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Re:Ellison's Cave on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @05:15AM (#36055669)
"[...] 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)"

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 :/
Re:Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema? on Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:39PM (#35116732)
I love https://www.themarginalian.org/ (formaly called Brain Pickings)
https://mod.audio/ (I'm not affiliated - just a long time follower)
Re:Open-source Stable Diffusion plug-in for Photoshop on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:50PM (#35047386)
Nothing for Gimp?
Re:Need for Cognition on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:43AM (#35006576)
Funny how https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01519-7 was on the first page at the same time !)
This. Also calling a piece of hardware a 'network' sounds weird to me.
Re:The Odin – DIY genetic engineering on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:56AM (#34771806)
I wonder what the regulatory powers are gonna make of that.
Re:Chronophoto on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:11PM (#34564487)
Was fun. Got 2 perfect out of the 5 on my first try :) Score 3098 total
Re:MusicLM: Generating Music from Text on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:34AM (#34555464)
>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"?

Re:Why Is Amazon Selling These Fake 16TB Portable SSD Drives? on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:09AM (#34410202)
Well a couple years ago eBay was full of 2TB usb sticks LOL
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.
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!
Re:Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) on Sunday November 13, 2022 @06:46PM (#33588593)
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.

Re:Road to Artificial General Intelligence on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:46AM (#33417426)
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.

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

Re:PO-80 Record Factory on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:11AM (#33031253)
"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.

How can you write an article on US phone market without explaining the GSM vs CDMA issue?
Re:Car Seats as Contraception (2020) on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:36AM (#32492414)
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).
Re:The AI Art Apocalypse on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @10:45PM (#32491706)
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