skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I understand your concern your viewpoint is naive. Civil engineering is a relatively close knit field (as are many fields). Possibility for kickbacks is definitely there.

Something that has really put me off of license requirements is the relish that I have seen inspectors take in telling people they're going to need tens of thousands in renovations to bring a home up to code. Some of these items are things like "window sill does not go far enough inside."
> You can't by design get the key out of the tpm nor necessarily control which keys are trusted by local software nor remote machines.

I know this... I've even repeatedly stated as such in this thread.

The rest of your post is just a silly hypothetical and frankly linking gnu is just discrediting.
I tried it and it's buttery smooth. Feels like notepad.
Accounting 101:

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Credit,Debit

$1500,2.5M Doge

2.5M Doge,0

Bankrupt

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The business lost $1500
This feels like "the front fell off".

Why did this building collapse?

Well, typically, they don't collapse.
It's quite hilarious to see this sentiment from all the Americans in the comments while the actual Canadians seem to mostly say "this was already the case?" and people from other countries not being impressed at all.

Yes, laws around speech should be well designed, but the entire premise of them seems to already induce this pearl-clutching. That's quite puzzling to me, especially since the US has lax laws around speech, but definitely has them, it's not free.
As an uninformed outsider, from the grand scheme of things, I wouldn't consider any coastal Miami property to be 'safe' regardless of any reports or ratings.

The whole area is sinking, quite quickly overall. It's just common sense to disregard the results of any report deeming any building in the area 'safe', when the local government has been religiously denying that climate change even exists at all, and the insurance companies and report writers all have a short-term incentive to pretend nothing is wrong.

I have not read the report. But I also don't need the report to know that no building in the area is safe enough for me to want to live there.
GDP PPP is more appropriate. Cuba has a fairly good PPP per capita GDP.
Agreed. That report was absolutely not a call to urgent emergency action. The closest is a warning that the building was built wrong and will eventually need to be fixed, 2.5 pages in.
Being last in Media Trust is something to be proud of.
This is a very good point, policy making in Canada has shifted to an enormous degree to the courts. And the Supreme Court has also been very vocal about choosing its own members too [0].
The BBC had a lecture series [1] on something similar happening in the UK with the creation of their relatively new Supreme Court.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but perhaps provinces pushing back with the Notwithstanding clause will send a signal. It's tempting to be envious of the US and its more circumscribed constitution, but one good thing in Canada is that there's a mandatory retirement age at 75 for Supreme Court judges.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/marc-nadon-sup...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057m9
You could just as easily argue that the owners of the building must be at fault because they have a financial incentive not to repair structural damage for as long as possible.

We can also look at this from the lens of outcomes if we lean too far one way or the other with our approach to safety standards - too strict, and we allocate money poorly. Too lax, and people die.
YouTube blocked testimonials about missing Uyghurs in China: Report
> Note that none of your criticism about Docker applies to Podman.

It's not a criticism of docker. It's "docker does the same thing", because there are good reasons to abstract that functionality. I'm not familiar with podman internals.

> Why would I ever want to use containers with a tool that ...

Because you have to deal with those things always. You can do them yourself, you can do them with other services, or your can do them in the currently-most-common framework of systemd. You can still pick and choose from those elements as you want.

> You're just working at a higher level of abstraction, which can be comforting, but simplifying would be to use the underlying systems directly or using a tool that only focuses on a single aspect

I don't really see the namespaces and service management as different things. They're pretty much one idea these days.

It's also simplifying things because I can write my own script with the necessary unshare / mount / ip stuff. But the common patterns are repeating so much, I'd rather use a single option for it.

> Great, then the article shouldn't import systemd bindings

They're not bindings, just abstraction. Why should that be treated differently from "shouldn't import fmt, just concatenate strings", "shouldn't use rand, just open /dev/urandom"?

> My point is that the program is now tied to systemd systems.

Only in these examples. Actual apps normally autodetect the relevant variables and not rely on activation if it's not available. You're never tied to systemd activation / keep alive notification unless you choose to do it.
I like the concept. Neat!

Kind of broken on safari (eg playing the lifespan) and the overall UX seems to have some challenging usability corner cases, at least on mobile (eg when you first visit, that initial pop up is hard to figure out how to dismiss/any close button if it’s there isn’t visible)
That's, at least partially, a technical limitation. The cable television network was designed and built for massively more signal going to homes (vudeo) than coming back from them (authentication or whatever).

