skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have about 1,000 weekends with your kids before they are legally adults. My children are mostly grown up now (18 and 14) and, despite the sleepless nights, I miss having them fall asleep in my arms and their absolute wonder of the world as infants and toddlers.

It's all over far too soon. Make the most of it!
The last time he pushed art, someone named Braque was doing the significant pushing with him. That collaboration ended in 1914. He is a great artist but not a genuine lifelong innovator.
Hi I love this and have been working on something similar off and on over the years. I'd love to connect if interested. You can reach me at the e-mail in my profile. Awesome stuff!
Just wondering - why play over webcam instead of using cockatrice or untap.in with supplementary voice chat?
Just because it's the most requested feature doesn't mean it's a majority, it's not even close:

> Among the 26% of respondents who said Go lacks language features they need, 88% selected generics as a critical missing feature.

From https://go.dev/blog/survey2020-results

Most folks I work with are among the 74% who are content with the language and are mostly cautious of the complexity associated with generics.
This is available on the main III site as a link in the current newsletter :

"An IACC would be a court of last resort, holding kleptocrats accountable (and grabbing their accounts). The court would recover, repatriate or repurpose stolen assets, punishing corrupt officials but also professional enablers (step forward, lawyers, bankers, accountants and real estate agents).

The IACC could be established by a small number of founding member states, so long as they include several major financial hubs where lots of cash gets stashed (step forward, the UK, Europe and the US)."

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/kick-kleptocrats-in-the-wa...
Aren't there enough good professionals and plenty of good advice for health and nutrition already?
Samsung S10e

Already there and has probably every spec that's listed
For the security of your visitors, would you please set up TLS?

It's trivial with LetsEncypt and an ACME client. If you're on a webhost, most of them make it a one-click operation. If it's a legacy/retro webserver, you can put something like caddy in front of it and caddy will do everything for you. Or use Cloudlfare. Etc. etc.
Are you talking painting/sketching specifically? I'd suggest Ansel Adams as somewhat consistent. What about Andy Warhol? I don't recall any of his work that went drastically different, but admittedly not an art student
I've been writing about the way I work for years. I haven't bothered to boil things down into a pattern, but the explanations are fairly clear:

https://littlegreenviper.com/various/concrete-galoshes/

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...

https://littlegreenviper.com/various/evolutionary-design-spe...

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...

https://littlegreenviper.com/various/testing-harness-vs-unit...

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/risky-business/

https://littlegreenviper.com/various/the-road-most-traveled-...
How not to handle your website's customer service: A story
You won't have to pay for FSD again. Stop talking nonsense. And what do you mean, 'upgrade your car'? Specifically? I am not aware of any actions that remove a previously paid FSD entitlement from a Tesla.
whats the difference between these and me scribbling random mish mash of curves?
> It's an impressive effect for the time, as the lighting on the ridges will shift and match the sun's angle even as the suns dynamically move through the sky. Bump mapping like this wouldn't become common until the next console generation, and here it is in a GameCube launch title from 2001!

It's always fun when a Factor 5 game appears in one of these. These people were wizards.
I wonder if you could adopt AlphaZero to this. Something like:

- Train a model using MCTS to play MtG games. The model takes an MtG game state and estimates the “value” (how likely current player will win) and “policy” (ideal move for current player)

- Each “game” has 2 phases: drafting cards to create a deck, and then playing the actual deck. So the model learns to both a create deck and play its deck well

- After training, you input a state where both players have “drafted” their decks, right before the actual gameplay. The output “value” is the power of Player 1’s deck relative to Player 2: ideally you want this to be as close to 0 as possible.

As a bonus you also get a model capable of actually playing MtG.

One nuance is that the “value” are not a complete ordering: comparing the values, you could get a situation where deck A > deck B > deck C > deck A. Honestly this is probably a benefit because it forces the players to use “skill” vs choosing the right deck for the right opponent.
I disagree. There has always appeared to me to be a wide variety of beard sizes and shapes.

