skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More saliently, the NORAD timeline of events was dodgy enough that the 9/11 commission referred the matter to the Inspector General of the DoD and DOT.

"Commission staff believes there is sufficient evidence that the false statements made to the commission were deliberately false. The false testimony served a purpose: to obscure mistakes on the part of the F.A.A. and the military, and to overstate the readiness of the military to intercept and, if necessary, shoot down UAL 93."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._military_response_during_...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/08/norad200608
No, it's because they are fucking wackjobs. That's a fact. It's not an accusation. And it's not because of any bullshit about "who they are accused of being"; it's because of their wackjob argument.

They are promoting a conspiracy theory that the WTC was destroyed by a controlled demolition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architects_%26_Engineers_for_9...
Well, my point is that "more likely" and "more reasonable" are rarely reasons why things were done in the first place so using the benefit of hindsight to try and suss out cause and effect will frequently lead you to plausible but incorrect answers (specifically for the history and naming of things).

Then again, being wrong about something seems faster than asking a question, and this little thread has already unearthed interesting answers, so maybe you have the right of it!
The Satanists are a perfect poison pill to overbroad exemptions. They have all ready staged a figurative middle finger to religious carve-outs with their 10 commandments protest (disguised as a Moloch statue, of course). 'Oh, I thought this was for all faiths to be treated equally...'

And since it's a new/fake religion, their beliefs are a blank slate which can be adapted to whichever liberty or situation presents itself. They are daring the courts to call their belief insincere--something the courts are rightly trepidatious about deciding what constitutes bona-fide belief.

It's pretty much the religious exceptionist's worst nightmare--a parody religion set up to leech off any religious benefits or exclusions. Okay, you don't believe in birth control? Well I don't believe in blood transfusions/cancer/insulin. Your move, Christians.
Did you start it before JEDict from Breen started existing? It's great for English language for other Japanese-* pairs are poorly endowed. There is also focused work on neologisms that could be done with a few people and could really improve existing free solutions.

I'm personally using the route of digitizing an existing dictionary, albeit manually because that can't be automated in this case.
What good is it to me or to you or to the people of Australia that the protest post arrest and the Melbourne Towers lockdown were "widely criticized?" That says nothing even if branches of government did it. That's controlled opposition at best until there's clear evidence that they're relenting from these practices. Instead I see just evidence of more power consolidation.

The number of people in the home thing doesn't bother me, again because I'm happy to accept this as a temporary restriction that reduces deaths until our vaccination rates allow us to go back to normal life.

It's been two years. These things are clearly not intended to be temporary. They will normalize it as much as possible. The frog boiling in the pot is an apt analogy here.

I understand your perspective, and these events do concern me. However I personally don't see them as an authoritarian government making efforts to reduce our freedoms, I see them as a generally well-meaning government misstepping in an unprecedented situation, and I expect those missteps to be accounted for via legal action.

What would it take you to consider that it is turning into a totalitarian regime, and that those are not missteps, but steps that were done perhaps too soon and they should've given the frog in the pot a little more time? I mean, I'm not here to waste my weekend arguing for nothing, I'm genuinely asking - what would it take for you to see that it's a bad situation? What else could Australia do that gets you thinking "we should take a step back" and will it be too late by then?

I truly hope that it's a generally well-meaning government misstepping in an unprecedented situation. I truly do. Is that realistic given a study of history and the nature of Power?
In person shopping for groceries is solved by walking in many large European cities. If you rely on street parking, the shop is likely not much further than your car anyways.

Commutes can also be faster by public transit than by car, especially if start and destination are in the same city.

Delivery vehicles and trucks are probably the most difficult, but they're also major contributors to the noise and stink.
Let it be officiated here if not already:

The $350 WH-1000XM4 has invariably higher-bandwith, higher-resolution audio than the $500+ Airpods Max. Whoever set that price at Apple is squirming in their seat, I can't seem to find it being sold new for more than $550.
The entire first half of your comment is hilariously uninformed. You have absolutely no idea about the impacts of COVID on Australia and it bleeds out of everything you're saying. You arguing that past infections should mean something to me is the "out of touch with reality" bit.

> It's interesting that you chide others for being out of touch with reality and yet you ignore the reality that past infection offers equal or better protection

This is completely meaningless to Australia. Just 0.002% of the Australian population has had COVID. Past-infection protection is not an area of interest to me or the government of my country, because as a cohort, those people just don't really exist here... Mostly because of our wacky policies of trying to make sure our populace doesn't get infected by doing things like hotel quarantine.

