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thorncorona··on Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users
Been following Mikoto[https://github.com/mikotoIO/mikoto] which seems like a Discord replacement on steroids.
thorncorona··on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
If you already have a working workflow, this is probably overcomplicating things.

I would imagine the overlap of people who would use peertube and Cap is 0.

thorncorona··on Tesla bought over $2M worth of Lidar from Luminar
The left hates Elon.
thorncorona··on Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
> Also of note that Hetzner is profitable, which means AWS has been operating at an insane markup.

You can also evidence of this on their 10-Q :^)

thorncorona··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
Nintendo puts an 2014 ARM chip + Tegra X1 in their Switch.
thorncorona··on 44% Unicorn Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers
I suspect if you adjusted for market cap, Taiwan would be higher ;)
thorncorona··on Show HN: I made a spaced repetition tool to master coding problems
Who memorizes leetcode problems.. this seems like an extension looking for a problem.
thorncorona··on Honda to spend $11B on four EV factories in North America
I mean Kia and Hyundai have had an ongoing theft fiasco for the last couple years..

My Tesla seems to have a lot of creaks and rattles since <5k miles in, which they describe as 'normal'.

thorncorona··on [dead]
Instead you need to understand induction, which is non trivial as well..
thorncorona··on Honda to spend $11B on four EV factories in North America
Guessing hybrids / plug ins will be popular for a long time, just because they are a known quantity.

Kia and Hyundai still haven’t reached the rock solid reliability of Japanese autos, despite having been around for much longer than Tesla.

Traditional manufacturers will likely have an easier time transitioning to EVs than EV manufacturers will, building reliable cars.

thorncorona··on Florida ban on Chinese buying property goes to U.S. appeals court
Naturalization is neither cheap or simple either.
thorncorona··on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
It’s actually because your oxygen absorption increases when you breathe nasally. Your nasal passages change the temperature and humidity of the air.

Breathing nasally does have positive effects on respiratory systems in general though.

thorncorona··on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
“here ya go, eat this magical rock. we have no idea how it works, or why it works, but it’ll make you feel better”
thorncorona··on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
We give lithium to folks with depression.

Modern day medicine is at times the same as folk remedy.

thorncorona··on Most doxxing campaigns only last a few days. But effects can be felt for months
> Instagram pages like @JewsHateDatabase posted the video with the caption: "Help us find out who she is — Jew hater spotted in Williamsburg Brooklyn."

Surprised Instagram condones this type of behavior.

thorncorona··on Meta MTIA v2 – Meta Training and Inference Accelerator
WDYM by HPC mindset?
thorncorona··on Keep winning tennis? You may see more images per second
turns out some gamers really can only see 30fps
thorncorona··on Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I
Aside but I really hate how the NYT refuses to publish anything positive about tech. Everything must go through a critical lens, except their pet causes.
thorncorona··on The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws
Are you against public health measures in general?
thorncorona··on Show HN: I created automatic subtitling app to boost short videos
lots of people prefer subtitles to audio. i am one of them. this seems like it will do fine.
thorncorona··on Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
existing code? swapping build tools is extremely different
thorncorona··on OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly
It's bad writing. It's objectively terrible writing in fact. Purely on a volume standpoint, the average novel is 100K words. The Brothers K is HALF the length.

If we ignore that it's a rewriting of JKR's 7 novel series, which gives it a certain amount of coherency, Yudkowsky violates almost every writing guideline in a bad way. In fact, I could probably write an infinitely long coherent essay describing the ways HPMOR violates a reader's mind. It would be easy given almost 700K source material.

But to point at some gaping holes, the plot has no pacing, and the entire story is a badly written self insert where the mc goes around and "fixes" JKR's plot-holes by writing themself into a corner.

The solution to this, is, of course, to write another 20K words of expecto patronum, dispel the plothole with more rationalist bullshit.

Your average fanfic is probably better written.

thorncorona··on OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly
If you think that volume is a replacement for quality, you really need to read more. If you think volume is correlated with intelligence, you really need to read and write more.

In case you still don't believe me, you are welcome to hop onto your favorite fan fiction site, such as AO3 [0], and search for stories over [large k] words.

[0] https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?work_search%5Bquery...

thorncorona··on OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly
influence from yudkowsky is surprising, considering if you've ever touched hpmor, you'd realize the dude is a moron.

re p(doom): the latest slatestarcodex[0] has a great little blurb about the difficulties of applying bayes to hard problems because there's too many different underlying priors which perturb the final number, so you end up fudging it until it matches your intuition.

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...

thorncorona··on Blocklist that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist
> google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/AI/):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)

this has to be a joke right?

thorncorona··on Is modern mass media a mind prison?
can we please stop upvoting blog spam?

this is pure blogspam of the 2010s era

thorncorona··on Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login
i see no reason to use this product over gsuite when it’s both cheaper, has more functionality, and a data/privacy policy
thorncorona··on Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login
what is the point of this?

you can’t store any important info if there’s no login unless your links contain the key.

and at that point you might as well just use a login instead maintaining your own list of docs

thorncorona··on Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and Indigenous
Do you have historical treaties which apply to you, and exempt you from those laws?
thorncorona··on gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL
GraalVM is a pretty magical tool
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