skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paint by Pixel: creates a custom paint-by-numbers grid based on an image you upload and colors you already have.

The "download template" button doesn't work right now, but it just replaces the colors from the "preview" image with numbers and a white background that you print and color in. Similar to a paint by numbers craft.

Right now I'm working on the backend before making the frontend minimally-less-ugly.

It resizes the image, then uses k-means quantization (scikit-learn) to map the pixel colors to the color set you choose. Right now the options are a few crayola marker packs. Would love to add something where you can upload your own colors, or provide my own markers.

The idea is that you can create a simple custom paint by numbers craft and get started right away using stuff you already have. I have a few other ideas, but trying to make a product cheaper than some existing custom paint by numbers kits.

Would love thoughts or feedback on the idea.

https://d3gmwd8ku7h7jh.cloudfront.net/
Title needs [2019].
Cool concept. How is the experience moving the head, but keeping the eyes on the fixed location screen?
Fuck you faggot
The Competition and Markets Authority to Investigate Google's ‘Privacy Sandbox'
The CMA has opened an investigation into Google's proposals to remove third party cookies and other functionalities from its Chrome browser.

The investigation will assess whether the proposals could cause advertising spend to become even more concentrated on Google's ecosystem at the expense of its competitors. It follows complaints of anticompetitive behaviour and requests for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to ensure that Google develops its proposals in a way that does not distort competition. Source:https://jadmelle.blogspot.com/p/uk-business-news.html?rkey=2021010820210108062&filter=9768
Specifically that National News controlled by professional journalistic outlets which set the tone and heavily moderated what the public saw.

I have been watching a lot of TV news lately. As far as I know, professional journalists haven't deplatformed Trump.

You make a great point but I can't help feeling that its cowardly big Tech cosying up to the new president after years of being cosy with the outgoing one.
Quite the flight control system that $175M aircraft has:

“The MP’s control inputs were quickly out of synch with commands from the Flight Control System (FCS) and, combined with nose gear bounce, resulted in the FCS becoming over-saturated. Over-saturation in this context means the FCS was effectively overwhelmed because a multitude of conflicting inputs were competing for limited processing power. Over-saturation can result in latent or ignored flight control inputs. This over-saturation cued FCS logic to direct the horizontal stabilizers to default to, and remain in, a trailing edge down position and caused the nose of the aircraft to go down”
What baffles me about this is how people can call for private companies to be obligated to broadcast the direct messages of government leaders, and do it in the name of free speech.

Really? You want media to be state-run in the US?

You would actually need to repeal the first amendment to make that happen.
Perhaps, but in my experience most of the time the project focus shifts to those components from the application in question.
> But keto is a lot more than meat, it is nuts and berries, dairy[1], and lots of green leafy vegetables.

This is the crux of it. You can have a very varied, and very flavorful experience on keto (or its variations).

> I got tired of avocados first.

This is where we have to part ways. I can see avocados, alone, getting old quickly. But I could eat guacamole every day for the rest of my life and never tire of it.
I started a yoga practice just over a year ago after I recovered from a terrible, constant series of back spasms brought on by working on my laptop on my couch for too long.

I probably did yoga for one hour 2-3 times per week on average last year, which helped me avoid a repeat of my back issues. It’s helped me improve my flexibility, muscle tone, and my awareness of my body. What I mean by that last point is that I am more immediately aware when I experience back issues, now, and I also have a clearer sense of how to move and stretch my body to fix those issues before they become worse.

Yoga is great, and really doesn’t require any special equipment. You can try out a video and get pretty far without needing to buy mats, blocks, straps, Lululemon clothes, etc.
https://duotonic.co

Connect your Spotify account and listen synchronously with someone, either by sending them a link or by joining a queue to be randomly paired up.

I basically had no idea what I was doing while developing both the react app and the the node back end so it's a little buggy.
> Hold up. Isn't mmap a system call?

That's not what they mean. You set up a memory map with the mmap system call, yes, but that's not the point.

The point is then that you can read and write mapped files by reading and writing memory addresses directly - you do not have to use a system call to perform each read and write.
A simple Swiss Style Tournament manager for pairing small Magic the Gathering matches.

The core pairing problem is a weighted bipartite graph matching algo which I took off the shelf after straining with the math for too long.

Built for fun and for a friend a few years ago before wizards of the coast had their own app.

https://hera2.xyz
autotools. You may not like it, but it does work.

If you like CMake more, that would be a good argument if CMake worked. But it doesn't. So in the choice between the thing that works, and the thing you may like more, please do go with the one that works.

