Hacker News: Uke

New comment by Uke in "Transit rewards"

Uke — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:42:53 +0000

Yes. My solution is also been shown to work in countries like Switzerland [0], makes the areas around train stations way more livable and return the gains back to the entire populace. I'd even go so far and make the sourrounding area unsellable but leased out for 99 years. Perhaps it's also a mentality difference between EU and US. We guys in the old world aren't (in general) as hypercapitalists or distrustful/follow Reageanismns like “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.”

[0] https://sbb-immobilien.ch/en/station-surroundings/

New comment by Uke in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

Uke — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:35:56 +0000

Even the humans involved in massive piracy have nothing to fear in the US it seems.

New comment by Uke in "Transit rewards"

Uke — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:07:49 +0000

The government should own it. All infrastructure like that should be in a nations hand.

New comment by Uke in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

Uke — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:51:24 +0000

I just wanted to say: When it comes to motivation and a good course in a job, you might just be on top. A world renown hospital - i know of it and am from Germany - in that medical area is just awesome.

New comment by Uke in "Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI"

Uke — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:16:11 +0000

How good are solutions like stable diffusion at inpainting nowadays? What about the watermarks of getty et at that have been part of some of dall-e 2.0 images. Could one feasably remove such watermarks or stuff like a white grid array with these solutions?

So how convincing are these solutions in the worst case is what i am asking.

New comment by Uke in "Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?"

Uke — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 21:25:38 +0000

or update via usb

New comment by Uke in "SpaceX's Starship: America's Secret Weapon"

Uke — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:20:02 +0000

for the lucky 10000 today: https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro

New comment by Uke in "Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft's alleged source code"

Uke — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:45:58 +0000

And it would even be open-source copyleft [0] because the "AI" can't claim it's copyright either! Check mate patent trolls

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/21/22944335/us-copyright-off...

New comment by Uke in "It’s not still the early days of blockchain"

Uke — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:09:10 +0000

when you start to coin terms like rug pull and web3, it sure does feel like a systematic problem. There are people who specialize in asserting if you can trust a new token or not - why would i invest in something so janky?

New comment by Uke in "Google keyword warrants give U.S. government data on search users"

Uke — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 06:15:47 +0000

hm, i think that page needs to be updated. They suggest protonmail for email and it has been shown, that they will do ip-logs etc.

New comment by Uke in "Jellyfin: Free Software Media System"

Uke — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:57:56 +0000

- no auto sync of content like plex/netflix is the biggest one for me - if the server isn't accessible, the entire app just doesn't work on android. It would be cool to have your shows on the go - metadata/initial content library setup took ages (read 10+ hours) for me (12+TB content) - no live-tv over tvheadend.. but that should be similar to plex

overall, not quite ready, but on it's way

New comment by Uke in "Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities"

Uke — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:26:24 +0000

which shouldn't be a problem if you were transparent about meeting with said experts (name them) and explain your change of mind accordingly.

New comment by Uke in "Powering the Lunar Base"

Uke — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 17:04:45 +0000

it might be a weight constrain?

New comment by Uke in "Element raises $30M to boost Matrix"

Uke — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:07:42 +0000

The biggest thing i'd like to have would be bots in fully encrypted chats and the android client to not break the encryption between clients all the time.

New comment by Uke in "EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable"

Uke — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:41:29 +0000

i can however go somewhere with a bucket load of $100 bills and pay in person

New comment by Uke in "List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K"

Uke — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 15:23:06 +0000

Am in Germany and can get a basic check up figuratively every day of the year completely for free. It might take a day for a specific appointment, but if i just went to the doctor they would see me guranteed and could assess any ailments. So there you have a country that is similar enough to the US that shows how a single payer system can work. I agree, that there is no such thing as an ideal healthcare model :)

New comment by Uke in "Killing TurboTax"

Uke — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 07:24:48 +0000

another con is: It's very hard to figure out how high your personal tax rate is if you don't track all your spending. I guess it's less of a problem for you guys over the pond, but at least in countries like Japan and Germany where at least 60-80% of all payments are done with cash it's near impossible to know unless you track your spending by hand.

I agree with you that VAT would be cool to have as the sole tax, though.

New comment by Uke in "Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half"

Uke — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:26:14 +0000

This could be the win-win-win for all parties, if only the cuda cores on the die have to be known good, it could mean, that the yield of nvidia goes up, gamers get their gpus with graphics, and miners get a card that can mine for a limited amount of time but then can't go into secondary market.

New comment by Uke in "What does the night sky look like on Mars?"

Uke — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:21:55 +0000

fun fact - mars has great time zones. No silly country borders and also had them even before we had time zones on earth https://marscalendar.com/time-zones

New comment by Uke in "Loon’s final flight"

Uke — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:21:40 +0000

Also, the external pressures to be the first on the moon instead of the USSR we're quite high.