skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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There were too few stairwells

The stairs in the twin towers were, to a great extent, a product of their times. In 1968, as construction on the towers was beginning, New York City issued a brand-new building code, allowing for substantial reductions in egress capacity from the previous code dating to 1938. It appears that the buildings’ owner, the New York Port Authority (now known as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey), took advantage of this fact, providing only three stairwells in the center core of each tower, instead of the six that would have been required under the older code. Labeled simply A, B and C, the stairwells encompassed the buildings’ entire height; two were 44 inches in width, one was 56 inches wide. The fact that the buildings’ designers wanted wide-open floors without columns and other obstructions meant that the three staircases, bathrooms, elevators, and other service elements were all placed in the same central area of the massive one-acre floors. In the case of the north tower, the stairs were approximately 70 feet apart; in the south tower, they were about 200 feet apart.

But what wasn’t there on 9/11 was a fourth stairwell in each tower, one that would have led from the Windows on the World restaurant in the north tower and another from the observation deck atop the south tower. These two high-occupancy spaces, each exceeding 1,000 people, needed additional egress capacity. But those code-mandated fourth stairwells didn’t exist because the New York Port Authority chose not to include them; the Port Authority was, and continues to be, exempt from actually complying with New York City’s building code.

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Ironically, the need for wider stairs—going from 44 inches to 56—only found its way into one of these two national building codes. Unfortunately, it isn’t the code under which most new high-rises across the United States are being built today. And that includes New York City.

"""

This is an interesting article about the flaws in the design that possibly led to more deaths.Be advised that it will be quite hard to read, especially for those who saw it happen.

https://www.history.com/news/world-trade-center-stairwell-de...
> Twitter was an extrapolation, Google was an extrapolation as well.

Were they?

Twitter: "an absolutely minimal MySpace clone. Let users write posts to feed using SMS."

Google: "Like AltaVista, but without all the bullshit - just the search box. For weighting, have it use this funny algorithm we figured out the other day."

I'm not denying both were innovative - I just think the innovation, the "extrapolation", didn't happen at the technical/tactical level we're discussing here. All the pieces were already there, and used for similar things. The innovation was in figuring out that this particular shape of service is something people might want to use, and that it could make money.
Good. Epic knew full well what they were doing was in breach of contract, and that the consequence would be termination of their account. And the court has just confirmed that this is correct, valid, and appropriate.

Enjoy your worthless banned developer account, because that’s what Epic wanted to happen and that’s what did happen exactly as everyone expected.

As they say: play stupid games…
They don't have the vocabulary, but they want internet, which v4 + nat is a watered down version of and hampers apps.
It's hard for me to know if this is something I want to do (and therefore feel inclined to pay money for a guide educating me on how to go about doing it) when the "Layouts" chapter is one of the ones that's locked behind the paywall.
> Unclear how old your firmware is, but it seems that the vulnerability was patched years ago. Check anyway.

That seems to be countered in the article mentioning that the majority of devices are running firmware that’s relatively recent (one release from the latest).
Maybe you can at the boarding gate and in some other points but when you get out of the fly/plane and you enter in the airport, there’s a(t least one) camera above your head and you can’t walk in other directions. Maybe you have to wear hat, sunglasses and a mask…

Others critical points are at the temperature scanning at the entrance and at the passport check. I don’t think you can avoid those.
Native is overloaded, however Java is the "native" language of the Android SDK, and on Windows unless one has a morbid pleasure to still use MFC, ATL, bare bones Win32, or use C++/WinRT like ATL is fashionable again, .NET UI toolkits will be the way to go.

Or are you going to argue that Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft Store, Microsoft Blend, Office AddIns, Power Automate Desktop aren't native?
No lags for me with GTX 970. And I use Firefox, it has Wayland support.
Oh yeah, the well known sign of addiction: “seldom use”.
What makes an NGEN compiled WinForms .NET application not native on Windows?

Curious to find out, how those people distinguish it from an MFC/ATL or an Win32 one.
IMHO your statement holds good ground. perhaps not so many people need web version. still - OFfice365 is about integration with Azure, not only the web client, which... eventually will be replaced from its current from with something that builds on top of wasm/canvas (bet 5$ on it).

The real-time collaboration is vastly overrated mostly, and thanks to Google's marketing. How many times have anyone had to do a real-time edit of document. How many times it was crucial for the process. And how is this better than git push/pulls?

Well, there are some 5% of all cases where real-time collaboration on a document is good to have, but 95% of all times is reasonably OK to share a screen and have few people stand right by the side of s.o. performing actions.
Thinkpads generally work perfectly. Also, windows hardly has even 99% compatibility with hardware. There is hardware that behaves better under linux than windows as well.
In summary: Either overprovisioning, or not realising every extra CPU cycle or I/O operation costs extra money.

