skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is essentially the way eve online does it (or did when I last played). The simulation is entirely server side, the client interpolates and every so often gets the authoritative version from the server. You always knew you’d dropped when your ship would still be flying around shooting at things but wouldn’t take any input.

They had another interesting wrinkle to make it handle huge populations. Having enough players in the same region would trigger “time dilation” and slow down the simulation. In a big fight (thousands of players), it could take 10 real minutes for one minute of game to pass. It made big battles a slog, but at least they were possible.
For maximum flexibility, and hopefully also some productivity gains, I'd implement a four-day work week by giving the employee ongoing discretion to use Monday, Wednesday, or Friday as their third "weekend" day, and encourage limiting meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays, as much as possible.
Our daughter arrived a few days late after a long weekend at the hospital when my wife decided 50 hours are enough. A cesarian at 2 in the night sure wasn't everybody's favourite but the big eyes of the little grey bundle staring at us in her first minutes is the thing we'll never forget.
Didn't cost us a cent, not the US, obviously.
Cruise ships require a huge amount of maintenance just to keep them from falling apart, including occasional dry dock service where everyone has to get off for months. Sewage can't be discharged until you're very far offshore. Resupply at sea is challenging. High speed ferries can't run during rough conditions (which are common in the open Pacific Ocean).
> The corporate world will amazingly survive without your presence, I promise.

I wonder why do they pay me so much for my presence then.
Not necessarily a bad thing, but it seems that guy is always looking for his next job. Good luck keeping him on board for any significant amount of time. Although maybe he already ran out of self-driving-vehicle startups to work at.
Alcohol: one-two times a month.
Caffeine: two mate teas a day, no coffee.
You think the Republicans wouldn't latch on to a credible vote-manipulation story if they saw one?
Mark Zuckerberg’s Holocaust faux pas reveals a bigger problem
> If these are all "senior engineers" that "Google is trying to retain", the cost of keeping them must be at least 50 million per year.

Wait uh... are you saying seniors at Google make an average of $500k?
Were those small companies? Where they software (or some other digital work) companies?

We live in a world where companies go to extreme lengths to screw their employees over - everything from paying for overtime to healthcare. It might not be easy to change their mindset.

But I do agree it would be nice if good changes like this are achieved voluntarily, and not through legislation
> On an unrelated note: kudos to Google for publishing this postmortem and hope that this becomes an industrywide practice.

I think most already do this. I have seen AWS also publish detailed postmortems for outages like this. Ex: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
If it is not enforced by law, it can be taken from you at anytime, and interpreted in any way the company sees fit.

Your vacation time is whatever the company is required by law to pay out upon your separation from the org. Anything above that is “graciously” provided to you, at their discretion.
I've been thinking a lot about this type of thing and have come up with what I think is a reasonable understanding. Unfortunately it requires some context and I haven't been able to boil it down to a one-liner.

Ignore potential enemies such as Russia and China for a moment. Instead, think about our "best friend," the UK. What are the odds that the UK has hacked our politicians and has dirt on every major politician from the past few decades? I would estimate this at 100% chance. Everyone who can hack does. And they hack their allies as well as their enemies. If we had a chit chat with UK where we agreed to stop hacking each other, what are the odds that we'd go back to our respective corners and stop hacking? That's gotta be 0%. The intelligence community on both sides would never stop. If someone gets caught, publicly, hacking us, we'll shake our finger at them but not really raise a fuss. And we'll do this pretty much no matter who does it. Because it's just standard operating procedure for global politics.

So where does that leave us with China and Russia hacks? What is so particularly upsetting about the Russia hacks as opposed to the Chinese hacks or UK hacks? I think the distinction is disclosure. Hacking information and using it covertly is one thing. Releasing your dirt on the leaders of foreign Democracy-ish countries is tantamount to attempting to overthrow that government. That is what Russia supposedly/apparently did and what makes it different from China. Russia literally attempted a coup. I think there are legitimate arguments to be made that it was ultimately ineffective, maybe Trump would've won anyways, etc. But if the hacking/release allegations are true, then this was nothing short of a coup attempt. Not necessarily in favor of a Russian puppet, but at the very least in favor of a (Putin) preferred government.
I love fermented things on the whole, seriously (including e.g. pickled herring) but despite being outside and having the can opened underwater at a progressive dinner party, the smell was god-awful and the little bits that got on our clothes and skin were following us all through the other places we went. Just couldn't seem to get it off. As a lover of strong cheeses as well I have simply never had anything remotely comparable. We ate with cream and crackers and dill and washed down with aquavit which was necessary to attempt to get the taste out of the mouth.

I wholeheartedly agree with this wikipedia quote:
>German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before".

