skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He actually addresses why he won't solve any of the "problems" with more manpower. He's found local maxima and is willing to stay there because there are risks associated with moving.
"Trapped by the white shirted locals", so then not by hired thugs? If locals would somehow trap "peaceful protesters" to beat them up, then man, HK must be a violent place!
Even if fixed to python 3, still throws an error:

> Your code could not be one-lined. name 'reduce' is not defined
> Between writing and editing this comment I read this year's winner and decided you are absolutely wrong.

Which book are you talking about?
I think everyone older than 30 does.

I also have the habit of pressing it more than one time, every time I press it.

I'm not even be sure that save will really save.
Apparently more difficult than making the UK less attractive for business - which seems to be the current plan.
this tells me that AAA studios could do really well to produce "indie games" with AAA-quality graphics. Gamers _want_ the originality and interesting indie games, but they don't want or don't care for low-quality aesthetics in their graphics (even when the graphics doesn't matter).
Lesson 3 is not about blaming anyone but acknowledging the nature of the relationships in the space.
Sounds good, right? Why "yet"?
Furthermore AFAIK things prefixed with debug don't get compiled into release binaries either.
I've always wondered if the government could defray the cost of HS2 by buying some blocks of cheap farmland in the middle of nowhere, adding a HS2 station so the land was 20 minutes from central London, then selling the land to property developers. Obviously you could only add one or two towns, to avoid creating slow stopping services.

Seems to me that could increase the housing supply and offset the costs of HS2 at the same time - and most governments have had plans for new towns, new garden cities and suchlike.
If the dev truly understood where he wants the game to sit and why he wouldn't have compared it to Baba is You.
Yeah! Even more politics in the Hugo Awards!
> “my parents are bad they aren’t feeding me they should be locked up”

lol I remember this, we called it the 'worst parents in the world' cry. It continues forever, the form changes as they get older but the message is the same
"The iPhone" isn't a patent.

There's one often-ridiculed "design patent" on the rounded-rectangle-in-a-grid home screen layout. But these "design patents" are a lot closer to copyright than actual patents.

The mere existence of Android phones are proof that at least one of the following two believes or yours must be wrong:

- That trivial stuff is easily patented

- That Apple is willing to abuse the patent system for anti-competitive reasons.
The aqua park is actually doing quite well nowadays https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/
> The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.

Well, in Europe it is more the estate system and urban manufactures, I think, that have influenced the culture of work. In the US, you have something much worse even. I found this recent article eye-opening for me:

[1] M. Desmond. In order to understand the brutality of american capitalism, you have to start on the plantation. New York Times Magazine, Aug 18 2019.

web: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slav...

> a desperate need for people to continuously prove the need for their own role, as automation and informatization eat away more an more jobs.

While I agree with this (go @AndrewYang! ;), I don't think it is the only (or even the biggest) factor. It is the long shadow of WWII and the resulting demographic imbalance coupled with a self-serving but fundamentally wrong narrative around "economic growth". This has led to what some have called "the big institutional lie" where throughout society you have institutions that rely on promises of advancement or necessity to lure the fresh blood but that can not keep these promises to all of them. It's basically a pyramid scheme. Peter Turchin pointed to this as a contributing factor to polarization as the educated "elite" of such countries/societies must increasingly fight among itself for the increasingly rare places or resources (relatively speaking). → revolutionary potential
Errrm, the article isn't complaining about him being banned from Twitter, it's complaining about Twitter publicly accusing him of being a Chinese agent and standing by that rather suspect conclusion.
Wow an email address and a VA for $75k. Bargain.
you cant be serious
But his games don't sit where he thinks they sit. It's baffling as there's a huge market for "retro" looking indie games, and has been for a decade or so. Plenty of successful and influential indie games made by a small team (or even a solo developer) in the past decade have been really successful despite looking like they could run on an NES or a Commodore 64, with limited palettes and chunky graphics. But there's a difference between that and what appears to be placeholder programmer art.
Yeah I have also found intermittent fasting to be an excellent tool in the toolbox when I want to reduce a bit of body-fat. As you say, for me it's easier to follow a simple rule-based diet like time-restricted eating than it is to track and measure calories and macronutrients.

I also had success with a ketogenic diet, but in my experience that's a bit harder to stick to, since there's a lot of hidden carbohydrates in food, and it's also the kind of diet you find yourself explaining all the time like when you have to turn down the cookie your colleague made, or you order a hamburger without the bun at a restaurant. TRE offers many of the same benefits, but has almost no impact insofar as how you live your life.

> Hunger comes and goes in waves, but mostly it just goes.

Interesting thing about the hunger pattern you described: subjective experience of hunger maps pretty well to the hormone Ghrelin, which tends to peak close to your normal meal-times, and then naturally subsides afterwords whether or not you have eaten. So the science points to the fact that hunger is very much something you can "wait out".

