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In twitter-like applications, the default ordering is usually just ORDER BY timestamp DESC. You could rely on this default ordering to load the first few dozen items on first visit, and load the remainder asynchronously. Sort of like automatic infinite scrolling.

Of course, users with limited RAM and metered connections won't like that. Which is another reason why it didn't catch on.
PS5 games might have a killer feature that only Sony could pull off
The gaming engine is their current bread and butter but they're betting their future on lots of general simulation contracts, particularly in the defence sector.
> Biological explanation

You can't study that these days. The orthodoxy insists that any differences in outcomes are solely due to environment, power structures, implicit and explicit biases.
> wondering whether their sample acknowledges the disproportionate number of men who murder their ex-female-partner

Curious how this is relevant to the study?

Roughly 0.001% of women are killed by a male partner each year in the US and - while terrible in of itself - I can't see it affecting the results of this study in any significant way.
I remembered about this compressed air car. That's an interesting tech:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car
> And it's worth noting that the study only focus on heterosexual people, so a more accurate title would be "Heterosexual men hold more positive attitudes towards ex-partners than heterosexual women do"

At some point you're just going to have to read the paper if you want full accuracy.
What about trans people?
Relationships are more "loaded" with negative personal consequences for women. Less so than in the past, but it's there.

There's often a negative interpretation of a woman having more relationships or ending one that isn't really a factor with men. IMO, this creates a bias to justify ending a relationship for cause.

With a man, there's no threshold where your next girlfriend will lead to you being categorized negatively. If anything, you get more respect in some circles.
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Gboard also now comes with an "arrow keys" panel that you can access by clicking the Google logo.

See: https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2017/04/gboard-te...
Source for your claim that this river is always in this state? Because the article disagrees with you. You don't think the country's largest drought has any impact on its largest river?

You seem looking for a reason to bash climate change and journalism in general.
If there is nothing innate to the human on Gender identity, if its purely a construct, then you can engage in full repression of gender identities with no consequences.
I'm not terribly excited with the idea of making spreadsheet style programs easier, but I suppose it can't hurt, either.

Personally, I think programming languages becoming closer to spoken languages would be more useful. I first learned of that concept from this Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/da718w/i_think_the_f...

There, the author of the thread talks about the benefits of Inform 7, a programming language specifically designed for creating interactive fiction games. It's an incredibly impressive bit of work, and is the most promising path toward getting regular folk into programming.

I also came across this interesting article from Wolfram:

https://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/16/programming-with-natural...

which goes into natural-language programming and how they will (hopefully) become dominant in the future.
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't. Just that "net exporter" doesn't necessarily mean that we've stopped importing from frenemies.
It's absurd to group half the population into one group, and then try to work out what makes that group as a whole tick.
iOS 13 also completely butchered the screenshot editing interface.

It's approximately 4 times slower than the old one. The markup button is hidden in the 3-dot menu in the far upper-right (such a strain to reach this!). Oh and the "full page" safari screenshot feature? It only saves PDFs. What a joke.

I'm moving to Android or PinePhone.
That may be true for us, tech savvy users.

Imagine your grandma getting phishing emails from banks. If only 1% goes through, because Google is a bit more lenient on the detection, I can see the phishing success rate going through the roof.

It's a very hard problem to solve.
> Here’s a fun, personal story about what can go wrong in an otherwise fine UI when things are redesigned.

writes the person whose blog is typeset with a nearly invisible thin gray font
> Second, there may be gender differences in the perceived causes of breakups. Women blame their male partners more often for breakups than men blame their female partners (Choo et al., 1996). In addition, women more frequently report problematic partner behaviors as the reason for a breakup, such as infidelity, substance abuse, and mental or physical abuse (Amato & Previti, 2003; Morris, Reiber, & Roman, 2015). Men, in contrast, are more likely to claim that they do not know what caused their past breakups (Amato & Previti, 2003).

This feels like the important bit to me. People view their ex’s less favorably if they blame them for the breakup; and women blame men more than men blame women. Women also reported receiving less support from their partners than men. Reading between the lines, men in average like the women more because the women put in more effort to the relationship.
> He made it clear that his opinion is that there should be a system in place at Google that he can petition for his reputation

The common thread among many of the bad-Google stories I've seen in the last 10 years is that Google has made a deliberate decision to not give two shits if they accidentally hurt a small minority of their users. People get messages out of the blue that essentially say "We've just wiped out your email account, we're not telling you why and there's no one you can appeal to." I don't know if this particular guy is on the level or not, but it's not credible that all of these people are secretly spammers and scammers. Occasionally you can get things fixed if you know someone at Google or your complaint goes viral, but that's your only option.

