skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Of course, our failure to predict the afghani military's collapse...

It was obvious to people who had any inkling of Afghanistan.

First, the US created an Afghani army that was dependent on US weapons and logistics, but stopped helping to maintain it even before the withdrawal was done. What does one expect to happen to an airforce when one stops maintance?

Second, every intelligence estimate predicted the Taliban would eventually win post-withdrawal (since they still got a state to support them), and the Afghanis knew about those estimates. Why should a sane Afghani keep fighting, when they could switch sides and live? To make Biden look better?

Ultimately, there was a political decision to leave Afghanistan, and the intel was adjusted to the decision rather than the other way around.
Some of the Starship renders images published show extensive windows.
I think you're thinking of this from the wrong perspective. To me, an extra 75 cents don't really matter. I'd pay it without blinking.

But to many people in the US, going from $1 to $2 would literally double their expenses for the month and hurt an already tight budget.

"Kyle Dishman can’t afford to shop at the local grocery store anymore. Instead he goes to Dollar General, where he can make $40 stretch into a week’s worth of groceries and the occasional can of motor oil for his Chrysler 300."

If you went from $1 to $2, all of a sudden Kyle only gets to eat every other day. Half of all shoppers in the US buy groceries from a dollar store, and they aren't doing it because the Dollar General has the freshest produce in the area.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/20/growing-n...

https://www.mashed.com/224027/think-twice-before-buying-food...
For what it’s worth, every recommendation I can remember hearing or reading advised to consult with your doctor to “see if the vaccine is right for you”

Upon receiving any sort of medical injection, you’re also typically recommended to follow up with your doctor.
Sounds to me like GP really WANTS this to be “telling”, when in reality it obviously isn’t.
If this perspective of "startup failure is a deep moral sin insufficiently penalized by the government" is common in Europe then the lack of entrepreneurship is not very surprising.
Never said "exclusively." I said extensively. Excel alone is used almost everywhere.
It was not connected to the internet, they actually went to the place, and I believe they have switched out the coax cable which was coming from the camera with their own input.

There was a mini-montage back in the day of them pulling this off.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNHJrQzB1g
Why not simply add caching to the existing SQL solution?
It's worth noting that this whole thing is from 2013/2014. Since then, Wirecutter has been sold to the New York Times and has completely different management. I don't personally think Brian Lam did what Nextdesk accused him of (disclosure: I've met Lam socially), but I also understand why it seems improper to have that kind of outreach.

Based on my personal knowledge of many people who have worked at Wirecutter past and present, I don't believe they are a pay to play operation at all.

Regardless, that has no bearing on whether or not their employees are owed a fair labor contract or not.
> There's a whole zoo of recreational drugs that are safer to do in moderation than alcohol is to do consistently

Which ones are you thinking of? Are any of them similar to alcohol in effects? (Light euphoria, increased socialisation, mild confidence boost, pleasant method of application?)
I hate this website, such bad UX.
Any opinions on how this (or a PETAL stack) compares to using Clojure & Clojurescript?
How much does the gas mileage of consumer automobiles in the USA actually affect oil prices?
I was referring to the OXO 9-cup coffee maker[1]. I don't expect it to be 7 times better than the Mr. Coffee, and would be satisfied if it was just noticeably better in any way. But it's really pretty much the same thing, only more expensive. To be clear, both units are absolutely fine at making coffee.

What compelled me to spend $200 on the OXO was the glowing Wirecutter review.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-drip-coffee-...
This modern take on the super-aerodynamic shaves another 30% off the Schlörwagen's already low drag coefficient of 0.186:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDMqEmUGxX4
Abusing Registries for Exfil and Droppers
I assume you would build in a rail that the welding robot would clamp onto.
I live in New Zealand which has NZ$1 and NZ$2 coins: they truely suck because the value is enough to care about but the coins don’t fit well into your pocket. I also hate similar value coins in €, £, AUD. $1 notes are awesome.

2 NZD ~= 1.40 USD.

Note that NZ’s smallest coin is 10 cents - it is good not having pennys nor nickels.
Most of the innovation in engine design over the decades has been in increasing "dynamic range". That is, the ability to produce high power when required without being super inefficient in the other 99% of the time when you're just cruising or coasting.

A small, simple old-tech engine will have similar fuel economy to a modern engine when cruising but will have much less peak power and refinement, and produce more noxious fumes from the tailpipe.
Right. And I had access to it at my university in 1988.
I know I'm being a bit naive, but I trusted them more than any other random "free as in beer" password manager service...I didn't mind too much the rather miserable mobile experience, as long as it got the job done.

