skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Weak-link thinking makes scientific censorship seem reasonable, but all censorship does is make old ideas harder to defeat.

Reduce the social, political, professional, and academic cost of "being wrong", learn to have a little more empathy and suddenly negative reviews will hold more meaning once again. People will learn to learn instead of learn to defend. (Of course, defense is a skill worth learning as well. Please don't take what I'm saying as this-or-that.)

You simply cannot do away with peer review! What you can eliminate is the control strictures that exist today which punish failure unfairly. This is true at all levels, from the highest institution right on down to that conversation you had with a colleague over coffee yesterday.
Can you please give a short summary of why I should give C#/.NET a go for my backend services?

I've been fighting battles in Python backend services to get a nicely decoupled API, logic and DB layers for a while...but sqlalchelmy, alembic and flask/django/fastAPI are my safety blankets
Very impressive. I am quite confident that next years number one Christmas hit will start like "church bells to electronic beats".
Probably not a popular opinion, but honestly sometimes just making a cup of coffee and sucking it up for 45-60 minutes can give me enough momentum to suddenly enjoy the task.
I think this is actually the reason why you can only use 3 GB of 4GB on some older Thinkpads. Because docking, and such, they took care of that.
The scientific corpus is mostly wrong information though.

This is how we are going to pay a huge price for this ridiculous system of a citation social network and PhD mills masquerading as science.
Well, plant the idea that there is a fusion reaction going on in mitochondria at a very low scale. Throw in terms like "proton gradient", "electron transport chain" and create a science conspiracy.
Show HN: AI Avatar Image Generator Based on Other AI Images
An AI Avatar image generator that creates images of you based on other AI created images.

The popularity of the recent AI Avatar image generator apps sparked some interest of mine in the area.

After playing around with a few AI Avatar image generators, some of which generate pictures of you based on pictures you upload and prompts you write, I thought, wouldn't it be much easier, instead of writing out prompts, to just select another image which you want your generated image to be based on.

The image the user selects is actually another AI generated image, so we know the prompt used to generate it. So prompt writing is abstracted away from the user, and instead they can search for images and click on ones they like.

Backend of the application currently uses Astria AI for the image model training and generation, and uses the Lexica API for getting lists of AI generated images and their prompts.
Anything we can do to push HTMX inside HTML5 and not as JS add-on?
Sure, but that's a different motivation entirely.
> Also, you can train it to imitate an artist's style just by showing it textual descriptions of the style. It doesn't have to see any images.

And the weights. The weights it has learned come originally from the images.
When motivation fails, discipline must take over.

Motivation is typically short lived, building discipline allows you to not be subject to its fickle nature.
(some people call it habit, I call it discipline)
There are usually county-level laws to deal with "junkyard Jims."
The 8 Influencers Charged With a $100M ETF Fraud Scheme
Clean a single plate. It's low commitment, low energy, and high reward. Your brain flips from dreading the task to craving more of that sweet serotonin, and suddenly the whole kitchen is sparkling.
1) Find people to do it with; become socially accountable.

2) Break your tasks into sub-tasks, and consider the breaking-apart a task in itself.

3) Timebox solving an appropriate amount of sub-tasks at the right time.

I'm supposed to "redo my budget" -- but that's not actionable. What's actionable and simple is prepare a spreadsheet in the right folder, download bank statements for the appropriate months and save them next to. And before I do (I'm supposed to be working right now), write those down on a list as well as "Sketch out this list more."

Most problems that seem hard to overcome (either because you don't know how, or because you don't want to) were not broken down into simple enough tasks. Some warrant a reward (frienship, drugs).

I'm supposed to "do the dishes" -- but if I just take the dishes to the kitchen, empty the drying rack while my coffee is brewing, or rinse the dishes without washing them, the next task is getting simpler. I carry out one or two steps on each visit to the kitchen, so I rarely take off 10-20 full minutes to "do the whole damn thing at once."
Regular mortals maximize their 401k contributions, use Backdoor Roth IRA, FSA, optimize for long-term capital gains, etc. Is this all legal? Absolutely. The point is - nobody likes paying taxes - people try to minimize whatever it takes. Billionaires do the same. Instead of opening Flexible Spending Account, they start a charity. Instead of using Roth IRA loophole, they start off-shore corporations. Basically, they do pretty much the same what you do, but on a different scale.
If you are stuck in a loop of: I need to do X, but you just nope out of doing it, then feel guilty, and it is a recurring pattern then watch these two vids:

- Psychiatrist Explains Why You Feel Tired All The Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sppw7Zq35w

- Why Don't You Want To Do Anything After Binging 4 Hours of Youtube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBgCRJluWTc
The SSP5 Full-based model say: "This world places increasing faith in competitive markets, innovation and participatory societies to produce rapid technological progress". In short, this is believing in a return of the "30 glorious" period with the utopia than a magic technology will solve everything in time.

