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Well, the classic algorithm for solving a planar maze with single entry/exit (on the outside) is to always follow the right wall (or always the left wall). That's what the algorithm in the game was apparently originally modelling, with some randomness thrown in so that not all guests do exactly the same thing.
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Where would you rank 'employees must wash their hands before returning to work' signs in restaurant bathrooms on your road to Naziism?
To be fair the author is writing about his high-level view of the future in the perspective as a big fan of Godot. With that in mind, I think you'll be disappointed by the answers to you questions. On paper, Godot (or any other game engine) obviously makes no sense to most people for these kinds of UI, but having people like the author go against the grain to explore the possibility is great.
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When a site requires a response to these questions, I typically provide a purely-fictional response. e.g. (not real examples)

My childhood best friend: Ender Wiggen

City I was born in: Moscow, ID

etc...

and then log the specific lie in my password manager. They work if I need to read one off to a service rep over the phone, and they are in no way connected to my personal history...
Shouldn't be too difficult to pipe GPT-3's output into a text-to-speech tool.
I think if I spit on your face is illegal (probably assault) so we could apply the existing laws, if someone without a mask gets close to you while speaking existing laws could be apply because is basically spiting germs on you.

I am wondering if this would be accepted by a judge and no new laws will be required.
>Aren't these the entities that you would most want to keep your data secure?

I don't think the local municipality or the courts have anything I'd consider sensitive on me. Regardless, my bigger desire is for them to stay running, especially the hospitals. I'm not willing to temporarily shut some down 'for better security'.

>That makes no sense, because if you don't improve your security, you'll be hacked in the same way again. There isn't an upper bound on how much it can cost to not improve your security.

What actually happens is that the targets pay, and issue tougher mandates which may or may not be respected in their organization. These hacks are rare enough for now - I suspect hackers don't like to hit the same target again soon after (bigger risk of the target not paying you) - so eventually the organization slips back into same security morass they were in the first place, if they ever left it. There isn't a true desire to change.

Also, there is an upper bound if you're paying insurance, like that hospital did[0]. Over the long term insurers will raise their price, but at least it's a predictable bound.

[0]
https://www.wwnytv.com/2020/07/28/western-ny-hospital-recoun...
In a way, it's fortunate that the two MAX crashes happened overseas. If they had happened in the US, Boeing could have used its regulatory leverage to cover up the problem for a few more crashes.
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>"The city has been massively transformed to allow outdoor dining."

Massively? The city has simply allowed restaurants to put tables out in the street and share the street with passing cars. You have people eating out in the road while surrounded by gridlock traffic, exhaust fumes and all the accompanying horn honking. It's a total shit show.

Additionally the Open Streets initiative been implemented in such a haphazard patchwork manner it could hardly be viewed as anything remotely transformative. This is a pretty spot on overview:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/07/07/op-ed-open-streets-is...
if it's worth anything, as someone who's worked with lots of manually entered data, i expect to see 0.5% to 5% errors in most publicly sourced data collected in this fashion. i guess what I'm saying is, everyone actually professionally working with such on good faith knows its also stacked with a good proportion of bullshit/error.
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Is it just me, or has there barely been a peep from the CCP about TikTok? When it came to Huawei or ZTE, China's gov't regularly engaged foreign gov'ts, but it seems that they don't care much for TikTok. If that is the case, and not just a case of it not being reported as prominently, I would put my conspiracy hat on:

1. TikTok is actually not cooperating with the Chinese gov't (and maybe this is the CCP's way of showing them that it goes both ways).

2. The CCP is allowing the US gov't to destroy its own credibility and moral high ground. These threads are usually solidly anti-China but there is a clear stream of discomfort now, with the realization that if national security can be used to override the law, and everything can be a national security threat, then how strong is the foundation of law?

EDIT: A few of the replies have suggested 3) TikTok is simply not that valuable. Which makes all the ruckus being raised by banning it, whether by the US or by India, even sillier?
My anecdotal experience is in line with yours. Some areas that were hit hard by lockdowns also had very few cases, so people were left not knowing anyone who knew anyone who had contracted COVID-19.

