skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have Proton running RL consistently at 250 FPS using the following start command: PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 %command% -nomovie -high -AllowBackgroundAudio

Without D9VK, specifically, the average FPS is around 145. Be sure to use the above, if you're playing with Proton!
I've posted 4 posts in the last 6 days, one of which has 245 up votes and trended on the front page for the entire day.

I only post content I feel is valuable to the Hacker News community. If it isn't valuable it won't trend.
You smoke the flower of Cannabis, mot the leaves... so I guess you're even more likely correct.
That sounds weird and awesome at the same time. Does the face move at all?
Have you thought of using facerigging software?

I wonder what you think of virtual remote space with advanced face rigged avatars as the future?

0] https://facerig.com
Ha, well intersting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_in_Small_Pieces has been deleted.

Apparently it was considered ambiguous promotion.
Bots will slowly come to control Twitter discourse
Please don't hate on my comment, all I can do is ask not to be downvoted, at least I tried. Here is my case against Wikipedia. In a capitalistic model it makes little sense why Wikipedia should thrive without enriching someone so massively in the process, therefore, it must be corrected. If we assume that line of thinking is valid (which I'm not saying we should or shouldn't) then it follows that an alternative Wikipedia riddled with ads would be a superior model, in terms of capitalism. It'd be much more similar to imdb perhaps, owned by Amazon. Wikipedia (in the film category) provides information in a much effective way and can stay on top of change by issuing revisions way better than imdb can ever do.

If we jump to the most logical conclusion of the set of assumptions made above I think it then follows that readily accessible knowledge cannot necessarily be a good thing, otherwise, the market would have rewarded that. But we see in the case of imdb market did not reward it enough for it to achieve the same pedigree as Wikipedia.

It's not good for people to learn facts that easily. There should be a higher cost associated with that. This is of course a ridiculous conclusion but I think it could make sense why it would be true. It is a whole other post for why it would be true but I will only give an example or two.

One example is if knowledge is that easily accessible then anyone could achieve it without necessarily having enough desire to achieve said knowledge, and since we have limited capacity for knowledge acquisition and retainment we are most likely sacrificing knowledge that we are truly passionate about.

Second example is maybe it isn't good for people to know so much anyway. After all there are many things that due to the laws of nature we are inherently incapable of ever knowing such as what is beyond knowable universe (nothing can travel faster than speed of light so we cannot learn about it since the knowledge or light from stuff beyond the knowable universe won't have enough time to ever reach us.)
Ever since I took a color photo printing class, cyan and magenta has been two of my favorite colors. Not to mention Magenta as one of my favorite characters from Rocky Horror.
Documentation by the makers of a program would be first-party.

Something definitely can't be both first-party and community.
I'll just throw in an extra 1up here. I am a very happy customer of Lunch Money. It's the only app I have ever stuck with for any amount of time.

It is still early days for the product, bur it is rapidly improving and the creator is very good and communicate. The couple of times I have requested support (mostly for feature suggestions), she has gotten back to me very quickly.
Recycling Email List – Mailing Contact Database – USA
Some of those are evil secrets. Cheaters ought to be exposed. Living a lie is a terrible way to live.
I'm using Firefox and rather not touch Flash to begin with. Besides, all browsers are going to ditch it for good soon, due to Adobe declaring its EOL this year¹. So all such sites should really do something about it.

1. https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/
We actually built a "walkie-talkie mode" in Cyph (cyph.com) for a lot of the same reasons. Interesting to know that other people are thinking about this!
Thank you for your well researched response. That answered my question.
The system is complex, but I would argue against it being unknowable. We do not know all the details right now, but it is possible we will know them in the future.
I've been using https://copilot.money/ which is great.

Clean UI, uses Plaid to import transactions, paid for by subscription, not your data.
still heaps of proxy culture wars to fight while straining NPOV to the limit!
How is a phone call not the highest form of immediacy? Short of an actual pager event implying downtime and process, what could be higher priority to someone working out of office?
Got ADHD diagnosed little over a year ago, at age 30 after dropping college twice, failing tons of classes and having been unable to manage anything.