DSL does it more by choice, but the main problem there is that there's just so little bandwidth all together (upload and download combined).

That's not to say I disagree with you. I dropped cable internet and switched to fiber the moment it became available, because it gave me symmetric speeds.
Whistleblower Thought He Would Get a Big Payout. He Got Nothing and Went Broke
That’s not what happened with FriendlyJordies. Christo approached John Barillaro, deputy premier of NSW, whilst happening upon him on his way to school (The Con).

Barillaro then sicked an anti-terrorism task force on him, lying about almost ever aspect of the encounter. The difference? Those being actually stalked could never get this unit to act.

A complete abuse of power. But different to this.
> Metal working machines are among the most dangerous equipment one can operate.

No, woodworking stuff is FAR more dangerous.

The reason for this is twofold:

1) Metalworking almost always involves workholding.

Metalworking almost always has a vise attached to your work and the machine. Metalworking almost always has your hands somewhere other than near the sharp bits. A mill has your hands on the dials. A lathe is similar. A drill press has your hands on a handle.

With woodworking, your fingers are almost always the motive force and they almost always pass near the cutting edge even if you are using push sticks and sleds.

2) Woodworking machines rotate far faster

Radial and circular saws can remove your hand in a blink. Wood lathes often throw or explode the part while your hands are right next to them.

Admittedly, the plural of anecdote is not data. However, almost all the woodworking accidents I have seen have been far more problematic than the metalworking accidents I have seen.
It's possible to be nonbinary and use any variety of pronouns. However, the letter from Near's friend used they/them, so that's probably the right set.
What @geofft said. Several stories of Near's passing with many comments were on the front page, but got deduped with the oldest which was not on the front page, and did not get bumped up in ranking accordingly.
Is beef bad for the environment?
Great comment.

> This is a global phenomenon because a lot of 'new' constitutions are being written.

Global, but now new. US was, I think, leading the pack here: its Supreme Court has reworked its entire system in early-to-mid 20th century into something completely different than the original Constitution has intended, with Wickard v. Filburn as the keystone. Then, this "new" constitution has gotten an amendment in form of Civil Rights acts in the 60s, which again have been interpreted well beyond their original intention, often, in fact, as something that's literally opposite of what it actually says.
So you'd be comfortable to live in a high rise building for which an independent engineering report contained the following text?

The joint sealant was observed to be beyond its useful life and are in need of complete replacement. However, the waterproofing below the Pool Deck & Entrance Drive as well as all of the planter waterproofing is beyond its useful life and therefore must all be completely removed and replaced. The failed waterproofing is causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially.

Edit - this is text from the actual report - not sure why the downvotes.
I think you might mistake them for some people who care.

A bunch of bullies does care about who the victim is, all they care about is the jolt of adrenaline and the feeling of power an impunity.
Thanks, this is a great read.
Suicide is sad and tragic. That said, calling this "murder" is gross hyperbole and very selfish. How is the person speaking for the dead qualified to make this accusation? Where does the line of personal responsibility begin? If every grievance in one's life can be blamed on others, then we will all end up executed by those who would cast judgment. By the author's logic, it's not a stretch to call every suicide "murder."

To the author: Yes, it is different than murder. Murder is when one person kills another knowingly and maliciously. Bullying and harassment, no matter how disgusting, is not murder. Close, yes, perhaps, but still undeserving of the hyperbole.

This is not to say those harassing and bullying (if that did happen; I have not looked into the author's claims, nor do I follow the BSNES/Higan community) should not be held to account.

As a culture, we must fight against this tide of hyperbole in every argument and every disagreement. It leads to one thing and one thing only: violence. We don't need to fracture society further by casting everyone who does bad things as a "terrorist." There are spectrums of crime and punishment; it's not binary.
I didn't downvote you, but I'm pretty sure it's this sentence that got you the downvotes:

> Obviously there is a problem with the credibility of the reports because of conflicting incentives. Inspectors are usually from construction companies who want to get work, so they will always find something wrong with a building.

Responding for myself: I have read many such reports, met inspectors, and never ever had the perception which you label an "obvious problem." In my experience, HN doesn't take well to aspersions cast without supporting evidence, much less unsubstantiated aspersions qualified as "obvious."

