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Show HN: Stable Horde – Free Crowdsourced Cluster for Stable Diffusion
Hello everyone, I am the creator of Stable Horde, a free, open sourced, crowdsourced, distributed cluster of Stable Diffusion (AKA AI image generation) workers.

This service is provided for free and without any small print. The only thing one needs to be aware of is that your prompt goes to someone else's computer to be created and then sent back with all the caveats that entails.

The main difference from all the other Stable Diffusion webuis and services are:

* This service is free for everyone, without credits. While we do have a kudos system, this is only used for priority and you can gain Kudos by simply adding your own SD worker to the horde.
* It can be used from PCs without GPUs. Even from phones
* It provides a fully-documented [REST API](https://stablehorde.net/api/) which has already been used by community integratora to make things like telegram bots and status pages.
* It is Open Sourced under AGPL3

On top of these, I've already created a no-installation, no-GPU, [free client using the Godot Engine](https://dbzer0.itch.io/stable-horde-client)

I also provide a Godot Engine addon so that people can integrate AI generations directly into their games: https://github.com/db0/Stable-Horde-Client-Addon

I am hoping this service can provide AI image generation to everyone, no matter their personal wealth.

Tell me what you think!
The correct answer is "it depends". You can imagine the raw C/C++ structs are exported in the binary save file, in which case separate builds, OS and compiler settings may cause those structs to be different to those of the Win32 build of the game.
I don't want "different" ads; I want no ads.
No, just an extrapolation.
It's surprising that they deploy all of that debug stuff onto the console and then hide the switch behind a big lock to be picked. Why not just not deploy it?
"of the already acquired supply, it gave some 44 million doses to other countries free of charge. The remaining doses have been thrown out."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daowxbaeurw

Oktoberfest Bombing München 1980, Operation Gladio

from time to time in german media: the police stopped investigating Neonazi involvement.
Because corporations are voted on all the time: buying or not buying their product
/service.
True. In practice they go hand in hand (except in very few cases, like Hong Kong under British rule).

But I think the distinction is still important. For example I think there’s a good case for limiting democratically elected politicians influence over the economy, by enshrining private property rights and the independence of the central bank in the constitution (as e.g. Sweden has). How would you come to that conclusion if you think it’s democracy itself that allocates resources efficiently?
> hope it doesn't lose 20%

Use DAI or any other stable coin.

It is a good point about integration. In all fairness, the merchent in said city could be convinced to accept block chain currencies -- but that's another discussion.

It really appears that a lot of people have strong opinions on something they know doorknob about?
Not sure whether those countries would appreciate the gesture. I've seen Africans complain about AstraZeneca "donations" as follows: rich countries only give us the junk they themselves don't want because it's too dangerous.
Semver makes really no sense. The userspace ABI tries to never have breaking changes; yet the internal APIs for use by drivers, and indeed the drivers themselves, can have breaking changes every single release.

Not that most users care, as most of the tens of thousands of devices supported are fairly obscure and the changes don't affect the other users… yet kernel API changes that break, say, Nvidia's drivers or ZFS or other high-profile out of tree drivers, have an outsized effect. You either have to increase the semver major version with every single release, or somehow version internal APIs separately, which isn't really practical either.
At least here on the outside of Googleplexes, the feeling of a directionless Google/Alphabet is becoming very palpable.

I can't tell anymore what they're trying to do, earlier Google was exciting with new products and features for us techies. GMail launch was awe-inducing at the time, now we know such excitement came with the cost of a steady march of dead products and leaving a dissatisfied mass of users/consumers in its wake. The last big move playing out I remember from Google was YouTube's purchase.

I don't know what Google wants to do or be, it's has slowly became a big ball of mud around the cash cow from DoubleClick's acquisition...
It's not just almond to sugar ratio. Cheaper marzipan is often diluted or replaced with apricot kernel paste (chemically treated to remove the toxins).
Show HN: Hadmean – The easiest and most efficient internal tool generator
Hi HN! I am excited to share Hadmean with you all for feedback and early adoption.

What: Hadmean is an open-source, no-code internal tool generator.

Why: Most internal tool generators make you build from the ground up i.e you get a blank canvas, drag and drop and wire components to satisfy your business requirement. This I believe has many problems.
- They require some technical know-how.
- They require some learning curve.
- They require time to build and maintain.
- You duplicate a lot of business logic already in your database.

How: Hadmean attempts internal tool generation with a new approach by introspecting your database and building a multi-page application based on all the info it can find like your fields types, relationships, constraints etc. It is really cool. You literally will have your admin app done under 1 min without any tutorial or SQL.

Hadmean is also fully customizable, you can turn on/off every feature you see in the UI within the UI.

