skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an author of a browser game https://bad.city I noticed that over the last 5 years browser performance became 10x faster. The game currently works at 60fps, even on 2 year old Galaxy Note and has 0ms lag. With web workers and web assembly soon we'll see AAA games running in the browser on any device. No need to download 50gb game when you can progressively stream the 3d models in real time while playing and it will not depend on latency. It's already possible to run local wifi game servers on the phones.

I see Stadia working for casual games on smart TVs but not for any competitive gaming.
This process creates too much lag:
send controller input over the wire, render on server, compress 4k video, send over the wire to the client, decompress 4k video, display in the device
There's also the option of open source fitness tracker apps that don't upload your data anywhere, i.e. Gadgetbridge which I use.
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You are wrong:
I am familiar with the CS Lewis quote

1) In this case the nation working behind the scenes is China. American imperialism I concede is bad. However, the Chinese have quietly been breaking over 50 international regulations and laws from the WTO and universal declaration of human rights.

2) The Chinese do care what you do. Just last week the Swedish government was going to give an award to an activist in Sweden, and the CCP threatened the entire country - pathetic. The Australians said they do not agree with Chinese human rights violations, so they were denied entry (clearly they care). I also question how one can determine what is "challenging" the CCP when it is a mercantilist nation with hands in every basket.

3) Enforcing the war on drugs all over the world? Like asking China not to ship fentanyl? Sure.

4) America is pushing the war on financial privacy? Hello, have you seen Alipay and Wechat before? Do you realize cash is still a major way that some people get paid in America? Perhaps in swift you could argue undue transparency, but wire transfers are a different subject.

5) American intellectual property infringement? ...do you mean like the Chinese forced intellectual property transfer?

Lastly, on the CS Lewis quote. America is constantly at odds with its conscience. Half the country is constantly calling out the other half. In China if you don't tow the imperial / mercantilist line your social credit goes down and your freedoms are limited.
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The dead weight of corruption is seen not just in the embezzled funds that we happen to know about. Corruption contaminates and degrades everything it touches. The media, which it abducts to its ends. The political atmosphere, which becomes a farce of competing, corrupt self-interests masked behind ideologies that grow ever more extreme as quality of life deteriorates. We enter into a twilight of democracy, where nobody is clean, crime has no meaning, laws serve no good purpose, and no improvement seems possible.

When the powers that be embezzle 49 billion dollars and are voted out, it's a miracle of democracy. It is the one saving grace, the only alternative to continuing decline. The people who orchestrated this are none other than a teetering legal system and voters who were sliding toward the abyss.
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Except that the "useless" jokes will always win the view battle since they are very easy (i.e short) to consume. However, that doesn't take away from the fact that people are consuming long form videos and podcasts
There already is. In tech reporting, the criterion whether it can be fit into the pre-existing narrative of Big Tech being evil. There are similar numbers of people thanking Google for new features every day, but you won't hear about that.
The idea that what a CEO does on his own time would somehow reflect on a drug-free workplace is pretty farfetched.

Is the CEO of Boeing a teetotaler? If not, should we launch an investigation? There might very well be drinking in the workplace.
Free to leave to where? Solitary confinement in a UK prison for publishing embarrassing information? Yeah, I would respectfully disagree with you there.
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In what sense are integers and booleans sum types? What is the definition of sum types that booleans fit? Is it just that it can be true or false, and because there's the "or", it's a sum type?
Maybe there was ice cover during the relevant satellite passes? But I'm not sure why they wouldn't also have issues with Superior too then. (And I'd expect summer passes to be required for things like grass cover, so it's not like they don't look at that)
The answer is much simpler. Before the comment was edited, it said "Trust me, it never worked", which does not describe a personal experience but dismisses everyone else's.
It's not a cure, and the sample sizes are low, but low level laser therapy (LLLT) has been shown to bring significant improvement to some people with tinnitus:

"Over half of the patients (56.9%) had some form of improvement in their tinnitus symptoms. Mild improvement was reported in 33.8% of patients, moderate improvement was reported in 16.9%, and full improvement was reported in 6.15%. Of the patients who reported dizzy spells as a symptom of their tinnitus condition, 27.7% reported mild improvement and 16.9% reported full improvement."