E.g. this comment I just wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702345
To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (2018)
This is a lot of money to pay for something that brings less value to the platform than having a functioning youtube app.
The alternative is leaving it up to corporations so the current status quo doesn't seem that bad. (See everyone that wants to repeal Chevron deference)
feeling weaker grip and sensations leading sometimes to clumsiness. I would describe it as slight numbness (in the sense of weaker sensations and a weird, kind of tingly feeling in the fingers). It was becoming a proper numbness when using phone/tablet for prolonged periods, but now I try to avoid doing that.

I have similar tingly sensation in my elbow, and in the worst time I actually woke up at night with pain in the elbow.

It's sometimes better, sometimes worse, and I'm trying what else (other than giving up my job and using computer) can I do to help relieve this issues. COVID pandemic is not helping either getting proper medical attention.
This is about as half-baked of a project as I've made, being a designer and all. I'm not happy with the apps available today for playing and organizing music/audiobooks/podcasts/etc. because they all focus on streaming and not folks like me who prefer to manage their own files. I was inspired to design my dream apps, and that's exactly what I did. I call it half-baked because these are little more than screenshots, as I haven't learned how to code iOS apps.

https://dillonbrown.me/mobile-audio-ui.html
Neonics were blamed for colony collapse disorder even though there was zero evidence and bees that die due to pesticides are found dead on the ground below the hive. IIRC, CCD had a migration pattern that was exactly what one would expect from the spread of a disease or parasite and had zero in common with an environmental toxin.

The title is accurate depending on what “believed” means. I suppose I gave my kid vaccines believed to cause autism.
(Roughly speaking) Kinetic weapon has as much energy as you spent getting it on orbit from surface, thus fuel in the rocket provides useful estimate and comparison point for energy available. To get from orbit to surface you actually need to slow down, ie reduce energy.
Are they homosexual or asexual? Let's not confuse the two. They "cant" reproduce is quite a leap away from "can produce but won't" because as far as I am aware homosexuality has nothing to do with sexual reproduction and the required 'machinery'.

Unless you have some solid papers or anecdotal experiences that say otherwise I'm willing to change my stance.
Many times journalists live on TV have cut away from the President when he’s devolved into lying during press conferences. Is that not deplatforming?
It’s helpful to use an algorithmic current events aggregator that assists in tracing original sources, such as:

https://www.memeorandum.com/

“memeorandum is an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now. Unlike sister sites Techmeme and Mediagazer, it is not a human-edited news outlet, but rather a media-monitoring tool for sophisticated news consumers.“
https://sbhn.netlify.app/

Slightly Better Hacker News (SBHN). It's an alternative HN web-client that I built and use as my default HN version nowadays. It features some layout improvements over the original and has a dark theme.

It is not yet feature complete (missing login, routing is broken in some rare cases) but I plan on improving it on my next "lazy" weekend and get a nice domain for it. I'm also going to publish the source code on GitHub.
Maoism:

DPRK, Indonesian Maoist insurgency, Malaysian Maoist subversion, Singapore coup attempt, Burma, Laos, Campuchia, Nepal, India Naxalite insurgency, Albania, South Yemen, South Peru insurgency, Brazil Araguaia Guerrilla War, ~10 African countries

Vanilla communism: USSR, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, 5 African countries.

Compare.
Probably doesn't even count as a project, but I mentioned this in the failed side projects thread recently and someone seemed to like the idea!

You can browse books curated by prizes their authors have won ie. books written by Turing Award winners or Fields Medal winners. Anyways, I got encouraged a bit last time and I'm thinking about trying to expand the website a bit, so far I didn't get very far.

https://categorybooks.com
Frontend developer here --

Although you could omit the closing tags, I don't see the benefit of doing so. If you know HTML, nesting is fundamental and not explicitly closing dom nodes would lead to confusion. You would also need to concern yourself with the "certain conditions" that must be met for it to work. Consistency and clarity over brevity!
Not to burst your anecdotal bubble but I’m a socialist and I agree it’s silly and ridiculous. But what do I know, I guess I just also consider tech workers to be workers.
I don't think conservatives are kicked off of anywhere. I don't think anybody who's making sincere debate arguments is kicked out of anywhere.

What's happening is that people who copy-paste/reshare conspiracy theories without even bothering to read the wikipedia/snopes article first are being rightly downvoted.

I think of Trump's fan base seems more like a religious minority than a political group. And like any religious group debate really isn't the answer to fantastical beliefs.
My question is, why is Intel stock lagging the market if semiconductors in general are so hot right now? I understand the problems with 10nm and the delays with 7nm, but x86 is still huge and Intel dominates the datacenter market.
That's incredible, thanks for sharing.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”[0]

While King Henry II didn’t directly ask for the priest to be killed, it’s pretty clear that was the intention.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
https://masksonaplane.com/

A weekly email newsletter with updates on corona travel restrictions and options. I have the content ideas down... just haven't done anything about monetizing it yet.
Half baked stuff here, web scrapping the details of spotify playlist from a given link and downloading it from youtube using youtube-dl. No API keys involved for the user.
Issue I'm being lazy to debug is it's just extracting top 30 songs.

