skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ESL here, so I have to ask, does the title imply that this astronaut is a curious human as in he has a high degree of curiosity, or is he a curious (type of) human as in there's something curious about his physiology?
Hey HN! Built something to transform how we interact with AI image generation.

The Challenge:
Despite all amazing AI models, getting from inspiration to exact output you want isn't straightforward. When you find a perfect reference image or have a specific vision:
- How do you create something unique but similar?
- How do you control exactly what changes?
- How do you maintain quality at scale?
- How do you do it all without jumping between tools?

What I Built:
An intuitive and simplified system that lets you:
1. Generate images through visual controls (dropdowns for style, composition, lighting, camera angle etc.)
2. Create variations from any reference (stock photos, images you like, your own work) using our VisualMuse engine
3. Fine-tune results with precision:
- Describe specific changes you want ("make it more vibrant", "add dramatic lighting")
- Use creativity slider to control how different from original you want results
4. Upscale any image up to 10x while preserving quality
5. Available via APIs for automation needs

Quick Demo: https://res.cloudinary.com/creativepixelai/video/upload/v173...

How it Works:
- Start with any reference image
- Explore creative variations instantly
- Fine-tune with text descriptions or creative strength slider
- Scale up to high-resolution when needed

Real Use Cases:
- Transform reference images into unique visuals
- Generate variations of design concepts
- Adapt existing images to new styles
- Create visuals using intuitive controls
- Upscale to high-resolution when needed

Try it out:
- Web Interface: https://creativepixel.ai (10 free images)
- Showcase: https://creativepixel.ai/showcase

Built this because I was tired of the usual choices: expensive stock photos, designer bottlenecks, or endless prompt tweaking. There had to be a better way.

Would love to hear your thoughts and how you'd use it.

[Disclosure: I'm the creator]
Tools like PowerBI are quite good, the data pipelines are amazing, but at the end of the chain Microsoft always makes mistakes so that something good like PowerBI will only remain an advanced Power Point version. If you go a bit deeper the platform is fairly locked down behind artificial restraints.

Azure has good parts, auth with Microsoft is perfect for software in the office world and goes beyond the usual LDAP Active Directory. But on the other hand it is quite slow to a degree that it really affects productivity. The damage is probably in the billions/trillions for their many customers. That is the real price of office cloud versions.
> With GitHub, TypeScript and VS code I'm probably using more Microsoft products than before.

cool, how much money have you paid to Microsoft to use those?

Except for Github (which they bought, by the way) probably not much. And github has some serious competitors (Gitlab which is just great and to a lesser extent, bitbucket).
I'm not saying you can use THIS method for a SLAM; I'm saying you can use this METHOD for a slam.

You don't need a perfect COLMAP for this method (well, not this in particular, but for this method more broadly with some modifications); you just need an approximate location for a few of the images to start and then match the others progressively... which is literally what SLAM is all about.

And "pre-trained data" makes no sense. It's trained, as in slowly chewing iteratively on the data before getting decent 3D space, but that just means it's a bit slow. Hence, my mention of simple robots that move in a semi-fixed environment rather than being unusable for self-driving.

But more broadly, it's a method to describe the real-world appearance 3d space, which may have computational and flexibility advantages over massive point clouds.
I have tried both cursor and cline (formerly continue dev), and I don't seem to see the incredible performance boost using cursor like a lot of people say
Linus said of anyone who disagreed with his approach and wanted to have dialogue (such as this guy) that they are "random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them."

That's multiple levels of insinuation and weasel words but does allege that this guy is a "paid actor"... any anyone else who disagrees with Linus. He doesn't even acknowledge random internet people that have been riled up not by "paid actors" but by his own boneheaded approach to this issue, and are directing their criticism at him in the hopes he and his organisation will do better next time. Linus being Linus.
They were the first Western country to get a COVID-19 outbreak.
It's interesting that for decades, technologists were stubbornly predicting that the paperless office was just around the corner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless_office

These predictions were famously overoptimistic. Paradoxically, paper consumption went up for a long time instead, because printers became cheaper or better, and wysiwyg word processors made it far easier than type writers to produce complex documents, with pictures and diagrams and tables.