As for the second bit, about children possibly having issues with the vaccine: It might be worth pointing out here that children in that study aren't a part of the current Australian government push for vaccination. The target is for over-16s only.

Should we wait before pushing for the under-16s to get vaccinated? Absolutely! Does that prove you right in absolutely any way? Nope!

You might as well start telling me that Australia shouldn't introduce gun control.
It works as well as your hardware and sources support. Pulseaudio added notable latency on my system to begin with, and pipewire defaults to minimal instead; which has corner-cases that are covered by reverting to more "headroom" (device buffer?) similar to the existing behavior of alternatives.
I take it that Covid has yet to kill any of your family members.
Maybe it’s only 0.06% because we are over-reacting. And it’s not over.
Well, you could compile everything with noexcept and not use exceptions, but that would certainly make large chunks of the STL useless.
"stock ubuntu" means "ubuntu as configured automatically after installing it".
IMO the solution is simple: if you give an exception, everyone gets it. You don't need to prove your beliefs are bona-fide. That's just not something we want employers or the courts getting involved in.
Everyone hates Isreal, bro.
> For normal use, operating a car costs about $0.60/mile.

This is when amortizing the full cost of the car. Depreciation due to age, insurance and the whole lot. But these are sunk costs for someone who already needs a car for unrelated reasons. Any of those people are rational to consider only the incremental cost from the additional miles and fuel.

And that number is also assuming the typical car owned by people in general, not the typical car used for ride sharing. The most common "car" in the US is a Ford F-150. The most common Uber is a Toyota Prius. Because people aren't as dumb as they're made out to be.
Nope. Not wearing masks forever. Vaccines were the end. If they don’t work, nothing will. Either way the only ethical thing to do is learn to live with it and go back to normal.

Life is way to short and we can’t just piss it away being myopically focused on slowing exactly one very specific illness. Sorry.
I'd love that, too. The trick is figuring out whether the "trusted" person is really unbiased, or whether they have a bias in either direction. Making it harder, whichever side that the expert disagrees with will claim bias, whether or not there was any...
> Protestants say things along the lines of "Catholics aren't Christian"

Not really sure what this has to do with the topic at hand. Sure, some people say that. You can define "Christianity" however you want, and through that definition exclude certain practitioners.

> That's not a good analogy

It was not intended as an analogy, it was just another example of not considering something to be part of your religion even though another group thinks it should be.

> they should be aware that different branches of Christianity have different ideas about what belongs in "the Bible"

How do you know Jake Cyr is not aware of these things? As you pointed out yourself, this API only includes two translations at the moment. Contrary to what you have said, however, the KJV does not normally include the apocrypha in the present day. From wikipedia:

> ...this version of the Bible became the most widely printed book in history, almost all such printings presenting the standard text of 1769 extensively re-edited by Benjamin Blayney at Oxford, and nearly always omitting the books of the Apocrypha. Today the unqualified title "King James Version" usually indicates this Oxford standard text.

So it makes sense, given that neither of these translations typically include the deuterocanon, that those books are not accessible via this API. I think listing the translations is sufficient explanation of what content will be included and that there is no reason for this to be explicitly called "The Free Protestant Bible API" or any such thing. Your complaint would have much more merit if Jake Cyr was specifically excluding certain books that normally would be found in the included translations, but that is not what is happening here.
it's a shame that "Show org source" is broken, but thanks, I'm intrigued.
Wayland is Linux-only.
Hospitals have had more than enough time to prepare for this. If they fill up, that’s on them and the government. Society shouldn’t be punished for that.
Replace religious exemption with phrase deep conviction; relation to religion is only in use in policy as mass religion played a role to counter government, requiring at least some compromise for government to gain the most popular religions/organizations as allies, to align with.
Despite of the (rightfully) privacy concerns showed on comments, I cannot help but see this kind of projects with some kind of sadness/nostalgia.

Long gone are the days of Pidgin and co, where you could have whatever contacts on whatever service they used and you could chat with them from your app, fully integrated on your desktop/cli and set up with too much hassle, not needing to run any browser instance, electron stuff or things like that. imho instant messaging now is a complete mess.
Not trying to be rude but I don't believe this is a sensible choice if you care about performance (sounds like you were more concerned about missing familiar features and such so this comment may be irrelevant). Just curious if you were you able to measure the performance degradation after this change was made? In other words what is the price paid for obtaining familiar constructs (it certainly wont be zero).
That's not that bad! Still seems potentially very useful.
> since at least the '50s

Since at least 1944: https://archive.org/details/chi_00005 (Seek to 12:28, sorry can't deep-link)
Yeah, for sure. I should just take it out of my project. I'm only supporting a subset of the instruction set anyway.
The Unix Programming Environment (1984): trying an example on Linux
> something placed/written on you

That is a reasonable and mainstream interpretation, but one has to wonder how someone living in the first century AD would conceptualise a system of biometric surveillance and control, so that they could write about it using the language of the day.

