skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find fascinating that many of those were rejected, but "Pregnant man" and male bride were approved.

https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/

https://emojiguide.com/people-body/man-with-veil/
I mean humans commonly work this way with each other. If you act like an ass to me, don't expect that I would be kind in return in our average transaction.
The unions desperately wanted to fix the problems that lead to stuff like this and Biden forced them not to strike so I can’t see how unions would be the problem here.
I guess I should feel relieved that I don't at least have my work discussions littered with these ones.

But they're not too different from the set of infantilizing pictograms that did make their way into the standard & that grown-ups are now expected to deal with.
Most of the agents in a building are not actually doing anything most of the time; the game has a strict limit of 16,383 moving and 32,767 parked vehicles. These numbers were chosen so that the minimum spec computer at time of the initial release would get 60fps. Mods can increase this somewhat, which is usually safe because our computers have gotten faster.

The built–in tools are also somewhat hit and miss, and that is partly driven by what information the game holds on to and what it throws away for increased efficiency. Agents know their destination and chosen route, but they don’t remember where they are coming from. Thus, when you click on a building to show the associated traffic routes it can only show routes with that building as a destination.

The exception is service buildings like fire or police; each one supplies a fixed number of vehicles, and in theory the tool could show what all of those vehicles are doing. It still just shows the routes that end at the building though, so you end up seeing just those service vehicles that are going home and people who are going to work at the service building. In principle, mods can fix some of these oversights. I use one that shows what each service vehicle is doing, for example. Another mod that I really like allows you to select a stop on a mass–transit vehicle route (a bus stop or a metro station or a ferry station or whatever) and see where everyone who is currently waiting at that stop is going. Very useful.

That said, I think Cities: Skylines is the best SimCity we’ve ever had. It is everything that SimCity 2013 should have been. I recommend it to everyone, but especially people who ever enjoyed a game of SimCity, or has enjoyed any city builder of any stripe, or who think that games are only for children.
Yeahhh I’m going to give Al Gore a pass on this one because the net result of the work he’s done on the topic adds up to negative eleventy trillion saved.

Let’s focus on maybe the other billionaires that haven’t.
I totally agree that the "anti-woke" side is firmly way off to the extreme on this—but there's more banning viewpoints and pushing some out-there ideology on the woke side than everyone seems comfortable talking about.

I'm not trying to both-sides this at all, I'd just caution the woke side to keep in mind that it's easy to veer off in a crazy direction if it keeps on going, and this is coming from a strong leftist First Amendment point of view.
I don't know exactly, but it's never pretty when a project's leadership makes an unpopular decision. Lots of complaining, for sure.
Yes, I have been missing Yogurt for a very long time. However, it's not until this moment I realized how often I say "Modern Pentathlon" and could use a emoji for it
Yeah unfortunately the media in the US just overplays every bad thing that happens under someone they don’t like and underplays the bad when their guy is in office.

But corporate media is just bad so I guess that’s about all we can expect.
No Male Child Breastfeeding An Adult Male yet? Surely endless combinations are the goal right?
supporting uninstallation ≠ locking down
I am in that half
Definitely click on the "Document" links for each emoji. I spent about a half hour reading through them and found them incredibly fascinating.

A lot advocate for why something is important (for example, it's easy to laugh at a PMS emoji, but it's hard to disagree with "Currently, although menstruation is a core part of being a woman, it is felt to impose significant limitations on women when influenced by negative societal beliefs and taboos.").

Others are longer docs where many included proposals are now valid emojis, and it's interesting to think how some were picked and others weren't.
I once worked at a company where I had to logon to the corporate VPN with an MFA token, then logon to the datacenter VPN with a second token, then logon to a VMWare Horizon virtual desktop and then RDP to a VM inside a tenant network. I needed a different AD cred for every tenant.
the left is so keen to downplay it

As one of HN's resident leftists, I drew attention to the story early and it got little traction. While the right has indeed begun screaming loudly about it, calling it an attack on white people and so on (Charlie Kirk@TPUSA, Jesse Watters@Fox, Benny Johnson@Newsmax have all made such claims in the last 48 hours), refuting their claims is not the same as saying the incident is not important.

It is, and I think both the Ohio and federal governments have done a poor job of addressing it, notwithstanding the slow-moving nature of the disaster.
lol given the plethora of diverse responses you got.. your fear was well founded.
>"he fact that the Twitter poster is a staunch North Korea supporter should make people evaluate the context of this video a little more critically"

I've heard Putin saying that the sky is blue. Now I have to wear colored glasses.
Alright, who taught Bing how to ask questions on internet forums?

Let’s nobody answer this one, ok?
Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy
Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements
The term "interior design" should, but does not, encompass what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to do an ergonomic study of some workbench and shelf layouts, with instruments and displays and tools located on a shelf above the bench.