That's bad Mozilla. Lockwise was the reason I started donating.
Defying authority is glorious much of the time.
Gapless playback won't be available until VLC 4. Audio getting cut off at the end has been a known issue for 10 years, and will apparently be fixed in v4, as well. I realize that I could be running the nightly to fix the audio issue, but then I'm just trading for other existing v4 bugs -- and these fixes were only implemented very recently into the nightly, so for me at least, VLC has still been a very subpar audio player.

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/25181
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/549
Q: Would you trust, or find useful, thumbs up reviews from people you follow online? Say you could see a collection of stuff people endorse via Twitter/IG, would that be of value to you?
I'm not sure if you're being disingenuous or not. I use Jinja in both Flask and FastAPI, so it'd be hard to say one is "better" at that single task.
I think you've made an incorrect conversion to metric units.

First off, if you're not in the US, make sure that you are converting from a US gallon, and not imperial gallon.

35 MPG (US gallons) = 6.72 Liters per 100 km
Their lawyers are probably on retainer, or just straight up in house counsel. I doubt it costs them any more than a rounding error.
Also the U.S. Army lost control of some anthrax in 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
For Covid in Europe at least you get the consultation when getting the jab. So I would (and do) check recommendations, reserve a vaccination slot, and talk with the doctor administering the vaccine if I have any questions.
Well, they can try, but even with centralized exchanges, a VPN will do. And then there are decentralized protocols.

Once you have some of your money in cryptocurrency there's no real way for anyone to stop you from moving your money around however you like. The only points that can be controlled are interfaces with banks.
Cool post! Really wish you could reference dates in Roam without the year component. Would love to track all my friend's birthdays this way :(
The title should honestly be changed into something like "Firefox Lockwise integrated into Firefox, standalone version to be deprecated"
What is great is it could bring some much needed clarity on the subject.

A ruling against the EULA might bring some clarity to the limits of powers tech companies have over us.

A ruling for the EULA might shine a light the power these companies DO have and force governments to bring in laws to curb them.

It is not a good situation, where Apple / Microsoft could turn around and say to someone who broke the EULA or perhaps even to someone who didn't, we are revoking our agreement you can no longer use our software. Leaving them virtually unemployable in many sectors, and similarly they are in the position to absolutely cripple the vast majority of businesses with the same tactics.
Have you seen returns on CloudFlare? I guess they hope to grab even more by mixing this with ala Heroku + Firebase maybe.
Sure, it is - running a company is a whole full different and very intense profession that has little in common with a tech person building new things, you would have to focus on one over the other.
Arbitrary knees in exponentially-growing metrics lined up with the introduction of fiat currency due to carefully chosen Y-axis scales by someone who makes money when you invest in Bitcoin.

(Some of those graphs -- especially the first one -- probably have interesting stories behind them, which may or may not relate to fiat currency. But all we get from that page is a Hayek quote structured to suggest he too would love Bitcoin so...)
Can you point to a single instance of a cellphone vendor who takes security more seriously than Apple?

Put a different way, is there any device with a high monthly active user count that has a higher cost to purchase a black market exploit than the iPhone?

Apple can always do better. It should also scare the living hell out of us that they’re currently the best in the world.

My point is that if Apple can’t secure your phones, who can? It’s enough to make one think about security through obscurity.
> drag is a function of velocity^2

i have to explain that to (fellow but new) EV drivers, that blasting down a highway at high speed for a fixed distance seems to drain the battery, because of drag, far more than travelling the exact same distance at slow speed.

I still feel like i've not sorted out the equations involved.
The real question is why self-preservation cannot best be obtained through functioning.
> So even if you're aged 12 to 29, if you don't get vaccinated you're gambling at taking away someone else's hospital bed. Which will doom the rest of us.

According to [1] at no point in time since March this year (when they started recording this data) have there been more than 100 hospitalizations in the age group 0-30 in Germany a country with 80+ million inhabitants. If this means doom to all of us I don't know anymore.

[1]: https://www.intensivregister.de/#/aktuelle-lage/altersstrukt...
You, adderall is litwrallymphramacuetical grade amphetamine.
University access.
> is it impossible to get VC levels of investment without giving away board seats?

Not impossible, but extremely difficult. You need to already be successful to a degree that investors are fighting each other to give you money, to the point where they will still give you that money without asking for any amount of control of or oversight over the company. Google[0] and Facebook founders managed to do this (though not through board composition, but through stock classification and voting rights), but 99.9% of other founders will not have that kind of clout.

> Is a board even required for private companies?

I believe some state laws around incorporation require them, but otherwise it's just a standard way of doing things that a company will lay out in its charter/by-laws. You're going to have a really hard time convincing a VC to give you money if you tell them that you're not going to have a board of directors. Even if you present an alternative structure that gives the VC some form of oversight, they will be (rightly) skeptical, since this is unproven ground and they will be (rightly) afraid that their lack of understanding of your unique structure will come back to bite them later.