I know men who cannot grow a beard. I can only grow a thin, straight beard, and I have friends with thick beards that curl around.
Frederick Hart, Thomas Kinkade, Norman Rockwell. None too well respected, I suppose.

The problem is that there are thousands (or more) young people with all the technical ability of Michelangelo, and so they absolutely need something else to distinguish them. Thus many artists go through their "Michelangelo phase" to get to their "weird scribbly splotchy phase" which is the real lottery ticket.

Perhaps more importantly, the critics needs something to say about art, or they won't say anything. See "The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe
that assumes the use/utility of the computation is 0. We can all debate if that's true or not about cryptomining.

One day we may heat our homes with distributed computing like BOINC.

Consider the house that marginally has electrical resistive wall heaters (Like the bay area) and an excess of spare computers sitting around (also like the bay area) ... It's marginally better for the house nerd to leave their PCs on using BOINC than run the wall heater.
Smart phones are too useful and becoming too ingrained to life for the vast majority of people to not buy a phone off some sort.
I'm going to guess this effect is lower because it's being marginalized across all player skill levels (ELO). In Riot's post you can see that the higher tier the player is at, the more likely they are to use Ethernet. If you conditioned on ELO I suspect you'll find a much larger effect.
It's fast because it's not loading 100 JavaScript files from 15 different trackers and 20 ad providers. Also, the content is loaded statically, rather than having to wait for some JS to load that then loads and renders the article text.

It takes effort to make a site slow, not the other way around.
My trick is to follow accounts about things that I enjoy and people who are positive.

I simply unfollow accounts if they post toxic or exhausting things. Even if I know them in person (including my sibling, sorry send a text or a postcard!)

Now my feed is full of positive things, close friends, my favorite hobbies and jokes that I enjoy.

Also, only using insta and tiktok is an immediate improvement. Facebook is a cesspool due to it constantly highlighting "friends" comments on random other accounts.
Sustainable resource use leads to more growth, just not faster growth. You can overfish or overgraze to boost growth in the short term while sacrificing overall growth as ecosystem collapse will result in no or little growth. It would be more appropriate to look at 'lifetime' income of a resource but that would require 0% interest rates as positive interest rates devalue future income and reward short term thinking.
Not too happy about this, thought it was just them adding a new tier droplet but then reading further they've increased there gold standard $5 droplet to $6. Guess I'm going to move to some other VPS because of this. Vultr is looking like a good candidate as they have a Dallas DC (I'm in TX) and for there $5 dollar VPS you get 2TB transfer, plus they have cheaper VPS's under $5. (I just do home lab stuff so the best bang for my buck is what I'm aiming for.)
It always baffled me that these weren't named after Zeus.
Productivity increases at the same time. It's not free, there'd need to be complementary expansion of resource gathering and development of more efficient technology, but naively plugging in the values for life in developed nations won't get you the right result. In reality, this translates to a slower climb to developed nations status, not resource shortages (barring unrelated issues).
iPhone 13 mini.

Having said that, the specs of the SE are nothing to sneeze at.
If you are going that route (I have), keep in mind that streaming from your mirrorless/DSLR HDMI port usually means h.264 live encoding, which might not work smoothly with older machine, there are very few HDMI to USB capture cards that perform the encoding.

Since I'm still mostly using my old Macbook (late 2014) and a Sony A7II + (Sony FE 55mm f/1.8), I soon realized that with a basic USB capture device (a UVC device that exposes an uncompressed video as webcam) I couldn't get anywhere past 360p with 24fps, and even then, CPU was skyrocketing.

Next I tried to utilize an Raspberry Pi that I have to stream the video, but using VLC as well as FFMpeg and few other streaming products, all did not do well when it came to resolution, fps and latency.

At the same time, I researched some existing USB capture devices, and while Elgato seems like the popular choice, non of their USB capture devices perform hardware h.264 encoding, so the bottleneck remains the host machine.

