skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember Rallisport Challenge 2 was a fantastic game. Then I got the original DiRT, which had incredible graphics, but the car physics felt off. The cars seemed to rotate from a centre point when you turned. Like if you were square against a wall or barrier on your left, and tried to steer right, the back end of the car would initially press into the wall. Can't remember exactly, but I remember many people had similar complaints. To be fair, it wasn't terrible, but the steering just felt a bit more floaty than it should, IMO.

Do you know if the physics in Dirt Rally have improved on this? Or does the underlying issue remain?
> a manager that espouses the "we don't want", that's EXACTLY what they want.

How does that work? Sincere question.
I love Zig, and I'm looking forward to it continuing to mature. I've been waiting for a specific compiler TODO to be resolved (something like initializing union bitfields) that (at least as of 0.7.0) wasn't yet implemented, because I was using it in a toy OS for some GDT stuff.
Take all absolute statements and mind-reading tricks on HN with a grain of salt.

If a manager says they don’t want heroics, it’s not reasonable to assume that they actually do want heroics but they’re somehow trying to communicate that to the team by speaking in opposites.

If someone says they want one thing then asks for the opposite, verbalize that you were following the original directive. Have a conversation like professionals and sort it out.

This HN comments that treat employers and managers like a foreign species that will only lie and abuse you are really not healthy. Learning how to establish healthy professional relationships with your managers as actual human beings is a critical workplace skill.
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> The acronym SEO stands for “search engine optimization,” which translates into the vernacular as “tricks marketers use to make certain articles appear at the top of Google’s search results.

When I found Altavista it was a game changer. Used correctly, not apt for casual users, you could find everything. And the internet was mostly content. No stores, no astroturfing, no blog pages with random words.

There were many wrong things on the internet at that time. But, SEO-fueled empty-of-content auto-generated pages was not one of them.

> For the average internet user, this SEO arms race has made the internet both less interesting and less usable.

I am not an average user. But, the internet is getting also worse for me. And I see similar complaints here in HN.
I highly recommend The Once and Future World, by J B MacKinnon (http://jbmackinnon.com/books.html).

If you're outside Canada (North America?) it can be difficult to get an ebook version; I can help with that... ;-)

(Note: with the author's agreement!)
Quality presumption effect: 'The use-bounded and utilize-optimized consumer been pulled to that point where they get what they want for expenses they are willing to be priced at' - common sense? (-;
Fast superhighway through the Solar System discovered
An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
HN wouldn't accept this link for the topic but you can see by searching Twitter this is a widespread thing:

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=2%20hour%20delay%20googl...
I could see it's equivalent usage as South Park uses it in the whole SodoSopa arc.
I'm really sorry that I don't have accurate numbers at hand, but I can give you some estimates. I will also note that the SEK/USD exchange rate is not quite the same as when it sort of got fixed in my mind. I think of it as about 10:1, but I guess it's really more like 8.3:1, so instead of approx. $15K USD maybe it's more like $18K.

Anyway, here are some numbers that I know or can give pretty accurate details for:

Rent under 4500 SEK/mo

Phone data SEK 400 per 6 mo. -- pay as you go - 20 GB for 6 months and never have had to add more. Wifi at home, on the train, and both in the city center and at the University means I rarely use my own.

Phone calls SEK 100 has lasted me god knows how long for minutes. I don't think I add minutes more frequently than every six months or so.

Car insurance is something like SEK 2500 or 3000 per year for a <10 year old car.

Food ~1500 SEK per week -- we are vegetarian and rarely buy anything fancy; we also grow fruit and veg in the summer; this of course can be quite variable, with some weeks being SEK 1200 and others SEK 2000 or more.

Utilities: we have a geo heat pump; we don't pay very much in utilities; we mostly charge our EV at the train station for free.

Clothes: H&M primarily, Amazon.de occasionally (I guess we have Amazon.se now too) -- my wife and I don't buy new clothes very often, though my children definitely need new stuff regularly. Still, we don't spend very much on clothes, but I will freely admit that this is the one I don't have as much sense of.

So, minus an exact number on utilities and clothes, it looks like a bit more than SEK 10,000 per month. Add some exact amount for utilities and clothing, and I think we are within a $15K-18K range.
You're talking about whether philosophers discovered facts. Let's assume they didn't. The point of the post is that philosophers work on how to talk about facts.

> When people say spare me the philosophy, they mean they want to get down to business in a practical way, which they know is possible.

Yes. This is the problem: oftentimes, they are dismissing the second-order effects or non-practical concerns, and the idea of the post is that it takes philosophers to stand up for those other aspects of what's going on.

It's the knee-jerk dismissal (which you're engaging in, it seems like) that philosophers push back against.
Semantics.

Founders building potentially billion dollar businesses (not $10m lifestyle companies) need to have a psychotic drive to achieve that goal.

