skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I'm not saying that these projects started because of the tariffs. It is clear from the progress I've seen first hand, that they have been going on for a long time now... and will continue for a long time. The scale of all of this is utterly massive.

What is sad though is that the Chinese are basically taking over two more SE Asian countries and nobody is doing anything about it. Vietnam and Thailand are strong enough to hold onto things, but Laos and Cambodia are not. Every single person I talked to that was local was not happy about it at all.

What was explained to me is that they move their families in for these huge construction projects, and then buy up all the surrounding land. Most of the 'for sale' signs in Laos are written in Chinese.
I think the problem is that the game is in Uncanny Valley.

It's trying to achieve a certain level of detail/realism, but it's falling short of expectations.

This might be completely intentional, to evoke a feel for games from an era that did the same thing, but comparing to Baba is You highlights the developer doesn't understand that.

Baba is You has gone completely in the opposite direction in terms of graphical detail, come out of the Uncanny Valley, and is now sitting atop Cuteness Peak.

The dev needs to decide where he wants the game to sit and why.
I assumed it had already been quietly dropped, rather than just effectively hidden. It would be interesting to see how much use it actually gets these days.
I find lack of sleep severely impacts my ability to stick to a diet, as well, as I find it far harder to resist temptations when I'm not rested. Combining reduced willpower with reduced amount of time to make proper meals is not great.
The job market is a chicken and egg type problem. Management would not allow Elm based projects as there are no othe Em programmers on staff. We cant ask for Elm programmig experience in resumes as we dont have any Elm based projects.

I wonder how other languages,like Scala, managed to get traction in the enterprise whereas Elm has not even though it can solve real issues that we face with Javascript development.
That xkcd is very common around here I noticed. We often get brilliant ideas that someone else already had.
So it's the magazines task to 'protect' people? What the hell kind of argument is this.
Eh, I wouldn't say that a balloon floats without much air resistance. Trying to throw one to someone else is difficult, for example.

The cheap footballs that are thin skinned - we used to call them 'flyaway' balls when I was younger. Because even those, substantially heavier than a balloon, would go off in random directions due to their susceptibility to wind from the low weight.

But actually, I've never thought of a zeppelin this way before. It gives a good intuition - but for the opposite reason you've stated, that they _do_ act kind of like balloons, and that's not what you want from a directed vehicle!
According to the first paragraph of the article, these airships would ride the jet stream consistently traveling west-to-east across the globe thereby negating the issue of fighting against the wind. Not sure exactly how your comment relates?
I don't dislike retro games, actually love the art style of Streets of Rogue and KeeperRL, for example, and I agree it's a great way for indies to get budget under control - it's easy to be tempted to just get better art, but then animation, collisions, interactions etc still need to be coded and contribute significantly to development time.

that said, what makes these game look at least weird is the combination of very retro tiles (say, 1994is, master of magic level) with late retro higher def sprites (say, 1998ish?, baldur's gate level)

while going retro style is not a bad decision for indies, the graphic and ux suffer from being mixed styles, and that's imho a valid criticism.
> If you paid a consultant and suddenly your number of followers greatly increase, aren't you a bit naive to think this was due to genuine interest ?

I'm with you apart from this sentence. What can you do after the damage was done? I'd assume they thought the consultant was legitimate, the opposite proved to be the case, and the two of them had no idea what to do afterwards. Ask bots to unfollow you? Create a new account and lose the legitimate ones you'd have regardless of this? Admit to Twitter's support that you gave access to someone illegitimate?

Their situation admittedly sucks, but I have no clue how would I undo the damage if I made the same mistake.
In Germany almost everybody sends their children to Kindergarten, so the parents on average earn an average wage.
I totally agree with you. It saddens me seeing supposedly 'free speech' western media showing only one angle of the protest, not too different from the censored media in china.
I think taxing packaging along with a country-wide standard for recycling AND for standardised containers (as per other posts here) would be the best option - win-win for governments. Non-homogeneous packaging eg. Cardboard food containers with plastic windows would be taxed heavily.

Taxing packaging by weight and type would theoretically work to minimise packaging and encourage eg. Bringing a tupperware container to the shops. The standardised (countrywide) container types would mean you could eg. Put your standard coffebean container under the supermarket dispenser and do away with packaging.

The taxation would apply to manufacturers (import) not consumers, thus incentivising them to advertise green credentials as a feature, and to cut down packaging or pass the cost on (at which point most customers would move to the cheaper product).

