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I've been trying to get better at chess recently. But also wanted to explore some AI agent development hands on on the side. So, I built an AI chess coach to analyze my games, learning openings, and drill different endgames and such.

https://thenimzo.com

This is such a neat tool. The presentation is very pleasant. Is the intention to have the snippets/notes be shareable in the future? I actually made a similar tool [1] (though your's is much more complete), which I use to quickly find passages and relevant text when I'm blogging. And, I was thinking it might be really useful to have highly rated notes on a snippet available so that you can get someone else's insight on a particular selection. I'll give this a more in depth look later when I want to write another blog post.

[1]: https://ishmael.app

As a single guy, I prefer work from office. I'm sure if I was married with kids, I would prefer just the opposite.

Yeah, I know that online "investing" is driven by hype these days. But, I was basically hoping that there was something out there that at least explores investing ideas out of the mainstream not based entirely on hype or rug pulls. Just want exposure to some interesting ideas that I can then do due diligence on.

Thanks, had not heard of The Art and Science of Technical Analysis, will definitely check it out. I read Intelligent Investor, but kind of felt it lacking, because I didn't feel like it went low-level enough. I also have Security Analysis by Ben Graham, but have never gone through it. Any thoughts on that?

Looks interesting. Is there a benefit specific to using PHP for building the UI, like access to PHP libraries, etc.? Or is it for people already using PHP on the server-side, so they can also use the same language for the client-side?

Yeah, I prefer the discussions via essay format as well. Instead of the quick meme reactions. I guess it's good for comedy and being edgy, but not really for high quality ideas. I vaguely recall seeing a Show HN of a discovery tool for personal blogs, but don't think it really took off. Sad to see.

I think he's getting at something important. I started writing for the same reason basically. But wish there was a way to network my writings with other people's writings.

Maybe I just need to build a social media following (probably on Twitter)?

Just curious do people use these types of automations to help with coding/software engineering? If so, in what way?

Had a boss once who insisted that all if statements should be pushed out to factory classes, and all control logic should be done by constructing a different instance of an interface. It was a pretty rigid system, but at least it did force me to write small focused classes that were easy to test.

Debated for a long time whether that methodology was stuck in the second phase or if it was actually the third. Still don't have an answer, but these days I think having a plan is better than just letting engineers run roughshod, as long as the conventions are easy to follow.

I bought a PopOS Gazelle with an Nvidia GPU so I could play around with ML stuff. But, looking back on it, it might have been more efficient to just get a GPU instance on AWS or Google Cloud, and just using a remote desktop like this.

Anybody tried that configuration? If so, how has your experience been?

Yeah, I feel like this article's outrage at the inability of prisoners to get used books is unwarranted. What actually deserves this level of outrage is the violence encountered by many in prison as you mentioned.

Imagine going to prison for a small-time felony, and having to deal with widespread rape[1], gangs[2], and drugs[3]. Many of the people are in prison did seriously bad things, and should be allowed out any time soon. But, the eighth amendment also says people should not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment [4]. But perhaps I'm just soft like Tom DuBois from The Boondoks.

[1]:https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/25/prison-rape-al... [2]:https://hcsdmass.org/inmates-join-prison-gangs/ [3]:https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/11/07/the-never-endi... [4]:https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/eighth_amendment

Big +1. Most corporate software is pretty straightforward (the company likes it this way so that it's easier to onboard new engineers). So, you stand out by delivering something other engineers can't, deep insights into how software can solve specific domain problems.

Yeah, I'm the same way. I've gotten better at it though by "practicing." For me, it's the same process as strength training. You need progressive overload. Start with easy to read attention capturing books, and slowly progress to harder and harder books.

“Battling misinformation” these days is more about conditioning people to practice crimestop it seems. Thanks for posting, I hadn’t seen this before, and it’s definitely interesting

The crypto aspect serves a very important feature, hype. Anything tangential to crypto gets the attention of all of crypto twitter. This would not have nearly as much money in it if not for that hype.

One thing I do wonder though: at some point all this ethereum gets converted to dollars in order to buy the constitution. What does this DAO do with any "extra" dollars from the increasing value of ethereum?

Don't necessarily think the distinction is low-compliance vs. high-compliance. Many developing countries are high-compliance, and enact oppressive measures all the time. I think it's low expectations vs. high expectations.