That often creates tough work environments in the early stages of the company. To many people, failing to build that billion dollar company is the same as outright failing completely. They’ll do whatever it takes to get there. I’ve worked with engineers and designers that like this type of environment. I’ve worked with others that thought they did until it came time to actually pull an 80 hour week.

EDIT: Several downvotes, but only one reply. If you have issue with anything I said I'd appreciate a response.
Defer has the benefit of being dynamic vs the scope tied cleanup.
> actually made me assume the M1 was going to be a flop, and in practice worse than a current high-end Dell laptop

Precisely my thinking. However, I don't think we're the target audience for this Apple generation. If my mother saw it, she'd probably think "great, finally something faster than my computer."

Despite the article's praise of the graphs, I think it's a highly risky move that looks highly suspicious, and can pay off only when you know your target audience, and you know you're 100% right.

If I saw a cloud provider, let's say Oracle Cloud, having a similar graph against the leader, like AWS, they'd lose credibility in my mind. Unless I'd read later they were right, in which case I'd think someone in their marketing just brain farted when making the graphs.
April 7, 2019 26 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19593497
I wonder how it can afford Dubsmash over the tech giants - who seemingly wanted to buy TikTok.
I don't think he said the absence of a positive affirmation, but the positive assertion of a negative value.

Not that they didn't praise rockstars, but they specifically came out against them.
"since covid19 causes some deaths that would not have happened historically"

That would not be a given assumption (under your scenario of zero excess deaths). Old people who would otherwise have died from another reason could die from Covid19 instead.

Or imagine testing everybody for the common cold, and if somebody dies with the common cold virus, they would be counted as a "common cold death". Then you would see a lot of deaths "from the common cold", without any actual change in death rates.
I don't think that any government should ever make such fine-grained regulation. Telling the most innovative companies on the planet how they supposed to function is a recipe for disaster. There will never be another Google-like company if this becomes law that's for sure.

Also of course people have control already, they can chose not to visit websites with ads on them.
I think it’s being used in the sense of quirky, unpolished, local stuff getting replaced by big shiny corporate stuff — drawing a parallel to the mom & pop diner (independent if unreliable blogs) getting driven out by Starbucks (official if slightly soulless websites).
I’d be interested in knowing what qualifies as advertising in this hypothetical.

Web banners? Sponsored content? Trade shows? Sales rep stopping by and buying lunch and talking about a product? Clothing with logos? Hacker News?

There are lots of ways to capture people’s attention to build awareness of your business that probably technically fall under advertising but would be quite difficult to regulate in any meaningful way.
Ah, yes, I maybe should mention that my house is about 50 m from the Baltic? The view of our bay is a significant benefit. Of course, it's covered with ice for several months of the year, and not everybody likes that. >.<
Interesting how the CEO feedback effect also relies on a study of what volume of their stock is traded algorithmically. Also seeing things like this monitoring, for example in AI to predict whether students are cheating. https://unintendedconsequenc.es/ceos-students-algorithms/
That's not the same thing at all. Apple requires Sign In with Apple for all applications that have another social sign-in provider, but if you don't use Facebook or Google sign-in, you don't have to use Apple either (and many companies chose to remove their other SSO options rather than implement Apple's since they couldn't get user's real email addresses). Furthermore, Apple hasn't changed the Apple ID sign-in requirements since the launch of the iPhone (you have to sign in to access Apple services, but if you don't want to and just use your phone for calling and web browsing, you don't have to), whereas Facebook has said you will lose functionality in your original Quest in two years if you do not sign up for Facebook.

There is an argument to be made that I should be able to run native apps on my iPad without having to sign up for an Apple ID, but that's always been the deal since the device existed, and I knew that when buying it.
> Then again, nearly none of the syntactic C features post-C89 have been very compelling or widely adopted.

That's Microsoft's fault; it's 2020 already, and unless things changed since I last looked, their compiler still doesn't have full support for the C99 standard.

Even then, some of the C99 syntactic features have been somewhat widely adopted (at least when not compiling for Windows); off the top of my head, we have "//" comments, declarations in the middle of a block, and designated initializers.
Sure, but then stop advertising the damn thing. That's what I'm reacting to, the advertising. I'm fine with it taking as long as it needs to take. But I've been hearing about it for so long that all excitement for it is completely gone. When it actually drops, it will be met with the word "finally" instead of "awesome".
But people did lots of really smart stuff before Aristotle. Also, the Maya and Aztecs didn't have Aristotle's logic but built an empire and had calendars etc. Sure they were not as advanced at the "meeting time", but who knows where they would have arrived after a few hundred or a few thousand more years.

