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Wolfenstein devs “incredibly disappointed” that fighting Nazis now “problematic”
This is pretty great. I use Momentum but it has become bloated with paid features.
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Facing Our Underground Nightmares: Casting Light on the Subterranean Fight
If you can have four wives, 50 children is only about 12/13 per wife, and 12/13 kids seems like a high-but-achievable number in our monogamous culture. So I find that very believable.
And, in the weirdest product add-on in a while, beyond meat burgers, because when I think of Tim Horton's I think of imitation burgers. They don't even sell real burgers.
Hence the quotes around the word cook. :)

Even if a person is cooking, if that person isn't preparing everything from scratch it's quite possible they are using sweetened ingredients (I'm not suggesting everyone should cook only from scratch).
Only my first paragraph complains about the "platitudes".

I apologize if it wasn't clear that the second paragraph is taking you in good faith. I mean, it literally begins with "accept the premise that Elon Musk is special" and all the other things he's respected for. I don't think it's controversial or wrong to really believe that of him, but if you're saying it's just an offhand-comment that has nothing to do with the financial decisions the article describes, I'll take your word for it.

My third paragraph was also taking you at good faith. You made this factual claim:

> Solar City is not just a solar cell company. It is a power generation and distribution company. Which clearly ties into charging electric cars.

And that seems like a reasonable assertion? You likely know more about SolarCity than I do. I said I wasn't able to find recent news or articles about how SolarCity's power generation and distribution business, despite you implying they were key parts of the business. So do you know of any? Or is it possible SolarCity in 2019 has changed its portfolio?
And they spam you incessantly for months afterward.
I've always wondered what the qualitative difference between reading a book and a forum like HN. Is it similar in the benefits that you gain? Has there been any major research done in this area?
Increased taxes on sugary drinks in Seattle have not led to a decrease in consumption.

The consumption appears to be growing faster than the population.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/drink-les...
Indeed. I think this article is on the money in the sense that SolarCity and the Buffalo plant failed, but without any greater context it's misleading. While this failed, SpaceX succeeded, the Model S succeeded, the Model 3 succeeded (even if it's been a rocky road).

I don't think Musk was trying to harm anyone-- I think he doesn't realize he's human and he can't actually juggle 44 million balls at once. And I think even if he drops some balls, we're all better off for the ones he juggles successfully.

If the collateral cost of a revitalized space industry and a growing electric car industry is $750million wasted in NY State, that seems like a small price to pay.
Vespa.ai August Update: BM25 Ranking in Search and Tensor Updates
One of the interesting things mentioned here but not really explored is the claim that custom provided meals according to health needs delivered to the home actually saves money.

Does anyone know if this is true and where this came from?
I very much believe in offensive passwords/passphrases (maybe not for wireless routers) specifically because:

(a) You're not supposed to tell anybody what they are.

(b) Offensive passphrases are easier to remember.
You're concerned enough about what you're feeding yourself to complain about what's on the label, but not concerned enough to find out what's on the label?
Kindly riddle me this. If a black hole was a closed system, then the premisses, that information inside will become lost, would be trivially true by the (2nd?) law of thermodynamics.

There's energy going in, so it isn't hermetically sealed. Thus, the accretion disk is part of the system. But if there's no correlated information coming out, it's closed one-way. You say there is radiation coming out, theoreticly, and I know that radiation is information. It's information in one strict sense, but not in the other--what are the different scopes; Is the radiation not observable?

Are the laws of thermodynamics seemingly violated, that is, is the theory not complete (rhethoric question); Thus your remark was in effect non-constructive, as you cannot prove one unknown with another, can you?

Nevermind the kind of scary question whether any system in the grand scheme of things is closed at all.

