skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_...:

> The agreement stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and provided for the withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments. The US agreed to an initial reduction of its force level from 13,000 to 8,600 within 135 days (i.e. by July 2020), followed by a full withdrawal within 14 months (i.e. by 1 May 2021) if the Taliban kept its commitments. The United States also committed to closing five military bases within 135 days, and expressed its intent to end economic sanctions on the Taliban by August 27, 2020. The agreement was welcomed by Pakistan, China, Russia and India,[4][7][8] and unanimously endorsed by the UN Security Council.[9]

> Insurgent attacks against the Afghan security forces, however, surged in the aftermath of the deal, with thousands killed. However, withdrawals per the agreement continued. By January 2021, just 2,500 US troops remained in the country, and NATO forces fully evacuated by the end of that summer. The US completed its full evacuation on August 30, 2021, as the Taliban took control of the country by force.

> Critics of the deal claimed that the then Trump administration appeased the Taliban and ignored the then Afghan government for a quick withdrawal from Afghanistan.[10]
This seems to be the most appropriate
> Of all the places to "friendshore," Taiwan is probably the worst due to its location and vulnerability

Perhaps we need to learn the value of strategic depth the hard way. Rome had to be sacked, in the 5th century BCE, to become strong. And this time, most of us can fly out while the violence settles.
Product vs. Engineering: How to manage an antagonistic relationship
> counter-factual

Be careful, a counterfactual is not just something that is in opposition to the facts[0].

I bring this up because one common way a message is misinterpreted is that words are overloaded. So people read a thing, understand it with one definition of words, but the intended definition is different. Because knowledge is often passed through a game of telephone[1] context is often lost or degraded, making it harder to decode the intended meanings.

Probably worth mentioning that there is no lower bound in complexity for a lie, but the is for truth. Worse, no real "truth" exists, it is just ever approaching something that is "more correct" with exponentially increasing complexity.

I often wonder if we've just advanced so far that we can no longer make sense of things with first or second order approximations. That it's just so difficult to find sufficient approximations that we break down. Our desire to have answers is stronger than our desire to understand. I suspect this is a great filter if there are any. It makes sense for any evolved creature to hit this point, as we definitely know computational complexity increases dramatically with respect to higher order terms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_thinking

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_game
What I mean is that OP presumably submitted a link to this blog post because s/he intended to share the blog post. Without their knowledge, it became about the warning at the top of the page which wasn't there when they submitted. What OP submitted was not what we saw.
I think you and many people in this space are just ignoring traits. Everybody in tech knows this. Long as you are a “rockstar”, we ignore traits.

I don’t even want to begin listing them because it might burn some people, but here goes:

- empathy (cannot sit side by side with ruthlessness)

- honesty (cannot sit side by side with corruption)

- charity (cannot sit side by side with greed)

- morality (cannot sit side by side with amorality)

- peaceful (cannot sit side by side with power hunger, vindictiveness)

Those aren’t exactly culture fits in tech. So, what do we have here? Non-empathetic corrupt amoral greedy power hungry genius. The last trait is the only one you see, for whatever reason.

We are not saints, but we have fucking try a little bit here.
I want to pay for Kagi, but it's priced way too high (for me).
Would love it if they implemented Purchasing Power Parity (PPP).
> Remember, headlines are fighting for views. It is natural that they spread "we're all fucked real real bad" vibes

I disagree with this. What spooks me out about headlines in Germany is how relatively silent they are about this. I'd say there is WAY more money in oligarchy than there is in all the media in the world selling every single paper and ad, every day. Because in the end, it will include that profit, too.

But I still agree that it's never over, but not because there is a hope that some other group might do something, but because tens and hundreds of millions of people can actually do a lot, if they do something.
Well, with the USA now distancing itself from NATO, and aligning itself with Russia more closely than at any historical moment after WWII — even sabre rattling about expansionist conquests of its own and abandoning preservation of the international order — Germany finds itself bereft of a powerful ally and with a greatly degraded deterrent against Russian aggression. It is the right moment for Russia to advance.
You write like an AI bot.

You didn't address any of his points, at all.
You need piecewise linear cost function and auxiliary variables. An experienced practitioner should be able to help you with either mixed integer linear programming or constraint programming
You and I do not know about what foreign intelligence knows about the imminent usage of German warships
>If you want the corruption they have found so far, the press secretary is doing daily briefings where she lists some of the insanity they have found.

