skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd been using SD1 for fantasy game character portraits, with fairly decent results. SD2 refuses to give me a simple headshot no matter what I try, it's just generating pictures which include most of the body as well.
Yes, one of the many areas of improvement of PV modules in the last couple of years has been reducing reflections from the surface of the glass and from the glass-cell boundary in panels. Also changed cell technology (n-TOPCon) helps with reflections and recombination within the cells.
I find this attempt to create something of value without putting in any effort to be frustrating.

> Yes, I could pay an artist to make art for the game. But I’m not yet good enough at game marketing for this to make sense.

There's a third option: learn to make the art yourself! Yes, it's time consuming, but so is anything worth doing.

> The original, 1990s Myst had 2,500 images, which would cost me more than I expect to make this year.

Start smaller. Or use a simpler, more achievable art style.
This same reason is why they are perfect for extortion. It’s personal so you will be emotionally motivated to fork over $850 on renewal. Plus if you’re a developer, you make good money, so they know you’re good for it.
The problem is that the internet enables the sociopaths, narcissists, power hungry etc. to easily spread their toxicity. And the internet rewards this behaviour by giving them attention.
The Iron Age version of rules-based forum moderation holds up surprisingly well. The initial Jewish innovation was to code it into 'laws' that could be adjudicated by humans... which still leaves plenty of room for humans to adjudicate. Which led to the next innovation, namely, arguing our case.
It's clear to me that the authors appreciate and enjoy Gladwell. I do too.

I confess that even though TED (and similar) talks tend toward vapid, oversimplified self-parody, I sometimes find them enjoyable and even inspiring to watch.
The thing that will reduce the workday is everyone deciding to do it. Imagine the silly meetings and pointless work that just can’t be done when you starve the machine of humute (human compute) hours. Innovation would be the result. Entire businesses may be untenable and rightly so.

Few things need long work days if we are happy to sacrifice some convenience. Supermarket hours can be fewer for example.

Jobs like police, doctors etc. maybe not but we should probably reward them more accordingly.
You could say the same of the abortion debate. Or the free speech debate. Or the…

It's perfectly legitimate and necessary to argue about rights
Have you tried using ocean instead of sea?
thanks for the explanation!

i'd say they need to demonstrate 50+ years of service life to match silicon, but at 10+ years they'd be marketable at conventional utility discount rates, and beyond 20 years the npv doesn't change noticeably

it'll sure be interesting to see what happens here, but it's going to be really tough to match silicon's cost per watt, much less beat it, unless you can dispense with the glass or something
What did you pay for the first year? $12 or $850?
If it were simply about Marx's argument, then you wouldn't suggest that we (you and I, not Marx) could be in agreement, which you mentioned in your previous comment.

This is like me telling you to go read a textbook on economics. Obviously it's a better way to learn about economics than from me, but that's not really the point, is it?
Article ignores that people killing themselves speeding has largely positive effects for society.
But at least we aren’t French.
IIRC, One of the alien species in the Stargate series (filling the thematic role of "space elves") appeared primitive because their "technology" was "sufficiently advanced" to the point of being practically magic. I think there were examples in Star Trek as well but I can't remember specifics off the top of my head.

It would be an obvious strategy to hide from the Borg but I don't know whether or not that ever happened. One could imagine a world where complex technology and knowledge was outlawed out of fear of "demons" when their far more advanced ancestors discovered the Borg umpteen thousand years ago and forcibly regressed their society to a more primitive state out of sheer terror, but no one understand the real context behind what's become just a deep cultural fear.

I'm also reminded of the claim by someone in the UFO community - I think it's Robert Bigelow, but it doesn't really matter because it's all bullshit anyway - that UFOS are actually powered by ESP, they aren't even technology in any comprehensible sense, more like technology-shaped talismans that run on the power of space magic and make-believe. It would be hilarious if that were true, and somewhere in the bowels of some ultra top-secret underground base someone is trying to reverse engineer some crashed alien "tech" and being utterly baffled because it literally makes no sense.
I think that you’re intentionally misunderstanding, because that’s not at all what I said.