But approximately since the smartphone era, printer usage indeed seems in sharp decline. The paperless office, at last, became reality. Just a few decades later than expected.
"Assume a cloud of midges 10 cm wide and 2500 m high" [1]

[1] https://www.sphericalcowblog.com/spherical-cows
This phone has been around for ages, and does the job. It's well weapon!
https://www.neatoshop.com/product/The-Wasp-T12-Speechtool
Next stop, getting rid of your ability to stay on a perpetual version when you stop subscribing.

Tbh I've had 10 years of updates and can honestly only point to one thing I've found useful.

When they stop maintaining the classic UI plugin, I'll stop being a customer anyway, no great loss.
I recently visited a friend in Finland. In Finland it's common for apartments to not have doorbells downstairs. Instead the door has a pincode that people use to get in which are typically shared with friends when you invite them.

Except those pin codes are now commonly disabled for security reasons. So, I was waiting downstairs wondering what to do and in the end just called my friend after which he came downstairs to open the door. That works of course but a QR code would be a good alternative.

Even if it just contained a tel:// link with the phone number. I love QR codes for low tech solutions like this.

This stuff doesn't have to be hard. And you don't even need an app for this. Just print your own code with your phone number, email address, etc. (from any of a vast number of web based generators) and put it near the door with some instructions.
Java, C#?
Reservoir Sampling?
> some journalists are calling it a betrayal of democratic responsibility

An individual, or organization, decides what their democratic responsibility is, so I don't think it's a betrayal. However, it is cowardice.
We all have personalized profiles with little daemon AIs actually tracking and persecuting us. Torturing our every waking moment with judgmental advertising.

No wonder, then, if we are all depressed or terrified or generally mentally ill.

It’s directly caused by the lack of privacy controls and harm done by being online.
AOL was stuff that people actually used however. It wasn't "random stuff".

For many people in the 90ies it was like the brand "AOL" was a synonym of "internet".
In New York hospitality employers can take a tip credit reduction to the legal minimum wage. Effectively paying 10.65 as wage provided the employee earns effectively more than the 15 minimum wage with tips included.

Employees pay income taxes on reported tips. When tips are paid in cash, employers sometimes require employees to turn in these tips for distribution on their paychecks. Tips are of course paid via paychecks when tips are paid by credit card.

Finally, employers can claim a business income credit for the taxes paid on employee tips.

(I work in hospitality services)

https://dol.ny.gov/minimum-wage-tipped-workers

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Guy just installed a payphone in his yard [video]
This is the price of cash handouts I guess. The trillions dolled out in cheques went into crypto and watches. Devalued the currency enough to cause inflation that everyone had to pay and in turn to suppress that inflation - interest rate hikes which again are to be indirectly paid by everybody across the globe.
Indeed; the Oracles at Delphi were revered for their ability to divine wisdom from auditory hallucinations which were literally equated with gods. In some modern western cultures, by contrast, you even have active gaslighting of those who are vulnerable to such conditions and exacerbation of their negative qualities.
There is also StatsModels package in Python implementing parts of R survival:

https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/duration.html
I’ve found it better at writing tests because it tests the code you’ve written vs what you intended. I’ve caught logic bugs because it wrote tests with an assertion for a conditional that was backwards. The readable name of the test clearly pointed out that I was doing the wrong thing (the test passed?.)
> distributed out of the box with every nix-like OS,

Python and lua are pretty close to that.
The average person doesn't pay capital gains tax - at least in the UK; there is a 12 3000 GBP allowance per year of gains which means that you need to have significant assets (think top 10% of the country) before it becomes an issue.
It's a UX feature, absolutely, but you can't trigger the browsers validators from the backend, so you'd need to implement your own styling anyway, probably even add a bit more information than the browser can natively handle.
I don't know if this is a Linux thing, but when renaming a file, when I press enter, I apply the new name, the file manager doesn't add a newline.
Even in fluid dynamics the game is only as hard as you make it for yourself :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_Boltzmann_methods

You have well defined operations and conservation laws well behaved by construction.

