This looks very cool.
I really hope the results are not overly cherry-picked like Adobe's first version of the text-to-vector generation that only worked particularly well for the showcased art styles.
Readit News>He said the average age of anyone arrested for a crime in the U.S. is 37, while the average age of someone arrested for cybercrime is 19.
Indeed. So why is it that these billion-valued-companies can so easily be hacked by teenagers? Who would win: a trillion dollar industry of cyber security, or a bunch of bored outcast teenagers?
Because properly securing your systems is hard, especially if the attack surface is large. The attacker only needs to find a single weakness.
Furthermore, you don't hear from all the teenagers trying to find vulnerabilities across the web, just when there's headlines.
trox commented on Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022) rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories... · Posted by u/lhoff
> One of the things special to me about the night watch is that it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I saw it.
Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected:
- The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
- Guernica (Picasso)
- The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dalí)
Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture color or translucency in screen/page-presented imaging.
And so much of the European painting mastery in the 1400s+ is the manipulation of non-opaque paint to create a desired effect.
Aside from color and translucency, an original artwork shows also the relief. It can tell much about the creation process of a painting and adds additional texture.
Furthermore, some pigments were expensive and hard to work with prior to the 19th century such that artists used it very sparingly.
trox commented on Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M theblock.co/post/311707/g... · Posted by u/svenfaw
Looks like a typo. Although the initial 4.6 million barely sorta existed in the same sense that all these crypto fortunes did, I assumed they were referring to the +2 million growth as being a further fabrication on top of it.
Further down the article, the lawsuit is cited:
"As a result of Google’s material misrepresentations and other deceptive conduct, Ms. Vaca has been significantly damaged, including, but not limited to, financial losses of more than $5 Million, severe emotional and psychological distress, and the loss of the real estate business she spent most of her adult life trying to build," her lawsuit states.
So according to the article she did inverst the 4.6m.
trox commented on Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org idw-online.de/en/news7815... · Posted by u/endymi0n
If you've ever wondered about the unusual arXiv.org website favicon:
The original logo was a skull with bones as reference to the piratey nature of distributing preprints without the publisher's consent. The smiley face was added later in order to make it less offensive. Due to the conversion to a non-transparent format, the backgrond was filled with the green color.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-story-behind-the-arXiv-org-f...
trox commented on Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution? · Posted by u/9387367
A very valid comparison, they indeed share lots of characteristics. I also feel that adaption in real estate would have societal benefits.
The difference to real estate business lies in the fact that it is much more diverse and way harder to manage.
Domains are managed by one organization, ICANN (with respective tld management), which facilitates a policy change. We also see changes in digital space progress much faster.
There are approx. 600'000 new domain names registered over Verisign in Q3 2020 alone [1]. In the future, the significance of the problem will only grow.
trox commented on Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution? · Posted by u/9387367
Just for perspective. Real-estate investing:
* Buying up a limited resource with the intent to sell it to someone else later
* Often is good land that could be used by someone else to create value instead
* Lots sit unused for years waiting for a buyer
* Land in "just the right spot" for me is being "squatted" by someone trying to flip it
Do you have the same opinion about that business, and if not, for what reasons?
A very valid comparison, they indeed share lots of characteristics. I also feel that adaption in real estate would have societal benefits.
The difference to real estate business lies in the fact that it is much more diverse and way harder to manage.
Domains are managed by one organization, ICANN (with respective tld management), which facilitates a policy change. We also see changes in digital space progress much faster.
There are approx. 600'000 new domain names registered over Verisign in Q3 2020 alone [1]. In the future, the significance of the problem will only grow.
trox commented on Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution? · Posted by u/9387367
I'm shocked by how many commenters here sympathasize with the domain squatting/parking business. Sure it may be a fun side-project or profitable long-term investment.
But trying to make money from people who actually create value is not really the future of the web I want to see.
I have have bought a lot of LED bulbs in search of this. Is there something that I am missing or is LED just not capable of producing the same spectrum of color as Halogen? When I look at my items under LED and then look at them under Halogen its like the items become vivid.
The best I could find is this company called "Waveform Lighting" that sells very high CRI bulbs for like ~$20 a bulb (with the second place being Soraa bulbs) both are some of the best LED bulbs I've used but no where near the effect of Halogen. What am I doing wrong?
It's a database of light bulbs tested using a 1-meter barium sulfate integration sphere and calibrated lumen photospectrometer. Although no LED comes close to the Halogen in terms of CRI, it is very informative.