skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm anyways skeptical of those who refer to "the media" or "the West" as a single entity.

"Much of the press saw U.S. troops as defending a pro-Western populace against a deeply unpopular Taliban insurgency. But Blue quickly realized that, in the insurgent heartlands, which lie in rural areas, the story was much more nuanced. To begin with, U.S.-occupied Afghanistan had been a divided realm; Afghans living in areas of relative calm tended to oppose the Taliban, but those living in war-racked regions often saw the Taliban as a better alternative to the corrupt U.S.-backed government. The Western media missed this story."

Is there an example of such a story (that describes near universal support for the US backed Afghan government and ignores the attitudes of rural areas) from any of the newspapers he mentions (WSJ, New York Times, Washington Post)?

I tried searching for "NYTimes rural Afghanistan 2019" and this is what I got:

"As American diplomats push for a peace deal with the Taliban to end the 17-year war, a strong voice of protest, largely coming from urban centers, has been cautioning against a rushed deal that could endanger some of the gains of past years. Those include women’s right to work and education, as well as an independent news media.

On the other hand, however, is the nearly half of the country that is caught between the two sides of the seesawing conflict. The constant fighting has deprived these rural Afghans of most of the improvements — schools and institutions — at the center of concerns over peace negotiations. And the voices of those Afghans are notably underrepresented in the debate."
Downtime is not observable from within the observable universe.
Two mistakes here in your thinking:

- The 2000s stack, honestly doesn't exist anymore. And where it does, it does so for reasons no start-up can work around. this is the field of specialist consultants.

- Doing only one thing really good is not enough anymore in that field. not even close. And the bar for good is already so much higher than seem to appreciate.
Looks like ls had its latest commit three days ago:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/src/ls...

Then again, ls is much more popular than exa.
> That idle timeout was pretty important when AOL cost $1/hour

Let me guess: are you American?

Brit here. Our phonecall connection charges were a lot more than that. The ROTW pays for local calls as well as long-distance. $1/hr would have been great. I paid closer to $1/min for dial-up. We all used OLRs: Offline Readers. An app that dials your service provider, posts all outgoing messages, grabs all new messages into a file, zips it, downloads it and any pending file downloads, then hangs up.

They were great and all message reading was local, hence fast: no lag at all, even on 14.4kb/s.

But CI$ ones were rubbish and AOL didn't have one at all, 'til it went toll-free in about 1998.

I am still liamproven@aol.com to this day.
While the smartphone was "born" in 2007, it definitely took many years for them to be devices which are powerful enough to be really useful.

The Nexus 4 was the first Android device which was generally usable, it came out in 2012. Everything before it was a heavy compromise. And while the iPhone was usable before that time, the price of it didn't really make it accessible.
I quitted QWERTY 10 years ago. Since then, the chronic pain I had in my hands disappeared.

I also created a layout to use my old Dvorak keyboard on Windows: https://github.com/edpichler/Apple-Dvorak-on-Windows

It works with my mechanical keychron and, I believe, with any other similar Dvorak keyboard.
Ah. It's most likely tropospheric ducting, I thought the top comment explained it.
> It sounds like the system works as long as the judge really is an honest broker, and above corruption.

Well… a dictatorship works too if the leader is above corruption. The reality is that this is not usually the case.
> but I've been seeing more "maybe the taliban aren't so bad" stories lately. Interesting.

That's weird. The last newspiece I read about the Taliban is how female suicide is spiking.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/28/despair-is-set...

What weird kind of revisionist news feed are you following?
>Yet nowhere in any standard interpretation of religious law does it state that women may not work or get an education.

Women are not allowed to work outside the home according to the Quran, there are exceptions but this is not generally allowed.[1]

Anand Gopal is very anti-US so he seems to be sugar coating things a bit.

[1]https://islamqa.info/en/answers/106815/guidelines-on-women-w...
There is never any mention of bitrate when talking about LoRa. It's infuriating from someone on the outside.

From what I gather, the map says a "SF:12" which means a spread factor of 12, at a bandwidth of 125khz. With a code rate of '1' according to https://www.rfwireless-world.com/calculators/LoRa-Data-Rate-...

this means about 292 bits-per-second transmission rate for the packet. But I'm unsure if this is correct.

How hard would it have been to put that in the post? I feel like there is some conspiracy to never talk about bitrates/transfer rates in the LoRa world. Like, ever.

Just say it. It helps people understand what this tech is for.
The Guardian's Typerighter
if true, the answer is way to easy for an online discussion.
Well, we can't really "count to infinity" in real life, and most of mathematics (unless you're a finitist or something, which is rather rare) assumes that we can somehow do it and establishes some base rules about how that would have to work without leading to contradictions.

