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> The 9/11 attacks did what Al-Qaeda intended them to - got the USA mired in an expensive, unwinnable war, which ultimately broke the US will to fight

Citation very much needed.

Al Qaeda is a religious fundamentalist group that wants to bring about the Islamic caliphate under theocratic rule. As I understand it, their plans with the US were primarily to get rid of the US and US influences. Destroying the US was more of an indirect long-term goal as a consequences of establishing a global Islamic hegemony.

I also don't think you can talk about "breaking the US will to fight". Post-9/11 saw the transition from US soldiers to military contractors and drone strikes but also no reduction in US military bases. The influence of the US is led by its economy but reinforced by its military. If anything, the wars increased the US population's aversion to "boots on the ground" but arguably that was already on the way out ever since the traumatizing defeat in Vietnam.

The US continues to be interventionalist and it continues to engage in military operations outside formal declarations of war. It also continues to maintain a massive global network of military bases and an oversized arsenal of nuclear weapons. None of that has changed.

I think there's an observation to be made how the short-lived grief on 9/11 rapidly developed into a thirst for revenge and retaliation, and how computer games influenced the initial coverage of the wars (I distinctly remember the spinning 3D renderings of the missiles used in the initial attacks on Iraq) or how the US military at first embraced embedded reporting and then reporting became increasingly abstract as the wars dragged on and journalists were prohibited from showing the coffins of fallen soldiers.

Twenty years later it now seems that what remained is mostly the dehumanization. I distinctly recall US politicians demanding the assassination of "traitors" like Snowden or Assange during the Obama years but even today the illegal act of war of assassinating an Iranian military official in Iraq hardly raised any eyebrows (except for people worrying about whether this would be followed up by an invasion of Iran or Iran retaliating by attacking someone else like Skinner's pigeon impotently hacking at its cell mate after an electric shock).

The US hasn't lost its will to fight, but it has lost all pretense of its moral high ground. The US government being the hero in Hollywood movies was a bit quaint in the 90s but after 9/11 it's become increasingly uncomfortable to watch for non-Americans.
> part of the smoke is lead inside

This is an interesting sentence construct that can be interpreted in two completely different ways!
The name is awful. I certainly don't want to spread the word about "scuttlebutt". So I guess that's a good thing, keeps it small and cosy.
Very hard to see how they can discount confounding correlates to diesel particulate and other PM10 and finer materials, brake dust &c.

Not that I don't think the science is good, I'm sure they do and the article says they do, but I struggle to see how you can isolate noise from particulate exposure: they'd have semi identical square law dropoff by distance and volume.
Yes, the internal Xiaomi apps even start playing video adds now. When flashed with LineageOS the battery lasts nearly twice as long. I also noticed that the device now feels cold to the touch, whereas before it was always ever so slightly warm.
This doesn’t seem possible. Startups are raising Series A rounds of 15-20 million routinely. A quarter of that would cover a reasonable number of senior engineers for a year or two.

But just in case it is possible…

Maybe they should try offering meaningful stock packages, rather than 0.1% and less?

Meaningful as in 0.5 to 1% for a senior engineer, 4-6% for a manager, until salary improves.

Also, try offering stock with no vesting cliff. It’s not smart to trade salary for stock when you might leave before the cliff through no fault of your own. So smart candidates often round the value of stock to $0, especially before the cliff.
Maybe a hotel "ig shop" would be a more popular choice.

In my region people abuse ig for all kind of use cases.
Command Line to REST API
It would be handy if the _magic_ would stop it pegging the allocated WSL2 cores to 100% and leaving my laptop fan screaming.
Have you done a placement? Call those contacts and ask for recommendations. Then call those recommendations and if they have nothing available ask if they have contacts you can call.
Relevant people in your CS department probably have a network as well. You could call a computing department or tutors in nearby educational establishments and explain you’re interested in job opportunities in that area and ask for contacts.

You might end up for example talking to someone from a business organisation who can put your cv in front of a members meeting and those are good leads, that worked for me.

Your attitude, determination and ability to learn matter more, the CS degree gets you past the requirements stage.

CVs with expertise in too many technologies not backed up by work can be suspicious, keep the ones you have anecdotal talking points for or are your strengths.

Good luck
It's the same with Linux. If it would be super popular and mainstream, the corporations would destroy everything that's fun with it in order to sell you things and track your data.
53% of European companies blame cyberattacks on unknown assets
Having discussed with nurses dealing with vaccination, some are quite sceptical about the vaccine, due to the great amount of secondary effects they witness after the shot.
The remark about "low intelligence" is quite wrong anyway: most people get vaccinated because the news told them so, not because they read through the peer-reviewed studies and concluded that it's safe.

