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lmao scandinavian 3 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | on: Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guar... This thread gave me a whole new perspective on the people who participate on HN. I had never thought that a large amount of seemingly very active users would openly admit to participating on kiwiforums.
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ThrowawayTestr 4 hours ago | parent | next [–] There's no actual evidence that Near is dead. reply There are also several of these style of comments. Near-truthers about if they are secretly still alive (Near/Byuu was the author of the BSNES emulator and committed suicide after sustained harassment from KF). In addition to all the regular HN posters admitting they post on KF, there is also loads of brigading from KF. Just tons of “Can you actually provide evidence and proof of anything bad KF has ever done?” sealioning.
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eimrine 2 hours ago | prev | next [–] Pornhub is dead IMO. I would suggest leaving so-called CP untouched but with no fiat payment. What kind of jerk might think about real age of some models which he is observing if they aren't looking like children? reply
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jiggawatts 5 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] An idle thought I had related to this is that the real trick to scaling up fusion power may be to not try and extract the energy "through the walls", as you said. You know how they tell you to "visualise success" because you need to know what it looks like to aim for it? Along those lines I was visualising what it would look like if someone like Elon Musk was on YouTube showing off some sort of future fusion reactor that's "not just a piece of lab equipment", but something that would be dramatically better than any extant fission reactor or similar technology. I visualised it as an enormous stationary rocket engine, where cooling water was pumped through a relatively narrow (~50cm) "reactor tube". The water needs leave a hole in the middle for the fusion fuel gases. The hole is achieved by imparting a rotation to the water, so it "spins out" to the sides. Fusion would occur not throughout a large volume, but at a small number of "pinch points" along the axis set up using powerful magnets -- and not necessarily superconducting magnets! To get sufficient current through the coils, the charged exhaust is allowed to expand through a magnetic "rocket engine bell", producing moving (and accelerating) electric charges. This current is recirculated through the engine to provide the enormous magnetic field strengths required, via thick copper conductors aggressively cooled with water. Essentially it would be a magneto-hydrodynamic-fusion jet engine, using fields instead of impellers to achieve compression, expansion, and energy recovery to run the whole cycle. The bulk of the energy would be in the super-heated steam produced, which could be used as in traditional power plants, or used as a bone-fide rocket in space. Obviously there would be "challenges" to making this work, to put it mildly! But consider that with the kind of computer power we can throw at modelling physics these days, it may be possible to use "topology optimisation" style tricks to figure out the required geometry of the parts to achieve the conditions required for fusion while staying within material design constraints. If you ask me, a Manhattan-project style attempt at something like this would be a better way to "waste money" than yet another aircraft carrier, or whatever... reply
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so I was day-dreaming some nonsense comic-book technology when suddenly it hit me: my fav celebrity billionaire should make my wild dream into reality!
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ynohtna posted:so I was day-dreaming some nonsense comic-book technology when suddenly it hit me: my fav celebrity billionaire should make my wild dream into reality! tbf it is an advanced kind of stupid at display, having correctly recognized elons many projects as comic book technology nonsense, and having recognized the market rewarding him and the media being unquestioning of its reality. then simply draw the conclusion that requires no doubt in any institution: all comic book technology needs to exist is elon speaking it into being. as a consequence quite immoral of elon not to read their post out in a press conference.
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jefftk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–] I think running an ad blocker is freeloading, the same as using paywall-bypassing software. There are worse things people regularly do, but I do think it's minorly wrong and I don't run an ad blocker. I would be fine with ad blockers that only blocked ads, as long as publishers could chose to refuse service to users running ad blockers or ask them to turn their ad blocker off. But uBlock Origin etc don't just block ads, they also pretend to the site that the ads aren't blocked. (I used to work in ads) reply
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fritz posted:jefftk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–] I'm very sad that this henhouse has anti-fox technology (I used to be a fox)
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waaah the end users aren't letting me run malicious code on their computers
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in case you were wondering the hacker news moderation is going hard in on defending the honor of the former monarch
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palate cleanser BlackLotus89 2 hours ago | prev | next [–] What the hell is wrong with the hn crowd here? Why is everybody picking on that poor guy? Why are all the comments trying to paint the bleakest picture of him without knowing him or his wife? He wants to introduce linux to his wife and she fears that relearning everything will be hard. I'm sure he wont force linux down her throat if she says she can't use it and will gladly install her the OS she wants. I installed my family linux on their PC as well so that I could better support them. Most of them still use it happily and one used linux for a few tasks and windows for others. I couldn't imagine giving my wife windows support, but she still got a windows partition for a few games. Anyway.... Back to the topic If she does as little with windows as it sounds don't do anything fancy. Give her shortcuts on the desktop or in the favs and enable her to use her PC for what she does without distraction. Introduce the laptop parallel to her old laptop and let her try it first. If she doesn't like it you can dual boot windows or just install her windows. Don't try to hard making it like windows try making it easy to use. If you go the windows route don't forget "open shell" and "o&o shutup" are essentials for a minimal migration from win7 to win10. Powertoys are nice as well. reply
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using power toys with the wife is a must 
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the hackers are absolutely distraught right now. they are weeping and sobbing over the death of the queen
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dang got in quick with a "you will be banned if you say anything bad about the queen" post
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hn thread: please no railing against "the nobility" like it's 1770
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i wonder what happened to the free speech and no taboo topics lol
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well obviously anything that the community generally regards as immoral or tasteless isn’t allowed. but nothing is taboo, we’re free thinkers here
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punished milkman posted:the hackers are absolutely distraught right now. they are weeping and sobbing over the death of the queen Bootlickers are the same the world over.
