skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Macabre tangent warning. Related to this, and having seen several cases where elderly people had very unhappy end years for various reasons (dementia, incapacity, etc.) I am starting to wonder not for our parents bur for myself - how could I make sure I don't live past the point where I stop adding value and become a drain. It's an interesting engineering problem. Presumably this would be when I lose mental capacity to make certain decisions, so it would need to be some kind of automated dead-man switch type mechanism, that is undetectable so the descendants can have a warm and fuzzy "grandpa went in his sleep" type experience, instead of "grandpa hung himself" or "grandpa pressed the accelerator instead of brake by accident."

Maybe an implant that needs to be re-armed every month or so, and if not it releases some toxin that causes a natural-seeming shutdown. Or ironclad ream of paperwork to make sure plugs get pulled.
That's clever but maybe too clever? I guess it could work for users who dialed in if maybe there was voice feedback to say "you are muted" or "you are unmuted". I'm not sure I have a great solution for it but it sounds like it could lead to users thinking they're muted and continuing on in a private conversation.
I think it's a wasteful debate nowadays. Blender used to be too peculiar if not crippled but they reduced the gap a lot. It's bearable now.. and, they could probably get close to most 3D apps UX (i'm speculating but i'd bet a few dollars).
Author's name is Marko. Nevertheless, I suggest the same. He published second edition of it this year.
Well at least the left explorer windows in a somewhat higher value, so we have that going for us which is nice.
Do projectors have less eye strain? That's quite intriguing if so. What if you had a front-projector projecting on an e-ink screen, such that various parts of the screen could be in color/motion mode (e-ink off, projector only), mixed mode (e-ink on, with color overlay for syntax highlighting or the like), or ink only (projector off). That seems like something that's doable with off-the shelf components and software, at least as a POC...
There is neither such thing as a mind nor as a mental model. That’s what B.F. Skinner would say. For him, there was just an organism, and the contingencies of the environment that would shape its behavior.

That’s actually very close to what is happening in machine learning today. Those structuralists who talked about a “mind” or “mental concepts” would be at a loss to understand, much less build, anything like GPT-3 or Tesla Autopilot.
Well, no, because the community voted on it, and people decided to run nodes that accept that.
> Have a good insurance policy instead.

Part of that policy is having gap coverage. Nothing worse than having your recently purchased vehicle stolen while the deprecated value is way less than the financed amount owed so you wind up paying the bank for a car that was stolen from you. Same applies to wrecks.
I vaguely remember reading that if you randomly bred dogs they slowly revert back to the "original" kind (strays). Is that true?
Slightly off topic but I always understood these types of books (scientific, biographical, medical) go through extensive fact checking before legit publishers will publish them. Is that not the case? Or did the author just serve as his own fact checker for that book?
Yeah and even if Audi unlocked her car, how does that help exactly? Why didn't she call an ambulance instead?
Windows 10 dark mode is unusable.

I don't understand how anyone can read white on black without their eyes hurting.

When I first tried it out I was instantly taken aback at how MS had used full black for their darkmode. Not suprising, considering their inability to implement reasonable design, but ridiculous nonetheless. I can't fathom how no one on their design team stepped back and thought 'maybe there's a reason dark mode is usually a dark grey instead of black'.
Well in Australia authorities are getting positive people from their homes and moving them to a quarantine camp against their will... So it is slowly becoming very close

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10237761/Covid-Aust...
On the contrary, powerful stimuli like war have always been a driving force for people to create, e.g. here are some examples of paintings done in WW1 by soldiers: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/remem.... And, of course, there's "Dulce et Decorem Est" (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decoru...):

Wilfred Owen, who wrote some of the best British poetry on World War I, composed nearly all of his poems in slightly over a year, from August 1917 to September 1918. In November 1918 he was killed in action at the age of 25, one week before the Armistice.
This is just not true. In fact, this very article and thread talk about how various laws are added to a bill to garner support from people on various sides.

In fact you can actually see that the rate of legislation has been steadily increasing over the years.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics

I won't make a statement about parliamentary systems, but believe it or not, the US system doesn't grind to a halt when the President's party is not in power, because the President doesn't just magically veto everything like a child might.
Ah ... I could have known that ... some of the Haskell enthusiasts around here actually moved on to Elixir some time ago.
If you search for flights to “QPX”, you get a flappy bird clone
education?
Why is it on the viewer instead of on the producer to learn color theory? You can perfectly imply darkness with shades of blue and purple and get a far stronger ranger than shades of black can provide.
"Computer says no"
> 11 year old ~$40Kish vehicle that I wouldn't typically pay $1K/year