Anyway, for a pregnant women of 30 years old with no comorbidity, the risk is very low. A mother giving birth is much more at risk of medical malpractice or general risk due to the various treatments, such as epidurals, ocytocin, episiotomy and so on, that are often not really useful but applied anyway.
In more brutal prior days, there was corporal punishment - I was frequently caned and variously otherwise bodily punished as a child, because I was a habitual miscreant - were I a decade younger, I probably would have been drugged.

Personally, I’ll take the memories of violence over being medicated for life any day of the week.

Oh, and it generally worked - fear of retribution is quite the motivator.
He did lose the court case. He got none of his desires met, none of the goals he set out with met, and wasted a lot of money.

I'm not particularly sympathetic to his views, here, nor Apple, but if there was a "loser" here it would definitely be Epic.
Totally agree with both of you. The feature set is very deep and the team keeps cranking out features at speed. There is also certain "cognitive behavioral" flavor on a lot of the capabilities, which I like.

But the user interface, specially on mobile, is not the nicest and fastest and they struggle to keep it user friendly due to the overwhelming set of capabilities and possible workflows. It's like the Emacs of Productivity Apps, so Cultured Code's Things or even Todoist are much much more polished and fast.

I came back to it because it's the only app that integrates well with more than two calendars, allows for timeblocking and has habit tracking.
He is. You should see his posts on fedi. He's also doubly cool for being an OpenBSD hacker.
What does 'skip' mean in this context?
What is the purpose of pythonspeed.com? Why is there an ad at the bottom of this article?

Everyone knows the content presented here. Without C extensions, Python would not have taken off. It would have been an ABC (from CWI) knockoff, just another primitive dynamic language where you stick values into nested dictionaries at runtime and take them out again.

The scientific ecosystem is the main thing that keeps Python alive (unfortunately, moving to a Lisp would be much nicer). Without C extensions Python would be utterly useless there.
Pinky and the Brain
> think about a practical situation where this is the best solution.

could be used as a captcha style roadblock!
That’s a lot of keyboards!
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Galaxy S20 Ultra
What will society do for those not a risk of covid (under 30, no commorbidity) who got vaccinated and had a life-lasting side effect?
The Apollo program comes to mind, although I don’t know if that hits the “trillion” mark, even adjusted for inflation.
"Between January and Sept. 5, the state health department has recorded 58,030 breakthrough infections, representing just 0.5 percent of fully vaccinated New Yorkers age 12 and older.

Of those cases, 4,585, or 0.04 percent, have led to a hospital stay."

(4585/58030)*100 is about 8%
Oh God yes
Cannot second this enough. I wonder why so many people want to go to FANGG where a well funded startup can be so much more exciting and little to no insecurity as an employee.
It seems closer to the aleph numbers.
I agree, I think it's more like being good at golf
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No I think there are many times when the government must use coercion. I don't think this is one of them.
It's Microsoft. The other cloud providers are lightyears ahead so maybe switch to a proper one.
Cloudflare uses any cast, and they deal with it by making every external node able to handle every public IP that they have.
If packets in a TCP stream end up going to different nodes, then they deal with that in their infrastructure.
Have you heard of the storyshots addon? I pretty much ignore its output but I've found it a useful sanity check to see that everything at least renders without errors without any additional effort. I no longer make simple render tests when a story suffices.

https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/tree/main/addons/st...
Much ado about NULL: An introduction to virtual memory
I guess most people think that they are doing the right thing. But organisational politics and human weakness can just mangle that into something that is actively counte productive. Do you think that is the case here? Or is there a deeper psychological force at work in people that pushed them towards this? Given the craziness of some of the neocon foreign policy types this certainly seems possible.
Software Defined Networks (SDN) – Migration, Security and Management
In the early days of word processing (runoff, troff, IBM script etc.) when people used line-oriented editors like ed, it was considered good practice to split each sentence across lines at the boundaries of clauses and phrases, for ease of rearranging them. The effect is similar to what's described in the article.
Guys... honest question. What happened to settings menus? Why are we taking away configuration from users' hands?
Ah that explains the “lync” executable that I tried downloading but didnt install it thinking it was unusual the filename did not have skype in it. Double clicking it announced it was a microsoft office so i just exit.
It must be hard to keep a straight face while saying "we don't know why" with this list of countries. Xiaomi is clearly afraid of the US using its sanction stick to cause problems as they did with Huawei.
I also heard somewhere a saying that goes something like ‘windy places have more crazy people’.
Ask HN: Looking for BannerBear Open Source Alternatives
Both are good, But I'm looking for some open source alternative. I'm curious to know how those template builder are functioning and accepting values via API
Astounding to see that an MIT graduate "rejects the scientific consensus on climate change " (Wikipedia).
Web based operating system on someone else's computer you can access via browser.
I have already observed the worst case scenario of this context on HN.

