skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference of income between top 1% and bottom 1% in an area is as useful/relevant as talking about the _average_ income in said area. If some area has some very rich people (or very poor people) this difference is likely going to be higher but that's the wrong thing to focus on. What matters is what is the 50% income and the quality of life you can locally afford with it.
Comparing being in a wheelchair to losing at soccer seems reductive to me. Being in a wheelchair is completely life-changing and having public spaces being accessible is a very good thing for the quality of life of people being in this terrible situation.

The ADA has dramatically improved accessibility for those with mobility impairments:

" When asked whether access to public facilities had improved, 75 percent or more of respondents in 1994, 1998, and 2000 reported that they had perceived improvement. Not surprisingly, the percentage of people with disabilities going out to restaurants regularly has increased from 34 percent in 1986 to 57 percent in 2004."[0]

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"bail out" doesn't necessarily mean lending cash in this case, but getting them back into business in general.
This is what I imagined and would seem to prevent the vault-size problem.

Interesting.
that it's a red herring is not a fact
That’s true! Those lousy Norwegians, free riding on American innovation...

I wish we had been smart enough to nationalize our oil and gas industries back in the day as well. I wouldn’t have had to spend so much of my adult life hearing wonks go on about about slashing benefits for the elderly or things like Medicaid block grants.
You’re assuming the USB read and writes block, but they are in fact async and work quite well for this purpose. My app is document-based so the user may have multiple label designs open. Because of this, USB is handled from a central location. That could be another renderer, but then you have to shuttle data from renderer to renderer (via main) which in and of itself becomes laborious.
> The thing is, I see no way to have full self driving without AGI.

Why? AGI seems like a significantly harder problem than self driving cars (itself a hard problem admittedly).

What I personally think will happen is we'll meet somewhere in the middle: we can redesign roads/cars to make solving the problem of self driving easier.
This is why I appreciate still being close high school LAN party friends close online--I can start a group chat and get a game going between each other, and maybe they can invite a friend of theirs to get the number of players up for a game. If you can manage to maintain these relationships then online gaming can be very rewarding without having to worry about the trainwreck you described.

This doesn't work with all types of games obviously, and perhaps all online games from here on out will have kernel-level protection. In the meantime, I think we will keep running UT2004 in compatibility mode (or in my case, Wine).
Could you recommend a good book/reference?
I completely agree. The fact that a complainant can demand money to drop the suit on a personal payment seems wrong - I would like to see either reasonable damages(I couldn't enter the coffee shop so my friend had to go in for me - $10 damages), or only allow payoffs to be put into a general ADA fund and not go to enrich the individual.
I wouldn't count WebUSB dead yet. People lament the death of WebSQL but https://caniuse.com/#feat=sql-storage points to 77.59% availability despite having been "killed" years ago
Google takes large long-term bets that are closely related to their core business / competency. Some of those seem to be clearly working (see Cloud, Deepmind). As a shareholder, I want to see more of those.

Back when I was at Google, X (which many Other Bets came from) had a goal of all their projects having meaningful impact in 10 years. They've been working on Wing and Waymo for close to 10 years now. Those projects are not yet meaningfully impacting many people.

As an armchair CEO, I have doubts about the compensation (more salary / less equity vs startups) and funding (fewer choices funding sources for the companies, weird incentives for the investors vs VC funds) model for "Other Bets". Based off of that and the lack of results, I think they should force the Other Bets to stand on their own vs handing them more cash to burn.
Did he die after the car burst into flames or did he die from the impact?
McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality
I wonder if dropbox might have more photos data than facebook. People only share a small subset of all the photos they have taken and have backed up. I can see that being valuable. Otherwise I am not seeing why they would want to acquire them.
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>ultra-rich tech overlords competing with each other for government handouts.

Mate, I reckon we met that goal long ago.
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I agree that they share many characteristics and objectives, derived ultimately from certain realities of the ways humans operate.

But I do contend that the better forms of government that are less mafia-like. Obviously absolute monarchies and dictatorships aren't among them.
It's getting more and more risky to do gaming and everything else on the same computer. With how intrusive anti-cheat software is becoming, I feel less and less safe running these games.
An Interview with A. Stepanov (2001)
I understand that it is common to use Hough transforms to detect lines, which is critical in driving to understand lane markers and so on.

In my experiments with the implementation in OpenCV I haven't gotten good results, especially with noisy detections of lines that aren't there. But here they seem to get good line detection without many false positives, despite difficult properties of the image such as worn down paint and low contrast between the paint and the pavement. Anyone know what they are doing that works so well?
Ramps are surprisingly space-consuming, and might involve reconfiguring doorways, gas lines or meters, water, electrical, mucking about with the sidewalk, building railings and supports, and so on. $100k seems entirely possible in a dense, expensive city. And you might be required to build a masonry ramp. On the other hand, building a compliant wooden ramp to the porch of a woodsy roadhouse might be far less costly.
Beats having to maintain bug compatibility to keep popular proprietary code running though
There are valid reasons to have anonymity on the internet - plenty of them. It's really hard for me to grok the intrinsic value and human right of carrying a 200 note instead of two hundreds. If I'm gift giving, maybe, but frankly I can't stand getting hundreds as gifts, they're a pain to spend and just cause more work for me.
Yes, and yes. I did Delphi and VB6 in late 90s before moving onto C#, and I remember being amused at how it was Delphi and not VB skills that transferred the most. A bunch of stuff in the .NET object model - notably, first-class properties and events - was clearly motivated by the desire to have native support for abstractions that were idiomatic in Delphi (but were done "by convention" in e.g. Java). And then WinForms itself is so much like VCL, you feel right at home.

