skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next useless project: a program that mimicks some "schizo"-memes about CIA-Mind control. Goal is to somehow make it look like the one in the memes, publish it somewhere and see how many folks actively launch that piece of software. Will probably integrate some basic facial recognition like OpenFace n something.
I need to sign in just to test it? No thanks!
Because game development is what's called "successful product industry" which means sometimes you have to make 10 failed games to finally release 1 successful. Majority of game studios don't make it and competition is very high which means game budgets is race to the bottom.

Also platforms like consoles and Steam take their 30% cut, then publisher / investor take their 30-60% cut and you also have to pay taxes on every step. Usual game studio that working using publisher or investor money only get 20-30% of gross sales.

Large companies are able to make conditions better and they actually have higher salaries and better work life balance whithin the market, but since for everyone else it's run to the bottom they have countless number of potential new employees.

PS: I am CTO of small game development company and to make games I have to be okay that I'll earn 3x less than I would as middle software engineer in fintech. Game dev is tough industry to work in, but it's always by choice.

Literally everyone who works in game dev are able to find better paid job elsewhere: gambling, marketing, fintech, etc. People just love making games and dont want to move elsewhere.
Paying off an extra 10% of the loan each year without penalty is usually possible in the Netherlands for a 30 year mortgage. I did it this year.
Elon Musk is considering taking X out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
I agree with Auromis. The reported research is interesting, and yet is not yet ready for application to human health. It's tempting to leap to conclusions. The top poster takes this too far.

I hope that NIH funds a lot more Alzheimer's research looking for microbial causes, and also, that the technology for understanding gut microbiome continues to develop.
Many thanks,

It's a bit sad that this comment is in the lower half of the thread, while the comments in the higher half are at the same time: clearly uninformed on the topic and still making strong statements.
I don't know anything about the guy but the church has been on the news a few times. Just looked up the wikipedia page [1] that has some info on the older stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_...
I requested the personal information they have about me related to a Maestro debit card I use as my main debit card, and the result was: "We did not find matching results for you!".

I am in EU.
"proper".

Meanwhile humans have been eating grains for millennia.
"The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. We’re working on a new language, but we do not plan to replace the entire ecosystem of libraries that have been built for the JVM. So you’re likely to keep using Spring and Hibernate, or other similar frameworks, in your projects built with Kotlin. And while the development tools for Kotlin itself are going to be free and open-source, the support for the enterprise development frameworks and tools will remain part of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, the commercial version of the IDE. And of course the framework support will be fully integrated with Kotlin."

From https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...
What is uBo?
Could cause a mess. You don't want every member of team to potentially have different repository.
As an American, Canadians are insane for buying into this system.

As a European, the US mortgage system combined with very generous tax-deductible interest rules, is probably one of the most generous and property owner friendly system around. As a property (and mortgage) owner myself, I'm very envious of it.

That being said, had I been a renter in the US I would probably be very upset about how much tax payer money is going to support home owners.
Sure, and the sky is blue.

Thanks for listening to my ted talk.
Show HN: AvatarCraft – Showcase Your Best Self with AI-Generated Avatars
Hi HN Community! My name is Sosha and I'm excited to announce the launch of my startup, AvatarCraft.ai.

For the past 6 months, I've been obsessively working to create the most realistic and highest quality AI avatars using Stable Diffusion technology. I was unsatisfied with the offerings from competitors, so I developed proprietary techniques to take avatar creation to the next level.

AvatarCraft uses just 15-20 of your photos to create hundreds of customized profile pictures with our advanced AI. The avatars capture your likeness remarkably well.

To showcase the difference, I've uploaded some example avatars generated by AvatarCraft along with avatars from our competitors created with the same datasets. I'd love for you to compare the quality side-by-side.

https://ibb.co/q9g5PRK
Original photo

https://ibb.co/Mn7yV14
AvatarCraft's Competitors

https://ibb.co/McF0wJF
AvatarCraft's results from Hairstyle, Painting, Professional & Traditional Fashion Packs

Whether you try out our service or just review the samples, I'd appreciate any honest feedback on the avatar quality.Are there any improvements I should make?

Because we use proprietary techniques and extensive training to achieve maximum quality, it takes 6-10 hours to generate each set of avatars. This process costs us quite a bit, but I've set an introductory price of just $29.75 for now.

I did create a 25% off discount code ( use code hnav) specifically for this community to make it even more affordable to test out. Even with the discount, this still doesn't cover our expenses at this stage - but your feedback will be invaluable in improving AvatarCraft.

After we incorporate insights from early users, I will need to increase prices to be more sustainable. So take advantage of the launch discount while you can! I'd rather have redditors like yourselves shape AvatarCraft than anyone else.

Let me know if you have any question.
Would love to know more about your VR setup. I can barely spend 20 mins with a headset before the dizziness and fatigue kicks in, and this is when playing games! I can't imagine working with a headset on.
The original author of the project actually replied: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean...

And wow the fork's author is childish
Over time I've concluded that a single standard for anything important simply isn't enough. It's best to accept that 2 standards and optionally a 3rd and 4th slot for upcoming standards are the best that can be done. Fixating on getting to one is actually counter-productive.

This isn't just true of standards, it's also true of implementations of a standard.
Let's be honest, there's probably a dozen antitrust actions that are overdue in the US tech sector, and since the US doj has ignored that issue for so long, it now probably needs to be done the Standard Oil way, with a hacksaw. Of course it's not going to be easy, but the current situation happens because for 4 decades the US has taken the easy way, or done nothing at all.

As for simplicity, it lies in the fact that lighter actions often don't produce enough effect, can be side-stepped or simply ignored without continuous oversight. On the other hand, when you force divestment and bust corporate control, it is much easier to guarantee that the desired effect happens.
What's the connection between refineries and drone delivery?
Oh, please, please do.
Java and .NET ecosystems are the closest in modern computing to how Lisp Machines and Smalltalk used to be.

It isn't 100% there, but close enough.

Hence why I have been an happy camper on both of them since they exist.
also https://www.sharedrop.io/
it uses webrtc for local communication
Hey thanks for this info, all of which I'm sure is super insightful for people who understand this level of detail.

What would you say the average person in the street should eat in terms of supplements, vitamins and food in general to maintain excellent microbiome based on your learnings?
uBlock Origin, the best adblocker, and only full-featured on FF (but still better than the rest on the adtech browser):

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Yattee aims to fit more in line as a native Apple subscription organizer and player application suite, with native window controls and tighter integrations, but it's mostly up to you to decide how'd you like your setup to be.

Ideally, you could self host only the Piped framework and connect this to Yattee without hosting the WebUI frontend, but without the latter, you cannot create a user for yourself to store subscriptions, and using the provided AIO Docker Images is overkill for self hosting as you are required to purchase and point to DNS records for this system (mostly to the benefit of publically hosting an instance of Piped).
Invidious is more suited for this regard, but has issues with parsing some videos and their metadata (usually new uploads for a week, Vevo Music Videos etc.)
Your statement is obliviously false. People care about different things.

Some people do not care about using pirated versions of Office.

Some people care very much about whether software is or isn't open source especially when it is claimed to be but isn't.

Being open source means that if FUTO goes bankrupt or is purchased or abandons GrayJay due to unprofitability or decides to pivot and become anti-user or etc. etc., then the app can be forked.

The current licences is so stupid that not only does it not allow forking, it actually does not allow using the app for it's intended purpose. This is egregious open-washing.
uBlock Origin, the gold standard when it comes to ad and tracker blocking.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#readme
uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
I tend to use ssh or https for that. ssh and sftp clients and servers are available for all kind of devices/OS. Both are easy to use or instruct how to use.
the population are NOT happy. their concerns are not listened and acted upon. tyranny is the name of the game.

people have just one demand. secession. that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle.

the point is, people do not want to remain in the union so the government is using every trick in the book to force people to remain in place.

from mass rapes to torture to collective punishment, we people have basically seen all.

information blockade is yet another tool. you know a couple of journalists from the valley won pulitzer for a striking picture

https://www.pulitzer.org/cms/sites/default/files/styles/slid...

you should read on the interesting story how the photos were smuggled outside the valley. it reads like a spy triller.

point is, the government is scared of an uprising so they simply turn off the internet and hope people will forget.
Surely this has been picked up by the raytracing crowd at some point.
Actually, they explicitly said (on some page, or in some e-mail) that both the original evaluation and the appeal were handled automatically. I can't find that evidence, but I remember reading it and saying, "OMG, you've got to be kidding me."

Based on what they've told me, I have every reason to believe that no human ever reviewed my case.
A lot of stuff has to be reported at source these days, e.g. in Belgium where I live, Airbnb reports your income from hosting to the revenue service, your bank reports how much you paid on your mortgage (deductible), if you're unemployed then the benefits agency will communicate that, so will child care (deductible), and so on. And as the parent said, you can always add/edit amounts as necessary, which indeed will often be necessary for things like equity.
many punctured tires, never been helped in 1 hour, never by tesla tire van. Lots of issues with car (door handles 3x, rear defrost - never fixed, motor went, more I can't remember)

Service was ok in the beginning, but then got worse as more cars overwhelmed tesla. Mostly I felt like I was begging to get an appointment in the near future and they typically kept the car a few days. I did get a loaner on two occasions, other times out of luck.