[9] I do think Page and Brin retaining control of Google was especially impressive, considering that their early funding rounds happened during, and in the aftermath of, the original dot-com bust, when investors were probably pretty leery of funding tech companies.
Are there any policy-language-libraries-backed-by-sql like Polar but that aren't based on logic programming languages? I don't really want to learn logic programming for this purpose nor do I want to require it on my coworkers.

I guess I'm just looking for a library + SQL shorthand that can easily interpolate request variables and session variables that gets declared in code where a route is declared. Just spitballing but something like `(blogs.id = $req.blogid).userid = $session.userid OR (users.id = $session.userid).isAdmin`.

This [0] is close but it doesn't have enough momentum to be well documented let alone usable as a library in every language you'd want (Go, C#, Python, Node.js, etc.).

Edit: Maybe OPA/Rego can in fact do this [1].

[0] https://github.com/mrumkovskis/tresql

[1] https://blog.openpolicyagent.org/write-policy-in-opa-enforce...
Yes. Especially when they aren't asking for the same pay as other New York Times editorial employees -- not even close to it. The pay delta between median editorial guild member of the Times and editorial member of Wirecutter union is over $40,000. So they are asking for a little more than 10% of the delta between two of their unionized editorial writing groups, in terms of median pay.
We need a new mattress, after about half an hour of searching for reviews I realised that there was no way I was going to find any genuinely honest reviews anywhere. Search results are packed with full-time mattress review sites that are all clearly getting affiliate payments of some form or other, many of them seem to have the same content.

There might be some honest ones out there, but they are drowned out by all the ones that are clearly just affiliat link farms.
> that figure is already three orders of magnitude lower than the 1.6% (772,000)

I think the interesting ethical/moral/etc debate is what to do for people who are at lower or negligible risk of dying from COVID in the first place.

For example, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-... suggests that <20k people under 40 have died from covid over 2 years. There might be age groups or demographics where the risk of death from the vaccine is higher than from covid. (This is a statistics observation, not a political statement.) For those groups, what should be expected in terms of vaccination? E.g. what if for your demographic, the risk of death from the vaccine in 1 in 50k but the risk of death from covid is 1 in 200k?
Vaccinated, asymptomatic can still spread the disease, though at reduced rates.
> Depleting reserve capacity does not increase the long term supply curve.

The intent is not to “increase the long term supply curve”, it is to increase short-run supply and mitigate short-term pricing pressure on fuel, and therefore transportation, and therefore all goods and services that are either transported or require the transportation of other people or goods in their supply chain, which is, approximately, everything.

It is an immediate-term effort to prevent additional inflationary pressure from fuel prices. There’s other venues for intermediate and, if necessary, long-term measures to control general inflation.
This is America. Tons of industries exist because they became outmoded but instead lobbied for protective legislation to ensure that what happened to all the horseshoe makers and stable owners won't ever happen to their industry, like car what dealers have done to make sure Ford has to sell their cars through these sleezeball third parties.
(Not from around there) Costco demands higher quality ingredients? I thought it was a low-end cheap bulk/wholesale place?
That show is the most amazing show I've watched this year (along with Inside on Netflix). I highly recommend it, even if you're not into animated shows.

Also I played a lot of LOL back in the days, and I didn't remembered any of the characters or saw any link to the game. My SO has never played the game. So the relation to the game really stops at the subtitle (and the look of the characters).
Would your solution to weapons exporting to have everyone buy a bigger bunker? Doesn't it just make more sense to control the export of weapons?
Yes, I see, managing a declining business can be done profitably, and they might have other assets the fund will sell.
hmmm, I mean if we have to agree to things that are supposedly legally binding, I would like them to be so. If they are not legally binding, I would like to know that and not have to agree to them.
The New York Times won't even agree to meet with them to discuss negotiations. This is literally a last resort. These negotiations have been ongoing for two years.
The bulk of humanity have been endowed with sci-fi superpowers thanks to Wikipedia, Google, Google Maps, remote work, shopping from home, etc.

As for the nerds who lost their online paradise? They are now in insane demand, earning eye-watering salaries and company valuations, and rising to the top of the social ladder.

It’s not perfect, but it is bloody good.
It's not perfect but I like sed for this.
The GAO actually did a study on this in 2019! They determined that for the first time since they started tracking the issue this is not true. Paper bills are overall cheaper than coinage now. I can't link right now but it's GAO report # GAO-19-300
>Also, why is gas always ab extra 9/10 of a penny

Others have replied to the why, but it is technically 9 Mills. The thousandths unit was established in the Coinage Act of 1792 as the smallest unit of the dollar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency)#United_States

This is some useless trivia that I know for some reason :)
There needs to be an appetite to also prosecute the perpetrators otherwise what is the point?
> If modern games like Overwatch had both systems (join a server with regulars and make friends as 'quick play'; matchmaking for competitive), I think things would be better.

afaik you can actually make lobbies in OW (game browser > create).

