skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied structural engineering. The 2008 NIST report changed my view. Beforehand I thought the 9/11 A&E for Truth movement may have had some valid points. I suspected it was due to poor construction inspection or possibly corruption but I didn't rule out conspiracy completely. But when I read the report and it explained the mechanisms for failure I was completely convinced. Heat expanded the beams which pushed the exterior columns out of plane which, in conjunction with the heat, caused their failure. I don't know a single engineer that has read the report that disagrees with its findings.

All of this to say, there are plenty of engineers that may have signed on to the original pledge that may have read the report and changed their minds. I never signed it, but I don't recommend buying into their claims. We have reasonable answers now.
Ironically, the Amish position is based solely on their strong stance on Aniconism[0], but in the process of their objection they have revealed that the state ID system gives people the choice of having their forehead or their right hand recorded, which are precisely the areas where the "mark of the beast" is taken, according to the book of Revelation.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism#Among_Christians_tod...

[1] https://biblehub.com/revelation/13-16.htm
Rust:

https://github.com/RazrFalcon/tiny-skia

https://github.com/jrmuizel/raqote

Go:

https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas
Unity 3D Coming to Apple Silicon
how would you know ants have no interest in spreading their species to mars, if they could've?

If humans behaved like ants, but had the current capabilities, we could colonize mars, at huge cost to many's lives. Essentially, they will be sacrifices for the greater "good", whatever that good means in that context.
>I wonder if Dlangs "betterC" would be a good fit,

You mean "Das C" ? :)
I’ve seen this story everywhere over the past few days. Technicalities of the warranty aside, leaving people with a bill like that on a not that old car is terrible for Tesla’s brand. This is pretty much the only thing that stops me from wanting to buy a Tesla, and it’s left a permanently bad taste in my mouth hearing about it.
Isn't he also the only American to reach the professional grade of 9-Dan?
I think the article leaves a lot of space for the possibility that the Japanese have kept infections low because it is a low physical contact culture, and that there have been fewer deaths due to the lack of obesity.
Yes, there are dozens of us
you may try assign text replacements for emojis:
https://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/04/text-replacement-mac.htm...
And church of possession and consumption of chemicals of any forumlae for personal use.
I often cite section 6. It's the best explanation I've found of the (often confusing and counterintuitive) relationship between arrays and pointers in C.

If you think arrays are really pointers, you need to read section 6 of the FAQ.
in canada i think the phrase is "conscience", but that doesn't mean objections of conscience are treated equally
https://lib.rs/crates/nannou
Sadly, there’s no shortage of people who believe such abuse is rampant. I heard such a claim the other day from someone I generally regard as intelligent, and who I expect to know better.
Why can't they just do the same as dropbox or onedrive, where they use Windows file system filters on a regular folder (no mount points).

To all the people who suggest alternatives, our entire org is run by xooglers and they put everything in Google Drive. I have no choice but to use this crap. To make matters worse, I cannot use any third-party client (or even roll my own) because it is not allowed by the security policy.
"Some aspects of the impact generation process are in your control, and some aren’t. The world (i.e. the environment) isn’t in your control. Neither are the outcomes you get from trying things – remember the intention/impact gap. However, generating ideas, making things, taking risks, and the people you choose to work with are." -- This observation is also true when developing internal tools in the company. The ecosystem you develop will change the behaviors of people who use it (and who you'll hire to leverage that), which will change the desired ecosystem and so forth, and so on. Vishal Kapur encourages us all to ask "Answerable questions" and experiment.
This misses that the share is an asset _with a monetary value_ even though it's not money itself. It's true but not relevant that various measures of the money supply, M0, M1, etc. are unchanged.

The chart in the original article is of Annual Equity Fund flows, which are net values _considering both sides since it includes negative values_ -- a measurement of this supposedly nonexistant flow. While money remains constant from a trade, the stock of equity (in both senses of the term "stock") changes.
I don't disagree with you, but your tone does smack of biting the hand that feeds.
The Reason Why You Sabotage Your Own Goals
I had been using ImageMagick for these types of things. Wondering how pixie improves over it.

Without knowing how much overhead Nim brings in, I still believe it would have been better if this library preliminary was a C or C++ lib and then had binding for all the other languages.
> Edit 2 .... I use the "site:" qualifier

You have literally NOT given an example again this is true.

We have to trust you the "site:" qualifier somehow works?

I think this is user error.

Google does “Exact Search”, to answer the question asked.

There will be practical exceptions (And many many theoretical exceptions), but anyone at that level will know work arounds.
Sounds similar to pull panda: https://pullpanda.com/ but the integration with Teams could be a solid differentiator.
Don't get too excited about this — activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor is the mechanism of toxicity of things like tetrachlorodibenzodioxin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxi...