Hope that helps.
It's probably from ReCaptcha, but Discord is the one deciding to use that service to protect their logins so they are ultimately responsible.
The observation of "intuition" is that people analyze or make decisions without having insight into the process.

The logical conclusion is that people have background processing that is independent of their consciousness. But that entity doesn't manifest as an independent personality.

I have always had the experience that I can read something with a lot of details, and feel like I am skimming and not focusing well, almost to the point where I wonder if I really am an effective reader.

But then inconsistencies appear in my mind, so that if I need to discuss what I've read, I have plenty to talk about.
Netflix's set of available movies for streaming is substantially smaller than what a high-quality video store carried.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/8kghfj/how_many_f...

In any case, libraries have solved the scaling problem up to hundreds of thousands of titles or so, you combine browsing with a topical cataloging system (So you can get to the general area that interests you and browse around).
Preserving Section 230 Is Key to Maintaining the Free and Open Internet
Massive missing (except when its fire season) debate in Australia about over-ground vs under-ground service delivery. No question the build out was faster because over ground, but its subject to ongoing maintenance and risks.

If this was in-ground, we'd still be discussing the PCB issues with transformers, and there'd be a class of ground level problem around joints and damage from water incursion, but a lot of the simple weather/mechanistic/fire risks of powerpoles would just not be there.

South Australia has "stobie" poles made of Iron sections with concrete in-fill. They have a following all of their own. They fight back (against car hits)

The wooden poles in the streetscape here in Oz are very very tough. It amazes me people succeed in stapling their lost kitty signs to them. But, dog urine beats even the hardest timber.

I saw a pole mounted transformer take a lightning hit once. That was pretty.
I guarantee you, all houses and alertments will Eventually collapse.
Thousands without power during record-breaking heat
You can’t put any weight into what people on the internet think of you. Especially if you have no real life support to buoy you against the never ending torrent of free abuse available if you go looking for it.

Be weird, do your own thing for your own reasons and let that be enough.
What about CimaVax-EGF?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CimaVax-EGF
No, the difference I’m alluding to is regarding the criticality of the power plant vs. stuffing shit into a box. Amazon can pay its workers more to fix the shortage without detracting from some notion of “progress.”
All of the games I listed are similar, Pavlov VR is my favorite and it comes with basically no game by default and everything is custom game modes implemented as maps from the steam workshop. I have no idea which one is easier from a creators perspective but from a player point, I absolutely love checking out the new maps and seeing a totally different way to play a FPS.
Java, Nix and Reproducibility
Do you think it's hard to run it to better outcomes than the US?
This is kind of the emotional mechanism behind a lot of crypto investment. It's not intentional, and it's kind of sneaky, but with the strong fluctuations and chance of "hitting it big" there's always the "what if..." feeling. As someone who doesn't care much for crypto (in its current form anyway) and was never involved in it at all, even I have this to some degree as I was aware of it very early on (when it was still interesting, instead of what it's become now).

This is probably a big reason why there are so many "amateur" investors compared to more traditional investments/trading.
Community Power Part 3: Just Do It
Also in this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610

Which links to an Google Drive doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pOhaaFh998B0kyc5Sm4Ihlh...

Which claims to be from a mutual friend and is so fucking sad I couldn't finish reading.
> Perhaps the most famous example is figuring out passwords by measuring the time it takes for a program to reject candidate passwords. The longer rejection takes, the longer password prefix can be deduced

That's odd. Wouldn't a password check be performed on the hashed version of the plaintext password? Words that share prefixes shouldn't produce hashes with the same prefix. There shouldn't be any difference in the time it takes wether the prefix is wrong or correct.
> It also is under no obligation to publish content it doesn’t want to publish.

So you are agreeing that they are publishers and not platforms? Yet they continue to get away with claiming immunity for "being a platform".

Rosa Parks should have just started her own bus company too?

Railroads, telecom, electricity and water companies should be able to refuse service too?

Are you against the FDA, EPA, FCC, FEC etc?

How about Net Neutrality? Private businesses should be able to charge whatever they want and for whatever content they want right?

How about the government-forced lockdowns forcing private businesses to shut down and go bankrupt?

And how about the baker who refused to bake cake for the gay couple for religious reasons?