https://github.com/pr0PM/mymusic-dl/
I agree with ffpip's comment. I too found the contrast to be too low for my comfort. Here are the colors used for the body element in the CSS (see https://inoads.com/style.css):

background-color: #FDF6E3;
color: #657B83;

Now plug those values into https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ and we can see that this color scheme fails even the WCAG AA check (see https://i.imgur.com/iK7FRfU.png for a screenshot). I think the WCAG AA is the absolutely bare minimum accessibility guideline any color scheme should conform to, otherwise we risk making the text hard to read for many people just like the text in this website is hard for me to read.
Vote with your dollar and buy organic. It’s not cheap, but it sends a message.
I don't think I still have it, unfortunately. It was a portion script to connect to the monitor and run an http server, then some html/js/CSS to show the heart in OBS.
From the FBI.gov website:
"Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature."

If the Capitol Hill storming wasn't for a political aim, what was it for?
> It still sounds a bit weird to me. If I need something, I will buy it unless I don't have cash for it.

Yes, and envelopes make it easier for many people to figure out if they have the cash for it. They let you "spend" the money the instant you get it, in a virtual way, even if you don't really need to spend it until later. This way you know that when it comes time to pay rent/mortgage, property tax, etc., you're good.

I think you are right though: I think the envelope idea is primarily targeted at people on a tight budget, where you really are trading off pros and cons of spending relatively small sums of money, and where the usual question is what gets sacrificed if this or that is purchased.

You suggest that in such a situation you'd look at the root cause of such behavior (e.g. compulsive spending). Often, the "root cause" is simply unawareness of spending patterns, and envelope spending is a useful technique for a lot of people. It isn't a crutch to cover up some sort of underlying personality flaw that has a deeper "root cause" -- It is just a way of tracking earmarked spending.
This is exactly my status too right now. I contribute to opensource here and there but apart from that its mostly hacking away at my own libraries, some of which are mildly popular (600stars)
I couldn't get it work on mobile.. I selected and image and hit preview and nothing happened.
> Really? You want media to be state-run in the US?

No, I just don't want tech companies "protecting" me from information. I'll read the direct words from people and process them for myself.

Twitter/FB/Apple/Google are not entities I would ever want choosing what I see and don't see.

[EDIT] Ironic that HN has chosen to censor my account. I guess what I said is too "dangerous" for you, the lowly user to read.
This is the one thing that I still miss from Google Reader. It got discussing articles right. Specifically, what it got right is that you discuss them with a small group of direct acquaintances.

I think that any attempt to produce something that works like the comments section of a newspaper website will invariably produce something that works like the comments section of a newspaper website.

Yes, I am aware of the irony of saying this in the comments section of a website called Hacker News.
Regulation just shifts to exchanges. Bitstamp already ask for a ridiculous amount of information regarding source of funds.
Following an article shared by a friend (1), I spent a couple of hours reading about fungi, mycelium, etc. Then I came across the book Entangled Life, read a review of it on the NYT (2), and decided to visit HN to search for related articles. No need, this was on the home page. Fascinating stuff.

Thank you for sharing.

1. https://theprint.in/world/handbags-hamburgers-bricks-how-mus...

2. https://nyti.ms/3diORoF
Edit: *..resembles Reddit a bit more than Twitter.
https://musicianship.studio

I built it a while ago, and don't have the heart to shut it down. It's basically meant to be musical flash cards. If it got some more traction, I could probably afford to spend time actually polishing it off.
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Merge by bubbl (in app stores):

https://bubbl.games/merge.html

My first game that I made with unity in 2019 and got away from it but there are still many features to write and lots to fix with the website as I just hacked everything together.

Looking for any feedback people are willing to give.

Free to play on the web.
Sure, you could choose to believe the wild conspiracy theory that a virus kindly waited for us to be ready to create a vaccine for it before it jumped to humans, out of all of human history.

Or you can believe a vastly more probable explanation: correlation due to common cause. Humans have been paying particular attention in the past decade to this spike protein; some of this research led to a vaccine, while another branch of research led to a lab escape. The conspiracy theory of "luck" and kind viruses doesn't even pass the laugh test in comparison.
I suspect the author has a lot more exposure to the kinds of people who want to write their next web server basically in category theory than most people actually do, and so thinks that kind of person is much more common than they actually are.

But I still like the take a lot, particularly because of the perfect truth of the line "[Go] is a boring garbage collected thing that looks like C for grownups, or Java not designed by 90s era object oriented nanotech fearing imbeciles. "
Overleaf alumni here. Can confirm it's a really nice place to work. If you are doubting just go ahead an apply :)
Except in this case some of the other EU countries have allowed the same (?) already a year ago.
A birdfeeder, a security camera, and this python script: https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/red_yellow_...