With that said, assume that you have some list of real numbers. In a sense, what we're asking for is a function f, such that f(i, j) returns the j-th digit of the i-th number on that list. [0, 1]

Then you construct a function g as follows:

def g(j)
f(j, j) + 1 % 10
end

Now you convince yourself of the fact that there is no number i, such that f(i, j) = g(j) for all j - or in other words, g encodes a different number than f(i, .) for any i. So, for every list of real numbers, there must be a number not on that list.

[0]: I'm brushing over the fact that some different sequences of integers encode the same real number, e.g. 0.999... and 1.000... - it doesn't affect the argument substantially.

[1]: This function doesn't necessarily have to implementable in a programming language - mathematicians are fine with talking about "uncomputable functions" and claiming that they exist. The argument shows that such a function can't exist even non-constructively. You can avoid all that talk about uncomputable functions and numbers by getting into constructive mathematics, but that's another can of worms and as far as I know it comes with its own unintuitive results. For example, exactly the same diagonalisation argument shows that there is no computable function encoding a list of all computable numbers.
I'm surprised this was absent from the article:

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

Bacha bazi is the systematic rape and abuse of young boys by Afghan men. The Taliban banned it and killed rapists when they found them. This was one source of the Taliban's initial popularity. The US hired child rapists to be Afghan army and police commanders. When they engaged in bacha bazi, US troops were told not to interferee. Numerous US soldiers were discharged or relieved for beating Afghan "allies" who kept little boys as sex slaves. Some boys were even raped on US military bases. This is all documented on the Wiki article and has been common knowledge among those who care to know for more than a decade.
Remembering Molly Holzschlag
GitHub began the third attack of forcing us into spam feed
Unrelated to this, but one type of mathematical argument/technique I've never seen explained "for dummies" is proving the independence of an axiom from a set of axioms.
"Technically infeasible" is code for "we asked the American tech companies for a backdoor, they told us to fuck off and we dont have the cojones to actually ban whatsapp". The phrase is only intended to imply that they didn't lose a political battle.

Actual technical feasibility is beside the point. Whatsapp probably already has backdoors they just don't want to hand the keys over to 10 downing street.
Netdata also has an eBPF collector. https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/data-collection/linux-syste...
The discovery of a new kind of cell shakes up neuroscience
It's the arity of the function. In Erlang there are no variadic functions, but functions with different arities can have the same name, so universal_server/0 takes no arguments, fib/1 takes 1 argument, fib/2 takes 2 arguments, the second arg may be the accumulator for a recursive Fibonacci, for example, and fib/1 may call fib/2 as an implementation detail.
Using "the best site" in the title is a bad idea here.
(Also, in the current title, there is a missing space in DRCongo and it's very confusing.)

Can you change it to something like "Kivuhub: Technology for local solutions in DR Congo"?

I think you may get more traction with an in-deep article about any of the programs you have. The top level sites usually don't get too much traction here. The names of the projects are not clickable. Do you have link with more info about them?
https://roon.app/en/

Roon is the only other music player that understands the difference between compositions and performances like Apple Music Classical does.

What’s cool about Roon is that it applies this approach to all Music, not just classical.

Roon also seamlessly merges any locally stored music you have with your libraries from Tidal, Qobuz, or KKBox, which allows you to manage all of your music from one place.
Thank you!!

Exa was nice but it's command line options were just different enough in places to clash with my muscle memory. Lsd looks a lot closer.
> Or just you know, use the 4G that is probably there already.

Yeah... Projects like open WiFi are probably becoming less and less useful, as everybody is carrying 4G/5G modems in their pocket.
Golden quote describing Intel's trend:

> AMD should be commended for not wasting area and power chasing bragging rights. [...] Matching Golden Cove’s 6-wide decoder would have been great for bragging rights, but won’t affect performance much.
Private equity profits from climate clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels
This is actually how you're supposed to drive in traffic.

Give more space to the car in front of you and try to stay at a constant speed. You will see truckers do this a lot.

It also is much better for your car and mental health. You don't need to accelerate to a complete stop over and over.

I do this every time I'm in very bad traffic (Think inching along and coming to a complete stop multiple times).

However about 10% of the time I get some idiot behind me that thinks that I'm going to slow so they speed around me just to come to a complete stop 2 seconds later.
Hmm, although I haven't seen one in a while, these were not that uncommon in the Netherlands, say, 20 years ago?
Best guess is it's some attempt at blackhat SEO, to manipulate the query logs and typeahead suggestions (I don't have query logs but whatever, maybe they think I secretly forward queries to Google or something).

But really, fuck if I know. I've received no communication so I can only guess as what they're trying to do. I have a free public API they're more than welcome to use if they want to like actually use the search engine, but they still try to go through a botnet through the public web endpoint.