And yeah, it is very specifically designed around rich designer support, which is also very similar to the Delphi designer in practice. Same drag-and-drop experience with controls, a property grid to edit properties and wire up events, anchor-based layout etc. Components can be designer-aware as well, plugging into the designer UX.
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Oof I was unaware of the string ABI break (just had to look it up) - that’s kind of gross :-/

That said in general ABI compatibility is expected of all changes, without very good reasons - security seems like a good one, performance alas not - I assume std::string got the small string optimization because they were already going to break ABI for the threading issues.

Of course it doesn’t help that c++ is still C like so implementations/use of data layout gets compiled directly into the client application :-/
And which observer is counting those ticks?
The vast majority of the US interstate system involves two lanes each way with a wide median separating opposite traffic flow. There is always ample signage around exits, interchanges and whatnot. There is also a stretch that is straight and level enough to be used as a runway in wartime. I think most inclines are restricted to a max 6%-6.5% gradient (for reference, I grew up on the side of a mountain and the first climb was around 14%. You could stand on that in icy conditions and would slide down if you attempted to stand on it. Most mountains passes on the interstate also have "runaway truck" pulloutss in case a semi's brakes fail.

Most of the weirdness on the interstate system is usually caused by cities; having to adapt to preexisting conditions. As an example, I offer up Chicago. i290 is a mess. The Austion and Harlem exits are both left-handed exits. Worse yet, oncoming traffic are both given protected turns from the ramps. A lot of people dont follow the law and turn into the nearest lane. A lot of people drift, and a situation like this just breeds accidents. This is in oak park, a near west suburb. The Edens expressway (I90) also had expresslanes, which causes confusion, too. Not always open at the same time or direction.
Sorry I took the title verbatim from Reddit and wasn’t editorializing. It seemed blunt without sensationalizing anything to me when I submitted.
Pathfinding Demystified (2014)
Chinese citizens turn to virus tracker apps to avoid infected neighborhoods
That is statutory damages, not compensatory damages. Statutory damages are written into the statue, not a payment for damages actually incurred.

The ADA is mostly enforced by private plaintiffs, that's the way the law was written.

Nationally the ADA doesn't allow for private plaintiffs to profit from ADA lawsuits, however, a few states (like California) have statutes that do.

Of course, a big problem is the businesses don't have a mandatory warning with a grace period to become compliant, it's just now you have a lawsuit. This can create "professional plaintiffs." Then again, the ADA is a civil rights law, and other civil rights laws aren't like that, you don't get "one free racial discrimination," and I don't think that many people would want that.
Microsoft moved to we kit cuz they own Electron and this way they can build web it into the os, and have electron call the os, instead of each app shipping with a copy of blink. It's a battery thing.

Teams, their flagship Office app, is electron.
Seems like it would make more sense to model the inertia. Cars don't randomly accelerate at 100,000m/s/s in some direction they aren't pointed. Though they should have a model for detecting obstacles in the view regardless of inertia, because sometimes something really does appear in front of you in a thirteenth of a second.

You could probably model inertia with n prior frames of probability fields.
> the postal service has been hobbled by politicians attempting to privatize it

So what? That has nothing to do with the fact that private companies have proven, through the entire history of the United States (including before the USA was even an independent country), that they can provide postal service. So there is no need for the government to be doing it.

> as for the TSA, it used to be private, do I really have to argue why that was a bad idea?

If you have such an argument, you should make it to the airports that use private screeners today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screening_Partnership_Program
This thread is discussing whether exceptions are bad for handling unexceptional events. We are arguing that APIs that throw exceptions for valid program states, such as a missing key for some user input, is an abuse of exceptions. There are lots of these APIs in the world and we find that objectionable. You seem to agree with all of that, but you also present yourself as disagreeing with us, and it’s not at all clear what you’re disagreeing with specifically? Are you just being contrarian for its own sake or are we misunderstanding each other?
Population Adjusted Travel on All Roads in the U.S.
That doesn't surprise me at all. I was shocked when they allowed YouTube channels to promote their Twitch streams a few years back; that must have been to gauge interest in the YouTube streaming product they hadn't made yet.
Async/Await in Nim
seems weird to me that it's not taking any visual data at higher frequency than that.
Where do ads in third party sites fall into these numbers? "Google Network Members' properties "?
Nested hypervisors, obviously. [insert Inception meme here]
I'm getting the same vibes from this article that I got from when LifeLock's CEO posted his SSN to taunt people / promote their own service... and frankly, I'm looking forward to the same schadenfreude. Never underestimate the resourcefulness of teenagers powered by spite and boredom.
Modern CPUs already have dedicated crypto instructions which are pretty fast, without the cost of copying to another device's memory, loading a program, waiting for it to execute, then copying the output back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set
Honestly, I think I'm fine piloting a Tesla through a drive-through if it means I can eat on the road. I'll take 80% of possible performance / [aptitude?] now (heck, even 50-60%, as long as it's safe enough) versus 100% of possible scenarios being covered at some far-off point, especia)y if my enjoying 50-60% of capability actively gets the remaining % closer.
Not really. The big notes were only for interbank settlement, and usually represented gold or silver.

