skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what is called a 'progressive collapse'.The badly corroded rebar at the pool support level seem to be the first site that collapsed. This would be in the weakest column. As it failed it's strength would go to near zero - yet there are 12 floors above it - and one vertical beam has failed.The weight born by this beam would suddenly be transferred to the 4 adjacent beams accompanies by a shock. Possibly one of these fails and we now have 2 failed beams - and it progresses. Had all the beams had all 4 rebar strings(as dictated by the plans) the structure might have been able to absorb this shock and remain standing? We will never know, the corroded and insufficient rebar underwent a progressive or 'pancake' failure and the furniture and people were compressed into a gap of 6 inches or so on each floor as the pictures show. Where hundreds of tons of concrete is concerned the wooden parts have essentially zero strength and they would pancake to a few inches or so.
Those people died in a fraction of a second.Someone on the topmost floors might have a chance as some strong furniture migt have been able to act as a bridge to make a survivors cavity, as is often found in earth quake collapses.
This is an example of people driven by an extreme pressure to save money and spend nothing on maintenance. I suggest that the cash flow of this building be examined to see how badly the owners looted the treasury over the past 10 years. One would expect a 40 year old building to be fully paid for and would need only $$ for maintenance and wages to be drawn out.
I suspect it was used as a cash cow = neglected maintenance.
Being a condo, each suite has its own balance sheet, but the owners have a responsibility to fund the reserve fund to do the repairs = the managers are on the hook, and it may have been a pro condo management company that cheated the structure of the needed work.
There were photos that showed only half of the rebar in the plans was in place = criminal liability - but I hear the original people in charge died a few years ago...
The only way I could explain this to my wife was telling her that programming is like falling asleep. And people asking stuff while you try to program is as destructive as people asking you stuff while you are trying to fall asleep (or sleeping already): if you asked and I answered, damage is already done. No matter how small the response or how simple the question was.
I can think of at least 4 big movie theaters in DC that did this.

The Uptown used to do revivals between big releases. I saw Blade Runner, Ben Hur, 2001, and other classics there. They did not make money on those and had to convert to 100% current releases. I think it is now closed.

The Air & Space IMAX theater used to do “Sci Fi Sundays” where they played a classic science fiction movie on Sunday evenings as the last showing.

The Avalon is in one of the richest neighborhoods on DC/MD border. When it went bankrupt all the neighbors pooled their money and started a nonprofit to keep it open.

The AFI has a theater in a MD suburb, which shows all sorts of revivals and classics year round.

In every one of these theaters I am always shocked to see how few people a classic pulls in. Went to see Blade Runner “Final Cut” at AFI on a huge screen and there were like 40 people. 2001 in a 70mm print was about half full. Inception or Interstellar in IMAX (the real one, 70 ft tall screen) was less than half full.

A small takeaway is that, with so much historical catalog, the audience is very finely chopped up. Only a relatively small % of people love each old movie enough to rally to the theater at a specific night and time.

The big takeaway is how crucial strong marketing is for theater attendance. Undoubtedly there were many available casual fans who simply did not know about these showings. Mass marketing is hard and expensive.
The ones I've had had a strong hop flavor, and reminded me of an IPA.
The phenomenon of "The Room" being one of the most popular cult movies ever needs to be examined. I think the thing that makes "The Room" work is its raw authenticity. It totally, unashamedly owns its weirdness.

Badly written novels and screenplays often have the feeling of watching a cheap puppet show where the author is clearly visible puppeteering all the other characters because they act unrealistically and in accordance with the author's poor understanding of the world and people. In "The Room", the painfully eccentric author is not only puppeteering, but he's acting and directing it, and not in a hypothetical way. It goes so totally over the top with that that it's epic in an unexpected way because the writing intends to be serious.
If the fan is off for at least a minute, the energy to start it should be much smaller than the energy to keep it going. If that's not true, then fix the fan design.
> So DEC's PDP-8 and OS-8 directly inspired the entire PC-compatible industry, the whole x86 computer industry.