For the record I did have a friend who thought it tasted pleasanter than it smelled, so clearly as with everything people have experience.

But the joke we were told was "In Sweden this is how you let your neighbors know you are having a party before telephones" -- because the smell will travel through the whole neighborhood.

The hosts of this party had also left the can in the basement for a year+ as intended. Perhaps that heightens the effect.
Product Management and the Nuances of Digital Health Apps
Google doesn’t force OEMs to use Android, they are free to develop their own OS.
Even if we lived in a world with gold masters there would still be one reason for patches: Balancing.

My thinking is to expect patches when making a multiplayer game. There's just no practical way around it
Co signed. No such thing as curry. It is a popular term in England though and one of the few ways communal bread was broken in an otherwise extremely immigrant unfriendly UK in the 70's and 80s. (see Southhall riots).

Currying food may be a style but not in any way indicative of a particular dish.

Curry might be one of originally appropriated/invented terms not too unlike Yoga and Chai.
And think of all the doctors who would be pissed off to become de facto slaves of the state. Of course they could get paid by catering to the rich who would pay them out of pocket...
Alcohol: Depends, on average six beers a week (2 beers Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Coffee: 1 or 2 cups a day
The only way to be free from tracking is to:

1. Not provide your email address
2. Pay in Cash
3. Don't give your home address

That is literally the only way you can't be tracked. But there are so many times you are prompted to provide that information:

* would you like a receipt to be sent to your email address?
* would you like to sign up for our debit card and get $40 in savings?
* would you like us to home deliver this free accessory which is unfortunately not in stock at this time?

You have to have Stallman level of rigor if you are serious about not being tracked.
I think the line he is trying to draw is this:

Scenario 1:
I am a facebook user that wants to say something that people find offensive. I may write or share an article I found online to "support" my views. This is allowed under the idea of Free Speech.

Scenario 2:
I am some entity that wants to generate controversy and polarization by gaming recommendation algorithms, and thus flood the space of discourse with offensive material. I don't care about the material itself less so than the vitriol and outrage. AKA "Fake News". This is what they want to ban.

What trolls have done is essentially "hacked" the idea of Free Speech. The original idea behind Free speech was that people would at the very least earnestly believe what they were saying, or at the very least were engaging in satire. Trolling is satire on a whole new level, and it does seem truly difficult to separate the two without being too draconian.
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The quantum computer is accessed through the cloud.
Because you provide value, even though you are replaceable at the drop of a hat and can backfilled by others while temporarily on vacation.

Make no mistake, you’re out the door the moment you’re considered to no longer provide value.
Lots. Why are you wondering?
fortran?
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Entity
>You listed the four adapters you have, then said "no adapters

No, I listed 3 cables. No adapters. E.g. I had 3-4 external hard disks with the "micro USB to USB" style cable (1). I bought micro-USB to USB-C. No adapter needed (if there's any circuity inside the cable, it was there in the micro-USB to USB cable too, which is even more bulky).

Similar, I sometimes connect to an external audio interface, which has a USB B type cable (2). I bought a USB B to USB-C and am done.

Finally, I had a HDMI to HDMI cable on my old MBP. I went out and bought a USB-C to HDMI cable and just use that.

I don't need a dongle or multi-port adapter to plug the old cables in. I just replaced the old cables.

(1) https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81w%2By3Rwq...

(2) https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/a2KtBcVnreIJ_5hunhd6Ul9UOng=/7...
Sulla and Marius had pretty well smashed the republic a generation before. Not that Rome was ever really the idealized representation of a Republic that everyone at all points in time considered it had become debauched from.
"It sounds more like a cultural issue, or perhaps such staples are not easily found in most of the USA and/or are marketed as "health foods" and suffer a corresponding price increase?
"

When I moved to the US, I was appealed by the price of vegetables. Carrots, beets, cabbage are all so expensive compared to Western/Eastern europe.
Or maybe it’s the opposite, i.e. devs are not testing on LG devices so they miss corner cases and ship bugs to them?
> If an engineer isn't producing something worthwhile, he's not a good engineer, certainly not "one of my best engineers".

Not my experience. I've seen amazing engineers happily convince themselves whatever they are working on is important regardless of what it is. In fact its pretty common for really good engineers to simply fall in love with the code - or be convinced if they only finished this refactor it would be beautiful. I almost never hear them talk of business value.

The ones that do have this insight end up going on to be great managers - as they can bridge the divide.
>Not sure what parent uses USB-C to A for, but guessing there's a USB-C cable for that too.

For my external audio interface (I do computer music).

It's also common in MIDI controller keyboards -- USB from the computer to USB B on the keyboard (though I have mine setup with BT MIDI).

