skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if we were just to stick to the US, only 2.7 million people use a wheelchair here.

Then you add people who push a stroller, pull a (personal) shopping cart, or use a walker, or walk unassisted, but can't lift their legs too high...

> That's 0.9 percent of the US population. That's really, REALLY freakin' specialized.

I can guarantee that 100% of the US population were unable to climb stairs at some point in their lives (except maybe for a few libertarians who emerged fully formed from Ayn Rand's forehead).
I've been a Shaw customer for more than three or four years and have never seen (or heard of) anything like this.

I have a feeling, if this ever happened, it was closer to a decade ago.
That may not be a wrong assumption.
In earlier times, there were hiking clubs (which might provide transport or car-pool coordination), or transit to recreational areas.

Denizens of the Greater Smoke Area today might care to cozy up 'round the fire with a tale of the Crookedest Railroad in the World.

http://www.friendsofmttam.org/railroad/crookedest-railroad.h...
"Worse" might be subjective but if they analyzed the data and found decreasing complexity of harmony and song structure, then that's not what I would call "unscientific".

For the past 30 years music has definitely become more "bland" (for lack of a better word). The data backs this up. Whether you like that or not is subjective.
Blowing through 1 terabyte in a month sounds pretty difficult. You have to do lot of steaming to use that much.
The painting was probably done by an artist who heard a third hand account of how it worked. A simple claw on a crane that attempted to hook onto the side of a ship and flip it doesn't seem too out of the realm of possibility, but it does require that the ship to navigate extremely close to the device. So it's only useful against invasions where the ships are attempting to disgorge soldiers onto the walls, but since that's what the Romans were doing it's in the realm of possibilities.
Maybe I am, maybe I ain't... ;)
Did you just upload Comcast’s code to your site, made it publicity available, and glue a GPL license to it? I wouldn’t be surprised if Comcast will try to sue you for that.
Wow, this app looks really cool! The Mac variant is particularly pleasing to look at.

I wonder if some design work could be crowd-funded.
Like a notary?
I'm not sure he meant "no longer drive" literally or if he meant that the number of drivers has curtailed enough that the problems autonomous vehicles were created to solve are no longer problems.

As you described, clearly there are good cases for driving. Cities are not one of them.
Ya totally nothing to do with APT's and plausible deniability.

Darn kids.
WireGuard uses the correct kernel function, get_random_u32(). WireGuard does not use RdRand directly. WireGuard instead uses the proper kernel function for asking for a unsigned 32-bit number. The kernel implements get_random_u32() under the hood using a variety of backends for it. One of them is RdRand.

Other facilities in the kernel, such as ASLR, also use get_random_u32().

Many things in the kernel use get_random_u32(). That's the proper function to use.

When presented with this bug, the upstream kernel maintainers chose not to fix get_random_u32(), due to the availability (?) of microcode updates for AMD chips. That's not my decision. WireGuard is just a mere consumer of get_random_u32(), like all other modules. This is an upstream kernel bug.
There have been recent, legal self-determination referenda in Scotland, New Caledonia and the Falkland Islands.

I'm sure there are more; these are just three I'm familiar with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sovereignty_referendu...
It’s not my definition. You’re twisting words. Location data is just not “anonymizable” at all because it’s always possible to combine it with other sources.
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I spent a while trying to file down some of the rough edges around different versions of tmux and compatibility with shells / colors / vim / scrolling / weird keycodes / etc. and have some commented dotfiles here:

https://github.com/ohazi/dotfiles

It still has warts, but hopefully this is a useful reference to someone... I still haven't found a single source that covers all of these things well. Tmux config is surprisingly unintuitive.
Only if it was a barely used CA. If killing it would break lots of sites, it would take years to kill if ever.
it is very innocent to believe that the carriers would not provide these data already to the government if asked (e.g. by a court order), and they have probably been asked many times.
The very interesting trend right now is there are so many new climbing shoes vendors start appearing within a couple of years. I suspect it's because the Olympic accepted free climbing.

I was skeptical at first on these freshly new shoes vendors, but when I tried out their products, it's on-par quality with the existing vendors. Even more, often time, these newcomers has far durable product than the traditional vendors.

My guess is, traditional vendors aimed for the too high end product and losing the durability. They aimed for the high friction and more natural naked foot feeling, resulting their sole ever softer rubber and thinner. Usual climbing shoes sole has 4mm thick. But these high end product go as thin as 2.5mm.

If your weight isn't less than 50kg, you'll wear it out in 3 month.