I've talked to a bunch of people operating other search engines and all of them are subject to this type of 24/7 DDOS. It's been going for nearly two years now.
That is pretty cool. You might want to try again with 2.4Ghz LoRa. Range is shorter but still longer than 868mhz. If you search 2.4Ghz LoRa on our Youtube channel you'll find some interesting content on that.
Well, even napoleon himself failed to properly appreciate that (hindsight: why go after Russia if the British are the problem and there, only, army is sitting in Spain at the moment?). But true, all coalitions against the French were organized by Britain.
must-watch deep dive into the technical side of tamagotchis: https://media.ccc.de/v/29c3-5088-en-many_tamagotchis_were_ha...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Looks to Metals as New Source of Wealth
Ah, the old captcha loop game!
> The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island

Was he carried here by the current ? I can't imagine this device can really be efficient, am I wrong ?
I have a friend with a firstname.lastname@gmail.com account.

Someone out there apparently doesn’t realize that address doesn’t belong to them, because for 10 years he has been getting signup confirmations, appointment reminders, and very personal correspondence meant for the confused individual.
Niantic as well (sad Peridot cries in the distance)
It might be like that in some places, but not everywhere. HVDC lines are pretty efficient. From this map it looks like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, and presumably Regular Mexico could be major producers for the rest of the US.

https://www.solar-electric.com/learning-center/solar-insolat...

In the Northwest we also have pretty good hydroelectric to handle the cold rainy months. Every region is in its own specific situation.

Alaska would be a rough place for solar. I don't know if they do much hydroelectric or wind, but it seems like they'd be well situated for either.

If nothing else works, there's always nuclear.
>It probably won't change till they get rid of the anachronistic monarchy.

It's nothing to do with the monarchy - indeed, if anything I think the consensus amongst pro-monarchy folks is that the monarch is a constitutional escape hatch in the event of a government getting out of control.

Both the Conservative and Labour parties have an authoritarian streak to them when in government, and a solid percentage of the population seem to trust that our institutions know what they're doing and can keep their databases secure (although I hope that's been shaken in the last month with a number of police and electoral register database leaks).
I do.

But it was about 30 years later when I discovered that "cup holders" were a real thing that are a standard fixture on American cars.

European cars are tiny things by comparison and there isn't room to drink while driving, and we didn't have drive-through food or drink places in the 20th century, either. Also, they are all manual gearshift, so your hand is too busy to drink.

Some cars have a recess by the gear stick for a bottle or a can of soft drink, but most people use it for small items like garage door zappers or coins for meters instead.

Thus is was about 2015 or 2020 when I first saw a picture of a pop-out cup holder and realised that this was a Thing, a Thing that Americans would recognise, and that optical drive trays do look similar.

Nobody ever bothered to explain that, because Americans tend to assume that the whole world is like America.
Show HN: All visitors pointers on a webpage (How-to)
Take a look at Meshroom from https://alicevision.org/

It's a pretty decent tool, although not sure if videos work well.

I once tried to build a mesh from an aerial video by extracting certain frames and the result was ok-ish
Go for it! These communities are pretty active so you can also join one of their events.
Shells offers an Android OS on the platform with the ability to SSH.
What happens in that case is said tinkerer does it anyway.

And say they got that door by any of a number of legal means. Fact is they have it and could have a wide range of legal uses for said door too.

Is it better to drive that sort of thing underground?

I question that.
Tell HN: Reminder that your LinkedIn profile is fully visible to site members
I had a bad service experience with a bank employee last week who acted in what can best be described as a slightly deranged way; I was disturbed to receive an email from LinkedIn this week stating that someone from the same bank had searched for me (and presumably viewed my profile anonymously).

I decided to have a look at my profile from that of my spouse (we aren't connections and they don't really use LinkedIn) and I was shocked to see lots of detail fully exposed, despite me setting privacy settings at the maximum.

Unlike Facebook, which has had the ability to lock your profile down for years, LinkedIn still exposes most of your details to potential stalkers. Even Twitter/X has the ability to make your profile private (although who knows how long that will last).

I'm sure most people on HN are aware of this, but if you're in danger of being stalked, and you've locked your socials down, you're still at high risk because your LinkedIn profile is wide open to anyone with an email address who registers on the site.
Why does any company needs more than one 2nd level domain?

Microsoft, I'm looking at you (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/u...). It nerve-wrecking trying to figure out if some login box or link is legit. They claim to be transitioning to cloud.microsoft, but if you go there, you are redirected to yet another new domain (microsoft365.com) which looks like a scam site, which doesn't render properly in Firefox.

Why do we allow this?
Afghanistan is very messed up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
This appears to be some sort of mendacious hoax, abusing the honorific title of "saint" for someone who is (1) still living and (2) serving not God, but science. It was very confusing until finding the true identity of this guy. You are warned.
I don't understand enough about UK to see why anachronistic monarchy would be at the heart. (To lesser extent) we see a lust for surveillance in many other democratic countries too.

