skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because money isa proxy for so many other things and people who have a lot of it can just buy what they want/need in many, perhaps most cases.
It wasn't just a 3rd building, either - there was a lot that had to be demolished.
> I don't know a single engineer that has read the report that disagrees with its findings.

Just want to point out that the document that OP linked claims in the conclusion that the NIST report is invalid, but I have no ability to judge that claim. I have no structural engineering knowledge and have never heard of either of these reports until now.

This was published March 2020 though, and I'd be curious if the analysis was cogent enough to warrant NIST's response in a few years
Both are absolutely to blame. Both the social media companies and the content creators.

Both are choosing to ignore the damage which is a direct result of their actions and they both ignore long term damage in the name of an immediate profit return.

There no reason we have to choose one or the other when both are clearly willing to destroy.
Even let's say, you are survivable enough (peak health, early 20s), you can still catch it and transmit it to grandma. Of course, if you also want to isolate yourself from society, then do whatever you want.
Not all Saudis are happy with their authocratic government. Especially because it is allied with Israel's ally.
Privateer Space Founded by Steve Wozniak and Alex Fielding
They just announced the new bike with fuel injection :D
Angellist-pioneers-rolling-VC-funds-in-pivot-to-SaaS (2020)
Google Search on desktop web officially gets a dark theme
BLS estimates several hundred thousand in directly overlapping professions in the US. I suspect a good number of these 3400 are people who are not even aware their name is being used for this cause.
Looks like a great library, though the name is going to cause some people to think it’s related to pixi.js
Thank you! The api looks really useful, and I'll see if I can add it in. The simulations are basically random draws from a deck of cards assuming that the cards inputted have already been drawn. I then just count the wins from the random draws to figure out the probability of winning.
That does not explain why they frequently mischaracterize his theories.
https://quarto.org/ is also a good, and appears to be more flexible system, that I was recently recommended!
Can you give some concrete examples of exemplars of the latter paragraph?
Would a state law banning infant male circumcision as genital mutilation without consent stand?

How about a state law against branding or tattooing infants or any other irreversible body modification?

Clearly these are both rhetorical questions with obvious answers. Whether or not those obvious answers are morally correct is another matter.
That's not surprising to me for a few reasons.

The SP500 is a fixed number (500) of companies, which means that as the real economy grows, the average size of the company that happens to be in the top 500 will be larger, which will skew the average up merely because of a side effect of using a fixed threshold instead of a percentile or market cap threshold. Consider an economy of 50,000 companies that grows to an economy of 100,000 companies. Due to the power law distribution of market caps, the top 500 in the latter is going to be much larger than the top 500 in the former.

There's also been a general trend towards centralization which drives up the market caps of the top 30 due to the arrival of network effect companies (Facebook) combined with government policy to bail out large companies in '08 and '20/'21. This gives CEO more leverage, meaning their decision making is more impactful due to the size of the org, and legitimizes higher pay.

Another factor is the commodification of labor due to globalization of trade. That increases the supply at the low end which increases the disparity between CEO pay and worker pay due to the relative scarcity of CEO talent and oversupply of commodity labor.

I think the framing of justifiable or not is the wrong framing. If these CEOs are adding value above and beyond their huge pay packet, then their existence is making your and my lives better off, so their incredible wealth should not concern anyone. Everyone wins. If there are losers due to externalities, that's where the government needs to step in.
I recall going down this rabbit hole about fifteen years ago. It is, in principle, possible but you're going to be recompiling everything that could conceivably use an fd_set (so probably every single piece of code that links libc...) because it's a fixed size buffer that scales with FD_SETSIZE.
There's still quite a difference between "I envy that person's bigger yacht" and "I envy that person's having enough food for their family".
Or one's simple legal name and billing address.

I'm honestly a fair bit more concern about that dealing in legal names and addresses is still so common than I am about tracking cookies, but, as usual, people are more afraid of new things than of old, even if the old be more dangerous.
I tried to register. It threw an error. On retry it showed me a couple of user names and addresses of people I've never heard of before. Big red flag for me.
We have tons of examples of states where the government takes responsibility for protecting the people and are safer than the one example where a second amendment exists to keep people "safe". If you want to split hairs between western and eastern europe, yes, countries like the Ukraine is not as safe as the USA, but that in no way proves your point.
Pascal didn't fail, it was replaced by C. Both Microsoft (with WinNT) and Apple (with NextStep) left Pascal behind in the 1990s in favor of C to compete with other Unixes of the time. At the end of 90s, the only steward of Pascal was Borland; and Borland failed, and Pascal was forgotten.
Does Venture Capital Have a Place in DeFi?
How many years ago was this? I ask because "gasoline" isn't really a thing in chemistry. It's a mixture that will run cars. You could have drank a cup of just about anything.

