skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, I'd buy one at a bargain basement price then insure it heavily if it wouldn't trigger a fraud alert...

I think at this point the building is way too heavy to ever fix and they should demolish it and cut the losses.

It happens all the time in China because of weak building codes.

Once a structure is compromised like this, there really is no sound way to salvage it in my experience, and it's a danger to the entire neighborhood, not only the occupants.

The bad part is that many of the occupants will suffer either way this goes... All insurance payouts should go to the unit buyers before any of the people involved in profiting get anything, but things never work that way. Attorneys will likely profit the most. The people responsible for the failed design and build should be blacklisted from future projects of this kind, that is where most injustice usually manifests in failures like this.
fwiw, I myself only found out about that trick sone months ago...
Ball and chain except with pencils and highlighters instead of picks and shovels.
> All those anonymous function wraps add clutter, and that clutter accumulates.

Another great example of this is feature flags -- adding/removing an entire chunk of code in most languages tends to be limited to (for example) the inside of a function.

(when-feature :something
(def some-constant ...)

(defn some-function [...]))

... is not possible in most languages, where you end up intermingling conditionals into the body of definitions and functions all over the place, creating dead code and issues besides.

> JavaScript users are stuck with JSX, which is less concise, and in my opinion far less good.

And a key aspect to it as well is that JSX is a fully-custom extension, not something that can be implemented in JS as a library -- whereas Hiccup is 'just another library' allowing for fast iteration and experimentation by the community.
Probably 664 is what they had available, or what their calculated geometry called for. It seems silly to speculate that they could have or should have gone for 666 but deliberately chose not to. If that were the case, why not 665 or 667? Is there any reason to think 666 would have been a more appropriate number?
Agree with you, and Swift is also such a great language. I went from it to Lisp, sometimes I ponder about returning back (however my use case currently is for Lisp).
> It’s not exclusive with search poisoning.

Not to say that it is, but email lists being sold around is table stakes for advertising and search, so that might be faster and easier than trying to change ad results via search queries.
Speaking of fact checking, this whole post needs a _citation needed_. I don't recall fact checkers _ever_ say masks below N95 "doesn't work". There was a brief period where mask wearing wasn't recommended, in a possibly ill-suited ploy to prevent hoarding.

I don't recall fact checkers ever saying the lab theory was "preposterous", only that it was unsupported by evidence at the time.

I don't recall fact checkers ever saying the vaccine "stops" the virus spread, only that it dramatically reduces transmission. There was always concerns about variant escape from like, April 2020.

Addition: Clearly, there is a disconnect between what I experienced "fact checkers" saying, and you, or others, experienced. Using the phrasing "fact checkers said X" is extremely veridical in tone, and opens the door for lots of clashing with anyone (such as myself) with differing observations.

Also, when you say "fact checkers did X", are you speaking for _all_ fact checkers? Some? Which ones? It's an epistemological mine field.

Addition 2, before I get nit-picked over the "masks don't work". OP's statement is:

> In early 2020, the fact checkers told us that anything less than an N95 mask doesn't work. The fact checkers of today tell us that any face mask prevents the transmission of the virus...

So I interpret "work" here to mean "prevent transmission of the virus." I remember extremely distinctly at the time the recommended guidance, because my aunt asked about whether she should wear a mask. I told her, as was guidance at the time, late Feb 2020, that a typical surgical mask would not dramatically reduce her risk of contracting COVID, she would need a respirator (N95), and at this point in time, unless you were high risk, this was probably overkill. Cases were rare enough that your best bet at the time was handwashing and social distancing. Then, two weeks later, around Mar 14, I told her "yeah actually you should be wearing a mask around others, even cloth ones, lest you be an asymptomatic carrier." What changed in that timeframe? The number of cases in the USA started skyrocketing, and we discovered that COVID can be asymptomatic in a large percent of cases, and has a long incubation period. New information was acquired, the recommendations changed. That's how all rational, informed decision making should work.
This is a great quote:

> And Rob Hagan at Monash had shown that
you could teach students more COBOL with one semester
of Scheme and one semester of COBOL than you could
with three semesters of COBOL.

Really makes the point about how studying uncommon languages can pay off.
I kinda feel like your post is an (implicit) argument in favor of the scientific method:

1. Form a hypothesis (i.e., our current best guess based on what we know, and what we think is going on).

2. Test the hypothesis (i.e., try it and see if it work :) )

3. Based on (2), go back and update our hypothesis

I think it's both reasonable and good to change one's mind over time because you've seen new data / you're in a new situation.
Meaning they'll pay the movie-makers? How much would be involved? Is there anything they would do if the filmmakers decided to eschew the payment and give a villain an iPhone anyway?
The context should hopefully be clear to most, but the "other operation systems" that are being referred to as complex, with fussy filesystems and poor inter-process control, would be IBM's mainframe operating system OS/360.