If someone uses their thumbprint to register their identity with their phone, and uses that biometric to unlock a digital copy of a government-issued ID, for example, then it seems almost pedantic to quibble about whether the "mark" is placed or stored on their body, or on their device, or in "the cloud".

Also, the book of Revelation equates "the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name", suggesting that taking a "name" can be equivalently bad to taking a "mark", and that there is a system of assigning numeric (perhaps digital) values to human-readable names.

It is hard to say precisely what constitutes taking a number separately from taking a mark, but I think that a reasonable analogy (even if not a correct interpretation) is a system where people's digital identities are stored under the control of a single global database. The "number" could refer to the digital value of the entire database, or there could be a hierarchical system with a central key exercising authority over regional keys, which exercise authority over per-person keys, like the web PKI only more centralised at the top.
> So for that to be the IFR NYC would have had to have 100% infection of its population. Not impossible but seems unlikely.

If NYC had 100% infection by the end of 2020, post-infection immunity is a lot worse than every study of that topic has suggested.
Nobody is using it for the opposite narrative. Quarantine has nothing to do with enslavement. You’re being histrionic, but also inconsistent when worrying about loss of life through totalitarianism but not loss of life through preventable illness. You’ve said elsewhere that the pandemic is not deadly enough to justify the actions we’re seeing, and I somewhat agree (population-wide lockdowns have been excessive), but hospital systems everywhere, including in Australia, have been pushed to beyond capacity. Australians can accept some limits to their freedoms to keep the medical system functioning. They won’t accept it forever, and regardless of any malicious intentions, governments can’t afford it forever.
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Air Drawing Demo
How is that not an accusation?
His unbiased opinion was clearly not that strong - he literally put the word "potentially" in parentheses in the first sentence you quoted. Then he specifically said that his opinions could change because the analyses weren't done. Then his opinion changed.

If this is the best evidence you could come up with that elites are telling experts to change their opinions and experts are acquiescing, it doesn't make for a strong case.
Message unification needs to happen, yesterday, and this is a clever hack! Great excution and smooth on boarding / use.

Sadly, as others have said, the unknown matrix server is tough, and further, the SMS hack is both a blessing and a curse - easy to use but unencrypted and mega-tracked by phone providers et. al
Can one get state-of-the-art speeds for Vector/Matrix Arithmetic from a Java application? Or is it necessary to use C++ to be “closer to the metal.”
What makes you think modern C++ produces slower code than C?

Do you have any real example that you been bitten by such conversion?
> A religion is any deeply held belief.

I deeply believe in the existence of gravity. I guess that makes me a Scientitian.
Yes, Gtk+ and Glib do that with the catch that C has no type polymorphism, so everything is done with casts and void pointers. It's even fully object-oriented.
I legitimately knew a ~50 year old person, when I was a child, who believed that having your photograph taken captured part of your soul, and she would not allow her photograph to be taken.

Apparently it was a widely-held Native American religious belief: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8380/did-some-c...
More like blaming the tobacco farmers instead of Phillip Morris, although it falls apart at the point that I’m not sure tobacco was seen as anything more than a commodity.
Don’t imagine many folks are making requests for those sort of shenanigans. Seems kinda like something you do of your own accord, yeah?
those that did maybe stopped seeding at that point
The UN wants 600 mil for Afghanistan
Could a billionaire pay?
The author uses the term hate for the ranking parameter:

https://github.com/corollari/linusrants/blob/master/table.md
Whatever their intentions, governments can’t sustain these measures forever economically or politically.
Yes, it's built on Gtk+ (which is built on Glib.)
PicoPC: Tiny Desktop PC, Pocket Win10 Linux 4K Computer
Yeah I think we should believe the unbiased explanation and give a $7-billion no-bid contract to the Vice President's private military contracting firm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7444083.stm
You are wrong. Most nations either don't have the capability to spy on foreign diplomats to this degree or it would be too risky for them to try - because they don't have the political power to survive repercussions.

Then there's also nations - which may be surprising to US citizens - where government agencies respect laws, international agreements, and diplomatic immunity as a matter of process. It takes a particular kind of arrogance and belief in their immunity to repercussions to disregard these out of their own volition - without any instruction from country leadership.
Ah, well for the fate of our friends down under, that seems good that it’s mostly “talk” and not as bad as they indicate.

