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I made an app that lets you upload a photo and transform it into anime art
When you upload a photo, it'll generate 5 different variations on it to have a higher chance of producing a good quality artwork.

Make sure to use well-lit photos to have the best results!

Some sample results here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/anime-myself

Enjoy :)
Sorry for the nitpick but Metroid did not have a battery pack and used a password system.
I'd love to see one of these Raspberry Pi guitar FX projects run on bare metal or a RTOS instead of Linux.
In Australia, it is a mix. Most people should have a self-funded retirement as a result of mandatory superannuation during their working life. Those who haven't accrued enough can fall back on the aged pension, but this should become less and less common (mandatory super was only introduced in the 90s).
> SARA WEXLER
Will the union make any demands in the contract or bargaining process about USC and its relationship to the Los Angeles community at large — concerning rents, inequality, gentrification?

> YONI HIRSHBERG
I think those types of things fall outside of the scope of labor negotiations. So the contract will include things like our wages and working conditions.

I think this is the way forward if we want widespread unionization. Unions have to focus on making the lives of their members better. Wading into culture wars, even if you think you are doing good, will in the long run cause division and weaken the unionization effort.
Sure, and they could shrug off the cost of installing a ground-source heat pump[1] too, which would be too expensive for more modest homes. But they'd again have to give a damn, which I am only semi-optimistic about...

1: https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/5-things-you-should-kno...
Who says its not a sustainable system? That is really just a popular assumption. The system is working well at this point with enough headroom. Lobbygroups from the EU and large institutions are pledging for this change. There is not enough workforce according to them. Their profits are endangered. Nobody from those entities are looking at the well being of the citizens.
Cities pay market price for food coming from the hinterlands but at the same time they pay a subsidy to the same hinterlands that grow that same food? Doesn't sound like market price anymore.

It's nonsensical to say that just because the tax receipts of a suburb doesn't pay in full its roads and bridges, its existence is necessarily subsidized by the rest. Does a city pay in full for its share of the US Navy whose protection of global commerce it depends on to survive? Are cities subsidized by the blood of those in the armed forces, who primarily come from the hinterlands?
Sure. When we were teens/early adults using (a)MSN/AIM/Gtalk they were either toddlers or young children. Too young to be aware.

When they became teens classical IM platforms began to decay/rot because of social media and mobile messengers.
UBlue's Nvidia Linux images are now 1.0
The default behavior for most laptops go to sleep after a period of inactivity even when docked and in clamshell mode.

I think users with wireless peripherals would find it irritating if every time they sat down at their desk they had to open the lid to wake their laptop.
> Suburb dwellers, at best, are indifferent towards their neighbours.

Huh? Where did you get this nugget of wisdom from? We have great relationships with almost all of the neighbors I can see from my porch. It's called community. I've lived in urban high rises and known fewer neighbors.
Use argocd! It's the best tool for the job.

Can and should be configured as IaC.

Argocd can manage itself!
The Wikipedia section is pretty good now. There are a few notable omissions. The backslash was added so that logical ∧ and ∨ could be written as /\ and \/ — two operators for the price of one. The characters : and ; were considered the least important punctuation, so they were placed immediately after 9, where they could be replaced by single-character 10 and 11 for shillings. And the characters *+,-./ were placed in rows 10-15 so that they could easily be combined with the digits to make a 16-bit subset suitable for writing numbers and basic arithmetic.
I don't see why we wouldn't expect it. Wouldn't be worth talking about if it wasn't a possibility.

Google dethroned search vendors before them and they aren't bulletproof. If they are, might as well pack up DDG and everything else right now. Shut off the servers and decrease the greenhouse gas emissions, right?

No, I think the backstop here is that DDG has a wonderful opportunity to be the search engine where you don't have to worry about getting vended malware via an ad above the first organic result.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." — H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C major (1916)
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Good. Seems they’re going to have to confront the failure of the system. Better than digging a deeper hole.
Convince them not to want it
I agree with you, I was worried about doing asm the first time but after you learn it you realize it's not that terrible at all. That said, multiple approaches at different levels benefits everyone.
The loudness and the range of frequencies (all of them) has some impacts on design of flight hardware. For example, every single nut (the kind on the end of a bolt) has some kind of locking feature, otherwise there's a fair probability the nut will just vibrate off.
Stop making excuses for these criminals that run the country and the banksters who print the money through loans and mortgages.

Politicians constantly move the goal posts, to deliberately muddy the water, as we see with annual budget days.

Banksters print new money when they lend out money without explaining how their Basel Bank of International Settlements approved ponzi scheme works.