This is, of course, the real way "the cloud" makes money. Carefully tuned, it can no doubt be cheaper than do-it-yourself, however, it is also quite easy to make a lot of costs.
Sure, you have to provide the stuff they request, just like you have to comply with police officers in the moment, but you don't need to (and should not) talk "help" them or give them any information beyond what you're required by law, which is often your name and not much more.

If our local IRS equivalent contacted me "to clear something up", I'd defer them to my tax consultant in all cases. Assuming good faith with state employees is often a costly mistake.
How do you know if you’re a good dev or a mediocre dev?
It's rude and insulting to autoclose issues, especially if they are good and valid ones.

Even a manual WONTFIX is less rude.
fbs author here; thank you for the mention!
No, they offer observability as defined in your link.
I think if you offered the two options to users with even partial differences in price, most users would go for the cheaper option even if they had to do cartwheels to process payments.
“In a beginning” vs. “In the beginning” in the translation of the Bible
> The practice did have backups in place, but report that the backup data was also corrupted by the unauthorized individual.

So in other words they failed to make a backup.

Saving your backup files to the same system that you're backing up is not making a backup.

Saving your backup to tape/external disk an moving those to an offsite location is how to make a backup.
The honest truth is that there is no good alternative here - there are only alternatives that are terrible in their own way.

Electron: Bloat, non-native, highly questionable language

Other cross-platform solutions: Obscure, (most often) non-native, undesirable language constraints, often far behind with regards to UI paradigms

Native UI for each platform with common code: requires deep knowledge of each platform, probably more time consuming than the other alternatives, the seam between common code and platform-specific code is often a source of errors

Fully separated native applications: Likely to produce the highest quality UIs, but requires the most diverse knowledge and time, more difficult to remain consistent across implementations, team size becomes an issue depending on how many platforms are supported

As much as I dislike Electron-applications, it's understandable why they became adopted so widely - the alternatives are just quite simply not great.
It's not just one thing. Just like what distinguishes a human from a chimpanzee isn't just 1 thing.

But see for example https://stackoverflow.com/a/855774

If you still don't like the terminology though, I'm not going to keep arguing. I didn't coin the term. You should go ask Microsoft why they didn't call C# native when NGen was already there. I'm just saying that terminology is already established and you're confusing people by using it differently.
Honestly curious, why is it better for them then Excel? What is the value proposition? Thanks.
Sort of. Before February 2020, most (but not all) Oyster cards had a £5 deposit. However, Oyster cards issued since then do not have a deposit (there is instead a £5 fee for the card).

For older Oyster cards that have a deposit, you can still reclaim that £5.
See also "Proofs without words": https://mathoverflow.net/questions/8846/proofs-without-words
Someone on TikTok mentioned this difference in what the Bible originally said vs what it was translated into in English, and I found it very interesting so decided to post about it to HN.
Sure, Visual Studio team seems to have lots of expertise dealing with 64 bit support issues. :)
I've never given much thought to how much PCIe lanes are available to my hardware. However, with the advent of NVME drives I realise that there are only so many drives one can install.
About your last point, this was posted a couple weeks ago on here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27870399
I saw on their bug tracker that Intellij devs will work on it this year.
If you look at outbreak graphs in many countries, the shape of this Florida outbreak looks exactly like previous ones last year.

These outbreaks appear to be seasonal and come and go without vaccines (last year no one was vaccinated and the shape of the graphs was the same).

They also come and go without lockdowns. This is why the blog post encourages the reader (using satire) to find other mechanisms than Aquinas' prime mover theory.
When iPhone and Android hit the scene the 'rich' web experience was primarily flash, silverlight, and some java applets (taking their last breathe).

Input APIs for touch, multitouch and gesture were a mess for many years in the browser.

Media queries didn't become a w3c recommendation until 2012 so building a ux that looked pleasant really wasn't possible.

The memory, cpu, GPU, storage and battery constraints were unbelievably tight.

In short mobile hardware and the iOS and Android SDK environments were consumer + developer ready for practically 10 years before the web was ready for mobile.

The real question is how did the web remain relevant while being so far behind this tectonic platform shift?

I think major points that kept the web alive: content addressibility (via urls), ease of connectivity between content (via links), vast amounts of information already in the platform, smoother learning curve for developer technology, and the vast amounts of money/influence Google was willing to put in to keep it's search ads property relevant.
> But this doesn't scale past couple dozen people.

Modern corporations contradict that claim.
I am a customer, and I just filter out providers that don't have IPv6 as I assume they are incompetent.

