skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, any images are fine
It's not so much that it's an ancient building, it's that its structure is heavily compromised by the fire. It might fare better against an assault of water than lots of modern buildings. You can imagine one of those big warehouse spaces could fold up like a house of cards under an assault.

The larger point is that by the time you release high enough to not concentrate a huge amount of force from the water on the building, you're just not doing that much, not that much more than a really heavy natural downpour for a few seconds (which wouldn't be nearly enough to put out a fire this large).

And the trees aren't an apt comparison because the trees aren't taking the brunt of the water; the ground is. However, the roof of the structure would be taking the entire brunt of the falling water. Several tens of thousands of pounds times whatever speed its falling at squared equals a lot of kinetic energy.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but wasn't https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock where the original uBlock was hosted at? Gorhill might had declared Raymond to be the "owner" of uBlock but to me it is not clear that uBlock Origin is a fork by any means.
> The German government owns 25% of VW.

That’s not quite correct. The shares are owned by the state of Niedersachsen, not the federal government. And they don’t own 25%. They own 11.8%, though they have 20% of the voting rights.
The only sane arguments against banning tobacco entirely are related to organized crime. I assert that there is no risk of cartels re-implementing the dark patterns of facebook.

This libertarian rhetorical meme of reducing every instance of proposed regulation to ineffectual drug wars needs to die.
I like my original title better: "Vi Hart on how to make a spirally triply meta-chiral time crystal." I didn't make up that phrase. It's how Vi refers to it at the end of the video. I thought it had a certain panache that "The making of..." lacked.

Also, here is the Triple Piano video itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRW3FMuttY
I haven't voted. I guess people wonder what does the charge have to do with the victims of the Boeing crash, why there is a comparison, why that is hilarious, and whether your comment adds to any meaningful discussion.
Exploring the hidden potential of JavaScript arrays
I think most if not all of that is possible with matrix.org.
> I don’t think that any business that makes money by taking advantage of people’s foolishness or stupidity

I think this is a touch unfair to people at large. The common end user isn't keen enough to recognize dark patterns, that's true, but that's akin to saying that the average car buyer should be able to spot flaws in a vehicle that could cause them harm. We don't expect that from people; Car companies are mandated to only sell vehicles that meet safety requirements. And even then, it's generally accepted that when you're buying a used vehicle, you take it to a mechanic you trust to make sure it's well cared for and operational. Same as when you buy a home; you're expected to have it inspected.

It's also unfair, I think, to put people down as foolish or stupid for not immediately recognizing things that are psychological tricks companies use in marketing, to steer users towards the options they want the users to choose. I mean caveat emptor indeed, but to say that, for example fast food marketers holding PHD's in psychological studies, working day in and out to get people to be hungry anytime they see a McDonalds logo are on an even playing field with Joe Consumer is a laughable assertion on it's face.

In the days of yore, marketing was just trying to sell someone something but it's become much more insidious since those innocent times. Now companies use dark patterns in their applications, purposely bury privacy and security options under layers of confusing UI, use all manor of colors and fonts shown to steer people's attention to the goal they want, on and on. This is why I find it so unethical, it feels a hell of a lot less like marketing and lot more like "hacking" a person's brain to get into their wallet.

tl:dr; Joe Consumer is playing checkers, and marketing scientists are playing 3D chess. He doesn't stand a chance and everyone just keeps acting like that's okay.
I don't know how to say this more kindly: you signed up for that idiocy? what were you even thinking?

Just the idea of HOAs drive me absolutely insane, even moreso when they perpetuate ecological insanity in the name of looking "pretty".
I wonder why Amazon does not have already a Gmail / Outlook live solution.
In this case, the "we" was a stand-in pronoun for the Milky Way galaxy, of which we are part. It would have been linguistically tortuous to have phrased it in any other way; "we" was the appropriate pronoun, no matter how much it may embarrass you to be implicated in the action. Natural languages are not instances or implementations of propositional calculus.
Interestingly, this might be the solution for digital security.

Get a nany state (Hello California) to force companies to have Insurance for Cyberattack.

Insurance companies will learn instantly how to do due diligence for-real (as opposed of for compliance certification) to decide if they get clients or not.

Companies then, forced to have insurance, will have to implement minimal safeguards to be accepted in the insurer policy requirements.

Problem solved.
I don't get all the hype about tankers... A tanker load would do significant structural damage to the building, would be a huge risk in city with a lot of tall structures, would be totally ineffective on the bulk of the fire (that's below the roof), and would require pulling out all the firefighters on the scene, significantly reducing the overall firefighting capacity.
Try being nicer - had you left off the "womp womp" you'd be leaving a perfectly respectful opinion. With it, you just sound like a jerk.
Have you actually look at wages in other industries?

