skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no art in that, so I don't consider that trolling, but I accept that's what the public thinks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
Here's the blog post for the Unicode 15 release: https://blog.unicode.org/2022/09/announcing-unicode-standard...

A tiny portion consists of "fun fashionable clip art." The vast majority of the changes are new scripts and symbols that allow people to correctly input existing texts.
Where do you people get briefed? The guy was fucking President
From the NYTimes reference in that wikipedia article:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/01/science/0401-...

"Many of the numbers that measure the performance of hitters, pitchers and fielders are familiar to every fan. But now attention is being turned to a genus of baseball creature rarely examined through statistics: the manager, who sets the lineups, calls for hit-and-runs and otherwise turns the cranks of in-game strategy.

Aside from won-lost records, few metrics quantify what these men actually do and the tendencies they exhibit. But an associate professor of statistics at Swarthmore College is trying to set that right, quite literally putting a face on managerial performance.

The mathematician, Steve C. Wang, applied a method called Chernoff faces, in which data points in many dimensions are presented in a form that people react to more intuitively: the human face."
The premium pricing on Teslas meant I didn't even seriously consider them when choosing what car to buy. Years ago I thought Tesla was going to focus on making EVs affordable, but even their "consumer priced" Model 3 when it finally came out was unobtainable, and now MSRP is $43K (which only comes in the sedan form factor) [1]. It sucks to be the person who bought a car right before a price drop, but I'm happy to hear that they are lowering prices.

1. https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview
Its like an Uber rating of < 5 means bad. A rating of "Yes If xxx" means "No"
The C version:

int* foo(int bar) {
int* return_value = NULL;

if (!do_something(bar))
goto error_1;
if (!init_stuff(bar))
goto error_2;
if (!prepare_stuff(bar))
goto error_3;
return_value = do_the_thing(bar);

error_3: cleanup_3();
error_2: cleanup_2();
error_1: cleanup_1();

return return_value;
}

The D version:

int* foo(int bar) {
scope(exit) cleanup1();
if (!do_something(bar))
return null;

scope(exit) cleanup2();
if (!init_stuff(bar))
return null;

scope(exit) cleanup3();
return do_the_thing(bar);
}

https://dlang.org/articles/exception-safe.html
I kind of expected this to be more an overview of the new stuff in Unicode 15.0. As the author of a Rust Unicode crate (finl_unicode), I always like to dig through the release notes to see what sort of strange new stuff is on offer.
The Tennessee bill you’re referring to specifically prohibits children, not adults, from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapies and sex change operations.
Management doesn't care if it's agile or not - they want something that works and delivers economic value for customers and will help them continue to innovate and deliver EVA for them in the future. One huge problem is that a lot of times, what people think is what the customer wants isn't what they want or need. One way that happens is sales brings asks (in the form of solutions often) to product and it goes downhill from there. Obviously, the people doing the work aren't talking with customers in that case, but it's tough to talk to customers in an enterprise environment. If you're doing something for a small external client or an internal team it's fine.

In addition, customers aren't a monolith. When you reach sufficient size, you have competing priorities for customer needs and even some asks that work for one customer but break some sort of process for another. They can be mutually exclusive. This is also heavily predicated on the customer even knowing what they want. Everyone knows the famous Ford quote “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

Agile is great but scaling it can be rough dependent on a lot of variables, so reducing it down to management probably doesn't like Agile due to inability to give up power (to me at least) is a bit too simple.
Is that why history and pop culture are filled with the heroism and benevolence of whites, and the crimes and hostilities perpetrated upon them by demonized people of color? And if you want to find examples of whites doing something wrong, or non-whites being victimized at their hands, you really have to dig for it, and such events are virtually unknown?

For example, everyone knows the details of the Barbary, Arab, Ottoman, Caucasus, Saharan, and Andalusian slave trades, and countless movies were made showing how whites suffered under them, and their mythologized wars to end them. Some were even made showing Blacks' suffering under the Saharan slave trade, as it was politically useful for whites to demonize Arabs.

However, did you know Europe and its colonies also engaged in slavery? Before the US abolished slavery in 1865, 12 million Black slaves were shipped to the Americas. Mostly to South America, but some to North and the US as well. That may be less than the estimated 11-17 million the Saharan slave trade claimed, but it's hardly something we should ignore.

Of course the white people in charge aren't comfortable publishing this, so it has been relegated to the footnotes of history.
Ask HN: Do recruiters purposefully ignore you after a rejection?
There are valid reasons to want to talk to the recruiter after a rejection. For example, you might not have passed the bar for a certain seniority level, but might be willing to re-apply for a lower level. Or you might want to ask the cool-off period they expect before attempting to apply again.

