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Diapasonon Ellison's Cave

"[...] the two deepest pits in the contiguous United States: Fantastic (586 feet) and Incredible (440 feet).[2] These two pits lie on opposite sides of the cave. Nearby and parallel to Fantastic are Smokey I (500 feet), Smokey II (262 feet)[...]"

That's the most confusing statement either. "A and B are the two deepest, with C nearby (being deeper than B)"

Diapasonon Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

I actually reported them several times to the Australian TGA (our "FDA") as they were illegally promoting unapproved medical devices. The TGA could not find out any Australian entity to go after so they gave up :/

Diapasonon Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

I love https://www.themarginalian.org/ (formaly called Brain Pickings)

Diapasonon A low latency guitar effects processor suitable for running on a Raspberry Pi

https://mod.audio/ (I'm not affiliated - just a long time follower)

Diapasonon Open-source Stable Diffusion plug-in for Photoshop

Nothing for Gimp?

Diapasonon Need for cognition

Funny how https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01519-7 was on the first page at the same time !)

Diapasonon Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer

This. Also calling a piece of hardware a 'network' sounds weird to me.

Diapasonon The Odin – DIY genetic engineering

I wonder what the regulatory powers are gonna make of that.

Diapasonon Chronophoto

Was fun. Got 2 perfect out of the 5 on my first try :) Score 3098 total

Diapasonon MusicLM: Generating Music from Text

>Artists will need to get real jobs again like the rest of us. How disrespectful is this for professional artists?

>instead of being well compensated. Hello? What % of pro artists are "well compensated"?

Diapasonon Why is Amazon selling fake 16TB portable SSD drives?

Well a couple years ago eBay was full of 2TB usb sticks LOL

Diapasonon Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

Spotify? What the heck is it doing in this list. When you pay Spotify - you are paying - supposedly for a large part - for Artists's right, not for a Software service.

Diapasonon What's wrong with social science and how to fix it (2020)

https://youtu.be/kVk9a5Jcd1k

Diapasonon Good machine learning practice for medical device development

I work in this space. It's so random to see this very guidance from 2021 popping up on HN today. Why today? Why this guidance? It's far from being the most interesting/relevant/up-to-date document about AI good practice out there!

Diapasonon Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)

Responsiveness / latency issues on mobile are literally driving me nuts.

Icons and links that move between the time my brains initiate the chain of events to press on something and the time my finger actually hits the target are causing me so much frustration :( That goes beyond loss of productivity and is literally affecting my mental health.

Diapasonon Road to Artificial General Intelligence

One of the most fascinating short stories on the topic:

https://www.marketingfirst.co.nz/storage/2018/06/prelude-lif...

The whole book is great as well.

Diapasonon Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?

could be an interesting feature to have as party of a Knowledge Management system like Roamresearch or Obsidian.

Diapasonon Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

Pixel5 and bilingual user -> space bar is hacked by a language change option on long press (can;t deactivate this feature:( ), although there is ALSO a dedicated (optional) key for that that I have activated :(

Diapasonon Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

Came here to say this exact same thing.

I still remember - November 2013, I was interviewing for some jobs in Boulder CO, and was invited to dinner by a tech entrepreneur. I showed him how good Swype was. Back then I had a tiny-weenie Xperia (S, or SL or U??). I remember clearly how blown away he was. And I remember clearly how enjoyable it was to actually be able to swype one handed. I did not even ever had a case protector for this phone, and managed to never break it because I would not drop it!

I can't remember which of the phones I had after that with which I was so sad when i realized Swype had disappeared when I could not reinstall it :(I had tried Swift key, the Stock google, and I think another one, but none never came close to Swype learning algorithm :(

Diapasonon PO-80 Record Factory

"THIS PRODUCT IS NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AS IT CONTAINS SHARP METAL AND OTHER SMALL PARTS." Yet they show a super young child on their page.

"give your favorite 7" records new life". No thanks, I like them as they are.

Diapasonon The Google Pixel 6a highlights the problem with the U.S. phone market

How can you write an article on US phone market without explaining the GSM vs CDMA issue?

Diapasonon Car Seats as Contraception (2020)

Only 57 fatalities, but how many injuries? Including severe and debilitating injuries, which can have gigantic economic consequences - not only direct (healthcare + disability care), but also indirect (one of the 2 parents needing to quit the workforce to take care of a disabled child for instance).

Diapasonon The AI Art Apocalypse

Interesting (and very pleasing aesthetically) post.

Very interesting comments thread (as usual here).

I'll hijack this post to promote this event in which I'm involved:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/creative-ai-sydney-tickets-3...

We will be discussing this 'issue' and address many of the questions raised with academic researchers and leading industry creatives from Canva (who have been disrupting the graphic design industry for a while already), NVidia AI (who are the n#1 hardware engine behind this revolution), as well as Spotify, Warner music, Google Creative labs and others.

The event is free, online or F2F in Sydney!

#CreativeAI_Sydney