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I'm running 1660 ti on Windows 11.

I'm thinking about getting a 3090 so that I can make higher resolution images.

Gfpgan runs much faster for me 5 seconds per picture
There are some real NASA fanatics on this site. You laid out some very interesting and useful information about the limits of the vehicle and its parts and they just down vote you for no reason other than their ideology.
Firefox has the builtin reader mode but there is also plugins that auto click or hide cookie banners.
Stop Calling Everything “Nix”
> The problem with visual programming languages (the focus of the articles seems to be on them) is that they don't scale in size and complexity. For large projects, you end up with visualizations like the LabView one in the article.

That is not true. (1) No one programs LabVIEW like that, and if they do, then they aren't doing code reviews or taking software development seriously. In fact, the visual 2D nature of LabVIEW is a feature, because it becomes immediately and visually apparent if your code is actual spaghetti or not, as in the meme-like picture that gets posted constantly. Spaghetti code certainly exists in text-based languages, but it is not so readily apparent. (2) I have built large, complex systems with LabVIEW, in fact larger than any text-based program I've worked on in industry. I wish they were publicly available/publishable to show, but they are not, unfortunately. LabVIEW scales well for the same reason that languages like Erlang and Elixir scale well. It has built-in concurrency and multi-threading and the core data types, including its OOP objects, are immutable. When scaling, the issues one comes across do not relate to the visual representation but rather other issues specific to the implementation of the LabVIEW IDE.
which means that science then states that T-1
"We have absolutely noe clue and we will never have one"

So a spaghetti god monster could have created it?
It could but you would never be able to prove it.
I also find HN unique in this regard, it’s so refreshing to have a platform where people of differing opinions can actually communicate without being downvoted to oblivion.

The other day I posted a differing opinion from the norm on Reddit and was downvoted out of the room. It was a well thought totally reasonable opinion.

What does it mean for these wildly popular platforms if we are unable to have adult conversations?
Legion gaming laptops (and I guess all similar) are fast. If they can run games, they can run compiler. At least this is an issue for me, compiling server on my own laptop takes time if there's not enough power.
I'm not sure there's a big bang moment. I think it's mostly that the keyboards and such are cheap and more water resistant today.
NASA should stick to what it does best, space science and robotic operations. The Hubble, Voyagers, the rovers and Webb are amazing. Do more of that. Let Musk do the now boring stuff of near earth, and the idiotic stuff like putting people in mars.
thinkpad p14s AMD
Won’t the poachers just change their speed and turning radius to not appear as humans?

I’ve become a bit skeptical of these stories on kids doing what normally experienced professionals do (research, startups). I’d understand if a kid accidentally discovered or invented something cool that no one else thought of. I wish kids focused on fun and learning in school. Some of these stories seem like ‘spike’ projects to help the kids college application standout.
Microscopy reveals mechanism behind new CRISPR tool
Posts like this didn't help in my case. Though depending on versions being replicated and RDS settings it could work.
Actual link is here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/08/29/launch-attempt-scr...
Ask HN: Is there a good reason for disallowing some characters from a password?
I see this restriction quite often, and it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Am I missing a compelling reason for this practise, or is it an example of bad design?
I remember the challenger explosion. I know exactly where I was. I remember seeing the teacher's face on the tv. That's what take unnecessary risks gets you. I understand being careful.
I talk to a lot of Uber drivers who seem to enjoy driving for Uber. I can imagine times in my younger life when I'd have enjoyed it as well.
> and my work is generally focused around the endless practicalities and compromises, necessary to get products out the door.

This hits too hard. I’m still in the “acceptance” phase of grief over the death of my ideal that there’s a “right” technical solution for every problem. And I’m in my 40’s.
To add to that, a K1/K2 'Super K' supplement I was taking amplified my tinnitus within a couple days of taking it(I didn't make the connection, initially). Early in 2020 when I ran out & could not resupply, my tinnitus reduced > 50% within a week or two of abstaining. When I did get another bottle, the tinnitus increased almost immediately. I did multi-weeks on/multi-weeks off testing 4 times that year and the results were the same: the 'Super K' triggered it & it waned within 2 weeks of desisting. YMMV.
How and why stable diffusion works for text to image generation
Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle
Hi HN, I'm Daniel Nguyen. In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.

The idea of KTool first came to my mind when I was reading "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"[0]

I've been wearing glasses since I was 5. My right eye is basically blind. Doctors said there is no chance to cure it.

I was genuinely scared. Like holy shit, if my left eye stops working, my life is done. Since then I've been very conscious about time spent on computer screens.

That's when I started using Kindle-related products: to offload as many reading materials as possible to the Kindle. I was a happy customer of Push to Kindle. Great product!

Then I ran into multiple limitations which led me to build KTool: a tool to send anything online to Kindle. Blog posts, Twitter threads, Hacker News discussions, RSS, newsletters... you name it.