I can not for the life of me figure out why the public put up with this status quo, but their audacity is on display for all to see.
Are we really trying to compare financing a house to financing a car? I have an issue with that for one main reason. Your house doesn't move and subject to the irrational decisions of other houses moving at high rates of velocity within mere feet of each other. Also, your house is pretty much (if you maintain it) only going to increase in value. Your car will never increase in value within any rational expectation. I seriously doubt that in 25 years (time required to be considered classic) that collectors will be looking to buy restored Chevy Cruise, Ford Escape, or Toyota Corolla from an auction house.
> Who says its not a sustainable system?

The fact that it’s running out of money
But at the same time I don’t want to be forced into paying say $1M into social security and only live to see $200k come back to me
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpay...

What has been the military cost of Brexit in Ukraine? The UK had to lead alone at the start, as we would have done in the EU. Foreign policy generally is one of the key advantages because, so far, the EU fails to be serious.

The US has funded their defence for decades: anti-US. Blocked sanctions on Iran. Helped Russia break off Ukraine. Now moving closer to China. If the EU wants to do that, fine. But I don't see why any country needs to go along with that because Germany says so.
That's not surprising. hn has been home to anti-worker, pro-techno-utopianism for a very long time.
That's just because people died young. The mode (most common) age of death was over 75 in France for men in 1930. I'm not sure how WWII factors into that. It's now about 82, eyeballing it (yes, still higher).

https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPU_1204_0683--the-mos...

People were not "old" and dying at appreciably higher rates given they reached age 60 back then. The general premise that there's a lot of rich old people now is true. But the factors that have raised life expectancy are probably working against this trend, and to minor effect, as they primarily raise the current number of kids.
Less public money being spent on empty unused buildings in deprived regions. Less entrenched copyright laws, and an end to endless copyright extensions. Bankers no longer getting paid minimum salaries of at least 1/3 their bonus. Scottish rail nationalisation.

No doubt the areas of politics you take an interest in are different from the ones I do, but in almost every area I saw policies that no-one wanted being forced through with the excuse that it was an EU requirement, and putting an end to that is enough to justify Brexit. Trust and accountability in the political system is priceless.
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As they should. Everyone needs skin in the game.
I disagree that it’s naive. Here is a video talking about why that term is being used: https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0

And the Strong Towns write up that has links to more reading that I believe informed that video: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/28/the-growth-pon...
What were the interviews in instead?

As long as we're contributing anecdata, 9 yoe on the hiring side, almost all interviews have been in Python, especially for interns. What's interesting is the company where I was at for the majority of, their main stack was Ruby, and they respected new employees' intelligence enough to assume they could just pick that up after being hired.

If you're not pedantic about the syntax, Python, and it's libraries were great for interviews. I did a handful of them in Golang, using the same question, but there was always a time crunch because Golang required more boilerplate (for the particulars of the question).
I believe this is still taught in motorsport cabling courses
No it doesn't. The sound plays just fine when the computer is closed, why would the microphone stop?

You are able to use an external monitor with your laptop closed, it's not an edge case to want to use the computer's mic in that case.
Sure, there definitely are liberal low-information voters. Consider the mask-opposed anti-vax crusader who nonetheless eats vegan and votes Democrat, for instance.

The average person has an IQ of 100. Given that average IQ is defined as being one standard deviation of average, the vast majority of voters are between low intelligence and average intelligence. About 84% of voters thus have low-to-average intelligence (68% fits in one standard deviation of average; 68/2 + 50 = 84%).

Regardless of your political leaning, I think it’s worthwhile accepting that most governments are elected by people who aren’t as smart as the typical HN contributor.
This is so gross, and so disappointing to see from Nintendo.
I actually think the problems of dealing with toxic waste are far more tractable than the problems of vetting every ad in a network serving 30 billion impressions a day.

Toxic waste doesn't try and hide from the litmus paper or the geiger counter.
FWIW. I don't read this as disdain, just stating the fact that less experienced people make more mistakes or may have less experience avoiding tech debt. It's hyperbole of course (I hope) because L4/L5s should be reviewing that code, but the point I believe is that coding is sometimes too quickly removed as a valuable activity for L5s and above.
You can roughly double the volume of a single story building by adding a floor. Taken to extreme, we could make sure a square kilometer is at least two stories tall, but we don't do that. We live mostly a in 2.5d environment.

The skyscrappers that we see in our skylines are not even the majority of what we see. A lot of place will benefit from being 3-4 stories tall.

