funding from Islamic charities and schools (Madrassas) with complex and very opaque financial dealings. Also the Saudi government and individual Saudis donate to many Islamic charities, so its highly likely some of that money ends up with the jihadi's including Al Qaeda.

So yes there's almost certainly some truth to the allegations. Some powerful Saudis may secretly support them, some donate to charities and the money ends up with them, but no this is not official Saudi state sponsorship of Al Qaeda. In fact Al Qaeda consider the Saudi royal family and all of their associates to be apostates (essentially heretics) who can be killed summarily and they advocate for regime change and the establishment of a Caliphate.

Like I said, it's a real mess of family loyalties, rivalries, swinging political fortunes and opaque dealings. Game of Thrones has nothing on these people. Just look at what happened to Jamal Khashoggi.
So Rolf Degen argues that filter bubbles aren't a problem, and if you think they are, then it's because you're a "political junkie" trapped in one. That's some pretty twisted logic mixed with a nice helping of poisoning the well. I guess political junkies would never do anything crazy like assault the capital building to prevent certification of an election result. Yep, nothing to see here.

I'm going to adopt this style of argument from now on.

"Oh, you think that X is a big problem? Well, it isn't, because you have problem X, and only think that way because of it! It's your cognitive distortions talking! Zing!"
That's what I did the last time I had to work in such a setting. I didn't find it really helped me, though, because the issue isn't how far I need to turn my head, the issue is that I can't get into the flow because I'm always checking.
Just as often, he would already know how the crime happened, and the "one more thing" was just to unnerve the suspect.
You did, but as soon as you are discussing things in the context of rubber hoses that includes extreme interrogation methods.
Cell networks were also really terrible when smart phones hit the scene. I remember outside of big metro areas 2G with 20+ second latency, at times (yes, seconds)

It's pretty hard to use traditional responsive web apps over such an abysmal network

Native apps can offer a layer of insulation with prepulled assets and more advanced network handling (you can change pages and even close a native app with outstanding requests and it's usually fine--it'll handle changes asynchronously when the network is available)
Never forget: the CIA, at the highest levels, knew that two of the 9/11 hijackers had multiple-entry visas to the US and were living in the country in the year before the attacks. They knew they were al-Qaeda, and they knew they were important enough to have been at a big AQ powwow in Kuala Lumpur in 2000.

CIA management prevented this information from being disseminated by FBI agents posted inside "Alec Station", the CIA's Bin Laden group, several times, and they later lied about doing so. All this according to, among other extremely mainstream sources (in addition to the documentary record), Richard Clarke, who would know -- he was the Federal "Terrorism Czar" on 9/11 and has been fuming pissed about this since he found [1][2]. You don't need to be a whack job, a conspiracist, to be angry and mystified by this.

In many instances like this one, cursory investigation into claims of intelligence community "mistakes" or "incompetence" in these matters gives the lie to claims that these institutions somehow "dropped the ball" or "got it wrong" on 9/11, and are thus not to blame (either partly or fully) for the attacks. It's impossible to square such claims with a lot of the official paper trail. One can reasonably conclude that some of this stuff was not accidental. We hire these people to lie - why should we ever assume they're not?

(The best part? Many of the people involved in the events I describe were promoted in the years post-9/11!)

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/International/28-pages-questions-alle...

[2] https://www.doubleasteriskmedia.com/rich-blee-podcast
Also: Home office, redistribution of wealth, climate impact and not to forget the financial impact. Plus possible long covid problems in a large share of people. There's a lot we will 'enjoy' for a long time.
The law is unconstitutional and moronic for the reasons the article outlines.

That's not why it got passed. It's not always about race. It's so hard for HN to get that but here a lot of the most serious proponents of pro-life positions are conservatives....minorities tend to be socially conservative.

It's a moral position. I always see people on HN stake out positions as though the world existed as from their perspective. There are different views on this.
Do you have abnormal color vision or anything like that? Similar issues outside of code?
I run these games via GeForce NOW. There's no way I'm installing kernel-level proprietary monitoring software.
This actually has me wondering if some version of "syntax highlighting" could make prose easier to read.
In a paper published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, a team led by Sara Ryding, a PhD candidate at Deakin University, in Australia

I think that's the author we should care about, not who wrote the article in The Economist.
Do these anti cheat systems detect popular products of popular dev tools to create cheats typically? Or is the cheat world way beyond that phase and everyone just codes to the native OS APIs directly, making that hard to detect?