BTW another comment mentioned conservation of momentum and charge. I wonder, in the focal point of an ideal lense, in theory, can the image be reconstructed? Well, by looking at the flame quite trivially, at least, albeit not in the perspective of the focal point (not easily without ambiguity, surely). Is this what Tao's one-pixel-cam is about?
I'm in Australia so I can not get the food but it sounds a lot like what happens in Asia. I place will open and become "Instagram famous" (Or WeChat) and the lines will be crazy.

But a few weeks (months??) later the shop is as dead as a nail.

It appears all of the "hottest" places get 15 minutes of fame then dies.
I haven't tried them but the in our case, the problem is the same, there is no good timing to accommodate the 3 time zones.
> other than for snacks

If you go to McDonalds and all your friends get a meal, you're not going to be all that satisfied with just fries and soda.
Also, these animals eat plants with even lower quality standards.
An example straight from a new hire's code review a few weeks ago:

// foo = 12345

doThing1(12345, 5) // foo
doThing2(12345, 8) // foo

Preferring self-descriptive code instead of comments helps stop them from doing things like this.
For what values of XY?
> That Instagram pic showing you teasing a grizzly bear at Yellowstone with a martini in one hand, a bucket of cheese fries in the other, and a cigarette in your mouth, could cost you. On the other hand, a Facebook post showing you doing yoga might save you money.

It will be a cold day in hell when any insurance company investigates you for potential fraud, decides you're not guilty, and then decides to LOWER your premiums as a result of their investigation. Premiums don't work that way. It's frustrating to see that float around as even a possibility from a blog like FastCompany that claims to know how the business world works. I find it incredibly frustrating anyone would even insinuate that insurance companies have a conscience.
I am at a Fortune 500 co. and they require OpenJDK only and I'm sure that has to do with positioning the company for upcoming licensing fees from Oracle. Thing is, if push comes to shove we could just migrate off of Java completely because with containerization, do we really even care about the JVM? We get excellent portability via Docker containers now. Modern CI/CD and containerization can easily kill Java, having Oracle start charging would just be the final nail. I would be pretty happy if that happens, I'm sick of Java.
The A&W beyond meat burger stands up as well as it does for the same reasons - all the other sauces they add hides the weirdness, and you just taste burger.
There's kai os which is the survivor of the firefoxos project. I have one of these you can still do things like watch youtube in the browser because its firefox under the hood.
New Blockchain Games on the Horizon
This could and should be a huge US election issue. Tulsi Gabbard is suing Google and has made some pretty strong statements about big tech. I fear all the other candidates are under the sway of the DC lobbyists where Google. FB et al spend tens of millions
I'd still rather the exact wording isn't in code, personally:

get_msg('fail_add_address')

vs.

'I\'m sorry, we\'ve been unable to add the address %s at this time,' \
' please try again later.'

(... but that's an ideal I have without ever having worked with it, so what do I know, and ymmv, etc.)
I'm still fucking mad about that. Frying in beef juice made them taste so much better.
Most of the vegan meat subs are more expensive, so it's not likely they'll buy it by mistake when normal products are right next it for half the price.
>the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced criminal charges against a handful of Cuomo staffers for rigging the construction bids for the Buffalo Billion program to favor the governor’s campaign donors. The man tapped by Cuomo to oversee the taxpayer subsidies, as well as a leading donor who received a $225 million contract to build out the Buffalo factory, were both convicted last year of conspiring to rig the bids.

At the end of the article they mention the lack of car by New York State. Of course they don’t care, the decision makers already got what they and their rich friends wanted.
>The Amazon produces a lot of oxygen, but so do soy farms and [cattle] pastures.

Could someone explain this quote from the article to me? I don't understand how a cattle pasture would produce as much oxygen as a rainforest.

I also don't understand the part about all the oxygen produced being used up due to respiration, surely that means that the world's forests would produce no oxygen for animals to breathe? That seems to completely oppose everything else I've ever seen about the oxygen trees produce.
A Potential Privacy Model for the Web
The vast majority of water in the US is safe to drink straight from the tap. Each local government has different quality standards but all are supposed to meet the federal guidance as a bare minimum. Depending on their source of water too they may add different minerals or chemicals to treat the water. Yes, the U.S. has had stupidity like Flint, but I'd call that an exception to what is otherwise quite a safe system as a whole.

