Hacker News: amorroxic

New comment by amorroxic in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

amorroxic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:04:00 +0000

Curious on what backs this assertion. As a counterpoint we’ve been running 200+ models in production for more than 5 years - language models, embedding, classifiers, low tens to hundred M params. Traffic in the order of 1-2M requests/day and everything is enabled by onnx with some cgo (or Rust) plumbing on top. What’s your SLA?

New comment by amorroxic in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

amorroxic — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:25:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for this. Also one question in case anyone could shed a bit of light: my understanding is that setting temperature=0, top_p=1 would cause deterministic output (identical output given identical input). For sure it won’t prevent factually wrong replies/hallucination, only maintains generation consistency (eq. classification tasks). Is this universally correct or is it dependent on model used? (or downright wrong understanding of course?)

New comment by amorroxic in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

amorroxic — Mon, 26 May 2025 04:56:47 +0000

A real-time video processor in hardware:

- static (mp4) or live (hdmi) input, hdmi output

- a collection of effects (various distortions, color glitches, demoscene-like) applied over incoming video stream, maximum of 4 effects stackable on top of one another

- midi controllers support (controlling actions/params of effects via CC)

- modulation of effects params via LFO and audio events (bpm, kick, tonal detection)

- loading of .glsl shaders (eq. shadertoy.com)

- dynamic input resolution, output either 360p (rpi 4/5) or upscaled to 720p / 1080p (networks like SRGAN over Hailo / RPI or RK3588 with a Radxa 5B SBC).

Given a 2nd screen (timeline editor) would love to evolve this to something like a hardware editor, somewhat in the line of DAWs in the audio world. Most things are working with biggest challenge now being building a control surface (buttons, rotaries + associated oleds, etc) and attempting laying it all on a PCB, a process I don't know much about. If there's interest welcome comments and could elaborate more.

New comment by amorroxic in "What makes switching to GNU Linux almost impossible for many?"

amorroxic — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:37:58 +0000

Maybe this could be useful? https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ (able to run Photoshop myself)

New comment by amorroxic in "Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?"

amorroxic — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:21:01 +0000

first $100: pdf photography courses with weekly chapters

first $1000+: built a shop selling silk scarves (100-odd) I collected myself from Laos/Cambodia/Thailand to balance trip budget (25yo back then, mad travelling). Sold all scarves, closed shop.

New comment by amorroxic in "Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?"

amorroxic — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:03:25 +0000

the null concept being referred to as “the billion dollars mistake” - until discovering optionals and gradually opening up to FP, category theory, etc

New comment by amorroxic in "Best GPU for Deep Learning in 2022 (so far)"

amorroxic — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:57:06 +0000

This. Same scenario here, fondly remember 1080ti, that was the workhorse for us alongside cloud training (startup with ~100 nlp prod models, ner, siamese, count models, etc). ULMFiT and language transfer was the moment when upgrades felt necessary though 2080ti’s vram unfortunately stayed the same (never had access to Titans for instance so perspective may be limited).

New comment by amorroxic in "Facebook ‘lets vigilantes in Ethiopia incite ethnic killing’"

amorroxic — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:45:02 +0000

and unfortunately social makes it possible for one to yell “Fire” in all crowded places at the same time.

New comment by amorroxic in "How our SaaS landed its first 20 B2B partnerships with cold email"

amorroxic — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:31:50 +0000

it’s still there unfortunately, no close button either.

New comment by amorroxic in "The Reactive Manifesto"

amorroxic — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 16:44:30 +0000

Signed it too :) Can’t remember a particular reason though in our case (former cofounder) we were discovering the actor model, immutability, streams,.. tbh remember a great deal of fun programming during those days, insane schedules and whatnot. Though truth be told our most productive systems are Go these days (sold, stack still holding).

New comment by amorroxic in "Facebook plans to pay creators $1B to use its products"

amorroxic — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 14:09:08 +0000

Three strikes and you’re banned forever, better choose the moment well.

New comment by amorroxic in "OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker"

amorroxic — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:41:37 +0000

Thank you for the perspective here. A wish there was a way to bookmark comments on HN..

New comment by amorroxic in "CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges"

amorroxic — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:38:35 +0000

Agree, this being a cyber-fraud company I believe one could keep a team busy for a long time focusing on building secure systems rather than operating them to the point where no-one gets to see what's actually being stored within. The paper trail though I'm still puzzled about, he couldn't have acted alone.

New comment by amorroxic in "OYO furloughs thousands of employees as revenue drops by over 50%"

amorroxic — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:38:50 +0000

In the US maybe, gig economy is global though.

New comment by amorroxic in "I’m Bill Gates. AMA about Covid-19"

amorroxic — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:25:00 +0000

Man, don't beat yourself up. Americans are great people and not that bad of a society now. (someone in a WE society). Hang in there, we'll bicker after :)

Insights on OS X platform support for Tensorflow/GPU?

amorroxic — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:03:02 +0000

Hi everyone, have a question in case anyone happens to have a bit of insight in regards to forecasted OSX platform support for Tensorflow.

There's a good bit of info around Tensorflow/Pytorch, not looking for a merits debate (both fantastic imo). I'm with a small AI company supporting both backends in production (linux, bl -> go api interfacing with generic "model" contracts -> calls to libtensorflow.so / libtorch.so via cgo and prototyping in Keras/Pytorch). Small inconvenient though is that it's close to impossible to employ our rag-tag Darwin/GPU/multi-boot local machines to train often as we're stuck with earlier Tensorflow versions and it's quite hard to compile library support locally (Apple doesn't make it easy either) thus often have to rewrite really nice Keras code in Pytorch. Bit of a pity as we have no qualms with Keras, some of our most trusted/understood networks run on it (TF) live.

Anyone happens to know, is there a chance for first-hand support of Tensorflow for OSX in the foreseable future? It has a nice dev ecosystem in general I subjectively believe, for some os us it's a bit like Excel of the finance world :) Totally realize opinions are cheap to offer though, deep gratitude to all people involved in these projects / open source in general, thank you kindly - truly a question, more than glad to accept my ignorance should this sound any other way.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331735

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New comment by amorroxic in "U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal"

amorroxic — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:05:48 +0000

Genuinely interested in good numbers to compare then, any chance to elaborate?

New comment by amorroxic in "Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs"

amorroxic — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:33:21 +0000

You could have a look at ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.com), a multi-model database - it may cover your use cases. Hopefully linking is ok in comments, will remove if its breaks community rules - no affiliation etc..

New comment by amorroxic in "Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (2012)"

amorroxic — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:20:51 +0000

What's the point of a random comment on the internet when there are far more efficient ways to spend one's time?

New comment by amorroxic in "New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps"

amorroxic — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:43:38 +0000

thanks for this perspective.