Is there still cheating in console players? Maybe with jail broken devices? Do these companies really have to think about cheating with consoles? Do you think the eventual future of these kind of games is some sort of locked down console-like system, which is what apple seems to slowly be going to with their hardware?
I was home (west coast) from my first year of college, taking a break to go serve a mission for my church. I didn’t have a job, had slept in and my sister knocked on my door and said “Wake up! Someone’s bombed the World Trade Center”

I had a TV in my room, and turned it on to follow what was going on. I do remember being horrified seeing people leap from the building. It took a while to understand what was going on.
The rest of the day is a blur, until going to an impromptu church meeting to try and process the events of the day.
Your observation is worth nothing because you also aren’t reading his personal blog, or wherever he would publish instead. You don’t even try to suggest other places you’d happily read.
Check out movies from the 40s and 50s that showed non-executive office environments -- they're depicted as large rooms full of people working at desks, because that was the norm.
Corporations are just a bunch of people working together and wielding economic resources equal to small nation states. Of course you use those resources to help and protect each other.

It’s very normal for companies to evacuate their employees from hostile situations. Is that playing nanny?
why do you think the locals would yell piñata
I think they expect to lose some talented employees who may look to move away. They are offering to help those who want to move to not loose talent. I don’t see anything else. Maybe they are factually wrong and no one wants to move away and the program is worthless, but maybe they are no wrong and they keep employees that otherwise they would need to retrain. I don’t see nannies here.
Buddy Buddy WAKE UP, Facebook is not a public service, it's not there to serve a nobody like you, it's a private company that exist to make money. You can't use their service to trash them and promote their competition, that is not a reasonable business model for them. To finance you by giving you a free platform to promote their competition and trash them is not a good trade for them. DO YOU UNDERSTAND???
Oh huh you're right, I must have turned it off and forgotten. I turned it back on again and don't see anything new but maybe it's not all the time.
Facebook isn't just a "private business" or just a "free platform", they're a gigantic global entity that have integrated their product into the lives of billions of people.

If it was a free service by a mom and pop shop with "use at your own risk" in the agreement, then yes, it would be entitlement.

However, there exist people, for whom 90% of their communication happens via Facebook or social media. And it's not even by choice, kids are born into it being the status quo, and if 100% of your friends are using it while you're growing up, chances that you won't use it too are slim to none.

Thus, the company needs to hold responsibility for providing open communication. Censoring posts about their competitors goes against that.
>We could have done regime change in Saudi Arabia and still had petrodollars

Very unlikely. Any military involvement anywhere near Mecca and Medina is off the table barring being invited or some utterly insane scenario.
Comment from a year ago(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562344):

>A story, since in retrospect I think it's worth telling.
Some years ago I was at the SF Clojure meetup. Arthur Whitney's daughter worked at the sponsoring company, and he agreed to come tell us about K.

>In retrospect, I don't think we gave him the welcome he deserved. No one was rude or anything, but it seemed there was a disconnect: Arthur was keen to show off how fast K (and Kdb) was, over zillions and zillions of rows.

>But the thing that the Clojurists were all searching for (that got them into Clojure in the first place) was expressivity. Is Clojure fast? I don't know, generally the problems I face come down to avoiding balls of mud rather than performance bottlenecks. And I think that was true of most there.

>So Arthur got something of an underwhelming reception. I remember someone asking "Does K have the ability to self-modify, a la Lisp macros?" When Arthur said no, you could see most people in the room just sort of mentally shrug and move on.

>And this was too bad. Because recently I've been playing around with J (another APL descendant) and been very impressed by some expressivity/readability benefits. Some small things that have very big effects on the codebase you actually end up with.

>The first thing is the avoidance of abstraction. To use a Twitterism:

>Broke: Just write your code and don't divide it into functions, creating one long main method

>Woke: Divide your code up, naming parts that get reused

>Bespoke: If your code is made up of really really short things, it ends up being shorter than the names you would use, so you can just write the thing rather than your name for it. An analogy would be: there is no human-comprehensible way to communicate the idea of "picosecond" in less time than an actual picosecond.

>The other thing I didn't expect was the benefit of multiple dispatch being baked into e v e r y t h i n g. In Clojure I might write (map + a b) to add each index together; in J I could just write a+b.

