skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A typical game will simulate tens of thousands of entities at once, and it all needs to be updated. You can't cull by LOS because the simulation is running everywhere. There's a lot of what amounts to collision checking, where robot arms are looking for items to pick up or space to drop them off.

It's still quite performant. Some of the larger factories people have built are truly stunning in scale, yet can run at 30+ updates a second. People can host games with hundreds of players with relative ease.

At the beginning of the game, even quite modest computers will have no trouble with it, but that's not a reflection of what the game is about. Big factories are much of the point.
This is one of those things where there is no wrong or right answer. We are just trying against all odds to find something that will help users feel comfortable and make the right choice.

My philosophy used to be to follow the native platform convention, so on Mac it's Cancel-OK, on Windows or Linux it's OK-Cancel. Seems simple, do what people are used to.

But what about a web app that someone uses on Mac at work and Windows at home, or vice versa? Do they expect the app to work the same wherever they use it, or do they expect it to follow the different native platform conventions?

My mind is spinning.
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I don't know if handedness does has much influence to such clumsy devices like smartphones. It's not comparable to writing text by hand, where much greater precision is required.
Why do we continue to get posts like this on HN with inaccurate information when shown to not be true multiple times?

Google did NOT end the motto and has now has employees have it the last thing read in the document as brains are LIFO.

Here is a link to the actual document.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
Google Code of Conduct - Investor Relations - Alphabet

As you can see it is right there on the last line.

Can you update your post with accurate information?

Thanks!
They also promote a podcast or other recording that appears to be an hour long, there might be more info in there.
> System Preferences → Keyboard → Text → All controls

It's System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → All controls on my Mac (10.13.5)
This isn't a possession case, though - the charges are all about importing and supplying commercial quantities.
A fantastic video about the De Havilland Comet from one of my favorite channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Cg2ZeYa5E
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Funny you should say that - the itnews article finishes with:

NSW Police said that a second search warrant was also executed "at a financial institution in the city and documents were seized", though no further details were provided.
Thank you for your reply. It's very insightful.
this. I feel like such an idiot when I tell Google to save a reminder in public.
That's a bit like saying all the nation's classified material is secret because no one has checked it out from the National Archive yet.

The data shouldn't exist in the first place.
I always thought it was a way to buffer calls so there is another interactive queue to delay getting to the main customer service queue.
When you initiate action like delete, you might be thinking “yes/no” in the moment, but you couldn’t possibly argue that “cancel/delete” is less intuitive or breaks flow.

And we don’t always react to confirmations instantly. What if you’re distracted away, or you suddenly second guess your decision and perform some auxiliary research? Or what if you have more than one dialogue box on the screen at a time? From a UX standpoint, it is far safer to repeat the verb rather than use a generic.

To be frank, the only reason why I could imagine using generics is laziness.
Ehhhh... I'd say they're less effective than a simple switch so far. Like the chatbots that are good in constrained environments because they're glorified menu systems.

When we can reasonably "chat" with our voice assistants then we have actually gotten there. More specifically, when I can tell my voice chatbot I just want to say "alexa" in the morning when the alarm goes off to snooze. Or when they are adaptable and pattern observant enough that I can say "alexa the usual" in the morning and get the higher volume as I walk through the house and news and my favorite podcast as I ask for every morning. When they come close to accomplishing those things, then we will have vocal chatbots. When they can "remember" just as much as the original Eliza chatbot then we will be there. Currently they are more like vocal light switches than vocal chatbots.
> It’s just that he isn’t that intelligent.

I'm very sure he is NOT a "dumb fuck".
Are those cloud usage numbers missing some zeros? "Ubuntu dominates the cloud with 209,000 instances."
Sure. Attach a price tag to it.
Question: Are homeopathy forums the best place to go for homeopathy support?

Edit: That means yes.
This is more of an amusing statement of how much of the world runs on Excel.
I’ve been using professional since release and haven’t seen an ad yet.
I use it everyday and love it. I write both sides of it and it's paradise compared to working with rest. I'd pick my stack again any day: typescript, react, react-apollo, graphql-tools, apollo-express. I'm able to move so damn fast, it's a breath of fresh air.
Yeah seriously what a waste of time that was.
100% options.

AKAO Sep 21 2018 12.50 Calls

The rest are shorter term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter

Building services as utilities with generalized input/output interfaces that know as little about your application almost always results in better code. If I can write something that could easily be pulled out into a generic package and used on projects with totally different data models and business logic, then I've built something right.
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That's the cop-out answer I get whenever I ask about unnecessary and infuriating UI changes. It has only given rise to increasingly dumbed-down, stupifying interfaces.
I'm from Australia and therefore didn't have much exposure to Fred Rogers, but, from what I have seen, it seems that it doesn't really matter if the show was presented from a Christian viewpoint.