The direct call-out is the reference to The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks.

In Unix, file creation is as simple as '>'

In OS/360, there's a long set of JCL that is required.

(For some sense of what JCL is like, the much-derided 'dd' command is in fact a bit of OS/360 JCL that was migrated to Unix, largely in order to read and write from and to IBM-compatible tapes and punchcards.)
It's not just hardened against blast overpressure, it is hardened against the electromagnetic pulse created by the Sprint and Spartan ABM warhead...

Or at least it used to be, EMP proofing takes maintenance.

That kind of system risks blinding and discombobulating itself as soon as it takes its first shot.
Micro Investment Plan – $20k
I'm planning to invest $20k.

There are two options in my mind right now.

1. Invest into early-stage SAAS businesses.
2. Hire a team to build my project ideas

Do you have other options?
Ah, OK. I'm thinking of Titan, which was liquid fueled by some truly nasty chemicals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II#Development
Ask HN: Who in Google thought it's a good idea to show “people also search for”?
Google Search keeps bothering users by showing unnecessary list of "People Also Search for" message among search results. This is especially annoying when you visit a page and go back to the search results page. Because of this stupid "People Also Search for" message, the search results get shifted down every time you go back to the search results page, so you might click on a wrong link.

This is insane because at the bottom of the search results (right above the page numbers), the same message "People Also Search for" is shown again!!

Plus, the whole idea of showing this message implies that people actually don't know what to search for. This is so not true. I think most people know what they are looking for when querying a new search. In most browsers and on Google.com, they also see Auto_Complete phrases that helps them phrase their queries in a way that Google understands better.

Google is a huge company and hires the brightest minds. But I keep wondering, who the heck came up with this user-hostile "feature"? This is honestly driving me to use DDG or something else.
The marble kitchenette alone is worth the price.
It was also one of the only country with the ability to confirm that the USA did go to the moon, and had every reason (politically) to call it a hoax and didn't.

That's why I still don't get moon landing conspiracy theories.
Radix UI, alternative to tailwind UI
Been using radix ui for last couple of weeks and really like it. Wanted to share

The context menu, scroll area and sliders are especially good
How to Learn Web Development Online
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/military-expenditure-by-c... i would expect it to be correlated with military spending
Name one teacher of philosophy who makes enough money, from teaching alone, to even approach the wealth of the revered businessman-philosopher.
I am curious if euvl (and associated high transistor density) makes sense for this type of processor or it simply would run too hot?
Even in the UK you end up with construction materials at those same sizes. Click the link and tell me how large the following sheet size in feet?

https://www.forestrallshop.co.uk/plywood-london/birch-plywoo...

Comically they apparently also imported our lumber price fiasco.
It's worse than just stringing together library calls: Life seems to be 98% just CRUD apps. What new thoughts do I need for that, and who even has the time? An analogy: There seem to be a lot of smart Russian writers, and there's no question it's a weird language, at least to an English speaker (the alphabet! cases/declensions! idioms!) and furthermore I don't even doubt that I would think new things or in new ways if I learned it. And yet here I am using good old English, because of its popularity and (mostly) because I already know it and I can use it to get stuff done.
They do. It's the nature of new programmers to be prone to hype and marketing and not understand those "clearly communicated problems and consequences" as anything but grumbling.
Just look at what the fall of the USSR did for life expectancies there!
Starlink won’t scale, but beta testers are probably having the time of their life right now.
I guess it's a good thing this wasn't an ICBM then, eh?
I _really_ don't know how you got that from this article.
It's using whatever library stuffs an extra page in your history, "More stories to check out before you go!" in a blue banner at the top of the page. (iOS chrome)
Icloud private relay is great. I really hope Apple expands it too all traffic and not just safari.
I was quoting you saying "But that doesn't make C++ a good language."
The Taliban have a functioning economy: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46554097 They have billions in assets: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/17/treasury...
I think this applies to weird people as well. Some of the most interesting conversations I've had was with people that were misfits.
... but skip the first 7 minutes to go to pathfinding.
Also the lack of lip sync is disturbing.
Honestly, right here.
A) I would say lisps are rather boring. Clojure, one of the most recent ones hasn't changed in 15 years.
B) most systems are built in C, Java, Python. So no wonder most complex systems are written in those.
I dare you to stop being terrified of being called a racist and observe reality, good, bad, and ugly.
Yes, but ppl wouldnt put up with it. Like Saudi Arabia withdrew flight rights after Nomads complained that it was upsetting their Camels. https://mainlymiles.com/2021/06/03/singapore-airlines-concor...
I had two friends who were both skyscraper architects who rented there for several years. The average person just doesn’t have a good grasp on the actual risks, but they certainly did. They wouldn’t buy a unit there due to the uncertainty in cost for the repairs but it’s plenty safe.
From what Ive heard only 25% or so of the homeless came to CA from somewhere else.
How brave of them. I’m sure it was a tough decision.
I find everything about this building hilarious in a dark, horrifying engineering and bureaucratic sense.

