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It's ridiculously absurdly convenient. Someone recommends a book to me or I see one mentioned, I quickly Amazon it, one click to send a sample to my Kindle. Amazon has everything, I can't remember when I last couldn't get something there. When I finish a book, I always have a bunch of samples, and Amazon gives you a decent portion of the book, so they're actually useful. If I like a sample, it's two or three taps to buy it and continue reading. I don't know any other store that sells such a wide selection of ebooks in both my native language and English to a EU resident. I'm reading a lot more than I did before my Kindle because I don't have the friction of finding book recommendations in my notes and finding a store and getting the purchased book on the device, and the device is fun too.

De-DRM-ed backups aren't necessarily a bad idea though, I'm with you on that.
It does - for databases of a reasonable size, this is okay. Roughly 1-50 GB databases are quite practical.
And yet the conservatives' elected leader, Donald Trump, is banned from Twitter because he's unable to stop publicly obsessing over violence.
Your bad faith posting is against HN rules. Please do better.
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Probably trying to push https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/ out of the news cycle.
Is it gonna stay open source, though?
Like I have said before¹², you are, in effect, asking for people to step in the bear trap in order to prove to you that it’s dangerous.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21633388#21659417

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460238#26463899
Why should development be a matter of formal voting and government mandates? Why should it be any more complex than private entities buying land and then constructing what they want on that land? (Within reason - zoning is still important to keep housing away from industrial waste or garbage dumps. But the externalities of disallowing dense and mixed-use development are profoundly negative.)
Relatedly, the original Colossal Cave Adventure, often known simply as "Adventure", which was a very early videogame and inspired so many others that followed (including the Zork franchise and Kentucky Route Zero) was loosely inspired by the creators' caving expeditions in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave (National Park) and some of the rooms and room descriptions in Colossal Cave Adventure even match up with real Mammoth Cave rooms. (Though my attempts to use the magic word XYZZY to shortcut to find Dragon hoarded gold at the real Mammoth Cave seem to always fail.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
I believe they play a part here as well. My own home has increased in value ~$160k in 3 years. We’re ready to leave this town. The college kids and the retirees make it an absolute chore to live here.
The company I used to work for. They successfully did cut server costs!

...at the expense of 40 eng-years (20 eng over 2 years) spent on the migration.
> IMHO giving a prompt to generate image is amazing but isn't a product because you can't actually produce useful stuff

Making art/weird pictures doesn't have to be useful, as that use case is the entire reason MJ/SD went viral.
Nah you don't. I bought an MSR stove that runs off gasoline you can fill up for $.10 at any gas station and then bought bags of rice and lentils that last a week for ~$10. Backpack on back, ask day labor place where to keep backpack when working, employer always had some place to tuck it away. I could earn ~120 / day and only need ~$80 a week to survive. Slept like a baby under my tarp.

If you do day labor all week you just made $500 and you only need $100 to survive the week. Pretty easy to sock money away that way... if you decide to rent a room a couple weeks of that gets you your first week in a weekly rental and from there you can clean up and get a regular factory job. I had a well oiled process that I ran that cycle quite a few times. AFter 1-3 months at a factory I would generally get a fork-lift job or something that paid even more and from there you're basically as rich as the average American.

Bonus: If you have HN skills your average wage from the fork-lift job will give you enough to buy a nice laptop, hi-speed internet and then a high-paying programming job -- although it's obviously not generally applicable (although I've done it).
I have been trying to figure out a better workflow for grabbing websites or PDFs, marking them up, and storing them as notes, either by themselves or in something like Craft or Obsidian to reference later. I'm not sure this really moves the needle as I can't imagine moving stuff to the Kindle and then back again will be frictionless.
What heresy? I can't think of any that aren't illegal like violent threats or something but that goes beyond mere beliefs into action territory.
Ah yes, HMG, obviously the same as the US government.
Controversial take, but how we treat the mentally ill and prisoners is a good health meter for how much abuse is acceptable in a society.

We need to do better than this... Stanford Prison experiment recreation.
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Git made cheap branches, rather than GitHub.

Code reviews... maybe? Outside of OSS you're probably right about them being less prevalent. Arguably a backwards step compared to XP though!
Alright so:

1) That's not white collar tech jobs, that's ALL jobs in SF

2) That's base salary, not inclusive of other comp like stock and bonus

3) Benefits are a huge slice of the compensation pie: insurance is not cheap, most companies 401k match, etc

4) Payroll tax is a big chunk too

5) There's overhead associated with hires. At a minimum they get a laptop, but if they're onsite you have to furnish a cubicle and pay all associated costs

Fully loaded, the annual expense of a generic tech hire in SF is definitely more like $200k
Everyone involved would rather get paid than slow things down over minor details like legality or it being misleading, at least until it becomes a scandal.

