skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had absolutely no clue pico-8 could do snes style 3d like that. What a fun little game.
I think the parent thinks Google or Valve can wave a wand and suddenly all these games will be ported to a new platform despite no user base, little incentive to be first on the platform, and murky licensing.
> After that, realizing that my preferred decongestant was not only helping my cold symptoms, but also allowing me to pay attention when people were talking and complete plans in a "this seems like that thing other people are really good at, but I'm not" kind of way... that was a major tell.

Interesting. Was it pseudoephedrine? I took Allegra-D every day in high school and college to manage allergies as wells as colds and sinus infections. (I hear that's not advisable, but I didn't know any better then, and somehow my allergist didn't either.) I wonder if it was helping me concentrate also.

I've never been diagnosed with ADHD, but many of the things people are describing here are familiar. Overall I've been pretty successful in life despite this, but I've had my ups and downs. The pandemic has been a down; I'm really struggling with concentration, so much so that I left my job and am taking a sabbatical before finding another. There are certainly valid reasons it's been hard (e.g., I have two young kids, went entirely without daycare for a while, and am helping my son with online kindergarten now) but they seem to affect me much more than my wife, whether that's due to undiagnosed ADHD, anxiety, the different natures of our work, burn-out, or some other factor.
Product Management and the MBAs that thought of it are nothing but a joke. Bloat bloat bloat
I agree that Sale should have paid the bet and claimed that he was a bit "early" about when the destruction would come.

In 1995 a person could have bought a US Treasury zero coupon bond for about $130 maturing in 25 years for . . . $1000. No other purchase would have been necessary to cover the bet. Relatively cheap insurance, I think.
FYI there are still more than 8,000 NNTP servers on the Internet:

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=200+nntp
I've used it to inform what I am doing in PHP, so thanks FastAPI, meet mixerapi.com
Sorry I don't know what happened here is a new youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooqBn1Q-y2Q

It's from this page: https://opstrace.com/docs/quickstart
It sounded like the gp was referring to median wages in the US.
I have ADHD and am well-read on the subject. The passage I posted applies to both people with and without ADHD.

This is another passage from the same paper:

> As it remains unclear whether stimulant medication has the same effect on healthy individuals as for those with ADHD, it is possible that many reported effects of prescription stimulants in healthy individuals may stem from placebo effects.

If you have a citation that argues that stimulants affect people with and without ADHD differently I’d love to read it.
> Eskimos and now interact with Burmese political prisoners

And how precisely does any of these parties benefit from said interaction?
I don't know. I can see it going both ways, but I think that modern technology has reduced introspection for many people. In the news today, it's all about sound bites and hyperbolic headlines. I thing the intellectual attributes of news sources has declined. I thought I saw a study or thread on HN supporting the claim, but now I can't find it.
ir-Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
Are Charter Schools Being Punished for Their Success?
> urging a return to a subsistence economy

yeah, no thanks. nasty, brutish and short.
traccar.org offers a good fleet tracking software. It's open source.
Thanks for posting this. I've wondered about being able to assess the degree of ADHD quantitatively.
At least dogs actually exist
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SEEKING WORK
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: yes

Backend contractor in Clojure, Python, and Databases.

Website: https://butternotes.com

-- tech stack in butternotes: clojure, postgresql, vuejs, musicxml and other music-related libs.

github: https://github.com/dt1

During the past few months, I've learned some NodeJS and VueJS. I'm currently learning how to build audio VSTs, using C++ and the Juce framework.

email: dbtoomey@gmail.com
And their names were Necessity and Invention.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Remote: yes

Relocate: no

Tech: Python, Clojure, VueJs, PostgreSQL, etc.

Website: https://butternotes.com

-- tech stack in butternotes: clojure, postgresql, vuejs, musicxml and other music-related libs.

github: https://github.com/dt1

During the past few months, I've learned some NodeJS and VueJS. I'm currently learning how to build audio VSTs, using C++ and the Juce framework.

email: dbtoomey@gmail.com
The chipset's only fed by 4 lanes, so while it technically could be fully connected to a second x16 slot it would be kind of crazy for a motherboard maker to actually do that since the chipset only supplies 16 lanes total.

Realistically you need to give this card your main slot and your GPU can get an x4 connection and lose a few fps.
Option 1a: realize work isn’t everything, do your hours, use the rest of your mental energy to do other things (kids, hobbies, etc).

I once worked for a small company acquired by a giant company, once MegaCorps true colors showed with the first round of layoffs, everyone’s attitude changed towards the job. It quickly changed from thing we’re doing together, to “Oh, it’s THAT now”.

