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vmariuson Img2Prompt – Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images

Whenever I try I get 500 error :/

vmariuson Realistic computer-generated handwriting

Nicely done, but I think you have a bug: https://imgur.com/VXJeCmx

vmariuson Stripe is about to refund €147k worth of payments to my all of my customers

The whole point of this topic is to bring stripes' attention to his/her case

vmariuson Mnist Demo Compiled On-the-Fly to WebAssembly in the Browser

The quality is, ehm, not really good: https://imgur.com/a/uobGnpK

vmariuson “Really successful people say no to almost everything”

Well, you can name me the most successful person then.

vmariuson iPhone audio detectable with AM radio

Wow. I wonder how far from the phone this signal could be detected.

vmariuson EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages

AFAIK Tesseract is trained to recognize characters and uses a bunch of steps to prepare image for recognition. Steps like removing noise, fixing contrast and resizing.

It means that it performs not-so-good when for example image contains black text and white text on green background since this is not "normalized" through image preparation steps and it cannot detect white text on green background (but you can do it yourself)

vmariuson Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people

Krageon, I've removed any mention of the service I am building and left more answers related to your message => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20360002#20360713

vmariuson Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people

I agree that real face to face connection is the best for many cases, but is a luxury nowadays and doesn't work for all.

vmariuson Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people

1) physically impossible - large distances, time consuming, fear

2) it is hard to discuss many (if not most) personal issues in personal or in group meetings. Suicidal thoughts, depression, life advice - you cannot simply go out there and discuss all these during your first/tenth meeting with a person in private.

vmariuson Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people

Thanks furi, good point. Humans indeed talked to each other and have done things together since the dawn of time. But the problem is that our way of living has changed significantly during recent years.

Most of the people simply don't have the possibility to gather around and talk about their life/problems. It is becoming a luxury to have a live talk with a real person.

I am sure that the above mentioned organization is doing great job helping people, but the answer to your question why it is not scalable is that such approach can help only to a very limited amount of people. Why ?

Because: - meeting in person is not always possible - meeting in persion is not always desirable - it is limited only to local areas

vmariuson Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people

It is better than nothing, but is not scalable. We at nothing_here building a tool which will help fight loneliness online. (I have removed the link, not really trying to sell anything to anyone)