>I suppose I had in mind more casual games, that is, no fixed size on teams (anyone can just join and play so long as you're not over the server-set limit of players), and unranked.

This is my problem with survival games like Rust or DayZ. Really good concept, can be played casually, but somehow ends up ultra competitive if you play with randoms :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

Yes it is a federal crime, but was recently limited by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_v._United_States
Not to mention other countries have done this with little issue.
When do we fork Firefox because Mozilla is a failure at their job?

They've managed to lose almost all their market popularity, mobile Firefox share is almost nonexistent, they pay their executives extremely disproportionately compared to most nonprofits, they have expanded into countless failed side projects (Firefox OS, Firefox Send) and vestigial side projects they aren't good at (Pocket, Firefox Focus, Firefox Reality, Firefox Lockwise, Firefox Monitor, Mozilla VPN) which only serve to distract Mozilla from working on Firefox.

And since then they've now decided they are an NGO fighting for the Freedom of the Internet or something, even though all Google has to do is pull royalty funding because Firefox's market share is not worth supporting for how small it is, and their entire operation will fall overnight like a house of cards.
Having tested the DIY option versus some other air purifiers (xiaomi not levoit though), I do think that there are other considerations to take into account. A box fan with a HEPA filter bungee is loud and is very annoying to have at home.
An air filter that is much less loud for the same result, can be controlled via home assistant (I have an ESP32 connected to a VOC sensor and a decent particle sensor that I use to control when to turn on and off the air purifier) can be worth it.
Better for whom? Certainly not for the labs. It's far better for the labs to draw their own conclusions from the leak, privately, at their own pace. Also, there's a significant financial disincentive: funding for gain of function research will be severely impacted by recognizing the lab leak as the most plausible explanation.
We need to target the pos engineers and management at NSO, Finfisher, Hacking Group etc. who sell their souls for a fast buck. These pricks are likely already setting up the next corporate front for when this one collapses. Let's make the mercenary business a cripplingly expensive line of work.
Their messaging was pretty poor here imo. The email they sent me gave no clear indication that Firefox would have this ability in it's body.
You're welcome. An alternative I've used to named pipes among processes of different privilege levels is to build the service to listen for custom commands sent to it. These are just integers, and the service maps those to pre-defined commands.

Then the only thing the user-mode application can send are just flags (integers) that the service has already pre-determined what it will do in response.

Here's an article:
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/24434/How-to-Write-Wind...

And here's a succinct example:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5805700
I think Into the Spider-Verse was amazing, but Arcane's story is more adult.
Yeah, sorry, doesn't add up to 100, that's the whole joke.
> I mean, collectively as humans we stand to benefit from knowing what happened so we can make more informed cost benefit decisions in the future about conducting risky research (if that's what happened).

You're not wrong, but I think what you're missing is that the risky research was funded (in part) by the us federal government, and no one voted for that in the first place. So even if we were all enlightened, what could we change? So many people still don't even know that there was a lab studying coronaviruses in wuhan.
Consumer Reports has less prose, but much more objective data - in sortable tables. The data is from their labs, where they have domain experts using the scientific method to evaluate products.
I don't think that people in this thread appreciate how prevalent grocery shopping in dollar stores is. In the US, half of shoppers buy groceries from a dollar store. They do it because it's literally all they can afford anything else. There are more dollar stores than Walmart, Starbucks and McDonald’s combined.

"Kyle Dishman can’t afford to shop at the local grocery store anymore. Instead he goes to Dollar General, where he can make $40 stretch into a week’s worth of groceries and the occasional can of motor oil for his Chrysler 300."

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/20/growing-n...

https://www.mashed.com/224027/think-twice-before-buying-food...

EDIT: Of course not all things cost $1, but it's certainly weighted in that direction. You don't go to a dollar store for nice things; you do it because it's the only option for you. A lot of the responses seem to want to debate how poor people are making choices, and I think that misses the point.
The print design people have really taken over web site designs these days. This would have been a very slick and expensive brochure in paper form, and we don't see that many of those in paper form because of the printing cost.
1) Less upside for entrepreneurs/investors/early employees due to tax policy,

2) greater hiring/firing friction due to stronger employee protections,

3) greater fixed operating costs/overhead all around due to increased incorporation costs/bureaucratic requirements.

I don't think these things are necessarily negative, but in a world with competition between markets with high incorporation friction and low incorporation friction you'd expect entrepreneurship to concentrate in lower friction markets.
That they didn’t do this for a single product category doesn’t mean very much, though.