I've had a couple of rejections now and asked just those things, but got crickets in response.

The naive in me thinks that "recruiters probably have massive inboxes clogged with inbound applicants and didn't see your message".
The cynic/tinfoil thinks "there's probably a 'reject' button that once pressed sends the canned 'thank you for your time' email while setting up an email filter to send your messages straight to the spam folder".

I guess reality must be somehwere in between. What are your thoughts? Is there any industry standard in this, or is it really up to different recruiters in different companies at different times do different things?
Outdoor preschools gain traction after Covid-19 pandemic
Heavy use of antibiotics?

Edit: perhaps not

> It is estimated that livestock alone uses 50-80% of the total antibiotics produced in most of the developed countries. China, Brazil, and the United States are the largest consumers of antimicrobials in livestock production.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7896880/ (Antimicrobial uses for livestock production in developing countries)

An alternative approach would be to sequence the DNA of those who have had this cancer to see if they have a predisposition to this cancer on certain diets due to a specific set of genes.
Great to see some love for Jeff and Llamasoft. That takes me back. For some great photos of Jeff and Ivan rather than the games, check out:

https://broadbentius.com/2015/01/23/jeff-minter-and-ivan-zor...
I think saying "essentialy it's dead" is too harsh.

Delphi and FPC/Lazarus are still under active development.
Some hardcore Delphi-ers from the 2000s I know are still using it, either for maintaining in-house apps or doing side jobs.

If you are looking for jobs, I agree Go/Java/Kotlin/C#/PHP yield more search result, though :)
Lifting some weights. It will exercise your muscles in other ways and build up some strength. Some simple weights will do, no need for any fancy setups. If you work from home, it is easy to take a 5 minute break and do it.
Even an older book that has absolutely nothing in at that could offend anyone often has things that won't make sense to a present day reader so some kind of aid would be appreciated by many.

A two edition approach might work well.

One edition would have the text just as the author wrote it, with notes added or maybe even short articles to explain things to today's readers. That could include different attitudes toward race in the book's time, period slang that hasn't survived, other language changes, technology, clothes, government, housing, and more.

The other edition could be the story updated for a modern setting. If it is set in London for example and the protagonist frequently travels around town in a dog-cart, update that to a taxi. If the story involves a religion that people then thought was maybe some kind of shady cult but is now fairly mainstream, replace that with some current shady possible cult (e.g., if you were updating "A Study in Scarlet" you might change Mormons to Scientologists).

The annotated original edition would be the one you'd use in literature class, or read on your own if you wanted a period piece, or knew enough about the time the book is set in to not be slowed down to much by out of date references.

The updated edition would be the one most people who just want to read a good story could choose.

> But requiring notes; this is already assuming that the reader is an idiot that can't think by himself.

Most people aren't reading works of fiction to think. They are reading them to be entertained. If they like some characters in the book they will often adopt some of the attitudes or behaviors of those characters without even realizing it. This is especially true of younger people.
Story seems to be missing some bits. How many kids did she have?
So... rather than eating food made from plants they'd eat food made in a plant?
> Nah, there’s nothing less interesting and more irritating than bikeshedding of that sort.

When you say "there’s nothing less interesting and more irritating than", are you speaking universally, or of your own personal experience?

> Nobody cares about some blowhard’s attempt to generate pointless “debate” over hypotheticals and semantics.

How do you people have knowledge of each others thoughts? Serious question.
A lot of Wordpress' problems are negative externalities that impact others more than the site owner and there is no liability for the site owners if their compromised site starts serving malware, SEO spam or leaks their e-commerce orders DB with all customers' details, thus such impact is not considered when choosing this disgrace of a platform.
Decree adds to doubts about Mexican lithium industry's future
So one neat thing about Twitch is that it has channel extensions which are basically interactive overlays.

So, for example, with some card games viewers can mouse over a card in the stream video and get tooltips/card text/information.

It only works for some live content and not vods though. I imagine storing all the required information for vods would be challenging.
I guess if game publishers care about how their content will appear in streaming channels they might adjust their graphical approaches to avoid things that won’t compress well.

Similar to how pop music production values changed as kids started listening to music over phone speakers.

Or how failing to account for how some images handle compression led to HBO shipping those unwatchably dark Game of Thrones episodes. I guess directors targeting streaming nowadays know not to do that?

But I don’t think this passes as normative advice for all game developers. If as a game dev you value how your game looks on Twitch, you might want to think about some of the graphical flourishes you include.

On the other hand if, as a game dev, you want people to experience your game personally and you want to discourage streaming consumption, maybe you crank these features up to the max so your game looks terrible streaming. Entirely up to you how you use this knowledge, really.