Is R/O better? Depends on your definition of better, but R/O is obviously very clean and safe to drink, although I have heard some people say they don't like the taste or "how" it feels. R/O removes a lot of the minerals so it does taste different for sure. Some people can't stand their water to be hard and some don't like soft water, so I think that is preference for many people.
This will be a wonderful accessibility feature, and if I were an Android developer and a publisher approached me to request that their app could opt-out, my reply would be "pound sand." I actually think it's pretty ridiculous how many folks are seemingly on the publishers' side here in the comments. Let's frame it a different way:

* Manufacturers of reading glasses don't require a license to transform works a user consumes into a format more accessible to them

* A built-in magnifier app does not require a license to transform works a user consumes into a format more accessible to them

* A built-in audio transcriber - and this seems to be the sticking point somehow? - should not require a license to transform works a user consumes into a format more accessible to them

A lot of people are getting caught up on this whole "whether it creates a derivative work" thing. And my point is: yes it does, of course it does, any method of consumption effectively does, and these should be explicitly allowed in the name of doing what's right for users and accessibility.

Whether it's built in to the app or built in to the OS, the same transformation is happening. And it's such an essential freedom to be able to consume media that you purchased in an accessible form that I could really give a rat's ass if the publisher thinks that you're only "licensed" to consume that media when it's emitted as sound waves from their approved audio source.
At least in the US, you are wrong on both accounts. Employers regularly check credit history, and every apartment rental agency I've ever dealt with has as well. They might not have an explicit numeric FICO threshhold that they use (or at least admit to using), but that's just semantics. They will pull your credit history, and if they don't like what's on it (or if you simply don't have one), they won't deal with you.

I lived outside the US for years, and even when I'm in the US, I don't participate in the credit market. I'm completely unable to rent apartments in NYC unless I work out an unofficial sublet arrangement (and get treated like a second class tenant at risk of eviction at all times), and even in the suburbs, it severely limits my apartment choices. The only reason it hasn't hurt me with employers (that I know of) is because I have a solid resume and references.
Failure is more interesting. The Model 3’s novel UI was extremely risky, but seems to have been acceptable so it’s rarely mentioned.

In the end he takes a lot of risks, but it’s only by looking at both successes and failures that you can judge his approach is reasonable.
non-scientific thoughts:
I believe eating unprocessed food is important due to how the body breaks it down.
Eating corn vs. corn flour I imagine has different effects on the body and on indicators of satiety
IMHO, Calorie is an awfull unit when it comes to nutritions.
The whole idea of copyright is unsound, so arguing about it's 'intricacies' is pretty pointless. Garbage in, garbage out.
Exactly. Circulation under floor is good for heat pumps with drilled wells as heat source; there the water is not that hot (often around 40 degrees C after pump.)
> "Sauce" (saying that word without a qualifier makes me kind of shudder) is a tin of chopped tomatoes, an onion, and maybe some spices. Done. It barely takes longer than emptying a jar.

If you have decent prep skills, you can prep the ingredients for a basic sauce of the type in question fairly quickly, but it still needs to be cooked, which is more involved than bringing a canned sauce up to serving temp. It's a lot more work than emptying a jar, when you consider prep, cooking, and added cleanup.
…in the US. They’ve been doing vegetarian options in Europe for at least 20 years.
If it's like car insurance, a competitor would use that data to lure you away with a lower premium.
The Survival of Iggy Pop
Do you have the same problem with almond milk? Veggie burger patties?
The eventual goal is to get past the uncanny valley, isn't it?
Nope, they still cook them in beef juice.
Agree. It's how they figured out Kurt Hendricks was in Dubai.
It cites reviews of the documentary, goes into some depth about the background of the primary source of the documentary, including the author's own firsthand contact with that source, provides the alternate case study of Ted Cruz's poor experience with CA, cites David Karpf, and culminates with a paragraph-long citation to a well-known peer-reviewed study about the effectiveness of political campaign marketing.

