skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lot of good strategies outlined here but I have found that sometimes it can be helpful to look at your life and choices from an outside view - like a person reading a story or watching a movie - and consider what direction you really want to be going in.

Do you want your anxiety and fears to be the author of your story or do YOU want to be the author of your story?

It sounds a little crazy but this small degree of separation can help take you out of the moment and give you back some agency
iirc the experience of color changes when adjacent colors are changed — context matters.
The weak factor in these AI studies seems to be data set normalization.
Hey, a few months back I trained a NN to generate MTG cards. I submitted a post to the MTG subreddit but it got blocked as spam and I never managed to get the mods to approve it.

My question was whether natural language generating networks could be used as a tool to assist game design. I must say I'm quite impressed with the results. Many cards could be legit with minor tweaks and some balance.

The point isn't to produce fully procedural content, but to assist designers to produce better content faster. Honestly I think people should start taking these tools seriously in the procedural content generation world.

This is the (pretty rough) repo with my code.

https://github.com/angarg12/this_trading_card_does_not_exist

These are some examples of cards

Guardian of Chains
Counter target spell. It deals 4 damage to any target

Orchid's Fury
Target Vampire creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn

Surveyor's Arch
Untap target player. It deals 3 damage to that player. You lose 1 life

Partisans of the Undying
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it
into your hand, then shuffle

Caravan Ritual
Enchant creature When caravan Ritual enters the battlefield, return
target creature to its owner's hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
Equip {2}

Brahms of the Grave
When Ithabadi Troghr enters the battlefield, return target creature
card from your graveyard to your hand. It gains haste until end of
turn'

Sleeping Dread Knight
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures
card types.) Whenever Sleeping Dread Knight deals combat damage to a
player, creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn

Genswurm, the Flesh Orchard
When Gnojscos, God of Vampires enters the battlefield, sacrifice a
land. {5}{G}{G}, Sacrifice Genswurm: Draw a card

Storm Call
Choose up to two target lands. You gain 1 life. An opponent has "{T},
Sacrifice Storm Call: Regenerate this permanent, then create a token
with "{T}, Sacrifice Storm Call: Add up to X +1/+1 counters."

Wandering Hollow
{T}: Create a red and white Zombie artifact creature token with base
power and toughness 5/5. Illus. Angel Albatross on the battlefield
(This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When it dies, return it to the battlefield under your control.)
I always wanted to teach a kid programming by using pacman. Start with a dot on the screen. Move it around. Add a maze. Then use sprites. Add dots. Add scoring. Add ghosts. etc etc
I agree, but you are still betting on a lottery ticket here. Likely, a lot of companies might not recover and just slowly grow (Netflix?) and not make too much movement.
VirtualBox keeps teasing proper Hyper-V support "any release now", but given how many releases have teased that and also Oracle's lack of incentive to actually make it happen (because they want you to buy their servers) who knows if/when it will ever happen. Ball is definitely in Oracle's court, though.
Heat pumps are not cheap, $10-$15k installed for a small one.
> On the one hand, you claim to never feel inadequate, yet when you see others achieving something you haven't yet achieved you claim it motivates you to achieve the same

That doesn't mean you are feeling inadequate. Being inspired doesn't mean you feel bad about yourself.

For example, whenever I watch really good basketball, it makes me want to go out and play myself. When I see someone playing a fun video game, it makes me want to play. I don't feel inadequate, I just want to participate in the fun and challenge.
Sub 6 inches, why not sub 5? Six inches is about 28% larger than a Samsung A3 from 2017.
Twitter thread of AI generated pictures by DALL-E-2
I want a notch-less phone. Where did they all go after 2019?
Doesn't that enable downgrade attacks?
Just a shameless suggestion: if anyone is concerned about the security implications of using the Obsidian Sync paid addon, I’ve been having good results with Syncthing instead. It supports peer-to-peer sync and is FOSS.
If crypto is mostly a "get rich quick" scheme and shortcut to riches plummeting prices will cool down the hype fast. There's no such thing as a money printing machine that doesn't backfire.
It's... not as hard as you might think, to get SoC 2 Type 1 compliant. Kind of surprised they waited this long.
Not one mention of Fossil source control.
Perhaps apocryphal/silly, but amusing nonetheless. Story goes that this means you want to be in the computer furthest from the interconnect because light travels slightly faster in straight fiber than in coiled fiber.
I also cut my teeth as a preteen with qbasic, modifying Gorillas.bas :)