Why are we focusing on the companies that actually do PAY ABOVE. how about we focus on the industries that UNDER pay. Someone getting compensated many times the average income is not the person we should trying to advocate for. The market can decide that.

That industrial or service worker not getting paid a living wage. THATs who we should be fighting for.

I love how i'm getting downvoted for my parent comment, but no one has taken the time to compare to other industries and companies with similar profits, who pay their engineering talent SUBSTANTIALLY less. Oil industry has similar profits, yet pays engineers 80-100k.
> They're a consultancy which evaluates computer security for insurance companies, before they insure a business.

Can you share the name of the company?
They should invest in the BEAM virtual machine. IIRC, Whatapps is built on Erlang and its VM.

There are many benefits in helping an existing project with active developers. If dealing with the politics of managing existing project is annoying, just fork it and make their own branch. The original owner can deal with the merging if they want the contribution.
I'll counter this with the success of Japan because the Japanese railway companies own all the land around the stations and lease it out to companies and improve that land because they own it.
I had that question and also the "just kidding" question when I heard the name. What can you do, naming things is hard.
Disney CEO Bob Iger lays out details on company’s Netflix competitor [video]
Invite users and explain why? I went from zero contacts to every single person i need to reach at any frequency is now on Signal.
We've asked you several times to please stop breaking the guidelines with unsubstantive flamebait, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You don't always have the option to opt out of an HOA, especially when buying a home. If the neighborhood said home is in, and has an HOA, you're usually grandfathered in.
> would you run into a burning building to try to save the Declaration of Independence?

What matters about the DoI are the ideas, not the original piece of paper.
The thermal load of the hot wood would burn it even if it extinguished the visible flames unless you could cut off all oxygen flow.
I honestly don't follow pulitzer prizes, but sampling a few recent years (in the past 20), I can't find any where there was ANY award for investigation against a president (there was one for investigation against Dick Cheney in 2008). Has this ever happened before?
>save my chat history in the cloud so that i dont lose everything when i move from iOS to Android or vise versa.

Implementing this could make key management either less secure, or more difficult for users. If the user still had access to both devices, it wouldn’t be too bad. But if you want the users to be able to ‘recover’ their message history on any device, then you’d need to use something like the mnemonic seed phrase, which isn’t an improvement in UX, or security.

The audio transcribing sounds difficult too, as you’d have to do it all client side if you wanted to preserve the security model.
That feature (Advanced Summon) isn't even out yet. Only a tiny fraction of beta testers have it, so it's unlikely that this idiot has the feature.

Secondly, Tesla specifically states that you must have the car in line of sight before you enable Summon (which only goes straight forward and backward by 25 feet), so this guy is absolutely a complete moron for doing that.
You know what, I think I agree with you. Edited. Thanks for the feedback.

However, I'd like to use this opportunity to plug Valee's "Womp Womp". Check it out on Spotify!
No question that they would have evacuated, sure. But also little question that it would not have been required.
I suspect if you had that much understanding of orbital mechanics, you'd be a billionaire already and not worry so much about time travel.
"Tried that. Didn't work. He will literally vomit if anything touches his lips that he doesn't want to eat. Every time. So force feeding won't work."

Nobody suggested force feeding. Probably because it's a terrible idea.

You unceremoniously, and disinterestedly put food in front of them and when the meal is over, there's no more food available from any other source.

At 14yo it's too late for this, but for other readers, this will involve at most 1-3 days of annoyance and disruption. They'll be hungry and eat the food and you'll have quickly ripped off that band-aid instead of slowly, excruciatingly peeled it off bit by bit over the entire course of their childhood - which is a good metaphor for a lot of parenting.

This relates to one of the best pieces of parenting advice I ever heard: You almost never see a child throw a fit/tantrum about being put into a carseat. Why ? Because it has never worked. No matter what they do or say or scream, they know they're going in that carseat. If you see a fit/tantrum/stubbornness its because they know there's a chance you'll relent ...
Isn't the main part that they were given legal guidance that what they were doing was not legally torture though? There's a bit in another article that got posted today [0] about that.

> Guantánamo leadership wanted to understand the legal gymnastics that would be required to implement a program of their own. “Torture has been prohibited by international law, but the language of the statutes is written vaguely,”

and

> Bush Administration lawyers had taken the position that “enemy combatants” could be held indefinitely, without trials, and that in order for something to qualify as “torture” it “must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.”

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-da...
Support https://globalfishingwatch.org/ if you can, they visualize, track and share data about global fishing activity in near real-time for free to stop illegal fishing.

