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ebabchick

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ebabchick··on AI Winter Is Coming
who's going to tell him #feeltheagi
ebabchick··on 1 week of Stable Diffusion
can someone recommend a good paper or blog post with an overview of the technical architecture of training and running stable diffusion?
ebabchick··on Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App
I would pay for this if it came with a browser plugin that synced my already-viewed links between devices
ebabchick··on JMAP – a better way to email
For the well acquainted -- how does this relate to Inbox (https://www.inboxapp.com/)? I have not spent enough time with either to make a comparison
ebabchick··on Immutable.js – Immutable Data Collections
Random observation -- what's up with almost 20 of the 24 'contributors' to this project mostly having made 1 edit changes to the README? Is this some kind of pervasive Github resume padding scheme that I'm just now picking up on? (it will show the repo in the "Repositories contributed to" section of your profile even for just those 1-line README edits)

https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js/graphs/contributors

ebabchick··on The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization
I was under the impression that tobacco and alcohol companies are against legalization and have the largest hand in keeping it illegal.
ebabchick··on The New Deal
How can Teespring afford / justify giving every non-profit $50k?
ebabchick··on Night Walk in Marseille [video]
Does anyone know what team(s) are responsible for these kinds of projects at Google?
ebabchick··on Facebook Fraud [video]
I think you're misunderstanding the word "fake" in this context. He means they are inauthentic likes, aka likes from real people who don't actually like what they're clicking the Like button on.
ebabchick··on Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival
paywall workaround, first link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Seeks+to+Create+Pandor...

ebabchick··on I Have 50 Dollars
finally, some truth shed on this developer-centric bubble of a "company"
ebabchick··on App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform
Is this a developer-centric parody of http://www.vooza.com?
ebabchick··on App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform
Anyone serious about using this for it's intended use case (from what I can tell) would not be in this for only one year.
ebabchick··on 2012 Baccalaureate Service: “The updraft of inexplicable luck”
'According to recent evidence, however, believing in luck makes you luckier'

Does anyone know what evidence he's referring to?

ebabchick··on Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay
Those first four bullets may be true statements, but the second bullet point is a half-truth. It should read "As technology gets more powerful, the potential for causing harm will be greater AND the amount of freedom will increase by some arbitrary amount." It's then reasonable to say that new laws are made to put new technologies in check. It's a lot harder to reach the same conclusion if that's the case.
ebabchick··on I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
The flaw in this argument is that it assumes rremoncake was solely responsible for the decision to not back up prod. I think that responsibility falls on the CTO/CEO, and so yeah, Miso is a bad company for that, and that whole incident should have no relevance to the bonus debacle.
ebabchick··on Show HN: Pinterest + iTunes + Youtube Mashup
This is great stuff, good job. The world needs more free tools like these. Would make for a killer product too...
ebabchick··on Pulse will come pre-installed on the Kindle Fire
Huge win for Pulse as well as Amazon. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber you've now got news, movies, tv, and books from the instant you boot up. Genius move on Amazon's part.
ebabchick··on Announcing Firefox Aurora 10
They really need to get developer Inspect working such that simply hovering over the HTML highlights the relevant part of the page, not only clicking on it. Chrome is crushing them here with that feature.
ebabchick··on Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
highlight the link i just came from briefly and fade the highlight out over a few seconds when i return to the page via back button (or use some approximating heuristic ) ... i like to scan the page multiple times a day and i cant rely on the native highlighting to see the comment link on what i just read because the top stories are re-ordered throughout the day. so i have to scan the page visually for the title of the story. I'm going to make this a browser plugin for myself if you don't do it, but I'd rather everyone have this feature natively....
ebabchick··on Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Overstated
> treating him like some sort of god who invented anything with an on switch

actually, he never invented anything with an on/off switch; he claimed so in one of those 60 minute interviews because it reminded him of death

ebabchick··on Let’s End the Myth that Ideas Are Worthless
It's not ideas that are worthless; it's the 'visions'.

It might be true that a bad idea with flawless execution is just as bad as vice versa, but the thing is, too many of the self-described 'idea' people don't actually have any 'idea' of how to implement and bring their vision to life. They just want it to magically happen. Those are the people with worthless ideas, because they're not even ideas, they're just delusions of grandeur.

On the other hand, I've met my fair share of legitimate idea people who also have an idea of how to architect and implement want they want in a real, functioning web application, they just would rather have someone else, who's really into it, dig in to the nitty gritty implementation specifics (read: code) while they do the high-level technical and strategical architecting. That's totally fine, and those type of idea people are far from worthless IMO.