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dubin··on Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known
worth bearing in mind that the thing we call exercise now used to be more like: building shelters, finding food with our tribe, constant movement/walking... a lot of stuff that was highly socially situated and meaningful. also playful often, I bet. very different than from today
dubin··on Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D
Awesome, thank you!

It does look like SV3D is not a part of the API currently, but only a matter of time I imagine.

dubin··on Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D
I'd like to play around with something like this, but from my understanding my machine (Macbook, 2021 M1) isn't nearly powerful enough (right?). Are there remote/cloud environments where I can run models like this?
dubin··on Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
SEEKING VOLUNTEER/TAKEOVER: WaybackHN

A number of years ago I made https://waybackhn.com. It was a top HN post, and perhaps some of you remember it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746188

As of recently I have not had the time/energy to maintain it, or to make improvements here and there (not that much needs to change for it to satisfy it's purpose). As you can see it's not currently working (although it was up to a couple weeks ago!).

It's a Python/Flask app. Hosting costs are $5/mo via PythonAnywhere.

Feel free to email me at waybackhn@gmail.com if you are interested.

dubin··on Introducing the next generation of Mac
Oh really? That’s good to know. Thanks!
dubin··on Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
+1. I think Anki is a very underrated/underused tool for programming interviews.
dubin··on HN on second day from launch
See also WaybackHN, which will let you browse by year and month, too. (I made it heh)

http://www.waybackhn.com/

dubin··on Vipassana for Hackers [pdf]
I second this and will add a recommendation for Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, which is legally and freely available here http://integrateddaniel.info/book/ It really has the flavor of "meditation for hackers," whereas The Mind Illuminated's flavor seems more "meditation for engineers."
dubin··on Ask HN: How do you track your personal goals?
Yes! I also use Complice and think very highly of it. Coworking rooms with friends are incredibly useful at turning nights I otherwise would be slacking off into productive nights. Another feature that I find useful (aside from the core feature set) is the Beeminder integration, which lets me update all the things I Beemind w/ little effort.

I do use Complice in tandem with Omnifocus. I use Omnifocus to store big picture planning and all the tasks I want to do in the future. Then on a daily basis I set intentions for the tasks I want to do that day in Complice.

dubin··on Family fun with deepfakes
Heh, thank you! Any suggestions welcome :)
dubin··on Family fun with deepfakes
To add a data point, a friend and I made one of these over the weekend (with Trump and Michael Scott https://youtu.be/0Rexuh-VY6E)

It was shockingly easy to do. We're technical, but neither of us know a lick about machine learning. It took a couple hours to collect training data (we turned speeches/interviews from each of them into thousands of photos), and 20 hours to train the model.

In the future you could automate the data collection for a person even more, to the point where they just need to film a selfie of themselves for a couple of minutes in a couple of different lightnings, and boom, after you train their decoder, you could put them on any celebrity.

EDIT: This is what we used https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap Would be happy to walk anyone through how to do this

dubin··on There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions
“How can Bitcoin be a good store of value if its price is so volatile?” http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/12/can...
dubin··on Show HN: Intent – A browser extension for fighting digital distractions
Thanks for clarifying! Sounds good to me
dubin··on Show HN: Intent – A browser extension for fighting digital distractions
Awesome! Just installed. I saw in the privacy policy that you only collect domains, not full urls. Do you also only collect/store domains of sites we're opting into track, or do you store all visited domains?
dubin··on Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
Anyone who's interested in more ideas along these lines should look at Tyler Cowen's list of how to be less complacent: http://tylercowen.com/complacent-class-quiz/
dubin··on Welcome Eric, Gustaf, and Jocelyn
Congrats, Gustaf and others! Very well deserved.
dubin··on Show HN: A Vim distribution inspired by Spacemacs
I think some people will find this to be the case, but others (me) are really happy using a distribution. I struggled for a while trying to get vanilla Emacs to the point where it felt natural and didn't bother me, but ultimately wasn't able to. I've been using Spacemacs now for over half a year with only a handful of customizations, and I've been very happy with it.
dubin··on Ask HN: What are some examples of good code?
Not Java 8 perse, but I remember getting linked on HN to the source code for the Java collections library: http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j...

Had a ton of fun jumping around.

dubin··on Do we need a new heading element in HTML?
Something cool you can do with React is create an intelligent `Heading` component that wires into context to determine where it is at in the tree. It could then adjust it's actual HTML heading element accordingly. So for example, when you have a `Heading` inside another `Heading`, they render to `h2` and `h1` respectively.
dubin··on Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
Yes! Julia's zines are an amazing way of communicating technical concepts https://jvns.ca/zines/ Wish more people made them
dubin··on Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
And the Echo is for many people the perfect and most convenient way to listen to music in the home.
dubin··on Top Hacker News Submissions by Year: 2009–2015
If you enjoyed this you might also like Wayback HN, a past project of mine! You can look at top posts by year, month, and day. http://www.waybackhn.com
dubin··on An annotated version of the Bitcoin paper
Agreed that this is awesome! Would love to also see Genius-style annotations, where the comments are on lines instead of the margins. I think this makes it slightly easier to read the text without scanning back and forth between the text and margins to check if what you're reading has been annotated
dubin··on YC Fall 2015 College Tour
Also agree that YC should consider a trip to Philly / Penn. There are a lot of students in the area that would flock to any talks or office hours
dubin··on Ask HN: Where do I look for Internships?
The monthly "Who is Hiring" threads are a great resource. A lot of companies have listings for interns. Here's this month's thread for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996333
dubin··on Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News
I think part of the discrepancy is comments that are marked dead, which might be getting counted by the API.
dubin··on Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News
Both are planned features!
dubin··on Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News
Thanks! Built with Flask, check out the source here: https://github.com/jondubin/HN-Wayback
dubin··on Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News
Thanks for checking it out! For the time being I've turned off the more button
dubin··on Gabriel's Horn
Also check out the Menger sponge, which has infinite surface area and zero volume: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge
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