Obviously this does not justify boorish behavior, but I can certainly empathize with their sentiments.
Most airlines only use one manufacturer for this size class; it’ll be 737-XXXs, or a32Xs, but rarely both. So just choose an appropriate airline. Not always an option, of course, but on the biggest routes it generally is.
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> However the method, it's far more likely to injure you than flying on a 737 MAX.

That depends. If you take a bus to go to the airport and it takes you an hour to get there, then your flight also lasts an hour (for simplicity's sake), you are almost 3 times more likely(on average) to die during the flight than you are during the bus ride [0]. In terms of number of journeys by plane and bus, for the same number of journeys you are 27 times more likely to die in a plane accident.

People repeat the "plane is the safest way to travel" mantra, but it's only true in terms of nr. of km traveled.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety
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I'm pretty sure this can be modeled with markov chains.

Your vertices would be (x, y, f), f being facing.

Edges are along the lines of (x, y, 0) - (x+1, y, {0,1,2,3}\1); (x, y, 1) - (x-1, y, {0,1,2,3}\0); (x, y, 2) - (x, y+1, {0,1,2,3}\3); (x, y, 3) - (x, y-1, {0,1,2,3}\2).

Probabilities are modeled in the video and need to be rotated 4 times for the four facings.

After that, I just don't recall my eigenvector calculation anymore. It feels like a good markov exercise, though.
I do not view it that way. I wash my hands and wear a mask.

I do know people who object to those handwashing mandates though. Knew a guy who occasionally wiped his hand on the sign in protest of it.
The go by different names, strata, coop, HOA, condo, but they exist all over the world to manage the shared property.
The US is also a secretive, authoritarian government with an established disregard for human rights, as recent events have shown again.
> Game development faces some rather brutal conditions to survive.

Which begs the question how do other areas of development get such easy conditions?
Had a Nokia 7.1 for a few years now. Really nice phone, still very quick and the battery easily last 2 days (still). Cost £190 when new. Not sure why people pay more really.
I think you might be overreacting to this, he said Facebook didn't know his situation, that doesn't mean he lied about it. It's not really necessarily relevant where he's from or what disabilities he has.
Each library does, but unless they already all use the same software and have someone who knows it well enough to export the data and they have the time to do it, I suspect it would take a long time to collate the data in a useful form. And that assumes the books are keyed by some kind of unique ID like an ISBN in all libraries, otherwise good luck collating the different spelling/typos of titles.

Just reaching out to all the libraries and getting them to submit the data would take a lot of time.
OK, sure, royalty is also bad. We're not talking about that, and we're not talking about e.g. a small shop owner plowing some profits back into improvements to her shop or whatever you mean by "investments into capital". We're talking about the owners of vast wealth, and what they have done from the moment they or their ancestors acquired that vast wealth. They treat customers (and employees) as property and their custom (and labor) as rents to which capitalists are due by birthright, which is not humane.

Now I realize, it's a bit silly to invoke such high-minded concepts in defense of the commercial interests of a group who themselves enjoy a lucrative state-supplied professional monopoly. Architects who don't like the terms under which software is available should hire some programmers. Programmers don't have a monopoly from the state, so as Autodesk knows they are relatively cheaper to hire than architects. If the architects try to lobby their way to a better commercial circumstance, which the effort described in TFA seems to indicate they will, they're likely to find themselves out-bribed by their monopolist vendor. I'm just opposed to attempted re-definitions of the word "capitalism". It is what we have seen it always to be, nothing more and nothing less.
Why is astroturfing still a thing on HN? We all can keep up this "cognitive dissonance" for arbitrary amounts of time because there is none.
You need to take into account culture and mentality. Making people wear masks 100% of the time might work in a country like Japan where people are disciplined and conforming but will not work in many other places where the attitude is a bit more lax.