>This is neat stuff! Best practices for keeping complexity down in APL's tend to be the opposite of what they are in other languages. Aaron Hsu gave a talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A

>It's too bad! Arthur came to tell us about speed---there's a reason it's used on giant datasets in finance, where performance translates directly into cash---but I wish we'd had the presence of mind to ask more about experience of writing K.

>So, Arthur, if you're reading this: Sorry everyone seemed kinda bored in SF a few years ago when you kindly came to present. We missed out!
I'll retract the "baseless speculation" part then. Sorry, that was needlessly aggressive.
See also:

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

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
> Apparently you missed the whole TP 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and TPW 1.5 offerings.

I didn't miss them, but because IIRC all the versions you mentioned (and also Delphi 1.0) were x86 16-bit (only) Borland/Turbo Pascal evolutions having effectively the same memory model support as TP 4.0, felt they were not important to enumerate. These releases certainly added other features, but IIRC made no architectural changes affecting the performance of their generated code on the 16-bit x86 platform.

(Again IIRC) all Borland C/C++ variants >= TC 1.0 offered the same 16-bit x86 memory model (and ability to manually mixing memory models) support (that already being comprehensive), with gradually improving codegen optimizations.

My larger proposition is that the perception of (Turbo) Pascal's performance being perceived as poorer than that of C (in the interval when Pascal was being eclipsed by C/C++), while accurate, was influenced to some degree by the incidental factor of the dominant x86 CPU architecture of the day having a segmented architecture upon which extraction of optimal performance across the range of applications necessitated the extensive/comprehensive memory model support found in all competitive C/C++ compilers of that day, which none of the competing Pascal compilers (which is to say: Borland's plus MS' QuickPascal (which implemented the Borland language definition [1])) possessed. It would have taken those Pascal vendors more resources to add such memory model support (and other optimizations offered by their C/C++ competition), and they elected not to do so. Borland moved on to Delphi which continued the pattern wherein raw performance of the Pascal compiler's generated code (x86 32-bit as well as 16-bit) lagged behind that of the C/C++ competition; Borland's finite resources were expended on the IDE & RAD aspect of Delphi rather than on codegen. "The rest is history". But I don't think there was anything intrinsic to Borland's Pascal dialect (the only one I ever used) which doomed it to take a backseat to C in terms of performance: I used both TC and TP 4+ without ever feeling a vast difference between the two languages (and found many aspect of Pascal preferable to those of C/C++).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Pascal
Reference [24] seems to be important.

“ The source of these optical modes could be the quantum vacuum field, which gives rise to the Casimir force [18,19,20,21], the Lamb shift [22], and other physical effects [23]. It was argued that the use of energy from the vacuum field does not violate fundamental laws of thermodynamics [24].“

Despite the importance of the question of „where the heck does the energy for that come from“, they give it surprisingly little space in the paper.

[24] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Extracting+E...
It would have been a better analogy if the gun laws in California would have been as recent/sudden as Texas' new abortion law. You seem to assume this is about identity politics but people may have been living in Texas for a long time and suddenly affected by a very recent change that may mean they are in danger of getting stuck with a pregnancy they do not wish.

They may even be otherwise conservative who find themselves in a situation where they only want to get an abortion later than 6 weeks in a pregnancy (which is a very short time scale - a lot of women wouldn't even know they're pregnant until a month or more in).
There is no way that’s true on a compromised server.

The backups need to be recoverable just from the server and a new phone. Your adversaries can just directly copy all data.

Picture this: Copy my backup of the server to a new VM, run that, try N passwords, repeat step 1. Of course they can also just modify the software running on the VM.
Evolution happens on the time scale of "birth" to reproductive age for the organism in question. I know of no corporeal entity still considered adolescent after a century.

I have never even worked with an evolutionary biologist but the concept of "punctuated equilibrium" has been around for quite a while.

