God, what a depressing take

How is it depressing? If we waited for scientist's to fully understand the outcomes of their experiments prior to experimenting we’d still be living in caves. As long as the experimentation happens at a small enough scale, the “worst case” scenario is limited. What’s depressing is when things are scaled up in spite of an established body of evidence that such things are harmful.

The depressing part is the billions wasted on supplements, "superfoods" and health drinks that have pretty much zero evidence of effect behind them.

Turmeric is sold for like a dollar a pill. It's pure horseshit.

Humans have functioned like this as far back as there are records. There's been weird unfounded health crazes for centuries. In the 1920s health spas were putting radon rocks in their pools because radiation was the new health craze.

Consumers are lucky to get just horseshit instead of lead based yellow colorant.

People post on twitter. It's a thing. Asking to avoid posting links to twitter is ridiculous

Point taken, but I'm not sure that it is so ridiculous. In some cases (obviously not this case) there might be a better source for the article. Or even changing the URL to nitter or similar would help! Keeping the discussions about this sort of thing active and spreading awareness is a valid way of trying to promote long-term quality content on HN rather than preventing it from turning into a cesspool.

Maybe but i agree wholeheartedly about how terrible twitter is. Absolute trash heap of an app.

Eventually; openai, adept, etc. are working on these types of agents. But currently, name a model that can replace selenium (ie. engage with the browser)

The point is you can do massive compression. It’s more like a sequence of sparse images than video.

Isn’t this what rewind does?

Same with image models. So many fine-tuned models, LoRA’s, etc

> "the internet was so much better back in the old days"

Nowhere in this blog post did the author make any such claims.

I thought maybe I was just too dumb, but looking back, the lack of coherence or structure definitely contributed to not forming a clear model of everything he wrote.

What other inputs besides text promoting is there for SD? Are you referring to img2img, controlnet, etc?

Although rare, there are managers who are both technically competent and good at managing people (disparate skillsets). I think a manager who knows nothing about tech is often as destructive as a technical manager who's bad at people management. There just seems to be more of the former

I would say that if someone is supposedly good at people or managing, but bad at tech and therefore bad at managing tech, then they are not good at people or managing.