I wouldn't waste time asking someone to support it. It's 2021.
It really doesnt sounds like it. Why would countries want endless disputes between different levels of their governments? How does that help anyone!?
I don't understand claims "desktop experience is not there yet". What do you even need so specific? Care to explain?
I tend to think it's more of people's problem at that point than linux desktop experience problem
Most likely energy drinks + Adderall + financial insecurity. Adderall, Meth, same thing.
> unless one has a morbid pleasure to still use MFC, ATL, bare bones Win32, or use C++/WinRT like ATL is fashionable again, .NET UI toolkits will be the way to go.

I'm not sure how the discussion turned from "native" to "the way to go".

I get the feeling like you're jumping all over HN trying to reply to me at every comment you find because... you took "not native" as some kind of insult to tools you like/consider superior?
I am wondering how Apple will react to this. It seems likely that big companies (who pay for much of the App Store) will take the opportunity to implement their own payment option. Small devs probably won't bother, since overhead on small purchases + additional accounting is likely to be higher than Apple's 15%.

Will Apple introduce some sort of tiered pricing model, where apps with third-party purchase option have to pay a listing/API fee? Or will they just take a revenue hit?

I'm quite sure that they already planned for this, given their reaction to the verdict. They don't appear to be very concerned ...
I once investigated if it was possible to host .NET (Core) in Kodi, however, at the time it was not really well documented (or maybe even possible) to write native add-ons. That meant you would need to interface with a native library that would be the .NET host from Python, and that would be pain.
US Treasury Department to monitor all US bank accounts over $600 [pdf]
Simply allowing actuaries to price in vaccinated versus non vaccinated into health insurance premiums would solve this problem very quickly.
> I spend a fair amount of time on Zoom calls (who doesn't?)

I'm way more productive with email and just a couple phone calls a week as needed.
TBH, I think they're just ~nerds~ technical people who focus a lot on their product and don't have the resources and skills to build an attractive, inviting website. The product itself is great, though!
Almost all reporting on this is wrong or misleading in some way. Watch the first four minutes of this video.
Exactly, don't underestimate what removal of a few annoying hoops to jump through can do.

The other day I wanted to compare gitk on Windows with the same on Linux. But there was no Xserver installed, so the idea was dropped.

The whole reason was to see if gitk also had that annoying enumeration at startup in Linux.
How China Weaponized the Press
One of my favourite YouTube channels is Baumgartner Restoration. He’s a fine art restorer, and his videos are well-produced mini documentaries that show the restoration process from cleaning to retouching to varnishing and framing.
I thought it was about the A380's retirement for a few seconds.
Where does Windy's data come from?
But you are not required to be under the full rule of the "kings" and "queens". I don't have much problem doing business with a "monarchy" if you want to call it this way. The problem is when all these "monarchies" are reporting to an ultimate absolute ruler you can't escape...
No, that's the thing. Even if we pretend it's a female garment (even American "kimonos" aren't), I really don't see why using the word in a turn of phrase would be "sexist".

It's not implying in any way that women are prone to flashing, that women would be in any way inferior, or that actual women should open their actual kimonos. You are just using the image of a (supposedly) female garment.

Just like saying "like a kick in the balls" isn't sexist. It doesn't imply you want to kick men or anything like that.
One advantage that an Oyster card has over a contactless payment card is that I still feel uncomfortable getting my wallet out and finding a payment card in a crowded tube station. Even using Apple/Google Pay requires me to get my phone out and again, I'm not always comfortable doing that. I appreciate I might be a little old fashioned about this but enough friends have been robbed in London over the years to make me a little paranoid. An Oyster Card, on the other hand, has sufficiently little value to me that I'm a lot more comfortable using it.
Short answer: no.

Apple isn’t required to reinstate Epic, and it actually also enforces damages for the breach of contract during the time when Epic was stiffing Apple for the fees.

Despite a lot of reporting about how this is some big win for Epic, the court is siding with Apple there, the ruling is Epic was in the wrong (breach of contract) and needs to pay up, and if Apple decides they don’t want to do further business with epic then oh well, “play stupid games…”

Next time you want to try and negotiate a lower contract rate, don’t breach a legal and valid contract and then try to use the courts to do your dirty work. The courts are not your sales rep.
You're referring to the fake news a user a few posts above you just mentioned.
>Do people have the right through collective indirection to implement blatantly discriminatory control mechanisms that obfuscate the actual costs of things? (I'd argue not.)

More accurately distributing cost of risks to those engaging in the risky behavior seems like it would be the opposite of obfuscating costs. Tobacco users pay more, why shouldn’t alcohol users? Or sugar users?
A simpler solution to all these ticketing systems is just to make public transport free. We already have taxes at all geography levels if we want it to be paid by a given city or region. People that don't use it benefit from it anyway by having less congestion in their private transport. Touristy cities already charge a fee per night to pay for the services tourists use. There's no point running these complex billing systems. Save that money to invest in the transport itself.
That and most corporate Windows users simply can't switch to the OS of their choice due to rigid IT department rules.
Contrary to popular believe, the case for going to the Cloud isn't cost saving, it is flexibility and value for money. It'll likely cost you around the same if you run it in a DC, but you won't have features like auto scaling, increased security, and much more.
If you don't block all the holes, it can't possibly work.