But I'm not here to pitch my vision for KTool.

I built a specific tool to help you send HN discussions to your Kindle. And in the spirit of Show HN, it doesn't require an account. If you don't own a Kindle, there is the option to download the EPUB.

Let me know what you think. Any feedback will be much appreciated.

If you're a Kindle owner and you read a lot of online content, give KTool a try.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980
I appreciate the ingenuity of the solution. But I still prefer Tailwind-esque style of css styling.
That’s pretty much the same as dying..
I categorically reject ads. I want them completely abolished. I will do everything that's in my power to get them out of my machines. If I had just a little bit more courage I would go out at night with cans of spray paint and deface billboards.
Ask HN: Do you care about release notes on app updates?
I do and now many many apps simply use "Bug fixes and performance improvements" which just feels lazy and stupid, even more so if they try to frame it in a ten line paragraph. At least to me, that's not enough reason to update every single time.
Congrats, Garry! Well-deserved. Excited for you and for YC.
You cannot put an icon anywhere you want on the home screen.

Icons are lined up left to right, in a row.

You need to insert icons inside a row and then all the other icons to its right will be pushed right and/or down.
HackerNews susceptible to flattery, as evidenced by this submission!

That said, I agree whole-heartedly. HN is the start and end to most of my days as well.
Any recommended resources explaining the pitfalls of multiprocess vs multithreaded?
A lot of comments disparaging this, but it is fundamentally correct.

If our civilization as it is survives and does not collapse, then this "manual" is unnecessary.

It is only useful if our civilization has clearly failed.

Maybe sanitation was a huge mistake. Maybe antibiotics were a huge mistake. Maybe the remnants of humanity that survive the apocalypse will look back on a humanity all but wiped out by superbugs of their own making.

Maybe agriculture was a huge mistake. Maybe the march towards monocultures is inevitable, and the remnants of humanity that survive the apocalypse will look back on a humanity all but wiped out by blights or the total depletion of fertile topsoil.

For anything that we wish to impart to these remnants, there's a scenario where that is why we failed, because we must assume that we did fail to justify the attempt at the manual at all.
It's frustrating that "filling a niche and filling it well" is just anathema these days. Everyone is hustling to become a trillion dollar whatever, and burning customers, money and good will in the process.

There should be nothing wrong with just bring good at what you do and not seeking endless expansion (and yes, I know, it's actually dangerous because you're vulnerable to predation in that position).
It's not what used to be done with HTML. It's what used to be done with desktop GUI toolkits.

Web apps were never this complex before the creation of frontend web frameworks.
Google

> Google claims to be cracking down on apps that are using the VPN service to track user data

Also Google

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/01/31/google-apple-deve...
Yep. Duplicating the data model on the client and server is just one example of the insanity. I could go on, but that’s for another day.
I wasn't using Aurora at the time. And I don't expect non-Aurora RDS to be exactly the same as vanilla Postgres either. Still, it was surprising that the old Pg solution is supported (pglogical) while the new one wasn't yet, at least for my version jump.
It's the first thing after the elevator pitch intro.

I didn't even notice the install link (which is in a menu on the side) and the text didn't indicate another installation option.
This is the kind of shit I would be doing for fun and learning in school.

Kids have the disposable time to dedicate to grind stuff like this out. All they really need is the spark of interest, then everything else takes care of itself.
I’m sure there must be a retry with a backoff somewhere. But most of the times I noticed that the EDID is incomplete, not blank.

I don’t think there’s any way for the OS to know that there’s a more complete EDID if it tries again later.

That’s also my theory on why the Intel/AMD/NVidia GPUs feel more stable than the Apple Silicon ones: they had years of dealing with these edge cases and probably adding all the workarounds they could think of, while Apple is still catching up.
Hypothesis: the downvotes are not for the information presented, but for the unnecessary and ideological "can't do anything right".
A common reaction is: It cannot all be positive.

Or, as a colleague of mine put it: "When I first interacted with americans, they were smiling so much I suspected they were trying to trick me in some way".
Well articulated.

As consumers we benefit from the innovation and probably lower prices for a while, but I’m not sure the externalities are worth it.

Maybe an Uber rolls into town with their funny money. 5 years later, we’ve lost lots of small taxi companies, everybody is working in the gig economy, all the profits are booked in a tax havens and the prices are going up even higher than they were.
Brilliant, but certainly not flawless.
Was it a long game of repatriating Saudi's money back to the west?
I invite you to read HN with "showdead", you are bound to quickly change your high opinion. The amount of petty flagging and downvotes to suppress diverging opinions is staggering.
This is good news. Congrats!
At least you can still "sideload", i.e. download the software straight from the source and install it that way, the way software used to be distributed before this walled-garden dystopia started...

I personally run a MITM proxy on my network which all traffic goes through. IMHO the security concerns are overblown and largely come from companies like Google trying to stop people doing things like this. They are only securing their profits, nothing more and nothing less.

These changes aim to improve the ads experience, tighten security and limit misinformation according to the company.

The truth is probably closer to "increase the number of ads you see, secure you from getting around that, and limit the proliferation of anything but their official propaganda."
> Do they pump the hydrogen back into storage or bleed it all into the atmosphere if they need to empty the fuel tanks?

They pump it back. But some of it warms and turns to gas while it's being "used", so that part bleeds off.

> While the vehicle is filled with liquid propellant, some of the LH2 is consumed for engine conditioning and some boils off inside the tanks. If a launch attempt was to be scrubbed after waiting through a whole two-hour launch window, and the propellants in the tanks were drained back into the spheres, they would end up being over 280,000 gallons short of the LH2 needed for another attempt.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/11/artemis-1-launch-per...
This is amazing! We all know, here, how much of a problem this is, but this idea seems to solve the problem of "how do I explain this to my parents/grandparents?"
I hope this is true. I get that it's "messaging" first, but if it eventually phases in all data transport, this will give cellular companies some badly needed competition if it's competitively priced.
Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone else's domain via helpdesk
completely violating your users trust is an interesting way to react to a disclosure of a potential security vulnerability
"Flawless execution"? Apollo 1 burned three astronauts to death during a rehearsal test. They had astronauts back on top of a rocket in under twenty months.

Acknowledging that their risk tolerances were higher than politics necessitates today doesn't "diminish" anything.
Yeah, So I use split-tunnel. For example only route 192.168.1.0/24 via VPN, then set 192.168.1.10 as DNS server. Therefore I can use pi-hole at home and other traffic are routed by 5G directly.
There's like 5% of people who actually use adblock too. Seems rude to go out of their way to just anger people like you.
I was happily on the free tier for a while until I switched to iPhone, then suddenly just my iPhone ran though 150k queries (compared to a Pixel). But if you're on Android, Google TV, etc. you should be comfortably fine within the free tier.

It's definitely worth the $2/month price for Pro though.
I very often upvote pairs of well-written comments that challenge each other, even if I disagree with one or both of them.

Beside promoting quality reasoning and references to interesting sources, I have an egotistic motive: bring more attention to the civilized discussion and thus get fresh opinions and references to help me make my own opinion.
I heard Midjourney is adding extra prompts to anything you submit that give it the signature style is has. Pretty sure you could get the same style stuff out of SD if you knew what to add.
Dell has no proven track of good support. You may say it’s an entirely different company since [too short to measure accurately] and you would just look like the rest of their campaign managers.

If they truely have changed, they would have made a fuss about it, wouldn’t have they.
The problem they describe is nonexistent. They say <div class="card big"> is bad because

some other CSS can come along
and co-opt what big means

Doesn't matter, because you would not style ".big" but ".card.big".

Yes, if someone would redefine "card", that would be a problem. That's why this "base class" should not be as short as just "card" but rather "userInfoCard" or something like that.
Wouldn't this be more evidence that Google shouldn't be running the Play Store?

If they are going to start blocking apps that do adblocking on-device that sounds like an abuse of power and a HUGE conflict of interest with Google running the Play Store AND being owned by an advertising company.
written on a boat
iOS has supported ad blocking since iOS 8 and has supported your standard web extensions for a couple of years.
The only niche tech subreddit I know of that's anywhere near the level of discourse on HN is r/zfs, and even then, it's mostly people asking for help because they broke their zpool; it's just that the answers are often quite detailed in their explanation. r/sysadmin is Windows-centric but isn't awful in terms of depth of knowledge. r/kubernetes is mostly blog spam and "can you troubleshoot <problem I've put zero effort into solving> for me," and r/devops is mostly "how do I get a job in devops."
Wow, there is a real coordinated push across the privatized space industry to drive this narrative today.
Embracer Completes Acquisition of Eidos, Crystal Dynamics & Square Enix Montréal
In my experience, the biggest issue with flowcharts is not to transform text into charts (PlantUML works well) but to get the layout I want when the chart/graph becomes more complex. For complex-but-small charts I usually just do them on Google Drawing because I have total control over the layout.
I'm not talking about the physical ISO vs ANSI layouts. I mean the layout in software. It's not even close. Basically noone outside the US and Canada uses it. We're on HN, so obviously someone here will, but outside of this niche? Noone
It's also something that could have been discovered and worked way back at the wet dress rehearsal, if they'd completed it. Instead, they got a hydrogen leak that stopped the test before it got to the step that failed today. For whatever reason (GO fever?) NASA managers decided that a partial test that ended in failure was "good enough".
My biggest frustration with OCaml is having to deal with all of that cruft. I've learned many languages over the years, and I think I've just reached the point where I've lost patience with having to deal with what I would consider substandard syntactic elegance.
Getting money for running websites is also non-mandatory? Are we going to fund them from the government 5-year plans yet? Our hosting expenses alone are 8k per month.
Never launching is also a risk and a mode of failure.
You mean if Apple adds the ability to add standard web extensions?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
>There is no large jump in mortality in April 2021.