By the standards of these kinds of articles, it is the opposite of what you said it is.

That doesn't make it right, but does refute the one criticism you managed to marshal.
Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ tool arrives with ambiguous data privacy controls
When you give it a name that alludes to it being meat you're setting the product up for failure because people will ofcourse compare it to meat and since its not meat they will judge it as "worse."
And yet actual real-life customers are absolutely fine with it and aren't confused.
Nobodies perfect. Not even Musk. So I suggest accepting both the faults and successes of the man as a complete package.

Tesla is one of the many cases of Silicon Valley syndrome where you run a company at negative profit forever while claiming to make all these substantial advances (some laudable, others stupid) in an attempt to disrupt something that's been working for decades for specific reasons. There's a reason car assembly lines aren't fully automated. There's a reason car companies don't allow customers to pre-order a vehicle. There's a reason dealership networks exist.

Musk isn't some fantastical genius with a solution to everything. Everyone before Musk was as smart and as talented, so his active refusal to really learn from anyone before him is what causes him so much headache. In fact, I'd argue that his contract with NASA probably saved SpaceX because that's one avenue where he didn't ignore a previously, well established business.
At this point I'm not sure that I'd be surprised with any phrase being ascribed to Trump.
Nobody gets into the Intelligence business because it's safe and easy.
Because people buy things that don't work all the time. Next question?
Maybe at McDonalds but KFC are usually meat only besides the side salads.
> The whole language is just dumb and simple, you need to REALLY work hard to make complex shit with it.

On the contrary, the resulting code bases are more verbose and harder to understand compared to more expressive languages. And by the latter, I'm not even talking about things like Scala or F#. Java and C# are strictly more expressive and have stronger modeling power compared to golang. Reality is complex, you don't want a dumb language to model it because it will translate to complexity in the code base.
But the author, the editor and the cover artist are still getting paid: people are buying audio books for money. The only people who don't get paid are those who did print formatting - but their work isn't being offered here, as Audible is only showing captions and not full pages.
> As for renting, it would be discriminatory against certain religions that forbid debt. If you don't have debt, you can't have a credit score.

I've had credit-history checks done alongside criminal-background checks done for a number of apartments. One of my landlords told me it was a "negative event check," i.e. do you routinely miss payments, rather than an credit-worthiness check before a loan.

Just like I've occasionally had a startup ask me if I have a wife and kids in an interview, I'm sure there exist landlords that use a credit-check less judiciously.
I dislike the use of the term "from scratch" here because it implies something.. esoteric or special.

Boiling potatoes is just cooking, there's nothing "from scratch" about it, you're not a farmer.

It's more about using real ingredients rather than processed stuff. (Sure, we can talk about what you consider 'processed' - I'd say basically anything that has more than one or two constituent parts).
>why not brutally enforce cut down of sugar in sweet items (including softdrinks, ice cream, chocolates, cakes, etc.) by 50%? To he11 with the taste - sugar is as bad as cocaine when it comes to addiction.

No it's not.

>Not only artificial sugar but even the propaganda about stuffing our mouth with fruit needs to stop -- more than 1 fruit (e.g. banana or apple or orange) per adult is excessive in terms of sugar.

I'd love to see a source for that statement and you seem to be ignoring the effects of the fiber in apples and oranges on digestion (i.e. insulin spikes).

>Finally, not only sugar, low sodium levels need to be enforced.

Outdated and incorrect.

>Would also be nice to charge 100% tax on deep fried items and fatty products such as cheese and white rice (in developed nations).