A lot of space that is developed is hugely wasted, devoted to storing cars, or roads to facilitate car movement. Meanwhile, a human being is very compact in comparison.
Why would someone place a toggle select for 'necessary cookies' on this page that cannot be deselected? It explains their justification for not being able to deselect (valid or not), but this does not explain removing or greying out the control.
> It’s just so wildly more efficient in operation.

Can you elaborate?
The examples I can think of are going to be arguable, but:

- Antivaccine politics (before covid) was mostly liberal.

- Progressive regulation of housing construction/affordable housing policies in liberal cities are (probably) well intentioned but economically naive

- Some environmental policies (banning plastic straws, grocery bags, some water conservation efforts) are again well intentioned but a complete waste of breath for either side.
10 years with an unchanged react state model:

https://reagent-project.github.io/
I don't disagree that dependent types would help (and be really cool for lots of other uses!), but let's consider what the usual validation rules that we really need are: non-empty, basic interval constraints (non-negative/positive), only contains a certain set of characters... simple stuff like that, usually. If we're going wild, an interesting case would be effectful validation and how that fits in. In practice, what happens with any non-basic validation is that the server says 3xx, try again.

Anyway, validation/parsing is mostly pretty simple stuff where the "validate" bit is a simple function... and function composition works just fine.

(Assuming you can name the result type of your parse/validate individually according to your domain.)
Yes, primarily for a few well justified reasons: 1) usage of prescription drugs usually entails significantly greater risks of adverse effects compared to OTC drugs (barring some grandfathered-in legacy substances like acetaminophen, which would probably not be approved for OTC use today), 2) relative to usage of OTC drugs, the stakes associated with usage of an under-performing prescription drug are much greater in magnitude, and 3) there is an economic incentive to produce counterfeit or otherwise subpar prescription drugs that doesn't exist for OTC drugs, the wholesale value of which can be often be measured in fractions of a penny.

Counterfeits are also a lot more common in the developing world than people would expect, and this stuff frequently ends up in online pharmacies. Manufacturers of drugs bound for international markets do implement measures that you usually don't see in the US (e.g. consumer-accessible websites/phone lines to verify a lot number and unique serial printed on counterfeit-resistant holograms), but even that doesn't do a lot of good. I've personally purchased antibiotics from a pharmacy in Vietnam that had convincing anti-counterfeit labels - but shame on me for not paying attention to the serial numbers. I bought two boxes with lot numbers and serials that checked out on the manufacturer website...but both boxes had the same serial, which shouldn't have been possible. The hologram stickers were indistinguishable from images of legitimate ones portrayed on the manufacturer website. I'm assuming everything the pharmacy had on hand for that drug (amoxicillin + potassium clavulanate) had the same serial on the label.
It's non sequitur argument since this 26x land does not magically spawn in middle of land starved urban areas. The fact that Wyoming or Idaho exist does not matter there.
> there’s clearly some collusion between hardware and software makers to help each other out in more ways than just ease of compatibility

In Apple's case, the hardware and software are by the same company, yet they support their phones the longest of anyone.

> our scam of a financial system is constantly making everything more of a race-to-the-bottom

The money-printing funds weirder things cause it encourages passive investing, I think. Like, the moment they pulled back on that last year, dumb stuff like weird cryptocurrencies and Google's side bets instantly vaporized, but things like the smartphone industry were less affected.
The federal US defined benefit pension already exists, it is called Social Security.
I have contributed to several.
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> But Google's IPs are public knowledge

You're telling me that even though attackers of various sophistication are able to get clean, residential IPs all the time for nefarious purposes, Google can't do the same? Come on. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't care.
> You first need to compile/install a bunch of things in order to make Lua useful.

How is this any different from pretty much any language out there? From a quick eyeball of RustPython's Cargo.toml[1], there are about 70 different dependencies which all need to be compiled. I haven't worked too much with Autoconf, but I am pretty sure CPython has quite a few dependencies.

[1]: https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/blob/main/Cargo.tom...

> The second part is that the Lua constructs for programming in the large are very weak.

This is deliberate because it forces you to use the tools you are given instead of reimplementing features that can already be implemented by using other primitives in Lua.

> I believe that Adobe had a postmortem about this (Lightroom, I think?)

I can't find this article. Has anyone else had any luck?
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I also am curious/terrified to see what happens when/if we eventually decide to modernize the A-10 warthog, or more generally what next-gen/drone-ified ground-support looks like. After the Air Force threw a fit & got the Army's incredible (but also somewhat problematic) AH-56 Cheyenne gunship canned, the Air Force has had a huge responsibility for ground support, and the Army has had some ok Apache helicopters (way less capable guns than Cheyenne). But we're definitely nearing a shift, where new things might emerge, and they all seem quite-potentially horrifying & scary.