Isn't an easier explanation that society is getting more complex while politicians double down on managing their reputation, which inevitably results in loosing trust in institutions? (Or something along those lines.)
How to connect multiple databases to Django project
Same here. At first it was just my account but now family members are getting it too.

Microsoft doesn't show you login attempt IP addresses like Google does?
I may not be part of a broader culture wars, but it is part of a resurgent reading wars (https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/to-move-past-the-re...). In the past, the two sides of the debate in reading instruction have been aligned with broader political identities in the US, with phonics and direct instruction on the right and whole language on the left. I'm not sure how the current reading trends track politically, but I'm reminded that curriculum and teaching are part of the culture and politics, not in a vacuum.
We need a way to fund Firefox development in particular https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...
Is this any better than Insomnia?
Code Shelter
Your categories of friends are pretty basic. I’m sure if you tried to categorize them as say “honest” aka “courage to share opinions” they’d all fit in one category.
Sweet childhood :D!
So much nostalgia was tied to this game, that beginning the pandemic I thought I should have a go at creating a virtual pet game for Garmin touchscreen smart watches.
It's nowhere close to the actual Tamagotchi games, but it was a nice project.

Garmin Connect IQ: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/f5fc24e2-7cea-4585-8878-a...

Github: https://github.com/vladmunteanu/monky
In Germany, the term "Engineer" is protected by law. You need an Informatics (or some other engineery field) university degree to call yourself one. There are many IT professionals that do not have one, but have one of the state-approved 3-year apprenticeships instead, and can not call themselves engineers.
“AOL Desktop is back with a new Beta ”
With all the naive AI zealotry on HN can you really fault me?

They're referring to this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
Best practice would be to display this message no matter whether the email address is correct or not, to avoid leaking information. Many sites do this.
Works well enough, but it really tripped me up at first with the syntax. Had to constantly look things up while using it.

jq -r \
'.apps.http.servers.srv1.routes[0]
| .match[0].header.[env.AUTH_USER_HEADER][0] = "$username"'

That's an error because you can't select an env var key '[env.AUTH_USER_HEADER]' in the middle of a chain like that, only immediately following a pipe:

| .match[0].header | .[env.AUTH_USER_HEADER][0] = "$username"'

But then I need to preserve the parent object after the assignment and that pipe throws it out. Thankfully, parentheses fix that:

| (.match[0].header | .[env.AUTH_USER_HEADER][0]) = "$username"'

After working out the gotchas, it's quite powerful, like regex, but a little clunky, though not nearly as much as regex.
Humans aren’t the only fat primate
Man, that's amazing! I'm going to start help you with marketing, beginning with a dedicated HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37417410
Just move one end a bit, smart move!
well, at least any machine used for development.

when i try to remove guile on my fedora machine, then the following get removed too:

abrt
akmods
cargo
clang
cmake
gcc
gdb
golang
kernel-devel
make
rpm-build
rpmdevtools
rust
vcpkg

also several python3 packages and many others that were installed as dependencies from the above that i didn't check if they too depended on something that depends on guile.

strictly speaking it is just make and gdb that depend on guile, but gcc depends on make and many other packages depend on gcc.

it appears that on debian make does not depend on guile.

but since i mainly use fedora, all my machines are likely to have guile installed.
> Surprisingly, the women, often seen as sidelined, might be the ones to watch as they navigate and challenge both systems.

As I posted in another reply, female suicide is spiking in Afghanistan.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/28/despair-is-set...

If women are Afghanistan's canary, the country seems to be spiraling down a shit sink.
It does, but only when they use the password login...
I understand the argument but I disagree and would phrase it the other way around.
We don't have evidence of conscious experience because we don't have evidence for a division between conscious experience and "existence/physical stuff" in the first place. This division is created by our brains and the model we have of the world but in reality the only evidence we have is that something exists.

Therefore, what we call subjective experience is evidence for the existence of what we experience, but until we can empirically show that there is a difference between what we experience and what reality is, the only thing we can say is that it exists. Also, that's the problem with the hard problem of consciousness - it assumes a division between the two, and we have no evidence of such a division. And lastly if it's not clear i am not a panpsychist either because that assumes a division on some level again. We don't know what existence itself is and how it functions really, at least not the brains function within existence.
If you want an uneditorialised take, here's what they quote:

The Administration will work with Congress and the private sector to develop legislation establishing liability for software products and services. Any such legislation should prevent manufacturers and software publishers with market power from fully disclaiming liability by contract, and establish higher standards of care for software in specific high-risk scenarios.
The addition of raw 0-byte separated output will make reliable scripting (e.g. piping into xargs -0) a lot easier.
There seems to be a few comments from people that dislike jq. If you're that way inclined, gron[0] might be more your thing.

[0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron