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Ask HN: What are the coolest uses of Stable Diffusion you've seen?
> But if they had reusability, they might have been able to fly it more often, thus helping make it cheaper on average to fly.

This is true, but the issue is that there just isnt the need for it really. Very, very few missions actually require a SHLV. There just arent enough payloads atm, and that probably wouldnt change a ton even if the rocket was cheaper
These typically require external flash anyways right? Just write your image to SPI flash and copy it in a bootloader...
Is this the Cracker Barrel peg game?
I've always used VSCode and I really don't see what it is that JetBrains can do that VSC can't. Any time there's a new language I'm picking up I can almost always count on a good extension to provide all the necessary intellisense I need.

Good to hear they've done a better job with their screen reader accessibility as well. I learned to use VoiceOver a month ago (I do a lot of front-end dev work) and ever since then I've had a lot of appreciation for any app/site that manages to pull do it well
The company I work for uses MicroPython for medical devices up to Class B. So, yes, it can definitely be used for serious work!

If do you have real-timeish needs, MP makes it pretty easy to write modules in C.
Wire barriers are more common outside of city, urban areas where you start getting into long stretches without much else[0].

Of course they're cheap and easy to install, but their main downsides are, having a higher rate of killing those who get caught up in them and are only really good for one use.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@48.2347588,-122.237414,3a,75y,3...
But they have a Metaverse HW, which other company can say that??
Who makes the markets on your exchange?
saw a fascinating video on this topic awhile ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY
Define "recent"? This 2007 article uses the term: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/2664-wall-street-rea...

My point is that this could easily be a slip of the tongue, the kind of mistake that I could see myself making when speaking extemporaneously. But making that mistake would not mean that I didn't understand the difference between the three branches of government and the three distinct "federal electoral prizes", so to speak.

Knowing that we're talking about Tommy Tuberville, I'm obviously less inclined to offer him the benefit of the doubt, but we are still jumping to conclusions.
This looks like a power play to me. Can Musk really have time to understand the work of more than 2000 people every week?
Aside from solid pay, you also got to work with some very smart people, of diverse nationalities. My father worked for Western Electric (at the location outside of Princeton, NJ). WE's role was to take the BLs' R&D and make it market-worthy. While he didn't have an advanced degree, many of peers did, and his bosses PhDs. His co-workers were Asian, SE Asian, and Mexican. This was long before diversity was all the rage.

When I was a kid - early 70s give or take - they'd have an annual open house for the families. I still remember being introduced to computers. I remember seeing fiber and hearing "this is the future" when all there was was copper twisted pair.

It didn't realize it then but I was a lucky SOB :)
The safety net of (primarily European) certain countries is definitely easier to live with when losing a job. In theory you can probably continue indefinitely on some of those welfare payments, although for many people that leads to another kind of burnout (boreout?) again.
Microsoft Windows goes one step further and just installs their other products like Teams without asking.
Is it wasted? Thirty minutes is honestly pretty fast for a transition as momentous as getting into or out of the workday.
regardless I think a point was missed that you might end up pushing up code produced by copilot that could get your company in legal trouble

While I think this concern has a lot of merit, I use Copilot a lot almost always just as a fancy autocomplete. I wouldn't ever let it produce a completely new piece of code for me and I imagine most other devs using it have the same practices so this critique never really hit
He probably wouldn’t read most of the mails. I’d just do what I do for my current employer: just send a list of commits of the last week, occasionally adding succinct meeting details.

Shouldn’t take a lot of time really, can script getting a list of commits of last week. Shouldn’t be a big deal for most devs I think, might be more annoying for other jobs.
I love this comparison.
Seems like the acceptance of a zero sum game applied to relationships as reality is detrimental to large groups. (Zero proof for this hypothesis, just experience).

On the other hand, accepting that we live on a planet with limited resources, in a biosphere (not “environment”) which can only take so much destabilizing impact before it becomes unliveable, is important.

Our minds seem to embrace the former and refuse the latter.
Looks like MS saw this coming a mile away when they pulled back on Cortana. What was MS seeing that Amazon didn't, or was it pure luck?
Sorry, but the main point of this article goes under YAGNI or "no, you aren't Google" for me.

If you aren't generating a thousand IDs per second for every person on the planet, you're fine.

Even from a guess-ability standpoint, it's more important to put reasonable rate limits on your endpoints than worrying about someone putting bitcoin-network-level of resources against your endpoints.
The point is that most people _aren't using their legacy DVD players_. They're streaming. If you want to watch a movie in 2022, the extremely normal thing you do is stream it. If you're watching on DVD, you're weird (probably technophobic or backward in some way); if you're watching on Blu-ray/4K disc, you're weird (probably an obsessive cinephile).