[] my sloppy use of "birth" includes cells budding, seeds sprouting and
the rest of the messy details.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
Non-conventional sex isn't new, but making sure marriage is defined in such a way to include it is new, or at least wasn't universal.
Well... Bye
As I remember it, you could absolutely do all that in Pascal if you put your mind to it. But raw pointer manipulation was a bit more convoluted than in C so you usually resorted to inline asm. Today all that convolutedness might have been seen as "safety features" and the language marketed as a C-replacement. :)
yup.literally free energy.
> I'm not familiar with "single-pass analysis”

Sure, not many programmers are today, sadly. I was referring to syntax analysis, or “parsing.” Some (admittedly, relatively simple) grammars allow syntax analysis to be done in one pass, so that an intermediate representation (e.g. in the form of an AST) becomes unnecessary; the latter is only needed if the grammar is complex and thus requires two or more passes for further analysis and/or machine code generation. Writing an interpreter for a command language is straightforward - exactly because analysis of its syntax can be done in one pass. Pascal is not a command language, but its grammar is (was?) still simple enough for many students of programming having gone through this (still highly recommended) exercise when Pascal was a teaching language.
It's tricky. Could Salesforce donate to organizations that are patching where Texas is failing (such that Bumble and Match's CEO are doing [1]) instead of offering relos out of Texas? Absolutely. Does that make it any better for those who are subjugated by extremist Texas legislative policy? It lessens the pain but the pain is still there, but to your point, the policies won't change until a critical mass of voters vote in less extremist politicians. This will happen at some point [2] [3] [4] as conservative voters age out and younger voters and immigrants (regardless of origin) become eligible to vote, but there is arguably a lot of value in accelerating the progress towards reducing the suffering of the disenfranchised. Money is speech, right?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1033980404/texas-abortion-ban...

[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/11/texas-democrats-repu...

[3] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/08/12/north-te...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/15/texas-republ...
> evolution doesn't happen on time scales of 100 years

Evolution may not, but selection may happen on that time scale, especially for animals that live short lives.
Sadly this won't help in the majority of cases. Their insurance will just pay for a brand new bike with the newest and noisiest tech installed.
Will the Amish Take over America?
> Whose idea was it to assert this level of control over written material

The real mistake was giving web developers the power to do this in the first place. It was meant to help usability by preventing selection of things that weren't meant to be selected.

Of course the first thing people did instead was abuse it in order to protect "their content".
I’d imagine the set of people who are not in a position to raise a child has significant overlap with the set of people who cannot afford (in time, money or both) to fly to another state for an abortion.
> evolution doesn't happen on time scales of 100 years

Phenotypic selection does happen on this timescale. Industrial melanism[1] has been pretty well studied.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_melanism
I don not support Texas law in question. But will they help relocate from SF for those sick of homelessness, drug overdoses (more people died in SF from drug overdoses than from COVID during pandemic), raising crime and increasing anti-Asian hate?
I've never seen this site before, but I noticed that it appears to be questioning the official timeline and story at various points. For example, it indicates that a janitor heard an explosion first from the basement, not from above. I noticed a few other elements like this as well.
It is a very healthy thing to do. The simplest forms are getting a clicker and pushing it, every time you have a negative/self defeating thought, the other would be to put a rubber band around your wrist and let it snap every time you have one. Both approaches usually show a decrease in negativity against oneself, just by making those self deceating thoughts conscious.
Continued monitoring via device(s) is a medical CPT code (or modifier) and that 100% billable.

This is exactly what was going on
>And later (after he confessed) the US was on full war with the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden not with them anymore.

I'm referring to that, not to his preinasvion evasion.

The Taliban didn't even cut relations with him or his associates after he confessed, and they were not without influence in AfPak.

Surely the Taliban should have been very upset with their 'guests' for getting them involved in Al-Qaeda's war, right? Unless the Taliban knew from the start... Obviously they did, since this wasn't Al-Qaeda's first attack against America.

As I wrote, there's little reason to give any credence to their not knowing, and even if we did, there were plenty of other things they should have given up Bin Laden for.
I guess those first merchants included Academia and... I think one out Hietzing if I remember correctly.

Still one of the best sites on the internet. Kudos!
Safari is stuck in the dark ages of Apple lockin, isn't it?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

"Monitoring Incidence of COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths, by Vaccination Status — 13 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4–July 17, 2021"

> Age-standardized IRRs for cases in persons not fully vaccinated versus fully vaccinated decreased from 11.1 (95% CI = 7.8–15.8) during April 4–June 19 to 4.6 (95% CI = 2.5–8.5) during June 20–July 17, while IRRs decreased slightly from 13.3 (95% CI = 11.3–15.6) to 10.4 (95% CI = 8.1–13.3) for hospitalizations and from 16.6 (95% CI = 13.5–20.4) to 11.3 (95% CI = 9.1–13.9) for deaths during the same two periods.