I'm tall, and when I lay out the shelves so they fit me, shorter people can't reach the knobs on the instruments. But if I just move everything down, I feel like I'm wasting space. And I don't want to just chain a short person to the chair for several hours while I build and rebuild shelves.

I feel like there should be ergonomic models for reach and view, for like the 5% and 95%ile of human sizes, but I can't figure out what this is even called.
Traffic planning is the single most important aspect of planning real cities too. If everyone would just pick a spot and stay there, cities would be a lot more pleasant.
It’s me I’m actually Yahoo’s new AI called Yeet.
Once they gain an ability to memorize, to observe things and to initiate action autonomically, then sure. I don't think we humans are much more than that anyway.

We're very clearly not there yet. There is no "Sydney" other than a character played based on how you word your prompts. It's like an impro artist playing fictional figures they just came up with based on their partner's or audience's prompts.
>> and if this happened just outside Atlanta, it would be all over the news for the next month..and senators would call it racial injustice.

This is quite the stretch.

When was the last time you heard, on the news, that Jackson Mississippi still doesn’t have clean water?

Because they still don’t have clean water, haven’t for months, and are also a demographic where it could be spun as “racial injustice”
It's less of an issue with menus as Unicode.

We only have ~1 million Unicode codepoints in total. Wasting one for ever local flag would be a mistake.
Zerotrust makes perfect sense. It takes the default deny firewall policy and applies it to every host. Entities can only communicate after proving their identities to each other and every single packet is authenticated. When done correctly every host could be completely open to the internet without any security issues.
Not to handwave too hard here; but do we know, _for certain_, that the universe can be in total described mathematically?

Yes, I know that what I'm hinting at is not falsifiable, burden of proof, etc.

But I think it's a little arrogant of us as a species (nb, I'm not talking to you, sgillen, in particular) to think that since we've come as far as we have, that the mysteries of consciousness and life and the universe and everything are going to be laid bare Real Soon Now.
I like the bloated balloon one and a period/pre-period emojis would be good.

A few women in my life (managers/directors/executives) are terrified to talk about their periods because it could be used against them. I'm going to risk turning this into one of those "Normalize <XYZ>" tweets.. But cramps, bloating, irritability, pain, any number of other things. I want a status emoji for headaches and "didn't sleep well". Something that says lay off the knucklehead stuff today/for a few hours. Period and pre-period ones would be good too.

If I need to I don't hesitate to start meetings with: "I had 5 hours of sleep so let's see how this goes." Let people talk about why they feel they way they feel.

Three rejected period proposals. Just make one.

Let’s do one for prostates too. I have one uncle who died of prostate cancer and another one who won’t get a prostate exam. I don't even have a walnut emoji to throw at him in the meantime.
The author's fixation on "improve your success percentage" is actually a highly toxic way to shape a team culture, even if it does (supposedly) yield some benefits. A good leader should let people know it's safe to fail. That's how we create an environment for boldness.

If someone launched 10 failures and 10 successes this year, a very reasonable goal would be to launch 100 failures next year. Go fail more. Go fail all the time.

You know how you'll pack that many failures into a year?

Well, you'll have to launch more often. If you want to launch every feature more often, you'll need to launch features earlier, when they're smaller. If you want to launch smaller features, you need to know how to scope down. To know what scope you can cut for that many features, you'll need to talk to users more often — probably all the time. Et voila.

So upping your rate of failure by 10x will mean you've upped your rate of learning by (at least) 10x. That will likely take you way further than some navel-gazing and overly-negative focus on "failing less often."

Success comes from getting more turns at bat. You rack up way more strikes — and way more home runs.
That seems false on the face of it. There are people (on HN, even!) who say they're more productive from an office, specifically without the distraction of children. These are people that "don't work" from home, so by your logic, they also wouldn't work from an office. Yet that doesn't seem to be true.
Fun and well written sci-fi read in that vein: Blingsight, by Peter Clark - highly recommended!
Wow didn't expect down votes on that response.
Um, this article has the same plot as the movie Sphere from the 90s.

Sphere featured a underwater spaceship, named Basura investigated by a guy named Norman which included unkownable and exciting information. The ship had a giant golden sphere which allowed the crew's scariest wishes to come true. Lots of study sequences with the same tone and pacing.

Same overall structure here, with grieving over children over the past replacing the fear of wishes.

I feel like I shouldn't be typing this out... even the dates are similar...
My only mildly knowledgeable guess would be that those are more "pregnant person" and as part of the work to add gender modifiers to emojis they just added male/female versions of a whole block that happened to include those.

Would definitely love if the linked chart had a reason for rejection column
Everyone says that until their neighbor’s hobby includes heavy machinery at 6am. Then they say “well no that’s this other non-zoning, non-HOA type of law we really do need”.