I don’t know if you’re stuck in a similar, unenviable position where you see your employers true colors. You’re not going to work on what you want to at FAANG, and instead you see that the relationship is very transactional. You can learn to detach from decisions out of your control, accept the far from perfect, and go along for the ride.

I’m not saying this option is without significant downsides. You won’t grow much in your role, but it’s totally valid IMO.
Call me crazy, but html is a great way to track time in plain text. That was actually one of the use cases that opened my eyes to the power of html over markdown as a plain text format. One example:

<div><li class="start">202102010845</li><li class="end">202002010930</li></div>

You can argue that's ugly. And you're right, if you open it in a text editor. Thing is, you can use a browser to display it pretty darn nicely. It has all the advantages of plain text, but one massive additional advantage - you can use JS to work with the DOM to do all your queries and calculations in a few lines of code. HTML can be verbose at times, but it doesn't really matter if you use text snippets.

This is not intended to take anything away from this project. I'm just saying there's a powerful alternative that doesn't require the writing of a special processor.
I'm a mid level dev. I have to deal with the BS decisions that management makes. They definitely play games with the workers too.
Thunderbird and it's forks work well.
Could I forward my application through you? (email)
Personal growth tool directory launched on PH and feat. in Morning Brew today
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> Water gets everywhere when carrying the refilled tank back to the humidifier.

How? The water tank has a screw-on cap with a "plunger" in middle, and that plunger opens only if you push it (to let water flow when you lower it into the humidier). It doesn't splash water around when carried. This makes no sense.

The only explanation I can think is that this person carries the water tank cap-downward, and their "plunger" leaks. That seems just silly to carry it like that, why would you do that, especially if the end result bothers you.
I typically avoid the streisand effect by not reacting when something has attention, and then subsequently removing all references to it months later. Nobody important/loud enough notices.
As a disclaimer I work for Google but have no special insight so feel free to not take my word for it

My understanding is that the regulation covers 2 types of content:

One is web pages or apps that use "story panels" containing excerpts of articles, like you see in the Discover feed on Android, or when looking at articles from certain publishers in Google News. In some places (notably France), Google already pays publishers for this.

Google would also be required to pay when regular search results include links to Australian news websites (not sure if the payments would be based on views or click-throughs). Having to pay for linking to websites is a lot more unusual and probably not a precedent that Google wants to see (especially since the law wouldn't apply equally to all search engines)
Both will be considered legacy in just a couple of years
Polymorphisation: Improving Rust compilation times through intelligent monomorp [pdf]
Tagging on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Sale says (1) all of Africa south of the Sahara will be uninhabitable, and Kelly paraphrases that as (2) "environmental disasters of some significant size".

It would seem to be against the spirit and intention of the bet, in any plausible reading, to grant Sale a win on the grounds that (2) comes true but not (1), when (1) was attempting to paraphrase (2).
So much the better – it will make me more likely go make my own beastly version for my house >-D
I just want to chime in to say at my organization we are using FastAPI for a production service and have had zero issues. Solid stuff!
> I'm well aware of why people don't like hearing they basically want slave labor.

They don’t like it because it’s a bald faced lie. You’re accusing them of supporting slavery.

Just a quick refresher on what slavery is (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery)

> Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave, who is someone forbidden to quit their service for another person and is treated as property.

I implore you to read that article to grasp how horrific and life smothering actual slave labor is. You comparing writing voluntarily for free to that is offensive and smacks of first world entitlement. Perhaps you’re just trolling and I fell for it, but there are people surviving today in slave labor conditions that can only dream of quitting and spending their days arguing on the Internet (after they learn to read and write of course!). Until then they’ll just keep working 12 hour days of hard labor 7 days a week.

Wanting something for free is not the same thing as wanting slavery.

I use hacker news and read the comments here under the expectations that I will not pay for them and nobody will be writing them under coercion. The same applies to reading random blogs, etc. I don’t want to pay for that because it changes the entire nature of the relationship and I frankly just don’t care about any one particular piece of information.

I will pay for deep expertise (e.g. books or even substack). But as I said before, the ability to write is necessary, but the subject is what I’m paying for.

I bought the Harry Potter books because of the world she built, not because of her writing ability. The same applies to most of her fans, as born to out by the tepid performance of the pseudonym book.
Perhaps not. But I'm in a similar boat: with remote lectures, online homework, work-from-home, and not being able to go places with friends, we don't exactly get much of a choice.

COVID sucks, but at least vadym909's kid has been able to make the most of it by investing in a usable setup and gaining some valuable hands-on experience with computers.
Except Microsoft is investing heavily in first party games, buying loads of studios and letting them retain a lot of independence. They’re approaching the streaming service as an extension of the Xbox experience. It’s a much more robust strategy all around
Hi, thanks for a great framework!

