> There are thousands of innocent people being deported.
Right, the only crime they committed was entering and remaining in the country illegally. And now they’re facing deportation by this unjust administration.
There are plenty of people the administration is trying to deport who neither entered nor remained in the country illegally.
For example, Rumeysa Ozturk who was arrested for engaging in 1st Amendment protected speech and put into deportation proceedings despite entering the country legally, staying in the country legally, and breaking none of our country's laws.
Do you think that such a deportation would make the US more or less appealing for immigration? After all, every immigrant has to suspect that they might become a target of such an enforcement action as well.
Of course it would make the US less appealing, which means the immigrants with the most optionality of where to go (like researchers, engineers, and high value contributors in general) are disproportionately likely to seek other destinations.
It would have the least deterrent force on those who are already criminal and otherwise lawless or desperate.
Back to your claim about this being an "effective" immigration policy: no it's not.
I think it is pretty dishonest how you are asserting that I am making arguments, which I never made.
>which means the immigrants with the most optionality of where to go (like researchers, engineers, and high value contributors in general) are disproportionately likely to seek other destinations.
>It would have the least deterrent force on those who are already criminal and otherwise lawless or desperate.
Completely agree. But I want the "researchers, engineers, and high value contributors" even less than the rest. Those groups are actually harder to remove, they often have institutional support in the form of corporations and other associations and might feasibly be positive fiscal contributors. With "the rest" the argument for deportation is far simpler and has far more support in the population. Also my labor competes with the "researchers, engineers, and high value contributors", while "the rest" only depresses the wages of the proletariat who now have to compete with black market labor.
Notably, deporting US citizens would also make the US less appealing for immigration. Would you agree with that? Since fewer people would want to travel to a country where even its own citizens are not safe living there.
Considering your other arguments above, I assume you are also volunteering to be one of the people deported from the EU for the sake of making it less appealing for immigration?
So yes, in that sense I'm talking out of my ass. But perhaps you can help enlighten me what it is that makes building FPGA firmware different from building MCU firmware.
Which VPN provider doesn’t have their addresses flagged? I know a few offer “residential” IP addresses (for quite the premium), but as I understand it, these are a bit of a grey area and are also usually shared, so usually just a matter of time until they’re banned or flagged as proxy/shared/anonymiser.
The financial incentives for VPNs as they get bigger cause them to both put as many subscribers on the same IP as possible and to share IPs over the entire subscriber base. It's possible for a VPN to sacrifice profit to avoid being detected as easily.
One reason not to choose Njalla is that they changed their legal entity without (to my knowledge) telling anyone. THat's a bit of a red flag for me.
They were incorporated as 1337 Services LLC in Nevis (the Caribbean island) and recently it suddenly changed to Njalla SRL in Costa Rica. Looks like some guy wrote a post about it where he contacted them, they said "internal restructuring, nothing to worry about" and refused to elaborate further.
I know Peter Sunde (of TPB fame) founded it but I don't know if it has changed hands now.
I'm happy Airvpn is rarely mentioned in mainstream vpn lists and don't typically mention them myself (sorry airvpn folks, but here's my apology) because I suspect its relative obscurity is in great part the reason it works so well. Not only reputation - it's technologically good too, supports all the payment methods, good prices, lots of exit points, no nonsense. I've been using them continuously for several years.
I’m still not clear if it’s going to deliver the unique layers to you?
If you set a variable layers of 5 for example will it determine what is on each layer, or do I need to prompt that?
And I assume you need enough VRAM because each layer will be effectively a whole image in pixel or latent space… so if I have a 1MP image, and 5 layers I would likely need to be able to fit a 5MP image in VRAM?
Or if this can be multiple steps, where I wouldn’t need all 5 layers in active VRAM, that the assembly is another step at the end after generating on one layer?
The github repo includes (among other things) a script (relying on python-pptx) to output decomposed layer images into a pptx file “where you can edit and move these layers flexibly.” (I've never user Powerpoint for this, but maybe it is good enough for this and ubiquitous enough that this is sensible?)
I saw some people at a company called Pruna AI got it down to 8 seconds with Cloudflare/Replicate, but I don't know if it was on consumer hardware or an A100/H100/H200, and I don't know if the inference optimization is open-source yet.
with torch.inference_mode():
output = pipeline(**inputs)
output_image = output.images[0]
for i, image in enumerate(output_image):
image.save(f"{i}.png")
Unless it's a joke that went over my head or you're talking about some other GitHub readme (there's only one GitHub link in TFA), posting an outright lie like this is not cool.
The word "powerpoint" is not there, however this text is:
“The following scripts will start a Gradio-based web interface where you can decompose an image and export the layers into a pptx file, where you can edit and move these layers flexibly.”
Oh okay I missed it, sorry. But that’s just using a separate python-pptx package to export the generated list of images to a .pptx file, not something inherent to the model.
I've been in this game so long, seen so many shortages that I'm not even worried. Right now prices are high, manufacturers are switching production, and in 6 months there's going to be a glut of supply.
Long game is fine for optional upgrades. “I really wish my game system had 20% better graphics”. Less good when your system crashes and you need something new to work on Monday.
You've answered the question! They're redirecting those chips to industrial use which makes desktop products more expensive and less available. Samsung is also extending DDR4 production, for example.
I thought you were listing a switch in production that would relieve the shortages after we wait a few months. Switching away from desktop memory makes the shortages worse. So why do you expect there to be a glut in 6 months?
If you meant glut of memory suitable for datacenter GPUs, I don't expect that nearly so soon. That market can absorb extra chips pretty easily unless we see a really harsh pop really soon.
Back in the day when 1mb memory sticks ruled the earth there was apparently a memory shortage because some fab burned down or something. Any day now, they’ll fix their shit and ram will be dirt cheap. At least according to my high school buddy.
We have always had a ram shortage. We’ve also always been at war with eastasia.
Right, the only crime they committed was entering and remaining in the country illegally. And now they’re facing deportation by this unjust administration.
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