I had gotten ahold of a qbasic extender that somebody published along with a "learn games in qbasic" book. It was a TSR that would expose some extended functionality to the qbasic runtime environment, allowing a 320x200 8bit color mode that was really fun to play around in. Anybody else remember this TSR?
The backend seems a bit stack. I think we (or others) are overflowing it with requests :P :D
Thanks for sharing. I'm sure there's plenty of counter-arguments to his, but the only thing I have to work with is my anecdote/experiences.

Ridding myself of TV over the last 2 years has been extremely hard. I'm down to watching a maximum of an hour a night. Most times I don't even try nor care to. I have seen significant improvements to my own life, but most importantly I see the effects it has had on my young kids and how much more creative they are because they aren't sitting in front of a TV watching shows like I was when I was their age. It was the only thing I knew as a parent taught by mine and I had to challenge that for myself.

Moderation is the key to everything, but this book woke me up to things I wasn't aware of and figured I'd share.
The stock is good sure, but I always figured that FAANG was more about their reputation as employers than it was about their reputation as an investment.
Your dream Android phone is an iPhone
https://paperform.co/blog/principles-of-design/

https://principles.design/

https://99designs.com/blog/tips/principles-of-design/
Won't run on my MacPro laptop because it's pre 11. Boo!
It is just the name of the project. The TF-A project is 100% open source.
The substack post was a great read. I feel like it must be around two years old now
Depends on the content. For popular crap that I'm probably going to delete later I generally go for the 10-15GB option as finding a decent rip at a lower file size can be annoying (Latest marvel movies, etc). If something is sufficiently obscure or visually stunning I'll normally keep it at 10-15GB rips depending on the source material (Obscure horror movies, Dune). For regular stuff that I still want to have a copy of but that is popular enough I'm not worried it's going to disappear I go for the smaller versions (The expanse, adventure time).

Right now one of the biggest things on disk are a bunch of Boston Legal episodes. I have family that enjoy it, and I'm too lazy to find a good small release so it's taking up more space than it needs to.

I try to get HEVC encoded video where possible, and when I know there's a particular release group that produces high-quality I'll set up tags to prefer them.
“Affordable housing” is a just euphemism for subsidizing employers’ low wages at the taxpayers’ expense.

This plan is even worse, in that they’ll also provide “rental and downpayment assistance”, causing home prices to skyrocket in exactly the same way as college tuition.
> Can you explain how social media is an actual threat to the democracy or democratic process to a reasonable person?

The best explanation I've read of this is Tim Urban's "The Story of Us" series [1]. It builds up a model from individual behavior to societal behavior and how it's changed over the decades due to how online interactions have shifted behavior (both individual and societal).

I don't know whether it's the right or wrong model and explanation, but he lays it out very clearly.

[1]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
It's extremely possible for a product to be strictly dominated by another on technical merits and still be successful.

"Intel is done" because Apple produced a great chip focuses on only one small (albeit very important!) part of the puzzle.
They're just Jelly
If you screw it up, you end with a non-exploded thing that you have to tear down. That's where the risk is.

Plastic explosive with electric igniter ain't that bad, but old school fuses and mines are scary.
Decwars used to "equalize" latency for consoles verses dialups (in the 1970's)...
That is irrelevant. The SEC also didn't go and check what people were using their NVIDIA GPUs for.