Part of what started this: a NYC architect and NYC construction contractor came to SF for the first time in their corporate and professional experiences and decided to build a building, cutting corners on standard local construction standards, regulations and laws because they found loopholes in all three and they thought it would save a lot of money.

So they did NOT do any of the standard "ground work" (sic) to prepare the foundation as every other skyscraper in SF and California normally does.

The normal process is to drive piles down to bedrock. They didn't do this. They put piles into sand. SF is primarily all sand sitting atop of deeper rocks but some of that rock is very deep below the surface. In that particular area, the rock is quite deep (all the hills you see like Nob Hill, Coit Tower, etc. are the rocky high spots surrounded by deep valleys covered with sand from ancient water inlets).

Local construction companies know all about this geophysical reality. Apparently these NYC companies did not and had zero engineering/professional intuition about the nature of earthquakes and construction in California.

Because of this the building started to both sink and tilt. And honestly, ANYTHING short of tearing the building down and starting again is at best a bandaid fix that may or may not work for long. This is a legendary FU.

And you are seeing these New Yorkers trying to lawyer their way out of the liability they will inevitably face by doing things on-the-cheap and half-assed. Here they got caught doing just that!

My late father was a big name in construction in the SF Bay Area. He was involved with most skyscrapers built in SF from 1970-1985 which includes the WF tower, Hyatt-Regency, Embarcadero Center building complex, etc. At that time I was a kid and he'd "take me to work" at these sites while under construction and I got to talk to construction workers, structural engineers, etc. about how it was done. It fascinated me enough to go into engineering professionally though the later PC and semiconductor revolution of the 1970s drove me to an EE degree instead of ME/CivE.
Actually for power delivery networks current (amperes) is mostly what you care about
You do need iCloud+, which is not included in Apple One despite the extra iCloud GB.
more die from cold
It's the same in NZ, without fundamental changes to engineering science it will continue, remember that a quake will stress a building's reinforcing / all materials beyond the elastic limit.
Nobody is saying "they did everything themselves" literally. Obviously there is help around, especially so when the enterprise is big. Question is just whether their advice has any value.
You can do lots of suprising things with ICE in the browser. I was really excited to find[0]. Go to this[1] JSFiddle and type in `$hostname.local` or a device on your network. I have a `WDMyCloud.local` for example.

I think you could make something really interesting. A web page could make a pretty unique fingerprint of you by all the IoT/Printers/$X devices on your network.

[0] https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/mdns-ice-candidates/issues/121

[1] https://jsfiddle.net/10eq2rzh/
I’m encouraged to see this article. There should be more public attention for efforts to make sure virus research safety protocols are good enough.

It seems likely that investigations into the origin of the pandemic will remain inconclusive, but hopefully safety can be improved anyway.
I think there is no rule, you ask Coca-Cola to pay and if they don't, you paint them out.
I don't know why anyone thought this wouldn't happen. You sell 51% stake, you may as well have sold 100%.
Who has a favorite "missile". seriously?
Not to mention that languages are not just a tool for communicating meaning: it's also a tool for communicating emotions and mannerism as well.
Funnily enough, despite the advertising, there really is no such thing as a Credit 'Score' in the UK.

Lenders get information about you from a Credit Reference Agency and will have their own internal systems to make decisions based on that. You can ask the reference agency for a copy of your credit report.
Your number 2 answer does not fit the individual taken in consideration here, which is a 29 yo electronic engineer who probably has seen the stats of COVID lethality and hospitalization by age and has taken a completely normal and valid decision to not take it. He’s most likely going to get COVID and, with all the stats in his favor, he’s going to recover from it and gain much more stronger antivirals from what the vaccine could get him. On the other hand there is a valid alternative too which is the vaccine. Both decisions look good to me
I assumed it would go without saying that what I meant was, "a good language for getting actual work done."
Rocket fuel has always been some sort of shot vs beer though, hasn't it?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rocket+fuel+shot&t=hx&va=g&ia=web
Agreed.

In my electrical engineering classes, we use amps to determine the gauge of wires.

The important calculation here is watts = I^2 * R

Where R is the resistance of your wire, and watts is the power wasted in your wires.

And I is amps. That little squared sign is a bit intimidating. Under normal circumstances, you want to increase voltage to reduce wire loss. But computer chips only operate at low voltage.
The statistical evidence shows that "the" is used more frequently in Macbeth, but the anecdotal evidence used to connect that fact to the play's spookiness relies on the idea that there are differences in the grammatical use of "the" that are specific to Macbeth.