The only two hardware brands that I found at the time (around a year ago) that made USB capture devices with on-board h.264 encoders were Blackmagic and Magewell.

I went with the Magewell USB Capture Gen 2 which seemed to do exactly what I wanted and no more than that. I was able to find for ~$80 and it has worked perfectly since — no latency or missing frames at 1080p. It also has a very nice management console that let you tweak the (hardware) encoding (enable/disable mirror mode, crop frame and more).

EDIT: another thing that I tried was to use Sony Imaging Edge Webcam — a USB driver that turn Sony cameras into UVC (webcam) device. It works pretty well but has a max resolution of 1024 x 576. Not what I was looking for but still I remember it as being equal or even better than combining a cheap HDMI to USB devices that don't do hardware encoding with OBS for virtual camera.
Take a picture of your face, set it as your background in OBS, and stream that. It's much more convenient, because you only have to make sure your camera works well once, instead of for every meeting.
UK citizen here. We implemented direct democracy by having a largely ill informed and sometimes deliberately misled population vote on the highly technical and complicated matter of EU membership. Ask us how it's going.
I think we're just coming off the pandemic.
Reminds me of this Instagram account that people were talking about a while ago (and indeed the title of this article has the same naming format as the Instagram account) [0]. Hint, it's usually the opposite of what you might initially suspect.

[0] https://www.instagram.com/siblingsordating/
Hard to say until we've seen the results of your scribbling! A There are a lot of people who say "I could do that!" but curiously few who actually do it.
XJ6 series 1

https://live.staticflickr.com/6040/6282846492_2b9f48fdbd_b.j...
You are not Picasso.
Yeah single room. There's dual room splits that run a bigger compressor with two heads too. They are usually way cheaper than bigger units even when you account how much juice they eat up but you should do your own math because it depends on the house and the setup.

Also if you want to control every single room including bathrooms and walk in closets it gets tricky.
This made me think: Back in the 90s when I was a teen there were several magazines here in Mexico (ERES, Tú) and the "socials" section in the local newspaper which dedicated to show you the amazing life of socialtes and other famous (or not so famous) people. Teenage girls and boys used to buy and "read" those magazines to get up to speed on the latest gossip, but also just to see what these people were doing.

Do you think that was bad for kids those days?
Ah I see, thanks! I thought the fake update server would be returning the actual data files itself. What a precarious situation to be in though, that's unfortunate.
The 85yro one looks like he placed an I.P. address at the top
Yes, I realize it is the date. ;)
> USDT minting means that someone buys USDT with USD.

No, it does not. Even themselves admitted it. They have minted before just based on the "value of their reserves", which no one can really verify.

If you continue with arguments that are provably false and blatant circular logic, I think I am done here.
My bad, I read this as "narrow DOF", in which case a low f-stop helps.. Will leave the recommendation for anyone who wants a nice background blur. But perhaps go for a 50mm f1.8 if you want a narrower FOV.
You have Picasso as a reference. Picasso was working off-book.
Show HN: tdog – Download Stripe to SQLite
This is a CLI written in Rust to download your Stripe account to a local SQLite database.

It is intended to enable using SQL queries over your data.

There is also a template for fly.io and Datasette to give you a Sigma like web UI:

https://github.com/tabledog/datasette-stripe
My thoughts exactly. I am 6'4" and I have an iPhone 13 mini and even I think it's too big for my taste.

I simply need something that I can use comfortably with a single hand, small enough to call it compact and hide in my pocket.

I totally get the appeal of a bigger screen though. I can appreciate it for what it achieves: bigger screen means easy to read, good for watching media, playing games and easier to type on it. But for my use case, I want to AVOID making it that easy to do all of those things while still getting benefits of a smartphone, let alone an iPhone.