You have a high end bmw or something? New toyotas are cheaper than that with practically no maintenance. I myself spend $840 a year on insurance + 100 oil change/checkup and that is it besides gas.
There's two major categories of Lego sets IMO display pieces (the UCS or Creator Expert series) and playsets. They still very much make the second type of set for their younger audience but they realize adult fans wanted more intricate sets so gave them that. I think it's interesting they finally made this kind of hard/impossible to disassemble configuration a part of their build but I don't think it's a big knock against them. They know these UCS sets largely get assembled then sit assembled until they go into storage or get moved/sold, so it's not really a big issue imo.
TuneCore has really gone to hell after it was sold. I know horror stories from musicians that used them years ago but since had to move away because of technical and support issues.
What I find interesting is that dogs are way better adapt at living a “city life” or an “apartment life” than we ever will be (unless we start breeding for those traits ourselves). People think “ah dogs are animals and should live in nature and not in closed doors of a city apartment”. Nope, from a genetic point of view some dogs are way more naturally fit to live indoors (look at Maltese for instance who’s bread to be a lap dog).

I also wonder: doesn’t the genetic diversity between different breeds help account with defeating illness? What I mean is that if some sort of disease pops up it might kill a % of breeds, but another % might survive because, well, they’re a different breed with a trait that helped defeat that disease.

Us humans on the other hand have stopped evolving and are quite genetically the same (much more similar than dogs). So from that perspective I wonder whether a disease would be much more dangerous for us & whether actual breeding might be good overall for their species.

Of course inbreeding is a separate issue that hurts the life of the individual. But our apparent need to want different kind of dogs might actually end up saving their species in a doomsday scenario.
My dad suggested there are three events that turn an individual from "able to be home" to assisted care (which is very expensive).

1) Change in ability to walk, which triggers
2) Inability to take care of and feed themselves, which triggers a slew of medications to try to combat
3) Inability to go to bathroom by themselves

Keep people moving. Build strength early - strength training is great (people begin losing strength as early as 50's and it dominos). Eat more healthily earlier in life and continue (when a person cannot cook for themselves, they tend to eat high salt, high fat, frozen foods - which becomes less healthy). Also, look into assisted policy care insurance.
Although as you point out the "replayability" is not the main selling point of the Legacy games, but with many of them you can still replay it like a "normal" board game once you reach the end of the campaign. And you end up with a game that is uniquely yours. I know in Risk Legacy this is possible.

There is a really cool Legacy-type game as well (I'm struggling to remember the name, Arcana I think?) where in the Legacy version you basically go through a campaign and develop a character that you can then use as another character to play as in the base game.
Then use that software if you prefer the UX.

As an anecdote, I installed GIMP for my son 6 years ago, who is now going to college to be a graphics designer. He did all of his digital artwork in GIMP and Krita, now Blender as well, for the whole length of that time.

He now has to use Photoshop for his classes. There are some tools in it he is impressed with but overall doesn’t care for Photoshop at all.
It's useful to measure things even if we already know that they're common. Numbers tell a story that beliefs cannot.
I don't know your specific situation (location, financials, etc) so I can't share specific advice, but will share what we experienced with my grandparents.

My grandparents lived to be 94 + 95. One of the biggest improvements for them and us was hiring in-home help aid as they aged. Someone to do laundry, cook a good meal, clean up a bit, etc. It took a lot of the time commitment off my parents to constantly be making sure they were ok. Not to mention it gave my grandparents some much needed social interaction outside of our core family.

Another important factor was attempting to get their financials in order before they passed away and became incapacitated. After some review, we found some... shady accounting from a family member who was managing their affairs without much oversight. I'm not sure who is handling your parent's finances or if you have other family members, but once money is involved, people can get weird about inheritance. I've experienced and heard multiple horror stories about families breaking apart because of mismanaged finances.

I'd also recommend keeping your parents moving, and trying to keep their brains engaged. Bodily health is a vicious cycle once you lose muscle mass. Falls are also a huge issue for elderly people. YMMV, but installing smart speakers in each room of their house that they can use their voice to call for help in an emergency after a fall might be smart. We tried to get a life alert bracelet for my grandmother, but she always took it off. You'd have to train them to use it, but it sounds like your parents are tech savvy enough to get it. My grandparents missed the window for learning how to use the internet, so Alexa was tough. My brother actually took this funny video which got featured on a few meme sites of my grandparents trying to use Alexa: https://www.rightthisminute.com/video/rtmtv-grandpa-doesnt-g...

Finally, I'm going to plug my older brother's service, nanagram.co. It allows you to sms photos to a phone number that get printed and shipped to your loved ones in the mail each month. He built it to get photos to my grandparents without the internet. It won't fix the core problems you're describing, but can be a convenient way to give older people something nostalgic to look forward to each month, especially if it's pictures of their grandkids in the mail that they haven't seen on a photo stream.