How much were the high brow elites piggybacking and surfing on top of discoveries and chaotic societal processes that they rather described than created themselves?
We're agreed. I use it for my personal C++ projects. It's really quite awful (I've ranted about it on HN more than once [0][1]) but it's still the least bad choice.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203172

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565266
Being able to read and write code in whatever language you claim to be proficient in on your resume is just table stakes imo. Being self taught I learned the whole team based development life cycle on the job. It was stressful. But it took maybe a month or two and I was proficient at git, setting up CI/CD, writing unit tests, and debugging things to just name a few.

I laud you being willing to teach a junior dev but I just find so many places are not open to hiring juniors at all.
I remember when Gimpel used to do magazine ads with those kind of questions.

Most DDJ or The C/C++ Users Journal issues will have them.
Well v.reddit isn't really working for them e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/fqbcat/i... or https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8oa1ag/why_ar... ... what I wonder if whether that's a lack of engineering effort by reddit or more missing peering agreements or both?
Ian Cooper – TDD: Where did it all go wrong? (2017)
Lambda School was the hardest thing I've done. I learned a lot and happy with it but have been having a really hard time finding a job. I am in the EU. Today I spoke to a recruiter who suggested a few changes in my CV. Lambda's staff for helping graduates find jobs are not doing a good job. I've been trying to get endorsed and don't know how many times I had to message different people about getting it sorted.

Overall, Lambda is great and worth doing but its not perfect. Everyone there means well but there needs to be better structure.
This is the brother of a former housemate of mine, from almost 20 years ago. I emailed him back then to tell him I saw the site and thought it was cool. He told me I should check out his other site: humancock.com.

When I clicked that, the page loaded and read something like, "Shame on you!"

Wise guy, that guy ;-)
RISC is fundamentally unscalable (2019)
Would either of you be willing to chat about your experience?

I work for Abnormal Security (https://abnormalsecurity.com), and we build products to try and catch these type of account takeover attacks.

You can reach me at egreenstein@abnormalsecurity.com.
Admins can go to admin.google.com and click the help button to start a support request.
Somehow the water used by [almond and whatnot] farmers is a problem in CA.

Rain is great, and Earth's water cycle is closed, but plants evaporate water but you won't get it back as rain immediately.

Plus if you install irrigation you are taking water away from somewhere that would likely not evaporate that fast. (Eg from a river.) And if you also happen to have drainage, (eg if you converted a wetland area), then you suddenly discharge too much water from that region, and you won't get it back as rain.
Because its obviously an empty PR response that dismisses the legitimate criticism of the scam/product.
You seem to be talking about/dismissing philosophy as though it's stuck in its very earliest days, one step away intuition.
I understand the logic of EA not developing niche games and the worry that they might kill Dirt Rally off. If that's the case though - why did they buy Codemasters in the first place? That's a lot of money for the trademarks.
ReasonML: Polymorphic Variant Types
> A Lambda deployment has the advantage that no one needs to manage it

I assure you that somebody does need to manage it, and if nobody is you are going to eventually hit the wall at speed.

I've been called into SEV-1 issues where a Lambda-based web app spontaneously disappeared. (Seasoned AWS heads can probably make a guess as to why.)
A great example of why the success of ML in typical ML domains can't be trivially translated to finance. Typical domains lack feedback. A dog won't alter its appearance as a result of being classified by image recognition algos.
If I really get into a flow I will forget to eat and my dog becomes annoyed with me. That’s when I get irritated by stupid phone calls and turn off all of my messaging alerts. I used to do that sort of thing well over fifteen or sixteen hours at a time, but I have tried to curb those types of long sessions recently. I do not think the work improves just because you put in longer hours and perhaps needs even more cleaning up afterwards. so now I tend to think it is just as important to step away from things for a while and do something completely different.
What is absurd is the way every UNIX afficionado is trying to turn my words around.

I talk about the culture of the application developers and what Apple developers that are on the platform since the System days care about, and keep being told Mac OS X is an UNIX.

Of course it is one, that is not the point being made.
Probably because the big tech giants are mostly interested in buying up "market leaders" where they mostly just need to increase monetization options, but the footwork was already done by the company. They are not that interested in "building up" the company, probably also because they know they are clueless about how to do that better than the founders did.
Thanks, I clearly misunderstood then :)

As much as I tend to prefer text I'll still admit there are times when it is harder to understand the intent.
Yes, I'm agreeing that Apple will/is driving away discriminating customers.

Apple is well aware that most of its recent customer growth, and almost all its future customer growth, is in iOS and similar walled gardens.

The Mac users are proving to happily accept greater restrictions on ability so long as their preferred tools continue to work. You state as much yourself: running unsigned software is surprising to you; as though that should be considered abnormal behaviour. Consumers of Mac products will happily accept greater restrictions if they can be convinced it brings quality; whether or not it is successful in doing so.
It's being used loosely to mean "regular folk trying tnliving their simple lives are getting pushed out by moneyed interests, changing a one-person-one-vote culture to a one-dollar-one-vote culture." (Note that in the absence of wealth inequality, these two are equivalent so there's minimal problem with conflating them).
>One of the key interest of C compared to more recent languages is that everything is explicit.