Quick features
- Minimalist Setup - Just `npx hadmean@latest`
- Users Management
- Roles and permission
- CRUD
- Relationships
- Table Views
- Form validations
- Awesome and powerful filters
- Primitive dashboard builder
- Powerful multi-page navigation system
- Pleasantly looking

Here is demo link (https://hadmean-demo.up.railway.app)

Hadmean is currently in alpha but our our current features are pretty much stable and we are still adding more features and integrations to help you handle more business requirements seamlessly.
The same would be also applicable, if stretched a little bit, to protests and people organizing them in China. "Weibo has every right to ban trolls, spammers, and politicians calling for violent action" (Weibo is the Chinese Twitter equivalent)

We should not have double standard just because the USG is a something you like and CPC is not.
Not to be a party pooper but I feel like I've heard this "revelation" on Twitter and LinkedIn about 10 times now from influencers.
To some extent, the reason why tanks get destroyed left and right in Ukraine is because that's not actually unexpected in a peer-to-peer conflict. It's just that it's been so long since the Cold War, we kinda forgot what anticipated losses in a war like that look like.

Same goes for aircraft.
I'd never considered this perspective before, but after a 14 year relationship ended for me the exact same happened. I never before linked the two changes together, ty for that.
That's like firing the IT department because all the computers are working fine
There is also an incredible variety of FREE indie games, standalone total conversion mods and whatnot.
This is only a problem for really big corporations (the ones that are too big to fail). But even then, in a dictatorship country the biggest corporations tend to be rife with corruption. This tends to hollow out the middle and make them unfit to compete without a guarantee of monopoly by the state.

It’s also not restricted to corporations. Look at the Russian military. It is a textbook case study of how years of corruption and nepotism can lead to a culture of abject incompetence and equipment decay. They can’t even provide bandages for their conscripts!
https://github.com/Cryptogenic/PS5-4.03-Kernel-Exploit

Fine documentation of the process and the (limitations of the) exploit.
With all the devotion on display from so many very clever people, it's hard not to be at least a little curious about Emacs. But I still have something holding me back. On the one hand, the entire environment that I've heard described might be very powerful. But at the same time, it is a whole new system to learn and get into, very specific to itself, on top of the operating system I'm already using. People say you will want to do everything in Emacs, and hold that idea up as a good thing, but I tend to be scared away instead. I don't like the idea of digging myself into a groove, even if it should be a comfy one. Powerful ecosystems can be hard to break out of, something I've found with Google and specific social media.
If anyone wants additional insights, I spoke with an ad fraud researcher on this topic during the pandemic. He had a lot of interesting things to say.

https://www.mql.fm/002-60-million-60-billion-ad-fraud-questi...
I think it's fair to say, based on your own link which is about research into why timing belts are not lasting as long as everywhere else (a third to half the time!), some of this is outlier. And they note that this dust would also abnormally wear brakes, anything rotating, and the car's painted surfaces, which EVs also have.

But for the rest of it, like temperature differences...this is still going to be a major impact on EVs, and like ICE cars, it won't be just the engine you have to worry about.

As I noted upthread, Tesla has the same powertrain warranty that, say, Kia has. It isn't much of a testament to the vaunted EV reliability that the most famous EV manufacturer doesn't have more faith in their electric powertrains than Kia does in their ICE powertrains.
This + any institutions with a fleet of Chromebooks don't even have the option of using Firefox.
Sure, I'm a native born US citizen, and I love, adore, honor, respect ... thank lucky stars for our Constitution. I have a copy on my main computer and search its contents frequently, especially while reading the news.

So, as a simple thinking, pure/applied math, computer, business guy, I think of our government as a democracy where (1) the Constitution's 1st Amendment free press provides "informed citizens" and (2) the rest of our Constitution says we citizens, INFORMED citizens, get to vote. And the free press is credible because there is a lot of competition in the press, and any mistakes will severely hurt the circulation and revenue.

Simple view.

Yup, too simple: It seems to me that somehow not much of the free press much wants to be credible -- at least I have a tough time finding sources I regard as credible for the information for an "informed electorate". That pair of words were from Jefferson, Franklin? So, instead, best I can guess, nearly all publishers believe that it is strongly in their financial interests to dump credibility, actual accurate information, etc. in the trash, pick a political faction, some one side in a big fight, and publish stuff that faction likes to read.

But, still, we have the 1st Amendment! And now with the Internet, publishers don't have to spend on ink, paper, or $10 million printing plants.

Hate to suck up, but, e.g., we have Hacker News -- there I'm generally pleased and impressed!

Okay, for the HN audience: With the 7+% per year inflation, why don't we have millions of US citizens demonstrating in the streets?

Multiple choice:

(1) They are not much bothered by the price of eggs or even gasoline in their daily activities.

(2) They like what the inflation is doing for their equity in their house, farm, business.