The experience is not up to par with other car shops (most especially cars of similar price).
Nah, a drop in the Java ocean outside Android.
In Sweden, certain things are reported to the government and others are not. Your task is to validate the prefilled tax forms and add missing income (above thresholds in place to allow for hobbyist level incomes) and deduct missing deductibles.

The typical process is to just approve it, but when you’re for example selling real estate you’ll have to append it with information about your capital gains minus deductible costs (broker’s fee, certain renovation costs, …).

The tax agency is famous for having excellent customer service and they operate under the principle “it should be easy to do right”. It hasn’t always been that way, but there was a mental shift similar to what direct-file advocates in the US seem to ask for in the 90s and that has worked out well.

If you’re curious, this is the English instructions for filing taxes over here: https://skatteverket.se/servicelankar/otherlanguages/inengli...
https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/com.example.flutter_http_ser...
I dont understand, are you claiming non-Apple devices cannot run LLMs?

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/34

If you meant eGPU support, IIRC that is beta for everyone right now.
And how does the article discredit any criticism of Saudi Arabia's oppressiveness? Not only does it plainly state how badly free expression is crushed in the country, it also adds wonderful PR-friendly zingers like this about the country's de facto leader MBS:

"He has also created a climate of fear unprecedented in Saudi history. Saudi Arabia has never been a free country. But even the most oppressive of MBS’s predecessors, his uncle King Faisal, never presided over an atmosphere like that of the present day, when it is widely believed that you place yourself in danger if you criticize the ruler or pay even a mild compliment to his enemies. MBS’s critics—not regicidal zealots or al‑Qaeda sympathizers, just ordinary people with independent thoughts about his reforms—have gone into exile. Some fear that if he keeps getting his way, the modernized Saudi Arabia will oppress in ways the old Saudi Arabia never imagined. Khalid al-Jabri, the exiled son of one of MBS’s most prominent critics, warned me that worse was yet to come: “When he’s King Mohammed, Crown Prince MBS is going to be remembered as an angel.”

Yeah, sounds positively anarchic in its protections of free speech.

Then again the UN has a long history of tacitly and sometimes openly kowtowing to the "social needs" of its more repressive members, who routinely bribe and browbeat their way through the organization towards more anti-liberal influence than many of them have any right to claim on the world stage.

Just holding a conference like the one in this HN post in a country like the Kingdom is a grotesque joke
While the architecture, quality and general decisions made in many (even majority) of FOSS projects can be called into question, this piece makes it sound like this would not happen in projects with 'professional' developers.

The horror shows I have witnessed and had to work with inside some of the companies that have employeed me over the last 15 years have been much worse than anything I have come accross in reasonably large and active FOSS projects.

The Peter Principle lives on strong in both camps.

edits: spelling
That's the cheap route, like car manufacturers slapping big glossy crappy tablet instead of 40 high quality physical knobs (really, have you ever seen any physical button not working on any car, even 15+years old? I didn't a single time, as long as we don't talk about wrecks).

Then you have premium companies with premium prices, where actual humans serve you. They'll be slower but you have chance for some empathy and non-standard solutions to your problems.
The only reason to pick Kotlin instead of Java is because Google says so on Android.
"Monero is created for and marketed towards cybercriminals..."

"You could say exactly the same thing about any form of encryption..."

That seems very untrue. I like my credit card details to be encrypted when I send them for the exact opposite of assisting cybercrime.
snapdrop.net appears to too...
When I work, it's with the (n/x)real, when we have a tech meeting, we use the Quest 2. The xreal, I haven't had any fatigue or issues and I have been using it fulltime for a year. The Quest 2, I don't notice any eye/brain issues, but it's just pulling on my head (and I have the comfort straps and extra balancing out battery, but it still starts hurting my head after about an hour. If it were lighter and more comfortable and AR and have better battery life, I would probably wear it fulltime. Maybe the quest 3 although battery life is not going to cut it I am sure. The huge advantage of the xreal is that it's just sunglasses; they are very light and your phone (or external device) is the driver; I use a beefy samsung phone and it basically means I have easily 15 hours of screen time before it starts whining about the battery.
Capitalism encourages generating wealth since people get to keep a slice of it, instead of being all looted by the state. The productivity gap is huge between the two systems.