My other complaint for a particular famous Italian climbing shoes vendor is, that they don't use strong glue. Perhaps, Italia is less humid than Japan so their glue doesn't need to be that strong, but this particular Italian-made shoes has serious issues on their glue so the shoes start to disassemble itself before the sole wear out.
Having gotten pretty into climbing in the past year, I'll agree that it's an easy tendency to have. Climbing requires a lot of time and dedication to see steady improvement, and as a result, I find that it's one of the main hobbies/passions for many in the sport. Most people like to bring up their strong interests in conversation, but sometimes the jargon and general narratives around climbing can definitely be off-putting to someone less invested in it.
I agree. For this particular role, there is little to no justification to use whiteboarding or Leetcode that would be relevant to this role. Being self taught + open-source contributions or projects is enough to get hired.

If this was for a more senior role with many candidates, I would raise the bar a bit to filter those that aren't serious or are unable to critically reason with technical/non-technical decisions. It's funny to see that most startups adopting whiteboarding practices can't justify their questions other than mimicking FAANG or stroking their egos over candidates by asking ridiculous algorithms questions they are unlikely to use, unless they can justified it otherwise.

Hiring is difficult because of managers that are still obsessed with finding the so-called "talent" when they're actually looking for that legendary senior 10x developer who knows them and the interview konami code, which wastes time and doesn't exist. The interview process in this article gets straight to the point which results in a justified hire of a very qualified candidate.

Well Done!
Flash tried to be everything to everyone.
While it did some things very well (like those amazing little games), it did other things very poorly (like information websites and accessibility).

- Every page had its own navigation style.

- Every page had its own font which you could not change. Remember the trend with 8px bitmap-like fonts where you used a special setting so they would render very sharp?

- Every page had its own scrolling style. Want to use the mouse wheel? Nope.

- Caret navigation for the impaired or people who prefer keyboard navigation? Forget about it.

- Stop sound? Only if we give you a button for that.

- Here's our looping video intro, you must watch it before accessing this website.

- Deep hyperlink to the next "page"? That came very very late. A bit too late for Flash.

- View on mobile? Even if you had the plugin somehow installed (some people did back in the day on Android) pages would still be unusable.

- An error has occurred within this SWF blob, good luck debugging.

- Later came the exploits.

I was a fan for a while and used it since Macromedia Flash 4, but I'm glad it's dead and buried. It was poor tech which subverted progress in the HTML/CSS/JS space for many years.
I keep being amazed by all the purported inventions of Archimedes. And disappointed by the hubris of modern engineers who think that it should only take a handful of interns and an afternoon to reproduce what would have been at the time cutting edge military research, with a lot of ingenuity invested in it.

Someone who would invent the anti-naval claws, the sun death rays and a steam cannon would not have just one clever invention in making each work.

The solar death ray requires aiming devices and thousands of people. I find it very interesting that nowadays we can make almost perfect mirrors compared to the maybe 50% reflective bronze shields they would have had but producing a few thousands and making a few thousand people collaborate is something we have a hard time reproduce.
Well, launching a study that could potentially endanger the privacy of millions while the prime minister and his staff compares to terrorists thousands of protesters who happen to have organized themselves via mobile apps..

It certainly raises some doubts
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How so? There, n means "the number of [this type of] drivers", thus the GP is saying that "self driving cars improve in a way proportional to the number of self driving cars [that are collecting and sharing data], while humans improve their driving skills in a way independent of the number of humans driving."

(I think that's slightly wrong -- humans are probably O(log n) because large populations of humans invest in heuristics and teaching methods that enhance driver improvement rate, and for SDCs, the "lessons learned" between units are probably somewhat redundant, so it might scale as something like sqrt(n). But I don't see a problem with the O(n) usage.)
"keming" is the only one-word joke I know of.

Wondering if anyone is aware of any others.
It's worse than that, though...
Some research on shipping print zines
> If you refer to the theory that AV actually wrote viruses (it's not clear), that's as realistic as saying that police commits crimes so that they can get extra reward from the new tasks.

This analogy is not helping your case at all. It's not unheard of for police to plant evidence for such purposes. It's also been proven that law enforcement has been willfully using technology having high rates of false positives for things like drug testing to bring real charges against otherwise innocent people.
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If you're a Linux user, a logical extension of this idea is to use a tiling window manager, and then you get the paneled window management for everything, not just your terminal.

Being able to detach and re-attach to sessions is still really useful, but I never find myself wanting to use tmux for splitting up a terminal window when I'm already using a tiling window manager.
Yes, the AI did come to a stop before ringing up the support desk for assistance. The example video showed a construction site where the entire road was blocked off and the way through was to drive on the shoulder past the construction. However, in the demo the road was completely empty otherwise, which I didn't think was terribly realistic. The memory feature in particular was only useful as a convenience to the next operator, it didn't help the AI become any more self-sufficient.
I’d just as soon can my own shit.
Can anybody tell me how to scroll up in a tmux session? Whether I use mouse scroll wheel or keyboard, on scrolling up all I get is

^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A
How does something like this scale?