Don't let Navier & Stokes enter the chat, and you will be fine.

The whole problem of integration is that mathematicians historically introduced new functions, and try to relate them together, in interesting way.

Polynomials are good and well behaved. Algebras too.
As a 100% Linux user with good memories of that era (flying chair, Linux==cancer, etc.) I may be the best person here to actually defend Ballmer, having for sure no hidden interests in doing that.
Everything changed in those years: Google was cool, Linux desktop almost non existent, cryptocurrency not even in the head of its creator, AI was a myth and the best voice recognition could offer was the hilarious "double the killer" demonstration [1]. How can we compare CEOs actions separated by two decades? Ballmer did what was perceived as useful for its company back then just as Nadella is doing that now. Perspectives have changed, hence companies and their CEOS had to adapt. I'm 100% sure that if Ballmer were MS CEO today, he would include advertisements as well, as today putting advertisements in every free corner of the known Universe is perceived as acceptable, if not necessary, which was not the case 20 years back.

[1] context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX8oYoYy2Gc
> better insulation

It's very, very hard to get insulation that's not good for at least 100V and I suspect that just about any generic wire is good for more like 300V.

The only exception that comes to mind is wire that's specifically for "household low voltage" like 24V AC for thermostat, doorbell, sprinklers, landscape lighting. Also normal ethernet. But these are almost all what you'd call signalling wiring rather than power wiring.

Your average hook-up wire that you could buy at the auto parts store to make some repairs is almost certainly rated for 300V already. Mostly because of chafe resistance. Wikipedia says that the dielectric breakdown strength of PVC is 40 millions volts per meter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl_chloride.

Divide both sides by 1 million and you get 40 volts per micron. OK so you need 1/3 of a micron to insulate enough for 12V and you need 1.25 microns for 48V. Now let's have a reasonable safety factor of say 10 or so and we're looking at 3 microns vs 12.5 microns. The only wire I can think of that might have insulation that thin is enamel coated magnet wire for the inside of motor windings. But even that is probably thicker.

Any kind of plastic insulation is going to be significantly thicker than this just to be able to be coated onto the bare copper wire and stick.

You're not wrong that the insulation needs to be thicker as the voltage goes higher. But you're unaware of just how ridiculously over-insulated everything already is due to other constraints of manufacture.
It's a population density map, just as XKCD pointed out: https://xkcd.com/1138/
checkinstall is neat but it has a lot of nasty unhandled edge cases and can hose your system very easily (ask me how I know!)
"Alternative" is the key word here --- not to be confused with "replacement".

What SaaS really sells is ease of setup, use and maintenance.

And source code is no "replacement" --- unless you happen to have the necessary time and skills.
I would also maybe add "picking a name that's impossible to Google and hard to remember".

The number of emails I get along the lines to "Your trial period of Foowazzle will expire soon" and my reaction is usually "I can't remember what the hell Foowazzle is".

In fact the reason I often fail to actually use trials of potentially interesting services after signing up is because I forget what they are called and can't find them when I need them.

At least "Foowazzle" would be easy to search for...
Yeah, absolutely! Just thought it would have to be tagged as such somehow?
will be fun to find out, as well as discover any hacks to mitigate it!
See also Genpo Roshi's Big Mind, Big Heart which has one assume the persona of various aspects of their mind and attempt to carry out a dialogue as that aspect.
It could mean both, however the term is usually used when referring to someone’s personality, rather than physiology.