And you completely lost me. There's nothing wrong with cheese and white rice. Like almost any food, in moderation they are fine and healthy. Also, I stay in very good shape; can I please opt out of your 2x tax on my occassional serving of french fries?

>Frankly speaking, all unhealthy foods should be sold with a clear and bold "THIS FOOD PRODUCT IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH" type of warning -- similar to labels on cigarettes.

Except the definition of what's bad for you seems to change about every ten years. Again, moderation is key.
You can post "$medium media bias rating is Left." on any article posted here in HN
How to design your API in Rust (or any modern language):

1) What makes the most sense semantically? (So that using your API correctly is the most obvious path)

2) Doesn't matter? Okay, what's the most ergonomic?

3) That code path needs to be performant? Try variations and benchmark within your overall application.

I'm not refuting/dismissing the article. Dives into how the compiler handles things is always interesting! But the programming ecosystem is going through some growing pains right now.

At the beginning of time we had the Era of Assembly; back when our machines were measured in MHz. Code had to be performant above all else; that was the only rule.

During the Era of Moore, performance exploded. As a counter-reaction to the Era of Assembly, programmers began chanting the mantra "No Premature Optimization!" This led to the creation of easy/lazy languages like Python, where code was an art and performance wasn't even an afterthought.

Now we're in the Era of Types. While Python and Javascript were running rampant without types (quack quack), languages like Haskell were evolving in the shadows with intricate and expressive type systems. The fruits of those labors are sprouting in the form of Rust. The mantra of "No Premature Optimization!" isn't enough. We no longer need to choose between code that is easy to write and code that is performant. With a good type system we can be more explicit with the semantics of our code and APIs. This makes our code easier to use, more ergonomic, and gives the compiler more information that it can leverage to optimize our creations into assembly machines that would make C64 developers nod approvingly (though knowing secretly that they could always do better).

The growing pain is this transition from a mindset of just "No Premature Optimization" where the focus is simply on writing "easy code" in stark reaction to the hyperoptimization of the Era of Assembly, to a modern mindset where we should write code with intentionally designed types and semantics. Hence my more complicated list of three rules instead of one.

Side Note: And of course, as some comments have pointed out, step number 3 of my guideline is fraught with peril because the compiler's behavior, and the behavior of the CPU, change like the direction of the wind. Thus the thrust of my comment is emphasizing the use of our new typing systems. If your code is typed correctly and your intentions clear (per step #1), the compiler will do the right thing on average at least.

Side Note 2: None of those guidelines apply to languages of the older eras; they aren't expressive enough to communicate with the compiler and hence you're left in the old miasma of untyped languages where optimization is near hopeless, or languages with type systems so narrow that you're battling day-to-day to build APIs with a semblance of usability.
The cartography there is superb. Relatively few cues to indicate it's not modern. But notice: no Antarctica! I guess it had been sighted by then, but its coastline insufficiently mapped.
Okay, so you admit that employers pull FICO scores, but that they then just go "well, we've seen it and now we won't use it in any way to influence any decisions whatsoever"? When why are they pulling it? That doesn't make any sense. It's a very safe assumption that if they're pulling it, they're using it for some reason (either current or future) relating to their decision to continue your employment.

As for renting: Do you have any examples of cases in which "religion" was used in conjunction with credit scores to successfully argue discrimination? Because I believe it's pretty standard to pull credit checks on renters before they sign a lease, and again, I'm going to (not so) boldly assume the landlord is then using that in their decision making.
Its not that people don't respect it, its that they don't appreciate it. And the reason they don't appreciate it is that those things are invisible to the end user.

How much extra money would you pay for an electrician or a mechanic who does the equivalent of what you're suggesting with code? 1.5x? 2x? Most people I know always complain that their garage overcharges them or that they got ripped off by some contractor or the other...
Well, no one wins since they no longer use beef tallow, but do add beef flavoring to the spuds.

So we can't eat them and people who liked the tallow-fried ones don't enjoy them as much (?)