A cup of octane wouldn't be the worse thing you could swallow. Given a choice, I'll drink a cup of octane before a teaspoon of TEL (OP appears to favor cooking units)
In most states in the United States, the notion of consent in the employment context is very different than, say, European privacy law. In European law, consent from an employee is almost impossible to obtain for any significant decision because of the inherent power imbalance in an employment relationship.

However, in the United States, where most employees are employed "at will," deciding to remain an employee is often considered to be consent. The law considers that you have choice: you choose to work there and consent, or you chose to not work there.

In this story, it appears that there is a separate law considering religious freedom and not privacy that requires employers to make some accommodations when not too burdensome.
Hmm, looks like the sendkey.c thing might work. Although the documentation on XTestFakeKeyEvent() specifically says "This extension is not intended to support general journaling and playback of user actions", which is what (I think) I want. I wonder why the disclaimer.
They mean decoding at the level of extracting a signal & correcting errors in it from being sent across a wire, fiber, or broadcast. This is not the cracking encryption meaning of decoding.
Well source language word paired with one or more translations is the minimal structure for a dictionary and some printed dictionaries are indeed like this.

I browsed some entries of your dictionary and indeed their are (sometimes quite elaborate) explanations. I could easily why it ran out of steam, especially even a basic compiling is a daunting task. Also contributors are fews. On the Jibiki.fr (Japanese-French) project, most of the corrections are made by two members. They're starting from an existing dictionary and it still took years to just check the headwords.

Thanks very much for the paper. I'll read it. I actually already had one of your paper on my machine (Asialex 2011 proceedings) but haven't read it yet.
Is pixi.js pretty big? I haven't heard of it before tonight, and I thought I'd had exposure to most of the bigger JS frameworks via HN (I'm not a JS guy, more Python).
Top human rights lawyer on “US hubris” of 9/11
I agree, and they both refuse to change (moderate the platforms, make good faith efforts to reduce or disclose bias, etc.) because money trumps ethics.

I’m not sure what solutions exist though, I’m in favor of regulatory action but it’s often just moving the goalposts as there are always loopholes to be found.
Florida ICUs are full, has a peak COVID death rate right now, and there isn't much end in sight.

https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/09/09/florida-adds...

How is that "a place where everything has returned to normal"? Ya, some people are ignoring COVID, but it isn't ignoring them.
Who would know? Most of this stuff started off in industry rather in academia; probably somebody started writing a nu on the whiteboard sometime to mean sensitivity to implied vol and someone else gave it a Greek-sounding name that stuck.
Religious exemption is a proxy for an exemption of conscience. Which is something you should care about, unless you're perfectly tuned with the social zeitgeist.

And it's an excellent proxy since most people's consciences are formed by their religious beliefs (maybe not most HNers, but that's observational bias)
Those are possible hypotheses but remain unproven.
Nim nowadays (with the new ARC/ORC memory management) seems to be similar with C++ in terms of runtime overhead, so I don’t think you need to be too worried about it.
I don't see a reference to "idx_t" anywhere in the latest draft of the C++ standard.
The dose makes the poison[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
Troll? Give some background info if this is to be taken seriously.
Rural areas have been particularly hit hard. Wyoming ICUs are full up, for example.

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/health/wyomings-cov...

It doesn't get any less blue than Wyoming (except for Jackson, but it isn't that big of a city).
Send it to me and I will pray for your soul.
Interpreting VUCA Environments, Collectively
Internal and regional politics for SA

Weakening a very powerful ally to get more favorable treatment

Surreptitiously convincing an ally to start wars with SA rivals

Reenforcing SA’s necessity to the US as a ally in the region

Ordinary corruption

In general not “to attack” but for the various chains of effects expected from that attack
> We’ve always had waves of new laws and tools for police and secret services. In the decade before 9/11, it was the war on drugs. Now it’s corona. It’s up and down, it’s ongoing. The so-called security apparatus always produces new narratives of fear conducive to expanding its powers, and 9/11 was one more crisis it tried to exploit.
Nim is such a breath of fresh air when I read it. This library looks great.