But also many printers use one, especially older ones.
Because those files weren't leaked in an attempt to undermine one of the campaigns.

This isn't complicated.
The need for attendance is coordination.

I worked remotely for 3 years in a high-profile company. Being remote helps control your time better. Coordinating anything with other people takes more effort, though, because you can't just walk around, see if somebody is busy, or out for a coffee, etc.

This is definitely solvable with technology, and will increasingly be solved.

There's also economy in employees providing their own computers, internet connectivity, and (most importantly) office space.
"Seattle-area rents drop significantly for first time this decade as new apartments sit empty":
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ar...

"New York City apartment market swoons on glut of new luxury construction"
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-york-city-apartment-ma...
That's the trick I have been using, with my name and my wife's name alternately. But everytime it is a PITA to chat with them to cancel the service...
There were a lot of extra checks and code involved in the synchronized RNG - the results were loggable (to track down sync failures) for instance so bloating that up with every random fire flicker from a burning castle would have been crazy.
I thought this was a good post!

In fact, I had just read a CVPR '18 paper that did the kind of thing he mentioned--presented an 'interpretable neural network' that assumed what interpretability meant...
Alcohol: 10-15 drinks/day

Coffee: 2 or 3 cups/day
Very appropriate timing. My son wanted to learn programming, so we started yesterday with python, using Jupyter notebooks on Azure (notebooks.azure.com). No setup, easy to create little code snippets, and he can do it all from his Chromebook. Python is intuitive, simple, useful; best first language in my opinion.
s/probably/provably/, tbh
Agile story grooming checklist
> with sleep apnea are advised to sleep on their backs.

Where did you hear that? I've had apnea and used cpap machines for over 20 years. I've been through 3 or 4 ent docs and none have said that. And I know from experience my whole life that lying on your back makes apnea much worse.

And my mask allows me to sleep in any position, as close to face down as I did without it.
Fair enough, re Nottingham. Thanks for the link, that neatly answers my question.

I strongly disagree that ignoring these suggested BCPs disqualifies an application as "HTTP". As far as I'm concerned, if a typical middlebox will reliably pass messages in it, it's HTTP.
This happened to Otonomy about a year ago and their stock fell off a cliff. The interesting thing with them was that they were doing 2 sets of phase 3 trials: one in the US, and one in Europe. A little while after the US one failed, the data from the European one came out and showed statistical significance. I remember reading that some of the scientists at Otonomy believed the problem with the US study was that some of the doctors who were administering the drug were telling the patients that it really worked, because the success for placebo patents was higher in the US than it was in Europe.
If you cook, no.
You shouldn't be using fetch directly accoriding to it's creator anyway - use a high level HTTP client which handles MIME types, query string encoding, etc.
Thanks for the link. Will take me some time to digest it. Last time I looked at one of these, it was less informative than I'd care to admit. I want to know why a classifier found a vase. The answer is typically some form of "because it was able to see the vase."

Would be more interesting to see a classifier that predicts something is going to happen. A predictor that can predict a person is about to step off of a curb, for example. Is it pose of the person? Did it require seeing multiple frames of the person, such that it was an inertia preditor?

So, yes, comparing things to gigantic trees can make things tough. But I thought that was the beauty of boosting and building up smaller trees. Most of them are usually more interpretable than you might expect.
> vs. Amazon's "two day shipping" that regularly turned into three or four days

Where are you that this is true? This is directly opposite of my experience. I genuinely can't remember the last time a Prime/2-day shipment was delayed. In fact, I'll routinely and deliberately pay a premium to purchase something via Amazon Prime (both within Amazon and across internet vendors) precisely because of the confidence I have in their shipping reliability. No one else comes close, frankly.

That said, in fact I don't tend to buy BestBuy-style products at Amazon very often, precisely because these things are available at competetive prices at retail. Amazon wins for things I don't feel like "shopping" for.
+1'ed you on the props to GCP, but on Amazon prime, that was only on their retail site, right? Do vendors there have SLA or is there otherwise an obligation to publish a post-mortem on the incident? I think it's different when it's a platform/service provider but the prime day outage only hurt Amazon. My recollection is that AWS service outages had prompt and thorough published incident reports.
The pillow is probably activating a reflex to press the legs together.

In other news, it's the Stabile Seitenlage [1] from first aid! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position
I started tracking them a while back, didn't stick with it for very long.

https://github.com/macintux/Service-postmortems
It wasn't vague and your reply demonstrates you knew exactly what I was talking about. The wealth of the US is not some collective pot of gold to be spent on X. It is owned by individuals and if you take it, spending on X is a mere detail. You are just arguing for Y instead of X.
Are you implying the the current year and a half hysteria about Russia is credible? Even the people still pushing it say no votes were manipulated!
Thanks, section 8 is amazing! I somehow missed them entirely from long island.
Believing that a monopoly is no better for the customer in ecommerce than for any other industry. Preferring to support companies with halfway decent employment practices.

