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So not only it is web scale capable, it is now AI-scale capable
Re:Nano Banana 2 Lite on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:41PM (#48738186)
This!!

2 months ago while looking for apartments, the majority of the pics shown were generated by AI. The pictures generated by AI often looked much more brighter, cleaner and larger and when I visited them in person, they were the opposite. I wasted so much time visiting due to this.

I understand the intention but the pictures are so wrong most of the time and hide so much imperfection that it should be illegal for false advertisement.

Re:Six Degrees of Wikipedia on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:44PM (#38714653)
I built a similar website this summer https://wikisp.fanor.dev ! The source code is also open source https://github.com/haskaalo/wikisp

Its built from Wikipedia dumps in July. Links in articles shouldn't have changed much by now but updating the data set takes quite a long time!

One of my first project that taught me that gathering and cleaning data in data science is a long task, even if automated.

They're starting to enable it by default recently
Re:What went wrong with Snap, Netflix and Uber? on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @11:57AM (#33422985)
Snapchat is the only real social media app in my opinion. People seems to use it to actually connect with their friends via Stories, Messages and even SnapMaps. They don't mindless scroll like on other social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, etc...

However, it seems like Snapchat hasn't gotten that so they keep pushing useless content like Discover and Spotlight...

Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:48PM (#33333089)
I'm French Canadian and because of this I have two keyboard languages. French Canadian and English (Canada).

Before, when I'd press FN to change my keyboard language, I used to see "French Canada" and "English Canada". Now I just see "Canada" and "Canada - CSA".

This is a weird change.

Re:Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:56PM (#32256851)
Everytime I get on Facebook, the navbar seems to have a new combination.

Watch, Gaming (Streaming), Dating, Marketplace, "News" Feed, Shop, Groups, Home, etc... These could all be different applications under the same login.

Kylie Jenner is right (for once)... Nobody knows what Facebook or Instagram is for nowadays.

Reddit - Communities and memes

Snapchat - Sending snaps and watching stories of your actual friends

Tiktok - Fast paced entertainment (Short videos)

Twitter - What's happening right now?

Instagram and Facebook is trying to be all of those at the same time.

Re:GitHub Code Search (Preview) on Saturday July 02, 2022 @10:53PM (#31964630)
Will this require a subscription like Github Copilot?
Re:How We Built r/Place (2017) on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:09AM (#30919174)
During the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to place pixels.

However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.

At this point, I think phones can be compared to a home in terms of privacy.

In your house, you might have private documents, do some things you don't want other people to have or see just like what we have on our phones nowadays.

The analogy I'm trying to make is that if suddenly the government decided to install cameras in every houses with the premise to make sure no pedophile is abusing a child and that the cameras never send data unless the AI done locally detects it is something that I believe would shock everyone.

> Like if we stopped all CO2 emissions would it really help?

I assume yes. Right now CO2 emissions outnumbers the rate plants transform CO2 to O2.

Re:What the Hell Happened to Mint? on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:18PM (#27638141)
I still have to manually mark all my transactions between my account as a transfer, otherwise it categorize it as "Mortgage payment"

Honestly, I am thinking of just moving to YNAB

Re:Psilocybin 'promising' for depression on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:59PM (#26824763)
I have had many psychedelics experience during the last 2 years but I've only had the opportunity to try mushrooms once.

They definitely are powerful and healing, however I believe the only safe path shrooms will take in our society is national legalization for use in therapy and not recreational use.

My main argument is the following: legalization for recreational use will trivialize the image of psilocybin in the eyes of the population, and we will start to see an increase in "bad experiences" due to people using it without having a trip sitter or preparation. Therefore, legalizing it only for therapy use will be more beneficial for the general population.

Decriminalization is an option, but legalization ehhh.

Have you looked into the bitcoin lightning network? Iirc, it has a much more bigger transaction per second rate than Visa network.
Re:250M people participate in nationwide strike in India on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:31AM (#25265994)
Did you read the article or simply took a look at the images?
Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:14PM (#25102739)
Awesome! In Canada they just announced the ban of new petrol cars from 2035
How can they make sure that the mass produced version of the vaccine doesn't have a "mutation" (extra/missing nucleotide) in some shots while producing the mRNA?
Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:28PM (#24840757)
I believe most home ISP doesn't support IPv6 in many countries like Canada. Thus, resulting in IPv4 still being considered as "default".

Also, with the increasing numbers of devices connected everyday, we're running out of IPv4. Think of the demand vs supply curve (demand high, supply low, result = higher price/ip)

You can check IPv6 adoption in each country here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

Re:Vine founder launches TikTok competitor on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:47AM (#22144968)
I don't think you fully know the whole story about Vine/TikTok/Byte.
Re:Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:12AM (#21897247)
Not from United States. However, wouldn't it increase the sales of the black market?
Re:Apple Mac Pro Available to Buy on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:58PM (#21754855)
No. Innovative.
Re:Why No One Wants to Back the Gun of the Future on Saturday April 14, 2018 @09:43PM (#16840625)
"To Read the Full Story, Sign In"

Who even do this?

Re:Ask HN: Image upload service on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:33PM (#16236369)
Create a S3 Bucket and create a AWS Lambda function to support upload.
I use https://git.io/vpn shell script, its easier
Re:Total.js Messenger – A small alternative to Slack on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:10AM (#14278619)
It support almost every language, SQL, HTML, JS and probably more.
Re:Total.js Messenger – A small alternative to Slack on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:46PM (#14275331)
Or just use Discord. Yes it is "meant" for gamer. But it does everything Slack already do. And better. My team use it.
Re:PuTTY 0.69 has been released on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:49AM (#14237413)
I've been using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows for the last 10 months instead of PuTTY. Pretty satisfied, it make operation on only linux easier.
Re:Ask HN: Is developing desktop app for Mac worth it? on Saturday April 15, 2017 @07:12PM (#14123373)
Yup! Take a look at Discord, they're really popular and they're using Electron for almost all of their applications.