So far it isn’t common enough to be a scandal.
It could be a balanced policy, but what they will do is the same thing they always do -- consider posts of positions they approve of as "news" and everything else as prohibited "politics", therefore making a massive contribution-in-kind to their political party
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Thank you!

At work, people keep complaining about our costs and coming up with spreadsheets showing how much money we would save with our own hardware.

They never add the engineering costs. When they do, they forget to include the ongoing maintenance. Or the new SMEs that need to be hired (and on call). Or even the opportunity cost of doing a multi-year migration to arrive at the exact spot they already are today.

All that money, and noone is looking into optimizing our systems to shrink the bill...
An easy example of DALL-E superiority is its ability to combine two different concepts together.

For example, DALL-E performs extremely impressively on prompts in the format of “a still of homer Simpson in The Godfather” (replace character and movie as you wish). with the other two it’s a lot of misses
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You do understand how fast this space is moving and how new everything is right?

Your criticism is in my opinion not valid.

Do they need to react to the market? Perhaps depends on what there goal even is.

Is dall-e 2 fun to use and cost wise totally fine? For me yes.

But I also have people running SD with a hacky webui on some good GPUs for free. How many people actually have access to it.

Is there also a good benchmark on which tool is inherent better? Because it is also totally fine to have multiple offerings.

I really don't sure if you ever seen product development for yourself.

Dall-e clearly took the potential misuse risk much further than others.
Eventually, we'll need an AI that we write through, that then anonymizes our writing to make it unidentifiable.
I wonder how people behind Imagen feel about this. Stable Diffusion is open source. DALL-E is open for public (albeit, with some limitations).

https://imagen.research.google/
”Charles Baggage” made me giggle a bit.
I know that someone in the intelligence community was giving a lecture at the University of Florida on using UF’s fancy new donated Nvidia cluster to do this analysis.
Let those companies that want to ignore 10% of the workforce go ahead. I'd say that's more idealist than complying with similar laws already enacted in other states as well.
Ouch. Yeah that's wrong.
I’m not suggesting there aren’t people who profit in some way from the money spent on services for the homeless. But calling it an industrial complex elevates it. The motels are not a single uniform entity intertwined with the government to extract profits this way while trying to undermine the mission of public policy in order to make even more money. I’m not an economist but I’m certain there is a high bar to become an industrial complex.
Should have used google slides and reduce the extra link clicks...
Indeed, "it's just a toy" is often the place these things start
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Just as user friendly as dalle but for stable diffusion and more free credits: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream
If a Canadian pipe was destroyed it was obviously ecoterrorists
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I’m in a slightly similar place to the author, but would love some other backup nerds to throw in some advice.

I’m aware of the traditional “requirements” for backup (eg: attribute/metadata, cross platform, restore testing, etc), but in modern usage, I’ve discovered a split (and lean towards “cloud first”).

It boils down to “active” files v. “passive” data. I found this when testing rclone around preserving executable bits and trying to back up “active” (`chmod +x`) git working directories. It was a mess as all shell scripts lost permissions, and especially frustrating because backing up Git working directories is like kindof useless, but also very useful for those times when something goes wrong.

However, when backing up my MP3 rips or family videos (or large video editing projects), I’m really just needing passive blobs, not bit+attribute duplicate restores, especially when the local computer is effectively a moderately thin client compared to an exact duplicate of all possible data that I’ve backed up to a cloud provider (eg: rsync.net in my case).

Also there are tiers of cost and accessibility that aren’t necessarily managed well with most modern backup software.

I’ve settled on rsync.net for bulk “warm” access, and syncthing with a few local raspberry pi’s, and all local computers/phones as kind of a “hot” replacement for “Documents” directory.

I had to do a moderately complete backup with “restic“ from one local HD to another on my desktop and that worked well for being able to mount snapshots and pull files out, but it all feels like a lot of overhead compared to what I’m really shooting for.

Further problems are the general unreliability of fuse/sshfs-mounted filesystems, as “slow” file access for some things is quite acceptable, but unreliable or hanging on individual file access gets real old real quick.