The problem is that NVIDIA leadership knew/believed that a proportion X of their GPUs were being bought for crypto mining (thus tying demand with crypto prices), while they reported to investors a different number, Y, with Y < X. This is material information that they simply lied about, which is illegal for a publicly traded company. In fact, the lawsuit could have happened even if Y > X.

If NVIDIA had reported the same numbers they did, and people had been in fact using them at the same rate that they did, but NVIDIA hadn't known about it, then nothing illegal would have happened. If NVIDIA had later found out and disclosed this to investors, again no lawsuit (though perhaps share prices would have changed, one way or another).
It's that amount of lines UNCOMPILED. Of course uncompiled code wouldn't fit in 64kb of flash (the compiler wouldn't fit either, you know). Compiled, std::optional takes up essentially no overhead, basically the same as if you're returning a single bool along with your object.

> This is practical with an efficient heap allocator (which I might not have). What happens if I want a scoped (on stack) instance of a class?

There is absolutely no reason to do a heap allocation for a factory function in modern C++ (or even relatively ancient C++, in fact). The fact that you would think so indicates you simply don't know C++ at all.

Tell me, where in these six lines do you see a heap allocation? Where in the total of 6 instructions this compiles down to do you see anything that couldn't run in any embedded environment? Tell me how these six instructions wouldn't fit inside your 64kb of flash:

https://godbolt.org/z/rErWPbbbx

And again, EVEN IF you're so religiously and irrationally opposed to using std::optional, you can just return a default-constructed object and an extra bool indicating successful construction. I don't know why you would considering you could just return an optional, but whatever, you can do it that way if that's what you prefer.

You're just wrong about this stuff, and it's this kind of lazy, uniformed criticism of C++ that really rubs me the wrong way. If you wanna use C, use C! Nobody's stopping you, it's a fine language. Just leave the C++ discussions to the people who actually know what the language is.
Magic Means Large Search Spaces (2005)
> ignoring the decades of disgruntled engineers that left Intel to its present fate

Not to mention the layoffs of thousands of the most senior and experienced staff. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I think you mean MAGMA
Sure, but there is only one person in the neighborhood that is the poorest. Most people are going to be around the average, so they aren't going to have the experience of everyone being richer than them.
I've already downloaded all the books. Now the challenge is indexing and sorting them.
Well done on the smooth animations. Looks very satisfying to use.
Can I download the video/photo content for offline storage? I don't want to spend a bunch of time recording memories if it's all going to be lost when this app shuts down in a couple years.
My thoughts about Fly.io (so far) and other newish technology I'm getting into
> Early Android versions supporter USB mass storage and that worked pretty well, but the transfer method implemented on newer versions is very slow and never works reliably for me.

Have you tried both connecting your phone to your computer via USB and connecting your phone to a USB stick?
> If i don't pass the next 4 assignments i will fail the lab, but i keep avoiding sitting down with all of my power.

Part of the solution is to just sit-down. Like with time in the office of 8 am to 5 pm, just get into the habit of sitting down and just reduce distractions that way. Like even if nothing is done in the 8 am to 5 pm timeframe, just not playing video games or watching a movie is already a big step in the right direction.

Like an office helps the body to get to do intellectual stuff, like laying in bed helps the body to fall asleep. That's the same idea, sitting down in 8 am to 5 pm period and just not being allowed to watch videos or play video games, helps the body get used to doing intellectual work.

For practical advice, the student probably can just spend-time in the library even if just sitting in the library.
Well, mass illegal immigration wasnt ALWAYS a thing. We are talking about political issue of whether some states should receive more seats in congress due to number of undocumented immigrants they host. It is not a racist thing, it is a political thing.
>1. No, you won't. Unless you think almost no software is worth it, or you're a billionaire.....

I think you'r interpreting what I said as buying all rights to the software outright or something. I'm not quite sure. I meant buy as in pay for the right to use it.