Then look for the example of Venice, with her sea level problem. Sure a very costly technology seem to have mitigated the high tides (for now). But in the same time, the "competitive market" of very big ferry-boats have replaced the high tides in the work of destroying the city.

For the global sea level, there will be regions who will gain a lot of money with it, like northern Canada and maybe Russia, because, it will be more easy to excavate minerals/petroleum/gaz/etc. and transport them with new and economics sea routes. This will bring a lot of GDP globally, but in the same time, plenty of poor and populous regions will disappear. The lost in GDP will be small because they will go from poor to still poor (or dead).

This... only if the Gulf-Stream did not change his route because of the climate change. This sort of very bad hypothesis is never accounted by this family of economic models.

PS: The subject here is climate change, but the mass extinction of species is far more a problem then climate change because it cannot be reverted... until a few millions years.
Not sure if this applies to you, but in case it's helpful:

I think my procrastination comes from some combination of ADHD, low-level depression, and existential dread (i.e., does anything really matter anyway?).

If you think ADHD is part of your issue, you might find some videos by Tracy Marks [0] useful. (And if you're not sure about ADHD, you might consider getting tested for it.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@DrTraceyMarks
At the risk of demonstrating a total lack of empathy and failure to identify, we long ago passed the arrival of it being impossible for a very large number of people to get a career in something they enjoy (making images by hand). Art has been a famously difficult career path for quite a long time now. This does not really seem like a dramatic shift in the character of the market.

Now, I have empathy. I paused a moment before writing this comment to identify with artists, art students, and those who have been unable to reach their dreams for financial reasons. I emphatically empathize with them. I understand their emotional experiences and the pain of having their dreams crushed by cold and unfeeling machines and the engineers who ignore who they crush.

Yet I must confess I am uncertain how this is supposed to change things for me. I have no doubt that there used to be a lot of people who deeply enjoyed making carriages, too.
Adding WebRTC support to OBS using Rust
Fascinated by the sheer amount of emotional reactions here.
“Almost” and “easily” are subjective and open to interpretation. My point is, that this is not a rigorous standard.
Prioritisation, focus, and non-attachment
One way to do these things is to do them with someone else! This idea is called "social facilitation"[0] (it's also called body doubling in some communities).

Essentially, when doing a task with someone else, we are more likely to focus and perform that task better. There are tools like Double [1] that are built just so you can pair up with others to do these activities and get that motivation to start!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_facilitation

[1] https://doubleapp.xyz/
I love the idea and the angle - better to feel out community support than work feverishly by yourself for 6 months and hope for the best.

Small groups feels much more real + human-sized than being thrown into the ocean. That could solve the lurker problem where 90% of people are passive consumers. Would need to balance out with some global content as sugar on top.

I honestly think the safest business plan for a new network coming from HN is a one-time entry fee. Somewhere between $35 and $300, like SA(?) used to do. Maybe fund development through early sales.

To get the most help from community coders, break the project into core and peripheral pieces. Too much "help" leads to drowning in complexity, best to isolate the backbone of the system.

My pet idea is gamified ratings - let people invest in commments or posts (with regenerating energy/play money), and let them spend their earnings on boosting visibility of other posts.
I find it weird that they're considered separate talents. Programming is a creative task for me, and one reason I never took it up as a full time job is that I learned I hate trying to do creative work on demand. (I've been paid for both fiction writing and dev work and they produce very similar feelings in me.)

Programming is definitely easier to make a living from. I'm a very mediocre artist and developer and I'm never making enough off of art to live on, but I could get a programming job at a boring company and it would pay a living wage. In that sense, it's definitely 'easier'.
IBM's first commercial tablet – ThinkPad 700T [pdf]
Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets
write a 4 paragraph essay about why social media should not be censored
Well in the book that actually has that content (and very nearly that title: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book) they explain that they set themselves up to follow the best practices found by the company that eventually published Accelerate, even before google bought them
All true and a perfectly valid model.

But also try:

If I were incredibly wealthy and obsessed with running the score up, I’d see any taxes or other loss of wealth as a threat to my ego.

If my tax accountants came to me and said I could have a greater net worth by founding a charity optimized for my personal benefit, I’d happily shuffle money there rather than paying taxes.

I think that’s also a valid model. I don’t have enough info to have a strong opinion, but my priors on Musk make me at least question what he’s optimizing for.
> They are broken off exactly when they should be getting interesting.

