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I suppose so, but it's a bit elaborate for the purpose. I was hoping to discover that the system allows nested folders, but couldn't get that far. If it did, you could just put the folder SymLink inside.

In the end, it wouldn't run. May revisit is a few releases down the road.

Still installing. If it can read nested folders, yes.

Interesting, and I look forward to using it, but I wish the distribution had kept the folder-name conventions of AUTOMATIC1111, so that we could more easily have used symbolic links for folders of LoRAs and checkpoints etc. that we'd rather not duplicate.

True about archive.is being probably more at risk than WayBack Machine. I just don't know when I'll ever get the 2-3 days necessary to additionally back the posts up at WM, because each save is very slow.

It handles some of the more complex formatting better, and succeeds better in simplifying complex CSS and templates. Also better latency, usually.

I have noticed this at some of the sites I used to write for. Hence, as soon as I put a new piece up, I archive it at archive.is, and include that reference in my site's list of my work. Periodically, I should go there and check each one, but there's a lot of material.

I did not know that this was a possible motivation as to why my more 'historic' work is disappearing, though.

I don't know - I think somebody needs to name the bubble of conceit that came into the world when photography was invented, since that created a philosophical issue, rather than a resolution issue. We went from an implicit understanding that newspaper engravings were 'representational' to a blind belief that photographs were records of the real world, notwithstanding that they were being manipulated and selectively used (first for amusement, later for propaganda, etc.) right from the start. Until we name it, the distinction between porn pencil drawings and photorealistic depictions doesn't have any supporting and exclusive definitions and terminology.

Sorry, really, as I was very willing to consider cancelling my Netflix subscription when they 'cracked down' in my country. It happened two weeks ago, but my girlfriend wants to keep Netflix, so we're keeping it.

I only retained the subscription over the last five years, as the quality and worth of the catalog dropped, because I could share it with my mid-80s father and his wife (and two friends, though my father's share was the main motivation).

Sadly this probably also applies to the Reddit crunch, which will rob me of Apollo in 20 days time, and cut my Reddit usage by about 80% - I guess no-one ever went broke relying on the stickiness of lowest-common-denominator users.

The outlier life is really starting to suck. I already de-Googled and de-Dropboxed myself last year (well, 90%) with Fastmail and Syncthing; went back to the high seas and dropped Amazon; but I'm kind of relying on some new movement or surge of enthusiasm to save Reddit's utility in some other form than the random and non-indexed chaos of Discord (since Discord is about three years away from its own enshittification, if it gets enough traction).

What a great piece. Glad to see it on front page of HN.

I worked for years in retail, in camera shops, and I understand the episodic hilarity and mundane heartbreak of a career in service. But it was washing dishes in a restaurant, my first ever job, that made me aware of the time-pressure intensity of food service, and that it's a lower-risk version of the old space/air travel aphorism: 'Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror'.

You work a whole shift, but only a slim segment of it matters, when work and concentration become hyper-compressed. Dishes break, people break, and there are no breaks - it continues relentlessly like a forced march, without reflection, until the blessed first minutes where you sense that it's beginning to abate.

If you're of a reflective mood, you think to yourself not only that the frantic and merciless nature of the job will never change (even if the restaurant closes, the same experience is happening in an endless continuum all over the city), but that it has probably been like this for as long as there has been civilization - a millennial succession of workers (slaves, the earlier back you go), chopping vegetables and scraping plates (copper plates, if you go back far enough), back to dining establishments and the kitchens of the influential in Roman times, Egyptian times.

It's a strange thing, but participating in these activities that are most visceral and least threatened by automation, they feel like a kind of time travel, or like being in one of the less objectionable circles in hell.

We've always been at lunch with Oceania!

> Damn Romanians!

Not even Romanian! (Brit transplant)

> VPN, big proxy, or some other contributing factor?

My big crime is that I live in Romania, I think.

Anecdata, but I can confirm a uniform and long-standing experience that adding colon-based operators to a search query results in a CAPTCHA challenge every single time on a subsequent search, even if the subsequent search is 'vanilla' (i.e., no operators). Has been like this more years now than I can remember. Apparently this kind of 'advanced' usage is indication of bot activity.

I am lucky enough to live in a time-zone where this crisis happened while I was asleep. Woke up to find that some network event had clearly happened, but that the pending Asus AC88U update that I had been putting off for months auto-triggered. So far, all normal.

Great to see this criminally under-regarded SF classic on the front page of HN.

My problem is the assumption by authors that the project being installed is the only one on the machine, and the fact that projects get so tied to particular versions of libraries. Therefore installing the PyTorch specified in this version is likely to be injurious to other existing installations, unless you handle it all in a Conda wrapper.

I still feel cheated of a novel take by this reboot of the franchise. Even the 'blue eye' effect in this trailer is a carbon-copy of David Lynch's and Anthony Masters' 1984 version, with the sclera tinted blue (which is not an intuitive way to create an artificial blue-eyed effect). I actually liked the earlier version, and it would be easier to like Villeneuve's take if it owed nothing to Lynch's. But he can't seem to 'unsee' the 1980s version.

Well, I wouldn't necessarily agree with the numbers. But I certainly would rather see a washer being changed in a YT video than explained in Substack, I grant you that.

A huge number of instructional videos would be far better-served in an illustrated post on Substack. For instance, there are a ton of Stable Diffusion instruction videos that feature essential code and other text-based information which is very hard to make usable with video content. In many cases I have had to download the video and export it raw in AviDemux in order to try and glean the text-based content from the source.