Saying games “should” optimize for this is like saying back in the 80s/90s that movie directors “should” frame their shots so they can be cropped down to 4:3 because otherwise their movie will look bad on VHS and TV. Sure, some directors followed that approach; others went ‘screw that’ and framed shots wide so they were basically impossible to pan and scan without losing content.
Several counterexamples were listed in the article.
This must be how dwarf fortress does it
Can you expand on this perchance?
it seems to be on github, but the commit history doesn't go beyond 2017: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgc
As is usual, the issue is that 'it depends'.

Starvation and disease of course were primary concerns of prehistoric peoples and can be experienced by nearly all larger life forms.

Poverty really only came into existence once things like 'wealth' were invented. Those things only really came into being once people started to live in larger communities, though not exclusively food based ones. Places like the Chaco Canyon Culture show signs of 'wealth' (and therefore poverty), but only in it's early period, and then only kinda.

War is a bit of a funny one too, as it kinda depends on what we mean by war. Where is the demarcation between family feuds and true warfare?

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is a good read into the recent developments into the 198,000 years of human history BC.

https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/...
Yeah. Not everyone who thinks they have a good idea has one, and the way this is structured it's very, very time-consuming to defeat a legitimately bad proposal. It feels a lot like when a conspiracy theorist says "Bildenberg cabal is made of hollow earth lizard people" and your only retorts are "yes" or "I'm not yet convinced".
I think it depends on the laptop. If I had a 15 or 17 inch one I think it would be ok. This tiny 13 inch thing that IT standardized on because sales likes them just doesn't have the keyboard or screen area to be productive.

At home I have a nice ultra wide to use. While I do dual screen 90% of my focus is the external monitor. When I travel I have a portable 15 inch 4k monitor and keyboard I use.
The cat lipping the controller made me smile
We still use Object Pascal (in the freeware Lazarus IDE) for dev utilities. Mostly they're native desktop apps, but some interface with cloud services.
Well maybe it is designers, as I suppose yes the programmer has implemented a design. But since they didn't say "hey now, we have to internationalize this here site y'know" I also think it's the programmers.

assuming there is falsehood involved.
FYI, although the article wants you to make the jump that n----- = "the hard R", it's actually referring to a less offensive albeit very dated term - negros (as in the United Negro College Fund). Negro is a word that annoys me as well, but it's no different than People of Color/Colored People in that it's just a cringey old-timey descriptor.

From what I can tell the only reference with "the hard R" is not in reference to anybody in particular but rather as a chapter title that is in reference to Harlem and is a direct call back to the famous Harlem Renaissance writer Carl Van Vechten.
Likely scenario:

Police: Do you know who attacked you?

Victim, trying to concentrate on his breathing, as the paramedics stop the bleeding, while being loaded onto an ambulance: Dunno.
EPA orders 'pause' of derailment contaminated waste removal
True, but self-identified trolls mean it very much in the context of strategic misrepresentation, as in these graphical demonstrations by 3angledblue: https://wiki.bibanon.org/Three_Angled_Blue#/media/File:Nobod... and https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/003/140/tro...

Misrepresentation can extend even to the point of accusing wholly sincere but irritated people of 'trolling' in order to further annoy them. But when the term is used in the social sciences it's typically tightly defined. It doesn't really matter how dilute the popular understanding is; if it becomes so dilute that the association is meaningless than the behavior can just be given some other designation, such as reflexive control.
I think this is a SUPER astute observation and is looking to the future of what people will want from games engines.

I also think we can take this further - games should be setting up their pipelines to offer a "compression friendly" version of the frame as an interstitial product before producing the final render. That way the game produces two native frame streams: one that's extremely compressible and one that's got all the bells and whistles. Obviously that takes more horsepower but the point is moving towards games engines as a broadcast-aware medium.

This is going to be a huge part of what makes a game accessible and successful going forward and the people who make tools for games will benefit from taking that seriously.
> And one that is very different from the one across the Atlantic where “in God we trust” is the national motto

What is your point about this? The motto has a long tradition almost as old as the country and it's really not uncommon for European countries to reference God in their national or even unofficial national motto.

> politicians make sure to fluff up their religious credentials.

Like who and how? Most politicians don't do this. Politicians in the US are generally not very religious in my opinion. Ironically, the ones I can think of that are most outspoken about their religion are two Catholics who are at odds with their church leadership over abortion and gay marriage, and Muslims who I somewhat doubt practice Islam. I am struggling to even think of more overtly religious politicians. I just think media reports skew how irreligious politics in the US actually is. I am sure you can find some story about a speech somewhere reference religion or a cross being put up on a state courthouse or something somewhere but I don't think exceptions make the rule and this forgets that even just taking the federal government alone, there are hundreds of politicians who never bring up religion and things are actually much more mundane.
As others have already said, it's tidal locking.