In this case, the article talks about his curiosity.
Checkout llmware -
https://github.com/llmware-ai/llmware
Alternate link since the USPTO site is rate-limiting at the moment: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110101009A1/en
Whether any one specific patron tips with it in mind, the incentive is still there in general. Sometimes people have bad experiences, and they don't tip better than average. Sometimes they have good experiences and tip well. The wait staff aren't stupid, and they're there to make money. Of course there's an incentive.
I'm not sure, that's exactly why I'd like to experience it and find out! I guess the server would be very grateful, but who knows. They might tell me it will change their life in some way, the restaurant might name a dish after me, countless things could happen.
Sometimes the innovation is a new underlying technology applied to an old problem?
Fairly basic there... chunking audio (websocket) and send them for translation sequentially.
Error handling like that makes sense if you’re writing a program. But if you just want a script for an automation, `set -e` is enough.
It wouldn't and it wouldn't need to. The decision was still very likely wrong, especially transparent after Apple proved with silicon that ARM platforms can be that competitive. Windows wasn't ready here and platform interop wasn't at all it strength.

If Windows phones would have had an emulated x86 mode, many people would have bought it instantly due to the momentum that now steadily decreases.

There can be solid business revenue if you are "just" #3 and the experience with development is very valuable. Although it is true that Microsoft and hardware has always been turbulent, with partners or without. Sometimes they simply created the best products in their class with a lot of margin, sometimes they basically sold scrap.
Ye it is really bad.

It is like having a beer, but it might be vodka tasting like beer. You'll find out after the glass is half empty.

Cannabis was a 'safe' drug compared synthetic ones you could accept without worrying too much about its content.
I have the feeling most music/video producers these days like the laptop format anyway (a music producer would typically want to have access to his projet in his home studio, live stages and pro studios) and the imac format is getting limited to traditional pro desk use.

With usb-c/thunderbolt, it is hard to be a pro user AND be interested in the iMac form factor when you can have a mobile device that you can easily dock to a large screen and have the conveniency and comfort of both a laptop and a desktop.

Outside of companies that wants fixed, kensington locked desktops for their employees, I don't see who would choose an imac over anything else.
It doesn't prevent the bad input, it only validates it on submission. Therefore it's on the user to fix it, and if it's from a zero-width space, it's literally invisible. Non-technical users will have no idea what to look for to fix it (i.e. use your arrow keys cursor to see at which character the arrow key doesn't shift visually, and there's the ZWSP). It happens way too often.
In the mid 90's I knew a guy with a few soda machines. I recall him saying he would buy soda from Costco and made about 8-10k/yr from each machine. The machines were about 2k each. I think he had 4 machines for about 40k/yr passive revenue.
Interesting. I’ve had the opposite experience (I invert or miss a condition, it catches it).

It probably comes down to model, naming and context. Until Sonnet 3.5 my experience was similar to yours. After it mostly “just works”.
> to avoid backlash from Donald Trump if he wins the presidency.

This already feels like a dystopian nightmare.
Wayland does some things well; X11 does some things well. Unfortunately Wayland is not a straightforward improvement. At some point they climbed the abstraction ivory tower and lost sight of the system they were supposed to implement.
Just a spitball idea, but rather than focusing on the consumer market, they could've been the new blackberry for businesses (that give employees phones). Native active directory and group policy integration would be a good solution for the myriad of third party apps/services/devices that attempt to control the other phones.
I never really understood why people want to style stuff like this. I like how you can express yourself by using colors and layout and stuff like that. But at some point usability is more important than branding.
Something is fucky. Smells a bit like a Customer Support fail or indeed an insider.