>the issue for me anyway - is whether it is legitimate for the state to police the population to the extent of preventing the sharing of information, including software

It's legitimate for the state to wield the powers delegated to it by the people.

Our society (I mean the west generally but other societies too) have for a very long time decided that ownership rights can be legitimately exercised on some information in some circumstances, for periods of time. I think it's legitimate to extend those protections to software.

I understand you disagree on that, but for me there's both a moral and an economic dimension to the question. Some forms of information should be shareable and in the open, where that is in the public interest, sure. Political speech for example. However where there's a creative or economic value, as with a novel or software, the fact is treating sharing it as a free speech right would be economically catastrophic.

Investment in media production including software development, writing books, creating music, making movies and TV would utterly collapse. I know technically there are theoretically alternate funding models, and even a very few examples of successful projects, but the barriers to entry and risks of such models are in practice so severe that it would still be economically and culturally devastating. That's why you're not going to get public support for such a change.
So on top of the other great suggestions here, I can share a trick that has helped me to get me past periods where I was feeling either depressed or stuck or anxious or otherwise not my best. If I have a decision to make ("Should I go for this new job?" "Should I move to a new city?") I ask myself, "What would the happy, confident version of me do?" and then I do that. When I'm depressed or fearful I tend to make bad choices that perpetuate that state; when I'm happy I tend to make better choices that make me happier. This is a way of short circuiting that feedback loop and making even a small step to feel better.
Clearly works well. See Nestle.
When giant corporations own or buy 90% of everything then voting with your wallet is not effective at all.
also, explanations of 80 demos that fit in 280 chars (they were tweets to the AppleIIbot Applesoft BASIC twitter bot)
http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/appleiibot/
Setup bros! Here's a pic of mine from 5-6 years ago. https://imgur.com/PgHfzQu
Have you considered Org Mode <https://orgmode.org>? The syntax is different from Markdown and it was made for GNU Emacs first and foremost, but if you really need to sync org files to mobile devices there are probably a couple of ways to skin that particular cat.
someone posted an article about ACT not long ago, I couldn't find the acronym, thanks :)
I feel fortunate enough to have grown up playing point and click games, like Myst, 7th Guest, and Fate of Atlantis, and keeping a notebook on my desk for clues to puzzles. I think it had a positive effect on my development, comparable to playing chess, which I also did.
I wonder if an extensible editor (example: Atom) could do both of those things with Markdown files. Assuming by styling you mean things like being able to highlight and custom-style some text, even in a typically text-only view of a markdown file. It wouldn't be a big surprise if that could be done...somehow. Collapsible points ought to be doable for sure.

Personally I use other methods for styling within markdown, for example emoji, tags, link formatting with brackets (for things that are not really links), etc.

I also take any list that's longer than 8-10 items and break it up by category or reorganize it so it's less visually overwhelming.

Otherwise you may find it helpful to look into more rich-editor-style notetaking solutions like cherrytree or Notecase Pro. The latter is proprietary but I used it for years and was very happy with it. Good luck in your search.

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

https://www.notecasepro.com/
A good oil-burning heater has over 90% efficiency. Even no so good and cheap one can get over 70%. The best industrial electricity-generating plants that runs on oil has efficiency bellow 60%.
For those of us who didn’t know… it is a formal security audit for how you manage customer data.