I disagree w/ the claim that the PDP-8 directly inspired x86. At the operating system level, maybe: OS/8 -> CP/M -> DOS. At the architecture level, no: PDP-8 -> 8080?

The x86 architecture is _nothing_ if not a slavish progression from 8080, 8085, 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8#Description

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8080#Registers
I have seen these mechanisms abused by managers to retain talent exactly as you are describing. Guaranteed way to lose talent rather than just let it switch teams. Poorly managed teams should wither if the skip level doesn’t recognize it.
Herbie 1.5 Released
It's only not sad if you live with a completely utilitarian life where art and the beauty of human creation have no value.

Why don't we all just listen to one song, wear the same outfit and live in identical homes?

Regardless of whether they're useful, unique and irreplaceable information will be lost when minority languages are gone, as this information exists only in the minds of the remaining speakers. It isn't possible to back up this kind of information like we do with the Internet Archive or something.
Also Discord, though a bit smaller than the Slack: https://discord.gg/R6n7c54
what's so hard abt the bus
> Would it be OK if I launched a tech preview of my AI poem writer companion that would copy lines but also complete stanzas from famous poets, rock bands and singer-songwriters?

Yes it would be if it only happened ~0.1% of the time and if quoting verbatim wasn't the intended function of the system but merely a side-effect. In fact, that's what artists sometimes do deliberately.

It's what happens with other GANs as well and all that needs to happen is to educate users about the possibility of this. As long as you don't take ownership of the output produced by your AI (and neither do Microsoft), it's at the discretion of the user what they use the generated content for and in which context.

It has been demonstrated that training data can be extracted from any large NLP model [0] so this wouldn't come as a surprise either.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07805

https://towardsdatascience.com/openai-gpt-leaking-your-data-...
>I still can't justify the cost. One of the reasons I want to cut back on beer is to save money.

Why not walk to the far end of the cooler where the domestic 30s are?
The normal way (as far as I know) to do inversion in LAPACK is to do LU (in place), and then do invert (also in place) on the LU factors (so they get eaten up by the invert). I guess it would be possible to do: LU, then do some solves, then do invert with those LU factors, it just seems a little odd.
Brilliant writing
Hmm. I wonder if it would be easier to bring the MacOS features to Linux, or the Linux features to MacOS.

Theoretically, it's doable because both systems are 'unix-like' under the hood. It really boils down to it being 'an itch that somebody needs to scratch'. It could be you. <grin>
Going to drop this Dan Pink video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgGhSOAtAyQ

Basically what motivates good engineers is a good problem. If we can meet our basic needs we give the rest away for free. Companies/entities have been using/exploiting this for years. The gamification points are lame (I agree) but I believe there is a general desire to contribute to the common good and give back to the community.
I think this model works for classical music and opera because there just aren't that many works worth performing. How many operas are there that are still performed? 80% of performances are probably of the top twenty operas, certainly under a hundred. 99% of performances are covered by maybe a few hundred.

How many good old films are there? An order of magnitude more than that! So what do you put on? Whatever you choose, you won't attract a significant chunk of fans, the way you can attract a significant chunk of opera fans by putting on The Magic Flute.

There are probably a lot more film fans than opera fans. But opera fans are probably willing to spend a lot more per event than film fans.
I really love this idea- I can think of 10 of my friends in SF who would love this and would more than happily pay for it, including myself. Have you launched there yet? Also are you currently hiring for marketing roles? I would love to work on a product like this
> my labor is worthless

The opposite is true. Analogy: Volvo invented the three point seatbelt. To maximize the value of the invention, they gave it away free to use.
From Node to Ruby on Rails
A lot of people in this thread are coming in here to shit on Oracle.

I don't know anything about Oracle. Maybe they're awful. But I've interacted with the folks on the GraalVM team on a semi-regular basis and they're all genuinely friendly, helpful people.