But Substack doesn't have the same sweet 'influencer' ecostructure, so many creators and posters would rather put a tute in the wrong medium and get the 'follower' benefit than suit the material to the medium.

Second this. I De-Googled/De-Dropboxed my life about 15 months ago with the help of Syncthing, and a third-party cloud backup provider (the '1' in my 3-2-1) strategy, and I haven't looked back.

Browser support (including Safari support) is the main reason why expensive desktop Macs eventually become paperweights, as has happened to my father in the last year. Safari, Firefox, Chrome, all stuck at ancient and insecure versions, with the web slowly breaking on these older browsers.

Despite how glossy and powerful the machine still is, if it doesn't have a working web browser it's only semi-valid. Watched my Dad go through this three times in the last 20 years, and no stranger to it myself. My own current Macbook Air is just a thin client for a Remote Windows instance, but I suppose eventually that the browser interface for that is going to become a problem too, when it 'ages out'.

I wish these schemes would stop using Discord. It's just a cheap grab at building a community where one might not gather naturally, and the generative grunt that goes into public Discord prompts would be just the same in a logged-in API such as ChatGPT.

At a macro level, this is the only reason I miss smoking. I used to solve problems during a smoke-break, and there's no compelling way to simulate it (however, I have no regrets about giving that habit up).

I have a number of personal development projects that I consider critical for my existence. One is to learn the language of the country I'm in; another is to go to the gym 3-4 times a week (75% of my sessions are currently with a trainer, because I'm new to it, started about three months ago).

And a recent 'wear away the stone' project was to earn X$ per month writing about AI, which took five years, beginning from some very humble pay checks.

But these are not 'vanity' projects: the latter was obviously pivotal to my survival, as I'm not independently wealthy, and had no job when I migrated; my motivation for the gym is that I have suffered from depression for forty years, and pushing myself physically and engaging with my body is the most effective treatment (albeit found late in life) I have ever come across to massively alleviate this (hence looking better, muscles, etc. is just collateral benefit); and the need to speak the language of my adopted country is obvious.

Sure, there are other things I have persisted in and improved in because they massively accord with my interests and enthusiasm, but those three projects are my demonstration to myself that persistence, while not a magic bullet (some people are never going to make it in Hollywood, for instance), is as near to a magic bullet for personal transformation as most of us are ever likely to have access to.

The gym is the one that fascinates me most at the moment; I look around me, as a relative newcomer, and wonder at the motivation behind the incredible bodies you see there. Are they all sprouting out from some deep psychological need? Even if it's 'just' vanity, it would have to qualify as pathological - as my own reason for being there is.

So I am interested in people who will go through these kind of pain and boredom barriers for less intense reasons, if indeed they exist.

I used to work at a well-known (all over the world) British magazine, where employees regularly received new titles unaccompanied by corresponding pay-rises. After a while we started an ongoing office meme about being promoted to 'Grand Vizier', and other meaningless and cheap 'title rewards'.

I think it's pretty obvious that autoencoder deepfake tech and similar technologies are going to be useful, maybe even essential in visual effects. The perceived problem seems to be that the 'irresponsible rabble' also have access to it.

But as the barrier to entry for really convincing output goes up (768px /1024px training pipelines, and beyond), and it suddenly becomes something that one person alone can't really do well any more, the 'amateur' stuff is going to look far worse to people than it does now. You just have to wait for that barrier to rise, and I can tell you as a VFX insider that that is happening right now.

Deepfakes are the reverse of CGI, which began as an inaccessible technology and gradually became accessible, before the scale of its use in VFX reversed that again.

Now, assuming you can either afford or will pirate the right software, you could probably match any CGI VFX shot in a major blockbuster if you gave up your job and worked on it non-stop for a year of 18-hour days (assuming you'd already been through the steep learning curve of the pipeline). So it's out of reach, really, and so will the best deepfakes be.

This stuff everyone is so scared of will end up gate-kept, if only for logistical reasons (never mind any new laws that would address it) - at least at the quality that's so feared in these comments.

Too right. I only got the 4-person NF account for my elderly Dad. If he's out, I'm unsubscribing and going back to the high seas for their content. What a shame - four years ago was truly the golden age.

I have a friend in Germany who gives up smoking for the entirety of Lent. It always seemed so stupid to me, since if I could have given up for that long, I wouldn't have gone back. I was a smoker for many decades who gave up three months ago, and feel kind of cheated by how easy it was and how little I miss it (wish I had done it far, far earlier).

Yup - I go back to my native London from eastern Europe once a year, and it's frustrating not to have access to an oven or hob, when I am suddenly surrounded by so much vegan choice (compared to Bucharest, which is still way better than the rest of Romania in this regard).

I've been vegetarian (99% vegan food intake) for five years, and the main reason I regularly buy so few of these products is that most of them are absurdly expensive, and most of the ones that aren't are not very nice to eat.

Also turned off by gimmicks clearly not aimed at me, such as 'beetroot blood', and other nonsense.

I don't know whether the economy-of-scale issues are what make these products so expensive, or whether the manufacturers were rubbing their hands together at a possible inroad into a wealthy 'hipster' market, and priced their wares accordingly.

I do know that the prices have to come down before I will even start experimenting with some of these offerings. Right now I have zero motivation to 'treat myself' by trying an overpriced vegan burger that is too expensive to become a regular purchase.