The fact that "the" happens to be used more often in Macbeth than in other Shakespeare plays seems to me more likely to be noise with no deeper meaning.
Mine's the sidewinder.
> Fill a small plastic pot with water.

You just need a shot glass.
That would make sense but this is the quote on their own website:

“While this case is about Xinuos and the theft of our intellectual property,” said Sean Snyder, President and CEO of Xinuos. “It is also about market manipulation that has harmed consumers, competitors, the open-source community, and innovation itself.”

Edit- unless you are saying their claim is that someone would rip off new code at this late a point in their dead branch of UNIX? That would be possible I guess, but they would have to be delusional to a point that strains credulity.
After watching the political quagmire of the housing crisis in California, this gives me some hope that The Big One might create a situation where it would be possible to reboot the architecture of major cities to prioritize humans over cars without significant loss of life.

And yeah, it would really suck in the very short term. In the years following the quake, there would be a boom of work opportunities. Contrast to a situation where the buildings are spared at the cost of human life, you'd have ghost towns that would rapidly deteriorate to the point that the buildings would also fall to ruin
The metal-filled trenches in the silicon need to survive high temperatures, so according to the article copper is out of the question. They "experimented with ruthenium and tungsten" but it's not clear whether they actually built something or whether it was all simulation. Either way, this is likely to make the chips more expensive.
>> now what school district it is in, and how close to downtown and other activity centers.

It is a missile silo. They didn't put those things close to city hall. According to GoogleMaps it appears to be about a kilometre from Nekoma, a town of 50 that may or may not have a school. The next town is Langdon, ~2000 people 30km away. Your choice of schools and/or coffee shops might be limited.

Lol. The nearest Tesla supercharger is in 85km away ... in Canada. The nearest US charger is in Fargo, 200km away. Nearest starbucks is 100km. But given that the roads all go north-south or east-west, I would add about 50% to those numbers for driving distance. If there is a nowhere, this is the middle.
this whole 'privledged ports' nonsense is left over from a time where some process on another machine running on a low port was somehow to be trusted - because the person running that process was another administrator, and you can generally trust those guys (as opposed to unwashed users).

that world didn't last very long, and I wish we could vent some of these designs that didn't pass the test of time.
> You conclude that most EU countries have a credit score by linking to a Wikipedia article showing that almost none European country has a credit score?

The Wikipedia article does not show that almost no European country has a credit score or credit reporting system. It simply provides examples from various countries and is obviously not exhaustive, like most lists in Wikipedia.

If you want to just see how many EU countries have any credit registries, these World Bank links have good data:

- Public registries: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.CRD.PUBL.ZS

- Private registries: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.CRD.PRVT.ZS

They show most EU countries have such registries. I did go through a dozen countries manually before finding the above handy links, though...

Of course one could argue whether or not those systems which only allow negative entries (and thus most people will have no data there) for a credit check should be considered credit score systems.
It's true, to a first approximation. Rich people look at money as a goal in itself. They collect it, hoard it, curate it, maintain it. Think of a library, or the biggest MTG card collection you know of. Now imagine that same mindset applied to money. Not money-doing-things, just money, sitting there, "on the books", but otherwise just a collection of amounts.

Now picture the worst episode of "Hoarders", and imagine all that weird obsessiveness and attachment to the thing.

That's rich people.
Many people would consider that particular business practice a bit Orwellian, however standard. And it’s especially so when the business in question is a global megagiant that’s so deeply integrated into our lives. The comparison with Newspeak is just a blindingly obvious literary reference. Do you genuinely not see it? If so I urge you to read the article again and try to imagine you don’t work at Google.
Does this really happen? I migrated to the US and had no problem getting a CC. The limit was low, just a few Ks at first, but it gave me a chance to start building credit record.
Never seen this before apparently forcing my own font of choice results in a blank page on that site
There's ability to speak English, and willingness to speak English in a professional setting - a doctor with no professional training might refuse to use English just in case they misunderstand something. Same with officials (who if they knew English well in the first place, would work in a corporation of some sort).
Britons, Unfazed by High Covid Rates, Weigh Their ‘Price of Freedom’
> without the warmth you guys are so scared of there would be no life

You don't seem to realise that heating things up is pretty easy, even in a preindustrial society, while cooling things is extremely difficult and there is a hard and quite low limit to how hot we can remain for long periods of time.

At 35 WBT we're done for, literally can't cool down, die in a few hours even with no activity whatsoever, in the shade, with wind or a fan.

As we go above 1.5, the tropics will become literally unlivable as they will regularly exceed 35 WBT.