I can understand bringing up "Hey the parent company is no bueno in my book"

But I don't think it's necessarily fair to the humans behind the product, who don't embody the company itself and are (for the most part) just genuinely interested in working on this problem and building a product -- to bring that kind of criticism.

Imagine you got your dream job working on something you were passionate about, and you're just doing your honest-to-god best, but every time someone brings up your work the only thing you hear is "Hey, fuck your company."

=(

Just my $0.02 though
I think that determining `this` at the call-site is really awful, and has been the cause of many more bugs than is reasonable

That’s what almost all (more or less) dynamic languages do, except those that don’t have an arbitrary “object” struct. Out of few dynamic languages only python does what you need, at the cost of the enormous GC pressure. It’s okay for python because it was meant to be slow as hell by design.

And even then the solution would be more error-prone than the “issue” itself. Consider this code:

app.use(sass({
src: “.”,
log: console.log,
log2: function () {…},
}))

Should the anonymous object overtake console.log()’s “this”? And for log2()? And if you create an object and assign a bunch of functions to it in a literal? Later in the code?

Your frustration is understandable, but I assure you that python’s “bound methods” are really awful to debug as well (been there done that), because the issue is not in functions taking “this” one way or another, but in a mismatch between developer’s expectations and reality.
This is a valid concern. I did years of homebrew beer before I learned there is food grade and non-food grade CO2. You should not be using non-food grade to carbonate water or beer. It can have oils and other residue in it.
Australians fear attack from China almost as much as Taiwanese do
https://archive.ph/tCAVA
A lot of people uses stackoverflow for the gamification. Others just want to give something back to the community.

Open source is a great way to market yourself. If I have some really valuable code, then I'll keep it for myself. If I think it would be more useful and gain traction as an open source project then I might publish it and in that way position myself as the top expert on that software.

A lof of businesses are actively using, publishing and contributing to open source. Not because they don't want to make money, but because it's the way to make money.
You’re going to have to provide evidence that millenials are poorer than their counterparts in 1970 because that seems unlikely.
> Even if that were the case, use the CE or collocate or self host.

Or, as the op suggested, their pricing is just straight up insane
If only the taxi drivers would have fixed their broken credit card machines.
I have done exactly this with my own ducted Fujitsu system. I initially used the IRMQTTServer project from the IRremoteESP8266 library, which integrates into HA through MQTT.

https://github.com/crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266/blob/master/...

I now use esphome on absolutely everything and it's WAY better, and I was able to eliminate MQTT from my stack. I could have used the built in climate component—it worked 99% perfectly. But in order to make the Fujitsu climate component behave consistently with the air conditioner itself (e.g. setting "dry" mode forces "auto" fan speed) I re-implemented the climate component as a custom component.

https://gist.github.com/sjwright/8591ebd36b53bbed588179135c2...

I have three zones, so I took three "D1 Mini" style ESP8266 clones, attached an IR emitter to D5/GPIO14 and embedded it inside the air conditioner itself. Each AC has a little daughter board for status LEDs and the IR receiver; there's also 12 volts going to that which I use to power the D1 Mini, which in turn regulates a 3.3V output for powering my IR emitter.
arrow functions and spread do not cover all use cases of call/apply/bind

proxies and wrappers are two areas where you need call because you need be able able to pass the correct "this" which arrow functions will fail to do
the government is after you specifically

Not specifically and not today, but they are collecting and archiving data just in case they do find me interesting in the future.

While it's less likely that some foreign power will ever find me interesting.
Google flew me from the USA to Europe to do this in the late 2000s!

I thought I was going for two days to discuss Google acquiring my (very small) product and company. What actually happened was half of a two-day long tech interview, and me being a tourist with my second day...