As an athiest, I'm happy to see any ethical children's TV, no matter what faith, or lack thereof, the presenter may have.

I agree that there is a cultural battle going on (not just in the US) regarding religion and faith, and I agree that most media representation of both sides leans towards the extremes. That's how the media works.

I'm glad to say that Mr Rogers was a great example of moderate Christianity, and he represented what I'd like to say was the majority view of Christians around the world (in regards to how we treat people, especially in regards to tolerance). I'd also like to posit that most people, regardless of particular faith, lack of faith, difference of culture etc., would agree with Fred Rogers' general approach to teaching children, and indeed adults.

Basically, I'm agreeing with you: People's preconceptions shouldn't be generalised based on faith or culture, but I'm pointing out that Mr Rogers' ministry goal wasn't just a Christian ideal, but is wide-spread across most people on the planet.
A problem with Yes/No (and OK/Cancel, etc.) is that one program will ask

Unsaved changes will be lost. Save your changes first?

and another program will ask

Unsaved changes will be lost. Are you sure?

Or within a single program, "Yes" will be the safe option everywhere except one place where it's the dangerous option because nobody thought about that.

If the user is exposed to one convention 90% of the time, the other one will always cause some confusion and feel sloppy.
See, this is exactly what I am talking about.

It's evaluating a set of contingencies. Like, the general staffs of armies make war plans that they will never execute, unless the particular parameters fall in place, all the time. To do otherwise would be irresponsible.
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AI applications we will not pursue

Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.

They already failed.
I lost at least a week of productivity after buying factorio.
Yep. Back in my student / tutor days at university, I had a student with severe mental health problems. One afternoon, someone at his dorm called the police with the idea of helping him. He died of that day while being restrained by the officers who came to help.

Many officers don't receive sufficient training on how to deal with mental health crises, and sometimes the result of contact is bad.
I was extremely lucky to get to work one-on-one with someone much more experienced than me when I was starting out. I interned at a startup and was making the iPhone app with one of the original engineers.

I had already gotten pretty good at the slamming my head against things until they work part. So I could eventually make something that functioned, but my code quality was terrible.

Where having a mentor really helped was becoming more disciplined, seeing good code, and learning new tools and services.
There was a widely used program on Windows back in the 95 days that on the nag dialog asking free users to get the paid version would random switch between the two orders. The idea was to keep people from unconsciously clicking through that dialog.

I think this was WinZip, but am not certain.
> Mr Rogers may be most intentionally-Christian cultural influence that wasn't widely noticed as "Christian", in the lives of millions of people

I'd put Dr. King in the same category.
HATEOAS is a great idea. So is CQRS + event sourcing. But the implementation doesn't live up to the idea on paper.
Your comments about intolerance and toxicity is sequitur to what? Am I missing a deleted post or a radical edit to the parent to yours?
“We stand by this randomized selection process as a sufficient means of equal opportunity for all who look to express an interest in sponsoring their parents and grandparents.”

Ignorance is bliss. Math class is tough.
Unfortunately, the shortest possible answer is really hand wavy and vague. That kind of knowledge tends to come fairly organically if you really listen to what people say and aren't afraid to share a little bit about yourself.

When you're in the early stages of a venture, ideally, you know a little bit about the person you're talking to, know a bit about the problem they're having and are genuinely interested in how they found you and if your solution is working for them. That gives you a ton of fertile ground. In this stage, I love to thank people for using my product, tell them that because my product is so new it's very important to me that all of my users are very happy, and then ask them for any feedback or advice they have. It sounds very corny and scripted (and honestly, it is), but most of the time, if my product is any good and if it solves a real problem, everyone I talk to will have something.

At that point, it's about always validating what the person says to you. It doesn't matter if you agree, if you plan to implement the feature, or if you think it is the most incredibly stupid thing you've ever heard. Someone cares enough about your product to give you some feedback! Hearing feedback is an honour and I think it should be treated as such.

If you get those two things down, you'll learn from almost everyone you talk to. Particularly those people who need a little extra help. And, when you're working with people who need a little extra help, it's good to validate them too. Maybe you have a user who has trouble with copying and pasting. That sucks, but it's also an unbelievable opportunity. As builders, we need people like that to help us escape our own little, highly technical echo chambers!