> Facebook is not a communication monopoly

They are openly coordinating with other tech companies and even the state government of California. Over 50% of the population's viewpoints are being censored/throttled. Zuckerberg was coordinating with government employee Fauci to censor the lab leak and other news. When exactly does someone become a monopoly in your book?
Looks like the flat waterproofing was only applicable to the pool deck slab according to the report... is NPR's interpretation misleading here?
No, they are arguing with the heuristic 'if it's bad to inhale, it's probably bad to ingest.' They provided examples in which this wasn't the case.

No one is saying smoke inhalation is harmless. But to conclude it shouldn't be ingested based on this fact alone is dubious.
99% of the toolchain I'm using is free. I have donated, but not regularly. The paid s/w I have to use is universally depressing, and almost impossible to seek improvement for.

(large corporates, changed dynamic. It's not like free doesn't also get #WONTFIX in the issues log (signal: I'm looking at you) but at least there is something close to a dialogue)
Humans have a wide range of emotional response curves. Sometimes they're really steep and being harassed is an absolute nightmare of highs and lows. This is called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) in neurodivergent discourse.
You bought a house 20 years ago for $200k. Today, it is valued at $2M. What's your insurance payout if it burns down tomorrow?
The phrasing from the report:

> The failed waterproofing is causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially.

I agree that it doesn't say "it'll fall apart right this moment" (and well... it did take like 2 more years), but I would wonder why anyone would receive a report with the above phrasing and not seek clarification.

That all being said, we don't know if this specific thing was meaningfully involved in the collapse.
Bitcoin on the Verge of Collapse or Explosion?
The support is bad but this was phishing: how is it coinbase their fault?

Not to mention that most big companies have kafkesque awful support, but if they offer better for $0.01/year more, all their clients will go elsewhere. Bad support is only noticed when you got bitten and just not that a big % gets bitten, even if support is awful for almost all that needed such support (you need support, the bot chat does not work for you (apparently it works for people) and then you need to have a bad experience).
Another reason for "code as data" is to enable (safe) remote code execution via RPC.

For example you may want to query a database with a custom filter predicate function. If you pass one of BLisp's `Pure` functions across the wire, the database could execute the function with relative safety (compared with using `eval` with a string, or whatever).

I find it frustrating that almost all popular languages lack any safe facility for this, so people have to create some limited query schema (with it's own custom wire encoding and mini-interpretter), or instantiate a sandbox for a non-pure language like Lua and eval a string, or else invent their own fully-blown programming language along the lines of BLisp.
It's also fairly trivial to decompile an APK to verify they haven't done something as obvious as adding or replacing classes. In the Play Store case, they are doing some extra asset minification and are serving split APKs with only the assets needed for the target device, which is certainly welcome as an end user with limited storage.

I would, however, enjoy a scheme where I could trace the Play Store's signature back to the key I used to sign the app bundle for upload. Like if I could sign their key with mine.
The report was issued in 2018 and warned that without expensive remediation the structural damage would expand exponentially. It may have started in the pool deck.
I thought adding LaTeX (or similar) to the Gemini protocol was a huge missed opportunity. It could be the standard for research and universities.
"Big tech san francisco" has no obligation to platform anything. They can choose which posts they want to leave up based on their own whims. Now, if the government were to crack down on lab leak speculation, that would be a legal free speech issue.

Slander, meanwhile, is by definition false (as determined by a court). If the court finds that it isn't false, then it wasn't slander. Thus it isn't protected by law, and the state can prosecute you over it.
Well, the UK also had about double the deaths per capita of similar nations (Germany, France).
Pretty tone-deaf and unnecessary to nitpick a eulogy.
You're supposition and your anecdote don't tell the same story. Overly restrictive codes and under the table kick backs are two entirely different issues. They may stem from the same pot, but one is legal red tape and the other is clearly illegal.

That being said, you may be right, but I don't see anything that supports the parent comment's assertion about it being widespread enough to affect decisions around making repairs, especially in situations where the building is structurally not sound.
Try saying that when ‘those mean internet people’ are doxing your friends, or emailing your coworkers.

Don’t downplay the issue.
The A380 was a smooth ride, but oh so boring to fly on. But maybe I am weird for liking to fly on tiny things like ERJ135. In a A380 it's just 8 hours of noisy bus ride with way to many people.
I'm half hoping the tech community bands together over this and shows Kiwi Farms that they poked the wrong beehive. I wish first and foremost all the KW bullies involved with this are tracked down, doxxed, and put through the US (or whatever their country of origin is) legal ringer. Additionally I wouldn't mind if KW itself is pwned by some Lulzsec type group.