practice9

8 ms·

91.
by practice9 4y ago
Twitter developer relations sucked under Dorsey and continue to be perfectly awful under Musk. Even the developer signup process is broken. You fill in the required form, get an email that they need more details about the intended use (desp
92.
by practice9 4y ago
There is likely a lot of anime stuff in LAION-5B, as well as photos of Asian women who consented to sexualized photoshoots. I think this tells us something about the current aesthetics of the internet, Asian women are idealized to some degr
93.
by practice9 4y ago
Should've imprinted their names on your car to honor the history :D
94.
by practice9 4y ago
> their Orlan drones have been found with consumer cameras for their optics As well as more advanced Thales thermal imaging systems that were installed in combat vehicles (tanks, IFV). AFAIK they were produced in Russia under a license f
95.
by practice9 4y ago
> Somehow strange that a country that can send people to space and back is not capable of producing a single component for a military drone. Soyuz (as in both rocket and capsule) has had multiple failures over the last decade. The most r
96.
by practice9 4y ago
Stable Diffusion is the only one you can host yourself or even run locally on desktop & mobile if your hardware allows. You can train your own styles and concepts using Dreambooth method (aka fine-tuning on a very small dataset) for 1.x
97.
by practice9 4y ago
> This happens approximately never (see: Qanon), and when it does, the chances of a good result are even more remote (see: Bolshevism). I would also count Russia in the current war into the "never bucket". Many expected them to
98.
by practice9 4y ago
Could you explain why do you think that "reason" is different from "probabilistic associations"? I thought human mind is not deterministic and just good at pruning the improbable patterns retrieved from the memory (when
99.
by practice9 4y ago
Yes, it feels like a Russian operation carried out by proxies. The motive (and timing - it's winter) is the same as in attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure - degrade quality of life for civilians in hopes of creating chaos &
100.
by practice9 4y ago
> quality control new Toyota EV = wheels falling off, battery overheating and not able to charge to 100% new VW EVs = large panel gaps > processes new VW EVs = if you are lucky with your firmware version, to update the car via OTA you
101.
by practice9 4y ago
While Cronje may be a good developer, he is also close to SBF level of scam (and he's more clever). He also knowingly associated with Omar Dhanani / 0xSifu / Michael Patryn, who is another scammer who served time in US prison
102.
by practice9 4y ago
CLIP, BLIP, or a combination of them? https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharma/CLIP-Interrogator But it doesn't describe every object in the image
103.
by practice9 4y ago
It will remove a large amount of stress from people's lives for sure. When an AI model can explain the non-obvious bug in the code written by the developer who left the company 2 years ago - that's quite powerful. Saves more time
104.
by practice9 4y ago
An important threshold will be when an important physics, math or biology problem is going to be solved with one of these AIs, or by a scientist who uses AI for "ghostwriting". If scientists will verify the solution and find it to
105.
by practice9 4y ago
It's bad marketing speak which started with a decade ago with "iPhone killers" Doubt average consumer would want to drive on the road in "anything"-killer, if you know what I mean :D
106.
by practice9 4y ago
> Preoccupied with carnal interactions to the exclusion of all else? I think the poster means that people are already too preoccupied with banning sex to the detriment of everything else. It leads to various perversions like normalizatio
107.
by practice9 4y ago
I think this experience could be replicated anywhere in the world. This type of agency (as well as tax offices) will pursue low-hanging fruit while overlooking more complex and critical situations. And the lack of actionable feedback really
108.
by practice9 4y ago
If Mt.Gox didn't kill crypto & BTC back in the early days, it's super unlikely FTX is going to kill crypto. What is also unlikely to change is HN general opinion on crypto :)
109.
by practice9 4y ago
Tell that to Argentinians, Venezuelans, Iranians where US dollar stablecoins are much more popular among general population. For different reasons: - easier & safer to store - much more stable than their countries own currency - not co
110.
by practice9 4y ago
It doesn’t help that most visible activists don’t have clear and measurable goals
111.
by practice9 4y ago
It's common for meditation practitioners to relax their body (relax tense muscles) in order to gain access to calmer states of mind
112.
by practice9 4y ago
And while Cybertruck is definitely not releasing this year, Tesla Semi is going into production
113.
by practice9 4y ago
> Solar panels (yes, Tesla has a solar panel business) are not doing well. Source? Their last earnings show that energy business part has improved this quarter
114.
by practice9 4y ago
> Ukraine? They've didn't have a lot energy to begin with They're in top 30 by energy production in the world, around 50% of the energy produced being nuclear. And there untapped gas reserves as well. Coal has been disrupt
115.
by practice9 4y ago
Perhaps the underlying addiction mechanism (dopamine) also improves cognitive performance (as a side effect)
116.
by practice9 4y ago
Except Stranger Things, but you could say bikes are essential to the plot
117.
by practice9 4y ago
> It’s a shockingly simplistic simulation to the point that I’m not sure attaching the Princeton brand to it is doing them any favors. Nuclear fearmongering is the new "current thing", so they are hurrying to take advantage of
118.
by practice9 4y ago
NATO & USA in particular already said they will respond conventionally in the event of Russian nuclear first strike. Also in simulation no Russian fighter jets / bombers were intercepted & shot down while bombing Europe, which
119.
by practice9 4y ago
Similar problems exists with Wikipedia and StackOverflow moderators. IMO people who become moderators just enjoy exercising their (often unchecked) power in these online communities.
120.
by practice9 4y ago
There is a book by Ned and Constance Sublette called "The American Slave Coast" that goes deep into detail how slavery worked in USA. It was essentially same as what you're saying, slaves were considered a self-replicating fi

More ›