skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just some guesses:

- I'm figuring floating NPCs and walking through solid surfaces might be from incorrect navmeshes. IE maybe they baked them, moved some stuff around, and forgot to rebake. Or forgot to mark some objects static, etc.

- Meshes disappearing.. not sure, thinking maybe theyre using some fixed size arrays to avoid reallocations but maybe theyre hitting a fixed size limit and things get evicted.

- Weird spawns. Guessing this might be something like a broken line of sight calculation. Maybe similar to the theorized navmesh thing -- occluders could be wrong too
It’s poorly done most of the time. Especially with people. Skin color gets wacko
You realize you can look into the financials of all charities and see which ones actually spend their money on their "mission"

Many transparent charity navigators/comparers exist. Very many charities where 93%+ go directly towards the mission.
Is that the going rate for the area where this factory is? In the US pay varies wildly by geographic location. Someone in Silicon Valley can easily make 5-10x as much as someone doing the exact same work in the middle of Iowa, for example.
The fact that you give money to people you know rather than to nonprofits suggests that your motives are not as purely altruistic as you'd like them to be. A good nonprofit is massively more effective per dollar, able to literally save multiple lives for the 5K you gave to your acquaintance.

Now, if you just think about your donations as a way of making you feel good, the same way other people would spend their entire savings on cocaine, then you do you. But don't get so high and mighty on it that you denigrate the vastly more important work that MacKenzie Bezos is doing.
The guy above was arguing the pro-authoritarian slant would emerge first simple because HN is so big, that some people must have that slant, and those are the people who will react first.

After that, will be a wave of complaints about the first responders (e.g. in this case he pro-authoritarians). This wave gets upvoted heavily to sit at the top.

So when you and I arrive 9 hours after the drama, we'll see the top X comments either complaining about a slant that is now down-voted, or up-voted comments being reflective of the true biases of HN.

That's basically what happened here.... it's not that the pro-authoritarian comments are naturally shallow, is that they were merely the first comments posted in the first seconds after the article was posted, and are just reflexive since no one reads an article in seconds. If we post an article with a pro-authoritarian title, we'll get a wave of reflexive anti-authoritarian comments too.
He apparently put his desk in the hallway so he could see when everyone left, and fired a guy for not staying late enough (even though that guy was coming in early).
I assume it’s quite easy to donate that amount, much harder to do so in a way that is effective for your goals.
"making your own life a disaster" is purely a view of your own opinion. Stop thinking you know what makes another human being tick.
I like this trend of "Lisp that compiles to X". More examples:

* Clojure (JVM): https://clojure.org/

* ClojureScript (JavaScript): https://clojurescript.org/

* Fennel (Lua): https://fennel-lang.org/

* Hy (Python): https://docs.hylang.org/

* Lisp-Flavored Erlang (BEAM): https://lfe.io/

And there's a similar growing trend of "strongly-typed functional language that compiles to X":

* Elm (ML inspired -> JavaScript): https://elm-lang.org/

* Elixir (Its own thing -> BEAM): https://elixir-lang.org/

* Fable (F# inspired -> JavaScript): https://fable.io/

* PureScript (Haskell inspired -> JavaScript): https://www.purescript.org/

* ReasonML (ML inspired -> JavaScript): https://reasonml.github.io/

* Teal (Lua with strict type annotations -> Lua): https://github.com/teal-language/tl

As well as the gazillion languages that compile to and interoperate well with C, such as Nim and several Scheme dialects (Chez and Chicken, probably others I'm forgetting). Oh and Haxe, which apparently can compile to like 10 different languages and I don't understand why it isn't more popular.

I like all of these languages because they don't require the user to switch to a different library ecosystem in order to use a programming language that they find more comfortable/enjoyable/powerful/expressive. I consider this extremely important because of how complicated some low-level protocols and systems can be, and reimplementing everything again for every new language is a waste of effort in my opinion.

Also, the proliferation of things that specifically compile to JS enforces a only-half-joking saying I heard a long time ago: JavaScript is a better compiler target than programming language. I think I've heard the same said about C as well.
I do have Home Assistant, and have thought about writing the code for this. But then it’s all On/Off, with no access to the variabe compressor speeds of the system I paid quite a bit for (as it’s more efficient)

Quiet Mode is clearly a checkbox festure they added for the city of Seattle noise ordinances (mentioned in the sales literature)
China Used 'Mass Surveillance' on Thousands of Americans' Phones, Report Claims
It's because the GP is discrediting MacKenzie Bezos that he or she is being discredited in response. If GP is going to find fault with someone donating $4 billion and ask "why not more," the question rightly comes back to "well what have you accomplished compared to her?"
If you know what the investigators are looking for (say, after you hacked them), then it might not be that hard.