So it boils down towards the far away end of the backup “cone” being S3-glacier-ish (cheap-ish), and mostly blob data with no extended attributes needed. Mid-tier is rsync/warm, mostly blob-ish shared between multiple systems, along with some kinds of per-device system restore capabilities (or home dir restore capabilities), and near/hot is Syncthing, and a local NAS of everything if possible. Modulo local device/hardware management, and attempting to reduce any administrative overhead, especially for casual/non-primary users of the same system.

It doesn’t feel like nirvana, am I missing any gaps in thought here? Anyone else have good experiences or suggestions on something somewhat comprehensive between “do nothing, let the cloud sort it out” and “be prepared, have your own local and remote backup/transfer/restore processes”?
Or maybe they got undercut by an open source implementation and that was inevitable no matter what. How can you compete with free?
I’ve just had a good laugh from your comment! Maybe water on the floor was for cooling.
Your system of distinguishing "me" from "not-me" via a quantitative metric is interesting to me because it's not a binary. Human reaction time for hands is a bit faster than feet. Are my hands more "me" than my feet? Well, that kind of intuitively checks out to me. But reflex reactions, like blinking, have less than half the latency of conscious reactions. Are my reflex reactions more me than my conscious decisions?

Your door example raises further questions. When I pick up a remote control, the control moves just as easily as my hand. Does the remote become an equal part of me immediately?
> eryone has equal access to resources

No false notions required -- all living people have a risk of loss of freedoms, which is why prison works.

> why can't there be more public garbage cans

I suppose this mostly makes sense until we start to have local businesses using them for free trash disposal. Why would I be more in favor of public trash cans you ask? (so you dont have to continue presuming...) Because it's enabling and encouraging an ideal behavior -- people dispose of their trash in an orderly manner.
If everyone's pay was public, it wouldn't be a major issue and nobody would care.

But if only a few people's pay ends up being public, it will cause issues.
True, but if you can't integrate it into your workflow it will stay as a toy (and that's ok)
Comment section admits it's not running on a 286, just with dosbox set to approximate the speed of a 286. Given that the program is written in 32-bit protected mode, it won't run on a 286[1]. Compiled sprites might still work in real-mode, but ~~you would have to write to different segments, given that it's working with planar memory~~.

[edit] I was misremembering Mode-X working like 4-bit VGA color mode, which is wrong. Given that the tiles are aligned it should be possible to write an entire tile without switching segments.

1: The 286 had a protected mode, but it was not 32-bit, plus it wasn't widely used for many reasons. The fact that accessing more than 256k of ram is actually slower in protected mode than real mode rules it out for a lot of video games.
As a former resident of a US swing state, it certainly didn't seem like that was the case. The day before election day, just about every other TV ad was for a politician.
Sometimes even more simple -- there are some methods people use that are as simple as "copy and paste this javascript that overwrites some properties". There's a lot of people scraping the web, so there's somebody out there that has done the work for you already.

My point is, you don't really know what software is connecting to your web server.
us-east-1's revenge.
The sales cost and R&D costs seem high. I could see sales cost being high to get faster adoption with tail-end profit. BUT 450M R&D... it's a document signing application. Seems like there's room to cut costs without impact to the business. For example, there's no way Box spent 450M/year in R&D to build out it's own docusign equivalent.
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Playing text adventures was a nice past time. I had Psion those days and a Nokia 6800. I really wonder what it would be like to have a nice android phone with a keyboard those days... But I guess this is mostly nostalgia.
Congratulations. I hope you enjoy working there. A close friend of mine used to work there in a very high position and they left after about a year or two, but left for what I consider to be pretty ridiculous reasons.

I'm not quite sure how much I could share without revealing their identity, but essentially they were sat down and told to work on their appearance. They had enormous technical chops (probably in the top 10 people in the entire world at what they do), but at least 60 lbs. overweight, no sense of style or fashion, etc., and as unfortunate as it might be to hear it... when you reach Director-level / C-suite positions, you need to physically project that OR you have to be so absolutely dominant at what you do that they cannot ignore you. They aren't that dominate.

A shame really, but they went off to work for a private startup and seem to be quite happy anyway.
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Ah yes, the classic "we care about security and privacy so much that we're going to force you to enable the biggest exploit vectors" move; classic Cloudflare:)
Plus they disallow voip, which is a problem for me since I only have voip.
I think they were mathematically correct.

Affluent + Eloquent = Bullshit
That's funny but $200B seemed way too small. Then I found this:
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

"The United States spends more on national defense than China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Japan, and South Korea — combined."

!?