It's possible that the inherent toxicity will preclude use as a treatment. On the other hand, it would be ironic if one of the most toxic substances known turns out to treat COVID-19.
And in today’s political climate in the US, the chance of getting an amendment passed by 2/3 of both houses of Congress AND 38/50 states is basically nil.
The social "contract" is only useful up to the point that it is enforceable. Cryptography can in fact hide much from the state.
Yes they can. Especially in Australia where people don’t have means to defend themselves and are falling for the “vaxed vs unvaxed” narrative. Pit sides against each other and they’ll clamor for the state to protect the peace and establish order. And that it will do with increasingly invasive measures like arresting pregnant women for making anti-lockdown Facebook posts or locking residents of an entire apartment complex in their homes with no one allowed to leave.

Imagine being told in 2018 this would happen a short time later - the government there arresting or locking people in that way. Would you have believed it could happen?

Could you see it becoming worse, particularly if the media narrative about us-them continues until one side gets dehumanized?

Why rest in this blind faith about how much they can sustain? When they have already been sustaining this stuff for going on two years with no signs of letting up. If anything it seems to be getting worse per the OP, with even more idiotic systems being built “because of the antivaxers” or whatever convenient justification is peddled by media to divide the people and consolidate power towards the top of the top.

sigh

I don’t want to be right. I want to be WRONG.
Ok, nice trick, you got your 15 minutes of fame.
Now please change that name to something else.
You say that like the alternative is any better. Historically small communities with high levels of "investment" had a heavy hand over the lives of their community members. They're practically cults that exist to "save" their investment from outside influences. To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates how such societies function.

In my opinion, it's good to have options. It's good not to have an X-or-bust social investment in a particular community because, as the 20th century has demonstrated, communities don't last forever. They change, they warp, they include, they exclude, they rise ,and they disappear. Societies are built to serve an instrumental function. When a society fails to provide that function in any meaningful way, people will vote with their feet when they can find another goal that suits their purposes. Even if such a goal is outside their current limits. This his been the way of humanity for thousands of years, so I don't understand why should we stop people from having options. I don't see a reason why people risk sinking with a ship they no longer have an interest being aboard.

Ideally one would have an arrangement that mimics the Viennese Cafe societies. Strict but fair rules on conduct, but ultimately leaving personal agency to oneself and one's confidants .
This looks amazing..!! Awesome work, can’t wait to explore it!
> On what planet do we live, where all of a sudden that statement even in your version of the reading is in ANY way more palatable or reassuring? The government is offering you these choices:

> 1) Quarantine in a guarded quarantine hotel for two weeks in a sealed room

Where I am (Australia, the place where this is happening), right now that is current reality on the planet we live on, and is the _only_ choice offered. I cannot leave Sydney for any reason, without being required to spend two weeks in a sealed room at my own expense. It's not just state or federal borders, it's travel within the state of NSW - I cannot go further than maybe 30-40km in any direction from my house without a "permissible reason" which pretty much means "essential work". Bereavement, family visits, or wanting to stab all my household and neighbours in the face do not count as "permissible reasons". That is, as you rightly allude to, in now way palatable or reassuring. But is is in fact the ground truth where I live.

As much as I despise option #2, I would seriously consider making that choice for myself - in spite of the acknowledged normalisation of massive surveillance overreach it would represent.
size(1) exists to provide the actual information. File sizes are only a rough indicator.
True! I meant shortcut in a more sapiocentric way, i.e. "These are the top 3 things you can quickly google and implement for a big realism gain for low effort cost."
> root issue has not been addressed in years

what is this root cause? Are you saying that people should not compete?
> I'm talking about the right to do or refuse something (e.g., refuse a fingerprint or, or refuse to serve alcohol) and protection of those choices.

I hope you're not fond of "the weekend" considering it used to take a religious exemption to get a day off work at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat

"Oop, gotta go — it's Buchwuch!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg58j-MoFic
I’m sorry you’ve experienced road rage as a response. I should say, I feel relatively safe trying this here. But I’m in the PNW where people are notoriously passive aggressive. But they seem perfectly happy to just “skip ahead” of me.

But yeah I definitely could imagine a more aggressive response where I first learned to drive (DC metro).
I suspect this is an engineered situation/story/post. I suspect it is designed to drum up conflict and destabilize a society. Who really benefits from this is up for debate, and I won't speculate.

That out of the way, fingerprints and faces are essentially public. Unless you wear a mask and gloves in public, you are visible. And even so, you'll shed some DNA material here and there. If you're so concerned about that, you should wear a clean room suit.