My parents absolutely loathe people with mental illnesses and it took me a decade after moving out to get things together enough to visit a doctor for my long lasting depression, which eventually lead me down the path to a diagnosis of ADHD. They required parental interviews which made the doctor rule out ADHD at first, but every single thing my mother reported was a lie, and after contacting estranged grandparents who met me a lot as a kid it was diagnosed.

I landed a job as a COBOL developer and spend all free time trying to learn more technologies, but I hate myself for not finishing a degree, which is the only one thing I've always wanted to do, and letting so many people down and never making any friends during my studies because I was always too far behind to dare work together with them.

So now I'm in debt from a loan I took years ago to not end up homeless, no degree and crappy work experience from jobs requiring no qualifications, working on legacy tech on a dying project without being able to afford relocating and nothing to show for if applying to more modern tech stack jobs.

Now I feel great, started reading and learning things, but I just resent myself from before I got on this medicine that makes me work.
Disney has them everywhere and lets you bring in water bottles, I’d bet Universal will follow suit.
Keyword: were

We can't be yoked perennially to the past.
IME it's about time spent maintaining code rather than an age/experience thing, devs that flock like locusts from green field to green field will never learn, devs that maintain "clever" code will learn pretty quickly.
To take a contrarian viewpoint: maybe Wikipedia isn't so good after all.

In a capitalistic model it makes little sense why Wikipedia should thrive without enriching someone so massively in the process, therefore, it must be corrected. If we assume that line of thinking is valid (which I'm not saying we should or shouldn't) then it follows that an alternative Wikipedia riddled with ads would be a superior model, in terms of capitalism. It'd be much more similar to imdb perhaps, owned by Amazon. Wikipedia (in the film category) provides information in a much effective way and can stay on top of change by issuing revisions way better than imdb can ever do.
If we jump to the most logical conclusion of the set of assumptions made above I think it then follows that readily accessible knowledge cannot necessarily be a good thing, otherwise, the market would have rewarded that. But we see in the case of imdb market did not reward it enough for it to achieve the same pedigree as Wikipedia.

It's not good for people to learn facts that easily. There should be a higher cost associated with that. This is of course a ridiculous conclusion but I think it could make sense why it would be true. It is a whole other post for why it would be true but I will only give an example or two.

One example is if knowledge is that easily accessible then anyone could achieve it without necessarily having enough desire to achieve said knowledge, and since we have limited capacity for knowledge acquisition and retainment we are most likely sacrificing knowledge that we are truly passionate about.

Second example is maybe it isn't good for people to know so much anyway. After all there are many things that due to the laws of nature we are inherently incapable of ever knowing such as what is beyond knowable universe (nothing can travel faster than speed of light so we cannot learn about it since the knowledge or light from stuff beyond the knowable universe won't have enough time to ever reach us.)
Pretty much every site that depends on Google search and organic traffic is in trouble. Trip Advisor, Expedia, Booking.com, most OTAs. Their lunch is being eaten.
> you think the people who do genetic ancestry are idiots.

I've seen anonymous but redacted proof-bearing confessions from people these companies saying they "fuck with pure white people" by throwing in random ethnicities, so...at minimum, not all of them respect the integrity of their work.

Which shouldn't surprise anyone, due to...them being humans.
Unfortunately, personal finance has been strange as far as innovation is concerned. Mostly it has regressed (negative innovation?). I haven't encountered a single service that has managed to even come close to the depth and breadth of decades old Microsoft Money. MS Money supported budgeting, bills, cashflow forecast, investment portfolio, performance, allocations, comparative reporting etc. All with a incredible depth. Despite all its faults, MS built an incredible product, just that it didn't move their bottom line. It was a sad moment when they discontinued it.

Today I like Personal Capital. But it lacks breadth. Solid Portfolio tracking, Retirement Planner. Shallow budgeting, bill tracking, cash flow.

