Hacker News: ipsum2

New comment by ipsum2 in "The DeepMind Institute"

ipsum2 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:22:36 +0000

Tl;DR: It's not a new organization, or non-profit institute. It's a Substack/blog.

> DMI is a platform for researchers and thinkers from across Google DeepMind, Google, and the wider global research community to work on and publish creative, deeply informed ideas about a world with AGI. They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier. We created this institute precisely because broad-based intellectual discussion and debate are required to arrive at a consensus about how to address the challenges and opportunities we face as a society.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost"

ipsum2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:28:56 +0000

If you're going to announce a TTS model, service, or whatever, you really need demos.

New comment by ipsum2 in "How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread"

ipsum2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:30:26 +0000

You can buy pure gluten powder (sold as "vital wheat gluten") and add it to get the equivalent of the Canadian flour.

New comment by ipsum2 in "YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning"

ipsum2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:49:38 +0000

You can ask it to generate acapella.

New comment by ipsum2 in "YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning"

ipsum2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:49:05 +0000

The model was trained on CC0, "royalty-free" music, so the outputs are going to sound a bit bland and generic. Model is not currently possible to finetune without the semantic tokenizer.

New comment by ipsum2 in "iPhone Duo"

ipsum2 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:44:07 +0000

After watching some reviews of the Duo, I'm convinced that Steve Jobs would have never let the inner panel be matte while the outer panel was glossy. It's too inconsistent and inelegant.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

ipsum2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:38:30 +0000

I'm sure they all do. Whether an air gap is warranted is evidently less obvious.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s"

ipsum2 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:51:54 +0000

You probably not want this to show up in discovery documents when you do get sued. Pretend you didn't know about it.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s"

ipsum2 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:18:12 +0000

Off by one letter compared to "Roman", which is a GLP prescriber farm, but you already knew this :). Hoping for a lawsuit to boost your fame?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro_(company)

New comment by ipsum2 in "Muse Spark 1.3"

ipsum2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:57:30 +0000

Yes. It's really up to OpenAI/Anthropic to release a new paradigm to shift the curve now, before everyone catches up entirely.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Muse Spark 1.3"

ipsum2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:55:03 +0000

All of the links show "Error: Gist API returned 403".

New comment by ipsum2 in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

ipsum2 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:58:58 +0000

The easiest one to think about is that the larger the company (or division), the more likely there are leaks. Think about how much as leaked in Apple's hardware or software division. If they were doing incredibly underground marketing, someone would've bragged on LinkedIn or to a reporter.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

ipsum2 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:00:31 +0000

Apple's marketing isn't that smart. They're very traditional. You give them way too much credit.

New comment by ipsum2 in "SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film"

ipsum2 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:23:07 +0000

This is vaporware. I've been hearing about this sort of technology for the last 20 years. Hope to be proven wrong someday.

Here's a similar article from 2013, talking about a paper from 2005:

https://www.fastcompany.com/1681384/you-may-soon-just-spray-...

"Some day, homeowners eager to produce their own energy might not line their roofs with solar panels. Instead, they’ll spray-paint them with a mist full of electricity-generating solar cells."

New comment by ipsum2 in "StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator"

ipsum2 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:45:37 +0000

This is just a wrapper of htdemucs, if anyone's wondering if it was a new/better model.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Mojo is now open source"

ipsum2 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:15:57 +0000

Prediction: Chris Lattner will be off chasing some other shiny thing within a year. Without a strong champion, the company will be subsumed into Qualcomm and stop publishing meaningful updates.

New comment by ipsum2 in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

ipsum2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:17:22 +0000

You described the company Crusoe. They've been building datacenters that do exactly what you said.

https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/blog/understanding-the-probl...

> Crusoe has built their business around turning flaring from an operational and regulatory risk for oil and gas companies, as well as an existential risk for our planet, into a multi-solve solution. Crusoe doesn’t just mitigate flaring emissions. They capture the gas, convert it into energy, and use it to power computing infrastructure.

Edit: Crusoe sold its bitcoin-mining operation including the Digital Flare Mitigation business to NYDIG in 2025, so the above may be inaccurate.

New comment by ipsum2 in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

ipsum2 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:40:00 +0000

Sorry, that "just-so" explanation is not how the world works.

New comment by ipsum2 in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

ipsum2 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:31:41 +0000

I doubt that your beanie babies are very rare.

New comment by ipsum2 in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

ipsum2 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:30:50 +0000

Do you understand that many of these publishers do not have the original copy anymore, and may have gone out of business entirely? 50 years ago text was not backed up to the cloud.