You mention "High perf" as the first claim. Are there any performance benchmarks in comparison to other frameworks? I only ask because I see FastAPI as #228 on techempower. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD
Thanks to all of the MBAs flooding tech you will be spending most of your time on mindless administrative work and writing OKRs every 2 weeks. Focusing so much on HOW we work rather than WHAT we're working on. Oh yeah and everyone on the Product side are going to make 2x more than you can have plenty of career paths. Sorry about your luck
Good point. I would guess, since it's all moot from the perspective of the person making those predictions, the whole exercise is just a theatric flourish, meant to communicate in a more or less performative way.

The other (perfectly plausible) answer is that the part of one's brain that believes the claim, and the part of ones' brain that believes in the power of bets and value of money that make bets interesting, are brain regions that haven't reconciled with one another.
> Leave them no recourse

They can go along with it and then report the impact of it on their 5bn yearly profit and then they can leave not out of spite.

I suspect it’s a tiny impact on their profits ans this is just an attempt to build support from public. Problem is everybody hates them now. I’d gladly use other products if they didn’t have a monopoly.
The Proportional Pricing Model
Google Cloud is not profitable because they invest all revenue into growth, as they should be doing. If they focused on profitability they would have never caught up with AWS.

(I'm ex-GCP)
Fair enough, it’s not clear what level of profiling we’re eliminating. That’s why I also gave the example of a DIY profiled customer vs a “pays for handymen” profiled customer.
The amount of thought that the Gamer's Nexus team puts in their work and benchmarks is incredible.
My bad. In any case, the principle still stands. Looking up some stats I get a figure of 0.17% of the population being homeless. A tragedy to be sure, but a tiny fraction of the whole. In other words, it makes more sense to look at the median wage than what you see in a given city as a single individual going on about their day, if your goal is to get a feel for the situation.
Especially if the VPN server is in Australia.
I really wanted to check out Stadia! It seemed like it might be a decent value and a good way to play recent games without a high powered PC. Unfortunately, I have the latest Google chromecast with Google tv... and it doesn't support Stadia.

I swear it seems like Google is entirely unable to commit to anything new. How much have they wasted on Stadia? What do they have to show for it?

Dabbling and half assing everything, pissing away money only to pull the plug. I'm glad they didn't bother to support their flagship chromecast for this thing, so I never wasted any time on it. At this point it's clearly destined for the Google graveyard.
If it's 12th generation (E210) you can get a firmware upgrade to support CarPlay.
I think you misread this sentence:

> In it, the company claims that The Wirecutter initially picked NextDesk as an editorial recommendation but later downgraded the recommendation after NextDesk declined to set up an affiliate-revenue agreement.

These are NextDesk's "claims". Wirecutter does not acknowledge them. According to Wirecutter this is what happened:

> Without the editorial team’s knowledge, NextDesk and our business team exchanged communications about setting up an affiliate agreement, and ultimately NextDesk declined to do so. That fact was never communicated to our editorial team until NextDesk itself made it known to them by email in November 2015, long after the new pick had been made.

Update: I'm not saying that I'm buying it; just clarifying their response.
This is not true.

> People with ADHD have been scientifically proven to have deficiencies in specific neurotransmitters, namely norepinephrine and dopamine

Please cite your specific evidence, and make sure it is not studies that do not replicate.
> with far less complexity by using an AOT compiled language.

Or use reflection free frameworks like Micronaut or Quarkus and enjoy the same productivity. The culprit here is no java, the spring framework.
Hmm...

Then it is probably a difference in ultrasonic humidifiers. I can tell you that mine barely builds up much slag at all. I switched to warm-air after I grew tired of the white-dust issue.

The white-dust issue is further confirmed as I use the warm-air (boiling-type) humidifier. A LOT of minerals are found every day from my boiled-away tap-water... minerals that clearly used to be sprayed into the air and dusting my furniture.
You didn’t read my drywall example close enough. It’s not location specific, it’s specific to the type of customer. Should we be advertising a hardware store or should we be advertising “Teds drywall repair service”?