(3) So far the inflation seems to make it easier for them to get a job.

(4) They believe that after prices increase by 10% or so they will stabilize.

(5) They are quite busy with their own lives and see nothing much to do about the inflation, e.g., believe that demonstrations in the streets will make noise but do nothing about inflation, until the next election.

(6) See all the talk, hysteria, noise, etc. about inflation in the news as not worth listing to or paying much attention to.

(7) They accept the advice that in general they should concentrate on the problems they can solve and mostly forget about, or just somehow circumvent, the rest.

(8) Other.

Me, I don't know, would have to pick (8).
So the lightweight electron alternative is a more massive electron...
Technically you're free to buy a super yacht although funding that purchase might be a challenge.

Worker co-ops tend to do quite well once they're funded. They're not exactly prone to blowing up into unicorns (although there is e.g Mondragon) but their survival rate tends to be quite high. Suma wholefoods is an example of the resiliency of co-ops, they've basically totally discarded market based compensation rates in favour of a more ideologically driven, flatter model yet have been going strong for decades.

The problem is usually securing that funding in the first place. They seem to actually be more likely to pay off loans but less likely to get them. This is partly because banks generally want an individual to take responsibility for any loans and are uncomfortable with making a larger group collectively responsible. I suspect there's also a degree of prejudice against them because of the association with socialism even though they still operate in a market.

Equity is generally a difficult one as well as generally the members' control of a workers' co-op is derived from their ownership stakes. There are hybrid co-ops where some of the shares of the company are sold to external investors, but obviously this dilutes the model.

Worker co-ops have some success but require atypical financing to get off the ground which has limited the success of the sector.
The markets are working.

1. Even with the bots, the price made sense for advertisers for so long because of how cheap ads were.
2. Its starting to not make as much sense and now we are getting these accusations thrown at platforms etc.

TLDR: Markets work but just not real time and not very perfectly. The issue with rules (esp excessive rules) is the corruption of the rule maker. To enforce these rules, the rule maker tends to have the ultimate capability for coercion.

And If you think "voting" prevents this corruption then you are r*ar*ed. Let alone the corruption of the masses which btw has resulted in the greatest acts of violence in history (USSR, Cambodia, Nazi Germany, 20th century Japan, French Revolution..)
Or, just fling a giant tarp or net (depending on whether it seems solid or not) at it and pull it in a different direction instead of essentially firing a projectile at it.
Sure, I can't argue with that. I just had to vent my frustration that all this stuff that people get hung up on is largely meaningless fluff and there are far better uses of time.

If you must indulge, do so with moderation. It's only going to make you addicted / depressed / badly informed.
Obviously, the primary effects are those that impact women, but things can annoy you and still be misogyny.
I don't excuse less safety-minded construction, but a lot of what makes modern cars in the West safer is equipment like side airbags, traction control, cameras and sensors, which in turn costs money. Construction standards haven't changed much since the invention of monocoque chasses.

Also, most traffic in India and other 3rd-world countries drives at much lower speeds than in the US etc.
Deterministic Databases and the Future of Data Sharing
The most common failure mode is when governments don’t listen to the legitimate concerns of other groups, cherrypick the attacks made by a small minority, carry out reprisals to “deter aggression” and start to dehumanize the other population by claiming they are inherently fascist or dumb or bloodthirsty. Then their mass media selects only the things that reinforce “other group does bad things, our group simply makes some mistakes but has great intentions” and “other side must be defeated 100% or it will come back and can’t be trusted to uphold a deal”.

Example: When both Ukraine and Russia were in one federation called USSR (similar to USA, Yugoslavia or EU) then Crimea or some cities moving from Russia to Ukraine would have been regarded as an administrative change, requiring various adjustments to signs and flags. No one would even think of killing each other over which republic’s flag would fly over what territory, let alone escalating to a nuclear war that threatens to destroy human life on the planet. Think about how insane that is.

In a libertarian world, cities would simply vote for a free market of competing agencies providing police, road maintenance, etc. And the whole package of “services” from a state would be unbundled and not worth fighting over. The concept of “territorial integrity of a country” or “national armies” would not be something that would even matter. The people of Hong Kong or Catalonia or Kurdistan or Bangladesh would be pretty happy and not have to fight for their “independence”. Countries shouldn’t own people. People should self-organize to get their needs met in peaceful arrangements and that’s all.
Was in Bangkok a few months ago with my two sons. Driver dropped us off (mistakenly) at the first class drop off. It was quiet but when we entered the doors of the airport there was thousands of girls stretched all the way to the check in counter. And they all started screaming. My 15 year old and 13 year old sons thought that was kind of cool. The celebration quickly subsided once they saw we had no kpop stardom. The star arrived as we checked in and those girls totally lost it for the one or two minutes before he was ushered in to VIP.
Unless you're actively plotting to overthrow the government, commit violence against politicians or public property, or participate in major civil rights movements, you should be more worried about a random nobody funnelling all their built up hate and frustration into making your life miserable than a three letter agency, yes.