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Nomnom Cookie posted:well obviously anything that the community generally regards as immoral or tasteless isn’t allowed. but nothing is taboo, we’re free thinkers here free as in free from thinking
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NihilCredo posted:and you thought electron apps were wasteful
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lol billions for chromium, I didn't realize it cost that much for them to fork webkit and add web trackers
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Agile Vector posted:lol billions for chromium, I didn't realize it cost that much for them to fork webkit and add web trackers hey, don't underestimate the cost of repeatedly and intentionally breaking poo poo to force users of google services to use the google browser and ramming forward new apis that by complete coincidence impede ad blocking and make users easier to fingerprint
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I bet there are easily a thousand people at Google easily who got paid a million dollars each for their work on Chromium, whether that took 3 months or 3 years to accrue in the individual cases. plus paying $1/install for a long time and whatever you estimate the value to be of having an ad for the software on the Google search (not results) page at various times plus acquisitions like GreenBorder and whatever the VP8 company was called you can get to billions, I bet
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just generate all useful inputs into a hash table and ship it in the browser. use cam feed with ai to determine what the user wanted to see. bing bong simple
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it is a fun thought experiment though. just rip out the css parser from chrome and instead ship a ml model that applies styles based on the content. allow prompting this ml model so you can write 'amberpos' in the settings and break your web browsing experience in style.
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4lokos basilisk posted:just generate all useful inputs into a hash table and ship it in the browser. use cam feed with ai to determine what the user wanted to see. bing bong simple just handwaving "user interacts with framebuffer" it's the most "i am a very smart backend software engineer, user interfaces are for nontechnical children" thing
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:it is a fun thought experiment though. just rip out the css parser from chrome and instead ship a ml model that applies styles based on the content. allow prompting this ml model so you can write 'amberpos' in the settings and break your web browsing experience in style. the result will be half broken all the time so yeah I guess it's an adequate replacement for whatever garbage web devs usually write by hand
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Internet Janitor posted:just handwaving "user interacts with framebuffer" if user interaction with framebuffer would be in any way a good solution, we would all be programming on touchscreens well maybe this is op’s irl gimmick
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I think the “render webpages by predicting the content with ML” was tongue in cheek but I guess it’s impossible to tell??
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don’t think it was glib ly3xqhl8g9 5 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] Sure, I was merely thinking out loud (bad move it seems from the children comments) how to solve the "need billions, got maybe millions" issue, and since I can't get stable diffusion out of my mind, as everyone recently, I just saw it as a possible light at the end of the tunnel: why not let the machine implement the specification. I am all for going back at the roots, but at the root of all the roots is the enduser: the machine must do something useful, otherwise it's a niche postmodernist art contraption (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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intense vibes of someone who mastered one (1) complex technical concept and now everything looks like a nail e: lol stable diffusion is the thing they use to create ai images, i doubt that person understands how that process works beyond the bare bare basics 4lokos basilisk fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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while the idea of building a functional browser on it is ridiculous, ml-based web page rendering sounds like a fun project which could have amusing results
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adolph 19 hours ago | prev | next [–] DNS is a scam and has been from the start. It’s just SEO with the gravitas of ICAN and the combined biz ethos of payday lending and rental furniture. Just market your IPv6 and self-sign your certs. Provide a hosts file for people who really want to type something in to Mosaic but don’t know how.
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4lokos basilisk posted:intense vibes of someone who mastered one (1) complex technical concept and now everything looks like a nail with that strategy they should be pitching LPs, not posting on HN
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hey have you ever considered just simply outputting the adequate frame buffer, dumbass
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