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It seems like everyone is more worried about how something was made rather than what it is or whether or not the work is good on its own merit. Ironic from a group that is surely u…

If your application is pricing sensitive, check out DeepInfra.com - they have a variety of models in the pennies-per-mil range. Not quite as fast as Mercury, Groq or Samba Nova tho…

Vast.ai is a well known provider in that category. Runpod also has an offering in this space but I think they’re shifting toward more managed-by-them rental services. If you want s…

Sounds great to me! Just be sure the AI is capable of taking on various personas because not everyone you meet is a believer in nonviolent communication.

A tip, Miami guy to Miami guy - the best devs eschew PHP like the plague. The remaining PHPers are desperate work-a-day sorts who will not be bringing the latest hotness to your pr…

I believe the parent poster was referring to recent efforts in New York State to require licensure and background checks to purchase a 3D printer [1] [1] https://www.nysenate.gov/l…

Kudos on your bold undertaking! I've been a side-lined QNX admirer for some time, though not a potential user in most cases. A good next step would be a series of blog posts where …

I believe the tree-wrangler you mentioned is Aaron Hsu, author of the Co-dfns APL "compiler" that Trap uses. Here are some videos related to his work: https://www.youtube.com/playl…

Do you find you really need that level of “resolution” with memories? On our [1] chatbots we use one long memories text field per chatbot user relationship. Each bot response cycle…

I have read a lot of reports that the job market is pretty bad. But, bad or good, I think all you can really do is keep trying! Don't let a few rejections stymie your long term goa…

Sad day! This guy was a hilarious and talented writer. If anyone is looking for a book to pick up this weekend, I'd recommend checking out some of his work, especially if you like …

In Auto1111, that just uses Image.blend. :) https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob...

how I wish it had a strength setting.. you can try blending the before and after with PIL but it will probably look even more disturbing strength = 0.5 horrific_image = Image.blend…

GFPGAN is decent but kinda heavy handed: https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN Worth a shot!

I haven't used it for search, but I believe Insightface's embeddings can be used for this purpose. https://insightface.ai/

Try LAION Aesthetics: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-aesthetics/

I still like that setup for using trees in low level languages. But personally I’ve been working at higher levels of the stack the last few years, where these kinds of decisions se…

Always surprising to click through a link on HN and discover it is one's own work. For a time I was very interested in lightweight array-based implementations of common data struct…

Love & recommend Roboflow. Thanks for releasing this yall!

I am experimenting with building software using the ReAct tool prompting pattern, using Llama derivative models like Manticore13B, Airoborous, etc. I script it all together using M…

On the LLM side: the cost / amount of resources that need to be brought to bear for long periods of time On the Stable Diffusion side: labeling, best practices, file management, qu…

Diffusion systems can’t render a great image given just “a dog” as the prompt. Imagine all the different kinds of dog images the user might be expecting. A good prompt engineer und…

Has anyone else switched to Caddy and seen similar performance improvements? I've been blindly using Nginx for years but have no love for that configuration file..