Aside from those things, it really just comes down to active listening. If you listen closely, you'll start to notice that lots of people leave little threads in their statements. They'll often leave these little threads when they're about to pause and let you talk. For example, if you ask "how are you?" someone who is really open to talking will reply, "I'm good, it's a beautiful day today." That little thread about a beautiful day opens up lots of questions. If you don't already know where they're from, you can ask. If you do know, you can confirm, "Ah, you're from Timbuktu, right?"

Also, it's important to note that this only really works if you're genuinely interested in what people are saying. A big part of the game is knowing when to stop playing. We live in a world where it's expected to be prosocial and interested in everyone around you. But honestly, there's nothing wrong with being selective in who interests you. I would caution you that if you aren't genuinely interested in what people are telling you, you need to either get genuinely interested, or you need to replace yourself with someone who is. But, there's no value judgement in that. We're all programmed differently and it's all good.
You're basically attempting to manually exchange the ice handshake so there wouldn't be one here, although the demo gives me an empty offer so as is it doesn't seem to work to create a new chat on there.
In my bank web application the OK button is on the left, and... both buttons are RED because that's the brand's color!

It's a terrible web app.
Well, for as long as the driver is ran in ring0, you have context switching. The water is wet, there are no tricks around that even if you are an Apple.
This is the edgiest of edge cases. Intuitively I would assume that such a dialogue box may be a UX smell and there could be better ways to perform a two stage confirmation.

Or you can just bend the UX rules for this one instance.

Or you can consider whether cancel is the best verb anyway; what about “end” or “stop” or “abort”?
I have to admit that as a child I tried to avoid watching Mister Rogers Neighborhood as I much preferred cartoons like Tom & Jerry that contained frightening levels of violence looking back in retrospect.

But decades later as a parent I am incredibly grateful for the body of work Fred Rogers and his collaborators and guests created.

As an adult I see the value he created and the value millions of kids captured.

Fred Rogers was a great human being that helped make the world a better place, one kid at a time, for decades.
I blame the classifiers in this one. The data should have been classified from the start.

The key words in the article were:

> The officials said the material, when aggregated, could be considered classified

So, the problem is that the material was probably designated as FOUO, but should have been classified as secret.

The difference is that FOUO is okay to be left on desks and the like, but confidential and above needs a safe, and document control.
99% is a bit higher than most systems expect to run at - any mix of job sizes in the queue will tend to leave small gaps when nodes need to stay idle until jobs "fit" perfectly again. 95% is a pretty common target for these larger systems.

There isn't necessarily a lot of research into packing these better - the basic algorithms have been unchanged for quite some time, and a lot more effort goes into deciding how to prioritize different groups that are sharing access into the same system.
Unless this only works on firefox, perhaps it doesn't work with chrome.
Yeah, the human component is definitely a lot easier to attack. I'm curious how this is handled. Does the person doing the random number generation have anyone else standing over their shoulder at the time? There should definitely be witnesses and/or records of something this important.

And according to the article, I notice they said that only 10k make it past the lottery stage to the vetting stage. That seems like a pretty easy anti-immigration attack surface: just submit a lot of low quality requests to block out potential acceptances.
Probably because some employee could not justify “impact” on this. If anything it will lower some key metric that was getting measured, because not giving all friend info will lower app adoption growth numbers. Most levels at facebook is filled with metric obsessed robots (because of how incentives are aligned).
I’m very concerned to hear that Demmis Hassabis is a genus. I knew he was smart, and I was prepared to accept that he may be a different species, but I was hoping that he would maintain at least some backward compatibility with the primates.
Cool to whom?

As a nerd, I would like them to do what Apple did: release a new, clean, robust OS (based on OpenBSD would be smart, worked for Apple) and then provide a shim for backward compatibility. That is, allow all existing programs to still run but have a clean platform for future apps. Like ChromeOS I would prefer this to be truly secure, robust and updated with minimal intrusion.

As a consumer, I want systems that are reliable, robust, secure, free from malware, impossible to hack into, cheap and fast. In other words everything that Windows currently isn't.
If you're the one that came up with the idea of the "quiesce", I feel like you owe quite a few of us in the systems software community a beer or three...
So good! Very thrilled -- SpaceX is a model giant, but also: the emergence of qualities MUST be due to underlying levels of Need and Demand in our human economy/ecology/world. Success that has great potential pushing behind it can soar. It's important now that we follow this example and harness the gathered beam of human intelligence as a laser or light beam would be harnessed and benefit the planet with strong focii of knowledge and need satisfaction.

edit: i'm very interested in any possible objections to what has been stated. i'm an avid observer and although i have no weight in the topic, i am of this genuine opinion.
Yes, definitely agree. I feel the latest UI for iPhone alarms and the timer are a good example of how inconsistency in button placement can be confusing.

