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throwoutway··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
> Nearby, anthropomorphic fruits play beach volleyball.

This is missing from the image. The generated image looks well, but while reading the prompt I was surpised it was missing

throwoutway··on Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search
This is to prevent securities fraud (frivolous) lawsuits. OpenAI launched a search thing so If MSFT don't list it as a competitor, then someone would one day sue them for securities fraud https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
throwoutway··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
A pilot WILL land, even without clearance. They're not going to crash their own plane. Either way, ATC has fallback procedures and can just use radio to communicate and manage everything manually. Get all the planes on the ground in safe order and then wait for a fix before clearing new takeoffs. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43379/is-there-...
throwoutway··on Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
Looks beautiful! While I mostly read on kindle, this makes me want to setup a new Ubuntu install. Haven't had that feeling in a while
throwoutway··on Vinyl-on-demand service will press anything you want
You're right, looks like they doubled the price
throwoutway··on Immich Progress Update [July 2024]
Does this make you uncomfortable? was excited til I saw it

> The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!

throwoutway··on Nvidia NVLink Switch Chips Change to the HGX B200
> That DeepLearning12 build cost a lot. For example, we had to get a $350 torque driver that could hit the tolerances needed not to crack the NVIDIA P100 GPUs. I was in the data center starting to install these, and one of our kind readers who worked on the Baidu AI research cluster in that same data center stopped me, letting me know I might break the GPUs if the torque was not perfect. Indeed, the worst story I heard about this was that HPE broke several V100 generation GPUs due to torque/ thermal paste thickness.

This is scary to me!

throwoutway··on US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris
I can't sleep if the temperature is a few degrees warmer than normal. Imagine training for 4+ years and then not sleeping before the biggest event of your life, because of poor planning. Consistency is key for these atheletes.

If emissions were a big enough issue for the hosts, then they shouldn't be flying tens of thousands of tourists & atheletes to come watch some sports. AC units are a drop in the bucket.

throwoutway··on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'
This is what I expect will happen. Invest $10B (already happened), then invest another $5B for the sunk cost fallacy, then layoff and close (or divest if they're motivated enough). They'll write this off as a loss and the market will eventually forgive them as they chase the next buzz
throwoutway··on Boeing Starliner capsule's first crewed test flight postponed
It's going to launch on top of SLS going forward, which has its own one off bespoke design problem of its own
throwoutway··on [dead]
Obviously needs to be evaluated further. The images on the Mirror are too blurry and does not provide a direct link to the Google Maps location
throwoutway··on China builds first dedicated drone carrier
This is where China will win. They can out-produce the United States and withhold the components the US needs to build the swarms. The US needs to wake up that it's supply chain and manufacturing is not self-sufficient and they're dependent on it's future competition (China already calls the US 'the enemy').
throwoutway··on House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure
How do you know? That's the whole point of propaganda.
throwoutway··on Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case
There's a certain point between $5M and 4B where I wold just get out of dodge and buy a new identity.
throwoutway··on IINA – The modern media player for macOS
It can play YouTube playlists? Curious how this works and if it requires the browser extension?
throwoutway··on How to Start Google
Give yourself a break. When I studied in uni I was stuck at tables with 'old guys' and 'old ladies' and I had a lot of respect for them. They paid attention, wanted to learn, were there to learn. When I didn't understand something, I asked them before I asked the teacher and they generally were happy to help. I have fond memories
throwoutway··on Kagi and Wolfram
That just convinced me to sign up
throwoutway··on Making my bookshelves clickable
When I visit spines.com it does a redirect to a self-publishing tool called booxAI.com . I don't think that's what you were referring to, or did the spines tool sell their domain name?
throwoutway··on Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google
I'd say they took themselves too seriously, and rested on their high margin laurels for too long
throwoutway··on Visual calculus
Unfortunately, all the links/images in a primary source that the wiki uses are broken: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~mamikon/calculus.html
throwoutway··on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
Is it? Apple Silicon exists, but Apple created a translation layer above it so the transition could be smoother.
throwoutway··on New Bill Would Require Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in California
Seems the school board(s) can no longer be truste to do their job.
throwoutway··on Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers
Firecracker has often been recommended (here on HN and elsewhere) for a VM-for container-execution model : https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
throwoutway··on Senate tells social media CEOs they have 'blood on their hands'
> The only people to blame now are the parents.

That's a false dichotomy. I can blame myself for not keeping my family away from toxic algorithms, but I can also blame the facebook leadership for creating that monster. one that also infects every site I visit with trackers, and then uses that to push ads across my whole family.

throwoutway··on Senate tells social media CEOs they have 'blood on their hands'
Sugary soft drinks (Coke, Pepsi, etc) are higher on my list than cookies or cheesecake. Schools are startking to ban soda from being sold
throwoutway··on Netflix adds 13.1M subscribers, tops revenue estimates
Which subscription (so I can avoid it)?
throwoutway··on Top Cybersecurity watchdog issues emergency Ivanti directive to federal agencies
I meant from a scale perspective not the manner
throwoutway··on Top Cybersecurity watchdog issues emergency Ivanti directive to federal agencies
So a remote work backdoor had a vulnerability and now 1700 orgs (including federal agencies) were hacked since December? Is it too soon to compare this to solarwinds? After all they were both in December

> The program used by the agencies is called Ivanti Connect Secure, which allows employees to remotely connect to work.

> As news of the vulnerability has become widespread, at least 1,700 known organizations around the world have been hacked with it, Volexity has found.

throwoutway··on Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
Spotify product management has a history of not listening to customers, and thinking they know better, with lots of HN examples in threads about it
throwoutway··on "Elected leaders must tax us, the super rich. We'd be proud to pay more."
"Come and take it! Please, take it! I wish you would take it" .. but if you don't, I'll keep it
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