Given the fact that attribution is so difficult that we haven't seen any lawsuits yet, I'd imagine that entirlely suppressing your own methods if you know what the investigator is expecting from someone else as well as what the methods of others are is feasible.
Oh I forgot, I only do portraits and stopped taking interchangeable lens cameras with me places over half a decade ago. I don't do landscapes or wildlife photography, nor did I ever have a desire to to make rivers look like smudges with a long exposure.

For portraits, iPhone 12 Pro in okay lighting is the first one where I say, yeah good enough and often times better.

I don't care about DXOMark, I care about what humans think, and across mediums a photo from an iPhone 12 Pro absolutely is good and great enough.
The game looks way better than pre-release marketing footage [0], which gets zero recognition and only a bunch of hate.

Meanwhile when Ubisoft releases yet another "Doesn't look anything like the marketing footage", usually also crunched into existence, people just shrug it off.

In that context it's really weird how everybody seems to be dog-piling on CDPR right now for the most weird reasons, when otherwise they have a pretty pro-consumer track-record, particularly compared to the bigger AAA publishing fishes in the pond.

[0] https://youtu.be/Ogihi-OewPQ
This TED talk on the subject of how we value charities is worth watching:

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...

While I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, I think the primary point that we should value charities by their overall community impact, not just by their ratio of program expenditures to overhead, is absolutely correct.
Stunning. Fantastic job on the rendering side too! It looks so good and with such high frame-rate I thought it was streamed Stadia style, but it works offline too.

There's a lot of banding in the blobs though. It could be solved simply by adding noise in the pixel shader used for the body (e.g. with https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4tfGWl )
Not really, if someone is reliably earning $300K then they can borrow if they have an emergency expense, take money out of their home, etc.
I was at Facebook right after the Onavo acquisition, and it kinda changed my views on humanity. I knew a couple of the engineers and they were nice, kind, genuine people. They knew what Onavo was doing was wrong. They also didn't let it bother them. I don't know how to describe it; It was just a job. I don't think I could ever have "just a job". I know someone's got to be the repo man, and I'd hope that they act with dignity and empathy - And an appropriate level of disgust when they're faced with people actually trying to game the system. But it's clear that standards vary wildly, and plenty of people just don't care.

I also have coworker who worked for Luminati. He's aware of just how gray the area is, and I think he worked to make it better, but I definitely get the sense that he's glad he's no longer working on something so sketchy.

I recognize how privileged I am to never have faced the choice of "Sketchy work or Starve", but I wonder what is wrong with our system that these are able to prosper as long as they are. A healthy skepticism would serve us all well. Onavo would never have gotten away with it with just a little skepticism; Caveat Emptor - Buyer Beware.
Visa and Mastercard are both in US based, that's another problem out of this case. They censors things in the world by US citizen's ethics.
Everyone hates on media, but they just report on everything because they have to compete for attention with social media and free news. We thus end up providing platforms for clown assholes and the shocking, in between ads. It's exhausting, but don't blame the media for your environment.
Serious questions:

Is the fact that you are friends with John Smith "your" data or "John's" data? What happens if John lives in the US?

Is a message you send to John "your" data or "his"? What about his reply? And vice-versa?
In my experience, it's usually the contractors that are the ones stealing.
Giving money to other human beings that are emotionally meaningful to you so they don't have to live what's perceived to be a shitty life by the giver or even be turned to commit suicide because of their financial situation (if you don't think this happens regularly congratulations you're ignorant) I can understand :)

Like I said. Enjoy your life of video games - but realize that's not what makes quite a large amount of the population tick.
"Brexit will free the UK from foreign bureaucracies"
Maybe, but is it really a good idea to rely on the laziness of developers and hope they give you feedback? I've not seen this work out well so far.
OEMs these days usually give 3 yrs of OS updates, though usually not as fast as Google. The phone doesn't become a brick after those 3 yrs though, all apps and tools remain updated independently of the OS, actually Androids receive those software updates for longer than iphones. I've got a few very old phones and tablets that are still as useful as on their 1st day, though well behind the current stuff.
little one liners like that are arguably better implemented as aliases
Thanks! I have this slated in my to-do tabs (which I actually do lol). Just looking through it looks like you did a lot of work and took a lot of time for this so just wanted to say thanks.
There's a lot in logistics. Chep is big. It's no coincidence the containerisation story has a strong Australian element as well. Marc Levinson "the box" is fascinating.
YCom was able to reduce fundimg levels by $25k in June, leveraging the drop in costs for a startup operating in the bay.
Why Would Someone Hire a Bootcamp Graduate over a Computer Science Graduate?
I find this to be true only because learning a language is not just writing – there's also the speaking and listening component of it.