As far as non-homogeneous packaging goes, if it takes longer than 5sec to separate each bit into homogeneous parts, then I'd class it as non-homogeneous.
People are much better imagining "other 90%" of the game realistically on their own
Also the Queensferry Crossing - a bit over time (due to weather problems) but under budget and a gorgeous bridge.
The article explains in detail where he wants the game to sit and why. Sorry, I don't follow.
I think he doesn't understand why people say the games look bad (and people may have trouble articulating the real reasons too); I believe 'meheleventyone captured the root issue elsewhere[0] - the game he presented has inconsistent, crappy style. Which can be contrasted to other simple games he uses as a justification - these games look well because they have a particular style.

The solution isn't to go 3D, or add more details - it's to get one artist responsible for the overall style and refactor art relentlessly so that it all fits together. It should be entirely within his budget.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20766174
You’re speculating to prove a point.

I would definitely not want my std to be designed this way.
Why would "diversity" help modelling the complexity of the environment? Would a chess-playing program get better if it also contained a go-engine, checker-engine, scissor-paper-rocks rules and tiddly-winks?
> The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.

Citation needed

It really come from workers rights to have a life outside the workplace AND a salary even when they could not work (what we call safety).

In medieval servitude there was no life outside the workplace, nor safety.

Pre-induistrial workers worked less, on the average, because they were surviving

They were working when they needed money and not working (AKA doing some other job for the house or the family, like farming or breeding cows and pigs) when they had enough to go on for maybe a week or so.

Life was on the edge back then.

You had an accident, any kind of accident, you were ruined.

There was no safety net, of any kind.

> it's a game of face time, who sends most emails past midnight, and who is willing to sell more of their personal life and squeeze other people out of theirs

It's not in Europe, for example, where we don't think that socialism is a curse word, we think it is necessary for the progress of society as a whole.

I will quote one of my favourite computer scientist ever, Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, that unfortunately recently passed away.

> Yes - happy days. At the time I was working a 6 hour day due to the enlightened Swedish child care policies. Parents of young children are entitled to work 80% of full time - good for creativity and family life. Result 2 kids and a new programming language.

source: https://twitter.com/joeerl/status/1067720315151810560
One false positive so far who obviously isn't even in China - that seems like something that would be really easy for Twitter to check. We don't know about the number of false positives amongst people who are actually Chinese, in China, and using VPNs to access Twitter (which are the signals Twitter claimed to have been using) and we probably never never.
it is because most jobs are payed by the hour and that's how salary is calculated at the end of the month
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16545537
at 34m18s you can see how author of video conveniently misses the date of first preliminary application to fit his narrative
I can remember Word on SCO Xenix from around '89 or so which I don't think was particularly unstable.
> Also, I'm not really seeing the benefit of 2% cashback vs. the Citi double cash card.

The benefit is you get the same cashback but the card (titanium, touch pay) and the services (application, integrations) are better.
Anti capitalist propaganda.

It was hard physical work so you couldn't work as long as you can today. Today, thanks to automation and mechanization, if you want to make an extra buck you can work 12 hours a day.

And now most workers don't have to work very hard if they don't want to, and can still make a living.

Either way, it's much much better. Why don't those geniuses compare preindustrial age with socialist success stories such as today's North Korea or Venezuela?
Well, with non-std I can always downgrade or upgrade the library.

With std I am bounded by the current language version.
Eminem’s publisher accuses Spotify of copyright infringement in new lawsuit
I got to 5 minutes. I have a kid so this was easy :D

Once upon a time there was a banana. That banana was called bob. Bob the banana used to have fights with other fruit. His arch nemesis was Oscar the orange. Oscar was a very orange orange. He was so orange that everyone else was jealous. Bob the banana wasn't very yellow. He was kind of yellow with dark splotches on. That is why Bob used to fight the other fruit. He was jealous of Oscar's orangey orangeness. He was also jealous of Adam Apple's shiny red skin. Finally, he was jealous of the grape gangs lovely green skin.

One day Bob was busy fighting Oscar, Adam and the Grape Gang. All at once. That's right. He was a very good fighter as he practiced a lot by fighting the other fruit.

Percy pineapple saw the fight and came up to Bob and intervened. He said, 'Oi. Bob. What you doing?'

'I'm fighting!'

'Why?'

'I don't know.'

Bob was sad. Bob shrugged. He didn't know why he was fighting.

'You never fight me' said Percy pineapple.

'You're right, I don't.'

'You only ever fight the fruit with lovely skin. Did you notice that?'

'Oh. You're right. I do'

'Do you think maybe you wish you had perfect skin like them?'

'You're right. I wish I did have lovely perfect skin without any blemishes. Instead, I have this grotty yellow skin with dark patches all over it.'

'That's ok. I have spiky skin. Nobody can even touch me and I never get any cuddles.'

'Oh.'

'Mmmhmmm'

Bob felt bad.

'Maybe I could try and hug you'.