With macros this is not exactly true. I gesture towards the GObject system for an extremely complex situation in big important production software.
I can imagine scenarios where a full refund would be make sense, but refund isn’t really appropriate when we’re talking about small changes in schedule, especially when everyone agreed such changes were possible.
I agree that it seems like the wrong word. "Feudalization" might be a bit closer to what's clearly meant, but still not as close as I'd like. I'm sure the intent is not malicious, but it still seems ironic that OP kind of promises one thing and then delivers another while complaining about that very same thing.
Aha! That does make sense. Though I still feel like it's an odd choice of words, I see what you're meaning is.
Built a $35 RPi-based AirPlay receiver (replacing a dead Airport Express)
They believe that the value-add of Facebook and Horizon will cause enough users to buy the new, cheaper headset vs the people who will not buy it. I don't know if they are right (I want the OASIS as much as anyone but not from Facebook, unfortunately), but people who use Facebook probably don't care all that much. And there's no way they'd make their new social VR space work without a Facebook account (they allowed that on Instagram and now seem to be trying to set up a bunch of interoperability stuff for things like Messenger).
Funny how the solutions to these “global” problems always involve ending capitalism. Perhaps that’s the real goal?
Pluralsight Is Going Private
Scrum master here. I work at least 9-5.30pm each day, but 5.30pm would be an early sign-off. Usually it's at least 6pm.

Depending on the day, I could easily work flat out for 7-8 hrs during my day. Meetings, code debugging, code writing, co-ordinating with the team, answering bug queries, writing backlog stories and documenting processes are some of the things I do each day.

My personal backlog list is probably about 100 items long, and always growing. So there are always things to do, but this is the nature of the SM role.

Deep work happens when I am most relaxed and have a task that is somewhat creative. This could be developing a new process or idea, writing some small code improvement, or thinking about how to improve my team.
I would appreciate having a mode on my car that automatically sets the governor to not exceed the speed limit as found with GPS. I could turn that off if I really need to and otherwise not have to think about the speed limit.
Most crops aren't irrigated.
See also: 100 layer lasagne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5kjO-rTocs
There was a golden age of philosophy 2500 years ago (during a period in which there were very few massacres or genocides). Then there was a long "dark age" in which there were no philosophers and lots of massacres, genocides, and general ignorance. Then philosophy had a resurgence and gave birth to the notion of "facts."

It's hard to imagine how this absurd fantasy vision of western history can lead to insight about anything.
I would tend to agree with you. Unfortunately this proposal is for much more than just block scope cleanup.

This proposal contains a specification for complete stack unwinding in C. It doesn't just specify defer, but also panic and recover, which jumps between functions and cleans up guard blocks across stack frames. It's essentially exceptions for C. This is frankly horrifying and I can't believe the C standards committee is entertaining this.

They claim that this is a separable feature from defer, so maybe they intend for defer to be mandatory and panic/recover to be optional. But much of the design of defer is to support their panic/recover mechanism. This makes it much more complicated than attribute((cleanup)). If they want defer to be taken seriously, they should move all of the panic/recover stuff to a separate proposal. I suspect if they did this, a lot of the design recommendations they've made for defer wouldn't make sense on their own.
SEO content is largely unreliable, as reliable content wins on regular SE pagerank without the O.
Changing the obsession over GDP is one of the ideas put forward in Doughnut Economics.

https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/
I am neither a software developer nor a philosopher, but I am a Computer Science researcher who spends a fair amount of time talking with colleagues in the Philosophy department.

My view is mostly the opposite of the headline -- philosophers need scientists/engineers/practitioners more than the other way around. Asking and attempting to answer big questions about the world requires, first, understanding the world. And today, understanding the world requires immense technical expertise.

One example: philosophers are quick to opine on the problem of bias in machine learning, but almost all lack even a CS 1 level understanding of answers to basic questions like "what is an algorithm?", and therefore mistake these fairly straightforward questions as somehow profound [1]. And all but a precious few philosophers [2] are frankly technically unqualified for discussions about how to actually address bias in ML.

Things only get worse when we enter questions about AI & Theory of Mind, computer ethics, etc.

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[1] Of course, "what is an algorithm?" can result in conversations that lead to deep questions; my point is that there is a standard and more-or-less fit for purpose definition that's given in every CS 1 class, and understanding that definition is a prerequisite for deeper interpretations of the question. Diving off the deep end without having e.g. written and analyzed a simple sorting algorithm will always be a waste of time.

[2] Often those with either excellent training in the analytic tradition or, more commonly, some serious background in a quantitative field such as Mathematics or Physics.