Full disclosure re: Nanagram - I helped get the product off the ground, but am not involved anymore. Just a proud younger brother sharing a relevant service.

[Update] Another thing you should do is record their stories sooner rather than later. Using old photos as a story prompt is a good way to get the synapses firing on old memories. Once they pass away, all that history in their heads is gone, but it's easy to document some of it with video nowadays. If I'm missing my grandparents, watching old video of them and hearing their voice also really cheers me up.

[Edit - grammar/typos]
I think the fins on the back of a batmobile set I have are from a dragon in one of the 'castle' sets...
HIV had people getting weaker over long periods of time, and mostly younger people. Completely different from a bunch of old people dying from flu-like symptoms.
The reason those examples are used is because they're widely consumed stories. This is an article on literary analysis, not a fan discussion board for TV shows.

Norms for spoiler tagging would be awful in articles like this.
But there are also massive GDPR files for handing the data to the wrong person. Inaction is less risky.
For anecdata I am indeed using fastmail! :)
Curious how it compares to https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
It's easier that the US blocks it for diplomatic reasons than the UK. The UK will almost certainly block it if the US doesn't. It could be interpreted as a snub if the UK interferes with the deal, so the US has first dibs on blocking the merger.
I am not sure, I googled https://www.google.com/search?q=%22permissive+uncertainty%22 and most of the top results refer back to this paper or similar website talking about bullshitry. But maybe I am wrong and this is a real professional jargon of a real profession.
At night, I can barely see my finger against the empty Feedly screen. Too bad not all applications (looking at you, Strava and MFP) provide an OLED-compatible dark theme and the "Force dark mode" dev setting does not persist after a restart.
What are some newer low cost growth tactics for fintechs?
Share any youtube channels or other methods that can help a bootstrapped starrtup
Possible but lackluster
Its kafkaesque, the established world for inconprehensible and cruel bureaucracy that destroys lives for no reason. The term predates internet.
Such things happened before Covid, too. Also I personally wouldn't have noticed anything without the TV reports, I suspect it would have been the same for most people.
The trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw.
I've thought for a while now that driving a car (and probably gas powered cars) will go the way of horses. A leisure activity that some will enjoy, but will pass from the conciseness of society with time.
why would the steering wheel lock not help? it would require extra tools, time and noise to circumvent. It's cheap and effective, just a pita.
Show HN: I built a data augmentation toolkit for computer vision developer
vkit is a toolkit designed for CV (Computer Vision) developers, especially targeting document image analysis and optical character recognition workloads.

GitHub: https://github.com/vkit-dev/vkit
Documentation: https://vkit-dev.github.io/
The only time I’ve “needed” to watch video at work has been for cheesy, anti-harassment training showing pre-recorded situations that are obviously illegal.

The other cases are videoconferencing, where someone is basically showing a fairly static powerpoint, sprint planning board, or other, text-heavy content.
Yeah. Unbeknownst to me(I would have advised him had I known) my sister's boyfriend didn't have GAP on his brand new motorbike, it got stolen, he was in for a nasty shock when he found that even after insurance paid out, he still owed money to the bank because the value of the bike was lower than what he owed. GAP is essential if you own anything on finance.
Yes, it definitely is, because it is the only way to create islands on the grid without connecting everything.
true. i wish they'd called it crowdfunding. they sold credits for a mutual credit currency that is very different to centrally issued credit.
Doodles already aren't purebred.
I've never owned a car with modern keyless fobs but I've certainly had new spare keys made and I'm sure I've never had to produce a title to do so. Of course in that case I already had a key and I was in their computer system in some manner.
Blah blah blah, cynicism and disengagement is correct and right, etc. I know it's a prevalent attitude.

People can live their lives how they want but I don't want such people on my team.
Along the same lines, Edward Tufte recommends Josef Albers's book Interaction of Color, which teaches that there's no absolute colors - it's all relative.

Magazine piece on Albers and his work:
https://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/context/josef_albers_inter...
Neuralink Update – December 2021
I got my EA account permanently suspended. Not just permanently suspended, but 3 times in the same day. Without even having EA's launcher installed. Or having my computer turned on.
> Why does the Facebook Mobile interface feel so nice?

Checks publication date

Ah.
MMHuman3D
We have released an @OpenMMLab human pose and shape estimation toolbox "MMHuman3D":

https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmhuman3d

- Popular methods with a modular framework
- Various datasets with a unified data convention
- Versatile visualization toolbox

Welcome to use and contribute #MMHuman3D
I like to think (based on my shallow understanding of technical aspects of stories) that the basic formula of the hero's journey (a hero goes somewhere else and brings back some kind of change) is a general scheme to codify how to change things

Ramping up the abstraction (generality) to 11:

the hero is in a home (A)
the hero goes on an adventure (->)
the hero returns home but things have changed (B)

i.e. A -> B

It is probably useful to turn down the generality a little bit for this to be more usefull; but I'm most certainly NOT a storyteller.
> The reality is that people don't have a right to be free from sickness or death.