The arrogance is twofold:

1. Their way or the highway. It wasn’t that Bram wouldn’t accept their input, but that would not accept Bram’s input and change the patches to be closer to what he wanted for such a feature. He would not accept their input under their arrogant terms.

2. Their continued description of Neovim as a "continuation" of Vim—as if the development of Vim had stagnated (it had not, it just wasn’t at the pace that the Neovim developers wanted). It’s a garbage statement that should have been removed five minutes after it was first stated, unless the person making (and continuing to make) the statement is so arrogant that they can’t see that it’s an outright falsehood.

Frankly? I don’t care that Neovim forked from Vim. IMO, it’s got some interesting ideas overshadowed by a core team that is careless with its language and some of its technical direction (see elsewhere on the treatment of ACLs, which makes neovim fundamentally unsuitable as a system editor). As an editor, I think that it’s less mature and stable than vim. I think that the use of Lua is interesting, but that the Lua/Vim API is less than useful. As an experimental testbed for some neat ideas…good on them.

Could I contribute to neovim to fix some of the issues that I have with it? Sure. I don’t want to, though, because on the whole I find the attitude from the neovim developers to be unwelcoming. That could be fixed by removing unnecessarily inflammatory language and no longer lying about the origins of neovim.

Forks can be good, even if there is no cross-pollenization between the projects. Look at the success of egcs. But they aren’t good when they’re founded on lies and ill will.
Their agreements with their local grid operator will specify power delivery. Marketing numbers like an individual panel's nameplate output are not important at utility scale, which this is designed for.
$8 to $13 by paying for words?

I'm sorry but this looks like a total grift.
Bait and switch. It is indeed foolish to trust Google. I moved my .com domains to other providers without waiting for Google's switch. The only thing I trust about Google is their intention to deceive in future.
Nah, .net and .org are the coolest.
You can put groceries in an Organic Transit ELF or a BetterBikes PEBL. These are enclosed, recumbent, tadpole trikes with room for the driver along with two small children, one adult, or groceries.
The little mascot/logo guy is a delight.
only .com .org and .net for me.

whatever happened to Google's Don't be evil? $850 for a .dev domain?
I’ve always taken it to mean it’s fast and unthorough, which I suppose aligns with your latter case but I think it’s a specialized usage still.
Without ECC I’d be wary of catastrophic data corruption on that rig. It’s laptop parts in a tiny desktop case. There’s a reason all us Enterprise(TM) types shell out for “real servers”, and it’s not because we’re stupid or enamored with the vendor’s ability to pay for rounds of golf.
Hah. Wow. At this point I feel like we should just do away with new TLDs altogether and let anyone register any domain
with any ending they want, if it's available. The idea that you can buy a TLD and then dole out domains if you have enough capital just seems antithetical to the ideal of an open internet. Unless you're a country, I guess.
> There's a third option: learn to make the art yourself! Yes, it's time consuming, but so is anything worth doing.

This is terrible logic. If you don’t want to make art, don’t waste time learning to make art.
Ah, crap, taking sdfghhh.dev then.
Show HN: EasyPub.io
The free and anonymous online publisher.

EasyPub allows you to publish your content to the internet without creating an account or being tracked while maintaining the ability to update or delete your published content.

I made this in response to the recent singlepage.cc post. I was confident a system could be developed that was free/fast/anonymous and resilient to attack/overuse without charging $1 per submission. I believe that goal has been met.

Let me know what you think. I am going to open source soon.

Roadmap:
- Advanced auto spam detection
- Improved WYSIWYG editor

Stack:
- Python (Starlette / Asyncio)
- Redis (metadata store)
- Cloudflare R2 (content store)
- Cloudflare CDN / WAF / Proxy / etc..
I don't think that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about inserting a script from the extension which will then download another script from the external source and execute it. Once you've got access to the DOM, you're pretty much unstoppable.
Namecheap does it, happened to one of my domains with them and now I can’t move it.

