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yankoff··on Floor796
Here is what the project is about (translated from Russian by chatgpt)

Floor796 is an ever-expanding animated scene depicting life on the 796th floor of a massive space station!

The goal of the project is to create an animation as vast as possible, filled with numerous references to movies, games, anime, and memes.

Most characters are clickable: you can find out who the character is and follow a link to the source. Non-clickable characters are fictional.

All scenes are drawn by a single person as a hobby in a special online editor (https://floor796.com/editor/l0) directly in the browser. The drawing process of some blocks can be watched on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ.

yankoff··on New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
Perhaps, a better way to traverse this would be to look at the history of virology, trace main events, starting from the discovery of bacteriophage, and check out associated work. It is hard to say what kind of evidence would satisfy you. Viruses have been isolated many times, and transmissibility has been shown on cell cultures and animal models.

You can't purposely infect real people with disease-causing viruses in research so you won't find much studies like that. But there is no doubt that viruses are transmissible and can cause disease, and there is plenty of evidence to support that. Check out studies on yellow fever virus and flu done more than a hundred years ago.

yankoff··on New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
Are you questioning whether viruses can infect organisms or whether they can cause disease?
yankoff··on Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry
Cash transactions over $10k have to be reported to the IRS. You'd have to provide ID and TIN. If that weren't the case, criminals wouldn't have had problems with money laundering.
yankoff··on Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry
Theoretically, they can lock you out by suspending your passport and preventing you from traveling even if you leave the country. Also they can have full access to your bank records given the warrant and you can't make any serious purchases with cash.

Even in an unlikely apocalyptic scenario you have described they won't gain much more power than they already have. I don't see how this makes you a slave by itself. Only if government begins using this as a tool to control you but then, if we hit such a point, they have much more other tools people have to worry about.

yankoff··on My insulin pump controller has a bug
It's twice a dose of a large carb heavy breakfast for me. That will undoubtedly cause hypoglycemia and is very dangerous if missed.
yankoff··on My insulin pump controller has a bug
Damn, that's the one I'm using although with a separate controller. I've been looking forward for the iPhone app that is supposed to come out in 2024.
yankoff··on My insulin pump controller has a bug
It will drop the blood sugar level dangerously low and cause hypoglycemia. A person can lose consciousness, get into a coma, or even die.
yankoff··on AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
This is why there will still be a market for human-created art, but it'll likely be very niche, for people who care. When it comes to sheer quality, the AI should be able to surpass us at some point and create masterpieces we can't even think of.
yankoff··on AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
Author explicitly says: "they never will"
yankoff··on AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
I never get this argument. There is no magic in the human creative process. One way or another, algorithms should be able to replicate it and eventually surpass it.
yankoff··on One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice
I had a period when I used THC (edibles) for sleep every night. This was one of the worst things I have ever done to myself. At first, you don't notice much side effects, but slowly it creeps up on you. It makes you depressed, depletes of any motivation, gives brain fog and you may just feel weird over all. When I quit I was amazed by how much better I started feeling and by how much my cognitive function improved.

I would highly recommend getting off it asap. Maybe taper off if you can't quit right away. First nights will be tough: sleepless, cold sweats, crazy dreams, but then it should get much much better. Be well!

yankoff··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
https://unycorn.app

On Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/unycorn

I quit my job more than a year ago and wanted to participate in this crazy (but fun) rush to find creative applications of AI. Tried many things, first attempts failed miserably, but it's a fun journey and I'm getting useful experience.

Right now, I'm building an app that allows you to apply AI to create interesting visual effects for images and videos.

Currently, there are two main features:

- You can swap faces in videos to create personalized memes.

- Generate artistic self-portraits.

You probably have seen such features many times already and maybe even tired of it, but for me it was just a starting point. I plan to continue adding new features as new interesting models and technologies become available. Right now there is only a web version and I'm working on rolling out ios and android versions (Almost there!).

Stack: AWS, docker, runpod.io, python, react native.

Happy to collaborate with other makers on this and other ideas!

yankoff··on Meta’s Microservice Architecture [pdf]
in what way did it fail?
yankoff··on Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
Is this opinion based on some benchmarking you (or someone else) did?
yankoff··on StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio
I wouldn't bet on it. Automatic1111 already has a strong community and growing ecosystem. Stability.ai would have to try really hard and offer something significant to win people over.
yankoff··on Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework
Is Ruby on Rails still widely used?
yankoff··on Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?
well, what did you ask?
yankoff··on Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly?
There can be a lot of different reasons but simple misunderstanding is often the cause.

- They couldn't give you a direct answer because they didn't understand the question.

- They couldn't focus on the point of the discussion because they thought the focus is something else.

It's good to consider that you can be the one not communicating clearly and try to see where your message could be confusing. Maybe try to clarify the question you have and explain why you have it. It won't always work but a lot of the times you can find the right approach.

yankoff··on Twitter, when the wall came down
1. what makes it obvious?
yankoff··on California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
The system is very complex and it's very easy to make a mistake once you start having more complications like selling property, dealing with stocks, handling additional income, etc.

Correcting mistakes is expensive, you'd likely need tax attorneys to figure this all out and you will also pay penalty.

yankoff··on Why I only work remotely
By the way, when exactly did this hate for open offices started? I remember everyone hating on cubicles and preaching open offices, now it flipped back?
yankoff··on Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised
wow, what a terrible year for Ethereum.
yankoff··on LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
get a VPN
yankoff··on Honeypot Turing Test
Why do you think it'd be significantly worse?
yankoff··on Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of anonymous data scientists
You don't necessarily have to know the meaning of the features to build a successful model. That has been done on Kaggle a lot.
yankoff··on Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of anonymous data scientists
You don't know if you have a winning strategy. You'd have to put your own money and take a risk to find out. Plus you'd have to take care of data and feature engineering yourself.
yankoff··on Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
Love your channel! You are doing a great job, keep it up!
yankoff··on Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
Sirajology https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A

Covers machine learning related topics in a very fun way.

yankoff··on Oracle’s Cloudy Future
Oh, this con.. they blocked Howard st. and majorly have been disrupting traffic downtown the entire week.
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