(My own note regarding that study: 5mW at 650nm does not penetrate tissue very deeply; one could e.g. use 100mW at 850nm to penetrate up to 5cm deep. Exposure time would likely have to be reduced by at least an order of magnitude.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658799/

Also:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830897/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063436/
That's not entirely true with Hackintoshes being a thing now.
News flash. War is not pretty. You prefer a communist dictatorship with a death toll of 100 million civilians ruling the world?
it failed for me because the UI was slow as molasses and the circles functionality, while cool, was not clear in the sense that it was not clear who could see what when "posting to circles"
> superhero movies are a currently especially popular one

Is this really a new thing? As far as I can tell, the trope of the superhero has been wildly popular throughout cultural history. Achilles, Thor, Arthur, and so on.
23 hours involuntary solitary confinement is legit confirmed psychological torture. Self-inflicting that is either self-harm or else you are doing meaningful activities indoors and it's not the same thing at all.
Why post the Quanta write up on a months old publication? OpenAI released this months ago: https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/ and IMO, did a much better job of explaining/detailing everything.

EDIT: Just finished reading both and I can say the Quanta publication doesn't add anything except a short tangent about the history of self-play. Seriously, go read the openAI publication. It has great reactive visualizations and is much more put together.
over 600 unarmed policemen were killed for peace and independence ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_massacre_of_Sri_Lankan_Po...
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This is not a great solution.
Very few problems need unlimited, unbounded research. An effective employee limits him/herself to only the biggest problem and risk areas, rapidly focusing on the biggest unknowns and ignoring the little stuff.

If the project is very complex, you MIGHT need to understand the whole thing in excruciating detail... but then you still must take that huge corpus of knowledge and distill it down to software (or a verbal summary for the team!) focused on the highest-risk areas.

In this particular case, I think it may help to focus on the business value and timeline. "Your goal is not to do the best X, your goal is to deliver Value Y in Timeline Z. Give me the best one of those you can, but if I don't end up with Y by Z then you're doing it wrong." Help him understand that perfection is not the goal, and that failure to deliver is imperfection.
This is Illinois, those who want to cut taxes are a minority and rarely have power.
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I figured out the issue. You're assuming you can bet any fraction you want, while Pascal's mugging requires a specific bet, take it or leave it.

Maximizing log wealth will require taking such bets at less than 100% of your current wealth, provided the payout is high enough. That's easily proven with simple algebra: if you start with X, taking a bet requiring 99.99% of X and paying Y:1 and a probability of Z of paying out, then expected log value of taking it is log(X/10,000)(1-Z)+log((YX*9999/10000)+X/10,000)(Z). This goes to infinity as Y goes to infinity.
That's essentially what the article title ("some fitbit users") said before OP truncated it.

Credit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21573658
Ah yes, my assumption was that it was later determined that they were bystanders, not that it was known at the time.
Where is it stated that relatability and universality are lesser artistic qualities?
Agree, Marvel characters are narcissistic elitists that in every movie seems as if they like destroying civilian cities for things that they caused themselves. The MCU movies are overdone but Disney knows that it’s like crack for kids and teenagers.
Since foreign organizations were mentioned up-thread: Were that many emails and documents only provided to American newspapers or also non-American ones?
The Technic AROCS (42043) has a full pneumatic system that’s pressurised by an electrically-powered pump and has valves for directing air around to different components. It also has a full gearbox for directing power from the electrical motor to the different electrically-powered components in the model. I think Technic is still creating interesting new, reusable mechanical components.
Stadia only requires the Stadia controller if you're playing on a Chromecast Ultra.

If you're playing on a Phone or in a browser window, then you can use most third party gamepads (8bitdo, Xbox, PS4)
Why do you think this?

He was engaged in what was legal on a local basis. Where is the risk to his security clearance? Blackmail is out since the behavior was clearly public.

Do his two puffs on a joint indicate some sort of allegiance to a foreign power?

Does the violation of any federal law or regulation disqualify someone from holding a security clearance?
I certainly judge it that way. I can't stand rewatching a movie and I really can't stand watching a movie that is predictable. I beleive this is related to my personality type though. Maybe it's an ADD thing?
What made me realise this too was seeing Endgame. Thanos with his population control, cosmic agenda could have been satire from an angry christian conservative who wanted to rant about climate change liberals and the club of rome or something.

It's really funny if you pay attention to villains in super-hero movies how often they're foreign or alien in origin with some environmental or grand agenda. Ra's al ghul is no different, and Bane of course who in Nolan's movie is the villian for bringing wall street down.

It's funny how loved these movies are usually by stereotypically 'woke' audiences when the moral of the story so often seems like something that could have come straight out of the 1950s.
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My office has plenty of hum and hiss, so no.
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You'd be surprised how often that is not enough unless you're willing to hold their arms full time.
I have mild tinnitus so that's what brought me here, but I wonder about something else from the article. They wanted to test for motion sickness while facing backwards. That's my minor pet peeve. I think that we can't realistically think of driving in something in a size of a car facing backwards, because it's just inherently dangerous. In case of an accident anything in your hands will hit you hard in your face, neck or chest. Same with whatever people in front of you would have. So: hot coffee, bottles, books, laptops and phones.
It has been long enough and Valve quiet enough that delivering anything meets expectations. We aren't in one of those cycles which ended in disappointment like Duke Nukem or Battlecruiser 3000? which took forever to deliver and underwhelmed on all counts.

the only way to alienate fans would be to use it as a platform to deliver a political message; many game players take offense at such and it horribly dates games that do much like music
That's why I'm always leery of ordering shrimp cocktail when having dinner with my Jewish friends.