The site itself? Fraud. Awful, useless search/filter results. Fraud. Did I mention fraud?

And this question reads a bit like an ad.
Google owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search
Anyone else able to sleep on their left side just fine but not on their right side? I'm in fairly good shape but for some reason sleeping on my right side just gives me a heavy feeling inside my chest that prevents me from falling asleep. I've wondered what the effects of a lifetime of sleeping on one side could be.
I think when we're talking about wine, the correct way to say it is "contains notes of tobacco and radioactive isotopes".
If someone says "I hate ICE, I hate police", should they be censored too, and their message not distributed?
Corellium can run up to iPhone X, and certainly can run iOS 12 (Option is given for jailbroken or not jailbroken too).

Only limit which you may be thinking of is that it only supports 64-bit ARM, so no emulation of the older devices.
A lot of people say that this is an illusion of some kind -- not a serious effort to replace Android. I don't get it because Android sucks and even if this were an engineer retention project, if they finish it then what harm is there in deploying it?
If you won't stop posting civilly and substantively we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Amazon's packing skills have lead me to order in batches that I think will ship well together. Once I see that heavy item that is going to pound and smash the other items has shipped I'll order the rest. It is less than ideal, but as long as they suck at packing they can deal with two orders instead.
I was just thinking this, but it seems his departure from Cruise coincided with the GM acquisition, and the transition to Uber from Otto probably happened because Uber acquired Otto. The primary job changes then are from Tesla to Otto and now from Uber to Voyage.
Pattern-matching syntax trees
>When all you have is the USB-C port, it's now your own responsibility to carry a cable for each situation.

For those type of "foreign environment" (e.g. not your house or office) where you don't know what you'll meet, a single USB-C to HDMI and USB 3.0 adapter, which weights next to nothing, and is sold by Apple and many third parties (down to $10-$20) will do.

https://www.amazon.com/Pass-Through-Multiport-Supports-Throu...
As a former artist I agree.

I think what people don't see when they compare art to another industry like software, engineering or architecture in their examples is just how much work will go into a specific piece of art and just how corrupt the current art establishment is.

Technical skill is hidden away to the point where people don't even really know the involvement of artists when it comes to stuff like art technicians. In fact I had a tough time convincing people I know that cgi isn't "all done by computers" and that actually the level of raw artistic skill in videogames is unbelievably high.

I think it's right to be upset about credit being apportioned fairly. If a person is able to pretend they created a work of art whilst someone else profits off of it then that behavior will only be encouraged. Fundamentally though the decision does rest with the individual artists in question who offer their work up to people who give them no recognition. Ultimately if they're ok with it then perhaps there isn't a problem, but if not, then they should find a way in which to work where they are fairly rewarded for their efforts. Expecting the system to change or expecting people to stop taking advantage of others is unlikely to change anything.
Moving from Linux, though, could have upsides for Google. Android’s use of the technology, which is distributed by Oracle Corp.

Yeah this is totally wrong.
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Not any current standard phage mixtures, but especially for lung disease they're an active area of research. Delivery mechanisms seem to be a pretty solved/relatively-trivial problem. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156919931...

In this particular case, they found a phage for the particular infection, but at too late of a stage - most of the development I've heard of has been less about basic research and more about building institutional processes for quickly finding existing predators of a given bacterium. (Which, I agree, is a lot more expensive and risky than an antibiotic if you can find one that works.)
Bad bad link?

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This is true but this is what follows if you (generic you, not you specifically) believe that the wealth of the US is some collective pot of gold to be spend on X. You don't like X but would rather it be spent on Y is not a fundamental change but a detail.
Adding rice and water to a pot and heating it has about a hundred failure modes that make the result unpalatable and ruins the reagents. Even when it goes correctly, the result is pretty bland, particularly to someone used to packaged food.

One cannot merely put the ingredients of tomato sauce into a pot, heat it in some arbitrary way, and expect the result to be recognizable as tomato sauce.
People played lan games all the time with very low latency - I actually had to patch the code specially for the exhibition match at the AOK ReleaseToManufacture party because the Lan they were using had <1 msec latency - we had never had close to that even in our office so my code didn't handle it well and performed poorly on that optimal network.
Actually, more commonly attributed to Mark Twain, but apparently he did not say it either.
I believe many things, but people working and living in SF are paying taxes in SF and are not able to vote on local issues that affect either their taxation, their permanence and their quality of life in the very place.

Countries have declared independence protesting taxation without representation.