Drones in the sky fighting each other is kind of neat & cool, because it's rather abstract, up in the air. And we certainly have all manners of small missile boat drones which can do ground support, which are ghastly & terrifying & loitering, but are limited by payloads (& the high cost of their missiles). But if one really is struggling to survive fighting a hostile force, and if one does have decent air support, a couple drones with huge cannons on them seem obvious & also obviously horrifying. Or if used aggressively, Geneva convention Never Again sort of shit horrifying.

I, like, wish we wouldn't ever have this discussion, wouldn't see this. Be it an AC-130, an A-10, or something smaller, there's something ultra horrifying about a more enduring support ally in the sky. Having an unmanned modernized version definitely ticks my heavens no sensibility. But it feels like it's also only a matter of time.
Realistically that's what needs to happen. Wealth needs to be redistributed from the old rich to the old poor. Social Security is meant to be security for the old poor, not a middle class pension.
After the 10,000th bug in your program that turned out to be a bug in your code, not the compiler, the compiler ends up a long way down the list.

Even if compilers do have bugs, the code you write (OK, the code I write) has a lot more bugs than the compiler does.

"It's never the compiler" is like "It's never lupus". Sure, sometimes it is actually the compiler, or lupus. But 9,999 times out of 10,000, no, it's not. You want to think it is, because a bug in someone else's code is much easier on the ego than yet another bug in your code. But reality and experience is a harsh teacher, and cares not for your ego.

If you've found several compiler bugs without even trying, and often enough compared to the number of bugs your write yourself that the compiler is a likely culprit when you come across something hinky, well, by my reckoning that puts you in pretty rarefied company. Congrats on being a 100x developer, or whatever. For the rest of us mortals, it's never the compiler.
Unclear if he’s needed.
> You won’t think too hard about clicking a Google ad because you have no reason to be suspicious of them–they’re just part of the background noise of your digital life.

USE

AN

ADBLOCKER

ALREADY

The FBI even recommends using an adblocker now:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-fbi-now-recommends-using-...

Stop thinking about adblockers as being theft and starting thing about how exploitative the other side of the equation is. There's a whole lot of euphemisms for people who let themselves get exploited and if you've convinced yourself you're a better, more moral being because you don't use adblockers, then those euphemisms should really be applied to you. You are the sucker that is getting taken advantage of.

(And why the hell would I think I need to even state that on a site devoted to "Hackers" -- when did that term slide so far from phone phreaking down to bootlicking a $600 billion dollar ad market?)
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They are able to make that choice because we pretty heavily subsidize it for them. Rural communities receive a disproportionately large amount of federal aid per capita in order to build and maintain the infrastructure that makes that lifestyle possible.

If the individual cost of buying a house "in the sticks" was reflective of that, people might start to think twice.
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown...

For states and cities, see local government websites for reports. Or you can start here:

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/

On the state/city level, all the money is going to former employees for labor performed in previous decades. The scheme is voters today purchase government employee labor for lower cash outlay today hence lower taxes today, then subsequent taxpayers pay higher and higher taxes as the can gets kicked down the road.

The reason this is different from regular old debt is that via questionable accounting methods and actuarial assumptions, the cost of the deferred compensation is presented as absurdly low compared to what it really is. So it does not show up on any official figures anywhere, just greater and greater portions of the government budget go to paying benefits.
The biggest change for me, is actually liking Walnuts now... where I really never liked them before going low carb (mostly carnivore).
You are right about the EU. There are many free democracies that do not consider passwords to be protected under their "no self-incrimination" version of the US 5th amendment.
> I think a lot of people assume that pension systems ought to or actually do work as savings/investment systems, like private 401(k)s do.

It works more like a Ponzi scheme.
I thought the idea of Social Security was an insurance program to guard against you outliving your means if you live long enough, not an I-get-paid-back cash-out of your payments.

Aren't you having a fundamental misunderstanding about what the purpose of SS is?

And not sure if you know, but the dollar figures are more like:

Max pay into the program: ~$300k over your 40 year working life
(if you maxed out the contribution cap, 6% tax on $167k currently)

Max payout from the program: ~$600k
(if you draw the maximum when you retire and luckily live a long time, ~20 years)

Not "paying in $1m, and only getting $200k", by a long shot.

I think it's quite in the opposite direction of how you think you're being taken for a ride.
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Speculation: 7 bits are required to represent 0..100, and 7 is Just Weird, so you add an 8th to be able to do -100..100 in one addressable unit. (Or use the 8th bit to tag a variable-length numeric value.)

4 bits for 0..9 as in BCD is probably more convincing.