Eurostat reports a 16.1% increase between March and April 2021:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Europe overall: "Excess mortality levels reached a third peak in April 2021 (20.9 %)"

Euromomo shows a progression from baseline level in March to "substantial increase" in April:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
I’m not sure which I like less, the “calm” of excessive whitespace or the comfort of low contrast not-very-dark modes.

Am I the only person who wants computer programs to be effective tools, not provide emotional support?

At this point I wonder if it might really be easier to add the features to turn terminals into decent fully featured GUIs than to fix existing actual GUIs.
Defeating the failure of civilization entirely is a really high bar; the thing we're trying to prevent is failing faster and more painfully. This is like asking "Why would people who are going to die anyway bother having hospitals?"
I don't believe there is any way for blocking Youtube ads on iOS currently. It's a shame, because those double 15 second ones drive me mad.
The comment I replied to was about bad experiences with Intel MBPs. Personally, I take no position on whether someone should or shouldn't use a Macbook. I'm not invested in that outcome. Use what you want.

But, at the same time, the particular shortcomings of Intel silicon MBPs is now out-of-date and it seems worth mentioning that.
Please in the UK, buy flea killers and repellents. Not for now but when everyone's homes and factories are cold, rats won't be as tasty to them and they will bite you.

https://www.fleabites.net/rat-fleas-xenopsylla-cheopis-or-no...
"The teacher" being Christa McAuliffe?
Thank you, but this notebook appears to use images generated from text prompts. I was interested in interpolating between two given images, without generating from text.
Biggest one I'm aware of is connections aren't threaded. And Pg tries to preallocate resources at the time of the connection. Together these make connections expensive compared to Mysql's threaded connections. Many folks run a connection pooler in front of Pg for this reason.

One pro of non-threaded is simplicity and no need for thread safety everywhere.
Well, the only browser on iOS if you exclude the one that’s built in.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
+1.

The "you're posting too fast" thing when you get mobbed is another terrible feature.
I'm sure there are some HN users who just downvote everything they disagree with. However, I also think commenters with “minority opinions” need to realize that the onus is on them to justify what they say.

A comment which says “the earth is round” does not and should not need to justify that position. Most of the community already thinks the earth is round, so commenters don't need to spend time explaining why.

By contrast, a comment which claims “the earth is flat” had better damn well include why the earth is flat, and that argument had better be pretty convincing! Who knows, perhaps the flat-earthers were right all along and one of them will open my eyes some day—but the onus is on them.

To take a more realistic example, I’ll sometimes see HN comments which are (in my estimation) based on the premise that government is inherently evil. Perhaps this is just an accepted truism in conservative circles, but it's not in mine, nor is it something I believe. So if I see a comment which assumes "all governments are bad" as a starting point, I will likely downvote it!

(Please, let's not turn this thread into a discussion on the merits of government, I just needed a real-world example.)

My goal is to downvote stupid arguments and upvote constructive ones, regardless of whether I agree—but due to the above, the two end up being correlated in practice.
The compute cost to train Stable Diffusion was $600k
Is it illegal to hack a machine learning model?
Because the people who could do something like this are already genetically gifted, and already successful enough that they would not feel the need to go to such risky extents to improve on their genetic makeup.
And because simply marrying somebody who is genetically gifted is much easier, and you can do that if you're successful enough in other ways.
Depends on your definition of simple. There is not that much which can go wrong.
Why would someone choose this over DOT?
"To save the American chestnut tree, researchers want to release genetically engineered trees into the wild to reproduce. It would be a first — a possible breakthrough and an irreversible experiment."

https://acf.org/ny/news-events/how-gmos-might-save-the-ameri...
I wish anyone would listen if you could/did!
Show HN: Knockles – eBPF Port Knocking Tool
It also makes one question just how useful spending those resources on going to the moon in the first place. After spending all that time and all those resources (not just financial; it also occupied the time of our limited pool of top engineers and scientists) on going to the moon, over 50 years later we're still struggling to return there.

People don't seem to understand that we make good use of space and space flight, but humans in space just aren't that useful at the moment. At the beginning of the space age it seemed like they might be; there were ideas for a manned spy satellite, such as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory[1]. But as tech advanced, the people who actually using space flight to accomplish things realized that automated systems functioned better.

NASA spends 44.9% of its budget on human space flight, and just 3.5% on aeronautics[2], when it's likely the aeronautics research improves people's lives much more than the human space flight efforts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory
[2] https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/nasa-budget