As Ted, I don’t want my ads wasted on people that want to repair things themselves. As a customer who doesn’t care how it gets fixed, I don’t want an ad for Home Depot.
No matter what happened with CentOS, i have huge admiration to redhat, the IT industry would be a very different world if not for Redhat driving a lot of the OSS
Because of the genocide?
It helps to be able to deliver value at a low bar. This stuff takes a lot of time and energy to improve upon, and it won't "just work". Search is usually a good place to start. Just make one little process a tiny bit better. Make sure you're tracking data very well, because if you're not already at a place to be making data-driven decisions you can't possibly take advantage of machine learning. After all that, just iterate until you've found a better problem to tackle with your newfound capabilities :)
Maybe someone can accurately give me a good guesstimate here. With the new direct memory access to GPUs (like RDMA) is there a big advantage to using PCIe 4.0 storage systems? I saw on a LTT episode that for the most part gamers didn't notice a difference using PCIe 4.0 (though RDMA wasn't out yet) but I'm wondering if there will be a bigger performance boost to more computational workloads.

tldr: if I'm buying a new machine doing a lot of GPU work, do I get a PCIe 4.0 storage system or 3.0?
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it's possible to treat ADHD with just behavioral changes or occupational therapy. That wasn't true in your case and it wasn't true in my case either. In my case, medication has been eye-opening and life-changing. When I went back to school, however, I also found it helpful to work with an occupational therapist to set up specific strategies for staying organized, keeping up with assignments, effectively using my studying time, and minimizing distractions. Working with an OT who understood ADHD was different from just trying to adopt general studying strategies and it really helped me succeed in grad school. If the parent poster is in university, an OT may be an available resource.

If I regret anything, it's not getting diagnosed until I was in my 30s. I wasted years of my life doing poorly in school, being depressed about it, blaming my performance on being depressed, and then dropping out of school. I eventually graduated, only 10 years late and with a 2.2 GPA. After getting diagnosed and treated, I went to graduate school and finished in the top 15% of my class with a 3.7 GPA. I think I've redeemed myself, but I won't get any of those wasted years back.
Do you think most people could really do a 2 year on - 1 year off thing? To me that sounds great -- I can definitely save a year of expenses every 2 years... but I wonder what job prospects would be, or other adverse affects.
Show HN: Neovim Plug – Insert visual-block to anywhere
let's hope this person never looks inside their AC ductwork
They also desperately need to improve things like the store, which has no wish lists, no way to see all of the titles in specific categories, etc, at least on mobile.
Yikes, time for a new gig.
9 years of 9-5 M-F for me. Off hours and weekends cost ALOT extra.
Put some 3% H202 into a spray bottle. Then spray the humidifier once a week all over to disinfect.

Proper Bleach (Sodium hypochlorite) is probably cheaper, but there's a major convenience factor to just spraying H2O2, and Hydrogen Peroxide is pretty cheap as it is ($2 for 1-liter).

Its not so much that the disinfection was hard to do in my case... Its that it became somewhat of a hassle. Warm Air is nice since it auto-disinfects itself with boiling water. I still disinfect manually, but just once-a-week instead of every day.
It looks like slrn.org has been compromised by spammers (perhaps the owner failed to renew the domain name in time?). https://slrn.info/ appears to be the current home of the project. (https://jedsoft.org/ links there via http://slrn.sourceforge.net/.)
> Saving that DIY enthusiast a single modification of their google search is not worth narrowing their entire experience of the web for, or worth giving up their privacy for.

Sure, but let’s be clear that it is a trade off. If you’ve ever seen non-techies Google things, they don’t provide the contextual clues that we instinctively know to include. The majority of the population just types in “drywall repair” and expects the computer to know what they “obviously mean”.
It's not lol
It may not currently be enforced, but the compiler could enforce it, depending on assumptions, the same way we enforced it on the GWT compiler (of which I'm one of the engineers who worked on it)

With GWT, we had global information, so we could promote methods to static by class hierarchy analysis.

For a Kotlin class, even with dynamic loading, if the class is not marked 'open', final methods not implementing an interface, or private methods, can be converted into static methods.

e.g.

class A(val x: Int) {
fun print() = x
}

can be transformed into

class A(val x: Int) {
fun print() = printStatic(x)
companion object {
fun printStatic(self: A) = self.x
}
}

And any call site with access to the original signature, e.g.

val a = A()
println(a.print())

could be rewritten safely as

val a = A()
println(A.printStatic(a))

Now, the current Kotlin compiler frontend or backend may not do any of these, but it could.

There's nothing in the compiler language itself that blocks such optimizations, especially if you're willing to limit reflection (as is the case with Kotlin MPP code), or admit a LTO pass.
> In it, the company claims that The Wirecutter initially picked NextDesk as an editorial recommendation but later downgraded the recommendation after NextDesk declined to set up an affiliate-revenue agreement.

I believe you're taking "after" in this sentence way too literally. The order of events isn't in dispute, what's at issue is whether Nextdesk's declination to enter a revenue sharing agreement caused Wirecutter to downgrade their ranking.

This comment by geofft convinced me Nextdesk (RIP) was in the wrong in this dispute. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22144078