This is why communist societies struggle to even provide the basic needs like food and clothes to their citizens while under capitalism citizens face a "tyranny of choice".
One of the Meta employees suggested that I create a new business account. Except that I can't do that, because my personal account has been banned for life, as has any business account created through it.

So I could create a new account that's just for my business. And maybe I will. But ... what a pain, and I'm not sure the ROI is really that good.
Deploy both and see which patterns you prefer, and what fits into your organisation better.

I have used both, but find Argo can be unnecessarily complex, and focuses solely as git as a source of truth for your k8s resources. The image updater can even write back to git to reflect version numbers etc, which is arguably an anti-pattern (git is not a database). However, the UI is excellent and is very powerful, and if your just getting started in the gitops space, its very intuitive.

I feel like the weaveworks team (who created flux) have encountered the problem of using git as a source of truth at scale. They let you specify other sources such as S3 and OCI containers, this gives you a lot more power to build custom, powerful workflows.

This means that you define your k8s resources (kustomizations definitions defining k8s resources, and flux resources) in git, but build, lint and test them in a CI/CD pipeline and publish them as a container. Then you can just tag that container with the cluster name or environment and treat your k8s resources like you would code. You can observe this with the flux ui too.

I think people get too hung up on the git part of gitops. All infrastructure should be defined in a version control system, and follow a sane CI process, but the way your cluster pulls that state to enforce it should be any source that is a reflection of that versioned code in SCM.
I don't have a reference for you, but I recall a study a decade or two ago that suggested that we would only be able to detect our strongest radio signals out to a distance of about 10 light years with existing telescopes (I may have that number wrong, but it was not large). That said, with new telescopes, particularly things like the Square Kilometre Array, we have higher sensitivity, and more importantly, we have the angular resolution to measure whether an excess of radio emission is coming from a star or from a planet around that star. So, even a weak signal can be detected, and if we were to find such a signal originating from a planet rather than another object, we could make a pretty good guess that it is artificial in origin.
I tried and it is super slow. LocalSend was like 10x faster sending a 400mb video.
Under the book details, it should say "Simultaneous device usage: Unlimited" if the publisher has chosen to omit DRM.
If you're fixed at 2 or 3%, why bother?

You can make a better return putting your money elsewhere.
There are many digital marketing executives who are banned to advertise on Facebook. FB decides they did something wrong once, and now they cannot advertise anymore. So effectively they cannot find a job in digital advertising because Meta wants you to use your personal account for advertising even when you are working for a company.
This needs to stop. Maybe this could be moved under the scope of "EU Digital Markets Act" with some effort.
... which almost nobody can afford not only due to prices growing to absurd levels
I doubt it, but it's a fascinating idea.
Same; one guy that kind of inspired me back in the day was a complete dick, and when I saw his code later on it was awful.

But, he also made $100 / hour living in a low wage country (east bloc / former soviet). He'd buy a domain and its content, redo the software, do some SEO and the like, then sell it for 10x what he paid for it in like 3 months. ~$7000 profit for three months of work is not bad, and I doubt it was fulltime.
If you're looking for a self-hosted solution, you can check out strong.network (I work there). Even though I'm biased, we try our best to combine productivity and security with our Cloud Development Environments (CDEs).
Why software when you could also make it a creative outing for yourself?
Headscale – Open-Source, Self Hosted WireGuard Control Server [video]
Soviet spies were quite active and accomplished at stealing technological advancements from private firms in the West.
> Why would you want that?

If someone were to stand outside holding a big banner advertising something malicious/illegal they'll be in legal trouble pretty quickly, which I think is fair.

Why shouldn't Google be held to the same standard?
I buy books and music by writing the author and asking them how to pay directly. This ofcourse only works with very small authors so I'm not buying much any more. Reading and watching movies I do from the local library.
Nearly the entire editorial staff have been laid off, for music fans /artists of certain genres, these were the only people writing about their music. That's a significant degradation. The employee head count bit needs a citation I think, I wasn't aware that Epic had hired anyone at all into the Bandcamp team during their brief custody which would make that statement completely impossible.
Got a feature that touches several modules? Instead of one massive build deployed once, you deploy each service. With dependencies you need to wait after each deployment to check if everything is ok. Instead of one big build and one deployment, you get quick build, deployment, check, quick build deployment, check...

So in case of microservices/microfrontends you gain minutes on build time but lose hours/days on deployment and verification.
Twitter is even more annoying for any content with more than a single paragraph.
Isn't WiFi Direct limited to 250mbps? looks like an archaic way to share files.