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Show HN: Tarot Card Generator
Hey HN,

I know Tarot might not be the typical topic here, but I wanted to share a fun project I worked on over the weekend with my girlfriend.

We built a Tarot card app that uses the latest in AI image generation. I used Modal.com to host the image generation model and built the web app with Next.js. Since I'm primarily a backend engineer, I relied on Claude for the frontend, and I have to say, I'm really impressed with how well it turned out.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
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A previous discussion of the Ars Technica article which embeds a player for this clip:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41416872

The article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/starliners-speaker-beg...
"our minds create approximate models of reality and in doing so divides the world into discrete objects"

Perhaps in our neural net, we are also approximating functions that deal the approximated objects.

I think we know the brain doesn't just call an api. But it is doing some 'function' like things.
There is nothing stopping you in principle to keep learning on every interaction in an LLM. Practical benefits are likely small though.
This is quite a pessimistic article with some sweeping generalizations across tech… it may be true in some places but I disagree that software engineering is at its core fungible (yet)
Dallas is worse, depending on how you define "aggressive." (i live ~2 hours from NOLA and ~5 away from Dallas.) During rush hour i traffic break and Dallas and Vegas have the highest ratio of people that will do the "cut you off then brake because there's only 100' of runway, there". NOLA feels like inept drivers (oblivious is how i describe many Louisiana drivers, in general!)
Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky
A strength that is often overlooked at NGO's is their people power, so don't forget to leverage that. For instance, cctv, each unit, each chief and his 4 indians, could simply use wyze to monitor their immediate environment, worst case scenario, the chief leaves in a bad way and someone else has to reprogram the wyze cams to a new chief. Same with passwords, if you don't want to pay for centralized admin, then create multiple self-sufficient micro-environments with one central IT as tier 2 for advise and rescue. Think of it as vlans, but in admin terms. This method, opens up a lot of free tiers out there for each tribe/unit to leverage, as long as IT/CENTRAL, get's informed of the master-pwd (ex. bitwarden etc.).
What stops it hallucinating videos that don't exist?
"The focus of eating is on whole non-processed foods including protein and non-starchy vegetables"

I think the big thing here is not ketosis, it's cutting out a lot of trash from one's diet, which is a side-effect of going keto.
A sattvic diet would, I believe, show just the same improvements
'Dancing' raisins − a simple kitchen experiment
Fast into a ketogenic diet. It greatly reduces cravings and allows you to reset to healthier foods.
Several password managers support it at this point too, without any hardware requirements. Bitwarden's implementation works pretty well, for example.
You clone what? A WordPress database?
It's not that cells can't go awry, it's that perfectly healthy, otherwise identical, cells do not behave predictably to identical stimuli, even on average. That's their normal mode of existence. Some of those behaviors are pathological (eg cancer) but mostly they're not.

Computers don't behave this way at all: you can be reliably sure that if two computers produce different results with the same input that one of them is wrong. If it's a stochastic algorithm at least the averages should be within a certain bound. You can't make the same conclusion with cells.
Contrary to the so called fad diets, ketogenic diet was invented by a medical researcher in the first half of last century with the goal of putting the body in a state of ketosis, which is a known effective treatment for epilepsy.
Are there any such solutions/standards available? Tried searching Particle Syntax documents, nothing came up. That's exactly the sort of problem I'm working on now
If you design it right, I think you can have very little in the way of infrastructure. If you are sticking to the old ways, you won't need social network graphs or anything. You can more or less get away with turning everyone's blog into a static site.
I don't think it needs to be as "structural" as you're describing here. Simply "work on something else if you're stuck, come back to it after a day, two days, or longer" has long been one of my secrets to get stuff done.

I once worked somewhere that allowed you to work only on one ticket/task, before you were allowed to move on to another. Completely dumb policy for so many reasons.
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"In the years immediately following the dot-com meltdown, there was more tech labor than there were tech jobs. That didn’t last long. By 2005, the tech economy had bounced back on its own. After that, the emergence of mobile (a new and lucrative category of tech) plus low interest rate policy by central banks fueled demand for tech. Before the first decade of the century was out, “tech labor scarcity” became an accepted norm."