I miss MS Money
For Google’s current product, yes. What if they would start to offer a paid ‘utility’ search that is both transparent and regulated, and part of the service fee would go to fighting adversaries?
Ask HN: Which are your top five computer programs?
In terms of

1. Utility: It is useful!

2. Reliability: It will always work when you need it to!

3. Uniqueness: It gives you the option of doing things that would never have been necessary before it came along.

4. Aesthetic: It satisfies your sense of beauty: It gives you the same kind of feeling a painting or a poem would.

5. Transcendence: It transcends the zeitgeist and is the simplest it can and thus ought to be.

(Shamelessly copied from https://tildes.net/~comp/l5b/which_are_your_top_five_computer_programs)

Original poster's are:

Vim

mutt

The Lucas Arts point and click adventure games

A Lisp interpreter

grep

I'm a noob, so mine are Ubuntu LTS and good old Firefox.
Non-Volatile Memory Tradeoffs Intensify
You're glossing over that Wikipedia would not be feasible if you had to pay people to do it, and if it were not free, you'd have to pay people to do it. Your "capitalistic model" likely does not correspond sufficiently to reality to be useful. And why did you write this comment? There is no need for a "case against Wikipedia."
I am truly sorry my thread offended you. I assure it was not my intention to provoke that reaction in anyone.
Mastercard announces new $510M cybersecurity centre in Vancouver
MOOC Market to Witness 20X Growth in a Decade, Notes Fact.mr
Eating bats in Wuhan:
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/warnings/chine...
It certainly is, compare Vietnam to Iraq. If LBJ and Nixon had predator drones we never would have left.
We actually have a feature in Pragli that sort of does this... https://pragli.com/blog/live-avatars-with-faceapi-js/
> Obviously, there are a lot of caveats here. Numbers such as the DLC Revenue Percentage (relative to non-DLC revenue) and profit margin are completely made up by me

LOL. Even otherwise, without factoring in the percentage of operating expenses devoted to supporting Linux, trying to calculate profit numbers is meaningless.
Like this?

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/deadly-diy-homema...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homemade-submachine-guns-seize...
Agree with lots of the article but:

> One study used ‘mood-freezing candles’ to trick some volunteers into thinking their low mood was frozen and, in this case, they didn’t bother procrastinating.

What?
If they get a sample from the kid, they will be able to say with certainty that the commenter is the parent.

They wouldn't be able to tell the difference between kids of the same gender, but if you only have one kid or a boy and a girl, they would be able to pick out the kid.
It's just "Tor".
Yeah I saw that but it's not as fluid yet. I am thinking of 3d faces with realistic facial texture and expressions.

Btw, nice product!
I am saying that it would not be feasible, we're actually in agreement on that point.

> And why did you write this comment?

I feel like you want comments to always have a political motive.

> There is no need for a "case against Wikipedia."

It's an intellectual exercise.
Most recent poll has Yang at 8% nationally, beating Bloomberg, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar. And Yang has been left of several polling questions entirely (whereas Klobuchar and Buttgieg always included) and left out of several graphics on TV.

Which is to say, he has been written off prematurely and in fact is gaining massively.
After enjoying "the good years" on Mac, I've been a daily Ubuntu user for two years and given I'm not a heavy gamer, I don't jump into Windows that often.

That said, I'm in the process of building a new primary machine and it's going to be WSL because I want to have it all: functional SteamVR, titles that work by default instead of pleasant surprise, not having to accept whatever monopoly-building bully-tactics Apple decides to force down the pipe...

I know that, at least in Wall Street terms, Apple is now a lifestyle fashion accessory manufacturer that only supports Macs and OS X because they feel generous, but it still makes me really sad. They clearly don't want to play ball with the mainstream gaming world, that's for sure. And "Tim Apple" believes that AR is more important than VR, so I don't anticipate the VR front getting any love period.