May I recommend you read article 2(2) of the German constitution at your convenience.
It's been a while since I took biology, but doesn't this depend on the genders of the siblings?

Two male brothers have XY, and the Y would have to be shared with the father, and same with two sisters (X from father), but a brother and sister would get a minimum of 50% different as the X and Y from the father would be different?
It's a mathematical contact, not a legal contact.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> not so smart that it's getting bored or trying to figure out how to escape.

This could be understood as if the most intelligent dogs were always bored or trying to escape. To clarify: intelligent dogs do need more stimulation, this is very true. But as long as they get it, they're happy.
Build strength by middle age, eat nutritious foods, move daily for 30-60 minutes in a large capacity, keep the brain occupied, be social, intermittent fast to remove weight which builds up. They all need to be started earlier in life to create them as muscle memory habits, rather than "motivational habits" in old age.

As one ages, body parts hurt, which demotivates people from moving, which adds weight, etc. Couple that with the potential loneliness and isolation that can cause depression - old age takes more extrinsic and intrinsic motivation than being a youth.
As a 25 year eBay user it's sad to see how shitty it has become.
I cannot make sense of this...
Falling has worse outcomes than the immediate ones. Both my parents passed away after a chain of events that began with a low-speed fall just onto the floor that damaged their lower body. The resulting incapacity and muscular wastage led to a multitude of issues that I don't want to go into but I would say that keeping elderly people safe from falls is extremely important. That and diet and healthcare. Activity is crucial, but done safely.
Is there anything similar for hotels?
New features for Android. Even outdated devices will receive them
Great read, thanks. I guess even though something like a memecoin sounds like a ponzi scheme without intrinsic value, creating a community around something positive (something that makes you laugh in this case) is good for people: you’re bonding and getting that feeling of belonging… you’re entering yet another “tribe”. Hope your DogeBonk ride takes you to a new wealth level too.
This looks nice!

What do the end results look like when used on devices with different screen sizes and resolutions?
80-90% grey background with 10-15% grey foreground (text) is an ideal contrast ratio/color scheme, for me. It doesn't burn my eyes out at night on my panels, in contrast to white-on-black schemes.

During the day, though, black-on-white all the way.
This is one of those things you just have to try and see if it works. I've quit caffeine completely for a few weeks, and didn't notice a difference in my sleep quality.
Side note: you can get a pretty robust genetic panels (health + breed) for dogs for about $150 now.

We did it recently on two of our pups (both mutts), and it was neat seeing the various possible lineages.

Our tiny terrier / beagle mix came back with >10% Chow & Siberian Husky. Never would have guessed that!

https://embarkvet.com/
One of our dogs is from farmers who specifically bought a giant working breed from across the country to sire puppies with their other giant working breed dogs. The two breeds make a good mix, and it ensures some genetic diversity. They actually use dogs on the farm, so they have more of an interest in cultivating health and good temperament than designer looks like some breeders do.
Or the original blasters in the Star Wars sets that were backwards megaphones with a piece on the end.
Thanks. The blog is generated by Hugo from org using ox-hugo[1]. The sidebar is part of the Hugo Cactus theme[2], which I modified a bit for my use.

The "flow charts" were made in Inkscape. No custom (ya)snippets are in use. (My Emacs configuration is linked to on the home page of the blog, but there isn't anything particularly interesting about it.)

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[2] https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/hugo-theme-cactus/
Hopefully less inbreeding is one of the positive outcomes of the current "designer mutt" fad. I was thinking about this the other day actually...
I mean.. they're stealing LUXURY vehicles. So the real solution to this problem is "Don't be rich. Don't own an expensive vehicle."
Their devices look really neat, but I don't think I can bring myself to buy one until they resolve their GPL violations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/fz4yka/max3_revi...
I'd disagree with your characterization of Greek Mythology. There are "goodies," they just are not viewed that way through the lens of modern values.
The dark grey 4l flush end axel sits flush with the rectangular block when properly inserted so it's not possible to get a grip strong enough to pull it out of the grey piece and the light grey piece the red pin goes into has a wall in the middle so you can't push it out through that end. It's impossible to take out non-destructively.
Line breeding is almost necessary for trait stabilization, yes. Lots of culls. When the "breed standards" market values looks over anything else for 50yr+, you get... what we got now.
He’s getting paid by the competitor. His comments are amusing but take it with a grain of salt. His opinion is paid.