Amazon and Cloudflare does not as far as I know.
Maybe HN can pool together to form a non-scalping, dev-friendly TLD.
namecheap dropped entire population of russia and belorussia as customers

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/1/22956581/russia-ukraine-na...

sure, an extraordinary example, but what stops anyone from wording their ToS ever so slightly vague, that any domain is held by a shoestring
I just wrote a quick script to survey extensions featured on the Chrome Web Store.

Of the 1200 checked so far:

Manifest v2: 872

Manifest v3: 328

They'd basically be breaking almost 2/3 of extensions.

EDIT: Just noticed 9 out of 12 of Google's own extensions are still on manifest v2 as well: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/by_ch...
PhoneArena has a good one: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size
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Maybe the designers were worried about UVA/UVB exposure for truckers.
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see https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trucker-accumulates-skin-damage...
It tells you something happened, it doesn't tell you why.

The value of the flamegraph over the previous iteration was that it more directly showed the chain of events. So no, it doesn't measure it 'just fine'. It's accomplishing absolutely nothing.
> There's no good reason young people today should have to start that learning journey at zero.

I mean, there clearly is a very strong and unavoidable (you could argue it doesn't count as "good") reason why young people today do have to start that learning journey at zero, namely that human brains generally aren't created already knowing stuff, and have to learn it.

But there's no reason to let the early (or non-early) parts of that journey take (or be delayed for) longer than necessary, so that corporations have more opprotunity than is unavoidable to scam, decieve, defraud, and otherwise attack them. (Which is to say I also strongly agree, but don't want to attach that agreement to something with obvious technicalities without comment.)
I smell OOP in here somewhere. And OOP abstraction is busy work of the highest order. Its even worse in webdev since the lifecycle of each object is so short.
Media companies file motion to unseal personal information of FTX customers
It's usually the least worst choice for somebody thrown into unexpected situations. Deliberately walking to a crash course on anything to avoid the long learning path is like autodidactism: it works, kinda, and kinda not.

I should add I'm a serial offender.
They are not "very safe"

.org was very nearly stolen by its operators.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/org-domain-registry-sale-...
Interestingly with Dark Reader on the links are visible! Had to turn it off to realize what the issue was
Cap de Formentor in Majorca is an example, and I'm sure you could find better examples for other lighthouses. I remember clambering down the epic walkway to where all the lighthouse building materials were brought in - and there must have been a jetty or something because it's fucking steep. The best description and image I could find: https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2021/03/16/8...

I think that the "cove" and walkway is shown on the left of the third photo in the article.

That said, any jetty would have had to be cantilevered from the rockface. The guy in the article drawing piles next to a shear cliff of rock is hardly thinking the engineering though!
Correct, which is why I was curious about the "total" version of it.

Re: the "in between", I remember someone on HN posting a meta-analysis suggesting that the split is about 50/50.
No, CSP doesn’t allow you to download scripts from an external source. That’s the point of the CSP.
It might have been a self-deprecating joke, since they make lots of videos about coding
Ah OK, what your trying to do makes more sense now. Thanks.
> If foreign citizens own the majority of a private US company and its voting shares, they have control over that company.

And I highly doubt Taiwan's government would allow any move that threatens their one of their economic golden gooses. Then as mentioned in the video, you literally do not get to control employees through a vote of shares - they'll quit and work at another competitor. You might think people will always stick to the principles of democracy and rules of law, but as the US itself has proven itself time and time again, they'll put on tariffs if push comes to shove, screw democracy.

Hell, the incentives don't even line up for shareholders to fulfill America's dreams and wishes. Trying to equate voting shares to a company being 'American' without addressing the social, political realities is wishful American centrism.
You bought a short-term lease on the domain names.
Imagine you’d have to pay $850 next year to keep your phone number.
Halifax was awful. They still send a Christmas tree south every year in thanks to the aide their US neighbours gave at the time.
Knight’s Landing AVX-512 units run at about 1.5 GHz at peak (even when only a few are in use.)