And so I fold my hand. I used to feel like using Mac OS or Ubuntu was a legitimate power move and not just a political act, but these days the only people who deliberately choose Apple or Linux as a daily-drive OS are just masochists when WSL is so well implemented. If the Windows kernel ended up being the best Linux infrastructure, there's a dark joke in there somewhere.
The "Seafood Market" is not really a seafood market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanan_Seafood_Wholesale_Marke...
It's not contradictory. My point is it's counterproductive to bring DK into the picture, and I'm pushing back against the way it's used in popular culture. (So, absolutely tilting at windmills, but oh well.)

First, it's adding a false veneer of scientism. All it's asking for is a rough test of competence; citing a wholly irrelevant science paper won't make that test grounded in any kind of methodology.

Second, there's this implied moral condemnation of people who are incompetent. Obviously, we're all incompetent in most things, so that's a strange thing to moralize. But the way DK is used in popular culture, there's an added dimension of, "this arrogant idiot thinks he's competent, but my test really took him down a peg."
What's interesting is Wuhan is home to a virology research center. They were literally testing bats inside of Wuhan for viral diseases. This makes me think this strain broke out of the lab. From the above article:

"...to clinch the case, a team led by Shi Zheng-Li and Cui Jie of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China sampled thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across the country"
I phrased it wrong. It was a stream from webcam to indicate I was there. I don't think it needs to be good quality or fast frame rate though. Maybe even better if it's really pixellated. Just something to remind people. If somebody forgot to turn on the tv I had to mute the chatter in my end as well, because people very easily start having too private conversations.

Avatar could be quite fun but maybe too uncanny as well.
Static typings + type inference

Parse, don't validate https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

All libs/products should be pure functions, with input output documented, making libs/products predictable

Use in-app event sourcing to reduce the need for global states states

DoD https://youtu.be/yy8jQgmhbAU
In non bare-metal languages, this will be useful for readability

For errors, return instead of throw
If every kid has an equally advantaged upbringing then by definition a crack-whore[1] is as good a mother as anyone's. I'm no social-psychiatrist but I'd wager 'wanting to provide better for one's offspring' ranks just behind 'food' and 'sex' as primal motivators.

Please don't take this as an argument against taking steps to improve education and opportunity[2], only that anything approaching true flatness would represent a massive disruption of social order and motivation.

[1] Literal.

[2] I agree with most of your suggestions; educated persons are valuable.
That is a beautiful example of more-is-less. Anyone understanding the principle would never have bought those dishwashers.
Unconfirmed Videos from Wuhan
Sometimes I worry about projects about Wikipedia and the Archive. When will they run out of storage space and money? When will it become too big to handle?
Oh yeah that would be awesome... I definitely think that's the future
What with the recent smoke, ash, dust and rain in Melbourne, may I suggest the name “Yarra Blue”.
7. auto-categorization
Key Takeaways of the Quantum Dot Display Market Study
America sounds absolutely terrifying.
Linear and logical troubleshooting LOL ok I did learn that there too. Same thing came in right after converge took over at ibm campus.
also, browserify --node or noderify for deployment?
China built a Military style 1000-bed Field Hospital (Xiaotangshan)[1][2], 20 miles direct north of Forbidden city in May 2003 to accommodate SARS patients. From design to completion took a week, 4000 construction works working non-stop with 500 equipments from 6 construction companies finished it in just 7 days. It was eventually torn down in 2010.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaotangshan,_Beijing
[2]: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B1%A4%E5%B1%B1%E5...
Huh, had no idea, thanks for bringing that up.
Obvious follow-up question: Say the insurance company is using a third-party that they buy some kind of individual "healthiness/sickness benchmark" from, that just so happens to be heavily derived from on this genetic information, which the health insurer never sees in raw - would that fall under this? Seems like an easy way to skirt this regulation, but i am obv NAL.
I'd second that. Brilliant work.

I'd love to see a technical teardown.
>Not at all the same comparison.