Okay: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/

>Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan

> Statement from the National Security Advisor [This is about Russia]

>Presidential Message on Super Bowl LIX

> United States-Japan Joint Leaders’ Statement

>Statement from the Press Secretary on January’s Jobs Reports

>Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Call with President el-Sisi of Egypt

So yeah, where are all these briefings of corruption? It's only been 3 weeks, so I didn't take long to exahaust all the briefings. None of them talked about DOGE
The code author could make a signature on every release which would be the strongest guarantee of authenticity. But at a rudimentary level, we could have code hosting repositories simply publish/advertise the sha256 values of the hosted code files.

The root of trust has to lay at the source code origin for a pure implementation of reproducible builds and for the security reasons I mentioned earlier.

In general it doesn't help much IMO to have distributions take a silo view of the problem. But those are just my ideas and thoughts on the matter.
So the guy who has repeatedly misrepresented or misunderstood how the government works as his staff are tearing it apart and firing tens of thousands of people is... good actually? I'm sorry, I don't buy it and the only way history will buy it is when they finally dismantle the Department of Education and force it into the history textbooks.
This is Germany, they let themselves get a bit lax.

Also it sounds like it was pre-commissioning, so it hadn't been delivered to the Navy yet.
Where does the deal say you have to pull the troops out before the civilians?

How is how Biden executed the final withdraw Trump's fault?
The vote button you press disappears, as well. I think this depends on some kind of local storage; it's often slightly out of sync.
Maybe relevant, mozilla is working on building AI alt text generation into firefox:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/help-us-improve-our-a...
'Asahi Linux targeted "hacker news"' got no results other than this exact conversation.
"Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that if the shavings hadn't been detected during an inspection, they would have caused significant damage to the ship."

So there was no damage. How convenient indeed that there happened to be an inspection.
There were alert messages on the app directly referencing Trump as a savior pre-ban, during the one day they dropped service, and post-ban.
Most people realize this.

Most people don't:

* think it will impact them.
* have any idea what to do about it when the most powerful
person in the country can do literally whatever they want
with little to no pushback.
The domain is a brand new domain we've been switching to and we've hit a fun snafu with the DNS configuration recently - looks like some email got mixed up in that. It should be working now, or you can try the same email address at joinzest.com as well.
Many traditional conservatives are separating themselves from MAGA. They're just too small a faction and disempowered by doing so.
Looks like you're unable to refute the premise that its ridiculous that they talk about how bad DEI is and then consistently nominate cabinet members whose only qualification is fealty.
A billion applicants for 2 full-time faculty jobs, but they’ve always got a billion adjunct openings that pay shit, offer no benefits, and have no job security.
Adults are usually blamed for children’s actions, so this tracks.
Any abandoned aid-needing individual in a developing nation has the potential to become a refugee and thus am illegal immigrant.
Sad. I've seen a couple of projects like this - maintainer who isn't a strong programmer or has no vision/direction for the project so they just change NULL to nullptr etc.
SQL with pipe syntax can also do functions like that. An sequence of pipe operators can be saved as a table-valued function, and then reused by invoking in other queries with CALL.

Example:

CREATE TEMP TABLE FUNCTION ExtendDates(input ANY TABLE, num_days INT64)
AS
FROM input
|> EXTEND date AS original_date
|> EXTEND max(date) OVER () AS max_date
|> JOIN UNNEST(generate_array(0, num_days - 1)) diff_days
|> SET date = date_add(date, INTERVAL diff_days DAY)
|> WHERE date <= max_date
|> SELECT * EXCEPT (max_date, diff_days);

FROM Orders
|> RENAME o_orderdate AS date, o_custkey AS user_id
|> CALL ExtendDates(7)
|> LIMIT 10;

from the script here: https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/master/zetasql/exampl...
It's worth reading Asahi Lina's posts about writing a driver in a Linux - she is very explicit that what they've achieved would not have been possible without Rust.

See, for example:

https://xcancel.com/linaasahi/status/1577667445719912450?s=4...
https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576
https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

In fairness, this is one team working on one project, but if they're attributing much of their success to Rust, it's probably worth listening to and understanding why, particularly as I don't believe they were particularly evangelistic about Rust before this project.

I have no idea about the Google funding, but Marcan's blog post is very explicit they they do not have any corporate sponsorship. If you believe that to be untrue, please explain your reasoning rather than spreading unsubstantiated rumours.
Just like Nord Stream. My country had no interest in pursuing investigations against our "allies".

