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The only thing you find on social media is influencers showing expensive cars. Good luck planning a holiday based on that.

We made this site for people who search. We were those people, searching Google for where to watch cars racing on the Nürburgring and then getting nothing but cryptic route descriptions on forums.

So we created a map with actual walking routes and people were finding them. Now they're not finding them and they're back to lots of searching.

We get some traction on social media too. But it's people who already go there and know a lot of what we provide already. People don't search Instagram for walking routes to POIs.

Definitely. All of them were affected equally, pretty much.

There really is none. A smart company would work with the 4 eyes principle though (still no guarantee).

However, if a company does find an unrelated e-mail they want to use against you (which is what most people fear), that makes them liable.

Europe isn't a single country

Correct, but it does have a single ECHR. Even though some countries still ignore them.

The rules on this vary across Europe

Not really, ECHR has already ruled on this.

It's pretty much only allowed if there's an important reason for it. For example, to recover something invaluable (contract, code, report) that isn't available somewhere else and cannot be replaced. In that case that's also the only thing that them employer can look for. They can't open obviously unrelated e-mails. So before talking to legal, make sure you have a valid reason.

Or, you know, pay for the content you consume.

Same with Optery shared below. I wonder if there are any European/International counterparts to these services.

I worked as a detective in the Netherlands and we had a single task; 'waarheidsvinding', which means 'finding the truth'. We didn't have the task of convicting someone or finding a crime, we had the task of finding the truth. So in a case like this, that meant finding out exactly why someone jumped or fell from a balcony.

Maybe not, but some cooling means less servers to shut down.

I feel like this one is impossible to do right. On one side, it's people like you saying: 'government oversight is hurting our innovation'. Directly opposed is: 'AI Companies are growing too fast and something bad will happen if oversight doesn't come soon.'

I agree with both and really don't have a clue what's the wise thing to do. I think it's probably the oversight thing, but since other countries will definitely compete without this oversight, someone will eventually release SkyNet. But do we want to be the first?

I don't know...

Yeah, technically it's a pretty cool concept, but 'privacy risk' is way ahead of the real world.

For giggles I asked ChatGPT to write a typical SEO optimized recipe. It picked cookies and started with:

"Ah, the sweet aroma of freshly baked cookies! It always takes me back to my grandmother's cozy kitchen, where the warmth wasn't just from the oven, but also from the love and laughter we shared."

It's always impressive (almost scary) how well ChatGPT manages to work with these types of prompts.

I also almost never use apps like dedicated banking apps or social media apps; instead, using Safari.

Nearly every bank I know of recommends using apps over their website, since in general they're safer than using their websites. But I'm in The Netherlands and I don't know whether banking apps in different countries have the same security standards.

I was unaware of this act before reading this, but I kinda like it. My current employer wants to do the absolute minimum in securing the software they develop. However, it's used at in organizations working on national energy and communications infrastructure, so it's somewhat important for it to be secure.

Meanwhile, we're way behind on updating much of our infrastructure and hardly ever check whether any of the open source libraries we use are up-to-date, nor whether they're reliable. I really hope this legislation pushes companies like mine to improve their software development practices, because I'm scared of the future.

I feel like blaming guns might upset some people, but I don't feel like this type of thing happens as much in the rest of the western world, where gun laws are typically a lot stricter.

I think they tested without preconditioning the battery

This sounds feasible, I didn't think of that one!

Where does the huge difference in charging losses come from? Tesla, for example, is 10x lower than most of the cars at the top.

Much appreciated! And right back at ya!

Unless literally all headlines around this subject are incorrect (which wouldn't be the first time), Italy banned cultivated meat:

Italian MPs have voted to back a law banning the production, sale or import of cultivated meat or animal feed

My Italian isn't good enough to actually judge whether this is a case of mistranslation or misinterpretation, so if you have any more nuanced quotes please provide some.

If Jews can have Kashrut and Muslims can only eat halal food (basically everything, except pork and its by-products), we can say no to lab grown food.

As an agnostic person who believes church and state should be very separate, you make the perfect argument for why I think this law is stupid. If you don't want to drink alcohol, smoke, eat pork or lab grown meat, go ahead. But don't force others into your religious ways of doing through restrictive laws. Just don't buy that stuff at the grocery store.

very shortsighted

While the western world is getting angry about change, China is out eating our lunch by moving into all these emerging technologies. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a conscious effort to push conservative extremism in western countries for this exact reason.

If I just look around in my country, new electric cars are quickly becoming mostly Chinese and most solar panels are Chinese. Meanwhile, a very large group just voted for a party that wants to stop pretty much every investment in renewables, while also pushing out migrants in an already very tight and quickly aging labor market.

In the long term, our own bigotry and climate denialism is going to severely bite us in the ass. Especially since we're already barely above sea level.

I remember when you shared the first version on HN, I was totally impressed with what my little phone could do. It was my first step of many into the incredible world of SD. I never expected this app to be maintained this long and especially this actively. And all of this for free.

So thank you very much for your work!

PS, will you be adding Turbo directly to the app in the near future?

Actually, no. This is just another example of a headline leaving out important details of the actual case. In this case the plaintiff actually named the AI as the producer, not themselves. From the case:

"the sole issue of whether a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement"

This leaves a lot of wiggle room for AI created art with some form of human involvement. I.E. import the generated image into Photoshop and edit it. Perform some inpainting to improve certain parts. Possibly even prompting and configuring things in Automatic1111 might be regarded as human involvement.

This is going to bring many legal procedures before there's a clear answer to whether AI generated art can be copyrighted.

I'm just going out on a limb here, but a paid service needs to be good with limited input. I've used SD locally quite a lot and it takes quite a bit of work through x/y plots to find combinations of settings that produce good images somewhat consistently. Even when using decent fine tunings from CivitAI.

When I use a decent paid service, pretty much every prompt gives me a good response out of the box. Which is good, because otherwise I'd have no use for paid services, since I can run it all locally. This causes me to go to a paid service whenever I want something quick, but don't need full control. When I do want full control, I stick to my local solution, but that takes a lot more time.

And often there's also an invisible consumer rights 'tax' on top. Since online purchases and warranty are quite heavily regulated in Europe, sellers often add some margin to cover the extra costs this might bring.

I work for a company like this right now. About the same number of employees, same mistakes and same time to market on innovative stuff. Here's my two cents on how this can happen:

Which product manager in his/her right mind

There is no product manager. There is a project manager. They steer on deadlines and functionality, nothing more.

How do these managers get jobs in these big name companies?

Because they talk well and they've delivered before. Have they delivered something good and secure? Nobody cares, deadlines were met and functionality was shipped.

I notice the same in IT sales. Sell too much for too little, collect bonus and move on. Nobody comes back to you if the project fails or becomes too expensive and if they do, you blame the one engineer you had glance over the proposal before sending it to the client.

It's the best way to uncover shoddy dev and security practices

As a project manager, that's the last thing you want. First, it'll show what you didn't manage well. Secondly, it costs money. Finally, negative findings will delay delivery and means you failed to deliver on time, which is your only priority.

Maybe I sound overly cynical, but I've seen this exact thing happen everywhere, from small firms to Fortune 500 to government.

For some reason the thought of Microsoft AGI brought my brain to the concept of a literal Blue Screen of Death.

Isn't the CEO who arranged that now working for Microsoft? Interesting turn of events.

You can tell Instagram not to show you those kinds of videos. It takes persistence, but it really helps clean up your feed.