I remember that they organized several online hackathons around their data that I participated in before.
Sounds like Microsoft...
How to make any Wordpress site load in one second or less
It's just exposed and accelerated an underlying issue in housing policy. When demand goes up supply is also supposed to go up to meet demand in a healthy market, but because of artificial supply restrictions this is what happened. The government is to blame.
I dunno - my in-laws bought their house in 1986 on a single engineer's salary (then renovated it into a bigger one when my mother-in-law went back to work). I also had a number of coworkers at Google who bought houses in 2009/2010 as single tech workers. Heck, I could've done so myself (2BR condos in MTV were going for $400K at the time), and am kicking myself for not doing it.

Perhaps 09-10 was a bit of an aberration because it was the middle of the foreclosure crisis and housing prices bottomed out then. I guess another big "thing" is parents (particularly Asian ones) paying the down payment for their kids - 2 of the 4 coworkers I'm thinking of had that help, and one had a minor stock-option windfall from joining a company right before Intuit bought it.
Yes, the vertical structures are likely to survive. See any number of photos of post-WW2 cities.

It’s debatable, however, how much that means. I suspect it serves more of a symbolic purpose, as a kernel of truth to a shared future fiction that the building is at least partially “original”.

In terms of costs, I suspect integrating those structures is likely to be more expensive than rebuilding from scratch. The loss is also greater than just the building, as it contained a multitude of art, some of it part of the structure like the famous stained glass windows, some not.
That breaks backwards compatibility twice; once in X when 'do_thing' breaks and has to be rewritten as 'enable_thing;do_thing', then again when X+1 causes 'enable_thing;do_thing' to break.
It's great for parking in cramped spaces, at least at home (where you won't get yelled at in a public parking lot). I use it daily so that I can get out of my car before parking it in my carport next to my neighbor's giant SUV.
Why no regex and (bounded) loops? You don't need turing completeness for either of these.

And what does Turing completeness has to do with security anyway?
> Today, we are all French.

Yes.
The relevant API is there in Chrome though currently in beta only; see https://developers.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReque...
>This seems like a silly thing to be annoyed about. Checks don’t have fees like most other types of electronic payment, and money is money.

It's not silly, it's a waste of my time - and I value my time, that's why I bill for it in the first place. If I have the choice between a Faster Payment scheme transaction which transfers money generally instantly and always within two hours, and a cheque I have to post/bring to a branch and then wait _days_ for it to clear - I'm going to pick the Faster Payments route.

> Many banks even accept the check deposit via app now

Still a waste of time. Need to wait to receive the cheque. Need to take a photo of it. Need to wait for funds to clear. It's just dumb in 2019, we can do so much better.

>Why would you be OK with giving up a certain percentage of your hard-earned money just because you have to go through the “hassle” of dealing with a piece of paper?

Why on earth do you pay for bank transfers in the US? My bank does not charge for personal transfers. My business account doesn't charge for transfers either. It's such a basic service which costs pence per transaction (easily made up by interest and interchange income).. how could you ever justify charging for it?

In any case, surely it's such an insignificant sum it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things? The client is paying an invoice presumably a few orders of magnitude larger.
I came across this open letter from Alan Dershowitz, lobbying against their Pulitzer consideration[1]. I haven't seen a public response from either the reporter or the Miami Herald, so I'm curious about their views of the points he brings up.

To be clear, I'm not saying he is accurate. I just don't know enough either way. He's obviously an interested party to the whole story.

[1] https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14003/pulitzer-prize-fake...
Donald trump just picks an idea that will sound like "common sense" to a lot of people. It makes sense in a simplistic kind of way, but is fundamentally flawed. But people get to feel angry that their ideas are not being taken seriously. And that the world is being ruined by stupid liberals who won't do the obvious thing. As if a fire chief in Paris has a duty to try out bad ideas just to protect the feelings of a random Twitter handle and his followers.
In the US, TSCA 1974 grandfathered in thousands of chemicals with zero proof of safety and no studies. I think Ralph Nader needs to hit this point every now and then to remind people that American chemicals are ridiculously under-regulated compared to Scandinavian and other Western countries. And if you're still using RoundUp, switch to table salt.. it will kill most plants but not kill you.
There's the reassurances about the broken and deadly MCAS system. But what is there to assure us about the engineering team within Boeing that allowed such an egregiously bad system to be put into production and hidden from regulators and pilots? Here is a system that exercises full control authority over the entire extent of the plane's horizontal stabilizer, so much that it cannot be overridden manually, and is controlled by a single sensor that alternates every other flight. Management then hid this system from airlines and the FAA. How can they show that the individuals within Boeing that created such an atrocity have been corrected, and that the same clowns did not engineer any other surprises into the aircraft?
Hardly.

Settlements go to the plaintiffs, not the authorities. Plaintiffs have to agree to the settlement offer.