I don't expect people using their DVD players in 2022 to migrate to Blu-ray. I expect them to drift away from discs entirely.
The curious case of Earth's leaking atmosphere
> The issue is whether they properly disclosed having received payments for endorsements

Is it reasonable to expect a celebrity to make an advertisement for free? Maybe, maybe not, but this will be an interesting case.
How Much Would You Pay to Save Your Cat’s Life?
Isn't insider trading the entire point of a prediction market as an information aggregator?
One of the many variants. It’s an old camp game too.
Too bad Meta laid them off too.

Reddit is a disaster. Even their Ask Me Anything is prehistoric compared to what it could be.

Outside of that look at HN as an example of an independent subreddit at its best.
Srsly, fuck that guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV11DW-Rako
Used to go there daily for a project a few years ago. Pretty interesting campus and spent some time walking the hallways. They had some ancient looking computers which was interesting.
Individuals with obesity get more satisfaction from their food
> idiot proof
> plan agriculture

this is the big one; the reason shaman/priests were at the top of the hierarchy in all post-agrarian cultures is because knowing when to plant seeds was the most crucial societal role in changing from hunter-gatherer to domestic agricultural, fueling population density and allowing even more specialized roles.
I feel like most of these can be accomplished in VSCode with an extension... We use GraphQL at my work and the amount of coworkers I've run into that don't have the GQL extension installed kinda surprises me. It makes a huge difference so part of me wonders if the criticisms of VSC not being "full-blown" enough is just people not being aware of available/relevant extensions (also probably why VSCode now randomly suggests possibly relevant extensions now)
> and it fails to materialize no matter what you do

In my case, it was the exact opposite. It came after striving for a particular goal for several years, achieving it, and then realizing I had no gas left in the tank to do it all over again (product manager at a big SaaS/PaaS launching products within that platform).

The part that's more interesting is why the tank was empty, and it was for many of the reasons mentioned in other comments:

- Gaslighting by middle management about solving problems / addressing issues

- Responsibility (loads of it) without authority

- Lack of focus by execs (leading to massive churn)

I do think that constantly striving for something and not achieving it can also be a cause of burnout, but I think it's just one of many possible causes / factors.
so it's not just the metaverse that is bleeding money
Pretty much, my first reaction was "people use UUIDs for session tokens ? why? ?

Seems like author made some bad choices in previous systems and now just figured out why tbh.
Didn't Elon buy every outstanding Twitter share with the $44 billion since it was a cash offer? That would mean there are no remaining Twitter shareholders besides Musk.

edit: I don't get why I'm getting downvoted. Is it not correct that all Twitter shareholders were just given cash at the time of purchase? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/what-happens-...
> Google Assistant at 81.5 million users, Apple's Siri at 77.6 million, and Alexa at 71.6 million

That's a lot of scale before figuring out there's no way to profit!
Custom Colors of HN
Reddit Service to Platform: A Ranking System in Go
Incredible story:

https://archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/us/col...
Real estate is a hell of a lot better investment than most businesses. Frankly I don’t know why a lot of VC’s don’t just put it all in REITs
Not surprised by this in the least.
> It was extremely demoralising and demotivating

This rings true to me. And I think it extends beyond that to being dehumanised. In a work environment you are made to feel powerless to stop bad things from happening. That breaks us.
But this is a minority view among investors.
Palantir is tanking ever since Trump left the building, so Thiel is mostly just having a anxiety attack.
> I question whether or not those tastes are a sign of objective quality, or just something they've been conditioned to think of as good.

I mean, that’s kinda a different question right? Like it’s not “objectively good” as in “you’re objectively wrong if you don’t like it.” It’s “objectively good” as in “there are objective standards that have been agreed upon by a large group of people.”
It's so slow. Why does it take seconds to update a toggle? And it seems to keep overriding itself (not debounced? racing the input?)
He's right, the phrase "private blockchain" is almost a contradiction in terms, like "horse-drawn automobile" or "centimeter-scale nanotechnology".
eh? If we are now saying he is Maya vs Mayan, well news to me.
He is America. America clothing. America buildings.
We have all been sold a lie. The major regrets people give when they are near death, are all linked to work. They wish they had been a better more active parent, they wish they had spent more time with family and friends. Where do these people spend most of their time? Work. Where do they regret spending most of their time? Work.

It's funny, you suggest the idea that "work" is a farce and people act as if you're recommending they stay still until they die. We cannot even fathom a life without "work" as it currently exists. To remind readers, when faced with imminent death, the biggest regret is work. Yet we prevent access to integral institutions based on whether someone is employed, we judge others based on where they are employed, the entire education system is based on funnelling people to work more, and we view homeless people as subhumans who just need to find a job.