In western society, there are so many expectations placed on every single moment of your life. Everyday at school is important, because you need to get into x, y, and z colleges. Everyday at work is important, because you need to grind to get a promotion so you can get more money and prestige. Having an active social life is important, because you need to mingle with as many people your age as possible so you can find the "one." You also need to spend some time "finding yourself." In your free time, you could be trading crypto, or investing in stocks, or working on a startup. Every moment is critical, and must be used for achieving some over-arching goal of self-actualization to leave your "unique" mark in the world. This isn't necessarily bad, and has led to some fantastic worldly achievements, but when you're going 100 mph all the time, there's no room for the silence required to know yourself. It's like you're spending all this energy trying to create yourself when you're right here all this time, and nothing you've done so far has changed that.

Eastern (developing) societies have no such tension. You do well in school, because that is what will get you a good job, not to change the world. No alumnus is speaking to you saying they're looking at Presidents, astronauts, inventors, etc. Mom or dad can introduce you to someone that they think would be suitable for marriage, and her parents agree because you did the work to get a decent job. Then, you can get married and have kids so that you have someone to care for, and someone to care for you when your parents get too old or pass away. There's never a sense that you need to do something truly new and unique. They are simply happier with less, and don't place undue expectations on their life. There are so many quiet moments in your life where you can be yourself without any expectations. You do not worry about whether the world will remember who you are. You've already done everything that could be expected of you.

I know there are exceptions in both cases, but ultimately people become sad and suicidal when they feel their life isn't worth living. Which society makes it easier to say your life was well lived?

Thanks for sharing this, you've inspired me to make some tiny projects as well :). Will Earlyname be your last project for a while, or do you plan on continuing at this pace?

One of the bosses I had at a big bank told me the one thing she observed about successful people was that they never got hung up on mistakes. If they made a mistake, they just moved on as if it didn't happen, but would apologize if you asked sincerely one on one.

I think that's a pretty good middle ground. Apologizing too readily might also signal you lack self-respect or confidence which may invite even more vitriol.

Agree with this 100%. It's called Web Components since it's best used for writing individual components that be dropped into larger apps. I did a side project with LitElement recently, and just could not find the value add over React. That's when I realized that was never the intention anyways.

I think the desire to make Web Components a React competitor also comes in part from the movement towards 100% static sites, i.e. no server HTML generation. So if I'm building a shopping app, I would never create an HTML file with the following with proper declarative HTML:

<shop-app> <shop-item name="Nike Air Force 1" price="85" currency="dollars"></shop-item> <shop-item name="Nike Lebron 18" price="130" currency="dollars"></shop-item> <shop-item name="Nike Kobe 8" price="145" currency="dollars"></shop-item> </shop-app>

Then, you can add interactivity with JS events or a JS framework. Instead, you'll just see:

<shop-app></shop-app>

where the data to render the child elements is dependent on an AJAX request that gets the initial data. Creating standalone, declarative, and well-scoped components is just not necessary in this case, since everything is done in JS anyways.

Actually surprised they didn't use something more robust like Scrapy.

I wanted to like Lua and Love2D, but struggled with writing code quickly because there's no editor autocompletion that I know of, so I spent a lot of time having to reference the docs. Do others just use it enough that they know the API by heart now?

Thanks for sharing that, this is the first time I've seen this quote.

I think most adults feel the same way about social media activism, but they probably don't think it's worth their time to call it out even if it annoys them. You would just be begging the social media mob to turn on you next.

I have thought about this quite a bit recently as well. I think the main thing to look for in interviews is "does this person have a clear and sound thought process?" In theory, the whiteboard questions are meant to suss this out, but the prevalence of Leetcode and other interview prep websites blurs the signal.

I wonder if just asking for a one or two page design doc on something would be a much better signal, since that's probably what you'll need to do on the job anyways.

I think there is a way to get all of the "good parts" of Typescript, mainly type checking, without introducing the bad, mainly transpiling. I recently started just running Typescript on Javascript files, where all of the types are specified via JSDocs. It was a refreshing experience, and I highly recommend. The Typescript website[1] has pretty good documentation for it.

[1]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsdoc-supported...

I'm making a web emulation of the Metal Gear Solid V emblem creator. Felt it would be a good way to learn about web components and Typescript.