It was a thread about an application correcting for some aspects of ADHD. With ADHD persons there is already an information filtering disorder of variable degree; specifically an inability to separate ones-self from a context of conversation, subject matter, or even the logical distance therein. This means that under an extreme case it only takes a single person to mimic the effects of a social network echo chamber of heightened sensitivity. That thread was bizarre in that many comment replies were wildly on a tangent from their respective GP comment and the emotion expressed was completely off the chart for HN.
I already had covid 2 times. It was like a milder flu, with less fever. Second time, I was sick for one day only. I don't consider unvaccinated people threats.

Anyway, if the vaccines protects you, then you're not threatened about the unvaccinated. I don't really understand the fuss about it.
I'm coming to the same conclusion; it blows my mind how people can just run off and confidently implement something vaguely related to what was talked about. People seem very sure about what's supposed to be built, its context, and how. No questions asked. (am I the stupid one for not understanding?) Turns out they just made something up in their head that didn't make sense. As a leader, how does one work with such people? It feels condescending quizzing your team members to verify understanding and I can't spend my time specifying work down to the most minute details.
The price of wheat produced in Italy will be more or less the same as the price of wheat produced abroad, otherwise Italian producers would be losing money. But wheat price is not the main determinant of retail pasta price, which is more likely dominated by labour and distribution costs and taxes.

Apparently in 2008 the price of wheat peaked at twice its current price (https://www.ifcm.co.uk/market-data/commodities-prices/wheat), but the price of pasta hasn’t halved since then.
Ask HN: Any BannerBear Open-source alternatives?
Looking for some open-source alternatives to BannerBear
There's a Russian Wikipedia page about this you can churn through translate if you don't read Russian:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0...

The basic gist of it is that it's of 18th century, pre-Soviet origin, back when kopeks were srs money and there it was useful to have denomination between 10 and 25 kopeks.

In Soviet times, retail prices were set centrally and printed or sometimes physically stamped on the products themselves so things adding up to a ruble is not something central planners had to worry about too much. You could guarantee prices in cast iron as seen on the handle of this skillet:

https://i.imgur.com/OxPA6Ij.png
GNATCoverage (Ada-only) has interesting binary coverage capabilities. Qemu trace, valgrind instrumentation, nexus... If interested I built once A gdb-branch-trace script, a pintool to generate the trace or an Intel-PT-based prototype. Dyninst and dynamo rio too. Neat exercise
The article says:

“The results are strengthened by the authors controlling for levels of traffic pollution, which was recently shown to be associated with dementia as well as other diseases.”
Its all Russia guys, don't you understand the relationship between trump and Putin. If that isn't enough just look at what trump was doing to DoD during his last days in office. He fire a lot of people so that he can install lobbyists. This was planned.
I'd like to add something: It is not necessary an error for humans to play this new AI opening strategy.

If human players do the new AI move, an attack to cancel out the better fighting position is unavoidable. We've learned from AI how to attack and defend in this situation, so even human players are prepared and know what to do. So it is fair game for the two human brains again.

The player who gets out of this fight with the worse position is on a rather high disadvantage for the rest of the game.

So you can think of this new strategy as doubling the stake of the game very early on. For players who are really good at fighting and handle the complexity that will arise from this fight this strategy is a good choice.
It’s easy, you just make yourself unavailable for contact, there’s plenty of providers that don’t care what you do. It’ll take years to get banned.

The internet is global, it’s a choice to apply US law like the dmca. You can also choose not to.
That's interesting about the votes. I find myself complying/wanting to fit in to avoid the "dinging" feeling of being down voted ha. I also just use another account.

I get it though, there are mental tiers I know where I am. Thankfully I can at least make a decent living/do my own thing.

I'm also aware of effort too. Looking into something/asking.
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No idea, not sure if it is the next generation of users, forcing the change, or something more nefarious.
ultimately, "control is an illusion"
Firstly I would not worry too much about it. You are writing a master thesis or something at the end, I guess. Look for a company where you can work part time and work on your thesis in the setting of the company. As a student you are a cheap worker and many companies look for that. You should obviously choose something interesting, otherwise you might not pull through to the end of it. If you do well during your thesis, you might get hired there. That is one way at least.