I've been trying to learn it / grok its documentation for awhile. Any suggestions on how to learn it better? I've given Exercism.IO a try (disclaimer: satisfied learner from there but not trying to shill) but I've had difficulty adopting the language from a Python background.
While pokerstove does essentially the same calculations, I don't think it has a web interface. My goal was to make an easy to use app that didn't require you to install anything or have any programming background. But thanks for the note, and I can definitely use pokerstove in the backend to run faster simulations.
i read out loud what i said. it still sounds reasonable to me, and given the choice between quarantining at home with app-based check ups and quaranting in a quarantine facility, i'd choose to stay at home.

when you disagree with somebody, please make an attempt to believe that the person you disagree with has actually thought about what they said. assuming that the only reason somebody might disagree with you is becauase they don't understand an issue as well as you do is a really insulting way to attempt to join a conversation.
I Started My Journey into Tech
It is normal because it can be captured easily and silently. This is not like some device which you walk by which scratches you and steals your DNA. This is you being who you are, open for all to see, and being seen by people and cameras.

Here on HN we already know that when shopping in the US (and probably other countries) we are being monitored and facially tracked.

The only power imbalance is the power we give to people to use this information. You can theoretically vote against people who would use this information. Stop shopping in those places, stop walking in areas with known cameras, or wear an AI defeating mask. But this is the world we live in.

You already leave far more information in your internet use than you probably do by walking around town unless you are hyper vigilant.
It's before my time but I bet it's the finance equivalent of Philosophers (i.e. fashionable nonsense) science-washing their work - even if unknowingly.
Anything I don't like is an invalid argument

"The present-day concept of the relatively longer 'week-end' first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century and was originally a voluntary arrangement between factory owners and workers allowing Saturday afternoon off from 2 pm on the basis that staff would be available for work sober and refreshed on Monday morning."
Easy; micro plastics.
Subscribe to the Gruaniad?
I don't think so, but I can't think of any coworkers who haven't had the vaccine on their own volition
I think the person you're replying to is arguing all exemptions of conscience should be ubiquitous.

That we shouldn't have to rely on religion to fight that proxy battle for us.
The FAA NORAD tapes from 9/11 is available on YouTube. I found it shocking how unprepared everyone seemed to be.

I'm reading the Vanity Fair article, it adds context missing from the raw communication. It helps to understand why it sounded so chaotic.

Is the movie worth watching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBhgEm3j7A
I thought the main benefit from smoking (in regards to covid) was the nicotine itself. The nicotine gets oxidized and turned into nicotinc acid.

If I wanted to mimic the benefits of smoking, I would take a nicotinic acid pill (flushing niacin)
Oh I've angered the sheep. My apologies.

You are being manipulated and controlled, and my commentary about this is not nearly as significant as the loss of your self worth in (willfully ignorantly) following your leaders.
All dollar-denominated graphs in the article use linear scales, which is misleading, because price inflation is compounded (exponential). Compare the difference in how steady inflation looks between linear (left) and logarithmic (right) here:

https://www.graphpad.com/guides/prism/7/user-guide/images/em...

This is not to dismiss the fact stock market valuations are outstripping growth of the economy, but the article is definitely making it look even worse than it is.
A lot of people on the Internet aren't so much pro-democracy as anti-government. Strong competent democratic government must be a challenge to their view of the world. Personally I would prefer a competent democracy to mob rule or the dictators that inevitably follow.
Everyone is hiring for senior positions. Everyone graduating is not a senior.
I was surprised by how much I learned on a recent episode of the “ologies” podcast on “eudemonology” - science of happiness. [0] evidentally a big factor in people’s happiness is whether they feel that they have adaquete free time. So maybe just having a hobby is just recognizing that you have some amount of time to yourself. Good episode.

[0] https://www.alieward.com/ologies/eudemonology
Orphan works in the United States
That only works if we presume that the only way we could have discovered refrigeration was via CFCs, which seems improbable to me. My chest freezer uses propane as a refrigerant; why couldn’t we have just jumped straight to that?
I expect I'll get thoroughly thrashed and branded an idiot for daring to ask, but since you studied structural engineering, I really want to take the opportunity.

Is your comment exclusively for the two main towers, or tower 7? I have spoken with engineers who have reluctantly expressed confusion over tower 7. I'd appreciate a reply if you can bear it.

To others: I know to even touch the subject will have many sharpening their axes. Please save them for something other than honest curiosity, if you can.
Even a tiny hit that causes no obvious injury is a shock to the system, I say that as a cyclist who's been hit a few times in that way.
> it's useful for a society to formally acknowledge an authority that's greater than the individuals to whom it gives political power.

yes, as you noted...that higher authority is society not god. The concept of god is an attempt to impute one's/a group's morals on a society
This is really a win for Google, since most of these web apps are easily ported to ChromeOS. and it is going to continue as ChromeOS is gaining even more market share.
If you aren't astonished, you're not paying attention. This study was conducted over six years, on two independent cohorts, involving tens of thousands of patients.