Personally, I would not like to go to war for a Business Insider article. But no one asks what the German population wants.
Yea, I remember the whole Biden forgiving student loans fiasco that bypassed Congress several times and argued in court that the President has extensive powers via executive orders.
I would work on something else then.
why are we comparing the end of one president's term to the beginning (aka, the honyemon period) of another president. At least compare the first year

February 13th, 2021: Unfavorable: 35% Favorable: 53%

>Notice how favorability is increasing.

Are we reading the same charts? Trump's Peak approval ratinig was 50% and is currently 49%. His nadir was 48.8%.

It's a stretch to say it's moving either way. The only real data here is that his diaapproval rating is rising at the same point as Biden's first month (which is interestin, given that Biden came in at the height of COVID and his mandates really riled up red states. Trump has nothing to blame but himself)
An IPv6 router with a stateful firewall blocking incoming connections could have just the same issues with timeouts, I'd imagine. Switching to IPv6 doesn't just mean that anyone can make a P2P connection to anyone else (even STUN needs a third-party server to coordinate the two peers).

(D)TLS session resumption (I'm not sure if their "Connection IDs" are that or something similar) seems like the most foolproof solution to this scenario, assuming that the remote host can support it.
Isn't one of the requirements to work for Microsoft Research that you have a PhD?

PhDs might not be working in schools, but there's plenty doing meaningful research outside of academia.

I'm sure 3M hires plenty of PhDs; and venture-capital-backed health device companies; and oil companies looking for new ways to capture oil; and so on.
Any stories that have been written by AI are marked as such (they are categorized as user submission stories where the author is credited as the AI model). Interestingly the lowest ranked story on the site is one of those, although that was created with an older model. I had never thought of the site as being an "AI product" personally. I just wanted an excuse to play around with web sockets initially, but if I can improve the AI player maybe it will eventually go more in that direction.
He did it for twitter and it worked amazingly well. A lot of smart people scoffed at how there was no way he could run twitter with 80% fewer staff (here's a great example of the sentiment typical at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNkSQ42jg4&t=22m20s). But Twitter is just fine.

If 80% of twitter was bloat, imagine government!
One thing I'll add is that lots of kids deleted tiktok when the servers went offline for a bit right when the ban happened. Now they regret it and maybe Apple got wind of this perhaps.

I personally was asked to help a young girl who would cry all day because she lost the app and it was her salvation due to her unique circumstance.

Was interesting for me to learn after asking some middle/high schoolers how important the app is for them emotionally/personally/culturally/etc.
You do realize that inspection of such a vessel is done on a daily basis or higher frequency, right?

You don't just say yolo flip the switch and ignite the engines for a multi million dollar vessel, it's a multiple step process that contains lots of safety checks and precautions, which one of them would be visual inspection for debris.
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The paper linked in the blogpost isn't available anymore. Did a super quick search and didn't find it :/
Wasn’t just congress. Law was signed by president as well. Just like all laws unless vetoed and it’s overridden.
It's somewhat different to not enforce a general law against a multitude of possible targets and enforcing a law literally imposed against a single target.

A lot of people don't get fined for jaywalking and it's not a big deal because it's understood that it's a lot of work to actually cite all of them everywhere, so the difference between the normal level of not enforcing everything and intentionally not enforcing isn't 0 vs 100.

This is passing a law that John Smith should go to jail and then deciding you don't actually want to send him to jail. Why did you bother passing the law if you didn't care. Trump literally started all this TikTok banning stuff and now is against it, but isn't actually repealing the law. Congress seems to have just given up too. It's fully lawless.
Coming from the guy who shut down Facepunch forums with the snap of his fingers without a single ounce of care about all that content that would just disappear.

Complaining about a forest fire when you've thrown your share of cigarettes is rich.
This guy sorts
I have been caffeine free now for sixty days. The chemical changes you more than you think. It is nice to be me again.
I looked up statistics from the Dept of Labor, those jobs still pay decently well and haven't seen a significant decline in available positions in the past decade or more.

How has software reduced the need for these roles? From where I'm looking at it, the jobs still exist but more people have access to automatic versions in software. While the software has gotten good enough for hobbyist or solo-venture needs, commercial enterprise and governments still use humans.