Does Instagram have a real person checking each one? If not, how would a computer verify that a photo ID was valid?
allow me to add that the UFO acronym becomes invalid.
Unfortunately it's too slow. I work with electron beam welders so this is an everyday problem as it takes place in a high vacuum (1e-3 Torr or lower). Though for welding it usually isn't a big issue as most parts are large enough to sink their own heat. For deep high power welds in material which can't sink the heat we attach copper heat sink blocks to soak up heat like a sponge or for extreme cases, circulated oil cooled heat sinks.

In space you can't vent to atmosphere or run the oil through a fan/water cooled radiator. So I'm thinking you'd have to build a heat reclaimer or high surface area radiator which uses an active cooling system like thermal pipes or circulated fluids like oil. But how does this adapt to different parts with odd shapes? Perhaps the printing would have to take place in a pressurized environment to facilitate cooling using gas and then figure out how to get rid of or recycle the waste heat.
> that's as realistic as saying that police commits crimes so that they can get extra reward from the new tasks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/11/florida-cop...
I'm starting to feel like we're self-organizing a bit into types of companies based on our interviewing styles.

There are developers who excel at whiteboarding. There are those who excel at presenting their own projects from their github experience. There are yet others that excel in small code samples on company-driven problems, and some that excel in larger code samples.

The truth is that no one interviewing style works best for finding all developers that are a match for the company. Either we need to accommodate multiple interviewing practices, or we need to accept that we are going to gather in the companies that match our interviewing styles the best.

I wonder sometimes if there isn't room for a company that hires everyone who can fizzbuzz and is a good fit for the company as determined by behavioral interviews, and then accept a large attrition within the first 3 months.

I think the honest truth is that no matter what we do, interviewing is a hard problem.
set -g mouse on

in your ~/.tmux.conf should do the trick.
XML is almost always misused
Following the link on airplane mode:

>“Every phone has two operating systems,” explains Gary S. Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall, “One that connects to cellular networks, and one that interfaces with the consumer. Airplane mode may only disable features in the consumer facing operating system, such as Android or iOS, but not in the OS used between the phone and the carrier network. A phone may be giving out a ‘ping’ and you’d never know it.”

Surely that defeats the whole idea behind airplane mode. i.e. stop the phone from sending crap that (supposedly) messes with airplanes?
Thanks, I hadn't realized that!
g suite has a limits on upload file size and amount per day
I find it disappointing that the paper makes no mention of Numenta, TBToI or HTM. How is what they are proposing not already included in Numenta's work (informally, of course)? Plus, Numenta's work seems to go much further confronting biological plausibility head-on.
80% of people live "paycheck to paycheck" whatever exactly that means. (count me among them)

Very few of them actually need to. It is possible at any income level to spend less money than you make. People don't tend to make those choices though and unfortunately prices reflect this - for a lot of things, especially housing, prices rise to whatever people will pay – if everyone is willing to pay so much for housing that they can't save much at all, well the price of housing raises so everybody does that.

You can choose to not live paycheck to paycheck but it means making different choices about where you live, how you entertain yourself, and how you acquire things. This is applicable at the highest and lowest income levels.

People should be thinking that in order to afford a car they likewise need to be able to afford its repairs, but instead of buying a cheaper car and saving some for eventual repairs or maintenance, people just consider the acquisition cost and buy their max.

I am among these people despite a tech job in the bay area I live mostly paycheck to paycheck as a result of several choices I've made, and I don't necessarily regret all of them but at the same time the situation definitely frustrates me.
I would be concerned if this investigation was hamstrung by the a priori belief that the unidentified objects/artefacts/blips both existed as a technological device and were extraterrestrial in origin.

I suspect, sadly, that 'what we can learn' from this is close to nothing without firmer evidence.
Seriously! We said goodbye to our good ol' fat labrador maybe 10 months ago, and this still immediately choked me up...

Ugh they leave such a great impression on you. Miss you Joe.
Z2zPM: Every Tongue, Every Press, Is a Power
This also need to have somehow broken hinting instructions so it would render blurry with rainbow edges on a screen.
Ahhh, thanks! I had no idea "new franchise" would be used even if it wasn't obviously the first in a series of games.
Generic drugs saved the U.S. healthcare system $1.67T (2018)
NPM Security Insights API
Awesome concept! Sounds like a great team-building activity.
Thank you for such a complete answer! This was very enlightening.
Italian soccer stars banned for blasphemy
The discovery of DNA was done by Friedrich Meischer, a brilliant Swiss biologist. At the time, nobody knew what the nuclein he purified did (and, the results were considered so surprising that his own thesis advisor redid all the experiments manually before letting the data be published).