> I started skipping a day twice a week for a total of 5x 24hr fasts and 2x 48hr fasts. This week I completed a 72hr fast.

It's important to be cautious when attempting longer fasts. I know a lot of people have subjectively good experiences with multi-day fasts, but I saw a talk where the presenter showed evidence that long fasts (more than 72 hours) can cause long-lasting metabolic changes which weren't recovered even several years later.
But it's not a question of adding more manpower. When I say Jeff needs an art director I mean that Jeff needs to care about art direction and that making a good looking game with his existing constraints is perfectly feasible.
My sister-in-law who is just a regular, every day mid-twenty-something Japanese woman that works roughly in graphic design mostly gets home past 11pm. She's not the typical image of a "salaryman" but it all still applies. I feel sorry as hell for her.
China will be a tyrant. How can anyone imagine otherwise, seeing how it currently treats its perceived internal threats?
Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
Romani ite domum. Martiani libertas
From a cursory look, if you're white and write a PoC character, you're racist. And if you're white and don't write a PoC character you're also racist. Cool.
Possibly, but heroku does not try to optimize for price/performance. It tries to optimize for price/shipping production software, which includes performance but also lots of other things like ability for application developers to iterate quickly and the human hours saved configuring and operating infrastructure.
May I ask what you do? As in, to sustain your life/living situation/etc.
Simple graphics open up for imagination as juskrey post here said. That couple with a great story can be good enough. A good book does not need to contain picture we imagine the content, a RPG can be the same. That said better looking graphics could be sourced from Chinese graphic artist, there is an industry which makes better game graphics quite cheaply.

For example
https://retrostylegames.com/about-game-art/
How large is your team?
How many direct reports you have?
Can you delegate any of the stuff on your plate?

A strategy that has work well with me in the past is having a weekly meeting with all the leads of each team and following a specific format which helps with:

-Keep your team focused on the most important priorities
-Hold your team accountable for the things they've committed to
-Identify, discuss, and truly solve issues - once and for all.

> How do you manage asks/comms from multiple teams in the org, and remind yourself to keep track of asks and emails from people?

I keep a notebook log of my priorities for the day, notes from meetings or code changes and anything that needs a follow up or a reminder goes into the calendar to keep track of.

Shoot me an email amacgregor at allanmacgregor.com if you want to bounce ideas and help with specifics.

Cheers!
US military veterans swindled out of millions by former army employee
I’d do web only. Once you get your first million members, build the app. Even then I prefer web to apps if there is no value add.
> And that itself has much deeper relation to a biological child than to adopting one. Not that adopting isn't significant or emotional, it's simply not that varying level of experience.

How do you know your child is actually biologically yours? Human fathers have no biological/natural means of identifying a child as theirs. So your hypothesis that having your own child va adopting is different does not stand.
The father - child bond is a mental construct and I see absolutely no reason why adopting is lesser than biologically fathering a child.
I don't imagine the average consumer would ever notice but I wonder how much it is used by youtubers to arrange collaboration between different channels in similar spaces. At least as a way of establishing initial contact.

It would be a shame to see collaboration between channels drop as that, in my opinion, is one of the best parts of the medium.
Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate
The process of making sure people aren't hurting others is called "government" and "regulation", which self-professed Libertarians appear to be against. They say things like "the FDA is stupid, the free market will sort it out" - when the FDA was created because the free market was killing people.

Vis a vis classism, if you refuse to regulate and allow everyone to be "free to choose", you are essentially advocating a dog-eat-dog world where people with money and power consolidate more and more of it. This is "feudalism" and it generally results in a raw deal for the poor.
I became unbeatable at catching & resolving pages in the 'wish I was dead' hours (1am-5am) with our second. Hot tea & wrapped in a blanket trying to raise my body temperature out of the depths of the circadean rhythm downward cycle so my brain would switch from sleep to awake mode
The issue is that the art direction of this game is way inferior to his previous games, which were made with more limitations (and even more limited budgets, since they weren't Kickstartered).
Ask HN: What is some advice for someone self-learning ds/algos for interviews?
This approach is extremely ineffective for me. I find I have a lot of will-power before I start eating, but once I begin it's very hard to get myself to stop. The best solution for me is to skip meals, and then allow myself to eat larger meals when I do eat. For instance, if I eat two meals a day instead of three, my lunch and dinner might be 10-20% larger than they would have been had I eaten breakfast, but that's still significantly less total calories for the day.