The ones in Sapphire Rapids run 2x+ faster. Likely there is more pipelining and many more transistors used to reach those clock speeds.
Do you remember the topic of discussion or are you typing replies in a vacuum?

You just argued everyone who commits a crime of conspiracy goes to jail while simultaneously arguing Bill Gates can commit a crime of conspiracy and avoid going to jail through the power of conspiracy.

Apparently everyone goes to jail for conspiracy but simultaneously Bill Gates can have people on retainers for years as part of a conspiracy and stay out of jail.

It just feels like you are typing replies for the sake of typing replies?

Also, crimes of dishonesty are dishonest, and pretending otherwise because you can imagine crimes which aren't dishonest isn't particularly convincing.
This could be .... kind of exciting because Korg makes some great synths (I am partial to the Minilogue, Prologue, and some of the Volcas) and now know that they might be hackable?!!

> 1988’s iconic M1 keyboard sold for $2,749, which would be about $6,800 in today’s money

They have great M1 apps for iOS (and Nintendo 3DS?!) as well as plugins for DAWs on macOS and Windows (and of course Gadget on mobile, desktop and ... Nintendo Switch - though I think the Switch doesn't have an M1 app or plugin.) Party like it's 1991.

Korg's iOS apps are all phenomenal. I particularly like the Gadget DAW and associated plugin collection, and the software versions of the Wavestation, ARP Odyssey, Electribe, and Polysix.

I also had a lot of fun with the DS-10/DS-10 plus app for the Nintendo DS/DSi.
Erthos spend quite a bit of time designing their own autonomous cleaning and repair robot.
What is that pillar? Google was never a pillar of free Internet.
It would have an implicit transaction, wouldn't it?

Think about what we both wrote here (sans the weak man argument, of course I'm talking about updates).
I mean, you can edit your resolv.conf to point at my DNS server and I'll sell you the entire .dev TLD for $69 a year.

I have no idea why people think that Verisign's root server is the important one. Good marketing campaign, I guess.
Wonder if it thinks it's an acronym or city. Southeast Asia, Seattle, etc.
Communicating with people who don't know the language well is a skill you have to learn and practice. It's not something people can do by default. Especially in their native language.

When you speak in your native language, the words may just come out automatically, without any effort. If you need to speak slowly, you have to be more deliberate and maybe even consider each word separately. If you don't remember that and just start speaking, you may end up speaking normally without even realizing that until it's too late.
> why you feel like you should take the pleasure away from other people because you had a kid?

That argument works both ways - why do you feel like you should take away a person's right to safer roads just because you didn't have a kid? Any speed limit or lack thereof does not account for driving skill.

A victim of a car accident loses a lot more than a sense of fun.
Even for bargain prices I’m glad I don’t own 100 domains! That’s probably more than I spend on delivery fees for tangible goods in a year.
I think, the C65 is another overrated story. It wouldn't have hit the market before 1992, which was then i486/25MHz territory, the same year that Windows 3.1 and Photoshop 2.5 were introduced.

(On the other side of the spectrum, it also the year that the cheap famiclone home computers came about, which totally failed to make an impression on US or western European markets, despite their capability to run NES games out of the box. Well, there were probably legal issues involved, as well, but there wasn't even an interested gray market for them.)
A lot of registrars will let you "renew" at any time, even months/years before the expiration date (and "renewing" a domain basically just means adding a year).
I’d say the fact that this didn’t go through is evidence of its relative safety.
Perhaps a better solution would be owning your own TLD?
“you can get Jasper to give you its prompt lmao”
How you know my password bro?!
It's really simple, until police officers are _personally_ held both criminally (fraud, attempted kidnapping, theft, etc) and civilly liable they will keep doing this. That they literally recorded themselves in this case is a nicety, usually their recording devices have "malfunctioned" or "forgotten to be turned on".