I feel like I should be annoyed, but weirdly I look back on it all fondly. They obviously didn't get what they thought they were going to get - but I got a weird, interesting, day with them, a stay in a great hotel, and a free day of vacation...
Indeed, it makes it sound like some elf language while it's actually just "river valley" language (älv=river, dal(en)=valley).
What environmental impact?
Do you have a reputable source for that? I've never heard that before, it seems to defy intuition in a couple of ways, and it defies my own electricity bill.

First, water vapor in air is usually less than 2% of air by mass, and contrary to what you say there's absolutely no phase change involved -- water vapor isn't steam, it's far far below boiling. And AC usually doesn't condense more than about 25% of humidity, so it's really a tiny, tiny amount of water being cooled relative to air being cooled. So I'm missing what could possible be so energy-intensive about cooling water vapor, or why condensation would be relevant to energy usage at all? (Cool condensation still helps "chill" the room.)

And second, even if that were the case, wouldn't it be the identical energy loss when heating? A heat pump in the winter is literally just air-conditioning the outside, and produces similar condensation in the unit outdoors. In fact, my heat pump runs in reverse for ~15 min once or twice a day on really cold days (suddenly it blows cold air inside and warm air outside) in order to melt the accumulated ice from condensation, to continue operating safely.

So I don't see at all how how cooling somehow uses 3.5x more energy than heating. My personal electric bill with my heat pump is also about 2x as expensive in the coldest winter months (heating from 25°F to 70°F = +45°F) as in the warmest summer months (cooling from 90°F to 70°F = -20°F). If your math were correct, it would be roughly the opposite.

As far as I can tell, the cost of running a heat pump is basically the same no matter which direction you're running it.
Mandatory vaccines will not convince people to get vaccinated. It will, however, make people even more suspicious and reluctant.

The only way to convince the unvaccinated is by taking their concerns seriously, which is broadly not being done. Instead, people have coopted the issue into their personal political struggle and labeled all skeptics as mentally deficient.

As the lines have been drawn, I predict the US, among many other countries, will never approach herd immunity, no matter how bad the variants are. Let this be a lesson for the future.
> I often think Fernando Pessoa is the #1 thing one misses out on by not speaking Portuguese.

Curiously, I have this same thought whenever I read Pessoa.
Humans can't recognize what they haven't seen either, no?
There’s a “hipster” movie theater near me that does this. It seems to be moderately successful, but by no means a runaway success. I just don’t think the demand is there for this to be a widespread business.
Where is Mozilla getting the readyState value of 3 from?
w3.org only mentions valid values of 0, 1 and 2? [0]

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-websockets-20091222/#dom-webso...
I commonly use git as an example the blockchain data structure in use before Bitcoin, and that it's really not the vital part of made Bitcoin innovative. It sure ended up as a powerful brand though.
A lot of those massive releases are Disney though and they seem to be going all in on Disney+. There might be the occasionally cultural moments that generate new box office records, but I’d expect say the average box office return of the top 20 for the year to be in decline.
This is fun. As I’m working on my little hobby project that is custom air quality meters I am using 128x64 screens that are about an inch on the diagonal. I ended up having to create a custom pixel font that would work for both 6pt and 8pt height plus some icons in each. It’s been a really fun experience and rewarding too.
The threat of China invading Taiwan is growing every day. What the U.S. can do
The betterment of the human species is more important by far than maximizing the profits any particular individual can earn. Once a work is created the marginal cost of reproduction is close to zero. Software is valuable. A copy of software is paradoxically worth nothing.

It's true that software developers need to eat too but we need to figure out a way to do so without making the world more cumbersome, transactional, and shitty.
See also: https://blog.cuviper.com/2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbrev...
I used to live pretty close to the AFI in Silver Spring and while I thought their selection of older movies was pretty great, I didn't end up going terribly often. I think it's linked to the fact that for most people (certainly me), going to the movies is a social occasion (I don't think I've ever gone to a movie theater by myself - I know people do, but I suspect that's a fairly small minority).