- signed, the world's most passive aggressive dinner companion
If you had written "It never helped me" that would have been telling your experience.

"Trust me, it never helped me" is entirely different.
My experience as a moderate tinnitus sufferer the high-pitched tone you hear is basically the same thing but at a lower level - I think most people have it to some extent. But in sufferers the tone is much louder, normally after some damage to the ear from excessively loud sounds or similar.
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Everything can look like KKK if you really, desperately want to make it into a race issue.
Yes but also not necessarily a big spending demographic. It seems better to target nostalgic late 20's to early 40-somethings since they are more likely to have the disposable income for a VR capable desktop and VR headset.
A threshold is a good thing, because if you can be entirely selective in your reporting, then you can convince people of any narrative you want. This is the Chinese robber fallacy [0].

0: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin...
I think part of the problem is the massive success of the MCU. Before the MCU, superhero movies did not seem so homogeneous. There were plenty of flops, but more interesting experiments as well. Consider the weird artistic and tonal shifts between the 90s Batman movies.

The MCU is such a homogeneous set of films. None of them are actively bad like many of the DC movies, but they all blend together so that nothing sticks out or feels unique either. This is made explicit in how Disney exercised creative control over these movies to keep them from straying too far from the intended formula and feel[1].

[1] https://www.cinemablend.com/new/How-Iron-Man-2-Ruined-Jon-Fa...
Not sure it applies to FPS, but nausea in VR first person continuous movement almost completely disappears after 2-3 hours (over a few days) of gameplay on lower turning speed.

I played Fallout 4 like this a bit, and my wife spent nearly 100h in Skyrim VR.
You should definitely consider korean movies (Parasite, Train to Busan, The Handmaiden, Memories of Murder, The Wailing, I Saw the Devil, ...)
I don't think superhero films are as popular for their themes as their predictability. The Avengers universe hit on a formulaic, y-o-y predictable movie strategy and Marvel has been taking it to the bank.

By franchise, superhero films are doing fairly poorly. It just happens that Marvel has a war chest of shitty content and can tell publishers with confidence that they have a profitable movie.

Why is it profitable? (Somewhat circularly) because it is successful. They can pour these big budgets into lame tropes that no one really likes, but critically no one really hates so they can get that mass (international) market appeal.

The problem that all of these racism narratives ignore is that while, yes, North America has the largest box office revenue it's still on 30% of the global market. Super heroes are popular because they are boring and appeal to the 12-year-old child in everyone.
yes fixed point is a good alternative. Floating point can get you in trouble if you are testing for equality too, i.e. pressure == 2 mBar. I've seem people always put a threshold around it, so something like pressure <= 2.1 mbar AND pressure >= 1.9 mbar
In the US, in particular at least one NYC government agency, unionized "system analyst" jobs are common. They get a defined salary based on experience and level, an assigned eight hour shift with half-hour lunch break, and a clock that must be punched into on time. Another has kind and caring help desk people who nevertheless carefully watch the clock.
They aren't meant to be anything more than a quick thrill. They are literally the equivalent of a theme park ride and that's the whole point. Contrary to popular belief not everything you do in life needs to be mind blowing and life changing. Sometimes you just need to sit back and enjoy the ride.

"Life is a playground or nothing." -Jaco Van Dormael
Last time I checked in on you guys was when you posted last on HN. The new pricing looks great - you addressed one of my concerns. But even better is that I see some new killer features you've brought online! Keep up the great work.
By that logic portraits aren't art.
im still very skeptical that predictive rollback is gonna feel very good to play with, ggpo is still probably the best existing version of rollback netcode and it still gets pretty fucky when it has to roll back

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TZdY9_XHo
How about the Bond style spy movies.

The movies where everything gets better by breaking out in song and dance.

The crime dramas where the nice, hard working lawyer gets someone else to confess on the stand while defending his client.

Even "The Godfather" is escapist in the sense that they really are just about their families in the end and aren't really that bad, except to the other gangsters who are worse. They're protecting us.

Same deal for sports. What difference does it make if green team beats yellow team this week?

I think this is really another case of looking down on comics as being "for kids".