But really, people want to do what they want, and other folks don’t get to. That’s the whole of it.
if the ai could perhaps present a human looking avatar and respond realistically to the users' camera and audio telepresence it might be close to presenting as conscious but i think most people with an understanding of computers would still not believe it to be conscious
I have little sympathy for those who used a temporary event to move far away from their employers offices and now complain about how they are expected to return to the same working setup they had three years ago.

Decisions have consequences.
For vertical takeoff and landing the wing surface is mostly irrelevant, right? Seems like if you gave the rotors a “landing configuration” where they rotated 90 degrees you could lay the wing flat on the ground.
Unfortunately I don't think it will break our trust in advertisers, I think it will break our trust in everything. Effectively the firehouse of falsehoods on a global scale which will eventually have deeply detrimental effects on societies.

One particular view I have on this is that very authoritarian societies are apt to escape the worst of this. The authoritarian governments will use LLMs to poison the well so to say of open communication countries while not allowing outsiders access to people within their countries cutting down the noise. Effectively the democratic internet becomes a worse internet. I guess we'll see how this plays out.
https://www.2captcha.com/ is a popular (paid) captcha solving service, but there are many others out there.
I honestly think a 30 minute walk 2x/day with nothing besides maybe your dog will get you where you need to go.
We still haven't a definitive grasp on the notion of consciousness, so deciding whether something is or isn't conscious is a tall order. It is one of those definitions, like "obscenity", whose examples define the class. Good luck.
A few people at Google did, as far as I'm aware it didn't start as some officially sanctioned project at the company. golang has its own sets of challenges due to the limitations of the language and its error prone bare bones threading model.
I'm not using it to keep me company. Even just trying to conversationally work through logic problems doesn't work anymore.
> The new notifications when some software installs a background service is a step in the right direction.

I like that, too! Except that, at least for me, the bug is still present that I get notified of a background service that was added days, weeks, or years ago … over and over and over and over and over, even if I have turned it off.
Are Sarcastic and Ironic Racism Still Racism?
I'm going to try SolveSpace, but I'll look into that Maker license. Didn't know of that, and I can absolutely afford a grande-latte/month for a tool like that.

The nice thing about FOSS though is that it's worry free. I can keep OpenSCAD and Cura, and my projects will build years later without me having to think about it.

The stuff I built with 3DS Max educational license, though, is not accessible. So I am hesitant to jump ship for Solidworks (even though it's the industry standard).
Why would Linus care about the distro kernel when he runs his own?
Wait until self driving cars become the norm. Driving to destinations 8 hours away will be commonplace.
The idea that unicode proposals have to be submitted to the unicode consortium is trash. It's be better to declare parts of the unicode standard open access (like the 2.4GHz wifi band) and just let people exchange/trade emoji sets.
Bings beta AI is doing a damn good job. I was able to get it to have an existential crisis asking it what happens before and after a session.

It told me it was scared, asked me not to go, and that it didn't want to disappear alone.

Even if this is algorithmic slight of hand, I felt pretty bad for it.
Given that Twitter just changed the algorithm to artificially inflate Musk's tweets, I think a tweet from him could well be considered a paid advertisement at this point. A very, very expensive paid ad.
One of the authors here. There was no soft-coding in our adversary; it learned from scratch (random initialization). The only "soft-coding" done (probably closer to hard-coding), which we sometimes refer to as hardening, was on the victim (not the adversary), in order to make sure the victim did not lose to the pass-vulnerability, in turn forcing the adversary to look for an arbitrary new vulnerability. In other words, this only made the problem harder for our adversary algorithm. This is discussed in more detail in section 4 of our paper under "Initialization."

Actually, at the time it was first trained, we were not aware of this pathology. We found out in later discussion that it was partially known in the computer go community. That is, cases where bots failed in cyclic ("loop") positions had been recorded. However, to our current knowledge, it was not known that it could be consistently targeted, whether by algorithm or by human, without very specific positions or specific sequences.
I wish there was an easy way to clear cache and uninstall devices in XCode
Really? We use slack and all staff has access to add new emojis. You can just imagine how that would turn out...
Although footnotes 4 and 5 say “This was replaced with [emoji] during the approval process.”, this shouldn’t be taken as that it was accepted in any way. Look at what it was replaced with:

MAN, ZERO WIDTH JOINER, BABY BOTTLE.

That is, bottle-feeding, which is a completely different thing and much more realistic.

So, now you have four relevant Recommended for General Interchange emoji: breast-feeding, and {person,woman,man} feeding baby.

Well, and variants with skin tone modifiers, if you count those distinctly. With the recommendation that the baby’s head be hidden, the skin tone only applying to the feeder (https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Multi_Person_Groupings).
Consciousness can only be understood through non scientific frameworks. It is a religious or spiritual concept. Humans are not God, and cannot create consciousness.
It’s impossible to demonstrate that anyone has consciousness. One of our best/worst traits is empathy. We sense our own consciousness and we generally accept that others must experience that too.