As someone who lived through the Brexit debate, I strongly disagree. The damage caused by elevating someone like Daniel Hannan to be comparable to an economist has been incredible. There is no debate, or anything of interest, as you have one side confidently making completely nonsensical claims that sound plausible to someone with no knowledge. On the flip side, the expert displaying their nuanced understanding usually has this used against them in the debate as signs that they don't know what they're talking about.

I don't see what I, or even a more knowledgeable person in the field, would get out of such a "debate" apart from frustration.
why a paragraph about why the chicago bears are the best nfl team
You need to have a legal agent in the US, but there are plenty services who offer that for you. I personally recommend https://wyomingllcattorney.com/ if you want to set up a company in the U.S. You do not ever have to physically go there, and the whole process from start to finish took me about a month, of which 99% was just waiting.
I thought this accurately captured my personal experience:
https://jamesclear.com/giving-up
Be selective in defining what you "need" to do so you don't feel overwhelmed.
It has nothing to do with FastAPI, pretty sure sourcery would work with anything.
TDS it out, EDS is in. Click, click, click, every article. Rage. Literally shaking.
I thank you for clarifying!

Indeed, a hot Earth would mean a lot of disruption. But we'd have a lot of time to deal with it, also. And IPCC (which is an institution created to summarize science and estimate the impacts) should have taken the disruption into account (it being the main purpose of its existence).

But thank you for the links, I will definitely read some more.
Past a certain point the goal of having money is the ability to wield influence. If you donate money to charity you control you can still use that charity to wield influence.
>lead to questions about the copyright

It will lead to questions - but those questions will be answered by the platform owners not the courts. The platform owners will just remove your models even in cases where a court would rule it fair use.

VR of real places is going to be huge - bigger than for imaginary places. My guess is that most VR worlds will be a combination.

Here's a question. What if you model the real world and an architect of a building. I know that copyright doesn't apply to buildings or other functional works. But again, this will be decided by the platform owners and not the courts.

Clearly there are good reasons to not have "platform owners" in the metaverse.
Not a real brilliant long-term move. Why?

Tesla's premise is that they can balance not having large revenues in manufacturing for a period of time to build out the EV industry as Tesla's major revenue is in fact carbon tax credits. The problem is the competition is far greater in resources than Elon has guessed and that will tend to blind-side soon.

Or in short words, Elon is spending stuff he no longer in the future has.
I'm addressing the GP who references Manhattan, obviously all of the above does not apply to more rural areas. I'm merely providing an anecdote of a city dweller, I figured that much was obvious. Please live your best life and if that means living outside of the city and owning a car, I wish you all the best.
Agreed. Also it’s not like Musk was going around saying look at me. I donated 5.7 billion to charity.

The hive mind is ridiculous
Sounds like fixing your sleep might help significantly. I have also heard that for men, exercising does wonders. More energy if you work out consistently everyday (try 30 minutes to an hour) you don't need to get super insane about it, just make it a simple routine.
That's specific power, not specific energy. Do you mean 1 kW*r/kg?
I don't have experience donating to a charity that I created, so rules may be different, but in general no you don't pay any tax on donated in-kind securities and the amount of the deduction you take is generally the market value of the securities on the day they were transferred.
Netflix stock down 7% following this report.
In the cloud era, why not spin these servers up on-demand?
Making a list of the things I need to do helps me stay on track and doubles as a memory aid. I have to remind myself as well that the work/tasks need to be completed regardless how I feel about the situation.

Motivation ebbs and flows, but if one is not completing at least some tasks, it makes it that much harder to create momentum
Epic’s internal team working on the new UT was repurposed to fortnight when fortnight started making a whole bunch of money.

Not spelling fortnight incorrectly because on my phone.
Slippery slope is only a fallacy when there's little to no evidence that you'll fall down the slope. When there is evidence or logic showing that it truly is slippery, it's not a fallacy anymore. Even from the article you linked:

> The strength of such an argument depends on whether the small step really is likely to lead to the effect

Some would say it is very likely for power-tripping HOA members to continue sliding down the slope.
Also one of the best recent examples of the Streisand effect.
"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?” Marcus Aurelius
>If we’re going to excoriate billionaires for putting their name on a foundation, shouldn’t Gates, DeVos, and others also be held to the same scrutiny?

Yes.
The simulator under the hood is cool - someone even got a component to smoke. But the post leads with a pretty condescending title that focuses on aesthetic motivations by dumping (superficially) on everything else. Naturally people are going to focus on the usability of the interface and unfortunately it is really hard to use. Gratuitous 3D is not a good design choice for a number of reasons that others have elaborated in great detail.
I procrastinate as well. What I find has been working for me lately is not making it about the thing itself, but about who I'm becoming by doing it (and doing it early), as described here: https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/become-a-person-who-actually-d... (the rest of the blog is fantastic if you want to check it out, there's many posts on personal improvement)

I was also pointed to this resource by Neel, you could use to it to re-frame the goal of the task (e.g. instead of "do well on exam" -> "pass exam with as little effort as possible"): https://mindingourway.com/half-assing-it-with-everything-you...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33998736
The problem is they offered you a service that was unsustainable in the first place. You can't offer a one time sale for a product that requires continual maintenance.