Really, if people are going to take down anything purely for being escapist, musicals should be the first to go :)
Some of us westerners are shocked and disgusted by the recent pardons as well. I would categorize American military existence as 'brutal and immoral' to start. Don't throw us all out with the bathwater.
I agree that standing trial for rape must be terrifying, but that doesn't mean he's being persecuted. We've agreed upon a system of justice that best protects the rights of both the accuser and the accused, and he decided to deny the alleged victim their day in court. He was free to leave the embassy, he was free to defend himself from humiliation, but he chose not to.
Reality is not increasingly depressing. Reality is simply itself. It has no tone, no emotions, no motives, no trend. So saying this is not helpful; in fact, it's sort of highlighting part of the problem. The fact that people are more frequently describing "reality" as something that exists as a sphere that can be rejected or escaped or avoided is concerning to me. If "reality" is itself what's depressing, what other choice is there? Reality is all there is.

Don't forget that one of the goals of the flavor of government seen in my country, America, is that of cultivating mass apathy. It's tyranny by way of "nothing I do really matters so why try." Convincing people that this concept of reality is what's going sour, and not the "leadership" evidenced by the 0.001%, must be a massive win for them.

Escaping from your personal stressors for a little while by sinking into a movie or a book is perfectly reasonable. It's when it turns into an -ism and becomes the centerpiece of our cultural milieu that we should be very concerned.
Nice example of prevalent victim blaming.
The mentally ill person expected to cure themselves? Really?
If you consider her to be setting herself for failure, why did nobody help her before it was too late?

There are very strong social pressures on staying working. Be the hero to buck them, see what your spouse thinks if you have one. Or friends - suddenly you're considered a loser.

And the key thing is that switching jobs requires patience and actual work to not land in the same or worse hole. Even then, when truly exhausted, you might be unable to hold on in the new place.

Develop useful skills? Taking say up to six years with what money and energy? Then getting hired while being older this many years, quite a challenge.

What's your solution? "Stiff upper lip?" Boundless forced optimism? Job hopping? Just being rich? Having actual friends? (but not everyone is so lucky)

Even psychologists have problems dealing with this thing.
> Stallman was arguing exactly on the opposite: just because it is of legal age in some country, it doesn't make rape any less rape.

Stallman was replying to "Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it rape in the Virgin Isiands." with "Does it really? I think it is moraily absurd to define "rape" in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17. i think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that the term "sexuai assault" is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone."

> https://web.archive.org/web/20190502114026/https://www.aklag...

They use rape as to include breaking a condom -- which is exactly why Stallman and I are against using terms like rape to describe a much less serious (or a much more serious) offence, because it confuses people.
> I was glad to get away from all the crazy IDE world that I had to deal with in my C++ AAA days and just working with a minimalistic but extremely fast and powerful text editor.

Makes me wonder what do they use for AAA games, could it be Visual Studio?
That's a really bad choice and it will result in surprisingly unpredictable results because terminating divisibility by 10 is much much more complicated than by a pure power of a prime.

I imagine whole classes of unexpected problems like timing side channel attacks, financial types expecting it to work better and missing easily overlooked corner cases...

How do I know this? I spent two years investigating exact versus inexact arithmetic in the context of computational science.

>It uses exact rational arithmetic for values that it can represent that way, preferring correctness to efficiency

Fwiw, floats do exactly this the only difference is that you've changed your base from 2 to 10 and introduced unnecessary computation for what is maybe a 10% increase in exactly computable values.
I'm looking to do something similar - spin up EC2 instances, deploy a script to them, run that script with various parameters, have it all defined in some template somewhere in our repo.

Did you look at EC2 UserData at all when you decided to use Ansible? I asked about this use case on the AWS Slack and someone pointed me at it. I haven't had a look yet but if you've used it as well as Ansible then I'd be curious to know how they compare/how you ended up with Ansible + CF instead.
Snowden hasn't, I don't believe, ever claimed that the law he broke was particularly unjust or that he'd be unfairly persecuted should he return to the US. He just felt that breaking the law was worth it, and importantly was and is comfortable living with the consequences.

Assange didn't do that. He just claims unfair persecution.
It seems like being human is a messy affair, and one particularly hard to sort out.
The “or” makes it a sum type.
Far from academic, but this is the first thing that came to my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l1PMVvfjDM
Good point. But whether they do (or don't) care, the fact that these problems aren't being fixed for so long now implies that they don't consider the damage to their bottom line to be significant enough to invest any major resources into fixing them. Which is why thinking about competitive solutions is worth-while, I think. Having a platform that would solve these problems well, and hence poach the disillusioned creators, might be enough motivation for YouTube to start moving.
There are also some other causes of tinnitus. For some patients SSRIs (and SSRI-like medications, like Tramadol) cause tinnitus. Paper on it: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(17)310...