The best way for those place is to give people mask off time in non critical places so they will be more likely to wear them in the critical places. For example, there is no point pressuring people to wear a mask while walking in quiet street where they can easily keep distance or hardly pass by other people, but you should force them to wear it when in a shop or a crowded main street.
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I don't see any dangers, it is just a sensor detecting infrared light, but getting a device "human rated" is a complex process. There might not be a sufficient market to justify an $90 thermometer for humans.

Here is a similar device, with a picture of it being used on a dog:
https://www.reichert.com/product_details.cfm?skuId=3125&skuT...

The scatter plots of eye/ear/rectal temperature in this article are on point to the covid situations. Variations of +/- several degrees are observed, showing that IR temperature scans might be less than useful in detecting mild fevers. (Also, stubborn cat refusing to open eyes)

https://www.theveterinarynurse.com/research/article/investig...
> It's so disheartening to see both Cuomo and DeBlasio's absolutely pathetic response to the pandemic

Grinding this axe kills your credibility.

New York sits at the bottom of the per-capita Covid charts in the US.

Were mistakes made at the beginning? Perhaps. Hindsight is always 20/20. However, data was scarce. And we had terrible shortages of PPE and no viable tests. And shutting down a school district like New York's takes a lot of time. And we had "liberal hoax" coming from the White House instead of a unified national response.

If you want to grind axes about bad pandemic response, pick on those states that refused to learn the lessons of New York and then passed New York in per capita cases 3 months later. After we had PPE. After we had tests. etc.

And, New York actually might be able to open schools without a disaster occurring. Other states? Not so much.
Masks cannot end someone's life either on purpose or accidentally.

A better example is seat belts or government issued ID, which are already currently mandatory.
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4 years... only 4 years. Their software is capable of being used for decades. This is just sad.
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Joke appart, it is effectively useless for now but some places are now accepting it which means that the usefulness might change sooner than we expect. It doesn't mean the seller won't be able to locate you with the address for the delivery though. Real problem will be if they use Monero or some real anonymous cryptocurrency where fungability is respected.
> It’s insane to me that we don’t just make masks 100% mandatory when you’re outside your own home.

It sounds reasonable in closed spaces (like in the examples you gave). But I'm reluctant to wear a mask outside in low-density area (I would if there were strong evidence it made any difference).

> man with a dry cough, that was later diagnosed to be COVID, wore a mask on the long flight from Wuhan to Toronto, had extended/close contact with 25 people, but he was wearing a mask, and none of them contracted it from him [1]

I'm nitpicking here, but by itself it doesn't sound as a strong argument in favour of masks. If I understand correctly, without any containment measures, the propagation rate (R0) of the virus is around 3. Which means that a sick person is going to contaminate on average 3 other people. I suppose the average person can have quite a lot of interactions (starting with their family, colleagues) during the time they are contagious. So even without mask, it's not obvious the guy in the plane would have infected anyone else.

That being said, I agree with you that masks should be mandatory (in closed spaces).
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Ah yep, the good old Nexus 4, that's how I was introduced to wireless charging as well.
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Once the property is paid off everything over property tax and maintenance is rent seeking though, right?
> And indeed, inside main we can see push rax - saving the value in the register rax to the stack, then a call to our add function, then we pop rax off the stack. The push call pop sequence is to preserve whatever values are in the registers used in add.

There's really no need to save rax here; I know that optimizations are off but I'm still curious why rustc thinks this is necessary…
A lot of those "adaptive" LED light suck! Loads of times I'm stuck with some guy behind me with flickery, colour-changing lights pointing right at my face through the mirrors.
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I think there is also a third option (might be a variant of #1): they are cooperating with the CCP, but the CCP does not value what TikTok provides them very highly, and so they don’t care enough to do much
I have one. And I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the photos considering it has only one camera. Given the blur effects in Portrait mode are hit-and-miss once in a while (the algo blurs human hair pretty frequently). But I think it's pretty good for my use case, which is to capture memories that I can revisit.
The original article used "Bloomfilter" instead of "Bloom filter". As of 2020-08-02, some of those mistakes have been corrected. Two mistakes remain.
That's a specious interpretation of what I said, and frankly paints it in a racist manner that's more than a little offensive.