Anyhow, marketing does it's job - lots of people have some awareness of new movies coming out, and they're curious about that thing that they've heard about but haven't seen. It just seems tougher to drum up interest to go see Officespace or Edward Scissorhands or Seven Samurai or whatever - "I just saw that on TV", "Seen it a million times", "Never heard of it", etc.
If you go to the OS language selection on your computer, you'll probably find 'Portuguese - BR' (Brazilian) and 'Portuguese - PT' (Portugal). Sometimes you'll find subtitles on Netflix described as either Brazilian Portuguese or Portugal's Portuguese. It's the same language, but the difference is way greater than australian and british english. Sentence structure varies, some vocabulary, etc.
In Brazil we study Pessoa too, at around the same age. Also Eça, Camões, etc.
> Languages do not map to eachother one to one. The works of Shakespeare, for instance, are untranslatable to another language, without some loss of meaning.

But isn't it exactly why in the ideal world everyone would speak the same language? Otherwise, due to the untranslatability, every Shakespeare is lost to the rest of the world that doesn't speak his language.
Open-source date range picker. No dependencies. – Litepicker
Are you planning on expanding to houses? I’d love to send someone details on my house, a budget, and have them design the interior and buy all the furniture for me.
Infrared optics work because humans and vehicles are warmer than their surroundings. Not sure if you would appear cooler than your surroundings at night and if so, if you would stand out more or less than a warmer object. Would expect the detectors to be tuned to look for warmer objects, but just a guess.
Data point: here in Boston suburbs every supermarket has it.
NYC taxis have their issues, too. Not sure if it is still the case, but when my sister lived in New York (five years ago), Taxis wouldn't even go to her neighborhood in Manhattan (Inwood, the north tip).
Hard to say or to rule this out as well.

https://principia-scientific.com/why-the-current-interglacia...

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycl...

Anyways, seems humanity is going into very intense periods going forward.
It’s the place that offered me a job first. Need of money, I had an infant at the time
> If you assume another sevenfold increase over the past 5 years, then they should have around 250 million commits now.

Decent guess. Rate's gone up; they're at about 382 million now. [1] You can see the current number in the PiperOrigin-RevId: on several public repositories that get changes synced from Google's internal Piper.

I'm not looking at that paper (as I'm about to walk out the door); one thing to check is if the number there includes just the actual commits or also the pending CL numbers (same concept as Perforce). The number I'm quoting includes both.

[1] https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/commit/6f42c40d6ebcf2aeb8...
There are definitely some cities like that — San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles metro all come to mind. And we did waste however many billions of dollars on a high-speed rail system that still doesn’t exist. And we keep catching on fire every summer.

But in the central valley where the majority of conservatives in California live, there are MUCH smaller cities, and therefore have fewer “people” problems by comparison. Sure, Fresno and Sacramento have some homeless problems, but those are usually crack and meth users in a particular part of town that everyone else knows should be avoided. The reality is, everywhere has some sort of problems that you’ll find if you look hard enough.

Having said that, I was one of the people who chose to leave California. I love California, and it will always be my home, but being a single father with two children making $140,000 a year in the Bay Area in 2016, I was barely making ends meet.

The rat race of the bay area, combined with high gas prices, combined with terrible traffic that extends 100 miles in any direction from San Francisco, it just stopped being worth it. So I left.

I know that I don’t represent everyone, but I’m one of the statistics that got “rounded off“.
English somewhat often adopts foreign words when we don't have a word that means exactly the same thing.

Ideas and experiences precede words and inform language, not the other way around.
The reason high school bullies get back in touch later in life (2019)
I used to think the same thing, but empirically it seems that diverse ecosystems are healthier and more resilient to unexpected pressures, and this seems to be universally true.
I didn’t mean isotopes. I want to challenge you with this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_nuclides but I misremember the name sometimes.
What I don't get about the article is if there is a difference between glass, plastic, and aluminum cans. I would assume the article is going over plastic bottles but around here most TopoChico options come in glass.