From: https://www.strongdm.com/soc2/compliance

> SOC 2 stands for “Systems and Organizations Controls 2” and is sometimes referred to as SOC II. It is a framework designed to help software vendors and other companies demonstrate the security controls they use to protect customer data in the cloud
I can't justify the kind of prices being discussed here because the only use I have for a camera setup like this is Family Zoom meetings. I went looking on Amazon and I stumbled on "Vlogging Cameras". There seem to be quite a few of them available for less than $200, with 4K sensors, and either attached microphones, or an input for an external microphone. I have no idea of the quality of the image being produced by these cameras, but they seem like they could be a low cost option, and better than the typical webcams available.
Laylo (YC S20) is hiring to build Salesforce for creators
I bet Elon is grooming Pranay.
Yeah, no kidding. How much of the small phone demo overlaps with the selfie demo? I could go without a front camera.
Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots
Camo does support portrait mode, but I think it’s a paid feature
included with the “Pro” version on iOS.
You can make thick phone. Thick phones are much more pleasant to hold.
Thanks for history link, just spent 15 minutes looking through my own website :)
I just didn't see that the second URL was the pdf.
Turkish citizens will suffer as a result of that veto. Shame.
that just sounds like ADHD. the ADHD brain craves stimulation and games are a pretty easy place to find it. Modern life is kinda boring, especially if you grow up in a US suburb.
This idea of a meritocratic system you have is very incomplete. I'd really recommend listening to what Michael Sandel has to say about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qewckuxa9hw
The Inside Story of The CryptoKitties Congestion Crisis (2018)
Just they went public
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The most recent version works on Mojave and is available via Homebrew.
Didn't you add another wooden platform bit that goes under the front legs of the chair?
If you don't want to attend an inside event that's your decision. Don't force your crap on the rest of us. Vaccines are wildly available, mortality rates for vaccinated people are very low, the new COVID strains are not very deadly. Time to move on.
can you elaborate? How the ideal implementation would look like.
I've avoided fintech in my career- I currently work for a company called Aptible (currently hiring, and with great revenue so we're not dependent on investment) that manages infrastructure for companies that need HIPAA compliance.

That said I interviewed for a bunch of companies, and with the exception of a small few all of the salaries were above $250k. This is for principal level roles.
The key to the better quality is not camera, it's light.

A dedicated camera with a fast lens has three key improvements over a typical webcam:

- bokeh

- less noise in the dark, better dynamic range (almost irrelevant for a webcam)

- less compressed video (potentially), which is critical for chroma keying; certain USB3 webcams can deliver a much less compressed stream as well.

If you're willing to sacrifice bokeh and don't need chroma keying, $100 or slightly more can buy you light sources to make you look substantially better on your under $100 webcam. And without proper lighting, the proper camera is useless as well.

Some other steps to look good on a webcam: choose a good lighting scheme, use proper camera settings, do some color correction; a color calibration card helps with this immensely, even a cheap one. Use the virtual webcam in OBS with a LUT generated from your card, control your scene with a vectorscope plugin. Voila, you just upgraded your look to a 100x more professional one, using just a simple webcam.

Keep in mind that you need much (and by this I mean MUCH) more lighting than you probably think you do. And possibly blackout shutters or curtains to completely block the outside light, making your lighting controlled.
We should probably try to not label political opponent's positions as conspiracy or disinformation. You're not going to convince them away from their position if you refuse to discuss it.

Here in Canada we are similar to the USA in accepting around 1% boost to our population per year. So 30 million / 400,000 immigrants per year.

So what year does white people become a minority? 2036.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/the-politics-o...

HEre's the thing. If we don't do this. We are going to have insane population decline. The worker shortage of 2030 is set in stone. Immigration can't possibly cover it, but it can at least help. You cant magic teenagers into existence.

This is the consequence of World War 2, but you can also see why some people are freaked out. You have major population decline, we're below replacement fertility rate and seemingly nobody is even considering trying to fix that problem. Hence replacement theory is completely legitimate.

But also why are they not looking into fixing our histortical low fertility? Shouldn't that be a fundamental job of the government akin to borders or military?
You can practice for a job interview with Google AI
My favorite statements from this post...

> ...An Android phone (with Beeper for iMessage) might be an adequate alternative...

...and...

> ...Extrapolating from past models, the Pixel 10 will be roughly the size of California
Which is why Apple put in a kill switch for Face ID (or Touch ID), if you hold down the power button (or power and volume down for newer iPhones) until the “Slide to Power Off” screen appears, the next unlock will require your passcode.