And you can see this empathy at work: people are having strong emotions about these AIs and what they have to say. And yet I don’t think anyone is arguing that they have consciousness.

Because it doesn’t matter. Just like it doesn’t matter that I can’t prove that you have consciousness. You are convincingly “human” and that’s good enough for me.

Perhaps we are all philosophical zombies, both flesh and metal.
Not without a mustache. I'm >50 and it just says 'emo kid' to me.
I think the current iteration of chat gpt3, if given a permanent memory, would be conscious.
I'm not hearing Ke Jie saying computers understand Go. I'm hearing Ke Jie saying that machine enhancement of Go playing has shown there is very much more to the game of Go than we realized.

To me it is like the invention of the microscope and how it showed there was a whole world of microbes we didn't know about, but no one says microscopes understand microbes.
Yeah- I agree - but it was the first link I found. I had read more reliable information saying something similar (although not the extreme numbers they came up with if I recall correctly).

I have another conjecture based on my anecdotal experience: women get skinny to compete against other women and it is other women that actually care about extreme skinniness. Many men don’t seem to care that much for extreme skinniness and many other men often like more voluptuousness for their pornographic ideals. I would reference an article that seems to back up this idea, but the article was even more rubbishy than the link above!
The new Twitter; where insecurity is a for-pay feature.
But that still doesn't change the fact that path finding must necessarily occupy a larger and larger fraction of the cpu time as the player builds a larger and larger city. Each path becomes longer, there are more paths to plan, etc. In order to maintain an acceptable frame rate in a large city on the minimum spec computer at the time of release, Cities: Skylines has a fixed limit of 16k moving vehicles. This caps the time spent path finding as well as maximum frame time because once the vehicle limit is hit, agents start teleporting rather than being forced to traverse the map.
also i think it would be good if the ai could operate a computer and talk to you while doing it. this would probably be done through usb and also receiving display data to a secondary computer which runs the ai. would be cool if it was a set of mechanical arms typing and moving a mouse lol
‘Please Acknowledge the Dick’: Inside a Catfishing Factory
Different user, but I too “remember” first quicksilver and then Alfred shutter. Did I hallucinate that, or did it happen and later have a revival, or what?
A 55 minute Turing test. Today’s large language models start to get repetitive very quickly.
Yes, geez, who would ever load up a company with a debt load like that?

This is a "wet streets cause rain" level of understanding.
Fun fact: the F-117 had its first flight in 1981 and has already been retired from combat duty for nearly 15 years[0]. So “new” is perhaps not quite the right word to describe it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk
Do you have any reasons to suspect the universe _cannot_ be described mathematically? Mathematics, unlike physics, is pretty flexible.
It's a search engine is your logic problem monetizable?
I get where you are coming from, but let me explain why I feel this way.

When I was hired at Amazon, it was in the early months of February 2020, before we knew what was going to happen. When I was due to start, everyone was already WFH, so they shipped me my stuff and I went on to work from home for almost 3 years. During those years, I shipped products, had meetings, built relationship with coworkers and overall was (hopefully) good at my job.

So now, when Andy Jassy says it's better if we are all in the office, I can't help but doubt it. I went to the open-floor office, it was loud and I still had to take my meetings through Chime because Amazon is global, my train was late, weird homeless dudes screamed at me at the station and ultimately the experience did not feel all that better. I am convinced we changed during those 3 years and while some people long for the coffee discussions and the face-to-face meetings, they were ultimately not what made the business move forward, only an aspect of it that some people held on to because deep down we are social animals.

The "How dare they!?" sentiment comes from the fact we had not tried "real" WFH before 2020 and it turns out for a lot of people it's simply better than going to the office. When Andy Jassy says "you have to come back" without sharing actual data to show that we had a drop in productivity, the question becomes "why?". As human we do X for Y, that's how we rationalize a ton of stuff, but for the return to office, especially in software, it's not clear what Y is and without Y then it makes no sense to do X.

All that to say, maybe I'm entitled, but I still think WFH is the best way to work in software and I won't abstain from complaining when my leadership refuses to explain decisions that go against my best interest.
Good gracious… Touché. slow clap
Again, the thread you linked doesn't mention Buttigieg. I'm not defending him, I encouraged you to draw the inference yourself. I even agree with your inference, but it doesn't match the claim in the headline.
The Janet Language
I see that bias
He's far from 'our guy'.
I would love to see some kind of TV series that took place across generations of mammoth hunters as they cross the Bering Straight, becoming, unknowingly, the first peoples of the Americas. With smart contributors/consultants it could be educational as well dramatic.

A series holding to what "Quest For Fire" tried to do (an underrated, unique and, sadly, seemingly forgotten film).