The plaintiffs could have gone to trial over this matter. They chose not to because fundamentally they must have perceived that the guaranteed settlement money was better than the risk that they walk away empty-handed. If the case was a slam dunk, the settlement would have been higher or they would have just gone to trial.
Somehow, you being surprised by this, actually makes me a bit uneasy.

How can you not know that stuff like this is happening?
What about cheap functional vitamins? It used to be that the pills were small and you could buy a year's supply in one spicejar-sized bottle.
Is there anything like this still available?
Funny you say that because he's done exactly that! If you look at http://venge.net/graydon/talks/codecon-2006.pdf about Monotone, it turns out (see http://venge.net/graydon/talks/) that it's “A talk Nathaniel Smith gave and I sat on stage looking supportive for, answering occasional questions. It's close to what I would have said!”

(Nevertheless about the original question: yes it's by Graydon Hoare as he mentions: “Talk for some undergrads in computer science at UBC about the wide world of compilers.”)
You would want to do whatever it took to secure those details.

Right, so you bring in Hanns Scharff.
No, being clear, since it seems you aren't separating concepts.

You're not happy that these companies have SINGLE large shareholders. That the founders kept so much company equity. I FULLY AGREE no one should have that much wealth. But, no one here is complaining about families or others having similar wealth. They are complaining that founders kept that much ownership.

The real wage suppression is happening in other industries and companies. How about the lack of a livable wage in industrial and service industries? How about that fact that the average wage has not kept up with cost of living?

Why are you advocating for engineers like myself making many times the average income and living way above average lives? That's insane!

How about oil companies with similar profits paying engineers 80-100k? at an actual risk of loss of life?

We should focus on the actual problems. The lack of ability to tax generational and asset wealth. The reason they accumulate so much is that we can't tax their share of ownership.
Yeah you do. You don't move there.
I like oK because it allows nice toying around with graphics in the browser but while k is incredibly fast, oK is really slow. It is nice to play with and learn from but anything beyond, better check out Kona or another APL like like A+ or J.
Not enough people on the internet read what they're saying outloud before posting. I blame this on the low quality of discourse on the intnernet. You're very welcome by the way.
I swear that Automotive Industry has to be one of the dirties. Is there a way to estimate the damage this practices have done to the Earth?
Fortunately it's not a philosophical claim - after all even if it was demonstrated experimentally that time moved in frames like a movie, it could still be a movie played on a projector whose reels spun in continuous time. There's no way to know "what it ultimately is," only the most ultimate thing seen so far.
How does this compare with the many other react notification impls?
I believe it is the US Gov who doesn't want them to go to trial due to lack of evidence / evidence from torture is not usable for all that has gone on to come out in a more public forum
The record labels are generally using systems set up to bypass DMCA in order to process high volumes of requests. For example, labels who issue takedowns of YouTube videos aren't submitting DMCA requests.
> It really made me want to just exit this whole smartphone shitfest

Yes, this is why I've decided to bail on the smartphone nonsense as well.

To make the problem worse, it isn't just Google you need to protect yourself from. You also need to protect yourself from the vast majority of apps that are out there as well.

It's become an intractable security nightmare, and I no longer consider smartphones as fit for purpose.
I use ublock in advanced mode ( broken web by default + white lists ). I have no experience with the non-expert mode and for this reason tend to recommend / install ABP to friends / family.

Somehow, my intuition is that ublock is too advanced/complex for non-tech-affine users.
> Do you have any analysis you can point to to substantiate this?

Unfortunately I don't, no. I thought about running such an analysis as part of my grad studies (this was quite a while ago; I've switched careers since then) but I didn't get much farther than filling up a napkin before I decided I was already stretched too thin in my coursework.

Ultimately the premise is based on cubed-vs-squared relationships in rocketry (both in terms of aerodynamic forces and structural ones, though through a neat trick of math the mass of your fuel tanks actually scales linearly with their volume [1]). Like most other things in engineering, there are also economies of scale at play (for example, avionics mass consumes a smaller mass fraction of larger rockets), but my hunch -- and this is, as you say, fairly unsubstantiated -- is that the aerodynamic effects alone are sufficient. Cubed-vs-squared in aerodynamics is really just incredibly punishing. At 35kft (Stratolaunch's altitude) it's not as good as at 100kft or so (like you might expect with a weather balloon), but it's still a pretty big difference [2] -- basically allowing you to halve the radius of your rocket compared to an equivalent aero loss at sea level.

To take this to a really absurd level, I can imagine a 100kg rocket -- large by amateur model rocket standards, but beyond tiny compared to consumer rocketry -- with sufficient mass ratio to make it to orbit in a vacuum, but I can't possibly imagine the same rocket making it from the earth's surface.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_vessel#Design

[2] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/standard-atmosphere-d_604...