No, their comparison was perfect! They said roadle owned 70% of roads, not all of them. Sure, businesses can hope that they get their traffic from non-Google search, but if customers are going to Google for 70+% of search, that's a doomed business strategy.

Their point isn't that Google is bad for consumers, it's that it's unfair for businesses if Google is driving all the search to its own properties that you are trying to compete with.
I kinda doubt a bit of olive drab is going to make the difference. Pictures of cancerous lung tissue send a pretty clear message though.
That's is the same in all of the Southern Europe, not just Italy. Odd coming from a Spaniard when for sure she saw literally thousands in her life.
Texas Student May Have Wuhan Coronavirus, as Dozens in U.S. Are Monitored
"U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs explained that she reached the lesser sentence after considering Kapoor's advanced age and philanthropy" - So if you are going to hook people on your drugs, ruin their lives and make billions off of them, as long as you give some of it away that makes it better. Uh, ok.
Dota 2

* Plethora of mechanics and combinations possible, make it impossible for two games to ever be the same.

* Steep learning curve but very rewarding

I am fairly sure it will stay around at least for 3-4 more years (given the current popularity and player base).
How long before we see an article about consumers repairing and chasing down ancient refrigerators that are sadly inefficient but at least repairable?

Inefficient? Maybe "old" (60s-80s?), but not "ancient" (30s-50s) --- this article might be worth reading:

http://web.archive.org/web/20121218033749/http://www.greenbu...

The 1930s GE Monitor-Top (ironicallly also made by GE, but the good old GE) uses less power than a lot of modern refrigerators, and many others from that era are similar. Despite their age, used working ones are very expensive.

I have a 1938 Frigidaire which I restored. The compressor, which was marketed as the "Meter-Miser", draws less than 100W when running, and it doesn't run very often. So far it seems it will be around 280kWh/year. It has no "smarts" to subvert me, and the sealed nature of the system means that it could likely continue running for another century and outlast me...
I concur it is hard to keep continuity while battling waves of inconsistent motivation. While we hardly have the same experience with the issue, I would like to share a few additional models with you. They are not any close to a solution, but might be helpful thinking about:

I found Brain Hacking a helpful tool.

What incentives can you setup to use your own "instincts" in your favor?

"Long tail" projects are a very good call. If the required endeavor for success is big and challenging, you are likely to get drawn back to it out proud, "just to prove yourself". It might help assuming it is your responsibility to get it done. The waves will keep coming regardless, but I found that even in the dark moments, you can still advance, if just a little, and sometimes you will be surprised by finding out a time of complete aversion was exactly what you needed to step back up. I can see you are self-conscious of those moments so maybe an "OK, I am depressed. What is the least I can do while in this state of mind?" is a good exercise.

I got involved into a project that might take many years to finish and I became obsessed with it in a way the great majority of my thoughts, regardless of how messy, fall into its reign. Many might tell you to shoot for Balance instead. That sounds nice, but as an ADHD myself, I am not afraid of saying singleminded dedication to a cause is not as bad as people might tell you.

One way I found to cope with it is to apply Gamification in my routine. Every finished mission is one step less towards the vision. Another strategy I use is to go the opposite way of the norm by removing all source of information instead of feeding on them. I really mean no books, no articles, no podcasts, no HN, no YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, etc; you name it, anything that would likely bring you anxiety. In this state of mind your mission will be canalizing your thoughts into something you find useful. Repeat.

To finish, for what it comes to career as an Engineer/Artist, I would say that following a passion, even if inconsistently, will likely be a better lesson, both technically and creatively, than any job you could find in the system. I once got two very good job offers by basically saying "I am too adventurous. I won't ever fit your archaic corporative structure. Are you sure you want me in?". That said, nothing really beats the thrill of being a maker. Have you ever lurked into Systems Design?
They're in the making-money business and their brand is associated with sound. They will manipulate their product lines and revenue streams to maximize the value of their brand, to maximize profit.
The Three Forms of Persuasion: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
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