That's why I am really bummed that iPhone mini is going away. I don't think I'll switch to Android, because I have a lot of apple devices and the ecosystem integration is quite valuable for me.
Desktop air curtain system prevents spread of Covid in hospital settings
A fellow I knew casually and whose blog I followed for many years (he was fond of trains, roleplaying games, and progressive rock) lost his domain name after he died. It ended up being spamsquatted, but weirdly, the metadata for the site remained intact (I guess as a lure?)
They were cousins.
FYI, probably downvoted because this is the first line of the article.
Yeah, due to the ever-increasing difficulty of buying reasonably-sized phones, I've been keeping my phone longer and longer, well past the point of lag and annoyance where I'd prefer to buy a new one.... because there is no new one that I want. They're too big. They're worse for me than an out-of-support old phone that limps along and may require a third-party OS.

All told, I've probably bought less than half as many phones as I'd prefer. Yes, I do eventually buy one because they effectively are required nowadays, but that's quite a lot of money that isn't going into these company's hands.

Meanwhile, the rest of the market also seems to be lengthening their time between phone purchases..... and phone manufacturers respond by releasing bigger and more expensive phones year over year over year. I won't try to claim it's the majority of the cause, but surely there's some connection between those two.
Thunderbird has a whole page highlighting their features: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/features/
Thanks for the input.

We definitely have SCIM2.0 on the radar. If someone feels intrigued we would happily accept a PR
War is profitable because you are taking what someone else has built or what was already there and claiming it as your own. The costs are borne by the losers of the war. Either through loss of life or the loss of the seized capital.
you can use the supercharged links plugin and careful control of it's class types to achieve that, it's how I did it. I'm largely using schema.org types
It's not anecdotal because your anecdote matched the parent's anecdote. Okay. Scientific method looking robust in this field.

My point is that any nutritional thing is anecdotal because people don't neatly slot into a category when it comes to nutrition.
I bought a Panasonic Lumix S5 (amazing camera btw - the whole full frame lumix collection blows away everything else I have used and I came from a Sony A7iii) and there is a beta software from panasonic that installs drivers to make it act as a webcam. Actually works quite well and smoothly (it just recognizes like any other webcam - no software to tweak). Unfortunately it is only limited to 720P while the camera can shoot 6K raw video (SSD external required of course) but it works well for Zoom and whatnot.
data hoarding is hoarding, but it might be a better way to get the dopamine hit one gets from hoarding in a way that doesn't take over and ruin one's life.

imagine this same person was someone who in the past might have hoarded VHS recordings or newspapers. How much space would that take up. A significant amount, to the point where we see the houses of hoarders and the hoarding has really damaged their ability to live. While data hoarding does take time and money, it doesn't have to take over one's physical space in the same manner.

So, while hoarding can be a problem, it really depends on the damage its doing to one's life. If one spends hours a day searching for content, neglecting one's life/family/job and putting them at risk, that's bad. If one has things automated, and its just a question of money they spend on it, then its just a question can they afford it. If they can, its just a hobby, not a sickness, as its not damaging to one's life.

Now, even with what I said, it can be hard for the person themselves to understand the effect it might be having on their life, perhaps until its too late (you think you are on top of things, but things unravel quickly).
Most economists have no idea how monetary policy or macroeconomics works.
Thanks for checking out Infra!

Infra App is Jeff and I's passion project when we started. We still patch it for security / bugs. That being said, we've definitely been thinking about how we should maintain / let the rest of the community take it over if there is such an interest. If anyone wants to chat about that, ping me at michael -at- infrahq.com
> Making me think that maybe you should be insensitive to certain users

People with screen readers usually have an accessibility issue, so you are advocating to ignore the visually impaired, for example.
> but when the current solution is running their own intermediary server it seems kind of equivalent.