> My account was well-protected with 2FA and linked to a unique, private email address that I’d never shared. I use 1Password and am extremely careful about security. I’ve never entered my Instagram credentials on any third-party websites or apps, nor have I ever shared 2FA codes.
I'm not being user hostile. I'm being cognizant that the skill levels of users is extremely wide, and to best serve everyone from a UX standpoint, it's best to limit the characters accepted in the input. It protects the user, helps them avoid mistakes.
What exactly does this look like? Do you have example problems you can point to?
Underrated? He is properly rated in the sense that he owns 10s of billions even though he singlehandedly killed the windows smartphone and tablet business and also killed Nokia. Granted that apple killed them but with Microsoft’s resources there was no reason to just give up like they did. Buying Nokia was a historic bad decision that screams he didn’t understand the business at all. There was a huge opportunity to just emulate apple and just suck in all of the corporate market in one swoop and add them to their recurring revenue office service but Ballmer didn’t see it. He just saw them as phones and hardware.
I use and am happy with Cursor and Chatgpt. Cursor will write out the syntax for me if I let it, sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but enough to keep a flow going. If there are larger questions, I just flip over to chatgpt and try and suss out what is going on there. Super helpful with tailwind and react, speaking as a dba and backend systems person.
strlcpy()!
Hittler admired the American extermination of natives, actually, and hoped to do the same in Eastern Europe, killing the Slavic people and Jews rather than the Native American peoples.
Not to mention C:\Program Files (x86)
Ask HN: What's Holding You Back?
FCC chair: Mobile dead spots will end when space-based and ground comms merge
> Gorillaz

"ai" actors with "ai" acting have nothing to do with "virtual" bands which have human made music behind them.
Automating UI Regression Testing with Argos, Storybook and GitHub Actions
With a Time Machine?
There's no rule that an X11 server has to send all keypresses to all processes.
That sounds fun. Any problems with it filling up on Halloween or do you just empty it often?
VS Code is also low-key keeping Windows relevant as a developer OS. If something else came along which was truly very excellent but was only working well with Linux, and VS Code was not there to be the de-facto go-to solution for most new devs, it could eat away more of Windows marketshare.

So I see VS Code as a slight moat, also in its promulgation of dotnet-isms. So I think VS Code drives some revenue Microsofts way in a pretty diffuse but real way.
Only if you believe that executing in the kernel is necessary and that there could not be another way to do this, with public interfaces.
Xorg can use libinput but is not limited to that.
It is, if you use clang.
In Firefox, Display -> "Repair text encoding" solved the problem for me.
That last step doesn't need to happen to both:

* destroy your life

* let a real criminal get away

"in exchange for a few minutes of fun" is absolutely not worth enriching some dicks that don't care if I live, die, or get falsely accused.

All that notwithstanding, People plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit regularly because they are told it will make things easier on them. Or they avoid the death penalty.
I chatted with Colman years ago when Slight was around about joining forces and I was really impressed by his character and intelligence. It didn't work out between us for unrelated reasons. And then later on they shut Slight down as described here. But failure is such a good learning experience. If he ever starts something again I would definitely recommend folks to follow/join it.
Another way:

yy@"

In other words, execute the " register (what you just copied) as a macro. In the same vein, yy@0 would work as well (the 0 register is the last yank).

Also, what do you mean without a native map structure? Vimscript has Dictionaries just fine.
Not with those kind of distances. They really shouldn't hit each other ever. Think of two grains of rice in a pot of water. Stir and and see how long it takes for them to touch.
compose key on wayland is why I don't use wayland :D
I would take a closer look at your interactions and try and identify what, specifically, is leading to the negative reactions and adjust accordingly.

It's also worth considering, a lot of online communities aren't the most civil of places. It's best not to take these interactions personally.
PGmacs – fantastic Emacs PostgreSQL client and editing interface
Are these the same users that prefer websites without CSS?
This checks the meaning box because Peterson is doing something meaningful that I agree with and identify with on the world stage, which I’m afraid is where the bar is for me if I’m not going to be the frontman.

That's definitely a way to narrow down potential employers. Hope it works for him but he comes across...off to me.
yes, the quote is what I'm referring to, directing the AI is part of it, people use these to quickly brainstorm and refine ideas. I'd be more charitable and wouldn't hastily assume it was some skill issue, especially them being a principal engineer