Once electronic settlement became common, these bills became obsolete.
Agreed.

"Crema Coffee owner June Tran said bringing her 100-year-old building up to code would cost $100,000."

Bringing a 100-year-old building up to code != installing a ramp.
Going with the good faith assumption you read it trying to find why instead of why not in the WebUSB standard you can find this paragraph under 3.1 Abusing Access to a Device:

"Lastly, since USB devices are unable to distinguish requests from multiple sources, operating systems only allow a USB interface to have a single owning user-space or kernel-space driver. The UA acts as a user-space driver, therefore allowing only a single execution context to claim a USB interface at a time. The claimInterface() function will fail if multiple execution contexts attempt to claim an interface."

I.e. the keyboard couldn't be claimed even if you managed to get it to list as it's claimed via the OS HID driver so can't be claimed via the userspace driver. HID devices are also hid from the listing (no pun intendend) which is what resulted in the WebHID standard in the first place.

For WebHID understand it's an early draft and that the method described in section 3.1 of blocking access to HID devices that can generate trusted input is actually the go forward implementation plan not merely a suggestion.

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I don't mind discussing WebUSB further but not if the conversation is just going to be in a "I thought it might work this way, show me the line that says it isn't" way. There are many blog posts that cover it better than I could anyways (such as https://blog.scottlogic.com/2019/04/03/upcoming-webhid-api.h...)
I drive I88 outside of Chicago. The typical speed is in the 80-85 mph range, while the limit is 60 (I drive opposite prevailing traffic). Prevailing traffic is a parking lot for my entire 15 mile commute.
European sustainability: ride your bike

American sustainability: ev hummer
This is from 6 months ago so pretty up to date.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W9q5SjaJTc
That's what it was. The NSA was reverse proxying Google.

The legit explanation (given the domain name) is probably they wanted to use reCAPTCHA, but block all non-NSA hosts with a firewall or something.

This is not great, because the NSA expanded its attack surface to all of google.com.

The more conspiracy explanation is that this is actually a phishing page set up, and due to a misconfiguration it's exposed under captcha.nsa.gov, but Occam's Razor should apply here.
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Take a look at ADA requirements regarding ramps: https://www.adawheelchairramps.com/wheelchair-ramps/ada-guid...

You need at least 30 feet of ramp for a 2 and a half foot incline. I don't know about the environment this coffee shop is set in, but these standards would make it impossible for non-corporate shops to exist in many cities around the world. Most cities don't have 30 feet of space outside open and free for building ramps that (being generous) 0.1% of every store's potential customers will use. You can compact that 30 feet with a couple bends, but then you vastly increase width of the sidewalk space required.

Assuming this building doesn't have a mass expanse of free space extending around its premises, it probably required restructuring of the building itself, which takes quite a bit of time and money, as well as lost business while this single person waits for their coffee or $60,000.
All of those have alternatives. Bing? DuckDuckGo? Qwant? Vimeo? DailyMotion? MetaCafe? Even Facebook Video. As for ads, there are so many I don’t even know what their relative ordering is.
The cruise team has put out a few videos in the past. They even showcased their visualization software.

https://youtu.be/_3_Bb-dlq0Q?t=1116
This is the perfect example. In an enterprise, some forms might ask middle name and some forms might not.

In the database you need to represent if the user entered a blank name “”, or if the middle name was never even requested NULL.

Only in Oracle is it not possible to make this distinction. Oracle is definitely broken in this regard.

Inserting a string in the middle name column “unknown” or “unspecified” is a clunky workaround.
Craig Federighi mentioned in one interview (with Gruber I think) that the card can be reprogrammed. IIRC there were hints that they could be user programmable in the future, but of course nothing was neither confirmed nor denied.
Unique keys don’t help much. It only takes one person to write a script and put on github so that it can dynamically find the key and unencrypted stored password.
Yeah, same. In fact the article seems to be talking specifically about a Windows-only game and "/dev/null" in the title doesn't appear to have any relation to the text.
Banks were a lot harder to deal with. They closed at 3 and were shuttered for the weekend.
I had a 12 year gap. Went back to school, did entry level internships and then got a grad level internship which later became a full time position. You need a story and also talk to what you did to get back. There will always be folks who see the gap before they see anything else, but there will be others who find your passion real. Also network a ton, find mentors. After every interview do a retrospective with self and ask yourself what went well and what didn’t. This helped me a lot to perfect my story to an elevator pitch under 2 minutes.
New quantum switch turns metals into insulators