Until we reevaluate the entire modern idea of "work", the discussion of "burnout" will continue being fruitless. There will only be yet another temporary solution to sell you on, another form of therapy to attempt and then feel guilt over, another career change you don't want to drag your family through.
What is an "activist investor"?
They also still get delayed, even with such large dwell times. So simply increasing dwell time isn't enough to cater for the different requirements. Such low dwell times work for the Shinkansen because of the organisation of the passengers and the limited ways in which boarding can go wrong. There is an element of ruthlessness to that, the margin of error for you the passenger is small.
In sqlserver (and others?) you can have one clustered index. Typically this is the primary key (doesn’t have to be though).

The clustered index is actually the physical order of the data stored on disk, so any new guid causes tremendous amounts of churn.

Not sure how modern this concern is, but I would guess a LOT of SASS companies have to consider this.

Quick edit: sequential GUIDs are obviously a thing and I believe alleviate a lot of these concerns. I do not believe that was an option in sql server 2008 r2 (a version that lived a LONG time).
Yeah very likely. I play 1080p switch games and they are generally ok, clearly not as good as 4k but not as bad as youtube 1080p.
>as far as we know...

This is exactly why I am impressed. I have some basic understanding of rocket engine and aerospike design, and can recognize most of the features and the functions they would serve in this design. I have no clue how optimal they are, but it is clear that they are taking function into consideration.

Moving from the outside of the engine in, you can see that support lattice has been added to the exterior and density adjusted on the exterior to reenforce high stress areas.

Next, the coolant jacket around the combustion chambers has has baffles (verticals s curves) that seem to adjust cooling in specific areas.

It looks like the spike cooling system (the dense horizontal lines) is trying to balance fluid resistance with how much the cryogenic oxygen.

The one part I don't understand is what the Y shaped channels in the very center are supposed to do. This is the liquid oxygen flow to the tip of the spike before it returns along the outside of the spike as a heat exchanger (mentioned above). It looks like some sort of expansion chamber but I would have to ask a professional aerospike engineer what it is for.

This is a long way of saying the structures show functional intent to converge on some solution. Some parts seems random, but most algorithmic design is random change and iterative testing; Essentially evolutionary code, where permutations are made, compared, killed off, then fed into future models. I wonder how they handle so many degrees of freedom, and how much of what we see in the output was pre-defined.
The raw bits are the UUID, the hex string is just a human-readable representation that also plays nicely with JSON.
Unless we’re talking about finding a cure for cancer, there isn’t anything that matters enough to work 16 hour days.
A first claim on any money recovered.
I had a little travel size peg game like this I'd play on road trips when I was a kid. Totally forgot about this. Cool website
That doesn’t make any sense.

The “EVs are good for the environment” ads are for the consumers, many of whom haven’t made their minds up about which car to buy next. People have made their minds up about whether they like remote work or not — see every HN thread ever.
Ask HN: Is it possible to dig deeper than the kola superdeep borehole?
Hello Hacker news, I’ve been chewing on this problem for the last few days, and wanted to get your thoughts on this.

So here’s the idea, we dig two super deep holes and connect them underground. The holes would be deep enough that the ground would be very hot maybe ~10 miles down or so. Then from one hole we pump water down it, warm it up, and then steam will come up the other side. That steam spins a generator and generates power. Then you cool the steam in a cooling tower and pump it back down and repeat the process.

We could use this process to renew all old coal plants. As opposed to burning coal, we could re-use the turbines and cooling towers that already exists in old coal plants. This would give old coal plants a new life, and could in theory get the world off coal.

What am I missing here? Does anyone have experience doing something similar? Do you think in 2022 we have the technology to dig a hole that deep?

Here’s a diagram I made of how the process could look: https://imgur.com/a/NTQPh15
I've been wondering if the new Korean style rolling barriers would gain acceptance in the US and other countries.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/this-new-korea...
>My guess is whoever paid attention to the stars/sky and deciphered solstices could get enough knowledge to start being seen as a holy man

Persian astologer-priests were literally the magi from which the word magic is derived, so yes.
Sometimes it's to capture the market: kill all competitors with a price they can't match and then jack up the price once you've achieved monopoly. Kind of a gross practice that is only possible when you've got a huge budget and no need to self fund.
Panoramas of Deus Ex Human Revolution
Exactly the article glossing over rate limiting and proceeding to do some math without it kinda ruined the article for me.

The minute is rate limited it’s crumble.
> By the same token that would also seem to have little purpose.