In all cases where this is being offered with a product, for example, a game with developer maintained multiplayer servers/lookup services, all app portals like the apple app store, steam, etc. There is either a runway of funds built in that will expire in so many years or it's propped up by other people buying the game like a kind of a Ponzi scheme.

Eventually, somehow the bill to run these services becomes an issue and there are only a few ways to maintain it: ads, buyout with more runway, cutting access or charging for it again.

So I wouldn't say it's theft, it's a business run by people who have no clue how to run a long term business plan. Or fraud if they know all of this and do it anyway.
Bingo.

I think the focus should be on effective ways to help poor contries, reduce policical risks, improve market flow, make everyone richer, without being stupid about it.

Cut out coal plants as soon as we can, research into geoengineering, renewable, etc.

On our current path of technological improvement CO2 will be a non issue in a decade or two.
It is only a matter of time. It can understand error stacktrace and suggest a fix. Somebody has to plug it to IDE then it will start converting requirements to code.
True, and most Tor exit nodes are probably controlled either by hackers or security agencies.
So in the same way that Bill Gates donates to his own foundation?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/bill-gates-donates-20-billio...
Go to a judge in a copyright case and argue that humans are parrots. Then tell me how it went.
Methylphenidate. It makes the boring kind of ok.

It's not a magic bullet though, so here are some other things that help.

Accountability. A person checking in on doing what you need to do.

Timers, alarms, reminders. I have have an Amazon Echo in every room of my house and set reminders whenever something pops into my head.

Pomodoros: just do a couple of minutes and then stop. It's usually not as bad as you imagine.

Above all, forgive yourself. You are a not a machine. You will have better days and worse days. Keep going in the right direction.
Sorry, I have no reason to be afraid of AI taking my job, not now, not ever. You seem to have a condescending idea of what programming is, given how you describe it as simple and dumb, but I can assure you, programming would be one of the last jobs to be deprecated by AI. If you think ChatGPT is enough to put programmers on the street, I would question what kind of programming you do.

I would turn this around to you: if a braindead AI can do these astonishingly difficult art, maybe art was never difficult to begin with, and that artists are merely finagling dumb, simple things to their work. Sounds annoying and condescending right? If you disagree what I said about art, maybe you ought to be more aware of your own lack of empathy.
> Speak for yourself, there's absolutely nothing in my files that could even marginally be classified as child pornography. I would think this is the same for most people.

Apparently there's some in the bitcoin blockchain. Never went looking for it personally, but I assume it's encoded the same way as the image of the bitcoin logo in there.
I'm not motivated, but I am stubborn. I try to not wait for motivation, but rather go do something else, anything else for a little while.

This applies to anything really, be it work or chores at home or anything else I either really find boring or can't quite solve. If there is a problem I can't think of a solution for it must be split up more.

If it's something like doing the laundry or something you can just do a little bit here and there. Just 5 minutes of doing what needs to be done, even if it's a quick few dishes in or out of the dishwasher and a few clothes folded up. I don't need to be motivated to manage 5 minutes of doing something. Just 5 more minutes!

For some things though like going to the gym when I really don't want to, refer to the first sentence. I'm not motivated, but I am stubborn so I'm going anyway. :)
> Are there concrete plans to migrate to wayland?

Yes, of course. Two minutes of searching would have led you here: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap Come on, sph, this is not Reddit.

> of course you're getting downvoted because you dared utter the W-word. Come on people, this is not Reddit.

I downvoted them because I think it's rude to complain about how others choose to spend their time contributing to open source projects.
I think he's probably optimizing for both. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
We envision it going more like this:

"here's an interactive simulation to illustrate my point <embed src="diode-url" />"

instead of:

"to see my point please download these files, download this version of ltspice, and then give it a run"
People should research how the Bill Gates foundation has given nearly $400, million to media organizations, organizations that will never say a bad word about gates. The man is literally bribing media companies, but go ahead and believe that it’s Elon who is the evil one
Yes, but he's not in charge of the largest megaphone on the planet, which Elon Musk has used to previously advertise his stance on the subject. To see him publicly retract that and re-state his new position rather than to have to infer it from his actions would help.

'Quietly updating your opinion' is a right reserved to those that quietly held it in the first place.
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