However, as CS graduate, you can find a job almost everywhere, even with a kind of boring CV. Where I am from, Software Engineers / Devs get above average salary and many companies needs them. The question is rather, whether you are willing to do the job on an ethical level. If you look for an OKish job, which has a bit lower salary, you will probably be accepted, because people not just starting out will not consider applying there. After getting your first job, it will be easier to get another one.
Two ways I can think of:

1. Electric trains wont generate diesel particulate, but will generate road noise.

2. It's relatively straightforward to measure pollution and noise, so you can do analysis to try and separate them.

In many situations these would not be correlated exactly. For example, terrain, wind patterns, noise dampening structures, etc.
Although some places do find talent hard to source, at any price (see Microsoft's Bing team who have _really_ struggled to hire enough people to compete with Google)
Why App Stores Need Progressive Pricing (2016)
Tech can help solve US cities’ affordability crisis
And your body can cope with typical parasites/bacteria just fine - not to mention that these are way more common nowadays and come in larger variety than they used to. Especially with travel spreading species all around the globe.

You are likely to be host to at least a dozen parasites right now.

As for bacteria... I wouldn't even want to begin counting. Some of them will just die upon entering your body, some will make you sick, some will pay rent, some won't.

If I was looking to get violently sick, I probably wouldn't start with springs or mountain rivers. The real nasty stuff can be more easily found in spaces where humans live.
When the market crashes 20% just as much money flows in as flows out. When the market climbs 20% just as much money flows out as flows in. If you disagree, we must be using the same words to mean different concepts.
Seems the real story here is climate change significantly increasing the price of a staple food.

“Pasta is cheap anyway” is such a privileged point of view.
Not really on-topic but related. Until 10 years ago in Germany there used to be compulsory military service but alternatively it was possible to work instead in social services of which nursing homes were a large quantity. I think coincidentally this was a good way to let not completely indifferent people work in not really great circumstances. Probably the dynamics there aren't the greatest, low pay and some people are probably just there because it was easy to apply. Apart from the dirty work I think nursing homes could be actually great places for the inhabitants and so much better than living isolated which is more common the older people get.
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I'm sure your experience is valid, but you haven't established that most of what is produced in China is very bad. That's an exaggeration. The very fact that your company manufacture in China means at the very least that the quality of the goods produced there is sufficiently high for your purposes. That you also see bad quality while bottom-scraping the market is not surprising. This very obvious deduction generalises as well, due to the enormous number of western companies that manufacture in China. Their standards are certainly being met, because otherwise they could not outsource their manufacturing to China.

> Chinese construction standards are de-facto low

Compare major cities in China with major cities in the west. Compare road infrastructure (esp. highway infrastructure) and train infrastructure in densely populated areas. Their highway network is an impressive feat. China is surpassing the west, and has already surpassed the west in infrastructure standards in many areas, e.g. by pioneering high-speed railways.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/china-fastest-maglev-....

The US is currently making an attempt to improve the dire infrastructure situation, but we'll see how that turns out considering the intrinsic inefficiencies of state / federal infrastructure planning in the US. IMO it's almost surely to be hijacked by capital and the money will thus to a large extent be funnelled away to corrupt and undeserving profiteers.

https://news.wttw.com/2021/04/26/lightfoot-launches-1st-phas...

https://la.curbed.com/2016/11/1/13493756/los-angeles-driving...

> but almost a 0% chance that we will see GDP/capita

GDP is not an accurate measure of general economic development in the modern world. The high GDP of the US does not correlate with its failing infrastructure, its inefficient medical and educational system, high amount of poverty, drug addiction and crime etc. The financialisation and de-industrialisation of the US economy decoupled the material standards of the people from the profits of the rich, and thus GDP is largely a fictitious number. So much of GDP is tied up in meaningless activity, like the production of overpriced weaponry, increasing bureaucratization and the prevalence of so-called "bullshit jobs", and in a corrupt and immoral finance / property sector which also poses a direct threat to global economic stability (cf. the financial crisis of 2008). Let's compare living standards, not GDP. China is rapidly surpassing the US in this area. While they still have rural areas which are underdeveloped, they have made major strides this decade and recently eradicated extreme poverty. Their next step is to eradicate poverty altogether.
> administered for the benefit of the teacher and other students in the class

I agree that it is wrong.

But the protection of other students is not a bad thing in principle. It is a thing that is often missing. Yes the school should help problem kids. And absolutely, the school should make sure other kids don't get victimized in the process.