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Well, I'll be--that's definitely fair enough!

It is said that the night before Julius Ceaser's death, he broke bread with Decimus (an original conspirator) and Lepidus. The conversation of "what's the best way to die" was brought up. After some pontificating on the part of Decimus and Lepidus, Ceaser spoke up and said: "It would be best to die suddenly and unexpectedly."

In the end, I guess he was right, we're still talking about his assassination 2000 years later.

No way you're serious; even as an ardent cricket fan I'd never heard of him.

This is great, I've been using Sublime Merge similarly in my workflow. I stage individual files while drafting the commit message and make sure to split lines across commits for logical rollbacks. I personally find it a lot faster than using the CLI, at least in this case.

As a hobbyist, this bums me out; I no longer will have the data from the day my humble blog made the front page of HN. Wish there was a way to migrate UA data to GA4, but from a bit of digging that doesn't seem possible.

I've seen a similar trend in my experience as well. I'd love to see some peer reviewed research on the link between intermittent fasting and deeper sleep.

Thanks for the kind words! Hope it helps at least some people some well deserved rest.

For those interested, here's a great thread explaining how the hack happened: https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616

The author mentions they were inspired by the Veritasium video on the same topic (without the Lego). [1] I thought I'd link the previous HN discussion. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29645610

TL;DR--an automatic xkcd recommendation bot. [1]

"Relevant xkcd" is a meme that's been a part of online communities for as long as the comic has had online notoriety. [2] I wanted to build a bot to see how true that was. I've got a lot of the hard parts completed (data collection / curation, initial models), sitting in my TODO box for quite some time and would love to pair up with a collaborator to get it across the finish line.

The idea is an automatic xkcd recommendation bot that takes advantage of the latest and greatest in NLP advances (a fine-tuned hugging face model). [3] I've already got the training data (reddit comments that mention "relevant xkcd") and each individual xkcd's notes from the xkcd wiki. [4, 5]

Feel free to reach out to me via email (in my bio).

[1] https://github.com/adithyabsk/relevant_xkcd

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/xkcd

[3] https://huggingface.co/models

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3cej2b/17_billion...

[5] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

The project mentions that it uses snarkjs and I thought I'd link it directy here. [1] What's interesting in the setup of these systems is the "Powers of Tau" ceremony which, in a decentralized manner (using secure multi-party computation), avoids the "trusted setup" problem in non-interactive variants of zero knowledge proof systems like this one. [2]

[1] https://github.com/iden3/snarkjs

[2] https://github.com/weijiekoh/perpetualpowersoftau

The linked demo video is fantastic! I especially loved the demo of SPyQL reading and plotting in numpy data generated from the linspace command.

This is a really neat little game--racing to figure out the controls before the AI shoots you is pretty fun. Here's the direct link to the game from the README.md [1]

[1] https://victorribeiro.com/bangBang

This is such a thoughtful idea--I'm sure she really enjoyed it. I'll bet there are some people who would enjoy being able to buy a "modern" rotary phone for purely aesthetic reasons.

For those who weren't familiar with some of the jargon

* HAL: (Hardware Application Layer) [1]

* RTOS: (Real time Operating System) [2,3]

[1] https://www.beningo.com/embedded-basics-apis-vs-hals/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS

Maybe I haven't kept up with the eink market but this seems super impressive especially the video part around 14:33. I have a Remarkable and it's pretty slow to switch pages but I assume that's to prevent ghosting. With a little bit of computer vision magic, they might be able to add a content aware feature that swaps the modes based on what's being displayed.

https://youtu.be/oBfWkxOfUfQ?t=873

As much as the common good benefits from tools like SciHub, I was not expecting there to be any legal footing for this case until the end of the article which mentioned:

> Bapat, of Internet Freedom, says India’s copyright law is more progressive than many developed countries. “By that I mean that there's a research exception provided under the copyright act. It means that if you are using copyright material for research then it would not constitute infringement.”

And sure enough:

> 52. Certain acts not to be infringement of copyright. — [...] (i) private or personal use, including research [1]

I guess this is tangential to "fair use" exceptions under US copyright lawas.

[1] https://copyright.gov.in/Exceptions.aspx

Looks like it can fly for 12 minutes on a single charge and takes 40 minutes to recharge. The video is super neat, but I'm curious how loud it is.

Haha, this is great @chubot you should add this to the FAQ!

I found that even among my "techy" friends, not many people knew about this buried feature. (Or had bad experiences with text to speech of yore) I wrote up a quick post explaining how to set up "Spoken Content" (on Apple devices) which has pretty decent text to speech.

No matter how many times this gets posted, I make sure to read it. Such a good story, especially the ending using oft unused unix tools

Here's a comparison between the main search engines:

- https://you.com/search?q=python%20install%20requirements

- https://www.google.com/search?q=python+install+requirements

- https://www.bing.com/search?q=python+install+requirements

Code complete seems like it could be a killer feature, but doesn't seem to work in the above case, whereas it does work in the OpenAI Codex model:

- https://i.imgur.com/0xXdip3.png

TL; DW -- the hobbyist was able to make a mic for $30 that arguably competes with an $800 mic setup.

"scaffold scripts" that actually has a nice ring to it and is alliterative which makes it more memorable

Stackoverflow content is generally creative commons not GPL unless I'm missing something.

(https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing)

For the value that OBS provides to the “creator economy” between YouTube and Twitch alone, I’m surprised there haven’t been more events by creators to support the devs.

With how many musicians use voice memos on iOS, this hits the right niche--somewhere between voice memos and garage band.

This is conjecture--but there might be a difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise in this case.

yeah there has definitely been work done in that space: it’s called multi-modal models

not sure if this is the latest work but here’s some results from Google’s AI Blog

https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/06/multimodel-multi-task-mach...

If Mathworks can make money, so can Julia Computing