I think the best method is to understand your own patterns, and to find ways to reduce caloric consumption which are going to require the least amount of will-power for you and will cause the least amount of psychological stress. The exact method is going to be different for different people.
Here's the study:

https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4570
The Banal Heartbreak of Amazon's FC Ambassador Propaganda Program
An electric Airbus Beluga will be a lot more efficient.
And likely because it's hit during the morning in the UK and there's just been articles about a review of HS2 potentially putting it at risk due to large cost overruns.
I built this and am looking for someone I can work with to monetize it.
https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder
> which self-professed Libertarians appear to be against.

That's conflating Anarchists with Libertarians. Libertarians are not Anarchists.

Feudalism is something different altogether.
He is implying that in some countries only one spouse works 8 hours a day, and the couple/family have a fairly comfortable life. So presumably in these countries, both spouses could instead work 4 hours a day and they could still have the same comfortable life.
One day there are rubbish bins around the city. Next day there aren't. Boom. Yeah. They're a curious bunch of people.
Tor is open source but nobody knows who runs the nodes
It's even a matter of being aware of assumed, implicit constraints. "In
the early 1950s [...] the nutritional requirements didn't show a limit on the amount of salt? "Isn't too much salt dangerous?" He replied that it wasn't necessary; most
people had enough sense not to consume too much."
>Milton Friedman's book "Free to Choose" is a good introduction if you're interested in more.

At some point you have to acknowledge the irony at refusing to see Libertarianism as anti-poor ideology, while simultaneously pointing people to a man who worked (and trained others to work with at the University if Chicago) far right dictators like Pinochet.
Oh, you passive aggressive silver tongue devil!
Hey, thanks! I didn't know that ¶ is a pilcro.

But yeah, you can edit the format on one little paragraph, and the entire document format changes. I do understand that one should define styles for documents, but I've never had the patience for that.
Oh, what a shame, I though it was real :-(
Gosh, what a click-bait title. I guess this is a politically biased article, trying to attack Trump. It's not that I like the tariff nor the fight b/w the countries, but it's just that the title is straight wrong.

"China Exodus" has been a thing for almost a decade, meaning that there has been good reasons to leave China other than that little tariff thingy. Rising labour costs, ever-increasing regulations, unexplained government actions, a large number of Chinese (copycat) competitors, government-backed industrial espionage, corruption, lack of justice, etc. It has been like this since mid 2000s, and many global corporations have either already moved their critical production lines or set up backups outside of China.

Quitting is impossible? Nope. Totally possible and many have already done that since years ago. The actual problem is small businesses who can't afford to build new suitable production lines in a hurry. China is indeed the best factory right now, since it's almost a grab-and-go. But that doesn't mean it's going to be the best for everyone nor forever.
As it stands I don't believe this. I'll happily accept that new tracks need to be built, and to support higher speed, but going up to "400 km/h (250 mph)" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2) seems pure dickwaving.

From your article "Yet the story doesn’t seem to be getting through. As engineers, it is not just our duty to create new infrastructure, it is also our duty to communicate its purpose. Helping the British public to get behind High Speed 2 must be a priority for our industry if we are to truly make this megaproject a success."

Translation: shut up and swallow, plebs.

I'd like to know what incremental cost there is for an increment of higher speed - I bet I know the shape of that graph. If you want higher capacity, let me know why longer trains don't work.

New line yes, gouging expense for national vanity, no.
> It is not true in the general case that altruism aligns with self-interest

Actually, it is true. Treating your customers, employees and associates results in them wanting to do business with you, which increases profits. Treat them badly, they go away and deal with someone else.

Put simply, you aren't going to go the extra mile for someone you hate.
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I have been really enjoying the way games are being stylized nowadays. We reached a level of fidelity that is really expensive to maintain I think, and so game studios are leaning in on really solid art direction instead. It makes for much more interesting worlds and longer lasting art.

For example, LA Noire looks dated (though still excellent in many ways), while Borderlands looks as good as when it was released.

LA Noire while it feels a bit dated, the characters don't really hit uncanny valley thanks to the facial motion capture technology. I am still aware they are a video game character, just a very emotive one.

It makes me think there is a peak realism we should chase, after which improved graphics wouldn't really add much. I wonder if maybe we aren't already there.