'I wouldn't advise it, I'm very spikey. I've got used to just having high fives and fist bumps instead'

'Oh. That sounds like a good idea'.

Bob and Percy have a nice high five session. Bob isn't very good at high fives so it took a lot of practice. After about four thousand attempts they get it right and do one of the awesome high fives from top gun. That's right, a top gun high and low high five. They both feel really cool.

Bob isn't feeling sad any more.

Bob then looks around and notices the other fruit that he was decking. The fruit is looking a bit bashed up. He apologises for what he has done and then asks 'Can anyone do anything to help me?'
>Chinese people today have lived through an economic miracle.

I just want to point out that WW2 was fought with horses[1]. It's not like the West has always been fully industrialized. The development may appear as a miracle to the people, but it is not out of ordinary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_World_War_II
This assumes that:

- the plastic glove (and not e.g. hand washing) is the only way to solve this problem

- eating meat is necessary at all, as the OP states, it's not; certainly not in typically accepted volumes, anyway
It's clearly dear imgui on those screenshots.
>>...didn't make a technological break-through - they simply combined two patents, just as any skilled artisan would have done.

That's also valid for most patents from Apple including the iphone
He explains why he doesn't want to get a single permanent artist in the article. A few times.
I don't know enough about the actual story to comment much further, and I don't know exactly how many followers had the account before & after, so this might not be realistic, but blocking really obvious fake followers would make you less suspicious in the end.
Article was updated:

> Mr. Baig, 18, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with manslaughter.
Because some complex application have multitude of variables that need to be passed along various components and that's exactly what is doing redux. In these cases it is much simpler to work with the tools that the community built, and as soon as you actually understand how redux and connect work, you are usually rather happy about what it does for you.
I humbly disagree. Even in medieval times there were clerics, scribes, book-keepers, and so on.
I've never seen a single video ad for ET. I found them initially via local newsracks and originally got them for the puzzles (Kenken and Kakuro). But it turns out they have a lot of in-depth, researched and referenced reporting. I think that embarrasses NBC News.
It also means that the smaller trips in the midlands and north don't need to get out of the way of a direct line from Manchester->London.
Not taking your laptop home is poor information security practice. We had a break-in where dozens of laptops were stolen. We had to do key rolling, password resets, etc for the whole organization. Many people couldn't even work until new computers were shipped in. Of course me and the people who took our laptops home were fine.
I thought it was log aggregation and search.
A fool and their money are easily parted!
phew, exhausting. Neat idea, only annoying thing: makes my computers fans spin
But it's on the blockchain! That means it's a billion-dollar idea!
I've already been downvoted for trying to say this, but it's also because contemporary JavaScript is actually really nice.
Yes, I've watched several of his videos.

This is a controversial topic that has been the subject of a lot of discussion lately with people who work in the industry, owners of RED cameras, and other significant stakeholders.
1) No, it's not.

2) This "new tech" has been around for over half a decade and it's proven that it's both unpopular and hard to use.
He doesn't have a cadre of artists. They might not be working concurrently in the same game. He specifically says multiple times that they come and go, life happens.

I guess there's an argument to be made that he could focus on better and better specifications for those artists so, over time, the style stays consistent. But I dont know anything about that. Seems doable?
It's comparing apples and oranges to compare medieval peasants life and modern office work. Even today in rural areas people work around the clock in and around the house to keep everything afloat and barely survive. Sitting on your butt for 10h a day and doing intellectual work seems hard only until you try to do some farming for a while - and modern farming is nothing compared to how hard it was back then, when you had to do everything manually, no running water, no electricity, no farming machinery, no supermarkets. They even had to make their own cloths as textile was extremely expensive, and I've read that weaving was one of the activities that was taking any free moment to medieval women, it was extremely time consuming. The pace of life was slower, that for sure, and perhaps the average working hours were indeed shorter (in winter especially because of shorter daylight), but they worked way harder than most people have to today.
A model is in practice mostly an approximation rather than a replica. Think of a water bottle that is about to fall off a table. You brain does not model the trajectory of 10^26 atoms it consists of, but it has some abstract representations of bottles and the way bottles propagate through space, approximately by Newton's laws. Not only does this suffice for catching the bottle before it falls, but the computational capacity of the brain and the resolution of our sensory organs and of light rays fwiw. are also way too limited for us to model the bottle entirely.
Amorphic Encryption
As a symmetric as an asymmetric scheme requires a key (session or private) to be hidden. In this case, an attacker gets a chance and time for finding and decrypting it. As long as a secret has static attributes (length, type of characters, etc.) it will always be vulnerable for an attack.
We propose a new concept of keyless encryption, “Amorphic scheme”, which is semantically secured and has “Perfect Secrecy” level. It allows a secret to be transmitted over any public channel with no public or private key to be generated and stored.

