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prakhar897··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
Thanks!! I'll add a "Past Games" section from where you can play more if you want.
prakhar897··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
Thanks :)
prakhar897··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
I'm able to use this on my Iphone browser. Can you elaborate if you're facing any difficulties?
prakhar897··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
Nice Observation!! I'm thinking including a start and end mark to improve the UX would work well. I can't avoid wrapping as the prompt might be very large.
prakhar897··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
Thanks!! I'm debating whether to show history of images as it will reduce the difficulty by a lot. Larger images is a great suggestion, I'll add them ASAP.
prakhar897··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
I'm in a kind of same boat. I think indie games are the way to show true potential of SD.

Hence, I'm working on http://diffudle.com/ which is a mix of Wheel Of Fortune + Stable Diffusion + Wordle. I Can't figure it out but feels to me like its lacking something.

prakhar897··on Ask HN: What benifits does Password Managers actually provide?
Can you elaborate why?

I understand all the data must be hashed before storing using a "central key". But this just means delegating the power to the key holder. Am I missing something?

prakhar897··on Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked documents
But it’s not. You can see here now that everyone is aware of these bad practices by amazon. This means less people apply and even lesser accept the position. This leads to more time and resources taken for hiring and giving higher wages eventually to compete.

You can see that even though amazon mass hires candidates, they still have to shell out more salaries than say Google and Microsoft. It’s easier to fix bad salary+good wlb reputation (by increasing salary) than fixing good salary + bad wlb reputation (idk how they can even do it).

prakhar897··on Ask HN: Good Resources for Microgrants/Microfunding?
Thanks for your response. I've already looked into this list. The grants are either inactive or specific to individual causes. I've applied to the ones I could.
prakhar897··on Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring
As a user, FB is a hot mess rn so much so that I'm forced to switch to other apps. 8/10 posts are either sponsored or "suggested" by some random page. It's like watching 30 mins of ad to watch 1 min of video on youtube. When I instictively open the app, the first 10 posts (ads) help me in breaking the habit.
prakhar897··on Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
I built a tool for Web Journalists to create headlines. The idea is to give them generic examples which can help in their brainstorming so they can come up with an actual good headline easily.

Created the whole site with complete Auth, Billing etc but lost interest when tried to actually market it. I started creating this when I saw someone make >10k$ launching something similar on producthunt. I thought I can make some ez money too.

https://headlineheroapp.herokuapp.com/

Edit: Buy Now won't work because Stripe credentials are expired.

prakhar897··on So I took a corporation to arbitration
IMO the author could've elaborated in the email on how the company is deliberately trying to deny their responsibility for the actions and how the arbitration clause is added in bad faith and has created a dark pattern which harms the consumers nationwide. This means (I'm not a lawyer) the person on the other side might get scared about a class action suit.
prakhar897··on In defense of coding interviews
> I had one person start crying they put so much pressure on themselves, I had to take a two week break from interviewing after that.

Because you asked them question out of syllabus. Was the person informed that the interview wouldn't involve Leetcode?

The person spent months prepping Leetcode just to get into BigTech and then you come out of woodwork with your "special" interviewing material. Imagine prepping for a calculus test for months and then the teacher comes out and takes a "simple" test on trignometry. Would you be able to do it? Not only that, all his/her friends got a normal calculus test which they passed with flying colors.

prakhar897··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Yours is great but I love this one :)