What you are referring to is the use of Rosalind Franklin's X-ray fibre diffraction images by Watson and Crick to elucidate the 3D structure of DNA, and, depending on the accounts you read, whether she got due credit is arguable. She did publish in the same Nature journal issue as W&C (https://www.nature.com/articles/171740a0.pdf), she got credit for the photos (see the acknowledgements in the W&C paper, http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/), and she was dead by the time the Nobel Prize decision was made (so she could not have received the prize).

I understand many feel very strongly that she was cheated, and while I do believe she was definitely slighted and not given enough credit, the underlying story is fairly complicated. I recommend reading both Dark Lady and Eighth Day of Creation and then forming your own opinion. personally I thought her personal diaries, which she willed to Aaron Klug and were used in the writing of Eighth Day, were really illuminating.
there's a massive ongoing police operation to suppress the catalan independence movement. This data allows to massively track everyone. Not that the government couldn't access this data already, but now they are making it explicit via this scare propaganda.
Who is paying to maintain the codebase to dissect Flash as the libraries it depends on change?
No, we need to figure out ways to help people make better decisions, and giving poor people money doesn't seem to help. It's like the old saying that there's a difference between being broke and poor - broke is liquidity problem, poor is a state of mind.

"Our results also do not support the hypothesis that financial strain by itself wors- ens the quality of decision-making. Even though there are substantial differences in financial resources before and after payday for our samples of poor US households, we find no evidence that the quality of their decision-making, or being prone to heuristic judgments differs across the before-payday and after-payday groups."

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20140481
Ah that is a good comparison. I am very familiar with the Hitman series and this does seem to be very similar having a set of objectives and the player needs to put the pieces together.
Google used to have a way to block sites from search results. Do they still have that option?
yes, speed reduction on the Paris belt was also done in order to reduce traffic jams. The argument was "peak speed is slower, but apart from night/holidays situation with empty road, you'll actually get faster to where you're going because of less jams"
I agree that such an effort is needed for serious study, or maybe the weeks of radar tracks the navy may get declassified if enough scientists are interested, but I think there is ample performance data available from the pilots themselves to give us order of magnitude estimates of what they are capable of. From this trained experts can deduce much. I envision clever people having insights like this: http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/codoban/PHY138/...
My point was that well designed and well run places can run during busy times with minimal staff.
Used to be when I lived in a semi-civilised place that the grocers was a half block from my tram stop and three blocks from the house.

Trolley carts.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Easy-Wheels-Mini-Shopping-Cart-i...
Solution: Faraday cage. They can't make radio waves break the laws of physics! (that I know of...)
Politicians have only been trying the bare minimum needed so they can continue enjoying benefits provided by lobbyists and keep the pesky annoying people (population) off their backs. It's hard to enjoy a life of luxury when you have people asking you to do your job and represent them.
I agree, but it could be that it's just a subjective feeling.

In any case if I remember correctly AMD was the first using a ~64bit arch in consumer CPUs (which I think is why the arch is called "AMD64") and the same about offering multicore CPUs ( https://www.pcworld.com/article/117654/article.html ), but Intel was then always able to quickly catch up (and, in the end, present better products).

In the case of Zen I read some time ago that the lead architect left AMD and ended up working now for Intel ( from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer) ):

In August 2012, Jim Keller returned to AMD, where his primary task was to design a new generation microarchitecture called Zen. After years of being unable to compete with Intel in the high-end CPU market, the new generation of Zen processors is hoped to restore AMD's position in the high-end x86-64 processor market. On September 18, 2015, Keller departed from AMD to pursue other opportunities, ending his three-year employment at AMD. In January 2016, Keller joined Tesla, Inc. as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering. In April 2018, Keller joined Intel

That doesn't give me a good feeling about the future of AMD chips, but on the other hand AMD's CEO (Lisa Su) gives me the impression of being a "no bull*hit"-person, so I do still have hope that they won't mess up things in future revisions of the architecture :)
Except we may never know what's "really happening." Field theory is, well, "just" a theory, that is to say, an approximation, albeit a better one.
I'm not sure what arenas are but you can certainly use pre allocated memory pools to bound a custom malloc/free in both time and space.
Hey! As of June this year the developers have said they're still working on it, just most of the team has left so it's just the core two devs now working part time. I'm considering reaching out to lend a hand just so I'm not playing this game in my forties.
Suggestion for your bash_login or equivalent, to automatically get back your session based on the IP you connect from (6to4 safe):

REMOTEIP=`echo $SSH_CONNECTION |sed -e 's/::ffff://g' -e 's/ .*//g'`

if [ -z "$SSH_CONNECTION" ]; then if [ "$TERM" != "tmux" ]; then tmux attach -t $REMOTEIP || tmux new -s $REMOTEIP ; fi ; fi

I have static IPs and I like to come back to a server the way I left it the day before, from home or work.

For pratical reasons (everything in one window), I often have tmux running inside GNU screen, with one GNU screen per remote server.