AE is primarily focused on practical realization.

https://medium.com/@EggerMielberg/amorphic-encryption-6dd46bad2da
Well I work and live in Sweden (notice I put work first?) and it's far from 6hrs/day for most industries. Actually now that I think about it I don't know a single person who only works 6 hours per day. The idea is great though, wish it were true :/
Ask them how they would invest their money if they suddenly became 100x richer, which for most people isn't something they can easily comprehend. If their answers veer towards things like buying property abroad (or similar stuff indicating they don't believe there actually is any rule of law in their own country), then you can ask them why they are not investing in their own country if they truly believe in their views about it.

When asked to put their money where their mouth is, the actions of people speak far, far louder than their words.
I beg to differ here , it does not quite work when you have an opulent upper class and the rest will start to wonder why they are in that situation.

This is what happened in South Africa and in also France as it does not take much to figure out that political freedom is required to make a fundamental change.

I think in China the ruling party elite seemingly were not so much different from the peasants in the beginning and everybody lives improved overall as they adopted Mao's two systems approach.
Jeff is an enjoyable speaker, his latest GDC talk is fantastic (and a better version of this blog post). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs
> I don’t think this is particularly useful as it does not let you to fully form an idea in your head. Granted, it forces you to spew out your mind but in that case I would prefer to have a voice recorder with good speech to text algorithm.

Hi, I really wonder sometimes what to type but I think that it's fine to just have a stream of consciousness flow through. But the purpose of writing is to have someone read something later. And it so happens that a stream of consciousness is not at all interesting to read. I think that the key to good writing will be writing with a structure in mind. And there are two ways to do this. First you can do this using a planning phase that sets out everything you want to say. If you use this approach then the seams of your plan will be evident in the structure of your prose. The second way you can use structure is to keep writing streams of consciousness, keep telling stories from the top of the head, and then continue to improve as you do it. In a sense this comes down to the old way of practicing sports. The two ways are to practice as a slow speed and then focus on skill and practice speeding up. The other way is to keep playing at full speed and practicing getting better at such a speed. Neat!
It's like the 3rd biggest economy with a large population, and basically the closest thing Asia has to the West while at the same time being so not Western.

Interest in Japan is higher than average among the software developer crowd. My wife teaches Japanese and her biggest clientele demographic is single, male engineers in their 20s.
Also, a lot of providers accept cryptocurrency, which is trivial to anonymise.
> dynamic typing means they are afraid to change anything

When talking of the standard library, static typing doesn't save you when breakage happens. It's better of course, at least the compiler protects you from obvious errors (although that doesn't work for transitive dependencies, with the dynamic linking to binaries that Java / the JVM does ;-))

The problem is when a piece of code that was compiling fine a year ago, fails to compile on a newer version of the standard library, due to breaking changes, that's going to take time and effort to fix.

And this gets worse when the breakage happens in dependencies and those dependencies are no longer maintained. This can always happen of course, not just due to the standard library, but due to transitive dependencies too. But still, breakage in the standard library, or in libraries that people depend on, is a bad thing. And consider that as the number of dependencies grows, so does the probability for having dependencies that are incompatible with one another (compiled against different versions of the same dependencies).

And semantic versioning doesn't work. Breaking compatibility will inflict pain on your downstream users, no matter how many processes you have in place for communicating it. And this is especially painful when you're talking about the standard library.

If the standard library introduces breaking changes, regardless if the language is static or dynamic, then it's not a standard library that you can trust. Period.

Also — when should you break compatibility, in the standard library or in any other library?

The answer should be never!. When we want to change things, we should change the namespace and thus publish an entirely new library that can be used alongside the old one. Unfortunately this isn't a widely held viewed, but I wish it was.

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Going back to the batteries included aspect of some standard libraries, like that of Python, there's one effect that I don't like and that's not very visible in Python since the bar is pretty low there.

The standard library actively discourages alternatives.

When a piece of functionality from the standard library is good enough, it's going to discourage alternatives from the ecosystem that could be much better.

Some pieces of functionality definitely deserve to be "standard". Collections for example, yes, should be standard, because libraries communicate between themselves via collections. And that's what the primary purpose of a standard library is ... interoperability. Anything else is a liability.
There are better and worse ways to make retro looking games, and there are ways to care about the look of your game without having it noticeably effect your budget.

The most confusing part of the whole story is that his latest game looks noticeably worse than his two previous games. So there seems to be something more going on beyond that he just wants to go low budget and retro. The problem doesn't seem to primarily be the budget or the quality of the art per se, but a lack of care when it comes to art direction.