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Proposal to prevent site-blocking hurting innocent sites rejected in Spain(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by elpocko 1y ago|0 comments
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by elpocko 1y ago
It's the words of Kyle Reese, not John Connor.
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by elpocko 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. Since yo
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by elpocko 1y ago
It's best to flag and move on. Don't engage.
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by elpocko 1y ago
OP is only here to promote their own content, never comments, never posts anything other than their own blog.
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by elpocko 1y ago
It's not reasonable because it makes no sense. "If they allow self-harm videos, before you know it they'll allow ALL videos.", there you go. The slippery slope argument is warranted because it's true: the law was ab
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How generative AI video works(youtube.com)
1 points by elpocko 1y ago|0 comments
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by elpocko 1y ago
33 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44727671
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by elpocko 1y ago
You can do this at home on your own computer with a 40x0 consumer GPU at 1-2 fps. You have to choose a suitable diffusion model, there are models that provide sub-second generation of 1024x1024 images. The computing requirements and electri
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by elpocko 1y ago
Do you mean you want to use AI to generate new scenes in ANSI-art style, or do you mean you want to use AI to render pre-existing scenes as ANSI art?
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ChatGPT saved me from years of suicidal thoughts(old.reddit.com)
2 points by elpocko 1y ago|0 comments
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by elpocko 1y ago
Cool. I have no idea what "stored the yam repo in yams" means. What do you mean by "block-level deduplication"? What is a block?
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by elpocko 1y ago
>block-level deduplication (saves 30-40% on typical codebases) How is savings of 40% on a typical codebase possible with block-level deduplication? What kind of blocks are you talking about? Blocks as in the filesystem?
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by elpocko 1y ago
They did for a while. https://www.pcgamer.com/50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-w...
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by elpocko 1y ago
Why can "billionaires" sell me AI nudes, but Steam and Itch can't sell adult games? Don't they use the same payment processors? You can make your own AI nudes for free on your half decent computer btw.
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by elpocko 1y ago
>>Author's English (when not written by a LLM) sounds translated >Doesn't inspire confidence. I too have confidence only in projects made by those who English good. It's the reason why I'm estranged from my Swah
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by elpocko 1y ago
In Germany only 40+% of your income goes to taxes and social security. Plus another meager ~20% on most things you buy. Plus a small tax on many things that are supposedly bad for you, like ~70% on cigarettes. Death is taxed at a discount,
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by elpocko 1y ago
Sexual gratification makes you feel good, we can't support that - think of the children. But we'll happily continue to process payments for torture and murder simulators. Insanity.
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by elpocko 1y ago
I added this to my uBlock filters to hide that stupid anime girl on every site that has it: ||*anubis/static/img/pensive.webp$image
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by elpocko 1y ago
I know when you're self-promoting. >It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by elpocko 1y ago
Get worse results by adding unrelated search terms just so you don't have to scroll past a few lines of useful text while you still put up with all the other useless crap. Bizarre solutions to non-existent problems. How about blocking
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by elpocko 1y ago
What is the point in arguing against enthusiasts? Are you trying to spoil their fun? I think that's inappropriate behavior. Especially when you have to request advice from internet strangers on how to be a more effective contrarian and
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by elpocko 1y ago
Use of AI in video production might become the standard in a short time. Quality, coherence, and consistency of video generation has substantially improved over the last year. I'm looking forward to it, especially in ambitious amateur
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by elpocko 1y ago
The points shown on a post are misleading. There are other, mostly invisible factors influencing the ranking of all posts, not just Ask HN. You can't even trust the timestamps on posts and comments, because mods occasionally decide to
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by elpocko 1y ago
https://threejs.org/examples/?q=webgpu (with fallback to WebGL if WebGPU is not available)
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by elpocko 1y ago
I'm interested in news about current and emergent technologies. I wouldn't mind if those who are not interested made their own site and left the curious people alone. Please do.
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by elpocko 1y ago
>I've had many a comment here unironically wanting to end copyright as a concept I mean, the site's name is Hacker News after all, even though so many of the "hackers" here are confessing their love for Intellectua
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by elpocko 1y ago
>Aqua from OSX Cheetah I've never used OSX, but I would guess from screenshots that it didn't do dynamic layered gaussian blur of large screen regions in realtime, which would've been too much for the hardware of the year
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by elpocko 1y ago
Is this considered new design? What is special about it? I don't see much of a difference compared to the Aero glass effect in Windows Vista from 2006. I've also seen it on many websites, using `backdrop-filter: blur`. Or am I mis
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by elpocko 1y ago
I was under the impression that dogfooding was a good practice for quality control that improves your products. Not anymore, apparently. Now we make fun of them for doing that.

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