The difference is that the three letter agency has a budget, process and middle management so at the end of the day someone needs to justify why they're expending resources on making your life miserable whereas the random obsessive weirdo just needs to convince a bunch of other obsessive weirdos that you're a garbage person they can turn into their "lolcow" of the day/week/month/year.

The three letter agency is more likely to inconvenience you out of apathy than to actually try to destroy you intentionally. The random nobody is more likely to try to drive you into suicide for a thrill.
IT Security Label
That the governments have tried to make appear the theory of a lab leak, contrary to expert opinion, as "exceedingly unlikely" is now a conspiracy fact, not theory.

If you want some theory, then : The Wuhan Virology Institute database has been taken offline in September 2019. And investment was made in aeration systems. French intelligence agencies have been mandated to investigate in autumn 2019. (The October 2019 Wuhan military sports games would have been a good occasion.) Then, in January 2020, the passengers list for a military plane from Wuhan to France didn't match.

Those are facts too, the theory part is the way I put them together. (Could have been a coincidence of course.)

P.S.: Also relevant to the article here is the relationship between the French nuclear program and the Wuhan lab. (Both need pretty extreme safety, so I guess it's not surprising how the know-how from the former resulted in the latter !)
Next on HN: water is wet.
Learn to set boundaries with people. It was easy for me to think I was just being "nice" when in reality I was just bad at setting boundaries. I'm still not the best at setting boundaries, but at least now I recognize after the fact when I let someone over step, compared to when I was younger and just thought it was normal.

For anyone curious this book helped me a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-When-Take-Control-Your/dp/... especially the story at the very beginning.
Yes, I hate this. It's also mapped to open on Esc when the devtools are focused, so if you're trying to get out of some context habitually with the Esc key it will open then too. That and the What's New tab drive me insane (you can disable What's New for a given profile, but my job involves running dev tools in incognito and guest profiles where it's always enabled).
Wait until you hear that some people don't even have indoor plumbing, 24h electricity and enough protein to eat, let alone extra income to waste on children's entertainment.
Open comb double edge razor lets the blade to reach hair without bending them as much. I'm not sure if it's that or something else, but double edge razors are less irritating than anything else for me.
$22T of global rated debt has 'high' to 'very high' cyber-risk exposure
Titles may suddenly disappear from your favorite libraries. This is usually because of license issues or removing online servers/services.
"Interesting".

And I thought the practice of scaring me with "unusual activity on your account", then locking me out until I am sending them all the required proof of identity (photocopy of ID, proof of postal address, ..., that they demand and as a private corporation will handle and store and review this very sensitive set of data some sort of way by who knows who.... ).

When I sent what they asked for and asked them about the nature of the "unusual activity" and if they reported it to the relevant authorities (possible breach of a monetary account) the response was a big fat nothing. I thought to ask them to provide the evidence on the "unusual acctivity" after this as I plan to contact local authorities myself to report the hacker of my account or whatever the "unusual activity" prompting strict measures required was - must be serious and illegitimate! - but decided not to. Does not worth the effort.

Rather I closed my account for good and not looking back. I will not rely on them this way, I thought. And from the above list I believe I was right. I did not regret this so far in the past ca. 5 years.

Bye Bye PayPal.
I'd guess a lot of it is in hardware and firmware which would be very costly to change that late into the development cycle
Apparently the debug stuff are needed for servicing. Plus if someone manages to run custom code, having the debug options or not becomes irrelevant.
VA (virtual assistant) is a common path for women in the Philippines. They are family oriented and this type of role offers a lot of flexibility for mother's there. And some of their tasks can be fairly technical. I've worked with them before and had a positive experience.
That's assuming you have the money to overfit to your 1% use case. Otherwise you're paying $xx,000 to drag around batteries that you don't need most of the time.
For all in tents and porpises, surly yes.
Hmm, that's really fucked up, poor, and kept that way through the grace of god I guess
Wow, that looks way too messy. But let me see if I can make sense of it, knowing nothing about this kind of stuff. Looks like there are two tee fittings on the right side, each of which has two bulges on the end, so it looks like 3 pieces in a row. They connect to the vessel below and the gauge on top, either via adapters, or to the connectors built in to those parts. So there are 8-9 bulges on the right side. The left side is partially obscured, but I'm guessing they had to use the same number of parts to keep it the same height?

It also reminds me of the setup I use when I need to use a socket wrench but I've dumped all my pieces into a single bin and also apparently lost some pieces. The only way to convert from this size to this other size is a 9" extender bar? Why not?