Since I think this is a social conflict bait situation, I won't bite. But we here at HN are hopefully of a higher level rational mind that we recognize that interacting in the current world means allowing quite a lot of observation of who goes where. I'm not talking about Facebook, but I am talking about facial recognition and people folling you with evidence bags (if some organization believes there is value in doing so).
JEDict already existed, but it was just a glossary, i.e., Japanese words with English equivalents. But there aren’t many one-to-one correspondences in meaning between Japanese and English words, and such glossaries, while useful, can also be frustrating and misleading to users. My idea for jeKai was to create a dictionary with explanatory definitions, like those that appear in monolingual dictionaries. That turned out to be much more work than we were ready to do, though.

A paper I wrote nine years ago on related issues is here, in case you are interested:

“Kokugo Dictionaries as Tools for Learners: Problems and Potential”

https://researchmap.jp/multidatabases/multidatabase_contents...
I am not sure Pixie improves over ImageMagick. Perhaps it has some more advanced blend modes or other algorithms that ImageMagick hasn't implemented. ImageMagick is really great for pipelines of conversions. I see Pixie being more of a Quartz, Cairo, Skia, etc. for the Nim platform that can serve as the low-level canvas for a lot of higher-level functionality. Sadly, I am not enough of a Nim expert to know the trade-offs between using native code or importing C libraries.
Isn't twitch chat built on IRC? At least it was a couple of years ago. I remember connecting to twitch chat from weechat with no issues whatsoever.
> The point of privacy laws are that your consent is required, and taking things from you under duress or coercion is not consent.

This seems like your taking it a bit to the extreme. We both agree that for me to hire you to do a job I’m allowed to know who you are right? And that to identify the one person out of the world population I am allowed to keep a record with enough details that I can identify if a person is in fact you, right? Now if my bookeping of people changes from “roughly visually resembles the same person” which we both agree is a rubbish measure if any kind of security is involved to “has known fingerprint” and you refuse to comply, why then should I not be allowed to fire the person who I can no-longer identify out of the world population?

You have complete freedom to not want people to see your face or know your fingerprint, but you just cannot take away the freedom of a potential employer to be able to identify who you are by the means they decide.
When they come for me, I plan to quit. I WFH, live in the middle of nowhere, grow most of my own food, and go weeks without interacting with someone not in the household.

I don't need the money so quitting's not a big deal for me, but I do feel sorry for those not in a position to take a principled stand for personal choice and autonomy over their own bodies.

I'll consider coming back to work when/if something close to the old normal returns some day.
I mean all this “protect the hospital” crap is bailing them out. Might as well be honest about it. People should be pissed that hospitals didn’t build capacity… why they aren’t, beats me.
On another note. I am glad people are still working on it considering BitTorrent is way pass its golden era and is not being used as much.

Hopefully the refactor ( which has been talked about and planned for many years ) will fix some performance issues. I constantly get 20-30% CPU usage just downloading.
IRC is sized to run on 80s hardware. Storing messages wasn’t possible because few nodes would have enough memory to store more than a handful of messages. The links were so slow that spitting over a backlog on reconnect could stall the connection for a non-trivial amount of time.
I can't help but think that this would be primarily used for censorship and breaking net neutrality.
Half of the article was about how the author is surprised by how bad a quote-unquote "mild" case of COVID can actually be. They're making the point that even if you aren't hospitalized, this shit is pretty rough for some people. Not deadly, and not even necessarily long-lasting (as the author was careful to specify); just shitty.

I think that is a very fair presentation of a story. I call you out for the agenda thing only because I think purported fear of an agenda is kind of an argument-red-flag; it just means you don't like the conclusions that are suggested by the data available.

We talk a lot about agenda, bias, narrative -- sometimes, a lot of people see the same set of facts and come to the same conclusion, not because they're Sheep and being controlled by the Thought Police, but because one conclusion is fairly correct.

This is coming off more antagonistic towards you, in particular; I don't mean that, and I don't mean to suggest you're a conspiracy theorist or whatever. I just mean that sometimes, a clear conclusion from an article isn't an agenda so much as it is reasonably logical fact-presentation and basic analysis.
Until they buy your student loan debt.
I know this might seem like a joke answer but I love it because it's the truest answer.

The 'speed of light' is nothing but a coefficient between seconds and meters (or in general, between units of time and units of distance and is equal to 1 in any sensible measurement system) since the spacetime in GR is unified
Sorry, I was talking from the believer's point of view; not from a law perspective. You are probably right about that.
I have no intention to repair my car. Didn’t repair my last 3. I changed my brakes back in high school, no plans to now.

I have been super happy with my Tesla service, both in price and quality. I don’t feel filthy like when I went to the Honda dealership and they tried to sell me a $500 coolant flush.
Sure, but if an exception is made for anyone based on their beliefs, it should be available to everyone universally regardless of their beliefs. Otherwise, people de facto have a different set of rights based on their beliefs.

