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Show HN: Feedback on Sketch Colourisation

https://github.com/CHAITron/sketchdeco-code

Hi I am looking for some feedback on our new project "Sketch Colourisation". The envisioned UI and objectives are --* An artist should have greater control on how to colour a sketch. While a text-to-image model lacks this fine-grained control, a per-pixel colourisation pipeline makes sketch colourisation a laborious process with high-entry barrier.* What if an artist only draws a mask for a...

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Yup, from Kolkata !! This is a pleasant surprise :D
super useful! I was wanted some pointers like this. Thank you.
or you can use AdBlockers -- I bet the infra people will love it :p
Exactly! This was my go-to approach for reducing storage costs. Customers don't get spooked when they get an extra 1s delay for something they search once in a month. However, an extra 30ms delay in "everyday content" is a sure way to loose your users.

However, implementing this in practice is non-trivial. Knowing what is "everyday content" versus what is "once a month content".

To add more complexity -- you have these semi-predictable hype-waves especially two peaks in case of most YT videos where a "once-a-month" content becomes an "everyday" content before again becoming a "once-a-month" content. It feels you could specifically optimise for this -- reduce storage costs without sacrificing UX.

Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views). Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues,...

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