Plus you can't effectively earth something when your earth leads is multiple wavelengths long (eg at UHF)
I'd suggest watching the excellent video by Hoeg Law. He has followed the case from the outset and goes through the ruling in intricate detail. Even within the first few minutes he starts noting how much of the media coverage is wrong or overstated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43CMV8KIs3E
PCIe switches are a thing, and devices don't need all their lanes if you're okay with less max bandwidth.

It ends up being the same as any other interface: there's a limit to how many devices can be connected before the limit for non-blocking simultaneous bandwidth is reached, but that merely means that bandwidth can be a bottleneck if you go above that.
This is the same data quality I face in Singapore. Looks great, but gets simple
Things wrong, including wrong routes (doesn’t show several options usually) and business details not up to date.

How forgiving do we have to be? Google maps is just better.
I tried to get my zire 71 working a while back but sadly it wouldn't come to life, presume the battery gave out.

It was a wonderful piece of technology though, especially in the pre smart phone days
In London at least, revenue inspectors often work in partnership with the police. But many cases of fraud are resolved without needing to detain the fraudster.
> In addition, children are unlikely to spread the virus.

That is something you have choose to believe.
Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
> Here in UK if a company wants to charge you regularly for anything they have to start something called a "direct debit" on your bank account - then they can withdraw money from your account whenever they see fit

Here in Czechia most periodic payments are paid through either direct debit or standing order. Direct debit payments require apriori permission (enabled for each recipient max sum per period), which could be revoked at any time.
Why couldn't you do it the other way around? Run a tunnel for static IPv4 over IPv6.
Where did you hear that China has mandated N95 masks? I live in Beijing and I can't say I've seen anyone wearing one. We basically have to wear the normal surgical masks when in shops, on public transport etc.
> I wonder if we will ever see some kind of GPU sharing for virtualisation

Hasn't this been solved for some time now? Or am I misunderstanding what you want? I remember seeing a few articles about using this for gaming on Windows VMs on Linux hosts. I haven't jumped in though so maybe it's not what I think it is.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GPU_passthrough_with_libvirt_qe...

I think it's also definitely in use for compute stuff on VMs in professional environments.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualizati...

Edit: Ah, maybe sharing a GPU between a host and VMs isn't possible at the moment. Only pass-through and maybe sharing between the VMs?
If you were in the storm.and the radar didn't show anhthing maybe the radar was out of service in that area, which is very unusual.
Great idea! This should definitely require physical attendance in order to avoid loopholes.
The people they fool write articles for places that have institutional prestige. They might just be fooling some clickbait farmer which is not super interesting, but when you see outcomes of your work in "real and trusted™" news sites, it's something a lot more interesting.

Also, it strips away the institutional trust and prestige layer by layer.
You are correct. See:

> Judge seems alarmed at the extent to which impulse spending by "exorbitantly high spending gamers" drives App Store revenue.

> Says it's outside the scope of antitrust but says issue is "worthy of attention"

[1] https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1436365652164493317

> "in most economic ways...the App Store is primarily a game store and secondarily an 'every other' app store"

[2] https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1436365985800507394
UK direct debits are only for debit accounts.

But most of the commentators are talking about credit cards.

There is no equivalent system for credit cards.
Certainly you can get a few db attenuation, but it's absolutely not possible to block all EM radiation with a cheap layer of paint.

Regarding "not treating the the floor", how to you prevent reflections? If there's any metal beneath the floor it will reflect the signals into the room.

Whatever, if your meter is reading "less than background" then it is clearly misleading you.
> even a weak password mostly uncrackable.

That’s not what the HSM provides it’s based on this.

OPAQUE: An Asymmetric PAKE Protocol Secure Against Pre-Computation Attacks: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/163.pdf

The point of end to end encryption is you don’t need to trust anyone else as long as you verified each parties public keys it’s safe.

This fails that test, The threat model of government surveillance is both up front sniffing of the passwords provided to the server and copying the HSM and doing an offline check of every possible password. Both vulnerabilities are significant issues which allow hackers and state actors to read users backups and thus their messages.
That is one possible interpretation of the term, yes Microsoft does use native/managed to distinguish between environments with GC runtime and those without.

Which isn't what users talk about when arguing about native apps, they don't even know what a GC is.
It does not look like vaccines have made much of a difference in Florida:

http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_ar...

See the "vaccination impact" sections.
I don’t see the problem - I didn’t read it as “we have NOAA experts working for us” but as “we are sharing data from the experts at…”. I think sleazy is… unkind - especially reaching that conclusion from just one line in a description.