I'm sure someone at Google did some math and concluded that the ill will of a few customers costs less than maintaining a support department. That's not an excuse. I don't think we should expect Google to never make mistakes, but we should absolutely expect some avenue to correct those mistakes.
Unless your vehicles are operating a very consistent route that rarely or never changes, it's likely to be cheaper to go with batteries than to build and maintain a network of overhead wires.
"That misses the point. Gender roles is a cause for anxiety because the cost of failure is magnified and strike at the gender identity of the person."

Yes, that's... kind of what I was pointing at, because the original guy said he was baffled at the anxiety of his wife. That's literally all I'm saying. I'm so confused at your responses.
The article mentions that pantographs are unusable due to the number of exposed moving parts and the existence of conductive dust.
I mean, Futhark certainly can. The whole point of Futhark is that it's a functional language that can run on GPUs. Futhark will beat the pants off of C for most any problem that is suitable for GPU computation, even if written in an entirely functional style.

For CPUs, I'd like to introduce you to my good friend Fortran.
"The horse raced past the barn fell, which has been haunted since all those teenagers were murdered there."

(Noun-adjective is a rare formation, but amusingly more common in the same situations where the author uses rare and archaic definitions like the adjective "fell".)
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> Letting that affect your evaluation of the facts is a mistake.

I never said I will change my opinion about the issue because of that. Only that I am disgusted by this behavior.

As a more practical effect, just a tiny speck of falsehood in the discourse of "my" side, turns any attempt to convince anybody on the "other" side as an endless discussion about that silly speck, agreeing that it is false, but nonetheless the main cause remains true. It is very tiring. Exaggerated propaganda is useful to create stronger echo-chambers, but not to convince people who are outside.
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Kind of a shame that all the comments are focused on Softbank here and no one is discussing Fair. I know what HN generally thinks of Softbank. What I want to know is what HN thinks of Fair and this layoff.
You know, speaking of Bob, one thing I've been meaning to experiment with is a Minecraft-based desktop UI.

I'm completely serious. Minecraft is relatively intuitive, the space is completely malleable, human minds are already tuned to navigating such spaces...

There's even some precedent in Bob and PSDoom, among others.
In fifty-plus years of walking around in the cities and suburbs of the US, I have never seen anyone get a citation for jaywalking, though I know it happens now and then.

My impression is that the police do it now and then to hassle persons they otherwise disapprove of or dislike. The writer Gary Wills once wrote of some DC police giving him a jaywalking ticket, apparently because he thought that a look at their car before he crossed implied disrespect. But I pretty routinely jaywalk in the presence of the police without attracting their notice. I'm pretty innocuous in appearance, but I see others do this too.
Have you actually had a lot of problems sending e-mail to Gmail users from your mail server? For me Gmail has not been great about accepting e-mail and not marking it spam (occasionally have issues), but others like icloud.com have been worse.
>Last summer was the hottest on record, and in Menindee, where temperatures regularly top 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit), another scorching season is expected.

Climate change is very implicit in the context of the article, even if not explicitly stated.
Because you can't buy something for a thick phone to make it thinner. Each person can make their own decision on the thickness/other concerns trade-off.
That's a good point, but the -O3 doesn't actually do a whole lot here. I recompiled the Futhark-generated C code with just -O and performance was unchanged. If you look at the generated C code, there isn't really a lot to do either: https://gist.github.com/athas/7c8ffc2620a9406e4bbb0df89f2fc9...

I hope I can assume that RHEL compiles their wc with at least -O.
Themes are not enough (f.e. there isn't much you can do from a theme when it comes to an application using a header bar instead of a menu bar) and i wasn't talking about imitating Windows' style (as i said it is inconsistent).

The way i see it, things that can be interacted with the mouse should have specific styling rules (not necessarily 100% the same), things where you can input text with the keyboard should have their own styling rules that make them distinguishable and things that are static should also have their own rules. Things that group other things (group boxes, tabs, etc) should have their own rules, things that represent multiple options that are visible at the same time should have their own styling rules that clearly show the selected/unselected state. Some of these rules should not interfere with others since some elements may need to mix them (e.g. tabs can be interacted with the mouse, group elements and show multiple options that are visible at the same time). There also other cases that may be helpful, e.g., things that you can navigate to using the Tab key (buttons in a dialog) may be styled differently than things that you can only navigate via clicking (buttons in a toolbar). Similarly with shortcut keys - Windows made the Alt+<key> letter not be underlined unless you press alt, which i always found a bad idea. On the contrary, i'd like to see not just Alt+<key> be visible in a dialog but also other keys that would affect the dialog, like placing a small graphic for Return and Escape in buttons that are equivalent to these keys (nextstep had the return graphic, but AFAIK not the escape thing).