But to be more precise on what that means, on a long time scale, the rotation speed of one object orbiting another tends to either speed up or slow down until one side is always facing the larger object.

Many other moons in the solar system do this with their parent planet, and Mercury does this with the sun.

It's happening to Earth as well, albeit too slowly to matter.
But it seems the victim has spoken about the attack, and if they had anything to do with each other he would have made that known?
Which one was the one trying to let the AI out of the box and which one was the one trying to warn the world?
> A lot has happened since 1991. Don't you agree that a poll from 2021 is more relevant now?

What 2021 poll is that? I am aware of the ones in 2014 and the one in 2022, both of which could be described as meaningless Russian shams, and totally irrelevant .

2014 sham: https://www.thebulwark.com/what-really-happened-in-ukraine-i...

2022 sham: https://www.voanews.com/a/voting-ending-in-sham-annexation-p...
Regular breaks help (but your boss may not like that). Luckily I work from home with no 'tattleware' installed so they can't spy on my working habits. I also have two 'Spring Grip' fitness tools for building strength in my hands. Vertical mouses help too, aswell as a really good keyboard you enjoy using. I prefer the Apple low profile/short travel wired keyboard.
Not a duty to the people buying, a duty to the owners of the company. To make a profit out of easy opportunities. Or justify not doing it, to the owners.

And the duty to owners is what you said yourself in your other comment, so I'm not sure why you seem to not understand what I'm saying.
There's a huge swath - probably an overwhelming majority of the time - of good faith situations where it works well. That is, the suggestion isn't intended to be adversarial, and is otherwise plausible.

A major problem however is if there's not a collective understanding that "yes, if" is not a suggestion or consent for that condition to be actualized.

So it really should be "yes, if ..., however, that situation is very rare/cost prohibitive/high risk, so should be avoided"

There needs to be some way to unambiguously signal that something is a no-go, even if there are situations where it would be a good idea.
Northwind gives me shivers
I dont think grain is central to the "artistic integrity" of a game. I turn it off in every Mass Effect run with zero regrets.

And games look better if other high frequency effects, like texture shimmering or shadow flicker, are denoised away.
This sounds like PR speak. Games are meant to be played, optimizing for watching should be at the bottom of any developer's to-do list. Some minor quirks with noise or the UI are not enough to justify pouring God knows how many hours to create alternative viewing modes and rendering options.

Streaming optimization is missing the forest for the trees, namely that in a world with better internet connections not only would streaming quality be solved but also every other problem with slow internet would be too
Python’s scoping rules are wonky, but the walrus is generally useful in two cases. The first one is to define a variable in an `if` and only run the contents of the `if` if the variable is truey — for example, re.search returns a Match object or None:

if (m := re.search("regex is(n't)? fun")):
print("there was a match")
# do something with m

The other would be defining a variable in the `if` clause of a list comprehension and using it in the output (which is not necessary in languages where map/filter is a first-class citizen, because you could just map before you filter):

[y for x in xs if (y := f(x)) == 5]

I can’t think of a way to define a variable in either of those cases without using the walrus and without significantly extending the code (you can define the `m` object and then do `if m:` on two lines, or you can nest two list comprehensions).
And long before Gen X.
It’s interesting to think that when I wrote DVIView (TeX DVI previewer running on VM/CMS) in Pascal/Web in 1987, I found goto to be an absolute necessity (although part of that was doubtless because the relevant logic was closely modeled on Knuth’s DVItype which also used goto. I would have a hard time coming up with the last time that I needed a goto since then (or, for that matter, labeled break/continue).
Allowing someone to move there is different from acquiring territory for that purpose.
https://archive.ph/Og0Sa
To make your good point less team-tinted and downvotable, I would say that most of the highest profile Millenial-and-younger politicians with social media presence know how to troll and make use of it regularly.

For better or worse, it’s part of the PR game for people who grew up with online life and want them retweets.

Some older politicians have committed to it to. Obviously.
Tendons.

Once beautiful, stretchy creatures that probably now resemble a curmudgeon being asked to be nice to a neighbor.

Been playing soccer with my soccer mad 8 yr old. I too was that guy. Brings me back and I am so much better at technique now but boy oh boy does my hip and lower back hurt the next day!!!
But just as ideas exist in a context, so does the decision. If your team (for example) doesn’t have everyone know the language, then “yes if (false)” is just “no”. Businesses move and conditions change so keeping this “no-go” idea around as a “yes if” just means that people will try to resurrect it later. It may be a spurious idea, but you’ve given it a false blessing by attaching a conditional approval.