Obviously Iranians "can count". What developing nations don't have is a way to get all the dead COUNTED. Some old guy dies in a little village with little to no government services: who's job is it to "count" that death? How do you get that entered? Do you just trust cousin Farhad when he tells you at your office in slightly-larger-village three days laters? How do you know that's not the same death as this other person called in? The names are spelled differently, but maybe that's just a mistake?

Be serious here. Running a government is a hard problem. If it were easy, we wouldn't even have "developing" nations at all.
I’ve often wondered why more desktop software and data analysis stuff isn’t written in something like Unreal.

- optimized across platforms
- optimized net code libs
- modal collaboration tool: build in blueprints or code (basically web components before web components)
- advanced visualization
- source control integration
- the frontend can be backend language agnostic, swap C++ for Rust over time
- no web assembly needed - heavily polished ergonomics and UX
- custom input map support is robust, tools can have their own keymap (we aren’t secretaries!)

The tech world at large is really addicted to the toolkits of the wrong companies, IMO

Apples “pro” dev tool in Xcode feels like a boring business tool.

Once closed desktop tools are now free for development with a market for making money now. Godot is just as open as Visual Studio or Firefox, minus the DOM, JavaScript, etc.

Cloud infra and micro services can still be what they are, all the usual safety features.

Web/mobile development landscape just feels bloated and insane compared to building once in Unreal or Godot and outputting to multiple platforms like the game engines are doing.
I have my doubts. The article you linked mentions payments being blocked, but in this case I'm getting an error message saying to use a different memo. The exact same "Please try another payment note" appears when using "Niger" or the n-word, so I suspect it's an attempt to block the n-word. I could be wrong though.
As a doctor, I really do think this is ‘hygiene theatre’ (that is, forehead/IR temperature checks).

Last week I rocked up to operate at a hospital I irregularly work at which has recently introduced checks (as opposed to all public hospitals which have had this in place since March).
In theatres we were talking about how useless it was. One of the nurses said someone tested high last week. They made the person sit in a chair for half an hour and then re tested them and granted them entry.
To some degree I get it. I mean, my state is only recording 15-20 positives a day across almost 20,000 tests so the pre-test probability is small. On the other hand, what’s the point of a policy if it doesn’t change anything.

Another aspect of ‘hygiene theatre’ - when the apple stores reopened in sydney I happened to be one of the first back in (by coincidence). I visited late on the first day. I was initially impressed - security guard scanning, handing masks out.
Inside the sales rep who served me had a mask continually falling down his face and kept grabbing at his face and readjusting.
I eventually capitulated and told him he was wearing it upside down (metal bit across bridge of nose needs to be squeezed).
Mask hygiene is important but pretty much everyone is so slack with them that, whilst they may be decreasing aerosolisation, they would be actively increasing spread of body fluids on surfaces, since so many people put a mask on and then immediately give up hand hygiene.

It’s all a bit depressing
Of course Rust "stole" many things, there wouldn't be much of a language if it didn't. C++ is a crucial piece of history in the evolution of programming languages.

> the whole argument about developers identifying

Taking inspiration from C++ is inseparable from developing a language today. Arguing about who "stole" ideas is sidetracking the overall discussion, in the first place. The development of C++ is being hampered by the perception of a threat/enemy who "steals" ideas - which is a very human and normal way to act. If the discussion is "them/Rust" vs. "us/C++", then the reasoning behind that counterproductive mindset is worth talking about.
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Another theory (mine, as a TikTok user in Asia) is that American TikTok is not worth much compared to the rest of the app’s ecosystem, and therefore being “forced” to sell it is a windfall exit opportunity for Bytedance.
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