These sorts of exceptions have historically been made in deference to pragmatism, an example being not drafting bona fide pacifists into the military due to the pointlessness thereof. But deferring to pragmatism when dealing with the topic of human rights is offensive.
I agree with this. Apple, a huge part of spy, does tens of billions of business outside the US. Most of the rest of the S&P 500 also. Using US GDP as a denominator is faulty when the stocks in the numerator are worldwide leaders. It’s a simplistic measure that I wouldn’t base my investments on.
Religion is as much bullshit as most political parties are. It's a few people trying to control and profit off masses.

I we humans were half as rational and scientific as we believe ourselves, we would put energy into proving or disproving religious beliefs. But that is taboo, or rather it is off limits since so much of formerly ill gotten monies are now available to fight against such investigations.
And yes, if there is a process ...

If magic was real, all sorts of wonderous things would be possible.

But it's not real and we know of no real, practical chemical process that can turn lead into an equivalent for gold.

Likewise, we know of no real, practical binary logic algorithmic process that can create an equivalent of consciousness.

And just like with alchemy, we have no real reason to believe it is practically achievable.
That is very impressive!!
I nominate Lockheed Martin.
I think if it still compiles in a C compiler then it would still be C and we could think of C being a subset of C++ in this case (even if that's not strictly true in general.)
Florida has been open for awhile and Gov DeSantis is actively fighting measures that would require vaccine passports etc.
The word quarantine comes from 40 days, though. They weren't indefinite and endless.
Thanks. I'm coming from typed languages (kotlin,c++) and I'm clearly into the typing camp even in Python.
Pictures of my face are on my website, and have been uploaded to Facebook and Instagram many times by my friends.

My fingerprints have been provided to several vendors and government agencies (Clear, TSA pre) who have industry-average data security (that is to say, I expect them to leak).

None are secret. Come up to me the next time I make a public appearance and you are welcome to my fingerprints. :)
I like the Satanists for the purposes of showing/challenging legal exceptions for religious beliefs. Unfortunately a big hole I see in this logic is the notion of "reasonable accommodation"; that is to say, what is considered a reasonable accommodation would be influenced by the majority religions. So, certain opinions on certain medical procedures would be considered reasonable, while others wouldn't be, and a heavily-Christian-influenced cultural notion of reasonability would of course be biased towards Christian religious beliefs...
It isn't odd to think that some of the wilder conspiracy theories on this, and other subjects, are seeded precisely to be such bullshit as to tar any discussion of the issue.

Plus the ever present rampant hucksterism that will say anything to sell stuff.
> the same point can be made for using any new technology.

The difference is that some technology don't harm the user, while others do. Drugs tend to harm your biology, usually - that's why taking steroids isn't recommended.

So is society willing to sacrifice (some people'
s) health for such progress?
If you want to see examples, look at the tutorial:

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html

As for the source of that page, look at the Worg Maintenance section at https://orgmode.org/worg/

I haven't edited them yet, but I believe Worg is mostly org files on a Git repository - so you can clone it and see the source of all articles there.
Why is there so much fuss about income inequality and not any other kind? There is huge sex inequality where some men have hundreds of sex partners and others have zero. Friendship inequality where some people have huge networks of friends and acquaintances and others live in isolation. Looks inequality where some are celebrated worldwide for their looks and some made outcasts for theirs. Health inequality where some 70 year olds can run marathons while some 30 year olds are wasting away. Why so much fuss about income and only income? Why aren’t the fit 70 year olds being conscripted into providing free personal training for unhealthy 30 year olds 5 days a week?
It’s really great work. The font support is a bit behind the times though, and text shaping is non-existent. I see so many libraries fall at that hurdle, they think they can do it themselves then when they realise it’s hard and requires a team of people they either abandon it or tell you to use harfbuzz without the necessary integration points. Hopefully that won’t be the case here!
If we reach 80% vaccination rates (which we're on track to do in the next 1/2 months) and these measures don't disappear quickly, I would start to be very concerned.

I understand I probably seem like a naive optimist, and I self-confess that I am (although most of my Aussie friends are even less concerned than me). At least we will find out soon whether that's misplaced.
Address of Sen. John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
I'm not a conservative but having travelled around the world, I happen to agree. But I'd contest that there are plenty of republican policies contributing to that degradation as well. When I look at the countries with the highest inequality, what strikes me is a few things like extreme competition and tragedy of the commons effects. Things that federal regulation is suppossed to reign in.
Used in the US and around the world for cholera and typhoid as well. For many years. There are a lot ruins of old quarantine facilities and several islands around New York were used for the purpose.

People don't understand how isolated some states of Australia are, even from the other states. Some parts of this country were barely touched by covid. It was just about the least dystopian life you could imagine apart from driving through the Mad Max landscape.