I'll just add if you lived through that time it did NOT feel like a short amount of time. It felt like a really, reallllly lonnng time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41417482
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I know guys who grow and breed their own strains, some of them have been doing it since the early 90s. The best weed I've had always grew outdoor. It's kinda sad most people have gone indoor over the years. Anyway, there are strains on the market that are well balanced/easygoing, just look for stuff with as much sativa in the mix as possible, for some strange reason they are harder to find. I personally really like Jack Diesel from Dinafem, even autoflowering works great.
I am not trying to make a classification. I too find 3.5mm TRS very convenient for its universality and I like that it is low latency.

But perfect it isn't.
> Standardizing roles, skills and training makes the individual laborer interchangeable. Every employee can be assessed uniformly against a cohort, where the retention calculus is relative performance versus salary.

The article frames this as a bad thing, but a shift towards standardizing and commoditizing roles isn't necessarily anti-labor—this is one of the major things that unions do, after all.

A workforce where every employee is a snowflake who falls or prospers based on subjective 'feel' of their superiors is one where divide and conquer tactics work well for employers and one where nepotism thrives and meritocracy is effectively impossible.

If roles are defined and standardized and salary bands are known and predictable, that can actually create an environment that is as much easier for employees to navigate as it is for employers. What starts out to benefit one party can actually level the field for everyone.
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My opinion is that there’s a $100m ARR business that you can build by just being “Planetscale for Postgres”
Not sure if I got the question, but
during indexing e.g. cpu.total{env=prod,host=a} [id: 1] you insert cpu.total;env=prod and cpu.total;host=a entries with id 1.
then you get cpu.total{env=prod,host=b} [id: 2] and you end up with 3 entries:
cpu.total;env=prod => 1,2
cpu.total;host=a => 1
cpu.total;host=b => 2

If you query avg(cpu.total{env=prod}) you get [1, 2].
If you query avg(cpu.total{env=prod,host=a}) you get intersection([1, 2], [1]) which is [1].
The big deal IS ketosis - see my comment below and please watch a few of the videos, they contain interviews with many researchers in the field.
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In the past, I've led teams of up to 12, managed interview pipelines, pioneered a number of no- and low-code solutions for all of the following -- stream processing, data model, query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction -- for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech.

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We really like Nile and it is definitely a company we look towards for inspiration!

While we hope to share similar DXs, our fundamental difference is that we are focused on a BYOC-first platform instead of a serverless Postgres platform. We realized that developers who were doing strict tenant-isolation were only doing it as a means to meet their customer's demands to close deals. Often, database isolation is not the only requirement; there are requirements on which cloud a database can be hosted on, or even asks to host the database on a private cloud. For these reasons, we thought that the BYOC angle gave us more flexibility to solve these problems as well as providing a easy-to-use interface.
Nobody uses the same DAC for headphone output as they do for speakers. There’s dedicated devices for each of these in every system, as it’s just more efficient. Also, most devices allow simultaneous output on headphone and speakers (think, notifications). These devices are all monolithic for the particular function, and generally for good reason.
when booting my 5950x into windows, i never see the bios screen. It's about 50/50 if i see the nvidia bios screen, then i see the motherboard logo with the windows spinner under it. there's about 500ms where i can push F2 or whatever between when the logo shows up and the spinner shows up that i can "enter bios" - but that itself takes about 5 seconds to become fully realized on the screen.

I know of what you speak, but i don't know if this is universally true.
Posted a lot of time. Only this got traction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34660646 (42 points | Feb 2023 | 48 comments)
If I understand this correctly it's mainly a UI to create new instances of postgresql on existing platforms that offer it as a service or create clusters/databases (in the postgresql jargon) on those. Seems like the SDK is a wrapper for existing libraries to provide connection string for connecting and not much else. Is that correct?
> Just like they've been doing with foreign call centres

When a call center tries that with me, I just respond to all their deflections with "cancel my _____". Eventually, they get the message.
It's interesting, having grown up in Africa, and lived there almost 35 years, reading, writing and speaking an African language, being surrounfed by at least 10 other African languages and seeing them written, that I have never ever in my entire life encountered this writing system.

I think the product is a great technological achievement, but...

I would warn against the generalisation of "African" in this context. It does not tell the full picture, and simplifies the rather complex and very ancient reality that is language on the continent of Africa.
Just because you can pick up a satellite signal in a certain country doesn't mean that the satellite operator is operating (from a legal perspective) in that country. A country's airspace legally extends only up to a certain altitude.