I want to record visits to my birdfeeder but not all the visits. 99% of the visitors are sparrows, which, no offense to any sparrows reading this, are dull colored. I want to capture the cardinals, bright red birds. The python script monitors the video stream and starts recording when the image gets suddenly redder. But it's configurable to also react to blue (bluejays) and yellow (goldfinches).

This is barely baked, just a script.

A video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vUjYrTwJkPVUlWIYQ6_qA9t1tqi...
https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/alexandra-sasha-fedorova
> clear they own it

On the contrary, they tend to be clear you’re assigning them right to publish worldwide in any medium in perpetuity including make money off that, not ownership.

For instance, you don’t have to get seek their permission to also publish your thoughts somewhere else, or use your own photo commercially, etc.
The most efficient kind of exercise to relieve low back pain involve bending backwards, such as the Cobra pose in Yoga

https://www.dummies.com/health/exercise/yoga/how-to-do-the-c...

See also

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/treat-your-own-back-robin-a...

Cobra and the exercises from that book are easy to do at home but I like the bioenergetic arch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=225tAQzCVhs

because it is standing and you can do it anywhere, just please wear better clothes than the guy in that video.
https://exportoutlookmacmail.com/

I started this Mac App project in early 2017 that uses AppleScript to export/archive mail messages from Microsoft Outlook for Mac. I was looking for beta users right as my family abruptly moved to a new city. I haven't made time to touch it since. It essentially went from close-to-baked to mothballed. I'll share it here with the caveat that it does not actually work at the moment due to an AppleScript-related error. If there's enough interest in the idea, I'll find time to look into that!
During the spring, I released an open source Bluetooth tracing app for Covid-19:
https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer

The app is fully working, and supports most of the privacy protection that one could find in the most advanced apps.

It's also my first app built using Xamarin.
I use a protocol on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, through my software wallet. It also has a bunch of portal sites like memo.cash and member.cash

These protocols were initially developed for Bitcoin but after it dropped the ball on scaling everything was ported over to Bitcoin Cash.
> There are theories for how a low percentage of homosexuality might be selected for.

My initial response was to the above statement which to my eyes presupposes homosexuality to be genetically expressed. Which has nothing to do with social/environmental factors.
Having insufficient means to repel people didn't seem to be an issue this summer.
This is ridiculous, only two articles on this blog and one is about static blogging.

In the next generation, I implore people to focus on content, not the tech.
Check your blood sugar
The tweet promotion is an interesting point, but the letter to the editor is easier IMO. It's assumed that a human has read and selected the letter to the editor, which is why they'd have liability. For the promoted tweet, my first reaction would be to say, if a human affirmatively promoted it, they'd be liable. If it's pure algorithm, they wouldn't be if they took it down when served a notice.
If you look at my comments you will see that I am generally against American powerful institutions and the sadly common American arrogance, but in these kind of things I am 100% behind the American mindset. How convenient that all these clearly suicide-by-pilot incidents are called "inconclusive" by the national , non-US, agency. Is saving face a price worth paying for? This does not help anybody and basically protects a person, who no matter how troubled and depressed, was in essence a mass-murderer.
Apparently she’s a researcher and MongoDB consultant.

https://www.ece.ubc.ca/~sasha/
Yes and No. At least there are two big differentiators.

Olympic Weightlifting is generally understood to refer to the movements of clean+jerk, snatch, and associated movements like deadlifting and squatting which are components of the complex lifts.

Strength Training very broadly just means a rep range that makes you stronger, not bigger. But commonly one thinks of powerlifting movements: bench press, squats, deadlifts.

Notice in none of the above did we talk about bicep curls, pulley exercises, leg curls, or any concentration exercises. We didn't even talk about leg press, because in the above two we only use barbells.

So the two big differentiators are:

1. rep range is high with bodybuilding because bodybuilding cares about volume

2. This is the big one. The exercise range for bodybuilding includes many (perhaps mostly) single or few joint exercises.

So when you say that at the amateur level it doesn't matter, that's only true in that any amateur will get stronger. That's true. But the similarity ends right there.

I speak from experience when I say, starting off as an amateur by copying what bodybuilders are doing (bicep curls and other mirror exercises, high rep ranges and doing many single joint movements instead of functional movements) is a recipe for bad habits and movement patterns that you need to spend years to re-learn later. Not to mention machines are garbage and cause injury since they make you do unnatural things (unless you really know what you are doing, which amateurs do not).
Where's the lox?
Are there still shortages in some places? In my (EU) country at some points the shelves were half full, but there was never anything out of stock. I'm somewhat surprised they didn't sell to other countries, we can drive a truck of tomatoes across Europe without problems, why not toilet paper?
Several months ago there was a post about vitamin D supposedly being effective in preventing hospitalization. What happened to that idea?