Thanks for this refreshing update!
I suspect most of my neighbors don't own cars either, simply based on available parking vs. the number of apartments.
> My partner went to an all-day get together with our mutual friends, and I stayed home in bed, too ill to go.

So your partner did not quarantine? Avoid non-essential trips? Wear a mask?

I don't think you'd disagree that our COVID precautions at _this_ point are incongruous with the past, but highlighting it for others reading.
> Does the person not have no drivers license

It's legal to not have a driver's license, if one does not drive on public roads.
It doesn’t matter why, stop rationalizing this bullshit.
You draw the line at taxes.

> Members of certain religious groups (including the Amish and Mennonites) may be exempt from paying Social Security taxes. To become exempt, they must:

> Be a member of a religious sect that makes a reasonable provision of food, shelter and medical care for its dependent members and has done so continuously since December 31, 1950;

https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02411
> You fingerprint yourself in every restaurant with glass cups, and leave those prints behind when you depart.

By your reasoning, you also leave your fingerprints on the number keys you press at the ATM when entering your PIN. So your bank PIN, by your logic, is also no more private than your fingerprints or your hair color, correct?
That's probably 1 tech lead managing two people each of which manages 3-4 people below him.
That seems highly unlikely. Almost half of social media users are considering leaving the platforms, while around 10% have deleted Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or some other app. We also know that the data shows that the pandemic increased the likelihood of people leaving social media, which would seem odd on the face of it, because you would think it would lead to more adoption due to being at home. What happened is that the pandemic was a catalyst for people finding what was truly meaningful in their personal lives; social media wasn't it.
Wait, France has a higher suicide rate than the US? I find that to be quite surprising.
This was the final presentation at NimConf in June and I was blown away, as I am sure many others were. The fact that this library exists makes the task of creating a high quality retained-mode UI library in Nim much easier. You don't have to try and wrangle Pango/Cairo/Skia to act as your foundation.
Yes, there's an element of that in this.
> Apple can't remove contractual obligations either.

They can’t remove them, but they can prevent them from existing in the first place. It’s their platform, and they can and do make it a requirement that the app vendor’s subscription contract conform to a standard where ending the subscription from within Apple’s subscription management UI actually terminates all future obligations for the customer. This is why many subscriptions that are otherwise quite hard to end and involve deliberate inconveniences like requiring calling in during business hours can just be cancelled from the subscription page if they were started via the app.

> Otherwise calling collections is a very bad deal for the vendor who will be penalized by the credit company and by the courts and by bad PR.

This is just not correct. Vendors do this all the time, credit companies don’t care and have no policies against it, since it’s the customer’s responsibility to have a legal justification to tell the credit company to refuse charges, and the PR blowback is demonstrably nonexistent.
Totally. You shouldn't be allowing people to run graph traversals of arbitrary depth in your database anyway. :)
Wow you're really into Adult Video!
You got past what exactly?

It’s about getting your foot in the door somewhere, gaining valuable fundamental tech skills and networking/nix/troubleshooting skills and experience, and then you leverage that experience those learned skills by moving on and up to a higher paying something_engineer role, most likely at a different and bigger/better org etc.

Obviously neither of our particular adhoc experiences can be used as a template for success, as of course it’s a combination of luck/right time right place/experience/competence/each person’s motivation/drive etc, but I’m not understanding how what you described was disadvantageous to your career.

Are you saying the skills you learned and experience you gained was not valuable? Do you believe that NOC Technician looked “bad” on your resume to potential employers? Because that is totally fine as a first or second tech job—- in fact in Engineering and Operations groups it’s almost assumed that this is the sort of first entry level job that many will have.

Any technical hiring manager is happy to see that type of experience, and knows that this sort of experience is miles better than “fill in cloud name” certs that everyone gets these days. You learn fundamentals with these jobs that you’ll never obtain from studying or labcramming for these cloud certs.
Nice, as a game I was hooked.
16 moves in 44 sec
The core language says that the result of sizeof is size_t, defined in <stddef.h> (and other headers).

size_t is a typedef (alias) for an implementation-defined unsigned integer type.

It could have been worded differently with the same meaning. For example, the core language (section 6 of the standard) could have said that sizeof yields a result of an implementation-defined unsigned integer type without referring to "size_t". The library section (section 7) already says that size_t "is the unsigned integer type of the result of the sizeof operator". Personally I think that referring to size_t in the language section adds clarity, even if it's slightly redundant.

In a given implementation, a compiler might arrange for sizeof to yield a result of type unsigned long, for example. The corresponding <stddef.h> header must then define size_t as unsigned long for the implementation to be correct.