My impression is that they aren't hosting or relaying any of the update files -- they're running a web service which provides Dolphin users with URLs of files which are hosted by Nintendo.
I picked up a new C920 a few years ago on a £30 deal (I think they go for around £50 now) and it is by far the best USB webcam for quality at this price point

I'm am at a loss as to why this guy is comparing said camera to cameras in the region of £600-1300. if they could produce 20x the quality, then it might be a wothwhile comparison, but they evidently cannot

the C920 has inbuilt hardware h264 encoding (for £30!) which the majority of video streaming and conference platforms will thank you for, freeing up your processor to focus on network quality - which is far more important than choice of camera

the C920 also outputs its nicely pre-encoded stream at 1920p, so I'm not sure why this guy is testing at 720p. perhaps he doesn't realise this and is why he is surprised by the wider angle. perhaps his £600-1300 "proper" camera or HDMI-to-USB only outputs at 720p. who knows. maybe if he'd have spent less time faffing around with desmurfification and Moire he'd have noticed this in the settings

I was expecting an article comparing the C920 to an affordable proper camera with some ffmpeg wizardry, but all I got was a wishy-washy amateur photographer with a stable internet connection and lots of money to burn
Low head eco-friendly hydropower
VW e-golf... you can find them for ~10k used and they are just a regular basic (but high quality) car that happens to have an electric drivetrain. The downside is they have slightly less range than newer EVs. I leased one and was really impressed overall, and wish I had bought out the lease.
with 6 you miss some good accounts, anonymity is not always a bad thing
I do this two, but I have sort of two mental categories. The people who only occasionally pull me in. I just mute or block then unblock. Then there are the people who consistently try to pull me in and view it as their duty to do so. Those I just unfollow, it's not worth the effort to keep them in my feed.
DNSSEC is however the only way you can make TLS really work. The whole TLS ecosystem is dependent on CAs that are basically just a giant hack. They're signing a statement that they did a bunch of DNS resolutions at a point in time from different network vantage points (maybe, hopefully), and got consistent answers. DNSSEC+DANE lets you get the actual data you want (domain name->public key binding) from the root source, without needing the complicated middlemen.
I'm eager (honestly) to see your "mish mash of curves" works.

There'll never gonna be "too much" good art.
If this is true I suspect a human could be trained the same way.

I read once that a radiologist can't always explain what they see in an image that leads them to one diagnosis or another, they say that after seeing many of them they just know.

So I suspect the same could be done for race. This would be a super interesting thing to try with some college students - pay them to train for a few days on images and see how they do.
should be pretty soon tbh, code review is almost done
SSSHHHHHHHH we need more atom bombs! Raytheon has what we need!
EU probably requires the allowance of 3rd party cartridges and refills by law.

In America, corporations run the government and the propaganda machine. They've convinced half the country that any restrictions on corporations are attacks on the Free Market™ (and your freedom!) and are a slippery slope to SOCIALISM!!.
As I someone who has studied art a little, try it! Appreciation for work of this kind comes quickly when you try and emulate it.
For almost everything, audio is the most important part of video.
An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers (2017)
IMO learning to draw is sort of like creating your own compression algorithm. There are many different ways to distill the huge amount of visual information into that which can be expressed through abstraction on a two-dimensional plane. The coolest part to me is that while some of these algorithms are lossy, others are...gainy? (what's the opposite of lossy...?) Depending on how you tune your simplification of the subject, the result can look MORE like the essence of the thing than the thing itself. The magic of caricature.
It baffles me how everyone complains that they can't find talent and that devs make so much money, but at the same time don't invest in at least trying making devs 2-5x more productive.
I haven't seen this video yet, but I should note that "Thinking Machine's CM2" processor was a 4096x 1-bit SIMD processor.

Which was enough to really have CUDA-like or OpenCL-like code back in the day. Operations could be compiled into 1-bit commands to be executed in parallel across 4096 "SIMD-lanes / threads" (much akin to CUDA-threads).

A lot of the research from the CM2 / Thinking Machines was translated into modern GPU code (parallel prefix sum, radix sort, etc. etc.). The research done back then really lays the foundation upon today's embarassingly parallel works.

There were some other computers that came before CM2 of course. But CM2 + Thinking Machines is very clearly part of the great history of SIMD-compute / PRAM model of compute / Parallel vectors / etc. etc.