In theory Brazil could try to force SpaceX to stop by taking legal action through the US court system, or administrative action through the international bodies that coordinate satellite communications frequencies and orbits, but that would be unlikely to work.
I think your definition is too rigid and unrealistic.

While this example is cherry picked, it’s practical and real world.

A studio is working on a project for a client. They want to share the work with the client. Setting up individual client accounts is both impractical and unnecessary. They instead opt for a single password to protect the project. This password is stored and shared by the client.
could you point to the specific part of those Wikipedia entries that says that very large quantities of these drinks were taken because of the difficulty of finding clean water? Or were you making another point here?
> It was perfectly ordinary English

Except that it was not
Fwiw Vinay Prasad's analysis of this paper: https://www.drvinayprasad.com/p/a-new-jama-paper-shows-it-is...
https://youtu.be/1-vREvJHH9Y
I had to go cold turkey and did about 4 keto fails. I had to stop saying “I will do keto to drop 20 pounds” (only to eat it all back in a month) and had to start saying “I am not a man who can eat sugar in any form safely.” I have been keto for 2+ years. Dropped 40 pounds, lost the violent hunger pangs, done with the sugar crashes and 3pm mind fog, no more mood swings.
My cholesterol spiked at 6 months and then returned to normal at my one year check up.
I miss eating for fun. A dozen donuts, here, three bowls of ice cream, there. And then hating myself for the rest of the day. But being in the best mental, physical, and spiritual shape of my life at age 44 is not a bad trade off.

Best of luck to you.
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I agree, and a pound of butter doesn't exactly weight a pound, either.

A free market requires a government in order to protect rights and enforce contracts. It's not anarchy.
> during indexing e.g. cpu.total{env=prod,host=a} [id: 1]

Right, how do you know at write-time that cpu.total{env=prod,host=a} is ID 1?

The user only supplies the metric name and tags.
the part I don't understand is why so few companies make headphones that are anywhere near as comfortable.
> Real, filtered table beers

Who said anything about "filtered"? We're talking about watered-down beer here (or rather, to put a fine point on it, beered-up water.) In other words, grog, but with [whatever spirit is commonly produced locally] instead of rum.

> The issue with spirits and table beer was it needed heating, and that was costly.

Let's walk through the lifecycle of a small beer here, because I think you're conflating a decentralized economic logistical workflow as if it was all the responsibility of one dude.

A local brewer/distiller makes high-proof beer/spirits. Which does require heating, sure, but just once, when making the batch.

Then pub/tavern-keepers buy those high-proof spirits, by the caskful. They can let them sit around forever until they use them up, despite the casks not being particularly sanitary, because these wholesale spirits' high alcohol content and low water content prevents spoilage indefinitely. So they're good investments, something they're willing to put money up front for. (And these large infusions of revenue — perhaps even on a predictable contractual basis, for something like a tavern — are how the brewer stays in business, despite the expense of burning wood/coal to brew.)

Each day, any given tavern-keeper might fetch a barrel of fresh-ish creek/well/lake water. Might be infectious, might not. Even fresh creek water can have Giardia.

When a tavern keeper wants to serve someone small beer, they take a mug of the creek water, measure out a jigger of the high-proof spirit, and stir it in. The alcohol content kills whatever might be in the water, and if it's something like beer, probably maybe makes it taste better, too.

The creek water will spoil in a tavern-kitchen environment, but that's fine: it's just water. Treat it as grey water at the end of the night — use it for dishes or whatever. Maybe take some for boiling puddings in. Dump the rest on your garden.

This is basically the same logic as fountain drinks. A central provider spends a bunch of ahead-of-time effort to make a bunch of concentrated syrup that's too high-sugar and low-water-content to ever spoil. Then restaurant owners buy this, and combine it just-in-time with water to produce drinks.
I'm rarely super proud of our gov, but my god their digital team are killing it, and have been for some years
> The degree of indignation you're expressing here at this ancillary snippet...seems to be in itself rather cringe.

I am not expressing "indignation" -- I don't think the author was unfair to me. I'm not even remotely upset. I just think it was a silly and unnecessary inclusion (in your words: "ancillary") that detracts from the piece.
Cool. Do you have plans for Windows and macOS frontends?
I like it, I'm adding this <link> to my sites now, too
I remember “solution” being fashionable about 20 years ago in some IT circles.