But it's entirely moot, as the Supreme Court invented "qualified immunity", a concept with no basis in law, that allows a cop to just say "I didn't think I was breaking the law" to get them out of more or less anything. QI is especially BS because police can arrest, charge, fine, and/or imprison you for breaking a law you were unaware of. Why are non-law enforcement officers required to have perfect knowledge of all the laws that may be relevant when the people ostensibly enforcing the law are explicitly allowed, and encouraged to not know the law?
Yoke steering wheel fundamentally interferes with skid recovery.

a few moments in a skid monster or on a skid pad will show you why hand over hand is the only way to maintain control.

It is the same reason steering wheel knobs are a bad idea unless you have physical requirements that require one.

The yoke steering wheel is only a few lawsuits away from being a historical novelty.
.com is a US TLD, for better or for worse. US got the original "cool" TLD names.
> domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google

Why are domain extensions like .dev and .app owned by Google?
Just make the function return the argument passed into it. ;)
With the only tiny difference being that guns in the US kill orders of magnitude more people than driving on the Autobahn (~50000 vs ~300 annually).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-da...

https://www.zukunft-mobilitaet.net/172160/analyse/tempolimit...
My interpretation of Gladwell is simply that he's very good at the standard method of finding a relatable example to illustrate a theory. His problem (a common problem) is that he tends to ignore counter-examples.
You can buy an IP address and keep it forever.
What you lose with Erthos' approach is any possibility of using bifacial panels.

In regions that get snow, bifacial panels (that use light reflected onto the back of the panels as well as light from the front) get a lot better output in the winter, increasing the annual capacity factor and therefor return on investment. (Winter electricity can be more valuable too, in those regions.)

Horses for courses.
I think this is fine. Too many good domains are held by squatters. Domains should be put to productive use, not speculation. I don't know what forum.dev is used for, but when I visit it, I get a Cloud Flare error page.
Thanks for this experience and warning. It sounds like you might still believe in the idea of Montessori, when executed properly by trained teachers. Can you tell me what a proper Montessori experience could have done for your child, if anything?
Why should any TLDs at all, like .dev and .app, be owned by Google?
How can natural gas be net zero?
> To be fair in the case of airplane wifi this is compounded by the exorbitant pricing.

Is this still true, though? I regularly pay $8 for wifi on a 6h flight coast-to-coast with United. And also paid $15 for a 10h transatlantic flight last week, which seems pretty fair to me.

Oh, and messaging and chat apps are free, so you don't really need to pay if you only want to keep in touch with folks on the ground. Sure, quality is sometimes spotty, but seems to have improved over the last couple of years.
AI’s next frontier: AlphaCode can match programming prowess of average coders
> Once again, I realized that it is foolish to trust Google on any matter. Thank you, Google.

Yep, that is a great takeaway. Another important example is GCP pricing, and their habit of killing off products and services as fast as they build them.

What Google is doing or charging today is not a reliable indicator of what they will be doing or charging tomorrow. AWS may have its own problems, but at least they don't do much bait-and-switch pricing, and they tend to support services for a while after they launch them.
I almost feel like that’s more of a reflection of someone’s attitude or even their mental health. Negativity can be nice, but insulting something for being what it is is not exactly intelligent.
IMO, methodologies are mostly just theatre to cater to stakeholders and their preferences and fears, and are otherwise BS from a development perspective. And in my experience, regardless of what methodology you use, what happens in practice (in the grand scheme of things) largely ends up being the same anyhow. Rather, the speed and success of a project seems to have nothing to do with the methodology, and everything to do with the particular project, people, constraints, and requirements.
I think there's a bit of a relationship with the age of the instance type. Whether that's supply chain, different policies around spare capacity, or even customer demand I don't know.

My specific area only has need for a relatively small number of nodes - and its been a while since we've had much trouble getting i3en.* instances in Sydney.

The new i4i's though? Kinda feels like they've, only got 3 hosts.. or 2 if Greg's off sick and can't switch on the one under his desk.