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Ask HN: Best Open E-Reader?

I have too many books (~200) which I bought but I don’t want to have around. Mostly novels which I’m probably going to donate to local libraries or similar.However I feel entitled of having a copy of those books in electronic format. Very slowly, I’m looking for .epub files and storing these in a hard drive.Now, say I want to read one of them on an e-ink device. Which one is going to allow me...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made? on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:17AM (#37034043)
few children's books
I’ve implemented a Bayesian optimizer for stable diffusion model merging [0]. This is because I do not have patience and/or time to try all different block combinations by hand. It started as a personal thing but now multiple people are working on it and a small community was born.

[0] https://github.com/s1dlx/sd-webui-bayesian-merger

Re:Ask HN: Home Server Setup? on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:22AM (#34936467)
Thanks for the link, I’m going to have a go with it!

Ask HN: Home Server Setup?

I’d like to build a machine learning server for home experiments (I briefly considered cloud providers but I want to get back building a pc from scratch, that’s part of the project). These will be mostly training midsize models and experiment with automl. With a 3090/4090 I may even get to work on larger datasets etc…My main problem is space in the house. I’m planning to place the cabinet next...

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Re:Ask HN: Is this normal practice from Facebook? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:15PM (#22647544)
by "positive" I meant that the interviewer was actually saying "good job", "optimal solution", "you're doing great", "the recruitment team will get in touch with you about next steps"

indeed there were two questions that they asked me to code, even though they didn't want to actually compile/run the code

Re:Ask HN: Is this normal practice from Facebook? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:31AM (#22646712)
I see, that would make sense, thanks for replying
Re:Ask HN: Is this normal practice from Facebook? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @09:01AM (#22646209)
(I'm not being sarcastic, just want to understand) what's the point in saying "OK perfect interview" and then discarding without giving feedback? why would I risk applying again if I do not know where I failed?

Ask HN: Is this normal practice from Facebook?

I've been contacted from fb for a position in London with the excuse that they're hiring 1k+ people [1].Everything seemed legit from internal recruiter contact details and procedure: I've got a lot of reading material from them, set online meetings, etc...I did the first coding interview and the interviewer has been overly positive throughout the 40 minutes we talked. One day later the former...

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