And $200B is inside the consensus estimate of $200B to $300B. Wow.
DALL-E's censor really frustrates me. I hit "inappropriate" warnings that threaten "If you do this repeatedly you may be banned" all the time. Probably one in six prompts I tried on DALL-E got this warning. I don't see why a creative tool should have such aggressive censorship built in.

One example of an "inappropriate" prompt that stuck out in my mind, and I think is pretty representative - I was trying to recreate DVD box art of Breaking Bad, but replace the main characters with cats. When my prompts were things like "Meth dealing cat" I would get the "inappropriate" flag. Frustrating.

I much prefer stable diffusion. Quality is different, but being able to generate whatever I want without censorship is an enormous benefit. Plus, the cost. OpenAI is far too expensive. A friend and I are writing a novel. We wanted to see what it would be like to just feed each paragraph of text from our novel to the image generator, along with combinations of descriptions. This would be a pretty expensive experiment with DALL-E, but it can run locally for the cost of electricity with stable-diffusion.
What's the difference between Big Tech and startups in terms of learning/growth?
This is just about paid ads AFAIK.
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream
So about 1/3 of them came from somewhere else! That's not normal. That's actually evidence of a strong attraction drawing people from other places.
Ask HN: How get product market fit if we can't afford legal fees to advertise?
We need your brilliant mind's ideas.

The project we're working on is a commodity producing DAO.

We are building a real-world model that will be limitlessly scalable, highly predictable in terms of returns, in a DAO structure that will involve investors, producers, and final customers of the commodity products.

We are operating in emerging market (partly because we want the DAO to be as impactful as possible) with the possibility to export internationally. We assume there are no DeFi protocol ready to finance us at the size we have, even if we have the capacity to scale easily and successfully.
This forces us to find another way to finance our production, on the short term. We plan to use a model like bitcoin cloud mining, but with our production models where you rent X square meters that we manage for Y time and you get the return.

We are ready to add this financing component to the model, but there are multiple laws around it that require us to get costly licenses and legal clarifications around it.
So, our plan was to get some letters of intent signed from potential investors that would theoretically mean that there is product market fit.

Then use this and the financial projections of the model we operate, but at larger scale plus projections of growth to raise capital from investors (VC, angel or.. ? ), get the legal clarifications and licenses and move on.

Now we’re being told that even for letter of intent there are some regulations…

So,
- how would you prove there is product market fit from individuals willing to finance our models (we haven’t started to look for yet) to then ask for funding?
- how would you advertise such model?
OR
What would you do?

Thank you so much.
It is not art and art is useful(we can disagree on what's art, the age old question).

MidJourney and others are actually useful for exploration but the outputs are not because they can't spit finished deliverables to the specs. No one is paying for a picture of Mermaid eating marmalade, trending on art station, beautiful face, sharp focus, octane 8k.

They are great for exploration, it's just that I don't believe this is the killer app for these tools. We will find out what's the killer app with Stable Diffusion because with Stable Diffusion people can experiment beyond entering some prompts.
've implemented a functionality to parse and calculate power root expressions(5 ^ 2 = 25) to Mate.

Here is the detailed thread about algorithm that it uses: https://twitter.com/theiskaa/status/1575167910363791362?s=20...
> It has been shown multiple time over in experimental settings that punishment is a pretty poor means of modifying behavior. The deterrence of punishment is marginal at best. For punishment to work consistently you need to apply it consistently and immediately, law enforcement does neither

That's much more reasonable of a point than other peer comments. To which I mostly would suggest that rehabilitation is definitely an important part (and I'd agree with you if you claimed the USA is bad at rehabilitation... but lets improve that than bandaid something else)
This is the first time I’ve seen ‘Amazon’ verbed. Amazon marketing execs are now experiencing an unexplained sensation of joy. :-)
Maybe they should've done it the other way around: keep 9% of their workforce, let go 91%
But you can strip Amazon's DRM too, so I don't see why the two platforms aren't equivalent.
There are FM dongles that plug into a headphone socket, but building it into the phone from the start says to me that Nokia really knew how people would want to use it.
> It's ridiculously absurdly convenient.

Exactly. While de-drm-ing things for backup is nice (although I could just torrent it anyway if that's the case), some people often forget why we use kindle and the it's 'ecosystem'. Great selection on many languages, good device, good apps for mac/windows/android/iphone/ipad, extremely convenient, constant sales on books, etc...
If you're automating a browser, you're probably technical enough to compile a patched web browser -- or, at least, to use someone's script to compile one, or to download one that someone else has built.
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