I find that I'm able to start writing a language and learn its grammar fairly quickly, but once I have to listen and converse in it it's like a whole different ballpark.
Agree. When I commented how Material Design was so bad when it came out, many got offended. So I thought it must be a subjective personal thing. Now it's relief knowing I'm not the only one who think it's bad and full of UX anti-patterns. Flat design should be a thing of the past. It's unintutive e.g. hyperlink and button can be indistinguishable, no clear navigation UI. If any company should lead industry with a design framework, it should be Apple.
First, Came the Innovator
I think it's assumed that everyone already has a browser installed. Also to authenticate through openssh and/or awscli it will likely require some browser interaction, so that would require installing a browser if one isn't installed.
Ferdinand Magellan (US presidential railcar)
JSON:API provides some of the same functionality as GraphQL, like specifying which fields and nested resources you want, but at that point you’re going to have the same problems with ensuring good performance with any combination of included fields and relationships.
May be a little bit modern design?
Unfortunately PS4 (although at least they are running a PS4 Pro).
You assume that Visa and MasterCard will just stop there. What if they go after businesses willing to do business with you? They see that blocking you from monetization doesn't work, so they block companies that sell you services from monetization if they continue to sell to you. Or they'll accuse you of money laundering when you switch to bitcoin.
In the US, those are regulated. I'm not aware of the details, but I doubt these "certificates" in Poland have the same level of regulation as US securities.
Your giving is going to crack the brain of a decent amount of the HN userbase. Don't let their snide comments get to you. You're doing something that is highly likely to be a very morally correct thing to do with regards to prosperity of those in your life and the nation in which they reside.

I personally revere your choice.
Because they don't own a datacenter in the UK and it probably doesn't make sense to open one for a country that small

So the next best option is to move it to the US based data centers
Wasn't just TW3, pretty much every Witcher game had issues on release that where fixed over the following time period trough a combination of patching, free DLC and paid DLC, ultimately culminating in the enhanced editions.

In that context CDPR has a very positive track record many people just flat out ignore; I've seen people on Reddit claim the game is an "unfixable mess" and how CDPR will just "cut their losses" by never patching it, it's inane beyond belief.
Useless without pictures ◔_◔

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-zoox-reveals-first-el... includes several.

I like it.
Do you say the same to HN?
I would be more comfortable believing most of the world would rather be playing video games than working 8 hours a day for someone else (other than for their immediate family of course).

But I may be too naive!
When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
It's not surprising if you track the industry news.
I mean the other simpler answer is that monetization technology lagged compared to the internet, and the generation which grew up with it's growth (us) didn't have things like debit-only Mastercard's to even have the theoretical possibility of paying for things online.

Free was a requirement to have any sort of audience. It's still a burden in a lot ways. I suppose there's some version of the future where Amazon builds a microtransaction platform that allows direct end-user billing of the Lambda-time it took to serve your web request. That would be interesting.
Positive and negative would be considered in the calculation. Saving time may not be as big an issue if some didn't need to work two jobs or long hours. Saving money may not be as big of an issue if wealth inequality wasn't at record highs and health insurance was universal. The pandemic has highlighted that humans are a commodity and expendable workers are not valued very much, but at least we get those cost savings on ethically-questionable products from overseas, that supports ethically-questionable regimes and increases the net worth of an ethically-questionable billionaire. It's ethically questionable all the way down.
Back in the 90s when Gates was kicking off the Gates Foundation while also running Microsoft he talked a lot about this calculus -- when to give how much, knowing that his Microsoft fortune was likely to grow faster than the market, but that you couldn't postpone this work forever. The answer he seems to have settled on was to ramp down his Microsoft involvement and ramp up his foundation contributions roughly together, spending the first part of his life as a billionaire mainly focused on becoming a hundred-billionaire, and the second part of it focused on distributing those gazillions.
Twitter Is Down
gotchya!
Even if it does, I don't see how they can lock them in just their version of "app store". If it takes off, I can see GCP, Azure and others offering similar deals too.
Most successful startups wouldn't exist without the hard work of those who were not founders. To be honest I don't think Mackenzie herself would consider herself "basically a cofounder".
Thanks, I like to think I'm at least a decent person.

