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vimyon The dark side of the Mac App Store

I did. Spamming apps on the app store is not the same as a scam. If the apps work as advertised I don't see the issue.

vimyon The dark side of the Mac App Store

What is the scam exactly? The store full of simple apps that use the OpenAI api. Nothing wrong with that so how are they scams?

vimyon Gezellig – a word that encompasses the heart of Dutch Culture

It’s more about the feeling. I would never use chill when something is gezellig. It feels different. I think cozy is a better English word.

vimyon StackLlama: A hands-on guide to train LlaMa with RLHF

Maybe. The problem is that you need billions to train new models.[1] At least with how things are now.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-...

vimyon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote only | Europe but only available in Eastern Time Zone

Hi, I have 10+ years of experience as an iOS and Mac developer. I'm also able to build python backends with Flask. I currently specialize in Stable Diffusion & other generative AI, I started working with Stable Diffusion the day it was released. I have experience working with Dreambooth, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, GPT3 / GPT-J / GPT-2 & others. I have a couple of iOS / Mac apps in the app store.

Skills:

- Programming language: Objective-C, Swift, Python, C++

- Generative AI: Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, Dreambooth, GTP-3, GPT-J, ChatGPT

Setting up & maintaining linux servers

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthiasvermeulen/

Github: https://github.com/Vimy

Looking for projects that would take 20, 30 hours a week.

contact: matthias.vermeulen@gmail.com

vimyon PyTorch 2.0

I use anaconda environments and install everything with pip in them. Am I doing it wrong?

vimyon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote only | Europe but only available in Eastern Time Zone

Skills:

- Programming language: Objective-C, Swift, Python, C++

- Generative AI: Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, Dreambooth, GTP-3, GPT-J, ChatGPT

Setting up & maintaining linux servers

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthiasvermeulen/

Github: https://github.com/Vimy

Looking for projects that would take 20, 30 hours a week.

contact: matthias.vermeulen@gmail.com

vimyon Show HN: Don't lose track of HN post comments

I use this Safari extension (mac / iOS) to see new HN comments.

https://apps.apple.com/be/app/hacker-news-comments/id1602932...

vimyon Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

I use this one for Safari on iPhone to see new comments on HN

https://apps.apple.com/be/app/hacker-news-comments/id1602932...

vimyon The antimicrobial resistance crisis needs action now

Have you applied to YC?

vimyon Ask HN: How much longer will we have free access to ChatGPT?

They’re using us to train the model even further so it will stay free. We’re giving them valuable data for free.

vimyon Stable Diffusion 1.4 fine-tuning on real photos for making realistic avatars

What are you using for backend?

Typo: Is it one time payment? Yes, absolutely. No stupid subscriptinos.

vimyon Tradition is Smarter (2018)

> It is done because the medical community broadly recommends it due to its health benefits: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/cdc-encourages-circum...

Only recommended in the US. Which indicates that it’s still cultural.

vimyon Things ML cannot draw or produce so far

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Iy-xW9t1-OQWhb0hNxu...

You can use free Google colab to run your own instance.

vimyon Ask HN: Why is Disney+ UX so bad?

Safari.

vimyon Ask HN: Why is Disney+ UX so bad?

Another one: Starting a new video will result in audio being muted 80 % of the time.

They also stopped adding content from their massive back catalog. I was looking forward to seeing Disney content from the 50s and 60s but someone decided it’s not worth the cost and effort.

vimyon Ask HN: Best way to learn to draw digitally?

https://drawabox.com/ https://www.ctrlpaint.com/

vimyon Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM

How much ram is your gpu using before you start stable diffusion? You can check with ‘nvidia-smi’ in terminal.

The not-optimized release works with my 2070 with 8 gb ram.

vimyon Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

Read the tweets of the Stability AI, company behind Stable Diffusion, founder. He agrees with you. The image is purely to protect themselves against criticism, takedowns, possible legal action, stuff like that.

https://mobile.twitter.com/emostaque

vimyon Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU

Comment from github: "By the way, i confirmed to work on my Intel 16-in MacBook Pro via mps. GPU (Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB) usage is 70-80% and It takes 3 min where --n_samples 1 --n_iter 1. My repo https://github.com/cruller0704/stable-diffusion-intel-mac"

For comparison, my RTX 2070 takes 10 seconds for one image (512x512)

vimyon US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

That’s exactly what it is. Chips is one of the few advantages the US has left over China. It would be foolish to help them, we are in the early stages of the second cold war.

vimyon Ask HN: Is there a simple web UI toolbox for back-end devs?

https://gradio.app/ For machine learning webapps.

vimyon Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode

Is your resolution set below 512x512?

vimyon Ask HN: Who acquires big macOS apps?

https://microacquire.com/ has a good reputation.

vimyon UK energy bills are soaring to record highs

Would be a good start to change how electricity prices are calculated in Europe. The whole system is broken. The price is set by the highest costing source. In this case gas plants. Nuclear plants that are paid off are producing near free energy but it’s sold at the same price like gas. Wind and solar are also sold at the same price like gas. Even if only 10 % comes from gas plants (just an example) it all costs the same. It’s insane.

And cap the EU CO2 emission trading system. Speculators are pushing up those prices making everything worse.

These prices are at least 50 % policy failure.

vimyon IFixit: Self Repair Program makes M1 MacBooks less repairable

You're right. It started with the 2016 redesign. The reason is that the battery is glued to the case. Trying to remove it is dangerous.

vimyon IFixit: Self Repair Program makes M1 MacBooks less repairable

It’s always been like that. Bring your macbook to an Apple store for a battery replacement and they will replace the top case.

vimyon Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn

That didn’t take long. :p Stable Diffusion released just yesterday.

How did you design the backend? What kind of server are you using?

vimyon Stable Diffusion Public Release

It works on my 2070 8 gb ram.

vimyon Nvidia to Share New Details on Grace CPU, Hopper GPU, NVLink Switch, Jetson Orin

That’s probably how the new M2 Mac Pro is going to work.