Damn, I would have loved for this article to have any substance. As someone who has been doing consulting the last two years, these kinds of questions are always on my mind. And I have no good answers.
Hey, author of the post here. My takeaway after trying all these strategies is that there's no one right answer. All paths can work but also have failure states.
If you want to talk, feel free to drop me a note - hi@nosmallplans.io. I spent 2 years doing consulting before shifting into other work, happy to share more specific thoughts / reflections offline.
This event should be a good conversation starter on how horrifyingly monopolistic this trifecta of services has on worldwide communication. When I think through a random smattering of people in my contact book, I now have no way of contacting quite a few people at all. That's fucked. I wonder how many important messages, replies, etc will be screwed up due to this.
Great post OP, one of the most relatable things I've seen on HN. To piggyback, does anybody here have any experience doing this while living in Europe as an American? Seems like there are generally fewer remote jobs here, especially ones that can be 60-80%.
Sort of related, but I'm looking for a library or tool of some sort that I can use to generate landscape photos. I don't really have a lot of time to put into a project right now, so I was fantasizing about stumbling across some python library that's a wrapper for one of these models that's basically as simple as
import all_photos from "./photos";
model = train(all_photos)
a = model.generate();
StyleGAN was trained on something like 3 million images, and it's very difficult to fine tune GANs on a small subset of images past that, unless perhaps your images are very similar to the ones StyleGAN used. It's likely you'd need at least thousands or hundreds of thousands of images to get the results you probably want. I've been successful with thousands, but not less than that.
I found stylegan to be pretty plug and play for training on 10000 panels from a webcomic, here are some sample results. This was a while ago, I’m sure stylegan2 would perform even better http://hgreer.com/homestuck-gan/fakes007470.png
Honestly I'm a bit shocked as well. It's in these kinds of threads that it comes out how out of touch a lot of people on HN are with the impacts of their money, and actions. Praising airbnb founders reads like praising Trump to me. Sure, successful in the literal most possible sense, but they have no idea all the harm they are inflicting on those who live different lives than them, in places and cultures they don't understand.
I agree with your comment and find it a shame you're being downvoted for expressing that opinion. I think people can't bear to have a mirror held up which exposes the naked & ugly truth.
We all have individual stories about the convenience of AirBnB when visiting a new city, but I feel a lot of us are unable to see the bigger picture beyond our own selfish need for slightly increased comfort levels. We either deliberately overlook or are blind to the damage AirBnB and similar tech companies have wreaked on society.
Flimsy, selfish delusions of grandeur from tech wankers who just want to print money in fastest way possible with total disregard for the destruction they cause along the way but don't worry, its "disruptive"! All to be lapped up and praised by people who were brainwashed into the Randian mode of thinking
I also find it quite amusing that some people come back with these replies of "you're just bitter" "jealous of the fact that they're rich and you're not!" just continuously beating everyone over the head with this idea that there's only one true way to measure success. As if, in questioning how that success was reached and the societal, ethical and moral issues it brings up are somehow not acceptable. I guess in pursuit of the American Dream no has no time for such trivial issues.
Trump is the worst example possible. He's failed everything since the plaza IIRC. He could've left his inheritance in an index fund and had 10x what he has now.