And I don't even think of it as a negative. More just a part of how I came to be who I am. I am fortunate to have several good close friends, many more warm acquaintances across the continent, and a good number of family members that I genuinely like. I just defaulted to being alone and I didn't learn how to interact with my peers in a social context until later than most.
I'm curious what's your first language. I'm learning Mandarin and find that it feels much closer to a computer language than English or Latin based. Though I don't think I'd say learning Mandarin (or any language) is anywhere near what it's been like learning computer languages. I find mathematical language different from both as well. They do feel like 3 different parts of my brain. Though math I'm highly visual (not this way in programming or English, but visual in Mandarin).
I only recently discovered that The American Red Cross is different to The International Red Cross.
Abstract:

The scope of human learning and development poses a radical challenge for cognitive science. We propose that developmental theories can address this challenge by adopting perspectives from computer science. Many of our best models treat learning as analogous to computer programming because symbolic programs provide the most compelling account of sophisticated mental representations. We specifically propose that children’s learning is analogous to a particular style of programming called hacking, making code better along many dimensions through an open-ended set of goals and activities. By contrast to existing theories, which depend primarily on local search and simple metrics, this view highlights the many features of good mental representations and the multiple complementary processes children use to create them
Maybe the following links can help in understanding hypertext/hypermedia?

http://amundsen.com/hypermedia/hfactor/

https://gtramontina.com/h-factors/
Tommy Thompson, in contempt of court.

"Contempt" is very much his style.
> The fact that you give money to people you know rather than to nonprofits suggests that your motives are not as purely altruistic as you'd like them to be.

It doesn't really have to be altruistic. There's certainly nothing in what he said that suggests he is doing it simply due to altruism, either. He has more than he needs and injects the excess into things he cares about (specifically, people he knows)

> A good nonprofit is massively more effective per dollar, able to literally save multiple lives for the 5K you gave to your acquaintance.

The goal wasn't to save lives, but to give someone they know money to help them find reliable transportation to get to job interviews. I'd reckon a nonprofit would not be able to ever perform the same service for that person, so you're kind of off base when you say they're massively more effective per dollar - they aren't helping people like his acquaintance.

> But don't get so high and mighty on it that you denigrate the vastly more important work that MacKenzie Bezos is doing.

In what way is her work vastly more important than what he is doing? Him saying he didn't find the donations impressive in comparison to her wealth doesn't say anything about her not doing good.
> Presuming that there’s a market for this service, which will support your recommendation, is reckless, and ill-informed.

They're making 8k a month with a product that their own customers are saying is criminally underpriced. How can you possibly entertain the idea that there's no market for this service?
If the water/power company thinks that you are committing a heinous crime are they obligated to shut off your power and water? The same question regarding phone providers, ISPs, grocery stores etc.

Payment processors are pretty near a utility at this point. Without access to them it's very hard to do a lot of things in the modern world. They certainly seem more essential than phone and internet service.
> Their opaque rules have conditioned their counterparties to punish Google as hard as possible for a screwup.

Good for karma, bad for everyone though.
>The subjects in the study were all young adults proficient in the language they were being tested on.

They name Python and ScratchJr, but no hints on what spoken languages were examined. I've been told Chinese and Japanese are much closer than Romance languages to code.
Why do you post sexist stuff like this here? Your few comments all seem to have the same axe to grind and I rather doubt many here are receptive to such a dated perspective.
The thing that reveals the most about voter bias on hn is that the thread that spawned the most replies has a source comment with score = 0.

(It would have been less than zero if not retracted.)
They sure did. However Servo now lives on at Linux foundation.
god DAMN this is a fun post. i love it, and i have nothing to add other than thank you
Spanish companies jostle for EU recovery fund billions
I don't understand this. If your code has wrong syntax it doesn't compile. If wrong grammar you can get very wrong results. But in english you can say "I go store" and it's understandable (which btw, can be a direct translation from several languages)
A man played the same numbers on the same day on 160 lottery tickets for $800K
> That camera doesn't matter motto never dies, it seems. Tools are extremely important. They don't work on their own, of course, but are definitively part of the equation.

I've attended a lot of photo meets, and if I had a dollar for every shooter who showed up with the latest and greatest gear, only to post poorly composed, poorly lit, overprocessed dreck weeks later...

I think a better analogy is bicycles. You can have the fanciest, lightest racing bike in the world, but if you're not a trained athlete it's not going to help you much. If you are a trained athlete, you can crush nearly any amateur with a $150 bike from Walmart. All other things being equal, gear matters. It's rare that all the other things are equal, though.

Fancy cameras on phones are awesome, but what I really wish they'd give us is the ability to control off-camera lighting.
What you're hearing is the sound of thousands of corporate IT security personnel realizing that, compared to these attackers, the have no idea what they are doing.
I don't think you got this right.

It's more like, "documentation for free software should be free too", not really "free software should be documented".
Hydrogen train development continues, but battery-powered making more inroads
$8k/mo revenue is great, but what's the profit?
It's so sad they needed to disable the popup translation due to some changes by Google
> We have not spent much on paid user acquisition, we experimented with it a bit a few years ago without positive results.
Note that you learn to generate valuable things to say by saying things.
The site is made with love, and the collection is just wonderful. Seeing Martian meteorites up close is a treat.