A moment's consideration shows why an RCT to check tobacco smoke and lung cancer was impossible. We are nonetheless 100% confident, in the entire absence of an RCT, that smoking does directly cause lung cancer. The sort of fetishism you promote is exactly what delayed institutional recognition of the fact, by decades.

Ask any professional statistician about failure modes of RCTs. Be prepared to listen for a long time. Instead of worshipping blindly at the altar of RCTs, we should pay attention to what actual statisticians have to say about actual results.

Judea Pearl, in a recent book, "The Book of Why", provides a readable, in-depth exploration of statisticians' fundamental relationship with causuality, and the historical development of statisticians' decades-long loss of their ability to form conclusions from observational data, and their recent recovery. We are all healthier now that we know how and when we may confidently act on results of observational studies, without fetishism.
FB launched smart glasses?? Was this discussed on HN?
> The approach you are taking can be used to justify complete control and arbitrary lockdowns whenever N cases or N deaths for any virus happen. Or for anything that can be construed as a public health crisis, including things not related to viruses. Don't you see that?

Yeah, I do see that! In fact it's almost like Australia wrote an act about this stuff like 80 years ago that define the criteria and rights and responsibilities of the commonwealth during national emergencies. And it's almost like the pandemic meets those criteria and then we used the powers as written in the act.

Almost like this isn't the emergence of a totalitarian state but was the state we lived in all along, or something.

> My heart breaks for any death anywhere. Including the death of a free and normal life. Suicides and depression have skyrocketed. [...
> ...] And it is not appropriate to beat someone over the head with the numbers of death in response to them calling out the systems of enslavement you are building in Australia.

Cognitive dissonance getting to you, yet?
What does make sense is that in an attention economy it is pretty easy to grab people’s attention by taking a significant event and trying to convince people that the common narrative is false is very profitable. You get a lot of attention and if you do a good job the idea grows all on its own and becomes something you can capitalize on the attention for a long long time.
It’s very cute. Too bad there isn’t a 16GB version. At that point it would be a fantastic computer. At 8GB I’d be a little worried about it.
Uh, no. I lived in Belgium for almost eight years, and I drove in many European countries over the years.

In every single country I drove in, they are much worse than the average American driver. In some places, like Paris and Rome, they are much, much worse. I managed to survive in Paris and Rome, but only barely.

To this day, when driving in the US, I hold this knowledge in reserve, for those rare times when I do need to be more aggressive and “Drive Belgian”.
It's a hyperbolic headline, but I guess it at least transports the information that he's been focusing on works written in German.
I know about helium balloons, but hydrogen is really cheap compared to helium. And it's nowhere near as dangerous as it's made out to be. The Hindenburg burned, it did not explode.
Early in the pandemic they also understood the issue of poor airflow and took that seriously. For example, on the trains (even in winter) they keep a number of the windows open to ensure airflow. Schools were required to keep the classroom windows open and breaks were required at set intervals to ensure people were moving in and out of the classrooms. Restaurants were requested to keep their windows and doors open.

To be honest, I don't think hygiene is taken seriously here. Most people don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, especially at home. That said, they also don't shake hands, and they do use hand sanitizer and wipe their hands with towelettes before meals.

I think what OP really means here is the universal mask usage, which is common during flu (and allergy) season, which definitely had an impact.

Of course, Japanese people rarely take off work when they're sick. They're actively discouraged from doing so, as almost no companies offer sick leave. You're required to take your sick leave from your vacation time, and most companies offer less than 10 days of vacation time. I think the most impactful thing during covid is that the government actively pushed companies to allow work from home, which is a major shift in how people work here. I, for instance, have never gone into the office (I started during covid) and my company is allowing work from home as the default, forever.

The government response as a whole is pretty comical, and they can't really be given much credit. They started a "travel around the country" program called GoTo Travel, which definitely resulted in covid being spread from Tokyo around the country, during one of their larger waves. Their vaccine roll out has been one blunder after another.

Overall, I think the way the culture works here, and their past experiences with SARS, and their normal handling of the flu, is why the country hasn't been overrun, even though it's mostly stayed open the entire time.
As far as I know, we can, and do, go faster than light all the time. Right now, our bodies are going faster than light, relative to other astronomical bodies.

Space can expand faster than the speed of light. Therefore, since WE are on one galaxy, we are traveling faster than the speed of light away from other galaxies.

Oh...did you mean us PERSONALLY traveling faster than the speed of light to other parts of the galaxy?

This is probably the best analogy I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2JCoIGyGxc
I wholeheartedly agree. Where is the line in deep conviction?

can I steal if I had a deeply held religious conviction that it is appropriate?
Mind enlightening us on what vast new secret service/police laws/tools there are for corona?