When a timer finishes, you get a large button at the top for Stop, and a smaller one at the bottom for Repeat. When an alarm goes off, the Stop button is the small one at the bottom, and the larger top button says Snooze. Very often I find myself repeating a timer instead of stopping it.
The rating of the 100 pictures thing misses a very subtle point...

Most women aren't attracted to bald guys.
But, a small fraction are.

So, assume there is a bar with 100 women in it. 99 of them dislike bald guys (or are indifferent). But 1 of the chicks is absolutely crazy about bald guys.

Now, if you're the only bald guy in the bar, you are almost guaranteed to score... the one nutty chick who lusts after bald guys will be all yours... no competition (as there aren't that many bald guys in your cohort.)

The guys with hair, though? They will be competing with one another. The girls will be ranking them according to other factors besides hair... it's a confused stressful mess over there with the non-bald guys.

But you? The second you walk in, the baldophilic chick makes a beeline for you.

The morale: you don't need all people to think you're not unattractive. Instead, you just need one person to think you are extremely attractive. The latter is more likely if you have some odd defect.
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"You are saying that just because I'm eating fewer calories, I'm going to have less motivation? That makes no sense."

That makes perfect sense to me. Reduced calorie input = reduced energy intake = reduced energy surplus = more motivation to conserve energy = less motivation to expend energy. A lot of this might be psychological, but it might also be biological (for the same reason why fasting tends to encourage the body to store nutrients as body fat in anticipation of future fasting).
maybe because MANY christians say that ALL non-christians are bad and going to hell?
> you are just showing that you have the power to do it (by burning that power)

This is so true for mate selection in animal kingdom e.g. the gelada baboon male[0] has a bright red spot on its chest and females choose the male with brightest and largest red spot, though it is has no useful biological function. Expending energy to maintain an unnecessary function, hints at superior genes similar to your IB example.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelada#Physical_description
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So it's not like you're going to take the F-35 and move it over to another contractor. More likely, you'll just cancel it and start gain.

The other aspect is that it's not really the contractor's fault if the exploit was done with a zero-day.
Perhaps the reason we have these kinds of exceptional disclaimers for religious types [and conservatives] is because it is absolutely true, the exceptions are exactly that.
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Talking of cars, Porsche sell stripped out, weekend racer versions for more than the more luxurious ones. But it is a niche market. Same with computers for nerds - we know what we are doing, but for the average consumer - which is certainly MS's target market - the more bells and whistles the more impressive it is in the showroom.
Sometimes the pain is a secret even from the person harboring it. IMO this is the basis for some PDs.
You’re correct. Fixed the top post. Thank you.
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Huh, neat. I threw something similar together using org-mode but calling the API via curl (because I already had that working from somewhere else). Throw the results into a table. The table contents are then used in another script to create entries for ledger-cli.

I need to fix it up because it's clunky and still requires more manual intervention than should be necessary.

I typically run it once a month (I don't care about daily prices, just end of month) using the last trading day of the month.

I may update it to use this process instead, keep it all in emacs.
No. If the information is not about the individual, then it isn't useful in evaluating the individual. I know that sounds tautological, but it seems that obvious.
I would have to put on my reading glasses to look at the distant view..
It's hard to separate from men who don't take the drug but have erectile dysfunction.

But it is a problem that propeciahelp.com trolls scourge the internet and preach how destructive propecia is.
Thanks! I’ve been doing yoga, EMDR, and Somatic Experience and have found all helpful in different ways.
Understanding algorithmic complexity was highly useful for me recently when moving a system from inefficient prototype to full-scale version. Complexity theory helped me out with determining the exact pain points in my design and what needed to be altered how (which was most of it). Similarly, graph theory heavily influenced that initial design, which was far more elegant. When moving that system from a single-threaded program that ran on one core into a distributed system running on dozens of VM's with an 'eventually consistent' datastore between them, I tapped into classes on network theory, distributed computing, and operating systems.

Also, during the original design, I tapped into theory of functional programming in coming up with a highly functional architecture (even though the 'functions' are actually abstract processes on a virtual machine).

I'm a big proponent of theoretical CS!
I have a playlist of Fred Rogers videos including an AMAZING 4.5 hour interview that covers everything you could ever want to know about him: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1eNhoNMQfyH0OCAwcixA...
And I'm not a fan of being enslaved, but I guess you are.

I doubt you're actually stupid enough not to get the point that there's no good rate for a bad thing to be happening.

You've essentially studied to become a government cheerleader. If you want to make a career out of that, I don't know what to tell you..