Many games suffer from high detail but lack of clarity. We are still working with a 2D screen with limited dynamic range after all. So that means when there is higher detail it can get overly busy. Lacking contrast, making it hard to decipher what you are looking at quickly, especially if it is moving. Stylized games can add visual contrast in their lighting and art, improving clarity overall. Having said that, I think games could leanr some tricks from cinema in this regard. Just capturing what is real doesn't make good cinema, you have to engineer the scene and the shot.
I'm imagining a zeppelin that looks like a starfruit, an evacuated structural fabric over a compression frame.
I think this public-data sleuthing article is a piece of beauty, and I'm somewhat willing to accept the occasional transcription errors if this is the result.
For me.. this took around 8 months.. I was so overwrought with stress that I was numb to anything else.
In a recent office I worked in they were just looking for the large iMac screens :-)
Although I don't think there were any laptops lying around...
A Comparison of Peg-Thing Written in Clojure, Python and Functional Python
> Not a surprise that many Firefox engineers went on to create Chrome at Google,

Google paid a bunch of engineers to work on Firefox, then pulled them to create Chrome. They weren't given a choice. So yeah, not surprising at all.
Why didn't you submit directly the link to Medium? With this introduction this looks like a Show HN.
> and the high ticket price requires decent seats

The cost of the train can be amazing. I'd like to know what train users will say if offered the choice between 'decent seats' and a decent price.
You could probably say the same thing about DNS right before it was introduced to the mainstream.
I don’t get why blockchain is any different for the list of complaints the author highlights.

Also, reminds me of the old saying about “now you have two problems”
I agree it is definitely a chicken and egg type problem (which doesn't negate the fact that it is a problem)

I don't know for Scala, but in general Marketing and money thrown at hackathon and meetups can get things moving in that regard. However I believe Elm doesn't do much of that.
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20755008
I'll just refer you to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/6i0vsr/milton_f...

(Ironically, you say Libertarian Friedman supported far right dictator Pinochet and the other reply says Libertarianism is for no government at all. Clearly something is amiss with these two criticisms of Libertarianism.)
Yes, the proof would be some sort of signature.

No, public key cryptography means that the key doesn't need to be shared.

A blockchain is only needed if parties need to write to the database in a decentralized manner, and the order of the writes is important & can't be tampered with.
It might be cheaper, but it is going to be hard to organise.
Improve Your Tests by Being an Evil Coder
Where is your market data coming from? At that resolution I imagine you’re paying for colocation?
> I seem to get more fog after eating regular/larger meals. ... After a while you get used to hunger, and I seem to work better when I’m hungry vs when I’ve eaten a typical meal.

Yeah I seem to find that a bit of mild hunger (not starvation or malnutrition) is good for the mind. I have at some points in my life found myself in a bit of a dampened state, where I am constantly either a bit lethargic from the last meal, or a bit preoccupied thinking about what I'm going to eat next.

I would love to understand the physiology more, but I have a pet theory that your brain gets a bit more "switched on" when you make calories and nutrients a bit more scarce for yourself, and that maybe when you let yourself eat whatever you want whenever you want, that survival instinct gets dialed back a bit.
In '89, I was on DOS. It was unstable.
If luck was kind there might be a sweet spot making it possible to make a small lighter-than-air vaccume hull, and then add a lot of those to a craft. Something suspiciously like attaching a large number of balloons to a frame. Maybe some wonder material; carbon seems to do everything according to the headlines.

That'd solve the implosion problem since presumably all the little hulls wouldn't fail at once.
Neither I nor any of my family have been tried in China (I am guessing you haven't either), so I cannot comment on the legal system, but in reality, the legal system in the UK is not perfect either. There was a really good book released 2018 about how the legal system is broken here, if you are interested, it's a really good read:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Barrister-Stories-Law-Broken...

Onto the topic of the extradition bill though, it specifically excludes extraditing politial dissidents, so it would not streamline the process. What I hear some people say that China will just make some excuses in other areas, which then I don't see the point, since kidnapping and disappearing people would surely be easier right, and since they can already do that, then why would they need the bill? But you know what the bill does allow HK to do, is to extradite a baby murderer to face charges of the crime he commited.
And even if you replace "office drone stuff" with more highbrow items... You really don't need a lot of books either. I'd die an accomplished man if I grokked what's on ~2m of my modest bookshelf. Hell, if that was all what was available at me, I'd probably get there sooner.
Exactly: if you have constraints on your work, then recognise the constraints and work within them. Don't try to mix 3D realistic faces in with low-fidelity 2D art, because it just ends up sticking out like a sore thumb.

And at least choose a decent font (looking at the first screenshot on the blog post)
In the AAA game industry a Look Dev Artist would help here. Focusing on the in-universe elements of the game (as opposed to the UI), they set goals and restrictions that lead to consistent, appealing, and cheap-to-produce art styles.

Queen's Wish looks ugly in a quaint way. I might buy it for that reason, as it makes me think: "Indie creators usually feel there's something about their game that'll make it sell -- it's clearly not the art style or the music in this case, so it must be the gameplay and/or the story, right?"
I think a huge benefit is the readability of more complex expressions (e.g. when you start introducing zip, groupBy, folds etc into the mix).
My HP laptop is one year from its 6.5 years birthday party. Of course I upgraded it in ways that are probably precluded to a Chromebook, but is there really no way to install newer versions of ChromeOS and check if they work?