No. It’s brand advertising which has a pretty specific purpose.
At most it’s a spot check. Or maybe he has a bash script that looks for certain words. I imagine he hopes that the fear of having an email read by Musk will lead to “extremely hardcore” output.

I wonder what this will do to code quality.
> We can ask Tailscale to open a path on an SMB share. Windows being Windows, it will send your username (and a hash of your login password) to this server, unprompted, despite having no reason to consider the server trustworthy.

Wow, I used to think Linux security was miles ahead of Windows security more than 20 years ago because of insanity like this. Fast forward 20 years. NTLMv2 is common, so cracking a password actually requires guessing the entire password instead of just 8 characters. But password guesses are much cheaper, so we haven’t gained much.

Microsoft, how long will it take you to fix this for real? Opening a URL or UNC path should not, without an opt-in, authenticate at all. If configured to authenticate, it should prove, zero-knowledge, to the server that the supplied password (e.g. the logged-in user password) matches the server’s expected password. No further information should be leaked.
Is there a modern day version of what Bell Labs was at its peak?
With most of the engineering, content moderation, and policy teams out of the picture, what's the likelihood that a large % of this isn't just crypto and scam bots?
Yeah they look the same to me on PC. I can make out the difference between the off-whites though.

I read it as Chart Reuse. But it of course not that, it is a French word.
Yeah. And Apple and Google didn't need exclusive hardware for it

I think it was an outburst of optimism? Or just finding new ways of selling to people
I have actually heard it talked about a lot as a pro environment thing - just much earlier in the pandemic. I have not seen huge advertising about it but that does not mean it is not highly talked about.

That being said you are totally right that Zoom should be advertising the crap out of this - Microsoft may have incentivize NOT to do this (if they want their own employees in the office) but for Zoom it seems like a no brainer.
Ah, sorry, bad wording. Would you hire on under the circumstances? Would you take a job there under the circumstances? I would not.
The jump from dvd to blu ray isn’t marginal though at the tv sizes I assume we are all at now? DVDs look bad on my tv and I get really disappointed when I notice that’s all I have of that movie.
One job of language designers and compiler writers is to recover the efficient implementations without allowing the bad designs.

See how eg optimized tail calls essentially give you back all the power of goto without the old downsides.
This seems such an obvious thing to do when you see it, but it is the first time I have seen it done.

It would be interesting to make this generic for any colour pallet. For example the 12 bit palette recently submitted to HN
> Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view.

Which platform? I’ve never once seen an ad in the official iOS app. The app was always slow to load for me in all the years I’ve used it, so that doesn’t have me riled up. My beef with them is the AI detection has taken a significant step backwards the last six months (why I flipped a bunch of my cams to the RTSP firmware).
I love using the left 40% of my display to show an image of a car while the actual blog post now requires more scrolling and looks 'meatier'.

Awful UX.
https://xeiaso.net/blog has some pretty interesting content.
I have a 240hz monitor and I wouldn't say it's that important but it seems to be something that's simply possible now at not much cost. The price point that used to get you a 1440p 144hz monitor a few years ago now gets you the same thing at 240hz. So why not have it. We used to have CRT monitors running much faster than 240hz and no one ever complained they were too fast.
Right, yes, guessing once specific uuid wouldn't be subject to the birthday paradox, thanks. Edited my post to no longer reflect that.
But they require VGA-to-HDMI adapters to plug into our more modern computers, which renders Blu-rays unplayable on them thanks to DRM.

Hint: many of the cheap Chinese HDMI-to-VGA (I think that's what you meant) adapters "support" HDCP in that they'll decrypt it. The branded ones don't want the attention of lawyers, but the no-name ones don't care. Ever since the HDCP master key was cracked, it's possible to generate device keys without licensing them from the central authority, and that's what these manufacturers are likely doing.
> What am I missing here?

How absurdly expensive it is to dig even small width holes to that depth compared with other energy sources.
Cyborg Soldier 2050: Human/Machine Fusion and Implications for DoD (2019) [pdf]
I've seen this game mentioned countless times in the retro communities, but I never had it as a kid. Keen to give it a go, thanks!
One problem I foresee is all my Kafka was behind layers of firewalls or restricted networks only accessible through jump hosts.

In other words, to make this easier it might be a good idea to have a builtin ssh/(generic CMD) kind of way of opening streams.
Employees stop it how? Can’t lay hands on them. Can’t pursue them. Can only watch as they leave the store. Store security might have more leeway, but Megan behind the till and Joey the stock boy aren’t in any position to stop them.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/activist-investor.asp
> Technically the physical DVD format supports 1080p content.

But only as a data DVD, not as a video DVD. I feel like it's misleading not to make that clear. And those Extreme DVDs are just data DVDs with a file on them.