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Article URL: https://diffusionillusions.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544348

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Article URL: http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabotage.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544322

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I've been avoiding instagram for a few years, as it feels very noisy and addictive. I'm starting to feel out of touch from friends though, so got wondering if I could build a tool to get just my friends updates, without all the other junk.

It turns out scraping my own profile and re-rendering a static webpage is quite a successful way to achieve that goal. It has no ads, no discovery injections, no trackers, no infinite scroll, no notifications. It does include stories and posts alongside each other. It does sort things based on recent updates. In the end, it proved better than I expected with a relatively small effort. I made it retro as well just for a fun throwback, and as a protest against the modern web!

It leans very heavily on the [instaloader package](https://instaloader.github.io/)and I'm quite grateful for the contributors there!

Repo is yours to use and build on, and feel free to contribute as well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544318

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Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/13/data-centers-power-grid-ohio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544313

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The recent progress in multi-modality retrieval is to augment image search with text instruction, so called Composite Image Retrieval (CIR). Related research includes https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-visualized and Google's https://open-vision-language.github.io/MagicLens/. We built a live demo for people to play with it and get a feeling of the quality of this retrieval approach.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544303

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I'd love your feedback on my latest project.

To try it for free, simply reply "@maplistbot create a list" to any thread with place recommendations. The bot will reply with a Google Maps link to your newly created list of places.

If you like it and want to explore the Pro features, use the code PH40 for a 40% discount. Pro Features include: - Lists include notes for each place - Unlimited places in the list (Free version is limited to 10) - Add places to your already existing Google Maps lists - Create lists by category. For example, create a list with the restaurants mentioned in the thread but ignore the sightseeing places.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544293

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Article URL: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/arts/daisuke-shimura-one-of-japans-most-inventive-plant-artists/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544292

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Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/09/12/taking-steps-that-drive-resiliency-and-security-for-windows-customers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544285

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Article URL: https://judoscale.com/blog/post-jamstack-just-use-rails

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544253

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightian_uncertainty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544208

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Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-09-earth-mini-moon-months.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544202

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRi6pNAoag

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544185

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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-10/us-economy-is-reshaped-by-covid-fueled-dating-recession

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544170

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Article URL: https://www.timescale.com/blog/rag-is-more-than-just-vector-search/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544120

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Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/10/politics/2023-census-median-income-data/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544107

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Article URL: https://thehustle.co/originals/the-experience-economy-is-booming-so-is-regret

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544101

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Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9247

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544100

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Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-biggest-bitcoin-mine-is-rattling-this-texas-oil-town/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544096

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I'm in Australia, and I work as a contractor on AU$1200/day (US$800, EU730, GBP610).

I'm a full-stack JS developer, I mainly build apps in React Native. Usually I'll come into an agency or a startup for 6 - 12 months and build an MVP, shaping the pre-launch product, system architecture, blueprint design, that sorta thing.

I've done this sort of contracting for ~10 years, and while it's fine it's starting to feel a bit stale for me.

I also have a family (and a mortgage) now, so I want to earn more money.

The problem: I earn ~AU$300k (US$200k, EU180k) as a contractor, yet the only full-time roles for a lead dev or tech lead here pay $160k - $180k.

So I can give up contracting for more career progression, but that means taking a massive pay cut.

I could also try to become one of those LevelsIo / MarcLou #buildinpublic "I earn $50k/mo!" guys, but at 37 with two toddlers I don't have the mental fortitude to post self-promotions on X and TikTok as often as this requires.

Has anyone been in this situation before? What did you do?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544083

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Article URL: https://triumphias.com/blog/talcott-parsons-theory-of-power/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544065

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