https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/

prakhar897··on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
This is Amazon 100%.
prakhar897··on The Spanish PM and the defence minister were infected by Pegasus (in Spanish)
Functionality and Security are inversely proportional to each other. If you introduce a "Play Store" in a phone, the security risk automatically increases billion times. In an ideal world, There would be some special devices which have very limited set of functionalities inbuilt like calls, message etc which is used by world leaders to communicate.
prakhar897··on Indian cows and buffaloes are going online
Because middlemen take your money and never give u cows. Generic facilities such as Police, law are not available for poor rural farmers in india. Moving cows is another big headache, people often run away with them.
prakhar897··on Launch HN: Azuki (YC W22) – All-you-can-read manga subscription
A long time ago, I used to read mangas on Mangarock. It was completely free to and seemed to have most of the mangas. So, what value are u adding here?
prakhar897··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
When daylight savings time is implemented, SCHOOLS, EMPLOYERS AND ALL OTHER COMMERCE times are changed. Thus, When it is removed, all places will change time accordingly.
prakhar897··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
Yes, it will be. Schools should adjust time according to the season. Time shouldn't adjust itself according to the school.
prakhar897··on Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
Do you think the stock will go 10x or 100000000x. Every single human on the planet needs only what only u can provide. Do the math again. Also its not 1 in 50 but 1 in 50000
prakhar897··on Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview
We can already automate leetcode interviews much more easily then why don't we do it? Because people cheat. U can ask your competitive coder friend or search google to get the answers. Similarly, here also friends can give the complete solutions even more easily. Heck there are sites dedicated to these kinds of services. This leads to following consequences:

1. In both automated leetcode and automated "coding" interviews, most people get full score. This even turns into a negative bias as an actual good candidate who did not cheat has greater chance of getting rejected here than the cheaters.

2. Interviewers put both automated leetcode and in-person leetcode to first filter out candidates, then put them through actual interview hoops. If your product succeeds, this means another layer of "interviewing" and more wastage of engineer's time.

Sorry to say this isn't solving any problem but has the potential to create more harm for both sides.

prakhar897··on Ask HN: Is the Chernobyl Reactor Leaking?
https://web.archive.org/web/20210922063854/https://www.savee... https://web.archive.org/web/20210922063854/https://www.savee...

74 snapshots since 2018. The specific radiation map has been snapshotted yesterday only which seems concerning.

prakhar897··on Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?
Currently, I'm approaching this from another angle. Instead of giving training data, I'm trying to use the same inferences vets use to determine if the dog is in pain. For ex: if the dog has flattened ears or grimacing look.

I'm still reading research papers to figure what's the best way to approach this problem. This is just the first step and I'll see what can be done regarding collecting data later on.

prakhar897··on Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?
I'm trying to create a ML model which can detect if my dog is in pain just by looking at its face. Maybe, I'll create an app for it too if it works well.
prakhar897··on Heuristics that almost always work
1. I think the author forgot the term "Anomaly Detection" and is trying to reinvent it. Also, Anomaly or "Sensing something is wrong" is one of the most basic human instinct.

2. >By this time they were 100% cultists, so they all consulted the rock and said “No, the volcano is not erupting”. The sulfur started to smell different, and the Queen asked “Are you sure?”

Even the queen deciphered that something is wrong without any volcano knowledge. The author itself is providing an example of human instinct without acknowledging it,

3. The author assumes all guards as the same when in fact they all are different individuals. Sure most of them might be lousy at their jobs but there will be some who understand how rare the "robbery event" is and so will still look when there's sound.

4. The examples suffer from cold start problem. What if robbery happens the first month of a new guard. Will he still be asleep? If not, then Utility (hiring a guard in all cases) > Utility (not hiring a guard).

5. As another commentor mentioned that the value of having a security guard visible so that 99% of the robbers who might conceivably want to rob decides to go someplace else instead.

6. Contrarionism is seen as a virtue by certain people hence "I don't like this generation's music" and "Popular thing bad" phenomenon. Also, they make sure to be as loud as possible whenever their contradiction is right. This helps humanity in mentally modelling rare events.

All in all, the author is underestimating the capabilities of humans and humanity.

prakhar897··on Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list
Care to elaborate? Seems a perfectly reasonable comment to me.
prakhar897··on 1Password Has Raised $620M
Skimming through their jobs board. Their are approx 100 "talent acquisition" roles open. Engineering is like 20 roles. What the hell are they going to do with so many recruiters?
prakhar897··on The Capital Sponge
As mentioned above, asian markets performs better but the currency also get devalued consistently which eats into the gains dollarwise.
prakhar897··on The Capital Sponge
Damodaran gave a neat insight on this. "Equities are expensive. Against what? History? We can't go back in time and buy stocks. If we take out money from stocks, where will we park it." Emerging markets exposes to forex risks. Real estate, gold, bonds does not give much returns, crypto is even more riskier. There is nowhere else for money to go.
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