Translators and bookkeepers may use software to help them do their job faster or easier but it hasn't replaced them. CAD designers and studio musicians are still much better than their software counterparts.
Transcriptionist is a weird one, though the office typist has been outmoded as basic computer skills (including typing) have become minimum expectations for any office job, the specialist versions of the role (especially in medical records and court stenography) are still in demand, and aren't likely to be replaced by software either.
I’m looking at a least a 10 year time horizon. Trump has talked about taking over Greenland, Gaza, Canada and Panama.
At the start the media flat out lied about covid mortality rates to scare people into compliance, using the case fatality rate instead of the infection fatality rate (the former is much higher because only more serious cases end up in hospital, so there's a selection bias, especially when many cases are asymptomatic). It also ignored the age-stratified nature of risk, which the data showed really early on, quoting the mortality rate for 80 year olds as if it applied to everyone, when in fact the mortality rate decreased roughly 10x for every 10 years of age below 80.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19577519/
just trying to clarify the nonsense point in the article:

Here are some essential facts to know.

- You can continue to use Calibre to send Kindle books to your Kindle

sidesteps the fact that you might not be able to get your books into calibre anymore because

"Download & Transfer via USB"

on Feb 26 "Download" goes away, which was the typical way people got their kindle books into calibre.
Even if you think the government is too big, this is not the proper way to shrink it. Let Congress take care of it; his party has majority.
So....is this privacy through assumed lack of logging? Not trying to be a dick, just legit don't understand a part of this.

User A asks kagi for tokens. Kagi says "sure, here's 500 tokens". If kagi then logs the 500 tokens it just gave to user A, it now will know if any of those tokens is redeemed at a later date, that they're assigned to user A?

Of course if Kagi just doesn't retain this data, then yeah all is good because the token itself is only marked as valid, not valid and given to user A on date Y, but....that's it right? Or am I misunderstanding something?
You also have to imagine the size of the engine the shavings were deposited into. Assuming it's the new German corvette class (K130 Braunschweig), they are powered by two MTU 20V 1163 TB93 engines. Each one has about 240liters of displacement. This means each engine has about 4 55gal bags worth of cylinder volume, plus turbochargers, fuel pumps, etc. It's unlikely that ~1/5th-1/10th of the entire volume of the engine was consumed by shavings, mostly because 1/50th is probably enough to ensure major permanent damage.

Interestingly enough, the engine is produced by a company owned by the Rolls-Royce holding company, so in a meaningful way the British are helping the Germans produce warships. In the first half of the 20th century the British would have been prime suspects of the sabotage.
In general, the IPv6 stack is not supported on many smaller mcu. It is not that options like FreeRTOS can't support the stack, but rather the resource constraints pose a challenge.

That being said, most modern SoCs are competitively priced... and will boot Linux just fine for under $5/part. =3
Definitely, overhyped.

It is being sold as being able to replace 5% of the economy… today.

Anyone working in data science and ai development. Already know ai has already started to reach its limits…

nm, replacing developers or AGI.
Hybrid warfare, along with gray zone, has been escalating sharply in recent years. It is a major topic of discussion in international national security circles. There is a general sense that the absence of material consequences for engaging in this activity has encouraged it.
Good job ge0ffrey!

It is a tough niche market where you compete with excel people who have built their careers on their manual planning expertise.

Unfortunately you are pitching not to the end user but to their manager (who will have to force them to drop their spreadsheet mambo jumbo). But I guess this is the case with all AI products nowadays anyways.
Most authoritarian countries have been formal democracies(/republics) for a while. There are a LOT of ways to heavily influence elections short of rigging them. (Though, of course, ballot stuffing remains a concern too.)
I think they are like $15k rather than sub $20k

Though I wonder if EVs are really all that good without the infrastructure..
With state of the potholes and electric infrastructure in most countries, can EVs hold up?
Thanks, that looks like the right kind of thing. :)
John Adams: "We are a nation of laws, not of men,"

Trump: Hold my beer!
They also ruled that blacks could not claim any of the rights and privileges granted to citizens.
They don't owe me anything, I don't work on it and have no oar in one way or the other. I'm sure they don't give a fuck about any of these conversations. Still, I owe you nothing and I can put forth my opinion, as can you.
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Thank you for this. Starting with 3 tasks a day is a great idea. Its kind of like starting small
The real problem is deeper than this. The actual question to ask is:

"What if we just stopped distributing and blindly executing untrusted binary blobs?"

A trusted compiler in the OS, and some set of intermediate representations for code distribution would solve a massive amount of security issues, increase compatibility, and allow for future performance increases and disallowing suspect code patterns (spectre, rowhammer, etc). Specializing programs at install time for the local hardware makes way more sense than being locked into hardware machine code compatibility.