Of course i have not a clear idea of exactly what i'd do, these are just rough ideas. It is something i'd explore if i ever worked on such a thing :-). And yeah, some of it might be information overload and/or look ugly but i think it is better than the information underload we get with current looks-over-anything-else approach :-P.
This is terribly inconsiderate of people with disabilities.
In design this is called “the illusion of completeness.”

“The illusion of completeness happens when the visible content on the screen appears to be complete, when in fact more information exists outside of the viewable area.”[0]

It’s a designer’s job to create cues that ensure this never happens.

[0]https://www.nngroup.com/articles/illusion-of-completeness/
Setting aside SoftBank, let's talk about Fair.

I'm a Fair customer, and I like the service, but I don't think it's a steal. It's a fair deal (no pun intended), but by no means would I call it a ridiculous, out-of-this-world deal.

Surely some fellow New Yorkers will remember the good old days of the Uber-Lyft price war, when it was possible to travel from the low 90-s & York to the low 80-s & Columbus for $2 on an Uber Pool. Or how during the morning rush an Uber Pool would take one from the UWS to FiDi for about $5. Those were unimaginably good deals because they were heavily subsidized by the VC cash that was flowing so easily into rideshare companies and out the other end into riders' wallets. Those were the days!

Fair is nothing like that. I pay $266/month for a 2018 CPO Honda Accord that I received with 2k miles and most of its original warranty. I reckon this costs me about 15-20% more than a dealership lease of a brand new car. I consider this a fair (...) premium for the flexibility that a Fair lease affords me: I can end it at any time without undue shenanigans, whereas a traditional lease would require me to either transfer it or pay an early termination fee.

Why is this important? With Fair I don't feel as if some hapless VC is subsidizing my use of the vehicle. The whole thing feels like an actual business with assets and employees and some kind of plan, not a reckless gamble for market share that in itself is worth nothing to begin with. It all makes a certain kind of cold sense: when you browse Fair's app for a vehicle, the cars you see aren't actually on Fair's balance sheet until the lease has started. Since their prices aren't too good to be true, my gut tells me that, at the very least, they have a spreadsheet somewhere that spits out the price they should charge a customer after having quantified the risk of this customer ending the lease before its break-even date, thus saddling Fair with the car for which it now has to pay out of its own coffers.

SoftBank being SoftBank, it's possible that Fair is one of its better bets.
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One time I accidentally charged a customer $5,000 instead of $50 because the Stripe API takes cents (which would be 5000), and the UI takes $. I entered 5000 into the UI because I was so used to using the API. Still scrapping around manually charging customers because we weren't all the way automated yet.

Called up the person and told them what happened and refund was on the way...they didn't seem too worried. haha...

Was exchanging stories with someone today and wondering if anyone else had some funny stories to share?
Because the thinness is a design decision unilaterally made for you and whose potential downside comes at your expense.

I always get thick, rubberized cases. The high friction makes phones easy to hold, and they've never been damaged from drops (like I'm sure OEMs, especially Apple, would like for repair/replacement $$$). :3
Alternative hypothesis: Or the lack of emotional support means they don't have people around them feeding their resentment, so they just move on with their lives.
Except the article never mentions climate change so that argument doesn’t make any sense. The issue here is largely due to overuse of water for irrigation combined with a spell of hot dry weather.
I wonder if Allen considered that there might be a reason people chose to use C, it's not as if they were forced into it. "Something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks" is not a requirement specific to operating systems. It's a bit ironic to think that the inability to run fancy optimizations is considered a problem with C when one of the most widely recognized flaws in the C ecosystem is the way mainstream compilers will exploit behavior that was labeled "undefined" just to support old obscure architectures, to run all kinds of crazy transformations.
> DC/DC step-up/down voltage regulators

Interestingly, there is actually a hydraulic mechanism that's the equivalent of a boost converter with inductor, diode, and switching element:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram

It translates a low-pressure fluid with continuous flow into periodic high-pressure impulses. The inertia of the fluid is the hydraulic equivalent of the inductor, and a switching element (valve) closing suddenly causes a spike in pressure as the water decelerates suddenly, equivalent to a voltage spike as an inductor "wants to keep the current flowing".

But it usually operates with water, which has much higher density (hence inertia) than air, so it might not be very efficient (or might require much higher flow rate) in a pneumatic version.
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I'm a software developer in Europe, (more precisely south of France).

After 3 years I'm making around 44K€ before tax (~33K after tax).

I'm one of the better paid in my peers, however seeing salaries talk online, I feel a bit "cheated". People are talking about making 100Ks and vesting.

Should I be asking for more? Should I move elsewhere (possible VISA requirements) ?

Whats your take on this gap?
I wouldn't go as far as to say the Improbable deal made sense, but your analysis here is pretty shallow.

SpatialOS isn't really something that can be built as a series of libraries a la carte and individually proven. It's an opinionated and tightly integrated approach to solving a very difficult problem, and the entire point is the turnkey platform. Either it's ready to build notable games on, or it's not.

Further, Improbable wants developers to pull the trigger on spending millions or even tens of millions developing titles for the platform. Investing this much in a platform that fails is an existential crisis for a games company. There's no way your half built SpatialOS game can run anywhere else.

Therefore, confidence is key, and raising an eye watering amount of money is basically table stakes to be taken seriously.

Whether it's worth solving a problem that can't be broken down in viable independent chunks is another matter (I have no interest in that personally). I'm not saying I'd invest at that valuation either. But it's certainly not as straight forward as you seem to be claiming.
What? I am your age. I grew up working class and my parents had a crappy computer they bought at Sams Club with a floppy drive. The neighborhors had one too. I turned in my homework with floppies. Most students (working class) had one in the house, but a lot of the time the computer was rather ancient.
As the other person said, doesn’t mean it wasn’t risky.

But also, people in your industry may have been in a better place to assess that risk.
I feel like a significant portion of human traffic jams are caused by bottlenecks but as far as I can tell this was not addressed in the study. Would be interested to see how much more efficient ants are in the case where the width of the path is variable.
The article doesn't even mention the word 'climate', let alone 'climate change'. There are references to last summer being the hottest on record, which is true, or the effects of the drought, but it's not talking about climate change. Get your shit together - you are a perfect example of why the issue is polarized.
I wonder if the general problem of having a huge volume of money and trying to make returns from it is more about what you are talking about.

The money stops being real, becomes funny money, and the investment behavior changes.
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In general I'd much prefer a scroll indicator to a scroll bar on mobile. Google Play Music gets this precisely wrong: the album list lets you click a play button on the album cover as a shortcut, but the button is so close to the edge of the screen that it's very difficult to avoid hitting the scroll bar area and scrolling to a random section of the list instead of hitting play. So you have to seek to the album you want again, and, because you are optimistic beyond rationality, you try again, and whoops! Did it again...
It's more or less impressive depending on whether the algorithm already ate a dictionary; then it's the difference between inferring from context, as people do, and simply knowing all of the known unconventional usages in a very inhuman way.
Yes, but that is not what you claimed. You claimed:

> The point is that given that the door Monty opened had a goat behind it your probability of winning would then be 1/2.

If the episode just ends when Monty picks the car, then I lose if he picks the car. I don't just vanish into thin air such that the universe erases my run. I was on the show, and I lost. And that means my odds of winning are still just 1/3, not 1/2 as you claimed. Yes, the game has changed such that it doesn't matter if I switch doors or not with this addition, but the underlying odds don't change.
I understand the concept of a mailing list, but how do you discover new lists?
It only there was an indicator on the side of the screen telling you how far you are from the bott of the screen, like a bar. On the side.
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I agree. It seems to be to be a case of 'sounds like it might be right, lets see how far we can run with it'. Ultimately, I can only see a few benefits of this line of enquiry.

E.g. "Honey, I'm sorry - but it's not really my fault, it's just my genetic make-up .."

Ultimately, while we may be descended from lizards, rationalising behaviours based on our physiological origins might not be that useful.

Especially when such sweeping statements are made about a _vast_ group of people who—when looked at in terms of their other attributes—vary enormously.
This reminded me of an article I saw some time ago (https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/09/power-from-the-tap-w...) about appliances (including but not limited to kitchen ones) powered by water from the tap.
Safari is now buggy and once every day or so I have to kill & reload it to get a page to display

Yes, me too — hope they fix that soon.

I admit to holding iOS to a much higher standard than I do Android, but I can't help that.

Take both the price differential and Apple's historic UI quality into account, higher standards seem pretty reasonable.
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There was a Tcl for Windows distribution that came with the simulation. A co-worker ran it out to some number of tries, and was satisfied.

By the way, you can get old Monty Hall shows on satellite TV to this day (or at least week)--a friend noticed it playing in a restaurant a couple of days ago.